tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post8300974249405217784..comments2024-03-05T19:50:31.497-08:00Comments on World O' Crap: Toad in the HoleScotthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02798340582589737829noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-53168408067100476942013-01-31T07:38:16.453-08:002013-01-31T07:38:16.453-08:00Wingnuts are really magical creatures. They spent...Wingnuts are really magical creatures. They spent four years telling their loyal subjects Obama was Kenyan Socialist and refusing to govern. They made no secret of their goal of making him a one term President. When Obama wins, they threaten to secede from the Union. But Obama is to blame for the divisiveness in America? They seem convinced that even though their side lost, Obama should govern as Republican because doing anything less will sow division. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-37255694866361923832013-01-31T04:30:48.787-08:002013-01-31T04:30:48.787-08:00"Similarly, Franklin D Roosevelt would not ha..."Similarly, Franklin D Roosevelt would not have been able to persuade Congress to embrace the New Deal if it hadn't been for the Great Depression."<br /><br />So he thinks the great Depression just sorta happened, and that it blinded everyone long enough to pass Communism West, which didn't actually have anything to do with alleviating the effects of the Great Depression.<br /><br />I shouldn't be surprised. The conservatives still think they woulda won in 2008 if it weren't for Katrina and the economic collapse, both of which were acts of God that no one could possibly have done anything about or reacted to better.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16137423464577067869noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-40595283644832064262013-01-30T17:27:33.393-08:002013-01-30T17:27:33.393-08:00I hope that Etymological Pedant will expand his sc...I hope that Etymological Pedant will expand his scope to gripping adventures in the field, just like the rather cool radio serials and noir B movies of the post-WW2 era that featured intrepid insurance and postal fraud investigators. Dramas about rooting out white collar corruption, often on the local level, were surprisingly common around then. My film-history-expert sister's opinion is that the GIs came home and found that a lot of profiteers had entrenched themselves during the war, and didn't like it.<br /><br />I usually use "glamour", but it always <i>looks</i> Yurpeen to me. I wanted to be all-American in that post.Li'l Innocenthttp://ladysmantle.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-75490950549024527982013-01-30T10:22:29.838-08:002013-01-30T10:22:29.838-08:00Isn't that a Cole Porter lyric?Isn't that a Cole Porter lyric?Scotthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02798340582589737829noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-18947683003785978962013-01-30T08:50:47.609-08:002013-01-30T08:50:47.609-08:00A cooper assembling a firkin? Is that anything li...A cooper assembling a firkin? Is that anything like a wigmaker weaving a merkin?Fearguthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18424358658004747702noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-84496162463697365122013-01-30T04:28:01.104-08:002013-01-30T04:28:01.104-08:00Remember, "bipartisanship" means "g...Remember, "bipartisanship" means "giving the GOP everything it wants and demanding nothing in return." Know your goddamn place!! Just because you won an election doesn't mean shit if you're not a white Republican!!Tognoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-33791476653187779582013-01-29T07:54:58.190-08:002013-01-29T07:54:58.190-08:00Li'l writes: It's true, when Brits get dis...Li'l writes: <i>It's true, when Brits get disillusioned they don't do much more than throw rocks, burn cars, and loot storefronts. No AK47s. No "nullifying". No glamor.</i><br /><br />Honor, humor, rumor, color, and of course glamor, which are honour, humour, rumour, colour, and glamour, in British English.<br /><br />Glamour seems to have survived the trip across the pond, however, and despite the fact that glamor will get nothing but a shrug from American dictionaries, glamour is still the preferred American usage.<br /><br />Personally, I think it's because a magazine of that name greets us every day at the checkout stand of the local supermarket.<br /><br />Thank you, this has been another episode of "Etymological Pedant". Tune in next week for obsessive arguments about comma usage in lists.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-7064586564617807332013-01-28T15:01:07.837-08:002013-01-28T15:01:07.837-08:00Sad Wanker writes: What a contrast last night'...Sad Wanker writes: <i>What a contrast last night's Inaugural Address was compared to the one President Obama gave four years ago. Gone was any attempt to reach out to his Republican opponents.</i><br /><br />Thus Toby forgets himself and stupidly acknowledges what has been true all along; that Obama was in fact attempting to work bi-partisanally with Republicans throughout his first term.<br /><br />I don't even need to look at this chowderhead's previous work to know that this is something he never acknowledged at any point during that time, instead churning out the same standard conservative boilerplate bullshit as the rest, which held that Obama was not making an effort to work with Republicans.<br /><br />Jeezus, no shame, no pride, and no attention span-- like a stupid cocker spaniel, for whom when the ball rolls under the couch, it simply ceases to exist altogether.Chris Vosburgnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-54441856348320683172013-01-28T14:43:44.939-08:002013-01-28T14:43:44.939-08:00Can't compete witchoo in the sly jab departmen...Can't compete witchoo in the sly jab department (which has nothing to do with Mandate, one hastens to add), Scott...<br /><br />but I must say, that to go blithely from "similarly ambitious liberal programme" to "was unable to get almost any of it through Congress" without so much as an "Ahem" or an "our American friends, of whom I have many, I'm sure, will wink at my unconventional usage" requires the kind of je-ne-sais-wot? that only a failed Brit sex farcist can be expected to display.<br /><br />So how come ol' Toby came to these benighted shores? The grim public disillusion brought on by wholesale abandonment of the social contract performed by his very own "liberal" Prime Minister wasn't acid enough for him? <br /><br />It's true, when Brits get disillusioned they don't do much more than throw rocks, burn cars, and loot storefronts. No AK47s. No "nullifying". No glamor.Li'l Innocenthttp://ladysmantle.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-62657347409679215052013-01-28T13:56:54.091-08:002013-01-28T13:56:54.091-08:00I see Toby Tyler lost all his hair when he grew u...I see Toby Tyler lost all his hair when he grew up. Whatever happened to that cute little monkey he hung out with?Dr.BDHnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-22306086573486091302013-01-28T11:25:34.513-08:002013-01-28T11:25:34.513-08:00When Republicans win, Democrats are supposed to &q...When Republicans win, Democrats are supposed to "get over it" and when Democrats win, Democrats are supposed to "reach across the aisle" !Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-8661346965687160372013-01-28T10:05:55.803-08:002013-01-28T10:05:55.803-08:00He forgot to mention that Bush II would never have...He forgot to mention that Bush II would never have passed the fascist "Patriot Bill" or started the Iraq war, or CRASHED our economy without .... 9/11!<br /><br />Sure, Obama is just waiting for some Earth shattering crisis to occur, like Hurricane Sandy or Sandy Hook, or 20% unemployment paired with "austerity" for all the Poors. Eh. I'm tired.Kathyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03176801494652946278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-90649602268295699502013-01-28T07:24:04.667-08:002013-01-28T07:24:04.667-08:00Jenghazi Rubin at the War Criminal Post can splain...Jenghazi Rubin at the War Criminal Post <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2013/01/28/morning-bits-37/" rel="nofollow">can splain it to you</a>, Carl.<br />~ifthethunderdontgetya™³²®©https://www.blogger.com/profile/06252371815131259831noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-37364856050527236312013-01-28T02:36:16.342-08:002013-01-28T02:36:16.342-08:00Why should Obama reach out to the same people who ...Why should Obama reach out to the same people who basically tried to demolish his administration?<br /><br />He has the Senate and the House *Republicans* are so divided that Weaker Boener has to rely on the Democrats to get anything done.<br /><br />So how is Obama supposed to reach a hand across the aisle?Carlhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03664920037425489644noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1776456473941522431.post-77627741328731959822013-01-28T00:39:04.268-08:002013-01-28T00:39:04.268-08:00mandate magazine, that brings back some memories. ...mandate magazine, that brings back some memories. First ever boyfriend gave me a copy, saying it was for women. To my surprise, it did indeed feature a life-sized, full-page, colour photo of a man's date. Magpienoreply@blogger.com