Second Look At The Handmaid's Tale?

Catastrophically Declining Fertility: The World of the Handmaid's Tale

(Yes, this is a longish, probably TL;DR review. So if you don't want to slog through all of my yammering, just swipe your mouse between the arrows below to get the short version)

-->Despite the stupid "Christian theocracy" premise, it's actually worth watching.<--

When I heard that that there was going to be a TV series based on the 1985 novel The Handmaid's Tale, my first thought was, wait, they already made it into a crappy movie that nobody watched, so why are they doing it again?

Here is a description of the TV series as I found it on the eztv.ag torrent download site:

The Handmaid's Tale is the story of life in the dystopia of Gilead, a totalitarian society in what was formerly the United States. Facing environmental disasters and a plunging birthrate, Gilead is ruled by a twisted fundamentalism in its militarized ‘return to traditional values'. As one of the few remaining fertile women, Offred is a Handmaid in the Commander's household, one of the caste of women forced into sexual servitude as a last desperate attempt to repopulate the world. In this terrifying society, Offred must navigate between Commanders, their cruel Wives, domestic Marthas, and her fellow Handmaids – where anyone could be a spy for Gilead – all with one goal: to survive and find the daughter that was taken from her.

So the United States has been taken over by a Christian theocracy. Of course, this a completely stupid premise:

If I were doing Handmaid's tale, I'd turn it into its obvious proper setting: a future America where Muslims took over. Seriously, the story fits Islam like a glove. women are oppressed and barely considered human, they must be covered head to toe, they cannot enjoy sex, some are mutilated surgically... its almost an exact fit. Its such an obvious shift, since the original story makes no sense whatsoever in Christianity.

Its like a Jack Chick tract featuring some atheist's bizarre ignorant version of Christians he fears are out there looking to ban fun.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 03, 2017 03:36 PM (39g3+)

So, why not Islam? As Christopher's comment points out, it's a perfect fit. The main reason for this is that The Handmaid's Tale novel's author, Margaret Atwood, is a deranged SJW who spent the 1980s hiding under her bed from Jerry Falwell:

In an interview for The Progressive, Margaret Atwood explains how she came to write The Handmaid's Tale, which is often labeled speculative fiction because it appears to predict or warn of a triumph of totalitarianism or what one reviewer calls a "Western Hemisphere Iran." Having absorbed the New England Puritan tradition during her studies at Harvard, she observed the rise of the U.S. political right in the 1980s and compared the Moral Majority's grass-roots menace to the phenomenon of Hitler. According to Atwood, the Nazi leader told the world what he intended to do; then he set about accomplishing his heinous aims. The ranting diatribes of late twentieth-century American right-wingers — who steadfastly push women back into the traditional roles common in the 1950s, delight in the AIDS epidemic among homosexuals, and threaten death to members of the gay culture — parallel Hitler's fascist candor.

Riiiight. Oh, and incidentally, Hulu has hired this unhinged moonbat as a "consulting producer" for the TV series.

Naturally the progressives just *love* Handmaid's Tale. It gives them such a thrilling sense of foreboding and impending evil, and they're all IT'S TOTES GOING TO HAPPEN SERIOUS YOU GUYS. Like this delusional idiot here. Any day now, Trump is going to issue an executive order forcing all women to go to church and have babies. Read the comments on that tweet. Many progressive idiots actually believe that despite women being able to legally murder their unborn children during all 9 months of pregnancy, despite pr0n being available everywhere at the touch of a button, despite the near-total progressive domination of the arts, the media, and academia, and despite Christian merchants being forced into bankruptcy because they're not clapping loudly enough at homosexual weddings, we're one pen-stroke away from Gilead.

So, I thought, any TV show with that many strikes against it is worth taking a look at, if for no other reason than have a good laugh at all of the SJW virtue-signaling and preaching that such a show is bound to have. I was prepared to be insulted by a depiction of Christianity-as-a-brutal-cult by professionally ignorant Hollywood types who know nothing about Christianity. But it would be worth it for the mocking review I would be able to write for the HQ. I figured one episode would be enough to give me all of the material I needed.

That was a couple of weeks ago. I've now seen 5 of the episodes, and I have to say, even with the incredible stupidity baked into the premise, I'm finding this adaptation to be surprisingly worth watching.

First, I've never read the novel, so I have no idea how close the series is to it. Perhaps it's like Amazon's The Man In The High Castle, which basically took some of the ideas from the novel and ran with them in directions he probably never envisioned, but probably wouldn't have objected to.

But here's why I like it:

1. Above everything else, the writing and acting are very good.

2. The oppressive "Christian" theocracy is completely divorced from reality, so I can't hate it. It isn't worth hating. It would be like hating the WWE. The handmaids greet each other with stock phrases such as "Blessed be the fruit" and "Under His eye". Nobody talks like that in real life, so the whole thing is kind of surreal. I can just roll my eyes and ignore it. Put another way, there are TV shows I've seen that attack my religion. This is not one of them. I just don't get the feeling that the series is doing that.

(And if truth be told, I'm actually more offended by Law and Order, which I used to watch back in the day, when, in episode after episode, the murderer of the down-on-her-luck prostitute was not her pimp or some drug addict, but rather the white, conservative Christian businessman. As soon as one of those characters showed up, you just knew he was going to turn out to be the bad guy.)

3. The SJW virtue-signaling and preaching are pretty minimal. I haven't seen any KAFs or grrl powah nonsense.

4. The plot is being developed in such a way that you actually care about the characters. The pilot episode opens with Offred, the main character, running with her daughter somewhere in the woods with sirens wailing off in the distance, which immediately grabs your sympathy and draws you in by making you wonder what is going to happen to her. Because who could not instinctively want to root for a mother fleeing to protect her child?

5. The story is primarily about relationships. Offred is handmaid to "the Commander" (Joseph Fiennes) who is trying to get her pregnant, but he's married and his wife alternately hates and is solicitious toward her. And there are other handmaids, and also the Commander's chauffeur, any of whom could be "Eyes", i.e government spies. It makes even simple things like shopping trips fraught with uncertainty and danger. And there are surprises, such as the handmaid who defends her new position, saying that in her previous life, she was strung out on drugs and going nowhere, but now, in the new regime, she has been taken in by a couple who treat her kindly and gave her life a purpose that she never had before. Such a character has no interest either making or listening to screeds against the patriarchy.

So, all in all, I think Hulu has made some intelligent decisions regarding this adaptation of The Handmaid's Tale. It would have been very easy to write it in such a way so as to blow off half their audience. But they didn't do that. In fact, I think they put in considerable effort not to do that. Even so, I would have to guess that there are probably not many conservatives who are watching it. But if you're one of those, I suggest you give it a try. You may find yourself as surprised as I was.

Posted by: OregonMuse at 11:32 AM

Comments

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1 I'd be more likely to watch if Jenny McCarthy were in it.

Posted by: Crusader at May 12, 2017 11:35 AM (ewSN2)

2 Forget it, he's trolling...

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 12, 2017 11:35 AM (udajc)

3 Shorter Handmaid's Tale:

White Christian men love rape.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 12, 2017 11:37 AM (PY9jH)

4 In fairness, we do have a problem with Puritanism in this country now. It's just of the SJW variety.

Posted by: Bipartisan Scandal at May 12, 2017 11:37 AM (QQ+il)

5 dammit

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 12, 2017 11:38 AM (QQ+il)

6 Well, if this doesn't do it for you, there's always 'Caligula'.

Posted by: JEM at May 12, 2017 11:38 AM (TppKb)

7 Oregon,

Would you be ok if Hulu decided to change the 'oppressors' to Jews?

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 12, 2017 11:39 AM (udajc)

8 The Handmaid's Tale, which is often labeled speculative fiction...

******

Isn't there a word for 'speculative fiction'?

Oh, yeah. Fiction!

Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2017 11:39 AM (wPiJc)

9 If I were doing Handmaid's
tale, I'd turn it into its obvious proper setting: a future America
where Muslims took over. Seriously, the story fits Islam like a glove.
women are oppressed and barely considered human, they must be covered
head to toe, they cannot enjoy sex, some are mutilated surgically... its
almost an exact fit. Its such an obvious shift, since the original
story makes no sense whatsoever in Christianity.

Holey crap on a cracker. It's like it was staring me right in the face the whole time and I never put it together, but that's exactly it isn't it. Everything that SJWs are absolutely terrified of IS Islam, they're just projecting it directly onto Christianity and screeching simply because Christianity is the dominate religion in the US, but it's all tenants of Islam...and they don't see it because they are so blinded by their hatred of "Christianity", or "the Patriarchy" or whatever the non-de-plume du-jouir is this week.

Posted by: Brave New World at May 12, 2017 11:39 AM (cfjq1)

10 I won't watch this shit.

Posted by: Cloyd Freud, Unemployed at May 12, 2017 11:39 AM (RuyTK)

11 Huh, glad you like it so far.
The hype for it has been over-the-top fearmongering, which makes me want to never watch it.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 12, 2017 11:39 AM (NOIQH)

12 Since I got willowed and forgot to rid myself of the Senator Pedophile sock:

Go get 'em Duke!

And for the rest of you unemployed folks, polish up those interview suits and resumes because people are hiring like crazy right now.

Go for it.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 12, 2017 11:33 AM (C52a9)

People tell me that all the time. What they don't realize is that even if they're hiring, that doesn't mean they're gonna hire YOU (i.e. me).

Got another email rejection yesterday for a job I thought I was well suited for. It's hard to get your foot in the door when you can't even get to the door.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 12, 2017 11:40 AM (Jcg9Q)

13 "A Boy and His Dog" http://tinyurl.com/kvfznq7 had the whole distopian sexual slavery to reproduce the human race in 1975. Of course it was males that were held in bondage so it didn't fit into the SJW mold.

Posted by: geoffb5 at May 12, 2017 11:40 AM (d3wbb)

14 Alexis Bledel is a horrible actress. Even Gilmore Girls fanatics joke amongst themselves about what a horrible actress she is.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 12, 2017 11:40 AM (ul9CR)

15 White Christian men love rape.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 12, 2017 11:37 AM (PY9jH)

Here's the funny part: One scene, they showed a bunch of the patriarchal ruling class men strutting about in their CEO suits-and-ties, and they had a black guy and an Asian guy in the bunch. So, diversity!

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 12, 2017 11:40 AM (ISg7O)

16 Seriously, the story fits Islam like a glove. women are oppressed and barely considered human, they must be covered head to toe, they cannot enjoy sex, some are mutilated surgically... its almost an exact fit.

I agree. But seriously, if you were going to go thru all that, why not keep the breeders in a sterile environment and artificially inseminate them? No nasty sex with unpersons involved.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 12, 2017 11:41 AM (PCof0)

17 Pass.

I'm all "America is a fascist dystopia" out.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 12, 2017 11:41 AM (B+qrE)

18 she observed the rise of the
U.S. political right in the 1980s and compared the Moral Majority's
grass-roots menace to the phenomenon of Hitler.
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oh for the love of pete. There is nothing new under the sun.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2017 11:41 AM (dFi94)

19
...and they don't see it because they are so blinded by their hatred of "Christianity", or "the Patriarchy" or whatever the non-de-plume du-jouir is this week.
Posted by: Brave New World

They might see it but are afraid to mention the emperor's new clothes.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 12, 2017 11:41 AM (IqV8l)

20 Looks like some 'rons added some comments to that there Tweet.

Good on yas!

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 12, 2017 11:41 AM (ul9CR)

21 because we all know that morality is the real menace here.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2017 11:42 AM (dFi94)

22 Apropos of nothing except infertility, I liked Children of Men (2006) with Clive Owen.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 12, 2017 11:42 AM (QQ+il)

23
Why watch this liberal crap when hardworking pornstars are out their literally busting their asses for our entertainment everyday?

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 12, 2017 11:42 AM (C52a9)

24 Oregon,
Would you be ok if Hulu decided to change the 'oppressors' to Jews?
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 12, 2017 11:39 AM (udajc)

No, but I wouldn't mind if they changed it to Islam.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 12, 2017 11:43 AM (ISg7O)

25 Alexis Bledel is a horrible actress. Even Gilmore Girls fanatics joke amongst themselves about what a horrible actress she is.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 12, 2017 11:40 AM (ul9CR)

Ha yeah, even I noticed that. Daughter wanted me to watch with her. Soon as I saw Lauren Graham, I was hooked.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 12, 2017 11:43 AM (Jcg9Q)

26 Margaret Atwood has played coy with her vacationing in Afghanistan in late 70's/early 80's having an impact on the book by giving it cutesy spin along the lines of "would I have written the same book f I hadn't spent time in Afghanistan? Probably not, but..." (and then she still insists it was more influenced by nuns, etc.).

There was a New Yorker interview where she recalls how she bough a chador and wore it around just to get the full experience of what it was like to be an invisible woman there. But being an unhappy, uber-feminist she just can't admit Islam has anything to do with her book.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 12, 2017 11:43 AM (NOIQH)

27 Traps and Trannies can't have babies. I know that this is shocking news.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 12, 2017 11:44 AM (2qHjF)

28
The wife wants to watch it. I warned her that this is the boogy-man that the left uses to keep it's disciples in line - a Christian takeover.

Of course she's free to watch it if she wants. I just thought I better mansplain it to her.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 12, 2017 11:44 AM (HTdUD)

29 Harvard was steeped in Puritanism? News to me.

Posted by: josephistan at May 12, 2017 11:44 AM (7HtZB)

30 23
Why watch this liberal crap when hardworking pornstars are out their literally busting their asses for our entertainment everyday?

Word.

And PornHub's ShopLyfters channel has chicks that literally bust their asses to get out of trouble after after getting busted.

Um, or so I've heard.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 12, 2017 11:44 AM (ul9CR)

31 aving absorbed the New England Puritan tradition during her studies at Harvard, she observed the rise of the U.S. political right in the 1980s and compared the Moral Majority's grass-roots menace to the phenomenon of Hitler.

Boy, Hitler sure puts in a lot of overtime.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2017 11:44 AM (SRKgf)

32 Got another email rejection yesterday for a job I thought I was well suited for. It's hard to get your foot in the door when you can't even get to the door.
Posted by: Country Boy at May 12, 2017 11:40 AM (Jcg9Q)

There's a door?

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 12, 2017 11:44 AM (0mRoj)

33 Let us posit three futures, and see which is more likely:

1) Christian Theocracy America like Atwood fears. First, what prominent Christian sect would actually govern like this? If you gave the Southern Baptist Convention or the Mormons complete dictatorial control, would this be the society they would create? Hardly.

2) Muslim Theocratic America. Like OregonMuse suggests, this is the place to look for the oppression of women scenario.

3) Leftist utopia. Again, wouldn't it be brutal, repressive dictatorship where if you weren't a SJW, you'd be oppressed, beaten, punished... just like this story? After all, if you aren't leftist you aren't human. All leftist societies have turned out this way, from Stalin to Mao. And today's left seems to be hurtling down that path.

So which of these three is most likely to happen? Least likely is the "Christian Theocracy" one. I'm torn on the other two. But whatever one wins, humanity loses.

That said: Aren't most of these leftists nominally Christian? And one of the core tenets of Christian belief is that Jesus will come back and reign on the earth. Just what do people think society will be like then, I wonder? Do they really think Jesus will allow homosexual behavior, adultery, etc? I just can't imagine that people believe it. So: do leftists fear Jesus's reign, or hope for it?

An interesting question, I think.

Posted by: Vanceone at May 12, 2017 11:45 AM (HcgJZ)

34 We have birthed lambs in artificial wombs.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 12, 2017 11:45 AM (2qHjF)

35 The handmaids greet each other with stock phrases such as "Blessed be the fruit"

So they're not anti-gay after all.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2017 11:45 AM (SRKgf)

36 White Christian men love rape.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 12, 2017 11:37 AM (PY9jH)

Here's
the funny part: One scene, they showed a bunch of the patriarchal
ruling class men strutting about in their CEO suits-and-ties, and they
had a black guy and an Asian guy in the bunch. So, diversity!

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 12, 2017 11:40 AM (ISg7O)

Well, it's got *that* going for it then.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 12, 2017 11:45 AM (PY9jH)

37 Harvard was steeped in Puritanism? News to me.

Posted by: josephistan at May 12, 2017 11:44 AM (7HtZB)
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Ya - what the heck?

Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2017 11:45 AM (dFi94)

38 Boy, Hitler sure puts in a lot of overtime.

The hardest working man in Hollywood.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 12, 2017 11:46 AM (QQ+il)

39 The handmaids greet each other with stock phrases such as "Blessed be the fruit"

They should have gone with "Blessed be the cheesemakers...".

Posted by: Crusader at May 12, 2017 11:46 AM (ewSN2)

40 This shit is barely one degree from Birth of a Nation or some fucking Lenni Riefennstahl fan flick.

Fuck this bullshit.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 12, 2017 11:46 AM (udajc)

41 Shocking news alert! Acts of repeated sodomy will not make a baby.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 12, 2017 11:46 AM (2qHjF)

42 I loved how, on Law & Order, Manhattan was just full of those murderous white Christian conservatives

Posted by: ejo at May 12, 2017 11:46 AM (z1MNB)

43 Boy, Hitler sure puts in a lot of overtime.

Especially at Harvard.

Posted by: tu3031 at May 12, 2017 11:47 AM (qJhUV)

44 41 Is that right?

Posted by: Joe Buck at May 12, 2017 11:47 AM (eZ0Cd)

45 Wait a second, do you mean that the Left thought that Reagan was Hitler too?

I only thought that was reserved for Trump.

They told us that Reagan would be appalled at Herr Drumpf.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at May 12, 2017 11:47 AM (1JnAL)

46 Christian Theocracy America
like Atwood fears. First, what prominent Christian sect would actually
govern like this? If you gave the Southern Baptist Convention or the
Mormons complete dictatorial control, would this be the society they
would create? Hardly.
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May I be in charge? Please? I promise a praise song in every pot and a jello in every mold.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2017 11:47 AM (dFi94)

47 They should have gone with "Blessed be the cheesemakers...".

It's not meant to be taken literally.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 12, 2017 11:47 AM (QQ+il)

48 Harvard was steeped in Puritanism? News to me.

Posted by: josephistan at May 12, 2017 11:44 AM (7HtZB)

Harvard was founded as a ministers' college, i.e. it started out as a religious institution.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 12, 2017 11:47 AM (ISg7O)

49 Yeah! And my tax dollars (hey, paying taxes on bags of chips back then was still paying taxes!) paid a ton of money to the leftie bitch too.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 12, 2017 11:48 AM (nlbfN)

50 It would be like hating the WWE.

Excellent simile; Vince McMahon and Margaret Atwood are both terrible people with the most witlessly hackneyed story lines, but against all odds the product works.

Posted by: Captain Hate at May 12, 2017 11:48 AM (y7DUB)

51 Blessed be the beer makers.
And chips.
We should have chips.

Posted by: Roland THTG at May 12, 2017 11:48 AM (QM5S2)

52
Boy, Hitler sure puts in a lot of overtime.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara

Hitler was influenced by...Hitler.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 12, 2017 11:48 AM (IqV8l)

53 Country Boy, I willow-replied.

Sorry to hear that, erm , "Harry".

I advise a quantity versus quality approach. Apply for freaking everything.

You can always look for new opportunities once you are employed.
===

Rejection sucks but statistically , you can't get rejected for every single job you apply for.

My experience was that face to face worked. I went to an industry conference wand earing a suit and holding a copy of my resume interviewed every employer at every booth.

All but one said no. One said yes. That's all I needed.

I took a huge paycut, but used the time on the new gig to scope out new opportunities (on my own time of course).

Now I am almost back to parity. It is not easy. It's tough as hell. But it is possible. Hopefully that encourages you.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 12, 2017 11:48 AM (C52a9)

54 Hand maids tale just proves that sjws like themselves some sadomasochistic lesbian porn, dominated by patriarchal men.
Also that reality crept into the fantasy and women are physically the weaker sex, and something happened that drastically lowered the IQ of the women of the future.

Posted by: Old Guy at May 12, 2017 11:48 AM (vzLRM)

55 May I be in charge? Please? I promise a praise song in every pot and a jello in every mold.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2017 11:47 AM (dFi94)

Grammie, I would happily live in a country where you were in charge. Even with the jello.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 12, 2017 11:49 AM (ISg7O)

56 " Hulu has hired this unhinged moonbat as a "consulting producer" for the TV series"

From time to time I marvel at how most of the so-called "intellectual" life of America is basically a welfare system for leftists.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/7 at May 12, 2017 11:49 AM (KGH7Z)

57 Just have to point out one thing that is never noted/acknowledged amidst all the press hype of this new show: the badass feminist actress who plays Offred is a Scientologist. Yeah... if we're going to talk about imaginary abusive cults maybe we could also talk about some real ones that are thriving here in America today...

Posted by: Lizzy at May 12, 2017 11:49 AM (NOIQH)

58 40 This shit is barely one degree from Birth of a Nation or some fucking Lenni Riefennstahl fan flick.

Fuck this bullshit.
Posted by: weft cut-loop at May 12, 2017 11:46 AM (udajc)

Birth of an Ummya?

Triumph of the Ill?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2017 11:49 AM (SRKgf)

59 Harvard was founded as a ministers' college, i.e. it started out as a religious institution.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 12, 2017 11:47 AM (ISg7O)
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I think most of the Ivys did. I know there's a Yale Divinity School and a Princeton Divinity school. Back then, higher education was heavily skewed towards clerical studies.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2017 11:49 AM (dFi94)

60 Why watch this liberal crap when hardworking pornstars are out there literally busting their asses for our entertainment everyday?

Not only that, but putting their lives on the line for our entertainment in shark-infested waters. Which may not be true, but I do enjoy typing the words 'shark-infested waters'.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 12, 2017 11:49 AM (HTdUD)

61 I loved how, on Law Order, Manhattan was just full of those murderous white Christian conservatives.
No shit. If I ever go to NYC, I'm staying in a hotel in Harlem where it's safe.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 12, 2017 11:49 AM (nlbfN)

62 The handmaids greet each other with stock phrases such as "Blessed be the fruit"

So they're not anti-gay after all.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2017 11:45 AM (SRKgf)

Funny shit man.

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at May 12, 2017 11:50 AM (aMlLZ)

63 Hitler was influenced by...Hitler.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 12, 2017 11:48 AM (IqV8l

Hitler is literally[/i[ ... Hitler!

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2017 11:50 AM (SRKgf)

64 oops

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2017 11:50 AM (SRKgf)

65 I spend, oh, nanoseconds worrying about what my near-total disconnect from pop culture and TV does to me. Then it passes. At least in this case I've heard of "Handmaid's Tale" - but have no more idea what it's about than Obama and the US constitution or Comey and the responsibilities of the FBI director.

Speaking of which, and seeing Mortimer is about - Mortimer did you see the dep. director's odd answer yesterday in the hearing, when asked about FBI morale? Odd wording in his answer, I mean.

Anyway, if he's even partially correct, it's a devastating indictment of the professionalism of the FBI rank-and-file, I'd say. Comey's stunt last July was bizarre, and off the charts in several ways (as devastating as the Dep AG's memo is, it doesn't even address some of the serious malfeasance).

That any director could retain any respect after that speaks poorly of the seriousness or literacy of the galley slaves in his force.

Does McCabe's comment square with your personal knowledge?

Posted by: rhomboid at May 12, 2017 11:51 AM (PjWy4)

66 If I had one I'd wash my cat instead of paying to watch this show.

Posted by: DanMan at May 12, 2017 11:51 AM (XTiHL)

67 Just have to correct Vanceone that one of the *core* tenets of Christianity is not Jesus coming back and reigning on earth. Some denominations may believe that, though.

As for Jesus' reign and what He'd be okay with, people have been busy for years re-writing Scripture to take out all the parts against homosexuality, so people are already trying to brush under the rug the stuff they don't agree with. They're probably the same people who believe "God wants me to be happy."

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at May 12, 2017 11:51 AM (FQKBL)

68 I take exception here, by the way, to Grammie's implication that she is the queen of Jello, or her faith. Yes, Lutherans may be known for it, but Utah and the LDS church are the actual Jello champions; though who puts carrots in Jello? Pineapple Green lime jello is where it's at.

I back my claim up by the simple fact that Utah consumes more jello than any other state, by a wide margin. You Lutherans are mere pikers.

Posted by: Vanceone at May 12, 2017 11:51 AM (HcgJZ)

69 Grammie, I would happily live in a country where you were in charge. Even with the jello.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 12, 2017 11:49 AM (ISg7O)
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Thank you, OM. It gives me comfort to know that I will one day and forever live in a theocracy with a benevolent and righteous King. Until then, we get Trump.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2017 11:51 AM (dFi94)

70 The SJWs are going to love living under the Global Islamic State.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 12, 2017 11:51 AM (eZ0Cd)

71 All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Posted by: Crusader at May 12, 2017 11:51 AM (ewSN2)

72 A Christian Theocracy without Christianity.

Posted by: JAS at May 12, 2017 11:52 AM (EX4Wr)

73 Meg Atwood is not just a SJW, she's a Canuckian SJW. Case ... closed.

Posted by: mrp at May 12, 2017 11:52 AM (Pqytn)

74 I would think you could take this story a whole different direction. Offred could reunite with her daughter, gather a group of like-minded Handmaids and go to Texas. There could be iron in her words of life and death.

I would call it "The Handmaid Josie's Tales"

Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2017 11:52 AM (wPiJc)

75 You Lutherans are mere pikers.

Posted by: Vanceone at May 12, 2017 11:51 AM (HcgJZ)
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I'll gladly relinquish the title. Can't stand the stuff. Grandkids like it though, but they are too young to know any better.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2017 11:53 AM (dFi94)

76 All right, but apart from the sanitation, the medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh-water system, and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

Posted by: Crusader at May 12, 2017 11:51 AM (ewSN2)

I wouldn't be here without them. lol

Posted by: Berserker- Dragonheads Division at May 12, 2017 11:53 AM (aMlLZ)

77 That said: Aren't most of these leftists nominally Christian? And one of the core tenets of Christian belief is that Jesus will come back and reign on the earth. Just what do people think society will be like then, I wonder? Do they really think Jesus will allow homosexual behavior, adultery, etc? I just can't imagine that people believe it. So: do leftists fear Jesus's reign, or hope for it?

An interesting question, I think.

Posted by: Vanceone at May 12, 2017 11:45 AM (HcgJZ)

No these leftists are not even "nominally" Christians.

If you are a leftist, then you probably support babykilling.

If you support babykilling, or those who demand babykilling, you (not referring to you personally) are not a Christian in any way, shape or form.

Regardless of what you say, you are a fake. Period. End of conversation.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 12, 2017 11:53 AM (Jcg9Q)

78 yet another reason to almost never turn on the vidiot.

life is too short to bother with crap like this, IMNSHO...

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 12, 2017 11:53 AM (K4Zr0)

79 Nothing worse than takeover by a bunch of people who will militantly leave you alone.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2017 11:53 AM (SRKgf)

80 oops
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2017 11:50 AM (SRKgf)
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If I had a nickel for every time I've seen you say this, I could buy drinks for everyone at the next MoMe and still have enough left over for some ice cream for me.

Posted by: bluebell at May 12, 2017 11:53 AM (sBOL1)

81 They told us that Reagan would be appalled at Herr Drumpf.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at May 12, 2017 11:47 AM (1JnAL

The unholy alliance between the left and NeverTrump RINOs was the worst melding of scum since Molotov-Ribbentrop.

Posted by: Captain Hate at May 12, 2017 11:53 AM (y7DUB)

82 This was greenlit as part of the Oppressed Vag Parade they were going to assault us with over the next eight years under Queen Hag.

Didnt work out so I'm think this stuff will dry up (eew) in the next two years as they move to their next victim class.

Posted by: Mega at May 12, 2017 11:53 AM (XCez6)

83 So the "media" is all swooning and has the vapors over the possibility that Trump recording his conversations with Comey? WTH is that about?Oh, and I read the Handmaidens Tale years ago... Crap then, crap now...

Posted by: It's Me donna at May 12, 2017 11:54 AM (O2RFr)

84 I would think you could take this story a whole different direction. Offred could reunite with her daughter, gather a group of like-minded Handmaids and go to Texas. There could be iron in her words of life and death.

I would call it "The Handmaid Josie's Tales"

I reckon.

Posted by: Josie at May 12, 2017 11:54 AM (ewSN2)

85 You know who else was compared to Hitler?

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 12, 2017 11:54 AM (B+qrE)

86 Hmm, Barb. I know many of the more fundamentalist Protestant sects believe in Christ's return (Hence the popularity of the "Left behind" series), and I'm pretty sure the Catholics do. I know the LDS faith does.

So who doesn't? Many of the liberal protestant sects like Church of England or something?

Posted by: Vanceone at May 12, 2017 11:54 AM (HcgJZ)

87 Synopsis: The handmaid Offred reunites with her childhood sweetheart Ishmael and takes to the open seas in a whaling ship, pursued by the Commander, Ahab, and his henchmen. In the climactic scene, the Evil white oppressor is killed by a harpoon.

"The Handmaid's Great White Whale"

Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2017 11:54 AM (wPiJc)

88 The part I find interesting is the story is based on the Biblical Abraham and Sarah story. But the part of the story they use is the part that includes the sins of loss of faith in God, pride, adultery, and attempted murder to name a few. God promised Abraham an hire and he (and Sarah) did not believe God's promise so they took matter into their own hands. It is like reading the Bible and liking Goliath and Judas.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2017 11:55 AM (bmkS9)

89 The Russians hacked the German elections that brought Hitler to power.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 12, 2017 11:55 AM (eZ0Cd)

90 The handmaids greet each other with stock phrases such as "Blessed be the fruit"

When we were kids my little brother cracked me up in church one time:

"What kind of underwear did Jesus wear"

"I dunno"

"Fruit of the Womb."

We both got the wooden spoon for laughing in church.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 12, 2017 11:55 AM (ul9CR)

91 Jello is for pikers.
Got to have bars.

Posted by: Roland THTG at May 12, 2017 11:55 AM (baYK5)

92 They should have gone with "Blessed be the cheesemakers...".

It's not meant to be taken literally.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at May 12, 2017 11:47 AM (QQ+il)
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Brethren, who cut the cheese?

Posted by: Commander mrp at May 12, 2017 11:55 AM (Pqytn)

93 I got roped into watching this series because my wife was all hot on the book. She watches UFC with me, so I couldn't say no.

To my surprise, it's not really that bad. The acting is quite good and the way it's shot, with a hazy, shallow depth of field, gives you a sense of foreboding.

And OregonMuse is right about the religious fundamentalism. It's not even readily identifiable as Christianity. There are no references to Jesus or even the Bible. It's hard to get offended at it and I don't try.

If stupid leftists think this says something about Trump, then I can't stop them. These are the same people who recently discovered 1984 and think it's about right wingers.

Posted by: Warden at May 12, 2017 11:56 AM (MZ8Zz)

94 pass. I'm not a fan of Hulu's ownership. NBC, ABC, Comcast, FOX.

Posted by: Lord Sir x at May 12, 2017 11:56 AM (nFwvY)

95 If I had a nickel for every time I've seen you say this, I could buy drinks for everyone at the next MoMe and still have enough left over for some ice cream for me.

Posted by: bluebell at May 12, 2017 11:53 AM (sBOL1)

Fat-fingered typing.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2017 11:56 AM (SRKgf)

96 If you have to have Jello, make it shots.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 12, 2017 11:56 AM (PY9jH)

97 hey rhomboid!

That any director could
retain any respect after that speaks poorly of the seriousness or
literacy of the galley slaves in his force.

Does McCabe's comment square with your personal knowledge?
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McCabe's comment was ridiculous. As VIA pointed out " did they take a survey?".

Most agents have never spoken with the man, yet they have a "deep and positive realtionship"??

The actual issue started out as FBI morale. McCabe twisted that into his own little wish-casted popularity contest for Comey.

It was politically correct Executive Circlejerk Theater.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 12, 2017 11:56 AM (C52a9)

98 Hmm, Barb. I know many of the more fundamentalist Protestant sects believe in Christ's return
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If I'm not mistaken, that doctrine is affirmed in both the Apostle's Creed and the Nicene Creed.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2017 11:57 AM (dFi94)

99 I would think you could take this story a whole different direction. Offred could reunite with her daughter, gather a group of like-minded Handmaids and go to Texas. There could be iron in her words of life and death.

I would call it "The Handmaid Josie's Tales"

Pretty good, but it would have to be Alaska. In the series, that's the only part of the United States that's still the United States.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 12, 2017 11:57 AM (ISg7O)

100 In the future women will only get one scoop of ice cream.

Posted by: Mega at May 12, 2017 11:57 AM (XCez6)

101 I know for a fact that Lutherans don't. Don't know for sure if Catholics do, but I could ask Mr. BTEG.

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at May 12, 2017 11:57 AM (FQKBL)

102 The problem I had with this book even back in '85 was that the entire novel is just a badly done ripoff of Nehemiah Scudder's character, and movement, in Robert Heinlein's "Future History" series, specifically "If this goes on..."

Heinlein did the entire concept better, and he did it 45 years earlier.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2017 11:57 AM (p8g4F)

103 The unholy alliance between the left and NeverTrump RINOs was the worst melding of scum since Molotov-Ribbentrop.
McMuffin will come.

Posted by: erick erick erickson in the redstate bunker at May 12, 2017 11:57 AM (nlbfN)

104 Fat-fingered typing.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2017 11:56 AM (SRKgf)
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Just put close tags in your nic - that should do it, right?

Says the scaredy-cat who is too afraid to use tags herself.

Posted by: bluebell at May 12, 2017 11:57 AM (sBOL1)

105 If you have to have Jello, make it shots.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 12, 2017 11:56 AM (PY9jH)
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I vote Jane Queen of the Theocracy.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2017 11:57 AM (dFi94)

106 "The Handmaid's Great White Whale"
Posted by: Muldoon at May 12, 2017 11:54 AM (wPiJc)

Cast Lena Dunham in the eponymous role.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2017 11:58 AM (SRKgf)

107 Christ's return, yes. Christ physically reigning on a physical earth, not so much.

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at May 12, 2017 11:58 AM (FQKBL)

108 Boy, Hitler sure puts in a lot of overtime.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2017 11:44 AM (SRKgf)

Ladies and gentlemen put your hands together for the hardest working man in fascism and liberals wet dreams...

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 12, 2017 11:58 AM (493sH)

109 So who doesn't? Many of the liberal protestant sects like Church of England or something?

There are (several actually) schools of thought even within conservative circles that "Revelation" is a *historical* account (rather than prophecy) of Christ's victory over death and Satan, and that there is *not* going to be any sort of "earthly reign"--merely a ceasing of all earthly existence and graduation into a spiritual eternity.

Posted by: Josie at May 12, 2017 11:58 AM (ewSN2)

110 But what happens to the trannies!

Posted by: tu3031 at May 12, 2017 11:58 AM (qJhUV)

111 I liked it better when it was Escape from L.A.

Posted by: Lord Sir x at May 12, 2017 11:58 AM (nFwvY)

112 Just put close tags in your nic - that should do it, right?

Says the scaredy-cat who is too afraid to use tags herself.

Posted by: bluebell at May 12, 2017 11:57 AM (sBOL1)

Actually, I do that. I just type "oops" in recognition of my error.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2017 11:58 AM (SRKgf)

113 Even so, I would have to guess that there are probably not many conservatives who are watching it. But if you're one of those, I suggest you give it a try. You may find yourself as surprised as I was.

No.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 12, 2017 11:58 AM (X6fMO)

114 100
In the future women will only get one scoop of ice cream.

Posted by: Mega at May 12, 2017 11:57 AM (XCez6)
Don't get between me and a tub of Rocky Road..is all I'm saying.

Posted by: IC at May 12, 2017 11:58 AM (a0IVu)

115 Brethren, who cut the cheese?
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The Crackers, of course. Yeah , verily, the White and the Rigid.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 12, 2017 11:58 AM (C52a9)

116 Clinton fired the FBI Director the day before he murdered Vince Foster.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 12, 2017 11:58 AM (eZ0Cd)

117 Ceci n'est pas Hitler.

Posted by: BourbonChicken at May 12, 2017 11:59 AM (VdICR)

118 I read the book when it came out about 30 years ago or so. It was a pretty good read, but totally implausible even though feminists were trying to flog the "it could totally happen here" thing. I was pretty young then and had bought into some of the feminist bullshit, but that brought me up short and changed the way I thought about some things. So, thanks Margaret Atwood. If not for you and your book, I might have remained an unhappy semi-feminist. Instead, I'm a happy mostly traditionalist.

Posted by: huerfano at May 12, 2017 11:59 AM (TO4Og)

119 If you support babykilling, or those who demand babykilling, you (not referring to you personally) are not a Christian in any way, shape or form.

Same as "moderate" muzzies.

If you support all the shit including the killings, but don't want to personally partake, you're still a muzzie.

If you support PP, just because they purport to possibly, somewhere, a some time, help with women's health, you are not a Christian.

Posted by: rickb223 at May 12, 2017 11:59 AM (PCof0)

120 Country Boy, I willow-replied.

Sorry to hear that, erm , "Harry".

I advise a quantity versus quality approach. Apply for freaking everything.

You can always look for new opportunities once you are employed.
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Rejection sucks but statistically , you can't get rejected for every single job you apply for.

My experience was that face to face worked. I went to an industry conference wand earing a suit and holding a copy of my resume interviewed every employer at every booth.

All but one said no. One said yes. That's all I needed.

I took a huge paycut, but used the time on the new gig to scope out new opportunities (on my own time of course).

Now I am almost back to parity. It is not easy. It's tough as hell. But it is possible. Hopefully that encourages you.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 12, 2017 11:48 AM (C52a9)

I am employed, it's just a shit going nowhere job.

I'm living proof you can get rejected for every job you apply for. It's been going on for 3 years now.

I see no point in applying for jobs I'm not qualified for. Shoot, I don't even get a call from jobs I'm CLEARLY qualified for. It just ends up being an even bigger waste of my time.

Haven't been to a job/industry conference, they just seem like meat markets. The other strike is that I've been out of my industry going on 4 years now, and honestly, I don't want to do it anymore anyways.

Just my 2 cents, your thoughts are appreciated though.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 12, 2017 11:59 AM (Jcg9Q)

121 Yeah, Harvard was a religious institution 400 years ago ... it really hasn't been for the last 200 years or so.

Either she is completely delusional or such a hedonist that modern-day Boston look puritanical to her. I honestly cannot decide which possibility is more disturbing.

Posted by: sunny-dee at May 12, 2017 11:59 AM (QAOZh)

122 Actually, I do that. I just type "oops" in recognition of my error.
Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2017 11:58 AM (SRKgf)
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Hmm. What if you put the close tag before the "Deplorable?" Then no one would know there was an error.

Or maybe it doesn't work that way.

Posted by: bluebell at May 12, 2017 11:59 AM (sBOL1)

123 I love how they keep comparing the "right" to Hitler when the Nazi's were a type of socialist.
Sadly many have bought into the lie they were right wing.
Even over on Arfcom (AR-15.com) a number of people thought the Nazis were right wing. Granted, almost every one of them lived in a blue state, but the lie has been bought by enough people.

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at May 12, 2017 12:00 PM (0x/TW)

124 "Fruit of the Womb."

We both got the wooden spoon for laughing in church.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 12, 2017 11:55 AM (ul9CR)

lol

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 12, 2017 12:00 PM (ISg7O)

125 My wife loves this show because it is a thinly disguised anti-Muslim parable. Seriously tho, how lucky dd the show get to have that Dr in Michigan get busted the same week the FGM episode aired?

Posted by: Donkey Joto at May 12, 2017 12:00 PM (0D9O2)

126 You mean they don't say "Blessed be the fruit" at your church? They do at the one I go to. Everytime a young female visitor walk sin the door it's, "Blessed be the fruit" as we pat her tummy area hopefully. At every pot luck they greet each other with :"His eye in on the sparrow. "The Commander" makes evening visits to anyone who hasn't gotten pregnant yet and when people join the church we hand them out head to toe cloth coverings to wear. Yep! Yep! Yep!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2017 12:00 PM (fDdVG)

127 How many of these paranoid women just secretly want to have children and that's why they are excited about the "Handmaid's Tale"?

Posted by: Maritime at May 12, 2017 12:00 PM (h1Tob)

128 Caligula wasted a lot of good nudity. Sickening.

Lets see them do Heinlein's "Farnham's Freehold".
It has every theme. Race, incest, religion, cannibalism and individual rights (not collective). Also they cut off the thumbs of their diminutive stud white males. So they can't undo buttons. (not making this up)

Posted by: Ok at May 12, 2017 12:00 PM (OE5e7)

129 82 This was greenlit as part of the Oppressed Vag Parade they were going to assault us with over the next eight years under Queen Hag.

Didnt work out so I'm think this stuff will dry up (eew) in the next two years as they move to their next victim class.
Posted by: Mega at May 12, 2017 11:53 AM (XCez6)

Which reminds me, is "Madam Secretary" still on? Or have they morphed it to "Madam Madam, The Heidi Fleiss Story?"

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2017 12:00 PM (SRKgf)

130 When it comes to media like this, it's easy hand-wave away the Christian connection as not being what Christianity is about so who cares. But you could say the same of the depiction of the Japanese during WWII.

The desired effect is the same, it's a propaganda war. And it's really no different than making a series depicting ME caricatures of shifty Jews stealing babies.

I'm not even Christian and I see what this is.

Posted by: Chupacabra at May 12, 2017 12:01 PM (XQX5L)

131 127 How many of these paranoid women just secretly want to have children and that's why they are excited about the "Handmaid's Tale"?
Posted by: Maritime at May 12, 2017 12:00 PM (h1Tob)

The "Fifty Shades" effect?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2017 12:01 PM (SRKgf)

132 Christ's return, yes. Christ physically reigning on a physical earth, not so much.

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at May 12, 2017 11:58 AM (FQKBL)

He's going to reign. Who cares about the actual physical location?

I always saw this as one of those pointless arguments (not a criticism of you).

Posted by: Country Boy at May 12, 2017 12:01 PM (Jcg9Q)

133 In the future women will only get one scoop of ice cream.

Posted by: Mega at May 12, 2017 11:57 AM (XCez6)
Don't get between me and a tub of Rocky Road..is all I'm saying.
Posted by: IC at May 12, 2017 11:58 AM (a0IVu)
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*fistbump*

You can have the Rocky Road. I'll take the chocolate, or the coffee. Or both. Throw in a little hot fudge sauce, too, please. Or better yet, a lot of hot fudge sauce.

Whipped cream wouldn't hurt, either.

Posted by: bluebell at May 12, 2017 12:01 PM (sBOL1)

134 I keep saying it: Awood is so clueless that she thought "Right Wing" evolutionary biologists (like that evilDawkins fellow, and that very "right wing" E.O. Wilson would use their "right wing EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY to prop up "right wing" Evangelical fundamentalists.

Because, of course, American fundamentalist Evangelicals are totes into evolutionary biology. And E.O. Wilson is just such a fascist.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 12, 2017 12:01 PM (CPk08)

135 How many of these paranoid
women just secretly want to have children and that's why they are
excited about the "Handmaid's Tale"?

They'd probably rather have kittens.

Posted by: tu3031 at May 12, 2017 12:02 PM (qJhUV)

136 Christ's return, yes. Christ physically reigning on a physical earth, not so much.

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at May 12, 2017 11:58 AM (FQKBL)
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Okay, I see what you're saying. Yes I believe the Lutherans are amillenialists, which means they do not ascribe to a literal thousand year reign of Christ on earth prior to the Kingdom of God ushered in.

This particular doctrinal difference is one of several reasons I sit in the back pew in the corner by the door.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2017 12:02 PM (dFi94)

137 I'll stick with 'The 100.' It has all the flaws you would expect. A premise that makes no logical sense. It's almost proud of its ignorance of science. Also, all kinds of virtue signaling and GRRL Power nonsense. But somehow, it holds together.

And as it turns out, blood actually must have blood.

Posted by: V the K at May 12, 2017 12:02 PM (O7MnT)

138 Spoiler alert:
You're not going to believe this, but the media has something new to be aghast about today.

Posted by: E Depluribus Unum at May 12, 2017 12:02 PM (HTdUD)

139 No

Posted by: steevy at May 12, 2017 12:02 PM (rmVvL)

140 way.

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 12, 2017 12:03 PM (C52a9)

141 You mean they don't say "Blessed be the fruit" at your church? They do at the one I go to. Everytime a young female visitor walk sin the door it's, "Blessed be the fruit" as we pat her tummy area hopefully. At every pot luck they greet each other with :"His eye in on the sparrow. "The Commander" makes evening visits to anyone who hasn't gotten pregnant yet and when people join the church we hand them out head to toe cloth coverings to wear. Yep! Yep! Yep!
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2017 12:00 PM (fDdVG)
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Oh Fenelon, this made me laugh!

Posted by: bluebell at May 12, 2017 12:03 PM (sBOL1)

142 I think blessed be the fruit is a unitarian thing

Posted by: Lord Sir x at May 12, 2017 12:03 PM (nFwvY)

143 The tapes?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 12, 2017 12:03 PM (eZ0Cd)

144 So "The Handmaids Tale" is all about what would happen if Christians started acting like Muslims? Maybe we should just repeatedly point out that fundamental aspect of it. Go out there and loudly applaud how Hulu is slyly dissing Islam while staying behind the veil to avoiding becoming a target for Jihad.

Posted by: Socratease at May 12, 2017 12:03 PM (2GbWn)

145 The unholy alliance between the left and NeverTrump RINOs was the worst melding of scum since Molotov-Ribbentrop.

Posted by: Captain Hate at May 12, 2017 11:53 AM (y7DUB)

Scum, meet Villainy. Villainy, I'm sure you're familiar with Scum.

Villainy: Love your work.

Scum: Likewise.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 12, 2017 12:04 PM (ISg7O)

146 Spoiler alert:

You're not going to believe this, but the media has something new to be aghast about today.
It was TWO FUCKING SCOOPS!!!! TWO FOR FUCK'S SAKE!!!

Posted by: erick erick erickson in the redstate bunker at May 12, 2017 12:04 PM (nlbfN)

147 103 The unholy alliance between the left and NeverTrump RINOs was the worst melding of scum since Molotov-Ribbentrop.
McMuffin will come.
Posted by: erick erick erickson in the redstate bunker at May 12, 2017 11:57 AM (nlbfN)

Ewwwwwww. I don't want to even think about that guy, let alone him fapping.

Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 12, 2017 12:04 PM (JSBWi)

148 So a version of Mad Max Fury Road, A Boy and his Dog and a Brave New World and a dozen other movies where one of the premises is only a select number of women are fertile.

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 12, 2017 12:04 PM (/BXzQ)

149 Who said anything about Revelations? Christ is explicitly predicted to return in Acts 1 (maybe 2?) by the Angels who say He will come just as they saw Him leave.

And 2nd Peter Chapter 3 is pretty clear about the Second Coming too.

But I suppose a theological dispute is out of place here.

Posted by: Vanceone at May 12, 2017 12:04 PM (HcgJZ)

150 God promised Abraham an hire and he (and Sarah) did not believe God's promise so they took matter into their own hands. It is like reading the Bible and liking Goliath and Judas.

Posted by: rhennigantx at May 12, 2017 11:55 AM (bmkS9)

Did Abraham get vacation time and company stock with that hire?

Just curious.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 12, 2017 12:05 PM (Jcg9Q)

151 Apparently one in four federal inmates are foreign born with most of them being here illegally.

$1.2 billion a year.

An act of love my ass.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 12, 2017 12:05 PM (4ErVI)

152 Re Christ's return, my brother converted to Catholicism and does not believe in the Rapture, Christ's return, or Armageddon except *maybe* as metaphor. I have heard other Catholics say similar things, so I think it's a common belief (though it may not be doctrine?).

I'm Baptist in my soul and attend a Methodist church, so I'm totally down with the idea of Jesus coming back, and I truly look forward to it. Better than SMOD.

If any leftists believe, at all, then I think they look at Jesus's return with dread and hope it's still a long way off. /me goes to re-read the Great Divorce.

Posted by: sunny-dee at May 12, 2017 12:05 PM (QAOZh)

153 The ranting diatribes of late twentieth-century American right-wingers - who steadfastly push women back into the traditional roles common in the 1950s,

Ah yes, the 1950s one of the left's favorite boogeymen. What's amazing is how if 1950s America was such an oppressive fascist state how the precious 60s shit ever happened. You would think a bunch of Hitlers running the country would have never let that happen

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 12, 2017 12:05 PM (493sH)

154 But I suppose a theological dispute is out of place here.

Posted by: Vanceone at May 12, 2017 12:04 PM (HcgJZ)

Vic was there, he would know.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 12, 2017 12:05 PM (Jcg9Q)

155 I placed my hand on the maids tail one time...oh, wrong tale. ooops

Posted by: Under Fire at May 12, 2017 12:06 PM (6LwXe)

156 Keith Olbermann pleads with spy agencies around the world to help him take down Trump.

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/264739/

Posted by: steevy at May 12, 2017 12:06 PM (rmVvL)

157 Thanks, Mortimer.

As I noted, McCabe's answer was oddly worded.

And, for those without even anecdata of much consequence, not very plausible.

Posted by: rhomboid at May 12, 2017 12:06 PM (PjWy4)

158 You can
have the Rocky Road. I'll take the chocolate, or the coffee. Or both.
Throw in a little hot fudge sauce, too, please. Or better yet, a lot
of hot fudge sauce.

Whipped cream wouldn't hurt, either.

Posted by: bluebell at May 12, 2017 12:01 PM (sBOL1)

I just saw a recipe for making peanut butter "shell" topping for ice cream:

1/2 cup of smooth peanut butter mixed with 1/4 cup of coconut oil.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 12, 2017 12:06 PM (PY9jH)

159 Think of the Wall you could build for $1.2 Billion per year.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 12, 2017 12:06 PM (eZ0Cd)

160 I keep saying it: Awood is so clueless that she thought "Right Wing" evolutionary biologists (like that evilDawkins fellow, and that very "right wing" E.O. Wilson would use their "right wing EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY to prop up "right wing" Evangelical fundamentalists.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 12, 2017 12:01 PM (CPk0

Seriously? Where are you getting this from? Not that I doubt you, I've just never heard it before.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 12, 2017 12:06 PM (ISg7O)

161 Trump though is like more secular than any Democrat President ever, he's the furthest thing from the Religious Right.

I could maybe see people making this connection had someone like Ted Cruz or Rick Santorum somehow won.

Even then, usually any argument against birth control and government involvement is made from a position of personal responsibility, fiscal policy, and religious liberty. It's not that people think women should be some sort of baby machine.

I will say, I do hate it when conservatives wade into issues regarding birth control because its such an easy narrative for the Left to sell.

Posted by: Maritime at May 12, 2017 12:07 PM (h1Tob)

162 I'd consider this series if they have naked women. Otherwise, blessed be their fruit.

Posted by: Roy at May 12, 2017 12:07 PM (7n4KQ)

163 But I suppose a theological dispute is out of place here.

There is no dispute. As fellow Moron Soona put it on these pages:

Jesus is coming back. With a bullwhip. There will be running and screaming.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 12, 2017 12:07 PM (B+qrE)

164 Posted by: bluebell at May 12, 2017 12:03 PM (sBOL1)

Good; I'm glad . Some things just deserve to be thoroughly mocked. :^)

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2017 12:07 PM (fDdVG)

165 You mean
they don't say "Blessed be the fruit" at your church? They do at the
one I go to. Every time a young female visitor walk sin the door it's,
"Blessed be the fruit" as we pat her tummy area hopefully.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2017 12:00 PM (fDdVG)_________________________

So, just to be clear, is this the 8 or 11 service?

Posted by: IP at May 12, 2017 12:07 PM (UmSfZ)

166 So it's good propaganda not clumsy propaganda. Still not interested.

Posted by: WOPR - Nationalist at May 12, 2017 12:07 PM (J70i0)

167 >>It was TWO FUCKING SCOOPS!!!! TWO FOR FUCK'S SAKE!!!

"That greedy pig!"

*belches from her fat Waygu beef steak, then starts in on the red velvet cake with cream cheese frosting and vanilla ice cream*

--- Michelle Obama

Posted by: Lizzy at May 12, 2017 12:08 PM (NOIQH)

168 Who said anything about Revelations? Christ is explicitly predicted to return in Acts 1 (maybe 2?) by the Angels who say He will come just as they saw Him leave.

And 2nd Peter Chapter 3 is pretty clear about the Second Coming too.

Return? Absolutely.

"Earthly" reign of any certain period of time? Many schools say "no".

Posted by: Crusader at May 12, 2017 12:08 PM (ewSN2)

169 Appreciate the effort for the review and history of the show, but I'll pass. Cancelling Tim Allen's show when it had decent ratings, leaves the only show with any kind of "conservative" values is Blue Bloods and Criminal Minds Beyond Borders. Thank goodness Gary Sinese still works in Hollywood.

Posted by: dixiegal88 at May 12, 2017 12:08 PM (skqYQ)

170 It was TWO FUCKING SCOOPS!!!! TWO FOR FUCK'S SAKE!!!

Posted by: erick erick erickson in the redstate bunker at May 12, 2017 12:04 PM (nlbfN)
............

When Comey had dinner with Trump he asked for two scoops also?
No wonder he got fired!

Posted by: wth at May 12, 2017 12:08 PM (HgMAr)

171

Blessed be the fruit. Is this the MFM's treatment of Barry?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 12, 2017 12:08 PM (493sH)

172 You mean they don't say "Blessed be the fruit" at your church? They do at the one I go to. Everytime a young female visitor walk sin the door it's, "Blessed be the fruit" as we pat her tummy area hopefully. At every pot luck they greet each other with :"His eye in on the sparrow. "The Commander" makes evening visits to anyone who hasn't gotten pregnant yet and when people join the church we hand them out head to toe cloth coverings to wear. Yep! Yep! Yep!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2017 12:00 PM (fDdVG)
==================

FeneolnSpoke, I know you meant that in jest, and it was funny. But when I read that, I thought of what happened to the Branch Davidians near Waco.

When something even remotely close to Atwood's nightmare occurs in the United States, the federal reaction has been often been brutal and decisive. That makes this "rework" even more ludicrous, to the point where I'd call it another work of leftist "projection".

Posted by: Commander mrp at May 12, 2017 12:08 PM (Pqytn)

173 I'm confused - wasn't there already a movie of the same name (in the film the characters were trying to flee to Canada) - why a need for a TV show ??

Posted by: Big Star at May 12, 2017 12:09 PM (g8Xz4)

174 Lutherans say "Blessed be the fruit in your jello mold"

Posted by: Roy at May 12, 2017 12:09 PM (7n4KQ)

175 Brave New World is about Right Wingers. There is a 93% academic consensus that says so.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 12, 2017 12:09 PM (2qHjF)

176 My favorite jello ever is that incredibly laborious 12 layer jello, each layer a different color, which involves making a cooling a different batch of jello 12 times to put it all together.

Of course I only see it if I go to a family reunion and visit my Lutheran aunts in Waukesha. (and that's no joke)

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2017 12:09 PM (p8g4F)

177 I saw the film when it came out -- best things in it were Robert Duvall as a "patriarch" and Elizabeth McGovern as a fellow "handmaid." Read the novel, realized the film had been a pretty good adaptation of the book. The novel is a little like Heinlein's novelette "If This Goes On --" which features a similar theocratic dictatorship, then shows us how the narrator, part of the Resistance, helps to destroy the Prophet in the Second American Revolution.

Best thing about the book is an "afterword," focusing on people after the fall of the regime discussing how it got started and how it fell apart.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 12, 2017 12:09 PM (uk/oG)

178 Posted by: Maritime at May 12, 2017 12:07 PM (h1Tob)

Hell, a pretty common thread amongst Republicans is that birth control should be OTC. But somehow that means they want to put you in a chastity belt.

But the left aren't deep thinkers. They believe whatever they're told to believe by their tastemakers.

Posted by: Chupacabra at May 12, 2017 12:09 PM (XQX5L)

179 Remember, the unhinged moonbats think everyone ELSE is crazy.

So really, an unhinged moonbat hiring another unhinged moonbat is completely normal.

They think anyone against islam is insane.

Posted by: shibumi at May 12, 2017 12:10 PM (8zWAk)

180 Barry used to have vanilla chocolate dessert cups.

Posted by: wth at May 12, 2017 12:10 PM (HgMAr)

181 As I've said before, the only book I ever threw out. In a gas station bin. And I'll never get back the hours it took to read it, which weren't many, but still. . . .

Posted by: biblio at May 12, 2017 12:10 PM (6FY0P)

182 Apropos of nothing except infertility, I liked Children of Men (2006) with Clive Owen.

I really wanted to like it because Clive Owen, yum, but I just couldn't. The book was far better.

Posted by: no good deed at May 12, 2017 12:10 PM (hJamr)

183 Atwood is a fucking Canadian. Who cares what the bitch thinks about America?

Posted by: kathysaysso at May 12, 2017 12:10 PM (43OZ6)

184 Did anyone notice Whoopi the Hutt?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 12, 2017 12:10 PM (eZ0Cd)

185 Use your imagination. Imagine Country Boy posting he got a job offer out of the blue. Great new opportunity and he's sorry but his posting will be limited till he gets settled in. I will now lead the prayer.

Thank you for the new job for Country Boy. Country Boy's new employer thanks you for sending such a great employee their way. We all feel that you creating this new employment situation helps not only Country Boy and his new employer but everyone in America and the world.

Posted by: Norman Vincent Peale at May 12, 2017 12:10 PM (OE5e7)

186 The funniest Scoopgate hyperbole yet has to be this from CNN's Michael D'Antonio, an alleged male, who raised one perfumed wrist to his forehead, swooned dramatically onto his fainting couch, then bravely rose to utter these deep thoughts from his dick-shaped mouth:

A grown-up, upon getting two scoops of ice cream when others at the table only received one, would quickly fill his companions' dishes. A child, who sees every moment as an opportunity to demonstrate he is the special boy, would, as Trump did, just wolf it down.

The solution to the problem posed by the fact that we have a first grader in the Oval Office lies in whatever systems exist to take decisions out of his hands.

I'm dyin' over here.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 12, 2017 12:10 PM (ul9CR)

187 But the left aren't deep thinkers. They believe whatever they're told to believe by their tastemakers.
Posted by: Chupacabra

And that gets pretty whipsaw-like, as seen earlier this week.

Posted by: Roy at May 12, 2017 12:10 PM (7n4KQ)

188 What's hulu?

Posted by: Timon at May 12, 2017 12:11 PM (RjcAj)

189 Do an image search of Croatia's president. You will thank me after booking your month long vacation there.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 12, 2017 12:11 PM (2qHjF)

190 184 Did anyone notice Whoopi the Hutt?

Nope. Nobody did.

Posted by: Roy at May 12, 2017 12:11 PM (7n4KQ)

191 It's REVELATION people. NOT revelationS.
I smite the Public schools.

Posted by: Gawd at May 12, 2017 12:11 PM (6LwXe)

192 >>...why a need for a TV show ??

A guess? Wanting to appeal to feminists by making one of their favorite books into a show (a no-brainer for a tv exec), and also they thought Hillary would win, which would make the narrative all about female empowerment/disparaging traditional values very appealing.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 12, 2017 12:11 PM (NOIQH)

193 I am guessing the best thing about a Handmaiden's Tale is that the women in it don't Kung Fu the shit out of all the bad white guys .

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 12, 2017 12:12 PM (/BXzQ)

194 More amusing direct talk from Teh Donald today on his twatter. Dunno, seems to be saying some daylight between his own self and his spokesmen on details of Comey dismissal is no big deal, and a consequence of the admin. being so active.

Meh, but at the same time, of course, it's ridiculous to try to make anything of this. Trump's comments to Holt were consistent, if on a different theme, then the info about the DepAG's devastating memo. No contradiction there (last night, in a careless moment, I was exposed to 30 seconds of agitprop from Major Garrett on the radio, and he used the words "directly contradicts!!" in his "report").

Posted by: rhomboid at May 12, 2017 12:12 PM (PjWy4)

195 My wife loves this show because it is a thinly disguised anti-Muslim parable. Seriously tho, how lucky dd the show get to have that Dr in Michigan get busted the same week the FGM episode aired?
Posted by: Donkey Joto at May 12, 2017 12:00 PM (0D9O2)

I've wondered about this. And in the episode of a couple of years ago, they showed a lesbian strung up (i.e hung by her neck until dead) from a crane at a construction site. Just like they do in Iran.

It would be fun to troll the left-wing sites that this show is, as you suggest, a thinly-veiled anti-Muslim parable.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 12, 2017 12:12 PM (ISg7O)

196 You laugh but Scoopgate is going to destroy the Trump presidency.Yeah,no.LOL

Posted by: steevy at May 12, 2017 12:12 PM (rmVvL)

197 Did anyone notice Whoopi the Hutt?

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 12, 2017 12:10 PM (eZ0Cd)
...........

Yes, and to be safe we reinforced her chair.

Posted by: The View structural engineer at May 12, 2017 12:12 PM (HgMAr)

198 And a FUCKING DIET COKE!!! DIET!!!

Posted by: erick erick erickson in the redstate bunker at May 12, 2017 12:12 PM (nlbfN)

199 It's a scoup.

Posted by: david frum-brooks at May 12, 2017 12:13 PM (nlbfN)

200 But I suppose a theological dispute is out of place here.

-
Well, we can't fight about the Civil War all the time. We need new topics.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 12, 2017 12:13 PM (Nwg0u)

201 What's hulu?
Posted by: Timon at May 12, 2017 12:11 PM (RjcAj)

A second vagina opening.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 12, 2017 12:13 PM (2qHjF)

202 Jesus is coming back. With a bullwhip. There will be running and screaming.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 12, 2017 12:07 PM (B+qrE)
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Just this one thought then I have to run.

Jesus first came in humility as a suffering servant, for the salvation of any who would believe. Next time, He's coming as a righteous judge and it won't be pretty. The cross separates the one kingdom from the other. Best reconcile with God on this side of the cross. Take my word for it. It's best to have Him as your Savior than your Judge.

BBL after I finish packing.

Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2017 12:13 PM (dFi94)

203 Do an image search of Croatia's president. You will thank me after booking your month long vacation there.

Yowza! Do you think she's ever met Jenny McCarthy?

Posted by: Crusader at May 12, 2017 12:13 PM (ewSN2)

204 191 Leave off the S for salvation!

Posted by: steevy at May 12, 2017 12:13 PM (rmVvL)

205 I just saw a recipe for making peanut butter "shell" topping for ice cream:

1/2 cup of smooth peanut butter mixed with 1/4 cup of coconut oil.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 12, 2017 12:06 PM (PY9jH)
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Wow. That would be great with chocolate ice cream!

I'll be in my kitchen.

Posted by: bluebell at May 12, 2017 12:14 PM (sBOL1)

206 Well, we can't fight about the Civil War all the time. We need new topics.
The War of Roman Aggression!

Posted by: andycanuck at May 12, 2017 12:14 PM (nlbfN)

207 Now I want 12 layer jello

Posted by: shibumi at May 12, 2017 12:14 PM (8zWAk)

208 Over thirty years ago, as an undergrad, (BEFORE 'Handmaid's Tale was published), I wrote a story a lot like it based in a Moslem take over US. It was about a young girl who was raised by her grandmother, and her grandmother had been Jewish, and taught her daughter some of what was safe to teach her. The grandmother and the daughter belonged to a class that basically served as slaves to their Moslem overlords.

The plot was good, but my writing stank.

Posted by: Lee at May 12, 2017 12:14 PM (UsWQY)

209 Best
thing about the book is an "afterword," focusing on people after the
fall of the regime discussing how it got started and how it fell apart.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius at May 12, 2017 12:09 PM (uk/oG)

Like I said, Wolfus, Heinlein did a much better job with the concept, and he did it 45 years earlier.

Posted by: Tom Servo at May 12, 2017 12:14 PM (p8g4F)

210 What's hulu?

Posted by: Timon at May 12, 2017 12:11 PM (RjcAj)

It's this hoop thing you put around your waist and try to spin it around

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 12, 2017 12:14 PM (493sH)

211 77 That said: Aren't most of these leftists nominally Christian? And one of the core tenets of Christian belief is that Jesus will come back and reign on the earth. Just what do people think society will be like then, I wonder? Do they really think Jesus will allow homosexual behavior, adultery, etc? I just can't imagine that people believe it. So: do leftists fear Jesus's reign, or hope for it?

An interesting question, I think.

Posted by: Vanceone at May 12, 2017 11:45 AM (HcgJZ)

No these leftists are not even "nominally" Christians.

If you are a leftist, then you probably support babykilling.

If you support babykilling, or those who demand babykilling, you (not referring to you personally) are not a Christian in any way, shape or form.

Regardless of what you say, you are a fake. Period. End of conversation.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 12, 2017 11:53 AM (Jcg9Q)

But I was told by the minister at a friend on mine's mother's funeral a couple of months ago that being a big supporter of planned parenthood made you a great Christian.

That actually did happen, in the same denomination that my church just left a couple of years ago.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at May 12, 2017 12:14 PM (1JnAL)

212 The War of Roman Aggression!

Posted by: andycanuck at May 12, 2017 12:14 PM (nlbfN)

What have the Romans ever done for us?

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 12, 2017 12:14 PM (493sH)

213 207 Now I want 12 layer jello

And I want peanut butter shell topping.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 12, 2017 12:14 PM (ul9CR)

214 Heh. For the "Jesus is coming back with a whip" bit: You'll love the Mormon view of what this poor earth has in store.

Jesus isn't coming back with a whip. Oh, no. He's moved with the times.

We also differ a bit with the "Rapture" people. Yes, Jesus will save His followers by lifting them in the air... because at that point the world will be burned by fire. It sounds pretty unpleasant, actually. I imagine being burned to death would hurt more than a whip, to be honest. It's nice and scientifically since you use heat and fire to sterilize and kill off the bad bacteria, so Jesus will just expand on that concept a bit. I image Sodom and Gomorrah... writ over the whole earth.

It's what the Jews have been waiting for for millennia: the conquering Messiah, who comes in power and flame to save them from their enemies. I'm just hoping I get to piggyback on that.

Posted by: Vanceone at May 12, 2017 12:14 PM (HcgJZ)

215 FUCKING DIET COKE!!! DIET!!!
Posted by: erick erick erickson in the redstate bunker at May 12, 2017 12:12 PM (nlbfN)

Your Atlanta radio days are numbered. Just Sayin.....

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 12, 2017 12:14 PM (2qHjF)

216 Use your imagination. Imagine Country Boy posting he got a job offer out of the blue. Great new opportunity and he's sorry but his posting will be limited till he gets settled in. I will now lead the prayer.

Thank you for the new job for Country Boy. Country Boy's new employer thanks you for sending such a great employee their way. We all feel that you creating this new employment situation helps not only Country Boy and his new employer but everyone in America and the world.

Posted by: Norman Vincent Peale at May 12, 2017 12:10 PM (OE5e7)

That was very nice, thank you.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 12, 2017 12:15 PM (Jcg9Q)

217 The original, despite being anti Christian, was banned in Saudi Arabia. Someone understood the concept.

Posted by: Jean at May 12, 2017 12:15 PM (TVGgO)

218 I am guessing the best thing about a Handmaiden's Tale is that the women in it don't Kung Fu the shit out of all the bad white guys .

Posted by: Jack Sock at May 12, 2017 12:12 PM (/BXzQ)

That's in the final episode

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 12, 2017 12:15 PM (493sH)

219 Are there any boobehs in it?

Posted by: Dirks Strewn at May 12, 2017 12:15 PM (kfcYC)

220 183,
Yeah. She's a world class idiot, so I really could care less* about her drivel. I'm rather amazed that so many on the "right" feel three need to comment further on her.

*and yes, that's a factually correct statement, regardless of interwebz experts.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 12, 2017 12:15 PM (D0r5+)

221 why a need for a TV show ??
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To help president Hillary strangle the eeeeevil Christians in their cribs. By any means necessary. By any means necessary. By any means necessary.

Reminder: The Democrat Party (who greenlit this crap) is guided by Satan.

Posted by: Mega at May 12, 2017 12:16 PM (XCez6)

222 I could care less... but I doubt it.
I couldn't care less... if I tried.

Posted by: andycanuck at May 12, 2017 12:16 PM (nlbfN)

223 Wow. That would be great with chocolate ice cream!

I'll be in my kitchen.

Posted by: bluebell at May 12, 2017 12:14 PM (sBOL1)
Now I really want some peanut butter ice cream balls infused with brandy.

Posted by: IC at May 12, 2017 12:16 PM (a0IVu)

224 "The War of Roman Aggression!"

They think they know what "Aggression" is? HA! I'll show 'em what aggression looks like!!!

Posted by: Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni at May 12, 2017 12:16 PM (p8g4F)

225 But I was told by the minister at a friend on mine's mother's funeral a couple of months ago that being a big supporter of planned parenthood made you a great Christian.

That actually did happen, in the same denomination that my church just left a couple of years ago.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at May 12, 2017 12:14 PM (1JnAL)

Sure, so does being a murderer and adulterer

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 12, 2017 12:17 PM (493sH)

226 I can't wait for the pRon version: The Handjob Maiden's Tale

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 12, 2017 12:17 PM (ul9CR)

227 Croatia's president.

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http://tinyurl.com/ktrghqo

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 12, 2017 12:17 PM (Nwg0u)

228 It's REVELATION people. NOT revelationS.
I smite the Public schools.

Posted by: Gawd at May 12, 2017 12:11 PM (6LwXe)

It's THE REVELATION people. NOT revelation.

I smite the Public schools.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 12, 2017 12:17 PM (Jcg9Q)

229 Do an image search of Croatia's president. You will thank me after booking your month long vacation there.

Or just go here:

http://tinyurl.com/kg6x8jq

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 12, 2017 12:18 PM (X6fMO)

230 The price tag of the Chateau des Palmiers estate located on Plum Bay/Baie aux Prunes has not been made public, but according to international media it has been set at US $28 million. Trump is said to have bought the estate with two villas and a manager's house in 2013 for $20 million.

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at May 12, 2017 12:18 PM (oTIO6)

231
With the racial divide in this country, two scoops of vanilla ice cream just screams for impeachment. A special prosecutor, perhaps a moderate like former Precedent Barack Obama, is in order.

Posted by: 'Mad Max' Waters at May 12, 2017 12:18 PM (HTdUD)

232 98 Hmm, Barb. I know many of the more fundamentalist Protestant sects believe in Christ's return
========================

If I'm not mistaken, that doctrine is affirmed in both the Apostle's Creed and the Nicene Creed.
Posted by: grammie winger at May 12, 2017 11:57 AM (dFi94)

Don't you forget about me baby.

Posted by: Apollo Creed at May 12, 2017 12:18 PM (1JnAL)

233 183 Atwood is a fucking Canadian. Who cares what the bitch thinks about America?

Posted by: kathysaysso at May 12, 2017 12:10 PM (43OZ6)

Potential Republican marriage with John Oliver?

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at May 12, 2017 12:18 PM (4ErVI)

234 A grown-up, upon getting two scoops of ice cream when others at the table only received one, would quickly fill his companions' dishes. A child, who sees every moment as an opportunity to demonstrate he is the special boy, would, as Trump did, just wolf it down.

The solution to the problem posed by the fact that we have a first grader in the Oval Office lies in whatever systems exist to take decisions out of his hands.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 12, 2017 12:10 PM (ul9CR)

Sounds like a high crime and misdemeanor to me.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2017 12:18 PM (SRKgf)

235 226 I can't wait for the pRon version: The Handjob Maiden's Tale

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat?

Taking The Handmaidens Tail

Posted by: Rick in SK at May 12, 2017 12:18 PM (FZYNt)

236 Cancelling Tim Allen's show when it had decent ratings, leaves the only show with any kind of "conservative" values is Blue Bloods and Criminal Minds Beyond Borders. Thank goodness Gary Sinese still works in Hollywood.

Posted by: dixiegal88 at May 12, 2017 12:08 PM (skqYQ)

Yeah, I'm also upset that Tim Allen's show got the axe despite the ratings. I'm hoping and praying that some other network, or maybe Netflix, will pick it up.

Also, if you want conservative TV shows, I hope you're a fan of The Last Ship.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 12, 2017 12:19 PM (ISg7O)

237
Your Atlanta radio days are numbered. Just Sayin.....

Posted by: Widespread Pepe

===I keep saying that. And they keep not firing him.
To say that he "sucks" is an insult to the fine and glorious verb "suck".

Posted by: Mortimer - Finish Her! at May 12, 2017 12:19 PM (C52a9)

238 16 Seriously, the story fits Islam like a glove. women are oppressed and barely considered human, they must be covered head to toe, they cannot enjoy sex, some are mutilated surgically... its almost an exact fit.

I agree. But seriously, if you were going to go thru all that, why not keep the breeders in a sterile environment and artificially inseminate them? No nasty sex with unpersons involved.
Posted by: rickb223

I've considered your suggestion and have rejected it as not having enough sex with young women in it for me. Not enough upside in the backside.

Posted by: Commander Dirks Strewn at May 12, 2017 12:19 PM (kfcYC)

239 Read the book when it was published 30 years ago. (Ouch)

The only thing that has stuck with me from the book is that a cashless economy is a really, really bad idea.

Posted by: Chuck C at May 12, 2017 12:19 PM (h99GH)

240 I don't actually think Norman Vincent Peale- were he alive- would not say "Helps out every person in America and the world". However, there would be nothing wrong-and IMO it would be good-to thank God if Country Boy got a job-as well as the other people looking for work. Norman Vincent Peale was not heavy on theology but he was a Christian-and preferable to Joel Osteen.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2017 12:19 PM (fDdVG)

241 Apostles Creed...Apollo Creed.

Am I the only one who never...

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 12, 2017 12:19 PM (ul9CR)

242 The day after Bill Clinton fired his FBI director, Vince Foster turned up dead at Fort Darcy Park

Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at May 12, 2017 12:19 PM (oTIO6)

243 >>The original, despite being anti Christian, was banned in Saudi Arabia. Someone understood the concept.

Wow. Bet the way she dispatches the general that freaked 'em out. Wouldn't want teh womens getting any crazy ideas!!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 12, 2017 12:19 PM (NOIQH)

244 Apropos of nothing except infertility, I liked Children of Men (2006) with Clive Owen.

I really wanted to like it because Clive Owen, yum, but I just couldn't. The book was far better.

Posted by: no good deed at May 12, 2017 12:10 PM
While watching Julianne Moore get shot in the neck was okay, I liked the book better too.

Posted by: huerfano at May 12, 2017 12:19 PM (TO4Og)

245 Taking The Handmaidens Tail

nice

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 12, 2017 12:19 PM (ul9CR)

246 188 What's hulu?
Posted by: Timon at May 12, 2017 12:11 PM (RjcAj)
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Hulu was the gay guy that drove the Enterprise around.

Posted by: Weasel at May 12, 2017 12:20 PM (C8aCP)

247 So, why not Islam? As Christopher's comment points out, it's a perfect fit.

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can't we all just loudly proclaim that it really is about Islam, but thinly veiled (iswidt)?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 12, 2017 12:20 PM (h/uSM)

248 Thanks for the review of The Handmaiden's Tale.

It is good to know these things.

Posted by: Theo Weighless at May 12, 2017 12:20 PM (H7oFY)

249 Ok - still not gonna watch this dreck OM - sorry. I hate all this Christians are evil and are good my to impose a theocracy ANY DAY now movies. It wasn't true in the 80s it aint true now and it ain't gonna be true in the "dystopian future" - I cannot suspend my disbelief and distaste of this crap. It's like those absurd "Purge" movies: Yeah right - one night a year all crime is evil so on that night all the well off white peoples go and hunt down people of color. mm hmmm. Sounds right to me. No way inner city gangs wouldn't go shooting and robbing all the wealthy neighborhoods. Nope. Not at all. You think the murder rate is high in Chicago now? Try a day of no law enforcement like the purge and you will see you some real killin.

Oh and I am calling bullshit on this author's background too. She absorbed puritan values in Harvard in the 80s? The only thing being absorbed at Harvard in the 80s was a lot of coke.

Posted by: Publius Redux at May 12, 2017 12:20 PM (6lO+5)

250 >>The
solution to the problem posed by the fact that we have a first grader in
the Oval Office lies in whatever systems exist to take decisions out of
his hands.They ran their experienced, ruthless, powerful, rich lesbian cylon. She had the press, she had the Democratic Party, she had the political professional class with her. And she'd been preparing for the run for two decades. She likes crushing her enemies and vodka. She outspent her rival by twice as much. She lost.
We ran a first-grader who likes ice cream and pussy. We won.
Dems: Your move.

Posted by: General Zod at May 12, 2017 12:20 PM (Bdeb0)

251 Or just go here:
http://tinyurl.com/kg6x8jq

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 12, 2017 12:18 PM (X6fMO)

Wait, *that's* Croatia's president? Really?

Oh. My.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 12, 2017 12:20 PM (ISg7O)

252 If Margaret Atwood wrote the handmaids Tale as an allegory to life under Islam, we would have never heard of this book and she'd be living in obscurity/hiding like Rushdie.

Posted by: Hamilton at May 12, 2017 12:20 PM (sCjDS)

253 That said: Aren't most of these leftists nominally Christian? And one of the core tenets of Christian belief is that Jesus will come back and reign on the earth. Just what do people think society will be like then, I wonder? Do they really think Jesus will allow homosexual behavior, adultery, etc? I just can't imagine that people believe it. So: do leftists fear Jesus's reign, or hope for it?

An interesting question, I think.
Posted by: Vanceone at May 12, 2017 11:45 AM (HcgJZ)

--------------

Nice try, whoever-you-are. I think Jesus would love the US
Constitution.

Posted by: Soona at May 12, 2017 12:20 PM (Fmupd)

254 Oh, and the Croatian prez?

Yeah. Endowed.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 12, 2017 12:20 PM (D0r5+)

255 Cancelling Tim Allen's show when it had decent ratings, leaves the only show with any kind of "conservative" values is Blue Bloods and Criminal Minds Beyond Borders. Thank goodness Gary Sinese still works in Hollywood.
Posted by: dixiegal88 at May 12, 2017 12:08 PM (skqYQ)

Especially after Steve McGarrett jumped the shark last week.

Posted by: Captain Hate at May 12, 2017 12:21 PM (y7DUB)

256 242 The day after Bill Clinton fired his FBI director, Vince Foster turned up dead at Fort Darcy Park
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy

coincidences are random unless you are a 9/11 truther

Posted by: Rick in SK at May 12, 2017 12:21 PM (FZYNt)

257 Second...first look at moving to Croatia?

Posted by: steevy at May 12, 2017 12:21 PM (rmVvL)

258 251 Or just go here:
http://tinyurl.com/kg6x8jq

I see I need to start keeping abreast of Croatian politics.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 12, 2017 12:21 PM (ul9CR)

259
82 This was greenlit as part of the Oppressed Vag Parade they were going to assault us with over the next eight years under Queen Hag.

Didnt work out so I'm think this stuff will dry up (eew) in the next two years as they move to their next victim class.

Posted by: Mega at May 12, 2017 11:53 AM (XCez6)

And yet the RINOs made sure that even though she lost, PP still gets its funding so that Baba Yaga gets her baby parts to eat.

Posted by: Hikaru at May 12, 2017 12:21 PM (y5sPI)

260 Whatever happened to Sulu went on to infect the entire crew of the Next generation.

Posted by: Boss Moss at May 12, 2017 12:22 PM (eZ0Cd)

261 Wanting to eat two scoops of ice cream is reflective of some dark, narcissistic temperament? Seriously? Maybe, like most normal people, PDT just likes ice cream.

Posted by: IC at May 12, 2017 12:22 PM (a0IVu)

262 Did someone leave a pod in OregonMuse's bedroom last night?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 12, 2017 12:22 PM (h/uSM)

263 Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2017 12:18 PM (SRKgf)

CNN writers and promoters (journalists) should have included a small ragged boy coming up to Donald Trump with his empty ice cream bowl and with the boy saying, "Please, sir. May I have some more?" to get the full Dickensian mean rich guy theme.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2017 12:22 PM (fDdVG)

264 Oh, and the Croatian prez?

Yeah. Endowed.

Yes yes, HUGE...tracts of land.

Posted by: Crusader at May 12, 2017 12:23 PM (ewSN2)

265 There is no McGarrett other than Jack Lord.

Posted by: steevy at May 12, 2017 12:23 PM (rmVvL)

266 Thank goodness Gary Sinese still works in Hollywood

Yeeeeeesssssss

Posted by: Gary Sinise's creepy eyes in "Mission to Mars" at May 12, 2017 12:23 PM (3I7wr)

267 153 The ranting diatribes of late twentieth-century American right-wingers - who steadfastly push women back into the traditional roles common in the 1950s,

Ah yes, the 1950s one of the left's favorite boogeymen. What's amazing is how if 1950s America was such an oppressive fascist state how the precious 60s shit ever happened. You would think a bunch of Hitlers running the country would have never let that happen
Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 12, 2017 12:05 PM (493sH)

Yet they act like the tax policies from that time period are the greatest things ever.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at May 12, 2017 12:23 PM (1JnAL)

268 "The War of Roman Aggression!"

They think they know what "Aggression" is? HA! I'll show 'em what aggression looks like!!!

====

You should have seen the looks on their faces when we painted "Caesar Sucks !" on their aqueducts.

Posted by: Gelimer king of Vandals at May 12, 2017 12:23 PM (C52a9)

269 Trump used Thousand Island dressing instead of Russian dressing.

The cover-up is so obvious! IMPEACH HIM!

Posted by: Egg McMuffin, with a dick in his mouth at May 12, 2017 12:24 PM (ul9CR)

270 The Handy Maid's Tale

Posted by: andycanuck at May 12, 2017 12:24 PM (nlbfN)

271 Notice that the rate of comments slowed after the CroPrez pics ...

Funny, that is.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 12, 2017 12:24 PM (D0r5+)

272 We have friends who vacationed in Croatia. They loved it. Like Italy without all the tourists. Also, more affordable.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 12, 2017 12:24 PM (PY9jH)

273 http://tinyurl.com/kg6x8jq

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 12, 2017 12:18 PM (X6fMO)

Stubby peasant legs.

Posted by: kathysaysso at May 12, 2017 12:24 PM (43OZ6)

274 I'll have to admit being a little confused. If Hillary had won wouldn't all the shows be about utopian swellness and light rather than about oppression and hate?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at May 12, 2017 12:25 PM (IqV8l)

275 Re; Croatian Prez

She's got my vote...

Posted by: IP at May 12, 2017 12:25 PM (UmSfZ)

276 So, I guess we are to conclude that every leftist ever has never had seconds on ice cream?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2017 12:25 PM (fDdVG)

277 There is no McGarrett other than Jack Lord.

Amen

Posted by: Crusader at May 12, 2017 12:25 PM (ewSN2)

278 57 Just have to point out one thing that is never noted/acknowledged amidst all the press hype of this new show: the badass feminist actress who plays Offred is a Scientologist. Yeah... if we're going to talk about imaginary abusive cults maybe we could also talk about some real ones that are thriving here in America today...
Posted by: Lizzy at May 12, 2017 11:49 AM (NOIQH)

I didn't realize she was a Scientologist. but celebrity Scientology is almost a different thing altogether from the mundanes' version.

Posted by: Jeff Weimer at May 12, 2017 12:25 PM (17QyB)

279 Or just go here:
http://tinyurl.com/kg6x8jq

I see I need to start keeping abreast of Croatian politics.
Posted by: WhatWhatWhat

Or beaches

Posted by: Jean at May 12, 2017 12:25 PM (TVGgO)

280 273 Stubby peasant legs.

She has legs?

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 12, 2017 12:25 PM (ul9CR)

281 271 For 30 seconds.Barely noticeable.

Posted by: steevy at May 12, 2017 12:25 PM (rmVvL)

282
Notice that the rate of comments slowed after the CroPrez pics ...

Funny, that is.

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 12, 2017 12:24 PM (D0r5+)

The 'rons are easily distracted. By boobehs.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 12, 2017 12:25 PM (PY9jH)

283 In other news...Star Wars folks just announced they will be filming an alien planet sequence in Issaquah WA. That's about an hour from my man cave.
Apparently a casting call for a couple hundred extras will be coming out later this summer.
Ace, if you need a place to hang while doing Ewok cameos, I'm sure we of the Northwest Horde can put you up. Lots of trees you know.

Posted by: Diogenes at May 12, 2017 12:25 PM (0tfLf)

284 Jesus loving the US Constitution? Sure. But, and here's the thing: why is a king bad? Because not all kings are good. A bad king is, well, bad. But a good king? That's better than what we have now.

Jesus is guaranteed to be the best King. As Isaiah said, "The government shall be upon His shoulders."

The US Constitution will be replaced by Jesus reigning as a King, with absolute power.

I suppose whether that is a good idea or not is whether you would want to be ruled by Jesus as King. And that's kind of a personal choice.

Posted by: Vanceone at May 12, 2017 12:25 PM (HcgJZ)

285 251 Or just go here:
http://tinyurl.com/kg6x8jq

I see I need to start keeping abreast of Croatian politics.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 12, 2017 12:21 PM (ul9CR)

I like that look. Not a toothpick, and not a chubster either. Just right.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 12, 2017 12:26 PM (Jcg9Q)

286 That's not a "vote"...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 12, 2017 12:26 PM (D0r5+)

287 >>>The day after Bill Clinton fired his FBI director, Vince Foster turned up dead at Fort Darcy Park

:::cue scary organ music:::

Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at May 12, 2017 12:26 PM (dX0ot)

288 The 'rons are easily distracted. By boobehs.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 12, 2017 12:25 PM (PY9jH)
Like squirrels after nuts!!

Posted by: IC at May 12, 2017 12:26 PM (a0IVu)

289 lol

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 12, 2017 12:27 PM (PY9jH)

290 226 I can't wait for the pRon version: The Handjob Maiden's Tale

Backstory is that too much butt stuff led to the declining fertility rates.

Posted by: wooga at May 12, 2017 12:27 PM (3I7wr)

291 The US Constitution will be replaced by Jesus reigning as a King, with absolute power.

Ah, so Jesus will have a pen and a phone, got it.

Posted by: Crusader at May 12, 2017 12:27 PM (ewSN2)

292 Hey Captain Whitebread, if you're around, I'm listening to you online.

Posted by: Country Boy at May 12, 2017 12:27 PM (Jcg9Q)

293 For 30 seconds."

What took so long?

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 12, 2017 12:27 PM (D0r5+)

294 That poor Croatian president. I hope they increase her salary so she can afford to buy a bathing suit that has enough material.

Posted by: bluebell at May 12, 2017 12:27 PM (sBOL1)

295 Premise seems to narcissistic and self indulgent. It sounds like she's fantasizing about a situation in which the one thing Atwood could do that men can't (ie. give birth) was in high demand. So they all come crawling to her. Except they don't! I'll bet those pigs would just try to force me to breed!

Like I said, it seems to combine elements of narcissistic fantasy along with self pity.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 12, 2017 12:27 PM (vRcUp)

296 258 251 Or just go here:
http://tinyurl.com/kg6x8jq

I see I need to start keeping abreast of Croatian politics.

Posted by: WhatWhatWhat? at May 12, 2017 12:21 PM

Maybe into foreign relations...?

Posted by: Diogenes at May 12, 2017 12:27 PM (0tfLf)

297 The 'rons are easily distracted. By boobehs.

Perhaps, but I'm a leg guy and them there are nice. So's the smile.

Posted by: IP at May 12, 2017 12:28 PM (UmSfZ)

298 That poor Croatian president. I hope they increase her salary so she can afford to buy a bathing suit that has enough material.

Posted by: bluebell at May 12, 2017 12:27 PM (sBOL1)

heh

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 12, 2017 12:28 PM (PY9jH)

299 254 Oh, and the Croatian prez?

Yeah. Endowed.
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 12, 2017 12:20 PM (D0r5+)

Yeah. And we almost got Hillary.

Shit.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2017 12:28 PM (SRKgf)

300 Stubby peasant legs.

The strong thighs of a Mother of Empires.

Posted by: Grump928(C) at May 12, 2017 12:28 PM (LTHVh)

301 I wonder if the Croatian prez is scheduled to visit the WH? The MFM will go nuts.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 12, 2017 12:29 PM (PY9jH)

302 Legs?

Where?

And my hash keeps changing...

Posted by: Anon a mouse... at May 12, 2017 12:29 PM (MINbv)

303 The second coming is a belief throughout Christianity. The funky stuff is about the rapture and different flavors of millennialism.

Posted by: Insomniac, Lord Hurlingbone, Earl of Melancholy at May 12, 2017 12:30 PM (0mRoj)

304 Croatian President is 49. She is a very attractive lady in her 40's. Another data point that Eastern European women are the best in the world.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 12, 2017 12:30 PM (2qHjF)

305 Oh, and the Croatian prez?

Yeah. Endowed.

Yes yes, HUGE...tracts of land.

Posted by: Crusader
****

Artificial turf?

Posted by: Tilikum KAW at May 12, 2017 12:30 PM (uhftQ)

306 She continually attempts escape, spends nights in the box, 'Cool Handmaid Lucy'

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2017 12:30 PM (OdK9v)

307 One Scoop to rule them all, One Scoop to find them, One Scoop to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 12, 2017 12:31 PM (Nwg0u)

308 If anything is certain, women's fertility has been artificially reduced by drugs and live births reduced by abortion. For the most part that has been by free will choice. What is the result of that, a hedonistic society.

My guess is that a massive natural reduction fertility would quickly lead to an an unparalleled hedonistic society as sexual intercourse loses near all association with child birth. Of course such a collapse in reproductive capability would lead to the certain knowledge of societal collapse and an increase in hopelessness that would manifest itself in unwelcome risky behaviors, a compounding effect.

I wonder if some of this type of stuff actually occurred such as in the northern kingdom of Israel (it's not for nothing the name of Jezebel is associated with licentiousness).

Posted by: MAGA at May 12, 2017 12:31 PM (LQ1Q3)

309 307-LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2017 12:31 PM (fDdVG)

310 280 273 Stubby peasant legs.

She has legs?

----

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all women are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator, some a lot more than others...

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 12, 2017 12:31 PM (h/uSM)

311 Atwood is a fucking Canadian. Who cares what the bitch thinks about America?

Posted by: kathysaysso at May 12, 2017 12:10 PM (43OZ6)

Most Canadians I know, being one myself, think she's batshit crazy, if they think of her at all. Unfortunately, she probably gets supported by my tax dollars, because "Can Lit".

Haaaaack! Ptoooie!

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 12, 2017 12:31 PM (0deF2)

312 >>I didn't realize she was a
Scientologist. but celebrity Scientology is almost a different thing
altogether from the mundanes' version.

Sounds like it. But they're happy to harass anyone who strays, such as Leah Remeni. Also, Paul Haggis has written about the weird wife-hunting/wife-vetting process Miscavige uses in find Tom Cruise a wife. One of Haggis' friends, a young actress, was in the running so he saw/heard about it.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 12, 2017 12:31 PM (NOIQH)

313 . The funky stuff is about the rapture and different flavors of millennialism.
Posted by: Insomniac
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...and snake-handling.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2017 12:31 PM (OdK9v)

314 Let me get this straight.

PDT and VPMP are having meals, and the wait staff knows what their personal preferences are, and that is a bad thing?

I have lunch with my mom every week at a neighborhood restaurant, and our usual waitress knows exactly what we like. If any of these media shitstains had ever worked in a restaurant they would know that.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at May 12, 2017 12:33 PM (1JnAL)

315 Oh, and the Croatian prez?

Yeah. Endowed.

Yes yes, HUGE...tracts of land.

Posted by: Crusader
****

The Horde loves her minds.

Er, her mounds.

That is, her mind.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2017 12:33 PM (SRKgf)

316 A motion picture destined to offend nearly two thirds of the civilized world. And severely annoy the other third.

Posted by: Crusader at May 12, 2017 12:33 PM (ewSN2)

317 Won't you give me three scoops,
Gimme three scoops mister,
Gimme three scoops towards the door?
Gimme three scoops
Gimme three scoops mister,
And you'll never see me no more.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 12, 2017 12:34 PM (Nwg0u)

318 264 Oh, and the Croatian prez? Yeah. Endowed. Yes yes, HUGE...tracts of land.

*******************

The aforementioned link was actually Coco Austin in a string bikini, not Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic. There ARE I think two pics of her in a tasteful swimsuit, and yes those knockers could still give Hendricks a run for her money.

Posted by: Gaylord Farkemall at May 12, 2017 12:34 PM (/j4n5)

319 307 One Scoop to rule them all, One Scoop to find them, One Scoop to bring them all, and in the darkness bind them
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 12, 2017 12:31 PM (Nwg0u)

Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's, but render Baskin-Robbins unto The Donald.

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2017 12:35 PM (SRKgf)

320 Two scoops means something completely different in DC.

Cocaine. So I'm not surprised out their outrage. Trump is truly not one of them.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 12, 2017 12:35 PM (2qHjF)

321 The only thing that has stuck with me from the book is that a cashless economy is a really, really bad idea.

Speaking of Revelation...

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 12, 2017 12:35 PM (B+qrE)

322 I have lunch with my mom every week at a neighborhood restaurant, and our usual waitress knows exactly what we like. If any of these media shitstains had ever worked in a restaurant they would know that.
Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac
-----------

My regular waitress stopped asking me long ago how I would like my eggs cooked, and what kind of bread for toast.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2017 12:35 PM (OdK9v)

323 >>PDT and VPMP are having meals, and the wait staff knows what their personal preferences are, and that is a bad thing?

This story is the equivalent of a kid complaining to his mom that his little brother's breathing is annoying him. The MSM are so deranged that there is *nothing* that Trump can do that will not be declared the most awful/crazy/scandalous thing ever. Just PDT standing there breathing is a scandal.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 12, 2017 12:35 PM (NOIQH)

324 There ARE I think two pics of her in a tasteful swimsuit, and yes those knockers could still give Hendricks a run for her money.

---

She'd only have to give me a jiggle for my money

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 12, 2017 12:35 PM (h/uSM)

325 You know who else got two scoops?

Posted by: Deplorable Jay Guevara at May 12, 2017 12:36 PM (SRKgf)

326 Croatian President is 49. She is a very attractive lady in her 40's. Another data point that Eastern European women are the best in the world.

******************

I wish Amazon would stop the stupid drone shit and come up with a mail order bride service instead.

Posted by: Gaylord Farkemall at May 12, 2017 12:36 PM (/j4n5)

327 Croatian president is still a very pretty feminine lady. I should plan a vacation there and put a baby in a 20 something beautiful native.

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 12, 2017 12:37 PM (2qHjF)

328 I wish Amazon would stop the stupid drone shit and come up with a mail order bride service instead.

From Croatia, right?

Posted by: Crusader at May 12, 2017 12:37 PM (ewSN2)

329

Speaking of well endowed (natural or otherwise) the woman on the Ship Sticks commercial. Farrah Lee. wow

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 12, 2017 12:37 PM (493sH)

330 My regular waitress stopped asking me long ago how I would like my eggs cooked, and what kind of bread for toast.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2017 12:35 PM (OdK9v)

----

she finally got the restraining order?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 12, 2017 12:37 PM (h/uSM)

331 So since the mid 80s, libs have been publishing inflammatory lies against conservatives.

Why haven't conservatives done the same? They could publish a dystopian novel about how liberals either murder their offspring or give them over to perverts and plot to bring in evil barbarian armies in order to subjugate or kill the few remaining conservatives?

You know, complete fictional lies like that.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 12, 2017 12:38 PM (vRcUp)

332 The US still has a demographic problem since a couple generations are brainwashed about family and marriage, and won't replace themselves. I think the white and black Christian demo reproduce enough to grow a little, Hispanics much more so.

First and second generation "southern migrants" have some Christian background, but out of a narco-state culture. We need to take back our schools and our churches from the "progressives/commies" to teach our heritage again.

Winning people back to "borders, language, culture" would be a new enlightenment. "We" have a positive message that allows people to be fertile in thought (and in the womb I suppose). The commies have depended on their deceitful message of hate. We can win this.

(too bad they have to make a story of women having children in a dystopian future, as opposed to the real story of our Western culture dying from not having babies. The real story ... we surrender to the much more brutal cultures by not having our own children, and this was the cultural Marxist plan all along)

Posted by: illiniwek at May 12, 2017 12:38 PM (TmCOq)

333 Will wait for the movie adaption of Robert Ferrigno's Assassin series.

Will not hold my breath.

Posted by: baldilocks at May 12, 2017 12:38 PM (VlyWV)

334 nood oil

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 12, 2017 12:38 PM (h/uSM)

335 326 Croatian President is 49. She is a very attractive lady in her 40's. Another data point that Eastern European women are the best in the world.

******************

I wish Amazon would stop the stupid drone shit and come up with a mail order bride service instead.

Posted by: Gaylord Farkemall at May 12, 2017 12:36 PM (/j4n5)

You should email Bezoa about this. This is a great idea. Forget the naysayers who would try and level it human trafficking

Posted by: Widespread Pepe at May 12, 2017 12:39 PM (2qHjF)

336 The aforementioned link was actually Coco Austin in a string bikini, not Kolinda Grabar-Kitarovic.

Oh.

**shrugs**

Well, not the first time I ever fucked up.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 12, 2017 12:39 PM (X6fMO)

337 Oh, and the Croatian prez? Yeah. Endowed. Yes yes, HUGE...tracts of land.

-
She calls them Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks and You're Not at May 12, 2017 12:40 PM (Nwg0u)

338 Harvard, Princeton, Yale and others started out as Divinity Schools and are steeped in the Puritan tradition.
And guess what? They are STILL Puritanical.
Don't mistake the fact that "God" is no longer in the picture. The self-righteousness, hypocrisy and "Holier-than-Thou attitude remains--as does the belief that one must not stray far from the tenets of the "faith"--lest one be cast-out and ostracized.
The puritanical tradition of those old fire and brimstone Calvinists remains in Harvard and elsewhere to this day, except that "God" has been replaced by "Man."

Posted by: JoeF. at May 12, 2017 12:41 PM (7uYFy)

339 Unfortunately, she probably gets supported by my tax dollars, because "Can Lit".

Haaaaack! Ptoooie!
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

The creepiest thing to come out of Canada IMHO is Anna Anaconda. Dismembered children sewn back together as marionettes.

Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at May 12, 2017 12:42 PM (vRcUp)

340 Will wait for the movie adaption of Robert Ferrigno's Assassin series.
Will not hold my breath.

Posted by: baldilocks at May 12, 2017 12:38 PM (VlyWV)

It would be worth it just to hear CAIR and their SJW allies howling.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 12, 2017 12:42 PM (Iv4nr)

341 Well, not the first time I ever fucked up.

****************************

No worries, I'd still hammer both like John Henry pounding iron for the transcontinental railroad.

Posted by: Gaylord Farkemall at May 12, 2017 12:42 PM (/j4n5)

342 Well, not the first time I ever fucked up.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 12, 2017 12:39 PM (X6fMO)

Don't worry, your mistake made many morons stand up and cheer.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 12, 2017 12:43 PM (Iv4nr)

343 can't we all just loudly proclaim that it really is about Islam, but thinly veiled (iswidt)?

Posted by: buzzsaw90 at May 12, 2017 12:20 PM (h/uSM)

Yes. This. When some lefty of your acquaintance starts gushing about the TV series, simply toss off a remark, "Yes. It's a really cleverly-disguised indictment of islam. Atwood spent a lot of time in Afghanistan, you know."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 12, 2017 12:46 PM (0deF2)

344 Yes. This. When some lefty of your acquaintance starts gushing about the TV series, simply toss off a remark, "Yes. It's a really cleverly-disguised indictment of islam. Atwood spent a lot of time in Afghanistan, you know."

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at May 12, 2017 12:46 PM (0deF2)

Nice. I'll have to remember this.

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 12, 2017 12:46 PM (Iv4nr)

345 PDT and VPMP are having meals, and the wait staff knows what their personal preferences are, and that is a bad thing?

I have lunch with my mom every week at a neighborhood restaurant, and our usual waitress knows exactly what we like. If any of these media shitstains had ever worked in a restaurant they would know that.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac

After three months of serving the President and Vice-President, it would almost be cause for termination if the servers did not know their likes and dislikes.

But the MSM knows so much more than little people.

Posted by: 'Mad Max' Waters at May 12, 2017 12:47 PM (HTdUD)

346 [I}Seriously? Where are you getting this from? Not that I doubt you, I've just never heard it before.
Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 12, 2017 12:06 PM (ISg7O)

Read the book. It's in there. It is wildly, unfathomably retarded.

As context, remember that it came out in the late 70's early 80's, after EO Wilsn's sociobiology camme oout, and the red diaper babies Lewontin and Gould started imagining that Dawkins and Wilson were part of a transAtlantic Reaganite/Thatcher conspiracy to opress wimmin and minoritees and there was a rather high profile spate of idiocy by them in the New York Times Review of Books. The upshot is that everyone who read the NYTRB thought they were really smart and up to date on this evolution stuff, and Wilsion started getting death threats from those guardians of free inquiry, university students.

It was ALL bullshit handwringing, egged on by handwringing bullshitters.

Posted by: Alcoholic Asshole Shut In at May 12, 2017 12:53 PM (CPk08)

347 I like to think of Jesus like with Giant Eagle's wings, and singing lead vocals for Lynyrd Skynyrd, with like an angel band, and I'm in the front row, and I'm hammered drunk.

Posted by: Cal Naughton, Jr. at May 12, 2017 12:58 PM (p8g4F)

348 I've read The Handmaid's Tale. I never saw it as anything close to Christian...more like a future, warped 'religion' of some kind that was more about rich vs. poor. The rich in charge were married and had wives, but fertility was limited. They kept the poor ignorant - all signs were in pictures, regular people didn't know how to read. They kept the lesser types uneducated.

Honestly, it was similar to the Hunger Games style of future where the wealthy elites rule and impose their rule on the poor. Hello liberals, can you not recognize yourselves????

Posted by: K-E at May 12, 2017 01:00 PM (uOEHQ)

349 My regular waitress stopped asking me long ago how I would like my eggs cooked, and what kind of bread for toast.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at May 12, 2017 12:35 PM (OdK9v)

The Mrs and I went to IHOP for saturday morning breakfast almost every weekend for about 6 years. It got to the point where even waitresses that had never waited on us knew what we wanted.

Posted by: Ashley Judd's Puffy Scamper, aka MrCaniac at May 12, 2017 01:05 PM (1JnAL)

350 Burn Oregonmuse!!!

Posted by: mx4 at May 12, 2017 01:06 PM (34iZq)

351 226 I can't wait for the pRon version: The Handjob Maiden's Tale

Backstory is that too much butt stuff led to the declining fertility rates.
Posted by: woog

"Kawasaki!! Kawasaki!! (wrong hole!! Wrong hole!!)

Posted by: just the punchline at May 12, 2017 01:18 PM (326rv)

352 THey could have done all that with the story and writing, and still have it be about Islam.

You know when they were planning this they were thinking "Hillary will be in office, and this will be a perfect series to show what people avoided by her winning!"

Now its a bit muddled and confused because clearly Donald Trump is not a super conservative Christian caricature.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2017 01:26 PM (39g3+)

353 My issue is not so much with the series (I read a lot of SF and can go with almost any premise, as long as the story is well written). My issue is more with all those who swear we are only a step away from Gilead because everyone knows that something like that is the GOP's and Christian evangelicals' preferred outcome.

It gives me the same unsettling feeling as you get when you learn that your disturbed next door neighbor has assigned you a starring role in his paranoid fantasy. There's nothing scarier than a person who is convinced that you are the devil.

Posted by: haithabu at May 12, 2017 01:36 PM (5+lWd)

354 They kept the poor ignorant - all signs were in pictures, regular people didn't know how to read. They kept the lesser types uneducated.

So, like today then with emojis.

Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2017 01:42 PM (39g3+)

355 One aspect of Atwood's madness is her complete and utter lack of any comprehension of economics. If fertile women become a scarce resource, why not simply pay them for performing their high value ability? For far less than it costs to maintain a police state to keep these women as reproductive prisoners you could simply pay them them a seven digit income to be surrogate mothers as frequently as they are capable and maintaining certain contractually required standards of health.

Women already enter such contracts today and have done so since the era when the book was first published. It isn't as lucrative in real life because fertility isn't especially rare. Should it become so, the market will act long before any theocracy could arise.

Posted by: Epobirs at May 12, 2017 01:50 PM (AK5Ni)

356
You know who else never read The Handmaid's Tale?

You know you know...

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at May 12, 2017 01:51 PM (pNxlR)

357 I am still waiting for honest liberals to go after the Islamists as the anti-woman, anti-science primitives that they really are.

I think I will be waiting a long ass time.

Posted by: Colonel Kurtz at May 12, 2017 02:07 PM (3njq7)

358 354 They kept the poor ignorant - all signs were in pictures, regular people didn't know how to read. They kept the lesser types uneducated.

So, like today then with emojis.
Posted by: Christopher R Taylor at May 12, 2017 01:42 PM (39g3+)

Sounds like what universities are doing to the poor little imbeciles who attend them.

Posted by: Northernlurker, Phillips screwdriver of the gods at May 12, 2017 02:13 PM (hJrjt)

359 #355. I declare this comment to be the thread winner/

Posted by: OregonMuse, deplorable since 2004 at May 12, 2017 02:15 PM (Iv4nr)

360 Progs are premuslims.

Posted by: basilforth at May 12, 2017 02:43 PM (iFCFD)

361 I saw the trailers to The Handmaid's Tale online a lot, but it didn't interest me. Kind of like how The Hunger Games (book and movie) didn't interest me enough to wade through conclusion. As an aside, the costumes in the trailer made Elisabeth Moss look ugly. Is that intentional or is my brother right that she's a butter face?

Still won't be watching it because I just finished the original series of The Prisoner and am working my way (half-hour at a time) through The Man in the High Castle. There is also a collection of Streets of San Francisco at my house.

BTW Catholics believe in the Second Coming, which is mentioned every time they recite the creed. Plus the English-language mass had a phrase I always thought was beautiful (but hard to translate to Spanish): "We wait in joyful hope for the Coming of the Lord."

Catholics don't believe in the idea of the rapture occurring before the tribulations. It makes sense to me that Christians are going to suffer along with the common folk and, through carrying their crosses, serve as the final witness for Christ so that others might believe.

Posted by: NaughtyPine at May 12, 2017 03:03 PM (fxCK2)

362 Yes Oregon Muse, anxiously awaiting Last Ship June 19th. I follow Adam Baldwin on Twitter...he's great!

Posted by: dixiegal88 at May 12, 2017 03:31 PM (skqYQ)

363 I've been watching it, expected to hate it and give up after 1 episode. But it's actually really good. Instead of buying into the author's BS about Christian Patriarchy, I transpose it over to This is What Happens if We Let Sharia Take Over. And it fits, in a horrifying kind of way.

Posted by: TexasRN at May 12, 2017 04:13 PM (xfYC7)

364 Uhhhhh...Atwood observed the "New England Puritan tradition at HARVARD UNIVERSITY?!" What, is she about 320 years old?! Harvard has been a seething den of Reds for at least 70 years. Google "John Womack."

Posted by: JewishOdysseus at May 12, 2017 04:15 PM (+O9YB)

365 I swear I was gonna read this article but the one below it has tits.

Posted by: Corona at May 12, 2017 04:37 PM (Vequ/)

366 After ten minutes, I tired of the Handmaidenhead.

Posted by: Marooned at May 12, 2017 07:09 PM (KdYVH)

367 Well, it may be well acted, but watching it would put a penny in the pocket of a person who wants me dead because of my faith - so I will pass.

Posted by: Inspector Cussword at May 12, 2017 07:11 PM (c1VpD)

368 No Thanx
Hated the book. Hated the movie.
Pass

Posted by: trainer at May 13, 2017 02:01 PM (7EbAY)

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