and after you're done with the corn dogs, you gotta wash it down!

http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/drunkhilz3.jpg

apparently reptilian shapeshifters are immune to heartburn.


http://funkydowntown.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/politician-and-ice-cream-6.jpg
Don't skimp on the Gummie Bears next time!

http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/drunkhilz3.jpg

what's that strapping young fellow behind her DOING to her, exactly?  :o

what's that strapping young fellow behind her DOING to her, exactly?  :o

Oh, thank you very much.. that has left a seriously icky mental image  >:(

what's that strapping young fellow behind her DOING to her, exactly?  :o


Hard to tell

http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/drunkhilz3.jpg

what's that strapping young fellow behind her DOING to her, exactly?  :o


I dunno but the chick on the extreme right (no, not Michelle Bachmann, I meant of the photograph) seems to be digging the view.

But now that you mention it, there's a variation on the closeted-Republican scandal we haven't seen yet...

http://www.pics-site.com/wp-content/uploads/World-Leaders-and-Famous-Politicians-Love-Ice-Cream-24.jpg

http://blueherald.com/uploads/Fark/Gadaffi_corndog.jpg

Quick, dirty, and in before the official announcement :)

http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Gadaffi-Goner-620x534.jpg

http://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-e3aygj2rGUg/TkbM01VTnRI/AAAAAAAAARA/V24Bsdfzi5s/Corndog1-384x288.jpg

Relax.  Have a corndog.
Check out the look on the guy's face in the lower left corner...he looks like he's about to start throwing $1 bills :D

Check out the look on the guy's face in the lower left corner...he looks like he's about to start throwing $1 bills :D
i can speak from experience, when you've got THAT look in your eye, you're about to start tossing fivers.  ;D

i can speak from experience, when you've got THAT look in your eye, you're about to start tossing fivers.  ;D
Maybe he's "tossing" something else :o :P

PROTIP: When your opposition invades your compound, cracks open your (crusty?) photo albums featuring pictures of Condoleeza Rice, and steals your hat...

http://i.imgur.com/Ha28n.jpg

It's over.

http://www.theblaze.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Gadaffi-Goner-620x534.jpg

I notice he's invested in a Brian May wig..

and after you're done with the corn dogs, you gotta wash it down!

http://wonkette.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/05/drunkhilz3.jpg

apparently reptilian shapeshifters are immune to heartburn.


http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ap_webfeeds/74cd43e17c655713f70e6a706700dee8.jpg

Shapeshifters or timeshifters?

http://www.floppingaces.net/wp-content/gallery/curts-pictures/ron-paul-hippie.jpg

Some things never change.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYqF_BtIwAU



Cat

Some things never change.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYqF_BtIwAU



Cat


Karma +1

Karma +1
yeah, that was good stuff.

Some things never change.


Mel Brooks is a hard one to top, but Tim Minchin comes pretty damn close on the scale of bitter irony:

WGas0D9_zgI

I know that one less dram of Balvenie tonight,
And i could feed some foreign family for a fortnight,
(But I might just have one more.)
That's what a single malt is for,
Not just for making me grateful that I have no life!
I troll the Internets, and now I've got no strife.

  The guy who uploaded it appears to be a loon, but here's ten minutes of hell.  No TV commentators, just raw video. 

yvVxXaJT4yo

Crap.  I forgot the punchline.

Because there isn't one.

  The guy who uploaded it appears to be a loon, but here's ten minutes of hell.  No TV commentators, just raw video. 

yvVxXaJT4yo

Crap.  I forgot the punchline.

Because there isn't one.
gut-wrenching stuff. the irony of the elevator music leaves me speechless.

as for the "iran-contra scum," i have days when i wonder. they've certainly done worse to foreigners. that they'd do something this bad to americans... i dunno, maybe.

For your eyes only.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ak_qW2QMbD4

Democrats, Republicans, Gitmo and Abu Ghraib torture victims, policemen who think they're the military, military servicemembers pressed into service as police, civilians killed as collateral damage, TSA molesters, and their victims amongst the flying public all agree:

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc193/dogdaze_2007/toons/never.jpg

9/11: NEVER FORGET!

All these corndog-prompted questions about the sexuality of Ms. Bachman's husband are now settled.  The dude's straight.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v124/BCStud31/tumblr_lrhj5lxxBZ1qcbo9lo1_500.jpg

Don't ask me where I found it, I won't tell you where I found it.

Cleaning out the queue:

From the 9/11 10th anniversary:

http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lr6k8au1MU1qcbo9lo1_500.gif

And from the last GOP debate - a couple of weeks ago, not the one from tonight:

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lradorEeV01qahhxwo1_500.jpg
http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lradorEeV01qahhxwo2_500.jpg
http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lradorEeV01qahhxwo3_500.jpg
http://30.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lradorEeV01qahhxwo4_500.jpg

Democrats: Don't think I'm being partisan about this.  Your dudes are fair game if you have the testicular fortitude to call for a primary :)

Democrats: Don't think I'm being partisan about this.  Your dudes are fair game if you have the testicular fortitude to call for a primary :)

Is that really the selection of Republican presidential wannabes?  Shurely they have something better hidden in the closet?

Is that really the selection of Republican presidential wannabes?  Shurely they have something better hidden in the closet?
john huntsman isn't a complete lunatic, which is why he's polling at like 2%. also, ron paul, who IS a complete lunatic, but on the other hand isn't actually wrong about literally everything the way the other candidates are.

john huntsman isn't a complete lunatic, which is why he's polling at like 2%. also, ron paul, who IS a complete lunatic, but on the other hand isn't actually wrong about literally everything the way the other candidates are.

In a way I hope Ron Paul will run.. it means I could re-use this :)

http://danzigercartoons.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/danzcolor4889.jpg



Cat

http://danzigercartoons.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/danzcolor4889.jpg



Cat


Throw the lions to the Christians!
:o

Throw the lions to the Christians!
:o



What do you have against lions?



Cat

http://danzigercartoons.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/danzcolor4889.jpg



Cat

;D
In the early days, Christians often killed dissenters, pagans, those who split from their "true Christianity group" and others. And let's not forget the crusades. When Christians label Islam as a killing religion, they need to look in the mirror first.
I'm not an American but the tea party really has too much rum in their tea.

;D
In the early days, Christians often killed dissenters, pagans, those who split from their "true Christianity group" and others. And let's not forget the crusades. When Christians label Islam as a killing religion, they need to look in the mirror first.
I'm not an American but the tea party really has too much rum in their tea.



Weeeellll, I'm a Catholic and, uh, we just try and keep the fig leaf in place nowadays.  Leave the dissenters to scatter to the four winds.  We gotta get our own house in order. 
:-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdewOBTf6-Q

Everybody's talkin' at me, I don't hear a word they're sayin', only the echoes of my mind....

Where is that Levi Johnston?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBemzu1Fchk&feature=related

The Tea Partiers want to marry Jesus Christ to Ayn Rand, and that's a non-starter.  DOA.


Both Christ and Rand would spin fast enough in their respective graves fast enough to power the entire planet, but judging from everyone at the GOP debates (with the sole exception of Huntsman and marginal exception of Paul) the propagandists managed to make it work and still have the solid support of Team Derp.  

Obligatory bipartisanship: ...exactly like how Obama manged to out-Clinton the Clintons when using the rhetoric of Marx and Alinsky when it came to getting the votes of the Progressives.  I mean, who else were/are they gonna vote for in 2008/2012?

Obligatory political lulz:  Do not watch this with 3D glasses.

http://i.imgur.com/S1u5K.gif

SAUL ALINSKY = EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN

Praise John Birch and pass the Kool-Aid!

The Teabaggers got the 24-hour Two-Minutes Hate!

http://thecampofthesaints.files.wordpress.com/2010/03/1984-two-minutes-hate-02-500.jpg

And while you're all out there yelping about socialist subversives in the peanut butter, the Koch Brothers are eating your lunch!

If the commies couldn't wreck America, Milton Freakman sure as sh*t is gonna.

SAUL ALINSKY = EMMANUEL GOLDSTEIN


No, Emmanuel has to be a bipartisan threat, and that'd be Anonymous.  Decades before it took upon itself a name, that's why the guy who edited 2600 called himself "Emmanuel Goldstein".  

Anon is the perfect Goldstein for the present day - it doesn't even have a name, so (win for Anonymous) they can take credit/blame for anything that happens, and (win for the world's governments) anybody in the wrong place at the wrong time can be linked with them - even if their only "crime" was trying to keep up with developments in the infosec field.  I'd like to believe the Feebs are able to figure out who's actually participating in and/or organizing the DDoS attacks and target the black hats accordingly, but that's probably not the way to bet.  I just hope they're capable of apologizing profusely to the white hats they accidentally snare.  Sorry, Feebs, it's not a crime to be faster to pick up on an APT than you were.

tl;dr: And now, the health care debate!

http://fc09.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/335/f/1/applejack__s_plea_by_equestria_election-d33zzur.png

(Clicky to embiggen.  Sweet FSM, let this silly pony meme persist until election season...)

What I mean is Saul Alinsky is a strawman the ruling class props up in front of the lower classes.  Alinsky would not only be dead, but utterly forgotten, if Ministry of Truth hadn't found a way to hook him to Obama.  The Jew is using the Black as muscle against you!  Classic fear-mongering. 

What I mean is Saul Alinsky is a strawman the ruling class props up in front of the lower classes.  Alinsky would not only be dead, but utterly forgotten, if Ministry of Truth hadn't found a way to hook him to Obama.  The Jew is using the Black as muscle against you!  Classic fear-mongering. 


Sorta like how nobody worried about the Koch Bros. until that article came out, and then all of a sudden, they were to the left what Soros was to the right.

Sorta like how nobody worried about the Koch Bros. until that article came out, and then all of a sudden, they were to the left what Soros was to the right.


Koch Brothers

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Av_vcjD2h2g&feature=related

http://www.b3tards.com/u/e72b6a43f7162171a09b/warningposter.jpg

I did not know to post this on the boards.

Republicans vs. Democrats:

http://lonestarunderground.com/fark/090911_reinvent_the_wheel.jpg

It's sorta like this.

Republicans vs. Democrats:

http://lonestarunderground.com/fark/090911_reinvent_the_wheel.jpg

It's sorta like this.


Indeed.  A clusterf*ck of astronomical incompetence!

We had a song when I was a lad, went something like:

What are you trying to say?  I'm crazy?  Well, I went to your schools, I went to your churches, I went to your institutional learning facilities, so how can you say I'm crazy?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hof4EESpe_k

Yep, I lived that one.

"I was sitting in my room, and my mom and my dad came in, and they pulled up a chair and they sat down, and they go, Maxwell, we need to talk to you..."
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/12/evil7.gif

We had a song when I was a lad, went something like:

What are you trying to say?  I'm crazy?  Well, I went to your schools, I went to your churches, I went to your institutional learning facilities, so how can you say I'm crazy?


Yeah, it's got a catchy video, too.

OKHxn7ktPao

Seriously, if you watch no other silly pony video, watch this one. 

I was gonna skip over it, but the guy who made it actually included the Pepsi at 1:57, which made it sufficiently lulzy to post.  But more to the point, it's largely centered around Season 1, Episode 25 which was the inspiration (although only half the source video) for the parody.  Part of the show's appeal is that it's way darker than most non-viewers give it credit for.  It's not often you get to see a show deal with paranoid schizophrenia - with full visual and tactile hallucinations - and still get rated TV-Y.

Obligatory Political Content:

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/occupy093011/s_o05_58589303.jpg

Apparently there's something going on in New York City, Boston, and other major centers.

http://godhatesprotesters.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/godhatessigns.gif

http://godhatesprotesters.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/godhatessigns.gif


Signs, signs, everywhere signs...

In my defense, the closest I got was being one of the 10%, not the 1%.

In the protestors' defense, 99% of the signs I've seen in random picture feeds have been handwritten rather than having been mass-produced from the front group that uses the International Socialist(tm) and ANSWER(tm) brands, which makes me inclined to believe that the protestors are - regardless of the merits of their grievances - still a grassroots group.  And to that extent, good on 'em.  Nobody does it say the First Amendment only applies to speech with which I agree.

I had a bad feeling the protesters were gonna get creamed!

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/occupy093011/s_o13_78929265.jpg

:-\\

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/occupy093011/s_o13_78929265.jpg]


Well, I'm glad that's milk against tear gas or you'd have ruined pr0n for everyone forever!

From the other side of the fence, Alessio Rastani got a bad rap by accident earlier this week.  He looked like a known prankster and was mistakenly tagged as one by part of the blogosphere.

aC19fEqR5bA

So he's for real, but he's also not as big as the blogosphere has made him out to be.  He's just an independent trader who has a cut of the profits as he clicks his mouse at his broker's desk.  No harm, no foul, and my take is that he's a small enough fish that I think he's not only sincere when he says he wants to help people, he's a small enough fish that he's permitted to go on TV and say as much.  

I think he's right (and so does this smart chick, who's smart enough not to go on TV), but I don't know he's right.  So I remain confused, and it's still a coin flip as to whether I make it or not.

My making it or not is my problem, not yours - so let's just say it's more fuel for the fire, and people interested in this thread should make up their own minds.

COP, A FEEL

http://cdn.theatlantic.com/static/infocus/occupy093011/s_o11_79409404.jpg

8-P

COME AND SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM! HELP HELP! I'M BEING REPRESSED!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xvnsIodU34

COME AND SEE THE VIOLENCE INHERENT IN THE SYSTEM! HELP HELP! I'M BEING REPRESSED!


Calm down chicky-poo.  (Officer, whaddya think this is, an airport?  I'll let it go 'cuz she's gotta be in her twenties, which still gives the NYPD the moral high ground over the TSA.)

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6015/6197388083_52a387461c_z.jpg

Disclaimer:  That poster's not intended as an endorsement. It's not even a suggestion. It's just a reference to a post made a few days ago.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z_Ebe67Re-g/TY43mAOlbAI/AAAAAAAACjc/N3Wf8biPDz0/s1600/Can%2527t%2BAfford%2Ba%2BDoctor.JPG



Cat

http://adamthinks.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/obama_nazi_communist_muslim_peace.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z_Ebe67Re-g/TY43mAOlbAI/AAAAAAAACjc/N3Wf8biPDz0/s1600/Can%2527t%2BAfford%2Ba%2BDoctor.JPG



Cat

And if that's not enough for you and you want more, wear a Castro t-shirt and tell em you love Cuba and Al Qaeda after the colonoscopy. You also receive a free one way trip to Guantanamo Bay.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-Z_Ebe67Re-g/TY43mAOlbAI/AAAAAAAACjc/N3Wf8biPDz0/s1600/Can%2527t%2BAfford%2Ba%2BDoctor.JPG



Cat


http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/13/icon_thumright.gif

I love that sign!

For the 99%:  I think I know why you're not getting any job offers.  Since the jury's still out on your body, if you want to be perceived as more relevant than the Tea Party, you guys and gals need to bring your fracking "A" game!  

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsg8h4hsco1r25y9yo1_1280.jpg

For the 1%: Your city's style of pizza is awesome, your dudes in the CBOE building have a great sense of humor, but you're not helping!

http://i.imgur.com/DnZve.jpg

For the Lulz: And then there was this guy!

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6162/6160480626_42089f9e18.jpg

I'd sell my body...but supply side economics won't work!
:-[

I'd sell my body...but supply side economics won't work!
:-[


The supply is there, its the demand that might be questionable

The supply is there, its the demand that might be questionable


Marketing to the desired clientele has proven difficult in the past, and that's when I was giving it away!
:-\\

The battle of the image macros continues:

In this corner, speaking on behalf of the 1%:
http://i51.tinypic.com/2zzreaw.jpg

And in this corner, speaking on behalf of the 99%, some obvious America-hatin' terrists with their inarticulate demand to rebuild the WTC:
http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6159/6170479490_b670a054f6_z.jpg

And speaking for the 100%, this guy:
With a sign expressing something we should all be able to agree on:

http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/4e86353aecad04c54300004b/occup-wall-street-protester.jpg

(Mods, it's your call on that last one, but it was just so awesome I had to stomp on the proverbial land mine, NSFW language be damned :)

right wing ricochet displays the evolution of decay

-- skinny puppy (first aid)

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/8562/gmsfy.jpg

Vietnam-era hippie burnouts and anti-American traitors, every one of 'em.  Wait, wut?

The government did right by those WWII vets.  Can you imagine what Eric Cantor would say about the GI Bill?
::)

i think it's time to consider the possibility that hank williams jr. MAY be a dumbass.

The stories are old  The comments are cold  I'm covered in lice and scabs and mold

-- J.G. Thirwell

http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/9849d450d64c012e2f9900163e41dd5b



Cat

http://www.barnorama.com/wp-content/images/2011/03/B21/01.jpg

Well.  At least one guy's pretty clear that he doesn't mind a little jerking around :)

There she goes again  ;D

We know that she didn't know that taxes were higher in the Reagan years.  Let's see here talk her way out of this one with the repugs.


Michele Bachmann Proposes Tax Hikes for Everyone -- Reagan Style
By Bruce Watson Posted 11:35AM 10/14/11

Michele Bachmann Proposes Tax Hikes for Everyone -- Reagan Style On Thursday morning, presidential candidate Michele Bachmann may have inadvertently made one of the boldest moves of the 2012 GOP primary campaign. Speaking on Fox News, the Minnesota congresswoman stated that she wants to adopt Ronald Reagan's tax plan, a rate structure that is much higher than current tax rates.



http://www.dailyfinance.com/2011/10/14/michele-bachmann-proposes-tax-hikes-for-everyone-reagan-style/

Just another day at work


Him:  What are you doing this weekend?

Me:    I am going to take a ride in to support the Occupy Boston people

Him:  What is that?

Me:    What?  You don't know who the Occupy Wall Street people are?

Him:  No

Him:  I'm only 26, does that count?  Is this something someone my age should know about?


To go on, someone else...

Him:  It pisses me off that I go to work everyday, and work hard, for benefits for my family, but the illegals get healthcare and college free for their kids

Me:    What are you talking about?

Him:  Yeah, they come hear and get everything handed to them and don't have to work

Me:    What the hell are you talking about, and where do you get your information!? 

Him:  The guys were telling me, more than one has said so.

Me:    You listen to Hannity and Beck, is that where you get this crap?

Him:  No, I don't listen to those guys, I only listen to sports radio.

(We had a discussion after that..He didn't know(NO SH*T)!)

Just another day at work


Him:   What are you doing this weekend?

Me:    I am going to take a ride in to support the Occupy Boston people

Him:   What is that?

Me:    What?  You don't know who the Occupy Wall Street people are?

Him:   No

Him:  I'm only 26, does that count?  Is this something someone my age should know about?


To go on, someone else...

Him:   It pisses me off that I go to work everyday, and work hard, for benefits for my family, but the illegals get healthcare and college free for their kids

Me:    What are you talking about?

Him:   Yeah, they come hear and get everything handed to them and don't have to work

Me:    What the hell are you talking about, and where do you get your information!? 

Him:   The guys were telling me, more than one has said so.

Me:     You listen to Hannity and Beck, is that where you get this crap?

Him:   No, I don't listen to those guys, I only listen to sports radio.

(We had a discussion after that..He didn't know(NO SH*T)!)


And you live in one of the blue-est states, imagine the ignorance elsewhere

And you live in one of the blue-est states, imagine the ignorance elsewhere


Blue and working a union job.  >:(

Me:    What the hell are you talking about, and where do you get your information!?  
Him:   The guys were telling me, more than one has said so.
Me:     You listen to Hannity and Beck, is that where you get this crap?
Him:   No, I don't listen to those guys, I only listen to sports radio.
(We had a discussion after that..He didn't know(NO SH*T)!)


So he may not listen to the radio, he only listens to his friends.

Better question from that discussion - don't do anything that might compromise his identity, but the question that came to my mind: Didja take him with ya or what?

Obligatory Politicalulz:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lswy1zY1y71qfengno1_500.jpg

Also:

http://i.imgur.com/vDbjn.jpg

My Little Photoshop: Astroturf is magic.  (Clicky to embiggen.  Srs bznz.)

So he may not listen to the radio, he only listens to his friends.

Better question from that discussion - don't do anything that might compromise his identity, but the question that came to my mind: Didja take him with ya or what?



Doesn't read newpapers, either.  I got him to admit that he really didn't know much about what he was talking about, he was just repeating what he had heard from "some of the guys".  I gave him my opinion of the situation and why I thought the way I did.  He isn't really a bad guy, he admitted that he is really not up on the different opinions and reasons behind them on the issue.  So maybe I didn't "take him with me"  but I think I did give him something to think about, which is a start.

So maybe I didn't "take him with me"  but I think I did give him something to think about, which is a start.


Keep working that angle. This might come in handy.

http://i.imgur.com/FlzVJ.jpg

For the benefit of non-Americans wondering what's up with all the silly numbers: There's a bunch of people in the street talking about "the 99%" vs "the 1%", and depending on who you ask, they're talking about the distribution of income and/or wealth: the top 1% has a disproportionate share of both income and wealth.  The countermeme is "the 53%" vs "the 1%", and they're talking abou the fact that 47% of the country pays no (net) income tax.  (The counter-countermeme is that the term "income tax" excludes sales taxes, nor - under the letter of the law - the 6ish% for "social security" paid by the employee, and yadda yadda, any debate past this point devolves into R-vs-D partisan noise.)

My opinion is that the 1-vs-99 is a natural outcome of the Pareto Principle, which predates gaming by decades.  The original data with respect to SWG is gone, but the principle has been experimentally verified in the economies of MMORPGs.  (SWG was not the only MMORPG economy to exhibit this result.)

My take on the 53% is that it's astroturf and/or agitprop on behalf of the Demopublican party, who sees #OWS as a potential threat to the Republicrats.  (Or just plain (R) astroturf as a hedge against the possibility that #OWS gets hijacked by the (D) party.)

#OccupyTatooine!
http://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/427036777.jpg

#OccupyCoruscant!
http://i.imgur.com/8r27t.jpg

#OccupyAllTheThings!
http://i.imgur.com/DKHMK.jpg

http://cdn.someecards.com/someecards/usercards/1318526541948_9575258.png

http://cdn.someecards.com/someecards/usercards/1318526541948_9575258.png


#OccupyAllTheMemes

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6234/6246851641_fd3fcfd6ca.jpg

Darth Vader, V for Vendetta / Anonymous, and J.R. "Bob" Dobbs, all in one delightful bundle of ZOMGWTF awesomeness.

I'm afraid to even think about captioning this one...
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/12/hiding.gif

http://images2.politicalarticles.net/Herman-Cain-Michele-Bachmann-COMPOSITE.jpg

#OccupyAllTheMemes

All of your meme are belong to us

http://images2.politicalarticles.net/Herman-Cain-Michele-Bachmann-COMPOSITE.jpg

I'm afraid to even think about captioning this one...


"Pizza?"  "No, corndog."

#occupythenewyorker
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h162/supertramp_01/bankerprotests.jpg

(Yep, actual front cover of the magazine.)

And now, the difference between astroturf and grasroots:

Tea Party:
http://i595.photobucket.com/albums/tt31/Doctor_Funkenstein/FixOldNoNew.jpg

#OWS:
http://i52.tinypic.com/2mdl4rc.jpg

The problem with grassroots movements is that nobody taught them how to express their demands in a form that could be expressed in a 15-second soundbite or 140-character tweet.

The problem with astroturf movements is that their demands can be expressed in a 15-second soundbyte or 140-character tweet.

The problem with being a nerd is that I realized her sign could be expressed in 255 characters, and as a nerd, that's pretty neat.

i subscribe to the new yorker, just got that magazine yesterday. that cover gave me a hearty chuckle.

So Barak is bringing the guys home from Iraq...mission accomplished....and he didn't have to stick a stuffed sock in his pants to announce it.  ;)

So Barak is bringing the guys home from Iraq...mission accomplished....and he didn't have to stick a stuffed sock in his pants to announce it.   ;)


http://i56.tinypic.com/2qdv0h5.jpg

http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2011/05/obama-mission-accomplished.jpg

http://www.inquisitr.com/wp-content/2011/05/obama-mission-accomplished.jpg

:D

Another foreign policy coup

http://i51.tinypic.com/6quznk.jpg

http://i53.tinypic.com/s67t3o.jpg


http://i56.tinypic.com/2qdv0h5.jpg


'rack-blocked!

"does anyone have the original pic?"

#OCCUPYsomethingtodowithcats

http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/ab35/tennyson1/fa9c3a21.jpg

Points for honesty!

#OCCUPYsomethingtodowithcats

http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/ab35/tennyson1/fa9c3a21.jpg

Points for honesty!


Spelled "hippie" wrong.  Just like a frikkin' Yankees fan!

And the Yankees aren't even in the World Series this year. 

Moving on, for those of you playing the #OCCUPYBINGOHALL home game

http://img444.imageshack.us/img444/299/owsbingo.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/WpqYc.png

#OCCUPYBELAIR

http://i.imgur.com/mboHb.jpg

#OCCUPYMYFRIDGE

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t57/Thomzilla/FarK/ImTheTwoPercent.jpg

And the Yankees aren't even in the World Series this year. 



Cardinals, Rangers.  I got no dog in that fight.  Heck I don't even follow sports.  I guess it's just kneejerk knuckle-dragging Boston pride.  It's wicked important the frikkin' Yankees aren't in the Series, and when they are it's 100 times more they don't take the Pennant.
http://whball.com/JPG-GIF/Logo-AL-RedSox.gif

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9c1vSIpHA0



Cat

Utah Phillips - Hallelujah I'm a Bum


For the 53%:
QNiCd4G2ZFA
  - Offspring, Why Don't You get a Job.

For the 99% - and specifically for the officer who tossed some sort of small explosive onto a crowd of civilians trying to help a wounded former Marine:
HXbB1QU3Ato
  - Dope, F*bleep*k the Police (2005 studio version).

One of the few examples where a nu-metal cover rivals the original.  Does anyone know where the sample at the start of the video comes from?  The version in the video is the 2005 studio version from American Apathy Reloaded, but the track dates back to 1999, and the sample was on the original in the 1999 album Felons and Revolutionaries. 

Every attempt to google the phrases in the sample brings up the lyrics.  I really want to say it's from Pump up the Volume, but it's been 20 years since I saw the movie. 

And that's two more down, 8,999,999,811 to go.

For the 53%:

http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/pp77/johnnyerstwild434/310299_2579113196276_1207789153_3478242_618168026_n.jpg

For the 99%:

http://i.imgur.com/ZtZnO.jpg

For the lulz!

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6233/6252218350_f561946988.jpg

For the lulz!

http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6233/6252218350_f561946988.jpg

:D

That one's brilliant for the number of people who will have no idea what she's on about

That one's brilliant for the number of people who will have no idea what she's on about


I just wish I knew what was on the "In Soviet Russia" placard her friend had.  Probably some kind of sinister commie plot.

Speaking of which, here's one for the sinister 9%:

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsv7mgey2Y1qzcv7no1_500.jpg

And for the Fresh 1:

http://i.imgur.com/mboHb.jpg

I just wish I knew what was on the "In Soviet Russia" placard her friend had.  Probably some kind of sinister commie plot.

Speaking of which, here's one for the sinister 9%:

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lsv7mgey2Y1qzcv7no1_500.jpg

But think of the advantages you get when fencing, playing tennis and one or two others as well..

I'm with him on the scissors - it's why I nearly always use the ones on my Swiss Army knife rather than normal scissors.  As for the rest - get over it.  There's far worse things around - and my parents' generation were forced to write right-handed in schools, even if they weren't (I had a teacher that tried it with me right at the start.. that didn't work, though)

And now, some news from Oakland (from the morning after the police first cleared the camp after a light skirmish, but a few hours before the full-blown riot took place.)

http://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/es838gj.jpg

In other news of historical interest...

http://i.imgur.com/osPPq.jpg

For the 99%: (Just because BofA withdrew its latest fee hike in a too-little-too-late gesture, doesn't mean it's not too late to dump your bank in favor of a credit union...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTFASpNOpHw

...so why not give them a fifth of November that shall never, ever, be forgot?)

For the 53%: (Y'all aren't the only ones who suck at spellcheck!)

#OCCUPYFAILSTREET

http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/10/epic-fail-photos-occupy-fail-street.jpg

For the 1%: (Y'all have been underrepresented!)

http://i.imgur.com/5KhXK.jpg

"Meanwhile..."

http://s3-ec.buzzfed.com/static/enhanced/web03/2011/11/4/13/enhanced-buzz-wide-16673-1320426342-29.jpg

In Post-Soviet Russia, Angry Bird plays you!

In Post-Soviet Russia, Angry Bird plays you!


https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/310733_2448497225851_1654586325_2381740_1560823817_n.jpg

Sometimes the Internet makes this too easy.

http://i.imgur.com/R1h6f.jpg

And in the interest of fairness and balance...

http://hackedirl.files.wordpress.com/2011/11/epic-win-photos-writing-on-paper-win.jpg

And now, a moment from the Republican pre-Primary Debates:

http://i.imgur.com/0SCUk.jpg

Edit: "LOL.  Legitimately beaten to the punch, and duly repaired!"

And now, a moment from the Republican pre-Primary Debates:

http://cartoonistgroup.com/properties/danziger/art_images/cg4ebd281ede08f.jpg



Thief.


http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=45109.0



Cat

Thief.

http://www.inthe00s.com/index.php?topic=45109.0

Cat


Oh.  Uh.  Oops.

http://rackjite.com/graphics/perry5th.jpg

Will ya take this as a consolation prize?

For the 53%:

http://i399.photobucket.com/albums/pp77/johnnyerstwild434/310299_2579113196276_1207789153_3478242_618168026_n.jpg



gas, mass, or grass, nobody rides free!

Oh.  Uh.  Oops.

http://rackjite.com/graphics/perry5th.jpg

Will ya take this as a consolation prize?



I could chalk it up to great minds and all that.  ;)



Cat

I could chalk it up to great minds and all that.  ;)


..."great", "twisted", same thing, really.  Meanwhile, in Denver:

http://img204.imageshack.us/img204/2554/denverpoliceuniondnc847.jpg

History doesn't repeat itself, but it sure does rhyme...

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/.a/6a00d8341c60fd53ef015392f4f40b970b-800wi

Going straight to hell for laughing at this one.  But what else is new?

http://newsblogs.chicagotribune.com/.a/6a00d8341c60fd53ef015392f4f40b970b-800wi

Going straight to hell for laughing at this one.  But what else is new?


What do you think we are, Muslims?  You can draw all the nasty Catholic cartoons you want.  In fact, you can get forgiven for everything except denying His Divinity!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/11/angel4.gif

What do you think we are, Muslims?  You can draw all the nasty Catholic cartoons you want.  In fact, you can get forgiven for everything except denying His Divinity!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/11/angel4.gif


Speaking of whom, after having their offices firebombed for merely suggesting that a certain religious figure would be guest-editing their satirical magazine with cartoons depicting you-know-who with the phrase "100 lashes if you don't die of laughter!", and a back cover with that same religious figure wearing a clown's nose and saying "Yes, Islam is compatible with humor"...

I think we can retire the stereotype of the cheese-eating surrender monkeys, because Charlie Hebdo's response within a week of the firebombing was this:

http://static8.businessinsider.com/image/4eb8196f6bb3f7b56a000030-590-626/charlie-hebdo-cover.jpg

Literal translation: love is stronger than hate.

(Hey, maybe that poster depicts some random follower of the faith, and not anybody in particular.)

Well-played, you testicles-go-clank-when-you-walk defiance monkeys!  (Crap, if I want to maintain my stance as an equal-opportunity offender of Abrahamic faiths, now I gotta find something to offend the Jews.  That's probably easy enough, but finding something that's funny is going to take work.)

Literal translation: love is stronger than hate.

I wasn't sure about "la haine", so I ran just that through google translate, and didn't notice that its detected language was Rumanian.  Still, "Love is stronger than clothes" has a certain ring to it, too.


(Crap, if I want to maintain my stance as an equal-opportunity offender of Abrahamic faiths, now I gotta find something to offend the Jews.  That's probably easy enough, but finding something that's funny is going to take work.)

There's plenty of funny Jewish humour - some of it doesn't even involve bits being cut off penises.  But most of it does - that's just the way it hangs.

You could always pick something from here

There's plenty of funny Jewish humour - some of it doesn't even involve bits being cut off penises.  But most of it does - that's just the way it hangs.


The Jews have been crapped on by so many cultures throughout history that having a sense of humor is the only way they've survived.  For example, after the Dutch Cartoon Controversy riots, and Iran's call for an  International Holocaust Cartoon Competition, (speaking of which...

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/West_Bank_Barrier_cartoon_by_Latuff.png/220px-West_Bank_Barrier_cartoon_by_Latuff.png

...that was actually #2.  Links to Abdellah Derkaoui's winning entry, which was along the same lines, have sadly gone down the memory hole. My sympathies in the Israel-vs-Palestinian conflict tend towards the Israelis, but a good cartoon hits the reader regardless of whether he agrees with it or not, and based on the strength of #2, I'd have liked to have seen #1.)

In response to the Iranian contest, two Israelis called "game on" and threw an Anti-Semitic Cartoons Contest.  Lulz (but no riots) ensued in both the Israeli and Iranian contests.

On a brighter note, anti-Semites in America are a little less sharp, so there's always the good old,

http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/entries/icons/original/000/002/351/anyone-seen-kyle.jpg

"SEEN KYLE?  HE'S ABOUT THIS TALL..."

The religious intermission now over, we now resume our usual programming of Jackasses and Elephants wrestling in a big pile of your money.

Sometimes it's too easy. 

http://i582.photobucket.com/albums/ss262/Wrong_Format/Links/392293_196790663733468_100002076084368_434586_869101201_n.jpg

And I'm ashamed of that.

http://cdn.svcs.c2.uclick.com/c2/e4041300f38f012e2fb800163e41dd5b



Cat

Gingrich sucks dead donkey dongs.

http://2.images.theweek.com/img/dir_0048/24324_cartoon_main/newt-gingrich-loves-some-of-america.jpg

Over in the serious thread, in a hopeless flurry of optimism, I pontificated:


(Hard to choose between that one or Lawsuit in a Can.  Here's the original for everyone's image macro purposes!  Congratulations, Lt. Pike!  You're a meme!)


I wasn't just right, I was more right than I'd possibly imagined.

http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6112/6377725647_785af50402_b.jpg

http://boingboing.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/pepperspraycop_guernica.png

http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/photos/images/newsfeed/000/203/449/tumblr_luzy5fkc4T1qafo3wo1_500.png

http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/pepper-spray-cop-33.jpg

Lt. John "Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop" Pike, you really are a meme!

Thank you, Internet!

Lt. John "Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop" Pike, you really are a meme!



As in: Dad caught us sneaking out after curfew, so we got piked!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/09/smokin.gif

D'you think that when some press goon asked for his name, his immediate superior said "Don't tell him, Pike!"?

(and would he have got the joke, I wonder)

http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/photos/images/newsfeed/000/203/801/pike_floyd.jpg?1321907172

:)

http://www.kpsplocal2.com/media/lib/113/c/5/c/c5c55dd5-4aa6-49ac-9be4-4e20a6a2afd0/Story.jpg

I'm a pepper, she's a pepper wouldn't you like to be a pepper too

In the interests of bipartisanship:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/photos/images/original/000/206/005/sprayDealWithItSm.gif

http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/photos/images/newsfeed/000/205/625/febcop3.png

I laugh at both sides while I can, because it's only a matter of time...

http://s3.amazonaws.com/kym-assets/photos/images/newsfeed/000/206/405/tiananmensq.jpg

...before life imitates Photoshop.

Maybe what's going on here is a misunderstanding of the word "demonstration"

Maybe what's going on here is a misunderstanding of the word "demonstration"


http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_Nf5FfHNth64/Si0zMgGsB_I/AAAAAAAAFYc/P9XB_IRj5qw/s400/tiananmen.jpg

Hey, it worked for the Beijing Olympics.

:)

..but I was thinking more along the lines that he looks for all the world like he's been asked to give a demonstration of his new "Peppa Pig Spray Toy"

..but I was thinking more along the lines that he looks for all the world like he's been asked to give a demonstration of his new "Peppa Pig Spray Toy"


Well, in that case, it worked!  What great advertising!

"Despite Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly's assurance that this harmless vegetable mist is a "food product", I found it wholly unsuitable for eating. It caused an extraordinarily painful burning sensation in the mucous membranes of my upper respiratory tract and the tissue surrounding my eyes, resulting temporary blindness which lasted from 15-30 minutes, inflammation of the skin which lasted from 45 to 60 minutes, and upper body spasms which forced me to bend forward in fits of uncontrollable coughing that made it difficult to breathe or speak for between 3 and 15 minutes. While there are many pleasurable ways to ingest fruits of the genus Capsicum, a nice New Mexico-style green Chile sauce on a stuffed sopaipilla for example, I found this product unsatisfactory."

"I casually used this product to try to disperse a small band of non-violent campers who had locked their arms together. Although initially it seemed to be effective, it took two applications! The worst part is that the next day they multiplied exponentially! Now what?  One positive outcome, I did receive a paid vacation for my efforts"

"Whenever I need to breezily inflict discipline on unruly citizens, I know I can trust Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band/1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray to get the job done! The power of reason is no match for Defense Technology's superior repression power. When I reach for my can of Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band/1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray, I know that even the mighty First Amendment doesn't stand a chance against its many scovil units of civil rights suppression.  When I feel threatened by students, no matter how unarmed, peaceful and seated they may be, I know that Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band/1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray has got my back as I casually spray away at point blank range.  It really is the Cadillac of citizen repression technology.  Buy a whole case!"

  - Just three of almost 400 customer reviews for Defense Technology 56895 MK-9 Stream, 1.3% Red Band/1.3% Blue Band Pepper Spray, available for $73.92 per can from Amazon.com today!

This Black Friday, don't settle for cheap imitations available at any Wal-Mart.  Get the real thing!  

http://www.bradblog.com/Images/HappyThanksgiving_MegynKelly_FoxNews_112411.jpg

http://www.bradblog.com/Images/HappyThanksgiving_MegynKelly_FoxNews_112411.jpg

Peppered turkey? (why does that give me mental images of Hannibal Smith?)

http://i.imgur.com/LIHE4.jpg

If you click this link before Dec. 5, 2011 (Or before Nov 28, 2011), you'll see that wasn't a Photoshop, it was an actual screengrab.

Oh, wait.  I forgot to make a joke.

http://i.imgur.com/LIHE4.jpg

If you click this link before Dec. 5, 2011 (Or before Nov 28, 2011), you'll see that wasn't a Photoshop, it was an actual screengrab.

Oh, wait.  I forgot to make a joke.
if the USSR had an iron curtain, what do we have now in the US? i'd like to coin a phrase: The Gilded Curtain.

if the USSR had an iron curtain, what do we have now in the US? i'd like to coin a phrase: The Gilded Curtain.


A set of cartoons based on an essay inspired by the question "Huxley or Orwell", take your pick.

Given the choice, I prefer Brave New World's dystopia over 1984's.  Unfortunately, we don't get to choose.

Given the choice, I prefer Brave New World's dystopia over 1984's.  Unfortunately, we don't get to choose.

Is it the drugs?
Keeping the proles happy with their soma-induced euphoriia.. :)

http://www.bradblog.com/Images/HappyThanksgiving_MegynKelly_FoxNews_112411.jpg


I'm not sure if I want to know her opinion on mustard gas.

A set of cartoons based on an essay inspired by the question "Huxley or Orwell", take your pick.

Given the choice, I prefer Brave New World's dystopia over 1984's.  Unfortunately, we don't get to choose.


Epsilon and loving it!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/13/icon_thumleft.gif

Some things you only get to use once.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HjdyvPzHDvQ/TdLQQEf8nOI/AAAAAAAAwgA/o9I8kPGgly0/s1600/Santorum.jpeg

Because primary season politics is nothing to get worked into a froth about.

Some things you only get to use once.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HjdyvPzHDvQ/TdLQQEf8nOI/AAAAAAAAwgA/o9I8kPGgly0/s1600/Santorum.jpeg

Because primary season politics is nothing to get worked into a froth about.


What's your pleasure, sir?

http://www.thelastgoddess.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Rick-Santorum-Eats-a-Dick.jpg

Some things you only get to use once.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HjdyvPzHDvQ/TdLQQEf8nOI/AAAAAAAAwgA/o9I8kPGgly0/s1600/Santorum.jpeg

Because primary season politics is nothing to get worked into a froth about.

..am I the only person who saw that and thought:

..am I the only person who saw that and thought:


Probably not.  Even though the lunatics have taken over the asylum (1981, Fun Boy Three), people who aren't from North America should be excused for not knowing the pop culture definition of santorum, as coined by US columnist Dan Savage in 2003.

The more you know (1989, NBC).  

http://mylittlefacewhen.com/media/f/rsz/1401_small.jpg

Now you know.  And knowing is half the battle (G.I. Joe, Hasbro, 1985/1986.)

Probably not.  Even though the lunatics have taken over the asylum (1981, Fun Boy Three), people who aren't from North America should be excused for not knowing the pop culture definition of santorum, as coined by US columnist Dan Savage in 2003.
I remember that Fun Boy Three number coming out back then.. but that definition of "Santorum" ... well, "Savage" by name :)

Cartoon from 2010.  Story from last week.

http://www.angryflower.com/bankjo.gif

Mad shout out to Bob The Angry Flower.  Cartoonist Stephen Notley's been doing it since 1992, and shows no signs of stopping.

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-december-14-2011/lowe-s-balls-of-the-week?xrs=share_copy




Cat

This cartoon was originally penned back before the election. 

http://chawedrosin.files.wordpress.com/2009/03/one-ring.jpg

(Proof: Way back in this thread around 2008/2009, but at least preceding March 2009, which is implied by the URL above.)

Anyhoo, it's 2011, and once again, life imitates art.

This cartoon was originally penned back before the election. 

Obama as Isuldur I can see... does that mean that Bush/Sauron has not been beaten for all time, just holing up in Mirkwood until he has regained his strength?

Obama as Isuldur I can see... does that mean that Bush/Sauron has not been beaten for all time, just holing up in Mirkwood until he has regained his strength?


The thing is, it's got nothing to do with personality or party.  And everything to do with power. 

http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/epic-fail-photos-sketchy-santas-this-is-why-i-pray-to-santa.gif

Power corrupts; absolute power is... kinda neat!

The thing is, it's got nothing to do with personality or party.  And everything to do with power. 

http://failblog.files.wordpress.com/2011/12/epic-fail-photos-sketchy-santas-this-is-why-i-pray-to-santa.gif

Power corrupts; absolute power is... kinda neat!
"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"

"Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition!"


I wasn't expecting that either, but since you had to go there, our chief weapon is surprise...

I wasn't expecting that either, but since you had to go there, our chief weapon is surprise...

Surprise and a fanatical dedication to the Pope.  These are our main two weapons

PS Love the pie chart - have a feeling I've seen it once or twice before :)

I haven't been following the whole mess about the payroll tax extension closely, so did Keystone XL get its pipeline or what?  Because that's what the whole mess was really all about.

http://i.imgur.com/Dq7Hv.jpg

But I saw this and figured it was appropriate.

From what I gather the pipeline isn't on the short term tax extension so there is more time to debate it.  I'm sure it is one of the reasons Boehner was pushing so hard.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/23/rick-perry-fails-to-qualify-for-virginia-primary-ballot/


Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry Fail to Qualify for Virginia Primary Ballot
By SARAH MASLIN NIR

3:09 a.m. | Updated Newt Gingrich will not appear on the Virginia presidential primary ballot, state Republican Party officials announced Saturday, after he failed to submit the required number of valid signatures to qualify.

The announcement was made on the Virginia Republican Party’s Twitter account. On Friday evening, the Republican Party of Virginia made a similar announcement for Governor Rick Perry of Texas.

3:09 a.m. | Updated Newt Gingrich will not appear on the Virginia presidential primary ballot, state Republican Party officials announced Saturday, after he failed to submit the required number of valid signatures to qualify.


More proof that the whole thing was just a reality TV show intended to sell books and line up a spot on the pundit circuit after the campaign, and that even Newt didn't expect to be anywhere near as high in the polls at this point in time as he was. 

The only thing that could be lulzier would be if RON PAUL!1!!1! wins because the only other candidate on the ballot is Romney.

(Newt, you're not President yet, so if you go to court because you don't like the fact that the VA primary rules don't accept write-in candidates, you can't have the judges arrested when you lose the case.)

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwq1tgjPdU1r7uhfao1_500.png

And Lo, in the Seventh Decade of the Twentieth Century, St. Reagan Spoke: The Eleventh Commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."  And there were many election victories.

Fast-forwarding 45 years...

http://images.cheezburger.com/completestore/2010/12/30/06c5bd07-abe6-4ffc-bfcd-b44e62e0be32.jpg

Well, at least everybody got to sell a lot of bad ghost-written books.

And Lo, in the Seventh Decade of the Twentieth Century, St. Reagan Spoke: The Eleventh Commandment: "Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."  And there were many election victories.



Bedtime-for-Ronzo wouldn't even be allowed in the Republican party today.  He's a big government liberal!

I mean, for chrissakes, Bob Dole looks like Socrates compared to Perry, Santorum, or Romney!
http://www.inthe00s.com/smile/11/confused2.gif

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwq1tgjPdU1r7uhfao1_500.png


The "poor" part isn't exactly right.  More like "if you aren't rich", but then soon if people like him have their way there won't be any people who are in that in-between.

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lwq1tgjPdU1r7uhfao1_500.png
Oh please. This is like saying Obama hates white people because of his old church.

Oh please. This is like saying Obama hates white people because of his old church.


That's the point.

http://reason.com/assets/mc/mwelch/2011_12/RonPaul1992newsletter.jpg

I'd like to see Ron Paul do this by way of repudiating his past, but I'm betting that he won't.

It took a lot longer than it should have for Obama to repudiate Rev. Wright.  And if Ron Paul had a hope in hell of winning the nomination, it would take a lot longer than it should have to repudiate the paleocon newsletters.  Paul has no hope in hell of winning the nomination, let alone the election, and that's why the Party is letting him swing in the breeze.  He doesn't know he needs to repudiate the newsletters, and the Party is willing to let him not-repudate them.

Disclaimer:  I still think it'd be hilarious to see Paul run against Obama.  Newt-vs-Obama would be scarier, because there'd be a chance, however infinitesimal, that Newt "arrest judges who issue rulings I don't like" Gingrich would win.  At least Ron Paul's political WTF moments were 20 years ago.  Newt's were last week.

Double Disclaimer: Remember, the whole Republican primary is a reality show intended to give each contestant a moment in the sun and some book sales.  Romney will win the nomination, and will lose by a respectable 48%/52% popular vote in the general, or 320/220ish (plus or minus 30, way too early to call) in the electoral college after a boring campaign and an utterly predictable election night.

The racist newsletter spoils the plan I thought the GOP might be hatching. 

Pay Ron Paul to run as a third party.  Make the campaign about closing overseas military bases,legalizing pot, and scrapping the PATRIOT Act.  That would take enough left-libertarian votes away from Obama to ensure a Romney victory.  It's gonna be Romney regardless of what happens in Iowa next week

Feh, now that nasty newsletter flubbed it up.

Maybe Romney could invite Ben Nelson to be his veep!

Romney/Nelson campaign poster
http://www.romneyphotography.com/data/pages/110411082801_1Homepage2011FOOD22.jpg

(This is a song about vegetables, they keep ya regular
They're real good for you)

Call any vegetable Call it by name
Call one today When you get off the train
Call any vegetable And the chances are good
Aw, The vegetable will respond to you

(Some people don't go for prunes...I
don't know, I've always found that if they...)
Call any vegetable Pick up your phone
Think of a vegetable Lonely at home
Call any vegetable And the chances are good
That a vegetable will respond to you

Rutabaga, Rutabaga,
Rutabaga, Rutabaga,
Rutabay-y-y-y...

(A prune isn't really a vegetable...
CABBAGE is a vegetable...)

--- Frank Z

One of the great ironies of our time is that a board dedicated to pop culture never bothered to create a SOPA thread, because there was nothing that any of us would want to debate about it.  Because we'd all be on the same side.  So, like, what's to debate?  But I'd be remiss in my duties here if I didn't post at least one snark about it.

http://fixnowblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/internet-censorship.jpg

Except that the creator of that cartoon isn't snarking.  MPAA actually cited a paper that said, in effect, that destroying DNS would work, because it's been tried in Syria, Yemen, and China, and because very few citizens of those repressive regimes have chosen to get their DNS service from servers hosted in free countries, the Great Firewall of America would work here.

I'd also be remiss in my duties to say that for the first time in several years, we might actually win.  

It's an election year in America.  Your Representative and your Senator certainly don't want to listen to you, they know they probably have to listen to you, but you might be able to convince your representative's staff that it's in their personal interest (in terms of getting re-elected) to listen to you at least for another year or two.

Stave off the inevitable.  If you're a US citizen, I'd suggest that you call your Representative's office, call your Senator's office, and express your view on SOPA.  If you don't, by the time you cast your vote in the general election, it'll be too late.