NRO's The Corner 2: Ghost Protocol

haha Foster must be PSYCHED

poor lowry, discovering all at once that he is hip-deep in racists and trying desperately to climb up to higher ground.

the mob

^the cartoon that plays in the conservative's head as he girds his loins for challops.

― HE HATES THESE CANS (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, April 11, 2012 7:53 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

God yes.

the cornered

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/295771/what-ho-derb-mark-steyn

okay I think at the end of this post Steyn is saying that racism is not very popular right now but will become popular again?

"What ho? Derb?"

I had the same reaction. xpost

i think he might mean having rich foreigners employ you because they own everything

the mob

^the cartoon that plays in the conservative's head as he girds his loins for challops.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_bL8Ii6yUQBM/S-oMWPG-IJI/AAAAAAAAAYg/1acM6k5DupU/s1600/Da+Lench+Mob+-+Planet+Of+Da+Apes+1994.jpg

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lvony44TXq1r6tob1o1_500.gif

@ all of this

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Was Jesus Just Some Good Dude Who Used to Live?

man she is losing it

Thanks to Alfred, I can't read anything she writes writes without imagining that it was written while a dog licked her hair

Ad on K-Lo @ Large: "Earn a bible degree"

Also:

A couple of weeks ago I had an interview with a journalist, and the journalist said to me: “Cardinal Dolan would you tell me the most influential person in your life?” And I said “sure, what do you mean by the most influential person?”
“Well, the person who most guides you, the person who has most formed you, the person you most look to for inspiration and direction, the person you most trust, who’s had the most impact on you.”
And I said: “Oh that’s easy, Jesus Christ. Jesus Christ is the most influential person in my life.”
And then –and here’s my point — the journalist said: “Oh I’m sorry, it’s got to be somebody alive now.”
I said: “it’s still Jesus Christ because my faith tells me he is alive here and now.”

I think I've eactually heard that exact same anecdote more than once before.

Lol at this journalist walking around engaging in the same line questioning and clarification with all these preachers over all these decades, right before Easter. Get one brane stupid journalist they will keep telling you jesus is alive.

Was Jesus Just Some Good Dude Who Used to Live?

I originally read this as "Was Jesus Just Some Dude" and worried she had found her way to ilx.

This was a journalist of convenience, supplied on demand whenever the anecdote is exhumed.

oh shit thanks dude

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axb1mTUIkG4

Everyone by now has heard the old line that anti-Catholicism is the last acceptable prejudice.

hmmm

Was Jesus Just Some Good Dude Who Used to Live?

Initially scanned as was Jesus just some dude who used to live good?

Was Jesus Just Allright With Me?

http://www.okaygreat.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/june12b.jpg

Pretty Anglo Jesus is alright and always with you, filling in when your GPS is on the fritz

is that LOLwry behind the wheel?

Nah, just Randy Travis' brother

It's annoying when the smug set among atheists bang on about God as an Imaginary Friend, but Kingfish's pic is triply annoying because it completely justifies their pov.

As a smug atheist I just let the poem "Footprints" do all the heavy lifting on the imaginary friend tip.

Guys this is out in just two weeks pre-order yours now omg

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51oadWgSoHL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

"write what you know"

no, that's his memoir title

There's a lot to comment on here but I love this:

Today, “objective” journalists, academics and “moderate” politicians peddle some of the most radical arguments by hiding them in homespun aphorisms.

...

* Better ten guilty men go free than one innocent man suffer: So you won’t mind if those ten guilty men move next door to you?

the blackstone ratio is a radical argument?

bet the quotation marks were his idea

some khmer rouge slogans:

"You can arrest someone by mistake; never release him by mistake."
"Better to kill an innocent by mistake than spare an enemy by mistake."
"Better to arrest ten innocent people by mistake than free a single guilty party."

this chris christie bj would be insane even if the new jersey gov didn't just get busted for lying his fat ass off about the cancelled tunnel project

which post has this "ten guilty men" stuff in it?

But up close, when you see him pace across the floor, talking for 30 uninterrupted minutes about his achievements, you sense that this isn’t merely an expertly stage-managed politician, another governor with a large entourage, bravado, and a Patton-esque flag background. He is a cut above.

Whip-smart, articulate, and pleasantly pugnacious, Christie has the aura of a bona fide national sensation. The raucous applause he receives in Middlesex County is the same kind of reception that the governor receives in Orange County, the Rust Belt, and the Deep South. Republicans, from tea-party activists to national-committee grandees, can’t get enough. Team Romney, which has used Christie’s talents on the trail, surely notices. Yet at home, among his grizzled and outspoken constituents, the embrace of Christie is warmer and more intense than it is elsewhere. Speaking with the attendees, from members of the carpenters’ union and GOP state legislators to working-class parents, I don’t hear about Christie as just a future president, but as “the next Ronald Reagan.”

It’s pretty heady stuff.

welcome back, m@rk!

Whip-smart, articulate, and pleasantly pugnacious, Christie has the aura of a bona fide national sensation

the dullest sentence ever written. The grass outside my apartment browned as I read it. God, I hate adverbs.

which post has this "ten guilty men" stuff in it?

― goole, Friday, April 13, 2012 3:46 PM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's from the book description for goldberg's the tyranny of cliches

Christie has the aura of a bona fide national sensation

I want to break several personal rules about not being weightist because the substitution jokes are just too easy

well I gotta admit I read that sentence as "beef steak national sensation"

yeah i felt guilty (for a second) about typing "fat ass" but Christie's dishonesty about the transit project is breathtaking and infuriating. i.e. NJ would've shouldered 15% of the construction costs not 70% as he claimed. the NJ-NY commuters I know are so mad about this. Reading Paul Krugman this AM I actually wondered "NRO has been hyping this guy so hard how will they defend him" - nothing like a little sideshow to distract those grizzled NJ voters.

If Christie becomes the VP candidate he'll really leave his state in a mess.

Christie today is similar to the union-fighting rookie governor who took office in January 2010, but he’s visibly grown into the role.

the weight joeks are too easy but sheesh

"Moreover, I fear that Mark Steyn is right in saying that Derb’s departure will further narrow the already narrow limits of acceptable debate in American intellectual life."

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/296004/derb-and-discourse-john-osullivan

er, isn't the whole idea that open racism should not be an acceptable part of "debate in American intellectual life"? But this NRO commentator seems to think open racism ought to be intellectually acceptable? Get a brane, moran.

this comment about how norman mailer's killed more blacks than the klan is a jewel:

I say that the cultivation, by the Left, of a cultural theme that the only authentic black man is a hostile and aggressive one (this goes back to when all the radical-chic liberals were eating up Frantz Fanon and the original version of Malcolm X), has caused more black blood to be spilled than all the Klansmen who ever wore stupid hats. The grinning, shuffling Stepin Fetchit stereotype had to go, but replacing it with the image of the black man as heroic bada** did unspeakable evil. You see, bad men are lazy. (Vices tend to come in multi-packs.) Excuse a man in taking pleasure in hostility and aggressiveness, and he quickly stops limiting the focus of his aggression on the oppressor. It's much easier to victimize the guy next door. Which he does, to the number of several thousand dead every year.

heroic bada

the right was so much more enamored of the kinder, gentler black radical in those days. king, baldwin, they couldn't get enough of those guys!

Perhaps that commentator doesn't realize that black-on-black crime was so trivial in the eyes of the authorities before the 1960s that looking back now it has become all but invisible. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, etc.