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MAJOR SETBACK
Lefties are angry that US citizens aren’t being spied upon:
OK, if the Boston Globe is right, the story about the student at U-Mass Dartmouth is wrong. Understand that it angers me. Many of us who have opposed the Patriot Act since its genesis were waiting for the day that something like this would happen; this is a major setback.
Interesting; this individual would have been happy if some kid had been hauled away by Chimpeachment W. Turkeyburton’s secret brain cops. Over in Cuba (literacy rate: 1500%!) the press still hasn’t wised up to the story being corrected:
Agents of the Homeland Security Department questioned a Darmouth University Student for having requested an inter-library loan for Mao-Tse-Tung´s Little Red Book, on the grounds, said the agents, that the book was on a “watch list” and that the significant time abroad spent by the student triggered them to investigate further.
The paper that broke—and then corrected—the Little Red Book claim now runs this:
Thumbs down for the UMass student who lied to professors and The Standard-Times about being visited by federal agents after he ordered a copy of Mao Tse Tung’s Little Red Book through the inter-library loan system. This bogus story went around the nation and gave the public a false impression of our government at a time when our government is under intense pressure to defend the homeland from terrorism and does not need the public to turn against it.
Actually, judging by recent opinion polls, it hasn’t hurt at all.
Ok, I’ll be the dumbo who has to ask. Jim Treacher, please explain, what does FBA mean? Since I will no doubt be pondering what FBA means the rest of the afternoon, quite possibly in my Blue’s Clue Thinking Chair, I’d appreciate your timely assistance.
What’s next, we just post numbers that corresponds to a list of jokes published on Iowahawk’s (curls index fingers in wriggly motion) blog? Damn you sophisticates and your (still trying to come up with a particularly apt adjective, preferably one that makes Jim Treacher pull down the dusty Websters Dictionary, 1966 Version) sense of humor.
* I’m leaning towards “macabre”, thinking about “byzantine”
Posted by wronwright on 2005 12 26 at 03:37 PM • permalinkYou’ve got to admit the Chimpeachment guy has created an environment where this scenario could have happened. As we all know, creating a bad environment is worse than Hitler.
Posted by Mystery Meat on 2005 12 26 at 03:57 PM • permalinkThe lefty refered to only allows comments from registered people. Rather than bother with that, here’s my reply:
“Many of us ... were waiting for the day that something like this would happen”
In other words, he was waiting for a “gotcha” moment, so he could attack his political enemies.
How small that is - how petty. Wouldn’t it be better to hope that the Act is effective in stopping terrorists?
Isn’t that a slightly higher priority?
#2. Agreed - Chimpeachment W. Turkeyburton is a great name. In fact, even if this weren’t a central disbursal site for RWDB messages, I’d still come here for the names.
However, as always, I worry about the future. What will historians 100 years from now say about this?
“We don’t actually know the name of the 43rd President. Some argue that his name was “Bush”, but others say it must of been something ending in “-burton”. These last can be divided into two schools: “W’burton” versus “Cheneyburton”. The radicals who claim the name is “Haliburton” are by now completely discredited, and can be ignored.
Unfortunately, as we discover more source documents, a resolution becomes more elusive. In the end, we may simply never know who was the fifth face on Mount Rushmore”.
FBA = Fake, But Accurate; the new favorite catch-all excuse of the paranoid Left.
Mystery Meat, remember to close your italics!
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2005 12 26 at 04:21 PM • permalinkI wonder if I put in a close tag, if that will work…
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2005 12 26 at 04:24 PM • permalinkJim Treacher, please explain, what does FBA mean?
Fart Butt Ass
OR
Fake But Accurate
Posted by Jim Treacher on 2005 12 26 at 04:49 PM • permalink#15 Fake But Accurate—Jim Treacher
Yes, I suppose I should have known that. I guess my mind is still dwelling on the meager offerings in my Christmas stocking, especially when compared with my childrens’.
Contents of stocking:
1 stick deoderant
1 can of gel shaving cream (note: I hate gel shaving cream)
0 candy bars
1 candy cane pole big enough to club somebody over the head
6 marshmallow Santas (note: I hate marshmallow anythings)
1 pack of Juicy Fruit gum (note: not one 8 pack of gum, one pack with 5 lousy sticks)I would post the contents of my sons’ stockings but I’m not sure the comment space is fucking big enough. Please excuse my French.
Posted by wronwright on 2005 12 26 at 05:36 PM • permalink“Interesting; this individual would have been happy if some kid had been hauled away”
Yes, The Left would be. I really began to understand The New Left during Katrina. To them, every American death is a cause for celebration. It is a chance to attack their political rivals (who they are loosing against) and one less evil capitalist in the world.
Once you begin to see The Left as driven by nothing more than hatred and narcissism, their actions start to make sense.
Prediction: Leftist bloggers will outsmug their smug selves in celebrating Packer’s demise.
Posted by Mike Jericho on 2005 12 26 at 09:15 PM • permalinkFBA
Federal
Book
Authority
The sinister government agency hidden under Homeland Security that’s in charge of tracking down inappropriate readers by suborning their Social Security Numbers from libraries that don’t collect them…
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 12 26 at 10:00 PM • permalinkGood seasonal piece sending up Australia’s leftards by Gerard Henderson in the SMH:
The year began with much good news. It was soon evident that Julian Burnside QC had junked his idea “of leaving Australia if John Howard were re-elected” and “moving to New Zealand or Canada”. And the actor Toni Collette failed to honour her commitment to “slit my wrists if Howard gets in again”.
And both had a successful year in what some have called the Howard fascist police state (HFPS). Yet, in spite of such initial good tidings 2005 turned out to be replete with hyperbole, false prophesy and crass comment. Much like any other calendar year, alas.
Posted by walterplinge on 2005 12 26 at 10:49 PM • permalinkWronwright wrote:
Contents of stocking:
...
1 candy cane pole big enough to club somebody over the head
Will you get arrested if you carry that around outdoors in Lakemba?
Posted by Ted Schuerzinger on 2005 12 26 at 10:58 PM • permalink#6, #11: don’t leave the bolding jar open. we’ll be overrun by penny-pinching webdiarists
Posted by benson swears a lot on 2005 12 26 at 11:02 PM • permalinkIf you guys don’t watch it with the formatting I’ll turn it all off and you’ll have to beg on the streets for your bolds and italics and strikethroughs.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 12 26 at 11:21 PM • permalinkSo this week’s meme for the leftbots is going to be, what:
“Dammit! That Chimpy McHitlerburton is so incompetent he can’t even oppress a commie schoolboy!”
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 12 26 at 11:28 PM • permalinkThe moonbats swarming over Packers corpse.
http://blogs.smh.com.au/newsblog/archives/your_say/003121.html
Instapundit displays the news story that reports: the Professor Williams Of UMASS was the one who spread the story based, as he claims, on the report of a student in his program. Williams has refused to give the identity of the student. So everyone believes there is such a student, a belief founded on the word of a so-called professor of “Islamic Studies”. Can we give him any credibilty? He has spread a spectacularly stupid slander against the US government without any attempt to verify it. Once the Boston Globe refused to print it on the basis that is was not believable, this jackass “professor” saw the lie unravelling, and to avoid being exposed and dismissed, decided to get himself off the hook by blaming it all on a plastic student, at the same time making himself the hero of the exposure. The news report found in Instapundit reports that “Williams, an associate professor of Islamic history, said that the possibility the government was scrutinizing books borrowed by his students ‘disturbed me tremendously.’” Something that NEVER happened disturbed him, but he is not disturbed by something that DID happen, his lying or the lying of one of his “Islamic History” students. Why does it not surprise me that a scholar or student of Islamic History would consider that lying is an honorable act?
That would be more balanced. After all, there are plenty of lefties who either didn’t hear the story, didn’t believe it, or didn’t care about it.
So, you are all about “balance” now, DBO? Good. I’ll keep that in mind, hereafter.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 12 28 at 09:36 PM • permalinkOh, and it’s important to note that while many lefties didn’t believe it, Senator Edward “Jabba The Hut” Kennedy (D-MA) not only believed it, he brayed it out across the MSM in a column attributed to him personally.
I’m sure that you’ll understand if other balanced folks try to make sure that there really is balance in the truth.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 12 28 at 09:39 PM • permalink#47DBO. Dave S. is right on. To illusrtate how unnecessary, and even misleading, the inclusion of “some” is consider its inclusion in the following observations:
1. Some Americans were shocked by the murders of 9/11,
2. Some Americans were unemployed in the Great Depression
3. Some Germans supported Hitler in the ‘30s.
4. Some members of the Democratic Party do not support President Bush.
Now fill in some of your own.
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