Time for another C2 Preview, guys. This idea was inspired by Throbert McGee, though we'd been toying with something like this for a while.
We're planning to provide a place for C2 members (and possibly even non-members) to submit guest contributions for publication, approximately whenever one comes across The Big Desk of Bare that we'd like to toss out for conversation. All pieces submitted and accepted will be published with the understanding, made clear in a statement on the site, that the views of the writer aren't necessarily the same as ours - but we're hoping for some good debate fodder.
This won't be limited to political editorial writing - really, the sky's the limit. It could be satire, for example. Let your imaginations run a little wild while we're waiting for the new C2 to open, and we'll let you know how to submit something to The Guest Room once we're inside.
And now, as always, talk amongst yourselves.
First
ReplyDeleteDo I qualify for a prize yet?
ReplyDeleteWatch out for the first step, it's a doozy.
ReplyDeleteThe Nobel First prize.
ReplyDeleteBoatguy
ReplyDeleteYou get to buy this round!
;-)
Hey JCM. I came in from street level. No stairs that way
ReplyDeleteHappy meals come with prizes too.
ReplyDeleteI'd like to post a LOL irrevent jokey piece that, basically, has Obama winning the Nobel Peace Prize......wait....
ReplyDeletewhat a GREAT idea! (for those times when I just can't keep my mouth shut)
ReplyDeleteWhat are you having. On me barkeep.
ReplyDeleteI like the graphic. Very Magritte.
ReplyDeleteMagritte?
ReplyDeleteIt could be satire, for example
ReplyDeleteWhere have you gone, buzzsawmonkey-o?
Our blog, it turns its lonely eyes to you
Woo woo woo
John Wayne plays a rough, tough surrealist painter in True Magritte.
ReplyDeleteOh, famous Belgian painter. From google images I would agree.
ReplyDeleteJohn Wayne plays a Belgium? Maybe that's why I haven't seen it.
ReplyDeleteOn the ACORN front, an interesting look at the existing web in Louisiana:
ReplyDeleteHow ACORN Hides Behind Fake Names
Louisiana List (all registered to New Orleans):
RATHKE, STEPHEN WADE
Agent of “UNITED LABOR ORGANIZATIONS”
President of “TEXAS UNITED CITY-COUNTY EMPLOYEES, INC.”
President of “BALTIMORE ORGANIZING AND SUPPORT CENTER, INC.”
President of “WORKING FAMILIES ASSOCIATION, INC.”
Member of “COALITION FOR ECONOMIC JUSTICE IN , L.L.C.”
President of “CHIEF ORGANIZER FUND, INC.”
Director of “CHIEF ORGANIZER FUND, INC.”
President of “ACORN INTERNATIONAL, INC.”
President of “WAL-MART ALLIANCE FOR REFORM NOW, INC.”
President of “AFFILIATED MEDIA FOUNDATION MOVEMENT, INC.”
Director of “UNITED LABOR ORGANIZATIONS”
Vice-President of “METRO TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, INC.”
Affiliated with “ELYSIAN FIELDS PARTNERSHIP”
Director of “PARENT TEACHER GROUP OF CHINCHUBA SCHOOL, INC.”
President of “GREENWELL SPRINGS CORPORATION”
President of “BROAD STREET CORPORATION, INC.”
President of “SIXTH AVENUE CORPORATION”
President of “FIFTEENTH STREET CORPORATION”
Director of “FIFTEENTH STREET CORPORATION”
President of “ACORN BENEFICIAL ASSOCIATION, INC.”
President of “ACORN FUND, INC.”
President of “HOUSTON ORGANIZING AND SUPPORT CENTER, INC.”
Director of “HOUSTON ORGANIZING AND SUPPORT CENTER, INC.”
Director of “AUSTIN ORGANIZING AND SUPPORT CENTER, INC.”
Treasurer of “AUSTIN ORGANIZING AND SUPPORT CENTER, INC.”
President of “MONTANA RADIO NETWORK, INC.”
Director of “MONTANA RADIO NETWORK, INC.”
President of “PHOENIX ORGANIZING AND SUPPORT CENTER, INC.”
Agent of “PARENT TEACHER GROUP OF CHINCHUBA SCHOOL, INC.”
RATHKE, DALE
Treasurer of “ACORN MANAGEMENT CORPORATION, INC.”
Secretary/Treasurer of “METRO TECHNICAL INSTITUTE, INC.”
Affiliated with “ELYSIAN FIELDS PARTNERSHIP”
Director of “ COMMUNITY HOUSING ORGANIZATION, INC.”
Secretary of “ASSOCIATED REGIONAL MAINTENANCE SYSTEMS, INC.”
Secretary/Treasurer of “SIXTH AVENUE CORPORATION”
Secretary of “MASSACHUSETTS ACORN HOUSING CORPORATION”
Director of “CRESCENT CITY BROADCASTING CORPORATION”
Treasurer of “CRESCENT CITY BROADCASTING CORPORATION”
Secretary of “SHREVEPORT COMMUNITY TELEVISION, INC.”
Secretary of “LOUISIANA ACORN FAIR HOUSING, INC.”
Agent of “MASSACHUSETTS ACORN HOUSING CORPORATION”
There's that spelling thing again.
ReplyDeleteTake some Dramamine; your gonn' need it....
ReplyDeleteIn Defense of Obama's Nobel Peace Prize
Newsweek
Finally, there's something that Hizbullah and the Republican National Committee can agree about. The reasons that President Obama should not have won the Nobel Peace Prize have been well established here and across the political spectrum. Of course, there are people who have saved more lives, if that's the measure of who should win the award. And by giving it to Obama now it raises the question: what if Obama actually does make monumental achievements in global peace as president?
Which of the brothers was indicted for fraud?
ReplyDeleteDale. So far. ;-)
ReplyDeleteFinally, there's something that Hizbullah and the Republican National Committee can agree about.
ReplyDeletePolitics of fear!
Oh, wait... it's an anti-CONSERVATIVE smear job... never mind, move along, nothing to see here!
Japanese Men Want Video Game Love
ReplyDeleteOut of 520-something men polled in Japan, approximately 100 were interested in pursuing love with a character in a video game.
Conducted by video game company Konami, the poll also revealed that 40% of men who participated in the survey felt that pursuing love within the confines of a video game was a viable consideration.
My guest spot :
"WHAT THE F*** IS WRONG WITH YOU ?"
Pink Freud said...
ReplyDeleteI WA State. ACORN is still advertising tax advice, and check out who has office on the same floor of the same building.
ACORN-related pictures worth thousands of dirty little words
Bookworm Room (via American Digest):
ReplyDelete"By now you all know that Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize. After deciding that the Nobel Committee probably didn’t award it as a consolation prize for Obama’s having lost before the International Olympic Committee, I tried to figure out what “peace” the Nobel Committee meant. After all, this is a guy so ineffectual that even Saturday Night Live points out that he does absolutely nothing.
I’ve decided that this is a preemptive prize, because the Committee looked ahead to the insane nuclear winter and global Muslim/non-Muslim war Obama’s fecklessness is bringing into being and they knew: he makes a desert, and calls it peace. Since the Committee can confidently expect that, once Obama does what he does best, there will be no more prizes, now was the time for a preemptive award."
Dear G-d, let this be hyperbole and not prophecy.
Barack Obama adviser says Sharia Law is misunderstood
ReplyDeletePresident Barack Obama's adviser on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, has provoked controversy by appearing on a British television show hosted by a member of an extremist group to talk about Sharia Law.
Miss Mogahed, appointed to the President's Council on Faith-Based and Neighbourhood Partnerships, said the Western view of Sharia was "oversimplified" and the majority of women around the world associate it with "gender justice".
The White House adviser made the remarks on a London-based TV discussion programme hosted by Ibtihal Bsis, a member of the extremist Hizb ut Tahrir party.
The group believes in the non-violent destruction of Western democracy and the creation of an Islamic state under Sharia Law across the world.
/move along, nothing to see here
Um, yeah, it's hyperbole.
ReplyDeleteNo fan of the O's foreign policy, but... yep, that's hyperbole.
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ReplyDeletePresident Barack Obama's adviser on Muslim affairs, Dalia Mogahed, has provoked controversy by appearing on a British television show hosted by a member of an extremist group to talk about Sharia Law.
ReplyDeleteSee?! OUTREACH TO THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD! Was there ever a Nobel Peace Prize more richly deserved?!
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Not too crazy about that last link, Finally Free.
ReplyDeleteGerard van der Leun: Nobel Committee Now Officially Not Worth the Dynamite It Would Take to Blow Them Away:
ReplyDelete"U.S. President Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday for his calls to reduce the world's stockpile of nuclear weapons and working for world peace."
Plus his signal accomplishments so far in office, "Jack" and "Shit."
[BTW, does anybody know how to blockquote here? THe HTML tag gets rejected]
Heading for the train while the Blue Angels fly overhead!
ReplyDeleteI may check in later - take care, everyone!
Finally,
ReplyDeleteOld school HTML.
<*a href="url">Link text<*/a>
Remove asterisks.
Well, I've met the daughter's boyfriend.
ReplyDeleteNot overly impressed. Not horrified. Her little brother has threatened to kill the young man with a rubber dinosaur. So far so good.
while the Blue Angels fly overhead!
ReplyDeleteI'll have what Dianna's having.
Hi Pink!
ReplyDeleteThe Guest Room is a great idea.
Killian -
that link gives me knots in my stomach. And this O was just awarded the Nobel Piece Prize. Makes perfect sense in an alternate universe.
Kenneth said...
ReplyDeleteWell, I've met the daughter's boyfriend.
What kind of holster did you wear?
K/B, I'll move that upstairs and hat tip you. I have another one up there now.
ReplyDeletewho needs a holster when I place the firearm on the table in front of me?
ReplyDeleteWell hello there Lady Catnip, nice to see you. The guest room idea and graphics belong to CC ... I think the day they gave out creativity/artistic genes she got mine too. I'm in awe of her decorating skills myself. :-)
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, some reactions from Israel:
ReplyDeletepolite congratulations from PM Netanyahu and President Shimon Peres, former ambassador Dan Gillerman calls award 'somewhat premature' (ahem)
historian and current ambassador to US Michael Oren: deep distrust of O among Israelis will hamper any progress in Arab-Israeli conflict resolution
Kenneth said...
ReplyDeleteWell, I've met the daughter's boyfriend.
You have all your firearms stripped on the table for cleaning?
Pink Freud said...
ReplyDeleteOn the ACORN front, an interesting look at the existing web in Louisiana:
How ACORN Hides Behind Fake Names
Great find. And that's just Louisiana!
Thanks doppel.
ReplyDeleteNew thread upstairs, everyone. --->
Something completely different: a guy working at the CERN Large Hadron Collider
ReplyDeletehas been arrested on suspicion of al-Qaeda links
Not clear what he could do there, except billion-dollar scale vandalism. But apparently he worked for an external contractor, and maybe was seeking access to the nuclear industry? Anyhow, that's mostly speculation at this stage...
(hat tip: Just a Grunt)
Oops, just now notice the same think appearing in the RSS sidebar from Syrah. My bad.
ReplyDeleteIt's all good, F2 - I do that all the time! A lot of the time, people aren't looking over on the right at the feed, and it helps to say something in-thread anyway.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of which, Althouse has a live one right now. There's a very familiar-sounding troll on the thread. Yuck.
Oh I like! and knowing Throbert, his submissions will be a lot of fun to discuss!
ReplyDeleteFinally Free said...
ReplyDelete"a guy working at the CERN Large Hadron Collider has been arrested on suspicion of al-Qaeda links"
That is curious. Aside from sabotage there is not much he could do there. There are no nuclear reactors at CERN, and the technology is very different.
JCM,
ReplyDeleteNo need to strip the firearm. Best to keep it functioning. He did call me "sir" which shows he's at least trainable. And to his credit, he's tidy and presentable, while not being overly good looking. No baggy pants at his knees. I may not have to injure him. Tonight.