June 30, 2011
— Gabriel Malor Via the always interesting Guy Benson, it seems Democrats have a patriotism problem after all. Of course, the Harvard social scientists couch it as Republicans having "appropriated" patriotic holidays, but if the Democrats were better than indifferent on the issue, I doubt that could have happened.
Democratic political candidates can skip this weekend's July 4th parades. A new Harvard University study finds that July 4th parades energize only Republicans, turn kids into Republicans, and help to boost the GOP turnout of adults on Election Day.[...]
"The political right has been more successful in appropriating American patriotism and its symbols during the 20th century. Survey evidence also confirms that Republicans consider themselves more patriotic than Democrats. According to this interpretation, there is a political congruence between the patriotism promoted on Fourth of July and the values associated with the Republican party. Fourth of July celebrations in Republican dominated counties may thus be more politically biased events that socialize children into Republicans," write Harvard Kennedy School Assistant Professor David Yanagizawa-Drott and Bocconi University Assistant Professor Andreas Madestam.
The key findings of the study are that July Fourth celebrations (1) increase the likelihood of a youth identifying as a Republican by at least 2 percent if attended before age 18, (2) raise the likelihood that attendees will vote for a Republican candidate by 4 percent; and (3) boost the likelihood an attendee will vote by about 1 percent; and (4) increase the chances an attendee will make a political contribution by 3 percent.
Those are slight differences, but every little bit counts.
LATER: Top Ten Ways Democrats Can Re-"Appropriate" July Fourth
(A couple of these blatantly stolen from commenters or Guy.)
10. Include a disclaimer on celebration notices warning that displays of patriotism might endanger children's welfare.
9. Have the EPA require that celebrations use only fireworks that are environmentally friendly and greenhouse gas neutral.
8. Include a ritual apology to Great Britain after all readings of the Declaration of Independence.
7. Have the National Endowment for the Arts fund naked interpretive dance troupes at July Fourth parades. Also, drum circles.
6. Burn slave-owning Founders in effigy.
5. Have the NLRB require that all parade volunteers be unionized.
4. Serve soy chai lattes at July Fourth parades.
3. A free bong hits booth at every parade.
2. Require that children have a permission slip to attend signed by . . . their school principal.
And the Number 1 way that Democrats could re-appropriate the Fourth of July is
1. Actually love their country and talk about it without always saying "I love America, but [issue probably having to do with their relationship with their fathers]."
Effin' 'tards.
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I should go into academic studies and get me some of that sweet, sweet money for something I could whip up in an hour with OpenOffice, wearing my PJ's.
Posted by: AoSHQ's *second* worst commenter, DarkLord© at June 30, 2011 08:27 AM (GBXon)
Posted by: Laura Castellano at June 30, 2011 08:28 AM (fuw6p)
the study's conclusion implies what?
that Republicans are simple, tribal creatures?
of course, of course
Posted by: sooth3P0 at June 30, 2011 08:28 AM (sqkOB)
Posted by: Moonbat at June 30, 2011 08:29 AM (zJDIJ)
Also it's freakin' awesome. An amazing fireworks show, great music, great people - and it's somehow historical - like the "longest continuous 4th celebration" or something? I should know but I get confused.
(Wow this box looks a lot cooler in Firefox!)
Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 30, 2011 08:30 AM (SB0V2)
Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at June 30, 2011 08:30 AM (MyByM)
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 30, 2011 08:30 AM (pdRb1)
Posted by: Gay Pride Parades at June 30, 2011 08:31 AM (FcR7P)
It's not 'appropriating'. The political left has decided to abandon the very concept of the United States and hitch its wagon to transnational institutions. That's how they get Horseface Kerry banging on about global tests, and Dick Obama unable to articulate an opinion about American exceptionalism. It's all about the UN and the ICC for them. Communists do love 'l'Internationale', after all.
Posted by: Waterhouse at June 30, 2011 08:31 AM (IdoRk)
Authorities Investigate Security Breach At JFK Airport After Man Flies To Los Angeles Without Ticket Or ID
Posted by: Charles Amazon Store Johnson at June 30, 2011 08:32 AM (so1xa)
OK.... alternate study for which I of course need US Gov Funding...
That gong to Cinco de Quatro leads you to being an UnAmerican FTard?
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2011 08:33 AM (NtXW4)
Posted by: BuckIV at June 30, 2011 08:34 AM (AtjNL)
19 nah, not today, i'm working out of the house
i have too much cleaning to do after i get the 3 generations fed and out of here, they are flying to maui for the weekend
Posted by: navycopjoe at June 30, 2011 08:34 AM (R7NIt)
If I didn't think most "studies" were crap, and especially ones from Harvard, I would reference this as a good reason for parents to make sure they take their kids to 4th of July celebrations.
My daughter will be coming by Sunday with grandson for hamburgers and hot dogs from the grill. I'll have to make sure we get some fireworks and make it a real "4th of July" celebration.
Posted by: Vic at June 30, 2011 08:34 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: baboy at June 30, 2011 08:34 AM (jekKI)
Posted by: kbdabear at June 30, 2011 08:34 AM (so1xa)
So of course any appeal to the American political tradition is going to draw people away from liberalism.
The founders didn't fight and die for a King to tell them what kind of health insurance they had to buy.
Posted by: 18-1 at June 30, 2011 08:34 AM (7BU4a)
Posted by: t-bird at June 30, 2011 08:34 AM (FcR7P)
Posted by: The War Between the Undead States at June 30, 2011 08:35 AM (oEeHt)
Posted by: AoSHQ's *second* worst commenter, DarkLord© at June 30, 2011 12:27 PM (GBXon)
Our next study will be on the effects of alcohol on the sexual expression of college coeds.
I love my job.
Posted by: Some "Scientist" at June 30, 2011 08:36 AM (7BU4a)
Posted by: JoeInMD at June 30, 2011 08:37 AM (PIahf)
this is why the study and headline are crap
you are confusing LIBERAL with DEMOCRAT and CONSERVATIVE with REPUBLICAN
they really aren't interchangable
Posted by: navycopjoe at June 30, 2011 08:37 AM (R7NIt)
Posted by: Brad at June 30, 2011 08:38 AM (2GsJg)
the study's conclusion implies what?
that Republicans are simple, tribal creatures?
of course, of course
Posted by: sooth3P0 at June 30, 2011 12:28 PM (sqkOB)
And the recommendation since July 4th celebrations create Republicans? BAN July 4th celebrations!
Posted by: Harvard Social Engineer at June 30, 2011 08:39 AM (cv5Iw)
Posted by: The Outlaw in the Heavenly Hall at June 30, 2011 08:39 AM (d7fc5)
(3) boost the likelihood an attendee will vote by about 1 percent; and (4) increase the chances an attendee will make a political contribution by 3 percent.
Interesting - I would have thought that Fourth of July celebrations increase the chance that an attendee would vote more than the chance of making a political contribution.
/It is easier to give money than vote?
Posted by: Gary, of Team America - World Police at June 30, 2011 08:40 AM (9hSKh)
35 guess he'll end up a Dem
move him to my district on the leeward side, i need the votes
and if he's under 18...no problem, its good to be a dem sometimes
Posted by: navycopjoe at June 30, 2011 08:40 AM (R7NIt)
every day is April 15th."
Posted by: Reagan's Greatests Quotes, Vol. I at June 30, 2011 08:40 AM (pLTLS)
The Democrat Party gave these animals a place to call home at the beginning of the 70's. A pox on their house for ever after.
Posted by: Rod Rescueman at June 30, 2011 08:41 AM (HwE/1)
Posted by: Julius Augustus at June 30, 2011 08:41 AM (FcR7P)
APPROPRIATING patriotism.....perhaps we are better at LOVING our country because we are not self loathing, no-borders, nanny state parasites who sit around wondering what my country can do for me. Truth is, a country can do nothing for you that the people are not willing to do. Dems are not willing to do what it takes to make this country great. Even John F. Kennedy would not recognize the dems of today.
Generations of dems now believe that the U.S. of A. is against them and the world and it is Ricco Suave cool to transcend God and Country for some socialist utopia of government swaddling. Just sayin'.
Posted by: giftogab at June 30, 2011 08:41 AM (SPVfc)
There is something seriously wrong with an individual that could ascribe a contextually pejorative word to what is simply a celebration of our culture.
Posted by: krakatoa at June 30, 2011 08:43 AM (bbJJG)
BAN July 4th celebrations!
You don't think they should? People might find the celebration offensive. Why should jingoism be imposed on others? And why should the state get involved with celebrating the founding of a slave nation?
Posted by: alternate universe soothsayer at June 30, 2011 08:43 AM (sqkOB)
It IS worth it. Best 4th of July celebration I've been to, and we went to a lot of them during the camping years when the rug rats were younguns.
Posted by: Retread at June 30, 2011 08:43 AM (G+7cD)
navycopjoe? Tthe lady protests too much methinks? 
I'm kidding, ncj. I don't like this study either. If the study is true, I think there is some other underlying factor than *merely* the celebration being one for the Fourth of July that contributes to this observation.
And 1 and 3 percent? Is that change signficant for social scientists? (My life science snobbery is leeching through here).
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 30, 2011 08:43 AM (9hSKh)
Posted by: Homer Simpson at June 30, 2011 08:43 AM (so1xa)
From the article: "Republicans attend Fourth of July to a greater extent and also view the holiday as more important compared to Democrats."
So, I'm thinking the causality arrow is a little, how do you say, BACKWARDS.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 30, 2011 08:43 AM (B+qrE)
"Increases in relative risk from 1.0 - 2.0 should be viewed suspiciously. The esteemed epidemiologist Ernst Wynder even said that relative risks under 3.0 are suspect (15). Given the nature of the epidemiologic method and the quality of data, such small differences could be explained by the quality of the data."
Posted by: JoeInMD at June 30, 2011 08:43 AM (PIahf)
Posted by: Commie Pinko Bastage at June 30, 2011 08:44 AM (Y0GsD)
Posted by: JoeInMD at June 30, 2011 12:43 PM (PIahf)
Thanks for the statistic low-down.
I did have Junk Science Judo at one point, but I think I lent it to someone who never returned it. Oh well, it'll be another Kindle purchase.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 30, 2011 08:45 AM (9hSKh)
Yes, but your choice of chicks to bang would consist of hairy arm-pitted scags with greasy hair, stinking of patchouli oil and body odor.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 30, 2011 08:47 AM (LH6ir)
It's science! You can't argue with that.
Yeah, they put it right there in the name and everything. Otherwise you wouldn't be able to tell.
Posted by: Heorot at June 30, 2011 08:47 AM (Nq/UF)
Posted by: nickless at June 30, 2011 08:48 AM (MMC8r)
51 i agree but this thread is really starting to piss me off
people are making the mistake that the dem party is all liberals and its wrong
for some sad reason we have the hippies and the gimme gimmes but not the majority
Posted by: navycopjoe at June 30, 2011 08:48 AM (R7NIt)
Posted by: G Joubert at June 30, 2011 08:48 AM (coZJ0)
" ... there is a political congruence between the patriotism promoted on Fourth of July and the values associated with the Republican party."
I'm glad he said it. If I were to say it, I'd get yelled at.
Posted by: FireHorse at June 30, 2011 08:49 AM (jAKfY)
Posted by: Socratease at June 30, 2011 08:49 AM (vaIln)
Look at that other story in the sidebar about those fucktards banning the words "God" and "Jesus" at a VA cemetery. Un-freaking-believable. And they wonder (yes, they do - there was an article on this over at Daily Kooks last week) why people think Democrats/liberals are anti-religion!
Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at June 30, 2011 08:49 AM (f9c2L)
Posted by: Abe Froman at June 30, 2011 08:50 AM (uZJOg)
Heck, in my little town more people come home for the 4th of July Parade, and Carnival, and Beer Garden at the Portugee Hall... than any other time of the year.
Its the time everyone has their High School Reunions around here... because people are more likely to be here.
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2011 08:50 AM (NtXW4)
But then again, I think it's up to Democratics - normal ones! which I agree there are many salt-of-the-earth types - to stop TOLERATING the hipster/commie group!
It's almost like the normals are *afraid* of the freaks, you know?
I know sometimes they're your kids or your friends . . but . . this is getting crazy. I don't think Dems hate America! jeez. my Italian extended family - ALL Democrats. They used to make fun of the liberals. But now they say nothing? I think it's fear.
Posted by: BlackOrchid at June 30, 2011 08:50 AM (SB0V2)
Black history month was created for what reason?
As a way for the Left to divide the people and conquer the govt?
Or maybe it was created sew discord among white/black Americans and make them ashamed of their country?
Posted by: soothsayer at June 30, 2011 08:50 AM (sqkOB)
"Increases in relative risk from 1.0 - 2.0 should be viewed suspiciously. The esteemed epidemiologist Ernst Wynder even said that relative risks under 3.0 are suspect (15). Given the nature of the epidemiologic method and the quality of data, such small differences could be explained by the quality of the data."
Posted by: JoeInMD at June 30, 2011 12:43 PM (PIahf)
In other words DO NOT:
1) Measure with micrometer
2) Mark with chalk
3) Cut with Axe
Posted by: Nighthawk at June 30, 2011 08:51 AM (OtQXp)
people are making the mistake that the dem party is all liberals and its wrong
true. There's you, and Zel Miller.
Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2011 08:51 AM (XOK/H)
OUT ... The Fourth of July
Posted by: The DNC at June 30, 2011 12:45 PM (so1xa)
No...no... it Cinco de Quatro!
Posted by: President Obamya at June 30, 2011 08:52 AM (NtXW4)
This is pure projection. Since they use every gathering for their political gain they assume we do too. I never thought of the 4th of July in a political sense other than once the beer flows political arguments may start between family members.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 30, 2011 08:52 AM (tf9Ne)
Posted by: kbdabear at June 30, 2011 08:52 AM (so1xa)
The Democrat party is represented by exactly those people. Why should we assume that the majority of the party is any different?
Sorry, but if they allow these scum to speak for them without working to change it, that means that they accept the portrayal.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 30, 2011 08:52 AM (LH6ir)
But we can still celebrate, just without the bombs bursting in air.
Posted by: mpurinTexas supports Rick Perry, bitch at June 30, 2011 08:52 AM (5d6vv)
>>Harvard Kennedy School Assistant Professor David Yanagizawa-Drott and Bocconi University Assistant Professor Andreas Madestam<<
Hmmm - an assistant professor with a hypenated last name (dead giveaway to a liberal mother), and an assistant professor from some school in ITALY did this study. Think they made their study results fit their theory?
I bet they felt like they were studying some sort of alien life form when they got around Republican families:
"Oh, look - in their culture, they go to parades! And they teach their young to think just the way that they do! Isn't that quaint? Fascinating creatures - we simply MUST tell our colleagues about this intriguing species when we are at the next faculty gathering...."
Posted by: Teresa in Fort Worth, TX at June 30, 2011 08:52 AM (wtQcz)
Posted by: Socratease at June 30, 2011 08:52 AM (vaIln)
MISTAKE!
If I'm in The People's Republic of Kalifornia, I just bought a P.O. Box in Nevada.
Only stupid people pay stupid taxes.
Posted by: tangonine at June 30, 2011 08:52 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: alternate universe soothsayer at June 30, 2011 12:45 PM (sqkOB)
FIFY
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 30, 2011 08:53 AM (LH6ir)
Fucking lunatics, all of them.
Posted by: grognard at June 30, 2011 08:53 AM (NS2Mo)
people are making the mistake that the dem party is all liberals and its wrong
ncj,
I really don't want to start a fight, but you're goign to need to prove to me that the Democratic Party as currently constitututed is not dominated stem to stern by liberals.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at June 30, 2011 08:54 AM (B+qrE)
I think we should fundamentally change our attitude about this holiday and band together and celebrate Arab Spring!
Come on! Whose with me?
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 30, 2011 08:54 AM (jx2j9)
70 i don't think its fear, i think its that they don't want to be bothered with all the bullshit
if a republican wants a dem's vote, he needs to get out there and state his case really well and to the point...extra bonus if the economy sucks
what is a killer is the media is full of liberals and drive the masses
dems for the most part don't vote, huge numbers to be had if the repubs can get an excellent get out the vote drive
Posted by: navycopjoe at June 30, 2011 08:56 AM (R7NIt)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 30, 2011 08:56 AM (kUaEF)
25 How does one become a professor with zero concept of causal relationships?
You mean like Oblather's casual relationship with the Constitution after being an associate professor and guest lecturer of Constitutional Law for 2 years????
Actually, it's pretty rare....
Posted by: MrObvious at June 30, 2011 08:56 AM (H87Hu)
The best one I ever had was at a bar on Union Street in SF in 1976. A bunch of us put on our dress blues and met up with a bunch of Aussie sailors who were in town for the bicentennial celebrations who were also in their dress blues.
We took over the place.
Posted by: Vic at June 30, 2011 08:57 AM (M9Ie6)
dems for the most part don't vote, huge numbers to be had if the repubs can get an excellent get out the vote drive
The dead ones never miss a chance to vote...twice.
Posted by: Civil War Veterans for Obama at June 30, 2011 08:57 AM (XOK/H)
Wait a minute, Bocconi University? I'm pretty sure that's just Sbarro's training academy. They have a huge rivalry with Hamburger U.
Posted by: Ted Kennedy's Gristle Encased Head at June 30, 2011 08:58 AM (+lsX1)
Appropriating patriotism??? ...or actually being patriotic and not pretending to be for political expedience??...of fucking course conservatives and Republicans are more patriotic, idiot.
The fucking leftards fucking lament the 4th of July, not celebrate it..
...and you can extrapolate that out to their opinions of the Constitution
Posted by: beedubya at June 30, 2011 08:58 AM (AnTyA)
Posted by: Lisa Pelletier at June 30, 2011 08:58 AM (dl5aX)
If you sit around waiting for your country to take care of you you will always be disappointed in your country.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 30, 2011 08:59 AM (pdRb1)
Posted by: Socratease at June 30, 2011 08:59 AM (vaIln)
Fucking lunatics, all of them.
Posted by: grognard at June 30, 2011 12:53 PM (NS2Mo)
what's more pathetic, is that the "progressive" liberal commie socialists have been at this since about 1910. And we have failed to stop them at every turn. See: Charles McCarthy. Yeah the guy was an alcoholic and tended toward fury.... But I love him.
He knew right from wrong, and should any hippie make the mistake of denigrating him within arm's reach.... well... I'll do the time, after ending the aforementioned hippie.
Posted by: tangonine at June 30, 2011 08:59 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: DPR VIII at June 30, 2011 09:00 AM (FdAuW)
78 The Democrat party is represented by exactly those people. Why should we assume that the majority of the party is any different?
and john mccain was almost the head of the republican party
and we know damn well he would be the amnesty king..so is it safe to say that the republican party wants to give the united states to mexico?
Posted by: navycopjoe at June 30, 2011 09:00 AM (R7NIt)
Posted by: Bill Ayers at June 30, 2011 09:01 AM (hbAPu)
San Francisco used to be a fun town, and actually was a reasonably patriotic place, especially during Fleet Week.
I used to visit a buddy on the Kiska (AE-35) for their BBQs and assorted parties. He would take me and my GF to other ships for their festivities.
Now? I wouldn't want to be uniform on the streets of SF.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 30, 2011 09:01 AM (LH6ir)
Posted by: Susan Estrich at June 30, 2011 09:01 AM (Gx3Fe)
Posted by: DPR VIII at June 30, 2011 09:01 AM (FdAuW)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 30, 2011 09:01 AM (jx2j9)
Actually, my best Fourth of July celebration was when I was working/studying in London. All the Americans took over this bar, we had a bajillion American flags. The bartenders wore 'em in their hair or down their shirts. The Brits would say "Happy Independence Day" and buy us drinks. It was awesome. This was in 2006 and I knew all that shit the Dems were saying about how our European allies hated us was just bullshit.
My second-best Fourth of July celebration was in Costa Rica in 2007. Right after the U.S. won the Copa de Oro against Mexico. The ticos loved that (they don't like Mexicans very much in Costa Rica). I was out in a rural town for that one, but everyone still gathered at the bar and bought me and my buddy drinks. Nothing like being overseas for the holidays.
Posted by: Gabriel Malor at June 30, 2011 09:02 AM (XVaFd)
And 1 and 3 percent? Is that change signficant for social scientists?
I haven't looked at the particulars of this study, but in general, yes. It becomes even more meaningful if the study is replicated and yields the same results.
One of my peeves with the media is when they say "A poll puts Smith ahead of Jones 46% to 44%, but the margin of error 3%, so it's a statistical tie." No, it isn't. Rephrasing "46 – 44 < 3" by saying "46 = 44" is just wrong. Because it's social science, people think they can be lose with the numbers. But it's still science.
Posted by: FireHorse at June 30, 2011 09:02 AM (jAKfY)
Posted by: UGAdawg at June 30, 2011 09:02 AM (kl3xJ)
Posted by: t-bird at June 30, 2011 09:03 AM (FcR7P)
106 no, you make your case and do it strong!
example....the vote on gay marriage in california, obama won easily but that one conservative idea won the day
Posted by: navycopjoe at June 30, 2011 09:04 AM (R7NIt)
Posted by: t-bird at June 30, 2011 09:04 AM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Gabriel Malor at June 30, 2011 01:02 PM (XVaFd)
Outside of the chattering classes and the over-educated, I think that Europeans (yes, a broad brush) tend to like Americans and America.
I have a bunch of relatives in Paris, and the younger ones seem to be reflexively anti-American until they grow up a bit and think for themselves.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 30, 2011 09:06 AM (LH6ir)
That little bastard said the most horrible things offstage.
Posted by: Edgar Bergen at June 30, 2011 09:07 AM (MMC8r)
Sort of on topic:
I've read a couple of reviews for the new Transformers movie, and a big burr in the liberal saddle is Michael Bay's "jingoistic" flag waving and admiration for the US military.
What a bunch of bed wetting fuckfaces. Look, I won't defend Bay as some sort of auteur; his movies are loud and dumb (if also entertaining), but the leftie film review community really hates him because he digs American military strength. For that, they can all eat a bag of dicks.
Posted by: UGAdawg at June 30, 2011 09:08 AM (kl3xJ)
Is it just me, or does Al Gore have a retard face? His face looks like he's a retard. Like, there's a retard-looking element to his face.
Anybody else see that? The retard-face?
Posted by: Truman North at June 30, 2011 09:08 AM (K2wpv)
This was in 2006 and I knew all that shit the Dems were saying about how our European allies hated us was just bullshit.
i was stationed in italy when the war started and spent 2002-2005 in europe, it was total crap....the europeans actually liked us and supported us
Posted by: navycopjoe at June 30, 2011 09:08 AM (R7NIt)
All I have to say is that it is a good goddam thing that things are different now, because had things been the same as they were during Katrina, the federal response to this might be seen as racist. And Shep Smith would be swearing his ass off on live TV! And Hollywood celebrities would be going apeshit over blatant racism and shit.
Dodged a bullet there!Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 30, 2011 09:09 AM (jx2j9)
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 30, 2011 01:01 PM (LH6ir)
Good Lord no. Also think about Oakland which also used to be an OK city.
LOL, the SF is knew only smelled of urine at the bum magnet at Haight-Ashbury. Northern CA Morons say that the entire city is that way now.
Posted by: Vic at June 30, 2011 09:09 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 30, 2011 09:09 AM (kUaEF)
Posted by: CoolCzech at June 30, 2011 09:11 AM (kUaEF)
Posted by: arhooley at June 30, 2011 09:11 AM (Rzm7M)
That is kind of ironic isn't it. I never was out of the country though on 4th of July.
Posted by: Vic at June 30, 2011 09:11 AM (M9Ie6)
Posted by: SnowSoul at June 30, 2011 09:12 AM (+7e79)
Posted by: t-bird at June 30, 2011 09:12 AM (FcR7P)
Spend decades telling us we should be more like Europe and stop offending the rest of the world, and of course American patriotism becomes a Republican thing.
F'ing Democrats. I hate 'em. Rounding them up for "summer camp" always seems like more and more of an option.
Posted by: SGT Dan at June 30, 2011 09:12 AM (jCQ+I)
Posted by: Vic at June 30, 2011 01:09 PM (M9Ie6)
Yeah... but you have to remember... its OK to be Navy Gay now!
The boys in San Francisco just LOVE us in uniform now! its so Kinky!
Posted by: Sailor, the NEW Navy at June 30, 2011 09:12 AM (NtXW4)
Is it just me, or does Al Gore have a retard face?
His face is just gross. How any woman could stand to have that thing hanging over her while he's releasing his second chakra is . . . shudder . . . beyond me.
Posted by: arhooley at June 30, 2011 09:13 AM (Rzm7M)
by the way, all this democrats are smelly hippy/commie talk is going to make my money bomb effort harder you know
that is if i can figure out all the damn changes they made to the election laws and if i can decide on statehouse or senate
it would be easier to run for senate but i like her and she's good but the house would be harder and the guy is a uberlib
Posted by: navycopjoe at June 30, 2011 09:13 AM (R7NIt)
Posted by: a sullivan at June 30, 2011 09:14 AM (AO2A0)
Posted by: navycopjoe at June 30, 2011 01:08 PM (R7NIt)
I was in Scotland back in the mid-1980's when all the Europeans were supposed to hate us because that "crazy cowboy Reagan" was going to "get them all killed in a nuclear war".
Total bullshit. I couldn't leave the bar without somebody wanting to buy me a drink. And when a Scotsman wants to BUY you a drink...
Posted by: Nighthawk at June 30, 2011 09:15 AM (OtQXp)
I was eating dinner with friends on Market street in October, 2001, the night that we started to bomb Afghanistan. There was a loud anti-American protest on the street and my buddy and I were sorely tempted to go outside and fight.
That, and the drive up the coast the next day when we noticed the conspicuous absence of American flags convinced me that CA was no longer part of America. I was very happy that I had moved to NJ a few months before.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (NJConservative) at June 30, 2011 09:15 AM (LH6ir)
Posted by: Eeeeeeeewwwwwww! at June 30, 2011 09:16 AM (4Kl5M)
131 goddamn the village people!!!
why do the gays always have to wear the damn sailor outfits?!!!
and no kratos, no 'in the navy' links
Posted by: navycopjoe at June 30, 2011 09:16 AM (R7NIt)
137 whoa there cowboy, jef isn't mine, i don't claim him
and for the record, i voted for the chick with the hot legs
Posted by: navycopjoe at June 30, 2011 09:18 AM (R7NIt)
why do the gays always have to wear the damn sailor outfits?!!!
Posted by: navycopjoe at June 30, 2011 01:16 PM (R7NIt)
Wait, isn't the Navy motto "Once underway, gay is ok"?
Posted by: mpurinTexas supports Rick Perry, bitch at June 30, 2011 09:19 AM (5d6vv)
and no kratos, no 'in the navy' links
Awww, not even this one?
/Click - there's no treachery here, honest.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 30, 2011 09:19 AM (9hSKh)
131 goddamn the village people!!!
why do the gays always have to wear the damn sailor outfits?!!!
Well, the uniform is cute. Just ask any Marine.
Posted by: Sub-Tard at June 30, 2011 09:19 AM (0M3AQ)
Posted by: Fresh Prince of Bill Ayers at June 30, 2011 09:20 AM (hbAPu)
Ennyway, I'm liking the Huma Weiner "time off" story. On general principles I'm not glad to see a marriage end, especially when the woman is pregnant (YEESH), but I really think some marriages are better ended. She needs to ditch that scumbag and start building a better life for herself and her kid.
Posted by: arhooley at June 30, 2011 09:20 AM (Rzm7M)
A teacher, a certified hypnotherapist, hypnotizes his students to help them concentrate on their studies. Two have since committed suicide and one died in a car crash.
Guess the state.
Posted by: Clueless at June 30, 2011 09:20 AM (piMMO)
Posted by: Truman North at June 30, 2011 09:21 AM (K2wpv)
why do the gays always have to wear the damn sailor outfits?!!!
Posted by: navycopjoe at June 30, 2011 01:16 PM (R7NIt)
What, those Little Lord Fauntlery outfits? They were gay before they were gay.
Posted by: arhooley at June 30, 2011 09:21 AM (Rzm7M)
Yeah, the whole city genuinely smells like a toilet now.
Here's a true story: Years ago I used to work for a hospital in San Francisco. But not at the hospital; I only worked in the Administrative offices which were near the Civic Center/Van Ness/Market area. I had to walk about four blocks from BART to work.
Now, even though I wasn't actually treating patients or working in clinical areas, I still had to have a TB skin test every year (policy). Around the third year, I started popping positive on these tests. Just walking those four blocks while dodging the homeless and their fecal remnants on the sidewalks was enough exposure that I now test positive for TB exposure (and will for the rest of my life).
Posted by: Rod Rescueman at June 30, 2011 09:22 AM (HwE/1)
people are making the mistake that the dem party is all liberals and its wrong
for some sad reason we have the hippies and the gimme gimmes but not the majority
Posted by: navycopjoe at June 30, 2011 12:48 PM (R7NIt)
Unfortunately, the Libs, Lefties and "Progressives" have hijacked the Democrat Party.
My Dad was a union local president and heavily involved in the Alameda County (CA) labor political committee. They organized the annual Labor Day Picnic fundraiser for their "political education" committee, and it was a draw for national Democrats, even in Presidential election years.
Though my Dad was a Korean War Navy vet and a patriot, he acquiesced in the infiltration of the Democrat Party by the hard Lefties.
It's like how the European cuckoo breeds: it goes into the nest of another species of songbird, kicks out one of the other bird's eggs and lays an egg of its own in the nest. When the other bird comes back, she sees that the same number of eggs she left in the nest is still there, so she sits on them. When the cuckoo egg hatches, the cuckoo chick pushes the other eggs and chicks out of the nest one at a time, and since the cuckoo is larger than the other chicks, its wider mouth prompts the parent birds to feed it more than the other chicks.
Eventually the parent birds end up raising just the cuckoo chick, using all their energy to keep this interloper fat and happy. That's what's happened to the Democrat Party and the various "movements" that have wormed their way into it.
Posted by: stuiec at June 30, 2011 09:22 AM (1beh4)
Obviously, the next step is to ban 4th of July.
Of course we should ban the 4th of July. That was all about war making to separate us from our fellow human beings. Talk about building walls and not bridges! Cold pricklies! We should replace it with a warm and fuzzy UN day so we can celebrate our coming together as one.
Posted by: Wienie Liberal McKnowitall at June 30, 2011 09:22 AM (jUZRg)
Well, since she's a practicing Muslim, the marriage was most likely a sham anyway, and; I don't see a better life for a half-Jewish Muslim kid.
Posted by: mpurinTexas supports Rick Perry, bitch at June 30, 2011 09:23 AM (5d6vv)
We were at the O-Club pool yesterday when the speakers sounded the bugle call for "Retreat" (the lowering of the flag). For those of you who haven't experienced it, everyone stops, faces where the flag is being lowered with hand over heart, while the retreat sounds and the flag is lowered.
Yesterday, my 7 year old kept dropping a basketball (he was far from my reach) while retreat was being sounded. The second it was over I stormed over to where he was throughout a chorus of "ooooh" "uh-ohs" and "look-outs" to give him a good shake and a lecture on flag etiquette.
I'm sure, at some point, I either got the lecture of saw one. To this day anything flag related or the national anthem brings tears to my eyes. Alas, for the great majority of americans, it does not.
Posted by: dagny at June 30, 2011 09:23 AM (lI74M)
no, i'm not clicking your damn links, i hate you all
anywho, i have to get the wimmens to the airport, be back
Posted by: navycopjoe at June 30, 2011 09:24 AM (R7NIt)
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 30, 2011 09:24 AM (jx2j9)
Ennyway, I'm liking the Huma Weiner "time off" story. On general principles I'm not glad to see a marriage end, especially when the woman is pregnant (YEESH), but I really think some marriages are better ended. She needs to ditch that scumbag and start building a better life for herself and her kid.
Posted by: arhooley at June 30, 2011 01:20 PM (Rzm7M)
This just accelerated the result. That marriage wouldn't have lasted anyway.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 30, 2011 09:24 AM (pdRb1)
Posted by: Douglas Winship at June 30, 2011 09:25 AM (7223j)
Posted by: PugBoo at June 30, 2011 09:25 AM (20jXV)
Posted by: Liberal Douchebag at June 30, 2011 09:25 AM (kUaEF)
7. Have the National Endowment for the Arts fund naked interpretive dance troupes at July Fourth parades. Also, drum circles.
That might be an interesting proposition, depending on who comprises these dance troupes.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 30, 2011 09:26 AM (9hSKh)
and we know damn well he would be the amnesty king
I am the amensty king! Hell, I don't think we should even let someone be president who isn't an illegal alien.
Posted by: Dick "Dick" Dubin at June 30, 2011 09:26 AM (jUZRg)
In as much as I'm in the camp that says hers was a sudden "sympathy" pregnancy, I predict a big "OMG!" announcement in the near future.
The stress of it all! The mean old bloggers did this to me!
It will all be blamed on Ace and Breitbart.
If she is, indeed, pregnant, then I agree with you. Just count me suspicious.
Posted by: Clueless at June 30, 2011 09:27 AM (piMMO)
That might be an interesting proposition, depending on who comprises these dance troupes.
Roseann Barr, Joy Behar, and Helen Thomas?
Posted by: WalrusRex at June 30, 2011 09:27 AM (jUZRg)
10. Include a disclaimer on celebration notices warning that displays of patriotism might endanger children's welfare.
9. Have the EPA require that celebrations use only fireworks that are environmentally friendly and greenhouse gas neutral.
8. Include a ritual apology to Great Britain after all readings of the Declaration of Independence.
7. Have the National Endowment for the Arts fund naked interpretive dance troupes at July Fourth parades. Also, drum circles.
6. Burn slave-owning Founders in effigy.
5. Have the NLRB require that all parade volunteers be unionized.
4. Serve soy chai lattes at July Fourth parades.
3. A free bong hits booth at every parade.
2. Require that children have a permission slip to attend signed by . . . their school principal.
And the Number 1 way that Democrats could re-appropriate the Fourth of July is
1. Actually love their country and talk about it without always saying "I love America, but [issue probably having to do with their relationship to their fathers]."
I figured giant puppets would have made the list somewhere. I guess I just don't understand liberals.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 30, 2011 09:27 AM (pdRb1)
See: Charles McCarthy. Yeah the guy was an alcoholic and tended toward fury.... But I love him.
Posted by: tangonine at June 30, 2011 12:59 PM (x3YFz)
Charles McCarthy was made of wood, hung out with Mortimer Snerd, and sat on Edgar Bergen's lap with his "sister," Candice Bergen.
You're probably thinking of "Tail-Gunner Joe" McCarthy.
Posted by: stuiec at June 30, 2011 09:27 AM (1beh4)
/Click - there's no treachery here, honest.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 30, 2011 01:19 PM (9hSKh)
I love you man!
Posted by: Hussein the Plumber at June 30, 2011 09:27 AM (jx2j9)
Nothing's hotter than a decent lookin guy in officer whites. Nothing ruins the army look more than the beret. Just my finely honed female appreciation opinion.
Posted by: dagny at June 30, 2011 09:28 AM (lI74M)
That is truly sad. There were a lot of liberals there when I lived there but the flags came out when appropriate and they didn't hate America.
Posted by: Vic at June 30, 2011 09:30 AM (M9Ie6)
That just means it's the first thing you take off of him.
Posted by: mpurinTexas supports Rick Perry, bitch at June 30, 2011 09:30 AM (5d6vv)
I've read a couple of reviews for the new Transformers movie, and a big burr in the liberal saddle is Michael Bay's "jingoistic" flag waving and admiration for the US military.
What a bunch of bed wetting fuckfaces. Look, I won't defend Bay as some sort of auteur; his movies are loud and dumb (if also entertaining), but the leftie film review community really hates him because he digs American military strength. For that, they can all eat a bag of dicks.
Posted by: UGAdawg at June 30, 2011 01:08 PM (kl3xJ)
Michael Bay understands that movies like Rendition and The Valley of Elah make zero money at the box office because Americans don't like to see their military run down by rich Hollywood liberals.
Michael Bay needs his movies to gross in the hundreds of millions to be profitable, so he needs to give audiences themes that are popular, not ones that are politically correct.
Posted by: stuiec at June 30, 2011 09:31 AM (1beh4)
Code Pink for teh diversitah. We're talkin' about the NEA here.
Posted by: Gabriel Malor at June 30, 2011 09:31 AM (XVaFd)
(a) Yeah...time off...she's already dumped him.
(b) Do you really think she's pregnant? Maybe I'm cynical, but they announced that she was 10 weeks pregnant. There was no reason to do that except to gin up sympathy.
Posted by: AmishDude at June 30, 2011 09:31 AM (T0NGe)
9. Have the EPA require that celebrations use only fireworks that are environmentally friendly and greenhouse gas neutral.
Actualy, there is a Traditional Fireworks display in Southern Calif, which is cancelled this year, because they were sued for NOT doing an environmental impact report for the show... and did not have time or money to complete it.
And no, I'm not making this up...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2011 09:31 AM (NtXW4)
Why does exposure to fecal matter show up positive on a TB test?
Posted by: Vic at June 30, 2011 09:32 AM (M9Ie6)
I know! We can celebrate that pile of ashes that used to be Europe!
And speaking of piles of ashes, a great line from Michael Walsh:
"Listen carefully to those screams of outrage and sounds of shattering glass you hear wafting from the streets of Athens as rioters 'protest' the end of an internationally funded gravy train: This is what happens when an irresponsible government and a lazy, entitled public finally run out of other peopleÂ’s money."
Posted by: WalrusRex at June 30, 2011 09:32 AM (jUZRg)
/looks at the Crackerjacks Hanging in his closet...
Ah yes... was ALWAYS my favorite Liberty Uniform...
13 chances to say no... and EVERYONE worldwide knew you were an American Sailor
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2011 09:33 AM (NtXW4)
don't forget the unicle
Posted by: soothsayer at June 30, 2011 01:30 PM (sqkOB)
Yes - monocle, top hat and tails.
The weird thing is that he was a star on a top radio show. Imagine that: a ventriloquist act was a hit on radio. Hell, I could do a ventriloquist act on radio. (Of course, Bergen and McCarthy also appeared on stage and in films.)
Posted by: stuiec at June 30, 2011 09:34 AM (1beh4)
That just means it's the first thing you take off of him.
Sigh. Ok, but it slows my fantasies down.
Posted by: dagny at June 30, 2011 09:34 AM (lI74M)
Posted by: mpurinTexas supports Rick Perry, bitch at June 30, 2011 01:23 PM (5d6vv)
There is a problem there in that half of him will always be trying to kill the other half.
Posted by: Truck Monkey at June 30, 2011 09:35 AM (yQWNf)
Well the army is dumping the Beret for a Stetson so problem solved.
Posted by: Buzzsaw at June 30, 2011 09:36 AM (tf9Ne)
I nominate Alex de Tocqueville for honorary AoS Morontm
Posted by: soothsayer at June 30, 2011 01:34 PM (sqkOB)
And the Marquis De Sade... for his contributions to Womens Fashions, as the creator of the Stiletto Heal...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2011 09:36 AM (NtXW4)
Huma may just want to hitch her wagon to someone with a future.
Posted by: dagny at June 30, 2011 09:36 AM (lI74M)
Posted by: Cherry π at June 30, 2011 09:36 AM (OhYCU)
Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at June 30, 2011 09:37 AM (epBek)
Michael Bay needs his movies to gross in the hundreds of millions to be profitable, so he needs to give audiences themes that are popular, not ones that are politically correct.
That's undoubtedly true, but I also think he personally has a reverence and admiration for the armed forces. Every one of his movies show soldiers in a heroic light, and I don't think that's just to bring in ticket dollars; space robots would do that on their own.
Posted by: UGAdawg at June 30, 2011 09:37 AM (kl3xJ)
And no, these weren't dog turds. Not even big dog turds. I had an Irish Wolfhound that couldn't poop this big if he held it for a week.
Posted by: Rod Rescueman at June 30, 2011 09:37 AM (HwE/1)
Well the army is dumping the Beret for a Stetson so problem solved.
Good. They can leave that on.
Posted by: dagny at June 30, 2011 09:37 AM (lI74M)
Posted by: Cherry π at June 30, 2011 09:37 AM (OhYCU)
9. Have the EPA require that celebrations use only fireworks that are environmentally friendly and greenhouse gas neutral.
The Onion, or reality?
http://tinyurl.com/44u9nut
Posted by: arhooley at June 30, 2011 09:38 AM (Rzm7M)
Hmmm.... that would be an interesting thread...
Which Historical Figures, would have fit in here as Morons...
Einstein? YES!
Wilson? no...
Ben Franklin? Absolutly!
John Adams? would only have lasted about 5 minutes... IMO
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2011 09:38 AM (NtXW4)
Posted by: Nickie Goomba at June 30, 2011 09:38 AM (jeLTI)
Well, since she's a practicing Muslim, the marriage was most likely a sham anyway, and; I don't see a better life for a half-Jewish Muslim kid.
Posted by: mpurinTexas supports Rick Perry, bitch at June 30, 2011 01:23 PM (5d6vv)
Is she? Or is she one of those pork-eating, wine-drinking Muslims who just says they're Muslim because they like their head to be in the proximity of their shoulders?
I used to know a lot of those in academia before 9/11.
Posted by: AmishDude at June 30, 2011 09:38 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Rev. Wright at June 30, 2011 09:39 AM (/Mla1)
7. Have the National Endowment for the Arts fund naked interpretive dance troupes at July Fourth parades. Also, drum circles.
That might be an interesting proposition, depending on who comprises these dance troupes.
Posted by: Kratos (Ghost of Sparta) at June 30, 2011 01:26 PM (9hSKh)
Remember those chicks in Seattle protesting rape and harassment (apparently on behalf of hot chicks who might be raped/harassed some day)?.....They will be there. You know who also will be there? Skinny, hairy liberal white men with no tan in their 40's and 50's. I don't think those little fanny packs they wear will cover up enough.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 30, 2011 09:39 AM (pdRb1)
Ah, my neighborhood is having its very own parade on the 4th and is full of campaign signs for a guy who calls himself a conservative Republican.
Posted by: Mama AJ, bragging about it at June 30, 2011 09:39 AM (XdlcF)
Posted by: dagny at June 30, 2011 09:39 AM (lI74M)
Posted by: Cherry π at June 30, 2011 01:36 PM (OhYCU)
Given Rubio's background, you know who he's inviting comparisons to, right?
Posted by: AmishDude at June 30, 2011 09:40 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: Gabriel Malor at June 30, 2011 09:40 AM (XVaFd)
OT bombshell - Rubio: "Obama is a left wing strongman"
Posted by: Cherry π at June 30, 2011 01:36 PM
Where, where, where? Where's this happening?
Rubio/Whoever 20-whenever!
Posted by: arhooley at June 30, 2011 09:40 AM (Rzm7M)
Posted by: dagny at June 30, 2011 01:37 PM (lI74M)
Yeah, but now... just like they pissed off the Spec War guys by diluting what the Beret meant..
They are now doing the same for the Cav.. and the Stetson.
They really don't understand about Unit Cohesion, Pride, and Moral anymore...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2011 09:40 AM (NtXW4)
Posted by: Roy at June 30, 2011 09:40 AM (VndSC)
oh speaking of mimes, which I hate, btw, did you hear about this?
the MBTA (MA's public transit) now has "quiet cars" on their commuter rails
the train cars are cell-phone free and 'library' quiet
They hired MIMES to launch the program. I shit you not.
Posted by: soothie at June 30, 2011 09:41 AM (sqkOB)
Posted by: MJ at June 30, 2011 09:41 AM (BKOsZ)
Posted by: t-bird at June 30, 2011 09:42 AM (FcR7P)
Posted by: Nickie Goomba at June 30, 2011 09:42 AM (jeLTI)
Posted by: Honey Badger at June 30, 2011 09:43 AM (GvYeG)
If Mexico ever stops being a dysfunctional basket case corrupt narco-state, May 5 could be as right-wing as July 4. I mean, beating the French!
Posted by: AmishDude at June 30, 2011 09:43 AM (T0NGe)
Posted by: William Dawes at June 30, 2011 09:43 AM (4Kl5M)
Posted by: Gabriel Malor at June 30, 2011 01:40 PM (XVaFd)
Don't be Gabe.
Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2011 09:43 AM (XOK/H)
2. Festivus
Given how non PC and non passive-aggressive the "airing of the grievances" is, and the survival of the fittest attitude of the "feats of strength", I'd actually call Festivus a libertarian holiday.
Posted by: yinzer at June 30, 2011 09:43 AM (/Mla1)
Patriotism isn't waving some stupid, made-in-China red, white and blue flag you bought at Walmart.
Patriotism is admitting all the mistakes that have been made in your past and trying to fix them.
Patriotism is caring about and helping less fortunate Americans.
Posted by: Booger eating lefty at June 30, 2011 09:44 AM (KulgD)
Which Historical Figures, would have fit in here as Morons...?
All of the Marx Brothers. Even Zeppo.
Posted by: garrett at June 30, 2011 09:44 AM (XOK/H)
Posted by: MJ at June 30, 2011 09:45 AM (BKOsZ)
Nothing ruins the army look more than the beret.
The Army has gotten pretty dumb with their uniforms in the last few years. They got rid of the dress greens, and modified the dress blues, which were worn only at formal functions, and made that the standard dress uniform. Now, when soldiers wear the Class Bs, it's navy blue pants with a white shirt. They look like they're delivering milk. And don't get me started on the ridiculous Army Combat Uniform, which doesn't work in any tactical environment at all.
The Army should really think about resurrecting the WWII era dress uniforms, with the dark brown jackets and khaki shirts and ties.
Posted by: UGAdawg at June 30, 2011 09:45 AM (kl3xJ)
Posted by: joncelli at June 30, 2011 09:47 AM (RD7QR)
Hmmm.... Teddy Roosevelt would have been fun to argue with... may have fit in...
Franklin R.? uh... no....
Lincoln? maybe....
Robert E. Lee? would have been horrified by the meanspirited NonGod Fearing pagan ways of a lot of us Morons...
US Grant? would depend whether he was on the wagon or not...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2011 09:48 AM (NtXW4)
Maybe. But there was a really good article over at American Thinker (IIRC) about her mother's ties to the Muslim Sisterhood and their stated goals of Muslim women infiltrating high level areas of foreign/enemy governments and how chief of staff for the US Secretary of State and wife of a congress critter fits that objective.
Posted by: mpurinTexas supports Rick Perry, bitch at June 30, 2011 09:48 AM (5d6vv)
Posted by: t-bird at June 30, 2011 09:48 AM (FcR7P)
"Those are slight differences, but every little bit counts."
These "slight differences", above a "chance" threshold are within a statistically significant to highly significant range for nearly any measurable set. In Las Vegas, for example, this sort of a shift in the "chance" occurrences at ones table of choice would cause every camera in the casino to focus there. Pit bosses would be peering over your shoulder, pretty girls would be pole dancing at the back of your chair, visions of Ferraris would be dancing in your head! The really important bit to remember, I think, is that this phenomenon seems to occur without any overt "selling" or manipulation for effect! Imagine what might be accomplished with just a little nudge to the subconscious of the (as Rush would say) Yutes and other attendees!
Posted by: Errol at June 30, 2011 09:48 AM (d2AYO)
See: Charles McCarthy. Yeah the guy was an alcoholic and tended toward fury.... But I love him.
Posted by: tangonine at June 30, 2011 12:59 PM (x3YFz)
Charles McCarthy was made of wood, hung out with Mortimer Snerd, and sat on Edgar Bergen's lap with his "sister," Candice Bergen.
You're probably thinking of "Tail-Gunner Joe" McCarthy.
Posted by: stuiec at June 30, 2011 01:27 PM (1beh4)
absolutely. where in the metric poop did come up with charles? I denounce myself.
Posted by: tangonine at June 30, 2011 09:49 AM (x3YFz)
Hey, Democrat,
your patriotism would be more convincing if it weren't your last fucking refuge, you fucking retards. Every time you wave a flag you look like the love-child of Dukakis in a tank and Mitt Romney rapping.
Posted by: Emperor of Icecream at June 30, 2011 09:50 AM (epBek)
I gotta get my flag brackets properly arranged on our front deck on Saturday. The one on the far left (the flag's own right) isn't the highest of the four.
Posted by: No Whining at June 30, 2011 09:50 AM (HmCnI)
Is she? Or is she one of those pork-eating, wine-drinking Muslims who just says they're Muslim because they like their head to be in the proximity of their shoulders?
The answer to your question is "Bill Clinton officiated".
Posted by: Mama AJ at June 30, 2011 09:50 AM (XdlcF)
Hey, Democrat,
Your patriotism would be more convincing if it weren't your last fucking refuge, you fucking retards. Every time you wave a flag you look like the love-child of Dukakis in a tank and Mitt Romney rapping.
Posted by: Emperor of Icecream at June 30, 2011 01:50 PM (epBek)
And take off that cornbrero when the flag passes by, dipstick!
Posted by: No Whining at June 30, 2011 09:52 AM (HmCnI)
"To this day anything flag related or the national anthem brings tears to my eyes. Alas, for the great majority of americans, it does not."
Me too. Believe it or not, I sometimes get a touch misty when I see the Budweiser commercial about baseball where they are getting ready for the game that ends with the flyover above the stadium, or the more recent 4th of July one. And I'm a guy. Good advertising, IMO.
Posted by: RM at June 30, 2011 09:53 AM (TRsME)
and john mccain was almost the head of the republican party
and we know damn well he would be the amnesty king..so is it safe to say that the republican party wants to give the united states to mexico?
Posted by: navycopjoe at June 30, 2011 01:00 PM (R7NIt)
Nobody is saying the Republican party is made up of conservatives..most of all, the cosnervatives aren't. The Dems are so far left that the rare moderate simply does not go into the definition of Dem any more. The leader is a socialist so far to the left there is no light left, the senators and the congressmen are liberals, and the party hates America....
Republicans don't hate America.....from the mods to the far right....they love America and want America to thrive again.
Posted by: giftogab at June 30, 2011 09:54 AM (SPVfc)
Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at June 30, 2011 09:57 AM (epBek)
What a bunch of bullshit. If you live in this country, it means you buy into what it is, and WHY it is so.
If that's too much trouble, then go befoul some other place.
Posted by: irongrampa at June 30, 2011 09:57 AM (ud5dN)
Posted by: Honey Badger at June 30, 2011 09:58 AM (GvYeG)
Posted by: giftogab at June 30, 2011 09:58 AM (SPVfc)
I pulled over. Got out. Walked up to him and said "thank you." and shook his hand.
You'd be surprised at how much that means to people that wear the uniform of a police officer or an Army Sgt or a fireman. Two simple words and a handshake.
When I wore a uniform it happened to me one time. Only once. But I'll never forget it.
Posted by: tangonine at June 30, 2011 09:59 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Jean at June 30, 2011 10:00 AM (WkuV6)
Which Historical Figures, would have fit in here as Morons...
Posted by: Romeo13 at June 30, 2011 01:38 PM (NtXW4)
Davy Crockett and every other defender at The Alamo.
Curtis LeMay
Zachary Taylor
Posted by: No Whining at June 30, 2011 10:01 AM (HmCnI)
Andrew Fucking Jackson
Posted by: Pat Fucking Caddell at June 30, 2011 01:45 PM (XOK/H)
I agree, "Old Hickory" would have definitely fit right in.
Posted by: Lemmiwinks at June 30, 2011 10:02 AM (pdRb1)
Posted by: dagny at June 30, 2011 10:07 AM (lI74M)
The funny part is that if you were to think of this as a lefty bloq question, they'd be offering up simon de bolivar, ho chi mihn, joseph stalin, etc. Then they'd dance about in flower dresses (yes, the men, too) and eat vegetables and cry over a tree.
Posted by: tangonine at June 30, 2011 10:08 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Cricket at June 30, 2011 10:11 AM (w/dFN)
My boy, who is now 6, has been doing that to every soldier he sees since he was old enough to walk over and say it. Still does. And everytime, it doesn't matter what the person may be doing, they stop and tell him how much they appreciate it.
Posted by: mpurinTexas supports Rick Perry, bitch at June 30, 2011 10:11 AM (5d6vv)
Does JFK count as a historical figure?
Posted by: mpurinTexas supports Rick Perry, bitch at June 30, 2011 10:13 AM (5d6vv)
You'd be surprised at how much that means to people that wear the uniform of a police officer or an Army Sgt or a fireman. Two simple words and a handshake.
After the blizzards a couple of years ago I found a new high tech cell phone in my driveway under the snow. It had not gotten wet because the temp was too low. I called sprint and she put me on the line with the fireman who, during the blizzard, had gone through my yard to put a sparking transformer line back up. He was incredibly grateful I had called, I was incredibly grateful he had protected me while I slept on the worst weather night here in 50 years. I said so. We both ended up laughing because the Sprint lady, still on the line, was sobbing.
Posted by: dagny at June 30, 2011 10:16 AM (lI74M)
Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at June 30, 2011 10:17 AM (epBek)
Teddy Roosevelt would have been fun to argue with... may have fit in...
Teddy doesn't fit in to forums. Forums adjust to him.
Posted by: Thomas Jefferson at June 30, 2011 10:22 AM (epBek)
@ Dagny, #158
Retreat is what I miss most about the Army.
I've just gotten to the point that I can listen without tearing up. Taps kills me.
I was driving through Ft Myer and watched an honor guard walking the riderless horse back to the stables. He was alone (which is rare) but even out of Arlington, that special horse, that symbol, is handled with the utmost respect and ceremony. I watched the guard, in full uniform on a 95 degree day, carefully walk the horse. Near the stables he crossed the paths of several soldiers who stopped came to attention and saluted until well after it had passed. There wasn't anyone there to see it but me and the honor guard.
Try explaining to your teenager when they get in the car after lifeguarding for 10 hours why you're weeping into the steering wheel. Guess he chalked it up to mom being nuts (again).
Posted by: dagny at June 30, 2011 10:24 AM (lI74M)
This is how the left celebrates the 4th -- the rainbow family of living light to camp out in Gifford Pinchot National Forrest this weekend. 20,000 + smelly hippies trashing the forrest.
tinyurl.com/3drkghy
Posted by: DPR VIII at June 30, 2011 10:26 AM (FdAuW)
From the link at 266:
July 4 will feature a Circle of Peace beginning at sunrise and ending at about noon, after “a period of Ohming.”
ROTFL
Posted by: dagny at June 30, 2011 10:30 AM (lI74M)
Which historical figures would have fit in here as morons ...
John Paul JonesYeah dude, he was a totally awesome bass player.
Posted by: Zep Fan at June 30, 2011 10:43 AM (HwE/1)
Only if the chicks are hot.
Posted by: hurricane567 at June 30, 2011 10:45 AM (yuwqD)
The founders didn't fight and die for a King to tell them what kind of health insurance they had to buy.
Of course not. They fought and died for high speed rail. Everybody knows that. /liberal
Posted by: Jay Guevara at June 30, 2011 11:17 AM (juSmz)
I pulled over. Got out. Walked up to him and said "thank you." and shook his hand.
You'd be surprised at how much that means to people that wear the uniform of a police officer or an Army Sgt or a fireman. Two simple words and a handshake.
When I wore a uniform it happened to me one time. Only once. But I'll never forget it.
Posted by: tangonine at June 30, 2011 01:59 PM (x3YFz)
If you did that in Vegas, you would get shot.
Posted by: guy in Vegas shot at Costco at June 30, 2011 11:33 AM (SPVfc)
Posted by: davod at June 30, 2011 02:15 PM (C5U9L)
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Posted by: Hank at July 04, 2011 08:45 PM (imN5c)
http://bit.ly/khagBa
It's ironic that I got more of a chuckle out of the except of your script he included than in all the supposedly witty writing of that moron. Isn't it funny how they get so angry that supposedly Conservatives say liberals aren't patriotic, but then say that the most basic of patriotic holidays is essentially conservative?
Posted by: soopermexican at July 05, 2011 10:00 AM (2JUcp)
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