Life is a beach.

The moral of the story is 'Don't succumb to pier pressure'...

Looks like nothin's gonna change.

WHERE'S THE SUPERTANKER?!?!
AUUGGGHHH !

I don't see anybody fishing. Is that not allowed there now?

re: #2 Fenway_Nation

The moral of the story is 'Don't succumb to pier pressure'...

You have a wharfed sense of humor.

Beautiful.

re: #6 pre-Boomer Marine brat

I probably need therapy- can anyone reccomend a good dock?

re: #5 Pianobuff

I don't see anybody fishing. Is that not allowed there now?

What?! Harm the sea kittehs?!

The lamp posts are unique.

Look! There's Christine Keeler!

re: #8 Fenway_Nation

I probably need therapy- can anyone reccomend a good dock?

Anymore of that and they'll be coming to take you a-quay.

Is that Santa Monica? I haven't been there in over 15 years. Looks beautiful.

If MSNBC won't fly you to New York, it's still only a short way to Manhattan Beach.

I see everyone's piling on with the pier puns.

I was just thinking, maybe Santa Monica.

Where's the haze? That photo apparently wasn't taken today.

re: #13 PaxAmericana

Is that Santa Monica? I haven't been there in over 15 years. Looks beautiful.

I thought it was Manhattan Beach.

re: #12 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Anymore of that and they'll be coming to take you a-quay.

I probably could've gotten away with some of this awhile ago, but since then the tide has turned.

re: #13 PaxAmericana

Is that Santa Monica? I haven't been there in over 15 years. Looks beautiful.

Manhattan Beach.

re: #20 Lee Coller

Manhattan Beach.

Makes me want to eat at The Kettle.

When Jordan returned from Iraq we hung out at the Oceanside Pier for 2 weeks with him..No Pier in the whole world has a more special meaning than Oceanside...I don't care how pretty the picture is...Oceanside is the best..

re: #20 Lee Coller

Ok, my mistake. Thanks.

re: #13 PaxAmericana

Is that Santa Monica?

I knew Monica, and believe me, she was no santa.

re: #19 Fenway_Nation

I probably could've gotten away with some of this awhile ago, but since then the tide has turned.

Every time my carrier docked at Pearl or Yoko or Alameda, I tried to get some WAVE action, but was never successful.

BTW...is it just my imagination, or did Hussein Dolt call for the creation of a contiguous Palestinian state in his speech today?

I don't even have to look at the map to realize that's the next closest thing to asking for the dissolution of the state of Israel.

re: #24 Occasional Reader

I knew Monica, and believe me, she was no santa.

You said a mouthful.

re: #4 pre-Boomer Marine brat

WHERE'S THE SUPERTANKER?!?!
AUUGGGHHH !

You can find them here:

[Link: watchthewater.org...]

Upper right corner, scan to the right.

Victor Davis Hanson Takes the High Road
From PJ Media

Little Green What?

Some bloggers sent me postings the other day about Charles Johnson’s Little Green Footballs website, and suggested that the site has changed—as in flipped sides. I have not followed the controversy, but I once rode a bike down in LA for an afternoon with Johnson and found him both a serious and bright guy with all sorts of original ideas about radical Islam and the anti-Enlightenment dangers it posed.

Out of curiosity I went to the site today. All I discovered different was a change in emphasis, but not necessarily attitude. He still is strongly anti-jihad; the difference is that he now worries just as much about creationism, paleo-right tribalism, and the white supremacists’ piggy-banking onto efforts to stop radical Islam. Those are legitimate worries for any liberal (as in 19th-century liberal) minded. Almost monthly I am smeared by the far far right for defending the Anglo-American effort in World War II or support for the melting-pot traditional of racial integration and intermarriage. So I understand some of his concerns.

Johnson, it should be remembered, did a masterful job of debunking the Rather nonsense, and in the dark days of 2001-2 of identifying the idiot fringe that appeased radical Islam. He was also always attuned to the anti-Semitic elements on both left and right that sought to blame Israel for our challenges in Iraq and elsewhere.

Sorry to those who wrote me, but I can no more get on the anti-Johnson bandwagon than I could the birth certificate allegations about Obama (why he won’t release his college transcripts is a far more interesting and valid inquiry).

re: #26 Fenway_Nation

BTW...is it just my imagination, or did Hussein Dolt call for the creation of a contiguous Palestinian state in his speech today?

I don't even have to look at the map to realize that's the next closest thing to asking for the dissolution of the state of Israel.

This idea has only surfaced recently - since around 1948.

Your picture quality is usually better than this. I'm disappointed. No Super Tankers either.

//

re: #28 Lee Coller

You can find them here:

[Link: watchthewater.org...]

Upper right corner, scan to the right.

*pitter pat pitter pat piter pat GASP ... THUD*

:D ... bless your heart.

Good night.

re: #24 Occasional Reader

I knew Monica, and believe me, she was no santa.

She had this blue dress that used to drive my nuts!

Ahhh, the ocean. Hey, is that Joy Behar? Last time I saw a mouth that looked like that it had a hook in it.

re: #29 Gus 802

Nice!

re: #29 Gus 802

Victor Davis Hanson Takes the High Road
From PJ Media

That was a nice read. Thank you for sharing it.

re: #30 rwmofo

This idea has only surfaced recently - since around 1948.

But for a sitting President of the United States call for that in front of the UN? Is there any sort of precedent for that?

re: #33 Occasional Reader

Good night.

Have a good one!

re: #25 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Every time my carrier docked at Pearl or Yoko or Alameda, I tried to get some WAVE action, but was never successful.

I did a TDY at Alameda..CVS 65?
Funny thing..We were TDY in Alameda when my wife went into labor..Nikki was born at Merritt Hospital in Downtown Oakland...She thinks she is the shit.
Don't mess with little sister..Oakland is her town *wink*

re: #36 Killgore Trout

re: #37 Sharmuta

Indeed. Just came across it.

Thank you Mr. Hanson.

re: #26 Fenway_Nation

BTW...is it just my imagination, or did Hussein Dolt call for the creation of a contiguous Palestinian state in his speech today?

I don't even have to look at the map to realize that's the next closest thing to asking for the dissolution of the state of Israel.

I am sure that he'll figure out a way to make it work. The Israelis should trust that he knows best. He did get the south side and Skokie to sit down and talk doncha know.
//

re: #1 Sharmuta

Life is a beach.

And, then you marry a son of one.

An addendum to my piece:

UPDATE: Over at “The Other McCain,” Stacy is already reacting by, you guessed it, weaseling his way around my arguments. He pretends to respond by quoting a sentence of mine—cherry-picked for its relative irrelevance to the charges against him:

White nationalist Robert Stacy McCain now prominently blogrolls lgf2, a hate site run by a couple of dangerous whacks prone to physical violence—and encourages its commenters to congregate at Hot Air.

Then he proceeds to “debunk” it by informing me that “there are these things called facts,… and there are witnesses to those facts.” These “facts” Stacy links to and their respective “witnesses” are nothing but photos of his son with his football teammates, of whom some are black and one is Asian. So his offspring has been caught on camera looking friendly among blacks, in front of witnesses. Stacy, you’ve humored me. If this is the best you can muster in your defense, I rest my case. The idea of having blacks for in-laws still repulses you. But to your credit, you have established that not only you don’t mind transacting business with a black bank clerk, but you will even tolerate your son playing with black kids. You are much more open-minded than I had realized and I am not above admitting it.

From another update:

Now we see where Kejda Gjermani is getting her misinformation. A commenter identifies her husband as software entrepreneur Michael P. Hussey…[so MPH was not an anonymous a—hole after all—ed.] Apparently “mph” encountered Richard Spencer—perhaps at a libertarian event? some sort of Paulista gathering?—in New York, where they both live, and words were exchanged…. Alas, “mph” has made serious mistakes by recycling materials of dubious credibility, and—if it is true that “mph” is Hussey—he has committed an even more serious error by involving Gjermani in what appears to be some sort of personal feud with Spencer.

Leaving aside the misogynistic presumption that it must have been my husband who fed me “misinformation” or “involved” me in anything, I must correct Stacy’s allegation that it was at a libertarian event or “Paulista gathering” that my husband and I met Richard Spencer. For someone so ostensibly committed to not jumping to conclusions without knowing “the facts,” Stacy is sure making up a lot of stuff from thin air. For the record, we met Spencer at a debate titled “Is Zionism Racism?” There was a show of hands, and guess which way Richard Spencer voted? To this day, I remain wholly confused as to what his vote revealed about his attitude to Israel, because he seems to consider racism a good thing.

To top it off, Stacy taunts us:

Pay close attention, idiots: Just because I haven’t bothered to deny something doesn’t mean it’s true. The burden of proof is on the accuser, and good luck proving some of the things you have so flatly asserted. There are facts. And there are witnesses.

He doesn’t bother denying any of the charges against him. But he does bother writing dozens of articles, each over 1,000 words long, to harass whomever brings up unflattering facts from his past. Facts that he doesn’t deny, but pleads with his readers not to believe…. I need some Advil….

re: #40 HoosierHoops

I did a TDY at Alameda..CVS 65?
Funny thing..We were TDY in Alameda when my wife went into labor..Nikki was born at Merritt Hospital in Downtown Oakland...She thinks she is the shit.
Don't mess with little sister..Oakland is her town *wink*

Why would anyone want to carry that kind of curse through life?

/ :D

re: #41 Gus 802

I still disagree with much of his recent writing but at least I can acknowledge his as an honest adversary.

re: #38 Fenway_Nation

But for a sitting President of the United States call for that in front of the UN? Is there any sort of precedent for that?

Rumor has it that Jimmy Carter was nodding his head in agreement.

re: #44 medaura18586

Hang in there.

re: #15 Occasional Reader

I see everyone's piling on with the pier puns.

This thread is pier-reviewed.

re: #46 Killgore Trout

I still disagree with much of his recent writing but at least I can acknowledge his as an honest adversary.

I haven't really kept up on my reading of his work. Most was through watching him on "Uncommon Knowledge" at NRO. It is nice to see a high level of decorum in this matter.

re: #44 medaura18586

He writes for vdare.com. That's all the proof I need.

re: #49 Bacchus's daddy

This thread is pier-reviewed.

Y' mean that Barneyculled through it?

re: #49 Bacchus's daddy

This thread is pier-reviewed.

Our pierless punsters!

re: #44 medaura18586

He attended multiple American Renaissance conferences- one where he met Bill White, and another that was attended by David Duke.

I'm sure he'll get right on refuting those facts with witnesses... *snort*

re: #53 Cygnus

Our pierless punsters!

Regular old pile drivers.

Thanks everyone fro the concern shown in a previous thread. Rest assured I'll be fine... in fact, this garbage is reawakening the charging bull in me, which some of you might remember from my more feral earlier days.

These bigots can kiss my Illyrian ass. Some conservative homos will be sorry they ever went after me when I'm done with them.

re: #29 Gus 802

Victor Davis Hanson Takes the High Road
From PJ Media

That made my day. I still won't link to PJ Media unless and until they renounce Robert Stacy McCain though.

re: #53 Cygnus

Our pierless punsters!

We are gaining ex-pier-ience.

I don't know if anybody here has ever been in or listened to a volunteer church choir, but somebody sent me this today and I was very amused by it:

Any similarity to volunteer church choir members living or dead is coincidental. However, if the shoe fits, wear it!

To be sung to "Immortal, Invisible":

Immoral, impossible, God only knows
How tenors and basses, sopranos, altos
At service on Sunday are rarely the same
As those who on Wednesday to choir practice came.

Unready, unable to sight-read the notes
Nor counting, nor blending, they tighten their throats.
The descant so piercing is soaring above
The melody only a mother could love.

They have a director, but no one knows why.
No one in the choir deigns to turn him an eye.
It's clear by his waving, he wants them to look,
But each of them stands with his nose in his book.

Despite their offenses, the music rings out.
The folks in the pews are enraptured, no doubt.
Their faces are blissful, their thoughts are so deep,
But it is no wonder, for they are asleep.


By Linda Mack, Andrews University

re: #57 Charles

That made my day. I still won't link to PJ Media unless and until they renounce Robert Stacy McCain though.

Understood and I don't blame you one bit. I was doing my usual search and came up with some "good."

re: #58 Bacchus's daddy

We are gaining ex-pier-ience.

No, we've been indoctrinated.

re: #61 pre-Boomer Marine brat

No, we've been indoctrinated.

Ferry 'nuff.

I missed the A-jad speech. Was it as strange as Kadaffi's speech this afternoon?

So far, VDH hasn't gotten any nasty comments over there. No comments at all. People must be speechless.

re: #62 Fenway_Nation

Ferry 'nuff.

I see we've given the pun-thread a re-berth.

re: #65 pre-Boomer Marine brat

I see we've given the pun-thread a re-berth.

Couldn't let that one slip by...

re: #64 HelloDare

So far, VDH hasn't gotten any nasty comments over there. No comments at all. People must be speechless.

Stunned silence ensued.

re: #66 Fenway_Nation

Couldn't let that one slip by...

No, I simply had to jettison it

Now that it's been posted here in our comments, the stalkers will be showing up at Victor's article soon.

(Hi stalkers!)

re: #67 Charles

Stunned silence ensued.

A regular old jaw dropping moment.

"Well, I never!"

;)

Very pretty picture. I do like the Photo Threads. I think I had one - a fence with roses climbing on it - as my desktop for a bit.

P.S. That asshole who outed Reine.de.tout's first name on my site has been banned, the comment deleted. But I do have his IP address, so s/he should think twice before trying to bully anyone else.

re: #68 pre-Boomer Marine brat

You did that? Wake up already!

Dusk falls on the burnt-over San Gabriel Mountains of California, still beautiful. The Towercam.

Good evening all.

On another direction:

"It could grip it by the husk."

"It's not a matter of ..."

re: #69 Charles

Now that it's been posted here in our comments, the stalkers will be showing up at Victor's article soon.

(Hi stalkers!)

They'll have to search for it. Once they find their way to it they'll be all over it in their usual lowlife fashion. Another debasement of the blogs which the stalkers are so good at.

re: #69 Charles

Now that it's been posted here in our comments, the stalkers will be showing up at Victor's article soon.

(Hi stalkers!)

Maybe they'll turn off the comments. You know like HuffPost does when a famous right winger dies. /

re: #73 Fenway_Nation

You did that? Wake up already!

Now you're putting the screws to me.

re: #15 Occasional Reader

I see everyone's piling on with the pier puns.

As I was pulling into the parking lot, I blew a seal. Other seals were piering at me.

Did Glenn Beck throw a live frog into boiling water today?

re: #78 rwmofo

As I was pulling into the parking lot, I blew a seal. Other seals were piering at me.

I sea you're lion again.

re: #80 pre-Boomer Marine brat

I don't think it was on porpoise.

re: #29 Gus 802

Victor Hanson would be in my cabinet from day one, were I by some strange fate, elected president.

re: #79 Charles

Maybe he's angling for his own Food Network gig...

re: #59 Cygnus

This is getting sent to my church! We do have a good volunteer choir that likes to laugh. Thank you for sharing!

re: #72 medaura18586

P.S. That asshole who outed Reine.de.tout's first name on my site has been banned, the comment deleted. But I do have his IP address, so s/he should think twice before trying to bully anyone else.

Thank you..Reine is good people and doesn't deserve that..
Kudo's

John Bolton is talking to Greta right now.

re: #79 Charles

Did Glenn Beck throw a live frog into boiling water today?

He got that wrong. Go figure. As you know, the experiment is that you place the frog in cool water and slowly bring it to a boil.

re: #82 Ojoe

Victor Hanson would be in my cabinet from day one, were I by some strange fate, elected president.

As a member of the Whig Party? ;)

re: #80 pre-Boomer Marine brat

I sea you're lion again.

No, really. I had a can of sardines in the back of my barracuda to tide me over.

It's a good picture, but it could have been better. You have to leave out the structures and just capture those beautiful mild swells.

That would have made a pierless photo.

re: #26 Fenway_Nation

BTW...is it just my imagination, or did Hussein Dolt call for the creation of a contiguous Palestinian state in his speech today?

I don't even have to look at the map to realize that's the next closest thing to asking for the dissolution of the state of Israel.

The goal is clear: two states living side by side in peace and security - a Jewish State of Israel, with true security for all Israelis; and a viable, independent Palestinian state with contiguous territory that ends the occupation that began in 1967, and realizes the potential of the Palestinian people.

re: #88 Gus 802

You Bet!

re: #85 HoosierHoops

I'd have done it earlier but silly me, I did not even recognize a first name in that post. I barely speak English, ya' know? Don't always pick up on certain things.

Good thing I saw her LGF comment reporting it.

re: #81 Fenway_Nation

I don't think it was on porpoise.

And with this, I'm going to hsut down and finish watching the Scarlet Pimpernel ... (in which the French Dolphin makes an appearance.)

Good night all !

re: #84 LadyBehir

This is getting sent to my church! We do have a good volunteer choir that likes to laugh. Thank you for sharing!

You're welcome. I'm in a choir (not a church choir, but we do lots of sacred classical works), so it really cracked me up!

re: #79 Charles

Did Glenn Beck throw a live frog into boiling water today?

Nope. There's a cut and if you pause you see nothing going into the pot. He did kill a metaphor though.

re: #79 Charles

Jesus H. Christ. That fat f*** will do anything to put it over the top.

FWIW - it didn't look like anything really went in, or out.

re: #94 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Fare thee well, Brat of the pre-Boomer Marine persuasion.

re: #12 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Anymore of that and they'll be coming to take you a-quay.

Stop it, boat of you...

re: #89 rwmofo

No, really. I Shad a can of sardines in the back of my barracuda to tide me over.

FTFY
... good one! ... and good night, I'm signing off

re: #85 HoosierHoops

Thank you..Reine is good people and doesn't deserve that..
Kudo's

Yow, I missed all that. Who the hell would do that, and why?

re: #95 Cygnus

And it's one of my favorite hymns. Your contribution may even make our wee little newsletter.

re: #99 Buck

Stop it, boat of you...

Oar what?

re: #79 Charles

Did Glenn Beck throw a live frog into boiling water today?

Is he trying to get PETA on his ass?

re: #91 SanFranciscoZionist

The goal is clear: two states living side by side in peace and security - a Jewish State of Israel, with true security for all Israelis; and a viable, independent Palestinian state with contiguous territory that ends the occupation that began in 1967, and realizes the potential of the Palestinian people.

Thank you...I wasn't just imagining it and it wasn't eeevil right-wing radio hosts whispering that in my ear.

Less landmass for the Hamas and Hezbollah shitstains to rain down Katushas onto.

Kudos to VDH. Plus, I love that term, "paleo-right tribalism." Methinks there's a rotating title there...

"Dispersing paleo-right tribalism" or something like that.

re: #44 medaura18586

An addendum to my piece:

UPDATE: Over at “The Other McCain,” Stacy is already reacting by, you guessed it, weaseling his way around my arguments. He pretends to respond by quoting a sentence of mine—cherry-picked for its relative irrelevance to the charges against him:

He doesn’t bother denying any of the charges against him. But he does bother writing dozens of articles, each over 1,000 words long, to harass whomever brings up unflattering facts from his past. Facts that he doesn’t deny, but pleads with his readers not to believe…. I need some Advil….

He should be careful. If his kid plays sports with black kids, he may get invited to their birthday parties. He may meet their sisters. He may bring one of them home to dinner, and introduce her as his fiance, causing his father to suffer a heart attack over the canapes.

We can only hope.

//does that count as wishing harm on someone?

VDH's piece is very well-written. A change of "emphasis" is a good description, and I think this change has been necessary and superbly executed by LGF. Too many persons who used to be considered "mainstream" right have gotten into bed with the unsavoury and often racist far-right-fringe.

I think that the post-9/11 political climate actually did something of a disservice to Charles and much of the LGF membership, insofar as "we" found common ground with some, who absent the overriding saliency of the conflict with radical Islam, we likely would not have found much common ground. I think Charles and this website have much to gain by the left's realization that we have as little use for racists and overbearing creationists as they do. It's probably too much to hope, that this recognition of common ground would cause lefties to take seriously and re-evaluate their positions on the significant matters on which we differ, but hey, maybe it's a start.

re: #101 iceweasel

Yow, I missed all that. Who the hell would do that, and why?

Some creep calling itself "A Nonny Moose." I should have never let it go up in the first place because it was a rude comment. But I didn't realize it contained a person's identity at first. That's the who...

As to the why... no other reason than to bully and intimidate. "Shut up or I'll tell everyone who you are." Very sick...

re: #78 rwmofo

As I was pulling into the parking lot, I blew a seal. Other seals were piering at me.

"blew a seal". That reminds me of the joke about the penguin who sloppily ate an ice cream cone while his tires were being replaced.

re: #96 HelloDare

Nope. There's a cut and if you pause you see nothing going into the pot. He did kill a metaphor though.

Agreed, but don't ya just love the guy?

/

"It looks like you blew a seal"

re: #29 Gus 802

Victor Davis Hanson Takes the High Road
From PJ Media

Wow!
That was great!
Just great!

re: #93 medaura18586

I'd have done it earlier but silly me, I did not even recognize a first name in that post. I barely speak English, ya' know? Don't always pick up on certain things.

Good thing I saw her LGF comment reporting it.

You are very cool...Nice of you to watch a lizards back...
Regards

re: #77 pre-Boomer Marine brat

Now you're putting the screws to me.

Props for that one!

re: #56 medaura18586

Thanks everyone fro the concern shown in a previous thread. Rest assured I'll be fine... in fact, this garbage is reawakening the charging bull in me, which some of you might remember from my more feral earlier days.

These bigots can kiss my Illyrian ass. Some conservative homos will be sorry they ever went after me when I'm done with them.

I applaud the sentiment. Can I assume that you meant homo conservaticus, rather than a slur on their orientation?

re: #93 medaura18586

I'd have done it earlier but silly me, I did not even recognize a first name in that post. I barely speak English, ya' know? Don't always pick up on certain things.

Good thing I saw her LGF comment reporting it.

I have to say I got a good laugh that you thought it was a "meaningless spasm of a code word for an insult".
LOL.
I'm still laughing. Because that's exactly what they intended.

re: #110 Bacchus's daddy

"blew a seal". That reminds me of the joke about the penguin who sloppily ate an ice cream cone while his tires were being replaced.

I think you mean this one.

re: #114 HoosierHoops

You are very cool...Nice of you to watch a lizards back...
Regards

It's the very least I could do. If people are doing me the favor of taking time to comment on my site, they should not have to volunteer any more information about themselves than they want to. With so many frothing crazies out there, I almost regret everyone knowing who I am,.. some of these creeps can be violent. So I take privacy issues very seriously.

re: #116 SanFranciscoZionist

I applaud the sentiment. Can I assume that you meant homo conservaticus, rather than a slur on their orientation?

It's not a slur on their orientation. A self-described "conservative lesbian" has written an insane screed against me, "outing" me as a jihadist troll. Yup... She's also conducted some very deep investigations, at whose conclusion she found the Holy Grail: my username ... which I use everywhere, my site included. Quite some dirt she's dug.

So I meant what I wrote quite literally,.. and not as a slur.

re: #79 Charles

Did Glenn Beck throw a live frog into boiling water today?

No he did not. I was watching, and so was Bolton.

For a moment, I thought Hit The Tip Jar was a commenter, until I saw he was having the last word on all the threads.

"Pier: a disappointed bridge."

--James Joyce

re: #29 Gus 802

Victor Davis Hanson Takes the High Road
From PJ Media

A friend speaks. That must bring a weary smile to Charles. Nice.

Manhattan Beach - my favorite place to ride and walk on the strand. Great community. Thanks for sharing such a nice photo of our pier.