Candyman.

Seriously though, he's still the VP of the USA.

So, f*ck off, Serb ultra-nationalist lawmakers.

“Biden, you Nazi scum, go home,” said the posters

They were probably trying to say say "Biden, you nice! Come to our home!" but something got lost in translation.

This does not seem to be aimed at Joe so much is at an official of the US.

So, I say F*ck off, too.

Like I said yesterday, he may be a gaffetastic sonofabitch, but he's our gaffetastic sonofabitch.

From wikipedia:

Šešelj famously boasted in June 1991, shortly before Serbia went to war against Slovenia and Croatia with the aim of suppressing their secession from Yugoslavia, that his paramilitary forces would not kill Croats with knives, but would gouge out their eyes with rusty spoons so that they would die of tetanus.[5] He made this remark in a broadcast, available for viewing on YouTube. When journalists ask him about this remark, he regularly replies that it was only a joke

Nice fellow.

What they meant to say was Go home Biden you nazi scum, but leave a check at the door on your way out.

At least they didn't fire at his plane.

/

"Serbian public relations expertise" maintains its place in Top Ten Oxymorons.

Serbia, eh?

Seems, just like Cheney was for 8 years, that Biden will be eternally condemned to "an undisclosed location." Places like Serbia.

Probably just some good-hearted hair plug mocking.

re: #6 oslogin

From wikipedia:

Nice fellow.

His sense of humor is lost on me.

Hmm...seems to be an acute shortage of unicorns hope'n'change in the Balkans.

re: #5 Ward Cleaver
Ward - I agree completely - and it's more than a touch ironic that THOSE NEO-NAZI SCUMBAGS are calling OUR Vice-President a Nazi.

re: #7 soxfan4life

So in other words, it's not all that different from the Latin countries falling under Hugo Chavez's influence.

re: #13 Fenway_Nation

Hmm...seems to be an acute shortage of unicorns hope'n'change in the Balkans.

Haven't you heard? "Hope and change" has been upgraded to "Aspiration and Alteration." Much classier that way.

re: #6 oslogin
Yeah, great sense of humor, too.
/need I?

re: #4 unreconstructed rebel

This does not seem to be aimed at Joe so much is at an official of the US.

So, I say F*ck off, too.

I have to concur.

Well gotta go y'all - early lunch before dentist's visit!
Have a great day and I hope I get the chance to see you all down the road.

Wonder if Biden was carrying the Swine Flu virus ?

They are very upset about all those cardboard tanks and cannons.

And a couple of trains.

You know, things that don't count to the American left.

re: #17 realwest

Yeah, great sense of humor, too.
/need I?

I think he should be invited to Glenn Becks' show promptly

“Biden, you Nazi Commie scum, go home,”

There, I fixed it. Get it right, you hosers! ;-)

Clinton was right to move against these bastards.

Unlike the Democrats, When my President and Vice President at overseas, I support them. My Country Right or Wrong.

Wiki on Šešelj:

Šešelj taught political science at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, United States, and then at Sarajevo until 1984, when the Yugoslav authorities convicted him of counter-revolutionary activities and sentenced him to eight years in prison, although the Yugoslav Supreme Court commuted the sentence and he was released in 1986.

In 1989 Šešelj returned to the United States where Momčilo Đujić, a Chetnik leader from World War II living there in exile, bestowed on him the title Vojvoda of the Chetniks. Together with Vuk Drašković and Mirko Jović, Šešelj founded the anti-communist Serbian National Renewal (SNO) party in 1989. Šešelj later split off his faction to form the Serbian Radical Party (SRS).

Šešelj famously boasted in June 1991, shortly before Serbia went to war against Slovenia and Croatia with the aim of suppressing their secession from Yugoslavia, that his paramilitary forces would not kill Croats with knives, but would gouge out their eyes with rusty spoons so that they would die of tetanus.[5] He made this remark in a broadcast, available for viewing on YouTube. When journalists ask him about this remark, he regularly replies that it was only a joke.[6]

Gee, what a warm Serbian welcome for Biden./
*snickering*

"Serb ultra-nationalist lawmakers held up insulting signs in parliament Wednesday as US Vice President [whomever, doesn't matter] ..."

FOAD, assholes!

Of course if they had sent Hillary, she would still be busy serpentining across the tarmac.

Lunch break is over. Keep your heads high, y'all.

re: #24 Salamantis

Clinton was right to move do the heavy lifting the EU wouldn't against these bastards.

Tweaked that a little.

re: #26 MandyManners

/I often joke about gouging peoples eyes out with a rusty spoon. Doesn't everyone?

re: #29 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Of course if they had sent Hillary, she would still be busy serpentining across the tarmac.

Joe also claims he came under sniper fire.

He was too violent for Milošević:

In the elections of December 1992, the SRS won 27 percent of the vote versus the 40 percent won by the Socialist Party of President Slobodan Milošević. His relationship with Milošević was amicable during the first years of the Yugoslav Wars. However, in September 1993, the two leaders came into conflict over Milošević's withdrawal of support for Republika Srpska in the Bosnian War, and Milošević described Šešelj as “the personification of violence and primitivity”.[1] Šešelj landed in jail again in 1994 and 1995 for his opposition to Milošević.

re: #26 MandyManners
Yep, my rusty Croatian spoon is just laying in wait to dish his dead remains over the pigs trough for food.
*spit*

re: #32 JohnnyReb

/I often joke about gouging peoples eyes out with a rusty spoon. Doesn't everyone?

My jokes usually refer to a spork.

Oh, this is rich. I've developed an affinity for the First Gum Flapper.

NAZIS, WHY DO YOU HATE JOE BIDEN?

A classy comment at Protein Wisdom about the Ida fossil:

In the latest news, paleontologists examining the contents of the stomach have discovered material that they believe might be Charles Johnson’s spooge.

Feel the love!

re: #27 notutopia

Gee, what a warm Serbian welcome for Biden./
*snickering*

Sort of reminds me of the reception President Bush got at a few places here in the US. Hope that Joe liked the open display of free speech.

Maybe they meant it as a compliment?

I think we all need to step back and try to understand what made the indigenous peoples of Serbia dislike us so. Perhaps it's our arrogance, or Halliburton, or globalization.

Huh, I would make a good liberal.

What's a spooge?

re: #38 Charles

A classy comment at Protein Wisdom about the Ida fossil:

Feel the love!

The only bad publicity is no publicity. But what the hell is a spooge?

re: #32 JohnnyReb

/I often joke about gouging peoples eyes out with a rusty spoon. Doesn't everyone?

Why a spoon? Why not a knife?

re: #42 MandyManners

What's a spooge?

Please Mandy, don't ask...

re: #38 Charles

What is wrong with those people. That's both disgusting and pointless.

The Radicals, who occupy around a fifth of places in the 250-seat assembly, then pasted the signs which also labelled Biden a "fascist" on a notice board and hallway.

They all appeared in parliament dressed in T-shirts bearing the image of the party's president, Vojislav Seselj, who is currently on trial for war crimes before a UN tribunal in The Hague.

Uh huh. Tell me more about Biden?

Semen.

re: #42 MandyManners

What's a spooge?

Jizm.

re: #38 Charles

A classy comment at Protein Wisdom about the Ida fossil:

Feel the love!

(haven't the foggiest what "spooge" is, but I get the idea)

/now unplugging the monitor, in case someone tells me

Mandy

What's a spooge?

Mandy, I have to do this:

"WHACK"

re: #48 Ben Hur

Semen.

First Class.

re: #49 Salamantis

Jizm.

Sorry I asked

re: #42 MandyManners

Thanks for asking Mandy. I don't know what it is either?

Now we have to deal with rusty spooge cross-contamination.

re: #38 Charles

OMG, that is so fricken funny. Like, spit coffee on the keyboard funny.

re: #52 Walter L. Newton

First Class.

I felt the clinical definition was appropriate.

I wasn't fast enough in the unplugging.

*barf*

OT:

Complete meltdown from the 'Recommended Diaries' list on DKos:

Hey Dick, F- YOU!

Seriously, Fuck you Dick Cheney! Fuck your pompous condecension. Fuck your straw men! Fuck your mischaracterizations! Fuck your sniveling attempts to keep you and your buddies asses out of federal "pound me in the ass" prison! Fuck your presumption that we are a bunch of cowering idiots looking for daddy to protect us from the big bad terrorists. Just FUCK YOU!

It gets worse from there.

re: #44 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Why a spoon? Why not a knife?

Apparently he did not want them to die immediately. He wanted them to suffer blindness and a tetanus infection. Slow and painful death.

re: #57 Ben Hur

I felt the clinical definition was appropriate.

What. I was making a joke. Semem First Class. Seaman First Class. Get it. Sorry, a bit vague on my part.

re: #60 JohnnyReb

Apparently he did not want them to die immediately. He wanted them to suffer blindness and a tetanus infection. Slow and painful death.

And there I was trying to set up a Robin Hood quote fest and you had to go and ruin it.

/

re: #61 Walter L. Newton

What. I was making a joke. Semem First Class. Seaman First Class. Get it. Sorry, a bit vague on my part.

Ah! Sorry! LOL!

Oh, dear me.

Live and learn.

re: #57 Ben Hur

I felt the clinical definition was appropriate.

And you were the one who invented the use of the apostrophe!

re: #61 Walter L. Newton

What. I was making a joke. Semem First Class. Seaman First Class. Get it. Sorry, a bit vague on my part.

What long hard and packed full of semen?

A submarine.

re: #42 MandyManners

What's a spooge?

spooge
/spooj/ Inexplicable or arcane code, or random and probably incorrect output from a computer program.

looked it up

re: #38 Charles

A classy comment at Protein Wisdom about the Ida fossil:

Feel the love!

Hey you, I don't know how long you've been hanging out here, but we usually wait until after 100 comments to go off topic.
/

I guess it's an oddball version of the rabbit in the pre-cambrian strata idea.

re: #59 NJDhockeyfan

OT:

Complete meltdown from the 'Recommended Diaries' list on DKos:

Hey Dick, F- YOU!

It gets worse from there.

He sounds a tad upset. Heh.

re: #65 pre-Boomer Marine brat

And you were the one who invented the use of the apostrophe!

I thought he invented the question mark?

re: #3 zombie

They were probably trying to say say "Biden, you nice! Come to our home!" but something got lost in translation.

Probably used the same translator as Hillary.

Charles, please ban me from LGF. I have to work now and can't concentrate for all the 55 gallon drums of irony and bathtubs full of gooey humor by our most treasured foils. Cracks from the Usual Suspect Pun Lizards are not helping the coffee contamination on my keyboard.

Please reinstate my account after 5PM PST.

Thank you, that is all.

Whoever it was that made that CJ comment about "smooge" is a nutjob sicko! Filled with hate that one is.

re: #67 unrealizedviewpoint

spooge
/spooj/ Inexplicable or arcane code, or random and probably incorrect output from a computer program.

looked it up

The other word has an 'L' in it.

re: #44 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Why a spoon? Why not a knife?

A knife (or a fork) might pierce the eyeball and let the fluid out; then you wouldn't get that toothsomely satisfying POP! and that rush of aqueous humor on your tongue when you bite down on them.

/I even made myself sick!

re: #76 Salamantis

*whackwhackwhack*

re: #59 NJDhockeyfan

Fuck your presumption that we are a bunch of cowering idiots looking for daddy the cool but irresponsible uncle to protect us from the big bad terrorists bankers, mortgage lenders and car companies.

Heh...

Some interesting comment from Pew researchPew.

"On issues, independents' viewpoints don't fit neatly into liberal or conservative frameworks.

This group hews more closely to Democrats than Republicans on social values, religion and national security. But it also is more conservative on several key issues including the economy, partly because of steady defections from the GOP, and more skeptical than two years ago of expanding government assistance, a typically Republican position. More in line with Democratic thinking, most independents support expanded government intervention and regulation in the private sector, albeit reluctantly."

re: #76 Salamantis

AW that's just plain gross Salamantis!

re: #32 JohnnyReb

/I often joke about gouging peoples eyes out with a rusty spoon. Doesn't everyone?

No. Caving peoples heads in with a tire iron though...
//

re: #59 NJDhockeyfan

OT:

Complete meltdown from the 'Recommended Diaries' list on DKos:

Hey Dick, F- YOU!

It gets worse from there.

Have to give them props for the 'Office Space' reference though.
/

No comments about my last post and the splooge thing. Please.

re: #76 Salamantis

A knife (or a fork) might pierce the eyeball and let the fluid out; then you wouldn't get that toothsomely satisfying POP! and that rush of aqueous humor on your tongue when you bite down on them.

/I even made myself sick!

Incorrect.

Sheriff of Nottingham: Because it's DULL, you twit. It'll hurt more.

The FBI had an informant in a mosque that stopped an terror attack on synagogues?

Informant in a mosque?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

OPPRESSION!

Where is CAIR?

It is against their human rights!

re: #66 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

What long hard and packed full of semen?

A submarine.

Don't you mean 'sea'men?

re: #44 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Why a spoon? Why not a knife?

I see you've played "knifey-spoonie" before.

re: #73 BigPapa

Charles, please ban me from LGF. I have to work now and can't concentrate for all the 55 gallon drums of irony and bathtubs full of gooey humor by our most treasured foils. Cracks from the Usual Suspect Pun Lizards are not helping the coffee contamination on my keyboard.

Please reinstate my account after 5PM PST.

Thank you, that is all.

Banning requests are mostly often satisfied.
/s

re: #78 buzzsawmonkey

You've never watched Spooge Blob There Pants?

Kinda like bukake, but without the Japanese flair!

The Radical Party, huh? At least they're honest.

re: #78 buzzsawmonkey

You've never watched Spooge Blob There Pants?

Tell me that's not an actual title.

NBC's 'Today': Not Fair to Pit Deeply Disliked Cheney Against Popular Obama

"Today" reporter Chuck Todd on Thursday spun the dueling speeches of President Barack Obama and former Vice President Dick Cheney as not "a fair fight." Speaking of the two May 21 addresses on the subject of terrorism, the NBC correspondent proclaimed, "Our latest poll indicates it's the most popular member of the Democratic Party facing off against one of the most unpopular members of the Republican Party."

In a follow-up interview with Republican strategist Nicolle Wallace and Democratic strategist Bob Shrum, host Matt Lauer asserted that with regards to issues like closing Guantanamo Bay and the use of enhanced interrogation, "this debate has been settled." He added, "It was settled back in November during the last election, when Americans chose to elect Barack Obama and move away from the legacy of the Bush administration." He mused, "So what does Dick Cheney have to gain or lose today?"

/gee, you'll never guess which one is nursing the severe case of facial carpet burn

re: #38 Charles

Oy...charming bunch that

The Serbs have a tsarious empirical complex.

re: #94 buzzsawmonkey

I'm not up on the porn scene. It would make a good one, wouldn't it?

Right up there with Yank My Doodle, Annie & Titty-Titty Bang-Bang

re: #93 CyanSnowHawk

Tell me that's not an actual title.

Not yet.

re: #38 Charles

A classy comment at Protein Wisdom about the Ida fossil:

Feel the love!

Ida never thought that of Charles

re: #99 BeerDrinking_VictoryMonkey

Right up there with Yank My Doodle, Annie & Titty-Titty Bang-Bang

Field of Reams, Riding Mrs. Daisy

re: #38 Charles

When wit fails, fall back on manners.

PW has neither.

re: #102 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Field of Reams, Riding Mrs. Daisy

The Rear of a Pleasant Stranger

re: #37 BigPapa

Oh, this is rich. I've developed an affinity for the First Gum Flapper.

NAZIS, WHY DO YOU HATE JOE BIDEN?

Because he backed Kosova's independence.

Gaffemaster B just can't catch a break.

C'mon, Joe, stand up so everyone can see you.

Keep in mind as well that much of the "There can't be moderate muslims" agitprop that the paleos and extreme religious right have been chowing down on the last ten years originated with lobbies and groups from Serbia.

[Link: www.focus-fen.net...]

Pristina. Vice President Joe Biden travelled to Kosovo on Thursday, receiving a hero's welcome as the most senior US official to visit the Balkan territory since Washington backed its split from Serbia last year, AFP reported.
Biden's US Air Force Two plane landed at a NATO-controlled airstrip of Pristina airport, where Foreign Minister Skender Hyseni and students bearing US flags were ready to greet him.
He then travelled to NATO headquarters in a helicopter and arrived at parliament where huge crowds greeted him with banners, reading: "Welcome Mr Biden", "Kosovo loves the USA" and "Thank you USA".

More scary shit in Belgrade:

An unidentified man entered Serbia's presidency building armed with two hand grenades on Thursday (local time), a police source said.

"A police negotiating team went to the presidency building to try to convince the man to give himself up," the source said.

"He left one grenade at the entrance and went inside with the safety pin removed from the second."

The presidency declined to comment on the incident.

It was unclear whether the building was occupied by pro-Western Serbian President Boris Tadic, who hosted US Vice President Joe Biden for a dinner there on Wednesday night.

Boris Tadic is pro-Western my ass! But I suppose, by the Palestinianesque standards Serbs are judged by, we'll have to make do with him.

[Link: www.abc.net.au...]

re: #108 Thanos

Keep in mind as well that much of the "There can't be moderate muslims" agitprop that the paleos and extreme religious right have been chowing down on the last ten years originated with lobbies and groups from Serbia.

You mean like the one Robert Spencer has worked with?

re: #111 Kenneth

You mean like the one Robert Spencer has worked with?

For starters. My Serbian relatives could provide more details, if they didn't already distrust me for being Catholic.

First they came for Joe Biden, but I was not a gaffe-prone political hack, so I said nothing.

If there's one thing Biden isn't, it's a nazi.

Hey, they can't call our VP names. Only WE can call him names.

Step off you vowel-challenged SOB's.

There is a difference between being a Fascist and being a Nazi. Fascism is a form of government in which the state assumes the role of being a virtual religion for the "volk", whoever the "volk" may be at the time. The Nazi party was Fascist, but not all Fascists (e.g. Woodrow Wilson) were Nazis.

You could have said this was a Glenn Bleck quote and I wouldn't have blinked an eye.

I guess they're right in a superficial historical sense. Nazi Germany did section off Kosovo from Serbia.

re: #116 Shr_Nfr

There is a difference between being a Fascist and being a Nazi. Fascism is a form of government in which the state assumes the role of being a virtual religion for the "volk", whoever the "volk" may be at the time. The Nazi party was Fascist, but not all Fascists (e.g. Woodrow Wilson) were Nazis.

OK, I am getting SICK of this tripe...

However popular or fair Goldberg may have tried to be (and, given the tripe that usually goes into people calling each other "Fascist," he certainly tried to be fair), Wilson was not a Fascist. Just a statist, idealistic Leftist Democrat. Which is different from Fascism.

For one, Wilson had no permanent pretenses on power, and the much-maligned 1917-1918 "War Acts" (which, BTW, were VASTLY more lenient than Lincoln ever was in the Civil War) came during the crisis of the First World War, at a time when Germany was at the apex of its accomplishment and there was a very real threat of a Pro-German or Communist labor issue or revolt cutting the supplies and reinforcements the Western Allies needed to stave off the Kaiserreich.

Simply put, the AEF's assembly and rapid shift to France was a matter of paramount international necessity (if anything, far closer to a "ticking time bomb" than anything the US had ever dealt with to that time), and there was a real fear that the Reichwehr would simply push through and go into Paris.

Under vastly more LENIENT circumstances, indisputably Democratic and Center-Right or Right-wing nations (Britain, Italy, Greece) had instituted measures such as censorship and gag laws.

That Wilson only contemplated doing so at the time and immediately oversaw their repeal is not the pattern of Fascists such as Hitler, Mussolni, Peron, or Franco (who readily instituted such laws and harsher in peacetime and never repealed them), but of a Democratic-Republcian (albiet a statist one) confronted with a tiem of momentary crisis.

If we are going to call people "Fascists," lets at least try to be accurate, and unless one thinks that Wilson was a "Democratic Fascist" (a Fascist who sincerely believes in Democracy as a principle, and in my opinion an oxymoron). Wilson does not apply. Thank you.

Oh yes, and will the Serbs ever get around to realizing that bleeding ethnic minorities of materials and revenue and than reacting violently when they try to break away, and than defending their inexcusable actions is NOT a way to make friends?

The 'love affair' between Croatia and Serbia goes back a long way. During the second world war the Croats sided with the Nazis and did a job on the Serbs. When the tide changed the Serbs went with the allies and returned the favor. Tito (a Croat) managed to hold the very artificial country of Yugoslavia together for a few decades using the usual hard handed dictatorial techniques. When Yugoslavia broke apart the old rivalries resumed with consequences that will be problematic for many years to come.

What is interesting is that those who immigrated to North America get along fine. I used to go with my Croatian friends to the Serbian picnics and sometimes the Catholic Croats and the Eastern Orthodox Serbs would hold joint festivities.

Annar:

Actually, it goes back even further than that:

During WWI, Croatia remained loyal to Austria-Hungary, and served as a springboard for the invasion of Serbia and Montinegro, where the Croatian units in general acquired a rather infamous reputation (though I must note that there was a significant Anti-Austrian movement that sided with Serbia and Montinegro) during an occupation known for its brutality.

Then, after Yugoslavia was formed, the Serbs sidelined the ethnic minorities (save the "Loyal" Montinegrins), and the Croats in particular were hit hard. When the Germans, Hungarians, and Bulgarians moved in, a Croatian puppet regime led by the Ustashe began to ethnically cleanse Jews, Serbs, and Orthodox Christians from their state (the NDH) with such vigor that the Germans told them to slow down to avoid international condemnation. Tito's Partisans and the Serb Chetniks, of course, struck back in what is probably a precursor to the conflicts of the 1990's.

However, while it is true that Tito was a Croat-Slovene, he courted the Serbs hard, and part of the reason Yugoslavia fell apart in 1991 was that Tito had concentrated power to such a degree in Serbian Belgrade that the other regions chafed under its control, and when Serb nationalists inside the Yugoslav communists tried to adopt Tito's powers, well, BOOM.

“Biden, you Nazi scum, go home,” said the posters brandished by opposition Radical Party deputies during the live national broadcast of a parliament sitting which coincided with the start of Biden’s visit.

The Radicals, who occupy around a fifth of places in the 250-seat assembly, then pasted the signs which also labelled Biden a “fascist” on a notice board and hallway.

The most offensive part of this is the suggestion that Biden return to the United States. The longer he is absent, the better off we all are. As for calling him a Nazi, a fascist and scum- well, one out of three ain't bad.

Enjoy your trip, Mr. Vice President. Stay as long as you like- or longer.

I'm sorry to hear that Seselj is still with us. I was hoping that he had joined Arkan in hell by now.

re: #27 notutopia

Gee, what a warm Serbian welcome for Biden./
*snickering*

They're mad because he knows how to say 'Bosniac'.

re: #32 JohnnyReb

/I often joke about gouging peoples eyes out with a rusty spoon. Doesn't everyone?

Yeah, you know, my husband forgets to buy toilet paper, I tell him I'm gonna gouge his eyes out with a rusty spoon. He knows I'm kidding. Just screams and runs out of the apartment because now he remembers the TP.

/

re: #38 Charles

A classy comment at Protein Wisdom about the Ida fossil:

Feel the love!

re: #38 Charles

A classy comment at Protein Wisdom about the Ida fossil:

Feel the love!

Are they casting aspersions on your AGE, by any chance? ;-)

In the words of a British columnist before the eve of World War I:

"if that whole area fell into the black sea, the air flowing into Greece would smell a lot cleaner."

Šešelj famously boasted in June 1991, shortly before Serbia went to war against Slovenia and Croatia with the aim of suppressing their secession from Yugoslavia, that his paramilitary forces would not kill Croats with knives, but would gouge out their eyes with rusty spoons so that they would die of tetanus.[5] He made this remark in a broadcast, available for viewing on YouTube. When journalists ask him about this remark, he regularly replies that it was only a joke.

Does this guy write jokes for Wanda Sykes?
/ Ducking.

BTW, I hope these scumbags pay for their crimes. Ironic how they project their own fascism on Biden.

Bad Karma, Joe. You get no sympathy from me (you're a big boy).

That said, there are some serious problems brewing in Europe. The crazies are being touted as legitimates.

I remember Savage once saying the the hooligan in England is their only hope. when he said that years ago, I remember thinking, sadly, he's probably right.

Without taking a principled, rule of law stand, these hooligans all over Western civilization are going to cause some major problems. They're already beginning.