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Dark_Falcon Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:29:25pm |
Oh brother. I really don't find this sort of vid funny,
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Cato the Elder Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:30:49pm |
I do. I posted it two days ago.
OT:
Decent enough cigar: five bucks.
Bottle of ouzo: twelve.
Watching "Once Upon A Time In America" with old friends who've never seen it before: priceless.
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Dark_Falcon Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:30:58pm |
re: #1 Dark_Falcon
Oh brother. I really don't find this sort of vid funny,
Not saying Charles is wrong to post it. It's not out of line, and it's his blog. I just find it more depressing than funny.
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Kilroy Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:32:13pm |
This must be what happens if one is buried in Pet Cemetery.
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Cato the Elder Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:33:09pm |
re: #4 Dark_Falcon
Not saying Charles is wrong to post it. It's not out of line, and it's his blog. I just find it more depressing than funny.
I know what you mean.
I'd vote for a zombie JKF, for example, over anything living today.
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Dark_Falcon Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:33:26pm |
re: #6 Kilroy
This must be what happens if one is buried in Pet Cemetery.
That novel did make for two decent movies though.
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Ben G. Hazi Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:34:11pm |
re: #7 Cato the Elder
I know what you mean.
I'd vote for a zombie
JKFJFK, for example, over anything living today.
FTFY...I knew what you meant (and somewhat agree).
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Racer X Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:34:54pm |
This was slightly funny the first time, now not so much.
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Dark_Falcon Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:34:54pm |
re: #7 Cato the Elder
I know what you mean.
I'd vote for a zombie JKF, for example, over anything living today.
Me too. I wish we had better candidates. The ones we have just suck for the most part. Mitt Romney is the best of the lot in either party and he's only decent. Not good, just decent.
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BryanS Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:35:10pm |
re: #7 Cato the Elder
I know what you mean.
I'd vote for a zombie JKF, for example, over anything living today.
A zombie tax cutter Democrat I'd be proud to support.
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Varek Raith Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:36:03pm |
Does this mean the Dems will field a Paladin as a candidate?
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Dark_Falcon Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:37:14pm |
re: #14 Varek Raith
Does this mean the Dems will field a Paladin as a candidate?
Nope. Paladins fight, and that upsets the "surrender Now!" wing of the Democratic Party.
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Silvergirl Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:37:17pm |
It doesn't work for me.
I love a lot of Onion stuff, some of it not so much.
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Racer X Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:38:13pm |
I saw the best bumper sticker today - I burst out laughing.
Earth First!
We'll strip-mine the other planets after.
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Kilroy Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:38:25pm |
All we need next is a cabinet that walks around asking for "Brains"! Has Charles figured out a way to wake Them?
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Kragar Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:39:16pm |
re: #14 Varek Raith
Does this mean the Dems will field a Paladin as a candidate?
The Dem's have a long standing reputation of getting support from America's living impared. Take a look at your average Chicago election, for example.
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Varek Raith Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:40:12pm |
re: #16 Dark_Falcon
Nope. Paladins fight, and that upsets the "surrender Now!" wing of the Democratic Party.
True, but if he has high enough Charisma his Turn Undead ability would negate the need for a fight.
/Geek mode. :)
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Cato the Elder Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:40:24pm |
re: #10 talon_262
FTFY...I knew what you meant (and somewhat agree).
How (hic!) can you tell when an old Roman (haec!) is drunk?
Hoc!
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Dark_Falcon Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:42:32pm |
re: #21 Varek Raith
True, but if he has high enough Charisma his Turn Undead ability would negate the need for a fight.
/Geek mode. :)
What game is that from? D&D?
/fellow geek
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Varek Raith Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:42:55pm |
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Shiplord Kirel Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:43:37pm |
We could do a lot worse. Actually, we are doing a lot worse.
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Kragar Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:43:44pm |
re: #19 Kilroy
All we need next is a cabinet that walks around asking for "Brains"! Has Charles figured out a way to wake Them?
Now that brain that you gave me. Was it Hans Delbruck's?
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Fenway_Nation Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:46:10pm |
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avanti Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:47:17pm |
O.T. today "some" right wing blogs are talking about a terrorist dry run on a flight. They published the BS e-mail quoted at Snopes without fact checking what actually happened. Not near as exciting as it turns out.
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Cato the Elder Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:47:25pm |
re: #2 Cato the Elder
OT:
Decent enough cigar: five bucks.
Bottle of ouzo: twelve.
Watching "Once Upon A Time In America" with old friends who've never seen it before: priceless.
You know what I just figured out after all these years?
Jennifer Connelly, who played Deborah in the youth scenes of OUATIA, was replaced by Elizabeth McGovern in the later bits.
I always wondered "WTF happened to Deborah?"
And so did my friends tonight. "Wha? She looked totally different before!"
Well, Jennifer was twelve years old when she played the young Deborah, so obviously they had to find an older actress to do the later scenes.
But still.
Me. Big. Dummy. Never. Figured. It. Out. Before.
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Dark_Falcon Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:49:11pm |
Actually, killing zombies should be easy. All we have to do is throw some of the loons who attack LGF to the zombie hoard. The zombies who eat Pam Geller's brain will melt into a puddle of goo in minutes from the sheer quantity of Toxic Craziness.
/entirely kidding
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Varek Raith Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:52:17pm |
re: #32 Dark_Falcon
Actually, killing zombies should be easy. All we have to do is throw some of the loons who attack LGF to the zombie hoard. The zombies who eat Pam Geller's brain will melt into a puddle of goo in minutes from the sheer quantity of Toxic Craziness.
/entirely kidding
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ED 209 Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:52:21pm |
Do you think Reagan is starving to re-death because he's hanging out with 'high profile' republicans? (braaaiiinss)
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Dark_Falcon Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:52:53pm |
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Dark_Falcon Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:53:31pm |
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Charles Johnson Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:55:53pm |
The serious point to this satire is that every single GOP politician constantly invokes the name of Ronald Reagan, over and over and over.
The Onion took it to its absurd conclusion.
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Dancing along the light of day Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:56:09pm |
Ronald Regan died with Alzheimer's disease. As someone who lives with family members with Alzheimers, I must say, I find the Zombie thing in bad taste.
I do wish "we" had a leader right now, with all of Regan's potential.
I don't see one on the horizon.
And, California's governor's race is looking sickly.
Jerry Brown, Meg Whitman, Carly Fiorini.
GAH!
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Cato the Elder Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:56:45pm |
re: #18 Racer X
I saw the best bumper sticker today - I burst out laughing.
Earth First!
We'll strip-mine the other planets after.
Seen that before. I laffed my ass off.
Because that's exactly what we'll do.
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ED 209 Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:58:03pm |
Duh?
/but I guess there are those who need it explicitly stated.
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Cato the Elder Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:58:11pm |
re: #39 Charles
The serious point to this satire is that every single GOP politician constantly invokes the name of Ronald Reagan, over and over and over.
The Onion took it to its absurd conclusion.
Including people here.
And I, for my part, do not remember a united country under St Reagan.
Just sayin'.
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Silvergirl Wed, Dec 2, 2009 9:58:27pm |
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Cato the Elder Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:00:33pm |
re: #46 Silvergirl
A united country. Been awhile.
Yeah. Since like, never.
We're a democracy. That means strife.
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McSpiff Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:00:47pm |
re: #39 Charles
The serious point to this satire is that every single GOP politician constantly invokes the name of Ronald Reagan, over and over and over.
The Onion took it to its absurd conclusion.
Which as someone in the 21-25 age bracket, is really frustrating. "I support Regan!", "I support Goldwater!". I've read plenty of quotes by both men, but I really don't know the context. Its a pet peeve I guess. You support goldwater? Great, now spell out what that means. Explain why its all relevant. Put it in the context of current issues.
I'm not trying to sound like a snot here either, although I'll probably come across as one.
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Silvergirl Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:02:22pm |
re: #47 Cato the Elder
Yeah. Since like, never.
We're a democracy. That means strife.
But I wonder when it was most united. As united as humanly possible. Under what administration? Maybe I'm nuts but probably during WWII with FDR. What do you think?
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Dark_Falcon Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:02:30pm |
re: #46 Silvergirl
A united country. Been awhile.
And it won't happen again for an even longer while. The USA is simply to polarized now. I don't even talk about unity because it just can't happen. The two poles hate each other so much that if they didn't have something to fight about, they'd invent it.
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LwoodPDowd Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:03:01pm |
Bottle of ouzo: twelve.
Having to repay your friends after they bail you out of jail...expensive.
I don't know what it is about ouzo, I love it, but for me it means trouble. I get waaay too much energy, as well as plenty drunk.
Is is just me or does anyone everyone else out there get an odd pleasure clicking the ads for the creationists, knowing that the clicks they are paying for are helping charles keep the site running.
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Dark_Falcon Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:03:51pm |
re: #49 Silvergirl
But I wonder when it was most united. As united as humanly possible. Under what administration? Maybe I'm nuts but probably during WWII with FDR. What do you think?
I'd agree with that. But that was only possible due to the extraordinary circumstances. In peacetime, America will always have clear divisions. We're too diverse not to.
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darthstar Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:06:00pm |
Reagan wouldn't stand a chance in today's GOP. Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, Boehner, McConnell, Santorum, etc...and Nixon would be driven out as a liberal.
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Cato the Elder Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:06:30pm |
re: #49 Silvergirl
But I wonder when it was most united. As united as humanly possible. Under what administration? Maybe I'm nuts but probably during WWII with FDR. What do you think?
I would tend to agree with you. Depression followed by a world war. I know today's ranting rightists will tell you everything bad and social-like started under FDR, but all my old relatives had a different story to tell, whether they were conservatives or liberals or downright socialists.
Zombie FDR for President!
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ED 209 Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:09:07pm |
Gettin bleary-eyed and saying stupid stuff (stupider stuff?). G'night.
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Silvergirl Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:09:09pm |
re: #55 Cato the Elder
I would tend to agree with you. Depression followed by a world war. I know today's ranting rightists will tell you everything bad and social-like started under FDR, but all my old relatives had a different story to tell, whether they were conservatives or liberals or downright socialists.
Zombie FDR for President!
I know today's ranting rightists will tell you everything bad and social-like started under FDR,
How they do run on! (as Scarlett O'Hara might say)
Yes, my old relatives also had a different story to tell.
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nickzi Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:09:22pm |
It has to be said, Reagan Redux certainly sounds more convincing than the miserable wretches pretending to lead the GOP, while actually cringing before the tea-bagging kookathon. I am surprised though that you guys haven't yet acknowledged that Romney has been undead for years. Let's face it - the living Romney supported gay marriage and state-run healthcare. Only after becoming a zombie did he magically flip to the latest lunatic right-wing talking-points. Don't even get me started on just what sort of undead creature now inhabits the trousers of Giuliani!
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:09:51pm |
Look, if we want a zombie for president, let's just skip right to Lincoln or Washington. If death is no barrier, go for the gold standard.
(Actually, we could get zombie Washington better teeth than he had last time.)
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BryanS Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:10:23pm |
re: #55 Cato the Elder
I would tend to agree with you. Depression followed by a world war. I know today's ranting rightists will tell you everything bad and social-like started under FDR, but all my old relatives had a different story to tell, whether they were conservatives or liberals or downright socialists.
Zombie FDR for President!
Didn't we already have that his last term? //
Just sayin'
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Silvergirl Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:11:27pm |
re: #59 EmmmieG
Look, if we want a zombie for president, let's just skip right to Lincoln or Washington. If death is no barrier, go for the gold standard.
(Actually, we could get zombie Washington better teeth than he had last time.)
Now that's a clear take on the situation. Print up the T-shirts!
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Irenicum Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:12:11pm |
re: #54 darthstar
True. Nixon's idea for a national minimum income would be branded as Marxist at best. And Eisenhower would be labeled a Troskyite considering the graduated tax rate that existed under his presidency.
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Cato the Elder Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:13:37pm |
OK.
As you all can tell, I just watched a four-hour movie and I've had a bit of Greek fire.
Here's a little ditty to end my contributions for the night.
Night and Fog
A full moon lights
The rainclouds
From above
Fog obscures all
But the nearest trees
My shadow falls tall
Lit from the door behind
Upon the field
And my dog
Refuses
To stir
Into the wet
I wish I could paint
The night for you
As it nights
Copyright 2009 Cato the Elder
Oh, and a sad song from a hot young Portuguese grrrl:
Don't ask me about the jellyfish. I have no clue.
P.S. The title of the poem is intentional. You figure it out.
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Silvergirl Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:16:12pm |
re: #63 Cato the Elder
Night as a verb. As it nights. Interesting.
Fog as in a blurred outlook from the Greek fire?
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Cato the Elder Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:19:02pm |
re: #64 Silvergirl
Night as a verb. As it nights. Interesting.
Fog as in a blurred outlook from the Greek fire?
Maybe. I'm too blurred to figure myself out right now.
ego poeta americanus supra grammaticos sto
to steal a line from Bert Brecht.
Listen to the song, too...and sleep tight!
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Dancing along the light of day Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:23:04pm |
So, where DO we go from here?
Besides a third party,
not a viable option IMHO.
Where DO we get some good, OK, I'll settle for decent leaders?
I got nothing here, locally, nor at the state level.
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Killgore Trout Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:30:49pm |
I see that Hot Air picked up my link from earlier (about an hour after I posted it here)...
Jesse Ventura Walks Off The Opie & Anthony Show
Hot Air commenters all seem to miss the point. This is the way Glenn Beck, Palin and Michelle Malkin should be dealt with as well.
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Killgore Trout Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:32:31pm |
re: #66 Floral Giraffe
So, where DO we go from here?
Besides a third party,
not a viable option IMHO.
Where DO we get some good, OK, I'll settle for decent leaders?I got nothing here, locally, nor at the state level.
Grow your own veg, catch your own fish and buy free range meat. Eat drink and be merry. Living well is the best revenge.
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Cato the Elder Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:33:07pm |
re: #68 Killgore Trout
I see that Hot Air picked up my link from earlier (about an hour after I posted it here)...
Jesse Ventura Walks Off The Opie & Anthony Show[Video]Hot Air commenters all seem to miss the point. This is the way Glenn Beck, Palin and Michelle Malkin should be dealt with as well.
Well yes.
Except the people kicking their butts should be a bit smarter than O&A.
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ghazidor Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:33:26pm |
re: #66 Floral Giraffe
So, where DO we go from here?
Besides a third party,
not a viable option IMHO.
Where DO we get some good, OK, I'll settle for decent leaders?I got nothing here, locally, nor at the state level.
Beats me, even if any show up right now the tea party express will try to purge them for not being "conservative" (So-con) enough. Nothing good can happen until the hysteria dies down a little, I guess we can hope that people get bored of the mindless hate and manufactured drama someday soon???
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TheMatrix31 Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:34:52pm |
re: #68 Killgore Trout
Jesse Ventura is an epic motherfucker, and I'm ashamed of myself for ever liking him in his role with wrestling.
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Killgore Trout Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:36:17pm |
re: #72 TheMatrix31
As a wrestler I'm sure he was fine. Once he was elevated to Governor and pundit is where I have a problem.
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Irenicum Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:36:38pm |
Hey kids, anybody else having problems logging onto Right Wing Watch? A few months ago Charles linked to it and I regularly enjoyed its content. But it's been unresponsive for over a month now. Were they hacked? Did they leave Dodge? It was a very good source for fringe news. Now, no matter where I check it from, it seems not to work. Any thoughts?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:37:53pm |
re: #68 Killgore Trout
I sorta doubt Palin and Beck would be guests of the Opie and Anthony show. 8-)
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Cato the Elder Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:38:57pm |
re: #74 Irenicum
Hey kids, anybody else having problems logging onto Right Wing Watch? A few months ago Charles linked to it and I regularly enjoyed its content. But it's been unresponsive for over a month now. Were they hacked? Did they leave Dodge? It was a very good source for fringe news. Now, no matter where I check it from, it seems not to work. Any thoughts?
Their brains were eaten by Michele Bachmann.
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Dancing along the light of day Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:39:30pm |
re: #67 Sharmuta
Hmmm. I've got some sins, I'd rather not see aired in public...
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Dancing along the light of day Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:40:10pm |
re: #69 Killgore Trout
Now, THAT, I can do!
Well, and I VOTE.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:41:28pm |
re: #34 Varek Raith
I always figured Pam Geller would make a good Gibbering Mouther.
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ghazidor Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:41:29pm |
re: #76 Sharmuta
I had no problem going right to it.
Same here...Irenicum what did you do to get banned?
///
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Surabaya Stew Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:41:43pm |
re: #46 Silvergirl
Not since the Era of Good Feelings...
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Killgore Trout Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:42:21pm |
Glenn Beck Saves!
Glenn Beck Recites Story of Man Whose Life Was Supposedly Changed By "Christmas Sweater"
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Irenicum Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:42:46pm |
re: #76 Sharmuta
Thanks. It must be a school thing. Now officially pissed.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:43:25pm |
re: #76 Sharmuta
I had no problem going right to it.
I cleared my cache and tried to go there, I got nothing. Weird!
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:43:51pm |
re: #84 Irenicum
Thanks. It must be a school thing. Now officially pissed.
Nah, I can't get there either, maybe it's a fiber thing.
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Irenicum Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:44:26pm |
re: #63 Cato the Elder
btw, Cato. Loved the link in your post. Beautiful voice and guitar.
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Sharmuta Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:44:27pm |
re: #85 WindUpBird
I cleared my cache and tried to go there, I got nothing. Weird!
Maybe it's because it's right wing watch. Only us right wingers get to watch. :p
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Silvergirl Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:45:28pm |
re: #82 Surabaya Stew
Not since the Era of Good Feelings...
Ah. How I've forgotten my US History. The Era of Good Feelings! Good call.
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Killgore Trout Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:45:35pm |
re: #75 WindUpBird
I sorta doubt Palin and Beck would be guests of the Opie and Anthony show.
They should be treated like that everywhere they go. The problem is that people tolerate their nonsense. I see no reason to be polite to lunatics. It only enables their nuttiness.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:46:09pm |
re: #88 Sharmuta
Maybe it's because it's right wing watch. Only us right wingers get to watch. :p
But then that means that the Right Wing Watches... what? What would you be watching? o_o;
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BruceKelly Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:46:11pm |
This reminds me of a post I read on someone's blog a while back. The blogger suggested that we should dig up Reagan's body, elect the body president, and prop it up in the oval office.
The world would think that we're so damned crazy that no one would ever mess with America again.
It could work.
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Irenicum Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:46:21pm |
re: #83 Killgore Trout
Maybe he can be canonized before he's even dead!
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Irenicum Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:47:35pm |
re: #86 WindUpBird
Thanks also. Must be something weird going on with their web hosting. Charles, any ideas?
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BruceKelly Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:49:28pm |
re: #74 Irenicum
Hey kids, anybody else having problems logging onto Right Wing Watch? A few months ago Charles linked to it and I regularly enjoyed its content. But it's been unresponsive for over a month now. Were they hacked? Did they leave Dodge? It was a very good source for fringe news. Now, no matter where I check it from, it seems not to work. Any thoughts?
I'm getting there. Here's a cool website that I use to to check my sites when I'm having trouble...
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lightspeed Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:50:03pm |
I'm confused. The text says this is video of Zombie Reagan, but when I watch it, it seems to be footage of Henry Waxman...
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Dark_Falcon Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:51:09pm |
re: #97 lightspeed
I'm confused. The text says this is video of Zombie Reagan, but when I watch it, it seems to be footage of Henry Waxman...
LOL!
Firefox froze up on me, so I couldn't post for a bit.
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BruceKelly Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:52:40pm |
re: #83 Killgore Trout
Glenn Beck Saves!
Glenn Beck Recites Story of Man Whose Life Was Supposedly Changed By "Christmas Sweater"[Video]
Old joke:
Jesus Saves, passes to Moses, Moses Scores!
Sorry, it's late
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IngisKahn Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:53:05pm |
re: #90 Killgore Trout
They should be treated like that everywhere they go. The problem is that people tolerate their nonsense. I see no reason to be polite to lunatics. It only enables their nuttiness.
Ya, but it can be funny. Jesse was on Stern today too and he took the opposite approach. He just let him spout off all his theories and dig his own hole. Eventually he got to how the HAARP project resonates at the same frequency as the human brain, is used to control us all, and also causes global warming.
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freetoken Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:54:08pm |
re: #100 IngisKahn
He's promoting his new TV show very vigorously.
Probably would be a good match for Beck.
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Lightspeed Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:54:16pm |
re: #98 Dark_Falcon
The Hannity bit was brilliant. It seems like every other word out of Hannity's mouth is "Reagan."
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BruceKelly Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:54:27pm |
re: #88 Sharmuta
Ha! Can an .htaccess file do That?
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Dark_Falcon Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:56:39pm |
re: #68 Killgore Trout
I see that Hot Air picked up my link from earlier (about an hour after I posted it here)...
Jesse Ventura Walks Off The Opie & Anthony Show[Video]Hot Air commenters all seem to miss the point. This is the way Glenn Beck, Palin and Michelle Malkin should be dealt with as well.
It's also how lefties like Keith Olbermann, and Ralph Nader should be treated as well.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:58:06pm |
re: #90 Killgore Trout
They should be treated like that everywhere they go. The problem is that people tolerate their nonsense. I see no reason to be polite to lunatics. It only enables their nuttiness.
When the lunatics are multi-millionaires and insulated from any actual discourse... it's sorta like rock stars. They have enough power to surround themselves with people who won't say no to them, who'll feed them cocaine and hookers and wahetever else they desire. And if you have that power and you desire ideology, it'll be fed to you by everyone around you whose career depends on your happiness.
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Killgore Trout Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:58:36pm |
re: #104 Dark_Falcon
It's also how lefties like Keith Olbermann, and Ralph Nader should be treated as well.
Mikey Moore too. This shit exists because people tolerate it.
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Dark_Falcon Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:59:08pm |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Dec 2, 2009 10:59:30pm |
re: #104 Dark_Falcon
It's also how lefties like Keith Olbermann, and Ralph Nader should be treated as well.
Keith Olbermann is not on the level of Glenn Beck or Malkin. Keith Olbermann is not a bigot. False Equivalency Warning! Danger, Will Robinson!
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Cato the Elder Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:01:20pm |
re: #87 Irenicum
btw, Cato. Loved the link in your post. Beautiful voice and guitar.
The Rolling Stones heard Ana when they were in Portugal and invited her to play with them the next day. They sang "No Expectations" with her.
That silverygirl guitar you hear, by the way, is the Portuguese guitar. Which was first known as the English guitar, until they ceded it to Lisbon.
In Portugal, what we know as the Spanish guitar is called a viola.
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ghazidor Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:02:19pm |
re: #95 Irenicum
Thanks also. Must be something weird going on with their web hosting. Charles, any ideas?
Seems they have some of the proxy servers blocked too, but not all of them. I just got in useing...
[Link: www.allgreat.info...]
Enter the URL of right wing watch in the address bar down near the bottom of the page and hit "Go" and see if that works for you.
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Dark_Falcon Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:03:33pm |
re: #109 WindUpBird
Keith Olbermann is not on the level of Glenn Beck or Malkin. Keith Olbermann is not a bigot. False Equivalency Warning! Danger, Will Robinson!
I do not agree. Olbermann harbors a rabid hatred for anything conservative and he attacks without ever listening or learning. That makes him equivalent in my eyes.
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Surabaya Stew Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:03:37pm |
re: #89 Silvergirl
Ah. How I've forgotten my US History. The Era of Good Feelings! Good call.
Thanks SG; it's good knowing that all those late night hours as a kid staying up late reading High School history textbooks were not in vain...
:-D
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:03:41pm |
re: #100 IngisKahn
Ya, but it can be funny. Jesse was on Stern today too and he took the opposite approach. He just let him spout off all his theories and dig his own hole. Eventually he got to how the HAARP project resonates at the same frequency as the human brain, is used to control us all, and also causes global warming.
O&A run a good show, but essentially they're just loudmouths behind a mic. Stern is the master of the format.
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Lightspeed Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:03:48pm |
re: #109 WindUpBird
Keith Olbermann is not on the level of Glenn Beck or Malkin. Keith Olbermann is not a bigot. False Equivalency Warning! Danger, Will Robinson!
Olbermann is a hack sportscaster who now thinks he is Ed Murrow. I doubt he believes most of what he says because I doubt he really understands it. He is all about sensationalism and drama. Kind of like O'Reilly, but a bit more extreme.
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Irenicum Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:04:08pm |
re: #111 ausador
Thanks though. It's still strange how I can't access them.
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BruceKelly Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:04:49pm |
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Irenicum Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:05:38pm |
re: #111 ausador
Thankfully in two weeks or so this will be a non issue. As I'll be living off campus in a loverly apt near the Atlantic Ocean.
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Killgore Trout Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:07:10pm |
re: #109 WindUpBird
Keith Olbermann is not on the level of Glenn Beck or Malkin. Keith Olbermann is not a bigot. False Equivalency Warning! Danger, Will Robinson!
keith olbermann VS Bush the Nazi
ADL sez: Dear Mr. Olbermann,
We are deeply dismayed by your ongoing use of the Nazi "Sieg Heil" salute, both on your program and in public appearances -- including the recent Television Critics Association press tour -- while holding up a mask of Fox News commentator Bill O'Reilly.
Pretty much the same shit Glenn Beck is doing now.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:08:00pm |
re: #113 Dark_Falcon
I do not agree. Olbermann harbors a rabid hatred for anything conservative and he attacks without ever listening or learning. That makes him equivalent in my eyes.
Uh, A) he's a liberal and B) his show depends on attacking? Find me the Olbermann equivalent of elevating Bircher rhetoric ala Beck. Of Rockefeller conspiracy theories. Of paranoid dog-whistle fantasies about the president being treasonous and racist. You can't. There is no equivalency. None.
Beck is a dangerous force in this country. Olbermann is more like a shock jock for liberals. He took his snark from Sportscenter and applied it to politics. Olbermann isn't going to convince someone to take up arms against the country. Beck is heading in that direction.
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Dark_Falcon Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:09:13pm |
re: #120 Killgore Trout
Pretty much the same shit Glenn Beck is doing now.
Thank you, Killgore. Your support is greatly appreciated.
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Lightspeed Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:09:22pm |
OT, but funny video:
History Channel Documentary: Beatles 3000
We all remember the assasination of President Nixavelt!
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:10:40pm |
re: #116 Lightspeed
Olbermann is a hack sportscaster who now thinks he is Ed Murrow. I doubt he believes most of what he says because I doubt he really understands it. He is all about sensationalism and drama. Kind of like O'Reilly, but a bit more extreme.
This is an honest and clear-eyed appraisal. I don't agree with all of it (I believe he understands exactly what he says and believes it, he's a very smart person) but it's not playing the false equivalency game.
I don't believe he's any more extreme than O'Reilly, I believe they're peas in a pod. O'Reilly isn't dangerous the way Beck is, he's just a loudmouth. So's Olbermann.
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Cheechako Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:11:54pm |
OT
Now I've seen everything:
Barack Obama Ecstasy Pills Hit Streets: Approval Ratings High
President Barack Obama's approval rating may be hovering in the 50 percent range, but that doesn't mean America's Commander-in-Chief isn’t catching on with new constituents.
There is now a line of Ecstasy pills made in the image of the 44th president of the United States, according to Texas police who have snatched a batch off the streets.
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Irenicum Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:12:22pm |
re: #124 WindUpBird
i.e. there each others' evil twin skippy.
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Cannadian Club Akbar Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:13:49pm |
re: #125 Cheechako
OT
Now I've seen everything:Barack Obama Ecstasy Pills Hit Streets: Approval Ratings High
I wonder if that is the reason Chrissy Mathews has a tingle up his leg.
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Sharmuta Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:13:53pm |
re: #124 WindUpBird
This is an honest and clear-eyed appraisal. I don't agree with all of it (I believe he understands exactly what he says and believes it, he's a very smart person) but it's not playing the false equivalency game.
I don't believe he's any more extreme than O'Reilly, I believe they're peas in a pod. O'Reilly isn't dangerous the way Beck is, he's just a loudmouth. So's Olbermann.
Did you see Bill O'Reilly has his own Muppet?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:13:58pm |
re: #120 Killgore Trout
Pretty much the same shit Glenn Beck is doing now.
Oh, it'a dick move. But it's a stunt. Like a radio stunt. Holding up a mask and shouting Seig heil (I remember David Bowie once did about the same thing, also as a stunt) is not the same thing as seriously elevating paranoid conspiracy theories.
Nobody would ever seriously believe that O'Reilly is Hitler, or a Nazi, or anything. It's a feud between two hosts, we've seen this stuff for years and years on talk radio. Thus, Olbermann's actions are distasteful and nasty. But they're not dangerous. The things Beck says, they'r becomig dangerous.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:14:19pm |
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:14:49pm |
re: #129 Sharmuta
I did! We're living in a very odd times. :D
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Lightspeed Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:17:39pm |
re: #124 WindUpBird
This is an honest and clear-eyed appraisal. I don't agree with all of it (I believe he understands exactly what he says and believes it, he's a very smart person) but it's not playing the false equivalency game.
I don't believe he's any more extreme than O'Reilly, I believe they're peas in a pod. O'Reilly isn't dangerous the way Beck is, he's just a loudmouth. So's Olbermann.
I don't think Olbermann is particularly smart. Nor is O'Reilly. They're not dumb, but they are not deep thinkers. Both play to the basest instincts of their respective audiences. Maybe I categorize Olbermann as more extreme because I disagree with him on almost everything, while not so much with O'Reilly. Olbermann likes to bandy about big words, but that just tells me he knows how to use a thesaurus. It comes across as pretentious ass-hattery to me.
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Silvergirl Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:17:42pm |
re: #110 Cato the Elder
The Rolling Stones heard Ana when they were in Portugal and invited her to play with them the next day. They sang "No Expectations" with her.
That silverygirl guitar you hear, by the way, is the Portuguese guitar. Which was first known as the English guitar, until they ceded it to Lisbon.
In Portugal, what we know as the Spanish guitar is called a viola.
That was one lovely thing to hear before I burrow into the blankets. Thanks!
I turned down the heat at least an hour ago intending to end my day, and now my knuckles are feeling the cold. Good-night all!
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Dark_Falcon Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:17:51pm |
re: #129 Sharmuta
Did you see Bill O'Reilly has his own Muppet?
[Video]
Yep, and he invited the Muppet on his show. Say what you will about Bill, he knows how important it is to be able to laugh at yourself.
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Sharmuta Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:18:16pm |
re: #132 WindUpBird
I did! We're living in a very odd times. :D
There is a Dan Rather Grouch Muppet, but where is the throbbing memo? Why is Grouch News Network ignoring LGF? And... more troubling yet-
Why does Sesame Street hate Charles?
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:18:19pm |
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Killgore Trout Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:20:06pm |
re: #130 WindUpBird
Bullshit. Glenn Beck is slightly more crazy than Kieth Olberman. Glenn Beck's rhetoric is more dangerous because he's appealing to a more violent and well armed audience but it's essentially the same bullshit. Being slightly more sane than Glenn Beck is nothing to be proud of.
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Lightspeed Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:21:20pm |
re: #137 Sharmuta
There is a Dan Rather Grouch Muppet, but where is the throbbing memo? Why is Grouch News Network ignoring LGF? And... more troubling yet-
Why does Sesame Street hate Charles?
Sesame Street has always been a organ of the Crypto-Soviet Communist Appartchik Undergound Brainwashing Educational Trust. Ernie and Bert were blackballed for years during the McCarthy years.
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Dark_Falcon Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:21:44pm |
re: #140 Killgore Trout
Bullshit. Glenn Beck is slightly more crazy than Kieth Olberman. Glenn Beck's rhetoric is more dangerous because he's appealing to a more violent and well armed audience but it's essentially the same bullshit. Being slightly more sane than Glenn Beck is nothing to be proud of.
Agreed. It's like saying that the Bears are better than the St. Louis Rams this year. It's true, but its not saying much.
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Irenicum Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:21:57pm |
re: #138 WindUpBird
Wow. Just wow. I. Am. Officially. Ashamed.
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Killgore Trout Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:22:07pm |
Cold night. Book, wine, fireplace, cats.zzz
/Namaste, y'all
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:22:59pm |
re: #134 Lightspeed
I don't think Olbermann is particularly smart. Nor is O'Reilly. They're not dumb, but they are not deep thinkers. Both play to the basest instincts of their respective audiences. Maybe I categorize Olbermann as more extreme because I disagree with him on almost everything, while not so much with O'Reilly. Olbermann likes to bandy about big words, but that just tells me he knows how to use a thesaurus. It comes across as pretentious ass-hattery to me.
Someone can actually be both smart and be pretentious. Is Olbermann some cosmic intelligence? No, but he's smart. And dumb people cannot sound smart with a thesaurus. I've seen them try. ;-)
Also, full disclosure, I tend to agree with some of Olbermann's positions, they hit a little close to home for me. Your mileage may...perhaps vary.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:23:52pm |
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Irenicum Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:24:06pm |
It's far too late for me to be legitimately up. So g'nite y'all.
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Sharmuta Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:24:33pm |
re: #136 Dark_Falcon
Yep, and he invited the Muppet on his show. Say what you will about Bill, he knows how important it is to be able to laugh at yourself.
I actually really enjoyed that clip. How can anyone be angry with a Muppet?
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Lightspeed Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:28:26pm |
re: #145 WindUpBird
Considering the link you provided, I would say that Olby is dead on with that issue. As I said, I don't think he is dumb, just shallow. Kinda the way I fell about Obama. He is certainly a bright guy in many ways, but I still feel like he is an empty suit and in way over his head.
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Dark_Falcon Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:28:35pm |
re: #148 Sharmuta
I actually really enjoyed that clip. How can anyone be angry with a Muppet?
They can't unless they take themselves too seriously. Fortunately, Bill O'Reilly was able to have fun with Sesame Street's little joke and made himself look like a good sport. A good, harmless time was had by all.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:29:48pm |
re: #140 Killgore Trout
Bullshit. Glenn Beck is slightly more crazy than Kieth Olberman. Glenn Beck's rhetoric is more dangerous because he's appealing to a more violent and well armed audience but it's essentially the same bullshit. Being slightly more sane than Glenn Beck is nothing to be proud of.
I don't really think it's the same bullshit, I think Olbermann and O'Reilly are on one level, sort of wanky loudmouth type-A personalities who love a soapbox and who like the sound of their own voices. Both are essentially not dangerous.
And Beck is on a danger level above both those guys. I don't consider Beck's sedition dog-whistles to be equivalent to anything Olbermann has said, just like I don't believe Code Pink is equivalent to Birchers. I could see Moore being on the same level as Beck, at least in intensity of wacko rhetoric. But not Olbermann.
I will reiterate what I've always said: cable news sucks, and is bad for you. All of it. But comparing Beck to Olbermann, it diminishes the seriousness of the influence Beck wields.
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:30:43pm |
Speaking of Zombie Reagan, gotta go to play Left 4 Dead with the Gay Life Partner. Later!
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Irenicum Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:37:36pm |
re: #145 WindUpBird
Like the clip. Agreed. And I say this as an evangelical. But I'm not typical by any means. I wish I were. But of course, everyone does. Equal rights means equal rights.
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SixDegrees Wed, Dec 2, 2009 11:42:43pm |
re: #130 WindUpBird
Oh, it'a dick move. But it's a stunt. Like a radio stunt. Holding up a mask and shouting Seig heil (I remember David Bowie once did about the same thing, also as a stunt) is not the same thing as seriously elevating paranoid conspiracy theories.
Nobody would ever seriously believe that O'Reilly is Hitler, or a Nazi, or anything. It's a feud between two hosts, we've seen this stuff for years and years on talk radio. Thus, Olbermann's actions are distasteful and nasty. But they're not dangerous. The things Beck says, they'r becomig dangerous.
You do realize that this is precisely the sort of excuse offered for Beck by his supporters? "But he's only entertaining; he doesn't mean that seriously..."
You lost. Own it.
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shai_au Thu, Dec 3, 2009 2:59:04am |
I particularly loved the Hannity interview in the zombie Reagan clip.
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ulmsey123 Thu, Dec 3, 2009 5:54:02am |
re: #39 Charles
"The serious point to this satire is that every single GOP politician constantly invokes the name of Ronald Reagan, over and over and over.
The Onion took it to its absurd conclusion."
I think the point some politicians are trying to make is that they agree with Reagan's version of what being a conservative is. Too often people lump the "right" and the "left" in simplistic packages. That would put the political philosophies of, let's say, Jerry Falwell and William F Buckley in the same camp. George Bush was not a fiscal conservative. The GOP is moving to (or claiming to) a model that reflects what Reagan believed. If sincere, it's a good move.
Damn funny video though!
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meh99 Thu, Dec 3, 2009 6:58:11am |
IMO Beck is in a (nut) class of his own. However, this is arguable. The most important point made here, in my mind, is is that 'liberals' are unlikely to form militias.
The saddest and most annoying thing is that reasonable discourse from conservatives (like that seen here) -- seems as rare as hen's teeth.
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Ayeless in Ghazi Thu, Dec 3, 2009 7:05:30am |
Zombie Reagan is one of the most hilarious Onion videos I've ever seen. Just brilliant.
However, I am slightly disappointed that the re-animated corpse of Sarah Palin's political prospects was passed over for VP candidate...;-)
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Blueheron Thu, Dec 3, 2009 7:45:46am |
re: #12 Dark_Falcon
Me too. I wish we had better candidates. The ones we have just suck for the most part. Mitt Romney is the best of the lot in either party and he's only decent. Not good, just decent.
Maybe that is enough? Maybe that is where we are missing the boat? We as the electorate? We don't pick decent people. Not to say Obama isn't a decent man but his experience was almost nothing next to a Mitt Romney?
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Blueheron Thu, Dec 3, 2009 7:50:43am |
re: #39 Charles
The serious point to this satire is that every single GOP politician constantly invokes the name of Ronald Reagan, over and over and over.
The Onion took it to its absurd conclusion.
They used to quote Barry Goldwater. Now there was a Republican.
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Blueheron Thu, Dec 3, 2009 7:53:58am |
re: #54 darthstar
Reagan wouldn't stand a chance in today's GOP. Palin, Beck, Limbaugh, Boehner, McConnell, Santorum, etc...and Nixon would be driven out as a liberal.
Oh you are so wrong. Class shines through always.
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Oh no...Sand People! Thu, Dec 3, 2009 8:02:25am |
Favorite part in the little blurby downlow:
"Mitt Romney looking to seize party party leadership by eating small child."
Sums up all populous politicking, and the actual politician, in one phrase.
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torrentprime Thu, Dec 3, 2009 11:51:30am |
re: #161 Blueheron
I think that when I first embraced the GOP in college it was the stuff I read from Goldwater that actually closed the deal. I grew up during Reagan's terms, so he was a little too close for me to feel anything adult about, but Goldwater made sense.
The sad part about the whole Goldwater thing is that right when I was saying, "If the GOP believes this, they might be worth support," the GOP was beginning its multi-year betrayal of everything AuH20 stood for.
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torrentprime Thu, Dec 3, 2009 11:56:17am |
re: #155 SixDegrees
I'd be interested to hear actual comments from Beck listeners verifying that they *don't* believe the conspiracies, ranting, and leaving-the-C-out-of-words-that-have-them that Beck dumps on his audience ("Who's on the other end of the blackberry" comes to mind). You think all of Beck's audience heard that and said, "Ah, he's just kidding"?
In short: Olberman's viewers will tell you Olbie's kidding. Beck's viewers will tell you Beck's the only one telling the truth.
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