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That’s what I was hoping to hear.
Turn and face the strange(r).
I would love to see a greater variety of folks posting in this place.
Besides the usual assortment of jingoes, fascists and cowards that is.
I’ve received thousands of emails asking me to be a contributor to HA.
@3 You spam your own in-box? That’s a sign of mental illness. You should check yourself into Harborview for a voluntary evaluation.
At a minimum, “Troll” appears to be suffering from delusions of grandeur. He has other delusions, too, which are evident every time he posts. He’s probably also schizoid, bipolar, and clinically depressed. There are signs of sexual repression in comment #3. All in all, he’d make an interesting lab study. I think the clinicians should dissect him.
Rightwingers Turn Violent In Egypt
Rightwing supporters of Egypt’s rightwing dictator violently attacked peaceful crowds demonstrating for democracy with firebombs, rocks, and machetes.
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/02.....-in-egypt/
The violent rightwingers even attacked a CNN news crew.
(link temporarily not available)
Egyptian liberals must arm!
Here’s the link for the rightwing violence against the CNN news crew.
http://www.popeater.com/2011/0.....ors-egypt/
@6
You’re forgetting to mention that the Mubarak-supporters attacked the protesters with Obama-made weapons. Many of the weapons have “Made in the USA” printed on them. And in the minds of the attacked protesters, something being made in the USA is synonymous with Obama.
@ 8
Thats a reach. All the way around to yourself.
Remember that Texas GOP candidate for Congress last fall who said civil war “is on the table” if the GOP lost at the ballot box? The pattern is the same all over the world. When conservatives can’t take over a country by rigging elections (like Mubarak has done for 30 years), they do it by killing innocent people. What is with the criminal mentality of conservatives? They must have warped genes, or something.
@8 Given the lead time involved in appropriating funds for foreign aid and ordering, procuring, and delivering weapons to a foreign country, these clearly are George W. Bush weapons. I’ll bet if you looked closely you would find “Gift of Republican Party USA” stamped on them.
Anyway, liberals (not that Obama is a liberal, he isn’t, he’s a Republican-lite) don’t send weapons to foreign countries, we send food and medicines. Only conservatives love weapons, war, and killing.
And only a conservative is stupid enough to think he’s masturbating when he strokes a gun barrel with his hand.
A thought …
Maybe the U.S.’s porous southern border, allowing poor Mexicans to work in the U.S. and send money back home, is the only thing preventing Mexicans in Mexico from rising-up against their leaders, like jobless Egyptians are now doing.
Maybe by shipping Mexicans back home, then sealing the border, we’d be doing them a favor, because they could get to work on creating the kind of government that will end the poverty that makes them have to leave to find work.
Love the way teabaggers talk about “sealing the border”, like it was a zip lock bag or something.
@15
Not like a ziplock bag, rather like the North/South Korea border. That’s what I would like to see.
You really think the Troll is sane enough to qualify as a teabagger?
You really want a 3.5 million man Mexican Army on our Southern boarder?
Troll
You take idiocy to new levels. Did you know that Mexico is our second largest trading partner? North and South Korea are bitter enemies. Mexico is hardly our enemy. Why are you so racist? Is your racism the product of your being bullied and insulted your whole life?
@8 & @14
These two post together are kind of ironic since U.S. gun dealers are apparently supplying the drug dealers with the fire power to make ordinary Mexicans lives hellish.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/.....02663.html
Maybe when we send all those Mexicans back home we should give them each an AK-47 so they can defend themselves. (That’s sarcasm by the way)
Troll @16:
Unfortunately, what you would like to see has no basis in any kind of reality or rational thought. The US/Mexican border is over 1500 miles long, the Korean division is less than 150, and bristles with hostile military forces. You know nothing of what you speak.
Troll, you are an utter fucking moron. Do you really want to cut off all trade across the US/Mexico border? Prohibit all crossings by land, sea, or air to and from the US? Because that is what it would take to make sure not a single Mexican citizen was on US soil without proper documentation. The vast majority of Mexican nationals who are in the US without a valid visa crossed the border legally by plane, car, bus or on foot.
@21, 22
Troll’s a troll, what do you expect?
The funny part about Troll is that people take the shit he spews seriously even after he gave us all the helpful hint of naming himself Troll.
Keep up the good work Mr. Troll!
@20
Edward Abbey said every Mexican should be stopped at the border, given a rifle and a box of ammo and sent back to finish the revolution they started in 1910.
Glad to hear it, Goldy.
Need a cartoonist?
Need a village idiot? I hear Troll is available
I hope the changes include new and improved trolls. Ours have become rather tiresome.
re 8: I thought Obama was a Muslim. Do you mean to say that Muslims (Mohammedans) don’t accept as one?
@28
Maybe we could advertise over at Pudge’s place?
re 30: Have you seen Pudge’s photo of himself standing in front of an American flag with ‘Black Ops’ shades on? It’s a hoot.
Maybe I’ll capture that picture and photoshop a telescopic gunsight over his face. He’s said himself that that sort of thing is OK to do.
Actually, our two senior legal analysts from the peanut gallery (Richard Pope and Roger Rabbit)would probably write interesting, informative, and provocative posts.
30
Fine idea. I doubt any blog would trade for our trolls unless we threw in some draft picks and cash.
“Have you seen Pudge’s photo of himself standing in front of an American flag with ‘Black Ops’ shades on? It’s a hoot.”
And it’s shot at such an angle that the viewer “looks up” to Pudge. He’s so full of it, the freak has narcissism seeping from his pores.
@33 I’m hoping the new contributors will bring some new trolls with them. I can’t even bother myself anymore with the shit-fer-brains trolls we have now.
Did you see where Pudge banned Liberal Scientist after a few posts over at SP with “You are a liar!” repeated umpteen times? Too funny. And so predictable.
PF @31:
I was particularly fond of Pudgy on you-tube a couple years ago, standing there in a baseball cap and t-shirt, wailing mournfully into a microphone about how the govt is going to take his hard-earned money away from him. He called himself “liberty man”.
You couldn’t possibly come up with a more amusing parody of this guy than himself.
It’s amazing how the right just keeps breeding these fruitcakes.
re 34– Sound Politics became a big bore the minute they started ‘banning’ people from commenting based on the fact that the offending commenter successfully protrayed them as the half-smart, junior WFB Jr’s the fancied themselves to be.
Someone made a statement the other day that stuck with me about conservatives were those who stood athwart history and got run over by it time and again.
“You couldn’t possibly come up with a more amusing parody of this guy than himself.”
Spot on.
Take a look is you’d like a chuckle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hliJgtt3Nv4
37: “conservatives were those who stood athwart history and got run over by it time and again.”
Very apt. Right now, they’re standing athwart history in Egypt. Of course, our trolls would argue that Mubarak is a leftist and the protesters are the Egyptian equivalent of Teabaggers.
39
Oh, my. Thanks for the link. Very amusing. Pudgy’d better not seek work as a lyricist. How could someone with so little talent and so little to say think that such a performance belongs in the public domain?
Kinda like how could Sarah Palin somehow beleive she was even remotely qualified to be Vice President of the United States.
They are just too stupid to know what they don’t know.
I’d have to say his guitar work leaves a lot to be desired as well.
@39 “Take a look is you’d like a chuckle”
Whoa!! That was to puke. I couldn’t take more than 30 seconds of that insipid shit. But maybe I’ll forward the link, without comment, of course, to my dear Ms. Wingnut. That’d get me a long ways towards even for all the strange wingnut shit like chain emails that she sends to me.
‘Cause allowing gays to marry and join the army takes everything Pudge built with his own two hands away from him…
According to the song he’s worked his fingers to the bone, the video provide evidence otherwise.
I’d bet that my dear Ms. Wingnut has seen that sap perform (hmm, I feel that I might puke again at the thought) at the Republican picnics or some such wingnut events.
And yet Pudge sincerely believes he has a message to convey and this is how he should do it.
All it takes is chutzpa and blind faith
@45 I was just telling Liberal Scientist over on the Jasmine thread how I loved your photography.
Steve @46:
He’s regular at those “Republican picnics”. I’ve been sorely tempted to crash one just for giggles.
Not sure I could control myself though.
@37 “Someone made a statement the other day that stuck with me about conservatives were those who stood athwart history and got run over by it time and again.”
That was a quote I posted from a news article about Reagan-appointee federal judge Vinson in Florida who threw out the whole health care reform law using the Boston tea party as his legal authority.
These Republican activist judges like Vinson are a frickin’ joke. They give the whole legal profession a bad name.
The Republicans got their up-or-down vote on health reform repeal in the Senate today. They lost 51-47. Now it’s time for them to quit grandstanding and start working on the nation’s problems.
Goldy,
Did you pack a lunch?
Best Wishes.
MIxing art/music with propaganda is a firmly-established fascist tradition. As a good little fascist, Pudgy does his part to spread his message of rightwing lunacy. Who could listen to such pap, pap played poorly? I’ll give him credit, though, he can at least carry a tune.
WikiLeaks Nominated For Nobel Peace Prize
“A Norwegian politician has nominated WikiLeaks for the Nobel Peace Prize, saying the secret-sharing website contributes to freedom of speech and government transparency.
“Snorre Valen, a 26-year-old member of Norway’s parliament, submitted the nomination ….
“‘By disclosing information about corruption, human rights abuses and war crimes, WikiLeaks is a natural contender for the Nobel Peace Prize,’ Valen told Reuters Wednesday. …
“Valen compared WikiLeaks to last year’s Peace Prize winner, Chinese dissident Liu Xiaobo, who he said similarly struggled ‘for human rights, democracy and freedom of speech.’
“Valen also gave WikiLeaks some credit for helping topple the dictatorship in Tunisia ….”
http://www.politicsdaily.com/2.....ace-prize/
Roger Rabbit Commentary: This will piss off the righties, who love government secrecy and fascist dictators. Good! I love to watch wingnut heads explode.
I think the Nobel Peace Prize should go either to WikiLeaks, the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, or that guy who set himself on fire in Tunisia.
By dousing himself with gasoline and striking a match he did more for Africans than 100 years of colonialism.
“He’s regular at those “Republican picnics”. I’ve been sorely tempted to crash one just for giggles.”
Just be sure to wear a Made-in-China flag pin. Without one of those, you’ll likely stick out like a sore thumb.
@30, etc
This is what Pudge said to me the other day, in a thread about a post where he oh so cleverly made a map with crosshairs showing people who made links between violent rhetoric and violent behavior – which of course in Pudge-world cannot happen:
Hey! Where’s our daily rant from the anti-reality winguts about how Obama’s poll ratings show he’s the worst President ever! (except for George W. Bush who DID have the lowest approval rating in history of polling, while Obama’s ratings are up and mirror Ronald Reagan’s, oh THAT’s why, never mind).
@36
NO WAY! I want to see that you-tube.
Somebody pointed me to Pudge’s personal site – Chris Nandor – and he does fancy himself a musician. I haven’t heard any of the tunes, and maybe he’s talented, who knows, but he has a link to him serenading the Republican debaters on CNN – high comedy.
Back to Troll @ 16, who wants to “seal” the border the same way the N. Korean and S. Korean borders are “sealed”.
Just goes to show you how little he knows. Aside from the length of the border and the size of the army required to defend it to that extent. note that the Korean border is heavily mined, with lots of claymores and other nasty devises, some of which are connected by trip wires. Now let’s also point out that quite a few ranchers on the U.S. side rely upon the Rio Grande for their local water supply (watering cattle, horses, etc., which was one reason the fence was so unpopular – it cut them off from their water supply, making their land worthless. Now let’s imagine the new “DMZ” littered with bodies of men, women, and children, along with thousands of horses and cattle, etc.
I guess this sort of vision is what makes him happy?
Thanks Steve, but I’ll just put on my “where’s the birth certificate” t-shirt, staple a few Lipton tea bags to the bill of my “Obama is a Socialist” baseball hat, and scribble up a “keep you’re govirmet hands off my Medicar” poster.
Should be a cinch.
So I’ve been banned over there – I was only posting for a few days, but it turns out I’m a liar and I try to convince others of my insane and depraved ways with my lies – and therefore I needed to be silenced. To protect the wingnuts from my lies, or something.
I’ve been having a bit of fun posting over and over on a thread about health care in which pudge admits that the Republicans came up with the mandate, but it really wasn’t their idea because they didn’t really believe in it, it was just that they had to come up with something to compete with Hilary in the 1990s. You see, they didn’t have any ideas of their own, and they really didn’t want to do anything about millions of people without health care, but they needed to appear that they did, in order to stop Hilary, and so they came up with the universal mandate.
Got it?
I post little come backs, and see how long it takes pudge to make them totally disappear – this fucker could have worked for the Argentine junta, and I’m sure would have, given the chance.
@63
FIELD TRIP!!!!!
Hey, anybody want to go over to SP right now and bring some light and clarity to their latest thread – it’s by Stefan and about how people in Wallingford don’t hold Sarah Palin in high enough esteem? Or something. Might be fun.
Lib Sci:
Here’s the link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hliJgtt3Nv4
Enjoy
@66
Love to but Stefan wouldn’t let me post last time I checked.
“keep you’re govirmet hands off my Medicar”
I was going to mention something about spelling but I see that you’ve got it taken care of.
@69
Moran
Hey kids, Chuckie Schumer here….can someone remind me what the 3 branches of our goverment are? I realize I am a member of the goverment, but I will be god damned if I can remember all three!
Dont worry, my lack of knowledge about the three branches wont get much airplay because I’m a democrat, so lets just keep this our little secret.
be a good democrat and make sure your dead relatives and illegal immigrants friends vote often!
see you tools, oops, I mean progressives, later!
“it’s by Stefan and about how people in Wallingford don’t hold Sarah Palin in high enough esteem?”
I suspect that the Palin toilet paper has him bummed out.
http://www.baronbob.com/palintoiletpaper.htm
I take it that Stefan views Pudge’s target map as, um, what? Funny?
I think I, Chuckie Schumer, should be a weekly contributor.
I could do something along the lines of a civics thread every week….I mean, after someone reminds me how our governments works and all..
Lets see here, I think I got it now: The senate branch, the house of representatives branch, and the president branch!
woohoo! I did it! Not bad for a veteran law maker like myself.!
goldy seems to think that more than 2 dozen people actually read the stranger.
@72
Yes, exactly. And about liberal chuckling about the intersection of the Tea-bagging sex-act and the Great Patriotic Movement to Restore God-Given Order.
Pudge was particularly upset about “lewdness” He did after all graduate from the Bible Institute of Los Angeles. No, really.
74
How ya doin’, Maxie? I’ve got a little existential question for you: when a vacuum, rather than brain matter, occupies your cranial space, do you ever get headaches?
Honest! BIOLA?!
That is a scream!
No wonder the poor sap is so fucking dumb.
How long do you think it will take them to make my latest post disappear?
In response to this:
I wrote this:
@77
Indeed.
@77
It likely explains his insistence that he didn’t have to prove that a blastocyst was a human being – because science already had, and he said so.
I asked for citations from the peer-reviewed literature, and he responded that peer-reviewed literature had nothing to do with science, and he didn’t need to provide citations for things that were “obviously true”.
Yeah Moran, Rep James Moran
78
Wow, Wallingford is dangerous? No wonder these freaks are armed to the teeth. Their cowardice (and inability to get an erection without pharmaceutical assistance) defines their very essence. Let us know when they delete your post, they who believe so strongly in political dialogue that they believe that Citizens United must be Gospel text.
If corporations can contribute unlimited funds to political causes, how come Sound Politics ain’t gettin’ any?
Even when the corporations are throwing all the shit they can on the walls of conservo-politics — somehow Sound Politics NEVER GETS ANY. Just like the young Republicans on any college campus.
Sound Politics = Shitless in Seattle.
@82
Someone, with a masters in contemporary lit from the UW, might hit you with their latest novel while walking to Zoka for a latte. People with liberal arts degrees are savages.
@78
They’re still up, for now. I think it’s because it’s not pudgey’s post, but someone named Stafan Sharkansky. (Is that a real name?)
There’s someone decrying the awful liberal Jim Crow-like treatment of gay conservatives by liberals (!), or something – it’s usually hard to tell what the point actually is.
BIOLA!
That explains a lot!
Still can’t post at SP.
Darn!
I think that even gay liberals can see the humor in Republican gays calling themselves ‘Log Cabin’ Republicans.
It’s the same sort of PR blunder the Teabaggers were guilty of.
Looks like my SP posted twice.
@89
Who did that asshole get fired?
Yeah, I saw that. Not sure what he meant. I knew a gay conservative once. Felt very sorry for him. He was very confused.
@90
I don’t remember the whole story, but he and his wife were dining somewhere and he didn’t like the service he got and raised such a stink that the waitress got fired. I think Goldy wrote a post on it on here.
I think the waitress asked them to monitor their child — and ‘STEFAN’ didn’t like it.
That guy is a snake in the grass.
@93
Yeah, that’s it. The kid was being a brat.
Michael @ 84
Is there any real question that liberal arts majors pose a dire threat to families, family values, and our future? Best to avoid any venue that might harbor liberal arts majors. Keep thine children safe from heathen influences! For God’s sake.
@ 84
That explains why so many of them end up becoming lawyers.
@90, 92 Stefan got a single mom fired from her waitress job because she had the temerity to tell Stefan’s rowdy kid to behave himelf because he was disturbing other restaurant patrons.
Nice guy, huh? A bottom feeder who pocketed $225,000 of King County taxpayer money after suing for an alleged public records violation (which was never determined to have occurred; the county, represented by a Republican prosecutor, settled out of court) and his rich corporate lawyer wive take their rowdy, loud, rude, undisciplined kid into a public place (was their kid raised by wolves in a fucking cave?) and Stefan gets a single mom waitress fired because she tells the little brat to be quiet. That’s how rich wingnuts behavior toward the proletariat. What an asshole. What an absolute prick. The county taxpayers should get a refund of the whole $225,000. We should take it out of Dan Satterberg’s pay.
Feb 2 comes and goes and all is well.
And Puddybud is scarce these days.
Awesome!
@99 And Puddybud is scarce these days
That’s because he has a job. If you had one you could have contributed to Goldy’s $25000 Desperate Plea for Funds for HA last year . . . and prevented Goldy from actually have to work himself.
100 – Puddybud has a job? And enough spare “time” to enter nearly 30,000 comments since April 2005.
Beating me by well over 10,000…
About 17,000 handles in the database – the community around this website apparently wasn’t large enough to support one blogger full-time.
And 30 percent of the comments entered here are troll comments – not much of a community there to be sure.
@101 This place is so much less a cesspool now that Puddy and the Klown have split. Good riddance to both of them.
SP was about dead – little more than a Pudge admiration society – until a couple of our friends recently showed up there and livened the place up. Well done, guys, but I suggest that you now let SP stagger on to its deserved demise.
@102 This place is so much less a cesspool now that Puddy and the Klown have split
—
Heh, heh – with Goldy gone their job is complete.
“First day on the job at the Stranger, and no, HA is not shutting down. In fact, we’re adding contributors. Stay tuned for more news.”
@103 “Heh, heh – with Goldy gone their job is complete.”
Nice try, but they gave up. They’re brain-fried losers and quitters, much like your Quitta from Wasilla.
Heh. That’s how we like our trolls. Burnt to a crisp so you can deposit the ashes in the nearest dank pit.
Ashes – that’s pretty much how a troll turns out after their terminally wrong-headed notions are exposed to the light of day.
@102
Yeah, SP was a bit of fun – it can be good exercise to hone an argument, but they’re willfully ignorant. Their refutation of anthropogenic climate change were links to powerline.com and subsequent links to Lord Moncton and assorted other loons.
And they were bragging about stocking up on incandescents and adding TSP to their phosphate-free detergents.
I think if someone posted “safe drinking water” at a well, they’d deliberately piss in it.
That sort of willful stupidity – it is so discouraging. There should be consequences – how about a registry – in 50 years, those who believe that humans are destabilizing the climate and harming the planet and are trying to do something about it – we get reserved plots of land >20m above sea level, and those guys have to go live in Florida.
This is just priceless, Lib Sci, well done:
@104
Right. It’s been such a roaring success Goldy required hefty donations all last year, and STILL had to find a real job this year at a minor PRINT newspaper. And he was sucking oxygen just a year after the progressive “earthquake.” Now that was quite a hat trick!
So, it’s a real relief his strategy now THAT HE’s GONE is to add contributors. I’m sure that’s been the missing ingredient!
Memo to Goldy: Find an audience that is at least willing to make donations to the cause!
Too damn funny!
108 – zzzzzzzzzZZZZZzzzz…. Nothing sillier than a right wing prick gloating over his own fantasies.
Brownie got fired. Woman beater Irons was rejected. And Dino Lossi’d – three times.
HA was a success and will continue to be so.
Right wingers are the groupies of fear and will always be that way.
@106:
I don’t go to Sound Politics anymore – it is too dperessing to see how willifullyu stoopid some people can be. Pudge is a naricisstic fool who argues like a three year old. When wittle Pudgie has no real answers of facts he just attacks by lashing out – just like a little kid.
The rest of the crew at Sound Politics has the combined IQ that is less than the sum total of their ages or shoe sizes. Really, I have had people there argue that we have the “best health care in the world” and that the statistics that put us behind Slovenia are “rigged”. Any facts or arguments can be refuted by the “liberal media” theory – and any fact can be trumped by the “states rights” argument….that of course means nothing of the sort.
Why bother to go to a site with a bunch of simpletons who cannot even understand the basics of science or logic?
@109 HA was a success and will continue to be so
When HA was on the ropes in 2010 and seeking $25,000 in donations from the faithful, the response was so great Goldy ended up having to take a job in 2011:
Steve: $10
Liberal Scientist: $7
and last but not least (other than the amount!)
YLB: $5
Meanwhile, it’s quickly becoming apparent that Goldy’s master business plan for salvaging HA by ADDING contributors ACTUALLY MEANS . . . getting Darryl to write more!
You’re better at comedy!
With right wingers everything boils down to three things: the “gubmint”, the “emmessemmm” and “those people”.
The “gubmint” is the whipping boy they blame for all their own problems and inadequacies. The right wing desire is to always covet and control it and when they do control it – beat it into submission to their warped desires.
The “emmessemm” when it does its job to report reality and the facts almost ALWAYS contradicts the right wing world view and therefore is a blood enemy.
Then there’s “those people” – usually gays, lesbians and people of color but it can also be anyone who receives a government benefit of any kind from a retiree receiving a government pension check to a worker on a public contruction project working at the prevailing wage. The right winger hates ANYONE who has it a bit easier by taking advantage of a government sponsored opportunity – whether it’s a government job, subsidized housing, welfare or even a college tuition grant. The most shocking anger I’ve seen from a right winger is towards military service people who have the temerity to think freely and don’t subscribe to their knee jerk views.
The right winger is suffused with unhinged rage. It’s always me, me, me. The thought of a level playing field and we’re all in this together is unspeakable to their closed, pinched mentality.
To the right winger, politics is a never ending cavalcade of football: a right wing politician winning is a game winning touchdown, a tax cut is tantamount to winning the Super Bowl. Back and forth, back and forth it goes even until death when the ultimate win is to pass all their life’s gains to their favored right wing heirs as with the aristocracies of old with not a cent of tribute to the society that made it all possible for them.
@111
hahahahahhahhaha…too damn funny..and TRUE.
YLB, you big spender you! a whole 5 bones!?!?!?
what a cheap son of a bitch!
hahahhahahhahahhahahahhahhahh
113 – You believe everything you’re fed do you?
Yawwwwn.. So typically right wing..
believing you are a cheap SOB is hardly a stretch of the imagination…
I like the gratuitous David Bowie reference from Hunky Dory way way back in the wayback machine. Few knew that he was an avid reader of Cordwainer Smith.