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A candidacy of zero-substance built on lies? PRICELESS! (Click my name, baby!)
Obama ?
Burn of the week!
THAT WASNT FUNNY,
STOP THINKING THAT BECAUSE YOU THOUGHT IT WAS FUNNY,
IT IS APPROPRIATE TO LABEL SOMETHING AS BURN OF THE WEEK,
ESPECIALLY SINCE YOU HAVE NO SAY IN WHAT BECOMES THE BURN OF THE WEEK.
Pssst, use your inside voice please.
some guy? more like some idiot.
some guy == n8’s alt.
Here’s a little info for you before you take your meds. We don’t do burn of the week here. You’ll want to take yourself over to failblog for that. I’m sure they’ll appreciate your wit and intelligence.
So, how’s that “No Child Left Behind” working for ya there, GOP?
The American Staffordshire Terrier and Staffordshire Bull Terrier are considered to be “Pit Bull”. Search for these breeds and see a dog looking exactly like the one in the drawing.
Dog identification fail. i know my amstaff looks nothing like a BULLDOG!
This one does, click on my name. Also, from what I read Pit’s are a cross between bulldogs and terriors, so they aren’t all that far off anyway.
All that doesn’t matter. That sign is full of FAIL.
Except for the fact that she said “Pit Bull” and the dog in that picture is
probably just a trace over of the Marines Devil Dog. Which is Bull Dog…
Semantics aside… its the wrong dog.
I can show you many AmStaff/American Pit Bull Terriers that looks like English bulldogs, but that doesn’t mean that they’re *supposed* to look like that. Any well-respected Pit breeder would never look at that dog as an example of the breed. I’m not trying to prove you wrong or anything like that. That picture is indeed a picture of a Pit. I’m just saying that it’s hardly representative and a bit of an insult to those of us that love the breed.
*that LOOK like
oops…
again doesnt look like a bull dog, completly different facial, and body structure, again i say to you, fail.
And what is this terrior you speak of?
Plus a Staffordshire Bull Terrier is NOT a Pit Bull Terrier. Ask ANY owner of either.
No, a Staffie isn’t a APBT, but they *do* get lumped into the general category of ‘pitbull’. It’s a silly generalization, but since the quote isn’t ‘Pit Bull Terrier’ with lipstick, I’m willing to let ema calling the dog in the pic a ‘pitbull’ slide.
Lol, I must’ve been drinking last night, I didn’t even notice that the dog in the pic was a Staffie – I just thought it was a horribly bred AmStaff.
Not convincing me that picture you found of the pit bull looks like that bulldog they painted. Trust me they painted a bulldog. We had 2 rival schools in high school that were bulldogs, that’s EXACTLY what there mascot looked like.
No Child Left Behind is heavily supported by democrats, not the GOP. Bush just happens to be quite liberal on educational issues.
Well, now you’ve done it ! Confusing them with facts ! ( Libs going all spidermonkey in 3..2..1..)
So you mean the liberal heavy profession of education, which hates NCLB, really stands behind it? Great logic leap there.
NCLB is horribly flawed, but since it’s only a recent development, everyone going “LOL No Child Left Behind working great??” on every mistaken sign lol is a bit… off. This probably wasn’t made by a kid. And unless the Nixon administration had NCLB, I don’t think the GOP had anything to do with the educational background of current supporters.
Indeed. But logic rarely suits those who do not seek it.
Understanding of sign making fun of stupid liberals FAIL
Well, since you’ve favored us with your genius, maybe you could point out how it does that. I’m really interested to know, since it doesn’t seem to address “liberals” at all. If anything it seems to be very much enthusiastic about lipstick, and maybe about pit bulls, but if that were the case you’d think they’d at least have gotten the picture right.
So do, please, share your brilliance.
BURN.
nope, I’m good, ponder on
No need for further pondering, the conclusion is obvious.
Obviously
Obviously it couldn’t be about making a rebuttal to a stupid remark about pigs…. no, that would be too obvious. But then again, who wants to take responsibility for erroneous statements
Yeah, -that’s- what that sign is about. If you believe that, then you’re… well, you’re as smart as the president, so that’s a mark in your favor. But let’s say, for argument’s sake, that Obama’s use of that phrase marks him as a sexist. (It doesn’t, for the record.) How then does McCain’s use of the EXACT SAME PHRASE (click my name for the link, it goes to a major newspaper, not a blog) reflect on him?
So what does the sign say? I must have been “left behind”
The sign is nothing but what it purports to be: a show of support for Gov. Palin, using a graphic of the wrong breed of dog. She was hailed as a pit-bull wearing lipstick, the sign represents support for her as such. I imagine it lauds her (perceived) twin virtues of tenacity and femininity.
The lipstick on a pig issue is completely fabricated and you know it. McCain used that phrase himself earlier this year and Cheney has used it as well.
Are you saying the very word lipstick is now sexist?
What happened to Palin’s statements that any woman in this position is doing no one a favor by whining about sexism? Or does that only count if it is directed at Hilary? Obviously the GOP doesn’t credit Palin with the Ovarial fortitude to defend herself.
Ovarial fortitude. I like that.
Agreed.
I have to agree with jellybrains here. I have not seen where the “lipstick” thing was any sort of attack whatsoever. I always thought the “lipstick on a pig” thing was a common phrase. Maybe it’s regional. I dunno.
I’d've liked it better had Barack used the phrase “sticking feathers up your butt doesn’t make you a chicken.”
Don’t leave out that McCain used the exact same remark about pigs referring to Hilary’s policies a while back. Hypocrisy fail.
You’d think if it was a rebuttal to a comment about pigs, then there would be, I dunno, a freakin pig on it?
no im good ponder on just means,
no ive got nothing to say,
youve beaten me,
but i refuse to say this,
so ill pretend to superior in intelligence,
and let you ponder over something i said that frankly made no sence to me in the first place,
that is until im able to devise a proper retort.
Typical right-winger. All insults and bluster, backs down and refuses to explain when called on their BS.
Typical liberal, can’t read between the lines and needs to be spoon fed everything they “believe”
I’m still waiting for you to provide anything of substance, or indeed anything besides baseless schoolyard insults.
Look up…. sorry, forgot to spoon feed
Ah, thought you were just talking to yourself again.
I did look up. I see no good explaination for your statement. Even if the sign was intended as a jab at liberals (which, given repugs’ fondness for resorting to schoolyard insults every chance they get, I’ll admit is possible) that doesn’t not change the fact that the sign depicts a BULLDOG, not a PITBULL.
And frankly, Sarah Palin needs to cool it with the pit bull talk. The poor animals have a bad enough rep as it is. Oh that’s right, in addition to women and her own children, Palin also hates animals.
Obama hates white people. Sorry, I thought we were making random false statements…
No, sweetie, that’s what you’re doing. Goodness, you are just PRECIOUS.
More like living up to his nickname.
oh shit this chick just burned you,
hope of brought the aloe
But she does obviously hate animals. She falsified (look it up) the reports on polar bears to try and keep them from being put on the endangered list. She fought bitterly against public records requests to see those scientist’s reports because they did in fact say polar bear numbers are too low.
She supports and PAYS for aerial hunting of bears and wolves and instituted a bounty for severed forelegs. Aerial hunting is against the federal law by the way.
does she hate animals because she hunts? because that’s really the only reason I can come up as to why you would say that
I have no problem with hunting for food. Trophy hunting sickens me but if you are going to eat what you kill then I have no objections. AS LONG AS IT IS A CLEAN KILL. Palin’s brand of hunting calls for wolves to be chased by plane as they flee in terror with no where to hide. They are shot with buckshot and die in agony. Then they are just trophy kills to keep the moose population high for tourists. She supports cruelty and even pays people to do it.
Also, one of her friends said in an interview that Palin hates cats. She didn’t elaborate on why or how much she hates them.
The pogrom on wolves is disgusting enough. Add to it the “Red Riding Hood” ad that interplays Obama and a stalking wolf, then shows sweet, innocent Palin being viciously attacked… Apart from the failures of both fact and critical thinking, it reinforces the stereotype of wolves being sinister, diabolical beasts that need to be extirpated.
(I’ll leave alone for now my lack of surprise with comparing the Afro-American with a ’savage beast’.)
I believe he is saying the sign is intentionally wrong because obviously liberals would not know the difference in breeds.
But let’s hear the explanation for the RNC sign “Keeping Amercia Strong” Or maybe the delightfully intolerant “Make English the Offical Language”
Couldn’t help wondering if your misspelling of “Ameirca” was intentional there…
It’s the way it was spelled on a sign held by a participant at the Republican convention.
But I believe the sign in question actually read “Keeping Ameirca Strong”, not “Keeping Amercia Strong” as jellybeans quoted it above. Call me pedantic…
Oh, and
gotcha!
Their strategy is “smear & jeer.” There’s no provision for backing up anything, just move on to the next lie.
So thats why 90% of the entries on this site are of “right-wingers” “smearing” Sen. Obama….. oh, thats right…. I forgot which site I was on….
You’re off a bit… it’s 90% of the comments on this site BY right-wingers.
Ah, the left-wingers don’t feel the need to respond to the smear of the actual entry.
The entry itself is not a smear to liberals, it’s pointing out that the repug sign maker can’t tell the difference between a pit bull and a bull dog. Funny how you don’t seem to feel the need to respond to that very obvious fact.
This is a debate, don’t bring silly ideas like facts or logic into this… That’s just crazy talk anyway. >_>
Maybe you guys need to vote for some anti liberal lols. It isn’t our fault that pugs do so many things that can be made into mocking pictures. It isn’t our fault that you pick candidates that lend themselves beautifully to so many jokes. It isn’t our fault that in general you are all humorless sacks of crap.
I have some honest to god Obama lolz but I gets no love or I guess they aren’t funny or mean enough. I just find McCain easier to blast with my wicked humor.
Careful Jelly, I don’t think it’s a good idea to encourage idiots to vote.
GET A BRAIN! MORANS
(c) 2003 fark.com
Get a spell checker! Moron
*facepalm*
DUH is just being true to his name n8.
*sigh*
Best fail all day.
That was the point. -_-
Oh my goodness. LOL!! That made my day!
Dude puts the “B” back in “Subtle”
there’s a difference?
Talk about spoon feeding!! DUH, the widdle airpwane is coming in for a wanding in the widdle hangar . . .
Obvious sign error aside……… which was the main theme of this photo…….. I personally think Palin’s self denigrating referral of herself and those of her ilk to a Pitbull was a gross error in judgement. As for this reference being a symbol of her tenacity …….. WRONG ! A Border Collie is tenacious whereas a Pitbull is aggressive and vicious. Perhaps the Pitbull symbol is quite apt for her but certainly not attractive or showcaseing abilities of leadership. I think it is too bad that when women rise to a position of competition with men that they feel they have to emulate the masculine gender in a sad attempt to emasculate their male opponent. Palin may be biologically female but she does not represent the vast majority of women with her sharp tongued cutting remarks, her sneers and her ‘doggedness’, This is the same attitude that turned people off Hillary. A ball-bustin’ female is sooooo unattractive and soooooo ineffective in the long run.
I found her referring to herself as a “gal” to be utterly ridiculous and demeaning to other women. Of course sexism is ducky when it comes FROM the GOP.
Not sure about where you live (probably Europe), but in many regions “gal” is an endearing term, not a derogatory one.
You might want to check with some of the “gals” in your area. Could be they don’t like it near as much as you boys think they do.
Do men get offended when they are referred to as “guys”? The term “gal” doesn’t bother me at all.
Since they use the term themselves regularly, I doubt they are too offended. It’s all about context anyway.
It doesn’t need to be derogatory to be ‘ridiculous and demeaning’ though; in fact in this context it’s precisely its endearment-ness that jellybeans has the problem with, I should think.
I live in Virginia – Painting it Blue Baby!
I think in context it was ridiculous – being that she was at the RNC giving a speech for VP. I found it demeaning in the same way I think “Aw Shucks, I’m just a cowpoke” would also be demeaning. It isn’t so much the word as where it is used.
If you want to play dumb do it on your own time not when you are running for public office. I think the American people deserve the “A” game when it comes to candidates running for office. I want to hear issues and solutions not just “I hunt moose and hate me some polar bears!”
I have no problem with her calling herself a chick, gal, broad or babe on her own time just not in that setting.
PS – if Obama called her a “gal” I bet Ema would be screaming blue murder along with the other conservatives. It is totally about context.
Kinda like when he called the reporter “sweetie”?
A Border Collie is tenacious whereas a Pitbull is aggressive and vicious
I’m really glad you know every Pitbull in America to be able to say that the entire breed is “vicious”. People like you are the reason these poor animals are given such a shitty reputation. Maybe if you did some research on the low-class humans who MAKE them vicious for money and entertainment, you’d have a half a clue.
Considering how Palin is acting, I am wondering what low class humans turned her into an attack dog for money and entertainment…
/snicker
You’re welcome.
No, the ones that are supposedly “tame” just before they maul a small child are the reason they are given such a shitty reputation.
AS much as I personally agree that not every pitbull is vicious, some are quite sweet and adorable, they were bred to fight. Just as terriers were bred to kill. Both types of animal have sweet natured, kind and gentle exceptions, however they are not the rule. In general you look to what the animal was bred for. why pitbulls get picked on, but not terriers is beyond me.
because most terriers are fairly small and don’t make good ring dogs. People abuse pitbulls and turn them mean to get them to fight in illegal dogfights. Pitbulls get a rep as being vicious because of this and because some sick owners get a thrill out of owning mean dogs so they MAKE them mean.
Exactly. I was watching that special on Michael Vick’s dogs & they were saying that the owners are in the ring telling them ‘good boy good boy’ so that they’d fight harder because pit bulls are actually very loyal dogs who want to please their owners, which totally sucks. My friend had a pit bull & she was so cool. I totally trusted her around my son with no worries. I always referred to her as an oversized cat.
Ya, I find dogs in general are what you make out of them in terms of extreme behavior. They are living critters and thus react to treatment and upbringing.
Certain breeds do have tendencies towards certain behaviours, but they are just tendencies, and can be overcome with proper treatment of the animal. Also, all pets do have their own personality.
Thanks for backing me where I didn’t iterate. Personality is a big thing and that can be helped with proper treatment. I mean I have the tendency to be a dominating and oddball pervert but… Umm…
Damn, I had a point around here somewhere.
“… You know, they say the difference between a Hockey Mom and a Pitbull? … Lipstick.” — Sarah Palin
I doubt that she had the picture of a loving and devoted family pet in mind when she made this statement. The truth is, she has reinforced the negative stereotype of this great breed and now secured it in America’s culture. This will be on the “highlight reel” of American politics for years to come, you can be sure.
TOTALLY. My pit mix is afraid of mice.
My 50 pound pit bull mix (looks like a slightly smaller APBT) is terrified of our eight pound cat, and she’s one of the sweetest dogs you’ll ever meet. Not all of us raise our dogs to be aggressive.
Not sure if anyone noticed but there were buttons on the lapels of convention-goers that read, “Hottest VP from the Coolest State,” and, “”Hoosiers for the hot chick.” She clearly has no problem with tossing her self-respect out the window and is quite willing to allow herself to be exploited by the patriarchal GOP. (Note that her policies reflect this as well.) The fact that the republicans have the gall to accuse ANYONE of sexism is astonishing.
What you just said is way too long to fit on one but I want that on a bumper sticker. Bravo!
Border collies are obsessive and rather yappy, not tenacious. I can growl at a BC and get it to back off. Hold up a stick, and there’s hardly anything else that matters to a BC, until you poke it. Poke a Pibble, or growl at him, and he ignores it. Pibbles concentrate on their task and ignore anything else, except their gods (pibbles take TRUE ownership several levels above any other breed). If their god wants the pit to fight, then the pit will fight until he’s told to stop. If the pit has a weak “owner,” then the pit’ll take over. A pit’s attitude depends on his owner.
But otherwise, I agree with you.
I’ve heard people from some regions use the words “pitbull” and “bulldog” interchangeably, so it may just be a regional slang thing.
Nevertheless, this is still funny for the rest of us.
This is just LAME!
Fascist writer Westbrook Pegler, an avowed racist who Sarah Palin approvingly quoted in her acceptance speech for the moral superiority of small town values, expressed his fervent hope about my father, Robert F. Kennedy, as he contemplated his own run for the presidency in 1965, that “some white patriot of the Southern tier will spatter his spoonful of brains in pubic premises before the snow flies.”
It might be worth asking Governor Palin for a tally of the other favorites from her reading list.
-Robert Kennedy Jr
Assuming of course that she does read anything other than Vogue and AIP literature
Gee ! If Palin had been a Democrat and was the VP pick, why do I get the feeling you would be having a love fest over her? But she’s a Republican, therefore inherently evil and must be hated.
if she was a liberal she wouldn’t have quoted a known fascist and she would not have such right wing crazy views and wouldn’t have tried to ban “Daddy’s Roommate” when she was a council member.
So in closing – if Sara Palin was a completely different person and did not espouse any of her current beliefs and did not have all these assorted scandals and investigations hanging over her head; yes, I might like her.
FLIP
If Palin was a liberal woman running for democrat VP I am betting you would have laughed your ass off at the lipstick comment and would be dragging her family through the mud even worse than the dems did.
On that note … where are all the pictures of Bristol Palin underage drinking while knocked up? Come on PK, I know they are out there!
Looking for more reasons to go after the girl?
I’m no McCain/Palin supporter, but the fact that some of you people keep bringing up the woman’s daughters behavior as some kind of reflection of her parenting skills is rather laughable. It’s basically just a huge “Ive never raised a teenager!” sign hanging around your neck. It’s really tacky to go after someones family, and I’d think you’d want to stay above that kind of crap, especially in a campaign where the Republitrons have been so negative.
Maybe I’m wrong, but everytime I see one of your comments jellybeans I want to vote for McCain just to spite you, even though there’s probably only 1 or 2 policies I agree with him on. Not doing a very good job campaigning for your cause then, are you?
Seems to me like someone’s under-age children’s behavior is a really good indication of someone’s parenting skills. A better question would be whether or not someone’s parenting skills are a good indication of their vice-presidential skills.
I understand that “every family has problems with teenagers.” I get it.
The difference here is that Palin wants to impose HER idea of how to raise children on the rest of us, and that leaves her and her family open for examination.
Palin supports an “Abstinence Only” policy, which is foolish and dangerous. Theis follows the Bush administration’s advancement of Reagan’s “Mexico City Policy”, one of the greatest incubators for the spread of AIDS in Africa. Go to
“The Mexico City Policy, also known as the Global Gag Rule[1], is a United States government policy which requires all non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that receive federal funding to refrain from performing or promoting abortion services in other countries. It was in place from 1984 until 1993 and again since 2001.”
Bristol’s pregnancy is one of the best examples of how flawed the policy is.
Sorry for the typos. I was editing and the comment was mangled.
“Bristol’s pregnancy is one of the best examples of how flawed the policy is.”
I keep seeing people say that, and I happen to agree that abstinence-only education is flawed, but the fact is a 17 year old girl knows about birth control and condoms. I don’t care what sex ed they were taught, or what their parents have taught them. They know about birth control methods just from watching TV and from friends. She was the one stupid enough to not use them. And regardless of what SHE was taught, _HE_ should have known better!
With regards to her policies, yes I disagree with them, but I’m satisfied with saying that it’s easier to get a kid to use contraceptive methods than it is to keep them from having sex. Go with what is most likely to work, not least likely. I don’t need to repeatedly attack her, or claim that because she talks about her family it gives me the right to trash her kids.
I mean come on, her views are pretty far to the right, there is NO need to drag her kid into it if you want to find something to criticize her on.
Just want to say that a number of churches and promise ring programs like Silver RIng Thing teach that condoms do not work. So the teens that do break their promise, which is somewhere in the ballpark of 65% within 12 months will not use a condom because they have been brainwashed to think that they don’t work. They also teach that birth control is an abortificant, which is not true, and thus would conflict with thier pro-life stance. So, yes, they should have know about contraception. However, if they were informed with facts, which I doubt looking at the girl’s church’s stance, then maybe they would have been used and an unintended pregnancy would have been prevented. But I don’t think that this set of teenagers had all the facts about contraception.
Also, when you let kids pick up their information on birth control from friends and TV, they can wind up with some pretty strange ideas about them. I’ve heard plenty of kids say they think you can’t get pregnant the first time you have sex, or if the guy pulls out, or if the girl is on top, or if they just rub on each other without actually penetrating (I had a friend who got pregnant that way), or if they do it upside down by the light of the full moon*, etc, etc. I was lucky in that I had a mother who was willing and able to tell me what’s true and what isn’t (a lot of my sex ed was actually her showing me things in medical books), but sadly, a lot of parents either don’t want to tell their children anything beyond “Don’t do it” or have been misinformed themselves. Plus, knowing condoms exist =/= knowing how to use them correctly. Yes, reading the instructions is a very good thing, but a lot of people won’t stop to do that in the heat of the moment. If they at least know enough not to put them on inside out and to leave a bit of room at the tip instead of trying to pull it completely snug, being in a rush might not be a disaster.
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*For anybody who wasn’t able to tell, that was a joke. I don’t actually know of anybody who believes this. Given some of the other things people believe about this though, I wouldn’t be surprised if there’s somebody out there who actually does think this!
When one of her main qualifications for running for Vice President is “She’s a mother of 5″ I think we should have some interest in how she is doing with those 5 kids.
If I applied for a job and people parenthood as making me capable of running a company (as they honestly have done in Palin’s case) I would expect the people interviewing me to look pretty damn closely at my kids. They are basically the the measure of one’s success as a parent aren’t they?
So you have all these people saying “She raised five kids, she can run a country!” and I am saying “Oh, and how are those kids doing right now because it may be a sign as to how the country will be doing.”
My mom had 5 kids and adopted 2 more. She finished her bachelor’s degree in 4 years (not 6) at one school (not 5) I wouldn’t say she is qualified to be a VP. She is a smart woman and can run a house and a family with an iron fist – none of us ever arrested or in trouble, all of us gainfully employed and intelligent enough to have finished college (not in the bottom 10% either) but I don’t think she is qualified for VP.
I look at Palin’s scandals – she hired her classmate for a $95,000 a year agricultural position because she loves cows??? She took out the budget item that would have paid for rape victim’s exams and made them pay their own??? She runs the state of Alaska through YAHOO??? Good lord! Yahoo? She is sending state information over personal e-mail to avoid records requests and risking the security of her communications to do it. The fiscal reformer charging a per diem expense to eat at home for 312 nights?
The kids should be off limits … except she is the one always bringing them up.
***… People used parenthood as an example making me capable of running a company …
I really hate that you are typing blind on about 1/2 the line in these little boxes.
“The kids should be off limits … except she is the one always bringing them up.”
That’s just how it works jellybeans, it’s okay to talk about your family, it’s not okay to attack them. I’m disturbed that you think differently. As far as how she is doing with her kids, since the only thing people can dig into is that her youngest has Downs and her 17 year old daughter has rather typical teenager problems, it seems she is doing a fine job.
I’m not sure what country you’re from but in the USA it isn’t legal to lock your kids in a basement, and short of doing that, there’s nothing you can do to prevent a teenager from drinking and getting knocked up. Those are things you can only talk to them about and hope they listen.
As far as the other stuff… I’m well aware of all that, and that’s part of the reason I’m not voting McCain/Palin. Not sure what all that has to do with her parenting skills though.
If people would stop claiming the fact that she is a mother of 5 makes her capable of running the country I would agree with you.
Her own side keeps saying that though.
Because her side says “She can be a mother to 5 kids she is qualified to lead” I think it makes how those kids are doing into our business.
There is a lot a parent can do to keep their kids from drinking and getting pregnant. It is called talking to them, listening to them and teaching them. I have a teenage niece, she doesn’t drink. She is a beautiful girl and she has had boyfriends but managed to keep from getting pregnant.
Her parents talk to her and listen to her and educate her on why it is better to wait until marriage, and why drinking at her age isn’t smart and what options she has should she decide to go ahead and have sex despite them asking her to wait.
I dated through highschool and managed to keep my legs together and out of the liquor cabinet because my mom (mother of 5 – NOT VP material) talked to me and listened to me and educated me.
None of my sisters got pregnant as teens.
So, is it the kid’s fault? I don’t think so. Is it Palin’s fault? Not 100% no. BUT if this is what they hold up as her qualifications then it should be examined as closely as Obama’s qualifications.
I concur though my girl wasn’t able to resist jumping me after a few months. We had a near miss and she quickly got her ass in gear and got on the pill. However she states that she knew I was the one so that is why she jumped me so early and we have now been together for nine years in October.
So no, popping out 5 kids is not qualifications or even raising them is not qualifications. Hell they aren’t even all raised yet so we can see how well she did.
I am also struggling with what metaphor Palin is inferring with her being the mother to a Down’s Baby as qualification to be the US’s VP. She wouldn’t be calling us all retarded children would she? /statement of silly paranoia
Your threat to vote McCain because of one poster on a lolsite is either incredibly stupid or utterly empty.
he hates me with a fiery passion that burns. I don’t mind though, he isn’t as bad as EP or Bob.
Admit it JB Bob’s kinda fun in that “Lets poke the pissed off, caged animal with a stick” kind of way.
You would really vote for someone to spite someone else you don’t agree with? Oh good Lord.
Recognizing a point: Failed.
The point I was trying to make is that jellybeans rants and raves are not going to change anyones vote, except maybe in the opposite direction she intends. Obviously I’m not literally basing my vote on what some anonymous partisan hack on the internet says.
O rly?
Yeah, I’m convinced.
Not that it matters who I vote for, I only really get two choices, Republitron or Democrat, and only a Democrat candidate can win in my state, so… yeah. Gotta love how those parties have everything locked down tight so that no one else can ever get elected to the Presidency.
I will now point out that you said down tight and snicker like a child. *snickers*
That said, I too lament my lack of real choices though the Obama man does give me a glimmer of that terrible emotion called hope.
Neither defending him or crucifying him, please, aside from RFK jr calling him “facist”, make the case that he’s indeed “facist”.
this will be interesting, me thinks.
To read Buckley’s loving appreciation, you would think that Pegler, once the top right-wing gun of the popular press (he died in 1969), was a wicked-tongued but harmless rascal who spoke truth to power, stood up for the little man, and refused to cut his “odd integrity” to fit the changing moral fashions. In Buckley’s portrait, Pegler’s signature “scorn and derision” for Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt was a mistrust of “people who had power or standing.” His rabid union-bashing stemmed from a “concern for the unprotected” (following the same logic by which antiunion laws are called “right to work” legislation). And Pegler’s nasty anti-Semitism? That was merely the unfortunate outcome of a courtroom humiliation he suffered at the hands of Louis Nizer, a trial lawyer who happened to be Jewish. Little matter. Buckley predicts that “literary pleasure seekers will care not at all about what were his prejudices.”
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Students of history, however, may come to a different conclusion. Since Buckley floats a defense of Pegler while burying the charges against him, let us be clear about who this man was and what he represented. Pegler’s career took off in 1933 when he became a nationally syndicated columnist with Scripps-Howard, roared along under the Hearst family, and ended 30 years later under the auspices of a twitchy sect of neo-Nazis and professional racists from the White Citizens Council and the Rev. Billy James Hargis’ truly reptilian Christian Crusade. At his peak in the 1930s and 1940s, Pegler was a leading popularizer of one of the most concerted antidemocratic crusades in this country’s history: the vicious backlash against the New Deal and the labor movement to which it gave legal protection. This anti-Roosevelt front included the country’s major industrialists, anti-Semitic, red-baiting pamphleteers, Congressman Martin Dies’ Committee on Un-American Activities, and an assortment of Depression-era demagogues (and men on horseback who conspired with Hitler’s agents in this country).
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Although Pegler did not turn against Roosevelt until the president’s second term, he quickly became a shrill cheerleader for the right’s campaign to paint the New Deal’s democratic advances as an internationalist Communist plot. Pegler compared union advocates of the closed shop to Hitler’s “goose-steppers.” (In his view, the greatest threat to the country was the corrupt labor boss; his exposé of a union official’s mob connections earned him a Pulitzer in 1941.) By the 1950s, however, Pegler was showing some nostalgia for the Third Reich. His proposal for “smashing” the AF of L and the CIO was for the state to take them over. “Yes, that would be fascism,” he wrote. “But I, who detest fascism, see advantages in such fascism.”
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The absence of such “isms” in The New Yorker article verges on the perverse, reducing the great political forces that Pegler shaped and was shaped by to the idiosyncrasies of a sui generis newspaperman. In admiring Pegler’s famous declaration of solidarity with the common man—”I am a member of the rabble in good standing”—Buckley neglects to say that it came from a column in praise of a California lynch mob that killed two (white) men charged with a kidnapping-murder (though he mentions this case elsewhere in the piece). And I doubt readers would be charmed by Pegler’s unyielding disregard for “the least inhibition of political correctness” if Buckley had offered examples of that steadfastness: his assertion in November 1963 (at the height of the civil rights movement) that it is “clearly the bounden duty of all intelligent Americans to proclaim and practice bigotry”; his embrace of the label racist, “a common but false synonym for Nazi, used by the bigots of New York”; or his habit of calling Jews “geese,” because they hiss when they talk, gulp down everything before them, and foul everything in their wake.
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Then there is Buckley’s treatment of the libel suit that supposedly turned Pegler against the Jews. Quentin Reynolds—one of the first foreign correspondents to warn American readers about Hitler—sued Pegler in 1949 after Pegler charged Reynolds, in his column, “with lying, with physical cowardice, and with immorality.” (Presumably the unnamed “immorality” is communism; Pegler had called Reynolds a Communist sympathizer.) When Louis Nizer, Reynolds’ lawyer, won his client the largest judgment ever awarded in punitive damages ($175,000) after five years of litigation, the country was by then under the spell of Sen. Joseph McCarthy. McCarthy’s name goes unmentioned in the article, even though he was the political hero shared by Pegler and Buckley. Pegler was the McCarthy committee’s occasional collaborator as well as its big media flack. Buckley, meanwhile, co-authored (with one of the senator’s future speechwriters) what Sam Tanenhaus described in the New York Review of Books as “the most sustained defense of McCarthy,” the 1954 best-seller McCarthy and His Enemies. In it, the authors spell out rather chillingly whom the McCarthyites’ true target was: not the then virtually dead American Communist Party but the liberals who had “no stomach for battle” and had criticized the red-hunters for trampling the Bill of Rights.
This was a 5 second google, I am sure you can locate quite a bit more on him even in non leftist blogs and without walls of text.
Not sure why people hate to read so much.
I… think I love you. I likes reading. I am just waiting for the next witch hunt by those who can’t be bothered to pick up a history book.
*flutters eyelashes*
Careful, we liberal women don’t wear lipstick and probably don’t all shave … on the plus side we are less likely to be armed.
I like the natural look and hair only matters if it gets in the way. As for the guns, they don’t scare me anyway. I try to avoid women that are taking aim or give them a reason to.
I’m a moderate/independent engaged to another independent and we have a girl who is a liberal. So I am afraid that our love will have to remain flirty platonic.
*sigh*
You and Jamie are such teases.
I would apologize but it is fun to tease. However, I shall strive to be better behaved. At least as much as I can be. >_>
Who wants a woman with no arms? I like to hold hands and various other sundry things, all of which require arms.
I had a proper sarcastic comment but my brain died with the snicker I got from this. I am sure that jellybean has lovely arms, hands, and shoulders.
As for those girls without arms, why deny them love? There is always rope, my friend.
“…on the plus side we are less likely to be armed.” o.O
All the ultra-liberal chicks I know love going down to the shooting range and emptying a few clips from an AK-47 into one of those giant carnival teddy bears.
Which has its own level of hot if you ask me. I try to be an equal opportunity hedonist when it comes to women. I don’t discriminate for color or politics, just as long as they are not psychotic and even then I might make exceptions.
I prefer intelligence and ability to debate their beliefs.
oRLY?
Funny…this didn’t REALLY make the case that he was indeed a facist. I mean, you “copy and paste” reference to his union bashing, but this in and of itself doesn’t prove that one is “facist”. Many LEARNED students of history (not google searchers) understand the debate in defining exactly what is fascism. Instead many have simply taken it to term whatever is “bad” or “they don’t like”.
As a matter of fact, it’s been argued (and persuasively illustrated) that the more frequently the user terms someone/something “fascist”, the less likely they are to understand the term.
Crib notes:
Anti Semite
Pro McCarthy
Pro Hitler
She’s an idiot no matter what party she’s in.
And she hates kittehs. It’s a well-documented fact.
This is true … and should be enough to see her burned at the stake much less disqualified from office!
Or at least poked fun at with impunity without everybody trying to verbally stab us. *snicker*
I suggest reading the last couple pages of sinfest.com. Great Webcomic and funny shit on the current politics.
Whoever wrote her speech probably dug up the quote. Doubt she even knows who the guy is, let alone supports him. But as this site has shown us, sometimes even complete radicals have something decent to say once in a while.
Then it goes back to judgment doesn’t it? What kind of judgment is the McCain campaign displaying in not vetting the candidates more thoroughly and in not source checking quotes with even a 5 second google search?
hell not even spending 5 seconds to google the candidate for that matter.
Do you really think there would be this kind of flack over Kay Bailey?
If McCain kept his campaign clean and picked a decent candidate (not just ovaries on a stick puppet) Maybe this board would be a lot calmer.
Why would he pick the candidate less likely to win him the election? Outside of this board, among the ignorant masses, Palin is actually quite popular. He isn’t going to win the votes of liberals anyway, so he’s better off solidifying his base.
Ovaries on a stick puppet? Really? Are you serious? You know, there is a reason she is a governor and you are some tool of the left writing at pundit kitchen. You may not agree with her, but, if you are at all rational, you must admit that there is something of value to her. I think Obama is horrible and scary, but I would never call him the “affirmative action candidate.” I am able to admit that he has some kind of talent.
Racism is bad. Sexism is acceptable. Furthermore, sexism is even MORE acceptable if its another woman wielding it, because “they have the right.” This is true on both sides of the political spectrum. Might as well get used to it, because it won’t be changing.
I honestly don’t know how she got where she is.
She did try to ban books (now confirmed) as a council woman.
She got her reformer cred by busting someone for campaigning on state time – which she later did herself.
She has used intimidation and abused her power to promote herself.
She left Wasilla $20 million in the hole but claims to be fiscally conservative..
She got the Wasilla attorney fired because he put a stop work order on one of her supporter’s houses.
She fired the ex police chief because he supported closing bars at 2AM instead of 5 to cut down on DUI deaths and her big supporters were bars.
She conducts state business on Yahoo to avoid public record requests.
She allows her husband input in a LOT of state business judging by email trals. emails she is now refusing to disclose.
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All around … Ovaries on a stick puppet
Honey, I think we can upgrade that mess to Bitch on a Stick. No need for the PC stuff with that rap sheet.
You see, this is where the extreme libs are at. They cannot admit that their adversary deserves even the slightest bit of credit. I pity you, Jellybeans and Deathwyrm. You are sad individuals uncapable of seeing the decent side of fellow human beings. Sad. And before you think different, I would say the same thing for the extreme right. Your kind of thinking will not get this country anywhere, no matter who gets elected.
And PK ate my post again. It should turn up in about an hour if you want to check back.
Ahh, but see there, you gave her some credit. She has willpower and guts. Was that so bad?
I do not need or want your pity. And I am making no assumptions. I am only taking what you are writing, which is a reflection of you, and responding. If you do not want people to have a certain image of you, then perhaps you should refrain from posting on this damn macro site. You have every chance to let people know what you are about while here.
And, based on your comments here, I stand by my statement that your kind of thinking will get us nowhere, no matter who gets elected.
Not a liberal. That’s a laugh. I have yet to see you make one pro-conservative or anti-liberal comment, save for the mealy-mouthed one above. How can you say that I do not know what you are saying? I can read and understand you quite well. It is that understanding that makes you look like a sad soldier of the left.
Where is Jane? She is a happy soldier of the left. Now there is a person we on the right can respect and debate with. Not you, my friend.
Someone pretty with charisma? Sounds like Obama. I guess the dems could have chosen a black candidate with actual experience?
Mmm but I am willing to gamble with somebody who doesn’t disgust me with their record like Palin does. It would have been nice if Obama had been somebody with more experience but judging from what I have seen of McCain, experience isn’t as big a deal as it was made out to be.
McCain has lots of experience with screwing the people. Great, he has experience, just not experience I can get behind.
Now I get to wait for my other post to be spit up. Ugh.
lol…pit bull is really a rather vague term to describe a collection of dog breeds and even quite frankly, mixed breeds that fall into the “bully dog” type…pit bull by itself is rarely used to refer to a true, pure breed with absolute predictable characteristics.
As such, there are plenty of types of “pit bulls” that resemble the push-in face, exaggeratedly wide shoulders, and under-bite of the bulldog. Breeds such as the alapaha blue blood bulldog (seen here: http://www.bulldogbreeds.com/breeders/pics/alapaha_blue_blood_bulldog_38561.jpg ) can EASILY resemble that of a bull dog, and would commonly be referred to as a pit bull by many due to it’s taller, more athletic build vs the old english bulldog.
But, all that aside, I guess what’s really funny is that the author of the work above believes a cartoon representation to be akin to a literal depiction.
Canine Knowledge FAIL…but not necessarily on the part of the sign maker, but of this board.
Pit bull is a term COMMONLY used to describe a collection of both pure breeds and mixed breeds that fit a common body type, also sometimes referred to as “bully breeds” or “colossus dogs”.
Particular among these is the alapaha blue blood bulldog…a breed that in particular looks similar to the english bulldog, but taller and more athletic. It’s a breed that many laypersons would perhaps call a “pit bull” on first sight. The ABBB can be fairly termed as such as, like many “pits”, there is a wide variety of appearance, size, even body and tail shape among them.
I guess the funniest thing is that the author of the caption takes a cartoon drawing (a fairly good one at that) to be a literal depiction of a pit bull. That, and enough of the pea-minded individuals who voted it up, lol.
I’m surprised they spelled “lipstick” correctly.
Wow, the amount of dog ignorance here astounds me. First thing first, the dog pictured in the sign is an English bulldog. It is not a pit bull dog at all.
English bulldog:
http://www.countrybulls.com/images/Cheerio/Champion_English_Bulldog_Cheerio_1.jpg
Pit bull:
http://www.sandiegoinjurylawyerblog.com/Pit%20Bull.bmp
Take notice of the EXTREME differences in facial structure and body type.
Secondly, pit bulls ARE terriers. The entire name of the breed is pit bull terrier. Here is some information from the ASPCa’s website on American pit bull terriers:
http://aspcacommunity.ning.com/group/pitbulls/forum/topic/show?id=658300%3ATopic%3A231630
American Staffordshire terriers are NOT pit bulls. Two different breeds. Built differently, not the same. Many uneducated people will consider them one in the same though, sadly enough. Though I will concede that many people to interbreed Staffies and pit bulls.
Also, pit bulls are no more “vicious” and “agressive” than any other breed out there. While it is true that some jerks breed them to fight other dogs, and the media publicizes every pit bull bite to the extreme (while other dog breed bites go seemingly unnoticed) , they’re not actually bred to be human aggressive. I have worked in an animal shelter for over a year now around a multitude of pit bulls. I have had to give them shots, medication, examine injuries, and etc. Not ONE time have I ever been bit by one. Ever. I’ve even had to handle the ones that were brought in by law enforcement as “bite cases”. Still never been bit. Have been bit twice by cats though. [/ramble]
Sorry to go off on a tangent, but it’s mostly relevant seeing as how the fail deals with breed misidentification. Personally, though, I just can’t stand to see such ignorance and bullcrap being bandied about.
Cheers.
Comment win <3
Spuds McKenzie was a Bull Terrier.
Ok, I was actually the one who made this sign. I got home from work today and noticed all the comments. Are you seriously nit-picking about dog breeds? I barely know anything about dog breeds, but to the common person there is a pitbull and then there is a bulldog. That sign says pitbull and has a picture of a bulldog. To me, that’s funny. It’s not a reason to hate somebody or have a debate about politics, it’s just funny. So laugh and move on. Have a nice evening.
LOL … for a second I thought you meant you literally made the sign … as in the one in the picture.
I thought it was a good lol, I just like debating politics and lord knows you can’t do that at work. I can’t do it at home either since my family are all republicans … god help me.
Should meet up with some of us on AIM or Gaia or some other hang out spot. Easier to keep up with. Though I do like debating here, I just happen to be at work when I am on here. Unless I am making lolz, I make those at home too.
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For some reason, my Mozilla hates debating here. Work’s IE likes it just fine though. Heh.
So wait a minute. You can’t debate politics with your family because they disagree with you? Isn’t that… well.. sort of the point? Or do you prefer “preaching to the choir” as they say.
No, because my family gets very upset about politics when it is discussed. I don’t bring it up when I am around them and I don’t continue the discussions if they bring it up.
Part of what my mother (of 5 +2 adopted – still not VP material) taught me was respect for my parents. I do not go out of my way to upset them. Why hurt them deliberately by starting discord at dinner?
They will believe all the lies McCain’s campaign has put out. They will probably believe Palin is the most wonderful woman on the planet and that Obama is a secret Muslim terrorist. They will believe Obama wanted pornography in kindergarten classrooms and they will believe that all of the claims against the republican ticket are false. They like Ann Coulter, they think she is nice.
I love my family but I don’t agree with them in any of their views. They both drive 8 cylinder cars and they think drill baby drill is a fabulous idea. They recycle only because the HOA makes them do it. They are old, they don’t believe in global warming, email, green tech or any of that hippy nonsense.
Now, Nathan, would you talk politics with your parents if similar disparities in views existed and you knew it would only ruin dinner for everyone if you did?
Like I said once before – I wasn’t raised by wolves but it was close enough.
Well my family isn’t very political, other than my grandmother who is old and crazy and believes Obama is going to kick all the white people out of the country and make blacks the new uberclass. Obviously there is not discussing the issues with her
But you’re right I probably wouldnt bring it up over the dinner table, especially with hardened zealots who wont listen anyway.
Hardened Zealots like Jellybeans?
Wow, I hate to say it but your parents give me cancer.
you know that when Palin decided to run for a political office because the guy before her wanted to build a liberary and a community center,
and naturally thats not a good way to manage the peoples tax money,
so she took his place,
and stopped those 2 places from being built,
and instead put up a multi-million dollar ice rink.
seriously now,
this is what you guys really want in office?
wow, there sure are a lot of elaborate arguments on here. all of this over this one picture seems like a bit much don’t you think? this really just seems to be yet another not-that-funny picture that wouldn’t normally get front paged, but since it has “Palin supporter” under it, it gets 5′d by every person on here that has to hop into the big liberal bandwagon that has “Sara Palin sucks” spraypainted on the side of it. there’s more anti-Palin jokes on here than anti-Bush jokes. if McCain/Palin win the election, i fear this site may never be funny again.
for more than a week, at least one out of four pictures on the front page have been pure, anti-Republican flamebait. stop it.
Why are you here, then? This is a political site and it’s what we do. If you want fuzzies, go to I Can Has Cheezburger. Or I Has a Hotdog. Very little political discussion on those sites.
and thanks for your support of the First Amendment @_@
i know this a political site, but whenever something making fun of democrats gets on the front page, no one seems to care. when something picking on republicans gets on the front page, everyone seems to jump all over it.
also, about what i said in my last post, more anti-republican humor seems to make it to the front page than anti-democrat humor. a political humor site such as this one deosnt need to have bias, that ruins the point of the site in my opinion.
if you want proof of this, first compare the number of republican and democrat pics. then look at the banner ads on the right side of the site, most of them are pro democrat ads. banner ads usually reflect what kind of content is on a site, it might just be a coincidence, but ad companies try to target a certain audience with their ads to get people to click them. they do this by looking at a sites content and placing the appropriate ads. (this, of course, excludes those ads that say “YOU WIN [insert item]” and flash red and blue at 50 frames per second.)
Gee, the cartoon dog is the wrong type; is that the best you can do? Give me a break, how did this even make it on here?
C’mon, this whole detail thing about how some Pitbulls look like Bulldogs is ridiculous. It is obvious she meant pitt as in a usual, standard pitbull terrier. Not a bulldog. The skulls and body types are completely different. It is obvious the person holding the sign doesn’t know the difference.
the dog is from Tom and Jerry cartoons.
http://johnkstuff.blogspot.com/uploaded_images/TomJerryGenericBulldog-749112.jpg