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So, I guess those uppity feminists got theirs. Stick it to the man, as it were.
So what’s your point, Dan, beyong the screechy seagull noise?
Oops, meant beyond.
My eyes are bleeding !!!
There is not a chance in hell that I am going to click on that link to find out what in the world that picture is from.
Whatever happened to Dan Collins; Independent thinker? Your posts used to shine in the welcome absences of your host. But his crab lice seem to have creeped into your sanctum sanctorum.
Your style now seems virtually indistinguishable
from ‘He Who Must Be Obeyed’ and that is not a compliment.
Pity.
JD: It’s simply photobucket. But some people are easily spooked.
A most palpable hit, S. Leo.
Dan – If sementickleo is criticizing you, then that is a clear sign, beyond dispute, that you are doing something right.
As opposed to your predictable, lefty, by-the-numbers regurgitation of Kos’ screeching, Semanticlito?
Kindly take your portable MoveOn.org echo chamber, shine that sucker up real purty and shove it up your ass, you sanctimonious twatwaffle.
… and STFU while your at it.
Have a nice day.
I thought Semenclit had died and gone to hell. I see I was premature with the died bit.
You know, between Jesus General, the Pandagon troop, and Scott Eric’s tattletale I thought I had laughed at lefties about as much as one could today, but then cleo decides he needs to try to flame this fucking thread, of all things. You guys should seriously consider taking this shit on the road, could be a rebirth of vaudeville.
“Screechy seagull noise”?!?!? What are you, a Milli Vanilli fan? Any one member of KC has more talent in a wart on their ass than 99.9999% (okay, I’m exaggerating; 99.99%) of the worthless idiots you hear on the radio. Try it, you’ll like it…
Death by drowning, in your own, in your own analysis35
Damn, that thing is creepy.
SyntacticVirgo is still working his way through that thesaurus his parents bought him for Non-Religious WInter Holiday last year, I see.
Oh, lord. Twatwaffle. I am in love with that word.
If you don’t even get King Crimson, just a little, please stop breathing. I’ll thank you, the gene pool will thank you.
>>>> … and STFU while your at it.
Is this an example of winger erudition? If so… let’s make that “STFU while YOU’RE at it.” Okay? That way I can pretend wingers are worth talking to and I’m not wasting my time reading this crap.
I don’t seem to recall anybody saying that it was.
So, uhhhh, other than trolling the comments at a site that you obviously dislike, why are you here, wasting your time [comma] reading this crap?
I mean, couldn’t you be making better use of your time by, say, making a giant papier mache Bu$hitler head?
I had a dog called Christine once.
This was a pretty cool video, but I’m am pretty sure you guys are coinfused about. Unless I miss my marker, that NOT’s KC (and the Sunshines Band). Not sure, but I am thinking maybe that was a Led Zeppelin played on a slow speed?
Personally? You guys are being to hard on Sematicleo. She’s, after all, in my opinion, a LEO (whose also a SEMATIC). That might explain a problem of astrology going on here.
Aslo, Sematicleo, that crab lice is nothing to joke about. (Trust me.)
Truth to Power, Witheld. Truth to Power.
Preach!
Twatwaffle. Says it all.
High concept:
A creature names itself semanticleo, but has no, zero, nada, zilch, comprehension of the English language.
Hilarity ensues.
Episode the First:
semanticleo gets a case of the crabs.
Instead of going to the doctor, he shaves half his pubic hair, sets fire to the other half, and starts stabbing the little creatures with an ice pick.
Hilarity ensues.
>>>> I had a dog called Christine once.
Brilliant! How did you ever come up with such a searing riposte?! I can’t imagine!
What did you say your name was? Furriskey?
Woof woof.
I’m guessing you don’t recall much, Sean.
And let’s see. Why am I here… I assume this isn’t an existential question? I followed a link here from a lib site.
Finally, as to whether I could better spend my time making a giant papier mache head of the boob we currently have ensconced in the W.H.—no, thanks. I’m trying to cut down.
And “no, thanks” as well to the comma you inserted in my last post.
Hey, you don’t just forget a bitch like that. Man’s best friend, you know.
Commas are tricky. Your right about that Christine. I’m am always getting tangled up with my commas.
My policy with regarding commas, is “when in doubt leave it out” YMVM.
Aslo, Christine. One thing that I found helpful when I, too, was spending WAYYYY too much time on my paper mache heads, was I would just do smaller and smaller heads everyday or lesser and lesser figures in the rethuglican pandemoneon until I was pretty much down to like a golfball size Sean Hannity.
Then I knew I could just flush it and walk away.
It was much easier than cold turkey.
You have to take it day by day though because just one Code Pink rally comes to your town and you can fall off that wagon SOOOO easy.
There’s a “Wizard of Oz” joke to be made, but I’m not sure which one.
Serously, though. WFT is going in that picture. Forget about the lady with the scarey jingoismic hair. Look in the background.
Is that a BANTU?
Good to see your reading skills are up to snuff, Christine. Furriskey it is. While you are giving the grammar lessons, perhaps you can tell Semenclit that the past participle of “creep” is “crept”, not “creeped”.
Don’t be so selective with your advice.
That’s what the last Christine said, too.
>>>> Hey, you don’t just forget a bitch like that. Man’s best friend, you know.
Good one! Still laughing. Thanks.
I don’t think Laura would appreciate being objectified like that.
BTW Christine, why are lefties like you just so pissed off all the time? Because the adults mock your puerile pratter?
Um, Darleen, that’s “the adults mock you’re puerile pratter.”
Aslo, isn’t it “prattle?”
You guys are all relly blowing it on the grammer/spelling today. Its a sad commontary on the state of today’s society (of grammer).
Sorry, but….
>>>> Commas are tricky. Your right about that Christine. I’m am always getting tangled up with my commas.
Yikes. Where to start with this one? Think I’ll pass.
>>>>> My policy with regarding commas, is “when in doubt leave it out†YMVM.
My “default” policy is place ‘em where the rules of grammar say to. But thereafter, I may omit them if it’s a short phrase and the comma isn’t necessary to make the meaning clear, and I may insert them if necessary to make the meaning clear—especially in an informal venue like this one. But never, ever, do I write “your” when it should be “you’re.”
>>>>> You have to take it day by day though because just one Code Pink rally comes to your town and you can fall off that wagon SOOOO easy.
You wouldn’t be stereotyping or anything like that, would ya?!
withheld
yes, I conflated “patter” and “prattle” .. guilty as charged (and hit submit w/o preview).
But aren’t you being pedantic?
Well, Darleen, its a sad to say that one of my shortcomings is I can error on the side of pendantic from time to time.
Thank you, Christine, for sharing your’e comma policy. This is fun!
Maybe we could turn this into s sharing moment of we could all learn about each other and are comma policies.
Aslo, semicolons.
>>>>> BTW Christine, why are lefties like you just so pissed off all the time? Because the adults mock your puerile pratter?
First off, I’m hardly pissed. It’s a gorgeous day out, and I’m thoroughly enjoying the morning’s diversion. Perhaps you’re being overly sensiteevo? And with good reason, I might add—see next point.
Second, assuming for sake of argument that I’m pissed, I’m amazed anyone who’s been awake for the last six-plus years could ask why. (Possibly you just woke up?) I am horrified by what the boob has done to this country and to our standing in the world. We’ll be decades undoing the damage. I hope I live long enough to see us turn the corner.
And hoo boy, what he has done to the military is a crying shame. I’m an Army brat, and my poor dad would be heartbroken had he lived to see what’s happened to his beloved Army.
English police, from the Left, on PW? I’m agog.
I posted a short passage from Shakespeare over at Amanda’s and the response was like the scene in 2001 where the obelisk appeared.
You mean seeing things like pro-American governments get elected in favor of the opposite in places like Germany, France, Canada? It’ll never happen.
Oh, wait…seems like the world’s catching up sooner than you thought, eh?
>>> English police, from the Left, on PW? I’m agog.
Nope, not from me. Okay, yeah, the “your” in “STFU, while your at it” begged for a response. After that, you can thank your winger fellow travelers for the grammar/punctuation contretemps.
>>> You mean seeing things like pro-American governments get elected in favor of the opposite in places like Germany, France, Canada? It’ll never happen.
Oh, wait…seems like the world’s catching up sooner than you thought, eh?
Good grief. You wouldn’t be holding up Canada and “Old Europe” (as Rummy might say) as proof of the boob’s success on the world stage, would you?!
Well, it’s to be expected, I suppose. A rat that swims toward a sinking ship is probably not one of the “smart” rats.
Second, assuming for sake of argument that I’m pissed, I’m amazed anyone who’s been awake for the last six-plus years could ask why. (Possibly you just woke up?) I am horrified by what the boob has done to this country and to our standing in the world. We’ll be decades undoing the damage. I hope I live long enough to see us turn the corner.
And hoo boy, what he has done to the military is a crying shame. I’m an Army brat, and my poor dad would be heartbroken had he lived to see what’s happened to his beloved Army.
Posted by Christine
Clinton sure did, didn’t he.
So how come you’re not in the military?
Canada, France and Germany were held up as definitive proof of Chimpy’s wrongheadedness way back when…now they are of no consequence? Entrenched first-world nations, some of which are on the UNSC, switching camps is no big deal?
Who are you relying on for your international worldview, C? Chavez and Ahmadinejahd?
>>>> Clinton sure did, didn’t he.
So how come you’re not in the military?
Clinton? This soon in the battle and you’re harking back to Clinton?!
Guess I’ll declare victory and smoke a cigarette.
And if your point in mentioning Clinton was to suggest that he, not the boob, broke the military, you’re simply wrong.
I have doubled my usual dose of coffee, the second round with a liberal splash of Baileys, and witheld is still the only thing about this thread making any sense to me. Might just need to go back to bed.
Christine
What I see is that there is one group of people who believe the biggest threat to Western civilization since the fascism of the last century is this century’s contemporary fascism, Islamism.
And then there is the group who think the biggest threat is global warming.
The latter group also is motivated not by the tenet that the US do what is right, but that the US should do things in order to be loved. This is the group who also squeals about the “squandering” of “worldwide good will” that immediately followed 9/11, purposely or not, ignoring that much of that “good will” was barely disguised schauenfreude.
The latter group is, at best, unserious and totally incompetent to be put in charge of US national security.
And that would be real harm here, not imagined harm because The World(tm) says mean words about us.
Butch up, Chrissie.
Definitive proof? Oh please. Are wingers utterly incapable of dealing in anything other than black and white? It’s all a big toggle switch to you guys?
We’re up? We’re down? That’s it?
Look at the world. You don’t need a “guide” to tell you the boob has set us back. Way back. Look at Putin and his watery blue eyes, into which the boob is apparently still gazingly soulfully and wondering (if he has any sense at all, which he possibly may not), “How the hell do I get my sorry, overprivileged ass out of this mess? If I can just string things along another 18 months…”
He didn’t break it, he gutted it:
LINK
Nice to see you put words in his mouth.
Now, since I have family and friends currently IN the military, and some long term… Not ONE has anything good to say about either Clinton and their pisspoor attitude towards the military.
Ahh yes, the winger specialty: Fashioning straw men, the better to knock them down. And such a perfect fit for the on/off toggle mentality of the average wingnut!
Hmmmm… a little projection from the “America bad, Israel bad, The Other good” camp?
Christine
Al Gore is a straw man?
Do tell. It wouldn’t be because you’re a wingnut who hails from a family of wingnuts, would it?
In any case, I think I’m in a better position than you to say what my dad—a lifelong Republican from Omaha, Nebraska, BTW—would think of what the boob has done to the military. He wouldn’t have switched to the Democratic party; he’d still be a Republican—but he’d be heartbroken.
Oh… and the Dem debates have curiously never touched on terrorism or Islamism
but they ARE totally frightened by the prospect of facing Brit Hume.
Yes, let’s put one of them in charge of US security!
Okay, let’s look at the world, Putin in particular:
After months of angrily rejecting a White House plan for missile defense in Europe, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia surprised President Bush on Thursday with an offer to build a joint system in the former Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan….
The offer came during a much anticipated private meeting between the presidents at a gathering of leaders of wealthy democracies. Mr. Bush said that Mr. Putin had put forth “some interesting suggestions,†and that the two agreed to form a working group of military and diplomatic experts to examine how they could cooperate on missile defense, an issue that has long divided Russia and the United States.
So, Christine, let us eschew the binary world for a rich pastiche of analog vistas. Does this strike you as a net plus or a net minus? Has Mr. Bush’s “sorry ass” (how Manichean!) been extracted to some degree?
Better have that smoke, kitten, this isn’t going to get any easier for you.
You were talking about Al Gore when you said “group”? Fine. Find someone who agrees with what you claim is Al Gore’s position—I really couldn’t say if he thinks global warming is our greatest threat rather than simply a threat or a great threat—and take it up with them. That’s assuming you’re actually interested in that discussion, which I’m guessing you are not.
Well, my dad (former Army 11th Airborne, WWII occupation army, DI during Korea – Fort Ord & Camp Cooke) did start out as a registered Socialist Democrat..
Then he grew up.
After WTC 1, Tanzania, Khobar, Kenya, the Cole, Bali, 9/11, beheadings in Thailand…the list is almost endless, to suggest that Islamic terror is a “straw man” defies anything resembling common sense.
Only a suicidal nation would put people such as you or those you support into positions of responsibility.
I am a porgessive BWT. (Not a wingdinger.)
Aslo, good backs and forths, you guys, but, in all honestly, you guys are getting, like, WAYYYY OT.
Will noone even attempt to explain to me what is that photo?
Okay, I get she’s magically grew the American flag out of her head, and she’s got some kind of Ace Frehely thing going her eye. And then it appears she’s not wearing a shirt but has wrapped the stripey section of her America hair around her bustular area, which, is it some kind of patriotic jingism peep show? But then she’s seems to be wearing boxer shorts, so….
Why does the other lady/womyn have a referee whistle? What is the sigificants of the 9?
ANd again, I ask you, for the Love of Goddess…
WTF is that THING in the background!?!?!??!?!
AT first I was like “bantu” (The big slow hairy creatures from Tattoine, when Luke is seeing them in his binoculars just before the tuscan raiders). But now I’m thinking a bear with big curly devil horns? Is that some kind of rooster headblob on the top of it? Some kind of bear/rooster/sheep thing? OGM, I shudder the thought of it. That thing is going to give me the nightmares, I just know it.
Oh jeez. It’s one of those supercilious wingers who’s in a perpetual swoon over what he imagines is his own brilliance. Wonderful.
Well, Jeff, depends on how broadly or narrowly you slice the ol’ time-space continuum, doesn’t it? Compared to the moment just before Putin backed away slightly from whatever line he’d drawn, it’s a plus. And I guess that’s all the boob and his remaining supporters can realistically hope for anymore, isn’t it?
Just which countries do you think he has a problem with, Christine?
Gosh. I don’t believe you! Not the part about the units he served with, but the part about his being a registered Socialist Democrat.
BTW, sounds like your dad was pretty much rear echelon or stateside whenever there was a battle raging. Did I get that right?
I’d characterize a less-hostile position as “backing away.” This was a reversal of position and a near-total victory for Bush’s position (working out the details will provide the remainder of the win).
I’ll echo Pablo’s question: which nations are you talking about, C?
Well, I’mnot one to brag, but comparatively speaking…
lovely. are we talking degrees of “chickenhawk” now? time to break out the point system again! yay!
OMFG. How big a rock do you live under, girl?
The logical consequence of the argument being, of course, only combat veterans being morally qualified to be President (or, possibly, the military itself deciding when to go to war or not).
As Huey Long said, when fascism comes to America, it’ll be called anti-fascism.
Chrissie
MY claim? From the Oscars to the classroom, Gore gets a ton of play and support. In the mean time, Islamism is downplayed…from left blogs who discount every foiled plot (ie Fort Dix Six, JFK Airport) to even Breck Boy’s declaration that it is only a “bumpersticker.”
And your reaction is to backpeddle and attempt to state that I’m misrepresenting Sir Gore and his Quest.
You can stop stepping on your clit now.
Oh, come on, mags. You know those 11th Airborne fuckers are a bunch of REMF’s.
tw: english63
Uh, I believe you’re the one who trotted out the unit designations, Darleen; I simply drew the obvious inference. Live by the sword, die by the sword, I allus say.
And on that note, adios for now, wingers. Things to do, places to go, etc. etc. Will check back later to see if you’ve eaten each other.
Or, play with witheld. He’s doing his best to play the part of a “stupid progressive” and no one’s even talking to him!
It’s because you’re playing the part so much better, sweetheart.
Run on back to Amanda’s, where you’re not challenged with heterodox views. It’s more your depth.
Oh my gosh! So now I’m not a woman. After all, you’re accustomed to besting all the lib women who post here, right? So I couldn’t possibly be a woman. I have to be a man.
Daddy would be so proud of you, Darleen!
But, speaking for our supposedly shared gender, Darleen, I’m ashamed of you.
And now, really, gotta go.
Oh, so now your calling me stupid and not a real porgessive. Meanwhile, you don’t even believe that global warming is the greatest threat.
I liked you better when you were explaining about the commas. (Helpful.)
LOL…damn, I didn’t know you girls had the same expression. It fits, too.
Yup. There’s no threat, just “Rethuglican fearmongering”.
Global warming, OTOH, is serious stuff.
Well, that was a pathetic effort.
Witheld, am I good with that comma?
No, Chrissie, among guys (especially in contracting) “stepping on your dick” is an expression meant to denote a complete fuck-up, generally unforced, a mistake that you had to really try hard to make. Your uninformed posts are a good example.
Darleen, a fair description?
Chrissie
Well, see now, my dad was born in 1928… he lied about his age and joined the Army when he was 17, got his paratrooper wings and would have been one of the first line in the invasion of the main island of Japan (with very little odds of surviving)Operation Olympic
But then Big Boy happened. The 11th then became part of the first occupation movement into Japan and dad was stationed for two years in Okinawa.
When Korea happened he was called back into the Army (as a master sgt) and had his orders for shipping out to the Korea. It necessitated him and mom to move up their wedding date (April 1951). The day he was to ship, they changed his orders because they decided he was more valuable as a DI teaching marksmanship and military history.
I bet your dad is pretty sad at the way YOU treat army vets.
“Progressive”, Chrissie? Well, that explain a lot.
So far, so good, Pablo.
But I am keeping my eye on you.
Can we knock off the clit-stepping talk? That’s like almost a creepy as the horny bear-rooster. Serously.
I said “clit” not “dick”, sweetcheeks.
How does that inauthenticate you?
and yes, Jeffersonian, spot on description. Us womyn folk don’t use it often, but in Chrissie’s case..all her “better than wingers” fluff … deserved it.
I mean, what, did it fall off and roll under the coffee table?
“Oh, dammit, not again. Now, where did that thing get to. OWWWWW!”
From a serving Soldier 1994 to the present, so I’ve seen this stuff.
http://siadapp.dmdc.osd.mil/personnel/CASUALTY/Death_Rates.pdf
1992: Total US military 1,953,337
2000: Total US military 1,530,430
2006: Total US military 1,605,553
From 1992 to 1996, the defense budget was reduced from $339 billion to $277 billion. This figure is not jsut a function of numbers of men under arms and equipment. It’s also R&D which translates into lives saved on the battlefield, and more importantly it’s money spent on maintenance and repairs which translates into lives saved in training. My brother left the Navy in the early 90’s because he watched his helicopter squadron, which had come through Desert Shield and Desert Storm unscathed, die in accidnets caused by improper or deferred maintenace because there was no money for parts.
Today, the Army and Marine Corps are growing. The National Guard is fully manned at 350,000 and still growing. The Rapid Fielding Initiative gets us brand new equipment (and I’ve never before received new equipment in my 13 years) when we deploy. Newer and better are coming online all the time, from radios, to armor, to medical stuff, to protective gear.
And our accident rate isn’t significantly greater than it’s ever been.
So, perhaps you’d be good enough to give us your metric for maing the statements you do?
Its hard enough to find it sometimes already as it is. The last thing I need is I have to go crawling under the furniture looking for it.
I dunno, Darleen, those gals over at Mandy’s don’t get a lot of push-back on the received wisdom handed down. They’re really hothouse flowers there, unable to function outside of the fetid swamp of ideological gyno-lockstep.
It’s a bit like tasering frisky little puppies when they come here spoiling for a fight. I almost feel bad for her. Almost.
Christine comes from the school of thought where the most bemused poster automatically wins the debate.
She also has absolutely no sense of either irony or self-awareness. Immensely entertaining stuff.
Of course, the word thought is meant in its loosest sense.
And “progressives” like Christine would cry that that is evidence of Bu$HitlerHaliburtonZionistNeocons driving US economy into the ground because only the poor, uneducated slobs with no other future join the military …
…other than the racist, rapist white crackers who join so they can murder The Innocent Other.
Well, I didn’t need to make my “Wizard of Oz” joke after all—she made it for me.
I do hope she’ll say something so ignorant as that.
Put a reflector on those little rings they all wear now, works like a charm.
Rats are one of the the seven mammals that scavenge. “Smart” you say? Yeah. Smarter than a sassy beaver sporting the latest mix-and-match look. Vamp is mystique! Those Olsen twins, even they’ll tell ya all about wrapping a look around stylish razor-creative forms of expression. The clear-to-land look, the mini-stach, the heart shaped sheik, the accessorized spikey flat, the sculpted V, the two-tiered dish rag look and the mAyB iWould are but the dizzying tip of the proverbial iceberg (blasted, sinking icey rat magnets!), and Ma’am, don’t question of what I speak. Lately I’ve taken to reading the hippest magazines exclusively with an eye toward nether flair.
The twatwaffle – PW’s own wrinkle-free lifestyle look – was just coined today and it’s already spreading like an Outback brush fire through the bush. Who’d you think you were dealing with, big-writer-girl?
And if you like that, you’ll love this:
Was General Pace Fired Because He Balked at Iran
Pablo
OOhhhhh “trutherism” and “global warming” (bush caused Katrina) all wrapped up in one paranoid BDS fantasy!
“Wingers”, “Rear-echelon”, “the boob”.
Is that our RDA for cross-blogosphere input?
Chimperialism!
“Blocking Mullen and Impeaching Bush may be the most important things we ever do.”
Hear!, Hear!
But didn’t Bush say he was forced to replace Pace
because of the confirmation process. He couldn’t
be lying, now could he? Naw! Not GWB.
Typing with one hand again, Semmy?
Look at him! I mean what is there to discuss?
Just look at him!
So that is your idea of a persuasive argument, cleo? Can you judge competence and intent just by looking at a picture?
Is this thread actually starting to swing back to the original topic, whateverthefuck that was?
Now, now, B Moe. Semanty doesn’t judge. Semanty emotes.
If the ouster of Pace is due to ‘pushing back’ on Iran, what does that say about his replacement?
Moe; The quote was from the link, but I second that emotion.