Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

all sold out ;_________;

http://www.nrcruise.com/Media/nr-note.gif

"How To Book The Cruise"

sounds like a potential Larry Craig memoir title.

Would anyone like to participate in a NRO collaborative script set on their cruise? The climax comes when the ship starts going down Titanic-style and Jonah + K-Lo have a DeCaprio/Winslet style romance!

no

K-Lo/Twinkie fan fic

This is the soundtrack:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51O23tTB2aL._SS500_.jpg

ouch did u just call klo a whale

klo is jean grey, the twinkie is cyclops

K-lo is Dr. Light. The Twinkie is Sue Dibny.

I am so sad that cruise is booked. ;_;

Greenwald writing about The Corner:

Many people have noted the even-worse-than-usual malice and derangement of National Review writers over the past couple of months. Much of that has been just a mild, desperation-fueled extension of standard form -- the low-level, vapid, cliché-spouting cartoons (Jonah Goldberg, Kathryn Jean Lopez); the right-wing talk-radio-level haters (Mark Levin, Mark Steyn, Lisa Schiffren, Victor Davis Hanson); the GOP-loyalist Dead-Ender operatives (Rich Lowry, Ed Whelan), etc. But Andy McCarthy's unique descent into full-fledged reality-detachment and "sheer madness" has really been something to behold -- not because it's inconsistent with prior behavior (it's isn't), but because he was, not all that long ago, a federal prosecutor, an Assistant U.S. Attorney, with immense power over the lives of many people

Bad Thoughts [John Derbyshire]

Now here's a subversive little thought about that Khalidi tape that the Los Angeles Times is guarding like a cargo of plutonium.

* Item: The Los Angeles Times is owned by the Tribune Co.
* Item: The Tribune Co. is based in Chicago.
* Item: "In 2008, Tribune is struggling under a $13 billion debt load, much of it incurred in taking the company private in 2007, and from plummeting advertising income at its newspapers." (Wikipedia. A business friend tells me the current figure is actually $14.7 billion.)
* Item: Tribune Chairman and CEO Sam Zell is a major Republican donor. Why would he not want his paper to release the Khalidi tape?
* Item: The federal government is sitting on a bailout fund of $700 billion.
* Item: It's not likely the Treasury can disburse more than one or two hundred billion of that before the next administration comes in.
* Item: The next administration will therefore have at least half a trillion greenies to hand out to anyone it deems worthy of being bailed out. Anyone — there are no hard and fast rules.
* Item: 14.7 billion is a very small proportion — less than three percent — of half a trillion.

When Sam Zell's office was called and asked about this (by a friend of mine who requests deep anonymity), they said the thought was ridiculous.

Which of course it is. Perfectly ridiculous. Utterly, impossibly ridiculous. Preposterous. Totally preposterous … (Rinse and repeat.)

10/30 04:59 PM

Those guys are on crazy juice.

I wonder if he listens to my pi disc to calm himself down.

I'm sure this has been said before but the absolute fear and loathing and of just about fucking everything revealed (and reveled in) by these folks is amazing. What do they do for laughs?

Extra 'and' got in there somehow.

I mean, is this their idea of fun?

I really mean, how do they keep from killing themselves?

not nro but did cause my brain to leak out my ear

Some people don't think America is special
BY Z. DWIGHT BILLINGSLY (is black btw)

10/23/2008

The headlines you see over these columns are written by editors, but if I were writing this one, I'd call it "Family Secrets." Having attended Yale University and Harvard Business School, I spend a lot of time around blacks who went to Ivy League schools and sit around and congratulate themselves on being the "chosen" ones. I believe many of these people would be dangerous for America if they were to gain political power.

Many of the black people I spend time with don't love America, despite the fact that they have benefited from America's blessings. I have been in million-dollar homes in which I've listened to black elites talk down about America. I've heard them go on and on about slavery, about racism, about how black people have been held down and held back. They see nothing great about America or in how it has overcome that past.

How can that be, you ask, when they have taken advantage of the political system to gain power? I believe they hate America and hate what America stands for. They believe in the United Nations and a world in which America is no better than any other nation.

Barack Obama claims to represent change, and he does. But the change he stands for is change in the worst way. Obama represents change from American exceptionialism to America as just another nation. He represents change from America as a leader of the free world to America as just a peer with the likes of France or Germany. I also am deeply concerned by Obama's past associations with admitted 1960s terrorist William Ayers, convicted Chicago felon Tony Rezko and the voter-registration-fraud specialists of ACORN.

I told you in my previous column that when I was at Martha's Vineyard this summer I didn't really learn anything that might be useful in defeating Obama. What I did hear at a party of black people was a lot of talk about how it's "our time" and about "white guilt." I am very concerned about who Obama would bring into his cabinet and who would be running the government.

These black elites do not respect America. America is special, truly exceptional. I don't think that Obama believes that about America.

translation: the other black students hated this dude 94/7

94/7. Damn!

http://images.stltoday.com/stltoday/images/columnists/billingsly.jpg

oh yeah people hated the shit out of him

Z. Dwight

Z. Dwight Billingsly sounds like a Family Guy character name reject

also:

"Some people"

Does his byline really include (is black btw)?

I hope so.

I spend a lot of time around blacks who went to Ivy League schools and sit around and congratulate themselves on being the "chosen" ones. I believe many of these people would be dangerous for America if they were to gain political power.

Dan would make Cure song national anthem, so I agree.

Believing in Barack [Jay Nordlinger]

This morning, I saw a photo of Barack Obama huddled in conversation with Edward Said — some formal dinner. At first, the photo made my blood run cold. But then I thought, “No, you must believe in The One: He was surely refuting Said on the nature of the Middle East. Said is saying, ‘The Zionist entity is the source of all trouble in the region.’ And Obama is saying, ‘I’m sorry, professor, but that kind of thinking is what is keeping the Arab world in its mental chains.’”

Yeah, that’s the ticket.

if dan made 'killing an arab' the national anthem i think the corner would embrace him

Dan would make Cure song national anthem, so I agree.

It is this kind of dissent which must be crushed.

McCarthy seems a bit annoyed today.

"depth of relationship"

I think it says a lot more about these people than it does about Obama that they can't seem capable of conceiving that it is possible to understand, respect, or even have sympathy for someone else's viewpoint without agreeing with it or embracing it, or that it is possible to recognize when your own biases are impeding your judgment and act against them.

Dan OTM. It's crazy.

YES DAN BUT ISRAEL DO YOU SEE???

seriously did you just OTM dan on the point that corner dirtbags are psychotic authoritarians

I mean at this point in the race if you're a mccain supporter then it is basically guaranteed that your being a mccain supporter says more about you than it says about EITHER of the candidates

Pretty much all hardcore partisans are psychotic authoritarians so it's not that much of a surprise

again I must rep the john dean book

oh snap, he went to college with my dad, I wonder if they know each other

I am still laughing at K-lo linking to Corey Hart videos to shore up her hopes of a McCain win.

oh, McCarthy:

McCain is McCain. I doubt anyone at National Review has been more critical of him or is less enthusiastic about a McCain presidency than I am.* He is a big-government centrist who is more left than right on countless important issues. He became our nominee out of a crowded field no candidate dominated because of early support from Democrats and independents (i.e., non-Republicans) as well as some influential pundits who told us that only someone like McCain — a reach-across-the-aisle moderate — could win in what they assured us was a Democrat year. Now, predictably, many of those same folks have abandoned McCain for Obama, and McCain's only chance to eek out a win is to convince the very conservatives he's been jabbing all these years. In effect, McCain's Lefty-light has made beating Obama much more difficult because his many maverick forays make it hard for us to get traction on subjects like ACORN, Khalidi, speech-suppression, immigration, enhanced due-process for terrorists, etc. A real conservative could have made a much more compelling fight on the issues than McCain has.

But that's water under the bridge now, and none of it changes the obvious: Whatever typically infurating dalliances McCain may have had with Khalidi and ACORN, they don't compare to the depth of relationship that Obama had with Khalidi and ACORN — and like-minded Leftists. It's not even close.

"McCain is nasty, but Obama is NASTIER, so there."

"It's Andy. Mr. McCarthy if you're nasty."

That argument makes absolutely no sense.

Only someone who is a complete amnesiac could really think Mitt Romney or Huckabee or Fred Thompson wasn't going to get their clock cleaned just as bad if not worse by Obama.

enhanced due-process for terrorists

i will say that i doubt romney would have done something a detrimental as pick a Palin.

but yer right: i can't say how it would have affected the electoral vote, but I doubt Mittens would be doing any better than the 52.0/46.4% popular vote split 538 is calling

Sure but Romney didn't need to pick Palin. He's would have been just as detrimental all by his lonesome.

It's kind of crazy that the two most credible Republican candidates were McCain and HUCKABEE.