Teabagger rallies are happening across the country today because Teabaggers thought April 15 is Tax Day this year; it’s not. Probably worried about another embarrassingly low turnout, no event was held in D.C. Your editor, like a number of other blog types in New York City, stopped by the one in Foley Square, which organizers bragged was the only event covered by Fox News, even though turnout was pretty pathetic here too. Above, look, the NOBAMAs have emerged from their slumber! At least we think so. The circle with a line through it technically means this sign means “no NOBAMA.” Is this Tebagger an Obama supporter with a sense of humor, or is she just dumb?
“Hood.” You know, black people stuff. (Yes, they hate Robin Hood. These guys are HUGE Richard I fans.)
No idea what the furry blunt object on this man’s sign is. Some kind of weird dildo? Which tax is he referring to? Does he know there are a lot of different taxes?
A Batman and a Robin ran around, of course. Sure.
This fellow is going to ruin the Democratic Party by linking them to John F. Kennedy, a very popular president we put on our money.
If you can’t decide on a sign to make, just put a lot of little stuff that’s hard to read on there! We’re still trying to figure out the Glenn Beck part. His show is appoint viewing for the president? Because it’s just that good?
This man’s hoodie said “POLITICAL ACTIVIST.” His hat said “FIRE PELOSI.” You know, just in case anyone got confused as to what was going on.
The same idiot was holding his patriotic-prayer flag backwards for a while until this guy helped him.
And finally, the biggest fashion statement of them all: the guy wearing a bloody sling around his head. See, Obama? He doesn’t need health care. He can fix it himself.
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Why do these idgits think that they are being taxed more? Their taxes got lowered, along with the rich folks.
Love the Batman and Robin costumes. I remember them from that porn movie, "Batman in Robin"
I get the feeling that they don't really belong in the protest. Perhaps they took a wrong turn on their way to Chelsea.
Yeah, they sort of look like they're photo-bombing, don't they?
("Photo-bombing – that's some sort of term the kids use today, isn't it?")
& isn't that Nancy Pelosi behind the man holding the "Obama is a Robbin' Hood" sign?
And Lurch showed up, too!
And their music – don't get me started!
"why don't you slide down that bat pole into my bat cave."
I keep tellin ya–"fookin'" before "idgits". The damn trademark police are lookin you over pretty good right now.
I am going to try harder, promise. Otherwise, I would look like a fookin' idgit!
"Feckin eejit" is an acceptable, Gaelic-abusive alternative. See McDonagh, Martin, any play.
Personal fav: "back to work boys, these bodies aren't going to chop themselves up."
Buttman and Rubbin'.
I thought the fat girl with the sign next to them was more indicative of the crowd. Lard baggers out protesting the health care they are going to need but won't get.
It's hard to tell with the mask but isn't the guy in the Robin suit James O'Keefe?
Could be a jockstrap.
I was thinking sideways orthopedic granny panties.
Ew.
He actually looks like the guy that was always going to the chin-a-dontist in Fernwood Tonight.
Only the most serious, dedicated teabaggers actually wear jockstraps on their faces. You know, to drive the point home.
I can't be the only one that thought the "he" may be very masculine-looking "she", right?
I am not touching that with a ten inch pole
The good part is that it probably keeps him from opening his pie-hole.
I'm confused– is Obama the President of Brazil as well?
Can't be – they don't have black people, remember? (at least according to baby Bush)
"Is this Tebagger an Obama supporter with a sense of humor, or is she just dumb?"
I'm gonna go with dumb.
Is there really a difference anymore?
What, a sense of humor in a teabagger? I DO NOT THINK SO!(and yes,that is yelling-) And pretty sure, as a strong Muslin Kenyan OVerlord supporter myself- we would not go to one of these with a sign like that. More likrly, we would pretend to be a reporter and ask them leading questions(like do you really hate the President because he is black? or Did you know there were taxes before the current administration came into office?)
Is this Tebagger an Obama supporter with a sense of humor, or is she just dumb?
LETTUCE VOTE!
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That sling was supposed to hold his brains in. Epic Fail.
That wide load next to Batman and Robin is within 2 years of a scooter/hoveround.
The wider the wagger, the better teabagger.
"the looser the waist band, the deeper the quicksand or so i have read."
You want mudflaps, my baby's got 'em!
I love her each weekday, each velvety cheek day.
Would've been better with sound, they were chanting "One of us, one of us, one of us…".
No no, my friend. It was a misguided group of radical amateur astronomers, chanting, "U-ra-nus, U-ra-nus!"
Fair enough.
We accept you, gabba gabba hey
then they inexplicably turned Pelosi into a chicken lady.
THAT'S who she reminds me of!
That guy helping turn flags the right way up is so nice. Perhaps it's 'Be Kind To Retards Day'.
Not even islamo-socialism can stand against 87 Galts and the dynamic duo.
it's like a city picnic for an Elderly care nursing home
Batman to Robin, the Rent-Boy Wonder: "Quick–To the tea-closet!"
'Axe The Tax! '
with a blue butt-plug?
Blue-butt plug
there, fixed
I think it's a dildo mallet.
As with Hatrabbit, I'm touched that the baggers will come together to show each other their simple fuckups. Their more egregious, not so much.
Also, I found out where that incomprehensible golf course/ESPN quote comes from: a comment on Glenda Beck's website.
The baggers are kinda right about Charlie Rangel though (first pic)
Did the teabaggers complain about W's numerous vacations?
W had 150 days of vacation a year, mofos.
But it's not the same at all. For some reason. Oh yeah, hypocrites!
Clearing brush isn't socialist, apparently.
I can't find the link, but I see to recall someone knowledgeable about these things (possibly even here amongst the wonketeers) saying that he was an absolute fucking danger with that chainsaw, which wouldn't surprise me.
Me neither, but this is good for a few chuckles http://whiskyrebellion.com/contestants.html .
But the cuntry was so much safer when Bush was on vacation.
That's some crazy link you've got there. I took a look, and was glad I did not pick this evening to stop drinking.
They're a bunch of illiterate nuts on the most part.
The bit which made me laugh was the absolute vitriol about the UN; apparently they've forgotten the dog-and-pony (or pony and trap, if you know your cockney) show Powell put on for the UN about Iraq. Wait, of course they've forgotten.
I'm guessing these morons don't know that their hero GWB, set the presidential vacation record.
Which was actually a blessing in disguise.
Yeah, cuz leaving Cheney without a puppet definitely hampered his evil menacing.
i thought he was just a temp.
What do we want?
To be mindless corporate stooges, gleefully participating in our own destruction!
When do we want it?
NOW!
BRAAAAIIINZZZZ!
Where are the rest of the pictures? You know, the ones with the black people, the Asians, the Mexicans? All I see is a whole bunch of stupid white people.
The Blacks, The Asians, and the Mexicans are all busy having great relationships with The Donald.
And the sexy people are getting ready to enjoy the Stanley Cup finals. Go Flyers! (until someone beats you and then I have to pick another team to root for)
They were at work or looking for work.
That one black guy looks like a cop. So he's there policing a couple of dozen crackers carrying signs accusing a black president of treason. Or taking badly timed vacations. Or they're wearing gay costumes to prove their sincerity. Must have been fun for him.
I can hear him tell his wife when he got home, "You know what grandma always said about white people? Well . . ."
By the way, what are those yahoos on the platform doing with the red white and blue? I thought their flag was yellow and had a snake on it.
Jesus, what a bunch of goobers.
"Jesus, what a bunch of goobers. "
Perfect summation. Thank you.
And also the broads, don't forget the broads.
Where are those folks, you ask?
Working. You know, probably at their evil municipal/state union jobs.
Yeah, without a rally in Dc, Ithink the teabaggers came sightseeing- although why baggers would be interested in my museum, I do not know. After all we are federal,funded by taxes and have an exhibit on how people are reasponsable for global warming/
OLD, don't forget OLD , stupid, white, People. They are a dieing breed and Ryan wants to take away their health care!
The others are off working in packing plants or masturbating boars or something useful.
What are you saying? The Tea Party isn't racist! It's a broad cross-section of America! Those racist signs are Democrat infiltrators!
Of course Fox News covered the event. 100 of their viewers managed to find their way to one pre-specified location, all at the same time. I'd call that a miracle.
So, did those guys draw straws to decide who got to be Batman and who had to be Robin?
Probably a quick round of the soggy biscuit game.
Please tell me I did not just read that…
Yaack. And that was Wikipedia?
I think I will not check to see what the Urban Dictionary has to say about this lovely pastime.
I wish I had a time machine so I could go back to before I clicked on that link.
pitcher::catcher batman::robin
I wonder how many of those people are actual teabaggers vs random New Yorkers stopping by for a quick peek at the freakshow.
Probably the bridge-and-tunnel crowd and Peter King's district.
How come nobody ever includes the fairie crowd?
You know, from Staten Island.
What I was thinking was, this is Manhattan, right? How do these scenes differ from, you know, any day on the street? (Well, except for the whiter shade of pale).
OMG your rite~~11!!!!!1
That was a newsworthy event: Bellevue Psychiatric Hospital took a number of residents on the town today to celebrate spring's arrival in Manhattan. Some had written signs to welcome the end of winter. They returned to the hospital in time for naps and a delicious meatloaf dinner.
The "boy wonder" looks like he may need his mommy to change his diaper. My god, that's pathetic, LOL.
Did anyone else get their:
2012
BARACKOBAMA.COM
bumper sticker in the mail today? I am looking at mine right now. It doesn't mention Biden, lol.
I'm not going to put it on my car. I am going to carry it in my pocket for when I see someone with a Palin bumper sticker. It will be my little gift to them. Surprise!
Be sure to use the marine-grade epoxy when you do.
I like the way you think! Thanks!
What an awesome idea, I knew wasting time here was going to work out. The guy done the street won't know what hit him.
got mine-I know just what car I am putting it on- the moran who parks in downtown Silver Spring with 2 anti- Obama stickers.
President Trump's refined sense of quality would take this as visual assault. "Even a five year old has a better grasp over subtleness [sic] than this," he'd sneer, in a foggy reverie of his old boardroom-intimidation days; then snap out of it and announce the appointment of Trumpster Baby Barron as PR Czar.
Trump/Palin 2012
You're Fired/I Quit!
Massively upfistable. And, you can dance to it!
I can't take credit for it, but my plagiarism skillz are awesome!
Well, every right wing regime needs its useful idiots.
Well, gracious, they have an unending supply of those, don't they?
Without them they'd just be a right-wing club.
useful?
I'm going with useless.
When did these idiots become useful all of a sudden?
NORETARDS!
Neoretards
Good grief, that man in the last photo looks like Jacob Marley. Did he later announce that he wears the chains he forged in life?
hehe.
Robin looks more butch than Batman. They must have woken up late and got on the bus before they realized.
I have lived in New York for more than 10 years and I have never seen people who look like this, where the fuck did they come from?
Howard Beach, Staten Island, and Jersey. In Staten Island — I kid you not — I saw a sign at a church demanding "Rights For The Pre-Born!"
Warranties for the pre-owned!
These guys are more like the pre-pwned.
Good Lord.
Tiny American flags for pre-owned Lords of All.
entirely, completely unrelated but now i'm imaging the fight scene in Thunderdome taking place between two feti in a steel cage lined womb.
They meant to say "Rights for the Pea-brains."
Let the little bastards vote!
A tour bus?
I was hoping for a caveman sighting, but maybe he's home from vacay by now.
You didn't see the guy staring at the "Robbin Hood" sign?
Somewhere on Long Island; probably Nassau County. You know, Lindsey Lohanland.
" You've gotta remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the New West. You know … morons. "
So in other words, they're golem.
Being a New Yorker I go with the Yiddish Goylem, but yes…
"Oy!", says the Mick-Polack from MA.
Wait a gd minute, where where you in 2004 for the Republican National Convention at Madison Square Garden?
Oh ya that's right; they arrested everyone who didn't leave town, so you probably didn't see them then.
Well take a good look at what you missed! (BTW still in discovery on the False Arrest Litigation. Just deposed an Ass't chief of police on Friday. Don't you love the law?)
And don't you have a husband in LA?
I do have a husband in LA, although we will be in Chicago for a few months soon-love that town!Are you a lawyer? I was in LA during the Republican convention, I fled , although a friend of mine was awarded a chunk of change for unlawful imprisonment. It's not just the politics that is so appalling with these NYC teabagger types-it's the fashion ..
If your friend was arrested on Fulton St, 16th St. or 35th St. on 8/31, or at the Times Sq kiss-in (My favorite demo) on 8/29, I probably was part of their legal team. The ones who settled, took the money and ran, made a wise decision.
i'm a lawyer in recovery, who fell off the wagon when the RNC came to NYC.
I think the fashion is "fuck fashion I am not a kool kid, never will be a kool kid, HOW THE FUCK COME ALL THE KOOL KIDS GOT LAID AND GOT ALL THE TOYS WHILE I GOT LAUGHED AT" incoherent rage kinda thing.
It is definitely a statement.
I was there at the beginning and a woman who wore a tag saying she was a lawyer for the RNC came into my elevator(Marriott Marquis). I actually asked her if this was the only job she could get and whether she graduated from a real law school.
What did she say? Which law school did she go to?
Keep asking questions like that and you'll never get a 'job, neither.
where the fuck did they come from?
The right side of the tracks.
That is probably true, I am definitely the ” wrong side of the tracks” kind of girl, but then you knew that, Owls, didn't you?
But of course, my lovely, but of course.
Is life treating you better this week? I think I speak for many Wonketteers, when I say I was so distressed when you were having an unhappy time,it's funny but I feel as if I know you, of course I don't, but it's like “The Shop Around the Corner” in a way. Dear Friend et al.
These people are not native — they're what we call the B&T crowd. I'm sure they call themselves "real Murricans," but Manhattan is an island off the coast of America. We charge you to get in, but don't test for intelligence.
You should. Test, I mean. For intelligence.
Why is the old wearing his underwear on his head; doesn't it go over his pants like usual?
Keeps his mouth from hanging open.
Singing' songs and a-carrying signs;
Mostly say, "Hooray for our side."
You know, they actually mostly say "the President is a nigger".
I'm just as happy Stills didn't have to figure out how to make that shit scan.
Since Obama's a nigger, and Kenyan to boot,….
Anapest, baby. Anapest.
Dang! I see at least two people who appear to be Asian in that crowd (2nd photo, woman on right side, middle distance / 8th [flag] photo, kid in foreground), and a couple of people who look vaguely and possibly Hispanic (3rd photo, guy with the Axe sign / last photo, right side, woman in dark blue parka).
WHAT GIVES???
Foley Square is where all the courthouses are, including Family Court, so it's a racial mosaic. Also, we Noo Yawkahs are inveterate gawkers, we always want to know WTF is going on and should we be standing in line for tickets or a sample sale.
I have a hard time figuring out who's Asian and who's Mexican.
Were you at Sharrrron's rally in Vegas tonight? Literally dozens showed up!
I'm guessing that you said this as a joke, but I have a gentleman friend who's half Asian and half Anglo, who encounters this confusion quite a bit, to the point where a marketing guy asked him, "Hey, jefe, want to send money back to Mejico?".
Some of them look a little Asian, to me….
Unfortunately, lots of would-be immigrants from China fancy themselves White people. Tell'em that Chinese Americans count as colored and they are sometimes shocked.
Here's something that would blow these people's minds — from an interview in 2009:
"McCain, really, that was almost an impossible situation," said Trump. ["]Bush has been so bad, maybe the worst president in the history of this country. He has been so incompetent, so bad, so evil that I don't think any Republican could have won."
Drudge must be taking Trump seriously to have dug this up and posted it.
I saw that too, earlier, when I went to check if Obamas "hot mic" moment had gotten any drudge sirens. With all due respect to what's left of the thinking right, there's enough conflicts within their own consensus (borrowing Donald's own words) at large to see a seam or two start coming unglued very soon, the signs are there (no pun intended).
The host of All Things Considered was mocking David Brooks tonight for announcing that Obama had won the 2012 election. Meanwhile, Sean Assity is pushing Trump's birtherism like it was the discovery of the New World. So yeah, the potential for a rift in the GOP is huge. I hope.
The last guy deserves $20 for his creativity. Or lack of health care. Or lack of brains, whichever. But he should go with duct tape if he's making a health care statement.
South says Nobama.
North says 1 No Trump
People on SSI are exempt from taxation, right? I mean, maybe if they work part-time, somewhere, sure, they get FICA & Medicare tax taken out, but as for anything additional, end of year — prolly not. In fact, they prolly get a refund. So, where's the beef?
They have no beef, as I am sure you are aware of. There is some irony here, however. As Anthony Weiner explained on Maddow last night, if taxes are not raised on rich folks, and the government no longer sends federal medicare and medicaid dollars to states, the state and local gov'ts are going to have to make up for the shortfall.
Yes, they are going to have to raise this money from everyone, by raising taxes and fees, and no, there will be no exemptions for retired folks, sorry. So these people are, as per the usual, campaigning for the chance to shoot themselves in the foot, many times over, and gosh, their stupidity is amazing.
Sorry, you are wrong about the SSI and taxes. My wife pays a buncha taxes on hers. It's viewed as income. Unfortunately for us, if it was capital gains we'd be taxed at a much friendlier rate, the same as Mr. Trump.
Actually, people on SSI pay taxes on their SSI. Interesting that they are paying a tax on tax, but that's the Fed/State/Local Taxman for ya'. You know you also pay taxes on your tax refund. Another tax from a tax. What was not taxed one year as income is taxed the next…
Okay, guys, I don't mean to get "off topic," but I just returned from a showing of Atlas Shrugged: Part One, and I wanted to report back.
Needless to say, the movie was abysmal. The acting was wooden, the production values were horrible, the score was sappy, and I could have created better special effects on the Macintosh LCII I had back in ninth grade. Obviously, none of this mattered to the 100 people in the theatre, all of whom were rabid Ayn Rand fans.
They loved the film. They loved its heavy-handed moralizing. They loved its selfish, greedy message. They loved the fact that Wisconsin, apparently, has canyons. I could see the flashes of little starbursts every time Dagny appeared on screen.
They did not, however, take kindly to my commentary during the film. Every time Dagny uttered one of her preachy, syntactically-challenged lines, I would say, "Zing!" or "Damn, girl!" At one point, she and what's-his-name were wandering through some factory in Wisconsin (canyons!), and she made a comment like "What's the deal with all this altruism?" I started laughing so hard that people were turning around in their seats and glaring at me. The movie is supposed to take place in 2016, and yet Dagny — a character who is so much incredibly a genius that she's about to get kidnapped by John Galt and sent to an underwater city or something — drives a beige 2009 Toyota Camry. That's right: the woman who represents the pinnacle of rational self interest rocks a foreign-made car usually driven by that guy Herb from Accounts Payable.
And as we left the theatre, my standing amongst my fellow audience members didn't improve. I may have made several very loud comments to my companions on the way out:
"Jesus, that movie made me want to donate to the ACLU! Do you think they have an app for that?"
"Wow, Ayn Rand was a fucking nutjob!"
"I've seen better acting in Betrayed by Billy: A Lifetime Original Movie starring Markie Post!"
"I guess no one told Dagny about the Triangle Shirtwaist fire, huh?"
"That movie made Fahrenheit 9/11 look fair and balanced!"
"Do rational people actually believe this horseshit?"
And so on, and so on. My point is: do not waste your money on Atlas Shrugged, unless you go with friends, as I did, and can create a Mystery Science Theater 3000-like situation. Objectivists do not like this, but, if this film has taught me anything, it's that I don't give a flying fuck what objectivists do and do not like because they are obviously taking their orders from an adulterous speed freak with a funny accent who makes devotees of Scientology sound reasonable.
Rating: -4 stars out of infinity
Shouldn't you be paid to watch a movie ghostwritten by Ayn (rhymes with swine) Rand?
(PS: your review stolen and posted on FB, with credit)
You went, and we do not have to. So grateful.
so good. i think i love you.
Thanks for taking one for the team. We owe you.
After taking that blow to the head, I'm surprised that WSN could still spell correctly.
My first review looked like one of Chuck Grassley's twats, but then Clippy™ asked me if I wanted to "spelle checke," and that fixed it.
That. Is. Awesome. Best. Movie. Review. Evah.
Sassy black lady impression FTW, y'all. Mmm-hmm. **z snap**
The audience was rather white. I figured it wouldn't hurt to add some diversity.
Must agree. Of everything I liked about the review, this was awesome.
I just want to know did it show her dying of lung cancer and collecting medicare because she was cheated out of her money by her married lover.
Because I will sit through the whole thing if I can watch that.
#AYN RAND–ANOTHER HYPOCRITE ON MEDICARE SOCIALISM
Hey– I didn't even know this 'movie' was out.. Thanks for the heads-up on this garbage that will ultimately keep its finger on the enraged ranch dressing pulse-blood of "real" Murka.
This movie will bring a new definition to the term "cult classic."
If we can make a drinking game out of this, we can claim the thing for our own ironic means and needs.
If you are ever in Austin, TX I will prepare you a simple but tasty meal called King Ranch Chicken. I will also provide you with your wine or spirit of choice and enjoy your company.
I will take you up on that. I hear that Austin is the "retarded liberal enclave" of Texas.
But– but Cal Thomas LOVED it!
My ex
sex-toyfuck-buddy"boyfriend" invited me to this schlock last night. Was really insistent upon it too, which bothered me because he's a gun nut convinced poor people are trying to steal his (nonexistent) money. Do I know how to pick 'em or what?I basically told him straight up that I find her books horrible, her philosophy morally repugnant, and can't for the life of me imagine how a movie about selfish train magnates telling the impoverished to go fuck themselves because they're "too special" would be any less grating than watching a 2-year-old throw a temper tantrum. He tried to convince me that we could do it "ironically," even though I knew full well he just wanted to see it and jack off to the screen.
Finally I gave him an ultimatum: I would go with him only if he did that thing he does with his mouth to me in the bathroom before and after the movie (his only marketable skill), and I threw in a note that I hadn't showered in 5 days (a lie to suit my purposes). Little bitch stopped responding.
I considered that a Volpe victory, and went back to watching Mean Girls and eating special brownies with one of my girls. A-Plus night.
I was truly shocked by the number of people there who seemed, even in the rather wealthy community in which I live, not to be driving Porsches, if you know what I mean. While talking with my brother last night, we agreed that Ayn Rand appeals to less-well-off folk for the same reason that the Republican platform appeals to them: they imagine that, one day, they too will be rich.
I was also shocked by the number of audience members who brought their children. This was shocking for two reasons. First, these couples had to have had "the sexytime" in order to have children, and that is kind of yucky to me, inasmuch as most of them looked like they subsisted entirely on Mr. Pibb and KFC "Double Downs." Even weirder still, most of the children in the audience were young men between the ages of 12-16 who were obviously being "groomed" to take over receiving their family's unemployment checks. There was a young fellow sitting several rows in front of me who couldn't have been more than 10 or 11 years old. In hindsight, I probably should have called DCF on the lot of them.
And as to your boyfriend "giving Flipper a backrub" while watching the movie, it occurs to me that there may be a serious sociological study to be had out of all of this. Most of us are introduced to Atlas Shrugged as teenagers, about the same time at which we discover that the bits between our legs can do other, very interesting, things. Perhaps there is a whole subset of people whose wires got crossed while masturbating to one of the sex scenes in the book and now can't get it up without picturing a rather phallic John Galt locomotive pounding through the tunnel of laissez faire capitalism. Paging Dr. Drew!
Now that's a wonkette hall of fame post. Multiple thumbs up!
Thank you for shitting, er, sitting through that for all of us.
Watching this abomination so no one else has to was pretty altruistic of you. Zing!
Oh no you didn't!
When 'WordSaladNation' grows up and reads his own posts, he will be embarrassed…as any thinking grownup is for him today. This limited individual lacks manners, ambition, and will always be a 'taker', unable to contribute anything worthwhile. Sadly, those he mocks will have to take care of him…and they will.
What on earth are you on about?
Kennedy democrats hmm nice to see that racist old pricks don't change. Last time that guy was at a rally he was throwing a brick at a school bus.
What this little article doesn't show you is who spoke and leads the tea party in NYC. You might want to check it out before you call names.
I don't get the Robin Hood thing. Since when has the concept or the stories of a Nottingham archer been demonized? Seriously, what's the opposite, Ryan's budget?
Too generous. Point out to a zoo primate its own poo, and it's gonna fling it, not stop to think about whence it came nor its relevance to the act of flinging.
duh!!! only because he stole from the rich who earned their wealth and gave it to the poor who deserved their lot in life, of course. just like Nobama-lama-fa-fa-fa does with his negro-socialism.
Oh, I get it now, Robin Hood was a community organizer. And the Sheriff of Nottingham was the brave troops (indentured servant warrior class) and…
The whiskey is finally kicking in.
you got it! you got it! Robin Hood was really…(pulls off rubber mask)…Saul Alinsky!!!
"and i would have got away with it, too, if it weren't for you fuckin' kids!"
Drunken Radio laugh fades into static detuning…..
They have blondies using double negatives, so they don't need The Blacks.
"so they don't need no The Blacks."
AAVE Grammar Fix.
In unrelated news, tonight there are no new contributions of Sara Lou Benincasa in this prestigious medium. I wonder if she was axed as part of the welfare cuts negotiated to avoid the government shutdown.
She is resting up for tomorrow's assault on Madison, Wisconsin. I think there is a tunnel going from the dumb ass bank that gave all that money and support for Walker straight to the state house. Also they will close off all the streets in all directions to let her pass by. Cunning must be used.
Okay did Mr. "Stop the Spending" not get the memo that per the latest budget bill the federal government now only pays for guns, bombs, and Congressional hookers and blow?
Looks like only a few of the fucktards showed up, but the ones who did were extra ugly/stupid so that sort of makes up for it.
But were are da scooters at?
Proof that most Teatards think the Preznit's name is actually 'Nobama'.
Also, nice visual aid/junior high science fair sign.. More tiny print to read = smarter.
Yes, we have no Nobamas.
We have no Nobamas today.
I have had a similar problem. You can try a fix by editing your hosts file thusly:
127.0.0.1 ajax.googleapis.com
This prevents these servers from connecting with you, so there won't be any script problems. I won't get overly geeky here on Ken's dime, but just google "hosts file" for specifics.
Excuse my complete computer illiteracy, but how would I even go about starting to do that?
0. Make sure you are running as Administrator.
1. On the Start Menu, hit Run… ; a window opens.
2a. Copy and paste the line below *with* quote marks:
C:WINDOWSsystem32notepad.exe "C:WINDOWSsystem32driversetchosts" and hit OK.
2b. If there is no hosts file, you will be offered the option to create one.
3. If 2a. worked, save the file as as hosts.oem — this makes a backup file in case you screw up.
4. Copy and paste: 127.0.0.1 ajax.googleapis.com and save the file as hosts.now.
5. Still in Notepad, hit File|Open|All Files. Navigate to the C:WINDOWSsystem32driversetc folder.
6. Look for files that start with the word hosts. You may see files called hosts, hosts.oem, hosts.txt, hosts.oem.txt, hosts.now.txt, or some other variant.
7. You want to wind up with two files called hosts and hosts.oem. If you see anything else, highlight the file name and delete the offending parts so as to rename the file. Make sure you don't delete the file itself.
8. Hit Cancel on the File|Open|All Files window.
9. Exit and reboot your machine to go back to your regular privileges as User or Administrator.
Put in
C:WINDOWSsystem32notepad.exe "C:WINDOWSsystem32driversetchosts"
into run, and it couldn't find anything.
Erm, the comments section here removes the back slashes. My bad.
Try again with (substituting the backslash –not the one under the question mark, the other one — for the – character)
C:-WINDOWS-system32-notepad.exe "C:-WINDOWS-system32-drivers-etc-hosts"
If you still don't find anything, follow step 2b.
And paste these two lines:
127.0.0.1 localhost #this is your PC
127.0.0.1 ajax.googleapis.com
And use the comments section edit, not the emailed version. This comments section really hates the backslash character.
EDIT: go to original comment for latest update, don't use the emailed version.
Just switch to the Chrome browser, it did the trick for me.
It is also the case that a website pulls in data from many other servers at many other domains in many other locations, and any lag time affecting them will affect how long it takes to fully load your web page.
Internet Traffic Report reported 76% availablity for most of North America today, and the FBI is running a bot net sting, which may be affecting things: http://www.federalnewsradio.com/?nid=15&sid=2...
You're freaking me out here.
if you think i'm clicking on a lik to the FBI running a bot net sting . . . what ever the fuck that is
you so outed yourself, but I don't know as what
Nope. Definitely dumb.
it's really hilarious how much teabaggers hate Robin Hood…well, I'm assuming the "Obama is Robin Hood" sign is meant as an insult, anyway. Yes, Robin Hood was evil for robbing from rich, lordly nobles who literally owned the peasantry as slaves and Robin Hood would then give said peasants the proceeds as a fair amount of their wages being stolen from them unfairly in taxes by the nobles…uh, okay yes to these dumbshits in the parallel reality they dwell in Robin Hood is evil for robbing nobles who just wanted to take it all for themselves while keeping their peasants filthy, pox ridden and starving…because that's freedom!
Plus Robin's woman was HAWT!
i always thought that RH was about resisting John's abusive imperial rule while Richard was off killing muslins. Then john got the throne and so pissed off the other lords they made him sign the Magna Carta, from which all western law, in particular the US Constitution flowed.
So RH was a premature Constitutionist!
Ops rational thought again, sorry. I love the bloody head brace guy, how many chickens did that cost him?
Well, that was the thing that was always so fucked up about the RH story: BIG SURPRISE, John had to raise taxes to fund the foreign adventures that his predecessor decided to run off for. He's the villain of the story for… trying to keep the kingdom running.
So King John was just trying to raise taxes on the rich to responsibly finance middle east imperial adventures left over from the prior regime?
So in this version Obama is like King John?
And the Barons at Runneymeade were Goldman Sachs?
So who is Robin Hood? The tea partiers? The Nulificationers?
I need a drink.
Well, if by "Robin Hood", do we mean a member of the nobility who uses the banner of lower-class grievance to secretly enrich himself while undermining the government?
Because in that case, I'm pretty sure we know exactly who Robin Hood is, and yes, the Tea Partiers are the Merry Men in this version.
Waiter! This mead is runny!
For some reason, they fancy themselves to be nobles (or about to be nobles) and not the nobles serfs/slaves/horny-handed-sons-of-toil.
The best insight I've ever read on that, from a rightwing cartoonist no less:
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God forbid we should ever see a return of a day and age like that. when I think of the countless generations of people who were…*used up*…. to maintain the facade of class and caste at the whim of the devolved descendants of decrepit "nobility…" I cannot help but empathize with those frenchmen who wanted to, quote, "Strangle the last king with the entrails of the last priest."
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Most Americans would think of Robin Hood as a hero. He's been portrayed as such by Hollywood from Errol Flynn to the Disney Fox version to Russel Crowe. Only Randites would see it as the opposite.
"robbing nobles who just wanted to take it all for themselves while keeping their peasants filthy, pox ridden and starving…because that's freedom! "
Yeah — you know, like forcing your religion on people with different beliefs who are, um, taking away your freedom and oppressing you by having different beliefs.
"Help, help! I'm being oppressed!"
Problem is, Robin Hood actually knew who to rob. Obama pickpockets everybody.
An ACTUAL modern Robin Hood would put a tarantula down the pants of our corrupt politicians, many of whom are just as bad as the corporatists.
In summary..
Picture 2: What is Nancy Pelosi doing there ?? Who's side is she on anyways??
Picture 6: A science fair display board?? Smells like a socialist scumbag teacher infiltrator.
Now , its time to drink.
The Zoo has an African Lion, and we have a Robbin' Hood. Or Ridin' Hood. Whatever, just get rid of the black guy.
i think some of the rv-set is well acquainted with hoods and riding.
Okay…so file this in the "there's something you don't see everyday" file, my loving fellow libtarded, commonist, fascists.
Let me set the scene: so there I was, driving I-5 after yet another glorious day at my sociamalist state University (by the way…european womins studies is a good place to meet hot feminists, and yes…they're straight, most o' them) and I saw this Prius…no big deal, this is Oregon, eh?
Except this particular Prius was like none of I've ever seen…it was festooned with bumper stickers….teabagger bumperstickers no less! Ya see…apparently this teatard missed the memo, but driving a sensible, low consumption hyrbrid ain't exactly good for the oil companies (won't someone please think of the oil exec's children?!). Now, the teatard bumperstickers were bad enough….but they also had OSU stickers. Oregon State is MY marxist, socialist univerisity! Fer chrissakes, we host Greenpeace!
So yeah, just thought I'd share my story of being wierded out by a teatard driving a Prius with state university stickers on it…..fucking idiots.
Things must have changed since I left Paradise. Back then we called it Oregon Straight and it was filled with Young Repugs who wanted nothing more than to cut down more trees and kill the commies down in Bluegene. (Ten points for guessing my alma mater.)
From what I can tell compositionally we're a pretty eclectic group out there. What's interesting is, I started out as an Econ major, which pretty well consists of praising the glory of free trade, boo! price controls, blah, blah, blah. Even then we had a single vocal wingnut in my course pile and she was Asian…actually kinda cute. For the most part, the wingnut community is small here…at least on the liberal arts side. Most professors don't mind letting their political flag fly, and there doesn't seem to be in poli-sci more than wingnuts here and there. I just find the whole situation ironic that a state university could have conservatards…it's like they don't even try to abide by their own "deeply held" principles unless it's fucking over the poor, women and/or minorities.
Lately though I've been telling wingnuts to practice what they preach and enroll at one of those wonderful for-profit colleges. I mean, since the profit motive is unimpeachable, you'd think they'd be jumping at such an opportunity. Is that just more conservative hypocrisy? Oh, and we do hate the U of O, but not because you're a bunch of potsmokers (which you are), but mostly because you've kind of been owning us at athletics recently.
Kind of? And we owe that, of course, to the free market (Phil Knight).
and you're sure it wasn't just a hipster being "ironic", was it? you know how they are with their lattes and organically grown velocipedes and fancy haircuts.
Ah, Oregon, my wonderful adopted home state — "Vermont stapled onto Kentucky".
Apparently every stupid photographed Twinkie fuck in NYC failed to understand that your IRS tax return is not due unitl Monday, April 18th when April 15th is on Friday. The reason is that in the D.C., April 15th celebrates Emancipation Proclamation Day, the day the slaves were freed by Lincoln. This day is apparently an official D.C. holiday. If the holiday falls on a Friday, the IRS office in DC closes and extends it to all of pension gathering employees at the regional IRS centers (which we have in Austin). So much for respecting Lincoln eliminating slavery and constitutional amendments.
So these Medicare loving ballsacks who receive Federally subsidized medical care while supporting the Ryan dreams of fucking me because I am 52 years old.
Fuck me but more importantly fuck you anus hats. I've been paying into SS and Medicare since I was 16. I so dislike the Pea Tardy Patriots: the official patriots of Depends.
Downfisters, go ahead. If I see you and your spell checked posters, I will hit you in my 1/2 ton Chevrolet and blame it on dementia.
I am about to return to my liquor cabinet for more Jack Daniels.
Don't you just love these fuckers? I have been paying in for decades too and they keep changing the rules. I do not understand when people actively campaign to slit their own throats. Maybe it's the comraderie, the cheap shitty tee shirts, the bad food, I do not know, but there has to be some compelling reason for them to go all out stupid.
FWIW, despite being 63, and looking forward just a little desperately to Medicare (since, as I hope you never have to find, the US private insurance industry has NO interest in insuring 63-year-olds at any price), I plan to continue regarding Ryan as an evil sack of shit until I die.
Medicare has problems. I suspect that an actual "fix" will have to involve a certain amount of (OMG) rationing of care. E.g., I may have to try to get my family to scrape up the bucks for the liver transplant I'm likely to need one of these years if I keep drinking as much as I am (to dull the pain of Paul Ryan).
And they think they're so fucking cute with the 55-year-old scam. I'm really not sure how much support that's gonna buy them — I figure that the 40-55 folks will be seriously pissed off at being pissed on, and a lot of the over-55's have seen their parents on Medicare, should be able to comprehend how big of a failure the fucking vouchers will be for their own children.
Of course, the basic-issue baggers won't care, but they're already in favor of any insanity the Republicunts puke up, so no gain there.
Actually, if you're 52… do you know any approx 52-year-old baggers (who aren't already on SSI)? What do they think of this idea?
I appreciate your perspective. Retirement scares me because its the new reality. I remember how my family worked to make the golden years "golden" for my grandparents and my Mom. These fucknuts couldn't give a tinkers damn about anyone other than themselves and corporate America. I hope they all suffer slow, long, protracted deaths.
Me, I hope I'm hit by a a 60 MPH HOV lane driving trucker with a load of lead. V=2gh.
These people need mental health services by unlicensed plumbers with a bottle of Drano.
I love how the stupid bastards want to talk about illegal wars now. Just a few years back, they were referring to those that didn't want to go in Iraq as terror-sympathizing, gay commie-pinko libs.
Well sure, but that was when criticizing a president during a time of war or while on foreign soil was a hanging offense, also.
bloody sling guy is clearly a trap.
dont – repeat don't – talk about this at all.
The first rule of the bloody sling club.
Hell, it's probably just a bad nick from shaving, or he decided to save money by removing that lesion on his own. Either way I'm not going to worry about it, he wants to go to a Galt inspired do it yerself health plan anyhow, best to start now.
OT but I was just wondering–do you think Obama reads the Wonkette? Or maybe has Biden go through and pick out the good stuff and read it to him? I just imagine them sitting around with a good stiff drink in hand and laughing their asses off (when they're not crying their eyes out).
this is my dream
"do you think Obama reads the Wonkette? Or maybe has Biden go through and pick out the good stuff and read it to him?"
*waves enthusiastically*
Hi, guys!!
Whatever, non-fly over states, we in Madison get Sister Sarah tomorrow.
…. your welcome.
Carpet bomb her with cheese curds. And go Badger on her ass.
I am traveling to UofW@Madison in two weeks to deliver a 2 day seminar at the School of Engineering. I am looking forward to meeting some fine WI folks. You folks are the best.
Babcock Hall Ice Cream. Insist they direct you to Babcock Hall. The dairy science majors make stuff there that will knock your socks off. If you are lactose intolerant, plan ahead and treat yourself ahead of time.
Oh shut up. I can sometimes go for weeks at a time without thinking about Babcock Hall. Bloody hell.
please please report on this to us.
Small crowd, terrible weather, about 10k, literally 9 to 1 against. Couldn't hear Palin's "speech" from all the jeering. She wore a sparkly Silver Parka, that's all that matters.
Well, no one can ever understand any of her speeches anyhow. Did she bring any spawn/human shields?
That would be a good turnout if turnout were measured by mass instead of individuals.
"Turnout by the pound", indeed.
Tacky Enough Already!
Dildo Mallet – great name for a band.
So Batman and Robin are okay, but Robin Hood isn't? I thought Robin's sexuality was pretty ambiguous (even in the non-porn version)
Yes, they hate Robin Hood. These guys are HUGE Richard I fans.
Not only that, the Sheriff of Nottingham is as big with teabaggers as Justin Bieber is among tweens.
whenever i see sheriff of nottingham i think of alan rickman and then i smile.
Hans Gruber!!!
I was a bit shocked they hate Robin Hood but then "rob the rich to pay the poor" is a pretty obvious insult to teabaggers. As is Jesus' 'Sermon on the Mount' so I look forward to all sorts of anti-Jesus teabagger signs in the future
Also which is more 'tired' and unclever — "Nobama" or "Obamanation"? The latter seems to be a favorite of the Jeebus-freaks I run across – I guess because it sounds like some medieval Aryan (sic) heresy….
It's related to a phrase in Daniel/Revelation : the Abomination of Desolation.
Ratman and Bobbin….
Yea, that Obamacare situation is really bad. It's better we have the GOP just defund Medicare & Social Security so they can pull off covert Death Panels.
Forget Batman– they should all just be wearing sheep costumes.
Cue up the tune "Where have all the Lemmings gone?"
An embarrassment of riches.
An embarrassment of the riches.
So these House Niggers think they gonna get special privilidges from their GOP Masters?
Useful idiots.
Kennedy on money? Don't get me started! Fucking Boomers killed off a perfectly good denomination by putting JACK KENNEDY!!!!11!! on a coin less than a year after his death, and now they all feel compelled to save any and all half-dollars they come across as "collector's items," to put next to their Elvis black velvet paintings.
Neglecting to take all the silver out in '68 didn't help, either, but that probably wouldn't have happened if JACK KENNEDY!!!!11!! wasn't on the coin.
The fucker wasn't Lincoln, he barely rates the same as Garfield. McKinley, when he died, they put that fucker on the $500. Now that's real money!
Someone tell the old guy that the top tax rate under JFK's policies was 77%.
Prescott Bush laundered money for the Nazis (well into WWII).
But, my gawd! They put Kennedy on my coinage!#$@%!
There would have been many many more 'Baggers but there was a huge hoveraround pile up at Christopher Street when one of the leaders fearfully thought he spotted the boy he rented last weekend in Miami.
That looks like a great rally. For me to poop on.
I kid! I kid!!
Did ya'll see this crap? http://tinyurl.com/3vhk9cm
"Oh, come on! Everybody who knows me knows that I am not a racist. It was a joke. I have friends who are black. Besides, I only sent it to a few people–mostly people I didn't think would be upset by it."
So, if I say "Marilyn Davenport is a racist, dried up old shrew with whose bitter worldview was probably caused by a combination of intellectual retardation and early-life sexual abuse by a cousin" then my explanation can go along these lines:
Oh come on! Everyone who knows me knows I'm not an allegation-mongering liberal elitist[1]! It was a joke[2]! I have friends who are tea party members[3]. Besides, I only wrote it for a few people [4] – mostly people I didn't think would be upset by it [4]
[1] I am
[2] It wasn't
[3] I don't
[4] Wonketeers
Oh my! That was most excellent!
Dude, you should email that straight to Ken and the tipline. That deserves its own post.
Also, I've never so much as touched a gun, but I'm seriously considering shooting the next person who says, "But some of my best friends are black!" between the eyes. STOP FUCKING SAYING THAT!!
ETA: By "dude", I'm not implying that you are a dude. It's a figure of speech.
I tweeted it to Wonkette. They will probably post it later.
I love the "I have black friends" folks. Yeah, let's crack open your photo album and see some of them.
What a sweet little ol' lady, yes. Someone should help her halfway across the street where she can really ride on the front of the bus.
Grill baby, grill!
Just your average sweet 76-year-old Orange County racist shrivelcunt. (Oh, sorry, "little old lady").
The ones that really piss me off are the younger Repukes defending her. "Oh, gracious me, she's not a racist, just a lunatic Birther".
She can't even use the John Kyl defense–to these fuckers, it WAS intended as a statement of fact.
As far as the last pic and what the baggers in Congress are demanding, I suggest he put his ass in that sling.
Batman is also a plutocrat.
Give the teabaggers credit; it's tough turning out so many dozens of people for anything in Manhattan.
I think the right restaurant opening can do it. Of course. for baggers, that is any new McDonalds
Still, for a Tea Party rally, there are surprisingly few Medicare-financed motorized scooters…
The beauty of Manhattan.
You see the rascals can't do bridges or tunnels, they go in the back of suv's until you get to destination mall. But driving your scooter to Manhattan is a non-starter since there is no place to park the suv the scooter came in.
One of the differences between 1911 and 2011 is that, 100 years ago, racists admitted to being racists.
Re: "Obamao": the real Mao, by now, would have these people shoveling shit in Mississippi or North Dakota or some such place. Re-education through labor!
Send them down!
Bombard the Command Post!
Destroy the Four Pests!
How many tea baggers have actually had dirt on their fingers? Knowthat “manual labor” isn't some guy from Mexico?
And we'll jolly well give old Johnny Counter-Revolutionary Running Dog Lackey of the Imperialist Warmongers a good drubbing, I daresay.
'cause the Reds are coming,
the Reds are coming,
and it won't be over 'til
it's over over there!
Huzzah, old chappie, huzzah!
Hey, there's Kettle Moraine. That's kind of like a canyon.
For god's sake, Diaper goes on the BOTTOM parts, hearing aids on the top parts, Grampa!
COLLEGE!
O/T
I had made a date with my 60-something neighbor, wherein we would load all my chemical-infused, unsafe-for-burning scrap wood onto his flatbed, and he would deliver it to his friend who would then use it as firewood (he knew the risks). A day later he revealed himself as a latent teabagger: "I'm not racist but…", "some of my best friends are…", "Honeywell promoted all the blacks…", etc. The whole shebang.
I managed to talk him down and end the evening on a positive note, even, by making use of a joke I had learned on Wonkette. I apologize for not being able to cite the specific Wonketteer who deserves credit, but it goes something like this:
A CEO, a white working-class guy and a black working-class guy are sitting around a table. There is a plate with 12 cookies on it. The CEO takes 11 of them, then sez to the white guy, "hey! That guy wants to steal your cookie!"
We were able to agree that class trumps race every time (as Trotsky taught me), and he let me put my scrap wood on his trailer. The End.
I HAVE FREE FLOATING ANGER AN I CAN"T SPELL AND LORD WILL SOMWONW GET RID OF THIS NEEGRO SO I CAN LET MY WHITE DFAUGHTERS OUT AT NIGHT THEY ARE DRIVNG ME CRAZY
I don't join ANY political protests for the same reason I don't join Facebook: I'd rather not be instantly associated with a bunch of looney-tunes with the IQ's of cabbage, nor captured by God knows how many cameras doing something I could later regret very much.
Well done, I was stuck.
Does LimmeyLizze know any Screen Writers? (Like the waiter serving her water at this moment (assuming she in LA)?)
I think we are ready to make a pitch
Or should be start with off-off broadway?
Maybe the Fringe Festival?
We need Firesign Theater!
Umms we may have a maid Marion/Robin Hood problem.
Can't express how deeply comforting your support/concern and that of other kind and sensitive friends was to me. The source of my despair is, in large measure irrelevant. What matters greatly to me is that there is a small, but deep circle of avatars that become people. I too feel as if I know you, and others as well. Odd, isn't it, that in a way it is sometimes easier to turn to our virtual friends when a bad situation is such that talking to corporeal friends will just aggravate things. So, again, my most profound thanks to you and all the kind souls that expressed concern for a wounded bird. Abrazos carinosos a ti y tambien por el equpo de solidaridad con buho
Ok, when you say "#this is your PC ", is this literal, or am I supposed to put in some number? Also, when the empty notepad pops up, where do I save the notepad file to?
1. Yes, literal.
2. Save to folder C:-WINDOWS-system32-drivers-etc (substitute the backslash character for the hyphens).
3. Make sure the file name is "hosts" and not "hosts.txt" — after you create and save the file, open up the "save as" window and delete the .txt part.
We should all meet up on facebook!
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