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

Wtf

straw baby argument

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.

i don't think there's any way to know for sure whose corruption and mismanagement is being blamed there

loling

"no matter what, there couldn't possibly be too many children" is the lolziest craziest best claim

lol have you guys seen today's wallpaper? Rather symbolic donchathink.

Is it wallgina?

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.

lmao slice of pizza

this is an instant classic

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/282007/first-thing-we-do-john-derbyshire

all I had to look at was "Derbyshire" and "The first thing we do" in the URL for my imagination to run riot.

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"

lolll the comments lolll

ny post: america's newspaper of record

derbyshire is kind of on his own plane

a hand on every ass, a cross on every lawn

i wish a touch of turbulence upon derbyshire's plane

Okay I seriously didn't know about this until now:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Derbyshire#Appearance_in_Bruce_Lee_movie

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"

seriously that is all-time

He Can Now Afford a TV
November 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.

im speechless

"get off my duff"

I hope he doesn't have either of the Duff sisters imprisoned.

“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.

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.

He's kidding.

Yeah, I realized that a half second after hitting submit

c'mon dawg

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

Yeah, sad thing is I was mocking the same thing

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.

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.

― mh, Friday, November 4, 2011 1:55 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

lol

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...

Somebody fisk this.

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

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.

boners for lee yuan kew are kind of the thinking man's boner for pinochet

kind of a weird metaphor there i guess...

...and do they even know what they mean?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1997_Asian_financial_crisis#Singapore

As the financial crisis spread the economy of Singapore dipped into a short recession. The short duration and milder effect on its economy was credited to the active management by the government. For example, the Monetary Authority of Singapore allowed for a gradual 20% depreciation of the Singapore dollar to cushion and guide the economy to a soft landing. The timing of government programs such as the Interim Upgrading Program and other construction related projects were brought forward. Instead of allowing the labor markets to work, the National Wage Council pre-emptively agreed to Central Provident Fund cuts to lower labor costs, with limited impact on disposable income and local demand. Unlike in Hong Kong, no attempt was made to directly intervene in the capital markets and the Straits Times Index was allowed to drop 60%. In less than a year, the Singaporean economy fully recovered and continued on its growth trajectory.[28]

I hope Nordlinger makes his fake Indian person a regular character in his column. He can appear like Gazoo and confirm everything Jay says.

Oh boy, the comments.

Lots of people still care about what happened b/w Clinton and Juanita Brodderick, or b/w him and Kathleen Willey.

www.nationalreview.com/corner/282357/bongo-bongo-bongo-i-dont-wanna-leave-congo-oh-no-no-no-no-no-mark-steyn

interesting, it's usually Derbyshire who attracts the overtly racist comments

ola : 11/08/11 11:16
Now it is reported she lives in the same building as david axelrod. what are the odds?
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haven't read that post yet, but 'bongo, bongo, bongo' is one of my fave songs ever

Still , this dude shoots and scores:

Alain Geary
: 11/07/11 11:11

Actually, I think it is the way Herge drew Africans that people find offensive. Big white eyes, huge pink donut mouths. Here's an example: External Link

If you can look at these images without cringing, then you probably clap on One and Three.

why the hell did I read that

what's a pink donut?

$250, same as downtown

hat tip to difficult listening hour for discovering this fabulous remark on a Derbyshire post.