So – you wish you could issue hunting licenses to “thin the herd” of liberals, huh?
Thin this, motherfucker.
Oh, sure. Now that you’ve been caught, you say you meant it metaphorically and hit “Share” too soon. Given that these:
have been around for a while (and are hot sellers at mainstream conservative events like CPAC), let’s just say I’m not buying it.
And while you’re at it, howzabout you take a look at the Wikipedia summary of “The Most Dangerous Game,” eh? If you feel up to it, personally I’d recommend the actual story – but based on your professed inability to operate Facebook’s UI, I’m assuming you’ll find the summary easier to handle.
Posted by protected static as asshattery, politics at 8:54 PM UTC
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Something the GOP forgot, when proclaiming that HCR would be Obama’s Waterloo: the Duke of Wellington had a Waterloo, too.
Posted by protected static as politics at 9:36 AM UTC
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Last week in Nashville, TN, a mosque was vandalized. After the positive community response was highlighted by Andrew Sullivan this afternoon, the comments section of various Nashville-area blogs covering the crime were flooded with strident anti-Muslim trolls – hey, it’s Teh Internets; we all know how this works, right?
What I found amusing was the number of trolls who are all LOL!!!OMG!!! STOOPID MUSLIMS FAKED THE GRAFITTI, LOOK ITS AN AFRICAN CROSS SEE SOMALI MUSLIMS MADE AN EAST AFRICAN CROSS LOL ELEVENTY!!! CANT EVEN FAKE A HATE CRIME RIGHT LOL!!!
To steal a catchphrase… sadly, no. May I present the flag of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem?
Posted by protected static as asshattery, politics at 7:02 PM UTC
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“Did the framers of our Constitution ever envision something like a semi-automatic weapon?” [Sen. Jeanne Kohl-Welles, D-Seattle] asked.
*sigh* Nor did they envision the Internet or Scientology, yet these are also protected under the Bill of Rights…
Three WA legislators have introduced a ban on so-called assault weapons, partially in response to the ambush and murder of a Seattle policeman. Ironically, the weapon alleged to have been used in this specific attack, while a semi-automatic rifle, is unlikely to be banned under any such legislation.
Posted by protected static as politics at 9:58 PM UTC
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[Anita] Dunn would never have used Hitler as a source for perseverance and setting the right objectives. Why[?] Because Hitler’s evil is self-evident. So why is Mao’s rancid evil not self-evident for a person like Dunn? Because she retains a double standard for far left totalitarianism over far right totalitarianism. It’s that insulting and morally disgusting double standard that gets my goat. Mao was responsible for the deaths of up to 70 million people – and Dunn sees him as a useful strategist.
The reason many people see Mao as a useful strategist is because, well, he was an excellent strategist. Hitler… not so much.
(Oh yeah… Mao was also a pretty decent writer. Hitler… not so much.)
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“Bomb hits outside suspected Pakistani nuclear-weapons site”
Commentary would be superfluous, I think…
(via TPM)
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Just because he’s President doesn’t mean he’s allowed to get all uppity-like.
Posted by protected static as asshattery, politics at 5:16 PM UTC
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Using statistics about gun crime and violence to downplay the seriousness of carrying firearms to political demonstrations isn’t comparing apples to oranges so much as it is comparing apples to Orange-throated Tanagers. Why?
Because some people go looking for a confrontation, which is when Really Stupid Shit happens. And when it happens, it happens fast.
Posted by protected static as asshattery, politics at 5:53 PM UTC
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School closings and restructurings naturally bring out the worst impulses in people. The desire to protect and preserve the familiar, even if it is somehow not to standard, is a strong one – who are these outsiders to judge our school? Our community? Are all schools being subjected to equally applied scrutiny?
Well, in the current round of proposed Seattle school closures, a lot of people feel that the answer is no, standards are being unevenly applied. Many of the proposed changes appear to disproportionately affect minority neighborhoods. They also appeared to target city-wide, alternative schools, such as The Boy’s.
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Posted by protected static as politics, random at 9:58 PM UTC
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Behold the moral vacuity of our chattering classes:
The issue of torture is more complicated than it seems.
No. It isn’t complicated in the slightest. A statement this wrong doesn’t deserve a logical rebuttal. It only deserves scorn, mockery, and opprobrium. So fuck you, Newsweek. Fuck you, Stuart Taylor Jr. Fuck you, Evan Thomas. And the biggest fuck you goes out to the editors who decided that this abomination deserved to be the cover story.
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If you’re a politically-inclined geek you will probably find this to be full of WIN, even if you aren’t a Democrat. And if you are a geeky Democrat, well… it might contain too much WIN for your WIN containment fields, so power up before you click that link.
[tho' I've seen this link lots of places today, I finally clicked on it from PZ's place]
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IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Read the rest of this entry »
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So… I was going to post something witty, biting, and sarcastic about Rev. James Dobson of Focus on the Anus’* remarks about Obama picking and choosing his Biblical passages for political aims… but my heart’s just not in it right now. You know the drill: Pot. Kettle. Black. Shocking no? Witty repartee and oh-so-hip and detached banter follows.
Eh. Whatever.
*Thanks for that great turn of phrase, Pam.
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I mean, why would Chavez be calling for FARC to end their armed struggle against Colombia… one day after the Colombians caught Venezuelan military personnel trying to smuggle 40,000 rounds of ammunition into Colombia? They couldn’t possibly be related…
Some backstory: Venezuela’s military recently converted from rifles that fire NATO 5.56×45mm ammunition to an updated, Russian-made version of the AK-47 that fires 7.62×39mm ammunition – making them the only nation in the Americas to standardize on this cartridge. At the time the purchase was announced (last year? two years ago? feeling too lazy to Google…), some analysts speculated that the primary reason for the conversion wasn’t to give the finger to the US – it was to make covertly arming FARC easier, since they primarily use AK-47 variants.
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That some of Clinton’s supporters would think that trying to link Obama to drugs, murder & gay sex is an argument for Clinton’s electibility is ___________.
- stupid
- fucking weird
- mendacious
- pathological
- depressing
- all of the above
sigh
Someone come get me when it’s all over…
Posted by protected static as asshattery, politics at 2:11 PM UTC
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