Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

can you guys help me break it down:

1) switzerland bans minarets, this is ok (?)

2) turkish metalworker asked for opinion, responds that turkey should ban churches (this is a pretty lol response imo)

3) turkey has in the past converted churches to mosques

4) because of this it is insensitive of the turkish metalworker to respond to an act of democratic racism via a simple equivalency thought experiment

I think the writer really just means (4), and gives (1)-(3) to make it look like there's an argument.

(3) is especially dumb, since "Turkey" as we know it has only existed since the end of WWI (and even that's arguable).

Jamal-on-the-street

Really, FFS.

jamal?

Y'know, 'Jamal'. One of them furrin names that those people use
http://www.filmbug.com/images/people/329929.jpg

don't know if this has been posted anywhere else on ILX, but here goes nothing:

shame on a teabagger who tried to run game on a teabagger (my apologies to the spirit of ODB)

the money quote:

What about a special case — the worst word in American English, as some of us see it, namely the N-word? When I was growing up, in Ann Arbor, Mich., there was a little debate: Should school officials try to prevent black students from using the N-word? I don’t believe the issue was ever settled. And this brings up the question of whether “teabagger” could be kind of a conservative N-word: to be used in the family, but radioactive outside the family.

grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

No, THIS is the money quote:

I have no doubt you are sexually hip

this is not the corner, but it is corner-esque

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/12/obama-national-christmas-tree-xmas-tree.html

It's Andrew Malcolm -- our own little taste of Cornerism out here.

Anyway, remember, all Jay Nordlinger is saying that it's a no-teabagging establishment. (NSFW, obv.)

I wonder how bad Andrew Malcolm felt about having to spike the "Obama Wages War on Christmas by Leaving Tree Lights Off at Night" column he undoubtedly also wrote.

“‘Teabagging’ is a slang term for the act of a man placing his scrotum in the mouth or on or around the face (including the top of the head) of another person, often in a repeated in-and-out motion as in irrumatio. The practice resembles dipping a tea bag into a cup of tea.” I could quote you more, but you have had enough.

You have had enough!

The first big day for this movement was Tax Day, April 15. And organizers had a gimmick. They asked people to send a tea bag to the Oval Office. One of the exhortations was “Tea Bag the Fools in D.C.” A protester was spotted with a sign saying, “Tea Bag the Liberal Dems Before They Tea Bag You.” So, conservatives started it: started with this terminology. But others ran with it and ran with it.

lol you played yourself, that's why its so great!

has southpark done a teabagger episode b/c they are begging for it

Yesterday morning the local NPR affil had a crazy Texas House rep who said she had been "working on these issues from a libertarian position for years, so you might say I was teabagging before teabagging was cool."

I almost swerved into traffic

"working on these issues from a libertarian position for years, so you might say I was teabagging before teabagging was cool."

ORLY. would like to see her voting record on drug laws, reproductive rights, marriage equality, church/state separation, etc etc...

Santorum in 2012? [Rick Brookhiser]

How many elections do other GOP hopefuls have to lose to be as qualified as Rick Santorum?

The Corner just loves the Santorum.

oh geez, maybe someone should warn them

http://gawker.com/5420810/idiot-inks-boffo-book-deal

The raw material for santorum.jpg is probably enough to keep him from the office of dog catcher.

on a related note, Dan Lacey has been busy:

http://www.faithmouse.com/santorum-family-pancakes.jpg

Missing Dan on ILX. Friend of mine commissioned him to do his portrait avec pancake.

Thursday, December 10, 2009

The Swinger [John J. Miller]

The Hill:

Rep. Joe Baca (D-Calif.) is abandoning his effort to honor golf star Tiger Woods with the Congressional Gold Medal.

Woods remains a contender for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize.

12/10 06:15 AMShare

o this poor sad woman

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Was It Sponsored by the Tiger Woods Foundation? [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

NYPost reports "Study: Casual Sex Not Emotionally Damaging"

It includes:

[/q]"We were so surprised," said Marla Eisenberg, an assistant professor at the [
University of Minnesota's] School of Public Health.

"The conventional wisdom is that casual sex, 'friends with benefits,' and hooking up is hurtful."[/q]

Professor Eisenberg must not spend a lot of time on the University of Minnesota's campus.

12/10 09:24 AMShare

And K-lo has? How many hours has she spent interviewing college students "hurt" by casual sex?

New study explains what makes church ladies assholes

i figured the answer was going to be 'lack of casual sex'

The World Is Upside Down [Andy McCarthy]
If you're in a graveyard humor kind of mood as the Left rams "reform" down our throats...

I'm sure he daydreams about it all of the time.

The Derb's vital stats:

Through adult life I have been 6 ft. 1 in. and my weight has gradually increased from 170 lb. to 190 lb. I am healthy but not often fit. My IQ is 135. On the currently favored Big Five measures of personality, I score as follows. "Low" indicates scores within the bottom 30 percent for adult American males, "average" the middle 40 percent, "high" the top 30 percent.

Extraversion: Low. I am an introvert, "reserved, and quiet. You enjoy solitude and solitary activities. Your socializing tends to be restricted to a few close friends."

Agreeableness: Low, "indicating less concern with others' needs than with your own. People see you as tough, critical, and uncompromising."

Conscientiousness: Low, "indicating you like to live for the moment and do what feels good now. Your work tends to be careless and disorganized."

Neuroticism: High, "indicating that you are easily upset, even by what most people consider the normal demands of living. People consider you to be sensitive and emotional."

Openness to Experience: Average, "indicating you enjoy tradition but are willing to try new things. Your thinking is neither simple nor complex. To others you appear to be a well-educated person but not an intellectual."

The full test results, with all contributing factors, are here. Hmm. A disagreeable, disorganized, neurotic introvert who is moderately open to new experiences? Sounds right. "One of the Awkward Squad," according to my mother.

Read the whole thing here:
http://johnderbyshire.com/FamilyHistoryJD/People/Self/page.html
or if you want the entire personality readout with all details, here:
http://johnderbyshire.com/FamilyHistoryJD/People/Self/bigfive.html

omg

should post it on craigslist m4m

'Vast numbers of educated, privileged middle-class white women have converted to Islam' [Mark Steyn]

This seems symbolic of something or other. The ex-wife of Boris Johnson (my old boss and now the mayor of London) has married a young Muslim man and now teaches at a mosque in the East End.

you wanna be stayin away from our women BOY

vast numbers...

This seems symbolic of something

Fuck me, they get paid for this kind of insight? And the lovely Allegra hasn't converted has she?

Having read that I see the person who said "vast numbers" was Yasmin Alibhai-Brown, who should know better.

A Book for this Day [Rich Lowry]

I had put off picking up Taylor Branch's three-volume biography of Martin Luther King for a long time—the length was just too daunting. But I finally started the first in the series, "Parting the Waters," over the holidays and was absolutely bowled over by it. It's comprehensive, but never slow and, of course, describes incredibly moving events. We can forget how much of the work of the civil rights movement took place under physical threat. Indeed, if you were going to do a word cloud of "Parting," the word "dynamite" would show up pretty prominently. When he was still in Montgomery at the time of the bus boycott, King had a bad feeling when he was sleeping at the parsonage one night, got out of bed, told his friend who was on night duty staying with him, "I think we better leave here tonight." Hours later, a bomb exploded across the street and twelve sticks of dynamite were discovered on the front porch of the parsonage. On it goes, with brave people putting their bodies and lives on the line for justice in unbelievably trying circumstances (a couple of registrars themselves, in their offices, beat up people trying to register to vote). Branch has a wonderful account of MLK's famous speech at the March on Washington. King called one of the great audibles of all time at the podium, skipping over this clunky line he had written near the end of his speech: "And so today, let us go back to our communities as members of the international association for the advancement of creative dissatisfaction." Instead, he started to improvise and preach, and we know what happened next. JFK, listening to him for the first time, commented, "He's damn good." The same must be said of these books, an enduring contribution to American history.

did he forget which website he was writing for or something?

No, remember that some of these guys are trying to claim MLK Jr as one of their own.

Really.

too early in the morning to be throwing up in my mouth, ugh

i mean does he not realise who was planting the dynamite in the above story?

Guys, K-Lo is gonna be delightful tonight waiting for the results.

Intrade [Kathryn Jean Lopez]

I'm getting all kinds of e-mails from people freaking out because Coakley just had a surge. I don't know what to tell you other than: If you're in Massachusetts, vote. (But I don't think I have to encourage anyone reading this who lives in the Bay State to!) If you have friends in Massachusetts, get them to vote Brown. It's like hitting the reboot button on health care.

UPDATE: Corner readers always know; a reader e-mails: "K-Lo, That is Brown holders taking their profits, so they are selling. That would explain the fall in prices, but it is not that large."

"(But I don't think I have to encourage anyone reading this who lives in the Bay State to!"

Kathryn Jean Lopez is the editor of National Review Online, and ends sentences with prepositions.

that sentence is perfectly grammatical

Sane is another matter.

Uh.

Sex Pistols at Dawn [Mark Steyn]

For some reason, Boston's Jules Crittenden is channeling "Anarchy in the U.K." this election morn in Mass:

I am an anti-hack!
I am an democracist!
Know what I want but
dunno how to get it
I wanna destroy the hackery cos I
I wanna BE democracy!
Democracy for the MA, it’s coming sometime and maybe . . .

Maybe. If you're a Martha Coakley supporter, the Pistols's other hit may seem more pertinent:

God save the Queen
It's the Democrat machine
They made you a moron
Ted's seat gaffe-bomb
God save the Queen
She ain't no human bein'
There is no downside
To Red Sox sneering . . .

I prefer Patti Page myself:

If you're fond of nude spreads
And Cliff from "Cheers"
Quaint little pick-ups with
Manual gears
You're sure to fall in love with
Old Scott Brown.

omg

I bet Steyn has Scott Brown's Playgirl spread.