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First the freezing marched against warming:

Tens of thousands of people ignored frigid temperatures Saturday to lead a worldwide day of protest against global warming.

Then the tolerant shouted down the intolerant:

Conservative columnist Ann Coulter gave up trying to finish a speech at the University of Connecticut on Wednesday night when boos and jeers from the audience became overwhelming ... They criticized her for spreading a message of hate and intolerance.

And now a would-be power saviour has been brought down by a power outage:

Widespread power outages struck Zimbabwe on Tuesday, blacking out much of President Robert Mugabe’s state of the nation address in which he promised to address the country’s chronic electricity shortages.

All of this means something, probably.

Posted by Tim B. on 12/08/2005 at 10:59 AM
  1. A chronic electricity shortage is right twice a day.

    Posted by rhhardin on 2005 12 08 at 12:37 PM • permalink

  2. The anti-Coulter group was called (cough) Students Against Hate. It’s shit like this that makes it hell for satirists

    Posted by beautifulatrocities on 2005 12 08 at 02:02 PM • permalink

  3. It means we are in the midst of plenty!  Plenty of silliness, hypocracy and North Korean style economic management…

    Posted by Major John on 2005 12 08 at 02:10 PM • permalink

  4. It’s all God’s sense of humor. Or maybe Karl Rove’s.

    Posted by paco on 2005 12 08 at 02:34 PM • permalink

  5. Students Against Hate? How drab. They should call themselves:

    Students
    Against
    Dastardly
    Behavior,
    Annoying
    Speech
    Tics,
    And
    Republicans
    Doing
    Stuff

    Posted by Jim Treacher on 2005 12 08 at 03:01 PM • permalink

  6. #5: Whether or not they call themselves that, I’ve been using the acronym to describe them for years.

    Posted by paco on 2005 12 08 at 03:04 PM • permalink

  7. Really, #6?

    I’ve been using

    Annoying
    Students
    Shouting
    Hate
    Over
    Lucid
    Eloquent
    Speakers

    :-D

    Posted by Barbara Skolaut on 2005 12 08 at 03:37 PM • permalink

  8. Thatcher’s remarkable achievements will never be recognised by those on the Port side, but secretly they miss her, as the punk and folk music industries have been almost starved of material until Iraq The Sequel.

    Posted by Henry boy on 2005 12 08 at 04:28 PM • permalink

  9. It’s the End Times, I’m telling you.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2005 12 08 at 04:30 PM • permalink

  10. Leftoids
    Organizing
    Outrageous
    Nutjob
    Stunts

    Posted by Chris L. on 2005 12 08 at 04:43 PM • permalink

  11. Silly
    Ignorant
    Commie
    Knobbers
    Finding
    Unity
    Castigating
    Knockout
    Sexkitten

    David Horowitz told me years ago that this was all part of the left’s longstanding protocols at speeches by opponents. Shout them down. The same thuggery capitalised on by Lenin and passed down generation by generation to the current ignorant mob. David expected it to turn against him when he had his Second Thoughts. He was right.

    And so is RebeccaH. It is the End Times.

    Posted by ekw on 2005 12 08 at 04:55 PM • permalink

  12. I liked the ABC’s unconscious comedy in referring to Montreal swampies staging ‘heated’ protests.

    Posted by cuckoo on 2005 12 08 at 05:34 PM • permalink

  13. when boos and jeers from the audience became overwhelming.
    Yes, I am always greatly impressed by the commitment to free speech that the left claims ownership of.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2005 12 08 at 05:34 PM • permalink

  14. Show irony and pity.

    Posted by Butch on 2005 12 08 at 05:56 PM • permalink

  15. There’s a pattern, alright. It’s called Leftists keeping each other stupid.

    You Australians have no idea how funny a Global Warming conference in Montreal is. The icy wind is unbearable. It is extremely difficult to look stylish at 30 below (F or C, your choice.) So even the Liberals wear fur coats.

    Aussie to Yank glossary needed. Swampy = ?

    Posted by HelenW on 2005 12 08 at 07:00 PM • permalink

  16. Tim and HelenW,

    Am I missing something here? Are you saying that just because there is still cold weather found here on earth there can not possibly be global warming?

    Isn’t that as stupid and as peurile as the doomsayers who point to every hot day as proof of the phenomenon?

    Or are you just trying to mimic them?

    Posted by wombatas on 2005 12 08 at 07:12 PM • permalink

  17. Protesting “global warming” while freezing one’s ass off = irony. Irony is fun and notable.

    Saying “We’re doomed! Global warming!” when it’s a hot day or a hurricane hits is just dumb. Not notable or funny.

    See the difference?

    Posted by Dave S. on 2005 12 08 at 07:43 PM • permalink

  18. I don’t think that someone who calls him or herself “wombat ass” has a very sensitive irony meter. Then again, maybe that name is evidence of a deeper and more subtle sense of humor than we Right Wing Death Beasts are capable of appreciating. But I wouldn’t bet on it.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2005 12 08 at 07:55 PM • permalink

  19. The treatment of Ann Coulter is a clear example of a case where torture is justified, not only as a condign punishment but also to extract the names of the ring-leaders.  The shouters?  Cut their tongues out.  The pie throwers?  Lop off their right hand.  You don’t see this sort of rabble in countries with good governments.

    Posted by Rider on 2005 12 08 at 08:18 PM • permalink

  20. Please Andrea, let us welcome all Margolian castaways. I’d be in a mood too if Tim went on a This-is-the-End dummy spit.

    TY, Dave. Your answer bests mine. Being right is the perfect antidote for being shallow.

    Wombatas, I don’t ever pretend to be a Lefty. For years I battled them in earnest. It got me nothing. So I declared victory, and just laugh at them now. That’s why I enjoy this blog. Tim and I are kindred spirits in mirth.

    Posted by HelenW on 2005 12 08 at 08:48 PM • permalink

  21. The treatment of Ann Coulter is a clear example of a case where torture is justified, not only as a condign punishment but also to extract the names of the ring-leaders.  The shouters?  Cut their tongues out.  The pie throwers?  Lop off their right hand.  You don’t see this sort of rabble in countries with good governments.

    Let me translate from Moonbat:

    “Leftists shout down and throw things at people whom they don’t agree with rather than allow them to speak. Therefore, right-wingers are fascists.”

    Perfectly logical.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2005 12 08 at 09:21 PM • permalink

  22. That’s a mighty fine example of a Left-Wing Shrieking Non-Sequitur Misdirection Snark that Rider gave us right there. Textbook, really. I’m going to try one:

    “Michael Moore owns stock in Halliburton and Noam Chomsky has a $2,000,000 trust fund. That’s why we have to imprison homosexuals and keep women in the kitchen. That’s how Jesus wants it.”

    Posted by Dave S. on 2005 12 08 at 09:29 PM • permalink

  23. All of this means something, probably

    Yeah, it means that left-wingers think “1984” is a doubleplusgood textbook.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2005 12 08 at 09:32 PM • permalink

  24. Mystery of the Sodding Swampy revealed

    Posted by Carl H on 2005 12 08 at 09:43 PM • permalink

  25. This global warming thing is playing havoc witht the weather here in Perth.  We’ve just had the coldest December week in living memory.

    Not stupid and puerile, wombat breath.  Oafish and infantile.

    Posted by slammer on 2005 12 08 at 10:24 PM • permalink

  26. TCS has an excellent article about the Greenpeace’s S.O.S. (Sod-Off Swampy!) incident, complete with specifics regarding the etymology of “swampy.” Now if someone could explain what a “barrow boy spiv” is . . .

    February 16, 2005: Greenpeace storms London oil market, decisively repulsed by Cockney barrow boy spivs.

    What a great day that was; I propose memorializing it. Can anyone think of a catchy title for this anniversary?

    Posted by DrZin on 2005 12 08 at 10:42 PM • permalink

  27. spiv - One, usually unemployed, who lives by one’s wits.

    Barrow boy - a hawker of fruits and vegetables (from within a ‘hand barrow’ or ‘wheel barrow’)

    Posted by Carl H on 2005 12 08 at 11:04 PM • permalink

  28. Dave S — Maybe Rider is from that rightwing parody site none of us can open…

    Posted by richard mcenroe on 2005 12 08 at 11:41 PM • permalink

  29. #18: Actually it’s ‘wombatas’ not ‘wombat ass’ or even ‘wombat arse’, one word, and the stress is on the second syllable, which has a long ‘a’ vowel.

    Hope that doesn’t sound like nitpicking, but if it does it will be right at home on this site!

    Posted by wombatas on 2005 12 09 at 01:47 AM • permalink

  30. Thanks for the correction, wombat ass.  We do strive for accuracy in reporting.  Just ask Mary Mapes.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2005 12 09 at 02:06 AM • permalink

  31. I’m cutting wom-BATE-as slack just for this:

    “...the doomsayers who point to every hot day as proof of the phenomenon?”

    So, he’s got some sense, just an underdeveloped appreciation of irony.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2005 12 09 at 02:27 AM • permalink

  32. OK, I just got through explaining to someone on another thread about Irony. It means the art of taking wrinkles out of shirts and slacks, or the results of that activity, as in, “See how nice and smooth this shirt is? Good irony.” Or, “How good is your irony? Can you do crepe?” There is another meaning, less often seen, which has to do with making things out of base ores. I don’t know why that is so difficult for some people to understand.

    Posted by ekw on 2005 12 09 at 04:25 AM • permalink

  33. And this is who they were hooting: No Wonder!

    Posted by Geoffrey MG on 2005 12 09 at 04:46 AM • permalink

  34. I read the name as Wombat as. As in, I’m as wombat as you are.
    I don’t know why someone would want to be known as a wombat (eats roots and leaves), but I guess somebody wanted that name.

    And now they’re here!

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2005 12 09 at 06:14 AM • permalink

  35. THE ALCOHOL-SWALLOWERS HATE. THEY ARE THE HATERS.

    AKBAR THE GREAT

    Posted by AKBAR THE GREAT! on 2005 12 09 at 06:35 AM • permalink

  36. 16 Or are you just trying to mimic them?
    Whereas you, on the other hand paw, are trying to do what? Bring enlightenment, joy, your own slant on humour - or just trying on some comments in the hope that you will be recognised as a towering intellect? I have to break it to you that this approach has been tried ad nauseum by many before you and the result is always that you and your reputation are really going nowhere.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2005 12 09 at 06:48 AM • permalink

  37. There goes the neighbourhood.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2005 12 09 at 06:49 AM • permalink

  38. Holy crap, Akbar is back. And just like last time, he put his work email address in his profile. Wonder how long it’ll be until that’s changed to a Hotmail address (again), how that I’ve mentioned it (again)...

    I still never have figured out if “Akbar” is supposed to be some kind of underground satire act, btw. Could you enlighten me, Mike? It would be much easier to play off of you if we were in on the joke, and all that…

    Posted by PW on 2005 12 09 at 03:49 PM • permalink

  39. THE GOAT WOOERS HATE! THEY ARE THE HATERS!

    PACO THE NOT-GREAT-PARTICULARLY-BUT-OK

    Posted by paco on 2005 12 09 at 04:56 PM • permalink

  40. I don’t know why someone would want to be known as a wombat (eats roots and leaves)

    Y’know, if you put a comma between “eats” and “roots”, it sounds like an Australian dream date.

    Posted by Dave S. on 2005 12 09 at 05:15 PM • permalink

  41. Dave S.

    Genius, that.

    Posted by ekw on 2005 12 09 at 05:44 PM • permalink

  42. It crossed my mind, Dave, ekw, but I thought I should probably be a bit polite, like.

    Surely we’re all growed up enough to see the line.

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2005 12 09 at 05:56 PM • permalink

  43. It’s pretty close to an American dream date, too. I’m sure Nilk had to get rid of a few loaves who were snuffling about in her patch. Of the woods. So to speak.

    Oops.

    Posted by ekw on 2005 12 09 at 08:26 PM • permalink

  44. It’s pretty close to an American dream date, too.

    Except for the vocabulary. Root? The girl would get pretty confused if between eating and leaving, you painted her nickname on your chest and yelled, “SCOOOORE!”

    Posted by Dave S. on 2005 12 10 at 12:53 AM • permalink

  45. Actually, in my high school days in Los Angeles, we used to call our ermm, heh, instrument, our “root.” But we didn’t use it as a verb. So I can see how it could be verbized (ooh, that’s a bad word, doesn’t even exist. How’s ‘enverbulated’ sound? Yeah. Anyone know what the word describing the taking of a noun and turning it into a verb is?), especially by Australians who have a brilliant ability to coin words and phrases that just make great sense. At least they do once you get the whole Oz thing. Which you really have to go down there to do.

    Posted by ekw on 2005 12 10 at 01:16 AM • permalink

  46. Yeah - enverbulated sounds good. There was once a left movement to discredit police evidence which centred around the phrase “police verbal”. This was supposed to devalue the evidence given by police if it was just a “record of interview”.
    It became a standard low-life complaint to say that you had been “verballed”.
    These days with video evidence it is harder to deny that you are a worthless, lying scumbag (if in fact you are, and have been video’d in character)

    Posted by blogstrop on 2005 12 10 at 07:02 AM • permalink

  47. Indeed,ekw. I’ll keep the details to myself, though.

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2005 12 10 at 07:04 AM • permalink

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