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Monday, April 23, 2007 06:09 AM

Namecalling is so progressive

you left out 'doody head'. I guess that's because you're all enlightened and shit.

Monday, April 23, 2007 06:11 AM

So Joan, how's that registration working out?

Seems like you just gave license to retards and assholes to screech schoolyard names at the 5% of people here who didn't drink the Kool Aid. Yeah I guess that works. Maybe you and Atrios and KOS can a big love pile.

Monday, April 23, 2007 06:23 AM
Original article: This Modern World

It's not Guns and it's not Americans

It's both of those things together. Sorry but there is no legal solution to that problem. We are violent halfwits and we love to pretend that being violent halfwits is our godgiven right.

Way back when when they were banging out the Constitution, no one would have seriously wondered whether guns would be taken away. It's absurd. In other words, the clause is not there to ensure that people keep their guns. It goes without saying that people back in the 1780's had guns. No, the point of the clause is to ensure there really is a 'well regulated militia', an organized or semi organized force held in abeyance to make sure that NO usurpers whether internal or external would ever imperil the nation or the government. It has nothing at all to do with you, your redneck buddies and gun shows. Zero. Sorry but that's the way it is. Now, the fact remains is that we as Americans don't care about that. We don't worry about what the Constitution says or means. We're idiots, literalists because it suits our stupid selfish purposes to read it that way. Why? Because we loves us our guns.

BTW, and for what it's worth, George Washington, that Stalinst commie hippie autocrat you Republicans love to hate, HATED the militias because they were universally undisciplined, violent, untrained, and more of a danger to everyone around them than they were to the Redcoats. In other words, you, your Sig Sauer are precisely the kind of whackos that Washington had little need for.

But lucky for you you have a Federally protected fantasy life.

Monday, April 23, 2007 06:24 AM
Original article: An international affair

I would rather kill myself

Than listen to a post modern deconstructivist self referentially debate.

Monday, April 23, 2007 06:26 AM

Are we bombing Tehran yet?

I checked and it wasn't in any of the newspapers.

Monday, April 23, 2007 07:19 AM
Original article: Not exactly Stephen Colbert

Zombie Lawrence Welk approves

More brainnnnns!

Monday, April 23, 2007 07:23 AM
Original article: An international affair

To be fair though

In Texas and Brazil it's, in practical terms, not against the law to kill your cheating spouse. Oh they give you 10 year suspended sentence, but you really have to screw it up big time, City Confidential, Lifetime Movie Channel big time to see any serious incarceration. So maybe it's the thrill of maybe being shot with impunity, I, um thought it was a burglar, officer, that drives some people.

Monday, April 23, 2007 07:24 AM

You can't be a homicidal maniac

I am, and you're never at the meetings.

Monday, April 23, 2007 07:27 AM

Ah I see now, thanks

You are altruistic pure and noble, everyone else is a dastardly evil lying scoundrel. I see, thanks for clearing that up. So are we done here?

Monday, April 23, 2007 07:32 AM
Original article: Deadly prose

That's besides the point

We're all liberals here. Jewhating while somewhat obnoxious is nothing more than the empowerment of downtrodden people. Keep de spear burnin mon.

No if you want to precrime everyone then fine, let's lock up people for what they might do. Like sex criminals. In fact anyone who draws outside the lines should be put in mental hospitals like they used to do in the Soviet Union. I bet I could get a quarter of you to agree to that outright.

Monday, April 23, 2007 07:35 AM
Original article: It's Sarkozy time!

Thank you for insinuating what I think

I don't know what I'd do without you.

Monday, April 23, 2007 08:12 AM
Original article: Not exactly Stephen Colbert

Except about his rapping skillz

MC Turd Blossom is da shit.

Monday, April 23, 2007 08:14 AM
Original article: An international affair

The French have a word for it

It's not cheating per se. It's a White Marriage (Marriage du Blanc). That's when a couple stay legally married for some practical reason but have little to do with one another. It's semi out in the open.

Monday, April 23, 2007 08:17 AM
Original article: This Modern World

Sol

Charles Whitman was a USMC trained sniper who also happened to have organic brain disease. It was not mental illnes per se, it was a tumor on his brain coupled with some dazzling sharpshooter skills. Pretty rare combination.

Monday, April 23, 2007 09:03 AM
Original article: An international affair

and for what it's worth

Maybe you should know or care how many blowjobs your husband got, assuming the her:you ratio is not infinity.

Monday, April 23, 2007 09:09 AM
Original article: This Modern World

Well I do know that in 1934

Machine guns were outlawed because so many people appeared to be using them willy nilly. Be that as it may, a full clip spray from an Ingram or Uzi isn't likely to hit more people in its 3 or 4 second burst than is any other random drive by. According to the FBI something like 85% of all shootouts are less than 7 yards and even then fewer than half of the shooters get hit, including trained agents. Seems that coupling a cool headed psychopathology with some training is the ingredient to mass murder. Anyway it's a moot point, aint no one gonna take the Americans guns away. It's just one of those things people are going to live with, like obesity and bad driving.

Monday, April 23, 2007 09:10 AM
Original article: It's Sarkozy time!

I'm sorry

I can't hear you over the sound of how awesome I am.

Monday, April 23, 2007 09:11 AM

So now the glass ceiling

Is the glass coffeetable from which blow piles of coke.

Monday, April 23, 2007 12:12 PM
Original article: Boisterous Boris

Then there was that whole starting the brutal war in Chechnya thing

Good times, good times.

Monday, April 23, 2007 12:19 PM

#7 should be at the top

It's the Mozart of pop tunes. The crispest best most perfectly formed pop tune in the history of the world. You cannot add or substract anything to it.

#13 - Jimi so hated playing that song

#15 - Boring as fuck

#18 - You dirty hippy, that's your pick?

#25 - Not a pop tune

#31 - I hate U2

#32 - C'mon?

#33 - Why not pick something w/o a White Boy?

#37 - 40 a)You posers b)You can't pick anything that new

Monday, April 23, 2007 12:21 PM

If Joan was hoping for a shitstorm of screeching antiestablishment hatemail

She blew it. Best stick to guns and cervixes round here.

Monday, April 23, 2007 12:22 PM

I believe you, so?

Few I think actually dispute this. But, at what point do you start sounding like the people who blame everything on slavery?

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