1 You spell like a Wookiee.

2 In related news, Brazil has finalized plans for honoring their National Hero: Yuri Gagarin.

3 There's got to be something in the water at MSDNC.  The crazy there is strong.  Dylan Ratfart is one day without his meds away from going full Keefums.

4 I see Ace's Red Bull and nicotine bender is still underway from yesterday.

Excellent.

5 So Angle is striking back.

6 I gladly accept this Academy Award with the intention of sharing it with my relatives in Uganda.

7 Where's PGiS when you need her?

8 4 I see Ace's Red Bull and nicotine bender is still underway from yesterday.

Excellent.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at August 05, 2010 12:09 PM (5aa4z)

Indeed.  Please keep him supplied. This is awesome!

9 My marriage to Nicolas Sarkozy?  It was the luck o' the Irish!

10 Haha! Excellent post.

11 1 You spell like a Wookiee.

Posted by: oblig. at August 05, 2010 12:07 PM (x7Ao

Speaking of Wookie. I present to you the First Wookie of the United States representin' in Spain.

12 I thought Ace was hyped up on Yoo Hoo and Junior Mints.

13
MSNBC Presents...
Mario Puzo's

D O N  O B A M A
The First Italian-American President

14 Canoli is the Greek spelling. Duh.

15 Speaking of Wookie. I present to you the First Wookie of the United States representin' in Spain.

God, she is an ugly woman.  No wonder she is so jealous of moi.

16 12 I thought Ace was hyped up on Yoo Hoo and Junior Mints.

He's all hopped up on Mountain Dew!

17 Does that sign over her left shoulder say "cock"?

18
this is better than when Contessa "I love black people, unlike Fox News" Brewer confused Jesse Jackson with Al Sharpton.

19

Related across the board.

See.  This is what I mean.  Nobody probably is going to go out and tell Kirsten Powers how utterly false, misleading, illogical and fucking stupid this article is.

She will get away with spewing this puke and it will get repeated and the left will say, “See!  I told you so.”  And a few on the right will think that she may actually have her facts straight.

What is reality?  Well reality is that during the Russian occupation estimates are that around 1.5 million civilians were killed in A-stan.  During the Taliban rule – around 1 million.  Since the American involvement – less than 100,000 civilians killed.

Is that too much?  For certain!  The Taliban ruled A-stan unmolested for around eight years and killed ~1 million civilians.  We have been there for 10 years and less than 100k have been killed.  IÂ’m thinking a few are around that wouldnÂ’t have otherwise been.

The left controls the terms of the discourse in this country and we shouldnÂ’t allow ourselves to come under that control.

The figures above were found in several places, and are estimates based on those sources since they donÂ’t agree.  I believe they are probably pretty close.  Wiki Answers, Wikipedia, UN News Centre, etc.

If your interested, the population of A-stan is ~30 million.

 

20 O/T  Speaking of batshit crazy, Beck had a hilarious conversation with Basil Marceaux, the poor doofus running for governor of Tennessee this morning.  Marceaux wants to ban traffic stops in the state because one time he and some buddies were stopped, and the cop, who Marceaux says was a former Navy Seal, beat the snot out of them.

So he claims he studied the Constitution, and found a clause that says a former Marine (he is) can kill someone or something (I was laughing so hard I missed the full statement).  He apparently wears a badge he made up for himself around his neck.  Also, he said that even if the cop who stopped him had found a body in the trunk of his car, he had to right to order him out of the car (or something). 

Comedy freaking gold.  And sad.

21
Haha! Excellent post. Boner pills online cheap.
Posted by: Vince

fixed

22

Posted by: oblig. at August 05, 2010 12:07 PM (x7Ao

Speaking of Wookie. I present to you the First Wookie of the United States representin' in Spain.

Good God, is that awful.  Anyone have any links to Cheerleaders Gone Wild to get that vision off my retinas?

23 The anti-Giannoulias ad is worse than just ineffective.  It makes me want to give Cornyn an atomic wedgie.

24
"What's with the dead body in the trunk?"


Hey, mister, I know my rights!

25 Italinn, Greek, whatever, they're both greasy!

26 Oh no.  Apparently I have won a $1000 gift card for Walmart from the pop-in ad. Good thing my wife didn't see it as it would have set off a seizure of her epilepsy what with the neon flashing colors and all.

27 All the money in the world, and the Wookie can't get those teeth fixed.  Sad.

28 Grrrrrr!

29
Tell me again why we don't have a right-leaning comedy channel?

Think of the skits!

Jeopardy^tm with Rick Sanchez, Contessa Brewer, and Ed Schultz, for instance.

30 29 They would have to reconstruct her jaw.

31 Jeopardy^tm with Rick Sanchez, Contessa Brewer, and Ed Schultz, for instance.

For the first time in history, all three contestants have a negative balance.

32
So if you're a corrupt democrat, and you happen to not be lily white, or have what liberals deem as a lily white last name, the GOP is racist for pointing our your corrupt behavior, and because you don't have a lily white last name (whatever that means) and you are a democrat, your corruption is not any problem at all to the elite state-run pro-democrat media.

check.

33 They would have to reconstruct her jaw.

I'll reconstruct it for her.



_{I keed, I keed}

34 The RSCC ad appeared to be generic Chicago gangster talk, nothing specifically Italian about it.

35 Just seeing a picture of Ed"I know nuffing!"Shultz,with his bloated Kennedyesque head,is funny.

36 29 All the money in the world, and the Wookie can't get those teeth fixed.  Sad.

Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 05, 2010 12:19 PM (UOM4

Word!

37 Italian stereotypes? Fuggetaboutit!

38 Good thing they dropped the reference to Alexi's "olive oil voice and guinea charm."

39
Imagine a comedy show that would satirically point out all the hypocrisy of the liberal regressives. It would be informative and poignant.

40 Mark Kirk is going to end up hammering this putz into the ground.  He shouldn't have (mildly) puffed up his intel service, but seriously, compared to Alexi fucking Giannoulias?  No way in hell.

Meanwhile, Sharron Angle makes me sad to be a conservative/Republican/Tea-Partier/you-name-it.  She's the poster child for all the worst possible aspects of the current movement: a shitty candidate spit up by a flawed process.  Lowden wouldn't have been too much better, really...should have gone with the safe boring guy in Tarkanian.

41

I admit it: I'm prejudiced against Italians. That's why I'm glad Guilianni didn't become president. He'd be all like Joe Peshi from GoodFellas, being all "just once I wish I was Bing" and stuff.

42 32 29 They would have to reconstruct her jaw.

Posted by: steevy at August 05, 2010 12:21 PM (/Sg54)

I hear ya!

43 Italian stereotypes? Fuggetaboutit!

What, are we chopped liver?

44 Dang! Ace been hot this week. Mucho posts.

45 I kinda agree about the anti-Giannoulias ad..

But I don't think it's really meant to be a hit piece.  It is being used to keep these things fresh in the voter's minds.  And it uses humor to do that in a not so annoying way.

So, as an Illinoisan, it's fine by me.  As long as Kirk kicks this guy in the nuts with all the facts during the debates.  Giannoulias is a terrible debater from what we've seen so far.. if Kirk can get him on the ropes in the debates and get that flop sweat flowing, it will be a sweet sight to see.

46
you're right; the last thing we need is an italic president.

those fuckers never work

47 They would have to reconstruct her jaw.

I'll reconstruct it for her.

_{I keed, I keed}
Posted by: Jane D'oh at August 05, 2010 12:23 PM

Bondo can fix anything duct tape can't.

48 Eh Alexi, gumba! Pass the the Feta Cheese will ya?

49 The anti-Giannoulias ad is worse than just ineffective.  It makes me want to give Cornyn an atomic wedgie.

Just curious - you do you live in Illinois?  Chicago, especially?  Because for those of us who are from there (okay: for ME) I have to say I see it the exact opposite way.  This ad is wonderfully effective because this is all we have been talking about up here in this race.  Seriously, the media was going gangbusters to inflate Kirk's mini-fracas about his military service up into a Major Scandal precisely because you just CANNOT AVOID this shit about Giannoulias.  And the "Godfather" font might be seen as a cheap shot for any other candidate, but not Sexy Lexi -- you have to understand that the words "Alexi Giannoulias" and "mob banker" have been joined at the hip for several years now in Chicago parlance...this is not a new thing. 

It's beautiful, really, just how corrupt and incompentent Giannoulias is. 

50 Italinn, Greek, whatever, they're both greasy!

Posted by: Dylan Ratigan

 

Italy and Greece; the two testicles of Europe, cooling themselves in the Med.

51 you're right; the last thing we need is an italic president.

those fuckers never work

Posted by: no mr. bond, i expect you to die

 

And they tend to lend toward one side, IYKWIMAITTYD

52 Alexi...that's a common Italian name like Joey and Frankie.

53 They'd have to unclench her jaw to fix her teeth.

54 As long as Kirk kicks this guy in the nuts with all the facts during the debates.  Giannoulias is a terrible debater from what we've seen so far.. if Kirk can get him on the ropes in the debates and get that flop sweat flowing, it will be a sweet sight to see.

I've seen Kirk in action many times -- both in debates, and speaking to him in person, and observing him in person doing the old retail politickin' give-and-take thang -- and the one thing I'm biblically certain of is that he will crush Giannoulias in a debate.  He comes off as the opposite of slimy, whatever that is.  ("Boy Scout"-ish seems about right, which is incidentally is why the whole Army Intel fracas was such a ball-buster. Kirk may be a semi-squish on some social issues -- welcome to IL-10! -- but the one thing he is emphatically NOT is a stereotypical weaselly Chicago pol.) 

I've also observed Alexi up-close.  He is actually pretty good in the scrum -- the face to face stuff -- because he's handsome, athletic fellow who carries himself with confidence.  If he's fielding only softballs, he can actually come across as reasonably likable.  But he freezes up like a deer in the headlights in the face of substantial questions, and he is utterly unable to handle discussions of his own record, either as Treasurer or at Broadway Bank. 

There's just no reason why Kirk should lose this.  But then hey, look at the Colorado GOP!  Or the Nevada GOP!

55 As half-Sicilian, I would like to...discuss these difficulties you seem to be having distinguishing the proper flavors of Mediterranean humanity from each other.  No, I insist, it will be a good lunch, on me.  I know the right place for it, nice spaghetti joint, my cousin runs it...it's nice and quiet, out of the way, where nobody will disturb our...discussion...

56

Speaking of Wookie. I present to you the First Wookie of the United States representin' in Spain.

Posted by: conscious, but incoherent at August 05, 2010 12:12 PM (YVZlY)

Man Hands!

57 As half-Sicilian, I would like to...discuss these difficulties you seem to be having distinguishing the proper flavors of Mediterranean humanity from each other.  No, I insist, it will be a good lunch, on me.  I know the right place for it, nice spaghetti joint, my cousin runs it...it's nice and quiet, out of the way, where nobody will disturb our...discussion...

Posted by: DarkDonOfTheIntarWebs

 

Really? How nice! And you insist on me having the seat of honor? The one with my back to the door? And that I should order last, as the honored guest? This is neat.

58 Sharron Angle = Marcia Coakley


_{I know.}

59 Yo, Mallamutt:

Any thoughts from downstate on Brady?  I'm in Madison temporarily, so I don't hear quite as much buzz on the governor's race as I should.  Brady's still a complete cipher to most of us in Chicago and North Illinois...and I'm thinking that's 100% A-OK, because the more the collar counties think of Brady as a mere abstraction of "not-Quinn" and "not-Blago," the better really.   How's he doing? 

Incidentally, I predict a clean sweep in Nov: not only do Kirk and Brady win, but Bob Dold retains Kirk's old IL-10 seat as well (which would leave the national Dem party even more slaughtered, gutted & heartbroken than they would otherwise be, given that it's one of four congressional seats they think they can win this year).  Meanwhile Phil Hare and Debbie Halvorsen are introduced to the joys of early retirement.  Maybe Bill Foster too?  A man can dream...

60 IS it just me or does the term "wookie" used to describe Michelle Obama not reek of racism?  Because I've heard wookie used as a racial epithet and it is listed various places as a racial slur.

61 Oh, you won't have to worry about Dylan Ratigan anymore. He sleeps with the fishes. But we should not alienate Dylan. Remember, keep your friends close and your enemies closer. And then, when he least expects it, Badda Bing, you give him two in the back of the head. You know, this is business and I think Ace is taking it very, very, personally.

62 Meanwhile Phil Hare and Debbie Halvorsen are introduced to the joys of early retirement.  Maybe Bill Foster too?  A man can dream...

Add Melissa Bean to the list, and I'll need to clean off my PJs after dreaming that.

63 65:  ...have you looked at MO?  (If you have, my sincerest apologies, eyebleach will be provided at the door.)

And even if it was, well, remember the crap Kennedy had to put up with.  The best way to deal with genuine bigotry is to give 'em what they don't expect, and force 'em to deal with the fact that, yeah, you're good enough to be here.  Anything else just reinforces it, and nothing gets better.

Just my .02 of a currency of questionable worth.  YMMV.  Void where prohibited.

64 As a Republican, Tea Party Member, NRA Member, Christian, and Eyetalo-American I find this add offensive.

65

66 As a Grey, Zpugnortz-First Member, and advance scout for the armada ready to obliterate your miserable world, I find this all quite amusing.

67 You all taste like chicken to me.

68 68...it could also just be Kilgore Trout fishing.  It irks me though. YMMV.

69 Some, a few Wookies find it offensive.

70

35 They would have to reconstruct her jaw.

I'll reconstruct it for her.

_{I keed, I keed}

Okay, that made me laugh.

Jane D'oh, love ya!

71 Regarding a conservative sketch comedy show, LATMA in Israel does a pretty good job with their weekly Weekend Update clone "The Tribal Report".  Every episode is posted on YouTube in Hebrew with English subtitles.  The latest one, which mocks media smugness, is here.  Past episodes have made fun of both Ear Leader and the Sheriff.

72

As an Illinoisian (and one of significant Italian heritage, so fuck you haters) I think the ad works:

Alexi is a mobster, and he's connected with mobsters.  The snippet with Al Capone was a nice touch -- income taxes.  Kirk is not popular, but Alexi is beyond mobbed up and the people of IL would pay dearly for his corruption -- that's the winning attack for Kirk here imho. 

I agree with my fellow LOL peeps here: if Kirk follows up on this with exposing Alexi's desire to raise taxes and tie him to the freaking bank bailouts (oooh, that would be nice), then Kirk should win this in a walk over.  If they can get Lexi and Pat Quinn together...even better.

 

And once again -- screw you to all you whitebread Eye-tie haters out there; we don't like you too much either ;P

73 I resent these constant anti-Italian stereotypes directed at myself.

74 Some, a few Wookies find it offensive.

Connecticut wookies.

75 Oh yeah the income tax part is good. I'd like to see a whole ad on that. And you should listen to me, because I'm Italian, so I know what makes my fellow Italians angry.

76 As for the gubanatorial -- Brady's scoring a lot of points where I'm at.  He's even getting a lot of the state workers attention (Quinn gave his select group a raise and a lot of state folks have been laid off or had their pay/benefits suspended, plus he's raised taxes and is stiffing the colleges -- this really could be a banner year for the GOP  in IL, if they would play to win).  A lot of people are sick of this shit.

77

Giannoulias... Such a classic Italian name.

You'd sort of have to be a whitebread jackass to not realize that name was Greek, right? The sort of guy born with the surname "Ratigan," whose hippie-dippie parents named him "Dylan," right?

Greek ... Roman ... Meh.  It's all Greco-Roman.  They're the same, as evidenced by the fact that there is Greco-Roman wrestling.  No one complains about mixing Greek and Roman together in that, but you get all bent out of shape because someone thinks that a name that ends in "oulias" is Italian.  Anyone could make that mistake.  It's like people who think that only a real retard would call McDonald a Spanish name, when it's obviously Swedish.

The honorable Dylan Ratigan was just assuming that everyone associated with the mob was Italian.  That's the sort of stereotyping that a good liberal understands is part of his job.  We don't care about no stinking names.

78 Actually, Greece is separated from Italy by the Ionian, not the Adriatic.

79 What's a matta, u.
U gotta no respect....

80 I LOVE THE SMELL OF STUPID HIPPIE-LIBERALS IN THE MORNING !!

IT SMELLS LIKE.....................victory

81 Down here in Texas the NRSC ad appears to confirm every bogus charge of racism against Republicans.  I think Cornyn stepped in it with the cheesy Godfather font and the italian/greek theme.  But hey, down here our corrupt politicians have regular American sounding names so what do we know.

82 One ad by the NRSC and the other by the Candidate..

Which one is more effective?  Then donate accordingly.

83

He'd be all like Joe Peshi from GoodFellas, being all "just once I wish I was Bing" and stuff.

Or Joe Pesce in Raging Bull:

"If you win, you win. If you lose, you win. You can't lose!"

A sincere bent-arm salute to you, Mr. Ratigan. We call anyone who doesn't have a vowel at the end of their name Irish. Fongool.

84

"because it reinforces the image many of us (including, I would add, downstate Democrats) that the Chicago Machine is an  illegal criminal organization." Mallamut

+1  I'm a collar county resident.  It's a continuing criminal enterprise.  All the voters in Illinois should be reminded that Blago's campaing chairman was none other that BHO.  There's a video clip (Chicago Tonight?) of him saying "you betcha" when asked if he was working for "Hot Rod". 

85 Wookie? I knew you were all bigots. I'm having sharmie copy this and the banhammer will fall on the wicked. On my site that is. Anyone want to buy a calender?

86 88 Or like Joe Pesci (again in Good Fellas): " I amuse you? I make you laugh? I'm here to fucking amuse you?

87

Or Joe Pesci in "Easy Money"...(shopping for a shirt with his pal Rodney Dangerfield) -

to salesman: "Do you have anything in dark black?"

88

It's funny, pretentious, and a little sick that these non-colorful persons appoint themselves Identifiers of Perceived Slights Against Those Not So White.

And once they've identified the "offense", I guess they fancy themselves some sort of Champions of Diversity. I betcha five bucks Dylan Ratigan couldn't quote one classic Joe Pesci line. I bet he never ate baccala, wouldn't even know where or when to find it. I bet Ratigan doesn't even have his own Italian tailor, he probably buys his suits off the rack.

Dylan Ratigan, it's time for you to go get your freakin' shinebox.

89 Well, kallisto, you know how the Hymie's are.

90 42
Imagine a comedy show that would satirically point out all the hypocrisy of the liberal regressives. It would be informative and poignant.

Damned shame there's nothing like that on TV. Especially not at, oh, I dunno, maybe three in the morning or something.

91 so good!

92 the  passage  read  so  nice!