Month: February 2013

Adrastos, Law/Justice, Political Crack1 Comment

We’ll always have Mississippi

Every time I despair of the benighted state of affairs in the Gret Stet of Louisiana, our neighbors to the East ride to the rescue: Welcome to the 19th century, Mississippi. As of this month, Mississippi has finally officially ratified the 13th amendment that banned slavery, but it took the research of a curious University of Mississippi Medical Center professor and his colleague to make it happen. According to theJackson Clarion Ledger, Dr. Ranjan Batra and his colleague Ken Sullivan became inspired to find out their own state’s take on the amendment after seeing the Steven Spielberg filmLincoln last November. … Continue reading We’ll always have Mississippi

Athenae, Immoral Values, Kids Today8 Comments

What’s the Best Way to Prevent Domestic Violence, Republicans?

Have schools teach girls to shoot their attackers: Meanwhile, a bill under consideration in Maine — which has drawn support from Gov. Paul LePage (R) — would add an optional gun safety course, potentially paid for by the NRA’s “Eddie Eagle Gunsafe Program.”The Maine bill sponsor Rep. Paul Davis (R) claimed this course would manage to prevent domestic violence, by giving would-be victims firearms training. “In these situations, these victims [of domestic violence-related slayings] did everything the law provided,” Davis said. “I have to wonder if they knew anything about guns. I don’t think they did. However, if they did … Continue reading What’s the Best Way to Prevent Domestic Violence, Republicans?

Adrastos, Current Affairs3 Comments

Wrestling With The Freak Parade

New Orleans is so overly dependent on tourism, and so eager to whore itself out to the highest bidder that our Mayor held a news conference to brag about luring-get ready-Wrestlemania to our fair city in 2014. That’s right, the WWE is getting the keys to the city. Now that Carnival parade season is over, it’s time for the tourism freak parade to resume,alas. My friend Jeffrey summed up my disgust with this state of affairs quite nicely at his blog, Library Chronicles, so here’s some quotemania in response to wrestlemania: This morning Mayor Landrieuhosted a press conference celebrating the … Continue reading Wrestling With The Freak Parade

Athenae, So Called Liberal Media1 Comment

‘A Ratings Win’

Win the poop ship, guys. CNN likely spent in the mid-five figures to cover the event, according to a rough estimate TVNewser put together. A local Alabama helicopter charter company told us a mid-size helicopter would likely cost around $1,000 an hour to rent, while medium-sized boats in the area run a few hundred dollars a day. The rental fees, combined with costs associated with sending staff to Alabama from Atlanta and New York, and fees associated with broadcasting live on location, and it adds up to somewhere in the $30-$50K range. Journalism is dying because you kids don’t read … Continue reading ‘A Ratings Win’

Athenae, So Called Liberal Media, Stupid Republican Tricks6 Comments

Only Republicans Can Hold Republicans Accountable

Allison Hantschel

Driftglass notes Andrew Sullivan calling for “someone in the GOP” to “take Bush-Cheney apart,” and asks: Because, in the end, Mr. Sullivan is simply not intellectually fit or emotionally mature enough to either understand the true heart of American Conservatism or acknowledge the self-evident fact that the Liberals have been right about the Right all along. Instead, Mr. Sullivan pins his hopes on a Wise Conservative Daddy who will come and make it all better. You know, it’s not so much that our discourse is so hopelessly polarized and BOTH SIDES DO IT and how awful and mean everyone is. … Continue reading Only Republicans Can Hold Republicans Accountable

Adrastos, Diary2 Comments

Our Love Is Here To Stay

Peter Adrastos Athas

It’s very clear that the title of this tune by George and Ira Gershwin has changed a few times over the years. This is the title I prefer and if the ghost of Ira decides to haunt me so be it. I’m sure he’d have some good stories about Harpo Marx and Fred Astaire to share. Where was I? Oh yeah, it’s Valentine’s Day. I’m not much on all the Hallmark card holidays (unlike my sister-in-law Christina) but I do love my wife very dearly. She takes that whole for better or worse thing very seriously, y’all. In lieu of … Continue reading Our Love Is Here To Stay

Stupid Republican Tricks, Tommy T7 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – same old, shame old edition

OK, folks – time to drag some more of the older drums of Freeper stupid out of the back and crack them open, Everybody suit up – this is gonna be a stinky one.

First up (and fartherest back) –obviously a ploy!

Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted to hospital with blood clot following concussion

AP ^

| Sunday, December 30, 2012

Posted on Sunday, December 30, 2012 7:04:06 PM byMinorityRepublican

WASHINGTON (AP) — Secretary of State Hillary Clinton admitted to hospital with blood clot following concussion.

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posted on Sunday, December 30, 2012 7:04:13 PM
byMinorityRepublican
Love your handle.

To: MinorityRepublican

Wasn’t she partying in the Dominican Republic with Huma?

3
posted on Sunday, December 30, 2012 7:06:01 PM
bynascarnation
(Baraq’s economic policy: trickle up poverty)

To: nascarnation

she just having mojito withdrawal

5
posted on Sunday, December 30, 2012 7:08:33 PM
byGeronL
(http://asspos.blogspot.com)

To: Sacajaweau

She’s gonna’ die, right? We’ll never know the truth ~

6
posted on Sunday, December 30, 2012 7:08:41 PM
bymuawiyah

No, she’s not gonna die, and yes – you wouldn’t know the truth if it walked up to you and threw up down your shirt.

To: MinorityRepublican

Fell off the wagon the first day out of detox…

7
posted on Sunday, December 30, 2012 7:08:53 PM
byabb

To: MinorityRepublican

She may be getting the Vince Foster treatment from the current regime. Karma.

10
posted on Sunday, December 30, 2012 7:10:04 PM
byConservaTexan
(February 6, 1911)

Does that mean that she ordered a hiton herself?
Doesn’t evenone of the Freeperati have a non-stupid comment?

To: Sacajaweau

Nope.Traumatic subdural hematoma I bet.

12
posted on Sunday, December 30, 2012 7:13:23 PM
byKozak
(The Republic is dead. I do not owe what we have any loyalty, wealth or sympathy.)

To: MinorityRepublican

We already knew that Bengazi is bad, but this means that it’s
really, really bad, and there’s probably lots more that we do not yet
know.

Maybe 90% of the dark, crazy stuff we’ve been theorizing here about it might be true:

Hillary does not launch into this type of exotic political
calesthenics for nothing —there are some very heavy-duty skeletons in
Bengazi that our shovels have been striking very near.

We’ve gotta keep the pressure up.

16
posted on Sunday, December 30, 2012 7:14:39 PM
bygaijin

You do that, sunshine. I’m sure Madame Secretary has nothing better to worry about than the opinion of random Freeperati. Talk about delusions of grandeur…

To: MinorityRepublican

This just smells to high heaven.

Seriously, we now have blood clots from a fake concussion?

Is there any limit to the sh*t they are going to shovel down our throats? More to the point, that we are going to swallow?

I don’t give a rat’s ass whether the Hildabeast lives, dies or loses
the hair on her testicles. If she does indeed have clots (yeah, sure)
it’s certainly not a result of a fabricated concussion.

50
posted on Sunday, December 30, 2012 7:30:06 PM
byChildOfThe60s
(If you can remember the 60s…you weren’t really there)

HillaryTextingFuckYourself
.

To: muawiyah

That’s how my uncle died. Fell off the second last rung of a
ladder and got a concussion. Wound up with a clot and died 3 days later.
Age 65.

11
posted on Sunday, December 30, 2012 7:12:34 PM
bySacajaweau

That just means he’sIN ON IT!!
More morbid morsels after the Ben Gazzara Gate..

Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – same old, shame old edition”

Adrastos, Music, Sunday Morning Video, Television1 Comment

Sunday Morning Video: The Jayhawks On Austin City Limits In 2004

Peter Adrastos Athas

Today on Adrastos’ obsession with the Jayhawks: This dates from the Rainy Day Music tour. Gary and company shared the bill with the lovely and talented Gillian Welch on January 3, 2004. It seems to be incomplete (it’s missing part of One Man’s Problem) but it’s more of the set than has turned up on the interweb before. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Jayhawks On Austin City Limits In 2004

Athenae, So Called Liberal Media, Stupid Republican Tricks6 Comments

Only Republicans Can Hold Republicans Accountable

Driftglass notes Andrew Sullivan calling for “someone in the GOP” to “take Bush-Cheney apart,” and asks: Because, in the end, Mr. Sullivan is simply not intellectually fit or emotionally mature enough to either understand the true heart of American Conservatism or acknowledge the self-evident fact that the Liberals have been right about the Right all along. Instead, Mr. Sullivan pins his hopes on a Wise Conservative Daddy who will come and make it all better. You know, it’s not so much that our discourse is so hopelessly polarized and BOTH SIDES DO IT and how awful and mean everyone is. … Continue reading Only Republicans Can Hold Republicans Accountable

Adrastos, Music, Television1 Comment

Sunday Morning Video: The Jayhawks On Austin City Limits In 2004

Today on Adrastos’ obsession with the Jayhawks: This dates from the Rainy Day Music tour. Gary and company shared the bill with the lovely and talented Gillian Welch on January 3, 2004. It seems to be incomplete (it’s missing part ofOne Man’s Problem) but it’s more of the set than has turned up on the interweb before. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Jayhawks On Austin City Limits In 2004

Adrastos, Current Affairs, Music, Travel4 Comments

Irony is not dead, it’s just shipwrecked

Peter Adrastos Athas

The name of the disabled Carnival cruise ship that set out from NOLA and just returned to the Port of Mobile is, ahem, the Triumph. The story is about to take over our local media, which is looking for a bright shiny object now that the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras are over. Hell, it’s ironic that it belongs to the Carnival line since it crapped out during, well, Carnival. This gives me a swell excuse to post this sea chanty version of Shenandoah featuring Tom Waits and Keith Richards: Via my friend Dave Doremus’ Facebook page. Thanks, dude. Continue reading Irony is not dead, it’s just shipwrecked

Adrastos, Catblogging, Diary5 Comments

Friday Catblogging: Size Matters

Peter Adrastos Athas

Della Street dislikes Carnival. We’re adjacent to the parade route, which makes us rather popular at this time of the year. Della and Oscar hide under the bed unless it’s a small gathering. Della does, however, like throws. These big-ass cups came our way courtesy of the Krewe of Tucks, which is a bawdy group that parades the Saturday before Fat Tuesday. The cups are marked “size matters” and Della enjoyed interacting with them. I’m not certain if she was disappointed that they were empty. Continue reading Friday Catblogging: Size Matters

Adrastos, Diary5 Comments

Friday Catblogging: Size Matters

Della Street dislikes Carnival. We’re adjacent to the parade route, which makes us rather popular at this time of the year. Della and Oscar hide under the bed unless it’s a small gathering. Della does, however, like throws. These big-ass cups came our way courtesy of the Krewe of Tucks, which is a bawdy group that parades the Saturday before Fat Tuesday. The cups are marked “size matters” and Della enjoyed interacting with them. I’m not certain if she was disappointed that they were empty. Continue reading Friday Catblogging: Size Matters

Adrastos, Current Affairs, Music, Travel4 Comments

Irony is not dead, it’s just shipwrecked

The name of the disabled Carnival cruise ship that set out from NOLA and just returned to the Port of Mobile is, ahem, the Triumph. The story is about to take over our local media, which is looking for a bright shiny object now that the Super Bowl and Mardi Gras are over. Hell, it’s ironic that it belongs to the Carnival line since it crapped out during, well, Carnival. This gives me a swell excuse to post this sea chanty version ofShenandoah featuring Tom Waits and Keith Richards: Via my friend Dave Doremus’ Facebook page. Thanks, dude. Continue reading Irony is not dead, it’s just shipwrecked

Athenae, Faith, Immoral Values, Religion15 Comments

Does He See the RICO Case Coming?

Allison Hantschel

I mean, it’s basically Boardwalk Empire up in there anyway: The abuse scandals dominated his seven years as leader of the world’s Catholics. Before his accession, there had been scandals in the United States and Ireland. But in 2010, evidence of clerical sex abuse was made public in a succession of countries in continental Europe, notably Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, Norway and Benedict’s native Germany. The pope was himself affected by one of these scandals. It emerged that, while he was archbishop of Munich, a known molester was quietly re-assigned to duties that, in time, allowed him to return to … Continue reading Does He See the RICO Case Coming?

Food and Drink24 Comments

Capitalism Has Failed

southernbeale2014

Here’s how you know capitalism has failed: when they start creating products for which there is no demand, then spend tons of money on advertising and marketing campaigns in the hopes of creating a demand. I call it the New Coke Syndrome. Nobody had a problem with old Coke but nooooo, some MBA type decided they needed to switch things around because market share and synergy and value-added-thinking-outside-the-box and blahbeddy blah. Voila! You have a product nobody wants. I’m not sure when this phenomenon started — probably when people decided getting an MBA was more worthwhile than being a doctor … Continue reading Capitalism Has Failed

Athenae, Immoral Values, Stupid Republican Tricks3 Comments

OBAMAPOCALYPSE NOW

Allison Hantschel

What the fuck is wrong with this guy? It has always been sensible for good citizens to own and carry firearms for lawful protection against violent criminals who prey on decent people. During the second Obama term, however, additional threats are growing. Latin American drug gangs have invaded every city of significant size in the United States. Phoenix is already one of the kidnapping capitals of the world, and though the states on the U.S./Mexico border may be the first places in the nation to suffer from cartel violence, by no means are they the last. Obama came to power, … Continue reading OBAMAPOCALYPSE NOW

Athenae, Marriage Equality

Love Love Love Love Crazy Love

Fuck Yeah, Illinois! SPRINGFIELD — The Democratic-led Senate delivered a Valentine’s Day victory to gay and lesbian couples today, passing legislation for the first time that would allow same-sex marriage in Illinois. The gay marriage measure now goes to the House, where the fight is expected to be tougher. Gov. Pat Quinn is expected to sign the bill if it reaches his desk. The 34-21-2 Senate vote represents a turnaround of sorts after advocates unsuccessfully sought to push a gay marriage bill through last month’s lame-duck legislative session. Supporters vowed to try again quickly with a new General Assembly that … Continue reading Love Love Love Love Crazy Love

Athenae, Marriage Equality

Love Love Love Love Crazy Love

Allison Hantschel

Fuck Yeah, Illinois! SPRINGFIELD — The Democratic-led Senate delivered a Valentine’s Day victory to gay and lesbian couples today, passing legislation for the first time that would allow same-sex marriage in Illinois. The gay marriage measure now goes to the House, where the fight is expected to be tougher. Gov. Pat Quinn is expected to sign the bill if it reaches his desk. The 34-21-2 Senate vote represents a turnaround of sorts after advocates unsuccessfully sought to push a gay marriage bill through last month’s lame-duck legislative session. Supporters vowed to try again quickly with a new General Assembly that … Continue reading Love Love Love Love Crazy Love