Saturday, February 17, 2007
A YouTube War?
TBogg doesn't know it yet, but he apprears to have fired the first shot. This simply cannot stand.
I'll see Shakira's ass, and raise one Mariah doing Def Leppard.
TBogg doesn't know it yet, but he apprears to have fired the first shot. This simply cannot stand.
I'll see Shakira's ass, and raise one Mariah doing Def Leppard.
Thursday, February 15, 2007
Shorter Jonah Goldberg
Maybe a Democrat should win
Maybe a Democrat should win
If a Democrat is elected to clean up Bush's Iraq, which is going great, we'll have them right where we want them.
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
More Donohue
The definition of wingnut welfare is a $300K/year job to go on the teevee and whine about how your group is so mistreated. Even when that group is the most powerful institution of the past 2000 years. Which of course brings us to the holder of said "job", Bill Donohue.
For someone who goes on and on about how ridiculing priests that molest children is anti-Catholic, I'd like to make it really simple for him.
When you ridicule people that wield great power, that's called satire. When you ridicule people that are basically powerless, that's called tasteless. And if you do it, you deserve a puch in the face.
You especially deserve one if you defend priests (the powerful) that molest altar boys (the powerless) by blaming the altar boys.
The definition of wingnut welfare is a $300K/year job to go on the teevee and whine about how your group is so mistreated. Even when that group is the most powerful institution of the past 2000 years. Which of course brings us to the holder of said "job", Bill Donohue.
For someone who goes on and on about how ridiculing priests that molest children is anti-Catholic, I'd like to make it really simple for him.
When you ridicule people that wield great power, that's called satire. When you ridicule people that are basically powerless, that's called tasteless. And if you do it, you deserve a puch in the face.
You especially deserve one if you defend priests (the powerful) that molest altar boys (the powerless) by blaming the altar boys.
That awful Cape Verde story
Haven't gotten around much lately, but I haven't much seen the Cape Verde stoning incident discussed much in the left blogosphere. Not that there's much to discuss - two women stoned to death and a third surviving is a pretty awful story. Details apparently indicate that one of the dead women dated one of her attackers some time in the past, and the killings were basically revenge for her rejection of him.
No, what I was curious about was what the conservatives had to say about it. Would they blame the women for being in that position (they were asking for it by being in swimsuits) or would they blame Muslims because it involved a stoning? Never mind that Cape Verde was a Portuguese colony with a mostly Christian population. Also never mind that there really is no such thing as an indigenous Cape Verdean, as the islands were completely uninhabited before the Portuguese set up shop. If there was a stoning, it must have been those dirty Muslims, according to conservatives.
So which was it? Blame the women or the Muslims?
Wait for it...
You got it! According to a chundersplash from Pajamas Media, you should blame both!
Update: From Dickslap's:
Jeez, Dan. That's just way too easy.
Haven't gotten around much lately, but I haven't much seen the Cape Verde stoning incident discussed much in the left blogosphere. Not that there's much to discuss - two women stoned to death and a third surviving is a pretty awful story. Details apparently indicate that one of the dead women dated one of her attackers some time in the past, and the killings were basically revenge for her rejection of him.
No, what I was curious about was what the conservatives had to say about it. Would they blame the women for being in that position (they were asking for it by being in swimsuits) or would they blame Muslims because it involved a stoning? Never mind that Cape Verde was a Portuguese colony with a mostly Christian population. Also never mind that there really is no such thing as an indigenous Cape Verdean, as the islands were completely uninhabited before the Portuguese set up shop. If there was a stoning, it must have been those dirty Muslims, according to conservatives.
So which was it? Blame the women or the Muslims?
Wait for it...
You got it! According to a chundersplash from Pajamas Media, you should blame both!
Let’s see...all three women were surfers. That means they were likely attractive, or in good shape, and probably spent a lot of time in public wearing swimsuits.
Now which global group gets all up in arms about women going about in skimpy attire and uses the practice of stoning as a punishment for that sort “lewd” behavior?
I’d be willing to wager good money that the men who killed these women were Islamic extremists and that the Associated Press is covering that fact up.
Update: From Dickslap's:
I guess one of them had sex with a local guy, so they killed her and another one for being, y’know, sluts. I’m wagering the attackers were Muslims, but I suppose that’s probably because I’m a bigot.
Jeez, Dan. That's just way too easy.
