Before “Pearl Harbor” was reduced to a three-hour reel of explosions starring overpriced wooden puppet Ben Affleck, it was a place where a bunch of American soldiers were attacked by a bunch of Japanese soldiers these seventy years ago today. A Day of Infamy, if you will. You may remember from every commemorative evening news broadcast since then that Americans generally avoid doing anything Asian-sounding on this day, to honor the fallen and to keep our wounds fresh. This year, though, you can count out those Obama daughters and their fancy-schmancy private school to have other plans. America-hating plans!
You can thank some local CBS affiliate “WUSA9″ for keeping it so VERY eyewitness-y today, allowing the right-wing blogs to suffer a complete meltdown.
What are President Obama’s kids eating at school on Pearl Harbor day? Japanese food, of course!
Sidwell Friends School’s website shows the menu for Wednesday December 7th, 2011, the 70th anniversary of Pearl Harbor Day, as an Asian food day.
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It was the bloodiest foreign attack on U.S. soil in the modern war era, until the September 11th attacks in 2001.
Here are the options for Malia Obama and her sister, Sasha on the “Day that will live in Infamy: December 7, 2011.
Asian Mushroom Soup
Oriental Noodle Salad
Classic Spinach Salad
Teriyaki Marinated Chicken Strips
Szechuan Tofu and Veggies
Garlic Roasted Edamame
Vegetable Fried Rice
Fortune Cookies
Is the Szechuan cuisine of southwestern China native to Japan now? Eh, DETAILS. And oh, look, the kids also managed to get the Pearl Harbor Day Ceremony cancelled, too, probably as part of their training in Kenyan voodoo. [WUSA9]
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What, no Oodles of Noodles, at ten cents a pack? Raman Libel!
Can't top this.
Break it down!
There is a new book out that has secret documents that Bush knew about the attack of Pearl Harbor all along but didn't do anything.
W was always at his best when he wasn't doing anything.
He was reading My Pet Pokemon
…not sure about Pearl Harbor but Shrub's Grandaddy was a Nazi!
How Bush's grandfather helped Hitler's rise to power http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2004/sep/25/usa.s…
That menu needs some good American food, like Beef Chow Mein.
Or pizza!
Eww, vegatables!
With lots of sriracha sauce! And fortune cookies!
Or Sandusky stir-fry, also known as cream of sum yung guy.
Pho Santorumi
Or Chop Suey!
I saw our Commander n Chief with a Chinese menu in his hand
Walking through the streets of Adams Morgan in the rain
He was looking for a place called Lee Ho Fook's
Gonna get Malia a big dish of beef chow mein
Aaoooooo!
Werewolves of Kenya!
I believe you meant our Commander 'n Chef.
I really miss Warren Zevon. But then, I miss Frank Zappa too.
Yep, too soon X2…
General Tso was from Des Moines.
That's nothing. The school menu included actual veterans on Veteran's Day.
Needs more Ornery-mental Noodle Salad-let's get Michelle Bachmann's recipe.
Eww, instead of Cream of Sum Yung Gai, we'll get Cream of Marcus' Dusty Old Ballz.
Oh, Palinz, I just ate dinner. Now I'm going to have to do it all over again.
Sorry! My bad. Was it Chinese food?
Because if it was, you'd have to do it all over again anyway, yaknow?
Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees, look at these!
Tits or gtfo.
"Friends" school? Let me guess. Pacifists, right? My kids will be eating a appropriately commemorative dinner of saltwater and diesel-fuel soup with a side of burnt pineapple. And that meal will be served under the dinner table so my family can imagine we're eating in the galley of the Arizona. Nobody "never forgets" harder than me.
I think Chelsea Clinton went there, so let's slam her parents, too.
I was always amused that the GOP Culture Warriors came out against Eminem, considering this, from The Slim Shady LP:
Hillary Clinton tried to slap me & call me a pervert
I ripped her fucking tonsils out & fed her Sherbert
What's not to love about that, if you're Lynne Cheney or Rush Limbsugh?
Do the kids take turns tapping on the table for days afterward, just to remain in the spirit of the occasion?
I say, let's burn them at the stake!
Or at the steak?
For fuck's sake. Rice wine, too, also.
And it cost $97 a plate, paid by our taxes!
Yeah, just like Merkel and Sarkozy being all mushimushi (to borrow a term from the Japanese) on Armistice Day. Peace treaties? You can stuff them. Nevah forget!
Well we know why the Japanese became a world economic power house. Pearl Harbor proves they don't mind getting up early on a Sunday morning.
Too soon!
*whew*
They weren't served "Roast Sailor"
Perhaps the wingnuts would be happier if the Obama girls were eating Japanese people. In honor of wartime sacrifices and everything.
Morans.
Chinese, Japanese, iceberg, Goldberg, whatever.
snap
So those two plan the school menu now? Big step for little girls. Oh, and wingtards are….tards!
Isn't it obvious that Michelle and Barack Obama, who have NOTHING ELSE AT ALL to do, planned this menu themselves?
No, this is clearly the work of the First Lady's Deputy Chief Of Staff For Winding Up The Teatards For Lulz. The Obamas have a good old time reading offended Wingnut Blog Posts in "King Of The Hill" accents around the dinner table every evening.
Hey, Chet! My copy of Flash of the Spirit arrived today. I look forward to perusing it at the surgeon's in a week!
Edited to add: I can see Bamz enjoying that, but Michelle is just too nice of a lady. I'll bet she doesn't make fun of anybody, but she can cut her eyes at them something wicked.
Cool, enjoy the book!
Soooooooooo if they ate pizza they would be supporting Mussolini?
Because they are the daughters of the black President, yes.
Black Forest Cake = Hitler
Schwarzwalderkirschtorte is the shit.
My brother bakes a really good Black Forest Cake. (Yes, he's gay. Don't ask me how our parents did it. They raised FOUR LGBTQ kidz.)
If you eat pizza on this day you're supporting Mussolini, and Hitler and Pétain and Quisling….
'Cause all those guys were, like, European.
They would erroneously link it to something French, but you got the idea.
And if you eat a hamburger you're supporting Hitler!
and if they ate Sauerkraut then they are proven as NAZIs !!!!!
Victory cabbage, please.
Unless it's deep-dish style, then Blago.
Muslinini
I eat fish on the anniversary of the Titanic sinking. I'm so fucking bad!
Well I eat iceberg lettuce. I'm worser.
Yeah? I eat Chicken ala "King of the World."
In similar news, hundreds of traitorous American businessmen were seen checking in for Japan-bound flights, to transact business on enemy soil.
Jeebus H. Tap Dancing Christ on a Broad Noodle.
Szechuan Tofu and Veggies, Garlic Roasted Edamame, Vegetable Fried Rice, Fortune Cookies — are all CHINESE.
You dis-(ahem)-oriented asshats.
Except for the fortune cookies, which are REAL AMERICAN.
Edamame is Japanese. At least the word is, and I'm not familiar with the use of steamed salted green soybeans in Chinese cuisine, although, given how much that term encompasses, I could be wrong (and if I am, for mercy's sake tell me instead of leaving me to twist here in the wind like some pompous, inaccurate ass). Also, fortune cookies are not traditional — probably invented by those clever early Chinese immigrants.
But yes, most Americans seem to be unable to tell one Asian from another. Pretty fucking insulting, but what can ya do?
In China, edamame are called mao dou (hairy beans; yeah, it's funny), and they are served approximately the same way. Boiled, with some flavor like star anise, tons of salt, and maybe some garlic. Common as a street food at night markets.
Zhen-de ma? Northern Chinese street food? I've never seen or heard of in Southern Chinese cuisine, but like I said, there's plenty I don't know, so, please to educating me!
Your real name isn't Fuchsia Dunlop, by any chance, is it?
Edited to add: Hao chi ma? I'm used to all the snacky things from Southern Chinese cuisine, mostly Hakka (Khek), Teochew, Hokkien, Cantonese, Hainanese, some Szechuanese, some Shanghainese. Melon seeds of different kinds, salted peanuts, dried salted fish and shrimp and all the horrible/tasty pickled stuff. This one, ah, not so have seen the before, lor.
我不会骗你! Yes, Northern cuisine. I saw it most in Beijing, hardly at all in Urumqi. If only I had a totally awesome name, but alas. My parents were boring.
How dare those Quakers serve anything but baloney sandwiches! Elitist bastards.
Don't you mean oatmeal?
That had to bounce around inside my head for a while 'til I got it. Thank you.
You mean that cereal box shaped like a cylinder with a picture of Bar Bush on it?
Ever since I heard that comparison, I have lost my taste for Quaker Oats. Dammit.
It's OK, there's no fetus inside…
It's not like they ate bratwurst and Kraut, after all it was the Germans that bombed Pearl Harbor.
Spam spam spam spam spam bacon spam eggs bacon and spam
Wonderful spam.
Yet you never hear about Governor Perry having Spotted Dick on the 4th of July.
He got a shot of penicillin. Cleared it right up.
He has niggerhead on a stick.
That sounds delightful! What kind of dipping sauce does that come with? Enlighten me.
Ah, Mayor_Quimby, you do not want to go there. Suffice it to say that it involves boiling blood.
Why, Purple/Grape Drink, of course.
In bed?
That's because EVERY day is the Fourth of July, in Governor Perry's pursuit of Spotted Dick!
Yes, because every right-wing blogger knows that China (Communist and Nationalist) was allied with Japan within the great "Co-Prosperity Sphere" and intimately involved with the attack on Pearl Harbor.
Are you serious? The RWNJ morons actually think that Dai Toa Senso was something the Chinese wanted?
Sweet Suffering Christ on a stick. With bells on and a hat.
At what point does their joint and collective stupidity extinguish the rest of the sentience in the universe?
I was being sarcastic, but that doesn't mean it isn't true ;). You can see their "logic": "We don't like Commie China, Japan was evil and hated our freedom, therefore they were allies (and also, too, Al-Qaeda, Saddam Hussein, North Korea, Iran, and THE ILLEGALS…orchestrated of course by the Librul Atheist Muslins and their Kenyan overlord BARACK HUSSEIN NOBAMA). I mean, when have facts or changing time lines ever gotten in the way of their theories? It's all the same Axis of Evil who want to kill Jesus (i.e. The Jews). But we can't say Glenn Beck didn't warn us!"
Right, right. I don't interact with these people regularly, and my periodic forays into their swamps always see me running desperately away screaming. Cognitive dissonance overload. Sheesh.
With the help of Japan, China, and Manchukuo, the world can be in peace…
So they mixed up Chinese and Japanese food ; it's not like the Chinese had already been fighting the Japanese for almost a decade before Pearl Harbor, it's the same thing.
In Man-chuo-chuo-chuo-ki-stan-i-stan.
A DECADE? The Japanese began attacking China in one manner or another around 1905, shortly after the Russo-Japanese war ended. From 1905 on, it was one military action after another until the Kwangtung Army engineered the Mukden Incident of 1931 that led to open war. Japan was only too happy to join with the Western powers after 1860 to chop up China like a watermelon: http://kalimao.blogspot.com/2008/03/world-colonia…
Now the real outrage would've been to find "Wiener Schnitzel" on the menu….
That's for Hitler's birthday.
Or Anthony's?
Schnitzel Libel!
That place had excellent hot dogs when I was a kid. Although I had the tastebuds of a 10 year old.
Yes, it's simply awful the way they treat those poor little Wiener doggies.
In honor of Pearl Harbor Day, I refrained from buying my usual pair of used schoolgirl panties from a vending machine.
And you held off for one day from the tentacle porn?
I ordered Japanese porn today, just to remind us of who won the war and who's culture reigns supreme.
What? In Texas most schools still have 'Bash the Jap' ceremonies on December 7th!
Also. Remember the Maine. And the Alamo.
and the place you left your car keys.
What do you eat to commemorate the Maine. And the Alamo. And what are their holidays?
On Maine Day lobsters would be best, probably celebrated on a cold payday. Alamo Day calls for cheap Tex-Mex enchiladas celebrated every time I'm near a good cocina.
Lobstah for the one, armadillo for the other.
Armadillos can give you leprosy.
Speaker One: How was that armadillo?
Speaker Two: Great! Just great.
Speaker One: You can take your hand out of the plate now.
Speaker Two: OMG! OMFG! MY HAAAAND! It fell off! AAAAAIIIIIEEEEE!!!
The thing about the Maine is, with modern technology and all, divers have gone done there and forensicalized it and everything, and it really was just a boiler that exploded, which happened all the time on those old boats.
We should give Cuba and the Philippines back to Spain.
And the Titanides.
Remember the Alamo. Never eat tacos on whatever day that was.
I for one welcome our new Asian overlords.
Bit late, they already own the block.
As a kid I'd have taken the Sidwell diet over my public school regimen of canned potatoes, swamp gravy and pink applesauce any day.
Then again maybe not — I was a picky eater, but I outgrew it. And as someone on another thread here has conjectured recently: what of the adults we come across who have yet to try dining at an Asian restaurant or ordering Chinese takeout? I have one co-worker in her late 50s who says the only thing "oriental" she's ever had comes in a Stouffer's heat-&-eat.
Back in the late 90s when I frequently drove Hwy. 401 east of Toronto, I used to tune in this insane right wing Xtian radio station from Rochester, NY (sample commentary: "People think England is our ally. But did you know they had TWO wars against us?").
They used to run this ad for some no-doubt horrible Chinese buffet where a woman with a thick Western NY accent would ask "Have you always wanted to try Oriental food but were afraid?"
Afraid! This from people who think PEPPER is a fucking spice to be used sparingly!
WTF are they so "afraid" of? It's food, fer chrisake, it's not like it's gonna jump up off the plate and eat PEOPLE.
I don't know about that. I've been to some pretty iffy Chinese buffets.
I feel your pain, having refused to eat with my coworkers more than once because their ideas were 'you wanna order Domino's subs online' and 'We have a coupon for Olive Garden'
I had Domino's in college, but goddammit, I will go to my grave without setting foot in that fauxtalian shithole. Once even told my best friend and his wife that I would just go home and cook when they suggested it one evening.
That is a good damn menu, though. I've been inside Sidwell, and it was nicer than my uppity private college, Michelle O should accept no less.
I've finally converted some of the eejits in my end of the swamp and taught them what good fresh REAL Asian food IS. None of this "cumin-scented" shit and "Thai-inspired" crap. La Casa de Los Gatos prides itself on making everything from scratch in a WIDE variety of cuisines. From Adobo to Tom Ka Gai to Babi Kecap to Arroz Caldo, this establishment serves it all.
Geezus, Stouffer's heat-&-eat. Wouldn't I like to fetch her a solid clip across the ear.
Congratulations, WUSA9, for finally uncovering the fatal chink in Obama's armor.
I believe they prefer "slopes" to "chinks". But I could be wrong….
Time to nip this racism in the bud.
Now his presidency will be mired in guck. (Rhymes with gook.)
You so bad.
We aren't talking about the people who buill the railroads here. These guys peed on my carpet, man!
No, man, that's Baconzgood's dog.
Brilliant!!!
I think I see what you did there, eq.
Unless you eat apple pie, anusburgers and pork byproduct dogs for every meal, Jesus cries.
Someone ate something vaguely Asian today?
D̅ͥ̽͏̺o͔̫̮̻͕̿ͪ̊ͭ̾̍ͅn̠̳̫̼̱͚ͨ̊͐ͩ'͔͎͓͖̑̑̅̽t̎̓̔
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̮̫̝̱̝̗ͫͭͦ͂̐̌C͓̹͓͎̗̥̑̈̔͑͜a̴̲̺̳ͫr͇̠̩̜̙̘e̦̯̙̥͐̈͗ͧ͠
Is that how it came out?
You mean the sound of my soul blackening in rage and contempt? Yeah.
That was … (sighs) … just beautiful.
In Mali and Sasha's defense, they did request their Japanese meals be completely microwaved.
It's nice to know that someone will be in a worse circle of hell even than me come the afterlife. That was inspired.
Commonly referred to as "eight-six-forty-fiving it". Or they can request it "Okinawan style" where you have to fight for the food for 82 days.
Hey, we nuked them (Hiroshima, Nagasaki) so hard they learned how to nuke themselves(Fukushima). This earns my whiny north American ass in December a spot in hell, no?
Too soon.
We can add 'Oriental'* to Obama's many, and conflicting, shortcomings.
*The word which to me is as pejorative as the n-word, but hey, it's in the food's name!
I find it offensive. But I'm not sure why. Clearly, I need to read more.
Probably the vague Greenwich-centrism and the generic clumping together of a third of the world's population.
Good point. The more I read about the history of those parts, the more amazed I am at the diversity of cultures and languages. It's insulting to lump them all together because their skin is similarly-coloured or their eyes have epicantic folds.
no it's not, my girlfriend is Asian, she has no problem with it. I've discussed it with some of our other friends, they're all ok with "oriental". Of course people don't use it as much as they used to, but it's not a bad word or demeaning in any way.
It's not like we ever got back at those bastards for Pearl Harbor!
And now they taunt us with the Fukushima death ray.
Yeah, I'd say Hiroshima and Nagasaki evened up the score a bit…
Yeah, but bringing a nuke to a knife fight has certain logistical challenges.
You call that a surprise attack, mate? THIS is a surprise attack.
so does that mean the Sailor Moon cosplay Republican debate for tonight is off?
Can you help a brother out here 'cause I haz the confuzed K?
How does the menu that the school that his daughters attend reflect the white house? Seriously do those people at the New Republic think that the POTUS orders the lunch ladies what to slop on the tray?
Of course he does–he's Hitler!
It's all part of the plan. The tried and tested blueprint. Lots of people know that the Gleichschaltung ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gleichschaltung ) that resulted in every institution in Germany being under the total control of the Führer was instituted gradually, so that it would be harder to resist. But not so many people know that the first institution to be brought into line was a private school lunchroom in Lübeck.
Just for today, he's Hirohito.
So, Obama is God…
They've been calling him "The Messiah," "The Anointed One," "That One," and the like since 2007.
Or, apparently, Tebow.
You know those Asians and Kenyans and Quakers — they all stick together.
Don't forget the Mau Mau Anti-Colonial Muslim Antichrists!
Of course not. Because if POTUS were doing the ordering, then the lunch ladies would serve nothing but watermelon, fried chicken, chitlins, and cornbread. Oh, and mac and cheese.
Do NOT forget the GOT-damned mac and cheese! No quicker way to start gunplay at the cookout. That's what was behind all the violence in Boyz N Tha Hood, if I recall.
Baconz, you are thinking too rationally here. Try to think more batshit crazy.
Ok. Off to theblaze.com then.
I have it on good authority from Rushbo that Obama's uppity wife is trying to tell everyone else on this planet and possibly others what to eat, so why should she stop at the schoolhouse doors?
I blame it on The Muppets Movie
What part of an over-reaching big government liberal do you not understand?
Nothing like throwing a blanket over entire races of people because you are too stupid to realize it. Gotta love American Exceptionalism.
A small-pox laden blanket.
And on the very same day, Rick Santorum says the "Arab Spring" should have started in (non-Arab) Iran. Coincidence…or just the usual cone of idiocy?
And um, I guess he forgot that it kind of did, but then Iran started killing all the protesters.
Exactly. Do these people just forget each thing that happens immediately afterwards, or are they just wandering around in a cloud of permanent stupid, where nothing seems real?
Um, yes?
And the Irans and Iraqs and the school children who don't have maps…seems like the GOP is larnin' from the Miss USA contestant who just mumbled gibberish.
Dooby-dooby-dooby
Dooby-dooby-doo
I mean, srsly. What else IS there to say to this kind of thumping idiocy?
Sipping green tea makes wingnuts heads explode. Why am I just learning this now?
Andrew Johnson was impeached for improper use of a salad fork.
Oh god, the comments at the Post are just ridiculous (some of them I mean, others correct the idiocy). Not only is this somehow important, but the Obamas created this menu (of mostly Chinese food, once again) and ordered Sidwell Friends to run it, as an intentional slap in the face to the troops. Gah people are stupid.
And for fuck's sake, Pearl Harbor was seventy fucking years ago. I guess, out of respect for the troops, we should refuse to eat Mexican food on the anniversary of the day Mexican troops stepped into a part of Mexico that we decided to say should be ours, thus allowing the US to falsely claim the Mexicans had invaded us and launch a war to steal their land?
I will never ever drink a Cuba Libre on Remember the Maine Day. Or smoke a Cuban cigar.
And on the anniversary of the Battle of Little Big Horn, never eat a samosa or tandoori chicken!
Well, Saudi nationals flew airplanes in to the Twin Towers, so we invaded Iraq.
What, you got a problem with that?
Why do you hate America!?!?!
Well … yes.
Was that so hard?
From our friend Wikipedia it seems many of these are from Japan's arch foe China:
Edamame bean is a preparation of immature soybeans in the pod commonly found in Japan, China, and Hawaii.
Fried rice is a popular component of Asian cuisine, especially Chinese food.
Fortune cookies are often served as a dessert in Chinese restaurants in the United States and some other countries, but are absent in China.
I doubt Asian Mushroom Soup is called so in Asia. Worst of all Classic Spinach Salad is probably French.
I doubt Asian Mushroom Soup is called so in Asia.
In Asia, the just call it "Mushroom Soup"
Or "Campbells."
If you know anything at all about Chinese cuisine, the various soups that have mushrooms in them generally also have names along the lines of "The General's Foot Breaks The Back Of The Mounted Troops," or "Pearls Among The Jade," or "Spring Snow Overflows The Riverbanks."
Chinese cuisine is delightfully poetic (and sometimes amazingly coarse, but always entertaining) in terms of names. None of this "Duck cooked in Orange Juice" descriptive business. When they say descriptive, they MEAN descriptive.
Edamame bean is a preparation of immature soybeans in the pod commonly found in Japan, China, and Hawaii.
So, now it all begins to make sense. I expect an extra special Glenn Beck Black Board rant on Edamame and the coming Communist revolution in the next day or two. Didn't Bill Ayers once try to blow up a cop using only Edamame and Soy Sause?
Worst of all Classic Spinach Salad is probably French.
Not the way Americans make it, with hard boiled egg, red onion, a pound of bacon, and warm bacon dressing.
Now that is American Exceptionalism at work!!!
Which, as I remember from Alton's show and my Grandmother, is German in origin.
And now the conspiracy is compete.
Oh god I gained 20 lb and a layer of fat around my heart just from reading the recipe.
Sweet christ. 8 oz. spinach and 1 lb bacon. Why not call it "bacon-and-egg salad in grease"?
This is not the salad of my people!"
Love Margaret Cho!
Newt is in such a lather over Menugate that he had breakfast at Tiffany's. Just his and Callista's way of commemorating Pearl Necklace Day.
He gave her a pearl necklace? The mind boggles.
And sadly, my sex drive just took another hit.
The message in the fortune cookies, "Death to America!"
You know what's next: James O'Keefe goes to Sidwell Friends posing as a caterer.
Or maybe a student. Nah, that would be to much of a stretch.
He will probably try to serve dildos on AIDS awareness day.
Have you seen him? He is not allowed within 500' of a school.
Unit of measurement error: miles
OH MY GOD! I just realized that I ate Libyan food for lunch!!!! FUCK THAT MAKES ME A MOOSLUM TERRIST.
Falafel is the new Teriyaki.
I can't believe any good Muslim would serve a little porker … wait, that's NOT what you look like in real life?
Well, all right, then.
Its now called "Liberty Ramen".
FREEDOM SWEET & SOUR.
Blanche! You didn't eat your din din!
I bookmarked that site. I so want to give some Fuk Chow as presents to my extended fambly.
Hmmm…let's see…Pearl Harbor is in HAWAII….which is where Obama was planted after being born in KENYA. He went to OCCIDENTAL college, and now is forcing schoolkids to eat ORIENTAL food on PEARL HARBOR day. Connect the dots, sheeple!!!!!1111111111!!!!
And most of those terms have at least six letters, and guess what else has six letters: MUSLIN, that's what, morans!
Also, Sotero!
You paint a convincing picture, daddy.
Time to start checking the mail for anthrax again.
Cokie Roberts will never live that sycophancy to the GOP "elitist" talking point down. Nor should she.
CR's just another case of who you know, or from whose loins you sprang, not what you know.
Paging Chelsea Clinton!
Which, of course, left the entire West Coast of the US gasping in shock. That stupid, stupid woman.
ROTFLMAO!
I'd never heard that one.
Many Americans eat ham on Christmas and Easter to celebrate the life of a Jew. Does that make any fuckin' sense?
We used to eat lamb at Easter. Like the lamb of God. Oh, fuck, WE ATE JESUS.
Wait, weren't we supposed to?
Tammuz, a Sumerian shepherd-god of the dying-and-rising deity school of deities, was killed by a wild pig…we consumeth the flesh of the offending animal, so let it be written, so let it be done.
In the name of Iesus…
Wait, are Quakers secret Muslims or secret Shintoist? I am getting so confused.
They're non-violent; that's worst of all!
All of them, Katie?
However, you have to give the Right Wing Pundocracy credit. After all, didn't FDR remind us "December 7th, 1941, a day that I got food poisoning from some bad tofu!"
From Freedom Fries to this, apparently all Conservative foreign policy comes down to what you eat (or, in the case of Bill O'Reilly, spread on the women you want to fuck). Which probably explains why they support Chis Christie and Newt Gingrich.
I clicked to the link to the free rethuglic (I feel dirty now) and read the comments. It's like looking into Glenn Becks head.
Quick, rinse your brains with some pork rind.
Totally empty except for a creepy little man in the corner rocking back and forth going "They are all out to get me, they are all out to get me"?
Good thing there was no sushi on that school menu.
"Would you eat couscous on 9/11?"
Yes.
Fuck yeah. Topped with some motherfuckin' lamb kebabs.
What kind of creep goes onto the Sidwell Friends school web site to see what the kids are eating for lunch?
PS: the "Day that will live in Infamy" is not December 7, 2011, but December 7, 1941. Cretin.
On the other hand, the Bush twins partied till they puked. Good times!
Park Service PHAIL! Everybody knows Pearl Harbor Day is September 7!
It could have been a lot worse. The First Daughters could have been getting bombed on kamikazes while listening to Pearl Harbor and The Explosions.
[Yes, I know this is quite similar to my 12/7/2010 post. Hey - I wrote 'em!]
Plagiarist!
Such talk just about gives me… THE VAPORS.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEmJ-VWPDM4
"…it was a place where a bunch of American soldiers were attacked by a bunch of Japanese soldiers these seventy years ago today."
I know history is not very important, I mean, compared to what you might be doing on your I-Thingy, or whatever, but really? Let's just say you watched a movie or something. You didn't notice that almost all of the dead were sailors? That most of them died on one ship, in a horrific explosion? Soldiers? Really? I wish I could snark, but I am a sailor, and I stood on that monument, and I just can't think of anything funny to say.
A retired Navy friend of mine reports that when asked by Japanese tourists for directions to the USS Arizona memorial, the correct answer is "It's out there in the harbor where you fuckers left it."
Thanks for your service, Sailor. It's a team sport, defending the United States from its foreign policy mistakes. (That said, I hope Army kicks Navy's ass on Saturday.)
I usually think it's kind of funny when a civilian doesn't know the difference between a Soldier, Marine, Sailor, Airman, etc. Ignorance doesn't anger me; constant nitpicking and carping as in this article sort of does.
That's because we ate Japan's lunch in WWII.
Gah…I read some of the comments…now I need to lie down for a bit.
I saw one that compared the preparation of food in a microwave to the dropping of the bomb on Hiroshima, and well, I didn't feel the need to read any further.
Umm… You might want to check a few posts back on teh wonkette, before you pass too harsh a judgment.
John McCain would never eat tofu on December 7. That's all I know.
I'm willing to bet a pretty sizeable amount that John McCain would never eat tofu period, at least not if he knew what it was before he stuck it in his piehole.
Rage about nonsense
While consumed by fire; wingnut
Braised in its own bile.
I'll take two, with a side of seaweed salad, please.
OT: Occupy Chicago's supply carts have been confiscated and crushed – right on LaSalle. I just got an e-mail about it from the group.
The real scandal will break when it turns out that the meal was totally Halal.
As a New Zealander, I am always proud to eat kebabs on Anzac Day.
Nice!
As long as they're lamb, I guess it's OK.
Oh, now, we're not going to have an Ozzie vs. Kiwi hair-pulling scrum here, are we?
Mehmet says "Çanakkale geçilmez"…
I had Vienna Sausages and Snyder's Mini Pretzels for lunch. What does that make me? Other than an individual who has absolutely no discrimination as to what I put in my mouth?
Actually, I did think about Asian when I was out at lunch but decided to save the cash.
What you need, young-feller-me-lad, is someone to pack your lunch, all fresh and home-cooked. You could do it yourself, I suppose, but I notice food always tastes better when someone else cooks it.
Didn't Gary Hart get kicked out of the 1988 Presidential race for eating Donna Rice on Pearl Harbor Day?
Spicy tuna sushi – a major faux pas.
…and I don't blame him.
They should be serving moussaka and pastitsio washed down with retsina in honor of the Greek debt crisis.
Followed by shots of Ouzo!
Conservatives are complaining about serving Chinese and American food on Pearl Harbor day? WHOSE SIDE ARE THEY ON??/?/????
So I should stop making a pitcher of Flavor Aid on November 18th? Sorry, my bad.
Japanese food on pearl Harbor day, What's next ? Ham served on Easter day ! Because that is what Jesus who was a Jew would eat?
by eating Chinese food (Szechuan Tofu and Veggies) isn't that means Obamas are honoring our steadfast WW2 Allies the Chinese under Chaing Kai Sek.
or perhaps since Chinese are not white they don't count?
CLAIRE CHENNAULT LIBEL!
Ah, Generalissimo Chaing Kai-shek. About whom it was said, "He's a sonofabitch, but he's OUR sonofabitch."
Personally, I prefer General Stilwell's opinion of the Generalissimo, that dirty gangster.
I would go with #2.
Obviously anybody who eats Japanese cuisine is a potential traitor. We'd best round them up and send them to a
concentrationinternment camp in Arizona for the duration of the crisis.You'd think nobody in Hawaii ever eats Asian cuisine, before during or since. STFU, haole.
I thought Spam was the official dish of Hawaii?
A major part of it, but saying that nobody in Hawaii eats Asian is like saying nobody in Texas eats Mexican.
Texas schools are serving tacos? While we are under an invasion of illegals? Sound the drudge siren!
Did you know they sent some of the poor bastards to Arkansas?
No wonder we apologized.
Those poor sods!
I thought you would have realized that Asians are NOT Real Amerkinz(tm).
Hahaha..well shit, I went to Mikados and had a dragon , hot tuna roll and some warm sake. I didn't even think about it. Maybe I should a got the Anusburger with cheese and a large corn syrup.
I added "…in bed!" to everyone's fortune cookies, and it made them waaay funnier.
ME FIST YOU LONG TIME!
…in bed.
…in bed!
Is there any activity that is not better… In bed!
You are aware of the appropriateness of talking about the family while rocking that icon, no?
In thread!
Always the best way to end things.
You wish.
It is cushiony.
Let us pray.
Ehh, not going to belabor the point on this one.
Which is exactly what a vegetarian would say.
Well, that was just mean.
There is only one word for this. Dirty.
I guess that answers that.
Given the rape of Nanking, not exactly.
Three ways CAN get complicated.
Well, if you're going to schnitzel a wiener…
I don't care what the ads say with their bowling balls and wine glasses, in bed you WILL feel the vending machine.
Is the last place I want to think about Texas.
Hater.
Can't argue there. Yeah, you're going to have to expand each branch in this thread to get relevant context for parsing these remarks.
Occidental. It only makes sense if you read the post at the beginning of this thread.
That's one way to get ahead.
Well, that was, forced.
What's the frequency, anus?
And here we get some occidental on occidental action.
Posted from my play station.
Yeah. By that point everyone has lost their costume.
Admittedly, "slop on the tray" was a pretty popular move back in the '80s.
That's generally where the blankets live.
Damply.
You gotta poke some holes to make it rain.
Where else do you want your tuna?
That's a lotta food for the bedroom. You might want to get a table.
No. Just no.
A hell of a way to go.
Admittedly, having a white boy named "the third" catering me in bed is just downright pimpin'
Yup.
Nah. Ink isn't practical in bed without a squid.
It can.
At least it's quakin.
If you can support Chris Christie AND Newt Gingrich, well, hats off to you. Seriously, the bed reaching the limit.
The horror. The horror.
Because then you're asking the lunch lady to bring the meat.
In retrospect, it was a rather safe place to be.
Well, sometimes it's hard to help.
Yeah. Yeah.
Depends on the time zone, doesn't it?
Kinda tasty.
Is where I lie.
Chow down!
Aaaaand I'm spent. It's hard to compete with paste at volume.
Oh. My. God.
I…I just…wow…did that…I really…man…I don't even…that was…holy shit…you…I…are…can't…what were…seriously…I mean…wow. WOW.
Talk about "paste at volume" — I came, like, 50 fucking times tonight! I'm gonna go smoke a carton of cigarettes now…
Your upfists are on the dresser. Your avatard is in my stalk box. And your p-ness is forever in my wet spot.
You're the motherfuckin' bomb, B.O'M…
…IN BED!
As long as he pearls her harbor.
*cuddle*
Obama flew the planes into the Pearl Harbor Trade Center himself before parachuting out over a Pennsylvania cornfield where he played Chinese checkers with illegal Messicans in the back of a Toyota. It's true. I read it on the InnerNet.
Seeing G. Gordon Liddy bitching about someone not being patriotic enough and getting taken credibly pretty much sums up how completely stupid the conservatives are at this point.
The trick is not minding that he's a criminal sonofabitch now making a good living spouting his bullshit.
G. Gordon Liddy, America's most flagrant fuck-up; next to Dubya….Tape over a lock to keep a door open, briefcase with WH phone numbers left in hotel room, WH phone #s in possession of his men at the time of arrest? What an ignorant dick, can't carry out a simple black-bag burglary without bringing an Administration down. I used his whole name in the hope that he sees this on his daily "google alerts". Dipshit!
Isn't this the same genius who went bobbing for French fries on a lark?
On this day 70 years ago, an expansionist empire attacked the world's biggest oil producer simply because they refused to play ball.
Are we done yet?
You are correct, sadly, in this Country there is no prize for that.
Today, the Japanese can own places they could only fly over 70 years ago. That's progress!
I feel so dumb. I had Nilla cookies and some coconut water, when I should have had apple pan dowdy, apparently.
Don't eat the fugu, girls! It's a trap!
Admiral Ackbar, they have sushi chefs who specialize in removing the poison sacs now.
They should have eaten Hamburgers and Frankfurters. Nobody could possibly associate those names with any country other than the good old USA, could they? At least, not one with any WWII record worse than the Japanese, right?
I am a Berliner.
I love jelly donuts!
so that means Italian food for Christmas are forbidden,, because, uhm Pontius Pilate….?
Just be sure to wash your hands before nailing anything that day.
*Always* wash your hands before AND after. That's how STDs are spread.
No Yoga, as well.
Pearl Harbor was NOT an "attack on U.S. soil". Hawaii was not part of the U.S. in 1941.
Just sayin'.
Wingnuts make me tired.
They seem to be genetically engineered to endure endless bouts of self-induced hysterical stress.
That's a shame.
Isn't Phil Gramm married to a gook? Just sayin'.
McConnell's beard is Asian as well.
Whereas Grover Norquist's wife is a MUZLIM TERRORIST!
I think it's alright since they are breeding the Asian out of their line. Like Native Americans turning white when they convert to Mormony.
Yeah, we all eat shit on 9/11 day.
True Story: Back in grad school I worked in the Japanese Consulate in Houston as a "speech writer." Can Owls hoot in Japanese? No, not a lick. What I did was take the feed from the Foreign Ministry in Tokyo, the same feed/words/speech that every single Japanese diplomat from Berlin to Ougadougou was giving, and transform the "English" they sent into something the East Bushy Rock Rotary Club could marginally understand.
Anyway, every December 7, they dragged out either the lowliest schmuck on the totem pole or someone who'd been very, very bad and stuck him in front of a telephone from 7am until 6pm to exclusively answer all the calls that came in regarding Pearl Harbor from the locals. So for 11 hours straight, and the phone never stopped ringing, the poor bastard listened to an endless stream of expletives punctuated by Jap, Nip and, why not, Chink. Many a Japanese Foreign Service sarariman was broken on that day.
What, no slants?
1940 called. They want their zeroes back.
"We don't want the smoked duck to be an enoki mushroom cloud."
Holy shiitake!
Smoked duck with enoki mushrooms sounds deelish. Wouldn't the duck kinda overpower the 'shrooms, though?
You should tempura any further comments on this topic, lest people get all bento out of shape.
So you're saying you don't wonton of questions surrounding this issue to crop up?
A little discretion gyoza long way.
I can't be bothered to come up with a smart ass comment about this so I'm just going to say the original author is stupid and, believe me, I know stupid. I have a masters in stupid as well as a minor in idiocy and buffoonery.
Newt Gingrich, on the other hand, patriotically refused to pay child support for his two daughters from his first marriage – so as to avoid any possibility that he might be contributing to their eating Japanese food on Pearl Harbor Day.
Is there no end to the nitpicking and carping from the fringe right? I jest…..of course there isn't.
Don't mention the war, Basil!
Let's get all Sports Trash-Talk on this bitch: who woulda won if the Emperor had sucker-punched Hitler instead?
Two, four, six, eight
Time to transubstantiate!
So get down upon your knees
Fiddle with your rosaries
Bow your head with great respect
And genuflect, genuflect, genuflect
Well, it's my birthday, too (sort of like "Born on the Fourth of July," but different) and I ate Thai food yesterday.
Just wait until these guys found out that roughly 1.2 million New Yorkers ate falafel or halal lamb for lunch, this past 9/11. NEVER FORGET, PEOPLE!
Oh! I have a snarky comment now!
Ahemhemhem… "It is rather insensitive for Asia to have been built so close to Japanese ground"
Aww yeah, the old east west east.
Biff, Biff, Biff. I shall think of you as I technicolour yawn through the night, you horrible little man.
Oh, yeah, THAT god.
Right. Never mind that question, then. On to the next.
Excelsior!
Thought so. I've always wanted to go to Urumqi. Did you like it there?
I have a (in my parents' opinion) totally awesome name. No one ever remembers it, pronounces or spells it correctly, or even takes my repeated and somewhat curmudgeonly hints to quit trying already.
I wouldn't have minded being Fuchsia Dunlop, though. She's had a fascinating life and has more knowledge about Szechwanese food than the Kitchen God (灶君). But boring parents tend to ensure long and happy lives for their offspring. Children of exciting parents end up being addicted to harmful, if interesting, behaviours.
Eh, I'm still an alcoholic. I mean, my parents are boring, but Scottish and Russian. So there's that. But now I'm jealous and want to know what your name is.You know, Urumqi is a fantastic place to visit – living there is a bit tough. Like all places in China, it's easier if you're a man than if you're a woman. I had high hopes for learning Uighur and going to grad school, but they were pretty much dashed when I realized how all of Western China is still embroiled in the kind of petty corruption and dishonesty that I expect in, say, India. I mean, it's not like you won't come across that kind of thing in Beijing's universities, but I feel like it's less over there, at least for foreigners. Also, the Uighur culture is highly sexist. Having majored in Islamic Studies, I thought I was ready to deal with it, but I wasn't.That said, the food is good (everything from noodles to insanely tasty fruit to a dish called da pan ji (big plate chicken, best enjoyed in Urumqi) to greasy, spicy kebabs) and the summertime weather is great, if you like bone-drying white-hot heat. The scenery is mind-blowing, especially around the Tian Shan mountains.
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