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Honestly, I’ve felt like I’ve been in the Bizarro universe for about 15 years now. But the crazy bus is definitely picking up speed.

Farmer J, for me it started (I think) about the same time: when Slick Willy Clinton was elected. I recall being stunned and utterly unbelieving. This was probably when I slipped the shackles of objective reality and entered the twilight zone I’ve been in ever since.

Now where the fondly flaunted fuck is Rod Serling, and why doesn’t his last name have a decent T in it like other folks? See?!? Even my spellchecker wants to put a T in his name. More twilight zone.

People got into trouble for the wrong reasons due to political correctness, logic was tossed out the door, ebonics, post modernism, and logical “deconstruction” were created and foisted upon a naive public and even more naive press, and dogs started barking at me. No – scratch that last. They have always barked at me.

I moved out into the country partly to get away from the worst effects of this crap (and to bury the bodies), but it’s been only partially effective. And … I insisted on dragging it with me via satellite TV and Innertubes. Woe is I. Waaa.

We’ve all taken the crazy bus to Crazytown. Some of us are unwilling passengers, while others are fighting each other to stomp the accelerator harder.

As has been said more articulately elsewhere, members of the MSM are invested in “making history,” so are becoming more frantic and determined in their efforts to elect an unqualified candidate. Plus, the unqualified candidate has an added attraction in their eyes: he’s an unreconstructed socialist who will usher in an era of Peace, suppression of free speech, and a mandate to worship a political figure in the manner of Chairman Mao’s followers.

I am not sanguine.

Tell you what, l-brain, I truly suspect that this election is really, really the one that is gonna shape the first half (at least) of the 21st century. The knife-edge teetering is all over now: we’re gonna fall one way or another. Left or Right. Democratic, or Socialist. Forward or backward.

I guess I may have to start practicing my ersatz “sieg heils”.

liberal = crazy

Who is in control of the media? Who runs the entertainment industry? Who runs the schools?
The inmates are running the asylum. We should make ALL of them take drug tests.

And McCain is an idiot for not demanding she be replaced. I dislike him even more knowing that I am forced to vote for him to keep the little thug from appointing his goons to so many positions.

Am I the only person who wonders why only white folks are considered to be racist?

Signed:

Just askin’ in PA

Sadly, McGoo, I agree with you. The sadly part is that I think the fall will be to the left.

Maybe it’s just the last week of overcast and rain, combined with my natural Scandi melancholy.

McGoo, look at the vote from last night. Things were so serious, oh, we must protect the taxpayer, oh, we must do something to save wall street.. er…main street, yes main street.
And what do they do? Approve the bill the house rejected with the 700B figure pulled from someone’s ass, and attached another 100B for shits and giggles. Giving a wall street democrat a blank check over the financial market and subsidizing wool research and pirates know what else, is saving me money how?

We have already been pulled through the looking glass to the left. That is why we are all seeing crazy.

Jill – that is the never-answered question. I know the real answer is non-whites can and often are worse at racism now than the whites are, and honestly don’t recognize their prejudice as racism. The only difference is that we whites are not at the physical/social disadvantage that the slaves or non-white “indigenous populations” were in the past. So the wrongs aren’t quite as violently grievous. Whites rarely get lynched by non-whites.

lizard – I am habitually an optimist, so I think we’ll tip Right – for the moment. But I’m usually wrong.

Edit: PnB this bailout is a ripoff, has been a ripoff, and was planned as a ripoff from the beginning. There were plenty of voices screaming warnings years ago. And ultimately it’s the Repubs fault for selling out and not putting their foot down onto the Dems proposing the horseshit loan laws to begin with.

I’m royally sick of the whole bunch.

…And I’ve been back online less than five days and am already regretting my increased blood pressure. Politics suck.

Jill:

Official answer: Because whites are the power structure in society and only the racial prejudice of whites can interface with that power structure to affect a material suppression of persons of color.

Real answer: Get whitey.

According to Laura Ingraham, the House and Senate have solved the problem of public objection to the bailout by…bouncing email and not answering the phone.

I cannot stand McCain. I’m so sad I’m forced to vote for Mr.Happyto Reachacrosstheaisleton. Seriously. I’m so sick of the republicans not getting some huevos and hitting the dems where it hurts. Where are the true fiscal conservatives? Bush certainly was not.

I’m going to go cry in my Wheaties now. Well ok, I don’t actually have Wheaties because there’s too many carbs, but if I did, I’d be crying in them.

I’d let you cry in my Wheaties – except I don’t have any either, pjm.

Yep, Weaz. The definitive answer to this issue: ignore the people you were elected to serve, didn’t serve in the past, aren’t going to serve now or in the future, and to whom you will continue to lie to (with the media’s cooperation) so they will continue to elect you.

We’re gonna have to find a way to fire the lot of them. I no longer believe any of them are working in WE-THE-PEOPLES best interests. I’m not convinced that most of them even have a clue what our interests truly are anymore.

Wasn’t it Heinlein who observed that civil servant really means civil master?

Ugh. Civil servants. Don’t. Uncle B and I are starting to put together my visa application today, which is just a double helping of awesome with extra awesome sauce.

Have some awesome sprinkles too, for that extra crunchy awesome goodness!

🙂

PnB, if McCain made any statement that ifill should be replaced, the Dems would jump on that as evidence that Sarah Palin can’t run with the big dogs. And, truth be told, if she’s running for VP, she does need to be able to handle ifill and her kind. It will prove she’s got what it takes.

She’ll be fine.

Wheaties? Feh. Weatbix rock! With milk and sugar, of course.

Oh, brings back memories of a Pakistani childhood (well, 8 years after an American childhood anyway).

Uncle B and I are starting to put together my visa application today, which is just a double helping of awesome with extra awesome sauce.

Oh man, you must be having one serious case of short timer’s disease. Gah!
Torture

Christ, Weaz. It never ends! Here I’m thinking you’re on the sweet, sweet downhill slope to becoming a British Subject (or at least a predicate – or maybe simply a prepositional phrase) and now I find you have still more paperwork to do. It should be enough for those folks that you are a nartist, a cat lover, and drink good booze. those are excellent qualifications in anyone’s book.

I am depressed.

Musli – what the heck are weatbix? They sound evil, although they are probably crunchy.

“Now where the fondly flaunted fuck is Rod Serling, and why doesn’t his last name have a decent T in it like other folks?”

I agree, Steam. I lost a $20 bet on that very subject way back in 1975 (very foolish arguments are made, it seems, during any given midwatch in sonar control), and I’ve been nursing a grudge against Rod ever since. The grudge has survived his death, and may outlive me, too.

Er, right. Should be Weetabix. It’s a sort of whole grain brick. You pour milk to soften it up, and either mash it up into the milk or break portions off with a spoon and eat. Should also be eaten with sugar.

I’m sure Uncle B, Gibby, and other resident Englishpeople will be able to fill in with a better description. It’s an English thing.

Backing the truck up a ways… Jill you are racist for even questioning why only whites are racist.

Just remember, even though I see precious little oppressing right now, there is a perception of oppression… and history suggests that those who were once oppressed very quickly turn into oppressors when the tables are turned.

In other words, you will pay for your racism, you racists.

(gag)

That was very painful to say, even if I was trying to be humorous.

Anybody notice the Obama Channel on TV? I took a picture of the TV screen and posted it because I wasn’t sure it wouldn’t seem like a bad dream 24 hours later.

We are of one mind, jw. I think he changed his name spelling just to piss me off

$20 back in ’75 was nothin’ to sneeze at.

Speaking of bets: I lost a buck back in college when I bet that the Gateway Arch in St. Louis was a parabola. Half way to the reference library I realized that it was a hanging chain structure – not a parabola – and handed my asshole opponent his $1.

Oh, McGoo, you don’t know a quarter of it! I have to get a Fiancee Visa, which gives me six months to get hitched. (I get a biometric ID as part of this dealie. Fingerprinted! Yay!) Before that runs out, I have to get my FLR(M) — basically my married lady license. And I can’t travel until I do (or I can, but they won’t let me back in). Then, two years later, I have to get my ILR, which says I can stay forever. It involves a thing called the Life in the UK test, where I have to prove I can speak English and make a sammich (or something). And then I think it’s the following year that I can apply for a red passport. Every one of those visas is a thousand bucks (per application — don’t make any mistakes!) and a world of heartache.

And yet, by common consent, the hardest two things I’ve got ahead of me are getting the cat to the UK legally and getting a British driver’s license.

I will, no doubt, give you guys every step of this process. Good and hard.

I knew it!!

Musli, I almost said the name sounds like shredded wheat. It just sounds like SW – yes?

LK – I’ve been considering canceling my Dish network service, and the Obama Channel just may have tipped the balance over to getting rid of it. But when he loses, it’ll disappear.

Weaz – omit nothing. I want to know it all as it happens, if you would be so kind, please!

It’s not that I’m nosy about your business: I just think it’s going to be fascinating to me and all your minions to “watch” as you wend your way through the British system. I’m serious. I’ve never seen any write ups on this kind of process – especially in this day and age.

Not to worry, McGoo. I shall do. Every painful, horrible detail. A lot of this stuff has changed just in the last year or so (the biometric ID and the Life in the UK test are new; the fees have doubled).

Correct on that 20 bucks thing, Steam. As I recall, my monthly paycheck back then was $430 (take-home was somewhat less).

OTOH, I drew roughly that same monthly amount when I later went to college on the GI Bill. That, plus a part-time job, and I was the only guy I knew at CalState, Fullerton who had better than basic cable. Who says money can’t buy happiness?

… Oh, and yeah, RAH made the civil servant=civil master statement.

“Comment from S. Weasel
Time: October 2, 2008, 10:49 am

Ugh. Civil servants. Don’t. Uncle B and I are starting to put together my visa application today, which is just a double helping of awesome with extra awesome sauce.”

So when does the March of the Merry Mustilid begin? As soon as you close on the Weasil den, or are you going to hang around for a few more RunnyBabbit chases before bounding off for the Fox and Hound for a pint?

Wasn’t there a link in that thing a minute ago? Akismet let it through. I followed it and it was cool.

I didn’t just have another ‘little episode’ did I?

Weez: a thousand bucks per passport upgrade??!! That for everybody, or just gringos?

Man, you must really, really like you sum Badger. Me, I’d be clutching my thousand bucks and consoling myself with “there’s other fish in the sea” or some such.

Well, the passport upgrade includes taking an oath to Her Maj and being able to vote ‘n’ stuff. And a thousand bucks? Pff! Chump change compared to the hit I just took on the house.

Well, Scubafreak, the timing is not entirely in my hands. The closing on the house is November 25, so optimum is to fly out on the 26th and be in Old Blighty for Thanksgiving. But that assumes I’ll have my fiancee visa by then. I should, if all goes well, but all won’t necessarily go well. I may have to find cheap digs for a while, until my papers show up.

At $1 Bone* per visa application, I guess I’d be uttering oaths too.

(* One Bone = $1000)

“Well, the passport upgrade includes taking an oath to Her Maj and being able to vote ‘n’ stuff.”

As if we had anyone worth voting for…. 🙁

you are a nartist, a cat lover, and drink good booze

Oh my, I didn’t know. S.Weasel you’re a “nartist”? I don’t think can comment here anymore.

*backs slowly out of room

Hey, it’s a lifestyle choice, PJ. DON’T YOU JUDGE ME!

Oh, you get to take an oath. I withdraw my objection.

So the wrongs aren’t quite as violently grievous. Whites rarely get lynched by non-whites.

Between 1882 and 1964, 4,743 individuals were lynched – 3,446 blacks and 1,297 whites. Republicans often led the efforts to pass federal anti-lynching laws. Democrats successfully blocked those bills.

Rep. John Roy Lynch, a black (1870ish)-
“More colored than white men are thus persecuted simply because they constitute in larger numbers the opposition to the Democratic Party.”

Rep. Richard Cain, a black –
“The bad blood of the South comes because the Negroes are Republicans. If they would only cease to be Republicans and vote the straight-out Democratic ticket there would be no trouble. Then the bad blood would sink entirely out of sight.”

Monty Python Live From The Hollywood Bowl boasts a character named Carl Weetabix, and his lovely sidekick, Rita.

Stoatie, you should make a Guy Fawkes t-shirt with the caption “The only man who ever entered the halls of Parlament with honest intentions” printed on it, and wear that when you go to take the oath…..

🙂

Just to let them know where things stand…. LOL

You know, come to think of it, I don’t think you do take a loyalty oath to the Queen any more. I seem to remember there being some controversy about it.

Escuse me…conTROVersy.

Weetabix isn’t really like Shredded Wheat McG. Shredded Wheat are like little bails made out of fibres of…whatever it is. Weetabix on the other hand are like little bricks of compressed flakes of…whatever it is. When you pour your cow juice on a Shredded Wheat, it softens somewhat, but retains its shape. When you pour cow juice on a Weetabix, it turns into, well, mush basically. They taste pretty good though. But basically, they’re a pretty different animal to Shredded Wheat.

As if we had anyone worth voting for…. 🙁

Liam Fox gave a pretty good speech the other day at the Conservative conference. He hit a few NeoCon talking points which both surprised and excited the evil part of me. David ‘Call Me Dave’ Cameron…worries me somewhat though.

Your Net-fu is strong, Beanhopper. But how many of those whites were stretched by minority lynch-mobs?

I love the democrat rationale: “We’re necktying them because they aren’t being good N’s and voting (D). If they’d just do as we want we wouldn’t kill them to death so much”.

Where can I go to resign my so-called humanity. I quit.

Thanks, Gibby. I should have googled it, but I was too lazy.

I’m lost. Is a “nartist” a typo or “narcissistic artist”?

Sorry, LK. I wrote an answer but the Net went blam! on me for a few minutes.

It’s an old Stoatyism – who is an artist by profession.

A(n a)rtist = a (na)rtist = a nartist.

LK, “an artist” = “a nartist” in Stoatese. Weasel, I think you need to start a Stoatese to English dictionary. I noticed someone had a problem with your “love me” word recently too.

Your Net-fu is strong, Beanhopper. But how many of those whites were stretched by minority lynch-mobs?

But that is the thing, McGoo. I’m sure some of those lynchings were done by yahoos, but most of it was political in nature.
That is not how it has been reported. You won’t find in any school textbook (who runs the schools) the democrat perfidy in keeping their boot on the necks of blacks. From lynching, to the KKK, to the reversals of civil rights legislation, etc.

In modern times, if you look up the numbers you will find that black on white crime is higher than white on black crime. The reporting of that can be manipulated any way you want….is it because of the general breakdown of the black community and their higher crime rate overall, or is it minority lynch mobs?

Think Duke lacrosse. Think of the white couple who were tortured and mutilated a few years ago by a group of blacks just now going to trial….imagine if the races were reversed. You would have actually heard about it 24/7. Think media’s hand in all of it and the resulting politics.

Oh, I hear you, Beanhopper, and generally agree with you.

I know the Dems subscribe to the idea that “the end justifies the means”, but I wonder if any of them ever take a deep breath and examine the totality of what they are doing. It’s all means (lies, and false logic, and excuses, and feel-good intentions) and no ends – or good actual results.

They are determined to use the minorities (and use them cruelly) as a means for them (the Dems) to “feel good” about themselves, and to keep power while their at it.

Nice observation, ‘Goo. Means… I never looked at it quite that way before but by gum if you ain’t right.

(RHETORICAL QUESTION ALERT)

But are you being used cruelly if you run to it every time?

But are you being used cruelly if you run to it every time?

No – just stupid. Or lazy, selfish, greedy, undisciplined, lacking in breeding and character, or some combination of the whole lot. Ahem. And therein lies a whole uncomfortable conversation.

Well, McGoo, on that note I have a bit of confirmation from the Colorado front….

http ://www2.facethestate.com/articles/democracy-alliance-memo-details-dem-plan-educate-idiots-and-target-minorities

Did you note the uncomfortable silence, McGoo?

🙂

Yep, LK. I should keep my pie hole shut.

Oh, on another note, History buffs will be saddened to know that Captain Chester “Whitey” Mack passed on 25 Sept. in Florida.

Chester Mack, made famous in the book and tv special “Blind Mans Bluff”, was the first US Navy Sub captain to trail a Russian missile sub throughout an entire patrol, without the Russian ever being the wiser.

I thought I recognized that name. I read that book quite a while ago, S-f. Our loss….

“Life in the UK” test? What, do you have to know how to build a proper chip butty?