Oh no! Divided loyalties.

Brass fisties post!

Damn, SO close.

That movie kind of scared me at the time. It was so damn violent.

get in their faces, with bootsie-woots if thou it suits.

Is that a threat?

I don't react well to people getting in my face.

Do you expect to see Obama tap dancing like Richard Gere in the courtroom scene of Chicago?

“One thing I could never stand was to hear a filthy, dirty old partisan bushie, howling away his filthy songs and going blurpy blurp,” said Obama. “Naughty, naughty, naughty! You filthy old soomkas!”

LOL WTF does that even mean?

re: #4 Meremortal

It left Malcolm McDowell with a permanent phobia of eye-drops.

The genius of Iowahawk is blinding. Read this one earlier today, another masterpiece.

It's up.

soomka= bag

It's up!

re: #8 victor_yugo

It left Malcolm McDowell with a permanent phobia of eye-drops.

Ow! Bad image, bad image. *blinks*

SHOWTIME AT JAWA!

re: #10 Irene NYC

What is it already

"No time for the old in-out, love -- I've just come to rally the Obamanation!"

re: #10 Irene NYC

re: #12 runrabbitrun

Wang Down?

Strangely enough, it's not hard for me to imagine Malcolm McDowell's voice, with a full English accent, coming out of Obama's mouth.

[Link: www.mypetjawa.mu.nu...] Its up!

re: #6 ggt

Do you expect to see Obama tap dancing like Richard Gere in the courtroom scene of Chicago?

No, it doesn't fit his thuggish tactics. I see his actions more like a gang leader sending out his minions to destroy a rival's turf and terrorize the inhabitants into submission.

Has the Obamessiah lost his marbles?
Is his picnic basket missing a couple of sandwiches?
Has his choo-choo gone chugging around the bend?
Delayed reaction to drug use?
Mind control by Rev. Wright?
Or is all this a plot by Kkkarl Rove?

Run by the Ministry of Love

"get in their faces"

Most of the grey-haired old hippies and professors Ive seen sporting Obama stickers don't look to be in any shape to physically get in anyone's face.

It seems like the story is nothing Earth-shattering. Or, maybe it's just sickening that we've come to expect that from them.

What the hell is that act he's putting on? Is he melting down or something? That's terrible.

If a District Attorney can get the financial records of the people who worked on the video and prove payments cave from Axelrod then it is something, otherwise they'll shrug.

I'll save his 'Malenky droogs' (WTF?) the effort. You couldn't have paid me to vote for the Obamessiah before he started spouting off about how we should make sure our kids speak Spanish, let alone before this lunacy came out.

re: #26 lifeofthemind

If a District Attorney can get the financial records of the people who worked on the video and prove payments cave from Axelrod then it is something, otherwise they'll shrug.

There could be video involving a goat, handcuffs, K-Y jelly, and a male stripper, and the media would still yawn.

"progressive websites and MSNBC"

Haw haw!

re: #28 Racer X

There could be video involving a goat, handcuffs, K-Y jelly, and a male stripper, and the media would still yawn.

That was you? Zombie has that video.

Damn! Read right past the Iowahawk in the title and delved strait into the fictitious thread like it was real. It didn't help that I've read book.

Obama's should be getting turf burns this week.

Good work Jawa Report.

highly likely that "gocamerica" is on Pacific time, then it follows that he left the comment sometime around 1:16 pm Pacific

Should be 3:16 over there i think

re: #15 x-wing

What is it already

Hope, Change, & Lies: Orchestrated "Grassroots" Smear Campaigns & the People that Run Them

Extensive research was conducted by the Jawa Report to determine the source of smears directed toward Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Those smears included false allegations that she belonged to a secessionist political party and that she has radical anti-American views.

Our research suggests that a subdivision of one of the largest public relations firms in the world most likely started and promulgated rumors about Sarah Palin that were known to be false. These rumors were spread in a surreptitious manner to avoid exposure.

It is also likely that the PR firm was paid by outside sources to run the smear campaign. While not conclusive, evidence suggests a link to the Barack Obama campaign. Namely:

* Evidence suggests that a YouTube video with false claims about Palin was uploaded and promoted by members of a professional PR firm.

* The family that runs the PR firm has extensive ties to the Democratic Party, the netroots, and are staunch Obama supporters.

* Evidence suggests that the firm engaged in a concerted effort to distribute the video in such a way that it would appear to have gone viral on its own. Yet this effort took place on company time.

* Evidence suggests that these distribution efforts included actions by at least one employee of the firm who is unconnected with the family running the company.

* The voice-over artist used in this supposedly amateur video is a professional.

* This same voice-over artist has worked extensively with David Axelrod's firm, which has a history of engaging in phony grassroots efforts, otherwise known as "astroturfing."

* David Axelrod is Barack Obama's chief media strategist.

* The same voice-over artist has worked directly for the Barack Obama campaign.

This suggests that false rumors and outright lies about Sarah Palin and John McCain being spread on the internet are being orchestrated by political partisans and are not an organic grassroots phenomenon led by the left wing fringe. Our findings follow.

re: #32 jcm

Obama's should be getting turf burns this week.

Good work Jawa Report.

He says there is no conclusive evidence.

re: #35 EIDE_Interface

He says there is no conclusive evidence.

But there's a lotta 'splainin' to do.

More specifically, and importantly:

[Link: mypetjawa.mu.nu...]
Jawa Report on Palin smears

While not conclusive, evidence suggests a link to the Barack Obama campaign.

re: #23 Maximu§

"get in their faces"

Most of the grey-haired old hippies and professors Ive seen sporting Obama stickers don't look to be in any shape to physically get in anyone's face.

Most of the bumper stickers around here are .....NObamba.

I have 0% faith that the MSM will pick up on this. 10% chance FNC will do something with it.

The Obama democrats must be out in force. While attending a fund raiser for the developmentally disabled that I am a board member, some advocate of free speech defaced by bumper sticker that read:

OBAMA FOR CHANGE?
That will be the only thing left in your pocket.

They defaced the second line. It is always nice to know they support free speech as long as it is for their beliefs.

re: #37 EIDE_Interface

Which party promised to expunge "even the hint of impropriety"?

Hint: it wasn't the Republicans.

re: #41 victor_yugo

Which party promised to expunge "even the hint of impropriety"?

Hint: it wasn't the Republicans.

All talk and MSM never holds their feet to the fire. We all know that the MSM is merely an appendage of the DNC, so why would they? Can you name me the last time the MSM really went after a Democrat?

re: #38 Suzette

You're all racists!

// (just in case anyone REALLY needs it)

re: #35 EIDE_Interface

He says there is no conclusive evidence.

More than what they've tried to tie onto Palin.

re: #43 right_wing2

Not racists......just don't like what his "change" may mean.
Thanks though....

Dear Mr. Obama,

You have totally encouraged folks I know who was going to sit out the election, to get involved here in SW Ohio. To the point that they talk more favorable about McCain that I am.

thanks! you da man! - Too bad (not really) you will not be President in this lifetime, nor the next one either.

I'm more concerned with and fearful of the prospect of their "ultra-violence."

Ahhh, yes. The 'ultra violence.'

Great movies.

It's hope, dammit!

If I may,

Lets just suspend with the kegger sized lob balls or 30 gallon Flame Throwers for just a moment and focus in laser tight attention to THE question you must ask yourselves come November.........

Do I want to turn my country over to a devote Marxist?

There, that wasn't so hard.

NOW...back to the flame throwing, (I love the smell of Napalm in the morning....)

This is hope and change? BO seems to be losing it. Running for POTUS is a very difficult exercise, especially if you're a fake

re: #6 ggt

Do you expect to see Obama tap dancing like Richard Gere in the courtroom scene of Chicago?

"Singing in the Rain" rape scene comes to mind.

/Kubrick was a genius.

Bravo, Iowahawk, our Humble Narrator. Real horrorshow.

re: #52 IslandLibertarian

"Singing in the Rain" rape scene comes to mind.

/Kubrick was a genius.

And was even more a genius when he let R. Lee Ermey play GySgt Hartman in Full Metal Jacket...one of the best casting decisions he ever made.

And Malcolm McDowell was good in A Clockwork Orange too...

;-P

I can half-hear the guy they cast as Alex saying this Nadsat stuff. Iowahawk really knows what he's doing!

Iowahawk has a way with words:

"But enough of words, actions speak louder than," said Obama, pulling a bowler-clad campaign volunteer to the stage by his suspenders for a demonstration. "Action now. Observe all."

After swinging a hobnailed boot into the aide's yarbles, the stadium crowd erupted in cheers.

Clockwork-O-rage

The block I live on is 2 and a half miles around, if you want to walk it. Everyone has 5 acre tracts. On recycling day, Bud light empties rule. Buncha G-d fearing, gun and Bible hugging necks. We are not into violence, but we don't take shit either. We don't welcome violence nor ask for it. But you defend the homeland. Even from brownshirts.

re: #5 Maximu§

get in their faces, with bootsie-woots if thou it suits.

Is that a threat?

I don't react well to people getting in my face.

i react quite well to people getting in my face.....

(it's just not real pleasant for them %-)

re: #42 EIDE_Interface

All talk and MSM never holds their feet to the fire. We all know that the MSM is merely an appendage of the DNC, so why would they? Can you name me the last time the MSM really went after a Democrat?

Yes, and I think we all know which appendage that would be...

re: #11 jaunte

soomka= bag

A little background on the slanguage of Clockwork Orange :

For those not familiar with the Anthony Burgess novel (or the Stanley Kubrick movie) A Clockwork Orange, it was set in a "near future" Britain that was falling under the cultural influence of a greatly expanded USSR. A consequence of the Soviet influence was that British juvenile delinquents had their own youth slang filled with anglicized Russian vocabulary -- such as "droogies," meaning "friends," taken directly from the Russian word drug (друг), which is pronounced "droog."

Another such word is "soomka" -- used in the novel/movie to mean "ugly older woman," but that has no such meaning in Russian, where sumka means "bag" only in the literal sense. This could be termed "Russlish," since Burgess combined the literal meaning of sumka with the slang sense ("ugly older woman") of the English "bag."

Examples of a different kind of "Russlish" used by Burgess would be "eggy-weggies" and "appy-polly-woggies" -- which are not borrowed from specific Russian words, but rather can be seen as playing on the Russian tendency to use tons of "diminutive" grammatical endings. Russian women are especially prone to this, but even macho Russian guys sometimes use these babytalk-ish diminutives more often than you'd expect to hear from their English-speaking male counterparts. So when the protagonist of Clockwork Orange turns "apologies" into "appy-polly-woggies," that's also a subtle reference to Russian by Burgess, who was a linguist by training.

I want you to argue with them and get in their face

"Oh please, don't throw me into that briar patch! I am so scared of violence. Really."

re: #56 Ledger1

Iowahawk has a way with words:

After swinging a hobnailed boot into the aide's yarbles.

The usual Russian slang for testicles, equivalent to "balls" and "nuts" in English, is yaïtsá (яйца)-- so "yarbles" simply blends this word with "marbles."

(And by the way, yaïtsá literally means "eggs." But when the characters in Clockwork Orange mean actual chicken eggs for breakfast, they always call them "eggy-weggies." I suppose it's possible that they might use "yarbles" in reference to prairie oysters, i.e., animal testicles cooked as food.)

Kinda like the Muslim tactic..... come to our faith of hope and change...if you don't......... well,.....we will ram it down your throat

re: #60 Throbert McGee

Another such word is "soomka" -- used in the novel/movie to mean "bag" in the sense of "ugly older woman," but that has no such meaning in Russian, where sumka means "bag" only in the literal sense of "purse" or "grocery sack."

This reminds me of a funny chapter in P.J. O'Rourke's Modern Manners where he explains how you can fake your way to Eurosophistication by hyper-literally translating common English slang into French.

E.g., "gimme a break" becomes donnez-moi une rupture, "hit the books" is frapper les libres, and "no shit!" is pas merde.

Ah, what is the message here? Can someone translate in proper english?

Is he speaking in Tongues? me malenky droogs

Hey Ooggies and oogie want-a-be's, Alex, uh, I mean "The One" has established "Camp Obama" to get you all tuned up for a bit o' the old ultra-campaigning:

[Link: my.barackobama.com...]

[Link: www.npr.org...]

So the Hilter Youth, I mean snarky college a-holes, sign-up for "Camp Obama" to learn community organizing, then commit to rabble rouse for five weeks in a battleground state! Check the questions in the application that ask for references and if you have a car.

It seems a lot of lizardushkas are unfamiliar with A Clockwork Orange.

re: #68 Occasional Reader

It seems a lot of lizardushkas are unfamiliar with A Clockwork Orange.

When you read Burgess' book, the effect of the "slanguage" is far greater than in the movie, where the visuals completely take over. I highly recommend reading the book, and then seeing the movie, which is what I did back in college, at the behest of my English Lit prof.

Another side-splitting classic, from Iowahawk.

re: #69 garycooper

When you read Burgess' book, the effect of the "slanguage" is far greater than in the movie

I read the book after seeing the movie, and I first saw the movie late in my freshman year of college, after I'd had almost two semesters of Russian. So although Burgess had intended the russo-english "slanguage" to be somewhat difficult and alienating for the reader/viewer, to anyone who's had a little study of the russkiï yazyk, it feels more like an enjoyable in-joke. (Nearly all the words are based on the elementary vocabulary that one would learn in Russian 101 -- words like "talk" and "girl" and "good" and "tea" and basic color words and numbers, stuff like that. There were only a few terms that I didn't appreciate till a bit later... e.g., they don't teach you in 1st-year Russian that balls-as-in-testicles translates as "eggs"!)

I find the Obama idiots about as intimidating as a litter of newborn puppies. They don't have me quaking in my boots, so to speak. I look forward to the opportunity to have one of them get in my grill; it's worth a night in the slammer for the chance to have a long and meaningful discussion with these douchebags on matters political, and since I live in a small county with only one cell in the local jail, we could continue the discussion there after hours.

re: #68 Occasional Reader

It seems a lot of lizardushkas are unfamiliar with A Clockwork Orange.

The Russian word for "lizard" is a bit hard to remember -- yáshcheritsa (ящерица). But an apt word for the Lizardoid Master himself might be the short and sweet zmeï (змей), which sounds exactly like "he says maybe" and means "mythical serpent" or "dragon." And in fairytales a zmeï can be either evil or good, but even when good, comes across as kinda scary.

re: #70 Throbert McGee

The edition of the book I read had a nice handy glossary of terms, as well as an explanation of the Russian origins of the lingo. I was also quite familiar with Cockney rhyming-slang, which provides the underpinnings of Burgess' made-up slanguage.

I wish I knew Russian, so I could read the Russian greats in their original language. I can read French well enough to muddle through, but I fear I'm too old at 49 to tackle the language that drove Tolstoy mad.

re: #71 trace

The idea of these soft-headed fantasists "getting in (my) face" has to be one of the most comical utterances ever blabbed by an ambitious ward-heeler. This is the coward who is afraid to be exposed in a "town hall"-setting, and who commences to stuttering and stammering when slung a moderately-fast softball-pitch, as he did in the O'Reilly stroke-job. What are they going to do, hammer us with "McCain voted 90% of the time with Bush!" Ooh, that's scary!

Hmmm, just following up on my own comment and talking out loud to myself:

I just checked the Russian-language version of wikipedia, and it turns out that their word for "lizard," yashcheritsa, derives from Yashcher -- the proper name of a pagan Slavic god with a reptilian appearance, a vicious disposition, and a strong jones for gobbling up the Sun. In other words, "lizard" in Russian etymologically means "small evil-serpent-god."

It's possible, but maybe not proven, that the name Yashcher is cognate with the Sanskrit asura, which refers to a category of demon or evil god.

And besides being diminutivized to mean "lizard," the name of Yashcher was also borrowed directly by Russian zoologists as a term for the pangolin -- a small, harmless mammal superficially resembling an armadillo. (Cf. the English "echidna" -- an alternative name for the egg-laying spiny anteater, borrowed directly from Echidna, a hideous she-demon of Greek myth.)

That movie used to be a personal favorite. I don't know why; it's pretty sick and dark at it's core. Somehow, the scene where Alex is singing a happy little tune (Gene Kelly's version of "Singing in the Rain") while kicking one of his victims in the ribs, represented the ultimate irony. I was laughing through it once, and my sis wondered if I was as sick as I appeared.....

Great work as usual by Iowahawk

re: #76 twons

That movie used to be a personal favorite. I don't know why; it's pretty sick and dark at it's core. Somehow, the scene where Alex is singing a happy little tune (Gene Kelly's version of "Singing in the Rain") while kicking one of his victims in the ribs

Trivia: The victim who gets kicked in the ribs is sometimes said to be a vaguely autobiographical stand-in for Anthony Burgess himself (at least insofar as his real-life wife was once the victim of a vicious sexual assault).

Other trivia: The name of the invented slanguage is Nadsat. In Russian, the numbers 11 through 19 all end in -nadsat, just as 13-19 in English end with -teen. Thus, it's meant to emphasize that Nadsat is primarily spoken by teenage hoodlums. (However, Russians themselves do not actually use any word resembling nadsat in reference to teenagers -- it's strictly a numeric suffix.)

Still more trivia: The original British novel had 21 chapters, being divided into three parts of seven chapters each. The 21st chapter redeemed the hero a little bit and thus ended the novel on a mildly optimistic note. But the U.S. release of the novel dropped chapter 21, thus creating a bleaker, more cynical end for the book -- and Kubrick's movie is based on the American version. (Which is ironic, since the stereotype is that Hollywood routinely bastardizes literary source material by sticking on sunny, saccharine "American endings," in accord with the supposed preferences of U.S. moviegoers.)

Okay, one last bit of trivia (can you tell I really like Clockwork Orange?):

In #60, I suggested that Nadsat words like "eggy-weggies" or Iowahawk's "bootsie-woots" were based on the frequent use of cutesy diminutive endings in Russian.

But here Burgess may have also taken some inspiration from Polari -- a real-life slanguage that was at one time became heavily associated with British gay subculture (though not originated by gays) and that often used feminine-sounding words for campy effect. The Polari term "zhoozh," meaning "to put the finishing decorative touch on something," was mildly popularized in the States a few years ago by Queer Eye.

I laughed so hard that I got a pain in me gulliver. That was real horrorshow!

re: #77 Throbert McGee

A Clockwork Orange is shocking as a movie (when I first saw it). But I daresay it has a good (underlying) message. I suppose that message would be along the lines of "dont shift the responsibility of raising kids from parents to the state, or else you'll get the scenario painted in A Clockwork Orange".

I just started reading the book. I can't get over how there was no change in dialogue from the book to the movie. Lazy screenwriter? :)

If I hadn't seen the movie a bunch of times, I'd have no idea what Alex was saying...

I was just reading the Russian wikipedia entry about the book, which mentions yet another bit of trivia: The phrase "clockwork orange" wasn't invented by Burgess -- it was an already existing Cockney slang phrase that meant "something really weird." But Burgess, as a linguist who'd lived seven years in Malaysia, may have also intended a punning inside joke -- since orang in Malay means "man" or "person."

"SINGIN" IN THE RAIN .....JUST SINGING IN THE RAIN ! "

Oh, they didn't like it when I employed a bit of the old ultra-taxation, only because they didn't viddy how important it was to yours truly.