heya, Eli!

on edit: got me one them there zed’s, I believe.

P.P.S. Maybe I should quit while I’m ahead?

Ronaldus Magnus? I feel faint.

Heya, jayt!

If you say anything stupid, just say the Republicans hacked into FDL to sabotage us.

(but not Jesus)…

well-know socialist: we’ll not be talking about Him.

I got screenshots, just in case…

The rest of us should hold back from commenting to up your paranoia level. *g*

As for the R website, I vote for “they could just be idiots.” They construct websites like they govern.

Oh, but they’re working on that…

the RNC’s new website, including the fact that passwords and administrator instructions were exposed…

Not that any one of us woulds take advantage of that….

*starts up a fresh pot of coffee*

As “hinky” as it’s been today, I wouldn’t put it past them.

If, of course, I thought they were capable of it.

Oh, and as KO pointed out, Jackie Robinson was NOT a Republican. He quoted some pretty choice language from Robinson’s autobiography about Republicans. Wonder if they’ll take his name and pic off?

I’m thinking they might be idiots.

O/T

Oh boy, Howard Dean just put his foot in his mouth on the Rachel show (but no Rachel :( ). Wonder if anyone’s gonna pick up on it. (I think the host did judging by her gasp and silence. Dammit don’t recall her name but she’s cute too! :), just not Rachel though)

Wasn’t there also a fiasco in which Norm Coleman’s contributors had their credit card numbers stolen? These folks need a sysadmin who really knows his stuff, like Ted Stevens…

You know what the say,

if it walks like an ……

Dang – I was typing nstead of listening–what did he say? I heard him say this bill isn’t health care reform and he wouldn’t vote for it in its present form.

Do they get to just choose dead people and declare them Republicans?

Wow.

Back in 2006, I was named Time’s person of the year, and now I’ve been named a Future Leader of the GOP?

I’m . . . stunned.

Robinson was okay with the Republicans until they became the crazy virulent racist party.

Apparently the Constitution mandates that there must always be at least one crazy virulent racist party – who knew?

Some may want to drop by Steele’s blog and drop a comment about why you’re a R.

hey young lady – I couldn’t hep but notice that after deputizing me, you still haven’t responded to my demand (bottom of last thread) that I get a big-ass badge…

Oh. My. Gawd.

The Bible has been mistranslated due to a liberal bias???

Jeebus H. Christies, these fuckers are completely over the edge.

Hahaha – I actually tried to work that in.

I wouldn’t be surprised. What struck me was the large proportion of people and “accomplishments” that were in the 19th century, compared to those in the 20th.
They had the nerve to include “the Contract with [sic] America” as an accomplishment. To my mind, everythinng listed after Eisenhower and the insterstate highway system was of that ilk.

And, a large number of the 19th century people were from civil war/reconstruction era.

Well, it wasn’t huge or anything, just stupid. I’m rewinding now, so I can get the quote word for word.

It’s going to be a really tough job to pull off.

The New Testament *does* seem to have an awful lot of liberal stuff in it. That can only be due to translation errors.

If you hadn’t noticed, the leader of this project is Phyllis Schlafly’s son.

Always the same suspects, somehow.

I’m thinking they might be idiots.

Well, they’ve certainly got the “I’m not an idiot, I just play one on TV” thing locked down…

Oh, and did you notice, they’re correcting the errors by translating from…wait for it…. the English versions! KJV, I think.

(look around last week on FDL, Atrios, TPM, etc., you’ll find lots of comment and description)

I noticed that they emphasized the civil rights achievements of even the people who were not exactly civil rights icons, like Ike. And made a point of emphasizing the Democrats’ opposition to integration, emancipation, etc.

In the new version Jesus will be more like Patton.

Oh, but they’re working on that…

Now – with extra smiting….

same price, but a mandatory tithe to the R party is required.

In other words, the GOP is totally the civil rights party, not the crazy virulent racist party like those Democrats.

Rod Dreher, aka CrunchyCon at BeliefNet, summed up his reaction to the project like this:

You really need to read the whole Conservapedia entry to grasp how crazy this is. It’s like what you’d get if you crossed the Jesus Seminar with the College Republican chapter at a rural institution of Bible learnin’.

jayt – you funny. You make me proud of my ex-Hoosier-ness.

I know the answer is (b) but since it’s multiple guess I choose (c).

my ex-Hoosier-ness.

that *is* the best kind of Hoosier-ness.

A lot of Dixiecrats opposed integration, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, etc., so by contrast the GOP was… well, not a civil rights champion exactly but less antagonistic to the cause.

Is Strom “Ah became a Republican when the Democrats got all wishy-washy on the race business” Thurmond on their list?

Yeah, “English version” I thought ah wasa gonna dy. I wonder which version they were gonna use, the King James or New English, which was endorsed by none other than the grand poobah hissef, Jerry Falwell, behind Dobson, that is.

Until the Dixiecrats decided to become Rethugs.

sometimes you should put up a spew alert!

REFERENCE MY HOWARD DEAN FOOT IN MOUTH POST ABOVE

Howard Dean

And I thank Max Baucus for getting a bill through the Finance Committee. Having said that, it’s not a bill that I’d vote for.

Than later.

The Host

What would you say to Senator Snowe if she were sitting right next to you right now?

Howard Dean

I’d say thank you very much. It’s about time Republicans and Democrats started working together. This bill is something that thoughtful people ought to be able to support.

I just played it again, and the host definitely caught it. He just went from saying it was a bill he couldn’t support to saying it was a bill thoughtful people ought to be able to support.

No Dubya either.

I was thinking they would have Stalin on their list of heroes for his opposition to fascism, and Hitler for his opposition to communism.

You should go ahead and embrace your Hoosierness, not everybody from Indiana is a hick. Everybody but you, tejanarusa, and Kurt Vonnegut, maybe…

(tapping foot)

still haven’t gotten a reply for my big-ass badge demand.

This could be a deal-breaker…..

Most of ‘em had switched before the ’64 Civil Rights Act passed, that drove the rest across the aisle.

Let’s see here: isn’t this the party that proudly displayed a ‘budget’ that entirely lacked anything resembling numbers? Haven’t they announced that they have their own healthcare plan, which they won’t show anyone? Yes, there’s much to recommend the idiot theory. On the other hand, maybe they aren’t really idiots. Maybe they’re just terrified–the default mode for clownservatives–and desperate, and they’ve gone berserk, all of which makes them appear to be idiots.

I read down far enough to read their “discussion” of basing the “translation” on the KJV, plus “new scholarship”. But I gave up when reaching the part where they list “liberal” and “conservative” words.
“Volunteer” is conservative? “Laborer” is “liberal”? How else are they going to describe someone doing manual labor? Uh, lessee, “worker,” no, definitely socialistic – uh…hunh…toiler? Nah, that’s pretty archaic, maybe liberal, too…
Oh, I get it…they’ll just leave out the part about the “laborer is worthy of his hire.” 1 Timothy 5:18. That must be a later “liberal insertion.”
That’s the ticket.

Yep.

Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges . . .

Ronaldus Magnus! Good one, Eli.;)
Oh man…I thought you were joking. They really called him this?!

Yes, and let us not forget the currently-most-notorious Hoosier – Big Dave.
Who must have gone to school with my cousin, but since he (my cousin) was always creepy, I haven’t had the opportunity to ask.

Dave’s a little hickey…

Put his foot in his mouth? What did he say?

lashing out at its critics, the RNC rushed to squelch the burgeoning scandal byundergoing inter-tubal litigation.

Alas.

I couldn’t resist.

Original

Mel’s

Who must have gone to school with my cousin, but since he (my cousin) was always creepy, I haven’t had the opportunity to ask.

Dave went to Broad Ripple H.S. These days, to get into BRHS, I think you need a check of your student I.D., and to have the serial number of your handgun run….

Nicely done, take a bow.

See 42.

Like I said, nothing huge, just stupid.

True, it is no French Lick…

The watchwords of the GOP today:

“Authoritarianism, Arrogance, Greed, and Breathtaking Incompetence.”

I swear I wrote the same damned book. But my main character was named Kilgore Salmon – who’d a thunk that Kilgore Trout would kick my ass?

Yep, my creepy cousin went to Ripple, too; should be about the same age as Dave.
I would’ve gone to Ripple, too, except by the time I got to h.s. we baby boomers were causing new high schools to be built at a blinding pace, including Arlington, where I went.

I always forget how funny “Broad Ripple” sounds to those who didn’t grow up hearing it….
French Lick didn’t strike me as having any double meaning, either, till I was grown and away (and a touch more worldly-wise)

“Authoritarianism, Arrogance, Greed, and Breathtaking Incompetence.”

And who says that they don’t have what it takes to get on every single damned on of the talking-head show?

I mean, it’s not like that stuff comes naturally….

Well, timing is everything. Do you think a writer like Vonnegut could get picked up by a major publisher today? Seems unlikely.

Larry Bird put French Lick on everybody’s map at one time.

Talk about aging gracefully…

Arlington H.S. has a much more lenient gun policy, fwiw…

I should probably chek to see whether or not that satisfies the phys-ed requirement.

This isn’t Snark they have been acting like idiots for awhile now without the Media letting them lie all the time where would they be. Still why are they going nuts?

I’m stickin with the LOL Cat Translation.

Do you think a writer like Vonnegut could get picked up by a major publisher today?

Not a chance.

Robert Ludlum, otoh, has been extremely prolific, churning out books about every 15 minutes, which is interesting – since he’s dead and all.

on edit: and has been quite dead for quite some time now.

Dead guys get all the breaks…

although I think it would be harder to get laid that way…

Awwwww…
What h.s. did you go to, pray tell?
(Gawd, I swear, this is the last Classmates type post)

I’m not sure, at this point in my life I’m thinking it’s about even.

I dunno, they do refer to them as stiffs, although it probably takes them a long time to make their move.

And teh blessinz of Ceiling Cat be upwn you, too. *g*

Dead WHITE guys get all the breaks.

There is evidence that Larry Craig was gettin’ some pretty interesting strange.
The lesson: There are worse things than no longer being alive.

Some obscure urge today drove me to stumble up on the following brief video appeal for support. This looks like a pretty good thread for it.

“Blacks Without Soul,” featuring Don Simmons (David Alan Grief)

Hmm, I was thinking Richard Brautigan wouldn’t get published today, either, but I saw new editions of “Salmon Trout Fishing in America” and “Revenge of the Lawn” in the bookstore recently.

So I got THAT going for me… sweeet!

What h.s. did you go to, pray tell?

WayOutInTheMiddleOfNowhere H.S.

Try rhyming *that* into a school fight-song. Our school band, at games, always looked quite perplexed. They used to try some Led Zeppelin – it wasn’t pretty at all.

I bet they could have made it work around a John Prine sort of groove. But no – they went for the Led Zeppelin – always comforting, when out on the floor, to hear your band sound like ailing cats.

necrophilia means never having to say you’re sorry. (h/t urban dictionary)

I played cello in our marching band.

Oh. That says “GOP Faces” I thought it said GAP faces. Couldn’t figure that out. The vowel is somebody’s head. I guess the one I saw was a … a pointy head so it looked like an A as in GAP. They did a good job with the other faces and used roundheads so it looks like GOP

Aw, a love story…

he looks good. what is he doing? didn’t he used to be Pacers gm?

ok – that made me me laugh right out loud…

didn’t he used to be Pacers gm?

Still is.

As a G.M., he was a hell of a ballplayer.

He has served in various roles with the Pacers starting in ’92. From ’97-2000 he coached. Came back later as club president. Can’t find out anything about what he is doing now.

Oh, I don’t know — they’re publishing Dan Brown’s stuff and from a writer’s standpoint, his novels are dreadful. Plot holes big enough to drive a truck through ‘em, hackneyed cliches (not unlike the aforementioned truck metaphor), unbelievable characters who suddenly and for no apparent reason completely change their motivations and behavior, and books that read like a tourist trying to turn his frequent trips to Europe into a tax write-off.

Compared to him, Vonnegut’s a Hemingway.

Ah, so it was a place so teensy that if you gave its name, your true identity would immediately be revealed?
Okay. Enough Naptown nostalgia.

Seriously. We’ve got one guy, Jamaal Tinsley, who we’re paying millions of dollars each year to stay home, and stay the hell away from the team.

I know a guy who makes a fucking fortune representing all of the Pacers in criminal court.

My guess was that they hired their idiot nephews to build the site for them, figuring that they’d work cheap.

Are you saying Vonnegut wasn’t Hemingway?

Do I owe you a beverage?

Ah, the occasional Spur used to turn up in child support enforcement/paternity cases(never actually got to the court stage). Spurs are pretty well-behaved, though, compared to the average NBA player.

I was wondering if they hired the people who were in charge of the Bush White House’s e-mail migration. Or maybe Danger’s (the Sidekick people)…

I love Vonnegut. I wasn’t suggesting he wouldn’t be picked up by a big publisher today because he was a bad writer. Quite the reverse. He wouldn’t get picked up because he didn’t write crap about teen vampires or getting left behind after the Rapture.

Ah, so it was a place so teensy that if you gave its name, your true identity would immediately be revealed?

yup.

Though if one had been paying close attention over the years, the *true identity* (shudder) has already been made quite clear.

OH!
I was out at the post office sending you a Badge and dinna see this, it’s in the mail.

I never saw them in the same place at the same time…

Do I owe you a beverage?

Nah – I still haven’t shipped your out from the other day – all square.

There’s another possibility. It’s the result of Galtism.

You know how so many Republicans like to threaten to go Galt? (Not realizing that when they haul their lofty asses away in a huff the work will continue to get done by everyone who always did it before.)

Galtoids live such self-congratulatory lives, they have no idea that they can’t really do anything.

Actually, I thought the e-mail migration went just the way the bosses wanted it to.

Like this?

I was out at the post office sending you a Badge and dinna see this, it’s in the mail.

Cool !! I want one that covers my whole chest, and is magnetic.

BY THE WAY, jay the t …

How’s the baby?

It was like ten months ago you started with the swollen ankles, and then nine months later you were in hospital …

hmmm..
Girl? Boy? One of each?

LOL. Was just tellin’ my son today how alot of the best coaches were pretty crappy players and that players are usually bad GMs

sweeet!

Sorry, I couldn’t find a really good version.

Because the crappy players have to work at it and study every nuance of the game just to stay in the league.

AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND…

Citizen Eli and the Firepup Freedom Fighters:

I would join in with a gigle at the comic relief of the RNC and the RCCC and Fox fascists except the comedy has a deadly serious purpose and that is to poison the political discourse, repeat the lie and characature about Obama and instigate a violent reaction or series of reactions from the small but deadly lunatic fringe. This stuff is not intended to grow the faascist base, it’s purpose is to terrorize and demoralize the greater mass of regular folks and then use the mobilized lunatics to make the fascist opposition look larger and more representative than it really is.

We must laugh sometime in the middle of this battle for the life of our country but as with everything else we gotta choose our spots carefully. Just remember that no matter how much of a parody of himself he is, Steele is the visable representative of the other major party in our politics and the other liars and lunatics we might laugh at are given legitimacy on corporate media like Mornin’ Joe and Hardball and keep repeating the big lies until those of us opposin them get tired or start shootin’ at our own troops.

Laugh at your own peril…I ain’t laughin’, that’s what my grand children are for and they are why I take these bastards deadly seriously.

KEEP THE FAITH AND PASS THE AMMUNITION, WE HAVE SEEN THE SNEMY AND THEY AIN’T US!!

*snap*

sent you one of those new-fangled monopole badges. Hoping that sticks to your chest

on edit: big hairy chest

I love Cream,
sweet Cream, I feel free.

‘zactly. don’t know if you remember when Ted Williams managed the Senators…. that was bad.

How’s the baby?

turns out it was a sympathetic pregnancy, which is weird because I don’t even know anyone who is/was pregnant.

I’m just a sympathetic guy, I guess.

P.S. Being pregnant *really* sucks.

I think he also had trouble understanding that not everyone can count the seams on a 98mph fastball. Plus he genuinely hated pitchers.

Because the crappy players have to work at it and study every nuance of the game just to stay in the league.

And the really, really good players just assume that everyone else in the world sees the game exactly as they did.

Blessinz of teh Ceiling Cat be apwn yu 2, srsly

The Sun-Sentinel is reporting that Rep. Robert Wexler (D-Florida) will resign from Congress.

bmaz has a word or two.

Sure is fishy.

I iz lmao

thx, bai!

Steele already changed the name from “What Up?” to “Change the Game”.

I was expecting “Don’t Be Hatin’!”

Gawd that man has no clue.

Really. No. Fucking. Clue.

(tapping foot)

still haven’t gotten a reply for my big-ass badge demand.

I think the award is waiting right outside the bathroom stall. Open the door & check.

did they pick that up from the mormons?

The GOP has come to embody fecklessness. This is just the latest in a long line of unbelievable fuckups that the Republicans keep rolling out. To wit: Team Palin’s phone barrage on Senate Finance Committee member’s phones on a holiday; cheering when Chicago lost their Olympic bid; screaming like scalded cats when Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize; their embrace of the death panel meme; their continued embrace of the birther meme; their transparent stalling tactics on healthcare reform; their continued embrace of the socialist meme; Steele’s laughable attempts to “out brotha” Obama; their numberless budget; etc., etc., etc.

How do they think this parade of imbecility is going to propel them back into power? I know that the idiot sheeple that constitute the base of the GOP are cousin loving morons, but that doesn’t mean that the rest of us are.

For Christ’s sake GOP, get up off your asses and provide us with a real LOYAL party of opposition. If not, just curl up and die, get the fuck out of the way and let another party that isn’t top heavy with buffoons take your place.