in favor of whose position?
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 19:57 (twelve years ago) link
the complainer, I assume
― a variable (sic) "League of Nations" (DJP), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 20:00 (twelve years ago) link
really, if you enough time on your hands to complain that someone on food stamps is eating fresh strawberries, do us all a favor and play in traffic
― a variable (sic) "League of Nations" (DJP), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 20:01 (twelve years ago) link
i basically refused to read that but if ppl are complaining that food stamps are used for fruit/veg then yeah go die in a fire
― g++ (gbx), Tuesday, 19 July 2011 20:05 (twelve years ago) link
i see a lot of people use EBT cards in the local grocery store but i dont see many buying lobster tails
― max, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 22:46 (twelve years ago) link
just...what
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/272224/tactics-vs-strategy-michael-walsh
― goole, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 23:04 (twelve years ago) link
Unions, federal workers, the media, the professoriat, teachers, trial lawyers, environmentalists, abortion “providers,” even the porn industry (a right regular rogue’s gallery of special interests) will all suffer in the emerging post-Great, Broke Society.
― max, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 23:41 (twelve years ago) link
haha what country does michael walsh even live in
― max, Tuesday, 19 July 2011 23:42 (twelve years ago) link
Taking Back the Definition
July 20, 2011 7:35 A.M.
By Kathryn Jean Lopez New Yorkers will be rallying on marriage this weekend.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 13:13 (twelve years ago) link
stay strong, k-lo. In 20 years you'll be seen like the screaming white people in desegregation news clips.
― bnw, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
Double digit comments on this one and counting: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/272281/allen-west-calls-debbie-wasserman-schultz-vile-unprofessional-despicable-nat-brown
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/272577/so-we-should-profile-when-it-helps-muslims-andrew-c-mccarthy
in which the Oslo bombing clearly demonstrates that it's a good idea to profile mainstream muslims in the US
― I DIED, Saturday, 23 July 2011 01:33 (twelve years ago) link
Steyn and McCarthy are both denying that the Norway attacks had ANYthing to do with Muslims
― "Gunplay" (ft. Gunplay) (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 16:47 (twelve years ago) link
:DDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/272875/gutter-google-bomb-politics-would-be-compliment-kathryn-jean-lopez
― J0rdan S., Saturday, 30 July 2011 05:41 (twelve years ago) link
lol dipshit
― bnw, Saturday, 30 July 2011 07:30 (twelve years ago) link
This guy is an imbecile. And I agree that "satan sandwich" is a dumb phrase.
“Sugar Coated Satan Sandwiches” — A Dissent
By Jonah Goldberg
While of course I will make reference to the term — it’s news, baby! — I don’t think the phrase is as great as everybody else seems to. You don’t eat Satan, and you don’t coat sandwiches with sugar. I like colorful phrases as much as the next guy, particularly if the next guy likes them a lot, but I think they should have an internal consistency to really work. I’ve been trying to come up with an alternative, but so far they have other problems, too much explanation required, not enough alliteration, etc. Still, a few meager attempts:
Lucifer’s lunch bucket, once you open it, all Hell breaks loose.
Mephistopheles’ M&Ms: candy coating on the outside damnation on the inside.
Pernicious Peanut Butter Cups, tasty chocolate on the without, agony within.
A Satanic Transvestite: looks good until you see what’s under the clothes.
Etc.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 August 2011 14:41 (twelve years ago) link
Jonah Goldberg has, surprisingly, never eaten a Monte Cristo sandwich. Noted and moving on.
― Dave Zuul (Phil D.), Monday, 1 August 2011 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
He's not a cannibal.
― The Edge of Gloryhole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 August 2011 14:50 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/273335/obama-and-not-carter-victor-davis-hanson#
what world is this guy in
― goole, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 15:03 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/273423/smurfs-finally-give-communism-nancy-french
― goole, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
Unable to resist, I commented. Guess which I am.
― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
beare08?
― goole, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
that's the most annoying part of it, i'm pretty sure "VDH" was alive under Carter. i'll always be stunned by how these guys can't remember anything accurately.
― goole, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 15:22 (twelve years ago) link
But in Obama they had a figure right out of central casting — young, charismatic, non-traditional, ‘post-racial,’ glib, and at times eloquent. So the present mess, unlike that of 1977–80, cannot so easily be attributed to packaging rather than content, a fact which has far more profound consequences to the leftist cause.
lol goole this reminds me of yr thing about conservatives hating obama for fulfilling every stereotype possible of a liberal & still being popular
― max, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 15:30 (twelve years ago) link
Go to hell, Jonah says.
― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
Pareene has a bit of fun:
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/08/02/birth_control_corner/index.html
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 20:33 (twelve years ago) link
commenter "bobbytwotimes" OTM
― chief content officer (m coleman), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 20:51 (twelve years ago) link
pareene is truly the man
― J0rdan S., Tuesday, 2 August 2011 20:55 (twelve years ago) link
Love this guy. Obama drinks beer? Of course – Alinksyites don't drink beer. Obama hates asparagus. Naturally – Alinskyites think eating meat is radical.
Obama: Still the Alinksyite
August 3, 2011 1:16 P.M.By Stanley Kurtz
Here’s my take on the puzzle of Obama’s leadership style. Obama is still every inch the Alinskyite organizer. He talks about uniting, even as he deliberately polarizes. He moves incrementally toward radical left goals, but never owns up to his ideology. Instead, he tries to work indirectly, by way of the constituencies he seeks to manipulate.
“Leading from behind” is classic Alinskyite strategy. The idea is for the organizer to find out what the people he’s organizing want, give them enough of that to gain authority and control, then slowly and quietly push the group in his ideological direction, all the while making it seem as though the plan is what the people themselves have asked for. Obama used to literally lead from behind, by stage-managing his group’s protests from the back of the room, while the ostensible leaders took charge on stage. That is what Alinskyite organizers do.
Alinskyite organizers are tough when facing down the “enemy” (their word), but subtle, stealthy, and incremental when dealing with the members of their own group. Above all, they are never openly ideological. Everything is portrayed as pragmatism.
The trouble with Obama’s Alinskyite leadership style is that he’s trying to adapt it to the presidency, a role it was never designed for. When he tries classic Alinskyite polarization, he’s treating people he’s supposed to be leading as his enemies. When he tries to bring about leftist results under the guise of a neutral pragmatism, he disappoints his base, which desperately wants him to turn his eloquence to the task of persuading the country of their principles.
Obama is a bad negotiator because Alinskyite’s don’t negotiate, they intentionally polarize. As for their own groups, here they try to placate all factions and hide their own goals. That about describes Obama’s performance on the debt deal, which included a dollop of both of these stances.
― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:31 (twelve years ago) link
forget about blogging and publishing books - Kurtz should handwrite this stuff on placards and work the street corners if he wants to reach his real audience
― chief content officer (m coleman), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
i think how difficult it is to repeatedly focus on + read the word 'alinskyite' is testament to how unsuitable it is to shape some dumbass hypothesis around it
― (oboe interlude) (schlump), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 19:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/exchequer/273486/back-envelope-balanced-budget
what a delightful thought experiment
― "Gunplay" (ft. Gunplay) (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 21:43 (twelve years ago) link
I love how he offers reasons for most, but then just says "cut food stamps" with no reason offered. It's just a given for their readers unlike getting rid of the mortgage tax deduction which he offers his quick explanation for .
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 22:01 (twelve years ago) link
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 22:02 (twelve years ago) link
dude we get it
― g++ (gbx), Thursday, 4 August 2011 00:21 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 4 August 2011 01:15 (twelve years ago) link
kathrynlopez Kathryn Jean Lopez by pareene
word spellcheck wants "sharia" to be "sharpie"
― Notinnymane (k3vin k.), Friday, 5 August 2011 14:45 (twelve years ago) link
Reminds me of that Gene Hackman moment in The Birdcage: "In the fourth paragraph, that's 'pronto,' not 'porno.'"
― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 5 August 2011 14:47 (twelve years ago) link
x-post - my wardrobe (or computer) malfunction
― curmudgeon, Friday, 5 August 2011 15:12 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/273853/enter-iron-lady-peter-robinson#
dude gross
― 5ish finkel (goole), Monday, 8 August 2011 15:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/274070/let-britain-burn-john-derbyshire
― "Gunplay" (ft. Gunplay) (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
Fred08/09/11 12:04Link"...Because it is the government of a modern Western nation, sunk like the rest of us in trembling, whimpering guilt over class and race..."
Speak for yourself when it comes to being sunk in trembling whimpering guilt.
My advice would be to get out of the Northeast and spend a little more time listening to Rush Limbaugh.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
loooove Derbyshire
― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 16:16 (twelve years ago) link
"sick, weak, deracinated moral universalism — the rotten fruit of a debased, sentimentalized Christianity"
he is onto something here
― Euler, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 16:18 (twelve years ago) link
If Britain had more Derbyshires and fewer rioting socialist thugs, Britian would be much better off, morally, financially, and politically.
― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 16:19 (twelve years ago) link
guys, Robinson's Thatcher porn thing is hilarious! I especially love how Peter Robinson can barely contain his lust. "The stage was set for the arrival of the Iron Lady."
Seriously do liberals slobber over their icons like NRO guys do? "The plank was lowered and set, awaiting FDR's wheelchair."
― livin in my own private Biden hole (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 16:34 (twelve years ago) link
oh i just read the title literally
― 5ish finkel (goole), Tuesday, 9 August 2011 16:36 (twelve years ago) link
let-britain-burn-john-derbyshire
*agrees*
― bnw, Tuesday, 9 August 2011 17:16 (twelve years ago) link