Here is a tip regarding your old friend The Facebook: if you are employed, by anyone, do not use it. It will get you fired. This is especially true if you work in politics or serve in any political-type role, such as deputy press secretary to Manhattan borough president Scott Stringer.
This gal, Lee Landor, appears to have been very quickly shuffled out of her office after she wrote a couple of pissy things about the Henry Louis Gates arrest — your typical “Obama is such a dummy for having an opinion” sort of claptrap. Here’s how the ever genteel, non-snarky New York Times described the situation:
Ms. Landor engaged in a spirited discussion of the Gates case with other users of the social networking site.
Ms. Landor wrote in one post, “O-dumb-a, the situation got ‘out of hand’ because Gates is a racist, not because the officer was DOING HIS JOB!”
This is what “the news” has become: transcriptions of idiots yelling at other idiots on the Internet. Spirited discussions.
Facebook Postings Prompt Quick Exit of a City Politician’s Aide [New York Times]
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And DON’T get me STARTED on that RACIST Amadou DIALLO.
i’m sorry but people shouldn’t always get fired for stupid shit like this. also, i feel bad for idiots in politics. in the creative field i’m required to act like an idiot on the internet. we can’t all be vincent gallo however. that man is talented.
Gates is a racist because he hates being arrested in his house for no reason. Fucking racist.
Don’t these people know to keep it on Twitter?
This is clearly worse than the castastrophic solitaire scandal.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/10/nyregion/10solitaire.html
I’m guessing Mr. Stringer must be one of them Demoncraps I keep hearing about.
I really don’t think aides of politicians should be punished for having the opinion… unless said opinion is “DUDE CHECK OUT THIS HILARIOUS EMAIL!”
[re=373443]magic titty[/re]: He is racist against the inherent right of white policemen to demand anything at all of a black man, within the black man’s own home.
[re=373443]magic titty[/re]: Man, you’re good!
[re=373441]american mutt[/re]: I agree that people shouldn’t be fired just for being idiots. But this kind of thing is getting worse. Could it be that the Internet, Twitter, etc., are contributing to the Dumbing of America??
Boy: Okay. Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin in Illinois. This po’ white trash went on to become the President of the United States.
Girl: Yes.
Boy: Once in office, this white capitalist swine-
Girl: Swine!
Boy: Manipulated the freedom of the black man for his own political career.
Girl: Speak, brother!
Boy: Til another piece of po’ white trash shot him in the head. The end.
Girl: Whoo!
Clearly, she should have been summarily executed by here employer. Politicians have become so sloppy these days.
and that is why, gentle readers, when i am talking trash upon the internets, i am here in wonkettia, where i am a cat named slappypaddy, peeking out of a cardboard box. in other virtual places i may be other virtual entities, but i do try to be careful, kiddies, in those realms where i may be me.
Check out the Times article to read the rest of her comments, which are arguably more incendiary than calling Obama “O-dumb-a.”
“And racial profiling does exist, but for good reason. Take a look at this country’s jails: who makes up the majority of inmates? Exactly.”
“You know what, I am really getting SICK of hearing about how white people are evil racists.” She added: “I get it — white men have dominated for hundreds of years and there’s a lot of anger there. But HOW MUCH MORE can the white people do to correct past injustices of their ancestors?”
HOW MUCH MORE can the white people do to correct past injustices of their ancestors?
If you are still holding any slaves, consider releasing them. And thanks for asking!
[re=373451]The Real JR Revisted[/re]: I agree in principle, but when the opinions expressed show that the person is really an idiot, then, well …
For once, I don’t think I agree with your alt text, Sara. I think that’s kinda genius, actually.
People, people. Twelve (plus?) comments in and NOT ONE reference to the nappied hypotenuse! *sigh*
OT, and I don’t mean to offend Ken or any Wonk staffer about the advertisers. Sheesh, a buck is a buck, no?
But, someone needs to tell the LOOK TO THE SKY! advertisers that they have confused the planet Venus with a star. If they really want to claim a celestial sighting , it would be helpfull to include some basic facts, like time and date, latitude longitude and azimuth of the object. Then qualified amateur astronomers (like a typical nerdy 7th grader ) can verify that yes indeed the object does herald the coming of the TEACHER or whatever.
I think the original news story got it wrong. The real reason she was fired was because she couldn’t think of anything more original than “O-dumb-a”.
A photoshopped noose or something…NOW we’re talking.
Ms. Landor referred to Professor Gates using a vulgarity and added: “And racial profiling does exist, but for good reason. Take a look at this country’s jails: who makes up the majority of inmates? Exactly.”
Wow, she sounds like a real treat. And I guess, by that logic, that President Obama is the nation’s biggest racist because take a look at all the people who don’t like him. Who makes up the majority of birthers? Exactly.
[re=373444]TastyCakes[/re]: Agreed. Facebook is a place where people you somewhat know inundate you with pictures of their borerline autistic children doing mundane things. Twitter is for shouting at clouds.
It’s not so much that I object to idiots being fired for being idiots. What I do object to is idiots being hired in the first place. If they don’t get hired in the first place then they won’t be able to eat or afford a place to live, then they would all die by the side of the road someplace and the overall intelligence of the human race would rise and we would all have flying cars and figure out how to live forever. Unless we crashed into another flying car.
“And racial profiling does exist, but for good reason. Take a look at this country’s jails: who makes up the majority of inmates? Exactly.”
Brilliant.
I was about to ask why the F : someone who works for the Manhattan Borough President would be spewing anti-Obama stuff – then I read the article and saw she is from Queens and wrote for a community rag there. Remember, Archie Bunker lived in Corona, Queens… so it all makes sense now.
[re=373445]bitchincamaro[/re]: Anyone with a Roman numeral after their name which is greater than “IV” should not have to worry about money or a job. Edward Greenwood IX, srsly?
“Ms. Landor referred to Professor Gates using a vulgarity and added: “And racial profiling does exist, but for good reason. Take a look at this country’s jails: who makes up the majority of inmates? Exactly.”
Face plant onto desk.
Racism is one thing, she was obviously fired for being a moron.
[re=373473]WadISay[/re]: FROM MY COLD DEAD HANDS!
There’s certain things you don’t do. You don’t fart in an elevator. You don’t insult a waitress before you get your food. And you never yell at a cop in uniform, ever. Don’t do it. There’s lots of ways to discuss things calmly and to be indignant if your pride requires it, but do not yell at uniformed officers. It’s like beating off a wolf with a pork chop.
Why does the Manhattan borough president even need a deputy press secretary? What the f*** does a borough president do that requires more than one communications person?
Huh, my Blackfacebook username is “O-dumb-a.” Coincidence?
Never post anything on teh intarwebs.
[re=373492]President Beeblebrox[/re]: mouth-breather from Queens, what a surprise!
[re=373443]magic titty[/re]: +1 and more.
Also, Ms. Landor is one dumb cracker. And in so many wonderful ways. Just for grins I’d like to hear her views on global warming. However my brain doesn’t work as well as hers at drawing obvious conclusions, so I can’t even imagine how she’d fuck that one up.
[re=373473]WadISay[/re]: HOW MUCH MORE can the white people do to correct past injustices of their ancestors?
We all encouraged Kim Kardashian to go out with Reggie Bush.
Why, oh why, do the wingnuts insist on spicing up every single comment that they make with elementary school-level “plays” on the name of their intended targets?
[re=373487]Cape Clod[/re]: The flying cars will fly themselves & avoid each other using built-in GPS. So scratch that off your worry list.
I wouldn’t want to have my fate at work determined by what I’m posting here. I’m a horrible vulger shit once I step through the doors to Wonkette. Then again, I’m not foolish enough to use my real name or work for a politician. Besides, she “resigned”. I’m sure her boss left the decision entirely up to her.
Buttsecks, TruckNutz, etc.
It’s like beating off a wolf with a pork chop.
I always heard this site was kinky. But wow.
I cannot believe the childishness and ignorance that is posted by most of you. It’s bad enough that the language here is vile and disgusting but to add to this fire with false accusations and name calling is just sad, sickening and worthless. If you had the opportunity to voice these ‘opinions’ directly at the people you are attacking, I doubt very much any of you children would open your mouths. Hiding behind a computer screen is just a cowardly example of how this society is deteriorating. The only thing left to say is may God bless each and every one of you.
I bet they fired that poor white girl so they could split her hours between Sotomayor and Gates to meet affirmative action standards and get those damned brown welfare queens off foodstamps. Nobama is a stipidly for this. Scott Stringer…read the INISHULS SHEEPLE!!!!
[re=373439]norbizness[/re]: Ignorant
[re=373441]american mutt[/re]: childish
At least some people hiding behind computers are being caught: http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2009/07/28/nyc-journalist-pwns-white-supremacist-on-the-internets
[re=373443]magic titty[/re]: Disgusting pig
[re=373447]gurukalehuru[/re]: Little botched abortion
Now she can pick up a job managing the recently unemployed Mrs. Palin’s Twitter account. With all that communications experience. You betcha’.
[re=373461]norbizness[/re]: Ignorant jackass
[re=373516]yourmirrorimage[/re]: God’ll bless you mamma outside.
Uh, was this person fired for being dumb? Or for frittering away all her work time on the intertubze? If I was the boss, I would not care if she as smart as Prof. Gates or as brave as Sgt. Crowley, if she’s wasting my wage payments, she’s gone.
[re=373452]Zadig[/re]: Just plain stupid
i can’t believe this racist cunt had a job that probably pays a lot more than mine. America- dumbed down, failing up.
[re=373473]WadISay[/re]: Dammit. Now who’s going to plow the north forty? This is PC bullshit.
[re=373483]SayItWithWookies[/re]: Exactly should be used in conjunction with also, in the constellation of tired Wonkette in-jokes. Exactly.
[re=373498]Sussemilch[/re]: I don’t care what costume they’re wearing, when cops are in your house without a warrant accusing you of being a burglar and refusing to supply their name and badge number seems like a perfectly legitimate time to yell at them.
[re=373525]Snarkalicious[/re]: Child
[re=373498]Sussemilch[/re]: Yes, black people shouldn’t yell at cops. They should instead bow, offer to shine the officer’s shoes or roll over and show their tummy to express their submission to the cop. I will forward these suggestions on to Mr. Gates.
[re=373502]TGY[/re]: After posting on Wonkette try getting a new job. Screwed, I tell ya. we’re screwed.
[re=373471]clownshoez[/re]: You can correct a lot of injustice by just shutting your stupid yap
And this brilliant young woman was, of course, a Professional Journalist before she took this aide gig.
[re=373477]user-of-owls[/re]: You need to get a life and not just play like you have one.
[re=373481]Hawaiiexpat[/re]: Terrible use of the human language but then again you’re ont human so go lay down by your dish.
[re=373516]yourmirrorimage[/re]: May god fuck you in the ass and enjoy it.
I really am bemused about how massively irritated this is making white people. Lee, you’re a privileged white priss from Manhattan – do you really need a take on this shit? My Black friends don’t even have this much running Facebook commentary on the Gates’ thing.
[re=373505]hobospacejunkie[/re]: It’s a shame you take yourself so seriously.
[re=373516]yourmirrorimage[/re]: fuck you. Have a blessed day!
[re=373507]NotNotLickingToads[/re]: Not just the wingnuts. I’ve heard Orly Taitz (the birther) referred to as “Oily Taints”. It was easy to hear because I said it. Time to get to class–I’m late for 7th grade.
[re=373545]yourmirrorimage[/re]: It’s a shame my cock isn’t in your butt.
O-dumb-a? Really? Really?
Somebody let a Catholic nun in here?
You know, actually, I support the right of people to say all the dumb shit they want, in person, on the Internet, with a fox, in a box, whatever.
But not on their boss’s time, especially not when they represent the boss in some public capacity.
Still:
“First they came for the retarded wingnut birther racist walking abortions who spell like retarded 4th graders on crack … by the time they came for me …” etc. But you all know the rest of the quote. It’d be Niemoller Slide time.
I’d love to put some of the people I’ve “spoken” to in YouTube comments (where the *really* dumb … including, at times, me … hang out) in stocks in the public square and pelt them with feces, sure. But I’d really prefer not to someday receive the same treatment for, say, weakly defending Obama somewhere where everyone else calls him “Osama” or “Odumdum” or “Obambam” and knows he’s a Muslin Marxist Manchurian something-or-other.
[re=373551]NoWireHangers[/re]: And this from a college graduate, a reporter, a writer, an editor – someone whose business is *words*.
Jesus wept.
[re=373464]slappypaddy[/re]: The most brilliant thing said here today. Snark in an anonymity vacuum, or have the professional courtesy to make a signature, and append it to everything you say.
“Obama is a tax hiker, and his wife is a man. Robert Gibbs is a transvestite, and Rahm Emanuel loves to be fellated.”
You may find me available for comment at 7:00 p.m.,
at the corner of Firth and Fowlth (nowhere NEAR where I work),
this evening. There will be a prepared statement,
punch and pie, and a Q&A opportunity. Thank you.”
–Joe The Plumber
[re=373516]yourmirrorimage[/re]: I can see from your responses that you would never call names while hiding behind your computer screen, protected by your friendly neighborhood cops.
[re=373542]yourmirrorimage[/re]: Speaking of terrible use of the language, that should be “lie down by your dish.”
[re=373516]yourmirrorimage[/re]: Suck it, Douchey McDouchester!
[re=373545]yourmirrorimage[/re]: Have a nice day! And thanks for playing! We’ve been troll-free for a while, so it’s good to have you here.
Also, I agree w/[re=373543]hobospacejunkie[/re] as to Jeebus’ intent w/respect to you.
[re=373553]iolanthe[/re]: Agreed 100%
[re=373552]Cape Clod[/re]: Catholic nun-troll. We need gruff billy goats or maybe a banhammer in here.
[re=373516]yourmirrorimage[/re]: Didn’t Jesus say something about not judging? You fundamentalist “Christians” talk a good game, but your follow-through is awful. Hypocrits are the lowest form of life.
Ms. Landor is the epitome of the phrase, “Moderation in all things.”
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07292009/news/nationalnews/gates_flap_nails_beep_aide_181861.htm
….
It’s not the first time that Landor’s online seething has landed in her hot water, said her old boss at the Queens Chronicle. After she quit, she posted a picture of a notebook on Facebook scrawled with “F- – - you Queens Chronicle,” said publisher Mark Weidler.
*****
Plus, some of her best friends ….
http://www.nypost.com/seven/07292009/photos/lee_landor.jpg
[re=373471]clownshoez[/re]: Thank you, she really shouldn’t be anybody’s press aide ever again. Ever. Her boss, a decent lefty who I’ve met and who I like is an elected official meaning he needs to get elected again some time soon with her help.Think about it. How did an idiot like her get hired for that job and by who?It’s bad fucking news any way you look at it if you work in NYC politics.
I really can’t believe she thinks that rich old black Harvard professor/authors make up a very large percentage of the 2.3 million US incarcerated.Something is wrong here.
[re=373516]yourmirrorimage[/re]: Take
[re=373518]yourmirrorimage[/re]: your
[re=373519]yourmirrorimage[/re]: fucking
[re=373521]yourmirrorimage[/re]: thesaurus
[re=373522]yourmirrorimage[/re]: and
[re=373524]yourmirrorimage[/re]: shove
[re=373527]yourmirrorimage[/re]: it
[re=373530]yourmirrorimage[/re]: up
[re=373534]yourmirrorimage[/re]: your
[re=373540]yourmirrorimage[/re]: ass
[re=373545]yourmirrorimage[/re]: sideways.
[re=373521]yourmirrorimage[/re]: Dad?
[re=373550]hobospacejunkie[/re]: It’s a shame my chainsaw isn’t in his/her/its butt.
[re=373532]hobospacejunkie[/re]: I’m not a kid, I’ve lived a while on Earth and interacted with a number of officers in many different cities across this country. One thing gets everyone in trouble with cops everywhere – shouting at them. Imo he didn’t get arrested for being a suspected intruder, he got arrested for being an obnoxious fuck. Truly, anyone can get arrested for being an obnoxious fuck, not just minority obnoxious fucks. Guilty & innocent is a secondary consideration. Pissing off a cop gets you a free ride in the van, and I’m fine with that. On occasion I’ve deserved it myself.
[re=373570]S.Luggo[/re]: Shouldn’t that doll of hers be in jail?
[re=373553]iolanthe[/re]: I am looking forward to the day my outrageous political blogging gets me fired from my soul-crushing municipal policy job. I’d finally have irrefutable evidence that somebody has read my blog.
[re=373574]Extemporanus[/re]: A synonym for thesaurus is onomasticon.
[re=373584]magic titty[/re]: Look closer at the cellophane and you’ll see the faint outline of a guard tower.
[re=373542]yourmirrorimage[/re]: Until you post your name, phone number and street and email addresses, you’re no different than anyone else here. It’s amusing that you think not using profanity somehow changes the nature of what you’re doing.
Wait–Dana Carvey? Is that you? I used to love your stuff in the 90s!
“And racial profiling does exist, but for good reason. Take a look at this country’s jails: who makes up the majority of inmates?”
Wow. Does she wear her hood on her profile photo?
Regarding the facts, blacks happen to be less than half of the prison population. In any event, the logic that because a lot of black folk are in jail, cops should prefer to pursue possible crimes where black folk may be suspects is fool proof. The natural conclusion of this clever policy, that the jails are filled with as many black people as possible for the given overall level of crime, is then only clear proof that blacks need to watched like hawks at all times. I don’t even need to question this brilliance given then obviously superior IQ of this white lady.
[re=373556]Chickensmack[/re]: “The most brilliant thing said here today.”
thank you, sometimes i get lucky. quite a mud-wrestling match we have here in front of us now, all done with tricks of mirrors. i’m going to get some popcorn.
[re=373545]yourmirrorimage[/re]: Landor?, you piece of Queens shit you better start reading the want ads instead of commenting here, maybe you can go to work for Facebook. Please don’t reply the jails are full of you people. You are lucky you weren’t arrested at your desk and taken away in cuffs.
[re=373516]yourmirrorimage[/re]: That was not very Christian of you.
[re=373575]magic titty[/re]: Not your Dad. Probably it’s Lee Landor, enjoying her 15 minutes. It’s not like she has anyplace to *go* today.
[re=373583]Sussemilch[/re]: I’m sort of OK with what you say right up until we get to the uncomfortable fact that Gates was in his own home & the cop knew it. Also, Lawrence O’Donnell (sp?) on MSNBC played the tape of the arrest Monday night and, wouldn’t you know it, Gates wasn’t actually heard in the background yelling. Seems the cop embellished his report a bit to make the arrest more palatable. I don’t necessarily disagree with your points, they just don’t seem to apply to this particular situation, as the facts of it dribble out.
[re=373564]V572625694[/re]: Seems our friendly troll only had the patience to play whack-a-mole for a few minutes.
[re=373583]Sussemilch[/re]: It’s hard for me to believe you were there and heard and saw everything, because there is no mention of you demanding they both produce birf certificates.
Oh, good. Facebook stupidity is not just for the olds.
[re=373522]yourmirrorimage[/re]: Celestial guardian?
[re=373540]yourmirrorimage[/re]: Over 35 years of using the Internet and its predecessors, and I’m still always delighted by the foot-thick sledgehammer of irony whenever any Internet kvetcher tells someone else to “get a life” or “stop arguing over the Internet” or “stop taking yourself so seriously”.
It just never fails.
[re=373606]problemwithcaring[/re]: Nope, wasn’t there. Don’t know the facts. Don’t know who’s right and wrong. Don’t plan on winning any internet fights. I learned not to yell at cops though, so I’m gonna stick with that and let everyone else worry about saving the world.
Thank goodness our Wonkette editors aren’t gainfully employed. That is freedom!
[re=373487]Cape Clod[/re]: No. A large population with a bunch of dummies is smarter than a smaller population of smarties only. Technology is a factor of how many interconnected people exist, not how smart they are individually.
Australian aborigines, f’rinstance, are freakin’ dreamworld geniuses, but they lost the bow and arrow because there weren’t enough of them to hang on to the tech, after they wandered into the godforsaken hellhole that is Australia.
[re=373588]S.Luggo[/re]: That reminds me of a joke:
Q: What did one caveman say to the other caveman?
A: Oh no, masticon!
Find “x?”
I don’t get it.
Malcolm X?
[re=373593]Chet Kincaid[/re]: That *is* the mark of a young Evangelical Christian these days: talk shit, tear everyone else apart, lie, opine without any information, live constantly in a state of fear and rage; in other words “be wise as a dove and gentle as a serpent” but then pat yourself on the back ’cause you didn’t use any Baddie Wordies.
Not impressed.
(I never understood why swearing was “taking the name of the Lord in vain.” I didn’t know God’s name was shit, fuck, assmunch, butthole, etc. In fact, I’m fairly certain it’s not. I eventually realized that “taking the name of the Lord in vain” probably has more to do with saying “God supports my dumb political cause!!” or “God only loves people who look like me or come from my Superior Country!”, purporting to attribute your own stupidities to the Creator.)
Mirrorimage is still upset about losing her job as deputy press secretary.
[re=373597]102415[/re]: Great minds …
[re=373624]lawrenceofthedesert[/re]: Precisely.
The day I can’t have my first and fourth amendment rights violated in my own home by a thin-skinned cop is the day ah-murca circles the drain.
I feel like I am in bizarro world. Yesterday Fox New’s Studio B called the Gates arrest Unlawful and The Daily Show accused Gates of playing the race card. Clearly a lot of people failed out of American civics in elementary school.
http://www.forbes.com/2009/07/28/gates-crowley-arrest-first-amendment-free-speech-harvard-opinions-contributors-harvey-a-silverglate.html
[re=373464]slappypaddy[/re]: I have come close to being asked, on certain questionnaires connected to certain kinds of government license applications, to name every blog or other internet site where I have ever posted, and to likst every username I have ever used. I have seen applications which contain those questions. They make me askeered.
[re=373516]yourmirrorimage[/re]: You’re dull and repetitive, Sister Mary Prig, but at least you can spell and punctuate. Your troll fu scores 3/10. Keep practicing!
[re=373516]yourmirrorimage[/re]: Fuck you.
[re=373627]iolanthe[/re]: Seriously. I’m sure mirrorimage is Lee. That would explain why she went so over-the-top snarky about some fairly mild remarks. I rolled back and checked. The response was out of proportion.
The biggest wingnut on Earth wouldn’t have become so upset over what norbizness, american mutt, magic titty, and gurukalehuru said initially unless that wingnut had an … um … personal stake in Ms. Landor’s plight.
And then there was the long post about the “childishness” and how we “wouldn’t say that to a person’s face.”
Sure I would, Lee.
Wanna fly out to Cali? I’ll take you to lunch and tell you, over drinks, just what a nasty ill-informed evilminded little turdessa you are.
[re=373631]Lazy Media[/re]: She may be able to spell and punctuate, but she doesn’t know the difference between “lie” and “lay”. Fail.
[re=373623]iolanthe[/re]: That prohibition against “cursing” is in its original intent, not so bad an idea, if you accept that theree is such a thing as God; it says do not turn to God to “curse” others you dislike because of your petty disagreements, do not invoke the deity for selfish, stupid, “vain” purposes.
There is a converse moral principle, do not conduct yourself in such manner that anyone feels the need to pray to god for protection or relief from your awfulness.
[re=373620]Tundra Grifter[/re]: Find as in value v. find as in location. But now it’s not as funny.
[re=373638]Prommie[/re]: I get that.
But clearly, crude scatological and sexual terms do *not* violate any sacredness of the Deity, whereas statements like “God wants me to be insanely rich!”, or “God hates fags!!” both clearly do, for the reasons you state.
And, when I was in Evangelical circles (literally … prayer circles) often people would join hands in a circle and drone thusly for 10-30 minutes:
“Oh, God, we just come before you, Lord, today, Lord, to ask you for your help, Lord, in dealing with the powers of Satan, Lord, and the battles we face, Lord, in living our lives, Lord, in service of You. Lord, this day, Lord, we just want you to know, Lord, that … ” etc. etc. ad nauseam et ad infinitum.
I could always imagine God thinking, “Yeesh. That’s my name [note: title, actually. The Name is unpronounceable]! Don’t wear it out!”
Baruch ha shem Adonai, and all that.
“And racial profiling does exist, but for good reason. To systematically destroy a group of people and to create a permanent underclass the majority can easily look upon with fear as ‘The Other.’ Take a look at this country’s jails: who makes up the majority of inmates? Exactly.”
Oh, that’s not the direct quote?
[re=373583]Sussemilch[/re]: Let’s say, hypothetically, that now you have pissed me off by voicing your ignorant opinion. If I were a cop, I guess you would deserve a ride in the van and I’d be OK with that.
[re=373527]yourmirrorimage[/re]:
Let me guess: You have an ENORMOUS ass, right?
What a rollercoaster ride. This is/has been fun. Can we all group hug now? I feel like I just had a manic episode in 30 minutes. Must be the remeron.
[re=373616]Lazy Media[/re]: Thank you, Jared M. Diamond.
On another note, here’s a funny post I found about 5 reasons a person might defriend you on facebook. Surprisingly accurate, at least in my opinion: http://thestimulist.com/relax-we-all-get-facebook-de-friended/
[re=373648]Norbert[/re]: In Sussemilch’s mild defense, I have to say: I’ve found it’s always best to address cops, if you must address them at all, in the soft dulcet tones one would use in dealing with a large violent shaking tweaker, crackhead, or panicked horse.
The more unreasonable the cops are being, the softer and more dulcet one’s tone should be.
I’ve seen people receive Wood Shampoos for expressing even the most mild and utterly justifiable outrage. A friend of mine was beaten to the point of requiring hospitalization for asking the LAPD, in a mostly normal voice expressing just a hint of indignation, if they had a warrant to search the bus where he was living.
Then knocked him to the ground and three of them beat him with their nightsticks.
We didn’t have video, so the cops told the court that this 130-pound 19-year-old hippie boy had been “belligerent” and “threatening.” Once, as the cops were breaking up a perfectly legal party in LA, I saw a kid ask if he could go back in to grab his sweater. The LAPD officer, shrieking and shaking, drew his weapon on the kid. Um … Screw the sweater.
Sort your Rights out later, in court. In dealing with cops, regardless of what color or socioeconomic status you evidently are, it is *always* true that “the less said, the better.”
It’s not right; it’s not just; it’s just our current reality.
[re=373477]user-of-owls[/re]: [re=373540]yourmirrorimage[/re]: Wow. I had no idea that hypotenuse was a dirty word in the eyes of God. This is what happens when the bus doesn’t pick up Jesus on the way to school.
My daughter, who has to work to support herself, posts things like “Oh, it’s so wonderful, working here at–” “What a great week, working at—-” “Wonderful evening ahead, watching (name of her little girl) splash around in her wading pool.” “Oh, so hot in Oklahoma.” Boring as a John McCain speech.
Meanwhile, I’m posting crap like “Walnuts should eat shit and die” and laughing as the right wing Christian neighbors unfriend me.
Retirement’s grand, kids, as long as you marry a guy with a supremo pension plan.
Sorry the rest of you suckers have to be as careful as my daughter.
[re=373487]Cape Clod[/re]: ” flying car.” Bullshit. Whatever happened to the jetpacks?
[re=373676]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Right there with ya! Retirement is excellent, even with the relative poverty and all my skin migrating, year by year, down closer toward my knees. Totally worth it. I’ve paid my damned dues.
All my life I’ve noticed that crazy old ladies get to say whatever the hell they want.
And now I’m one of ‘em! Woot!
[re=373631]Lazy Media[/re]: Hey now, that wasn’t me.
[re=373654]Tommmcatt[/re]: Probably no enormous ass. Someone this mean and stupid usually gets a good job by being Cute. Just look at Sarah Palin and Monica Goodling and (once upon a time) Ann Coulter.
[re=373550]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Wow, yourmirrorasswipe automatically disappeared after the mere mention of assfucking.. Banned or Coincidence?
[re=373533]WhatTheHeck[/re]: Yeah, we’ll have to enter the profession of choice of unemployables: blogger! Gottabloggottabloggottablog!
“This is what “the news” has become: transcriptions of idiots yelling at other idiots on the Internet. Spirited discussions.”
Did you really prefer wizened old pentagon employees explaining how the latest IED could only be produced in Iran?
Anyway Honey, if reading the Times makes you angry, why don’t you stop reading it?
[re=373623]iolanthe[/re]: For the record, which means nothing, I completely agree with your theological points.
[re=373692]Smoke Filled Roommate[/re]: No. She disappeared when we started calling her “Lee”.
[re=373623]iolanthe[/re]: I didn’t know God’s name was shit, fuck, assmunch, butthole
These terms are only used in the higher levels of theological discussion.
yourmirrorimage: your momma.Buttseks & Truckernutz for you. Also. SHUT THE HELL UP!
Oh brave, brave, hobo!!
All that buttsecks talk, and you bake bread too!
Wow!
[re=373676]DustBowlBlues[/re]: You go, woman! I retired at 34, thanks to my lovely wife. Unless being a househusband with no kids doesn’t count as retired. So no limits on my surfing or speech. Though I don’t plan on letting loose with any racist rants, just lots of gratuitous cursing.
Just when you thought the birthers were bad, on the other ring side, we have the obaminators: “you’re fired!”
[re=373498]Sussemilch[/re]: and with that reasoning, Rosa should’ve stayed sitting at the back of the bus – so she wouldn’t upset the driver and all.
Geez, people. Would it kill you to use an alias on your social networking sites?
[re=373683]iolanthe[/re]: “All my life I’ve noticed that crazy old ladies get to say whatever the hell they want.”
Gravity is certainly the enemy in the retirement scenario, but at least you can hide the snark behind “eccentric.” Except deep in the Dust Bowl where you have to say, “Funny old lady” because they don’t know any big words.
And the meds they give out for arthritis aren’t bad, either, but I sure do wish marijuana were legal.
[re=373515]Bill E Pilgrim[/re]: I give you the comment of the day award.
[re=373629]Prommie[/re]: i would disavow all knowledge. let the fuckers prove it.
[re=373500]Manos: Hands of Fate[/re]: Whoa, this is the second post that has avoided spelling out fuck. What, is Hands of Fate your real name?
[re=373764]DustBowlBlues[/re]: Marijuana *IS* legal where I live. Good for the roomatiz.
[re=373749]Cherry Garcia[/re]: If the driver was crazy as a rabid dog, with a gun on his hip, and deeply entrenched in an “I AM PART OF THE THIN BLUE LINE THAT PROTECTS DECENT SOCIETY FROM EVILDOERS; I AM A BRAVE BELEAGUERED KNIGHT OF TRUTH AND DECENCY AND EVERY CITIZEN I MEET IS PROBABLY A TERRIBLE CRIMINAL, ESPECIALLY IF THEY’RE BROWN OR COUNTERCULTURAL-APPEARING!!” paranoid fantasy, constantly buttressed by all his coworkers and superiors and half the idiots in town, well … yeah. Maybe.
Ok — she should have stayed put … but remained quiet and respectful and calm in her speech. Hey!! Seems to me that’s pretty much what she *did* do. Doing it in front of a lot of credible witnesses helps, too.
But all you tough guys who don’t believe Sussemilch and me, or think we say these things because we’re Lackeys of The Man, etc. etc. etc. etc, I invite you to *please* come to LA and show me how you’re going to loudly defend your rights, how you’re not going to take any guff from the Boys in Blue. Show us how it’s done.
I’m not someone who fears a fair fight or generally shrinks from confrontation. But a fight that can end up in legally sanctioned deadly force, with my life wiped away and my reputation tarnished in court where my killer will lie about what I did and said, well … file it under “Not Worth It.” I’ll fight this bullshit in other ways than with my skull meeting nightstick or bullet, thanks.
Right and Dead doesn’t do anyone much good.
What, exactly, does the “Manhattan Borough Presidnet” actually do?
And–why do we need a “Manhattan Borough President?”
Furthermore, and we think everyone here will readily agree:
Why the stinking hell do we need a Deputy Press Secretary for a Manhattan Borough President?
People are losing their homes and their jobs, and taxpayers actually fund a “Deputy Press Secreary for a Manhattan Borough President?!!”
Gawd almighty.
[re=373818]thefrontpage[/re]: I wondered about that, too. Sounds like one of those “girlfriend jobs”.
[re=373676]DustBowlBlues[/re]: [re=373683]iolanthe[/re]: You two rock.
Although this post is SO 1:15PM, I just have to throw my two cents in that saying vaguely stupid things over Facebook shouldn’t get you fired. I’d be curious to see how far what is doubtlessly a pending lawsuit will go in the courts and how long before laws protecting freedom of speech on Twatter start being drafted by Congressmen who all now appear to twat all day long.
[re=373823]iolanthe[/re]: I started dating a man who runs his own business in the hopes that he would eventually hire me to, you know, proofread some specs and maybe occasionally blow him. Hasn’t happened yet, but if it does, I will request to have business cards made up that read “Deputy Press Secretary” so that people will understand my duties.
[re=373670]iolanthe[/re]: Not just the current reality, but immortal truth–Be nice and soothing to people with weapons.
[re=373863]Humpback[/re]: If Rosa Parks had stood up and yelled, “Hey, fuck you and the horse you rode in on! I am *not* moving! Just who the hell do you think you *are*?”, or even sputtered, “This is outrageous!” instead of coming on like a perfect and dignified church lady who just … was going to keep on sitting there, thank you, we would never have heard of her.
She’d have turned up dead in prison, an “apparent suicide”, as befell so many before her.
And maybe brown folks would *still* have to ride in the back of the bus.
I’m not saying Gates was loud. He probably wasn’t. Cops lie like rugs. He was probably just a bit annoyed and edging toward strident and pissy, like my little hippie friend right before the cops gave him his beating. I even suspect that, had Gates’ house been worth 1/5 of its value, or been in a worse neighborhood, he might well have been treated much worse than just getting cuffed and booked.
Race sends a message to cops.
But so does owning a nice piece of property. By the time Gates was cuffed and booked, they knew it was his house … so they only fucked with him a *little* …
At least,it seems Scotty wasn’t fucking Lee Lee.How refeshing
[re=373545]yourmirrorimage[/re]: Passive Aggressive much?
[re=373441]american mutt[/re]: There are idiots and then there are people who work in the office of one of the most Democratic politicans in the US writing O-dumb-a and signing her name to it.
[re=373570]S.Luggo[/re]: At least it led to a middlingly incomprehensible Post headline: GATES FLAP NAILS BEEP AIDE
[re=373544]problemwithcaring[/re]: As a white bread, law abiding wimp, I just want one simple thing answered, as a point of law. Is it against the law to argue with a cop? That’s all I want to know. It’s totally been lost in the discussion at an official level. But I really would like a clear answer.
[re=373471]clownshoez[/re]: “But HOW MUCH MORE can the white people do to correct past injustices of their ancestors?”
WTF? Remind me when exactly did black people get their 40 acres and a mule?
Here’s what you can do: stop being such racist pricks all the time. Fucking white people are such assholes.
[re=373944]Darkness[/re]: it can be. depends on the cop and the situation. it can be written up as failure to obey a lawful order, failure to obey a law enforcement officer, disorderly conduct, or a half-dozen or more other arcane offenses. the thing to remember is a cop is a kind of tool, very useful when you need one, but potentially dangerous if poorly used. they’re always on duty, they tend to divide the world into perps and victims, they routinely see things up close and real that most of the rest of us never see any closer than our viddy screens, and they never can be sure what might happen. they’re trained to control situations, which they do by controlling the people in those situations. they know that cops who do not stay on their toes and in control can be dead cops real quick. be nice to them. they can be real assholes, but usually only when provoked, which may not take very much to do. when you need one, there’s nothing better, but when one turns on you, there’s little that’s worse. it’s a jungle out there.
I hate it when the banhammer falls when I’m at work (where I am disallowed from wonketting)!
[re=373880]iolanthe[/re]: I think people, even the non-Crayola(tm) Flesh colored ones, just want to be left the hell alone.
I love cops and I wouldn’t do their job for all the tea in China, but you don’t get to arrest someone just because their an asshole. Otherwise, I’d be out citizen arresting like…well, there would just be a lot of those going on by me.
[re=373810]iolanthe[/re]: Not to equate Skip with RP (who expressed her Constitutional right in a demonstrative act of civil disobedience and actually broke a law) but to clarify: #1 In 1955 Montgomery, a Black woman telling any white man “No” on a public bus was very much akin to wide-eyed sputtering outrage. That incident marked the end of a long rope in tolerating the levels of harassment that others wrote off as justifiable/acceptable.
Two policemen came on the bus and one asked me if the driver had told me to stand and I said, “Yes.” And he wanted to know why I didn’t stand, and I told him I didn’t think I should have to stand up. And then I asked him, why did they push us around? And he said, and I quote him, “I don’t know, but the law is the law and you are under arrest.” ‘
#2: Rosa Parks was a grand lady, but would HER quiet and deliberative act have been contemplated without the harsh and brute arrest of a shrieking Claudette Colvin on the same bus line, just nine months prior? Parks saw what happened to the girl and knew the NAACP wanted to launch a boycott then.
#3: I think your sort of reasoning perfectly illustrates the reason why NAACP leaders in Alabama chose Rosa Parks (“the perfect victim” in the words of E.D. Nixon) as the rallying point to spark the boycotts in the first place. They publicized the arrest of this unassuming and soft-spoken Christian secretary precisely because they knew her character as unassailable and everyone would naturally want to assume that the (entitled/angry/uppity/young/ignorant/godless/_____) person must have been “loud,” “pissy” and therefore at fault for his/her own arrest, no matter how unconstitutional.
[re=373944]Darkness[/re]: Is it against the law to argue with a cop?
I think the problem is, when you are Black everything you do is arguing with a cop. And hurting firefighters.
“The Facebook: if you are employed, by anyone, do not use it. It will get you fired.”
I love this country!
Our freedom of speech is protected and the government doesn’t silence us for having unpopular opinions and expressing them in a public forum.
That’s the corporations’ job.
They censor us so the government doesn’t have to.
GO ‘MRRRIKA!
[re=373964]slappypaddy[/re]: That’s a very roundabout way to say “yes”, which is in itself, along with the parsing, instructive.
The line between me and my rights is thinnest when it’s blue. I wish as a country we were having a dialog about this rather than race-card playing.
[re=373597]102415[/re]: Your screen name catches my attention. Is it a reference to Henry V’s talk with the troops on the evening before Agincourt? Some good scribbling, that.
@norbiznes: Is there a reason you quoted one of the funniest bits –out of context–from “I’m Gonna Git You Sucka” without attribution? Cuz, nah. Even if–especially if you’re a fan–give credit. Beside, it’s funnier when 8 yr; old blonde cherubs say it.
[re=373613]Sussemilch[/re]: Suck authoritarian cock much? Seriously, how ridiculous are you? It’s because of people like you that cops expect people to jump on their dick if they ask you to.
all of the filthy, disgusting ad rude commets directed at myself and others just continue to prove my initial point: this world has become rude and self-centered. People can run their mouth but they can’t take any criticizm when called on their ignorance. It’s a pity you people have not the humility to see yourselves as what you really are.
[re=373501]Extemporanus[/re]: Not a coincidence. Just your ignorace showing thru again. Or should I stay still
[re=373543]hobospacejunkie[/re]: Thank you, you disgusting pig.
[re=374007]GreatOldOnesParty[/re]: The government doesn’t test innocent peoples’ pee either. Oh no. We’re so free! That, too, is the corporations’ job.
[re=374208]yourmirrorimage[/re]: So like you are so much smarter than us because you claim to be just like us but in reverse.
Well you do have the reverse of funny.
[re=374208]yourmirrorimage[/re]: We like rude. Well I do, I don’t care about the others as long as they make me laugh.
[re=374208]yourmirrorimage[/re]:
criticism
did you miss your bus?
standin’ on a corner,
suitcase in your hand
i’m not really here right now. where are you really not?
. . . I have to admit, my favorite part of this article is the “Here it is” graphic.
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Deflation or inflation??? There’s no question – INFLATION is coming. Ill let you guys argue about it all day. I’m buying more gold. Silver too. Heres the simplest explanation why Juniors are still just waking up. Gold has not been able to stay above 1000 yet. Wait till it hits 1100 or 1200. Then people will realize. This article is a great place to get started :tinyurl.com/cheap-gold-now
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