A Haunting Specter
Sorry. Been real busty and sorta absent from blogging this past week.
I'm back.
And I'm tired. Sick and tired of Arlen Specter. And he's only been with "us " a week. He's the 60th vote like I'm Pee Wee Herman. Let us count the ways. Specter doesn't support a number of Obama's appointees. He doesn't support a national health care plan that would ruffle insurance monopolies. He doesn't support the Employee Free Choice Act. And now he's going out of his way to vow he won't be a loyal Democrat.
That's fine by me. I also find no reason for Democrats to be loyal to him. Obama, Reid, and Rendell have promised the contrary. They're pretty much on record saying they will stand for him and try to tamp down any Democratic primary challenge tp Specter's 2010 re-election bid.
But, you know, it's sorta hard to carry Pennsylvania if you don't have Big Labor behind you. And right now Big Labor is Big-time P.O.'ed that Specter is rejecting card check proposals -- only THE most important issue to American unions at this moment. AFL-CIO leader Richard Trumka is now on the record saying the labor just might back an opponent to Specter. And if you think quasi-Repub Specter doesn't give a hoot about what unions think, you are wrong. I remember the '97 AFL convention in Steel Town where Specter, the only Republican invited, was introduced by....Trumka.
Just as importantly, Andy Stern, leader of America's largest and richest union -- SEIU-- went out of his way today to meet with Pennsylvania Democrat Joe Sestak, the most likely of any possible challenger to Specter. And Sestak, who is sitting on a $3million campaign treasury, is NOT ruling out a run. And Stern warns: "I cannot see the unions across the board supporting Specter if he cannot support EFCA." That's the acronym for the card check bill.
I don't know about you, but I think Sestak should announce NOW that he's going to run. Scare the sludge out of Specter. See where his rank opportunism will lead him. Maybe even in the right direction.
I know it's a gamble to oppose Specter and possibily give the "60th" seat to the GOP. Then again, re-electing him might just guarantee that Dems won't really have that seat anyway. (In any case, who can as much as stand the pompous Specter, chief water-carrier for the most retrograde of right-wing judicial nominations?). Ugh.
May 4th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Here’s a better likeness of Specter: Arlen Sphincter?
(Don’t get excited, reg.)
May 4th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
(Glad to see you’re alive and kicking.)
in re Specter — Absolutely dead on.
Run, Joe, run.
May 4th, 2009 at 6:59 pm
Been real busty</U and sorta absent from blogging this past week.
I guess they just weighed you down, huh . . .;-)
I nearly made the mistake of sending an e-mail to a client stating “I know you’re very busty,” but managed to catch my mistake int ime and keep my job.
May 4th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
For Specter this is clearly just self-preservation and I hope Sestak kicks his ass in a primary.
Woody, if assholes excited reg, I’m sure he’d be beating a path to your door.
May 4th, 2009 at 7:02 pm
P.S. Not to make this a point of discussion, but people interested in facts related to previous threads, if there are any here besides Jim R and myself, may find this helpful: What Was Churchill’s Torture Policy?
May 4th, 2009 at 7:07 pm
Randy, don’t give reg false hope.
May 4th, 2009 at 7:09 pm
The only thing false was your comment that sphincters excited reg.
May 5th, 2009 at 5:01 am
You’re right, Randy. Apparently, since he’s your blog partner, reg must like pricks.
May 5th, 2009 at 5:11 am
“(In any case, who can as much as stand the pompous Specter, chief water-carrier for the most retrograde of right-wing judicial nominations?). Ugh.”
Ugh times 2!
May 5th, 2009 at 5:38 am
If I were Sestak, I would make my campaign ads showing specter caving to the right after the 2004 election in order to get the Judiciary Chairmanship.
That would be devastating.
May 5th, 2009 at 5:46 am
Specter sounds similar to liberals who make attacks on this site.
Specter: GOP Killed Jack Kemp
Wow! The whole party was involved in killing Kemp. With the Democrats, it only takes the President and First-lady.
May 5th, 2009 at 6:06 am
Woody pursues one of his most hilarious obsessions – homoeroticism. I think a very good argument can be made, from such evidence as Woody’s constant harping and taunting about who is “gay’, that the most grotesque homophobes are mirroring a sadly repressed fascination. Perhaps in a better world, Woody would have not turned out to be such a twisted, bigoted little prick.
And, of course, there’s nothing new in that link – I dug up the same info about the German prisoners who were subjected to horrible treatment constituting torture (most AFTER the war, incidentally, for reasons that appear to be revenge) in a similiar discussion at WitnessLA and what Tapper doesn’t mention is that the head of British intelligence at the time determined that the commander of that prison violated the Geneva Conventions and committed crimes. So there was no defense or evidence of authorization for the actions at that prison. Whether the Churchill quote is a surmise or an actual quote is an academic discussion, because Churchill didn’t condone torture of German spies and the intel experts charged with interrogating high-value captives DID NOT USE TORTURE. And the spies who were shot or hanged were, according to the best evidence I could find, subject to trial before they were executed. So there was no “Jack Bauer gun to the head” to elicit information, as Crazy John Moore – Woody’s asylum mate – asserted. Executing spies after trial is according to law and any spy knows this. Woody hasn’t a leg to stand on in his ongoing defense of torture and has produced zilch in attempting to make the case that Churchill or British intelligence tortured high value captives to gain intel. Also a limited attention span and a remarkable inability to follow the actual contours of any discussion that gets more complex than calliing people “gay”. He’s a homophobe, a racist and persists in sliming immigrants, so why wouldn’t he defend torture ?
May 5th, 2009 at 6:22 am
Here’s a good bit on Sestak:
http://tinyurl.com/cnhe2j
I’m fine with Spector jumping ship – it’s good theater, it’s revealiing of personal ambition as the core of so much politics, and it drives the stake a little deeper into the vampire’s heart, but a primary challenge from Sestak is essential. One hopes he can beat Spector and become the PA Senator, but at the least it’s the only way to keep Spector even half-honest (I think that’s the best he’s got in him.) Firedoglake incidentally, linked above, will be a good venue for making donations to a Sestak challenge.
May 5th, 2009 at 7:36 am
I can’t blame Specter. After all, a seat in the United States Senate is the most precious thing in all Creation. Man’s gotta do what a man’s gotta do.
Still, I’m glad he’ll be plunging his stilletto in Democrat backs from now on.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:38 am
A vacation might be in order. You seem pretty burnt out.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:48 am
Oh for heaven’s sakes. Specter’s about face was just part of a ploy to try and wrest that contested one vote/seat.
If the Democrats were actually Democrats then the party would be sending out an avalanche of emails (as they do for all sorts of reasons) galvanizing ‘the base’ with pretty much Marc’s message and getting people on board to vote for a “real” Democrat.
How many more blogs, oh Marc, will you write that force you into the posture of apologist for Obama and his minions—sandwiched in between ones like the previous where once again the master of the universe is outflanking and outwitting the evil ones.
At some point, Marc…et al, one has to concede that Obama is human, that he would not have been elected if he had not been tapped by the power brokers and that the one campaign demand he kept making about us being the ones who have to change is,in fact, the point.
I am fascinated by the use of words when all of us rant about what is going on. Its US that are responsible for what is happening. The Machievellian shenanigans will always be there.
May 5th, 2009 at 12:13 pm
Who could have anticipated the double standards of the MSLM (mainstream liberal media)?!
Double Standard: Shelby’s a Deserter, Specter Exposes GOP
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reg, I don’t obsess over homos. It’s only with you that I point out the obvious, and your efforts to dodge it are laughable. From the way that you typically react and attack, it’s hard to tell any difference between you and Perez Hilton.
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reg: Whether the Churchill quote is a surmise or an actual quote is an academic discussion
Not when Obama claims that it’s true in a national speech, and his idiot followers jump on that quote as God’s truth (which they probably believe).
reg, there is no way that you can know all of the differences between what Churchill said for public consumption and what he allowed when in power – even when Obama says it.
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reg’s new bumper sticker:
Obama said it. I believe it. That settles it.
May 5th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Woody – you’ve got nuthin’. You made a fool of yourself. I argued from evidence – you argued from whatever it is you pull out of your ass. As for the persistence of your homophobia, it keeps popping up with such a vengeance, there’s no explanation other than a pathetic obsession. Although it is a realtively innocuous respite from racist comments about my wife.
May 5th, 2009 at 12:55 pm
The funny thing about your last comment is that I have absolutely no idea who “Perez Hilton” is…
May 5th, 2009 at 1:40 pm
who was it who quipped that Woody has a wife…and a wood
chipper?
May 5th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Its rabbit hole time…
Limbaugh: Palin the most prominent and articulate voice for conservatism
http://caffertyfile.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/05/limbaugh-palin-most-prominent-and-articulate-voice-for-conservatism/
comments are cute, too.
May 5th, 2009 at 3:19 pm
I guess Rush hasn’t heard of Woody…
May 5th, 2009 at 3:26 pm
I think Joe Sestak just had a “Bingo!” moment…
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/05/specter-norm-coleman-shou_n_197057.html
May 5th, 2009 at 5:44 pm
I don’t get why he won’t declare he’s for EFCA as his big concession and play the Democrats on the rest of it. As Marc says, getting organized labor is huge in Pennsylvania. If EFCA doesn’t pass (which I see as likely), you get credit for the vote and don’t actually pay up. And if it turns out he’s the key vote, well, he can pull out then if he wants to. Or do it and know that having a clear primary field and labors backing in the general will mean an easy win. What is Specter thinking?
May 5th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
I think Woody IS Rush.
OMG.
May 5th, 2009 at 7:32 pm
The Democrats are screwing Specter and backing out on a promise…now that they have him back. Senate Democrats Deny Specter Committee Seniority It should be fun watching them lie back-and-forth to each other.
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How can we think about Sen. Specter when Great Britain has banned Michael Savage?!
Some people are soooooo sensitive.
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For reg….
reg: The funny thing about your last comment is that I have absolutely no idea who “Perez Hilton” is…
The really funny thing is that you won’t admit to knowing who “Perez Hilton” is. VIDEO: Re: Miss California’s Answer to my question at Miss USA You and he sound just alike! What a raving queer.
But, it’s okay, reg. I don’t think any less of you for your effeminate nature. You had already hit bottom.
Honestly, I thought briefly about a comment of yours and was reminded about something. When I used to do the science show, there was this 500 lb. gay behemoth that was on the set, and he drove me crazy acting like a scared girl and blubbering around. He was a comic relief character in a movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger. You two would have gotten along great.
That reminds me of something else. Dom DeLuise passed away.
May 5th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
Longer “gay” posts please….it seems to be your forte. And kudos for turning a comments thread on Arlen Specter into a catalog of your rather pathetic obsessions. Quite a feat.
May 5th, 2009 at 8:03 pm
Yeah, reg. Like you never go off tangent and dwell on attacking everyone who doesn’t agree with you. Most of your comments consist of at least one line of your obsession of attacking rather than discussing. How gay can you get?
May 5th, 2009 at 8:09 pm
Interesting piece by Hitchens on Brits in WWII and torture:
http://www.slate.com/id/2217583/
May 5th, 2009 at 8:16 pm
Woody – you’ve long ago exhausted any possibility that anyone here could possibly respect your intellect. It wasn’t necessary, after that debacle, to proceed to give us a window into your equally empty soul…
May 6th, 2009 at 7:04 am
How a lefty sees Specter and the GOP. Obviously, the guy understands neither. GOP will miss Arlen Specter’s prudence. Yeah, miss him like a boil on your rear end.
Thankfully, a person with a clearer head and moral values has been selected to replace Specter on the Judiciary Committee and to represent decent Americans in revewing Obama’s Supreme Court nominations.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:05 am
For reg -
Hmmm, reg. You’re getting worse. On your two comments above, neither has anything to do with the topic, and the second one is an attack on my intellect!? reg, your arranging of fancy words and misplaced modifiers doesn’t make you smart. Frankly, you are devoid of logic, your comments show emotional rage, and your positions show a moral emptiness.
However, here is a kindred soul with whom you may commiserate. Man sues for $1 over right to wear skirt in public
May 6th, 2009 at 7:23 am
Marc: Just as importantly, Andy Stern, leader of America’s largest and richest union — SEIU– went out of his way today to meet with Pennsylvania Democrat Joe Sestak, the most likely of any possible challenger to Specter.
The meeting must not have gone well. How quickly the union can forgive….
SEIU members across Pennsylvania energize Senator Arlen Specter’s field offices
Energy bars? Energy drinks? I think those were good choices for Specter. But, what ever happened to good ol’ union threats and bribes?
May 6th, 2009 at 7:24 am
You’re a bigot, a racist and a dimwit. But the worst is that you’re a child. Desperate for attention. Do yourself a favor and shut the fuck up. Everyone’s sick of you.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:29 am
Ok you two, break it up.
Diaper Dave’s senate seat is going to be challenged by porn star, Stormy Daniels, in the upcoming Louisiana senate race.
Who said irony’s dead.
Meanwhile, in UK, actress and human rights campaigner, Joanna Lumley, lead and helped win the fight to give equal rights to Ghurkas.
And two Irish rockers broker aid for Africa and got down with Bush about it.
Contrast that to Edwards’ wife coming out with a bizarre book about the drama of his infidelity, Sarah Palin and a porn star challenging a senator who gets off on wearing diapers.
Rome had nuthin’ on us.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:30 am
correction: the Gurkha issue isn’t settled yet but upset a vote in the Commons and the government in general.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:32 am
By the way, Stormy’s interview showed her to be rather sharpish.
This is going to get a lot of play.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:40 am
Sorry, reg, you only speak for yourself, unless you took a secret vote. What drives you crazy is that this isn’t another Daily Kos having a liberal love-in without some conservative interrupting it with honesty and logic. Do something about your pent-up emotional rage.
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For those who are sick of reg’s anger and attacks, you might enjoy this: The Daily Show’s Top 5 Arlen Specter-acular Moments
May 6th, 2009 at 7:48 am
Why are the crackers getting a Woody over Jeff Sessions’ rise in the Judiciary Committee ? Sessions is a racist and a ridiculous crackpot !!!
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=8dd230f6-355f-4362-89cc-2c756b9d8102
http://tinyurl.com/ccufce
Sessions is a great “face” for the GOP in the upcoming battles over judicial appointments. It’s a very good thing for the country to see what the “moral values” of despicable swine like Woody and his GOPer “Dead Men Walking” comrades truly are.
May 6th, 2009 at 7:51 am
Incidentally, Jeff Sessions was so tainted by racism and dubious behavior that he couldn’t even pass through the judicial nomination process himself. He was rejected by the committee he now serves on.
http://mediamatters.org/research/200905050030
May 6th, 2009 at 7:57 am
“a senator who gets off on wearing diapers”
Are you sure he’s not just preparing for the next terrorist attack ?
May 6th, 2009 at 7:59 am
I’m trying to figure out whether Woody’s comeback will be to call me gay or to argue that Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III was a victim of reverse racism while protecting white Southerners’ rights.
Any bets ?
May 6th, 2009 at 8:06 am
Sorry, reg, you only speak for yourself, unless you took a secret vote.
Maybe it’s time for a plebiscite . . .
May 6th, 2009 at 8:06 am
without some conservative interrupting it with honesty and logic
Still waiting for that conservative to arrive.
May 6th, 2009 at 8:21 am
Sometimes Jim R fits the bill…or at least tries.
May 6th, 2009 at 9:51 am
Ok. will try to break the deadlock again:
HOT OFF THE PRESS…PORN STAR STORMY DANIELS TO CHALLENGE DIAPER DAVE VITTER’S SENATE SEAT…reapeat: Por….
Reg, dahlink. With your collusion, Woody successfully hijacks every thread.
How many times can you call him a ‘racist dirt bag”? We know. He knows. He is pathological. He doesn’t care. Because he is pathological. Get it?
May 6th, 2009 at 9:57 am
Reg, if you really want to cold cock him (pun intended) think about the limitless possibilities for fun…and his virtual humiliation by inviting a deep, profound theraputic exchange about his Superman fantasy.
My god, man, how can you drop the ball (ha ha) on that one?
May 6th, 2009 at 10:14 am
reg: whether Woody’s comeback will be to call me gay or to argue that…Sessions…was a victim of reverse racism
You’re wrong, you baby killer…and a gay one at that.
Sen. Sessions will do a good job, which is exactly why liberal whiners are afraid of him. Sessions was nominated by Ronald Reagan to be a district judge, and he was kept from that for strictly political reasons by the Democrats. Sessions is pro-life, fights vote fraud, and tries to block stimulus payments to illegals. That’s scary to Democrats.
Not surprisingly, Specter (D-R-D/PA) voted against Sessons’ nomination.. I thnk it’s perfect for Sessions to replace Specter on the Judicial Committee!
Here is Sessions record: On the Issues
? Rated 20% by the ACLU, indicating an anti-civil rights voting record. (Dec 2002)
? Rated 0% by the HRC, indicating an anti-gay-rights stance. (Dec 2006)
? Rated 7% by the NAACP, indicating an anti-affirmative-action stance. (Dec 2006)
? Rated 0% by the AFL-CIO, indicating an anti-union voting record. (Dec 2003)
? Rated 0% by NARAL, indicating a pro-life voting record. (Dec 2003)
? Rated 20% by the NEA, indicating anti-public education votes. (Dec 2003)
? Rated 0% by the CAF, indicating opposition to energy independence. (Dec 2006)
? Rated 5% by the LCV, indicating anti-environment votes. (Dec 2003)
? Rated 0% by APHA, indicating a anti-public health voting record. (Dec 2003)
? Rated 0% by SANE, indicating a pro-military voting record. (Dec 2003)
? Rated 0% by the AU, indicating opposition to church-state separation. (Dec 2006)
? Rated 0% by the ARA, indicating an anti-senior voting record. (Dec 2003)
? Rated 0% by the CTJ, indicating opposition to progressive taxation. (Dec 2006)
What’s there to criticize there? The Left hates him!
So, watch again as the Left tries to demonize a person with morals and a loyalty to the Constitution with their false labels. reg’s motto: When you can’t beat someone with an argument, call him names. Talk about childish.
May 6th, 2009 at 10:26 am
Anna, I also purchased Mighty Mouse comics as a kid, too. “Here I come to save the day!” Analyze that.
I’m not hijacking anything. I’m being a helpful citizen by not letting the Left have their way on everything without some sanity thrown on them.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
10:14 was some kind of perfection in the world of Woody’s comments.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:09 pm
“10:14 was some kind of perfection in the world of Woody’s comments.”
LOL! True that. I believe we’re witnessing a full-blown meltdown. I especially love the “gay baby killer” part. I think that will be my new moniker.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:20 pm
Sessions is also objectively pro-torture which is probably another reason why he appeals to Woody.
May 6th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
Sounds like he’s subjectively pro-torture as well:
“Sessions was one of only nine opponents of Senator John McCain’s anti-torture amendment. Sessions supports former Vice President Dick Cheney’s proposal to exempt the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) from any ban on the use of torture.”
( wikipedia )
“I thnk it’s perfect for Sessions to replace Specter on the Judicial Committee!” I agree 100%. Even Michael Moore couldn’t have made a better pick if he were casting one of his films.
May 6th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Big problem for Sessions…he may not be anti-gay enough !
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2009_05/018065.php
In less than a week and he’s already starting to disappoint.
May 6th, 2009 at 3:47 pm
Anna at 9:51 – you couldn’t be more right. Old habits, etc. etc.
May 7th, 2009 at 4:15 am
Sessions has the worst voting record in the history of the world.
He sure likes to make sure every girl is subject to the whip and dick of her father. Typical cracker. Then there is the rest of his record which makes him the meanest excuse for a white boy ever born.
His voting record on every issue where he can give money to corporations and refuse funding for anything that involves women or quality of life makes him nothing more than a filthy, corporate cock sucker. Though he probly votes that way just cause he’s Alabaman and a closet cock sucker– corporate or not.
Foul, filthy cracker. Hates anything that breathes life. In fact, probly the most anti life politician in office. Proof is in his voting record.
Click here for 14 full quotes on Abortion OR background on Abortion.
* Voted YES on defining unborn child as eligible for SCHIP. (Mar 2008)
* Voted YES on prohibiting minors crossing state lines for abortion. (Mar 2008)
* Voted YES on barring HHS grants to organizations that perform abortions. (Oct 2007)
* Voted NO on expanding research to more embryonic stem cell lines. (Apr 2007)
* Voted YES on notifying parents of minors who get out-of-state abortions. (Jul 2006)
* Voted NO on $100M to reduce teen pregnancy by education & contraceptives. (Mar 2005)
* Voted YES on criminal penalty for harming unborn fetus during other crime. (Mar 2004)
* Voted YES on banning partial birth abortions except for maternal life. (Mar 2003)
* Voted YES on maintaining ban on Military Base Abortions. (Jun 2000)
* Voted YES on banning partial birth abortions. (Oct 1999)
* Voted YES on banning human cloning. (Feb 1998)
* Rated 0% by NARAL, indicating a pro-life voting record. (Dec 2003)
* Rated 100% by the NRLC, indicating a pro-life stance. (Dec 2006)
* Prohibit transporting minors across state lines for abortion. (Jan 2008)
May 7th, 2009 at 4:19 am
Sessions full record:
http://www.ontheissues.org/senate/jeff_sessions.htm
May 7th, 2009 at 4:30 am
Sessions is like the anti – christ:
Sessions had unsuccessfully prosecuted three civil rights workers (including Albert Turner, a former aide to Martin Luther King, Jr), on a case of election fraud for the 1984 election. Sessions spent hours interrogating black voters in predominantly black counties, finding 14 allegedly tampered ballots out of approximately 1.7 million ballots cast. The three civil rights workers were acquitted after four hours of jury deliberation.[4]
On September 9, 2005, after Hurricane Katrina hit the Gulf Coast, Sessions called his former law professor, Harold Apolinsky, co-author of Sessions’ legislation repealing the federal estate tax, which had lost momentum in Congress, and left a voicemail: “[Arizona Sen.] Jon Kyl and I were talking about the estate tax. If we knew anybody that owned a business that lost life in the storm, that would be something we could push back with.”[12]
May 7th, 2009 at 4:32 am
He was raised in Selma. Must be a stack of white sheets in his closet–along with his, no doubt, twisted sexual fantasies.
Wonder how many nights his daddy was out burning crosses on people’s front lawns.
May 7th, 2009 at 5:10 am
Anna,
I do believe Sessions is a racist, but not everyone raised in Alabama is a racist. My mother was raised there and she was most assuredly not racist.
May 7th, 2009 at 7:02 am
“..nothing more than a filthy, corporate cock sucker. Though he probly votes that way just cause he’s Alabaman and a closet cock sucker– corporate or not.
Foul, filthy cracker. Hates anything that breathes life.”
But not you of course , Anna. After all, he’s the filthy foul mouth racist.
May 7th, 2009 at 7:04 am
Who hates.
May 7th, 2009 at 7:31 am
thats right, jim. I am an avowed Romantic. That means I don’t shy from calling a spade a spade…you racist, reactionary, life hating ball of ear wax.
How’s that?
May 7th, 2009 at 7:36 am
Randy, lets not fall into the trap of being a literalist. I did not say every Alabaman was a racist–I made the perfectly understandable allusion to the historical fact of Alabamans’ collective attitudes–that Sessions is the poster boy for– along with Woody.
Why would you even raise such a ridiculous point? Snide generalizations are what fuels this blog.
May 7th, 2009 at 7:40 am
Jesus, Randy do I have to remind you of Bull Connor, George Wallace and the bombs that killed little children– the father of one Woody claims to have perversely befriended.
How much more archetypal of a racist collective does one need to conjure to meet your strict guidelines of “fairness”?
May 7th, 2009 at 7:46 am
Even the majority of Germans have had a profound understanding of their collective plague. Not so with Southerners–particularly Alabamans. Why? Because of the inbred, anti intellectual, anti culture moeurs that have turned people’s minds into nothing but deserts.
May 7th, 2009 at 7:46 am
Woody.
May 7th, 2009 at 8:10 am
Speaking of a “woody”.
More from the Room 101 of 12th Century minds:
http://amfix.blogs.cnn.com/2009/05/07/erectile-dysfunction-ads-too-hot-for-tv/
An idiot Senator doesn’t want his two year old grandchild asking him what “erectile dysfunction” is. So the Congress now has to steal time from its obligations to 300 million people to satisfy his inability to be able to say to her: its when grandpa’s mind goes soft.
Read the comments.
Its because of all this that George Carlin left early and Hunter Thompson put a bullet in his brain.
May 7th, 2009 at 8:19 am
I made the perfectly understandable allusion to the historical fact of Alabamans’ collective attitudes
There is no such thing as a “collective attitude” about race in Alabama now or in the past. Yes, there were plenty of Bull Connors and George Wallaces. There were also a number of Morris Dees, – who has done far more than you have to fight racism – William Bradford Huies, Jim Folsoms, etc.
Somehow fighting racist attitudes by painting with a broad stereotypical brush is soemwhat contradictory.
May 7th, 2009 at 8:52 am
“nothing but deserts”
That’s why Truman Capote left. And why Harper Lee kept going back.
May 7th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Randy it is precisely your literalist attitude that prevents anything going forward.
Your extrapolating a more than typical type of remark on this forum to tar me with the same brush you would a woody or jim r is just showing your bigotry.
Your holier than thou posture is hardly productive.
Remember, I’m the one who was revolted by Woody making light of your wife’s family’s misfortune.
You don’t like me, Randy, fine. Just come out with it. But don’t hide behind specious and intellectually unsupportable arguments to throw up a smokescreen.
You don’t like what I say because I don’t bullshit.
Within a certain context–like the one I was illuminating–equating being Alabaman with being an ignorant, bible thumping, cross burning and bombing, balless piece of bat shit–is hardly “a broad stereotypical brush” stroke. Particularly given that this blog has been hijacked by one…and the target of my accusation was yet another archetypal example of one now enshrined as an elected representative of that collective you think is so fucking diverse.
May 7th, 2009 at 9:16 am
“There is no such thing as a “collective attitude” about race in Alabama now or in the past. ”
I just wanted that remark to stand alone.
One of the most iconic visual images of this country’s history is that Alabaman woman’s hate twisted face spewing racist venom at the kids trying to go to school.
Apparently, she has now recanted her position. Good for her. If she isn’t already a friend of Woody’s perhaps he can learn from her.
May 7th, 2009 at 9:38 am
oops – I very stupidly misread that line as “nothing but desserts.” My bad.
May 7th, 2009 at 9:39 am
I think I need a piece of pecan pie to clear my subconscious.
May 7th, 2009 at 11:30 am
Speaking of Woody, Anna, too bad for the Dodgers.
Is that how to get good wood on the ball?
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Why I’ve always liked George McGovern so much….
May 7th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Your extrapolating a more than typical type of remark on this forum to tar me with the same brush you would a woody or jim r is just showing your bigotry.
Your holier than thou posture is hardly productive.
No one’s tarring you with anything. You paint with a broad brush. When you do, you smear.
As for racist attitudes, they are everywhere. I would posit that Huntsville, AL is a far more welcoming place for African-Americans than the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn.
Actually, Anna, I don’t think enough about you to know or care whether I like you or not. I think you’re intelligent and well read, but bombastic and dogmatic and prone to sweeping generalizations when convenient. More often than not IMHO, whatever the substance of what you’re saying is lost in the tone in which it is written.
As I’ve said before, when you scream, people tend to be more aware of the fact that you’re screaming what you’re saying.
May 7th, 2009 at 1:07 pm
Thanks, but I think Shakespeare got it right when he raised the spectre of the pointlessness of vacuous liberal whining:
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
So in your world, reg, (who I find no real fault with other than his incarnation of Charlie Brown) repeatedly telling Woody he is a racist scum bag–and trying to reason with a sociopath or whatever for of “path” Woody can be classified as–as productive and politically correct and meeting your high standard of liberal bombast?
Please. Nothing is more destructive than the liberal posturing that refuses to goddam you!
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
May 7th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
refuses to say…”goddam you”.
and the last line of S. obviously meant to have come after It is a tale..
Randy your real problem is you lack a sense of humor…and irony.
I think I mentioned the response I had from the City Desk Editor at the WaPo when I called to wonder how on earth they could not have put the anti wall street bail out protest sign photo on the front page?
The one that showed a home made placard with the succinct advice for traders to “JUMP YOU FUCKERS’.
It was published on the front page of the Sydney Herald, but in America the excuse was: people don’t get irony here.
What should have replaced the image of Che as a rallying cry for the 21st Century was overlooked because of a collective lack of wit.
May 7th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
When is Marc’s next post?
Please!
May 7th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
why don’t you post something entertaining, Sergio?
why leave it up to someone else.
May 7th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
“reg, who I find no real fault with…”
Now that alone is enough to question your character Anna, and totally discredit your judgment.
May 7th, 2009 at 4:41 pm
And after I gave you half a compliment…
# Randy Paul Says:
May 6th, 2009 at 8:06 am
without some conservative interrupting it with honesty and logic
Still waiting for that conservative to arrive.
# reg Says:
May 6th, 2009 at 8:21 am
Sometimes Jim R fits the bill…or at least tries.
May 7th, 2009 at 4:42 pm
No good deed goes unpunished.
May 7th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Anna – I have to say that I don’t quite get specific context of the “Charlie Brown” reference. But, on principle, I find no real fault with it…I’ve been called a hell of a lot worse.
May 7th, 2009 at 4:47 pm
Also, I don’t think my interactions with Woody are exactly what one would normally called “trying to reason with” him. I have no illusions that Woody is even on the same planet…
May 7th, 2009 at 6:39 pm
Randy your real problem is you lack a sense of humor…and irony.
People who know me would disagree with that, but in any event it pales compared to your narcissism.
I threw some sincere compliments your way. I attempted to appeal to your sense of reason.
My bad for thinking you had one.
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