1

2 I have no idea, but Drudge has a pic of a swimsuit model up.

3 When I hit the PowerBall tonight, I plan on using part of the winnings to set up a movie production unit that will specifically target making works that if not explicitly pro-conservative are at least not anti-conservative.

4 I just read that from Hot Air.

5

I'm so good on guitar that  I can't find other musicians to play with. 

It's a burden. 

 Luckily, I am also handsome.  Handsome and humble.

6 Ace, I hereby swear, when I win Powerball tonight, I'll upgrade your blog and make it the envy of teh interwebs.

7 What about Honey Boo Boo? 

8 Keeping their heads down so they don't get drummed out by the Long Marchers, mainly.

9 Soothsayer, arms akimbo.

10 A good salesman can sell a bad product. Conservatives have great products, but no good salesmen.

11 >>>Actually I sort of think this is barking up the wrong tree. A tree near the right tree, but still the wrong tree. I don't really love political messages in entertainment of either stripe. I roll my eyes at both.

Well to be fair using the story telling medium to convey a "moral" is arguably as old as story telling itself. Expecting to find your stories "moral free" is like ordering a double whopper with cheese and being aghast it contains...hamburger.

12 I'm so good on guitar that I can't find other musicians to play with. It's a burden.
Luckily, I am also handsome. Handsome and humble.
Posted by: Jimmeh Rey

You're going to have to inflate that to fifteen paragraphs for it to be believable.

13 It's right here. pic.twitter.com/j1RhvdsZ

14 I've seen you making this argument. First the creative media--do you mean Hollywood? I think actors are naturally Left. If they aren't naturally Left--the guilt of getting rich with little justification makes them mental and Liberal.

15

>>arms akimbo.

 

Dancing with the Conservative Stars?

16 Try out these guys for your entertainment pleasure - The band is rural farm kids from south Texas, hard worker (3 of 7 siblings - and several hundred cousins).  The production company is a conservative small business owner and farm/ranch kids too. 
http://theiveysmusic.com/

(They're their own producers, writers, photographers and still drive a beat up suburban with a trailer to get to gigs.  And their shows are for all ages from babies to grandma's)

17 a conservative side of the creative media? You mean Greg Gutfeld and Dennis Miller? I think that about covers it. Did I forget anyone?

18 Adam Corolla.

19 #13, Helen Thomas enters the fold.

20


I have no idea, but Drudge has a pic of a swimsuit model up.

Posted by: Jane D'oh, Life Coach at November 28, 2012 07:14 PM (UOM4  

YOU BASTARD!!!  (or whatever the female equivalent is)

21

What I find amazing is that Hollywood is rewriting REAL events... in movie form.... and getting away with it... because its an 'interpretation'....

 

People will remember those lies long after the truth is forgoten....

22 "State Senator Proposes Dissolving City Of Detroit" OCP approves.

23 Aside from internet sites, we haven't done any new things. No tv shows, no movie studios, no new outlets.

24 Actually, I know a lot of guys who are really good guitarists but no one will play with them because they are total assholes.  It's fairly common, so he might be telling the truth.

25 Yes, the culture matters. Values and self-identity trump economic considerations.

26 YOU BASTARD!!! (or whatever the female equivalent is)

Posted by: imp at November 28, 2012 07:23 PM (UaxA0

Yes.  Yes, I am a bitch. 

27 Thanks Jane. I guess we can add Jon Lovitz too.

28 Well there is Relativity Media, which produced Act of Valor and several other decent flicks. I went to Act to support the idea of a positive US military message, and the flick was good on top of that.
 
It's available on Netflix streaming if anyone cares.
 
Then there is Declaration Entertainment, which hosts the most excellent Bill Whittle Firewall videos. Whittle for President, btw.
 
MGM under Meyer was very pro-American but I don't know about now.

29 So, what- conservatives should be encouraging their kids to become theater or creative writing majors in college? Libralism lives in a world of idealistic fantasy. This mindset suits the "creative media" types well. Conservatives who live in a pragmatic reality? Not so much. Some problems can't be solved. This is one of them.

30 Ted Nugent. Yeah, we're fucked.

31 Plus "storytelling" in film has devolved to the foreign market for profitability--hence it has been dumbed down to action sequences. Then women's magazines, television and fashion are controlled by the guys with the most free time and no snot nosed brats to worry about like those-- "breeders"--The Gay Mafia.

32 21 What I find amazing is that Hollywood is rewriting REAL events... in movie form.... and getting away with it... because its an 'interpretation'.... Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2012 07:23 PM (lZBBB) They also rewrite real events on "the news."

33 The RNC is run by middle aged and old white guys. They can't relate to a 22 year old. Look at who was integral to Obama in 2008 and 2012, lots of under 35 types. How many under 35 types were part of the McCain / Romney campaign? Zero.

34 ?? I thought it is colonial-speak for I'm ready to rumble .

35

Yes, the lefties are running out of deviances.

 

When kiddie porn somehow is no longer taboo, we are seriously in the end times.

 

Btw, the dollar is not going to collapse until one of two things (despite our tard debt load):

 

1)  There is an international agreement to avoid trade in the dollar (already started happening tidbits); or

 

2)  Every other country falls.

 

There has never been a hyperinflation in a reserve currency.  So for all you LIB tards, something else will have to start that fire or they will keep printing and printing welfare checks for at least a few decades.

36 This coming from a guy at Salem, the worst conservative "media" outfit around. If it's so freak'n easy Habeeb, why haven't you done it already?

37 "Actually I sort of think this is barking up the wrong tree. A tree near the right tree, but still the wrong tree. I don't really love political messages in entertainment of either stripe. I roll my eyes at both.

Still, it's near the right tree."

 

You can push a conservative worldview without pushing a political agenda, Ace, and vice-versa. Why do you think we soccons pay so much attention to what Hollywood is doing?

38 27 Thanks Jane. I guess we can add Jon Lovitz too.



Ehhh, I think he's probably waiting for his apology to his liberal overlords to be accepted.  He'll be back in their fold soon enough.

39 To paraphrase Dr. Johnson; Ideas are not propagated by reason, they are caught by contagion.

40 "the universe is made up of stories not atoms" I got a story for you: Julia just got boinked by the parking garage attendant, and she put the late term abortion on her credit card. She then went to Olive Garden and had a big plate of fettucini, the she got boinked by her waiter and put another abortion on her credit card along with the pasta. Time to pay the credit card, and she can't afford it, because her birth control is too expensive. That's the story the Dems were telling and the idiots were sucking it up like Michelle on the saucy end of a tamale. It's over guys. The line has been crossed.

41 #35, they would legalize bestiality as brothel zoos are all the rage in sophisticated Europe. Of course that would mean throwing PETA under the bus.

42 Here's the thing about conservative media in general: Things like the very foundations of journalism, like the AP stylebook, are against us. Example: the AP stylebook forbids the use of the term pro-life. It's always pro-choice and anti-choice. Until conservatives get serious about bankrupting the intellectual competition by canceling subscriptions and voting with their dollars, we'll keep losing.

43

30:

 

Now that's funny.  although I still like Nugent.

44
There has never been a hyperinflation in a reserve currency. So for all you LIB tards, something else will have to start that fire or they will keep printing and printing welfare checks for at least a few decades.

Posted by: Prescient11 at November 28, 2012 07:26 PM (tVTLU)

 

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You are correct.  Hyperinflation is extremely unlikely in our case. And yes, they can go on like this for decades. 

45

The movement must pick the candidate.  Not the establishment.

 

Marco Rubio-Tom Cotton 2016!!!!!

 

Night morans, have a good hump day and if somebody hits powerball we need to do a fucking cruise or something for AOSHQ.

46 Ace is peeing on the wrong tree.

47 It still going to burn, it's just going to be a slow burn.

48 Conservativism creates and maintains the environment for opportunity at the expense of the consumer. The Liberal Left attempts to subvert reality, to create the illusion of opportunity, at the expense of unrelated parties represented by lawyers.. Otherwise, ....Government. Fuck Government.......

49 >>>So, what- conservatives should be encouraging their kids to become theater or creative writing majors in college?
Libralism lives in a world of idealistic fantasy. This mindset suits the "creative media" types well. Conservatives who live in a pragmatic reality? Not so much.
Some problems can't be solved. This is one of them.

Well HP, I wrote a whole dissertation on the very topic. Now away from the shameless plug. My ultimate point was that.

1. Entertainment has real world value, that does fluctuate yes, but it is there. Good entertainers have made a good living in any era even the dark ages. We should treat it like it has real value.

2. Along those lines we should not necessarily encourage our youth from getting into the field, but stop actively discouraging them from doing so like we do now.

Just so you know, I don't think that being conservative of mind precludes you from being able to compose or tell a good story, or good music. I think our own prejudices against the worth of such pursuits is a far greater barrier.

50 I don't think the leftys are smart enough to have gamed this out, I just think that three decades of prosperity have put the tides in their favor. I would bet that most people who were adults under Jimmy Carter voted against the SCoaMF. LiFB.

51 43 30: Now that's funny. although I still like Nugent. Great music for its day. More importantly...I'd let him clean my rifle, cook my dinner, or babysit my kids. But that's about as good as it gets for a "standard bearer"...sigh Maybe nominating Kid Rock is the fucking answer. I'm really starting to think shit like this.

52

Steyn's Edge of the Abyss seems timely right about now.

http://www.nationalreview.com/ articles/333116/edge-abyss-mark-steyn

It doesn't matter what we do.  We're whistling past the graveyard of what used to be the greatest country on Earth.

53 The upfront costs for a major media outlet are ridiculously prohibitive.   You know what my suggestion would be for the greatest bang for the buck?   Start up a video game studio.   Do everything from casual games to the huge franchise epics.   Video games are far more interesting than most movies or books these days.   Not to mention that for the franchise games, you're looking at 40-50 hours of gameplay.   You can work a lot into that.   As stupid as I think setting the new Assassin's Creed during the Revolutionary Way is, and wow do I think it is, I am fascinated that the trailers portray the revolutionaries as the heroes. 


Andrew Klavan is going after a huge gap in the YA market by writing works that are aimed more for guys.   Conservative story lines that are also exciting to read.  


I do think the rise of indie publishing and the slow progress on making indie movies more widely available will help.   Go around the gate keepers, not through them.

54 >>> That won't do. What good is a monkey without a tail, anyway? Indeed. Gibbons are frauds. Frauds, I say.

55 What about An American Carol?

56 Todd Solodz (sp) not sure if he's really an R or anything . . . but I know he thinks VERY differently it's hurt him I have to hide. even the people who were sort of out-Repubish in advertising are pretending to love the O now. seriously. it's scary.

57

47:

 

Agreed 100%.  When you add reserve currency PLUS lone superpower/military second to none status, that's a new one.

 

We are in a whole new ballgame.  1984 or Brave New World.  Orwell or Huxley.

 

Very scary choices.  Where does individual freedom retreat to, if it is no longer supported here?  Singapore/Hong Kong??  Their Engrish sucks, lol.

58

Could the proper tree be the Tree of Liberty?

59

What I find amazing is that Hollywood is rewriting REAL events... in movie form.... and getting away with it... because its an 'interpretation'....

People will remember those lies long after the truth is forgoten....

I learned from Rush Hour that we sent a printing press to Iran during the Shah's reign because we wanted his oil.

60 I like the term "story telling".  This has power, IMO.  Fight stereotypes with memes, etc.

61

It's the appeal to emotion. That's what storytelling is.

 

The moral of the story is what hits you right where it counts. We have  real-life   stories to tell of people and  families who've lost everything thanks to the government. I saw one today. Why not make it a point to put these  on the evening news? And yes,  Fox News, I'm looking at you. And speaking of  Fox News, why isn't that on at 6 pm every  night on every local Fox channel?

 

We must recapture the  media  and turn it back towards  the average American again. Make the government bureaucrat the enemy and we'll start winning elections again. Hell, we wouldn't even have to make anything up to do  it,  it could be a reality show.

62 I've been trying to put something together for YEARS.  I've been a national concert promoter for almost a decade (until I shut things down due to high youth unemployment b/c of Progressive policies) and have discovered several underground bands that are right-leaning.  Fact is there is no infrastructure in place and most Conservatives do not want to financially back anything that is marginally 'controversial'.  The ONLY way we re-take the culture is to get outside of our 'comfort zones'.

If you're in a band/visual artist/producer or tech savvy feel free to email me at ME(a)ArizonaLuke(dot)com.  I am in the process of creating a 'brain trust' and we need as much help as we can get. 

AZL

63 This is creative, right?  CNN gives interview to the nekkid idiots who stormed Boner's office:

http://tinyurl.com/c5gnrbv

I guess the lesson learned here, is if conservatives strip down and act like assholes, the MFM will praise us and cover whatever bitch we have with the powers that be.

64 have any of you seen Storytelling? (Solondz's film) watch it. very very anti lib doctrine

65

We're in Huxley's world, without the hard working Epsilons.

We just have a bunch of sub-moronic, aggressively ignorant layabouts with an entitlement mentality and a chip on their shoulders.

66 When conservatives make a movie, people say "hey look, a conservative movie".  When liberals make a movie, people say "hey look, a movie".

67

Gibbons are frauds. Frauds, I say.

I'm not a monkey. I'm a lesser ape.

*wink*

68 John Wayne.  Oh wait, he's been dead for 30 years.

Has anyone checked with Carrot Top?  He might be available.

69 Were are the war movies from Iraq and Afghanistan? There have been very few and yet there were great victories, desperate fights and almost unbelievable courage shown by our troops in both places. I want more war movies.

70 If you have a choice of getting laid and going to groovy parties and shit, you keep your mouth shut. 

71

I have to say, what is one thing everyone hates:

 

POLITICIANS.....

 

I mean, that should be our fucking platform.  It should be our core principle.

 

1)  Put Congress on SS (maybe they'd take better care of our fucking money)

2)  Put Congress on obamacare/medicare (maybe they'd make sure the fucking thing is solvent and a good healthcare system)

3)  Put term limits on Congress (why the fuck should they be in there 50 years - 7 terms in the House and 3 terms in the Senate)

 

The one thing that all normal headed people I know agree on is that it seems there are two classes:

1) Normal people

2) politicians/special interests/rich people

 

WE NEED TO BE THE PARTY OF THE NORMAL PEOPLE.....

 

We fucking are, and that's the message we need to pound the table on.  Fuck government, fuck politicians.

 

The end.

72 I've got some ideas and I happen to have a lot of time on my hands, all of a sudden.

Got a big green screen?

73 Seriously, though. Kid Rock (R) for President in 2012. We'd have to have the cabinet pre-selected so that the uninformed fuckmasses know that adults will actually be making the real decisions in the executive branch - but fuck it, why not just make it a total substance-free figurehead position like it's been used as the last 4 years? "Our nominee is Kid Rock, bitches." Biden proved you don't have to speak the truth or know what you're talking about to win debates. No, I'm not joking. Do Conservatives want to win one of these election thingies in any of our lifetimes? The way I keep score, it's been an awful long drought since Reagan's 3rd term back in 1998-1992.

74 Good old NBC is doing their part to re-write history (Mooch told us we'd have to "change our history and traditions").

Their bio on George Washington promises to show him as a bit of a self-centered, cheating ass:

http://tinyurl.com/cjew3r2

75 Very scary choices. Where does individual freedom retreat to, if it is no longer supported here? Singapore/Hong Kong?? Their Engrish sucks, lol.

Posted by: Prescient11 at November 28, 2012 07:33 PM (tVTLU)

 

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My BIL and wife moved to the Bahamas. They like it so far. Lot's of part-time Brit ex-pats, and very little govt in your face on the non-tourist islands.

76

Just so you know, I don't think that being conservative of mind precludes you from being able to compose or tell a good story, or good music. I think our own prejudices against the worth of such pursuits is a far greater barrier.

 

Agreed. A lot of people here seem to think that if something can't be measured with a ruler, it doesn't exist. More of a libertarian thing than a conservative one, I think - my little corner of the socon world has been calling for Christians to get involved in arts and letters for decades.

77 Who . . . in the BLUE HELL . . . is Tom Cotton?

78 I  think Stossel's show on Fox is good entertainment.  He is a good story teller.

79 Jon Lovitz apologized? Man, we really have no one. We suck. I think Glenn Beck is batty but the guy is an entrepreneur. We don't have those kind of guys who by design are trying have an impact. Alll of the talk radio people who have achieved success are content with what they have achieved and go on to try to sell books.

80 There are a fair number of conservative themed movies that do quite well at the box office but they usually don't beat the audience over the head with the political message.   

What irks me is the number of leftists screeds that do beat the audience over the head with their message,  don't make money and yet the "creative talent" behind these stinkers always seem to  get to make more of the same crap.  

81 I swear, if Sheppy wins Powerball tonight, it will be A Sign.

82 Steyn's Edge of the Abyss seems timely right about now. http://www.nationalreview.com/ articles/333116/edge-abyss-mark-steyn It doesn't matter what we do. We're whistling past the graveyard of what used to be the greatest country on Earth. Posted by: imp at November 28, 2012 07:33 PM (UaxA0) Yeah. . . *sniff*

83 If you're in a band/visual artist/producer or tech savvy feel free to email me at ME(a)ArizonaLuke(dot)com. I am in the process of creating a 'brain trust' and we need as much help as we can get.

AZL

Posted by: Arizona Luke at November 28, 2012 07:35 PM (CtkLG)

 

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I've got that going with the most popular cover band in Colorado. We have originals but use them very little. I'll pass, just looking to play and have fun these days. Good luck, though, it's a  nice idea.

84 Righties need to en masse take over reddit. Either that or 4chan but talk about the skeevies. Quite frankly that is the quickest way to taking back popular culture. Given their voting system whose to say liberty based stuff isnt just what people want to consume. Remember what they did with that wolf moon shirt? Identify popular culture flow checkpoints and undertake some institutional capture on them. By the time anyone realizes they've been coopted the narrative has already been changed.

85 6 Ace, I hereby swear, when I win Powerball tonight, I'll upgrade your blog and make it the envy of teh interwebs.

Posted by: Jane D'oh, Life Coach at November 28, 2012 07:16 PM (UOM4

Jane, the clerk told me I won, again.  But your offer is great, in case that 7-11 bitch lied to me again and I can not help ace.

86 drudge

The case was seen as largely symbolic because the defendants, most of whom live in the United States, are all outside Egypt and are thus unlikely to ever face the sentence. The charges were brought in September during a wave of public outrage in Egypt over the amateur film, which was produced by an Egyptian-American Copt.

thanks Obama and Rice and media,

nice job

87 "The Middle" is a moral show. And funny. We need more people like Patricia Heaton to come out and use their clout.

88 69 "Were are the war movies from Iraq and Afghanistan?"

I wonder how much of that is because of the nature of the wars, specifically the occupations.

We fought tooth and nail for 4 years to take territory back from the Nazis and the Japs. By contrast, we beat the Iraqi Army and the Taliban in about a month, combined.

Have there been good war movies about occupations vs. terrorist insurgencies? Maybe "Zulu", but that's the only one that comes to mind.

89

Who . . . in the BLUE HELL . . . is Tom Cotton?

Outside of Arkansas, nobody.

90 Leave 4Chan alone. It is a force of nature not worth provoking.

91 sorry ,CAIRO (AP) -- An Egyptian court convicted in absentia Wednesday seven Egyptian Coptic Christians and a Florida-based American pastor, sentencing them to death on charges linked to an anti-Islam film that had sparked riots in parts of the Muslim world.

92 Jane, the clerk told me I won, again. But your offer is great, in case that 7-11 bitch lied to me again and I can not help ace.

Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at November 28, 2012 07:41 PM (wR+pz

Will you promise to get us back our formatting?  Who is your clerk, Madame Chloe?

93 We couldn't sell the American people on this story called "math" in which the President proposed a half trillion dollar deficit in five years, assuming we could magically increase the GDP by 33% during those same five years. 

People are living in fucking fantasy land. 

Been reading Mill's essay on Representative Democracy.  He repeatedly, to the point of annoyance, says society will not preserve such a government if they are not capable or willing to do so.  It's so simple, but it's so true.  The people in this country may or may not be capable of being citizens, but they are not willing to do so.  Any story you come up with that deals with the truth isn't going to be pleasant and isn't going to be heard. 

94 The conservative side of the creative media? The same place as the conservative law professors at the U of Iowa law school. Blacklisted out of existense.

95 Brilliant article

96 50 "I would bet that most people who were adults under Jimmy Carter voted against the SCoaMF."

Even most people who were kids under Carter voted against the SCOAMF.

Romney won adults 30+ by about 50-48, according to some exit polls, while TFG won at about a 5:1 clip with the yobs.

97 Speaking of the lottery, did you all hear they are selling 6 million tickets an hour!


Anyone know how soon they announce where the winning tickets are from? 

98
94 The conservative side of the creative media? The same place as the conservative law professors at the U of Iowa law school. Blacklisted out of existense.

Heh, so true

99 I've been holding dinner for my husband for 30 min. 

I'm mildly unhappy.

100 I don't think it's media as much as pop culture. All those stupid memes, humor sites, ect. Sometimes conservatism does seep in to mainstream culture. Juno and Knocked Up were both prolife perhaps in spite of their creators. We need more of that, and for God's sake let's see a corporation as the good guy for once.

101 There has never been a hyperinflation in a reserve currency. So for all you LIB tards, something else will have to start that fire or they will keep printing and printing welfare checks for at least a few decades.

Posted by: Prescient11 at November 28, 2012 07:26 PM (tVTLU)

What is the magic brake on a reserve currency that prevents it from hyperinflating, even when it's dumped on the market?

Seriously, I'd like to know.

Because it seems like if it can inflate (which it is), it can also hyperinflate.

102 @49 MikeTheMoose- Good points. I don't believe that conservatives are less capable of creative works, either. We're less inclined to run off to LA or NYC to live out of a car and wait tables for the slim chance of hitting it big though. The liberal bias in the arts isn't a new phenomenon, it's been around longer than either of us. I don't see that changing much. I think the best we can do is vote with our wallets. If there's one thing Hollywood adores more than liberalism, it's money.

103 There are a fair number of conservative themed movies that do quite well at the box office but they usually don't beat the audience over the head with the political message.


I think Jason Reitman's works are quite conservative, to the point that I don't comprehend how he is such a hit with the ever so hip crowd.  Young Adult, in particular, is utterly, utterly brutal towards Charlize Theron's character.  It's the married guy about to have a kid who is the sympathetic one, not her. 

104 "I'm so good on guitar that I can't find other musicians to play with." oh, that's a cute obsession you have there...almost as super-adorable as i am! -.- did you check out my youtube video i wasted time recording last night? it's better than anything you'd ever be able to do in your life...or than anyone you know could do...and it's a totally unpractised throwaway improv. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFNR1q7eVD0 people ask me to play with them (or more specifically, play on their records) all the time; it's not that i can't find musicians to play with, it's that i don't give a shit about playing music on stage. i picked up guitar to try to get a girlfriend. i am now engaged...it's just a hobby, and i'm quite content with it remaining a hobby between me and my husband forevermore. i know it makes you guys who take yourself serious over 25 still chasing a rockstar dream feel ridiculous when confronted with someone who realises how utterly pathetic and ridiculous are such delusions of grandeur, but i've had to deal with enough of you musicians whinging about how much you suck and taking it out on folks who don't. i made one stupid joke about a lead singer who threw a fit when i got more attention than he did, and your little boy friend spent all night telling me that i must suck ass at guitar because i'm not a sad sack of shattered aspirations like he...and you're continuing it tonight, even after i've wasted time making a youtube video to prove how much better i am than you'll ever be? laff. stick to calling me stupid -- i have no problem agreeing with you on that one. get off my dick with the jealousy over my guitar playing. it's a bitch emotion.

105

The Rock/77:

 

I am so glad you asked.  Tom Cotton is the newly elected representative for the 4th Congressional District in Arkansas.  He is from the same area roughly as Bill Clinton.

His grandpa was a WWII combat vet.  His dad was a Vietnam combat vet.  His dad owns a cattle farm in a rural area.  He was a jock in HS and some college (not a fucking cheerleader) and comes from a regular, blue collar family.  He has a very slight tinge of a Southern accent, but it is barely noticeable.

 

He was accepted to Harvard Law and was in the top of his class.  I believe he also spent some time at the Claremont institute.  Through and through educated in conservate ideas and principles.

 

9-11 happened in his last year of law school.  When he got out of school, he worked, paid off his debts and fulfilled his obligation to clerk for a 5th Circuit court of appeals judge. 

 

After that, he enlisted in the Army.  They wanted to put him in JAG and he insisted on infantry, front line combat duty.  He served two tours, one in Iraq and one in Afghanistan. 

 

While he was in Iraq, he wrote a letter to the NY Times slamming them for releasing classified info about a terrorist financing program that GWB's administration was using.  He called for the authors and I think editors to be thrown in jail.

 

The NYT (of course) didn't print the letter.  But John Hindraker at PowerLine did, and Tom Cotton has been a legend since.

 

He destroyed the vote, and I will bet anyone a $1000 that he will unseat Mark Pryor and become the next US Senator from Arkansas in 2014.  I know the state well and used to work for Pryor when he was AG.

 

Then, God willing, Marco Rubio will pick Mr. Cotton as his running mate once Mr. Rubio sews up the R nomination for 2016.

106 Speaking of my sock . . .

Wasn't The Rock one of the big names at Bush's first convention in 2000? Didn't Bush roll out a bunch of pop culture people at both conventions that had some appeal to kids?

Eastwood's the most badass MFer of all time, but the youth don't know it.

Unforgiven came out 20 years ago

107 Will you promise to get us back our formatting? Who is your clerk, Madame Chloe?

Posted by: Jane D'oh, Life Coach at November 28, 2012 07:43 PM (UOM4

Why, yes have you done any work for her, "Life Coach"? he he.

108 OK, I know he is a RINO-- but watch the first 15 minutes of Ah-nold's 2004 convention speech . . ..he nails immigration, economics, government-- all with the glamour of Hollywood. Compare and contrast with Clint's noble effort. It only reinforced the meme of Rs as the REALLY old doddering white guy party.

109 To me the real question is: Do we want to try and gain a foothold in the traditional entertainment institutions or do we abandoned those mediums entirely and focus on the open source markets and platforms?

I think trying to gain access to the studios, theater chains, broadcast TV, and maybe even cable is a waste of time. These institutions are the next at the gallows after the print media.

On a purely creative note we already have the advantage. We're funnier, edgier, and outside. They're schtick is old and busted.

They are Ward Clever. We are Japanese Tentacle Porn.

110 Don't underestimate the power of revisionist history. The new meme from the left is to blame the financial mess on Reagan's defense buildup. No mention of LBJ's spend-a-thon or Carter's fecklessness. Nope everything would have been just dandy if Reagan had never been president. Somehow JFK/LBJ never own the Vietnam War either.

111 73 Seriously, though. Kid Rock (R) for President in 2012. huh. huh... No. Sorry.

112 A tree grows in Brooklyn, ace. Go to it. Water it with your powerful stream.

113 You're looking at this all wrong. Our message is out there everywhere already. Our values of hard work and responsibility are still admired by moviegoers and readers. The Christian values of loving your neighbor as yourself is still popular and will always be seen as the ideal to strive for. But then Libs take our values and they provide a slight twist to make it seem like they invented them. Voila! Liberal propaganda.

114 101 There has never been a hyperinflation in a reserve
currency. So for all you LIB tards, something else will have to start
that fire or they will keep printing and printing welfare checks for at
least a few decades.

Posted by: Prescient11 at November 28, 2012 07:26 PM (tVTLU)

A reserve currency is only such because others use it as such.  Ask the Brits about that and "The Sterling Pound" reserve currency.

WWI pretty much took care of that.  China is already mixing their basket or currency reserves.     I suspect gold will obviously make a come back.

115 Free Shit for President, 1988 - infinity.

116

101/Hannity's:

 

That is a great question.  I'm not exactly sure because it's never happened.  That is one fact I know for sure.  But since exchange rates float, and if you need oil you need to buy it in dollars, then this creates essentially an artificial demand for the reserve currency, since I need to buy all the shit I need for my country in said currency and therefore must have some of my reserves in that currency as well.

 

It further means that other countries will enforce the stability of the dollar so that they can make sure they can get what they need and will have ample dollar liquidity available (see the Fed's action with the Euros).

 

This is not to say that we cannot have inflation, I fully expect gold to hit $5k.  but in normal supply/demand markets, we should be getting there soon anyway I would guess.

 

It is just the hyperinflation we won't see unless everyone gives up on the dollar or else the whole world apart from us goes up in smoke.

 

In other words, out of all the world's currencies, the dollar shall be the last to fall, imho.

117 Conservatism requires principles and those are now trumped by instant gratification. Game over.

118 I just won the lottery! Granted, I only won a dollar, and that because I didn't buy a ticket. I win a dollar every week using this strategy.

119

Fluffy:

 

If you're not from Arkansas, my message is working!!

120

Posted by: willow at November 28, 2012 07:42 PM (hX8cq)

 

Uh..... did you know we have an Existing Extradition Treaty with Egypt?

121 But I do agree with ace's point about "political humor." It's all always unfunny, objectively speaking.

But things can be funny or profound, and entertaining, and be political or, at least, philosophical.  So we should definitely not try to take over failing institutions and act in the same incompetent way the progs do.

122

Posted by: Prescient11 at November 28, 2012 07:46 PM (tVTLU)

 

In Washington, D.C., Tom Cotton is nobody. About Jan 3rd or so, he will become somebody. He will be one of the small fishes in the shark pool.

Getting re-elected in 2014 should be the next step.

123 Actually, Hollowpoint, you've doubled your winnings to $2 this year. Tickets are now $2.

124

Billy Bob,

 

Agree 100%.  Chinese are going to take some time though.  And they alone cannot do it.  Not by a long shot.

 

But if eventually every major country that matters says fuck the dollar, and they take the HUGE HUGE hit to their own economy that that would cause, then yeah, we could lose reserve currency status, surely.

125 "The liberal bias in the arts isn't a new phenomenon, it's been around longer than either of us. I don't see that changing much." i was almost certain that once the progressive agenda became the establishment -- like it's been for some time -- artists, who are pretty idiosyncratic and anti-conformist, would start gravitating back toward conservatism as a reaction against the New Establishment once there was no further to push the line. someone said last night that there are bestiality zoos in germany, so i guess i was wrong about their not being any further to push the line...but it seems like most new "artists" today are pretty boring, cookie-cutter poseurs who are sold 100% into the establishment. i'm not as plugged into the REAL art scene as i was as an impetuous young kid learning to draw butterflies xP but the pop artists, at least, don't seem to be looking toward conservatism as a reaction against the progressive cultural hegemony. i'm torn. like ace, i roll my eyes at politickin' in art. at the same time, i'm probably more conscious or the motivations than the usual consumer...there is a Cultural Narrative, and we've lost control of shaping it entirely. just not sure how to go about getting it back.

126 104 Yeah....whatever

127 But since exchange rates float, and if you need oil you need to buy it in dollars,


Er, you did read that Iran just sold oil to Turkey for Gold, right?  You don't need dollars, you need gold or a barter system.

We give you 10 million pounds of soybeans, you give us x amount of x.

The dollar is not essential to any world trade.  It makes it easier, but that is all.

128

i picked up guitar to try to get a girlfriend.

Do you play guitar as wells as you find girlfriends?

129 Juno and Knocked Up were both prolife perhaps in spite of their creators. We need more of that, and for God's sake let's see a corporation as the good guy for once. Posted by: Lauren at November 28, 2012 07:44 PM (wsGWu)


You know what's an intensely pro-life movie?   Kill Bill.   I am not kidding about this.  The entire plot is about Kiddo's revenge on those who she believes killed her child.  Budd says point blank that she deserves her revenge. 
 Kiddo's speech to Bill about how when she found out she was pregnant everything became about her child is shocking in how unapologetic it is that being a mother is the single most important thing to Beatrix.  The whole freaking point of Kill Bill is that a mother will do anything, absolutely anything, for her child. 

130

>>  did you check out my youtube video i wasted time recording last night? it's better than anything you'd ever be able to do in your life...or than anyone you know could do...and it's a totally unpractised throwaway improv.

 

Give a gibbon a reverb tank...

131 powerball tix are $2 dummy

132 get off my dick ________________ That's a thing/ A saying?

133 You have no chance of beating our stories, because yours have to be tied to "truth" whereas we can make shit up as we go along.  I've been around for centuries!

134 Our message is out there everywhere already. Our values of hard work and responsibility are still admired by moviegoers and readers. The Christian values of loving your neighbor as yourself is still popular and will always be seen as the ideal to strive for. But then Libs take our values and they provide a slight twist to make it seem like they invented them. Voila! Liberal propaganda.

There is a contradiction between values of "responsibility" and "loving your neighbour as yourself".

"Responsibility" means that you take on your own burden first, and when done with that you consider helping others out.

"Loving your neighbour as yourself" does not allow for this. It ends up as a weapon, used by bums to demand that you love them as you love yourself.

In short, Jesus was wrong. VERY wrong. Edward Gibbon thought that Jesus killed Western culture, then under the Romans, and it's hard to disagree with him.

135 I see what you're saying Prescient. It also looks like a house of cards built on a house of cards, if there is a shift away from the dollar as a reserve currency. Even threatened shift could cause problems.

136 O/T & Sorry, but I just read that Sen. Diane Feinstein commissioned a report on where in the US to house the detainees of GITMO. TFG has that flexibility now!!!

137 Woot! $2 is like two free bottles of beer! Time to live large, bitchez.

138

Runninrebel:

 

Just watch Jon Lovitz "Dukakis After Dark" from SNL just before the 1988 election.

 

"I don't have a Chinaman's chance in hell of winning this election.  I'm going to be beaten.  Beaten badly."

 

It's 8 and a half minutes of pure hilarity and just what the doctor ordered for these depressing times...

139

Arizona Luke, I might  send   an  email in your direction. I've been playing in bands since I was a wee lad. I'm currently  the drummer in a local classic-rock band called The Infidels, if that gives you any indication of our political leanings.

 

It can be done.

140 Here is one little enclave of conservative media: http://meandfolly.blogspot.com/2012/11/things-are-heated-in-egypt.html

141 111 No. Sorry. 1. GWB was reportedly at one point an alcoholic cokehead. 2. SCoaMF was reportedly at one point a serious pothead. 3. William Jefferson Clinton's War On Women. I agree - it was certainly tongue-in-cheek, but specifically...what would disqualify Kid Rock? (lol) Only thing at this point I know in my heart is that I can't imagine a set of circumstances that will allow me to pull any levers for anyone educated at Harvard ever again...or anyone with (R) near their name from Massachusetts.

142 The most basic aspect of creativity is endeavoring to do something different, and that's the biggest reason why conservatives suck at it. I do know lots of talented libertarian sorts though.

143 I'll tell you what would destroy liberal culture....

144 30 Ted Nugent. Yeah, we're fucked. Been a huge (musical) fan of Nugent since a little before Tooth, Fang and Claw, up to Stranglehold (after that, it sucks). Still am. He decided to take a shit on his draft card. Fuck him.

145 All entertainment has a message. It's inevitable. A Conservative message is preferable (if you're into things like there being a future, and other gay crap like that). But Leftists have normalized Leftism and sensitized everyone to any truly Conservative message, so here we are...

146

If you're not from Arkansas, my message is working!!

Some political junkie knows the guy's name? Big deal.

He needs to do something in DC to overcome your sales pitch.

147 I'm a fan of Bill Whittle as well.

The Afterburner series is good:
http://bit.ly/11fnPU1

We need a "Daily Show" kind of show for the right. With right leaning SNARK! Something Adam Corolla may be able to pull off.

I have this lefty that's a "friend" on FB. I can't tell you the amount of snark filled simple posts he does. All short snarky quick hits. Nothing is stuff he creates. Just re-posts that he gets from all the left leaning usual suspects.

That's something the right is missing. It's not surprising though, as most in the creative field are lefties, so naturally they produce a lot of that stuff.

148 Charlie Brown Christmas on now, then Modern Family. A good time to veg before the TV

149
Been a huge (musical) fan of Nugent since a little before Tooth, Fang and Claw, up to Stranglehold (after that, it sucks). Still am.

He decided to take a shit on his draft card.

Fuck him.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at November 28, 2012 07:57 PM (XcaYZ)

Did he really?  I never knew that.  Fuck him sideways with a pineapple, then.

150 Romeo, I wonder if tht will change , with Egypt's conflagration again with Morsi's move?

ugh probably not. Do you think this administration would actually  hand them over ?

I know, It's horrible to even think they might think about it..

i hate feeling this way about our leadership at this point.

loss of faith, i used to just be disappointed  in previous  administrations or pissed off at them   but now  i'm always un-nerved and have no idea what they mght do.

151 Shorter version:  Less Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly, more Greg Gutfeld.

152 But if eventually every major country that matters says fuck the dollar, and they take the HUGE HUGE hit to their own economy that that would cause, then yeah, we could lose reserve currency status, surely.



I don't think the hit would be huge.  Governments have a break point, and the inflation of our currency will be that point.   You will see contracts backed by commodities or gold, not the dollar.  It is already happening.

Remember what killed the Pound Sterling?  Financing the debt of WWI.   Even all the wealth from the empire could not save it.

Like the ad we saw during the campaign.  Learn Madrian.  The only bright light I see was a recent article which noted that China will not be able to feed itself without our soybeans and corn.

So once again our Red State farmers might save the dollar.

153 Ace, haven't you heard?  Conservatives are supposed to sit down and shut up.

154

Posted by: Aaron at November 28, 2012 07:43 PM (Tlix5)

 

Yup.... when only 50% of eligable voters do so.... and only 50% Pay for the Government... and 25% are living off the Government (in one form or another)...

 

Pure Democracy will self destruct.... just as the Founder's feared.

155 Yeah, Greg Gutfeld is about the closest you'll get. But there isn't much of an audience for that anyway.

156 "Conservative media"? You mean so-cons? I thought people on this forum hated 'em. You yourself just did a post mocking them for their antipathy to that Charlie Sheen cesspool. If not so-cons, then what? TV shows lauding the happy consequences of low taxes? A pro-capitalist pop band, maybe called Smith & Hayek? What?

157 Our dear Mooch is allowing military families to see the splendor of the White House Christmas decorations tomorrow.

Hopefully, the damned Chairman Mao and Barry on Mt. Rushmore ornaments won't be visible.

Thanks for using our military for your own means, you nasty bitch.

158

Give a gibbon a reverb tank...

So, not exactly 'clean as country water'?

159 "147 I'm a fan of Bill Whittle as well. The Afterburner series is good: http://bit.ly/11fnPU1 We need a "Daily Show" kind of show for the right. With right leaning SNARK! Something Adam Corolla may be able to pull off. I have this lefty that's a "friend" on FB. I can't tell you the amount of snark filled simple posts he does. All short snarky quick hits. Nothing is stuff he creates. Just re-posts that he gets from all the left leaning usual suspects. That's something the right is missing. It's not surprising though, as most in the creative field are lefties, so naturally they produce a lot of that stuff. Posted by: frank Rizzo at November 28, 2012 07:58 PM (JHRCt) " Ah yes, the Daily Show Trial/23 Minute Hate. Entertainment so dumb, Proletarians can "get it."

160 Granted, I only won a dollar, and that because I didn't buy a ticket. I win a dollar every week using this strategy.


Just increase your non-participation to a few thousand times a week and you could make a nice living off that.

161

Fluffy:

 

He will be the next Senator from Arkansas.  I have no doubt on that subject unless he Akin's himself or something crazy.

 

And even if he did, this is a guy who could recover.

162 "To me the real question is: Do we want to try and gain a foothold in the traditional entertainment institutions or do we abandoned those mediums entirely and focus on the open source markets and platforms?" that's an interesting question o.o i don't know near enough about the new markets and platforms, but for sure as the tech progresses, smaller outfits are able to produce things that rival big studios in quality...if not name recognition... i'm not even sure if i'm really understanding what you mean, since i'm pretty ignorant of the cutting-edge, self-published things going on today @.@ do you have any particular medium/platform/market in mind?

163 You suppose Honey Boo Boo's family still gets govt assistance with them raking in the earnings from their reality show?

164 99 I've been holding dinner for my husband for 30 min.

I'm mildly unhappy.
Posted by: Jane D'oh, Life Coach at November 28, 2012 07:44 PM (UOM4 Hide posts from (UOM4

Now be a good wife and keep his dinner warm- in the dog

165 Hmmm.   Netflix seems to believe I would like to watch something called Sand Sharks.   Netflix may be right.

166 Gather around, everyone. Come closer. Closer. Okay, that's close enough. Here's what we do. First, we buy a bunch a blankets. Then, we get some smallpox. /raises eyebrows Mmmm?

167 128 i picked up guitar to try to get a girlfriend. Do you play guitar as wells as you find girlfriends? Posted by: fluffy at November 28, 2012 07:54 PM (3SvjA) I don't always play the guitar. But when I do, I ask jimi ray, first......

168 It's gotta be someone on the inside, I mean it. Some sort of cultural trojan horse. You can't have glenn beck come out and say were gonna start a right wing movie studio with who ever, it would be DOA like liberal talk radio. The thing is it's a long process, probably 20 years. And you can't do obvious metaphors, you make Atlas Shrugged everyone knows your angle going in, you make The Dark Knight it makes a billion dollars.

169 Posted by: alexthechick at November 28, 2012 07:54 PM (Gk3SS) Stranger than fiction is also a pro life movie if you understand that wil ferrel's character is the unborn baby who's mother (the author, emma thompson) is contemplating killing. Juno isn't so much a prolife movie as it is an anti-patriarchy movie.

170 Here's the other thing. We don't really need or even want a "Conservative Creative Media." All we need to do is help destroy the centralized entertainment institutions that spoon-feeds people an anti-Right message.

The only thing we should really want is open source entertainment.

Political art sucks. Progressive political art really sucks. And anti-Right entertainment is mildly retarded.

171 In short, Jesus was wrong. VERY wrong. Edward Gibbon thought that Jesus killed Western culture, then under the Romans, and it's hard to disagree with him. Posted by: boulder hobo at November 28, 2012 07:55 PM (QTHTd) _____ Ecce idiot.

172 158 Give a gibbon a reverb tank... So, not exactly 'clean as country water'? Posted by: fluffy at November 28, 2012 08:00 PM (3SvjA) A wah pedal would've been a big improvement....and I don't like wah pedals.

173 @3 I've been fantasizing that same thing for quite some time now. For Ace, are you sure there *isn't* a conservative hollywood that simply can't get funded or distributed? There have been some 'good' SciFi stuff that keeps getting canceled for mysterious reasons.

174

Posted by: willow at November 28, 2012 07:59 PM (hX8cq)

 

Hillary told the Father of one of the SEALS killed there, that they would get the makers of that Movie...

 

So, State Dept. on board.... Holder at "Justice'....

 

Yeah.... I could see them being turned over...

175 Conservative creativity is not simply political, but a values message. It can be of family, God, economic prosperity, or something along those lines. You know art that is not a crucifix in urine, but maybe a mosaic of American family. Why do we not see this? Because it is not cool to be conservative or think conservative. Because our society has been taught from an early age that conservatives are angry old white racists, sexiists, homophobes wanting to return to the days of slavery.

176

Back when I was very little, my grandparents had a book called "The Managing Hen and the Floppy Hound," that I loved and had them read to me until they were sick of it. I recently bought a copy to read to my nieces. The story is pretty simple:

There was once a hen on a Appalachian farm that ruled the roost, watching out for varmints and keeping the other chickens in line. One day the owner of the farm bought a puppy, who was supposed to be a watchdog but was too young to do much except get in everyone's way and hinder them from working. One day, there was a big storm that blew the hen away. When the puppy went exploring in the woods afterwards, he found a fox getting ready to eat the hen. He fought the fox and won, then brought the hen back to the farm, where the owner told him he was a good dog and he and the hen made friends. The end.

The book doesn't mention the government at all, but it a fundamentally conservative book: It told my five-and-six-year-old self that the world was a dangerous place, that in order for a community to survive everyone had to work or otherwise contribute, that fighting meant hurting and being hurt, that fighting was sometimes necessary to defend the weak, and that with diligence and courage you will survive.

That is sort of story that we need to be telling - ones that encourage our root values, not just ones that address particular contemporary political issues (though those do have a place as well, I think).

177

He will be the next Senator from Arkansas.

Very nice. Then you don't need to annoy us about him, do you?

Anthony Wiener resigned from office and was replaced by a Republican in a special election. That guy will be out of office in January because he didn't run for re-election. He ran for Senate.

Long march is long.

178 Now be a good wife and keep his dinner warm- in the dog

Posted by: museisluse at November 28, 2012 08:02 PM (SsWgR)

No dog.  Two kittehs will have to do.  He did just call me and is kissing my ass.  So I've got that going.

Seriously, he's meeting with his accountant and sales staff over wtf is going to happen this next year.

I'm not angry, because he's stressed as hell.

179 Propaganda is important.  The very best propaganda is 95% or more true.  When propaganda is mostly true, people don't even recognize it as such.

Its a art form that must be mastered.

180 "166 Gather around, everyone. Come closer. Closer. Okay, that's close enough. Here's what we do. First, we buy a bunch a blankets. Then, we get some smallpox. /raises eyebrows Mmmm? Posted by: soothie at November 28, 2012 08:02 PM (FC8Yl) " Didn't we already do that with AIDS (and the invention of rape)?

181 We have to be IN the culture. It's not enough to deliver a fresh baked pizza to the party from the Conservative Pizzaria, and expect everyone to find it delicious. We need to be invited INSIDE. Andrew Breitbart understood this, I think.

182 I think jimi ray had a nerve touched.

183

Habeeb and Leven got it right about the past. That ties in with punishment. We have failed miserably at punishing the Left for the past. They punish us continuosly using the past, they make it the focus of all the soft minds, it is the easy ground. They keep emotions about the present from coming to the surface by encouraging people to live in a false past. Our "storytellers" might do well to dredge up some muck from the older parts of the river of time and throw that stinky  stuff up onto the boardwalk for people to step around.

184

Ecce idiot.

Heh.

185

We keep asking the same fucking question over and over and over again.

 

We already have the answer.

 

Why is Fox News a SMASHING success.  Get that answer, and it can be replicated in movie studios and all over.

 

Did we really need these fucking idiots to tell us that comic books would make AWESOME movies.  I've been pounding on the table about that for a decade.  You already have the fucking screenplays AND the visuals.

 

 

 

186 157 Our dear Mooch is allowing military families to see the splendor of the White House Christmas decorations tomorrow. Hopefully, the damned Chairman Mao and Barry on Mt. Rushmore ornaments won't be visible. Thanks for using our military for your own means, you nasty bitch. Posted by: Jane D'oh, Life Coach at November 28, 2012 08:00 PM (UOM4) *furrowed brow of utter disgust*

187 "In short, Jesus was wrong. VERY wrong. Edward Gibbon thought that Jesus killed Western culture, then under the Romans, and it's hard to disagree with him. Posted by: boulder hobo at November 28, 2012 07:55 PM (QTHTd) " Gibbon was an imbecile.

188 yeah, if we created AIDS to kill all the blacks, we sure did a lousy job

189 damnit

190 Look, right after the election I had a nice and heated discussion with my sis about why she voted Obama.  Her main reason: she didn't trust Romney because he changed his mind too often. 

Let that sink in for a second.  She voted for a guy who's promises come with expiration dates.  I pointed more than a few of those out (Gitmo, gay marriage, the debt being "unpatriotic"); no reaction at all. 

I hate to be this pessimistic, but most voters out there are ignorant to an extreme.  None of them know how deep in the shit we really are, how much worse it is getting, and they don't care.  When problems do hit, they'll blame Bush or "the corporations."  I've asked every single person who said the housing crash was caused by Bush to tie any specific policy of his to the crash.  None could, but they keep on saying it. 

I don't see how liberty can continue in such a place.  It breaks my heart and makes me despair of my own future.  But there it is.  Being on the right side doesn't mean we'll end up on the winning side. 

191 In short, Jesus was wrong. VERY wrong. Edward Gibbon thought that Jesus killed Western culture, then under the Romans, and it's hard to disagree with him.

Posted by: boulder hobo at November 28, 2012 07:55 PM (QTHTd)

 

 

 

Explain the Byzantine Empire, then. You do realize that Gibbon is 200 years out of date, and is more useful as a window into the 18th century mentality than an authority on ancient Rome, right?

192

 not exactly 'clean as country water'? 

--

A wah pedal would've been a big improvement....and I don't like wah pedals.

 

 

Hey!

Everything is better with an envelope filter.

193

Fluffy:

 

Dude, he ran for Senate in frigging New York.  I will keep bugging everyone so we get him lined up for 2016!!!  I'm not pushing his 2014 Senate win.

 

Adam Smith:

 

Yes, talented media people don't need to pound the table like Glenn Beck.  Just be GOOD and the rest will fall into place.

194 I'm going to go watch Charlie Brown's Christmas. Good night, everyone.

195

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Waiting for the Sun at November 28, 2012 08:07 PM (XcaYZ)

 

Well.... she's just trying to make up after the whole 'military not getting to vote' thing...

196 i'm torn. like ace, i roll my eyes at politickin' in art

Never go down with unfired weapons left in inventory. 

197 Conservatives are like Amish or Hasidic Jews. They are apart from the culture.

198

Charlie Brown Christmas on now

 

Already? It's not even December.

199 The debt ceiling will be hit again in a few weeks. This obstructionist creation must be eliminated. I think by now everyone sees how unfair and cruel this device is, yet another obstacle standing in the way of our government caring for its citizens.

Come on, Obama - Executive Order time!

LiFB

200 "I may  have been  on the losing side. Still ain't convinced it was the wrong one."

201 I think jimi ray had a nerve touched.
Posted by: Jane D'oh

That's why she's here.

202 Romeo, not only taht but they actually used the video and the maker as a tool to deflect any responsibility to the actual reality ,
then sent out media to wreck petreaus ,broadwell,
and what about the  other 4 members of the military brass that went bye-bye?.

yeah, i'm not at all comfortable with  how far they will go.
they strted with joe the plumber , private citizens are fodder for them.

203

I think jimi ray had a nerve touched.

He swore he was 18.

204 "Give a gibbon a reverb tank..." yeah, i already said last night that the tone was a bit over-wet. it was recorded at like 2 am or something, so i couldn't monitor it and i just selected a pre-set computer tone that sounded like it would be pretty. but hay, pat yourself on the back and go ask your boy friend otho for a blowjob wetter than that tone, cuz at least you found something to criticise! /rolleyes faggot.

205 Didn't Bush roll out a bunch of pop culture people at both conventions that had some appeal to kids?

It probably helped that he was in his early 50s and his daughters were still in their teens during his first presidential campaign. Bush also had a great many  young nieces and nephews.  George P. was active in both campaigns.  Romney was in a similar position to that of George H.W. Bush back in 1992.  The kids were all too old to be up on all the latest things and his grandkids too young.

206 and of course f and f and how easily 300 mexicns and terry are forgotten.

207 Debt ceiling?  What's that?  There is no debt ceiling, never was.

208 "197 Conservatives are like Amish or Hasidic Jews. They are apart from the culture. Posted by: Max Power at November 28, 2012 08:09 PM (q177U) " We didn't leave the culture. The culture left us.

209 197 Conservatives are like Amish or Hasidic Jews. They are apart from the culture. Posted by: Max Power at November 28, 2012 08:09 PM (q177U) Nope.

210 190 fucking nailed it. Seriously. How the fuck does one fight *that*?

211 OK, I was looking for the USS Ocean Christmas video to post, when I stumbled on to this.

I know we have a lot of Jewish Morons, so I thought you all would love this!


http://tinyurl.com/5jet7d

212 192 not exactly 'clean as country water'?-- A wah pedal would've been a big improvement....and I don't like wah pedals. Hey! Everything is better with an envelope filter. I've tried to get distortion for 30 years....now that I've got it, I ain't giving it up!

213

I have this lefty that's a "friend" on FB. I can't tell you the amount of snark filled simple posts he does. All short snarky quick hits. Nothing is stuff he creates. Just re-posts that he gets from all the left leaning usual suspects.

That's something the right is missing. It's not surprising though, as most in the creative field are lefties, so naturally they produce a lot of that stuff.

 

I belong to FB group called 'Veterans Against Occupy Wall Street".  Very little to do with OWS nowadays, but they do post/repost some very good conservative snark...ala 9gag style.  Perfect for  forwarding to the 2-second generation crowd. 

214 Debt ceiling? What's that? There is no debt ceiling, never was.

Posted by: Winston Smith at November 28, 2012 08:11 PM (Anjf+)

It's a speed bump that must be removed. For the burnage to really catch fire.

MiFB

215

I will keep bugging everyone so we get him lined up for 2016!!!

Operative word: bugging.

Give it a rest until after he gets re-elected in two years.

216

>>>a bit over-wet

 

 

You know how I know you're gay?

217 A sign of the times.......my daughter went and spent Thanksgiving with my best friends parents ( pretty much grandparents to her). While there "grandpa" gave her her college graduation present. Three 10 oz bars of silver. She didn't have a clue what they were when he handed them to her but he explained.  "hold on to these, right now they are only worth 34$ per ounce but once Obama's term is done they will be worth much more". I found it very odd but also a bit comforting to know that there are actually people who get it.

218 "216 >>>a bit over-wet You know how I know you're gay? Posted by: Dick Dale at November 28, 2012 08:14 PM (dga6h) " Whenever you troll Jenny, she trolls you back. Just ignore her, and she can be quite intelligent.

219 Hey, Jimi Ray? I don't play the guitar. Never had the desire. So I am in no way jealous of your self proclaimed "talent". I watched you all through the night on last night's ONT, though. You sure are a preening prick. And quite defensive. Do us all a favor: Take your guitar and shove it.

220 213 I probably blasted 1/3 of Breitbart's site plus a ton of stuff found here and elsewhere to 3400+ people (and actually gained subscribers) for several months prior 11/6 on my FB wall. It took me an hour to go back and mark it all "Only Me" around the 8th or 9th, since I really looked like a fucking moron with my non-stop criticizing of Nate Silver, Paul Krugman, MSDNC, the NYT, Pravda on the Potomac and others. Turns out I was the fucking idiot that was wrong. Or fraud.

221 "219 Hey, Jimi Ray? I don't play the guitar. Never had the desire. So I am in no way jealous of your self proclaimed "talent". I watched you all through the night on last night's ONT, though. You sure are a preening prick. And quite defensive. Do us all a favor: Take your guitar and shove it. Posted by: CharlieSays at November 28, 2012 08:17 PM (2aJHq) " Well, that was constructive...

222 Didn't Bush roll out a bunch of pop culture people at both conventions that had some appeal to kids?Posted by: NC Mountain Girl

I don't remember any and more importantly no one under the age of 32 watches convention coverage. They are exercises in boredom.

223 Technology today means that for about $10,000 you could buy the basic digital video and editing equipment to start producing amateur films.  Thanks to the internet, you can even distribute them.

Conservatives need to start there, producing short and well made web films that reflect conservative values.  As others have pointed out, it's not about blatant messaging, but the subtle messages.  It's whether or not you make a Sarah Palin joke or an Obama joke when the script calls for political humor; it's about showing individual responsibility and respect for tradition and self restraint instead of narcissism and self loathing. 

224 BTW, one of the nice things about doing this kind of creative stuff is that it offers us a route to (eventual) victory that doesn't require us to win elections. If the people who claim that we have reached the tipping point are correct, and if Future America looks more like the EU than Mad Max, than this may be very important.

225 Survivor is on. One of the contestants, she's a Sex Therapist. What kind of idiot do you need to be to require the services of a sex therapist. oh look, Lucy is being bossy...

226 I understand that in the latest remake of Anna Karenina her husband isn't portrayed as the bad guy and the whole treatment is fairly unsympathetic to Anna.  The director has stated past treatments in which Anna was the romantic victim of the patrimony missed the entire point of the story.  Keira Knightly who plays Anna has noted that at 19 she thought Anna was right and everyone around her was wrong.  When she revisited Tolstoy for the part she found her thinking had turned in the other direction. 

227 "220 213 I probably blasted 1/3 of Breitbart's site plus a ton of stuff found here and elsewhere to 3400+ people (and actually gained subscribers) for several months prior 11/6 on my FB wall. It took me an hour to go back and mark it all "Only Me" around the 8th or 9th, since I really looked like a fucking moron with my non-stop criticizing of Nate Silver, Paul Krugman, MSDNC, the NYT, Pravda on the Potomac and others. Turns out I was the fucking idiot that was wrong. Or fraud. Posted by: Rob McNeece at November 28, 2012 08:17 PM (wMOnp) " What? Nate Silver was "right" (once you take all the fraud into account). Paul Krugman, MSDNC, the NYT, Pravda on the Potomac and others... not even that much.

228 Romeo, i just read your comment on the last thread about  Israel being  close to making   a male birth control pill.

i laughed and immediately thought of weeping males , and clearer complexions.

229 Do we need the creative stuff for entertainment, or to win converts? If entertainment, start here: http://preview.tinyurl.com/cc5rdl3 (I would add "Dr. Zhivago" (1965), surely still one of the greatest movies ever made! Klaus Kinski has one of the best lines in the film, "I am the only free man on this train!". And if you like girls, you'll be happy watching either Christie or Chaplin.) Converts? We need to come to grips with the fact that some of the Commies may never, ever come around. Forced interbreeding? Starvation? Practically, I don't see either of those strategies working at all. The problem then becomes one of how to keep them from being a major problem. Fortunately, the solution is Limited Government. If they keep needing handouts, and the gummint stops giving them, their best hope then becomes a 1-way bus ticket to SanFran. For the rest, helmet cams and running war heroes may be the ticket, and a very active offense on the whole Commie stable. Why let a Kerry even run for dogcatcher after his sorry, sad pile of s**t he laid off on Congress back in the day? Ted Kennedy? DWI patrols on the island. Some of their marijuana Messiahs? Black bag ops to lace their weed with 3-Quinuclidinyl benzilate. Not fair? Hey! They're the ones so into drugs!

230 You can't talk a jumper off the ledge if they don't believe they're suicidal and don't believe the ledge even exists. 

That jumper is your average American who doesn't believe it can all come crashing down.

Those people won't ever wake up until they hit the sidewalk.

231 anna karenina was the first type soap opera -ish  thing i ever watched .

then i moved onto as the stomach churns and  immediately into  the graves of our lives.

232 Well, that was constructive... Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at November 28, 2012 08:18 PM (vIRPd) Must be an ONT thing.

233 "230 You can't talk a jumper off the ledge if they don't believe they're suicidal and don't believe the ledge even exists. That jumper is your average American who doesn't believe it can all come crashing down. Those people won't ever wake up until they hit the sidewalk. Posted by: Winston Smith at November 28, 2012 08:24 PM (Anjf+) " I tried to read your post, but it didn't seem to be about sex or celebrities, so I gave up.

234 "232 Well, that was constructive... Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at November 28, 2012 08:18 PM (vIRPd) Must be an ONT thing. Posted by: CharlieSays at November 28, 2012 08:25 PM (2aJHq) " Guess so.

235 You can't talk a jumper off the ledge if they don't believe they're suicidal and don't believe the ledge even exists.

That jumper is your average American who doesn't believe it can all come crashing down.

Those people won't ever wake up until they hit the sidewalk.

Posted by: Winston Smith at November 28, 2012 08:24 PM (Anjf+) "

nice. and true.

236 The President that incinerated millions and millions of innocent civilians in Japan, the only use of weapons developed by creative leftist-communists, was a Democrat.   (just trying out story lines).  The man who murdered the President that  freed the slaves was a lefty actor. (yeah, there seems to be a million places where we should be able to adjust history and minds. just have to find the right scabs to lift up and make bleed.)

237

Whenever you troll Jenny, she trolls you back. Just ignore her, and she can be quite intelligent.

Can be. Can also be a serious dumb-ass. Fails to understand the 'web' part of world wide et cetera.

jimmy ray, just stop. Stop pretending. Most people here know, at least on a gut level, that you are playing a game.

My real name is not fluffy, but when I say things like that I voted for Mitt Romney or that I like pie, I really did and I really do.

Ninety percent of what you say is suspect, so why bother?

Simple, but scary suggestion: Just be yourself. A toned-down version, preferably.

 

238 I *still* laugh when Snoopy slinks away after dancing on the piano. Never gets old.

239

Posted by: willow at November 28, 2012 08:21 PM (hX8cq)

 

Yep.... and a Male Birth Control Pill will really change up the Politics of Progeny...

 

Face it... short of abstinence.... Men are not in control of the whole baby thing...

 

If SHE decides, she can kill it.... or She can decide to keep it, and the Guy pays Childsupport....

 

This pill... which is a once a month pill, will put some of the power back into Men's hands....

240

Posted by: First Lady SpokesRat at November 28, 2012 08:29 PM (lZBBB)

 

SERIOUS Sock Failage.... LOL

241 and irresolute ,FDR who also incarcerated American citizens, japanese etc..

242 "237 Whenever you troll Jenny, she trolls you back. Just ignore her, and she can be quite intelligent. Can be. Can also be a serious dumb-ass. Fails to understand the 'web' part of world wide et cetera. jimmy ray, just stop. Stop pretending. Most people here know, at least on a gut level, that you are playing a game. My real name is not fluffy, but when I say things like that I voted for Mitt Romney or that I like pie, I really did and I really do. Ninety percent of what you say is suspect, so why bother? Simple, but scary suggestion: Just be yourself. A toned-down version, preferably. Posted by: fluffy at November 28, 2012 08:29 PM (3SvjA) " Nah. She's just bitter that you don't treat her right. That's all.

243 Glad to see this being said. Media is dominated by liberal themes on every level. And not every bit of conservative entertainment needs to be in your face "AND THAT'S WHY ABORTION IS MURDER AND HIGH TAXES ARE IMMORAL", or dramatizations to that effect.

244 wait...your name isn't really 'Fluffy'?

245 Next you'll tell me AllenG has a blog.

246 "Never go down with unfired weapons left in inventory." i know. i was saying it probably works subliminal wonders on the average consumer. it's just that for me, it always seems to forced that it can hardly eve be called "art" at that point -- propaganda more than that. i guess my main fear is that ALL of art will turn into a back-and-forth between the two main political philosophies O.O i totally dig using all the tools in the kit, but just on a personal level, i prefer consuming art that isn't beholden to a political message. "I think jimi ray had a nerve touched." i mean, anyone would happily accept jimmy carter telling them they must not know anything about politics because they didn't run for president, after all. /rolleyes you're crazy if you think it's not normal to lose patience with a total failure scrunting at you all night about how much you obviously suck because you didn't try to succeed where he utterly failed. you folks sure always talk about how good it is for people to work hard and succeed at something...until someone comes along who has worked hard to succeed at something. maybe i should just not be proud of having gotten good at something so that people who are bad at that thing won't get their petty feelings hurt. ._.

247 Put some baby batter on ice in case you get married later on, get the V, then when the paternity shit starts you can say "look elsewhere for your meal ticket bitch, it wasn't me!"

248 "239 Posted by: willow at November 28, 2012 08:21 PM (hX8cq) Yep.... and a Male Birth Control Pill will really change up the Politics of Progeny... Face it... short of abstinence.... Men are not in control of the whole baby thing... If SHE decides, she can kill it.... or She can decide to keep it, and the Guy pays Childsupport.... This pill... which is a once a month pill, will put some of the power back into Men's hands.... Posted by: First Lady SpokesRat at November 28, 2012 08:29 PM (lZBBB) " Fixing the child-support bullshit might be a less queer idea.

249 Yep.... and a Male Birth Control Pill will really change up the Politics of Progeny...

Face it... short of abstinence.... Men are not in control of the whole baby thing...

If SHE decides, she can kill it.... or She can decide to keep it, and the Guy pays Childsupport....

This pill... which is a once a month pill, will put some of the power back into Men's hands....

Posted by: First Lady SpokesRat at November 28, 2012 08:29 PM (lZBBB)

i agree with most of  this.

Yt  the men do have a part in pregnancy  protection,

condoms are Not perfect but very helpful,

still another point is not using a condom  for protection also - possible exposure to disease.

250 Jimi Ray- I've read you posts. Even listened to your 2AM youtube video. I play guitar, and send my guitar-playing son to a 60K a year music school. Your guitar playing needs to remain a hobby, and you need to find a blog where you are not hated nearly as much. Why on earth do you come here?

251 >>> My real name is not fluffy.. is it short for Fluffernutter? Fluffernutter J. Whoopie?

252 I always get choked up when they break into "Hark the Herald Angels Sing".

253 Why haven't they made a Fluffernutter Pop-Tart?

254 Posted by: jimi ray at November 28, 2012 08:33 PM (79EF9) Ok. Being coherent might be a good idea...

255 There is a reason why more conservatives don't get involved in the entertainment business, it is a fucking cesspool.

Are you an actor or actress? Get ready to suck or fuck the power players in Hollywood.

Are you a singer/band? Unless you are barebacking the record company execs, you will be playing weddings for the rest of your life.

Are you someone who wants to make movies? Try releasing a movie outside of the Hollywood machine. You will not be seeing that movie or show in theaters, television, or cable. You might get lucky and have Netflix stream it.

256

wait...your name isn't really 'Fluffy'?

On the internet, nobody knows you're not really a poodle.

257 it's just that for me, it always seems to forced that it can hardly eve be called "art" at that point -- propaganda more than that.

All art is subtle propaganda...even if its only the artist trying to sell their relevance to reviewers or patrons. 

Propaganda is just marketing.

258 Mirror,  i think that child support issue was in reaction to guys moving along  and not assisting with their children support.

happened a lot in the old days. with their previous marriage children ,
they guys would start new families and  later gator to the previous kids  and their needs .
having said that , i Know they have totally went berzerk, in the opposite direction unfairly most often to men.

259

>>Propaganda is just marketing.

 

 

So, Tri-Corner Hat Girl is the answer?

260

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at November 28, 2012 08:34 PM (vIRPd)

 

Except that it still puts the abortion power in the Woman's hands...

 

My guess is that this pill WILL reduce the amount of abortions out there... because what Man wants to give that much power over himself, to someone else?

 

So many WILL use it... heck.... I will.... even if my Partner tells me she is on the Pill herself...

261 @256, my face pic... http://preview.tinyurl.com/cxvt2or And I REALLY love lamb. Raw. (And horse poop, but I denounce myself.)

262 2 I have no idea, but Drudge has a pic of a swimsuit model up.
Posted by: Jane D'oh, Life Coach
________________________

D'oh!!!  my eyes....they burn! 

263 "257 it's just that for me, it always seems to forced that it can hardly eve be called "art" at that point -- propaganda more than that. All art is subtle propaganda...even if its only the artist trying to sell their relevance to reviewers or patrons. Propaganda is just marketing. Posted by: Winston Smith at November 28, 2012 08:36 PM (Anjf+) " The first part of this. (Marketing is just propaganda.)

264 "Ninety percent of what you say is suspect, so why bother?" suspect why? because you failed at life? so i must be a failure, too? fuck off, fluffy. check the fucking jealousy at the door. i worked goddamn hard to succeed at life. i'm not going to give you fucking scrunts my name so you can google me and see my peer-reviewed publications, but at least i can record an anonymous youtube video showing what i learned autodidactically on guitar in a short six years. and fuck you if you think i'm supposed to sit back and pretend i suck because some failed professional musician got his feelings hurt that someone a third his age plays so much better than he does. once again, fagbait: you conservatives blow fucking hard dick about how it's okay for people to be proud of things they worked hard at. then when i express any pride in my hard-earned ability, EVEN IN A STUPID JOKE ABOUT LEAD SINGERS' ATTENTION-WHORE SYNDROME, i get attacked all night because someone who failed convince others that he's the RAWKSTAWR that he just KNOWS he is. nah, sorry fluffy. sorry if you're pissed off someone else's capabilities, but you need to go work on your own fucking self. i mean, are you fucking kidding me? i come on here and i see a third-grade playground taunt using my fucking name? in a thread i haven't even posted in? on a day that i haven't even been to aoshq yet? and the problem is with me? get the fuck over yourselves. you have a problem with me doing well in life, go fucking upgrade your own situations.

265

I always get choked up when theybreak into"Hark the Herald Angels Sing".

I can tell you the true meaning of Christmas, Charlie Brown.

266 Having enough stories out there is one thing. Many of the greatest stories of all time are conservative. Harry Potter, for example, is very conservative in its worldview, but there's also the matter of plugging this in to the greater world at large. The greatest influence of HP may be in the years to come, but we have to not only create the works, but relate them to more around us.

267 So, Tri-Corner Hat Girl is the answer?

McLuhan is right.  The medium is the message.

268 "fluffernutter" is regional for those who don't know, it is a peanut butter and Marshmallow Fluff sandwich. Fluff is made in Lynn, MA

269
So many WILL use it... heck.... I will.... even if my Partner tells me she is on the Pill herself...

Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2012 08:38 PM (lZBBB)

uh hmm, before i remarried even if the guy wore a condom i would wear the diaphragm/spermacide , 'just to b sure'

270 We need to be in the culture to win the argument. We need insiders who understand how you make conservative arguments in movies using universal themes. John Nolte had a series about "when liberal movies were good" that should be required reading for understanding how the lefty ideology snuck into what was a conservative industry in a conservative nation. It's not just an argument about "nudity, sex, ack!" and *violence* and surface level bullshit, but an argument about ideology, themes, and all that. Someone on NRO had a point recently about how Judd Apatow's movies are really very conservative, about guys deciding to grow up and accept responsibility, just for instance. Hollywood and TV is where the argument is won and we are not even there playing. That's why we are losing. Also in colleges, but that's a different post.

271 "I've read you posts. Even listened to your 2AM youtube video. I play guitar, and send my guitar-playing son to a 60K a year music school." hey, record something for us, then. show up or sit the fuck down.

272 "258 Mirror, i think that child support issue was in reaction to guys moving along and not assisting with their children support. happened a lot in the old days. with their previous marriage children , they guys would start new families and later gator to the previous kids and their needs . having said that , i Know they have totally went berzerk, in the opposite direction unfairly most often to men. Posted by: willow at November 28, 2012 08:37 PM (hX8cq) " Well, marriage and no sex outside marriage used to be real things. Then Leftists Progressed everything. And then they introduced some hyperstatist, misandristic "solutions"...

273 2 I have no idea, but Drudge has a pic of a swimsuit model up. Posted by: Jane D'oh, Life Coach ________________________ D'oh!!! my eyes....they burn! Posted by: John Stark Dark at November 28, 2012 08:39 PM (PALjS) ---------------------------------------------------------- She must have been something before electricity.

274

>>"fluffernutter" is regional

 

 

Still.  It'd make a fine PopTart.

275

All art is subtle propaganda...even if its only the artist trying to sell their relevance to reviewers or patrons.

Propaganda is just marketing.

 

Put another way, all art (and literature, and film, and really anything produced by humans) is informed by the maker's values and beliefs, whether consciously or not, and will, intetntionally or not, encourage the viewer/reader/watcher to understand the world in the same way the maker does.

276 >  Wasn't The Rock one of the big names at Bush's first convention in 2000? Didn't Bush roll out a bunch of pop culture people at both conventions that had some appeal to kids?

The Rock is half black so there's a 95% chance he's on the Choomer's side.

277 "260 Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at November 28, 2012 08:34 PM (vIRPd) Except that it still puts the abortion power in the Woman's hands... My guess is that this pill WILL reduce the amount of abortions out there... because what Man wants to give that much power over himself, to someone else? So many WILL use it... heck.... I will.... even if my Partner tells me she is on the Pill herself... Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2012 08:38 PM (lZBBB) " This "solution" is outrageously terrible. And if you can't see that...

278 Mirror, yes we have fallen down as a society collectively and individually.

279 uh hmm, before i remarried even if the guy wore a condom i would wear the diaphragm/spermacide , 'just to b sure' Posted by: willow at November 28, 2012 08:40 PM (hX8cq) ----------------------------------------------------------- You've 'done it' with someone you're not married to?

280

Posted by: elizabethe at November 28, 2012 08:41 PM (oU9pV)

 

One of the issues any Conservative entertainment (movie or TV) would face is who the Antagonist would be.... just who could be the bad guy without getting piloried?

 

Can't do Westerns... unless the bad guys are Aliens... Indians you know...

 

War movies?  No Japenese, Chinese, Europeons... heck can't do Islam and make them bad guys...

 

So... it leaves Sci Fi... or Fantasy...

281 Nothing wrong with lots of nudity, sex, drugs and violence.

The film "8mm" had all of that, but its message was horrifying, not glorifying.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8mm_%28film%29

282 @270 Also in colleges, but that's a different post. I humbly submit that if it weren't for the colleges, we wouldn't have this problem. If there's a Gordian knot here, that's it. http://preview.tinyurl.com/6j6vr94

283

>> even if the guy wore a condom i would wear the diaphragm/spermacide , 'just to b sure'

 

I wouldn't leave the house without greasing up the old diaphragm with spermacide.

284 You know, jimi ray, my son is self-taught in guitar and plays in crappy clubs on Okinawa in his off time.

Why do I feel he's more talented than you?  And yes, chicks do dig him.

285

nah, sorry fluffy. sorry if you're pissed off someone else's capabilities, but you need to go work on your own fucking self.

The point, you missed it.

I listened to most of the guitar playing. While I do wish I could play like that, I am not jealous.

Prior to this comment, did I make a single mention of you playing guitar?

286 why yes Truck, I have made decisions in life that were not emotionally or spiritually positive .

287

suspect why?

 

Jimi, there is no consensus about whether you are male or female - I gather you have said both at one time or another. You might want to start with that...

288 why yes Truck, I have made decisions in life that were not emotionally or spiritually positive . Posted by: willow at November 28, 2012 08:46 PM (hX8cq) ------------------------------------------------------ I keed, I keed.

289 "275 All art is subtle propaganda...even if its only the artist trying to sell their relevance to reviewers or patrons. Propaganda is just marketing. Put another way, all art (and literature, and film, and really anything produced by humans) is informed by the maker's values and beliefs, whetherconsciously or not, and will, intetntionally or not, encourage the viewer/reader/watcher to understand the world in the same way the maker does. Posted by: Grey Fox at November 28, 2012 08:43 PM (is6yP) " This. Later, all. God bless.

290 elizabethe, I recommended Thomas Sowell's book Basic Economics to my students last night. I told them it's even holding my attention, and I'm kind of distractible. I'm at a small community college, and I know at least five other conservative instructors there. Of course, the liberal instructors can push their ideologies much harder than the conservatives can get away with.

291 hha good for you Sandra, does that mean I don't have  to pay for your bc pills?

292 [i}hey, record something for us, then. show up or sit the fuck down.[/i] The difference between us, sir... I got nothing to prove. And you would never use that language to my face. Sir.

293 garrett, you should invent the baco-egg-tart. Bacon and a fried egg in between two pop tarts. Never mind, I just did.

294 Fried Egg PopTart w/Bacon Frosting?

295 My guitar instructor was one of Segovia's students.  Dude was sparkling, even at 70.  I was OK, but didn't have the fire needed to approach that.  

296 Truck,  well it was funny, and something  true to yourself moment right?
it is not very rewarding sleeping with someone you are not committed to or they you.

ok for a moment it might be,

but.

kick in shins.

297 Positive thought: I do like The People's Cube.

298 I've got to start baking this week.  I've found a pecan sandie recipe with bacon crumbled on top.

299 Bacon Pop Tart with crumbled Bacon bits served over a bed of Bacon on a Bacon Plate........ with warm Bacon flavored milk.

300

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at November 28, 2012 08:42 PM (vIRPd)

 

Yes... because there were never any Bastard children...

 

But then, for the vast majority the human species didn;t have any type of marriage at all.... and of course there were also Arranged and Plural marriages for much of history in many societys...

 

But of course, the Judeo Western Ideal of Modern Marriage is the only one which is 'good'...

 

Sorry, but as a 53 year old Man, who was a full time single parent of twins from the time they were 1 1/2... I think I'd like the ability to control my progeny... and still have Sex...

301 Off, blanket carrying sock

302 Watching The Time Machine.The Morlocks are productive conservatives and should eat the useless ,hippy Eloi.

303 Pecan Sandies. Awesome. My dad kept a bag of Pecan Sandies in the magazine stand next to his favorite chair. It's a fond memory.

304 wait...your name isn't really 'Fluffy'?
I feel so... so... used.

Next you'll tell me AllenG has a blog.
Yeah. Riiight.

305 Attn. ATL peeps:  Dante's Down the Hatch is closing.

Damn.  I loved that place.  Awesome fondu.  Wonder what will happen to the poor alligator/crocodile who lived in perpetual darkness there?

306 Bacon and a fried egg in between two pop tarts. Never mind, I just did. Posted by: soothie at November 28, 2012 08:49 PM (kvcfI) But what kind of pop tart? I vote cinnamon. It would be reminiscent of a McGriddle.

307 garret, 259.  Yes.  Yes, she is.

308 Bacon frosting? Incontheevable!

309 243 Glad to see this being said. Media is dominated by liberal themes on every level. And not every bit of conservative entertainment needs to be in your face "AND THAT'S WHY ABORTION IS MURDER AND HIGH TAXES ARE IMMORAL", or dramatizations to that effect. Posted by: Crude at November 28, 2012 08:32 PM (BgEQW) --Mallard Fillmore got to be too preachy, not as subtle or well-rounded as Day By Day. There was a hilarious strip called Liberal Crap when I was at the University of Maryland created by a student and (this is the shocking part) published in the campus newspaper. I wonder what he's up to now --I'll have to look it up.

310 Bacon flavored Coffee!

311 Okay, I just read the article ace linked. So, he's talking about the left winning stories. And the story that the left is winning is not necessarily a bunch of movie and tv show stories that peddle liberal ideology, it's the telling of American history. Anyone who bought in an way the new American history as peddled by the left in US History classes in colleges across the nations knows that THE central story of America goes like this: "Slavery, freedom of slaves, Jim Crow, civil rights, racism -- what are you going to do about it?" That's it. that's the story historians teach, that's the story every pop cultural product (created by students of those history classes( tells in one way or another and that is the argument Obama won. We need to reverse Will Ayers and all go and get PhD's in education, history, and teaching credentials and go take back American history.

312 Ground Bacon coated Sardines

313 ATL peeps: Dante's Down the Hatch is closing.

The closest hobby shop to me is packing it in too.  The Obama economy crushed them.

314 "You know, jimi ray, my son is self-taught in guitar and plays in crappy clubs on Okinawa in his off time. Why do I feel he's more talented than you? And yes, chicks do dig him." uh, probably because your his mom? still, he very well might be more talented than i am...but i'll just note you haven't linked any of his music. the anecdotal bullshit reaching for someone you know that might be better than i am to prove that i'm not the GREATEST GUITAR PLAYER IN THE WORLD -- that'll show me!!!! -- doesn't prove anything...i never claimed to be the absolute best guitarist in the world. it is no longer possible to honestly claim i am not highly talented on the guitar, plain and simple, and yet you ridiculous little people are so fucking consumed with hatred and jealousy that you can't even eat your own shit and say, "oh, dang, i guess he is pretty good on six strings". "I listened to most of the guitar playing. While I do wish I could play like that, I am not jealous. Prior to this comment, did I make a single mention of you playing guitar?" i'm not talking about the guitar. i'm talking about your claim that "90% of what i say is suspect". i'm not going to sacrifice my anonymity to prove to a bunch of hateful, petty scrunts that my hard word has paid off with demonstrable successes like patents and journal papers. at the same time, like hell i'm going to refrain from taking any pride in my accomplishments because it makes people feel bad about themselves. what the fuck kind of liberal, bleeding-heart bullshit is that? seriously? "Jimi, there is no consensus about whether you are male or female -I gatheryou have said both at one time or another. You might want to start with that..." that's a lie. wwjd? i have never claimed to be female, and furthermore everyone knows i am not female. some folks just think it's super-clever to use female pronouns for the gay kid.

315 So... it leaves Sci Fi... or Fantasy... Posted by: Romeo13 at November 28, 2012 08:45 PM (lZBBB) Sci-fi fantasy long ago became a vehicle for anti-christian, pro-gay, and/or completely nihilist agendas.

316 We need reality tv. People love that stuff, and we can come up with people that point out how conservative values improve your life.

For example, there's a program called Gold Rush. It's about guys that go up to Alaska every year and mine for gold. One of the guys is a young kid, I think 18 now, that is mining his grandfather's old claim. He's very impressive. You can watch him learning how to run a crew and how to deal with some of the less scrupulous miners in the area. I can't say that he's a Repub, but he certainly has the behaviors we would like to see in others.

On the other hand, there's Hard Core Porn, set in a pawn shop in Detroit. If you ever wanted more of the Obamaphone lady, the show is full of them. People coming in and demanding money for things that are basically crap.

People love stories and we are not doing a good job of reaching them. The best investment for the party right now is to find those storytellers and get them on tv and in the movies.

317 I wonder what he's up to now --I'll have to look it up. Posted by: logprof at November 28, 2012 08:56 PM (gBuIk) ------------------------------------------------------- Josh Eiserike.

318 Posted by: Thorvald at November 28, 2012 08:45 PM (1V6Pv) I agree with you 110%

319 @311 That's half of it...don't forget that these people believe that America is Imperialistic, and that world poverty is because of America. Hence this is the true meaning of Wealth Redistribution. They never intended to redistribute it among Americans, they have always meant to Re-distribute among the planet...they just don't have the guts to say it out loud.

320 Just finished changing a tail light bulb on the wifes car. A pissy project it was. Take out a corner of the trunk carpet, remove 3 nuts (2 of them hard to see and get a wrench on), finally get to the bulb and it is not burned out. Just bad contacts. Took about 30 minutes. I could have changed the bulb in the old Super Bee 100 times in 30 minutes. Progress?

321 People love stories and we are not doing a good job of reaching them. The best investment for the party right now is to find those storytellers and get them on tv and in the movies. Posted by: notsothoreau at November 28, 2012 09:04 PM (5HB John Nolte at Big Hollywood talks about this all the time. How reality TV like The Deadliest Catch and whatever else are so popular because they are telling compelling pro-American pro-male stories that we can't get anywhere else.

322 Bacon Soda

323 nood

324 Bacon Flavored Dental Dam

325 Hence this is the true meaning of Wealth Redistribution. They never intended to redistribute it among Americans, they have always meant to Re-distribute among the planet...they just don't have the guts to say it out loud. Posted by: Walter Sobchak at November 28, 2012 09:06 PM (uis79) This is right. It's not really a separate issue. America slavery and racism are seen as one instance of Northern/white oppression over the Southern/colored rest of the planet.

326 some folks just think it's super-clever to use female pronouns for the gay kid.

Well, you do invite retaliation in kind with the xitan slur you apparently refuse to refrain from using.  If something is perceived as a slur, then its a slur, right?

Do unto others man, do unto others...

327 PeaNut Butter and Bacon CandyBars

328 The Bacon Bar

329 We need to reverse Will Ayers and all go and get PhD's in education, history, and teaching credentials and go take back American history.

Posted by: elizabethe at November 28, 2012 09:00 PM (oU9pV)

 

Or at least get involved with the local school boards. Early in my graduate school experience, I brought up Howard Zinn in a discussion about the politicization of history, and the professor had no idea who he was. Neither did the 15 or so other graduate students. Even self-proclaimed liberal historians are embarrassed by Zinn - heck, I have read a Marxist critique that pretty much called it left-wing hackery - yet he is widely promulgated through the public schools.

330 317 I wonder what he's up to now --I'll have to look it up. Posted by: logprof at November 28, 2012 08:56 PM (gBuIk) ------------------------------------------------------- Josh Eiserike. Posted by: Truck Monkey at November 28, 2012 09:05 PM (jucos) --Good, he's still at it. Assholes is hilarious.

331 Bacon Ice Cream

332 The only aesthetically worthy culturally conservative mass entertainment that's existed during my adult life is the Boondocks animated series, based on the shitty lefty comic strip.

And it's *really* good.

Have you all seen it? Do you watch it every week and recommend it to people looking for some good-time family-values ConTV? Because that's what it is.

But it doesn't know that's what it is--it just "knows" it can't make good stories and jokes out of the lefty-hectoring parts of itself--so it's good.

333 Even self-proclaimed liberal historians are embarrassed by Zinn - heck, I have read a Marxist critique that pretty much called it left-wing hackery - yethe is widely promulgated through the public schools. Posted by: Grey Fox at November 28, 2012 09:11 PM (is6yP) interesting. the feeling I got was that Zinn was a hack but he was a useful stepping stone. At least he got the kids asking the right questions. where did you go if you don't mind me asking?

334 that's a lie. wwjd? i have never claimed to be female, and furthermore everyone knows i am not female. some folks just think it's super-clever to use female pronouns for the gay kid.

Posted by: jimi ray at November 28, 2012 09:04 PM (79EF9)

 

 

Okaaaaay.....I recall reading with my own eyes that you were engaged to a very serious (your summary, not mine) Christian man who is an Air Force Intelligence officer, and that you hadn't had sex because you weren't married yet and he was serious about the whole chastity thing. Please explain that...

335 where did you go if you don't mind me asking?

Posted by: elizabethe at November 28, 2012 09:15 PM (oU9pV

 

University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. The prof in question was Canadian, which may explain why she had never even heard of Zinn, but still...

336 321 People love stories and we are not doing a good job of reaching them. The best investment for the party right now is to find those storytellers and get them on tv and in the movies. Posted by: notsothoreau at November 28, 2012 09:04 PM (5HB John Nolte at Big Hollywood talks about this all the time. How reality TV like The Deadliest Catch and whatever else are so popular because they are telling compelling pro-American pro-male stories that we can't get anywhere else. Posted by: elizabethe at November 28, 2012 09:07 PM (oU9pV) --The only reality show I like is Undercover Boss. I wonder how many people are shocked to discover that a CEO is actually a human being and not some evil Scrooge caricature.

337 "My guitar instructor was one of Segovia's students. Dude was sparkling, even at 70." wow. i'm sure you already do, but you should consider yourself really lucky o.o if i ever did take a guitar lesson, i would want to take it from a good flamenco player...those guys invented six-string virtuosity. i'm not a huge fan of instrumental guitar, but i do have some segovia on my ipod. he's just that good...learned a lot about the power of simple volume dynamics just from listening to him.

338 University of Southern Mississippi in Hattiesburg. The prof in question was Canadian, which may explain why she had never even heard of Zinn, but still... Posted by: Grey Fox at November 28, 2012 09:17 PM (is6yP) interesting. I went Notre Dame, which has a fairly conservative history department. Maybe the liberals there felt a little like they were in the minority so felt like any ally was a good ally.

339 -The only reality show I like is Undercover Boss. I wonder how many people are shocked to discover that a CEO is actually a human being and not some evil Scrooge caricature. Posted by: logprof at November 28, 2012 09:18 PM (gBuIk) ZOMG! I LOVE that show. It has everything. secret reveals, people being embarrassed, and people getting their just desserts.

340

So Jesus killed Western Culture 2000 years ago?

 

The great cathedrals of Europe, the religious art of painters like Giotto and Fra Angelico and Durer, the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the American Revolution, thinkers from St. Augustine to Decartes and Kant, Chaucer, Shakespeare, our Founding Fathers and the Constitution - that wasn't Western Culture?

 

What the hell was it, then?

341  Please explain that...

Posted by: Grey Fox at November 28, 2012 09:15 PM (is6yP)

-----------Tranny Jenny

342 @325 "It's not really a separate issue. America slavery and racism are seen as one instance of Northern/white oppression over the Southern/colored rest of the planet." In American Colleges....cultural/sociology studies have focused on the idea that it is impossible for minorities to be Racist. They were able to accomplish this MindFuck manipulation on the population based on the idea that Money=Power therefore whoever has the Money is Racist by default. The problem here is that true Racism is learned, and is defined by action not by genetics or bank account status. I asked a Psychology Professor friend of mine who spews this shit once, "If Black People were the Majority and were Wealthy relative to the White Minority population, would they then be Racist?" He replied, "No...because the White Population still has the Wealth of History and knowledge that would need to be overcome, before the tables could be turned." So they have us coming and going!

343 330 -The only reality show I like is Undercover Boss. I wonder how many people are shocked to discover that a CEO is actually a human being and not some evil Scrooge caricature. Posted by: logprof at November 28, 2012 09:18 PM (gBuIk) ZOMG! I LOVE that show. It has everything. secret reveals, people being embarrassed, and people getting their just desserts. Posted by: elizabethe at November 28, 2012 09:22 PM (oU9pV) --I wonder how long the show can run, though, since it relies on a conceit to have the employees play along on-camera.

344 Wow, it's funny reading the censored Liberal Crap. Hard to believe how quickly a decade has whizzed by.

345 "No...because the White Population still has the Wealth of History and knowledge that would need to be overcome, before the tables could be turned." So they have us coming and going! Posted by: Walter Sobchak at November 28, 2012 09:26 PM (uis79) right! This view is sort of based on a neo-Marxist standpoint theory. where the underclass who is oppressed and deprived of their labor actually has greater access to reality than the upper class that controls the means of production and exploits the "workers" for their labor. IN this view b/c blacks and other minorites have been oppressed for so long they have a cultural access to truth (these people are not relativists) that white people simply do not and will not have until the means of production is taken away from us. Therefore whatever black people perceive whites to be is true, not racist, whereas what whites say about blacks (and other minorities) is done in an effort to control their labor.

346 --I wonder how long the show can run, though, since it relies on a conceit to have the employees play along on-camera. Posted by: logprof at November 28, 2012 09:30 PM (gBuIk) it's a good question. I have seen also a show called "tacky house" where they trick the people into thinking their going to be on a show called "my awesome room." That's only going to work for one season.

347 it's just all me down here now. So not interested in going up to the bash Boehner thread above.

348 Wow...post disappeared right before my very eyes.

349 interesting. I went Notre Dame, which has a fairly conservative history department. Maybe the liberals there felt a little like they were in the minority so felt like any ally was a good ally.Posted by: elizabethe at November 28, 2012 09:20 PM (oU9pV) Fr. Jenkins isn't doing your brand any favors.

350 102

We're less inclined to run off to LA or NYC to live out of a car and wait tables for the slim chance of hitting it big though.

___________________________________________________

Kind of hard to do that when you have a family and mortgage. On the other hand, a liberal can swipe the EBT card in LA or NYC as easily as he can anywhere else.

351 Fr. Jenkins isn't doing your brand any favors. Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 28, 2012 09:38 PM (Tl87e) dont' even get me started.

352 don't even get me started.Posted by: elizabethe at November 28, 2012 09:44 PM (oU9pV) LOL. I went to Providence. At least we're still Catholic. I think

353 I have been hanging around to see what Jimi had to say to my last question. I have also been looking through google trying to find the post where s/he/it claimed to be female w/ a Christian fiance - haven't found it yet, but I have found other people mentioning it, so my memory isn't off.

354 Grey Fox, jimi claims that it is a guy. It has described itself as a future Mrs however and when asked about that after claiming to be male it claimed to have gender identity disorder and is in fact a 5'2" mute gay PhD student. I am not joking.

355 Financing, Ace.

Money people on the right won't pony up because of the risk factors.

The only way to eliminate risk is by adding sure value commodities.

Such as established movie stars, directors, studios, etc...

which is 90% prog.

So to get them involved, you have to toss out any kind of center-right or non-pc message.

At that point, you're just producing you're peeing in the shallow end of the Hollywood pool and guaranteed to lose your arse.

Trust me.  Only person who probably knows this gamut better than me is Beck.

So until financiers understand the long-game of culture wars, we lose the game.

And rightie money is more interested in profits that changing culture.

So we're screwed until someone shows with a better business model.

356 Engaged to an Air Force officer

357 LOL. I went to Providence. At least we're still Catholic. I think Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 28, 2012 09:48 PM (loiz The funny thing is, when I started at Notre Dame, I was a flaming lib. Me and all my lib grad school friends thought Notre Dame was basically stuck in the Middle Ages. Then I converted (ideologically and religiously) and suddenly it's the most liberal place this side of Berkeley.

358 We're less inclined to run off to LA or NYC to live out of a car and wait tables for the slim chance of hitting it big though. ___________________________________________________ Kind of hard to do that when you have a family and mortgage. On the other hand, a liberal can swipe the EBT card in LA or NYC as easily as he can anywhere else. Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at November 28, 2012 09:41 PM (HDgX3) ---------- So then I guess we need to focus on the people who don't yet have families and mortgages? Maybe it's one of the things that begins at home---maybe more conservative parents should be accepting (and maybe financially supportive) of their young adult kids doing the whole chase-the-dream thing? Or maybe supporting the arts in other communities could be helpful? NYC and LA natives (read: Democrats) have an advantage because they can start breaking into the biz and take quality classes while it's still acceptable to live at home, even while in high school, and they have family and friends already in town, don't have the hurdle of a cross-country move. Maybe we should be supporting serious film-making based in places like Texas, where young adults who come from conservative homes and aren't firmly set on politics yet, could get in the biz without changing their whole lives.

359 347Engaged to an Air Force officer

Posted by: BignJames at November 28, 2012 09:55 PM (HtUkt)

 

Who is too Christian to have sex with him/her but not too Christian to marry another man...

360 The funny thing is, when I started at Notre Dame, I was a flaming lib. Me and all my lib grad school friends thought Notre Dame was basically stuck in the Middle Ages. Ditto. I was the only Dem in the Army Officer Corps the first 7 years of my career. Then I grew up. Can't trust those Jesuits can you? For quality you have to go with the A Team - Dominicans. ;-).

361

Found it:

 

iono! he's super christian and so we don't live together yet and he's really reticent about a lot of his military experience.

i don't really want to talk too much about what i do because ion't wanna sacrifice my vaunted internet anonymity. but i'm a phd student and i lecture already and i intend to be a professor when i complete my doctorate, tho my fiancé intends for me to be a bored-off-my-butt stay-home spouse ~.~ so we're talking thru that!!!!! x.X

he says i'm a really good teacher, so i should write popular-science books to explain my field to the general public...but i feel like the *inspiration* for the analogies, &c., necessary for those kinds of books comes from preparing for and giving lectures!

Posted by: jimi ray at September 13, 2012 06:35 PM (79EF9)

http://minx.cc/?post=332852

 

Doesn't say that it is female, but mentions the supposed Christianity of said fiance...

362 Can't trust those Jesuits can you? For quality you have to go with the A Team - Dominicans. ;-). Posted by: Sean Bannion at November 28, 2012 10:01 PM (loiz ND isn't even Jesuit! It's the Congregation of the Holy Cross. ONT up.

363 "I roll my eyes at both." Ace I am the same way, and good for you and me, but we are not everyone as proved by this last election. You need to remember that....

364 because ion't wanna sacrifice my vaunted internet anonymity I must be missing something....vaunted?

365 Country music?

366 i believe ghasts of gast

367 why are cons  so dead in their thoughts?

368 we will all die

run

369 rabbit run

370 I've been making this point too. Conservatives tend to be serious about working 'real' jobs and making 'real' money but they need to invest in good fiction that promotes conservative ideas and ideology. Things like Avatar get a lot of attention but that movie had some obvious liberal BS in it. Liberals already funnel their money into art, cinema and various other areas of fiction so it only stands to reason that we're bombarded with a one-sided point-of-view at the box office.

371 The real problem is conformism. The "creative" community is as conformist as it can possibly be, because in their world, nothing matters more than popularity.  It's laughable when they claim to be edgy after saying something hateful about a Republican or kissing another woman.  Nothing could be more banal.

372 "Until conservatives get serious about bankrupting the intellectual competition by canceling subscriptions and voting with their dollars, we'll keep losing." How exactly does one vote with dollars against the Associated Press style guide? Boycotts are useless. They don't even work for the left, and the left actually enjoys being told what to do. There's nothing - nothing - inherently leftist about creativity, art, literature, movies, or culture. Leftists have dominated those fields because conservatives haven't bothered to show up. We self-censor for fear that someone will say mean things about us. We're doing exactly what the left has done - building ourselves our own little alternate reality bubble to avoid having to engage with concepts that make us uncomfortable. We need to stop acting like helpless prisoners inside an enemy culture. It's our culture too, and they can't have it.