March 21, 2013
— Ace Beyonce's new record is awful and obnoxious.
Of course a lot of her previous work was awful and obnoxious, but apparently some dolts took her bubblegum pop song "Single Ladies" as some kind of Empowering Manifesto, rather than the silly O Network bumper theme it was, and now they're all butthurt she's saying "bow down bitches" or whatever.
But this will still come as a shock to long-term Beyoncé fans. It seems that overnight we’ve been transformed from Beyoncé’s beloved single ladies, independent women and survivors, into her bitches. From Beyoncé singing, “all the women, independent, throw your hands up at me” to “bow down bitches” a change is underway, and it leaves a bitter taste in the mouth.
Rush Limbaugh noticed how very stupid this all is and made a prediction.
RUSH: So I'm telling you, folks, we're dealing in a genuine low-information universe. It's perhaps worse than we even know. I was talking to a friend about this event this morning, and I came to a conclusion. I've mentioned on this program a number of times that we've exhausted all of our persuasive attempts, other than a concerted TV ad campaign.We've exhausted every bit of persuasive talent that we have. We own talk radio, and Fox News for the most part. We've done everything we can, and yet no impact. So we've all been waiting for an event. And when I've said this, people have assumed I meant a hurricane or a tornado, some sort of natural disaster, a God event. No, no, no. I don't mean that. I'm talking about "event" in politics. Let me tell you what I think it's gonna be. It'll be something that will wake people up about Obama.
It isn't gonna be anything serious. It isn't gonna be anything substantive. Something like this is gonna happen: Obama is gonna be talking to somebody on open mike, and he's gonna diss Justin Timberlake's latest CD, and the country is gonna get outraged, and they'll turn on Obama. See, it's gonna be something like that, or he'll diss Beyonce.
Well apparently it's already the Hot New Thing to diss Justin Timberlake's latest CD (he's like soooo over now, Serious You Guys), but I take his point.
The world is collectively embracing Dumb. Stupid, shallow, and puerile. Dumb is easy and easy is Holy.
It will work out exactly the way you think it will.
More Empowerment: I always thought this was a good bubblegum pop song, but empowering? Beyonce just seems to do "gangster"-style baiting and self-promotion from a girly-girl point of view.
I can't see how any adult could take any of this seriously.
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Any celebrity that uses "bitch" or "bitches" as a suffix or explanation point sucks.
Posted by: The Q at March 21, 2013 09:04 AM (yVmMc)
It will work out exactly the way you think it will.:::
SOON.
Posted by: The Burning Times at March 21, 2013 09:05 AM (CJjw5)
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 21, 2013 09:06 AM (NzBQO)
Posted by: weft cut-loop [/i] [/b] at March 21, 2013 09:06 AM (UCv7P)
I would say we are entering a new Dark Age but that would be racist
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 21, 2013 09:06 AM (1Jaio)
NED
Posted by: NewEnglandDevil at March 21, 2013 09:07 AM (73P68)
The Patriotic/Political State Media will never allow such an event to occur. It will be a non event, put down the memory hole. So says InSoc.
Posted by: Gaff at March 21, 2013 09:07 AM (jPS2y)
This is basically why I hate people. Except for you morons.
Darwin isn't working fast enough.
Posted by: eleven at March 21, 2013 09:07 AM (KXm42)
What's happening bitchez? Perusing the news and drinking my morning coffee. I also see Baraka is showing his usual flare for foreign policy.
Beyonce is out! Beyonce is out!
Posted by: Abe Vigoda at March 21, 2013 09:08 AM (CgFut)
Posted by: Kensington at March 21, 2013 09:09 AM (/AHDz)
Posted by: Andy at March 21, 2013 09:09 AM (C/NnJ)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Ampersand Whisperer at March 21, 2013 09:09 AM (fMiHM)
Posted by: Kensington at March 21, 2013 09:10 AM (/AHDz)
Posted by: Fritz at March 21, 2013 09:10 AM (UzPAd)
No they won't, most likely Timberlake would say it's constructive criticism from the prez. He dissed Kanye, it hurt Kanye not the president. Hive mind, he speaks everyone else complies.
Posted by: Adam Smith's Invisible Pimp Hand at March 21, 2013 09:11 AM (NzBQO)
Posted by: Howard Cosell at March 21, 2013 09:11 AM (GFM2b)
Posted by: Waterhouse at March 21, 2013 09:12 AM (gFFeP)
Posted by: Jenny hates her phone at March 21, 2013 09:12 AM (jpF+v)
Can't wait to have Dana Loesch lecture us on how we show embrace this to stay relevant with the culture; you go
Posted by: John P. Squibob at March 21, 2013 09:12 AM (kqqGm)
Posted by: JDTAY at March 21, 2013 09:12 AM (a0nis)
Posted by: ace at March 21, 2013 09:13 AM (LCRYB)
Posted by: Jones in CO at March 21, 2013 09:13 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2013 09:13 AM (GFM2b)
Posted by: The Q at March 21, 2013 09:14 AM (yVmMc)
Posted by: Soona at March 21, 2013 09:14 AM (CgFut)
Posted by: no good deed at March 21, 2013 09:14 AM (oB7O2)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at March 21, 2013 09:14 AM (VtjlW)
Posted by: Eaton Cox at March 21, 2013 09:14 AM (q177U)
HAH! I love this story. There was a brief discussion of it on one of the afternoon threads yesterday. As was mentioned then (I think by I Am That Chick), couldn't have happened to a better person. *snigger*
BTW, her upcoming tour is called the "Mrs Carter Show World Tour;" because of the ring on her finger, you see. So now she's all out there talking about how awesome she is and how she's got a filthy rich husband to go along with her own filthy richness, while all her fans are out there living it up single lady style because they're independent or some shit. I love it. I LOVE IT. Leftards eating their own is wonderful.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 21, 2013 09:14 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 21, 2013 09:14 AM (XYSwB)
Posted by: T. Hunter - let it burn at March 21, 2013 09:15 AM (EZl54)
Posted by: DC in Towson at March 21, 2013 09:15 AM (P47hr)
Posted by: sans_sheriff at March 21, 2013 09:15 AM (3R8Ep)
Posted by: DC in Towson at March 21, 2013 01:15 PM (P47hr)
I am currently avoiding work in favor of an apple. It is an awesome apple.
*nom*
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 21, 2013 09:16 AM (4df7R)
No one cared (except that jackass Kanye).
This in the Only Thing I've ever agreed with TFG on.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 21, 2013 09:16 AM (UOM48)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 21, 2013 09:17 AM (jucos)
Posted by: rickl at March 21, 2013 09:17 AM (zoehZ)
Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at March 21, 2013 09:17 AM (QXlbZ)
Posted by: Red Shirt at March 21, 2013 09:17 AM (FIDMq)
my house / All up in the hall like a mall, told you motherf--kers, all I
do is ball."
Posted by: no good deed at March 21, 2013 01:14 PM (oB7O2)
Pure poetry. With a mink?
Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 21, 2013 09:18 AM (1Jaio)
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 21, 2013 09:18 AM (/gHaE)
So she's a whore.
At least we know what it costs now. It costs ::: pinky to the lip ::: one BILLION dollars!
Posted by: Sean Bannion at March 21, 2013 09:18 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: Jones in CO at March 21, 2013 09:18 AM (8sCoq)
Posted by: Nate in New Orleans at March 21, 2013 09:19 AM (lhX9P)
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Now with extra taunting. at March 21, 2013 01:14 PM (VtjlW)
Oh reeeaaallly??? Cause see, I have this soapbox here, and it's all empty and lonely.....
Posted by: BCochran1981 at March 21, 2013 09:19 AM (da5Wo)
I loved her in "A League of Their Own".
Posted by: Courtesy Flush at March 21, 2013 09:19 AM (8lB0x)
Posted by: Sandy Dandy Fluke at March 21, 2013 09:19 AM (fWAjv)
Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at March 21, 2013 09:19 AM (wR+pz)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 21, 2013 09:19 AM (Kpn/z)
Goes back to them not being able to admit they were wrong about something. The perpetually offended sensitive snowflake's cannot and will not admit they were wrong.
Posted by: Clownf*cker at March 21, 2013 09:20 AM (q/kmn)
Posted by: booger at March 21, 2013 09:20 AM (HI6wa)
Sigh.
I looked at the sample state assessment tests again.
I don't know why.
I got as far as the first problem before yelling and swearing about it.
Once or twice a year, I forget how stupid it is, look at, scream, try to find some other one that's better and then just decide it's not worth it.
Posted by: Mama AJ at March 21, 2013 09:20 AM (SUKHu)
::: scurries off for the Royal Stepstool ::::
Posted by: Sean Bannion, Chief, Logistics Directorate, Republic of Alextopia at March 21, 2013 09:20 AM (sbV1u)
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at March 21, 2013 09:20 AM (29+x5)
When people start noticing how much he's slipped, he'll start plagiarizing other MCs' rhymes again.
Posted by: The Q at March 21, 2013 09:20 AM (yVmMc)
Posted by: Sir Mixalot at March 21, 2013 09:20 AM (ac/8R)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Ampersand Whisperer at March 21, 2013 09:21 AM (fMiHM)
The FL population is inflated with non-resident northern snowbirds this time of year, so that's not surprising.
Rubio has a few more years to work on it, but B3 is a non-starter.
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 21, 2013 09:21 AM (/gHaE)
Oh, btw, to all those Beyonce fans who are feeling betrayed and abandoned by their goddess because her new song isn't like her old song, I have only this to say:
If your lifestyle must be validated and informed by the lyrics of a vapid pop star in order to give it meaning, then there is not a word yet invented that would describe the sheer level of pathetic that is your puff pastry existence. I laugh at you without restraint.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 21, 2013 09:21 AM (4df7R)
Are Lena Dunham and Sandy Fluke the exact same person? I've only seen each person once, but the other wasn't in the same place as the person I saw, so . . .
Posted by: The Q at March 21, 2013 09:21 AM (yVmMc)
Posted by: Lauren at March 21, 2013 09:21 AM (wsGWu)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 21, 2013 09:22 AM (Kpn/z)
Posted by: Jay-Z at March 21, 2013 09:22 AM (jucos)
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 21, 2013 09:23 AM (+z4pE)
Posted by: sans_sheriff at March 21, 2013 01:15 PM (3R8Ep)
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It's kind of funny when I think about it. Was talking to a dumb lefty little girl about three days ago about how her view that the so-called rich should pay their fair share and I was trying to explain basic economics to her. She either wouldn't listen or was just too dumb to understand.
I then asked her if she watered her garden with Bwando. She hasn't talked to me since.
Posted by: Soona at March 21, 2013 09:24 AM (CgFut)
I'm stealing that without giving you any credit!
Posted by: EC at March 21, 2013 09:25 AM (GQ8sn)
So f-cked are we.
Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at March 21, 2013 01:17 PM (QXlbZ)
By the time we get the presidency back it'll be just in time to bulldoze the rubble.
Posted by: joncelli, who missed breakfast at March 21, 2013 09:25 AM (RD7QR)
http://tinyurl.com/blvnxrm
Posted by: Guy Mohawk at March 21, 2013 09:25 AM (IY7Ir)
*nom*
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit at March 21, 2013 01:16 PM (4df7R)
I recently had a pinata apple for the first time. I liked it, but I haven't seen it since.
Posted by: DC in Towson at March 21, 2013 09:25 AM (P47hr)
Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at March 21, 2013 09:25 AM (QTHTd)
Posted by: JDTAY at March 21, 2013 09:25 AM (a0nis)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 21, 2013 09:26 AM (jucos)
Posted by: SpongeBob Saget at March 21, 2013 09:26 AM (epxV4)
Posted by: Andy at March 21, 2013 09:26 AM (C/NnJ)
Posted by: rickb223 at March 21, 2013 09:26 AM (GFM2b)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 21, 2013 09:27 AM (jucos)
Posted by: Billy Bob, pseudo intellectual at March 21, 2013 09:27 AM (wR+pz)
Posted by: DAve at March 21, 2013 09:27 AM (XDC0v)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 21, 2013 09:27 AM (xN73L)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 21, 2013 09:27 AM (Kpn/z)
Posted by: Lauren at March 21, 2013 09:27 AM (wsGWu)
Nothing changed about Beyonce in this song. She been that bitch and still is. So why be mad now? If you was really her fans yall woulda been new she had a big ego looooongggggg before now so don't get it twisted (she been own)
We're so fucking doomed.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 21, 2013 09:27 AM (UOM48)
So boned.
And Rush's prediction is way wrong, even though I like it. The thing is, what's OK to "diss" is entirely up to Obama. If he says Timberlake blows, then Timberlake Officially Blows, and anyone who doesn't think so is Another Boring Old White Guy.
(And he wouldn't say Timberlake's record is no good. That's a thing white people say. Black people love it, and I'm sure Obama's handlers have informed him how to talk like a black person about it, should it come up.)
Posted by: oblig. still has PTimberlakeSD at March 21, 2013 09:28 AM (cePv8)
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 21, 2013 09:28 AM (HDgX3)
In related news, a Quinnipiac poll shows Hilldawg handily beating Rubio and Bush 3.0... in Florida.
So f-cked are we.
Nah.
By 2016 her vaginal dryness will have completely consumed her, turning her into naught but a pile of dust. Bitter, putrid dust.
Posted by: garrett at March 21, 2013 09:28 AM (Dw2dt)
The horror playing out in Philadelphia in the Gosnell trial is unimaginable and unspeakable. What hath Satan wrought?
Posted by: Fourth Virginia at March 21, 2013 09:28 AM (wbmaj)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 21, 2013 09:29 AM (jucos)
By 2016 her vaginal dryness will have completely consumed her, turning her into naught but a pile of dust. Bitter, putrid dust.
Posted by: garrett at March 21, 2013 01:28 PM (Dw2dt)
Im still available....baby.
Posted by: Helen Thomas at March 21, 2013 09:29 AM (FIDMq)
Nothing changed about Beyonce in this song. She been that bitch and
still is. So why be mad now? If you was really her fans yall woulda been
new she had a big ego looooongggggg before now so don't get it twisted
(she been own)
We're so fucking doomed.
Posted by: Jane D'oh at March 21, 2013 01:27 PM (UOM4
___________
This is 90% of twitter. Take out the political stuff which is by and large read/written by semi-intelligent people and the rest of twitter is what you posted.
Posted by: Mr. Moo Moo at March 21, 2013 09:29 AM (HDgX3)
Posted by: BlueStateRebel at March 21, 2013 09:30 AM (7ObY1)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 21, 2013 09:30 AM (xN73L)
Posted by: tom servo at March 21, 2013 09:30 AM (Pfr2x)
read the lyrics to the Beyonce song. That song's not about anything. But some bitch thinks it's talking to her and all her imaginary bitch-sisters, because it says "bitches" in it. And her dishwasher says KILL KILL KILL and the bees are humming her ex-boyfriends' name...and she's an Important Voice in the world's second most prestigious paper.
Cut, Jib, Newsletter.
I especially like the bit about the dishwasher. It really brings the room together.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 21, 2013 09:30 AM (4df7R)
Posted by: Fourth Virginia at March 21, 2013 09:30 AM (wbmaj)
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Hahahaha!
Posted by: fb at March 21, 2013 09:30 AM (JVEmw)
Posted by: Comrade Arthur at March 21, 2013 09:30 AM (TcQWW)
Posted by: Farmer Joe at March 21, 2013 09:30 AM (Od5/V)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 21, 2013 09:31 AM (jucos)
"I doubt Limbaugh is correct."
"he's wrong in the specifics, probably, but his general point that it takes Something Dumb to Change Dumb Minds must be right."
This assumes Dumb Minds can actually be changed to a Less Dumb Mind.
I'm not seein' it.
There is only one pathway and that is to the Super Galactic Holy Shit Dumb Mind (SGHSDM). The SGHSDM caucus has already pledged support to TFG.
Yeah, we're humped.
Posted by: Jaws at March 21, 2013 09:31 AM (4I3Uo)
Yet another reason why I don't listen to modern music much.
Mixing music with the adulation of otherwise vapid people creates too much drama for me. Give me SRV any day over Beyonce.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 21, 2013 09:32 AM (+z4pE)
Posted by: phoenixgirl,commenter on a conservative award winning blog at March 21, 2013 09:32 AM (GVxQo)
Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at March 21, 2013 09:33 AM (xN73L)
Posted by: Fourth Virginia at March 21, 2013 09:33 AM (wbmaj)
Posted by: Lauren at March 21, 2013 09:33 AM (wsGWu)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 21, 2013 09:34 AM (jucos)
Bah - in Obama's America, things can always get stupider.
And likely will.
Posted by: DocJ at March 21, 2013 09:34 AM (A5uiv)
Posted by: DC in Towson at March 21, 2013 01:25 PM (P47hr)
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Wait a couple of days. You'll see it again.
Posted by: Soona at March 21, 2013 09:34 AM (CgFut)
"No, it just assumes that Dumb Minds can be persuaded to just about anything including positions completely contradictory to those they held not 10 seconds before."
Why is it to be assumed that these contradictory positions will be of any benefit whatsoever to restoring a vibrant Republic? No, chances are these new and unimproved positions will be breathtakingly worse.
Posted by: Jaws at March 21, 2013 09:35 AM (4I3Uo)
Posted by: Jones in CO at March 21, 2013 09:36 AM (8sCoq)
So we'll all be saved by Slim Whitman. Or the common cold, either way is fine by me.
Posted by: Nighthawk at March 21, 2013 09:37 AM (RSqz2)
Posted by: Trevor (@tjexcite) at March 21, 2013 09:37 AM (jOPzC)
Nothing changed about Beyonce in this song. She been that bitch and
still is. So why be mad now? If you was really her fans yall woulda been
new she had a big ego looooongggggg before now so don't get it twisted
(she been own)
...
"Yall woulda been new"
Okay... So, the good things about this commenter: s/h/it can more or less spell. The L is there in the "would" of "woulda," there's only one G in "ego." It's missing the K in "knew," but hey, who among us hasn't made that mistake now and then? These are good things; positive things. This person may someday learn to communicate with other humans.
The bad news:
"Yall woulda been new."
I assume this translates as, "You all would have known?"
"She been own."
I have no idea. Maybe the commenter is trying to say Beyonce's been OWNED for a while? Like by her ego, by her record company, by her cigar-puffing ex-drug dealer hubby? I honestly have no idea.
Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit [/s][/i][/u][/b] at March 21, 2013 09:37 AM (4df7R)
SRV story. One of my former employees mother ran the helicopter charter that sent SRV to the great ever after. In fact, said mother was the last person to shake his hand and wish him well. Gone too soon.
Wow. He's gotten clean and sober and was becoming an inspiriation to those battling the drug demons.
Gone way too soon.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 21, 2013 09:37 AM (+z4pE)
Posted by: G-Man Soros at March 21, 2013 09:38 AM (L1YgQ)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 21, 2013 09:38 AM (Kpn/z)
Correct. Hence, LIB.
The Burning Time, though awful and terrifying for all, will do humanity the marvelous service of taking care of, though a process of elimination, a great deal of stupid.
Some might even call it Natural Selection.
Posted by: DocJ at March 21, 2013 09:38 AM (A5uiv)
Posted by: Lauren at March 21, 2013 09:38 AM (wsGWu)
Posted by: Fourth Virginia at March 21, 2013 01:30 PM (wbmaj)
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No biggie. Why do you think allah gave them left hands?
Posted by: Soona at March 21, 2013 09:39 AM (CgFut)
Posted by: RWC at March 21, 2013 09:40 AM (fWAjv)
Plus it's got a good beat and you can dance to it.
Posted by: eleven at March 21, 2013 09:41 AM (KXm42)
The New Aristocracy will consist exclusively of hermits, bums and permanent invalids. The Rough Diamond, the Consumptive Whore, the bandit who is good to his mother, the epileptic girl who has a way with animals will be the heroes and heroines of the New Age, when the general, the statesman, and the philosopher have become the butt of every farce and satire. (Auden)
Posted by: Bud Norton at March 21, 2013 09:41 AM (6cOMd)
And don't go thinking that all we have to do is cut folks welfare and everything will go back to being okay because ALL THOSE JOBS LEFT. They're being done in other countries now and then.
With that in mind, let's not build the Keystone XL pipeline.
Posted by: Barack Obama at March 21, 2013 09:42 AM (5iuEW)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 21, 2013 01:38 PM (Kpn/z)
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Cut taxes and cut regulation. I'm sure many of those jobs would return if DC did just those two things.
Unions don't help either.
Posted by: Soona at March 21, 2013 09:43 AM (CgFut)
He was into it before the shooting, had to be.
Sudden Jihadi Syndrome
Posted by: @PurpAv at March 21, 2013 09:44 AM (/gHaE)
Posted by: Barack Obama at March 21, 2013 09:44 AM (5iuEW)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 21, 2013 09:44 AM (Kpn/z)
Posted by: OxyCon at March 21, 2013 09:45 AM (EbMxL)
Posted by: Feynmangroupie at March 21, 2013 09:45 AM (Kw0EL)
Uhhh I've got no idea what is being talked about. This is what people care about now? The collapse might be more entertaining than I thought.
Posted by: We are doomed. at March 21, 2013 09:45 AM (4pEBT)
Posted by: waldo at March 21, 2013 09:46 AM (PP8La)
Posted by: doug at March 21, 2013 09:46 AM (TEIU+)
Sorry, el-Rushbo, but you miss on this one.
There is *nothing* that Obama could "Dis" that would cost him more than a momentary slip in his numbers - at least from his base.
The left eat their young, figuratively and literally. What just happened to Woodward? How many times have we seen reports about Bill Clinton bashing Obama? Liberals forgive everything; liberals burn heretics.
The only unforgiveable sin would be for Obama - or any other liberal - to say something conservative.
Bitchiness is embraced. It's who they are. As long as you are blindly loyal to The Cause - even though most liberals can't DEFINE it - you can slap at each other all day.
Posted by: RobM1981 at March 21, 2013 09:47 AM (FgxCS)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 21, 2013 09:48 AM (jucos)
Posted by: Regular Moron [/i] at March 21, 2013 09:48 AM (feFL6)
Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That at March 21, 2013 09:48 AM (Kpn/z)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 21, 2013 09:49 AM (XYSwB)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 21, 2013 09:51 AM (XYSwB)
* scoots the Royal Soapbox to the center of the stage*
If we just had politicians who liked America and the people who live in it, we'd be ahead. They could start passing legislation to encourage us to make our own products, and start eliminating regulations, hell, even entire federal departments that have been shown to impede business.
Our manfacturing sector was destroyed by bleeding-heart Leftards who felt guilty for our national success. What was once ours is now spread out across the world. What we should have done was to encourage other countries to foster capitalism by freeing up their society, not give them our jobs.
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this shit at March 21, 2013 09:52 AM (+z4pE)
Now if you'll excuse me the "Ow! My Balls!" marathon is starting on USA in ten minutes and I need to make some popcorn.
Posted by: Vizzini [/i] at March 21, 2013 09:52 AM (O7Q1u)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 21, 2013 09:52 AM (XYSwB)
I made a joke, inappropriately, the other night in class about using a particular equation early and often and added "like democrats vote." I shouldn't have said it but it just kinda rolled out there. 73 freshman physics students laughed. Not like the laugh because the instructor said something not really funny but because it's the instructor you laugh... a genuine laugh.
We'll be ok. We throw the younger generations under the bus quite a bit, but if you look, you'll see there's a lot of good kids out there.
Posted by: tangonine at March 21, 2013 09:56 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: jd at March 21, 2013 09:57 AM (Id+W0)
He chose......poorly.
Goody for me. <greedily rubbing mitts together>
Chomp.
Posted by: shan at March 21, 2013 10:00 AM (V9MHw)
Posted by: artisanal 'ette at March 21, 2013 10:00 AM (XYSwB)
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Ampersand Whisperer at March 21, 2013 10:01 AM (fMiHM)
Posted by: jd at March 21, 2013 01:57 PM (Id+W0)
not really sure what to do with that one. Furrowed brow and a concerned look?
Posted by: tangonine at March 21, 2013 10:01 AM (x3YFz)
For 56 years now, I have NEVER seen them repeal regulations.
I have NEVER seen them reduce taxes.
Congratulations on waking up from your 15 year coma.
I understand you have a lot of catching up to do. May I suggest doing a search on the "Bush tax cuts"?
You're welcome.
Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 21, 2013 10:01 AM (SY2Kh)
I can't see how any adult could take any of this seriously.
Those would be people who use H&R Block to fill out a 1040-EZ.
Posted by: Warthog at March 21, 2013 10:03 AM (WDySP)
I think Rush's point can be surmised by something I think one of the Brietbard folks made on twitter; We have Symposiums, they have LoL Cats and LoL cats aways win. Until people like Kloe Kardashian stats tweeting about reading Bastiat or Adam Smith I don't see being a dumbass going out of fashion any time soon. ...Or start making Tomas Sowell memes.
Posted by: liquidflorian at March 21, 2013 10:03 AM (H2W3e)
Along the way we've also exported pollution and inflation, so Yaaaay Us !!!
Posted by: Rule #2 at March 21, 2013 10:05 AM (CypDC)
Posted by: Truck Monkey at March 21, 2013 10:06 AM (jucos)
They sure as hell weren't there 5-6 years ago, when I was last in school and all those kids fresh out of high school were ignorant of things I knew sophomore year and had no interest in learning, but begged for courses to be 'dumbed down' so they could get an abstract score that meant nothing, though 30 years ago it would have meant 'I'm smart, hire me', now rendered meaningless.
And they stood in awe of me, managing to recall what I learned in high school 20 years before, while working full time, and pulling down all A's.
And never feeling like I'd actually earned them.
Damn it all.
Posted by: Brother Cavil, Ampersand Whisperer at March 21, 2013 02:01 PM (fMiHM)
Maybe it's where I teach. Maybe it's the subject matter. But... well, this as a tiny bit: I carry in class (it's legal here). There was one night a few weeks ago that it was uncomfortable and I disarmed while explaining electric fields. Put it in my bag and pressed on. Damn thing was diggin' into my ribs. They didn't even blink.
Spending time with these folks has renewed my hope. They're wide-eyed and bushy-tailed. They want to learn first principles, become problem solvers and critical thinkers, and their proud enough to want to excel but not too proud to listen. And every semester it seems to be that number is growing. I'm genuinely encouraged.
Posted by: tangonine at March 21, 2013 10:10 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: JDP at March 21, 2013 02:10 PM (60GaT)
Someone went to Walmart today...
Posted by: tangonine at March 21, 2013 10:14 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: Jaimo at March 21, 2013 10:16 AM (9U1OG)
"Proto-feminist pioneers like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony could never have imagined that female empowerment would one day come in bar form."
Face it, for writing that, I'm funnier than Ace.
Posted by: The Onion at March 21, 2013 10:23 AM (Vb7de)
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars at March 21, 2013 10:23 AM (PT7/5)
Posted by: Jaimo at March 21, 2013 02:16 PM (9U1OG)
Brother, if I thought it was hopeless I'd spend my whole day sipping margaritas and surfing. But I've got kids like JP (just his initials). he's a sophomore and he's smarter than I am. And for what reason or another, he's going to make a good man.
Posted by: tangonine at March 21, 2013 10:28 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: JDP at March 21, 2013 02:19 PM (60GaT)
um. I think you're mistaking vicious sarcastic humor for surrender. That's a mistake.
Posted by: tangonine at March 21, 2013 10:30 AM (x3YFz)
Posted by: PJ at March 21, 2013 10:35 AM (ZWaLo)
Posted by: el polacko at March 21, 2013 10:50 AM (oFtyF)
Posted by: Salt Creek at March 21, 2013 11:01 AM (CB4QO)
Posted by: Danny at March 21, 2013 11:08 AM (PI1ZP)
Posted by: Rich at March 21, 2013 11:13 AM (arczc)
"*snigger*" Can we even use that word anymore? Surely, its been banned. Using it in any kind of sentence while riding on urban public transportation may get oneself gang banged. You know they even have secret drones now in this country.
Posted by: Whatsupwitdat at March 21, 2013 11:29 AM (N05oL)
Posted by: BlueStateRebel at March 21, 2013 11:45 AM (7ObY1)
Posted by: Torqued at March 21, 2013 01:48 PM (AKS75)
Posted by: realityman at March 21, 2013 04:55 PM (obXkJ)
"The world is collectively embracing Dumb. Stupid, shallow, and puerile. Dumb is easy and easy is Holy."
Seriously now - when has it ever been otherwise? You think that all who came before us were all wise and not a bunch of selfish, stupid, easily-panicked rubes, hicks, and marks? PT Barnum has been dead for quite some time now.
Posted by: Mikey NTH - Pirate Scum of Umbar at March 22, 2013 10:08 AM (hLRSq)
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Posted by: NYCcon at March 21, 2013 09:04 AM (jLXdE)