Month: December 2011

Adrastos, Political Crack, Stupid Republican Tricks7 Comments

Deep Cheese Thought

Peter Adrastos Athas

Last week, Rick Santorum compared himself to one of my favorite foods: What they’ll find, he said, is exactly what voters here are hungry for. “I’m confident that when they do, they’ll find one person who — maybe I’m not the flashiest person, I may be a little boring when it comes to, because I’m consistent,” he said. “My record isn’t swiss cheese. I mean it’s solid, it’s a solid block of cheese. This is an insult to cheese lovers everywhere. It could inspire someone to throw a block of cheese at his Iowa HQ windows. What kind of cheese? … Continue reading Deep Cheese Thought

Immoral Values, Political Crack, Stupid Republican Tricks, Tommy T8 Comments

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

OK guys – I’ve put Mr. Peabody’s Wayback machine inside the iso chamber, so we can fly back to a better time – a simpler time – a time when there were still “Our Sarah For President” signs.

Here we go! First up –Are you ready for some FUBO???

ESPN pulls Hank Williams Jr. after he compares Obama to Hitler
sports.yahoo.com ^ | 10-3-11 | Chris Chase

Posted on Monday, October 03, 2011 8:51:51 PM byJustaham

Hank Williams Jr., the singer whose various videos for the hit song “All My Rowdy Friends Are Coming Over Monday Night” has served as the intro to “Monday Night Football” for 23 seasons, compared President Barack Obama to Adolf Hitler during a Monday morning appearance on “Fox and Friends.” The statement led to ESPN pulling his popular intro segment, best known to fans for its “Are you ready for some football?” ending, for Monday night’s game between the Indianapolis Colts and Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

During a discussion on the 2012 presidential race, Williams began discussing Obama’s golf outing with Speaker of the House John Boehner. He said it was a political mistake, on par with “Hitler playing golf with [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu.”

1 posted on Monday, October 03, 2011 8:51:55 PM byJustaham
He then said:
“Well you may not know it but this man is a spy.
He’s a undercover agent for the FBI
And he’s been sent down here to infiltrate the Ku Klux Klan!”
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I said “Would you believe this man has gone as far
As tearing Wallace stickers off the bumpers of cars
And he voted for George McGovern for President.”

“Well he’s a friend of them long haired, hippy-type, pinko fags!
I betchya he’s even got a commie flag
Tacked up on the wall inside of his garage.”

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Further respondent sayeth not.

To: Justaham
I heard about Bush being ‘hitler’ for years. Someone says it from the other angle? Fired.NFL expect repercussions.
2 posted on Monday, October 03, 2011 8:55:20 PM byallmost

I’m sure they’re absolutely terrified.

To: Justaham

Hank shouldn’t be working for those light in the loafers fairies at ESPN anyway. He’s better off.

7 posted on Monday, October 03, 2011 8:58:42 PM byFlingWingFlyer (If you always tell the truth, you won’t have to remember what you said.)

“Light in the loafers”?They’ll fuck you up, son.
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To: Justaham

Actually he never compared Obama to Hitler. What he said was Boehner and Obama Golfing was like Hitler and Netanyahu golfing. In other words, you could not find two more diametrically opposed people to play golf. He was no more likening Obama to Hitler than he was calling Boehner Netanyahu, ( which wouldnt even make sense asBoehner on his best day couldn’t even polish Bibi’s shoes.)

Well, “Bibi” has your spittle to do that with, doesn’t he?

Stupid Gretchen Carlson and Stupid Stupid ESPN.Oh well two less things that I don’t watch that I will now avoid even more.

9 posted on Monday, October 03, 2011 8:59:21 PM by1malumprohibitum

How do you not watch something even more thanyou’re already not watching it?
Expect repercussions.

To: Justaham

Could sports be more racist?

It’s all gone downhill since they started letting the coloreds in.

It’s sickening. It was Gretchen or someone who made something out of that question. I knew the minute she emphasized it that he was out.

Bocephus is gay?

He went on the show to publicize some newly discovered music by his father that’s out now on TV but they had to delve into politics.

Maybe you could tell him to shut up and sing?

I think this is kinda sad.

20 posted on Monday, October 03, 2011 9:05:49 PM byaltura ( Palin/Ryan—or Palin/Perry or Palin/Rubio

Based on your sig line, I foresee a lifetime of “kinda sad”, bitter disppointment, and hearbreak ahead of you, due to your inability to distinguish your fantasies from reality.
You will then blame your hearbreak and wasted life on hippies and “commonists”.

To: PrkChps

We’ve decided to BOYCOTT MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL for the rest of the season! Support Hank Williams Jr and BOYCOTT MONDAY NIGHT FOOTBALL!!

35 posted on Monday, October 03, 2011 9:39:47 PM bygoron (communism)

So how did that work out for ya, Freepers?
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‘Monday Night Football Wins the Night for ESPN’

Written By

November 30th, 2011

Monday night’s ESPNMonday Night Football telecast – a 49-24 New Orleans Saints victory over the New York Giants – helped ESPN win the night among all networks – broadcast or cable – in households, viewers, and all key male and adult demos. The telecast averaged:
  • 10.7 household coveragerating (9.3 U.S. rating)
  • 10,624,000 households
  • 14,423,000 viewers
Notes:
  • ESPN won the night among all networks in households, viewers and all key male and adult demos;
  • MNF led all programs Monday night in the delivery of households, viewers and all key male and adult demos
  • The game ranks as the seventh most-viewed telecast of the year on cable among households (ninth among viewers).
Wow – looks like you morons continue to have the same effect on the outside world that you always have.
None.
More time-travelling after the Tebow-approved jump.

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Current Affairs, Doc5 Comments

Virginia Tech

This is the argument I’ve been having in my head prior to writing today’s post. I cannot promise you this will be fair or balanced, despite some efforts in those directions. I can promise I’ll try not to write in all capital letters or exclamation points as way to build consensus among readers. For the second time in five years, I was frantically searching newspaper websites, TV websites, college media websites, college media listservs, university home pages, Twitter, Facebook and everything short of MySpace (does that thing still exist?) trying to find out if a friend of mine who advises … Continue reading Virginia Tech

Athenae, Diary5 Comments

Friday Ferretblogging

Matilda (Tilly, Tillybean, Tillypet, Tilzabub, Tils) is recovering nicely now, getting all fat and fluffy. She even plays like a baby ferret, jumping and chasing after balls and toys and treats, and she’s got much more solid footing now than she did when she came home. I hope she’ll have a long, happy, fuzzy life with us. This is the ferrets’ favorite season: Christmas shopping season! It means new boxes delivered to the house, with packing material in them, for maximum fun. You can see Tilly in this vid, poking her stripy little head in with everyone else in the … Continue reading Friday Ferretblogging

Current Affairs, Jude5 Comments

Dear Journalists: Please Stop

Send your best reporters! Attention, dear news media: A woman with 19 kids whomiscarries the 20th is not news. It’s just not. I realize that, by posting this, I’m doing a share of feeding the beast. But stories about the Duggars are the “real” news equivalent of sportsyakkers blithering on about Brett Favre, so please: Stop. For the sake of your profession, just stop. I’m not even going to make a joke here about statistical significance,* because, really, these people are probably truly upset. Fine. But this absolutely does not concern anyone outside of that family and their acquaintances. Now … Continue reading Dear Journalists: Please Stop

Athenae, Political Crack11 Comments

Celebrity Disgrace is Not an Actual, You Know, Thing

Steve on the sympathy for former Ill. Gov. Rod Blagojevich: Add Richard Roeper tothe list of sympathizers. “Look at Rod Blagojevich’s life right now,” Roeperwrites. “He’s been stripped of his law license. He was impeached and removed from office by a vote of 114-1. He’s broke. His house is for sale. His daughters have seen their father become a disgrace and punch line. His obituary will lead with his criminal convictions. In the court of public opinion, he’s already been sentenced to a lifetime of disgrace. “Yes, Blagojevich did all that to himself, and has no one to blame but … Continue reading Celebrity Disgrace is Not an Actual, You Know, Thing

Athenae, Economy18 Comments

Gaming the System

Via the Crack Den, I just cannot fathom that this is the conversation: About 230,000 retailers nationwide participate in the SNAP program, with about 80 percent of funds spent at larger grocery chains. But officials said several smaller retailers often fraudulently obtain PIN or card numbers from program beneficiaries and keep the funds without the person’s knowledge. In the last decade, USDA has disqualified more than 8,300 retailers for such fraud, officials said. In other cases, beneficiaries who receive monthly deposits of food aid on to plastic cards similar to bank cards intentionally use SNAP benefits to purchase water or … Continue reading Gaming the System

Adrastos, Political Crack, Stupid Republican Tricks, Television15 Comments

All freak show, all the time

Peter Adrastos Athas

Above is a classicsideshow banner by Fred G. Johnson but it also describes the current state of the GOP race. We’ve had the Bachmann wingnut overdrive surge, the Gov Package Check surge, the Cain surge and subsequent Gingery wreck. Now it’s Newt-mentum. Newt Fucking Gingrich: are you fucking kidding me? The same guy who once suggested that thechildren of welfare recipients be sent to orphanages?Same asshole. The Obama campaign people must be pinching themselves over their luck right now. Newt Fucking Gingrich? I’ve never seen anything like this: every campaign shifts into freak show mode from time to time but … Continue reading All freak show, all the time

Adrastos, Sports4 Comments

It’s about frakking time

Peter Adrastos Athas

Ron Santoone of the best ballplayers of the 1960’s has finally beenelected to the Hall Of Fame. It’s a pity that it happened a year after the man’s death but nobody said life was fair. Hell, I’m not even a Cubs fan but Santo was the real deal. In addition to his accomplishments as a player and Cubs broadcaster, Santo deserves admission to Cooperstown for surviving 7 seasons with managerLeo Durocher, one of the biggest douchebags in sports history. Somewhere in another dimension number 10 is clicking his heels: Continue reading It’s about frakking time

Athenae, So Called Liberal Media, Stupid Republican Tricks5 Comments

It’s Not That They’re Lying, It’s That Nobody Cares

I think Krugman’s only partly right here, actually: Back in 2000, George W. Bush made a discovery of enormous consequence: you could base a whole political campaign on claims that were flatly untrue, like the claim that your big tax cuts for the wealthy went to the middle class, or the claim that diverting Social Security funds into private accounts would strengthen the system’s finances, and reporting would never point this out. That’s when I formulated my doctrine that if Bush said the earth was flat, headlines would read Views Differ on Shape of Planet. The genius of George W. … Continue reading It’s Not That They’re Lying, It’s That Nobody Cares

Adrastos, Current Affairs, LOL, Music8 Comments

NOLA Notes: Mayor Of Simpleton

Peter Adrastos Athas

This is more of a suburban note but I prefer to confuse y’all whenever it tickles my fancy. Kenner is a rather benighted suburb of New Orleans whose sole claims to fame are that they have drive through Daiquiri stands and it’s the location of Louis Armstrong/Moisant Airport. Pretty much everyone here pronounces this dreary burg’s name “Kenna.” It’s even turned up on some t-shirts made by two local companies. The one at the top of the post is made byDirty Coast and the one below is aFleurty Girl production: Why am I going on about this?The Mayor of Kenner, … Continue reading NOLA Notes: Mayor Of Simpleton

Athenae, Geek Cred4 Comments

First Draft Secret Santa

You know what we need right now? Some fun. I’m serious. It’s dark outside, it’s getting cold, everyone is tired and it just never fucking ends. The Internet got really bitchy sometime in October and it hasn’t stopped yet. So we are taking it upon ourselves to cheer everybody the fuck up. FIRST DRAFT SECRET SANTA, BITCHES. Here’s how this is gonna work. You send me your e-mail address by December 10th. I match you up with somebody else who has sent in their address by December 15th, and by December 20th you send that person a small e-gift. SMALL.$25 … Continue reading First Draft Secret Santa

Current Affairs, Immoral Values, Political Crack, Stupid Republican Tricks, Tommy T12 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – “The Cain Mutiny” edition

OK folks – looks like the Putrid Potpourri Edition is gonna have to be put off one more time,

Let’s suit up, enter the airlock, and see what’s been happening on the Cain Trainwreck.

AirlockDoor
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Cain Denies New Allegations, as Woman Claims They Had 13-Year Affair
FOX News ^ | 11-28-11 | FOX News

Posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:16:15 PM byLazlo in PA

ATLANTA — Herman Cain on Monday pre-emptively denied a forthcoming accusation by a woman who is expected to say she had a 13-year affair with the Republican presidential candidate.

In an apparent effort to get ahead of the story, Cain appeared in a cable news interview to say the woman is “someone who I know, who is an acquaintance, who I thought was a friend.”

MyFoxAtlanta.com released some details of the story, which is scheduled to air Monday night, shortly after Cain appeared on CNN — identifying the accuser as an Atlanta businesswoman named Ginger White.

“It was pretty simple,” White told the station. “It wasn’t complicated. I was aware that he was married. And I was also aware I was involved in a very inappropriate situation, relationship.”

(Excerpt) Read more atfoxnews.com …

There have been rumors that the Regime had something else up their sleeves to slam Cain again. This may be it.
1 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:16:20 PM byLazlo in PA
Denial:

To: Lazlo in PA

She is bufugly and looking for money.

2 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:19:09 PM bycoon2000 (Give me Liberty or give me death!)

.So if she were gorgeous she’s be believable? And he wasalreadygiving her money.

To: coon2000

I just saw her on Special Report. She is a hard looking broad and they said she was unemployed. She looks like a perfect candidate for chicanery by this Regime. She had absolutely nothing in the way of proof of any affair and was also very vague.

8 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:23:38 PM byLazlo in PA (Now living in a newly minted Red State.)

To: Lazlo in PA

This is ridiculous. Wheredo they does he find these women?

13 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:25:06 PM byRockinRight (If you’re waiting to drink until you find pure water, you’re going to die of dehydration.)

FIFY..

To: Lazlo in PA

Someone needs to “James O’Keefe” these MSM bastards who are setting up Cain,

What? Dress them up like 80’s movie pimps?

they need to tape phone calls of the DNC offereing money to get people to tell lies about Cain and blow it all up in the faces…

16 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:26:14 PM byGraceG

Anger:

To: Lazlo in PA
Cain may deny it, but his attorney did anything but:

Rather, this appears to be an accusation of private, alleged consensual conduct between adults – a subject matter which is not a proper subject of inquiry by the media or the public. No individual, whether a private citizen, a candidate for public office or a public official, should be questioned about his or her private sexual life

If Cain did not do it, he should fire his lawyer.

30 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:31:35 PM byPghBaldy (War Powers Res: http://avalon.law.yale.edu/20th_century/warpower.asp)
To: Lazlo in PA

She’s a cocktail waitress at an off airport lounge for crying out loud.

The eyeliner, black dress and pearls provided by the designer Accusa Trottier

57 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:42:28 PM byEddie01 (Liberals lie about everything all the time.
To: marty60

It takes a staggering amount of narcissism and arrogance for someone to run for president of the United States with this much baggage. He must think he is too big to fail.

60 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:44:11 PM byvarina davis (We grow too soon old and too late smart — Pennsylvania Dutch adage)
To: marty60

How about you provide some actual evidence before just spouting off?

62 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:44:41 PM byApollo5600 (Cain 2012)
Bargaining:

To: Apollo5600

I guess suitable proof for me would be a saucy voice mail. For some reason Herman Cain doesn’t strike me as they type to send raunchy texts. Maybe a Valentine’s day card saying “I love you with all my heart”??

67 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:47:11 PM byReveBM

To: umgud

Sadly, the drive-by hits will continue until Cain is nominated.

This is not going to affect my support one iota.

Hollyweird mentality pizzes me to no end.

70 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:48:47 PM byOhioBuckeye (“Here sir, the people govern.” – Alexander Hamilton)

To: Lazlo in PA

It’s the typical slimy DNC Cr*p, any kind of dirty, filthy, no good trick is OK if the end result is what the filthy SOB’s want. They are all hypocrites and liars, I hate commies and socialists with every fiber in my body. A pox on them all, may they all die screaming of rectal cancer every single last one of them!!!

80 posted on Monday, November 28, 2011 5:51:36 PM bymongo141

Whups – seems like we’ve veered back into Anger.
Depression and Acceptance below the thin blew line…

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Athenae, Terrorism5 Comments

You Have No Rights Here

Not once somebody says the word “terrorist,” anyway: TheNational Defense Authorization Act covering $662 billion in defense spending for the next fiscal year includes a provision requiring military custody of a terror suspect believed to be a member ofAl Qaeda or its affiliates and involved in attacks on theUnited States. A last minute amendment allows the president to waive the authority based on national security and to hold a terror suspect in civilian rather than military custody. But the bill would deny US citizens suspected of being terrorists the right to trial, subjecting them to indefinite detention, and civil libertarians … Continue reading You Have No Rights Here

Adrastos, Film5 Comments

Sunday Morning Video: Kevin Brownlow’s Hollywood Episode One

Peter Adrastos Athas

I mentionedmy passion for silent film history the other day. Whilst surfing YouTube, I discovered that a gent namedBentoJoaoAntonio has been uploading episodes ofKevin Brownlow’s magisterial 13 part documentaryHollywood. The series was made for British teevee and I watched it on PBS. Since it was aired in 1980, many of the movie industry’s pioneers such as Lillian Gish, Hal Roach, Colleen Moore and King Vidor were still alive to be interviewed. Here’s episode one, The Pioneers: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Kevin Brownlow’s Hollywood Episode One