“Serious conspiracy buffs” including, of course, a good portion of those who upload their twaddle to The Huffington Post, and the most vocal of those pushing the Cheney coverup story (whose latest villainous liar includes Mr Harry Whittington, the shooting victim himself, who yesterday confirmed that the accident was simply that, a minor hunting accident. Please. Makes you wonder who got to him, doesn’t it…?)
But of course, evil and powerful people don’t have “accidents”, and like the X-Files’ Smoking Man, Dick Cheney is in every way above the law and beyond the reach of earthly authority—unless, of course, the mini-Muldereans and armchair Skullys can piece together from his tissue of lies a more coherent narrative that proves both his perfidy and his studied malevolence. (And if they could prove, too, that he was drunk as a Filipino exchange student on St Patty’s Day when he peppered Whittington’s face with birdshot, that would be, like, super extra cool!)
To assist them in their heroic effort to pierce the neon orange, down-filled safety vest of deceit (because let’s face it? Who wants a world run by alien/human hybrids and super soldiers?)¹, these searchers for Truth have enlisted the aid of a small cadre of tech savvy skeptics and info-anarchists—the Lone Gunman, we shall call them—who, using sophisiticated ballistics analysis and high-tech, professionally edited streaming video, were able to prove, in their own words, that
a massive cover-up has been conducted concerning the shooting. We know that most of the facts that have been told to the public are manufactured frauds. Cheney claims that he shot Whittington at 90 feet, ballistic tests from the spread of the shotgun pellets to their penetration depth is 100% conclusive.
Harry Whittington was shot at close range, between 15 and 18 feet, not the 90 claimed by Dick Cheney and the Secret Service. It is now clear why they refused to let Sherriff’s Deputies interview Cheney for over 13 hours and why they claimed that Whittington’s injuries were superficial when in truth they were grevious.
The mainstream media is ignoring this literal smoking gun evidence. Anytime they wish, the local police can conduct their own ballistics tests and they will have the exact same findings. The media can conduct their own tests. The ballistics of shotguns and birdshot is well known to tens of millions of Americans who hunt fowl.
We have now scientifically proven with an engineer and a police officer on-site conducting the test that the American people are being lied to and a cover-up is in progress.
So there you have it. It has been scientifically proven! By science. And yet, no action is being taken. Why? That’s the real question, isn’t it? Why? The how and who is just scenery for the public: birdshot, the ranch owner, quail… Keeps them guessing and prevents them from asking the most important question. Why? Why was there a delay in informing the press? Who benefited? Who has the power to cover it up? Who?
The mindless sheep who support Bushco simply don’t have the capacity to ask such questions, frankly—but even so, the administration is not quite so arrogant as to leave the Truth so baldly exposing, hoping no one will notice. After all, even Deputy Director Skinner eventually broke free from the matrix of superficial artifice and began to catch glimpses of the layers of Illuminati behind the ostensible, yes?
Which is why the President—or rather, those who run the animatronic chimp in chief– have established a small inner circle of defenders, a neocon cabal, who—engaging an army of loyal and useful idiots—are able push back agains the Truth tellers with such frustrating success that it will take a 9th season (or until after Bush is gone from office) to untangle the whole mess, and even then, it will be less than fulfilling as a denouement, the best efforts of Annabeth Gish and Robert Patrick notwithstanding.
To wit: Here’s Dan Riehl (we’ll call him “The Well-Dressed Man”) providing the counter-narrative to the scientific evidence being floated by our heroes:
As a Bush/Cheney supporter, I confess the video concerned me as its multiple test firings appear very convincing and I did not want to think that the Vice President would cover up pertinent information which might make him appear more careless, or even wreck less in his actions during the recent highly-reported quail hunting fiasco. That, because he actually fired in the direction of Whittington while perhaps only 10 yards, or thirty feet away.
I decided to conduct a serious investigation of my own before simply blogging that, indeed, as a Cheney loyalist, I had some concerns. Fortunately, I do not have to make that post for good reason.
To begin with, One thing to remember—the only thing that is consistent about shotguns is that very few things are consistent. Identical guns with the same degree of choke and using the same shell may not pattern the same. The same load between various brands of shells can pattern differently. Patterns will change when changing from hard to soft shot. Patterns can change when anything in the shell changes such as different wads, powders or primers. What I am trying to get across is that when you change anything such as brands, shot size, or components you will need to check the pattern as it could have changed, sometimes by an extreme amount.
But I did not want to stop with that simple dismissal of the video on general principle, so resistant is the strain of anti-Cheney-ism currently rampaging through the Left. The Left’s argument is that ballistics prove the reported approximately 200 pellets couldn’t have hit Whittington at 30 yards, nor would such a distance create the somewhat tight shot pattern which resulted. Now for some document-able facts.
Twenty-eight gauge shotgun shell accuracy, or load patterning is determined by counting the number of pellets which strike a target within a 30 inch diameter circle at forty yards:
Shotgun and shot-shell manufacturers test their products by shooting a pattern at 40 yards and then drawing a 30-inch circle around the highest concentration of holes in the paper (the .410 is tested at 25 yards). They then count the pellet holes in the circle and compare it with the number of pellets in the load to determine a shotgun’s choke or a load’s performance.
Patterns are normally expressed as a percentage such as 50%, 60%, 70% etc. This is the commonly accepted method comparing pattern density. In a 50% pattern ½ of all the pellets contained in the shell will strike inside of a circle of 30 inches in diameter. To find the percentage of any given load divide the number of hits inside the circle by the total number of pellets contained in the shell.
The cylinder terminology below refers to a shotgun’s choke, or barrel diameter:
True cylinder should produce a minimal 40 per cent pattern at 40 yards, improved cylinder a minimal 50 per cent pattern, similarly half choke 60 per cent and full choke 70 per cent.
While it’s probably safe to conclude that a Vice President who is an avid hunter, one who carries a shotgun worth thousands of dollars, would take advantage of the latest technology – steel shot, custom choke setting, etc., designed to maximize his targeting effectiveness, we don’t have to go to such lengths to debunk the video. We can do it based upon standard stock ammunition and shotgun characteristics:
Remington also offers exactly one hunting load in 28 gauge. This is a high brass Express Extra Long Range load with 3/4 ounce of #6 or #7 1/2 shot at a MV of 1295 fps. There are 262 #7 1/2 shot in a 3/4 ounce load, but only 169 #6pellets.
It’s quite possible Cheney was using steel shot as is common today which would increase the number of shot in the above load to approximately 350, though we likely don’t need that edge. Also, 28 gauge guns typically have light recoil, pattern well, and point like a dream:
The percentage of the shot delivered in the 30-inch circle is one important measure of cartridge and choke performance. A 70 per cent figure, or higher, should be demanded from the modern shotgun cartridge for any given choke at its effective optimal kill distance.
Hence number six-shot in 34 grams and modified improved cylinder choking at 35 yards produces a reliable pattern as seen. Quail also therefore require smaller shot (number nine) in a 28-gram load for a denser pattern at 35 metres for a reliable broadside hit, but a going away bird can still fly through the pattern unharmed at this range. Quail are usually shot at 20 yards at which range this pattern will be much tighter from the same barrel and choking.
Consequently, from the links directly above at: Essential shotgun patterning – by Dr Matt Draisma, it is more than safe to conclude that Vice President Cheney could rightfully expect a shot pattern with about 70% of his shot within a 30 inch diameter, which matches up extremely well with Whittington’s injury diagram in pdf.
Seventy-percent of the 262 pellets in a typical factory load of 7 1/2 shot would be 183 pellets. The report of approximately 200 pellets having hit Whittington at about 30 yards is wholly consistent with the minimum standards one might expect under the circumstances.Perhaps for his next ballistics video, the fellow at INFOWARS.COM will consider doing us all a favor … by shooting himself. Of course, I jest.
Update: I made one correction, changing 30 inch radius to 30 inch diameter circle. That is correct and actually the smaller area of the two. In closing, given Cheney’s age, it is quite possible he would hunt with a tight choke to extend his optimal range, especially when hunting a fast-paced bird like quail.
Either way, there’s absolutely no reason to conclude reports as regards the distance being 30 yards are inaccurate . It’s simply more wishful thinking by the Cheney hunting left. Frankly, given their accuracy, I think I’d prefer to hunt with the VP.
So. Thwarted again?
Or are we just being told what we wish to hear…?
****
¹
It seems to me that if Cheney had rushed to the press we’d be hearing that he was trying to block out the “other” side of the story.
The whole Cheney story was just a ploy by the media to cover up the fact that Al Gore was commiting sedition at the same time. Read more here.
Oooh, PelletGate!
Someone wants to be Charles Johnson when he grows up!
Okay. I’m convinced.
Impeachment!
(and then can we please have a tourchlight parade?)
You didn’t add that footnote, so I will.
¹ on Tuesdays.
“tourchlight,” of course, being Turkmenistan’s way of spelling “torchlight.”
It is a bit like a circus freakshow, isn’t it?
Footnote – You forgot to include the weak but predictable meme of womanizing that sadly didn’t catch on. Liberals also didn’t catch that it exposed their fraudulent “struggle that never ends” feminist cause, with their knee-jerk stereotype exploitation of the pretty Ambassador.
You really can’t make this shit up.
I would safely say that Reihl’s analysis easily puts the “gotcha” video into the same realm as NBC Dateline’srigging of crash-n-burn GM trucks to “prove” the inherent eeeevvvvillll of Big Auto.
And hey, I called it on the money that the rabid BDS hordes would turn on Whittington first chance he didn’t go along with their narrative.
Actually, I have just received a FAX from a Texas Kinkos revealing Whittington was shot after attempting to extort our Dark Lord for exclusive legal representation for Halliburton’s upcoming Mars’ Mining Project, which you chumps have completely forgotten about the Chimpster’s Mars Initiative. Keep your eyes on the ball, people! There’s wheels within wheels within wheels here.
Ok that’s it. Somebody has got to take these children out…..
on a really, really loooooong walk…….
Close, Salt Lick, but no cigar (bit of Clintoniana there). I’ll offer a hint: think quantum-computers, holograms, reptoids, and Bobcat Goldthwaite.
I mean, isn’t it obvious?
I want to know who’s incompetence is responsible for describing the wounds as being on the guy’s right when the accident report shows them on the left.
Jeff,
How dare you and Riehl question the patriotic Left’s truthiness! Haven’t you learned your lessons from such eminences as G. Greenwald and Carl Hudecek?
Cordially…
Can we officially tell the Left to shut the fuck up about Clinton-hatred? They’ve descended as far as anyone on the right did.
actus
you ass…did you not see the REPORT you link to says the wounds are on “the right side”…regardless of the fuzzy drawing?
I know how to crack this case.
I volunteer to shoot Kos in the ass with a 28 gauge shotgun from 15 feet.
If I blow his ass off, then Cheney must have been further than 15 feet.
If I merely pepper him, then we should impeach the Chimpster, but I would still have had the pleasure of shooting Kos in the ass.
Old Dad
I think shooting Kos in the head would be ok..it’s not like there are any brains there.
Course, one might be in trouble with the EPA on that one, seeing all the toxic fumes that would be released.
Old Dad,
You’re on. And I’ll act as your pointer, so you’ll be sure to aim at his rear, rather than shoulder-mounted, ass. Could be a tragic distraction.
Cordially…
Yeah, but the test was scientific. Didn’t you hear how many times he said it was scientific? Totally scientifical.
“you ass…did you not see the REPORT you link to says the wounds are on “the right side regardless of the fuzzy drawing? “
And the drawing has the wounds on the left. So I guess its the incompetence of the guys that filled out the report.
Occam’s Razor requires that I slit my wrists before paying any more attention to the moonbats.
Martin Frost is now on Fox braying that Cheney should resign. Because this calls into question his secret energy task force…
Every time I think we’ve hit bottom, I find the Dems are still shoveling. Infuriating, because I’d like a choice come election day. The choice seems to be between a party that is entirely too tolerant of corruption but at least committed to saving my life and a party of raving lunatics who stand for nothing. Some choice. I’ll vote to live, thank you.
actus
The report at your link is also the pdf above which is larger. The far right figure in the drawing is a right side profile showing the shotgun pattern from top of ear to just below shoulder.
So the guy doing the drawing put the forward view on the *his* right hand side instead of the rightside of the figure.
The narrative immediately to the left of the diagram clearly says “right side”
Mistake by the game warden.
Incompetence by you to actually look at the report closely.
dorka
Yep. Scientific…. as in GIGO, or Korean embryonic stemcell research.
Hey, don’t most of these crazed out cultish sorts eventually commit mass suicide?
Terry McCauliffe actually floated that shit on “The Situation Room” yesterday, and Wolfie let it go right on by. This a former DNC head. Frankly, I love watching the unhinged left, um, shoot themselves in the foot. Not only is it not resonating with anyone other than the loony 30%, it’s making average people scratch their heads, if not hate them outhright. Faster, please, libtards.
I know there’s a good joke in there somewhere about how much choke Dick was using, but I’m to lazy to think on it.
Bravo, actus! Bra-vo! You have solved the entire mystery! Cheney will hand in his resignation tomorrow, and name you as the straw that broke the camel’s back. Well done!
After that incredible sleuthing, maybe you can focus your supersharp Sherlock Holmes like skills and find the second gunman on the grassy hill. That mystery has remained unsolved since 1963, and it’s high time we put this one to rest, and you’re just the leftard to take it on.
TW: A plant knows to follow the sun.
I want to know who’s incompetence is responsible for writing your asinine posts, actus. Some other moonbat?
So, mendacious one, why do you ignore the pic I posted days ago in reply to your previous plead for a thorough thrashing?
tw: Yes, it’s an unhealthy need.
This “massive cover-up,” alas, was necessary.
Cheney didn’t immediately phone Dan Rather and Helen Thomas with news of the accident because he didn’t – no, hecouldn’t remember what happened.
You see, the element that has been missing in this story from day one is an honest-to-goodness Alien.
That, and some mysterious green slime – oh, and crop circles, too
Because, see, the Aliens controlled Cheney’s motor neurons with a sub-sound transmission that they reflected off a silica crystal they implanted in Actus’ left temporal lobe on the night of his 12th birthday.
The rest of the commentary here is “conspiracy theories” and hysteria. Why don’t you wake up!!
-Steve
Oh, and one other thing, actus: It was Clinton’s dick that was responsible. And Hilary’s file cabinet.
Daschle’s constituency. Ted’s car keys.
And by extension, Cheney’s trigger finger.
Yep, you had it all in the bag and then you went and blew it! Back to square one!
tw: Thanks to actus fumbling the ball, tomorrow it’ll be the same Administration.
That’s the ticket, Steve – except that it was Actus’s eleventh birthday, and the chip was crafted from alloys extruded under zero-G conditions. Just don’t let anything slip about the secret EBE project involving Richard Simmons and Chuck Norris.
Because that would be telling.
I went over to ol’Alex’s site and looked at the video. Then I looked at it again with my special “Sam Peckinpaugh Slow Motion” digital video cruncher. And as a proud recipient of the Boy Scouts of America’s Marksmanship Merit Badge, I can scientifcally only draw one logical conclusion.
That guy can’t shoot for shit.
Once again, and with irony noted, reality turns out to be the bete noire of the Reality-Based
.
Time flies… I remember when shooting a watermelon in your backyard used to be proof of insanity to the Left.
Another interesting development that endangers the mainstream media is the rise of news aggregators like News Bump which is more interesting than many big media outlets.
Yeah, well I would say the fact that Mr. Whittington still has a face is scientific evidence that he was shot from further than 15 feet away, but that’s just me.
I knew there was contradictory information. I just wanted to know where it arose. The game warden it is.
As the nuns in Catholic School used to say when I messed up, “Oy vey!” (okay, maybe the bus dropped me off at the wrong place).
Look, many of these same folks on the liberal/left will do verbal somersaults and logical gymnastics to, among other things, exonerate Iraq and Saddam Hussein of any complicity with al-Qaeda. Or a hundred other acts by enemies of the US.
But when it comes to Bush or Cheney, some numbskill with a computer and internet access can post his lunatic theories and all thinking is tossed aside. All of the critical analysis, all of the parsing of words and scepticism over, for example, the accuracy of documents captured in Iraq or Afghanistan or the report by the Robb-Silbermann commission clearing the Administration of manipulating pre-war intelligence, is thrown away.
One absolutist standard for terrorists, another protean standard for Bushco.
Just nuts time.
SMG
Harry is now part of
Bush’s Secret Zombie Army.
and stop all this Alien bashing .
I know man, how ridiculous is this crap! Only liberals would come up with such nonsense.
How dare the leftists ramble on about conspiracies on the right when everyone knows that they are really the ones that are conspiring against this country! I mean, just look at the liberal media in this country that leaves us only fox news as the only “fair and balanced†news station we have! And all of those studies that are out that debunk that idea of a liberal media, well they are all from Universities, and we all know that Universities are in on the vast liberal conspiracy themselves, going as far as to silence the voices of conservative students and beating them into submission until they become liberal soldiers for their war! It’s such a farce, you and I both know it. Look at the congress, to the average observer, it would appear that conservatives have at least a little bit of say in the country, being that they appear to control both the executive and legislative branches. But we know the truth, that conservatives will never be powerful enough to shake of that vast liberal illuminati that control them, they are really still at the mercy of the powerful liberal influence that is destroying America! It is a constant battle from our poor, downtrodden underdog conservatives to keep the oppressive liberals from outlawing the bible, spitting on the soldiers, and ripping apart the American family! And don’t forget that war on Christmas, that was a close one. It was only through the grace of Bill O’Rielly that we narrowly missed losing Christmas altogether at the hands of liberals and the ACLU. And can’t we all see through that vague environmental plot they have, using such nonsense terms like “global warming†in order to rein in control over our businesses? We all know that they don’t give a flying fuck about the earth, what they really want is to convert our glorious system of capitalism to Marxism! Because everyone knows that the liberals are really socialists that desire nothing more than to destroy free enterprise, their only goal is to destroy the rich because they are jealous of them. Don’t even get me started on those liberal activist judges, who have the audacity to suggest that a husband has more say over his wife’s welfare than her parents, I mean, where in law is that one? Obviously a construct of an activist judge and nothing more. And why would the liberals do all of this? The answer is simple, it is revenge for Clinton’s impeachment trial, and nothing more. And they will not stop until they control us all, George Soros at this very moment is planning a coup so that he can name himself sole dictator and king of America.
Oh, and Hillary is a man, baby!
(Chuckle) 11 points for style. You commie bastard.
Stacy
Friendly advice?
When drinking all day, try to pace yourself and take some food breaks.
‘k?
Don’t be niave. It wasn’t Cheney, but one of his body doubles. Of course the double was drunk and womanizing. Cheney from his hospital bed can do no more than bark orders. He is like the brain that wouldn’t die. It’s hard to find reliable doubles these days. Substance abuse is a big problem. There is a terrible problem with health care for these people. My estimate is there are 6,000 Cheney doubles, all normally kept at undisclosed locations, which can drive most people nuts.
What do those who have claimed President Bush is stupid say now? The President is much too smart to go hunting with Cheney or any of the doubles.
Joe Deegan
I guess I should be glad that there are people out there willing to spend the time to debunk the craziness, but I’m so far from even caring whether there was some sort of conspiracy that I refuse to waste my time engaging anyone on it. I’ll just quote what MarkD said, and be done with it:
The lefties are missing variables too numerous to mention. Pattern density is also determined not only by caliber and choke, but wind speed and barrel length. The longer the barrel, more complete the powder burn and the more velocity (and the more momentum) to keep the wind effects (gusts, steady breeze, etc) from spreading the pattern.
They also leave out the fact that high-end competition guns tend to be better performing weapons than the basic commercial grade shotgun, in the same way a Ferrari outperforms a Buick. They know far too little about even the basics of Cheney’s custom-made Perazzi shotgun (barrel length, improved, full, or extra full chokes) to even hazard a logical guess as to how it might pattern.
In short, all they have established is that the shotgun in the video could not have been used to shoot Harry Whittington. Um, Duh?
Also, while Dan Riehl was right about Remington only makes one loading of 28-gauge with #7 1/2 shot, Federal Cartridge loads a Premium grade that features copper-plated birdshot in that size. An interesting a effect of copper-plating is that copper-plating hardens pellets so that they hold shape better during firing, and therefore are more aerodynamically stable. This means that copper-plated, premium shot – the kind I would shoot out of a competition-grade Perazzi shotgun costing thousands of dollars – would likely pattern better than the gun used in the Infowars film.
I might be able to debunk more in this film if I watched it, but they’ve flawed assumptions in the basic ballistic premises of their “scientific research†that I don’t see much of a point.
Frankly, I’m just glad they didn’t manage to hurt themselves.
Uh…yah. Instead of Dick having the image of Whittington falling to the ground burned into his mind, he’d have an image of his head going “kerpoof.”
It’s not about pattern, it’s about mass and velocity. A .410 shell is the same diameter as a .45 caliber bullet. In fact, many breech loading ,410s actually have rifled barrels so you can shoot .45 ammo out of them. But the difference is that the amount of birdshot in a .410 shell by weight is probably 3 times the weight of a hardball .45 slug. At fifteen feet the birdshot would have shed very little of it’s energy and would have hit Whittington harder than a slug out of Dirty Harry’s .44 Magnum.
So if you’re in the market for a home defense gun, check out a 410, seriously, preferrably a double-barrel one with exposed hammers. Anyone can shoot it, it will knock anyone on their ass at home defense ranges, and you won’t have to worry about killing a neighbor through a wall.
yours/
peter.
Yo Stacy. I hope it was good for you bro, cause if you think any of the regulars on here bothered to read past the first couple of sentences of that horsehsit then you’re mui loco en la culo, esse.
Jeff generally gets the more coherant trolls.
Oh, and Hillary is a man, baby!
No he’s not. BIGOT
Way to much science for a simple issue. Why would Cheney intentionally shoot his friend?
The answer: He wouldn’t. Therfore, an accident, and everything else is just bullshit noise.
I hunt quail – although not with a 28 gauge, I’m not that good of a shot – and the pattern on the pdf is consistent with a 30 yard shot, or maybe a trifle less. Which is about as far as you’d want to gun on quail. Which you’d maybe reach out to 35 yards with a modified choke, but that would be a long shot, with many quail-sized holes in the pattern.
Most folks hunting quail, whether kicking them up or over dogs would hunt improved cylinder. Maybe IC and modified if using an over-and-under or side-by-side. More open choke for the near flush, modified for the flyers.
Anyone shot at 18 feet – that’s not much more than five yards, don’t care what kind of choke they’re using – is going to have a hole in their body about the size of the circle made by an “OK” hand signal. And it’d be hard to walk away from, couple days later. That’d gouge you up pretty good, and be all hell cleaning out.
No one would use steel if they didn’t have to. It’s only used for ducks, them being federal birds and the concern being lead poisoning in the water. Steel opens up too quickly, compared to lead, and doesn’t hit as hard, size for size. You have to use larger shot to reach out as far and do the deed. Number fours instead of sixes, for example. Which cuts down on the number of pellets you’d be putting out. So I’m guessing shooting a 28 gauge with 7 1/2’s, he’s shooting lead. Just to put that to bed.
Stacey –
Hey thanks, now we know what Howard Dean and Michael Moore would sound like if they were on the Right instead of on the Left.
It takes a leftwing moonbat to truly show us what could be the heights of hysteria on the Right.
Cloudy?
Because he’s pure evil.
Duh.
Hee hee, cheers to Alex and Topsecretk9 for actually having a sense of humor.
Darleen – I was hoping to get a “I don’t like you so I’m going to go off on a limb here and say you’re a whore†thing like you gave Amanda, so I’m a bit disappointed. Hopefully in the future I will be able to earn your playground insults. I’m shooting for “doo doo headâ€Â.
Sticky B – You apparently read the whole thing yo, being that it offended you enough that you just had to respond to me. If you really want to appear aloof bro, you might want to try to ignore such things.
Gahrie – I imagine Dean and Moore sound a little like O’Rielly, Limbaugh, Boortz, and Brooks, whom I took all of those examples from. I’m sorry, I probably should of explained the foundation of the joke more clearly, I wasn’t aware that you had been in a cave for the last five years.
6Gun – Ugh, you are right. It would have been funnier if I had run it together. I thought that just structuring it the way I did would exemplify the conspiracy theory paranoia well enough, but obviously, you are right, it would have sounded crazier had I left out spaces. Thanks for helping out.
Ah, I’m sorry guys, I like the owner of this blog and mean no disrespect, but sometimes you take yourselves so seriously I can’t resist. Yeah, there are some crazy lefties (personally, I love the drunk thing. Because lord knows, a guy who has a bad heart and has had a heart attack already really does go out and get wasted right after, it makes perfect sense.) But guess what? It’s not a partisan issue. There are crazy righties too. And there is great humor to be had at all angles. Try not to miss out on it.
Lighten up. You’ll live longer.
Cheers!
The odd thing, Stacey, is that I’m laughing at all of the non-serious (i.e., not debunking the leftie conspiracy theorists) posts, all except yours.
Maybe you need to lighten up, eh?
TW: quite.
Really?
You didn’t think the “War on Christmas” was funny? Come on… that shit is funny, you know it.
Awww, don’t beat up on Alex Jones. He’s been fighting the system for 100 years now. His appearances on Coast to Coast AM keep me laughing for hours. You should read up on the Satanist cult that Alex thinks Cheney belongs to, it’s hilarious.
Hey Stacy, your side is already filled to the brim with the comedically challenged. Maybe if you were actually funny you would stand out a bit more. As it is, if you’re not going to be funny at least try to get some original material to work with.
Basically it’s a sad combination of people who are so attached to an idea that they will accept any story that supports it, no matter how inane, and a press corps temper-tantrum over missing a whole day of vapid, rabid speculation, and on a weekend no less!
I’m still trying to find a way to constructively deal with either of those behaviors.
You know Stacy, it might be nice if you would like to be, you know, HONEST about what happened on the Vagina Monologue thread at Feministe. I didn’t call Mandy a ‘whore’, just responded to her charge that because I find the play itself Not.Good.Writing (horrors, I dare attack a Feminist Holy Relic) It means my vagina is the property of the Patriarchy and I’m “anti-female-sexuality”.
My response was..
Suddenly the place gets the vapors because WOW, no matter how much Mandy brags about bedhopping and virtues of being a 7/11 vagina and concurrently sneers at anyone who breathes the merest support of monogamy, marriage or commitment as “sex-phobes”… Snarking BACK at Mandy with her own style of attack is PROOF that I’m a mere tool of the Patriarchy.
But heck, lighten up, Stacy. Next time Mandy starts extolling the virtues of strap-ons, she might invite you over.
I mean, if you really own your own vagina and all and aren’t some silly sex-phobe who will turn her down.
You’re just not funny, Stacey. Pedantic yes; humorous no. Sorry.
Heh. Mouth-breathing reactionism is surely the basest of all argumentitive strategies. It’s typically not even self-aware…
Personally, I don’t get why the strap-on is not an example of ‘false consciousness’–seeing as how it is, well, a way of using the tools–or rather tool (though I guess you could actually. . .oh, never mind) of the oppressor against your fellow oppressed. Perhaps if one fucks ironically. . .?
Conspiracies and everything are all good and whatnot, what I want to know is:
Mr Harry Whittington
St Patty’s Day
Why do you hate periods, Mr. Jeff Goldstein?
. . .clearly, because he’s a SEXIST! Read your Kristeva, oh heathen patriarchal haters of the vagina!
I would just like to voice my strong approval of vaginas. Unlike actus, some of us really do want to put our fingers on the myriad problems of unloved VJs everywhere.
Onward strap-on soldiers.
Stacy has a vagina? She sounds pretty much like every other dickhead I’ve met.
Drudge has a link up that says MSM plans to dry- hump the Cheney story all next week. Talk about floggin the dead dolphin. Can anybody say EDSEL?
Stacy’s vagina is nothing if flexible, BitterPill. On command, it can function as an inverted penis, just for those occasions when she doesn’t want to be a cunt.
It’s not a REAL conspiracy until someone tries to fire a 28-gauge shell from a mail-order Mannlicher-Carcano…
Stacy’s vagina is nothing if flexible, BitterPill. On command, it can function as an inverted penis, just for those occasions when she doesn’t want to be a cunt.
Does that mean that if I tell her to go fuck herself, she really can?
Now THAT’S versatile….and damn convenient.
Interesting and entertaining in places.
However for a real conspiracy, how about the 70 acre Jihadist training camp in NY state and others in Oregon and other states.
My take on these places. They have signs claiming university training fcility at the front gates. The Can/USA governments seem content to gather intl for the time being.
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how about the 70 acre Jihadist training camp in NY state and others in Oregon and other states.
And the fact that the ACLU is defending their right to “organize”.