Sensible Erection | I bet she thinks it means going to war with Britain again...

Sunday, 7 February 2010

I bet she thinks it means going to war with Britain again...

quote [ NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Sarah Palin declared "America is ready for another revolution" and repeatedly assailed President Barack Obama on Saturday before adoring "tea party" activists. They make up a seemingly natural constituency should she run for president. ]

Palin/Brown '12!

[politics] [by skoob666@6:23amGMT] [+10 WTF]

Comments

Jewbacchus said @ 6:24am GMT on 7th Feb

verycleanteeth said @ 6:34am GMT on 7th Feb [Score:2 Underrated]
If you need more proof Palin doesn't get it...

I actually don't, thanks.

skoob666 said @ 6:35am GMT on 7th Feb
You could have just not posted anything you know.

Naruki said @ 8:29am GMT on 7th Feb
Back at ya.

spite48 said @ 4:04pm GMT on 7th Feb
You too.

Naruki said @ 2:24am GMT on 8th Feb
No, but you.

tronsgit said @ 6:36am GMT on 7th Feb
A mere year after monumental failures by Republicans which led to the country almost being destroyed - before we've even had time to fix what was broken - it's time to go back to Republicanism? Durrrr, OK!

Krutz said @ 6:41am GMT on 7th Feb
Yeah, the whole "Tea Party" thing, if it were truly about government overstepping its bounds and spending too much, should have come about around 6-8 years ago.

Makes ya wonder why they started up the second there wasn't a guy with an (R) after his name in the White House...

verycleanteeth said @ 7:40am GMT on 7th Feb
Same reason there aren't anti war demonstrations under a Democratic administration even though we're at war.

willrogers said @ 7:48am GMT on 7th Feb
Good point, but I wouldn't be surprised if it had something to do with people worrying about losing their jobs so they don't really have the luxury of attending a protest.

sua_sponte said @ 6:59pm GMT on 7th Feb [Score:2 Insightful]
Actually I'll give you a hint why the teabaggers are all up in arms now. Ready?

The President is a Negro.

Clear now?

ahPook said @ 8:34am GMT on 8th Feb
Great, that's settled. Now what about Johnny Mathis?

papango said @ 8:47am GMT on 8th Feb
No, no, he's not a negro. Negros are black people.

the circus said @ 2:36pm GMT on 7th Feb [Score:1 Insightful]
I remember peace protests when Clinton sent troops to aid the UN when Yugoslavia was doing it's melt down.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 7:47pm GMT on 7th Feb
I was young at the time so my memory's a little foggy, but I'm pretty sure that my parents and I continued going to fairly regular protests against the bombing of Iraq during both the Bush Sr. and Clinton administrations.

Jewbacchus said @ 12:53am GMT on 8th Feb
That's just not true.

Naruki said @ 3:08am GMT on 8th Feb
Whoa whoa whoa. Don't go making "being honest" part of the rules of public discourse or you'll cut off 99.9% of Conservative arguments. That's censorship, that is.

verycleanteeth said @ 6:04am GMT on 8th Feb
Where are these anti war protests?

Am I being referred to as a conservative? :O

Naruki said @ 7:29am GMT on 8th Feb
Where are these anti war protests?

Apples to Oranges, eh? The previous guy started two wars of exponentially increasing unpopularity and illegality. The outrage was high, but 8 years of being completely ignored has necessarily sapped the will, and letting the economy collapse has sapped the ability, to protest. But they still do a bit.

You are implying that Bush starting wars is completely the same as Obama not finishing them in the minds of these protestors who, you assert, don't actually exist. I believe the burden of proof is on you here to show they don't exist.

But if you can point to fresh new wars started by the new guy and then a demonstrable lack of protest, I'll be more than happy to concede your point in that case.

Am I being referred to as a conservative?

No idea about you, and I wasn't referring to your argument, although it certainly would fit the mold. I was making a general statement about Conservative arguments.

verycleanteeth said @ 7:50am GMT on 8th Feb
My point was more that right or left, people ease up on the guy in office if he leans in their direction politically. Republicans didn't fuss when Bush spent us into a hole because, what were they gonna do? Vote for a Democrat?

Naruki said @ 8:01am GMT on 8th Feb
Yeah, but while I agree with your point in principle, I think the example you chose is not valid.

I think the seeming lack of protests are caused by a lot more factors than simply "our guy is in the White House".

revchoppy said @ 11:44pm GMT on 8th Feb
there are peace protests in my hometown every single Saturday when the weather is good. Have been since 2003.

Naruki said @ 3:17am GMT on 9th Feb
Bells ringing... name familiar... but can't quite remember...

Shirobake said @ 7:23am GMT on 7th Feb
Congratulations- you've just discovered people have short attention sp- hey, look at those boobs!

tiemy said @ 7:31am GMT on 7th Feb
I don't think anyone should be surprised that opposition swings back behind the other party in a country where independent voices are marginalized and completely shut out of official discourse.

willrogers said @ 7:46am GMT on 7th Feb [Score:1 Funny]
We get it already, anyone to the right of you is an evil fascist.

Shirobake said @ 7:54am GMT on 7th Feb
To be fair, I'm quasi-libertarian, and I agree with him.

zkhan said @ 8:52am GMT on 7th Feb
I would pay 5 dollars to see her naked.

cb361 said @ 10:41am GMT on 7th Feb
You'll have to talk to her agent.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 7:47pm GMT on 7th Feb
Good luck with that; apparently it costs $100,000 to see her clothed.

quaint said @ 10:45pm GMT on 8th Feb
If her clothes cost $99,995 then we're on to a winner!

Krutz said @ 10:13pm GMT on 7th Feb
The trouble is I often see you defending as "official discourse" someone shouting down a speaker as a nazi, communist, etc. as being something resembling debate.

Who, exactly, are you saying is being excluded and how? If you mean "free speech zones," that's one thing. If you mean "sending someone to where someone is to speak and answer questions and make such an activity impossible," then I don't think it's free speech you're defending.

tiemy said @ 5:13am GMT on 8th Feb
I think you've got me mixed up with someone else on that first point.

On the second, I'm referring to the near total exclusion of third party, independent views in media coverage, political debates, elections and the like. This country is ruled as a two-party dictatorship - and both right-wing parties share overwhelmingly fundamentally identical policies - and they want to keep it that way.

Krutz said @ 6:39am GMT on 7th Feb
The extent that she let Todd Palin get involved in her governorship is enough reason to question her leadership potential.

That and the whole quitting halfway through her term, the raging idiocy of her resignation speech (among others), the gaffes revealing that "knowin' stuff" is just some liberal elitist thing...

foobar said @ 6:42am GMT on 7th Feb [Score:4 Insightful]
Dear Mrs. Palin,

Please run in 2012 with our blessing.

Sincerely,

The Democrats

bbqkink said @ 6:52am GMT on 7th Feb
This has nothing to do with politics ..It's all about Sara's bank account and ego. It has been ever since she quit in Alaska. Stay famous get rich.

mrcucumber said @ 3:06pm GMT on 7th Feb
I agree. Her days of public service are over. Or to be more accurate, her days of pretending public service are over. She will try her best to be a fixture as a right wing pundit in mainstream media.

Isn't America great?

sanepride said @ 4:22pm GMT on 7th Feb
That's what they said about Nixon in '62.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 7:48pm GMT on 7th Feb
You won't have Sarah Palin to kick around anymore.

mrcucumber said @ 8:14pm GMT on 7th Feb
Does she own a small dog by chance?

mrcucumber said @ 8:13pm GMT on 7th Feb
I wouldn't exactly put sarah palin and richard nixon in the same catagory. .....And there's almost 50 years separating them.

sanepride said @ 10:34pm GMT on 7th Feb
Just sayin' it's a little early to say her days of public service are over. Although I guess it's questionable how much actual public service she's really done so far.

maryyugo said @ 1:59am GMT on 8th Feb
First, she did a major public service. She greatly assisted Obama in getting elected. What's scary now is how many of my conservative acquaintances like her, buy her book and justify her totally ridiculous $300,000 fee for ONE 45 minute bland and idiotic speech.

mrcucumber said @ 12:14pm GMT on 8th Feb
Yeah, ok. True, she might actually try to run again. I think she knows she too right wing to be taken seriously, so therefore the career change. That's also why I said pretending public service.......

lilmookieesquire said @ 7:02am GMT on 7th Feb
Objection!

Character assassination!

(Hi feds, I meant, you know, like making the US look bad, not like killing anyone. Let me know if you have any cushy job openings <3 Mookie)

tiemy said @ 7:27am GMT on 7th Feb [Score:2 Insightful]
Right - because the Democrats have proven their overwhelming political dominance of the far right.

If present day reality is any indicator, the Democrats would be cowering before Palin, begging her not to hate them so much and implementing the bulk of her policies. They'd then turn around and scold the great bulk of the population that didn't vote for her or the Republicans about the need for bipartisanship and cooperation.

DirtyBirdy said @ 3:13pm GMT on 7th Feb
Dear Mrs. Palin,

Please take 23% of the upcoming presidential vote with out compliments. They won't be people who would have voted for us anyway. The Republican candidate will loooove that.

Your Pal,

The Democrats

ComposerNate said @ 5:54pm GMT on 7th Feb
She doesn't deserve the podium, airtime, consideration or financial investment. If she is somehow the best Republicans can offer, they should step back an election and use those resources to instead find a qualified candidate.

maryyugo said @ 2:04am GMT on 8th Feb
You don't get it. She appeals to dummies who can't think well and don't know anything complicated. And that is a staggering number of people.

ComposerNate said @ 2:35am GMT on 8th Feb
I said nothing of her electability, disregarding only her qualifications to govern. There should be more to a political party than winning elections, as you know, and any party which gives her even slight credence does not.

maryyugo said @ 6:29am GMT on 8th Feb
"Should" never gets anyone anything in politics.

sacrelicious said @ 6:48am GMT on 7th Feb [Score:4 Funny]
wait sec, let's hear her out: if they start a revolution we get to shoot them legally.

and even get paid for it.

incpenners said @ 7:06am GMT on 7th Feb [Score:-5 WTF]
I'd like to see you with a gun...

skoob666 said @ 7:07am GMT on 7th Feb
I can lend you guys some.

damnit said @ 7:32am GMT on 7th Feb [Score:2 Funny]
... and my bow.

Supreme_Coconut said @ 12:40pm GMT on 7th Feb [Score:2 Funny]
And my axe!

Naruki said @ 1:04pm GMT on 7th Feb [Score:1 Interesting]
I have a wooden sword.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 7:49pm GMT on 7th Feb
I'll see your wooden sword and raise you one.

Naruki said @ 2:27am GMT on 8th Feb
My wooden staff is longer. In the right hands it's deadly. Wanna get your hands on my wood?

Barnabas_Truman said @ 2:53am GMT on 8th Feb
My staff's about six feet tall, and probably imbued with at least a +1 bonus by now from me carrying it with me everywhere I went for a couple of years due to an injured knee.

Naruki said @ 3:02am GMT on 8th Feb
Oh, I was only comparing my staff to my sword. Not trying to win a staff contest.

I'm sure many here would be willing to admire your staff if you were to post pics of it.

BTW, how far can your staff pee?

Barnabas_Truman said @ 4:53am GMT on 8th Feb [Score:2]

CapnSilver said @ 1:23pm GMT on 7th Feb [Score:1]
This is another example of not knowing when to quit a joke.

It was funnier without your comment because everyone adds "and my axe" in their head.
I wish more people would understand that the unspoken part of a joke is more often than not the best part.

Naruki said @ 1:37pm GMT on 7th Feb
Is "and my axe" a reference of some kind? Otherwise, it's not something anyone would add. If it is, I've never heard it, so his comment was A-Okay to me.

... and my axe.

Ankylosaur said @ 1:41pm GMT on 7th Feb
The axe is his penis.

Mr. Langosta said @ 1:45pm GMT on 7th Feb
The hammer is her vagina.

max_damage78 said @ 2:08pm GMT on 7th Feb
I tried to see her vagina and got maced.

zenviper said @ 5:50pm GMT on 7th Feb
Like Zorro.

sua_sponte said @ 6:57pm GMT on 7th Feb
Hell, let's all gang-fuck her to death.

CapnSilver said @ 1:47pm GMT on 7th Feb [Score:1 Informative]
Really?
It's lord of the rings.

Aragorn: If by my life or death I can protect you, I will. You have my sword...
Legolas: ...and you have my bow...
Gimli: ...and my axe.
Boromir: You carry the fate of us all, little one. If this is indeed the will of the Council, then Gondor will see it done.

the circus said @ 2:51pm GMT on 7th Feb [Score:5 Funny]
Dorothy: I will take the Ruby Slippers to the Emerald City. Though-- I do not know the way.
Glinda the Good Witch: It's always best to start at the beginning -- and all you do is follow the Yellow Brick Road.
Scarecrow: If by my life or death, I can protect you, I will. You have my straw.
Cowardly Lion: And you have my fur.
Tin Man : And my axe!

mwoody said @ 5:03pm GMT on 7th Feb
Meanwhile, I figured it was a somewhat mangled reference to Army of Darkness.

mego said @ 10:48am GMT on 8th Feb
shteel.

PontifexPrimus said @ 5:37pm GMT on 7th Feb
Come on, it's clearly a reference to Jurassic Park IV: Attack of the Sharktopus, the cave scene:

Malcolm's Clone: We will need to get through that passage!
Lex Murphy: But the flying piranhadons will tear us to shreds!
Dr. Grant (over the comlink): No, no! They hunt based on scent. We will need one of you to cover up the human scent with whatever deodorants you have handy!
Malcolm's clone: I will go.
Lex: I have a half-full Dove, if that helps...
Tim: I, I just hope you'll make it - you can take this Aramis!
Dr. Sattler: And my Axe!

Naruki said @ 2:26am GMT on 8th Feb
Thanks. While I've seen the movie and read the books, I don't recall that bit of dialogue very well.

EPT said @ 1:47pm GMT on 7th Feb
Council of Elrond in Lord of the Rings.

"I'm going to nasty-town, any takers?"
=> "You have my bow!"
=> "And my axe!"

Chop-Logik said @ 4:42pm GMT on 7th Feb
I agree with you that the joke implied is often the best, but I would like to remind you that you are not everyone- just because you would've added 'and my axe' doesn't mean others will, and that everybody is aware of the reference.

CapnSilver said @ 10:05pm GMT on 7th Feb
Anyone who doesn't know the reference to lord of the rings won't understand the joke no matter how it is presented.

Naruki said @ 3:04am GMT on 8th Feb
Not in the context of it being a reference to Lord of the Rings. But they will understand it as a regular joking thread, of the sort we often get up to here on SE.

Which is exactly what happened here.

EPT said @ 10:59pm GMT on 7th Feb [Score:2 Insightful]
It's a fundamental difference between British and American humour, and by British I mean 'everywhere anglo that isn't the USA'. I don't really know why, but US humour seems to have to point out the punchlines for every joke and understated humour is either not understood or generally discouraged. It's a staple where I am, though it has been affected by the torrent of cheap US sitcoms.

My prime example of yanking the punchline out to needlessly display for all was in an episode of Friends. One of the characters is bitching about the high price of books and says "If only there was a place where you could borrow a book to read and return it when you're finished for the next person". Cue 'that look' from another character. Right, joke over. Not great, but it's done. Everyone's got the joke, time to move on. Nope, other character has to say "There is, it's called a library". US comedy is replete with this kind of shit.

One of the things that made jaxtraw so popular here was his long diatribes that seemed to be serious and insightful but were blazingly obvious in their snide, mocking abuse if you were used to that kind of humour.

There's a lot of talented funny in the US, but understatement and implication is a definite weakness.

Jewbacchus said @ 1:02am GMT on 8th Feb [Score:1 Insightful]
This is dumb.

EPT said @ 4:31am GMT on 8th Feb
Forest for the trees, eh?

Naruki said @ 3:06am GMT on 8th Feb
Funny, one of the things that made jaxtraw unpopular here was his long diatribes that seemed to be serious and uninsightful but were.

Other than that, he was a decent bloke, but christ don't get him started on train rape.

EPT said @ 4:30am GMT on 8th Feb
Jaxtraw has us both well beaten for karma, so it's pretty fair to say he was popular.

Naruki said @ 5:44am GMT on 8th Feb
Jaxtraw was very unpopular when he was off on a rant.

Like I said, other than that he was a decent bloke.

lost said @ 6:57pm GMT on 7th Feb [Score:1 Insightful]
I did not get the joke until he said "and my axe".

Lord of the Barnyard said @ 12:18am GMT on 8th Feb
I was unaware I was missing out on this minimeme. Thank you for my edumucation.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 1:12am GMT on 8th Feb
One does not simply minimeme into Mordor!

Naruki said @ 3:07am GMT on 8th Feb
Frickin lasers!

King of the Hill said @ 4:51am GMT on 8th Feb [Score:-5 Troll]
No... You won't... He means to have the gov't do it for him like everything else the gov't does for him.

TheFurnace said @ 1:20pm GMT on 7th Feb
Yeah, my only problem with the idea is that I'm a terrible shot.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 7:53pm GMT on 7th Feb
I have heard that in many battles a rather large percentage of soldiers on the front lines simply don't fire at all, and of those that do, a rather large percentage deliberately miss. If this is true I find what it suggests about human nature to be reassuring; however, I would find it more reassuring if we just didn't send them onto the battlefield at all. We'd save a lot of money that way.

ComposerNate said @ 8:05pm GMT on 7th Feb
The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)
You just summed up the premise.

Aidentas said @ 8:50pm GMT on 7th Feb
...Thanks. I was looking forward to watching that on DVD.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 9:29pm GMT on 7th Feb
Interesting. Other than a few mentions of the title, I'd never heard of the movie. The topic of not firing, or firing to miss, in combat came up in a conversation with my cousin about psychopathy and empathy (she's a nurse in a criminal psych ward).

kimbo said @ 4:17am GMT on 8th Feb
On Killing

Poorly written, but deals with the same thing...

(memory is a bit hazy - will summarise vaguely)

Up to WW2, soldiers often did not shoot to kill - a disproportionate amount of killing is done by certain 'natural killers', and by those in artillery battalions etc, who do not see their enemies face-to-face.

After WW2, training took this into account, and changed to emphasise human killing - to the extent that 'non-fire' rates for US service-people are now extremely low.

(as an interesting aside, during the falklands, many UK soldiers reported that the Argentinians would often hesitate/ not fire during confrontations... a problem the British lacked... This was thought to be the result of professional soldiers' training vs conscripts' humanity)

maryyugo said @ 2:04am GMT on 8th Feb
"I have heard that in many battles a rather large percentage of soldiers on the front lines simply don't fire at all..."

Silliness. I've talked to many people who've been in combat. They had no hesitation whatever to fire back once they had been fired upon or otherwise "engaged" and believed their lives to be at risk.

Naruki said @ 3:49am GMT on 8th Feb
While I tend to agree with you, I did find at least one reference to that idea here.

Khafra said @ 3:38am GMT on 8th Feb
You heard it from someone talking about Dave Grossman's book [On Killing](http://www.amazon.com/Killing-Psychological-Cost-Learning-Society/dp/0316330116). Mary's dismissal is chronologically correct: After WWII, armies learned about the problem of humane soldiers, and changed their training regimen to address the problem; since the Vietnam War, the rate of well-aimed fire has increased dramatically. Whoopee.

Khafra said @ 4:23am GMT on 8th Feb
Well, shit. Looks like I've been using Markdown for too long.

a.talisan said @ 6:50am GMT on 7th Feb [Score:1 Underrated]
There's just no reason to elaborate on the many and varied reasons I hate that woman.

incpenners said @ 7:07am GMT on 7th Feb [Score:-1 Troll]
Please. Take as much space as you need...

foobar said @ 7:22am GMT on 7th Feb [Score:3 Funny]
Bend over, I'll show you how much space I need.

willrogers said @ 8:10am GMT on 7th Feb [Score:5 Insightful]
How about how she is an idiot that champions and encourages ignorance? Like not knowing that Africa was a continent, not a country? Or why there are two Koreas? Or which countries are in NAFTA?

How about how she promoted the demonstrably false idea that there were death panels in any of the healthcare reform legislation? Not to mention how she and others purposely ignore how we already have death panels in our private health insurance companies.

How about how she is so incompetent that she can't even string together a coherent sentence? Just watch the video of her Gubernatorial resignation speech. Compare it to Obama's responses at the Republican retreat right after his recent State of the Union address.

How about how she has no actual plans or ideas and just spouts far-right platitudes?

How about how her governorship of Alaska was rife with corruption, from using her position as a weapon against her former brother-in-law to rigging the bid for the pipeline?

How about her exploring how she could get books banned at the Wasilla library?

How about her resigning over 18 months before her first term as governor is over?

How about her membership in a secessionist group in Alaska?

How about her insults to Americans that happen to live in a big city or on the coasts? I guess New Yorkers were real Americans on 9/11 but not anymore.

How about her opposition to same-sex marriage?

How about how she is too much of an idiot and ideologue to realize that she is a hypocrite for chastising Obama for deficit spending. The greatest amounts of national debt increases were during the Republican presidencies of George W Bush and Ronald Reagan. Under her standard, both of those guys was more "immoral" than Obama.

How about how she is too stupid to realize that her idol Ronald Reagan massively expanded the federal government with measures like the War on Drugs? Yeah, that's smaller government for you.

Sarah Palin is awful for these and myriad other reasons and doesn't deserve to be the leader of anything.

a.talisan said @ 8:25am GMT on 7th Feb
Whoa - you beat me to it. But yes.

+1 THIS! THIS IS WHY!

ahPook said @ 11:21am GMT on 7th Feb [Score:2]
How about how she was Pro-Life and then defended her daughter's right to make an abortion decision. And then continues to be Pro-Life after that.

Naruki said @ 1:39pm GMT on 7th Feb
How about don't feed the troll? You made a great comment, but the paid GOP shill incpenners has no interest in your valid arguments. His agenda is crystal clear, and "being correct" has nothing to do with it. He's all about "being Right".

maryyugo said @ 2:02am GMT on 8th Feb
"but the paid GOP shill incpenners"

Wow. I'd love to get paid for shilling. If they pay well, I can do an equally good job for either side. How exactly do I arrange that? Can I get cashed in unmarked bills?

Naruki said @ 2:23am GMT on 8th Feb
You'll have to ask him.

maryyugo said @ 6:30am GMT on 8th Feb
Hey, it was your allegation. I naturally assumed you had all the precise and unimpeachable facts.

Naruki said @ 6:45am GMT on 8th Feb
No, it is not my allegation. He said he was. It is his allegation.

If you want to question it, ask him.

symmetrian said @ 5:16pm GMT on 8th Feb
incpenners has admitted to being paid to spread GOP bullshit.

ComposerNate said @ 5:35pm GMT on 8th Feb

proppat said @ 12:45pm GMT on 7th Feb [Score:2 Funny]
I was just thinking she was a cunt, but those work too.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 7:56pm GMT on 7th Feb
The greatest amounts of national debt increases were during the Republican presidencies of George W Bush and Ronald Reagan.

That concept involves math. Good luck getting mainstream America to understand it.

Now that I think of it, I bet mathematics is liberally biased.

damnit said @ 8:46pm GMT on 7th Feb
Dems: 1 + 1 = 2
Reps: 1 + 1 = Commies

maryyugo said @ 2:08am GMT on 8th Feb
I'm pretty sure that's true as is the determination that the Clinton administration reduced the deficit and the debt. But that's all hard to prove in part because the statistics are rubbery and more important, there is a huge time lag before the results are known. Equally scary is the lag before Supreme Court consequences are known. We live in frightening times.

NickelJoe said @ 6:51am GMT on 7th Feb [Score:1 Interesting]
My grandmother thinks that blacks shouldn't mix with whites, people who didn't support Bush are disgusting, and that Foxnews is the only television channel that doesn't lie to it's viewers. She is the ultimate conservative mark and yet even she thinks Palin is a complete idiot.

lilmookieesquire said @ 7:00am GMT on 7th Feb
I was going to make a "broken lock" analogy, but I don't think this is the right time.

sacrelicious said @ 7:04am GMT on 7th Feb [Score:1 Insightful]
even a broken lock is right twice a day?

very strange analogy.

lilmookieesquire said @ 7:19am GMT on 7th Feb
you remember learning about imaginary numbers? Well that's an invisible C.

ok?

(you "see" what I did there?)

:D

Shirobake said @ 8:24am GMT on 7th Feb
Also, the 'l' is silent.

lilmookieesquire said @ 9:16am GMT on 7th Feb [Score:1 Funny]
L is the new C!

lilmookieesquire said @ 2:47pm GMT on 7th Feb
Wow. I thought someone was giving me a horrible joke sympathy upmod, but given the HN, I think you meant it. You must have been waiting for a comment like that for ages!

DarkShadowRavenDragonGrrl69 said @ 8:24am GMT on 7th Feb
Did you ever consider choking her in her sleep? You'd do the rest of us a big favour.

swiggy said @ 7:02am GMT on 7th Feb
Okay, so factoring in the time between the inauguration, and the time it will take to completely assfuck international relations to the point of a nuclear exchange, we've got a little less than three years. So here's the plan:

I and a few others will start saving/investing to the point where we can purchase one of those abandoned missile silos and refurbish it to the point where it can house a genetically sustainable-sized population, and we gather the intellectual elite and hole up in there while the inevitable "Obama didn't fix magically fix everything immediately after election" backlash kicks in and this fucking retard runs, wins, and takes office, then promptly destroys human civilization.

Who's with me?

willrogers said @ 7:44am GMT on 7th Feb [Score:2 Funny]
I'm in, but let's make sure we have two water chips and a G.E.C.K. this time.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 7:58pm GMT on 7th Feb
Can't say I've heard of it. You might try asking the Water Merchants in the Hub, though. Here, let me mark its location on your Pip-Boy.

tronsgit said @ 7:04am GMT on 7th Feb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtcVMTZkTZQ

tronsgit said @ 7:05am GMT on 7th Feb [Score:3 Funny]

sanepride said @ 7:47am GMT on 7th Feb [Score:1 Interesting]
I was more interested in the upskirt.

Ankylosaur said @ 11:40am GMT on 7th Feb
At least she isn't using a teleprompter like some elitist, Harvard-educated Socialist.

Remember:

Charismatic guys with teleprompters = TYRANNICAL STALINISM

Charismatic gals with notes scribbled on their hands = God-loving, truck-driving, REAL AMERICA

lilmookieesquire said @ 7:20am GMT on 7th Feb
I think Palin and Gore need to have a hate-baby!

Nihil said @ 3:27pm GMT on 7th Feb

Krutz said @ 4:21pm GMT on 7th Feb
I would have predicted a line about "drill, baby, drill."

sanepride said @ 7:11pm GMT on 7th Feb
Is that supposed to be Bill Clinton? If so it's not a very good caricature. And how come the baby looks like Ron Paul?

hippoh said @ 7:31am GMT on 7th Feb [Score:2 Funny]

sanepride said @ 7:32am GMT on 7th Feb
Oh she gets it all right.

skoob666 said @ 8:30am GMT on 7th Feb
Fine I guess I'll fix the title.

willrogers said @ 8:16am GMT on 7th Feb
I'm really curious why people keep claiming that the losses in New Jersey and Massachusetts are somehow Obama's fault and/or that they are referenda on his presidency,

The people of New Jersey fucking hated Corzine and it's not a big surprise that he was voted out of office.

With Massachusetts, Coakley was such a laughably awful and uncharismatic candidate that it's was quite predictable that empty-suit Brown ("I drive a truck!") won.

Nothing was going to save Corzine or Coakley.

sacrelicious said @ 9:01am GMT on 7th Feb
the well trodden metaphor of "reading the tea leaves" says it all.

right down to the part about the tea leaves not actually meaning anything but that meaning which the mystic imposes on them.

willrogers said @ 9:20am GMT on 7th Feb
That's pretty much true of every religious practitioner that claims to know what the future holds, what God(s) want, etc.

Everybody kind of has a confirmation bias, we all want validation for what we already do, believe, and cherish.

That said, I feel like Brown is kind of like a male Sarah Palin from all the "I drive a truck" stuff.

maryyugo said @ 2:06am GMT on 8th Feb
I've only seen a few interviews of Brown but from what I saw his performance is order of magnitude above Palin's. He comes over as reasonably well read and educated, smooth and very confident. He's also to the middle of radically right wind Repubs.

Palin comes over as a completely inarticulate moron that would have made Bush look good.

willrogers said @ 2:24am GMT on 8th Feb
I'll give you that he seems to at least be somewhat independently minded and critical thinking unlike Palin.

I guess what pisses me off is that a huge portion of his campaign was basically as him as the "truck driving everyman" rather than any substantial policy positions or changes he would support.

I saw several interviews with him where he was asked what he would have done different from his fellow Republicans in Congress and he just deflected the issue by saying he "didn't want to dwell on the past."

monkeytooth said @ 8:20am GMT on 7th Feb [Score:1 Funny]
the most deeply disturbing thing to me was "Her fee was $100,000 for the appearance at the for-profit event."

wow.

willrogers said @ 8:46am GMT on 7th Feb
She says she's "giving it back to "the cause," but she's also speaking at many other tea party events in the coming weeks.

It remains to be seen if she gets paid for those appearances and what she does with that money.

My theory is that it was a token gesture to give the speaking fee back to the "movement" so she could divert attention away from the huge fees she'll get at her future speaking engagements.

We've already seen how she spends money on clothes.

Quenadian said @ 9:36am GMT on 7th Feb
You know who I feel bad for? Michael Palin. Because I used to associate that surname with fond memories of Monty Python, before this ass-clown came along.

conga said @ 10:18am GMT on 7th Feb
Sadly, Michael is no longer the funniest Palin.

verycleanteeth said @ 11:56am GMT on 7th Feb
Eric Idle is the funniest Palin.

cb361 said @ 12:37pm GMT on 7th Feb
I bet she thinks it means going to war with Britain again

She wants to steal all our teabags?

metternich said @ 12:54pm GMT on 7th Feb
"up next on Fox News . . . we go to the Tea Party event where a woman in a Scooby Doo TShirt says something racist"

ComposerNate said @ 1:48pm GMT on 7th Feb

Ankylosaur said @ 2:54pm GMT on 7th Feb [Score:5 Insightful]

Barnabas_Truman said @ 8:03pm GMT on 7th Feb
Right-justified text? Bad form, old chap.

EPT said @ 10:46pm GMT on 7th Feb
Copying the original. Curiously the image is of higher quality...

quaint said @ 10:53pm GMT on 8th Feb
Is Mr Whiskers Geordie Laforge?

Ankylosaur said @ 5:40am GMT on 9th Feb
Mr. Whiskers can be anyone you want him to be... for a price.

ComposerNate said @ 7:02pm GMT on 7th Feb
Panel selected from this strip:
http://popstrip.com/rate/

hackiavelli said @ 2:53pm GMT on 7th Feb [Score:2]
Palin 2012-2014!

f00m@nB@r said @ 2:59pm GMT on 7th Feb

DarkShadowRavenDragonGrrl69 said @ 3:04pm GMT on 7th Feb
I want that.

What? No, I don't have any children.

sua_sponte said @ 7:01pm GMT on 7th Feb
Want some?

cb361 said @ 8:45pm GMT on 7th Feb
pssst! The latest shipment of children got caught up in customs in Haiti.

graham said @ 5:28pm GMT on 7th Feb
As a Canadian that is less and less interested in this stuff (and far too lazy to research and google it), what in the hell is this Tea Party stuff? I mean, great band and all, a little Indian influenced which is nice, but I thought they broke up years ago?

Seriously though. Tea party? Wha?

sua_sponte said @ 7:02pm GMT on 7th Feb
It's a bunch of stupid, angry white people who are all upset because the President is a Negro, but they can't come out and say that openly so they invent other shit to complain about.

ComposerNate said @ 7:08pm GMT on 7th Feb
We all knew there'd be racial backlash upon hiring Obama, something beyond the quadrupled death threats. Still, my nieces are growing up in a world where a black intellectual President is commonplace while his skin color is fortunately hardly discussed openly.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 8:06pm GMT on 7th Feb
broad conservative principles like lower taxes and a strong national defense

Do "conservatives" genuinely not understand that these are inconsistent goals? Do they not realize that massive government projects do not work without funding, and that funding needs to come from somewhere?

Frankly I'd be happy to pay high taxes if it were going to useful causes like schools, public transit, healthcare, clean energy research, etc. Military spending is a huge money sink. Also a resource sink, a time sink, and a life sink at that.

f00m@nB@r said @ 9:37pm GMT on 7th Feb
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/02/classroom_confrontation_on_por.html

agent provocateur?

Jewbacchus said @ 1:05am GMT on 8th Feb

Naruki said @ 3:11am GMT on 8th Feb
Not particularly SFW there.

maryyugo said @ 9:46pm GMT on 7th Feb
I heard on the news that Palin advocated that Obama should declare war on Iran. That true?

sanepride said @ 10:40pm GMT on 7th Feb
Not exactly. She suggested that Obama might play the 'war card', i.e. declare war on Iran in order to boost his popularity and get re-elected.

cb361 said @ 11:25pm GMT on 7th Feb
If only there were a dosage at which irony was fatal.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 11:50pm GMT on 7th Feb [Score:5 Funny]
There is; it's called a library.

Naruki said @ 4:27am GMT on 8th Feb
Ha ha, and my axe!

CapnSilver said @ 6:11am GMT on 8th Feb
Remember when you had a big song and dance because you thought I was revenge modding you, but I tried to explain you just didn't know when to let a joke go and thought it was much funnier before your addition?

Yeah.

Naruki said @ 7:30am GMT on 8th Feb
No, I tend to forget minor dickishness on your part. But if you want to remind me, a link works wonders.

skoob666 said @ 7:40am GMT on 8th Feb
If anyone has been a dick in this whole thread Naruki, it's you.

skoob666 said @ 7:42am GMT on 8th Feb
I didn't expect this minor article to stir up the shit storm it did. Congrats SE, you're fucking awesome.

* (The Asshole FKA Morris) said @ 9:23pm GMT on 8th Feb
I used to have fantasies about Hillary Clinton.

cb361 said @ 9:39pm GMT on 8th Feb
Ask SE : What was your most retrospectively embarrassing masturbatory fantasy.

I once jerked off to a picture of Vanessa Feltz. In my defence, I can only claim that this was before the internet, I had just moved into a new place and didn't have any other material, and she was wearing a very low top.

Silent said @ 10:26pm GMT on 8th Feb
I once imagined what Sarah Palin would be like in bed, then she opened her mouth.

cb361 said @ 10:50pm GMT on 8th Feb
That one doesn't count - we've all had that one, even the girls.

Barnabas_Truman said @ 1:26am GMT on 9th Feb
EvenTheGirlsWantHer?

cb361 said @ 7:27am GMT on 9th Feb
No! No! I need to work, you can't suck me into tvtropes!

ComposerNate said @ 2:18am GMT on 9th Feb
I was pants-bothered by Theresa Heinz Kerry, when she spoke during the 2004 presidential election.

ComposerNate said @ 2:19am GMT on 9th Feb

EPT said @ 8:59am GMT on 9th Feb
voting for the incumbent

ZING!