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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 12:00 AM

Preliminary facts and thoughts about Eric Holder

Is Obama's likely nominee for Attorney General an encouraging sign for advocates of the Constitution and the rule of law?

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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:18 PM

Verdict: definitely crappy performance art

GBT's "lol,lol,lol" is not "LOL, LOL, LOL," as in "laugh out loud." It is in fact a representation of three little men, shown only from the shoulders up, with their arms raised in avant-garde dance.

Sort of kitsch, but I can see why the kids might like it.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:18 PM

Jebbie

Please extend him the courtesy of sympathy. He's currently severely depressed because he wasn't chosen as ToD and must reconcile himself to the fact that he's a merely a perennial alsoran.

You're right, and I do extend my sympathies: Good Bye almost ToD.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:21 PM

Okay!

Will you two quit it!

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:23 PM

DCLaw1

Frankly My Dear ruined it.

Indeed. I was nearing my apotheosis as a player in, what, GBT gamesmanship?

Here's my most recent offering: Gone But not forGotten. Weak tea, but it's been a long day.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:24 PM

Bystander wants to sing in the round!

I would do my part and mention GBT, but I think Glenn will get pissed.

Oops!

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:27 PM

bystander

wins.

I'm sober, somber and serious (well, not somber).

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:29 PM

DCLaw1

RE: annoying Glenn. You're probably correct, and he's too gracious a host to scold us. I'll stop. I will admit to the guilty pleasure of imagining you know who as a ping pong ball between us... but it likely does just chew up bandwith and discourage more competent contribution.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:29 PM

Now I See It!!

Boy, is my face red. I had actually thought that the seemingly purposeful mispellings, the wanna-slap-your-forehead-in-embarrassment-for-a-fellow-human 'taunts' (cries for help??), and the put-on in-yer-face-sucker pose were the work of an adolescent troll doing some role play. It's not. It's more insidious. Thanks DeClaw for pointing this out!

"GBT's "lol,lol,lol" is not "LOL, LOL, LOL," as in "laugh out loud." It is in fact a representation of three little men, shown only from the shoulders up, with their arms raised in avant-garde dance."

What did we used to call those marks? Emoticons? You know, trying to make a cute little face utilizing the symbols on the keyboard. Now that you have pointed it out I can see the three little men with arms raised.

So lo,lo,lo would be three nazis saluting the fuhrer. And ~~ol~~ would be some guy bobbing in the water and waving for help. Gotcha. So Great Big Turd is actually attaching the three little men dancing ("Yes we can lol,lol,lol Yes we can!") to his posts as a way of messing with our heads??

"Sort of kitsch, but I can see why the kids might like it."

True, and I betcha he knows it . . .

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:35 PM

totallyblase:

See, now my dutiful guilt response has kicked in. I'm like Steve Irwin, the Crocodile Hunter - I knew I shouldn't poke a stick into the lizard's eye, but I did it anyway!

I am a terrible person.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:36 PM

Cheerleaders

*lol*, *lol*, *lol*

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:36 PM

Hollow weenie was last month?

I just ' hit ' the last page, and he next to the last page,

and 'what's happening' .... is more insane confusions?

Tumult, confusion, disorder, an affinity with Daemon.

Reel o' boogie ta ta, la la, la women risque high kick!

O cancan risque, kick yuck- sops, old Gehenna's pals.

A tumultuous eve-assembly, paid or just bizarre? woe.

quack like a duck, a noisy hellion, a troll, a sop oinks?

pig goo, p-u, and 'faire une grand quanquan pour peu,

de chose... O be rancid pig dung-doo? O that's a true!

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:39 PM

liberal waving the White Flag of Surrender

loP

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:46 PM

@Timothy3

You have the keyboard control of a virtuoso. Bravissimo!

Also (I always wanted to type this):

YOUR ALL LOOSERS!

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:46 PM

Kisses, GBT

Oh yeah , lol,lol,lol nite all

Shouldn't that be "lol,lol,lol all nite," you know, as in "avant garde dance with arms raised all nite?"

(OK, no more I swear!)

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:51 PM

@jschultz

<8i>By your argument we are not allowed to defend ourselves against a full scale nuclear assault. Instead we must simply accept our fate and kiss our asses good bye. If your argument were true then nuclear war would be far more likely as the kooks would simply wipe the "civilized" people of the world out.

Not at all---I never said that. Rather, we would simply accept the fact that we would become war criminals by defending ourselves in that manner, and try to defend ourselves without killing innocent civilians. Don't worry, we'd never be prosecuted either way.

Your argument is analogous to wiping out an entire city because a single resident of that city, or another city, tried to kill you.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:52 PM

bystander

The cheerleaders were inspired!

Angry little men flipping double birds:

+o+, +o+, +o+

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 06:53 PM

bystander @ 6;39? O, bump?

~

Did you steal, or pickpocket my # 2-led pencils? Or the small matzo meatball that I planned to put in my sandwich or snack?

My original plan was to fry rice, and chicken dumpling, and make good stews. The meat balls were in my two back pocket?

Who took the 2- meat balls?

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 07:01 PM

Yep, GC!

I took those meatballs, stuck 'em to the top of the two #2 pencils and waved 'em at the crowd chanting...

2 - 4 - 6 - 8
Who do we appreciate?
DCLaw1 DCLaw1 DCLaw1

And, the crowd roared for more. Alas, DCLaw1 had slipped out before the autograph hounds could catch up with him.

You want your meatballs back?

*o* .. *o*

They have a hole stuck in the bottom of them now. I'm keeping the #2 pencils, however.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 07:08 PM

Breaking

CNN is reporting that Janet Napolitano will be Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. If she can't be AG, this is a good place for her to serve.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 07:09 PM

NEWSFLASH : OBAMA SELECTS ERIC HOLDER AS NATION"S FIRST BLACK AG..

Glenn's effort to derail Eric failed!!!!

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 07:11 PM

OBAMA is making cultural changes..White males take a back seat..

Today AG, Homeland Security, Supreme Court....bring it my brother..Let it shine..let it shine

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 07:12 PM

@gbt

That is to much like country western music you know white rap music without rythm

No one whose favorite tag line is "lol,lol,lol" has any business talking about rhythm- especially when the rest of their written output usually scans even worse than that example.

And, yeah, you can't even spell the word.

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 07:13 PM

DC: Puff the magic dragon...lol,lol,lol

I got the whole world in my hand...I got the whole world in my hand...

Negro spirituals will be sung in my showwr tomorrow...lol,lol,lol

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 07:15 PM

bystander, no. The DOJ needs to care, and they can have what you reject.

You keep them. Stick then in a big pile of chicken dunk on my back porch.

Plan, and do ask HSC Joe to get thee, lol, lol, lol-craps pile duly employed.

Jebbie works all night, sips rum, sucks a rotten banana. O black tarantula!

I mean: A 8':7" iguana lol, lol, lo? I wanna say: `O sop slime dung suckers?

That nice? Who to complain? The psych-institute, a danger to self & world?

As totallyblaze wondered? Does the outgoing AG become aware of the ills?

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