Month: October 2011

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Weekend Question Thread

What are your teeth like? I ask because I had a visit to the dentist last week. A visit to the dentist nearly always means a lecture about how lousy my teeth are. I know they’re lousy. I’ve had them for decades. Several dentists have confirmed that they suck. I had braces for three years to correct buck teeth that could open a soda bottle, I need four bridges for molars that never grew in, I had a botched root canal abscess once, I apparently grind my teeth in my sleep and despite eating less candy now than I ever … Continue reading Weekend Question Thread

Doc, Economy, On Wisconsin5 Comments

Scott Walker Gives UW System A Hand

(Not for the weak of heart or stomach. Not like the budget is any more savory.) Apparently, Governor Deadeyes woke up earlier this month and said to the state’s university system, “Oh, you survived those three gunshots to the chest? Crawl over here and let me see your head.” According to a memo released Wednesday, the state is expecting that all of those jobs we were supposed to get in Wisconsin, now that Walker opened us for business, will likely not yield enough tax money to balance the budget.Thus, the general raping that occurred in the budget battle this state … Continue reading Scott Walker Gives UW System A Hand

Adrastos, Malakatude, Sports8 Comments

Malaka Of The Week: Bud Selig

Peter Adrastos Athas

Bud Selig listens for his master’s voice. Baseball Commissioner Bud Selig could be a charter member of the malakatude hall of fame, schmuck division. He was selected Commissioner because his fellow owners thought that they could control him. They were right. Bud has a weak chin and I bet his handshake feels like a dead fish and he has a spine like a jellyfish. Selig has presided over some of the changes that baseball purists such as me dislike. My personal bete noir is the wild card and the LDS, which sounds like Mitt Haircut’s church to me, y’all. It’s … Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Bud Selig

Athenae, So Called Liberal Media1 Comment

HEALTH BEAT!

If only the Internet would stop destroying journalism: David Bauder reports that ABC’s “soft news” includes a greater emphasis on health, medicine and family stories — content that is a match for the “World News” audience, which is 60 percent female. “World News” Executive Producer Michael Corn tells Bauder “the broadcast reflects Sawyer’s sense of curiosity and adventure … It does more on health matters, for example, because health has a real impact on people’s lives.” As for that news that women supposedly want, apparently when they say “women” they really mean “rich mommies with no health problems at all,” … Continue reading HEALTH BEAT!

Adrastos, Political Crack10 Comments

Line of the day

Peter Adrastos Athas

It comes fromJohn Dickerson’s account at Slateof the latest in the endless series of GOP debates. I included the set-up and have bold faced the winning line: When Perry interrupted him, Romney suggested that if he wanted to be president he’d need to allow others to talk. “This has been a tough couple of debates for Rick,” said Romney at another point.Perry’s jaw clenched so tight that if he’d had a piece of coal in there, it’d now be a diamond. Continue reading Line of the day

Michael F5 Comments

You Meet the Nicest PeopleOn a Honda at a GOP Debate

FromAlbum4 …if your definition of “nicest” are people who think the answer towhat else floats besides wood is “very small rocks.” I’m sure you’ve seen this week’s version ofCan a GOP Debate Audience Be Even More Callous?, the assembled crowd loudly agreeing with Herman Cain that the poor and unemployed have only themselves to blame in an ailing economy with official 9 percent unemployment. How Christian of them. At this point I wouldn’t be surprised if a wingnut audience cheered on the first candidate to endorse kicking puppies. Really, really hard. Continue reading You Meet the Nicest PeopleOn a Honda at a GOP Debate

Adrastos, Current Affairs, Diary, Music, Political Crack14 Comments

Autumn In New Orleans

Peter Adrastos Athas

We’re having our first cold snap of the fall. The weather this October has been great but we haven’t had a blast of Northern air until last night. The high today is 30 degrees less than Monday. It may not be much for our readers from the frozen North but I quite enjoyed breaking out my jeans jacket for the bus ride to the shop. It’s easy to tell, on a semi-chilly day like today, who lives here: New Orleanians go OTT clothingwise when it cools off. I saw heavy fleece hoodies, wool sweaters, overcoats and boots galore on my … Continue reading Autumn In New Orleans

LOL, VirgoTex3 Comments

For the crafty types

No kittens available in your neighborhood? Too poor to buy your own cat? Or maybe you want something very specific, like, say, one that looks more like a giant rabbit alien? No problem. Make your own! Start with about a yard of cat, as above. It goes without saying that it should be cut on the bias. Stuff with the best chow you can afford. Voila! Leave your stuffed cat laying about likely cat environments, no one will be the wiser. Unless they try to wake it up. Continue reading For the crafty types

Athenae, So Called Liberal Media14 Comments

Suffering is Always Virtuous When It’s Someone Else’s Suffering

David Brooks, kids: After an explosion of debt over the past few decades, Americans are now reacting strongly against the debt culture. According to the latest Allstate/National Journal Heartland Monitor poll, three-quarters of Americans said they’d be better off if they carried no debt whatsoever. Not long ago, most people saw debt as a useful tool for consumption and enjoyment. Now they see it as a seduction and an obstacle. By choice or necessity, eight million Americans have stopped using bank-issued credit cards, according to The National Journal. The average credit card balance has fallen 10 percent this year from … Continue reading Suffering is Always Virtuous When It’s Someone Else’s Suffering

Athenae, So Called Liberal Media, Stupid Blue Dog Tricks1 Comment

Summing Up Chicago

Driftglass: Whatever is happening on the 5th floor of City Hall and whatever gloss a drive-by steno like Friedman wants to put on it, the fact is that below decks thing are a mess. Rahm’s budget is shot because Daley hocked everything he could lay his hands to prop himself up for his final three years in office. This he did with the full support of the Chicago Machine wnd with the City Council acting as his willing accomplice. Rahm’s line workers are shot because for the last several years those who weren’t clout-protected were driven like rented mules to … Continue reading Summing Up Chicago

Athenae, Big Damn Heroes4 Comments

The Fight’s Not Over

November 8 is going to be a very big day in Ohio: LIMA — Off-duty firefighters and police officers walked door-to-door Saturday, urging Lima residents to vote “no” in next month’s ballot fight over the state’s collective-bargaining overhaul. About 40 cops and firefighters took part in the canvassing, organized as Protect Ohio’s Protectors, part of the We Are Ohio coalition opposing the collective-bargaining law known as Senate Bill 5. We Are Ohio is the union-backed coalition that spearheaded efforts to get the referendum on the Nov. 8 ballot and continues pushing for S.B. 5’s defeat. “It’s a safety issue, not … Continue reading The Fight’s Not Over

Athenae, So Called Liberal Media2 Comments

People Don’t Want Stupid, Trivial News

Shocking: But gradually, the interest from readers began to eclipse the interest from other journalists and a subtle shift began to take place in our newsroom priorities. A good example was our coverage of the UK government’s health reforms, whichmany readers felt didn’t do justice to the worrying revolution facing one of Britain’s national treasures. We initially responded by ramping up ourlive coverage of the two-day NHS debate in the House of Lords – attracting over 1,000 comments. But we also asked ourhealth reporter to do a bit of digging and list today an upcoming story on how cuts have … Continue reading People Don’t Want Stupid, Trivial News

Adrastos, Music, Political Crack, Stupid Republican Tricks3 Comments

Herman Cain meets John Lennon

Peter Adrastos Athas

Herman Cain is one of the zaniest semi-major Presidential candidates ever. He’s a laugh a minute jokester: didja hear the one about the ‘lectrical fence that’ll fry Meskins? It was a sidebuster I tell ya. My innards are still burnin’ from laughin’ my ass off… Cain’s latest weirdo moment is an oldie but goodie. I learned today via Dave Weigel that Herman is a poet and he knows it. Well, maybe not a poet but he’s a parody lyricist, ladies and gentleman, I give you the Lennon-Cain composition, Imagine There’s No Pizza.Cain’s intro appears at 2:01 and he belts out … Continue reading Herman Cain meets John Lennon

Athenae, So Called Liberal Media12 Comments

Go Fuck Yourself, Bill Keller, You Solipsistic Jackass

I wish I had something more civil and acceptable to say, but honestly, when I talk about why newspapers are currently sucking donkey sack, this is basically the sort of thing I mean: Bored by the soggy sleep-ins and warmed-over anarchism of Occupy Wall Street? Fed up (Fed Up!) with the presidential Race to the Bottom? Depressed by the warning signs of the next Depression? I bring relief. Like Nurse Jackie scavenging in the medicine chest for stray painkillers, I have assembled some capsules of hope from places you probably haven’t noticed lately, because the dominant news is so disheartening … Continue reading Go Fuck Yourself, Bill Keller, You Solipsistic Jackass

Political Crack, Stupid Republican Tricks, Tommy T6 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – DFHs edition

Good morning, gentle people – time for another trip into Freeperville.

Let’s get those iso suits on and hit that airlock door, shall we?

Well – the Freeperati have been aching for a full-on police-thug beatdown, and Zucotti Park looked like the best venue to get their vicarious (because none of them have the guts to try it themselves) beatdown of the DFHs.

Premature ejection was what they were hoping for – what they got was:

Occupy Wall Street park cleaning postponed, averts showdown
CNN ^ | 7:35 AM EST, Fri October 14, 2011 | By the CNN Wire Staff

Posted on Friday, October 14, 2011 7:13:55 AM bylwd

New York (CNN) — A cleaning planned for the Manhattan park where “Occupy Wall Street” protesters have camped out for weeks has been postponed, a move that averts a showdown between demonstrators and police.

The New York mayor’s office said Brookfield Properties, the owners of Zuccotti Park, told the city late Thursday the scheduled cleaning is off for now and “for the time being” they are “withdrawing their request” made earlier in the week for police assistance during the cleaning operation.

“Our position has been consistent throughout: the City’s role is to protect public health and safety, to enforce the law, and guarantee the rights of all New Yorkers.Brookfield believes they can work out an arrangement with the protesters that will ensure the park remains clean, safe, available for public use and that the situation is respectful of residents and businesses downtown, and we will continue to monitor the situation,” Deputy Mayor Cas Holloway said

1 posted on Friday, October 14, 2011 7:13:58 AM bylwd
Impotence

To: lwd

Cleaning? The libs I’ve seen at these protests react to shampoo and to soap like vampires with garlic or a cross. They’d rather sleep or sit on the little “presents” that their friends leave on the grass (and occasionally on police cars) than experience cleanliness.

I on the other hand, hve just experienxed brainlessness.

You know, there aren’t any showers in public parks, asswipe, so people leave to clean up and rest, then return, in an unending cycle.

You, however, can never scrub off the stink of stupid no matter how hard you might try.

StupidSoap
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Here ya go.

Bubble up.

3 posted on Friday, October 14, 2011 7:17:46 AM byPollster1 (Natural born citizen of the USA, with the birth certificate to prove it)

I dunno – they look pretty clean to me.

Hot Chicks of Occupy Wall Street fromSteven Greenstreet onVimeo.

To: lwd

Bloomingidiot cowers—next for New York—dysentery and the Black Plague.

5 posted on Friday, October 14, 2011 7:18:26 AM byWKUHilltopper (And yet…we continue to tolerate this crap…)

I had no idea the 2012 RNC was going to be in New York. Nobody tells meanything.

To: WKUHilltopper

Rudy would have run their asses out with the nightstick.

7 posted on Friday, October 14, 2011 7:23:08 AM byMatt Hatter

Besides –
GulianiDrag
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Just sayin’

To: Truth29

Maybe we can smuggle a rabbid raccoon in there. That should make it fun.

10 posted on Friday, October 14, 2011 7:28:34 AM byNew Jersey Realist (America: home of the free because of the brave)

BachmannCrazyEyes
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To: roaddog727
Spineless Jellyfish

True enough. But the longer this goes on, the worse it looks for everyone for whom that matters.

ORLY?

OWSvsTeaParty

As Bonaparte once said, “Never interrupt your enemy while he is making a mistake.”

14 posted on Friday, October 14, 2011 7:32:36 AM byNoumenon (The only ‘NO’ a liberal understands is the one that arrives at muzzle velocity.)

I couldn’t agree more.

To: lwd

Well they are really gonna fire-up now because they’ve just faced down the City of New York and the NYPD.

As far as I can tell two things happened:

– the Teamsters showed up in Zuccotti Park today around 6AM

– the property owners withdrew their request for police assistance (and I’d bet my next paycheck that Obama had just promised them another $100 mil in green energy grants)

Was dumb of Bloomberg to try this at 7AM on a weekday in the middle of all the morning TV news shows.You do stuff like this at 5:30AM on a Sunday when nobody is looking.

21 posted on Friday, October 14, 2011 7:48:03 AM byBuckeye McFrog

I guess he didn’t get the memo, because alotof people were looking. A lot.
Some putrid potpourri after the you-know-what.

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Congress, Current Affairs, Immoral Values, Political Crack, Pony, Bitches!, Propaganda, Religion, Stupid Republican Tricks, Television, Tommy T5 Comments

Jindal blows a gaping hole in Perry’s waterline even wider

All right – excuse me for getting out of my box, but I don’t see thisanywhere else on the interwebz. It made me choke on my ham, onion, and jalapeno omelette. The MTP bobbleheads had the surrogates for Romney and Perry on this morning, and the subject turned to the M-word: (Gregory) There’s this issue of”Governor Romney is a Mormon”, this has become an issue in the campaign, pastor Robery Jeffress introduced Rick Perry and said the following: (clip runs) (Jefferson) “So we want a candidate who s a good, moral person? Or do we want a candidate who is … Continue reading Jindal blows a gaping hole in Perry’s waterline even wider

Adrastos, Film2 Comments

Sunday Morning Video: Howard Hawks

Peter Adrastos Athas

This is an excerpt from Richard Schickel’s marvelous documentary series, The Men Who Made The Movies. Howard Hawks directed a score of classic films:Bringing Up Baby, Only Angels Have Wings, His Girl Friday and two he discusses in the clip, To Have To Have NotandThe Big Sleep. Hawks was not always a reliable storyteller in real life but he was always an interesting one. I’m uncertain, however, if he was ever stung by a dead bee.. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Howard Hawks

Adrastos, Film, Malakatude8 Comments

Malakas Of The Week: Hollywood Hacks

Peter Adrastos Athas

I hate remakes. There was never any reason to remake, say, Sabrina. When it came out I said: Who can top Bogie, Audrey and Holden? They didn’t and it also laid an egg at the box office.At the time they claimed they did it because the original was in black and white. The original was not only a classic but boffo at the box office. Billy Wilder was alive at the time it came out and, while he didn’t like the remake, he didn’t object to being paid a second time for his script. The latest unnecessary remake is ofFootloose. … Continue reading Malakas Of The Week: Hollywood Hacks

Current Affairs, Doc, On Wisconsin11 Comments

Shorter LAT: Sit down, Cheeseheads, because we said so

The Los Angeles Times has taken time out of its busy schedule to let the folks in our fair flyover state know that they know better than we do when it comes to recall elections. In an opinion run this week, the paper notes that the 2003 recall in California that sent Gray Davis home and the Governator out of the maid’s pants and into the state house was a bad outcome. They also note that: Recallsmake it nearly impossible for state leaders to get anything done because they go into campaign mode rather than legislating mode. They worsen partisanship … Continue reading Shorter LAT: Sit down, Cheeseheads, because we said so