NRO's The Corner: Rolling Bile, Spit, and Gnash Thread

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K-Lo's "prose style"?

Guys, this is awesome

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it's like they are daring someone to start some mess

Mona Charen is a syndicated columnist and political analyst living in the Washington, D.C. area.
Charen began her career at National Review where she served as editorial assistant. On her first tax return at the age of 22, Charen listed her occupation as "pundit," explaining later "You have to think big."

otm

I know this is standard for cruise lines, but I find the "what to wear" copy strangely fascinating:

What to wear
With visions of seascapes and sunsets and days spent in exciting ports-of-call, you may wonder if you will need a new wardrobe for your cruise. Cruise clothes are simply resort clothes and you'll need the same basic outfits that you wear at home when casual by day and off to cocktails and dinner in the evening.

For this cruise, you will want very casual and comfortable wear during the day. This means slacks, shorts, T-shirts and sweatshirts as well as comfortable walking/hiking shoes. In general you should dress moderately on shore and save the dressy clothes for the ship.

Your clothing should be of the type that requires little care. The ship offers dry-cleaning service and laundry facilities, however these can be somewhat expensive. No matter what part of the world you are sailing to, always pack a light sweater or wrap for the air conditioning on board, breezy evenings on deck or early arrivals in port. Light rain gear is also a good idea.

There are two types of attire required for evening functions aboard ship:

Formal nights - when a tux or dark suit for the gentlemen and a dressy gown/pantsuit or dress for the ladies is in order.
Casual nights - when khakis and polo shirt or island/resort wear will be appropriate.
Please consult the cruise agenda you will receive about three months before sailing for specific dates and guidelines on evening attire.

Please consult with fashion expert/pundit Mona Charen.

http://work949.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/mona-charen.jpg

you know how some people have a "face for radio"? that is a "face for calling women sluts" if i've ever seen one

Totally gunna open a chain of "island/resort wear" shops, setting fire to any Banana Republic, Panama Jack, or Sunglasses Hut we come across.

Corporate polo shirts, fanny packs, and white tube sock/sandal combos will be featured product lines.

And Ocean Pacific. Just cuz.

dress moderately on shore

oh my god

I have a friend who worked in a setting that was toxic to her, politically. They excreted left-wing views and attitudes, all day long. My friend was in the closet, politically. She said to me once, “Jay, you know how children, who suffer molestation, are told to go to a ‘safe place,’ mentally? That’s what I try to do. I try to pretend I’m wrapped in some kind of cocoon and can’t hear it, or can’t be touched by it.”

colleagues probably also fond of the abuse analogy but from a different angle

you know how some people have a "face for radio"? that is a "face for calling women sluts" if i've ever seen one

― goole, Thursday, June 2, 2011 5:44 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haaa

dressy gown/pantsuit

I am parsing this as a single garment that can function as either a gown or pantsuit

Are there really casual gowns? Doesn't "gown" imply "dressy?"

I mean I've heard of ball gowns, and pageant gowns, and wedding gowns, but I've never heard anyone say, "Yeah, this is my wood-chopping gown." If I had, I'd have almost certainly referred that person to the FBI immediately.

There is a "dressing gown" which is basically a robe

are we dressing Mona Charen or K-Lo?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EANxT3yM2Lw&feature=related

Did I ever tell you guys about how Rick Santorum's legislative director called me for a speech writing interview?

I hope you accepted?!?

actually I never called back
my fiance made it clear she didn't want me working for that dude

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/269033/you-have-get-early-morning-and-its-hot-john-derbyshire

this comment needs to be encased in amber:

[Approved commenter] DexterScott

06/07/11 13:20

Don't tell me that African-Americans are incapable of working on farms in Georgia -- that's what they were brought here to do in the first place!

Can't tell what depresses me more, Derbyshire (DERBYSHIRE, for god's sake) complaining about "the whine of entitlement," or the aside about the Pigford settlement, which has become an article of faith among the wingnuts as having made every black person in America a millionaire.

xp: WHAT THE FUCK

that comment has now been deleted apparently

That comment was pulled!

I assume "Approved commenter" means that guy was on a list whose comments got auto-approved, because I can't imagine ANYONE pretending to represent any facet of mainstream America allowing that to pass.

ha fuck it, i tried to say something. let's see if it gets in.

They've run all my comments.

This one's a charmer.

I love that most of the comments are all "um... you know that Republicans do this too, right"

Michael-- Brilliant prose. You give yourself a well-deserved pat on the back for your election night 2008 call about the Obamaniac Dems. I particularly liked the Nancy P as Maerose Prizzi reference. Maerose Pelosi's ethics complaint is all about protecting Hillary. If this Weiner nonsense hangs around for another week, his whole sham marriage of political convenience stuff comes tumbling out, and Hillary's relationship with the "wife" hits the headlines. Maerose Pelosi needs to head that off-- PRONTO.

They didn't post my: "thank you for speaking up for white people" a couple weeks ago ;(

Uncle Nordlinger lumbers onto the dancefloor

The American people are a lot like Weiner and Clinton: They just wanna get they freak on. And they don’t really mind whether public servants do. Such is life in a “post-moral” society. The “Sixties” — to use a broad, metaphorical term — have won.

this comment is still up there, somehow

Wow! Derb said, "Kevin MacDonald." OMG. The earth will tremble! The post by "Panic" is illustrative of the reaction that that name typically brings, perhaps more quickly on the Right -- eager for respectability -- than on the Left.

I was booted off the website that is HQ for lowbrow conservatism (FreeRepublic, bien sûr) on one occasion merely for making a reference to that gentleman. It was instant vaporization. He is the man who makes "respectable" conservatives mess their pants. Witness the post from the aptly named "Panic."

I am by no means a subscriber to the full body of thought postulated by Professor MacDonald. And yes, I am aware of his participation in the Clifford Irving libel case and find it very troubling. OTOH, I find very troubling the relentless assault on American culture that so often has had a decidely Jewish cast, notwithstanding that some great conservatives and people I count among my friends and heroes are of the Jewish faith.

relentless assault...

Today's discussion: flogging vs life imprisonment

RE: Bring Back the Lash
June 16, 2011 12:17 PM
By Kevin D. Williamson

Jonah and Andy: I’m not entirely sure about flogging, but I have long seriously advocated the return of stocks, especially for crimes of a nature that inherently degrade public life — vandalism, graffiti, automotive burglary, various kinds of public mayhem. I have in mind the kinds of crimes that undercut shared community life and encourage the further atomization of our society. I think 24 hours in the stocks for defacing a public space with graffiti would be appropriate, especially if the stocks were set up at the scene of the crime.

The list of things I think should be criminal is very short, and I tend to favor restitution-oriented justice over our current mass-incarceration model. But I also think that government should mostly do its business in public, including its punitive business. Public crimes ask for public punishments.

As for the flogging, I remember thinking in the case of young Michael Fay — you may remember: the snot-nosed American punk kid who got himself caned in Singapore back in 1994 — that the punishment was probably appropriate to the crime, perhaps even a little on the lenient side. I could endorse the stocks in such a case, along with full restitution.

Re: Bring Back the Lash
June 16, 2011 11:06 A.M.
By Andrew C. McCarthy

Jonah, this dovetails with a thought experiment I’ve been pushing for a while now, in rebuttal to the claim that waterboarding (as it was administered by the CIA on three top al-Qaeda detainees) is torture. If you gave every inmate serving, say, two years or less in prison the option of being waterboarded or completing his sentence, what would he choose? I’d be stunned if fewer than 95 percent chose waterboarding.

At least the commenters are making hash of his stupid argument.

I tend to favor restitution-oriented justice

jeez, don't tell andy mccarthy or pamela gellar...

xp oh christ above

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/269784/re-bring-back-lash-andrew-c-mccarthy

good thought experiment: 2 years in prison vs going on the NRO cruise

hi dere!

http://media.photobucket.com/image/recent/synbad600/NRCruiseJonahIV.jpg

http://abriefhistory.org/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/14.jpg

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/269208/prison-math-and-war-drugs-veronique-de-rugy

... wait where does the stupid part come in

daniel foster on the pulitzer prize winner who "came out" as an undocumented immigrant:

Liberals are coming out of the woodwork to call Vargas’ confession — meant to spur that “national conversation” about immigration that is perpetually just around the corner — courageous and pioneering. It is certainly the former, and may turn out to be the latter. But in their rush to praise Vargas — who is thoroughly culturally American and has “contributed” to American society with his journalism — they conveniently leave out that at the beginning of his story is not one but a series of crimes. Vargas entered the country illegally after his grandfather paid a coyote $4,500 to smuggle him in. The grandfather then obtained a fake passport and green card for Vargas, which they used to acquire a valid Social Security card. But that card, which subjected Vargas’ right to work to the approval of the then-INS, was illegally doctored, allowing Vargas to secure job after job for more than a decade by showing nothing more than a photocopy of a fake document.

heh, i dont think anyone is "leaving that out"? i think thats uhhhhh kind of the point.

which liberals have "come out" of "the woodwork"? First I heard of this story was when I read it in NRO World this morning.