Fred Barnes at the Weekly Standard can’t help himself, suggesting that the Serious Paul Ryan should be Romney’s running mate. The poor should just be ground up into tortillas anyway. The Ryan Plan will make so much more of them.
These people are insane.
Open thread.
chopper
keep reaching for that
rainbowetch-a-sketch, mittens.AA+ Bonds
Another guy who wants Paul Ryan to be President: Erskine Bowles, Obama appointee to cochair the Catfood Commission
wocka wocka
He said this in a speech at UNC last year
Clime Acts
@AA+ Bonds:
How uncivil of you to mention. Tsk.
wrb
I’m a gonna move to Florida and take up Gunslingin’
Call me Shane.
Mike Goetz
Would there be enough pomade for a ticket like that?
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
The Serious Paul Ryan might be a good running mate. The one we’ve actually got on the other hand is useless.
eyelessgame
It’ll be one member or another of the Ayn Rand Paul Ryan philosophical human centipede.
MattF
In fact, Mitt choosing Ryan for VP wouldn’t surprise me, based on winger-Romney’s politics. I do understand that the phonemic entities emerging from Romney’s vocalization organ don’t actually mean anything– however the audience at the Republican convention will be mostly wingers, so Romney will be trying to placate them, and that doesn’t leave a lot of choices besides Joe The Plumber.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@eyelessgame: Yes, but sadly, the middle one goes on to live.
BGK
SATSQ in abeyance for the moment.
On a non-political site I frequent, a frequent poster has derailed a thread into a discussion about why southerners fly the “Stars and Bars.” Most of the follow-ups are from posters repelled at the flag and what it represents (which somewhat refreshes my faith in humanity). The de-railer is getting seriously spun up over the multiple tired tropes of: most southerners didn’t own slaves/it’s heritage not hate/it never was the Confederate flag anyway. She’s really whanging away, though, on OMG STATES RIGHTS. Which were so thoroughly and cruelly trampled by the northerners.
Why is it that not one of these neo-fascists ever actually says what those OMG STATES RIGHTS being trampled were? Aside from, I dunno, owning people as property??? Has anyone ever gotten into an argument with a neo-Confederate where he or she was more specific than that?
Mark S.
Is the ending to Mass Effect 3 as bad as all the nerds are saying it is?
S. cerevisiae
Paul Ryan: From let’s eat, grandma! to let’s eat grandma!
Napoleon
@BGK:
I have not but I understand they will mumble something about high tariffs, which of course wasn’t the reason the south started the war.
Mino
The only one better than Ryan might be Cantor. Iago might make Mitt nervous, though.
samara morgan
Tebow to the Jets!
alhamdulillah!
Ben Franklin
Waiting for the erudite, think-on-your-feet Mitt to answer why he’s hatin’ on the Seniors.
Mino
@samara morgan: Uh, the fundamentalist poster boy goes to the unwashed agnostics. Should be interesting.
Linnaeus
@BGK:
These neofascists/feudalists also never seem to know that, under the constitution of the Confederacy they love so much, there was a peculiar institution that no state in the Confederacy could end even if the state’s citizenry wanted to do so. Wonder what that was…?
ericblair
So, really, does someone actually have to shake the Rombot to reset him? You’d think this could cause some damage to his hard drive if it isn’t parked properly. I’m wondering if you could just format the drive or if you have to delete his root partition before you reinstall RomOS.
Oh, and do you have to use the latest version of RomOS? ‘Cuz it’s probably full of bugs, I don’t think it has a command line interface, it won’t support the older money management and healthcare apps, and the GUI looks like it was designed by a kindergarten class with poster paints.
MikeJ
@samara morgan: Thank god. I was afraid the Seahawks would get him.
Jewish Steel
Here is the value of a music teacher:
As a guitarist of average abilities I know one thing I have have going for me is my capacity to practice. Practice and practice and think about practicing and flog myself through yet another round of practicing.
So, when I took up another instrument, voice, I applied the same principle. If anything, I started out as a less-than-average vocalist. Obviously, if I am starting out in deficit territory, I must practice ever harder. Indeed when I had a gig or recording coming up I would double up on rehearsal sessions. Just like I did with the guitar!
Last year, with the band playing less, I would come to the microphone sometimes not having sung for quite a while. I noticed I had a great deal of control over tone and pitch and even could coax some vibrato out of my voice. So if you don’t shout yourself hoarse, repeatedly, for days on end, you can sing better? Really?
I am a self-taught singer. Very likely, a teacher would’ve clued me in early on. Instead, I wasted a lot of effort that could have been put to use in other ways
samara morgan
@Mino: maybe he should start wearing a yarmulke. broarden his appeal.
;)
Ash Can
Hell, I think that would be awesome. Can’t you just hear the stump speeches?
Romney: “Bzzzt. Bzrrrrrt. Skreeeeebloop.”
Paul: “Elect us and you’ll never see another Medicare benefit ever.”
Romney: ::404::
The Obama campaign wouldn’t have to spend a penny on political ads. The nightly news reports would be all they’d need.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@BGK: I’ve noticed here in Texas that a lot of the people who claim that it was over states’ rights have no idea what rights the states were wanting. That’s why I keep a copy of the part of the Texas Declaration of Secession in my wallet. It contains:
For any other state, go here.
I showed this to one of my coworkers who was saying similar things, and his response was “Well, that kind of puts it all right up front.”
Uncle Cosmo
@wrb:
Bei mir bist du Shane. Good enough, Boris? :p
priscianusjr
Booman, didn’t you have a thread the other day on who Romney could possibly choose as his running mate? Well, kudos to Fred Barnes, this is sheer genius. Paul Ryan would be just the perfect choice.
jrg
The Ryan plan’s a joke. Want me to take it seriously? Yank “entitlements” from current seniors. Not those of us who will enter retirement at some later date.
I refuse to listen to geriatric wingnuts lecture the rest of us about “sacrifice” if they refuse to bend over and take it in the ass. Pretending that the Ryan plan will go into effect later, because there’s no political will to do it today is as wanktastic as it gets.
Cliff in NH
they are doing the q a on the republican budget now, its entertaining. cspan 3:
live:
http://www.c-span.org/Live-Video/C-SPAN3/
and for later when it’s over:
http://www.c-span.org/Events/GOP-Budget-Proposal-Mark-Up-in-Committee/10737429208/
Uncle Cosmo
They really oughta rename that rag The American Standard–as the perfect bus-station-washroom reading companion for what the Murdochs have turned into the Wall Street Urinal.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
Here’s an idea: let the phrase “keep shaking that Etch-a-Sketch” become the family-friendly version of “keep fucking that chicken”. I’m sure the Romney campaign would be delighted to have their intended campaign tactics immortalized in the form of a quick and easy catchphrase.
priscianusjr
@Belafon (formerly anonevent):
Napoleon
@priscianusjr:
He is posting here? under what name?
priscianusjr
@priscianusjr:
Napoleon
@priscianusjr:
That is why they were always jones to invade Cuba down south as well. There is a reason that congressman Lincoln was against the Mexican War.
priscianusjr
@Napoleon:
priscianusjr
@samara morgan:
Judas Escargot, Your Postmodern Neighbor
@S. cerevisiae:
…further proof that the Oxford Comma must be protected, at all costs.
samara morgan
@priscianusjr: Zandar is booman?
Svensker
@Jewish Steel:
Practicing singing is not the same as “shouting yourself hoarse”. If you push too hard, you damage the vocal chords, see Adele, surgery.
Keith G
A Ryan VP slot would make me crazy happy. I am pretty sure Joe Biden could make him cry.
MattF
@Judas Escargot, Your Postmodern Neighbor: Isn’t the Oxford comma the controversial ‘serial’ comma that comes before ‘and’ in lists of three or more? E.g., “This book is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand and God.”
Judas Escargot, Your Postmodern Neighbor
@MattF:
Oops, you’re right.
(But, that said, we should all find friends and allies where/whenever we can).
dmsilev
In other insanity news, this, from Media Matters is somewhere between hilarious and pathetic:
So, there you have it. Bill Ayers is just the front-man for the conspiracy. The *real* masterminds were his parents.
Mary G
Even stupider article Suzanne Collins’ “The Hunger Games” Illustrates the Horrors of Big Government
SiubhanDuinne
@MattF:
I still don’t see anything wrong with that.
Signed,
Jesus Rand
SiubhanDuinne
@dmsilev:
I have no idea wtf that means. But I’m going to learn how to do it so I can scare the neighbor kids on Halloween.
different-church-lady
Dear Cole: if you don’t make “Vetting the Bed” a category I’m going to… I’m going to… I’m going to persistently write you E-MAIL insisting you make Vetting the Bed a category.
cckids
@dmsilev“vaguely Indonesian grinning?” WTF??
chopper
@Mike Goetz:
LOL. ‘sponsored by Dapper Dan hair pomades!’
Brachiator
From Gawker, A Hunger Games Explainer.
I was listening to a movie related podcast the other night. One guy noted that his daughters and friends had already purchased advance ticket to see the film. Twice.
It’s gonna be big.
Hear me now and thank me later.
Linda Featheringill
The man did say it was an open thread . . .
Has anyone seen an explanation for the weather? I’m getting worried and would like to know what’s going on.
Howlin Wolfe
@samara morgan: wrong thread.
David Koch
What’s wrong with that?
When do you ever see elite “liberal” bloggers write about the poor? Never. To the contrary, many of our progressive betters are supporting Ron “gut the poor” Paul.
PeakVT
Fred Barnes is still alive? Who knew.
Bubblegum Tate
@dmsilev:
Please to add this to the list of rotating blog subheds.
cmorenc
@MattF:
This is exactly why Joe the Lieberman wasn’t a viable choice within the party for McCain’s VP running mate.
danielx
Well, if Paul Ryan doesn’t work out the Marquis could always have Dick Cheney raised out of his crypt. He knows a lot more than Ryan about grinding people into the dirt, and I’ll bet after a couple of blender pitchers of pureed live puppies he’d be good to go.
catclub
@Linda Featheringill: It is like Fight Club, vis a vis Global Climate Change.
I cannot say any more.
catclub
@PeakVT: Assumes facts not in evidence.
Schlemizel
@BGK:
Years ago I was on a listserv on the American Civil war and the arguments were legend but the poor little Southrons only had a tiny handful of arguments that were easily shown to be false. This led to them jumping from argument to argument rather than admit they had no answer to the original response.
My favorite one was the time I used Confederate documents to dismantle this fine old Virgina gentleman’s horsehockey and his response was that he could not possibly be wrong because he was a direct descendant of Harry Lee and therefor RE Lee.
You can’t win with them you can only hope to shut them up and convince a neutral observer that they are insane & wrong
catclub
I think having both a Pres and VP candidate with the same shoe-polish styled Ronald Reagan hair would be creepy, but maybe that is just me.
Of course, since they both also qualify under the ‘hollow eyed granny starver’ description, they might as well have the same hair.
Brachiator
@Schlemizel:
Neutral observers? I am always amused that libertarians often echo the big lie that the Civil War was about states’ rights, and that these same libertarians typically ignore the fact that the Southern economy was the antitheisis of the free market.
It also reminds me of fraud historians like Victor Hanson, who love praising the Spartans as a model for rugged individualist Real Americans, and totally ignore the entire Spartan enslavement of the helots thingy.
Schlemizel
@priscianusjr:
Yes, Mexico had outlawed slavery which was intolerable to those fine white gentlemen so they had to break away.
Also, bands of mercenaries were raised throughout the South in the mid-1800’s to invade various Central American countries with the goal of making them slave state. They actually had some success but the nations often banded together to throw them out. The repeated invasions of Spanish held Cuba caused the Spanish government to threaten war against the US if they continued.
If you go to the Confederate museum in New Orleans you will see a park across the street. In that park is a stone with a bronze plaque saying that on this spot an army was raised to invade Cuba and make it part of the US.
LAC
Jennifer Rubin must be levitating with all the orgasms she is having about this possibility. She loves the zombie eyed granny killer with the passion of a bobby-soxer.
El Cid
@catclub: The first rule is that you don’t talk about climate change?
Steve Bollea
Uh oh @zander, you were insufficiently nice to Jonathan Chait, according to Elias over at Ordinary Gentleman
rikyrah
YES, Willard should take Goober Ryan as his running mate