It's embarrassing. For all their valid complaints about FOX News' distortion of facts these young guys are weirdly naive about self-presentation.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 8 October 2011 21:49 (twelve years ago) link
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.)
― Mordy, Sunday, 9 October 2011 05:09 (twelve years ago) link
nice!
John Fund Joins NR Cruise Super Speaker Line-upOctober 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.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 18:08 (twelve years ago) link
no, outrageous
― theosophy b. hawkins (donna rouge), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 18:09 (twelve years ago) link
Deploy the U-boat fleet.
― Occupy LOL Street (Phil D.), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 18:10 (twelve years ago) link
three cocktail receptions!
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 18:15 (twelve years ago) link
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..."
― i love pinfold cricket (gbx), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 18:18 (twelve years ago) link
foreign-policy expert convicted felon Elliott Abrams,
― "Gunplay" (ft. Gunplay) (Andre Gunder Frank 3000), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 18:48 (twelve years ago) link
Where are the Somalian pirates when you need them?
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Wednesday, 12 October 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
Oh boy, K-Lo...
Also:
Clarence Thomas, 20 Years LaterOctober 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.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 21 October 2011 13:15 (twelve years ago) link
[Approved commenter] Slide: 10/21/11 07:09Funny 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 09:58In 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.
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!!
― The doctor smiled, realizing that he had made his point. (stevie), Friday, 21 October 2011 14:12 (twelve years ago) link
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!
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!
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 29 October 2011 11:47 (twelve years ago) link
Wtf
― Primm Slim, Robot Sheriff (kingfish), Saturday, 29 October 2011 17:04 (twelve years ago) link
straw baby argument
― chief rocker frankie crocker (m coleman), Saturday, 29 October 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
Even in situations of dire poverty, children are not the problem. They are often the consolation of the poor, who are often in desperate situations due to corruption and mismanagement.
― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 29 October 2011 17:23 (twelve years ago) link
i don't think there's any way to know for sure whose corruption and mismanagement is being blamed there
― occupy the A train (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 29 October 2011 17:24 (twelve years ago) link
loling
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 29 October 2011 17:48 (twelve years ago) link
"no matter what, there couldn't possibly be too many children" is the lolziest craziest best claim
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 30 October 2011 03:52 (twelve years ago) link
lol have you guys seen today's wallpaper? Rather symbolic donchathink.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 31 October 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
Is it wallgina?
― Mordy, Monday, 31 October 2011 14:49 (twelve years ago) link
best herman cain comment:
Who among us hasn't gotten loaded at a conference or convention and asked a female (or male, if that's your thing) subordinate to come up to your hotel room to enjoy a slice of pizza and some Skinamax, let him cast the first stone.
― chief rocker frankie crocker (m coleman), Monday, 31 October 2011 19:56 (twelve years ago) link
lmao slice of pizza
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 31 October 2011 20:31 (twelve years ago) link
this is an instant classic
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/282007/first-thing-we-do-john-derbyshire
― max, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 16:21 (twelve years ago) link
all I had to look at was "Derbyshire" and "The first thing we do" in the URL for my imagination to run riot.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 16:22 (twelve years ago) link
I know "Is there anyone who thinks sexual harassment is a real thing?" is a strong start, but I hope it doesn't overshadow "There has never in the history of the world been a people better mannered and less inclined to insulting acts of prejudice than today’s Americans"
― spiced with KNOWING THAT YOU'VE PAID YOUR BILLS (I DIED), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 16:27 (twelve years ago) link
lolll the comments lolll
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 16:35 (twelve years ago) link
ny post: america's newspaper of record
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 16:49 (twelve years ago) link
derbyshire is kind of on his own plane
― goole, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 16:50 (twelve years ago) link
a hand on every ass, a cross on every lawn
― Abattoir Educator / Slaughterman (schlump), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 16:53 (twelve years ago) link
i wish a touch of turbulence upon derbyshire's plane
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 17:15 (twelve years ago) link
Okay I seriously didn't know about this until now:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Derbyshire#Appearance_in_Bruce_Lee_movie
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
seriously that is all-time
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 19:14 (twelve years ago) link
He Can Now Afford a TVNovember 4, 2011 9:18 A.M.By Jay Nordlinger Life has imitated art in India: A penniless young man has just become the first person in his country to win a million dollars on a game show. He won it on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?, as if starring in the hit movie of three years ago, Slumdog Millionaire. I note this in Impromptus today. An AP report on the young man is here.
The report tells us that, until now, the man has been too poor to own a television set. And, in my column, I remark, “Americans like me are occasionally startled to remember that, in some places in the world, the poor don’t have television, cars, air conditioning, and cellphones.”
Long ago, I heard a story about a poor man in India whose dream was to visit America, just once. “Why?” his friends asked him. He answered, “Because I want to see a place where poor people are fat.”
A major problem among our poor is obesity, or so we are given to understand. I believe it. And I would not make light of this problem (nor am I trying to be cutesy with “light”). But we have reached an interesting pass in human history when a major problem of the poor is obesity. For millennia, the problem was the opposite — still is, elsewhere.
I think the spiritual component of poverty is woefully underexplored. Maybe I’ll get off my duff and explore it someday.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 November 2011 13:45 (twelve years ago) link
im speechless
― max, Friday, 4 November 2011 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
"get off my duff"
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 November 2011 13:46 (twelve years ago) link
I hope he doesn't have either of the Duff sisters imprisoned.
― bouquet beatdown (Nicole), Friday, 4 November 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
“Americans like me are occasionally startled to remember that, in some places in the world, the poor don’t have television, cars, air conditioning, and cellphones.”
whoa whoa whoa whoa WHOA. poor people in america don't have televisions, cars, air conditioning or cell phones. or refrigerators for that matter. if you have any of those things, it is impossible for you to be poor.
― J0rdan S., Friday, 4 November 2011 13:52 (twelve years ago) link
We've robbed our poor of honest, hard-working poverty and given them this fat, undisciplined version. We could learn much from that man in India.
J0rdan, a lot of poor people have those things. Refrigerators (and possibly a shitty window air conditioner unit) come with even the most mediocre of rental properties. It doesn't mean they consistently work well, but a lot of people below the poverty line have a shitty rental apartment, a car that breaks down all the time but is necessary for them to get to work, and a television since televisions are so far below being a luxury good that they're pretty much the go-to for entertainment.
― mh, Friday, 4 November 2011 13:55 (twelve years ago) link
He's kidding.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 November 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, I realized that a half second after hitting submit
― mh, Friday, 4 November 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
c'mon dawg
― J0rdan S., Friday, 4 November 2011 13:57 (twelve years ago) link
i was specifically referencing this segment from fox business channel, which is basically the most unbelievable thing i've ever seen on tv, and i've watched a lot of fox
http://mediamatters.org/mmtv/201108250029
― J0rdan S., Friday, 4 November 2011 14:00 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, sad thing is I was mocking the same thing
― mh, Friday, 4 November 2011 14:04 (twelve years ago) link
rayhjenkins : 11/04/11 10:01
If you have $5 (pick a number if you don't like 5) a day for food, where are you going to spend it? McDonald's? Krystal? Not exactly places of [obvious] healthy choices.Cheap drinks are all full of sugar (corn syrup).In places like India, it appears there is not a fast-food joint on every corner and a 7-11 full of syrupy sodas across the street.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 November 2011 14:28 (twelve years ago) link
― mh, Friday, November 4, 2011 1:55 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 4 November 2011 15:07 (twelve years ago) link
I think there's a great point to be made about how we have reached a level of sustenance where concerns about nutrition have begun to eclipse concerns about starvation - and how that says a lot about this technological moment in history. But it seems like all NRO writers want to do is use this to prove that poor ppl aren't really poor. Our poor in America aren't routinely dying of the bubonic plague, or put in debtor's prison, or killed by marauders either but that doesn't mean that they're now comfortably middle class...
― Mordy, Friday, 4 November 2011 15:14 (twelve years ago) link
Somebody fisk this.
― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:05 (twelve years ago) link
When asked to do something by an officer of the law, the instinct of most people is to comply, especially if they are violating a rule. The instinct of many of the Occupy protesters is to resist, then inflate their arrests or clashes with the police into a monumental struggle with the forces of oppression. “The whole world is watching.”
There is an honorable tradition of civil disobedience in America. If an injustice is so grave and the system is so rigged that it can’t be changed through normal democratic means, as in the Jim Crow South, breaking the law may be a recourse. The civil-rights protesters did it peacefully and with dignity. The difference between them and the Occupy protesters challenging the cops is the difference between self-sacrificial heroes and ideologically drunk punks and whiners.
hey guess what you glossy-haired little bitch, pull up the back issues of your own magazine to see what it said at the time
― goole, Friday, 4 November 2011 16:08 (twelve years ago) link
david joe bradley: 11/04/11 08:51
"Everyone acknowledges the right of the Occupiers to protest and to live however they please."
You sure you don't want to take that one back?
What's going on is our city governments are appeasing Occupiers. No good can come from that.
Ask yourself if these morons could get away with this in Singapore? And where is our president on this matter?
Man, I love when the masks come off. Yes, by all means, let's emulate that stronghold of liberty, Singapore.
― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Friday, 4 November 2011 16:12 (twelve years ago) link
boners for lee yuan kew are kind of the thinking man's boner for pinochet
― goole, Friday, 4 November 2011 16:15 (twelve years ago) link