Barry’s Tranny Nanny

Bonus query to the Stinque copy editor corps: How many mistakes do you spot in the teabagger’s one-sentence comment?

I suppose the answer depends upon your position on the serial comma, but I see at least six.

/and yes I will be that petty.

Volleyball?

Yeah, it’s all Satan’s fault for Barry the Middle-ist to have a wide reaching varied life instead of being stuck in the same podunk town forever and a day.

@Benedick: Hey, at least it wasn’t that Marxist game of soccer that US ‘Merikans can’t understand because there aren’t enough beer commercials.

THIS is the kind of news we need

@SanFranLefty: “Spiritural” is my fave.

I can’t even see grammatical mistakes any more. Not in bloggers’ comments, anyway. It’s an automatic flinch reaction. I just gloss over the whole thing.

Indonesian boys? Super-hot once you get some muscle on them. Like Benneton catalog covergirls, only with pecs.

Super-hot, say I!

@Benedick: It’s like that Irish game where they throw their enemies heads around, only with suntan lotion and beer.

@Tommmcatt: Sex God or AVATAR OF SEX?!?!?! You be the judge… and Benedick: Don’t forget this fine moment in volleyball history.

@Tommmcatt: Sex God or AVATAR OF SEX?!?!?! You be the judge…: Riverdance?

@Benedick: Exactly.

@SanFranLefty: Yeesh, there’s that guy from my nightmare again.

@SanFranLefty: $200 million a day for the travel, and Dubya couldn’t even deliver a proper celebratory “bump”? Maybe he was afraid of what was behind the door.

…if his childhood nanny and neighborhood butcher lived in the United States they have the Constitutional right to equal treatment under the laws…

Um, not quite true. There are dozens of financially important benefits that we still don’t receive equal treatment for.

(That’s not a swipe at you, SFL, please don’t put me on a high horse for that comment.)

It’s…comforting?…to know that Barry grew up surrounded by the gheys and yet still can’t bring himself to come out in favor of gay marriage or even to deliver that executive order stopping the DADT excommunications from the military. Not that I care much about whether gays can serve the oligarchical imperialist warmongering machine. But still, it seems to be a question of basic equality.

Sorry for another random Barry-bashing post, but I don’t get what some of y’all see in him. He’s a tool, that’s just plain.

Me thinks progressives have been so down-trodden these last few decades that it’s impossible to rationally evaluate the candidates based on actual policy and outcomes. We are reduced to rooting somewhat mindlessly for the home team.

i.e., the quarterback for the home team was so handsome and charismatic and gave such great inspirational speeches, we had to cheer him even when he deliberately tossed the ball to the opposing team.

@PedonatorUSA: Just think how kind Jim Crow Southerners were to their mammies.

@PedonatorUSA: You know the line about boiling the frog? I’m starting to think the water hit 212 degrees about twenty years ago.

Maybe a little less than twenty. What year was the Clinton Welfare Reform?

@nojo: Exactly.

But I’m not even focused on gay rights. I’m talking about human rights. Our constitutional law professor / philosopher king POTUS has done everything he and Eric Holder can to establish grievous abuses of basic rights as a matter of course.

At a recent dinner party one of my guests, a PhD who identifies as Liberal, made a comment in support of Obama to the effect: “When they get to that level, someone takes them into a room and shows all the scary intelligence.” As if that makes all the egregious attacks on civil liberties somehow OK.

Is my outrage only because I grew up educated in, perhaps the ’70’s, to believe in the US American Constitution?

Do you, Stinquers, believe that secret information absolves flagrant violations of law? Do you demand that the Administration, whatever it’s composed of, prosecute war crimes?

Or is it acceptable that, when your team wins and wields power, compromises must be made in order to maintain the team’s power?

WTF?

@nojo: 1996. Because that year fucked up a lot of things in the social welfare arena, that those of us who work in it are still dealing with it.

@PedonatorUSA: Unclear what your point is, since I said “laws” – note the plural SSSS. That’s intended to encompass everything. Apologies if that failed to encompass something you haven’t yet articulated but you thought I missed.

@PedonatorUSA: Oh, and no there is no secret room showing the HORRRR-errrr of the Moooslems.

Unless it’s the secret room that shows the annual income post-White House.

@nojo: What year was the Clinton Welfare Reform?

About 1996, after the last whiplash between the corporatist Democrats and the corporatist Republicans.

Personally, I enjoy Disney’s Mad Tea Cup Ride more than trying to make sense of the general US American zeitgeist.

@PedonatorUSA: Do you demand that the Administration, whatever it’s composed of, prosecute war crimes?

I’m sorry, the morning post remains under embargo.

But I am at liberty to mention the Jon/Rachel interview.

Jon thinks calling Bushies “war criminals” is overdoing it, because the term should be reserved for Pol Pot types. Rachel didn’t think to mention the Iraq civilian death count. Or Nuremberg.

@SanFranLefty: I’m sorry if I’ve pissed you off. But laws plural, as in some laws provide equal protection while others don’t, does not equal protection mean in my dictionary. And I know you are a fearless fighter for those protections, so I’m not sure where I crossed you on that.

@SanFranLefty: I’m sure Obama and his wife could earn much more in the private sector, right now, than they do in the White House. I truly don’t understand the motivations of people who aspire to that job.

I was arguing your point, that there is no scary room where all the nefarious plans of the Muslims are laid out and somehow progressives become warmongering, civil-rights-destroying avatars of “socialism”.

What I’m saying is, Obama has demonstrated, from the very beginning of his presidency and perhaps before, that civil rights, human rights, gay rights, and rule of law are not on the agenda. I welcome your arguments against that proposition.

@nojo: Wellington is looking better every day. I have my eye on a lovely corner of real estate by the main port area that would be perfect for a coffee shop/kayak rental spot. I promise free unlimited super-fast wi-fi so it could become the Stinque World Domination Headquarters ™ Southern Hemisphere.

@nojo: Which demonstrates how far to the right (?) / fascist have become the acceptable parameters of discourse.

The “mainstream” has become, almost by definition, that the truth lies in the exact middle between far-right Republican and center-right Democrat policies of “wealth redistribution”, and the redistribution trickles UP in all cases.

@PedonatorUSA: Really? You’re going to go down that dick straw man argument and expect me to defend it? It’s very cute 8th grade debate society move, but here you go:

Hitler was a vegetarian who loved animals.

I welcome your arguments against that proposition.

Anybody else watching that Rachel interview with Jon Stewart? It sucks really really bad. I should be in bed getting over this fucking bronchitis. Mrs RML walked out.

@redmanlaw: I took issue with a couple of points (one of which I now forget), but I didn’t have a problem with the interview as such.

Oh, now I remember the second point.

It was about “war criminals” again. Jon questioned whether FDR should be called Evil because of Japanese-American internment.

I answered Yes. Of course. There’s a problem?

And LBJ is Evil because of Vietnam.

Or, if you prefer, since we already went down that road: Unforgivable.

@nojo: It’s like one of those Godzilla movies where the matchup promises awesomeness and then they spend two thirds of the time chasing around young scientist, attractive female television reporter and various dorks and not enough time destroying Tokyo. I should be glad Godzooki didn’t show up, although the Mothra girls would have been cool.

@SanFranLefty: Which straw man? I don’t defend Hitler just because we are/were both vegetarians.

My problem with Obama is his record, two years going, on human rights. This is the most important reason I voted for Obama in 2008.

I want to know what you can deliver that counters the Obama administration’s atrocious record regarding state secrets to deny torture victims their day in court, the continuance of Guantanamo and the notion that some people are just too dangerous to bring to trial, perhaps because any evidence “we” have has been induced by torture, the continued denial of habeas corpus to people indefinitely imprisoned without charges in the slum-prisons of Bagram and who knows where else, the targeted assassination programs via drone sky robots that result in “collateral damage”, in effect, the complete destruction of everything I was taught US America stands for?

@redmanlaw: I dunno. I’ve also watched the recent interviews with O’Reilly and Larry King, and while the other two were enjoyable — sparring and shtick, respectively — I got a better sense of Jon himself with this one. Even if he was literally on the verge of barfing throughout.

Main thing, as I’ve said before: He really does his homework. And reflection.

I hear over and over again, from die-hard Democrats and moderate Republicans, that the wisdom resides in the “middle”.

That is utter bullshit.

The “middle” has verged so far toward the authoritarian right in the last few decades, it’s not at all funny.

That’s why I find Jon Stewart’s rally a bit nauseating. He’s just about the best TV “journalist” we have, and I enjoy his show, but the knee-jerk reaction that more “moderation” is needed seems a bit disingenuous.

@PedonatorUSA: Uhh, why do I have to deliver shit for Obama to sooth your angst? I just voted for the dude and nicknamed him Unicorn, I sure as hell ain’t hauling water for his ass. That said, I’m glad to see you are for once not denouncing us for being so shallow and not being as outraged as you are, on this great occasion of your tuning in to see what we’re up to.

@SanFranLefty: You are not obligated to deliver anything for Obama. To sooth my or anyone’s angst.

I voted for him too, and I was much more in favor of him than, for instance, Mrs. Clinton.

I never meant to denounce anyone for being shallow, I’m shallow and I wallow in the worst effluence of pop culture just like anyone else and I’m not ashamed to admit it.

But did I mistake this blog? Is it not about politics (and whatever else comes up by way of natural tangency)? When the issue is politics, politicians, and the havoc they wreak, I reserve the right to critical thinking.

Which comment did I make that pissed you off so much? I’m sorry, I think.