Wonkette
PRELUDE TO THE APOCALYPSE: Ha ha, your editor told New York magazine how he would have a quiet vacation after the election, “far from any possible action” in Santa Barbara, and right now there’s a flag-waving fatigues-clad lunatic with a gun holding the entire 101 freeway hostage, in Santa Barbara. Jesus fucking christ. [KNX via Nurple]
Is this Joe the Gun-wielding Lunatic? Cause I think that’s a McCain campaign surrogate.
Please, as a favor to your fellow citizens, please announce travel plans to only foreign nations in future. Preferably somewhere that is already screwed up enough that you can’t make it any worse. You know. Like France.
Do we know the whereabouts of the good doctor-congressman?
Does anyone know where Ashley Todd is?
Congratulations Sarah Palin! Your paranoid scare tactics are making “the Base” go apeshit.
…which is about three miles away from where I sit at present. I missed him by about five minutes coming in to work. …’liberal Southern California’ my oversized mixed-race queer ASS.
Hey! No Early Birds for Christ’s sake!!
OK, looks like some of the lunatics wanted to get an early start on the new civil war.
Ken, you should know better than to try to take a “vacation” in Santa Barbara. Palm Springs? Sure. Big Sur? Absolutely. Santa Barbara? Ick.
Hopefully a loaded semi that’s in the tank will be driving through presently.
Santa Barbera? That’s not real Amurrikuh.
You didn’t think you’d get away from us that easily did you, Ken?
Good thing that repeating “Muslim” and “terrorist” over and over had no ill effects on some of the PTSD sufferers among us.
whoneedslight: Gunman. …oh wait
It’s ok, he won’t be prosecuted, just like the wackos with their hilarious assassination plot.
Of course, California has that law where you have to stop for jaywalkers. So they’re all sitting helplessly in traffic while they could just be running this idiot over and getting on with their morning commute.
dano: The Base- isn’t that englsih for “Al Qaeda”?
Hahaha I used to live down their. I hope the gunmen gets away.
frumious_bandersnatch:
Hey, gotta few minutes to spare? Maybe run over and talk some sense into this dumbfuck. Tell’em to please, just put the gun to his head and pull the trigger.
jagorev: Brother Joe McCain maybe? He has the hots for 911.
A flag? Check.
A gun? Check.
And if he has a King James Bible tucked into his belt, it will be a conservative base trifecta.
Ten Seconds, MacGruber!
Why is this different from the normal state of Santa Barbara?
We have been repeatedly told that only blacks will riot and then if only Obama loses. This is clearly a white man who doesn’t have a truck full of fertilizer. What gives, media? Were you wrong on the upcoming race war? Was the bunker I built unnecessary?
http://thesebastards.blogspot.com/
We reap what Dubya sows. Sorry, nothing funny about this. But we’d better get used to it.
Race Wars are AWESOME.
Min: What no Catcher in The Rye?
whoneedslight: Wait, Terry MacAwwwshitz won’t no Iraq vet. SHENANIGANS! If it aint him I am betting David Brooks has gone all Falling Down.
The Good Christians keep em’ comin’. Eternal Salvation RULES!!!
The Catholic bishop Kansas City, Robert Finn, urged Catholics not to vote for Barack Obama in a radio interview today — warning they put their souls at risk by supporting Obama’s “fanatical” stance on abortion rights.
“You make yourself a participant in the act of abortion and you mustn”t do it because your eternal salvation is tied up with that important choice,” Bishop Finn said
awww, Ken Layne isnt getting any action
You’re not running a real hate-based campaign unless a few popcorn kernels are popping.
Min: If only we had stuck with Erasmus’s translation.
wrenchdevil: I’m sticking *strictly* to my diet, and only drinking the blood of the evildoer, so… hokay!
This is reason number one I won’t be going to work on Wed. I don’t plan to run the gauntlet of angry conservatards….let them get it out of their system for a day or two. Then ship them to Australia.
I think I already saw how this plays out in “Falling Down.”
Alrighty then. Next Whacko enter and sign in plz.
Outstando: Min: Wouldn’t a real conservative have the Revised Standard Version? ‘Cause that King James Version is full of elitist thees and thous and poetical type talk that makes it all hard to unnerstand’n’shit.
Wow. McCain is campaigning in California the day before the election?
What a maverick!
Wait wait wait. We have not heard any OFFICIAL proclamation or endorsement from the Gun Nut. How to we know he’s for Walnuts? My instincts say Paultard as any self-respecting McCaintard would show up with more fire power than a handgun, a Confederate flag and a raccoon swinging from a noose.
New Drudge headline = awesome!!
OK, so that’s Santa Barbara….so what’s happening on PASSIONS?
Ken, he’s comin’ for ya. He didn’t think your endorsement of McCain sounded very sincere and wants to teach you some manners. As a fellow Californian, all I can say is better you than me.
Also (said with Palinist accent) I keep writing that somebody is going to get killed on election day, and people think I’m being paranoid. I’m not. Although, somehow I thought (hoped?) this would be happening in Texas or Arkansas.
But this guy is not part of a race war. He’s part of the PTSD-War. Apparently, in honor of the possibility of a fellow-ptsd-sufferer becoming president, the other PTSD-ers are starting the PTSD War in which they all go batshit crazy on election day. This guy was always a little premature - in love and war.
This shit will be ho-hum, mundane routine a week after the election, when the base has convinced itself that Sister Sarah must rise up and take the government by force. We have only seen the beginning. Red State shitheads will not accept this whole “democracy” bullshit lying down. They will convince themselves the election was “stolen” by ACORN, that many “ignorant” people who shouldn’t be allowed to vote don’t count (Thanks, Neil Boortz) and that Barack Obama is a terrorist sleeper cell in and of himself. (not to mention a foreign born, unconstitutionally elected fraud.) It will be their patriotic duty to wake all of us stupid libtards up and save America, “the greatest country on God’s Green Earth.” (Thank you Medved and Hannity.)
MARK MY WORDS!!!
V572625694: If it’s not in Hebrew, it’s fake.
Giant Robot: lulz, srsly. Drudge is becoming THE place to go for YouTube oddities.
You know who we should REALLY worry about? Roberta McCain. SHE is scary. Who knows what she’ll do to those she believes stole the election from her boy (who never quite could live up to her dearly departed husband, the Admiral, but the boy still was ENTITLED to the office).
Obama flipped off John McCain according to drudge’s youtuber….
I say , what TOOK SO LONG?
Giant Robot: Also, I love his headline that “half of us will be disappointed” on the morning after. I guess they’re finally beginning to understand what the results of a FTPT executive election means…?
From the youtube clip comments:
GayDad420 (12 seconds ago):
للعودة الى صفحة الكتاب العرب
allahu ackbar
death to america
death to israel
obama 08
المقالات المنشورة في هايد بارك تعبر فقط
I am whatever the opposite of surprised is.
Carrie_Okie: I’m sorry, but Catcher in the Rye has nothing for poor misunderstood bigots trapped in the phoniness of Santa Barbara. eegads, I think I was more pissed at Mark David Chapman for using that book as a manifesto than for assassinating John Lennon.
I’m jealous.
Santa Barbara with a gun nut clogging the freeway is better than the shitplace I relocated to. What was I thinking? Now instead of a long morning walk from Butterfly Beach to Summerland during low tide with my dog,or hiking around the Ellwood Mesa, I have to walk through dumpy neighborhoods. And instead of a tour of vineyards, all they grow here is honey. And Mormons.
Make sure you go to La Superica and order the specials of the day. 622 N. Milpas St. Also, stay away from State St. as much as possible, especially on the weekends.
Angryblakguy, and others,
When the shit starts really going down I need to know the secret words, hand gestures, whatever…
You know me. We’ve been together on this site for almost ten months. You know I take my First Ladies like I take my coffee…
Let’s put it this way: I’m a white West Texan ready to go Rogue.
Ha ha, Ken mentioned cannibals in New York magazine.
And they are sending the SWAT teams to the black neighborhoods again … why?
Alex Trebeks Girl: Drudge just looks so sad right now–
WonderWomyn: I wish drudge had a camera so we could watch him work. I’d love to see his eyes get big at that stupid video. Yap! he flipped ‘im off!
Joe the plumber’s gone rouge. for REAL this time…
ugh, Palin is screeching on the TeeVee about some shit, I think I need Joe the Bridge Taker to light off a few rounds near my head to drown out the imbicility. Wonder if he’s the same wacko who was shooting at cars on the freeway there a few months ago?
I’m gonna watch Children of Men to cheer myself up a bit…
Outstando: Well, doesn’t the New Testament have to be in Aramaic?
This gun man is a forward looking guy. He knows Hopey will take his gun on November 5th so he is getting his gun on now while he can. If Obama loses, this guy will be McCain’s Sec. of Defense.
phildeaux: I agree; I miss Santa Barbara, even more when I hear stories like this. I’m personally partial to Los Arroyos, the one on Fig. off State.
My first thought on seeing this was, oh, Isla Vista Halloween reveler on a dare.
Ken, try leaving the country if you want a little r&r - try Montreal, it’s in France….
Anyhfrog: I’m black too so I guess I’m one of the “others.” There’s no secret handshake, just don’t be an asshole and don’t forget your manners with black people, which is a common problem. I’m in Southern California, and every Obama site I’ve been too has been packed with very sweet, cool white volunteers.
Remember, black people are more likely to be mean to each other than to white people. Besides, our expectations of white people being nice to us are pretty darn low. A polite smile - a normal one, not a phony, creepy, psycho, John McCain, one - should do it for most of us. You know, just like the smiles you give to other white people? Spare a few for us, and you’ll be fine. Basically, remember we’re black, but forget to be racist.
I hear Baghdad is nice this time of year.
I used to joke in a mean way with NRA members that when the government really wanted to take away guns they would have a niffty list all ready at the NRA. My dream of only allowing criminals (who need them for work goddamn it!)to have guns will soon be real. I’m hoping.
The guy surrendered, after they let him hang his american flag and an Obama/Biden sign on the overpass.
No, I am not kidding.
P.S. LaSuperica ROCKS, like a big bucket of rocking things.
frumious_bandersnatch: Haha, those crazy-violent Obamatards.
sarahconnor: The book of choice in this case should be Atlas Shrugged, or at least A Choice, Not an Echo By Phyllis Schlafly…
This will bring more Mccainiacs to Obama.hah
trh: Los Arroyos is a great choice too. I had to move away from Santa Barbara for the wife. Now she is doing everything in her power to get us to move back. We just need housing prices to drop 95% and we should be able to afford a starter home.
Was our esteemed editor in Isla Vista for Halloween? Like a fish out of water.
the invisible woman: Uhh…thanks. What I wrote was an attempt at self-parody, by the way, if it didn’t come off as such, my bad. But it seems you took offense where none was intended except as…well…self parody.
nyhfrog: I got it. I just considered it a “teachable moment.”
nyhfrog: I knew it was a joke, but why are you so annoyed by the suggestion that you be nice to black people?
Waving the flag in one hand and a gun in the other is an “anti-war sentiment?” - only in Santa Major Barbara.