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WHY DOES HITCHENS HATE AMERICA? “America is doomed. No one in this room will ever, in their lifetime, see calm and order and peace!” [Gawker]
THE REVELATION ACCORDING TO ST. CHRISTOPHER
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I’d say that’s about 90% wishful thinking on Hitchens’ part, and about 10% true.
Good thing Jesus is gonna suck us all up before things get too messy!
Sounds like business as usual for me and my anxiety-ridden mind.
I’m scared… hold me
This is what happens after you lick Wolfowitz’s combs. Both of them.
Does Hitchens believe in religion now?.
Fuck it, I wasn’t in that room. Let the good times roll!
Okay, so I’m stuck on this good guys bad guys stuff.
http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/29/conservatives.palin/index.html#cnnSTCVideo
A thing of beauty.
Hitch has no worries. He can always go home, where there awaits a seat in the House of Lards. [The drunk side of the aisle.]
mattbolt: I thought Jesus was just going to pull the Jesus freaks out and leave the rest of us to live in peace without their constant nagging?
“America is doomed. No one in this room will ever, in their lifetime, see calm and order and peace!”
Well, certainly not if Christopher Hitchens is going to be there.
SelfDeprecatingFed:
Sounds like a good pickup line, doesn’t it?
Him: Christopher Hitchens says none of us will know peace in our lifetimes.
Her: OMG!
Him: Will you go home with me?
Her: Yes… yes I will go home with you.
Him: Great. Get your coat, I’ll pull the car around.
Her: OK. But wait… who’s Christopher Hitchens?
Canuckledragger: He’s fully qualified to be mayor of London. And better dressed than that Boris guy.
Jebus, I had to click to Gawker and then to the Daily News to find the context he said it in (at a bar)…but then I landed this gem in the same gossip column:
Sarah Palin had a few tricks up her sleeve at the 1984 Miss Alaska pageant, according to fellow contestant Pamela Massey. “One was to put sticking plasters over our nipples to make sure we didn’t reveal too much during the swimsuit round,” Massey tells the UK’s Mail on Sunday. “The last thing you wanted in a cold Alaskan auditorium was for your modesty to be compromised. [Sarah] also used a whole can of Aqua Net hair spray. An Alaskan gale wouldn’t have moved a hair on her head.”
Dreamer: You underestimate Hitchens. I’m glad he’s an atheist though — he reminds me that our little subdemographic is at least diverse enough that it holds pompous blowhards such as himself in it. The more atheists I disagree with, the better off we’re doing.
I love it when rich people freak out and everyone starts running around like their hair is on fire. I find it seriously amusing. The market exploded into 700 billion pieces and dropped a historic amount… to basically back where it was when Clinton left.
Imo, it just makes it easier to pretend the Bush Administration was all a bad dream. Pass the kool-aid plz.
“America is doomed. No one in this room will ever, in their lifetime, see calm and order and peace!”
Um…wasn’t that the plan in the first place?
Developing a heroin addiction will thoroughly refute Hitchen’s ill-will claims.
Funny. That seems like a quote from you, Ken. Except, of course, you’re much more benevolent. Sorry!
America may be doomed, but along with it goes another bastion of free-market groupthink, the New York Sun. Where will we go now for strident neo-con news and commentary? Who will call for war protestors to be prosecuted for treason? Bill Kristol, save us!
http://gawker.com/5056575/sun-dead-for-real
President Beeblebrox:
Now the New York Times will have to renew Kristol’s contract.
President Beeblebrox: Oh hooray — that’s the best news I’ve heard since my dentist started using nitrous oxide. Can the Washington Slimes be next, please?
9/11 unhinged a lot of people for good, notably Hitchens and Dennis Miller.
SayItWithWookies: I used to think that way about leftists until I saw Michael Moore. That’s very diplomatic of you, though.
Someone please take the bottle away from this rummy.
I curse you and Gawker for inducing me to read the Daily News piece, which included the phrase “plasters over our nipples to make sure we didn’t reveal too much during the swimsuit round,” referring to Sarah Palin’s pageant tips ‘n’ tricks.
MUST. BLEACH. BRAIN.
.It’s the scotch taling. Hitchens always gets all “fuck the colonies” when he gets really hammered.
Mr. Hitchens, PJ O’Rourke called, he wants his schtick back, from 15 years ago.
You know, up until about 8 years ago, I thought that conservatives, like liberals, wanted a peaceful, free, prosperous human race and we just disagreed about how to go about it. Now I know that there really are people so evil that they want everybody else to suffer and die, because it gives them pleasure.
We will eventually achieve peace, and freedom and prosperity, when all these low-life scumbag motherfucking reptilian pieces of shit are rounded up and placed in (very humane, of course) mental institutions.
So is Chris now crazier than his brother Peter?
gurukalehuru:
Nah, most conservatives just want war, famine, disease and widespread human misery because otherwise they’d have to admit that a 15 cent rise in the minimum wage didn’t really have the catastrophic effects they were predicting.
Sussemilch: Stock market isn’t the point. It is the measured, grinding, inevitable cessation of economic activity as every bit of liquidity is squeezed out of the credit markets which are about 100 times larger and more important than the stock market.
See you in the hobo jungle. I just bought a nice Stoeger 12 guage over and under with a 20 inch barrel that is touted in the ads as being perfect for upland bird hunting or home protection. Will take deliver on a couple of pallets of Campbells soup in a few days.
Hitchens hates everyone. Why is this such a big deal?
Hitchens doesn’t hate America. He hates himself. That’s why he been trying to kill himself with booze and cigarettes for years.
Serolf Divad: I think that some conservatives–the Cheney ilk and other neocon scumsuckers–want to take a more active role in spreading war and misery. While most are simply willing to sit back and enjoy the misfortunes of others, the neocons aren’t happy unless large numbers of non-white people are being killed in their name.
gurukalehuru: Mental institutions? Try hog farms.
We’re gonna be like Haiti, but with ugly people instead.
NY Sun tried to build circulation by distributing free on the Upper East Side, and apparently they’ve expanded the campaign now to include my sorry-ass-neighborhood, where you can still buy Little Hugs and Lemonheads candy and 25-cent bags of Utz. I was so chuffed at this compliment that I started wearing a top hat I made of black oaktag.
(Sorry that was too snarky. I love my neihgborhood. And I love Utz.)
donner_froh: Ick. Your view of the future really scared me. I think the way to survive this would be to simply find a good source of the old-fashioned, victorian kind of smokable opium and just smoke ourselves to death thinking of better times.
Also my theory on how to deal with Baby Boomers (of which I am one) when we hit social security. It would save so much money, if we’re still using money by then. We may be in a barter society, I suppose.
Hitch could care less about the suffering of others. He enjoys the hell out it. He lives simply. He has no family or responsibilities beyond his basic daily needs. A pint of single malt scotch, white bread toasted on one side and cupboard stocked with canned meat.