Shorter Amy Proctor: PTSD does not deserve recognition as an injury. Come back when you’ve lost a limb.
Way to support the troops, kiddo…
For those of you who don’t know, [Your Hate Mail Will Be Graded] is a retrospective of the entire run of Whatever, all the way back to the hazy days of 1998, when the concept of blogging was so new they didn’t even have the word “blog” yet. We called them “online diaries.” We also had to type uphill in the snow, both ways. And we liked it.
We should have a January 20, 2009 countdown ticker at this blog, and I think we should have a national celebration when this criminal leaves office. I mean a truly national celebration, with fireworks, street parties, city proclamations, etc that would be televised all over the world. I want President Bush’s last day in office to be the most humiliating experience of his life — one where the American people show him how absolutely jubilant they are that he is no longer the leader of this country. We could call it “National Thank Fucking God Day” or something like that.
Yes, kids, it’s time once again to play “Just How Dishonest IS Jim Hoft?”
Hoft, the unrelentingly mendacious numbskull who posts as ‘Gateway Pundit’, has posted the following chart to illustrate another deceptive, misleading screed about how the economy is doing under Bush as compared to the Clinton years:
Two questions come immediately to mind:
- What’s with the funky scale on the vertical axis?
- Why a bar graph?
A commenter named bvw immediately caught out Jimmy doing his dishonest little chart dance:
That is one extremely dishonest graphic. It makes it look like the Bush years have half the reported unemployment of the Clinton years. How does it do so? Because the scale is so narrow. There’s no reason for such a tiny range EXCEPT to distort the message of the actual numbers. The actual numbers are just about equal. The reported numbers are SLIGHTLY less during the Bush years.
Exactly. Jimmy the Weasel manipulated the Y-axis to give the visual impression that unemployment was three times as great under Clinton as it was under Bush. In fact, the average for the Bush years is less than the average under Clinton by just two one-hundredths of one percent. Jimmy the Weasel chose to scale the Y-axis as he did in a deliberate and cynical attempt to hide that fact.
Read the rest of this entry »Yes, folks, that victim of recto-cranial inversion, “Big Dog”, really is so fucking stupid that he doesn’t know that “monkey” has long been used as a racial slur against blacks.
Misha puts Cheeto-stained fingers to keyboard, and farts out yet another laughable screech:
So tell us, greenies, just how smug and superior do you feel now, knowing that filling up your car with ethanol just ONCE uses enough grains to feed a family for a year? Knowing that your biofuel craze and idiotic, imbecilic, cretinous cult of Gaia and your actions are responsible for the deaths of thousands, deaths that are occurring right NOW?
How does it feel to be on the road to being directly responsible for even more deaths than Adolf Hitler?
Do you feel at all, fucknuggets?
You will. One day, a glorious day coming soon, you will.
That’s a promise.
No, Misha. That’s an empty threat. Every threat from you is an empty threat.
Why? Simple: you are a coward. You always have been, and always will be, a coward. Your kind yells and screams, but you never ever find the courage to physically attack anyone. Empty threats like this one are all you’ve got.
Gutless bullies are like that. And it is pathetically obvious that you, Misha, are the very archetype of the gutless bully.
UPDATE 05/12/08 2:59 PM EDT: Let me just point out here that Misha’s attempt to blame Al Gore for the “the deaths of thousands” is, as usual when discussing Misha’s babblings, a piece of unmitigated crap. Gore does not favor converting corn to ethanol:
Q. How about the other big, new contender, ethanol?
A. Cellulosic ethanol. Different from corn-based ethanol. I think it is going to be a huge new source of energy, particularly for the transportation sector. You’re going to see it all over the place. You’re going to see a lot more flex-fuel vehicles. You’re going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there’s no petroleum consumed in the process—that makes the energy balance uniformly positive, so you can regrow it and it does become, in a real sense, renewable. You may also begin to see a new generation of fuel cells that run on cellulosic ethanol, where you can grow your own electricity. I think it’s going to play a huge role.
Heh.
This is pretty much what I’ve been saying for some time, but Simon at Bloggasm has taken the time to quantify the phenomenon. Right-wing blogs by and large avoid discussing Obama in terms of policy, and hammer instead on trivia:
Approximately 77% of posts dealing with Barack Obama in four major conservative blogs focused on non-policy issues. The blogs I surveyed include michellemalkin.com, powerlineblog.com, redstate.com, and littlegreenfootballs.com.
The four blogs published a total of 311 posts in April prominently featuring Obama. Of those, 71 posts (23%) focused on policy issues. The remaining 240 posts (77%) focused on non-policy issues.
Policy issues the blogs covered include Obama’s views on Iraq, the economic slowdown, the housing crisis, the gas tax, immigration, and the war on terror.
Non-policy issues the blogs covered include Rev.Jeremiah Wright, Weathermen founder Bill Ayers, “bitter” comments about rural voters, his decision to wear a flag pin, and his alleged elitism.
The wingnuts don’t talk about policy because (A) they can’t — they don’t have the necessary chops to understand or even find Obama’s policy statements, and (B) they do not understand why doing so is important. They have so thoroughly bought into the politics of personal destruction that the right has employed lo these many years that the very idea of discussing policy is foreign to them.
(hat tip: shakesville)
Wheeee! When an ignorant liar like Ogre decides to make a fool of himself, he goes whole hog!
From a recent post:
And the Democrat Party motto:
“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.” — H. L. Mencken
Three words, imbecile: WMDs in Iraq. That particular hobgoblin was constructed and deployed by a Republican administration — and over 4000 Americans, as well as countless Iraqis, have died as a result.
Stay stupid, jackwad.
In the midst of an acrimonious election season, it is important to step back and put all the shouting in perspective… to be fully aware of what we are, and what we are not.
More about the song.
