@ArarMaher @tomgara Isn't there some kind of "international norm" against inflicting videos like that on helpless civilians?
— billmon (@billmon1) September 8, 2013
Raw Story describes the video:
Tea party-backed Representatives Michele Bachmann (R-MN), Louie Gohmert (R-TX) and Steve King (R-IA) on Saturday held a press conference in Egypt to thank the country’s military for overthrowing the elected government, and at one point even seemed to suggest that the Muslim Brotherhood had been behind the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks in the United States.
“Together, we’ve gone through suffering. Together, the United States and Egypt, have dealt with the same enemy,” Bachmann explained. “It’s a common enemy, and it’s an enemy called terrorism.”
“We want to make sure that you have the Apache helicopters, the F-16s, the equipment that you have so bravely used to capture terrorists and to take care of this menace that’s on your border,” she continued. “Many of you have asked, do we understand who the enemy is? We can speak for ourselves. We do.”…
During Saturday’s press conference, Gohmert praised Egyptian coup-leader General Abdel Fatah el-Sissi by comparing him to U.S. President George Washington.
“We met with for a long meeting General el-Sissi and many of the military leaders, and my friend Steve King mentioned again about our heritage in America,” he explained. “George Washington, doing what no one had ever done before him, led a military in revolution, won the revolution, and then resigned and went home.”….
billgerat
No face palm big enough.
trollhattan
Holy crap, so much stupid concentrated into such a small area.
Were there any survivors?
Sorry, Egypt.
–America
Lady Bug
Glass half-full: at least they’re not standing behind (at least not not literally) Assad and comparing him the Lincoln? Um, yeah, I got nothing.
kdaug
Can Egypt just keep them? A mix-up at the airport, perhaps?
RaflW
I am once again deeply chagrined to be from Minnesota (though very thankful to live in Minneapolis and not in whackaloon Bachmann’s actual district).
I wish these three morans could be as much of a danger to themselves as they are to democracy.
Omnes Omnibus
Those three have passports?
Baud
Gohmert is burnishing his foreign policy cred for 2016.
Redshirt
I thought Bachman was gone, sent back to the dark void from which she sprang. And yet I see before me, she lives! Lives to Represent real ‘Muricans.
JordanRules
I can’t.
Anthony
Quick, while it’s still legal. drone ’em!
SiubhanDuinne
“…and was never heard from again.”
Baud
I’m going to look at glass as half full.
All indications are that these three actually went to the correct country.
Kudos to them.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne:
Whatever happened to that guy.
One hit wonder, indeed.
Hawes
http://blog.littlebigfund.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/facepalm-wallpaper.jpg
That kinda is the only response possible.
IowaOldLady
Oh. My. God.
That right there is the black hole of stupid.
I sat here with my hand over my mouth in horror as Gomert approached the mic.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
Right. Because when I think of George Washington, I think, “Oh yeah, he’s the dude who resigned and went home.”
Hawes
Larry, Moe, and Girly go to Egypt.
beltane
@kdaug: They deserve to remain on the luggage carousel at the Cairo airport for all perpetuity.
jl
@SiubhanDuinne: I’m sure the Egyptian military took notes on how our founders did things and will try to do exactly what they did. I mean, Gohmert and King lectured them on it!
The Moar You Know
Arrest them on return. They have no legal authority to do this and as far as I’m concerned their actions are flat-out treason.
Baud
@jl:
Powdered wigs it is!
beltane
Looking at these three clowns fills me with the sickening thought that Sarah Palin is statesmanlike in comparison.
Lady Bug
@Baud:
breeches, don’t forget the breeches!
Anne Laurie
@SiubhanDuinne: Yeah, not only did George Washington go on to have a pretty nice political career, the people who voted for him explictly compared him to a previous exemplar of term limits, calling him “the American Cincinnatus“. So even if Louie understood why historians were praising Washington, he’d still have been wrong about the “never before in history” stuff!
burnspbesq
@The Moar You Know:
As bad as it is, I’m curious to hear how this adds up to “levying war against the United States” or “giving aid and comfort to its enemies.”
Lady Bug
@beltane:
Please, she probably just doesn’t have a passport ;)
Belafon
I’m pretty sure Green Day would have forgiven you for stopping the title at “American Idiots.”
burnspbesq
By Wednesday, this will be completely forgotten, and the only American the average Egyptian will care about is Bob Bradley.
Liquid
Since when are Apaches and F-16s used to ‘capture’ anything?
Wait, we give them fucking Apaches?!
jl
@Baud:
It could have been worse, I guess. In the still pic of the video, Gohmert looks a little bit like Assad, and for a sec I thought, OMG what!?
But I’m sure it will work out just as the three goofballs want. El-Sissi will resign and go home, that bad Muslim Brotherhood is all gone now, and.. poof… Egypt will turn into Main Street USA on the Nile. How could the combined wisdom of Bachmann, Gohmert and King go wrong?
muddy
@Lady Bug: Once more into our breeches, boys!
burnspbesq
@efgoldman:
TSA only controls who gets on airplanes, not who gets off. Talk to ICE.
kdaug
The laws of physics should demand that this mass concentration of stupidity collapses in upon itself.
But then you’d have a stupid-hole.
Don’t think stupid-holes are probably a good idea. Thanks, physics.
Ash Can
I can only hope that the Egyptian government/military officials know enough to ignore these cretins and not assume that anything they say is indicative of any actual policies on the part of the US toward Egypt.
jl
BTW, anyone know what the Egyptian announcer was saying?
In the last part of the clip, it looked like he was trying to ‘explain’ these three to the Egyptian audience in a polite and delicate fashion.
But maybe he was spouting military propaganda and trying to pass these three off as something other than impaired lunatics.
I have no idea.
Redshirt
How much did their trip cost US, the Taxpayers? It’s ARE money!!!
Belafon
@burnspbesq: Where’s the NSA’s wiretapping when we need it? Then again, trying to decipher Bachmann probably took the computing power of all of the Cybermen.
Anne Laurie
@The Moar You Know: If President Obama were the Tyrant-Dictator they imagine him to be, he could probably bust them under the Logan Act. (Which I think is a bad law, but it’s been in use since 1799, so precedent is against me.) And if we had a functional media in this country, somebody might point out that the Three Stooges should demand to be tried for
treasona felony, because AMURKA! ! !(Edited, for Burnspbesq)
LeftCoastTom
@burnspbesq:
I am, too, because I never considered Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert to be our enemies.
Baud
@jl:
“This is what happens when you elect leaders democratically. Praise be to our military leaders.”
burnspbesq
Is exporting weapons-grade stupid without a license a crime? Cuz those three are GUILCUP!!!
Anne Laurie
@Belafon: I wanted to hat-tip Mr. Twain, but there are no more innocent Americans.
SiubhanDuinne
@Hawes: Heh.
Belafon
@Anne Laurie: Interesting: Link clicking in wikipedia led to the Quasi-war between France and the US. Interesting little tidbit: The US stopped paying its American Revolution debts to France after the French Revolution under the pretext that the debts were owed to the French crown. We’ve been con artists since the beginning.
Churchlady
@Anne Laurie: The Logan Act has existed since 1799. No one has ever been prosecuted under it.
The Dangerman
Maybe we are preparing to send poisonous gasbags to Syria?
MomSense
@trollhattan:
OMG that is the trifecta of stupid.
Lady Bug
@The Dangerman:
How about sending an entire delegation of Teabaggers / emoprogs to Damascus, lock them in a house with Assad and watch the orgy/bloodshed/bitchfest unfold? Downside, the U.S. could probably face international censure for subjecting Assad to such cruel and unusual punishment.
Shakezula
Yes I’m sure they thought the Egyptian people would accept their version of Washington’s biography. I mean, it isn’t like those dumb Muslins have any means of finding out, amirite?
Yatsuno
@The Dangerman:
Seems like our gas drift approach isn’t working.
Cacti
American (and European) idiots in the Middle East:
Aside from the general merits of being a “human shield,” these folks are not staking out hospitals, orphanages, schools, etc.
They want to sacrifice themselves for the Syrian war machine.
Facepalm.
The Moar You Know
@Baud: I almost popped a rib on that one. So much win.
Burnsie, get with the program. You’re a lawyer, I’ve been dealing with your profession as a forensic consultant for five years. You (not you personally) make shit up and pull a bunch of horseshit out of your asses all the time. Don’t tell me how this can’t be done. File the charges and then pile the bullshit on thick, high and hard like all the rest of your fellow counselors do. I know you can make this happen.
Yatsuno
@The Moar You Know: A prosecutor, if so inclined, could indict a ham sandwich for murder. But could you imagine the wingnut outrage if Holder tried this? They’d skip impeachment and go straight to lynching both him and Obama.
PhoenixRising
They made a video of this spectacular stupidity? I thought my friends’ teenagers were dumb, posting their drinking on Instragram. What part of ‘don’t document the atrocities’ was too complicated?
Belafon
@Shakezula: Well, none of their constituents can obviously get to Washington’s true biography. Why would they expect brown skinned people to?
scav
@Yatsuno: Zactly. Some executives are more unitary than others. Stands to reason.
SiubhanDuinne
I’ve been getting a bit tired of Charlie Pierce recently, but I can’t wait to see what he has to say tomorrow about this Trio of Fail.
Chris
That just sent me back to Ronald Reagan calling the harbor-mining, nun-murdering, drug-dealing ex-state-security thugs of the Contras “the spiritual equivalent to our Founding Fathers.”
Southern Beale
Didn’t some liberals — not even Congress Critters, just Sean Penn-types — do something similar before Iraq? Wasn’t there a huge national outcry about being un-American and un-Patriotic and emboldening the enemy?
Anyway, just trying to imagine how this would turn out if some Dem reps DID do something similar. It would be a national scandal.
IOKIYAR
MomSense
@jl:
Ok, he is talking very quickly and I am sloooooow but he was sort of recapping what they said and explaining how our Congress is similar to the Egyptian Parliament. I’ll have to watch a few times to hear more.
Egyptian Arabic is beautiful.
Belafon
@Cacti: I wonder if they realize that military commanders won’t bother thinking about them if the president gives the order to strike. And I wonder if these people threw a fit when Obama killed what’s-his-name in Yemen? If they did, I wonder if they thought about that?
MattF
And therefore, the Stooges were wise and distinguished exemplars of American culture. QED. And so to bed.
jl
@MomSense: Thanks.
I suppose there are total clowns in the Egyptian Parliament too, so maybe that was his delicate way of explaining these American dignitaries and their quaint ways.
But if you decipher more, let us know, please.
I wonder what channel he was on.
Lady Bug
@Cacti:
Double facepalm. They’re “anti-war” so they will potentially risk their lives defending weapons of war, which have already caused death of a massive scale. Yup, that sounds logical.
Now, if our glorious trio wants to join them… ;)
Mark S.
That might be the three stupidest people we have in
Congressthe country.Mike in NC
Can we keep these three lunatics from reentering US airspace?
Yatsuno
@MomSense:
It is certainly highly regarded as such in the Arabic-speaking world. Stands to reason as Egypt has been the intellectual centre of both Islam and the Middle East for centuries.
mk3872
Next time libs insist the US president must go through our own Congress before engaging in war actions against a country, must first be forced to watch this video and remember that these are the people you are asking to now make that decision & vote.
Felonius Monk
Those 3 look very familiar. I think the guy at the microphones is the recent winner of AMERICAN IDIOT, the guy on the left is the KING of IDIOTS, and the woman on the right is An IDIOT ABROAD.
mdblanche
Gohmert has been a busy little asparagus-brain.
p.a.
@SiubhanDuinne: and The Daily Show and Colbert. Or is this the point where satire becomes impossible. Peak Wingnut? The Singularity of Stupid?
MomSense
@jl:
Ok, so he is reporting that trio estupido’s message is that America has no interest in seeing a radicalized Egypt and that what happened was not a coup but a continuation of the revolution. 30 million Egyptians took to the streets to continue the revolution that began in Tahrir Sq. He tries to finesse the comparison between al queda and the muslim brotherhood as one of radicals. He is also saying that those three brought a message that America is not Obama and Obama is not America. I think that is the context in which he describes our Congress as like Parliament and that the decision is not Obama’s alone.
I don’t recognize that station.
mdblanche
@SiubhanDuinne: Unlike a certain Egyptian general, Washington’s career in politics involved winning elections and saying no to military coups.
srv
Michelle is fighting for freedom against the MB and its’ representative in the US:
mainmati
As someone who has lived and worked in Egypt, a) there are a lot of sophisticated Egyptian Americans and European educated Egyptians who, if they even watched this at all (wholly unlikely) will find this simply hilarious and b) the 99.9% of other Egyptians will know nothing whatsoever about this predictable clown car circus nor would they understand it even in translation I almost thought this was an Onion piece since it features the three most ridiculous members of the HOR (R) caucus. But I guess nothing is post-modern ironic anymore.
Gravenstone
All hail the moron chorus. And sadly, there will be those abroad who think these cretins should be taken seriously because they are elected members of our government.
/facepalm
Yatsuno
@mainmati: The Onion needs to get more outrageous. The wingnuts keep making reality even crazier.
mdblanche
@mk3872: These people really are a walking advertisement for the Imperial Presidency.
John Revolta
What I love is, this lot are praising the military overthrow of a government that was 1) democratically elected, something they claim to revere; and 2) a theocracy, something they’d love to have even more.
So much stupid! My toes are tingly.
evil is evil
They aren’t the only brain dead walking talking zombie Americans.
Some geniuses in Iowa are granting permits to acquire or carry guns in public to people who are legally or completely blind.
bcinaz
Jaw.Dropping.Stoopid
Chris
@John Revolta:
But, but, they democratically elected someone Fox News didn’t approve of!
You can’t do that!
But, but, it’s a theocracy for someone else’s religion!
You can’t do that!
MomSense
@MomSense:
I think he was portraying Bachman/King/Gohmert as being representative of the opinion of Congress as a whole as if Congress were of one mind about how they view the recent events in Egypt.
I should remind people that I have had a few drinks and very, very, very rusty. You may want to read a real translation!
Mike G
Put a moustache on Louie and he’s the spitting image of Hafez Assad.
Does Bachmann Nutbag Overboard think she’s doing a commercial for hearing aids? Or does she always talk s-l-o-w-l-y so her mouth-breather fanbase can understand?
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
Their audience is seemingly readers of the Washington Post comment section, if the comments on Max Fisher’s piece there is anything to go by.
Sheesh. :-(
Cheers,
Scott.
Fort Geek
I wonder if they could be encouraged to join the “human shields” nonsense a bunch of peace activists are planning in Syria.
gnomedad
The Tea Stooges.
Liquid
@gnomedad: I appreciate your sense of humor! Unfortunately, you have violated any number of rules. Thus you shall be executed at our earliest possible convenience.
Glocksman
@Baud:
They really were supposed to go visit an Army Corps of Engineers lockstation on the Ohio River near Cairo, Illinois, but boarded the wrong flight.
Michele was heard to remark ‘Cairo, Illinois or Cairo Egypt. Same thing to me’.
Liquid
@Glocksman: You should receive some token of merit for remembering that Michele’s with ONE L!
jl
@MomSense: Thanks very much, and I appreciate your cautions about being rusty.
“I have had a few drinks”
That is understandable.
I guess if there is fallout from this, we will know about how this was presented and received in Egypt.
MomSense
Haaretz is reporting that Iran and Russia are trying to negotiate Assad stepping down.
Interesting.
jl
@gnomedad:
“The Tea Stooges.”
Thanks very much. That will become a standard catchphrase. You need to copyright it, immediately.
jl
@MomSense:
” Haaretz is reporting that Iran and Russia are trying to negotiate Assad stepping down.
Interesting. ”
Now that we know Assad has a future as a Gohmert impersonator at children’s and bachelor parties… or VEGAS(!), he’ll have an income. Something might come of it.
Omnes Omnibus
@MomSense: Christ, that would be the best possible thing that could come of this.
MomSense
http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/.premium-1.545890
Not sure if you can access this or not but at least you can see the headline.
MikeJ
@MomSense: That’s certainly a good reason to propose strikes. If you can get him to step down without firing a shot, it seems like the best possible outcome.
Ted & Hellen
I just assumed this group of cretins was Obama’s second deputized set of douche bag Republican wartards sent as his representatives to the ME, McCain and Miss Linds having been the first.
AxelFoley
So, to paraphrase Jay Z and Kanye: “Crackas in Cairo”?
MomSense
@jl:
This has been good for me. I have neglected the languages I studied and used to speak for too long.
Citizen_X
Israel?
phoebes-in-santa fe
Who is paying for this trip? The US taxpayers? Or a “private” group? If so, I’d sure like to learn the name of the group.
AxelFoley
@Ted & Hellen:
Well, there you go. You know what happens when you ASSume, right?
srv
But did Michelle get to hug Hosni?
Lady Bug
@jl:
No snark, I’m seriously praying for this to happen.
LOL, I meant to quote momsense, but your post would work as well.
Liquid
typing by firelight . Anyone here have a laptop/netbook with a-um-er-eh-backlit keyboard?
Mark S.
@Citizen_X:
I was wondering what the fuck Bachmann meant by that, but feared falling into a bottomless pit of lunacy if I tried to figure it out.
MomSense
@Lady Bug:
I’m praying, too!!!
Anoniminous
@Baud:
And the Saints won.
TWOFER!
Anoniminous
@Liquid:
Nah. They are still here.
scav
@Liquid: You mean the 777 flight deck that suddenly appears attached to my flat box at odd moments?
sm*t cl*de
“George Washington, doing what no one had ever done before him, led a military in revolution”
Sounds like the purpose behind the entire trip was to send messages back to the US, about what they would like to happen there.
MomSense
@Citizen_X:
I know!! That was a WTF moment for sure.
Omnes Omnibus
@MomSense: Just accept that the three are crazy, stupid, and evil. The rest is commentary.
jl
@Lady Bug: Sorry. I hope the report is correct and something does come of it.
A Humble Lurker
@Ted & Hellen:
In which case, it would be brilliant; got them the fuck away from us for a few weeks like it did Graham and McCain.
scav
So, the US Military predated the United States so that its General, one GW, could lead the revolution in the world’s first military insurrection (ignore the later Roman Empire and, oh, forget it), immediately resign (following an example from an early stage of a state I’ve just retconned) to his retirement hobby of Presidenting and totally not growing hemp? Must be that Obama’s fault for all that messing with the timelines.
Yatsuno
@scav:
Well…
Omnes Omnibus
@Yatsuno: Ahem.
Warren Terra
A delegation consisting of Bachmann, King, and Gohmert? That level of concentrated stupidity is kind of awesome in its way.
Omnes Omnibus
@Warren Terra:
Now that’s law firm that would rely on dropbox.
scav
@Yatsuno: we wanna play technicalities, would they have just been anything but ragtag flashmob of innsurrectionsts if the nation or even protonation hadn’t started them? Bit of a chickenhawk and grenegg problem here. :)
Omnes Omnibus
@scav: The army at least came out of the individual colonial forces and thus did exist as an organized force prior to the Continental Congress okaying an army.
Botsplainer
OT – I love it when I rent stuff and IT DOESN’T WORK!!!
Goddamn Rug Doctor won’t apply the solution – the pump runs, but nothing is coming out. I’m busy as shit tomorrow, wife coming home tomorrow night, and the store won’t be open till 7 am, when I’m getting ready to work. And if I don’t get the puppy housebreaking funk out of the carpet by the time she walks through the door, she is going to screech like a deranged banshee.
Fuckers!
srv
This is simply the greatest headline in modern American history:
Omnes Omnibus
@Botsplainer: Blockage in the solution tube?
scav
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s true, but we’re still not talking what happened in Egypt. (and the colonies similarly existed and cooperated prior to the Articles etc. but we don’t really argue that the US predated the US, although why not, with all the Tardis travel).
Omnes Omnibus
@srv: For it to be effective, they would need a special permit to carry automatic weapons.
max
@Botsplainer: Goddamn Rug Doctor won’t apply the solution – the pump runs, but nothing is coming out.
If I remember the Rug Doctor days correctly, the most likely problem is that you didn’t get the seal closed properly, so it don’t wanna spew.
max
[‘That used to happen on occasion. Unfortunately, I don’t remember what the fix was, except rereading the directions nine times.’]
Anya
@jl: In a nutshell he’s presenting the three clowns as representatives and spokes persons of the US Congress as a whole. He emphasized that Obama is not America and America is not Obama. He also mentioned that the three clowns equated terrorism with Muslim Brotherhood. He sounded kinda supportive and a bit giddy about their supposed support of the egyptian people.
I would like to publicly apologize to my dad for subjecting him to listen to this craziness so that he can interpret it for me.
MikeJ
@srv: Ever listen to David Sedaris read his essay “6 to 8 Black Men?” It’s about christmas in the Netherlands, but that’s beside the point. At one point he’s talking about two states that issue hunting licenses to blind people.
Ahh, here.
fka AWS
Holy Shit. that’s all I got.
Botsplainer
@Omnes Omnibus:
Disconnected and reconnected the solution tube a half dozen times, and tested the button each time – the brass fitting clicks shut every time, and I can visualize no gaps.
I’m guessing there’s a big blockage. If it was mine, I’d take the damn thing apart and find the jam.
Omnes Omnibus
@Botsplainer: Years ago, I had a summer job working for Stanley Steamer. Carpets can be nasty things. What’s in and around a rental machine…. Ew.
Yatsuno
@scav: Well the Marines were created out of a specific need of the Continental Congress to ward off piracy and such. One could argue they were more organised than the Continental Army based on that original request. But I’ll let the historians fight that out. All I know is the Navy wasn’t formally organised until after the Constitution was signed.
Suffern ACE
@phoebes-in-santa fe: just a guess? Friends of the Egyptian regime who sell them arms…sorry I mean, give aid to the people of Egypt.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yatsuno: Nice try. June 14 is earlier than November whatever. The Marines have pretty uniforms and are very good at what they do (amphibious assault and short term close combat), but they are not the senior service.
Yatsuno
@Omnes Omnibus: November 10th. You soak these things in if you’re around them too much. :P
scav
@Yatsuno: Totally chicken eggy thing during a revolution like ours, and then they can argue about which event really founded the nation: twinkle, twinkle-back, pushy sperm meets egg or viable birth. Still isn’t existing national army deciding whether or not it likes the president which was the taproot of my grump.
Eta. and I totally didn’t mean to provoke an inter-force temporal war. . . . . oh, why not, it’s late. WHO HAD THE FIRST FOOTBALL TEAM?
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Botsplainer: are you sure Glenn Greenwald isn’t in the area?
Omnes Omnibus
@scav: Stauffenberg, et al., tried it several times in the 40s.
sb
Not gonna click. Nope. Not gonna happen.
Omnes Omnibus
@scav: Association, Rugby (Union or League?), American, or Aussie Rules?
scav
@Omnes Omnibus: Football? Army or Navy? 1740s would be pushing that egg even further back . . .
ETA whichever fuel ignites the most fireworks, although finding out the Marines actually play Australian Rules would actually rather make sense.
Frankensteinbeck
@John Revolta:
Their definition of democracy involves only people just like them voting. Thus their anger about ‘voter fraud’.
They are not in favor of theocracy. They want their religion to be the only religion, so that there’s no need for one. Right now they’ve decided to pretend that’s true, which merely looks kinda like theocracy.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
If anyone is bored late on a Sunday night and would be willing to check and see if a YouTube upload I did works, here it is:
http://youtu.be/gWKFcDTWmTk
It probably doesn’t make much sense without the accompanying essay, but this is a technical check. I would be especially interested to hear from our friends overseas since YouTube can be wonky. TIA!
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Works in Wisconsin which some might consider foreign if not technically overseas.
piratedan
sigh, finally won enough to get qualified as a line jumper on NBC’s new game show….. now all I need is lightening to strike
MikeJ
@Omnes Omnibus:
Aston Villa’s first game was played with rugby rules for the first half and association football rules for the second.
Omnes Omnibus
@MikeJ: What year?
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): worked on my iPad, opened in the YouTube app.
MikeJ
@Omnes Omnibus: 1874
Suffern ACE
Honestly, el-Sissi reminds me more of Gouverneur Morris than Washinton. The parallels are eerie, actually.
Yatsuno
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Video works fine, but audio seems quiet. Now I have both a fan and a dryer going, so could just be YMMV.
Omnes Omnibus
@MikeJ: Interesting. A half of a ruffians’ game played by gentlemen and a half of a gentlemen’s game played by ruffians. Did they sub out at half time?
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Omnes Omnibus:
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
Thank you!
@Yatsuno:
Unfortunately, the source material is a little on the low side, so I may be stuck. TCM’s not always good with audio restoration.
MikeJ
@Omnes Omnibus: Wikipedia didn’t mention it.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): New blog thing? As far as pre-Code goes, while watching Metropolis the other night, I noticed diaphanous garments that left the female form rather obvious.
PIGL
@Citizen_X: Sudan: a dagger pointed at the Heart of Uganda
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Omnes Omnibus: I got to see Blackheath RFC play a few times when I was in England. Those games were fantastic to go to. You could drink a beer from a real pint glass while standing on the sideline watching the play, or from a deck behind one of the end lines.
max
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): It probably doesn’t make much sense without the accompanying essay, but this is a technical check.
Works fine on the usual suspects on Win7 (Chrome, Firefox, IE, Opera) and works fine on Chrome/Youtube App on Android (albeit cyanogenmod android).
max
[‘I expect it works fine everywhere as long as the assorted restriction flags aren’t set.’]
Yatsuno
@PIGL: WILL NO ONE THINK OF THE CHILLREN??
@Mnemosyne (iPhone): Again, please don’t take my word as gospel here. I have a bunch of noisy things going on around me right now. So could just be my personal situation.
Yatsuno
I present…John Barrowman being John Barrowman.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Omnes Omnibus:
Yep — I’ve been plugging away getting it set up this weekend and I’m hoping to have my first real post later this week. Linky in my name now.
I’m going to start off slow and not push people straight to, say, Jane’s nude swim in “Tarzan and His Mate,” but it’s out there. And I’ve definitely realized that many of these films are going to require a Lingerie Count — “Love Me Tonight” alone came up with at least two separate excuses to show Jeanette MacDonald in her skivvies.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Yatsuno: The audio was a bit low on my iPad as well.
Amir Khalid
@srv:
I have to agree with the quote from Stevie Wonder about the wisdom of letting blind people carry guns.
Omnes Omnibus
@The prophet Nostradumbass: I loved playing the game. I am not usually a team sport person; My other sports been skiing, fencing, cross country and track, rock climbing, and now getting into cycling. But rugby was fantastic. I was always in such a good mood off the pitch during rugby season, any anger and aggression had been worked out in practices and games. Plus, ruggers are weird, and weird people are fun to be among.
ETA: When I lived in London, I was friends with, and thus a supporter, of Richmond RFC – back when everyone was amateur.
piratedan
@Yatsuno: I believe on the 14th, BBC America will be replaying the last season of Torchwood: Miracle Day
Yatsuno
@piratedan: I have never seen it, so I might go about changing that this weekend.
piratedan
@Yatsuno: not nearly as English centric as the previous three series, depending upon your POV, that can be good or bad, but the production values are up since it was done in conjunction with the Starz network and they threw a bit of cash at it. So location shots galore.
taylormattd
So is this the thing now?
“Liberals” are supposed condemn the removal of the Muslim Brotherhood’s Morsi?
We are supposed make sure to completely and utterly ignore the millions that protested Morsi, and instead pretend it was nothing more than a “military” overthrow of “the elected government”?
Raw Story can go fuck itself.
I have no doubt that Bachmann and Gomert were completely fucking nuts, but that shit is just beyond the pale.
piratedan
@taylormattd: I’m sure it’s simply another application of “Cleek’s law” – Conservatives are against whatever Liberals support, updated daily.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Omnes Omnibus: when I saw Blackheath RFC, I guess they were “amateur” as well, this was back in 1990.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@taylormattd: How’s the Wreck List going? When I see you pop here, or Moody on Facebook, it reminds me of the game.
Omnes Omnibus
@The prophet Nostradumbass: Yep, the Union game went “open” in 1995. Prior to that for a while, “amateur” players had sponsors; you know, like the amateurs in track.
For me though, the best of the sport is still at the amateur level. If one wants to be a pro, one should play League.
PIGL
@Liquid: can you even get those? because that would be real handy
PIGL
@taylormattd: except that it was a military overthrow of the elected government. next time a few million people are in the streets of the USA (like that would ever happen), you’d be fine with a coup, I suppose, just ’cause. If not, why not?
The prophet Nostradumbass
@PIGL: taylormattd seems to usually be a drive-by commenter. I suspect he drops in a comment when he’s waiting for a WoW raid to start.
fuckwit
What a bunch of stupid motherfuckers.
fuckwit
@Omnes Omnibus: Ummm. Metropolis was German IIRC. I don’t think they ever had a Hayes code there. Or a Breen Office.
Best description I’ve ever heard of the Breen Office: Jews imposing Catholic morality upon Protestant Americans.
raven
Yikes.
JPL
Admittedly, I didn’t watch the entire thing but Boehner needs to bring them before Congress and sanction the three assholes. When Bachmann answered the question about the Obama administration supporting the Muslim Brotherhood, it was treasonous. I’m sure MSM will be reporting on the anti-patriotic group soon.
SiubhanDuinne
Just watched the video (couldn’t bring myself to hit the play button last night) and apart from all the Stupid being spewed, what struck me most was Michele Bachmann’s facial language. She blinks almost nonstop, and when she doesn’t have the mic she mugs, grimaces, purses her lips, grins, shifts from gazing adoringly at the speaker to staring (well, blinking) at the audience to dropping her head and looking down, and generally wiggles around and makes herself the centre of attention no matter who’s talking. It would be annoying enough, but understandable, in a hyperactive child. In a 57-year-old woman, it is pathetic and infuriating. And it tells me that she is absolutely going to run for President in 2016. She can’t stand being on the sidelines.
Patricia Kayden
@MomSense: Now that would be great – unless someone scarier takes over Syria.
HeartlandLiberal
@Baud:
Baud posts, and SCORES! Comment of the day.
JPL
After she retires, Bachmann can do an around the world tour with Dennis Rodman.
debbie
@JPL:
Every dictator needs an BFF.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Mnemosyne (iPhone):
Works for me.
mm
Remember this? Hypocrites. But IOKIYAR.
Nancy Pelosi’s Syria Visit Sparks Criticism For Bungled Shuttle Diplomacy
Published April 05, 2007
FoxNews.com
MomSense
@SiubhanDuinne:
I was wondering if she was either trying to suppress a yawn or a laugh at Gohmert but you are probably right.
Ben Cisco
@gnomedad: The Tea Stooges Go To Egypt | My Ready Room
(via Anne Laurie at Balloon Juice)
(h/t to gnomedad for inspiring the thread title)
So you ask yourself, “How in the world could the situation in Egypt become any more of a clusterf*ck?” BEHOLD…
danielx
Larry, Curley and Moe?
Larry, Darryl and Darryl?
The Three Furies? (nope, can’t be, they were female)
Three for backpfeifengesicht? Oh yes.
taylormattd
@PIGL: You obviously have zero idea about what happened in Egypt. But please by all means, keep fuckin’ that chicken.
JGabriel
I’m surprised by Michelle Bachman’s participation. Shouldn’t Bachman be spending more time with her lawyers?
Another Holocene Human
Wow, it’s the goober brigade!
Another Holocene Human
@JGabriel: “Michelle Bachmann (Idiot-Darkest Minnesooooda) has retired from the US Congress in order to spend more time with her lawyers.”
Another Holocene Human
The US Chamber of Commerce head is in Egypt?!
Egyptians, hold onto your wallets!
Another Holocene Human
“In an extraordinary journey, three American MC’s from some of the country’s most remote tribal areas traveled to the Egyptian capital of Cairo…”
Another Holocene Human
Wow, Gohmert looked annoyed/bored during the uppity woman’s remarks and he doesn’t disappoint… wtf is up with his demented 2nd grade US history lesson. God, this man is stupid.
Steve King is a much more smooth politician than either of them but he clearly is having a freakout about muuuuuslims. Goober.
Another Holocene Human
@taylormattd: The millions may have been right (IMO) but that doesn’t mean the military was right in what they did.
There have been a lot of bullshit reports so it’s not clear to me at this moment in history how much each side was responsible for the violence that followed, but I think the military killing people holed up in mosques was really ugly.
Also, lots of ties between MB and leftist groups for a lot of reasons (like CoC’s cosy relationship with their opposite #)… of course, you may have noticed that determined US leftists tend to be male, thanks to giant blind spots like how MB treats women.
Another Holocene Human
@fuckwit: Ha ha, I never knew who the “Breen” on TNG were named after, that’s awesome. http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/Breen
It wasn’t the Code, but individual states and cities in the US practiced pretty strict censorship on foreign films during that era. Some films were banned altogether and other were sliced up (this continued in some places through the 1970s). GLBT content was particularly the subject of censorship, but anything sexual might get cut.
Boston was famous for its censorship, but New York was pretty strident (and influential) in the early 20th. Florida was still censoring US films in the 70s, maybe later.
The rise of VHS and HBO kind of took the wind out of the sails of the film censors. Aaaaand PG-13 got to be so important financially that they don’t make as much “adult content” as they used to anyway.
ETA: Boston, of course, was banning stage plays as well during the heyday of the Watch and Ward Society. The “Children’s Hour” was a hit on Broadway, despite being about as exciting as Picard lecturing aliens of the week for an hour (two part special!), on the strength of “Banned In Boston” on the marquee. There was even a movie.
Another Holocene Human
@Anoniminous: FUCK YEAH! I saw that shirt again about a week ago. Love it.
Ecks
@Lady Bug: once more unto the breaches dear friends.
ottercliff
@Redshirt: Somebody please let her in on the fact that there is no such word as “terists”.