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

what a damn sicko

i really want to know if it even crossed his mind, for just, like, one second, that maybe *killing an innocent person* chips away just a little bit at the law's credibility and the state's legitimacy?

"the state was created to execute murderers" is not far off Locke's take, but the last two sentences are batshit.

http://i.imgur.com/whYYN.jpg

stewardship

it was on some post where somebody made the connection that syria, libya, tunisia and egypt have the best human welfare stats of the arab world, and so getting rid of their governments was a dumb thing for obama to do (uhhh)

our friend SalVet had a different take on the matter i guess

Some of these comments are great fun.

Contrarian9683 : 09/23/11 10:59
Thanks? How about scorn? As a veteran, I can tell you the thing I was annoyed most about was the fact that nobody called this soldier what he is - a liar. The bedrock of military service is integrity. He self-identified as a liar before he self-identified as a homosexual.
Are we going to just say, "well, the policy was unfair, so wink-wink, lie all you want"? I personally don't think the policy was wrong. In fact, what Congress was too chicken %$$t to do (ie: change the actual UCMJ), means that the particular sexual behavior chosen by most homosexuals ( and many heterosexuals) remains technically illegal for military members... But "don't worry, you can ignore that reg, since we collectively think it's wrong".... Not the level of integrity I learned to aspire to as a military member....

the particular sexual behavior chosen by most homosexuals ( and many heterosexuals)

sounding?

Hollywood Is Out of Touch
September 26, 2011 12:26 P.M.
By Ben Shapiro
I wrote last week about how out of touch Hollywood is with mainstream American values. Here are five shows from the new fall season that demonstrate that disconnect in action:

The Playboy Club (NBC): Who thought that the American public was dying to see the inner workings of Hugh Hefner’s DNA-stained caverns? The ratings for this disaster are already in — and they’re disastrous, of course. Its premiere garnered a mere 5 million viewers.

Whitney (NBC): Take Comedy Central star Whitney Cummings and put her in her own show. What could go wrong? Just about everything. This is the same Whitney Cummings who said that Quentin Tarantino has “produced more retarded things than Sarah Palin’s vagina.” Lovely.

New Girl (FOX): This is essentially a rehash of Three’s Company in reverse — a girl moves in with three guys. Hijinks ensue. Or not.

Suburgatory (ABC): A girl moves out to the suburbs with her dad. Then she makes fun of the suburbs. Because Hollywood hates the suburbs. Get it? Yeah, we’ve been getting it since The Graduate.

Revenge (ABC): Woman travels out to the Hamptons to take revenge on the evil Wall Street folks who ruined her parents. Hey people, it’s not class warfare, it’s math!

Some of these shows may be good. Who knows? Maybe Hollywood will stumble onto something. But note a pattern: the network that continues to appeal to most Americans — and the network that doesn’t appear on this list — remains CBS. That’s because they aim at older audiences, and so have less need to be “edgy.” It’s also why you won’t see them winning too many Emmys in the near future.

oh yeah, cause two and a half men and 2 broke girls aren't the grossest "edgiest" shows on television.

Because Hollywood hates the suburbs. Get it? Yeah, we’ve been getting it since The Graduate.

lol

The ratings for this disaster are already in — and they’re disastrous, of course.

these nro turds are such gross prose stylists

That’s because they aim at older audiences, and so have less need to be “edgy.”

Uh, yeah, when discussing a network that made its bones most recently on a bunch of "people getting gruesomely fucking murdered" procedurals, this is just rmde material.

not just that, but like i pointed out, cbs' sitcoms are filthy and far filthier than anything on nbc (except maybe whitney)! it's not like this is another 'violence is okay, sex isn't' hypocrisy. cbs is chockfull of both!

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/278405/undocumented-investments-mark-steyn

this nation used to be great. then we kept 14-year-olds in school

the idea that government spending is an “investment” as opposed to prudent budgeting for necessary responsibilities is a classic all-purpose leftist euphemism for statism without end that no conservative should have any truck with: Why, to end our “investment” in “these kids” after a mere 12 years is to “sentence” people to a “second-class existence”!

"these kids" - nice try liberals. they are illegal aliens, not kids.

So, "prudent budgeting for necessary responsibilities" can never be considered an investment? And when the governor of, oh, let's say Utah or Idaho goes on a junket to flog frozen french fries in China and he tells the home state press that such a trip is "an investment in future good business relations with our friends the Chinese", he is just engaging in tired liberal rhetoric?

This is just insane word-chopping so that a desperate columnist can appear to bash liberals while saying nothing that makes any real sense.

From the same blog: why are we the Brokest Nation in History?

This man has never heard of Weimar Germany? Well, obviously he is equating incurring a debt with being broke. And the more you have borrowed the broker you are. In which case, he was never so broke as the day he bought his first house. Except he wasn't.

Third, if massive expansion of college education helps “make our country better”, why are we the Brokest Nation in History? In 1940, a majority of the US population had no more than a Grade Eight education. By 2008, 40 per cent of 18-24 year-olds were enrolled in college. Eighth Grade America built a great nation, won a global war and emerged as the planet’s economic superpower – until Eighteenth Grade America drove it off a cliff.

amazing quality control on these guys

"eighth grade america"!

One Casey Abell writes:

Looks like the NRO in-house civility rules are on hold now. This is the biggest blast since Ponnuru leveled Derbyshire over the Terri Schiavo case. "We have a word for it...kill." (Or something like that.)

But Steyn always has the humor which Ramesh, well, doesn't have. Man, I wish I could write like Mark.

just... lie, it's not hard!

Andy McCarthy gets hard over Breitbart's latest revelation.

holy shit Obama spoke at a podium where some Black Panthers also spoke, at some undefined point in time

they found us out!

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/278971/perry-gets-smeared-henry-payne

Detroit — The Obama White House has hardly concealed its preference for Mitt Romney as an opponent, given his Northeast base, his suitability as a class-warfare foil, and especially Romneycare. Rick Perry, by contrast, is a Democrat’s worst nightmare — a conservative southerner from hard-scrabble beginnings with a populist touch.

what the fuck is with these people

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/278951/swagger-any-other-name-would-smell-complete-jonah-goldberg

94 comments

like, people out there had 94 distinct things to say about jonah goldberg talking about washing himself

That slob gets 20 posts in ten minutes, no matter what he writes about.

i understand there is a possibility that mr. goldberg is kidding in some way, but really

That's his worst tendency: when someone, even a supporter, questions his horrible, imprecise, cliche-ridden prose, he'll complain that once again he's being misinterpreted.

An eyewitness:

Because we all know how splendidly greed- and corruption-free socialist government is, and how “the 99 percent” of Americans are just clamoring for it. Certainly, this one fellow doesn’t speak for “the movement,” but being familiar with how a (frighteningly) large portion of my generation thinks — and in many cases, has been taught to think — this seems like a fairly accurate distillation of the protesters’ collective mindset: vague, incoherent, idiotic. I might have told him that if he really wanted to “protest capitalism,” he could start by ditching his $2,000 MacBook Pro

(frighteningly)

good

love the comments:

Sadly, that describes a frighteningly large portion of the past three generations. Otherwise, we would still have a pre-1912 culture and would not be facing the then-inconceivable problems we face today.

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/279545/occupy-wall-street-and-iressentimenti-daniel-foster

"I’ve heard Le Tigre and, actually, they aren’t bad."

Foster is in his mid thirties.

he's right that her rant is pretty retarded tho

if wearethe99% tumblr were a bunch of people writing "I can't afford an apartment in a hip brooklyn neighborhood" I feel like it would be less successful

It's embarrassing. For all their valid complaints about FOX News' distortion of facts these young guys are weirdly naive about self-presentation.

on one hand, that's one of the most embarrassing "leftist" pieces of writing I've ever read. on the other hand, she's one person and hardly speaks for either the OCW movement, leftists in general, or really anyone besides herself. so i don't know what quoting it achieves besides calling out one really ridiculous sounding person. (and for all I know, she wrote that on a bad day and is actually a really decent, thoughtful person.)

nice!

John Fund Joins NR Cruise Super Speaker Line-up
October 12, 2011 1:32 P.M.
By Jack Fowler
There’s but a month to go before we set sail on the National Review 2011 Caribbean Cruise, and we’re still looking for ways to make this tremendous trip even better. And we have. John Fund, the acclaimed political journalist, will be joining our incredible array of top conservative speakers, which includes

acclaimed author Mark Steyn, conservative foreign-policy hero John Bolton, former Senator Fred Thompson, Islam scholar Bernard Lewis, historian Victor Davis Hanson, esteemed academics James Q. Wilson and Charles Kesler, foreign-policy expert Elliott Abrams, former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, columnists Tony Blankley, Cal Thomas, Mona Charen, Deroy Murdock, and S. E. Cupp, terrorism and legal experts Andrew McCarthy and John Yoo, political guru Ralph Reed, social critic and humorist James Lileks, Americans United for Life president Charmaine Yoest, best-selling conservative authors Andrew Klavan and Michael Walsh, ace economist Kevin Hassett, State Policy Network executive Tracie Sharp, domestic-policy expert Sally Pipes, and, from NR, editor Rich Lowry, Liberal Fascism author Jonah Goldberg, columnist Rob Long, NRO editor-at-large Kathryn Lopez, senior editors Jay Nordlinger, David Pryce-Jones, and Ramesh Ponnuru, “Campaign Spot” blogger Jim Geraghty, “Exchequer” blogger Kevin D. Williamson, NRO contributor John Derbyshire, National Correspondent John J. Miller, ace political reporter Bob Costa, and infamous—no, outrageous—NR artist Roman Genn.
Join the 550-plus folks who are going to have a phenomenal seven days (featuring nine seminars, two “Night Owls,” 3 cocktail receptions, one late-night smoker sponsored by H. Upmann cigars, and dining on three nights with our guest speakers) on Holland America Line’s luxurious Eurodam. The dates are November 12-19, and the place to get complete information, and to sign up, is www.nrcruise.com.

no, outrageous

Deploy the U-boat fleet.

three cocktail receptions!

haha man i'm reading the communist manifesto right now (why because its news) and then i read about NRO cruises and i'm like "you know..."

foreign-policy expert convicted felon Elliott Abrams,

Where are the Somalian pirates when you need them?

Oh boy, K-Lo...

Also:

Clarence Thomas, 20 Years Later
October 21, 2011 8:33 A.M.
By Wendy Long

Bill Bennett summed it up: Justice Clarence Thomas is “the greatest living American.”

It sounds like friendly hyperbole. It isn’t.

Since his confirmation to the Supreme Court, Justice Thomas’s first-principles originalism has begun to win the battle of ideas and restore to the rule of law the principles of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. This isn’t just a matter of being vindicated in legal or academic debates. Justice Thomas is painstakingly rebuilding, brick by brick, the very foundations of the American Republic, after a generation of assault left them crumbling almost beyond repair.

[Approved commenter] Slide
: 10/21/11 07:09

Funny but I just saw that Qaddafi had a scrapbook full of photos of Condi Rice. Imagine that? They must have been real pals. I wonder if they ever. . . ... well, lets not go there, the visual is just too disturbing.

[Approved commenter] Rasputin
: 10/21/11 09:58

In other threads I have repeatedly said, "Don't feed the trolls." But, slide, I have to say that you just exposed your true soul - and it is disgusting.

DISGUSTING!!

this is just gold through and through. Welcoming Baby Seven Billion

LOPEZ: How could you celebrate such a milestone? I get you’re pro-life and all, but you’ve been stuck in traffic in New York. Maybe there are too many of us!

HALPINE: Children are not the problem! Traffic jams in New York are most often caused by the visiting dignitaries of the U.N., and never by the young people and children who come to the U.N. with their schools!

Wtf