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Why I Hate The Media: A Continuing Series
Think about the image that drives left-wingers crazy with anger.
Maybe you don't know what the image is. I do. What drives left-wingers angry is the thought of a well-to-do suburban family. They've got some money. They have three cars. They have an intact marriage and children doing well in good schools. And they're kinda smug. They pose in a picture and smile in a way that makes leftists angry. They're not aware of all the suffering beyond the perimeters of their perfect lawns. Also, they think they have wisdom to share with the world. But, in the words of Barack Obama: You didn't build that. Even though this family is obviously doing something right, they have nothing to share with the world, because they haven't .struggled. They're not marginalized. They have it easy and soft and yet would lecture a poor person about how to become wealthier. Okay, so that's the image that makes all left-wingers left-wingers. Now here's the thing: What the fuck are Katie "Old Dracula" Couric and Brian Williams? These are the richest people any ordinary citizen will "know." Oh, there are wealthier people, don't get me wrong -- but they're people like Warren Buffet or Peter Thiel. These smug left-wing c*nts are rich and actually known to people. Why? Because they're on fucking TV. So we have these rich smug people, smiling smugly who have the World All Figured Out, ready to drop their Truth Bombs and Life Wisdom on at the slightest non-prompting. Katie Couric has so much wisdom to share with you about Responsible Gun Laws. Brian Williams has so much deep thinking to share with you about the shame we should feel at using the nuclear bomb on Japan. And what, precisely, gives these people moral authority to lecture the rest of us? Nothing. Katie Couric has written nothing of consequence. She is vapid morning chat show host who probably had a memoir ghost-written for her and "wrote" some stupid book about Famous Women in History or something -- a pure commercial play probably pitched to her by a book company. Like Tom Brokaw's The Greatest Generation was -- hey, Tom, we got an idea. How about we use your brand to sell a book that people will buy their dads on Father's Day? Brian Williams is in a different category, of course. He's written many books -- The Great Gatsby. Gone with the Wind. Judgement at Nuremburg. A little book called The Bible, a fictionalized memoir of his life. But still -- what right has he to lecture? So these people with their smug entirely unearned authority, their utter lack of any accomplishment apart from reading from scripts others have written for them and having skin that successfully sticks to pancake make-up, are here to lecture us. Rich people who think they can and should lecture their inferiors. Rich people that just happen to be the rich people you know the best because they have Television Programs (which a Peter Thiel does not -- but I bet makeup would stick to his face, too, and I bet he too could read a script written for him by someone else). And so we have this endless parade of smug, unaccomplished people who have literally achieved nothing -- this isn't a fake "You didn't build that," this is a real You didn't build that -- lecturing us, because they have some money, have nice houses, and can wear make-up reasonably well. If we're going to listen to the rich practitioners of any job, shouldn't we be listening to physics professors? Or philosophers? Political theorists? Actual thinkers? How about actual doers? Maybe a soldier who's actually struggled with more thank keeping down forehead glare under studio lights? Or doctors? Or, even, actual writers? Not mere newsreaders, but people who write and think long-form? No, of course not. Such people can be called in occasionally to lend their expertise on specific subject matters, but well-rounded intellects like Katie Couric, Brian Williams, and Tom Brokaw are here to Share Their Truth about the world on all nontechnical subjects -- you know, moral subjects. Like priests in the cult of the unblinking billion eyes of the television god. Who the fuck do these ghastly grinning pancake-makeup smeared brain-damaged communications majors think they fucking are? A society that worships carnival-barkers appearing on idiot boxes is a society that is already brain-dead and which should be euthanized out of simple mercy. Fuck them all to hell.Comments
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st again?
Posted by: johnd01 at May 27, 2016 03:07 PM (ukNFU)
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As you can tell it's a slow day here at work. I'll retrieve The Others.
Posted by: johnd01 at May 27, 2016 03:07 PM (ukNFU)
Posted by: Brian Williams at May 27, 2016 03:10 PM (qJhUV)
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So you're saying you're not a fan of the media.
Posted by: Shane McGowan's Liver at May 27, 2016 03:10 PM (hQfa+)
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Righteous rant, Ace!!
Also, Gayle King saying that the Hillary email thingy is no big deal:
"Put it in perspective. How big a deal is this, really? I was at
an event last night and both Democrats and Republicans were quoting
Bernie Sanders saying, 'I'm sick and tired of hearing about your damn
e-mails.'"
Oh, OK. You and your Manhattan things are tired of the story, so let's just move on.org.
Also, Gayle King saying that the Hillary email thingy is no big deal:
"Put it in perspective. How big a deal is this, really? I was at
an event last night and both Democrats and Republicans were quoting
Bernie Sanders saying, 'I'm sick and tired of hearing about your damn
e-mails.'"
Oh, OK. You and your Manhattan things are tired of the story, so let's just move on.org.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2016 03:11 PM (NOIQH)
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Still one of my favorite movies is Broadcast News. I actually liked Albert Brooks in it when normally I wish he would slide under a truck and die.
Its a brutal, savage evisceration of the news business.
Its a brutal, savage evisceration of the news business.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 03:11 PM (39g3+)
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Wait until you read the review about Brian Williams in the Volcano Scene.
Posted by: johnd01 at May 27, 2016 03:11 PM (ukNFU)
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If we're going to listen to the rich practitioners of any job, shouldn't we be listening to physics professors? Or doctors? Or, even, actual writers? Not mere newsreaders?
I listened to my parents. Fvck everyone else.
I listened to my parents. Fvck everyone else.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2016 03:11 PM (EdhH3)
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 03:12 PM (g8Hfr)
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It is not so much that the media talent are merely a vapid pretty face, it's that so much of what they say is not true, half true, misleading, or incomplete.
Posted by: Horhay Haysouz at May 27, 2016 03:12 PM (0LmgR)
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And so we have this endless parade of smug, unaccomplished people who have literally achieved nothing
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This is one of the lines of attack that an actual opposition party might use for the coming election.
Most of the leadership of the Democrats/Left is wealthy, and specifically got wealthy through leveraging connections, if not explicit graft and corruption. In this Hillary is the platonic ideal of them....
The modern state and its administrator has gotten rich off of the backs of the taxpayers. There should be angry crowds outside of their houses and opposed to the Obama-rent-a-mobs outside of random bankers' houses...
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This is one of the lines of attack that an actual opposition party might use for the coming election.
Most of the leadership of the Democrats/Left is wealthy, and specifically got wealthy through leveraging connections, if not explicit graft and corruption. In this Hillary is the platonic ideal of them....
The modern state and its administrator has gotten rich off of the backs of the taxpayers. There should be angry crowds outside of their houses and opposed to the Obama-rent-a-mobs outside of random bankers' houses...
Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2016 03:12 PM (X7E8f)
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One of my favorite bits, about William Hurt as the handsome, vapid anchor
Aaron Altman: I know you care about him. I've never seen you like this about anyone, so please don't get me wrong when I tell you that Tom, while being a very nice guy, is the Devil.
Jane Craig: This isn't friendship. You're crazy, you know that?
Aaron Altman: What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around?
Jane Craig: God!
Aaron Altman: Come on! Nobody is going to be taken in by a guy with a long, red, pointy tail! What's he gonna sound like?
[hisses]
No. I'm semi-serious here.
Jane Craig: You're seriously...
Aaron Altman: He will be attractive! He'll be nice and helpful. He'll get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation. He'll never do an evil thing! He'll never deliberately hurt a living thing... he will just bit by little bit lower our standards where they are important. Just a tiny little bit. Just coax along flash over substance. Just a tiny little bit. And he'll talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he'll get all the great women.
Aaron Altman: I know you care about him. I've never seen you like this about anyone, so please don't get me wrong when I tell you that Tom, while being a very nice guy, is the Devil.
Jane Craig: This isn't friendship. You're crazy, you know that?
Aaron Altman: What do you think the Devil is going to look like if he's around?
Jane Craig: God!
Aaron Altman: Come on! Nobody is going to be taken in by a guy with a long, red, pointy tail! What's he gonna sound like?
[hisses]
No. I'm semi-serious here.
Jane Craig: You're seriously...
Aaron Altman: He will be attractive! He'll be nice and helpful. He'll get a job where he influences a great God-fearing nation. He'll never do an evil thing! He'll never deliberately hurt a living thing... he will just bit by little bit lower our standards where they are important. Just a tiny little bit. Just coax along flash over substance. Just a tiny little bit. And he'll talk about all of us really being salesmen. And he'll get all the great women.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 03:13 PM (39g3+)
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The Deciders.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 27, 2016 03:13 PM (Nwg0u)
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US only nation to use nuclear weapon in anger.
Don't throw a sucker punch from the cheap seats and we wouldn't have had to.
Don't throw a sucker punch from the cheap seats and we wouldn't have had to.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2016 03:13 PM (EdhH3)
Posted by: Obnoxious A-Hole at May 27, 2016 03:13 PM (QHgTq)
Posted by: Brian Williams at May 27, 2016 03:13 PM (ODxAs)
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I still have nightmares from my experiences as a Space Shuttle tailgunner.
Posted by: Brian Williams at May 27, 2016 03:13 PM (OwdyX)
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Brian Williams is looked at as a better source on military policy than a soldier...and while I understand the Temptation I mean after all he was at the Battle of Hastings in 1066 the fact of the matter is the dumbest E-7 or O5 or above understands Mil policy better than he does.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 03:14 PM (g8Hfr)
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They have an intact marriage and children doing well in good schools.
and I'll bet you a million to one that this family either does charity work, gives back to their community somehow, or gives directly to the charities of their choice
and I'll bet you a million to one that this family either does charity work, gives back to their community somehow, or gives directly to the charities of their choice
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 27, 2016 03:14 PM (qCMvj)
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This goes back to the idea that at one point, it seemed like news was about relating facts (although this is open to debate, news has always been subject to the bias of the presenter.)
Now it has completely gone the way of "Changing the World." They have gone from being content relaters, to being content creators (or trying to be, in both of the named cases, if the content did not exist, it would have to be created.)
Now it has completely gone the way of "Changing the World." They have gone from being content relaters, to being content creators (or trying to be, in both of the named cases, if the content did not exist, it would have to be created.)
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 27, 2016 03:14 PM (3ZoRf)
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"But still -- what right has he to lecture?"
Exactly. I hated The Great Gatsby when I was in high school. Smug prick.
Exactly. I hated The Great Gatsby when I was in high school. Smug prick.
Posted by: Steven S. at May 27, 2016 03:14 PM (JpEvT)
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Wanna see my yacht?
Posted by: Walter Crankedwright at May 27, 2016 03:14 PM (C9pBZ)
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Ace, tell us what you really think of those TV talking puppet heads.
Posted by: Percy Gryce at May 27, 2016 03:14 PM (mAm+G)
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Brian Williams is in a different category, of course. He's written many books -- The Great Gatsby. Gone with the Wind. Judgement at Nuremburg. A little book called The Bible, a fictionalized memoir of his life.
lol
lol
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 27, 2016 03:15 PM (qCMvj)
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Awesome Ace, absolutely awesome. Thank you.
If I may, while you are excoriating the wastes of skin that Katie and Brian are, how about we throw in Dicaprio and most of Whoreywood?
I grow weary of being told I'm evil because of fossil fuels yet these POS go out on gigantic yachts and fly in private jets?
In your words: Fuck them all to hell.
If I may, while you are excoriating the wastes of skin that Katie and Brian are, how about we throw in Dicaprio and most of Whoreywood?
I grow weary of being told I'm evil because of fossil fuels yet these POS go out on gigantic yachts and fly in private jets?
In your words: Fuck them all to hell.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at May 27, 2016 03:15 PM (jxbfJ)
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I was a reporter for many years. But it was for a newspaper serving a small, conservative, Bible-beltish community--so I got to be a conservative. And nobody, NOBODY, has ever accused me of being a pretty face. I'm just sayin'.
So, anyhow great rant. These people have done nothing, contributed nothing, accomplished nothing accept prettiness.
So, anyhow great rant. These people have done nothing, contributed nothing, accomplished nothing accept prettiness.
Posted by: Northernlurker at May 27, 2016 03:15 PM (hJrjt)
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US only nation to use nuclear weapon in anger.
***
The correct follow up questions:
1) Why was the US at war with Japan?
2) Describe the conduct of the war by the Japanese - specifically how did they treat civilians and prisoners of war?
3) How many additional American soldiers should die in any particular conflict so that you can feel good about yourself?
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The correct follow up questions:
1) Why was the US at war with Japan?
2) Describe the conduct of the war by the Japanese - specifically how did they treat civilians and prisoners of war?
3) How many additional American soldiers should die in any particular conflict so that you can feel good about yourself?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2016 03:15 PM (X7E8f)
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21 Posted by: Steven S. at May 27, 2016 03:14 PM (JpEvT)
I much prefrred his other great work The Great Santini
I much prefrred his other great work The Great Santini
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 03:15 PM (g8Hfr)
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Brian Wiiams is also poet/songwriter. His most famous is about a little lamb he had who followed him to school day.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 27, 2016 03:15 PM (Nwg0u)
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John Dickerson responded to Gayle King with...nonsense:
"Is this going to improve anybody's wages? Is this going to improve
anybody's wages, help someone get into college and not be in debt for
the rest of their life? No, but it's about judgment and character. And
we look at presidents that way."
Um, what do wages and college have to do with a major 4 year security breach of one of the top US officials in government? Character is the best you've got?!?
Better questions: Did and foreign entities hack into her server? Did this result in any deaths of US agents abroad? Did this destroy methods of intelligence gathering, setting us back years?
"Is this going to improve anybody's wages? Is this going to improve
anybody's wages, help someone get into college and not be in debt for
the rest of their life? No, but it's about judgment and character. And
we look at presidents that way."
Um, what do wages and college have to do with a major 4 year security breach of one of the top US officials in government? Character is the best you've got?!?
Better questions: Did and foreign entities hack into her server? Did this result in any deaths of US agents abroad? Did this destroy methods of intelligence gathering, setting us back years?
Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2016 03:15 PM (NOIQH)
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Col. Tibbets was not angry.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 27, 2016 03:15 PM (k4M/B)
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Rich people who think they can and should lecture their inferiors.
and write enabling, co-dependent books for each other to circle jerk to
and write enabling, co-dependent books for each other to circle jerk to
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 27, 2016 03:16 PM (qCMvj)
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I ghost wrote this post for Ace.
Posted by: Brian Williams at May 27, 2016 03:13 PM (ODxAs)
I ghost wrote this post for Ace.
I ghost wrote this post for Ace.
Posted by: Brian Williams at May 27, 2016 03:13 PM (ODxAs)
I ghost wrote this post for Ace.
Posted by: Amy Schumer at May 27, 2016 03:16 PM (3ZoRf)
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Wanna see my yacht?
Posted by: Walter Crankedwright at May 27, 2016 03:14 PM (C9pBZ)
Sure, but mine is bigger
Wanna see my yacht?
Posted by: Walter Crankedwright at May 27, 2016 03:14 PM (C9pBZ)
Sure, but mine is bigger
Posted by: Leo Dicaprio AGW hypocrite at May 27, 2016 03:16 PM (jxbfJ)
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It's funny how they never talk about firebombing Tokyo, which IIRC killed more people than da dreaded nukes.
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at May 27, 2016 03:16 PM (OwdyX)
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The MFM have always been the enemy. There has been no contextual truth in the news since the 30's.
Posted by: Soona at May 27, 2016 03:16 PM (Fmupd)
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I ghost wrote this post for Ace.
Posted by: Amy Schumer at May 27, 2016 03:16 PM (3ZoRf)
Need more "D" cell batteries Amy?
I ghost wrote this post for Ace.
Posted by: Amy Schumer at May 27, 2016 03:16 PM (3ZoRf)
Need more "D" cell batteries Amy?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at May 27, 2016 03:16 PM (jxbfJ)
Posted by: Marco Rubio at May 27, 2016 03:17 PM (39g3+)
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I ghost wrote this post for Ace.
Posted by: Amy Schumer at May 27, 2016 03:16 PM (3ZoRf)
Need more "D" cell batteries Amy?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at May 27, 2016 03:16 PM (jxbfJ)
Moved up to the 6v lanten size yet?
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I ghost wrote this post for Ace.
Posted by: Amy Schumer at May 27, 2016 03:16 PM (3ZoRf)
Need more "D" cell batteries Amy?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at May 27, 2016 03:16 PM (jxbfJ)
Moved up to the 6v lanten size yet?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at May 27, 2016 03:17 PM (jxbfJ)
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What was Brian Williams's best work? I pick King Lear.
Posted by: Northernlurker at May 27, 2016 03:17 PM (hJrjt)
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35 Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at May 27, 2016 03:16 PM (OwdyX)
as did Dresden...
they don't give a fuck about the dead they give a fuck about their feelz.
The bomb was coming the UK, USSR,Germany, Japan, and we all had programs...
they live in a fantasy world.
as did Dresden...
they don't give a fuck about the dead they give a fuck about their feelz.
The bomb was coming the UK, USSR,Germany, Japan, and we all had programs...
they live in a fantasy world.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 03:17 PM (g8Hfr)
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"If we're going to listen to the rich practitioners of any job, shouldn't we be listening to physics professors?"
Uh. Neil de Grasse Tyson?
Uh. Neil de Grasse Tyson?
Posted by: National Tontine (West Town) at May 27, 2016 03:17 PM (Y3C5w)
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So we have these rich smug people, smiling smugly who have the World All Figured Out, ready to drop their Truth Bombs and Life Wisdom on at the slightest non-prompting.
Katie Couric has so much wisdom to share with you about Responsible Gun Laws.
Brian Williams has so much deep thinking to share with you about the shame we should feel at using the nuclear bomb on Japan.
And what, precisely, gives these people moral authority to lecture the rest of us?
We've got this.
Katie Couric has so much wisdom to share with you about Responsible Gun Laws.
Brian Williams has so much deep thinking to share with you about the shame we should feel at using the nuclear bomb on Japan.
And what, precisely, gives these people moral authority to lecture the rest of us?
We've got this.
Posted by: Dunning and Kruger at May 27, 2016 03:17 PM (oKE6c)
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I ghost wrote Dreams of my Father before Bill Ayers did.
Posted by: Brian Williams at May 27, 2016 03:18 PM (OwdyX)
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I'll bet you a million to one that this family either does charity work, gives back to their community somehow, or gives directly to the charities of their choice
The term "gives back" implies that what they have was given to them rather than earned.
I'll bet you a million to one that this family either does charity work, gives back to their community somehow, or gives directly to the charities of their choice
The term "gives back" implies that what they have was given to them rather than earned.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 27, 2016 03:18 PM (k4M/B)
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A journalist would never deceive the masses
Posted by: Walter Duranty at May 27, 2016 03:18 PM (12kBq)
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I'm as mad as hell and I'm not going to take this anymore!
Posted by: Howard Beale at May 27, 2016 03:18 PM (RKQ/v)
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Kim Kardashian has actually accomplished more than Katie Couric. We should also take our gun control advice from her
Posted by: wooga at May 27, 2016 03:18 PM (4Tl3i)
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Hey Leo - ever have half a nation watching you at one time?
Heh.
Heh.
Posted by: Walter Crankedwright at May 27, 2016 03:18 PM (C9pBZ)
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If you want to be technical in the terms that are used, we dropped an atomic bomb not a nuclear bomb. They were developed after the atomic bomb.
Posted by: Joe Hallenbeck at May 27, 2016 03:18 PM (2DYky)
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"What the fuck are Katie "Old Dracula" Couric and Brian Williams?"
Katie Couric had her colonoscopy shown on TV. Brian Williams's daughter is shown getting her ass munched on TV. Coincidence?
Katie Couric had her colonoscopy shown on TV. Brian Williams's daughter is shown getting her ass munched on TV. Coincidence?
Posted by: Benji Carver at May 27, 2016 03:18 PM (OD2ni)
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>>>Why I Hate The Media: A Continuing Series
Every time you think you've said all that needs to be said, they prove once again that there is more to be said.
Every time you think you've said all that needs to be said, they prove once again that there is more to be said.
Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at May 27, 2016 03:18 PM (R+30W)
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Charities!? Only filthy capitalist swine can afford to give to charities! The government could better redistribute wealth with if charities were replaced by more tax collection!
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They have an intact marriage and children doing well in good schools.
and I'll bet you a million to one that this family either does
charity work, gives back to their community somehow, or gives directly
to the charities of their choice
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 27, 2016 03:14 PM (qCMvj)
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They have an intact marriage and children doing well in good schools.
and I'll bet you a million to one that this family either does
charity work, gives back to their community somehow, or gives directly
to the charities of their choice
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 27, 2016 03:14 PM (qCMvj)
Posted by: Comrade Bernie at May 27, 2016 03:19 PM (fVOPU)
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There was a time when journalists/reporters were just working stiffs. When did that change?
Posted by: Northernlurker at May 27, 2016 03:19 PM (hJrjt)
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Wanna see my yacht?
Posted by: Walter Crankedwright at May 27, 2016 03:14 PM (C9pBZ)
Sure, but mine is bigger
Posted by: Leo Dicaprio AGW hypocrite at May 27, 2016 03:16 PM (jxbfJ)
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Wanna see me dance? I can get down, hot, and dirty.
Wanna see my yacht?
Posted by: Walter Crankedwright at May 27, 2016 03:14 PM (C9pBZ)
Sure, but mine is bigger
Posted by: Leo Dicaprio AGW hypocrite at May 27, 2016 03:16 PM (jxbfJ)
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Wanna see me dance? I can get down, hot, and dirty.
Posted by: Barbara Walters at May 27, 2016 03:19 PM (Fmupd)
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"If we're going to listen to the rich practitioners of any job, shouldn't we be listening to physics professors?"
Uh. Neil de Grasse Tyson?
Posted by: National Tontine (West Town) at May 27, 2016 03:17 PM (Y3C5w)
Not a physics professor. A failed graduate student of physics, shunted aside.
Uh. Neil de Grasse Tyson?
Posted by: National Tontine (West Town) at May 27, 2016 03:17 PM (Y3C5w)
Not a physics professor. A failed graduate student of physics, shunted aside.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2016 03:19 PM (oKE6c)
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These smug left-wing c*nts are rich and actually known to people. Why?
Because they're on fucking TV
Hey Now! Let's be honest here.
Katie Couric isn't on TV anymore. She's on Yahoo. A website with such crappy news they need their videos to autoplay or else you won't ever watch them.
Because they're on fucking TV
Hey Now! Let's be honest here.
Katie Couric isn't on TV anymore. She's on Yahoo. A website with such crappy news they need their videos to autoplay or else you won't ever watch them.
Posted by: buzzion at May 27, 2016 03:19 PM (z/Ubi)
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I ghost wrote this for Ace, vato!!
Posted by: Carlos Mencia at May 27, 2016 03:19 PM (39g3+)
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Rich people that just happen to be the rich people you know the best because they have Television Programs (which a Peter Thiel does not -- but I bet makeup would stick to his face, too, and I bet he too could read a script written for him by someone else).
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, as Google pushes brands via their Search engine, but also Microsoft and Apple, etc.
No one would even know about any of these "brands" if they weren't on TV, over and over in our face.
You'd go to the grocery store and buy green beans. Or tomatoes. Or Cheerios. You might have to read the label instead of being told what to buy.
Same for the news. As much as Fox bothers me at times, it is the only counter weight to the Couric's and William's and Clinton's.
I've been thinking about this a lot lately, as Google pushes brands via their Search engine, but also Microsoft and Apple, etc.
No one would even know about any of these "brands" if they weren't on TV, over and over in our face.
You'd go to the grocery store and buy green beans. Or tomatoes. Or Cheerios. You might have to read the label instead of being told what to buy.
Same for the news. As much as Fox bothers me at times, it is the only counter weight to the Couric's and William's and Clinton's.
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 27, 2016 03:19 PM (qCMvj)
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Fuck them all to hell.
Posted by: Ace at 03:05 PM
British understatement: "You seem rather upset, old boy."
Seriously, rip that fucking cable out and don't look back lest you be turned to salt.
Hit them where they live. In the wallet.
Posted by: Ace at 03:05 PM
British understatement: "You seem rather upset, old boy."
Seriously, rip that fucking cable out and don't look back lest you be turned to salt.
Hit them where they live. In the wallet.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 27, 2016 03:19 PM (p4UlV)
Posted by: Anderson Cooper at May 27, 2016 03:20 PM (12kBq)
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I'm making a video documentary about colon cleansing and I'm looking for a subject matter expert. Anyone?
Posted by: Fritz at May 27, 2016 03:20 PM (UzPAd)
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What was Brian Williams's best work? I pick King Lear.
Posted by: Northernlurker at May 27, 2016 03:17 PM (hJrjt)
Mein Kampf
What was Brian Williams's best work? I pick King Lear.
Posted by: Northernlurker at May 27, 2016 03:17 PM (hJrjt)
Mein Kampf
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at May 27, 2016 03:20 PM (jxbfJ)
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I was at a NY Rangers game with my daughter and we happened to run into Tom Hanks who was with Brian Williams, as the crowd was exiting, so my daughter buttonholed Hanks, who was gracious, and they chatted a bit about how much my daughter loved Hanks in X, and in Y and in Z, as she ignored Brian Williams the whole time, who I could tell was miffed.
After, I asked her if she know who Brian Williams was. She only got it when I told her that his daughter was in Lena Dunham's Girls. "Oh, how ordianary," as Lili Von Shtupp would say.
After, I asked her if she know who Brian Williams was. She only got it when I told her that his daughter was in Lena Dunham's Girls. "Oh, how ordianary," as Lili Von Shtupp would say.
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 27, 2016 03:20 PM (r1fLd)
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Sorry, I forgot this was a smart military blog. From now on I'll type out atomic bomb instead of being lazy and just typing nukes.
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at May 27, 2016 03:20 PM (OwdyX)
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Meh, kleptoparasites think that they are better because they do no actual labor.
Posted by: Zhytamyr at May 27, 2016 03:20 PM (91nzM)
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The newsreaders are on the level of actors.Unfortunately actors also think they need to hit us with their truth bombs and words of wisdom.
Posted by: steevy at May 27, 2016 03:20 PM (B48dK)
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There was a time when journalists/reporters were just working stiffs. When did that change?
Most of them still are. Its just the fancy talking heads on TV, the anchors that we see. The people doing the actual work to write the stuff they read are working stiffs.
Most of them still are. Its just the fancy talking heads on TV, the anchors that we see. The people doing the actual work to write the stuff they read are working stiffs.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 03:20 PM (39g3+)
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Uh. Neil de Grasse Tyson?
Posted by: National Tontine (West Town) at May 27, 2016 03:17 PM (Y3C5w)
That is always the problem. The thing is we have as a society an ability to look at successful people in their fields and then want to listen to them outside of their field.
That suburban couple Ace mentioned? I would listen to them on what it takes to raise kids and maintain a marriage. However, I would no more listen to them on astrophysics than I would Neil Degrasse Tyson on how to cook a turkey.
Posted by: National Tontine (West Town) at May 27, 2016 03:17 PM (Y3C5w)
That is always the problem. The thing is we have as a society an ability to look at successful people in their fields and then want to listen to them outside of their field.
That suburban couple Ace mentioned? I would listen to them on what it takes to raise kids and maintain a marriage. However, I would no more listen to them on astrophysics than I would Neil Degrasse Tyson on how to cook a turkey.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 27, 2016 03:20 PM (3ZoRf)
70
55,
I thought Katie did that a few years back...
I thought Katie did that a few years back...
Posted by: Walter Crankedwright at May 27, 2016 03:20 PM (C9pBZ)
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A somewhat apt topic to me right now. I am working freelance for a major media outlet, creating proposals for "custom content."
Or as I call it "press-titution."
A somewhat apt topic to me right now. I am working freelance for a major media outlet, creating proposals for "custom content."
Or as I call it "press-titution."
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 27, 2016 03:21 PM (p4UlV)
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"Also, Gayle King saying that the Hillary email thingy is no big deal:
"Put it in perspective. How big a deal is this, really? I was at
an event last night and both Democrats and Republicans were quoting
Bernie Sanders saying, 'I'm sick and tired of hearing about your damn
e-mails.'"
This idiot learned nothing from Pauline Kael.
"Put it in perspective. How big a deal is this, really? I was at
an event last night and both Democrats and Republicans were quoting
Bernie Sanders saying, 'I'm sick and tired of hearing about your damn
e-mails.'"
This idiot learned nothing from Pauline Kael.
Posted by: Benji Carver at May 27, 2016 03:21 PM (OD2ni)
73
journalists/reporters were just working stiffs. When did that change?
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I think that is a myth the older I get.
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I think that is a myth the older I get.
Posted by: IP at May 27, 2016 03:21 PM (aQQbl)
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Who the fuck do these ghastly grinning pancake-makeup smeared brain-damaged communications majors think they fucking are?
They are Big Heads*.
*in more than one way.**
**see Phil Donahue
They are Big Heads*.
*in more than one way.**
**see Phil Donahue
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 27, 2016 03:21 PM (qCMvj)
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But, Ace!
There are 'deep thinkers' who can see no difference between the hypothetical reign of Abuela Borracha and Golden Hair-Weasel....
We must address their concerns if we're ever to survive.
And some seem to think there will be a great resurgence of respect for a constitutional republic once Hillary legalizes a few score million illegals and their families.
We need to listen to these people....so they keep telling us.
There are 'deep thinkers' who can see no difference between the hypothetical reign of Abuela Borracha and Golden Hair-Weasel....
We must address their concerns if we're ever to survive.
And some seem to think there will be a great resurgence of respect for a constitutional republic once Hillary legalizes a few score million illegals and their families.
We need to listen to these people....so they keep telling us.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 03:21 PM (lutOX)
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27 US only nation to use nuclear weapon in anger.
***
The correct follow up questions:
1) Why was the US at war with Japan?
2) Describe the conduct of the war by the Japanese - specifically how did they treat civilians and prisoners of war?
3) How many additional American soldiers should die in any particular conflict so that you can feel good about yourself?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2016 03:15 PM (X7E8f)
Required viewing: "Nanking." Available on Netflix. I just watched it last night.
***
The correct follow up questions:
1) Why was the US at war with Japan?
2) Describe the conduct of the war by the Japanese - specifically how did they treat civilians and prisoners of war?
3) How many additional American soldiers should die in any particular conflict so that you can feel good about yourself?
Posted by: 18-1 at May 27, 2016 03:15 PM (X7E8f)
Required viewing: "Nanking." Available on Netflix. I just watched it last night.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2016 03:21 PM (oKE6c)
77
Back in my reporting days I always knew the interesting people, the important ones were the people I was writing about. They were the ones who had done something--who had a story to tell, not me.
But then I've always had enough humility for three people.
But then I've always had enough humility for three people.
Posted by: Northernlurker at May 27, 2016 03:21 PM (hJrjt)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 27, 2016 03:21 PM (qCMvj)
Posted by: The Bear at May 27, 2016 03:21 PM (OwdyX)
Posted by: Skunky Choom at May 27, 2016 03:22 PM (CbGSW)
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63 40
What was Brian Williams's best work? I pick King Lear.
Posted by: Northernlurker at May 27, 2016 03:17 PM (hJrjt)
Mein Kampf
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at May 27, 2016 03:20 PM (jxbfJ)
Fortune cookie writer for Wo-Hop.
What was Brian Williams's best work? I pick King Lear.
Posted by: Northernlurker at May 27, 2016 03:17 PM (hJrjt)
Mein Kampf
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at May 27, 2016 03:20 PM (jxbfJ)
Fortune cookie writer for Wo-Hop.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 27, 2016 03:22 PM (p4UlV)
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Damn you Ace. I have now read the transcript of Mitchell, Beschloss and Williams, and I am much dumber for doing so.
What strikes me is how Williams is amazed that nuclear weapons have not been used since, never understanding that maybe they have not been used because we have seen the horrors from them. Maybe the use of those weapons against an aggressor state that refused to surrendered saved the world and Europe from much devastation had those weapons been first used during a war with Russia. I doubt that has ever crossed his mind.
What strikes me is how Williams is amazed that nuclear weapons have not been used since, never understanding that maybe they have not been used because we have seen the horrors from them. Maybe the use of those weapons against an aggressor state that refused to surrendered saved the world and Europe from much devastation had those weapons been first used during a war with Russia. I doubt that has ever crossed his mind.
Posted by: SH at May 27, 2016 03:22 PM (gmeXX)
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Never forget:
The left hates you and all your aspirations, which they view as proof of your perfidy, peasant....
The left hates you and all your aspirations, which they view as proof of your perfidy, peasant....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 03:22 PM (lutOX)
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That is always the problem. The thing is we have as a society an ability to look at successful people in their fields and then want to listen to them outside of their field.
I'd listen to Neil DeGrasse Tyson on how to run a planetarium show.
I'd listen to Neil DeGrasse Tyson on how to run a planetarium show.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 03:22 PM (39g3+)
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Couric's now husband John Molner was the recipient of some bad press when his then-27-year old ex-girlfriend claimed the financier had cheated on her with Couric. "Yes, John cheated on me, That's all I have to say," Jessica Hsu said in 2012.
Katie Couric is a round-heeled homewrecking tramp.
Couric's now husband John Molner was the recipient of some bad press when his then-27-year old ex-girlfriend claimed the financier had cheated on her with Couric. "Yes, John cheated on me, That's all I have to say," Jessica Hsu said in 2012.
Katie Couric is a round-heeled homewrecking tramp.
Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at May 27, 2016 03:22 PM (kdS6q)
86
I think Brian Williams should stick to art criticism. After all, he painted those fabulous cave murals at Argenteuil.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 27, 2016 03:22 PM (kumBu)
Posted by: Barack Obama at May 27, 2016 03:23 PM (F1ndw)
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What drives left wingers crazy with anger? Well, it may be the well-to-do-suburban family to some extent. But who really gets the left angry are the not-so-well-to-do, often white but not always, hard- working people who make moral judgements based on a Judeo-Christian moral code. How dare they make decisions for themselves and not defer to their cultural superiors!
Posted by: GPQuartano at May 27, 2016 03:23 PM (XFFWZ)
89
"1) Why was the US at war with Japan?"
The Japanese were trying to preserve their unique culture. Look at how they have been transformed into a distorted version of the United States with baseball and high cholesterol.
"2) Describe the conduct of the war by the Japanese - specifically how did they treat civilians and prisoners of war?"
In accordance with the rules of Bushido. Surrender is contemptible in Bushido and prisoners were treated accordingly for not having committed suicide.
"3) How many additional American soldiers should die in any particular conflict so that you can feel good about yourself?"
As many as it takes. Since I have profound Daddy issues, that it likely to be a really large number.
The Japanese were trying to preserve their unique culture. Look at how they have been transformed into a distorted version of the United States with baseball and high cholesterol.
"2) Describe the conduct of the war by the Japanese - specifically how did they treat civilians and prisoners of war?"
In accordance with the rules of Bushido. Surrender is contemptible in Bushido and prisoners were treated accordingly for not having committed suicide.
"3) How many additional American soldiers should die in any particular conflict so that you can feel good about yourself?"
As many as it takes. Since I have profound Daddy issues, that it likely to be a really large number.
Posted by: Leftist Social Justice Warrior at May 27, 2016 03:23 PM (QHgTq)
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Well said as usual, ace.
Posted by: CanaDave at May 27, 2016 03:23 PM (NSV3G)
91
journalists/reporters were just working stiffs. When did that change?
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I think that is a myth the older I get.
Posted by: IP at May 27, 2016 03:21 PM (aQQbl)
everything is a money laundering scheme now
everything
they pass around mantra's and meme's and money
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I think that is a myth the older I get.
Posted by: IP at May 27, 2016 03:21 PM (aQQbl)
everything is a money laundering scheme now
everything
they pass around mantra's and meme's and money
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 27, 2016 03:23 PM (qCMvj)
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The left hates you and all your aspirations, which they view as proof of your perfidy, peasant....
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I think they hate us because we are happy and content. Simple as that.
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I think they hate us because we are happy and content. Simple as that.
Posted by: SH at May 27, 2016 03:23 PM (gmeXX)
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However, I would no more listen to them on astrophysics than I would Neil Degrasse Tyson on how to cook a turkey.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 27, 2016 03:20 PM (3ZoRf)
I wouldn't listen to Tyson on either topic. I doubt he knows much of anything about astrophysics. His resume screams "affirmative action grad student who was helped across the finish line to get his Ph.D., and who everyone knew was a non-starter in the field."
I know. I've got one of those myself.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 27, 2016 03:20 PM (3ZoRf)
I wouldn't listen to Tyson on either topic. I doubt he knows much of anything about astrophysics. His resume screams "affirmative action grad student who was helped across the finish line to get his Ph.D., and who everyone knew was a non-starter in the field."
I know. I've got one of those myself.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2016 03:24 PM (oKE6c)
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51 Coincidence?
Posted by: Benji Carver at May 27, 2016 03:18 PM (
Thanks! Now I don't have to worry about going to the market to get something to make for dinner.
GAG.
Posted by: Benji Carver at May 27, 2016 03:18 PM (
Thanks! Now I don't have to worry about going to the market to get something to make for dinner.
GAG.
Posted by: bebe's boobs destroy at May 27, 2016 03:24 PM (PTWOz)
95
Big heads look good on TV and the silver screen. Its an oddity of attractive, charismatic actors and actresses, they have huge craniums compared to their bodies.
And usually they are itty bitty people. Very short.
And usually they are itty bitty people. Very short.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 03:24 PM (39g3+)
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Posted by: NBC News at May 27, 2016 03:24 PM (ODxAs)
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72 Posted by: Benji Carver at May 27, 2016 03:21 PM (OD2ni)
Gayle King. Arguably less qualified to do what she does than Obama if that's possible.
A nebbish dame who was given a patronage job because of who her best friend is. Jeez, the Teamster gold bricks do more good for the world than that imbecile.
Gayle King. Arguably less qualified to do what she does than Obama if that's possible.
A nebbish dame who was given a patronage job because of who her best friend is. Jeez, the Teamster gold bricks do more good for the world than that imbecile.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 27, 2016 03:24 PM (p4UlV)
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>>The newsreaders are on the level of actors.Unfortunately actors also
think they need to hit us with their truth bombs and words of wisdom.
Angelina Jolie, upcoming guest professor for the new masters course on women, peace and security at the London School of Economics.
think they need to hit us with their truth bombs and words of wisdom.
Angelina Jolie, upcoming guest professor for the new masters course on women, peace and security at the London School of Economics.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2016 03:25 PM (NOIQH)
99
Yes, we should listen to philosophers.
Maybe bioethicists specifically.
And only ones who call themselves rogue.
Maybe bioethicists specifically.
And only ones who call themselves rogue.
Posted by: tsrlbke PhD(c), rogue bioethicist at May 27, 2016 03:25 PM (tM4uk)
100
If you lived in a gated community with armed security you would see there's no need to own a gun.
Posted by: Katie Couric at May 27, 2016 03:25 PM (OwdyX)
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I can't imagine why anyone would want to listen to what Chelsea Clinton has to say. Her lack of self-awareness is painful to my eyes.
Posted by: Fritz at May 27, 2016 03:25 PM (UzPAd)
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That side bar thing about decriminalizing whizzing in the street and littering... so NYC has almost totally finished reversing everything Giuliani did to fix the city and turn it around.
What's left to do? Invite the five crime families to take over again?
What's left to do? Invite the five crime families to take over again?
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 03:25 PM (39g3+)
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Required viewing: "Nanking." Available on Netflix. I just watched it last night.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2016 03:21 PM (oKE6c)
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Try reading the book, "The Rape of Nanking". I tried, but couldn't get through it all. We should have dropped ten nukes on Japan.
Required viewing: "Nanking." Available on Netflix. I just watched it last night.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2016 03:21 PM (oKE6c)
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Try reading the book, "The Rape of Nanking". I tried, but couldn't get through it all. We should have dropped ten nukes on Japan.
Posted by: Barbara Walters at May 27, 2016 03:25 PM (Fmupd)
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I am in awe.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 27, 2016 03:25 PM (0mRoj)
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at May 27, 2016 03:26 PM (jxbfJ)
106
I doubt that has ever crossed his mind.
Posted by: SH at May 27, 2016 03:22 PM (gmeXX)
Objection! Presumes the existence of something that is not in evidence!
Posted by: SH at May 27, 2016 03:22 PM (gmeXX)
Objection! Presumes the existence of something that is not in evidence!
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2016 03:26 PM (oKE6c)
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"77
Back in my reporting days I always knew the interesting people, the
important ones were the people I was writing about. They were the ones
who had done something--who had a story to tell, not me.
But then I've always had enough humility for three people.
Posted by: Northernlurker at May 27, 2016 03:21 PM (hJrjt)"
I bet I am more humble than you. Just saying.
Back in my reporting days I always knew the interesting people, the
important ones were the people I was writing about. They were the ones
who had done something--who had a story to tell, not me.
But then I've always had enough humility for three people.
Posted by: Northernlurker at May 27, 2016 03:21 PM (hJrjt)"
I bet I am more humble than you. Just saying.
Posted by: Obnoxions A-Hole at May 27, 2016 03:26 PM (QHgTq)
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You nailed it Ace - I particularly like the last two sentences.
That Couric photo in the sidebar is hideous! Even a working rube such as myself would never go out in public like that. If I had millions, I would damn sure have staff available for hair and make-up while I sip my latte each morning. Or Bloody Mary. I think Gary Oldman may be offended.
That Couric photo in the sidebar is hideous! Even a working rube such as myself would never go out in public like that. If I had millions, I would damn sure have staff available for hair and make-up while I sip my latte each morning. Or Bloody Mary. I think Gary Oldman may be offended.
Posted by: Cheri at May 27, 2016 03:26 PM (oiNtH)
109
See, when I say we used nuclear weapons 'in anger,' that means it was unjustified, get it?
Posted by: Brain Williams at May 27, 2016 03:26 PM (Mt8T4)
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95 Big heads look good on TV and the silver screen. Its an oddity of attractive, charismatic actors and actresses, they have huge craniums compared to their bodies.
And usually they are itty bitty people. Very short.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 03:24 PM (39g3+
Unrelated but I've noticed a lot of models have heads that are wider, at least with hair included, than their skinny little waifish shoulders. Like an orange on a toothpick.
And usually they are itty bitty people. Very short.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 03:24 PM (39g3+
Unrelated but I've noticed a lot of models have heads that are wider, at least with hair included, than their skinny little waifish shoulders. Like an orange on a toothpick.
Posted by: Northernlurker at May 27, 2016 03:26 PM (hJrjt)
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Wait a tic,
Some dude cheated on a twenty something with Katie "leatherface" Couric?
Dude, seriously?
Some dude cheated on a twenty something with Katie "leatherface" Couric?
Dude, seriously?
Posted by: Walter Crankedwright at May 27, 2016 03:26 PM (C9pBZ)
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100 If you lived in a gated community with armed security you would see there's no need to own a gun.
Posted by: Katie Couric at May 27, 2016 03:25 PM (OwdyX)
Or had armed bodyguards and building security.
Posted by: Katie Couric at May 27, 2016 03:25 PM (OwdyX)
Or had armed bodyguards and building security.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 27, 2016 03:26 PM (3ZoRf)
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87
reading from scripts others have written for them
There's no denying raw talent.
Posted by: Barack Obama at May 27, 2016 03:23 PM (F1ndw)
John Stewart Leibowitz. Take away his 30-odd writers and you have the annoying guy in 9th grade history class that gets punched out after school every day.
reading from scripts others have written for them
There's no denying raw talent.
Posted by: Barack Obama at May 27, 2016 03:23 PM (F1ndw)
John Stewart Leibowitz. Take away his 30-odd writers and you have the annoying guy in 9th grade history class that gets punched out after school every day.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 27, 2016 03:26 PM (p4UlV)
114
Off hag sock
Posted by: Soona at May 27, 2016 03:26 PM (Fmupd)
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3) How many additional American soldiers should die in any particular conflict so that you can feel good about yourself?"
As many as it takes. Since I have profound Daddy issues, that it likely to be a really large number.
Posted by: Leftist Social Justice Warrior
Easier to end you and save a bunch of soldiers.
As many as it takes. Since I have profound Daddy issues, that it likely to be a really large number.
Posted by: Leftist Social Justice Warrior
Easier to end you and save a bunch of soldiers.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2016 03:26 PM (EdhH3)
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So what's the answer?
None of them have any audiences, so we can't just stop watching them.
(And that's just fucking weird, if you ask me.)
It's like George Fucking Clooney. He hasn't made a decent movie since...
... somebody told me one of the "Ocean's" movies was ok...
... forever, yet he is still some kind of Hollywood bigshot actor who may pollute our political atmosphere with his boneheaded drivel.
For you 'let it burn' folks out there; I just happen to have some matches and some lighter fluid handy.
None of them have any audiences, so we can't just stop watching them.
(And that's just fucking weird, if you ask me.)
It's like George Fucking Clooney. He hasn't made a decent movie since...
... somebody told me one of the "Ocean's" movies was ok...
... forever, yet he is still some kind of Hollywood bigshot actor who may pollute our political atmosphere with his boneheaded drivel.
For you 'let it burn' folks out there; I just happen to have some matches and some lighter fluid handy.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 27, 2016 03:27 PM (4ng05)
117
A colleague should have told Couric to "Stick to her lane" which was morning puff.
Posted by: SH at May 27, 2016 03:27 PM (gmeXX)
118
Katie does butt stuff.
Posted by: Brain Williams at May 27, 2016 03:27 PM (Mt8T4)
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98 Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2016 03:25 PM (NOIQH)
She's actually quite humble WRT "knowledge" on these things.
The most insufferable was Meryl Streep essentially pretending she was a PhD biochemist on Alar.
https://youtu.be/ZRO-4umbDys
Even the nuts at the Federal Moonbat Protection Agency NOW admit "yes we hyped the fuck out of it"
She's actually quite humble WRT "knowledge" on these things.
The most insufferable was Meryl Streep essentially pretending she was a PhD biochemist on Alar.
https://youtu.be/ZRO-4umbDys
Even the nuts at the Federal Moonbat Protection Agency NOW admit "yes we hyped the fuck out of it"
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 03:27 PM (g8Hfr)
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86 I think Brian Williams should stick to art criticism. After all, he painted those fabulous cave murals at Argenteuil.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 27, 2016 03:22 PM (kumBu)
Ooh, I'm telling Vic on you!!
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 27, 2016 03:22 PM (kumBu)
Ooh, I'm telling Vic on you!!
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 27, 2016 03:27 PM (p4UlV)
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There is nothing wrong with your television set. Do not attempt to adjust the picture. We are controlling transmission. If we wish to make it louder, we will bring up the volume. If we wish to make it softer, we will tune it to a whisper. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical. We can roll the image, make it flutter. We can change the focus to a soft blur or sharpen it to crystal clarity. For the next hour, sit quietly and we will control all that you see and hear. We repeat: there is nothing wrong with your television set. You are about to participate in a great adventure. You are about to experience the awe and mystery which reaches from the inner mind to - professional journalists.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 27, 2016 03:27 PM (Nwg0u)
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If you lived in a gated community with armed security you would see there's no need to own a gun.
Posted by: Katie Couric
Since I don't, go colonoscopy yourself.
Posted by: Katie Couric
Since I don't, go colonoscopy yourself.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2016 03:27 PM (EdhH3)
123
We elected one of these guys as president, and it worked out great! What's the problem?
Posted by: Grimaldi at May 27, 2016 03:28 PM (Binvr)
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And usually they are itty bitty people. Very short.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 03:24 PM (39g3+)
Yes. Why is that?
On the tour of studio lot the guide pointed out the doorways, which were very small, so that the actors would look normal sized compared to them.
The set looked sized like an elementary school classroom.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 03:24 PM (39g3+)
Yes. Why is that?
On the tour of studio lot the guide pointed out the doorways, which were very small, so that the actors would look normal sized compared to them.
The set looked sized like an elementary school classroom.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2016 03:28 PM (oKE6c)
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35 It's funny how they never talk about firebombing Tokyo, which IIRC killed more people than da dreaded nukes.
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at May 27, 2016 03:16 PM (OwdyX)
***
Incendiaries for the win. Pound-for-pound, they match atomics, and are far cheaper....
Posted by: Nigel West Dickens at May 27, 2016 03:16 PM (OwdyX)
***
Incendiaries for the win. Pound-for-pound, they match atomics, and are far cheaper....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 03:28 PM (lutOX)
Posted by: Adriane the Medical Critic ... at May 27, 2016 03:28 PM (AoK0a)
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None of them have any audiences, so we can't just stop watching them.
(And that's just fucking weird, if you ask me.)
Like I said the other day, the decisions behind media are no longer economic, but ideological. Traditional economic measures will be of limited use as a result.
(And that's just fucking weird, if you ask me.)
Like I said the other day, the decisions behind media are no longer economic, but ideological. Traditional economic measures will be of limited use as a result.
Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 27, 2016 03:29 PM (9krrF)
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>>How many additional American soldiers should die in any particular conflict so that you can feel good about yourself?"
WIll never forget seeing this on PBS: Mike Wallace, Peter Jennings agree they would need to sell out American troops to maintain journalistic integrity:
Journalists first.
Americans second (or third? fourth?)
http://archive.mrc.org/specialreports/2011/PBS/AmericansSecond.aspx
WIll never forget seeing this on PBS: Mike Wallace, Peter Jennings agree they would need to sell out American troops to maintain journalistic integrity:
Journalists first.
Americans second (or third? fourth?)
http://archive.mrc.org/specialreports/2011/PBS/AmericansSecond.aspx
Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2016 03:29 PM (NOIQH)
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If we're going to listen to the rich practitioners of any job, shouldn't we be listening to physics professors?
Or philosophers? Political theorists? Actual thinkers?
Damn, I just read an article by Victor Davis Hanson on Heritage.org (I think) about how science advances are made by lone wolves, heretics, and outliers who are ridiculed by the scientific establishment. (and can't find the link again)
The point being, you can't listen to what scientists, philosophers, and deep thinkers say without being skeptical.
Plus, while respected authorities might well be brilliant in their field out side of their area of expertise, they are as often wrong as anyone else.
Or philosophers? Political theorists? Actual thinkers?
Damn, I just read an article by Victor Davis Hanson on Heritage.org (I think) about how science advances are made by lone wolves, heretics, and outliers who are ridiculed by the scientific establishment. (and can't find the link again)
The point being, you can't listen to what scientists, philosophers, and deep thinkers say without being skeptical.
Plus, while respected authorities might well be brilliant in their field out side of their area of expertise, they are as often wrong as anyone else.
Posted by: Horhay Haysouz at May 27, 2016 03:30 PM (0LmgR)
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I have said it before and I will say it again: television is the greatest evil ever to befall mankind.
Without television, the Left would be found exclusively ranting on street corners.
Without television, the Left would be found exclusively ranting on street corners.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 27, 2016 03:30 PM (DuH+r)
Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 27, 2016 03:30 PM (p4UlV)
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And usually they are itty bitty people. Very short.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 03:24 PM (39g3+)
Yes. Why is that?
Those that were too small for baseball, football, and basketball in high school, went to drama.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 03:24 PM (39g3+)
Yes. Why is that?
Those that were too small for baseball, football, and basketball in high school, went to drama.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2016 03:30 PM (EdhH3)
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The most insufferable was Meryl Streep essentially pretending she was a PhD biochemist on Alar.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 03:27 PM (g8Hfr)
Ooh, don't get me started. She took the toxicity data, multiplied by the population of the US, and came with (IIRC) 5000 cancers/y. After conveniently ignoring the error bars on the tox data, which were an order of magnitude larger than the imputed toxicity. Can you say "statistically insignificant?" I can.
The most insufferable was Meryl Streep essentially pretending she was a PhD biochemist on Alar.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 03:27 PM (g8Hfr)
Ooh, don't get me started. She took the toxicity data, multiplied by the population of the US, and came with (IIRC) 5000 cancers/y. After conveniently ignoring the error bars on the tox data, which were an order of magnitude larger than the imputed toxicity. Can you say "statistically insignificant?" I can.
Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2016 03:31 PM (oKE6c)
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"Don't throw a sucker punch from the cheap seats and we wouldn't have had to.
Posted by: rickb223"
I remember the heyday of the WWF when the announcers would use Pearl Harbor as a verb to describe a sneak attack. "Roddy Piper just pearl harbored Jimmy Snuka." Good stuff.
Posted by: rickb223"
I remember the heyday of the WWF when the announcers would use Pearl Harbor as a verb to describe a sneak attack. "Roddy Piper just pearl harbored Jimmy Snuka." Good stuff.
Posted by: Benji Carver at May 27, 2016 03:31 PM (OD2ni)
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125 Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 03:28 PM (lutOX)
Which I stated here back in 06 I think...
You give someone like Curtis LeMay a slide rule a compass and an hour he can tell you precisely how much FAE needs dropped on Durka Durka in what sequence to create a 3600 Celsius firestorm....
We need THAST type back in the General Staff.
Which I stated here back in 06 I think...
You give someone like Curtis LeMay a slide rule a compass and an hour he can tell you precisely how much FAE needs dropped on Durka Durka in what sequence to create a 3600 Celsius firestorm....
We need THAST type back in the General Staff.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 03:31 PM (g8Hfr)
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Try reading the book, "The Rape of Nanking". I tried, but couldn't get through it all. We should have dropped ten nukes on Japan.
Posted by: Barbara Walters at May 27, 2016 03:25 PM (Fmupd)
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Our sense of mercy exceeded our sense of justice.
Yeah, Japanese should have been a language spoken only in Hell.
Posted by: Barbara Walters at May 27, 2016 03:25 PM (Fmupd)
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Our sense of mercy exceeded our sense of justice.
Yeah, Japanese should have been a language spoken only in Hell.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 03:31 PM (lutOX)
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Show business kids making movies of themselves
You know they don't give a fuck about anybody else
outrageous
outrageous
Yeah, it's all been said before.
You know they don't give a fuck about anybody else
outrageous
outrageous
Yeah, it's all been said before.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative...pondering the future at May 27, 2016 03:31 PM (RFeQD)
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If the US and the USSR hadn't had nuclear weapons, would the Cold War have gotten hot? I mean conventional warfare hot.
Can you say MAD>
Can you say MAD>
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 27, 2016 03:31 PM (r1fLd)
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Katie Couric is in Goldmember. What kind of serious journalist would do that? I wouldn't - plus I wasn't asked.
Posted by: Brian Williams at May 27, 2016 03:31 PM (gwG9s)
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133 Posted by: Jay Guevara at May 27, 2016 03:31 PM (oKE6c)
Meryl Streep says 5,000 more will get cancer...if the entire population drinks 3,000 gallons of apple pulp a day for a year.
Meryl Streep says 5,000 more will get cancer...if the entire population drinks 3,000 gallons of apple pulp a day for a year.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 03:32 PM (g8Hfr)
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I lived in Western NY for a few years and one Christmas I went in to NYC to meet some girlfriends and spend a few days shopping and enjoying the Christmas sites. While we were at Macy's one day, a female sales associate asked us where we were from. One friend said Los Angeles, one friend said Palm Beach and then I said Corning, NY. She was horrified. She looked at me and said "You don't live in NY if you don't live in NYC."
Same mentality. They live in their upper East Side bubble and anything outside of that is gross and uneducated with few exceptions.
By the way, I put down my purchase on the counter and told the sales girl to never mind, she obviously didn't want my money.
Same mentality. They live in their upper East Side bubble and anything outside of that is gross and uneducated with few exceptions.
By the way, I put down my purchase on the counter and told the sales girl to never mind, she obviously didn't want my money.
Posted by: Cheri at May 27, 2016 03:32 PM (oiNtH)
142
It pretty much sucks right now doesn't it.....
Posted by: donna at May 27, 2016 03:32 PM (O2RFr)
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Brian Williams and Katie Couric are High Priests of the multi-faced Television god. Worshiped by billions, the god holds his services 24/7.
Most people don't want to think for themselves. They want to be told what to do. Its an anti-democratic argument for king-craft, but its true all the same.
Most people don't want to think for themselves. They want to be told what to do. Its an anti-democratic argument for king-craft, but its true all the same.
Posted by: Revenant at May 27, 2016 03:33 PM (y64uP)
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116
For you 'let it burn' folks out there; I just happen to have some matches and some lighter fluid handy.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 27, 2016 03:27 PM (4ng05)
Welcome to the party. Pull up a chair. Here's a beer and some popcorn.
For you 'let it burn' folks out there; I just happen to have some matches and some lighter fluid handy.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 27, 2016 03:27 PM (4ng05)
Welcome to the party. Pull up a chair. Here's a beer and some popcorn.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at May 27, 2016 03:33 PM (jxbfJ)
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People think of the news as truth but it's more than that. The news transcends truth. The news becomes its own truth. Just ask Geraldo.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 27, 2016 03:33 PM (Nwg0u)
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It's like George Fucking Clooney. He hasn't made a decent movie since...
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 27, 2016 03:27 PM (4ng05)
I'll admit I liked Ocean's Eleven. From Dusk Til Dawn was good if pointless. I even admit to liking The Peacemaker.
The one I cannot get is Matt Damon. I watched the Bourne movies and was completely unengaged. The movies were well done and should have been right up my alley, but just left me cold.
John Wick is an example of a movie that I thought I would not like, but was insanely good. I am glad for the most part the Keanu seems to stay the hell out of the political drama.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 27, 2016 03:27 PM (4ng05)
I'll admit I liked Ocean's Eleven. From Dusk Til Dawn was good if pointless. I even admit to liking The Peacemaker.
The one I cannot get is Matt Damon. I watched the Bourne movies and was completely unengaged. The movies were well done and should have been right up my alley, but just left me cold.
John Wick is an example of a movie that I thought I would not like, but was insanely good. I am glad for the most part the Keanu seems to stay the hell out of the political drama.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 27, 2016 03:33 PM (3ZoRf)
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Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 03:31 PM (g8Hfr)
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Well, Ivan is pretty loose in his use of thermobarics....
So there's that, which is nice.
***
Well, Ivan is pretty loose in his use of thermobarics....
So there's that, which is nice.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 03:33 PM (lutOX)
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>>Katie Couric is in Goldmember. What kind of serious journalist would do that? I wouldn't - plus I wasn't asked.
Remember when Brian Willaims was doing all those comedy show cameos on "30 Rock" and totally wanted to replace John Stewart on The Daily Show?
Serious journalist, you guys.
Remember when Brian Willaims was doing all those comedy show cameos on "30 Rock" and totally wanted to replace John Stewart on The Daily Show?
Serious journalist, you guys.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2016 03:33 PM (NOIQH)
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I agree with the entire article
Posted by: Joe at May 27, 2016 03:33 PM (W+TLY)
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Like I said the other day, the decisions behind media are no longer economic, but ideological. Traditional economic measures will be of limited use as a result.
Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 27, 2016 03:29 PM (9krrF)
And what's really bad, is it's not just limited to media. Hell, whole businesses - huge businesses - who owe fiduciary responsibilities to their shareholders, give a shit about profitability. They exist to advance their own enlightened agendas which, if you happen to have the effrontery to disagree with - you can just go get hosed, you nazi uneducated right winger.
Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 27, 2016 03:29 PM (9krrF)
And what's really bad, is it's not just limited to media. Hell, whole businesses - huge businesses - who owe fiduciary responsibilities to their shareholders, give a shit about profitability. They exist to advance their own enlightened agendas which, if you happen to have the effrontery to disagree with - you can just go get hosed, you nazi uneducated right winger.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 27, 2016 03:33 PM (4ng05)
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Incendiaries for the win. Pound-for-pound, they match atomics, and are far cheaper....
It helps when your buildings are made from wood and paper.
Incendiaries for the win. Pound-for-pound, they match atomics, and are far cheaper....
It helps when your buildings are made from wood and paper.
Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 27, 2016 03:34 PM (k4M/B)
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147 Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 03:33 PM (lutOX)
You knew we were fucked when we ceded our domination of landmines and claymores...
If it were up to me we'd have Thermobaric grenades for our M-203s...
if we send the kids send the opfor our best party favors.
You knew we were fucked when we ceded our domination of landmines and claymores...
If it were up to me we'd have Thermobaric grenades for our M-203s...
if we send the kids send the opfor our best party favors.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 03:34 PM (g8Hfr)
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Brian Williams also played all the parts in the film version of Judgment at Nuremburg, years before Eddie Murphy had the idea. In a dress, he looks just like Judy Garland. So courageous.
A+ rant, quick shipping, outrage as pictured in the listing, would read again.
A+ rant, quick shipping, outrage as pictured in the listing, would read again.
Posted by: cjw at May 27, 2016 03:34 PM (onydf)
Posted by: Matt Damon at May 27, 2016 03:35 PM (RFeQD)
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If it weren't for those two nukes, my Dad's service in Burma (Royal Marines) would've lasted a helluva lot longer. And his amazing run of luck during the duration would've likely run out.
So on behalf of my recently deceased Dad, on this Memorial Day weekend, thank you, United States of America for ending the war when you did.
And a big, fat F-You to the Apologizer In Chief. Thanks for nothing, you evil rat-bastard. I'm grateful Dad didn't live to see that shameful display at Hiroshima today.
A grateful Canadian.
So on behalf of my recently deceased Dad, on this Memorial Day weekend, thank you, United States of America for ending the war when you did.
And a big, fat F-You to the Apologizer In Chief. Thanks for nothing, you evil rat-bastard. I'm grateful Dad didn't live to see that shameful display at Hiroshima today.
A grateful Canadian.
Posted by: Buzzy Krumhunger at May 27, 2016 03:35 PM (Rjd3Q)
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this is why i never turn on the vidiot, or rely on netw*rk news for information.
i know they are, at best, slanting the news, or, at worst, flat out lying to me. uless it's a local, breaking story, such as a brush fire, etc, IDGAF what they have to say.
Ernie Kovacs was right.
i know they are, at best, slanting the news, or, at worst, flat out lying to me. uless it's a local, breaking story, such as a brush fire, etc, IDGAF what they have to say.
Ernie Kovacs was right.
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 27, 2016 03:35 PM (8WVNP)
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Maybe a soldier who's actually struggled with more thank keeping down forehead glare under studio lights?
Funny thing, makeup is integral to a soldier's job in the defense of Western Civilization. Namely, green makeup. Hides bare skin from the enemy so that he's unaware that he's walking into an ambush.
Then you shoot the commie cocksucker in the face.
Maybe a soldier who's actually struggled with more thank keeping down forehead glare under studio lights?
Funny thing, makeup is integral to a soldier's job in the defense of Western Civilization. Namely, green makeup. Hides bare skin from the enemy so that he's unaware that he's walking into an ambush.
Then you shoot the commie cocksucker in the face.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 27, 2016 03:35 PM (jcihK)
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151 Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at May 27, 2016 03:34 PM (k4M/B)
Depends, Arthur Harris and I turned those nice concrete buildings into crematoria....
//Curtis LeMay
Depends, Arthur Harris and I turned those nice concrete buildings into crematoria....
//Curtis LeMay
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 03:35 PM (g8Hfr)
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Us the only country to use atom bomb in anger? Fuck that, I'd say we used it in righteous vengeance. Don't start none, won't be none.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 27, 2016 03:35 PM (kTF2Z)
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Great one, Ace. About this:
"[Happy suburbanites are] not aware of all the suffering beyond the perimeters of their perfect lawns."
You mentioned the president. Let's not leave his wife out of this. There's no purer distillation of what I hate about the Obama administration:
"He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed."
"[Happy suburbanites are] not aware of all the suffering beyond the perimeters of their perfect lawns."
You mentioned the president. Let's not leave his wife out of this. There's no purer distillation of what I hate about the Obama administration:
"He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed."
Posted by: JPS at May 27, 2016 03:36 PM (mH5lL)
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113 The left has been begging him to get back on the air and "destroy" Trump.
Posted by: steevy at May 27, 2016 03:36 PM (B48dK)
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Wait until those assholes see black families living in the suburbs that got there because they worked hard and they're prospering.
That'll really frost their cookies.
That'll really frost their cookies.
Posted by: Hank at May 27, 2016 03:36 PM (GKsb7)
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"John Stewart Leibowitz. Take away his 30-odd writers and you have the annoying guy in 9th grade history class that gets punched out after school every day.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton"
Stewart looks like he received a daily swirlie growing up.
Posted by: J.J. Sefton"
Stewart looks like he received a daily swirlie growing up.
Posted by: Benji Carver at May 27, 2016 03:36 PM (OD2ni)
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Maya Alderman was helping her little boy pick out 'the perfect ballerina Barbie doll' in her local store when she came across another mum who also had sons.
http://goo.gl/JpUyyV
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You cant make this shit up. Oh, wait, yes you can.
http://goo.gl/JpUyyV
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You cant make this shit up. Oh, wait, yes you can.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 27, 2016 03:36 PM (iQIUe)
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Gayle King. Whose claim to fame is being pals with Oprah? *That* Gayle King is qualified to opine that the Hillary email "scandal" is boring, over, nobody who is anybody even cares, let's move on?
Nice post Ace. The media fills me with white hot rage.
BHO picking Memorial Day weekend for his Hiroshima visit is an absolute disgrace.What a smack in the face for the armed forces. He is such a nasty asshole.
Nice post Ace. The media fills me with white hot rage.
BHO picking Memorial Day weekend for his Hiroshima visit is an absolute disgrace.What a smack in the face for the armed forces. He is such a nasty asshole.
Posted by: Goldilocks at May 27, 2016 03:36 PM (pOgVG)
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If I was president and decided to go to Hiroshima my speach would have been
" To your or any other country, Do it again and the same thing will happen, any questions? "
" To your or any other country, Do it again and the same thing will happen, any questions? "
Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2016 03:37 PM (3wHFl)
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George Clooney.
Did you know that his father was a newsman on Channel 9 in Cincinnati?
Nick Clooney.
Wait, his father was in the News Media? And quite a handsome man in his younger days. What did he know?
Absolutely nothing.
Did you know that his father was a newsman on Channel 9 in Cincinnati?
Nick Clooney.
Wait, his father was in the News Media? And quite a handsome man in his younger days. What did he know?
Absolutely nothing.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative...pondering the future at May 27, 2016 03:37 PM (RFeQD)
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159
Us the only country to use atom bomb in anger? Fuck that, I'd say we
used it in righteous vengeance. Don't start none, won't be none.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 27, 2016 03:35 PM (kTF2Z)
_____Perhaps Brian Williams would have preferred that we went with Operation Olympic and Operation Coronet.Most of these empty-headed numbskulls have no idea what would have happened had the A-bombs not ended the war.
Us the only country to use atom bomb in anger? Fuck that, I'd say we
used it in righteous vengeance. Don't start none, won't be none.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 27, 2016 03:35 PM (kTF2Z)
_____Perhaps Brian Williams would have preferred that we went with Operation Olympic and Operation Coronet.Most of these empty-headed numbskulls have no idea what would have happened had the A-bombs not ended the war.
Posted by: Revenant at May 27, 2016 03:37 PM (y64uP)
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These annual apology sessions are a disgrace.
Posted by: steevy at May 27, 2016 03:38 PM (B48dK)
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"[Happy suburbanites are] not aware of all the suffering beyond the perimeters of their perfect lawns."
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Ugh, if only I could have a perfect lawn. I've been battling a dead spot for 4 years. In fact, this dead spot on my lawn is about the only thing that is driving me angry. It is so unfair. My neighbor doesn't have this deadspot.
Please let me someday have a perfect lawn.
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Ugh, if only I could have a perfect lawn. I've been battling a dead spot for 4 years. In fact, this dead spot on my lawn is about the only thing that is driving me angry. It is so unfair. My neighbor doesn't have this deadspot.
Please let me someday have a perfect lawn.
Posted by: SH at May 27, 2016 03:38 PM (gmeXX)
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John Wick is an example of a movie that I thought I would not like, but was insanely good. I am glad for the most part the Keanu seems to stay the hell out of the political drama.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 27, 2016 03:33 PM (3ZoRf)
Keep this to yourself - me too.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 27, 2016 03:33 PM (3ZoRf)
Keep this to yourself - me too.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 27, 2016 03:38 PM (4ng05)
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WIll never forget seeing this on PBS: Mike Wallace, Peter Jennings agree they would need to sell out American troops to maintain journalistic integrity:
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Like any of them would no integrity if it fell on their head.
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Like any of them would no integrity if it fell on their head.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 27, 2016 03:38 PM (Nwg0u)
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Try reading the book, "The Rape of Nanking". I tried, but couldn't get through it all. We should have dropped ten nukes on Japan.
Posted by: Barbara Walters
Same here. Beyond horrific. Iris Chang committed suicide and some believe that her writings spiraled her into deep bouts of depression that led her to one day sit in her car and put a gun in her mouth and pull the trigger. She left behind a two year old son. There is a memorial statue of Chang in Nanking China.
Posted by: Barbara Walters
Same here. Beyond horrific. Iris Chang committed suicide and some believe that her writings spiraled her into deep bouts of depression that led her to one day sit in her car and put a gun in her mouth and pull the trigger. She left behind a two year old son. There is a memorial statue of Chang in Nanking China.
Posted by: Cheri at May 27, 2016 03:38 PM (oiNtH)
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"Fuck that, I'd say we used it in righteous vengeance. Don't start none, won't be none.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 27, 2016 03:35 PM (kTF2Z) "
No, it wasn't about vengeance. It was a strategic decision to win a war while saving American *and Japanese* lives. If it was about vengeance, we'd have dropped it in a place that would maximize casualties. And if it was about divine punishment for atrocities, then we should have saved a couple for Germany. But it wasn't.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 27, 2016 03:35 PM (kTF2Z) "
No, it wasn't about vengeance. It was a strategic decision to win a war while saving American *and Japanese* lives. If it was about vengeance, we'd have dropped it in a place that would maximize casualties. And if it was about divine punishment for atrocities, then we should have saved a couple for Germany. But it wasn't.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 27, 2016 03:38 PM (kumBu)
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159 Us the only country to use atom bomb in anger? Fuck that, I'd say we used it in righteous vengeance. Don't start none, won't be none.
That's probably the part that sticks out the most to me in obama's apology that was not supposed to be an apology sniveling "address." That and all religions use violence....There are no words ...
That's probably the part that sticks out the most to me in obama's apology that was not supposed to be an apology sniveling "address." That and all religions use violence....There are no words ...
Posted by: donna at May 27, 2016 03:38 PM (O2RFr)
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It's funny how they never talk about firebombing Tokyo, which IIRC killed more people than da dreaded nukes.
And wasn't targeted at a military area. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were picked as military targets. Nobody really knew exactly how much damage the bombs would do, so they... aimed them.
John Wick is an example of a movie that I thought I would not like, but was insanely good.
Yeah, I thought that was going to suck and it really was quite good. Canoe Reeves is a pretty poor actor but he works within his range and doesn't try to be anything else.
And wasn't targeted at a military area. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were picked as military targets. Nobody really knew exactly how much damage the bombs would do, so they... aimed them.
John Wick is an example of a movie that I thought I would not like, but was insanely good.
Yeah, I thought that was going to suck and it really was quite good. Canoe Reeves is a pretty poor actor but he works within his range and doesn't try to be anything else.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 03:38 PM (39g3+)
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I tried, but couldn't get through it all. We should have dropped ten nukes on Japan.
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Our sense of mercy exceeded our sense of justice.
Also, we only had the two at the time.
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Our sense of mercy exceeded our sense of justice.
Also, we only had the two at the time.
Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 27, 2016 03:38 PM (9krrF)
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Can you say MAD>
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 27, 2016 03:31 PM (r1fLd)
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That, plus our intervention in Korea, convinced the Russkies that we were ready, willing, and able to wage war in whatever form, and at whatever cost, was required.
Kept 'em out of Jugoslavia, that's for damned sure:
http://tinyurl.com/z6fkayt
Posted by: Ignoramus at May 27, 2016 03:31 PM (r1fLd)
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That, plus our intervention in Korea, convinced the Russkies that we were ready, willing, and able to wage war in whatever form, and at whatever cost, was required.
Kept 'em out of Jugoslavia, that's for damned sure:
http://tinyurl.com/z6fkayt
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 03:38 PM (lutOX)
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168 Posted by: Revenant at May 27, 2016 03:37 PM (y64uP)
Those two candles saved a lot of Japanese and American lives.
I wish our modern Dumbasscrats were 1/2 as hard.
Those two candles saved a lot of Japanese and American lives.
I wish our modern Dumbasscrats were 1/2 as hard.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 03:38 PM (g8Hfr)
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Absolutely nothing.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative...pondering the future at May 27, 2016 03:37 PM (RFeQD)
His mother - Rosemary Clooney - was kind of a hottie.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative...pondering the future at May 27, 2016 03:37 PM (RFeQD)
His mother - Rosemary Clooney - was kind of a hottie.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 27, 2016 03:39 PM (4ng05)
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A society that worships carnival-barkers appearing on idiot boxes is a society that is already brain-dead and which should be euthanized out of simple mercy.
Fuck them all to hell.
But tell us what you really think.
It's a weird variant of appeal to authority. They're on the teevee so they really think they know more. Yeah. No.
I've been thinking about Broadcast News in relation to the blatant hit job on the pro gun group in Couric's new "documentary" and it always struck me how Albert Brooks's character is supposed to be the one who is in the wrong when all along he's the only one who appears to get that he is not some high voice of reason preaching to those lowly beings.
There's a reason that in other parts of the world they are called news readers. They read the news. That's it.
Presume Mexican weather girl videos here.
Fuck them all to hell.
But tell us what you really think.
It's a weird variant of appeal to authority. They're on the teevee so they really think they know more. Yeah. No.
I've been thinking about Broadcast News in relation to the blatant hit job on the pro gun group in Couric's new "documentary" and it always struck me how Albert Brooks's character is supposed to be the one who is in the wrong when all along he's the only one who appears to get that he is not some high voice of reason preaching to those lowly beings.
There's a reason that in other parts of the world they are called news readers. They read the news. That's it.
Presume Mexican weather girl videos here.
Posted by: alexthechick - serpentining for my sanity at May 27, 2016 03:39 PM (mf5HN)
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The left has been begging him to get back on the air and "destroy" Trump.
Posted by: steevy
You mean Obama is going to jump up and punch Trump in the kneecap?
Totally. Destroyed.
Posted by: steevy
You mean Obama is going to jump up and punch Trump in the kneecap?
Totally. Destroyed.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative...pondering the future at May 27, 2016 03:39 PM (RFeQD)
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177 Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 27, 2016 03:38 PM (9krrF)
Eh we had tow made, we could have used the Demon Core for another in 96 hours if need be.
We could have been turning out one every 72 hours by October if *need* be.
Eh we had tow made, we could have used the Demon Core for another in 96 hours if need be.
We could have been turning out one every 72 hours by October if *need* be.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 03:39 PM (g8Hfr)
184
Gayle King. Whose claim to fame is being pals with Oprah? *That* Gayle King is qualified to opine that the Hillary email "scandal" is boring, over, nobody who is anybody even cares, let's move on?
The elite gayelles are sticking up for each other.
The elite gayelles are sticking up for each other.
Posted by: Cheri at May 27, 2016 03:40 PM (oiNtH)
185
His mother - Rosemary Clooney - was kind of a hottie.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean
That was his aunt, and she was a talented singer.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean
That was his aunt, and she was a talented singer.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative...pondering the future at May 27, 2016 03:40 PM (RFeQD)
186
Come the "Revolution" they should be the first we put up against the wall.
Posted by: Paladin at May 27, 2016 03:41 PM (4kpbt)
187
Without television, the Left would be found exclusively ranting on street corners.
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 27, 2016 03:30 PM (DuH+r)
that is why they want to control the internet
they have lost control
Posted by: BeckoningChasm at May 27, 2016 03:30 PM (DuH+r)
that is why they want to control the internet
they have lost control
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 27, 2016 03:41 PM (qCMvj)
188
I'm sorry I ever invented the nuclear bomb in the first place.
Posted by: Brain Williams at May 27, 2016 03:41 PM (Mt8T4)
189
"He is going to demand that you shed your cynicism. That you put down your divisions. That you come out of your isolation, that you move out of your comfort zones. That you push yourselves to be better. And that you engage. Barack will never allow you to go back to your lives as usual, uninvolved, uninformed."
That is actually a true statement, and it applies even more so to conservatives who occupy their comfy chair and think deep thoughts about the future of the country instead of organizing their communities, their neighbors, and taking over the GOP from the precinct level all the way to the top.
I am probably the worst offender, except for those are aren't paying any attention at all.
That is actually a true statement, and it applies even more so to conservatives who occupy their comfy chair and think deep thoughts about the future of the country instead of organizing their communities, their neighbors, and taking over the GOP from the precinct level all the way to the top.
I am probably the worst offender, except for those are aren't paying any attention at all.
Posted by: Horhay Haysouz at May 27, 2016 03:41 PM (0LmgR)
190
My sympathy level for Imperial Japan is at 0, they were as evil as the Nazi's and deserved everything they got.
Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2016 03:42 PM (3wHFl)
191
"BHO picking Memorial Day weekend for his Hiroshima visit is an absolute disgrace.What a smack in the face for the armed forces. He is such a nasty asshole."
Yup. Also, when did the president stop giving the commencement address at either West Point or Annapolis every year. I heard on the radio that Ash Carter was speaking at USNA today.
Yup. Also, when did the president stop giving the commencement address at either West Point or Annapolis every year. I heard on the radio that Ash Carter was speaking at USNA today.
Posted by: Benji Carver at May 27, 2016 03:42 PM (OD2ni)
192
I'll admit I liked Ocean's Eleven. From Dusk Til Dawn was good if pointless. I even admit to liking The Peacemaker.
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Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 27, 2016 03:33 PM (3ZoRf)
The Peacemaker. That was the movie where he spent the entire movie trying to impersonate an owl with the way he kept cranking his head around? Nicole Kidman was expectedly hot.
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Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 27, 2016 03:33 PM (3ZoRf)
The Peacemaker. That was the movie where he spent the entire movie trying to impersonate an owl with the way he kept cranking his head around? Nicole Kidman was expectedly hot.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 27, 2016 03:43 PM (4ng05)
193
"I'm sorry I ever invented the nuclear bomb in the first place.
Posted by: Brain Williams at May 27, 2016 03:41 PM (Mt8T4) "
I don't blame you. I blame Vic for inventing the atom.
Posted by: Brain Williams at May 27, 2016 03:41 PM (Mt8T4) "
I don't blame you. I blame Vic for inventing the atom.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 27, 2016 03:43 PM (kumBu)
194
The bubble-headed bleach blonde, comes on at five
She can tell you 'bout the plane crash, with a gleam in her eye.
I remember a comedian who did a bit about news broadcasting, how they'd totally change tone by just looking in another camera.
{to camera one with a serious face} Ten nuns and fifty school children were killed today in a firey accident involving an oil truck on Interstate Five. Details as they develop.
{turns to camera two with a grin}And in other news, Scraps the dog waterskis!
She can tell you 'bout the plane crash, with a gleam in her eye.
I remember a comedian who did a bit about news broadcasting, how they'd totally change tone by just looking in another camera.
{to camera one with a serious face} Ten nuns and fifty school children were killed today in a firey accident involving an oil truck on Interstate Five. Details as they develop.
{turns to camera two with a grin}And in other news, Scraps the dog waterskis!
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 03:43 PM (39g3+)
195
Will never forget seeing this on PBS: Mike Wallace, Peter Jennings agree
they would need to sell out American troops to maintain journalistic
integrity:
Welcome, gentlemen. Your special place in your new home is ready. Right this way...
they would need to sell out American troops to maintain journalistic
integrity:
Welcome, gentlemen. Your special place in your new home is ready. Right this way...
Posted by: Satan at May 27, 2016 03:43 PM (qJhUV)
196
'I wish our modern Dumbasscrats were 1/2 as hard.'
I'm Waging Hawd! I could cut diamonds with dis bweuty!
I'm Waging Hawd! I could cut diamonds with dis bweuty!
Posted by: Bwany Fwank at May 27, 2016 03:43 PM (KId5h)
197
. I heard on the radio that Ash Carter was speaking at USNA today.
They're probably grateful... Of course he's not much better....
They're probably grateful... Of course he's not much better....
Posted by: donna at May 27, 2016 03:43 PM (O2RFr)
198
What do Hillary, Oprah, & Gayle King have in common? All 3 are carpet munchers.
What do Hillary, Oprah, & Gayle King have in common? All 3 are carpet munchers.
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 27, 2016 03:43 PM (iQIUe)
199
189 Posted by: Horhay Haysouz at May 27, 2016 03:41 PM (0LmgR)
She is talking about the bombardment of falsehoods and brainwashing.
I know what life was like under their "dreams of my absentee daddy"...
I read Gulag Archipelago before I was ten.
I was birthed, raised, and reared to fight these fuckers' preferred economic system.
She is talking about the bombardment of falsehoods and brainwashing.
I know what life was like under their "dreams of my absentee daddy"...
I read Gulag Archipelago before I was ten.
I was birthed, raised, and reared to fight these fuckers' preferred economic system.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 03:43 PM (g8Hfr)
200
That was his aunt, and she was a talented singer.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative...pondering the future at May 27, 2016 03:40 PM (RFeQD)
I stand corrected.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative...pondering the future at May 27, 2016 03:40 PM (RFeQD)
I stand corrected.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 27, 2016 03:44 PM (4ng05)
201
Also, we only had the two at the time.
Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 27, 2016 03:38 PM (9krrF)
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But more in the pipeline, as i recall.
One a month or something, wasn't it to have been, push came to shove?
My Pa was redeployed and re-trained for the invasion of the Home Islands...their training emphasized that there would be no civvies - everyone had to die, and you, poor Marine, you wouldn't last too long, yourself.
Glad it never came to that - i don't know if we could have lived with ourselves after doing what would have been required to end the war.
Posted by: Brother Cavil at May 27, 2016 03:38 PM (9krrF)
***
But more in the pipeline, as i recall.
One a month or something, wasn't it to have been, push came to shove?
My Pa was redeployed and re-trained for the invasion of the Home Islands...their training emphasized that there would be no civvies - everyone had to die, and you, poor Marine, you wouldn't last too long, yourself.
Glad it never came to that - i don't know if we could have lived with ourselves after doing what would have been required to end the war.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 03:44 PM (lutOX)
202
Those two candles saved a lot of Japanese and American lives.
I wish our modern Dumbasscrats were 1/2 as hard.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 03:38 PM (g8Hfr)
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Indeed.
I wish our modern Dumbasscrats were 1/2 as hard.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 03:38 PM (g8Hfr)
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Indeed.
Posted by: Revenant at May 27, 2016 03:44 PM (y64uP)
203
I heard on the radio that Ash Carter was speaking at USNA today.
They're probably grateful... Of course he's not much better....
Posted by: donna at May 27, 2016 03:43 PM (O2RFr)
I'm guessing he was suitably sober (for a change).
They're probably grateful... Of course he's not much better....
Posted by: donna at May 27, 2016 03:43 PM (O2RFr)
I'm guessing he was suitably sober (for a change).
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 27, 2016 03:44 PM (4ng05)
204
Keanu has Point Break, Matrix, Constantine, Scanner Darkly, Rivers Edge, and Bill & Ted. He did a bad guy in some movie. He seems really down to earth. That said, he's just an actor and it wouldn't destroy my world if he was huge dick either.
Posted by: Banana Splits Guy at May 27, 2016 03:45 PM (tIjgN)
Posted by: Gelnn Beck at May 27, 2016 03:45 PM (SeD0w)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 27, 2016 03:45 PM (qCMvj)
207
My sympathy level for Imperial Japan is at 0, they were as evil as the Nazi's and deserved everything they got.
Posted by: Skip
If you excise the interval of 1928 - 1945, Japan has actually been a better friend of the United States than say.....France...for the last 150 years.
Posted by: Skip
If you excise the interval of 1928 - 1945, Japan has actually been a better friend of the United States than say.....France...for the last 150 years.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative...pondering the future at May 27, 2016 03:45 PM (RFeQD)
208
Ahhhh local news.
One of the world's two most popular soft drinks has been poisoned and will kill you immediately if you drink it!
We'll tell you which one after weather and sports.
One of the world's two most popular soft drinks has been poisoned and will kill you immediately if you drink it!
We'll tell you which one after weather and sports.
Posted by: alexthechick - serpentining for my sanity at May 27, 2016 03:45 PM (mf5HN)
209
Ever eaten in a restaurant in L.A.? Everyone of the waiters and waitresses are aspiring actors. Would you care about their opinions about anything other than the food? Just because they got "discovered" doesn't make they're opinions any less meaningless.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 27, 2016 03:45 PM (kTF2Z)
210
People tend to forget that the hell unleashed by Curtis Lemay's fire bombing killed more people than both of those nukes combined.
The U.S. could have continued doing that, but they were concerned with the greenhouse gas being emitted by all of those B-29 engines.
The U.S. could have continued doing that, but they were concerned with the greenhouse gas being emitted by all of those B-29 engines.
Posted by: Hank at May 27, 2016 03:46 PM (GKsb7)
Posted by: donna at May 27, 2016 03:46 PM (O2RFr)
212
That was his aunt, and she was a talented singer.
White Christmas. Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera Ellen.
White Christmas. Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera Ellen.
Posted by: rickb223 at May 27, 2016 03:46 PM (EdhH3)
213
Ain't no Democrats like Truman left in this nation. Not in politics, at least.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 03:46 PM (39g3+)
214
My sympathy level for Imperial Japan is at 0, they were as evil as the Nazi's and deserved everything they got.
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Like ISIS except ISIS still needs to get theirs.
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Like ISIS except ISIS still needs to get theirs.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 27, 2016 03:46 PM (Nwg0u)
215
Horhay Haysouz,
All that is fine advice. But the reason I get so mad thinking about that quote is, He has absolutely no right to *demand* that of me. And his wife can go to hell if she assumes that my life is uninformed and uninvolved without them demanding that I become a better person, according to their lights.
It is, in short, the ultimate Who the Fuck Do You Think You Are moment I've had in the last eight years or so, and I've had a lot of them.
All that is fine advice. But the reason I get so mad thinking about that quote is, He has absolutely no right to *demand* that of me. And his wife can go to hell if she assumes that my life is uninformed and uninvolved without them demanding that I become a better person, according to their lights.
It is, in short, the ultimate Who the Fuck Do You Think You Are moment I've had in the last eight years or so, and I've had a lot of them.
Posted by: JPS at May 27, 2016 03:46 PM (mH5lL)
216
Ash Carter at USNA? The same Ash Carter who's wife got felt up by Joe "I eat paste" Biden?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at May 27, 2016 03:46 PM (jxbfJ)
217
190 My sympathy level for Imperial Japan is at 0, they were as evil as the Nazi's and deserved everything they got.
Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2016 03:42 PM (3wHFl)
***
after all their atrocities, they unleashed plague and worse as they retreated in China.
A lot of Chinese remember.
Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2016 03:42 PM (3wHFl)
***
after all their atrocities, they unleashed plague and worse as they retreated in China.
A lot of Chinese remember.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 03:47 PM (lutOX)
218
"197 . I heard on the radio that Ash Carter was speaking at USNA today.
They're probably grateful... Of course he's not much better....
Posted by: donna"
Oh I agree that they were probably grateful not to have to get a lecture from Barry on a 90 degree day. I was just wondering when the president stopped doing it.
They're probably grateful... Of course he's not much better....
Posted by: donna"
Oh I agree that they were probably grateful not to have to get a lecture from Barry on a 90 degree day. I was just wondering when the president stopped doing it.
Posted by: Benji Carver at May 27, 2016 03:48 PM (OD2ni)
219
Everyone of the waiters and waitresses are aspiring actors.
Yes, its like being served by angels, genetic freaks that transcend normal human appearance.
The thing that made me stop and respect Canoe Reeves is the documentary he made on CGI called Side by Side that was truly great and thought provoking.
Yes, its like being served by angels, genetic freaks that transcend normal human appearance.
The thing that made me stop and respect Canoe Reeves is the documentary he made on CGI called Side by Side that was truly great and thought provoking.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 03:48 PM (39g3+)
220
I heard on the radio that Ash Carter was speaking at USNA today.
They're probably grateful... Of course he's not much better....
Posted by: donna
Well, at least he's not rabble - rousing up at West Point like Paul Wolfowitz and George W. Bush! - Stuff Chris Matthews said.
Wait a minute, Chris Matthews is another one of those Media guys. Maybe he wasn't being straight up and truthful about that stuff?
They're probably grateful... Of course he's not much better....
Posted by: donna
Well, at least he's not rabble - rousing up at West Point like Paul Wolfowitz and George W. Bush! - Stuff Chris Matthews said.
Wait a minute, Chris Matthews is another one of those Media guys. Maybe he wasn't being straight up and truthful about that stuff?
Posted by: Bossy Conservative...pondering the future at May 27, 2016 03:48 PM (RFeQD)
221
"Like ISIS except ISIS still needs to get theirs.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 27, 2016 03:46 PM (Nwg0u) "
Somehow I don't see a world where we beat ISIS and in 40 years we're importing Syrian cars, televisions, movies and video games by the boatload.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 27, 2016 03:46 PM (Nwg0u) "
Somehow I don't see a world where we beat ISIS and in 40 years we're importing Syrian cars, televisions, movies and video games by the boatload.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 27, 2016 03:48 PM (kumBu)
222
Yes. TV carnival-barker, salesmen -- reality-show, blow-dried, phony "real" people are the worst kind of people to lead us in any direction. Just.... Sad!
Posted by: Leo Spaceman at May 27, 2016 03:48 PM (PnTpO)
223
Bossy Conservative...pondering the future at May 27, 2016 03:45 PM
That's why I quantitative it to Imperial Japan. No problem with you pointing that out.
That's why I quantitative it to Imperial Japan. No problem with you pointing that out.
Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2016 03:48 PM (3wHFl)
224
Ash Carter at USNA? The same Ash Carter who's wife got felt up by Joe "I eat paste" Biden?
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To be fair, what man (or woman) in Washington has not had their wife felt up by Joe Biden?
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To be fair, what man (or woman) in Washington has not had their wife felt up by Joe Biden?
Posted by: SH at May 27, 2016 03:48 PM (gmeXX)
225
Oh I agree that they were probably grateful not to have to get a lecture from Barry on a 90 degree day. I was just wondering when the president stopped doing it.
I guess he was just too busy on His apology tour... Gotta get those trips in.....
Oh I agree that they were probably grateful not to have to get a lecture from Barry on a 90 degree day. I was just wondering when the president stopped doing it.
I guess he was just too busy on His apology tour... Gotta get those trips in.....
Posted by: donna at May 27, 2016 03:49 PM (O2RFr)
226
Welp, Judicial Watch has done it: asked a judge for permission to interview Hillary herself.
Welp, Judicial Watch has done it: asked a judge for permission to interview Hillary herself.
Posted by: iforgot at May 27, 2016 03:49 PM (pC96u)
227
"216 Ash Carter at USNA? The same Ash Carter who's wife got felt up by Joe "I eat paste" Biden?
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas"
You did not get the view from behind that I got. Could not help myself.
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas"
You did not get the view from behind that I got. Could not help myself.
Posted by: Joe Biden at May 27, 2016 03:49 PM (OD2ni)
228
Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, @217:
"after all their atrocities, they unleashed plague and worse as they retreated in China.
"A lot of Chinese remember."
Yep. I remember a discussion about the evils of the Hiroshima bombing, which broke out over a dinner that included a Chinese colleague. She was, shall we say, singularly unmoved.
"after all their atrocities, they unleashed plague and worse as they retreated in China.
"A lot of Chinese remember."
Yep. I remember a discussion about the evils of the Hiroshima bombing, which broke out over a dinner that included a Chinese colleague. She was, shall we say, singularly unmoved.
Posted by: JPS at May 27, 2016 03:50 PM (mH5lL)
229
it pains me to say this but people who elevate "newsreaders, etc" are nothing but "starfvckers"
i remember reading my mom's novels, authored a long time ago by joan collins sister. she used this term. it doesn't means there's any actual fvcking going on. it's they are so absorbed into the clicque that they are basically brainwashed.
especially since these so-called "stars" aren't.
i remember reading my mom's novels, authored a long time ago by joan collins sister. she used this term. it doesn't means there's any actual fvcking going on. it's they are so absorbed into the clicque that they are basically brainwashed.
especially since these so-called "stars" aren't.
Posted by: concrete girl at May 27, 2016 03:50 PM (ceWrl)
230
What drives left-wingers angry is the thought of a well-to-do suburban family. They've got some money. They have three cars. They have an intact marriage and children doing well in good schools.
And they're kinda smug. They pose in a picture and smile in a way that makes leftists angry. They're not aware of all the suffering beyond the perimeters of their perfect lawns.
Ozzie and Harriet.
That is the epitome of what the Left considers evil.
Their idea of "Social Justice" is to move as far as possible away from that.
For lack of their identified boogie-man must result in utopia...
And they're kinda smug. They pose in a picture and smile in a way that makes leftists angry. They're not aware of all the suffering beyond the perimeters of their perfect lawns.
Ozzie and Harriet.
That is the epitome of what the Left considers evil.
Their idea of "Social Justice" is to move as far as possible away from that.
For lack of their identified boogie-man must result in utopia...
Posted by: The Nuclear Hat at May 27, 2016 03:51 PM (itfg0)
231
(Wow, some shit writing by me in 227. The bombing didn't break out over dinner, I'm glad to say. The discussion did.)
Posted by: JPS at May 27, 2016 03:51 PM (mH5lL)
232
To be fair, what man (or woman) in Washington has not had their wife felt up by Joe Biden?
Posted by: SH at May 27, 2016 03:48 PM (gmeXX)
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Me...
Posted by: SH at May 27, 2016 03:48 PM (gmeXX)
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Me...
Posted by: B. Clinton at May 27, 2016 03:51 PM (iQIUe)
233
" Yes. TV carnival-barker, salesmen -- reality-show, blow-dried, phony "real" people are the worst kind of people to lead us in any direction. Just.... Sad!
Posted by: Leo Spaceman at May 27, 2016 03:48 PM (PnTpO) "
Hmm...this seems like it's a commentary about something beyond the Courics and Williamses or the world. But I can't quite put my finger on it...hmm...
Posted by: Leo Spaceman at May 27, 2016 03:48 PM (PnTpO) "
Hmm...this seems like it's a commentary about something beyond the Courics and Williamses or the world. But I can't quite put my finger on it...hmm...
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 27, 2016 03:52 PM (kumBu)
Posted by: SarahW not sure what's real anymore at May 27, 2016 03:52 PM (3fTXW)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 27, 2016 03:52 PM (qCMvj)
236
When I think about you, I touch myself
Relaxin in my massaging recliner
I don't want anybody else
When I think about you, I touch myself
When I think about you, I touch myself
Relaxin in my massaging recliner
I don't want anybody else
When I think about you, I touch myself
Posted by: Joey Divinyls at May 27, 2016 03:52 PM (KId5h)
237
You all should really be more polite to your betters!
Posted by: Chuck Todd at May 27, 2016 03:52 PM (/m8T6)
238
222 Yes. TV carnival-barker, salesmen -- reality-show, blow-dried, phony "real" people are the worst kind of people to lead us in any direction. Just.... Sad!
Posted by: Leo Spaceman at May 27, 2016 03:48 PM (PnTpO)
***
blah, blah, blah.....
You don't want Golden Hair-Weasel in charge; you'll settle for Abuela Borracha.
We get it.
Posted by: Leo Spaceman at May 27, 2016 03:48 PM (PnTpO)
***
blah, blah, blah.....
You don't want Golden Hair-Weasel in charge; you'll settle for Abuela Borracha.
We get it.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 03:52 PM (lutOX)
239
Not only are we only nation to drop a nuke on another country, we are the only nation to use ALL their nukes on another country.
That's worth mentioning.
Not only are we only nation to drop a nuke on another country, we are the only nation to use ALL their nukes on another country.
That's worth mentioning.
Posted by: Bock's B-29 Car at May 27, 2016 03:53 PM (O40cn)
240
Try reading the book, "The Rape of Nanking". I tried, but couldn't get through it all.
"The Bloodlands" was the history book that defeated me.
What sucked about the Eastern Front (western theatre) is that both sides deserved a good nuking. Compared to Hitler and Stalin, you'd have to go back to Mongol times to find a worse monster.
"The Bloodlands" was the history book that defeated me.
What sucked about the Eastern Front (western theatre) is that both sides deserved a good nuking. Compared to Hitler and Stalin, you'd have to go back to Mongol times to find a worse monster.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 27, 2016 03:53 PM (6FqZa)
241
well, isn't it proof of our racism that we didn't drop an A Bomb on Berlin to get them to surrender, too?
Posted by: mallflower playing a Present day College Sudent at May 27, 2016 03:53 PM (qSIlh)
242
(Wow, some shit writing by me in 227. The bombing didn't break out over dinner, I'm glad to say. The discussion did.)
Posted by: JPS at May 27, 2016 03:51 PM (mH5lL)
The first way sounded more exciting.
Posted by: JPS at May 27, 2016 03:51 PM (mH5lL)
The first way sounded more exciting.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 27, 2016 03:53 PM (4ng05)
243
re 240: or you could move a few years later and consider Mao.
Posted by: mallflower at May 27, 2016 03:54 PM (qSIlh)
244
"217 190 My sympathy level for Imperial Japan is at 0, they were as evil as the Nazi's and deserved everything they got.
Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2016 03:42 PM (3wHFl)
***
after all their atrocities, they unleashed plague and worse as they retreated in China.
A lot of Chinese remember."
The Last Emperor did a good of showing how pissed off the Chinese were at the end of WW2 at the Japanese and Chinese collaborators (like Pu Yi).
Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2016 03:42 PM (3wHFl)
***
after all their atrocities, they unleashed plague and worse as they retreated in China.
A lot of Chinese remember."
The Last Emperor did a good of showing how pissed off the Chinese were at the end of WW2 at the Japanese and Chinese collaborators (like Pu Yi).
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"A lot of Chinese remember.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 03:47 PM (lutOX) "
It's a good thing that the Chinese imbibed that object lesson about the horrors of an oppressive totalitarian regime and swore from that day forward they would be a free, democratic society.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 03:47 PM (lutOX) "
It's a good thing that the Chinese imbibed that object lesson about the horrors of an oppressive totalitarian regime and swore from that day forward they would be a free, democratic society.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 27, 2016 03:54 PM (kumBu)
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After my reality show ends I'm really thinking I could be a superstar on Today! Plus, I have a lot of first hand knowledge of STD's and, like Katie Couric, I think I could show women how to look for symptoms.
Posted by: Khloe Kardashian at May 27, 2016 03:54 PM (/m8T6)
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>>>What drives left-wingers angry is the thought of a well-to-do suburban family. They've got some money. They have three cars. They have an intact marriage and children doing well in good schools.
I really like that. That made me smile; thanks.
I really like that. That made me smile; thanks.
Posted by: MikeTheMoose at May 27, 2016 03:55 PM (0q2P7)
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God I love these why I hate stories written by Ace,they're the best.As a Trump supporter even when he was attacking Trump supporters I had to sit back and admire them.
God I love these why I hate stories written by Ace,they're the best.As a Trump supporter even when he was attacking Trump supporters I had to sit back and admire them.
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 27, 2016 03:55 PM (lKyWE)
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Terrific piece by Glenn Instapundit Reynolds about the presidency and why we need a white male Republican in the office to restrain its power
http://tinyurl.com/htssueh
http://tinyurl.com/htssueh
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 03:55 PM (39g3+)
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"Who the fuck do these ghastly grinning pancake-makeup smeared brain-damaged communications majors think they fucking are"?
It's not so much who they think they are, it's the fools that listen to them.
It's not so much who they think they are, it's the fools that listen to them.
Posted by: Buffalbob at May 27, 2016 03:55 PM (8nL8o)
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What drives left-wingers angry is the thought of a well-to-do suburban family. They've got some money. They have three cars. They have an intact marriage and children doing well in good schools.
Make them black conservatives, then watch out.
Make them black conservatives, then watch out.
Posted by: Brain Williams at May 27, 2016 03:55 PM (Mt8T4)
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241 Posted by: mallflower playing a Present day College Sudent at May 27, 2016 03:53 PM (qSIlh)
They quit....the Gadgets were FOR Germany....
That is why when Germany left a plurality of the physicists were of the opinion the device should be used in a "more demonstrative way."
I don't begrudge the aforementioned scientists their special hatred of the Nazis they had relatives who were cremated by them after all but no the non-racist answer was what we did.
No reason the Imperial Japanese deserved to get off just because they tan well.
They quit....the Gadgets were FOR Germany....
That is why when Germany left a plurality of the physicists were of the opinion the device should be used in a "more demonstrative way."
I don't begrudge the aforementioned scientists their special hatred of the Nazis they had relatives who were cremated by them after all but no the non-racist answer was what we did.
No reason the Imperial Japanese deserved to get off just because they tan well.
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Posted by: JPS at May 27, 2016 03:50 PM (mH5lL)
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highest body-count, civilian or otherwise, of the war....
Yeah, Chinese hold a grudge over that, and who can blame them?
Hell, my angel's father, before joining ARVN, fought the Japanese in French Indochina, and to this day, he hates the sons of bitches almost as much as he hates the Reds.
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highest body-count, civilian or otherwise, of the war....
Yeah, Chinese hold a grudge over that, and who can blame them?
Hell, my angel's father, before joining ARVN, fought the Japanese in French Indochina, and to this day, he hates the sons of bitches almost as much as he hates the Reds.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 03:56 PM (lutOX)
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After I leave office I think a five minute segment every Sunday on the evening news where I tell America what to think in the upcoming week would be a real service to the country.
Posted by: Barack Obama at May 27, 2016 03:56 PM (/m8T6)
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Sidebar Edit
the word is cachet, not cache, as in "When Hognose over at Weaponsman talks about the pros and cons of establishing a cache, his commentary has a certain cachet, due to his years as a Green Beret"...
the word is cachet, not cache, as in "When Hognose over at Weaponsman talks about the pros and cons of establishing a cache, his commentary has a certain cachet, due to his years as a Green Beret"...
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 27, 2016 03:56 PM (8WVNP)
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A lot of Chinese remember.
A lot of Koreans remember, too. The Japanese were the world's most horrific bigots, they even took it further than the Germans. Everyone in the world but them was just less than an animal, everyone.
A lot of Koreans remember, too. The Japanese were the world's most horrific bigots, they even took it further than the Germans. Everyone in the world but them was just less than an animal, everyone.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 03:56 PM (39g3+)
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An excellent book: Japan At War by Cook and Cook. A no holds barred look at the pain Japan inflicted and the pain that was visited upon them.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 27, 2016 03:56 PM (Nwg0u)
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207--yes but you can't exclude that "little interval" between 1928-1945.
Look France is not always on our side--why do you expect? France is full of French people. But they have never bombed us or marched our soldiers too death.
Okay, Honda's and Toyota's have it all over Puegot's and Renault's though...
Look France is not always on our side--why do you expect? France is full of French people. But they have never bombed us or marched our soldiers too death.
Okay, Honda's and Toyota's have it all over Puegot's and Renault's though...
Posted by: JoeF. at May 27, 2016 03:56 PM (Lnj3E)
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To be fair, what man (or woman) in Washington has not had their wife felt up by Joe Biden?
Posted by: SH at May 27, 2016 03:48 PM (gmeXX)
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Me...
Posted by: B. Clinton at May 27, 2016 03:51 PM (iQIUe)
Even Joe "I eat paste" has standards. Besides the flies hanging around the pants suit were too annoying
To be fair, what man (or woman) in Washington has not had their wife felt up by Joe Biden?
Posted by: SH at May 27, 2016 03:48 PM (gmeXX)
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Me...
Posted by: B. Clinton at May 27, 2016 03:51 PM (iQIUe)
Even Joe "I eat paste" has standards. Besides the flies hanging around the pants suit were too annoying
Posted by: Our Country is Screwed - PROUD LGBT - Loves Guns, Beer and Tatas at May 27, 2016 03:57 PM (jxbfJ)
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I want to study acting and become famous celebrity. So when I have a bullshit political opinion to spout it holds some weight in this society.
Was it Socrates or Whoopi Goldberg who once said...
Was it Socrates or Whoopi Goldberg who once said...
Posted by: CrustyB at May 27, 2016 03:57 PM (GvSpB)
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Walter Cronkite: "The war is lost".
The most trusted man in America was a far left loon who lied to America.
The most trusted man in America was a far left loon who lied to America.
Posted by: Cheri at May 27, 2016 03:57 PM (oiNtH)
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217 190 My sympathy level for Imperial Japan is at 0, they were as evil as the Nazi's and deserved everything they got.
Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2016 03:42 PM (3wHFl)
They are still shitty actors globally. All of the illegal ivory trade, whale hunting against a ban, more of that type of give a fuck BS. Its not hard at all to find plenty not to like about that culture.
Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2016 03:42 PM (3wHFl)
They are still shitty actors globally. All of the illegal ivory trade, whale hunting against a ban, more of that type of give a fuck BS. Its not hard at all to find plenty not to like about that culture.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 27, 2016 03:57 PM (4ng05)
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My copyrights have run out? No way!
Fortunately, laws don't apply to me or my acolytes so I'm pretty sure my buddy Bitch McConnell can arrange a suitable financial gift from the People of America.
Fortunately, laws don't apply to me or my acolytes so I'm pretty sure my buddy Bitch McConnell can arrange a suitable financial gift from the People of America.
Posted by: Zombie Karl Marx at May 27, 2016 03:58 PM (/m8T6)
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After seeing the awkward pix of Preezy hugging a diminutive Hiroshima survivor, I wondered which survivor of the Bataan Death March he met with.
Also, he spoke/will speak at Air Force Academy this year. Lucky Zoomies
Also, he spoke/will speak at Air Force Academy this year. Lucky Zoomies
Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at May 27, 2016 03:58 PM (dQJCS)
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"The Bloodlands" was the history book that defeated me.
What sucked about the Eastern Front (western theatre) is that both sides deserved a good nuking. Compared to Hitler and Stalin, you'd have to go back to Mongol times to find a worse monster.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 27, 2016 03:53 PM (6FqZa)
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According to Grover Furr, every criticism of Stalin in that book is a LIE!
"Grover Furr methodically checked every single footnote to anything that could be construed as a crime by Stalin, the USSR, or pro-Soviet communists. ... Furr has found that every single "crime" Snyder alleges is false - a fabrication."
LOL
What sucked about the Eastern Front (western theatre) is that both sides deserved a good nuking. Compared to Hitler and Stalin, you'd have to go back to Mongol times to find a worse monster.
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 27, 2016 03:53 PM (6FqZa)
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According to Grover Furr, every criticism of Stalin in that book is a LIE!
"Grover Furr methodically checked every single footnote to anything that could be construed as a crime by Stalin, the USSR, or pro-Soviet communists. ... Furr has found that every single "crime" Snyder alleges is false - a fabrication."
LOL
Posted by: Bruce With a Wang! at May 27, 2016 03:58 PM (iQIUe)
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"Rabinowitz: Know what I'm gonna do if we make it? I'm gonna go back to Eagle River and marry my gal, Edith Mae. Gonna get us a nice little place with a white picket fence. You know the kind. Two-car garage. Maybe a fishing boat. And in 15 years, when they're all paid for... I'll set my charges and blow the shit out of them."
"Rabinowitz: Know what I'm gonna do if we make it? I'm gonna go back to Eagle River and marry my gal, Edith Mae. Gonna get us a nice little place with a white picket fence. You know the kind. Two-car garage. Maybe a fishing boat. And in 15 years, when they're all paid for... I'll set my charges and blow the shit out of them."
Posted by: In Vino Veritits at May 27, 2016 03:58 PM (KId5h)
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Ace, your post is right, but incomplete. There is a shitshow behind these people that are using the medium to control us, and a high enough percentage of the population fall for it so that we are in their control.
I agree with you that the faces at the front of the medium are frustrating, but they are not the real problem. All those dolts are replaceable. It is the power behind the scenes that needs to be addressed.
I agree with you that the faces at the front of the medium are frustrating, but they are not the real problem. All those dolts are replaceable. It is the power behind the scenes that needs to be addressed.
Posted by: jc at May 27, 2016 03:58 PM (iRJ+A)
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Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 27, 2016 03:54 PM (kumBu)
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nobody said they learned anything other than hatred of foreigners in general - which they've always had - and Japanese in particular.
Had we back Chang as we should have, how very different the world might have been...
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nobody said they learned anything other than hatred of foreigners in general - which they've always had - and Japanese in particular.
Had we back Chang as we should have, how very different the world might have been...
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 03:58 PM (lutOX)
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LA TIMES besmirched itself with another article suggesting that the A bomb drops were just piling on and the Japs would have surrendered without them. What is wrong with these people?
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>>>>222 Yes. TV carnival-barker, salesmen -- reality-show, blow-dried, phony "real" people are the worst kind of people to lead us in any direction. Just.... Sad!
Posted by: Leo Spaceman at May 27, 2016 03:48 PM (PnTpO)
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Let's be honest, Obama was the first.
After 2012, it became clear that this kind of clown shit wasn't a 'mistake' and that this was the new normal for national politics.
Posted by: Leo Spaceman at May 27, 2016 03:48 PM (PnTpO)
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Let's be honest, Obama was the first.
After 2012, it became clear that this kind of clown shit wasn't a 'mistake' and that this was the new normal for national politics.
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This is where I mention being called a racist for bringing up the rape of Nanking by someone who thought I was making it up. This was a supposedly educated person.
John Wick is an example of a movie that I thought I would not like, but was insanely good. I am glad for the most part the Keanu seems to stay the hell out of the political drama.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 27, 2016 03:33 PM (3ZoRf)
John Wick is great because it has no pretensions of being anything other than a flat out revenge flick and it does that extremely well. Also it exists in a world with rules and logic and you want to know more about that world. AND HIS DOG BETTER BE IMMORTAL IN THE NEXT MOVIE OR I WILL GO ALL THE SOMETHING SOMETHING
Ahem.
Keanu appears to be a good guy. He assigned his backend money on the Matrix sequels to the effects and costume crew. Estimated value? $80 million.
http://bit.ly/20LJmSb
John Wick is an example of a movie that I thought I would not like, but was insanely good. I am glad for the most part the Keanu seems to stay the hell out of the political drama.
Posted by: Aetius451AD at May 27, 2016 03:33 PM (3ZoRf)
John Wick is great because it has no pretensions of being anything other than a flat out revenge flick and it does that extremely well. Also it exists in a world with rules and logic and you want to know more about that world. AND HIS DOG BETTER BE IMMORTAL IN THE NEXT MOVIE OR I WILL GO ALL THE SOMETHING SOMETHING
Ahem.
Keanu appears to be a good guy. He assigned his backend money on the Matrix sequels to the effects and costume crew. Estimated value? $80 million.
http://bit.ly/20LJmSb
Posted by: alexthechick - serpentining for my sanity at May 27, 2016 03:59 PM (mf5HN)
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What is wrong with these people?
A huge helping of historical ignorance mixed with a massive base of reality-defying worldview. What they wish to be true trumps reality every time.
A huge helping of historical ignorance mixed with a massive base of reality-defying worldview. What they wish to be true trumps reality every time.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 04:00 PM (39g3+)
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According to Grover Furr, every criticism of Stalin in that book is a LIE!
All those Ukranians slipped in the tub!
All those Ukranians slipped in the tub!
Posted by: Brain Williams at May 27, 2016 04:00 PM (Mt8T4)
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You all should really be more polite to your betters!
Posted by: Chuck Todd at May 27, 2016 03:52 PM (/m8T6)
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that sumbitch ain't been born...
You all should really be more polite to your betters!
Posted by: Chuck Todd at May 27, 2016 03:52 PM (/m8T6)
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that sumbitch ain't been born...
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 27, 2016 04:00 PM (8WVNP)
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270 >>>>222 Yes. TV carnival-barker, salesmen -- reality-show, blow-dried, phony "real" people are the worst kind of people to lead us in any direction. Just.... Sad!
Posted by: Leo Spaceman at May 27, 2016 03:48 PM (PnTpO)
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Let's be honest, Obama was the first.
The faux Greek columns should have been the give away....
Posted by: Leo Spaceman at May 27, 2016 03:48 PM (PnTpO)
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Let's be honest, Obama was the first.
The faux Greek columns should have been the give away....
Posted by: donna at May 27, 2016 04:00 PM (O2RFr)
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We non celebrity people, we uppity
We don't know our place
We don't recognize their authority
We lack proper respect.
Bow down
We don't know our place
We don't recognize their authority
We lack proper respect.
Bow down
Posted by: ThunderB at May 27, 2016 04:00 PM (jg9rG)
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Ace, I'm not sure you've expressed your true feelings about the media.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 27, 2016 04:01 PM (1ZOkK)
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269 - It's a left wing talking point. The thought of murdering all POW's at the end came up often from the command.
Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2016 04:01 PM (3wHFl)
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I never had slaves - all named Trotsky - to hold my dick and wipe my butt! Never!
I never had slaves - all named Trotsky - to hold my dick and wipe my butt! Never!
Posted by: Joey Stalin at May 27, 2016 04:02 PM (KId5h)
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Milo Yianoppoliwhatsis enters a speech at UCSB carried on a chair playing "America F-- Yeah"
https://youtu.be/PvkMmsd3Vzc
The guy just knows how to flip off the SJWs without fear or anger. He's the fruity version of Andrew Breitbart.
https://youtu.be/PvkMmsd3Vzc
The guy just knows how to flip off the SJWs without fear or anger. He's the fruity version of Andrew Breitbart.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 04:02 PM (39g3+)
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Does anyone know what Presdent and Micheal Oblama will doing to honor persons of colora and gay, Lesbian, Bi-sexual, tri-sexual, transgernder, and bi-gender people this weekend. We in Brattleboro would like to join in on the celebration to theese grape situsens in are grate county. If more people were like this we be not having all these problems that was be created by that lying traitor BUSH !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, Vt at May 27, 2016 04:02 PM (NuElX)
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It's a good thing that the Chinese imbibed that object lesson about the horrors of an oppressive totalitarian regime and swore from that day forward they would be a free, democratic society.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 27, 2016 03:54 PM (kumBu)
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Heh. What was the name Mao gave it? Something about fields of flowers. People in Fredo's regime have used the same expression when they've talked about this country.
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Heh. What was the name Mao gave it? Something about fields of flowers. People in Fredo's regime have used the same expression when they've talked about this country.
Posted by: Soona at May 27, 2016 04:03 PM (Fmupd)
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"nobody said they learned anything other than hatred of foreigners in general - which they've always had - and Japanese in particular.
Had we back Chang as we should have, how very different the world might have been...
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 03:58 PM (lutOX) "
I'm just saying that the idea that any of these societies was uniquely evil and monstrous is silly. It's easy to find countries that oppressed both within and without and committed atrocities. What's hard to find are countries that acted like us, showing mercy to our defeated enemies and helping build them up after the war.
Had we back Chang as we should have, how very different the world might have been...
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 03:58 PM (lutOX) "
I'm just saying that the idea that any of these societies was uniquely evil and monstrous is silly. It's easy to find countries that oppressed both within and without and committed atrocities. What's hard to find are countries that acted like us, showing mercy to our defeated enemies and helping build them up after the war.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 27, 2016 04:03 PM (kumBu)
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I don't buy totally into Ace's point about the "image that drives left-wingers crazy." I mean , it seems to make sense on the surface, but I think that image bothers cranks of all political stripes. I knew a conservative guy who --during 2012--would go apoplectic at the sight of The Romney's with their 342 children and grandchildren, all white teeth and tousled blonde hair. Coming from a large ( but non-blonde) family, that didn't bother me, but sometimes there are people who project that image of success and superior domestic bliss who are just plain full of shit.
"Smug" doesn't come close to describe the assholes I'm talking about.
"Smug" doesn't come close to describe the assholes I'm talking about.
Posted by: JoeF. at May 27, 2016 04:03 PM (Lnj3E)
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LA TIMES besmirched itself with another article suggesting that the A
bomb drops were just piling on and the Japs would have surrendered
without them. What is wrong with these people?
Posted by: torabora at May 27, 2016 03:58 PM (AQq3y)
Simple. They hate America and the military.
LA TIMES besmirched itself with another article suggesting that the A
bomb drops were just piling on and the Japs would have surrendered
without them. What is wrong with these people?
Posted by: torabora at May 27, 2016 03:58 PM (AQq3y)
Simple. They hate America and the military.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 27, 2016 04:03 PM (1ZOkK)
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"Grover Furr methodically checked every single footnote to anything that could be construed as a crime by Stalin, the USSR, or pro-Soviet communists. ... Furr has found that every single "crime" Snyder alleges is false - a fabrication."
LOL
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Those stupid kulaks just thought they were being killed.
LOL
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Those stupid kulaks just thought they were being killed.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 27, 2016 04:03 PM (Nwg0u)
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We didn't need to use the A bomb on Germany as they were surrendering by the tens of thousands at the end. The Japanese didn't surrender, ever, which made a mainland invasion cost prohibitive. After the outrageous casualties on Iwo and Okinawa, I don't know that the American people would've accepted the casualties planners were expecting.
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 27, 2016 04:03 PM (kTF2Z)
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Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 03:56 PM (39g3+)
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I've read about that, a bit, but never met anyone who lived through it, or whose family did, or who wanted to talk about it.
That said, I've got a Korean 'niece' who almost slapped me when I asked if she wanted to go for sushi....
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I've read about that, a bit, but never met anyone who lived through it, or whose family did, or who wanted to talk about it.
That said, I've got a Korean 'niece' who almost slapped me when I asked if she wanted to go for sushi....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 04:04 PM (lutOX)
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I remember when Bush the Younger was President I Couldn't wait to hear what new "scandal" the media was gonna come up with that day... Every sticking day some new crap was spewed by the so called Journalists.... I haven't seen that with obama.... Odd that...
Posted by: donna at May 27, 2016 04:04 PM (O2RFr)
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You all should really be more polite to your betters!
"I have no superiors. I'm not sure I have any equals."
-Spenser
"I have no superiors. I'm not sure I have any equals."
-Spenser
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 04:04 PM (39g3+)
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The Japanese documented the "Rape of Nanking" extremely well - and its was horrifying. They documented a lot of their inhuman atrocities very well. How the Nazis and the Japanese can together at the same point in history is kind of breathtaking.
Of course Mao and his Communist contemporaries gave those two cultures a run for their money - against their own people no less.
Feel the Bern!
Of course Mao and his Communist contemporaries gave those two cultures a run for their money - against their own people no less.
Feel the Bern!
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 27, 2016 04:05 PM (4ng05)
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So, Barry wants to rid the world of nukes, just not Iran's.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at May 27, 2016 04:05 PM (1ZOkK)
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The faux Greek columns should have been the give away....
For me it was his first 2008 victory speech in January.
And the fact that there was nothing in the news about his parents. Not..a...word.
Usually a politician has a campaign video, parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters, and the little farm house we grew up in. Now we know why.
For me it was his first 2008 victory speech in January.
And the fact that there was nothing in the news about his parents. Not..a...word.
Usually a politician has a campaign video, parents, grandparents, brothers and sisters, and the little farm house we grew up in. Now we know why.
Posted by: Horhay Haysouz at May 27, 2016 04:05 PM (0LmgR)
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The guy just knows how to flip off the SJWs without fear or anger. He's the fruity version of Andrew Breitbart.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 04:02 PM (39g3+)
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As a strait, and married, man I'm not ashamed to say whatsoever the little SOB is quite adorable. Both in his looks AND his antics.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 04:02 PM (39g3+)
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As a strait, and married, man I'm not ashamed to say whatsoever the little SOB is quite adorable. Both in his looks AND his antics.
Posted by: IP at May 27, 2016 04:06 PM (aQQbl)
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>>>281 Milo Yianoppoliwhatsis enters a speech at UCSB carried on a chair playing "America F-- Yeah"
https://youtu.be/PvkMmsd3Vzc
The guy just knows how to flip off the SJWs without fear or anger. He's the fruity version of Andrew Breitbart.
***
I used to be a fanboi, but no more.
He just couldn't stop playing footsie with his /pol/ pals.
https://youtu.be/PvkMmsd3Vzc
The guy just knows how to flip off the SJWs without fear or anger. He's the fruity version of Andrew Breitbart.
***
I used to be a fanboi, but no more.
He just couldn't stop playing footsie with his /pol/ pals.
Posted by: El Kabong at May 27, 2016 04:06 PM (datdl)
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haven't read the article, but anything on the media that ends with "fuck them all to hell" has to be ok. good article!
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 27, 2016 04:06 PM (WTSFk)
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I was so pissed yesterday when Obama implied that Truman missed the morality issue behind the usenuclear weapons.An estimated 300,00 American dead and thousands more wounded by having to invade the Japanese homeland and Obama bleats on about morality 60 years later.Truman got it exactly right
I was so pissed yesterday when Obama implied that Truman missed the morality issue behind the usenuclear weapons.An estimated 300,00 American dead and thousands more wounded by having to invade the Japanese homeland and Obama bleats on about morality 60 years later.Truman got it exactly right
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 27, 2016 04:06 PM (lKyWE)
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What's hard to find are countries that acted like us, showing mercy to our defeated enemies and helping build them up after the war.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 27, 2016 04:03 PM (kumBu)
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At the end of the war, nobody did, but us. and this, perhaps, because we alone among the allies didn't suffer atrocities on our own soil.
It ain't right, but it is human.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 27, 2016 04:03 PM (kumBu)
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At the end of the war, nobody did, but us. and this, perhaps, because we alone among the allies didn't suffer atrocities on our own soil.
It ain't right, but it is human.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 04:06 PM (lutOX)
Posted by: Tex Lovera at May 27, 2016 04:07 PM (wtvvX)
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I regret the day I told Albert that E = Mc^2.
Posted by: Brian Williams at May 27, 2016 04:07 PM (NgmvY)
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... but on the malkin article cited in the sidebar, i agree with her. sorry.
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They are still shitty actors globally. All of the illegal ivory trade, whale hunting against a ban, more of that type of give a fuck BS. Its not hard at all to find plenty not to like about that culture.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 27, 2016 03:57 PM (4ng05)
Well, it's not like they're having babies either these days. Or even having sex much, from what I have read.
They're not letting in immigrants either. Hey, JEF, why aren't you calling on Japan to do its' fair share and take in refugees? Or is that only the white man's burden?
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 27, 2016 03:57 PM (4ng05)
Well, it's not like they're having babies either these days. Or even having sex much, from what I have read.
They're not letting in immigrants either. Hey, JEF, why aren't you calling on Japan to do its' fair share and take in refugees? Or is that only the white man's burden?
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 27, 2016 04:07 PM (u0lmX)
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Milo Y, the Fairy Godfather
Posted by: boulder terlit hobo at May 27, 2016 04:07 PM (6FqZa)
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Amen Ace, amen
Posted by: fastfreefall at May 27, 2016 04:07 PM (C0qeK)
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296 Posted by: El Kabong at May 27, 2016 04:06 PM (datdl)
A lot of Breitbart alums are in the throes of their own Andi Sully meltdowns....
All different, all the same....
That said I like most of them, but none of them are as big as they think.
A lot of Breitbart alums are in the throes of their own Andi Sully meltdowns....
All different, all the same....
That said I like most of them, but none of them are as big as they think.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 04:07 PM (g8Hfr)
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The WWII Museum in New Orleans in the Road To Tokyo exhibit does a terrific job explaining the horrors of the Pacific Theater, and the sad but inevitable need to drop the bomb
Posted by: ThunderB at May 27, 2016 04:08 PM (jg9rG)
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I do think Dennis Prager would very much agree with Aces's assessment in the thread opening.
Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2016 04:08 PM (3wHFl)
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I knew a conservative guy who --during 2012--would go apoplectic at the sight of The Romney's with their 342 children and grandchildren, all white teeth and tousled blonde hair.
Yeah, that's the result of being bombarded with and educated from youth in a worldview that the left controls. White = bad. The whiter, the worse.
Yeah, that's the result of being bombarded with and educated from youth in a worldview that the left controls. White = bad. The whiter, the worse.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 04:08 PM (39g3+)
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We'd have been better off as a species if TV and Film required gamma rays for illumination.
Posted by: DaveA at May 27, 2016 04:08 PM (DL2i+)
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"That said, I've got a Korean 'niece' who almost slapped me when I asked if she wanted to go for sushi...."
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so, i'm guessing she's not bi, eh?
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so, i'm guessing she's not bi, eh?
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 27, 2016 04:08 PM (8WVNP)
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309 I knew a conservative guy who --during 2012--would go apoplectic at the sight of The Romney's with their 342 children and grandchildren, all white teeth and tousled blonde hair.
Yeah, that's the result of being bombarded with and educated from youth in a worldview that the left controls. White = bad. The whiter, the worse.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 04:08 PM (39g3+)
That makes be a baaaaaaad man!
Yeah, that's the result of being bombarded with and educated from youth in a worldview that the left controls. White = bad. The whiter, the worse.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 04:08 PM (39g3+)
That makes be a baaaaaaad man!
Posted by: Insomniac at May 27, 2016 04:09 PM (0mRoj)
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265, Grover Furr was my English teacher at Montclair State freshman year 1980. He actually came to class wearing shorts and sandals and proudly announced to his class full of wide-eyed skulls full of mush that he was a "Stalinist" at the beginning of the semester. Even then, I don't think most of the students knew what that meant.
But I guess he's still an asshole....
But I guess he's still an asshole....
Posted by: JoeF. at May 27, 2016 04:09 PM (Lnj3E)
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Me, not be, dammit.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 27, 2016 04:09 PM (0mRoj)
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We didn't need to use the A bomb on Germany as they were surrendering by the tens of thousands at the end. The Japanese didn't surrender, ever, which made a mainland invasion cost prohibitive.
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We didn't have the A bomb at the time Germany surrendered. If we had had it, there is no doubt in my mind that we would have Sauerbratened them.
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We didn't have the A bomb at the time Germany surrendered. If we had had it, there is no doubt in my mind that we would have Sauerbratened them.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 27, 2016 04:09 PM (Nwg0u)
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Make someone Happy.....
Folks in Honolulu celebrating Japanese Surrender on August 14th 1945.
I think it was posted here VJ Day 2012
Folks in Honolulu celebrating Japanese Surrender on August 14th 1945.
I think it was posted here VJ Day 2012
Posted by: Jimmy Durante at May 27, 2016 04:09 PM (1SQd7)
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so, i agree with one opinion and disagree with another, both at the same site. isn't that what makes america great?
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 27, 2016 04:09 PM (WTSFk)
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It's funny, but these blow dried Ken Dolls from Canada are so white it's amazing. And they don't seem to have finished college.
Can you imagine the bullying that these humps engage in? They are all Olbermanns.
Fuck the media, hard.
It's funny, but these blow dried Ken Dolls from Canada are so white it's amazing. And they don't seem to have finished college.
Can you imagine the bullying that these humps engage in? They are all Olbermanns.
Fuck the media, hard.
Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz The Main Dude My Man Esq at May 27, 2016 04:10 PM (sItQg)
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Oops
https://vimeo.com/5645171
https://vimeo.com/5645171
Posted by: Jimmy Durante at May 27, 2016 04:10 PM (1SQd7)
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We didn't have the A bomb at the time Germany surrendered. If we had had it, there is no doubt in my mind that we would have Sauerbratened them.
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I disagree. But the reasons are many and varied. In the end, Germany wouldn't have put us to the test.
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I disagree. But the reasons are many and varied. In the end, Germany wouldn't have put us to the test.
Posted by: SH at May 27, 2016 04:11 PM (gmeXX)
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Stalin was such a teddy bear that all his inner circle was terrified to knock on the door while he lay soaking in his own pee from a fatal stroke.
Posted by: Brain Williams at May 27, 2016 04:11 PM (Mt8T4)
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"How the Nazis and the Japanese can together at the same point in history is kind of breathtaking.
Of course Mao and his Communist contemporaries gave those two cultures a run for their money - against their own people no less.
Feel the Bern!
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 27, 2016 04:05 PM (4ng05) "
The meticulous documentation goes towards Hannah Arendt's point that evil is banal. They recorded it like they were writing down tax records or taking inventory at a warehouse. Just another day on the job, right?
Of course Mao and his Communist contemporaries gave those two cultures a run for their money - against their own people no less.
Feel the Bern!
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 27, 2016 04:05 PM (4ng05) "
The meticulous documentation goes towards Hannah Arendt's point that evil is banal. They recorded it like they were writing down tax records or taking inventory at a warehouse. Just another day on the job, right?
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 27, 2016 04:11 PM (kumBu)
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312--yeah, but the guy I'm talking about is a whiter than white WASP. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that he doesn't have kids and is miserable anyway....
Posted by: JoeF. at May 27, 2016 04:11 PM (Lnj3E)
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>>Milo Yianoppoliwhatsis enters a speech at UCSB carried on a chair playing "America F-- Yeah"
That is so awesome.
Amazing.
That is so awesome.
Amazing.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2016 04:11 PM (NOIQH)
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I swear I heard the mic drop.
Posted by: Conservative Yoda at May 27, 2016 04:12 PM (NBOA5)
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a good time to hit up Ace's PayPal
Donate to Ace of Spades HQ!
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 27, 2016 03:52 PM (qCMvj)
Just did it!
Donate to Ace of Spades HQ!
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 27, 2016 03:52 PM (qCMvj)
Just did it!
Posted by: Velvet Ambition at May 27, 2016 04:12 PM (QPdNE)
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Daily Mail has pictures of our Special Op forces fighting along side Kurdish forces, 18 miles from Raqqa.
Posted by: Ben Had at May 27, 2016 04:13 PM (9aHUC)
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Well said, Ace.
Posted by: What's a Seawolf? at May 27, 2016 04:13 PM (WuRdh)
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Yeah. She's right. The lack of modesty in modern culture is like the broken windows in NYC. Fix the little stuff, the big gets taken care of too. The constant slide of morality in little bits that are easy to defend or enjoy results in the big slides that we're all shocked and horrified by.
Its the price you pay to have a culture that isn't rotted out from the core: you have to behave yourself and be decent in public, at least. You have to grow up.
Its the price you pay to have a culture that isn't rotted out from the core: you have to behave yourself and be decent in public, at least. You have to grow up.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 04:13 PM (39g3+)
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"At the end of the war, nobody did, but us. and this, perhaps, because we alone among the allies didn't suffer atrocities on our own soil.
It ain't right, but it is human.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 04:06 PM (lutOX) "
It's certainly true that outside of Pearl Harbor, we were spared the carnage of war on our own turf. And perhaps that helped us to be magnanimous. But we did expend a lot of blood and treasure to win that war, and we could have easily done the easy, normal thing and just crushed the defeated beneath our heel. But we made a courageous decision to try something different, and I think it was obviously the right call in hindsight.
It ain't right, but it is human.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 04:06 PM (lutOX) "
It's certainly true that outside of Pearl Harbor, we were spared the carnage of war on our own turf. And perhaps that helped us to be magnanimous. But we did expend a lot of blood and treasure to win that war, and we could have easily done the easy, normal thing and just crushed the defeated beneath our heel. But we made a courageous decision to try something different, and I think it was obviously the right call in hindsight.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 27, 2016 04:15 PM (kumBu)
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Why all this talk about VD's and VJ's and such? STD's are a horrible problem! Why I hear those sweet men in San Francisco are actually suffering brain rot from Syphilis, and just after we fixed that HIV thing for them, too. And those poor undocumented workers in California and the Super Gonorrhea in their communities clap is nothing to laugh about!
Why all this talk about VD's and VJ's and such? STD's are a horrible problem! Why I hear those sweet men in San Francisco are actually suffering brain rot from Syphilis, and just after we fixed that HIV thing for them, too. And those poor undocumented workers in California and the Super Gonorrhea in their communities clap is nothing to laugh about!
Posted by: Hitlery Loves Chachi at May 27, 2016 04:15 PM (KId5h)
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Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 27, 2016 04:03 PM (kTF2Z)
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heh...
Pa made 'Leatherneck' for something that happened in France. He let me read the article, praising the courage he and his men displayed on the occasion, and then told me what really happened.
M3 scout car, drives right into an ambush. Panzergrenadiers at the rear of a retreating German column. Oberhauptsturmfuhrer tells him that the war is over for them....
Pa tells him, in heavily accented Yiddish/German, that the Red Army is at their rear, whereas Patton is at his rear, and that Patton will guarantee their lives and safety, while Stalin will kill them all.
A quick chat among the Wehrmacht officers and men, and then Pa is holding the officer's pistol and leading them back to the rear. I met the man, not knowing who he was, but thinking him a good friend of Pa's, which he was.
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heh...
Pa made 'Leatherneck' for something that happened in France. He let me read the article, praising the courage he and his men displayed on the occasion, and then told me what really happened.
M3 scout car, drives right into an ambush. Panzergrenadiers at the rear of a retreating German column. Oberhauptsturmfuhrer tells him that the war is over for them....
Pa tells him, in heavily accented Yiddish/German, that the Red Army is at their rear, whereas Patton is at his rear, and that Patton will guarantee their lives and safety, while Stalin will kill them all.
A quick chat among the Wehrmacht officers and men, and then Pa is holding the officer's pistol and leading them back to the rear. I met the man, not knowing who he was, but thinking him a good friend of Pa's, which he was.
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 04:15 PM (lutOX)
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The meticulous documentation goes towards Hannah Arendt's point that evil is banal. They recorded it like they were writing down tax records or taking inventory at a warehouse. broseidon king of the brocean at May 27, 2016 04:11 PM (kumBu)
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The movie The Dinner with Kenneth Branaugh is excellent. The moment it dawns on you that they are casually discussing a plan and timetable for destroying an entire people is surreal.
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The movie The Dinner with Kenneth Branaugh is excellent. The moment it dawns on you that they are casually discussing a plan and timetable for destroying an entire people is surreal.
Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at May 27, 2016 04:15 PM (dQJCS)
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"...well, isn't it proof of our racism that we didn't drop an A Bomb on Berlin to get them to surrender, too?"
We might have done so, if it had been ready in time.
In fact, in his essay "Thank God for the Atomic Bomb," Paul Fussell says just that. He imagines the opportunity to have dropped it (say) at Rommel's funeral, and wiping out the whole lot of them at once.
We might have done so, if it had been ready in time.
In fact, in his essay "Thank God for the Atomic Bomb," Paul Fussell says just that. He imagines the opportunity to have dropped it (say) at Rommel's funeral, and wiping out the whole lot of them at once.
Posted by: Annalucia at May 27, 2016 04:15 PM (a5bF3)
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Buy something from Amazon through the Ace store.
And to the moron who recommended those Korean noodles, thank you.
But 'mildly spicy' is about ten times the 'medium' spicy Pace picante sauce. I might be able to get used to them, but I don't want to know what the Koreans call 'spicy hot'.
Buy something from Amazon through the Ace store.
And to the moron who recommended those Korean noodles, thank you.
But 'mildly spicy' is about ten times the 'medium' spicy Pace picante sauce. I might be able to get used to them, but I don't want to know what the Koreans call 'spicy hot'.
Posted by: Horhay Haysouz at May 27, 2016 04:15 PM (0LmgR)
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320 Posted by: SH at May 27, 2016 04:11 PM (gmeXX)
Roosevelt put pressure on the Gadgets being sped up after the Battle of the Bugle...
Tibbets says he was told the Targets were in Germany and Japan most likely (at the time) Berlin and Tokyo.
Hiroshima an Nagasaki was picked as a kindness and cunning psychological analysis....
had they killed the emperor the OPFOR wouldn't have quit.
Roosevelt put pressure on the Gadgets being sped up after the Battle of the Bugle...
Tibbets says he was told the Targets were in Germany and Japan most likely (at the time) Berlin and Tokyo.
Hiroshima an Nagasaki was picked as a kindness and cunning psychological analysis....
had they killed the emperor the OPFOR wouldn't have quit.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 04:15 PM (g8Hfr)
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Judging from her spelling, Cloggenstein seems to be hitting the hooch earlier these days.
Wassup, daywalkers?
Wassup, daywalkers?
Posted by: Captain Whitebread On The All-Night Request Line at May 27, 2016 04:16 PM (rJUlF)
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Heh. Trump now saying it would be inappropriate to debate the second-place candidate, Bernie.
Posted by: Soona at May 27, 2016 04:16 PM (Fmupd)
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>>>> 296 A lot of Breitbart alums are in the throes of their own Andi Sully meltdowns....
All different, all the same....
That said I like most of them, but none of them are as big as they think.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 04:07 PM (g8Hfr)
Everyone has their limits. Milo reached mine about 6 months ago.
I don't think he actually believes in any of the vile shit he now throws cover to, but it's clear to me he's trying to use it to make a buck. Sad, because he truly had the skills and charisma to be the next Andrew.
All different, all the same....
That said I like most of them, but none of them are as big as they think.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 04:07 PM (g8Hfr)
Everyone has their limits. Milo reached mine about 6 months ago.
I don't think he actually believes in any of the vile shit he now throws cover to, but it's clear to me he's trying to use it to make a buck. Sad, because he truly had the skills and charisma to be the next Andrew.
Posted by: El Kabong at May 27, 2016 04:16 PM (datdl)
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i, for one, am damn glad we nuked the bastards...
my F-i-L spent the last part of the war up on the signal bridge of the Showboat (BB-55) with nothing between him and the kamikazes but a set of semaphore flags and a signaling lamp.
if the invasion of the home islands had been necessary, he might not have made it home and sired Resident Evil...
my F-i-L spent the last part of the war up on the signal bridge of the Showboat (BB-55) with nothing between him and the kamikazes but a set of semaphore flags and a signaling lamp.
if the invasion of the home islands had been necessary, he might not have made it home and sired Resident Evil...
Posted by: redc1c4 at May 27, 2016 04:16 PM (8WVNP)
Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at May 27, 2016 04:16 PM (dBmVV)
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Trump has more to offer us as President than either Katie or Brian--but Trump is dismissed as the Awful One.
Posted by: RoyalOil at May 27, 2016 04:17 PM (77emZ)
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On WZ, those racist Russkies don't like Fearless Leader.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 27, 2016 04:17 PM (Nwg0u)
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Well said, Ace. I'm certainly not willing to be lectured on anything at all by the perky little liar and the miserable fabulist parasite, or their fellow travelers.
Posted by: M. Scott Eiland at May 27, 2016 04:17 PM (ota+e)
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333 Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at May 27, 2016 04:15 PM (dQJCS)
Conspiracy 2001....
excellent film
Conspiracy 2001....
excellent film
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 04:17 PM (g8Hfr)
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The meticulous documentation goes towards Hannah Arendt's point that evil is banal. They recorded it like they were writing down tax records or taking inventory at a warehouse. Just another day on the job, right?
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 27, 2016 04:11 PM (kumBu)
I know, right. Germany, before the war (both wars really) represented the pinnacle of human progress across the spectrum - science, the arts, education - and out of this...
We should probably ponder this a bit when we see humanity once again embracing faith in itself. Humanity has a piss poor track record to deserve that much faith, IMIO.
Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 27, 2016 04:11 PM (kumBu)
I know, right. Germany, before the war (both wars really) represented the pinnacle of human progress across the spectrum - science, the arts, education - and out of this...
We should probably ponder this a bit when we see humanity once again embracing faith in itself. Humanity has a piss poor track record to deserve that much faith, IMIO.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 27, 2016 04:18 PM (4ng05)
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Read the sidebar about MM's complaint, without links to what she's complaining about it can't get upset at what's she is.
Posted by: Skip at May 27, 2016 04:18 PM (3wHFl)
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Posted by: broseidon king of the brocean at May 27, 2016 04:15 PM (kumBu)
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Indeed.....
I've talked to a few japanese, and they never cease to be amazed at what we did.
MacArthur and his circle were good men, and geniuses, one and all. Would that we had more like them....
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Indeed.....
I've talked to a few japanese, and they never cease to be amazed at what we did.
MacArthur and his circle were good men, and geniuses, one and all. Would that we had more like them....
Posted by: Your Decidedly Devious Uncle Palpatine, Still Accepting Harem Applicants at May 27, 2016 04:18 PM (lutOX)
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Yes Conspiracy 2001, thanks.
Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at May 27, 2016 04:19 PM (dQJCS)
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On WZ, those racist Russkies don't like Fearless Leader.
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 27, 2016 04:17 PM (Nwg0u)
Looks like any hope of them granting him asylum is off the table then?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 27, 2016 04:17 PM (Nwg0u)
Looks like any hope of them granting him asylum is off the table then?
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 27, 2016 04:19 PM (4ng05)
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>>A lot of Breitbart alums are in the throes of their own Andi Sully meltdowns....All different, all the same....
That said I like most of them, but none of them are as big as they think.
Yeah, but I still appreciate the bomb-throwers on our side, imperfect as they are.As with the Theil funding the Gawker lawsuit, this is playing, and beating the Left at their own game.
That said I like most of them, but none of them are as big as they think.
Yeah, but I still appreciate the bomb-throwers on our side, imperfect as they are.As with the Theil funding the Gawker lawsuit, this is playing, and beating the Left at their own game.
Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2016 04:19 PM (NOIQH)
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LA TIMES besmirched itself with another article
suggesting that the A bomb drops were just piling on and the Japs would
have surrendered without them. What is wrong with these people?
Posted by: torabora
Having read about this matter myself for some years, the Japanese military were by no means ready to surrender even after Nagasaki. They were ready to fight on to the bitter end.
Surrender for the Japanese is dishonor, and is followed by sepaku, ritual suicide. They, as individuals, were not ready to do THAT. There was talk of kidnapping and holding the Crown Prince as a hostage to prevent the Emperor from permitting surrender to the Allies. I actually think the Crown Prince was going to deliver the message to the Japanese people on the radio that Japan would surrender to the Allies.
The Emperor had decided his people had suffered enough, and was terrified that the next nuke would be on his head in Tokyo (and there was talk of bombing the Imperial Palace on Curtis Lemay's staff). Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both chosen because of the local geography and how it would improve the effects of the bombs.
War is Hell. I pity the poor people under those bombs. I have a dear friend who was a little girl in Berlin in 1945. Her life in those years was a nightmare.
But it ended the war. The purpose of waging war was not to continue the war for the sake of war, but to be victorious and end the killing. Our war aims were not to turn Japan into a giant concentration camp, but to rebuild it under a constitutional government, which we did.
suggesting that the A bomb drops were just piling on and the Japs would
have surrendered without them. What is wrong with these people?
Posted by: torabora
Having read about this matter myself for some years, the Japanese military were by no means ready to surrender even after Nagasaki. They were ready to fight on to the bitter end.
Surrender for the Japanese is dishonor, and is followed by sepaku, ritual suicide. They, as individuals, were not ready to do THAT. There was talk of kidnapping and holding the Crown Prince as a hostage to prevent the Emperor from permitting surrender to the Allies. I actually think the Crown Prince was going to deliver the message to the Japanese people on the radio that Japan would surrender to the Allies.
The Emperor had decided his people had suffered enough, and was terrified that the next nuke would be on his head in Tokyo (and there was talk of bombing the Imperial Palace on Curtis Lemay's staff). Hiroshima and Nagasaki were both chosen because of the local geography and how it would improve the effects of the bombs.
War is Hell. I pity the poor people under those bombs. I have a dear friend who was a little girl in Berlin in 1945. Her life in those years was a nightmare.
But it ended the war. The purpose of waging war was not to continue the war for the sake of war, but to be victorious and end the killing. Our war aims were not to turn Japan into a giant concentration camp, but to rebuild it under a constitutional government, which we did.
Posted by: Bossy Conservative...pondering the future at May 27, 2016 04:20 PM (RFeQD)
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lulz
Terrible Misfire from Michelle Malkin; the Moral Equivalent of Holocaust Denial
A society that looks down on sideboob is a society in decline
wonder who wrote this?
a society? that looks down on?
eh?
Holocaust Denial?
heh, Friday dump?
Terrible Misfire from Michelle Malkin; the Moral Equivalent of Holocaust Denial
A society that looks down on sideboob is a society in decline
wonder who wrote this?
a society? that looks down on?
eh?
Holocaust Denial?
heh, Friday dump?
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 27, 2016 04:20 PM (qCMvj)
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represented the pinnacle of human progress across the spectrum - science, the arts, education
Which is what Fascism supposedly was a combination of: the pinnacle of science and the most modern ideas creating a new, and better way of government and society, rejecting the superstitions of the past for an evolved future.
Which is what Fascism supposedly was a combination of: the pinnacle of science and the most modern ideas creating a new, and better way of government and society, rejecting the superstitions of the past for an evolved future.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at May 27, 2016 04:20 PM (39g3+)
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Nood
Posted by: Duke Lowell at May 27, 2016 04:20 PM (kTF2Z)
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Posted by: El Kabong at May 27, 2016 04:06 PM (datdl)
I disagree with some of the things Milo says and does and agree with others. Same is true of Ben Shapiro and ace, for that matter.
During the past dozen years, so many people I once thought were admirable conservatives have fallen from grace - not just Ryan and Rubio but many of the pundits, from Kristol and Noonan to O'Rourke and Kevin Williamson. And that's just scratching the surface.
Now there are people out there doing the hard work of actually facing the SJWs and fighting them - not just by making fun of trolls by typing words on a computer, but by standing there as flesh and blood crybullies get right into their faces and scream hatred and threats. They are looking straight into the eyes of these vicious people and saying "F you."
Are you doing that? I'm not. I'm going to cut anybody who is a big amount of slack. I'm not ready to excommunicate anybody who is out there fighting for free speech because he says stuff I don't like. 'Cause, you know, that's free speech.
I disagree with some of the things Milo says and does and agree with others. Same is true of Ben Shapiro and ace, for that matter.
During the past dozen years, so many people I once thought were admirable conservatives have fallen from grace - not just Ryan and Rubio but many of the pundits, from Kristol and Noonan to O'Rourke and Kevin Williamson. And that's just scratching the surface.
Now there are people out there doing the hard work of actually facing the SJWs and fighting them - not just by making fun of trolls by typing words on a computer, but by standing there as flesh and blood crybullies get right into their faces and scream hatred and threats. They are looking straight into the eyes of these vicious people and saying "F you."
Are you doing that? I'm not. I'm going to cut anybody who is a big amount of slack. I'm not ready to excommunicate anybody who is out there fighting for free speech because he says stuff I don't like. 'Cause, you know, that's free speech.
Posted by: Donna and V. (sans ampersands at the present time) at May 27, 2016 04:21 PM (u0lmX)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at May 27, 2016 04:21 PM (qCMvj)
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I know, right. Germany, before the war (both wars really) represented the pinnacle of human progress across the spectrum - science, the arts, education - and out of this...
We should probably ponder this a bit when we see humanity once again embracing faith in itself. Humanity has a piss poor track record to deserve that much faith, IMIO.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 27, 2016 04:18 PM (4ng05)
This. This. This. A million times this.
The image of trigglypuff screaming and flailing her arms in her fit of (in her small mind) righteous indignation is the best these people can do?
We should probably ponder this a bit when we see humanity once again embracing faith in itself. Humanity has a piss poor track record to deserve that much faith, IMIO.
Posted by: Mr Macca Bean at May 27, 2016 04:18 PM (4ng05)
This. This. This. A million times this.
The image of trigglypuff screaming and flailing her arms in her fit of (in her small mind) righteous indignation is the best these people can do?
Posted by: Moki at May 27, 2016 04:22 PM (ezHMO)
Posted by: musical jolly chimp at May 27, 2016 04:22 PM (WTSFk)
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Which is what Fascism supposedly was a combination of: the pinnacle of science and the most modern ideas creating a new, and better way of government and society, rejecting the superstitions of the past for an evolved future.
Everything old is new again,mom was right
Which is what Fascism supposedly was a combination of: the pinnacle of science and the most modern ideas creating a new, and better way of government and society, rejecting the superstitions of the past for an evolved future.
Everything old is new again,mom was right
Posted by: Flawless Male Logic at May 27, 2016 04:23 PM (lKyWE)
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349 Posted by: Gouverneur Morris at May 27, 2016 04:19 PM (dQJCS)
It is sad and chilling to watch every decent inasmuch as there could be decent Nazis man in that room have every firewall to genocide overcome but one....
and even he caves.
Müller: What was that story you were going to tell me?
Heydrich: Story?
Müller: Kritzinger.
Heydrich: Oh yes, he told me a story about a man he had known all his life, a boyhood friend. This man hated his father. Loved his mother fiercely. His mother was devoted to him, but his father used to beat him, demeaned him, disenherited him. Anyway, this friend grew to manhood and was still in his thirties when the mother died. The mother, who had nurtured and protected him, died. The man stood at her grave as they lowered the coffin, and tried to cry, but no tears came. The man's father lived to a very extended old age, and withered away and died when the son was in his fifties. At the father's funeral, much to the son's surprise, he could not control his tears. Wailing, sobbing... he was apparently inconsolable. Lost. That was the story Kritzinger told me.
Eichmann: I don't think I understand.
Heydrich: No? [Eichmann shakes his head] The man had been driven his whole life by hatred of his father. When the mother died, that was a loss, but when the father died, and the hate had lost its object, the man's life was empty..over.
Müller: [pause] Interesting.
Heydrich: That was Kritzinger's warning.
Eichmann: What, that we should not hate the Israelites?
Heydrich: No, but that it should not fill our lives so much that, when they are gone, we have nothing left to live for. So says the story. I will not miss them.
Every man in that room is burning in hell as it should be, and Kritzinger's warning is a good one all tyrants should remember.
It is sad and chilling to watch every decent inasmuch as there could be decent Nazis man in that room have every firewall to genocide overcome but one....
and even he caves.
Müller: What was that story you were going to tell me?
Heydrich: Story?
Müller: Kritzinger.
Heydrich: Oh yes, he told me a story about a man he had known all his life, a boyhood friend. This man hated his father. Loved his mother fiercely. His mother was devoted to him, but his father used to beat him, demeaned him, disenherited him. Anyway, this friend grew to manhood and was still in his thirties when the mother died. The mother, who had nurtured and protected him, died. The man stood at her grave as they lowered the coffin, and tried to cry, but no tears came. The man's father lived to a very extended old age, and withered away and died when the son was in his fifties. At the father's funeral, much to the son's surprise, he could not control his tears. Wailing, sobbing... he was apparently inconsolable. Lost. That was the story Kritzinger told me.
Eichmann: I don't think I understand.
Heydrich: No? [Eichmann shakes his head] The man had been driven his whole life by hatred of his father. When the mother died, that was a loss, but when the father died, and the hate had lost its object, the man's life was empty..over.
Müller: [pause] Interesting.
Heydrich: That was Kritzinger's warning.
Eichmann: What, that we should not hate the Israelites?
Heydrich: No, but that it should not fill our lives so much that, when they are gone, we have nothing left to live for. So says the story. I will not miss them.
Every man in that room is burning in hell as it should be, and Kritzinger's warning is a good one all tyrants should remember.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 04:24 PM (g8Hfr)
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The movie The Dinner with Kenneth Branaugh is excellent. The moment it dawns on you that they are casually discussing a plan and timetable for destroying an entire people is surreal.
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Aka Conspiracy about the Wannsee conference?
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Aka Conspiracy about the Wannsee conference?
Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 27, 2016 04:24 PM (Nwg0u)
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"Roosevelt put pressure on the Gadgets being sped up after the Battle of the Bugle..."
Hitler blew it....
Hitler blew it....
Posted by: Tilikum KAW at May 27, 2016 04:25 PM (+aCe4)
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MacArthur and his circle were good men, and geniuses, one and all. Would that we had more like them....
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Don't agree. MacArthur was an egotistical motherfucker who had a childish tantrum about going to the Philippines, when the Philippines could have been bypassed and we still would have won the war. His fucking pride got a lot of people killed.
MacArthur and his circle were good men, and geniuses, one and all. Would that we had more like them....
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Don't agree. MacArthur was an egotistical motherfucker who had a childish tantrum about going to the Philippines, when the Philippines could have been bypassed and we still would have won the war. His fucking pride got a lot of people killed.
Posted by: Soona at May 27, 2016 04:25 PM (Fmupd)
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351 Posted by: Lizzy at May 27, 2016 04:19 PM (NOIQH)
I respect thus far all their efforts, but I fear their internal dissension dooms them and by extension us.
I hope they are all safe, and all prosper.
I respect thus far all their efforts, but I fear their internal dissension dooms them and by extension us.
I hope they are all safe, and all prosper.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 04:26 PM (g8Hfr)
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Didn't Williams leave in disgrace? WTFis anyone giving that creep (who lives to watch his daighter's sex scenes) air time to speak about anything?
Posted by: Seems legit at May 27, 2016 04:28 PM (U+nHb)
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362 Posted by: Anonosaurus Wrecks at May 27, 2016 04:24 PM (Nwg0u)
Yes, there's a German film called Wannasee from 1984 as well....
I have read the minutes, they are clinical and I imagine in their way they are a harbinger of future IPAB meetings.
Yes, there's a German film called Wannasee from 1984 as well....
I have read the minutes, they are clinical and I imagine in their way they are a harbinger of future IPAB meetings.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 04:28 PM (g8Hfr)
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re me:
Posted by: mallflower playing a Present day College Sudent at May 27, 2016 03:53 PM (qSIlh)
I woulda thought that the way I signed in would have been a hint that I was being intentionally ignorant. I suspect that a large number of present day college students would think we had no reason to drop the bomb on Germany in WW2 because they think Germany was our ally.
Posted by: mallflower playing a Present day College Sudent at May 27, 2016 03:53 PM (qSIlh)
I woulda thought that the way I signed in would have been a hint that I was being intentionally ignorant. I suspect that a large number of present day college students would think we had no reason to drop the bomb on Germany in WW2 because they think Germany was our ally.
Posted by: mallflower at May 27, 2016 04:29 PM (qSIlh)
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368 Posted by: mallflower at May 27, 2016 04:29 PM (qSIlh)
No no I got it, and appreciated it like volleyball lob for a spike.
The little fuckers do not know what they do not know.
There are more people here who know the minutes of the beginning of the Genocide against the Jews than in a Harvard History course....
that is one of the good things about this community.
No no I got it, and appreciated it like volleyball lob for a spike.
The little fuckers do not know what they do not know.
There are more people here who know the minutes of the beginning of the Genocide against the Jews than in a Harvard History course....
that is one of the good things about this community.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 04:30 PM (g8Hfr)
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also, remember when people followed and tried to understand the thinking of people like the Beatles and Bob Dylan and such, because they created wonderful music? Now they follow Kim Kardashian...because she has a butt and filmed herself screwing.
Posted by: azjaeger at May 27, 2016 04:37 PM (Jpd9H)
Posted by: Bob at May 27, 2016 04:54 PM (1WcFV)
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Ace....A first class rant is indeed a thing of beauty....I bow my humble attempts at the foot of the master. jasonj, Tucson still lurking, still pissing of the lefties at every opportunity.
Posted by: jasonj at May 27, 2016 04:59 PM (Uvbw9)
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Read the appendix to David Stein's Republican Party Animals, it's a good discussion about what we don't know about the holocaust.
Posted by: bjk at May 27, 2016 05:02 PM (x2rNW)
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You are the only person I read now. Everyone else is nuts.
Posted by: Pam at May 27, 2016 05:02 PM (j8uaz)
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There were more people killed in the bombing of Hamburg in July 1943 than at Nagasaki. It created the first firestorm effect in bombing. Dresden had far less casualties but always gets brought up instead by the various media for some reason.
Posted by: JHW at May 27, 2016 05:06 PM (kn0BL)
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"A society that worships carnival-barkers appearing on idiot boxes is a
society that is already brain-dead and which should be euthanized out of
simple mercy."
Oh, don't worry. A society that worthless WILL end. It's inevitable. But it won't be merciful, and it sure won't feel like euthanasia.
society that is already brain-dead and which should be euthanized out of
simple mercy."
Oh, don't worry. A society that worthless WILL end. It's inevitable. But it won't be merciful, and it sure won't feel like euthanasia.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at May 27, 2016 05:08 PM (S2VsH)
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375 Posted by: JHW at May 27, 2016 05:06 PM (kn0BL)
The mechanical precision of the ignition cycle I think.
The mechanical precision of the ignition cycle I think.
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 05:09 PM (g8Hfr)
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Posted by: JHW at May 27, 2016 05:06 PM (kn0BL)
That's sure not how I read it. The great Hamburg fire of 1943 was started in a cigar factory, not by a bombing, if memory serves.
That's sure not how I read it. The great Hamburg fire of 1943 was started in a cigar factory, not by a bombing, if memory serves.
Posted by: Rusty Nail at May 27, 2016 05:15 PM (S2VsH)
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http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hamburg-suffers-a-firestorm
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 05:20 PM (g8Hfr)
Posted by: sven10077 at May 27, 2016 05:21 PM (g8Hfr)
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"And what, precisely, gives these people moral authority to lecture the rest of us?
Nothing."
Exactly, which is why they are a dying breed. Diane Sawyer tells the story of her jury duty, when the DA asked her if she could listen and be impartial to both sides. "Of course," she said, "I'm a journalist!"
And all the people in the courtroom erupted into laughter.
Nothing."
Exactly, which is why they are a dying breed. Diane Sawyer tells the story of her jury duty, when the DA asked her if she could listen and be impartial to both sides. "Of course," she said, "I'm a journalist!"
And all the people in the courtroom erupted into laughter.
Posted by: PJ at May 27, 2016 05:21 PM (cHuNI)
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a lot of people just want to be left to their immediate life,and know little to nothing of others on this blue planet in God's universe. yet, they insist on voting. and listening to the MSM junk as news. we need a method to force them to live in the world they desire.
Posted by: ahole in training at May 27, 2016 05:39 PM (/eYcO)
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FABULOUS RANT - God love you, Ace!
Posted by: Miley's Tongue at May 27, 2016 06:13 PM (knRe2)
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I find this piece brilliant. Brilliant!
Posted by: Graybeard the Gray at May 27, 2016 06:21 PM (6pFfj)
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The rot starts with the Associated Press. All network and print media take their lead from what the AP covers and how. The AP is a nonprofit (!!) yet has no oversight by the public. The board of directors consists of editors of local newspapers around the country...maybe pressure could be put on them by their local readers...?
Posted by: vivi at May 27, 2016 06:26 PM (11H2y)
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But, meanwhile, yeah, fuck those guys.
Posted by: vivi at May 27, 2016 06:26 PM (11H2y)
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You want smug lecturing?
Ace, I'd like to introduce you to Beyonce, militant spokeswoman for black rights.
You know, the Beyonce who's about five shades lighter than her five-year-old incarnation but we're not supposed to notice.
Ace, I'd like to introduce you to Beyonce, militant spokeswoman for black rights.
You know, the Beyonce who's about five shades lighter than her five-year-old incarnation but we're not supposed to notice.
Posted by: Kate58 at May 27, 2016 06:29 PM (oLZsm)
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Cache with that diacritical on the final e means "hidden," cachet means that special status thingie.
Posted by: SarahW not sure what's real anymore at May 27, 2016 06:49 PM (3fTXW)
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On behalf of America, I deeply apologize.
I apologize for saving civilization during the Great War once.
I'm sorry--did I say 'once'? I meant twice, in World War II, also.
I'm sorry--did I say 'twice'? I meant three times--that Cold War got pretty hot sometimes.
I'm sorry--did I say 'three times'--because I meant four, now that we're defending civilization again against Radical Islamism.
I also apologize for getting rid of dictators. For spreading freedom where possible. For bleeding on your countries. For keeping the sea lanes open. For spreading prosperity. For inventing medicines. For exploring space. For our role in ending slavery--except where it still exists in Muslim Africa and under Communist regimes. For sending doctors and supplies. For educating millions. For feeding millions For inventing innumerable devices to make uncounted lives better. For the taxpayers who finance the whole damn world, for rebuilding even those countries we defeated in war. For maintaining the peace.
For devising the worst system of self-government ever known--except for all the others.
But mostly I'm sorry for producing a bunch of pampered ingrates who think America needs to apologize early, often and forever.
Did I say "You can kiss my ass--my American ass!"?
No? Sorry.
Because I meant to.
I apologize for saving civilization during the Great War once.
I'm sorry--did I say 'once'? I meant twice, in World War II, also.
I'm sorry--did I say 'twice'? I meant three times--that Cold War got pretty hot sometimes.
I'm sorry--did I say 'three times'--because I meant four, now that we're defending civilization again against Radical Islamism.
I also apologize for getting rid of dictators. For spreading freedom where possible. For bleeding on your countries. For keeping the sea lanes open. For spreading prosperity. For inventing medicines. For exploring space. For our role in ending slavery--except where it still exists in Muslim Africa and under Communist regimes. For sending doctors and supplies. For educating millions. For feeding millions For inventing innumerable devices to make uncounted lives better. For the taxpayers who finance the whole damn world, for rebuilding even those countries we defeated in war. For maintaining the peace.
For devising the worst system of self-government ever known--except for all the others.
But mostly I'm sorry for producing a bunch of pampered ingrates who think America needs to apologize early, often and forever.
Did I say "You can kiss my ass--my American ass!"?
No? Sorry.
Because I meant to.
Posted by: The Gipper Lives at May 27, 2016 07:14 PM (Ndje9)
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The problem is our culture has become stagnate. To much safety, too much softness, too much ease creates people who lack drive and want of achievement.
Hence reporters or entertainers, etc. get paid and have power way beyond their value in the real world. Also explains the silly stuff people go on "crusades" about. Capitalism is a wonderful economic system, but it works best in a real world, not one devoid and protected from reality. In that situation it can create serious imbalances in a civilization that may not be corrected in time to meet a danger to that civilization.
So like everything else, capitalism is only as good as the culture and people whose nation it resides in. The ideal nation is one where individuality and a heroic culture dominate. Despite the individualism, most of the citizens are patriotic and love their nation. They are nationalistic, however not to the point of a lack of self-awareness and blind patriotism.
When a civilization becomes soft, and loses the patriotic heroic spirit, at some point the "fighting men" of that culture, or another culture invading into the "soft culture" will correct that. So being too safe can destroy a civilization just as fast as being too violent.
Hence reporters or entertainers, etc. get paid and have power way beyond their value in the real world. Also explains the silly stuff people go on "crusades" about. Capitalism is a wonderful economic system, but it works best in a real world, not one devoid and protected from reality. In that situation it can create serious imbalances in a civilization that may not be corrected in time to meet a danger to that civilization.
So like everything else, capitalism is only as good as the culture and people whose nation it resides in. The ideal nation is one where individuality and a heroic culture dominate. Despite the individualism, most of the citizens are patriotic and love their nation. They are nationalistic, however not to the point of a lack of self-awareness and blind patriotism.
When a civilization becomes soft, and loses the patriotic heroic spirit, at some point the "fighting men" of that culture, or another culture invading into the "soft culture" will correct that. So being too safe can destroy a civilization just as fast as being too violent.
Posted by: William Eaton at May 27, 2016 07:18 PM (KhJh8)
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I lived abroad in the late Eighties and most of the Nineties. When I returned to the United States, a dear friend assured me many if not most people here had come to view television series and particular characters as potential realities for themselves. Anyone could live like a character from Friends, Seinfeld, whatever. I blew it off. She was so right and I was so wrong.
In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, people briefly came to realize firefighters, paramedics, police, their neighbors, ordinary people were actual, real heroes. Hollywood panicked and put on a telethon to set things rights. It did, and soon the natural order restored Johnny Depp as a more important person than someone's physician.
We are sick and we are fucked. This will be a completely Marxist country barring a miracle in a decade, brought to you by Snapchat.
In the immediate aftermath of September 11th, people briefly came to realize firefighters, paramedics, police, their neighbors, ordinary people were actual, real heroes. Hollywood panicked and put on a telethon to set things rights. It did, and soon the natural order restored Johnny Depp as a more important person than someone's physician.
We are sick and we are fucked. This will be a completely Marxist country barring a miracle in a decade, brought to you by Snapchat.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 27, 2016 07:26 PM (TZVdK)
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*As a footnote to the previous, Couric and Williams actually are on borrowed time. In a few years no one will watch broadcast news, and unless they can fit their dad and mom bods into tight Marvel costumes, they are gone. We actually will recall their pathetic existences as superior to what follows them.
Also, Hilary likely will be the first president to routinely appear across mass media in a flattering holograph form.
Also, Hilary likely will be the first president to routinely appear across mass media in a flattering holograph form.
Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at May 27, 2016 07:36 PM (TZVdK)
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Great post Ace but being bitter and mad is no way to go through life. Have sex with a woman tonight, champ.
Posted by: Allahpundit at May 27, 2016 07:36 PM (XQcoc)
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GREAT post. In fact terrific. And like several others, the fact that people listen to the likes of a Dicaprio make me crazy. Romney$$= evil/ Couric$$ =awesome I am so sick of liberal logic and bullying if you don't fall in line.
Posted by: dixiegal88 at May 27, 2016 08:03 PM (n9Dq9)
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Yes
Posted by: praab at May 27, 2016 10:07 PM (uI4W1)
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Why he switched to Donald Trump in the second to last sentence escapes me.
Posted by: Cortezoid at May 28, 2016 02:01 AM (SerR8)
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There is absolutely no reason for any news reader's face to be known to the audience. Hundreds of thousands of documentaries demonstrate that.
Posted by: Brett at May 28, 2016 10:32 AM (U3jqZ)
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When the revolution begins shoot first the media.
Posted by: KillGoogleandFacebook at May 28, 2016 11:00 AM (CfxaT)
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"Couric and Williams actually are on borrowed time. In a few years no one
will watch broadcast news, and unless they can fit their dad and mom
bods into tight Marvel costumes, they are gone."
Does anyone listen to Katie Couric or Brian Williams anymore? I sure don't. I can't remember the last time I watched the news on TV. And besides, aren't they both off TV?
Williams completely discredited himself when his penchant for lying came out. I remember being enraged when it all came out. And then I remembered, who watches the news anymore? Also, funny memes.
As for Couric, she seems to make headlines every 9 months or so and when she does the first thought that comes into my head is "Isn't she dead?"
"Couric and Williams actually are on borrowed time. In a few years no one
will watch broadcast news, and unless they can fit their dad and mom
bods into tight Marvel costumes, they are gone."
Does anyone listen to Katie Couric or Brian Williams anymore? I sure don't. I can't remember the last time I watched the news on TV. And besides, aren't they both off TV?
Williams completely discredited himself when his penchant for lying came out. I remember being enraged when it all came out. And then I remembered, who watches the news anymore? Also, funny memes.
As for Couric, she seems to make headlines every 9 months or so and when she does the first thought that comes into my head is "Isn't she dead?"
Posted by: Rachel at May 28, 2016 11:14 AM (PG7Hm)
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The basic problem is widespread idiocy.
Posted by: melanerpes at May 28, 2016 02:18 PM (y53I+)
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One of the many failings of our society is the cult of celebrity worship. I don't understand it, never have, never will.
A few weeks ago after Prince died, there were many written eulogies praising his accomplishments. In one such article (on a conservative blog) I asked, while Prince had been a skilled entertainer what had he done that warranted so much praise? I pointed out that there are many scientists, engineers, teachers, rescue people and soldiers that have done far more for our society than Prince yet die with little or no acclamation.
Yeah.... I never got a straight answer other than 'I loved his music' and lets say the 'ad hominem' was real strong that day.
A few weeks ago after Prince died, there were many written eulogies praising his accomplishments. In one such article (on a conservative blog) I asked, while Prince had been a skilled entertainer what had he done that warranted so much praise? I pointed out that there are many scientists, engineers, teachers, rescue people and soldiers that have done far more for our society than Prince yet die with little or no acclamation.
Yeah.... I never got a straight answer other than 'I loved his music' and lets say the 'ad hominem' was real strong that day.
Posted by: TBlakely at May 28, 2016 02:39 PM (F+hvk)
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"A society that worships carnival-barkers appearing on idiot boxes is a society that is already brain-dead and which should be euthanized out of simple mercy."
It's been said: "Those the gods would destroy, first are made mad."
It's been said: "Those the gods would destroy, first are made mad."
Posted by: Gulermo at May 29, 2016 04:47 PM (Z9Pe7)
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It just angers me the "these Leftist" would like to make P Diddy as poor as all other Blacks.
Posted by: Islamic Rage Boy at May 30, 2016 05:43 PM (e8kgV)
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RE: What Makes 'Liberals' Angry
That's the question.
Here's the answer: A successful suburban family.
Here's the why: Jealousy.
That's the question.
Here's the answer: A successful suburban family.
Here's the why: Jealousy.
Posted by: Chuck Pelto at May 30, 2016 05:47 PM (50qL7)
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Amen.
Posted by: moron at May 30, 2016 07:52 PM (Ot2SO)
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The only thing that should mater about Katie Couric is: does she take it uptake ass?
Posted by: The Indicator at May 30, 2016 10:09 PM (L7QzQ)
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ACE U is it.
Whatever one thinks of Trump, seeing him nail these C*nts, fairly or not, gives vagina monologues a new twist
Whatever one thinks of Trump, seeing him nail these C*nts, fairly or not, gives vagina monologues a new twist
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