Quentin Tarantino’s new film “Django Unchained” is a story about an escaped slave who takes revenge on Southern slave owners, and unsurprisingly for a film about slavery and racism, it contains numerous uses of the “N-word.”
Right wing news aggregator Matt Drudge knows an opportunity when he sees one:
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Vicious Michigan Union Thug Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:07:34pm |
So it's a Civil War version of "Inglourious Basterds." Gotta see it.
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Vicious Michigan Union Thug Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:07:53pm |
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Targetpractice Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:08:19pm |
Let me guess, another round of "If liberals can do it, it must be okay!"?
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:10:52pm |
I thought maybe it was a biopic about Lee Atwater.
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Kragar Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:11:17pm |
And for a minute there, I thought he was just quoting National Review Online or the Eagle Forum.
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Targetpractice Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:12:18pm |
re: #6 Kragar
And for a minute there, I thought he was just quoting National Review Online or the Eagle Forum.
Nah, Stormfront.
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Kragar Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:12:49pm |
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Kragar Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:15:12pm |
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Sol Berdinowitz Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:15:44pm |
I believe he is falling back on the old "they're gonna call us racist no matter what we say or do, so we might as well just shout it out loud and enjoy ourselves" gambit.
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Sol Berdinowitz Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:16:18pm |
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Lidane Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:17:41pm |
re: #2 Vicious Babushka
So it's a Civil War version of "Inglourious Basterds."
Yeah, pretty much:
Gotta see it.
That too. Looks like a wild Tarantino film. I'll definitely see it.
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Sol Berdinowitz Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:18:15pm |
"America was founded by WASPs -- White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. They had nuclear families, attended church, and believed in the Protestant work ethic."
Is that what "racial realism" sounds like to you?
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Killgore Trout Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:19:27pm |
I don't like Leonardo DiCaprio much but I hear he's really good in this one.
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Kragar Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:19:56pm |
re: #13 Sol Berdinowitz
"America was founded by WASPs -- White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. They had nuclear families, attended church, and believed in the Protestant work ethic."
Don't forget taking stuff from the people they found when they got here.
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Political Atheist Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:20:06pm |
If anyone is interested in the ummm, culture clash between Spike Lee and Tarantino, here is a link to an NBC opinion piece. Remember the dust-up about the N word and Jacki Brown between them?
[Link: thegrio.com...]
In his defense, Tarantino argued in a Playboy interview: “I am working with The English language. I am not just a film director who shoots movies. I’m an artist, and good, bad, or indifferent, I’m coming from that place. All my choices, the way I live my life, are about that.
”Tarantino and Lee are both gifted filmmakers in their respective genres. Lee’s boisterous self-righteousness and dyspeptic personality once led New York magazine to call him “the angriest auteur.” Still, it’s not for nothing that Lee remains one of the most successful black filmmakers of all time: his movies draw legitimate praise for articulating the hopes, fears and rage inherent in African-American culture. Tarantino, meanwhile, specializes in gratuitously foul-mouthed yet immensely enjoyable schlock. His movies make you feel like taking a bath after you watch them, but there’s no denying their guilty pleasure value.
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Sol Berdinowitz Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:22:41pm |
re: #15 Kragar
Don't forget taking stuff from the people they found when they got here.
Or all the people they brought over here as property.
they were just being racially realistic.
/
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engineer cat Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:23:02pm |
re: #9 Kragar
in the 1850s this was known as 'the irish will never assimilate into our protestant american culture, and radical abolitionist want to allow white people and negroes to intermarry'
personally i think it was the emperor's decision to let visigoths serve in the roman army
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Lidane Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:23:26pm |
re: #13 Sol Berdinowitz
"America was founded by illegal immigrant WASPs. They left England because the rest of the country thought they were fanatical nutjobs. They had families, used religion as a way to repress themselves and others, and believed in
the Protestant work ethicNo Fun."
Fixed. Heh.
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Kragar Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:25:01pm |
re: #18 engineer cat
in the 1850s this was known as 'the irish will never assimilate into our protestant american culture, and radical abolitionist want to allow white people and negroes to intermarry'
personally i think it was the emperor's decision to let visigoths serve in the roman army
It all went to hell with the Constitutio Antoniniana.
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nines09 Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:25:39pm |
re: #18 engineer cat
in the 1850s this was known as 'the irish will never assimilate into our protestant american culture, and radical abolitionist want to allow white people and negroes to intermarry'
personally i think it was the emperor's decision to let visigoths serve in the roman army
So it was the Irish?/
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Kragar Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:27:34pm |
I got invited to a Goth club once.
My chainmail and battle axe were a touch out of place.
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The Ghost of a Flea Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:27:59pm |
That's Matt Drudge's typographic primal scream as Django Unchained triggers multiple forms of wingnut derangement simultaneously
I mean, how is he supposed to cope with a movie about a black man out for revenge, unflattering depictions of Southern whites, Hollywood liberals (who are the real racists), and the void in his soul resultant from the knowledge that he doesn't get to n-bomb as much as he wants to?
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kirkspencer Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:28:32pm |
re: #22 Kragar
I got invited to a Goth club once.
My chainmail and battle axe were a touch out of place.
Well duh. Everyone knows you should have worn furs instead. //
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Sol Berdinowitz Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:28:55pm |
re: #21 nines09
So it was the Irish?/
"Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the n***s of Europe. And Dubliners are the n***of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the n***s of Dublin. "
-Jimmy Rabitte in The Committments
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nines09 Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:29:28pm |
re: #23 The Ghost of a Flea
I'll bet Matt came in his pants just typing it.
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calochortus Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:29:43pm |
re: #19 Lidane
Fixed. Heh.
Hey, some of those nutjobs were my ancestors. Fortunately it has been a lot of centuries and we've ditched most of the "no fun" and all of the religion. Apparently an Irishwoman also sneaked in there somewhere, so maybe that did it.
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Gus Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:30:01pm |
Drudge is playing the old "why can they say that but we can't" bologna. In this case of course "they" comes in the form of Quentin Tarantino. Then he brings up something about Spike Lee complaining about the n-word being OK but if you bring up a Jewish slur it's not OK, "Why is it that 'n*gger' is all right, but you get into Jewish slur and you're antisemitic?" Or something. So is Drudge petitioning for Jewish slurs?
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The Ghost of a Flea Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:30:11pm |
re: #13 Sol Berdinowitz
"America was founded by WASPs -- White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. They had nuclear families, attended church, and believed in the Protestant work ethic."
Is that what "racial realism" sounds like to you?
I don't recall the part of the Protestant work ethic that involved stealing people from Africa to do the heavy lifting.
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sagehen Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:30:27pm |
re: #25 Sol Berdinowitz
"Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the n***s of Europe. And Dubliners are the n***of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the n***s of Dublin. "
-Jimmy Rabitte in The Committments
"Woman is the n*gger of the world"
--Yoko Ono
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Kragar Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:30:28pm |
re: #24 kirkspencer
Well duh. Everyone knows you should have worn furs instead. //
Yeah, I wore them under the mail as padding.
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sagehen Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:32:20pm |
re: #29 The Ghost of a Flea
I don't recall the part of the Protestant work ethic that involved stealing people from Africa to do the heavy lifting.
Pretty sure the Spanish/Portuguese/Dutch slavers who did that were Catholic. And it was the Pope who divvied up which parts of the Western Hemisphere were for which European countries to do as they pleased.
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calochortus Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:32:23pm |
re: #29 The Ghost of a Flea
I don't recall the part of the Protestant work ethic that involved stealing people from Africa to do the heavy lifting.
I thought we mostly just bought them? The stealing part was harder and more dangerous. Besides, we saved their immortal souls so it was all OK
(need I say: ///)
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lawhawk Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:33:07pm |
re: #22 Kragar
That was your problem right there. Chain mail isn't Goth. You needed to show up with plate armor. /
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Amory Blaine Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:33:54pm |
His website predates King James so I guess he uses what he has.
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Bulworth Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:34:31pm |
re: #4 Targetpractice
Taking away the right of RWNJ to say the N word ranks right there on the list of All Time Greatest Tyrannies, along with Obamacare. /
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Kragar Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:35:05pm |
re: #25 Sol Berdinowitz
"Do you not get it, lads? The Irish are the n***s of Europe. And Dubliners are the n***of Ireland. And the Northside Dubliners are the n***s of Dublin. "
-Jimmy Rabitte in The Committments
Dave Chappelle got approached by an Irish fan outside of a club in England:
Fan: "You know the Irish are the N*** of Europe?"
Dave: "Really? OUTTA MY WAY N***!"
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wrenchwench Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:35:15pm |
Atwater:
You start out in 1954 by saying, "n*****, n*****, n*****." By 1968 you can't say "n*****" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites.
'Forced busing' doesn't do it any more. 'States' rights' is almost worn out. Obama won't let them cut taxes any more. I guess we're going back to 1954 to start the cycle again.
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The Ghost of a Flea Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:36:38pm |
re: #32 sagehen
Pretty sure the Spanish/Portuguese/Dutch slavers who did that were Catholic. And it was the Pope who divvied up which parts of the Western Hemisphere were for which European countries to do as they pleased.
The British and the USians got in on the action. Slaving was an entrepreneurial opportunity with no national boundaries.
Weirdly, I'm listening to a book tape on the Underground Railroad at this very instant, and one of the arguments made by Quakers for abolitionism was precisely that slavery led one away from the do-it-yourself ethic of Protestantism.
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Kragar Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:37:24pm |
re: #35 lawhawk
That was your problem right there. Chain mail isn't Goth. You needed to show up with plate armor. /
That was 15th century. I was going for 5th.
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Gus Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:38:59pm |
re: #41 Kragar
That was 15th century. I was going for 5th.
Ah, that was the century of Republican Enlightenment. Stayed there too.
//
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calochortus Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:39:33pm |
re: #40 The Ghost of a Flea
The British and the USians got in on the action. Slaving was an entrepreneurial opportunity with no national boundaries.
Weirdly, I'm listening to a book tape on the Underground Railroad at this very instant, and one of the arguments made by Quakers for abolitionism was precisely that slavery led one away from the do-it-yourself ethic of Protestantism.
So you shouldn't hire help either? The cause may have been noble, but that argument strikes me as weak.
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The Ghost of a Flea Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:39:45pm |
re: #41 Kragar
That was 15th century. I was going for 5th.
So...woad, furs, and that particular air of violent derangement you can only get from brewing mead with henbane?
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Jimmah Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:40:42pm |
This has all the makings of a winning strategy for the GOP and its wingnut base. I hope they keep running with it.
Courting the white male vote exclusively will guarantee success in 2050 and beyond!
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Kragar Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:41:00pm |
Bristol Palin’s Failed Reality Show Received $354,348 In Taxpayer Dollars From Alaska
The continuing move of the entire Palin family into reality television careers is an amusing downfall story, but it took a serious turn today with the news that the state of Alaska had provided $354,348 in subsidies to Bristol Palin’s most recent venture into the genre, her Lifetime show Bristol Palin: Life’s A Tripp, which had such dreadful ratings it was yanked from its slot after two episodes. It’s one thing for the entertainment industry to effectively subsidize the Palins’ careers, given the relatively limited appeal they have in the aftermath of Sarah Palin’s political career. But it’s another for Alaska to spend money to attract a show to the state that probably would have filmed there anyway.
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Gus Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:41:34pm |
re: #46 Kragar
Bristol Palin’s Failed Reality Show Received $354,348 In Taxpayer Dollars From Alaska
Hahahaha!
But Michael Moore! /
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Romantic Heretic Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:41:38pm |
re: #31 Kragar
Yeah, I wore them under the mail as padding.
Good idea. Those links can leave a heck of a mark when they turn a blade.
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Kragar Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:41:47pm |
re: #44 The Ghost of a Flea
So...woad, furs, and that particular air of violent derangement you can only get from brewing mead with henbane?
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The Ghost of a Flea Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:42:10pm |
re: #43 calochortus
So you shouldn't hire help either? The cause may have been noble, but that argument strikes me as weak.
Not my argument, and I'm not articulating several chapters worth of description very well.
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b_sharp Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:42:44pm |
re: #46 Kragar
Bristol Palin’s Failed Reality Show Received $354,348 In Taxpayer Dollars From Alaska
You promised never to write the name Pa$!n again.
Now I have to go take a shower.
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Varek Raith Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:44:13pm |
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:44:26pm |
re: #53 b_sharp
can't be the same thing as a jackiss...
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Targetpractice Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:44:58pm |
re: #46 Kragar
Bristol Palin’s Failed Reality Show Received $354,348 In Taxpayer Dollars From Alaska
Speaking of national embarrassments, the Today Show had to tell the nation the great news that Dubya's daughter is pregnant. Apparently America wanted to demonstrate that it too can obsess over aristocracy.
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The Ghost of a Flea Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:45:03pm |
Maybe Matt Drudge thinks Tarantino is a nagger.
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b_sharp Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:45:17pm |
re: #55 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
can't be the same thing as a jackiss...
I think Jackuss is a verb.
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RadicalModerate Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:46:05pm |
re: #51 Varek Raith
Jack*ss, Jack*ss, Jack*ss, Jack*ss.
Since the first "a" isn't starred, I'm assuming that you want us to solve for the conjugated forms?
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calochortus Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:47:07pm |
re: #50 The Ghost of a Flea
Not my argument, and I'm not articulating several chapters worth of description very well.
I know you were doing a very brief synopsis-I just don't really see how it would work. Perhaps it was being used to portray the southern landowners as lazy, but of course, most slave owners only owned a slave or two and worked beside them in the fields, and it doesn't seem reasonable to expect even a very large family to work an entire plantation without help.
Maybe I just had to be there...
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Gus Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:47:44pm |
Oh I'm sorry? No one has died from weed? Really? Hmmm how about explaining THIS PHOTO!!! twitter.com/ConcernedMom42...— STOP WEED SMOKING!! (@ConcernedMom420) December 10, 2012
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:47:47pm |
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Randall Gross Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:47:52pm |
Malkin's going to be all over this like Beelzebub's flies on stink:
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:49:01pm |
re: #62 Gus
@concernedmom420 uh...their good actors paid money to pose for a propaganda photo.— Josh M. (@dreggas) December 12, 2012
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Shiplord Kirel Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:49:36pm |
Drudge's relative prominence illustrates once again just what a mighty and august position President of the United States really is.
Huh?
It's simple, when you're president people can establish lucrative careers examining not just your rhetoric and your position in history, but the very blow-jobs you receive.
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Targetpractice Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:50:10pm |
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Gus Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:50:36pm |
re: #65 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
[Embedded content]
Haha!!! BUSTED! My ATHIEST Neighbours are growing marijuana crops in their garden. I'm going straight to the police!! twitter.com/ConcernedMom42...— STOP WEED SMOKING!! (@ConcernedMom420) December 11, 2012
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Shiplord Kirel Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:51:07pm |
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Targetpractice Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:51:17pm |
re: #63 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
so I see Boner I mean Boehner tried to make the tax cuts for the wealthy permanent.
Word's going around the Boehner's stalling to make a deal until next month, when he knows for sure that he'll remain Speaker.
So, in short, these are not serious negotiations. This is Boehner trying to keep the natives from throwing his ass in the pot.
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Charles Johnson Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:51:30pm |
re: #62 Gus
That's got to be a parody account. Check this tweet:
For those of you who are wondering - I am EDUCATED. I finished my degree in truthology at Christian tech 1998 thank you very much.— STOP WEED SMOKING!! (@ConcernedMom420) December 12, 2012
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Targetpractice Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:52:27pm |
re: #68 Gus
[Embedded content]
Okay, that has seriously gotta be a fake account, because if it's not, then that woman is in need of immediate mental help.
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Gus Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:52:38pm |
re: #71 Charles Johnson
That's got to be a parody account. Check this tweet:
[Embedded content]
The Devil's Lettuce!
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Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:52:48pm |
Dr*dge. Dr*dge. Dr*dge. Dr*dge. Dr*dge. Dr*dge. Dr*dge.
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Kragar Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:53:58pm |
Cheese has been around longer than the planet.
Prehistoric man made cheese as long as 7,000 years ago
An international team said Wednesday they found proof for this theory from chemical analysis of fatty acid deposits on unglazed pottery pieces excavated in Poland, dating from about 7,000 years ago.
“The presence of abundant milk fat in these specialised vessels, comparable in form to modern cheese strainers, provides compelling evidence for the vessels having been used to separate fat-rich milk curds from the lactose-containing whey,” the researchers wrote.
Early farmers would have been lactose intolerant, lacking the genetic mutation we have since acquired to digest milk products long after being weaned off the breast.
Which begs the question, when did they first cut the cheese?
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palomino Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:54:41pm |
This movie is really gonna piss off the neo-confederates and other racists out there. Not because the n-word is used so much, but because it's a revenge fantasy based on a black guy in the antebellum South killing a bunch of white racists and plantation owners. Good, we'll see plenty of wingnuts complain, once again proving that they still haven't gotten over the Civil War.
It's a bit similar to "Inglourious Basterds" (Tarantino's last film) which was about Jews killing Nazis, only here it's blacks killing confederates. Check out the trailers: Leonardo DiCaprio plays an evil plantation owner. At one point he proclaims, "I've spent my whole life vastly outnumbered by Negroes. I don't understand why they don't just rise up and start killing white people." To which Christophe Waltz responds, "Well, there's always a first time for everything." Seems like pretty clear foreshadowing that a lot of white folks are gonna get it at the hands of slaves. Just like Inglourious Basterds, it's the kind of revenge flick I think I can enjoy.
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Jimmah Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:54:51pm |
re: #71 Charles Johnson
That's got to be a parody account. Check this tweet:
[Embedded content]
Yup - the '420' on the account name is a bit of a giveaway.
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:55:08pm |
re: #71 Charles Johnson
the first one with the pic is definitely believable, but yeah after that it goes into parodyville.
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Kragar Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:56:42pm |
Rick Perry: Outlawing All Access To Abortion Is ‘My Goal’
At a press conference on Tuesday organized by the anti-abortion group Texas Right to Life, Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX) reaffirmed that his ultimate legislative objective is to restrict all women’s access to abortion services.
Members of Texas Right to Life are currently pushing their state’s legislators to pass a “fetal pain” bill that would ban abortions after just 20 weeks — despite the fact that there’s no scientific evidence that fetuses can actually feel pain at that point. As the Huffington Post reports, Perry not only enthusiastically endorsed such a measure, but also confirmed his “goal” to continue passing restrictive legislation to limit women’s Constitutional right to choose:
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HappyWarrior Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:57:23pm |
Can't wait to see this movie if only to see Christoph Waltz as a good guy. That's gonna be neat after his portrayal of Landa in Basterds and I know Tarantino was thinking that.
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Eventual Carrion Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:57:48pm |
re: #68 Gus
Haha!!! BUSTED! My ATHIEST Neighbours are growing marijuana crops in their garden. I'm going straight to the police!! twitter.com/ConcernedMom42...
— STOP WEED SMOKING!! (@ConcernedMom420) December 11, 2012
Wonder where she lives? The crop has been in for 2 months here.
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calochortus Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:58:22pm |
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Targetpractice Wed, Dec 12, 2012 12:58:50pm |
re: #82 Kragar
Note to voters: Republicans are big on the "choice" of corporations to fuck over the working class, but not on your choice to control your own body.
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Gus Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:00:00pm |
re: #84 Eventual Carrion
Wonder where she lives? The crop has been in for 2 months here.
I don't know what's funnier. "Her" Tweets or some of the reactions.
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Sol Berdinowitz Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:00:17pm |
re: #82 Kragar
He knows that it will take a lot to overturn Roe v Wade, they just intend to bury it under a ton of restrictive legislation.
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Jimmah Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:00:26pm |
re: #51 Varek Raith
Jack*ss, Jack*ss, Jack*ss, Jack*ss.
Speaking of Jackasses:
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
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kirkspencer Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:00:56pm |
re: #65 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
[Embedded content]
The inhalation LD-50 of THC for male rats is 42mg/kg. Assume the same rate and the boy in the picture has to have inhaled over 3 kg (6.6 pounds) of THC. A potent marijuana leaf has 5% THC. Basically, the young man would have had to smoke the fiberweed van in one sitting to die.
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RadicalModerate Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:01:05pm |
re: #68 Gus
[Embedded content]
We had one of those growing in our backyard when I was a kid - as did most of the rest of the neighborhood. Got to be about 9 ft tall. Should I be mad because I'm not a rich druglord now?
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palomino Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:01:22pm |
re: #83 HappyWarrior
Can't wait to see this movie if only to see Christoph Waltz as a good guy. That's gonna be neat after his portrayal of Landa in Basterds and I know Tarantino was thinking that.
He's portrayed as a good guy (or at least a bounty hunter with a heart of gold) in the trailers. But I wonder if he's going to stick to his part of the bargain at the end of the movie, or if he might betray Jamie Foxx. Either way, he's a hell of an actor, even in drivel like "Water for Elephants." Maybe he'll get the Stars and Bars carved into his forehead at the end.
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HappyWarrior Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:03:12pm |
re: #92 palomino
He's portrayed as a good guy (or at least a bounty hunter with a heart of gold) in the trailers. But I wonder if he's going to stick to his part of the bargain at the end of the movie, or if he might betray Jamie Foxx. Either way, he's a hell of an actor, even in drivel like "Water for Elephants." Maybe he'll get the Stars and Bars carved into his forehead at the end.
Not sure. Either way, looking forward to this. And I definitely agree that the Neo-Confeds are going to get their panties bunched up over this big time even though they celebrate Nathan Bedford Forest.
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Gus Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:03:24pm |
re: #89 Jimmah
Speaking of Jackasses:
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
Jeez. The meltdown continues. "EVEN THOSE WHO UPDINGED HIS COMMENTS!!11ty"
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Sol Berdinowitz Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:03:38pm |
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Charles Johnson Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:04:36pm |
I link to Drudge Report at LGF, and Adsense instantly starts serving ads to buy gold.
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HappyWarrior Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:04:37pm |
Drunge reminds me of what happens when you give a child without parental guidance a webpage.
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Sol Berdinowitz Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:05:07pm |
re: #89 Jimmah
Speaking of Jackasses:
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
who needs stalker sites? seems like we got a self-contained one right here
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Sol Berdinowitz Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:06:27pm |
re: #94 HappyWarrior
Not sure. Either way, looking forward to this. And I definitely agree that the Neo-Confeds are going to get their panties bunched up over this big time even though they celebrate Nathan Bedford Forest.
at the first sign of black-on-white violence after this film comes out they will be insisting that Tarantino was a co-conspirator...
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The Ghost of a Flea Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:08:12pm |
Why Is the Drudge Report Covered in ‘N*GGER’? The Coming Right-Wing Freakout Over Django Unchained
Drudge's attention-grabbing headline, elucidated over the course of the morning in a series of smaller headlines, was an oblique reference to the frequency of the slur in the movie, and Tarantino's own, much-criticized history of using it in his scripts. It's hard to take Drudge — who's obsessed with black people to the point of fetish — seriously on this score, though: is the guy who uses his national news site to hype stories of marauding black teens really, all of a sudden, taking Spike Lee's side on something?
That's a rhetorical question: no, he doesn't care that Tarantino writes "n*****" into his characters' mouths 80-plus times in Django Unchained, in which a slave played by Jamie Foxx seeks to free his wife from a vicious plantation owner. He's just used his particular genius for understanding white American racial anxiety to seize on its newest front line.
This isn't the first time Django Unchained has been on the Drudge Report this week. On Monday, it got a photo and headline above the main story: "UNCHAINED: Foxx Jokes About Killing 'All The White People' In New Movie..." Above the headline, Drudge had a production still of Foxx, in a cowboy hat, holding a revolver.
The link took readers to Jamie Foxx's Saturday Night Live monologue, which was one of Monday's big "stories" in the online conservative media. "Black is in," Foxx had riffed. In his new movie, he said, "I play a slave. How black is that? [...] I get free. I save my wife and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?
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Kragar Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:09:53pm |
re: #101 The Ghost of a Flea
Why Is the Drudge Report Covered in ‘N*GGER’? The Coming Right-Wing Freakout Over Django Unchained
Next, they'll be upset about the Ding Dong.
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HappyWarrior Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:10:51pm |
re: #101 The Ghost of a Flea
Why Is the Drudge Report Covered in ‘N*GGER’? The Coming Right-Wing Freakout Over Django Unchained
Of course, they get offended at Jamie's monologues and then are the same people who wonder why a noose is racially insensitive. The way they got their shit bunched up over Avatar. I can see the right wingers at Breitbart crying about this movie big time.
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Feline Fearless Leader Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:11:09pm |
re: #51 Varek Raith
Jack*ss, Jack*ss, Jack*ss, Jack*ss.
A snake cursing as it crosses a children's play area???
;)
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HappyWarrior Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:11:26pm |
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jaunte Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:12:50pm |
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Kragar Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:13:20pm |
Anyone else find it hilarious that all these GOP governors are ceding power to the Federal government by not setting up the ACA healthcare exchanges in their states?
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Sol Berdinowitz Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:15:06pm |
Once again, it is not the words themselves that are racist, but the context in which they are used.
A man wearing a white hood in Spain is a penitente, a rather different matter than a man in a hood in the American south.
We get too many knee-jerk reactions and over reactions from people who do not understand things like context or nuance.
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HappyWarrior Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:15:10pm |
re: #107 jaunte
That spelling seems more apt than the one he started with.
Call that my s-m-r-t gaffe for the day.
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Sol Berdinowitz Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:15:52pm |
re: #109 Kragar
Anyone else find it hilarious that all these GOP governors are ceding power to the Federal government by not setting up the ACA healthcare exchanges in their states?
I wish I could laugh. They are doing it so they can then whine about the federal government taking over health care and infringing on their states' rights...
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jaunte Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:19:04pm |
re: #111 HappyWarrior
I like it; it brings in the "scunge" aspect.
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RadicalModerate Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:19:58pm |
re: #101 The Ghost of a Flea
Why Is the Drudge Report Covered in ‘N*GGER’? The Coming Right-Wing Freakout Over Django Unchained
I think that this paragraph from the Gawker writeup sums things up rather pointedly:
Django Unchained, unsurprisingly, has already been the subject of a series of heated blog posts on white nationalist sites. "Django Unchained; Incitement to racially motivated murder," goes one headline; another calls it an "anti-White racial snuff film." NRO and Breitbart won't write that out, specifically. But they know they don't have to: they're sharing an audience with the white nationalist sites — an audience that thinks that President Obama has been a racially "divisive" president, an audience that believes a race war is on the horizon, an audience that sympathizes with George Zimmerman. An audience that thinks an SNL monologue qualify as incitement to violence.
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The Ghost of a Flea Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:19:59pm |
re: #104 HappyWarrior
Of course, they get offended at Jamie's monologues and then are the same people who wonder why a noose is racially insensitive. The way they got their shit bunched up over Avatar. I can see the right wingers at Breitbart crying about this movie big time.
Posters at Breitbart and NRO are reacting to Foxx's SNL statement with complete insanity.
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Gus Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:20:06pm |
re: #89 Jimmah
Speaking of Jackasses:
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]
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Targetpractice Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:20:07pm |
re: #112 Sol Berdinowitz
I wish I could laugh. They are doing it so they can then whine about the federal government taking over health care and infringing on their states' rights...
And then find whatever metric they can all agree upon to whine that the resulting exchanges aren't working or working as well as they "should" and calling for them to be dismantled along with the rest of the ACA.
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BongCrodny Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:22:36pm |
re: #68 Gus
[Embedded content]
Haha!!! BUSTED! My ATHIEST Neighbours are growing marijuana crops in their garden. I'm going straight to the police!! pic.twitter.com/pyBiL4h3
I'm not as committed to the movement as other folks are, so I guess that makes me only Athier, not Athiest.
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Kragar Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:24:37pm |
White dude makes movie with 109 uses of the "N" word. But he's a winger-left, so he gets a pass. variety.com/review/VE11179...— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) December 12, 2012
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Gus Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:25:20pm |
re: #119 b_sharp
POE, yes?
For me? No. Took me about two Tweets to figure it out. The Tweet in #62 did it for me.
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RadicalModerate Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:27:10pm |
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Kragar Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:27:42pm |
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Jack Burton Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:27:47pm |
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Mattand Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:28:45pm |
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CuriousLurker Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:31:34pm |
re: #77 Jimmah
That's that high-grade crinkly-leaved thai shit if I'm not mistaken.
If I'm not mistaken, that's the same plant whose pollen is collected as part of the secret recipe for Magical Balance Fairy dust. I've heard its powers are wicked potent.
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Fart Knocker Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:32:53pm |
The link took readers to Jamie Foxx's Saturday Night Live monologue, which was one of Monday's big "stories" in the online conservative media. "Black is in," Foxx had riffed. In his new movie, he said, "I play a slave. How black is that? [...] I get free. I save my wife and I kill all the white people in the movie. How great is that?
Meh. Eddie Murphy did it better...
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Charles Johnson Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:33:26pm |
Just had a reappearance by long-banned weirdo "pharmmajor" in the previous thread. Eighth account he's registered.
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Fart Knocker Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:33:33pm |
Mel Brooks used the N word in Blazing Saddles...
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Jimmah Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:34:37pm |
You start out in 1954 by saying, “n*****, n*****, n*****.” By 1968 you can't say “n*****” — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. And subconsciously maybe that is part of it. I'm not saying that. But I'm saying that if it is getting that abstract, and that coded, that we are doing away with the racial problem one way or the other. You follow me — because obviously sitting around saying, “We want to cut this,” is much more abstract than even the busing thing, and a hell of a lot more abstract than “n*****, n*****.”
Nice to see Drudge coming full circle with the Southern Strategy.
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Kragar Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:35:04pm |
Bryan Fischer misreads scientific finding to attack homosexuals again
Now these researchers are quite at pains to avoid saying anything like this, but the logic to me seems inescapable: Homosexual children, on this theory, are born evolutionarily and genetically disadvantaged. They have been overexposed or underexposed to testosterone because something has gone wrong in the process of genetic transmission. In other words, they are the product of a genetic abnormality at best, a birth defect at worst.
Now Rice is quick to add all kinds of qualifiers. These markers are “highly variable” and only “strong” epi-marks will result in homosexual offspring. But if Rice is correct, I expect many abortion-minded parents will want to know exactly how strong this epi-marker is in their unborn children so they can decide whether or not to exercise reproductive choice.
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wrenchwench Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:37:14pm |
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Jimmah Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:38:17pm |
re: #129 Unions = Innovation slash slash
Mel Brooks used the N word in Blazing Saddles...
The President is a-near!
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Mattand Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:39:21pm |
re: #128 Charles Johnson
Just had a reappearance by long-banned weirdo "pharmmajor" in the previous thread. Eighth account he's registered.
As long as have been on the Internet, and as many rock-stupid things I've typed, I've never managed to piss off someone enough to get banned. Not that it couldn't or won't happen, but still.
I also don't get trying to force your way back into a site that has emphatically said to go away. As nuts as Diary of Daedalus is, at least they realized they could set up their own site and post away to their hearts' content.
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wrenchwench Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:40:01pm |
Switzerland is Germany with more cowbell.— Shit Germans Say (@ShitGermansSay) December 12, 2012
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wrenchwench Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:41:33pm |
re: #137 Jimmah
Have two!
Ice and I are not long back from the pub and I'm pretty much typing what she dictates as I haphazardly scroll the thread.
PS She also asked me to say it's all her fault ;-)
She owes me an upding!
I wish we had a pub here.
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jaunte Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:41:41pm |
re: #135 Mattand
Evolving past poo-flinging just isn't for everyone.
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Killgore Trout Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:41:49pm |
A reddit thread: Marijuana dealers of Colorado and Washington , how has the new law changed your business? Is the same, or have you lost all customers?
Most seem to say legalization has hurt their business. Legalization seems more effective in closing down dealers than arrests. People also discussing the rapid price drop after legalization makes illegal dealing and growing less attractive.
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Mattand Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:43:19pm |
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Sol Berdinowitz Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:43:33pm |
re: #135 Mattand
I also don't get trying to force your way back into a site that has emphatically said to go away. As nuts as Diary of Daedalus is, at least they realized they could set up their own site and post away to their hearts' content.
I finally looked into a stalker site. They are truly sad, like a rejected lover still parking at the end of his girlfriends' street and observing her through binoculars while commenting on how she has gained weight...
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Fart Knocker Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:44:04pm |
re: #134 Jimmah
The President is a-near!
Bart:Go for your gun.
Hedley Lamarr: Wait, wait, wait. I'm unarmed.
Bart: Alright, we'll settle this it men, with our fists.
Hedley Lamarr: Sorry, I just remembered . . . I am armed.
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Jimmah Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:48:19pm |
re: #126 CuriousLurker
If I'm not mistaken, that's the same plant whose pollen is collected as part of the secret recipe for Magical Balance Fairy dust. I've heard its powers are wicked potent.
Over indulgence can lead to tragic results though:
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Charles Johnson Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:49:15pm |
re: #135 Mattand
As long as have been on the Internet, and as many rock-stupid things I've typed, I've never managed to piss off someone enough to get banned. Not that it couldn't or won't happen, but still.
I also don't get trying to force your way back into a site that has emphatically said to go away. As nuts as Diary of Daedalus is, at least they realized they could set up their own site and post away to their hearts' content.
Actually, the dimwits from the stalker site have probably tried to re-register hundreds of times between them, and they still occasionally register sock puppets. They never stopped.
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CuriousLurker Wed, Dec 12, 2012 1:49:35pm |
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TedStriker Wed, Dec 12, 2012 2:43:45pm |
re: #77 Jimmah
That's that high-grade crinkly-leaved thai shit if I'm not mistaken.
Thai stick?
That stuff that's tied to a stick?
/Cheech and Chong
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CuriousLurker Wed, Dec 12, 2012 2:45:52pm |
re: #13 Sol Berdinowitz
"America was founded by WASPs -- White Anglo-Saxon Protestants. They had nuclear families, attended church, and believed in the Protestant work ethic."
Is that what "racial realism" sounds like to you?
I've gotta wonder how they'd run this country and what it would look like if they could get rid of all the non-Protestant, unemployed, non-church going, unmarried Whites who live alone, as well as all the Asians, Blacks, Hispanics, and myriad other people of various shades of brown.
I'm guessing the "racial realism" would look something like this:
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