Favorite poster from NR's "The Corner"

so he'll have a mustache in this one then

EXACTLY

It will be like "The Jackal" all over again!

The Jackal II: Jack Harder

what if kamchatka nuked alaska

this should be a subplot, so the movie can be called Kamchatka!

gesundheit

genorkheit

Kamchatka II: The Wrath of Norks!

http://www.lahiguera.net/cinemania/actores/bruce_willis/fotos/5028/bruce_willis.jpg

Some will weigh it...
And others avoid it...
but heroes...
take it.

Risk.

wait guys maybe norks = new yorkers and new york nuking seoul explains why iran is nuking LA

tbqf i can't tell the norks from the sorks let alone the honks from the cambs

http://www.teddybelly.net/images/snorks.gif

vs

http://mentalfloss.cachefly.net/wp-content/uploads/2008/08/the-noid.jpg

avork the nork

guyz there's a whole other lexicon of lame rightwing blog slang. "splodey-dopes" "tranzis" "dfh's" etc. "nork" is hella old

okay, what's a splodey dope?

24 [John J. Miller]
The show should start calling itself 16, so it can quit before the season goes sour, as it always seems to do. Things we've learned in the last few weeks: The real terrorists aren't foreign haters of America but U.S. defense contractors, stem cells offer the hope of miracle cures for biological-weapon attacks, and when Jack Bauer seeks deathbed counsel he calls a Muslim imam.

05/19 07:45 AM

Nothing sweeter than reading NRO be disappointed about 24's liberal bias.

― Mordy, Tuesday, May 19, 2009 7:12 AM (1 week ago) Bookmark

Those stem cells would have been from an adult, fwiw. granted Kim Bauer is pretty brain dead but she still qualifies.

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"splodey-dopes" are suicide bombers, or muslims in general. 02, 03, great times, man

hoo boy hadnt heard that one before yikes

holy shit; way to infantilize sociopathic murderers there

to be fair (ha) it was never that widespread

Krikorian:

Deferring to people's own pronunciation of their names should obviously be our first inclination, but there ought to be limits. Putting the emphasis on the final syllable of Sotomayor is unnatural in English (which is why the president stopped doing it after the first time at his press conference), unlike my correspondent's simple preference for a monophthong over a diphthong, and insisting on an unnatural pronunciation is something we shouldn't be giving in to.

Never surrender!

Must be real quiet over in the anti-immigration think tanks these days.

frankly I'm surprised no one's accused her of being an illegal immigrant herself

surely Bachmann or Coulter could "rise" to the task

She eats chili con carne with her left hand. It's enough.

Anyway. from a cursory glance at a couple of opinions she really does look like an expert in boring technical stuff -- the sort of justice who in the 1890's would have specialized in maritime law. In other words, she looks like she scrupulously adheres to precedents.

(but this belongs in the other thread; they do overlap)

from a cursory glance at a couple of opinions she really does look like an expert in boring technical stuff

isn't this, like, every appellate judge ever?

"Anyway. from a cursory glance at a couple of opinions she really does look like an expert in boring technical stuff -- the sort of justice who in the 1890's would have specialized in maritime law. In other words, she looks like she scrupulously adheres to precedents."

Souter 2.0.

oh man can we have a thread for maritime law????

Why not?

insisting on an unnatural pronunciation is something we shouldn't be giving in to.

my jaw actually dropped

c'mon, everyone knows Spanish is unnatural, I mean the Bible was written in English (by King James) so it's clearly God's language, get with the program

xpost srsly - ending that sentence on a preposition is just taunting

and of course if you know even a tiny bit of spanish -- and i only know a tiny bit, like the names of baseball players -- then the spanish pronunciation comes totally naturally. i had to stop and think what he meant by the "natural" english pronunciation, and even then i guessed wrong -- i thought maybe he meant the MAY should be emphasized, but he's arguing for SO.

what a weirdo.

^^ real talk

if she had any decency she'd just legally change to a properly Anglicized respectable republican cloth name that's pronounced as it's spelt like e.g. Fluella Cholmondely-Worcester

Or 'Bertie Wooster' to make it easier for pundits...

Give Montana Girls a Chance [John Derbyshire]

A reader vents:

Derb — I've been hoping that someone might be bold enough to rain on the Sotomayor "compelling life story" parade.

The woman grew up in the capital of the world, went to two Ivy League schools, and was blessed by Providence with the precisely correct right race-gender two-fer for the moment.

This is a story of privilege, dammit, not adversity.

Show me a Montana girl of un-useful ethnicity who put herself through law school waiting tables, after being left with two young children when her Army husband was killed overseas, and I'll start oohing and aahing over her compelling story.

Of course, such a person would never ever end up on any President's short-list, no matter if she graduated first in her class at her non-Ivy institution, no matter how extreme the intelligence and dedication and hard work she displayed over the subsequent course of her career. That's simply how the world — and especially the legal world — is constructed today.

It's so much easier to take a properly-credentialed member of the East Coast elite and hold her up as a shining example of American meritocracy instead, because she is conveniently hued and delayed her entry to the world of the well-heeled until the age of 18 or so. Easy, and misleading. Feugh!

Like my reader, and I'm sure a lot of other Americans, I get mighty annoyed by the unspoken implication in a lot of commentary that anyone not a member of a Protected Minority must have grown up in a twelve-bedroom lakeside mansion and been chauffered off to prep school with a silver spoon in his mouth. Judge Sotomayor was raised in public housing? So was I. Her mother was a nurse working late shifts? So was mine. When did white working poor people disappear off the face of the earth? Where are the eager listeners to their "compelling stories"?

Was it really not possible to correct past injustices without creating an entire — and apparently permanent — class convinced that accidents of geography or biology have gifted them with special insight, wisdom, and "empathy"?

As my reader very eloquently expressed it: Feugh!

(Which, since somebody always asks, is pronounced to rhyme with "Peugh!")

"un-useful ethnicity"

Laying claim, btw.

Feugh!

Feugh!

(it rhymes with "Puegh!")

the precisely correct right race-gender two-fer for the moment.

really, when you consider all the obvious advantages they hold, it says something questionable about the character of hispanic women that they are not running everything these days.

http://img.thesun.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00561/flyer_280_561813a.jpg

Was it really not possible to correct past injustices without creating an entire — and apparently permanent — class convinced that accidents of geography or biology have gifted them with special insight, wisdom, and "empathy"?

I am generally against affirmative action but this is some of the stupidest shit I have ever read.

wait this may be stupider, post Virginia Tech massacre:

Spirit of Self-Defense [John Derbyshire]

As NRO's designated chickenhawk, let me be the one to ask: Where was the spirit of self-defense here? Setting aside the ludicrous campus ban on licensed conceals, why didn't anyone rush the guy? It's not like this was Rambo, hosing the place down with automatic weapons. He had two handguns for goodness' sake—one of them reportedly a .22.

At the very least, count the shots and jump him reloading or changing hands. Better yet, just jump him. Handguns aren't very accurate, even at close range. I shoot mine all the time at the range, and I still can't hit squat. I doubt this guy was any better than I am. And even if hit, a .22 needs to find something important to do real damage—your chances aren't bad.

Yes, yes, I know it's easy to say these things: but didn't the heroes of Flight 93 teach us anything? As the cliche goes—and like most cliches. It's true—none of us knows what he'd do in a dire situation like that. I hope, however, that if I thought I was going to die anyway, I'd at least take a run at the guy.

monday morning shoot-out surviving