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Ok,
A joke that’s only funny if you mook about with urban renewal 450kT at a time:
When is a first strike not a first strike?
When it’s anticpatory retaliation.
Don’t like the joke? Then put the SIOP and the Jameson’s further apart. And the vodka as well, while you’re at it.
BRD
Here’s another joke:
Q: When is pResident Chimpy McHitlerburtFredon not equal to Hitler?
A: NEVAAAR!!!
(Did you get the “Fredo” reference I dropped there? No? Me neither.)
Gas stations have cigarettes.
Dude, awesome post! Smirky is dumb, like wingnuts!
Kewl post – $hrub sux. LOL!
Tell Chimpy to stop staring at me.
Can somebody lend me $5? I’ll pay you back on payday, honest. I need some lunch, man.
tw: food
Uncanny!
OK, here’s one—what’s the difference between Chimpy and Hitler?
Hitler burned the Joos but the Joos burned Chimpy.
Man, sometimes I just crack me up.
Take my wife—please!
So Kos takes his car to the mechanic and says, “What’s the deal?” Mechanic says, “Just crap in the carburetor.” Kos, “How often do I have to do that?”
Waiter, there’s a fly in my soup!
A Rabbi, an Imam, and a Bishop walk into a bar. The bartender looks up and says, “What, is this some kind of a joke?”
Jews Good / Palestinians Evil.
Arafish.
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The US should bomb all the Muslims everywhere, except when they’re standing next to Christians, in which case we say ‘Duck’ in Christianese so the Christians duck and then we spray those standing with machinegun fire, just like the way Jesus commands us too.
Yay! Israel!!
Q: What do you get when you cross Rachel Corrie with a bulldozer?
A: A bulldozer that doesn’t need its tracks greased for another week.
Arafish!!
Chimpy sux! When will the world wake up? I fell asleep crying last night, and dreamed jackbooted thugs were out to get me. I think I’ll make a papier-mâché effigy of Bushitler today.
Carin-
That’s what I love about the PW community!!! We understand why you cry!! We don’t know why the whole world doesn’t cry! I literally have tears streaming down my face as I write this.
Why does Chimpy hate America?
Chimpy hates America because America hates Chimpy. HAVE YOU SEEN THE LATEST POOLS!?!!?
We’re gonna get back in power this time I tells ya. Then those evil righties are gonna pay!!1!!
I’d suggest we kill all the Rethuglians, except we’re peaceniks. But, certainly they are merely zombies following orders. We’d be putting them out of their misery.
ANARCHY RULES!
I lost my list, and I forgot what they are. Could we maybe work together?
Teh sad thing is that tehy are chickenhawks who don’t fight their own wars. BushCo should fight its own wars like other presidents did, like Washington and Eisenhower.
There should be a draft- but only a draft for chickenhawk neo-cons.
I’m so sad I’m crying while writing this and getting electric shocks from my keyboard because it is wet and that is making me cry more.
Q: Why did Rachel Corrie cross the street?
A: The bulldozer didn’t stop until it was across the street.
Q: How many Rachel Corries does it take to stop a D9 bulldozer?
A: According to Caterpillar, 4,317 on dry ground. At which point the tracks slip.
CharlesisGod!
I question the timing.
First Rule of Anarchy – there are no rules! Except that you have to wear black. And hate the Man. And have piercings. Did I mention you have to wear black?
I lost my list, and I forgot what they are. Could we maybe work together?
Pablo, that smack of communism to me. And if there is anything I hate more than Capitalists, it’s communists. Sure, it makes things uncomfortable at the anti-war rallies- all that “socialists workers” crap- but I figure once anarchy rules, we can kill off all them.
Been all ‘round the world and found that only stupid people are breeding. The cretins cloning and feeding. And I don’t even own a TV.
ESCHEW OBSFUSCATION!
Where’s my pie?
Where is the Outrage at this administration who is too bad for even words. Why do the sheeple listen to the biggest potatoheads in this lying government, who only got into power because of their friends at Diabold, Inc. I have to hang my head and let the tears fall down like rain because these are the dark days, and my country is dying! Argghhhhh! {clunk)
Dan Fogleberg??
LGFer,
St. Pancake is so moved by the tributes, you could knock her over with a caterpillar!
I propose a toast!
tw: what!?!
My frontal lobe refuses to go to the gym.
It does like pie, though.
Meanwhile, back to the TERRA!!!
Say, *, how are your poll numbers?
With Bush declaring war on all the Mislams now. These are scary time’s. How can should I to praserve my sanity best, and still to react in appropiate manner, in this dispairful moment?
Hmmmm.
We’ve had some discussions here about the coming demographic problems around the world. What hasn’t been covered yet is the impact of polygamy practices in the muslim world. We know what kind of impact polygamy has on insular groups within the US. In general polygamy can only be supported in an environment where the balance between the genders is maintained by allowing some men to accumulate more wives while other men are deprived.
Now what I’ve read about the gender balance in the middle east shows that there’s a rough parity between the sexes. Yet the middle east allows, through Islam, polygamy. So is one of the fundamental issues with Islam the practice of polygamy? And does the practice of polygamy, coupled with the mass enshroudment of women in the chador or burkha, create an environment where there is a manufactured surplus of men who are then disconnected from the distaff side?
Any significant practice of polygamy will cause an explicit gender imbalance. So, with the gender numbers being equal, if 10% of the men each have 4 wives then that removes 40% of the potential mates from the gender pool. This leaves 90% of the men to compete over 60% of the women. So a significant number of men could end up living at home and unable to form a new household of their own.
Frankly I started thinking of this scenario this morning so everything is still very much unformed. We’ve discussed the possible impact of gender imbalance in China as a potential catastrophe. But I don’t think anybody has discussed the possible ramifications of polygamy in manufacturing a gender imbalance within muslim societies.
Could this be one engine of discontent that drives religious fundamentalism, extremism and ultimately terrorism?
Does the Sharon Stone crotch shot in Basic Instinct offend a muslim because it bears resemblance to Mohammed?
Too late.
I’m giving you all a Compassionate Head Tilt. And crying.
Its times like these that I truly miss the tutorship of Leif Garrett. That guy rocks…..
Don’t fake the funk on the nasty dunk.
This leaves 90% of the men to compete over 60% of the women. So a significant number of men could end up living at home and unable to form a new household of their own.……We’ve discussed the possible impact of gender imbalance
Screw gender imbalance! What about those poor special needs children working at the blow-up doll factory? They’re no machines for Christ’s sake!!
Have you no feelings sir?
A great article on the future of global warfare.
Q: What do you get when you cross Hillary Clinton and Diane Pelose?
A: I think if you were to ask Vice President Cheney’s daughter who is…uh…you know…..a lesbian……..she would……uh……….
Speaking of tolerance, how do you tell the difference between Democrats, Republicans, and rednecks?
You’re walking down a deserted street with your wife and two small children, carrying a Glock .40. Suddenly, a terrorist with a huge knife comes around the corner, locks eyes with you, screams obscenities, praises Allah, raises the knife, and charges. You have mere seconds before he reaches you and your family.
What do you do?
Democrat’s Answer:
Well, that’s not enough information to answer the question! Is he poor? Oppressed? Have I ever done anything to him that would inspire such rage? Could we run away? Surrender? What does my wife think? What about the kids? What about the UN? Does the Glock have an approved safety? Why am I carrying a loaded gun anyway, and what kind of message does this send to society and to my children? Would he be happy just killing me or does he just want to wound me? Why is this street so deserted?
We need to raise taxes, have a paint and weed day and make this happier, healthier street that would discourage such behavior. This is confusing. I need to debate this with some progressive friends for few days.
Republican’s Answer:
BOOM!
Redneck’s Answer:
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! *click* … (reloads).
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! *click*
Daughter: “Nice group, Dad! Silver tips or hollow points?”
Hmmm.
Only in my groin area sir!
lol.
Only in my groin area sir!
EYES FRONT SOLDIERS!!
Me, I got nothing.
Well, there is a quote from “Fortunata and Jacinta” by Galdos, which I just read that seems fitting:
Let me help you out.
Long story short: Civilisation requires an abundance of poontang.
Heh heh, heh heh. Brenda said head. Heh heh.
This hypothetical situation is highly flawed. No self-respecting Democrat would even think of owning a black plastic gun like a Glock (which was clearly designed to avoid airport security). And only well-connected Democrats like Dianne Feinstein have the clout to get a carry permit, anyway.
A Glock .40 would be acceptable for Establishment Republican types—after all, it’s what the police carry—and would show support for the Second Amendment without being too NRA-ish.
But without a doubt the Redneck would be armed with a .44 Mag. Single-action.
Probably two of them.
Just had to point that out…
BrendaK has teh rigt idea. Letting flow the tears of shame at teh mockrey Lancelot Link has made of our prescious democracy and constititution while sporting a 15-20 degree compashionate head tilt shows teh whole world you’re true moral superiority over teh R3t4u611can J35us-4um93r5 while allowing you to collect teh fallen moisture of moral pain in a vase whihc you can place in you’re shrine to teh rapd and defiled elections and constititution that BushCo dumped in the doorway to teh emergency room wich our democracy has become so that teh tears don’t stan your Che t-shirt.
Tin Foil hats might not be effective. Is there a better material we can use?
Best PW post EVER!
I weep for all the weeping while I weep. When will the sheeple wake up? I weeple for the sheeple. Weally. I do.
Bushitler is teh SU><OR!
Having a tete de merde or an asshat is pretty effective.
Carin, that link you provided has restored some of my faith in academia!
So, no pie then. And they call this an echo chamber.
Wha the hell did I just post. Shiza.
Hi, just checking whether I’d survive the Great Leftist Purge of ‘06.
Some advice: maybe the problem is you devote but one day to mental health. It is a process Jeff.
Wino,
Heh. Funny.
Blah blah right-wing Rumsfeld warmonger chickenhawk evil Bushies Wolwowitz and his neocon cabal for oiloiloiloiloiloil blah blah ignorant stupid bloodthirsty morons, the real axis of evil on a ranch in Crawford and blah blah blah no WMD he lied, Bushitler lied, people died died died tie-dyed peace peace peace down with the Zionists! peace peace Kyoto! they hate us they hate us they hate us and what can we do and root causes and root causes and blowback and Plame and Plame and Chalabi Plame Wilson blah blah blah unilateral multinational Halliburton Enronism crony capitalism and it’s all about oiloiloiloil blah blah blah, cowboyish disregard for allies, for the wishes of the world community who rise up against us, the terrorist threat is overblown and anyway, it’s all our fault because we gave Saddam his weapons to begin with, photo of Rummy and Hussein, but make no mistake, he no longer has those weapons because inspections worked, containment worked, and blah blah blah Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Sudan handle it, Roy, handle it handle it, Caspian pipeline oiloiloiloil blah blah blah show me the stockpiles, anthrax CIA plant Richard Clarke said so and we believe him because and unless unless unless Abu Ghraib Abu Ghraib Abu Ghraib, square-jawed cocksucking military jarhead torturing fucks, bring home our troops! We care about the troops! We support the troops and don’t you question our patriotism our love for this fucking filthy crass consumerist bullying country of redneck dolts and biblethumping bourgeois suburbanites with their SUVs and where are the CAFE standards fight the real terror, eco-terror, Israel, the US, imperialist colonialist racist homophobic hegemonic and blah blah blah blah blah because dissent is patriotism and fighting against your country is really fighting for your country and our dissent keeps the nation strong and we’re brave and heroic and up is down and black is white and oiloiloiloiloiloiloiloil blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah.â„¢
It won’t be a purge so much as another rejection of Democrats by the American voters. Unless it isn’t, in which case you buy the drinks.
Beck,
I think you left a blah out somewhere.
Heh.
Mental health? I wish. Supposed to get married next weekend, but girlfriend’s bipolar, so we’ll see. Chances of wedding occurring 25%. But call me an optimist. Last time anybody drops $20,000 to see us get happily married, I’d wager.
ss – and I thought I had problems…whoo.
Jeff, have you considered seeking counseling regarding your strange obsession with man-on-dog sex?
You might want to have them check out your Tourette’s while you’re there.
You know, Beck, I think you’ve made a pretty strong case that Bush Derangement Syndrome is a subset of Tourette’s.
Mental health is way over-rated.
*twitch*
Someone here is abusing the ratings. I lost my TU, thanks alot.
fr1st p0st!
TW: hour, as in “…this h”
The Compassionate Head Tilt was invented by patchoulli-drenched grad students with no empathy for common working folk slaving away in their cubes. These elitist literati wouldn’t dare do a forward tilt so that the cube-proles could join them in the vanguard of proletarian compassion and catch a bit of shut-eye at the same time. Nooooo, that would be much too bourgeous.
Why do leftists hate the working man so?
I like pie.
And ice cream.
tongueboy:
AHhahahahahahahah! In my case, though, the cube-tilt is really more of a bounce (drowse-drop-jerk up, drowse-drop-jerk up)…which, really DOES fit the Ace of Spades Lifestyle!
This… http://www.thefileroom.org/documents/dyn/DisplayCase.cfm/id/506 … should not be confused with art.
Sorry Capt Holly.
Last time I checked there were numerous parts incorporated into the Glock. Even the metal clip.
DO THE F’N RESEARCH MAN!!!!!!
6Gun and Capt. Holly,
Somewhat of an error – Glock, H&K et al. have 10 round magazines (post Clinton’s Anti Assault Weapon law), presuming that you don’t have one chambered, it should have been 10 BOOM!s preceeded by a “RAC-RAC”.
Of course with my H&K .40 and its positive safety, not that trigger nonsense Glock has, I can keep it safely chambered, cocked and locked without shooting my foot off should it fall out of my waistband while reaching in the fridge for another beer.
Last time I checked there were numerous parts incorporated into the Glock. Even the metal clip.
Of course what I meant to say was numerous metal parts ie. springs and such
1 too many lunch Martinis
Carin:
“Tin Foil hats might not be effective. Is there a better material we can use?”
May I suggest depleted uranium sheets, with a thin coating of plastic to protect against chemical toxicity and the possibility of surface oxidation leading to inhaled dust?
Alpha particles won’t get through the plastic (not that they’d get past your skull or even skin anyway); DU is such a weak gamma emitter that that component would be small relative to natural exposure.
My Merck Index describes uranium metal as malleable and ductile, so I don’t think there’s a metallurgy problem. And it’s, get this, 7 times denser than aluminum (the “tin” in tinfoil is a misnomer)! Should be much more effective for a given thickness, don’t you think?
Bonus points: Leaves the lefties, to whom DU is anathema, unprotected!
(Major John: Don’t go regaining too much faith in academia, sir.)
or a para-ord 12.45 LDA with one in the chamber and triple safeties gives you 13 big ol .45 ACP BOOMS and no wasted time on the RAC RAC.
Doh. I’m so busy solving client’s programming probs, I forgot which blog I’m on…
Moving right along, NORM2121: to my conservative shame (we’re supposed to know ammo, right?!) I have no idea what you just relayed but it sounded really cool. Will a “depleted uranium sheets” hat protect me from the ACP BOOMS?
Let’s move along and have an open discussion regarding ammo grains………..
And I was in the service I always prefered the federal round, you know, the open post variety….
I meant when I was in the service. Damn Blue Sapphire…..
Ummmmm. I don’t want to crash and mess this party, but I don’t get it.
I know some of it comes from the spoofalicious blog on how the Iraq war was wrong. I still don’t get “Fredo” as a reference to the President (saw it on another thread too). Where did the crying/weeping and Compassionate Head Tilt come from?
I am teh confuzzzd. (I’m also not “hip.” Which explains my confusion.)
TODD:
Not wishing to be snarky or anything like that, but you need to turn on your sarcasm detector before you read this blog.
I think White Phospherus should be used, but only on the little brown people. Oh, wait… make that just Rethuglicans. All this BushCo nonsense has my head so turned around, I can barely recognize myself, much less this new United States of Jesusland! Arrrghh! {clunk, again}
Muslihoon:
Well, for a bit there we were pretending to be leftards. Who are known for tilting their heads (to the left or right, no diff) to indicate their deep, abiding concern about whatever bs they are on about (see plethera of lefty ‘I’m sorry’ pics)
Muslihoon, Jeff has given us leave to let our true colors fly. On the outside, sure, most of us are conservatives. But, deep down – we just want to let GO, just like they do on Atrios’ threads.
BUSHITLER KILLED MY DOG!
There, I go, I’m crying again.
You mean…you mean…that I have been lying to myself all this time?! I’m actually a mushy, weepy lefty that will die soon from global warming caused by BushRoCheniburton? No wonder I don’t get ammo references.
*Sob*
BUT, how can we be mental if we don’t have our meds!
FIRST!!!
no, er, wait….
Well, first for me.
TW: This thread needs a hall monitor
TODD:
Not wishing to be snarky or anything like that, but you need to turn on your sarcasm detector before you read this blog.
Oh
I’m sorry. Is this PW? I thought I was somewhere else. You know, first time posts and all….
TW: grip, as in get one
A Glock holds ten rounds?! Shite. Gotta check my hearing.
(And if you were around Lake Hilliard back in mid-October ‘02, listen, it won’t happen again.)
6Gun – well, it might have happened again if you’d ever bothered to call.
*Sob some more*
Open thread – insert foot.
It’s not the metal or the gage that’s important—above about a mil and half you hit diminishing returns pretty damn quick.
Personally, I find grounding the screen (“hat” went out some time ago) increases rejection by up to 30dB, not a small number, as I’m sure you know. Why this isn’t in the handbook just baffles me, but there you have it. Otherwise you end up with a big inductive resonance and that plays hell with concentration.
Just clip a lead to your power supply for good bi-directional attenuation—they won’t be able to hear you type either. (Radio Shack has color-coded leads. Use red on Mondays!)
Dubya is not ‘Chimpy’. He’s the Brass Monkey.
Which reminds me, in that crappy REM song Stand, where it says “if bushes were trees, the trees would be falling”, is that some sort of political statement? I could never get a good answer on that.
Eric, if you start devoting portions of your life to deciphering REM lyrics, you are all set for a hobby for, like, ever.
<blockquote>Susan Sarandon to play Cindy Sheehan in biopic…</i>
An admirable pattern indeed, and she is very good, this lady! It is true that she lives very austerely; but age has put this ardent zeal into her breast; people know that she is a prude against her own will. She enjoyed her advantages well enough as long as she was capable of attracting attentions; but, seeing the lustre of her eyes become somewhat dim, she renounces the world which is renouncing her, and conceals under the pompous cloak of lofty wisdom the decay of her worn-out charms. These are the vicissitudes of coquettes in our time. They find it hard to see their admirers desert them. Thus forsaken, their gloomy anxiety sees no other resource but that of prudery; and the severity of these good women censures everything and pardons nothing. Loudly they blame everyone’s life, not through charity, but through envy, which cannot bear another to enjoy those pleasures for which their age gives them no longer a relish.
 Molière
Gun Thread!
Federal Hyda-Shoks (that’s the open post you’re meaning?), they’re about the only thing I’ll load into my carry gun.
Which used to be a .45. Damn thing’s too big to carry concealed. *sob* Wife’s tired of me looking like a slob with an untucked shirt hanging over it.
And what’s this crap about 10-round Glock mags? 19+1, baby! Well, if you’re talking 9mm. The 10-round limit, being gone, never applied to pre-ban stuff – I never used one of the damn lobotomized mags.
For some serious .45 diddling of the laws of physics, check out the Springfield XD .45.
I want to see one, just to see how they got 14 rounds into the thing.
6Gun:
“not the metal or the gage that’s importantâ€â€above about a mil and half you hit diminishing returns pretty damn quick.” Yeah, I kind of worried the advantages of uranium might be irrelevant.
But personally, I’d just find my mind-control-wave-blocking hat more reassuring if it had more heft, you know? Couple pounds or so.
One more thing for now:
I’m opposed to all violence on principle, but in the case of Eric, who got that damn song stuck in my head, I’m contemplating a far-reaching exception.
Noah D
You are correct sir. The Hshock was a big preference due to the size of hole the exit would leave…
Sorry about that, JPS. I get that song stuck in my head every time someone says “Chimpy”. I mean, Jimmah Cartah resembles a simian far more than Bush does, and the right didn’t call him “Chimpy DogFuckingPeanutFarmingWorthlessPieceOfShit” for four years straight.
Eric –
Well, I did, but then I’m actually from Georgia. We’ll never, ever live down the shame. I’ll probably still be po’d at the man in my next lifetime.
tw: It was a bad idea to let him breed.
No no, Ghost
Ms. Sarandon has withdrawn from the Mother Sheehan project.
But never fear, another international star is under consideration for this coveted roll.
Can I just say that
“I Weeple for the Sheeple”
might just be the best bumper sticker ever? It says everything.