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  1. Why you wanna manufacture a blood libel n' shit?
  2. Euroch Priebus?
  3. prole

    Back On Track

    He's also the first Roman eunuch elected to the post.
  4. prole

    Back On Track

    Michael Steele has been replaced by Reince Priebus. For those concerned about the lack of diversity in Republican leadership positions this represents, a press release has been issued pointing out that Priebus is the first RNC Chair lacking a chin.
  5. Because America's health care system is stuck in the stone age?
  6. Yeah, don't you know we're in the midst of a DEMOGRAPHIC CRISIS?! Make room already!
  7. Somebody should put a bullet in that car's head. Just kidding!
  8. THIS IS A NEW ERA! PLEASE MAKE YOUR ARGUMENTS INTELLECTUALLY!!
  9. You know, instead of Romneycare.
  10. We should've gone with single-payer.
  11. Singapore: We'll cane your ass!
  12. Are the M's looking to the east these days for bubble-butt prospects? What exactly is Zurd doing in his office besides playing with that thing with the steel balls that click against each other and his miniature billiard set? Have we found a catcher that with a VORP higher than a side of beef? I'm starting to long for the good ol' days, do you think we could get Bill Bavasi back? Pop Quiz: The M's are slated to play 81 home games this year. How many aren't either Salute to Armed Forces or Dave Niehaus Remembrances or both? Is Milton Bradley healthy again? Physically, I mean.
  13. prole

    It's Only Rhetoric

    I LOL'D [video:youtube]
  14. We could hire the French to do it for us. :-)
  15. Given what we've seen lately of American firms inability to "police themselves", their tenacious resistance to real regulation and oversight, and the willingness of politicians to go along with it, we're going to need to see a lot of change in the political and regulatory environment before I'd be willing to entertain the increased use of nuclear power. Like a fifteen year old asking for the car keys, I don't think America's ready for that kind responsibility.
  16. prole

    It's Only Rhetoric

    Conservatism through its history is really more of a tidal reactionary movement than a philosophy with a coherent tradition or core set of values. Jay_B's liberalism is what provides that cohesion in America's brand of conservatism. One need only look to the most recent luminary, William F. Buckley's arguments during the Civil Rights era, support for McCarthyism, and rightwing dictatorship to understand that, even at its best, intellectualism in the conservative mold is simply window dressing for the maintenance of privilege and thuggery.
  17. prole

    It's Only Rhetoric

    And sorry, I'm not buying the idea that "true conservatives" really hate Palin. In the wake of the hardships their policies have caused the working and middle class members of their base, she (and the kind of rhetoric she uses) is the only thing that's keeping the GOP viable at the ballot box. This is partly what makes Ailes' entreaty to commentators to abandon bombast and "make your arguments intellectually" so laughable. If they could, they already would. The other part is that, even at their best, "intellectual conservatives'" reason for being is to make dumb ideas sound smart. But by gutting education, philosophy, humanities, etc. while pushing anti-intellectual rhetoric, Americans are no longer capable of responding to those arguments. Quite a hole they've dug themselves and part of the reason why conservatives are unlikely to back down from a "don't retreat, reload" position.
  18. prole

    It's Only Rhetoric

    Like Off, while rewatching (guh) her speech I was struck (apart from the fact that she seems to be speaking to toddlers) again by the deep mystery as to who the fuck she thinks she is. She's going "link arms with Obama"? Who the fuck is she? She has clawed and scratched and insinuated herself way into some kind of pop-politico celebrity with absolutely no apparent real political or governing skills whatsoever apart from her ability to claw, scratch, etc. into our fields of vision. "Attention Whore" doesn't even begin to cover it. I know this is all ground that's been covered, but damn, it's really disturbing.
  19. Just good patriots apparently...
  20. prole

    It's Only Rhetoric

    Billcoe, did you want to take it from here? Where's Gene Simmons and Whoopie sitting on all this?
  21. prole

    It's Only Rhetoric

    Alan Dershowitz is a "lefty"? Get a clue.
  22. Another media deceit is that these outbursts of violence aren't prevalent, and becoming more so.
  23. prole

    It's Only Rhetoric

    Sarah does rightly place Reagan's quote squarely at the heart of the conservative deceit in this particular case and many others: the social context (State, civil society, ideology, narrative, culture, etc.) we all live within is totally irrelevant. We're all just bumper cars and billiard balls. Conveniently, this allows them to "stay the course" or "don't retreat, reload" when it comes to backing down from hate speech, addressing gun reform, or funding mental health not to mention the other issues we're facing as a society. Again, how many more "random acts" of violence or people who "just happen to choose" to be poor, undereducated, and unemployed do we need to see before Americans all start to realize that we're in this together?
  24. prole

    It's Only Rhetoric

    Now the Liberal Jewish Establishment is out to get Sarah! Poor thing, she just can't seem to catch a break. So misunderstood... According to her spokesperson she said "Mlood Klibel", an old saying in Alaska meaning survey marker, not "blood libel". Lamestream media!!!
  25. But it is good that Eff-Dubya's here to take over some of the Right's duty to make an ass of itself.
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