really working hard to set up the "only 100 people saw mo tucker perform at DC Space with Penn Jillette" jokes there
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 11 October 2010 12:58 (thirteen years ago) link
but every one of them got a grant from the Heritage Foundation
― Drastic times require what? Drastic measures! Who said that? T (President Keyes), Monday, 11 October 2010 13:16 (thirteen years ago) link
I love how incongruous the "congrats" is as it related to discovering she's a Tea Partier. Like, dude, she didn't get bat mitzvahed or something.
― not Morbius old, but still (Phil D.), Monday, 11 October 2010 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
Comments are go! Sic'em, deej.
― Headlock Ellis (WmC), Monday, 11 October 2010 17:39 (thirteen years ago) link
sic'em, Mordy!
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 October 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
god bless us, every one
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 11 October 2010 17:57 (thirteen years ago) link
sic'em, goole!
― Headlock Ellis (WmC), Monday, 11 October 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah no thanks
― goole, Monday, 11 October 2010 17:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Dave (in MA)10/11/10 13:27
The libs are trying to scare people with John Boehner when 95% of them couldn't identify him (but could readily identify some nitwit from some New Jersey reality show)?
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 October 2010 17:59 (thirteen years ago) link
Man, I kinda hope the comments are delicious enough to start an "NRO's The Corner: Comments"
that's such an awful example to use considering boehner's propensity towards tanning
― truly blunted rhyme fiend (J0rdan S.), Monday, 11 October 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
they aren't stupid enough to allow embeddable jpgs right? right????????
i mean, i'll be sorely tempted, but... really this will just be a small goldmine for the liberal blogs for a day or two when someone says something gross or stupid
xp or a goldmine for us, yeah, heh
― goole, Monday, 11 October 2010 18:00 (thirteen years ago) link
GalvestonBorn10/11/10 13:25
I love this guy, regardless of his Jersey shoreish tan. Seriously, my wife and I cannot sit through anything else with Nancy Pelosi holding the gavel. She literally makes our skin craw
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 October 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
Literally! She does!
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 11 October 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
it crawls off the bone and towards the kitchen, to make itself a sandwich
― creeping shania (donna rouge), Monday, 11 October 2010 19:16 (thirteen years ago) link
lol gross
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 11 October 2010 19:39 (thirteen years ago) link
to the consternation of the Empire of Monothought
― Jaw dropping, thong dropping monster (kingfish), Monday, 11 October 2010 21:09 (thirteen years ago) link
No projection there.
Also, good thing such an idea had nothing to do with David Frum getting fire.
― Jaw dropping, thong dropping monster (kingfish), Monday, 11 October 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
how easy is it to sucker these guys?
pinter or saramago or obama or ...arafat wins a nobel, and it's all craven politics. this year they went to a neoliberal latin american and a chinese dissident, and the committee's bravery and foresight is saluted.
guys if any of the picks are political in nature then they all are
― goole, Monday, 11 October 2010 21:15 (thirteen years ago) link
whoa K-Lo not preaching to the choir here:
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/249394/newt-gingrichs-harsh-attack-based-politics-kathryn-jean-lopez
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 11 October 2010 22:37 (thirteen years ago) link
how, i mean, i just
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/249265/south-border-peter-robinson
South of the BorderOctober 13, 2010 9:04 A.M.By Peter Robinson
Today on Uncommon Knowledge, Mexico’s original sin: a race-based class system. Until that changes, Victor Davis Hanson sees little hope for Mexico’s future.
We are in the eleventh hour in Mexico.
Click Here
― goole, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 16:04 (thirteen years ago) link
This is INSANE:
Pragmatic Obama?By Stanley Kurtz
Over at TAPPED, Mori Dinauer comments on “Obama’s Radical Past,” my preview of the argument of my forthcoming book, Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism. Dinauer wants to know how I link socialism to Obama’s current governing philosophy and long-term political strategy. Dinauer also suggests that Obama is not an ideologue, but merely a pragmatist who sought political advancement through socialist connections that were an inescapable part of his leftist Chicago environment.
Agree or disagree, I comment on all of these arguments at length in Radical-in-Chief. The final chapter is an analysis of the Obama administration in light of Obama’s background in socialist community organizing. The pragmatism argument doesn’t work when you follow out the consistent socialist thread that runs through Obama’s life. Of course, if Obama is merely a pragmatist, it means that his carefully crafted political persona is a lie. After all, the whole point of Dreams from My Father is that Obama is sincere — that his community organizing solved his identity crisis and gave him a politics he could believe in. Obama himself stresses that he turned down the chance for a Supreme Court clerkship to do community organizing at near-poverty wages. You don’t ordinarily try to become a politician via community organizing; socialists, on the other hand, did look at organizing as a way into elective office.
Here I believe Obama. He was a committed community organizer who sincerely believed what other community organizers believed. The only thing he left out was that community organizers are socialists.
Community organizers are socialists, full stop.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 16:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Isn't that what the rich have always thought?
― Euler, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 16:38 (thirteen years ago) link
But when Richard Viguerie organizes direct-mail campaigns in the seventies, and Dick Armey corrals pissed-off white people, it's called "stoking middle-class anger."
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 16:40 (thirteen years ago) link
That's not organizing, that's just mailing. Although what counts for organizing in the Obama presidency is just emailing.
― Euler, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 16:43 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/249650/public-employees-and-elections-conflict-interest-pat-sajak
― goole, Wednesday, 13 October 2010 17:51 (thirteen years ago) link
lol what a doofus.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 18:02 (thirteen years ago) link
"i'd like to buy a clue"
― creeping shania (donna rouge), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 18:03 (thirteen years ago) link
"I’m not suggesting that public employees should be denied the right to vote, but that there are certain cases in which their stake in the matter may be too great. Of course we all have a stake in one way or another in most elections, and many of us tend to vote in favor of our own interests. However, if, for example, a ballot initiative appears that might cap the benefits of a certain group of state workers, should those workers be able to vote on the matter?"
DURRR DURRR DURRR
I wonder who would have more at stake: state employee re: benefits or top 1% of income re: say bush tax cuts.
DURRRR DURR DURRR
conflict of interest matters only when we are talking about GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES and TEACHERS UNIONS. way to focus on who/what is really influencing elections.
― ಠ_ಠ (bnw), Wednesday, 13 October 2010 19:26 (thirteen years ago) link
thanks to the comments on that Sajak post my next ILX username will be AOLMUSCLEGRANDMA
― Andre Gunder Frank 3000, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:13 (thirteen years ago) link
also i love how Derb soon piped in to note that he's long been in favour of disenfranchising public employees
― Andre Gunder Frank 3000, Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:32 (thirteen years ago) link
I guess the true stfu question would be: you including the military?
― ಠ_ಠ (bnw), Thursday, 14 October 2010 02:56 (thirteen years ago) link
jonah goldberg, paragon of manhood
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/249729/man-john-j-miller
― creeping shania (donna rouge), Thursday, 14 October 2010 15:07 (thirteen years ago) link
http://world-o-crap.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/Jonah-Goldberg-Killin-Yer-Doods-1.jpg
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 14 October 2010 15:09 (thirteen years ago) link
Does Sajak not understand that those same state employees actually still pay taxes, too? Wait, don't answer. Either answer is stupid.
― not Morbius old, but still (Phil D.), Thursday, 14 October 2010 15:12 (thirteen years ago) link
That Jonah graf is hilarious.
― Fig On A Plate Cart (Alex in SF), Thursday, 14 October 2010 15:28 (thirteen years ago) link
u must be new here
― j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Friday, 15 October 2010 04:44 (thirteen years ago) link
irl lol
― some droopy HOOS in makeup (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Friday, 15 October 2010 04:47 (thirteen years ago) link
That Jonah thing is like....what, you want the date rapey types back?
― Jaw dropping, thong dropping monster (kingfish), Friday, 15 October 2010 05:27 (thirteen years ago) link
wait wait wait wait:
We have no John Wayne, no Clint Eastwood.
which Clint Eastwood? THIS one?
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_Y2F7daFbH4M/SrlHBpzfNkI/AAAAAAAACu0/YxPPVb8u2ag/s400/high+plains+lobby+card.jpg
― Jaw dropping, thong dropping monster (kingfish), Friday, 15 October 2010 05:35 (thirteen years ago) link
guessing my comment won't make it through:
"Thank you. I agree that people are easily split into binaries. I find this view allows me to maintain many preconceived notions and carry on minimal thinking at all times."
― ಠ_ಠ (bnw), Friday, 15 October 2010 05:53 (thirteen years ago) link
nah, it's on there!
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 15 October 2010 21:23 (thirteen years ago) link
nice. next step is osama thumbs up.
― ಠ_ಠ (bnw), Friday, 15 October 2010 21:31 (thirteen years ago) link
this is sort of amazing. (doesn't get really good until the buzzcut dude starts in.)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BV_5m3nySo&feature=player_embedded
― a tenth level which features a single castle (tipsy mothra), Tuesday, 19 October 2010 12:10 (thirteen years ago) link
The Wise Latina Goes Off the Deep EndOctober 20, 2010 1:05 P.M.By Adam Freedman
Here’s what happens when you pick Supreme Court Justices based on “empathy.”
Facts: An HIV-positive prisoner (Anthony Pitre) is transferred to a prison where all inmates are required to do hard labor. He doesn’t like hard labor and so, in protest, he refuses to take his HIV meds. As a result, he’s less fit for hard labor. But prison officials say: “Too bad, you still have to do hard labor like everyone else.” Pitre then sues the prison for “cruel and unusual punishment” in violation of the Constitution.
The magistrate judge dismisses the claim as “patently frivolous.” The federal district court agrees. The Fifth Circuit agrees. Eight Supreme Court justices refuse to hear the case — with Justice Sotomayor dissenting. In a four-page dissent (highly unusual for a routine denial of certiorari), Sotomayor argues that Pitre had demonstrated that prison officials acted with “deliberate indifference” in violation of the Eighth Amendment (h/t Orin Kerr at Volokh).
Poor Sonia Sotomayor, she seems to be in over her head. Perhaps I’ll send her an empathy card.
― raging hetero lifechill (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:42 (thirteen years ago) link
Amusing write-up of that vid: http://wonkette.com/426842/conservative-nerd-gets-revenge-on-conservative-nerd-girlfriend-on-c-span
― Jaw dropping, thong dropping monster (kingfish), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 19:02 (thirteen years ago) link
holy shit that video
― j. sargent & lil k3v (deej), Thursday, 21 October 2010 03:29 (thirteen years ago) link
‘The Trojan Pragmatist’October 29, 2010 10:18 A.M.By Mary Eberstadt
Kathryn’s thorough and informative interview with Stanley Kurtz about his new book, Radical-in-Chief: Barack Obama and the Untold Story of American Socialism, is must reading. As one of a few people who read the manuscript before its publication last week, I know that this interview is the best preview yet of what’s inside — and that anybody reading it will end up wanting to read the whole book.
And no wonder. Radical-in-Chief compellingly lays out as never before the firm ideological chain running through the president’s political life. It joins Obama’s earliest radical mentors to his college Marxism-Leninism to his attendance at Socialist Scholars Conferences in the early 1980s to his years spent collaborating with Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn and other radicals to his steady rise in the world of socialist politics in Chicago and beyond. It also connects the dots between those decades of thought and work and associations — and current White House policy.
It’s a product of extraordinary research; see just for starters pages 392-393, where scores of libraries and librarians across the country are thanked for allowing the author access to archives that anyone else could have found too — but only Stanley Kurtz did. Frankly, reading the manuscript almost made me feel sorry for our president. He has something far more dangerous on his trail than the right-wing noise machine. He has as his political biographer a former Harvard anthropologist who learned how to research and handle evidence at some of the best universities in the world, and who’s won coveted teaching awards at Harvard and elsewhere for his ability to explain complicated issues clearly and persuasively. How scary is that? For a politician who’s depended on passing himself off as a post-ideological pragmatist, plenty.
― sandra lee, gimme your alcohol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 29 October 2010 14:35 (thirteen years ago) link
She is also the author of numerous influential essays, including "Why Ritalin Rules," "Home-Alone America," "Eminem is Right," "How the West Really Lost God," and "Is Food the New Sex?" (Policy Review), and "The Vindication of Humanae Vitae," "How Pedophilia Lost its Cool," and "Christianity Lite (First Things)."
― Euler, Friday, 29 October 2010 14:49 (thirteen years ago) link