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JK Rowling Tweet About Trump Refusing to Shake Hand of Little Boy Gets 76,000 Retweets; Boy's Mother Asks Her to Correct Lie; JK Rowling Refuses
When someone shows you who they are, believe them.' - Maya Angelou https://t.co/Op6HUrRo80Note that the tweet she includes is about Trump allegedly snubbing this boy, but it's no longer available -- apparently the original writer has delected it. Because it's a lie and all. But JK Rowling keeps on keeping on.
J.K. Rowling
How stunning, and how horrible, that Trump cannot bring himself to shake the hand of a small boy who only wanted to touch the President.Neither the boy's mother, nor journalists tweeting to JK Rowling to take down her lie, can get her to budge on it.
J.K. Rowling (@jk_rowling)
.@jk_rowling even the child's mother has pleaded with you to retract your ugly lies. But you be you.. pic.twitter.com/VcNYu2t0w9
— Rita Panahi (@RitaPanahi) July 30, 2017
Comments
(Jump to bottom of comments)Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 31, 2017 06:04 PM (Ckg4U)
Posted by: LASue at July 31, 2017 06:05 PM (hZ+us)
Posted by: Walter Freeman at July 31, 2017 06:06 PM (3Vlkn)
Posted by: IC at July 31, 2017 06:06 PM (a0IVu)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2017 06:07 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 31, 2017 06:08 PM (mpXpK)
Posted by: T at July 31, 2017 06:08 PM (Vgw1E)
Posted by: Bicentennialguy at July 31, 2017 06:08 PM (nILVB)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 31, 2017 06:09 PM (mpXpK)
Posted by: pep at July 31, 2017 06:09 PM (LAe3v)
Because isn't the Lie so much more interesting than the truth, in this case, especially if you're Deranged by Donald Trump's existence?
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 31, 2017 06:09 PM (/MtvT)
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 06:09 PM (hLhtd)
J.K. Rowling
Ha. I guess she showed us.
Posted by: LASue at July 31, 2017 06:09 PM (hZ+us)
Posted by: J.K.K.K. Rowling at July 31, 2017 06:09 PM (Mouru)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2017 06:10 PM (O2RFr)
Posted by: Bicentennialguy at July 31, 2017 06:10 PM (nILVB)
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 06:10 PM (hLhtd)
Posted by: Country Boy at July 31, 2017 06:10 PM (fWq7U)
Posted by: an indifferent penguin at July 31, 2017 06:11 PM (rwqWc)
It's like the Holocaust all over again.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2017 06:11 PM (Mouru)
Well, she did just wake up after a long night of valu-rite and 'immigrant' sex.
Posted by: Sphynx at July 31, 2017 06:11 PM (OZmbA)
Posted by: USNtakim at July 31, 2017 06:11 PM (zZWkn)
Posted by: goodluckduck at July 31, 2017 06:11 PM (yqvys)
I remember when the left took their marching orders from the likes of Shel Silverstein and Dr. Seuss.
Posted by: garrett
Especially their seminal work on redistribution, "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish: Here's Your Nine Grams".
Posted by: pep at July 31, 2017 06:12 PM (LAe3v)
Dennis Prager
Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2017 06:12 PM (pPKG5)
Posted by: Strobe at July 31, 2017 06:12 PM (gbWkA)
If he shakes his hand, that's one less hand he has to punch him in the dick - you stupid bint.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 06:12 PM (hLhtd)
Posted by: pep at July 31, 2017 06:09 PM (LAe3v)
But what about Berenstein Bears?
Posted by: buzzion at July 31, 2017 06:12 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 31, 2017 06:12 PM (mpXpK)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 06:13 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at July 31, 2017 06:13 PM (EgwCt)
Posted by: Goofus at July 31, 2017 06:13 PM (Mouru)
And yes, the only reason the whole Harry Potter thing took of was because US buyers went "ohhhhhh, british"
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 31, 2017 06:13 PM (MINbv)
Followed by the ever popular "Hop on the Running Dog Capitalist".
Posted by: pep at July 31, 2017 06:13 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 06:13 PM (hLhtd)
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 31, 2017 06:13 PM (/MtvT)
Posted by: kallisto at July 31, 2017 06:14 PM (53MZt)
Posted by: Amy Schumer at July 31, 2017 06:14 PM (10LGw)
Posted by: 13times at July 31, 2017 06:14 PM (WHVu+)
Posted by: Egon Spengler at July 31, 2017 06:14 PM (gbWkA)
Posted by: Under Fire at July 31, 2017 06:14 PM (mcI77)
Posted by: Jmel at July 31, 2017 06:14 PM (OeWgo)
Posted by: Amy Schumer at July 31, 2017 06:14 PM (10LGw)
Bitchcoin
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 31, 2017 06:14 PM (0mRoj)
While they are free to say anything they like I'm also free to not purchase their products.
Posted by: CaliGirl at July 31, 2017 06:14 PM (Ri/rl)
Posted by: pep at July 31, 2017 06:14 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2017 06:15 PM (O2RFr)
When they're cutting off her naughty bits and/or her head, maybe then she'll reconsider.
Probably not.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 06:15 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: lin-duh fell at July 31, 2017 06:15 PM (kufk0)
Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2017 06:15 PM (pPKG5)
Posted by: RKae at July 31, 2017 06:15 PM (CyjOk)
Posted by: It's me donna at July 31, 2017 06:15 PM (O2RFr)
Well, to be fair, so were Harold Robbins and Neil Simon. But at least they changed characters and settings.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 06:15 PM (mbhDw)
They sound like idiots but it's probably because it was the only book they ever read with a heroic arc. They sure as shit weren't raised with Greek and Roman mythology like I was.
Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at July 31, 2017 06:16 PM (4ErVI)
As fucking dumb as Palin Steele's "Obama is Captain America" idiocy.
Posted by: buzzion at July 31, 2017 06:16 PM (z/Ubi)
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28
10 Apparently the Berenstain Bears have been edged out as the intellectual voice of the Democratic Party.
Posted by: pep at July 31, 2017 06:09 PM (LAe3v)
But what about Berenstein Bears?
Posted by: buzzion at July 31, 2017 06:12 PM
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I always thought it was the Berenstain Badgers.
Posted by: irright at July 31, 2017 06:16 PM (85f6P)
Posted by: Strobe at July 31, 2017 06:16 PM (gbWkA)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 31, 2017 06:13 PM (MINbv)
Actually they were initially entertaining books and something "new". That changed towards the end though. And even after the series was finished she had to come back with BS about the characters.
Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at July 31, 2017 06:16 PM (mpXpK)
Posted by: Adriane the Math Word Problem Critic ... at July 31, 2017 06:16 PM (AoK0a)
Alan Dershowitz, sarcastically.
Posted by: GOULD at July 31, 2017 06:16 PM (Ou4hi)
Posted by: Poseidon at July 31, 2017 06:16 PM (hLhtd)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2017 06:16 PM (VB0hh)
Posted by: davidt at July 31, 2017 06:16 PM (XoldI)
Posted by: Under Fire
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...a necessity.
Posted by: RKae at July 31, 2017 06:16 PM (CyjOk)
Posted by: Jmel at July 31, 2017 06:14 PM (OeWgo)
I'm surprised the left hasn't gone into complete meltdown over this. Perhaps it's too early.
Posted by: Under Fire at July 31, 2017 06:17 PM (mcI77)
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 06:17 PM (hLhtd)
Posted by: Chelsea Clinton at July 31, 2017 06:17 PM (Mouru)
Posted by: JK Rowling at July 31, 2017 06:17 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: davidt
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She makes R.L. Stein look like a regular Voltaire.
Posted by: RKae at July 31, 2017 06:17 PM (CyjOk)
But click on that Twitter feed
Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2017 06:18 PM (pPKG5)
Posted by: Adriane the Math Word Problem Critic ... at July 31, 2017 06:16 PM (AoK0a)
....>Sherman Potter >Mr. Potter >Potter's Field....
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 06:18 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 31, 2017 06:18 PM (MINbv)
Agreed. As she approached the end, the books increasingly resembled doorstops. I call it the Tom Clancy phenomenon.
Posted by: pep at July 31, 2017 06:18 PM (LAe3v)
She didn't delete her tweets they're hidden under her invisibiltiy cloak
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July 31, 2017 06:18 PM (lKyWE)
She makes R.L. Stein look like a regular Voltaire.
Posted by: RKae at July 31, 2017 06:17 PM (CyjOk)
Voltaire Perkins.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 06:18 PM (mbhDw)
before the retweet correction gets its pants on,
and never makes it out of bed anyway
Posted by: illiniwek at July 31, 2017 06:18 PM (b+0FS)
Posted by: kallisto at July 31, 2017 06:18 PM (53MZt)
Posted by: Jmel at July 31, 2017 06:14 PM (OeWgo)
I'm surprised the left hasn't gone into complete meltdown over this. Perhaps it's too early.
Posted by: Under Fire
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Of course, they never have a problem with spiritually silly first ladies who have seances.
Posted by: RKae at July 31, 2017 06:18 PM (CyjOk)
Hell of a way to establish a government
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 31, 2017 06:18 PM (MINbv)
Unless you're an anti-Samite.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 06:19 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: Douchebags Everywhere at July 31, 2017 06:19 PM (Mouru)
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at July 31, 2017 06:19 PM (34alA)
Posted by: goodluckduck at July 31, 2017 06:19 PM (yqvys)
This.
Posted by: Phillip Pullman at July 31, 2017 06:19 PM (hLhtd)
She didn't delete her tweets they're hidden under her invisibiltiy cloak
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July 31, 2017 06:18 PM (lKyWE)
I read that as "invisible cloaca."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 06:20 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 31, 2017 06:20 PM (MINbv)
Fuck the left.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 31, 2017 06:20 PM (5y11N)
As a former precinct chairman in Texas I saw many of these. Texas added the DOB field after many people had registered without it. If the voter never supplied his DOB later, the field defaulted to 1/1/1900.
That's how you get people 116 years old voting in mass numbers.
I would think that people researching voter fraud would ask questions so they don't look like amateurs in their press release.
Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at July 31, 2017 06:20 PM (Zlj5B)
Posted by: pep at July 31, 2017 06:20 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: Gorilla Pundit at July 31, 2017 06:20 PM (XoldI)
Better than the Stephen King phenomenon. He starts off a book well and then he just gets to a point and says "Eh, fuck it, The End".
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2017 06:21 PM (/tuJf)
Fuck the left.
Posted by: Nevergiveup at July 31, 2017 06:20 PM (5y11N)
They don't want to "better" America. They want to punish it.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 06:21 PM (mbhDw)
She sounds pretty stupid.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 31, 2017 06:21 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: UGAdawg at July 31, 2017 06:21 PM (HL3BI)
How Rowling got there- especially with all facts to the contrary- is a frightening glimpse into her delusional mind.
Posted by: LASue at July 31, 2017 06:21 PM (hZ+us)
Posted by: Adriane the Math Word Problem Critic ... at July 31, 2017 06:16 PM (AoK0a)
....>Sherman Potter >Mr. Potter >Potter's Field....
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 06:18 PM (mbhDw)
>Potter's Field > Sally Field > Mustang Sally . . .
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 31, 2017 06:21 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 31, 2017 06:22 PM (5VlCp)
I'm tired of the Trump bashing - both the blatant and the surreptitious..
I LIKE him.
I would like to hear him praised publicly for all the actual good he is accomplishing for our country.
Posted by: RondinellaMamma at July 31, 2017 06:22 PM (oQQwD)
How Rowling got there- especially with all facts to the contrary- is a frightening glimpse into her delusional mind.
Posted by: LASue at July 31, 2017 06:21 PM (hZ+us)
Magical thinking.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 06:22 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 06:10 PM (hLhtd)
Even Dr. Seuss wasn't one of them. Note the pro-life message in "Horton Hears a Who" and the anti-socialist theme of "Thidwick the Big-Hearted Moose."
Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at July 31, 2017 06:22 PM (Zlj5B)
Posted by: Under Fire at July 31, 2017 06:23 PM (mcI77)
Posted by: Curmudgeonly Ex-Clerk at July 31, 2017 06:19 PM (34alA)
Nothing to add. I just think it would look nicer in BOLD print.
Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at July 31, 2017 06:23 PM (EgwCt)
I have issues with The Federalist. They're about 50% passive-aggressive vis a vis PDT. Some good articles now and then, but in the main they are turning into another version of Tepid Flatus.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 06:23 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 06:23 PM (hLhtd)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2017 06:24 PM (VB0hh)
to that boy or his family, I apologise unreservedly. These tweets will remain, but I will delete the previous ones on the subject. /4x
Followers are tripping over themselves congratulating her for admitting she made a mistake and DT never has.
Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2017 06:24 PM (pPKG5)
Posted by: Under Fire at July 31, 2017 06:23 PM (mcI77)
Just for the bank account, a la John Kerry.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 06:24 PM (mbhDw)
As a former precinct chairman in Texas I saw many of these. Texas
added the DOB field after many people had registered without it. If the
voter never supplied his DOB later, the field defaulted to 1/1/1900.
That's how you get people 116 years old voting in mass numbers.
I would think that people researching voter fraud would ask questions so they don't look like amateurs in their press release.
Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at July 31, 2017 06:20 PM (Zlj5B)
This is what happens when you forget to attach the cover sheets to your TPS reports. Y2K chaos!
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 31, 2017 06:24 PM (JO9+V)
There are also lovely photos of our gorgeous First Lady reading a book to him at some point. He is so cute.
They are looking for anything to criticize.
The media can bite moi.
Posted by: ChristyBlinky, Infidel Queen, is tired of dis at July 31, 2017 06:24 PM (J5mzk)
> Ford Mustang > Harrison Ford > William Henry Harrison > O. Henry > O. Rings > Lord of the Rings
Posted by: Douchebags Everywhere at July 31, 2017 06:25 PM (Mouru)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 31, 2017 06:25 PM (MINbv)
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 06:25 PM (hLhtd)
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Eva Ibbotson, author of 'The Secret of Platform 13'. The similarities between that and Rowling's books is rather astonishing.
Posted by: mustbequantum at July 31, 2017 06:25 PM (MIKMs)
Posted by: Ron Jeremy from Nantucket at July 31, 2017 06:26 PM (+7/1f)
Que? I don't stay abreast of brit celebs.
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 31, 2017 06:25 PM (MINbv)
Nigella has been through hell in her personal life. In any case, her father, Lord Lawson, was the chancellor of the exchequer under Maggie Thatcher and he is a big opponent of the Global Warming fraud.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 06:26 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: Country Boy at July 31, 2017 06:26 PM (fWq7U)
Posted by: kallisto at July 31, 2017 06:26 PM (53MZt)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 31, 2017 06:27 PM (MINbv)
Posted by: RondinellaMamma at July 31, 2017 06:22 PM (oQQwD)
Me too. But I think we will be waiting a long time. In the mean time, all the hypocrites who keep swiping at him are ecstatic when they check out their 401k portfolios.
Posted by: IC at July 31, 2017 06:27 PM (a0IVu)
Posted by: Maritime at July 31, 2017 06:27 PM (ycAdZ)
"Re: my tweets about the small boy in a wheelchair whose proferred hand the president appeared to ignore in press footage, multiple sources have informed me that that was not a full or accurate representation of their interaction. I very clearly projected my own sensitivities around the issue of disabled people being overlooked or ignored onto the images I saw and if that caused any distress to that boy or his family, I apologise unreservedly.
Two things: First, she does not apologize to the injured party (Trump), instead she apologizes to the boy. Second, her apology is itself a lie. She wasn't driven by her "own sensitivities around the issue of disabled people", she was driven by her hatred of Trump. A hatred so extreme, even now she can't truly admit her error and apologize to the one who she smeared.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 31, 2017 06:27 PM (pvjTE)
Whoa, there buddy.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 06:25 PM (hLhtd)
It was the only route I could think of to Traci Lords.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at July 31, 2017 06:27 PM (Mouru)
Who cares if your one idea makes you a gigabuck?
Posted by: pep at July 31, 2017 06:27 PM (LAe3v)
Better than the Stephen King phenomenon. He starts off a book well
and then he just gets to a point and says "Eh, fuck it, The End".
.
.
.Yeah and what's the deal with that book Tommyknockers? I thought he was a horror writer, not a scary bit in that entire book.
Posted by: The Great White Scotsman at July 31, 2017 06:27 PM (0pcwX)
Posted by: Maritime at July 31, 2017 06:27 PM (ycAdZ)
But, fuck capitalism, right?
/s
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 06:28 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: pep at July 31, 2017 06:28 PM (LAe3v)
I LIKE him.
I would like to hear him praised publicly for all the actual good he is accomplishing for our country.
Posted by: RondinellaMamma at July 31, 2017 06:22 PM (oQQwD)
Same here.
Most of this country can eat a bag of dicks.
Posted by: Country Boy at July 31, 2017 06:29 PM (fWq7U)
Not a thin dime of ours went into Rowling's pocket.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 31, 2017 06:29 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: 13times at July 31, 2017 06:29 PM (WHVu+)
Posted by: Northernlurker, Phillips screwdriver of the gods at July 31, 2017 06:30 PM (hJrjt)
Posted by: Country Boy
Say, that's an outstanding slogan for a political campaign. Mind if we use it?
Posted by: The DNC at July 31, 2017 06:30 PM (LAe3v)
How is her writing? For real, I've never read any of these books nor seen the movies, but can this vapid Limey twit at least write? I mean, Stephen King descended into lazy hackery, but he at least had an ear for dialogue and characterization. I'm genuinely curious if she's like James Patterson; a multi gazillionaire shitty writer.
Posted by: UGAdawg at July 31, 2017 06:30 PM (HL3BI)
Honestly, if all the media have to focus on is shit like this and Scaramucci, then the Left is completely bereft of any sort of persuasive policy arguments.
Sure, it would be great for them to admit defeat and knuckle under. Forget it; ain't happening. Ignore the bullshit and keep fired up.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 06:30 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2017 06:31 PM (IqV8l)
"Re: my tweets about the small boy in a wheelchair whose proferred hand the president appeared to ignore in press footage, multiple sources have informed me that that was not a full or accurate representation of their interaction.
She just can't bring herself to say Trump did shake the boys hand
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July 31, 2017 06:31 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 06:31 PM (hLhtd)
I normally wouldn't care what this horrible woman thinks, but she had thousands of followers retweeting this garbage. It was really bothering me.
Posted by: stace gets two scoops at July 31, 2017 06:31 PM (LKWuH)
injured party (Trump), instead she apologizes to the boy. Second, her
apology is itself a lie. She wasn't driven by her "own sensitivities
around the issue of disabled people", she was driven by her hatred of
Trump. A hatred so extreme, even now she can't truly admit her error and
apologize to the one who she smeared.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 31, 2017 06:27 PM (pvjTE)
It's because she cares so much about disabled people . . . oops the ability challenged people . . . oops the differently abled people.
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 31, 2017 06:31 PM (JO9+V)
I LIKE him.
I would like to hear him praised publicly for all the actual good he is accomplishing for our country.
Posted by: RondinellaMamma at July 31, 2017 06:22 PM (oQQwD)
Same here.
Most of this country can eat a bag of dicks.
Posted by: Country Boy at July 31, 2017 06:29 PM (fWq7U)
I happened to catch some Hannity on my way home and he had on Mike Huckabee, who is not exactly my cup of tea, but Huckabee went through all the stuff that Trump has done that has been positive, from Gorsuch to rolling back regulations to upping enforcement of immigration laws to refocusing the military on killing people and breaking stuff.
It was refreshing to hear someone who wasn't all doom and gloom.
Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 31, 2017 06:31 PM (dEQP3)
I bought one of his books in an airport once, long ago, pre-Kindle. I just could not believe someone that bad at writing could get published.
Posted by: pep at July 31, 2017 06:32 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: Bag of Dicks salesman at July 31, 2017 06:32 PM (89T5c)
Posted by: Country Boy
Say, that's an outstanding slogan for a political campaign. Mind if we use it?
Posted by: The DNC at July 31, 2017 06:30 PM (LAe3v)
I'll make all the tshirts you want with that saying on it.
Fair enough?
Posted by: Country Boy at July 31, 2017 06:32 PM (fWq7U)
First three books were mildly entertaining. The rest sucked.
Posted by: Diogenes at July 31, 2017 06:32 PM (0tfLf)
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July 31, 2017 06:31 PM (lKyWE)
I would have shook his little hand.
Posted by: Hairy Reed at July 31, 2017 06:32 PM (Mouru)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 31, 2017 06:32 PM (PY9jH)
Posted by: davidt at July 31, 2017 06:16 PM (XoldI)
Tolkien actually was well beyond Rowling in terms of writing epic literature and setting forth themes in his myth.
Her crap is comic book fantasy soap opera. Abra cadabra drivel.
Even Star Wars outpaces Harry Potter as an engaging and edifying tale. At least until Jar Jar Binks shows up.
She's a Post-Jar Jar George Lucas wannabe.
Posted by: Minuteman at July 31, 2017 06:33 PM (A3b6q)
Who cares, rather fart in a fucking thermos and give it to a child as a present than her books.
Posted by: Mr. Pink at July 31, 2017 06:33 PM (/Uj5m)
IIRC, she's moved so much offshore that she's no longer on the top 500 in the UK list. ..
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 31, 2017 06:33 PM (MINbv)
Posted by: renowned novelist Dan Brown at July 31, 2017 06:33 PM (Kkv+D)
Posted by: teh Wind at July 31, 2017 06:33 PM (ur8oQ)
Posted by: Chelsea Clinton at July 31, 2017 06:34 PM (Mouru)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2017 06:34 PM (VB0hh)
And Ace can't get an advance for the 'Saffron' Series?
There's no Justice.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 06:34 PM (hLhtd)
Fixed it.
Posted by: goodluckduck at July 31, 2017 06:34 PM (yqvys)
Tolkien was a real author. Twit isn't.
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 31, 2017 06:35 PM (MINbv)
You really think Trump or (insert any President past or future) really looks at a small kid in a wheelchair at an event he's at and says "fuck you, I'm going out of my way to not shake your hand because i hate disabled people!"
Posted by: Maritime at July 31, 2017 06:35 PM (ycAdZ)
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 31, 2017 06:35 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: Mr. Pink
_________
Thank you. That's a line worth stealing.
Posted by: Fareed Zakaria at July 31, 2017 06:35 PM (j+dfT)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2017 06:35 PM (/tuJf)
She wasn't driven by her "own sensitivities around the issue of disabled people",
So where they any disabled characters in her books?
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July 31, 2017 06:36 PM (lKyWE)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 31, 2017 06:36 PM (rhwaS)
Thus creating a cya that she and the rest of the hive can pretend is an apology.
Posted by: davidt at July 31, 2017 06:36 PM (XoldI)
Posted by: Anon a mouse.
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Maybe the title was "richest WOMAN in the UK" that I'm mixing up
Posted by: Maritime at July 31, 2017 06:36 PM (ycAdZ)
PJ O'Rourke is a pretty big one in that category, but his good stuff was all long ago, so there's no savings of time or money there.
The delusional meltdown of lots of "conservative" pundits has been striking in its own right, but they were only good for entertainment or the occasional good line anyway. I have had nothing to learn from them on substance, to put it mildly, since very young early days.
Posted by: rhomboid at July 31, 2017 06:36 PM (QDnY+)
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 06:36 PM (hLhtd)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2017 06:36 PM (VB0hh)
Posted by: freaked at July 31, 2017 06:38 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: a fate worse than death at July 31, 2017 06:38 PM (Kkv+D)
Posted by: Mr. Pink
_________
Thank you. That's a line worth stealing.
Posted by: Fareed Zakaria at July 31, 2017 06:35 PM (j+dfT)
Yup.....now I know what to get for those who have everything this Christmas.
Thanks Mr.P!
Posted by: Hairyback Guy at July 31, 2017 06:38 PM (5VlCp)
Posted by: PaleRider is simply irredeemable at July 31, 2017 06:38 PM (eASYU)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 06:22 PM (mbhDw)
Absolutely positively right. It's an epidemic in this country right now.
However, most people don't realize it's a warning sign for mental health issues either now or down the road. Because the world simply does not fvcking work like that.
Instead, bints like this woman make a fortune off of promoting it.
Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at July 31, 2017 06:38 PM (EgwCt)
It still has some way to go before she beats Prof. Jonathan Rape Rape Brown's retraction for his speech he gave defending slave-concubines for the muttaqoon. His wife told him that his problem is he's too scholarly, he humblebragged, before whining about the "alt right".
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at July 31, 2017 06:38 PM (6FqZa)
Sad !
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/7 at July 31, 2017 06:38 PM (Mcvvl)
Posted by: JK Rowling at July 31, 2017 06:39 PM (rhwaS)
Yeah, I'm sure jkrowling is sooooo friendly at book signings and comicons.
Does she even do those??
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 31, 2017 06:39 PM (/MtvT)
Posted by: JK Rowling at July 31, 2017 06:39 PM (JO9+V)
How is her writing? For real, I've never read any of these books nor seen the movies, but can this vapid Limey twit at least write? I mean, Stephen King descended into lazy hackery, but he at least had an ear for dialogue and characterization. I'm genuinely curious if she's like James Patterson; a multi gazillionaire shitty writer.
Posted by: UGAdawg at July 31, 2017 06:30 PM (HL3BI)
I put her in with Stephanie Meyer. The writing itself is workmanlike and the dialogue is passable. What they have in common, and why they've sold so many books, is that they can tell a story. Note I didn't say they could plot well, there are glaring plotholes in HP, but they can each create a world and tell a story about that world that people want to hear.
That's harder than you think.
Oh Stephen King. It's funny, his political rants don't bother me because, well, he's batshit insane. He was batshit before the accident and the accident just made it that much worse.
You want to talk about story tellers. King tells stories that make you want to know the end. Of course, now he's at the what do you mean an editor, I don't need no steenking editor and the works are far worse for the wear. But when he's on, he's really on.
Carrie is a wonderful example of a novella, once you strip out the filler media story bits that were inserted to make it just barely novel length. It's a bit like Terminator, actually, just a story pared down to the bone. It's so effective because you know, you just know how it will end but you keep reading because maybe it won't end like that. Please don't let it end like that.
Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 31, 2017 06:39 PM (dEQP3)
Are we going to have to show a membership card to get in? Can I slip the bouncers a few ampersands to look the other way?
Posted by: Anachronda at July 31, 2017 06:40 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: JK Rowling at July 31, 2017 06:40 PM (JO9+V)
Posted by: USNtakim at July 31, 2017 06:40 PM (zZWkn)
The one kid's a ginger ....
Soul-challenged.
Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 31, 2017 06:40 PM (rhwaS)
Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at July 31, 2017 06:20 PM (Zlj5B)
This is what happens when you forget to attach the cover sheets to your TPS reports. Y2K chaos!
Posted by: Count de Monet at July 31, 2017 06:24 PM (JO9+V)
OH, riiiight.
That reminds me, we're going to have to have you come in this weekend...
*sips coffee, turns and walks away*
Posted by: Bill Lumberg at July 31, 2017 06:40 PM (A3b6q)
Utter lack of humility, a grandiose view of her own importance. She should be ashamed.
Posted by: kraken at July 31, 2017 06:42 PM (pL6Vz)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 31, 2017 06:43 PM (OdK9v)
Well, there's Mr. Filch, who is magically challenged.
Posted by: Anachronda at July 31, 2017 06:43 PM (v3pYe)
The fifth was just unbearable. Overwritten and pointless. Tried a couple of chapters of the sixth and couldn't get any further.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 31, 2017 06:43 PM (MZcWR)
Dennis Prager
Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2017 06:12 PM (pPKG5)
Necrophilia means you never have to day that you're sorry.
Posted by: bergerbilder at July 31, 2017 06:44 PM (lIZQs)
Posted by: Big Daddy at July 31, 2017 06:44 PM (sQ1li)
She told a good story that flowed pretty well and did not remind you of all the bullshit of real life. Simple tale: Orphan does well. Wish fulfillment. Good. Evil. Childhood. When she strayed from these topics she got into real trouble- just not enough to derail the money train.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2017 06:45 PM (0mskG)
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at July 31, 2017 06:43 PM (MZcWR)
So.... George RRRR Martin..
Posted by: kraken at July 31, 2017 06:45 PM (pL6Vz)
There's also the never-ending supply of gin-soaked raisins.
Posted by: Anachronda at July 31, 2017 06:45 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: SONIC YOUTH at July 31, 2017 06:46 PM (hLhtd)
Posted by: Mr Aspirin Factory at July 31, 2017 06:46 PM (89T5c)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2017 06:24 PM (VB0hh)
ChairMAN, thank you very much. XD
I talked about my experience here at AOS a few years ago. (http://minx.cc/?post=315397)
Hard to say what my effect was on my own precinct, but I know I got some others interested in working (the Dems took over the county and set about recruiting their own to control the balloting).
Posted by: Michael Rittenhouse at July 31, 2017 06:47 PM (Zlj5B)
Smart woman. Still trash.
Posted by: Nick in Tallahassee at July 31, 2017 06:47 PM (QHqVn)
Posted by: kraken at July 31, 2017 06:45 PM (pL6Vz)
In a lot of ways, she was the anti-Martin. A simple, innocent tale that flowed well and did not get lost in her own personal fetishes. Also, you could at least imagine your kids reading and enjoying them and not being worried by that.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2017 06:47 PM (0mskG)
Probably because her detractors were assuming she wasn't an out and out racist. Rowling's description of Hermione was a bushy-haired buck-toothed freak, and the only way she could become not ugly was by jettisoning her stereotypically black features.
Posted by: Stephen Price Blair at July 31, 2017 06:47 PM (2lndx)
Posted by: mustbequantum at July 31, 2017 06:48 PM (MIKMs)
Posted by: arbitrary turn back at July 31, 2017 06:48 PM (8RQER)
I thought the first three books were fine, though the movies were better. The fourth was overstuffed with trivia that added to the world but didn't move the story at all.
Ironically the fourth movie coincides with the release of the Harry Potter Trivia Game
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July 31, 2017 06:48 PM (lKyWE)
So what does Rowling do with her money?
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 31, 2017 06:48 PM (Lqy/e)
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 06:36 PM (hLhtd)
The Lords of Flatbush. Doo-lang, doo-lang....
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 06:49 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2017 06:47 PM (0mskG)
Aw, I know that Aetius... it was just an opening to get a dig in at that insufferable Martin guy..
Posted by: kraken at July 31, 2017 06:49 PM (pL6Vz)
All she had to do within a reasonably close time frame to being told she was wrong (I mean like an hour or 2) was delete the tweets and put up something along the lines of "Sorry everyone, I saw a video from a source I find reliable and it turns out to have been false. I've deleted my tweets and apologize for continuing to spread misinformation, even accidentally. This is a good reminder to always double check, especially when it agrees with what you already think."
Done and done and she comes out of it looking like a better person without having to, you know, take any responsibility for what she did.
NOPE. Can't do that because Trump is the worst.
Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 31, 2017 06:50 PM (dEQP3)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 06:50 PM (mbhDw)
Did she out any more of her Harry Potter characters as being gay? Or trans?
Since she was the author, why did it take so long for her to figure out these stunning boosts to the power of her MADE UP stories? Or was it simply more convenient to do so as the LGBT-EE-EYE-EE-EYE-OH forces gained strength?
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 31, 2017 06:50 PM (+/IpI)
Um, no.
Deliberate misrepresentation for purposes of agitprop is more like it.
Also the humblebrag about how sensitive she is.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez, they are gaslighting us 24/7 at July 31, 2017 06:50 PM (Mcvvl)
Posted by: Jane D'oh at July 31, 2017 06:32 PM (PY9jH)
Djin-soaked.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 06:51 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: Bossy Conservative.... at least I'm not Kurt Eichenwald at July 31, 2017 06:51 PM (RFeQD)
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 31, 2017 06:52 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: kraken at July 31, 2017 06:49 PM (pL6Vz)
*fistbump* We agree on that. He is an fat, greasy, odious, little troll of a man.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2017 06:52 PM (0mskG)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 31, 2017 06:52 PM (6iUC+)
Old and busted - The Hardy Boys
New hotness - They're Hardly Boys
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 06:50 PM (mbhDw)
They have a RAGING clue!
Posted by: Insomniac - Not Disappointed, Just Angry at July 31, 2017 06:52 PM (0mRoj)
Anyone with half a brain knows you can't trust anything on facebook.
Idjit.
Posted by: Meremortal at July 31, 2017 06:53 PM (3myMJ)
Dale is an awful writer, but at least he's awesome awful. Stealth B52s. Power armor vigilantism in a cloak of Tom Clancy me-too. Wild gore and sex.
Seriously. Straightforward retarded fun.
Posted by: Sporkatus at July 31, 2017 06:53 PM (1ArOc)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2017 06:53 PM (VB0hh)
Posted by: mustbequantum
Dobby's dead? Oh nooooooooooooo.......
Posted by: Bossy Conservative.... at least I'm not Kurt Eichenwald at July 31, 2017 06:53 PM (RFeQD)
So what does Rowling do with her money?
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 31, 2017 06:48 PM (Lqy/e)
No clue but Dolly's program is about to hit 92 million books mailed out to kids.
Yes, that number is correct.
They mail out a million books a month.
Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 31, 2017 06:54 PM (dEQP3)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2017 06:54 PM (0mskG)
I enjoyed the Harry Potter books, but her post-series fuckery with Hermione being black and especially with Dumbledore being a polesmoker wrecked it for me.
She's a summa cum laude graduate of the George A. Lucas School of Storyline Clusterfuckery.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 31, 2017 06:54 PM (+/IpI)
Posted by: Hairy Reed at July 31, 2017 06:55 PM (LAe3v)
Posted by: mustbequantum at July 31, 2017 06:48 PM (MIKMs)
I saw at least half of the movies with my kid and most of those I liked just fine, but that second to last one was 20 miles of bad road. daaark. It was "hey, let's kill off every single secondary character that stace liked, including the fucking owl". Good grief.
Posted by: stace gets two scoops at July 31, 2017 06:55 PM (LKWuH)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM)
That's some pretty good internet gibberish there, fellah.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative.... at least I'm not Kurt Eichenwald at July 31, 2017 06:56 PM (RFeQD)
For some reason, this makes me think of Dolly Parton.
So what does Rowling do with her money?
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 31, 2017 06:48 PM
Maybe she should buy some new boobs.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at July 31, 2017 06:57 PM (IqV8l)
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 06:57 PM (hLhtd)
I kinda hope some event occurs that prevents Trump from visiting the formerly Great Britain. Why bother?
You know they're just going to trash his every move, replay at one frame per second his every motion. Fvck that.
Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at July 31, 2017 06:57 PM (EgwCt)
Lost Carcosa, Repairer of Reputations, etc. and no US major publisher printing it?!
Posted by: Sporkatus at July 31, 2017 06:58 PM (1ArOc)
Posted by: Alladin at July 31, 2017 06:58 PM (OdK9v)
Posted by: andycanuck #CNNBlackmail at July 31, 2017 06:58 PM (nlbfN)
Posted by: andycanuck #CNNBlackmail at July 31, 2017 06:59 PM (nlbfN)
I enjoyed the Harry Potter books, but her post-series fuckery with
Hermione being black and especially with Dumbledore being a polesmoker
wrecked it for me.
She's a summa cum laude graduate of the George A. Lucas School of Storyline Clusterfuckery.
Innertube winnah of the day!
Posted by: Gmac- at July 31, 2017 06:59 PM (4pjhs)
Posted by: Sporkatus
Arthur Brown > Dale Brown >> Dan Brown >> Sherrod Brown
Posted by: Bossy Conservative.... at least I'm not Kurt Eichenwald at July 31, 2017 06:59 PM (RFeQD)
Posted by: JoeF. at July 31, 2017 07:00 PM (7uYFy)
You know they're just going to trash his every move, replay at one frame per second his every motion. Fvck that.
Posted by: Slippery Slope Salesman at July 31, 2017 06:57 PM (EgwCt)
The Media's Trump handshake obsession is one of the most bizarre bits in all of the bizarreness of the Media's Trump reeeeeeeing. It's insane.
Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 31, 2017 07:00 PM (dEQP3)
Posted by: Anon a mouse... at July 31, 2017 07:00 PM (MINbv)
How obnoxious.
Posted by: kraken at July 31, 2017 07:00 PM (pL6Vz)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2017 07:01 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: The mass media can EABOD at July 31, 2017 07:01 PM (CEU4j)
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 07:01 PM (hLhtd)
Posted by: stace gets two scoops
They killed the owl? Oh nooooooooooo.......
Posted by: Bossy Conservative.... at least I'm not Kurt Eichenwald at July 31, 2017 07:01 PM (RFeQD)
Posted by: Sporkatus at July 31, 2017 07:02 PM (1ArOc)
most bizarre bits in all of the bizarreness of the Media's Trump
reeeeeeeing. It's insane.
Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 31, 2017 07:00 PM (dEQP3)
He doesn't bow like O'Barry. Not subservient enough.
Posted by: davidt at July 31, 2017 07:02 PM (XoldI)
Posted by: goodluckduck at July 31, 2017 06:19 PM (yqvys)
This won't make me popular, but I agree.
Rowling is no Lewis or Tolkien but she wrote some good books that skewered the right people and were chock full of Christian imagery.
She seems to have gone off the rails over the past few years but that doesn't negate her most notable works.
Posted by: Michael the Texan (formerly TEXIT) at July 31, 2017 07:02 PM (nvMvs)
Posted by: Abby at July 31, 2017 07:03 PM (HBU7W)
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at July 31, 2017 07:04 PM (RrhD2)
Posted by: Sporkatus
Arthur Brown > Dale Brown >> Dan Brown >> Sherrod Brown
Posted by: Bossy Conservative.... at least I'm not Kurt Eichenwald at July 31, 2017 06:59 PM (RFeQD)
Brown 25.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 07:04 PM (mbhDw)
This is one of the things that really annoys me about Rowling. She won't leave well enough alone let her fans draw their own conclusions about her books. She has to keep picking at it and tell her readers how to interpret her stories, like Dumbledore being gay, or discussing in detail who each character ended up marrying that wasn't mentioned in the unnecessary epilogue to the final book.
Posted by: Aunt Luna at July 31, 2017 07:04 PM (Zd2ZF)
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 07:04 PM (hLhtd)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 31, 2017 07:05 PM (PUmDY)
>>>They killed the owl? Oh nooooooooooo....
SPOILER TAGS!
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy
And Wynona Ryder gets totally buck naked, and does the nasty with....ummm.....Brad Pitt, yeah, that's it, Brad Pitt.
Posted by: pep at July 31, 2017 07:05 PM (LAe3v)
I saw The Bear-in-Stein Bears open for Kraftwerk back in '85.
Posted by: Anachronda at July 31, 2017 07:05 PM (v3pYe)
Abdul Potter and the Chamber of Goats.
Prisoner of ISIS
Goblet of IED's. Even I can't go on.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2017 07:06 PM (VB0hh)
Incidentally, there were a lot on Muslim women there with their children.
Is Potter a thing with them?
Posted by: JoeF. at July 31, 2017 07:06 PM (7uYFy)
Bears use Charmin to prevent stains.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 07:06 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: Anachronda at July 31, 2017 07:08 PM (sGtp+)
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 07:09 PM (hLhtd)
So what does Rowling do with her money?
Posted by: Notsothoreau at July 31, 2017 06:48 PM (Lqy/e)
No clue but Dolly's program is about to hit 92 million books mailed out to kids.
Yes, that number is correct.
They mail out a million books a month.
Posted by: alexthechick - happy happy manatees at July 31, 2017 06:54 PM (dEQP3)
Rowling gives to multiple charities, including for research into Alzheimers and Multiple Sclerosis, and another charity that seeks to find homes for institutionalized children (a bigger problem in eastern Europe, where state care is often underfunded, than in the UK). It was estimated in 2016 that that year alone she gave away over 10% of her fortune to various causes.
None of which is to absolve her of blame in this, or say she's better than Parton, but it can be a mistake to make the blanket assumption that our ideological foes are also uncharitable with their fortunes and time.
Posted by: El Skippito Friskito at July 31, 2017 07:09 PM (q/kmn)
RACIST!!!
Posted by: Helena Handbasket at July 31, 2017 07:09 PM (jLUoc)
Posted by: freaked at July 31, 2017 07:10 PM (BO/km)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 31, 2017 07:10 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2017 07:10 PM (0mskG)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 31, 2017 07:11 PM (6iUC+)
Posted by: LASue at July 31, 2017 07:12 PM (hZ+us)
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 31, 2017 07:12 PM (/MtvT)
Posted by: Bruce at July 31, 2017 07:12 PM (8ikIW)
Posted by: Aunt Luna at July 31, 2017 07:12 PM (Zd2ZF)
Posted by: Mr. Pink
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Chanel #2
Posted by: Coco at July 31, 2017 07:12 PM (OdK9v)
I'm here to talk about the Berenstain Bears and Sonic's Corndogs.
Possibly Big Red Soda.
Posted by: naturalfake at July 31, 2017 07:12 PM (NyJwR)
None of which is to absolve her of blame in this, or say she's better than Parton, but it can be a mistake to make the blanket assumption that our ideological foes are also uncharitable with their fortunes and time.
Posted by: El Skippito Friskito at July 31, 2017 07:09 PM (q/kmn)
Though a lot of times they are.
Posted by: buzzion at July 31, 2017 07:13 PM (z/Ubi)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2017 07:13 PM (VB0hh)
Posted by: JackStraw at July 31, 2017 07:13 PM (/tuJf)
Posted by: El Skippito Friskito at July 31, 2017 07:09 PM (q/kmn)
Satan does nice things for people too
Posted by: Country Boy at July 31, 2017 07:13 PM (fWq7U)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 31, 2017 07:13 PM (6iUC+)
Is Potter a thing with them?
Posted by: JoeF.
I've heard. Harry lies and cheats, and Rowling presents this in a positive way. Perhaps Muslim moms use the books to teach their kids taqiyya.
Posted by: Steve and Cold Bear at July 31, 2017 07:13 PM (vRcUp)
Posted by: JuJuBee at July 31, 2017 07:14 PM (2NqXo)
Posted by: Grump928(C) at July 31, 2017 07:15 PM (6iUC+)
Posted by: dr. hannibal lecter at July 31, 2017 07:15 PM (nlbfN)
Posted by: El Skippito Friskito
-----------
Look, Bill's used underwear was easily worth $3.50 each to Goodwill.
And that 6% that the Clinton foundation has been donating to charity is huge.
Posted by: Hillary at July 31, 2017 07:15 PM (OdK9v)
The Right Stuff was better than Apollo 13.
Ron Howard just had to embarrass Gus Grissom is his stupid movie.
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 31, 2017 07:16 PM (/MtvT)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 31, 2017 07:16 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: El Skippito Friskito
-----------
Damn right! You tell 'em.
I mean I donated $350 to charities in 1999.
Posted by: Al Gore at July 31, 2017 07:17 PM (OdK9v)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2017 07:17 PM (VB0hh)
You get the idea. The possibilities are endless.
Posted by: troyriser at July 31, 2017 07:17 PM (4qf5a)
And now I'm in the mood for chicken pot pie. And I don't like chicken pot pie.
There's a place near me that makes chicken pot pies. I forget the name.
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 31, 2017 07:17 PM (/MtvT)
Posted by: El Skippito Friskito at July 31, 2017 07:09 PM (q/kmn)
I agree. Bill Clinton donated his underwear to charity.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 31, 2017 07:17 PM (IDPbH)
When you get big enough that you stop listening to your editor, and the editor says screw it who cares we're printing money, story always gets bogged down in problems. Last 4 books needed SERIOUS rewrites. I doubt anyone involved cares.
Posted by: LizLem at July 31, 2017 07:17 PM (hvf9s)
Rowling demanded that the girl buy the book at full price otherwise Rowling would not allow her to read any others.
(If she can make crap up and spread it around, I guess I can too.)
Posted by: JB1000, EAJ at July 31, 2017 07:17 PM (3acYM)
Posted by: Slapweasel, (Cold1), (T) at July 31, 2017 06:04 PM (Ckg4U)
Well, Frodo took care of that.
Posted by: JuJuBee at July 31, 2017 07:18 PM (2NqXo)
Posted by: freaked at July 31, 2017 07:18 PM (BO/km)
O.M.G.
Posted by: JoeF. at July 31, 2017 07:18 PM (7uYFy)
Posted by: Aunt Luna at July 31, 2017 07:18 PM (Zd2ZF)
Posted by: Javems at July 31, 2017 07:18 PM (yOqwj)
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 31, 2017 07:19 PM (/MtvT)
Incidentally, there were a lot on Muslim women there with their children.
Is Potter a thing with them?
Posted by: JoeF. at July 31, 2017 07:06 PM (7uYFy)
++++
There are a couple of Indians (dot) among the major characters: the Patil twins. Are you sure the mothers you were seeing were Muslim rather than Indian?
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 31, 2017 07:19 PM (FUu/Z)
Posted by: Comanche Voter at July 31, 2017 07:19 PM (Sda6L)
Posted by: Harry Chamberpotter at July 31, 2017 07:20 PM (vRcUp)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 31, 2017 07:20 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: JuJuBee at July 31, 2017 07:14 PM (2NqXo)
Eh. I like both. Tolkien had a much better grasp of themes and ideas and backstory (Dear God, did he have backstory), but Rowling was a much more... personable writer? He was FAR better at pretty much every single aspect of writing fiction- except in how it was presented.
I still say Robert Jordan was a far better writer than Rowling though. That man could write a two page description of anything that would keep you riveted to your seat.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2017 07:20 PM (0mskG)
Posted by: Peasant # 3 at July 31, 2017 07:20 PM (BO/km)
The Right Stuff was better than Apollo 13.
Ron Howard just had to embarrass Gus Grissom is his stupid movie.
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 31, 2017 07:16 PM (/MtvT)
"Fuckin' A, bubba!"
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 07:20 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 31, 2017 07:20 PM (PUmDY)
It's better than the original.
Posted by: JoeF. at July 31, 2017 07:20 PM (7uYFy)
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 31, 2017 07:21 PM (/MtvT)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at Jul
They still make that stuff? That was my go to pop when I was 5.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 31, 2017 07:21 PM (0wem/)
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 31, 2017 07:21 PM (Id9+8)
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 07:21 PM (hLhtd)
They say it will feed 6. I believe it.
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July
If they can fight their way through the crowd for a piece.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 31, 2017 07:21 PM (0wem/)
Blame the National Theatre, not Rowling. They often cast very color blind productions. The play of Frankenstein they did with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller had a black love interest (Naoimie Harris aka the new Bond Moneypenny) and her father was Indian. Sometimes the casting Insisted Upon Itself, especially the dad he was a terrible choice. But she was great.
Posted by: LizLem at July 31, 2017 07:21 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 07:22 PM (hLhtd)
OotP is the one I go back to time and time again.
I can equally think Jo is way too obsessed with Trump and his presidency and still love the books as much as I ever did.
Posted by: Tickled Pink at July 31, 2017 07:22 PM (smD62)
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at July 31, 2017 07:19 PM (FUu/Z)
Plenty of both in my neck of the woods and the Hindus don't wear hijabs and scarves. I know the difference.
Posted by: JoeF. at July 31, 2017 07:22 PM (7uYFy)
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July 31, 2017 07:22 PM (/MtvT)
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 07:21 PM (hLhtd)
Cel-Ray, but only if you're a Jew at least 60 years old.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 07:22 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 31, 2017 07:22 PM (IDPbH)
Hermoine, Houri of the Hajj
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 31, 2017 07:23 PM (+/IpI)
Posted by: lin-duh fell at July 31, 2017 07:23 PM (kufk0)
Dennis Prager
Posted by: Skip at July 31, 2017 06:12 PM (pPKG5)
Don't think that's originally from Prager. Heard Prager say it and he had a column titled "Being on the left means never having to say you're sorry." But I heard it many years ago referring to Liberals. That's not to say the saying didn't originate with Dennis.
Posted by: hepcat at July 31, 2017 07:23 PM (5b+Sr)
all higgledy-piggledy like us poor muggles said.
Posted by: Eromero at July 31, 2017 07:23 PM (zLDYs)
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 07:22 PM (hLhtd)
Tube tops, cork heels, Landlubber jeans.
To paraphrase Marcel Proust, "a la recherche de adolescent boners perdu."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 07:23 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 07:21 PM (hLhtd)
Boylan's Black Cherry Soda> Dr. Brown's Black Cherry Soda
Posted by: JoeF. at July 31, 2017 07:23 PM (7uYFy)
Posted by: stace gets two scoops at July 31, 2017 07:23 PM (LKWuH)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 31, 2017 07:24 PM (PUmDY)
Gonna flag this one. Boylen's tastes like cough syrup.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 07:24 PM (hLhtd)
Posted by: Harry at July 31, 2017 07:25 PM (vRcUp)
301 My brother told me all kinds of crap is coming out about John McCain - anyone else hear about this today?
Posted by: Miley, the Duchess at July 31, 2017 07:21 PM (Id9+
Do tell -- spill it!
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 31, 2017 07:25 PM (+/IpI)
Incidentally, there were a lot on Muslim women there with their children. Is Potter a thing with them? Posted by: JoeF.
Jinns and genies and tales of wizzardry were common in pre islamic arabia
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July 31, 2017 07:25 PM (lKyWE)
Never been there. F that.
Posted by: Soothsayer --Digitally Remastered at July
I have no idea. My only knowledge on the subject is that if there is a good chicken pot pie in the room it is big enough for me.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 31, 2017 07:25 PM (0wem/)
Yep, which concerns me. I suspect her Trump Derangement Syndrome is going to bleed into the movies and ruin them. And it's Rowling so if she wants to write batty blatant Trumpitler metaphors, who will say boo to her? Which is a shame because I really liked Fantastic Beasts.
Posted by: LizLem at July 31, 2017 07:25 PM (hvf9s)
Although battery acid strained through a catcher's mitt and jock strap probably tastes better than Diet Mt Dew.
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2017 07:26 PM (0mskG)
Jinns and genies and tales of wizzardry were common in pre islamic arabia
Posted by: Deplorable Male Logic at July
Well that, then there is the fact that they take their fashion cues from Dementors.
Posted by: yankeefifth at July 31, 2017 07:26 PM (0wem/)
Gonna flag this one. Boylen's tastes like cough syrup.
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 07:24 PM (hLhtd)
What?? The Black Cherry, not the Birch Beer....
Posted by: JoeF. at July 31, 2017 07:26 PM (7uYFy)
Posted by: stace gets two scoops.
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Better than being 'accidentally' run down by a bus.
Posted by: Buddy at July 31, 2017 07:26 PM (sQ1li)
Posted by: lin-duh fell at July 31, 2017 07:23 PM (kufk0)
I think her biggest moneymaker was the song from the Bodyguard . IIRC.
Posted by: Jack Sock at July 31, 2017 07:26 PM (IDPbH)
Posted by: Cosmic Charlie at July 31, 2017 07:27 PM (PUmDY)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at July 31, 2017 07:27 PM (mbhDw)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2017 07:26 PM (0mskG)
This is true. And i drink the regular Dew
Posted by: JoeF. at July 31, 2017 07:27 PM (7uYFy)
Posted by: Aetius451AD Work Laptop at July 31, 2017 07:27 PM (0mskG)
Posted by: garrett at July 31, 2017 07:27 PM (hLhtd)
Posted by: Ben Had at July 31, 2017 07:27 PM (VB0hh)
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at July 31, 2017 07:28 PM (OdK9v)
That's too bad. He was a really fine character actor not to mention award winning playwright .
Posted by: Tuna at July 31, 2017 07:29 PM (jm1YL)
Posted by: Eromero at July 31, 2017 07:30 PM (zLDYs)
How stunning, and how horrible, that JK Rowling ran over a toddler's pet kitten and dragged its carcass for 30 meters, then drove around the block and ean over it again.
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at July 31, 2017 07:30 PM (+/IpI)
Posted by: JK Trowling at July 31, 2017 07:31 PM (eLttb)
Posted by: a Jew at least 60 years old at July 31, 2017 07:32 PM (nlbfN)
Posted by: andycanuck #CNNisISIS at July 31, 2017 07:33 PM (nlbfN)
I've heard other adults go on religiously about Star Trek or Star Wars or Harry Potter or whatever the infantile fuck and never argue or otherwise indicate I think they are childish or superficial, either. But I do.
But, you say, taste is subjective. Maybe. And maybe some people need to grow the hell up.
Posted by: troyriser at July 31, 2017 07:48 PM (4qf5a)
I love superhero fantasy films, and LOTR is an achievement. But greatest film of all time...probably not. Plus I think Hobbit diminishes its luster.
I will have to add Wild Strawberries to the list! Sounds interesting.
Posted by: LizLem at July 31, 2017 08:07 PM (hvf9s)
Posted by: LizLem at July 31, 2017 08:07 PM (hvf9s)
Bergman can be boring and indecipherable, no doubt about it, but 'Wild Strawberries' is neither of those things. I once binged on what are considered some of the greatest movies by the greatest directors, essentially to see why these directors and films are invoked so much. Some stand up to the hype--Fellini's 'La Strada', for example, or his 'La Dulce Vita'. Others don't. Point is, those are films for those with adult sensibilities.
Comes to that, I like fantasy and escapism too, but don't fool myself into believing I'm experiencing great art.
Posted by: troyriser at July 31, 2017 08:36 PM (4qf5a)
Mostly because you have a nine-pound paperback in your lap.
Posted by: Richard McEnroe at July 31, 2017 08:49 PM (ZKlDy)
I believe her.
Posted by: gobagoo at July 31, 2017 08:51 PM (A/saJ)
Rowling could not overcome her hatred of Trump to do this. Her apology is not sincere and not accepted. And she had shown us all what a shallow and pathetic creature she is.
Posted by: Fen at July 31, 2017 09:10 PM (wha8g)
Posted by: sl0re at August 01, 2017 03:01 AM (Qc37P)
Posted by: frankdn at August 01, 2017 05:48 AM (qftTb)
Posted by: melanerpes at August 01, 2017 09:38 AM (hFrbt)
But the kicker with this woman is how she lied to herself when justifying her behavior. "I very clearly projected my own sensitivities around the issue of disabled people being overlooked or ignored onto the images I saw.."
What you meant to say, idiot, is, "I very clearly projected my own hatred for Donald Trump onto the images I saw.."
Posted by: Red at August 01, 2017 10:09 AM (8hsIY)
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