It's become sort of a tradition.

Check out the big brain on Mikey!!

a while is not the same as awhile

he just flunked sophomore english

What's with the "hip" dog whistle?

/

The Internet has been around a while, now.

Also, water is wet.

The Internet has been around a while, now.

And the GOP has just discovered this? No wonder they're in trouble.

/

re: #3 _RememberTonyC

Good catch Tony!

"It's totes ol' school y'all!"

Michael Steel just got a new WebTV.

Judge rules that teenager from Ohio must return after running away to Florida out of fear that her Muslim parents would kill her for converting to Christianity.

re: #7 reloadingisnotahobby

Good catch Tony!

Thanks ... or as Steele would say T hanks

Probably much longer than he realizes. Isn't it turning 40 this year or something like that?

Commas have also been around for awhile, now.

I'm sure Michael Steele is aware of all internet traditions.

The Republicans really should quit talking about the internet. Everytime they open their mouths they make themselves sound like dinosaurs - just look at Ted "The Internet Is A Series of Tubes" Stevens.

Ha!
I think we had computers at my High School!
One!In the secretaries officere: #12 Conservative Moonbat

!

re: #14 Merryweather

I'm sure Michael Steele is aware of all internet traditions.

The Republicans really should quit talking about the internet. Everytime they open their mouths they make themselves sound like dinosaurs - just look at Ted "The Internet Is A Series of Tubes" Stevens.

To be fair, Ted really is a dinosaur.

/"We thought it might be a passing fad, like television."

Ahem; from Oxford English Dictionary:

USAGE The adverb awhile ( : we paused awhile) should be written as one word. The noun phrase, meaning 'a period of time,' esp. when preceded by a preposition, should be written as two words ( : Margaret rested for a while ;: we’ll be there in a while ). See also usage at worthwhile .

I believe Steele wrote it correctly.

Go easy on them they are still working with the used IBM Selectric's they got from the Texas Air National Guard. /

The Internet has been around a while, now.

And rest assured, the GOP is struggling to keep up. While we undermine or demonize science at every opportunity, we still embrace the technology born from it that allows us greater ability to show how we struggle with the modernization we claim to support.

re: #18 vxbush

Ruin everyones fun!!
/LOL

Not to worry, though; "it's not even really a website."

Yea and active since... "The first message ever sent over the ARPANET (sent over the first host-to-host connection) occurred at 10:30 PM on October 29, 1969. " and this was all conceived in 1962.

I use to have access to ARPANET in the late 70's.

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

re: #18 vxbush

Ahem; from Oxford English Dictionary:

I believe Steele wrote it correctly.

I stand c orrected

Great day for the GOP! Over at Sadly, No they have a thread of M. Steele hip hop names. There are some funny ones. My vote goes for TuPAC or Mos Tone Deaf.
www.sadlyno.com...] target="_blank">Sadly, No

re: #22 Charles

Lol.

re: #25 Jeff In Ohio

Great day for the GOP! Over at Sadly, No they have a thread of M. Steele hip hop names. There are some funny ones. My vote goes for TuPAC or Mos Tone Deaf.
Sadly, No

Racist.

"It's not even really a website."

Gotta give Mike points for honesty.

If he wanted to be really cool he should have named it Word Up.

re: #22 Charles

Not to worry, though; "it's not even really a website."

But it is floorwax and a desert topping.

re: #12 Conservative Moonbat

Probably much longer than he realizes. Isn't it turning 40 this year or something like that?

The first message ever sent over the ARPANET took place at 10:30PM on October 29, 1969. So yes it turns 40 on Oct. 29th...

The Internet has been around a while, now.
*falls to knees*
Dear Lord thank you for sending us Al Gore..
/

re: #22 Charles

Not to worry, though; "it's not even really a website."

*facepalm*

Note to Steele: It's a long standing internet tradition that the [Link: www...] silent when you tell people your website address.

re: #27 Walter L. Newton

Racist.

Like this?: Conservative blacks are not REAL blacks?

#

t4toby said,

October 13, 2009 at 17:16

Ugh. That is gawd awful.

I always get the impression from Steele that he is an alien in a black guy suit, just tryin’ to be down wit da homies, if you know what I’m sayin’.

re: #10 filetandrelease

I really think having her in foster care might be less stressful for everyone.

Charles, have you see the ads you're getting?
Take surveys for money
Cell phone glitch is accidentally creating millionaires overnight

You getting ads from the SPAM network now?

re: #34 Killgore Trout

Kinda like the "T" at the end of French words???
/

re: #35 Ben Hur

I suspect you caught my drift.

Wow. I don't know if anyone's noticed, but this is the eleventh thread today. What's the record for most threads in a day here?

BTW, way to out your foot in your mouth, Mr. Steele.

re: #17 Baier

/"We thought it might be a passing fad, like television."

"Those two. The young one is going to the electric chair, and the old one thinks electricity is a passing fad."

--Child of the Owl, Laurence Yep

I invoke rule 34!

re: #34 Killgore Trout

Note to Steele: It's a long standing internet tradition that the [Link: www...] silent when you tell people your website address.

Automatic conversion! I should have said "dubya dubya dubya dot"

re: #36 SanFranciscoZionist

Tough call. Is she really scared? Or just brain washed? Not a decision I would want to make.

re: #42 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I invoke rule 34!

I revoke your invoking of rule 34.

re: #40 Honorary Yooper

Wow. I don't know if anyone's noticed, but this is the eleventh thread today. What's the record for most threads in a day here?

BTW, way to oput your foot in your mouth, Mr. Steele.

PIMF.

re: #34 Killgore Trout

Note to Steele: It's a long standing internet tradition that the [Link: www...] silent when you tell people your website address.

I can't get your link to work.
/

re: #47 Danny

I can't get your link to work.
/

Did you try shooting your computer?
/

re: #44 filetandrelease

Tough call. Is she really scared? Or just brain washed? Not a decision I would want to make.

Yes it is. But conservatives are always putting a strong emphasis on parental rights, so, what do you do in a situation like this?

re: #48 Honorary Yooper

Suggesting violence ...are we?

re: #45 Varek Raith

I revoke your invoking of rule 34.

I invoke rule 34 on your revocation of my invocation of Rule 34!

/A crack team of tentacle porn Hentai artists have already begun work on the project at this very minute. HUZZAH!

re: #35 Ben Hur

The Hot Airheads were doing the same thing earlier too. Many comments about his ebonics speaking style. I can't believe there are any minorities left in the Republican party.

re: #49 Walter L. Newton

Keep her where she's safe!!
If they go all Sharia on her it would be the states fault...IMHO!

*head smack*

Anyone got an extra Sam Adams?

on trying to access [Link: www.gop.com:...]
PHP has encountered an Access Violation at 7C82A01A

Man that site is hosed.

re: #52 Killgore Trout

That's why I'm almost convinced that Steele's a Democratic plant.

re: #51 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I invoke rule 34 on your revocation of my invocation of Rule 34!

/A crack team of tentacle porn Hentai artists have already begun work on the project at this very minute. HUZZAH!

Please! Don't anyone who doesn't know what was posted in the above quote ask what it means...:D

re: #44 filetandrelease

Tough call. Is she really scared? Or just brain washed? Not a decision I would want to make.

I think she's brainwashed, but that doesn't mean she isn't really scared by now. For everyone's sake, if she can be found a nice foster home, and can try to work through her relationship with her parents from a slight distance, it may be for the best. For everyone.

re: #54 Gearhead

Define "Extra" please!

re: #56 Merryweather

That's why I'm almost convinced that Steele's a Democratic plant.

Fern? Peace lily?

"It's a beta site, meaning we're still working out the kinks and stuff..."

I thought a beta site was a limited release to people who tested it. Not an excuse for a crappy rollout with an unprepared staff.

*sigh*

...and they keep calling and asking for $.

re: #57 Varek Raith

Please! Don't anyone who doesn't know what was posted in the above quote ask what it means...:D

and don't google any terms you are unsure of until you are alone and not at work.

re: #49 Walter L. Newton

Yes it is. But conservatives are always putting a strong emphasis on parental rights, so, what do you do in a situation like this?

Well, if you're certain conservatives, you want to take away parental rights as soon as the parents are Muslims. But I don't much cotton to people like that.

re: #59 reloadingisnotahobby

Define "Extra" please!

OK, OK, I'll pay. Sheesh.

re: #49 Walter L. Newton

As a conservative, I have to say I do not have enough information to make the call. The police report and judge say she should go back. Based on that, send her back. But I do not have tremedous faith that they got it right either. After all, it is the politically correct thing to do, send her back.

I was hoping they would stall until she was 18.

It's too bad Lady Gaga isn't a Republican. Then we would be really "hip" and "with it".

Eh, did he just say in the context of launching a website he wants to take the GOP to.. the street?

"It's not really a street, more like, like, a super virtual highway street!" :-D

re: #66 Chuck Martel

Hey, hey. Don't malign the GaGa!

re: #52 Killgore Trout

*ahem* #8.

I totally agree.

The quote I posted was from a progressive site.

:sigh:

A high profile entity like the GOP should not go live with a "beta" website. Some a-holes are gonna hack the crap out of that thing.

re: #61 DaddyG

"It's a beta site, meaning we're still working out the kinks and stuff..."

I thought a beta site was a limited release to people who tested it. Not an excuse for a crappy rollout with an unprepared staff.

*sigh*

...and they keep calling and asking for $.

Great, now they can't even configure a testing environment.

BBIAB

Hot Airhead comments...

Remember that white cop on Sanford And Son that would try to talk like a black guy? That is who Steele reminds me of.

Mark1971 on October 13, 2009 at 2:30 PM

...

Why are Republicans, and this black Republican, promoting the idea that authentic blackness is incompatible with proper grammar? Or with adult dignity?

boko fittleworth on October 13, 2009 at 2:31 PM

...

Steele, you betta Axe somebody.

Check yo’self before you wreck yo’self.

portlandon on October 13, 2009 at 2:34 PM

Steele always comes off goofy when he's trying to be hip but I didn't get an ebonics vibe when I watched it earlier.

re: #33 Sharmuta

How about the "NCIS" back of the head slap Gibbs has for his team when they screw the pooch?

More seriously why they put this out before it was ready for prime time is a mystery. I would not dare do that with the site I run at work. I'd get slammed. The poster that suggested it was supposed to be internal made a great point. Maybe they just got ahead of themselves. Hmmm. Nobel Judges there?

So, what up, Honcos?

re: #57 Varek Raith

Rule 34.

re: #73 Killgore Trout

Oh man.

re: #18 vxbush

Ahem; from Oxford English Dictionary:

I believe Steele wrote it correctly.

But omitted the preposition unfortunately.

re: #74 Rightwingconspirator

How about the "NCIS" back of the head slap Gibbs has for his team when they screw the pooch?

More seriously why they put this out before it was ready for prime time is a mystery. I would not dare do that with the site I run at work. I'd get slammed. The poster that suggested it was supposed to be internal made a great point. Maybe they just got ahead of themselves. Hmmm. Nobel Judges there?

Remember that we're talking about campaign volunteers here. Not the sharpest tacks in the box. (We try not to expect too much from the patronage hires here.)

re: #76 Slumbering Behemoth

Rule 34.

Oh, I knew exactly what he was talking about, just warning those who didn't.

re: #57 Varek Raith

re: #73 Killgore Trout

You mean like Hilary?
Damn she made a fool of herself...

re: #62 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

and don't google any terms you are unsure of until you are alone and not at work. Period.

FTFY

Some things cannot be unseen.

re: #76 Slumbering Behemoth

Rule 34.

LOL! Things I never thought I'd see an AT-AT do.

:
A high profile entity like the GOP should not go live with a "beta" website. Some a-holes are gonna hack the crap out of that thing.

And they had the bright idea to do the whole thing in php which won't help.

re: #82 Slumbering Behemoth

FTFY

Some things cannot be unseen.

This is a cat pushing a watermelon out of a lake. Your argument is invalid.

Maybe they'll post this hip new song!

Steele's that really embarrassing dad that dances in public to 1960's disco music, genuinely thinks it's cool and tries to drag you into dancing with him.

re: #85 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

This is a cat pushing a watermelon out of a lake. Your argument is invalid.

Drudge Headline: wet pussy on melon action.

Maybe the wing-nuts will make good on their long standing threat to break away and form their own party. They could call it the Fox Party and run Glen Beck for president. In contrast to the elephant and the donkey, their mascot would be a rabid hyena.

re: #85 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

This is a cat pushing a watermelon out of a lake. Your argument is invalid.

Only one word comes to mind

WHY?

re: #85 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Friend of mine is planning on wearing cat-ears and carrying a cheeseburger to her Halloween party. Going as a LOLcat.

re: #86 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Maybe they'll post this hip new song!

yeah ,,, like YOU know what "hip" is!
/

re: #92 sattv4u2

Hey! I'm down wid it?

re: #92 sattv4u2

yeah ,,, like YOU know what "hip" is!
/

He knows what hip is. He just threw his out the other day playing Xtreme shuffleboard. /

re: #66 Chuck Martel

It's too bad Lady Gaga isn't a Republican. Then we would be really "hip" and "with it".

Daddy Yankee endorsed McCain.

Interesting that some of the comments I see posted in this thread hasn't caused anyone to make a serious charge of "Racist" (except for a snarky comment I made above), yet if a lot of the same things were being said about Obama, we would have a racist party roast going on here.

Interesting?

In my humble opinion, the internet has not had a long life when compared to other methods of communication such as books, newspapers, radio and tv. The first time I was able to access remote networks thru the internet was in '95. That is only 9 years ago. And I was an early adapter. Compared to other media, the internet, especially the web, is quite new. I am eager to see where it will take us.

re: #86 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

What up? Internet don't hurt me, don't hurt me, no more.

re: #90 sattv4u2

Only one word comes to mind

WHY?

Oh, you'll like this pic, then.

Why indeed.

re: #96 Walter L. Newton

I'm skimming the thread. What have I missed, Walter?

re: #91 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Friend of mine is planning on wearing cat-ears and carrying a cheeseburger to her Halloween party. Going as a LOLcat.

Catgirls FTW!
/:)

re: #97 Joven

In my humble opinion, the internet has not had a long life when compared to other methods of communication such as books, newspapers, radio and tv. The first time I was able to access remote networks thru the internet was in '95. That is only 9 years ago. And I was an early adapter. Compared to other media, the internet, especially the web, is quite new. I am eager to see where it will take us.

Yes, but with professionals a fail like the GOP site shouldn't have happened.

re: #101 Varek Raith

re: #97 Joven

Welcome to LGF.

I actually like Michael Steele. He seems like a well intentioned guy. And the GOP showed some brains by naming him chairman. The GOP needs to attract Blacks and other minorities. But after making this smart appointment, they have allowed the party to be overly influenced by the extremists on the right, thus negating any appeal to minorities that Steele's appointment was supposed to encourage. It's almost like some smart folks in the GOP knew the party needed to drift towards the center, but many more felt that going "far right" was a better idea. So the net effect is that the GOP took one step forward and four steps back. Clearly this is a recipe for a second Obama term in 2012.

re: #97 Joven
And!! Ya had to walk to the corner Liquor Store to
BUY porn!

re: #96 Walter L. Newton

Are you suggesting a double standard? ...nah

Don't be Icky. Collar this hep jive all you Buddy Ghees and Birds... Jive!

re: #99 Slumbering Behemoth

Oh, you'll like this pic, then.

Why indeed.

Excuse me?

re: #16 Conservative Moonbat

To be fair, Ted really is a dinosaur.

Ted was a youngin' when dinosaurs came on the scene...

///

re: #97 Joven

In my humble opinion, the internet has not had a long life when compared to other methods of communication such as books, newspapers, radio and tv. The first time I was able to access remote networks thru the internet was in '95. That is only 9 years ago. And I was an early adapter. Compared to other media, the internet, especially the web, is quite new. I am eager to see where it will take us.

What up with your math, dude?

re: #97 Joven

Check Walter's #23 post. The internet is older than I am. Just barely, though.

re: #106 filetandrelease

Are you suggesting a double standard? ...nah

Must have been my dirty glasses.

re: #97 Joven

In my humble opinion, the internet has not had a long life when compared to other methods of communication such as books, newspapers, radio and tv. The first time I was able to access remote networks thru the internet was in '95. That is only 9 years ago. And I was an early adapter. Compared to other media, the internet, especially the web, is quite new. I am eager to see where it will take us.

1995 - 2009 > 9 years

re: #96 Walter L. Newton

Interesting that some of the comments I see posted in this thread hasn't caused anyone to make a serious charge of "Racist" (except for a snarky comment I made above), yet if a lot of the same things were being said about Obama, we would have a racist party roast going on here.

Interesting?

Not at all.
It's a widely accepted double standard for "Oreos" and other uppity minorities who don't act their race. (Don't shoot the messenger I'm just sharing something that many of my black and Hispanic friends experience as they take part in the American dream of middleclassness.)

re: #96 Walter L. Newton

My Word Up was for the purposes of the "What Up" thingy. Nothing to do with anything else. Oh, and it is a 23 year old song. About how far the GOP seems to be behind on matters of "Hip".

re: #99 Slumbering Behemoth

Oh, you'll like this pic, then.

Why indeed.

I didn't know that was you with the camera the last time I was at the beach!

re: #96 Walter L. Newton

Interesting that some of the comments I see posted in this thread hasn't caused anyone to make a serious charge of "Racist" (except for a snarky comment I made above), yet if a lot of the same things were being said about Obama, we would have a racist party roast going on here.

Interesting?

BTW, you are using the "Report" button to alert Charles to offensive posts, right?

re: #109 talon_262

Ted was a youngin' when dinosaurs came on the scene...

///

Is that why he's a creationist? He was there when it happened?

Text analysis, courtesy of Rush Limbaugh

Rush - Blathering on about 'State-Run Media'
I've run a test, I take an average 45-minute segment of this show and compare the number of times I use the word "I" compared to the number of times Obama uses the word "I" in an average 45 minute speech and it's no contest. I mean I'm a piker compared to the personal pronoun usage of President Obama.

Damn! Once they get onto something that's 'science-y' they are like a dog with a bone!

I know! Let's do a text analysis of who uses the word 'Communist' more (Rush or Obama), then accuse the winner of being a Communist! Any takers on who would win?

re: #113 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

1995 - 2009 > 9 years

He took a 5 year break between 2001 to 2006!

re: #104 _RememberTonyC

After Steele capitulated to Rush, it was over. He's not the Chairman, he's a pawn. He's pandering to the fringe:

Yesterday we posted video of James Dobson's remarks at the recent Council For National Policy meeting, so we were aware of the meeting took place, but didn't know where it was held.

W. Gardner Selby of the Austin America-Statesmen reports that it was held in Austin, Texas and that RNC Chairman Michael Steele was in attendance

The only way to deal with this now is to elect another Chairperson who won't go running to the very people ruining this party. I was hopeful about Steele, but that hope is all gone.

re: #119 Dreader1962

El oh El. Why do you have so many morons in America people listen to? :-(

re: #119 Dreader1962

How's Levin doing these days by the way? He still around? LoL.

re: #114 DaddyG

Not at all.
It's a widely accepted double standard for "Oreos" and other uppity minorities who don't act their race. (Don't shoot the messenger I'm just sharing something that many of my black and Hispanic friends experience as they take part in the American dream of middleclassness.)

Are you calling Steele an "Oreo."

re: #113 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

1995 - 2009 > 9 years

re you counting the sober ones too? /

re: #117 Slumbering Behemoth

BTW, you are using the "Report" button to alert Charles to offensive posts, right?

No, I don't think there is anything racist about anything being said or suggested here in this thread. But, I will still put out the question. If any of the little observations and humor that we have been attending to down this thread, in regards to Steele, was instead directed to Obama, would someone be jumping in claiming some of our comment to be racist?

I was just wondering. Do you wonder?

re: #124 Walter L. Newton

Are you calling Steele an "Oreo."

No. I was not. I was using the term to illustrate the double standard people have for conservative minorities.

For all of Steele's attempts to sound street-wise, he falls flat. Maybe this is why:

Steele attended Archbishop Carroll Roman Catholic High School in Washington, D.C. While at Carroll, he participated in the Glee Club, the National Honor Society and many of the school's drama productions. During his senior year, he was elected the student council president.

Steele won a scholarship to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In his first year, he was elected class president; he was also a member of the fencing team.

Source: [Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

This is a guy trying to convince his "homies" that he is hip (or whatever). Stephen Colbert's Michael Steele rap was about as close as he's ever going to come to the "'hood".

re: #125 DaddyG

re you counting the sober ones too? /

9 isn't even right for the Web; I was using NCSA Mosaic by 1994.

re: #61 DaddyG

"It's a beta site, meaning we're still working out the kinks and stuff..."

I thought a beta site was a limited release to people who tested it. Not an excuse for a crappy rollout with an unprepared staff.

*sigh*

...and they keep calling and asking for $.

Technically, you are correct. In practice, however, there is a long, sad tradition of using customers - and the public at large, in the case of web sites - as beta testers, rather than go through the expense of internal testing. And even well tested software typically goes through a rapid series of bug fixes following release.

In this case, however, there shouldn't be any shortage of actual pre-testers available at no charge. It wouldn't be difficult to build a test site that was only accessible to RNC members before going "live" and exposing the site - and the party - to ridicule.

Y'ALL SEEN THIS?

PRESS RELEASE

McConnell Statement on Finance Committee Proposal
from the Office of Senator Mitch McConnell

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement Tuesday regarding the Finance Committee vote on partisan health care reform:

“Sen. Snowe called me this morning to let me know that while she continues to have serious, substantive policy reservations with this proposal, she wanted to keep the process moving. I share her concerns about the direction of this bill once it leaves the committee, and her call for transparency before we vote to proceed to any bill on the floor.

"The fact is, this proposal will never come before the Senate. But what we do know is that the bill written behind closed doors here in the Capitol will be another 1,000-page, trillion-dollar Washington takeover. We know it will slash a half-trillion dollars from seniors’ Medicare, add new taxes and raise premiums. That’s not reform.”

re: #127 DaddyG

No. I was not. I was using the term to illustrate the double standard people have for conservative minorities.

Got it.

re: #126 Walter L. Newton

I was just wondering. Do you wonder?

I wonder why you wonder. Wonderful!

re: #128 Ray in TX

Steele attended Archbishop Carroll Roman Catholic High School in Washington, D.C. While at Carroll, he participated in the Glee Club, the National Honor Society and many of the school's drama productions. During his senior year, he was elected the student council president.

Steele won a scholarship to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. In his first year, he was elected class president; he was also a member of the fencing team.

Wow... what a loser...

There's a very loud silence in the right wing blogosphere about this ridiculously embarrassing site launch.

re: #133 sattv4u2

I was just wondering. Do you wonder?

I wonder why you wonder. Wonderful!

...who wrote the Book of Love?

re: #131 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Y'ALL SEEN THIS?

PRESS RELEASE

McConnell Statement on Finance Committee Proposal
from the Office of Senator Mitch McConnell

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell made the following statement Tuesday regarding the Finance Committee vote on partisan health care reform:

“Sen. Snowe called me this morning to let me know that while she continues to have serious, substantive policy reservations with this proposal, she wanted to keep the process moving. I share her concerns about the direction of this bill once it leaves the committee, and her call for transparency before we vote to proceed to any bill on the floor.

"The fact is, this proposal will never come before the Senate. But what we do know is that the bill written behind closed doors here in the Capitol will be another 1,000-page, trillion-dollar Washington takeover. We know it will slash a half-trillion dollars from seniors’ Medicare, add new taxes and raise premiums. That’s not reform.”

So, it's a Republican saying it will never come before the Senate. Just a lot of right wing propaganda.

re: #134 Walter L. Newton

Wow... what a loser...

I don't think he's a loser at all. I just don't think he has the necessary background to give the GOP a "hip hop" appeal.

re: #135 Charles

There's a very loud silence in the right wing blogosphere about this ridiculously embarrassing site launch.

When your kid comes home from school with an "F", you don't call the relatives and put a bumper sticker on your car!

re: #135 Charles

Because the right can do no wrong. That's only for teh left!1!

re: #135 Charles

Not even the harpy is shrieking? (I love what you do about her, LoL)

re: #135 Charles

There's a very loud silence in the right wing blogosphere about this ridiculously embarrassing site launch.

Do they even have contact with the RNC anymore? They're probably watching Glenn Beck.

re: #126 Walter L. Newton

I was just wondering. Do you wonder?

Mostly when I wander.

re: #138 Ray in TX

I don't think he's a loser at all. I just don't think he has the necessary background to give the GOP a "hip hop" appeal.

That wizzing noise that went by you ,,, that was the sound of SARCASM from Walter in his post!

re: #30 Conservative Moonbat

LOL. New Shimmer!

The tone deaf attempt to sound "hip" and "with it" is what I find amusing. It reminds me of this scene from "Who Shot Mr. Burns Pt. 1":

Smithers: [over intercom] Principal Skinner, this is your secretary.
There is one last student here to see you.
Skinner: That's odd. I don't have a secretary...or an intercom! But
send him in.
[Burns enters dressed like Jimbo]
Burns: Ahoy, there, Dean. I understand you're taking suggestions
from students, eh?
[sits on desk; groans as his knee bends painfully]
Well, me and my fourth form chums think it would be quite
corking if you'd sign over your oil well to the local energy
concern.
Skinner: [clears throat] Mr. Burns?
Burns: Buh!
Skinner: It _was_ naive of you think I would mistake this town's most
prominent 104- year-old man for one of my elementary school
students.

re: #143 ryannon The traditional Christmas song of people who have forgotten where they parked the car at the mall.

re: #139 sattv4u2

When your kid comes home from school with an "F", you don't call the relatives and put a bumper sticker on your car!

Well, I do. But that's probably why my kids glare at me.

re: #148 SixDegrees

Well, I do. But that's probably why my kids glare at me.

That ,,,and that silly hat on your skull!

re: #138 Ray in TX

I don't think he's a loser at all. I just don't think he has the necessary background to give the GOP a "hip hop" appeal.

I don't think it matter one little bit, but go ahead an get all excited about it. I haven't heard a good progressive "seething and raging" in a while, seems that's been the special domain of the wacky right recently.

re: #126 Walter L. Newton

I was just wondering. Do you wonder?

If you find a post offensive, or possibly racist, I find myself wondering why you seem reluctant to use the "Report" button to alert our host.

So while this ridiculous site launch is going on... We the people are about to be historically screwed.

No matter, it's historic. The Democrats have figured out a way to tax and spend our way to "expand health care and control costs". Genius.

Historic legislation to expand U.S. health care and control costs won its first Republican supporter Tuesday and cleared a key Senate hurdle, a double-barreled triumph that propelled President Barack Obama's signature issue toward votes this fall in both houses of Congress.

It's historic.

If Steele thinks he's being "hip", the GOP needs a hip relplacement
But we know it will be denied under Obamamcare.

Hey ,,, look ,, it's beer thirty!!

Oh ,, wait ,,, DAMN ,,, I'm at work for another 4 1/2 hours!

Schnikies!

re: #153 Kosh's Shadow

If Steele thinks he's being "hip", the GOP needs a hip relplacement
But we know it will be denied under Obamamcare.

heh... The GOP! Live in concert!
Sponsored by The Scooter Store!

BBIAB

re: #144 sattv4u2

That wizzing noise that went by you ,,, that was the sound of SARCASM from Walter in his post!

I thought about that, but there was no sarc tag so I took his comments at face value.

GOP sites are often bad - they seem to try to do too much. The last site they made that I absolutely hated was entitled "Republican for a Reason," and it was a pretty transparent attempt to get e-mail addresses from people.

There was a ning site called "Rebuild the Party" conceived by Patrick Ruffini and some others from RedState, but it very quickly got taken over by Paulians and various sorts of trolls from inception. What they did right was put forth blog entries that described "here's a place we think we can win, here's the background and the candidates, here's how you can get involved in this if you like" - the very practical sort of thing Kos was doing for years.

As virulent and awful as Twitter can get - there are many conservatives there that say terrible things that really should get them scrutiny from the authorities - there are more prominent Republicans who are talking with people that message them and having fun with it. Perhaps the GOP should stick with that, and leave blogging and site development to others.

Whoa!

SCIENCE! ENGINEERING!

re: #151 Slumbering Behemoth

If you find a post offensive, or possibly racist, I find myself wondering why you seem reluctant to use the "Report" button to alert our host.

Perhaps a better question is: why some of the defenders of the left turn a blind eye to statements about Michael Steele that would incur the indignant wrath of progressives if said about President Obama? That I believe was Walter's point in the first place.

He doesn't strike me as the type who runs to Charles to fix every offensive post.

re: #139 sattv4u2

When your kid comes home from school with an "F", you don't call the relatives and put a bumper sticker on your car!

Unless you're the type that puts the "My kid can beat up your honor student" sticker on the car...and mean it!

///

re: #147 DaddyG

The traditional Christmas song of people who have forgotten where they parked the car at the mall.

Written by John Jacob Niles. The epitome of Wasp cool

re: #151 Slumbering Behemoth

If you find a post offensive, or possibly racist, I find myself wondering why you seem reluctant to use the "Report" button to alert our host.

Get your story straight. Show me one place any where on this thread that I suggested that any comment was racist (except for my sarcastic one up near the top).

Just so I can spell it out for you one more time, slowly, I don't find any of the comments on this thread racist or offensive, but I will suggest that if the subject was Obama and not Steele, I am predicting that someone WOULD find comments on this thread offensive and/or racist. I am suggesting that there could be a double standard and you might find someone on this thread suggesting that someone is being offensive or racist. It's an opinion of mine, no where did I state it was positive fact or I had proof that it would happen.

Was that clear now?

re: #159 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Whoa!

SCIENCE! ENGINEERING!

The big question is: can the 12" really worth $30 more than the 10"?

I am aware of all internet traditions.
Michael Steele is right.
It's not really a website. It's a series of tubes.

It's pretty amazing. I just took a run around the most popular right wing blogs, and not a single one of them has mentioned the GOP's major fail.

Lockstep.

re: #160 DaddyG

Perhaps a better question is: why some of the defenders of the left turn a blind eye to statements about Michael Steele that would incur the indignant wrath of progressives if said about President Obama? That I believe was Walter's point in the first place.

I see. I am slow today.

He doesn't strike me as the type who runs to Charles to fix every offensive post.

That's not the point of the "Report" function. It's not a "run and tell daddy" button, it is there to help our host monitor this site since he cannot be everywhere at once, and personally read every single comment that gets posted.

re: #126 Walter L. Newton

I don't really wonder, you called me a racist. It was simple and a declarative.

Was the stuff I linked to and by extension gave my approval to racist? I'll have to think on that, but I thought it was cracking on Steele not for the color of his skin, but his complete inability to use the lexicon of hip hop slang in a contemporary, or even coherent way.

My apologies, I can guarantee it won't happen again.

re: #163 Walter L. Newton

Was that clear now?

Are you suggesting a double standard? ...nah

re: #164 DaddyG

The big question is: can the 12" really worth $30 more than the 10"?

The better question is who would buy a 10" fan for 300 dollars?
You could buy 15+ 20" fans for 300.00

re: #23 Walter L. Newton

I use to have access to ARPANET in the late 70's.

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

Remember when we were all in the blue directory about the
size of the Podunck phjonebook?

re: #167 Slumbering Behemoth Sorry. Knee jerk reaction on my part. I am tired of the double standard exercised against Steele. Not to take away from the epic and repeated fail of the GOP today.

...and get it right people. It's the "interwebs".

re: #166 Charles

Die Gleichschaltung hat schon lange stattgefunden, was?

re: #164 DaddyG

The big question is: can the 12" really worth $30 more than the 10"?

I. Must. Refrain.

re: #170 HoosierHoops

But the idea is cool. I had a friend who had the first CD player in my area. Paid 2,500 bucks for the damn thing.

re: #170 HoosierHoops

The better question is who would buy a 10" fan for 300 dollars?
You could buy 15+ 20" fans for 300.00

Heh. Add some helium balloons and a lawn chair and you've got a bargain alternative to a LeerJet.

re: #163 Walter L. Newton

Get your story straight. Show me one place any where on this thread that I suggested that any comment was racist (except for my sarcastic one up near the top).

I don't have a fucking story Walter, and yes, now I see your point. Thanks for explaining it slowly for a fucking idiot like me. Your humble services here, though great, are undeserved by a booger eating moron like me.

Thank you very much.
/

re: #170 HoosierHoops

The better question is who would buy a 10" fan for 300 dollars?
You could buy 15+ 20" fans for 300.00

$300?! I guess I'll continue to be a late adopter.

re: #174 filetandrelease

I. Must. Refrain.

Why? That's why I provide these straight lines. I expect you to use them. ;-)

re: #170 HoosierHoops

The better question is who would buy a 10" fan for 300 dollars?
You could buy 15+ 20" fans for 300.00

If I had the disposable income to throw around, I would in a minute. It's a totally beautiful objet:

Does this GOP web debacle have anything to do with Al Gore having invented the internet?

re: #177 Slumbering Behemoth

Careful. Some of my best friends are booger eating morons. /

re: #179 DaddyG

Why? That's why I provide these straight lines. I expect you to use them. ;-)

I have been severely reprimanded for ..., ah, indelicate humor? On this site.

re: #171 Decatur Deb

I use to have access to ARPANET in the late 70's.

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

Remember when we were all in the blue directory about the
size of the Podunck phjonebook?

With email addresses like
...decvax!decurl!enet!regina!myname

From the bottom of that "Fan Article"...

Copyright The Financial Times Limited 2009.
You may share using our article tools. Please don't cut articles from FT.com and redistribute by email or post to the web.

I wonder if that statement works...

re: #180 ryannon

If I had the disposable income to throw around, I would in a minute. It's a totally beautiful objet:

What do you expect from a guy who gets housewives to pay hundreds of dollars for the priveledge of rolling his huge balls around?

BIGG ASS FANS

re: #187 Ojoe

Aw, man. Those are big.

re: #187 Ojoe

BIGG ASS FANS

I swear, my best friend has a fridge magnet from them. William "The Refrigerator" Perry was their spokesperson for a while.

re: #187 Ojoe

BIGG ASS FANS

Fan porn.

re: #180 ryannon

If I had the disposable income to throw around, I would in a minute. It's a totally beautiful objet:

True...Do you think anybody that can afford a 300.00 10" fan needs it?
Hint: Central Air conditioning

re: #97 Joven

IThe first time I was able to access remote networks thru the internet was in '95. That is only 9 years ago.

Unless you are posting via a time machine, we have a problem here.

re: #190 ryannon

Betcha didn't know there was a Big Ass Fan Company.

re: #191 HoosierHoops

True...Do you think anybody that can afford a 300.00 10" fan needs it?
Hint: Central Air conditioning

Dyson has the mind-set of a European: AC is the exception, rather than the rule in the EU.

re: #97 Joven

You can google complicated math equations.
/

re: #166 Charles

It's pretty amazing. I just took a run around the most popular right wing blogs, and not a single one of them has mentioned the GOP's major fail.

Lockstep.

Do they have a history of looking/ linking to the site?
I'm don't run a blog, but I've never looked at the RNC nor DNC site.

re: #193 Ojoe

Betcha didn't know there was a Big Ass Fan Company.

I'm always learning neat stuff at LGF.

It is a veritable mine of fascinating knowledge.

re: #160 DaddyG

Perhaps a better question is: why some of the defenders of the left turn a blind eye to statements about Michael Steele that would incur the indignant wrath of progressives if said about President Obama? That I believe was Walter's point in the first place.

He doesn't strike me as the type who runs to Charles to fix every offensive post.

FWIW, the comments I'm seeing aren't about mocking Steele's race, but mocking what he has said-- his sad attempts to be 'hip'. Like "What up", the urban hiphop comment of his, the time he gave a shout out to Jindal offering him some 'slum love"-- all the horrendously tone deaf stuff. A white guy saying these things would be mocked in precisely the same way, for the same reasons. That's the difference.

Similar things said about Obama probably would be racist-- because they wouldn't be about mocking what he's said (he's said none of the above or done anything similarly tone deaf).

There are of course racists on the left as well. No one reasonable would deny that. Racism, like sexism, isn't restricted to only one political ideology. I just am not seeing it here.

re: #126 Walter L. Newton

If any of the little observations and humor that we have been attending to down this thread, in regards to Steele, was instead directed to Obama, would someone be jumping in claiming some of our comment to be racist?

As soon as we get to some of the imagery seen on the Tea Party signs, you will definitely have a point.

re: #168 Jeff In Ohio

I need to apologize to you, if you check up thread, most of the Lizards knew I was being sarcastic, not accusing you of anything. But you're new, and I'm sorry.

re: #135 Charles

Perhaps following up from here would be piling on?
//

re: #197 ryannon

I'm always learning neat stuff at LGF.

It is a veritable mine of fascinating knowledge.

If you even need any useless trivia, i'm your resource!

re: #177 Slumbering Behemoth

I don't have a fucking story Walter, and yes, now I see your point. Thanks for explaining it slowly for a fucking idiot like me. Your humble services here, though great, are undeserved by a booger eating moron like me.

Thank you very much.
/

What ever, you kept up on me, asking me the same question three times after I had explained it twice. It gets a little old.

Truce, I was not mad or trying to be mean to you.

re: #168 Jeff In Ohio

I don't really wonder, you called me a racist. It was simple and a declarative.

Was the stuff I linked to and by extension gave my approval to racist? I'll have to think on that, but I thought it was cracking on Steele not for the color of his skin, but his complete inability to use the lexicon of hip hop slang in a contemporary, or even coherent way.

My apologies, I can guarantee it won't happen again.

I agree with your assessment of those comments. That's the thrust of the post there and the commentariat.

re: #202 sattv4u2

If you even need any useless trivia, i'm your resource!

Have you seen the movie the Sting? Could you time delay the transmission on Horse races? We could make a fortune on the Ponies...
Dibs on the Robert Redford Character

re: #181 Ojoe
Al Gore has had this up his sleeve for years, just waiting for the right time.

re: #198 iceweasel

FWIW, the comments I'm seeing aren't about mocking Steele's race, but mocking what he has said--

[snip]

Similar things said about Obama probably would be racist-- because they wouldn't be about mocking what he's said (he's said none of the above or done anything similarly tone deaf).

[snip]

I think my point has been made, better than I could have made it, a from an informed source, if I may say so.

re: #204 iceweasel

I agree with your assessment of those comments. That's the thrust of the post there and the commentariat.

Now, that's neat.

re: #159 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Whoa!

SCIENCE! ENGINEERING!

For three hundred bucks, Mr. Dyson can blow me.

Oh, wait...that's what he's trying to do, isn't it?

re: #204 iceweasel

I agree with your assessment of those comments. That's the thrust of the post there and the commentariat.

I already explained to Jeff that I was being sarcastic and not accusing him of anything, and I already apologized to him, since he is new and probably not aware of the way I debate points. As does Cato, I sometimes leave off sarcasm tags to put an edge on the sarcasm.

I said it a number of times up thread, and I will say it one more time, I find no comments on this thread to be racist or offensive.

re: #210 Walter L. Newton

I'm not sure I get it. Could you please go through it one more time for me? Only this time type slower.

re: #210 Walter L. Newton

Gotcha. Sarcasm, it's a good thing.

re: #211 RogueOne

I'm not sure I get it. Could you please go through it one more time for me? Only this time type slower.

N O (slow enough) :)

re: #159 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Whoa!

SCIENCE! ENGINEERING!

More SCIENCE! ENGINEERING!

The 400-dollar air purifier/ionizer

Although made in Sweden, it's even more expensive for EU customers.

Around $600.00, shipping not included.

Is it just me or does Michael Steele come off like Carlton for The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air?

///completely and totally hopeless

re: #216 talon_262

PIMF...meant "Carlton from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air"

re: #210 Walter L. Newton

I already explained to Jeff that I was being sarcastic and not accusing him of anything, and I already apologized to him, since he is new and probably not aware of the way I debate points. As does Cato, I sometimes leave off sarcasm tags to put an edge on the sarcasm.

I said it a number of times up thread, and I will say it one more time, I find no comments on this thread to be racist or offensive.

Oh Walter, i know that-- sorry. I wasn't taking any kind of shot at you. I was commenting on the general charge that there's a double standard in play-- I wasn't even responding to you I don't think. Sorry if it seemed I was attacking you or misunderstanding you! I'd already updinged your comments on this BTW.

re: #208 ryannon

Now, that's neat.

Can't claim credit-- I'm sure I picked that up somewhere or other. "Commentariat" is just snappier than "commenters" or "the commenting community at website X" or whatever, I think.

re: #210 Walter L. Newton

As does Cato, I sometimes leave off sarcasm tags to put an edge on the sarcasm.

In all fairness, that's cheating!

re: #3 _RememberTonyC

His bad grammar drives me insane!

OK this is pretty funny..

If you dig around the GOP site in the Google cache dumpster, you might stumble upon the page where prospective interns can apply..

Thank you for expressing interest in the Republican National Committee (RNC) Internship Program. The RNC is always looking for interested undergraduate students to serve as interns at our headquarters in Washington, DC.

Internships are available within each of our divisions (subject to change):

New Media
The New Media division is responsible for ensuring there is an effective online component to RNC operations. Web savvy students are a plus, but not a must.

Oh no.re: #222 Mich-again