Onion: Man Already Knows Everything He Needs to Know About Muslims

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Humorists like Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert, and The Onion are doing a much better job than mainstream media of rooting out the truthiness of the “Ground Zero Mosque” bigotry outbreak: Man Already Knows Everything He Needs To Know About Muslims.

SALINA, KS—Local man Scott Gentries told reporters Wednesday that his deliberately limited grasp of Islamic history and culture was still more than sufficient to shape his views of the entire Muslim world.

Gentries, 48, said he had absolutely no interest in exposing himself to further knowledge of Islamic civilization or putting his sweeping opinions into a broader context of any kind, and confirmed he was “perfectly happy” to make a handful of emotionally charged words the basis of his mistrust toward all members of the world’s second-largest religion.

“I learned all that really matters about the Muslim faith on 9/11,” Gentries said in reference to the terrorist attacks on the United States undertaken by 19 of Islam’s approximately 1.6 billion practitioners. “What more do I need to know to stigmatize Muslims everywhere as inherently violent radicals?”

“And now they want to build a mosque at Ground Zero,” continued Gentries, eliminating any distinction between the 9/11 hijackers and Muslims in general. “No, I won’t examine the accuracy of that statement, but yes, I will allow myself to be outraged by it and use it as evidence of these people’s universal callousness toward Americans who lost loved ones when the Twin Towers fell.”

“Even though I am not one of those people,” he added.

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180 comments
1 Sol Berdinowitz  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:43:57pm

he needs to get together with this guy:

[Link: www.theonion.com…]

2 AntonSirius  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:45:48pm

I really, really, really wish we didn’t live in a Golden Age of political satire.

I’d be perfectly happy living in a world where the Onion and the Daily Show/Colbert Power Hour had no fucking material to work with at all.

3 Cineaste  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:46:43pm

I ask once again. Why are there no good right-wing comedians? It’s like they have no sense of irony…

4 DaddyG  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:47:42pm

Breaking story on Pakistani blogs: Christian girls being punished for stealing pork!

5 elbruce  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:47:53pm

re: #3 Cineaste

I ask once again. Why are there no good right-wing comedians? It’s like they have no sense of irony…


That’s it right there. They actually have sacred cows. Heck, to them everything’s a sacred cow. Furthermore, they have an unsettling tendency to confuse mere meanness for humor.

6 Sol Berdinowitz  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:48:01pm

re: #2 AntonSirius

I really, really, really wish we didn’t live in a Golden Age of political satire.

I’d be perfectly happy living in a world where the Onion and the Daily Show/Colbert Power Hour had no fucking material to work with at all.

Just like the days when the National Lampoon had Nixon and Agnew to kick around…

7 Cineaste  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:48:25pm

re: #2 AntonSirius

I really, really, really wish we didn’t live in a Golden Age of political satire.

I’d be perfectly happy living in a world where the Onion and the Daily Show/Colbert Power Hour had no fucking material to work with at all.

Stewart, in his famous Crossfire appearance, was challenge by little-boy-bow-tie as to whether or not he would have any material if Democrats came to power. He responded, very adeptly, by saying that he points out the absurdities of the system and so long as people or the system are absurd, he will have material, regardless of the party in power.

8 DaddyG  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:49:43pm

re: #3 Cineaste

I ask once again. Why are there no good right-wing comedians? It’s like they have no sense of irony…

Where is the challenge in mocking code pink and tree sitters named dumpster muffin? /

9 Cineaste  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:50:11pm

re: #5 elbruce

That’s it right there. They actually have sacred cows. Heck, to them everything’s a sacred cow. Furthermore, they have an unsettling tendency to confuse mere meanness for humor.

I’ll also say that the lack of irony is a major issue for Islam too. When the Pope quoted a middle-ages pope in saying Islam was spread at the blade of a sword, their was wide spread rioting and a number of buildings were burned. When your response to being told you have a proclivity for violence is to violently protest that idea and you can’t see that as funny then you’ve no sense of irony…

10 Dante41  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:50:17pm

You have to ask yourself: how stupid is a mindset when an article from The frickin’ Onion about it skewers it completely?

11 Ojoe  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:50:23pm

One of Margaret Meade’s prescriptions for self-knowledge was to have a religious conversion & then get over it.

12 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:50:32pm

re: #8 DaddyG

Where is the challenge in mocking code pink and tree sitters named dumpster muffin? /

Dumpster Muffin already did your job for you…

13 Cineaste  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:51:08pm

re: #12 EmmmieG

Dumpster Muffin already did your job for you…

it’s like a two-foot putt…

14 Cato the Elder  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:51:15pm

Brilliant!

I’m sure Robert Spencer will immediately try to send this fictional man one of his books.

15 DaddyG  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:52:11pm

re: #14 Cato the Elder
Fictional but accurate.

16 Ojoe  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:53:09pm

The Marx Brother’s Freedonia comes to mind these days.

Harpo would make a great secretary of state.

Never get us into trouble by ill advised pronouncements.

17 HappyWarrior  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:53:23pm

re: #1 ralphieboy

he needs to get together with this guy:

[Link: www.theonion.com…]

Ha, they’d be good friends no? Seriously this is exactly why The Onion rocks. They do it with humor and get the point across.

18 Dante41  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:53:29pm

re: #15 DaddyG

Fictional but accurate.

And that is what so sad about this situation.

19 darthstar  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:54:01pm

re: #4 DaddyG

Breaking story on Pakistani blogs: Christian girls being punished for stealing pork!

Salacious!

20 elbruce  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:54:31pm

This SNL cold open skewered Obama more effectively than all right wingers’ flailing attempts to pick on him.

21 darthstar  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:54:42pm

re: #14 Cato the Elder

Brilliant!

I’m sure Robert Spencer will immediately try to send this fictional man one of his books.

It’s more likely he’ll quote him.

22 Kragar  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:54:48pm

re: #13 Cineaste

it’s like a two-foot putt…

TAP IT IN.

23 HappyWarrior  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:57:30pm

re: #3 Cineaste

I ask once again. Why are there no good right-wing comedians? It’s like they have no sense of irony…

Didn’t Fox try to do their own version of the Daily Show? I watched out of morbid curiousity and it was just lame. Stewart’s great because he’s able to make fun of both sides and can be a straight man when sitting down with his guests. Loved his interview with Willie Mays from earlier this year. You could tell that Jon was in awe to meet Willie.Willie was hilarious too.

24 DaddyG  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:57:32pm

I think the right is missing some beautiful opportunities at skewering the left precisely because they don’t see the humor in their own stuff.

It is possible to hold firm to sacred beliefs and understand why others think you are silly for doing so.

It aggrivates me to no end to run into members of my own family or faith that lack any capacity for sarcasm or self-depriciating humor.

25 theheat  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:58:03pm

If anyone had told me I’d get the real skinny from Jon Stewart and The Onion, I’d have laughed in their face. It isn’t even partisan these days, it’s just the truth. Kind of like gravity, it’s irrefutable.

26 DaddyG  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:58:04pm

re: #23 HappyWarrior

Didn’t Fox try to do their own version of the Daily Show?

Glenn Beck is still on the air. /

27 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:58:28pm

re: #23 HappyWarrior

Didn’t Fox try to do their own version of the Daily Show? I watched out of morbid curiousity and it was just lame. Stewart’s great because he’s able to make fun of both sides and can be a straight man when sitting down with his guests. Loved his interview with Willie Mays from earlier this year. You could tell that Jon was in awe to meet Willie.Willie was hilarious too.

It helps if you decide that being funny comes first…

28 Killgore Trout  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:58:40pm

The next outrageous outrage…
[Link: www.daylife.com…]

S President Barack Obama gets some money to pay lunch from staff as he, First Lady Michelle Obama and daughters Malia and Sasha order lunch at Parkway Bakery and and Tavern in New Orleans on August 29, 2010.


Outrageous!

29 Cineaste  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:58:55pm

re: #24 DaddyG

It aggrivates me to no end to run into members of my own family or faith that lack any capacity for sarcasm or self-depriciating humor.

Being a New York Jew, I’ve never encountered any of my relatives who lack that capacity…

30 Kragar  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 1:59:18pm

re: #25 theheat

Gravity doesn’t exist.

31 theheat  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:00:01pm

re: #28 Killgore Trout

Only more outrageous if Malia and Sasha ordered beer on the government tab. I wouldn’t put it past those girls of his…
//

32 DaddyG  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:00:04pm

re: #29 Cineaste

Being a New York Jew, I’ve never encountered any of my relatives who lack that capacity…


Fair enough. Being Scots and Brits my family has a pretty good capacity for snark. Its my sisters-in law that struggle with the concept.

33 elbruce  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:00:32pm

re: #27 oaktree

It helps if you decide that being funny comes first…

That’s the problem right there. There’s no such thing as ideologically pure humor. In fact, being funny is by its very nature the opposite of being ideologically pure. So the reason we don’t see right-wing humor is that the moment somebody actually becomes funny, they have to become a RINO at best and then they get kicked out of the tree fort.

34 DaddyG  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:00:37pm

re: #28 Killgore Trout

The next outrageous outrage…
[Link: www.daylife.com…]


Outrageous!


It will only be an outrage if he doesn’t approve their expense forms. /

35 Killgore Trout  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:00:43pm

OT: I discovered a cool ove hack. If you just turn on the light in your over it will hold about 90 degrees. Makes an excellent proofing box for rising dough or culturing homemade yogurt.

36 Killgore Trout  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:01:32pm

re: #35 Killgore Trout

OT: I discovered a cool ove hack. If you just turn on the light in your over it will hold about 90 degrees. Makes an excellent proofing box for rising dough or culturing homemade yogurt.

Wow. How did I misspell “oven” twice in a row?
/I stink

37 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:01:52pm

re: #35 Killgore Trout

OT: I discovered a cool ove hack. If you just turn on the light in your over it will hold about 90 degrees. Makes an excellent proofing box for rising dough or culturing homemade yogurt.

Good for those who don’t believe in gravity and believe they need proof that bread dough rises…

;)

38 HappyWarrior  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:01:57pm

re: #26 DaddyG

Glenn Beck is still on the air. /

Heh, I remember a few years ago they tried their own satirical news show. It was epic fail.

39 DaddyG  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:02:19pm

re: #30 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Gravity doesn’t exist.


The last guy I know who believed that started his gravitonic drive too close to the suns gravity well and plastered bits of himself all over five dimensions. /reading too much sci fi lately

40 Spare O'Lake  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:02:51pm

re: #24 DaddyG

I think the right is missing some beautiful opportunities at skewering the left precisely because they don’t see the humor in their own stuff.

It is possible to hold firm to sacred beliefs and understand why others think you are silly for doing so.

It aggrivates me to no end to run into members of my own family or faith that lack any capacity for sarcasm or self-depriciating humor.

Self-deprecating humour is sadly lacking these days.
God that was not very funny, was it?

41 reloadingisnotahobby  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:04:44pm

Both sides HAVE mastered the art of Self Defecation tho!!

42 Gus  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:05:02pm

re: #28 Killgore Trout

The next outrageous outrage…
[Link: www.daylife.com…]


Outrageous!

Breaking News!

Drudge Report responds to Obama lunch money outrage!!11ty

43 DaddyG  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:05:30pm

re: #41 reloadingisnotahobby

Both sides HAVE mastered the art of Self Defecation tho!!

You said a pantload!

44 MrSilverDragon  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:06:18pm

re: #41 reloadingisnotahobby

Both sides HAVE mastered the art of Self Defecation tho!!

Even more so, the art of cranial-anal insertion.

45 DaddyG  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:06:58pm

re: #44 MrSilverDragon

Even more so, the art of cranial-anal insertion.

The medical term for that is colo-rectal myopia. /

46 Kragar  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:07:13pm

Ron Paul questions whether there’s gold at Fort Knox, NY Fed

The libertarian lawmaker told Kitco News, a website tracking news about precious metals, that an audit was necessary to determine how much the U.S. maintains in gold reserves in case the government were to use gold to back the dollar.

“If there was no question about the gold being there, you think they would be anxious to prove gold is there,” he said.

“Our Federal Reserve admits to nothing, and they should prove all the gold is there. There is a reason to be suspicious and even if you are not suspicious why wouldn’t you have an audit?

“I think it is a possibility,” Paul said when asked if there was truth to rumors that there was actually no gold at Ft. Knox or the New York Fed.

47 reloadingisnotahobby  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:07:27pm

Got a laugh out of the Drudge Report photos of Obama
and Putin….LOL
The “O” looks SOOO sissy…
Putin….Holding a Semi Auto Shot Gun!!
LOLOL

48 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:07:31pm

re: #35 Killgore Trout

OT: I discovered a cool ove hack. If you just turn on the light in your over it will hold about 90 degrees. Makes an excellent proofing box for rising dough or culturing homemade yogurt.

I have a digital oven. I set it for 125. (Although I’m sure I get 100-150)

49 DaddyG  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:07:34pm

So Obama is in New Orleans 5 years after Katrina? And you liberals were complaining that Bush had a slow response!

50 MrSilverDragon  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:08:02pm

re: #45 DaddyG

The medical term for that is colo-rectal myopia. /

That reminds me of the day that I called into work to tell them I was sick with anal gloucoma. There was no way I could see my ass coming into work.

51 theheat  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:08:42pm

re: #46 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Once he debunks the gold reserve, he can take on gravity.

What a putz. A putz of the highest order.

52 reloadingisnotahobby  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:09:31pm

Or Cranial Rectitis…(Head up the ass)!

53 Charles Johnson  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:09:37pm

re: #28 Killgore Trout

The next outrageous outrage…
[Link: www.daylife.com…]


Outrageous!

Presidential payola!

54 Kragar  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:09:55pm

re: #50 MrSilverDragon

That reminds me of the day that I called into work to tell them I was sick with anal gloucoma. There was no way I could see my ass coming into work.

Taking a day of Weather leave.

Whether you approve it or not, I’m leaving.

55 Spare O'Lake  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:10:21pm

re: #46 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Ron Paul questions whether there’s gold at Fort Knox, NY Fed

I’m pretty sure Pussy Galore got some of it.

56 theheat  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:10:21pm

re: #35 Killgore Trout

I found a mug of yogurt in my office. I set some milk down by the printer about a week ago. Soft and creamy, and not even any bugs.

Does that count?

57 MrSilverDragon  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:11:38pm

re: #56 theheat

I found a mug of yogurt in my office. I set some milk down by the printer about a week ago. Soft and creamy, and not even any bugs.

Does that count?

Well, if you were an alien, you could get drunk off that…

…I haven’t seen that movie in years, or the (my opinion) terrible TV show it spawned.

58 Mad Prophet Ludwig  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:12:02pm

re: #28 Killgore Trout

The next outrageous outrage…
[Link: www.daylife.com…]


Outrageous!

KT, as always, your posts and the things you dig up are fantastic. Presumably, according to teabags, the President and his family are not allowed to eat or go on vacation - this after supporting W. the president who took more vacation than any other, by several times.

59 Kragar  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:12:29pm

re: #57 MrSilverDragon

Well, if you were an alien, you could get drunk off that…

…I haven’t seen that movie in years, or the (my opinion) terrible TV show it spawned.

No Alien Nation, please

60 theheat  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:12:56pm

re: #57 MrSilverDragon

Alien Nation was a decent movie, but a dreadful TV series, even without the sour milk.

61 Gus  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:14:37pm

It didn’t take long after 9/11 for all of the charlatans, fakers, posers, cranks, and self-appointed experts to show up laying claim to an “expertise” on Islam and military matters. Most of them are still hidden in obscurity within the blog world while others like Geller, Spencer, Steyn, Emerson, and others have barely found notoriety inside the anti-Jihad book seller world and Fox News appearances.

Here we are almost 10 years after and they’re still in our presence.

62 HoosierHoops  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:14:55pm

re: #58 LudwigVanQuixote

Hi Ludwig!

63 Mad Prophet Ludwig  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:15:08pm

re: #62 HoosierHoops

Hi Ludwig!

Hey Hoops!

64 Kragar  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:16:09pm

Gay former Bush strategist raising funds to overturn Prop 8

“I have spent no time thinking about where Ken was four-to-five-to-six years ago. I’m just thankful that he’s with us today,” said Chad Griffin, co-founder of the American Foundation for Equal Rights (AFER), the organization that’s solely funding the legal challenge to California’s Proposition 8 in federal court brought by former Bush solicitor general Ted Oslon and progressive legal eagle David Boies.

“He is one of the most brilliant political strategists from the Republican side of the aisle,” said Griffin, “and he is also a master fundraiser and brings contacts and relationships to bear that are comparable to almost no one.”

Indeed, Mehlman’s first act as an out gay man will be hosting an AFER fundraiser next month to help support the case, which likely carries a price tag in the millions of dollars (the group has declined to disclose exactly how much).


Although the invitations have yet to be mailed, Mehlman told The Advocate Wednesday evening that just through pre-selling the event, they had already helped to raise about $750,000.

65 Cato the Elder  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:17:54pm

Speaking of The Onion, here’s an article full of such truthy truthiness that it takes my breath away:

U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion

A few U.S. banks have remained open, though most teller windows are unmanned due to a lack of interest in transactions involving mere scraps of paper or, worse, decimal points and computer data signifying mere scraps of paper. At a Bank of America branch in Spokane, WA, curious former customers wandered aimlessly through a large empty vault, while several would-be robbers of a Chase bank in Columbus, OH reportedly put their guns down and exited the building hand in hand with security guards, laughing over the inherent absurdity of the idea of $100 bills.

66 Political Atheist  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:18:00pm

re: #28 Killgore Trout

The next outrageous outrage…
[Link: www.daylife.com…]


Outrageous!

Air Force 1 needs an ATM machine. :)

67 Mad Prophet Ludwig  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:18:08pm

re: #61 Gus 802

It didn’t take long after 9/11 for all of the charlatans, fakers, posers, cranks, and self-appointed experts to show up laying claim to an “expertise” on Islam and military matters. Most of them are still hidden in obscurity within the blog world while others like Geller, Spencer, Steyn, Emerson, and others have barely found notoriety inside the anti-Jihad book seller world and Fox News appearances.

Here we are almost 10 years after and they’re still in our presence.

That is because we have a growing neo-nazi movement in America. I don’t understand how anyone is surprised by this. Many of the things that worked so well in Germany are in play here today.

I understand it is painful to call it what it is, because it means admitting that no indeed, all too many Americans are no better than Germans, just as easily manipulated by the same fears and the same rhetoric, but there you have it. This shit is only going to grow. It needs to be fought.

68 DaddyG  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:18:15pm

re: #61 Gus 802

I sent my questions directly to a professor friend who studied Islam extensively as well as a family friend who married into a Muslim family of Pakistani descent. It only took me a few minutes to get the stright skinny on the difference between radical wahabbists and the bulk of Muslims around the world. There is no excuse for the willful ignorance being sold to the US public. The press (and not just the Fox boogeyman) is in it to sell advertising space. They have not interest in putting the sensational stories to rest with a bit of information and good sense.

69 theheat  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:18:37pm

re: #61 Gus 802

Just a matter of days before they can all nail crosses to their backs and trip all over their hyper 9/11 grief. Their annual floor show really detracts from the actual tragedy. It’s no longer the point for them, just an excuse to misbehave and pontificate.

70 Kragar  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:18:56pm

re: #60 theheat

Alien Nation was a decent movie, but a dreadful TV series, even without the sour milk.

And you can’t replace Alien Inigo Montoya with Alien Harris from STE

71 Varek Raith  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:21:27pm

re: #70 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

And you can’t replace Alien Inigo Montoya with Alien Harris from STE

Oh noes, who mentioned Alien Nation?!?!
*Gets bat*
/

72 MrSilverDragon  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:22:44pm

re: #71 Varek Raith

Oh noes, who mentioned Alien Nation?!?!
*Gets bat*
/

I started it, but I never said it… Plausible deniability! Woohoo!

73 Spare O'Lake  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:22:48pm

re: #28 Killgore Trout

The next outrageous outrage…
[Link: www.daylife.com…]


Outrageous!

President cops scratch to score Coke.

74 Kragar  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:22:50pm

re: #71 Varek Raith

Oh noes, who mentioned Alien Nation?!?!
*Gets bat*
/

I’ll contact the Narn bat squad at once.

75 MrSilverDragon  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:24:22pm

re: #73 Spare O’Lake

President cops scratch to score Coke.

Nice (insert newspaper here) headline. *golfclap*

76 sliv_the_eli  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:24:28pm

re: #46 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Ron Paul is either the funniest of the unintentionally funny men out there or the greatest straight man since Bud Abbott.

77 theheat  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:24:35pm

re: #71 Varek Raith

I can talk bad sci-fi and horror flicks all day long. Unfortunately, there’s rarely a reason to share my area of expertise. And it pays squat.

78 DaddyG  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:26:25pm

re: #77 theheat

I can talk bad sci-fi and horror flicks all day long. Unfortunately, there’s rarely a reason to share my area of expertise. And it pays squat.

I just watched a documentary on Dragon-Con yesterday. Someone is making a buttload of cash off of well heeled nerds and geeks.

79 sliv_the_eli  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:27:01pm

re: #61 Gus 802

Out of intellectual curiosity, who do you consider the non-charlatans?

80 Spare O'Lake  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:27:50pm

re: #77 theheat

I can talk bad sci-fi and horror flicks all day long. Unfortunately, there’s rarely a reason to share my area of expertise. And it pays squat.

The Toxic Avenger and Blood Hook immediately spring to mind.

81 Kragar  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:29:17pm

Ah, a truly great B5 scene. Lord Rifa verus the Narn Bat squad (minus bats)

82 Varek Raith  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:29:44pm

re: #81 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Ah, a truly great B5 scene. Lord Rifa verus the Narn Bat squad (minus bats)


[Video]

Classic.

83 sliv_the_eli  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:30:40pm

re: #68 DaddyG

Unfortunately, the willful ignorance peddled to the American public has gone in both directions, and is largely a function of political and media consultants who believe - largely for good reason — that anything which cannot be explained in a platitude is too complicated for Americans’ ever-shrinking attention spans.

84 MrSilverDragon  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:31:03pm

re: #80 Spare O’Lake

The Toxic Avenger and Blood Hook immediately spring to mind.

I’m still amused they made The Toxic Avenger into a musical.

85 Gus  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:31:23pm

re: #79 sliv_the_eli

Out of intellectual curiosity, who do you consider the non-charlatans?

I don’t typically engage in expert worship so I can’t think of anyone in a positive light whose name I can recall. For instance can anyone name a “Catholic expert” for matters Catholic? I certainly can’t.

86 Spare O'Lake  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:31:40pm

Is it true that a Scottish lisper would call April Fools Day the Firth of Forth?

87 DaddyG  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:31:41pm

re: #83 sliv_the_eli

Unfortunately, the willful ignorance peddled to the American public has gone in both directions, and is largely a function of political and media consultants who believe - largely for good reason — that anything which cannot be explained in a platitude is too complicated for Americans’ ever-shrinking attention spans.

I think you are making sense but I lost interest after the first five words. /

88 Varek Raith  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:32:51pm

re: #87 DaddyG

I think you are making sense but I lost interest after the first five words. /

If it doesn’t fit on a bumper sticker, I won’t read it!

89 DaddyG  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:33:58pm

re: #85 Gus 802

I don’t typically engage in expert worship so I can’t think of anyone in a positive light whose name I can recall. For instance can anyone name a “Catholic expert” for matters Catholic? I certainly can’t.


The Pope.

Seriously if you want to know about someones faith or political beliefs it helps to go to an adherant or member of that group. Even then it is often difficult to completely grasp the essence of their beliefs or views.

Demonizing charactures of others is lazy but easy.

90 sliv_the_eli  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:33:59pm

re: #85 Gus 802

Isn’t there a sex offender’s registry available on-line?

//need I?

91 HoosierHoops  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:34:53pm

Wow! how the mighty have fallen..Jay Mariotti from ESPN has been arrested for Domestic disturbance..Jay has no friends in the Sportsworld.. He is always preaching and judging Athletes..Nobody likes him..More importantly other sports writers dislike him..He is like a GOP leader preaching us how to live our lives and then getting caught with 2 underaged boys in his bed..
This is a shocking story..Bye Bye Jay…Who did you hit Jay?

92 DaddyG  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:35:33pm

re: #90 sliv_the_eli

Isn’t there a sex offender’s registry available on-line?

//need I?


It can’t be trusted.

93 Targetpractice  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:36:21pm

re: #46 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Ron Paul questions whether there’s gold at Fort Knox, NY Fed

Of course there’s gold at the NY Fed. The East Germans tried to steal it, but Det. John McClane stopped them.

/

94 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:37:18pm

re: #89 DaddyG

The Pope.

Seriously if you want to know about someones faith or political beliefs it helps to go to an adherant or member of that group. Even then it is often difficult to completely grasp the essence of their beliefs or views.

Demonizing charactures of others is lazy but easy.


I would say someone in the group that has training in the beliefs past showing up on Sunday, or who has studied the beliefs for a period of time.

95 sliv_the_eli  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:37:23pm

re: #93 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

That gold is now at the bottom of the East River, after the ship it was on blew up.

96 Varek Raith  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:37:24pm

re: #93 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Of course there’s gold at the NY Fed. The East Germans tried to steal it, but Det. John McClane stopped them.

/

Yippee-ki-yay, motherfucker!
/

97 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:37:40pm

re: #89 DaddyG


(Because I once met a “Member” who didn’t know that bishops aren’t paid.)

98 Cato the Elder  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:38:46pm

re: #91 HoosierHoops

Wow! how the mighty have fallen..Jay Mariotti from ESPN has been arrested for Domestic disturbance..Jay has no friends in the Sportsworld.. He is always preaching and judging Athletes..Nobody likes him..More importantly other sports writers dislike him..He is like a GOP leader preaching us how to live our lives and then getting caught with 2 underaged boys in his bed..
This is a shocking story..Bye Bye Jay…Who did you hit Jay?

Two underage boys?

The hypocrites are getting greedy.

99 sliv_the_eli  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:38:46pm

re: #92 DaddyG

Damn, you can’t trust anything these days! How will the Church find its next generation of clergy now?!

//

100 HoosierHoops  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:39:12pm

re: #91 HoosierHoops

Jay got arrested in LA at a nightclub with his girlfriend..Or after they left…
Did he go all Mel Gibson on her?
[Link: latimesblogs.latimes.com…]

101 MrSilverDragon  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:40:15pm

re: #99 sliv_the_eli

I know the sarc tag was there, but damn, that was pretty bad.

102 DaddyG  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:41:39pm

re: #94 EmmmieG

I would say someone in the group that has training in the beliefs past showing up on Sunday, or who has studied the beliefs for a period of time.

Gee Emmie you sound as though you are experienced with people telling you what you really believe! ;-D

103 HoosierHoops  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:43:03pm

re: #102 DaddyG

Gee Emmie you sound as though you are experienced with people telling you what you really believe! ;-D

When I want your opinion I’ll give it to you…
*wink*

104 sliv_the_eli  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:43:37pm

re: #101 MrSilverDragon

And that is why Jon Stewart can make a living at sarcasm and I am limited to annoying the wife with it.

105 Cato the Elder  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:44:12pm

re: #67 LudwigVanQuixote

That is because we have a growing neo-nazi straight-up Nazi movement in America. I don’t understand how anyone is surprised by this. Many of the things that worked so well in Germany are in play here today.

FTFY.

Is a recent successor to the head of a Mafia family called a “neo-mafioso”?

Is a pedophile recently caught in a sting called a “neo-pedophile”?

These people are Nazis. Period.

106 MrSilverDragon  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:44:34pm

re: #104 sliv_the_eli

And that is why Jon Stewart can make a living at sarcasm and I am limited to annoying the wife with it.

We share that in common, to be sure.

107 DaddyG  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:44:44pm

re: #104 sliv_the_eli

And that is why Jon Stewart can make a living at sarcasm and I am limited to annoying the wife with it.


Amen brother (or is that sister?)! At least my children are getting old enough to be tortured by my puns.

108 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:45:55pm

re: #105 Cato the Elder

FTFY.

Is a recent successor to the head of a Mafia family called a “neo-mafioso”?

Is a pedophile recently caught in a sting called a “neo-pedophile”?

These people are Nazis. Period.

How about postbellum nazis? (That is, people who choose to join a losing side after it’s already lost.)

109 DaddyG  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:48:08pm

Emmie- I just looked at your icon. Is that you?

What a beautiful picture! I have one of MommyG and the firstborn when he was brand new on my nightstand.

110 Cato the Elder  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:48:58pm

re: #108 EmmmieG

How about postbellum nazis? (That is, people who choose to join a losing side after it’s already lost.)

That would work, except the war never ended.

111 Charles Johnson  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:49:20pm

Wow, Tim Blair really has a bug up his ass lately about me. He’s put up yet another brain dead attack piece.

Looks like my last post hit a nerve or two.

112 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:49:44pm

re: #109 DaddyG

Emmie- I just looked at your icon. Is that you?

What a beautiful picture! I have one of MommyG and the firstborn when he was brand new on my nightstand.


I am in the picture. I’m the one in diapers.

113 HoosierHoops  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:50:28pm

re: #112 EmmmieG

I am in the picture. I’m the one in diapers.

Awesome picture!

114 Kragar  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:50:51pm

re: #108 EmmmieG

How about postbellum nazis? (That is, people who choose to join a losing side after it’s already lost.)

The other day I came across a site where a 14 year old girl went on about her pride of being a pure “Ariyan”. She didn’t go to the evil public schools, her daddy taught her what being an “Ariyan” really meant.

And yes, she spelled it Ariyan all over the place.

A facepalm on many levels

115 sliv_the_eli  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:50:57pm

re: #67 LudwigVanQuixote

This news is not a surprise to those who study terrorism as an academic or professional pursuit. I highly recommend the writings of Bruce Hoffman, who I believe is currently teaching at Georgetown U. and has documented domestic terrorist groups for some time.

116 sliv_the_eli  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:51:33pm

re: #106 MrSilverDragon

You annoy my wife with sarcasm, too?

117 Cato the Elder  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:52:00pm

re: #111 Charles

Wow, Tim Blair really has a bug up his ass lately about me. He’s put up yet another brain dead attack piece.

Looks like my last post hit a nerve or two.

Hit him again. He may be running out of nerves.

118 DaddyG  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:52:02pm

re: #112 EmmmieG

I am in the picture. I’m the one in diapers.


Your mom is beautiful! You are kinda cute too. I should have been able to tell from the couch fabric and the glass. 1960s?

Gotta run! Later Lizards!

119 DaddyG  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:52:42pm

re: #114 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

It is a shame when someone can’t spell cracker correctly. /

120 MrSilverDragon  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:52:45pm

re: #116 sliv_the_eli

You annoy my wife with sarcasm, too?

I annoy everyone with my sarcasm and (questionable) wit, so I suppose the answer would still be “yes”.

121 sliv_the_eli  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:53:01pm

re: #107 DaddyG

I have recently begun explaining to my oldest that one or my responsibilities as a parent is to embarrass him throughout his teen years. (I didn’t want to scare him too much by explaining that the embarrassment would likely continue well AFTER his teen years are behind him).

122 Charles Johnson  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:55:28pm

Blair is funny.

He thinks I need to apologize because I posted this during the election, about Barack Obama’s own accounts of his racist attitudes when he was younger:

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com…]

Apparently this proves yet again what a creepy hypocrite I am, because I criticized Glenn Beck for calling Obama “a racist with a deep-seated hatred of white culture.” I’m supposed to beg forgiveness for posting an article that quoted Barack Obama’s own stories about his early attitudes toward race. In Blair’s one-liner dim bulb universe, this is EXACTLY like calling Barack Obama a racist.

The usual stupid smear tactics. This is why I’m convinced Blair thinks he’s writing for an audience of complete idiots.

123 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:56:25pm

re: #118 DaddyG

Your mom is beautiful! You are kinda cute too. I should have been able to tell from the couch fabric and the glass. 1960s?

Gotta run! Later Lizards!

Summer 1970, and I’ve seen the other slides taken at the same time, and yes, it was posed. My mother’s hair is done, there are no random diapers or clothes strewn about. In the other ones—curlers and burp rags galore.

But I’ve been there—my husband’s old clothes and everything I need placed so I don’t have to get up.

124 Winny Spencer  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:57:07pm

re: #113 HoosierHoops

I have to say that yours is pretty cool too.

125 MrSilverDragon  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:59:08pm

Well folks, to quote R.E.O. Speedwagon, it’s time for me to fly-ay-yay-ay-yay… y’all have a fantastic evening!

126 Gus  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 2:59:10pm

re: #122 Charles

Blair is funny.

He thinks I need to apologize because I posted this during the election, about Barack Obama’s own accounts of his racist attitudes when he was younger:

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com…]

Apparently this proves yet again what a creepy hypocrite I am, because I criticized Glenn Beck for calling Obama “a racist with a deep-seated hatred of white culture.” I’m supposed to beg forgiveness for posting an article that quoted Barack Obama’s own stories about his early attitudes toward race, during the election.

The usual stupid smear tactics. This is why I’m convinced Blair thinks he’s writing for an audience of complete idiots.

And from this, ol’ wingnut Blair tries to fabricate a moral equivalency. That one post, according to Blair, is equal to the months of never ending claims of racism by the likes of Glenn Beck. And he thinks you should “apologize.”

Tim Blair is still drinking the Wingnut Koolaid™.

127 Spare O'Lake  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:01:19pm

re: #105 Cato the Elder

FTFY.

Is a recent successor to the head of a Mafia family called a “neo-mafioso”?

Is a pedophile recently caught in a sting called a “neo-pedophile”?

These people are Nazis. Period.

Actually I believe that a Nazi is a specific animal, namely a German member of the German National Socialist Party during the WWII era. That is why the term neo-Nazi is necessary and correct, while “neo” is not necessary to describe more generic animals.

128 Locker  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:01:51pm

re: #122 Charles

All facts are malleable for people like Blair and must be changed, manipulated and misinterpreted in order to support his world view.

A rational and logical person would build their world view from the facts and change it accordingly. I believe the technical term for the think process demonstrated by Mr Blair is “ass-backwards”.

129 HoosierHoops  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:01:59pm

re: #124 Winny Spencer

I have to say that yours is pretty cool too.

That Pic went up when Jordan returned from Iraq..Before that all my pictures was the 3/5th Marines kicking ass..
One of the happiest days of my life…No stress 24/7 will everybody coming home safe from that tour..I said for Months if Jordan comes home safe..It’s all about little dogs floating around the swimming pool from now on..

130 Decatur Deb  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:03:18pm

re: #46 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Ron Paul questions whether there’s gold at Fort Knox, NY Fed

This is ridiculous crap. When I worked at Knox, the Repository held a press day each year, when they herded journalists past the gold. Recently, a lone wolf managed to talk himself in, which is very unusual and perhaps unwise.

Link: [Link: capitalgainsandgames.com…]

131 Cato the Elder  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:05:55pm

re: #127 Spare O’Lake

Actually I believe that a Nazi is a specific animal, namely a German member of the German National Socialist Party during the WWII era. That is why the term neo-Nazi is necessary and correct, while “neo” is not necessary to describe more generic animals.

Bullshit.

132 McSpiff  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:07:08pm

re: #130 Decatur Deb

This is ridiculous crap. When I worked at Knox, the Repository held a press day each year, when they herded journalists past the gold. Recently, a lone wolf managed to talk himself in, which is very unusual and perhaps unwise.

Link: [Link: capitalgainsandgames.com…]

I honestly don’t understand how Ron Paul or Sarah Palin entered the national consciousness. Does America just have an affinity for nut cases now?

133 Spare O'Lake  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:07:44pm

re: #86 Spare O’Lake

Is it true that a Scottish lisper would call April Fools Day the Firth of Forth?

This one really died. Nuthin’. Nada. I’m gonna file it under WBNF.

134 Charles Johnson  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:07:58pm

And by the way, those statements by Obama in his biography DO show a clear prejudice against white people — but as with Shirley Sherrod, it’s only part of the story, because Obama has very clearly moved past those early attitudes.

But I do want to apologize for one thing — voting for the McCain-Palin ticket. If I could go back in time and reverse that vote, I would.

I’m sorry, Nation.

135 McSpiff  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:08:53pm

re: #131 Cato the Elder

re: #134 Charles

And by the way, those statements by Obama in biography DO show a clear prejudice against white people — but as with Shirley Sherrod, it’s only part of the story, because Obama has very clearly moved past those early attitudes.

But I do want to apologize for one thing — voting for the McCain-Palin ticket. If I could go back in time and reverse that vote, I would.

I’m sorry, Nation.

I know its not really considered polite to ask but what the hey… Would you have just stayed home or?

136 Spare O'Lake  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:11:23pm

re: #131 Cato the Elder

Bullshit.

Of which you are often full.

137 jamesfirecat  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:12:20pm

Hey everyone just got home from my first “real” day of work.

Though of course it being the first day nothing much really got done beyond meeting everyone, everyone meeting me, and helping to set up the company’s computers.

Though I am proud to say my desire to play Fallout 3 on a computer bought for me when I was first going to college did pay off as I was able to put my skills at inserting extra ram chips into a machine to good use.

138 Winny Spencer  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:12:32pm

re: #129 HoosierHoops

That Pic went up when Jordan returned from Iraq..Before that all my pictures was the 3/5th Marines kicking ass..
One of the happiest days of my life…No stress 24/7 will everybody coming home safe from that tour..I said for Months if Jordan comes home safe..It’s all about little dogs floating around the swimming pool from now on..

Very glad to hear it.

And if I ever have a dog, I’ll name him Winston too.

139 Cato the Elder  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:12:41pm

re: #136 Spare O’Lake

Of which you are often full.

Tell it to your banned friends.

140 HoosierHoops  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:14:31pm

re: #137 jamesfirecat

Hey everyone just got home from my first “real” day of work.

Though of course it being the first day nothing much really got done beyond meeting everyone, everyone meeting me, and helping to set up the company’s computers.

Though I am proud to say my desire to play Fallout 3 on a computer bought for me when I was first going to college did pay off as I was able to put my skills at inserting extra ram chips into a machine to good use.

Are you working in IT now?

141 Decatur Deb  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:14:56pm

re: #132 McSpiff

I honestly don’t understand how Ron Paul or Sarah Palin entered the national consciousness. Does America just have an affinity for nut cases now?

Think of the Eisenhower and Kennedy administrations as the range of American “normal”. Using that old-fashioned yardstick, many of today’s new faces would be laughed into seclusion.

142 darthstar  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:15:01pm

re: #139 Cato the Elder

Ouch…that left a mark.

143 Locker  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:15:16pm

re: #136 Spare O’Lake

Of which you are often full.

re: #139 Cato the Elder

Tell it to your banned friends.

Laugh. I was just thinking that we now have a new, lowest rung on the ladder. Won’t be long…

144 jamesfirecat  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:15:25pm

re: #140 HoosierHoops

Are you working in IT now?

No programming.

Its just because we’re a start up company the machines were all out of the box fresh in the basement and needed to be brought up stairs, cracked open and have some extra ram added to them to make them run nice and fast.

145 sliv_the_eli  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:16:17pm

re: #134 Charles

No person should ever apologize, or have to apologize, for voting his or her conscience. That is the basis of a free society.

If you believed at the time that voting for Senator McCain was an informed choice and the right choice for the country, your vote is not one for which you should apologize, even if you have come to believe that President Obama was, in fact, the better choice for the job.

The only vote for which an apology is ever due is a vote based upon bigotry or an uninformed decision to pull the lever for a particular candidate or issue based solely on what one’s clergy member/union rep/party hack/spouse, etc. directed you to do.

146 Obdicut  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:17:11pm

re: #128 Locker

What Obama wrote about in his biography was very similar to what Sherrod related in her story, though obviously different in that he had to struggle with being mixed race.

He admits forthrightly that he was struggling with his attitudes about race, and at times definitely had an attitude that made him suspicious of white people.

Now, I’m generally unsurprised, though saddened, when a black person has suspicions of white people. Between black people actually getting fucked over, and the pervasive narrative in the black community that white people are out to fuck them over, it’s generally the norm.

I’d disagree with Charles’s statement that what he said represented “Shockingly racist anti-white” attitudes, as I note in that thread, a poster did as well— and wasn’t banned, please note, Stalker Blog. I do think they represented confused and bitter thoughts about race, especially as they related to his place between races.

But it isn’t the same thing about calling the current Obama a racist, at all. And it isn’t the same thing as saying he has a deep-seated hatred of white culture— for one thing, it avoids using the stupid phrase ‘white culture’ which has no meaning to it.

I would have argued that point back in the day, had I been here. But I don’t know if Blair just can’t tell what tense that was written in, or hasn’t read Obama’s book, because Obama does indeed talk about being disillusioned with the idea of positive race relations, with his own place in the world, and with whites ever accepting him.

147 Kragar  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:18:31pm

I just want to say for the record that I fucking hate encryption algorithms.

148 HoosierHoops  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:18:46pm

re: #144 jamesfirecat

No programming.

Its just because we’re a start up company the machines were all out of the box fresh in the basement and needed to be brought up stairs, cracked open and have some extra ram added to them to make them run nice and fast.

Hey..Programmers are IT! I’m a System Admin..Good luck Bro..
Are you PLSQL or C++ or what?

149 Spare O'Lake  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:19:02pm

re: #139 Cato the Elder

Tell it to your banned friends.

Now, now, old fellah, take it easy. If you don’t think you were wrong on the “neo” point then back it up, but there’s no need to go all psycho on me is there?

150 HoosierHoops  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:20:18pm

re: #147 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

I just want to say for the record that I fucking hate encryption algorithms.

I’m having PVK issues today..Effen Certs!

151 Kragar  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:22:02pm

re: #150 HoosierHoops

I’m having PVK issues today..Effen Certs!

Studying for my Security+ certification and the damn encryption algorithms are just killing me. AES, DES, Triple DES, RSA, Diffie-Hellman, I hate them all.

152 McSpiff  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:22:05pm

re: #146 Obdicut

Seriously. My generation is being told that if you have drunken pictures on your facebook, you’ll never become president. Apparently that bar has been raised to “if you’ve ever had incorrect thoughts”. Personally, I’d rather see the evolution of Obama from where he was as a child or young man, to who he’s become today. Its interesting to see what beliefs have stayed constant, and what have changed. Apparently tho, the right answer is to completely whitewash your history such that you were born in a miniature version of the very suit you’re wearing today.

153 Spare O'Lake  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:22:12pm

re: #143 Locker

re: #139 Cato the Elder


Laugh. I was just thinking that we now have a new, lowest rung on the ladder. Won’t be long…

Sounds like fun. Go ahead and start without me.

154 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:23:31pm

re: #152 McSpiff

Seriously. My generation is being told that if you have drunken pictures on your facebook, you’ll never become president. Apparently that bar has been raised to “if you’ve ever had incorrect thoughts”. Personally, I’d rather see the evolution of Obama from where he was as a child or young man, to who he’s become today. Its interesting to see what beliefs have stayed constant, and what have changed. Apparently tho, the right answer is to completely whitewash your history such that you were born in a miniature version of the very suit you’re wearing today.

Are you implying that President Obama has whitewashed his history, or was that just a statement about how a lot of people prefer to present themselves today?

155 Kragar  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:23:58pm

re: #152 McSpiff

Seriously. My generation is being told that if you have drunken pictures on your facebook, you’ll never become president. Apparently that bar has been raised to “if you’ve ever had incorrect thoughts”. Personally, I’d rather see the evolution of Obama from where he was as a child or young man, to who he’s become today. Its interesting to see what beliefs have stayed constant, and what have changed. Apparently tho, the right answer is to completely whitewash your history such that you were born in a miniature version of the very suit you’re wearing today.

Don’t worry, after the Collapse, all those incirminating pictures will be gone for good.

156 Cato the Elder  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:24:22pm

re: #153 Spare O’Lake

Sounds like fun. Go ahead and start without me.

Some already have.

157 Obdicut  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:24:55pm

re: #152 McSpiff

I kind of deal with that in my own personal life. I just reconnected with an old friend of mine, from like twelve years ago, who coincidentally in New York.

The first thing I said to him when we met up is, “Yeah, so I’m sane now.” He laughed. He said, “You always knew what sane was. You just used to think, ‘now, what would a sane person do?’ and then do the exact opposite.”

And yet I’m still me, even though I’ve obviously changed a hell of a lot, and he doesn’t find himself hypocritical for considering me insane then, and sane now. And I’m not a hypocrite for having been a crazy bastard back then, and being a sane, responsible dude now.

I want to know who these people are who are born perfect and glide through life without making any mistakes or taking any positions they later reverse.

They sound like smug assholes.

158 Spare O'Lake  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:26:12pm

re: #142 darthstar

Ouch…that left a mark.

I guess his aim was lousy…I think he was trying to hit me, not you.

159 Kragar  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:26:43pm

re: #157 Obdicut

I kind of deal with that in my own personal life. I just reconnected with an old friend of mine, from like twelve years ago, who coincidentally in New York.

The first thing I said to him when we met up is, “Yeah, so I’m sane now.” He laughed. He said, “You always knew what sane was. You just used to think, ‘now, what would a sane person do?’ and then do the exact opposite.”

And yet I’m still me, even though I’ve obviously changed a hell of a lot, and he doesn’t find himself hypocritical for considering me insane then, and sane now. And I’m not a hypocrite for having been a crazy bastard back then, and being a sane, responsible dude now.

I want to know who these people are who are born perfect and glide through life without making any mistakes or taking any positions they later reverse.

They sound like smug assholes.

If you’ve never once looked back on your life and thought “WHAT THE FUCK WAS I THINKING BACK THEN?”, you’re either a saint or a complete asshole.

I notice a distinct lack of saints.

160 Kronocide  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:27:13pm

re: #122 Charles

Blair is funny.

He thinks I need to apologize because I posted this during the election, about Barack Obama’s own accounts of his racist attitudes when he was younger:

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com…]

Apparently this proves yet again what a creepy hypocrite I am, because I criticized Glenn Beck for calling Obama “a racist with a deep-seated hatred of white culture.” I’m supposed to beg forgiveness for posting an article that quoted Barack Obama’s own stories about his early attitudes toward race. In Blair’s one-liner dim bulb universe, this is EXACTLY like calling Barack Obama a racist.

The usual stupid smear tactics. This is why I’m convinced Blair thinks he’s writing for an audience of complete idiots.

Charles, everything is simply black and white for this to work (no pun intended). Since you posted that ‘interesting comments by Obama’ thread, and said ‘wow,’ you called Obama a racist just like Beck, therefore, hypocrisy.

Yeah, that’s the depth of it.

161 jamesfirecat  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:27:13pm

re: #148 HoosierHoops

Hey..Programmers are IT! I’m a System Admin..Good luck Bro..
Are you PLSQL or C++ or what?

PHP.

162 jamesfirecat  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:28:20pm

re: #160 BigPapa

Charles, everything is simply black and white for this to work (no pun intended). Since you posted that ‘interesting comments by Obama’ thread, and said ‘wow,’ you called Obama a racist just like Beck, therefore, hypocrisy.

Yeah, that’s the depth of it.

Actually Charles may have been saying WOW about the following statement…

““To win the Democratic nomination, he’s got to get a part of the progressive, anti-war, white folks,” she said. “And those white folks tend to be suspicious of any black person who wouldn’t be suspicious of white people.”

That was a statement made about Obama not by Obama….

163 McSpiff  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:28:26pm

re: #154 Walter L. Newton

How people present themselves. Or a more general reflection on how people are criticized for views they no longer hold. I think it encourages a more one dimensional politics that helps no one. You need two points to plot a line kina thing.

164 Charles Johnson  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:29:03pm

re: #146 Obdicut

I’d disagree with Charles’s statement that what he said represented “Shockingly racist anti-white” attitudes, as I note in that thread, a poster did as well— and wasn’t banned, please note, Stalker Blog. I do think they represented confused and bitter thoughts about race, especially as they related to his place between races.

I wouldn’t put it that way today, but please remember — this was right in the middle of a very heated Presidential election, and I had picked the wrong side, to my very real regret.

165 McSpiff  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:29:32pm

re: #159 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

If you’ve never once looked back on your life and thought “WHAT THE FUCK WAS I THINKING BACK THEN?”, you’re either a saint or a complete asshole.

I notice a distinct lack of saints.

Shit, I was the 14 year old kid calling himself a marxist.

166 Decatur Deb  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:30:40pm

re: #165 McSpiff

Shit, I was the 14 year old kid calling himself a marxist.

At 14, I was studying to be a saint. Marx came later.

167 [deleted]  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:31:42pm
168 Kronocide  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:32:06pm

re: #162 jamesfirecat

You might be right, but it’s bordering on the irrelevant. I don’t see what Tim Blair sees either way.

169 Obdicut  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:32:35pm

re: #164 Charles

I do remember. And obviously the main shocking quote on that post is the quote at the end, not from Obama. And that one really is worth saying ‘wow’ over.

170 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:33:05pm

The seventh grade teacher next door stuck his head in at lunch to say they’d had their first social studies lesson. It happened to be on Islam.

“What do you already know about Islam or Muslims?” he asked the kids.

“They blow stuff up,” the kids agreed.

I think they know a little more now, but that’s where we started from.

171 Charles Johnson  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:34:11pm

re: #169 Obdicut

I do remember. And obviously the main shocking quote on that post is the quote at the end, not from Obama. And that one really is worth saying ‘wow’ over.

Yeah, that was actually the main point of the post.

172 jamesfirecat  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:35:16pm

re: #170 SanFranciscoZionist

The seventh grade teacher next door stuck his head in at lunch to say they’d had their first social studies lesson. It happened to be on Islam.

“What do you already know about Islam or Muslims?” he asked the kids.

“They blow stuff up,” the kids agreed.

I think they know a little more now, but that’s where we started from.

God, that’s a depressing.

[Link: tvtropes.org…]

173 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:37:51pm

re: #85 Gus 802

I don’t typically engage in expert worship so I can’t think of anyone in a positive light whose name I can recall. For instance can anyone name a “Catholic expert” for matters Catholic? I certainly can’t.

Andrew Greeley?

174 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:39:52pm

re: #114 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

The other day I came across a site where a 14 year old girl went on about her pride of being a pure “Ariyan”. She didn’t go to the evil public schools, her daddy taught her what being an “Ariyan” really meant.

And yes, she spelled it Ariyan all over the place.

A facepalm on many levels

Being an Ariyan means never having to learn to spell.

175 Decatur Deb  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:41:32pm

re: #173 SanFranciscoZionist

Andrew Greeley?

Daniel Berrigan.

176 Cato the Elder  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:55:18pm

re: #175 Decatur Deb

Daniel Berrigan.

Whom I know, personally.

He and his brother are part of the reason I went all Catholicky.

177 Decatur Deb  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 3:56:53pm

re: #176 Cato the Elder

Whom I know, personally.

He and his brother are part of the reason I went all Catholicky.

They were my heroes in the ’60s, but couldn’t keep me RC orthodox.

178 RadicalModerate  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 4:02:34pm

re: #58 LudwigVanQuixote

KT, as always, your posts and the things you dig up are fantastic. Presumably, according to teabags, the President and his family are not allowed to eat or go on vacation - this after supporting W. the president who took more vacation than any other, by several times.

CNN last week had a story about Obama’s vacation time - roughly 90 days’ vacation (including long weekends) during the first year and a half in office.

During the same period of time, George W. Bush had already amassed almost 250 days of vacation.

179 Decatur Deb  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 4:04:29pm

re: #178 RadicalModerate

CNN last week had a story about Obama’s vacation time - roughly 90 days’ vacation (including long weekends) during the first year and a half in office.

During the same period of time, George W. Bush had already amassed almost 250 days of vacation.

Textbook nontroversy. No President is ever on vacation, as long as the skinny guy behind him is carrying launch codes.

180 prairiefire  Mon, Aug 30, 2010 4:13:37pm

re: #157 Obdicut

I can’t believe how smug I was in my 20’s. I’ve had my 30’s and 40’s to get over myself!!
I find a lot of comfort in my faith and I try to learn the lessons thrown at me.
Humans are very selfish, I guess that is something we will always try to tame.


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