1 Nothing the left does to advance their horrific thinking surprises me any more.  The only thing that does surprise me is how many people get their news from the left and think nothing of it.

2 Yeah, but has radaronline posted any more Mel Gibson clips?

3 The surprise meter still reads 0. Does this thing have batteries? Let me cross check with my shock meter...it says minus 5.

4 Gee, a 'manufactured' racist!  Just like their 'manufactured' grass roots support.

5 Nontroversy!  Nontroversy!!

6 Only racists would point this out.

7 Gee, a 'manufactured' racist!  Just like their 'manufactured' grass roots support.

An astroturfed racist mob? What will they think of next. Astroturfed violence, oh, that's right, they already did that.

8 An astroturfed racist mob? What will they think of next.

I'm starting to fear a Gleiwitz incident.

9 They're acting like everybody in the Tea Parties is a Klan member, or something.

I mean, don't get me wrong, I'm a racist and all.  I'm just not much of a "joiner".

On a totally unrelated note, Frau just brought a bunch of squash in from the garden.  A couple of them are small yellow squash where 2 have grown together.  Swearing on all that is holy, they look just like scrota.  Being 40 is no barrier to being juvenile.

10 Would also point out that the "KKK" member doesn't know how to pronounce "Ku Klux Klan"...

11 Can you say "Reichstag fire".  These types of things will increase in frequency leading right up to the elections in the fall and 2012.

12 No shit, Vic.  They are going to pull out every stop they can find.  Wonder what the October Surprise is going to be.

13
The libs are already out there attempting to plant little Reichstag fires all over the place and they call us Nazi's ? Scratch a libtard uncover a fascist. I suspect it will get a whole lot worse the closer to November we come. These folks are growing more and more desperate.

14 11 Can you say "Reichstag fire".  These types of things will increase in frequency leading right up to the elections in the fall and 2012.

That's assuming we have elections in 2012. 

15 Scratch a libtard uncover a fascist. and it means you need to sharpen your bayonet.

16 O/T:  CNBC isn't showing the news conference with apple live???

17 Scratch a libtard uncover a fascist.

You should read Jonah Goldberg's Liberal Fascism  A true eye-opener.. 

18 BecckoningChasm

Ladies and Gentlemen, Lindsay Lohan.

19 Jess - not sure that wasn't a common problem with the Klan.

20 The only thing that does surprise me is how many people get their news from the left and think nothing of it.

Posted by: BecckoningChasm at July 16, 2010 12:48 PM (IEJ4J)

I had to listen to two libs yesterday talk about their horror of seeing a picture of 'Obama as Hitler' on CNN.  I calmly asked if they had never seen the pictures of Bush as Hitler.  Nope...never saw them.

21 OT: That picture of Pelosi on Drudge looks like "she's squeezing one off"

22

We are the fascists we have been waiting for.

23 Would also point out that the "KKK" member doesn't know how to pronounce "Ku Klux Klan"...

Evlybody know how say Kru Krux Kran.

24 That picture of Pelosi on Drudge looks like "she's squeezing one off"

It's bad when Barney Frank is the smartest one in the frame.

25 The truth is what serves the party.

26 That picture of Pelosi on Drudge looks like "she's squeezing one off"

She blew me right before that.  At least the cunt has some manners.

27 It's bad when Barney Frank is the smartest one in the frame.

And the most attractive.

28 He's also the one that hates men the least.

29 #15

_+1,000

30 Where's the Tea Party?

31

The NAACP call out and comes up with a resolution declaring ThinkProgress  a racist organization over this stunt in....5....4....3...2....

32 True story.  Frau sent me to the store this morning.  She rattled off the half dozen things I was to get, at which point I said, "But first, you will blow me."

And we laughed and laughed, because we both know there isn't a chance in hell of that happening.

33 Yeah, but has radaronline posted any more Mel Gibson clips?

Dunno.  We'd better get Ace right on it.

34
When I was at the Tea Party at the Boston Common in April there were a bunch of shitheads running around with signs mocking us.

One group of a-holes had a big poster of Levi's playgirl photo with another sign "I'm Gay For Sarah Palin!"

Another group of losers wore those 18th century white wigs holding signs such as "Constitution: You don't know me!"

And another group of older liberals (unemployed yupees w/masters degrees) were dressed in tuxes and evening gowns complaining about taxes.

We pointed at all of these people and just laughed at them.

35 Liberals have no shame or fucking honesty when the "agenda" needs to be moved forward.

Ace, you just figuring this out? 

Watch this, the most dishonest fucking Political ad ever.  Since they weren't call out on this, they just kept lying.  Da  Huh!

This STILL makes my blood boil!

http://tinyurl.com/ccqrfm

36

That picture of Pelosi on Drudge looks like "she's squeezing one off"


Naw, that's just what happens when Super Glue dries too fast.

37

Stormfronters do show up to Tea Parties; one of them crashed the party last year. I didn't see him, but he posted a writeup in his forum, and I got sent a link to it. The gist of it was that Stormfronters don't like it at the Tea Parties. The average Tea Partier is pro-Israel; Stormfront... not so much. So they end up steaming in a corner about jooooos and not really able to mingle with the crowd.

But "RACISTS Attend Tea Party And Hide In A Corner!" doesn't make for much of a talking-point at Think Progress.

38 21 OT: That picture of Pelosi on Drudge looks like "she's squeezing one off"

Posted by: conscious, but incoherent - gas free, at this point at July 16, 2010 01:01 PM (YVZlY)

--Are Nancy Lugosi and Barney Frankenbeaner more ugly, or more stupid?

Discuss.

39

Of course, the NAACP expected the Tea Party to come clean and say 'You got us. We're racist as hell. We hate blackjack, we hate black magic, we hate black eyed peas, and we hate Barack and Michelle's black ass.'

No political motives at all. Nope. They just hate racism wherever they see it. Luckily, they can change the definition of racism on you whenever it suits them.

40 I am completely surprised that Mel Gibson has not been labeled a tea party activist yet 'cause of his racist rantings.

41 Pardon the sock

42 Sad that shirt company is even in business. Brings to mind the band Death In June. Totenkopf = worst band logo ever. Goth-Folking nihilist idiots!

43 33 Yeah, but has radaronline posted any more Mel Gibson clips?

Dunno.  We'd better get Ace right on it.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at July 16, 2010 01:09 PM (PMGbu)

No but Big Hollywood links to the story below about 2 forensic experts who claim the recordings were altered.

http://tinyurl.com/29pbehk

44 "antennagate"?

45 I'll bet, if anyone checked, that Chaz Johnson, queen of rump rangers, used that Think Progress bullshit as proof of Tea Party racism. That son of a bitch is lower than whale shit at the bottom of the Marianas Trench.

46 This video blends smoothly with Ace's post. The top of racism is causing a meltdown on the left: Scumbag Lefty Janeane Garofalo Rips Olberdouche, Tingles, Ratigan, Schultz, Carville as “Straight up Racists.". http://s5987.th8.us

47 And we laughed and laughed, because we both know there isn't a chance in hell of that happening.

Ahhh, brothers-in-arms.

48 OMG I may have lost a bet, is he really going to teach us how to hold the phone?

49

This entire meme of Tea Party racism is manufactured, it's not just Think Progress. I saw a few clips of the calcified Larry King who had several people who're still spreading the lie about legislators getting spat upon on the Capitol steps. They absolutely refuse to show any concrete proof of their charges despite all the cameras and recorders shown in clips of the event.

The lefties are floundering badly. The American people aren't stupid, but we sure are being treated like drooling imbeciles.

50 Even if someone does blow the whistle on the fabricated racism, there will always be black professional race-baiters (like one who showed up on Fox this morning) who will insist "they saw something about some racist signs they thought they saw" at a televised tea party rally, some member of Congress being called "the N-word" or spat upon.

And there will always be faux guilt-/agenda-driven tools in the media who will give them plenty of airtime to insist they saw things that didn't happen and let them make false accusations unchallenged.

Until people grow the hell up and are willing to expose racists and those who enable racism for personal gain (that would be you, Sharpton and Jackson) for the frauds they are, we're screwed.

BTW: I apologize to Herr Morgenholz for using the word "blow."

51 wow, stevie blew it....really he should have followed lebron's lead and had a one hour special on ESPN.....

52 the Tea Party MUST retain party purity.

53 "His brief — inarguably racist — shout of “Go home wetbacks!” is provably a video from 2006." Okay, I give: WHAT is "inarguably racist" about shouting "go home wetbacks"??? The term wetback is a reference to illegal immigration status, predicated on the stereotype that illegals wade across the Rio Grande. Fine, in actuality many simply run across the border on dry land, or make the crossing in the back of the truck. So what? Sorry, but whatever that sentence is, RAAAACIST is NOT applicable, and simply do as we conservatives ALWAYS do in the face of the "PC": tacitly give in to liberal control of the very language we are allowed to use.

54 OMG....has stevie caught the Washington denseness virus?

55 Not one word on any of these neo-con blogs about the fucking we are collectively being dealt with the Obama-Dodd-Frank financial regulation bill.

Another Mel Gibson post s'il vous plaît?

56

Breitbart pokes a 30 foot long pole up the NAACP's ass on charges of racism:

http://tinyurl.com/27lxppz

Ehm... is doing that racist?

HotAir

57 I mangled my last sentence: what I meant to say was, accepting the argument that the word "wetback" is racist is nothing more than acceptance of liberal control over our very vocabulary. I do NOT accept such control of my speech, nor should any of us.

58 "So what have we learned? Smartphones have weak spots -- this isn't just the iPhone 4, it's all phones. Next, some really interesting data from AppleCare, we looked at the statistics, we asked what's the percentage of all iPhone 4 users that have called AppleCare about the antenna or reception, or anything near reception problems. Because you would have thought 'Jesus, it must be a lot of users complaining about this' -- So what percentage have called AppleCare? 0.55% Just one half of one percent."

59 Can you imagine what the chatter is at NAACP events about jews and hispanics?  I think Breitbart's got a sledgehammer in his back pocket...

60

53 Okay, I give: WHAT is "inarguably racist" about shouting "go home wetbacks"???

If you see someone whose last name is  "Villareal" or some such and you say that shit, and it turns out he's from a Rio Grande Valley family from the late 1700s, then yeah, "racist" would apply. You're insulting the guy based on his racial background, and you're telling him he doesn't belong in this country.

It's generally a good idea not to descend to namecalling anyway. It makes you stupid.

61
hey you know who was a 'wetback'?

One of Faisal Shithead's cab-driving buddies who lived in Boston. He came here from Pakistian via the Rio Grande.


So 'wetback' isn't racist -- it means anyone who enters here illegally by swimming across the Rio Grande. Gringo on the other hand is a racist pejorative.

62 Curious - your apple stock options are showing.

63
kinda like boat people from Viet Nam & Cambodia and shit

64 Frau sent me to the store this morning.  She rattled off the half dozen things I was to get, at which point I said, "But first, you will blow me."

Is she familiar with where that phrase came from?

65 "62 Curious - your apple stock options are showing.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at July 16, 2010 01:23 PM (JSghx)"

You know Guy Fawkes, I am starting to think there is a correlation between the response of the American people and what is going on with iphone4.  I know so many people who have the phone and are vociferously complaining to their friends.  Oddly enough, no one has complained to apple.  It's almost like the passing of the HC bill took away America's voice.

66

59 Can you imagine what the chatter is at NAACP events about jews and hispanics?

The NAACP represents the black middle class of government or "shadow-government" (diversity, etc) workers. I don't expect that they talk a lot of garbage against either Jews or Hispanics. I expect more animus against whites, except coded as "Republicans" and "racists".

67 Yeah, I mentioned that in the comments yesterday ace. 

68 I TRIPLE dog dare them to keep calling the tea partiers racist.

69
again I have to say how surprised I am that Obama allowed himself (via Michelle Obama) to get himself into a reverse Sister Souljah moment.

I have to remind myself that Obama does not care about being popular with mainstream America.

70

#61, " Gringo on the other hand is a racist pejorative."

Hardly. It's a reference to the US Army and one of its marching songs from the 1800s.

Give it up. You're not going to "take back the word 'wetback'".

71 Posted by: you make me want to smoke at July 16, 2010 01:28 PM (uFokq)

Apparently stevie doesn't care either...

72 The NAACP represents the black middle class of government or "shadow-government" (diversity, etc) workers.

Upper, not middle—and not black, mostly. Look at them.

73 One of my main problems with conservatives is that they get angry at racial comments from nonwhites; not because they're offended by the comments, but because they're jealous that they're not allowed to use them anymore too.

74 I suspect that the Left's indiscriminate use of "racist" as the one universal political tool will result in the manufacture of millions of actual racists who are thinking that if they are going to be called one, why not be one? When you call some group "racist" who isn't about race at all (such as the tea party) you really, most sincerely, piss them the fuck off.

75 Funny thing, the add below this article when I first loaded it was in spanish... Mayhaps 'wetback' is a spanish keyword...

76 Related:  Can't remember where I saw it, but the nation of islam mysogynistic murdering cult is calling for reparation payments from Jews.

77 Looks like we're creeping up on one of those "insidious bad apples" moments.

78 The psychological difference between liberals and conservatives:

conservatives: scared out of their minds, fear, terror, hatred, anger, violent, cruel, insensitive, selfish, greedy, money-focused, watch cars go round and round on a race track, racist, sexual hangups

liberals: relaxed, mature, caring, considerate, connected to nature, compassionate, intellectual, well read, watched the World Cup, comfortable with sex

79 62 Curious - your apple stock options are showing.

Posted by: Guy Fawkes at July 16, 2010 01:23 PM (JSghx)

Geez! Cover those things up!

80 hahahah the stock is up....no matter how hard CNBC bashes, the more they bash, the higher it goes...

oh guy, no options, I outright own lots of stock...

81

Hardly. It's a reference to the US Army and one of its marching songs from the 1800s.

Yeah, I know the story, too. And wetback is a reference to people who swim across the river.

82 Who wants to be the dungeon master today?

83

Me thinks Apple pissed of the same peoples as Toyota.

Breitbart 2012

 

 

84 Think Progress can be sued for this. It's slander against what is at this point an established entity. The "public figure" standard for libel is that the slanderous claims not just have to be provably false, but that the "error" must be willful and malicious. Easily met. Take 'em down baby. Take 'em down!

85 Think Progress doesn't have to tell the truth.  They have truthiness on their side.

86 maddogg: 77 , I didn't say that there was anything insidious about you.

87

"No Roger.

No Re-Run.

No Rent Blacks!"

88 "83

Me thinks Apple pissed of the same peoples as Toyota.

Breitbart 2012

 

 

Posted by: dananjcon at July 16, 2010 01:34 PM (pr+up)"

interesting right?

89

Conservatives= pitchers

 

Liberals=catchers

90

So those who claim to hate RACISM act out as RACISTS so they can pretend people who aren't RACISTS are RACISTS.

Kind of defeats their hole point doesn't it?

They claim the RIGHT is RACIST, but cannot give any actual examples, so they become RACISTS themselves.

LIBTARDS ARE EVIL.

 

91 The guy seems to be wearing a Nazi shirt that just came fresh from a mail-order package. Almost like he just got it, in order to wear to the Tea Party.

Actually, we get those from a special catalog along with the naughty nurse get ups.

NAZI gear in public? That's hot.

92

_{Can't remember where I saw it, but the nation of islam mysogynistic murdering cult is calling for reparation payments from Jews.}

Them Jews have a Bigger Stash than Obama!

_{...whom I've never met...}

93 73 One of my main problems with conservatives is that they get angry at racial comments from nonwhites; not because they're offended by the comments, but because they're jealous that they're not allowed to use them anymore too.

Posted by: Zimriel at July 16, 2010 01:30 PM (9Sbz+)

You know what? I'm gonna keep this short and to the point. Your statement is pure conjecture, toned by your dislike of conservatives in general, and in my opinion (my conjecture) bullshit.

94

Walter, you forgot liberals comfortable with sex with children and love abortion.

95

Liberal, leftist, progressive, dem lying liars caught lying yada, yada...

B R E A K !

We all know the awesomeness of the women of the IDF.  This is even awesomenesser!

http://tinyurl.com/247r9nq

Israellycool

 

96 Actually, one of the interesting things to consider about the LEft is just how much they like to throw on NAZI gear. Remember when Olbermann couldn't stop himself from doing the NAZI salute in public? Oh yes, to "mock someone else."

97

Walter, you forgot liberals comfortable with sex with children and love abortion.

Posted by: gus at July 16, 2010 01:40 PM (Vqruj)

And rape, but not rape-rape

98

 they're jealous that they're not allowed to use them anymore too.

Which is it? We're not allowed to use them, so we're racist? Or, we use them at will because we're racist?

99 70

#61, " Gringo on the other hand is a racist pejorative."

Hardly. It's a reference to the US Army and one of its marching songs from the 1800s.

Posted by: Zimriel at July 16, 2010 01:28 PM (9Sbz+)

Yes Zimriel, "Gringo" IS absolutely a racist epithet.

100 Nothing to see here, you racist teaparty people, can't I just finish my waffle with delicious maple syrup.  Yum!

101
When's the last time you heard a Mexican refer to a white person as a gringo with an affectionate tone?

If you're gonna say people use wetback as a racial epithet at least admit gringo is too.

102

_{We all know the awesomeness of the women of the IDF.  This is even awesomenesser!}

 _{“Lying in ambushes for days with fellow female fighters and reaching the most intimate moments with them – beyond the satisfaction of protecting the State, we gain friends for life.}

If your first name were your middle name, I would not like you as I do.

103 OT:
Despite denials by the office of Vice President Joe Biden and the U.S. embassy in Kenya, the leading pro-life congressman says the Obama administration is absolutely engaging in illegal funding of a campaign to get voters in Kenya to adopt a pro-abortion constitution.

Think this will get any play on the MFM?  Also this makes Odumbass a racist.

104

We all know the awesomeness of the women of the IDF.  This is even awesomenesser!

http://tinyurl.com/247r9nq

Israellycool

 

Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at July 16, 2010 01:40 PM (r1h5M)

--Who's the black beauty? Those are tasty kick-ass pics!

105 "Q: Are you willing to make an apology to investors?
Steve: You know we hear from customers who love this phone and have a great experience with it, and we're doing a lot to help them with any issues they're seeing. To investors, you know, you invest in the company we are, so if the stock goes down $5... I don't think I owe them an apology."

Ah, he so love WS, not.....

106

If your first name were your middle name, I would not like you as I do.

Posted by: garrett at July 16, 2010 01:44 PM (L09+R)

I know what you mean!

And oh... my pleasure.

107

Only a fucking moron would claim wetback is racist and gringo is not.

Zimriel, you are a fucking moron.  A diseased liberal moron.

108

It's bad when Barney Frank is the smartest one in the frame.

OK but he's not super good when it comes to history... last night for some unknown reason I clicked over to PBS and had a few laughs watching Mr Frank on Charlie Rose blaming George Bush and the republicans for Fanny and Freddie. He was on quite a roll and it seemed like the faster he talked the less sense he made. It was almost as if he was afraid that Charlie was going to argue with his attempt to rewrite history. Apparently Barney wasn't aware that there was absolutely no chance Charlie would  interrupt him unless of couse he said something negative about Obama.

109

Zimriel, you are a fucking moron.  A diseased liberal moron.

 

Hey, I'm right here!

110
"To investors, you know, you invest in the company we are, so if the stock goes down $5... I don't think I owe them an apology."

hahaha, sounds just like Obama.

Unemployment is only 9.6%, not 12%. So you should be thanking me.

111

hey, hey HEY, Zimriel is not a liberal.

112 Did Zimriel just realize that he was late for a La Raza meeting and have to race away?

113

112 Did Zimriel just realize that he was late for a La Raza meeting and have to race away?

 

I see what you did there.  Very punny.

114

--Who's the black beauty? Those are tasty kick-ass pics!

Posted by: logprof at July 16, 2010 01:46 PM (BP6Z1)

Bathsheba's descendant.

115

People who bleat about the alleged "racism" of others are the most insufferable pricks on the planet.  They spend their worthless lives trying to cause chaos over worthless ideas.  They should just help the world and take themselves out of the run of existence. 

Hey, ThinkProgress ... think green, instead, and undo the impact that your life has on this planet.  Erase your existence and call it a day, already.

116 The ends justify the means with all these insane far left radicals.  They could care less that the tactics they employ are lies, straight up.  The far left is always scheming, scheming, scheming with their two-cent games of image manipulation.  Think Progress has to show clips of false Tea Party racism with their fake participants....all the while ignoring that Shabazz nutjob and his real racist rantings of killing crackers and cracker babies.  These are sick, degenerate, deplorable people.

117

People who bleat about the alleged "racism" of others are the most insufferable pricks on the planet. 

 

Hey!  We're right here!

118 Having been on the ground during engineering screwup with pissed of generals; I can tell you that the last 15days at Apple - working for a megalomaniac like Jobs - must have been fun. But, the man does know how to throw on a briefing - contrast it with these ThinkProgress clowns. He manages to define the problem, defend his team, disparage the competition, and provide a solution -- in what 15mins. Are all of the other vendors going to have to give away cases now too - the guys in my office are already doing the bar trick with their blackberrys. ThinkProgress manages to beclown themselves - all anyone needs to do to refute that crap is redit that video with the longer segments.

119 Thne best part is that ThinkProcess will be using blue helmet guy for the upcoming series. He's a pro and the left really needs pros to pull this one off.

120

103 Think this will get any play on the MFM?  Also this makes Odumbass a racist.

My sister is in Kenya right now, & there is resentment & anxiety in certain parts of the population concerning this vote. The Kenyans are well-aware that people are meddling in their affairs.

121 Fake but accurate

122 These guys need a visit from Bricktop and his pigs.

123

My sister is in Kenya right now, & there is resentment & anxiety in certain parts of the population concerning this vote. The Kenyans are well-aware that people are meddling in their affairs.

 

And we would have gotten away with it if it weren't for you meddling kids!

124 99 70

#61, " Gringo on the other hand is a racist pejorative."

Hardly. It's a reference to the US Army and one of its marching songs from the 1800s.

Posted by: Zimriel at July 16, 2010 01:28 PM (9Sbz+)

Yes Zimriel, "Gringo" IS absolutely a racist epithet.

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at July 16, 2010 01:42 PM (oIp16)

Unless my wife's family can't stand me, "Gringo" is not a racist pejorative in fact its increasingly being used as a term of endearment.  Like a lot of spanish and english for that matter it depends on the context and tone of the conversation.

125 Bush made stuff up, too!!!!

126

122 These guys need a visit from Bricktop and his pigs.

"Feed him to the pigs, Errol."

127 120

103 Think this will get any play on the MFM?  Also this makes Odumbass a racist.

My sister is in Kenya right now, & there is resentment & anxiety in certain parts of the population concerning this vote. The Kenyans are well-aware that people are meddling in their affairs.

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at July 16, 2010 01:55 PM (/h097)

I hope that your sister stays safe while she is over there. I don't have any trust in the stability of that part of the world right now. 

128 115

People who bleat about the alleged "racism" of others are the most insufferable pricks on the planet.  They spend their worthless lives trying to cause chaos over worthless ideas.  They should just help the world and take themselves out of the run of existence. 

Posted by: progressoverpeace at July 16, 2010 01:52 PM (5TNVe)

Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton (in unison), "It pays the bills!"

129

I also have a question-- does Congress have the power to legislate bankruptcy?

Link 

130

121 Fake but accurate

 

Hey!  I'm right here!

131

hey how nice of Apple, they are offering you a ten cent piece of plastic and a note that says, "Thanks for waiting in line for 7 hours for a defective phone, how do our balls taste".

 

Congrats Apple, destroy a following that took yout 20 years to build over you desire to not make your customers whole.

132
speaking of Kenya...

I've got an Ethiopian friend and he tells me that China is investing a lot of money there building infrastructure. I thought it was kinda strange because I had no idea China was branching out like that.

_{Incidentally, it's funny because when the U.S. invests abroad and works with foreing governments the Left says it's prrof of America's imperialism.}

133

Unless my wife's family can't stand me, "Gringo" is not a racist pejorative in fact its increasingly being used as a term of endearment.  Like a lot of spanish and english for that matter it depends on the context and tone of the conversation.

Posted by: dananjcon at July 16, 2010 01:57 PM (pr+up)

Like "Cracka".

134 These guys need a visit from Bricktop and his pigs.

"Feed him to the pigs, Errol."

What are you afraid of Tommy? Ze Germans?

135 I have still not recovered from the abc news blip the other night where he said we are on our way to a million foreclosures.  Behind those million foreclosures are a million families.  

Wonder what the breakdown is by race and gender?  Bet we won't be able to find that info.

136

127 120 103 I hope that your sister stays safe while she is over there. I don't have any trust in the stability of that part of the world right now. 

She is safe. Thankfully, she'll also be home before the vote. (They're expecting some violence as a result of the constiution.) 

137 AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

138 I don't know what to think about Breitbart's aggressive attitude, except that it's better than any alternative I can think of.

139

Unless my wife's family can't stand me, "Gringo" is not a racist pejorative in fact its increasingly being used as a term of endearment.  Like a lot of spanish and english for that matter it depends on the context and tone of the conversation.

Posted by: dananjcon at July 16, 2010 01:57 PM (pr+up)

They might like you, but they don't respect you. Do you also believe that pendejo could be a term of endearment depending on how they say it?

140 Cool. "Pinche  (sp? due to racism) Gringo" now no longer means "stupid white guy". Good to know.The song Green Grow the Lilacs and all that.

In that case, I'm taking "taco-bender" back out for a spin.  It just means an appreciation of another culture's contribution to American cuisine, right? Right?

141 Here is that reparations article.

142 I can't spell today.

143 "131

hey how nice of Apple, they are offering you a ten cent piece of plastic and a note that says, "Thanks for waiting in line for 7 hours for a defective phone, how do our balls taste".

 

Congrats Apple, destroy a following that took yout 20 years to build over you desire to not make your customers whole.

Posted by: Ben at July 16, 2010 01:59 PM (wuv1c)"

I think stevie, who had to cut short his vacay in hawaii, reacted emotionally.  I'm really believing that he did write that email where he said "it's just a phone, spend time with your family".   I know quite a few fanboys and girls who are really pissed now.....you know the ones who called him and said "hey there's a problem but it is controlled with the bumper".

It's sort of a challenge....guess woz said it all yesterday....

144 They're giving away the bumper and saying "hey, all the other smartphones do it too." Like him or hate him, Jobs is a hell of a salesman.

145 "144 They're giving away the bumper and saying "hey, all the other smartphones do it too." Like him or hate him, Jobs is a hell of a salesman.

Posted by: joncelli at July 16, 2010 02:05 PM (RD7QR)"

he had to get this over with before tuesday..my friends are too funny...one of my friends tweeted..."f**K you all, I gave you the greatest phone on earth and you ingrates don't appreciate me or it, what, over a few dropped calls"...and then he added....he sounds like my wife complaining that i'm not paying enough attention to her....

146

73 One of my main problems with conservatives is that they get angry at racial comments from nonwhites; not because they're offended by the comments, but because they're jealous that they're not allowed to use them anymore too.

 

No.

 

It's that if we WERE to use one, we'd get crucified, while it seems to be encouraged and acceptable when others do it. I don't want to be "allowed" to use them, I want the punishment and disdain to be equal across the board.

147

DJIA was @ -230, though it's now only -226.

(Only :snicker: )

In the end...

 

148 Candy  Rum Gin Whiskey  Sugar Plums  Indolence  White Women  Apathy  White Sugar  Idleness  Fish Balls  Clams  Stews  Pies

149 Punch a lawyer, via weaselzippers: http://tinyurl.com/24nb9ju

150 139

Unless my wife's family can't stand me, "Gringo" is not a racist pejorative in fact its increasingly being used as a term of endearment.  Like a lot of spanish and english for that matter it depends on the context and tone of the conversation.

Posted by: dananjcon at July 16, 2010 01:57 PM (pr+up)

They might like you, but they don't respect you. Do you also believe that pendejo could be a term of endearment depending on how they say it?

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at July 16, 2010 02:02 PM (oIp16)

They respect me plenty, our families have been through alot the past 4yrs and have become very close. Again, depending on the tone of the conversation...I call my father-in law pendejo when joking around just like I call my high school buddies jack-off or shit head.

 

151 he sounds like my wife complaining that i'm not paying enough attention to her....

Posted by: curious at July 16, 2010 02:07 PM (p302b)

Greatest tweet line of all time... maybe (is he a liberal?)

152 148 Candy Rum Gin Whiskey Sugar Plums Indolence White Women Apathy White Sugar Idleness Fish Balls Clams Stews Pies Posted by: Hiester Clymer (D) PA, Committee on Appropriations at July 16, 2010 02:12 PM (kb0wl) These are a few of my favorite thIIIIIIIIings! (Context, please?)

153 My wife's mother calls her a dirty Spic all the time, and they love each other.

154 the problem is character.  It sounds so simple but really it's integrity and character.  Republicans, Conservatives and most independents have it, there are just certain things they will not do under any circumstances, it just isn't in their DNZ.  Libs and dems on the other hand appear to not have had this character building as a part of their upbringing, to them their integrity and reputation seem not to matter.  I have my own feeling as to why this is which I would rather not share on a blog, but you all can figure it out on your own.  You know I recently said to a friend, if no one was around, would you do the right thing?   I told him that this is the most important question that you need to answer for yourself.  People like the guys pulling this scam don't answer the same way as you might.  They think it is ok to "bend the rules" for the good of their cause.  I think republicans and conservatives do things way too slowly but it may be that at each step along the way they make sure it is being done correctly rather than having to go back and fix things.  The dems/libs on the other hand figure they can always "fix" anything as long as they get their long term objective accomplished.  Once you lock into the belief system like this then you can justify almost anything, it is a slippery slope.

155

I don't know what to think about Breitbart's aggressive attitude, except that it's better than any alternative I can think of.

One of the many reasons that I like Breitbart is that after he's done pounding someone into the dirt, he disappears without a peep for awhile.

Next thing you know BAM! He drops out of the ceiling with a 20 pound hammer and starts in on some dipshit or dipshits again.

156 In that case, I'm taking "taco-bender" back out for a spin.  It just means an appreciation of another culture's contribution to American cuisine, right? Right?

Posted by: sifty at July 16, 2010 02:02 PM (BItlo)

Absolutely. Let's not forget that all Mexican women just love it when you use the word "puta" as a loving term of endearment. Try this phrase out at your next family get togeather with the in-laws.

Me estoy putiando a tu hermana

Not only will they apperciate your desire to share their beautiful language and culture, it will let them know that you are getting your money's worth from the Mrs.

157 joncelli at July 16, 2010 02:15


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ File:Freedman%27s_bureau.jpg

158

It's sort of a challenge....guess woz said it all yesterday....

I don't own one, however If I were an apple guy I would consider not buying anymore products.

 

You spend thousands of dollars on their products and the admit they put out a lemon that has many problems, the biggest of which is its functionality as a phone, and they essentially tell you to go pound sand.

Complaining about a broken product isn't indicative of not having a life. If I buy a car with all the coolest gadgets and then it doesn't actually drive, then i'm going to be pretty pissed.

Apple needs to recall it and make the hardware fix. It is a company that has a lot of good will from customers based on its reputation for innovation and high quality products, why tarnish that reputation when it will only cost your company a couple hundred million to make the fix. Hell their stock has shed some 10 billion in value since this whole debacle began.

159 "151 he sounds like my wife complaining that i'm not paying enough attention to her....

Posted by: curious at July 16, 2010 02:07 PM (p302b)

Greatest tweet line of all time... maybe (is he a liberal?)

Posted by: Editor at July 16, 2010 02:14 PM (pUfK9)"

you know I'm not sure.  He is one of my oldest friends a true geek of the highest order, an engineer.  But come to think of it, I'm reasonably certain he didn't vote for BO since he has tweeted about what "ol smoothy" is doing now...

160

Not only will they apperciate your desire to share their beautiful language and culture, it will let them know that you are getting your money's worth from the Mrs.

Posted by: Jim in San Diego at July 16, 2010 02:17 PM (oIp16)

So is the "Dirty Sanchez" still in play?

161

So is the "Dirty Sanchez" still in play?

Posted by: conscious, but incoherent - gas free, at this point at July 16, 2010 02:21 PM (YVZlY)

The classics never go out of style.

162 OT but sorta related since it refers to protests.

On Wed night, CalGuns totally pwned the LCAV anti-gun fundraising dinner in Frisco. I hadn't been on CalGuns in a while, and then I find out about this. I'm pissed that I missed it.

A little background: CG's forum is monitored very closely by all of the anti-gun organizations, ATF, FBI and various other organizations. This includes ATF and law enforcement moles who register and play agent provocateur. Several have been caught out over the years, mainly trying to entice CG members into illegal activity on the For Sale section.

Knowing that everything on the site was monitored, CG punked the Legal Community Against Violence Joyce Foundation-funded anti-gun organization (and the SF city government), and they did it WITHOUT LIFTING A FINGER. It's epic.

http://tinyurl.com/27ke4zy

http://tinyurl.com/264mcb9

and the original CalGuns thread.

http://tinyurl.com/29tqjyc

the after-action report, including photos of the increased SFPD security...for the 2A protesters that never intended to show up in the first place.

http://tinyurl.com/2ao73aa

Considering the fun that we had with The Hill and C&L over the last week, I thought y'all might get a kick out of it.

163 "158

It's sort of a challenge....guess woz said it all yesterday....

I don't own one, however If I were an apple guy I would consider not buying anymore products.

 You spend thousands of dollars on their products and the admit they put out a lemon that has many problems, the biggest of which is its functionality as a phone, and they essentially tell you to go pound sand.

Complaining about a broken product isn't indicative of not having a life. If I buy a car with all the coolest gadgets and then it doesn't actually drive, then i'm going to be pretty pissed.

Apple needs to recall it and make the hardware fix. It is a company that has a lot of good will from customers based on its reputation for innovation and high quality products, why tarnish that reputation when it will only cost your company a couple hundred million to make the fix. Hell their stock has shed some 10 billion in value since this whole debacle began.

Posted by: Ben at July 16, 2010 02:18 PM (wuv1c)"

I agree with you.  I'm thinking of returning my phone.  It is disappointing since they are literally sitting on billions in cash.   It sort of shows how power can get to your head.  And don't forget he is sort of having a little battle with our "goo" friends.  I remember writing letter after letter asking why eric was on the board when he could in fact be a spy".......finally they realized this and off he went.

Trust me, I know this company inside and out..I lost a bet to one of my friends who emailed me "he's going to have the temerity to get up there and tell you how to hold the damn phone".....my friend was in essence right.

164 Oops!

165

Unless my wife's family can't stand me, "Gringo" is not a racist pejorative in fact its increasingly being used as a term of endearment.  Like a lot of spanish and english for that matter it depends on the context and tone of the conversation.

Posted by: dananjcon at July 16, 2010 01:57 PM (pr+up)

Gringo is a slur, anyway you slice it.  The problem, though, is that anyone cares that someone else uses such slurs.  They are nothing but meaningless words. I couldn't care less if someone called me "gringo".  Frankly, I don't care what such people think of me, at all.

I'm a big Sticks and Stones person and just can't stand how everyone likes to act so "shocked" at slurs - as if they are one step below cutting someone's head off.  Slurs are nothing.  But the left has made them everything and much of the right has been dragged right along.

166 Fake, but accurate.

167 153 My wife's mother calls her a dirty Spic all the time, and they love each other.

Posted by: Truman North at July 16, 2010 02:16 PM (3h3kv)

Exactly...I tell my wife "her spic is showing" whis is silly cuz she is Chilean. I also break her chops by telling her she is speaking spanglish when she speaks perfect English with no accent...I'm simply ignoring her cause she talks waaaay too much.

 

 

168 I mean "greasy wop" is a slur on italians and isn't "lace curtain Irish" not such a nice thing to say.

169 "Gringo" is Spanish for "other", as in people cling to the familiar and and detest the other.

So,yes, the term "gringo" is indeed xenophobic at the very root of its origins.

170

His brief — inarguably racist — shout of “Go home wetbacks!” is provably a video from 2006.

Even aside from other problems, how is "Go home, wetbacks!" inarguably racist, anyway?  This is the sort of disingenuous complaint that makes the whole situation beyond ridiculous.

171 You morons must not know much Mexican. Every word they use has a filthy connotation. I know many many, and like more of them than an = number of Americans. For example if the call you suegro, it means they'd like to fuck your daughter. If they call you cunado it means they want to fuck your sister. Be careful if they call you primo.

172 This

(Screw you big Sis, I only went because of that bullshit DHS memo that got released.)

Aaaand....

THIS

Just 'cos I got lucky and captured something really beautiful whilst snapping away at an obvious target. (look in the background, barefoot little pig-tailed girl, running joyously to catch Daddy's hand).

173 For example if the call you suegro, it means they'd like to fuck your daughter.
If they call you cunado it means they want to fuck your sister.
Be careful if they call you primo.

Posted by: A determined alcoholic at July 16, 2010 02:37 PM (w9bVp)

Very arab-like.  Arabs like to say "Coos Ochtahk" and "Coos Emak" to refer to the privates of your sister and mother.  Very strong stuff in the middle east, where a slight glance by a girl can get her head handed to her ... literally..

174 #70 Zimriel

I have to disagree.  FWIW, my T9 opinion is neutral.

Even Wiki seems to be trying to cover up the source of the word "gringo". Wiki spends more than a few sentences, on "griego" and that it predates the existence of the US as a nation, or that "gingo" is not necessarily a perjorative, or that it isn't at all, or something.

I don't buy the derivation from "griego"; I think that there are no linguistic theories that will support a change from "griego" to "gringo".

But read the Wiki section "In English".  Pay attention to the comment by Audubon, and the section "Origin from Henry VIII's Song "Green Grows the Holly" and Variants". 

Now say it out loud: "Green Grow the ..." --> "Grin Gro" ('i' as in -ing)--> "Gringro" --> "gringo" ......

This looks to be the correct explanation for the source and intended meaning of "gringo".  If it isn't, then a satisfactory counter-argument needs to be made.

175 FWIW, I always thought the word gringo was in the same category as cracka.

176 Apple needs to recall it and make the hardware fix.

After reading an article that someone linked to on the problem there can be no "fix" for this under a recall. It would require a complete redesign and replacement of the antenna system.

I can't believe they designed it the way they did. Whoever did that had to be totally ignorant of RF.

Also, this lame "case" idea is just another way of saying "duct tape".

177 FWIW, I always thought the word gringo was in the same category as cracka.

Posted by: curious at July 16, 2010 02:45 PM (p302b)

Silly you.  Fritos are in the same category as crackas.

178 Wow, this is serious. I know this is a minor detail and all, but other than people saying this is a fake, does anybody have something like, oh I don't know...proof?

179 FWIW, I always thought the word gringo was in the same category as cracka.

Cracker wasn't a racial pejorative initially either. It started as "Georgia Cracker" and it referred to the people whose staple diet was "cracked corn" in the early days of GA when it was being settled by the inmates of the debtors prisons.

It was an "economic pejorative" if anything.

But having said all that these words to get co-opted over time and can become racial pejoratives through usage.

After all, the one that is currently considered the worst racial slur didn't start as a racial slur to begin with either (the N-word)

180

-->Wow, this is serious.

Ooooh.  name calling.  Ooooooh.

-->I know this is a minor detail and all, but other than people saying this is a fake, does anybody have something like, oh I don't know...proof?

Posted by: JEA at July 16, 2010 03:02 PM (WGbtD)

Proof of what?  That the tea parties aren't racist, aren't organized around race (unlike the left, the dems and The Precedent) and have nothing racist about them?  Go to one and see.  The proof is all over.

As to proof that the left are nothing but despicable, lying scumbags ... that's all over the place, too.  You people can't hide the disgusting sewage that comprises your personalities.  That's why you're leftists, after all.

181 Just 'cos I got lucky and captured something really beautiful whilst snapping away at an obvious target. (look in the background, barefoot little pig-tailed girl, running joyously to catch Daddy's hand).

Oh, my uterus! 

Honestly, one of my all-time favorite memories is one of my sister's kids running up to me, baby doll in hand, saying, "Aunt Filly, will you hold me and Baby?"

sniffle

182

^Zzzzzzzzz...

^...

^{Zzzzzzzzzz...}

^*snrk*

^{Man, leave me alone...I had to get up way early to go fight those crazy crackers on Fox this morning...}

^Zzzzzz...

183 Wow, this is serious. I know this is a minor detail and all, but other than people saying this is a fake, does anybody have something like, oh I don't know...proof?


What, prove a negative?

ThinkProgress is the one making the assertion that the Tea Party is racist. THEY are the ones that have an obligation to back up their own allegation with proof that isn't faked.

184

"Aunt Filly"

Even your own relatives don't know your real name?

Damn.

185 Let's face it - any organization exists primarily to perpetuate whatever fears got them started in the first place.

If the NAACP President said "Well done, Americans! Not a racist among the lot of you", he'd have to go find a REAL job. One that didn't include invites to all the snobbiest cocktail parties...

Same with the Sierra Club, NOW, the UN HRC, you name it

186

"ThinkProgress is the one making the assertion that the Tea Party is racist. THEY are the ones that have an obligation to back up their own allegation with proof that isn't faked."

No, not really moron. Pajamas Media need to prove the accusations they made. Just like liberals had to prove O'Keefe's videos were fake after they accused him (which they haven't done YET). That's how it works.

187

"Aunt Filly"

Even your own relatives don't know your real name?

Oh, yeah.  When you're a literary writer and a teacher of Teh College, you can't even trust the three-year-olds.  Being outed as a filthy raaaaaaaaciiiiiiiist conservative is tenure and publication death.

188 Frau just brought a bunch of squash in from the garden.  A couple of them are small yellow squash where 2 have grown together.  Swearing on all that is holy, they look just like scrota.  Being 40 is no barrier to being juvenile.

Posted by: Herr Morgenholz at July 16, 2010 12:55 PM (eubBM)

From my garden http://tinyurl.com/23tyow7

189 Let me try that again http://tinyurl.com/2g6cvcj

190

"Being outed as a filthy raaaaaaaaciiiiiiiist conservative is tenure and publication death."

You're doing it wrong.

191 So, why doesn't everyone who takes on the argument about this bullshittery just hold up a sign advertising Breitbart's reward for actual (real) pictures? I think a lot of the sheltered public is clueless about it.

192 129

I also have a question-- does Congress have the power to legislate bankruptcy?

Link 

Posted by: Miss'80sBaby at July 16, 2010 01:58 PM (/h097)

yes

193 Did I get misinformation or didnt I read somewhere that only about half of one percent of the people who bought the new iphone actually had problems with the reception?

194 Did I get misinformation or didnt I read somewhere that only about half of one percent of the people who bought the new iphone actually had problems with the reception?

Not according to the article I read. According to the article they made the phone's antenna a piece of SS band around the edge of the case. When you hold the phone in your hand it grounds out the antenna and kills reception and transmission.

If you are sitting right next to a transmission tower you may still get a bar or two but now if you are away from the tower.

It is a real piss poor design and there is no easy fix for it.

195 tt

196 Did I get misinformation or didnt I read somewhere that only about half of one percent of the people who bought the new iphone actually had problems with the reception?

Not according to the article I read. According to the article they made the phone's antenna a piece of SS band around the edge of the case. When you hold the phone in your hand it grounds out the antenna and kills reception and transmission.

If you are sitting right next to a transmission tower you may still get a bar or two but now if you are away from the tower.

It is a real piss poor design and there is no easy fix for it.

Posted by: Vic at July 16, 2010 04:52 PM (/jbAw)

 

As someone already said, whoever designed this doesn't know squat about RF.  Indeed, the "fix" is basically doing what should have been done in the first place, which is insulating the antenna from outside contacts (like the user's frigging hand, for chrissakes). 

197 As someone already said, whoever designed this doesn't know squat about RF.  Indeed, the "fix" is basically doing what should have been done in the first place, which is insulating the antenna from outside contacts (like the user's frigging hand, for chrissakes).

Actually even doing that is not a real "fix". You still will get some inductive coupling between your hand and the antenna and will lose some of the signal. There is a reason that most phones and radios use that little rubber coated coil thingy sticking out of the top as an antenna.

That is why the duct tape and vinyl case solutions are really poor solutions. My recommendation for all the Morons is to avoid this phone like the plague.

(and that was me who said whoever designed that antenna didn't know shit about RF in another thread).

198

How are Think Progress' actions any different than the Nixon dirty tricks squad?  Why isn't the Tea Party movement pursuing legal action to take down this illegitimate organization and bring to the light of day its tactics of defamation of character, slander and antitrust violations?  Once brought out and having the full measure of the law applied to these clowns- hopefully bankrupting them financially and morally- the left will think twice when planting future astroturf... 

199 Did I get misinformation or didnt I read somewhere that only about half of one percent of the people who bought the new iphone actually had problems with the reception? Not according to the article I read. According to the article they made the phone's antenna a piece of SS band around the edge of the case. When you hold the phone in your hand it grounds out the antenna and kills reception and transmission. If you are sitting right next to a transmission tower you may still get a bar or two but now if you are away from the tower. It is a real piss poor design and there is no easy fix for it. Posted by: Vic at July 16, 2010 04:52 PM (/jbAw) As someone already said, whoever designed this doesn't know squat about RF. Indeed, the "fix" is basically doing what should have been done in the first place, which is insulating the antenna from outside contacts (like the user's frigging hand, for chrissakes). The only misinformation is in the replies to your comment. Most reviews say the reception is better and there are fewer dropped calls (though according to Jobs' numbers the iphone4 drops, what was it, 1% more calls than the 3GS?). There is a tendency for it to attenuate the signal due to the design of the antenna but it doesn't result in dropped calls. The iPhone4 (designed by guys who are apparently "totally ignorant of RF") manages to work much better with weaker signals. It's not like the test the hell out of it or have testing facilities or antenna engineers. But hey, you can believe the people calling it a "lemon", or you can believe the people who bought it. 1.7% returns versus 6% for the iPhone 3GS. It's probably such a lemon people are destroying it in a fit of rage instead of returning it. All these Apple naysayers sound like Homer Simpson in the episode with the wish granting monkey paw, asking for the turkey sandwich. "Hey! Not bad. Nice, hot mustard. Good bread. The turkey's a little dry. The turkey's a little dry! O foul accursed thing! What demon from the depths of hell created thee?!"

200 Wow, there's a new one.  NIXON DID IT!

201

@34: "We pointed at all of these people and just laughed at them."

Your problem was not beating them to the edge of unconsciousness.  And really, it's win/win: they get to provoke you like they were hoping to, and you get to beat them.

202

@65: "I am starting to think there is a correlation between the response of the American people and what is going on with iphone4.  I know so many people who have the phone and are vociferously complaining to their friends.  Oddly enough, no one has complained to apple.  It's almost like the passing of the HC bill took away America's voice."

They've probably figured out that talking to Apple and talking to the gummint yield approximately the same result - a powerful entity effectively telling you to go fuck yourself.  Neither exists to serve the populace, the populace exists to provide them with money.

203 The Democrates other motto is   "if you aint cheating you aint trying hard enough..."   "You cant make... it Fake it"   Think Progress's motto.. Truth in the Press? its ALL HOLLYWOOD BABY!!!!

204

Oh, yeah.  When you're a literary writer and a teacher of Teh College, you can't even trust the three-year-olds.  Being outed as a filthy raaaaaaaaciiiiiiiist conservative is tenure and publication death.

Posted by: Filly at July 16, 2010 03:29 PM (c9jHO)

What a world we live in. I bet you're not kidding, though.

205 What a world we live in. I bet you're not kidding, though.

I wish I were.  I'm playing it on the dangerous side by making no secret of the fact that I'm a practicing Cath-o-lick.  And the worst damage I experienced from this was at a (supposedly) Catholic college.

206 I'll do a test with this pair of Timberland water I bought. 'll Tell you I use, as they get older, comfort, etc. Comment a few days I used and under what conditions. Moreover, being a couple bought no compromise with this or any other brand, I can say what you think, good or bad. To see that this first experience
I have been driven by fashion and return to using this type of moccasin, which has not done since the 10 or 11 years. However, in aged skin that gives a much more current. If I'm correct this issue "used" is achieved by waxing the skin and then brushing the wax burns and, to be darker than the skin makes a patina reminiscent of the shoes and other leather goods that have been used for long

207
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