- There is so much civil disobedience happening everywhere, except here in terrible America, where it is probably needed the most: Mubarak is in coma-exile, Iran just exploded again, and there’s been all sorts of anti-government protests and political unrest in Bahrain, Yemen and Libya. The United States has lots of navy boats stationed in Bahrain, and Barack Obama’s precious Predator drones are very busy killing all the browns in Yemen — so obviously these reasonable demands for basic human rights and political reform are terrifying and horribly dangerous to our National Security and our beloved, XXXXL Homeland. Incredible. [BBC/BBC/NYT]
- Did we try to smuggle weapons and surveillance equipment into Argentina? Probably! [WSJ]
- Food prices are at “dangerous levels,” so hoard as much canned anus as possible! [BBC]
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These are hard times indeed when hard-workin' Amerkins can't even afford to put fresh anus on the table.
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You must be one of them rich if you even think about fresh anus. When I was growing up we had canned anus on Sunday and WE WERE HAPPY TO HAVE IT.
It's okay if you fry it and then add a little mustard–that's how we roll with anus down south.
Up north, we elitists saute it in truffle oil and add a dollop of Dijon mustard. I garnished anus once with brown mustard, but it looked kind of eewww.
That wasn't mustard.
You mean you elitists sat in truffle oil, for that specially prepared anus.
Watch for the upcoming episode of Iron Chef America featuring anus, both canned and fresh. Wait until you see what Bobby Flay does with it!
Wow. Also may I just say that I am impressed with the size of your p-ness.
Awww…thanks. Not sure if I should mention I don't know what the hell the p-thing even means…kind of like when I accidentally make up a word in Words with Friends & then get 80 points.
I'm happy to join you folks in the triple digit p-ness club, today.
As for what it means, I'm pretty sure that the more p-ness you have, the better.
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It could have been worse, you could have had to eat ramen noodles.
That was for weeknights…and also, college.
Ramen noodles are an awesome comfort food, also good when you are broke. I officially knew I was poor when I had to start buying generic ramen that came 12 to the $1. Not as delicious as the top shelf 4 for a $1 kind, but they filled the need.
The ne plus ultra is the Shin Ramyun, throw in some sliced shiitakes, scallions, a few little shrimp, and an egg, and you have seriously good food there.
When I was in college a friend and I ran the math and realized that the poors have no excuse for being poor. For $20.00 a week they can feed themselves two meals a day (a meal being a $1.00 can of baked beans) and have $6.00 left over to buy a Penguin edition to better themselves and escape the misery brought about by their scandalous lack of education.
And we haz to crawl uphill 20 mile in da blizzerd ta go git it – both ways.
Yeah, we ate canned anus too. But a lot of times, the gelatinous substance it was packed in had more flavor than the anus itself.
We're sick to death with the stench of them. Look. The cat's just choked itself to death on them. I don't care if I never see another anus till the day I die!
And when there was no anus to be found, we ate sand.
Fear not. Our leaders will assure continuing affordability of all the high-fructose nutrition we might desire.
Austerity we haz it.
It's Arturo-Mania at State!
We would rise up against tyranny but it's so hard to get up from the couch, plus the mini-frige and remote are right here and my personal scooter is still recharging from that time I had to roll away really fast with purloined Cheetos.
Exactly.
Do we have to march in the streets? Can't we just put something on Twitter instead?
I think a Tumblr would be more effective. Fuckyeahcivildisobedience.tumblr.com?
Can't we just put something on Twitter instead?
Tweeting is the new "phoning it in."
I think you mean "drive our rascal scooters in the streets." How many Amurikans are capable of marching these days?
Hell, Americans won't even go on a beer run unless we're already drunk.
I'm stocking up on Zombie food.
Better use the margarine option…and only egg whites… gotta watch what you put in your body ya know.
That is icky!
Oh, wow. What the fuck is wrong with me–I'm actually curious about that "scrambled eggs and brains" recipe….
I just love the 1170% of recommended daily cholesterol rating per serving.
It would probably be safer to eat the can.
Crikey, I didn't even notice that! Hey, may as well add some eggs, then.
Don't forget – cheese makes everything taste better.
There's actually lots of civil disobedience in the ordinarily very polite state of Wisconsin, since their Governor decided he'd go all 1930s union-busting on their asses.
yes, we are the Bahrain of the Midwest.
This needs to replace "America's Dairyland" or "Famous Cheese" or whatever they have on Wisconsin license plates.
Here's a new motto for them:
The Cheeseheads are Revolting!
The Cheese Has Turned!
Should I change the background color of my Twitter avatar or something to feign support for the Wisconsin socialist who want to hurt the rich by demanding their "rights" to eat actual food, have a roof over their head, get paid a decent wage for labors performed, and and and…. and a bunch of other shit the C-suite occupants are trying hard to make exclusively theirs?
Here's a peek into the intellectual heft, or lack thereof, of the Governor. A coupla years back, I was at the local cineplex at the metro area's most trafficked mall, & who comes in but the then-County Executive, his wife, & their sons. What film are they seeing? Wild Hogs (the Tim Allen-Martin Lawrence "gotta pay for the cocaine" road-trip film (Travolta & William H. Macy were along for the ride)).
Conversely, I have twice seen the man who lost the governor's race: once, to see Akilah & the Bee, with his daughter, & quite recently, to see The King's Speech, with his wife.
Is it any wonder I hate the out-state? &, for that matter, Waukesha (my ancestral home, where there is a street named for my family)? People are stupid… No, strike that: willfully ignorant.
We would protest on the Capital MallState St. if we knew he paid $8.50 per ticket for "Wild Hogs", let alone this.
200 deranged teabaggers yelling anti-Obama stuff- Wall to wall coverage.
10,000 Union middle Americans fighting for their rights-crickets.
Middle CLASS, idiot. Bah, antihistamines.
Schools here are closed today too, http://www.wfrv.com/news/local/Madison-schools-cl... round two at the Capital.
Now that's something for Wisconites to be proud of; but they still actually elected that evil piece of shit who's trying to fuck over the state.
ohhh, I hear you. You could see this shit coming from the first teabagger protests last summer. The analogous thing is its the uneducated white (common clay) that lost their collective shit when we all elected Obama.
Word on the street is Walker has enough support in each house to make this happen. At least we didn't just roll over.
I give credit to the firefighters, who are exempt from the ban on collective bargaining, for marching — & for making the cops's hypocrisy that much plainer — & to the Green Bay Packers. Apparently, a few former & current (?) players were in Madison for the protests.
Now, if only we could get Gilbert Brown to dig Scott Walker's electoral grave.
Interestingly enough, this 5 news story has Intense Debate as the commenting system if anybody wants to go raise a ruckus http://www.wfrv.com/news/local/Madison-schools-cl...
There are some horrible people there calling teachers overpaid and calling on them to be fired; I went for a bit of warblogging (and warthumbing).
In my long-ago youth our family would traverse Wisconsin repeatedly on our way from Chicago to Minnesota and back, and I have fond memories of obscure places like La Crosse, Ladysmith, Janesville, Eau Claire, Winona, Thienesville, and even smoky industrial Superior. It seemed civil, green, maybe a bit boring. From whence came all this current krazee talk and wingnuttery?
People occasionally break down while traveling the interstate, and are idle long enough to breed.
I blame the Mustard Museum in Mt. Horeb.
Sadly, the Mustard Museum is now in a suburb of Madison. But the Grumpy Troll Brewpub remains!
http://mustardmuseum.com/
Do not piss off teachers.
If there's one thing underpaid union teachers know how to do,it is find a way to not show up for work. And I mean that as a compliment, as a former non-tenured professor who got forced to take furlough days last year even though I had a contract with no such provision.
Amen! Teachers can take a pile of crap and turn it into a literate human being. Teachers, of all stripes, need to be paid more and taken for granted less.
Thank you for your service Berkeley
Why are we smuggling weapons to Argentina? Is someone re-starting the Falklands War (just in time to preempt William & Kate's wedding)?… Why can't we let those kids be happy for once?
Why smuggle the weapons? Just offer Argentina a nice aid package in exchange for looking the other way.
Why can't we let those kids be happy for once?
Listen, if you just go and let kids be happy once, they're going to want to be happy a second time, and a third, then a fourth. See what this gets you? Day dreaming about how things could be instead of toiling in the Buckingham Palace diamond mines for the pleasure of HRH E2R – the bloody way it ought to be!
Hey, once pretty boy Wills and his lovely bridge-to-be have met their quota, they'll be free to wed, have a lovely afternoon tea, and then it's BACK TO THE MINEZZZZZZ!!!! Liz needs moar shiny carbon nuggets!
I'm guessing it was a typo, but bridgetobe is an epic way to describe a woman who's only absolute duty from here on out is to provide the next generation of royal spawn (maybe one of whom will actually get the crown, since Libby seems to plan on outliving Harry and William).
Didn't US America invade and bomb the fuck out of Yemen, Iran, Libya, Bahrain and Egyptia? Cause that's how I was taught Demokrazy is supposed to be spread.
How do I knows? Gots my degree at the Dick "Dick" Cheney/Wolfie Wolfowitz/PNAC Skule of Peace and Democrappy through Death and Destruction with a minor in typerighter repairz.
A little civil disobedience would be refreshing for the US of A. Unfortunately, freedom of speech and right of assembly would be met with rubber bullets, nerve gas and the National Guard. Tea Bag America demands conformity to their doctrine.
I have always been revolted by the HUAAC. If our system's so fuckin' great, why would it matter if someone actually dared exercise their rights and went to a Communist Party meeting?
That's very similar to my feelings when right-wing Christians wax furious about any negativism toward their religion. If your God is so great and your faith is so firm, it seems like a little criticism wouldn't be a big deal.
…AND they wouldn't feel the need to rag on other faiths in an attempt to make theirs seem good in comparison.
The Muslin fundamentalists' faith is even stronger, cuz they'll kill you if you point out any inconsistencies in their religion.
So will "Crusaders".
Keep that noise to the Free Speech
CagesZones, hippies.When you decide in advance you're going to fail, it saves you the trouble of actually doing so. Very convenient! Now, what's on cable tonight?
Rubber bullets? We will wish. More like this thing…
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=6007823...
Heat 'em up, heat 'em up…. gooooo team!
People in the Middle East whose countries are ruled by insane autocrats, military dictators, religious zealots or just plain maniacs, all backed by secret police, Praetorian guards and armed mobs of supporters tweet and post to facebook in order to organize huge demonstrations against the government, risking their lives and livelihoods.
Here in the United States of Amerikkka we tweet and post to facebook.
And bitch on Wonkette…don't forget the Wonkette
I would protest, but I might miss Dancing With The Stars.
I get mad and yell at my TV. It's my civic duty.
If it wasn't for arms dealing, our economy would have collapsed decades ago! Them weapons aren't just going to up and use themselves, you know.
Training and arming the terrorist class of 2011.
So that's why South Dakota is proposing to require that all peeples in that state have a gun – for economic development and jobz.
Considering how the protests against the invasion of Iraq were covered, if Americans did rise up against tyranny we'd have to watch Al Jazeera (maybe BBC news) to know about it.
Covering protests won't get you any viewers. TV News is better when you show clips of a local news reporter suddenly speaking gibberish at the Grammys or security camera footage of a woman so absorbed with texting that she walks straight into a fountain at the local mall.
Now they also love fires, murders and special reports – What item that you probably have in your home might KILL YOUR KIDS? Watch at 11 to find out!
Do I hate local news? Let me count the ways…
Never watch it. Never.
Maybe if everyone protested nude – that would get some coverage.
You may be right.
At one time Houston was considering a ban on thong bikini bottoms on swimsuits (I know). There was a protest outside city hall – four women in thong bikinis, every news organization in town from the TV stations to the free newspapers, and about 2000 male onlookers.
Does this Héctor Timerman guy who stole Barry's C-17 in Argentina work for the Mossad? A little insurance against too much freedomz in the Middle East? The Mossad has a long history in Argentina going back to pinching Adolf Eichmann there in 1960. Or is it about the gauchos and anus burgers, or maybe the Falklands, or maybe…
And they used to be run by a man married to born-again Kabbalist Madonna.
if he works for the Mossad, he's certainly done a good job covering up for it with his incessant published attacks on Israel.
America had its own set of dirty wars going on in South America in those days, none of which centered on the middle east, cf Allende.
Iffin' yer undercover, or in the closet, yer not what you appear, like some Rethug ghey-bashers who later are caught with a wide-stance?
This is good for Jaun McCain, who noted yesterday that the only country in the ME that wasn't rioting was Iraq, because you know, USA FREEDOM. Except of course, he's wrong. I'm sure he'll explain himself on the Sunday shows.
Israel's rioting?
Will Netanyahu decimate his own population, for spite? (Word to the wise: Bibby = Berlusconi – hookers.)
I can't wait for him to tell us how this is further proof that George Bush was right!
Mr. Timerman, who is highly critical of Argentina's media, is a former journalist. He spends much of his day bashing journalists, opposition politicians and critics via Twitter.
Timerman wasting his time as Foreign Minister of Argentina–he is obviously cut out to be a Wonkette commentator.
Thought you were going with Sarah Palin.
Fortunately the Bahrain government has restricted access to the Internet — without their Twitterz the Bahrainis will never know how much they hate their leaders.
One step closer to "I'm so hungry I could eat a cold, dented can of smashed assholes" becoming less funny.
You want Hobo beans with that?
The above image is reminding me: if the grain shortage prevails as expected, will $20.99 ice cream cakes be considered a bargain in comparison?
Riley had to pay extra to have "Fuck the Police" written in icing.
Oh, not only eating cake but "ice cream cakes" huh?
Nice.
Brown people wanting freedom is a direct threat to our way of life. So we need to criminalize abortion to maintain the number of healthy white babies to fight the mud people. Deficits bad, also.
Mud People? Is that from Lost?
No, seriously, I never watched. Is why I always assumed the Smoke Monster was just a prop from Snoop Dogg's live-show.
"Entitlements" and Public Sector Unions caused the collapse. Everybody knows that.
Don't leave out Franklin Raines & Fannie & Freddie.
Nuh uh… it was Obama.
Add Christian to the healthy white babies, and that's the actual stated purpose of the odious Quiverfull movement/cult; the group the disgusting Duggars of TLC's 19 kids and counting belong to.
It's all Southwest Asia to the Euros. Or, at least, the Brits.
Israel's different because it's the "Only Democracy in the Middle East". Even though it's not really a democracy.
Turkey takes offense.
Nah; Turkey prefers to consider themselves part of Europe and not the Middle East, geography be damned.
&, technically, Egypt is African, & Iranians aren't Arabs (nor Semites, even). But, y' know…
That's one of great bonuses of the Egypt revolution: Putting an end to the "only democracy in the middle east" bullshit.
Why, yes, I do believe a good, old-fashioned American riot would really make my day.
BRING ON THE PINKERTONS!
Duck and cover, motherfucker!
Oh I remember. My little wooden desk was going to protect me from the thermal nuclear blast. Everything around me would be in flames. My teacher would be incinerated before my very eyes, but I, yes me, would be saved by little wooden desk.
USA USA USA
One of our evacuation strategies was, no kidding, when you see the flash, lay down in the gutter and that extra 4 inches of concrete will save you! Except that everything above the gutter will be ashes, but nevermind.
When, after a 40-year drought, the Chicago White Sox won the AL pennant in 1959, Mayor Daley set off the air raid sirens in celebration. Scared the shit out of everybody. Yeah it seemed silly to go down into the dank dusty basement of our elementary school once a week during "air raid drills," but our preparedness scared the Soviet Union into dissolution, so it worked! USA, fuck yeah!
You know who else is a White Sox rooter…?
It seems to have worked, as we are here to tell the tale!
As long as you remember to put your hands over the back of your neck.
Food price inflation is felt disproportionately by the poor, who spend over half their income on food World Bank Group President Robert B. Zoellick said.
Hell if it is just the poor people who aren't even white that are having problems, what's the worry. As long as we white peoples can afford our Cheetos and anus burgers food prices are fine.
But what about people who can't afford to close their italics?
OOPS.
Ooh – burn!! She's a cold-hearted PsycWench.
I meant it in a loving and caring way.
Ok, now that all the Middle Eastern countries are attacking themselves, can we fly the 'Mission Accomplished' banner and slash the defense budget?
There is never a wrong time to fly the Mission Accomplished banner. As an Exceptional American, I unfurl a massive one and hoist it above my house everyday I make it home from my long commute of texting while driving.
Are we going to fight the Arentinians over there so we don't have to fight them here?
The map on FOX News says Argentina is just to the north of Iceland. Will we have fleece blankets in addition to body armor for our Humvees this time?
I believe you mean "Argentinnyinians."
Our brave tea-partiers are revolting, they have been revolting for 3 years now, fighting against the repression of the white christian majority by the tyranny of the massive leftist conspiracy of socialists, acorns, elites and minorities. The tea-partiers are the most revolting people on earth!
The teabaggers have been revolting for a lot longer than three years; pretty much since their birth. Take a shower and diet, you stinky assholes!
Declaration of Independence: "When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. We hold these truths to be self-evident…
Teabaggers: "Me no like taxes! Taxes bad!"
RE: Acorns- You've got to kill them before they grow.
If you don't, they could grow into something useful, like a mighty oak.
A bit of anus makes a great tossed salad.
or a catcher's mitt?
"Argentina's relations with the U.S. took a sharp turn for the worse Monday…"
Their relations with us? While we were taking…uh… "training supplies" into their country?
There is oil there too right? Drill baby drill… but first we have to take in… ahem.." training supplies"
As soon as we all come to the realisation that the southern terminus of the Appalachian Trail lies in Argentina, we'll all get along fapulously.
"Public" bomb shelters? You must be kidding. Anybody who is ANYBODY will be sure to pay their membership dues to private shelter clubs. They're very exclusive, you know.
*Turning off the news* "A double shot of Scotch, Jeeves. With cough syrup on the side. And, uh…close the door."
That's the idea! My personal preference is Bombay Sapphire, but scotch will do in a pinch.
adding some Hamburger Helper to canned anus goes a long way and makes a tasty casserole.
I happen to know this is the anus express.
Please now, somebody say something funny.
We're supposed to earn our p-ness here. You can't just expect people to give it to you, all the time, vigorously and repeatedly, for no special reason.
HUHUHUHNUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUHUH, you said p-ness.
Hey, this is a group-thumbing, a circle-thumbing, like in the boy scouts.
It works better if you use your fingers while thumbing your p-ness.
Never, I imagine. We don't maintain shit, anymore. They probably have them all sealed off due to "insurance reasons" I'd guess.
"the more p-ness you have, the better"
That's what I've been lead to believe.
Still at 99 – damn it. Someone push me over the top! Can't a cat catch a break?
Thumbthing for everyone. A thumb in every pot, two thumbs in every garage.
I thumbed you, in hopes to push your p-ness over that magical 100 mark. Yes, apparently, when it comes to p-ness, more does matter.
Once you go into the magic land of the 100+ p, everything changes. The color of your score is slightly different, and… no that's pretty much it.
I've upfisted everyone on the entire thread, because I'm a commie like that.
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I never recovered from fistalnacht either.
Thumbs up for all – I love you guys!
You made it!!!
Ah, to be young again with all the answers.
(Yeah, I lived on ramen, dent and scratch canned goods, and chicken backs. You can do it, but it gets tiresome after a while.)
Of course the cops aren't joining the protests; their collective bargaining rights are protected, and I for one have never met a cop who wasn't a right-wing, racist ass.
One "Gilby Burger" would probably do it.
and Soros, I dont know where you live, but all of my experiences here with the "cops" over the years have been refreshingly above board.
I thumbed you for thumbing Cat.
I'm in Philly, and the cops here all seem bad; hell, I know one guy who joined the force and after about a year had become flat-out overtly racist, and he hadn't been before. And there's been a ton of corruption cases along with those cops who've complained being harassed and kicked out on phony charges.
You're getting into Hot Pot territory – seriously good eating, IMHO.
That's totally cheating, but yeah… that's how I rolled with the Ramen in college too. My recipe involved adding:
an egg
green and yellow squash.
onion
mushrooms
shrimp or chicken
Mmmmmm… good eatin' plus you still get to reminisce to spoiled kids today about how you practically lived on Ramen in college.
Luis Aparicio?
Me. For realz, and forevah.
You want to know what real civility looks like?
It's when a bird gives up-thumbs to a cat.
Nelly Fox, Sherman Lollar, Billy Pierce, Early Wynn…don't get me started
Any Real American knows that nothing goes with sauteed anus like Santorum™!
Ah, Philly cops -making South Boston seem slightly less racist, and Oakland Cops downright angelic.
But at least our cops aren't as bad as Los Angeles'!
A whole lot of the Crusaders would kill you even if you shared their religion. Nothing says genuine religious movement like sacking one ofthe holest cities of your own religion (Constantinople).
I just gave you one according to your need.
Nellie Fox. What are you, a Cubs fan? Sheesh…
A Cubs fan? This is blood libel! I grew up on the South Side! But you are correct, sir or madam, about the spelling of Hall-of-Famer Nellie’s name.Cubs fans, particularly the Superstation-generated neo-Cubs fans who’ve never lived in Chicago, are frivolous  poseurs, of course. Before the blasphemous lights were installed at Wrigley, they were the wealthy who could afford to attend mid-afternoon baseball games during the work week.
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