- Americans are fat and poor, mostly because of those damn muslins and their evil mosques and kor-annes and prayer carpeting. [Matt Yglesias]
- The White House built a ramp in honor of the 20th anniversary of Disabled Americans, and also because Joe Biden kept falling down the stairs. [Washington Examiner]
- Bastion of Tolerance Bill O’Reilly loves the gays more than Barack Obama does. Ergo: Impeach Hopey, Bill O’Reilly 2012. [AMERICAblog]
- Have you heard about these “Trig Troofers,” you know, the people who think Trig was an inside job? Well this hardly comes as a surprise, but at least two of these “Troofers” are communists who write for The American Prospect. [RedState]
- Posh-Pants David Cameron called Gaza “a prison camp.” Why is David Cameron so anti-Semitic? [The Daily Dish]
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July 27, 2010
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All this time I thought we were fat and poor because of the gays.
Does anyone read The American Prospect?? I’ve never touched a copy.
Clearly Hopey will now be required to move further to the left by making military service mandatory for the gays. Or would he have to require all military personnel to become gay? This issue is so confusing.
What about the Hookworm Troofers?
The American Prospect is not good at the snark. When they try the snark, they lose the funny. When they play it straight, it’s comedy gold.
I haven’t read Americablog in ages because it started becoming nothing but complaints that Obama is a homophobic stealth conservative who’s basically just like Bush. Following that link vindicates that decision.
Birf cert or GTFO, Trig. How do we even know that kid isn’t an illegal alien?
Is O’Reilly step dancing his way out of his celtic closet? Can’t wait to see the video. Maybe for background music Long Tall Sally, a Penniman Black Irish ballad about an over-the-hill transvestite.
It is a good thing for RedState that no one there has ever promoted a bizarre conspiracy theory claiming that someone was lying about a birth, otherwise they’d look pretty stupid and hypocritical right now.
Nah Let Bill be Str8 and sit on his vibrator jacking off to some girl he wants to sexually harass.
The ADA anniversary has given the libertarian loons an excuse to whine about how unfaaaaaaair the world is to able-bodied taxpayers everywhere, such as this marvelous specimen on an NPR comment thread: “People have no right to force me to pay for their physical problems in any way. Let alone forcing private businesses to pay who knows how much to accomdate these people…Now that said if a store owner decided to build a ramp or whatnot to accomodate people thats his buesiness and a good business idea to slightly enlarge his customer base. Same as if I choose to give money to a charity to help crippled people. One is the action of a free man and one is the action of an enslaved man.”
Would it be uncivil of me to wish that moran a C-4 spinal cord injury?
[re=626670]DoktorZoom[/re]: Well, considering that Rand Paul advocated that businesses should be allowed to choose whether or not to sell to the Coloreds ™, this stance is not surprising. But at least Trig would not have been aborted by command of the Obama Death Panel.
[re=626670]DoktorZoom[/re]: No, C-4 is current etiquette acceptable, but a C-2 snapper would be stretching it.
From the redstate comments: “the sheep who follow those on the Left are easily distracted”
This is true, proven by the fact that I followed the link to read it.
OK, I’ll take your “pair of troofers who work at a magazine” and raise you dozens of GOP elected officials and just about the entire Tea Party leadership who are birthers.
Lets see what side of the political spectrum exhibits the kraaaayzee in greater quantities.
Personally, I welcome our muslim overlords. The rule us through imaginary fear even when we don’t see them.
[re=626664]JMP[/re]: Honestly, I’m the last one to defend Erick son of someone with an equally ridiculous name, but he actually did have the decency to not only publicly call birthers idiots, but to banish them from his terrible blog, also, eventually.
There’s plenty of reprehensible shit that he does allow on his blog, including advocatcy of outright violence, I mean the anti-birther stance and admitting that people got the Sherrod story wrong are basically the only two decent things that ever happened on Redstate, so we should be able to limit ourselves to the the terrible things he’s actually done, is all.
because Joe Biden kept falling down the stairs
Weak sauce, Waggaman. A true student of history would know that Gerald Ford fell up that same flight of stairs.
[re=626739]mumblyjoe[/re]: What? A lieberal standing up for Erick the Redstater, and using “facts”? As a reader of the internets, I happen to know that such things just do not happen!
I see where the teabagging trailer trash is having an anti-mosque rally in LA and urging members to bring dogs, “because Muslims hate dogs.” I am also urging them to carry a pork chop. That really drives Islams nuts.
[re=626670]DoktorZoom[/re]: Persons with disabilities have chosen their lifestyle, so, yes.
[re=626754]DoktorZoom[/re]: It’s just economy of effort – it takes less time to document the non-atrocities there.
Isn’t Troofer a character from 30 Rock?
[re=626759]WadISay[/re]: That’s brilliant. Bring dogs, because muslims hate dogs (I’m sure I heard that somewhere). Also bring firehoses, because muslims live in the desert where there is very little water. Finally, wear white sheets to remind muslims of their burqas, which are black.
[re=626664]JMP[/re]:
Notice the way that article is designed to marginalize The American Prospect by making a “cheerful suggestion” that they distance themselves from these particular journolist participants or risk “being raked over the coals?” There’s always a method to wingnut madness, and this “breaking scandal” is an attempt to undermine a well known progressive blog site with links to the Obama administration. But its being done “cheerfully” so its all good.
You know, I’m actually somewhat sympathetic to the line of reasoning two of those guys are actually making- if the plane story is true, then Sarah Palin so monstrously insane and irresponsible, or else equally so callous and hypocritical, that the idea that the whole thing is a lie and Trig isn’t really her baby starts to be the most appealing of the available options. It’s just also highly, highly, unlikely that the whole thing’s a lie, and Trig is more or less certainly her child.
Which leaves us with monstrous, hypocritical, callous, irresponsible sociopath Sarah. Hurray!!
[re=626859]mumblyjoe[/re]: As a parent, I think its only natural to question the logic of a woman who goes into labor and hops on a plane back to Alaska instead of checking into a local hospital to have her child. Its perfectly OK to wonder what’s really going on with that whole scenario without going to Andrew Sullivan levels of obsessive idiocy.
How do we know that being in labor at high altitude didn’t contribute to young Trick’s being born with Downs Syndrome? Is it irresponsible to speculate? IT WOULD BE IRRESPONSIBLE NOT TO!
[re=626874]eclecticbrotha[/re]: Oh, absolutely- Sully’s weird obsessions are, well, weird, and obsessive. And the Trig stuff and the Levi stuff is doubly unfortunate because it starts to drown out the wider “Sarah Palin is insane, and a sociopath, and has way too good a shot at the Republican nomination next time ’round” message with a whole bunch of crazy.
My only point is that Schmitt’s point and arguably the main thrust of Matthew’s as well (though he does start to verge into Sully territory at the end, but only after explaining just what I did above, that the alternatives make her look like a reprehensible person, so he’s rejecting it on wishful-thinking grounds) shouldn’t be considered “Trig Birtherism/Trutherism/etc”, as they’re mainly arguing that Palin’s own account makes her out to be either innumerate or indifferent to the risks involved and to such a degree that it would be better (counterfactually) if the kid weren’t hers and the whole thing were (counterfactually) a lie.
The worst of Sully’s crap, with the “she doesn’t look pregnant” stuff, absolutely horseshit, don’t get me wrong. But it shouldn’t be “Trig Birtherism” to argue that the only way a halfway-reasonable person would do what she did is if she was “Leaving [Trig] in God’s Hands”- which is to say, not having an abortion, per se, but also not going out of her way not to miscarry, either. (Is exactly what I mean about a conspiracy theory looking not so damning by comparison)
[re=626874]eclecticbrotha[/re]: To answer your speculation, Downs is a genetic disorder, and not likely to be caused by flying while in labor. However, my uneducated guess would be that high altitude could contribute to Cerebral Palsy or some other disorder in which lack of oxygen to the child’s brain might cause some damage. So, I would still think that flying while in labor is a bad idea.
But speculation is fun, huh?
[re=626963]proudgrampa[/re]: Flying while leaking fluids of any kind is generally a bad idea, if you care about “infections”. Contrary to popular belief, the reason so many people catch ill during the holidays has less to do with the cold air, and a great deal more to do with the fact that they’re spending extended amounts of time in enclosed spaces breathing the same recycled air as dozens of other people.
Oh, plus, probably not a good idea to take a 12 hour airplane ride when giving birth to something that has maybe 50/50 odds of needing immediate cardiac surgery once it pops out. ALSO.
[re=626963]proudgrampa[/re]: Lack of oxygen to $arah’s own brain hasn’t hurt anything, now has it?
[re=626962]mumblyjoe[/re]: I wasn’t dissing your point at all. The dumbest thing in all this is winger sites trying to take the random musings of a few bloggers/journalists and create this well-organized conspiracy that supports the rest of the right’s paranoid delusions about them liberals. This still reads like a prelude to the next orchestrated attack on a progressive organization (The American Prospect) to me.
Whatever, Palin didn’t look pregnant at 7 months and even her closest associates were surprised when she told them she was with child. Alaskan Legislators mentioned that if she was pregnant “she was cleverly disguised”. A month later she did a news interview looking hugely pregnant, but then flew to Dallas for a speech and none of the flight attendants noticed she was pregnant either on the way to Dallas or on the way back, after her water supposedly broke. She knew she was giving birth to a high risk infant but went to our local hospital that doesn’t even deliver twins. She then took this 1-month premature Down syndrome infant to work with her 2 days after his birth and let him be passed around the office. Meanwhile her daughter was missing in action for a 5 months with a bad case of mononucleosis. You decide. I don’t think it’s crazy at all to doubt the crazy woman’s story. Especially a crazy woman that says categorically that she does not believe in coincidence.
[re=626976]mumblyjoe[/re]: You’re sounding like Joe Biden with the “stay off airplanes” stuff… But I’m liking the notion that she jumped on that airplane for an 8+ hour trip home as a passive aggressive abortion attempt.
[re=627132]Clancy_Pants[/re]: Eh, I might be overstating things a bit with the “Stay off airplanes, and take Amtrack instead, also every 7-11 is run by Indians” shtick, yeah. But neonatal infections are sort of a big fucking deal, all the same, and if something’s coming out, it’s a safe bet that’s something’s getting in. Also.
Of course, that’s only one of like five or six reasons you wouldn’t want to get on a plane while experiencing contractions and “leaking fluid” at 8 months with a Down’s syndrome kid. Of course, one of those reasons is that it would be deeply shitty and inconsiderate to dozens of other people to force an emergency landing on a commericial airliner for a stupid, avoidable reason, and who here thinks Snowbilly Grifter actually gives a shit how many people she might potentially incovenience or terrorize, if it meant she might get stuck in Dallas or need to take a later flight or something.
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