Monday, January 19, 2015

A CONSERVATIVE MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY.

As we have done in years past, let's see what gifts the brethren have brought us for Martin Luther King Day. Ah, here's Ann Althouse's: She directs us to this passage from a phone tape of LBJ and MLK --
LBJ: We want equality for all, and we can stand on that principle. But I think that you can contribute a great deal by getting your leaders and you yourself, taking very simple examples of discrimination where a man's got to memorize [Henry Wadsworth] Longfellow or whether he's got to quote the first 10 Amendments or he's got to tell you what amendment 15 and 16 and 17 is, and then ask them if they know and show what happens. And some people don't have to do that. But when a Negro comes in, he's got to do it. And we can just repeat and repeat and repeat. I don't want to follow [Adolph] Hitler, but he had a--he had a[n] idea...
MLK: Yeah.
LJB: ...that if you just take a simple thing and repeat it often enough, even if it wasn't true, why, people accept it. Well, now, this is true, and if you can find the worst condition that you run into in Alabama, Mississippi, or Louisiana, or South Carolina, where... well, I think one of the worst I ever heard of is the president of the school at Tuskegee or the head of the government department there or something being denied the right to a cast a vote. And if you just take that one illustration and get it on radio and get it on television and get it in the pulpits, get it in the meetings, get it every place you can, pretty soon the fellow that didn't do anything but follow... drive a tractor, he's say, "Well, that's not right. That's not fair."
MLK: Yes.
LJB: And then that will help us on what we're going to shove through in the end.
MLK: Yes. You're exactly right about that...
Althouse's headline:
50 years ago today: LBJ and MLK talked on the telephone... "I don't want to follow Hitler, but he had a... he had a idea..."
The boys at the Daily Caller get the idea, and repeat the anecdote under a more explicit headline for their particular readership:
From The Archives: 50 Years Ago, Lyndon Johnson Urged Martin Luther King, Jr. To Be More Like Hitler
This year let us all remember the true meaning of MLK Day: Liberal Fascism!

Meanwhile at Canada Free Press, John Lillpop has his own idea of the true meaning of MLK Day, which he complains has been hijacked by black people:
However extensive the shutdown of government and private enterprise will be, there is one industry that will be open for business as usual, that being the race-baiting for profit business led by Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, and Eric Holder, among others.
I knew there was someone I forgot to send a card to! Lillpop also has an interesting idea about the goals of the post-Ferguson protests:
The fact that thousands of blacks marched in Ferguson, Missouri to demand the death of Police officer Darren Wilson, who had been acquitted of wrong-doing by a legally constituted grand jury in the death of criminal Michael Brown, is testament to the power and intensity of the vitriol spewed by Obama, Sharpton, and Holder.
One must wonder how Dr. King would view the facts surrounding the Michael Brown death. 
Would King join the protesters in demanding that the rule of law be suspended and that Wilson be freed from police custody and handed over to street gangsters...
Similarly, the civil rights marchers of the '60s just wanted to lynch Bull Connor. Another alternate history of recent events is supplied by  Dan Dagget at American Thinker:
...race baiters like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson demanded that Brown not be judged by concrete evidence of the quality of his character but that the color of his skin made him immune to such judgment.
That filing must have been be sealed. Release the Free-a-Brother Documents!
Furthermore, they declared that anyone who tried to apply such judgment (in effect, applying King’s Dream) was a racist.
Doesn’t that mean they were calling Martin Luther King Jr. a racist?
This is up there with "You say you're for peace and love, so how come you don't love me?"

UPDATE. At Raw Story, Scott Kaufman lists "12 statements by Martin Luther King Jr. you won’t see conservatives post on Facebook today." Pretty good, but he missed the ones in which King called for a guaranteed income. Wait'll the boys at Reason, who like to portray King as a victim of statism, find out the Reverend was a big ol' moocher!

UPDATE 2. Speaking of moochers, and with a hat tip to @WineJerk, here's Power Line's Paul Mirengoff with something unreconstructed:
It’s not surprising that transferring money from whites to blacks is at the core of Obama’s agenda. This was, after all, Martin Luther King’s final mission, as Mufson points out. And, as with any good socialist, it has been Obama’s mission since his days as a left-wing “community organizer” and before.
Give him credit -- unlike his comrades, Mirengoff isn't pretending to like King.

180 comments:

  1. carolannie9:32 AM

    The Big Lie technique is what Althouse specializes in

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  2. The fact that thousands of blacks marched in Ferguson, Missouri to demand the death of Police officer Darren Wilson, who had been acquitted of wrong-doing by a legally constituted grand jury in the death of criminal Michael Brown, is testament to the power and intensity of the vitriol spewed by Obama, Sharpton, and Holder.

    The fact that Lillpop just pulled most of this straight out of his ass, and made up the rest of it while demonstrating I don't have even a vague idea of what a grand jury is or how it works is testament to the power and intensity of his aggressive ignorance.

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  3. Aggressive ignorance, aggressive innumeracy, aggressive stupidity, aggressive pride....I think we are on to something here.

    I like how Lillpop (dude must have had a childhood of dreams, er getting his ass kicked....What is it with these guys, Rove got manhandled by a 12 year old girl with a Kennedy sticker on her bike, Norquist's old man used to take some of his ice cream to demonstrate "taxation" and now these fuckers have been loosed upon us.....where was I, oh yeah) pre-emptively attempts to protect, even burnish wilson's getaway while confirming that Brown had it coming because extra-judicial (slathered in caramelised oogabooga) determination of criminal, thus had it coming.

    That sentence feels like he was trying to land one of those high difficulty dives or a floor exercise with one to many flips and was panting by the time he hit the period key.
    ...

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  4. JennOfArk10:24 AM

    Hang on to those headlines. You'll need them tomorrow when they pivot to "MLK was a conservative" again in another massive fail attempt to prove that liberals are the REAL racists.

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  5. M. Krebs10:25 AM

    Longer Althaus: It's gotten to the point where you can't compare anybody to Hitler anymore without liberals getting all huffy and puffy and wanting you to apologize. But I'll show them a thing or two! Ha!

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  6. M. Krebs10:27 AM

    Althouse is aggressively obtuse.

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  7. JennOfArk10:35 AM

    Also, too...sorry to go OT but I need the opinion of you good folks:


    If you were making a product to stop foot stink and had settled on S.O.S. as the name, should S.O.S. be an acronym for "stamp out stink," or should it stand for "stomp out stink"? Which one would you find more memorable/catchy or simply like better?


    I know, weird question, but one that needs to be settled before lots of other things happen.

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  8. JennOfArk10:36 AM

    I blame the box wine....

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  9. susanoftexas10:40 AM

    Save our shoes? Then people don't have to admit their feet stink and can blame the shoes for needing to spend money on stink-remover?

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  10. susanoftexas10:43 AM

    Althouse is the most dainty of wingnut-baiters. She manages to fling bloody red meat without getting a spot on her gloves, pillbox hat, or Kelly purse.

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  11. susanoftexas10:44 AM

    She's always working an angle.

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  12. . . . and was panting by the time he hit the period key.

    Oh, he was panting, alright--but not in the way any of us wants to visualize.

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  13. If I both agree and disagree with this comment, does that mean I degree?

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  14. Obligatory:


    http://youtu.be/D9FBQ1O5F8k

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  15. JennOfArk10:55 AM

    Save our shoes is already in use, so....

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  16. petesh10:57 AM

    See the movie. The discussion is not about the CRA (which passed in 1964, before the events depicted in the movie), it's about the Voting Rights Act, passed in 1965. To an extent, LBJ's attitude as depicted is a composite (I think they took some from Everett Dirksen), but the discussion in the movie is all about timing, and it is lovely to see LBJ chewing out George Wallace in no uncertain terms. The phrases "you're shitting me" and "don't fuck with me" appear.


    Overall I think the film quite well depicts the conflicting pressures on all the principals, including not just LBJ but MLK, Malcolm X, John Lewis et al. Perfect history? No. But I think the criticism of its depiction of LBJ is exaggerated.

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  17. damn, was gonna suggest that myself...Not independently of Susan of course just agreeing with her.

    ....

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  18. From The Archives: 50 Years Ago, Lyndon Johnson Urged Martin Luther King, Jr. To Be More Like Hitler

    "Good faith" is the presumption that whomever you are dealing with is being honest and forthright with his or her opinions. It means you should never assume that anyone is lying or bigoted or has some sort of angle without an offer of proof. This is one of the hardest concepts for people involved in politics, and also one of the most important.

    However, it is not infinite. If someone takes a passage like that and puts it under a headline like that, calling those people race-baiting scumfucking lying lumps of elephant shit is not "bad faith." It's common sense. The same goes for referring to a commentariat that continues to reference the knockout game and calls King a "POS" as a pack of rabid bigots.

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  19. Police officer Darren Wilson, who had been acquitted of wrong-doing by a
    legally constituted grand jury in the death of criminal Michael Brown

    ...race baiters like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson demanded that Brown
    not be judged by concrete evidence of the quality of his character but
    that the color of his skin made him immune to such judgment.

    I was not aware that Michael Brown was the one on trial before the grand jury, nor that he had been convicted.

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  20. JennOfArk11:01 AM

    Well, I was originally gonna call it "Stamp out STANK," but decided to go more conventional. But the "save our shoes" thing had occurred to me, so I looked it up & found it was being used by lots of folks for blog titles, in advertising, etc. We can still use it, just not as part of our trademark.

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  21. Where is that "ew" button?

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  22. Well, now that we're living in the world of 2000 AD comics, Judge Dredd shooting you to death in the street is the only judgment these clowns care about.

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  23. ...Doesn’t that mean they were calling Martin Luther King Jr. a racist?


    thank you mister dagget, enlightening as usual. so class remember--be ready to discuss pages 35 through 150 next week, and also be thinking about your midterm project. come see me at office hours if you have questions about that. have a great weekend.

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  24. JennOfArk11:09 AM

    Thanks for the explanation - that actually makes me feel better about it. I had previously heard from someone that the movie make it look like Johnson had to be pushed into action, which bothered me a bit.

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  25. susanoftexas11:09 AM

    Yes, I should have guessed that. Would it be a problem if you used the same initials?

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  26. I particularly liked the blame the shoes not the feet aspect. Use it in ad campaigns.

    Are you up to more entrepreneurial program activities?
    ...

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  27. Mr. Wonderful11:10 AM

    Lemme get this straight: She CITES that exchange between King and Johnson, and summarizes it under that headline?

    Does she really mean that, as an act of intellectual honesty? If so, she's a stoopid idjit. A mildly intelligent 10th grader could see how the citation of Hitler is used to illustrate the power of repetition. Period.

    And if not--if she knows full well how intellectually dishonest it is--then who does she think will applaud it? As George Costanza's mother used to ask, "What is to be GAINED?" It's like she's trying to persuade the brain-damaged idiots of the He-Man Lib-Haters Club that she can be just as dishonest, moronic, and intellectually corrupted as they. "Come on, guys! See? Hitler!"

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  28. susanoftexas11:12 AM

    It's like the moops defense. Sure, you can use it but expect everyone else to look at you with disgust.

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  29. Jay B.11:13 AM

    Althouse: "I don't want to follow Hitler, but he had a... he had a idea..."

    I CAN'T BELIEVE AN AMERICAN LAW PROFESSOR WOULD CELEBRATE FASCIST VALUES LIKE THAT.


    Seriously. She's one of the worst people on Earth. Passive-aggressive, obtuse and utterly dishonest. The only difference between her and me is that I'm joking by using a quote in a clearly ham-fisted, dishonest way. She does it as a show of principle to idiots dumber than her. Hate. Hate. Hate.

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  30. JennOfArk11:14 AM

    No, we can use the initials without a subtitle, or with a different subtitle. And we can use "save our shoes" on our website or in our advertising as one of the possible meanings of S.O.S. We just can't use S.O.S. Save Our Shoes as the product name or registered trademark.

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  31. susanoftexas11:14 AM

    Sometimes you just have to corner a girl in the stairwell and mock her until she cries so she will stop picking on freshmen.

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  32. susanoftexas11:15 AM

    I vote for stomp too.

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  33. Mark_B4Zeds11:16 AM

    It's worse than a paraphrase, it's a complete misrepresentation of what was said. I kind of see what they're aiming at, but they missed by a million miles. Really, when you're trying to make a black hole out of a molehill, you at least need a molehill to start with.

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  34. susanoftexas11:17 AM

    The smaller the mind, the smaller the molehill I guess.

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  35. Kind of amazing how she and her buddies embrace Hitler's advice there.

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  36. JennOfArk11:18 AM

    yep. I have to admit this is a product that I didn't invent but...it works, and the people who did come up with it have had a monopoly on it for about 20 years, which they put to good use by...selling only through podiatrists. Nothing wrong with that, unless you don't want most people to ever hear about your product, which in fact, they didn't. So we're going to market ours through nail salons where people go with their nasty feet and other people have to work on them. And also fitness clubs, independent shoe stores, sporting goods stores, etc. Plus website, amazon & ebay.


    Seriously, the shit works - used as directed, it will kill foot & shoe odor & keep it away for 6 months.

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  37. BigHank5311:22 AM

    I'm starting to grasp your inclination...

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  38. One would think that these assholes could knock it off for just one day, just take one day off from their serial lying about black people.

    One would be wrong.

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  39. Mark_B4Zeds11:25 AM

    A failure to indict isn't the same as being cleared. You'd think a lawyer would know that.

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  40. Cool. Nothing but the best of luck from up here.
    ...

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  41. Are you kidding, this is but just the first salvo in the war on white people that commences with Black History month. They got to get those rhetorical kalishnikovs lubed and ready, lest they be steamrolled by the fact that others might live and breath whilst not white.

    ...

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  42. susanoftexas11:28 AM

    There is nothing complementary to say about her at all.

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  43. Mark_B4Zeds11:29 AM

    Johnson was a complicated character. I don't think someone who didn't have his devious and calculating nature could have got as much done as he did.

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  44. susanoftexas11:30 AM

    Might as well ask them to stop breathing. The war is a force that gives them meaning, to quote Hedges.

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  45. petesh11:31 AM

    Aaaand ... just who benefits from saying that this nasty movie steals the credit from the big white daddy? I know you know better, but there are definitely people around the interwebtubes (probably not here) who think those uppity ingress [that's auto-correct for n-i-g-r-a-s] couldn't possibly have thought for themselves.

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  46. JennOfArk11:33 AM

    Yes, and it's become a wingnut talking point to accuse him of being a racist for using the word "n***er" when talking w/southern Senators to get their cooperation on standing down to get his civil rights legislation passed, which just kind of infuriates me. The guy was a racist because he slipped into character when dealing w/bigots from his region? Successful politicians are always those who have figured out how to talk to each person in the language he understands.

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  47. Mark_B4Zeds11:38 AM

    I had to google that, as I had never heard of it before. It's pretty funny: http://seinfeld.wikia.com/wiki/Moops

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  48. Sure--but Althouse has tenure.

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  49. Mark_B4Zeds11:40 AM

    It's mostly about the angle of her dangle.

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  50. billcinsd11:41 AM

    which is proportional to the direction of the erection

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  51. One might point out to John Lollipop that Orifice Wilson was never in "police custody", and that's the goddamn point. Also, nobody was calling for his death, just a fair goddamn actual trial.

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  52. JennOfArk11:46 AM

    thanks for suggestion - with general levels of literacy being what they are, I had decided that wasn't direct enough.

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  53. I wasn't aware of ANYONE on trial in this case.

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  54. Mr. Wonderful11:51 AM

    --which is a function of the heat of the meat.

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  55. JennOfArk11:51 AM

    Ironic that those who constantly mumble darkly about "police states" and "FEMA camps" & etc. are one and the same with those who support police right to kill whenever they feel like it and who stand and cheer when the cops roll out in tanks to protect the community from people calling bullshit on the status quo.

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  56. billcinsd11:52 AM

    Pffft!!! facts, What's facts got to do with it? Who needs the truth when a lie makes me seem right

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  57. Mark_B4Zeds11:52 AM

    That sounds like something HITLER would say.

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  58. Well!

    They're using lethal state-sanctioned violence on the right people in those cases! Please to consult your Handbook of White Privilege, pages 11-13.

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  59. I still remember Ted Nugent's appearance on "TV Nation" where he compared Janet Reno to Hitler, and then said he reconsidered it, because he wouldn't demean Adolph like that....

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  60. who LBJ wanted to GAY MARRY

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  61. One can't even expect them to admit that they ARE lying, let alone knock it off for a day.

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  62. Hey, hey, let's not get off on a tangent here!

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  63. "Facts are stupid things"

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  64. billcinsd12:02 PM

    well Hitler would have said it more like

    Was ist in der Tatsachen damit zu tun? Wer braucht schon die Wahrheit, als eine Lüge macht mich richtig erscheint

    but I like the cut of your gib

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  65. Well, it's not as though they're mumbling in any kind of principled way...

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  66. The first sentence is a lie also.

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  67. See also Moops defense and Halburg/Gruber

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  68. Mark_B4Zeds12:19 PM

    As in here: http://kstreet607.com/2014/07/23/gops-george-costanza-moment-the-moops-doctrine-and-the-war-on-obamacare/

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  69. I was not aware that the protests started after the grand jury or that they were limited to Ferguson.

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  70. Complicated is an understatement. So much good about him, and yet so much that was reprehensible.

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  71. Ah, Martin Luther King Day. When a bunch of fuckheads who would hate what he stands for use him to serve up their racist bullshit and call it honoring his memory.

    "No! We're not pissing on his grave, we're watering the grass!"

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  72. Helmut Monotreme12:29 PM

    Well if a lie repeated often enough becomes like the truth, what do you suppose happens to lies that aren't repeated often enough? What if telling those lies pays the bills and puts food on the table? Wouldn't you double down on those lies especially hard on a day dedicated to the memory of someone who spent his life, and gave his life exposing that lie?

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  73. Helmut Monotreme12:31 PM

    The only part of that statement that I would argue with is that the idiots are dumber than her. I have seen no evidence of any greater intelligence on her part. She is a blight on my city and an embarrassment to her employer.

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  74. There's an excellent description of this well-worn idea here on the TV Tropes page:
    http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MightyWhitey

    They call this trope the "Mighty Whitey."

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  75. Happily, though, these idiots would actually end up pissing all over their own shoes--and then would spend hours admiring the shine.

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  76. JennOfArk12:35 PM

    Being assholes is the force that gives their lives meaning.

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  77. Well, it is a sine of the times.

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  78. coozledad12:39 PM

    Leave Meade out of this.

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  79. coozledad12:51 PM

    You start out in 1954 by saying, "Nigger, nigger, nigger." By 1968 you can't say "nigger" — that hurts you. Backfires. So you say stuff like forced busing, states' rights and all that stuff. You're getting so abstract now [that] you're talking about cutting taxes, and all these things you're talking about are totally economic things and a byproduct of them is [that] blacks get hurt worse than whites. So by 2014, you're down to saying Hitler, Hitler, Hitler. If you can't see the inescapable logic of that, you might as well take up landscaping.

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  80. witlesschum1:06 PM

    Don't forget Althouse's creepy Clinton obsession and the various things its wrought.

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  81. billcinsd1:08 PM

    Meade is more about Gettysburg, although it is also Robert E. Lee day in some states, so maybe GG Meade is OK to use.

    Oh wait, you meant Mead her paramour

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  82. billcinsd1:11 PM

    Please try to work in "It's gotta be the shoes" to honor Mars Blackmon

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  83. coozledad1:14 PM

    Yes.
    And they're still having to walk that tightrope, at least the ones who weren't run out of office in the recent secession fever election. And it's not just bigoted white trash voters you have to palliate, there's a new crop of functionally retarded racists who've come in on this wave who are only a few brain cells shy of bathing in their own shit.
    There isn't any talking to these motherfuckers. Near as I can tell, they communicate by scent.

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  84. coozledad1:16 PM

    Crap. I thought he spelled it with two E's. Or at least that that might have been part of the prenups.

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  85. Be fair, he was struggling not to start typing the N word over and over and then shit on his keyboard.

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  86. Yes, its interesting how many conservatives were abused as children.

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  87. She writes/speaks elliptically.

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  88. willf2:19 PM

    I was not aware that Michael Brown was the one on trial before the grand jury



    Apparently DA Bob McCulloch wasn't aware of that, either. He sure acted like it was Brown on trial.

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  89. HE knows that of course. Its his zombie readers he's working to deceive.

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  90. JennOfArk2:29 PM

    They're still around - I've got a box of them under the sink. The key to not trampling their trademark is to make clear that you're not "SOS soap on steel (which is what "SOS" stands for in their case) pads" but "SOS stomp out stink" or "SOS save our shoes" or whatever.

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  91. sigyn2:32 PM

    Please tell us when this miracle will be available for the general public. I once told someone that my cat peed in my work shoes.

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  92. It's early, but I can use some mead right now.

    http://www.gotmead.com/screensavers/1024x768vikinggot.jpg

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  93. How can I save my soles when I cut them off all my shoes?

    Now if you'll pardon me, I have a tree to climb.

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  94. Oh, a cosiner, eh?

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  95. Just because I cosine doesn't mean I wave my rights.

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  96. Is that directed at me?

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  97. susanoftexas2:41 PM

    I want to buy this comment a burger and malted.

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  98. Mark_B4Zeds2:43 PM

    nope.

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  99. Exactly. Thanks for Googling when I was to lazy.

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  100. Ah, okay. I was confused because I didn't think Lillpop was a lawyer, and I am.

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  101. Mark_B4Zeds2:51 PM

    No, it's my mistake, I thought we were cracking on Althouse, who is a [bad] lawyer. No idea on Lillpop.

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  102. JennOfArk3:02 PM

    Should be up on amazon & ebay within the next month - I'll post when we go live.

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  103. Amazing how they are engaging in the same process they decry LBJ for engaging in... I call cognitive dissonance in the service of assholery cognitive assonance.

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  104. "Soap on Steel" sounds like an Iron Maiden album of Don Ho covers, or a Don Ho album of Iron Maiden covers.

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  105. smut clyde3:36 PM

    She writes/speaks elliptically.
    Shirley you mean 'hyperbolically".

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  106. smut clyde3:39 PM

    We don't serve no mutey chow in Texas City Jail.

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  107. She pulled it out of her azimuth.

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  108. LittlePig4:00 PM

    -provided that the mass of the ass is constant.

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  109. billcinsd4:09 PM

    I think he does. I just forget the final e

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  110. Suspend Olfactory Suffering.

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  111. But she look positively radian while she did it.

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  112. DocAmazing4:20 PM

    Second. Stamp is the more traditional, but stomp has emphasis.

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  113. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person4:37 PM

    he doesn't have even a vague idea of what a grand jury is or how it works

    Fuckin' A. Oh, wait, you're talking about Our Boy Lollypop. I thought you meant McCulloch...

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  114. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person4:39 PM

    Face it, you can't take a day off from being what you are. Can't be an ignorant fuckhead 364 days a year, then do a shift as Pope Bennie...

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  115. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person4:41 PM

    They got a lake full of that stuff in Nevada...

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  116. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person4:42 PM

    Yeah. They could just shut up, though,. That'd work.

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  117. Duncan5:17 PM

    It's a shame no one told King how committed and enthusiastic LBJ was:

    No president has really done very much for the American Negro, though the past two presidents have received much undeserved credit for helping us. This credit has accrued to Lyndon Johnson and John Kennedy only because it was during their administrations that Negroes began doing more for themselves. Kennedy didn't voluntarily submit a civil rights bill, nor did Lyndon Johnson. In fact, both told us at one time that such legislation was impossible. President Johnson did respond realistically to the signs of the times and used his skills as a legislator to get bills through Congress that other men might not have gotten through. I must point out, in all honesty, however, that President Johnson has not been nearly so diligent in implementing the bills he has helped shepherd through Congress.

    Of the ten titles of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, probably only the one
    concerning public accommodations -- the most bitterly contested section -- has been meaningfully enforced and implemented. Most of the other sections have been deliberately ignored.

    ...

    I'm sure that most whites felt that with the passage of the 1964 Civil
    Rights Act, all race problems were automatically solved. Because most white people are so far removed from the life of the average Negro, there has been little to challenge this assumption. Yet Negroes continue to live with racism every day.

    --Martin Luther King, Jr., A Testament of Hope, 1969

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  118. willf5:21 PM

    Pope Bennie? You mean the current one, don't you?


    Benny the rat was plenty ignorant and did indeed say some fuck-headed things

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  119. willf5:24 PM

    Ooooooh, there's a Dredd parody just waiting to be made.

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  120. "Demanding the death of" falls under if you just take a simple thing and repeat it often enough, even if it wasn't true, why, people accept it and is, of course, the strategy of Fox News/the Right-wing in a nutshell.

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  121. coozledad6:05 PM

    Natural sympathy between failed artists.


    But at least Hitler could paint an apartment in an afternoon.

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  122. The Mighty Rightwing Wurlitzer.

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  123. JennOfArk6:23 PM

    Johnson passed CRA his first year in office. If he foot-dragged, he certainly didn't do it for very long.

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  124. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person6:24 PM

    Charles Pierce agrees with both propositions. Go see the movie, and yeah, they kinda fucked over LBJ. Holllllywood!

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  125. coozledad6:34 PM

    Just leave the shoes at the bottom of the tree, Son. for industry.
    The flute, too.

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  126. M. Krebs6:50 PM

    I believe the answer is B.

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  127. M. Krebs6:52 PM

    This comment is totally chenille. (In honor of FZ above.)

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  128. JennOfArk6:53 PM

    That's great! Have I mentioned I've got a product to take the stink out of those shoes?

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  129. M. Krebs6:56 PM

    In polite company that's SSA, not ASS.

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  130. redoubtagain7:22 PM

    This. (One of the benefits of living where I live in the Atlanta metro area is repeatedly sending John Lewis to Congress.)

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  131. redoubtagain7:25 PM

    I guess they figure that people like me don't get a day off from being black, so they'd at least better put in a day's crossburning effort. (Also, at least I know which ones to avoid.)

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  132. redoubtagain7:27 PM

    I'm seeing her "explain" this to a jury, leaning on the jury box, glass of Merlot in hand. . .

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  133. There's a Judge Fish...

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  134. smut clyde8:05 PM

    If you agree with your parents to shut them up out of a sense of obligation, you filigree.

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  135. smut clyde8:07 PM

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6hxL4S-ieK0

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  136. DocAmazing8:22 PM

    Dr. King appears to be referring less to getting the laws on the books and more to enforcing them.

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  137. Oh, I assure you, McCulloch knows exactly how a grand jury works.

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  138. M. Krebs8:43 PM

    I've always wanted to write parabolically.

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  139. M. Krebs8:44 PM

    I'm stunned that so many people in one place paid attention in trig class.

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  140. M. Krebs9:30 PM

    If I may veer off topic, I have for the first time created a Facebook account. (Yeah, I'm late. I have no goddamn cell phone either.) I have to say, in the name of all that is holy or good or just mediocre, what a screaming, steaming pile of shit that place is.

    That's all.

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  141. redoubtagain10:06 PM

    Yeah, this. At first you'll wonder why you didn't do it sooner, then you'll read and remember.

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  142. the color of his skin made him immune to such judgment.Would that it had made him immune to bullets instead. Then he could have been spared the judgment of being gunned down and left dead in the street for hours.

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  143. AGoodQuestion11:03 PM

    However extensive the shutdown of government and private enterprise will be, there is one industry that will be open for business as usual, that being the race-baiting for profit business led by Barack Obama, Al Sharpton, and Eric Holder, among others.
    Yes, well, it's hard for this business to keep up with demand, seeing as how it only exists between the ears of conservative douchebags.


    BTW, how many times do you think Lillpop had to type this? I'm thinking he had to keep going back because his hand wanted to write "Garner" instead of "Holder".

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  144. AGoodQuestion11:10 PM

    I don't know what exact childhood trauma produced John Lillpop, but I'd be surprised if he weren't dropped on his head a few times.

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  145. AGoodQuestion11:14 PM

    Panting or (self) pantsing?

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  146. AGoodQuestion11:17 PM

    Oh honey!

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  147. AGoodQuestion11:19 PM

    You know the guy grasping the base of his stool, and then the bartender cuts him off and he says - to the extent anyone can understand him - "I ain't drunk. You're the one that's drunk." Substitute "lying" for "drunk"...

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  148. AGoodQuestion11:29 PM

    and then said he reconsidered it, because he wouldn't demean Adolph like that....
    And I'm sure old Schickelgruber will express his appreciation when he and the Nuge finally meet up.

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  149. Two coats!

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  150. AGoodQuestion11:36 PM

    Stop singing and finish your homework.

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  151. Thanks for bearing with us.

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  152. AGoodQuestion11:38 PM

    Either "Stomp Out Stink" or "So Over Stink!"

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  153. batteur11:38 PM

    God damn it, Daily Caller are a bunch of scumbags.

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  154. M. Krebs11:57 PM

    Oh, I never wondered why I didn't do it sooner. I just did it out of boredom and latent curiosity. Fortunately, even if somebody knows my name and finds me there, they will be repulsed by my weirdness.

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  155. And those idiot assholes only have shoes in the first place cause of liberals.

    Ungrateful bastards

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  156. even if somebody knows my name and finds me there, they will be repulsed by my weirdness

    That's the spirit!

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  157. ". . . demanding the death of . . " is one of those quotes that falls into the category of "I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes."

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  158. You've at least got to admire someone who can sit back from his computer after writing words to the effect that "King was a racist" with all the attendant meaning, and say to himself, "Not bad. I think I'll go with that."


    Okay, "admire" might not be the best choice of words here. But there is a certain awe that such an ignorance--willful or otherwise--of history and reality can evoke. Just like saying the Ferguson protesters wanted Darren Wilson dead. It sort of takes the breath away.


    Not that it's anything new with these pricks.

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  159. With watercolors!

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  160. Hm-m, apropos of this. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_a_Metal_Mood:_No_More_Mr._Nice_Guy

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  161. Or leaning on the Merlot box.

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  162. She does give off that vibe, doesn't she?

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  163. I left this yesterday, but it somehow disappeared.

    If you're not too far along in the process, consider going for something other than S.O.S. Leaving aside the brand/product confusion aspect of it, S.O.S. is going to be a marketing nightmare. There are hundreds of products and organizations that all sport S.O.S., whether we're talking about the steel-wool pads or Save Our Stripers.

    That means your product starts out lost in an ocean of similar names. If your primary marketing vehicle is the internet, you'll be assigned to search-engine oblivion 5 pages back in the results.

    Perhaps something like "Rosey Toes" or "Sweet Feet" might serve your branding purposes and your marketing needs a bit better.

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  164. I have found Facebook to be an excellent way for people I did not like in high school to remind me why I still don't like them. It's also an outstanding way for people to stalk you. And there's the added bonus of Facebook's non-stop SPAM stream to your email.

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  165. Congratulations on the new job! Is it with Fox News? Or the Daily Caller? Or NRO? Maybe you're taking Jonah's place at the LA Times?

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  166. DN Nation10:37 AM

    "You can dramatize history until it whistles a happy tune, but you simply cannot have a film in which Custer was killed by Vikings."


    Aww, you can't?

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  167. JennOfArk11:18 AM

    I've thought a lot about this, and I think what you say is correct if someone does a search for only the term "SOS." But then I thought, they'd use that term only if they were already familiar with or knew about our product, which is the bigger hurdle for us - getting people to know about our product. My bigger concern is that people who don't know about our product see it in searches for terms like "foot odor" or "stinky feet" or "smelly shoes" or the like, and we can boost our ranking in those search results by using those keywords, repeatedly, on our web page. My thinking on it was that someone who IS familiar with the product from a previous purchase will have our web address right there on the bottle; someone who's heard about the product could search for "SOS feet" or something similar and pull us up.
    But maybe I'm wrong about that? What says everyone?

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  168. I think your reasoning is sound. We'll see how it works in the intertube world which, as we know, is where Beethoven wrote Etude in B-Fix-A-Flat.

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  169. Let's see - Lief Erickson lands in Canada in 1150 or whatever, Norse colonize Canada, ally with Native Americans in American Revolution, Custer killed by Vikings and Bob's your uncle!

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  170. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person2:53 PM

    Take The Piss™?

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  171. Meanie-meanie, tickle a person2:54 PM

    I don't really keep good track....

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