I’ve written before about how Republicans just aren’t funny — it isn’t in their nature. Maybe it is due to the fact that those who swoon at the sight of authority just have no ability to prick the self-importance of the powerful in a way that generates humor, or that their tendency to laugh at the misfortunes of the weak (as in ethnic or sexist jokes) generally aren’t funny to anyone over the age of five. But once again, those laugh riots at the Lieberman campaign are proving that they are, at heart, Republicans.
The Kiss Float was funny, delightful, light hearted and acute in its targeting of a particular, telling moment that exploded so many of the self-important myths generated by Joe and his Party of Ego. And in response? We get some LieberClown dressed up as Osama Bin Laden saying "Support Ned Lamont — We Do."
That’s great. Why not just build a campaign around three Poles and a lightbulb, a priest, a rabbi and a minister or "for a nickle I would"?
It’s an old GOP card that has been played before, and will no doubt be played again. When this whole dark era of wingnut domination is over, maybe they can just return to bitching about black UN helicopters and fluoridated water. Honestly, their ham-fisted attempts to be funny are just abjectly painful to witness.
Now, I can’t say for sure if Lieberman is paying this guy to make this sick and truly despicable joke. But in my experience, a) nearly all the people who show up on behalf of Lieberman not named Lieberman are collecting a paycheck for it, and b) the guy looks suspiciously like the guy who showed up dressed in a banana suit and tried to muscle his way into the frame with Ned Lamont during the "Wake Up WalMart" press conference (where the paid LieberYouth were first instructed to begin harassing Ned, right as Richard Goodstein appeared on the scene). (hat tip LamontBlog)
Because Joe is all about eschewing negative, partisan politics and taking the high road, don’t you know. What a truly great man. How tragic that we blog urchins don’t recognize that and refuse to kiss his ring.
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Ned! Frist!
Pammy Atlas’s vlog is friggin hilarious..wait, it was supposed to be serious. Does that count?
back in the good ole days, they’d dress somebody up like Joe Stalin to endorse pinko Democrats !
The guy doesn’t look like OBL at all.
To me, it looks as if he’s dressed up as the typical “Arab” and that’s supposed to equal “terrorist” if you’re thinking with half your brain.
I’d say the Lieberman campaign is continuing its basic appeal to racism with this one.
I got a broken URL for that banana suit link, just fyi…
and how can you tell that’s osama, and not just some bedraggled guy?
It’s the Repub pundit loudmouths and bullies that aren’t funny. Others are bitingly so. It’s tied in with the very reason they become pundits and bullies – they’re broken, shame-filled, leg-shakingly afraid people. That doesn’t engender funniness, y’know?
and when I first started reading, I thought of Bruno Kirby in Godd Morning, Vietnam: “Sir…in my heart, I know I’m funny.”
that guy is supposed to be Osama bin Laden?!?
prolly be more effective if it were a slighty better costume…
I wanted to let you know there is a follow-up commentary just out regarding Lieberman and the VFF/GOP……..isn’t discovery just fun? Think you will find it interesting……
Sealed with a Kiss: Strange Bedfellows
http://scoop.epluribusmedia.or…..174731/329
frankly, I thought the dude was looking like a “hippie” supporting Ned — hippie-fear is fierce amongst elderly Republicans …
I thought the guy in the banana suit was George Allen? Now I’m really confused.
Didn’t look like Osama to me, either.
A disgusting analogy to make, anyway.
I didn’t know ZZ Top supported Lamont. :)
filthy racist xenophobes with no imagination at all and whose only game is endorsing more fear and hate.
macaca, little guatamalan, now arabs.
nice.
Hey, Mr. Linkee Man, linkee me banana!
I didn’t think of Osama–I thought the guy was supposed to be a hippie. Those wacky republicans!
I had no idea it was OBL either. Here are my ‘notes’ to the Republicans on their ‘Ned Lamont Supporter’ Joke.
1) Get a better OBL costume; and
2) Don’t use OBL until you capture him cause right now it’s just a reminder that your party failed to do what it set out to do and started a war we can’t get out of with a country that had NOTHING TO DO WITH THE 9/11 ATTACKS and is now just sucking lives and $$$ by the hour.
Other than that – I love it.
So who wants to commission a Summer’s Eve Box that says “Support Lieberman, we do!”
Twisted Martini @
17
Now THAT’S funny.
BTW banana link fixed.
It’s the Malkinization of America.
Twisted Martini– may I suggest the Fartacus scented variety?
(thanks Shez for that gem!)
This is really sad. I saw the photo and thought “Cool. Ned has the support of Connecticut rastifarians.”
I wish I were kidding. Will try to get out more.
Blog urchins? is that anything like sea urchins?
At least someone has spines—even multiple ones. That’s us.
Rob Zuber @ 12
707 – that was my reaction
Rove’s guys need to get a better costumer provider.
There are going to be all sorts of disgusting, ugly things going down in Connecticut this fall because the GOP sees this as a Republican pick up state (i.e. Liberman). Personally, I think, if anything, it’s going to help Lamont. As a resident of CT on and off for 40 years, I don’t think any CT Dem (or Independent, or moderate Republican) is going to appreciate having swiftboaters and Rove henchmen in CT throwing mud and filth.
Perhaps the $60 a day included the money for props and costumes.
besides, have you ever seen a plump or sunglass sporting Osama on teevee?
me neither.
Florida Mom @ 20 should have a spew warning!
When dirty tricks go bad…
actually, it’s an Allen Ginsburg look-alike
Wingnuts aren’t funny. And we need to hold them accountable. ThinkProgress has a good article on that tool Stephen Hayes being picked to write Cheney’s autobiography. Rush Limbaugh, The National Review, Drudge, Instapundit, and their enablers on cable TV need to be held accountable for this mess.
We need a data mining project, so every time any one of these idiots speaks, their stupid and hilariously wrong past statements get thrown back at them.
it’s probably not the same banana that is showing up with a monkey at Sen. Allen’s events.
http://online.wsj.com/public/r…..mp;hasAd=1
Link to new zogby poll results:
Good news:
There are some new competitive senate races-
Nevada- now within three points
Arizona- now within four points
Tn – within three points
Webb up one in Virginia!!!!
Also good news- Brown up 9 in Ohio
Bad news:
Talent now in the lead by 4.5 in Mo.
Lieberman up ten in his race.
EPU’d part 1.
egregious @ 82
Interesting. Just got off the phone with my business partner in New York and asked him what he thought about Lieberman…
He said. “You know, I don’t even know anything about Lamont but I can’t stand Lieberman. It’s not even about the war in Iraq. It’s because he’s whiner!!! And I’m Jewish!” LOL
My business partner isn’t as politically savvy or as informed as I am but I thought his whiner observation was interesting and wonder how prevalent that is to the casual observer (and voter).
I thought that guy was a musician I know (he’s Jewish with dreadlocks) and did a double-take. “Hey, what’s MJ doing in Connecticut?” :)
I Emailed Cilizza a link to the previous post and got back an Email from his Blackberry saying he cant open it so I cutted and pasted the entire Jane-post and just Emailed it to him …
God, it looks like Jamie Farr in Cannonball Run.
Nice pre-printed sign he’s sporting there. Very grassroots.
http://www.WhinyJoe.com
Dean Wormer @ 34
Go Klinger!
What a bunch of fuckheads.
That probably is the same punk as the banana pic.
Fuck him and Fuck. Them.
Let’s push them to the wayside this November.
*blech*
The Allen Macaca mocking banana is a female without a beard– link to Anna Banana and Mac Monkey.
http://www.newsleader.com/apps…..60302/1002
rwcole @ 29
This is the Zogby Interactive which is an online poll of self-selected voters. Don’t take it too seriously.
EPU’d part 2 of 2.
egregious @ 92
Florida Mom, LOL.
I thought it was someone trying to look like John Belushi. I also thought, “cool.”
Yes, I need to get out more, too.
annburns @ 27
Well, for starters, the Rovians were using the “OBL supports” crap back in 2004. I was with Emily’s List in West Palm Beach on election day and “OBL endorses Kerry” signs were up everywhere.
Sad
This Osama guy should be invited on the Colbert report! Wouldn’t that be entertaining.
Bad costume choice.
At first glance I thought an Amish Union had endorsed Ned.
Then I wondered why Captain Ahab was supporting him.
-GSD
Re Brown up in Ohio over DeWine,
Guess a lot of people like me are begging their Ohio relatives to TAKE ACTION.
Democracy…it might just work…
cozumel,
“My business partner isn’t as politically savvy or as informed as I am but I thought his whiner observation was interesting and wonder how prevalent that is to the casual observer (and voter).” it is intuitively obvious to the most casual observer!
Scurrying downthread to see if he responds….
(WTG, *ilson!)
Egy, if I may?
*ilson46201 @
33
***
Someone from the Lamont team should pass out Enlistment forms to each and everyone of these Yellow elephants. Asking them at the same time “Why aren’t they fighting over there so Osama won’t need to attend Lamont rallies!
dab from CT @ 25
Sorry about that.
It seems that although each of us saw something different (Amish folk, Beat Poets etc) we all saw something positive. Not something meanspirited as intended. Ha. Ha.
Zorko @ 15
Yeah, I thought it was John Lennon. By the way, I’ve decided that I killed JonBenet. (har-har)
Salon.com War Room:
If you used a guy dressed like that in my part of Alaska, nobody would notice him.
Ouch! Some advice – don’t blog when you’re taking a break from housepainting. Gotta turn this machine off and clean the paint off the keyboard. Back later……
Good for Ned, from the looks of that picture at the top of the post, he has the support of GOP Congressman Don Young from Alaska.
-GSD
*ilson, speak of the devil.
the Rovians were using the “OBL supports” crap back in 2004
I saw one of those infuriating “nine out of 10 terrorists prefer Kerry” bumper stickers on a car at my daughter’s dance studio. I had a suspicion who it was, but wasn’t sure.
I put a post-it on their windshield, saying “If I were you, I wouldn’t put LIES on my bumper.”
The bumper sticker was gone next time I saw the car…was I going over the line? Maybe. But what I wrote was true, every word of it.
Oh, and jane–these vile things aren’t meant to be funny. They are meant to be “plausibly deniable”, as in when you rightfully point out how hateful and disgusting they are, the Rethugs will say, “you humorless liberals never could take a joke.”
Just another reason to wish these disgusting people the most humiliating defeat that could ever happen.
“but I thought his whiner observation was interesting and wonder how prevalent that is to the casual observer (and voter).”
Coz, that’s the very first thing most non-political people notice about him, and cringe about. It’s unfortunate, for the most part, that people form opinions based on stuff like that, but in this case it is indicative of his larger problem – he’s a wanking whiner!
I was shocked to hear Heidi Klum’s voice the other day. She sounds like she’s on helium but it doesn’t take away from her smarts or beauty.
No No Zorko! The guy in the Osama suit did it.
looks like one of those sandwich board “the end of the world is nigh” kind of guys
RevDeb
Actually, Zogby interactive is not a typical online poll. Zogby has been fine tuning it’s methodology for years and it’s results are now on a par with the Zogby telephone survey- it’s reliable and should be taken seriously. It uses stratified sample technology.
I had to study the picture for awhile – I knew it was supposed to be an insult, but I wasn’t sure how… Pajamahadeen, perhaps?
*ooabby @ 46
His larger point was (bus partner) personality is more important than the issues, in his opinion.
Whiner! LOL
Bilhelm @ 50
I wonder about Katherine Harris … exactly where was she Christmas night ten years ago?
Does his name contain the answer to his true employer?
CIllizA?
-GSD
I thought it was the guy from the Rock the Casbah video…I was wondering where his beat box was.
I’ve never seen OBL with shades, but I understand he has a beautiful bong he carries around with him.
This month’s Atlantic (or is it Harpers?) has a piece by a woman who apparently captured his attention. During their first “date”, he took several hits off his bong; she declined. I dunno,
I’m getting such a different picture of him from non-official readings. He seems like a spoiled rich kid, just like Georgie and about as serious in his religion as Georgie is. Does George go to church? I didn’t think so.
rwcole @ 58
rwcole
I’ll defer to your knowledge which I know you have a great deal of, but the last time I read about it, the interactive was still being refined and had a ways to go before it tracked with other polls.
If so, we’ve got work to do.
egregious @45,
A lot of Ohio folks I talk to are saying they want them ALL out. They’re sick of incumbents, period.
My pizza man was wondering about Blackwell vs. Strickland. I told him I thought BLackwell would have made a dandy Pharisee and why. We’ll see if his megachurch teaching cancels out my one little voice.
Aw, man, I’ve been EPU’d!!
rwcole– perhaps Dan Balz could be more informed by you. In today’s Wapo chat he had this to say:
GSD @
44
They, the Amish don’t wear shades.
*ilson46201 @
9
So did I, *ilson. I had to read the Lamont blog to find out this was supposed to be OBL.
This is a really stupid stunt.
Captain Goto @ 67
EPU’d at 67 ???
you keep using that word
I think mayby it doesn’t mean what you think it means
In unrelated not-funniness, the identity of the “secret hold” Senator is still unknown, but 58 Senators have been eliminated thus far as the possible culprit. Check the latest tally to see if your Senator still needs to be asked the question.
(Background here.)
coz at 6o,
one would hope most people vote on issues, not personality … but I’m afraid that’s not true. On the bright side that should help Ned.
Your daily gas and oil prices
Average price for regular gasoline 8/28/06 in 50 states and DC
$3.00 plus 14 states
$2.90 plus 7 states
$2.80 plus 13 states
$2.70 plus 14 states
$2.60 plus 3 states
Average national price: $2.848, down $.043 from 8/25/06
Highest recorded national average price: $3.057 9/5/2005
Highest average price: Hawaii $3.349
Lowest average price: Ohio $2.614
Nymex Crude Future $70.40, down $2.11 from 8/25/06
Dated Brent Spot $69.95, down $1.79
WTI Cushing Spot $70.61, down $1.52
Gas continues to fall. This is good news for Republicans as it decreases pump rage. Ernesto turned toward Florida and away from the energy intensive Louisiana-Texas coast. As a result, oil prices which were set to jump either way on Friday fell and are again testing the $70 level.
One of the Three Wise Men supports Lamont? Aren’t we trying to keep religion out of this?
*ilson46201 @ 33
I posted a link to the FDL thread in his comments — told Chris he could get a Fix-Fact Fix at FDL! I guess if he’s still trying to open things on his Blackberry, then he’s not paying attention to the comments on his blog (not that I recommend it, what a bunch of losers he attracts!)
Nice going, *!
*ooabby @ 46, way to make use of the new spell-checking technology, and persevering until those red lines go away.
I just went over to Network Solutions to see if I could buy a lieber domain if I spelled it wrong as Leiberman2006. It was already taken, but they suggested the following for me!!
leiberboy.com
leiberdude.com
manguyon.com
leiberchap.com
manboystories.com
leiberfellow.com
manboylovers.com
leibermanwelt.com
manspankingboy.com
Hugh @ 74– I truly and absolutely believe that this is complete manipulation by bush, cheney and their oil buddies. There is no way that they fell all by themselves with wars raging…
no tinfoil hat required, imho.
It would be funny if, while he was checking his blackberry, he hit the shepard. Oy, Joe!
Ben Domenech @ 75
maybe it’s an Elder of Zion who had trouble with his TCP/IP Protocols?
Never mind. I got caught in a refresh from the 8th dimension.
you keep using that word
I think mayby it doesn’t mean what you think it means
My name is Diego Montoya.
ccmask – manboystories.com? does that mean Lieberman is a member of NAMBLA?
rwcole @ 58
I receive Zogby interactive surveys frequently. I rarely have the time to take them. Clearly it’s self selecting – on top of being only available to people with Internet access.
Secondly – living in CT – I would be shocked if a week after the primary, Lieberman didn’t have higher name recognition than Lamont among Indeps and Repubs.
If I were an 18 year incumbent – I would want much more than a 10 points margin. It seems to me he had a much larger margin in the primary and it melted away pretty quickly.
And just curious – he’s “up” 10 points compared to what? Did Zogby recently do an interactive survey of all likely voters in CT to compare these results to? Just curious.
I’d also like to see a breakdown of the votes – do you have that info? I would be surprised if Lieberman’s support doesn’t skew Republican.
Mommybrain @ 64
if he does carry this irem, he proably calls it a Hooka, and he most likely smokes tobacco in it
know your enemy
it’s a common practice in Arab cultures
op99, lol believe it or not I got it right the first try! btw your land line is still out
listening to Chris Shays on hardballs… sounds defensive, just like chimpy earlier today…
Don’t know if this was mentioned before:
TPM Cafe
kewl graphic
it gets better, OldCoastie…
Captain Goto @ 54
Fine, let’s see who laughs when a walking bottle of BUSHmills whiskey starts following Fredo around.
Captain Goto @ 82
wrong, do it again
Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die
I really hate it when they get the quotes wrong
I just bought http://www.ConnecticutForLeiberman.com and http://www.CT4Leiberman.com — it’ll take an hour for the forwarding to take effect … (notice the misspelling)
fwiw, being a nice guy, I also bought a couple of protective domain names for my local progressive Congresslady …
freepatriot @85 – I know what a hookah is and what is smoked in one in the Arab world. She clearly said it was a bong and he smoked wacky weed in it.
Margot @ 66
Lieberman: as funny as a tornado warning.
* At 642 PM EDT… National Weather Service Doppler Radar Indicated A Severe Thunderstorm That Was Likely Producing A Tornado. This Dangerous Storm Was Located Near Grove City… Moving Northeast At 15 Mph.
* Locations Impacted Include… Grove City… Groveport… Upper Arlington… Columbus… Bexley… Westerville… Reynoldsburg… Minerva Park…
In the “Payback: What a Concept!” and “Give ‘Em Hell, Harry ‘n’ Chuck” departments (via Atrios): the DSCC page has zapped Joe out of existence, and shows Lamont as the “incumbent” in Connecticut instead.
Kos says Liddy Dole has drafted Republican workers all across the eastern US to campaign for Chaffey. Minus the editorial and punditocracy noise, maybe the incumbency protection racket seems to be truly bipartisan.
I also hear it’s an open primary. This is where maple sappy New England Dems separate from wild eyed Texas Republicans (it’s all that hot sauce burning our sphincters that makes us so ornery – and I’ll bet Jane finds red hot chili pepper seeds on her TP quite often too). In Texas the Republicans regularly vote in Democratic primaries to make sure the weakest Dem candidate goes to the general election.
Where is the Dem GOTV effort for Mr Laffey?
Is anyone on here from RI? What gives? Please don’t claim to be above that sort of thing. It’s legal, so it’s dumb not to. And with the R’s running smears against Laffey, wouldn’t it be delish to see them turn 180 degrees?
ccmask @ 77
Now I’m thinking we could have a lot of fun with leiberchap.com and leiberdude.com lol.
Fine, let’s see who laughs when a walking bottle of BUSHmills whiskey starts following Fredo around.
Ooooohhhh, me likey.
“Ham-fisted attempts” You really do have a way with words.I was thinking that’s exactly how
they handle everything,especially the Wilsons,
who in my opinion are a class act!
Florida Mom @
20
Florida Mom, have you heard from lotus?
Ah, I see RevDeb beat me to it.
I really hate it when they get the quotes wrong
OK, Ok, rubbing it in not necessary…sheesh!!!
*ilson: You did better than me. If you type in Leiberman (spelled wrong) on google images, the first hit is a clown.
Mommybrain @ 93
well Okay then
you gotta be clear about that, cuz Hookahs are quite common amongst Arabs
Hookahs and bongs are quite similar to begin with, and as I said, lots of Arabs I know have Hookahs
that said, I still don’t think the fact that osama bin laden smokes a little pot is relevent
if you ever visit my house, we won’t insult you by offering a bong hit
it’s all good
just wanted to make sure you knew of the cultural differences that could explain a misunderstanding on this issue
Yep. Wingnuts not funny.
http://www.cnn.com/2006/POLITI…..index.html
Rep. Harris: Church-state separation ‘a lie’
POSTED: 5:37 p.m. EDT, August 28, 2006
MIAMI, Florida (AP) — U.S. Rep. Katherine Harris told a religious journal that separation of church and state is “a lie” and God and the nation’s founding fathers did not intend the country be “a nation of secular laws.”
…..
“If you’re not electing Christians, then in essence you are going to legislate sin,” Harris said.
But they can be downright amusing…
Hmmm…that’s supposed to be OBL??? He looks more like Joseph or some other biblical character.
I own
http://www.LieberLoser.com
and
http://www.LieberDem.com
(which was the name of an abortive pro-Joe ‘independent’ blog)
angie #79,
I might agree except these guys are so incompetent they couldn’t manipulate themselves out of a wet paper bag. In fact, it usually works the other way.
Bush saber rattles with Iran. Prices shoot up and axis of evil Iran’s treasury gets richer and Americans end up paying more for gas and being pissed off about it.
Bush lets Israel rampage in Lebanon for a month. Fears of a wider war increase and push up oil prices. We lose credibility along with the Israelis while Iran’s revenues go up allowing them more easily to finance reconstruction in Lebanon.
freepatriot – I never said it was a bad thing and frankly, you would insult me if I visited you and you didn’t offer me a hit.
Maybe not relevant to you, perhaps…but you don’t speak for me.
Blub @ 105
So why isn’t Harris campaigning against Lieberman? He isn’t Christian. OK, maybe we’d rather have her campaigning FOR Joe.
Katherine Harris is sending her own self up a river with her saline pontoons.
LindyH
I haven’t heard from Lotus since yesterday. I am operating on the idea that no news is good news. The storm seems to be veering away from her neck of the woods. Lotus will come back to the threads when she returns. You can quote me on that.
Ed*ard Teller @ 110
to paraphrase Kanye West, the GOP doesnt particularly care for Jews either … there is only one Jewish GOP Representative in the House (Cantor of VA). Specter and Coleman are the only 2 Jewish GOP Senators …
angie @ 111
No kidding, talk about hilarious. I’m sure her remarks went over real well with Florida’s Jewish community. BTW, those are silicone, only the best for Cruella.
Is there anyone clever enough to increase the photo of his head, remove the sunglasses and headband and beard and find out who this guy is and post it on telephone posts with a Wanted sign?
We need some Rapid Response. When spotted, a volunteer needs to get to the area where he is, with a sign that says, OH YEAH
#111
…rigging elections for Christ. Maybe Joe needs her after all.
OOOPS,
OH YEAH, WHERE IS OSAMA BIN FORGOTTEN???
ASK JOE
waving to rwcole - so glad to see you back checking in – can you believe the TN #’s ?!?!?
ok, I too thought it was a ‘hippie’
their attempts at humor always remind me of this character -
http://www.cincinnati.com/free…..ackers.jpg
Someone should make a sign with the words:
“Still at Large”
and a large arrow pointing to the Lieberdouche in Mullahs clothing.
-GSD
Hookahs are common among all different folks all over the world, including Arabs. Heck, they even smoke ‘em in a Charlottesville tea house and a Wilmington NC music venue.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hookah
Mommybrain @ 109
how is it relevent ???
I could understand if we were talking about a drug that increases the likelyhood of violence, but canabis doesn’t increase the person’s anger (quite the opposite actually)
and I’ll make a note to never insult you in that way
it’s all good
It is particularly annoying when the right attacks and threatens a liberal target, then claims it was a joke and the left has no sense of humor. My theory? They are immune to irony.
Oh, they are funny.
This guy is hillarious … because he has no idea
angie @ 119
There’s a little place right up the street from me called “Off the Hookah”. I don’t smoke, so I’ve never been there, but it’s usually quite busy.
hey mommybrain and freepatrioit, whatever happened to ‘a kinder gentler blog’?
Florida Mom @ 112
I tried dropping her an e-mail, but we all go through being on and off of blogs, as with the rest of life sometimes. I agree in that I think she’ll be back at some point — while I don’t know her all that well, I do miss her perspective.
BTW, Ernesto’s still veering off to the east, but it’s also moving over really hot and storm-conducive waters right now. I’ll try to drop by and give some south Florida updates as I hear them.
GSD @ 120
can’t we just beat the shit out of this asshole instead ???
I’m not ready for decent company, but I can assure you that this asshat wouldn’t survive long on a corner in my town
I’m not trying to incite anybody to do violence, I’m just saying how I’d deal with this if it were occuring locally
Mr. pombo, you’re on notice
There’s a simple reason why Republicans (and their most ardent enablers) are never funny.
Bullies are not funny.
liberalis @ 122
That type of behavior strikes me as passive-aggressive, leading me to theorize that it has more to do with their essential immaturity, their inability or unwillingness to take responsibility for anything.
Lotus just sent me an email. She is fine and getting reading for Ernesto. All is well.
Let me add a qualifier:
Bullies are not funny — unless they’re taking a metaphorical or literal slip on a banana peel.
Bullies can only be funny *inadvertently.*
Hi, Mrs. K8! *waves*
Florida Mom @ 130
Thanks, Florida Mom. I miss her.
there ain’t no joking about this, imho.
1) at the very least, it points a grim spotlight on the rethug failure.
2) it is racist and meant to be offensive to millions of people by dressing up like an arab or many other residents and their forebears in Asia.
I think it is indefensible. I don’t see any ID on the moron indicating just who he is portraying to the casual drive-by.
oh and btw:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/…..00687.html
Hey Leslie!
*waving back, most energetically*
Am afraid this is another post and run, but I hope you are well. Will peek back in here later.
EPU’d. am i jet lagged or what.
egregious @ 108
Do these 3 lines resonate w you guys? The kindness, tolerance, gentle exclusion… Excuse me while I sharpen my fired o’glake to do battle against the enemy…
——–part Quaker, part Scottish Highlander
Did you ever notice that when lefties make protest signs and placards, they look very homemade and grassroots; right-winger signs always look as if they were mass-produced and mass-purchased using “organizational” (read: top-down rather than grassroots) money? Another example of this is Fred Phelps’s group’s signs. Frankly, the font/layout of the sign gives you a heads-up whether you should even bother to read it.
OT: Indiana outlaws political robo-calling …
Lotus emailed me a weather channel map a couple of hours ago. I think she went to get a set of oars.
http://www.intellicast.com/Ica…..p;pid=none
Mrs. K8 @ 131
What do you mean? Loofah man is hilarious, as is Rush the limpdick, Bill “3 cherries” Bennett, and Ann “Help me Sean” Coulter.
The Nefarious Leslie @ 133
I’ll let her know. Good Night All.
freepatriot at 127:
Are you sure you’re at the right blog?
Mike V. @ 137
This reminded me of a sign carried by a peace protester in the big DC rally last year: “The Rapture is NOT an Exit Strategy.” Hand-lettered, of course.
freepatriot, 85:
You mean like the caterpillar in Alice in Wonderland?
On the other hand, Afghanistan is the land of the poppies, and who knows what a feller like him does to keep his mind occupied during those cold winter nights in the cave. If the story is correct that he offered his female friend hits off his bong, that immediately cancels plain old tobacco. I mean who the hell offers hits of tobacco?
If he does need to get a fix now and then, that is one more parallel between him and the lush in the WH. Both spoiled rich kids who need a substance lift to get it on. Of course we all know of the business ties between the Bushes and the bin Ladens (from whom it is fair to say, Osama is estranged).
http://www.uni-muenster.de/Pea…..arlyle.htm
http://www.fromthewilderness.c…..shbin.html
Is Leiberman’s camp calling this fake Lamont supporter a joke?
I can’t imagine anyone taking that costume and sign as an attempt at humor…It’s such an obvious smear.
Mad Dogs @ 143
yep
just because I’m a liberal doesn’t mean that I’m a pacifist
I’m kinda like one of the leg breakers who advanced the union cause in America
I’m not afraid to fight back
this asshole would be in the hospital, thinking about filing a law suit, not standing on a corner slandering Ned, if I had my way (and I lived within driving distance of CT)
and that would be a very effective change of topic
I’m willing to allow this asshole to make his case to a jury
we’re not going to win by playing the victim here
Show me the right wing equivilent of the Daily Show or Colbert. The only right wing funny I can think of is Dennis Miller, who is pretty funny. Think of all the people who think Stephen Colbert is secretly right wing. Could anything be more ironic?
Polly @ 146
if I had my way, we could respond with this:
and the fact that he got his ass kicked was a JOKE too
see how that works ???
Okay FirePups, heads up on the story about Joe-Repug ties that I thought we get released a week ago. It’s at ePluribus Media:
Sealed with a KISS
You got more links and dirt, bring it on. Joe IS a Republican candidate; he may not have ID’d himself as one, but he’s getting their financial and technical support.
I suspect the only reason that Joe has not received website support is that THEY know we are watching.
I’ll make a detour to Corbin’s Corner shopping center tomorrow (I was at work today) with my camera. Maybe he’ll be there again?
Hey, Spazeboy in da house!
“Things are going SWIMMINGLY in Iraq…”
“Sean, Sean, oh -SEAN!”
These fools are most funny when they least realize how humorous they are.
Ben Domenech @
75
frank, incensed myrth
Hi freepatriot,
I feel that we are not so far apart but want to clarify some stuff about fdl.
You say——-
“I ain’t a nice person…I’m polite and respectful when those traits are called for, but I’m still willing to punch somebody in the head when somebody needs it…violence doesn’t solve the problem, but it can sure change the topic real quick…I take my patriotism very seriously, and you question my patriotism at your own peril…it’s all about mind over matter. If I don’t mind, it don’t matter…I’m very familiar with the phrase ‘one of us is going to the hospital, and one of us is going to jail. I’ve been both places and I don’t care where I end up’…you’d be surprised how well that attitude works for solving disputes…”
freepatriot—-Honoring your fighting spirit. WE NEED YOU. Asking you to honor the contributions of people at fdl who are not out there w us sword in hand. They also serve who provide encouragement, inspiration, questioning about our goals, and support in general.
You and I are out there with our weapons.* But let’s acknowledge those who serve behind us in love and support and asking questions and clarifying our goals and encouragement. We need them.
*ref—-www.russmed.com at great cost to the management. I am willing to die to serve others. I sense you are as well. But let’s not destroy our supply lines. Thank you for considering my ideas. See you on the front lines.
Favor requested, FirePups. Story needs a boost to get eyeballs. Could you please go to DailyKos and recommend the same story so that it has a chance of making the Recommended List?
DKos: Sealed with a KISS
Thanks much. We have the footprints and fingerprints. Now we just need the smoking gun.
#147.
Miller jumped the shark when he fell into the Bush Cult Club.
Ever since then he has been as painful as no-novacaine dental work.
-GSD
I look at that and I think, Sweet Gallopin’ Jeebus! Osama can stand on a street corner WAVING at passersby, and Bushco STILL can’t catch him.
Freepatriot,
You don’t win by becoming a brownshirt either.
-GSD
Jane, did you catch that?
Jeepers. Apparently they need to send their plagiarists over here to lift what humor they do muster…
orthodox muslims do not use opiates, tobacco is even frowned upon. he is supposed to be a deeply religious and ascetic man– I doubt he smokes drugs and it sounds like the woman who called it a bong was a wee bit clueless anyway.
could well have been another herb entirely, if any of any of it is true.
:>)
freepatriot @ 146
Hmmm…methinks that folks like Jane, Christy, Pach, TRex, and thousands of us here in the Peanut Gallery, definitely don’t do victim.
I’ll ask again, are you sure, really sure that you are at the right blog?
egregious @ 136
Show me ONE comment by oldtree that isn’t a troll about Lamont and the Halliburton issue, and I’ll take back my words.
However I take seriously these attempts by the Lieberman and Republican campaigns to storm into a community and fling poo around to disrupt the opposition. I personally have no time whatsoever for “kindness” to trolls. I don’t have much use for “internet nannies” either, trying to censor other posters. The moderators are of course free to edit user comments however they like.
Maybe someone should call the FBI and report that they saw Osama…isn’t there a terror hotline? I’m serious.
my 160– that is not to say that he isn’t a deeply disturbed and angry and warring religious and ascetic man.
The dude in photo is definitely not funny. And how is everybody today?
The Nefarious Leslie @ 151
I’m totally a lurker now. If there’s any blog to lurk at, this is the one. Best. Comments. Evar.
that Osama/bong story is sooo fishy! OBL is and has always been a horrendously overly-religious Muslim — for him to be in a situation with an unmarried female to be sharing a ‘bong’ is sooo unlikely or else OBL is a total hypocrit … some chick is trying to peddle a book it sounds like …
GSD @ 156
Yeah, but I wanted to throw em a bone. What else have they got? Jackie Mason is classic funny and a flaming loony. Umm … I think that’s it.
I like funny, combined with political bite. Sorta like Lamont poking fun at himself, while laying down a couple of sincere challenges. Good stuff.
freepatriot — just CHILL RIGHT NOW ! ! !
As a moderator, I did a quick search on Oldtrees name and found hundreds of comments by her not about your bete-noir. I explained that earlier.
SO CHILL
also cool out on the physical violence shit — that’s often a sign of an agent provocateur — just like starting flamewars is online. Comprende, amigo?
freepatriot,
I’ve watched you for some time here at fdl. You remind me of the guy in the bar who’s really pissed at life and wants to start something with someone – anyone, it doesn’t matter who.
You flail around and hit the mark sometimes, but we aren’t who you want to get it on with. I do appreciate your pugnacious spirit, truly I do, but you are also unconscious and therefore insulting in your offhand comments. You often don’t know who you are talking to or about. Tone it down. Are you lke this everywhere?
OBL smoking pot is interesting to me because that’s not who we are told he is. Maybe the other things about him aren’t true, either. I doubt I’m exagerrating when I say that everyone here is aware that pot isn’t likely to lead to violence. Since you aren’t aware of that, I’m likely to think you spend your time with people who do thing so.
Please, be more civil.
That guy won’t think the Osama costume is so funny if DHS snatches him up and throws him in the cell next to Jose Padilla for a couple of years without charging him with anything. “But it’s a costuuume! Please! Let me out!!! They won’t give me back my deposit at the costume shop! Please! Let me ou-u-ut! It was only a joke!”
Spazeboy @ 150
Sure hoping you can get us one of those “up close and personal” interviews. *g*
that Osama/bong story could be a deliberate CIA disinformation story to discredit OBL — wouldn’t surprise me one bit !
/lurking
I’ll be at a thing with local Dems–a last hurrah before school starts tomorrow.
g’nite!
Might be time for some good old OT. Federal District Judge Robert W. Pratt has come out with a ruling which throws Chuck Colson’s prison ministry out of Iowa prisons. A gem from his 140-page ruling:
“The religion classes are not objective inquiries into the religious life, comparable to an adult study or college course, offered for the sake of discussing and learning universal secular, civic values or truths,” Pratt wrote. “They are, instead, overwhelmingly devotional in nature and intended to indoctrinate InnerChange inmates into the Evangelical Christian belief system.”
Later in the ruling, Pratt observed, “For all practical purposes, the state has literally established an Evangelical Christian congregation within the walls of one of its penal institutions, giving the leaders of that congregation, i.e., InnerChange employees, authority to control the spiritual, emotional, and physical lives of hundreds of Iowa inmates. There are no adequate safeguards present, nor could there be, to ensure that state funds are not being directly spent to indoctrinate Iowa inmates.
link: http://www.alternet.org/rights/40324/
I like Spazeboy. Seems like them Republicans would know all about them recording devices.
Jefferson Airplane – Go Ask Alice
Hey OFG what’s happening.
Kurt @ 163
Oldtree has been here for a long time and has posted on other topics iirc. Not being a moderator [sigh…envy…] I cannot provide you with their earlier comments.
I believe I said kind but swift exclusion for trolls. Had several years of karate, one can dispose of the enemy without emotional involvement. Permit me to include my original statement in this update.
WE NEED EVERYONE who is willing to fight. Need to align our forces without unnecessarily destroying our supply lines.
frankly *ilson, that was something I was expecting over 5 years ago – but that would have been a product of a high functioning intel community – that had pulled their collective heads out of their Cold War ass
My attempt at humor.
href=”#comment-267089″>Mommybrain @ 171
*ilson46201 @ 174
Osama’s been dead since early 2002. Before that he was on frequent dialysis and was suffering some effects of Marfan’s Syndrome. I really doubt just about anything I hear about that guy.
dang it, I cannot use the edit feature on this computer… so I’ll do it the old way. Strike “disturbed and” from my previous 164 post– I don’t know that he is that and don’t really want to succumb to the spin I have heard from the CM. I do believe that he is deeply angry and warring, if he still exists……
That’s true, Republicans tend not to be funny, interesting, sexy or cool.
Thank you Mommybrain@171
Oilfieldguy @ 177
The Repugs think they only work “one way”. LOL!
Rayne @ 150
Everythingseemssoneat @ 185
And the further right they get, the more wrong they become.
ifthethunderdontgetya @ 94
ET: I’m with you.
…and the kinkier they get
punaise @ 153
Lindy
speaking of the tall one, did anyone catch the woman Kola Boof featured on cnn this weekend alleging that she was his “sex slave” or as she preferred to call it, his “mistress”.
unf***ingbelievable. and i mean it. maybe it is the same woman… I thought it was a joke til I checked my channel.
*ilson46201 @ 174
All of these speculations about OBL (including my own) means that OBL has entered the realm of cultural myth. In that sense it is fundamentally irrelevant whether he is still alive or whether he is a head. In fact, I just read a post that he has been removed from the FBI’s 10 most wanted list.
What to make of it all? The best I can come up with is that he is now a myth. Is the threat over then? Not on your life. His entering the realm of myth and sainthood makes him all the more dangerous. For all we know it is deliberate, either on the part of OBL himself or the FBI, or both acting independently. Oh yes, reality is that bizarre, even more bizarre than you can imagine.
Ed*ard Teller @ 176
Wowser. How many states is Colson operating in, anyway? I’ve not heard much about him in recent years.
OJS,
You tryin’ to set my tin foil hat ablaze?
I saw OBL at the local Road Pilot, he was hitchhiking his way to Graceland.
“censor” means something quite specific to me. It means eliminating words spoken or chilling free discourse by preventing things from being spoken or printed.
What I see here, Kurt, is a conversation. A person says something and others respond. Sometimes the statement or the response is heated. Sometimes a response is something like, “I find that offensive.” That is not censoring, that is the statement of a truth to them and no amount of screaming or scolding will change that feeling. Indeed, put downs and telling people to calm down or that they have no reason to be offended is, in some discourse, called, “silencing.” Now, as a white guy of some years, I have rarely experienced that, but I take seriously people who say they have and or are.
So, this conversation starts and maybe the person who said the original thing says, “Sorry, I didn’t mean to upset you.” Or maybe they say nothing. And then the conversation continues with more information about the relationship between those two people. Generally, it is about choices — Not censoring, not by “nannies” (by which I guess you mean a derogatory name for a woman or a genderized insult to a man). Just conversation and decisions and choices by people who, in the most part, respect each other.
oh immanentize! take a Midol!
Is it possible that Ken Lay and Osama are actually secretly funding all the fighting Dems this election cycle?
Love you hunny, and I don’t expect to be “heard amongst” the nearly > 200 comments buuuuuuttttt
“fluoridated water” and that shit Chesebrough-Ponds et al pass off as toothpaste is no good for you, whatsoever…
I brush with Vicco and I drink from a drilled well, that is probably contaminated by all the acid rain that trucks up the jet stream, into our beloved Northeast-
Other than that, skewer their ass with Zipps, gorgeous doll you-
♥
Twisted Martini @ 198
My mother said she saw him in Chinatown… but you can’t always trust your mother.
So that’s where Osama bin Laden has been hiding out: doing gigs for the Joe Lieberman campaign, which looks more and more each day like a Republican smear campaign.
Has Homeland Security been notified yet? Has Osama bin Laden been arrested yet? What? That’s just a guy dressed up to look like Osama bin Laden? Could of fooled me. We shouldn’t take any chances. He should be carted off to some secret prison in Eastern Europe to be interrogated…just in case. Or maybe picked up and held at one of the secret “detention centers” Halliburton is building for $385 million around the United States…and probably run by some “private” company like Blackwater or Custer Battles.
Hey, why disappear (rendition) people halfway around the world, when a secret “detention center” system could be built right under everyone’s noses here in the United States? Who would find out? Especially if they were “black ops” funded and Congress didn’t conduct any oversight? Who would ever know?
Bin Laden, Most Wanted For Embassy Bombings?
Aravosis is a hoot…
http://tinyurl.com/jqfuh
Mary Poppins was the way coolest nanny on earth, then there is the fun and brave Maria from the Sound of Music…
hmmm, I guess I love Julie Andrews’ movies.
*ilson46201 @ 200
Forget the new moon last Wednesday or the approaching full moon. I have somehow become 100% Midol all month long….
OMG. That guy in the picture is so pathetic, I’m surprised Lieberman’s camp isn’t saying he’s a Lamont plant to make them look bad. I think he looked better in the banana suit.
immanentize @ 209
Take some BUSHmills!
would Mrs. Doubtfire even know how to use the Internets?
This will backfire. People will be turned off by this dirty trick, and anyone with any questions before, will now pull the lever for Ned.
Much too negative an image for people in CT.
FBI on OBL (UBL)
The Nefarious Leslie @ # 196:
The Innerchange Prison Initiative operates in Iowa, Texas, Minnesota, Arkansas and Kansas. Here’s their web page:
http://ifiprison.org/contentindex.asp?ID=976
oooh yes dearie’ *ilson!
some other great nannies….. Bub and Uncle Charlie (my 3 sons) and Hazel
The powerful bloggers have exposed this rube.
Twisted Martini @ 210
I have tried that route one too many times. OK, maybe not quite too many times. Where is BobbyG?
*ooabby @ 216
Mr. French?
Who dat?
speaking of “hookah”, with the right accent and intonation that brings to mind a possible career opportunity for the Atlas vlog-lady.
Nanny and the Professor
Giles French on A Family Affair.
ET,
I’m embarassed that yours is the first mention of Marfan’s I’ve seen – intriguing as hell that. would certainly all but make him dead . gotta handy link ?
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egregious and freepatriot:
The fascists are now at the point that they want to incite political violence and street combat in order to frighten, confuse and demoralize common folks. We will NOT respond!!! Union activists did NOT attack goons and stooges preemptively, union folks were too busy protecting each other and RESPONDING to company thugs and mercenaries.
The fascists are a minority and know it…that’s why they will try, out of increasing desperation, to create violence to attract attention and discredit the good guys.
Channel your anger, take up your sentinel positions like the union brothers and sisters did…in front of the workers!! You don’t initiate violence, but when they bring it you knock ‘em into next week in defense of your brothers and sisters!
Remember your history and get it right…for every agent provocateur there should be 10 sentinels who are at the ready to expose them and protect the good guys.
Freepatriot, if you want to hit someone, take a pill, jump into bed, assume the prenatal position and turn the electric blanket up to nine but don’t come near MY demonstration or my candidate!
KEEP THE FAITH AND KNOW WHATCHER SHOOTIN’ AT!!!
Rayne @
149
Actually, Raw Story has reported earlier today that “Republican-allied firm offers to help Lieberman with website“. Interesting that a few website developers turned them down flat. (Good for them)
OJS — you know, I thought that very same thing when I read about the sex slave and the hots for Whitney Houston!! Culturally, what are the implications for an icon of Islam’s followers who has sex outside of marriage and desire for a woman who is both married and not of his ethnicity/culture/religion? Sure stank like bad psyop work, like something DoD bought from those idiots at Lincoln Group — boys with little background in psyops. Sloppy and in-your-face to the point of incredulity.
**BLOWING THE WHISTLE** Hey, everybody chill out. I started the “problem” in the last thread with my question about concern trolling. which I now regret raising without further research in advance. Posting here frequently, I recognize many names if they post more than once – and I didn’t this time. Let it lay this time, and let it be a lesson to all of us, me included, to use Google FIRST before getting defensive.
That said, we’ve had bigger problem children here tonight.
And I will be watching more closely; I did find posts that concern me when I did get around to Google-ing.
punaise @ 221
Ouch!
And who could forget either Mary Poppins or Maria (Von Trapp).
immanentize @ 218
Good grief, yes! Where is BobbyG?
immanetize@ 219
oui
Mrs. Livingston, I presume?
(from “The Courtship of Eddie’s Father”)
angie @
194
Well, blow me down, it is the same woman! i just got my copy of Harpers out to check. Pg. 22. Woah, says she used to write for the soaps – Days of our Lives – so she certainly has fiction in her blood. She was interviewed by (lower the register) Rita Cosby in 2003.
The Nefarious Leslie @ 230
He showed up yesterday (?) and was some kinda ticked off at the plane crash circumstances… sounded good.
So McCain would consider an invitation to speak at Bob Jones. McCain’s lust for the presidency knows no parameters.
This one is for you, Norske:
The Ludlow Massacre Statue
The Nefarious Leslie @ 230
He’s doing something in Florida. He’ll be back in Vegas soon, cause I sent him a message the other day and told him I was coming to Vegas mid-Sep. He gave me his digits to call when I got in.
I always get to the party late and all the chips are gone. Phooey.
Does Alice from The Brady Bunch qualify as a nanny?
great nanny: Uncle Buck –
r.i.p. Mr. Candy
cbl,
Can’t remember all the places I’ve read he had Marfan’s. Marfan’s and similar connective tissue disorders aren’t often fatal, but when combined with other adverse circumstances can cause problems. Lincoln, Paganini, NBA basketball great Bill Walton and my son had or have Marfan’s.
angie @ 234
Thanks, angie.
Rayne,
Hey there!
I tried to catch you a few days back — you mentioned something up in Turkey.
Whatup in Turkey?
ifthethunderdontgetya @
190
Oilfieldguy @ 197
OFG: Who me? Not on your life. At least not you. You are too grounded in reality. As far as tinfoiling, I wear a size Medium.
Correction: I referred to FBI when I should have said CIA. Too late to edit.
And thanks to you too, Oilfieldguy. Glad to hear he’s well.
Nannies. Don’t forget Hop Sing from Bonanza.
Later, all. Have a good one.
The Nefarious Leslie @ 231
Who is Bobby G?
immanentize @ 243
a pop-up thermometer?
Millineryman @ 239
Like the Beastie Boys sing (Shake Your Rump):
Twisted Martini @ 249
FDL regular, absent from the threads lately.
Tanks.
new thread
immanentize @
229
I love Mary Poppins. One of my favorite films.
*ilson, you are killin me tonight!!
new thread !
I don’t think the prez brought up this subject today.
Reps. Charlie Melancon (D-LA) and House Reform Committee Ranking Member Henry Waxman (D-CA) sent a letter today to FEMA Director R. David Paulison demanding to know why 94% of trailers inhabited by evacuees of Hurricane Katrina contain formaldehyde gas in excess of the level considered safe by the EPA. Several trailers have more than three times above that amount, according to a Sierra Club study. Here’s the Sierra study:
http://sierraclub.org/gulfcoas…..e_test.pdf
There’s a stitching board that I frequent that happens to be frequented by several hundred ‘geeky’ females. One is a librarian that posted a reminder for September. September 23-30 is ‘Read a banned book week’. http://www.ala.org/ala/oif/ban…..ksweek.htm
You wouldn’t believe some of the books on the 100 most challenged books list!!! I know I’ll be carrying a ‘banned’ / ‘challenged’ book that week!!
If OBL wanted to infiltrate the CT election, the best way he can do it is to appear like a buffoon dressed like a child’s idea of OBL. Hey, Osama, nice beard.
ET,
thanks
so sorry to hear about your son
hadn’t heard about it until it took the life of 84 Olympics Volleyball star – Flo Hyman
my very limited knowledge tells me no one is surviving it in combo with kidney disease in those mountains – a googling I will go
Jane Hamsher @ 255
My son just saw it for the first time last Friday. And Saturday and last night too. He’s like that — gets deeply into something he is trying to figure out. This morning he was totally focussed on the song stylings of Bert. For me, the lady selling bird feed always chokes me up. Why? Dunno.
new thread
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*ilson:
I missed your response to “freepatriot”…I too have watched with increasin’ concern about his/her attempts to incite virtual violence. I think the real “tell” waz the remark about union kneebreakers.
Thanx again…glad ter on the job.
KEEP THE FAITH AND DON’T LET THE BASTARDS IN YER YARD!!!
NorskeFlamethrower @ 226
so Jimmy Hoffa and the mobsters were just playing beanbag ???
My grandfather was a part of the teamsters union, and he never denied that leg breaking was a part of the movement
we criticize our leaders for being spineless, and then we attack people who are willing to fight ???
how the fuck does that work ???
those who fail to remember the past are doomed to repeat it
Oilfieldguy @ 198
Welcome to my world. Hot in here, eh?
More wine please, or else something that will send me directly into oblivion. Am trying hard to make this something that will keep me on this side of earth/heaven. Thx to all who were there for me in my dark night of the soul. It’s not the first and it’s not the last.
Shout out to fdl folk who are mentally ill: hey, you are still here! Yay life! Hang in there. New meds are coming along and maybe we can have a semi normal life in the future.
[hahahahahahahahahaha]
Returning to “reality” maybe we can have a less painful life in the future.
I am a Christian. I have a list of questions for God if/when I get the opportunity for an interview. WHY DID YOU… etc. I believe that He grows us for reasons that we cannot apprehend. See angry Psalms, it’s the human condition.l
Ed*ard Teller @ 242
ET—-will you tell us more about your son?
With respect and honor for your difficult life
——————egregious
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freepatriot:
If your grandfather worked for the mob thugs that fronted for Hoffa ‘cuz the workers were getting the shit kicked outta them, then you know that the real union folks were NOT proactive. MY grandfather was a commie organizer in the lumber camps in northern Minnesota in the first decades of the 2oth century …he was also on the streets in Minneapolis in the 30’s when an earlier generation of Bush-fascists and their goons attacked and killed strikers.
If I were you I wouldn’t be proudly announcin’ my bloodlinks to criminal goons who provided shock troops for another generation of American fascists.
KEEP THE FAITH AND STAY THE HELL OUTTA MY YARD!!
Hey egregious! That red hair is showing….
Meanwhile, don’t forget the best line (in my opinion) in the bible — when Job’s wife sees the desolation and death Job’s piety has brought down on their heads, she tells him, “Curse God and die!”
john in sacramento @
123
Thats funny, John. He’d probably lose his audience if he spelled it right.
NorskeFlamethrower @ 269
my blood links fought for your right to organize and bargain collectivly in the work place
we fight fire with fire in my family
oh, and btw, my blood links are also part of the reason you ain’t speaking german right now, part of the reason you can’t own slaves in the United States, and part of the reason that you even live in a place called the United States
we’ve been here, beating the shit out of opponents of democracy for over 230 years
you’re welcome, and we’ll try to stay off your lawn
freepatriot and norske—
guys…we are all on the same side. can we please focus on the bad guys now? we are in an emergency. american democracy is near the end. can we save it? squabbling makes the answer no. whoever was the bad guy in labor battles of times past…take it outside ok? we need to get a grip and rise up against the neocon/fascist cheney “government” before it’s too late.
whatever happened in the past…sort it out later. for now, we need to pick up our weapons and get in formation. the enemy is ready. are we?
BE READY. FIGHT BACK. ATTACK THE ENEMY NOT EACH OTHER, OK?
That guy looks more like half of ZZ Top to me.
Idiots.
Whole sentence should be:
That guy looks more like half of ZZ Top than Bin Laden to me.
soyinkafan @ 274
half of ZZ TOP ???
you saying that this guy looks like a person and a half ???
ZZ TOP has THREE members, eh
small point, I know, but I like the small details
ET, 241
You may know something about this already, but there is research going on using stem cell lines to study Marfan’s. Not a cure yet, but studying the etiology of the disease. Emphasis mine.
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn7019
Actually… I find that photo hilarious. I know the Republican was trying to look like a swarthy Arab but instead he looks like Abe Lincoln in a night cap. In other words, it looks like Abe Lincoln got out of bed to endorse Ned Lamont.
I’m sorry but I must beg to differ on this notion that conservatives can’t be funny. Even some liberals have found that my site can be funny, sometimes intentionally so.
jane –
a friend and i were discussing this the other day after i received a viral email ‘joke’ where hillary clinton survives a plane crash and the punch line is a picture of a broom. he said it’s impossible to be funny when you’re oblivious to the obvious. i mean, you could see the broom from the first line of the joke. looking at iraq, afghanistan, now iran … it’s painfully clear that the right just can’t see what is glaringly obvious to the rest of the world.
ummmm, break @277,
I would like to see some links or examples of off-color remarks by Clinton, or any Liberal.
You see, Just by their very nature, Republicans are racists! WHAT was it that first got them fired up against Democrats and swarming to Republicans? Why is was Ronald Reagan’s Framing Black Welfare women driving to get their checks in their Cadillacs! Tell me that is not why you are a Republican—greedily thinking of only your own wallet and not giving to anyone in need. Instead, throw out that old worn out “personal responsibility’ phrase as your defense!
And isn’t it so sad, that the Republican’s destruction of our country have turned so many people against the flag or anything that points to our Government ! I shall take great pride again in hanging out our flag, when the Democrats take back this country and give us something to be proud about.
OK – HERE’S A SOLUTION FOR “THE LIEBERMAN SUPPORTER IN OSAMA COSTUME” PROBLEM
The thing is, that guy doesn’t look even remotely like Osama, he looks more like a shepherd in a school play. So here’s what could be done to take advantage of this – it’s simple, it’s fast, and EASY!
Make a couple of picket signs that say “Moses For Lamont”. Have two Lamont volunteers hover around the robed guy with their “Moses For Lamont” signs All of a sudden, Osama-man becomes an apostle.
Deadheads for Ned? Groovy!
…and as for this dude’s other costume, are we sure that was a banana or was he just happy to see Lamont?
Bergs… 281
Come on Bergs… are you that naive that you don’t see that both liberals and conservatives at times make off-color remarks or jokes? It’s just that some liberals faint with outrage when they hear conservatives do it showing the clear double standard.
Pretty week calling me a racist because I’m a Republican when you don’t even know me. Do you think that all those folks in the “red” states are rich? There have been studies that on a per-capita basis, some of the poorest states give more to charity then the liberal bastions of New York and California. YOU DONT MEASURE COMPASION ONLY BY HOW MUCH YOU PAY IN TAXES!!!
I don’t need some elitist telling me I’m greedy when I give plenty to my Synagogue, my community and upwards of 40% of my income to taxes. I hope if you have children or plan to have children that you teach them that personal responsibility is very important. I know I tell that to my 16 year old son all the time. Please open up your mind.
Your comments prove you have no idea what makes this country great.
BTW… Here are a few liberal comments in case you want to google them:
Dick Durbin at an event in Illinois telling a joke about Why Abraham Lincoln should be considered Jewish.
Because his name is Abe and he was shot in the temple.
Hillary Clinton joking that “Mahatma Gandhi used to run a gas station in St. Louis”.
Senator Joe Biden commenting that “You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin’ Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent.”. And then stating recently that he is an attractive candidate in the south because his state of Delaware was a Slave State.
Senator Robert Byrd using the term “white niggers”
Liberals in Hollywood??? to many comments to list (see Whoopi Goldberg)