So long u monster
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 23:54 (six years ago) link
lol
― Darin, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 23:54 (six years ago) link
welcome back, Shakey
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 23:54 (six years ago) link
See ya
― frogbs, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 23:57 (six years ago) link
Snarky obits were his art, this was his masterpiece.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 23:57 (six years ago) link
I didn't know this:
Every summer, while Mr. Bush was engaged in oil deals and raising investment money, Mrs. Bush and the children drove to the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Me.
On her first trip there, Mrs. Bush discovered that the hotel where she had made reservations along the way would not accommodate two black family employees who were accompanying her and the children. The employees said they would find another place. But Mrs. Bush refused to split up the group and found other accommodations. On becoming first lady, she insisted that her press secretary be black — a first for that position.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 23:58 (six years ago) link
she was waiting all these years for the simpsons to finally disgrace itself before she went
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 23:59 (six years ago) link
Οὖτις!
― Dan S, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:02 (six years ago) link
Hahahaha, great Shakey re-entrance
― map, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:03 (six years ago) link
I'm hearing "Bar" in Dana Carvey's voice right now. Am I supposed to hate her? She was married to one president, gave birth to a second and almost (sort of) a third. However much you may hate them, she didn't make their decisions--obviously she had a lot of influence on the milder of the two presidents. Seems like a remarkable life.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:06 (six years ago) link
I'm quite sure someone will set me straight in a matter of seconds.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:07 (six years ago) link
Not really.
― valorous wokelord (silby), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:08 (six years ago) link
The only time she ever enraged me was her remark about the black families housed in the Superdome. Like so many GOP wives (Betty Ford, Nancy Reagan, her own daughter in law), she was more liberal than her spouse and might've made a fascinating senator in her own right. She liked a good one-liner and a drink. I would've kicked it with her idk
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:09 (six years ago) link
Yeah, I got no real gripes with her strong enough to trouble her in death.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:09 (six years ago) link
(xpost) Didn't know about that, won't ask you to repeat it--I'll look it up.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:10 (six years ago) link
come on people, you know she was insufferable
― map, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:11 (six years ago) link
I wouldn't have married her, no.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:11 (six years ago) link
bloody necrophilia thread is this!
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:11 (six years ago) link
i like it when people i don't like die, and i'm not ashamed
― map, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:13 (six years ago) link
it IS fun! I can't wait for both Bushes and Trump to die!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:14 (six years ago) link
Agree, the Superdome quote--Astrodome, to get technical--isn't great.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:15 (six years ago) link
BB was no scourge like Nancy Reagan or Margaret Thatcher, who deserved more bile upon death than they even received.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:16 (six years ago) link
― clemenza
I never get my sports stuff right!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:17 (six years ago) link
The Astrodome quote sounds like some shit any white grandma would say, including my own and many of yours.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:17 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iG5LBAdHGz0
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:20 (six years ago) link
I don't want to get pounced upon, but I was going to say that in an exceedingly ill-timed and clueless way, it sort of seemed well-intentioned...If you instead see the comment as politely racist, though, I can appreciate that. Anyway, I'll be happy if a few stupid and insensitive words are the worst anyone can point to when I check out.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:21 (six years ago) link
Gtf in alf!
― calzino, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:21 (six years ago) link
the sentimentality that will congeal around the memory of Poppy Bush when he exhales his last breath will be as awful as Reagan's death
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:22 (six years ago) link
^^^^^
― Dan S, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:25 (six years ago) link
And then there's her famous quote on Geraldine Ferraro...that one probably won't endear her to, I don't know, 47.3% of the country when it makes the rounds today. (I remembered the quote, but I thought she was talking about Hillary!)
― clemenza, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:26 (six years ago) link
Bush attempted to persuade her son George W. to not run for Governor of Texas in the 1994 gubernatorial election, convinced he could not defeat Ann Richards.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link
she should've run against Ann Richards imo
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:31 (six years ago) link
come on, her beautiful mind quote was her masterpiece.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:32 (six years ago) link
OMG, Shakey, I always thought the your RIP reactions were a little ghoulish, but this thread is a masterclass in comic timing.
― Dethloaf LLC (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 00:38 (six years ago) link
map otm, these are all horrible people
they are the death cult personified
― sleeve, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:05 (six years ago) link
I have no strong reason to dislike her, as far as I know, thought I was a bit too young to care about her one way or the other at the time (most of my memories of her are actually Simpsons and Naked Gun parodies). The MSNBC pundits using her death to pine nostalgically for the Republican party of her husband's era earlier this evening is straight up nauseating, but that's not her fault.
― Dangleballs and the Ballerina (cryptosicko), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:21 (six years ago) link
So sad to hear the news, she was so young. I couldn't stand her father, but she and her twin always seemed all right.
― pplains, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:24 (six years ago) link
The MSNBC pundits using her death to pine nostalgically for the Republican party of her husband's era earlier this evening is straight up nauseating
get ready -- it's only a taste
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:25 (six years ago) link
xplol
― Dan S, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:26 (six years ago) link
Was the astrodome thing legitimately racist or just a faux pas though I listened to NPR’s obituary for her and she seemed like a nice enough woman
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:32 (six years ago) link
This bit, which I also remember at the time, is mitigated somewhat by context:
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/barbara-bush-beautiful-mind/
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:33 (six years ago) link
shakey!!!!!
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:34 (six years ago) link
Shakey: some action.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:37 (six years ago) link
what a delightful first post
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:47 (six years ago) link
“If human beings are perceived as potentials rather than problems, as possessing strengths instead of weaknesses, as unlimited rather that dull and unresponsive, then they thrive and grow to their capabilities” - Barbara Bush
― the late great, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
in seventeen years on this msg board i have never seen anyone type anything so eloquent or edifying
enjoy piling on the dead lady u monsters
― the late great, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:51 (six years ago) link
I'm grateful the GOP embraced Barbara Bush's humanist spirit in the last thirty years.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 01:53 (six years ago) link
I never knew about Robin Bush until this evening. :(
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:01 (six years ago) link
XpSo you’re blaming the GOP on Mrs Bush
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:03 (six years ago) link
No, I'm blaming the death of irony on you.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:08 (six years ago) link
I wishhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W07LABM57Fs
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:29 (six years ago) link
milo how dare u besmirch HW's 357-day stewardship of the CIA and the sterling reputation it had accumulated by 1976.
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:36 (six years ago) link
hmmm that’s not really what it’s about but ok
― the late great, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
Calling first ladies enablers is a bit much.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
dudes
save it for the RIP George H.W. Bush thread.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
Bile is a renewable resource.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:40 (six years ago) link
Her work for literacy seems to have been helpful.
― Van Horn Street, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link
I have to say I don't have particularly bad feelings about her. She at least acknowledged the devastation of AIDS, which the Reagans were unwilling to do
― Dan S, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 03:18 (six years ago) link
Houstonians with good memories might remember chortling a little at Bar when, a few weeks after the Astrodome quote, she was complaining at the inconvenience she endured when Poppy called short a Kennebunkport getaway to watch the Astros in the World Series from behind home plate.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 03:36 (six years ago) link
i usu go for p*mps
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 03:39 (six years ago) link
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, April 17, 2018 7:08 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
oh i understood your irony
you think too highly of yourself if you think your basic comments can go over people's heads
my comment on the other hand you misinterpreted for whatever reason
― F# A# (∞), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 04:10 (six years ago) link
Who is Barbara Bush
― flappy bird, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 04:51 (six years ago) link
your mom
― map, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 04:52 (six years ago) link
Between George HW, Jeb and George W, the Bush family has been responsible for a vast number of actions that have killed or harmed untold numbers of people, so if the wife of one and mother of the other two is seen as somewhat complicit in those actions, it is not strange.
She was a tireless defender of all three of them. That fact will be the larger part of her legacy to the world than making an inspiring statement that may have been ghostwritten for her by staff, or her work for literacy, which was chosen mainly to be non-controversial and to reflect well on her husband's career. Most of what we know about Mrs. Bush was filtered through a carefully constructed media image. I imagine she was generally loved by those whom she loved, but I don't trust her public image one bit.
― A is for (Aimless), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 05:13 (six years ago) link
otm
Reminder that saying nothing is often the best option. https://t.co/c5obBy1xio— Ali Abunimah (@AliAbunimah) April 18, 2018
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 08:12 (six years ago) link
"The MSNBC pundits using her death to pine nostalgically for the Republican party of her husband's era earlier this evening is straight up nauseating"
maybe but I'd probably give the fucking republican party of that era a bouquet of roses if they came to prominence again over whatever the republican party is now.
― akm, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 09:12 (six years ago) link
see? they won!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 10:16 (six years ago) link
oh ffs
― Simon H., Wednesday, 18 April 2018 11:23 (six years ago) link
this thread is shakey's sistine chapel
― Mahogany Loggins (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 11:34 (six years ago) link
Missed you in the Star Wars 8 thread, Οὖτις.
― how's life, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 11:46 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RdBaAGyeKvE
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 11:57 (six years ago) link
The Republican Party of Jesse Helms doesn't seem meaningfully different to the Republican Party of Steve King to me.
― louise ck (milo z), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 14:56 (six years ago) link
"The MSNBC pundits using her death to pine nostalgically for the Republican party of her husband's era earlier this evening is straight up nauseating"maybe but I'd probably give the fucking republican party of that era a bouquet of roses if they came to prominence again over whatever the republican party is now.― akm, Wednesday, April 18, 2018 9:12 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― akm, Wednesday, April 18, 2018 9:12 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Saw a tweet that said 'Barbara Bush was the last first lady presiding over a truly bipartisan Washington' and I wanted to kill myself
― officer sonny bonds, lytton pd (mayor jingleberries), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link
a Washington united by ignoring AIDS and bombing Baghdad
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 15:39 (six years ago) link
First comment hall of fame after one of my friends posted on FB.
https://i.imgur.com/a9lwicH.jpg
― Millennial Whoop, wanna fight about it? (Phil D.), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 17:39 (six years ago) link
Professor who called Barbara Bush an "amazing racist" on Twitter shortly after the former first lady's death now faces university investigation. https://t.co/r4fMvx6CVQ— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) April 18, 2018
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 19 April 2018 08:29 (six years ago) link
Many Fox stations appear set to preempt the Man United-Spurs FA Cup semifinal to cover Barbara Bush’s funeral https://t.co/bF6t5zs2kX pic.twitter.com/J1op7MDok6— Awful Announcing (@awfulannouncing) April 20, 2018
well i never
― mookieproof, Friday, 20 April 2018 21:45 (six years ago) link
couldn't they just have a a minute's applause before the game?
― calzino, Friday, 20 April 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link
I noticed today that USA flags were flying at half-staff. I assume this was for Barbara Bush, the spouse of a past president, who died at age 92, wealthy and well-cared for. This is not some national tragedy. This was normal and expected.
I greatly doubt Eleanor Roosevelt's death was similarly marked, despite her being a far more significant national figure. I've watched for over half a century as this tradition for representing days of nationwide mourning has been further and further cheapened to the point that almost anything that combines death with continuous cable news coverage now merits flags put at half-staff. It sucks.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 21 April 2018 03:27 (six years ago) link
I assumed it was for '60s kiddie show host Chuck McCann
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 21 April 2018 03:39 (six years ago) link
"Government buildings and installations throughout the world flew the flag at half-staff by order of President Kennedy. Similar action was taken by Gov. Rockefeller and Mayor Wagner in state and city."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/world-leaders-responded-news-eleanor-roosevelt-death-article-1.2003123
― velko, Saturday, 21 April 2018 03:51 (six years ago) link
I imagine she was generally loved by those whom she loved, but I don't trust her public image one bit.
― A is for (Aimless), Tuesday, April 17, 2018 10:13 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
https://www.npr.org/2018/04/18/603475998/former-first-lady-barbara-bush-dies-at-92
KING: Cokie, you knew Barbara Bush. You spent some time interviewing her over the years. What was she like?ROBERTS: Well, she was exactly as she comes across to the public.
ROBERTS: Well, she was exactly as she comes across to the public.
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 21 April 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link
Thank you. Now we should go back and investigate whether Florence Harding, Grace Coolidge, Lou Hoover, or Bess Truman were equally honored by flags at half-staff at their deaths.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 21 April 2018 04:06 (six years ago) link
Right...
― flappy bird, Saturday, 21 April 2018 04:08 (six years ago) link
Cokie's mind is certainly that of a Beltway tool
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 21 April 2018 04:23 (six years ago) link
I love cokes
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 21 April 2018 04:39 (six years ago) link
KING: Cokie, you knew Barbara Bush. You spent some time interviewing her over the years. What was she like?
COKIE: Well, perhaps this may sound a bit misplaced, saying it to an audience of several million people about a recently deceased public figure who's being buried today with much pomp,ceremony and inflated eulogies, a moment when I am expected by convention to say something admiring or reverent, or at the very least non-committal, but really, the woman was something of a bitch. No, really, it's true, so why hide it? {her mic goes dead}
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 21 April 2018 05:43 (six years ago) link
that's the worst cokie impression i've ever read
― F# A# (∞), Saturday, 21 April 2018 18:05 (six years ago) link
you're right. she did a pitch perfect impression of herself being a media commentator in your link.
― A is for (Aimless), Saturday, 21 April 2018 18:13 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/VcG1tZ2.png
― pplains, Saturday, 21 April 2018 19:22 (six years ago) link
when Michael Jackson released the "Black and White" video, my friends and I imagined Barbara Bush as part of the closing morphing montage, going IT'S BLACK IT'S WHITE YEAH YEAH YEAH
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 21 April 2018 19:27 (six years ago) link
Invited to Barbara Bush’s funeral was the owner of her favorite pizza restaurant...he and his wife sat next to me.She wanted to include people who were a part of her life and she loved their restaurant. It was not all big names but all very important people to her.— Greta Van Susteren (@greta) April 21, 2018
― j., Sunday, 22 April 2018 00:35 (six years ago) link
Aw that's nice I'm sure the Comet Pizza owners were touched
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 22 April 2018 01:56 (six years ago) link
Wishing bad thoughts to a dead person is the epitome of bad shit. Do you want to add to the shiftiness of the world ? Keep being negative then.
― after party for the apocalypse (Ross), Sunday, 22 April 2018 02:24 (six years ago) link
Shitiness **
Barbara Bush was a person. Now she is dead. But while alive she was very close to the pinnacle of public power, where decisions made by her husband and her children affected many millions, if not billions of people. If it was OK to point out her shortcomings during her life, her dying does not excuse or dismiss those shortcomings. I don't think her flaws or wrongs were so massive as to justify glee upon her death, but painting her in false colors does no one any good.
― A is for (Aimless), Sunday, 22 April 2018 02:49 (six years ago) link
Joking aside, that pizza story remind me of something I did like about Bar & HW, which is that were always pretty supportive of local Houston businesses (albeit ones of a certain stripe, natch--no taco stands for them) and many arts organizations (albeit ones of...).
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 22 April 2018 03:09 (six years ago) link
powerful: they have chosen to be buried alive with the coffin and guard her unto eternity https://t.co/2H12rjhvYG— BAKOON (@BAKKOOONN) April 21, 2018
― the ignatius rock of ignorance (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 22 April 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link
you’re just jealous
― the late great, Sunday, 22 April 2018 15:52 (six years ago) link
A storied tradition which humankind has allowed to lapse for too many thousands of years.
― Across the You Never Her (Old Lunch), Sunday, 22 April 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link