If uber right-wing religious Islamofascists are into your ideas, Gawker, you might want to rethink them.

Never read Gawker. Is it worth looking at?

the neo-Nazis at places like Stormfront, and the Eurofascists like Vlaams Belang, absolutely despise me and LGF.

Charles, you certainly do have all the right enemies. So you must be doing something right.

Never bother leftists with facts or truth. They've got no idea what to do with it.

I believe the term I'm looking for to describe mr. cook is "jackass".

They need to get a little shmear on instead...like some cream cheese and lox on a nice poppy seed bagel.

re: #2 WriterMom

Never read Gawker. Is it worth looking at?

Hopa!

What took Gawker so long?

re: #2 WriterMom

Never read Gawker. Is it worth looking at?

Gonna go out on a limb and say probably not

re: #2 WriterMom
MOM!

re: #8 Idle Drifter

What took Gawker so long?

Nothing like reporting on something that already made the rounds.

See why I don't look at other blogs? See?

(copied from the previous thread, as a response to Charles' first post about this):

Consider the source. For self-loathing, irony-junkie hipsters like the Gawker crew, any defense of Western civilization, America, and/or the Judeo-Christian spiritual heritage = neo-Naziism.

re: #7 Ben Hur

HOPA!

re: #10 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Fat Bastard!

Oh great. Now John Cook is going to tell his mom.

re: #11 Ben Hur

Nothing like reporting on something that already made the rounds.

They're a little slow with making up their own "facts," perhaps they need lay off the stupid.

re: #2 WriterMom

Never read Gawker. Is it worth looking at?

Only if you want to be appalled by the mindless freaks who share your species. I just had my first look at the site recently, thanks to one of Charles' "exploding head" threads. God, what a bunch of idiots.

I have said it before and i will say it again. These morons don't have the brains to blow themselves to hell while standing in a pool of gasoline with a lit match. They are so not worth one second of anyone's time. Unfortunately, good people must take the time to stop them from spreading their hatred and vitriol.

When the Left starts to confront the Jew-haters in it's midst, then they might have a moral leg to stand on with their criticism.

re: #19 Last Mohican

No thanks. I have enough at work and in my extended family.

Also, if someone were fool enough to post anything here along the lines of what is common coin at GoV or AS, Stinky would be all over them before their keyboard cooled down, resulting in the classic response;

This user is blocked.

But not before they'd been taken to task by the Lizard Legion, whose response is generally faster than the proverbial speeding bullet.

cheers

eon

Note to Cook, et al, - Is that the best you've got?

Simply making accusations and assertions does by no means imply those accusations and assertions are credible or of merit. Without substantive arguments and proofs, that kind of thinking is nothing than a reflection of stupidity (and as such, a great argument for school voucher programs).

As my grandfather used to say, 'Stupidity is a commodity given out by God in great abundance'.

re: #14 mikalm

(copied from the previous thread, as a response to Charles' first post about this):

Consider the source. For self-loathing, irony-junkie hipsters like the Gawker crew, any defense of Western civilization, America, and/or the Judeo-Christian spiritual heritage = neo-Naziism.

They still don't know about Godwin's Law.

re: #21 MJ

When the Left starts to confront the Jew-haters in it's midst, then they might have a moral leg to stand on with their criticism.

That is only one small part of their stupidity. They have a long row to hoe to get anywhere near morality. I don't ever see it happening.

re: #14 mikalm

irony-junkie hipsters

The correct term is hipster douchebags.

Carry on.

kumrads die because they're told)

kumrads die because they're told)
kumrads die before they're old
(kumrads aren't afraid to die
kumrads don't
and kumrads won't
believe in life)and death knows whie

(all good kumrads you can tell
by their altruistic smell
moscow pipes good kumrads dance)
kumrads enjoy
s.freud knows whoy
the hope that you may mess your pance

every kumrad is a bit
of quite unmitigated hate
(travelling in a futile groove
god knows why)
and so do i
(because they are afraid to love

ee cummings [who I suspect is the #1 influence on our own taxfreekiller]

The stupidity of this remark can't be understated -- the neo-Nazis at places like Stormfront, and the Eurofascists like Vlaams Belang, absolutely despise me and LGF. They have never been "into my ideas," and only a fool who's made unsupported assumptions about my ideas could possibly believe that.

I hope you weren't expecting honesty. The Left and the MSM are going to say whatever they want regardless of reality. It's their game and their rules. This is just another example of it.

Bah. Defend yourself as you see fit Charles...but Grandma Fazzino had a Sicilian expression that sounded like poetry from the old silverhaired woman
of 90: Step over the mud puddles.
Some of the readers here may know similar or be more familiar with the Italian Ive forgotten over the years.

Johnson should be commended for taking a stand against neo-Nazis and Glenn Beck

... and against jihadists and their supporters and apologists, right?

Total "oopsie!" omission there, right, John?

re: #27 Occasional Reader

Are these new LGFisms?

The comments under that smear show a well informed intelligent readership, dedicated to what is true and good...NOT

Come on Gawkeroids, if that is all you have, you are weak, weak, weak. I challenge you losers to actually come over here and read what is going on and not rely on your fearless leader's talking points to base your opinions on.

it's interesting because Mr. Cook obviously sees all that don't agree with his opinion and political affiliations as "right wingers"

since he has put all "others" in the same big group, and now he views the conflict between the groups as an internal fight of the "right wingers".

re: #28 mikalm

We read an ee cummings poem in high school with a line about:

the boys i mean
are not refined

I remember re-reading it as an adult and seeing quite a different layer of meaning.

Charles:

Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.

Oscar Wilde

What's so hard to understand? Since 9/11/2001 Charles has supported the Nazi like tactics of Chimpy-McSmirky-Bushitler-burton, therefore Nazis world over like him.

/sarc off

Nazi nuts and those advocating mass murder never needed anyone "to invite them to any table", they have always been there.
Not to mention that Charles did not extend an invitation to any of them. And guess what, Cook? he went further to expose them and attack those who sympathize with their rhetoric.
Here is a comment for Charles I kept as "favorite" because it summarizes everything we are talking about here, I will post it:

I've posted this many times, but apparently it needs to be said again:

If you argue that it's vitally necessary to deport the entire Muslim population of the United States, you are ADVOCATING MASS MURDER.
Yes, I'm shouting.
There is no way in hell that you can uproot millions of people, most of whom have done nothing wrong, and throw them all out of the country, without committing mass violence. People will resist this with all their hearts.
And not just Muslims. No decent American would stand for it.
It's a stupid, empty, meaningless fantasy that will never happen, and when you start ranting about it at my site, you achieve nothing but to drag everyone here into the muck, and make us all look like extremists and fascist assholes.
I won't tolerate it.

This is not only a comment posted on some thread, it's an attitude. And this attitude (and others) are what making this site a favorite target for all nuts.

re: #32 WriterMom

Are these new LGFisms?

I credit Iowahawk with "hipster douchebag".

Right-Wing Blogger Goes to War With the Idiots He Created.

I reset that.

I became what he calls an "idiot" without any help from anyone.

...all Muslims everywhere want to kill white Americans,

.. uh, yeah. Right.

re: #2 WriterMom

Never read Gawker. Is it worth looking at?

Only if you think the exclamation "ass-fucking!" is deep political commentary.

Never have, never will touch Gawker.

Hey, meanwhile the Taliban's back, on Obama's watch.
What will leftists say about islamist beheadings and stonings on Obama's watch?

re: #42 Dianna

Oy to the Vey.

re: #43 alegrias

Never have, never will touch Gawker.

Hey, meanwhile the Taliban's back, on Obama's watch.
What will leftists say about islamist beheadings and stonings on Obama's watch?

He was only seven years old when... er... or was it three years old... LOOK A PUPPY!

re: #19 Last Mohican

I just had my first look at [gawker.com] recently, thanks to one of Charles' "exploding head" threads.

Actually I suddenly realized that this isn't true. I've seen gawker.com once before, during the 2008 election. At that time, someone hacked into Sarah Palin's personal email account, and made the password public. Gawker.com posted, as an "exclusive," a bunch of Palin's personal emails, as well as her contact list (including her children's personal email addresses), and personal photos of Palin's kids. I think they also posted Bristol Palin's personal cellphone number, and a video of someone calling it and listening to her outgoing voice mail message. I'm not sure, that video may have been on another site. But the personal emails and family pictures are still up on gawker. You can google for them if you want -- I won't link to them.

The folks on gawker seemed to think that posting personal photos and contact information for a politician's young children was not only perfectly ethical, but was actually a brilliant piece of muckraking, in light of how evil Sarah Palin and all Republicans are. Pretty much 100% of the Obama supporters on digg.com agreed that this was perfectly okay, and they couldn't see any reason why it was wrong. I assume that most of the other pro-Democrat sites felt the same way, but I was too sickened to look any further.

re: #42 Dianna

Only if you think the exclamation "ass-fucking!" is deep political commentary.

One thing I've noticed is that the left is supposed to be so pro-Gay, etc etc, but are the biggest gay baiters out there. I guess they beleive they "own" it so it's not bigotry.

Latest example is Garafalo who called the Tea Party protestors (Kilgore!) "tea-bagging red-necks."

Gay baiting and bigotry.

Good news, I just got an email from something called Nokia-email.
They informed me that I was randomly selected to recieve $600,000.
All I have to do is contact Mr. Jack Baur. How coincidental is that, I just watched him on Monday night.

re: #43 alegrias

What will they say? It's Bush's fault of course.

I'm just glad Charles doesn't have friends like Billy Ayers or Rashid Khalidi because then Gawker would really have something to talk about. Imagine the dirt they could did up on that. The mind boggles.

re: #46 Last Mohican

A high moral standard over there at Gawker obviously. Charles should take the fact that they hate him as a complement, not an insult.

I am totally clueless on this but is that site Gawker.com got exactly the same graphics/blog style as Jezebel.com? I mean they are dead on.

Is there some sort of master blog template that some use?

re: #38 Abu Lahab

This is not only a comment posted on some thread, it's an attitude. And this attitude (and others) are what making this site a favorite target for all nuts.

That's because reality makes their heads hurt. Unlike their fantasies, just "wishing" does not "make it so".

cheers

eon

re: #45 Occasional Reader

He was only seven years old when... er... or was it three years old... LOOK A PUPPY!

The least you can do is link a loldog!

re: #47 Ben Hur

Latest example is Garafalo who called the Tea Party protestors (Kilgore!) "tea-bagging red-necks."

Gay baiting

Enlighten my innocent mind; is "tea-bagging" thought of as an exclusively (or primarily) gay seckshewal practice?

And he should still be condemned for spending the last eight years giving them ammunition and inspiration. If neo-Nazis are into your ideas, Charles, you might want to rethink them.

Hitler loved dogs.
Marry loves dogs.
Therefore, Mary is Hitler.

This is profoundly flawed and uninspiring thinking.

re: #35 WriterMom

We read an ee cummings poem in high school with a line about:

the boys i mean
are not refined

I remember re-reading it as an adult and seeing quite a different layer of meaning.

My God. You read that one in high school?

the boys i mean are not refined
they go with girls who buck and bite
they do not give a fuck for luck
they hump them thirteen times a night

one hangs a hat upon her tit
one carves a cross on her behind
they do not give a shit for wit
the boys i mean are not refined

they come with girls who bite and buck
who cannot read and cannot write
who laugh like they would fall apart
and masturbate with dynamite

the boys i mean are not refined
they cannot chat of that and this
they do not give a fart for art
they kill like you would take a piss

they speak whatever's on their mind
they do whatever's in their pants
the boys i mean are not refined
they shake the mountains when they dance

My students would love it, but I suspect the administration would hunt me down.

Since the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, jazz musician and Web designer Charles Johnson has devoted his blog, Little Green Footballs, to exposing Muslim extremism in and outside the United States. His targets have included the Council on American-Islamic Relations, filmmaker Michael Moore, Reuters, Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.), Dan Rather, and the late pro-Palestinian activist Rachel Corrie - who some LGF commenters (not Johnson) call "St. Pancake," a tribute to the Israeli steamroller that killed her. LGF helped write the lexicon of the self-styled "anti-Jihadist" blogosphere - from "moonbat" ("an unthinking or insane leftist") to "anti-idiotarian" ("anyone who grasps the significance of and does his or her best to combat the post-9/11 political alliance between the ‘Old Left' and militant Islam").

That's a hell of an impressive resume.

re: #47 Ben Hur

SILENCE! To GULAG for you.

It's like all the lefty feminists and their effeminate emasculated "male" friends on the left who send mail to conservative writers suggesting that they need a good lay, or to be raped, beated, etc...VERY ENLIGHTENED!

re: #46 Last Mohican

... here come the brownshirts...

re: #45 Occasional Reader

He was only seven years old when... er... or was it three years old... LOOK A PUPPY!

And Dick Cheney is EATING it!

re: #43 alegrias

Never have, never will touch Gawker.

Hey, meanwhile the Taliban's back, on Obama's watch.
What will leftists say about islamist beheadings and stonings on Obama's watch?

When will our MSM notice what the rest of the world has been saying?

"Somali Piracy didn't start against with the one American captain...whyy now the big fuss?"

Any reason all the other people held before AND AFTER the American captain have been ignored by the American MSM?

re: #48 opnion

Good news, I just got an email from something called Nokia-email.
They informed me that I was randomly selected to recieve $600,000.
All I have to do is contact Mr. Jack Baur. How coincidental is that, I just watched him on Monday night.

When I get those e-mails, I have a bit of fun with them, string them along for a bit, then tell them I have forwarded their request and information to the US FBI and Secret Service!

re: #47 Ben Hur

One thing I've noticed is that the left is supposed to be so pro-Gay, etc etc, but are the biggest gay baiters out there. I guess they beleive they "own" it so it's not bigotry.

Latest example is Garafalo who called the Tea Party protestors (Kilgore!) "tea-bagging red-necks."

Gay baiting and bigotry.

Clearly, you're not sufficiently impressed with Janean's small limbic brain ;~)

re: #46 Last Mohican

Outing conservative's children isn't wrong...

It's Erf Day, children are evil carbon spewing resource gobbling planet destroyers!

Save the planet for the the children!

///

re: #56 hans ze beeman

Marry loves dogs.

Dogs are only allowed to marry in Sweden, Canada, and the state of Vermont.

re: #50 HelloDare

I'm just glad Charles doesn't have friends like Billy Ayers or Rashid Khalidi because then Gawker would really have something to talk about. Imagine the dirt they could did up on that. The mind boggles.

heh ... that little twist is exquisite!

re: #57 SanFranciscoZionist

It was in a collection, we didn't read it in class, but it was available in the anthology. Discussed informally.

re: #51 Desert Dog

A high moral standard over there at Gawker obviously. Charles should take the fact that they hate him as a complement, not an insult.

"Compliment" means "praise."

"Complement" means either "complete" or "complete group."

Please, just as a favor to me, make a note of it!

re: #55 Occasional Reader

Enlighten my innocent mind; is "tea-bagging" thought of as an exclusively (or primarily) gay seckshewal practice?

The way she meant it.

Because otherwise, a liberated feminist like herself, would be promoting it, and putting away the double ender.

re: #55 Occasional Reader

Enlighten my innocent mind; is "tea-bagging" thought of as an exclusively (or primarily) gay seckshewal practice?

Any couple that has one scrotum between them could teabag

re: #66 Occasional Reader

Dogs are only allowed to marry in Sweden, Canada, and the state of Vermont.

Or Peres Hilton's swinging bachelorette pad

re: #52 Big Steve

I am totally clueless on this but is that site Gawker.com got exactly the same graphics/blog style as Jezebel.com? I mean they are dead on.

Is there some sort of master blog template that some use?

Well, I haven't looked at either site, but to answer your question, yes. You can purchase blog software and you have it installed on a server, and you "plug" in your customized stuff, like logos and threads and graphics.

re: #55 Occasional Reader

Enlighten my innocent mind; is "tea-bagging" thought of as an exclusively (or primarily) gay seckshewal practice?

Apparently, since several people have insisted that using the term to mock the tea parties is homophobic. Can't see why. A straight couple can do it as easily as a gay male one, and lesbians can't do it at all.

re: #52 Big Steve

I am totally clueless on this but is that site Gawker.com got exactly the same graphics/blog style as Jezebel.com? I mean they are dead on.

Is there some sort of master blog template that some use?

Yes.
Wordpress is popular for bloggers. Here's the theme page
Drupal is also popular -- theme page.

re: #66 Occasional Reader

Yes, but they can obtain a driver's licence in Egypt

re: #47 Ben Hur

One thing I've noticed is that the left is supposed to be so pro-Gay, etc etc, but are the biggest gay baiters out there. I guess they beleive they "own" it so it's not bigotry.

Latest example is Garafalo who called the Tea Party protestors (Kilgore!) "tea-bagging red-necks."

Gay baiting and bigotry.

What a skank that woman is. I wouldn't bang her with Ahmadinejad's crank.

re: #74 SanFranciscoZionist

Apparently, since several people have insisted that using the term to mock the tea parties is homophobic. Can't see why. A straight couple can do it as easily as a gay male one, and lesbians can't do it at all.

DISCRIMINATION!

/

re: #63 CapeCoddah

When I get those e-mails, I have a bit of fun with them, string them along for a bit, then tell them I have forwarded their request and information to the US FBI and Secret Service!

Do they ever actually reveal anything about themselves?

Tea bags! Gay marriage! Lefty crazy! Sexually explicit poetry!

I'M IN THE RIGHT PLACE.

re: #58 Opinionated

who some LGF commenters (not Johnson) call "St. Pancake," a tribute to the Israeli steamroller that killed her while she volunteered to be a human shield for Islamic terrorists.

re: #61 OldLineTexan

And Dick Cheney is EATING it!

AFTER he kicked it repeatedly.

re: #77 Ward Cleaver

What a skank that woman is. I wouldn't bang her with Ahmadinejad's crank.

Which reminds me - what have you done with it?

re: #49 WriterMom

What will they say? It's Bush's fault of course.

* * * *
It's so reflexive, like the Clinton's song, "Don't stop thinking about the Bush Administration!"

Fox's Neil Cavuto just minutes ago reported Hillary Clinton did some gratuitous Cheney-bashing while testifying on Capitol Hill today.

Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California told Clinton to back off!

Even as Secretary of State, they just can't rise above their gutter democrat tactics. "Forward looking, bi partisan" my ass.

re: #73 Walter L. Newton

Well, I haven't looked at either site, but to answer your question, yes. You can purchase blog software and you have it installed on a server, and you "plug" in your customized stuff, like logos and threads and graphics.

thanks

re: #65 jcm

Outing conservative's children isn't wrong...

It's Erf Day, children are evil carbon spewing resource gobbling planet destroyers!

Save the planet for the the children!

///

Hey! They stole that from my resume!

re: #61 OldLineTexan

And Dick Cheney is EATING it!

Hey, OLT - I answered a question, end of previous thread

re: #68 WriterMom

It was in a collection, we didn't read it in class, but it was available in the anthology. Discussed informally.

I'm impressed. It's actually a great poem for teens, but as Monty Python explains, "It's just that the BLEEPing words are awfully strong".

Gawker attacked me a couple of years ago for stating in my blog that increasing numbers of Europeans, and the Dutch in particular, are emigrating to the U.S. because of the negative changes in political situation in their home countries.

A day later a major article in the N.Y. Sun completely vindicated me, and discredited Gawker. Welcome to the "You've Been Slimed by Gawker!" club, Charles!

re: #76 hans ze beeman

Yes, but they can obtain a driver's licence in Egypt

You know who else had a driver's license?

HITLER.

Therefore dogs = Hitler!

(actually, I have no idea if Hitler had a driver's license, come to think of it)

re: #83 OldLineTexan

Put it in your chai, of course.

re: #83 OldLineTexan

Which reminds me - what have you done with it?

It's in Al Gore's lockbox.

/

Did somebody issue a memo that Charles is the current target?

I don't think I can say this enough, Nazis, or rather National Socialists, are far closer ideologically to the left than the right.

re: #82 CapeCoddah

AFTER he kicked it repeatedly.

That Dick. He kills everything he eats. Yesterday he strained some peas, and gouged the eyes out of a whole sack of potatoes.

re: #80 WriterMom

Tea bags! Gay marriage! Lefty crazy! Sexually explicit poetry!

I'M IN THE RIGHT PLACE.

The Castro District?

re: #84 alegrias

* * * *
It's so reflexive, like the Clinton's song, "Don't stop thinking about the Bush Administration!"

Fox's Neil Cavuto just minutes ago reported Hillary Clinton did some gratuitous Cheney-bashing while testifying on Capitol Hill today.

Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California told Clinton to back off!

Even as Secretary of State, they just can't rise above their gutter democrat tactics. "Forward looking, bi partisan" my ass.

What gets me about Hillary's dodge is that she and the rest of the Democrats were accusing Cheney of knowing everything there was to know about a year ago.

Now he's too clueless to be credible.

Well, it's been a small slice of heaven, but I have to go to work.

See y'all later.

I hereby christen the festering blog "GAKKER".

re: #96 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

The flotsam and jetsam parade?

re: #91 WriterMom

Put it in your chai, of course.

Ew, I thought it had a tiny bit of wang to it.

re: #93 Who Watches the Watchmen?

Did somebody issue a memo that Charles is the current target?

Charles is the currently over the target.

re: #79 opnion

Do they ever actually reveal anything about themselves?

Nah, I just mess with them.

in other news...

The high school near my work celebrated erf day by giving out balloons to all the kids.

I found it deliciously ironic that the street between the school and the local strip mall is littered with balloon carcasses... all in honor of movver erf.

re: #101 OldLineTexan

LOL.

Tiny Persian Wang Chai.

re: #98 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Well, it's been a small slice of heaven, but I have to go to work.

See y'all later.

SELL! SELL! DRIVE DAT ECONOMY LAHK A RENTED CAR!

/

re: #78 OldLineTexan

DISCRIMINATION!

/

An amazing number of lesbians I know have been called 'sodomites' by people who disapproved. One of them once turned to a man, quietly explained to him the legal definition of 'sodomy', and explained, kindly, that she couldn't do that.

Wallked away while he was still spluttering.

Dear Mr. Cook

I would relish the opportunity to sit with you and have an open exchange of ideas. To make sure it's fair to you I'll only bring one

Regards

SATTV4U2

re: #93 Who Watches the Watchmen?

Did somebody issue a memo that Charles is the current target?

It is the vast right-wing conspiracy blog

re: #96 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

The Castro District?

We're willing to talk to them. Everything is on the table, from drugs to human rights. Hey, pass the drugs, wouldya?

Ahhh...the good ol' days.

REmember the craziness about the image in Dick's sunglasses?

That was news.

Nothing today compares to that.

re: #90 Occasional Reader

You know who else had a driver's license?

HITLER.

Therefore dogs = Hitler!

(actually, I have no idea if Hitler had a driver's license, come to think of it)

No, he didn't.

cheers

eon

re: #104 so.cal.swede

Happy Earth Day! Please, humans-KILL YOURSELVES. Thanks!

re: #57 SanFranciscoZionist

You mean that's not required reading in San Fran schools? :)

Johnson should be commended for taking a stand against neo-Nazis and Glenn Beck. And he should still be condemned for spending the last eight years giving them ammunition and inspiration. If neo-Nazis are into your ideas, Charles, you might want to rethink them.

Like me, I'll bet neo-Nazis eat carrots...I'm sticking to broccoli from now on.
//

What a nimrod!

re: #105 WriterMom

LOL.

Tiny Persian Wang Chai.

Now it sounds cute. You could sell that, I have no doubt, in a lacy little tea room full of old ladies.

re: #107 buzzsawmonkey

That's no mere puppy, that's a Portuguese Water Dog.

Don't think you can cao me with your references to Portugese dogs.

re: #104 so.cal.swede

in other news...

The high school near my work celebrated erf day by giving out balloons to all the kids.

I found it deliciously ironic that the street between the school and the local strip mall is littered with balloon carcasses... all in honor of movver erf.

MY GOD! THEY DISTRIBUTED CO2 BOMBS TO CHILDREN!

re: #116 jorline

Like me, I'll bet neo-Nazis eat carrots...I'm sticking to broccoli from now on.
//

What a nimrod!

It's an oddly popular way to think, lately.

re: #90 Occasional Reader

Don't think Hitler had one, his dog might have driven him around though

re: #114 WriterMom

Only mass suicide will satisfy the blood lust of the Goddess! ;-)

re: #65 jcm

Outing conservative's children isn't wrong...

It's Erf Day, children are evil carbon spewing resource gobbling planet destroyers!

Save the planet for the the children!

///

Hey, I let the truck idle in the driveway this morning, and it wasn't even cold. I should celebrate Earth Day by going home and mowing the yard with my gasoline-powered lawn mower. Yeah.

re: #107 buzzsawmonkey

That's no mere puppy, that's a Portuguese Water Dog.

are those the things that sting you and you have to pee on them.

re: #104 so.cal.swede

in other news...

The high school near my work celebrated erf day by giving out balloons to all the kids.

I found it deliciously ironic that the street between the school and the local strip mall is littered with balloon carcasses... all in honor of movver erf.

Excellent.

I suppose the rationale is that, if about half of the kids actually blew up the balloons, then all of their exhaled CO₂ was thereby sequestered, instead of being released into the atmosphere and causing global warming.

re: #74 SanFranciscoZionist

Apparently, since several people have insisted that using the term to mock the tea parties is homophobic. Can't see why. A straight couple can do it as easily as a gay male one, and lesbians can't do it at all.

Maybe they could if one had a pair of truck nutz.

re: #113 eon

No, he didn't.

Ha! Stupid Hitler! Can't even drive!

re: #116 jorline

Like me, I'll bet neo-Nazis eat carrots...I'm sticking to broccoli from now on.
//

What a nimrod!

But strangely, Nazis wanted to wipe out the Jews, Islamofascists want to wipe out the Jews, therefore, Jews are Nazis.

re: #119 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

MY GOD! THEY DISTRIBUTED CO2 BOMBS TO CHILDREN!

HAHAHAHAA!

re: #123 Ward Cleaver

I like to throw garbage in the garbage can instead of the recycle box sometimes just to watch the lefties at work go nuts.

re: #58 Opinionated

That's a hell of an impressive resume.

Pretty thorough if you ask me.

re: #87 reine.de.tout

Thanks!

re: #112 Ben Hur

Ahhh...the good ol' days.

REmember the craziness about the image in Dick's sunglasses?

Remind me... what was it supposed to be again?

re: #128 Ben Hur

DUH!

re: #123 Ward Cleaver

Hey, I let the truck idle in the driveway this morning, and it wasn't even cold. I should celebrate Earth Day by going home and mowing the yard with my gasoline-powered lawn mower. Yeah.

I think I'll soak an effigy of Ira Einhorn in toxic oil and burn it...

re: #134 Occasional Reader

DON'T GET HIM STARTED.

re: #131 WriterMom

I like to throw garbage in the garbage can instead of the recycle box sometimes just to watch the lefties at work go nuts.

LOL!

re: #89 quickjustice

Gawker attacked me a couple of years ago for stating in my blog that increasing numbers of Europeans, and the Dutch in particular, are emigrating to the U.S. because of the negative changes in political situation in their home countries.

A day later a major article in the N.Y. Sun completely vindicated me, and discredited Gawker. Welcome to the "You've Been Slimed by Gawker!" club, Charles!

* * * *
One great Dutchborn America is Republican Rep. Peter Hoekstra of Michigan who will run for Michigan Governor.
He is strong on defense of US and is on the House Select Intelligence committee.
Ironically Hoekstra has a district office in Holland, Michigan!

re: #84 alegrias

* * * *
It's so reflexive, like the Clinton's song, "Don't stop thinking about the Bush Administration!"

Fox's Neil Cavuto just minutes ago reported Hillary Clinton did some gratuitous Cheney-bashing while testifying on Capitol Hill today.

Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher of California told Clinton to back off!

Even as Secretary of State, they just can't rise above their gutter democrat tactics. "Forward looking, bi partisan" my ass.

I'm paraphrasing here, the Congressman asked if the Administration would be willing to grant Cheney's request & release the documents that attest to success in getting info during enhanced interrogations.
Hilary said "... I don't not consider Cheney a good source."
He responded to the effect, "I did not ask your opnion of Dick Cheney. I do not care what you think of Dick Cheney, I asked you a question."

re: #93 Who Watches the Watchmen?

Did somebody issue a memo that Charles is the current target?

Left wing talking points. These folks have no idea how to think critically for themselves. They need a daily list faxed to them.

re: #138 Ward Cleaver

ESPECIALLY cans.

re: #134 Occasional Reader

Remind me... what was it supposed to be again?

The reflection looked like a naked woman.

In reality he was experimenting on twins.

re: #130 buzzsawmonkey

Oh, ick!

re: #107 buzzsawmonkey

That's no mere puppy, that's a Portuguese Water Dog.

They are not even born as puppies.

re: #95 OldLineTexan

That Dick. He kills everything he eats. Yesterday he strained some peas, and gouged the eyes out of a whole sack of potatoes.

LOL. Good stuff!

OMGooodness. My head is spinning. And I have to get on the stinky smelly subway now with MEGA jet lag. WAAA.

See y'all tomorrow.

Hmmm, citrus flavored chewing gum and Dr Pepper do not go together very well.

re: #130 buzzsawmonkey

Swing balls

If you swing, it's not a ball, it's a strike.

re: #127 Occasional Reader

Ha! Stupid Hitler! Can't even drive!

These people are under the impression that Hitler did drive, but did not have a license, even though Germany was the first country to require driver's licenses, starting in 1910.

On the internet, you can find someone who has an opinion about anything.

re: #103 CapeCoddah

Nah, I just mess with them.

Makes it a little interesting, huh?

re: #94 Rancher

I don't think I can say this enough, Nazis, or rather National Socialists, are far closer ideologically to the left than the right.

Nope. Communists and Fascists are both on the collectivist extreme of the individualist-collectivist spectrum (anarchists being on the individualist extreme), but Communists are left-human-universalist internationalist collectivists, while Fascists are right-tribalist ethnocentic racist nationalist collectivists.

re: #147 WriterMom

OMGooodness. My head is spinning. And I have to get on the stinky smelly subway now with MEGA jet lag. WAAA.

See y'all tomorrow.

Canada has stinky, smelly subways? I thought Canada was all clean n' stuff?

I sense where this thread is HEADING and I'm leaving.

You all have a ball!

re: #95 OldLineTexan

That Dick. He kills everything he eats. Yesterday he strained some peas, and gouged the eyes out of a whole sack of potatoes.

He poached his eggs for breakfast too!

re: #150 Last Mohican

These people are under the impression that Hitler did drive, but did not have a license, even though Germany was the first country to require driver's licenses, starting in 1910.

On the internet, you can find someone who has an opinion about anything.

And find those who would look it up.

re: #114 WriterMom

Happy Earth Day! Please, humans-KILL YOURSELVES. Thanks!

I'm celebrating Earth Day by eating sour kraut, red onions, pickled eggs, cheese, baked beans and sausage with big helpings of beer. Oh the Jedi are going to feel this one!
Warning crude fart joke!

re: #95 OldLineTexan

That Dick. He kills everything he eats. Yesterday he strained some peas, and gouged the eyes out of a whole sack of potatoes.

Shot a head of cabbage in the face.

(Best joke I ever heard about Sarah Palin involved her pulling Putin aside at a tense conference, batting her eyes, and murmuring, "I'm a much better shot than Cheney."

re: #150 Last Mohican

These people are under the impression that Hitler did drive, but did not have a license, even though Germany was the first country to require driver's licenses, starting in 1910.

On the internet, you can find someone who has an opinion about anything.

The real question: Could he parallel park?

(I love parallel parking. It's one of the few things involving machinery that us city boys can do better than those country boys.)

Hell hath no fury like the leader hating his own country.

re: #104 so.cal.swede

in other news...

The high school near my work celebrated erf day by giving out balloons to all the kids.

I found it deliciously ironic that the street between the school and the local strip mall is littered with balloon carcasses... all in honor of movver erf.

Are you sure it wasn't a Disco Biscuits concert?

re: #154 Occasional Reader

Well, actually the subway cars are clean, but the people are stinky and smelly sometimes. IT'S CANADA WE HAVE LOTS OF WATER AND SOAP USE IT...honestly it's like midnight for me now and I barely slept on my flight. I can barely talk.

re: #163 WriterMom

Well, actually the subway cars are clean, but the people are stinky and smelly sometimes. IT'S CANADA WE HAVE LOTS OF WATER AND SOAP USE IT...honestly it's like midnight for me now and I barely slept on my flight. I can barely talk.

GO!

re: #160 Occasional Reader

What is the big deal about parallel parking? It's the easiest, silliest thing. Why do women especially-struggle with it.

BYE BYE SHALOM

re: #123 Ward Cleaver

Hey, I let the truck idle in the driveway this morning, and it wasn't even cold. I should celebrate Earth Day by going home and mowing the yard with my gasoline-powered lawn mower. Yeah.

Don't forget to cut down a tree with a gas powered chainsaw!

re: #163 WriterMom

and I barely slept on my flight

Because you wanted to get your fill of Daniel Craig. Nobody's fault but your own.

re: #157 Ben Hur

And find those who would look it up.

Did you know that the chariot racing scene from the movie Ben Hur was filmed on the largest movie set ever built, required over 8000 extras, and took more than five weeks to film?

re: #165 WriterMom

What is the big deal about parallel parking? It's the easiest, silliest thing. Why do women especially-struggle with it.

Everyone is told how hard it is. The conception rules over the reality.

re: #168 Occasional Reader

Because you wanted to get your fill of Daniel Craig. Nobody's fault but your own.

When I was drinking, I never wanted to sleep on international flights, too busy taking advantage of as much booze as they would serve me.

OT: Obama actually got something else right:

Getting It Right
Trade: Hugo Chavez may have gotten a grinning handshake from President Obama in Trinidad. But it was our authentic friend and ally, Colombia, that got substance. The president got one right.
By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY

[Link: www.ibdeditorial.com...]

There was quite a media din over the president's greeting of Venezuela's strongman at the Summit of the Americas in Port of Spain over the weekend. Sure, it was a first. But along with bones he threw to Cuba, it crowded out weightier news.

Obama may have shaken hands, accepted an idiotic book and politely listened to diatribes from regional troublemakers. But for our ally Colombia, he wasn't just gesturing. He was delivering results.

It started Saturday, when he put himself next to Colombian President Alvaro Uribe at lunch and then studiously exchanged notes.

Having listened to Uribe, (and that must have been a nice dose of sanity after enduring 50 minutes of ravings from Nicaragua's Daniel Ortega, or weird conspiracy theories by Bolivia's Evo Morales), Obama then seemed to realize that the long-stalled Colombia free trade agreement should have been passed yesterday.

The president announced that his team must find a way to pass the agreement. With world trade down 80%, the pact opens new markets to the U.S. He demanded immediate action, asking Colombia's trade minister to fly to Washington this week.

Then it got even better: Obama invited Uribe to the White House and promised to visit Colombia himself, allowing the Colombians to lay out for him their vast economic and social progress, and their desire to integrate into global trade.

In a final flourish, Obama scribbled his autograph onto President Uribe's notes, writing: "To President Uribe, with admiration! Barack H. Obama." A smiling Uribe showed it to reporters. Given Uribe's discretion, it's likely that Obama asked him to do that.

The media made much of Obama's polite gestures to dictators, but he gave them nothing resembling what he gave to Uribe. Name one dictator Obama sat with for lunch. Which troublemaker got a White House invitation? Which tinhorn got a promise to visit?

And has anyone heard of Obama giving his autograph — "with admiration!" — to another president? It was as if Obama himself unclenched his own fist to reach out to the Colombian hand.

Obama may have had political reasons to seek out Colombia — the Chavez-Obama pictures didn't do him any good domestically, and Drudge Report ran pictures of them all weekend, infuriating White House officials.

But the outlook for free trade has been improving for several weeks, too. On a visit to Medellin last month, Uribe gave us a veiled signal of positive moves on trade under the surface, and U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk has since made encouraging statements.

Two congressional delegations of pro-trade Democrats turned up in Colombia this month, back-slapping with the Colombians. But nothing approaches the good news seen now.

At a press conference Monday, Kirk was upbeat: "When you've got two willing partners, it's a pretty good recipe for getting things done." That beats handshakes. The Obama team is showing a welcome shift to substance over style, and that deserves notice.

re: #131 WriterMom

I like to throw garbage in the garbage can instead of the recycle box sometimes just to watch the lefties at work go nuts.

I leave the water running when I brush my teeth.

re: #169 Last Mohican

That is one of the best scenes in movie history!

Happy Dirt Day, all.

I haven't seen the video clip of the "gay-marriage" pageant contestant, but I read an article on it on Drudge. How is what she said any different from Obama's position? I distinctly remember him saying something similar in the last debate with JM.
A quick Google found this...

"Although Barack Obama has said that he supports civil unions, he is against gay marriage. In an interview with the Chicago Daily Tribune, Obama said, "I'm a Christian. And so, although I try not to have my religious beliefs dominate or determine my political views on this issue, I do believe that tradition, and my religious beliefs say that marriage is something sanctified between a man and a woman."

Would that jackass blogger "Perez Hilton" berate the Dear Leader?

re: #140 opnion

I'm paraphrasing here, the Congressman asked if the Administration would be willing to grant Cheney's request & release the documents that attest to success in getting info during enhanced interrogations.
Hilary said "... I don't not consider Cheney a good source."
He responded to the effect, "I did not ask your opnion of Dick Cheney. I do not care what you think of Dick Cheney, I asked you a question."

* * *
Thank you for paraphrasing Rohrabacher's retort to that Hillary crack. He's got guts.

re: #152 opnion

Makes it a little interesting, huh?

Well, after I am sick of playing, it is a sure fire way to make sure they do not bug you anymore!

One word comes to mind when I think of John Cook...Assclown, and yes,
thats one word.

re: #172 Salamantis

As I mentioned when someone linked to this earlier today; I'll hold the congratulations until the deal is actually signed. Obama has something of a history of saying whatever the people standing in front of him at any given moment want to hear.

re: #167 CapeCoddah

Don't forget to cut down a tree with a gas powered chainsaw!

Or run my two-cycle trimmer.

re: #174 Idle Drifter

That is one of the best scenes in movie history!

Before my time, I'm still partial to this one

re: #120 OldLineTexan

It's an oddly popular way to think, lately.

Ideas...a terrible thing to waste.

I'm glad Stephen Hawking is going to be ok.
Using John Cook's logic, imagine what would be said if some of the neo-Nazis benefited from or agreed with some of Professor Hawking's ideas.

re: #169 Last Mohican

Did you know that the chariot racing scene from the movie Ben Hur was filmed on the largest movie set ever built, required over 8000 extras, and took more than five weeks to film?

The set was the largest built until that time, 1959.

re: #140 opnion

I'm paraphrasing here, the Congressman asked if the Administration would be willing to grant Cheney's request & release the documents that attest to success in getting info during enhanced interrogations.
Hilary said "... I don't not consider Cheney a good source."
He responded to the effect, "I did not ask your opnion of Dick Cheney. I do not care what you think of Dick Cheney, I asked you a question."

Did she have any response?

re: #181 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Before my time, I'm still partial to this one

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re: #160 Occasional Reader

The real question: Could he parallel park?

(I love parallel parking. It's one of the few things involving machinery that us city boys can do better than those country boys.)

The best parallel parker I ever met was my grandmother.

Given my rotten depth perception, I tend to avoid it.

Well, Charles, what does that make us? ...

Stuck in the Middle With You ... not a bad place to be ... imo ...

Pope accepts keffiyah as gift from Palestinian worshippers

The stupidity of this remark can’t be understated — the neo-Nazis at places like Stormfront, and the Eurofascists like Vlaams Belang, absolutely despise me and LGF. I’ve even received death threats from neo-Nazi cretins on more than one occasion. They have never been “into my ideas,” and they have never been welcomed at LGF, and only a fool who’s made unsupported assumptions about my “ideas” could possibly believe that.

I think the unfortunate thing about this is that if he had looked at who the nazis at stormfront support, he'd be reporting on VB and their apologists like geller. That would be worthy criticism, but instead Cook misses the mark. If a lefty really wants to take a shot at the neo-nazis, they should get their targets straight.

re: #169 Last Mohican

Did you know that the chariot racing scene from the movie Ben Hur was filmed on the largest movie set ever built, required over 8000 extras, and took more than five weeks to film?

I heard they had 800,000 extras at Obama's Inauguration.

re: #170 jcm

Everyone is told how hard it is. The conception rules over the reality.

That can be taken [out of context] more ways than one.

re: #171 Walter L. Newton

When I was drinking, I never wanted to sleep on international flights, too busy taking advantage of as much booze as they would serve me.

I sleep poorly or not at all on planes... just can't quite get comfortable. Only exception is if I'm in a Business or First Class with a flat bed; and even then, at best it's so-so sleep.

re: #173 CapeCoddah

I leave the water running when I brush my teeth.

sinful
no cookies for you

re: #183 Walter L. Newton

The set was the largest built until that time, 1959.

Heston said that the horses almost pulled his arms out of their sockets. Ouch!

re: #115 Mad Al-Jaffee

You mean that's not required reading in San Fran schools? :)

No, we keep the kids on a strict diet of Fanon, Angela Davis, and Gloria Anzaldua. cummings is only allowed in the sex-positive magnet school.

/

re: #188 Ben Hur

Pope accepts keffiyah as gift from Palestinian worshippers

Maybe he can burn it to celebrate Earth Day,

re: #186 Dianna

Given my rotten depth perception

How can you have "rotten depth perception" but drill bullseyes with Mr. Kimber?!

Gawker is, as far as I can tell, as cesspool of immense dimensions. Usually they seem to be involved in little more than smears and reporting that would make the National Enquirer blush.

re: #165 WriterMom

What is the big deal about parallel parking? It's the easiest, silliest thing. Why do women especially-struggle with it.

Because they try to go in nose first. They don't get the simple idea that the rear wheels spin, but do not turn.

re: #190 KenJen

I heard they had 800,000 extras at Obama's Inauguration.

Drones.

re: #169 Last Mohican

And it was completely authentic. They paid attention every detail, including the little carved dolphins that were used in the Roman Coliseum to count laps.

re: #176 alegrias

* * *
Thank you for paraphrasing Rohrabacher's retort to that Hillary crack. He's got guts.

the full quote was frikin georgous... I wish I could find it in print.

re: #176 alegrias

* * *
Thank you for paraphrasing Rohrabacher's retort to that Hillary crack. He's got guts.

My pleasure, I wish that I could have quoted exactly. Catch the clip if you can, he smacked her down pretty good. Here is a surprise, Hillary never did answer the question.

69 years ago today, the Bataan Death march happened in the Philippines. Those men suffered real torture, in Axis medical experiments, says Oliver North on Fox News. SEAL training was "torture" for him in 1965, says Oliver North--because it was part of training in surviving and resisting torture & capture.

Obama/Holder's decision will be costly to the US.

re: #194 Ward Cleaver

Heston said that the horses almost pulled his arms out of their sockets. Ouch!

How can that be, since Joe Canutt doubled for Heston in the races?

re: #188 Ben Hur

Pope accepts keffiyah as gift from Palestinian worshippers

Jesus wept.

Really.

What the hell was he thinking?

re: #197 Occasional Reader

How can you have "rotten depth perception" but drill bullseyes with Mr. Kimber?!

Depends on the range, doesn't it?

Up to a point, + or - an inch on a .45 slug just doesn't matter. ;)

re: #197 Occasional Reader

How can you have "rotten depth perception" but drill bullseyes with Mr. Kimber?!

I have no idea. I have no idea why I'm a very good shot. I shouldn't be; my vision is just awful, and one eye is so much worse than the other that I have dreadful depth perception.

But you should see me shoot. It's enlightening.

re: #193 albusteve

sinful
no cookies for you

Drat!

re: #184 SixDegrees

Did she have any response?

In a later interview, the Congressman said that Hillary never answered the question.

re: #204 alegrias

SEAL SERE training was "torture" for him in 1965, says Oliver North--because it was part of training in surviving and resisting torture & capture.

(I'm guessing here)

re: #52 Big Steve

I am totally clueless on this but is that site Gawker.com got exactly the same graphics/blog style as Jezebel.com? I mean they are dead on.

Is there some sort of master blog template that some use?

Same corporate ownership. They also operate Consumerist, Jalopnik, IO9, and a few others.

re: #188 Ben Hur

Pope accepts keffiyah as gift from Palestinian worshippers

Something's not right with this Pope.

re: #185 Idle Drifter

Just click it few times, it'll open in a new window

re: #188 Ben Hur

Pope accepts keffiyah as gift from Palestinian worshippers

* * *
Any Catholics here, please contact your church about this today.

re: #206 Occasional Reader

Jesus wept.

Really.

What the hell was he thinking?

Maybe he thinks Hamas and Fatah will stop killing Christians and ethnically cleansing them from land they were on 1000 years before Mo?

re: #209 Dianna

I have no idea. I have no idea why I'm a very good shot. I shouldn't be; my vision is just awful, and one eye is so much worse than the other that I have dreadful depth perception.

But you should see me shoot. It's enlightening.

Your brain has developed a "work-around" for the depth perception problem.

re: #208 OldLineTexan

Depends on the range, doesn't it?

Up to a point, + or - an inch on a .45 slug just doesn't matter. ;)

At 25 yards, I can cover my group with my clenched fist.

re: #219 Dianna

At 25 yards, I can cover my group with my clenched fist.

Obama will want you to change that.

/

An attempt by Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal to make an unprecedented video link address to British lawmakers failed Wednesday following a technical glitch.

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

"Technical Glitch"? Hum any Gremlins around?

re: #177 CapeCoddah

Well, after I am sick of playing, it is a sure fire way to make sure they do not bug you anymore!

If I am really bored when I get a solicitation call at home, I ask the caller for a loan. I generally get a click.

re: #206 Occasional Reader

Jesus wept.

Really.

What the hell was he thinking?

Well we all need rags when the toilet overflows?

re: #204 alegrias

One of my law professors was an ex-Marine and Bataan Death March survivor. The Japanese broke a couple of dozens bones in his body with their rifle butts. You could see it in the way he limped. If a Marine couldn't get up after being beaten, they shot him. That was after many hours in the broiling sun without food or water.

re: #220 OldLineTexan

Obama will want you to change that.

/

Clearly, I need to work on my breathing, so my groups are even tighter.

Thanks, Mr. President!

re: #219 Dianna

At 25 yards, I can cover my group with my clenched fist.

Obama will offer you an outstretched hand if you unclench your fist.

Now... that's yards, not feet? And we're not talking from a bench rest here? Because fist-sized groups from 75 feet with a handgun (that's probably the back wall of my range)... that's quite remarkable.

re: #225 Dianna

Clearly, I need to work on my breathing, so my groups are even tighter.

Thanks, Mr. President!

Unclench your fist.

/Barack

re: #222 opnion

If I am really bored when I get a solicitation call at home, I ask the caller for a loan. I generally get a click.

LOL, I ask them for their home phone number and what time they eat dinner. I will return their call at dinnertime. I get the same click.

re: #219 Dianna

At 25 yards, I can cover my group with my clenched fist.

Annie Oakley was better...neener

re: #132 Who Watches the Watchmen?

Pretty thorough if you ask me.

I'm disappointed that LGF continuous exposing of the "good" terrorists of Abbas/Fatha is missing.

Also Hamas' child abuse.

Also...so much more.

Glaring omissions.

re: #229 albusteve

Annie Oakley was better...neener

/OLT moves more than 25 yards away from albusteve

re: #214 KenJen

Something's not right with this Pope.

* * * *
How many handlers has this Pope?

Like Obama's handlers, SOMEONE with a CLUE should run interference for the Pope & Obama from thugs bearing gifts.

re: #221 Nevergiveup

An attempt by Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal to make an unprecedented video link address to British lawmakers failed Wednesday following a technical glitch.

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

"Technical Glitch"? Hum any Gremlins around?

Glitch is sometimes the nickname for:

Glitchenberg.
Glitchstein.
Glitchbaum.
Glitchenbergenbaumensteinowitz.

re: #216 alegrias

* * *
Any Catholics here, please contact your church about this today.

I'll be concerned if he starts wearing it, but realistically, why should he not have taken it?

re: #227 OldLineTexan

Unclench your fist.

/Barack

Don't unclench!
Don't unclench!

HAHAHAHAHAH! Gross but funny!

re: #224 quickjustice

One of my law professors was an ex-Marine and Bataan Death March survivor. The Japanese broke a couple of dozens bones in his body with their rifle butts. You could see it in the way he limped. If a Marine couldn't get up after being beaten, they shot him. That was after many hours in the broiling sun without food or water.

they liked beheading as well, and bayonets

re: #188 Ben Hur

Pope accepts keffiyah as gift from Palestinian worshippers

Maybe next time someone will give him one of these:

[Link: iamazionist.blogspot.com...]

If neo-Nazis are into your ideas, Charles, you might want to rethink them.

From Wikipedia:

As a generic concept, National Socialism opposes capitalism, communism, conservatism, international socialism and liberalism.

At first blush that seems to exclude both the American right and left but consider what the true meaning of liberalism is: Liberalism is a broad class of political philosophies that considers individual liberty and equality to be the most important political goals. I think the left represents far more curtailments on personal liberty than the right. As for opposing international socialism I think the key word there is international, the Nazis had no problem with the socialist concepts of advocating public or state ownership and administration of the means of production (and neither does the current administration IMHO). Aside from the left's attempt to tie racism with conservatism, something I wholeheartedly reject, what do Nazis and the right have in common? In fact it seems to be the left who tend to see color more than the right.

I was behind a liberal the other day. Of course his beat up p.o.s. was covered with bumperstickers. One read: I Love Trees. I couldn't help but think that he had dead tree parts plastered all over his car. What a idiot.

re: #239 KenJen

I was behind a liberal the other day. Of course his beat up p.o.s. was covered with bumperstickers. One read: I Love Trees. I couldn't help but think that he had dead tree parts plastered all over his car. What a idiot.

There was also a dead plant behind the wheel

re: #228 CapeCoddah

LOL, I ask them for their home phone number and what time they eat dinner. I will return their call at dinnertime. I get the same click.

That is a beutiful thing. I have to remember that.

re: #229 albusteve

Annie Oakley was better...neener

but that was with a rifle no?

Yankees headed to the bottom of the 12th. I am sitting by my phone. They are gonna need a another pitcher soon if they don't score. I can make it to the Stadium in 15 minutes.

Of course he took it.

BALANCE.

re: #209 Dianna

I have no idea. I have no idea why I'm a very good shot. I shouldn't be; my vision is just awful, and one eye is so much worse than the other that I have dreadful depth perception.

But you should see me shoot. It's enlightening.

Stereoscopic depth perception doesn't work much beyond a few yards. At most shooting distances, it doesn't provide any useful information.

re: #224 quickjustice

One of my law professors was an ex-Marine and Bataan Death March survivor. The Japanese broke a couple of dozens bones in his body with their rifle butts. You could see it in the way he limped. If a Marine couldn't get up after being beaten, they shot him. That was after many hours in the broiling sun without food or water.

* * * *
Bless him.

Liberals at the Smithsonian in 1995 tried to put on an exhibit that said or implied only the Allies were mean in WWII, using their evil Enola Gay on the Japanese.

Liberals actually tried to blame the US for going atomic on Japan--as if done without apparent provocation! (Pearl Harbor bombing, what's that?)

BBL

re: #153 Salamantis

Nope. Communists and Fascists are both on the collectivist extreme of the individualist-collectivist spectrum (anarchists being on the individualist extreme), but Communists are left-human-universalist internationalist collectivists, while Fascists are right-tribalist ethnocentic racist nationalist collectivists.

Correct. The confusion comes in due to the roots of Fascism, not in the works of Marx and Engels, but in the "thoughts" of Haeckel, Hegel, and Nietzsche, about thirty years prior to Das Kapital and The Communist Manifesto.

The "collectivist" elements of fascism were German in origin, drawn from the "Romantic" movement, with its emphasis on Volkischerphilosophe (literally, "people's philosophy"). The "people" in question, however, were not the "proletariat", as defined by Marx et al.; they were those who shared a common ethnicity, specifically German, or (in the case of Mussolini & Co.) "Roman", or (in the case of the War Party- Tojo, et al), Japanese. The term "Aryan", BTW, did not become common until popularized by one "Madame" Helena Petrovna Blavatsky around the turn of the 20th century, almost three-quarters of a century after Nietzsche and friends. She was a strong influence on the Thule Society, one of the founding groups of German National Socialism. (Among other things, their "supremacist" publication, Istara, was a favorite read of one A. Hitler as a starving artist in Vienna, Austria- before World War One.)

This "people's" element is what often causes modern viewers to conflate Communist (Marxist) socialism with the Fascist brand. Heck, I made that mistake myself at one time. (I know, I know; eon has admitted being wrong about something, and thus h**l will freeze over any second now. I'm not a "progressive"- I am actually capable of admitting it when I'm wrong about something.) They aren't the same thing, but they are sufficiently similar in a purely "cosmetic" sense that unless you delve fairly deeply into their "philosophies" (with a clothespin on your nose, if not full MOPP), it's easy to get confused.

Especially when you consider the results of both. Mainly in terms of body counts.

cheers

eon

re: #244 Nevergiveup

Sounds like a job for Swisherman!

re: #232 alegrias

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How many handlers has this Pope?

Like Obama's handlers, SOMEONE with a CLUE should run interference for the Pope & Obama from thugs bearing gifts.

He personally should have handled this himself. Should have known better.

re: #244 Nevergiveup

Yankees headed to the bottom of the 12th. I am sitting by my phone. They are gonna need a another pitcher soon if they don't score. I can make it to the Stadium in 15 minutes.

A pitcher of what, Sangria?

re: #221 Nevergiveup

An attempt by Hamas leader Khaled Mashaal to make an unprecedented video link address to British lawmakers failed Wednesday following a technical glitch.

[Link: www.jpost.com...]

"Technical Glitch"? Hum any Gremlins around?

Somehow, the video, and all identifying information to show where it was originated, ended up at the Mossad.
/I wish.

re: #250 Lincolntf

Sounds like a job for Swisherman!

Matsui is up

re: #234 SanFranciscoZionist

I'll be concerned if he starts wearing it, but realistically, why should he not have taken it?

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You must be joking if not a Dummkopf.

What is a keffiyeh you ask? Look it up. Just another Frisco fashion statement for you?

re: #239 KenJen

I was behind a liberal the other day. Of course his beat up p.o.s. was covered with bumperstickers. One read: I Love Trees. I couldn't help but think that he had dead tree parts plastered all over his car. What a idiot.

an idiot.