David Souter, the “stealth yankee” who drove wingnuts crazy with his plain old New England Republican common-sense decisions, is finally leaving the town he hated for the entire two decades he spent working at the Supreme Court. And now he is free, thanks to Barack Obama, the Dream-Maker. Let’s celebrate with this latest political art from our favorite Chicago street organizer, Lauri Apple. Good-bye, Justice Souter! Enjoy whatever it is one does in New Hampshire forever.
Farewell, David Souter, and Thanks For Hating Washington!
Previous post: Previous Post
{ 129 comments }
They get gay-married, Ken, and then they drink booze that they bought on the cheap at their state-run liquor stores.
Dark, northern pagan rituals at the base of the ruins of the Old Man of the Mountains. Lots of Red Hook ESB, fiddle music and fuckin’.
You don’t have to be afraid of obese women Ken. Just women in general.
How I wish I’d fallen closer to Lauri Apple’s tree. I want to gay marry her. Also she’s my new bff.
He’s going to go to the New Hampshire town where the dude from The Sopranos had the big gay affair of his life with the fry-cook/volunteer fireman. And he will probably then ask the locals if either of those actors are anywhere around and are they available to gay marry.
I like the house. Kind of a reverse Beverly Hillbillies theme here. Also love Apple’s Starbucks Squirrel barrista just under Souter. Damn that Chicago talent.
[re=307020]PerhapsSo[/re]: Live freaky or die. That’s how they roll in the Granite State.
[re=307026]WadISay[/re]: Yeah, we kind of take that for Granite.
Thus endeth Bush Sr.’s Washington legacy. Now Souter can write the book on why he left the court. My Unrequited Love for a Black Man: How Clarence Thomas Broke My Heart & Forced Me out of Washington. Souter finally just became too distracted by those broad shoulders, square head and fat fingers of the one true love of his life and had to leave the court. You can get away with masturbating under those robes for only so long.
Loved “Steele This Book.” Actually sort of makes him look cool, which is an awesome achievement.
Also, Brezhnev as Bunny Rabbit. Also.
Steele is kinda cool for a ‘pub.
I mean, occassionally he answers questions, which is why he has to be chased out of washington with pitchfolks.
That is just uncalled for, in fact he recently even admitted mistakes and discussed the problem of centralized party authority.
Deep down I hope he one day just says “No-one here knows what they are fucking doing. Not me, not Pelosi, and dear god Boehner can’t even spell his own name.”
I was hoping Souter would stay on a little longer so he could rule that Washington had no right to a congressional rep “Because they don’t deserve it.”
[re=307025]Edywin[/re]: Wouldn’t a “reverse Beverly Hillbillies” be Green Acres?
[re=307031]Heq[/re]: Steele and the Reptiles with some brains/common sense ought to abandon the No-Nothings and start a new party. Replace the Reps like the Reps did the Whigs.
Actually, we need a dozen parties, like Israel. I love the idea of half-a-dozen religious fanatic wing-nut parties threatening each other with Hell!
Zhu Bajie
It’s a telling sign of how far right the Republicans have swung when a Republican-appointed justice waits for a Democratic president to come along to choose his replacement.
I see him setting up some small town business which appeals to tourtises like an antique dealership, maple syrup decantery, or organic ‘blue earth’ coffee shop
I have those pants.
No purple sweatshirt, though. Sigh.
That photo of his house just crys out Log Cabin Republican.
Can’t he do his work while living in NH, like Faulkner, writing movie scripts from Oxford, MS?
Zhu Bajie
The repugs are claiming that the person Obama has picked to take Souter’s place is completely unqualified and a ‘hate America first’ libtard and they will work overtime to oppose the nomination. They’ll give us more specific details as soon as they find out who it is.
If there’s a swimsuit competition, I vote for Miss California. They shouldn’t be able to penalize her for having a boob job done. Scalia appears to have gotten one years ago. And they look bigger.
I’m glad they’re reinstituted the Underground Railroad, to help people escape from DC, but I didn’t realize that you had to make public announcements when using it. Sure has changed from the old days, but that’s government for you.
Looks like Ted Kaczynski’s cabin. Nice vibe.
[re=307032]Guppy06[/re]: You are right, I see Ebb is hiding up on the porch with the Eva Gabor blow up doll.
” I know he is coming back Mrs. Douglas, but you will always be my first love, that is after Arnold Ziffel.”
The hipster lemur says: Conservative court pack FAIL!
That’s the house you skip when trick or treating.
[re=307026]WadISay[/re]: You can’t live too freaky, though, because then they’ll accuse you of being a danger to ladies’ bathrooms everywhere when you try to get an anti-discrimination law passed.
Michael “Cypress Hill” Steele: It’s just all my strategy. Hey, don’t miss out on what you’re passing. You’re missing the hootah of the funky buddha. You see, here is something you can’t understand….how I could just kill a man.
Supreme Souter has lived in DC for 19 years and never unpacked the boxes he moved when he came here. He has thousands of books in the NH farmhouse that he hopes to catalog into a library. During his tenure on the Court he turned half a mil into 30 plus mil through investments in a NH bank. The Obama economic team could use an idiot/genius like this, and so could the rest of us. But the secret to his financial success is in the linked article–for lunch he often eats an apple, including the core, and yogart while at his desk. What kind of yogart, inquiring minds want to know!
Nothing says “Stay Out!” like a Boo Radley home.
[re=307021]Jerk Cade[/re]:
Smuttynose Belgian Wheat, my friend.
[re=307034]SayItWithWookies[/re]: You would think somebody in the Pub party would have the self-awareness to realize this…oh yeah…nevermind
I’m not surprised that Souter didn’t do much socializing in D.C. I suppose having wingnuts come up to you and getting in your face about how you were supposed stop fetus killings would discourage a fellow from going out too much
Nice graphic, but shouldn’t the sign say ‘Whup That Trick’?
And yeah, restoration….to the CABIN.
Cry for happy that Barry gets to pick a new player. Need that certain je ne sais crois….
Damnation! Did he buy that place from Ed Gein?
OT – but now that Lord Caliph NO’Bama has sated his librul fascist vengeance on Jack Kemp, who do you think will be the next to feel his Muslin Sosialist Wrath?
Also – Ralph Nader for SCOTUS!
quoi, goddamit.
[re=307067]Autochthon[/re]: why no, his momma gave it to him, so it’s all ok!
[re=307023]Custerwolf[/re]: New avatar today?
i don’t understand anything at all anymore…may i please die now?
Now I have a dream of John Boehner and Limbaugh standing at a streetcorner wondering why that Lexus is rolling up so slow before Steele rolls down the window and his baby mac starts spitting death.
Later on he comes into a smokey back room and looks up at a map full of pins and muttering “It’s time motherfuckers.”
What is up with his Eastern European dress clothes?
[re=307079]Scandinavian Fetus[/re]: He also has his shoulder slightly cocked…like he’s “keepin’ it real” in the Granite hizzy, bitches.
[re=307071]V572625694[/re]: Yes. I came across this photo and fell in love with it.
http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/brontie2/rain.jpg
I don’t want to sign up for an account over at Lauri’s site (belive it or not, Wonkette is the only place I visit- with the infrequent exception of my local news and, of course, all the hot celebrity fanpages.) Therefore I will post my response to enguldedinflames here.
Dear eif, You’re mean. The end.
[re=307083]Custerwolf[/re]: maybe so: i’m old and i’m cranky and i’m absolutely sick and tired of people demeaning my area of expertise, if you saw someone mistreating a horse, through ignorance or just plain incompetence i’m pretty sure you’d speak out. did you not have to do some hard work to learn all you know? and doesn’t it piss you off when someone who is too lazy to muck out the stable expects to hop on and ride?
We are just a few (10s) of votes away from thwarting Sarah Palin.
NEAL FOREVERZ.
GIVE HIM YER VOTE:
http://ideas.rebuildtheparty.com/pages/5641-general/suggestions/179880-fight-to-elect-neal-horsley
This is a matter of democracy inaction.
[re=307081]Custerwolf[/re]: Anyone we know?
[re=307083]Custerwolf[/re]: p.s. i’m not such a bad guy once to get to know me. (tom waits)
[re=307061]Holding Out for a Hero[/re]: To the “real” Republicans it’s just a sign that letting in moderates like Bush the First led directly to their current straits. See, their failure was that they weren’t principled enough…
[re=307085]engulfedinflames[/re]: I do. However, I suppose there are different points of view on what constitutes art. Frederich Frank’s point of view I find somewhat snobbish. Perhaps we should distinguish between creative expression and artistic skill or expertise. I have the technical skill to illustrate anatomy books. I am not an artist, I am a technician. I can play with the medium of black and white and create a magnificent thoroughbred out of it, but it doesn’t bring me much satisfaction beyond – wow – that actually looks like a horse. The process itself does not bring me joy. It is work, not art. Lauri’s whimsical drawings, on the other hand evoke something in me which cannot be described – and can only imagine that an inspired person painted them. That’s what is most important to me. I wept as I stood in front of a van Goh at the Museum of Modern Art. I felt connected to and I fell in love with a man who’s exquisite suffering was apparent in his paintings. He had seen something in this life and he found a way to bring that to us. Isn’t that what art is supposed to be about? I used to get into discussions about this with an artist friend of mine – wonderful, wonderful man by the name of Tony Angell – and I think he would probably side with your point of view.
[re=307087]V572625694[/re]: That skrawny little gal could have been me as a kid – but alas, since I cannot remember where I originally found this picture (on the intertubes somewhere), I can’t even tell you who the photographer is. Wonderful eye for beauty though, don’t you think?
[re=307090]Custerwolf[/re]: Frederich Franck – sorry.
[re=307092]Custerwolf[/re]: Yes I do think the photog had a great eye, as do you if the other photos there are yours.
[re=307076]engulfedinflames[/re]:
If your username is any indication; presently.
[re=307068]Bearbloke[/re]: There can be only one President Barry Supreme nomination:
Anita Hill, beaches!
~
[re=307085]engulfedinflames[/re]: “and doesn’t it piss you off when someone who is too lazy to muck out the stable expects to hop on and ride?”
Funny you should ask, I’m actually at the age (pushing a half-century) where after I’m done mucking out the stalls and grooming – I’m too tired to ride, so if someone else will do it for me, I’m more than happy! I prefer to just hang out with the horses and their poop. But I do get your point absolutely. I could never be an artist or a mathmetician because I wasn’t blessed with the proper brain-wiring, or enough money for a private tutor.
[re=307094]V572625694[/re]: Where?
[re=307081]Custerwolf[/re]: Phallic worship?
[re=307100]S.Luggo[/re]: ALWAYS.
[re=307099]Custerwolf[/re]: That’s what I mean when I say you should be careful out here.
They Love Free or Die, Ken, they Live Free or Die.
[re=307085]engulfedinflames[/re]: If there is one person who would never mistreat a horse, it’s Neal Horsley. After all, he only makes sweet, sweet love to his mules.
I am dedicating the next month to making Neal the most popular Republican in the country. I can only hope those who agree will join the cause, as it is hilarious.
[re=307106]V572625694[/re]: !!!You’re cute. Actually, I have nothing to hide. I’m lucky I guess in that I can’t be blackmailed or humiliated (anymore). I was only wondering if I got to take some unexpected credit. As for my bucket account – they’re almost all ripoffs – I’m pretty medichore at everything I do. I’ve always figured if someone else can do a great job at something, what do they need me for? I was a great sprinter in school, that’s where I really excelled. I ran like a deer and could outrun anything – a survival technique learned from growing up with an older brother who constantly tried to kill me.
[re=307109]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Pretty lame segue, there shorts.
[re=307112]Custerwolf[/re]: SCREW THAT. NEAL WILL DESTROY YOU.
[re=307113]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: I kid. Anyway, I already gave my three votes, so now I’m just sitting here feeling impotent.
I’ll miss Souter. Nothing like a good “Fuck you” reminder to modern republicans–oh well, we still have Stevens.
[re=307110]Custerwolf[/re]: Animal lover, I see, which is always a sign of a healthy ability to empathize. You’re sweet to call me cute, thanks.
[re=307110]Custerwolf[/re]: I also gave my three votes, also.
And the funny thing is, I saw the link to shorts-shorts-we blame shorts on another blog entirely, and then voted.
Odd it was, seeing shorts on another blog entirely, details are sketchy, though.
~
[re=307024]Mr Blifil[/re]: R.I.P. Johnny Cakes.
[re=307116]V572625694[/re]: you’re welcome.
We’re pretty close to a medical marijuana bill up here in NH. Free pot as long as you can prove your getting chemo, suffer from glaucoma, or have the winter doldrums…
[re=307121]Giant Robot[/re]: “Free”? The only free pot I know of is when you grow your own. I think they should hand out horticultural permits and cut out the middlemen.
With a name like Souter pronounced “suitor,” why isn’t there an entire book of limericks about the man?
As for Ms. Apple, I also like the Steele quite a bit and admire her courage for painting in the window. The Chicago artists I’ve been privileged to know, folks like Ed Paschke and Bryan Baker, have had wonderful buoyancy — the built-in flotation needed to ride the rough waves of that city. Seems like Ms. Apple has it, too.
[re=307088]engulfedinflames[/re]: Holy christ I read that rebuttal to your post and all it did was make yours look more valid and sane. Maybe having comments wasn’t such a good idea….I mean really, what’s the point? You either like her work or you don’t, I really can’t imagine discussing it at any great length.
[re=307124]lawrenceofthedesert[/re]: pronounced “suitor”?? You gotta be kidding me! First it was facade, then Choire – and now THIS?? Jesus, my inner monolog is retarded.
You got my 6 votes.
[re=307089]SayItWithWookies[/re]: We can only hope their “principled” stand will drive this incarnation of the party into oblivion. I’m not sure how a party of business is going to win votes without the so-called Southern strategy, or God/guns/gays, or some other appeal to everyone’s worst instincts. Still, how gratifying would it be to see sweet Sarah, el Rushbo, and the rest of the little darlings driven back to the fringe to lick their wounds or more likely devour each other. Joey (the Plumber) we hardly knew ye!
[re=307109]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Hell, as a Georgia resident I’m re-registering as a Republican so I can vote for the guy. Elections haven’t been much fun since I’ve lived here and I’m hoping for a real donnybrooke this time ’round.
[re=307109]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: WARBLOG! You done good. Give a man forty acres and a mule and he won’t have time to plant the forty acres.
http://ideas.rebuildtheparty.com/pages/5641-general/suggestions/179880-fight-to-elect-neal-horsley.
[re=307126]Custerwolf[/re]: Next you’re gonna tell me it’s not pronounced “EP-uh-tome.”
People you don’t have to stop at 3 votes! Google Chrome & IE8 (and surely Firefox?) have an “Incognito” mode w/no cookies where you can open an Incognito window, then vote ad infinitum. Now get back there & flood that place with votes for the mule rapist!
[re=307027]Custerwolf[/re]: That’s a paddlin’.
[re=307131]hobospacejunkie[/re]: I live with the King of Mispronunciation. Joe often invents new compound words – made up of words he sort of knows the meaning of. I have to be very subtle in asking him to repeat himself whenever he speaks gibberish because he usually knows I’m only doing it so I can laugh at him.
[re=307132]hobospacejunkie[/re]: It works. Neal Horsley is the future of the Republican Party and we can help more than ever. Thanks for the tip.
I think this is surely a sign of the times.
[re=307136]bago[/re]: “Where it’s at” – a Beck reference?
[re=307137]Custerwolf[/re]: Does Beck know about Horsley? It would be so wonderful if they’d find each other.
Although, counter-intuitive as it may seem, raging egomaniacs sometimes do not get along well with each other.
[re=307136]bago[/re]: 2 more things. Love the guy in Iraq with the thumbs up, next to the two kids holding the mispelled sign. Also fabulous set of tits – but not the Guess ones. GREAT photos – thanks canuckledragger!!
It’s so great to see this over there:
“Horsley is the kind of child-murdering idealogue that will lead the GOP out of the current wilderness. Bring it on! Plus his guitar playing and singing are awesome.”
[re=307138]V572625694[/re]: Actually it was Beck as in the scientologist, but I think it was actually just a generic DJ reference. THAT said, it’s a cool site Bago linked – take a peak. And yes I would love to arrange an interview where Horsely breaks down and cries in 3-part harmony with Uncle Glenny and ShYawnity.
[re=307140]V572625694[/re]: I dug up this photo from way back in the era of newspapers. As you can see, my love for little critters goes back aways.
http://i389.photobucket.com/albums/oo336/brontie2/lulu.jpg
The pic of that “cabin” he wants to return to is hilarious. I mean, he’s a recluse in a reclusive state that most people think is part of Vermont. I liked him as a Justice because I loved those guys who turned out to be something other than advertised (and helped make Sunnunu look like an idiot). But as a “regular guy”? Hardly. It was like appointing Thoreau Treasury Secretary (and I imagine Souter would have thought the Walden cabin was “overdone”). “He eats the apple, core and all” “He doesn’t like to fly” “He drives a VW”. No wonder he didn’t fit in to the DC “social life”. Sally Quinn would no sooner have this syrup farmer in her front room as Andrew Jackson and his wheel of cheese.
As for who’s next on the high court, I’m suspecting now that it’s Secretary Nepalitano, a non-offensive woman from the West who doesn’t have any court background. I do think Hopey would like to get someone who’s actually lived among us and not spent the last 15 years writing opinions that won’t piss off one side or the other.
By Dave. We hardly knew ye, and that was your choice.
[re=307124]lawrenceofthedesert[/re]:
A goat-fucking justice named Souter
Had sex mainly on the computer.
Said the judge with a grin,
Wiping drool from his chin,
“I like camels, though llamas are cuter.”
[re=307142]Custerwolf[/re]: Pipe the eyelashes on you, cutie.
Nepalitano would be the next Hariette Miers.
I mean, she’s loyal and all, but has the brains of a rutabega. They’ll go outside on this one if they have any brains at all, as going inside would give the ‘pubs a rallying point, and the dems usually lose these sorts of intellectual scrums.
There is an argument for a living document view of the constitution, but it’s like discussing David Hume, most of the folks listening aren’t gonna follow. Quite simple constructionism is going to almost invariably make more sense to the American populance, because douchebags in both parties constantly talk about past leaders as if they are gods.
Napolitano. Like Naples.
What one does in New Hampshire is be sad that they are not in the glorious State of Maine, nor in the grand city of Boston, but instead a hellish limbo with a combination of little ocean front, little area of mountain ranges, little city life, slight Boston accents with slight rural hick accents, not as good maple syrup and not as good lobster. Basically, one sits in a state of confusion & longing, which one cures by taking advantage of the one good thing about NH: the relaxed Blue Laws. At least, that’s how I see it after being a resident of both Maine and Boston.
[re=307086]shortsshortsshorts[/re]: Warblogging with my “Right Thinker” alter-ego “IHateChiggers”. Oh yes, and there is ALL CAPS and ALL STUPID.
[re=307151]El Pinche[/re]: from “Step Away from the Religious Right”
GOD IS EVERYWHERE AND JESUS RULES, IF THE HOMOS AND GODLESS DIMBOCRATS DONT LIKE IT THEY CAN GO TO HELL AND BURN WITH THEIR HEATHEN FAMILIES. JESUS WILL PROTECT MY EARS FROM THE DEAFENING SCREAMS OF LIBRAL CHILDREN BURNING IN THE COALS OF SATANS HELL.
Was Jack Kemp teh gay?
[re=307154]Cookie Guggelman[/re]: Gawd no. Most straight. Nice question, though.
[re=307155]smellyal8r[/re]: But Kemp did [ahem] “bring America back from the 70s”… *snort!* HAHAHAHAHAHAHA….
[re=307144]smellyal8r[/re]: Janet? she would be really good…..
[re=307160]sati demise[/re]: except the wingers will go after her as a lesbo.
Oh, David Souter, we hardly knew ye! Mainly because you hid behind the curtains in your creepy little Stephen King Style house. Or in your unpacked camper. Seriously dude, work on your siding and your mailbox. Winters are harsh and all, but still…Wonder what Scalia’s abode looks like? Dungeon chamber? Shooting range? Rubber ball room?
TeddyS: WIN!
[re=307158]Bearbloke[/re]: And, according to that, gave us Ray-gun. It would have been better if he were teh geyz…
[re=307155]smellyal8r[/re]: Ok, but why was he always bragging that his experience of having showered repeatedly with black men enabled him to come up with the idea for Enterprise Zones? That always sounded fruity to me.
[re=307069]smartypants[/re]: LOL you got the pronunciation right anyway. What’s thems called? Homo-nimphs?
Anywho…
[re=307077]Heq[/re]: The real question enquiring minds want to know is what J.B. and Rush were doing standing on that corner together. I think they were waiting for the limo to take them to the airport to fly down and have some hot Dominican buttsecks.
I prefer Lee Godie for the definitive outsider Chicago art. She would sit on the steps outside the Art Institute and sell you one of her rolled-up drawings for $5.
What the fuck is with that shack looking house? looks more like kentucky than new hampshire
[re=307086]shortsshortsshorts[/re]:
Old news…
NEAL GOES TO 11!!!!!111
Be beat snowbilly barbie, and is only 170 votes away from “Embrace Science”
[re=307169]Czn939[/re]: *HE beat…
Looking at that painting Apple did of Souter, I’m reminded of a time back in third grade when I wrote that very same sentiment on my lunch tray and held it up in front of the ladies behind the counter.
Give three votes for Neal Horsley (no reg required): http://ideas.rebuildtheparty.com/pages/5641-general/suggestions/179880-fight-to-elect-neal-horsley#
[re=307172]cracksmoke[/re]: That is the funniest damn thing I’ve ever seen! I can’t stop laughing… “And, he loves Jesus!”
What a planet.
NEAL BEET SIENC!! FTW!
Neal hits the Top Ten! Will raise a toast to him tonight, order his latest bloody fetus CD and vote again tomorrow. WARBLOG!
http://ideas.rebuildtheparty.com/pages/5641-general/suggestions/179880-fight-to-elect-neal-horsley.
[re=307171]Custerwolf[/re]: Good night, dear.
This guy wants to make sweet sweet love to Meghan McCain:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvXGreBlmjU
At first you will confused by his youtube profile.
It’s obvious, J.B. takes Rush out to pick up his, uh, pharmacutical needs because he “totally knows some black people.”
It’s all bluff though, Boehner doesn’t know any black people but Bobby Jindel can get his hands on some to die for Hash.
[re=307178]Heq[/re]:
Hash like those big-ass Temple Balls Jindal smoked during all-day pagan sex-majik rituals in the Temple of Kali back before he became a White Christian Heterosexual Patriot ReThuglican American?
Me? I’m just sitting here thinking about ways to end human toileting. You can, too. It’s a link, but not a ‘tarded one. Ok, here:
http://mojopo.blogspot.com/2009/05/human-toileting.html
This is why the internet is awesome. Thank you Neal Horsley. You are a fucking wingnut.
[re=307179]Bearbloke[/re]: The Piyush special Temple-ball of hash for that bis-ass bong of yours…. Enjoy, Gov. Jindal!
THAT’S Souter’s house? Ye gods, I’ve seen imigrunt shacks on the Eastern Shore of Virginia with more curb appeal.
Gore v. Bush: elections have consequences.
That picture of Souter holding the sign with the foul language kinda looks like a still frame from one of those United Airlines commercials.
David Souter is among the last of a dying breed —
a human being who respects the concept of privacy
so much that feels obligated to leave his fellow
human beings the fuck alone.
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with loving the
members of our species in the abstract, but
not really caring that much for the actual creatures
in “real time”.
It is a barometer of sanity not to be too eager to
get involved in all that messiness that they bring
into your life.
Comments on this entry are closed.