Month: December 2009

Stupid Republican Tricks, Tommy T4 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – “Big Jim Hates Him Some Romney” Edition

Good morning, everyone! Time to suit up and pry the lid off some simmering drums of Freeper insanity and hatred. Just let Kibitzer know if you get any on your iso suit – he has the hose of truth today, and will hose that slime right off.

Hmm – looks like some Romney supporters didn’t get the hint last year that Big Jim only backs losers. Big Jim’s losing it for sure:

p>My response to the RINO Blogger telling FR to Knock Off the RINO Bashing and to all RINO Pushers

Dec 2, 2009
| Jim Robinson

Posted onWednesday, December 02, 2009 1:15:56 PM byJim Robinson

RomneyCare is big government forcing its will on a formerly free
people.

…says the nutcase who purged his own membership because they wouldn’t fall in line.

It’s anti-American, anti-free-markets, anti-Liberty and
unconstitutional. Listen to the Reagan tape. RomneyCare is the
socialism he’s talking about. RomneyCare = ObamaCare. No difference.

Government is not the solution, it IS the problem!!

…says the disabled man who cashes his disability checks every single month.

Free Republic will not support gun grabbing, abortion pushing, gay rights pushing, big government socialist RINOS!!

…says the fruitcake who thought Fred Thompson was gonna save the GOP.

In fact we will actively campaign AGAINST them!!

Works for me.

Free
Republic is a pro-Life & Liberty small government conservative site
for pro-Life & Liberty small government conservatives!!

…and I get to say who is and who isn’t.

Take a freaking hike if you don’t like it.

Are you kidding? You guys are more entertaining than a dozen clown cars.

RINOS be damned!!

Hope this helps.

Oh it does – just not in the way that you imagine.

1
posted onWednesday, December 02, 2009 1:15:57 PM
byJim Robinson

Let’s see how many suck-ups rush to lick up the spittle, shall we?

To: Jim Robinson

agree.

thanks.

2
posted onWednesday, December 02, 2009 1:17:06 PM
byken21
(i am not voting for a rino-progressive.)

Sycophant

div class=”a2″>To: Jim Robinson

Beautifully succinct. 😉

11
posted onWednesday, December 02, 2009 1:18:07 PM
byFormerRep

p>To: Jim Robinson

Those of late expressing a desire for the
forum creator and operator to “cut it out” are welcome to establish
their own rhino-licious site.

15
posted onWednesday, December 02, 2009 1:18:52 PM
byGreenAccord
(Bakon Akbar!)

He-man-woman-haters

To: Jim Robinson

I’m tired of the RINO’s telling us that
splitting the party will just hand victories to the Democrats.
RINO-babble gave us Obama-how could it be any worse?

51
posted onWednesday, December 02, 2009 1:27:33 PM
bySpok

Ask Hoffman.

blockquote>

To: Jim Robinson
“The only reason a conservative should reach across the aisle is to slap a little sense into a silly liberal.”

Does
that mean that FR will not be declared McCain country again in 2012, if
he should win the nomination again??? I know that it won’t be the case
with McCain, but you understand my drift.Is FR going to remain
anti-RINO, even if another RINO is running against the democrat next
presidential election cycle?

61
posted onWednesday, December 02, 2009 1:29:44 PM
byJustaDumbBlonde

One can only hope. Once in a while the lunatic fringe gets a dim inkling that the fringe is exactly what they are, and try to pull back from the delusion that they are the majority rather then , well, the fringe. Fortunately, we have people like Big Jim to push them over that edge.

blockquote>

To: Jim Robinson

To: CharlesWayneCT; Jim Robinson
Upthread you mentioned
as a possible “purge the mitt-bots” thread. But so far… Hasn’t happened.
And I don’t think it’s because JR isn’t trying. He seems to be doing all he can to suppress Romney supporters.

But as I’ve repeatedly said. These anti-mitt ads will soon go away. To be replaced by the FReepathon.

Ouch.

Because after all… no matter if you are a Rudy McRomney RINO… Jim does have to keep the FR lights on.
But as others have said -and I agree; I ignore these anti-mitt ads. Just as many ignore the FReepathon ads.
Does Jim not think this could backfire?

You’re joking, right?

65
posted onWednesday, December 02, 2009 1:30:35 PM
byResponsibility2nd
(Ack, is that the site with “Responsibility2nd”? Some weirdo. …)

/div>

To: Jim Robinson

So if Sarah P doesn’t run and neither does Michelle B or Tom T, it seems like everyone left IS a RINO.

93
posted onWednesday, December 02, 2009 1:45:27 PM
byFractal Trader

“All are RINOS except thee and me, and I’m beginning to wonder about thee.”

More after the jump, and Big Jim jumps into his own vanity, feet in mouth.

Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – “Big Jim Hates Him Some Romney” Edition”

Adrastos, Hurricane Katrina & Federal Flood, Law/Justice2 Comments

A Must Read Article

Peter Adrastos Athas

New Orleans Times-Picayune city editor Gordon Russell was a crack investigative reporter before his promotion last fall. Gordon is one of the MSM types in New Orleans who admits to reading the NOLA bloggers. In fact, he was on the politics panel at Rising Tide Tres (Trois?) Gordon was also one of the reporters on the ground when New Orleans became hell on earth on 8/29/2005 and his reporting was one of the reasons that the Picayune won a Pulitizer Prize. Now that he’s an editor, Gordon doesn doesn’t write as often for the paper but when he does it’s … Continue reading A Must Read Article

Athenae, Economy7 Comments

‘The Farthest We’ve Ever Gotten’

Kevin Drum: “On Healthcare: Hold Your Noses and Celebrate Anyway Democrats have been trying to pass a universal healthcare plan for nearly a century. But Woodrow Wilson dropped the ball on the first attempt, FDR gave up on the second, Harry Truman ran smack into the AMA on the third, Richard Nixon collided with Teddy Kennedy on the fourth, and Bill Clinton fell to Harry and Louise (and Bob and Newt) on the fifth. Now we’re on our sixth try, and the fight so far hasn’t been a pretty one. The Republican side has been dominated by howling over death … Continue reading ‘The Farthest We’ve Ever Gotten’

Athenae, Faith13 Comments

This Will Fix Everything

Santa Jesus is Comin’ To Town: Merry Hyatt has found allies in her quest to put an initiative on the ballot next yearrequiring public schools to play Christmas carols. Hyatt, who moved to Redding four months ago, said she joined the Redding Tea Party Patriots and recruited several members to help her collect the 433,971 signatures needed by March 29. Hyatt said she has partnered with a couple of churches in Redding and one in Wildomar in Southern California to collect signatures. All the signature pages must be turned in together to the Shasta County registrar, she said. The initiative … Continue reading This Will Fix Everything

Athenae, Of Interest11 Comments

Weekend Question Thread

At a non-political forum I frequent, they have what’s called an anti-crush thread, where you list your biggest turn-off in a potential partner or even a friend. To me it’s the same thing it’s always been, thanks to my Grandpa’s good advice: Somebody who’s mean to the waiter or waitress in a restaurant. Someone who picks on people who can’t fight back. What’s yours? A. Continue reading Weekend Question Thread

Adrastos, LOL, Malakatude, Sports8 Comments

Malaka Of The Week: A Faithless Saints Fan

Peter Adrastos Athas

New Orleans Saints fans are a rabid bunch and some of them aren’t too bright.Wayne Spring of Albany, La not only bet *against*the Saints but he made the mistake of posting about it on Facebook. The bet? He told his Facebook friends that if the Saints beat the Redskins, they could come over and shoot up his 60 inch BAT (big ass teevee.) Mercifully, the guy lives in rural Louisiana so the well armed and lubricated Facebookers didn’t hurt anyone. This is malakatude, pure and simple, y’all: p align=”center” class=”asset asset-video” style=”margin: 0pt auto; display: block;”> Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: A Faithless Saints Fan

Doc, Immoral Values, Of Interest10 Comments

Monkey See, Monkey Do

As Jude has aptly noted, the snow hit this area with a vengeance this week. We’re now sitting with -25 wind chills, so it’ll be a while before any of this stuff disappears. The U closed off all of its classes, the Midget’s school closed up for the day and pretty much everything else out here buttoned up and stayed home.It was so bad that the TV news was not only announcing school and business closing, but was also noting that several funerals had been postponed. The dead didn’t even want to be out… If you’ve not experienced 14 inches … Continue reading Monkey See, Monkey Do

Adrastos, Political Crack2 Comments

Tis The Season To Qualify

Peter Adrastos Athas

We do everything differently in New Orleans. WhileJude digs out from a blizzard and the rest of the country prepares for Chanukah and Christmas, it’s time for candidates toqualify for municipal elections to be held next February. That’s right, we have our elections early in the year when our thoughts are elsewhere; especially in 2010. The political class here prefers that the citizens not get too involved or turn out in high numbers so they can retain control. I mentioned this year’s schedule being chock-a-block with stuff during the election season, check out the money quote (list?) from apost by … Continue reading Tis The Season To Qualify

Athenae, So Called Liberal Media

The Internet Kills Journalism Again

If only those bloggers would stop ruining everything with their lack of standards: Mountain folk long have chided ski companies for overestimating accumulations and hyping snowfall. Take, for example, the October storm on the Front Range when Vail Resorts eagerly announced that it shut down its headquarters because the heavy snow was so terrific. What the company didn’t mention is that its offices are in low country in Broomfield, 75 miles from its closest slopes, where it was warm and sunny that day. “I sometimes wonder whether the ski industry wouldn’t benefit more from being completely transparent about weather and … Continue reading The Internet Kills Journalism Again

Athenae, Economy11 Comments

Why Don’t Kids Protest Anymore?

A couple of weeks ago I got worked up overyour typically bullshit nostalgic comment over at Susie’s place: Now-a-days our younger folks are too engaged on these fucking machines to get out into the cold (or heat) to raise HELL; but, guess what? They’ll stand in line all night long to be the first to purchase the latest version of an IPOD. CRAZY! Yeah, kids today, with their long hair and their rock music. You never see THEM at protests. Look, just because campus activism doesn’t look exactly like it did back in the Glory Days (and I mean that … Continue reading Why Don’t Kids Protest Anymore?

Adrastos, LOL4 Comments

Grandma’s Killer Fruitcake

Peter Adrastos Athas

It’s hostiliday time again. This time I’m dealing with that holiday food we all love to hate: fruitcake. Calvin Trillin denies being the one to first say that there’s only one fruitcake that gets endlessly recycled but I’m pretty sure he did. I don’t know about you but if I get a fruitcake, I pass it along or use it as a doorstop. Hmm, I wonder if we should try using fruitcake to rebuild the wetlands? Nah, they’d sink immediately This video is both clever and creepy but anyone who hatedHee Haw will run and hide. I like the dish … Continue reading Grandma’s Killer Fruitcake

Athenae, Geek Cred8 Comments

The Flounce

I’M OMG LEAVING!!11! Don’t get me wrong: when someone changes their mind about an issue and explains why, it can be very interesting. And I’m all for it. And when someone—I won’t name names—says “how the fuck could I have supported these idiots who drove the country into a ditch”, I think that’s great. But why would anyone feel the need to announce to the world that they no longer feel like part of the left on account of the fact that some lefty bloggers aren’t sufficiently supportive of Obama? Other than blatant link-baiting, you mean? Seriously, it’s a shriek … Continue reading The Flounce

Political Crack, VirgoTex7 Comments

Yet more gay: Eyes on the Prize in Houston

p>Heads up, folks. If you haven’t yet, start following the news about Saturday’smayoral runoff in Houston between third-term City ControllerAnnise Parker and former City Attorney Gene Locke. Parker, an out lesbian, holds a slight edge over Locke at the moment but the upshot is that it’s still too close to call. But think about it, the fourth-largest city in the country, largest city in the state lots of people love to hate, Texas, might just have itself a lesbian mayor next week. If not, Locke will be the second African American mayor in the city’s history. Either way, Houston will … Continue reading Yet more gay: Eyes on the Prize in Houston

Law/Justice, Marriage Equality, VirgoTex1 Comment

More of the gay: Thank you for being a friend

It’s a long way to full LGBT equality, and we will continue to fight. Sometimes, last week in NY, we’re gonna lose. Other times, like yesterday in New Jersey, we’ll at least hold our ground till the next fight. We know this: Allies. We need ’em. They are essential. Bruce Springsteen, today Like many of you who live in New Jersey, I’ve been following the progress of the marriage-equality legislation currently being considered in Trenton. I’ve long believed in and have always spoken out for the rights of same sex couples and fully agree with Governor Corzine when he writes … Continue reading More of the gay: Thank you for being a friend

Immoral Values, Law/Justice, Religion, Science, VirgoTex8 Comments

“I’m reading it from your book, dude.”

This interview with prominent ex-gayRichard Cohen is bound to get a lot of play in the coming weeks, and if you haven’t seen it, I gotta say it’s fairly epic. Maddow takes him apart. Watch his body language get twitchier by the minute. He definitelyneeds a hug by the end. Side note: Last night @maddow live-twitter denizens (think Crack Van on estrogen) were primed for this like a pay-for-view boxing match. Watching it as it aired, though, I felt myself getting weirdly uncomfortable as Maddow pressed on toward the takedown. Now, this might get taken out of context but bear … Continue reading “I’m reading it from your book, dude.”

Athenae, LOL5 Comments

I Love My School So Much

I could just kiss you kids: MADISON, Wis. (AP) — With classes canceled and more than a foot of snow on the ground, University of Wisconsin-Madison students planned what could-be the world’s largest snowball fight on Wednesday afternoon. The snowball fight was planned to pit students from two sets of dorms against one another at Bascom Hill in front of the main administration building. A Facebook event page created by student snowball fight organizers had attracted more than 5,200 guests by midmorning Wednesday. A. Continue reading I Love My School So Much

Athenae, Immoral Values5 Comments

God, Just Have Sex Like Normal People

Dan e-mailed over thisWonkette thread: How is it that when Dems have a sex scandal, it’s usually just some dude putting his penis in someone he shouldn’t. When Repubs do it, it’s like they swing for the fences. It’s like, “If we’re gonna get caught up in a sex scandal, damn it, there better be a three legged hooker, a fifty gallon drum of Vaseline and a shaved billy goat hopped up on Vicodin.” Republicans, try this, you know, just once. Instead of trying the old gas mask hooked up to the anus via garden hose trick, just, you know, … Continue reading God, Just Have Sex Like Normal People

Athenae, Immoral Values3 Comments

This is Why You Don’t Give in to Bullies

Because when you hit them in the face they always back down: After his abortion amendment did not win the day on the Senate floor, Sen. Ben Nelson (D-NE) did not come out swinging. Though he insisted that the failure of his abortion amendment “makes it harder to be supportive” of Senate health care bill, he did not reiterate his pledge to filibuster the bill. “We’ll just have to see what develops,” Nelson told reporters. “I have no plan B.” That allows him substantial wiggle room, if he ultimately decides not to defect from the health care bill, and indeed, … Continue reading This is Why You Don’t Give in to Bullies

Geek Cred, Jude5 Comments

Th-U-Ga Li-Fe

That’s right. It’s Schrödinger’s Tat. I love nerds. Check out somenerd tattoos here, whence I so shamelessly hotlinked the above image. And why in the hell is there no element with the symbol “G,” anyway? Gallium, Germanium, Gadolinium–why do they all get two letters? Stupid science, messing up a good joke. Continue reading Th-U-Ga Li-Fe

Adrastos, Political Crack, Television1 Comment

Brilliant

Peter Adrastos Athas

Uh oh, I sound like one of those frakking Terry Gilliam knock-off Guinness commercials. Where was I? Oh yeah, the superb opening sequence about the so-called Gang Of Ten on last night’s Rachel Maddow Show It combined substance, inspired silliness, sunglasses and a disco ball. I am not making this up: p align=”center” class=”asset asset-video” style=”margin: 0pt auto; display: block;”>http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640 Continue reading Brilliant

Current Affairs1 Comment

Depressing

The lede of theAP story about Georgia House Speaker Glenn Richardson’s resignation last week: “Georgia’s powerful House speaker resigned Thursday after a suicide attempt and allegations by his ex-wife that he carried on an affair with a lobbyist.” Ohhhhkayy.Let me get this straight–there are two elements to this story.One, the attempted suicide three weeks ago.And then there’s the second one, that he’d subsequently been accused of having an affair, and it was that revelation that led to his resignation. But what did AP (and NPR, which is where I first heard about it last week) go with as the primary … Continue reading Depressing

Uncategorized4 Comments

Even Assuming the Worst, So Effing What?

Via the Crack Den, this: Reid was talking about the historic significance of the health care debate, and placing it in the larger context. Here’s what he said: “Instead of joining us on the right side of history, all Senate Republicans can come up with is: ‘Slow down, stop everything and start over.’ If you think you’ve heard these same excuses before, you’re right. “When this country belatedly recognized the wrongs of slavery, some dug in their heels and said, ‘slow down.’ When women spoke up for the right to speak up — when they demanded the vote — some … Continue reading Even Assuming the Worst, So Effing What?

Jude, Religion6 Comments

Holy Ghost Power

Almost persuaded. But not quite. In a post about the Christian right, DougJ at Balloon Juiceposes an interesting question: I don’t understand modern Christianity. As I’ve said before, Jesus has always seemed like a hippie to me, and I don’t think there’s so much in the New Testament that resemblesMein Kampf. So, seriously, what is up with so many Christian leaders wanting to emulate Hitler, Stalin, Lenin Mao, Genghis Kahn, etc? Is there a simple explanation for this? Well, there’s no easy answer. A lot of his commenters go for the “power” answer, but it’s not that simple. Evangelical Christianity … Continue reading Holy Ghost Power

Athenae, So Called Liberal Media3 Comments

It’s the Same Politico

There’s no such thing as a split media personality: As I’ve noted before, there are twoPoliticos. There’s the goodPolitico, which offers big-picture, reported pieces that genuinely change the conversation, and boasts bloggers who break news, offer regular insights, and use Web-based journalistic techniques better than other “non-ideological” outlets do. The not-so-goodPolitico feshitizes Drudge and lunges for the catty gossip that will reverberate inside the Beltway bubble, and unabashedly sees these things as virtues. Taken as a whole, though, these things make up the whole Politico. The shitty things Politico does reflect on it just as much as the allegedly good … Continue reading It’s the Same Politico