Another reason to miss Freddie

I got into a discussion about Freddie Mercury on the parade route the other day with my friends Leigh and Cait. It happened during the Irish Channel St Patrick’s Day parade in between dodging cabbages and drunken Irishmen. Cait is18 weeks preggers so we were drinking for her as well as trying to get the walking groups to give her peck on the cheek to the chant of “kiss the pregnant Irish lady.” It was hilarious at the time. Guess you had to be there… Anyway, I don’t remember much of the Freddie-chat because I had an epic encounter that … Continue reading Another reason to miss Freddie

IF ONLY SOMEONE HAD SAID SOMETHING

What you had to say actually DID matter, you self-absorbed bucket of mop water: I was less impressed by Chalabi than were some others in the Bush administration. However, since one of those “others” was Vice President Cheney, it didn’t matter what I thought. In 2002, Chalabi joined the annual summer retreat of the American Enterprise Institute near Vail, Colorado. He and Cheney spent long hours together, contemplating the possibilities of a Western-oriented Iraq: an additional source of oil, an alternative to U.S. dependency on an unstable-looking Saudi Arabia. And yet imagine if you had spoken out, as you are … Continue reading IF ONLY SOMEONE HAD SAID SOMETHING

Weekend Question Thread

Were you a good student? I was not as good a student as I could have been, because I am lazy. I did my homework and studied for tests but the only classes I really did well in were the ones I wanted to do well in. I did the thing I hate so much now, where I decided I couldn’t learn certain things and wasn’t “a math person” and just sort of gave up on math/science. Granted, my brain doesn’t naturally work that way, but I could have worked harder at it. A. Continue reading Weekend Question Thread

Today on Earljam’s Obsession with the Freeperati – No True Conservative edition

Good morning, you commies, and G*d Bless America!

Well, now that I’ve been outed by the Palin-worshippers, there’s no damn reason for me to pretend any longer.

My name’s Earljam, and your homosexualist-worshipping asses are mine.

Let’s look at some Earl pearls of True Conservative wisdom, ya wanna?

First – when yer boat gets full, it just needs a little Palin’ out!

Sarah Palin and the End of an Era: Split from FNC highlights fade of Tea Party as well as her own

The National Journal ^

| January 27, 2013
| Jill Lawrence

Posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 1:43:03 AM by2ndDivisionVet

The news that Sarah Palin will no longer be a paid contributor to Fox
News puts an exclamation point on the end of an era, or at least a
chapter, in U.S. political history. She could land somewhere else, and
she still has her Facebook friends, but it’s hard to imagine she’ll find
a more visible or influential platform than Fox.

The former
Alaska governor and 2008 vice presidential nominee has been fading from
the scene for some time, as she inadvertently highlighted when she
complained on Facebook during the Republican convention in August that
the network had canceled her scheduled interviews that night. Her
brother, Chuck Heath Jr., told Alan Colmes last week on Fox Radio that
his sister is “kind of laying low right now,” though he wouldn’t or
couldn’t say when asked why.

Once the face of an energetic and
politically potent Tea Party movement, Palin is leaving Fox at a time
when polls show the Tea Party at an all-time low in both membership and
favorability. Her departure also coincides with calls by some leading
Republicans for their party to stop saying things that erode the GOP
brand and turn off voters in droves.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal
said bluntly this week at a Republican National Committee meeting in
Charlotte that the GOP needs to stop being “the stupid party,” and
former Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said he agreed. The two were
talking in particular about losing Senate candidates Todd Akin of
Missouri and Richard Mourdock of Indiana, both of whom made inflammatory
(and in Akin’s case, flagrantly ignorant) comments about rape.

But
Palin, with her flamboyant rhetoric, has stoked her own
disproportionate share of controversies. This is the woman who, after
all, coined the term “death panels” to describe discussions between
patients and physicians…

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How many times are they going to write her obituary?
1
posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 1:43:16 AM
by2ndDivisionVet
As many times as it takes, quim-chaser.
My man McCain should have arranged an interview for her with the bottom of Lake Superior.

To: freekitty

Sarah Palin should have her own TV channel.

4
posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 1:57:24 AM
byBerlin_Freeper
(Molon Labe)

She does, ya pussified shoe-sniffer – it’s called the Home Shopping Network.

To: Berlin_Freeper

She already has a spiffy studio in her home in Wasilla.

5
posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 2:00:26 AM
by2ndDivisionVet
(I’ll raise $2million for Sarah Palin’s presidential run. What’ll you do?)

If by “Spiffy” you mean she hasn’t started shitting in the corners yet, yeah. Let her fester there until she explodes.

To: Cowboy Bob
This might explain the author…


Ummm. Meet jill.

13
posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 2:50:33 AM
byMestaMachine
(Sometimes the smartest man in the room is standing in the midst of imbeciles.)

Bullshit. If you put some fuck-me pumps and librarian glasses on her, and squash her nose flat, you’d do her in a minute. Now get back on your knees in front of old Balin’ Palin and do what you were hired to do.

To: 2ndDivisionVet
Shhhhhhhhhhhhh …

She’s re-loadin’

18
posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 3:17:52 AM
byknarf
(I say things that are true … I have no proof … but they’re true)

That’s because she can’t hit shit. That stupid piece of meat thinks she’s Annie Oakley, but she’s really William S. Burroughs.

To: 2ndDivisionVet

This was arranged by the GOPe comprising Rove, Romney, Powell
and the other Soros-Obama plants.

33
posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 6:37:03 AM
byDiogenesis
(Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)

Hey –screw you! My man Karl Rove handed the Presidency over to us not once, buttwice! The only thing that dim-witted skirt ever handled was when she was handled her ass by Katie Couric.
Katie Kouric, fer Chr*st’s sake!! It’s like getting checkmated in three by a six-year-old.
RoveBastard
.
Aren’t there anyreal men out there willing to take that braying simpleton slut down a notch?

To: 2ndDivisionVet
Well, the ugly truth is that Palin lost a tremendous amount of
political momentum and much of her grassroots infrastructure (best seen
in such sites as Organize4Palin and Conservatives4Palin) when she told
Mark Levin that she was not running for President. Those groups and
others are still around, but much of their energy and membership has
simply dissipated over the past year.Moreover, PalinTV (which was a
strong effort to bypass the MSM and to get Palin’s unedited words
directly out to the public) no longer has its own web presence but is
now just a Youtube channel.

That’s because she’s as astute as a guy setting himself on fire and as informative as a talking bird.
Her next stop is pay-per-view slots on YouPorn.

I’m not sure that she will ever be able to
recover what she has lost by her decision, unless she runs for and wins
Begich’s seat in 2014, which would revitalize her political standing and
give her a springboard for 2016.

Yeah – watch the stupid trollop do a one-and-a-half gainer into an empty pool.

As far as the TEA party movement
goes, it is in fact in some disarray now, mostly at the hands of the
corrupt, crooked, GOP-E, which fought it harder than the Rats. Since
Palin chose not to run, it did not have any real leaders to coalesce
around, and was successfully infiltrated by GOP-E hacks and operatives,
who then tried to direct its energy to Team Romney. I remember some of
FR’s resident chest beaters claiming two years ago that the TEA party
was self-sustaining and did not need any leaders. Well, that has proven
to be wrong-headed
, and so here we are, stuck with Obama for four more
years (or more), and a fetid, feckless GOP-E now doing his bidding in
Congress.

34
posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 6:42:23 AM
byTimber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)

And if that snow-bunny shithead hadn’t derailed Senator McCain’s McCain Train, we’d now have the Presidency, both houses, and the other four-ninths of the Supreme Court, or my name’s not Earljam.
Butno – you had to mistake tits for brains, shit-for-brains. Lie down and let the empty-headed bitch walk all over you, why dontcha?

To: MestaMachine
No, I don’t think that it’s dead, but dwindling. How many people on
FR have been complaining lately about how their local TEA party groups
have pretty much fallen apart despite their best efforts (including
mine)? Where are the rallies with the Gadsden flags?
Why was Romney the
Republican nominee, and why is Obama still the president.

Going into denial is a surefire strategy for continued defeat.

49
posted on Monday, January 28, 2013 8:38:40 AM
byTimber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)

Screw you, buddy. While you were parading around in front of TV cameras with tea bags dangling from your hats like some kind of faggot dancing on a Mardi Gras float, the commies were registering people to vote.
Butyou?
You were too busy fapping off to pics of the stupid strumpet to do anything useful.
More after the – HEY!What the hell???? Let go of me!

Continue reading “Today on Earljam’s Obsession with the Freeperati – No True Conservative edition”

Paragraph of the day

I am occasionally asked why I call the Guardian the best newpaper in the English speaking world. It’s a writer’s paper and it always has been. They do great and fearless reporting BUT the editors give pundits and reporters alike a lot of freedom to be both funny *and* insightful. Here’s the great Simon Hoggart writing about the new pope: We used to say de mortuis nil nisi bonum(don’t speak ill of the dead), but that’s all changed with warts-and-all obituaries. Now we are incredibly nice instead about people who’ve just been promoted. Take the new pope. He seems to … Continue reading Paragraph of the day

Paragraph of the day

I am occasionally asked why I call the Guardian the best newpaper in the English speaking world. It’s a writer’s paper and it always has been. They do great and fearless reporting BUT the editors give pundits and reporters alike a lot of freedom to be both funny *and* insightful. Here’s the greatSimon Hoggart writing about the new pope: We used to sayde mortuis nil nisi bonum(don’t speak ill of the dead), but that’s all changed with warts-and-all obituaries. Now we are incredibly nice instead about people who’ve just been promoted. Take the new pope. He seems to be an … Continue reading Paragraph of the day

A Simpler Papacy

Once again, we call these things inevitabilities when they’re really choices: Not for Francis the red leather shoes favored by Benedict. Indeed, the Catholic newspaper Avvenire reported that a priest at the cathedral in Buenos Aires banded together with some friends to buy a pair of new shoes for Bergoglio before the archbishop left for the papal election conclave in Rome because his footwear looked so embarrassingly tattered. On Friday, after an audience with senior prelates, Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles tweeted, “At our meeting today with Pope Francis, I noted that [he] is still wearing his older black … Continue reading A Simpler Papacy

A Simpler Papacy

Once again, we call these things inevitabilities when they’re really choices: Not for Francis the red leather shoes favored by Benedict. Indeed, the Catholic newspaper Avvenire reported that a priest at the cathedral in Buenos Aires banded together with some friends to buy a pair of new shoes for Bergoglio before the archbishop left for the papal election conclave in Rome because his footwear looked so embarrassingly tattered. On Friday, after an audience with senior prelates, Cardinal Roger Mahony of Los Angeles tweeted, “At our meeting today with Pope Francis, I noted that [he] is still wearing his older black … Continue reading A Simpler Papacy

Weekend Question Thread

Were you a good student? I was not as good a student as I could have been, because I am lazy. I did my homework and studied for tests but the only classes I really did well in were the ones I wanted to do well in. I did the thing I hate so much now, where I decided I couldn’t learn certain things and wasn’t “a math person” and just sort of gave up on math/science. Granted, my brain doesn’t naturally work that way, but I could have worked harder at it. A. Continue reading Weekend Question Thread

You Don’t Get a Trophy for Being White Anymore

I have had the flu all week. Again. Apparently the universe has decided to punish me for not getting sick all last year by making me catch every virus that whistles past my house these days. Mr. A dragged home some stomach bug from a trip overseas, and he was down for about 48 hours with it. I started feeling ill last Sunday and still haven’t recovered my appetite. THIS ISN’T HELPING. The exchange occurred after an audience member from North Carolina, 30-year-old Scott Terry, asked whether Republicans could endorse races remaining separate but equal. After the presenter, K. Carl … Continue reading You Don’t Get a Trophy for Being White Anymore

Someone Else Will Fix Journalism

Virgo, who knows that things around here have been a little too calm and collected lately, sends me thisto make me add to the marks on the wall from where the shoes usually land WHEN I THROW THEM: L. Gordon Crovitz is the former publisher of the WSJ, who stepped down in 2007, but still writes a column for the paper. Today—not severalyearsago, but today!—Crovitz asks, “What happens to in-depth reporting in the age of the blog post?” Real interesting question, L. Gordon. We are salivating to hear the expertise of a man who is a highly paid media industry … Continue reading Someone Else Will Fix Journalism

Portmania

We live in such interesting times that a hitherto boring pol made a big splash today: Ohio Senator Rob Portman. Portman is so boring that the reason he was considered as Willard Mittbot Romney’s running mate is that he was so dull that he wouldn’t overshadow Willard. Today, of course, Portman came our for marriage equality for highly personal reasons: his college age son is gay and came out to his parents a few years back. This reason has been controversial among some of my brothers and sisters on the left. Matt Yglesias and Irin Carmon made some very good … Continue reading Portmania

A Black Hack Heaven?

The minute I saw this story, I knew it was going to be a bad idea, poorly executed that was going to cause a ton of people to go apeshit. That said, the race thing wasn’t what made me really freaked out. Read this thing and tell me it doesn’t sound Stephen Glass-esque, as in Hack Heaven-like or anything else he wrote. The use of vague sources. The black 12-year-old dealing drugs. The angry Russian chick. The old guy who lived there his whole life and was all Walt Kowalski about it. The vivid scenes that perfectly illustrated his key … Continue reading A Black Hack Heaven?

You Don’t Get a Trophy for Being White Anymore

I have had the flu all week. Again. Apparently the universe has decided to punish me for not getting sick all last year by making me catch every virus that whistles past my house these days. Mr. A dragged home some stomach bug from a trip overseas, and he was down for about 48 hours with it. I started feeling ill last Sunday and still haven’t recovered my appetite. THIS ISN’T HELPING. The exchange occurred after an audience member from North Carolina, 30-year-old Scott Terry, asked whether Republicans could endorse races remaining separate but equal. After the presenter, K. Carl … Continue reading You Don’t Get a Trophy for Being White Anymore

Malaka Of The Week: Google

It’s institutional malakatude week here at First Draft. This has nothing to do with Google’s desire to conquer the cyber world, that’s what big ass tech corporations do. I have a more specific lament: they’re 86-ing Google Reader effective July 1. I’ve used it for years and really like it so I’m pissed. Do any of you lot have any suggestions as to what a poor boy can do to replace this service? I’ll let Split Enz have the finally word. Why? Why the hell not? Continue reading Malaka Of The Week: Google

A Black Hack Heaven?

The minuteI saw this story, I knew it was going to be a bad idea, poorly executed that was going to cause a ton of people to go apeshit. That said, the race thing wasn’t what made me really freaked out. Read this thing and tell me it doesn’t sound Stephen Glass-esque, as inHack Heaven-like or anything else he wrote. The use of vague sources. The black 12-year-old dealing drugs. The angry Russian chick. The old guy who lived there his whole life and was all Walt Kowalski about it. The vivid scenes that perfectly illustrated his key points. The … Continue reading A Black Hack Heaven?

Have These People Ever Met a Teenager?

My teen years are fully two decades behind me, and I can tell you with absolute certainty what nonsense like this would have made me want to do. Here’s a hint: It wouldn’t be shutting up: The students, some wearing duct tape over their mouths and carrying signs, were protesting an announcement at the beginning of the day, in which Strongsville High School Principal William Steffen asked the children to refrain from posting on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook. Steffen said he’s been trying to tell students since yesterday-when several videos, Tweets and Facebook posts depicted disorganization and … Continue reading Have These People Ever Met a Teenager?