hope.....

[rob]

second coming of the St. Louis Browns...I lol'd!

[prole]

Speaking of Safeco, is it ever not Salute to Armed Services Night? My hands were raw before the game even started from all the obligatory clapping. Really, is the Enumclaw VFW No. 271 Women's Auxiliary really an armed service? Play BALL for fucks sake. Salute to Firefighters too. I made the mistake of sitting up in the "view" seats that night. It was like an orgy from Caligula, except everyone was fat and slathered in chili. Okay, God Bless America is not the national anthem, I'm not standing up. Great time to take a piss or get garlic fries while the momos are standing around with their caps in their hands. Please stop showing scenes from the '95 miracle season. We didn't win anything, it's not the Special Olympics. The sooner Mariners fans stop buying the 95' commemorative DVD, the sooner the Nintendo Yakuza see a fall in profitability and realize they need a team that can sell new DVDs. Speaking of '95, has Ken Griffey Jr.'s Butt called about a farewell celebration yet? Wasn't he holding Don Wakamatsu's job hostage over that shit? Don Wakamatsu got fired, no call from Griffey. WTF?

[olyclimber]

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/09/18/christine-odonnell-witchcraft/?print

[prole]

2010 REGULAR SEASON RANKINGS --Seattle Mariners

 

BATTING AVERAGE

.234

30th Overall

HOME RUNS

91

30th Overall

RUNS BATTED IN

442

30th Overall

HITS

1147

30th Overall

 

Here a fucking pop quiz: How many major league teams are there? Great strategy, Zurd! This team should be the triple A team of the Tacoma Rainiers not the other way around. Ichiro and Felix should play every every position on the field and be the only ones allowed to bat. Why did they stop calling the place where the Mariners Moose hangs out his "habitat"? Some right wing cocksucker probably complained that his kids were being "brainwashed" by "eco-fascists" while the Air Force violates Safeco airspace to Wagner music on a regular basis. The Mariners miss Eric Byrnes' "fire". Pyramid beer is horsepiss. Casey Kotchman makes Richie Sexon look like Lou Gehrig. HO-LEE-SHIT, playing the David AArdsma music at full blast before the 9th inning this time of year with this team is the height of full-blown retardation. Doesn't he have any shame? Why is his "brand" the little shields that spin around? Is he a fucking knight?

Edited September 19, 2010 by prole

[billcoe]

Nice rant. LOLZZZZ!

 

[j_b]

 

Understanding the Witch-Hunt Against Obama

The paranoid style of American politics is alive and well, using all the classic smear tactics used against minorities and citizen heroes like Martin Luther King.

September 14, 2010 |

 

 

America is in the midst of a 21st-century witch hunt. A loose-knit network of right-wing ideological strategists, Republican Party operatives and media demagogues generate the odious smears. Their goal is to stymie the Obama administration’s policy initiatives, capture Congress in November and unseat President Barack Obama in 2012. This propagandizing echoes the scapegoating of liberals, union and community organizers, peace activists, gay people, Jews and people of color during the anti-communist witch-hunts of the McCarthy era.

 

Anti-Obama rhetoric also mimics 1960s slurs dubbing Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. a dupe of a communist conspiracy — claims circulated by groups like the ultra-conservative John Birch Society, the white supremacist “Citizens’ Councils” and the Ku Klux Klan. Billboards and flyers with this revelation appeared across the South, and postcards were distributed nationwide.

 

The underlying message is that liberals are either tools or agents of the plot to build collectivism and global governance. Such claims, once used to label President Franklin D. Roosevelt a fascist, and have resurfaced against Obama, who is tagged as Hitler and Stalin. Such sloganeering is a classic trope that distorts a complex idea into a short metaphor full of rich cultural or political baggage.

 

[...]

 

Hard times yield a hard right. Indeed, the Republicans appear set to adopt the liberal treachery motif as a campaign tool in the upcoming election.

 

Progressives must energetically defend Obama against pathological smears and racist attacks — while we kick his butt to live up to his campaign promises. 

 

more here: http://www.alternet.org/news/148180/understanding_the_witch-hunt_against_obama/?page=entire

[billcoe]

Normally I don't respond to you posts as you hide behind your anonymity, (and I'm at work waiting for a report to run) which seems pretty cowardly to me. I've seen what you are describing, but it seems to me that normal people see that hyperbole and not just disregard it as stupid over the line unreasonable unsubstantiated rantings and trash talk, but then they (the normal people) start discounting everything else the wing nut who is pitching way out to right field says.

 

Those who talk and lie that way do themselves a disservice imo.

[tvashtarkatena]

Maybe he'd appear braver in your eyes if he flashed his handgun collection for us LOL

[prole]

Yeah Bill, show us that 1970's Kentucky Coke Dealer-style heat you roll with. You should be bitch-slapped purely on aesthetic grounds!

[tvashtarkatena]

I kinda wish Bill was more anonymous.

[tvashtarkatena]

Without him, though, I'd never be able to keep up with the latest conspiracies in the making.

[j_b]

Unreal. Considering the standard of behavior (demonization, scapegoating, etc ..) of right wing goons toward their critics on the inter-tubes, I think it is an excellent idea to be anonymous.

 

normal people see that hyperbole

 

Unfortunately there is a mountain of evidence showing that right wingers aren't normal people. Remember that poll, which shows that way over 50% of GOPers currently believe that Obama favors the interest of Muslims over those of Americans? One has clearly to be a nutjob to believe that, yet there it is.

 

Those who talk and lie that way do themselves a disservice imo.

 

The right wing has used these demonization techniques forever, and to great effect, which explains why the political left is almost nonexistent in the US.

[tvashtarkatena]

Right Wing Nutjobs are driven by fear.

 

Those who don't have as much today as they had yesterday need someone to blame. If that someone is black, or gay, or a woman, so much the better.

 

Those who are making it, rather than being grateful, are consumed by the fear of having it taken away, you know, by gay black people n stuff.

 

It must suck.

 

Thing is, you seem to be driven by fear as well. Might explain why you like to hang wit da Tighties so much on these forums.

 

 

[tvashtarkatena]

Tighties also tend to be way more materialist than their librul counterparts.

 

Tell us about your free hotel upgrades and how your Lexus dealer kisses your ass (true story). We're rapt. LOL

[prole]

It doesn't matter that the Mariners are dead last in the majors in every offensive category but their record is slightly better than the Pissburg Pirates, thereby fucking them for draft picks, because the Pirates won't pick the giant bubble-butts that Zurd so covets. Yay? He's probably amassing the cash necessary to get Prince Fielder within range of his shower-cams as we speak. Hey Peter, say goodbye to Panda Bear Sandoval as a Giant. Zurd will move heaven and earth (probably trade Ichiro and Felix) to get a gander at those chocolate cheeks. NTTATWWT.