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1 teleskiguy  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:11:42pm

His name is Basil Marceaux Dot Com Charles! Get it right!

2 Jack Burton  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:12:24pm
3 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:13:06pm

Wow, how could you not vote for this guy.
/

4 teleskiguy  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:13:51pm

He spells vegetation with an extra ‘i.’

5 Obdicut  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:14:00pm

seriously?

Make the flag fly right?

How, um, is it flying wrong now?

6 b_sharp  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:14:38pm

What did he say?

I’m sure he went off script once or twice.

7 teleskiguy  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:14:53pm

re: #6 b_sharp

What did he say?

I’m sure he went off script once or twice.

What script?

8 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:15:34pm

The guy is wearing a badge around his neck. Is he really in law enforcement?

9 b_sharp  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:16:31pm

re: #7 teleskiguy

What script?

The one he jammed into his head. There was room don’t you think?

10 Gus  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:16:35pm

re: #6 b_sharp

What did he say?

I’m sure he went off script once or twice.

Something about moving the statehouse and doing “political things.” Then he mentioned how wants to plant vegetation on vacant lots that they take from people to build roads.

11 Kragar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:16:43pm

re: #3 Slumbering Behemoth

Wow, how could you not vote for this guy.
/

Fuck it, let them have Tennessee. We need the laughs. How often will we get to see a car on blocks outside the Governor’s mansion?

12 teleskiguy  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:17:23pm

Basil Marceaux Dot Com’s policy proposals:

Everyone gets a gun. All gun permits repealed.
Move state government to Chattanooga.
Seed empty fields and make the crop into ethanol.
Something about the flag, I’m still confused about this.
Change everybody’s last name to Dot Com.

13 Gus  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:17:48pm

re: #8 Slumbering Behemoth

The guy is wearing a badge around his neck. Is he really in law enforcement?

Looks like he’s a lot of things:

Image: Basil.JPG

/

14 Charles Johnson  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:18:07pm

See, if they move the Capitol, then he can do his issues.

15 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:18:38pm

re: #14 Charles

See, if they move the Capitol, then he can do his issues.

And, have a nice day.

16 b_sharp  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:18:54pm

re: #10 Gus 802

Something about moving the statehouse and doing “political things.” Then he mentioned how wants to plant vegetation on vacant lots that they take from people to build roads.

He wants to plant vegetables on roads made from vacant lots? Or were the roads made of people who previously owned the vacant lots?

17 webevintage  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:19:16pm

I love the “do his issues” part…

The folks at Wonkette love this guy:
Basil Marceaux’s Exploiters Staged a Debate, and It Made Lincoln-Douglas Look Like a Conversation Between Two Retarded Baby Pandas

[Link: wonkette.com…]

18 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:19:16pm

re: #16 b_sharp

He wants to plant vegetables on roads made from vacant lots? Or were the roads made of people who previously owned the vacant lots?

Not vegetables.

“vegitation”.

19 darthstar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:19:20pm

I love this guy. I especially like the action scene where he demonstrates that he’s sober enough to walk down the steps and keep talking at the same time.

Get rid of the gold fringe on the flag!

20 Kragar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:19:20pm

Vegitation?

21 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:19:27pm

re: #14 Charles

See, if they move the Capitol, then he can do his issues.

Is that legal? In a gov’t building, I mean.

22 fizzlogic  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:19:34pm

Yeah, but the Democrats are worse.

23 Gus  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:20:06pm

Pineapples.

24 Kragar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:20:22pm

And to think people laughed when CA had a porn star run for Governor.

25 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:20:27pm

I’m tempted to think this is a really bad joke, except I think it’s not. A shame. It would make a really great bad joke; as a genuine candidate - ugh.

26 Obdicut  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:20:44pm

re: #21 Slumbering Behemoth

Is that legal? In a gov’t building, I mean.

Clinton nearly got impeached for doing his issues.

27 Shiplord Kirel  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:20:46pm

He makes a lot more sense than Angle.

28 webevintage  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:21:21pm

re: #19 darthstar

I love this guy. I especially like the action scene where he demonstrates that he’s sober enough to walk down the steps and keep talking at the same time.

That’s a pretty important quality in a candidate for Governor.

29 Jack Burton  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:21:34pm

I’m surprised at some point he didn’t say something about wanting the one with the bigger “gee bees”.

30 CuriousLurker  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:22:20pm

re: #25 reine.de.tout

I’m tempted to think this is a really bad joke, except I think it’s not. A shame. It would make a really great bad joke; as a genuine candidate - ugh.

I know, right?

I kept waiting for the punch line. And waiting… and waiting… then I googled him.

31 Kragar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:22:25pm

On, the bright side, its nice to see Brother Flounder getting involved in public service.

32 albusteve  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:22:26pm

two words…
Jack Daniels

33 brookly red  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:22:33pm

what is with the badge?

34 Gus  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:22:37pm

re: #27 Shiplord Kirel

He makes a lot more sense than Angle.

Plus, he seems kind of likable in a Rainman sort of way.

//

35 b_sharp  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:22:50pm

Anybody see my brain cells? Be careful, a few of them fell out and I don’t want them crushed.

36 RadicalModerate  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:23:04pm

He was interviewed on Jimmy Kimmel a couple of nights ago.

It’s on Kimmel’ YouTube page already.

37 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:24:39pm

re: #30 CuriousLurker

I know, right?

I kept waiting for the punch line. And waiting… and waiting… then I googled him.

If the good people of Tennessee are lucky, he’ll run for every gubernatorial election, and they will be treated to a good laugh every few years.

38 CuriousLurker  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:24:47pm

re: #35 b_sharp

Anybody see my brain cells? Be careful, a few of them fell out and I don’t want them crushed.

I’m still trying to put my jaw back in place.

39 Gus  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:24:52pm

re: #33 brookly red

what is with the badge?

It was in the Cracker Jack box.

40 albusteve  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:25:14pm

re: #33 brookly red

what is with the badge?

it’s a monitor so his handlers can find him when he strays

41 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:25:43pm

re: #39 Gus 802

It was in the Cracker Jack box.

ROFL!
Just sprayed coffee all over my monitor!

42 Gus  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:25:58pm

re: #40 albusteve

it’s a monitor so his handlers can find him when he strays

“Hi! My name is Basil. If found please call the ASPCA at…”

43 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:26:40pm

re: #39 Gus 802

re: #40 albusteve

re: #42 Gus 802

Y’all are so bad.
And so funny!

44 brookly red  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:27:16pm

re: #39 Gus 802

It was in the Cracker Jack box.


/I would be careful using the word cracker on this thread…

45 darthstar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:27:32pm

re: #32 albusteve

two words…
Jack Daniels

Basil would never be caught drinking that elitist stuff. He’s an Old Crow or possibly Ten High drinker if ever there was one, though I’m guessing he’s quite happy with Barton bourbon (the generic well of choice for dive bars).

46 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:28:11pm

re: #36 RadicalModerate

He was interviewed on Jimmy Kimmel a couple of nights ago.

It’s on Kimmel’ YouTube page already.


[Video]

OMG.
Too painful to watch.

47 Targetpractice  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:28:26pm

re: #31 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

On, the bright side, its nice to see Brother Flounder getting involved in public service.

48 albusteve  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:29:37pm

I like Basil, I hope he goes far

49 Gus  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:29:49pm

From a Glenn Beck interview:

GLENN: You wear a badge around your neck. Were you a police officer or a sheriff — what is that badge that you wear around your neck?

BASIL MARCEAUX: Okay. In fact, I’m the only one in the United States who wears it. Several years ago, as a matter of fact, I started my year, the same year you started your radio show, 2001, when a law enforcement officer put a gun to my face at a stop sign and pulled my friends out of the car and kicked the crap out of him. He was a Navy Seal like Rambo. I’m sure Rambo wouldn’t have liked that much. So, I told the officer then that I was going to look for a law that allowed a marine to arrest anyone who breaks the Constitution. After three years and six months, I found Federal Law 241, the emancipation proclamation proclamation, the Civil Rights Act of 1866, and the (inaudible.)

50 celticdragon  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:29:54pm

Stephen Colbert endorsed this guy last night. This election cycle is one for the history books…in the worst way possible. Future generations will be laughing at us.

51 Gus  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:29:59pm

Whew.

52 Shiplord Kirel  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:30:10pm

“move the capital to Chattanooga so I can clean house”

See, lot of politicians claim they will “turn the rascals out.” Basil intends to do it in literal fact.

53 Gus  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:31:02pm

re: #49 Gus 802

From a Glenn Beck interview:

Continues:

GLENN: So, you made the badge. What does the badge say?

BASIL MARCEAUX: It says okay. On the third prong it says if you’re an Army or Navy civilian, you are a great man. You’re immune from all crimes, including murder. You’re above civil law. You’re protected by the military. You can go into any court in the land and say, Hey, Judge, you’re under arrest for breaking the Constitution and when I rule, there is no appeal for you and you should be scared of me because if you if you don’t get off the Bench when I tell you, I have to treat you like a bank robber. That’s why we printed it in our

54 brookly red  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:32:03pm

Arggguh! why does shockwave flash always crash here!

55 Kragar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:32:50pm

re: #47 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

[Video]

Apparently fat, drunk and stupid are a way to get thru life.

56 blueraven  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:33:03pm

re: #48 albusteve

I like Basil, I hope he goes far

I bet some folks in Tennessee wishes he’d go far too…far away, that is.
At least he is entertaining!

57 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:33:35pm

This can’t be real.

58 goddamnedfrank  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:33:51pm

I’m not sure how comfortable I am laughing at such high magnitude brain damage.

59 Targetpractice  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:33:58pm

re: #57 Alouette

This can’t be real.

God, how I wish that were true.

60 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:35:12pm

Our rights are protected for eternity…even if they’re written in blood…

The Twilight candidate.

61 firstinla  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:35:25pm

Basil doesn’t all that different from many other politicians these days. Maybe not as glib but not that different. We have a few pols here in California who make the same kinds of outlandish promises. They, too, want to do their issues.

62 celticdragon  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:35:26pm

re: #57 Alouette

This can’t be real.


That’s what we thought about the idiot who got the Dem Senate nomination in South Carolina. Remember him? The guy with a rap sheet and who can’t put two sentences together but wants action figures made that look like him?

63 RadicalModerate  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:35:41pm

Please tell me that there will be debates for the Tennessee Governor’s race.

Admiral Jim Stockdale has absolutely nothing on this guy.

64 Killgore Trout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:35:44pm

This guy rules.
I’ve seen some speculation that he’s doing a character. Even Andy Kauffman couldn’t do something this brilliant. I’m pretty sure he’s real.

65 Gus  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:35:51pm

Perhaps if he moves to Minnesota…

/

66 deranged cat  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:35:54pm

omg, so funny. ive been hearing about him for more than a week, but never watched this. so amazing. i can see why wonkette has taken such a liking to him (and alvin greene)

67 Targetpractice  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:35:57pm

re: #60 EmmmieG

Our rights are protected for eternity…even if they’re written in blood…

The Twilight candidate.

Does that he…*shudders*…sparkles?

68 TedStriker  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:37:28pm

re: #11 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Fuck it, let them have Tennessee. We need the laughs. How often will we get to see a car on blocks outside the Governor’s mansion?

Lord no, I don’t fucking want anything to do with this nut (like he’s got a snowball’s chance in Hell anyway). Ol’ Basil shouldn’t be allowed near any job that requires an IQ higher than his shoe size, much less any elected office.

He’s kwazee…

/from a Tennessean

69 Cato the Elder  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:37:40pm

Is “Doigtceaum” an old French suffix of respect, or is this guy’s name really Marceaux.com?

70 darthstar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:39:34pm

re: #49 Gus 802

From a Glenn Beck interview:

“The emancipation proclamation proclamation” It’s kind of like Spectacular! Spectacular! only different.

71 theheat  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:40:30pm

Squirrel: It’s What’s for Dinner.

72 brookly red  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:41:22pm

re: #57 Alouette

This can’t be real.

as real as Alvin Greene…

[Link: www.sodahead.com…]

73 darthstar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:43:30pm

re: #11 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Fuck it, let them have Tennessee. We need the laughs. How often will we get to see a car on blocks outside the Governor’s mansion?

Or a car on blocks used AS the Governor’s mansion.

74 Kragar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:44:46pm

Aug. 4, 2010 Gubernatorial Debate in Nashville: Basil Marceaux, June Griffin, Howard Switzer PART 1

75 Cato the Elder  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:45:39pm

If’n Pamz “ButtMouth” Geller ever runs for office, she promises to make us all more freer than we weres, too.

76 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:46:24pm

I would vote for him if he promised to outlaw clamshell packaging.

Or if he outlawed Justin Bieber.

Or if he wrote chocolate into the Bill of Rights.

77 Kragar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:47:06pm

re: #75 Cato the Elder

If’n Pamz “ButtMouth” Geller ever runs for office, she promises to make us all more freer than we weres, too.

But if she touches my gold fringe, I’m going nuclear.

78 Reginald Perrin  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:47:23pm

You can’t make stuff up that is this funny………

His campaign video became a viral hit in late July 2010, airing on MSNBC, The Colbert Report[, and The Soup as well as having clips played on the Bubba the Love Sponge and Paul and Young Ron radio shows.

Marceaux welcomed the extra attention this brought his campaign, but denied rumors that he was intoxicated when the video was filmed. He stated that his speech is slurred because he has only three teeth and the news program’s producers forced him to modify and shorten his statement as he was delivering it.

Wikipedia

79 Killgore Trout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:48:11pm

re: #74 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Aug. 4, 2010 Gubernatorial Debate in Nashville: Basil Marceaux, June Griffin, Howard Switzer PART 1


[Video]

Fascinating. What’s his problem with the flag?

80 Eclectic Infidel  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:49:37pm

Well, one or two of his ideas are decent. I like the idea of planting more vegitation and generating ethanol. Stopping stop signs, not a good idea but hey, you know, agendas can be revised. Good luck to you Basil.

81 Kragar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:49:48pm

re: #79 Killgore Trout

Fascinating. What’s his problem with the flag?

GOLD FRINGE!

82 goddamnedfrank  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:50:49pm

Maybe I’d find it funnier if he was preaching actual hate or something, but severe mental impairment by itself isn’t that amusing, not to me, not when it presents in such an obviously physiological manner. This guy has profound verbal / linguistic processing issues and doesn’t look very steady on his feet. He looks like he needs help, not ridicule.

83 Girth  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:51:00pm

re: #64 Killgore Trout

This guy rules.
I’ve seen some speculation that he’s doing a character. Even Andy Kauffman couldn’t do something this brilliant. I’m pretty sure he’s real.

Maybe he is Andy Kauffman, lying in wait all these years in order to emerge and perform the greatest piece of performance art the world has ever seen!

84 TedStriker  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:51:17pm

re: #37 reine.de.tout

If the good people of Tennessee are lucky, he’ll run for every gubernatorial election, and they will be treated to a good laugh every few years.

Yeah, just like John Jay Hooker did for the longest time, except Hooker (even as a political gadfly) had/has at least two functional brain cells to rub together.

/*retch*

85 Kragar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:51:30pm

re: #80 eclectic infidel

Well, one or two of his ideas are decent. I like the idea of planting more vegitation and generating ethanol. Stopping stop signs, not a good idea but hey, you know, agendas can be revised. Good luck to you Basil.

Not stopping stop signs, but stopping traffic stops. Can’t trust those damn state troopers or cops.

86 Killgore Trout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:52:07pm

re: #74 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Aug. 4, 2010 Gubernatorial Debate in Nashville: Basil Marceaux, June Griffin, Howard Switzer PART 1


[Video]

What an awesome debate of insanity…..
Aug. 4, 2010 Gubernatorial Debate in Nashville: Basil Marceaux, June Griffin, Howard Switzer PART 2

The chick in the blue dress wants to take air conditioning away from American Indians.

87 Political Atheist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:52:36pm

Just for fun lets take a look at today’s Los Angles political scandal-LA Councilman Richard Alarcon was indicted for living outside of his district and lying about it. Or… Maybe he just forgot the boundaries. I mention this now because this is the kind of mistake I would expect from the man featured above. Moving the capitol and all. Heck Alarcon should have just moved his district!

88 ProBosniaLiberal  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:52:47pm

As an update from the Tropical Storm issue from earlier the Nation Hurricane Center (among other portions of the National Weather Center organization) say this “Due to power problems, expect missing or delayed products until further notice.”

I think this calls for a snarky picture, but I’m not all that creative.

89 avanti  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:53:17pm

Palin-Marceaux in 2012, because they are real people like us, not Ivy League intellectuals./

90 ProBosniaLiberal  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:53:50pm

re: #88 ProLifeLiberal

As an update from the Tropical Storm issue from earlier, the National Hurricane Center (among other portions of the National Weather Center organization) say this: “Due to power problems, expect missing or delayed products until further notice.”

I think this calls for a snarky picture, but I’m not all that creative.

Oops on spelling.

91 avanti  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:54:39pm

re: #86 Killgore Trout

What an awesome debate of insanity…
Aug. 4, 2010 Gubernatorial Debate in Nashville: Basil Marceaux, June Griffin, Howard Switzer PART 2

[Video]The chick in the blue dress wants to take air conditioning away from American Indians.

Taking the land from under their feet was insufficient ?

92 Cato the Elder  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:55:18pm

re: #80 eclectic infidel

Ethanol is and always has been and always will be a scam.

93 Killgore Trout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:55:31pm

Basil Marceaux on Indians……

94 avanti  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:55:39pm

re: #79 Killgore Trout

Fascinating. What’s his problem with the flag?

Gold fringes apparently.

95 deranged cat  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:56:36pm

re: #86 Killgore Trout

lol the crowd is awesome! booing, heckling the lady in the blue dress. this is great. and basil marceux hasnt even come up yet!

96 Killgore Trout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:57:05pm

re: #94 avanti

Gold fringes apparently.

Ah, thanks. I couldn’t figure that out.

97 Kragar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:58:19pm

re: #93 Killgore Trout

Basil Marceaux on Indians…

[Video]

I was unaware that the Indians originally came to the US from Europe or Spain or whatever.

98 albusteve  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:58:30pm

re: #92 Cato the Elder

Ethanol is and always has been and always will be a scam.

yup, a very bad idea for actually producing fuel…the entire program of subsidies should be immediately cancelled

99 Killgore Trout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:58:44pm

Those are really the gubernatorial candidates? Wow, Tennessee is in real trouble.

100 HoosierHoops  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:59:05pm

re: #92 Cato the Elder

Ethanol is and always has been and always will be a scam.

I don’t understand..I buy fuel with 10% ethanol.. How is that a scam?

101 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:59:09pm

OK, for a bit this seemed like someone’s to-do list.

-Move to Chattanooga
-Clean house
-Clear out back room

I admit that being more freer than I was yesterday has its appeals.

102 Killgore Trout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 3:59:28pm

re: #97 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I was unaware that the Indians originally came to the US from Europe or Spain or whatever.

They seem to have come from Asia by way of Europe. This guy’s a genius.

103 Mich-again  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:00:10pm

re: #92 Cato the Elder

The business case for ethanol was dicey at best before the Russians announced they won’t have any wheat to export this year. Now it looks even sillier that we devote all that farming effort for ethanol production.

104 Kragar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:01:00pm

re: #100 HoosierHoops

I don’t understand..I buy fuel with 10% ethanol.. How is that a scam?

Ethanol in its current form as an addititve is sound. The idea that it is the miracle fuel of the future has no basis in science or economic reality.

105 Nimed  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:01:38pm

re: #57 Alouette

This can’t be real.

I hope this is a big joke. I’ll feel sorry for the poor man if this isn’t an act.

106 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:01:51pm

He seems like a pleasant enough man.

Um.

All right then.

107 Eclectic Infidel  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:02:55pm

re: #106 SanFranciscoZionist

He seems like a pleasant enough man.

Um.

All right then.

He’d probably do an ok job with the right advisers.

108 Kragar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:02:56pm

re: #105 Nimed

I hope this is a big joke. I’ll feel sorry for the poor man if this isn’t an act.

Its not. I do get the distinct impression that his “supporters” in the debate crowd are just there to see what he does next though.

109 Gus  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:03:21pm

re: #99 Killgore Trout

Those are really the gubernatorial candidates? Wow, Tennessee is in real trouble.

Check her out here:

Make sure and read the billboard which says “Evolutionists come From Monkeys.” Caption for the video reads:

Earlier this year, Freedom from Religion Foundation erected a billboard on U.S. Highway 27 at the Hamilton/Rhea County Line in Tennessee praising Darwin. Freedom from Religion wanted a billboard in Rhea County, Home of the Scopes Trial, but local billboard owners refused sell them add space. The Darwin Billboard sparked the response of my mother-in-law, June Griffin who declared, ‘It was pay back time.” June garnered the support of funds throughout the community and as a result the following billboard was put up in defense of God & the Bible. WorldNetDaily featured an article on the billboard titled, War of words erupts over Darwin billboards.

110 lostlakehiker  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:04:11pm

I noticed that he wants to plant “vegitation” by the road.

I noticed that he has

a

lot

of trouble stringing words together. It’s special Olympics cheering time when he manages to complete a sentence.

Not to say that he’s genuinely differently abled. He’s just low-normal and it shows. He can’t be the real Republican nominee, can he? Isn’t one Alvin Green enough?

111 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:05:03pm

re: #4 teleskiguy

He spells vegetation with an extra ‘i.’

But he wants to plant it, that’s the important thing.

Look, what kind of a campaign do you think you could run with a hundred bucks and all the change in the change jar?

Reminds me, actually, of the Richard III Museum in York. They have a great location, they somehow got the city to let them have a fifteenth-century guardhouse built into the city walls which was commissioned by their hero himself when he was Duke of Gloucester.

Inside, it is screamingly funny. They have things like a portrait of Henry VII on the stairs, with a note underneath saying “Don’t trust this man.” And while the whole thing seems to have been put together with about five hundred pounds and a whole lot of love, one of their people clearly has access to laminating machine. Basically everything is laminated. It’s kind of wonderful.

112 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:05:23pm

re: #5 Obdicut

seriously?

Make the flag fly right?

How, um, is it flying wrong now?

I may be a total idiot, but what’s wrong with gold-fringed flags?

113 Eclectic Infidel  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:06:16pm

re: #110 lostlakehiker

I noticed that he wants to plant “vegitation” by the road.

I noticed that he has

a

lot

of trouble stringing words together. It’s special Olympics cheering time when he manages to complete a sentence.

Not to say that he’s genuinely differently abled. He’s just low-normal and it shows. He can’t be the real Republican nominee, can he? Isn’t one Alvin Green enough?

Don’t be hating on Basil Marceaux.

114 lostlakehiker  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:06:24pm

re: #104 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Ethanol in its current form as an addititve is sound. The idea that it is the miracle fuel of the future has no basis in science or economic reality.

Ethanol has energy value and it will help move your car. But coming from corn, it had more energy value when it was corn and it could help move your muscles.

Or if you’re not hungry, the corn could be sold to those who are, and the money used to buy oil. We do better that way, and it both looks and is better from the humanitarian perspective as well.

115 zora  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:07:05pm

Basil Marceaux has got to be drunk in this commercial.

116 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:07:24pm

re: #10 Gus 802

Something about moving the statehouse and doing “political things.” Then he mentioned how wants to plant vegetation on vacant lots that they take from people to build roads.

He’s going to to move the state house to Chatanooga.

Then he’s going to clean house, and get rid of backroom politics.

He’s going to make judges listen to their oath.

He’s going to make the flag fly right, and get rid of gold-fringed flags.

He’s going to plant vegetation on empty lots and use it to make ethanol.

//OK, my ability to reprise this may be derived from hours spent listening to very bad oral reports on Egyptian gods.

117 Killgore Trout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:07:39pm

re: #109 Gus 802

heh

118 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:07:44pm

re: #11 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Fuck it, let them have Tennessee. We need the laughs. How often will we get to see a car on blocks outside the Governor’s mansion?

I assume he’s not going to win. Am I living in a fool’s paradise?

119 Eclectic Infidel  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:08:33pm

re: #114 lostlakehiker

Ethanol has energy value and it will help move your car. But coming from corn, it had more energy value when it was corn and it could help move your muscles.

Or if you’re not hungry, the corn could be sold to those who are, and the money used to buy oil. We do better that way, and it both looks and is better from the humanitarian perspective as well.

See? Basil could revise his agenda so it’s a win-win for everyone. KEEP HOPE ALIVE!

120 Kragar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:08:38pm

re: #112 SanFranciscoZionist

I may be a total idiot, but what’s wrong with gold-fringed flags?

GET THAT GOLD FRINGE OFF MY FLAG!

“The flags displayed in State courts and courts of the United States have gold or yellow fringes. That is your WARNING that you are entering into a foreign enclave, the same as if you are stepping into a foreign embassy and you will be under the jurisdiction of that flag. The flag with the gold or yellow fringe has no constitution, no laws, and no rules of court, and is not recognized by any nation on the earth, and is foreign to you and the United States of America. more information

MILITARY FLAG WITH THE GOLD FRINGE

Martial Law Flag “Pursuant to 4 U.S.C. chapter 1, §&sect1, 2, & 3; Executive Order 10834, August 21, 1959; 24 F.R.6865; a military flag is a flag that resembles the regular flag of the United States, except that it has a YELLOW FRINGE border on three sides. The President of the United States designates this deviation from the regular flag, by executive order, and in his capacity as Commander-in-Chief of the military. The placing of a fringe on the national flag, the dimensions of the flag and the arrangement of the stars in the union are matters of detail not controlled by statute, but are within the discretion of the President as Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy.” 34 Ops. Atty. Gen. 83.

President, Dwight David Eisenhower, by Executive Order No.10834, signed on August 21, 1959 and printed in the Federal Register at 24 F.R. 6865, pursuant to law, stated that: “A military flag is a flag that resembles the regular flag of the United States, except that it has a yellow fringe border on three sides.”“

121 Gus  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:08:58pm

re: #117 Killgore Trout

heh

She has an audience. Especially with the WND crowd.

Some other billboard I cam across. Not associated with her:

Image: evolution.jpg

122 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:09:01pm

re: #22 trendsurfer

Yeah, but the Democrats are worse.

Prove it. I want to see a campaign ad from his Democratic alter ego.

Why do I suspect that her name will be Ashley?

123 tnguitarist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:09:06pm

I’m waiting for the day when a viral hit like this actually gets someone elected. Just enough people vote pull the lever just for shits and giggles and he ends up in the governors mansion.

124 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:09:49pm

re: #24 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

And to think people laughed when CA had a porn star run for Governor.

Mary Carey was very well-spoken, and looked good in red-white-and-blue bikini.

One guy I knew voted for her because he really likes porn, and he feels that women who do well in the business tend to be very smart and level-headed, and good with money.

125 Four More Tears  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:10:14pm

re: #121 Gus 802

She has an audience. Especially with the WND crowd.

Some other billboard I cam across. Not associated with her:

Image: evolution.jpg

Oh, the irony.

126 Eclectic Infidel  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:10:25pm

re: #121 Gus 802

She has an audience. Especially with the WND crowd.

Some other billboard I cam across. Not associated with her:

Image: evolution.jpg

Know where this is located?

127 fizzlogic  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:10:49pm

Those three candidates aren’t the only ones running, right?

128 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:10:51pm

re: #25 reine.de.tout

I’m tempted to think this is a really bad joke, except I think it’s not. A shame. It would make a really great bad joke; as a genuine candidate - ugh.

He doesn’t seem unpleasant, or mean, or even particularly nuts. Maybe a little unintelligent. Nu, why shouldn’t he run?

(If people actually start voting for him, then I get worried.)

129 darthstar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:11:25pm

re: #79 Killgore Trout

Fascinating. What’s his problem with the flag?

When the wind comes out of the east, it flies left. He wants it to fly right.

130 Kragar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:11:31pm

So Gold Fringe Flag apparently means the Government has declared Martial Law and is removing your rights as a US Citizen.

131 fizzlogic  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:12:14pm

re: #122 SanFranciscoZionist

I hope there’s a Democratic candidate. Jeebus, these people are dumb.

132 Gus  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:12:28pm

re: #126 eclectic infidel

Know where this is located?

Didn’t say.

133 Kragar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:12:46pm

re: #130 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

So Gold Fringe Flag apparently means the Government has declared Martial Law and is removing your rights as a US Citizen.

And apparently is a big deal amongst Paulians and Libertarian Kooks.

134 Eclectic Infidel  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:13:07pm

Okay. Thank you everyone for the mid-afternoon distraction. Be well.

135 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:13:10pm

re: #65 Gus 802

Perhaps if he moves to Minnesota…

/

Minnesotans do seem to favor the eccentric candidate, regardless of their specific leanings.

136 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:13:54pm

re: #72 brookly red

as real as Alvin Greene…

[Link: www.sodahead.com…]

I’m not so sure Alvin Greene is real either.

137 Gus  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:14:20pm

re: #126 eclectic infidel

Know where this is located?

OLATHE, Kan.

138 Killgore Trout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:14:40pm

He’s very sweet. At the end of the video debate I linked to at #93 the audience starts to boo the Christianist lady and he stands up for her. I hope he wins.

139 Cato the Elder  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:15:00pm

re: #93 Killgore Trout

Basil Marceaux on Indians…

I would actually vote for the fat guy over the lady in blue who looks like she’s just sucked a lemon and seems to have a broomstick up her butt.

140 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:15:56pm

re: #76 EmmmieG

I would vote for him if he promised to outlaw clamshell packaging.

Or if he outlawed Justin Bieber.

Or if he wrote chocolate into the Bill of Rights.

There’s some jihadi imam in London who used to preach around the St. John’s Wood area—I would see all his whacked out stickers and flyers on my way to my Saturday job. I think he may have been arrested since. Not sure. Anyway, he went on TV and announced on some show that when England was an Islamic theocracy, with him in charge, the first thing he would do would be to arrest the Spice Girls.

His support among middle-aged Anglicans spiked sharply after that.

141 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:17:47pm

re: #82 goddamnedfrank

Maybe I’d find it funnier if he was preaching actual hate or something, but severe mental impairment by itself isn’t that amusing, not to me, not when it presents in such an obviously physiological manner. This guy has profound verbal / linguistic processing issues and doesn’t look very steady on his feet. He looks like he needs help, not ridicule.

I’m torn, frank. I see your point, but on the other hand, I sort of feel that throwing your hat into a gubernatorial race means you get made fun of, regardless of your other impairments.

142 darthstar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:18:36pm

re: #86 Killgore Trout

I love it when she says, “What if I call myself an Anglo Saxon community?…RACIST!” Yes, dear…that’s right.

143 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:18:46pm

re: #87 Rightwingconspirator

Just for fun lets take a look at today’s Los Angles political scandal-LA Councilman Richard Alarcon was indicted for living outside of his district and lying about it. Or… Maybe he just forgot the boundaries. I mention this now because this is the kind of mistake I would expect from the man featured above. Moving the capitol and all. Heck Alarcon should have just moved his district!

We have recurrent problems with that in San Francisco. Supes keep creeping out of the City and lying about it.

144 Four More Tears  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:19:05pm

re: #141 SanFranciscoZionist

I’m torn, frank. I see your point, but on the other hand, I sort of feel that throwing your hat into a gubernatorial race means you get made fun of, regardless of your other impairments.

I really want this to be a prank.

145 Nimed  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:19:35pm

re: #138 Killgore Trout

Yeah. At the end, when the blue dress lady says “Without the Scriptures we would have Heathanism. It’s true.”.

146 zora  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:19:39pm

re: #79 Killgore Trout

Fascinating. What’s his problem with the flag?

part of his platform is to get the gold fringe off the flag. not sure exactly why. oh, yeah. he’s crazy.

147 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:19:56pm

re: #86 Killgore Trout

What an awesome debate of insanity…
Aug. 4, 2010 Gubernatorial Debate in Nashville: Basil Marceaux, June Griffin, Howard Switzer PART 2
[Video]

The chick in the blue dress wants to take air conditioning away from American Indians.

Wait. As someone who has Indian relatives living in hot climates, can I ask WHY? And how is it even possibly constitutional to take AC away from one ethnic group?

148 Kragar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:22:02pm

Basil Marceaux

Basil Marceaux Sr, (born May 26, 1952) is an American who has on multiple occasions been a candidate for state and federal public office in Tennessee.

Most recently, he filed as a candidate for the 2010 Republican nominations for governor in the Tennessee gubernatorial election[1] and U.S. House of Representatives in Tennessee’s 3rd congressional district.[2] He previously ran unsuccessfully as a candidate for United States Senate and House of Representatives[1] and ran unsuccessfully for Tennessee governor in 2002 as an independent candidate.[3] Due in part to his unconventional viewpoints, his 2010 campaign for Governor became somewhat of an internet sensation.[4][5]

Marceaux faced Bill Haslam, Joe Kirkpatrick, Ron Ramsey and Zach Wamp in the Republican gubernatorial primary election on 5 August 2010. A Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. poll, taken before the popularity of Marceaux’s video became widespread, projected Marceaux as receiving one percent of the vote in the primary.[2]

149 theheat  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:22:12pm

re: #139 Cato the Elder

It’s all in the eyebrows, Cato. The eyebrows are consistently a dead giveaway to the level of crazy. She has a pair of angry caterpillars up there. Add to that, her voice would peel paint.

150 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:22:29pm

re: #115 zora

Basil Marceaux has got to be drunk in this commercial.

I think he does have some sort of processing/speech issue. Doesn’t necessarily mean he wouldn’t be a competent administrator, but I’m a little dubious.

151 Cato the Elder  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:24:03pm

re: #144 JasonA

I really want this to be a prank.

Not, I fear, in America.

Not in a land where Pamz Geller gets invited to speak on national teevee shows.

Not in a country where Glenn Beck makes millions for flashing the word “Lucifer” on a back-screen while talking about the president.

We lack nothing here in this sad land but humor. The Russians, drunk as they are, could provide us with their surplus at a moments’ notice. But we’re not having any of it.

“Humor” to us is “The Family Guy”. We’re fucked.

152 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:24:10pm

re: #120 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

(whispering) OK.

153 Gus  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:24:52pm

WTF?

Image: 3295534084_4c47851768.jpg

This is on Rt. 105 in Los Angeles. Or was.

154 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:25:27pm

re: #129 darthstar

When the wind comes out of the east, it flies left. He wants it to fly right.

Wiring might help with that. Or you could put the flag on a flat board surface, and fix it to the flagpole.

155 Nimed  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:25:43pm

re: #147 SanFranciscoZionist

Wait. As someone who has Indian relatives living in hot climates, can I ask WHY? And how is it even possibly constitutional to take AC away from one ethnic group?

The blue dress lady seems crazier, yet more articulate. Check the video Killgore linked in #93.

Does anybody know what the guy with the long beard stands for? His silence has earned him my support so far.

156 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:25:58pm

re: #130 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

So Gold Fringe Flag apparently means the Government has declared Martial Law and is removing your rights as a US Citizen.

That’s a really subtle way of letting people know.

Some places, they declare martial law and take away your rights, you don’t have to guess around about it.

157 Killgore Trout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:26:11pm

The pot debate

158 MJ  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:26:28pm

Reginald Levy Is Dead at 88; Hailed as a Hero in a ’72 Hijacking

[Link: www.nytimes.com…]

Some may not know about the 1972 hijacking. Read the obit- Capt. Levy was a hero.

159 theheat  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:26:30pm

re: #155 Nimed

An Amish moonshiner, maybe?

160 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:27:08pm

re: #142 darthstar

I love it when she says, “What if I call myself an Anglo Saxon community?…RACIST!” Yes, dear…that’s right.

I’m an SCA person. I know lots of people in the Anglo-Saxon community.

161 goddamnedfrank  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:27:33pm

My favorite exchange from:re: #93 Killgore Trout

“We spent untold blood, and toil, to teach the Bible to the Indians. It’s the culture that’s the problem.”

-The mean lady in blue dress

“Boo.”
“Booo”
“What?!”
“BOO!!!”
“What is wrong with you?”
“BoooOOO000UUU!!!”
“You’re the worst person in the universe.”

-Audience hecklers.

162 Nimed  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:27:42pm

re: #139 Cato the Elder

I would actually vote for the fat guy over the lady in blue who looks like she’s just sucked a lemon and seems to have a broomstick up her butt.

Brrr. A hard choice, but he does seem much more good-natured. Suddenly Governor Palin doesn’t sound that bad.

163 Cato the Elder  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:27:57pm

What if WindUpBird comes out and dances for us with an eagle face mask and gold fringe on his skirt?

Does that mean the end of the Republic?

Anyone wanna drink?

164 Shiplord Kirel  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:28:11pm

re: #86 Killgore Trout

Creo-fool June Griffin is as wacky as Basil but a hell of lot less likeable.

Griffin on the Daily Show, 2005

165 Aceofwhat?  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:28:15pm

So…does the badge around his neck mean that he currently is a LEO of some sort, or is he just a mall cop? Because if he’s a policeman…wow…

166 Kragar  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:28:48pm

re: #156 SanFranciscoZionist

That’s a really subtle way of letting people know.

Some places, they declare martial law and take away your rights, you don’t have to guess around about it.

They took notes from the British, who conquered a worldwide Empire thru the cunning use of flags.

167 Cato the Elder  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:29:07pm

re: #161 goddamnedfrank

My favorite exchange from:

Except she didn’t say “toil”. She said “toll”.

It’s all about roads.

Listen carefully next time.

168 Four More Tears  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:29:21pm

Here’s Beck interviewing Marceaux

[Link: www.glennbeck.com…]

GLENN: So, you made the badge. What does the badge say?

BASIL MARCEAUX: It says okay. On the third prong it says if you’re an Army or Navy civilian, you are a great man. You’re immune from all crimes, including murder. You’re above civil law. You’re protected by the military. You can go into any court in the land and say, Hey, Judge, you’re under arrest for breaking the Constitution and when I rule, there is no appeal for you and you should be scared of me because if you if you don’t get off the Bench when I tell you, I have to treat you like a bank robber. That’s why we printed it in our

Yikes.

169 Aceofwhat?  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:29:47pm

re: #163 Cato the Elder

What if WindUpBird comes out and dances for us with an eagle face mask and gold fringe on his skirt?

Does that mean the end of the Republic?

Anyone wanna drink?

depends…did he at least shave his legs/

170 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:29:49pm

re: #161 goddamnedfrank

My favorite exchange from:

Holy shit. She SAID that?

171 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:30:16pm

re: #163 Cato the Elder

What if WindUpBird comes out and dances for us with an eagle face mask and gold fringe on his skirt?

Does that mean the end of the Republic?

Anyone wanna drink?

I don’t much care if it’s the end of the Republic, I still want to see that.

172 Four More Tears  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:30:24pm

re: #151 Cato the Elder

Not, I fear, in America.

Not in a land where Pamz Geller gets invited to speak on national teevee shows.

Not in a country where Glenn Beck makes millions for flashing the word “Lucifer” on a back-screen while talking about the president.

We lack nothing here in this sad land but humor. The Russians, drunk as they are, could provide us with their surplus at a moments’ notice. But we’re not having any of it.

“Humor” to us is “The Family Guy”. We’re fucked.

Thank the maker you’re back. Things were almost starting to feel positive around here.

(No, not really…)

173 Aceofwhat?  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:30:30pm

re: #168 JasonA

Here’s Beck interviewing Marceaux

[Link: www.glennbeck.com…]

Yikes.

thanks.

and wow.

174 goddamnedfrank  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:31:25pm

re: #170 SanFranciscoZionist

Holy shit. She SAID that?

Skip to 6:00 minutes in and brace yourself.

175 Aceofwhat?  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:31:30pm

re: #172 JasonA

updinged for “thank the maker” DAO quote…

176 Shiplord Kirel  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:32:13pm

June Griffin talked a lot about church and Christianity in the posted videos but she didn’t indicate what her affiliation is. I’m guessing she’s not a Unitarian though.

177 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:33:26pm

re: #174 goddamnedfrank

Skip to 6:00 minutes in and brace yourself.

Now we’re bashing on Indians for being uncivilizable? What YEAR is this?

God almighty.

178 HoosierHoops  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:33:41pm

This may be the worst campaign ad of all time…

179 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:34:31pm

re: #176 Shiplord Kirel

June Griffin talked a lot about church and Christianity in the posted videos but she didn’t indicate what her affiliation is. I’m guessing she’s not a Unitarian though.

Is anyone of average intelligence who isn’t an insane bigot running for governor of Tennessee right now? I don’t care about party. I just need reassurance. I have two young nieces in that state.

180 Aceofwhat?  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:34:44pm

re: #178 HoosierHoops

This may be the worst campaign ad of all time…

or the best…i think it depends on what you’re trying to get out of campaign videos…

(what’s up, HH)

181 Four More Tears  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:35:14pm

re: #177 SanFranciscoZionist

Now we’re bashing on Indians for being uncivilizable? What YEAR is this?

God almighty.

I see Reine’s logged on, so I’ll pass on the opportunity to make a regional joke.

182 Four More Tears  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:36:08pm

re: #180 Aceofwhat?

or the best…i think it depends on what you’re trying to get out of campaign videos…

(what’s up, HH)

Better than “Gather… Your… Armies?”

I think not.

183 celticdragon  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:36:11pm

re: #86 Killgore Trout

What an awesome debate of insanity…
Aug. 4, 2010 Gubernatorial Debate in Nashville: Basil Marceaux, June Griffin, Howard Switzer PART 2

[Video]The chick in the blue dress wants to take air conditioning away from American Indians.

I had to stop watching. I would have thrown something at the bitch if I had been in the audience.

184 HoosierHoops  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:37:58pm

re: #180 Aceofwhat?

or the best…i think it depends on what you’re trying to get out of campaign videos…

(what’s up, HH)

Hi Ace..It makes you laugh for sure..
I’m doing great.. I found a place to live in Oklahoma today..I’ll be traveling back and forth between Indiana and Oklahoma the next couple of months.
Beats Hotel life..
Hope today finds you well my friend

185 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:38:14pm

This is too awesome:

FLOWER-POWER MUTHA-FUCKA!

186 Gus  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:38:52pm

re: #164 Shiplord Kirel

Creo-fool June Griffin is as wacky as Basil but a hell of lot less likeable.

Griffin on the Daily Show, 2005

Oddly enough if you listen to her closely she’s not that far off from today mainstream Tea Party or wingnut thought.

187 theheat  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:39:52pm

I’d be a little bit embarrassed to say I was a member of the GOP in Tennessee, and admit to supporting any one of these people, even as a joke.

188 celticdragon  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:39:57pm

re: #179 SanFranciscoZionist

Is anyone of average intelligence who isn’t an insane bigot running for governor of Tennessee right now? I don’t care about party. I just need reassurance. I have two young nieces in that state.

I know I’m only 42, but I have never seen a fucked up election cycle like this in my lifetime. This is a perfect storm of populist idiocy mixed with race baiting and culture warfare.

And it is nation wide.

189 Four More Tears  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:40:21pm
Glenn: Where does the badge come in?

BASIL MARCEAUX: Back to the badge. I found the emancipation proclamation I’m kind of tired right now emancipation proclamation that says the United States government and the military and the Navy to maintain and recognize such person to keep people free from slavery and no act should stop them. And we all know if I’m 4th Recon marine, the best soldier in the world, everybody knows I maintain for life and my oath is for life to protect and defend, but I have no power. I should be able to arrest people who break the Constitution. This was my oath. So, I went looking for the law to see if a marine can arrest Constitutional violators and I came upon (inaudible) 39th Congress (Inaudible) Page 38, 41, and 42. That’s the same law that gave African Americans four eighths of a mule.

Four eighths? As opposed to… I dunno… one half? Why not two fourths? Fifty hundreths? And what happens to the other eight sixteenths?!?

190 Killgore Trout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:41:12pm

re: #183 celticdragon

I had to stop watching. I would have thrown something at the bitch if I had been in the audience.

I couldn’t stop watching. I made it though all 6 parts of the debate. Awesome.

191 Aceofwhat?  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:41:19pm

re: #184 HoosierHoops

Hi Ace..It makes you laugh for sure..
I’m doing great.. I found a place to live in Oklahoma today..I’ll be traveling back and forth between Indiana and Oklahoma the next couple of months.
Beats Hotel life..
Hope today finds you well my friend

you found a place! that’s fantastic…must be a huge load off of your shoulders.

192 celticdragon  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:41:49pm

re: #186 Gus 802

Oddly enough if you listen to her closely she’s not that far off from today mainstream Tea Party or wingnut thought.

Yeah. I noticed.

That is still the first I have heard about despising Native American culture outside of a black and white western, though. I actually sat in disbelief for a moment.

193 theheat  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:41:52pm

re: #183 celticdragon

I’d have run out to the barn, grabbed my horse clippers, and taken a 40 blade to her eyebrows. I imagine it would have the same crippling effect as cutting Samson’s hair.

194 Killgore Trout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:42:34pm

re: #185 Slumbering Behemoth

This is too awesome:

FLOWER-POWER MUTHA-FUCKA!

Those videos are so impressive. Well done.

195 celticdragon  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:42:58pm

re: #190 Killgore Trout

I couldn’t stop watching. I made it though all 6 parts of the debate. Awesome.

I don’t know whether to salute you or recommend you for group PTSD therapy.

Maybe both.

196 Aceofwhat?  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:43:17pm

re: #189 JasonA

Four eighths? As opposed to… I dunno… one half? Why not two fourths? Fifty hundreths? And what happens to the other eight sixteenths?!?

well…they’re not consecutive eighths…

197 Nimed  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:43:20pm

re: #157 Killgore Trout

The pot debate

[Video]

The bearded guy said the following “When marinuana was made illegal, it was treating 100 ailments in this country”. A little while later “But it’s more than that. It’s an important agricultural product! Food, fuel, fiber, medicine, all coming from one plant”.

Why do we even plant other forms of vegitation?

198 William of Orange  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:43:25pm

Oookay…. But why does he make this announcement on the tune of the Roger Ramjet cartoon?


LOL

199 Four More Tears  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:44:03pm
BASIL MARCEAUX: No. Actually the traffic stops itself is the second part, where you get out of the car, what are you doing in this part of town, who have you got there, what’s underneath your seat, Hey, what’s that dead body in the trunk.

If we’re not being punk’d then I’m out of hope for this species.

200 celticdragon  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:44:21pm

re: #193 theheat

I’d have run out to the barn, grabbed my horse clippers, and taken a 40 blade to her eyebrows. I imagine it would have the same crippling effect as cutting Samson’s hair.

All kinds of win. :)

201 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:44:34pm

re: #128 SanFranciscoZionist

He doesn’t seem unpleasant, or mean, or even particularly nuts. Maybe a little unintelligent. Nu, why shouldn’t he run?

(If people actually start voting for him, then I get worried.)

SFZ - I would hope the man has family or friends who love him who would let him know how ridiculous he comes across.

202 deranged cat  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:45:08pm

re: #185 Slumbering Behemoth

way awesome. you guys have such good random videos :D

203 albusteve  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:45:25pm

re: #197 Nimed

The bearded guy said the following “When marinuana was made illegal, it was treating 100 ailments in this country”. A little while later “But it’s more than that. It’s an important agricultural product! Food, fuel, fiber, medicine, all coming from one plant”.

Why do we even plant other forms of vegitation?

he’s getting his species mixed up…typical
we should be growing hemp, lots of it

204 Ojoe  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:47:18pm

The spacing of the corner columns on the building in the background in the video, is too wide.

205 Cato the Elder  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:47:25pm

re: #199 JasonA

If we’re not being punk’d then I’m out of hope for this species.

Punk’d we may be, and I haven’t known you for that long, nor do I ken your age, nor your stance, nor your life, nor your surroundings:

But tell me, if ye be over 12 years old, when was the last time you actually had hope for this species?

206 celticdragon  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:49:16pm

re: #205 Cato the Elder

Punk’d we may be, and I haven’t known you for that long, nor do I ken your age, nor your stance, nor your life, nor your surroundings:

But tell me, if ye be over 12 years old, when was the last time you actually had hope for this species?

We missed you. Don’t go away again without letting us what time you will home!

Signed:
Mama and Papa Lizard.

207 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:49:25pm

re: #197 Nimed

The bearded guy said the following “When marinuana was made illegal, it was treating 100 ailments in this country”. A little while later “But it’s more than that. It’s an important agricultural product! Food, fuel, fiber, medicine, all coming from one plant”.

Why do we even plant other forms of vegitation?

You listen to pot enthusiasts talk, and you do start to wonder. Apparently there is NOTHING hemp can’t do.

208 Four More Tears  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:49:26pm

re: #205 Cato the Elder

Punk’d we may be, and I haven’t known you for that long, nor do I ken your age, nor your stance, nor your life, nor your surroundings:

But tell me, if ye be over 12 years old, when was the last time you actually had hope for this species?

I’ve been holding on to a shred of it since I was a wee lad.

209 Nimed  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:50:51pm

re: #199 JasonA

If we’re not being punk’d then I’m out of hope for this species.

LOL I HAD MISSED THAT!

I’m still laughing as I type this. That was truly unexpected!

210 albusteve  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:50:54pm

re: #207 SanFranciscoZionist

You listen to pot enthusiasts talk, and you do start to wonder. Apparently there is NOTHING hemp can’t do.

hemp is not pot…good grief
and it’s an extremely versatile plant

211 mikhailtheplumber  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:51:12pm

Forget governor! This guy should be president. He’s Poe’s Law in action!

212 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:51:15pm

re: #194 Killgore Trout

Hey, I just realized that’s the same dude who made “Jedi Assholes”.

213 theheat  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:51:50pm

re: #207 SanFranciscoZionist

I have a summer dress from woven hemp. Looks just like linen. Neat stuff.

214 bosforus  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:51:57pm

Honest to goodness, if you do a street view of this guy’s address which is published on his website, all you’ll see is a dirt road going into the woods.

215 steve_davis  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:52:36pm

I’d laugh at this, but my fellow Democrats just gave my state Alvin Greene as a candidate. At this point, if I were his campaign manager, I’d just risk it and tell him to stop taking the Thorazine. He might have crazy thoughts, but at least they’d maybe be connected crazy thoughts.

216 goddamnedfrank  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:52:46pm

re: #207 SanFranciscoZionist

You listen to pot enthusiasts talk, and you do start to wonder. Apparently there is NOTHING hemp can’t do.

Except bump fists with the invisible hand of the free market.

217 Aceofwhat?  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:53:32pm

re: #213 theheat

I have a summer dress from woven hemp. Looks just like linen. Neat stuff.

but does it wrinkle as often? i boldly dip into the linen portion of my wardrobe on occasion, but the wrinkles…oh, the wrinkles…

218 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:54:15pm

re: #202 deranged cat

It comes from all the time spent going to and fro on the interwebs, and surfing up and down upon it.

219 jaunte  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:55:12pm

re: #207 SanFranciscoZionist

You listen to pot enthusiasts talk, and you do start to wonder. Apparently there is NOTHING hemp can’t do.

Even make ethanol:
[Link: www.hempcar.org…]

220 Nimed  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:55:12pm

re: #203 albusteve

The guy is a walking caricature of the old hippie. Just like the blue dress is a walking caricature of the hateful, ultra-uptight old lady.

Basil is the only real person here. Marceaux for Governor!

221 Ojoe  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:55:33pm

re: #215 steve_davis

See why we need a revived Whig Party?

222 Killgore Trout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:55:50pm

re: #212 Slumbering Behemoth

Hey, I just realized that’s the same dude who made “Jedi Assholes”.

Yeah, I think he does a video almost every week. They’re pretty much all very well done and pretty funny.

223 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:56:17pm

re: #217 Aceofwhat?

but does it wrinkle as often? i boldly dip into the linen portion of my wardrobe on occasion, but the wrinkles…oh, the wrinkles…

The hemp materials I’ve seen do not seem to crease as easily as linen.

224 theheat  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:57:00pm

re: #217 Aceofwhat?

Yeah, it wrinkles like linen. But it’s a fashionable looking fabric, and no one much cares if a summer dress has a few wrinkles.

225 albusteve  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:57:00pm

re: #220 Nimed

The guy is a walking caricature of the old hippie. Just like the blue dress is a walking caricature of the hateful, ultra-uptight old lady.

Basil is the only real person here. Marceaux for Governor!

I like him, he’s having fun with his “fuck you elitists!” gig

226 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:57:46pm

re: #181 JasonA

I see Reine’s logged on, so I’ll pass on the opportunity to make a regional joke.

Oh, go ahead!

227 albusteve  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:58:09pm

re: #223 SanFranciscoZionist

The hemp materials I’ve seen do not seem to crease as easily as linen.

and an added benefit…you can smoke your grocery bag when you want to cop a buzz

228 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:58:10pm

re: #222 Killgore Trout

That young man needs to be working in Hollywood, if he isn’t already.

229 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:58:52pm

This is genius

230 Four More Tears  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:59:17pm

re: #226 reine.de.tout

Oh, go ahead!

No no no. You’ve been upset by them before, and I think that ground’s already been covered anyway.

231 Bubblehead II  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 4:59:57pm

re: #198 William of Orange

WTF? I obviously spent way to much time with the Looney Toons as well as Shaggy and Velma.

232 Ojoe  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:00:09pm

re: #227 albusteve

What are all these burn holes doing in my grocery bag?

233 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:00:21pm

If there aren’t a hundred zany morning radio show hosts trying to get an interview with this guy, they’re not doing their job

234 reine.de.tout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:01:04pm

re: #230 JasonA

No no no. You’ve been upset by them before, and I think that ground’s already been covered anyway.

Well, you are sweet to be so considerate!

235 Aceofwhat?  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:01:50pm

re: #224 theheat

Yeah, it wrinkles like linen. But it’s a fashionable looking fabric, and no one much cares if a summer dress has a few wrinkles.

agree, but unfortunately, no one seems eager to see me in a summer dress…or any dress, for that matter. so i stick to trousers.

236 Cato the Elder  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:03:22pm

“Without the Baaayble, you will have heathenism.”

Shall we give that a try?

Speaking as a Catholic for whom nothing else has worked, I say bring it. At least then there might be some authentic heathens to hunt.

237 Killgore Trout  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:03:48pm

re: #228 Slumbering Behemoth

That young man needs to be working in Hollywood, if he isn’t already.

Maybe he’ll make it to the big leagues….
[Link: www.youtube.com…]

238 theheat  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:04:07pm

re: #235 Aceofwhat?

no one seems eager to see me in a summer dress…or any dress, for that matter

How do you know nobody wants to see you in a dress? Hey, if you shave your legs, I’m pretty open minded like that.

239 Cato the Elder  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:04:10pm

re: #221 Ojoe

See why we need a revived Whig Party?

So we can have even bigger losers to mock?

I’m for it.

240 Four More Tears  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:04:46pm

re: #236 Cato the Elder

“Without the Baaayble, you will have heathenism.”

Shall we give that a try?

Speaking as a Catholic for whom nothing else has worked, I say bring it. At least then there might be some authentic heathens to hunt.

But how will you know who the heathens are without the “Baaayble?”

241 Bubblehead II  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:05:54pm

re: #207 SanFranciscoZionist

Hemp and what it can be used for (Besides getting high)

242 albusteve  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:06:02pm

re: #240 JasonA

But how will you know who the heathens are without the “Baaayble?”

I volunteer to out myself…baaayble punchin money grubbers don’t scare me

243 Ojoe  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:07:10pm

re: #239 Cato the Elder

Join now!

LOL

244 Aceofwhat?  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:07:11pm

re: #238 theheat

How do you know nobody wants to see you in a dress? Hey, if you shave your legs, I’m pretty open minded like that.

oh, don’t lower your standards like that/

245 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:07:13pm

re: #237 Killgore Trout

Ha! Very punny.

246 theheat  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:08:06pm

re: #240 JasonA

We have all the good movies, best music, gay friends, cool furniture, and care WTF our eyebrows look like. You can spot us a mile away.
/

247 Nimed  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:08:21pm

re: #236 Cato the Elder

“Without the Baaayble, you will have heathenism.”

Shall we give that a try?

Speaking as a Catholic for whom nothing else has worked, I say bring it. At least then there might be some authentic heathens to hunt.

Did you see the solemn look on her face as the crowd jeered? These are politicians with strong convictions!

248 Mardukhai  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:08:36pm

Is this guy really the nominee?

And who’s his dentist? Those dentures must fit really badly!

249 Decatur Deb  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:09:00pm

What does it mean when a politics blog can’t be distinguished from a humor blog?

250 Nimed  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:09:51pm

re: #239 Cato the Elder

So we can have even bigger losers to mock?

I’m for it.

Poor Ojoe, but that was funny!

251 Aceofwhat?  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:10:24pm

re: #249 Decatur Deb

What does it mean when a politics blog can’t be distinguished from a humor blog?

it means that the comments have risen to the high bar set by the material they have to work with…

252 albusteve  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:10:30pm

re: #241 Bubblehead II

Hemp and what it can be used for (Besides getting high)

I’ve given up generating any positive attitudes toward hemp, getting laughed at…the very same people that get a boner with regard to corn/ethanol see no benefit with hemp….fools

253 Four More Tears  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:10:34pm

re: #249 Decatur Deb

What does it mean when a politics blog can’t be distinguished from a humor blog?

It means we watch too much Jon Stewart?

254 theheat  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:10:56pm

re: #244 Aceofwhat?

Geez, are your legs that bad, or you afraid of razor burn? I don’t mind a couple wrinkles in linen trousers if this is a deal-breaker.

255 Mardukhai  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:11:09pm

re: #237 Killgore Trout

He really is stupidly good at that! Now let’s see him run to first without throwing up!

256 albusteve  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:11:34pm

re: #239 Cato the Elder

So we can have even bigger losers to mock?

I’m for it.

nothing ventured, nothing gained you stagnant pool of sludge

257 Decatur Deb  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:12:53pm

re: #248 Mardukhai

Is this guy really the nominee?

And who’s his dentist? Those dentures must fit really badly!

He’s running behind the pack in the GOP primary. The frontrunners are less funny, but somewhat nastier.

258 Aceofwhat?  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:16:16pm

re: #254 theheat

Geez, are your legs that bad, or you afraid of razor burn? I don’t mind a couple wrinkles in linen trousers if this is a deal-breaker.

i’m afraid of razor burn, which is a shame, because i think i might otherwise have the gams for a sundress/

259 albusteve  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:17:19pm

re: #258 Aceofwhat?

i’m afraid of razor burn, which is a shame, because i think i might otherwise have the gams for a sundress/

two words
Neet

260 theheat  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:19:17pm

re: #258 Aceofwhat?

re: #259 albusteve

Didn’t even think of Neet. Problem solved!

261 SanFranciscoZionist  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:22:23pm

re: #258 Aceofwhat?

i’m afraid of razor burn, which is a shame, because i think i might otherwise have the gams for a sundress/

Nair products are quite a lot better than they useta be.

262 Aceofwhat?  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 5:25:00pm

re: #260 theheat

re: #259 albusteve

Didn’t even think of Neet. Problem solved!

re: #261 SanFranciscoZionist

Nair products are quite a lot better than they useta be.

Next problem: who’s buying enough narcotics to get me into the dress once i’ve had enough narcotics to burn the hair off of my legs?

263 tradewind  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 6:06:51pm
.. I give you the next Republican governor of Tennessee.


Nah, not so much. He’s a perpetual joke, like Prince Mongo.
But the next gov. ( Haslam ) does seem to be
running a lot of banner ads on LGF, so that’s cool.

264 tradewind  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 6:09:10pm

re: #257 Decatur Deb

He’s running behind the pack in the GOP primary.


Yeah, you could say that. Way behind. Hard to see. We’ll be getting local returs in about five minutes, so I’ll keep y’all informed re his ‘progress ‘.
(Congratulations, by the way! I just caught up somewhat ).

265 b_sharp  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 7:34:50pm

re: #147 SanFranciscoZionist

Wait. As someone who has Indian relatives living in hot climates, can I ask WHY? And how is it even possibly constitutional to take AC away from one ethnic group?

She is a stupid bigot that has a twisted sense of history.

266 b_sharp  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 7:45:10pm

re: #184 HoosierHoops

Hi Ace..It makes you laugh for sure..
I’m doing great.. I found a place to live in Oklahoma today..I’ll be traveling back and forth between Indiana and Oklahoma the next couple of months.
Beats Hotel life..
Hope today finds you well my friend

Good to hear, bro.

267 wiffersnapper  Thu, Aug 5, 2010 8:38:59pm

What is this, I don’t even…

268 Scriptorium  Fri, Aug 6, 2010 5:00:10am

I just wanna say how much better I like Basil than Joe the Plumber.
Also, he doesn’t seem to have a shred of arrogance.

269 DaddyG  Fri, Aug 6, 2010 5:26:09am

We already tried planting vegitation on the vacant lots in the South back in 1876. Its called Kudzu.

270 panda  Fri, Aug 6, 2010 7:31:18am

C’mon guys! I live in Tennessee and every jurisdiction has it joke candidates. This guy was not a serious contender so stop it! The actually Republican nominee is a sharp guy who knows his stuff (Bill Haslam). He has set things up so that the Governor’s contest will be a real contest since the state has elected Democratic governors for several elections in a row.

271 califleftyb  Fri, Aug 6, 2010 3:21:38pm

Is is running mate…. Mickey?

272 califleftyb  Fri, Aug 6, 2010 3:23:14pm

re: #271 califleftyb

oh darn…. “Mikey” (Mikey Tutel…….damn, ruined it!)

273 Egregious Philbin  Sat, Aug 7, 2010 1:59:17pm

This guy is a Harvard grad compared to JD Hayworth.

LOL

274 Fiery Red XIII  Tue, Aug 10, 2010 9:24:36pm

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