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Christopher Michael Neill

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Saturday, September 22, 2007 02:06 PM

@shyter242

Is the number a reference to Marilyn vos Savant's IQ or a reference to the band. Are you, like many more of your stripe, a "head" hunter? Do you lock the target, bait the line, spread your feet into a "wide stance" and catch the man?

This is right up there with the idiot girl who wore a fake bomb with blinking lights in an airport, who can't understand why she's in jail.

Having seen the same device depicted in pictures, my feeling is that the idiots in the case would be the TSA. Does it ever, for a moment, worry you that you are so lacking in humor and soul as to be unable to understand art? Does it worry you that the people in charge of securing our airports so lack imagination that they terrify some poor girl at gunpoint for a school art project? Dare I invoke Godwin? At least your model leader was himself a painter, and it is just /so/ ironic that you are defending Israeli hawkishness while at the same time emulating the one man most responsible for their statehood by proxy of his crimes against humanity.

Cheers!

(Ps, I know, don't feed the pigeons.)

Sunday, September 23, 2007 02:28 PM

@pooter424

E) Shooter242 kant read (no commenter left behind!)

Sunday, September 23, 2007 03:07 PM

Back in the old days @CarolynC

Back in the sixties and seventies there was a passionate, vocal progressive movement, and Democrats in Congress ignored it at their peril.

We had to walk to school uphill, both ways, through the snow, with shoes made of cardboard. We had to sew together our own clothes made of animal pelts. Back in the old days, we made money the old fashioned way: we carved it out of wood!

I kid, I kid. However, maybe now is a good time to point out the rate of defection baby boomers made in droves out of "Utopia" and head-on back into the world of "Babylon". How many supposed ex-hipies are hawkish neo-conservatives now? How many are not so sure about "progressive ideals" when it comes to their property values and stock portfolios? Drive SUVs?

That generation is my parent's generation. They raised the now 30-something greedy little shits in my generation, you know, those of us raised on Reagan and Thatcher and junk-bonds and cocaine.

Just saying, nostalgia is great and all, but the playing field has changed, for better in some cases, and worse in others. But "we did it in the 60s" is condescending when you consider that "you" blew it in the 80s!

xo, child of the 70s..

Sunday, September 23, 2007 03:30 PM

@retired military patriot

Must have been a bunch of liberals who wrote all those damn definitions.

Generally the dictionaries are written by academics. Supposedly these people are of above average intelligence. Moreover, one need only allude to the linguistic stylings of the nation's highest elected "conservative" official to elicit near universal derision.

Monday, September 24, 2007 02:27 PM

"us" and "them" @zuckermensch

we're going to hit back. get used to it.

good luck to ya, i really do hope that. now, can you go ahead and do that without our weapons, money and support? k.thx.bye

ps-"we're going to hit back.." we.. who? are you an israeli or a us citizen, or do you enjoy duel citizenship? please define which we we are talking about. grazzie..

Monday, September 24, 2007 02:38 PM

typo

dual not duel, although i like the implication.

zuckermensch (can i call you that?).. you say "we" are smarter, and by we i assume you mean die Juden. is there any reason anyone should put up with your racism, not to mention blinding ignorance? what possible evidence do you have to back up this specious claim? and if you are so smart, why do you need our help in your ethnic cleansing of the middle east?

Monday, September 24, 2007 03:18 PM

@david

thank you for establishing that racism is at the core of your world-view, i will keep that in mind when considering or not considering any positions you oppose or advocate in the future, and i hope everyone else does too.

my IQ is far above your ashkenazie average, so let me ask you this: what extra rights am i entitled to as a result? am i allowed one or more eastern european jews as man servants? i do so love beethoven, so i'd prefer one who can play piano well. is my jewish man servant allowed his own palestinian man servant for more menial tasks like doing the dishes and mopping?

please clarify.

ps - having such an extraordinarily high IQ, i can use punctuation and grammar as i please, or in fact make up my own words. "jewscist". that's what i'll call you, sucremon! anyway, clearly i can make up my own rules because i don't have to live by the rules made up by the dummy dumb dumbs!

pps - i'm in ur settlements bulldozing ur houses!

Monday, September 24, 2007 05:51 PM

@sugardaddy

David,

Thanks for telling a 32 year old to study in school. Which Hebrew madrassa did you attend?

Also, are you insinuating that I am Irish? If so, you are sadly mistaken. So, you have, in one ignorant tirade, managed to offend Irish and Scottish people.

Of course, I will marry whoever I damn please. I had dated and will continue to date "your kind". I hope that scares you. I certainly don't hate Jewish people, in fact I really like them. Really, really, really like them. Especially your womens!

But, in the spirit of full disclosure, I think Persian women are stunning as well.

I do not suffer ignorant fools wisely, and that includes not only Mr Ahmadinejad but (apparently high functioning) retards like yourself.

Shalom,

Friday, September 28, 2007 10:03 AM
Original article: The Susan Estrich Complex

Wake up and smell the Greenwald

My god Glenn, go out and have some beers tonight. I'm worried that you are going to bust a gasket. All is not lost! Just look at the trouble O'RLY is in. Rejoice in the clumsy know-nothing candidacy of Fred "I don't know" Thompson. Smell the tulips, get yourself a puppy. Have a warm cup of hot chocolate. Most of all, have a great weekend.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007 02:51 PM

Sugarman

Stop posting anonymously, you racist coward.

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