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Klytus

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Wednesday, August 20, 2008 02:16 AM

@MCE007

I'll have you know that in real life I am called Commander Klytus of the Simbioneese Liberation Army.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 06:42 AM

@maureen

After Malcolm X returned from haj to Mecca, he renounced black seperatism. He spoke before representatives of the media and remarked that it was his intention to build black conciousness, not seperation. Whites were in fact invited to participate in helping to foster a new positive outlook on "blackness," they could participate and contribute, but X felt that blacks in America had to do the actual work themselves. Malcolm X didn't have that long to live as a new cosmopolitan mainstream, non-seperatist Muslim, before the Nation of Islam in all probability ordered his assasination.

And as for Michelle Obama's thesis, I give AKASmith the most credit, because much to her own inquisitive credit she actually read it, and remarked that it was pretty sleep inducing. Now that I know of a new cure for insomnia, I have a new hope for a good night's sleep.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 06:50 AM

@LeCastor

So is the A.R.E., which is where my mom is from.

What's your point, if any?

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 07:00 AM

@tailwind

Punditocracy puts the mockery in democracy. No argument there, but that's gonna stay around. People don't read between the rhetoric, they swallow it whole and wash it down with a refreshing Pepsi cola.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 07:12 AM

@Hutman

In particular thanks for calling that Kashmira clown or whoever that was about the Reverend Jim references. This person is as dumb as a post if they don't know that Jones' Commune retreat was really called Jomestown and not ...Jonesville?

But one word of adivice about the hammy Captian Kirk, the constant gardner of gung-ho garbage, he's a jerk, he's out of work, and he only lives for his own shit eating smirk.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 07:20 AM
Original article: Is McCain winning?

The Chicken Littles should never...

...count their chickens before the sky falls down.

More clucking from the media.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 07:33 AM
Original article: Sandbagged at Saddleback

@pegster

Sorry peggy sue, I don't watch the news, I read it. My boob tube went the way of the wooly mammoth about ten years ago. I don't hang on the tube, perchance to form my view. Which is probably why Wlash is often so irritating to me. These TV people take their super powers of punditry as seriously as any garden variety swami. I don't.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 07:41 AM

@maureen

I've read Gorky. I read "My Universities" a few years ago and it was hilarious. Goky came of age in a port town called Kazan near the Black Sea, where according to Max, everybody was either accutely depressed, too much with the vodka, or abjectly suicidal. It was some brilliant black comedy.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 07:52 AM
Original article: "The Rocker"

@Slackie

Thanks. I nominate you as the smart person of the day spokesperson of and for my generation. No irony at all intended. Keep on rockin'!

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 08:02 AM

How is it racist?

Is serving the Italian-American community racist? Mull it over in that mud pie you call a mind.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 08:07 AM

Chickenshit Clintonians

Go PUMAS!

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 08:16 AM

@odonnell

We have more in common than I originally imagined. I'm glad people still crack 'ol Gorky open. Over here he's kind of like the lambada, the forbidden dance, because Lenin listed Gorky as being among one of his favorite writers. Americans like things to be appropriately bland. Lambada? No. square dancing? Sure, it's sickeningly safe, and well - square.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 08:21 AM

It's..

Swiney time.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 08:27 AM

The key word is

"could."

Could you point to a pointed blantly racist statement uttered by the mouth of Michelle?

Are you the little train that "could?"

you know.. "I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I can..."

Come on choo-choo...show me the money!

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 08:37 AM

@maureen

Every goddamn ethnic enclave in this country has some kind of a grudge. It's always been that way since Jamestown. The racism thing though, that's the tar that the true American idealists are ever hopeful of taking to the quick, and then getting it to stick. I mean, just look at all the jerkoffs who're striving like their lives depend on it to cast Obama and his wife as the leaders of a black nationalist underground who will first thing off the bat, start out with a punitive policy against "those people."

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 08:50 AM

@jeb

Why don't you just spare us your shit and vote for yourself?

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 08:56 AM

My dog is the nominee

Put his pedigree has been called into question by the PUMA police.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 08:58 AM

Sorry Andrew

But this sounds like a superb soma.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 09:08 AM

@Kirk

Self correcting? Is that the episode when the captain and company go through a transporter warp and get stranded in the nega-verse of the mirror mirror, and then Scotty fixes the transporter pad, and they return to the normal-verse. For the love of god...Fuck off.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 09:19 AM

@rstaffel

Well at least he's not a regressive, which is more than I can say for you.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 09:22 AM

Yeah,

I never see big as the bonus...but this sounds...kinda quirky? Thanks.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 09:27 AM

@maureen

Yeah, we used to have this guy named Walter Cronkite who read the news for CBS, and after each news cast he used to say "And that's the way it is.."

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 09:30 AM

"mystery fellow class mate?"

Sounds shadey Grady.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 09:47 AM

Joe Lieberman

Is gonna speak at the GOP convention. Hillary's probably on the speaker's list behind him. There's still Iran to obliterate. The war must continue at any and at all cost. Kill city here we come.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 09:54 AM

@Captain Jerk

If this shit is so trivial why did you write four fucking livid paragraphs about it?

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:08 AM

@bringback

Thanks isn't due to me, but to X's own words which I'm glad you've posted. I was born during that hotbed, and I'm happy to say the heat has cooled, but not the hurt on both sides, it still sorta smolders. But believe it, we're getting past the after radiation effects more rationally every day. And Obama's hope or no, that's my hope, and I think everybody else's...ya know? But I do agree with one thing that people should take note of...don't bandy about the label racist unless its really there. And most times you know when its there there, so have always a care.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:24 AM

@jeb

Jeb, I think you and wolfy would make a great lonely hearts for Hillary ticket in 2008. lol.

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:34 AM

@lellingw

...just as soon as you likewise look into a life sucker.

Come on, I'm itchin', bring on the bitchin'..

Wednesday, August 20, 2008 10:38 AM

Is this the original wright?

Sermon me some more.

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