Ordinarily, we'd be bringing you an NFL Sunday open thread at this time. When Rush Limbaugh was dropped from the group seeking to purchase the Rams, NFL.com ran a story with a headline suggesting that Rush "blames others" for being dropped from the group. It seemed they were implying he only had himself to blame.
I've been a Packer fan since I was old enough to talk. I own two (admittedly token) shares of the team's stock. But my heart just isn't in it today.
I thought about posting the NFL logo upside-down, but this is far better: Mark Steyn takes the speech/political correctness issue apart, ties it to Anita Dunn, and puts it back together again on NRO, in his own unique style. It's well worth the read - enjoy. (And feel free to discuss the games or anything else you like in this thread.)
The first quotation was attributed to Rush Limbaugh. He never said it. There is no tape of him saying it. There is no transcript of him saying it. After all, if he had done so at any point in the last 20 years, someone would surely have mentioned it at the time.
Yet CNN, MSNBC, ABC, other networks, and newspapers all around the country cheerfully repeated the pro-slavery quotation and attributed it, falsely, to Rush Limbaugh. And planting a flat-out lie in his mouth wound up getting Rush bounced from a consortium hoping to buy the St. Louis Rams. The NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, said the talkshow host was a “divisive” figure, and famously non-divisive figures like the Rev. Al Sharpton and the Rev. Jesse Jackson expressed the hope that, with Mister Divisive out of the picture, the NFL could now “unify.”
The second quotation — hailing Mao — was uttered back in June to an audience of high-school students by Anita Dunn, the White House communications director. I know she uttered it because I watched the words issuing from her mouth on The Glenn Beck Show on Fox News. But don’t worry. Nobody else played it.
So if I understand correctly:
Rush Limbaugh is so “divisive” that to get him fired leftie agitators have to invent racist soundbites to put in his mouth.
But the White House communications director is so un-divisive that she can be invited along to recommend Chairman Mao as a role model for America’s young.
Bonus vid: Juan Williams, Reverend Ken Hutcherson, and Tammy Bruce talk about Rush and racism on The O'Reilly Factor.
Ha!
ReplyDeleteI always enjoy Mark Steyn.
"Twenty years ago this fall, the Iron Curtain was coming down in Europe. Across the Warsaw Pact, the jailers of the Communist prison states lost their nerve, and the cell walls crumbled. Matt Welch, the editor of Reason, wonders why the anniversary is going all but unobserved: Why aren’t we making more of the biggest mass liberation in history?
ReplyDeleteWell, because to celebrate it would involve recognizing it as a victory over Communism. And, after the Left’s long march through the institutions of the West, most are not willing to do that. There’s the bad totalitarianism (Nazism) and the good totalitarianism (Communism), whose apologists and, indeed, fetishists can still be found everywhere, even unto the White House."
Very well said. And I agree about the current sensitivity not only being morally unserious but profoundly decadent.
Good manners should prevent people from using slurs of any variety; to hyperventilate over slurs, however, is to miss the point.
Nail, meet head, indeed.
ReplyDeleteRacists!!
ReplyDeleteI'm calling the NFL office of Racial Sensitivity on all of you!
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Dianna said...
ReplyDelete"Twenty years ago this fall, the Iron Curtain was coming down in Europe. Across the Warsaw Pact, the jailers of the Communist prison states lost their nerve, and the cell walls crumbled. Matt Welch, the editor of Reason, wonders why the anniversary is going all but unobserved: Why aren’t we making more of the biggest mass liberation in history?
Well, because to celebrate it would involve recognizing it as a victory over Communism...
The real reason is much more simple and trivial. Everything is no-iron today--shirts, pants, and, yes, curtains. So the end of the Iron Curtain is just not a big deal to those who have grown up since in the consumerist paradise.
The fact that communism is on life support is good news for humanity, but Mr. Steyn is correct to point out that for many in this country, it's a subject best left alone. I remember debating and arguing with Soviet apologists and sympathizers in college. I wish I could track down the professor that gave me a "B" on my "future collapse of the Soviet Union" term paper. He called it wishful thinking. I want to rub it in his face now.
ReplyDeleteThis article is pretty funny...I am guessing this guy does not like Joe very much....
ReplyDeleteJoe Biden: the worrying rise of Barack Obama’s Mr Wrong
Mr Biden was chosen as Barack Obama's running mate last August because he was old, white and supposedly knew a lot about foreign policy. I say "supposedly" because really Mr Biden's overseas expertise amounted to having spent a long time as chairman of the Senate foreign affairs committee, knowing the names of lots of world leaders, and being able to josh around amiably with them during congressional junkets across the globe.
What Mr Obama overlooked was that Mr Biden, who served as a senator for tiny Delaware for 36 years, had never run anything in his life, or taken decisions rather than talking about things, at legendary length. Even in the United States Senate, that august body which each week produces enough hot air to transport 1,000 six-year-olds across America, Mr Biden – who sports hair plugs and a set of porcelain-enhanced gnashers that would blind a polar bear – is renowned for his wordiness.
Russia’s Leaders See China as Template for Ruling
ReplyDeleteNearly two decades after the collapse of the Communist Party, Russia’s rulers have hit upon a model for future success: the Communist Party.
Or at least, the one that reigns next door.
Like an envious underachiever, Vladimir V. Putin’s party, United Russia, is increasingly examining how it can emulate the Chinese Communist Party, especially its skill in shepherding China through the financial crisis relatively unbowed.
United Russia’s leaders even convened a special meeting this month with senior Chinese Communist Party officials to hear firsthand how they wield power.
/Commie see, Commie do
Commie see/commie do...that's funny....
ReplyDeleteThe Russians must have read Tom Friedman's article about how great China is, eh?
Flying pig moment of the day:
ReplyDeleteNew York Times declares Fox News winner in fight with White House. Which puts the newsbusters guy in the uncomfortable position of actually agreeing with the NYT for once.
My favorite "ouch" moment: "People who work in political communications have pointed out that it is a principle of power dynamics to "punch up " - that is, to take on bigger foes, not smaller ones. A blog on the White House Web site that uses a "truth-o-meter" against a particular cable news network would not seem to qualify. As it is, Reality Check sounds a bit like the blog of some unemployed guy living in his parents' basement, not an official communiqué from Pennsylvania Avenue."
Another nail meet head moment. John Bolton tells it like it is. Obama's unwillingness to commit to any kind of policy when dealing with the problems of the world makes the USA weaker and in a lesser position when dealing with them. Ethelred the Unready, indeed.
ReplyDeleteThe danger of Obama's dithering
Weakness in American foreign policy in one region often invites challenges elsewhere, because our adversaries carefully follow diminished American resolve. Similarly, presidential indecisiveness, whether because of uncertainty or internal political struggles, signals that the United States may not respond to international challenges in clear and coherent ways.
The White House going after Fox News is kinda like watching MOndale try and go after Reagan way back when. Laughable LOL
ReplyDeleteBono is a spoiled millionaire living the life of luxary, but he does make some good points in this article about the place of the USA.
ReplyDeleteAt least he is honest about why Obama "won" the Nobel prize.
There are millions and millions of people that have poured all their hopes and dreams into the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. My guess is they will ALL be disappointed. There is no way President Obama can deliver on these hopes.
Rebranding America by Bono
This just in:
ReplyDeleteColorado sheriff: Runaway balloon saga was hoax
A Colorado sheriff said Sunday it was a hoax when parents reported that their 6-year-old son was in a flying saucer-like helium balloon hurtling away from their home.
Sheriff Jim Alderden said Richard and Mayumi Heene "put on a very good show for us, and we bought it."
"We believe that we have evidence at this point to indicate that it was a publicity stunt done with the hopes of marketing themselves or better marketing themselves for a reality television show at some point in the future," Alderden said.
No word on charges, but their reality TV show might have to be for other prisoners.
The kids will not be charged because they're too young.
Damn, someone please send Dan Dierdorf to the NFL glue factory already.
ReplyDelete/having to listen to his schlock for a whole game is Maddening
Desert Dog said...
ReplyDeleteThere are millions and millions of people that have poured all their hopes and dreams into the current resident of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. My guess is they will ALL be disappointed. There is no way President Obama can deliver on these hopes.
Even if he wanted to.
Obama is the Mirror of Erised in the first Potter book, the mirror which shows not what is, but what the person gazing into it hopes will be.
The real reason is much more simple and trivial. Everything is no-iron today--shirts, pants, and, yes, curtains. So the end of the Iron Curtain is just not a big deal to those who have grown up since in the consumerist paradise.
ReplyDeleteSmartass. LOL : )
BSM,I think the "brain-surgeons" in Oslo were looking in that mirror when they decided to give it to President Obama.
ReplyDeleteKosh's Shadow said...
ReplyDeleteThis just in:
Colorado sheriff: Runaway balloon saga was hoax
A Colorado sheriff said Sunday it was a hoax when parents reported that their 6-year-old son was in a flying saucer-like helium balloon hurtling away from their home.
Interestingly, it has recently been reported from San Francisco that the story claiming a young boy in a relationship with an older man had inflated his scrotum without permission was a hoax, too.
Amateur hour at Foggy Bottom and the White House. Newsflash to the koolaid drinkers: Iran is not going to get any sanctions against it because Russia and China have a vested interest in NOT having them placed on their "friends" in Teheran.
ReplyDeleteJedi Mind tricks only work on the weak of mind, Barack.
A Hidden Deal on Iran Sanctions?
The problem with both Moscow and Beijing is that they have too much at stake in their respective relationships with Iran. They don't want to sacrifice that by siding with the U.S. and other members of the P5+1. They'd much rather have the West play the role of the bad guy in applying pressure on Iran. Moreover, they simply don't share the same sense of threat, notwithstanding the recent disclosure of the nuclear facility in Qum. The Russians reportedly were surprised by this revelation - and then very annoyed that they had not been briefed on it well beforehand.
The clock is ticking, and Iran continues to work away on its nuclear program. One can only hope that the Obama Administration knows what it is doing and is working quietly, behind-the-scenes, in winning support for possible sanctions. The public evidence suggests otherwise.
buzzsawmonkey said...
ReplyDeleteInterestingly, it has recently been reported from San Francisco that the story claiming a young boy in a relationship with an older man had inflated his scrotum without permission was a hoax, too.
BUT, it's OK if he used a condom, though....right?
A Colorado sheriff said Sunday it was a hoax when parents reported that their 6-year-old son was in a flying saucer-like helium balloon hurtling away from their home.
ReplyDeleteHow much trouble is that kid in now? I don't know if anyone was thinking about the incident this way until he spilled the beans on television. His parents are done.
No Nintendo or dessert for the rest of his life, I'm guessing. Poor kid. OOPS.
DD: We're all concerned about runaway inflation these days--whether that inflation is of scrotal sacs, condoms, or currency.
ReplyDeleteBTW, if we're gonna have helium balloons, isn't it sexist not to have shelium balloons too?
ReplyDeleteIf you inhale shelium do you talk funny?
ReplyDeleteDesert Dog said...
ReplyDeleteIf you inhale shelium do you talk funny?
No, but you suddenly have an urge to pee sitting down.
Corre∫pondence Committee said...
ReplyDeleteA Colorado sheriff said Sunday it was a hoax when parents reported that their 6-year-old son was in a flying saucer-like helium balloon hurtling away from their home
I hope they charge the parents with something. That attempted rescue cost Weld County alot of money.
/having to listen to his schlock for a whole game is Maddening
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Maddening, how cool is the name Brian Anger for a football player? Too bad he's a punter and not a DE or something.
I hope they charge the parents with something. That attempted rescue cost Weld County alot of money.
ReplyDeleteOh yeah, I think they HAVE to now. All that attention that was given it...there has to be a consequence.
OMG! BREAKING NEWS!
ReplyDeleteAn inflated scrotum broke loose of its owner and flew for more than two hours in the California skies.
At times the sac reached heights of 7,000 feet and was traveling at speeds of around 40 mph.
It was believed that the 6 year old son of the man who inflated it climbed onboard just before it soared into the sky, trapped inside.
However, when the inflated scrotum eventually came back down to earth, after travelling at least 60 miles, there was no sign of the boy. There are fears that the boy may have fallen out, but it is not absolutely certain whether he was onboard the sac at all.
Police have searched the boy's Folsom Street home twice, but he cannot be located. There has been some speculation that the boy may be hiding, perhaps feeling that the scrotum's accidental release was his fault, but others are preparing for the worst.
More to follow on this breaking story.
Dan Dierdorf needs some helium (and some shelium too perhaps?)
ReplyDeleteFORT COLLINS — The Larimer County Sheriff's Office announced Saturday night that it expects to seek charges in the "balloon boy" saga, and later deputies began executing search warrants.
ReplyDeleteLet us also not forget the experimental jazz composed for the scrotal sax.
ReplyDeleteObviously, his asexual scrotal sacks are out of tune!!
ReplyDeleteThe kids are still with their parents, but child protective services are watching. I guess they're afraid the kids will get a really bad ass-whupping, when really, it is the parents that deserve one.
ReplyDeleteReally good Zo vid on PJTV today. He nails Keith Olbmermann.
ReplyDeleteReally good Zo vid on PJTV today. He nails Keith Olbmermann.
ReplyDeleteThanks, CC!
Saints are whipping butt.
ReplyDeleteGood afternoon
Afternoon guys, I am getting really tired with MSM, henceforth designated as the non-biased liberal media complex (NLMC) of creating and shaping the news we perceive, and therefore guiding this great nation into liberal socialism. Forget that capitalist profits is what drives the NLMC, that most journalists are incapable of performing any kind of honest labor or intellectual exercise that is constructive to a growing and vibrant society.
ReplyDeleteLimbaugh was part of a consortium attempting to buy a NFL franchise. The NLMC trots outs main-stream liberal racists like Sharpton to hammer Limbaugh for his alleged racial deviciveness. This is so rich in so many ways, according to NLMC Limbaugh is a devisive racist while Sharpton is the paragon of racial unity. Forget the race riots instigated by Sharpton, Forget the fact that at every chance Sharpton is in the news with Jesse Jackson pimping some form of racial discrimination because not every one is racially sensitive enough to go screaming discrimination at every perceived slight or misunderstanding that does not result in minority domination over the majority of citizens.
I could hide my head in the sand, but that is not my way. It is time to start using the clue stick on American socialists posing as American journalists.
Taking a momentary break from grading.
ReplyDeleteBeating up on Limbaugh or Glen Beck or Neil Boortz or any other of these sorts is self-defeating. It satisfies the blood-lust of the true believers on the Left and confirms the suspicions the Right holds about the goals, methods, and "ideals" of those across the aisle. And for all of those nitwits who want to say that the current round of anti-Obama/anti-socialism protestors are as bad if not worse than the anti-Bush crowd a few years ago, there is one essential and fundamental difference which can be documented with little effort:
At no point did the right attempt to silence it's leftist critics. There was no smear campaign against Chris Matthews or Keith Olberman being orchestrated at the White House. Medea Benjamin (by the way, what sort of person names herself after an infanticidal parricidal bi-polar witch? Just sayin' ...), Cindy Sheehan, Cythia "Jihad Cindy" McKinney and others of that sort were not sued or subject to direct intimidation by individuals directly connected to Bush or Cheney. No, when these people were attacked an humilated it was by members of their own party once their usefulness had faded or they had become an embarassment.
Meanwhile the Left, from the White House on down through its various media, political, and legal outlets, continues to identify and attack the same targets.
And I don't recall at any point (Patriot Act Paranoia notwithstanding) a "hotline" to the White House set up so people could report anti-war activists' emails to Dick Cheney.
It is the use of governmental authority to suppress dissenting viewpoints that is what makes the current crowd so noxious. They claimed -- and the claim is demonstrably false -- that they were silenced or targetted under Bush. Projection? A bit?
The love of power and the desire to confirm their own goodness through the destruction of any who disagree is the hallmark of the totalitarian spirit.
Iran threatens to strike back at those behind the blast.
ReplyDeleteAnd of course, they say that the US or UK is behind it.
You know, in some ways, catching an Iranian agent trying to stage a terrorist attack might be what is needed to get real sanctions against Iran, or justify a real attack against its nuclear capability. I don't want the actual attack; just enough to tie Iran to an attempt.
They've got the full court press on against FNC today:
ReplyDeleteFox 'not really news,' says Axelrod
Rahm Emanuel: Fox Isn't a News Organization Because it Has a Perspective
There are days I get the feeling there are people in this country who would make it a crime to dislike Obama if they thought they could pull it off.
Was the inflated scrotum sack a subsidiary of Virgin Airlines?
ReplyDeleteIt is time to start using the clue stick on American socialists posing as American journalists.
ReplyDeleteAhhhh! Evil RIGHT WING Gestapo tactics!!!! Anyway, they're not socialists -- they're progressives! No, wait, they're completely fact-oriented, ideology free, objective observers! They are, in fact scientists!
Yeah ... that's it. Journalism is free from biasy because it deals with facts and is thus sort of sciency.
There are days I get the feeling there are people in this country who would make it a crime to dislike Obama if they thought they could pull it off.
ReplyDeleteWait. It's not a crime yet? Man, they are slipping.
Was the inflated scrotum sack a subsidiary of Virgin Airlines?
ReplyDeleteIn a sane world, it would be.
The love of power and the desire to confirm their own goodness through the destruction of any who disagree is the hallmark of the totalitarian spirit.
ReplyDeleteGo to the head of the class!
CC -- exactly.
ReplyDeleteThe left sees "facts" and "truth."
Any dissenting view is "bias" and "distortion."
The White House is coming across as a bunch of losers attacking FOXNews....every time they whine and complain MORE people tune in. Idiots
ReplyDeleteDD -- it plays so well to the folks they sit and break boutique organic whole-grain bread with, though.
ReplyDeleteCorre∫pondence Committee said...
ReplyDeleteThey've got the full court press on against FNC today:
Fox 'not really news,' says Axelrod
Rahm Emanuel: Fox Isn't a News Organization Because it Has a Perspective
Kosh's Shadow -
By Rahm's standard, we don't have any news organizations, and I doubt we could have one that met that standard.
Lucius Septimius said...
ReplyDeleteWas the inflated scrotum sack a subsidiary of Virgin Airlines?
In a sane world, it would be.
Hey Lucius...when did we take a hard left?
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I'm sitting here watching football, wearing my ruby red slippers, clicking my heals and nothing is happening.
GF woman accused of showing porn from window, assaulting cop
ReplyDeleteSheesh. What makes a person behave this way? What reason could there possibly be?
A Grand Forks woman is accused of broadcasting pornography from the window of her home Friday morning, allowing the images and noises to be seen and heard from Lake Agassiz Elementary School.
When police Cpl. Dylan Schauer arrived at Nicole Altendorf’s house on the 800 block of Stanford Road, he found a still shot of a pornography video displayed on a television.
“We made contact with the suspect, who was not compliant in any way,” a police report states. “She refused to come out and physically resisted. She was finally extracted by force from her entryway.”
The report says Altendorf bit Schauer’s arm and kicked him several times in the groin as he tried to put her in a squad car.
Jorline, I guess my thought was that in a sane world, no guy who felt complelled to inflate his scrotum would ever get laid. Period.
ReplyDeleteBy Rahm's standard, we don't have any news organizations, and I doubt we could have one that met that standard.
ReplyDeleteThe Obama administration will tell you who's fair, Kosh. /
CC -- the link comes up as a blank page.
ReplyDeleteI don't want someone who is fair. I want someone who's pretty damn good.
ReplyDeleteOK, must get back to grading.
ReplyDeleteI am becoming dumber by the minute doing this.
Wait. It's not a crime yet? Man, they are slipping.
ReplyDeleteThey can't do everything all at once, Bare. Give them time. They're working on "fundamentally changing America", or some such thing - it's a big job!!
Corre∫pondence Committee said...
ReplyDeleteBy Rahm's standard, we don't have any news organizations, and I doubt we could have one that met that standard.
The Obama administration will tell you who's fair, Kosh. /
Wiktionary defines the word fascism as follows:
/Heh
L/S, thanks! I did that once before. (Blogger re-directs you to a profile if you forget part of your HTML.)
ReplyDeleteGrand Forks woman story here.
Lucius Septimius said...
ReplyDeleteJorline, I guess my thought was that in a sane world, no guy who felt complelled to inflate his scrotum would ever get laid. Period.
LOL...Lucius gets a smiley face and an A on his paper. :)
Pi Guy, I was thinking of that link of yours when I typed that!
ReplyDeleteMy 15 yo son has been a Saints fan for about 3 or 4 years...he's driving me nuts right now.
ReplyDeleteHoly moley, Jorline - who put the quarter in the Saints today? Wow.
ReplyDeleteMy Packers are finally having the kind of game I like. : )
Howdy. I read the Steyn piece about a half hour ago, and thought "I just HAVE to post this at C2!"
ReplyDeleteCurses. Foiled again.
Steyn does a wonderful job shredding the flimsy excuses for Anita Dunn's bizarre "free to be you and Mao" pep talk that have been floated in certain [cough] quarters. Good for him.
Aaron Rodgers has passed for 358 yards so far today.
ReplyDeleteCC, thanks for the Williams, Hutcherson and Bruce link. Back on the porch? Pot calling the kettle black is now racist saying.
ReplyDeletebuzzsawmonkey said...
ReplyDeleteBTW, if we're gonna have helium balloons, isn't it sexist not to have shelium balloons too?
And when they crash spectacularly, we have to exclaim "oh, the huwomynity!".
Corre∫pondence Committee said...
ReplyDeleteMy Packers are finally having the kind of game I like. : )
Packer sweet revenge after last week CC.
Sorry for the post n' run.
ReplyDeleteAh, ammo report from yesterday's range trip; .45ACP and 9mm Luger still scarce, limit 1 box per customer per visit at my range. All other calibers are readily available.
Later.
Afternoon all. Steyn is a fount of reason and humor and is as devastating as always.
ReplyDeleteOccasional Reader said...
ReplyDeleteSteyn does a wonderful job shredding the flimsy excuses for Anita Dunn's bizarre "free to be you and Mao" pep talk that have been floated in certain [cough] quarters. Good for him.
“Mao’s responsibility for the extinction of anywhere from 40 to 70 million lives brands him as a mass killer greater than Hitler or Stalin.”
Hey, that’s pretty impressive when they can’t get your big final-score death toll nailed down to closer than 30 million. Still, as President Obama’s communications director might say, he lived his dream, and so can you, although if your dream involves killing, oh, 50–80 million Chinamen, you may have your work cut out. But let’s stick with the Fenby figure: He killed 40–70 million Chinamen. Whoops, can you say “Chinamen” or is that racist? Oh, and sexist. So hard keeping up with the Sensitivity Police in this pansified political culture, isn’t it? But you can kill 40–70 million Chinamen and that’s fine and dandy: You’ll be cited as an inspiration by the White House to an audience of high-school students. You can be anything you want to be! Look at Mao: He wanted to be a mass murderer, and he lived his dream! You can too!
Hilarious...point, match and game!
HAH! Favre got sacked, threw an incomplete, Minn. had to punt, and the Ravens just took the lead with 3 and a half minutes to go... As much as I dislike the Jailbirds, I dislike the Viqueens even more... BWAAAAAAHAHA!
ReplyDeleteTrue, but you know how many Chinese there are? I mean, killing 40-70 million would be like killing only a few hundred thousand europeans - it's all a matter of scale and ratio. So, see? The communists were not THAT bad.
ReplyDelete/
Hey Jorline. I'm making chicken soup for my sick family. I've got the trinity and some Thyme so far, what else is good for the stock? Sage?
ReplyDeleteRunning Bare said...
ReplyDeleteHAH! Favre got sacked, threw an incomplete, Minn. had to punt, and the Ravens just took the lead with 3 and a half minutes to go... As much as I dislike the Jailbirds, I dislike the Viqueens even more... BWAAAAAAHAHA!
/not any more!
What happened to the Vikings? I went outside for a few minutes and they are LOSING????
ReplyDeleteFavre could still throw a pick. There's hope.
ReplyDeleteRunning Bare said...
ReplyDeleteTrue, but you know how many Chinese there are? I mean, killing 40-70 million would be like killing only a few hundred thousand europeans - it's all a matter of scale and ratio. So, see? The communists were not THAT bad.
/
You know Bare, Mao MEANT well, so the fact that a few million people had to die is inconsequential....right?
You know Bare, Mao MEANT well, so the fact that a few million people had to die is inconsequential....right?
ReplyDeleteOf course! He was just making a really ginormous omlette, so he had to break a shitload of eggs. That's all.
Desert Dog said...
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to the Vikings? I went outside for a few minutes and they are LOSING????
/not any more!
Plenty of time left. The Minnesota defense is running on fumes right now. They'll make Flacco look like a HOFer...
ReplyDeleteOn the Steyn article, this was a great point:
ReplyDeleteBut, for the sake of argument, try a thought experiment:
Midway through Bush’s second term, press secretary Tony Snow goes along to Chester A. Arthur High School to give a graduation speech. “I know it looks tough right now. You’re young, you’re full of zip, but the odds seem hopeless. Let me tell you about another young man facing tough choices 80 years ago. It’s last orders at the Munich beer garden — gee, your principal won’t thank me for mentioning that — and all the natural blonds are saying, ‘But Adolf, see reason. The Weimar Republic’s here to stay, and besides the international Jewry control everything.’ And young Adolf Hitler puts down his foaming stein and stands on the table and sings a medley of ‘I Gotta Be Me,’ ‘(Learning to Love Yourself Is) The Greatest Love of All,’ and ‘The Sun’ll Come Out Tomorrow.’” And by the end of that night there wasn’t a Jewish greengrocer’s anywhere in town with glass in its windows. Don’t play by the other side’s rules; make your own kind of music. And always remember: You’ve gotta have a dream, if you don’t have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true?”
Anyone think he’d still have a job?
Jorline...you're welcome! I was composing and had a bad browser crash. I was saying:
ReplyDeleteI wonder if it ever bothered Juan Williams to see the way conservative black people were treated, or if he's only just now recognizing how despicable it is because he's on the receiving end of it.
In any case, as Hutch said, "Welcome home, Juan."
And I know Hutch - and I know how much this sort of thing bothers him. He's the most honest, ethical person (aside from my own father) I've known in my life, and he doesn't see color as much as he sees right and wrong. Rush couldn't have a better friend. I knew Hutch wouldn't let him down.
It's 2009, almost 2010...even the Chinese have disowned Mao....only in the west...in the universities, and now, the White House, can you find people that actually think Mao was a great man....He was as big a monster that the world has ever produced in all of human history. If someone tells you Mao is a great guy, that tells you ALL you need to know about that person.
ReplyDeleteI think the Ravens are going to win this game....
ReplyDeleteSpenser (with an S) said...
ReplyDeleteHey Jorline. I'm making chicken soup for my sick family. I've got the trinity and some Thyme so far, what else is good for the stock? Sage?
Sorry for the delay Spenser. Did you cook the chicken bone in or use breast?
I always use whole chickens and boil it with fresh Thyme, sage and a couple of bay leaves. I also put chicken broth, carrots and celery in the stock.
Running Bare said...
ReplyDeleteYou know Bare, Mao MEANT well, so the fact that a few million people had to die is inconsequential....right?
Of course! He was just making a really ginormous egg fu yung, so he had to break a shitload of eggs. That's all.
FTFY
Jailbirds are near FG range... time left... down 2 points...
ReplyDeleteHeh.
Bare, don't tease me like that!!! LOL
ReplyDeleteANybody ever tells me they admire any communist piece of shit, it tells me all I need to know about that person.
ReplyDelete2 seconds left, Flacco spikes it, stops the clock, setting up for a longish FG...
ReplyDeleteMISSED!
ReplyDeleteLucky Vikings, they should have lost
ReplyDeleteDamn. FG missed. Shit.
ReplyDeleteMISS!
ReplyDelete/heh
No kidding. The Vikings did everything to give that game away.
ReplyDeleteAh well. Even if they make the playoffs, well... Heh heh.
Jorline, I'm using what I have in the house so it is a breast and a few thighs. I'll add the bay leaf and some sage now. It's starting to smell good. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, my pats are already in the Red Zone, up against that Tennessee powerhouse.
ReplyDeleteKosh's Shadow,
ReplyDeleteOn the Steyn article, this was a great point:
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Exactly! Yet it made my stomach churn quite a bit.
On the other hand praising any tyrant be it Hitler, Stalin, Mao, Castro or Ché for that matter always makes me sick to the stomach.
Corre∫pondence Committee said...
ReplyDeleteI wonder if it ever bothered Juan Williams to see the way conservative black people were treated, or if he's only just now recognizing how despicable it is because he's on the receiving end of it.
In any case, as Hutch said, "Welcome home, Juan."
Excellent point CC. I've always had a hard time figuring Juan Williams' out.
Some times he feels like a nut, some time he don't.
/Mounds/Almond Joy Theme Song
ANybody ever tells me they admire any communist piece of shit, it tells me all I need to know about that person.
ReplyDeleteThere's a lot of that on the Democrat side. Remember this Diane Watson controversy?. Very typical of the Pete Stark/Jim McDermott/Maxine Waters side of congress. Very, very typical.
Excellent point CC. I've always had a hard time figuring Juan Williams' out.
ReplyDeleteIt's human nature, I guess. Some people never quite get riled up about what's happening to someone else, but when it's happening to them, it's an outrage.
I hope he doesn't forget this anytime soon.
Spenser (with an S) said...
ReplyDeleteJorline, I'm using what I have in the house so it is a breast and a few thighs. I'll add the bay leaf and some sage now. It's starting to smell good. Thanks.
Throw in some carrots and celery.
Good news, you can't screw up chicken soup...lol
Sorry to hear about the family Spenser...get well soon!
Running Bare said...
ReplyDeleteMeanwhile, my pats are already in the Red Zone, up against that Tennessee powerhouse.
Is Jeff Fisher quarterbacking this week?
Callahan23, at least Steyn wasn't really praising Hitler; he was comparing Mao to Hitler, and making a statement like Dunn's to prove how bad hers was.
ReplyDeleteBut yes, praising any dictator turns my stomach as well, but that's the kind of people we have in the White House. They just don't think Mao was so bad.
Nail meet hammer...
ReplyDeleteTwenty years ago this fall, the Iron Curtain was coming down in Europe. Across the Warsaw Pact, the jailers of the Communist prison states lost their nerve, and the cell walls crumbled. Matt Welch, the editor of Reason, wonders why the anniversary is going all but unobserved: Why aren’t we making more of the biggest mass liberation in history?
Well, because to celebrate it would involve recognizing it as a victory over Communism. And, after the Left’s long march through the institutions of the West, most are not willing to do that. There’s the bad totalitarianism (Nazism) and the good totalitarianism (Communism), whose apologists and, indeed, fetishists can still be found everywhere, even unto the White House.
Rush Limbaugh’s remarks are “divisive”; Anita Dunn’s are entirely normal. But don’t worry, the new Fairness Doctrine will take care of the problem.
14-0 and pressing for another! The Cardinals are kicking ass in Seattle.
ReplyDeleteKosh, never got to thank you for the locksmithing advice the other day. I had to drill out the center of the lock and then move the little deadbolt with the paperclip you suggested, but I got into the cedar chest without damaging the wood.
ReplyDeleteHello everyone! Busy day, I've just begun to catch up. That Steyn piece that is the subject of this thread - but the one posted today on NRO is even better. He decapitates David Frum.
ReplyDeleteOur old friend David Frum has been doing his best for moderate conservatism with a broader appeal - the so-called "big tent". If the tent seems bigger, that's because he's kicking so many people out of it.
The assumption of bad faith is the first refuge of the lazy leftist: "Why, my position is so obviously the only rational one that yours can only be an act! You cannot possibly believe what you say about climate change/health care/Islamic terrorism! Clearly it can only be explained by the check from your puppetmaster!" Sad to see David Frum buying into this:
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By contrast, there would seem to be more discernible evolution in political outlook among, say, certain long-time writers for the conservative press who then find themselves offered a weekly column in The New York Times.
Slam, meet dunk.
gotta hop, see youz later.
Kosh,
ReplyDeleteIt is this enlightened progressive attitude that makes so many people oblivious of the well-being of the individual in a mass of people.
When they talk about the betterment of humankind or of Gaia they don't care one bit for other people let alone their life's. Hence the thought of euthanasia or the reduction of the numbers of humans is quick to enter into the discussion with such people and they see little in the way of moral boundaries to achieve their goals.
Called out on their moral fallacies they turn to accuse the opposition of not caring for the people.
The bitter irony simply eludes them.
I experienced that in discussions often enough myself. *retch*
You're welcome, Spenser.
ReplyDeleteThe lock can be replaced, but a repair to the wood would be quite difficult.
Callahan23 - these are the same people who champion "human rights" but think nothing of individual rights.
ReplyDeleteThey love "people" but don't care much about individuals.
Their version of human sacrifice is worse than the ancient one; at least they'd sacrifice a fairly small number.
Kosh's Shadow said...
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome, Spenser.
The lock can be replaced, but a repair to the wood would be quite difficult.
Kosh, are you telling pepoles how to break into houses again.
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Kosh - I am certain that we are in the right place here. The good hearts 'n minds of so many here make me want to move over to the States any second.
ReplyDeleteHere, in Germany there is just too much of that thinking we were talking about. I have thus far already emigrated internally.
Go Joe Go
ReplyDeleteThe sheriff's sweeps in some heavily Latino areas of metro Phoenix have drawn criticism that Arpaio's deputies racially profile people. Arpaio said people pulled over in the sweeps were approached because deputies had probable cause to believe they had committed crimes and that it was only afterward that deputies found many of them were illegal immigrants.
The U.S. Department of Justice is investigating Arpaio's office over allegations of discrimination and unconstitutional searches and seizures.
"He is doing this to thumb his nose at the Obama administration," said Lydia Guzman, president of the Hispanic civil rights group Somos America.
Amazing how some pepoles get their panties in a knot when someone does their job.
Jorline said...
ReplyDelete"He is doing this to thumb his nose at the Obama administration," said Lydia Guzman, president of the Hispanic civil rights group Somos America.
I pick my nose at the Obama Administration.
Callahan:
ReplyDelete... you have "already emigrated internally" ?
Does this mean, what's left of you over there has no guts?
/*running for cover*
Sir, we caught a bunch of people in this country illegally!
ReplyDelete"RACIST"
That'snot nice, Buzz.
ReplyDeletepBM: Maybe it snot nice, but it's one small blow for freedom.
ReplyDeleteIs there something wrong with Hasselback?
ReplyDelete/doesn't seem to be playing
What the hell?
ReplyDeletePre Boomer Marine Brat....
Say, pre-Boomer Marine Brat--did you get the boot, or just decide you didn't give a hoot?
ReplyDeleteWhotthell!
ReplyDeleteYes, it's me!
/came in this past Friday
Didn't give a hoot.
ReplyDeleteWell, I never would have believed it.
ReplyDeleteWelcome old friend!
Somewhere, a forlorn polar bear cries upon a shrinking ice floe...
ReplyDeleteJorline said...
ReplyDeleteGo Joe Go
What is pathetic about the moaning and groaning from Sheriff Joe's detractors is he and the Maricopa County DA, ANdrew Thomas are about the only people doing ANYTHING about the massive illegal alien problem in the Phoenix area.
It used to be policy (as it STILL is with the Phoenix PD) to NOT ask anyone what their status was. That is ridicules. Sheriff Joe is arresting and charging people for not being here legally and Andrew Thomas is prosecuting them. And, that is NOT taking place on the State or Federal level....
DEZ, ... thank you
ReplyDeleteI came over to help Buzz booger up this thread
Welcome PBM!
ReplyDeleteHonk if you need me, pBMB.
ReplyDeletepre-Boomer Marine brat.
ReplyDeleteWell you picked a winner then.
Still mired in grading, but this was too good to pass up.
ReplyDeleteWe were reading I Samuel and discussing textual problems. At one point in the book, it says that Saul reigned for 42 years, but the various manuscripts disagree on the number -- some have no number, some say two years. In the discussion a couple of students chuckled over the significance of the number "42."
In a really sad, desparate paper I found the following sentence: "Saul became king when he is thirty, which in this time means that one is an adult and he reigned for 'forty-two' years which is symbolic of the answer to life."
She obviously didn't get the joke ...
Desert Dog ... (and Jorline and Kosh and Killian and Spenser -- DAMN, I'm gonna leave people out!) ... Hi there!
ReplyDeleteBuzz, honk if I need you?
ReplyDeleteLooks like I've tissued off.
I must have missed you Friday pBMB, I was in the pub threads.
ReplyDeletebuzzsawmonkey said...
ReplyDeleteI pick my nose at the Obama Administration.
Kosh's Shadow says
Just don't wave your private parts at their aunties.
Nah, I just have a contract that I have to read, so I'm jumping in and out.
ReplyDeleteDEZ, I was only in for a very short time, mid-afternoon.
ReplyDeleteHad to give JCM a call at home to get help figgering out th' blankety-blank Gmail configuration system.
pre-Boomer Marine brat said...
ReplyDeleteBuzz, honk if I need you?
Looks like I've tissued off.
Now you wont be considered a Kleen EX in some crowds.
DEZ said...
ReplyDeleteJust as long as he's not Mr. Hanky
PIMF re "Had to give JCM a call at home to get help figgering out th' blankety-blank Gmail configuration system"
ReplyDeleteDammit, should've said ... "to help sinus up"
Hey pre-Boomer Marine brat welcome !!
ReplyDeleteHow very nice to see you!
Hi there!
ReplyDelete(again)
buzzsawmonkey said...
ReplyDeleteI pick my nose at the Obama Administration.
I pick my butt at the "O" Adminsirtation sometimes too, buzz.
How are you?
What happened to my three-stars avatar?
ReplyDeleteBIG SOFTWARE IS RIPPING ME OFF!
Surviving, jorline, thanks. Maybe better by the end of the week.
ReplyDeleteJorline, how iz you down yonder?
ReplyDeletebuzz said ... "surviving"
ReplyDeleteAre you under the weather?
DEZ said...
ReplyDeleteSir, we caught a bunch of people in this country illegally!
"RACIST"
Hey DEZ...you have a soft spot for aliens anyway.
No, just have some major work pressures, which I am ameliorating in part by being here and...increasing in part by being here, as that means I'm not addressing the source of worry with full energy.
ReplyDeletepre-Boomer Marine brat,
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to my three-stars avatar?
BIG SOFTWARE IS RIPPING ME OFF!
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Ssss, stay calm. ;-) It is a glitch with blogspot everywhere, Bare has already informed them and they say they are at it.
Won't be a problem when we've moved to the C² dot com address.
Later.
ReplyDeletepre-Boomer Marine brat said...
ReplyDeleteThat'snot nice, Buzz.
WTF...I get up to take a leak and look who shows up.
{pBMb} WELCOME!!!
pre-Boomer Marine brat said...
ReplyDeleteWhat happened to my three-stars avatar?
BIG SOFTWARE IS RIPPING ME OFF!
Its enough to make me angry.
Always a pleasure, buzz! See you later.
ReplyDeleteJorline ...
ReplyDeleteWhat's this puddle in front on my monitor?
Didn't you get finished in there?!?!?!
Buzz ... take care!
ReplyDeletebuzzsawmonkey said...
ReplyDeleteSurviving, jorline, thanks. Maybe better by the end of the week.
Any need for Spenser's homemade chicken soup or a drink?
DEZ's little probe can fit under the PUB door...we can get in early. DEZ can do amazing things with that probe.
pBMB, she said she got up to pee, nothing about doing it in the bathroom. ;)
ReplyDeleteLittle probe?
ReplyDeleteYour abduction will not go well.
DEZ, might I suggest *ducking* after saying something like that?
ReplyDeletepre-Boomer Marine brat said...
ReplyDeleteJorline, how iz you down yonder?
I'm well and better now that you're here!
*salute*
Hell, I'm so happy I could bend over and fire rockets!
Incoming!!!
ReplyDelete*Ducks*
ReplyDeleteJorline ... DAMMIT, I just bought a new monitor!
ReplyDelete/I'm gonna report you to The Colonel .. :D
pre-Boomer Marine brat said...
ReplyDeleteJorline ...
What's this puddle in front on my monitor?
Didn't you get finished in there?!?!?!
Sorry you got caught in the crossfire...I was hosing DEZ...little green fucker pissed on my leg the other night.
Gonna get the other leg tonight too.
ReplyDeleteDEZ said...
ReplyDeleteGonna get the other leg tonight too.
Hey DEZ, have you seen Sas?
Maybe I should type slower.
ReplyDeleteSas, no, not for a few days.
ReplyDeleteSince I don't know what's going on re the C2 web site move, do we have an anticipated timeframe?
ReplyDeletepBMB, FEMA is helping with the move.
ReplyDeleteJorline, haven't seen Squatch since Wednesday or Thursday !
ReplyDeleteIts beer 30 here.
ReplyDeleteFEMA?
ReplyDeleteCRAP!
DEZ,last time I saw Sas.
ReplyDeleteHow are you today Cal?
ReplyDeleteWe are all waiting for the move, but you cant rush art, so we wait impatiently, wanting to peek at the canvas.
ReplyDeleteDEZ said...
ReplyDelete...you cant rush art...
Clearly you have not toiled in the vineyards of commercial illustration.
It takes time to submerge the entire website in urine?
ReplyDeleteJorline - I am fine. Last day of my holiday did one of my last sunday scooter-rides for this year as it was friggin' cold. Enjoyed it anyway.
ReplyDeleteTomorrow it is off to work again, teachin' how to make a nice and decent CV.
pre-Boomer Marine brat said...
ReplyDeleteSince I don't know what's going on re the C2 web site move, do we have an anticipated timeframe?
Bare could answer that, but he's totally engrossed in that close NE/Tennessee game.
Freelance only BUZZ.
ReplyDeleteJorline, from the looks of that video, Sas. ate all the beer nuts and drank a pony keg....
Again.
Desert Dog said...
ReplyDeleteIt takes time to submerge the entire website in urine?
If past examples are any indication, about six months are necessary.
Just for the record, I am putting the final touches on things today - then I have a little testing of layouts and such to do, and go through the site page by page making sure everything is as it should be, and a quick runthrough of each major bit of functionality, and then upload the changes... Most of that should be done today sometime :)
ReplyDeleteCallahan23 said...
ReplyDeleteJorline - I am fine. Last day of my holiday did one of my last sunday scooter-rides for this year as it was friggin' cold. Enjoyed it anyway.
Tomorrow it is off to work again, teachin' how to make a nice and decent CV.
I hope you're well rest and ready to go back.
Desert Dog,
ReplyDeleteIt takes time to submerge the entire website in urine?
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You meant urea, didn't you. In order for it to grow nicely? ;-)
DEZ said...
ReplyDeleteFreelance only BUZZ.
Jorline, from the looks of that video, Sas. ate all the beer nuts and drank a pony keg....
Again.
LMAO...I think he spent the night with Helen also.
RB--don't forget to bring in the feng shi guy and buy one of those good-luck bamboo plants.
ReplyDeleteAnd if you need a mezuza for the side of the server, I can probably set you up.
Just found this pic of Running Bare working on the new site.
ReplyDeleteRunning Bare said...
ReplyDeleteJust for the record, I am putting the final touches on things today - then I have a little testing of layouts and such to do, and go through the site page by page making sure everything is as it should be, and a quick runthrough of each major bit of functionality, and then upload the changes... Most of that should be done today sometime :)
Cheers!
Sas. went home with Helen?
ReplyDeletePoor hairy bastard.
I brought in the Feng Shui guy already. He thought that my idea of sitting where one could see the door (so as not to get bushwhacked) was all wrong, so I kicked his ass, while screaming, "WELCOME TO THE RULES OF EARTH, BEEYOTCH! HOW'S THIS IMPROVE YOUR LIFESTYLE, HUH?"
ReplyDeleteRunning Bare said ... "a quick runthrough of each major bit of functionality"
ReplyDeleteOMG! Test and test and test!
This old hardware electronics fart simply HATES software that hasn't been wrung out.
/knee-jerk rant off
"Hi there" and thanks for the heads-up
:D
Jorline,
ReplyDeleteI hope you're well rest and ready to go back.
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Good enough physically and very well psychologically. I didn't think about work for a looong time now, that is good relaxin'!
How are you doin', buddy?
Oh and I feel bad for Sas. too.
ReplyDeleteDEZ,
ReplyDeletebtw, how's your finger?!?!?!