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Lefty Kim isn’t one to complain much over Islamic girl-cutting (“It would seem to me counterproductive to have loud denunciations of it”) but she sure speaks up when criticised by Age writer Julie Szego:

Szego seems to show a very dubious grasp of how blogs work. At least, that’s a charitable interpretation of the reasons why she might have chosen to pull one quote from me out of context from the middle of a debate …

Kim is complaining about being unfairly cut. How … perfect.

Posted by Tim B. on 06/13/2007 at 12:24 AM
  1. And out of context as well- maybe she can hire on as media liason for Mufti Mark 2?

    Posted by Habib on 2007 06 13 at 12:36 AM • permalink

  2. The funny thing is that after reading the original articles Kimmy was fairly quoted and in context. But there again when Lefties are caught telling the truth their response is always to say it’s out of context or selectively quoted.

    Posted by jpaulg on 2007 06 13 at 12:44 AM • permalink

  3. Szego seems to show a very dubious grasp of how blogs work

    Yes Kim, according to your definition, a blog is where you say stupid things about stuff that you don’t understand.

    Posted by mr creosote on 2007 06 13 at 12:51 AM • permalink

  4. God hates snivelers, Kimmie.

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 06 13 at 01:13 AM • permalink

  5. Quoted out of context?  Is she a mufti?

    Posted by bondo on 2007 06 13 at 01:20 AM • permalink

  6. Kim is a snirp of the worst kind. She derided Hirsi Ali’s comments because they reflected her (Ali’s) lived context to too great a degree. Now she whines that her own comments should be viewed in context?

    Hypocrite.

    Posted by Nic on 2007 06 13 at 01:21 AM • permalink

  7. I don’t know enough about the consequences of quoting to be able to say - but it could be that procedure was medically necessary.

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 13 at 01:33 AM • permalink

  8. Mind you though, to be soundly mocked in the Age AND have Tim Blair listed as a reasonable critic must be the mother of all arse-whippings to a lefty.

    Kim’s whining at Lav Paper and that of the ‘dags’ that hang around there is great comedy. One wants editorial action taken. Haven’t they read Traceeee or Devenny?

    Posted by Nic on 2007 06 13 at 01:37 AM • permalink

  9. Fair go, Tim, give the girl a break!

    After all, FGM is a subject best thrown in the too-hard basket because one would have to be rational and reasonable and perhaps - just perhaps - question “traditional” (ie, anything non-Western) and Islamic practices.

    According to Kim and her friend Helen, FGM has been harnessed for essentially political purposes by “conservatives” who have discovered it as a handy wedge.

    I’ve worked in several developing countries and I’d genuinely like to know just how many Kims and her ilk are out there in the field.  I could count on the fingers of one hand the number I met in my 22 years out there.

    The Australian Left’s response to the slightest hint of criticism or questioning is always so immediate that they must be Googling themselves several times a day. Even though they claim they’ve been silenced.

    Posted by ann j on 2007 06 13 at 01:43 AM • permalink

  10. “This is a truly disgusting attempt to use genuine suffering to try and score off your perceived enemies…”
    Am I supposed to really be some leftist’s wet dream parody of a slavering RWDB cheering on the mutilators, because they hold the patent on compassion?
    Is my visceral hatred of such a barbaric practice really just an opportunistic wedge tactic?
    Or could it be those people have to be diametrically opposed to any conservative, because that is the sole philosophy behind their beliefs?

    Posted by lotocoti on 2007 06 13 at 01:55 AM • permalink

  11. You can tell leftists care more about opposing with the right than any other principles they hold (few that they are). Therefore, if the right is against FGM, the leftists must go all quiet lest they be seen *gasp* agreeing with a conservative.

    Posted by morbo on 2007 06 13 at 02:00 AM • permalink

  12. Ack, someone set me up the bomb. Well, you can see what I mean. PIMF.

    Posted by morbo on 2007 06 13 at 02:01 AM • permalink

  13. You’d think a total twat like Lefty Kim would be opposed to female genital mutilation.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 13 at 02:12 AM • permalink

  14. Charitable Kimmeh does not explain how a failure to understand blogs would lead to the content in Szego’s article - most likely because it makes no sense. She is scrambling to find some higher ground, so says that the misunderstanding must be because of the medium.

    All of this from someone who was taken aback by the interactivity of the medium, and as a result, is the equivalent of roadkill on the blogosphere superhighway.

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 13 at 02:36 AM • permalink

  15. is this the same Kim?
    Kim: My favourite movie’s Shallow Hal. I can relate.
    Kath: Why? Because you’re fat?
    Kim: No, because I’m shallow. God, you’re mean to me.

    Posted by Contrail on 2007 06 13 at 02:56 AM • permalink

  16. From the link

    The latest Blair thread basically gives up the pretence that this “denunciation” is about FGM, as his commenters seize the opportunity to call me a “twat” and bag “lefties”. Etc.

    Translation: I have given up arguing about this, because I’m not very good at it. Can’t you see my enemies are our enemies? Somebody? Whereart thou TigTog?

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 13 at 03:04 AM • permalink

  17. If she’s indignant at being called a “twat” it’s probably just as well I didn’t submit my first draft.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 13 at 03:10 AM • permalink

  18. OT: The nutbags have gathered at the Daily Telegraph’s comments thread to welcome the new Australian mufti and support his notion that Osama cannot be blamed for 9/11. A few extracts:

    “The Muffti is correct. 911 was a cooporative effort between the US government and the Jews.”

    “He is absolutely right that there is no evidence of Osama involvement in 9/11. All we believe because America say so or CIA told us…”

    Posted by Villeurbanne on 2007 06 13 at 03:17 AM • permalink

  19. It seems this dumb twat er.. Kimmy is the victim of SQS (Selective Quote Snipping).
    SQS is an abhorrent practice, and I am very sorry that it was inflicted on Kimmy. But rather than preaching about allegedly universal values and some sort of right that “we” have to intervene and perhaps more importantly for the ideological obsessives, only to do so in such a way as will satisfy our own preconceptions, it might be worthwhile reflecting on the actual realities on the ground in countries where such practices occur and the methods activists are using to counter these cultural practices.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 13 at 03:36 AM • permalink

  20. twwweeet,right infidel,red card for you,you used the word TWAT,off the blog…......................GIVE ME A BREAK YOU STUPID COW,FUCK ME DON’T STEP OUT THE FRONT DOOR INTO THE REAL WORLD YOU DUMB ARSE ,I MEAN SHIT PEOPLE USE THE WORD ARSE ,SOMETIMES THEY SAY FUCK AND BITCH,YOU POOR THING YOU WERE CALLED A TWAT OH THE HUMANITY,DEAR ME HERE I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT POOR IRAQI GIRL IN THE TELEGRAPH TODAY THAT WAS RAPED AND STRANGLED THEN STUFFED INTO A SUITCASE AND BURIED IN THE BACK YARD ALL BECAUSE SHE FELL IN LOVE WITH THE WRONG MAN,SHE IS OVER ONE HUNDRED GIRLS KILLED IN ENGLAND IN THE LAST TEN YEARS, BUT SHIT YOU WERE CALLED A TWAT IN ONE COMMENT ON A BLOG..THE HORROR..THE HORROR…...rant over


    P.s Kim you are a twat,deal with it..

    Posted by sparrow on 2007 06 13 at 04:10 AM • permalink

  21. Silly lurking lefty bitch - we RWDBs are capable of multitasking, which means we’re able to denounce the brutal mutilation of children, mock vacuous leftists, and call you a vacuous twat all at the same time!

    Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 06 13 at 04:15 AM • permalink

  22. And then the silly flock of twats have the temerity to insinuate that we wouldn’t know who Browning is! He’s the guy who makes the shot guns, right?

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 13 at 04:18 AM • permalink

  23. Yes, I did mean to use “vacuous” twice.  Really.  I suppose I could have used “vapid, addled, brainless twat,” but “vacuous” sounds so much nicer, don’t you think?

    Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 06 13 at 04:18 AM • permalink

  24. #20,

    I second Sparrow’s post.

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 13 at 04:19 AM • permalink

  25. Oh sparrow, you are being racist.
    Respect cultural differences.
    Girls like Banaz Mahmod obviously have it coming.

    Posted by Mike_W on 2007 06 13 at 04:39 AM • permalink

  26. The woman should call a ‘waaaaahhhhhmbulance’ Waaahhhh, its all Timmy’s fault, waaaahhh they are wedging me.

    The wedge comes from the fact that she has, by not recanting, pushed herself even further into a corner.

    Posted by Nic on 2007 06 13 at 04:59 AM • permalink

  27. #22 Yes, correct. His wife Elizabeth Barrett turned out some very nice pieces as well, poetic, most of them - some aficionadoes think hers were better, even if sometimes a little bit longer than is handy for huntin squirrel say ...

    Posted by Rob Blair on 2007 06 13 at 05:45 AM • permalink

  28. #22 & 27, and let’s not forget the B.A.R.
    one of Browning’s more romantic, yet impractical creations and personal favorite of mine.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 13 at 05:48 AM • permalink

  29. I’m rather to see the times I now live in. You see, there was a time that I believed that, even though I couldn’t see eye to eye with the left, that when the balloon went up, we’d still be shoulder to shoulder against our common enemis. I mean, they don’t like God, so they’ll surely stand up to Islam. They stand for womens’ rights, so surely, they’ll abhore honour killings and FGM. They were so choked up by the killing of the Kurds by Saddam, that surely, when the time comes, they’ll be dancing on Saddam’s grave. They so believe in the inalienable rights of the artist that they’d never betray Salman Rushdie or his spiritual descendants, surely.

    But I’m, older now, and the left has been shown in its true colours, and I’m wiser, if somewhat sadder.

    Kim, you might not like being called names, but there is a worse thing that can be said about you - that I trusted you, and you let me down.

    Get over yourself and start championing the left’s onetime heroes again: the downtrodden, over those doing the downtreading.

    Posted by AlburyShifton on 2007 06 13 at 06:01 AM • permalink

  30. Lee Enfield 303 is my pick,full woodern stock,hmmmmm,Texas Bob if the BAR had a pistol grip stock it would have been a saucey rifel indeed.

    Posted by sparrow on 2007 06 13 at 06:07 AM • permalink

  31. Don’t forget J.M. Browning’s greatest invention.

    Posted by Pedro the Ignorant on 2007 06 13 at 06:36 AM • permalink

  32. How … perfect.

    teehee

    Wicked, Tim.

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 13 at 06:48 AM • permalink

  33. Tissue, Kim?

    Posted by flying pigs over mecca on 2007 06 13 at 07:40 AM • permalink

  34. Welcome back Kae!!!!

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 13 at 07:41 AM • permalink

  35. So Kim feels that its wrong for FGM to be used for political purposes. I’m not sure I understand her argument - is she saying that its wrong for us to show the excesses of our enemies? Wrong to take examples and say ‘this is wrong, we must oppose it’?

    We all know what she should have said then, and should say now. She should not hide behind a convenient acronym that reduces its impact. She should say ‘female genital mutilation is always wrong, and I oppose it always’.

    Posted by Ian Deans on 2007 06 13 at 07:58 AM • permalink

  36. Wow. Reading through Kimmy’s latest justifications, it’s clear she’s as tenacious as a pit bull. And nearly as intelligent.  She won’t budge one iota from her original position, she merely states that we didn’t read or were unable to comprehend what she’d written.  Kimmy, since you’re lurking here I’ve got some news for you sweet cheeks. We did read and comprehend, which is exactly why you find yourself in the center of this shit storm. By claiming that dialogue and training are the solutions to genital hacking and denying this is yet another barbaric result of Islam, you’re only fooling yourself and your followers.  And adding that bit that Christians and Jews do it too is a gold mine of stupid.  You weren’t serious with that, right? You can continue to hide your insecurities behind your high-minded prose, but the scared little girl is still showing.  The problem is not a cultural misunderstanding, the problem is Islam and you know it as well as we do. You are wrong on this one, plain and simple. And the Blair Trogs aren’t about to let you get away with it unscathed. Stop being such a twat and admit it, or prepare your stubborn self for the floggings to continue.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 13 at 08:13 AM • permalink

  37. Yeah for kae.

    This little Kim’s technique, is typical of the leftist (or as said by another leftist, “progressive dumbing down”).

    The vicious no heart, mind or soul leftist on the attack, becomes the victim when the shit hits the fan.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 06 13 at 08:22 AM • permalink

  38. I agree with Kim. Loud denunciations aren’t the way to go. People who force this ugly practice on young women should be arrested and made subject to civil and criminal penalties, including lengthy jail terms. Deportation should be an option.

    What? What’s that, you say? I’ve taken Kim out of context? I’m sorry, let me go back and read her entire article. Goes away and comes back. Oh, I see. She doesn’t propose punitive action against mutilators; she just wants to “convince” them that they’re wrong. A friendly chat over a cup of tea, perhaps. Take them aside and point out to them, in the politest, most non-judgmental way, that mutilating women is considered a bit outré in the West, rather like saying grace out loud in a restaurant - you know, not quite the thing; maybe quote the old saw about “When in Rome”, etc. “There’s a good fellow, Suleiman. Now run along and play nice.”

    My apologies, Kim. Didn’t mean to take you out of context. Silly twat.

    Posted by paco on 2007 06 13 at 08:34 AM • permalink

  39. Kim, honey, don’t dish it out if you can’t take it.  “Twat” is the least of the names we could have called you for your utterly heartless and stupid stance on FGM (among other things).

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 06 13 at 08:36 AM • permalink

  40. O/T A liberal institutional icon is closing its doors.  It’s not too hard to understand when prospective employers see Antioch College as the following:

    Antioch isn’t a traditional liberal arts college: It doesn’t grade classes, encourages students to experiment and develop their own study plans, and combines academic learning with real-world experience through a co-op program in which students leave campus to work.

    And then there’s this:

    The college drew national attention in 1993 with its “Sexual Offense Prevention Policy” that required students to ask permission from one another if they wanted to have sexual contact, including holding hands or kissing. The policy was ridiculed in a “Saturday Night Live” sketch for its strictness.

    This is an example of how economics and survival of the fittest should work in the sphere of higher education.  Let’s hope this spreads to the state universities as well.

    Posted by wronwright on 2007 06 13 at 08:52 AM • permalink

  41. Australian Feminist Collective Minutes 13.6.07

    Lyndagh: I would like to bring to the attention of this meeting the latest outrage to be propagated against international womenhood.

    Sandii: Oh cripes, not another one. You mean the honour killings of muslim women?

    Lyndagh: No, no, no. I mean yes, HK as I like to call it is always a concern - I have never denied it, just never said much about it - but not the main one on the agenda today.

    Cloeda: Do you mean the hanging and stoning of muslim women under variants of Islamic sharia law in countries like Iran?

    Lyndagh: Cloeda, Cloeda, Cloeda - a bit of shush please - I can’t see how loud denunciations of HASOMWUVOISL will get us anywhere. I understand that Christians and Jews also like to hang and stone women - it’s cultural!
    Tamaara:  You must mean the rape and mistreatment of Aboriginal women in remote communities?

    Lyndagh: No, no no, Tammie. RAMOAWIRC, as I like to call it, is stereotyping. I don’t condone it, but it would be interesting to know what activists in other countries are doing about it.

    Tamaara: Not much that I’m aw…

    Lyndagh: But not that interesting. What we’re here to talk about today is me being quoted out of context in The Age and vulgar language being directed at me by the commenters at Tim Blair.

    Sandii: Those swine! They’re not even pretending to care about women in the real world.

    Lyndagh: Too right, Sandii. Let’s all write a letter to the editor!

    Posted by Margos Maid on 2007 06 13 at 08:54 AM • permalink

  42. Mike hunt? Drivelling half-assed pea-brained simpering shit stain. Twat.

    Posted by CB on 2007 06 13 at 08:55 AM • permalink

  43. Margos Maid, direct hit with laser precision. I hope that I never piss you off as I admit you frighten me more than a bit.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 13 at 08:59 AM • permalink

  44. I see that Kimmie the Dhimmi remains as subjugated as ever.  Stupid twat.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 06 13 at 09:36 AM • permalink

  45. #40, wronwright, Oh frabjous joy!  I dealt with many Antioch graduates during my days in the Graduate School.  Imagine having a certain standard for admission and transfer of credits which is delineated by grades (high grades good, low grades bad).  Imagine having to deal with airy-fairy social progressives who were never given a grade, because that would be, like, so judgmental and harmful to their self-esteem (and also imagine that all these progressives are, by this time, in their twenties and thirties).  It was surreal, but improved in time, after we convinced the Antioch registrar (or head seer, or shaman, or whatever) to put a boilerplate narrative on the back of the transcript that said no credit was given for any particular course unless the work was above an acceptable grade level.

    Antioch students were always drifty, dreamy types when they weren’t outright obnoxious Marxists.  I say, let them go to school in California and good riddance.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 06 13 at 09:42 AM • permalink

  46. Hey, guys, just so you know, Kim thinks you want to cut her clitoris off. Must be a nuance or something else I don’t understand, since I don’t seem to read anyone here saying that. maybe someone thought it too loud?

    Posted by wreckage on 2007 06 13 at 09:46 AM • permalink

  47. Haw, haw.  She’s snipping from my comment here and posting it at the larva tusp rodeo…

    Kimmy seems to show a very dubious grasp of how blogs work. At least, that’s a charitable interpretation of the reasons why she might have chosen to pull one quote from me out of context from the middle of a debate …

    Hypocritical twat.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 13 at 09:51 AM • permalink

  48. wreckage,

    I think it safe to say NO ONE here was thinking all at about Kim’s clitoris.  Ewwww.

    Posted by wronwright on 2007 06 13 at 09:52 AM • permalink

  49. #46 Thanks wreckage.
    Say, does anyone here know a good method of extracting vomit from a keyboard?

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 13 at 09:56 AM • permalink

  50. wreckage

    Well, there goes a fine omelet, with shaved beef, shallots, basil and garlic, with a dash of olive oil, done to perfection down the disposal.

    Posted by El Cid on 2007 06 13 at 10:04 AM • permalink

  51. Oh, and Kimmy, when citing horse-shit statistics, please include sources. Not that I don’t trust you or anything, it’s just… you know.  Nice issue dodging BTW.  But sorry, it’s still that scary Islam thing. Scary enough to cause a self-proclaimed feminist to defend it out of sheer terror.  I suppose you’re right, best play it safe, not too many Christians or Jew loping off heads (or clitorises for that matter) these days.  Just continue with that line of reasoning.  That’s a good and safe girl. 
    Twat.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 13 at 10:09 AM • permalink

  52. Rebecca,

    I went to a very liberal college for my ungraduate studies.  But it seems like The Citadel in comparison to Antioch.  Ultra liberal and not exactly welcoming to male students.  Indeed, I found this on Wikepedia:

    In its September 2000 issue the periodical Men’s Health named Antioch as one of the 10 most antimale schools in America. The magazine cited Antioch’s sex code, opposition to Fraternities, and a Spring 2000 commencement where speakers included a “cop-killer” & a “transgender warrior.”

    Ironically, it’s located just a few miles south of Clark County, the target of The Guardian’s letter writing debacle.

    Posted by wronwright on 2007 06 13 at 10:10 AM • permalink

  53. Source cited (sort of) by Kimmy.  I’ll check it out and get back to you.  Meanwhile, try on some burkas, just in case.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 13 at 10:12 AM • permalink

  54. Twat.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 13 at 10:13 AM • permalink

  55. Oops, took her at her word too soon. No surprise there. Kimmy, you’ve provided sources for religious demographics, but tacked on your own mutilation guess-timations. Come on!!! 90% of the girls in Burkina Faso have had their genitals butchered???  BULLSHIT!
    If you’re just going to make this crap up, at least avoid Lancet math, will ya?

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 13 at 10:21 AM • permalink

  56. And since you’re obviously using wikipedia as your demographics source, make note of the disclaimer at the top of the page:
    This article does not cite any references or sources.

    Seriously, you went to university? As a student? Twat.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 13 at 10:27 AM • permalink

  57. Texas, yes, I said the same of Kim. She’s so widely read an’ all. She really puts some research behind her writing.

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 13 at 10:38 AM • permalink


  58. Well, I do declare, Kim…bless yo’ li’l heart - you don’t do stupid well.  We all saw that with what you wrote about female genital mutilation.  You now have to exhibit petulance and bald-face, sniveling cowardice.  That’s just TACKY, darlin’.  Perhaps you’d like to have the Southern equivalent of the word ‘twat’?  Maybe our accents will make it more palatable for you?

    Twat.

    Posted by Sharon_Ferguson on 2007 06 13 at 10:46 AM • permalink

  59. I reckon daft cow fits well.

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 13 at 11:09 AM • permalink

  60. I wouldn’t call her a twat.

    She lacks both the depth and the warmth.

    Posted by Parker on 2007 06 13 at 11:26 AM • permalink

  61. #61 parker…. Oh, well played sir or ma’am.heh,heh.

    Posted by greene on 2007 06 13 at 11:52 AM • permalink

  62. Let’s see….

    Kimmie has a tough time understanding how blogs work.

    Kimnmie is more offended by words (“twat”) than actions (mutilating a twat).

    Kimmie takes quotes out of context.

    Kimmie relies on articles that cite no sources.

    Kimmie makes up her own statistics when she can’t find the ones she likes.

    Kimmie must be an Antioch graduate!

    Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 06 13 at 12:54 PM • permalink

  63. Hey, guys, just so you know, Kim thinks you want to cut her clitoris off.

    Oh, gag.  That killed my appetite.  But lunch is an hour off….we’ll have to see what happens.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 06 13 at 01:17 PM • permalink

  64. Oh, and by the way…....Kimmie is a twat.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 06 13 at 01:19 PM • permalink

  65. Let’s narrow this down a bit. Assuming, for the sake of argument, that there are large numbers of Christians, Jews, Hindus, Animists, Druids, Rosicrucians, Illuminati, Maoists - name your group - who, on a global basis, practice this despicable act. Do any appreciable numbers of this lot practice female genital mutilation in Australia? Shouldn’t this be, from Kim’s point of view, the main issue, i.e., elimination of the practice in Australia - where Kim and other writers arguably have more influence than in Burkina Fasso or the Seychelles or Albania or some other location in Ultima Thule - regardless of whether it is a cultural aspect or a religious aspect? Should the difficulty of eliminating the practice everywhere stop one from vigorously protesting it at home?

    Posted by paco on 2007 06 13 at 01:45 PM • permalink

  66. Oooo, paco makes a good point.

    Posted by wronwright on 2007 06 13 at 02:36 PM • permalink

  67. We should call her “a twa”

    It’s a cut twat.

    Posted by Rob Read on 2007 06 13 at 03:17 PM • permalink

  68. #68, if we’re going to do that, we should call her a “t”. After all, that nasty practice involves removing more than 60%.

    This is the first time I’ve looked around here, but I understand why Ash spends time here now.

    I’ll confess before Ash tells you all. I was once a leftist.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 06 13 at 03:37 PM • permalink

  69. Hey, worry not, Jesse!  A lot of us were.  Hell, I voted for Bubba (aka Bill Clinton).  Twice.

    But more good news, folks!  My appetite returned: I realized that Kimmie The Dhimmi is a worthless pile of protoplasm, lacking even rudimentary organs, let alone possessing self-awareness, and presto!, I was hungry.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 06 13 at 03:47 PM • permalink

  70. #69: I’ll confess before Ash tells you all. I was once a leftist.

    I think a lot of people here used to be. But as the saying goes, it doesn’t matter where you started, it only matters where you end up. I never went through the phase, myself; probably because all the leftists I knew personally in my youth were so thoroughly obnoxious for completely non-political reasons that I didn’t want to have anything to do with them OR their ideas.

    Posted by paco on 2007 06 13 at 03:48 PM • permalink

  71. I voted for Bubba (aka Bill Clinton).  Twice. That’s not something you usually admit to in public is it Jeff?

    Paco, I reckon Ash would have gone through it too, if peple in her class hadn’t cheered the idea that a member of Parliament might have had died. I reckon the mere cheer pissed her off beyond belief. Ash might dislike some people, but she prefers people to argue on merit, not on political alliance.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 06 13 at 03:54 PM • permalink

  72. That’s not something you usually admit to in public is it Jeff?

    I’ve done so several times.  I’m told that it’s like going to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, something like:

    “Hi, my name is Jeff, and I actually voted for Slick Willy.”

    You know, admitting mistakes, and then correcting them. 

    Unlike, say, silly twats like Kimmie The Dhimmi.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 06 13 at 04:34 PM • permalink

  73. Don’t feel too bad, JeffS.  I voted for Bubba twice myself.  If the blogosphere had had existed in its present form back then, that wouldn’t have happened, so we can’t be too hard on ourselves.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 06 13 at 05:14 PM • permalink

  74. #31;

    Don’t forget J.M. Browning’s greatest invention. (Browning HiPower)

    I’d give it second place, after this, if only because John Browning died before it was finished, and Dieudonne Saive at FN completed the work of getting it ready for production.

    Posted by steveH on 2007 06 13 at 05:17 PM • permalink

  75. Good lord! I’m beginning to feel like I’ve showed up at a meeting of Democrats Anonymous! But it’s obvious that every day, in every way, you all are getting better and better.

    Posted by paco on 2007 06 13 at 05:18 PM • permalink

  76. Anyone remember the 1976 Cheech and Chong skit - T.W.A.T. - tactical womens alert team ? A cop duo from the Dept of Interior protecting the most powerful force on Earth. Classic.

    Posted by JAFA on 2007 06 13 at 05:29 PM • permalink

  77. #69 In case noone else has asked:
    So, Jess, when/what was your cluebat moment*?

    *cluebat moment = when you became a RWDB?

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 13 at 06:12 PM • permalink

  78. Not “Democrats Anonymous”, paco, “Lefties Anonymous”.  Not Democrats are Dhimmicrats.  It just looks that way, sometimes.

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 06 13 at 06:54 PM • permalink

  79. Perhaps Kim should have her genitals mutilated against her will. Then perhaps she will understand and shut the fuck up.

    Posted by The Best Infidel on 2007 06 13 at 06:55 PM • permalink

  80. The Macquarie Dictionary. Third Edition states that;
    twat noun Colloquial

    1. the vagina.
    2. a woman considered as a sexual object.
    3. sexual intercourse.
    4. a despicable or unpleasant person.

    Kimmeh qualifies for three out of four. Slightly different translation:

    1. C***.
    2.I don’t think so!!!
    3.she’s well and truly been f**ked.
    4.doesn’t need translating.
    :)

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 13 at 07:07 PM • permalink

  81. Australian Feminist Collective Minutes 14.6.07

    Lyndagh: I would like to thank Sandii for hosting this meeting in her apartment.  It has a delightful view of my favourite vegan restaurant in Newtown.

    Cloeda: That’s not the only thing we can see.  Look out that window - there is a woman holding up a sign.  Can any of you read it?

    Sandii: Yes!  It says, “Help, I’m being held captive, and they’re going to infibulate me today”. 

    Lyndagh: She seems rather agitated.  Do you think we should send over a 5 pack of herbal tea to calm her down?

    Sandii: We have to take action right away!  Lyndagh - hand me that telephone.

    Lyndagh: No, it’s ok Sandii, I know who to call.  (Dials number).  Hello?  Calomine?  It’s an emergency.  Gather up all the papier-mache heads and meet us out the front of Town Hall.  We are going to have a rapid-action protest against male patriarchy!  Today, we march!

    Tamaara:  But all our papier-mache heads are of George Bush.  What use are they in a protest against infibulation?

    Lyndagh: We’ll just paint over a few of them and make them look like a clitoris. 

    Sandii: Give me the bloody phone, Lyndagh. I’m going to call the police.

    Lyndagh: Over my dead body!  We are the only ones that can protest against the male patriarchy!  We’re not involving those brutal swine.

    Sandii: But protesting in the street won’t save that womans clitoris!  We need to take action!

    Tamaara: Too right, Sandii. Let’s all write a letter to the editor!

    Lyndagh: Oh look, she’s waving frantically now.  Tamaara - make up a sign to let her know the time of the protest this afternoon.  She might be able to make it.

    Sandii:  She might not be able to walk.  She might be in the back of an ambluance.  Give me that bloody phone!

    Lyndagh:  Now, now, Sandii.  You know the power of protest.  The people who are holding her captive will sense the power of our chants and will let her go.

    Sandii:  You’re off your rocker.  I’m going next door to talk to Tim and Brian. 

    Door slams.

    Tamaara:  How do you think we should open this letter to the editor?  Should we call for a day of healing?

    Lyndagh:  Is Tim the one that wears that terrible T-shirt of Saddam being hung?

    Cloeda: Look, Sandii is in that apartment over the way.  Those two thugs that live next door have committed criminal damage!  They’ve kicked the door in.

    Lyndagh: Ooh, that’s terrible.  The big one has that brown fellow in a headlock and he’s ramming his head into the fridge. 

    Tamaara:  The racist!  I just spotted that other thug.  He went into the lounge room and kicked another brown fellow between the legs.  I saw that poor fellow jump at least a foot off the ground. 

    Sandii:  Look, that woman must be deranged.  She just hugged that thug that was running that poor man into the fridge!

    Lyndagh:  Right, this has gone far enough.  We can’t allow this to go any further.  I’m calling the police.  It’s time for solidarity, sisters.  I’m afraid we are going to have to report Sandii for kidnapping.

    Posted by mr creosote on 2007 06 13 at 07:14 PM • permalink

  82. Pogria

    Careful or the sisterhood will issue a Twatwa on you.

    Just to undercut the vacuous vixens little attempt at a diversion. I fully condemn any group currntly in Australia or overseas who mutilate their women.
    Good enough Kim, your turn now.

    Posted by thefrollickingmole on 2007 06 13 at 07:16 PM • permalink

  83. In the 1980 election between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan, I went the third way and voted for John Anderson.

    Posted by wronwright on 2007 06 13 at 07:50 PM • permalink

  84. #83

    A twatwa - thanks for making me spill my tea!

    Fucking hilarious.

    Posted by peter m on 2007 06 13 at 07:55 PM • permalink

  85. #83

    A twatwa - that’s a real growler

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 06 13 at 08:17 PM • permalink

  86. #83 - Priceless!

    #84 - I voted for Gary Hart in the primary in Nebraska. Didn’t vote again for years, but in between married a Sailor & had a child. When y’all elected Slick Willie for the second time, I switched parties. That’s what I used to call the first guy I married & they were SO much alike I was shocked at the stupidity of this country! It doesn’t shock me any more. Unfortunately, nothing people do that’s stupid, spineless & self-serving surprises me anymore. Pity.

    I’d vote for you, wronwright - or Detective Paco, or saltydog or RebeccaH or The_Real_JeffS or any of the others in the crowd here…that may sound naive, but Professional Politicians at any level of government just scare the crap out of me.

    Posted by KC on 2007 06 13 at 08:34 PM • permalink

  87. #40- Maybe they need to let a few frats on campus- beery oafs may not have a social conscience but they do have dollars.

    If Schadenfreude is so wicked, why is it so pleasant?

    (Pity the same doesn’t happen here to such august institutions as Monash and Griffith, but we’re stupid enough to throw public money at these intellectual vaccuums).

    Posted by Habib on 2007 06 13 at 08:42 PM • permalink

  88. #69(et al):- My name is Habib, and i was a financial member of the Australian Labor Party. And a national delegate for a trade union. Also a member of Greenpeace and Amnesty International.

    Confession is supposed to be good for the soul- how come I feel so dirty?

    It’s no wonder I drink.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 06 13 at 08:53 PM • permalink

  89. Good thing I wasn’t drinking anything when I saw TFM’s #83 - the damned laptop probably couldn’t handle the spit-take.

    Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 06 13 at 08:55 PM • permalink

  90. *stands up*

    My name is Blue State Sil, and I was once a tree-hugging environut who would gladly have called for stopping a development project if going through with it meant that endangered beetles would have to move. 

    I got better.

    *sits back down*

    Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 06 13 at 09:01 PM • permalink

  91. #89 - (stands up) My name is ChrisPer and I once was a financial member of the Liberal Party in WA.

    I got better too.

    Posted by ChrisPer on 2007 06 13 at 09:12 PM • permalink

  92. I also bought Midnight Oil albums, and recorded Goanna. I had a No Nukes sticker on the rear bumper of my Alfa Romeo. I went to anti-thatcher rallies in London sponsored by the GLC, then run by “Red” Ken Livingston (mind you they had great bands like The Smiths and OMD). I owned an IRA and a Brigade’ Rosse t-shirt. I played in a bush band.

    Bloody hell, I might have to do some serious pennance for all this shit.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 06 13 at 09:33 PM • permalink

  93. My name is Andrea Harris and I still own this New Model Army LP.

    They’re still around, apparently. I wonder if that guy, wosname, ever got his teeth fixed.

    Posted by Andrea Harris, Administrator on 2007 06 13 at 09:33 PM • permalink

  94. If this person was really interested in presenting both sides of the issue, she could have some of her girl friend’s mothers hold her down, spread eagle, and do the “operation” on her just like her heroes in the burka team go through.

    Then she could report of the process and her actual feelings on the process from an inside perspective.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 06 13 at 09:38 PM • permalink

  95. My name is Infidel Tiger and I have been a right wing death beast since birth. I have however denied or hidden these credentials in order to gain sexual satisfaction from the other side. I scrubbed extra hard the next day. I will now also admit to owning Motley Crue albums and to once been a financial member of The WA Liberal Party. Never again.

    #41 - IASMPFLSFHTY*

    I almost shat my pants from laughing so freaking hard! Thank You.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 13 at 09:46 PM • permalink

  96. Hi Andrea
    ChrisPer’s message keeps arriving in my email. Is there a problem?

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 13 at 09:52 PM • permalink

  97. Bloody hell, I might have to do some serious pennance for all this shit.

    Isn’t that why you’re joining up, Habib?  Dropping things that go BOOM sounds like great pennance to me!

    Posted by The_Real_JeffS on 2007 06 13 at 09:53 PM • permalink

  98. *stands up*

    My name is Grimmy. I am now and have always been a Proud American Nationalist and not adverse to national expansionism.
    Slogan “If you want our money or our protection, put your star on our flag and learn our language and our laws and customs.”

    *remains standing in preparation for a fight*

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 06 13 at 09:58 PM • permalink

  99. #87: Professional Politicians at any level of government just scare the crap out of me.

    You have put your finger on it, KC. No matter what the party or the ideology, there’s something at least a little bit “off” about most politicos.

    Posted by paco on 2007 06 13 at 10:01 PM • permalink

  100. #93 habib

    If you played the lagerphone, a scrubbing board or a sheet of rusty galvo in said bush band then, I’m afraid, there is no appropriate pennance and unfortunately you must carry the stain of that sin until you die, or longer.

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 06 13 at 10:06 PM • permalink

  101. #101 - We’ll probably have to salt his grave.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 13 at 10:08 PM • permalink

  102. #101- I must confess to a lagerphone, a mandolin and a tin whistle. There is no hope of redemption. I also own a Eureka flag. And a rasta tam. Burning at thestake or being broken on the wheel is probably too good for me. I have three Billy Bragg albums, an Atiila the Stockbroker and a Flying Pickets record. I’m so ashamed.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 06 13 at 10:13 PM • permalink

  103. I have been known to vote Labor, but not in the last 20 years.
    #88 - Schadenfreude? Wasn’t he Gough Whitlam’s speech writer? Oh, no, that was Freudenberg.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 06 13 at 10:19 PM • permalink

  104. #99 Grimmy

    ::ahem::

    I was an Ayn Randian Objectivist in my misspent youth, and voted for Ed Clark for President in 1980, the first time I was eligible to vote. I’ve been GOP since 1984, but have something of a social libertarian streak to this day.

    Am I insufficiently RWDB? Do I need to do penance?

    Posted by Spiny Norman on 2007 06 13 at 10:25 PM • permalink

  105. A Working Class Hero Is Something To Be
    John Lennon
    Now there was someone with serious adjustment issues. Pity he didn’t live long enough to grow out of it.

    Posted by blogstrop on 2007 06 13 at 10:25 PM • permalink

  106. Habib,

    Amnesty, Greenpeace, Red Ken, The IRA, I can all excuse, but a bush band? A bush band? I’m not sure my milk of human kindness is so limitless as to excuse that. My god, what were you thinking? A bush band is one step away from the slippery slope that leads to wearing a maloderous Koala suit of Chinese origin and brandishing a filthy donation bucket at people as they egress from a Bi-Lo or some other such place.

    Posted by Nic on 2007 06 13 at 10:44 PM • permalink

  107. #83, MOLE!!!

    That was F**king Brilliant.

    Now you owe me a new keyboard and some LCD screen cleaner!!!

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 13 at 10:50 PM • permalink

  108. I don’t even want to think about WHAT a twatwa involves…

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 13 at 10:53 PM • permalink

  109. According to family tradition I was a RWDB probably from the womb, lecturing sternly to my dolls on manifest destiny and acquiring Kipling by heart in preference to my school’s Recommended Reading List.  As no one else in the bloodline has gone off the rails later in life and had a political mad-cow-moment change of heart I expect I’ll be this way ‘til death and dissolution.  Saves energy.

    Posted by Celaeno on 2007 06 13 at 10:55 PM • permalink

  110. [Stands. Clears throat nervously]

    My name is geoff and twice I campaigned for Gough Whitlam. Some of my friends were real live CPA members. I often marched in anti-Vietnam demos—but honest, it was mainly to pick up girls.

    I routinely voted for the ALP right up until ...[begins to sob]

    I’ve been sober for nearly ten years now. Except when I ...

    [Bursts into tears and collapses to floor in foetal position]

    Posted by geoff on 2007 06 13 at 10:56 PM • permalink

  111. #107- I know. I still wake up with cold sweats dreaming of the horror. I also had a beard of almost Quiggly dimensions. I somewhat mitigated the full depravity of this ugly episode by riding around on large, noisy motorcycles and making a prick of myself in rustic taverns. I also attended many B&S’s in a Dodge ‘ute, and own a number of Chad Morgan albums.

    It’s not all bad I suppose, sort of like Albert Speer- sure he was a nazi, but he disigned some spiffy buildings.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 06 13 at 10:57 PM • permalink

  112. Next, Habib will admit he is Bob Brown, drives an automatic 1976 Volvo 244DL with a Magic Happens sticker on the back window and writes letters to The Age under the name Dallas Fraser, Mudgeeraba, Qld.

    Posted by ilibcc on 2007 06 13 at 11:00 PM • permalink

  113. #110 I too was a RWDB from the womb. 

    My pregnant mother was reading Karl Marx (not by choice, she was living behind the Iron Curtain at the time) I apparently kicked so hard that the book flew of her bump and hit the floor!

    Posted by Kami on 2007 06 13 at 11:03 PM • permalink

  114. #105: You are of the priesthood, Spiny. Go in peace.

    Posted by paco on 2007 06 13 at 11:07 PM • permalink

  115. “Every Friday night my Dad dresses in arseless chaps, a white mesh singlet and makeup. He then uses his mouth as a glory hole at the Longshoreman’s Club.”

    That’s an outrageous lie, Jonny.

    “I know, but it’s too embarrassing to say he plays in a Bush Band.”

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 13 at 11:09 PM • permalink

  116. #105, Spiny Norman:

    Do I need to do penance?

    Yeah, right. I’m sure you could teach me a double handful of useful stuff about being a good solid citizen.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 06 13 at 11:09 PM • permalink

  117. #111: Help brother Geoff to his seat, Grimmy.

    #114: Absolutely priceless!

    Posted by paco on 2007 06 13 at 11:09 PM • permalink

  118. *stands up*
    I was a member of the Australia First Party.  Then I got better.  Then they expelled me. Apparently they believe I’m a christian zionist in league with the right-wing of the NSW liberal party, Fred Nile and some random Jewish person plotting to bring the party down, or something.  :).

    Posted by darrinhV2 on 2007 06 13 at 11:28 PM • permalink

  119. *Stands up (hopes he’s at the right meeting)*

    I deplore ham and pineapple pizza, banana fritters, pineapple fritters, sultanas in curries, sweet and sour pork, mango chicken etc. The cooking of fruit is an abomination that must be outlawed by punishment of STD*.

    *Stoning to death.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 13 at 11:36 PM • permalink

  120. People who make ham and pineapple pizza should suffer the death by a thousand cuts from a pizza slicer.

    Posted by darrinhV2 on 2007 06 13 at 11:41 PM • permalink

  121. #120 IT,

    And what of the dried apricot? Sent to us by Shaitan as a reminder of a woman’s most intimate parts, Surely it is not haram. Death to driers of apricots and other fruits I say, who of my brothers is with me?

    Posted by Nic on 2007 06 13 at 11:46 PM • permalink

  122. #122 - Actually I’m partial to dried fruit. There’s something about a dried pear that helps my wizened old plums, but I’m stuffed If I can put my finger on it.

    P.S - My fruit cooking fatwa excludes desserts, pies, jams, preserves and anything which subsequently becomes alcoholic.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 13 at 11:51 PM • permalink

  123. #112

    Attendance at B&S Balls and being a devotee of the Sheik of Scrubby Creek has saved you from the abyss. Now gently walk backwards from the edge my good man.

    Whilst on one of my favourite subjects, darrinhV2 where’s my dinner jacket from Cowra 1987 ? I’m right onto you. Mate. Notwithstanding that it was your firsty and you’ve had it hanging, soiled (a la Monica Lewinski) in your wardrobe for 20 years. I want it back.

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 06 13 at 11:53 PM • permalink

  124. ah well, you see, there was this girl and you know, as far as I know, it’s still probably at her place. 

    ahhhhh, but what a night, I swear by the end there was a least two inches of beer on the floor by the end of the night, lots of people were still dancing, even after the music had stopped and all the women had indescribably attractive.

    There was also this bloke dancing with a girl up against the side of the beer truck outside, dunno what was going on there…...

    Posted by darrinhV2 on 2007 06 14 at 12:05 AM • permalink

  125. hmmmm, after re-reading my last post, I think I’m still suffering from the hang over. oh well.  :)

    Posted by darrinhV2 on 2007 06 14 at 12:06 AM • permalink

  126. Cooked fruit is truly an abomination- to which I would add gourmet pizza; a pizza should have nitrate-riddled, carcinogenic pig parts, maybe some vegetation of Italian origin, herbs, tomato paste and bunghole.

    Tnadoori chicken (or chicken of any kind for that matter), pie and peas and yiros-style lamb with hommus and feta belong in establishments that specialise in such fare, not atop a doughy blob with the consitency of one of Phillip Adams buttocks.

    And anyone who uses pineapple for anything other than pina coladas and rectal insertion in obdurate marxists should be set on fire.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 06 14 at 12:08 AM • permalink

  127. #123 IT,

    That would be Fruitwa then?

    Posted by Nic on 2007 06 14 at 12:08 AM • permalink

  128. #125

    Dancing with girls after the music has stopped? Grog has run out. 

    Dancing with girls up against the side of the beer truck ? Beer truck empty.

    Otherwise, it might have been lurv.

    And don’t give me any of that left it at her place rot.

    That was a genuine Mark Foys. Sob

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 06 14 at 12:25 AM • permalink

  129. #129, I did have her number, but I ummmm, *cough*, left it in the trouser pocket, ummm, *shuffles feet* - hey, look,  a beer!.

    Posted by darrinhV2 on 2007 06 14 at 12:32 AM • permalink

  130. #127, Habib:

    Please don’t issue Fruitwa against dried pineapple. I’ve had a killer stomach bug for the last week and an occasional piece of dried pineapple is about all I’ve managed to hold down.

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 06 14 at 12:36 AM • permalink

  131. #127

    ::Sob:: Habib, don’t hate me.

    I made gourmet pizzas last Sunday - chicken, basil and tomato pesto, asparagus, marinated tomato, capsicum and mushrooms, fine mozarella cheese.

    And ::bursting into uncontrolled tears:: a nicely chilled glass of chardonnay.

    —Nora

    Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 06 14 at 12:51 AM • permalink

  132. It appears we need our own site to work out what is RWDB haram. Rather than ask a mufti, it could be called something like ‘discourse with a deathbeast’.

    Questions such as Nora’s ‘Un-DB’ use of pesto and the consumption of chardonnay could be asked. Saves a lot of tears.

    Posted by Nic on 2007 06 14 at 12:55 AM • permalink

  133. #132, Nora,

    Don’t mind Habib,

    he’s from Queensland. ;)

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 12:56 AM • permalink

  134. #130

    What ? The piss is back on ! Now what were we talking about? Some sheila and some infested old dinner jacket wot someone’s grandfather got married in back in 1957?

    Such trifing matters. Get the rums. Pass the food dye.

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 06 14 at 12:56 AM • permalink

  135. I drink decaf latte.

    So shoot me.

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 14 at 01:01 AM • permalink

  136. #132

    Oh Pogria that’s what makes it worse. Nicky and I live in Queensland too!

    ;-)

    —Nora

    Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 06 14 at 01:02 AM • permalink

  137. #123 - Fwutah?

    Hey I don’t mind ham and pineapple pizza - cold and 1 day old.  haha did I make you vomit?

    Confession time:

    *stands

    “In my first year of university, I was cajoled into going to National Party headquarters and grabbing a Young National Party member enrolment form.  I made it out after promising I wasn’t a Young Labor stooge, although I did burst out laughing outside the door upon leaving at the cliched people who ran that office - picture a CWA scone and tea get together with 1950’s hairdos and dress, in Brisbane, in the 90’s.  All labor party members are communists and will never get my vote.”

    Now where’s my medication?

    Posted by peter m on 2007 06 14 at 01:03 AM • permalink

  138. #133, Nic:

    Who is the head DB and what is our chain of command?

    Posted by Grimmy on 2007 06 14 at 01:08 AM • permalink

  139. I played in a bush band

    Habib, next time I offer you a lift home from the pub, please, I’d appreciate a full disclosure of past deeds.

    (runs outside to chlorinate and scrub-out the passenger seat)

    Posted by JAFA on 2007 06 14 at 01:11 AM • permalink

  140. #139
    I vote for Andrea as our head DB and oracle of all things RWDB.

    —Nora

    Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 06 14 at 01:12 AM • permalink

  141. #78, Second date with Ash. We started arguing about whether Howard and Co were doing anything good for us. I thought I was doing well before Ash asked me why I held my opinion.

    You know your opinion is worthless when you don’t have any reasons for having it.

    Posted by Ash_ on 2007 06 14 at 01:32 AM • permalink

  142. Barbeque sauce on a pizza should result in the maker being stuffed into the pizza oven.

    “Gourmet” pies are another sin- a flytrap should contain minced up unpleasant bits of cows and sheep, and black sauce. Blue peas that have had every nutrient boiled out of them should be the only accoutrement. A Thai chicken pie is pastrycide, and the maker should be fed to wild dogs.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 06 14 at 01:37 AM • permalink

  143. And “meat pie pizzas” are a blight upon both cullinary forms

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 06 14 at 01:41 AM • permalink

  144. Barbeque sauce on a pizza should result in the maker being stuffed into the pizza oven.

    See, it’s this sort of intransigence that is dividing the peaceful Sunni and Shia. I love BBQ sauce on pizza. Particularly when accompanied by swine, fowl, jumbuck and bullock. Preferably all at once.

    Speaking of abominations - take a gander at this gastrotravisty. Fusion food is for poonces.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 14 at 01:46 AM • permalink

  145. Pineapple’s OK in a burger, as long as it’s balanced by beetroot.

    Ham and pineapple sandwiches are good also. Especially toasted.

    Posted by ilibcc on 2007 06 14 at 01:47 AM • permalink

  146. #144 - Too quick. Great minds think alike and fools never differ.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 14 at 01:48 AM • permalink

  147. #139 Grimmy,

    Hmmm, as RWDB’s should we have more of a benign dictatorship?

    #143, add to that putting fucking thousand island dressing on pizzas as Asians and Tasmanians do. To hell with it, thousand island dressing on anything!

    Posted by Nic on 2007 06 14 at 01:49 AM • permalink

  148. What’s the ruling on frozen pizzas?  Are they RWDB-halal or haraam?

    Posted by Blue State Sil on 2007 06 14 at 01:51 AM • permalink

  149. #147

    Two heads are better than one.. even if they’re only sheep’s.

    mmmm….Sheep’s head pizza

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 06 14 at 01:52 AM • permalink

  150. You’re fucking shitting us Habib.  If you’ve really done all those things you should turn yourself into the authorities immediately.

    I’ve got that Billy Bragg record where he sings the Internationale and the Red Flag.  Ironically, or is that predictably, it was released in Australia by Liberation Records, a division of Michael Gudinski’s Mushroom Records, which is a bit like Standard Oil publishing Vladimir Lenin.

    I’ve never been a member of an organised political party or the New South Wales Liberals.

    Posted by monaro on 2007 06 14 at 01:55 AM • permalink

  151. #137,

    Nora, you own that fabulous cocktail cabinet, so I can forgive you anything.

    Although knowing that you live in Queensland makes me think that you actually bought it brand new for Christmas last year!! ;)

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 01:57 AM • permalink

  152. #149- I don’t see the point of them, as I can usually pick a cooked one up with a voucher for a fiver, or have some walking carbuncle deliver it to my door for a tenner when I’m too bladdered to drive. Costs about the same for a frozen one, and I’ve got to be arsed cooking it. I do make my own from time to time, even make the dough (I used to work in a pizza bar when I was at school). Cold donuts coated with irridescent congealed sugar are definately haram, and anyone responsible for their production should be used for altitude sickness experiments.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 06 14 at 01:59 AM • permalink

  153. #146 - The pineapple is totally haram. Beetroot, however, is as halal as a well tethered goat.

    Remember, you can beat an egg, but you can’t beat a root.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 14 at 02:01 AM • permalink

  154. Although knowing that you live in Queensland makes me think that you actually bought it brand new for Christmas last year

    Ooooo, jealousy is a curse isn’t it.

    ;-P

    —Nora

    Posted by The Thin Man Returns on 2007 06 14 at 02:02 AM • permalink

  155. #155,

    Damn right!!! he he he

    #154,

    Infidel,

    you also can’t milk arrowroot bicuits!

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 02:13 AM • permalink

  156. A paperboy is not made out of paper.

    A firehose…

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 14 at 02:17 AM • permalink

  157. Do redheads also have Ginger Nuts?

    BTW- another shameful episode from my past- while at university I used to work some nightshifts at the Arnotts factory at Milton- Friday night was ginger nut night, when all the leftover dough from all the wekks other runs was gathered up out of the chiller, any obvious mould and fungus removed then chucked into a bloody great mixer with a load of ginger powder and food colouring. I’ve never eaten one of the bastards since. Iced VoVos are also extremely haram.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 06 14 at 02:18 AM • permalink

  158. I admit I know the words of some Chartist Movement marching songs from the 1840’s.

    Posted by geoff on 2007 06 14 at 02:19 AM • permalink

  159. #158 - I’m starting to understand what is stalling the Middle East peace process. The Ginger Nut is the best biscuit by a country mile. Name one other biscuit that can take a dunking and come back not just for more, but begging you to test its resolve.

    I understand the Tim Tam is held in some regard around these parts, but I have always considered it slightly effeminate or for special occasions only.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 14 at 02:25 AM • permalink

  160. #158,
    Habib,

    proccessed cheddar is made the same way.

    We cut the mould off the leftover cheese, it’s chucked into huge pots, melted down and extra salt and yellow colouring, plus god knows what other chemicals stirred in. When it’s cool enough, it’s poured onto steel plates, sent through a sheeter to get the correct thickness, then sliced and packed etc.

    Disgusting stuff.

    ps Redheads do have Ginger Nuts.

    AAAhhh memories!!!

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 02:30 AM • permalink

  161. I own three books by Phillip Adams, one by Pilger and used to watch The Awful Truth. Bloody hell, once you start this it’s difficult to stop.

    I also used to think Paul Keating weas a skilled orator, now I think he’s more of a mass debater.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 06 14 at 02:30 AM • permalink

  162. #160
    I understand the Tim Tam is held in some regard around these parts, but I have always considered it slightly effeminate or for special occasions only.

    As opposed to the Adora Cream Wafer, which is as gay as a pink ukelele.

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 06 14 at 02:32 AM • permalink

  163. Bring it all up Habib.

    You can’t heal until you get all the poison out. 8)

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 02:33 AM • permalink

  164. #163,

    Pickles, I think it’s a dead heat with the Iced Vo Vo.

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 02:34 AM • permalink

  165. #162

    Is very important know know thine enemy.

    Now sing the first three verses of The Fatal Wedding as pennance

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 06 14 at 02:35 AM • permalink

  166. #165
    Grandfather would never let us eat Vo Vo’s. He would say “eat them and you never know where you’ll end up”. Now I think I know what he meant.

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 06 14 at 02:37 AM • permalink

  167. I once watched The Whitlams (The band not the former PM and his husband) perform at the uni tavern. I didn’t enjoy it and instead got totally wankered. It’s as close to a leftist moment I’ve ever had. Although I once sent away for a WWF application pack to sponsor a bear being used for its bile. Turns out you didn’t get the bile, they wanted to free the bears. My boo boo.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 14 at 02:38 AM • permalink

  168. #163- not to mention the sordid Spicy Fruit Roll, as camp as a row of pink tents.

    Surprisingly,  Gaietys are nothing of the kind, and are rather butch.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 06 14 at 02:39 AM • permalink

  169. Well, it’s been a while since anyone posted, so I guess it is safe for me to stand and deliver:

    My name is saltydog.  I am an individualist saltydog now and have always been a individualist saltydog—which got me in all kinds of trouble with teachers and other authority figures.  I have always hated statists and collectivists of all shapes, sizes, and colors.  My biggest sins involve brandy and cigars, which I indulge in frequently, but not on any kind of Churchillian level.  All of this must make me a terrible bore, but I enjoy my company.  And brandy and cigars.  Did I mention the brandy and cigars?

    Oh, and Kimmie-girl is a twat.

    Posted by saltydog on 2007 06 14 at 02:40 AM • permalink

  170. I listened to Bill Bragg singing ‘The Internationale’ once, I rather fancy it’s the same noise the goats make at the farm when Abdullah makes his conjugal visits.

    Posted by darrinhV2 on 2007 06 14 at 02:44 AM • permalink

  171. I stuck my finger in a dyke once

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 06 14 at 02:44 AM • permalink

  172. There’s an unsavoury boarding school/boyscout practice known as “biscuit”, or sometimes Soggy Sao- I’ll leave it to your imagination as to what the spread is.

    An urban myth no doubt.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 06 14 at 02:44 AM • permalink

  173. #169, spicy fruit rolls are the kiddies favs, although they refer to them as ‘squashed fly biscuts’, heavens knows why though…..

    Posted by darrinhV2 on 2007 06 14 at 02:47 AM • permalink

  174. #169

    These little pillows full of dried fruit have a delicious fruit mince pie flavour.

    yep. Little pillows for little pillow biters.

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 06 14 at 02:48 AM • permalink

  175. When it comes to sexual practises, there are no urban myths. One would want to be fleet of wrist or strong of stomach to participate in that event.

    Posted by Infidel Tiger on 2007 06 14 at 02:48 AM • permalink

  176. #172, did it bite?

    Posted by darrinhV2 on 2007 06 14 at 02:51 AM • permalink

  177. #177

    No, didn’t stop leaking either. gave up after that, didn’t want to end up with my head in the thing like that other poor little bugger

    Posted by Pickles on 2007 06 14 at 02:54 AM • permalink

  178. So much for your fancy biscuit packaging.

    We were so poor my mother bought broken biscuits by the pound from the tin at the grocer’s - Thin Captains, TicTocs and those triple pink wafer things that we used to eat by prising them apart and eating the icing inside first.

    Posted by ilibcc on 2007 06 14 at 02:55 AM • permalink

  179. #178 nah, good move, could have easily ended up as the ‘fickle finger of date’.

    Posted by darrinhV2 on 2007 06 14 at 02:55 AM • permalink

  180. Here’s some more discourse on the homosexual/biscuit nexus.

    I must admit if I saw an adult male scoffing Tiny Teddys I’d consider him to be a good chance of still living with his mum, being light on his feet and good with colours.

    Posted by Habib on 2007 06 14 at 02:59 AM • permalink

  181. There’s also this one that describes our current leader of the opposition.

    And slightly off the biscuits, there’s “sticky date pudding”. A common problem suffered by female gymnasts.

    And Kimmeh.

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 03:08 AM • permalink

  182. #168
    Damn your eyes!  I’ll hear nothing against the Spicy Date Roll.  It was the only remotely normal looking foodstuff in a pusser’s rat. pack.

    Posted by lotocoti on 2007 06 14 at 03:23 AM • permalink

  183. Tim i think you should have Father Blair confesion time once a month on this site…......Umm ok here we go um ..cough..My grandfather was a warfie,the other one was a painter and docker…...god i feel so dirty….........

    Posted by sparrow on 2007 06 14 at 03:53 AM • permalink

  184. Id like to join in on the confessions too, although it wont be anywhere near as interesting as so many here.

    *clears throat*

    I was an anthropology student.  Then I graduated.  And got married.  And began to realize…well, a lot of things.  Like maybe my parents were right.  Very right.  Especially my Dad.  But I tend to think that all Liberals who came home to Conservativism have had that conservativism lurking in their somewhere…there were just so many other things out there to distract. 

    But truth be told, Im not sure I was even really a liberal.  Just…uninformed and so new information felt like revelation to me, until I began to examine it.  And now my mother accuses me of being more conservative RWDB than my father! 

    Anyway, Ash_ : welcome home.

    Posted by Sharon_Ferguson on 2007 06 14 at 04:42 AM • permalink

  185. Bloody hell!  Thanks alot fellas.  As soon as I leave the room the party gets cracking…

    Posted by murph on 2007 06 14 at 04:55 AM • permalink

  186. #186,

    you snooze, you lose Murph! :)

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 05:06 AM • permalink

  187. Murph - dont worry - I was late to the party too…

    Posted by Sharon_Ferguson on 2007 06 14 at 05:18 AM • permalink

  188. #188,

    Hi fergie, you still going to emigrate?

    This party started last night.

    Kim-twat has become a mascot for us.

    Renewed our vim and vigour!

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 05:21 AM • permalink

  189. Pogria - half packed and twitching!!  Gotta at least stick around to see if its gonna get shoved through…which according to ol’ Jorge, it just might happen.  But the rumor mill says it was dead in the water anyway, so like the odds, Im only half way there LOL

    I love frollickingmole’s new terminology: twatwa!!

    Posted by Sharon_Ferguson on 2007 06 14 at 05:37 AM • permalink

  190. Fergie, I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you.

    Yeah, mole’s a real hoot!

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 05:41 AM • permalink

  191. Thanks Pogria!!  But you know, I plan to make it down under some day anyway, without the excuse of amnesty!

    Posted by Sharon_Ferguson on 2007 06 14 at 05:47 AM • permalink

  192. twatwa

    Isn’t that when the women gang up on you?

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 14 at 05:47 AM • permalink

  193. Ah gee.  I never would have confessed if I’d known that the party wasn’t over.  I thought I was talking to an empty room.  It is downright embarrassing to be so straight and innocent.  Politically.

    Posted by saltydog on 2007 06 14 at 05:48 AM • permalink

  194. #193, kae,

    when that happens, you’d better twatch out!

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 05:51 AM • permalink

  195. Kimmeh might be twatching you!

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 05:52 AM • permalink

  196. She might have the twats for you!

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 05:58 AM • permalink

  197. #195

    Fight or fight…. I’m twatching already….

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 14 at 06:00 AM • permalink

  198. Better twatch your back, Kae.

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 06:01 AM • permalink

  199. Twatch out for that double-entendre…it will twatwa you every twime…

    ah hell…see what’s happened to me now?  Get insomnia and read Tim Blair and I get all twatchy…

    Posted by Sharon_Ferguson on 2007 06 14 at 06:08 AM • permalink

  200. Fergie,
    What time is it by your twatch?

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 06:12 AM • permalink

  201. #198

    fight or FLIGHT

    bugger

    PIMF

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 14 at 06:13 AM • permalink

  202. Two twatches past a kimmeh…

    Posted by Sharon_Ferguson on 2007 06 14 at 06:14 AM • permalink

  203. Sorry…I was going with flow Pogria - its actually 5:15 here - Houston time.

    Posted by Sharon_Ferguson on 2007 06 14 at 06:14 AM • permalink

  204. #204,

    he he. That was funny. Have to keep it going. I think everyone here is having their dinner.

    Is that 5.15 am or pm?

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 06:17 AM • permalink

  205. LOL I missed again!  now 5:26 AM…dawn’s fixin’ to crack…I really should come to Tim’s blog more often when I get insomnia…

    Posted by Sharon_Ferguson on 2007 06 14 at 06:27 AM • permalink

  206. Twat is the matter with you people?

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 14 at 06:28 AM • permalink

  207. Hey S Ferhuson, I’m from Houston too!
    Originally, that is. Live in Germany now.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 14 at 06:29 AM • permalink

  208. #207,
    nothing Texas Bob, twat’s the matter with you? :)

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 06:35 AM • permalink

  209. Hey there, Tx Bob - once a Houstonian, always a Houstonian!  What are you doing in Germany?  Shiner Bock not good enough for you? :D

    Posted by Sharon_Ferguson on 2007 06 14 at 06:36 AM • permalink

  210. #205
    Hi
    At least we don’t put you to sleep…
    er, unless that’s what you want….

    the only lullabye I know is Little Baby Jesus….

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 14 at 06:38 AM • permalink

  211. #209 Nuttin, that’s twat!

    #210 I work for Uncle Sugar and am stationed over here. Shiner Bock is still good, but no one in North America comes close to this wonderful kraut brew. I grew up on the west side, back when it was still rice farming country…

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 14 at 06:44 AM • permalink

  212. #210,  congrats on your 100th post sharon.

    Hey, how come the quick name change? Was it because of Bob? ;)

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 06:48 AM • permalink

  213. #213 HEY HEY HEY Pogria!!! You little pot stirrer! Cut that out, I’m a married man for cyin out loud!

    :-)

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 14 at 06:53 AM • permalink

  214. Hey Bob, I was going to tell her that in the next post, Honest!! ;0

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 06:55 AM • permalink

  215. Texas Bob,

    over here they call me a shit stirrer!!

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 06:57 AM • permalink

  216. Oh Oh *looks fearfully around*, don’t mind me.

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 07:00 AM • permalink

  217. Texas
    You might be married, but you aint dead.
    If someone’s flirting with you enjoy it!

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 14 at 07:09 AM • permalink

  218. Khimmi is evidently still lurking though this thread. She posted a comment on the Larva Rodeo how this thread had degenerated into a political leanings confession. Most have miffed her no longer being the center of attention.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 14 at 07:11 AM • permalink

  219. #218 No Kae, I’m dead. Or at least I will be if my wife caches me flirting!

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 14 at 07:13 AM • permalink

  220. caches = catches.

    Perview can kiss my lilly white ass.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 14 at 07:14 AM • permalink

  221. #220
    Well, if you are the flirter, yeah, perfectly acceptable… if you are the flirtee, well, enjoy.

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 14 at 07:26 AM • permalink

  222. #145 IT, that abomination is a hanging offence. Have we sunk so low?

    Posted by Nilknarf Arbed on 2007 06 14 at 08:37 AM • permalink

  223. Do we have time for a Margaret Twatcher joke?

    Posted by darrinhV2 on 2007 06 14 at 08:37 AM • permalink

  224. Reminds me of the LA Twats riot of 1965 and my favorite bluegrass song, Under the Twaterfall.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 14 at 08:45 AM • permalink

  225. #222 Kae, I have a feeling being the flirtee would also be not so healthy.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 14 at 08:46 AM • permalink

  226. #225

    Under the Twaterfall

    That’s about a golden show…. ah, nevermind.

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 14 at 08:47 AM • permalink

  227. #226
    Oh, I see.

    Posted by kae on 2007 06 14 at 08:50 AM • permalink

  228. Mrs Texas Bob,

      I Didn’t Mean It!!!

    Sharon, come back, pleaaaase!

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 08:53 AM • permalink

  229. Pogria, you may now add Home-wrecker and Commenter Bouncer to your resume.

    ;-)

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 14 at 09:02 AM • permalink

  230. #230,

    Damn, Texas Bob, I was going for cute and Lisa Simpsonish.  :)

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 09:15 AM • permalink

  231. I confess:  my darkest moment was voting for the idiot peanut farmer of Plains, Georgia.  But I shook of my malaise and voted for Ronnie the next time.  And I’ve never looked back. 

    Oh, the shame, the shame.  Up to then, the most grizzly family secret is that grandmother worked for the IRS for 28 years. 

    And oh, Kim, you’re still a twat. 

    Elizabeth
    Imperial Keeper

    Posted by Elizabeth Imperial Keeper on 2007 06 14 at 09:45 AM • permalink

  232. #232,

    there there, Elizabeth.

    Confession is the first step towards redemption. :)

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 09:49 AM • permalink

  233. I was born a RWDB, probably because my older brother was a dipstick hippy and I grew up hating them. My folks (being Depression kids) we’re Dem right up to Mr Peanut. My Dad was even invited to his inauguration, framed it and proudly displayed it in the living room. We all voted for Ronnie the 2nd time around (my very first vote!). When my Dad received an invitation to Reagan’s inauguration, he covered Mr. Peanut’s with it. I inherited both of them.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 14 at 09:56 AM • permalink

  234. #234, Texas Bob,

    I have always been led to believe that voting Democrat in Texas was a hanging offence.

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 10:03 AM • permalink

  235. I have always been led to believe that voting Democrat in Texas was a hanging offence.

    Pogria, there was a time in the not so distant past, that the former Confederate States of the American South were all uniformly Democrat, and Republicans were roundly hated for the treacherous carpetbagging Yankee scum they were.  Times change, and parties flip-flop.

    Posted by RebeccaH on 2007 06 14 at 10:19 AM • permalink

  236. #236,
    Too true RebbecaH, too true.

    Being an Aussie though, we just get to hear the legends so to speak. Always considered Texas to be sort of out there on its own, special.

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 10:22 AM • permalink

  237. #235 Pogria, RebeccaH is right on the money.  Dixie was nearly unanimous in its support of the Dems right up the Carter Administration. After that, things went south (so to speak) for them.  My grandfather used to get so pissed off, because my grandmother (a staunch FDR gal) refused to consider changing parties and would merely cancel out his vote.  She refused to even consider the fact that the Dems embraced everything she stood against.  That was the kind of loyalty her generation had. She voted Dem until the day she died, if for nothing else but out of gratitude to FDR.

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 14 at 10:27 AM • permalink

  238. Rebecca and Texas Bob,
    thanks for the info. I appreciate it.

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 10:36 AM • permalink

  239. Oh, you have made no mistake Pogria. Texas IS special. Why, in Texas schools the children are taught the true geography of North America, which is predominately Texas and her territories.  Texas is so superior to any other state, that those blessed enough to share a border are 43% better off than the others.  If Texas ever decided to end its charitable mood of supporting the other 49, all you’d have left is Texas and its surrounding wasteland.  We’ve got so many people, that if every Texas faced east and farted, California would be another Hawaiian Island.  The ugliest Texas woman makes Adriana Lima green with envy.  I could go on (and on), but my enormous Texas modesty prevents me from boasting (of which I have every right to do so)(and probably should).

    Posted by Texas Bob on 2007 06 14 at 10:37 AM • permalink

  240. #240,

    That’s as it should be Texas Bob.

    Posted by Pogria on 2007 06 14 at 10:43 AM • permalink

  241. #212 As in Richmond/Rosenberg - Fort Bend County?...all those rice fields plowed under now…Ive heard all about that kraut beer - courtesy of a Hill Country German I dated in college. 

    ROFL!!! Pogria!!  I cant believe…

    ...well actually it *does* look like I was flirting…MRS TEXAS BOB I DIDNT MEAN IT THAT WAY, I PROMISE!!  I’m a One Man Woman myself…and (no offense, Tx Bob) he isn’t your husband!!

    See…it was because I hadn’t updated my user profile in a while and I was a little tired of seeing ‘S Ferguson.’

    No, that doesnt work, does it?

    *embarrassed*

    But Pogria, its a good thing that I decided to step away from the computer and kiss my hubby as he left for work this morning and then succumb to sleep at last, ‘cause then you’d have TWO Texans taking up the next page or so expounding on the virtues of BEING Texan and why everyone hasnt become one yet.  Then Tim and all the others on the board would be rolling their eyes and poking you with their forks under the table and hissing under their breaths: “WHY did you have to give them an opening…mate?!”  [did I use that correctly?] and having to endure at least one Texan (me) wittering away about history and such of my home.  Not sure if you’ve heard it yet but theres a saying here : don’t ask a Texan where he’s from, he’ll tell you.  And OH BOY will he/she tell you.  It don’t take much encouragement for me to say something about Texas.

    Yep its good I wasnt here.  Youdda never got me to STFU.

    But I will now…(and that probably makes me a flirt AND a tease…)

    TexasBob - I am not flirting when I say this - just mean it sincere and true: THANK YOU, to you, your wife and everyone you serve with.  THANK YOU for standing up for our country!

    Posted by Sharon_Ferguson on 2007 06 14 at 12:24 PM • permalink

  242. PS Texas Bob - please dont let Mrs. Texas Bob perform a Twatwa on me.

    Posted by Sharon_Ferguson on 2007 06 14 at 12:27 PM • permalink

  243. Allow me to second what Texas Bob said.  I grew up in Texas under nothing but Democratic Govenrors, Senates and Houses until Bill Clements finally managed to break their stranglehold.  The only Republican office holder of any consequence was US Senator John Tower.

    However, IMO a large proportion of Democratic voters were pretty conservative; once the Jimmycrats went off the deep end, Reagan gave them a pretty damned good reason to switch affiliations, which lasts to this day.

    I must also agree with TB’s assessment of a most glorious State.  As school children in Texas, we were taught the State Song, “Texas, Our Texas”.  People I talk to from most other states look at me quizically when I ask them if they know their state’s song.

    So, yeah, Texas rocks.  Not to mention that the SPURS will be bringing home their 4th title tonight!  WOO-HOO!!

    Posted by Tex Lovera on 2007 06 14 at 01:06 PM • permalink

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