… and Chunk love Sloth, too!
… and Chunk love Sloth, too!
(Rush Limbaugh)
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He looks quite like Rush.
As much as I wish that bastard would drop dead, there would only be another one to take his place. He is but a symptom.
Liberal much?
Do you use your skull to store small rocks or something?
They float, you know?
Doesn’t that then make his head a flotation device?
It doesn’t take a Liberal to hate a Limbaugh…
Seconded. Fairly conservative, still consider him obnoxious.
Considering how the GOP bows down to his every whim, I don’t blame you. Whether or not you’re liberal, he’s still dangerous and a P.O.S.
“A fear of Conservative is a sign of retarded sexual and emotional maturity.” Kelto just got owned by Sigmund Freud.
That’s a fear of WEAPONS, Vomit.
Quote fail on you, and three more internets for Kelto…
No where did I say I fear conservatives. I just happen to despise a man who just happens to be conservative. Therefore, your Sigmund Freud theory is bunk.
If he’s the symptom, then what is the disease? Having a dissenting opinion? God forbid!
You’re confusing consenting with stupid. He has stupid opinions.
Reading FAIL.
Spelling checker fail…
Yur mom has stupid opinions…..
Your mom has at least one stupid child.
The disease is social conservatism… old money and big religion in an unholy union, spreading deception to the ignorant and confused who just want to do right by their imaginary friend the Invisible Sky Wizard.
I don’t mind if you have a dissenting opinion, so long as it’s an informed one. You won’t get one of those by listening to Rush. (Or Hannity, or Beck.)
Well said. I’m all for a dissenting opinion. That’s what makes government interesting…but when people like Limbaugh, Colter,Hannity, Beck and O’Reilly do nothing more than either: A. Regurgitate the Neo-Con Republican talking points without doing any research; or, B: Make up whatever they want in order to sensationalize a story and pass it off as a “heavily researched fact”…
What do you think you’re doing? You and n8 posted two ad hominem attacks in a row. Post some researched attacks and we might take you seriously. Not opinions or insults, facts.
As posted below, this is linked in my name for your convenience…it sums it up pretty well…{link}
Remember the time Limbaugh accused Michael J. Fox of faking the symptoms of his Parkinson’s disease? Speaking of making up insulting shit.
I’d forgotten about that…
I think you need to research what “ad hominem” actually means.
You’re asking for facts on a LOL board and talk about taking things seriously.
Srsly. FAIL.
hahaha–like when Jon Stewart went on Crossfire and they gave him shit for not asking hard hitting questions. He had to remind them that the show that leads into his is puppets making crank phone calls.
Do you want to kill or reform all homosexuals and re-enslave black people, or is your intolerance and hate speech solely for Conservatives?
No, see, if I wanted to do those things I would -like- Rush.
Ah.
So you haven’t actually listened to him.
It’s so funny that all of the people who scream ‘tolerance’ and ‘hate speech’ are the only ones actually doing it, whilst they accuse those who don’t.
Right is wrong, wrong is right, down is up, up is down…. It’s opposite planet anymore.
Olbermann’s favorite activity is pointing out (with video) Bill O’Reilly’s
lies, obfuscations, exaggerations, etc. He does so with facts. He will
seemingly never run out of material. I’ve never seen him make a
baseless accusation against O’Reilly, and I watch for such things.
Rush “Magic Negro” Limbaugh is the Al Capone of the Republican
Party. All he wants is to stir up controversy to keep his ratings high.
He’s all for himself. The failure of Obama’s administration is Rush’s
fondest dream for high ratings. Nothing can convince me that the
guy isn’t in it for himself. To believe otherwise is to be caught up in
his shtick.
Maybe WhatsThatSmell (Answer: the GOP) hasn’t “actually listened to him”.
Thanks for the save, Wholesome!
The lack of exploded head chunks should have tipped me off…
Playing ‘I know I’ll never love this way again’ when someone famous dies of AIDS is ok?
I see…
Unc, I have my Golden Thong on this morning (link)…
Didn’t Rush also do “Barak the Magic Negro”…or was that someone else?
*Barack
The Gold paint is clogging the keyboard
Chip Saltsman, who was a candidate for GOP Chairman and
a writer for Rush Limbaugh’s program, wrote and recorded
“Barack the Magic Negro,” which was sent to several Repub-
lican politicians, aired on Limbaugh’s show, and, in the [LINK],
discussed on Bill O’Reilly’s show, complete with two black
Republican apologists.
To be fair, does anyone know who popularized the term ‘Magic Negro,’ and what it actually refers to? Spike Lee used the term frequently. It refers to a stock character in fiction, a saintly, usually older black fellow with some sort of vaguely defined magical powers who shows up out of the blue to help the white protagonist. Think Dick Hallorann from Stephen King’s ‘The Shining,’ Uncle Remus from ‘Songs of the South,’ or Morgan Freeman’s portrayal of God in the execrable ‘Whatever Almighty’ films. It isn’t racist, it is merely another way of saying people consider him a messiah. So it’s just stupid, not evil.
…the John Coffey character in “The Green Mile” comes to mind, too. Oh, and [link] to a discussion of the “magical negro” trope. Definitely something I had heard long before any discussion of Obama (come to think of it, usually with a grimace and/or disdainful look from a black person discussing stereotypes of black people in media….)
Exactly. It’s a more nuanced insult than the whole messiah thing. It implies that any white people supporting Obama are buying into the whole ‘Magic Negro’ stereotype, rather than appreciating him for his merits. It implies that we are feeling liberal guilt over racism, and need some sort of black idol to worship. So, stupid and childish? Yes. Racist? No.
TBH, I thought the idea started out with the rise of the black champion boxer…
“To be fair, does anyone know who popularized the term ‘Magic Negro,’ and what it actually refers to? ”
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It’s a (slightly) updated version of the “noble savage” stereotype, and doesn’t necessarily have to be a black person literally. The Native American Indian guy in “one flew over the cuckoo’s nest”, any mentally handicapped movie character, and/or any physically handicapped movie character would also quality.
Have you heard the lyrics of “Barack the Magic Negro?”
Saltsman didn’t characterize “Magic Negro” in the way
you described.
Well, no, I haven’t. I try to stay away from stupidity but now I went and looked it up. It seems to be sung from Al Sharpton’s point of view, and the song is basically saying that Sharpton thinks Obama is an Oreo, and thus acceptable to whites. Saltsman doesn’t really insult Obama in any particular way, he just insults white people who might vote for him, and people like Sharpton.
If I recall correctly, Jesse Jackson has also criticized Obama for “acting white” and “talking down to black people”….and the original LA Times opinion piece that apparently inspired Saltsman’s song brings up the issue that “The only mud that momentarily stuck was criticism (white and black alike) concerning Obama’s alleged “inauthenticty,” as compared to such sterling examples of “genuine” blackness as Al Sharpton and Snoop Dogg….” [link]
I’m glad you heard it now. The song was, at the
least, in bad taste, with a false premise, and
poorly executed. It certainly didn’t speak to any
better natures.
And it wasn’t started by Rush. *sigh* He may have continued it, but the ‘Magic Negro’ and ‘Is he black enough’ crap that was spewed was started by the Left. Namely, Sharpton and others.
I’m not crazy about Sharpton, as you may
remember. I guess Rush wanted a place
in the Sharpton pile.
Hell no. He’s pretty well set in his hatred of both Sharpton and Jackson. It irritates me that he’s credited with stuff that isn’t his in order for people to make points, though. He’s got his own brand of issues, he doesn’t need help getting more that actually don’t belong to him.
The song was played on his show for the
enjoyment of his audience, and was written
by one of his paid writers. The song insults
both Sharpton and Obama. In Rush’s book,
that’s a two-for-one.
the problem with liberals is they (you) hate anyone who doesn’t agree with you. Proof has it, all liberal policies fail, miserably. Rush is the one guy who is right all the time, and so, even when you have the deck stacked in your favor, you still prattle on with the hatred crap. Read a book, and get a life, Rush is right, not a pretty man, but you are still jealous, lol!
It’s funny that you think you’re worth hating. You were just a problem to be dealt with, an obstacle to be overcome. Now you’re not even that… you’re just another drone chanting “Rush is -always- right” ad nauseam, starry-eyed expression on your slack-jawed face. But that’s fine, like I said, you -were- an obstacle. Now you’re just part of the scenery.
obvious troll is obvious.
I didn’t know anyone was right ALL the time, unless you count the pope… LOL Wow, and “they” say that liberals deify their “leaders”
Also, I’m sure this one has proof that ALL liberal policies fail. I’m pretty sure thee are many here with documented evidence over many administrations that will prove otherwise on large or small scale. The New Deal, for one glaring example that DID work.
Anybody want to count off the conservative policies that DON’T work? Top down economics is a good place to start.
Hannity says the New Deal was a massive failure. Hannity are smart so Hannity are right. I are Hannity fan, can U tell?
Man, it really takes some effort to pack that much wrongness into that few words, kid.
Liberal policies always fail?
Like the 40 hour work week?
Like OSHA?
Like the FDA making sure it’s real milk and not chalk water sold as milk?
Universal education?
Medicaid prenatal care? (Saves $4 for $1 spent)
And Europe seems to be doing pretty well with a universal safety net, making sure they have a healthy, educated population.
We’re getting more Finlandised with time…
Sweet! Pretty soon we’ll be producing production quality server
operating systems and high quality cell phones.
?????????????? ad infinitum
“hate anyone who doesn’t agree”
No, I don’t pretend to speak for all liberals, but the only people I have problems with are those who think their way is the only one right and true way even though it has been proven again and again to be a dismal failure. Your minds are so closed by the dogma fed to you by Rush and Fox News and you won’t even try to listen to reason – or realize that those whose opinions differ from yours might actually be reasonable, intelligent people and have reasons to feel the way they do.
“Proof has it, all liberal policies fail”
Really? I’d really just love to see some proof of that. Personally I could list dozens of “liberal” policies that have been mindblowing successes, and honestly, about 3 times as many Conservative (especially post-Reagan) policies that are massive, stupefying failures. Including, ahem, supply-side economics.
“Rush is… right all the time”
He is, is he? So he was right calling soldiers who volunteer and serve but disagree that we should be in Iraq “fake soldiers?” He’s an ideologue, dude; there is no “right” when you’re an ideologue.
Basically, you’re just comical. I’m actually surprised your last sentence wasn’t “your just jelus lol.” So, y’know, congrats on the spelling anyway.
I have never seen more incorrect drivel in one place. If you like communism so much why are you here?
Wow, I totally thought you pulled a Pee-Wee Herman there and wrote ‘why don’t you marry it’ instead of “why are you here.” Totally ruined my reply.
Cuba’s too humid.
and while we’re hating, what I hate most about lib/socialists is they constantly get it all wrong. They have no brains of their own. Study history, not that crap your college professors told you. Study the real history of capitalism and you’ll see how wrong/stupid you all really are. It helps to use your OWN brain, rather than spew the crap of the msm and college campuses of America. But, ok, you all got your messiah, I see what wonders he has done for the economy. We’ll see in 4 years what you idiots think, if America survives that long.
Translation: Waaaaah, waaaaaah, YOU ALL ARE WRONG AND I AM RIGHT! Waaaaaah!
In 4 years you won’t care what ‘us idiots’ think, because even if the country is in a better position than it was under the Bush administration, you won’t admit that you were wrong. You won’t learn anything, and your opinions will remain the same.
I think Lewis Black said it best, and I am not sure of the exact quote, but here goes:
Republicans have nothing but bad ideas and Democrats have no ideas.” A republican stands up in congress and says ‘I GOT A REALLY BAD IDEA!!’ and the democrat stands up after him and says ‘AND I CAN MAKE IT SHITTIER!!’”
What Steve said…
…and please, come back on 16 March, 2013, and not a
moment before, okay?
mmm-kay. I will study history, the “real” history. Where does one find the “real” history? Over the airwaves?
complete moron, get the fact checkers on this dope!
You haven’t uttered a single fact yet. All you do is flame. You’re saying that we are all wrong and you are right, “Just Because”. Cite your sources. Where are all of your ‘facts’?
But fact checking is like Polonium injestion to you, But(thurt)ch
By this logic, Butch, you must now love me, or call yourself a hypocrite.
LOVE ME!!!!!
LMAO!! Thank you for the laugh of the day!
*bows*
So. Why do you call yourself ‘rhorho’ anyways?
Because, she’s twice as nice!
Thank you, but, considering that Rho (P) is the symbol for
density in physics, “twice as dense” might be the way to
go there.
*snerk*
*keeps comments to self*
Too bad we can’t test your theory.
Now now…that’s no reason to give up hope that he’ll drop dead. Never give up on your dreams!
Now STFU and give me my Baby Ruth and opiates!
“Rocky…road?”
I love Rush lols. Because they aren’t funny at all. The fact that he is a political extremist is funny enough. Same with Olberman. LOL political extremism!
Yeah Limbaugh and Olberman fall into the “Wow you just need to shut the frak up.” category for sure.
You actually think Olbermann can be equated to Boss Limbaugh?!?! What kind of stupid DID your mommas grow?
Key difference, should you care- Keith actually deals in… facts!!!!
really? name one
even the biggest liberal pukes around admit that guy is an idiot.
I of course have actually listened to him so I can have an opinion unlike 98% of Rush bashers.
Here’s an idea, if you don’t like what someone has to say, mush minded liberal or filthy rich beyond any of your wildest dreams conservative, DON’T listen to them. Rush may be a lot of things but he doesn’t go around saying retards like Olberman should die or be censored, nobody listens to him anyway.
PS Rush probably makes more money than every moron reading this combined, jealous much?
Not at all. All the money in the world can’t seem to buy him what I’ve got — slender and sober.
and there speaks the No_bama sock of the ever changing avatar… only thing that’s consistent is that it always talks arrant and errant nonsense…
If that’s the best they can do, they really should consider taking up macrame, assuming the home allows them big needles…
C’mon Fester, we all know who it is. They must have at least 20 yahoo and Gmail accounts. Probably figure they’re too clever for us to know how it’s done. LOL
WE know who it is, but he thinks we don’t…
@ NO_BAMA – see (link) for Olbermann smacking down Bill-O the clown with facts again. Facts aren’t hard to find, unless you watch Fixed Noise Network with Bill-0 and his clown friends. Boss Limbaugh does indeed probably make more money than all of us on this forum, whether moron or genius. Making buckets of money is not validation of your worth as a person, or Bernie Madoff would be held in much higher regard.
Yeah, but you have to give Madoff kudos for ingenuity, unlike Rush.
Their motivations are identical: “Does this make me money?”
The difference is Madoff’s lies weren’t so obvious.
Yes, but he was sober…
@ed – dunno about kudos to Madoff for ingenuity. I keep seeing the clip about the 90-year old guy who had to go back to work as a greeter at a hardware store when Madoff disappeared the guy’s life’s savings. Made me just want to go find Madoff and kick him in the nuts.
But you’re right about Rush – no ingenuity, just lots of LOUD.
Hmm.. ok, bad choice of words. But, you have to admit that for Madoff to have duped so many and to have made so much goes quite a bit further then Rush. I do feel bad for the people that were suckered by the guy.
Yeah, and I heard that several of his accounts were
charitable trusts. In one case, one man began a chari-
table trust with $5 million, and it’s likely all gone now.
(The cynical side of me suspects that the $5 million was
half of the guy’s bonus for a year, but hey…)
Ponzi doesn’t need ‘ingenuity’ Eds, just people whose greed makes them stupid…
Exactly. It wasn’t at all original, or new. It was the same old scheme, amazing that people still fall for that sort of nonsense.
In the past, he HAS been a thorn in the Democrats (collective) side, but now, everything he say, and every toadying apology made to him over some verbal slight reinforces the belief that he is the defacto leader of the Republican party. And THAT is pretty cringe-worthy for the neo-conservatives.
So Rush… *singing* Don’t go changin’, to try and please me…
Hear hear!
He was elevated to that point by the Rahm campaign, not through his own devices. The easiest way to take down an enemy is to get people talking about that person as a leader, when they actually aren’t. This is a brilliant move by Rahm and Co., but it will be interesting if it backfires.
Well, no. Notice that when Steele dissed Limbaugh, the cons made him (Steele) apologize. Rahm had nothing whatsoever to do with that. That’s a pretty solid piece of evidence that the Republican Party is pretty completely beholden to Rush.
I can’t think of any examples of national-level Republican leaders saying anything negative about Rush or his followers. There’s probably an example or two out there, but all-in-all, the Republican party is dependent on Rush’s loyal followers.
Now there is some contrary evidence. Rush didn’t get his way with respect to the 2008 nominee, right? But that was a very special circumstance, a result of the party’s serious Bush problem. I think it’s clear that if Bush had simply been a poor President, there would have been enough wiggle room still in the party for a Rush-supported far right candidate to become the nominee.
Rush being set up as the de facto head of the Republican party was started by Rahm Emmanuel and some cronies. The Steele thing came after that, as he was answering the charge that Rush was the head of the party. As far as the ‘cons’ making Steele apologize, I’m not sure there’s any proof other than Steele buckling under stress (again) and doing what he thought would make him more popular.
Froo, I understand the inter-party political play concerning Limbaugh,
but think you may be missing a key element here. According to Fox
News [LINK], Steele is headed for the chopping block, possibly by
the end of this month. (I would prefer that he stay, but I’m not
usually that lucky.)
About Limbaugh, you may want to think back and try to remember
whether *any* GOP member has *ever* challenged Rush, even
slightly, prior to Steele’s gaffe. Your memory would be better than
mine (shut up), but I’m thinking not.
The next exercise is to name another GOP and/or conservative
figure with more bankable, unblinking support than Limbaugh.
The point I’m going for here is to say that the effort to “impose” (if
you will) Limbaugh on the GOP was easy because of the disrupted
state of the party. The GOP could not convincingly cry foul, because
there is no one else who has a convincing place at the helm: Not
McCain, Palin, Steele, Romney, Jindal, Gingrich, Huckabee, etc.
Like it or not, the divisive, controversial, high-negative Limbaugh
seems to be hard to beat for top billing at this point. The Democrat
strategists had no hand in selecting him to deliver the keynote
address at CPAC 2009, and have not been forcing GOP members
to treat Limbaugh with undue (imo) reverence.
The Democrats played the situation, but they didn’t create it.
Steele is headed for the chopping block because he’s ineffective. As it should be.
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As far as challenging Rush, of course no GOPer has done so. Can you think of any Dems who have challenged, say, Jon Stewart (since we’re calling Rush an entertainer)? If you agree (even in some ways) with what is being said, you’re not going to disagree.
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And I agree with you that ‘imposing’ Rush as the DeFacto head of the GOP was easy because of the disarray. But, it was not something done BY the GOP. It was in rumors started on the left, Obama actually coming out and saying not to listen to Rush for whatever reason, and the campaign that has been waging against Rush by the Left (big L) since he got started big in radio.
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I need to check out the CPAC stuff, but I believe he’s been the keynote speaker in years past. Also, there have been other keynote speakers who have not been set up as the leader of the GOP.
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I agree that the Dems played the situation. They played it handily and beautifully. They have also been gunning for Rush for a very long time, and this was prime real estate, as it were, to set up shop. The GOP being in ruins, no actual leader emerging, Oh look, here’s someone we can rumor to the top. When you’ve got Rahm, Carville, and Begala making daily strategy phone calls to one another, and knowing Rahm’s past history with Rush and the Clintons, it’s easy to see that a rumor campaign with Obama as the ‘accidental’ mouthpiece would be extremely effective. He’s made many inflammatory statements about Hannity as well, but Hannity isn’t as well known or as controversial, so it didn’t stick.
(and before you flame, that second paragraph is broad brush, and I know it. There is plenty of dissent with other stuff, but for someone like Rush, it’s difficult to get actual dissent rather than simple disagreement. That speaks to his influence as a commentator)
I think your assessment is fair enough, as long as you
understand that, until very recently, the GAME of it was
handled expertly by Rove, who is possibly the best
strategist (not saying ethical) there ever has been.
The GOP is suffering these days from gross finger pointing,
no clear message, and no head. The situation is tempo-
rary, but don’t think that “those mean Dems” are the only
ones playing. The GOP has been winning the game for a
long time, but their quarterback is injured, and they don’t
have a good Plan B.
I can 100% agree with that. Like I’ve said before, the GOP HAS to stop eating its own before it will ever reform into something usable. I’m sure my chances to see another GOP president in the next four years are completely blown, but that’s ok. If the GOP does this right, they will come out stronger and better than they ever have been.
And I can say that coming from my side, the same as I can say that Clinton is probably the best politician I have ever seen in my life, bar none. I don’t like the guy, never have, but when you hear him speak you can’t help but believe him. I imagine Rove is like that.
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As far as Rove, yes, yes you’re right
C’mon Rush! Do the truffle shuffle!
LOL!
The only one laughing is you….
LOL! Hater! You can’t tell me he doesn’t look like a grown up version of Chunk!
Link.
Not true! I’m giggling like a little girl right now!
I think it’s funny, and I listen to his radio show.
You want Rush? That’s a whole new paraphilia…
Ewww! Rule 34 on *that*? SICK!
What the heck does it even mean? Is it supposed to be funny?
Apparently it’s a quote from the movie Goonies, which you can search for on youtube. It’s funny if you see it.
This guy is totally obnoxious and in love with himself. The odd thing is he’s right about a lot of stuff we just think he’s a moron because he’s so obnoxious.
He’s never right about anything. He lies constantly.
Liberal? I can tell. Rush is right about everything. You just listen to drive by media.
I notice very few people even try to give any evidence about Rush “lying constantly”
try watching the daily show… jon stewart will point out his fallicies with unerring accuracy
Ah, but that’s ‘just comedy’… it was a status they fought to keep during the Bush administration, to avoid ‘regulation’… I think, looking at some of Barry’s crap, they’ll be doing the same…
I notice that people who whine usually don’t have the native intelligence to google…
People like… hurm… Alex… there’s a primary example.
Hmm…..more name calling from the left. What a surprise.
Why should I do research for your ridicolous claims? Besides, when people talk about these “lies”, they generally open with something like “While he is TECHNICALLY correct, here is what he was implying:…”. In other words, pure BS. Much like most of what you say.
I’m not left wing, Reichboy… I think all political animals are loons…
You can say that all you want, but the views you express clearly put you very left of center.
And you’re just randomly pulling names now.
No, it’s far from random… we both know you’re a cretin, but I admit I know it…
Im not a cretin, and you called me “Reichboy”, which is what I was referring to.
Do you even know what you are saying?
See, here is the difference between you and me. I like logic, and arguing logically. Once someone overcomes your basic sense of politics, you resort to insults and whatever else you can say. Its a pity so many leftists use the same exact tactic.
Nice generalization. Would it also be fair to label all conservatives as drooling Rush sycophants thumping bibles wherever they go?
If I recall, you called me ‘liberal’… so I called you a Nazi (DWN, Aisle 12… Wang detail…)
And with a stroke of the keys, my Wang erupts onto the thread with deadly accuracy if a bit belated. I just wanged this thread and boy are my arms tired…
“All hail, the Mighty Wang!!”
MG, I now have in my head:
Come all without, come all within,
You’ll not see nothing like the mighty Wang.
Diss, it certainly gives those lyrics a much different meaning…
The wang feels the love and it feels pretty good.
and as an addendum, I make no claims… I simply mock you for the zombie you are…
Actually, you implied that there are instances of him lying by saying I needed to google it.
A basic understanding of how languages work will help one when in an argument.
OOOH! The an American claiming to speak english… it’s like Doctor Jhonson’s dog that walks on two legs… it’s not that it does it well, it’s that it does it at all…
Go on, say something else like you understand what it means…
Try and detriment me for being American, it is still evident that I have a better grasp on the language than you do, if you still do no think you made any claims about Limbaugh.
How cute… a Limbaugh fan who pretends to have better comprehension skills than a broken house brick…
But please, more comedy gold…
I’ll give you a clue Sept 22nd 2008 – Arab?
Hmm..did I say that? Why no, no I didnt. It would seem your point is invalid.
“Try and detriment me for being American, it is still evident that I have a better grasp on the language than you do”
Um, as an American, you aren’t doing us any favors there, dude.
Please learn to tell the difference between an verb and a noun!
You mean “a” verb and a noun, yes?
Yes, I meant to write “antagonize”, but doing this and writing an essay on Gitmo for my History class finally caught up to me. Im not perfect, oh no!
Detriment and antagonize aren’t even closely related. I would love to see your essay when that’s completed, I’m sure the teacher will recommend you for the Gifted Classes. Either that or die from laughing hysterically.
Dude, that was harsh. At least he’s trying to get an edumacashun.
Actually, when I write about the how it is detrimental to US forces not to have all advantages available, and then someone says that my nationality is detrimental to my understanding of the English language, they are very close together. Before you make snarky comments, at least think about it.
And ha, you think you’re smarter than I am.
I bet the right wing perspective is great on that…
Lots of people who were rounded up based on torture testimony, reports of how conditions got worse in the run up to the new Presidency in a last ditch to break people that hadn’t broken in 7+ years. The refusal to return the land to Cuba, while sending worthless cheques payable to some one who no longer exists…
It explains why he’s such an ass, he’s 12…
There are ‘gators smarter than you, boy…
Now you’re denigrating ‘gators. Sigh.
Is anyone safe from your venom?
Erm… let’s think… Cripples? No… Blacks? No… Hispanics? No…
Gay people? No… Jews? No… Women? No… Men? No… Children? No…
To cut to the chase, if I think someone is just a poltroon, I’ll treat them the same… Equal opportunity bigot.
@Alex: I thought about your comment and it makes absolutely no sense. Did you actually read it before you clicked ‘Add Comment’?
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@Observer: Yes, I know it was harsh. But then that’s real life, isn’t it?
He probably believes Rush on that the primary function of Planned Parenthood is provision of abortions (14/1/09)…
I’ve offered him the Eiffel Tower… if he wants that, then I may give him rock bottom on Colorado seafront land that has development permits available…
Fester: No, no there arent.
eddie: Are you saying you have never multitasked, and as a resul made a mistake? Here is an analogy: I talk to my friend, Ryan. Then I go talk to my friend George, and accidentally call him Ryan. I know something like that has happened to you before, it happens to everyone. Dont deny that.
But I only have half a functioning brain, so…immunity. I has it.
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What about orphaned, hermaphroditic, hydrocephalic Chernobyl children?
There aren’t what?
Orphaned or with surviving parents?
Your analogy is flawed. Yes, I have inadvertantly called someone other then their name but only when both George and Ryan (to use your names) are both present, not when there is more then a two minute lag between conversations. As for multitasking when writing, I can truthfully say that I have stayed on subject when switching topics. As I suggested, maybe you should concentrate on your essay so you won’t have to make that distinction.
My analogy really isnt flawed, especially as you dont know how long of a pause I made between the two pieces or writing(not more than 30 seconds), nor the exact topic I was writing about. But seeing as how I finished that, and it is for my only non-AP class, Im not too worried about it.
You omitted that you’re older than dirt too
This lad doesn’t even have an excuse of age…
I just favour general ignorance…
you should worry about the rest… you seem to have no comprehension skills…
No, thats not it. The mistake was probably due to me doing too many things at once, as I have painstakingly pointed out.
True orphans. Who are forced to live in a group home run
by pedophilic outcast priests and their ruler-wielding nun-minions.
Got pictures I can laugh at?
I was going to mention that, but I figured he might be able to work that out for himself.
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@Alex: Your analogy was flawed because 1) you didn’t provide enough information for me to make the correct judgement. So I went with the context and assumed you went from Ryan’s house to Georges. 2) As part of my daily 8 hour job I am constantly in the middle of writing not one, not two, but sometimes five different whitepapers. As such, I can tell you that I have never forgotten what subject I was in the middle of writing. I think you need to learn better time management.
BTW… it’s no fun if they’re not starving… I want RIBS dammit!
But here is the difference: That is your job. You’re paid to make sure you do it right. This is just me writing how I feel about this to people I dont know
And really, just proving you’re an idiot… You FEEL rush tells the truth? Riiight…
Did I forget to mention that a rampant, incurable strain of
syphilis is eating the brains of those in the institution?
Link.
@Unc: I think Alex was claiming that there
aren’t ‘gators smarter than he. The boy’s
delusional, it’s plain.
*backs away slowly*
You know, in this link I could SWEAR they are screaming
“CHUNK, CHUNK, CHUNK…”
lol.
I in no way am doing anything idiotic, but you sure as Hell are.
rhorho: Thats….cool?
I want FLIES! Distended Bellies, damn your eyes… otherwise where’s the funny?
Flies…eyes…you wish is my command…
@Alex:
Now would be a good time to learn. Otherwise, when you get out of your sheltered environment you’re going to have trouble.
Bot-fly, damns your eye…
Distended belly…with a bonus crazy!
…and ribs.
Then yes. Yes I would mock them!
Why the hell is there a 30 second lag between writing an essay for school and posting on a humour site? You keep up those sort of work habits you WILL end up working for McDonalds or as a Rush drug-gopher.
Until you know me, know that I do have a 4.2-odd GPA, and SAT scores better than almost all college-bound juniors, I would not make that statement.
How do you explain your shockingly bad writing skills, your inability to reason, your lack of comprehension, and your appreciation of an overpaid imbecile?
Other than 1 mistake due to multi-tasking, I see no reason to say I have poor writing skills. The only reason you think I have poor reasoning skills and appreciate Limbaugh is because you’re a lefty. Its reallly that simple.
And once again, Im not writing any sort of paper here. Im not trying to wow you with rhetoric.
Uh-oh, now were in for it.. he pulled out the GPA bullet as if we are supposed to be impressed. Pffffffffffft, go back 30 years when a GPA meant more then pass/fail.
*pops popcorn; waits to hear about MENSA*
See, another instance where your lack of reason shows itself. Where have I indicated my stance vis-a-vis political ideology? Because in my opinion Rush is a buffoon, and a harmful one at that? That just means I have ears and I CAN reason. And my opinion on your writing skills has absolutely nothing to do with what you claim to be a single mistake (single? really?), but the atrocious way you cobble a sentence together. You really should be focusing on polishing your “essay” rather than defending an abhorrently vile sack of shit who would not care if you lived or died except that would be the cost of his next opus out of his pocket.
I dont need to polish my essay…it is for my only easy class, in which anyone with half a brain should get an A.
You’re right you didnt say anything about your political ideology. But tell me, are you more liberal or conservative? And was my assumption correct?
The atrocious way I cobble sentences together? I havently really put that many sentences together, so you dont have too much to base than on.
Apparently, you have no apostrophe key. Get one, then come back and scream about how smart, beautiful, and better than us you are.
*Whew* looks like we dodged the GPA bullet!
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Again, I’m sure your teachers have great fun in the Teacher’s Lounge with your ‘essays’. Aside, from that, you have cobbled enough sentences together for the rest of us (both sides of the aisle) to call into question your supposed GPA.
In his case, GPA stands for ‘Good Person to Aggravate’, but the teachers won’t tell him that.
The teacher writes an ‘A’ on his papers to make him feel special. In the grade book it’s just a ‘P’.
Pay attention in class and maybe you’ll start developing critical faculties. Until you’re competent to evaluate truth and blatant lies, there’s no point in you having or expressing opinions. You’ll end up parroting whatever you’re fed. It’s a sad state all too common among the youth of today.
Bottom line; until you’re thinking for yourself, you’re not thinking at all.
Your atrocious neglect of the apostrophe comes to mind. It’s right there next to the enter key, give it some attention!
GPA 4.2? Fascinating, especially considering straight A’s get a 4.0 …
Which half of what you say is true, Alex, and which half is arrant BS? I’ll actually be impressed if the truth is as much as half.
You’re wrong. It’s totally possible to get a 4.2 with a weighted GPA, for students who take honors and AP classes.
Weighted GPAs allow for classes to count for an extra gradepoint. For example, an AP class often counts as a weighted class. Usually, on a 4.0 scale, an A counts as a 4, a B as a 3, a C as a 2, and a D as a 1. Weighted classes are one gradepoint higher (A counts as a 5, B as a 4, etc) and raise your GPA. A weighted GPA allows classes designated as weighted to count for more points and therefore your weighted GPA is higher than your unweighted GPA. An unweighted GPA treats all classes as unweighted clases (aka A=4, B=3) and a weighter GPA allows for some weighted classes (A=5).
I see lots of ’straight A’ students in their first year of college, who can’t write a darn, don’t know how to properly cite or paraphrase, and have never had to study for a test. I myself did NOT have a 4.0 in high school, but I knew all of those things before I went to college. Which really makes me wonder: why on earth are those high school students actually getting those ‘A’ grades?
So, Alex, but this woman is not impressed by a 4.2. Let alone your grammar or logic skills. And I suggest you might want to actually work on them before you get hit with Intro Bio, Poly Sci, or English Comp at the college level.
He could always go to a community college where they dumb down the curriculum for the local high schoolers (who claim to have a 4.0+ GPA). I’m not really going to question his GPA, but I would certainly love to smack around any and all english teachers he has had. Basic punctuation should have been covered when he was in the 2nd grade, and to reach high school and not have a clue is atrocious.
Question: Do we really need to encourage him to “polish his essay” anymore than he usually does in between trying to impress people with nonexistent or at least unproven accomplishments?
Turd polishing…
Thank you Fester, but some of us actually do a tolerable job speaking and writing the language. There are far too few of us, but we do exist.
Alex, I think the word you were looking for was “denigrate.” Don’t play on Expert when your skills barely qualify for Medium.
Not enough “U”s, it’s centRE, metRE, and the building as well as the art form is theatRE. The D in CD stands for DisC.
Just saying…
The irony of having a discussion of language evolution on a LOLnet site is disturbingly rich.
It would be comedy platinum if we were doing it on lolcats…
“Dammit, Cuddles!! It’s ‘I has a flavour,’ not
‘I has a flavor.’ U is kleerly rong!”
I haZ a flavour!
lol
@Unc: Noes! It’s I can *has* cheezburger,
not I can *haz* cheezburger!
Furrinerz!
and he doesn’t need me to denigrate him… he does that alone
January 27, 2009 – 4.19 Bn going to ACORN?
But I dont feel the need to write at my highest level on a humor site. Evidently, you do(Some sort of inferiority complex?)
Also, I barely need to write at a fourth grade level to prove I have a better grasp on the language than this idiot.
Weak. Those who can write well do so out of habit. If it takes effort for you to avoid writing like a neanderthal, you’ve already failed.
Testify, Brother N8!
So you write e-mails to your friends the same way you write papers for a class? That makes you one weird individual. Otherwise you’re just plain wrong.
Here is the deal: I dont like being an asshole, and as such dont go to lengths to put myself as better than someone, unless they actually deserve it.
You do ignorant so well you must enjoy it… that and being loudly dumb…
Have a picture [link]
Can you be serious? You never actually make a point, you just call others dumb. I think we both know that there is no reason for me to be writing at my best here.
Sure I don’t make a point… it’s more you can’t read you silly, little boy…
No, you just dont have a point other than that you think I am dumb for disagreeing with you politically.
Erm, you don’t disagree with me politically, you disagree about reality… but you’re just a silly little wanker…
and excuses of ‘divided’ attention really don’t cut it, asshole…
Yes, I do disagree with you politically. And once again, you dont have a point, but you did call me a “new” name.
You’re really going into overdrive here, arent you?
You’ve not addressed a single point I have made, just been wrapped around the axle that I think you’re a silly little boy who is really out of his depth and objects to being told that people think he’s a dullard who is best served by remaining in his mother’s basement…
To busy being butt hurt by the nasty man to actually read what’s been said.
Thats because you havent made a single point other than that.
People who communicate with others generally try and get their points across, not vaguely hint at them and then assume others will know what they mean. Remember that if you ever try and go make some friends
“and excuses of ‘divided’ attention really don’t cut it, asshole…”
Hahahaha, I can tell you’re really feeling the pressure.
Try reading you prick…
and what pressure? It was a statement of fact… I was just trasnlating it down to your level, since you’ve probably missed the undertone in Eddie’s and others posts
1) you’re a cretin
2) your excuses ring hollow…
is their thrust…
Oh and vaguely hint… you’re the Rush expert, you should know, and be able to defend the point from what I’ve given… but you’re just a poseur.
Once again, you resort to name calling. You know how I know Im getting to you? You try and be sarcastic with me, and act like you are somehow better than me. Butonce I repeatedly show that you dont know what you are talking about, you start calling me an asshole, etc.
When did I say I was a Rush expert?
Ok, how about apologist? Does that make you feel better? As for Fester, I seriously doubt you’re getting to him. Have you not followed his other exchanges? He calls everyone a$$hole so I wouldn’t feel so special if I were you.
You know, I havent actually said too much about Limbaugh, just those who unfairly criticize him, take quotes out of context, etc.
And dont look now, but you’re pretty much Fester’s bitch.
That’s ‘minion’. We’re Fester’s ‘minions’. Geez, if you’re going to call names, at least get those names right.
What froo said, I’m a minion. You on the otherhand as still an a$$hole.
You mean you have to wear the gold bikini too, Eds?
Yeah, but he let me also have the wrap because of my age. Who the hell wants to see MY butt?
Unc, apparently.
Brain bleach please!
Ugh, I step away for a few hours and the whole thread spirals out of control…
I haven’t taken a class for which essays were necessary in over a decade. Kids these days…
Amazing, ain’t it?
I weep for the future.
Hey, where’s my gold bikini?
It’s not given, it’s earned.. LOL
But, but…
I usually earn it, but I was out most of the
day. Can’t I get an honorary bikini? A life-
time achievement bikini? A Susan Lucci
bikini?
*rummages around*
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Ah, here you go.. just don’t ask where it came from and there will be no trouble.
I LOVE it!! You’re the best, Eds! *MWAH*
*feels compelled to do fancy pageant walkin’*
Alex, this is getting really pathetic.
You’ve said multiple times that Boss Limbaugh is always right. At YOUR request, Fester has given you four examples, dated and referenced, when the pig-ignorant bloviator was dead wrong.
Are you going to answer them directly, or are you going to sit down, shut up and end this childish tomfoolery?
Gold thong bikinis for EVERYONE!!!!
Oh good… burlap chafes me so.
How’s this, Unc? {linky-link}
Shirley Eaton! Teh Hotness…
Unc, your provision of gold thong bikinis reminds me of Bubbles Devere off Little Britain (I hope you appreciate the reference. If not, let me know and I’ll explain.)
Apparently Alex thinks there is supposed to be a huge difference between essay and normal prose. There is a difference but it is small. Essays, you try your damnest to make it as pristine as possible. Normal writing, you do your casual best not to look like an infant hammering the keys before you accidentally shutdown the computer. (Not implicating my youngest son of course…)
So no, despite that I am not getting a grade for posting here, I still like to get as close to perfect as possible without heavy editing. Ergo, I try to have a decent meter, spelling, grammar, and interesting use of words. I do this for the same reason I don’t visit the store wearing clothes that have gone unwashed for a fortnight. In case that comparison is lost on you, I do both of those things because I don’t want to project the image of an empty and uncouth being with rattling stones where the rotten, urine stained brain used to reside.
Ergo, I don’t want to present logical fallacies and verbal fellatio to a hero archetype who is no hero. As for your almost clockwork response of calling me a liberal, no I a moderate. I am socially liberal but tend to like the idea of a government who isn’t overstepping their bounds into everything. I like the middle of the road because the truth never seems to lie in an extreme when you look at something objectively.
Bravo!
you used ergo twice…
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You forgot a word and a comma. Let me help.
“As for your almost clockwork response of calling me a
liberal, no, I *am* a moderate.
@Eds… it was deliberate
Thanks guys for keeping me honest. I appreciate the edits.
And I hate when I miss words or get excessive on words like Ergo. I swear my fingers are conspiring against me.
So that post wasn’t me leaving unwashed, it was more like having clean clothes on and then finding that your shirt is backwards, embarassing but fixable.
@Unc: I’m glad I caught it.. the show is brilliant in a lot of ways, gross in others. But still, champagne for everyone!
I’ve been wondering, how can we encourage more thoughtful conservatives like
ed and froo without being overrun with trolls and socks? I mean, this Alex guy goes on and on about how logical and thoughtful he is, but I just don’t see it. He comes out gunning for liberals from the get go, then whines when he gets slapped down and professes to be something he’s not, while accusing liberals of being everything he demonstrates himself to actually be. Here’s a tip: rather than profess to be uber-smart, with an umpty-bajillion GPA, a MENSA membership, and a mind that makes Stephen Hawking look like a retard, why not prove it through your writing? Don’t attack others and whine when they hit bacvk, use your brains to prove your points. With FACTS, backed up by REFERENCES.
Quick explanation of difference between my set of mistakes and Alex’s.
While I do have an excuse of lacking my Nexium this week thus my esophagial area feels like a warm sunburn and my brain and fingers don’t always sync up, there is still no timeframe for posting so I could have edited and reedited before posting. However, I did not because I was distracted but that doesn’t excuse me in this post or the previous one from criticism. I accept my fallibility and thus I am not defending my mistakes like I can’t be wrong or called on it. I accept that I am human and thus fallible, unlike Alex who has been defending his right to be wrong for what feels like hours now…
Yes this is a bit bitter but I refer to the sunburn that is my innards and use that as a crutch to continue being unpleasant to the willfully ignorant.
@Seth: I don’t know what to say. Many of us
have tried in the past to calm down conser-
vative noobs, and encourage them to express
themselves calmly and rationally. Some of
us still hold out hope, but some of us have
given up. To my memory, ubr was the last
person who responded well to being talked
down, but he wouldn’t be classed as a dyed
in the wool neocon, either.
Perhaps logical disconnect is required for
far right mentality. Otherwise, I’m not sure
what to think. EP and Bob (in his 60+ known
manifestations) never caught on, despite
their long tenures on PK.
It’s just sad. Politics isn’t a game. One’s political party is not a sports team. We need honest debate and open dialogue between left and right, there’s too much fanaticism on both sides.
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The sock-puppeting here is making it hard for any real conservatives to join in because we’re all so paranoid about it. Those mouth breathing troglodytes are ruining it for THEIR OWN SIDE and helping keep most sane conservatives away, I wonder if they even realize how destructive they are? Probably not, all they care about is beating the ‘bad guys’ on the left.
I think I see where you’re going wrong.
It’s just a game. Crossed with religion, but it’s all a game.
At least froo and I are still here (I know there’s also a couple of others). I don’t think we could be driven off even if everyone armed themselves with flaming torches and pitchforks.
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But you’re right, Rho and Seth. It’s pretty sad when conservatives (i.e. us token Republicans) have to start ripping into the wing-nuts because they can’t have an intelligent discussion.
@Seth: The socking is a problem, but that’s
easy to spot most of the time. The real
problem is that most of the right wing nuts
can’t seem to swallow the fact of opposing
opinion. Left wing nuts (I include you and
me in the group) seem capable of handling
the existence of facts and arguments
contrary to ours.
@Eds: You and froo are great contributers to
PK, but neither of you would claim to be on
the far right, imo. Correct me if I’m wrong,
but froo seems a little to the right of you on
most matters, apart from religious ones,
where she goes further to the right than you
seem to. Is that consistent with your percep-
tion?
Arrgh! *contributors
Yep, I’d agree. Even though I have been called a RINO, it’s a label which I detest because a RINO actually believes in the values originally set forth by the Republican Party from it’s inception. On the other hand, while Froo is a few notches to the right from me, I probably agree with 80% of what she believes in, but I may not be as vocal about it.
Come on, Eds, you know that’s just a nice way of saying that ‘Froo doesn’t know when to shut up”
LOL! Actually, a lot of the time I’m sitting here nodding and trying to think up a snappy reply and draw a blank. You seem to have the ability to voice ‘our side’ quite nicely. Besides, I would never be the one to say you should shut up. Fester on the other hand has no such qualms.
Well, ya know, Fester is Fester, and shall be forever and ever amen
If you would like to defend him. you might do a better job if you didn’t accuse anyone that dislikes him as a ‘liberal’ as if it has the same connotation as ‘leper’ . they could just as easily be middle of the road, or conservatives that dislike rush’s tactics.
there is a general idea about rush followers that they just use him as a mouth piece repeating his hate for ‘liberals’ so if you don’t want to perpetuate a stereotype stop using liberal like it is a four letter word after every post against rush
Eddie said the same thing about idiots who claim to be conservative and then throw excrement on the name, making it a leper synonym…
Seems that no one likes to be ridiculed. Shame I’m about, really…
TBH, the vociverous, crapbomber, Cons are most of the problem…
Alex & Sassy being primafacie comments.
Most of the stupid liberals are shouted down by their own side… Conservatives (with the execpetion of Eddie and Frou) seem to have a blind, the enemy of my enemy is my friend, vibe (which caused the US to sponsor most of Saddam’s excesses in the period 1980-1988, along with the Contras, and a third of the dictator scum in power today)
It seemed worth a shot at least. Maybe a little insight would help to keep them from negative stereotypes and start thinking about what they are saying and how it is perceived.
perhaps it is a lost cause, perhaps not.
I think the people who have been here for a bit will know Alex and Sassy as rightwing nut-jobs. Some of us who are right of center just see Rush and as impediment to the furtherance of what Republicans really stand for (you can include Bill O, Hannity, and a couple of others as well). I know of one talk show host, who y’all probably wouldn’t have heard of since he’s local, who actually talks reasonably and will take both sides depending on the cause. As for Rush lying, it’s those who have been brainwashed that will hang on every word and not be able to recoginze the lies that are dished out. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see through the smoke and mirrors, just an open mind and a willingness to question.
the questions unfortunately ruin the act. the magician without his smoke and mirrors is just a guy in a snappy suit waving his hands around. these shows that pander to peoples fears are their own magic show, and when people aren’t getting validation for all their fears, the magic is lost.
I don’t really understand why they want to be so afraid, but meh.
Well said.
Give Rush his due, he lies about Reps too…
Yes, especially those mavericks who don’t tow the party
line…
If it’s any consolation… I hate everyone..
i’m not sure how you muster the energy. I personally can’t get beyond being apathetic to our hominid species.
I use the word ‘hate’ loosely… I use the term since it’s the only one some of the right wing loons understand…
I’m with FaileV on this one. Hate takes energy, of which there is a finite supply. There are so many more attractive uses for that energy… why waste it on adherents of an ideological dead-end?
and as I said I used the word ‘hate’ since it’s a word they understand…
the closer truth is ‘leg wettingly funny’
I disagree. Leg wetting is no laughing matter.
You should have your prostate examined.
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Like you need to get that lobotomy reversed, colonial…
Medically impossible, limey BMQ.
I know, but I said you NEEDED to, I didn’t say you could…
It’s called Groupthink. I had to write papers on this stuff way back in college.
To say Rush is right about everything is about as accurate as saying Olbermann is right about everything. He isn’t (no one is), and for you to put such blind faith in a man who’s income depends on his listeners is foolish.
Terrific summary!
Thanks Rho. It just seems whenever someone says they hate Limbaugh, some people pull the “Well Olbermann is junk, too (assuming everyone hates Limbaugh loves Olbermann)” when they’re actually both from the same cloth.
There are similarities, but read the two transcripts side by side
for any given day, or watch the shows together. There is a
substantive difference in the use of facts between the two.
I agree, there are different uses of info between the shows, and I find Olbermann more agreeable in his arguements. But I won’t say he’s right about *everything* because, like Limbaugh, his income/success depends on his viewers. That’s what I meant by “from the same cloth”.
I totally agree that no one should be trusted entirely,
even if only for the simple reason that opinions can be
mistaken for facts, and facts can be spun. Frequency
on the one side doesn’t imply absence on the other.
Too true, Rho.
Wow, four sentences and every one a repetition of a preprogrammed talking point. Say, do you ever in your life have an original thought of your own? Probably not; that’s why you’re Conservative.
Here’s my non-original, Conservative talking point for you: Kiss my ass. I’ll have you know that there are many Conservatives out there who have no problem thinking for themselves. Your statement is as silly as me switching it around to say “Oh, you’ve never had an original thought, that must mean you’re a Liberal”.
wait a minute…Rush is right about EVERYTHING? So are you telling me that Rush is, in essence, JESUS?!…Well that would explain how and why i lost my religion.
Doesnt try to hide the truth like Hussien
Or Bush…
and as an addendum… he seems to have been a war hawk, when a lot of journos knew more than the spooks… His truth doesn’t seem to be a truth, just pandering to people’s darkest fears…
Exactly!
There was a time, many eons ago, when Rush was actually spot on with most of his analysis. Unfortunately, time, ego, and to much oxycontin has taken it’s toll and we now have what is left. It’s a shame too, because Rush used to be quite entertaining as well as informative.
As someone who portrays a character… after a while it becomes parody, and then you walk away before you believe it’s real… Too late for Rush
Name ONE thing he has “lied” about. Since I’m very sure you’ve never listened to him, how would you know if he lies about things?
By the way, just because he mentions something you didn’t hear on CNN doesn’t make it a lie.
the ever changing face of no_bama, the man who makes the right of the right wing wince with embarrassment…
“Rush Limbaugh lies” gets 1,110,000 Google hits.
It’s pretty weak to ask for a cite, considering the plethora of such
material available.
Anyway, [LINK] “More Phony Lies (and quotes) From Rush Limbaugh”
I think my fave is the Barney Frank (Rep) one… it’s a hoot!
…just like the old joke…
How can you tell when Rush Limbaugh is lying?
His lips are moving
Yes, the Barney Frank lie was among the most colossal ones
Rush has told. There have been so many lies, it’s hard for one
to stand out, but I have to agree that one is *at least* in the top
five.
Andy Kauffman is not dead. He was having trouble with the wrestling spoof ( everybody thought it was real) and faked his death. He successfully reincarnated himself as a performance-artist drugged-out gas-bag radio host named Rush Limbaugh.
When Andy isn’t in Vegas as Tony Clifton… he doesn’t need padding any more… or the fat makeup has got better post-Klumps…
I’m glad he’s around. He’s one of the few places where you can get criticism against the ruling party.
and his function for the past 8 years?
You should have listened to him for the past 8 years. He trounced the Bush administration nicely.
Did he now?
When? Don’t recall any critiques – please show your work and enlighten us.
POE’S LAW!
Where’d that dam* smiley go? Where did old Sud hide it?
The only thing I remember was the immigration nonsense.
Well, he did nail him to the wall for spending. But that is what liberals want, so I hardly think that any Obama supporters will agree.
He also lied about the comments made about house value rises… and it must be great to know what ALL Liberals want… do you predicts lottery numbers too? Read Tarot? Take the occasional bread from your goat porn collection?
Social liberals who prefer fiscally conservative policies don’t exist?
I find that difficult to believe.
It’s filth like Sud, Alex, and Sassy that make fiscal conservatism such a pain to admit to… I’d sooner admit being Mormon, when I’m pretty conservative financially, personally as well as politically. Cleared my mortgage in 5 months over 15 years, despite several financial down turns… I now have NO DEBT!
*does the debt free dance*
Congrats. I, too, am mortgage-free.
LOL! And he does his background checks before he posts so he can slice ‘em and dice ‘em.
Nice stab Festered!
On the serious side, congrats on the mortgage! Debt free is nice.
*Sud now dances a debt free jig for Fester*
Thanks, Sub
That’s quite an achievement, Unc! Well done!
They existed in 1972 (LINK).
From the 1972 Republican platform:
“To continue progress for women’s rights, we will work toward:
Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment; Appointment of women to highest level positions in the Federal Government, including the Cabinet and Supreme Court;
Equal pay for equal work;”
What happened to those people??
Those people still exist, and some of them are in Congress, believe it or not. The problem is, the ‘conservatives’ of today have forgotten their roots. They’ve been snookered by the siren call of bigger government, bigger paychecks for them, getting to ‘rule the world’, and they forgot that they went in there thinking that government is the problem. When the Conservatives realize where they went wrong (i.e. trying to blend in and keep their jobs), they will come back as a strong party with something to offer besides being shadow Democrats. I’ve had this conversation with friends recently. The Republican party at this point can’t differentiate itself from the Democratic party in any way right now because of the way they’ve handled the last 15 years, so why will anyone want to be associated with them? They have to be different, somehow, and regain their credibility that their way is actually better. The only way to do that is to slog through the mess they’ve made over the last 15 years, and FIX IT.
They have to be different, somehow, and regain their credibility that their way is actually better.
…or accept that their way is unrealistic, and perform
a sea change.
The GOP would do very well to lock that gas bag
Cheney up. Every time he speaks, he reopens the
wounds caused by the last administration (“The Bad
Old Days,” if you will), and is every bit as damaging as
Rush Limbaugh ever could be.
Hear hear. When the “ruling party” is screwing America, somone has to speak up!
intelligently. You skipped that word. Somebody needs to speak up intelligently. I’m not a fan of BHO somtimes, but if Limbaugh is the spokesperson for the alternative, I’ll stick with the shitty ruling party
goonies is my fav movie ever!!!!…………..EVER
actually spaceballs was better, less bitter
mmmm….. bitter…..
Hmmm… IPA!
I prefer a bit less bitter. Amber lager. or the occasional Woodpecker Cider
IPA had to be hoppy…
FALSE
BEATS. BEARS. BATTLESTAR GALACTICA.
You won! It was Bears.
Get it? It’s because he’s FAT.
you missed ‘Ugly’… based on the Michelle Obama thing, ugly is a valid political opposition…
The butt boils are comedy gold, too.
Funny… I seem to remember that argument used quite often against someone else…. The letter “M” comes to mind….
although he has never exerted anywhere near the sway over Democrats as Rush does over Republicans, i remember that being fat seems to have been enough of a “substantial” right-wing criticism of Michael Moore over the years…but again, i don’t recall any Democratic congressmen or members of the Democratic party organization tripping over themselves to tongue-wash Moore’s asscrack over the fear that they may have offended his audience. And I’ll give Moore credit for not going to the Dominican Republic with a valise full of viagra….I have to wonder, when Rush described that particular trip to the DR where he was caught with the viagra as a “boys only trip”, was he talking about his traveling companions or his itinerary?
THANK you!! Here I was, trying to figure out who was meant by the initial “M”, and all I could come up with on the spur of the moment was, “You’re kidding! Somebody actually said Michelle Obama is fat???”
I just find it funny that the republicans are so “tough” on drugs except for Rush. Hypocritical much?
Rush don’t count… he’s white and rich…
They would stop existing if it wasn’t for the hypocrisy…
“I tell you what to think, therefore I am.”
Have a votive picture of Rush [link]
Amazing how the people on the left claim to have so much love and compassion for other people, but they ALWAYS wish someone with a different opinion would drop dead.
Which left winger would that be, Cretin? I’d see you all dead in a New York minite since it would be amusing… the American dream borne fruit…
The Dems CONSTANTLY spout how they are the “party of tolerance”, and all Republicans are racist.
Of course, as soon as anyone who has the gall to have different political views shows up, the tolerance goes out the window. And lets not start on the racist things they say about black Republicans.
Look around once in a while, you’ll be shocked what you see Fester.
you’re doing that fallacy of generalization again. to find if a dem, or left of center person, or whatever is a hypocrite you have to look at them as an individual, not by what the general policies of dems are then see if they match perfectly. just as not all republicans will agree exactly with the party doctrine.
While I agree with you to an extent, in my experience the VAST majority of liberals I have met have expressed the views I said to some degree.
Probably it’s because you’re just dislikeable… the sort who would make
St Francis spit and mutter that you’re getting on his paps…
Now thats rich, you calling me dislikable. Im plenty friendly when someone wants to have an intelligent conversation. You fit the profile of someone rejected by society, who takes glee in calling others names, and cant cope when someone beats them intellectually.
How cute… it thinks it’s intellectual… oh dear.
If I were you, I’d stick to fishing drinks cans from dumpsters and stop being an embarrassment to the thinking right…
You’re simply a fool… the party of the Religious right… the only thing remotely shocking is that you seem to think what you beleive is ‘true’ when it’s as much an article of faith as anyone else’s… But please, confirm my opinion that you’re a loud, ignorant, bag of pus, with barely enough sense to do much other than parrot the party lies (and they’re all lies, no matter who says it)…
you’re a mental dwarf.
Once again, you cant argue my points, and you cant argue with facts, so you resort to name calling. We both know you are finished, and will just carry one embarrassing yourself, which is exactly what you are doing.
You are the idiot.
Oh, who’s the bigger fool? the fool or the fool who bandies words with him?
and really, you’re not doing yourself much good, since not even Rush says he tells the truth, but that he’s an ‘entertainer’…
February 10th 2009 – Did thaw woman say she wanted a car and a kitchen?
You really are a piss poor apology for a human… in fact, if you’re not damaged chromosomally, I demand a DNA test to see if you’ve got better than 96% match for the human genome…
The bigger fool is, quite simply, you. Here is one reason: You think him saying he is an entertainer means he lies. What he means by that is that he is not a reporter, and that it is his job to see things from a perspective. Try and understand this, and then maybe you’ll have the intelligence of a chimp.
So, you’re basically too dumb to see the difference between a point of view and a lie… I see…. want to buy the Eiffel tower? I’ve got it as far as Blackpool… it’s yours for 40USD and you pick it up…
No, basically I can see that you know you’re beaten(which is going to happen when you argue solely by name-calling), and are trying to change the subject by calling me dumb.
You’re an idiot, Alex.
It’s not a ’subject change’ sonny… you’re dumb since you’re making the noise you are… Thing is, who wants a thread of you whining about ‘librul bias’ when handed a list of Rush’s best lies for 2009 (and there are a lot of them already…)
I just *adore* that circle jerk we get from the righties:
“You lefties are supposed to be *tolerant!*”
“If you’re as *tolerant,* as you claim, why is it that you are not
*tolerant* of our *intolerance*!!!???11??!!”
If liberals were truly tolerant, they wouldnt call MR. Steele an “Uncle Tom”.
I’m a liberal, and I have never called Michael Steele such a name.
See how I defeated you there? It took me 1.01 seconds, Brainiac.
Ah, but a large portion of the Democratic party has.
You didnt really do anything there.
Ah, but I have, little one. I have defeated your blanket
affirmative with one easy negative. You’re no match for
anyone else on this LOL, so it doesn’t surprise me that
your failure isn’t apparent to you.
I live in ‘liberal land’, AKA Massachusetts. I read the paper regularly and talk politics with my neighbors and colleagues (who are not all liberals, by the way). And this is the very first time I’ve even heard of “Uncle Tom” being applied to Michael Smith. Maybe it is only used by those liberals in Rush’s mind?!?!
*Second – Madison, WI (liberal-town in conservative-land)
Pardon me for not being shocked that Alex felt
the need to make sh!t up.
I’ve never called him that either, and don’t think I’ve heard it from MOST, if not all of the hated “liberals” here. Opening one’s ears and eyes might reveal a different truth than the one you get from Rush and other right-wing pundits. Like we’ve said before. There is a plethora of information available on Rush’s lies alone, also on O’ Reilly’s, Coulter’s etc. I posted two different links myself in the last couple of days with specific websites giving specific examples.
Alex hasn’t read anything any of us have provided yet.
The poor thing is reality challenged.
Have you seen the link under my name?
I hadn’t seen this particular compilation before, but I had heard a lot of the pieces therein. It’s totally disgusting. I love how some of those on the right say “where’s the proof he lied?” then go “la,la,la I can’t hear you” when you show them some, or else say, that it’s fake because OBVIOUSLY someone just wants to maliciously discredit Rush. So sad.
I truly believe that the right projects their hero
worship onto the left, because I’ve never heard
or read anyone on the left being worshipful of
Obama. I wish I could say the same about
Rush’s bleating followers. Maybe then, lefties
wouldn’t be attacked as blasphemers when we
point out lies and exaggerations of his.
Still, wouldn’t it be possible that one of the
prayerful would peek?
“I’ve never heard
or read anyone on the left being worshipful of
Obama.”
`
I’m pleased as punch that he’s not b*sh, but that has little or nothing to do with Obama per se, and a whole lot to do with my immense relief that there’s no more damage that b*sh can do to us.
D. L. Hughley interviewed several people at
the Obama inauguration. Assuming that
attendees of the ceremony would likely be
at their worshipful best, many paused when
asked the question, “Are you happier that
Obama is coming in, or that Bush is leaving?”
A messiah would garner more blind loyalty
than that.
I disagree. That is a poorly worded, weighted question, and it speaks to a certain response. The fact of the blind hatred for Bush is enough to offset what could have been blind worship of Obama.
“The fact of the blind hatred for Bush is enough to offset what could have been blind worship of Obama.”
`
I realize these kinds of questions are reminiscent of one’s most annoying grade-school teacher, but I’m puzzled: Are you sure “offset” is what you meant to say? If I (or anyone) sort-of likes Candidate A, but vehemently DIS-likes his opponent, I would think that the dislike would enhance, rather than offset (mitigate), my original lukewarm liking.
Also, I don’t know D.L. Hughley’s political leanings, or intent, but I think he does pose a valid question when he suggests in a veiled way that at least some people’s positive feelings about Obama could be attributed to the fact that he is not b*sh. I can’t speak for the feelings of anyone but myself, but that’s certainly crossed my mind a time or two.
I just mean that the wording of the question was bad, and tended to imply a certain answer. Or rather, tended to weight the answer against an honest one. If someone had asked the question ‘On a scale of one to ten, with ten being the happiest, how happy are you that Obama is president?’ then went on to ask a follow up question ‘On a scale of one to ten, ten being the happiest, how happy are you that Bush is leaving?’, that might have gotten a better, or at least a more accurate answer.
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There is a lot of blind hatred for Bush, as evidenced by you refusing to write his full name. I know you have reasons for hating him, but you have to admit that you’re rather consumed with contempt and hatred for the man to not even writing his name in full and at least giving him the respect of being a fellow human. (this is not confrontational, I swear! I’m just pointing something out)
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I just think that Hughley could have worded the question a LOT better, and gotten a truer result.
And as long as were saying that, his name is spelled Bush (with a capital B), even though he has acted a lot like a shrub over the last 8 years.
and I think Obama is a breadfruit… so sue me…
I don’t know what a breadfruit is. Damn “insert arbitrary slang for european”’s!
-
Is it like pumpkin bread? Because that would be delicious!
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Or is it like fruit cake? I want no part of that…
I actually looked up ‘breadfruit’ on Urban Dictionary. It didn’t help.
Britsh West Indian Slang – Whiter than white on the inside…
here in the us they’re known as oreos… black on the outside, white on the inside… i bet you can guess what twinkies are then…
You bet I can. Twinkies are one of America’s best-known and most-loved snack cakes, made of delicious sponge cake and filled and with vanilla creme manufactured by DOW Chemicals. Mmm mmm good.
And still good 20 years later!
And what could clog your arteries any faster?
A deep fried Twinkie!! [LINK]
Breadfruit is a tropical fruit, although not very sweet. It’s about the size of a large eggplant, yellow to yellowish green in color, and white inside. It has a texture reminiscent of bread, kind of fibrous and bland. It’s very good sauteed in butter, which is how I usually enjoyed it in Hawaii. Breadfruit fun fact: The HMS Bounty was delivering breadfruit seedlings from Tahiti to the West Indies for use as anew staple food when the mutiny occurred.
Citation, or admit you’re a liar.
I see what you did there..
Liberals circle jerk to the left, conservatives to the right. There are a few people who jump on most anti-liberal comments, a few who jump on anti-conservative ones. Two different circles, each jerking. In fairness to Alex, no real intolerance was shown, so if you take Fester as a liberal, this thread is kind of proof of concept on a small scale. When called out on generalizing, Alex agreed, said that it was from personal observation. I don’t really see the need to bite throats out.
We were hoping for blood..
Both sides are repetitive. They argue for one thing, and one thing only.
To be correct and have the other side be wrong.
Therefore nothing ever gets done.
That’s a good stab at it, but, you see, eddiepscetti and I
are on opposite “sides,” as are froofrou and I, yet we all
see Alex as a pointless boob. I wonder how that could be…
(No offense intended to boobs in general, of course.)
Bullcrap – you are on the same side.
Don’t think so.. I can assure we are not. The only thing we have in common is a disregard for stupidity. By the way, who summoned the asshat?
Different avatar again I see. (on the a$$hat-in case you needed clarificatio)
boobs without nipples??
Pointless, but not useless…unlike Alex.
Actually, you’re wrong. I’ve noted on numerous occasions where the ‘other side’ has been correct. I was still hoping for blood though.
Alex is obviously a teenaged young person just establishing his worldview, and seeking affirmation of same.
Just a note: you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
True that, but a closed mind gathers no thought.
That would be obvious. The problem is, Alex is trying to infer that he has more knowledge then is reality. It’s fine to express one’s world view, but don’t do so while trying to claim other people’s lack of any knowledge. I can assure you that my experience far out-strips anything Alex can even imagine, on paper or in real life. On the other hand, had he been a bit more gracious, he probably would have been given half a chance. As for catching flies, all I need to do is hang around a decaying corpse, which I will sure pass on.
Eddie, just a note for future reference: someone else implies, and you infer.
Thus, you inferred from Alex, who implied.
Imply means “to state indirectly.” Infer means “to draw a conclusion.”
Thanks and noted.. the two words have actually become interchangeable, but I did look it up and I agree with your assessment.
Ah, yes, I see your point, but in my experience an attacked teen turns inward and instantly becomes defensive. Hard to keep you mind open when the adults are presenting a united negative front.
FWIW.
You wouldn’t be wrong. On the other hand, it does help build character to face a whitering onslaught and still maintain your sanity. I don’t think his head exploded, so hopefully he will be better prepared next time.
Also, FWIW, I read here a lot, and I do believe Alex is not a “drop it and run” troll, and is interested in an actual dialogue. Respect for the resident intellectual, but sometimes he can be a bit offputting to those just trying to open a dialogue. I really believe Alex has the potential of a froo or an eddie, but has been unfairly defined as an Anniee, and thus his defense mechanisms jumped to the forefront. It’s a natural reaction when you’re 16/17/18 to respond with false bravado, intellectualism and world experiences when confronted at that particular age. Recall yourselves and knowing more than your parents. I know I do.
as another regular reader, I have to say I
agree with (and love) your classification
system, even if my faith in Alex’s ability to
improve isn’t as great as yours.
Sometimes the well is too deep and the frog too broken to do more than try aind put it out of its misery…
Another thing of which you may not be aware is
that this isn’t Alex’s maiden voyage to PK.
Another thought: This isn’t a daycare. While
many of us like to be helpful to noobs, we tend
to choose wisely.
I know: I’ve seen his prior posts. Thanks for letting me know.
I’m not suggesting anyone should feel compelled to babysit or be helpful; I just believe the insults tend to turn off the very audience you are attempting to enlighten. Right now, Alex, at his age, feels justified in his loathing of the liberal mindset (despite his overly-assertive responses) which saddens me.
As Gandhi told us: “An eye for an eye ends up making the whole world blind.”
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
- Abba Eban
Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.
-MLK Jr.
Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.
- Mahatma Gandhi
(And the circle is complete.)
A circle is the reflection of eternity. It has no beginning and it has no end – and if you put several circles over each other, then you get a spiral.
- Maynard J. Keenan
Addendum:
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at a goal.
-MLK Jr.
The hottest place in hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.
-MLK Jr.
I get pizzy when I’m told my politics.
I still have my ‘Peace through superior fire power’ t-shirt, from a time before Alex’s parents were old enough to fumble…
He’s entitled to his opinion. He’s not entitled to his own reality…
First in importance to having a good aim is knowing when to ppull the trigger.
-EddiePscetti
The only way to comprehend what mathematicians mean by infinity is to contemplate the extent of human stupidity.
-Voltaire
I’ll give this little cookie an hour before we’re doing the no pants dance. Time to musk up.
-Brian Fantana
It’s peanut butter jelly time, peanut butter jelly time, peanut butter jelly time, peanut butter jelly time! Peanut butter jelly and a baseball bat!
-The Dancing Banana
Here comes Johnny Yen again
With the liquor and drugs
And a flesh machine
He’s gonna do another strip tease
- Iggy Pop
“That’s not really a career, Bender: it’s more of a felony.” — Tuuranga Leela
And if I catch you on top taking pictures of any of my people, I will blow your fuc!ing head off. You haven’t earned a right to be here. *You got that?*
-Sgt. Franz
That implies anyone wants the mofo to hang around and ‘develop’…
I would think that if flies were the issue, a can of hairspray and a box of matches would serve better than honey or vinegar.
how very ‘Live and Let Die’ of you…
”
Just a note: you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
That implies anyone wants the mofo to hang around and ‘develop’…
”
`
Or wants flies.
Nope, don’t want flies. They leave maggots that end up coming back and turning into more flies. Speaking of maggots, I think we have one over on the NASA lol.
HEEELLPPPP! Dogpile! Can’t…handle…the…pressure.
Pussy.
A maggot AND a stalker..
NO, Eds! Bad!! Keep away from the troll!
You’re the one crying like a pussy on another thread.
Admit it, you like the attention, since you’re not getting any anyshere else.
PUSSY.
Did you know that in the indie video game Clean Asia!, the eyes of all humans leave their bodies, fly to the moon, develop weapons, and attack the human race, taking over several countries?
In bed. With your penis.
Did you know that research by Mark H. Beers on drug interactions in the elderly led to creating the eponymous Beers Criteria, listing prescription medications that may have negative side effects in older patients?
Did you know that you’re a complete loser?
SAVE US, Feeesttter!
ROFL!
Lev Avnerovich Leviev (born on July 30, 1956 in Tashkent, Soviet Union) is a Chabad Orthodox Bukharian Jewish billionaire. Leviev is ranked 210th among the world’s wealthiest people, with an estimated personal net worth of $6.5 billion [1], although his associates put the figure closer to $8 billion.
That one took forever. Teach yourself to read a couple of big words while you were gone?
The Centro Nazionale Studi di Musica Popolare (CNSMP) (Italian: National Centre for Folk Music Studies) is the most important scholarly organization of its kind in Italy. It is housed on the premises of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome. The CNSMP was founded in 1948 by Giorgio Nataletti. Currently the Archives of Ethnomsicology, contain over 11.000 recordings of traditional music, including about 7.000 documents of Italian folk music.
Way to google, genius. Now how about stealing one from the quotations website?
Keyserlingk is an old noble family from Westphalia. It is first mentioned with Hermann Keselinch on 16 November 1300. The direct line began with Albert Keserlink (mentioned 1443-1467), mayor at Herford.
LOL will the exam be multiple choice or bluebook?
No curve for you!
Unity of effort is the state of harmonizing efforts among multiple organizations working towards a similar objective. This prevents organizations from working at cross purposes or reduces duplication of effort. In military operations, unity of effort is similar to unity of command except it usually relates to coordinating organizations not in the same command, such as in interagency operations.
Go ahead, do keep enlightening. I’m not the preggo in the Central time zone with an infant, so I can enjoy your verbal vomit all night long!
Stalking is a controversial pejorative term applied to the behaviour of individuals (and perhaps to bodies of persons) towards others which has no universally accepted definition. The difficulties associated with precisely defining this term (or defining it at all) are well documented. [5] It seems to have been first applied to the harassment (in a general sense) of celebrities by strangers who were described as being obsessed. This usage of the word appears to have been coined by the tabloid press in the United States[1] and has been adopted as a term of art in psychology and, in some jurisdictions, as the name of a criminal offence.
It has been applied to the obsessive following, observing, or contacting of another person, or the obsessive attempt to engage in any of these activities. This includes following the person to certain places, to see where they live or what the person does on a daily basis, it also includes seeking and obtaining the person’s personal information in order to contact him or her; e.g. looking for his or her details on computers, electoral rolls, personal files and other material containing the person’s private information without his or her consent.
You’re the one who shared all that personal information right here at Pundit Kitchen. Shall I link to the lengthy discussions and congratulations?
You are also the one who engaged me on the other thread, and then came over here to continue the conversation.
Thanks for defining your obsessive behavior, I do appreciate it.
Etymology
dumb + ass
Pronunciation
* IPA: /dʌmæs/
Noun
Singular
dumbass
Plural
dumbasses
dumbass (plural dumbasses)
1. (vulgar, slang) A person marked by stupidity or foolishness.
Excellent comeback! SO well researched and indicative or your intellectual and frustration level. Perhaps you should retire before you make more of an ass of yourself.
ROFL!
Cancers are classified at different stages depending on how advanced tumours have progressed. Staging describes the extent or severity of an individual’s cancer based on the extent of the original (primary) tumor and the extent of spread in the body. Knowing the state of the disease helps the doctor plan a treatment and determine a prognosis (likely outcome or course of the disease).
A certain state law defines: Assault By threat or Physical Contact: Class C assault is by threat or physical contact without bodily injury. Generally, this offense is filed in the Justice of the Peace Court. Report this offense to a law enforcement agency.
Perhaps you shouldn’t make threats on the internet of beating someone with a baseball pat, hmmm?
Heh.
*bat
Because, really, you never know. The times we live in someone might just ake that *bashes with a baseball bat* thing seriously.
Hell.
*take
Filing a false police report is a misdemeanor and a violation of CA PC 148.5, and can be punishable by imprisonment in the county jail for up to one year and a fine up to $1,000.00.
Such may be the case, but YOU must ask YOURSELF if you are willing to put your family through an investigation simply for the satisfaction of threatening someone on the internet with physical harm.
As I said, you never know who may take serious offense to someone who threatens to commit any offense involving violence to any person or property with the intent to place a person in fear of imminent serious bodily injury.
And I must inquire as to why you are quoting CA law, as it would actually have no relevance whatsoever in your state of residence?
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a mental disorder most commonly characterized by intrusive, repetitive thoughts resulting in compulsive behaviors and mental acts that the person feels driven to perform, according to rules that must be applied rigidly, aimed at reducing anxiety by preventing some dreaded event or by resolving a more nebulous sense of tension. However, the likelihood that a dreaded event will occur, or the causal relationship between the performance of compulsions and the reduction of this likelihood, tends to be imagined or exaggerated.
Yes, you do indeed exhibit many of those symptoms.
Meh. Lame and overdone.
Step it up, now, why don’t you?
The rhytidome is the most familiar part of bark, it is the outer layer that covers the trunks of trees. It is composed mostly of dead lignified cells and is produced by the formation of multiple layers of periderm tissue. It is generally thickest and most distinctive at the trunk or bole (The area from the ground to where the main branching starts) of the tree.
Hmmm. Waiting until almost an hour later to be “last.”
Yep, OCD. They have medication for that.
Being up a 0403 PDT is pretty manic… but please, continue…
Says pot to kettle.
‘Cept I’m not in Seattle, and neither are you.
…or are you?
Grafted plants are usually more uniform in their growth habit, flower color, flowering season, fruit size, shape, and quality, etc., than seed-grown plants. If you planted seeds from a ‘Golden Delicious’ apple, the resulting trees would produce fruit of varying types but none of them would bear ‘Golden Delicious’ fruit. Grafted trees, using scions cut from a ‘Golden Delicious’ tree, would all produce typical, ‘Golden Delicious’ apples.
Dance, and kneel before me, maggot!
*pew pew pew*
lol!
I think you’ll find that actually, you’re dancing to my tune…
True or absolute HEPA filters must pass a test to be considered HEPA worthy. True HEPA filters will have a serial number assigned to them if they are able to trap at least 99.97 percent of particles of .3 microns. These test results will be printed on the filter. True or absolute HEPA filters may be more expensive than other HEPA filters, but they must perform at a certain standard to receive the distinction of true or absolute HEPA.
My, my, Uncle Fester, you’re sure confident in your assumptions of my identity. I think I now know who you think I am, and sadly, you are mistaken.
You may want to purchase a tinfoil hat to go along with that HEPA filter, as obviously some of those naughty contaminants are getting through to your brain.
Nugatory (adj.)
1. Trivial, trifling or of little importance.
2. Ineffective, invalid or futile.
3. (law) Having no force, inoperative, ineffectual.
4. (computing) Removable from a computer program with safety, but harmless if retained.
Another person who defines him/herself with laser-like precision.
Kudos to you, too, for your ability to honestly assess yourself.
And more entertainment from Anniee, who
needs a sock puppet to feel secure enough
to tell everyone else what’s wrong with them,
because the mirror is her own worst enemy.
The use of the sock puppet… strange how it’s the bulk of the right wingers who use them… other than Ema, who was a Democrat fruit loop with a fetish for torture that made Neocons wince….
Seems they don’t have the courage to stick with one id, probably due to the fact they keep getting handed their arse by parroting the party line… as eastablished by their great and noble prophet, Rush [link]
I *KNEW* he looked familiar!
Wasn’t ema a right winger, too? I could have
sworn so. If not, I caught her in a lot of
rightwardly moods, and not just about her
love of torture.
Excellent point – therealhuman!
The only point is on your head..
Schlitze’s back then… cool…
but only a cretin would call me ‘liberal’ Jon-boy…
“I just *adore* that circle jerk we get from the righties:
“You lefties are supposed to be *tolerant!*””
`
Wasn’t there a headline in The Onion awhile back to the effect of: “ACLU Defends Nazi Party’s Right to Burn Down ACLU Headquarters”?
~
Tolerant is good, codependent is not.
[LINK] Onion article
I object! I have never said I was filled with love and compassion! The summer’s breeze is a bitter wind through my cold-dead heart! *shakes fist*
That would have been good for three internets, but the fist shake knocks you
up to four. Don’t spend them all in one place, now…
Four whole internets?! o_o If anyone needs me, I’ll be cashing these in…
No one is always right but I put Keith Olbermann in the same category as Geraldo Rivera. My Favorite News-caster is Glenn Beck not because of his opinion but because of his shows layout – He tells you what the “mainstream media”(as he calls it) is covering and what other storys that they’re not coverng
I know its kinda off topic but please let me know of any of you agree
And then for the second half of the show he agitates for armed rebellion.
He’s a loon who wouldn’t know a fact if it bit him.
LOL! You are such a piece of work. Please keep posting. These comments are better that the LOL’s!!
Great stuff. Do you write for cable comedy?
Pardon? Can you expand?
No.
Glenn Beck is not a newscaster, he’s a talk show host. He doesn’t report the news, he comments on the news. These different kinds of programming shouldn’t be confused, just like opinion and facts shouldn’t be confused.
The problem is that he passes himself off as a “newsie”; or at least presents his “facts” as if they’re truly facts…when in actuality his “facts” are either bogus, or simply his opinion.
Beck wears the self-satisfied smirk of a man to whom unwelcome facts are irrelevant. He has made up his mind, this smirk says, and that anyone would try to change it is bemusing to say the least.
In short, the sort of smirk just -begging- for a brick to the teeth.
Abraham Lincoln had agreat quote about his type: A man with a bit of knowledge is much more dangerous than a man with no knowledge at all…
One of the easiest ways to tell the difference between journalists and talk show hosts is to watch for shouting. Journalists don’t shout.
It’s a bit discouraging how many people can’t tell the difference between news programming and opinion shows, I think part of the reason is that there is so little straight news on TV. The best news sources are the publicly-funded ones, like NPR.
Another part of the problem is that I think on some level, people don’t want the news, they just want to hear someone validating their own opinions/fears/biases. It’s so much easier than listening to all the facts and coming to real, educated conclusions, especially when those conclusions may cause you to re-evaluate your own positions.
I can agree with that, with one addition…they want their news in 30-second MTV soundbytes…
Oh great and magical TV box, please tell me what to believe today!
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Lawl…that made me think of Animaniacs
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Wheel of morality turn, turn, turn, tell us the lesson that we should learn!
The other problem a lot of people seem to have is that the “facts”
given by opinion speakers are often distorted and misrepresented
to the point that they are out-and-out lies. Without a healthy bit
of diligence, one can easily be led down a path of escalating
untruths to the point at which the actual facts of the matter
become unbelievable.
The flawed premise becomes the bedrock of belief. It’s exposure
to the light of day is shattering and painful. The human ego takes
over at that point, and denial becomes a way of life.
Exactly, and the whole reason these shows can get away with distorting facts so frequently and thoroughly is because they’re not reporting the news, they’re stating their opinions. People allow themselves to be led if they turn to these sources for news, and that applies to both the right and the left side of the political spectrum, although the commentators who lean to the right often seem to spew much more hate-filled, bigoted fear-mongering, by my observation.
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Anyone who has ever had to write a paper for college should know how to discern between credible news sources and opinion pieces.
Depends on the circumstance.
David Dimbleby didn’t while narrating his walk through Belsen
Walter Cronkite didn’t when JFK got shot
Herbert Morrison did as the Hidenberg crashed in front of him, while pausing periodically to vomit off mic.
Right you are, that statement was too broad. I stand corrected!
I wouldn’t even consider Glenn Beck entertainment. You know that filling in
Oreo’s? It tastes really good at first, but too much of it and it starts tasting nasty.
On a side note. Almost all newscasters sling opinion in with their facts. The only one that I can think of that just lays the facts is Paul Kangas.
Wow, I have read through all of the comments and while plenty of people say “Rush is always wrong” or, “Rush is always right” few have actually done anything to prove it. In fact, both sides have merely denigrated to name calling and Grammar Nazi. This is a sad shadow of the Socratic method of logical and calm, respectful dialogue between two of differing opinions. In the end I suppose, it will be an issue resolved by time. I don’t say one or the other side of the argument is right or wrong, what if in 50 or so years Rush, Bush, and the conservatives are right? You may scoff now but time reveals all. What if they’re wrong? You can’t claim to know either way because our view of the present is distorted by opinions, biases and whatnot. As they say, “Hindsight is 20-20.”
I thought Rhorho’s link (re-linked under my name for convenience) sewed it all up fairly neatly. Time needn’t tell, the truth is already plain.
Ah but that’s what you think, the Roman Empire thought it would last forever but its now in a state of non-existence. I withhold judgment for a few years on just about everything, Obamas presidency, Iraq, and so on. Just because it is an accepted “truth” means nothing at all. We used to think the earth was flat. Saying that Rush and all these others are definitively wrong is a statement of pride and a bit ignorant to the fact that life is almost always anything but the way you see it.
So you’re appealing to a non-fixed concept of truth? How very Clintonian of you. However, you must admit that there exists an objective reality aside from our perception (unless you’re completely existential, in which case, why are you letting a figment of your imagination speak to you this way!?), and in the realm of objective fact, Rush smeared soldiers who were wounded and/or killed in the line of duty. You can’t squirm out of it, though I applaud your attempted avenue of escape.
Was that a polite, long winded way, of saying ‘Bollocks! You’re just pulling stuff out of your ass now…”?
Well, the question “what is truth” is an old and respected one, so I try not to treat any particular answer to that question with outright disdain.
But basically, yes.
Pilate asks it John 18:38, and we all know what happened to the guy who he was asking…
What I was saying is that you can’t claim absolute knowledge about anything which you seem to be doing. I’m in no way defending Limbaugh but I don’t say he’s wrong about everything. I CAN’T KNOW. Neither can you. Both of us see things through our own tinted glasses so to speak so while you see him smearing soldiers someone else may see something different. You can’t pass it off as fact because it is your view of an event which is affected by you expieriences and upbringing. There are a few facts known in life and everything else can be seen from many directions, Hitler thought he was right. I’m not comparing you to HItler but like that example, you see the “facts” differently than other people, truth is something I and everyone else have yet to see, time will tell because it is, so to speak, a river that washes away damn near everything.
Wang Alert! We have a need for Wanging on Aisle 11!
I repeat, WANG…Aisle 11…STAT!!
Who thought the Earth was flat? AFAIK, that is a myth perpetuated by Victorian era writers hyping their culture’s perceived intellectual superiority. The ancient Greeks not only knew the Earth was round, they calculated it’s radius to within 4%. Any culture that has ever sailed knows the Earth is round.
Flat earth, a bit like the hollow earth, seems to be a 19th Century invention that has dragged on to today… It’s like the ‘Young Earth’ thing…
Then I was wrong, forgive my ignorance. (Not being sarcastic actually.)
Point of order. I referenced stuff, while insulting a silly little boy. Socratic method about Rush is like getting the good silver out for a $1 tv dinner…
Jane must still be on the East Coast with family so I’ll say it:
aNOTHEr heather lol?
*sad slow shake of the head*
that’s two in a row… and both are not funny…
I can’t believe no one else commented on what struck me right away: In this picture, Rush looks just like the “I can has cheezburger?” cat.
And on Limbaugh and his reliability, there are entire books written about him and factual errors he pushes on his show. And really, I think that’s more about wanting to make a point and either being lazy about research or wanting to make that point sound more authoritative with a fake fact. It’s a radio personality thing, saying things with certainty to make listeners feel better about what they want to believe anyway. It keeps people coming back to the show.
If you want specifics, go to FAIR’s website and poke around, or Google “limbaugh error” or the like, you’ll find plenty. And yes, you’ll probably find them for Olbermann too, but I’d expect not as many. Yes, I favor Olbermann over Limbaugh, but I wouldn’t hold Olbermann up as a paragon of journalism either. It’s not that I think he lies on his show, it’s that his show is a bit of an echo chamber – he picks something from the news, he brings someone on the show who agrees with him, and they go back and forth on the topic. He served his greatest purpose during the Bush years, when he was the only person on a national news TV show expressing the kind of outrage that a lot of people felt over some of the more egregious Bush decisions (on torture, on civil liberties, that kind of thing). Once the rest of the media got comfortable subjecting the administration to scrutiny, his show’s news segments got less important, and now I’d say he’s mostly worth it for the shorter regular segments like “Worst Persons”.
Rachel Maddow is awesome though. A liberal commentator who tries to bring people who disagree with her on the show, and has reasonable discussions with them, including hard questions on both sides? Excellent. No shouting, no deliberately weak member of an ideological pairing like Hannity and Colmes had, just a solid back and forth. But that, admittedly, is just me plugging someone I want to see emulated on the Right, not something that has much to do with the picture. Healthy debate is how we’ll come up with good policy in this country, not games of chicken where both sides push extremes until the other side gives in.
Ed Shultz does that on his radio show too. His “progessive” radio show regularly has guests like Pat Buchanan etc. (remember when Buchanan used to be considered too far right? Neocons make him look moderate.)
I agree 100%, telling the other side they’re wrong and then saying “accept our way because its right”, does nothing. They have to understand why your way is right, and you have to be open to the fact that you may be wrong.
This from the guy who, in the face of *facts,* launches into a “What is truth?”
philoso-fest! LMAO!!
My point being that in the end, truth is subjective unless you are a god with absolute knowledge. Your not. If you think something is right present your opinions on why it is right and see if you can’t make the other side see you way. If you can’t, you can’t. There is a right and wrong because we as a society have accepted standards that religions/belief systems pass on to us. And why does everyone think I was defending Limbaugh? I don’t support or detract him, he has a right to free speech and you don’t have to listen, the fact that he gets to people like this means they are to stubborn to stop listening, or, well there shouldn’t be much more excuse for it. If you don’t like it don’t listen.
I did like when Rachel had McCain’s daughter on the other night…She could’ve tried to tear her apart, but didn’t…she showed a fair amount of class and respect. I also liked when she had Tim LaHaye (sp?) and Jerry Jenkins on. You could tell she didn’t agree with their ideology, but didn’t go “bashing” them, either. Then when they called the interview “taken out of context”, she apologized to them, even though she didn’t do anything wrong, then she posted the entire, uncut interview on her website…
It took Rachel forever to get a conservative/GOP person to agree to do her
show at first. I like her, because she’s a total geek, and isn’t afraid to
*squee* on air. IIRC, her first GOP guest was a governor. (Sorry, can’t
remember his name.) Her line of questioning was designed to draw out his
opinions, and nothing more. Her toughest question was something like,
“What would you say to critics who say X?”
Since that first interview, other GOPers have been on her show, but it took
a courageous person to break the ice. She begged on air for GOP guests
before he came on. She used to list how many GOP members declined her
producers’ invitations, even.
While there are and have been a number of thoughtful conservative-leaning commenters in the PK posting threads, the more conservative-leaning trolls that pop up in threads like this have less in common with actual trolls than with malignant teratomas, those odd, frequently malignant growths which share the occasional odd resemblance to a human body part and are oft mistaken for cases of foetus in fetu…mouths, teeth and scrabbly, vestigial fingers and eyes growing off some other more useful organ
Is it just me or have we once again degraded to senseless insults? I’m not a conservative, I voted for Obama, but do we really have to continually insult the people we disagree with. And if you have any comments regarding my voting decision and my philoso-speak, can it. I’d love to hear someone refute my arguments (the only way they’ll get better, or i’ll be convinced otherwise.) but I fear more internet aficionados would merely make some base comments about my state of mind.
ugh I have just thrown up in my mouth a little.