And here I've always felt fondly about Wisconsin, despite never having visited, as it seems harmless enough and how bad can a place be that's all about booze and cheese? I've been rudely awakened from my reverie, let me tell you.
I suppose the senator really had no choice but to save himself for marriage, which must have been of the foreign bride/arranged variety.
Cheney, uncut |
09.23.05 - 5:06 am | #
Lotta Germans in Wisconson.
Lance Link |
09.23.05 - 5:09 am | #
It was originally a slogan of the Kaiser's army.
mark from ireland |
09.23.05 - 5:59 am | #
Mon General
Gott mins uns -it could be the motto of every fascist schlemeil that ever flopped his fat ass into a pair of combat chinos and prepared the implements for the interrogation.
I love America - just when you think things could not be any more bizarre, up pops another cornpone Nazi and his God-like progeny determined to lower the standard of humanity just one more notch.
corporal waldo |
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09.23.05 - 7:08 am | #
Chutzpa!
Some days your column just writes itself, eh General?
The Venerable Ed |
09.23.05 - 7:40 am | #
Oh great, now we get mjs spouting inscrutible german missives again.
Oh well. Look of things, we'd best include german in the curriculum here at the Church of Universal Love & Truth's daycare and homeschool.
Liking fascism so far,
the Rev Jerry Gloryhole |
09.23.05 - 8:18 am | #
General, I am so grateful that I can relay on the intelligence and intellectualism (is the French??) of you readers ... I thought it was "Got Mittens??"
Duchess of Bilgewater |
09.23.05 - 8:27 am | #
Glad to see the Wisconsinians have managed to counteract the feminizing---and, dare I say, Frenchifying---influences of cheese. It's no coincidence that the stuff is made from titty juice. And with all the whore-moans floating around these days, it's transparently a vile French conspiracy to have America's manhood proudly sporting the twin signs of the beast. God save us, and God bless Sen. Reynolds.
dped |
09.23.05 - 8:49 am | #
Man, talk about getting a morning fright on!
Wake-me-up o'the day, right there, General.
Peace,
Library Bitch
G |
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09.23.05 - 8:50 am | #
imagine how my heart skipped a beat to see my very own state senator honored with correspondance from the general!
In our defense, mr reynolds ran for congress three times and lost in a bloodbath each time. after redistricting caused us to lose that seat, one guy retired and the other congressman ran for governor in a close primary agst the very popular attorney general. (the 16 year governor tommy thompson left to join bush to become the director of HSS and lord over the anthrax deaths and the flu vaccine debacle). reynolds decided to run for state senator agst a very popular incombant, moderate pro choice republican woman. since we can't split parties in primaries, many good dems who would have supported reynolds' opponent, felt a bigger responsibility to vote for their choice (between two great choices) for governor... the one who didn't make it is now milwaukee's mayor and the one who did win is, i believe, the only governor this far north to set up housing for evacuees and even invite them to bring their pets. he's also leading the charge to have an investigation into the gas companies' price gouging.
the bad news of course is now i have a state senator who is famous for nothing but being a nut job! but don't you have to love a guy who photoshops his christmas card with his families' faces?!?
monica |
09.23.05 - 9:04 am | #
I wish to echo Monica’s comments. The Dem primary here in 02 also sucked a lot of moderate Republicans (there are still some) into picking between Barrett and Doyle. That left the R primary mostly in the hands of uber-frightening (yes, more German) social conservatives. So we get this wahoo. I am privileged enough to reside in his district, for now, and if nobody else will run against him next time, call me.
Just to juxtapose Rs and Ds in my district, our State Senator is Reynolds the Wingnut and our State Rep is David Cullen, a very competent and experienced Dem public servant. When I wrote last year to gripe about the cunard of a gay marriage ban proposed in Wisconsin I received the following responses:
Reynolds: Pamphlet from some loony church explaining how being gay gives you cancer and will kill you by 40.
Cullen: A call from a staffer to talk about my concerns as well as an invitation to meet with the Rep anytime our schedules can work out.
We’re not all crazy up here, except in parts of the forest where the skeeters are REALLY bad. Mosquito infestation tends to lead to Wignutism.
BoZo |
09.23.05 - 9:56 am | #
General Sir,
here's a school worthy of your consideration (as well as other fine folk here looking to have their youngsters tought right from wrong):
ONTARIO, Calif. Sep 23, 2005 — A 14-year-old student was expelled from a Christian school because her parents are lesbians, the school's superintendent said in a letter.
Shay Clark was expelled from Ontario Christian School on Thursday.
"Your family does not meet the policies of admission," Superintendent Leonard Stob wrote to Tina Clark, the girl's biological mother.
Stob wrote that school policy requires that at least one parent may not engage in practices "immoral or inconsistent with a positive Christian life style, such as cohabitating without marriage or in a homosexual relationship," The Los Angeles Times reported in Friday's edition.
Stob could not be reached for comment by the newspaper. Shay and her parents said they won't fight the ruling.
School administrators learned of the parents' relationship this week after Shay was reprimanded for talking to the crowd during a football game, Tina Clark said.
I object to the people who insinuated that the picture was photoshopped.
A little research has revealed that that IS what christmas looks like at the reynolds househol-er-MANGERhold.
As the General himself has said, cohabitating with sheep is NOT as sign of, ummm, how to put it delicately?, Santorumality!
It is a natural, heterosexual thing to do, free from the taint of sin.
PLUS, oftomreynolds can spend her time in the kitchen between meals spinning yarn and knitting uniforms!
Perhaps one day I'll find a man who would be brave enough to emmulate this lifestyle with.
Longing (for Manger Life) Librarian
Willow Anne |
09.23.05 - 10:18 am | #
...cheeseheads...
kingweasil |
09.23.05 - 10:19 am | #
To those who may think that Reynolds X-Mas card is in shockingly poor taste, I rush to his defense by noting that every year the Spaulding family sends out an X-Mas card in which we have artfully overlayed our faces on the Beatles 'Rubber Soul' album cover.
CJ
Catholick Jackson |
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09.23.05 - 10:47 am | #
I always thought "On Wisconsin" sounded disturbingly similar to "Deutschland Uber Alles."
e_five |
09.23.05 - 11:09 am | #
Capt. Spaulding: X-mas cards created by superimposing family members' faces upon the holy bodies of Mary, Joseph, our Lord and Savior the Baby Jesus Christ, and various sacred barn animals is indeed in bad taste; however, your co-opting of the Beatles' images for the seasonal amusement of your friends and loved ones is outright blasphemy. I have a friend who did the same thing with the "Meet the Beatles" album cover image, and he too assumed the John role. As punishment for his sin he was forced to listen to the Yoko Ono "boxed set" in its entirety. I suggest you do the same, and for the safety of those nearby, please use headphones.
nicky |
09.23.05 - 11:32 am | #
As the family was dressing up I was sure I'd get the role of divine Camel but noooooo. So, when they left I lifted my leg and did my arf arf business all over the house.
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dog in a manger |
09.23.05 - 11:34 am | #
Cheeze Whiz!
don't call me brie |
09.23.05 - 11:40 am | #
Oh, what a friend we have in Cheeses!
jus' sayin' |
09.23.05 - 11:51 am | #
Sir!
Why does the good Godly Senator look like a Klingon onm the card, sir?
actor212 |
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09.23.05 - 11:54 am | #
Act212 -- Because he is one -- note the ears have been airbrushed.
MOJoe |
09.23.05 - 12:01 pm | #
Tom Reynolds is far and away my new favorite politician. I love how Spivak and Bice have made a virtual career out of mocking the guy.
Brad R. |
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09.23.05 - 12:09 pm | #
I am deeply dismayed because one of Governor Schwarzenegger's campaign lackeys stole my gravatar. Arnold thinks he can adorn his campaign website with pictures of Nazi scientists. That AustroFascist is going down!
By the way, thank you for praising Senator Reynolds' crusade against HomoFascism. That touched me in a way that only Jeb Bush's Chang could.
So Karl,
What's going on with this...Iraq thing? You're doing a great job with the sacrificial lambs to deflect attention from dubya.
Keep up the good work.
And frankly, I think that the lions would be much happier if they had productive work to do, rather than just lazing around those zoo cages all day...
For the animals, Sir.
Anntichrist S. Coulter |
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09.23.05 - 7:52 pm | #
There was a WWI cartoon showing a German soldier in his trench shouting to a couple of brits, Gott mit uns! One brit said to the other, so what, we got mittens too.
This guy should follow my example and photoshop his mug on the White Album. Works every time for me when my good Republican sheet is in the laundry. With Reynolds and Arnuld marching on Der Kristian Autobahn, groping every Mary along the Road of Righteousness, God will surely be on our side against the heathen democrat.
Mike |
09.23.05 - 8:00 pm | #
General, Sir;
Perhaps Mr. Reynolds is singing that little KKKristmas ditty, "All I want for KKKristmas is those two front sheep!"
And, sir, the lion would lay down with the lamb but unlike Reynolds he would not do it with the ugly ones.
democommie |
09.23.05 - 11:23 pm | #
Monica:
Thanks for bringing some good news. Myself and the family are moving to the Milwaukee area shortly (from Albuquerque). Glad to see there are some decent people to counteract the nut jobs.
Species 8 |
09.23.05 - 11:27 pm | #
Hey, DemoCom --- how DOES one know which sheep are the "ugly" ones, anyway... ? Hmmmm?
Anntichrist S. Coulter |
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09.24.05 - 1:15 am | #
Annti,
Is that where the expression, "Pull the wool over their eyes" comes from?
I always thought it was a paper bag.
It's a lonely job being a shepard, but someone's gotta do it regardless of the perks.
Father Tyme |
09.24.05 - 9:05 am | #
Proposing a tollroad in Wisconsin? Yeah that will fly. All I hear from Wisconsin people is how awful it is to pay tolls when they visit Illinois.
The choices must be really bad to end up with him in office. The thought that makes me happy is that he has to go to Madison when the legislature is in session.
Sue from Chicago |
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09.24.05 - 10:25 am | #
Everyone else probably precedes me, but "God [is] with Us" was the German military motto long before the SS existed. It charged a banner under the Prussian eagle on the forehead of the infamous Pickelhauben and also showed up on belt buckles. The SS motto was "Meine Ehre heißt Treue" ([The Basis, or Stuff, of] My Honor is [My] Loyalty), which is kind of interesting because they swore an oath of personal loyalty to their organizational leader, former chicken farmer Himmler, and not head of state Hitler. Considering their big entry was the supposed disloyalty of the Stuerm-Abteilung, you'd think the Nazis would've been careful to get that right on the second try, but then the more you learn about Nazis (modern Reaction with gloves off) the more idiotic they look.
kenne ich NICHTS!!! |
09.24.05 - 1:26 pm | #
I'd say it's the essence of My Honor.
Anonymous |
09.24.05 - 3:47 pm | #
FT:
Just remember to wear your kilt... 'cause a sheep can hear a zipper at fifty paces.
Anntichrist S. Coulter |
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09.25.05 - 12:00 am | #
To be fair, the expression "God With Us" long predates the German Army. In the book of Isaiah (7:14), the birth of a savior is predicted: "Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Emmanuel. (KJV)" The translation of "Emmanuel" is "God With Us".
Sure, Reynolds is a dick. But given that he professes to be a Christian, and this is a Christmas card, I rather suspect he's thinking of the Biblical instance of the phrase, rather than the Nazi army version.
Sean
Sean Peters |
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09.25.05 - 7:42 am | #
Sean;
You're probably right about Reynolds mindset but remember, he is the sort of KKKristian that were the overwhelming demographic in the the Nazi Party; good, Aryan lutherans and catholics who were just sick to death of kissing the asses of the French and could convinced that all their troubles were due to the Jew financiers who ran the world. People that make it their business to do the judging that their God reserves for his own get zero slack in my book for their behavior. I don't give a rat's ass if their raptured or tossed into the pit, but when they start telling me God hates queers and terrarists and any uppity sortabrownfolks (especially the ones that have oil)that don't conform to the idea of Pox Amurricana that Bushco pushes well all I can say is, if it ain't the Lord's will, then fuck it!
democommie |
09.25.05 - 1:11 pm | #
General, Sir!
And here I've always felt fondly about Wisconsin, despite never having visited, as it seems harmless enough and how bad can a place be that's all about booze and cheese? I've been rudely awakened from my reverie, let me tell you.
Mon General
Oh great, now we get mjs spouting inscrutible german missives again.
General, I am so grateful that I can relay on the intelligence and intellectualism (is the French??) of you readers ... I thought it was "Got Mittens??"
Man, talk about getting a morning fright on!
imagine how my heart skipped a beat to see my very own state senator honored with correspondance from the general!
I wish to echo Monica’s comments. The Dem primary here in 02 also sucked a lot of moderate Republicans (there are still some) into picking between Barrett and Doyle. That left the R primary mostly in the hands of uber-frightening (yes, more German) social conservatives. So we get this wahoo. I am privileged enough to reside in his district, for now, and if nobody else will run against him next time, call me.
I object to the people who insinuated that the picture was photoshopped.
General,
Is that Sen. Reynolds asking Mary "are you a virgin?" in the photo? Man says he reads the Bible, but I don't know...
I always thought "On Wisconsin" sounded disturbingly similar to "Deutschland Uber Alles."
Capt. Spaulding: X-mas cards created by superimposing family members' faces upon the holy bodies of Mary, Joseph, our Lord and Savior the Baby Jesus Christ, and various sacred barn animals is indeed in bad taste; however, your co-opting of the Beatles' images for the seasonal amusement of your friends and loved ones is outright blasphemy. I have a friend who did the same thing with the "Meet the Beatles" album cover image, and he too assumed the John role. As punishment for his sin he was forced to listen to the Yoko Ono "boxed set" in its entirety. I suggest you do the same, and for the safety of those nearby, please use headphones.
As the family was dressing up I was sure I'd get the role of divine Camel but noooooo. So, when they left I lifted my leg and did my arf arf business all over the house.
Oh, what a friend we have in Cheeses!
Sir!
Act212 -- Because he is one -- note 
Tom Reynolds is far and away my new favorite politician. I love how Spivak and Bice have made a virtual career out of mocking the guy.
America, Fuck Yeah!
Dear General, 
So Karl,
Oy.
There was a WWI cartoon showing a German soldier in his trench shouting to a couple of brits, Gott mit uns! One brit said to the other, so what, we got mittens too.
