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Nicholas Weaver
What about a blue rhinocerous?
Zifnab
So…. evil….
I feel cold. Very, very cold.
zzyzx
Remember when National Review hated the concept of filibusters? It was their principled stand that the majorities shouldn’t have obstacles in their way. Oh wait, that was when they still had the majority. Never mind. Let’s work to block cloture votes!
Dreggas
WOW…just wow.
ThymeZone
Yeah, uh, we are shocked — SHOCKED — to learn that there is corruption in government these days.
The real story, it seems to me after digging into this bottomless pit of links, is that the newspaper down there didn’t go after the story, but instead served the interests of the bad guys.
Which is the story. THE story, I mean. We have no functional press in this country now. Why shouldn’t officials just help themselves to the graft and corrupt gains? There is nothing in place to stop them or hold them accountable. They’re laughing at us at this point.
He who cannot be named on the thread is laughing at us. And his buddy Karl is laughing so hard at us he is probably having an asthma attack.
Tax Analyst
I never noticed what a cute sneer that insane, maniacal fucking would-be tyrant actually has. Doesn’t it sort of just drool out “Unquenchable Malignant Avarice” at you?
Dreggas
TZ,
I was actually commenting on the womans house being burned down and her car totalled when she said she was giving the affidavit…
Rome Again
Where’s Woodstein and Bernward when you really need em?
I hope you don’t really think that’s going to change his answer. There is corruption in Anytown, USA, just as it always was. TZ’s right, the only difference is that you won’t hear about it on national television.
ThymeZone
I know.
Z
(cue music): Dum dum de-dum dum de-dum…
(cut to heavy breathing from Cheney photo):
“Tim… I am your father, Tim.
Join the Dark Side….”
Jake
Does this mean we can’t talk about this character?
“Waak, waak, waaak!”
ThymeZone
I’m a little too close for comfort to comment in detail about possible corruption in my precinct. Let’s just say, I really don’t want my car being run off the road.
But anyway, even our local paper and tv stations are clueless about these things. Their biggest “expose” in recent years involved things like govt employees making personal calls on their govt celphones. Wow, that is pretty earth-shaking. Meanwhile the big cheeses are helping themselves to graft and corruption and quids for quos and nobody is looking.
Little wonder that they do it on a big scale in Washington. They are trained out here in the hustings.
Dreggas
I didn’t expect it to change anyone’s answer, I guess there was one little nugget of non-cynicalness (is that a word) left in me and that just removed it.
ThymeZone
That picture of him looks just like a guy I used to work for.
The gentleman used to actually pick people up and throw them out the door when he fired them.
Quite dramatic and entertaining, really.
Rome Again
Yes, it is a protection racket, and it goes on everywhere. Anytown USA was every town, and national television was used in my post because if it ain’t national, it’s really not important to most people. Until it gets national attention, it’s merey whispers and nothing more.
Tax Analyst
See, Dick’s not like that at all. No, Dick would have a hired thug pick you up and throw you out the door…or maybe have you shipped off to Gitmo for a little renditioning.
I’ve worked for some rather strange characters myself over the years. The last one of those got himself murdered and I decided at that point that it would be better to endeavor to earn my living working for slightly more sane and less volatile boss-types and seek less hazardous places of employ.
ThymeZone
Me too. If I made you a complete list and really described some of these people ….. you’d think (a) I was crazy to have worked for them, and/or (b) I am exaggerating.
The former may be true, but the latter would not be necessary. They are bizarre enough without any exaggeration.
Chad N. Freude
Love the photo. Hannibal (having already risen) Sneering.
Tax Analyst
I believe you, man…I once worked for a guy who owned a TANK…and then at the next place I worked a close business associate of the boss owned a damned TANK. And that wasn’t the weirdest thing about either situation. Shit, at the last situation the boss hired two attorney’s to handle his Real Estate litigation…neither of whom had any background whatsoever in Real Estate Law…but one of them was a dead-ringer for Jay Leno (except a little paunchier) and the other guy looked just like Steve Martin…I kid you not.
DougJ
Did you see the Post had Emily Yoffe from Slate, a self-described “Math Moron” (per her own Slate piece), who does math at a 1st grade level (per the same piece), argue with Al Gore about global warming on the pages of the Washington Post opinion page?
We’re doomed. I’m learning Chinese and moving to Shanghai…maybe Rupert Murdoch will hire me.
DougJ
This got stuck in moderation last time, maybe I wrote my email wrong or is it the multiple links? I’ll take them out.
Did you see the Post had Emily Yoffe from Slate, a self-described “Math Moron” (per her own Slate piece), who does math at a 1st grade level (per the same piece), argue with Al Gore about global warming on the pages of the Washington Post opinion page?
We’re doomed. I’m learning Chinese and moving to Shanghai…maybe Rupert Murdoch will hire me.
It won’t let me put in links without moderation so just go to Daily Howler for them.
Rome Again
Patience is a virtue you don’t have DougJ. It’s okay, neither do I, although I have to admit, I am trying to learn it.
;)
DougJ
I have no interest in learning it. I hate patient people.
ThymeZone
Whe Doug goes the doctor, he expects the doc to immediately whack off whatever parts are not up to par. Cut the fuckers off and be done with it. Patience has no place in science, medicine, or anything else.
Right, Doug?
Heh.
That hand giving you some pain. (Thump). Gone! See the girl on the way out for your follow up appointment.
DougJ
To me, patient means waiting another six months to see how things are doing in Iraq.
Rome Again
Wrong, that’s insanity, because we’ve already waited almost 4 and a half years.
ThymeZone
Well, you go to war with the government you have, not the one you wish you had.
We will be lucky if we dont have a lot of people there, and dying, six years from now, much less six months.
Paul L.
This story reminds of a question I wanted to ask you “tolerant of all lifestyles” liberals.
Do you think it is wrong for a homosexual couple with children to forbid their children from dating someone that is the opposite sex? (I expect Rosie will) Or Black man with a white wife to forbid his daughter(s) to date white men?
HyperIon
why not just go to the source? these days one of the few things i enjoy about WaPo online is the comments section. page after page of readers pointing out the incredible stupidity of the op-ed they have just read. it is quite heartening…which cannot be said for much of the MSM. even if nobody at WaPo reads those comments, i come away reassured that common sense and the ability to analyze a text still exists beyond the beltway. now if we could just get some of those folks in positions of authoritah….
ThymeZone
Do you come from a culture where parents dictate with whom their children can socialize? I guess I thought you were an American, but now I see that you probably hail from Eastern Bumfuckia.
That explains a lot about you. Well, okay, not a lot, because you are so pathologically full of shit. But it does explain some things about you.
mrmobi
Don’t be mean, TZ. I’m originally from Eastern Bumfuckia myself, and people are very tolerant there.
Paul, however, appears to be very concerned about the miscege-foo-foo issue. I guess for people like Paul, life would be a lot easier if people would just stick with their own kind and not make their children wear bandoliers. Is that really Rosie’s kid, Paul? Very funny picture.
Delia
“The more you tighten your grip, Lord Vader, the more systems will slip through your fingers.”
Bombadil
Every time John Cole posts about Cheney or Bush, he should be required to add parenthetically, “the guys I voted for”.
And I mean for ever and always, not just until 1/20/09.
Tulkinghorn
I am expected to argue on behalf of a decision Rosie might make?
How about asking a question that actually has some sort of relevance or meaning rather than exercising your pathetic psychological projections? Why does it occur to you that any homosexual parents would be heterophobic?
The several gay couples I know all want their kids to be who they (the kids) are… gay, straight, or whatever. Only a sociopathic fool tries to mold children contrary to their fundamental personalities. That, of course, is standard operating procedure for cultural conservatives.
ThymeZone
America is all about the right of the people to be wrong, and then the right of the people to change their government.
So, John is off the hook with me.
Chad N. Freude
Paul L’s post reminds of a question I wanted to ask you “not-so-tolerant of all lifestyles” conservatives.
Do you think it is wrong for a heterosexual couple with children to forbid their children from dating someone that is the same sex? (I expect Rosie will) Or White man with a black wife to forbid his son(s) to date black women?
Chad N. Freude
In case I did not make my point clear enough, Paul L’s questions are of the philosophical school of “If you had a brother, would he like chicken soup?”
They are pointless; what does a yes or a no indicate? Answering “Yes, it would be wrong,” is not inconsistent with the view that the lifestyle, as opposed to the wishes of the parents, is to be tolerated. Parents do have the right to set down any dating rules they choose for their children, even if they are inconsistent with the parents’ philosophy. Oh, yes, and the questions are framed to demonstrate the presumed hypocrisy of those who hold “tolerant of all lifestyles” opinions rather than to open a real discussion.
This rhetorical gaming is intellectually dishonest. If Paul L has any arguments to present as to why people who profess the tolerance he derides, he should make them and not engage in this puerile game of Gotcha.
Rusty Shackleford
Anybody catch Ann Coulter on Hardball?
Absolutely outrageous. She’s “The War Whore”.
Coulter insists we found WMDs and that Saddam was working with Al Qaeda on 9/11. She attempts to re-write history on the fly.
And her fans behind her are a bunch of zipperheads.
Rusty Shackleford
Coulter spews absolute bullshit. She can’t answer a question directly or without attacking someone. And she redefines everything to lay the Hate Smackdown.
Rome Again
Because he’s:
* an idiot?
* a spoof?
* creating a jackaloupe?
Please vote now!
Tim F.
I think that if there exists a force on Earth which could turn a gay kid straight, that is it.
Rome Again
which, of course, means PaulL should fully support it. ;)
Undeniable Liberal
EVERY woman wants Fred thompson because he Smells Like Teen Spirit. Rock on, Freddy!!
Undeniable Liberal
EVERY woman wants Fred Thompson because he Smells Like Teen Spirit. Rock on, Freddy!!
DougJ
Paul L isn’t a suspicious name at all, is it?
Bob In Pacifica
There were five-foot tall penguins with spear-like beaks in Peru 36 million years ago.
Really.
DougJ
James Dobson devotes an entire chapter to this technique in his first book.
jake
PauleLL’s can’t seem to meet any nice young ladies. Well, he meets them but after a few minutes they run away. Even the ones that you have to inflate.
Clearly he’s not doing anything wrong so there must be hordes of gay couples out there, and they don’t let their daughters date men. So I guess that makes him an idiot. A very lonely idiot.
jake
Since this is an open thread:
Bye, bye Tony. (B not S).
Paul L.
Jake didn’t the wife of John Edwards just berate Ann Coulter “her to stop lowering the bar with personal attacks in our country’s political debate.”
But I guess it is ok for you to make personal attacks. Unlike John Edwards, I can take it.
Jake
Once PaulEll explains WTF Mrs. Edwards has to do with anything, including his original question, we’ll be ready to start the next jackalope hunt.
In the meantime, I stand by my original thesis.
Jake
Once PaulEll explains WTF Mrs. Edwards has to do with anything, including his original question, we’ll be ready to start the next jackalope hunt.
In the meantime, I stand by my original hypothesis.
Chad N. Freude
It’s kind of exciting to learn that Jake’s personal attack comments are equal to Ann Coulter’s in our country’s political debate. (I guess Jake gets really good press coverage.) And that calling Paul L an idiot is equivalent to “I’ll just wish he [Edwards] had been killed in a terrorist assassination plot.” And that “Unlike John Edwards, I can take it” is not a personal attack.
BTW, Jake, I thought the post that precipitated this Pee Wee Herman exchange was really unworthy of you. (That’s not a personal attack, rather a critical judgment.)