A.
Because I know some of you are vets, despite this being a liberal commie God-hating anti-American blog, and because I was too jacked about the pelicans to do a weekend question thread …
Did you serve? Tell us!
A.
OK – the CDC and the GHS haveboth been all over my ass for
letting the Freeperville sludge pile up, so let’s spin the airlock hatch
door and get to it, shall we?
Oh oh.
Man tattoos Palin
on butt. Assholes at FR react to the cheeky thing!
Marine
Tattoos Palin on Butt
Fox ^
| 5/28/10
| Alice Wolke
Posted onFriday, May 28, 2010
2:55:21
PM bypissantMARJAH,
Afghanistan – How does the world love thee, Sarah Palin? Let
me count the ways.Somewhere in Afghanistan, Marine Gunnery Sgt.
Benjamin Lepping pays tribute to the former Alaskan governor with a
tattoo on his left butt cheek, according to the Military Times.CLICK
HERE TO SEE THE TATTOOLepping, an ordnance disposal expert out
of Camp Pendleton, was assigned to Alaska before he went to Afghanistan.He said he had such a good time, he wanted something to remind
him of his time there.“I decided, ‘What could be better than
getting a tattoo of the hottest cougar in the Republican Party?'”He’s got a whole ‘nother cheek free. Maybe he can put McCain on it.
Actual pic:
To: pissant“Jumping The Shark” placemarker.
Or, cougar… whatever!
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posted onFriday, May 28, 2010 2:58:38 PM
byheadsonpikes
(Genocide is the highest sacrament of socialism – “Who-whom?”)div class=”a2″>To: Retired Greyhound
I agree. How anyone can see Palin in a sexual reference is
disgusting. Even on Palin threads, there be wolf whistles and “I’d hit
it” posts.She’s not a sex object guys she’s a Christian woman.29
posted onFriday, May 28, 2010 4:29:06 PM
byExtremely Extreme Extremist
Hawt.
Cross.
Buns..
p>To: pissantWhat’s with these people driving down the road wearing wife beater
t-shirts with, “In Loving memory of Jose” plastered on their back
window?I don’t even know who Jose is, and why would they advertise
Jose died?Death bumper stickers have replaced, “Child in car”
bumper stickers? How stupid were those?I’ve always felt people with bumper sticker mentalities are
really stooopid…
p>Well, it’s good to see things haven’t changed much at Free
Republic.
Barely repressed homosexuality/rage – check.
Linking
anything they don’t like to Latino culture – check.
Incoherent
ranting and objectification of women – check.
Can I get anOoRah?
To: pissant
Thenk yew.
And of course:
To:
pissant
More and more and more after the jump!
David Kurtz andJosh Marshall started a Memorial Day meme at TPM and I decided to join in. The veteran I’d like to remember on this solemn holiday is Sgt. Eddie Couvillion.
My family tree is far too tangled and gnarly to describe here but suffice it to say that Eddie was my second father. He served in Europe during World War II, not in combat but in the Army Quartermaster Corps. In short, he was a supply Sergeant, one of those guys who won the war by keeping the troops fed, clothed and shod. Eddie was what was called in those days a scrounger; not unlike Milo Minderbinder inCatch-22 or James Garner’s character inThe Great Escape.
Eddie’s favorite military exploit was running a army approved bordello in France after hostilities ended. He always called it a cat house and bragged that it was the best little whorehouse in Europe. One can serve one’s country in manifold ways…
Eddie died 5 years ago and I still miss him. He was a remarkable man because he changed so much as he aged. When I met him, he was a hardcore Texas/Louisiana conservative with old South racial views and attitudes. At an age when many people close their minds, Eddie opened his and stopped thinking of black folks as a collective entity that he didn’t care for and started thinking of them as individuals. Eddie was a genuine Southern gentleman so he’d never done or said an unkind thing to anyone but confided to me that the only one he’d ever hurt by being prejudiced was himself. I was briefly speechless because we’d had more than a few rows over that very subject. Then he laughed, shook his head and said: “Aren’t you going to tell me how proud you are of me? You goddamn liberals are hard to satisfy.”
Actually, I’m easily satisfied. In 2004, Eddie had some astonishing news for me: he’d not only turned against the Iraq War but planned to vote for John Kerry because “Bush Junior is a lying weasel and a draft dodger.” That time he didn’t need to ask me if I was proud of him, it was written all over my face. It was the first and only time he ever voted for a Democrat for President.
I salute you, Sgt. Couvillion. I only wish that I could pour you a glass of bourbon on the rocks and we could raise our glasses in a Memorial Day toast.
Drum roll please … tonight a little more than $1,200 was sent to theInternational Bird Rescue Center, courtesy ofyou fine people. And the request was made for the following pelican names:
Scout
FYYFF
UncleSamRocks
Ashley
Albert Lambreaux
LaDonna
(There was a tie at press time between Maddow and LaDonna and I figuredafter the week our girl had last week on Treme, she needed the Pelican more.)
I really can’t emphasize enough how hard you all rocked this project. Usually when we do something like this I try to send everybody who donated an e-mail. This time, around the second day it became a positive blizzard of donations, as small as $2, as large as $100, and the e-mail got away from me completely. But know that each of you is a part of this, and a small part of the enormous effort going on to safeguard and clean up the Gulf.
You’re good people. I’m proud to know you.
A.
I am actually more awesome than pile-driving a shark. It’s true.
Since yesterday’s installment of Tales of Awesomeness went over so well, I thought I’d lay down another one.
A couple of weeks ago, I was having a normal Saturday morning. Got up, had coffee, read a bit, and was on my way to the gym, which opens at eight a.m. on Saturdays.* I was going to pick up my gym buddy, and, while I was stopped at a light, I noticed something in the gutter right beside my car. It was a Social Security card.
“That’s odd,” I thought. “Most people don’t just leave those in gutters.”
So I got out of the car, picked it up, and continued on my way. My gym buddy wasn’t quite ready, so I decided to look for this poor bastard to see if I could return his card directly instead of mailing it to the SSA. About five minutes with Google and Facebook was all it took, and I wrote him a message saying that I’d found a SS card with his name on it. I included my phone number so he could call and say whether or not he was missing said item.
After a few minutes, my phone buzzed. It was the poor schmo in question. Apparently, he had lost his entire wallet. I said I didn’t find a wallet, just a Social Security card. I asked him where he lived, and told him I’d drop it off at his house. Unfortunately for me, it wasn’t on my route. But I headed over there anyway. On the way, I decided to drive by the intersection where I’d first found the card, just to do a little recon and see if the whole wallet or any other stuff was there. I spotted something that looked kind of wallet-esque, and looked for a place to park nearby so I could go in for a closer look.
I parked in the lot of the Doty School Condominiums. I can only assume that there was a Doty School in the area some time in the past. There just wasn’t any street parking available, so I picked that and parked in a spot clearly marked “Visitor.” I knew I was only going to be a couple of minutes, so I didn’t even bother locking my car or rolling up the windows.
I went down to the intersection–it wasn’t a wallet. I made a quick scan, and didn’t see anything else that looked like it came from someone’s lost belongings.
Now that’s pretty awesome–some real good Samaritan shit, and I’ve never even been to Samaria. But it got better. Much better.
I jogged back to my car, and, out in front of these condos, there’s a guy sitting on a rock with a cup of coffee. The best way I can describe him is that he looked like a serious ultimate frisbee player.
He said something to me that I didn’t quite catch, so I walked a little closer to him and said, “What?”
He said it again, but a little quieter, so I walked closer, and asked him what he said. I thought maybe he’d found a wallet or something. But no.
When I was about three feet from the guy, he said, “Are you gonna leave a tip?”
Me: “For who?”
Him: “For Doty Schools.”
Me: “Pfft. I pay my taxes. They support the schools.”
Him: “This isn’t a public parking lot.”
Me: “Look, Jackson, I stopped here for five minutes to look for somebody’s lost wallet. It’s even a visitor spot, for Christ’s sakes.”
Him: “Oh, well I didn’t know that. If that’s what you were doing–“
Me: “Yeah? Well, it didn’t stop you from running your fuckin’ mouth like you did know something, did it?”
And I got in my car and drove the fuck off. The kid was really grateful to get his card back, but sad about the lack of all things wallet. I told him exactly where I’d found the card, and noted which way the wind had been blowing if he wanted to look upwind for other, heavier things.
See? I’ve got tons of stories like this, all fine illustrations of my complete awesomeness.
*For the record, I go to the awesomest gym on the fucking planet. More on that later.
You know, this isn’t a big blog. I don’t know how we’re measuring our e-penis in blogtopia lately because I don’t care about that shit, but by any standard you choose, this isn’t a big blog. We can’t change the course of history with just one post, or even with a whole bunch of posts, and the way I know that is that David Brooks is still employed.
However, what we do have is a bunch of people who put their time and money and voices and backs into stuff they care about. You’re not content just to complain about something. You want to fix it. You hear a tale of woe — about journalism, about soldiers, about the Gulf — and instead of spending three hours coming up with a way to shield your fragile sensibilities from giving a shit, you look around for something to DO.
People, in seven days we raised $1,200 for the International Bird Rescue Center. We raised enough money through the blog to adopt six pelicans, and readers told us they sent in enough money for another three. That’s money going to identify and rescue and clean pelicans and gannets and herons and whatever else that ends up stuck in the waste.
The need in the Gulf right now is enormous and what’s more, it’s going to be worse in the months to come. People who fished for a living are going to be out of work. People who ran hotels and restaurants are going to be out of work. The evidence of BP’s colossal disaster is going to be washing up on shore for a long damn time, and the fallout will last longer than that. I seriously doubt this is the only action we’ll be asking people to take.
But for this, for everything you’ve given over the last week for no other reason than that you needed to do something to help and this presented itself, for this thing right now, thank you all.
And now we have some pelicans to name!
HOW THE FUCK ARE WE GOING TO PAY FOR A MEXICAN DOGGIE FENCE AND HELICOPTERS TO SHOOT THE HEATHENS?
A question I ask myself daily.
A.
It’s true. In fact, I am the acme of awesomeness. Let me give you a little taste of why I am so very, very incredible.
Last night, I went out for dinner. My companion and I went to a hibachi place. When we were seated, we were the only people at the station. A bit later, a woman about my age came in with two eight-year-old children. They sat across the way from us.
Now, I don’t like children. I get annoyed by the noise, the whining, the uncontrolled emission of various fluids–the whole thing. Additionally, I see them as a waste of valuable resources that could be used to make my life better. They’re little more than parasites, really. I can deal with kids once they reach age 20. Then, we can talk. Prior to that, I like to have as little contact with the little snot-, noise-, and shit-machines as possible.
So my companion (who shares these feelings) and I dreaded the experience.
But the children weren’t that bad. In fact, as far as kids go, they were pretty good. Their chaperone, however, canceled out their good behavior with her own. She talked in that loud, patronizing voice that adults use for children, and was just annoying as hell. Additionally, she was wearing a t-shirt that said “The measure of a society is how well it treats its animals. –Gandhi.” She wore this, and ordered the steak. So, clearly, she’s an idiot.
Anyway, dinner progressed, and three people aged 25 or so sat to our left. The chef came in, and cooked a hell of a meal. It was great. The only problem was this moron babbling away on the other side of the table. We didn’t say anything to her; we just talked about work (I always have fun stories to tell about work), and how our days went. Just a normal, adult conversation.
Finally, the meal was over, and we were figuring our bill. We put down the appropriate amount, plus a nice tip. And we go to leave. The two children that had been there with the moron had probably gone off to terrorize other patrons; at any rate, they weren’t in the room with us anymore.
That’s when the real fun began, and when I got to display my aforementioned awesomeness.
This jerkass comes up to me and says, in more or less the same patronizing tone she used with the kids, said “I know you two are on a date, and I appreciate that, but the profanity around the kids is unacceptable–the ‘fucks’ and the ‘shits.'”
As I said, we had just been having a normal conversation. We weren’t loud, we didn’t say anything about her or the kids. We’d just been talking to each other. I didn’t feel the need to go up to her and complain about her stupid-ass tone of voice or scold her for bringing children to a place where they might (horror of horrors!) hear the same shit that they hear at school every day.
My companion was taken aback. I, however, remained unfazed. Without waiting for her to finish what passed for a thought, and without missing a beat, I looked her right in the eye and said, “Lady, get the FUCK out of my face.”
Stunned, she responded with “Are you serious?”
Me: “You ain’t my mama. Step aside.”
Her: “That’s it. I’m calling the management!”
Me: [laughing] “Call the motherfuckers! I paid! What the fuck are they gonna do?”
And we left, laughing our asses off.
Now, seriously–what the fuck was her problem? What kind of middle-class bullshit was that? “I’m not satisfied with your behavior, so I feel it’s my place to correct you.” Fuck off. I’m a grown-ass man. Also, if you start some shit, you’d better be prepared to end it. The most amazing thing about the entire experience (besides, of course, me) was the fact that she was just stunned that anyone would stand up to her stupid bullshit.
However, it did give me another chance to show the world that I AM AWESOME.
Back when I first posted the video of Bucky playing with his stuffie, you all wanted to see him chastise it the way he does when it misbehaves. All week he’s been kicking its ass, stopping only when I pulled out the camera, but yesterday I finally managed to get him to discipline his little friend for the Internet’s edification:
Stripe used to do that, grab a toy and shake it violently like it was a mouse. I think Bucky has the makings of a mouser in him.
A.
The line between speech and threat is always a fine one. One
of my favorite explanations about free expression is that your right to be
angry stops in the fraction of an inch between your fist and the other guy’s
nose.In the case of a Wisconsin bar, it apparently stops somewhere south of
the 834th Cuervo shot.
Yester Years Pub made national news when a group of
inebriated patrons decided toburn a plastic bust of President Barack Obama.
Adding fuel (pardon the pun) to the uproar about this was what appeared to be a
duct tape noose around the neck of the statute.
This hit the fan last weekend when I was in Milwaukee and it
was easier to get away from the O.J. Bronco Chase in June 1994 than it was to
get away from this. WTMJ, the local NBC affiliate, managed to get its hands on
the video, which ran in heavy rotation throughout the day, night and my dreams.
It played so often that I’m waiting for Kanye to do a remix.
The local NAACP chapter announced that it wants an investigation, arguing
that this was not only a threat but a racist act. It’s unclear how far the
group or the federal government will go in digging into this, but the fire
clearly hit a nerve.
Two things immediately came to mind about this:
First, when you have the first of anything, there will be
concerns of how that individual will be treated. And for centuries, this
country has treated black folks like crap.
The noose has always represented something evil and during
lynching time, black men were not only hung, but often stripped naked and set
on fire. The degree to which the people at the “Bladder Buster” party were
thinking about this when they lit up the statue is hard to determine. However,
it’s got to be a gut punch to the African-American community.
But this is more about being first and being first has its problems. As a Cleveland Indians fan, I
read a ton of what Frank Robinson went through as the first black manager in
major-league baseball. One of the more telling statements he made was that he
couldn’t wait for the first set of road trips to be over. Once that was done
and everyone in every city wrote the “hey, look at the black manager” story, he
could just be another manager.
Obama is in a similar situation. When we were all pissed off
at President Potatohead, we could burn shit or pee on shit or do whatever we
wanted and we were basically considered to unpatriotic by the wingnuts, but
hey, he was a white guy. Our displeasure had a pretty much a single layer to
it: he sucks. Since we don’t have another black president to compare to, every
bit of displeasure will have a racial component to it.
Second, the ability to express yourself is a guaranteed right in this country. Sure, we put limits on things (“fire” in a crowded theater
etc.) but we don’t just protect stuff we like.
The country was in an uproar a number of years ago when the government
considered whether to add a constitutional amendment that would ban flag
burning. Liberals hated it, conservatives loved it.
I remember a news program on WTMJ during that controversy
where they had a Vietnam Vet on the show. The moderator asked if he would mind
if someone started a flag on fire on his lawn. The vet replied calmly, “Sure.
They can burn a flag on my lawn. But I guarantee you this: they’ll never burn
another one.”
(Side note: WTMJ is the best TV news station in Milwaukee. For
some reason, we always watch it at my folks house and I actually learn a little
here and there. Granted, this is like saying a child is the fastest kid in the
Kindergarten Olympics: best in class, but not going to beat Usain Bolt. Still, compared to its peers, WTMJ is rocking it out.)
In
the end, our right to light Old Glory up
remained.
In looking at this statue burning, you’ll notice no voices
in the video were screaming, “Yeah, let’s go burn his ass next” or dropping
n-bombs all over the place. This was not a terrorist threat. This was not a racist act, despite the repeated notations that country music was playing in the bar during all of this. These people were pissed at the president and if the guy was red, white or blue, they’d still be pissed. It’s more
liberal/conservative than black/white. The last thing I want to see is the
liberal wing of America doing exactly what it pissed and moaned about the
conservatives doing before. In other words, don’t tell your fellow citizens now
that peopleshould shut up, stop hating America and suck on your tofu dog.
For me, fire is a crappy form of expression. It’s like when
kids break their toys because they’re angry and can’t express themselves any
better. Instead of seeing what can get roasted next, maybe we need to turn off
the talk radio, stop seeking cute little acronyms for displeasure and start
thinking for ourselves.
Then, we can engage in speech that matters and in a way that
might actually get us somewhere.
As of last night, we had just more than $900 in the Paypalfor the International Bird Rescue Center.
Yeah. NINE HUNDRED DOLLARS.
A couple of you wrote in to say you’d sent checks directly to the bird rescue center, bringing our Pelican total to seven and a half!
You guys are amazing. Thank you to everybody who’s contributed. If you haven’t yet kicked in, doooo eeet.And suggest names for our pelicans in the comments!
A.
a href=”http://www.wftv.com/news/13657347/detail.html” target=”_blank”>A three year old criminal case was finally resolved in Brevard County, Florida:
The Brevard County doctor who was
arrested for groping a woman while dressed as Captain America with a
burrito in his pants will not go to jail. Instead, Doctor Raymond Adamcik will take part in a diversion program
for first time offenders, which includes community service, fines and
random alcohol and drug testing.The charges will not show up on his criminal record.Adamcik was arrested in April during a bar crawl for medical professionals.
How could I have possibly missed this at the time? A pox on me for being a slacker blogger…
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Instead of making lots of little guns and cannons for the war we should
use the funds to make one really really big cannon that shoots nukes
that shoot out smaller nukes. It should be shaped like a |>3ni$ and
called “the big shot”
The password is password. This is fun. It’s like agent Smith infecting
everybody in the matrix until everyone is and agent Smith clone.
Someone call Neo!
I like to think of myself as a real American with real opinions on
things and so I want you to know that you should vote YES on the new
NET NEUTRALITY penalty in the NBA. It’s time these showboaters learn to
focus on the fundamentals!
First and foremost, our primary goals for foreign policy would be to
nuke korea. Not North Korea… SOUTH Korea. By eliminating most of the
competition for Starcraft: Brood War, we will be able to usher in a new
age of cyber champions
Offer free tattoos of Ronald Reagan for every American’s forehead.
Then, when people stop getting Reagan tattoos, we run around and shoot
people without them. YEAAAAH!!! WOLVERINES!!!
That’s as far as I got before the thing crashed my browser window. I swear to God, isn’t there anybody in the Party that actually uses the Internet for something other than raising money who could tell them this is the kind of thing that always, always happens, because out here lies nothing but gleefully destructive, filthy-minded pranksters looking for the next joke?
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In non-top kill news out of New Orleans, James O’Keefe and his fellow O’Keefe-stone Kops were sternly admonished and given a slap on the wrist, which was pretty much what I expected.
Presumably the lesson learned was that it’s ok to beat up on ACORN, which is like bullying the smallest and least popular kid in the class, but Senators, even Senators from BP (or maybe Senators from BP and other representatives of Corporate America), anyway, Senators aren’t to be fucked with. RHIP–Rank Has Its Privileges.
O’Keefe is just a punk, like his mentorAndrew Breitbart. I hear Breitbart comes from pretty well-off circumstances, O’Keefe looks about the same, but both are clearly seething with resentment about…I dunno, maybe not being even more well-off, or more popular. The kind of people who need to be told, “grow the hell up.”
Either the worst sitcom ever, I said in comments yesterday, or the best punk band.
I keep settin’ the bar, and you guys keep clearing it.How many pelicans can we adopt? How about SEVEN?
Keep the birds clean, people. Friday’s the last day. Then we shut this sucker down, pick names for these birdies, and send in our adoption fees. Reading the fine print, they do not actually send us the pelicans. Puck is relieved, but I think Riot’s a little disappointed.Hit the jar.
A.
There’s a lot of finger pointing going on over the BP Oil-tastrophe and most of the targets deserve to share in the blame. One name I haven’t heard mentioned very much is George W Bush. It was his people at the MMS who were in the pocket of big oil and got free LSU football tickets that should have gone to me. Not that I have anything to sell but who among us doesn’t like free tickets?
In fact, the Obama administration should be mentioning the dread former President and his Veep more often on every subject. They drove the country into a ditch and made a serious of catastrophic policy choices that are only now oozing to the surface. The GOP ran against Jimmy Carter for at least 20 years and the Dems ran against Herbert Hoover for nearly 30. It’s a time honored political tactic and it works. In this instance, it’s also quite accurate. The executive branch was a subsidiary of big oil for the last 8 years. So, blame it on Cain, Mr. President, don’t blame it on me:
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And if you feel like picking on the Connecticut Yankee oil man, Poppy Bush, don’t forget, Adam Raised A Cain:
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So, it looks like the homeland is screwed. Again. That’s a picture of Biloxi, MS, after Katrina. The place was pretty much wiped out. And now they’ve got another disaster looming. We’ve all heard about the “spill” (which is kind of like calling a hydrogen bomb an explosive–technically true, but woefully understated).
What I don’t get is certain people’s reactions. Of COURSE the Palinites are going to use this to call for more drilling and less regulation. That’s what they do.
But there are some people, likeCole, who just don’t seem to understand. I like Cole–I read his shit every day. But he’s been conflating being angry about the disaster and wanting the government to do more with the Tinker Bell strategy. I don’t think anyone here is simply wanting the government to yell louder and point fingers. I also don’t expect the government to be able to stop the disaster. What I do expect the government to do is to make fucking BP pay through the nose for cleanup, rehabilitation, and lost wages for the hundreds of thousands of people affected. If that bankrupts and ends them, GOOD.
I don’t want meaningless symbolic bullshit from the government–I want them to hold the shitheads at BP accountable for their actions. Like, you know, kidnapping motherfuckers and holding them against their will.
The Gulf is fucked. Period. If it takes two days or two months to stop the petroleum spewing out of the sea floor, it’s still fucked. BP can’t stop that. The government can’t. But the government can make ’em pay.
Oh, and I have no idea how Cole approvingly linked tothis. Fuck Al Giordano on this one. If you want to start the “we’re all guilty for being born into an industrial society and not choosing to move to fucking Walden Pond and build our own shanty” argument, just shut the fuck up. I’m not responsible for BP half-assing a drilling operation. BP is. Don’t equate my actions with theirs.
And, if you can, chip in some scrilla for the birdies.