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-Short Attention Span Theater-
Ace: The Priestly Caste of the Conservative Right Gets to Be Outraged
Full title: The Priestly Caste of the Conservative Right Gets to Be Outraged That Heterosexual Men Find the Female Form Pleasing, and Sometimes Make Jokes About it
As I'm sure you're all aware, it's been 48 hours since the Huge News that Donald Trump said a woman had nice legs, and was "hot," and then made what was clearly a joke -- "I can kiss any woman I like. It's incredible. You can do whatever you want when you're star. You can even grab their pussy."

Rather than taking this as what it obviously was -- a hyperbolic joke which relies on exaggerating the truth to the nth degree for a laugh -- the Aspergers Right has chosen to take it literally, that Trump is really out there grabbing on women's mishes.
My vocabulary has seriously expanded since I started hanging out at Rantburg.
First time I have heard the term my own self.
I haven't been in a locker room for a long, long time...
Dry, wandering eye, twitchy mish? I blame Sjogren's Syndrome
Gee, I hope the Aspergers/Low T right has never read this site when we talk about hot woman. You know, when we make all sorts of Rape Threats and Assault Threats like --

I'd bang that like a screen door during a hurricane.

I'd hit that so hard that whoever pulled my dick out her mish would be crowned king of England.

I'd hit that so hard that I'd succeed in doing what no physicist has ever accomplished -- splitting the vagina atom.

That last gem from Empire of Jeff.

Gee, does the Aspergers Crew at National Review think that Ace of Spades readers are actually burying themselves like Excalibur in she-stones, or hittin' that shit so deep that new subatomic particles are birthed?

I don't even think you can actually split the Vagina Atom without use of an electron boring scanner -- maybe National Review should report Empire of Jeff for threatening to use a laser on some poor woman's womb.

So get ready to hear the Social Justice Warriors of the Aspergers Right go fucking bananas tonight.

As usual. As they've been doing now for a full year.

But it's not getting tedious having to listen to these shrieking unhinged she-men hissing and fainting all over themselves yet again.

Nope, not tedious at all. The stream of fainting-couch hysteria babbling out of their shrieky mouths is just so much background music for the rest of us by now.
Posted by: badanov || 10/11/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Aspergers
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/11/2016 7:21 Comments || Top||

#2  Thank you once again Dr. Ted Noel.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/11/2016 8:05 Comments || Top||

#3  Not just the conservative right, but the RINO breed hamming for their social lefties they swim with.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/11/2016 8:11 Comments || Top||

#4  It's only the pajama boys and girls who get outraged by locker-room talk. ISIS is murdering people en masse, beheadings, drownings, burnings, evisceratings and wholesale rape of women. These faint heart hot house flowers need to get a sense of proportion and also grow a set. They also need to consider the criminality of the Clinton empire and do something about it. If you ignore your responsibilities and put it on the American people to clean up your messes, you will not like the outcome.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/11/2016 9:39 Comments || Top||

#5  The only people outraged are ones that were looking for a way to not support Trump. This gave them a fig leaf they felt they needed.

I just hope someone is keeping a list because when they start up again in 2016 I'd like to know who is who.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/11/2016 9:47 Comments || Top||

#6  Conservatives are the whipping boy of this election. Buy why? We aren't the establishment. We hate the establishment. We aren't prudes - that's the religious right. Is there some overlap? Always, but seriously, the only redeeming feature of the Republican Party is that's where conservatives gather. We aren't what's wrong with the party. We are its still beating heart. No politician falsely claims to be a RINO or Rockefeller Republican, but they lie about being conservative all the time. That should be a clue right there.
Posted by: Iblis || 10/11/2016 11:25 Comments || Top||

#7  Democrats and their media lackeys are siding with establishment Republicans (as they did when they vilified the tea-party). They like having lapdogs as the loyal opposition.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/11/2016 12:07 Comments || Top||

#8  I remember when the media exploded in sanctimonious outrage when they found out president Nixon said bad words on the Watergate tapes. The President!

I, personally, was so scandalized I had to cry myself to sleep for three weeks.
Posted by: Bobby || 10/11/2016 12:45 Comments || Top||

#9  I listened to Glen Beck a bit the other day. He has been setting himself up for a told-you-so moment, and was doing his shtick about the tape and locker room talk.

Mr. Beck. You may not want to visit our fire department after a run. Mr. Trump's tape is rookie level.

Or watch Range 15. Or Gran Torino. Or listen to music - what is Brown Sugar but Mick Jager singing about how he made it with a black gal?

One can easily imagine the jokes from the fountainhead of reverse-laying hose, and I was about blushing from the fine words coming out of the mouths of some paratroopers I had a chance to hang out with.

So I snorted at the total lack of surprise about this tape. The quip about King of England I find absolutely hilarious, the atom incredibly creative.

Wife, well, she didn't like it, but appreciated the apology..maybe she is used to mine from my occasional lack of decorum.

One presidential candidate bragging up their lifestyle, that's all lewd. What I find disgusting is the other potential president giggling at acquitting an obvious rapist, and defending her husband's absolutely awful behavior. That deserves honest outrage.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/11/2016 20:20 Comments || Top||

#10  Dkn' Bimbos - I laughed, great cuss.

Difference between Bush's recording and Powell's text is the first is about how he could, and the second is actually going on right then.
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/11/2016 20:30 Comments || Top||


Arabia
Who targeted the funeral in Sanaa?
[ENGLISH.ALARABIYA.NET] Yemen’s wise statesman Dr Abd al-Karim al-Iryani passed away in November 2015. He was a symbol of the General People’s Congress to which former President President-for-Life Ali Abdullah Saleh
... Saleh initially took power as a strongman of North Yemen in 1977, when disco was in flower, but he didn't invite Donna Summer to the inauguration and Blondie couldn't make it...
belongs. He was completely different from Saleh though and so were his policies and behavior. He tended to be in favor of legitimacy and in support of the Operation Decisive Storm, though in his own polite manner.

His funeral proceedings were held in the same hall, which was targeted by Death Eaters two days ago. Saleh, his men and his family members attended this reception in the presence of a large gathering. At the time, the Saudi-led coalition airplanes dominated Sanaa airspace and continue to do so. Saleh attended the funeral and offered his condolences. He stayed for a long time and was unharmed.
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Posted by: Fred || 10/11/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under: Houthis

#1  Someone mentioned that Iran may not be bought.
They never could be
Posted by: newc || 10/11/2016 1:12 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Politix
The Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler: It's Unbelievable
Warning! Misha is, just a bit, vituperative.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru || 10/11/2016 14:28 || Comments || Link || [7 views] Top|| File under:


Ilana Mercer: Trump Taxes
[TownHall] Almost every penny left in the grubby hands of federal officials is squandered, wasted, misused or misallocated. Every penny kept from the federal behemoth is private property conserved and saved.

One of Donald Trump's virtues is that he appears smart enough to instinctively know what I just said. It benefits business and everyone else if as much private property remains in private hands, so that it’s put to the best use possible.

I’m talking Trump taxes.

It’s alleged that over two decades, Trump had the good sense to pay almost no taxes by declaring close on a billion dollars in losses, before 1995. This, at least, is my understanding of this particular trumped-up case against the candidate.

At the risk of offending the crass utilitarians who make up the liberal commentariat, I’ll talk natural rights.

It has become anathema to float the outrageous idea that a man owns the proceeds from his labor, completely, and that whatever government takes from him or her amounts to private property stolen.
Con't.
Both Ginsburg and Mercer are beginning to make sense. The end... is it near ?
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/11/2016 04:21 || Comments || Link || [14 views] Top|| File under:

#1  I don't care about Trump's taxes. What he has done is what we all do--try to keep as much of our hard earned money as we can.

I am more concerned that we get someone in office who is willing to try to save the Republic before it is stolen/destroyed by leftists; otherwise tear it down and start over.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/11/2016 8:27 Comments || Top||

#2  Every penny kept from the federal behemoth is private property conserved and saved.

Or spent on guns and ammo.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/11/2016 8:28 Comments || Top||

#3  As I explained to my wife. Trump was merely following both the letter and intent of the law passed by lawmakers like Hillary Clinton.

If you have a problem with the result, blame the lawmakers.
Posted by: phil_b || 10/11/2016 10:03 Comments || Top||

#4  If DJT had not paid taxes due to the Feds, he would have been required to answer to a "Higher Power" regarding. Have seen no evidence of this.

The Buffett ("Progressive") BS about "fair share" derives from Buffett's aggressive use of the tax code (sound familiar?) as well as how he structures his incomes. His squawking about his secretary being in a higher bracket than he could be addressed by either (1) Re-structuring his businesses and how they derive income (riiiiiiiight); or (2) Stapling a contribution check to his 1040 with directions to apply it to the general fund or whatever (ditto). Effing hypocrite.

Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/11/2016 13:00 Comments || Top||

#5  What #4 VRWC said.
Posted by: Barbara || 10/11/2016 13:02 Comments || Top||

#6  I'm shocked nobody (Trump/Johnson) is using the Trump taxes issue as a teaching moment to push a flat tax or something.

Why 'raise taxes on the wealthy' when the wealthy know all the loopholes and pay well to keep those loopholes open.
Posted by: rjschwarz || 10/11/2016 14:21 Comments || Top||

#7  Excepting real estate, no wealth (as opposed to income) tax has ever worked well.

The reason you can tax real estate wealth, is you can't move real estate somewhere else.
Posted by: phil_b || 10/11/2016 19:12 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Ruth Bader Ginsburg: Colin Kaepernick's protest is 'dumb and disrespectful'
[Guardian] NFL quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s continuing protest of the national anthem is "dumb and disrespectful", the supreme court justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said in an interview released on Monday.

In a wide-spanning interview with Yahoo News’s Katie Couric on Ginsburg’s new book My Own Words, Ginsburg said she thought that while Kaepernick’s protest was legal, it was "a terrible thing to do".

"What do I think? I think it’s really dumb of them," Ginsburg said. "Would I arrest them for doing it? No. I think it’s dumb and disrespectful. I would have the same answer if you asked me about flag burning. I think it’s a terrible thing to do, but I wouldn’t lock a person up for doing it. I would point out how ridiculous it seems to me to do such an act."

Ginsburg went to some lengths to say that the protest was legal but that she disagreed with their stance.
Cont’d.
Posted by: Besoeker || 10/11/2016 00:00 || Comments || Link || [9 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Actions speak louder than words. Unless you are in politics.
Posted by: Vast Right Wing Conspiracy || 10/11/2016 7:51 Comments || Top||

#2  She sort of missed the end of the Age of Reason and the beginning of the Age of Feelings, which she actually helped come into place. Dear Ruth, there is no wiggle room in the 14th Amendment to allow suspension of 'equal before the law' on basis of color to make up for 'feelings'.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 10/11/2016 8:17 Comments || Top||

#3  SCOTUS has become a place where Executive dictates are blessed.
Posted by: JohnQC || 10/11/2016 9:44 Comments || Top||

#4  Well, nice to see Ruth Vader is done with the whole optics of a proper judge thing.

I found it entertaining when she pooped out of her mouth last.

White House was all like,
"Don't mess with the RGB. Huh-huh, don't mess with the RGB."

And I be all like,
"Word dawg, I don't Tripp Lite, roll HDMI, for realz."
Posted by: swksvolFF || 10/11/2016 17:02 Comments || Top||



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