Michele Bachmann's husband does a dance routine to "Where Have You Been" while wearing Chick Fil A pasties
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Sunday, 12 August 2012 19:08 (eleven years ago) link
Halfway through Rick Perry's speech, it slowly dawns on everyone that he is graciously accepting the party's nomination
― keeping things contextual (DJP), Sunday, 12 August 2012 19:09 (eleven years ago) link
AAAAAAH
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 August 2012 19:10 (eleven years ago) link
This all needs to happen.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 12 August 2012 19:12 (eleven years ago) link
Cut to George Will at some point, a look of silent panic on his face.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 12 August 2012 19:13 (eleven years ago) link
full text of John McCain's remarks to the 2012 Republican convention:
Thank you all very much. Tonight, I...you assholes. You fucking assholes. You goddamn fucking assholes. Fuck, fuck, fuck...fuck you. Fuck you, and fuck you. You goddamn, fucking, fucking, fucking...you fucking assholes. My dick. Suck my dick. You assholes.
― steven fucking tyler (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 12 August 2012 19:17 (eleven years ago) link
I'm actually just hoping Lynyrd Skynyrd (who are really performing, and no I don't wanna talk about it) turns in such a marathon performance of "Free Bird" that the whole convention gets thrown off schedule.
― 誤訳侮辱, Sunday, 12 August 2012 19:27 (eleven years ago) link
The Lynyrd Skynyrd of 2012 is not the Lynyrd Skynyrd of 1976 (literally!), but I hope that prediction comes true.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 August 2012 19:39 (eleven years ago) link
lynyrd's been super right-wing for a while
― da croupier, Sunday, 12 August 2012 19:41 (eleven years ago) link
pretty christgau is just listening to nu-lynyrd to get pissed off
Lyve [Sanctuary, 2004]Maybe the Allmans supported Bush too, though I bet not; maybe that fox Ronnie Van Zant would have turned into Charlie Daniels, though he would have nuanced it. But Daniels is Donald Fagen up against the backup-singer cheerleading and golden-oldies smarm of Johnny Van Zant, and where the Allmans replaced their mythic front line with Warren Haynes and Derek Trucks, who jam at least as tight and hot, Gary Rossington didn't anchor that peachy a guitar section to begin with. A few of the post-Ronnie songs are surprisingly decent--"Red, White and Blue," for instance, is about Johnny's neck, hair, and collar. But you know what else it's about, and in case you don't he has four or five ways to rub it in, including thanks to God for the lovely Nashville night. Not Memphis, not Jacksonville--Nashville. C+
God & Guns [RoadRunner/Loud & Proud, 2009]"You can take your change on down the road/And leave me here with mine," Johnny Van Zant begins one of the two songs that take up the title theme after has run through the pleasures of home, the perfidy of woman, and the mixed blessings of the music business for the umpteenth time. Like the wary younger sibling he's always been, Johnny will always hold onto a quarter and settle for what he knows, or thinks he does. Really, he ought to have some inkling that nobody worthy of his trepidation wants to ban hunting, burn the Bible, or slam old Uncle Sam, although actually that no smoking sign means exactly what it says. On the other hand, "Unwrite That Song" would make a nice B side for Darius Rucker. C+
― da croupier, Sunday, 12 August 2012 19:42 (eleven years ago) link
I'm not predicting this, but I'm also not saying it's impossible.
http://i.imgur.com/MMbYs.png
― pplains, Sunday, 12 August 2012 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
I would be very surprised if Michigan went for Romney -- even my right wing relatives can't stand him.
― NR’s resident heavy-metal expert (Nicole), Sunday, 12 August 2012 19:51 (eleven years ago) link
Lynyrd Skynyrd in 2012 is the proverbial small business.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 12 August 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
Also, given its lineup, Skynyrd in 2012 is a job creator, too.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 12 August 2012 20:06 (eleven years ago) link
Johnny Van Zant may run Lynyrd Skynyrd, but he definitely didn't build that.
― da croupier, Sunday, 12 August 2012 20:44 (eleven years ago) link
are there poll numbers for people who won't vote for romney just because of the mormon thing? a lot of christian churches preach that mormonism is a cult and not to be trusted/taken seriously or even considered a part of christianity.
― scott seward, Sunday, 12 August 2012 21:25 (eleven years ago) link
okay i found a number...
CNN) – Bias against a Mormon presidential candidate hasn’t budged in 45 years, with 18% of Americans saying they would not vote for a well-qualified candidate who happened to be Mormon, according to a Gallup Poll released Thursday.
http://religion.blogs.cnn.com/2012/06/21/bias-against-mormon-presidential-candidate-unchanged-since-1967-poll-finds/
― scott seward, Sunday, 12 August 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
18% ain't chicken feed...
and they do note that 20% of americans said they wouldn't vote for a catholic right before kennedy won the election, but romney is no kennedy. there is no great fervor for him like there was for kennedy. or obama.
― scott seward, Sunday, 12 August 2012 21:34 (eleven years ago) link
also, there's probably more crossover between anti-catholic or anti-mormon (or racist) sentiment and the republican party base than there is between the same and the dem party base.
― Mordy, Sunday, 12 August 2012 21:38 (eleven years ago) link
well no because you're discounting liberal atheist latte drinkers
― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 12 August 2012 21:41 (eleven years ago) link
if they don't vote for candidates who are religious then they have never voted in an election and never will
― Mordy, Sunday, 12 August 2012 21:44 (eleven years ago) link
Echoing Nicole re Michigan in this unemployed age. The west side of the state being racist and conservative has never been enough to swing the vote alone, and even some people there are horrified by Mittens.
― check the name, no caps, boom, i'm (Laurel), Sunday, 12 August 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
These are also not "likely voter" numbers, some may be crazy 99-year-old cranks who are the same exact people who answered the survey about George Romney. Would not put any stock into it at all.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 12 August 2012 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
Not that the east side is not also racist, but they're a lot less conservative, is all I'm saying.
― check the name, no caps, boom, i'm (Laurel), Sunday, 12 August 2012 22:15 (eleven years ago) link
It never occurred to me until now that maybe he was named Mitt because of Michigan's shape?
Too bad he wasn't born in Fla.
― pplains, Sunday, 12 August 2012 22:21 (eleven years ago) link
Just saw Romney and Ryan are being interviewed together on 60 Minutes tonight. Will tune in.
― Johnny Fever, Sunday, 12 August 2012 22:23 (eleven years ago) link
18% of Americans saying they would not vote for a well-qualified candidate who happened to be Mormon, according to a Gallup Poll released Thursday.
bet a lot of them would consider it if that mormon's opponent were a muslim alinskyite, among other things
― mookieproof, Sunday, 12 August 2012 22:31 (eleven years ago) link
I think it says a lot about the progress we've made as a nation that it will be down to a Mormon vs. a Muslim.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 August 2012 01:32 (eleven years ago) link
(Irony: non-Muslim that detractors think is a secret Muslim vs. real Mormon that said Mormon probably wants to keep quiet.)
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 13 August 2012 01:34 (eleven years ago) link
p. sure you meant black panther vs. bigamist
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 August 2012 01:41 (eleven years ago) link
the guy who secretly hates white people -vs- the guy who secretly has to hate black people according to ancient mormon law
― scott seward, Monday, 13 August 2012 01:44 (eleven years ago) link
tbf it comes more naturally to many americans than 'ancient' law
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 August 2012 01:47 (eleven years ago) link
Seriously. Visiting home and talking to ppl is like a one-woman consciousness-raising comedy act.
― check the name, no caps, boom, i'm (Laurel), Monday, 13 August 2012 02:01 (eleven years ago) link
One in which the laffs come from watching me take a lot of deep breaths.
― check the name, no caps, boom, i'm (Laurel), Monday, 13 August 2012 02:02 (eleven years ago) link
did you get raves y/n
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 August 2012 02:03 (eleven years ago) link
I give myself a 10 every time someone says something slightly less prejudiced than last time.
― check the name, no caps, boom, i'm (Laurel), Monday, 13 August 2012 02:05 (eleven years ago) link
progress via art <3
― mookieproof, Monday, 13 August 2012 02:06 (eleven years ago) link
oh yah i was just talking about their secret religious reasons for hating people. obama the muslim and romney the mormon.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 August 2012 02:36 (eleven years ago) link
4 out of 10 people still don't know romney is mormon according to that poll thing on cnn. i kinda wonder how it will come up in debates and stuff like that. will he have to answer questions about the angel moroni and the golden plates?
― scott seward, Monday, 13 August 2012 02:41 (eleven years ago) link
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20120112080943AAeWFIV
― buzza, Monday, 13 August 2012 02:43 (eleven years ago) link
i want him to answer questions about the posthumous baptism of holocaust victims
― running like a young deer (symsymsym), Monday, 13 August 2012 02:44 (eleven years ago) link
it always kinda boggles my mind that recent american religions can actually travel to other countries. i don't know why. just the idea of asian or swiss scientologists and mormons seems so weird to me. it seems like such an american thing.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 August 2012 02:44 (eleven years ago) link
weirder than baseball in japan?
― the late great, Monday, 13 August 2012 02:46 (eleven years ago) link
yes, totally. sports always travel around the world. all kinds of sports.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 August 2012 02:47 (eleven years ago) link
its normal for my kids to take kung fu lessons every week, but it would probably be a little more unusual if we went to a shinto shrine every week. uh, cuz i don't think there are any near us? but just more unusual for westerners in general probably.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 August 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
From the time he was a child in Peru, the Mormon Church instilled in Jose A. Loayza the conviction that he and millions of other Native Americans were descended from a lost tribe of Israel that reached the New World more than 2,000 years ago.
"We were taught all the blessings of that Hebrew lineage belonged to us and that we were special people," said Loayza, now a Salt Lake City attorney. "It not only made me feel special, but it gave me a sense of transcendental identity, an identity with God."
A few years ago, Loayza said, his faith was shaken and his identity stripped away by DNA evidence showing that the ancestors of American natives came from Asia, not the Middle East.
"I've gone through stages," he said. "Absolutely denial. Utter amazement and surprise. Anger and bitterness."
― buzza, Monday, 13 August 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
There's the Peace Pagoda tho, Scott! xp
― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Monday, 13 August 2012 02:50 (eleven years ago) link
It's in Leverett
― "Pffft" --buddha (silby), Monday, 13 August 2012 02:51 (eleven years ago) link
but even there its an ancient eastern religion and ancient stuff makes more sense to me. stuff invented in the last couple hundred years traveling to ancient countries and being embraced always seems weird to me.
― scott seward, Monday, 13 August 2012 02:51 (eleven years ago) link