the Kommisariat's Kontinuing Kronicles: more right-wingery in the USA, 2k11-12

i see i have already said that on this thread

re: pynchon, i mean

so wonderfully american!

while we're here, what is the relationship between 'game' and facism? well...

http://heartiste.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/comment-of-the-week-the-natural-state-of-woman-is-submission/

holy shit

also lol at "facism" in this context

haha i've just committed my favorite ever internet typo

"when her womb is exposed to the threat of beta sperm"

Vive la différence, you tinkering, vivisecting, social engineers! You life’s losers, you resenters, you poisoners of the punch bowl! You philosophesses with weak-chinned daddies!

Come on, you resenters, you poisoners of the punch bowl and SHIIIIIIIIIIINE!

So, I'm a denatured woman now? When did they add the wood alcohol to me, and why wasn't I told about it?

Tbf, one often doesn't remember when they add the alcohol to you, Christine.

Michele Bachmann is the last (small) chance for a female American president.

Apparently even Haley Barbour can't get behind the Personhood Amendment.

Eh most of that Heartiste link is pretty par for the course, dressed up men's rights BS but with fewer misspellings and more turn-of-the-last-century high-minded "adoration". Reminds me what that Atlantic article said about cultures with greater male populations than female: that the culture tends to revere women and women's roles, but men use their voting numbers to keep women home and uneducated. Yay!

But somehow when I got to "the vessels of our immortality" I felt really sickened, more than by the rest.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/02/justice/georgia-militia-arrests/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

Ricin!

Huh...I wonder if I'm related to Samuel Crµmp.

Friendswood Rep. Taylor apologizes for Jewish slur

The chairman of the House Republican Caucus casually used an ethnic slur earlier today while expressing frustration over the cumbersome payment process of wind insurance claims.

“Your job is to pay claims. Don’t nitpick. Don’t try to Jew ‘em down. That’s probably a bad term,” Rep. Larry Taylor, R-Friendswood said.

Several hours later, Taylor, who is running for the Texas Senate, released this statement:

“At a legislative oversight committee hearing today, I inadvertently used a phrase that many people find offensive.

“I corrected myself immediately when I realized what I had said.

“I regret my poor choice of words and sincerely apologize for any harm they may have caused.”

House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, the first Jewish speaker elected to lead the 150-member body, declined to comment about the slur, according to his spokeswoman, Tracy Young.

Taylor, who owns an insurance agency, is co-chairman of the state’s Joint Legislative Committee on Wind Insurance.

Moments before Taylor’s verbal lapse, Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman told the committee: “There’s a tremendous fear going to trial on these cases. That drives a lot of decisions that are being made.”

Taylor said it shouldn’t be so complicated because it’s simply a matter of determining the cost of putting up a new roof or repairing a house.

“We’re not calculating pain and suffering. How much does it cost to put that wall up? We need to get back to what does it cost to put the house back up, to put a new roof on?”
He expressed “frustration” and wants a new TWIA.

Immediately after conceding his use of “a bad term,” Taylor continued his thought: “If the claim is $12,000, pay the $12,000 and get on down the road.”

TWIA officials told the committee that rates need to go up 22 percent for homeowners and 29 percent for business property to keep the state windstorm insurance financially sound.

They also told lawmakers that TWIA has paid out 97 percent of the Hurricane Ike claims, which will end up costing about $2.3 billion.

unbelievable

yeah, that is.

oh wait, what thread is this?

very believable

texas!

this is an older bit from the beginning of last year, but I thought it fun. It's done by young rightwing schmuck Ben Shapiro, and is pretty much a list just plopped here in this thread for y'all to point and laugh at:

http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2010/01/17/top-10-most-overrated-directors-of-all-time/

Top 10 Most Overrated Directors of All Time
by Ben Shapiro

Enjoy. Or not.

His top choice is...rather odd & unexpected, I must say.

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n21/pankaj-mishra/watch-this-man

pankaj mishra (not familiar with him) reviews newest niall ferguson tome very badly, ferguson comments angrily.

niall ferguson is such a cumstain

Top 10 Most Overrated Directors of All Time
by Ben Shapiro

could poll that. agree with Lean. rest is some interesting trolling. (well especially top 5)

pankaj mishra (not familiar with him) reviews newest niall ferguson tome very badly, ferguson comments angr

Why 'very badly'? What's wrong with the review?

"vary badly" as in "he panned it harshly", not as in "it's poorly written"

also with "very" spelled correctly

It's not fabulously written either.

yeah the review is a little axe-grindy even if i agree with its assessment of ferguson

Buried in a Grand Rapids Press story about Cornerstone Schools co-founder and Republican Senate candidate Clark Durant's Thursday meeting with a group of college students is a nugget about the nation's wealth gap. In the swing state of Michigan, hit hard by the country's economic woes, this quote is going to raise some eyebrows:

In regards to the Occupy Wall Street movement, Durant said the protesters should "go find a job." In regards to the wealth gap the movement decries, Durant said, "I think it should be wider."

Of course they think it should be wider, they want people to be desperate enough to be happy to be their maids and butlers. Just like in the 1890s. They just want good help!

Looooool:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNPXdXbT6Ds

James O'Keefe has been lurking in journalism school hallways across the country in pursuit of his latest bombshell series "To Catch a Journalist." So far, he's blown the lid off the story that some college professors like Barack Obama and that sometimes journalists drink alcohol and use bad words. When O'Keefe attempted to confront Columbia University j-school's dean of students Sree Sreenivasan with these shocking revelations in a pantomime of Mike Wallace, Sreenivasan just laughed at the poor guy.

The ostensible reason for O'Keefe's visit was to get Sreenivasan's response to O'Keefe having "caught" Columbia University professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Dale Maharidge using bad words in an email. (Those bad words? "Hey shitheads, Check out my comments about you: [Facebook link] Fuck you, man. Bring it on. Dale Maharidge.")

Instead of a comment, O'Keefe got some sniggering questions, like, "Why didn't you dress like you were in some of your other videos?"

"So you stand behind profanity-laced emails?" O'Keefe asked, stupidly. When he left, according to Sreenivasan's Twitter feed, he ran into some trouble with the door.

After he was done with me, I should have kept rolling, because they get to the exit and find they can't open it. He says, "Have they locked us in?" Turns out they were pulling the door instead of pushing it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNPXdXbT6Ds

o'keefe really strongly reminds me of dennis reynolds

james o'keefe is the most hilarious person

he's such a geek, i had just assumed he was another breitbartian macho blowhard

... did you not see the ACORN footage

no! lol

ha okay

he was dressed like this in it:

http://2.images.theweek.com/img/dir_0057/28987_article_main/james-okeefe-dressed-as-a-pimp-when-he-appeared-on-fox-in-2009-after-his-acorn-prank-the-hoaxster.jpg

isn't that the blind kid who sings the national anthem before Eagles games?

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3600/3367169204_455febd7d5.jpg

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-it-comes-to-e-mailed-political-rumors-conservatives-beat-liberals/2011/11/17/gIQAyycZWN_story_1.html

Snopes turned up 46 viral e-mails regarding Bush during his eight years in office. By contrast, in just four years as a candidate and as president, Obama has been the subject of 100 such chain e-mails. The difference is not just in number but in kind: Twenty of the 46 Bush e-mails checked by Snopes turned out to be true, and many of these flattered or praised him. Only 10 e-mails about Obama have been true, and almost every one of them has been negative.

Emery estimates that more than 80 percent of the political e-mails that he’s vetted over the past 10 years were written from a conservative or extremely conservative point of view. “The use of forwarded e-mail to spread [false information] around is overwhelmingly a right-wing phenomenon,” he said.

Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was a frequent target of chain e-mailers when she was speaker of the House, recalls Snopes founder David Mikkelson. But he can’t recall a single urban myth about her successor, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio). Even former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who inspires apoplexy among liberals, hasn’t rated much on the e-mail circuit since her stint as Sen. John McCain’s running mate in 2008.

So are conservatives just more careless and irresponsible in their accusations, or more ruthless about spreading them, than liberals? Do conservative haters just like e-mail more than their liberal counterparts? Is this part of what liberals deride as the “right-wing noise machine”?

“The Internet is a megaphone that spreads conspiracies quickly before there’s anyone to correct the facts,” he says. “There’s no one between your crazy uncle and his address book.”

loooool i just sent that link to my crazy uncle and used that^ as the subject line

But he can’t recall a single urban myth about her successor, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio).

I heard Boehner once had to have his stomach pumped, and it was a gallon of semen that came out.

we should start a "Sarah Palin inspires apoplexy among liberals" chain e-mail.

http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/police-man-ripped-up-walker-recall-petition-and-drove-off/article_d7244b3e-1168-11e1-81a9-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1e5AeN5Wf

A man who stopped his pickup truck at a site where signatures were being collected Thursday for the recall of Gov. Scott Walker ripped up one of the petitions instead of signing it, Madison police said.

The incident happened at about 10 a.m. in the 800 block of South Midvale Boulevard, said police spokesman Joel DeSpain.

The signature gatherers were holding signs and having vehicles pull into a parking lane when a driver in a red pickup stopped. When given a petition to sign, he ripped it up and drove away, DeSpain said.

The destroyed petition had three signatures on it, he said.

Signature takers were able to get the license plate number, but police had not located the man as of Thursday afternoon, DeSpain said.

Falsifying, defacing or destroying a recall petition is a felony punishable by up to three years and six months in prison and a $10,000 fine.

hope this d00d goes to prison, yes

No one goes to prison for that kinda stuff though.

Just getting arrested, booked and fingerprinted would be an unpleasant experience. Also, when a crime is elevated to a felony, it's for a reason. If the petitioners really publicize this, including the license plate number, the chances are damned good the police will have to pick him up.

man that story would work better if it wasn't about something with THREE signitures on it. Shit I could get three signitures for a petition right now, and I'm in an empty house.

and now i have the feeling i should have used an 'a' in that word instead of an 'i'.

thanks to ann althouse, i have now been exposed to a truly novel conspiracy theory linking george lucas to obama.

in 2009 when one of the air force one planes was lying low near the statue of liberty (remember that?) they were accompanied by red tails fighter planes from the alabama air national guard.

lucas' girlfriend is a wall streeter type and knows some of obama's inner circle

so the air force one flyby was, after all, some kind of favor to george lucas for his movie, or because he gave money to obama, or just more pro-black propaganda for its own sake, or something

apparently the ur-text for this whole deal is this blog comment:

http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2009/04/this-wouldnt-be-happening-if-hillary-were-in-charge.html?cid=6a00d83451b2aa69e201156f632d29970c#comment-6a00d83451b2aa69e201156f632d29970c

searching "red tails" and "air force one" brings up all kinds of shit, but fair warning a lot of is from some seriously ugly zones.