Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

"as a write-in candidate?"

No he was on the ballot thankfully.

"I've had people come up to me more than a few times recently to say "I didn't realize how radical Obama is.""

I keep reading this sentence and smirking.

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SEXY PHOTOES

Did they need to be quite so large?

i think you'd ask that post-motorboat

christ those pics gave me a panic attack.

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omfg lol xxp

she's so doughy!

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The Corner exploded again. Website is totally down.

I Don't Have the Night on My Side [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Most of my e-mails tonight look like this: "Your title and post "I Just Don't Get" present a crystallization of Cornerite obtuseness and delusion that is almost haiku-like in its succinct perfection. I suspect you'll be experiencing a lot more of that feeling in the coming weeks, months, and, with any luck, years. Can't say I'm sorry about it"

imagine if McCain did badly!

Cause you know that something's happening... but you don't know what it is. Do you, Ms. Lopez?

Now you see this one-eyed pundit
Shouting the word "NOW"
And you say, "For what reason?"
And he says, "Dow!"
And you say, "What does this mean?"
And he screams back, "K-Lo's a cow"

this bothers me for some reason, even by their standards. maybe because some had a faint libertarian slant, and i wasn't expecting such illogic?

October 16, 2008, 4:00 a.m.

The Courts vs. Marriage
By the Editors

In 2005, Connecticut enacted “civil unions,” designed to be marriage in everything but name for same-sex couples. We are not sure what good purpose is served by such laws. The reason governments recognize marriage in the first place is to promote the well-being of children in the setting most conducive to their flourishing. There may or may not be great value in other types of relationships: those between friends, or heterosexual lovers, or relatives who take care of each other. But why should the government grant recognition to one subset of those non-marital relationships — those between people of the same sex who are sexually involved? What goal does such recognition serve? Other, that is, than the legitimization of homosexual conduct?

But Connecticut, at least, decided the matter democratically. Those people who objected could try to persuade their fellow citizens to repeal the law.

Now Connecticut’s supreme court has decided that marriage in all but name is not good enough, and imposed same-sex marriage on the state. Like other courts, the Connecticut court treated the legislature’s attempt to meet gay activists halfway as a reason to throw out the compromise and hand the activists a victory. If the legislature was willing to recognize same-sex unions as though they were marriages, the court reasoned, why not call them marriages too? Opponents of same-sex “marriage” should be warned: Thanks to the courts, compromise is now folly.

The courts have so far imposed same-sex marriage on Massachusetts, Connecticut, and California. The next step will be to force other states to recognize same-sex unions solemnized in those jurisdictions. The Defense of Marriage Act protects states that wish to maintain their marriage laws as they are. Senator Obama wants to repeal that act, however, and the Democratic platform comes out for repeal — a position to the left of any previous Democratic presidential candidate. When Obama says that he opposes same-sex marriage, his words mean nothing.

A pity, then, that Senator McCain has not raised the issue. In the vice-presidential debate, Governor Palin even suggested that the tickets agree on same-sex marriage. We are on track to have same-sex marriage from sea to shining sea, without the people ever authorizing the idea. The public will be consulted as little as possible, and only after the fact.

But why should the government grant recognition to one subset of those non-marital relationships — those between people of the same sex who are sexually involved?

heading down the slippery slope of allowing unmarried people to get married? helluva drug..

My favorite post of the week:

The Obama Diet — Not Just Arugula [Lisa Schiffren]

The "people's ticket" ordered a little snack from room service at the Waldorf, as the N.Y. Post's page Six reports:

While he was at a meeting at the Waldorf-Astoria at 4 p.m. Wednesday, Michelle Obama called room service and ordered lobster hors d'oeuvres, two whole steamed lobsters, Iranian caviar and champagne, a tipster told Page Six.

I'd guess the bill for that snack came in at around $350. Iranian caviar ain't cheap — even if you negotiate for it yourself. What the hell . . . Your campaign contributions (soon to be your tax dollars) at work.

Does anyone else remember Gerald Ford toasting his own English Muffins in the family quarters of the White House? Michelle's style is a little more Leona Helmsley, who's ad campaign featured a picture of herself in one of her hotels, with the slogan, "a hotel fit for a Queen." Can you do that at the White House?

oooo "IRANIAN" caviar!

Michelle's style is a little more Leona Helmsley, who's ad campaign featured a picture of herself in one of her hotels, with the slogan, "a hotel fit for a Queen." Can you do that at the White House?

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Stadium Star [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

Palin didn't need Greek columns. People react to her because they believe she represents what the Greeks established.

Anal sex?

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haha...ironically if Palin represents the greek democratic ideal she's a pretty good argument in favor of plato's attacks on democracy!

ie, the "people" will elect idiots!

fuckin' Ethan beat me to the K-Lo post.

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You like-a da juice, yeah? You like-a da juice...

<3

Your Papers, Please [Jay Nordlinger]

Have a friend who was in Riverside Park (Manhattan) with his baby daughter. A woman came up to him and said, “Are you a registered Democrat?” He said no. She said, “Well, you can register right now — it will just take a second. I have the necessary paperwork here.” He said, “No, actually, that’s not it — I am registered. It’s just that I’m a registered Republican.” He said that the woman gave him a look of hate such as he had seldom seen — sent a shudder down his spine. She walked away, still glaring, bitterly, without a word.

Now, the thing is, my friend’s not very political at all — he’s not like me and the rest of us NRO-niks. He just has a nice career (unrelated to politics), and a nice family, loves to play golf, likes to go to the movies, and goes about his business. And he thought, “Shouldn’t she simply have been pleased that I was registered? Isn’t political participation and good citizenship what it’s all about?”

Oh, no, no, my friend — not by a long shot. Come the revolution, you will understand. And that lady will give you a good long time in a camp to think about it.

I think the cornerites are secretly excited by the prospect of being persecuted and camps, etc. -- all of their bdsm fantasies will finally come true.

Not that that will happen, but they seem to spend a lot of time daydreaming over the prospect.

I discussed that point with a friend last night -- "Hugh Hewitt, Lopez, and Steyn really DO dream about worker camps and surrendering lots of their taxes, don't they?"

Yeah I imagine Rich Lowry yanks it to The Gulag Archipelago on the reg.

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***STARBURSTS***

I figure if Obama's tax proposal was 'yeah, I'm taxing and imprisoning all the Cornerites and their fellow travellers and everyone else gets a refund,' then everybody would be happy since all the collective dreams would come true.

everybody would be happy since all the collective dreams would come true.

Intriguing, Comrade Ned.

The Beauty of Consistency [Jay Nordlinger]

I loved a letter from a reader. Last week, I posted an item saying that Ronald Reagan was winning strange new raves for his intellect — because people were interested in demeaning Governor Palin. They were saying (in essence), “Palin is a complete non-reading nincompoop, as opposed to that combination of Wittgenstein and Einstein, Reagan: the Sage of Eureka.”

And that letter I loved? “Don’t worry. Some of us liberals are still consistent. I don’t like Palin and I didn’t like Reagan either.”

What a relief!

10/19 10:40 PM

This was me! I sent that letter that he loved! They love me!!

They are feeling little starbursts about you right now.

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One day one of them is going to stumble onto this thread. On that day, they will post about it indignantly on The Corner. That day will be loltastic.

Rich Lowry will give me sunbursted lolgasms.

I would not be surprised if Jonah was a longtime lurker.

Nordlinger is gold

Nordlinger and Mozart's juicy phrases

Derb, if you find this thread, let me save you some time.

how come this is the first time I've noticed alizee kinda has a five head? also more nordlinger/derbyshire google img bombs plz

Who's buyin' the first round?!?

"from rabid Sarah Palin fans to Andrew Sullivan" [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

He voted for John Kerry. He endorsed Barack Obama. It remains a mystery to me why Andrew Sullivan is described as on the Right or a conservative. That's not me being McCarthyite. I just think words have meanings.

Just a rabid well-fed theocon Christianist vent.

And I'm guessing Sullivan will not be doing as many post-election shots as I will be (meet you in the bar on the NR Cruise) if we don't make at least 40 in the Senate, either.

I look forward to the day K-lo starts posting drunk 24/7.

So... you're looking forward to two weeks ago?

No, I think that is her brain sober! Imagine how much worse it can get.

well-fed

no shit