NRO's The Corner: Obamacare ‘like a house on fire’ with more flammable parts yet to come

Refute the Obama revolution that “transformed” America into an elitist state of empowered celebrities.

Huh.

spot the difference

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he sure can amuse himself, this one:

In 1989, there was a movie title: “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids.” Some people noted that this codified, or at least illustrated, a slip in language: It was not “I Shrank the Kids” but “I Shrunk.” I thought of this when looking at our homepage, which tells us “How ‘Fake but Accurate’ Stories Sunk Liberal Journalism.”

English is a funny language (in addition to a great one). We have “sing,” “sang,” and “sung” — I sing it, I sang it, I’ve sung it (or I’d sung it). We have “shrink,” “shrank,” and “shrunk” (still). We have “sink,” “sank,” and “sunk” (still). We have “drink,” “drank,” and “drunk.” (“Drunken” throws a curveball.) But only “swing” and “swung.” Have you noticed that little kids say “I swang at it”? Why shouldn’t they?

I’ve often said, I have no idea how foreigners learn English. So much is so random, or random-seeming.

P.S. People thought that something important occurred in 1975, when ABC launched a show called “Good Morning America.” Where was the comma? It wasn’t there. A lot of people thought that that stank. Or stunk?

P.P.S. Reagan, talking once about something on his nose, said, “I squoze it.” I loved that. Sounded like Mark Twain, and Reagan’s native Illinois. P.P.P.S. How do you feel about “sneaked” and “snuck”? Can you say that you snuck into the theater? Sure. One could go on …

Everyone always thinks their own language is so fucking strange and unique.

Steven Pinker has written like umpteen million books about this and I'm sure they have each other's phone numbers.

Charles C.W. Cooke gets his civil rights history wrong:

And what of the protestors who have raised the president’s ire? Irrespective of the merits of their cause — and, for what it’s worth, I think they’re confusing some genuinely terrible incidents for a “structure” or a “trend” — it strikes me that they, too, are going about this in precisely the wrong way. The most successful movements in American history have elected to laud America and its ideals, and then to complain about exclusion or hypocrisy or a failure to consummate vows. This, eventually, was the course Frederick Douglass took. It was the course that MLK took, with his soaring talk of a defaulted-upon “promissory note.” It was the course taken by the suffragettes. To appeal to America at the outset of an indictment is to ensure that skeptical listener hears the subsequent criticism as “we want in” rather than “we want out.” In taking the opposite path, Kapaernick and co. have made a serious tactical mistake — a mistake that will stunt any growth they hope to enjoy. Before the details of their charge were ever known, they were seen disparaging the core symbols of the nation — symbols for which many have died and bled, and which are often taken as proxies for the Constitution, the family, and even for God — and, in some cases, they were seen praising the dictator of a perennial American foe.

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Related to this NYT op-ed from Sept 1st:

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/opinion/civil-rights-protest-resistance.html

OP-ED CONTRIBUTORS
Waiting for a Perfect Protest?

By MICHAEL MCBRIDE, TRACI BLACKMON, FRANK REID and BARBARA WILLIAMS SKINNER

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

is Rich Lowry in bad health? He looked cadaverous on Meet The Press yesterday w/one eye severely bloodshot. of course he spewed flag-wrapped "patriotic" nonsense about the NFL protests

and, in some cases, they were seen praising the dictator of a perennial American foe

Like, say, V. Poutine?

is Rich Lowry in bad health? He looked cadaverous on Meet The Press yesterday w/one eye severely bloodshot. of course he spewed flag-wrapped "patriotic" nonsense about the NFL protests

― Amazing Random (m coleman), Monday, September 25, 2017 1:29 PM (fifty-two minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

double bourbons at Peggy Noonan's brunch

man if that's what it was he looked like the hitch on his absolute worst morning-after

VDH, excited about writing purple prose again:

Outside the NFL bubble today, most of America, to the extent it still watches, now sees Sunday afternoon pop demonstrations as increasingly a farce, played out among players who appear neither exploited nor as exemplary model sportsmen, but rather as overpaid and pampered. Given the NFL’s enormous overhead, even a 10–20 percent reduction in attendance and viewing could send financial tsunamis throughout the league.

Nor do the protesting players come across as informed, brave social-justice warriors on the barricades of dissent, but as mostly unable to explain to their fans precisely why and how they are mistreated or why America is a flawed society that does not deserve momentary iconic respect each week. If players were concerned about violence and injustice, why not collect a voluntary 10 percent contribution from the league’s multimillionaire players and use it to fund programs that address systematic and lethal violence in inner-city communities such as Baltimore or Chicago? And if ethics and values are the players’ issues, why over the last decade has there been an increase in player off-field violence and arrests, often marked by well-publicized violence against women?

The owners, again fairly or not, are not viewed any longer so much as maverick tycoons and eccentric entrepreneurs or philanthropic regional family dynasties of the past, but rather as billionaire corporate magnates who invest their riches in glitzy cultural trophies and expect the state to subsidize their excesses. They are going down the Google/Apple/Facebook grandee path of losing their cultural appeal and, with it, their brand.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/451695/trump-nfls-problems-house-cards

in other national review related news, i never heard about this "affair" until this morning's newspaper. kinda like bill buckley's jack henry abbott!!

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/24/nyregion/edgar-smith-killer-who-duped-william-f-buckley-dies-at-83.html?action=click&contentCollection=obituaries®ion=rank&module=package&version=highlights&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=sectionfront

that whole story is *insane*

surely Vidal had some pithy comments about it

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lol this kid

Dennis Prager has a message for y'all.

Here is a list of eight truths about males and sexual objectification for those who have a degree in any of the “social sciences.”

1. It is completely normal for heterosexual men to see women to whom they are sexually attracted as sex objects.

2. That such sexual objectification is normal and has nothing to do with misogyny is proved by, among other things, the fact that homosexual men see men to whom they are sexually attracted as sex objects. If heterosexual men are misogynists, homosexual men are man-haters.

3. One reason for this is the almost unique power of the visual to sexually arouse men. Men are aroused just by glancing at a female arm, ankle, calf, thigh, stomach — even without ever seeing the woman’s face. Those legs, calves, arms, etc. are sexual objects. That’s why there are innumerable websites featuring them. There is nothing analogous for women. Of course, a woman can be aroused seeing a particularly handsome and masculine man. But there are no websites for women to stare at men’s legs or other male body parts.

4. Every normal heterosexual man who sees a woman as a sexual object can also completely respect her mind, her character, and everything else non-sexual about her. Men do this all the time.

It is a sign of the times that these eight points need to be spelled out. The question is, Why? Why are any of these points — known to just about every woman and man who ever lived prior to the 1960s — controversial to so many well-educated people today?

The answer is leftism and its offshoot, feminism.

makes u think

That is a taut and satisfying answer which neatly addresses any follow-up questions I might have otherwise had.

It's electrifying to be alive during such a renaissance of thought. It's like sitting at the feet of Play-Doh.

i'm sure this has been discussed on this thread before and/or others, but are there ANY "conservative intellectuals" who aren't just actually idiots with thesauruses? As much as I dig the Crooked Media gang, they often make passing reference to the existence of some kind of serious conservatism that argues intelligently and in good faith, but for the life of me I cannot think of one single actual example of such a person. Do they really still mean, like, George Will? Jesus...

there ANY "conservative intellectuals" who aren't just actually idiots with thesauruses?

no

My takeaway is that we need to start a website that features the body parts of men (not their faces), the first of its kind, so that women can fantasize about them. I’m no entrepreneur, but I believe demand vastly outweighs supply, and it’s time to capitalize

I get the impression that the "center conservative intellectuals" are actually among the dumbest figures on the right. I'm sure that Bannon and the more radical "alt-right" thinkers are smarter than anyone who writes for National Review or the Federalist.

valerie solanas to thread xp

I'm sure that Bannon and the more radical "alt-right" thinkers are smarter than anyone who writes for National Review or the Federalist.

not if the contents of those leaked milo emails are anything to go by

Weekly Standard, The American Conservative, Reason and Commentary are all better than National Review.

better as in they actually know what they're talking about or better as in they don't just drool onto their keyboards and then press SEND?

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well look we're talking about the media there's plenty of drooling going on everywhere but those institutions publish thought provoking articles on occasion. nb that i don't "read" any of them as magazines - i just get sent articles a lot and i notice that most of them come from those places.

(not most of all articles i get sent in total obv - most of the interesting right-wing articles i read)

the only conservative intellectuals I think are being honest with themselves are paleo-Catholics who advocate a retreat from the secular world

rod dreher writes for american conservative fwiw

boy does he ever

I read Larison at American Conservative regularly.

Dreher at least practices a little self-scrutiny.

that's a euphemism for guilty masturbation right

As much as I dig the Crooked Media gang, they often make passing reference to the existence of some kind of serious conservatism that argues intelligently and in good faith....

I always attributed that to them being in DC too long and having the received establishment thinking soak in too deep.

It’s the same kinda thinking and cognitive obsession with balance/centering/moderation/bipartisanship that feeds this delusions, isn’t it? That doesn’t account for changes in the GOP that removed all the Rockefeller/northeastern republicans after the 70s.

uh otm?

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/453612/roy-moore-washington-post-allegations-saving-moore-isnt-worth-it

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"Ladies and gentlemen" always sounded absurd in the context of subway announcements.

Laaadies aaaaaaand Gentlemen! Due to police activity at 14th Street Union Square all uptown 4 and 5 trains are currently delayed.

first they came for 'pocketbooks' and i said nothing

LOLry is happy

wow, he's right, they've accomplished so much great stuff, good job team!

"...we can’t say that we’ve come up empty handed."

Interesting choice of phrasing here.

So of course I have pneumonia. Because that's what everyone comes back from Hawaii with.

— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) January 3, 2018

2018 is looking up.

yeah, it must have been hawaii that gave him pneumonia rather than spending years blogging from the front seat of his car as his lungs struggle to process the vehicle’s swampy, cargo-short-tainted air

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"Waddup, peeps? Any #NeverTrumpers with big knockers looking to cool it behind Wal-Mart, hit me up!!"