HULK SMASHED
It's another beautiful day, but I suppose that's trivial.
Not to them, they claim, but it's what's important to the great unwashed.
People are turning off their teevees, not reading newspapers and just plain sticking their fingers in their ears.
They sick of this shit.
I have no idea what you're talking about.
/Charlie "eight million" Gibson
Self-fulfilling...
Are we hippies teh new great unwashed?
It's frustrating,
I don't know how you do it day in and day out.
Sometimes, I tune out for weeks. I did last fall, if you'll remember. I was rarely here at night.
Trivial stuff we'll never hear:
"So, Sen. McCain, which finger did you scratch with? What's that on your lapel? How much money does your wife make and how does she spend it? Have you denounced your preacher's preacher? What's your golf score? Is that orange juice you're drinking? How much do you hate America? Did you just cackle?"
OT: Vietnam has entered the satellite age, with a rocket launch from South America hurling its first orbiter into space.
Scientists sitting in a western suburb of Hanoi, the Vietnamese capital, tracked the Ariane space rocket on Saturday as it propelled the Vinasat-1 on its path to hover 36,000km above the equator.
The location of the project's nerve centre - Ha Tay province - is an area where the old Vietnam meets the new.
The command centre is a walled compound packed with computers and a 13-metre-wide satellite dish.
The blast-off represents a big leap for communist Vietnam, a developing country that only introduced the internet a decade ago.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/
...0975C974E8E.htm
DFH's all washed last night. Please send news.
And, don't forget, the dirty fucking hippies didn't even want our Gloriously Forgotten War in Afghanistan, so how can you even take what they think seriously.
Much better to throw them some bitter, star-spangled dog toys to chew on while the Very Serious People make all the important decisions.
Let us also remember that the biggest story of last week, according to the MSM, was the crazy polygamist cult.
Sometimes I think we are a little out of touch with what most Americans are consuming, news-wise.
Amen, Atrios.
Anyone who didn't see this is missing a treat
If ABC had hosted the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
This mass is gayer than the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
Ruth, hows your feral houseguest doing?
I have even started pointing out to people that I wear a flag lapel pin and they look at me like "nice, now how about answer my fucking question about [personally important substantive issue]."
I was thinking of posting at FDL so people could hear Hamell's improvised love ballad to Jane Hamsher, but listened to it again last night and decided that those Very Serious People would likely be offended.
Funniest moment of the con, I thought.
Gromit
"Fuck it! Why go halfway?"
Pakistan has test-fired a long-range ballistic missile capable of carrying nuclear and conventional warheads, the military says.
The Shaheen II, or Hatf VI missile with a range of 2,000km, was launched from an undisclosed location on Saturday, Major-General Athar Abbas, a military spokesman, said.
Abbas also said that "this was the second test of the missile since February last year".
Shaheen is the longest range missile that the country has produced.
Pakistan's missile arsenal includes short-range, medium and long-range missiles.
"The launch was very successful. It hit the target with complete accuracy," Abbas said.
http://english.aljazeera.net/NR/
...22AB2858275.htm
Quit calling the pope gaii.
It's not like he wears Prada or anything.
Hi, virgotex, she was well enuff to let out in the morning, and is seeming quite well now, and eating. She really just cries to be out whenever I bring her in.
the compassion forum with campbell 'coke-nose' brown...holy shit, was that fucking drivel
Okay, so now that I woke up all pissy, I really need to get my day on.
Off to the store for groceries, and then house cleaning.
Whheeeeeeee!
In the endless tug of war between clannish identity politics and rational self-interest, it's pretty clear what direction 90% of the MSM is pulling in. Unfortunately, most humans seem to be hard-wired to fall for this crap. Hence the flag lapel pin.
Speaking of crazy cults, the Boston Globe compares the last Pope (JP2) to a crazy cult leader:
It'd take a miracle and then some:
"On Oct. 1, 2000, in a gesture redolent of a Sun Myung Moon mass wedding, John Paul made 123 saints, including the Philadelphia heiress Katharine Drexel."
LOL.
I am unwashed, and not so great... but you should have seen me earlier.
This is a priest only mass.
Snappy dressers, all.
This mass is gayer than the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
heh...heh...heh...
The whole thing is somewhat over the top.
Off to walk dogs, later!
I don't know why I'm fixated on the red shoes.
"The launch was very successful. It hit the target with complete accuracy," Abbas said.
So the missile flew off course and had to be self-destructed.
Pope: is it safe?
bad nght RM?
I see the audit of SCHIP concluded that the cretin in chief acted illegally in limiting state programs. If I could find it in print, I'd give you a link, but only have seen it on CSpan news crawl yesterday.
This mass is gayer than the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade.
But how does it compare the the Castro District Easter Parade?
The thread header is perfect for me pulling this up from below:
hard questions? that is US politics in a nutshell: attack on meaningless shit and then point out the weakness...that is how we end up with a fucking retard as president
Again, mandatory reading: Joe McGuinness' The Selling of the President 1968.
Thoughtful things, policy things, they are 'cool media' and play incredibly poorly in the 'warm media' of television. Emotional bits make good tv.
Since Nixon made television campaigning - selling yourself as a product via advertising - the norm for US politics, the public debates lost all semblance of being over issues. Instead, the 'issue' became a baeuty contest - which candidate can be more successful as "I'm not really a politician, but I play one on TV."
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To be fair, I'm usually unwashed unless I have to teach.
I'm unwashed at the moment, but I'll take a shower in a few. All I know is that C. Gibson's debate actions made me want to never allow my tv to go there again.
Maybe people have finally caught on the media's hustle.
Nah. They still play the lottery and feed the slot machines, don't they?
Amen, Atrios.
Anyone who didn't see this is missing a treat
If ABC had hosted the Lincoln-Douglas debates.
Molly Ivors | Homepage | 04.19.08 - 9:38 am | #
Spot on. I love it!
I don't know why I'm fixated on the red shoes.
You and Declan McManus...
We're the pretty damn good unwashed, 'kay?
see y'all later.
I don't know why I'm fixated on the red shoes.
Auntie Em! Auntie Em!
"we don't care about double digit increases in health care premiums. It's all about diner beverage selection"-David Shuster and Tweety
To be fair, I'm usually unwashed unless I have to teach.
You nasty little bastard.
Who's getting denounced in this thread? Is it too early to decide?
IDF soldiers torture, choke, beat and murder Palestinians
Not trivial: CA actually stopped insurance co's from cancelling policies when claims are filed, at http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com
David Shuster
He usta be kinda neutral. Now he's sold his soul to the Repukkkes.
You nasty little bastard.
No, I know who my daddy is.
I don't know why I'm fixated on the red shoes.
if yer a dude and feel confident in red shoes, you are pimp! it's like me rocking the tinkerbell temporary tattoo on my forearm (the 4 YO niece did it)
The Pope is everywhere, so I am watching Bear Grylls pretend to choke down fresh zebra flesh.
You and Declan McManus...
My thoughts exactly.
Don't you mock my lapel pin, you bastards! It saved my life during a shoot-out with American-hating terrrorists!
He usta be kinda neutral. Now he's sold his soul to the Repukkkes.
He's decided he wants to be a big-name player in the "news" business. Selling out's the first step.
No, I know who my daddy is.
And I know who my father is, you pig-eating son of whore.
Not trivial: CA actually stopped insurance co's from cancelling policies when claims are filed, at http://cabdrollery.blogspot.com
Good for California!
tho i expect a Big Insurance-backed return of the idea of splitting CA's electoral votes from one state into regions. Pure coincidence, no reprisal or manipulation at all, at all.......
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The biggest problem in my life is the difficulty I have in finding socks that match. Not one of these fuckin candidates has addressed this issue.
I know from personal experience that many of my friends and family have the same problem.
Jeez...title of a 'diary' at unrandom scoop blog:
Klein May Be A Jerk But These Folks Get It (Updated)
All praise the Village!
Who's getting denounced in this thread?
I had my turn--I think it's yours.
if yer a dude and feel confident in red shoes, you are pimp!
That's why I only wear boots with glass heels and goldfish.
No, I know who my daddy is.
Before you get all serious on me, I was just yanking your chain.
Shalom.
Dear me. I hope this is all in jest.
From below:
Tubing down the Salt River is hella fun though.
proud atheist
Okay, I'll give you that. And it's only a couple hours to the mountains (4 hours back with the Sunday traffic) and just a few hours to Rocky Point and nudibranch diving.
And if everyone on this blog were honest with themselves, they would agree with me.
I'm sockless right now because of this.
how fucking cool.
a mockingbird just landed outside my living room window and serenaded me.
The biggest problem in my life is the difficulty I have in finding socks that match.
The tyranny of matching socks must end!
And I know who my father is, you pig-eating son of whore.
Is NTodd from Kentucky?
You sure it wasn't mocking you?
Me! Me! You must denounce me! I've been ever so wicked. Wicked, wicked, nasty Blerb! And then the.....
a mockingbird just landed outside my living room window and serenaded me.
Kill the bastard. Too early for that shit.
a mockingbird just landed outside my living room window and serenaded me.
Don't kill it.
Regarding the focus on pursuing the trival: It's all the fault of those Trivial Pursuit people...
You sure it wasn't mocking you?
Could be. Wouldn't be the first time.
watertiger, You know the kids at FDL. How offended would they be if I went there and linked to Hammell's love song to Jane from his Eschacon show? I thought it was hysterical ("There's Jane working on her cyber tan). But it wasn't exactly in the dignified FDL style.
Chorus
"My husband's gonna beat the fuck out of you"
Soooo says Jaaaaane
I hate all of you.
a mockingbird just landed outside my living room window and serenaded me.
watertiger
Did it have a Brooklyn accent?
omg, is that Dick Cheney at the Pope mass in St. Patrick's?
Is NTodd from Kentucky?
Baghdad.
a mockingbird just landed outside my living room window and serenaded me.
I hope James Taylor and Carly Simon aren't far behind.
The sock parity conservation problem has been a real scourge for the standard model.
They wish it's what the great unwashed care about. But get us talking and really listening and you'll find that it's not true. So naturally doing just that is a very dangerous thing to do.
This is what's so scary about Obama for lots of elites, I think, even if they only sense it viscerally.
On a progressive continuum Clinton positions herself toward the elite end while Obama is down near the egalitarian end, where small d democracy sits.
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pimp my pope
The biggest problem in my life is the difficulty I have in finding socks that match.
Before I leave the house in the morning, I have to find matching socks for five, count them five, people.
Don't kill it.
Let me go check with the strange guy hiding behind the door in my bedroom.
a mockingbird just landed outside my living room window and serenaded me.
I hope James Taylor and Carly Simon aren't far behind.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas
No Nukes!
how fucking cool.
a mockingbird just landed outside my living room window and serenaded me.
watertiger
Friends saved from the dump in CO one of our favorite kids' books, The Mockingbird Book, out of print now.
"In the woods, in a tree sat a mockinbird. He could make any sound in the world so real you could almost see it. [page upon page of various sounds and the images]...
One day the hunters came. They came to shoot all the animals.
A huge voice said: GO AWAY
And they did..."
This shit drive me crazy:
When chiding the Democrats for wanting to withdraw troops, he has been known to warn that “Al Qaeda will then have won.” In an attack this winter on Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, the Democratic front-runner, Mr. McCain went further, warning that if American forces withdrew, Al Qaeda would be “taking a country.”
Critics say that in framing the war that way at rallies or in sound bites, Mr. McCain, the presumptive Republican nominee, is oversimplifying the hydra-headed nature of the insurgency in Iraq in a way that exploits the emotions that have been aroused by the name “Al Qaeda” since the Sept. 11 attacks.
Um, since when is reality a "critic"?
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/1...&hp&
oref=slogin
a mockingbird just landed outside my living room window and serenaded me.
watertiger
Did it have a Brooklyn accent?
Oddly enough, songbird species do have dialects. I am not sure about a Brooklyn accent though.
"I hate all of you.
NTodd, Bismarck Fan "
You DO NOT!
In fact, you love us so much you can't stay away. :-p
The tyranny of matching socks must end!
SteveNS | 04.19.08 - 9:49 am | #
You are an fuckin anarchist! Matching socks is the glue that holds our society together.
His name is NTodd ibn NTodd's Pa ibn NTodd's Pa's Pa ibn NTodd's Pa's Pa's Pa. Ibn means "son of".
My favorite part of the Pope deal is the play-by-play man.
He said people go to Mass to worship in the presence of God. Two sentences later he said people go to mass to get style points with the Pope
TR's life was save when an assassin's bullet failed to penetrate the copy of The Compleat Angler that he had in his breat pocket.
Before I leave the house in the morning, I have to find matching socks for five, count them five, people.
Why do you all need to wear the same matching socks? Is it a sock cult of some sort?
Gromit, I'd paste it during the later evening hours.
The earlier in the day, it's a bit more . . . serious.
He said people go to Mass to worship in the presence of God. Two sentences later he said people go to mass to get style points with the Pope
billy b
Think you have to wear Prada to earn style points with this Pope.
Sorry, I was riffing on this:
STEPHANOPOULOS: Excuse me, did an Elijah H. Johnson attend your church?
LINCOLN: When I was a boy in Illinois forty years ago, yes. I think he was a deacon.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Are you aware that he regularly called Kentucky “a land of swine and whores”?
LINCOLN: Sounds right -- his ex-wife was from Kentucky.
STEPHANOPOULOS: Why did you remain in the church after hearing those statements?
LINCOLN: I was eight.
The Liberal Mountain Latter Day Sock cult
If it was a Brooklyn mockingbird it would be scolding not singing.
You don't write, you don't call. Feh!
I bet it's making Pat Buchanan mental that part of this mass is in Spanish. 
Let me go check with the strange guy hiding behind the door in my bedroom.
Kill that bastard too.
Did it have a Brooklyn accent?
Oddly enough, songbird species do have dialects. I am not sure about a Brooklyn accent though.
leibniz
Oddly enough, that was the subject of my thesis in grad school, Sources of variability in the songs of the yellow-headed blackbird.
You are an fuckin anarchist! Matching socks is the glue that holds our society together.
Sometimes I wear a black knee sock on one foot, and a white ankle sock on the other.
Viva la revolucion!
George W. Bush says we’re on track to meet the nation’s goals for curbing global warming.
I see some hands waving out there. Didn’t know we had any goals for curbing global warming? Where were you in 2002 when the president put us on the road toward reducing the growth of greenhouse gas emissions by 18 percent by 2012?
So there.
Bush held a press conference in the Rose Garden this week to give us a warming progress report or, in his words, “share some views on this important issue.” He almost always refers to global warming as an environmental “issue.” As The Times’s Andrew Revkin noted on his blog, Dot Earth, most people talk about environmental problems. But perhaps the White House regards that as overly alarmist.
“I’m pleased to say that we remain on track to meet this goal,” the president said, in a tone that sounded rather belligerent considering this was supposed to be good news.
Did it have a Brooklyn accent?
Story in the NY Times a while back about a mockingbird on the Upper West Side that would imitate the beeping sound of trucks backing up.
Clever little bastards.
My favorite part of the Pope deal is the play-by-play man.
He said people go to Mass to worship in the presence of God.
'Cause you gotta go a long way to be in the Presence of an omnipresent God........
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The earlier in the day, it's a bit more . . . serious.
Yup, it's definitely waaay too much for the "Pull up a chair" thread.
Why do you all need to wear the same matching socks? Is it a sock cult of some sort?
Yes. Like the Duggars, we wear all matching clothes, always.
You don't write, you don't call. Feh!
Why didn't you finish that worm? What, your mother's cooking isn't good enough for you anymore?
noblejoanie-
I had no idea! How cool. I worked with Peter Marler for a while, who as you know did the classic research with white-crowned sparrows.
Pfft...blogs aren't "serious", are they?
'Cause you gotta go a long way to be in the Presence of an omnipresent God........
God tends to hang out around church coffers.
I know!
Since the economy is going to be an election concern, let's make illegal immigration a hot button issue.
Tell them they can't compete with cheap immigrant labor.
Then all those frustrated low earning potential Democrats will vote for us.
“I’m pleased to say that we remain on track to meet this goal,” the president said, in a tone that sounded rather belligerent considering this was supposed to be good news.
Bush doesn't think global warming is real.
Did it have a Brooklyn accent?
Story in the NY Times a while back about a mockingbird on the Upper West Side that would imitate the beeping sound of trucks backing up.
Clever little bastards.
watertiger
Friends babysat a pet crow for a year. Cage was near the bathroom. By year's end, the bird could imitate the toilet flush perfectly.
My sister's pet African gray does the microwave beep so perfectly you have to check.
Everybody thinks they know how to sell.
Story in the NY Times a while back about a mockingbird on the Upper West Side that would imitate the beeping sound of trucks backing up.
At least it wasn't a car alarm.
Tra-lala-tweedle-dee-dee, there's peace and goodwill,
When you wake up in the morning on Mocking Bird Hill.
When the sun in the morning peeps over the hill, and kisses the roses round my window sill.
You'll hear a steep shrill from the call of the mocking bird on mocking bird hill.
Tra-lala-tweedle-dee-dee there's peace and goodwill.
You're welcome as the flowers on Mocking Bird Hill!
"When Cameron was in Egypt-land,
Let my Cameron goooooo."
Everybody thinks they know how to sell.
GWPDA
Not me, but I can give stuff away like nobody's business.
Did it have a Brooklyn accent?
Oddly enough, songbird species do have dialects. I am not sure about a Brooklyn accent though.
leibniz
Oddly enough, that was the subject of my thesis in grad school, Sources of variability in the songs of the yellow-headed blackbird.
noblejoanie
Dang, it's tough to get snarky with this crowd! Brains everywhere!
the president said, in a tone that sounded rather belligerent considering this was supposed to be good news.
When a news conference delays that first drink of the day, expect him to be very cranky.
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Friends babysat a pet crow for a year. Cage was near the bathroom. By year's end, the bird could imitate the toilet flush perfectly.
There's a crow in my neighbourhood that's been taught to say "hello".
I had an awful case of bronchitis five years or more.
My parrot still does the bronchitis death rattle. It's one of his favorite sounds.
And they imitate microwaves and cell phones because they observe people reacting so reliably to those sounds, which is what they want to.
Bear is taunting a group of hippos right now.
noblejoanie-
I had no idea! How cool. I worked with Peter Marler for a while, who as you know did the classic research with white-crowned sparrows.
leibniz?
OMG. He was an inspiration.
You may be the only person to find this amusing, but in doing my work I found some old sonograms, except they'd been printed backwards. I called the very famous author, mentioning this-- no one had ever noticed before. What was cool was these data were from some of the same marshes thirty years earlier. The alarm songs were identical over that time.
Your first name isn't Steve, is it? RMBL mean anything to you?
Friends babysat a pet crow for a year. Cage was near the bathroom. By
year's end, the bird could imitate the toilet flush perfectly.
Family friends had a minah bird with the filthiest mouth. It had, apparently, belonged to the mother-in-law. Whenever someone would ring the doorbell, it would yell, "FUCK YOU!"
As kids, we were not supposed to laugh at this.
Story in the NY Times a while back about a mockingbird on the Upper West Side that would imitate the beeping sound of trucks backing up.
Try this:
ttp://video.google.com/videoplay?
docid=3433507052114896375
Not me, but I can give stuff away like nobody's business.
Gromit | 04.19.08 - 9:59 am | #
Just gave away a spinnet piano using Craigs List. Kids are grown and we wanted to find it a good home.
Bear is taunting a group of hippos right now.
Then Bear is engaging in anti-survival behavior. Mean bastards, hippos.
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As kids, we were not supposed to laugh at this.
As an adult, I laughed out loud just at the story.
I'm going off to play in my garden. Have a lovely one!
Just gave away a spinnet piano using Craigs List. Kids are grown and we wanted to find it a good home.
There is also freecycle.com.
I know!
Since the economy is going to be an election concern, let's make illegal immigration a hot button issue.
Tell them they can't compete with cheap immigrant labor.
Then all those frustrated low earning potential Democrats will vote for us.
The GOP
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Nah, let's talk about competition and the free market. Let's talk about all those corporations that started abandoning the Americans just prior to 9/11 and then did a mass exodus immediately after.
Let's talk about why, the real reasons why this administration is strangling Americans to keep them from up-starting competitive business here in our country. Let's talk about all our tax dollars thrown down the john to support big corps and how they left a big black turd on us when they shipped off shore.
More than that, let's talk about how they should not be allowed to do business here again due to treason!
As kids, we were not supposed to laugh at this.
watertiger
Grad school officemate brought back a parrot from the Yucatan who'd been raised by an old woman. That bird swore in the harshest screech you can imagine, for hours on end when left alone.
Fortunately, most of us didn't speak a word of Spanish.
PHILADELPHIA -- It wasn't so much that Barack Obama had real fight in him tonight, or that more people attended his rally in front of Independence Hall than any other event since he announced his candidacy. It was the spontaneous demonstration of support that happened when it ended.
5,000 people (at least) had nowhere to go but up Market Street. Obama's charge of the night: "Declare independence!" was with them. They started with the familiar "O-Bam-A." By 7th and Market, they had graduated to "Yes we can!" By 10th and Market, with hundreds streaming in between cars on the road, they were just cheering. At first, a few Philly cops, killjoys, tried to rough the crowd to the sidewalks. It didn't work. The cops retreated to the sidewalks. By the time I ducked into my hotel, a full mile away from Independence Park, the Obama crowd was still marching.
http://
marcambinder.theatlantic....s_for_obama.php
Golly gee, 8" of snow on the ground. Power was out all night.
noblejoanie-
I had no idea! How cool. I worked with Peter Marler for a while, who as
you know did the classic research with white-crowned sparrows.
leibniz?
I love both of you for having such big bird brains.
signed,
amateur birder who does have well-marked Peterson's AND Sibley's Guides
Follow Einstein's example, and give up socks. Alternatively, have only white gym socks and black work socks.
Sock color is probably conserved only in conjunction with quark color, Planck's constant and the total number of Armenian cookbooks in circulation...
I want a lyrebird.
And they imitate microwaves and cell phones because they observe people reacting so reliably to those sounds, which is what they want to.
NTodd's Pa's Bro's African Grey, Fred, who now lives with dad, does microwave and cellphone. Also asks, "whatcha doin?" He still says, "Shut up, Fred" a lot, too, and "oh, what's the use?"
They call mockingbirds mockingbirds because of their ability to imitate just about any fucking birdcall you could think of.
Just gave away a spinnet piano using Craigs List. Kids are grown and we wanted to find it a good home.
No matter how you spin it, that's cool.
My sister's pet African gray does the microwave beep so perfectly you have to check.
I met a lovely young woman who has traveling with a parrot (?) in an airport a couple of years ago. She said it had extreme separation anxiety and would scream "Don't go! Don't go!" whenever she left the house. Also attacked boyfriends during sleepovers.
"When Cameron was in Egypt-land,
Let my Cameron goooooo."
Mia...
watertiger--had the distinct pleasure of a May warbler stroll with Sibley. A quiet, sweet person. And an amazing birder, as you'd imagine.
As kids, we were not supposed to laugh at this.
watertiger
So that MIL could have been arrested. Corrupting the morals of a mynah...
There is also freecycle.com.
Snow (D-SC) | Homepage | 04.19.08 - 10:02 am | #
Thanks, We'll check it out. Moving towards empty nesters and there'll more things moving out of the house. It feels good to not waste those things that worked so reliably but have outlived their usefulness.
I want a lyrebird.
They're amazing. We were camping on Mt. Kosciusko in Oz, and spent a good portion of a day tracking the lyrebird we kept hearing in the woods.
Hell hath no fury like a jealous parrot.
1. No Sexism.
2. No Racism.
3. No parroting of MSM/Wingnut bullshit.
Damn, there goes my whole campaign strategy!!!
I have a fairly obnoxious laugh, as those in Philly a few weeks back may have been subjected to.
My sister's African gray has me down to a tee. It's awful.
Let's talk about all our tax dollars thrown down the john to support big corps and how they left a big black turd on us when they shipped off shore.
Tut-tut. That's class warfare, you commie.
No wonder you guys lose so many elections.