Sarah Palin Now Claims ‘Refudiate’ Was a ‘Typo’

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On Sarah Palin’s Reality last night, the half-governor claimed that her now-infamous use of the non-word “refudiate” was a typo.

While in the car, Sarah also talked to Todd about the time she tweeted the word “refudiate.” “I pressed an F instead of a P and people freaked out,” said Sarah, pointing out that her blunder was the second-most-searched word on Google trends. “Make lemonade out of lemons,” said Sarah.

Well, F is pretty far from P on my keyboard, and Palin seems to have forgotten that this wasn’t a fluke; she used the word “refudiate” previously in a July appearance on the Sean Hannity show, and she wasn’t typing at the time:

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1 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 2:57:22pm

I am so disgustipated with this airhead.

2 Gretchen G.Tiger  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 2:59:31pm

Why do we pay attention?

3 Charles Johnson  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 2:59:51pm

If you listen to that whole video, it's a pretty mind-boggling example of Palin's patented word salad approach.

4 KronoGhazi  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:00:37pm

She's clearly now a liar. She's trying to make lemonade out of rotten putrefied tomatoes.

5 Charles Johnson  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:00:50pm

And notice that the whole show is promoting the typical "reverse racism" persecution crap so beloved by Fox News.

6 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:00:52pm

I hope the GOP refudiates her in 2012.

7 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:03:18pm

re: #6 Dark_Falcon

She might generate a lot of buzz and baloney in '12, but I doubt she'll get the nomination. If she does throw her hat in the ring, I bet she'll quit part way through the running, with a garbled speech about why she's quitting.

8 goddamnedfrank  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:04:33pm

Serial liar is serial.

9 reine.de.tout  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:05:10pm

"F" and "P" are on opposite sides of the keyboard, they aren't even typed with the same hand on a regular keyboard.

10 PhillyPretzel  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:05:27pm

She is doing this to get attention. Her name is not in the news so she has to say something to get into the news again.

11 Gretchen G.Tiger  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:07:49pm

You know, in a way I feel sorry for John McCain. He is going to go down in history as the man who brought Sarah Palin to public view.

12 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:08:22pm

re: #1 Slumbering Behemoth

I am so disgustipated with this airhead.

Disgustipated.

13 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:09:26pm

My family was out for Christmas and my father defended her missing the caribou, meanwhile my mother defended glen beck and claimed he had a positive impact on her life. I wanted to scream...

14 Opal  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:10:20pm

I like that excuse. Too bad that it doesn't hold up. This shows me that she has the excuse-making skills of an 11-year-old, so she's more mature than I originally thought. I had her pegged at 10.

15 researchok  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:10:32pm

The clarification took a while.

The word 'typo' needed to be properly vetted.

16 lostlakehiker  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:11:26pm
Well, F is pretty far from P on my keyboard, and Palin seems to have forgotten that her use of the word “refudiate” was not a fluke; she used it previously in a July appearance on the Sean Hannity show, and she wasn’t typing at the time:

Thus refuting the claim that the use of "refudiate" was a typo, and that she meant to write "repudiate".

This very much reminds me of an incident from a long-ago campaign, in which a gushy article in U.S. News and World Report, or some similar "reputable" magazine, showed Gary Hart and his wife playing chess. There they are, playing chess. A few pieces are out but the game has evidently not progressed far; some of the pawns are still on the first rank! There were other howling chess blunders apparent in the setup; too much time has elapsed for me to reconstruct the layout exactly, but think bishops of the same color, rooks not on their starting squares, that sort of nonsense.

No chess player could possibly have permitted himself/herself to be photographed in association with such an ignorant caricature of chess.

People who fake skills they don't have are a pain, and one such form of fakery is the use/gross-misuse of refined vocabulary. Iffen ya ain't got it, don't try to flaunt it.

17 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:11:29pm

re: #11 ggt

You know, in a way I feel sorry for John McCain. He is going to go down in history as the man who brought Sarah Palin to public view.

I almost do, but then I get to thinking he deserves to have that particular albatross hung about his neck for such a pandering pick.

18 freetoken  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:11:48pm

re: #5 Charles

Speaking of racism, the more I read of how some part-time anthro-bloggers (and even full time ones) are handling recent discoveries in genetics the more I am convinced that genetic racism is making inroads into the meme-pool.

19 albusteve  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:12:43pm

re: #11 ggt

You know, in a way I feel sorry for John McCain. He is going to go down in history as the man who brought Sarah Palin to public view.

don't bother...who cares?

20 freetoken  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:13:53pm

re: #16 lostlakehiker

Thus refuting the claim that the use of "refudiate" was a typo, and that she meant to write "repudiate".

Esther is desperately trying to appear educated, the ideal feminist in the eyes of her followers.

21 Gretchen G.Tiger  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:14:15pm

re: #19 albusteve

don't bother...who cares?

The whole Veteran/POW thing. I have tremendous respect for that aspect of John McCain.

22 Gretchen G.Tiger  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:14:50pm

re: #20 freetoken

Esther is desperately trying to appear educated, the ideal feminist in the eyes of her followers.

Sexy Librarian Meme. It hooks lots of men.

23 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:16:12pm

Not again.

24 Charles Johnson  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:16:26pm

Yep, the DOS attack is still going on.

25 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:16:38pm

re: #17 Slumbering Behemoth

I almost do, but then I get to thinking he deserves to have that particular albatross hung about his neck for such a pandering pick.

He felt he had to pander; He wanted to nominate Joe Lieberman but was informed the James Dobson would lead a full-fledged base revolt if he did that. Faced with a base that would not except anyone not one of their own, john McCain gave them what they wanted.

26 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:16:45pm

Had a server hiccup here.

27 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:17:20pm

re: #9 reine.de.tout

"F" and "P" are on opposite sides of the keyboard, they aren't even typed with the same hand on a regular keyboard.

I think the word is actually a melding of 'refute' and 'repudiate'.

28 albusteve  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:17:53pm

re: #21 ggt

The whole Veteran/POW thing. I have tremendous respect for that aspect of John McCain.

and I have a handful of names who's VN legacy is that they are dead...McCain is a survivor, nothing more nothing less...he got through it, good for him

29 Subhuman Varmintghazi  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:18:33pm

re: #2 ggt

Because this is the person that is going to provide us with enormous entertainment until the first Tuesday in November in 2012. After that, she and the Tea whatevers will be history, leaving nothing more than a head scratch for historians in fifty years or so.

30 Gretchen G.Tiger  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:18:37pm

re: #26 Gus 802

Had a server hiccup here.

I think the hamsters are working too hard.

31 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:19:08pm

I like to watch.

32 Gretchen G.Tiger  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:19:15pm

re: #28 albusteve

and I have a handful of names who's VN legacy is that they are dead...McCain is a survivor, nothing more nothing less...he got through it, good for him

They all have my respect.

33 albusteve  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:19:36pm

re: #25 Dark_Falcon

He felt he had to pander; He wanted to nominate Joe Lieberman but was informed the James Dobson would lead a full-fledged base revolt if he did that. Faced with a base that would not except anyone not one of their own, john McCain gave them what they wanted.

just another pol, looking at his re-up....his legacy means nothing to me, why should it?

34 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:19:38pm

re: #24 Charles

Yep, the DOS attack is still going on.

And now here's one for the hackers:

Youtube Video
35 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:20:59pm

re: #21 ggt

The whole Veteran/POW thing. I have tremendous respect for that aspect of John McCain.

Obviously, and that doesn't change no matter what daft thing he does now. And the positive things he did in his political life don't change, and the good he did bringing up what seems a family of very nice kids doesn't change.

But I wish he'd go away now, so I could respect him in retrospect.

36 ozbloke  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:21:23pm

re: #31 Walter L. Newton

I like to watch.

Pull up a chair, bring your own popcorn.

37 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:21:28pm

re: #29 Kid A

Because this is the person that is going to provide us with enormous entertainment until the first Tuesday in November in 2012. After that, she and the Tea whatevers will be history, leaving nothing more than a head scratch for historians in fifty years or so.

Really... "us," why don't you speak for yourself... ok? Personally, I don't find this woman interesting or entertaining. I find your obsession with her more entertaining than the subject.

38 Gretchen G.Tiger  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:21:37pm

re: #25 Dark_Falcon

He felt he had to pander; He wanted to nominate Joe Lieberman but was informed the James Dobson would lead a full-fledged base revolt if he did that. Faced with a base that would not except anyone not one of their own, john McCain gave them what they wanted.

Stupid, because with Leiberman, he wouldn't have needed Dobson. The past is the past.

39 freetoken  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:22:08pm

re: #27 SanFranciscoZionist

I think the word is actually a melding of 'refute' and 'repudiate'.

And here I thought it was a combination of "refuse" and "radiate".

40 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:22:23pm

re: #38 ggt

Stupid, because with Leiberman, he wouldn't have needed Dobson. The past is the past.

I don't think he could have won, no matter what. Lieberman would have brought him people and lost him people--Palin did the same.

I'd rather have seen him go down with Lieberman, though.

41 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:22:51pm
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42 albusteve  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:23:01pm

re: #37 Walter L. Newton

Really... "us," why don't you speak for yourself... ok? Personally, I don't find this woman interesting or entertaining. I find your obsession with her more entertaining than the subject.

indeed...quite the unexpected reversal

43 Gretchen G.Tiger  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:23:13pm

re: #40 SanFranciscoZionist

I don't think he could have won, no matter what. Lieberman would have brought him people and lost him people--Palin did the same.

I'd rather have seen him go down with Lieberman, though.

Right, it would have been a wash. But we would have been spared the Palin-effect.

44 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:23:25pm

re: #38 ggt

Stupid, because with Leiberman, he wouldn't have needed Dobson. The past is the past.

How do you figure?

45 Fozzie Bear  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:23:25pm

re: #40 SanFranciscoZionist

We have McCain and his willingness to foist her upon the national stage to thank for Palin's prominence.

46 wrenchwench  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:23:38pm

The word salad effect is enhanced by the audio being out of sync with the video.

And her description of Obama's skin color as "half white and half black" shows a complete lack of understanding of the color wheel, as taught in about 3rd grade.

47 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:23:40pm

re: #43 ggt

Right, it would have been a wash. But we would have been spared the Palin-effect.

Oh, I don't say I wouldn't have appreciated that.

48 Gretchen G.Tiger  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:24:00pm

re: #44 Dark_Falcon

How do you figure?

Leiberman would have brought voters that he lost thru Dobson.

49 Fozzie Bear  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:24:21pm

re: #41 Gus 802

Nearly every computer in the world has an internal IP of 192.168.x.x

50 KronoGhazi  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:24:51pm

re: #27 SanFranciscoZionist

I think the word is actually a melding of 'refute' and 'repudiate'.

As a connoisseur of word mashing from the days of Sniglets and later practiced by Jeff Foxworthy... she's not doing it to be funny or clever. Just the opposite.

51 dmon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:24:57pm

I had followed McCain for a long time and had a huge amount of respect for him.

Found out he was a fraud....either his previous 20 years were fake.....or he did a hard right turn to win an election..... either way.... he lost my respect

52 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:25:10pm

re: #49 Fozzie Bear

Nearly every computer in the world has an internal IP of 192.168.x.x

That came in as a referrer.

53 Gretchen G.Tiger  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:25:38pm

re: #51 dmon

I had followed McCain for a long time and had a huge amount of respect for him.

Found out he was a fraud...either his previous 20 years were fake...or he did a hard right turn to win an election... either way... he lost my respect

Didn't you notice he is a Politician?

54 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:25:51pm

re: #51 dmon

I had followed McCain for a long time and had a huge amount of respect for him.

Found out he was a fraud...either his previous 20 years were fake...or he did a hard right turn to win an election... either way... he lost my respect

What do you mean by "either his previous 20 years were fake." What part do you think was faked?

55 Fozzie Bear  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:26:24pm

re: #52 Gus 802

That came in as a referrer.

Then the referrer is on the same lan, or its a spoofed IP. I'm betting on the latter.

56 dmon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:26:26pm

re: #53 ggt

Before '08 I actually thought he was one of the few that had some integrity

57 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:26:30pm

re: #45 Fozzie Bear

We have McCain and his willingness to foist her upon the national stage to thank for Palin's prominence.

That's true, but I have a hard time blaming him. Picking a woman was smart, and picking a so-con was smart, and picking someone photogenic and easily packageable was also smart.

The fact that this person happened to be Sarah Palin was unfortunate, but I think they moved fast and dumb, and thought the Hail Mary might pull them through.

58 Subhuman Varmintghazi  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:26:52pm

re: #37 Walter L. Newton

You don't think it won't be entertaining to watch Palin get her ass kicked by Obama by at least fifteen points? I don't find her interesting or entertaining any more than you do. I find the way she is setting herself and the GOP up for total humiliation (think 400+ electoral votes for Obama) to be wildly entertaining. Granted, anything can happen in two years, but as far as I'm concerned, get your popcorn ready and enjoy the fun!

59 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:27:31pm

re: #40 SanFranciscoZionist

I don't think he could have won, no matter what. Lieberman would have brought him people and lost him people--Palin did the same.

I'd rather have seen him go down with Lieberman, though.

It might well have mattered a great deal, even if he still would have lost. Had he chosen Liberman, its possible that he would have aroused such fury on the right as to ensure the success of J.D Hayworth's primary challenge. Or Palin remaining unknown might have meant that the Tea Party would never have gained the strength it actually gained without her star power.

/Alternative history analysis in progress. Call Harry Turtledove.

60 dmon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:27:58pm

re: #54 Walter L. Newton

Either his first 20 when he seemed to be a statesman....or the last 3 where he turned further right than JD Haynesworth....which was is the real John McCain?

61 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:28:24pm

re: #50 BigPapa

As a connoisseur of word mashing from the days of Sniglets and later practiced by Jeff Foxworthy... she's not doing it to be funny or clever. Just the opposite.

Oh, no, I think it was unintentional, based on the similarity of the sound, and the connected meanings.

62 Gretchen G.Tiger  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:29:07pm

re: #60 dmon

Either his first 20 when he seemed to be a statesman...or the last 3 where he turned further right than JD Haynesworth...which was is the real John McCain?

The man that sits at home with his family. The one we will never see. The rest is the work of the Politician.

63 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:29:19pm

re: #58 Kid A

You don't think it won't be entertaining to watch Palin get her ass kicked by Obama by at least fifteen points? I don't find her interesting or entertaining any more than you do. I find the way she is setting herself and the GOP up for total humiliation (think 400+ electoral votes for Obama) to be wildly entertaining. Granted, anything can happen in two years, but as far as I'm concerned, get your popcorn ready and enjoy the fun!

I don't think she gets anywhere near that far.

64 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:29:25pm

re: #58 Kid A

You don't think it won't be entertaining to watch Palin get her ass kicked by Obama by at least fifteen points? I don't find her interesting or entertaining any more than you do. I find the way she is setting herself and the GOP up for total humiliation (think 400+ electoral votes for Obama) to be wildly entertaining. Granted, anything can happen in two years, but as far as I'm concerned, get your popcorn ready and enjoy the fun!

She's not going to be the nominee. Sorry to spoil your fun. She doesn't have what it takes to go the distance.

65 dmon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:30:01pm

re: #62 ggt

Very disappointing

66 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:30:03pm

re: #58 Kid A

You don't think it won't be entertaining to watch Palin get her ass kicked by Obama by at least fifteen points? I don't find her interesting or entertaining any more than you do. I find the way she is setting herself and the GOP up for total humiliation (think 400+ electoral votes for Obama) to be wildly entertaining. Granted, anything can happen in two years, but as far as I'm concerned, get your popcorn ready and enjoy the fun!

No I don't think it would be entertaining. And you never answered my question... why are you speaking for "us." You're not speaking for me. And even in your answer, you try speaking for me again.

I already answered you, I don't find Palin interesting in any way. I find your obsession with her to be more interesting.

Who made you the official spokesman for the thread?

67 albusteve  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:30:13pm

re: #60 dmon

Either his first 20 when he seemed to be a statesman...or the last 3 where he turned further right than JD Haynesworth...which was is the real John McCain?

pols are not responsible for your perception of them, which varies widely...it's your personal thing

68 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:30:29pm

Another strange referrer:

127.0.0.1:12108/sharpreader/page.html

Yes, I recognize the 127.0.0.1 address.

69 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:30:50pm

re: #60 dmon

Either his first 20 when he seemed to be a statesman...or the last 3 where he turned further right than JD Haynesworth...which was is the real John McCain?

To general... give me some details... show me something fake in the last 20 years?

70 engineer cat  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:30:50pm

clearly, the fact that she feels she needs to generate more halfassed excuses shows that the issue still bothers her

71 Gretchen G.Tiger  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:31:11pm

re: #64 Dark_Falcon

She's not going to be the nominee. Sorry to spoil your fun. She doesn't have what it takes to go the distance.

Hopefully. I really want (at least) a two-party system in this country. If they nominate her the Republican Party is dead in the water. I don't see the Libertarians pulling it off this round.

72 Gretchen G.Tiger  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:31:28pm

re: #65 dmon

Very disappointing

Welcome to reality.

73 dmon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:31:55pm

re: #69 Walter L. Newton

McCain / Feingold

74 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:32:24pm

re: #70 engineer dog

clearly, the fact that she feels she needs to generate more halfassed excuses shows that the issue still bothers her

It's embarrassing to misspeak, or misuse a word, or pronounce it wrong in front of people who notice. It's embarrassing even in small groups. It must be mortifying to have something like this become an international joke--and she really doesn't have the temperament to shrug it off.

75 engineer cat  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:32:37pm

strange referrer

i picture a dark romance movie about mysterious lovers meeting in the intertubes, starring bette davis and lots of atmospheric mist and moonlight

76 KronoGhazi  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:33:04pm

re: #61 SanFranciscoZionist

Oh, no, I think it was unintentional, based on the similarity of the sound, and the connected meanings.

I resemble Palin disrespeculating honorable work mashers like Moi.

77 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:33:09pm

re: #73 dmon

McCain / Feingold

Details?

78 Gretchen G.Tiger  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:33:30pm

re: #74 SanFranciscoZionist

It's embarrassing to misspeak, or misuse a word, or pronounce it wrong in front of people who notice. It's embarrassing even in small groups. It must be mortifying to have something like this become an international joke--and she really doesn't have the temperament to shrug it off.

Bush did a much better job of shrugging off his horrible speach mistakes.

79 goddamnedfrank  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:33:37pm

re: #63 SanFranciscoZionist

I don't think she gets anywhere near that far.

I stopped making hard predictions after Obama won. Figured I'd just never get that lucky ever again and that any possible future would be surreal enough for my tastes anyway.

80 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:33:56pm

re: #74 SanFranciscoZionist

It's embarrassing to misspeak, or misuse a word, or pronounce it wrong in front of people who notice. It's embarrassing even in small groups. It must be mortifying to have something like this become an international joke--and she really doesn't have the temperament to shrug it off.

Or anyone else to leave it alone.

81 Gretchen G.Tiger  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:34:33pm

re: #79 goddamnedfrank

I stopped making hard predictions after Obama won. Figured I'd just never get that lucky ever again and that any possible future would be surreal enough for my tastes anyway.

Well, we lost Pluto, the world shifted on it's axis after that South American Earthquake and Spock is in touch with his feelings.

Surreal enough for you?

82 dmon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:34:47pm

He was willing to cross the aisle if he thought it was the best thing for the country.

McCain Fiengold
Immigration Reform
Gang of ?

Nevermind, guess its just my perception

83 lostlakehiker  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:34:51pm

re: #18 freetoken

Speaking of racism, the more I read of how some part-time anthro-bloggers (and even full time ones) are handling recent discoveries in genetics the more I am convinced that genetic racism is making inroads into the meme-pool.

What is "genetic racism"? What else could "race" be, but a verbal shorthand for the loose concept of the gene pool of a population that has been historically somewhat reproductively isolated etc?

Every such population is in some way genetically different from the average averaged over the entirety of humanity. And in every case, there are also differences in phenotype: different immune systems, different average height, weight, ratio of standing height to sitting height, and on and on.

Anyone who accepts evolution ought to expect that these differences in the frequency with which certain genes, and genetically determined traits, appear in one historically somewhat reproductively isolated population or another, [one race or another] will often have conferred an adaptive advantage in that population's environment.

Noses are an obvious example. We know the physics of noses. And lo, noses that, going by physics, ought to be an adaptation to arid, cold environments, are found more often on "races" that historically lived in arid, cold environments. And for humid, warm environments, it's the other way around.

And we also know that when it comes to "race", group averages are merely averages, and group membership can be a slippery concept. Still, given cheek swabs from a dozen members of two randomly chosen villages on widely separated continents, villages where there has been little reproduction with persons from transcontinental distances, and maps locating each village, a team of geneticists could probably guess which village submitted which batch of cheek swabs.

Humanity, like any other species, evolves and adapts. The main part of our environment is the same anywhere: we are tool users and social creatures. But after that, there are details that differ from place to place, and we have evolved differences in our own details.

84 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:35:02pm

re: #25 Dark_Falcon

He felt he had to pander; He wanted to nominate Joe Lieberman but was informed the James Dobson would lead a full-fledged base revolt if he did that. Faced with a base that would not except anyone not one of their own, john McCain gave them what they wanted.

True. And the country rejected it.

And the GOP, at least on the national level, feels they need to pander to such atavists because said atavists are bound and determined to convince the GOP that they have them by the short hairs.

And for the most part, they do. Which is why I won't likely vote republican on the national level any time in the near future. On the state level, I likely will. On the local level, not so much.

85 Fozzie Bear  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:35:17pm

re: #68 Gus 802

Given no other information, it would appear the box has been hacked. Is spoofing the loopback even possible?

86 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:36:34pm

re: #85 Fozzie Bear

Given no other information, it would appear the box has been hacked. Is spoofing the loopback even possible?

Damned if I know. They're going directly to the "A Message from Anonymous" link.

87 goddamnedfrank  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:37:00pm

re: #74 SanFranciscoZionist

It's embarrassing to misspeak, or misuse a word, or pronounce it wrong in front of people who notice. It's embarrassing even in small groups. It must be mortifying to have something like this become an international joke--and she really doesn't have the temperament to shrug it off.

Should've stuck with the Shakespalin gambit.

88 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Tears  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:37:49pm

Franken/Fey in 2012! If we're going to consider voting for comedians for high office, let's at least nominate some professionals!

//

89 Gretchen G.Tiger  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:38:27pm

I'm off for a while.

Have a great evening all!

90 albusteve  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:38:43pm

re: #79 goddamnedfrank

I stopped making hard predictions after Obama won. Figured I'd just never get that lucky ever again and that any possible future would be surreal enough for my tastes anyway.

yes, stellar leadership...you really got lucky, a part term senator with a community organizer background

91 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:39:32pm

re: #46 wrenchwench

The word salad effect is enhanced by the audio being out of sync with the video.

Fitting, as her brain is out of sync with reality.

92 freetoken  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:40:32pm

re: #83 lostlakehiker

What is "genetic racism"?

In contrast to cultural racism, that is, racism based on culture, and example of which is Culture A is superior to Culture B. Pat Buchanan is a classic example.

By "genetic racism" I meant racism based on superiority of genetic content, and example of which is that Africans can't compete on IQ tests because they are inherently (genetically) unable to process quantitative or verbal thinking as well as caucasians.

I really should come up with a better short-hand phrase to describe these.

93 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:40:57pm

re: #78 ggt

Bush did a much better job of shrugging off his horrible speach mistakes.

That's because George W. Bush handles his malapropisms with humor and a smile, while Sarah Palin gets prickly and defensive about them. The first approach radiates self-confidence, the latter radiates insecurity.

94 goddamnedfrank  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:41:00pm

re: #80 Walter L. Newton

Or anyone else to leave it alone.

Or your own need to express dismay over a topic other people choose to discuss.

/meta

95 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:42:32pm

re: #90 albusteve

[dives into bunker]

96 researchok  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:43:05pm

re: #66 Walter L. Newton

No I don't think it would be entertaining. And you never answered my question... why are you speaking for "us." You're not speaking for me. And even in your answer, you try speaking for me again.

I already answered you, I don't find Palin interesting in any way. I find your obsession with her to be more interesting.

Who made you the official spokesman for the thread?

It's his red corvette.

97 lostlakehiker  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:43:17pm

re: #58 Kid A

You don't think it won't be entertaining to watch Palin get her ass kicked by Obama by at least fifteen points? I don't find her interesting or entertaining any more than you do. I find the way she is setting herself and the GOP up for total humiliation (think 400+ electoral votes for Obama) to be wildly entertaining. Granted, anything can happen in two years, but as far as I'm concerned, get your popcorn ready and enjoy the fun!

First of all, it would be a bit scary to me to be so wrong. I don't find it even remotely likely that Palin can be nominated.

Second, it would be a bit scary after the R convention. If she can win the nomination, then I just misunderstood everything. So what's to stop her from just plain winning the general election? It's not like I know anything about politics that says otherwise.

Third, it wouldn't be any fun. It's not healthy to have a single-party nation. Blowout victories are the father of governance that utterly dismisses all naysaying or expressions of misgiving , even from within the ranks of one's own party.

We are better governed when those running the show think that they have something to prove and know that they could lose if they screw up royally.

98 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:43:42pm

re: #94 goddamnedfrank

Or your own need to express dismay over a topic other people choose to discuss.

/meta

You miss the point... I'm very entertained. I like to watch.

99 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:44:25pm

re: #98 Walter L. Newton

You miss the point... I'm very entertained. I like to watch.

And also to point out how entertained you are.

100 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:45:05pm

re: #93 Dark_Falcon

Like a prick that calls a woman a lesbian after she shoots down his advances.

101 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:45:08pm

re: #99 SanFranciscoZionist

And also to point out how entertained you are.

You got it.

102 KronoGhazi  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:47:52pm

We got some dual meta going on....

103 jaunte  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:48:25pm

re: #102 BigPapa

Metapropisms.

104 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:49:26pm

re: #100 Slumbering Behemoth

Like a prick that calls a woman a lesbian after she shoots down his advances.

Exactly. Bush doesn't take himself too seriously and has a good sense of humor. That let him stay sane even while under intense political attacks. Sarah Palin, by contrast, feels the need to answer each and every one of those attacks. The pressure that trait would put her under in a presidential campaign would drive her insane.

Full Disclosure: My own personality is far closer to Sarah Palin when it comes to attacks than to that of George W. Bush. That's a character flaw, and I do work on it, though not always with success.

105 engineer cat  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:49:38pm

re: #103 jaunte

Metapropisms.

heavy meta music, duuuude

106 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:51:44pm

re: #105 engineer dog

heavy meta music, duuude

That's for later after WindUpBird gets here.

107 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:52:04pm

re: #79 goddamnedfrank

I stopped making hard predictions after Obama won. Figured I'd just never get that lucky ever again and that any possible future would be surreal enough for my tastes anyway.

what was it carlin said, you get a front row seat to the freakshow at birth?

108 freetoken  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:52:35pm

Why Esther is fighting to appear intelligent:

Wall Street Journal Sticks A Fork In Sarah Palin’s Criticism Of First Lady

The not-quite-so-dim bulbs in GOP circles are starting to pile on Esther.

It might all backfire on them, when she cries "persecution" and her believers come to her aid.

109 albusteve  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:52:37pm

re: #105 engineer dog

heavy meta music, duuude

meta cheese...conceited feta cheese
meta, feta?...don sweta

110 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:54:19pm

re: #106 Dark_Falcon

That's for later after WindUpBird gets here.

Youtube Video
111 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:57:48pm

re: #108 freetoken

Why Esther is fighting to appear intelligent:

Wall Street Journal Sticks A Fork In Sarah Palin’s Criticism Of First Lady

The not-quite-so-dim bulbs in GOP circles are starting to pile on Esther.

It might all backfire on them, when she cries "persecution" and her believers come to her aid.

Then the WSJ should accept their fury and keep hammering. Palin is a disaster and those who want her cut back to size are going to have to take some fire to get that done.

112 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 3:58:29pm

re: #108 freetoken

Why Esther is fighting to appear intelligent:

Wall Street Journal Sticks A Fork In Sarah Palin’s Criticism Of First Lady

The not-quite-so-dim bulbs in GOP circles are starting to pile on Esther.

It might all backfire on them, when she cries "persecution" and her believers come to her aid.

Juan Williams: Palin not on same 'intellectual stage' as Obama

Quack, quack.

113 StreetPundit  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:00:30pm

This is news? Hmm...

114 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:00:30pm

OT: For those of you with an interest in the Arab world during WWII, I'm watching The Wedding Song now. Follows two young girls in Tunis, one Jewish, one Muslim, in the early 40s. Very good.

115 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:01:22pm

Uh oh.

116 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:01:55pm

re: #115 Gus 802

Uh oh.

Did you fart?

117 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:02:22pm

re: #116 Walter L. Newton

Did you fart?

Preemptively. Yes.

118 Subhuman Varmintghazi  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:04:17pm

Wow. 43% of "Real Americans" think Obama was either born in another country or, ahem, "don't know." Just saw that on Hardball. That is some freaky, scary shit.

119 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:04:54pm

re: #118 Kid A

Wow. 43% of "Real Americans" think Obama was either born in another country or, ahem, "don't know." Just saw that on Hardball. That is some freaky, scary shit.

our country has a lot of really dumb people in it!

120 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:05:26pm

re: #117 Gus 802

Preemptively. Yes.

On a side note... here is a weather update from one of our local weather geeks... who is usually more accurate than the local weather guru's...

For the foothills, upper low will track into southwest CO Thursday morning and across southern CO during the day into northwest KS by Friday morning. Surface low will set up in southeast CO and bring fairly deep and moist upclope flow across most of eastern CO on Thursday into Friday morning. Currently looks like snow will begin Thursday from late morning to early afternoon, and become heavy at times Thursday evening and night, and then diminish Friday morning. At this time I would expect 2-4 inches in less favored areas (banana belt and Plains) and 4-8 inches in more favored areas, with up to 12 inches in very favored areas. Heaviest snow currently looks to be from 4 pm Thursday through 6 am Friday.

This system is still emerging so models could create a slightly different track the next few days. The system is on the verge of becoming a major winter storm for eastern CO. If the track of the upper low moves just a bit farther south, then snow totals will increase. If the track moves north, less snow. Hopefully this system hangs together and provides our first significant snowfall of the season, and some much needed moisture. Models now do not bring the arctic air in after the system on Saturday, so now just looks seasonably cold on Saturday and Sunday. Some additional mountain snow possible on Sunday.

If necessary... run around wringing hands, screaming, setting in supplies... repeat as needed.

121 StreetPundit  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:05:34pm

re: #114 SanFranciscoZionist

Zionist? Explain what you mean by that.

122 jaunte  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:05:39pm

re: #118 Kid A

A good percentage of those think the sun orbits the earth, too.

123 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:05:56pm

re: #118 Kid A

Wow. 43% of "Real Americans" think Obama was either born in another country or, ahem, "don't know." Just saw that on Hardball. That is some freaky, scary shit.

how was "Real Americans" defined, and who did the defining?

124 Subhuman Varmintghazi  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:06:47pm

re: #119 WindUpBird

43%, I repeat, 43%!!!!!!!!

125 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:07:02pm

re: #120 Walter L. Newton

On a side note... here is a weather update from one of our local weather geeks... who is usually more accurate than the local weather guru's...

If necessary... run around wringing hands, screaming, setting in supplies... repeat as needed.

We're doomed! I better make sure I have enough smokes.

/

126 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:07:04pm

re: #121 StreetPundit

Zionist? Explain what you mean by that.

I believe what she's referring to is a device called a "television", and on that device, a variety of programs can be viewed, usually for entertainment purposes.

127 goddamnedfrank  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:07:23pm

re: #108 freetoken

Why Esther is fighting to appear intelligent:

It might all backfire on them, when she cries "persecution" and her believers come to her aid.

Nobody puts Baby in a corner. Watch out, JimRob's got a posse.

128 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:07:25pm

re: #124 Kid A

43%, I repeat, 43%!!!

front row seat at the freakshow :D

129 researchok  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:07:34pm

re: #126 WindUpBird

I believe what she's referring to is a device called a "television", and on that device, a variety of programs can be viewed, usually for entertainment purposes.

LOLOLOL

130 StreetPundit  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:07:34pm

re: #126 WindUpBird

I believe what she's referring to is a device called a "television", and on that device, a variety of programs can be viewed, usually for entertainment purposes.

Lol...

131 Subhuman Varmintghazi  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:07:48pm

re: #123 Dark_Falcon

It was a joke. The "Real Americans" part I mean.

132 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:08:28pm

re: #121 StreetPundit

Zionist? Explain what you mean by that.

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

(something smells)

133 Decatur Deb  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:08:28pm

re: #97 lostlakehiker

..snip So what's to stop her from just plain winning the general election? It's not like I know anything about politics that says otherwise.

Third, it wouldn't be any fun. It's not healthy to have a single-party nation. Blowout victories are the father of governance that utterly dismisses all naysaying or expressions of misgiving , even from within the ranks of one's own party.

We are better governed when those running the show think that they have something to prove and know that they could lose if they screw up royally.

Democrats who haven't voted since Truman would cut their 02 umbilicals and crawl from their hospices to the polls. I'd march my 4 kids and their spouses down at gunpoint, but I usually do that anyway.

134 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:08:34pm

re: #121 StreetPundit

Zionist? Explain what you mean by that.

I support Israel's right to exist, as a Jewish state, within secure borders, and free from attack by her neighbors. You?

135 lostlakehiker  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:09:37pm

re: #100 Slumbering Behemoth

Like a prick that calls a woman a lesbian after she shoots down his advances.

Maybe she just doesn't fancy fat, smelly, drunken blokes. Or maybe he's fit, rich, sober, and God's gift to women and she better know it. And, somehow, amazingly, she doesn't fancy that. Imagine!

136 researchok  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:09:57pm

re: #134 SanFranciscoZionist

I support Israel's right to exist, as a Jewish state, within secure borders, and free from attack by her neighbors. You?

Can I play?

137 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:10:18pm

re: #126 WindUpBird

I believe what she's referring to is a device called a "television", and on that device, a variety of programs can be viewed, usually for entertainment purposes.

Oh, the movie? I'm watching it on Netflix instant viewing on the computer. I keep having to stop it to check here, though, because it's all subtitled, and I can barely make out the French, and the Arabic is completely beyond me. And everyone switches back and forth freely.

138 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:10:31pm

re: #131 Kid A

It was a joke. The "Real Americans" part I mean.

You seem to have a knack of speaking for everyone else, or adding hyperbolic language to someone else's statements. If Hardball didn't describe the pool that way, why did you attribute the quote to them?

139 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:10:41pm

re: #131 Kid A

It was a joke. The "Real Americans" part I mean.

The entire thing or was their an actual stat behind the joke. Forgive me, I'm literal-minded.

140 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:10:48pm

re: #136 researchok

Can I play?

Sure, hop on.

141 StreetPundit  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:11:05pm

re: #134 SanFranciscoZionist

I support Israel's right to exist, as a Jewish state, within secure borders, and free from attack by her neighbors. You?

Yep. All day long. Zionism does not have a uniform ideology. Just wondering if you subscribe to Religious Zionism, Labor Zionism, Revisionist Zionism, or Green Zionism.

142 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:11:19pm

re: #140 SanFranciscoZionist

Sure, hop on.

Hop on?

/

143 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:11:24pm

re: #140 SanFranciscoZionist

Sure, hop on.

Just a suggestion... rephrase that.

144 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:11:29pm

re: #137 SanFranciscoZionist

Oh, the movie? I'm watching it on Netflix instant viewing on the computer. I keep having to stop it to check here, though, because it's all subtitled, and I can barely make out the French, and the Arabic is completely beyond me. And everyone switches back and forth freely.

I'm such a tech dork but for some reason i never watch movies on my PC. :D I use instant play, but I have it on my Xbox (which no longer functions as a video game system) which is hooke dup to my TV.

145 mr.fusion  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:11:43pm

Clearly she meant the keyboard in her head.

146 sod  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:12:20pm

I consider myself to be a conservative. If Sarah Palin is on the ballot I'll stay home.

147 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:12:29pm

re: #138 Walter L. Newton

You seem to have a knack of speaking for everyone else, or adding hyperbolic language to someone else's statements. If Hardball didn't describe the pool that way, why did you attribute the quote to them?

Sarcasm is “a sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remark; a bitter jibe or taunt.” [1] Though irony is usually the immediate context[2] most authorities sharply distinguish sarcasm from irony,[3] however others argue that sarcasm may or often does involve irony[4] or employs ambivalence.[5]

148 StreetPundit  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:12:49pm

re: #146 sod

I consider myself to be a conservative. If Sarah Palin is on the ballot I'll stay home.

Me too.

149 wrenchwench  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:13:27pm

re: #145 mr.fusion

Clearly she meant the keyboard in her head.

Which has extra "f" and "p" keys.

150 [deleted]  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:13:49pm
151 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:14:03pm

re: #147 WindUpBird

Sarcasm is “a sharp, bitter, or cutting expression or remark; a bitter jibe or taunt.” [1] Though irony is usually the immediate context[2] most authorities sharply distinguish sarcasm from irony,[3] however others argue that sarcasm may or often does involve irony[4] or employs ambivalence.[5]

Thanks for the lesson... I send you a penny.

152 reine.de.tout  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:14:09pm

re: #121 StreetPundit

Zionist? Explain what you mean by that.

what?

SFZ has been here for 2 years, you for 2 days.
Why don't YOU explain YOURSELF, first.
Please.

153 Decatur Deb  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:14:21pm

re: #146 sod

re: #148 StreetPundit

So Soros and I will have to hit the SarahPAC tip jar.

154 reine.de.tout  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:14:30pm

re: #149 wrenchwench

Which has extra "f" and "p" keys.

Right next to each other, apparently.

155 StreetPundit  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:14:59pm

re: #152 reine.de.tout

I did. "-)

156 jaunte  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:15:16pm

re: #154 reine.de.tout

That keyboard has been ferpected.

157 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:15:29pm

re: #146 sod

I consider myself to be a conservative. If Sarah Palin is on the ballot I'll stay home.

question is thus:

are there more of you, or more like them? them being the sort of angry whitey dullard tribalists who want someone who walks and talks like them as their leader.

There's a LOT of them out there! And they hate Obama's guts, and they want to win.

158 reine.de.tout  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:15:38pm

re: #156 jaunte

That keyboard has been ferpected.

hehe.

159 Decatur Deb  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:16:14pm

re: #152 reine.de.tout

what?

SFZ has been here for 2 years, you for 2 days.
Why don't YOU explain YOURSELF, first.
Please.

Shhh. He's doing that prison thing, where you clobber the baddest ass in the yard on your first day.

160 mr.fusion  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:16:15pm

re: #154 reine.de.tout

Right next to each other, apparently.

You guys need to lay opp Sarah and lighten uf

161 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:16:19pm

re: #141 StreetPundit

Yep. All day long. Zionism does not have a uniform ideology. Just wondering if you subscribe to Religious Zionism, Labor Zionism, Revisionist Zionism, or Green Zionism.

Not really. I figure one 'ism' will do me. Can I consider myself the founder of Eclectic American Zionism, Yelling In The Streets Subset?

162 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:16:33pm

A "P" is just a closed "F".

/

163 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:16:39pm

re: #142 Gus 802

Hop on?

/

The bandwagon, not me. For goodness' sakes!

164 sod  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:16:43pm

re: #150 StreetPundit

I don't think she'll make it.

I hope you're right. I'd like to have a real candidate to vote for.

165 Decatur Deb  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:17:00pm

re: #160 mr.fusion

You guys need to lay opp Sarah and lighten uf

I'll owe you a couple more for that.

166 StreetPundit  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:17:02pm

re: #152 reine.de.tout

what?

SFZ has been here for 2 years, you for 2 days.
Why don't YOU explain YOURSELF, first.
Please.

And I've been here for years asshole. Been thrown off four times since 2003. Let's make it five, shall we? "-)

167 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:17:04pm

re: #143 Walter L. Newton

Just a suggestion... rephrase that.

Too late!

168 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:17:23pm

re: #159 Decatur Deb

Shhh. He's doing that prison thing, where you clobber the baddest ass in the yard on your first day.

LOL :)

169 lostlakehiker  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:17:35pm

re: #146 sod

I consider myself to be a conservative. If Sarah Palin is on the ballot I'll stay home.

I consider myself also to be a conservative. But conservation begins at the level of the planet. Until such time as the GOP can get its head straight on the realities of the physics of CO2, and while there remains some hope that the Democrats will take some sort of meaningful steps toward facing that fact, I've got to hold my nose on the rest of it and pull some D levers up ticket.

If Palin is on the ticket, then it's not even a difficult decision. She wouldn't offer anything on the rest of the national agenda but an initial spate of confident blundering, followed by 3.6 years of stunned paralysis.

170 reine.de.tout  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:17:40pm

re: #160 mr.fusion

You guys need to lay opp Sarah and lighten uf

I can't tell you how long it took me to "get" that
gah.
time for a break for me, perhaps

171 researchok  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:17:54pm

re: #157 WindUpBird

question is thus:

are there more of you, or more like them? them being the sort of angry whitey dullard tribalists who want someone who walks and talks like them as their leader.

There's a LOT of them out there! And they hate Obama's guts, and they want to win.

More like the realistic type- we're the silent majority of the GOP, I believe.

By the way, your early AM beer reference ("MAN, I like beer") had me laughing all morning.

172 [deleted]  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:18:32pm
173 [deleted]  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:18:38pm
174 mr.fusion  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:18:41pm

re: #165 Decatur Deb

I'll owe you a couple more for that.

I dunno, I don't really see what the big deal is....

My screenname was supposed to be mr.pusion. I mean....it happens is all I'm saying

175 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:18:46pm

Uh oh.

176 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:19:05pm

Young Libertarian?

177 Varek Raith  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:19:16pm

re: #166 StreetPundit

Oh my.

178 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:19:37pm

re: #166 StreetPundit


Uh, WTF?

179 researchok  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:20:14pm

re: #141 StreetPundit

Yep. All day long. Zionism does not have a uniform ideology. Just wondering if you subscribe to Religious Zionism, Labor Zionism, Revisionist Zionism, or Green Zionism.

Zionism is like ice cream- all the things SFZ referred to.

What you are talking about are the toppings.

180 ozbloke  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:20:16pm

re: #176 Gus 802

Young Libertarian?

Hates unions and doesn't recognize seniority?

181 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:20:19pm

re: #175 Gus 802

re: #176 Gus 802

re: #177 Varek Raith

re: #178 SanFranciscoZionist

Meds need to be adjusted again.

182 Varek Raith  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:20:21pm

re: #178 SanFranciscoZionist

Uh, WTF?

Just someone still trying to get daddy's attenshuns.

183 goddamnedfrank  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:20:30pm

"Richard you rascal, I didn't know you were a dick!"
-Van Wilder

184 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:20:38pm

re: #176 Gus 802

Young Libertarian?

GODDAMNIT! HE ALWAYS DOES THIS!!!

185 [deleted]  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:20:41pm
186 [deleted]  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:20:54pm
187 brookly red  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:20:56pm

re: #176 Gus 802

Young Libertarian?

different speech patterns...

188 reine.de.tout  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:21:14pm

re: #176 Gus 802

Young Libertarian?

naw.
YL was aggravating, but polite about it.

189 reine.de.tout  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:21:47pm

re: #188 reine.de.tout

naw.
YL was aggravating, but polite about it.

Besides, YL always fooled me.
This fool didn't.

190 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:21:56pm

re: #166 StreetPundit

Go back under your bridge, troll.

191 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:22:19pm

re: #166 StreetPundit

Say goodnight Alice.

192 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:22:53pm

in honor of the randies among us

Youtube Video
193 brookly red  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:23:19pm

re: #180 ozbloke

Hates unions and doesn't recognize seniority?

shit, that could be me...

194 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:23:47pm

re: #179 researchok

Zionism is like ice cream- all the things SFZ referred to.

What you are talking about are the toppings.

Important concepts to some, especially in Israeli political or academic circles, but I'm not creating policy for Likud, I'm standing across the street from Berkeley kids with khaffiyehs over their faces who scream about apartheid and fascism. I can afford to be basic.

195 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:24:32pm

re: #180 ozbloke

Hates unions and doesn't recognize seniority?

Oh, you're fairly new, no? Were you around for the YL92 reign of annoyance?

196 researchok  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:24:45pm

re: #194 SanFranciscoZionist

Important concepts to some, especially in Israeli political or academic circles, but I'm not creating policy for Likud, I'm standing across the street from Berkeley kids with khaffiyehs over their faces who scream about apartheid and fascism. I can afford to be basic.

Understood.

You really do live in two worlds. More power to you.

197 wrenchwench  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:25:07pm

re: #166 StreetPundit

And I've been here for years asshole. Been thrown off four times since 2003. Let's make it five, shall we? "-)

Interesting boast. I don't remember that coming up when you explained yourself the other day.

198 reine.de.tout  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:26:02pm

re: #197 wrenchwench

Interesting boast. I don't remember that coming up when you explained yourself the other day.

I think it was waiting for the opportunity to:
1) Question SFZ
2) Call someone an asshole.

199 [deleted]  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:26:12pm
200 brookly red  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:26:13pm

re: #197 wrenchwench

Interesting boast. I don't remember that coming up when you explained yourself the other day.

boast?

201 ozbloke  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:26:46pm

re: #195 SanFranciscoZionist

Oh, you're fairly new, no? Were you around for the YL92 reign of annoyance?

I have a vague recollection.
More lives than a cat from what I remember.

202 jaunte  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:26:49pm

re: #198 reine.de.tout

He sure took a long time getting around to it.

203 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:27:03pm

Fire up the BBQ!

204 wrenchwench  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:27:05pm

re: #200 brookly red

boast?

What do you call it?

205 KronoGhazi  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:27:14pm

re: #200 brookly red

boast?

Foast!

Sarah Palin

206 [deleted]  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:27:37pm
207 reine.de.tout  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:27:51pm

re: #202 jaunte

He sure took a long time getting around to it.

Timing is everything.

208 researchok  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:27:54pm

re: #203 Gus 802

Fire up the BBQ!

Pot stirrer!

209 reine.de.tout  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:28:40pm

re: #206 CapeCoddah

Good evening, everyone!
Street Punk, you owe Reine an apology.
You come in with an obviously trollish comment, offer up a lame ass explanation for your implication when you realized you stepped in it, then make that comment? Jackass.

Heya - good to "see" you!
I suspect I know the nest where it crawled out of.

210 Obdicut  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:28:45pm

re: #152 reine.de.tout

He's really fond of Ayn Rand and other assorted kooks. You're not going to get very far with him.

211 brookly red  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:28:53pm

re: #204 wrenchwench

What do you call it?

a cry for help at best, a (deleted) at worst.

212 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:28:59pm

re: #208 researchok

Pot stirrer!

Shit Disturber!

213 mr.fusion  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:29:10pm
While in the car, Sarah also talked to Todd about the time she tweeted the word “refudiate.” “I pressed an F instead of a P and people freaked out,” said Sarah, pointing out that her blunder was the second-most-searched word on Google trends. “Make lemonade out of lemons,” said Sarah.

O' but if only the passage in question had not been lost in the near endless tome of that singular tweet! For shame that no hero could step forth and honor the world by spell checking and proof reading this wonderful pearl bequeathed to a beleaguered, befuddled public --- bestowed unto us by Mamma Grizzly. A tired nation, wandering aimlessly as The Scribe sits at her desk contemplating the intricacies of the First Amendment, Muslim's desire to worship along all other religions in our free country, and weighing all of that against the confused anger of the masses (in 140 characters or less). Her task complete, slumping over....mustering only the energy to hit the "post" button, but never to proof read or spell check.

You guys are ungrateful, is what I'm getting at.

214 [deleted]  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:29:13pm
215 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:29:23pm

re: #199 Walter L. Newton

Well... it's no wonder you've been thrown off here four times already, you don't even know how to play the game correctly.

First off, don't expose yourself with such blatant questions. Asking SFZ what does "Zionist" mean is a dead give-a-way that you are a troll, on naively stupid.

It was a touch abrupt, but with context, I was perfectly happy to give an answer. Cussing at Reine, however, is a pretty serious matter.

216 reine.de.tout  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:29:56pm

re: #215 SanFranciscoZionist

It was a touch abrupt, but with context, I was perfectly happy to give an answer. Cussing at Reine, however, is a pretty serious matter.

If you have a moment, check your e-mails in a minute.

217 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:31:10pm

re: #214 StreetPundit

Interesting... you turned off the link to your blog...

218 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:31:28pm

re: #201 ozbloke

I have a vague recollection.
More lives than a cat from what I remember.

He just kept coming back--and he'd introduce himself--and we'd welcome him on board--and then things would get a little weird--and suddenly, you'd REALIZE...

Or, you wouldn't, and Charles would catch him through the wonders of computers and just announce that so-and-so had been the latest incarnation of YL92.

I got quite paranoid about new people for a while there.

219 sod  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:31:31pm

re: #169 lostlakehiker

re: #157 WindUpBird

re: #171 researchok

Gotta agree with researchok. I find it hard to believe that SP has any significant support among right leaning voters. McCain started it and Fox is keeping it going. I'm not convinced there's actually any voter support.

220 researchok  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:31:44pm

re: #217 Walter L. Newton

Interesting... you turned off the link to your blog...

Hard to believe.
//

221 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:31:54pm
Youtube Video
222 CapeCoddah  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:32:11pm

re: #209 reine.de.tout

Hey you back!!.... Then you need to go bird watching elsewhere!

223 Neutral President  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:32:16pm

re: #190 Dark_Falcon

Go back under your bridge, troll.

There's only one rule for them: "Troll until banned. Make another account."

224 researchok  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:32:44pm

re: #221 Gus 802

[Video]

I gotta get me some of that Colorado water.

225 brookly red  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:33:03pm

OK, so the guy across the hall just had Chinese food delivered...

the subways & buses are toast, but you can get lo mein delivered...

sweet.

226 CapeCoddah  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:33:13pm

re: #214 StreetPundit

LOL, I suspect you will not remain ignorant for long.
On the other hand...

227 reine.de.tout  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:33:40pm

re: #218 SanFranciscoZionist

He just kept coming back--and he'd introduce himself--and we'd welcome him on board--and then things would get a little weird--and suddenly, you'd REALIZE...

Or, you wouldn't, and Charles would catch him through the wonders of computers and just announce that so-and-so had been the latest incarnation of YL92.

I got quite paranoid about new people for a while there.

WE all did.
YL92 was quite adept at being, well, polite. Then a little weird, then a bit more weird, but still, polite.

This one - naw.

228 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:33:48pm

re: #225 brookly red

OK, so the guy across the hall just had Chinese food delivered...

the subways & buses are toast, but you can get lo mein delivered...

sweet.

There's a manga series that at one point featured a competition in 'martial arts fast food delivery'.

229 reine.de.tout  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:34:51pm

re: #222 CapeCoddah

Hey you back!!... Then you need to go bird watching elsewhere!

Actually, it's that I need to stop snake/spider watching, eh?

230 brookly red  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:35:15pm

re: #228 SanFranciscoZionist

There's a manga series that at one point featured a competition in 'martial arts fast food delivery'.

wu-tang is useless against sno-drift!

231 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:35:48pm

Dang. My husband's dentist appt. got cancelled. Doctor went back East for Christmas and is still stuck in New York.

232 CapeCoddah  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:36:02pm

Sorry for quoting, Charles. I am a bit rusty.

233 engineer cat  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:36:35pm

(theme song of the troolz)

"Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go I wanna be [deleted]
Nothin' to do and no where to go-o-oh I wanna be [deleted]"

234 researchok  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:36:45pm

re: #231 SanFranciscoZionist

Dang. My husband's dentist appt. got cancelled. Doctor went back East for Christmas and is still stuck in New York.

Break out the pliers. Your dentist is going nowhere fast.
//

235 Varek Raith  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:37:04pm

re: #222 CapeCoddah

Hey you back!!... Then you need to go bird watching elsewhere!

Long time no see.
Sup?

236 ozbloke  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:38:09pm

re: #218 SanFranciscoZionist

He just kept coming back--and he'd introduce himself--and we'd welcome him on board--and then things would get a little weird--and suddenly, you'd REALIZE...

Or, you wouldn't, and Charles would catch him through the wonders of computers and just announce that so-and-so had been the latest incarnation of YL92.

I got quite paranoid about new people for a while there.

Its going to happen at any place that has open registration.
There will be a few like that in every hundred people, I accept that.
Life is to short and to precious for me to worry about being sucked in.
Trolls will out themselves, its why they register so they can flounce.

There s no shame in being welcoming.
I think you are wonderful SanFranciscoZionist

237 brookly red  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:38:36pm

re: #231 SanFranciscoZionist

Dang. My husband's dentist appt. got cancelled. Doctor went back East for Christmas and is still stuck in New York.

all your dentist are belonging to us!

238 StreetPundit  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:38:55pm

re: #234 researchok

Break out the pliers. Your dentist is going nowhere fast.
//

I use a Dremel. Pliers are too slow.

239 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:38:56pm

re: #234 researchok

Break out the pliers. Your dentist is going nowhere fast.
//

I've got some grappa in the cupboard, but hubby doesn't drink...

240 CapeCoddah  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:39:09pm

re: #235 Varek Raith

Hey Varek! Same old same old here. Just working and snowblowing, and limb cleanup at the moment.
How are you?

241 lawhawk  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:39:59pm

re: #240 CapeCoddah

How much snow did you end up with? 2 feet here in Northern NJ.

242 sod  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:40:20pm

My all-time favorite internet typo is:


"Viola!"

243 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:40:55pm

re: #206 CapeCoddah

Good evening, everyone!
Street Punk, you owe Reine an apology.
You come in with an obviously trollish comment, offer up a lame ass explanation for your implication when you realized you stepped in it, then make that comment? Jackass.

Hello, CC! How's the weather where you are?

244 researchok  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:41:26pm

re: #239 SanFranciscoZionist

I've got some grappa in the cupboard, but hubby doesn't drink...

If the pain is bad enough, he'll start.

And thank you for it.
/

245 Varek Raith  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:41:36pm

re: #240 CapeCoddah

Hey Varek! Same old same old here. Just working and snowblowing, and limb cleanup at the moment.
How are you?

I'm doing good.
Got no snow though.
Windy as hell.
I just stayed inside.
:)

246 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:42:01pm

re: #245 Varek Raith

I'm doing good.
Got no snow though.
Windy as hell.
I just stayed inside.
:)

Hiding from the wind?

247 StreetPundit  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:42:25pm

re: #241 lawhawk

Just want to say that I admire your intelligence and always read what you have to say. Fantastic blog you have as well.

248 CapeCoddah  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:43:26pm

re: #241 lawhawk

Hey Lawhawk.
Well, it was weird on the Cape here. It usually is. We were the only ones in NE to get mostly rain. Yesterday morning we got about 2 inches, then it rained until this morning. It changed to snow about 9am, so we have a quarter inch of snow on top of an inch of Ice.
We also had 70-80 mph wind gusts, and wicked sustained winds. Lots of tree and limb damage. Still blowing hard.
I would rather have gotten buried in snow. Less dangerous.

249 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:43:30pm

Certainly has some nerve. Smarts, no, nerve... balls of steel.

250 Varek Raith  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:43:45pm

re: #246 Walter L. Newton

Hiding from the wind?

Yes.
It scares me.

251 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:43:50pm

re: #247 StreetPundit

What's this?

252 CapeCoddah  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:44:15pm

re: #243 Dark_Falcon

Hey DF! Answered before you get to this. How are you?

253 StreetPundit  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:44:25pm

re: #251 Gus 802

What's this?

It's a blog post.

254 Daniel Ballard  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:44:30pm

re: #227 reine.de.tout

Hi
Just stopped in while recording the sunset. I can not recall seeing deleted comments with so many up dings before. Strange.

255 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:44:52pm

re: #253 StreetPundit

It's a blog post.

Really. Perhaps you can explain yourself.

How about this?

256 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:45:08pm

TROLL

257 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:45:59pm
Youtube Video

No reason, i just love the guitars of Criss Oliva

258 brookly red  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:46:25pm

re: #248 CapeCoddah

Glad your here. I am pretty much snowed in and living on canned chowder... can I get special dispensation or something?

259 Obdicut  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:46:42pm

re: #251 Gus 802

Heh. Check out the Ayn-Rand loving blogroll.

260 wrenchwench  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:47:16pm

re: #253 StreetPundit

It's a blog post.

What nics were you banned under since 2003? Any that we'd recognize?

261 Linden Arden  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:47:46pm

From just before Christmas -

Sarah Palin: Winner Of The 2010 Glenn Beck Misinformer Of The Year Award

A worthy recipient!

262 CapeCoddah  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:47:48pm

re: #258 brookly red

Not with chowder. Only if you were living on chicken broth.
How are you, Brookley?

263 brookly red  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:49:03pm

re: #262 CapeCoddah

Not with chowder. Only if you were living on chicken broth.
How are you, Brookley?

uhhh, snowed in and living on canned chowder?

264 reine.de.tout  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:49:13pm

re: #260 wrenchwench

What nics were you banned under since 2003? Any that we'd recognize?

Is this the same one who registered as "anti-Christian" the other day, and offered to re-register under something else?

265 CapeCoddah  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:49:25pm

re: #250 Varek Raith

Yes.
It scares me.

LOL, you and my Mastiff. He hides in the closet with storms or fireworks.

266 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:49:39pm

re: #264 reine.de.tout

Is this the same one who registered as "anti-Christian" the other day, and offered to re-register under something else?


yes

267 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:50:00pm

re: #251 Gus 802

What's this?

I was banned from LGF in 2006 for not falling in lock step with the LGF crowd, and their radical alliance with Israel. I see things have changed at the lizard king’s site in some respects.

All right. We got another Internetz Warrior here. Or something.

268 StreetPundit  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:50:07pm

re: #255 Gus 802

Really. Perhaps you can explain yourself.

How about this?

That was a funny video, but it's no longer available. As far a explaining myself, don't know exactly what you're looking for. If you want me to say that I agree with everything Charles has to say or do, no, I don't. As far as his positions on religious fundamentalism, the Tea Party, support of Israel, yes we are on the same page. I also have respect for his contributions in the new media.

269 CapeCoddah  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:50:41pm

re: #263 brookly red

uhhh, snowed in and living on canned chowder?

OK. Points for you. LOL.

270 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:51:18pm

re: #268 StreetPundit

That was a funny video, but it's no longer available. As far a explaining myself, don't know exactly what you're looking for. If you want me to say that I agree with everything Charles has to say or do, no, I don't. As far as his positions on religious fundamentalism, the Tea Party, support of Israel, yes we are on the same page. I also have respect for his contributions in the new media.

Really... this quote of yours certainly speaks volumes about your support of Israel...

"I was banned from LGF in 2006 for not falling in lock step with the LGF crowd, and their radical alliance with Israel."

271 Daniel Ballard  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:52:05pm

re: #268 StreetPundit

Given your delight in the "fall of LGF" why are you here?

272 researchok  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:52:24pm

re: #267 SanFranciscoZionist

I was banned from LGF in 2006 for not falling in lock step with the LGF crowd, and their radical alliance with Israel. I see things have changed at the lizard king’s site in some respects.

All right. We got another Internetz Warrior here. Or something.

The upside is he's not Anonymous.

273 KronoGhazi  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:53:02pm

re: #268 StreetPundit

So are you StreetWisePundit or not? That was the real question.

274 reine.de.tout  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:53:06pm

re: #272 researchok

The upside is he's not Anonymous.

I dunno how that could be known, since, well, they're anonymous and all.
Ya know?

275 brookly red  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:53:34pm

re: #270 Walter L. Newton

Really... this quote of yours certainly speaks volumes about your support of Israel...

"I was banned from LGF in 2006 for not falling in lock step with the LGF crowd, and their radical alliance with Israel."

you don't get banned for not falling in lock step... I hold myself up as proof.

276 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:53:55pm

re: #268 StreetPundit

And this?

Charles Johnson posted the following video as proof that “racism” is the founding principle of the Tea Party movement. What I would like to know is, where specifically is the racism in this video? I don’t see any racism I see people having a conversation about history. I’d have to say that Charles is making a stretch to say the least. Sad to see a once great blog turn into a mono propaganda machine.

277 goddamnedfrank  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:54:24pm

re: #268 StreetPundit

Youtube Video
278 Decatur Deb  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:54:25pm

re: #272 researchok

The upside is he's not Anonymous.

Obviously polynonymous.

279 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:54:44pm

Blocked.

280 researchok  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:54:55pm

re: #274 reine.de.tout

I dunno how that could be known, since, well, they're anonymous and all.
Ya know?

I missed the sarc tag.

281 reine.de.tout  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:54:57pm

re: #279 Gus 802

Blocked.

Thank goodness.

282 brookly red  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:54:58pm

re: #278 Decatur Deb

Obviously polynonymous.

hey, watch yer mouth...

283 researchok  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:55:12pm

re: #278 Decatur Deb

Obviously polynonymous.

LOLOL

284 Charles Johnson  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:55:27pm

re: #166 StreetPundit

And I've been here for years asshole. Been thrown off four times since 2003. Let's make it five, shall we? "-)

Not a problem. And no need to thank me.

285 KronoGhazi  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:55:40pm

er, polyexcretimus

286 researchok  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:56:11pm

re: #279 Gus 802

Blocked.

Good.

The 'dance' becomes dull rather quickly.

287 wrenchwench  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:56:35pm

From the late troll's blog:

Overall, I like LGF despite Charles Johnson’s tendency of banning people at record speed.

I hope it was fast enough for him this time.

288 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:56:41pm

re: #272 researchok

The upside is he's not Anonymous.

Also, not YL92!

289 brookly red  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:57:02pm

re: #288 SanFranciscoZionist

Also, not YL92!

told you so

290 Charles Johnson  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:57:05pm

I had a feeling I was making a mistake by giving that one another chance.

291 jaunte  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:57:54pm

re: #287 wrenchwench

People who come in with a troll nic like Anti-Christian and try to pass it off as just a book title can't expect much more patience.

292 lawhawk  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:58:33pm

re: #248 CapeCoddah

We had lots of snow and lots of wind, but nothing nearly as bad as the winds you guys got. Pretty wicked all the way around.

293 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:58:49pm

What a douche nozzle. I should have searched his website earlier.

294 Obdicut  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:59:00pm

re: #291 jaunte

Well, it is a book title. The book is also a maniacal, near-insane polemic against christianity written right before a nervous breakdown.

So even as a book title, it's a little iffy.

295 jaunte  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:59:50pm

re: #294 Obdicut

I suspect his motive wasn't a reading recommendation.

296 researchok  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 4:59:51pm

re: #293 Gus 802

What a douche nozzle. I should have searched his website earlier.

The giveaway was 'intellectual activist'.

The real deal show great humility.

297 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:00:49pm

re: #206 CapeCoddah

Good evening, everyone!
Street Punk, you owe Reine an apology.
You come in with an obviously trollish comment, offer up a lame ass explanation for your implication when you realized you stepped in it, then make that comment? Jackass.

Hello, CC! How's the weather where you are?re: #252 CapeCoddah

Hey DF! Answered before you get to this. How are you?

I'm decent. I was offline for few moments to allow an update to install.

298 Neutral President  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:01:18pm

re: #270 Walter L. Newton

Really... this quote of yours certainly speaks volumes about your support of Israel...

"I was banned from LGF in 2006 for not falling in lock step with the LGF crowd, and their radical alliance with Israel."

I still cannot understand why anyone (who is not a militant fundamentalist muslim or a raging left wing communist that would make Lenin blush) can view supporting a modern secular liberal democratic state over theocracies and thugocracies that oppose it, is in any way "radical". All I can come up with is blind hatred of 'Teh Jooz!'

299 researchok  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:02:02pm

re: #298 ArchangelMichael

I still cannot understand why anyone (who is not a militant fundamentalist muslim or a raging left wing communist that would make Lenin blush) can view supporting a modern secular liberal democratic state over theocracies and thugocracies that oppose it, is in any way "radical". All I can come up with is blind hatred of 'Teh Jooz!'

Pretty much sums it up.

300 Decatur Deb  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:02:45pm

Speaking of "yelling in the street", I have an engagement in Feb:

Montgomery Re-enactment of Jefferson Davis' Oath

[Link: civilwartalk.com...]

301 brookly red  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:03:09pm

re: #298 ArchangelMichael

I still cannot understand why anyone (who is not a militant fundamentalist muslim or a raging left wing communist that would make Lenin blush) can view supporting a modern secular liberal democratic state over theocracies and thugocracies that oppose it, is in any way "radical". All I can come up with is blind hatred of 'Teh Jooz!'

who said not... my guess is commie. their everywhere >>

302 CapeCoddah  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:03:51pm

re: #292 lawhawk

We had lots of snow and lots of wind, but nothing nearly as bad as the winds you guys got. Pretty wicked all the way around.

Actually, we get Nor'Easters here pretty regularly. Those come with fierce winds. Winds that dislodge roofing material, ground fishing boats onshore and uproot/ snap trees at least twice a year.
This was a nasty one, but, you really get used to it here.
I cut my teeth on the blizzard of '78.
I feel really bad for the folks who are not in any way used to this stuff. Especially down South. As I told a friend earlier, we are used to it, equipped for it and built for it, construction wise.

303 Shiplord Kirel  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:04:26pm

re: #261 Linden Arden

From just before Christmas -

Sarah Palin: Winner Of The 2010 Glenn Beck Misinformer Of The Year Award

A worthy recipient!

I actually thought "refudiate" is a pretty good neologism. Palin is making a mistake by not owning it. "Hell, yes, I invented this nifty new word, 'refudiate,' you betcha." Who knows, in a hundred years it may be thing for which she is best remembered.

304 CapeCoddah  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:04:52pm

re: #297 Dark_Falcon

Glad to hear you are well, or at least decent. You can be arrested for running around nekkid.

305 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:06:07pm

Some more WTF from Streetpundit.

306 brookly red  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:06:19pm

re: #303 Shiplord Kirel

I actually thought "refudiate" is a pretty good neologism. Palin is making a mistake by not owning it. "Hell, yes, I invented this nifty new word, 'refudiate,' you betcha." Who knows, in a hundred years it may be thing for which she is best remembered.

just wait till she uses it in an executive order...


sorry if I scared anyone.

307 wrenchwench  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:06:35pm

re: #293 Gus 802

What a douche nozzle. I should have searched his website earlier.

Must have been a charitable holiday feeling around here that day. It's not like we didn't get warnings from that one.

308 CapeCoddah  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:08:06pm

re: #305 Gus 802

I'll take your word for it.

309 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:08:10pm

re: #284 Charles

Not a problem. And no need to thank me.

Well, at least the troll got clubbed early. I'll go get the grill warmed up. Roast Troll on in 33 minutes.

310 jaunte  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:08:14pm

re: #298 ArchangelMichael

I still cannot understand why anyone (who is not a militant fundamentalist muslim or a raging left wing communist that would make Lenin blush) can view supporting a modern secular liberal democratic state over theocracies and thugocracies that oppose it, is in any way "radical". All I can come up with is blind hatred of 'Teh Jooz!'

Some Libertarian Tea Partiers are pretty strong 'isolationists'
(by which I mean Israel-lobby-fearing-nutjobs).

311 wrenchwench  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:08:56pm

re: #305 Gus 802

Some more WTF from Streetpundit.

If he had paid more attention to Sarah, he'd know it's one black cheek and one white cheek.

/

312 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:09:40pm

re: #305 Gus 802

Some more WTF from Streetpundit.

But... according to his own description of himself, he's a "Philosopher and Intellectual Activist"... Didn't I use to see an ad in comic books where you could purchase that sort of degree?

313 wrenchwench  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:10:59pm

re: #312 Walter L. Newton

But... according to his own description of himself, he's a "Philosopher and Intellectual Activist"... Didn't I use to see an ad in comic books where you could purchase that sort of degree?

You have to get the six-pack of Whoopee Cushions for that one.

314 brookly red  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:11:21pm

WTF? Girl next door just got Indian food delivered, yet the pizza shop is closed...

I am so kicking Tony's ass when that lazy prick comes back.

315 KronoGhazi  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:11:43pm

Daddy?

Daddy?

316 freetoken  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:11:44pm

re: #303 Shiplord Kirel

I actually thought "refudiate" is a pretty good neologism. Palin is making a mistake by not owning it.


That would have been a quick-witted response on the part of Esther, if she had gone that way...

But quick-of-wit will not be an oft used adjective attached to her.

317 CapeCoddah  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:12:01pm

re: #312 Walter L. Newton

But... according to his own description of himself, he's a "Philosopher and Intellectual Activist"... Didn't I use to see an ad in comic books where you could purchase that sort of degree?

I think they advertise those on FaceBook

318 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:12:09pm

re: #305 Gus 802

Some more WTF from Streetpundit.

Classy!

319 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:12:13pm

re: #312 Walter L. Newton

But... according to his own description of himself, he's a "Philosopher and Intellectual Activist"... Didn't I use to see an ad in comic books where you could purchase that sort of degree?

Apparently he was an intellectual activist fighting against intellectualism.

//

320 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:12:25pm

re: #305 Gus 802

Some more WTF from Streetpundit.

That ain't even a dog whistle. That's just lain racism there. And he's from Chicago, too. Perhaps I should find out when the next meeting of the "Chicago Objectivist Society" is and give the little Ayn Rand fan a good screaming at.

321 Charles Johnson  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:12:40pm

re: #305 Gus 802

Some more WTF from Streetpundit.

Yikes. Now I see where that question to SFZ came from.

322 Dancing along the light of day  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:13:04pm

re: #305 Gus 802

LOL!
Describes himself as an "Intellectual Activist".

323 jaunte  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:13:20pm

re: #303 Shiplord Kirel

She would have to take the two mental steps of:
1. "I made a mistake..."
2. "...but I like it, and I'm going to keep it."

She can't do #1.

324 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:13:41pm

re: #321 Charles

Yikes. Now I see where that question to SFZ came from.

Yea... he was real subtle.

325 CapeCoddah  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:14:00pm

re: #314 brookly red

WTF? Girl next door just got Indian food delivered, yet the pizza shop is closed...

I am so kicking Tony's ass when that lazy prick comes back.

You need to make your own pizza. With a small investment in a pizza stone,$25, it is as good as the shops. With a little bit of practice.

326 freetoken  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:14:03pm

re: #320 Dark_Falcon

It's an Ayn Rand fetishist. I've yet to find one that had anything of real merit.

327 SanFranciscoZionist  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:14:43pm

OK, reporting back from my movie, if you have deflowered your bride before the wedding night, and now it's the wedding night, and the women of the family are waiting outside to collect the bloody sheet, it's just basic manners that YOU rather than SHE get cut to make things look proper. I'm just saying. This Khaled guy was raised in a barn.

(I'm not just saying that because he's a Nazi collaborator, either. Really.)

328 Decatur Deb  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:14:51pm

re: #314 brookly red

WTF? Girl next door just got Indian food delivered, yet the pizza shop is closed...

I am so kicking Tony's ass when that lazy prick comes back.

He's gone to the Pine Barrens to rescue Paulie and Christopher.

329 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:14:53pm

re: #321 Charles

Yikes. Now I see where that question to SFZ came from.

Yeah. He has several others like that. Another one he defends the Confederate flag and then links to a neo-Confederate website. Looking at another one here where he posted something titled, "2 Chicago state reps: Blacks Too Violent – Bring in the National Guard."

330 BongGhazi  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:14:55pm

re: #312 Walter L. Newton

But... according to his own description of himself, he's a "Philosopher and Intellectual Activist"... Didn't I use to see an ad in comic books where you could purchase that sort of degree?


I don't know about the comic book ads, but I'm getting a "Wile E. Coyote, SOOPER Genius" vibe.

331 brookly red  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:16:16pm

re: #325 CapeCoddah

You need to make your own pizza. With a small investment in a pizza stone,$25, it is as good as the shops. With a little bit of practice.

If I wanted to do things for myself why the F would I live in NYC?

332 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:16:31pm

re: #319 Gus 802

Apparently he was an intellectual activist fighting against intellectualism.

//

He's an Objectivist. That means his next move will be to declare he
s "Going Gault" over at the Stalker Blog, followed by a "Diary of Daedalus Dorkus" thread where he calls Charles a "looter".

"I HATE YOU, DADDY!! PAY ATTENTION TO ME!!1"

333 jaunte  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:16:42pm

re: #329 Gus 802

Could be a huge temporary spike in his readership tonight; tomorrow it's just the family again.

334 CapeCoddah  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:18:46pm

re: #331 brookly red

If I wanted to do things for myself why the F would I live in NYC?

Sheesh... well, then don't bitch if you are pizzaless in a blizzard. No excuse for it.
We have pizza 24/7. Bet you don't have that with Tony.

335 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:19:28pm

re: #329 Gus 802

Yeah. He has several others like that. Another one he defends the Confederate flag and then links to a neo-Confederate website. Looking at another one here where he posted something titled, "2 Chicago state reps: Blacks Too Violent – Bring in the National Guard."

Then here's a song to of praise to a better (adopted) son of Illinois than "Street Pundit":

Youtube Video
336 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:19:39pm

re: #334 CapeCoddah

Sheesh... well, then don't bitch if you are pizzaless in a blizzard. No excuse for it.
We have pizza 24/7. Bet you don't have that with Tony.

I bet you don't have anything that resembles real pizza.

337 wrenchwench  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:19:52pm

re: #113 StreetPundit

This is news? Hmm...

The flounce started here^^^.

338 KronoGhazi  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:21:12pm

re: #333 jaunte

Could be a huge temporary spike in his readership tonight; tomorrow it's just the family again.

preceded by a huge dip in the intellectual actualism at LGF.... now we have re-equalized back to synergentric harmonies.

339 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:21:21pm

re: #337 wrenchwench

The flounce started here^^^.

That's where I let out my first "uh oh." I knew it right then and there that he was up to no good.

340 jaunte  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:21:59pm

re: #338 BigPapa

Ima have to get my step locks back out of the steplocker.

341 Daniel Ballard  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:22:29pm

re: #339 Gus 802

You nailed it. Well done.

342 Kragar  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:23:26pm

Sarah, you're so full of shit, you should open a fertilizer business.

343 brookly red  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:23:28pm

re: #334 CapeCoddah

Sheesh... well, then don't bitch if you are pizzaless in a blizzard. No excuse for it.
We have pizza 24/7. Bet you don't have that with Tony.

with all due respect you can no outta 24/7 me... ;)

344 KronoGhazi  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:23:39pm

Gus gets the Spidey Sense upding but Walter and SFZ get HonorMettions. Oh hell you all get karma just cuz.

345 CapeCoddah  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:24:11pm

re: #336 Walter L. Newton

I bet you don't have anything that resembles real pizza.

Walter, I am second generation Italian. Most of us(but not I) have brick pizza ovens built into our kitchens courtesy of cousins Ralph and Dennis.
We were raised with nothing but homemade Italian everything.
I make my own pasta, gnocchi, pizza, sauce, ravioli... you name it.
We all do. I make awesome pizza.

346 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:24:18pm

re: #344 BigPapa

Gus gets the Spidey Sense upding but Walter and SFZ get HonorMettions. Oh hell you all get karma just cuz.

All I got was deleted... and I had some clever smack downs.

347 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:24:41pm

Gotta love objectivists, he's got a beard, a whole bunch of rush links, and a whole bunch of I'm-a-philosopher schtick

I wonder if has a fedora and collects swords, I wonder if he's got the Honda Goldwing

Objectivists love Goldwings

348 brookly red  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:24:55pm

re: #345 CapeCoddah

Walter, I am second generation Italian. Most of us(but not I) have brick pizza ovens built into our kitchens courtesy of cousins Ralph and Dennis.
We were raised with nothing but homemade Italian everything.
I make my own pasta, gnocchi, pizza, sauce, ravioli... you name it.
We all do. I make awesome pizza.

yeah but do you deliver?

349 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:25:03pm

re: #345 CapeCoddah

Walter, I am second generation Italian. Most of us(but not I) have brick pizza ovens built into our kitchens courtesy of cousins Ralph and Dennis.
We were raised with nothing but homemade Italian everything.
I make my own pasta, gnocchi, pizza, sauce, ravioli... you name it.
We all do. I make awesome pizza.

Fine... then get your butt over to Brookly with a sausage with double cheese.

350 Kragar  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:25:06pm

re: #344 BigPapa

Gus gets the Spidey Sense upding but Walter and SFZ get HonorMettions. Oh hell you all get karma just cuz.

What I miss?

351 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:25:34pm

re: #348 brookly red

re: #349 Walter L. Newton

GMTA... lol.

352 CapeCoddah  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:26:26pm

re: #348 brookly red

yeah but do you deliver?

Within a 30 foot radius of the stove, yes.

353 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:26:49pm

re: #350 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

What I miss?

Anti-Christian turned StreetPundit turned out to be a troll.

354 CapeCoddah  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:26:53pm

re: #349 Walter L. Newton

Fine... then get your butt over to Brookly with a sausage with double cheese.

LOL, His ass is snowed in. I'm with Tony on this one.

355 ozbloke  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:27:09pm

re: #346 Walter L. Newton

All I got was deleted... and I had some clever smack downs.

You got the chair next to me, that's gotta be worth sumthin!

356 Decatur Deb  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:27:14pm

re: #335 Dark_Falcon

Then here's a song to of praise to a better (adopted) son of Illinois than "Street Pundit":


[Video]

Here are some alternate lyrics from 1860--the music is "Rosin the Bow". Perhaps my group can learn them before the Jeff Davis re-enactment.

FREEMEN, RALLY!
Awake from your slumbers, Brave Heroes!
And hark to the bugle's deep tones,
That calls you to fight for your country!
Swear vengeance by Patriots' Sons!

Chorus:
For we'll be united for ever
Come, join in the chorus so true;
Our 84 Star-spangled Banner!
Our glorious Red, White and Blue!

Jeff Davis we'll serve as was Arnold,
He'll meet with a vile traitor's doom;
The Union men never will let him
Sweep clean with his secession broom.

Chorus.

To others we will pay attention,
And look to their welfare and rocks;
Buy a rope for Secessor Vice Stephens,
And pay in Confederate Stocks.

Chorus.

Gen. Johnson we know is a traitor;
To call him so, seems very hard:
We'll stigmatise him with the honor,
Hang him next to his friend Beauregard.

Chorus.

We'll soon hear of a dissolution
Of the firm of Jeff Davis and Co.
Their Confederate Bonds they will pack up,
And up the Salt-River they'll go.

Chorus

If we march down, we will take them,
And don't care for even John Bull:
For he knows that this is brave Scott-Land;
The South knows that we have some Wool.

Chorus.

Then let us Hurrah for the Union,
Determined we never will swerve;
For, By the Eternal! Our Union
It must, and it shall be preserved.

From the Bodleian Library
(Oxford University) Ballad Index….
[Link: www.bodley.ox.ac.uk...]
Search Term: "Rosin the Bow"

357 wrenchwench  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:27:17pm

re: #350 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

What I miss?

Dark_Falcon has some buttocks on the BBQ.

358 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:27:29pm

Off to the gym... gonna use the treadmill while watching Sarah on Fox... what a workout.

359 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:27:39pm

re: #350 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

What I miss?

"Street Pundit" melted down. He posed a hostile question to SFZ, made a nasty crack to Reine when she called him on it, was revealed to be both a racist and an objectivist, then got booted out on his ass by Charles.

360 brookly red  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:28:06pm

re: #358 Walter L. Newton

Off to the gym... gonna use the treadmill while watching Sarah on Fox... what a workout.

she is always one step ahead of you...

361 Ben G. Hazi  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:28:39pm

re: #359 Dark_Falcon

"Street Pundit" melted down. He posed a hostile question to SFZ, made a nasty crack to Reine when she called him on it, was revealed to be both a racist and an objectivist, then got booted out on his ass by Charles.

Not to mention a serial troll/possible Stalker....

362 Walter L. Newton  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:28:44pm

re: #360 brookly red

she is always one step ahead of you...

Barf.

363 Kragar  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:28:51pm

re: #353 Gus 802

Anti-Christian turned StreetPundit turned out to be a troll.

Wow, that was a big suprise there.
///

364 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:30:03pm

re: #356 Decatur Deb

That, and you could use this:

Youtube Video
365 Decatur Deb  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:30:07pm

re: #363 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Wow, that was a big suprise there.
///

"I have to disagree with you on that "surprise" there, Kragar."

366 Decatur Deb  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:31:24pm

re: #364 Dark_Falcon

That, and you could use this:


[Video]

Save that for a couple years. There'll be no rush.

367 jaunte  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:32:11pm

re: #363 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Wow, that was a big suprise there.
///

LIke the well scene from Lawrence of Arabia.

368 Linden Arden  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:32:54pm

re: #347 WindUpBird

A real Objectivist would hate Rush Limbaugh like Ayn Rand hated Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley.

Or probably more.

369 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:33:41pm

re: #368 Linden Arden

A real Objectivist would hate Rush Limbaugh like Ayn Rand hated Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley.

Or probably more.

Rush the band.

370 wrenchwench  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:33:52pm

re: #368 Linden Arden

A real Objectivist would hate Rush Limbaugh like Ayn Rand hated Ronald Reagan and William F. Buckley.

Or probably more.

The band, Rush, is popular with Objectivists, however.

371 Linden Arden  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:36:07pm

re: #370 wrenchwench

The band, Rush, is popular with Objectivists, however.

That is hilarious!

Sorry. That connection totally escapes me.

372 jaunte  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:37:38pm

re: #370 wrenchwench

The band, Rush, is popular with Objectivists, however.

"In the basement bars
In the backs of cars
Be cool or be cast out"

Lol.

373 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:37:53pm

Reading through "Street Pundit's" blog, I believe from his talk of Parental Alienation, that he posts on the Stalker Blog under the nic of "Mars". So we just had a Stalker Troll sockpuppet.

374 wrenchwench  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:41:57pm

re: #371 Linden Arden

That is hilarious!

Sorry. That connection totally escapes me.

I just learned it today, myself.

No one exemplifies that streak more than Ron Paul—unless you count his son Rand. When Rand Paul strolled onstage in May 2010, the newly declared Republican nominee for Kentucky’s U.S. Senate seat, he entered to the strains of Rush, the boomer rock band famous for its allegiance to libertarianism and Ayn Rand. It was a dog whistle—a wink to free-marketers and classic-rock fans savvy enough to get the reference, but likely to sail over the heads of most Republicans. Paul’s campaign was full of such goodies.
375 Gus  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:42:05pm

BIAB

376 Linden Arden  Mon, Dec 27, 2010 5:46:35pm

re: #374 wrenchwench

Thanks. That is interesting.

I'll wager Rush is anti-libertarian when it comes to music file-sharing. (Not that the LP supports picking off IP for free)


Just speculation on my part though.

377 Peter Kaufman  Tue, Dec 28, 2010 6:58:02am

Pathological.

378 krypto  Tue, Dec 28, 2010 9:10:50am

Whenever I hear Palin speak I'm reminded of how, by voting for McCain, I also voted for her. I keep wishing there were some way to refudiate that vote.

379 _RememberTonyC  Tue, Dec 28, 2010 3:01:55pm

Ms Palin: "Hello, may I speak to Senator Lieberman?"

Lieberman's Office: "He's not here, it's Yom Kippur."

Ms Palin: "Hello Yom ... may I leave a message for the senator?"


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