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

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.

There are Bible passages where it points out that you cannot earn salvation, it comes by grace; that God saves whom He wills; that some people were called to salvation before they were born. The Bible quotes about justice have to do (as I recall) with rendering justice to the widow and orphan, and without regard to a person's income level. It is instruction to the judges, not the government in general that the poor should have their needs paid for by everyone else. In fact, that interferes with opportunities for interpersonal charity.

the last line is really flawless: alleviating the suffering of the poor would infringe on the right of the rich to toss them quarters. what is this, russia?

What, one of these idiots completely misses the point of Scripture? How could that happen?

Lay some King James down on those clowns:

Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

"interpersonal" is one of those words I have to cross paths with daily.

another good one today:

Big Labor’s victory over John Kasich’s reforms in Ohio is a reminder to conservatives that we’re still a long way from closing the deal. A majority of the citizenry seem to agree that the nation’s mired and that their homes and jobs and futures are sinking with it. But that same majority is not yet sold on transformative rollbacks of government and the public sector. They seem to think that out there somewhere there’s a way to get the good times back that’s more or less pain-free. More fool them – which is to say Obama & Co will have a pretty good shot at fooling them.

always nice to see the right reduced to the grumbling misanthropy i grew up thinking belonged to the left

Big Labor appears to have won in Ohio. Combining heavy spending with relentless messaging . . .

those scoundrels! it is so unfair

what's a pink donut?

― lumber up, limbaugh down (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, November 9, 2011 2:15 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

$250, same as downtown

― dense macabre (DJP), Wednesday, November 9, 2011 2:20 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark

new favorite exchange in the history of ilx, mega thanks to both parties

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/282643/cain-lost-labyrinth-victor-davis-hanson

this guy's amazing. every sentence sickens.

Note there is no exemption for Cain even though the charges date from over a decade ago, and even though Cain in the interval was given a 30 percent chance of survival from stage-IV metastasized colon cancer.

wha...?

"Although he may have assaulted a woman, readers should bear in mind that Cain had cancer."

seriously, just about each phrase needs its own post

"evidence" of Cain's "serial" transgressions

"victims"

"sexual harassment"

Cain’s supporters bewail the unfairness of it all — the three previous anonymous accusers, the fourth identified when coaxed by Gloria Allred, a fifth, and who knows how many more, who years later suddenly feel pangs of conscience — as they reckon up the relative media uninterest in sex-poodle Al Gore

I had to stop reading here

how the hell did I miss the "crazed sex poodle" stuff re: Gore last year

it can be a real boon to a patient's recovery, knowing that they've generated a surplus of life points they can diminish abusing others
xxxxp at alfred

he makes some great points about Clinton's indiscretions never being mentioned in the media.

also did you guys know that affairs are the same thing as sexual harassment?

Juanita Broaddrick and Kathleen Willey keep coming up doncha know.

it's really the small slights of fact that are most infuriating, like this:

As John McCain closed in on Barack Obama in 2008, the media floated rumors of his purported affair with a Washington insider — in contrast to their lack of interest in just how much cocaine Barack Obama had really admitted to using or how exactly he had gone from Occidental to Columbia to Harvard Law School, or how patently untrue were his characterizations of his relationship with Bill Ayers.

mccain was only "closing in" on obama for about three weeks after the GOP convention and selection of sarah palin. the nyt story that contained all the speculation of his affair had already been "floated", aired out and then dumped months before that, when even hillary was still a candidate, if i recall correctly.

this is the only us politics thread i read. i love it!

just out of unwise curiosity, what is the ostensible suspicion wrt this?:

how exactly he had gone from Occidental to Columbia to Harvard Law School

lol i think i read the daily mail thread more often than the cleggeron one

otm

how exactly he had gone from Occidental to Columbia to Harvard Law School

basically, because Obama fucked around at Occidental and didn't have a STELLAR GPA, they are saying he didn't deserve to be at Columbia or Harvard, even though (AFAIK) he became more serious about his academics and got much better grades as a result once he got to Columbia

Must've been the cocaine that Bill Ayers was putting up Barry's nose.