Finalizing all the summer courses, which start Monday.
In other words, no time.
We can treat this as an open thread/memorial to Tim, who has apparently died.
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Finalizing all the summer courses, which start Monday.
In other words, no time.
We can treat this as an open thread/memorial to Tim, who has apparently died.
Comments are closed.
jg
Long live Tim.
Why has Bush stopped issuing signing statements? I hear he’s going to veto a bill because it contains military pay raises (why is it that can a republican say that and not get lynched?) why doesn’t he sign the bill but say he won’t follow tha tpart about pay raises?
Pb
Because A) vetos make him look tougher with his base, and B) then he’d end up in a fight over signing statements in addition to looking like a loser…
In summary: Republican Congress = signing statements; Democratic Congress = veto.
RSA
Dissertating can be a life-threatening activity, but most people recover. (It tends to be infectious, unfortunately.)
And I do wonder about the pay raise issue. Does Bush think he’s immune to accusations of not supporting the troops?
srv
How come no bloggers offer college credit courses? For as much time as the lot of you spend here, you ought to get something for it.
Imagine a Blog University, with IR, Economics, PoliSci courses. Not like the talent isn’t out there, it’s just untapped, stuck in the brick-and-mortar world.
Zombie Santa Claus
RIP Tim. He would’ve had fun with this batshit craziness:
sidereal
Alas, poor Tim.
I did not really know him well.
Seemed like a cool frood, though.
Andrew
Republican political thought, via recent events:
Ron Paul is evil because he said that America is to blame for 9/11 even though he didn’t say that.
Jerry Falwell is awesome even though he said America is to blame for 9/11.
Punchy
Easy. Signing statements are only as strong as the Congress you have to not call you on such un-Constitutionality. With a Democratic congress, you can believe he knows the instant he punts the raise, he could face a no-brainer impeachment.
Dreggas
Who was it that posited the question for a republican debate was who denied helio centrism? Either that set of paragraphs is some damn good spoof or the writer is batshit crazy. I am betting on batshit crazy since he/she is for bareba…I mean brownback.
Zombie Santa Claus
What’s a frood? Is that like a droog?
That was me. Actually, I was thinking of this Brownback site when I said it, since they’d had an earlier post rejecting heliocentrism and I thought it was the fucking craziest thing I’d ever heard this side of the “let’s nuke Iran” debate.
Bubblegum Tate
Awww, lame. Blogs4brownback totally overplayed its spoof hand.
Jake
A reliable source informs me Tim F. is observing a period of mourning for the late Rev. Falwell.
Yeah. I did completely make that up. So?
Zombie Santa Claus
I think they’re real. That Fixed Earth website is real. It’s really anti-Semitic, too, I think.
MikeF
Frood is from Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, I believe.
Zombie Santa Claus
Thanks. Been a while since I read that one. (“Droog” is Russian for “friend,” I guess. I know it from “Clockwork Orange.” Not from speaking Russian. We only speak English at the North Pole, you know. That’s all we’ve ever spoken. Used to drive the Byzantines nuts when I couldn’t read their Christmas lists, but it’s their fault for writing them in Greek instead of the language God speaks in the King James Bible.)
Zombie Santa Claus
I hope his brains didn’t get clawed out of his skull once Zombie Jerry Falwell finally managed to dig himself out of that shallow grave they’d planted him in. It’d be a real shame if Tim were the first of the many zombies in Falwell’s horde, roaming our streets and terrorizing our womenfolk with their blood-drenched maws and their insatiable hunger for the flesh of the living.
Mind you, I’m looking forward to that. But mine is a special case. Living people have my head preserved in a jar, and I’m kind of embittered about it.
les
I don’t know, Zombie SC; I used to think the Brownbackers were for real, but they look like trying to give Jon Swift a run for his money lately. By the way, your fucking geese are still here pooping all over my town. Are they not welcome up there any more? Please, take ’em home.
Otto Man
OT, but John, if you haven’t seen this, check out the ode to West Virginia University.
Blue Neponset
John, you haven’t done any cat blogging recently. I hope Tunch is ok.
Zombie Santa Claus
Sometimes, it’s hard to tell people who are genuinely insane from people who just act like it. That’s why we all swing back and forth on the Darrell question- is he real, or is he spoof? Partially, it’s wishful thinking; if he is real, I’m fucking scared of him. I think it’s the same with the Brownback people, but I lurk on that blog a decent amount, and I kinda think they’re the real thing.
That Jon Swift guy’s pretty funny, BTW. I hadn’t seen that before.
We don’t want the fuckers, either. They’re yours. Why don’t you cook yourself a nice goose dinner?
Jake
You’ll be glad to know another reliable source that could not give his name for fear of having his brains clawed out tells me they plan to graft your rotting cranium onto ZJF’s body. The original plan called for Brad Pitt’s body but they figured Failwell’s paunchy carcass would feel more familiar.
les
That’s a bitch, isn’t it? They should have to wear signs or something. I’m shying away from taking the Brownbackers (my monumentally worthless Senator, as bad luck would have it) for real mostly out of the fear factor, I have to admit.
Jay C
I particularly liked this bit of wisdom from “blogs4brownback”:
Sorta like a real-life (sic) version of “who you gonna believe: the accumulated knowledge of centuries, or your lyin’ eyes?”
Spoof or not, hilarious.
Zombie Santa Claus
Ho ho ho! I’m back, you fuckers!
So, who gets Zombie Jerry Falwell’s head? My old body? If I had any say in it, they’d graft it onto the Easter Bunny’s body. Or better yet, a Teletubby.
Zombie Santa Claus
I sort of hope that everyone I meet online who scares me is like that. It’s sort of a mental survival technique, that keeps me from smashing my computer and running away screaming every time I think about the Darrells/scs’s/Brownbackers out there.
Agreed. They don’t get much publicity, but if you take the time to trudge through those 40 posts about what kind of a dump Brownback will be taking tomorrow, the rest of them are pretty damn funny.
The Other Steve
Ron Paul claimed it was because of US foreign policy.
Jerry Falwell claimed it was because of the gays and secular heathens.
Those are completely different. See, Falwell was saying if we had more Republicans, we’d be safe. Ron Paul on the other hand was attacking Republicans.
The 11th amendment says clearly, tho shalt not attack Republicans.
So that makes Ron Paul a terrorist.
Sstarr
Just to clarify, the proper phrase from the Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy is hoopy frood. As in “Hey, you sass that hoopy Tim F? There’s a frood who really knows where his towel is!”
Needless to say, senator Brownback is not a frood. Probably doesn’t even own a towel.
The Other Steve
Zombie Santa Claus
Ew.
BTW, I’m sorry you have to live in Kansas, les. That Brownback presentation on snowflake babies was a shameful thing. Sometimes, I think the whole Republican Congress and the Bush Administration are part of some massive spoof to fuck this country over and laugh about it. I don’t know who’s behind it, though. Space aliens, or China, or the Skull and Bones, or something.
Andrew
Any sufficiently advanced spoofery is indistinguishable from madness.
Zombie Santa Claus
Exactly. Case in point: Paul L.
The Other Steve
Naw, the spoofers usually argue as if they are sane.
AkaDad
Tim was a good
minion of Satanman. He shall be missed.les
Sometimes I am too. The Kansas repugs have purged undesirables to the point that Brownback is in the (only by comparison) sane wing of the party here. It’s not pretty.
canuckistani
Should we wait out of respect for Tim’s family, or should we say everything we hate about him now?
Speaking of which, is the period of respect for Falwell over? Can I say he was an evil pigfucker whose corpse should be shredded and boiled in lye for all the hate and poison he spread, or is it too soon?
jake
Both sacred items shall be handed over to Landover Baptist. I won’t disturb you with any further details but according to a heavily redacted document from yet another anonymous source:
ThymeZone
Is it just me, or are we finally seeing progress in Iraq?
Tim F.
Yeesh people, I have the good sense not to die in the same week as Jerry Falwell. This week has been hell but things should improve soon.
Zombie Santa Claus
Welcome back. Any thoughts on people who think the entire Universe revolves around the state of Kansas?
ThymeZone
It’s a Kanzacentric view.
Zombie Santa Claus
It’s in the Bible, too! Well, more like the Book of Mormon. Well, just several hundred miles off, anyway…
Rome Again
How dare you change the spelling, it’s not a Kanzacentric view, it’s a Kansascentric view, because, as we all know, Kansas rhymes with Jesus, and leaving that unique attribute out is just plain blasphemous!
Think twice before you do that again!
Zombie Santa Claus
Jeezus!
Rome Again
Did you know that in the “Old” Testament it was a predicted that the one who would try to usurp God’s position would have a name that would become a curse word in the future after the prophecy was written? I say Jesus Christ all the time when I’m mad, how about you?
Isaiah 65:15 states:
“And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen: for the Lord GOD shall slay thee, and call his servants by another name”
We never go around saying “Lucifer”, and rarely is it heard that someone says something like “that dirty devil”, but whenever something happens that totally pisses us off (us being the general population as a collective whole, but not all inclusive) many times the very first word out of our mouths is “Jesus (F’ing – or H.) Christ” – I added the middle names because many people use those also. Some people think his middle initial is H. too, and you know people didn’t learn that in church.
Ultimately, to read and understand this scripture I placed above, it would be good to study the entire chapter of Isaiah 65 in context. There is an excerpt in the form of a book chapter written by my friend (warning, the title is a sexually derisive word) which explains this and much more. You are not obligated to study any of this of course, but if you want to see how the scripture opens up when studying what that verse truly says, I’m offering this for your perusal. One of the mistakes the followers of Jesus H. Christ makes (and made eons ago) was to take only certain scriptures and make them stand alone to mean anything the party wanted them to mean, and to also mean something completely different from what the scripture in question was intended to mean. I am trying to avoid doing that, so I offer you this study piece. The writer of the excerpt (which is from a book he wrote and I have shared here before) addresses the curse name about 2/3rds of the way down the page in the section covering Isaiah 65:12-15
There is your trivia for today. God chose to curse the name and make the name derogatory all by himself, according to Isaiah.
Zombie Santa Claus
Holy shit!
This reminds me of a Lenny Bruce skit in which he claimed that “Fuck you” should be a compliment to people, because fucking is something very nice that most of us enjoy.
What does that H. stand for, anyway? Habbakuk? Herbert? Haggard? Henrique? Horatio? Holy? What? I’m not trying to be blasphemous, but I’ve always wondered.
I don’t have time to read the person’s analysis, but it looks pretty interesting. I’ll check it out later tonight. Thanks!
jake
Dick?
Rome Again
I agree. LOL
H – to me is for “Hellraiser” because Hell is described in the New Testament as the pit (see “Fear the Pit and the Snare”), and it is Jesus who is supposed to get you out of it (don’t expect him to though). The missionaries of Jesus’ religion rely on the pit as part of their witnessing (his followers often say “if you don’t have Jesus, you’ll burn in hell for all eternity”), therefore Jesus himself is the “Hellraiser”.
RSA
With one of the chapters being titled “The Book of Ether”, I can imagine pretty much everything being in the Book of Mormon.
Tim F.
They’re obviously crazy – everybody knows that the universe revolves around the Steelers.
Zombie Santa Claus
Well, if the Steelers move to Wichita or Senator Brownback takes over Santorum’s old seat, I guess we can have a reconciliation of the two beliefs.
Those people are fucking hilarious, though. I really hope to God someone asks Brownback a question about heliocentrism at the next debate. If he denies it on camera, I’m switching my voter registration to Republican so I can work my ass off to get him nominated.