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MERCINDY BENZ
Former peace activist Cindy Sheehan now urges her fellow Americans to vote for a car:
Please do as the Mercedes lady demands. Congress will function superbly under the control of an efficient German automaker. (Earlier peace-themed Mercedes manifestations here, here, here, and here.)
UPDATE. In other anti-Bush news, global warming puffdaddy Al Gore recently visited Baltimore. The temperature immediately dropped to a maximum of 53 °F, some seven degrees below average peaks for that day and 24 °F below last year’s record high.
UPDATE II. Big time exit-poll security is in place across the US to ensure dumb lefties don’t get things wrong this time.
UPDATE III. Pete Wheatstraw asks: “Sure, the SLR McLaren’s supercharged 650 bhp V8 tops out at 334 kph and goes from 0-100 kph in under four seconds, but where does is it stand on extending the Bush tax cuts??”
Hell no! We fought off the Germans in 1945 and we’re not letting them take over now, Herr Schindy!
(How sad is it when they can’t even do the chicken footprint right?)
Couldn’t a poorly sighted prince or a fairy godmother remove Cinders -just this once?
O/T Congratulations to Japanese Syndicate and rider Hasurani? Iwata on their win in the Melbourne Cup. War sensitivities from past generations aside, they were very polite,emotional,open and delightfully pleased with their win.I am pleased for them….though a win for myself woulda been good.Could use a mil or two.paco, screw that, I’m voting for the hover car. (I wish I had one NOW as half the streets ands roads in the Seattle area are flooded. Heck, maybe I need an ark.)
Posted by David Crawford on 2006 11 07 at 10:07 AM • permalinkLooks like a half arsed wobble board.
Rolf will be pissed off.Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2006 11 07 at 10:29 AM • permalinkJust to clear it up for the Seppos, THIS is a wobble board, not some horrible exercise/torture equipment.
Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2006 11 07 at 10:41 AM • permalinkHeck she’s got a sour,dour,put-upon visage..aren’t you sick of looking at her?
o/t Int article on BBC World site about Turkey and how the E.U. is releasing a report disapproving of the army and its role in protecting secularity.Gen Basar Bujukarit said that “Turkish republic and its values were under attack from people in the highest positions in government because they want to redefine secularism.”
The general commented that it was more like “trying to become a member of the Iranian union than E.U.”
A retired Turkish General, Edib Basar was quoted on the site with this speech…
“If this building (the State), falls down, everything -including Democracy,Freedom of Speech,Human Rights -gets crushed underneath.
So the roof has to be STRONG -the ARMY keeps an eye on it.”
The army is very popular with the Turkish People who turned out to cheer it on the Birthday of the Republic.
The General thinks the E.U. is very naive.
That’s being kind I reckon.
What a beautiful speech, it makes us proud to be linked with Turkey.Hmmm.
You it’s particularly sad that these wannabee hippies can’t even get the most insignificant details right.
Posted by memomachine on 2006 11 07 at 10:56 AM • permalinkAs y’all would no doubt say if George Bush made a similar mistake: it’s what she’s saying that counts, not the manner in which she’s saying it. You are all in denial, methinks.
Posted by Dim Blare Jr on 2006 11 07 at 11:42 AM • permalinkNot only has she got the compassionate head tilt going, but the compassionate sign tilt, too.
Posted by ErnestBludger on 2006 11 07 at 11:50 AM • permalinkSorry to go O/T (not really as I’m spitting chips here)
Bloody U2 at their concert in Brisbane have called for Hicks to be released
As a patriotic Aussie with my partner’s son-in-law having just gone to Afghanistan for the third time in 6 months last night (he’s an Army bomb tech)I’m seething to think that these overhyped overseas musicians can come here and think that they can not only play music but can politicise it
U2 want David Hicks, Aussie Taliban traitor free
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2006 11 07 at 12:02 PM • permalinkDim Blare Jnr:
It’s never wise to put words in the mouths of your opponents - it effortlessly marks you out as a lightweight. Take your comment above. I doubt many here feel compelled to leap to Bush’s defence every time he muffs a speech. I actually have a couple of theories as to why Bush isn’t such a great orator - and neither of them are “Bush is soooooooo dumb, he can’t say ‘nuclear’!”
Far from being in denial, I’d put money on the assertion that the average poster to this blog is considerably more thoughtful than yourself, Dim.
Posted by James Waterton on 2006 11 07 at 12:14 PM • permalinkOkay, this is mean, but I’ve finally worked out what it is about St. Mother that’s been niggling at the back of my mind. She looks like a Cabbage Patch Doll. The expression on the face is exactly the same. And looks at the fingers on that sign! Gloves? You decide.
Speaking of modes of transportation - who won the Melbourne Cup?
Posted by Sonetka's Mom on 2006 11 07 at 12:40 PM • permalink#27 Sonetka’s Mum
Delta Blues - a Japanese horse ridden by a Japanese jockey - bless his cotton socks
Whe would have ever predicted this during WW11 in the War in the Pacific
Posted by aussiemagpie on 2006 11 07 at 12:46 PM • permalink“Cindy Sheehan now urges her fellow Americans to vote…”
You got it, sweetheart. And, as usual, I’m voting for Republicans and Libertarians, and against anything that looks remotely like socialism. Happy now, peacetard?
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 11 07 at 01:14 PM • permalinkEven though I’m a BMW owner, Cindy’s sign has opened my eyes. Today I’m voting a straight Mercedes ticket!
Posted by Randal Robinson on 2006 11 07 at 02:12 PM • permalinkBTW, who or what’s this K.C. her poster is referring to?
Kansas City. She’s a Chiefs fan, I think.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 11 07 at 02:18 PM • permalinkThe “peace” symbol is really - originally and historically - the “total nuclear disarmament” symbol, which is really - in practical terms - the “Kremlin-funded unilateral Western disarmament” symbol.
Good to know that while the details change, the overall mindset doesn’t.
And that Sheehan doesn’t even understand her own chosen symbols enough to draw the damned things correctly. It’s not like it’s hard to bisect a circle and add an inverted vee, right?
I hope the ‘K.C.’ is the lovely city in Kansas…I know it ain’t me, but it did give me a bit of a start…cuz the broad gives me the heebie-jeebies every time I see her or hear about her, & carrying around my initials is just ...wrong, somehow…
Looks like I’ve voted every election since ‘88, though I skipped a couple things today (like whether or not to bring the Navy back to Cecil Field - pretty sure that’s an opinion poll, so they won’t miss my opinion). I voted straight “party” ticket - anyone who believes we keep the ‘party’ against terrorists going where the terrorists are got my vote.
Holy Toledo, Retread - you could set up HOUSE in that thing!!
Im with David Crawford - I want the hover car.
Posted by Sharon_Ferguson on 2006 11 07 at 03:37 PM • permalinkTheir cellphones and BlackBerrys will be confiscated;
Let’s hope that included anal body cavity searches of the journos. And, citing the Berger Precedent, I trust that no underwear or socks will be allowed.
Posted by andycanuck on 2006 11 07 at 04:13 PM • permalinkHey, I was just wondering. The whole Lancet Study. It only looks at deaths. What if instead of estimating the current cost, you also consider the boost in births. What’s that look like.
Now what happens when you take the data/trends in births and deaths put those into grobel wormening modules. What’s the difference in projections using available data vs. pre-invasion only data?
#44
Speaking of extrapolating, ABC announcer this AM quoting a piece that the latest drought is a 1 in a 1,000 year drought (not a 1 in a 100 as previously thought).
He then looked at what had happened in 1006, rattled off a few things, including the eruption of a volcano in Indonesia, and suggested that it could be the reason there was a drought 1,000 years ago ( Mt Merapi a connection). (Then he said perhaps not.)Idiot.
You would think a woman as famous as Cindeeee would be able to construct a more professional sign.
Its a sad day when modern American hippies have to resort to cheap, pasteboard signs to get their message across. Whatever happened to the giant multicolored banners of the halcyon Vietnam days, banners that took eight people to control?
Im saddened, Jane Fonda is rolling over in her grave. Whats that? Shes not dead yet? Crap.
Cindy goes MBZ, but Algore is driving
And, yes, there is a Brazil connection, too.
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2006 11 07 at 06:13 PM • permalink#49. What was revealing about the MSM was that they splashed ‘the 1000 year stuff’ all over the evening news because someone mentioned a vague ‘low probability’ [guess] of another one.
You’d think that would be COMFORTING.So suddenly a rumour became a headline, and PM Howard’s denial that such a term was valid went for nothing.
Only the next morning were the facts even canvassed, and there AREN’T any. No need to give any proof - it sounds very scary, so run with it!Barrie, how the hell do they know there was/wasn’t a drought as severe as this one in Australia in 1,000 years. It’s just idiotic. Whitepella only bin here just over 200 years. Aborigine’s a bit longer (oh OK, anywhere from 40k to 60k). As you say, it’s a probability thing.
You can make scientific “facts” back up any idiotic thing you want to say, especially to extract money from taxpayers via the government.
Or you can just say anything with a bit of authority, and no facts, and the MSM will run with it.Wake up and smell the Mercedes you tosser.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 07 at 08:03 PM • permalinkMemo from the CEO
DaimlerChrysler CorporationIt has come to my attention that the Mercedes Benz logo is being used without permission in the pursuit of partisan political gain.
Hereby be aware, if this breach of Mercedes Benz’s Copyright occurs again, the Company will seek legal relief through the Courts of The United States and intends to prosecute the guilty party/parties to the full extent of the law.
Mercedes Benz will not permit it logo to be besmirched as a form of cheap and childish propaganda by persons of ill-will.
The damages sought against individuals or organisations will be in the Millions of Dollars.
—————————————
Tom LaSorda, CEO
DaimlerChrysler CorporationAussiemagpie, I hope you yelled out to eff back off and leave
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 07 at 08:21 PM • permalink#28 ak, no, no, this is deliberate. It makes her look “ethnic” and, like, like the illiterate university students who support her.
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 07 at 08:28 PM • permalink#52 “Reverse was now selected by restarting the motor backwards.”
What was that about German engineering???
Posted by Wimpy Canadian on 2006 11 07 at 08:45 PM • permalinkHer son was killed on active duty. She can say what she fucking wants.
Posted by SingleMalt on 2006 11 07 at 09:43 PM • permalinkWell despite the fact I’m only allowed to vote in the States due to Wron’s handywork, I think I’d be voting for this wonderful piece of all-American engineering.
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 11 07 at 09:52 PM • permalink#60, I thought that applied to everyone in the US, something about freedom of speech?
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 11 07 at 09:57 PM • permalink#61 You’re wrong mate. Leave her alone. She is pathetic but still deserving of our respect and sympathy. She’s just a sad little lady who lost her son and now stands in front of the White House with a sign. I’m sorry for her loss and I respect the sacrifice her son made for his country. It seems inappropriate to ridicule her.
We’ve got a right to say anything we want. But be a gentleman “paco”, don’t go calling the lady names.
Posted by SingleMalt on 2006 11 07 at 10:02 PM • permalink#60 - Listen up, CheapBlend. Your thought patterns are all over the place like a mad womens shit. How about you lay off the fire water and try to learn something. You’ve made an arse of yourself in previous threads and now you’ve made a dick of yourself here. Don’t collect the set.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 07 at 10:12 PM • permalinkSinglemalt -Her son made the ultimate sacrifice for his country (went TWICE to Iraq ) and now she is totally NEGATING and besmirching everything he stood for..
He has a FATHER too if that counts with you-and his father has divorced her for what SHE did and what SHE stands for…
But father doesn’t try to make POLITICAL capital out of his son’s death -SHE does.#65 It just seems like the decent thing to do that’s all.
Posted by SingleMalt on 2006 11 07 at 10:18 PM • permalink#64: She’s not just opining, friend. She’s using her son’s death as a vehicle to mobilize anti-war sentiment, i.e., to effect changes in public policy which many of us think would be disastrous. She certainly has a right to do this; however, when she enters the arena of public debate of her own accord, she’s no longer someone who just wants to be “left alone”, and when she repeatedly makes vile comments about public figures, she has no moral right to hide behind her grief in order to avoid valid criticism, or, for that matter, to avoid the strong editorial opinions expressed by myself and others. Many of us have either been at risk, or have loved ones who are likely soon to be at risk, in Iraq and elsewhere, and we’re not going to stand idly by while this woman and her political allies try to engineer a foreign policy disaster that would undermine the sacrifices of those who have died, and put at risk those who are serving now and in the future - and if she takes a few lumps in the policy debates, that’s her choice, the same as anyone else who exercises his right to speak out - including me.
A taxi-cab psychologist would tell you all you needed to know about that women by the “K.C” on the sign. Added as an after thought. It has been and will remain all about her.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 07 at 10:26 PM • permalinkSingleMalt,
You’re wrong. Her son sacrificed his life for his country and she used it to obtain fame and admiration from the left. Sure she has a right to say whatever she wishes. She has no right to exploit her son’s sacrifice to do so. She doesn’t give a shit about Casey or about the war. It’s all about her and her need to feel young and admired.
She deserves nothing but contempt.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 07 at 10:27 PM • permalinkFeel free to pick on all the ladies you like.
Cowards.
Posted by SingleMalt on 2006 11 07 at 10:27 PM • permalink#71 I didn’t see your post before I sent mine.
Your response is an articulate one and deserves a more polite reply. Please don’t take my previous response as a reference to you.
I don’t think there is a right way to respond to something like what she’s been through. I don’t accept her criticisms. I don’t agree with or support her campaign. I just reckon we can maintain our position without losing our dignity. Beating up on someone like her just diminishes us.
Posted by SingleMalt on 2006 11 07 at 10:42 PM • permalinkInfidel Tiger, I was waiting for someone to note those two initials, “K.C.”
If nothing the others have said convinces you, “SingleMalt”, of why this virago’s exploitative—almost cannabalistic—feeding off the corpse of her much-honoured son is the quite possibly the most despicable and cowardly act a mother could ever commit, surely that little “4 K.C.” added (no doubt at the suggestion of someone else) should lift the scales from your eyes.
She is not deluded, she is rabid. Any sympathy she might deserve has been stripped away by the obscenity of her betrayal of her own son and the nation for which he gave his life to protect.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 11 07 at 10:53 PM • permalink#66 You’ve obviously been taking elocution lessons from Borat.
What, in your experience, is “a mad womens shit” like? How does her mental state control or otherwise contribute to her bowel movements?
Is potty talk all you can come up with when you get excited?
Posted by SingleMalt on 2006 11 07 at 10:54 PM • permalinkThere is a story, a true one I believe, about an incident that occurred in 17th century Spain. A duke was throwing a ball at his palace, and the grandees and ladies were strolling about the balcony. Now, the duke maintained a menagerie, and one of the lions got loose from his cage and was prowling about the courtyard. A beautiful young woman tossed her glove into the courtyard, whereupon the grandee next to her instantly leapt from the balcony, retrieved the glove, scrambled up a trellis, and resumed his position beside her. He bowed, returned the glove, and then slapped her face, saying, “Never again trifle with the honor of a gentleman.”
Sheehan is trifling with the honor of her son, the honor of our military and the honor of our nation. She has tossed her glove - defiantly, ostentatiously. The consequences are on her own head.
#74 ... and every reply to you has been as articulate as your piss-weak comment deserves.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 11 07 at 10:59 PM • permalink#78 Well, I didn’t see it that way, but I accept that you do. Do you think though, that we could criticise her without the vitriol? If she’s humiliating herself and the memory of her son, do we have to compound that by slagging off at her? I would have thought her position becomes self-evident upon hearing her speak for any length of time.
#79 Great to see you’re putting so much thought into your reply. What’s the matter, couldn’t come up with a poopy line of your own?
Posted by SingleMalt on 2006 11 07 at 11:10 PM • permalink#81, “Eat shit and die, motherfucker.”
Will that do?
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 11 07 at 11:13 PM • permalink#82 Seems to say more about you.
Now go away, grown-ups are talking.
Posted by SingleMalt on 2006 11 07 at 11:23 PM • permalinkSingleMalt
1. The debate over Mme Sheehan’s character occured during the fall of 2004; it appears you are ill-informed of that.
2. Mme Sheehan has done nothing to retrieve her reputation since; you appear to be uninformed of that.
3. Her current actions and behavior continue to be reprehensible; you appear to be unable to grasp that.
4. What MentalFloss @ #82 concludes.Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2006 11 07 at 11:29 PM • permalinkFeel free to pick on all the ladies you like.
A woman who hugs and sings the praises of dictators (Hugo Chavez ring a bell?) is no lady. And she certainly has proven to be no shrinking violet who needs the protection of “the gentlemen”. She put herself in the public arena, and managed to make herself ludicrous in the process. She can take her lumps like anybody else.
As for the loss of her son, I’d believe it grieved her more if she hadn’t waited years to put a frickin’ stone on his grave.
Now go away, grown-ups are talking.
Where? Certainly someone who thinks Cindy Sheehan is above criticism can be considered an “adult”.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 11 07 at 11:35 PM • permalinkAs for the loss of her son, I’d believe it grieved her more if she hadn’t waited years to put a frickin’ stone on his grave.
Or posed for photos stretched out across it.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 11 07 at 11:36 PM • permalinkCheapHooch - FYI
All over the place like a mad woman’s shit.
Literal Meaning: Messy/in disarray/unfocused.
Country of Origin: AustraliaThe only thing I have learned from Borat, is that fermented horse urine is best enjoyed slightly below room temperature.
Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2006 11 07 at 11:40 PM • permalink“Feel free to pick on all the ladies you like.”
Ok lets start with you.
“Do you think though, that we could criticise her without the vitriol?”
No. The bitch deserves all she gets and then some.
If she’s humiliating herself and the memory of her son, do we have to compound that by slagging off at her?”
Well, no we dont have to, but it sure is fun.
Oh, tell your mum I said hi… ;)
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 11 07 at 11:44 PM • permalink#84. Are you saying she’s a fallen woman? Her reputation in ruins?
That makes your attack on her all the more spineless.
Democracy will be safe as long as we’ve got your kind to beat up on our women.
Posted by SingleMalt on 2006 11 07 at 11:47 PM • permalink#90 Do you think you act like that because you’re aware that you’re inferior? People will repect you more if you don’t treat women that way. Coward.
#92 & 93 You should try the Irish or even better the Islay malts.
#89 Infidel Tiger. Drink up.Posted by SingleMalt on 2006 11 08 at 12:10 AM • permalinkDemocracy will be doomed so long as fools such as you fail to recognise that institutions unassailble from without are susceptible to rot from within.
Sheehan and her ilk are the rising damp that weakens the defenses without which our enemies (no, not the French, SingleMalt)that seek to destroy us utterly.
Perhaps, since we’re all “grown-ups” here, you’ve read Allen Drury. “Advice and Consent”? No?
Maybe “Come Nineveh, Come Tyre”?
Less a political novel than a political thriller. “Come Nineveh, Come Tyre” is a tale about the end of the United States as a free country.
The nation’s demise is the result not of frontal attacks by an obvious enemy—although an enemy is clearly identified in the Soviet Union and its satellites.
Rather, America perishes in Drury’s telling by rot from within, through the action of respectable political and intellectual forces which have ceased to believe in the country and the nobility of its destiny.
60+ years after that novel Sheehan, Pelosi, Murtha, et alii represent the “rot from within”.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 11 08 at 12:12 AM • permalinkInferior to whom? You? BWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Anyway, your mum said she likes it rough, so does that still count as “beating up on (your) women”?
Who’s your daddy?
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 11 08 at 12:30 AM • permalinkNo, MentalFloss, you’re just wrong.
Our society has always tolerated and thrived on dissent. We may strongly disagree with others but we will fight to defend their right to hold those views. This is the freedom we are fighting for. This is the freedom that the Taliban takes away from people.
I’m just saying stop calling Cindy Sheehan names. Its looks bad. Disagree with her. Demonstrate her errors. But, at all times, remain a gentleman.
Now, I’m off to the Club for a Laphroaig’s. Good afternoon to you all.
Posted by SingleMalt on 2006 11 08 at 12:35 AM • permalink#97 Whoa big fella. This is not the place. Are you in Melbourne? Give me your phone number and we can discuss this properly.
Stop being such a coward.
Posted by SingleMalt on 2006 11 08 at 12:41 AM • permalinkClearly you aint the brightest spark in the fire.
Sticks and stones pendejo…
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 11 08 at 01:40 AM • permalinkHey, Cindy Sheehan is a loathsome piece of quasi-human debris.
Might as well be honest about it.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 11 08 at 02:32 AM • permalink#99 Where in my post at #95 did I advocate stifling dissent? Has the Sheehan bitch been stifled? Far from it.
Dissent was not the point of my comment, nor the reference I cited. The danger we face is far more insidious and covert.
I’ll type this slowly for your benefit:
“...the action of respectable political and intellectual forces which have ceased to believe in the country and the nobility of its destiny.”
Dissent takes the form of words, usually in the context of non-violent protest, broadcast media, the internet or print.I wouldn’t consider for a moment denying Sheehan her right to protest, despite the fact that I believe her to be an atavistic whore, rending gobbets of flesh from her own son’s corpse to further her obscene and treasonous agenda, her lust for self-aggrandisement and attention.
Those now in a position to further with actions that agenda which Sheehan so pornographically caricatures—they are the ones to be watched. They are the ones to be stymied at every turn. They are the ones whose every word and deed—both public and private—must be subject to the closest scrutiny.
It will not be long before their perfidy is made evident for all to see.
My greatest fear is that the aid and comfort they have given our avowed enemy will directly cause deaths of the true guardians of what you so loosely term “our society”. You cannot be ranked among them, despite your protestations of moral superiority.
Drink deep, you amoral sot. Drink deep and often, for the days and months ahead will reveal your shame and your idiocy. Best your senses grow yet duller lest the enormity of the inevitable consquences of this paradigm shift haunt your fevered dreams forevermore.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 11 08 at 02:32 AM • permalinkBack on topic for a moment, LOL, #59 Wimpy C.
The reversing of the Messerschmitt was very clever and efficient. Since the two-stroke motor runs fine in reverse, all that’s needed is a lever to retard the timing about 20 degrees, stop the motor, restart it, and it runs in reverse.
No need for an extra gear in the transmission, AND you get four reverse gears for those special moments. I learned to do it without even restarting, just cut the ignition, reverse the timing, turn on the ignition again, good to go.
Posted by Harry Bergeron on 2006 11 08 at 02:46 AM • permalinkNB: SingleMalt ignored specific reasons Sheehan is given no respect—her long delay on spending the DoD-provided money for her son’s headstone and her posing for a pic stretched out on his grave.
Posted by Rob Crawford on 2006 11 08 at 10:22 AM • permalinkRe: #103, If anyone was wondering why I suddenly resorted to mum jokes, its because I’m fully aware I cant compose a post of such clarity and wisdom.
If I ever were to admit my ‘inferiority’ to anyone at this sight, it would be Floss (or TimB or The Dark Lord Rove), although I’ve a sneaking suspicion I could out drink him (prove me wrong Floss :P )...
However at the same time, as I noticed this thread decending into name calling, I thought it would only be appropriate to apply my advanced knowledge of juvenile slander.
If anyone (apart from you, you cheap booze drinkin Rtard) has a serious problem with that, please feel free to comment.
Sincerely yours
TWoW(Riding Malt’s Mum, YEEEE HAAAWWW!)
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 11 08 at 11:02 AM • permalinkSight = site, its late, I’ve been drinking; tell someone who cares…
Posted by The_Wizard_of_WOZ on 2006 11 08 at 11:20 AM • permalinkSingleMalt,
What everybody is trying to say is, the question has already been posed and debated countless times, since the fall of 2004. We’re way past the time - and the extent of patience - to bring it up again for debate.
The conclusion: Sheehan is a terrible mother for using the sacrifice of her son to garner pathetic attention. She is beneath contempt. Since she continues doing so, she deserves all the abuse she gets and then some.
May I suggest you go to another blog to discuss it. I imagine Tim Dunlop’s people, all three of them, would support your thoughts.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 08 at 04:18 PM • permalinkOh Wizard of WOZ, words are weapons and each of us makes use of the arsenal with which we are supplied.
Just as weapons come in various configurations for specific applications, so words can be assembled to carry a payload to be delivered with pinpoint accuracy or designed for broad and indiscriminate destruction.
My conduct on this thread has been less than exemplary. Were I given to making excuses, I would cite the abiding and unrelenting anger and disgust I feel towards the Sheehans and Rachel Corries of this world for any importunate words I may have directed at this SingleMalt character.
That being said, I’ll go “sloppy seconds” when yer done…
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 11 08 at 04:47 PM • permalink#110 I called you out. You backed down. Coward.
Posted by SingleMalt on 2006 11 08 at 06:08 PM • permalinkWhat? When did that happen?
Hey MentalFloss, did SingleMalt call me out? (And exactly what does that mean?)
Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 08 at 06:16 PM • permalink#112 Two things:
1. When you “call someone out” (canned laughter), check who it is you are threatening.
2. In August 2004 new Commonwealth criminal offences were enacted, which among many other things, criminalise using a carriage service (telecommunications or Internet service) to menace or harass.
You are treading a very thin line.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 11 08 at 06:20 PM • permalinkWronright, as I recall from my K-6 playground days, to “call someone out” means “meet me by the bike racks after school and we’ll push each other and make faces”.
If the “caller” intends serious harm to the “callee”, hair may be pulled or, G-d forbid, severe scratching may ensue.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 11 08 at 06:24 PM • permalinkwronwright, sorry for the mis-spell.
(please don’t “call me out”!)
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 11 08 at 06:29 PM • permalink“she deserves all the abuse she gets and then some.”
That’s usually true of people like Ste Cindy who: use abusive language themselves, lie like a freking rug, and align themselves with the enemies of their country.
Posted by Dave Surls on 2006 11 08 at 06:41 PM • permalinkSinglemalt: I believe you called Wizard of Oz out (see your comment #100). Wronwright was the “articulate” one (see your comment #74) whom you treated with civility (possibly because you’re aware of the fact that he possesses a vast array of weaponry).
By the way, I challenge you to a cyber duel; consider yourself skewered on my cyber saber (non-mortally).
SingleMalt? More probably this single malt.
Cheers
Posted by J.M. Heinrichs on 2006 11 08 at 07:43 PM • permalinkThis manipulated image by the reuters islamic photographer is set up to make the Cindy look meak and mild and peaceful against the powerful whitehouse, Firstly,the dodgy felt pens she uses looks really tacky and she can’t even take the time to colour the red in the lines properly. The fence in the image divides her from democracy and this is a powerful tool to win the approval of her delusional quest.
If you are asking me, 1.618, I would say that it displays a remarkably lucid and insightful assessment of the topic from a perspective as yet untouched by others who have posted here.
Your use of the iconography of the fence is particularly effective, as is your reference to the symbology apparent in the juxtaposition of the forlorn, almost childlike foreground against the imposing and commanding background.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 11 08 at 08:44 PM • permalinkSingleMalt has obviously fallen for her ersatz childlike ordinaryperson shtick. I wonder if he’s as soft a
headtouch in person.Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2006 11 08 at 09:04 PM • permalinkWell? Did someone call me out or not? I’m an American. Someone calls out an American and we shove the poncho over our shoulder and pull the string off our Smith & Wesson. My trigger finger is twitching.
Is anyone coming out? I’m getting kind of lonely out here by myself.
Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 08 at 10:26 PM • permalinkWhat do you think about this post?
* groan *
Posted by wronwright on 2006 11 08 at 10:28 PM • permalinkSingleMalt strikes me as a classic case of passive-aggressiveness…on the one hand he’s all concerned about protecting the dignity of frail creatures like Cindy Sheehans even if they regularly engage in poisoning the political process, and then he’s “calling people out” and yelling “coward” in every other freakin’ post.
Well, the “coward! coward!” thing could also be a variant of intellectual Tourette’s, I suppose. SM, perhaps you’ll do us a favour and cut out the blatant emoting, and instead try to raise your argumentative game above the fifth-grade schoolyard level?
#125 wronwright, I figgered her first semi-lucid comment deserved a response. Poor kid, tugs at my heartstrings, she does.
Posted by MentalFloss on 2006 11 08 at 11:29 PM • permalink
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That ‘O’ in vote looks more like an arse crack to me.