I was extremely disheartened to read this commentary by Jezebel‘s adopted gay spokesman, Ryan, who says he met Ann Coulter and she was faaaaaaabulous:
This weekend I attended a small, intimate house party in Manhattan of mostly gay men in the media. I was sitting in the kitchen talking about Men’s Vogue and Lisa Kudrow’s The Comeback with my friend Mark when in walks: ANN COULTER. It was shocking to see America’s deplorable scion of extreme right-wing fanaticism pour herself a glass of wine in a casual white tank top and jeans (no black cocktail dress) and effusively greet the liberal media that she’s made a career crusading.
The gays squealed with delight. They all shelved their political beliefs and giggled to one another about the famous guest, cooing over how skinny she is…
“She’s emaciated! Like her brain!” (Patsy Stone)
…and hovering around her waiting for an introduction. The “female Rush Limbaugh” was received with the fanfare normally reserved for Liza, Beyonce, and Tammy Faye (RIP). When she walked in the room, Mark turned from a typical limousine liberal to a giddy NRA fanboy.
He goes on to say that Ann was, like, so fun, oh my god! And he, like, loves her now!
Ryan, I am sure you are a very sweet person, but you and your friends need to be a little more discerning about who makes you guys squeal like a bunch of star-struck little girls at a Justin Timberlake concert. Ann Coulter is serving an agenda that’s about as healthy for the gay community as crystal meth.
I’m appalled that a bunch of grown men in a marginalized population would just drop their principles to fawn over that cracked-out basilisk. I don’t care if her private beliefs are vastly different than the toxic spew she emits on television and in her books.
Ryan, however, has become a fan:
And after having such a lovely evening with Ann, I would rather these people worship a hilarious woman who loves gay men, cocktails, and knowingly pushes the envelope rather than either dogmatic religious zealots who think gay sex and drinking will send me to hell or left-wing comediennes who no longer make me laugh.
Disgusting. Pitiful little piker. I guess he’s just happy to know someone who’s FAAAAAAAMOUS.
Fuck that, man. If this is going to be standard operating procedure for “The Gays” from here on out, I guess I’m going to have to look into a seminar with that guy who beats on sofas with his tennis racket and get him to magically turn me straight.
Well, it’s been a long time coming, I guess. I’ve never liked Mariah Carey, “America’s Next Top Model”, or even Janet Jackson. I don’t think Madonna farts gold dust and shits diamonds and has in fact put out some really, really mediocre albums. Perhaps it was inevitable.
I’ll miss kissing boys, but not enough to act like I think Ann Coulter is anything other than a human tape-worm lodged in the giant colon of world media.
So long, homosexuality. Thanks for everything. It was nice knowing you.



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TRex!!!
TREX!
HEY Neurophius! Congrats on the twofer!
TRex!!!
Now go tell the other kids.
Periodically, I have to get out the brain bleach to look at Late Late Nite. (scrub, scrub, scrub)
Teh Gays will miss you, big guy…
Already done sir.
I don’t understand how those gay guys could do that. Why didn’t they set her on fire and dump her charred corpse in the east river?
Heh. There was just probably more koolaid in the drinks or sompin’. I see a pattern, y’know? Go to the green zone turn in to a simpering war supporter. Meet Coulter, turn into a simpering fan. Eeeeewwww.
***gentle reminder***
diss a/c all you want but do so without questioning her sexuality – there is so much to complain about with her
Pretty funny, Trex.
Laura Doty @ 3
Thank you very much.
OT but shrub’s gone insane:
“Bush sees Nth Korea as possible model for Iran”
A country that starves its people, considered one of the most backward in the world, that regularly takes part in nuclear extortion, is a role model for Iran??????
Kinda like saying Myanmar is amodel for Iran ’cause they just kill their own people without attempting to build nukes
ummmmmmm.
TRex,
New Annie Lennox CD — have it yet?
Dayam, TRex, A twofer, yourself! Falafel O’Really and Ann KKKoulter…!!!
Christine Edmonson @ 14
No, not yet. I’m scared it won’t be good.
Blub @ 13
Be fair. I think what he meant is that dealing with Iran should be done in the manner in which we dealt with Korea.
That’s scary enough. We keep 50,000 troops on their border, in this case in Iraq. We cause them to starve their people, and we isolate them to the extent that their dear leader is the only guy on the international stage crazier than bush.
Me too — but I heard her sing just a few lines in the ad, and she sounded great.
Actually, I have never been able to understand where the Log Cabin Republicans are coming from.
I understand that they may be voting their economic interests, but the Republican Party—how could they?
neurophius @ 19
Identification with aggressor, perhaps?
Night all. Back tomorrow
Laura Doty @ 20
You mean, like with the Stockholm Syndrome?
neurophius @ 19
What kind of Republicans do you understand?
Big Mitch @ 17
I know what he was talking about, but the Nth Koreans didn’t cave because of diplomacy.. they caved ’cause their big neighbor read ‘em the riot act and paid ‘em off, and they got cold hard cash for their efforts. They have every intention to do it all again, in a few years. For more cash.
TexBetsy @ 21
Pleasant Dreams, Ma’am!!!
Big Mitch @ 17
and keep troops there for 50 years? i don’t think that is fair at all
TexBetsy @ 21
Hag someach!
Big Mitch @ 23
Cheeney, I understand. Evil Incarnate.
Well, that resolves the argument that ’sofa beating is a lifestyle choice’ in a rather decisive manner.
;>)
Seriously…What’s up with this queersling? ‘Female Rush Limbaugh’…Like that’s something to knock back a zinfandel with?
Boy needs his noggin checked.
Chag Sameach Mitch. :)
Big Mitch @ 27
Which is…??? *g*
I’m still trying to figure out how I would have handled that situation, being at a party with a bunch of gays and ANN COULTER shows up and everybody starts fawning over her. Would I confront her? Would I just leave? Throw a drink in her face and tell her that it’s from Kristen Breitweiser? Be vaguely nice at first so her guard would be down when I said something like, “How’s it feel that a little mediocrity like Michelle Malkin is totally stealing your game out from under you? Does it hurt terribly being a has-been?”
Or would I just politely explain to my hosts that I had remembered a date I made across town…with my CONSCIENCE?! The one thing I would absolutely positively NOT do is act like they did, treating her like some kind of laudable star.
Well, I go to the occasional gay party or club when I’m in big cities. I’ll be looking for you, Annie! And as long as you have a face? I’ll have a place to throw my drink, baby.
CTuttle @ 31
Happy Holiday(s)
The fun one starts tomorrow evening.
CTuttle @ 31
Happy Holiday
neurophius @ 22
707
Big Mitch @ 34
Mahalo, to ya both!!! *g* Why the ‘C’ in one…?
I’ll miss kissing boys
You don’t have to give up kissing boys. Someone told me that if two straight men have sex that it’s not gay.
Regarding Coulter, with a face that long, there is a playing field to throw a drink at…
twȝk @ 35
Oops. This was a jest? I just wrote a long, serious answer. Glad you cued me, as I was being concrete…..
Blub @ 24
Well, if I may say so, I think you are still confused. With all respect, you don’t think Bush actually intends to deal with N.Korea through diplomacy, do you? He is going to bomb some shit there. This comment, stupid and misguided though it is, should not be taken at face value. It’s a sop to people who think that he wants to start a war with Iran, which, he does.
So Ann Coulter likes hanging with gays. Does that mean that when she called Edwards a faggot it was a compliment? Or a come on?
Laura Doty @ 39
I was not trying to be funny. I think it is an interesting question to ponder. But thanks for the 707 anyway, tw3k…
CTuttle @ 36
To indicate a sound that it not part of the English language usually. A sound like the one in Loch Ness, (Possibly the home of TRex’s next partner if he is sincere about swearing off the gay.)
Who coined “Bag of Antlers” for Coulter? It’s the gd funniest thing ever.
Big Mitch @ 40
I’m going to refrain from responding here.. it’s too late for an argument :)
TRex @ 32
Sounds like a flight of fantasy to me.
I would like to hear your long, serious answer, Laura.
Big Mitch @ 40
Honestly, the last thing the US would want to do is bomb the DPRK, there is no viable natural resource at stake and they happen to have a very large Army…!!!
Regarding how “charming” she was described in the post (to actually get back on topic *g*), some of the nastiest, most vindicative people I’ve known were perfectly able to turn on the charm when meeting new people. I’ve had enough experience with this that I’m actually quite suspicious with very charming, very engaging people that I meet for the first time.
I don’t know how I’d handle that, either. I think I would quietly leave. I certainly wouldn’t stay. I don’t think engaging her in any way shape or form would be wise.
Very, very creepy, the fawning described there. Eeeeeewwwww, again.
new, absolutely terrifying, torture revelations in NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10…..ref=slogin
Gonzales is now unequivocally a war criminal, IMO
peanutbutter @ 49
exactly – reminds me of ex #2, the fundy – nicest guy in the world while other folks are around – but when they left…
If Republicans had a heart between them, they’d be Democrats.
Suzanne @ 51
I have heard that some people found Ted Bundy charming.
Mitch—there are some words we don’t use here. Let’s refrain from doing so any more, any time, with any commenter.
Thanks.
peanut butter,
Sociopaths are frequently very charming. Seriously. That is how they can be so manipulating.
Laura Doty @ 39
Well I took “Stockholm Syndrome” as snark. IANAPsychologist but “Identification with aggressor” or some sort of fetishism sound like a more accurate prognosis.
Liberty Lover @ 52
I think there is one they all share…!!! ;-)
neurophius @ 53
Ann Rule did while working with him – wrote her first big book about it iirc.
CTuttle @ 57
It’s a vice presidential pacemaker
Okay. Well, here’s my off the top of my head mull. I don’t recall that the folks who wrote about the ST. syndrome saw ident. with the aggressor. IIRC, people began to have sympathy for the terrorists–to see them as human and to identify as a group together.
Iden with the aggressor is a psychological defense in which an individual (unconsciously) copes by identifying–or borrowing or taking on–a sense of the powerfulness or threat that someone who caused harm to him/her is viewed as having. Abused children, for example, often tell me they’ve never been abused because they “deserved it.” (and they can be surprisingly unsympathetic to another hurt or crying child–as their own parents were unsympathetic to their hurts, their tears).
Coulter’s such a classic mean girl. Some folks kiss up to them to stay safe.
She reminds me of an old old Star Trek show–the death machine that thrives on negative energy—and ultimately is defeated by laughter and good will.
neurophius @ 42
Well I took it as snark because “Stockholm Syndrome” is an extreme comparison.
TRex @ 32
“Hi Ann, I blog as TRex at firedoglake.com” should suffice to put a poopoo stain in her K-Mart undies…The start of a very long evening for her.
;>)
Aw, they just love her for her whip.
Blub @ 59
darkblack @ 62
DING!
Thanks, Laura. I am certainly no expert on these matters.
RBG @ 54
I apologize to anyone I may have offended. Certainly didn’t mean to. Truth to tell, I am not sure what I said that was bad. Was it the G word? (Which is used in the first sentence of the thread?) I really don’t want to offend, so please tell me.
Laura Doty @ 60
Along similar lines, why do white trailer trash vote Repug, I don’t mean to paint with too broad a brush…!!!
darkblack @ 62
Heh.
Morris Sheppard @ 41
Neither. I think TRex hit the slug on the head with Ann Coulter is ….. a human tape-worm lodged in the giant colon of world media….
She feeds off weird stuff in the brain too, which makes DarkBlack’s book cover even more striking. She isn’t really what any of us think she is, and her reactions to criticism have always amazed me even more than the things she says which provoke them. She’s found some niche in the lower intestine of a very sick society, and sucks on the festering stuff there. We’re too embarassed about the disease we have to deal with her presence in the host. I keep waiting for her to evolve into something more useful, like a maggot, but I’m not holding my breath.
Suzanne @ 10
another reminder
…not questioning her sexuality, just her humanity.
ET, I used your name in vain in the prior thread. We were discussing how people chose the nicknames they have, and I told what I remembered of your story.
CTuttle @ 68
Did you see the ad today re: SCHIP? All the children talking about how kind the president is? I think it’s not just children who think at that level about politics. There are dependent little ones in each of us, and–unfortunately–a lot of them channel the vote!
Suzanne, did I end up in moderation land?
itwasntme @ 72
Which reminds me of DB’s Predator photoshop of AC…!!!
Laura Doty @ 74
Fortunately, for my TV’s sake I missed it…!!!
The worst thing about Coulter, really, is what it says about us as a nation that a personality like hers gets such a nation wide platform from which to operate.
Big Mitch @ 67
I was referring to your use of “this comment, stupid and misguided though it is”.
If you intended to refer to Bush’s statement, you were not concise. If you intended to refer to a comment on this thread, you were out of line.
Either way, it might be helpful if you thought about the ramifications of what you type before you hit the submit button.
etymology and evolution of the cultural phenomenon “don’t tase me, bro”
CTuttle @ 77
A great attack ad re: SCHIP. (vid).
Blub @ 59
Oh, so it’s not even real. ;)
Thanks for your reply, RBG. I was referring to Bush’s statement.
punaise @ 79
Ruben and Tom, Rawk!!! ;-)
Laura Doty @ 81
*covers her laptop protectively*
Oh right, change targets! ;-)
trex
coulter made you go straight?
Laura Doty @ 80
A potent video…!!! 8-)
peanutbutter @ 78
I so agree with you. It makes me think of Nazi hate-spew, the emotionalism and unbridled cruelty of the language she and others use use. If they want to stand on their soap box and hold forth, fine. What sickens me is that folks apparently want to listen.
Liberty Lover @ 81
Not necessarily, but they’re all hooked up to some serious Life Support…!!! ;-)
Suzanne @ 65
Well, more like dung, nevertheless…
;>)
One might surmise that Ms. Coulter and I have a…special relationship, artistically speaking. Such a fascinatingly pathological subject, she is.
Apart from that I see her, in societal terms, as a ’spear point’. It is her job to put the unspeakable into the public discourse so that the lickspittles in her wake can mouth her verbal monstrosities without fear of reprobation…After all, they themselves are only repeating it, for the purposes of ‘informing the public’.
And those who fancy themselves her ideological opponents, laboring under the burdens of decency and respect must dance with her strawmen in a pavane of outrage, rather than direct their energies to more fulfilling uses.
Thus, she leaves us no choice but to discard her cretinous philosophies as unworthy of debate fodder, and go directly to Mock 3 afterburner.
‘They distort – we deride’
Laura Doty @ 88
That is why we are all here reading instead of listening Coulter.
peterboy @ 86
Why? Are you attempting to test my resolve?
I generally avoid temptation…unless I can’t resist it. [/mae west]
you go (away),
girlcreature:twȝk @ 90
Now, Rachel Maddow really turns my crank…!!! ;-)
darkblack @ 90
Damn well put!
From my blog, “What we know so far …” 8/25/2006
The Very Definition of Crazy
There’s a new definition over on Urban Dictionary.com, “Katherine Harris crazy.” It roughly translates to “batshit crazy.” Why is there no entry for “Ann Coulter crazy,” which can be used whenever, “psychotic to the nth power,” is too awkward?
Over on Crooks and Liars, you can see a video of Ann Coulter saying that “Osama is irrelevant. Things are going swimmingly in Afghanistan,” on Hannity & Colmes. When confronted with reality, she freaks out and nearly walks off the set.
You may recall the kid-glove treatment she got on Jay Leno. The audience was clearly not your typical west coast lefty audience that one would expect in Studio City. They cheered wildly for some of her more bizarre blathering. Then, her book shot to the head of the Amazon list, which also strikes me as strange. Could it be that purchases on Amazon were manipulated to give her screed the buzz?
Something is crazy here. I mean, besides Ms. Coulter. Normally people that crazy are placed in straight-jackets. Why is she on the cover of Time Magazine?
Start with asking, ‘Who benefits?’ Well, obviously it is the right wing of the Republican party. But how? After all, nobody with the brains that God gave animal crackers believes that Osama is irrelevant or that things are going well in Afghanistan.
Think back, if you are old enough, to the time when they showed a cartoon before the movies. Sure, Betty Boop had some creative horsepower behind it, but it was not what brought people into the theaters week after week. What the cartoons did was this: they shifted the boundaries of reality. Theater, including cinema, requires that the folks in the audience willingly suspend disbelief. For something like a cartoon, it is an easy sell, because they are comedic. Then, when the main feature comes on, the shift is toward a more real representation, and so, the movie is more emotionally engaging.
Ms. Coulter is the Daffy Duck of political discourse. When she speaks, you shake your head and wonder if you really heard what you thought you heard. Then when someone on Faux News comes on and says, “we must fight the terrorists in Iraq, so we don’t fight them here,” it sounds like the voice of sweet reason. Compared to daffy Ann Coulter, it is so much easier to accept the talking head, who in this analogy might be compared to, say, Orson Wells, War of the Worlds.
Why the War of the Worlds? Because some people believe it and do batshit crazy stuff.
“… and tell ’em Big Mitch sent ya!”
My brainmush must be hardening tonight. I’m being very concrete.
I know you’re being snarky, oh Therapod the Magnificent, but I can’t help thinking how Coulter as a hate-monger is the Anti-Love. Some people may flock to her out of fear or self-loathing…because that’s what she draws out and sucks up–they are her own elements.
The antidote? Love of course. LOVE LOVE LOVE. Don’t give up one single shred of your love, lovingness, love objects, loveliness…..not one little bit, even in jest.
Okay–my mushhead and I are going to bed. Be well dearies.
CTuttle @ 94
Well, Maddow is true human.
darkblack at #90!
We spent a lot of today pulling stuff from the garden, before we get a hard frost tonight. Last night, it got down to 28 degrees, and it is already 30 tonight, at 10:00 p.m. After we were done, we went out on the lake, taking pictures of the mountains, the lake, the changing trees, and some amazing Trumpeter swans.
yikes, et – that makes my low 50’s currently downright balmy in comparison
I’m turning in too. If I dream of Coulter, I’m blamin’ you, TRex ;-)
Nighty, all!
*g’nite sleepy pups*
Nite, Pb! Aargh, a wet puddy-tat just launched onto my lap…!!!
58 here, with tomorrow’s high at about 90. Probably muggy, too. Is this October?
Laura Doty @ 97
I dunno, in terms of message she is completely irrelevant to me. For those with fortitude of stomach, like said therapod, I think it is entirely proper to correctly digest the message.
punaise @ 94
Single women like herself? And yet, this reads like something any of male right-wing megaphones would say. As if taking votes away from women wouldn’t affect her. Does she think she is a man? An honorary man? I’m not talking about her sexuality, more about how she identifies herself. Strange person, really really strange.
great eye candy, et, as always
persiflage @ 105
G’day, Sheila!!! 8-)
Ed*ard Teller @ 99
Great shots!
Suzanne @ 107
I’m thinking of sending one of the Trumpeter swan pics to Christy for the Sunday morning thread. Any preferences?
Ed*ard Teller @ 110
Do you have a higher res version?
G’day Chikka! I’ve gotta say, reading about your right-wing media crazies, makes our right-wing media crazies look almost human.
et, either the swan flying solo (further away) but ya can see the mt tops with snow or the solo swan flying by
Nice Pix, ET!!!
I can see the turning of colors in some! I don’t seem to recall any in recent memory…! One of the drawbacks of Paradise…!!! 8-(
Ed*ard Teller @ 109
The one in flight…!!!
This one is nice for over all composition.
Am I the only one who thinks this should get more play? After all, it would seem like one sure fire way to destroy a conservative would be an endorsement by members of the gay community. Right?
persiflage @ 111
Hey, we all have A**holes, it just seems to be a greater preponderance located north of the Equator, we also seem to swirl in the wrong direction…!!! ;-)
twȝk @ 111
Yeah, but she uses tiny thumbnails on the Sunday morning post. Most of the swan pics are from crops, but the originals have a lot of background. I use a 4-yo version of the Minolta Dimage 7, which isn’t the best for birds on the fly.
smass @ 116
i had not thought of this – is the prohibition against gays in the rethug party only against those who ARE gay or does associating with known gays get ya in trouble with the RNC?
smass @ 116
I don’t know, Wide Stance seems to be clinging like a Hemorrhoid on a Pachyderm…!!! ;-)
peanutbutter @ 49
Adolf Hitler was, according to many reports, one of the most charming people in the world when he wanted to be. Didn’t stop Auschwitz.
CTuttle @ 119
I think it’s just that your crazies get lots more TV time than our crazies. Though I don’t have cable, so that might be the difference. And don’t you let anyone tell you you’re swirling wrong, I support your right to swirl whatever way you like.
smass @ 117
I think your correct.
There is a single correct answer or audience.
persiflage @ 122
I knew I could count on ya!!! *g*
Ed*ard Teller @ 119
Are you reducing the resolution when you crop it?
CTuttle @ 68
Wasn’t that Ray Bradbury’s Something Wicked This Way Comes?
Suzanne @ 120
I think it likely only matters in the eyes of the social conservatives.
twȝk @ 126
Not knowingly. I take OK pics, but I’m not a photographer. I crop, then tweak in the current version of iPhoto.
persiflage @ 123
Hey maybe the poles will flip in 2011 Then the swirls will be reversed!
Suzanne @ 120
Well, remember Ann’s John Edwards-fa**ot comment (I can’t even type that word myself). That should tell you all you need to know.
It seems like, to the righties, gay is the new black. As in, lip service, but you don’t really associate yourself with “those people”
smass @ 130
***
Gives a whole new meaning to “lip service,” huh?… *G*
Ed*ard Teller @ 129
I don’t know how the current version of iPhoto handles cropping.
Send me the original and I’ll crop it in Photoshop to see if that helps.
and Hitler first sent to the death camps those with mental disabilities, the homosexuals, and the crippled…
trying to remember where that factoid that popped into my brain comes from
twȝk @ 129
The Earth’s Magnetism is in serious flux, it wouldn’t surprise me if it was 2011, I think it’ll be 2012, as foretold by the Mayan…!!!
TRex @ 32
Always a tough call in social situations. I suspect I’d leave and resolve to avoid those people in the future. I’m not gay, but stupidity still offends me.
CTuttle @ 135
I thought the Mayans said 2011! lol
hey cujo, how ya been – haven’t seen ya in a while
sunsin @ 127
No, it was one of the more memorably bad Star Trek episodes, Day Of The Dove.
twȝk @ 136
21 Dec. 2012, google it…!!!
Don’t tell Petrocelli, but Canookistan’s got a bad reputation.
Cornsilk cigareets and stealing kisses behind the barn, no doubt
;>)
Goodnight, FDL.
Suzanne @ 138
Pretty good. Seems like I’ve been busy with one thing or another. How are you doing? Last I remember, you were trying to sell a house.
twȝk @ 131
Oh my Gawd, how would I cope with such a swirl-altering phenomenon? Why 2011?
CTuttle @ 140
jup, Long Count.
twȝk @ 130
Only if they figure out how to make the Earth spin in the opposite direction. They might think they can do it over there in freeperland, but it’s definitely beyond them.
still am, cujo :( thought for sure i would be in oregon or washington state by now
darkblack @ 141
Damn Hairy Canooks!
g’nite db
Cujo359 @ 145
Yeah? Not an effect of the magnetic poles?
darkblack @ 141
Yep. Time we built a fence. Darn Canadians, sneaking in here to record music, act on our TV shows, and who knows what else.
tw3k,
I’ll send you the originals Friday. Gotta go soon, and I’m just checking back here periodically, as I do other stuff…
Ed*ard Teller @ 151
Ok.
Cujo359 @ 149
And smuggling that damn BC Electric, it’s cutting into Hawaii’s bottom line…!!!
Ot-BUT WTF?!?!?!?
Ghhhhrrrrrr . . . . . ‘kin idjit’s . . . .
twȝk @ 149
It’s supposed to be due to the coriolis effect, but the Wikipedia article says that’s not so. In any case, it’s nothing to do with the magnetic poles, since magnetism has even less effect on water than coriolis.
This is worth a chuckle…
“Can I have a round of applause?” Mr. Thompson said, drawing a rustle of clapping and some laughter.
“Well, I had to drag that out of you,” he said.
Really never a good sign when you have to do a shout out for your own round of applause. And this guy’s neck and neck for the lead.
–Josh Marshall
I read that gay rights organizations are resisting being included as a classification in the new hate crimes bill because transgendered folks were excluded.
That might explain why they’re showing some love to Ann ‘Gelding’ ‘Colt’er.
I’d rather support rotted road apples for their greater integrity.
TRex @ 32
You throw it for us all, straight or gay.
You throw it for unbridled freedom, and you throw it for the masses.
Throw it, T, throw it and MESS UP that bitch gown of hers.
Thank you for your support of us all. *G*
Suzanne @ 146
You’re in the Southwest, right? If so, starting about now is the good time to not be up in the NW any more, unless you like cold and rain. We even had a thunderstorm today. Forty-five degrees out and there’s lightning.
larue @ 154
yup
Kevin Hayden @ 156
Is that Gelding part true, I’ve seen many allusions but no definitive proof…???
larue @ 153
from the link:
larue @ 154
Sounds to me like they’re testing the Martial Law plan. Ever wonder how to respond if they cut off online discourse?
That’s when we all head to every city hall and shut them down.
cujo, i’m in a temperate redwood rain forest, boulder creek, ca, in the santa cruz mountains – we get about 60 to 75″ annual rainfall – i happen to like rain
Bloggers for Burma to Stage International Online Protest October 4th
Kevin Hayden @ 156
you got a link for this, kevin?
Big Mitch @ 40
Mitch, I’m confused . . .
Surely N. Korea has direct connect to China?
And, you think BushCo will bomb North Korea?
Before or After Iran? Or do propose that Bush will supercede the next election as Empy Babes and THEN do N. Korea when he jolly wants to?
Yer killin me . . . steer me to the kreplah, hoss. ;-)
Kevin Hayden @ 162
Yes! Very effective means…!!!
Cujo359 @ 155
What does Vorticity Part 1? I don’t have realaudio.
yellowdog jim @ 164
Not the Lake…!!!
Suzanne @ 162
Sounds like someone left a subdomain or two off the filter. In short, instead of “marinco.ca.gov” they filtered “ca.gov”. Anyway, pretty dumb mistake.
kevin, in case you missed it upthread, tranny jokes are not ok here at the lake – hence my asking for a link for your assertation of coulter’s post surgical status.
CTuttle @ 161
I’d be really, really loathe to verify that, but I figured it to be more gracious than saying ‘Man that mule-faced b*tch sure is f*ck*ng ugLY!”
I’d be really, really loathe to verify that, but I figured it to be more gracious than saying ‘Man that mule-faced b*tch sure is f*ck*ng ugLY!
tis the truth, kevin
yellowdog jim @ 165
YT is participating, though as I write, one article’s an unusually productive day.
Suzanne @ 171
Duly noted, Ma’am!!!
Suzanne @ 172
Yup, missed it. My apologies for that. I have no certain knowledge about her gender, but I stilll reserve doubts about whether she’s human.
Good for Keith Weissman! unfortunately, his awakening reduces the chances of his living until his trial in January.
Later, pups…
Kevin Hayden @ 176
figured you missed it – i have similar doubts about her being human
Suzanne @ 164
beautiful area, Suzanne…. I love it up there
Suzanne @ 173
“post-surgical status”? Oh, I get it, like after she had her “tonsils” removed.
me too, blub, but i am at peace with leaving – when i was up in the pac northwest 3 years ago, i saw several places that reminded me of here – when the house sells, i’ll go exploring and decide where the where is.
Kevin Hayden @ 177
lol, yeah, this has to be my favorite photo of here.
persiflage @ 180
(laughing) 24 years on the streets taught me how to politely ask sensitive questions without raising too many hackles – tends to come in handy here (more laughing)
Kevin Hayden @ 163
AYUP.
I’m tuned to KPIG.com . . .
They just spun ‘One More Heartache’ by Paul Butterfield, when he had Golden Butter . . .
That included Geoff Muldaur, and Amos Garrett. Both from the old jug band of Jim Kweskin, which featured of course, one Maria D’Amoto The Hot Tomahto . . . who became Maria Mulduar and sang of Camels N Oasis’ . . .
Anyhoots, I couldn’t find any UTb’s of One More Heartache, so I’ll leave it to those old farts like me to recall and smile how BITCHEN that song was, in my Senior Hi School Year of ‘71.
I miss the Late 60’s N Early 70’s, and I miss Longshoreman’s Hall, The Chalet, Fillmore, Winterland, Family Dog At Avalon, Keystone’s, Freight N Salvage, Barney Steele’s in Redwood City, and a buncha other places in Teh City (bowshead), on Teh Peninsulah, in Oakland, Bezerkeley, and even in old Fremont, CA.
Damn I miss being a dirty fucking hippie.
Now that I CAN play music, to some extent, I miss being a Dirty Fucking Hippie, BADLY!!!
And to close a ramble that’s gone all OVER the place, what I miss is why I got to THIS fest, twice a year, whether I can or not:
http://www.strawberrymusic.com/home.asp
Dirty Fuckin Hippie’s play music all night long after main stage closes down . . . some 5,000 DFH’s all told, most who pick and grin . . . all mostly acoustic . . . people who HAVE to press down a bit harder on the frets to make their joyful noise . . . no sissy ‘lectric crap with low strings on neck and fretboard . . . .
Pick it SOLID son! *G*
Aside from the music, and the music in the camps . .
Even a Theropod could get laid there . . . ;-) Out in the woods, that is . . . lol
Suzanne @ 185
And you’re very good at it too! Can I ask you a detective question?
persiflage @ 185
soy tan lee, persi
ask away
persiflage @ 180
Heh, ‘Tonsils’!!!
KPIG rocks, larue, got in on myself, and one day, i will make it to the strawberry music fest.
Suzanne @ 10
What? Given TRex’s thread, that’s FREE PASSAGE to nail her for any thing we want . . .
You can’t take the sexuality outta any of this Suz . . . I’m clueless as to how you folks make these decisions . . . you should be telling your POSTERS about these policies, Suz, not us commenters . . . if that is really where FDL is coming from . . Spank The Rex, don’t be dissin on US for the jive we follow that’s set by FDL posters . .
Love ya gal, but . . . WTF?????????
Suzanne @ 188
When I watch a TV show, particularly the CSIs, they always walk around in the dark using torches, even when there’s a perfectly good light switch on the wall. Is this for real or just for dramatic effect?
larue, where in trex’s post does he discuss her sexuality?
persiflage @ 190
I’d dust it, then I’d flip it on…!!! *g*
persiflage @ 190
many times, alternative light sources are better for seeing things, for example, i could see fingerprints on a surface better by using my flashlight with a very low angle of light than with an overhead light source (ala light switch). ditto for filters on light sources for trace evidence such as fibers, especially orange filters for a reason that i can’t remember – i think it has to do with making the small fibers glow but am not 100% on that one
peanutbutter @ 49
“Ann you ignorant slut, how could you be so stupid.”
And then, up and gone, swishing hair, thero tail, cock tail, and anything else left behind, as you LEAVE. And never look back.
Or, you could stay all night, rappin with her, doing shots, and googling responses from FDL to fuck her up . . . just to see if she’s got undies under that black cocktail teasin dress.
And then offer to do her laundry for her, cuz it’s SO soiled . . .
CTuttle @ 194
Me too Chikka. My eyesight’s not the greatest and, when they go traipsing around in the dark I can be found peering at the screen, annoying the hell out of Mr Persi with my “what was that?”, “was that a person in the corner?” (No, Persi, it’s a chair).
Suzanne @ 194
Another thing that helps in seeing things like that is that the light’s mostly coming from one direction. Bright light from overhead or even table lamps can be reflected off walls, furniture, and people. Shadows help you see things.
Well, Folks, I shall bid ya’ll a fond adieu! Aloha Oe!!!
persiflage @ 195
LOL! G’nite!!!
larue @ 185
larue @ 190
Considering her main venue 99% of her audience watch because she is a dumb blonde bitching about something. Right or left I’ve never met anyone who took her seriously.
g’nite ct
CTuttle @ 198
Aloha, indeed. It’s about time I did the same. Have fun, everybody.
i hear ya, larue and kevin – class of 72 here
g’nite cujo – good to see ya again
Suzanne @ 195
Thank you so much for that. I thought there must be a good reason but it’s never really explained. Oh, and another question if you don’t mind. You know that luminol stuff they spray to show blood stains? I read in a novel that it smells really horrible. Recently investigators in a local murder searched for blood stain evidence in her ex-husband’s house. The TV reports said that the family couldn’t move back into the house for a few days because the chemicals used were toxic. They might be using different substances to the stuff they so freely spray around on TV shows. What’s the scoop?
darkblack @ 62
Um, yer assumin undies . . . no wat eye meen?
I’d guess though, your intro would have her slimed up all OVER . . . and NOT from orgasmic delight, either . . .
Gnite CT and Cujo.
And TW3K, I don’t buy that she’s blond, either.
CTuttle @ 200
Nite Chikka, a good night’s rest to you and yours.
Kevin Hayden @ 208
Good night.
Sorry, but since it’s late night and all, I have Somthing To Say about this ENDA crap, AND the turnaround by Solomonese & Co. there.
Here:http://unrulymob.blogspot.com/
CTuttle @ 170
well …
Free Burma!
persi, when the scene was one that included luminol use, it was all done by our crime lab folks, our depts version of csi so i don’t know how it smells. many different chemical can be used in evidence collection, including superglue fumes for fingerprint collection but, in that case, the item to be printed would be taken to the lab since that requires a fume tank to contain the fumes so the print would raise.
i was trained in basic evidence collection but the pro’s did all the big crime scenes.
RBG @ 79
RGB, you are not really being all that consise yerself.
And frankly, if yer moderating, yer not doing a real good job of it, to be busting Mitch in yer obtuse kinda ways.
So either cut to the shit, call it for what it is, make it OBVIOUS to all the rest of those who comment, or fer cryin out loud, go away . . .
Yer killin me. I’m assumin I’m not the ONLY one being kilt here . . .
larue, if ya would read down the thread you would see answers to your questions.
also, the white bird playing on the pig is via my email request…. martin is pretty fast on playing requests
Bright Eyes
Ebony and Ivories
Uh… Baby get back
For your viewing pleasure. And now I must part for the Sandman cometh.
Cujo359 @ 175
even the smallest efforts accumulate.
oceans are made from molecules.
thx
Suzanne @ 214
No problem, I was just wondering if the stuff that’s so toxic you need 48 hours to clear the fumes is the same stuff they spray around like air-freshener on TV. Geez, I guess maybe you can’t believe everything you see on TV after all.
just keep in mind they solve crimes in 48 minutes (plus commercials)… it is never like it is on tv (laughing)
smass @ 131
Lately their tactic has been to attack Dems on the issue or point their Repub candidate is weakest. Remember how they slimed Kerry’s war record knowing Bush was AWOL?
So, if they slime Edwards that way it probably means they’re going to field somebody who is either gay or maybe bi. Who would that be?
even the smallest efforts accumulate.
oceans are made from molecules.
thx
Hi Jim! This reminds me of the Dalai Lama:
“If you think you’re too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.”
MarkH @ 219
howie klein has been trying to figure that out – he is thinking (iirc) there is an out ready to pop. link is to his place
just keep in mind they solve crimes in 48 minutes (plus commercials)… it is never like it is on tv (laughing)
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I expect a certain amount of exaggeration and simplification but I do expect their science to be correct. There was a show called 48 hours which followed real police investigations. I really enjoyed it though I guess nobody else did as it was always on late at night.
things have gone downhill, persi – jack webb as joe friday on dragnet did it in 23 minutes (plus commercials)
persiflage @ 221
you flatter me.
thank you.
… and the mosquito has a tiny virus …
i believe the basic science is correct, persi. most shows have an advisor, lawyer for law shows, law enforcement for cop shows, etc., to help keep it real.
on the other hand, most shows do have varying degrees of artistic license due to it being fiction. the good shows keep the science clear of the dramatic fictionalization
3:10 AM CDT …
= poof!
g’nite ydj
Suzanne @ 226
Well it is entertainment and it’s a drama so I expect that. And Joe Friday didn’t have to wait around for forensics. Plus he was a scary looking guy, I’d have fessed up straight away.
persiflage @ 221
lol!, ahhh wisdom :)
Well it is entertainment and it’s a drama so I expect that. And Joe Friday didn’t have to wait around for forensics. Plus he was a scary looking guy, I’d have fessed up straight away.
Yup, took me the longest time to think of Harry Morgan as Col. Henry Potter on M*A*S*H instead of Joe’s cop partner.
unconventional conventionist @ 211
I just kinda skimmed over it. I dunno why but I’m not that interested in the topic nor do I really understand the dynamics in play in the letter community. To me, on it’s surface, I don’t see why any particular group would be separated out. Probably, as I guess your arguing, there is some politics at play there that I don’t understand.
Good one! Rightwing Lies Cost Lives
Suzanne @ 231
Oh God yes, and I still seee Hawkeye Pierce every time Alan Alda shows up.
persiflage @ 233
i caught him on his PBS Scientific American Frontiers show (iirc) a while back and he is showing his age enough that i can finally start to disassociate him from that character of what – 30 some odd years ago.
i caught him on his PBS Scientific American Frontiers show (iirc) a while back and he is showing his age enough that i can finally start to disassociate him from that character of what – 30 some odd years ago.
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I think I finally managed it when he was on West Wing. I remember hearing a great story about him. Sitting in an airport he was approached by a someone wanting an autograph. He politely declined but said “No, but I’ll talk to you” so they sat down and had a great conversation until their flight was called. Much more thrilling for the recipient and another reason that I’ve always liked him.
Ryan just sounds VERY young and rather insecure. If he is over 22, he is extremely insecure and needs a shrink … badly.
persi, i don’t watch much network tv anymore – never saw the west wing. my fav shift to work patrol was 4pm to 3am, which pretty much wiped out my prime time viewing – 4 nites on, 4 nites off (ya need more than 2 shifts off to de-stress from the job before going back).
If you ever get an opportunity to see West Wing, grab it Suzanne. One of the best US drama series ever. That work schedule must have been hard on the social life, as well as the TV viewing. Though, I have to say, those hours would suit me perfectly. I’m a night owl by nature. My mother used to joke that I was born at 6am and that was the last time I ever got up early by choice.
the 4 nites off helped with the social life, persi. i’ll keep my eyes out for it after the move – my dvr and vcr are boxed up pending the sale.
speaking of which, i do have a showing sat morning so i will not be here moderating friday nite – i’ve been slacking on keeping it showing perfect so have to whip it back into shap.
Suzanne @ 240
It’s been a real pleasure chatting with you, as always. Thanks for answering my questions. So you’ll be here tomorrow?
yeup, persi, same bat time, same bat channel
Suzanne @ 242
Then I’ll probably see you then. Goodnight. Sleep well.
same to you persi, been a pleasure, as always
Thought for the day, from the Blackwater piece by P.W. Singer:
Have a better!
surfing (gasp) other blogs, found this over at the group news blog about how our government now has a non-lethal torture ray. coming soon to a non-koolaid drinking protest rally i’m sure
time for me to amble off to bed g’nite folks
i’ve left a fresh pot of coffee all ready to go (just press brew) for the early risers along with some apricot scones
good morning. 69 and drizzle (yeah!) in Fabulous Blue Ridge Ga.
And, damn, my Mr. Coffee floweth over…
Wake up!
MR. Bill @ 248
Still not a drop here. December 21 is d-day for the water supply if it doesn’t rain.
hey raven. The jobsite I was at actually got 3/10th an inch, just enough to make working on a metal roof dangerous.
MR. Bill @ 252
Every litter bit helps! How’s yer partner feeling?
I thank Representive Murtha for bringing up the issue of who is going to pay for this war. That bit on the news where he said something about how we didn’t pay for Viet Nam until the 70s was great.
Nothing like a bad economy and 70s high interest rates to scare the business community and the stock market.
Divide and Conquer if Murtha keeps bringing this up we can brand the likely future economic crisis on Bush and call it the Bush Depression for the history books.
That should split Bush from his base of economic elites!
Plus if that doesn’t scare them sooner or later the eclining value of the Dollar should wake them up.
The BF is better. I’m spending the weekend with him (and hoping the sons don’t destroy the house).
They switched his antiviral last week and that seems to have made a lot of the symptoms recede. It seems getting badly yellow jacket stung made all the bad side effects of the previous one kick in. And he said he had a good day yesterday, sitting at home, watching the clouds..
MR. Bill @ 255
Good, hang tough.
Tidbit from ((((((Fitz)))))
in the WAPO Op-Ed
Greenspan is talking bull first he praises Bill for being for free trade then he attacks Hilary for being a Protectionist
http://www.democraticundergrou…..15;3002984
Hey Greenspan you were in charge of the Federal Reserve and our Nation’s monetary policy for a big chunk of the decline in living standards that Americans lived through which began in the 70s through now.
Men in their 30s are making 12% less than their Fathers did when they were 30 on average. White Males have suffered the most their living standards have dropped nearly 29%!
We need to broadcast this fact to the Heavens! Is this what Milton Friedman intended the rich get richer and more numerous while the rest of us sink.
Someone ask Naomi Klein this question please if I don’t see her.
Divide and Conquer the Republicans played the Racist White Men for chumps Regean blamed that made up Welfare Mom from Chicago who supposedly collected several fake Social Security checks and drove a Caddy.
No don’t blame the rich who are getting richer as you get poorer, no go after the scapegoat. And while you do that watch your living standards drop even lower.
I wonder how well the GOP Southern Strategy would work if we start broadcasting that fact to the High Heavens nobody likes being played, we could retake the South!
http://www.ohio.com/news/10135…..=1&c=y
I wonder if lower birth rates for Americans can be tied to lower wages?
Mexicans higher birth rate could be linked then to the increase in their living standards compared to what they experienced in Mexico.
Responsible Men tend to put off marriage until they can afford it.
Some of Rap musics focus on material goods “bling ” could be a way of advertising they could afford a good life which is what responsible women want from a guy proof that he can provide a Peacocks tail if you would.
Survival is first food shelter etc, Safety security employment health etc then Love and Belonging friendships intimacy etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M…..y_of_needs
Rap is attacked by Congress for having immoral lyrics but the music is rather a symtom, a reflection of an immoral society where basic needs are not being met!
morning!
Good morning, pups. Today in the NYT we’ve been treated to TOMC, Roger Cohen and (wait for it…) James Dobson. TOMC casts a jaundiced eye at the crop of Republicans trying to be president. Roger Cohen says that the new “L-word” is Neocon. That creature Dobson has typed something about “values.” It’s instructive, sometimes, to read his ravings.
http://mgpaquin.wordpress.com/
The coffee and tea are ready, and because it’s raining again (our impending house guest has sent rain ahead of him) I wanted comfy food, so I’ve got waffles with maple syrup. Have a good day.
Seems to me Ann Coulter is hanging out at the gay parties for this very reason: to convince the gays that she’s a good person, they should love her, and then tell all their friends.
Reich wing propaganda! And the gays fell for it. *shaking head*
Men tend to judge if they can have a family by what their fathers provided them when they were kids since living standards have declined the most for White men that would explain their lower birth rate.
Men are putting off marriage and men and woman are restricting the amount of kids they have so that they can try and provide at least what their parents provided them.
Sure we have more money but more women are working because they have to rather than taking care of and having kids.
Since time with the kids is restricted because both parents are working Parents restrict the amount of kids they have so they can maximise what time they do have.
Time is money if the family has, needs the wife to work then less time with the kids is made up for by having less kids so the children get the minium amount of attention the parents feel their kids need.
Good Morning Everyone!
Good morning firepups.
Things come undone,
Great analysis in a concise form. I always enjoy your insights.
Wow, Marion. Dobson sounds resigned to failure :The other approach, which I find problematic, is to choose a candidate according to the likelihood of electoral success or failure. Polls don’t measure right and wrong; voting according to the possibility of winning or losing can lead directly to the compromise of one’s principles. In the present political climate, it could result in the abandonment of cherished beliefs that conservative Christians have promoted and defended for decades. Winning the presidential election is vitally important, but not at the expense of what we hold most dear.,,,
That divergence is entirely reasonable, now just over a year before the national election. It is hardly indicative of a “splintering” of old alliances. If the major political parties decide to abandon conservative principles, the cohesion of pro-family advocates will be all too apparent in 2008.”
And Cohen is still flogging a strawman that Libruls all oppose every use of American power anywhere at anytime. `
Mornin’ all!
KayInMaine @ 262
Kay, I’m quite sure Ava Braun had some fabulous and festive friends…
Just being gay doesn’t make one sensible or politically aware. Sheesh.
And From Collins “There is, however, only one Fred Thompson, and he appears to have been stuffed by a taxidermist.”
LOL
Cargo plane crashes in Congo’s capital
Airport officer Appo Ilunga said the Antonov-26 crashed into a market area of the Kingasani neighborhood around 10:30 a.m. He said he did not yet know if there were any deaths, or how many people were aboard the plane.
Reuters breaking: “Many dead” in Congolese plane crash in Kinshasa: U.N. spokesman
Ok I’m gone, probably talk to youall Monday.
Pray (chant, meditate, send good energy, visualize, hope) for rain. Later.
I wonder if we could get a list of Blackwater employees and then compare that to known members of white supremacy groups and radical militant christian groups which I’m sure the FBI has.
Also it would be good to know if both the American and Foreign mercs mave prison records or warrants out for their arrests.
The GOP will defend or pooh pooh the white supremecy groups but they will have a harder time excusing criminals.
Our base however will freak if there are a lot of Klan and Nazi’s working for Blackwater.
2 Koreas sign summit declaration
Blackwater’s chairman and the GOP
Prince’s latest donation was in July, when he gave $20,000 to the National Republican Congressional Committee. California recipients of Prince’s $1,000 checks include Reps. Jerry Lewis and Duncan Hunter, a current GOP presidential candidate, and former Rep. Richard Pombo.
The former serviceman has given almost all of his donations to Republicans. There was, however, an exception in 2006, when he donated $5,000 to the Green Party of Lucerne County, Pa.
That was a Republican ploy to ensure the Green Party’s U.S. senate candidate got on the ballot in an effort to peel votes away from Democrat Bob Casey and help Republican Rick Santorum. The effort failed and Casey won.
Dobson does not want to risk the supposed power of his Christian fundementalist group’s reputation as GOP king makers by backing a loser.
This is purely a political move the worst the GOP chances look after a nominee is chosen the more likly the Christians will bail on the GOP.
But if the GOP looks like they might win expect them to even back Rudy as Power over Principle is their unoffical creedo.
Nomatter how much the GOP nominee bends over for them or what ever he promises them it won’t be enough.
Thankfuly for the Fundementalist the front runners all have baggage they can point to as an excuse not to back them.
This is good they will control the GOP after the expected election defeat. They will claim the GOP lost because the Nominne wasn’t conservative enough.
We want them to run openly as fundementalists.
I’d be more worried if the went Regean and disguised their postion with code words and offering scapegoats for America’s problems.
maybe she was there to ask them to support the inclusion of transgender people in the proposed legislation :)
twolf1 @ 274
Let us not forget that the GOP funded most of Nadirs campaign…..and I am still bloody pissed at the idiots that voted for him. stupid, stupid, stupid
MR. Bill @ 266
i haven’t read cohen… yet.. let me enjoy the morning for a few more minutes first. but when i do, tristero’s righteous takedown will be my antidote.
nomolos @ 277
and i’m still bloody pissed at the dems who gave people are reason to vote for him.
(disclaimer – i voted for gore, and in a “safe” state to boot).
selise @ 279
Lets curse and stamp our feet together….are you ready
Of the front three Republicans, only Romney is a serious Christian fundamentalist, and apparently he is the wrong kind to suit those in power within the Republican party.
Also, it’s looking like Ron Paul, also not a serious fundamentalist, is now moving up into fourth place beating out McCain and Huckabee.
Somebody should tell Cohen that Ossama is in Pakistan.
selise @ 279
I did the same, altho’ I knew several people here in NJ who voted for Nader. And we have a friend who only votes for candidates who s/he feels are “authentic” which meant Perot in 92 and Nader in 2000 [and this person is a journalist, who writes great stuff about politics.
Morning all. It’s already pretty warm here in Upstate New York – they are forecasting 80s here (mmm, like, is it October?).
Sorry, forgot my manners.
Good Morning, Firepups!
It’s cool and humid this morning in central Jersey. The coffee’s ready, and I picked up a big bag o’ bagels. I’m having a pumpernickel bagel with cream cheese, a slice of tomato from the farmer’s market, and fresh chives from my potted herbs. Help yourselves!
Work for peace, every day.
As for Ann Coulter – her appearance is her camouflage. If she had walked in looking like Madeline Albright or Bella Abzug or Nancy Reagan or Camerine Manheim or Queen Latifa, do you think that the boys would have been so wiggly? I don’t think so. The boys missed the point – Ann Coulter despises anything and anyone associated with LGTB.
Toby Wollin @ 284
Here in NH I have to water my garden this AM….nuts
New thread upstairs…
“Just being gay doesn’t make one sensible or politically aware. Sheesh.”
Yes, the gay community has the same percentage of idiots as the rest of the population. And the same percent who swoon over any celebrity.
Don’t give up, TRex. Just spread your talents around those who appreciate them. Discretion.
Good morning everyone. Just a friendly reminder that sockpuppeting, especially using the screen name of a famous person, is frowned upon at FDL.
nomolos @ 280
or we could just try to learn from the experience…
selise @ 291
Now. Now. Let’s not go to extremes.
wigwam @ 292
thanks. i needed the reminder… sometimes i just get carried away. *g*
You’re better than them, TRex. I think you should shield your eyes from the horror show. This is why I open People or Vanity Fair at the doctors’ office or at the grocery store with trepidation. Most of the time the celebrities have no merit (or at least the type of merit that I–or probably most of us– get.) It’s all love of fame and wealth. If you think about it, it’s a push celebrity culture that means to promote artists that we wouldn’t give a second thought to otherwise. Embracing Ayn Coulter, well that’s just insanity. *hack*
And after having such a lovely evening with Ann, I would rather these people worship a hilarious woman who loves gay men, cocktails, and knowingly pushes the envelope…..
So…..I’m confused…..What’s he saying? Ann Coulter is really a “Fag Hag”?
There is some light in this for me. At least O’Reilly was eating with Al Sharpton – give him credit for that – has Hillary Clinton had dinner with Al?
And now Ann is hanging out with gays. And you think this is a bad idea?
The fact that Ann is socializing with gays is something we should be screaming to the rooftops – it is sure to help her reputation.
My son was at that party, and this is what he wrote me:
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Poor ‘ittle Ryanni poo. He must be suffering from nelly posioning.
something happened to my quote: here it is again (from my son who was there)
that ryan creed piece annoyed me very much, especially since it made him sound like he was representing the opinions of all the “gays” at the party. i stood with a group of people that was appalled she was there…and frankly she was flitting about the room feigning interest in frank bruni’s “intimates,” and she even read an excerpt of her book aloud to her young groupies, such as ryan creed. he’s very young (23 maybe?), and too bad he tried to make a name for himself with a controversial posting like that.
So the gays hung out with Ann Coulter and found out she is actually a funny, smart, articulate person, whose only crime is she is conservative with and edge. And now they defy conventional wisdom and enjoy partying with her!!??
Ann appears on gay talk show host Al Rantel’s show on KABC in Los Angeles every week. It is always funny and interesting. And not a big deal.
How dare they gays not tow the Democrat party line!
LOL! Spot on TRex.
Suzanne @ 10
Just in case folks didn’t see this earlier in the thread.
Thanks to Suz for reminding us.
Did it occur to Ryan that Ann may get along with gay men so well because, uh, she IS a gay man?
[Mod Note; did you not see the comment just above this one from RBG & Suzanne?]
Marion in Savannah @ 261
I took great succor from Dobson’s column. C’mon, he did not mention Rudy by name, but we all know that’s to whom he was referring, being the only GOP front runner who is pro-choice.
This is why I dearly wish Illinois had open primaries so I could vote for rudy and help him cinch the GOP nom. It is clear from Dobson’s words that Rudy will sink them. If they go with Rudy they will lose the entire Evangelical vote (the most reliable segment of their base with a huge turnout). On the other hand, if they swing far right with Romney or Brownback, they will lose all their moderates and Indies to the Democrats. It is lose-lose for them.
Meanwhile for the Dems, 8 years out in the cold is a looooong time and the party will have no trouble uniting behind anybody. Sweeet.