LM & TBogg - a lethal combination. (Close my eyes and go: LALALALALALALALLALALALALALALALALALALALAL, (breathe) um, LALALALALALALLALALALALALALALALALALALALAL)
If I don't hear it, then it never happened. The bleating right are still just little kids, waiting for naptime to finish, so they can have teacher clean their piss-stained sleeping mats. For which they expect a cookie. I've got a cookie for 'em.
Save the cheerleader, and screw the world.
Heh. SOMEBODY'S been watching Heroes. (New season starts Monday! :-})
When will someone point out to Michelle Maglagang that she is also one of the Brown-Skinned People she fears so much?
I hope our friendly neighborhood Lower Manhattanite [FNLM] is correct about that "long-term minority status" for the GOP, but given the Elephascists' mad skillz at voter suppression and vote fraud, plus the fact that the Corporate Holodeck Media will carry water for them as usual, I can't be so sure.
BTW, would "Corporate Holodeck Media" or "Corporate Matrix Media" be more recognizable to non-nerds? That is, are non-nerds [I am a nerd, BTW] more familiar with "ST:TNG" or with the "Matrix" movies? 
I must turn to my duties at the Ministry of Silly Walks, so ciao for nao.
OK, just one more thing. I'm surprised the wingnuts haven't tried to ban Kool and the Gang yet. I think two of the members are Muslim, and they also did that song "Open Sesame", which had an Arabic theme. ["Get down with the genie!"]
“Corporate Holodeck Media” works fine. There are enough ST:TNG fans sprinkled amidst the populace, and “The Holodeck” is something of a “beyond cult-status” cultural signpost. I'd go with it.
And as to Kool & The Gang, you're right. A coupla members are indeed Muslim. They used to perform at old Nation of Islam functions in the seventies, along with The Delfonics (“La-La Meana I Love You”, “Didn't I Blow Your Mind This Time”), who also boasted a Muslim menber or two.
Somehow, the strains of perfectly crooned versions of “Celebration”, and “Ready Or Not (Here I Come)” emanating from the barracks at Guantanamo Bay just kinda cracks me up.
Note to Michelle:
Once the Reichthuglicans are done with the Liberals, they'll be looking for more action. They might want to fcuk you, but they don't want to share the future with you.
You know, since the days of Phyllis Schafly, the right wing women have staked out that place of fingernail scraping the blackboard screeching. It's how they sell books, it's what they do on talk shows. It's their schtick. They are richly rewarded for doing that ACT. Like their right-y brothers, it's all about the money. They'll do anything for the money and the exposure. This tangible proof that they are important. So, insult a gold star mom? Insult a 9-11 widow? Hell, nothing is beyond the pale for these gals, because they know that their kind of fame is fleeting. Then , maybe like the media characters of old, when the show is over, they can carve out a living on "Hollywood Squares" etc. Anything to keep from having a job, leading an ordinary , non media princess-y job. These gals wouldn't have been given the time of the day back not too long ago. Nowadays, the more hysterical , shrill, nonsensical, out-and-out offensive, lacking in taste and smarts, the more marketable. What's next? Completely mentally ill? Screaming at someone's funeral? Oh wait, they already have someone who does that. Never thought I'd see the day. The really interesting thing is, these Cylon women seem to be *ahem* very attractive to certain right wing men. The mind boggles.
dreaminginthedeepsouth;
Excellent commentary! Very well thought out and well presented.
Thanks!
LM
I remember reading that post of Malkin's where she was proud that she was racially profiled up on Capitol Hill. That really says enough about her state of mind.
It's like giving the white suburban cop props everytime you get pulled over for DWB.
"I'm OK man. But there was some really dark people I passed going the other way that looked **really** dangerous"
Uncle Ruckus lives.
"I'm OK man. But there was some really dark people I passed going the other way that looked **really** dangerous"
Shit. Did anyone else just see a great sketch comedy routine? Eddie in his hay day at SNL would have been fucking dangerous with it. With the dead fat guy, um, Chris Farley, as the southern racist cop.
FADE IN
[Eddie at the side of the road, at the wheel of a Jag. Chris Farley, a hick southern cop, has him pulled over.]
EDDIE
"No, no, no Sar Mr. Offacer. I didn't do nothings wrong. But there was some really dangerous dude wents the other way. He was a really black nigger.
Oh yes sir. He was really really black. I'm just Jamaican on my mother's side with a little Dutch thrown in. [whispering] (She got around a bit.) But NO SIR -- that nigger was BLACK as a dark cat in a coal mine at midnight. I bet he was from AFRICA. From the middle of Africa, where all them darkies hang out. Don't give me no ticket sir; go catch him and bust his black ass and send him home to Africa where he belongs...and letta me go.
Oh...thank you sir. Thank you Master. Bless you, thank you. You so kind. My blessing on you all your life. And you wommens. Your white, beautiful womens.
[Chris Farley drives off...
Eddie just sits there.
And sits there.
Goes through about five, six different emotions as the audience cracks up with each of them.
Eventually they just...stop...laughing.
Eddie clicks on his 8-Track. It's Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D-Minor.
He drives off.]
BLACKOUT
And with that, a new nickname is born, via Wengler
Auntie Ruckus
Thanks, wengler!'
LM
Hey, don't get Rudy's kids in this. They've been estranged from their psycho father for a while now. They may not have had to partrol Fallujah, but they certainly are not singing the Rudy Hymns either.
It's Bach's Toccata & Fugue in D-Minor.
Ooh, someone's a Gyruss player...
Auntie Ruckus, heh. whataloon
Pardon me for going off topic, but...
since we were speaking of Kool and the Gang, my favorite ad of this decade featured "Jungle Boogie" [the Capital One ad where the ape gets hold of the explorer's lost wallet and goes on a spending spree].
I think "Get Down On It" could work in an ad for Imodium or some other diarrhea remedy. We see an open door to a bathroom, revealing a toilet, and some guy rushes in and shuts the door every time the band says "Get Down On It", and then the voiceover says "Are you tired of getting down on it? Try Imodium A-D for fast, effective relief of common diarrhea!" For some reason, I imagine Billy Dee Williams doing the voiceover.
Comments?
Every time I hear Pam Atlas' grating diatribes I think, 'Somewhere, a particularly contentious PTA has lost its recording secretary.'
LowerManhattanite
You left out one type of mother's sacrifice. One week after our son turns 19 months old, my wife will ship out with her NG unit to start mobilizing for an Iraq deployment. The best case scenario then has her returning in one piece a little before he turns three.
We were planning on her spending that time worrying about how many teeth have come in, or if he is having fun in daycare. Instead, she will be worrying about taking care of her medics, and keeping the number of soldiers and Marines leaving her hospital equal to the number coming in. And if she has a spare second, she will spend it concentrating on coming home alive, whole, and sane.
So when Malkin sits there and calls herself a "lion mom" because she has the guts to tell other people that THEY have to go through hell to keep her from pissing her bed at night in fear, then I see red. And I wish, just once, when she gets misty-eyed seeing her son off to pre-school, that she would feel what it is like to know that she is not going to see him again for more than a year.
And someday in the future, our son is going to ask "What did Mommy do in the war" and I hope like hell that she will be there to answer him
If the Hindus and Buddhists are correct about the afterlife, our right-wing chickenhawk elitists will be lucky if they're reborn as ROACHES.
And speaking of faith, may the LORD give us wisdom to bring Mrs. Arakasi and all the others home safely ASAP.
Also the wisdom to throw out the wretched parasites who sent them over there in the first place.
Every time I look at Michelle Malkin (which hurts, I know), I think of two things:
1) foul gutter mouth fronting for corroded and shriveled mind
and
2) vaginal atrophy
Given those two, one wonders how she managed to get pregnant and HAVE a kid.
Arakasi:
My goodness! My prayers go out to you and yours and I sincerely hope all goes well for the wife as she enters into harm's way.
That's sacrifice.
And makes Malkin's dumbass words seem that much dumber.
Godspeed to your wife and hug that baby for us all!
Best,
LM
I couldn't agree more with dreaminginthedeepsouth's analysis of the Auntie Ruckus Syndrome; you only have to look at Camille Paglia, who in many ways was the prototype for the whole right wing harridan screechbot factory.
It's also worth noting how much uglier in spirit this particular political animal has become in more recent years, and how their tactics have degenerated ever further and further...which is pretty incredible in and of itself when you think about it. I mean, Paglia was quite bad enough, y'know? And she's almost respectable compared to a piece of filth like Malkin.
Note I said "almost".
Thanks to I B Woodpecker and LM.
I really didn't mean to write what I did, but Malkin and her ilk just piss me off. We got confirmation last week that my wife is headed to Iraq and I just had to get that out.
And really, we have it better than most. We have 6 months warning, when we could have had 2 weeks. Mrs. Arakasi is a Medical Services officer, which means she won't be going out with the medics that she trained, but can stay in a hospital waiting for them to come back. As an officer (once the BAH and tax benefits of being in a combat zone hit) she'll be making more money than she is today, so we won't have to worry about making the mortgage payment. There are at least three soldiers in her company with marriages that won't survive the deployment. We have friends in the area who I can lean on, and my niece will probably come up next summer and work as an au pair for the Little Bear so he won't be in day care all day.
And you know, she doesn't see it so much as a sacrifice, because that implies that she is doing this for some higher purpose. Is there really anyone over there right now who is in Iraq because he is "fighting the terrorists over here so they don't come the the US?" She's doing it because she can't send the medics she trained out there and then stay at home. She's going because if she doesn't than there is another soldier or Marine who doesn't get treatment in time.
We talked about how she could get out of it if we tried. One well timed pregnancy would give her immunity for about a year. If we timed it right, she could use that to ride out her 8-year commitment and go straight from disability to resigning her commission. But she can't do that - not and still be able to look in the eyes of the soldiers she's trained with.
I'd bet that Malkin would have thrown away the birth control 5 seconds after the announcement came down that she would be shipping out. 'Cause, you know, she's too important a cheerleader here to be risked over there. She's another John Wayne, with 1/1000 the talent - perfectly willing to boost up the war fervor because pays well, but don't you dare ask her to give up Starbucks and air conditioning
John D. we all need to worry a bit when an actor no longer knows that he/she is acting. The "Ugly in Spirit" crowd gets uglier, because it used to be an act, a tactic. Our ugly senators (Lott, Uncle Strom, etc.) were consciously (somewhat) playing a role. We'll go along with that on a free speech basis, but take over the whole show? They weren't allowed to bully the entire senate/media whatever crowd they were a part of. It's "Lord of the Flies" out there. The leadership that calls us to our highest ideas, our best selves, our best behavior, where is that leadership? We as a nation as never before , are led by people who should have never been put in leadership positions that make life or death decisions about other people.
In a country where all the people given face time print time and on-air time are pretending to be something other than what they are, we are in deep doo-doo. I look at Miss A.C., now given to wearing prominently a big gold CROSS around her neck, and I see a person pretending to be another person. I see a person who has forgotton who and what she is. Her greed, her desire for money and fame has warped her beyond return. I know ordained ministers who would think twice before wearing a cross like that. Hiding behind Jesus? Hiding behind the sacrifice and lives of real people who died so that these grifters like Michelle could make more money? Each time one of these creatures is allowed center stage to foul the nest, it further degrades the real heros, the real saints and souls who are THE REAL THING. It makes a sick joke of our highest ideas and indirectly says, "There's no such thing." It implies that those who REALLY sacrifice and pour out their lives for others are suckers and fools.
No conscience. We have crossed deeper into a national psychopathology.
Sour Kraut -
I don't know what Gyruss is. I grew up in the Tucson Boys Chorus, and my mom as the Assistant Concert Master of the Tucson Symphony. Bach is in my blood.
arakasi -
Best to you and your family. Tell her to remember to check six; there's no such thing as a safe zone.
dreaminginthedeepsouth -
You said it good.
dreaminginthedeepsouth:
Well said. Particularly pointing out the way these soulless creeps inevitably come to swallow their own bullshit and consider themselves heroes. Not that that's such an original concept: In politics, perfectly intelligent people often fall into the trap of coming to believe their own propaganda, and the ghouls under discussion ain't exactly intelligent. (I'm not sure if the latter point makes them more or less susceptible to this kind of self-deluding crap, but I'm sure it doesn't hurt!)
It's a bizarre situation, and would be laughable if not for a complacent media and even more complacent "opposition party" that views such grotesqueries with an indulgent smile, an encouraging nod and a wink. And as everyone who's ever inhabited a schoolyard for any period of time can tell you, if you indulge a bully, the bully only gets worse.
Jesse, "Gyruss" was a classic video game from the 1980s. A space shooter, the main music was a rockin' electronic version of the Toccata and Fugue. I still have the old Nintendo NES game...and a working console on which to play it. Also, Bach's deep in my blood as well, especially the Passacaglia and Fugue in C Minor.
Dejah: "Vaginal atrophy." There goes my diet Coke, and another keyboard!!
--RB (with "Koyaanisqatsi" playing in the background)
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