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I saw a lefty idiot at the bus stop today. He had a Mao t-shirt and a “Free Tibet” badge. He’s a living breathing oxymoron.
Reminds me of the countless people who wear Che Guavera t-shirts at peace rallies.
I lived in Berkeley, Ca for several years, and I once saw a Chevy Corvair with a Nader for President bumper sticker.
My favourite would have to be “Queers for Palestine”.
Please offer your own examples of leftoid reality collisions in comments.
In another thread, leftard “kilo” (as in, “smokes it by the"), wrote:
your brave Andrea crushes Lefties by banning them...so obvioulsy freedom of speech aren’t high on her list of values and priciples.
This was one of about ten posts by banned-yet-somehow-still-visible kilo, along with a couple of snark-nuggets by old friend Miranda Divide, also weirdly visible through the banning.
I once saw a guy wearing a “Remember Carlo Giuliani!” (Genoa rioter shot attacking police trapped in a vehicle) memorial T-shirt that had all sorts of anti-capitalist and anti-globalization slogans on it, but he was wearing brand new, $200 Nikes.
Posted by withcheese on 2006 10 09 at 04:33 PM • permalinkI like the locals who cite “Rule of Law” as their guiding principle, then condone illegal immigration.
I have petitioned my City Council to have police stop referring to “stolen cars” in favor of “undocumented vehicles”. After all, the car did nothing wrong....
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2006 10 09 at 04:33 PM • permalinkThis may not exactly qualify, but in a global-warming argument that broke out on a motorcycle message board, one of the believers wrote:
“While I was in Alaska I saw, over a period of 4 years, glaciers that had been there for 10,000 years (they say) disappear. It sure seemed like big changes in a short period of time. The Native Alaskans have a LONG memory in this area and without exception told me they had seen things that they had never heard of happening before.”
I replied:
“Apparently their memories aren’t THAT long, when you consider how they got to Alaska in the first place.”
The Diocese of Wilmington (Delaware) has proudly backed every appeal written on behalf of every violent crminal that goes through the local justice systems. They enthusiastically backed a flurry of appeals based upon how a dearth of anaethesic is somehow inhumane. Then, in an elegent show of sympathy for victims and survivors of crime (in which they include the crminals’ family)they had the nerve to state that it would be great if the death penalty were to be abolished, since then the survivors wouldn’t have to endure the numerous appeals. That they initiated and/or supported.
I don’t know if this one is a reality collision of the left or classic chutzpah.
Ted Kennedy:
How do we deal with the 12 million law-abiding, tax-paying undocumented immigrants and their families in this country?... They deserve a fair chance to come out of the shadows and contribute fully and legally to our country.
They’re “law-abiding”, yet “undocumented” and not yet “contribut[ing] legally.”
When i was at the University of Virginia, one fine morning the Students for Palestine (or some such action group) built an “Israeli checkpoint” across a major footpath, and hassled students on their way to class. “This is what innocent Palestinians have to deal with every day!” they shouted.
Fortunately for the rest of us, they’d built their little barricade right next to the ROTC building. Around 11am a couple of Marines-in-training came out and, without saying a word, dismantled the roadblock. The protestors did nothing.
Please offer your own examples of leftoid reality collisions in comments.
How about oxymoronic, (no, no...not the definition, exactly) you look for “reality collisions”. Although “reality, collisions” is something to dream of, with the below named. Soooo, shoots my wad.
John...Kerry
Howard...Dean
Noam...Chomsky
Markos...Zuniga
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Blue Hen
Did I see you post something concerning, the Florida Gators?
If so...c-h-o-m-p...:).
"Free Tibet”, “Bush Lost!”, “No More War” and “Kerry-Edwards” bumper stickers on a $40K Volvo (now partially privatized, heh)on the I-5 in moonbat HQ Portland OR.
As the Cheryl Crow ditz sings: Isn’t it ironic?
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 10 09 at 05:07 PM • permalinkHizbollah flags and t-shirts at a “peace” rally.
Posted by neoZionoid on 2006 10 09 at 05:08 PM • permalinkGreen Left Weekly are currently supporting Donna Mulhearn and former commenting favourite here Bryan Law’s struggle against the war-mongering fascists in Alice Springs and at Pine Gap. GLW, communist scum that they are, are proudly standing up for a group calling itself ’Christians against ALL terrorism’.
Whatever it takes to kick a democracy, I s’pose.
I saw this hilarious leftoid reality collision the other day, it was all those dead bodies piling up in Bagdhad, little kiddies, women—the left claimed it was a civil war and that Bush was to blame! Oh, what a hoot! Turn it up! Haven’t heard a load of bull like that since “wag the dog”!
The laugh’s on the left of course, all those hacked, bloody and broken bodies are only Iraqis, not even Americans! Can you believe that? Well, all but 2700 or so aren’t Americans. But I wouldn’t trust those figures, I’m sure they’ve been doctored by Reuters or AP or The NYT or the Post or Philip Adams or Margo. Yeah, hard to really check, of course. No coverage of funerals for the fallen in this shindig.
Oh, and here’s a another good joke, Ann Coulter. Ha! Ha! Ha! That’s the best leftoid reality collision since Mark Foley. Man, no time to be a shirtlifter in the beltway, huh? Ya gotta laugh!!!
Posted by Miranda Divide on 2006 10 09 at 05:10 PM • permalink"I lived in Berkeley, Ca for several years...”
My condolences. My hometown is, to put it bluntly, a festering leftist boil on the ass of America.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 10 09 at 05:11 PM • permalink"Please offer your own examples of leftoid reality collisions in comments.”
I like the left loon position on gun control:
Amerikkka is a fascist dictatorship.
Only the government and its agents should be allowed to have firearms.
None too swift these leftys.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 10 09 at 05:13 PM • permalinkThe Exxon Valdez was repaired in a ship yard here. When the ship was ready to go back to sea, Greenpeace protested and brought out the troops to keep the ship from entering the waterway: Every petroleum-based “rubber” dingy was powered by a gas-guzzling motor; they all wore petroleum-based wet-suits; they all carried petroleum-based plastic banners decrying petroleum. It was all very entertaining.
>"Free Tibet”, “Bush Lost!”, “No More War” and “Kerry-Edwards” bumper stickers on a $40K Volvo (now partially privatized, heh)on the I-5 in moonbat HQ Portland OR.
#14—only 1 Volvo? I live in Lincoln Park, Chicago, a very well off, very liberal part of Chicago. I see MERCEDES AND BMWs with those stickers.
ALso, I think I am the only Republican in the US who owns a Volvo.
Oh, and the other hilarious leftoid reality collision is in Afghanistan where the insane godless unethical lying liberal media claim opium production has exploded! Next they’ll be saying nabbing UBL is important!
Posted by Miranda Divide on 2006 10 09 at 05:22 PM • permalinkI used to do a lot of work around Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Now, this is a popular place for the rich and famous. Thanks to the Teton Mountains, you have gorgeous scenary and recreational opprotunities galore, all year round. It’s also popular with tourists, Grand Teton National Park and Yellowstone National Park being just down the road, but that’s not the point of my story.
See, the rich and famous love to come there for their “solitude” and to “be with nature”. Well, it is a lot quieter than LA or NYC, I have to admit. And certainly there’s a lot of nature there, although it’s seriously spoiled by the multi-million dollar log cabins (seriously—click here for examples) with all the comforts of any urban area.
But that’s still not the story, either. See, there’s the wildlife. Just about everything indigenous to the region is there: bears, moose, elk, eagles, hawks, etc.
But especially, there are elk. The National Elk Refuge is there. Big tourist draw, winter and summer, and hunters as well.
But a lot of the rich and famous don’t allow hunting on their properties. To be fair, they don’t have to. But it does get a little extreme, as you will see.
And the elk, they ain’t stupid, they know where to go to for shelter. So there are a fair number of small herds scattered along the Snake River in the valley, living on the small
estatesranches there over the winter. Those are wild creatures, you see, so having them around is very environmental like. I have to admit, they are a pleasure to watch, especially when they come out of the early morning fog to cross the river in front of you, and the alpha bull has his eye on you all the while.(Elks are also very tasty!)
Well, one of the rich and famous had a fairly large piece of land, and a herd that was growing large. The state game department approached this person, and offered to cull the herd (i.e., shoot some of them), since the population had outgrown the natural food supply.
The rich and famous person turned down the offer, indignantly. Shoot his herd? Not only no, but hell no!
The game officials left quietly.
A few months later, the rich and famous person called them, and requested that they cull the herd. Seems the elk herd had eaten everything edible around the place, including bushes, flowers, trees, everything. They were even nibbling on the wooden siding of the house. The guy figured out just why culling the herd is a good idea.
The game department’s reply? “Sorry, we spent that budget a long time ago. You’re on your own until next year.”
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 10 09 at 05:23 PM • permalink"Mark Latham - Opportunity for All” stickers still plastered to several telegraph poles and backs of street signs not far to where I live.
Posted by Hank Reardon on 2006 10 09 at 05:26 PM • permalinkMiranda Divide speaks!
I respond:
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz....
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 10 09 at 05:26 PM • permalink22. No 237, there were a shitload of them, that one stood out, not to mention all the “9-11 was an inside job” t-shirts.
But here’s a good one for Miranda: 5000 Iraqi children a month (figure provided by the Left) were dying as a result of
UNUS sanctions. Bush ended that and its bad!
Now if Kerry had ended that, wouldn’t it have been the most “progressive” intervention ever? Fawn!Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 10 09 at 05:27 PM • permalinkHow about Americans driving Swedish, German, and Japanese made cars to anti-globalization riots (see Seattle, 1999).
Posted by David Crawford on 2006 10 09 at 05:28 PM • permalinkI remember reading about anti-corporation protests in NYC, during the 2004 Republican Convention, where the protestors went to McDonalds for lunch.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 10 09 at 05:31 PM • permalinkOh, yeah......and there’s the minor oxymoron of organized anarchists.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 10 09 at 05:33 PM • permalink"Oh, and the other hilarious leftoid reality collision is in Afghanistan where the insane godless unethical lying liberal media claim opium production has exploded!”
The idea that someone on planet earth is making a buck, and the socialists can’t tax it (i.e. get their cut) drives the leftys absolutely nuts.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 10 09 at 05:39 PM • permalink”...but then I’d never be rid of her.”
Scary.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 10 09 at 05:53 PM • permalink#27, We took our summer vacation to Jackson Hole this past June. Absolutely beautiful! We stayed two nights at Jackson Lake Lodge inside the Grand Teton National Park. Anyway, we signed up to take a 4-hour bus tour of the area. It about ruined the day. We had this ex-hippie from California as our bus driver/tour guide. He is the reason the expression “doom and gloom” was invented. He went on and on and on about how we evil tourists were destroying the area. He even went so far as to say we had no RIGHT to be there. My husband could take no more and finally said, “Dude, you wouldn’t have a job if it wasn’t for us tourists.” I wish you could have seen the look on that guy’s face.
ladcraig, the funny thing is, if that idiot had expressed that opinion to his employer, or to any member of the chamber of commerce, he would have been fired immediately. Everyone knows where the money comes from, and it ain’t from the rich and famous (who spend a lot, but not that much).
Characters like him move to Jackson to get away from the city, but somehow must have to have their expresso, salad bars, cable TV, and all those other amenities that he has that job to pay for. And they whine when they can’t get it. Living in the wilderness, my ass.
I hope you reported the turkey. If not, someone will. And I hope you enjoyed the trip to Jackson. It’s a tourist trap, but a fun one.
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 10 09 at 06:29 PM • permalinkHey… I own a Volvo and vote Republican, mostly! So leave off with the assumptions, ‘kay?
It’s a 1975 242 DL, and I have had it fixed in five western European countries and three US states. I’ve owned it since 1982, and it gets great gas milage. The only stickers on it are “Proud Parent of a US Marine”, a school sticker for my daughter’s Catholic high school, and one that says “My other vehicle is a Klingon Bird of Prey”.My favourite
"We Iranian-British academics and anti-war campaigners wish to express our deepest concern about the decision by the UK, France, Germany, US, Russia and China to report Iran to the UN security council."
Signed by Kate Hudson, of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
No doubt Kate was also thrilled by Buffon Boy’s decision to detonate the North Korean peninsular.
Posted by pommygranate on 2006 10 09 at 06:41 PM • permalinkSgt Mom (great name by the way, what our kids used to call my wife when she was on the clean bedroom warpath), absolutely no disrespect to Volvo owners. I happen to think they are great cars when they are free of latte-left sanctimony, as your vintage gem obviously is.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 10 09 at 06:59 PM • permalink"No War for Oil!” bumper sticker on Ford Expedition. Actual sighting.
Posted by Hucklebuck on 2006 10 09 at 07:05 PM • permalinkRoom 237, we’re almost neighbors. I live near Welles Park in Chicago, and Rahm Emanuel is my congressman (sigh).
In addition to the usual leftoid bumper stickers I’ve seen a new one, it just says ``1.20.09’’, which is, of course, the day President Bush will leave office. I find it odd that the people who claim to be so terrorized by Bushitler/Haliburton/whatever, still take it for granted that when that day comes, George Bush will just...leave. He won’t annul the election, declare himself Dictator for Life, or round up people who vote in Democratic primaries. He’ll just go home to Texas. They know that, but they still like to play ``Oooh, we’re so oppressed!’’ and talk as though they’re the Dutch underground hiding from the Nazis.
Idiots.
Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2006 10 09 at 07:07 PM • permalinkWhat about the teacher in a government school who has a prominent sticker on the back of her car that screams “SUPPORT GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS” but sends her own children to exclusive private schools?
Or the legion of unionists, churchpersons and other assorted dogooders who oppose globalization and urge more foreign aid?Leftoid reality collisions? Maybe I’ve been soured by living in nanny-state London, but surely Socialist Worker qualifies.
I love moonbats.
Examples of Greenies/Lefties actually doing hard abound.
To wit: Greenie Labor Governments locking land up into national parks then refusing controlled burn offs, Result: The Canberra conflagration of 2003 brought about because fuel loads were allowed to get out of hand. Have The Greens been prosecuted for this do we know?Greenies and Lefties are prolific writers and creaters of books. Books are printed on paper which is made from wood. Does any of this escape the Greens? Then they fly around the world flogging these books just like the best snake oil salesmen of the Old West.
When we run out of water because Green Labor Governments locked our rivers and catchment areas up and refused to build more storage (dams), where will we hold the Treason Trials? Treasonous betrayal of the Australian people that’s where we’re at.
And while I’m whining, photos of power stations always show what is supposed to be smoke belching into the sky. Theses are cooling towers emitting STEAM, not smoke. The dishonesty of all these people and their arguments is palpable.
I lived in Berkeley, Ca for several years, and I once saw a Chevy Corvair with a Nader for President bumper sticker.
Love that one.Posted by James Waterton on 2006 10 09 at 07:45 PM • permalinkI had a moron scream “no blood for oil!” at me once, out the window of a Lincoln Navigator.
I also have a regular MoveOnBot across the street who carries a sign, “Books, not Bombs” but refuses to condemn the Muslim murder of Thai school teachers.
Posted by richard mcenroe on 2006 10 09 at 07:57 PM • permalinkAmongst the Lebanese, Hizbollah, anti-Israel banners etc at a “peace” rally in Melbourne during the Israel-Lebanon war, I saw a girl I knew carrying a sign: Queers against State Terrorism.
She told me she didn’t know much about the issues but was marching against “state terrorism”.Posted by carpefraise on 2006 10 09 at 08:01 PM • permalinkHeard on Sky last night.
"Coral is dying out in the waters surrounding Australia because of global warming-related rises in sea temperature”.
Err… Australian sea temperatures are actually ...
Posted by pommygranate on 2006 10 09 at 08:18 PM • permalinkOT:
Andrea, have you by chance checked whether Kalli’s and kilo’s IP addresses match? The latter seems unusually concerned about the former’s fate a few threads back. (Oh, and kilo also admits s/he hoped for Saddam to defeat the US. What a charming piece of
dreckwork.)#66 - sorry - this is not strictly a lefty but is oxymoronic.
Ted Kennedy criticising waterboarding.
Posted by manbag's bagman on 2006 10 09 at 08:50 PM • permalinkI’ve always been mildly amused by Magic Happens! decals festooning the filthy rear windows of such conveyences as lurching Datsun 120Ys and creaking Renault 16s, well on their way to complete oxidation of the bodywork and with a miasma wafting from the leaky exhaust advising that a decoke and a set of rings wouldn’t have gone astray about a half-million kilometres back; obviously magic doesn’t extend to a toad/prince transformation of these old bangers into a Lexus or a Beemer.
Perhaps it’s magic that makes 300-odd bucks appear in their bank accounts once a fortnight, conjured by the wizard “Sentalinkk”, which keeps the drivers of these miraculous* motors in patchouli, goofy old lace clothes last worn by prostitutes working the Bathurst goldfields and macrobiotic brown rice which doesn’t actually make you live longer, it just seems to be longer because it’s so mind-numbingly, insufferably dull.
Oh- I left out the most obvious oxymoron in recent times- the large number of members of the perpetually outraged attending anti-IR ammendment rallies, complete with numerous septic facial piercings, cartoons adorning their pasty, filthy, flabby flesh and hairdos which look like a grenade has been let off in a Calcutta leprosy hospital matress; changed employment conditions aren’t normally a concern to those** with neither work history or future employment.
*Magic does seem to happen to the extent that these rust-o-cruisers remain mobile, having neither disintergrated in peak-hour traffic or been hauled off to the crusher after being apprehended by the usually numerous and virulent Transport Dept inspectors.
**This doesn’t take into account those in public employ, who are not held to standards of dress, behaviour and/or performance that actual working individuals are, neither are they subject to the new Industrial Relations regime.
#67—
I have no problem with Ted criticising waterboarding (I think it is henious also).
But Ted Kennedy has a dog named Splash.
http://www.professorbainbridge.com/2006/01/kennedys_dog.html
Andrea, have you by chance checked whether Kalli’s and kilo’s IP addresses match? The latter seems unusually concerned about the former’s fate a few threads back.
No. I must admit that right now I don’t care. Maybe after this virus or whatever it is finally runs its course I’ll care about life again. (Expect that to be sometime in 2011.)
It’s pretty funny, though, that kilokalliwhatever seems to think my “trophy room” actually exists.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 10 09 at 08:56 PM • permalinkI love these leftist based oxymorons:
Being a feminist and being passionate for Aborigianl tribal living.
Ranting about Stare schools but sending your children to Private ones.
Owning a Prius to ‘make a difference’ but travelling Business Class and staying in a 5 star hotel where the towels are changed twice a day.
Being pasionate about Multiculturalism, loving the new Bangladeshi take away in Brunswick, shuddering at the thought of actually living there.
Being passionate about ‘Free Tibet’ but chuffing off down to Bunnings to get a new, cheap garden set and a drill that are made in China.
Oh I forgot—Miranda! Congratulations! You made it all the way to the top post! I knew you wouldn’t let me down. There’s a brave little troll.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 10 09 at 08:57 PM • permalinkA little while after 9/11 happened, my university had an outdoor memorial service for the victims. The ROTC conducted a flag ceremony, which was very moving I thought. That very afternoon, some little lefty snot-nose sent around an email on the listserv complaining that “the military” should not have been allowed to take part in the ceremony, since “the military” had nothing to do with the Twin Towers. I answered on the listserv, presuming that he had forgotten the Pentagon, and someone else answered that we had just been attacked in a blatant act of war, so why would we not respond militarily? The little bastard never had an answer for us.
The greens supporter who was sitting in his air conditioned BMW whith the engine running and door open handing out how to vote cards.
He had strung up a big (PVC) banner above him tied to some poor suffering trees.The banner read “Green not greed”.
Another of my peeves is people who support refugees but are completely opposed to doing anything to change the countries they are fleeing from.
Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2006 10 09 at 09:11 PM • permalink#76, if you are a lefty, your response would be (a) The USA.
#69, ‘Magic Happens’, chuckle, that’s a good pick up.
It reminds me of when I was an impressionable lad, traveling home from school on the, bursting, snail paced 389. ‘She’ (the lady) would have been about 20 stone easily, and was covered in a kaftan of sorts decorated in pentagrams, stars and other cosmic goodies. Best of all, this lady had cut two large holes in her voluminous garment from which ‘popped’ two very, and I mean very large breasts. This shrinking violet also adorned her eyes with enough gold and blue eye shadow to make Mimi from the Drew Carey show, look like a fox.
I think she conducted astological readings at the junction. Either that or she was Headmistress of the local state high school, which explained a lot.
I never read my stars without thinking about whatever became of her?#70 - Waterboarding example was more tongue in cheek.
IMHO, waterboarding is an excellent technique for interrogation - though granted I wouldn’t want it to happen to me (which it won’t since I have no intention of engaging in or supporting terrorism)
Another one:
Multiculturalists opposed to Family First and other Judeo-Christian religious activists.
Posted by manbag's bagman on 2006 10 09 at 09:15 PM • permalinkSorry, this isn’t terribly punchy, but my personal favorite occurred at a party after a international business style consulting seminar here in Japan:
After an 8 hour session, all of the students and instructors convened in an on-site lounge. Within five minutes of his entry (so intoxication can be no excuse), the Canadian guy launches into a rabid anti-American harangue.
First was the very imaginative, “George Bush is an idiot.”I later heard, “THIRTY PERCENT of the entire U.S. is owned outright by Israel and Saudi Arabia!” (the “outright,” I thought, was a very nice touch) I wondered if that was a joint Saudi-Israeli venture. Seriously, it was as though the guy was reciting message board topics from MoveOn.org. There was also a brief interlude about Canadian rednecks, Albertans mainly, who didn’t even support gay marriage! (Funny, in that there are few topics which Japanese find more absurd than gay marriage).
During his show, our Chinese counterpart, a pleasant young woman from Jilin province, who had earlier made a very complimentary (and surprising) comment to me about Americans, drifted in and settled into his circle. He began to converse mainly with (at) her, expecting, I imagine, a sympathetic audience. For all I know, she may have been, but there were no perceptible signs of assent on her part.
Anyway, the really hilarious part was when he, in a very loud voice, dripping with indignation, said, “We Canadians, are not going to spend our tax money on weapons!” The self-congratulatory smugness aside, I was most impressed by the the wonderful irony of his attempted commiserating and lamenting the concept of national military buildup with a subject of The People’s Republic of CHINA! (Yeah, George Bush is the idiot).
The young lady, to her credit, just nodded politely.
Hal Colebatch in today’s The Australian has this to say about one of the Liberal’s rats in the ranks. It beggars belief:-
“Little remarked, however, is the following episode from September 2005. The Howard-hating Margo Kingston, author of Not Happy, John!, visited Perth in an attempt to set up a local branch of her anti-Howard Webdiary. Judi Moylan, believe it or not, launched the enterprise with a glowing speech at the University of Western Australia, claiming “I love Webdiary,” and “My old friend Margo Kingston is an exemplar of the heroic, skilful and conscience-driven professionals ...” Kingston, remember, had been intimately involved in a campaign to unseat Howard in Bennelong in the 2004 election.”
And Moylan is a so-called Liberal. God help us.
When I was a student, I went to a rally with a woman dressed as a tampon. Back in those days, we were “queers” (in the postmodern let’s not define our sexuality sense) against everything. “Queers Against the Howard Government and those annoying wrappers on Chupa-Chups” was a popular one.
Another women’s rally I went to featured an Aboriginal woman who spoke about how women are made from Adam’s rib. I think it was a “reality collision” for the organisers to hear that Aboriginal females aren’t necessarily on their side in every way.
Gotta love Miranda and her ilk. They’re the lot that those of us who do the real work keep both safe and employed so they can live in their leftist fantasy land.
As I say about the left - Spending time learning simply takes away from time spent forming opinions.
Posted by Jack Lacton on 2006 10 09 at 09:30 PM • permalinkI gotta give it the writer to The Age etc who signs off “The Anarchist media Institute” or something like that.
On the Volvo issue, looking for a new car for Mrs Razor - things have been going pretty well so time to get her something nice, so I gave her the choice from Merc ML 350, BMW X5, Audi whatever, Vovlo, anything arround that price range - she chose the Volvo XC 90. She is happy and so am I - nice vehicle and $20k cheaper than the competitors.
Judi Moylan, Petro Georgiou, Bruce Baird etc. should be stripped of their Liberal pre-selection. The Liberal Party is a broad church, but a certain set of beliefs should be compulsory.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 10 09 at 09:32 PM • permalinkThe French. Countless examples, but for one, contrast their action in Cote d’Ivoire with their words on Iraq.
The United Nations:
- accelerating war by talking peace,
- Libya being elected head of the (now-defunct) UN Human Rights Commission with Sudan, China as members,
... not enough room on the world’s servers to list them all ...Posted by manbag's bagman on 2006 10 09 at 09:38 PM • permalink80. Manbag, we waterboard our own aircrews in resistance training, and have since the 60’s, including through several (gasp) Democrat administrations (torturing bastards!). I can tell you from practical experience as a “trainee” that you will sell out your own mother after just a minute or so. The sensation of drowning is quite real (and quite harmless). Therefore I have no social compunction about our government using it on the worst shitheads the terror industry can produce.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 10 09 at 09:39 PM • permalink"It’s pretty funny, though, that kilokalliwhatever seems to think my “trophy room” actually exists. “ - Andrea
Yeah, s/he’ll think its funny when his/her head is hanging in it.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 10 09 at 09:44 PM • permalinkIslam = Religion of Peace. Now that’s funny!
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 10 09 at 09:46 PM • permalinkLeftoids are the people who are simultaneously:
a) Opposed to polluting the environment
b) Opposed to nuclear powerPosted by Stone Cold on 2006 10 09 at 09:58 PM • permalinkMy personal favourite - a lefty friend of mine over dim-sum some years back claimed that democracy wasn’t the ideal form of government and why should we force it on the Iraqis? We should ask them what they want, he said.
That’s a democracy, I said.
Posted by Texas Ranger on 2006 10 09 at 10:01 PM • permalinkI just can’t go past the hippy Commie driving around Cann River with flowers all over it and stickers including stop Omega, save the rainforests and save the environment. At the same time it is blowing more black smoke out of its exhaust than a Latrobe Valley power station.
Oh, and there is this gem from Bolt’s blog in the comment section:
So for the administration to justify implementing this plan fully it needs to give an immpression that the US could face a nuclear threat from some “rogue state”.
That’s one of the problems with Democracy, everything has to be approved by the people ,as George Dubya said “If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.”
We should be starting to get the picture now of what the US is up too, and why it’s in their interest to allow NK and Iran to develop their Nuclear weapons. Knowing full well they could eliminate these guys at any time if they wanted to.The rest of the post is just as insane. If he is taking drugs he needs to stop or he needs to take the drugs the doctor told him to take.
This one’s a bit obscure, but: a moonbat lesbian I used to work with was virulent about plans to import some Thai elephants into Australia, how cruel this was, etc. etc. When her zookeeper girlfriend got a job with this importation scheme, the moonbat changed her tune 180 degrees literally overnight. These imports were vital to the breeding programme, biodiversity, species survival, etc.
#89 - Van Com ... agree.
Allegedly, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sang like a canary when he was waterboarded the first time.
Posted by manbag's bagman on 2006 10 09 at 10:10 PM • permalinkJust a couple for you, I used to be involved in student politics (I know it is shameful).
Labor left shirts saying: Feminism, socialism, freedom, democracy. Can anyone else see the incompatibilities.
These same people, and those further left having meetings (to do deals) at McDonalds.
The “tolerant” far left radicals threatening to rape female members of the unity (labor right. Members of the same group including those of the womens caucus faction and waving coathangers at them because they did not support abortion.
#29
Any Jew driving a car with a “War is not the answer” bumpersticker.
Are you sure it didn’t say “Warsaw is not the answer”?
#48
The most obvious one: DPR - Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
As a general rule, any country with the word “Democratic” in its name, isn’t.
#85
I gotta give it the writer to The Age etc who signs off “The Anarchist media Institute” or something like that.
That would be Joseph Toscano.
#98 - I think we have a winner.
Surely this qualifies:
Radical Islam does at times[inspire horrific acts of mass murder] but so does radical Christianity. Let’s not forget that the fundamentalist Christians in the US are pushing for more war in the Middle East so that they can have their Armageddon.
Roslyn Ross at Webdiary. And just about everything else this woman writes.
When I lived in Germany in the late 90s, I ran into some guy at a party who found out I was American (I speak German fluently, so it wasn’t immediately obvious) and who then cornered me and went into a full-on rant about the evils of genetically modified food and how eeeeevil Amerikkkan kkkorporations were plotting to give everyone cancer by forcing them to consume Frankenfood.
The fact that he was chain-smoking Marlboros the whole time didn’t even seem to register with him.
I just nodded and smiled and savored the irony.
How about this one from The Daily Telegraph
Winning war is no victory
Silly me I thought winning meant a victory.
The capacity of the human mind to accept the irrational, unbelievable, unlikely or impossible is what makes most religions work. Just as some people can believe without question that a guy living in a cave in Afghanistan (believe me, I know how satellite phones don’t work) planned and co-ordinated the most flawlessly executed attack on American soil by a bunch of failed pilots armed with boxcutters ..... so there will be people out there who believe that Islam, from its poverty stricken, economically disadvantaged, tyrannically governed depths can rise up to overthrow the rest of the world.
The sane people of the world ... know that Islam, Al Qaeda, or whatever Moslem are not a threat to the world, not a threat to our ‘way of life’ and not a threat to civilization.
Same woman, same place, same thread pontificating about sanity, commonsense and the rational. Elsewhere she preaches about honesty. I could go on and on ... She does. Enough.
And why are Lefties, and Leftie “ideas”, called “progressive”?
I can’t see any hint of progress or advancement in socialist doctrines.
Posted by Honkie Hammer on 2006 10 09 at 10:57 PM • permalinkJeff_S, I once got money out of the student government at the University of Illinois by organizing the “Anarchist Precision Drill Team.” We (all three of us, actually) met all the requirements of a ‘registered student group’ such as a proper constitution, officers, etc, it was just that none of them made any sense.
Our stated purpose was to “meet whenever and wherever any member wants to and to march in any diretion whatsoever at the desire of each member.” After a lot of head-scratching and worrying, but unable to actually find any way to get us stopped, we were grudgingly (I think they thought we were ‘having them on’) awarded (budgeted for) $50, which we managed to find a semi-legal way to spend for beer. (We found it inspired and enhanced our anarchist marching ability.)
Posted by JorgXMcKie on 2006 10 09 at 11:15 PM • permalink# 103
Don’t mention the war!!!!!
Seriously, that was the great thing about living in Germany--whenever a conversation would build to a yipping near-orgasmic frenzy of anti-Americanism, I would simply quirk one eyebrow and say,
“But you were the NAZIS.”
I know, I know--extremely childish on my part, but it was fun to watch their faces turn red…
#106 geoff
Thanks so much for introducing me to Ros and Webdiary
Some more Rospeak
It is all very sad, very sick and very dangerous. As most people in the world have come to believe our real enemy is not Islam but George Bush’s America.
She’s an expert in everything! Religion and religious customs, politics, and what everyone in the whole world thinks
Must be a cabbie I reckon
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2006 10 09 at 11:25 PM • permalinkI remember having an argument with a leftie in a tutorial at uni (some of them used to take economics electives now and then) about funding for the arts (the example was opera).
I pointed out that, by supporting arts funding, she was supporting a form of upper class welfare since it subsidised activities favoured by wealthy people at the expense of poor taxpayers. Her head exploded and she never came back.
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 10 09 at 11:28 PM • permalinkre #108, LOL, Jorge! Wish I had thought of that at my school, but, alas, I did not.....
Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2006 10 09 at 11:41 PM • permalink#8: Blue Hen, you better hunt for another diocese. The priest at the new church I’m attending here in Occupied Northern Virginia stunned me by delivering a sermon celebrating -celebrating, mind you - the anniversary of the victory of Christendom over the Ottoman Turks in the Battle of Lepanto! It was like walking into an air conditioned room after going for a 10 mile hike in a steamy jungle - refreshing beyond words.
#112 Having a “Baby on Board” sticker on your car window in a country where the temperature drops (and stays) below zero is a bloody good idea, 1.618.
Many infants and toddlers have been saved that might otherwise have died had First Responders not known they were in the car after a road accident.
Mind you, I never saw the point of displaying them in, say Queensland.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 10 10 at 12:07 AM • permalink#118 Wel, paco, me old china plate, they’re still popular in Saskatoon, eh?
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 10 10 at 12:19 AM • permalink"Vote the Environment” bumper stickers on gas guzzling SUVs are popular in Northern California. Ya just gotta shake your head in disbelief....
Posted by Jim,MtnViewCA,USA on 2006 10 10 at 12:20 AM • permalink#106- a quick google has come up with a few items, including this one featuring an apparent travelogue about the Grand Canyon which rapidly descends into global warming gibberish (warning, there are photos).
Looks like she’s yet another SA based menopausal ‘60s/’70s activist who’s never had an actual paying job, but thanks to the benevolence of conservative taxpaying slobs like us gets to swan about the planet in fossil fuel-burning products of global capitalism, returning only to pen mostly unread, irrational, turgid but earnest screeds repeating parrotlike every half-baked left/hippy bit of dogma ever to enter her tiny mind.
What is it with Adelaide? Was there some sort of terrible cloning experiment embarked on there during the Dunstan years, to produce an army of strident, visually challenging harpies to ensure the re-election of the ALP and drive phallocentric patriarchs and their minions into Spencer Gulf?
Jeebus- when are some of these ageing hippy dipshits going to start vapour-locking and finally doing something beneficial for Mother Gaiea (as mulch)?
#119: In “The Paris of the Prairies”? No doubt.
Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait - a -minute. Something just sank in. Wronwright is a tax attorney?!? Hell, everytime I turn around I find myself dropping into a lower IQ percentile on this blog. Pretty soon I’ll be down there with bongoman and the other lower primates.
#121, there’s an incredible anti-semitic moonbat from Brisbane on the Australian site. He’s so barking mad, I originally thought he was one of you guys having a laugh.
Here’s a sample:
Merv of Brisbane
10/10 at 09:39 AM
Good Lord, The Australian has done it yet again: there’s the skewed and outspoken Michael Burd, snarling Jonathan Ariel and Robert Friedman, Jewish lads to the end of their circumcised appendages, trying to up the ante of hate directed at those of other sovereign lands, independent souls who the Yanks have fingered for “reformation by deceit”, a touch of applied brainwashing at the point of a gun, and a dollop of Yankee domination for decades to come.Daniel Lewis has been taking him on in recent weeks with logic (which has no doubt caused his spittle-flecked rants to become even more unhinged).
Posted by Art Vandelay on 2006 10 10 at 12:55 AM • permalinkThe most obvious example I’ve seen recently was a car plastered with all manner of moonbat bumper stickers (right down to the Kucinich ‘04 sticker in the middle of the bumper.) Normally, such things wouldn’t warrant any particular attention around here, but this car happened to be parked in front of a Wal-Mart.
I suspect this is commonplace, it’s happened to me on three or four occasions:
Someone enthusiastically explains how capitalists, Republicans, Rupert Murdoch or Dubya or whoever controls the television media. The poor dumb masses don’t know better because everything on TV is controlled by the right.
The same people then proudly announce that they don’t own a television. Never watch it. Never read newspapers, either, they’re all controlled by Murdoch and Howard too.
Habib at #69. You state “This doesn’t take into account those in public employ, who are not held to standards of dress, behaviour and/or performance that actual working individuals are, neither are they subject to the new Industrial Relations regime”
I take umbrage. Was in public emloy all my life, but was strongly held to standards of dress, behaviour and performance. Most Navies are a teensy bit old fashioned, call it picky if you will, in these regards.
Cheers
RodCYet another car story: About a month ago, I parked next to a new Hummer H2 festooned with anti-Bush, anti-War stickers. There were so many of them I thought that they were either (a) vandalism; or (b) a joke by the owner. Upon further consideration, and knowing the addled liberal mind, I decided the messages were probably heartfelt. Didn’t quite understand the magnetic stick-on bird droppings, though.
Pretty amazing story (at #115), Paco. How long did it take for CAIR to complain?
Posted by Polish Frizzle on 2006 10 10 at 01:21 AM • permalinkspeaking of lefty nonsense, I just watched the first episode of season 3 of Battlestar Gallactica. What a load of rabid leftist anti-american propaganda! The utopian human society (Iraq) has been invaded by the evil cylons (America). The humans have formed an “insurgency” and are using suicide bombers. No shit. They actually use the same words and phrases. The cylons are even recruiting humans as police to do their dirty work. Humans doing the work of cylons? “It makes me want to puke!” says one character.
That was my assessment of the show.Posted by daddy dave on 2006 10 10 at 01:24 AM • permalinkI’ve always had a soft spot for people who protest against GMO food, but then demand stem cell research. “Leave the vegetables alone! Feel free to mess with the foetus’s!”
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 10 10 at 01:35 AM • permalinkHey, Trexkilla, I’m UVA as well - Darden.
Posted by Phatso Phil on 2006 10 10 at 02:20 AM • permalink#113 ellen,
My brother couldn’t resist and bought me this spiffing Che shirt for my birthday.
Here’s an even better one.
Posted by Spiny Norman on 2006 10 10 at 02:29 AM • permalink#17
Hey, who shat on this thread? Oh, it’s Moronda’s verbal diarrhea. Let us see what it has to say.Well! Yup, #38 Dave S seems to have nailed it, dead batteries. Moronda, dear, you really should wire up to the mains!
“I saw this hilarious leftoid reality collision the other day, it was all those dead bodies piling up in Bagdhad, little kiddies, women—the left claimed it was a civil war and that Bush was to blame! Oh, what a hoot! Turn it up! “
How blatantly racist. Moronda thinks it dreadful that a national socialist has been removed. Moronda thinks it appalling that the education system and hospitals have been rebuilt. How unfair to Moronda that the UN’s sanctions are not allowed to keep killing lots of little brown people while Kofi rakes in the cash from Saddam. And how DARE those little brown people aspire to what Moronda has! Don’t they know their place?
“Haven’t heard a load of bull like that since “wag the dog”! “
Moronda dear, even battery powered friends are more hygenic that bovine and canine ‘special friends’. But whatever floats your boat, princess.
“The laugh’s on the left of course, all those hacked, bloody and broken bodies are only Iraqis, not even Americans! Can you believe that? “
Here we see the true Moronda. How exciting it must be for her to release even that much of her true inner racism. Did it give you a little frisson of joy, dear?
“Well, all but 2700 or so aren’t Americans.”
How disappointing for you, Moronda. Nothing you like more than dead Americans - at least you are being open in your hate.
“But I wouldn’t trust those figures, I’m sure they’ve been doctored by Reuters or AP or The NYT or the Post or Philip Adams or Margo. Yeah, hard to really check, of course. No coverage of funerals for the fallen in this shindig.”
No? Then you really have been paying no attention Moronda. How left of you....
“Oh, and here’s a another good joke, Ann Coulter. Ha! Ha! Ha!”
Yes, dear, she does look so much more attractive than you. The little green dragon of jealousy, eh?
“That’s the best leftoid reality collision since Mark Foley. Man, no time to be a shirtlifter in the beltway, huh? Ya gotta laugh!!! “
At last we see Moronda’s real feelings towards gays. Surprise, surprise, she is a howling homophobe. How relieved you must be, Moronda, to let that one escape. Tell me, did it make you all damp to be able to reveal your true hatred of the “shirtlifter”, to quote your own homophobic invective?
Of course, Moronda is also a hypocrite, as well as a racists and homophobe, because this sort of thing seems to be just fine with her:
“In 1983, Representative Gerry Studds, Democrat of Massachusetts, admitted to having sex with a 17-year-old male page. He was censured by the House of Representatives. During the vote, which he was compelled by House rules to be present for, Studds turned his back on the House to show his contempt for his colleagues’ reprimand. He was not expelled from the Democratic Caucus. In fact, he was his party’s nominee in the next election in his district--and the next five after that--winning reelection each time. He remained in the bosom of the Democratic Caucus in the House for the next 13 years.”
So, creepy IM’s and dubious emails from a US gay conservative Congressman to a teenager? Moronda wants to burn him at the stake - kill the fag, she’ll be screaming. Actual physical buggery of a teenager by a gay US leftie congressman? Hey, that’s perfectly OK by Moronda!So a typical unsavoury Moronda trifecta. It has shown itself to be a racist homophobic hypocrite, all in one single lump of foulness on this thread.
What a nice creature Moronda is!
MarkL
Canberra#131, esp sad to hear of the insipid BG season 3, as I recall in the original BG a bunch of diplomats signed some sort of “Peace in our Time” treaty that left humanity helpless against attack and the tiny remnants of the human population was forced to go into permanent flight.
Now THAT is a realistic premise for a plotline.Posted by Jim,MtnViewCA,USA on 2006 10 10 at 04:22 AM • permalinkI was doing a weeks landscaping work for a mate, at his place just north of Byron Bay, supervising a couple of locals (that were being paid cash-in-hand while collecting the dole).
As hippy-baitng goes, it was like shooting fish in a barrel.
Me: “It’s their choice to work in Nike sweatshops.”
Them: “They don’t have a choice. It’s either that or starve to death.”
Me: “Well, isn’t that a nice choice to have.”#44 SgtMom
Hey… I own a Volvo and vote Republican ... The only stickers on it are “Proud Parent of a US Marine”, a school sticker for my daughter’s Catholic high school, and one that says “My other vehicle is a Klingon Bird of Prey”.
What?
(checks inventory list)
SgtMom, would you please return that Warbird. You were only lent that for the weekend.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 10 10 at 06:03 AM • permalinkI remember flicking through channels and noticing a “Concert for Beslan” on SBS. It was hosted by Molly Meldrum (For those not in Australia - He’s an openly gay pop critic and reviewer/interviewer of musical celebs)
Molly was wearing a Che t-shirt. So in other words he idolised a guy who, as one of his first acts as head of the Cuban state secret police, built the Guanahacabibes forced labour camp. This was where he put enemies of the state - such as homosexuals (they’re now used for HIV and AIDS sufferers).
Che also introduced laws whereby anyone found guilty (or just accused) of “Crimes against revolutionary morals” could be sent to the camps. One way to violates the moral code was to listen to rock music.
Posted by Fragglerocker on 2006 10 10 at 06:32 AM • permalinkThe activists at UWA have given me a few good laughs. Socialist Alliance are hard to beat - they put up posters for meetings with topics like “The Relevance of Marxism in the 21st Century.” Oh, I get it. This is Marxism’s century. Bad news for all those people slaughtered in its name last century.
A while back the students had a protest in the city and trotted off to stand outside the offices of BHP Billiton and boo. These same young men and women leave the open spaces around campus looking like a garbage truck just exploded - but at least they know where to go when they want a job next year.Posted by SwinishCapitalist on 2006 10 10 at 07:38 AM • permalink#151: Sgt Mom - bless you and your Marine child. My son’s shipping out today for Parris Island (after several delays). We took him out for a farewell dinner last night, and he was so nervous he could hardly touch his food. He said it wasn’t the basic training that bothered him, it was that whole getting up at 4:30 am thing!
Leftoid reality collision: kilo pretending to care about Jews and free speech.
Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 10 10 at 08:16 AM • permalinkI’m UVA too.
My mother used to wear her fox and mink coat while driving around town in her SUV and its Greenpeace sticker, but she’s more confused than leftoid.
Posted by Mr. Bingley on 2006 10 10 at 08:26 AM • permalinkThank you for your good wishes, Paco… and all the best for your son! It will be probably the most challenging thing he will ever try to do.
My daughter finished two hitches, and then decided what she really wanted to do was to study veterinary medicine, which she is doing now on the GI Bill… and she learned that laser-focus on her goals and determination to achieve them as a Marine.daddy dave, don’t give up on the sublime BSG. Great, great show.
The utopian human society (Iraq)
Not utopian - a failing state that never should have been founded there. A result of Baltar’s power play and manipulation by Six.
has been invaded by the evil cylons (America).
There’s no real indication that the Cylons are the bad guys and humans the good guys - why was the original war fought in the past? Human abuse of the Cylons? The human characters have shown themselves to be less than admirable on many occasions, while the Cylons seem rather obsessed with love and God. And it’s Six and Sharon who are trying desperately to get humans and Cylons to co-exist.
It’s my feeling that Cylon pathologies are a result of emotional immaturity and abuse at the hands of their parents (humans).
The humans have formed an “insurgency” and are using suicide bombers.
The character who insisted on this tactic (Tigh) is one of the most unsympathetic on the show. He’s facing opposition to the tactic from other characters, but even they realize it’s unfortunately effective.
I wouldn’t read too much into this. The writers have always avoided easy answers and facile lessons. I’m giving it the benefit of the doubt.
I was in the centre of Brisbane during the “Yay Saddam, Boo Bush” rallies on St Valentines Day 2003. There were Che shirts as far as the eye could see; I recall thinking that this was not at all hypocritical since the majority of those were overtly supporting a murdering fascist. Not that the lack of irony would have dawned upon the any of the leftards at the rally.
Anyhow, after the rallies had finished, the crowd descended upon the Queen Street mall area and did something which I wasn’t quite expecting but, on second thoughts, made perfect sense when considering the leftoid mentality: they went straight to those bastions of American capitalism and cultural hegemony - McDonalds, Hungry Jacks (Burger King), KFC etc - purchased thousands upon thousands of dollars worth of food, verbally abused the teenage workers behind the counter, stuffed themselves full of burgers and fries, and left the whole area - both public and private areas - like a pigstye.
The word “hypocrisy” does not even begin to describe this event.
Forgot this one. We were called to fly in to a Wilderness Area at about 8000 feet years ago to pick up a hiker with a broken ankle. Fairly gnarly with shifting winds, etc. Got there and it turned out this was a Sierra Club outing. We landed and the crewchief and corpsman got out to treat and prepare the vic for transport, only to be verbally labasted by said group for landing a Navy helicopter in a Wilderness Area, a helicopter they had called, to rescue their own dumbass fellow greeniac. A lesser outfit than ours would have packed up, dusted them off with a little rotor wash, and left.
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 10 10 at 10:08 AM • permalinkThanks Dave S, I will give Battlestar Gallactica a second chance. I’m hoping you’re right.
Posted by daddy dave on 2006 10 10 at 10:22 AM • permalink#126
His name is M erv Bartl ett and unfortunately he is quite genuine. Formatting of his name deliberately buggered in case he Googles for his own name, you do NOT want him turning up here, believe me.Earlier today, he was praising the Almighty for the Australian’s blog page as finally he can say what’s on his mind (about Jeeeews) without being “stifled”.
This cartoon has him summed right up.
For what it’s worth, unlike some on that site, at least he’s up front about hating Jews. None of this “some of my best friends” business like Patricia Phil lipou, another regular at The Oz who seems to have been scared away for now by arguments that repeating a mere slogan couldn’t adequately rebut. Merv’s a bit more tenacious however, unemployment must be exhausting…
Not an option murph. This was a domestic operation. We were only armed when flying overseas, even during the evil Reagan administration!
Posted by Vanguard of the Commentariat on 2006 10 10 at 10:36 AM • permalinkHe’s certainly no lefty, but whenever the usually sane Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson returns from America, he always whines about how over-regulated everything is. This from a man who lives in a freaking European Union member state.
While we’re on the subject of cars: the Canadian Auto Workers’ union will preach day and night about the evils of American big business - but God forbid you buy a Honda or Toyota instead of a Chevy or a Ford (built by CAW and/or UAW members, you see).
#152, Paco, best wishes to your son as he begins boot camp. My dad was at Parris Island for his training back in 1966 right before he went to Vietnam. He still talks about boot camp. I will say a prayer for you and your family. It has got to be tough sending your kid off, but I respect and admire your son for what he is doing.
#3 Aaron, no economic justice surely means keeping the money you earn, rather than having stolen by the state.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 10 10 at 12:14 PM • permalink
No, wronwright… I have the receipts, the Klingon Bird of Prey is mine for every other weekend through ‘08.— #151 SgtMomWhat?!!!!!!! What are you talking about? (walks over to Hanger 13, begins counting Birds of Prey, Warbirds, and Andorian Destroyers)
Aiieeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyye! I’m missing one. Wait, no, I’m missing three!
Wronwright, SgtMom is correct. Hey, what choice did we have? We were bribed with home made still-warm double chocolate chip biscuits.... #155 MarkL
Mark, listen carefully. I have to report this to Karl Rove. If I die, you die. You better start praying SgtMom isn’t commiting piracy in the trade routes.
And find me those other 2 missing battleships!
Posted by wronwright on 2006 10 10 at 12:44 PM • permalinkI don’t know if anyone has linked to it yet, but it seems that the guys at No Pasaran are on the same kick as Tim this week.
Che and mobile phones - not sure that was ever in the manifesto.
Posted by Villeurbanne on 2006 10 10 at 12:57 PM • permalink(deep, pained sigh) No, Wronwright… I am not out committing piracy on the trade routes every other weekend.
We have properly authorized Letters of Marque to operate as a privateer… and I have a permit for the thermonuclear device, also. Not to worry… but you’ll find Karl Rove already knows.
Oops, said too much. Never mind.
``Allegedly, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed sang like a canary when he was waterboarded the first time.’’
Two words: Brazilian wax. And you won’t need to bother with waterboarding or anything else.
Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2006 10 10 at 02:39 PM • permalinkI once was watching some reality show on t.v. (Can’t believe I admitted that). Anyway, there was a new-age hippy chick on there who was a vegan. She was jibber-jabbering and crying on about how we humans have no right to eat eggs - that eggs were chicken abortions. Still scratching my head on that one.
Paco-a few years ago I had a buddy who went to Parris Island for boot camp. I wrote to him and sent him military jokes pretty regularly which I think helped his morale. Here’s a good one as a sample:
It seems that a new recruit ran off from boot camp after less than a week but he didn’t get far. After the sentries caught him, he is brought back to his platoon where the drill sergeant demands to know why he tried to run.
“Well,” the young man says, “on the first day you issued me a hairbrush and then they cut off all my hair. On the second day you issued me a toothbrush and then they pulled all my teeth.”
The private pauses, collects his thoughts and then continues, “Yesterday you issued me a jockstrap.”
#125,
When I was in college, in the mid 1980s, I saw a poster for the 17th Annual Anarchist’s Coffeehouse.... 17th Annual?
Posted by Major John on 2006 10 10 at 04:43 PM • permalink#139, #142, #143: I gave the example of Jews for Jesus in #66 and acknowledged in #67 it wasn’t a lefty thing - just oxymoronic.
#142: Jews for Jesus are a denomination of Christianity - see here. Hence this is an oxymoron.
And by being oxymoronic, ergo they could be considered moonbats.
Posted by manbag's bagman on 2006 10 10 at 08:09 PM • permalinkNo, wronwright… I have the receipts, the Klingon Bird of Prey is mine for every other weekend through ‘08.— #151 SgtMom
What?!!!!!!! What are you talking about? (walks over to Hanger 13, begins counting Birds of Prey, Warbirds, and Andorian Destroyers)Aiieeeeeyyyyyyyyyyyyye! I’m missing one. Wait, no, I’m missing three!
Umm, Wron, it’s four. You forgot about the Gerovian pleasure liner, y’remember, it calls itself If you two are going to carry on like that you can both go outside! (the shipmind is somewhat… irreverant, but it is still where the bathtubs always run with champagne).
Karl approved it’s use for a Minion “Strength through Joy” cruise to the Horsehead Nebula. He was quite pleased with me for organising those Letters of Marque and Reprisal.
Mark, listen carefully. I have to report this to Karl Rove. If I die, you die. You better start praying SgtMom isn’t commiting piracy in the trade routes. And find me those other 2 missing battleships!
Wron, didn’t you get the memo? Karl has the Warbird - although why he named it “Tweety” and had us paint it yellow is beyond me - and the Andorian destroyer is our escort. It’s having an affair with the liner. I believe that Karl and SgtMom are working the Yarrow Cluster this week. Good pickings over there as a result of the war.
Hey, look at that! I never knew Antares was that colour! ... and I need a refill for the brandy snifter.
And don’t worry about SgtMom’s small nuke. Karl ... ummm… borrowed it from her. He was giggling (very darkly and in a sinister manner!!!). Something about “Beijing was going to have a cow” and “That poofy little bugger with the weird hair was gonna get his”.
He gave her an antimatter planet-buster in exchange, so fair is fair.
MarkL
Minionmeister-on-leaveMy personal favorite: I once saw a car at an anti-logging protest with the bumper sticker “Split wood, not atoms”.
Posted by Ken Summers on 2006 10 11 at 09:24 AM • permalink
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Kevin drum did a post recently on the need for democrates to push for “Economic Justice”, which would be that same as advocating Karma.