1 Katie Kissass is at it again with a panel of hypocrites.

2 Krugman looks like the creepy third husband of my oldest s-i-l.  Seriously.  And he's as deranged as Krugman. 

Holidays are a blast around him.  (oops)

3 Krugman is definitely a malignant midget.  With a vagina on his face.

4

The Media has declared an Overseas Contingency Operation on the Man Caused Disaster which is public discourse.

 

5 They know, they have lost the American people.

6 I don't have a clue who did that Photoshop but Ace says thanks.

7 The words conscience and liberal should never be used in the same sentence. After the past week any liberal that possessed one woulda burst into flames.

8 I keep thinking there are no fresh hells for it to descend into, and it keeps proving me wrong. Seriously, people. Let's be level-headed about things.

9 You're not going to burn out on us, are you Ace?

I worry, because you've been on fire all day, in both a good and a worrisome way.  I know when I get worked up like this I damn near crash to the ground afterwards.

God bless you for the doing the work here that I'm incapable of.

10

George Orwell knew WTF he was talking about, didn't he?

11 Hey remember when the left was busy pointing all us stupid bigoted Repiglicans to the sacred unalienable rights granted by the Constitution when we were outraged about the Ground Zero SuperMosque/Victory Dance? Those were the days.

12 I don't have a clue who did that Photoshop but Ace says thanks.

Without even checking, I'm just going to assume it's Slublog.  If it's Ace Of Spades HQ, and it's a funny photoshop, it's usually Slu.

13 Yup, it's Slublog's work.

14 Hahahaah my hash is AnaUL.

15 It will be true!

16 Says Mr. T: "Krugman and his colleagues on the Times editorial board are not skilled enough to be effective liars."

True. But half-assed lies work better as propaganda. And no-assed ones are best. Every con-man, tyrant, cult leader, pimp, crooked salesman, etc., understands this.

If the person you want to believe your lie has to will himself to believe it—or, especially, if your target is a mass that has to join its will to believe it—the belief, once adopted, is unshakable by reason.

Eventually, shit does get real. But on its way to getting real, it goes completely insane. "How could [insert historical atrocity here] have happened?" That's how.

17 Yup, it's Slublog's work.

I figured as much.  I'm just marveling at the grammatical structure of Ace's credit sentence.

18 8 I keep thinking there are no fresh hells for it to descend into, and it keeps proving me wrong.

Seriously, people. Let's be level-headed about things.

Posted by: Lewis Carroll, deep in the rabbit hole at January 12, 2011 06:50 PM (4Kl5M)

Give it time....

19 if I want to twitter follow the memorial, how would I do it?

20 Why are you so surprised Ace? The Left is upset that it wasn't Palin who was shot. That's why the rage from the Left.

21

Posted by: Mr Pink at January 12, 2011 06:52 PM (AnaUL)

Looks good on you

22 RIP, Loughner Media...Oh, shit, can I say any of that?

23

Hahahaah my hash is AnaUL.

SYNTAX!

24

The most important thing about this is that Loughner was not only not-Right, but actively Left by the look of things.  His friend Osler told Ashleigh Banfield his biggest influence was the Zeitgeist movement.  They're some kind of Rouseauvian techno-hippy green futurists, preaching the ideas of one Jacque Fresco. 

Apparently religion, war, and money are the source of all the world's evils, as we know.  Their first film, Zeitgeist The Movie, reveals all three to be conspiracies by the power elite: Christ never existed, 9/11 was a hoax, and money is a tool of control by the "international bankers".  After the revolution - I mean, once people are educated - we will all live in planned cities, without money or private property, sustainably at one with nature, and robots will do all the work, leading to unlimited prosperity.  (Typical Tea Party rhetoric, you'll agree.)

The third film of their trilogy, interestingly, premieres this month.

Couple this with Volokh's post this morning where Loughner complains about enriched uranium and calls the Iraq and Afghanistan wars crimes under the Geneva Convention, and it looks like we've got a lefty gone utterly off his rocker.

So yeah: Leftist Kills Liberal, Conservative To Blame.  News at eleven.

So I guess it's time to start up the "blood libel" controversy and move on dot org about the whole extremism thing.

25 #22

DUDE! You better trademark that ASAP!

26 SYNTAX! Posted by: David-Wynn Miller CASE:UPPER PUNCTUATION[TYPE = EXCLAMATORY]

27

 Krugman is definitely a malignant midget.  With a vagina on his face.

that made me lol 

28 And now, more 'outrage':

via Politico.

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) turned down an offer by President Barack Obama to travel on Air Force One to Arizona for a memorial service on behalf of the victims of SaturdayÂ’s shooting, a decision that has upset some Democrats.

Boehner is instead scheduled to attend a reception on Wednesday night on behalf of Maria Cino, a former top House GOP aide who is seeking the Republican National Committee chairmanship. Boehner is backing CinoÂ’s challenge to current RNC Chairman Michael Steele.

29 I think there is a lot of merit to the old media declaring idealogical war. It pretty much is the only explanation for this truly insane behavior directed at roughly 50% of the country. A generation ago , MSNBC would have switched their format as soon as the rating tanked- now NBC eats the loss- why? The good news is, much like the Democrats in the last election, a ton of independents are looking at this and increasingly going ' What the f**k"?

30 I think that's sort of right. But then, I keep thinking there are no fresh hells for it to descend into, and it keeps proving me wrong.

Yeah, my first thought when you mentioned earlier today that this is the stupidest shit you've ever heard in your fucking life was "dude don't freaking dare the universe like that". 

31 I pick things up and put them down.......

32

I posted the absurdity of Krugman's argument earlier today.

One more time:

As it happens, I--unlike Krugman--know all about Michele's "armed and dangerous" quote, because she said it in an interview with Brian Ward and me, on our radio show. It was on March 21, 2009. The subject was the Obama administration's cap and trade proposal. Michele organized a couple of informational meetings in her district with an expert on global warming and cap and trade, and she came on our show to promote those meetings. She wanted her constituents to be armed with information on cap and trade so that they would understand how unnecessary, and how damaging to our economy, the Obama administration's proposal was. That would make them dangerous to the administration's left-wing plans.

The interview illustrates quite well the difference between Michele Bachmann and Paul Krugman. Krugman is a vicious hater. He rarely argues any issue on the merits, but prefers to smear those who disagree with him. Bachmann is infinitely better informed than Krugman. All she wants to do is debate her opponents on the facts. Unlike Krugman, she doesn't hate anyone; her irrepressible good humor is considered a marvel by everyone who knows her.

Via PowerLine

33

By definition, we can't incite. The persons who read our offerings are too refined to commit violence of any type. They could not even conceive of such a thing.

Our standards of your decorum are for your own good. You are the ones who speak to the rabble. We detest you for that. Deal with the consequences of having to deal with the little people and watch your mouth.

34 You're not going to burn out on us, are you Ace?

I worry, because you've been on fire all day, in both a good and a worrisome way.  I know when I get worked up like this I damn near crash to the ground afterwards.

God bless you for the doing the work here that I'm incapable of.

Posted by: Jeff B. at January 12, 2011 06:51 PM (NjYDy)

Hey, when you're on a roll and hitting it just right, do you put on the brakes? Hell no! Open 'er up and let it flow!

Athletes call it "the zone." feel the flow and work within the flow because once you lose it, there's no telling how long it will be until it comes back. If ever.

35 If he attended her event in 2007, wasn't he a Democrat?

36

if I want to twitter follow the memorial, how would I do it?

I'm guessing a hashtag (or several) will start to trend, but I haven't seen anything yet.  Once you have the hashtag you can search for it and everything with that tag will show up.

37 The more I think about O's coming sermon , the more I think he should let things settle a little longer . The potential for him to completely fuck this up is astronomical . Personally , I hope he doesn't .

38 Foer the last 45 minutes, Taranto has been posting (on Facebook) examples of the phrase "blood libel" being used in the NYTimes, WaPo, etc. to describe everything from a city's numbness to violent crime to the spread of Yellow Fever.

39 When he attended her event in 2007, he was a 'pre-Tea Partier'. In fact, we are naming him the father of the Tea Party Movement.

40 Of interest: Laughner attended school funded by Obama/Ayers Chicago Annenberg Challenge?

41

No. 'Blood libel' is one of millions of terms that only we or liberals can use correctly. Any attempt by others to use this phrase will be met with derision and an immediate press release barrage from left-leaning organizations we have on speed-dial.

Best,

42
Re: momma's story above

Obama would not have invited Boner if they didn't already know Boner would say no.

It was a set-up.

43

I want to link stuff but the site won't let me.  Pull quote from the Zeitgeist website:

#3 What are some of the central characteristics of a “Resource-Based Economy” ?
1) No money or market system.
2) Automation to replace labor in every occupation possible.
3) Technological Unification of the planet in a “systems” approach.
4) No property - Universal Access.
5)  Self-contained/Sustainable/Streamlined City Systems.
6) Science as the methodology for all social decisions, including the approach to problems regarding aberrant human behavior (or what we refer to today as"crime").

And the line from the friend: "I really think that this Zeitgeist documentary had a profound impact upon Jared Loughner's mindset and the way he viewed the world that he lives in."

44 For all the media decrying vitriol and angry rhetoric they REAAAAALLLY want an angry white guy to take a shot at someone with a (D) next to their name. That way they can confirm their own internal biases and paint with a broad brush while telling us painting groups with a broad brush is wrong.

45 Yep, the sun rises in the East and the New York Times Lies.

I just have to mention this;
The Nigerians can't hold a candle to Americans when it comes to scamming people out of their money by mail.

I got a flyer/letter today from the Union Workers Credit Services
offering me a credit card with a credit limit of $10,000. Pre-Approved even.

Wow, huh.

On closer look, a couple things stand out;
A. The credit card is only good for purchases from said Union Workers Credit Services. (what?  SEIU purple T-shirts, billy-clubs, protest signs and pickets? Or maybe a used 55 gal barrel so I can keep warm. I dunno.)

B. Really  Really short response time before offer goes dead. 1/19/2011. (I wonder if my application would get to Texas in time by snail mail since there's a weekend in between?)

C. You have to send $37 in with the application. This is the kicker.
Think of some shlub with bad credit drooling over a card with a $10k limit. All he's got to do is pony up $37 and he's golden (or platinum in this case). Trouble is boys and girls, somehow I have a feeling that he will "regrettably we have had to deny your application as your credit BLOWS".  Meanwhile they keep your $37 application fee and you are back watching "How I Met Your Mother" on your 13" pos sony.

Neat trick. Wonder how much/many they scam with this.

46

Taranto: “The campaign of vilification against the right, led by the New York Times, is really about competition in the media industry--not commercial competition but competition for authority.”

But it IS about commercial competition.  The Times trades on its authority, and the erosion of its authority from new competitors demonstrating greater truthfulness and objectivity is directly destructive of its appeal to consumers.  Newspapers in general are suffering steep circulation declines and financial reversals due to competition from less biased sources “on the Right” – the Wall Street Journal being one of those “Right” sources that not coincidentally is one of the very few newspapers actually growing in circulation.

47 James Taranto, FB posts:   ý"I mean, almost a blood libel by the Republicans towards Al Gore, saying that he was trying to stop men and women in uniform that are serving this country from voting."--Rep. Peter Deutsch, Nov. 21, 2000

"'...almost a blood libel.' That's pretty strong stuff. Strong, but not too strong. Because it's true."--Josh Marshall, Nov. 22, 200...

48

It seems to me that many conspiracy theories draw in a certain type of person. They are usually moderately intelligent, but for some reason (mental problems, substance abuse, poor choices, etc.) aren't that successful. They are drawn to stories of hidden elites and weird systems of control to explain their lack of success.

Believing these stories gives them access to a sort of status that they didn't have before. They have information that the 'rabble' doesn't, and once again they are superior, just as they should be. Once you start to believe that, you believe nearly every other conspiratorial story that comes you way, and you are trapped in nonsense.

As I'm typing this, I'm seeing a similarity in how people come to accept liberalism...

49 They'll say whatever they like. Truth has never been much of a restraint, but now it's not even a consideration. What they are required to print to advance their agenda, they will print, period, full stop.

Their agenda opens the portal to the inner truth, the fact-free zone.
Where all accounts are settled.

50 Meh, Ican't do links.  Anyway, the left spends a week turning the spotlight onto Loughner's politics, and it turns out he's one of their own.  Like the man says: Heh.

51 Let's face it: anyone that says it's not Palin's fault is a Deniar!

52 ...and a denier, too.

53 >>>It seems to me that many conspiracy theories draw in a certain type of person. They are usually moderately intelligent, but for some reason (mental problems, substance abuse, poor choices, etc.) aren't that successful. They are drawn to stories of hidden elites and weird systems of control to explain their lack of success. I don't believe the "moderately intelligent" part. Average or a little above or a little below. Usually not stupid but by no means do they need to be "moderately intelligent." They run the gamut and most are rather dull. What is more important is not their intelligence, but their self-perceived intelligence: This type always conceives of itself as quite smart. Per that syndrome rdbrewere mentioned, the incompetent have a bad tendency to rate themselves as highly competent. In fact it's the lack of external affirmations of this (success, etc.) that drives them to seek new ways of proving their intelligence, such as seeing patterns and uncovering truths that others can't. Otherwise, yeah. Jared Loughner is, I think, clearly very stupid. I don't mean the conscience/conscious mistake; other people might make that error. But if this is your LIFE'S OBSESSION, dude, learn to spell the word and tell conscience apart from conscious. He thinks that the stupidest, most obvious stuff, like that our convention of dating is JUST A CONVENTION and there's nothing innate and real that makes January 11, 2001 Januray 11, 2001, is like some kind of metaphysical puzzle. I mean, I'm avoiding the word, but the word I'm looking for is nearly retarded. Anyway, just noting, you don't have to be moderately intelligent to be this way. But you do have to think you're moderately intelligent (if not a genius).

54

Anyone got thoughts on post 24?  Am I in the wrong thread?

55 Re post 24: Leftist Kills Liberal, Conservative To Blame. That is SPADES-OF: ACE worthy.

56 I've got links but can't post 'em.

57 57 - How about "Green Shoots Dem, Republicans Caught In Crossfire"?

58 You're not going to burn out on us, are you Ace?

My god, it's been a week of solid cat-blogging.  Come back, Ace.

59

"The Conscience Dreaming of a Liberal"

"the Libido Dreaming of a Handjob"

same difference, both work for me, if you know what I mean by work.

60 THROW PAUL IN JAILÂ…NOW http://www.practicalstate.com/?p=4604 Cheers

61 Just as honest American's came to the realization that a radical was put in the White House and the Liberals/Oppressives/Progressives/Repressives began to howl and rail from positions of power and legislate against the system we love and that they want to destroy, we went to the polls last November and began to clean out the rats of hate, sexism, racism, and socialism.  This latest episode of abuse heaped upon good and descent American's (Sarah Palin, conservatives in general, etc.) serves as the clarion call of how important it is in the next election cycle to vote out the rest of the Oppresive's and Repressive's.  Let's see to it that after the 2012 election they might still have their MSM mouth pieces but no elected like minded Oppresive's and Repressive's holding political office with which to enforce their freedom stealing agendas!

62

This whole narrative that the media is putting out about the so called “heated rhetoric” reminds me of those psych experiments where they would have a volunteer of 10 people and 9 would be in on the experiment and only 1 would be the actually mark. Then they would present some kind of test, like what shape is this and everyone would say a square when it was clearly a circle. You could see the frustration and confusion on the mark because clearly it was a circle, but the mark started to doubt reality because everyone else said it was a square.

ThatÂ’s how I feel. ItÂ’s like the truth is that this person was a psycho path with no political leanings, but the media is telling us no itÂ’s a square(aka, this was Sarah Palin and the tea partyÂ’s fault). What is so scary is that this isnÂ’t an experiment, where someone will say, you were right it really was a circle, we just wanted to see if you would give in to the peer pressure. They really are trying to get people riled up. Trying desperately to make people on edge. Only, I hope most people are finally seeing through this game. I believe most people are.

63

Comment three is offensive to women and don't take the obvious cheapshot and refer to me as a lesbian-liberal.  I am actually a Asst Boy Scout Master, conservative and the worst of all Christian--You lose one half of the population and potential donations for ACE down the road with comments like that and if you knew anything about Economics--women have over 73 percent of the wealth in this country.

 

 

 

 

64 Please respond.

65 Ace  - "This feels, as another writer (forget the name) said, as if the media has formally declared war.":
The Media Has Declared... WAR! - John Fricke, American Thinker - 1/12/11
Great job, Ace.  Keep up your work on the Left's new Reichstag.

66 Replace 'Dreamers' with 'Political Bigots' exposes these clowns for what they really are all about -- promoting bigotry against a particular segment of the population for their own gain and power.   Where racial bigots claimed blacks were stupid, couldn't take care of themselves, illiterate, dangerous, etc, political bigots claim conservatives are stupid, can't take care of themselves, illiterate, dangerous. 

It's curious, if not ironic, that the black, who were targets of racial bigotry are happy to be party to turning around and using the same tactics on another segment of our society -- conservatives.  After all, it was the GOP and conservatives who helped pass the Civil Rights bill when the racial bigotry of the Democrat couldn't get it done for fear of losing their voting power base.

One does have to give credit where it is due, the Democrats do know how to promote themselves against all odds, even the truth.  Witness how they turned this piece of history on its head to make most think the GOP and conservatives are racists.  Then they further spun this into replacing their racial bigotry of blacks with political bigotry against all things conservative.   It's the same playbook from their racially bigoted past -- only with a quick search and replace of key words to change their target, while broadening it's appeal to larger and larger drone populations who generally benefit from the largess the Democrats pass out after extracting it from evil (hard working, taxpaying) conservative capitalists.

It also should be noted that this couldn't be such a successful strategy without the articulately inept GOP Losership.  The one thing that seems to be a requirement to be part of the Losership is you need to park your ability to debate common sense conservative principles and observations at the door.  When the political bigots of the Left take out after conservatives, the Losership just quietly sits by rather than raise the issue of political bigotry, in part because many in the Losership also fear losing their power to the conservative Tea Partiers...