Big Ol' Smitty

Cock-smoking wannabe tough guys who are blaming the victims for not going all Chuck Norris on the gunman can go straight to hell (hmm...imagine someone from the National Review castigating others for not being brave while they sit back & play keyboard commando...this has never happened before). Liviu Librescu again: Students in room 207:

Reuters Shit.

I regret nothing. It was clearly a joke. Hey, don't blame him, he took humor lessons at The Don Imus Cowboy Humor Ranch.

This guy was a real hero. Makes me sick to my stomach to read this. from the Jerusalem Post

The "refusal of North Africans to assimilate" may have something to do with the provocations of police forces, and of their minister for most of the past 5 years (and presidential candidate), Nicolas Sarkozy, who regularly insults jobless youth from ethnic minorities, taunts them and orders the police to harass them, and has steadily toughened laws and reduced budgets for preventive action - prefering to send riot police to the suburbs after having eliminated permanent local police forces.

Just Dobbs being Dobbs.

See Iraq, for instance.

Ed who?

I really don't get the "everyone should carry guns" argument. Let's say you see somebody shooting, so you pull your gun. Now you have two people shooting at each other. Along comes person 3, with their gun, who sees person 1 and 2 shooting at one another. Who does person 3 shoot at? How does this not devolve into a massive firefight where nobody knows who is shooting at whom? (FWIW, I'm pretty anti-gun control, but this idea that we're gonna have a million Clint Eastwoods running around seems ridiculous to me.)

That 655,000 number is disputed, mostly by (the remaining) war supporters.

Haha! Death!

Snuffy, ya boy Tommy Thompson: http://atrios.blogspot.com/2007_04_15_atri...674748460610844 One of the Thompsons needs to drop out of the GOP primary, because it's confusing.

You'd be better off buying one of his older books. Unless you already have them, then go ahead. I think I have all of the others.

Mistletoe, KY.

Atrios

Things I learned from this thread: 1. Boycotts are a "mob tactic": Martin Luther King, Jr., the Sons of Liberty, & Gandhi all used "mob tactics". 2. Three-Six Mafia REALLY DOES have a TV show. I was at the gym the other day and MTV was on, & I learned this. I was just joking earlier in the thread.

Vonnegut was awesome, I am going to go buy his latest (Man Without a Country) in honor of his death.

Man, Deadpool seems great.

New York Times Shit.

Queen Liliuokalani agrees, Hoff

Several hundred thousand people have been massacred in the Darfur region of Sudan by government sanctioned militias in the last three or four years and over 2 million have become refugees. The rest of the world has been aware of this the whole time. This was an issue in the 2004 presidential debates. Here we sit in 2007, and basically nothing has been done about it. It's a huge fucking disgrace, and every single one of us who has an ounce of decency within himself should be ashamed. So go ahead. Blame Bush. Blame the UN. Blame Africans for being poor. Whatever. We could have done something to stop this if there was any sort of political constituency or movement behind it or if any leading politician had decided to take on a role of leadership. But there isn't, and they haven't, so we don't. Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five

I thought we could use a thread to just fill with stupid things that politicians and other public figures say. So whenever Pat Robertson, John Kerry, Trent Lott, etc. stick their foots in their mouths, we can log those here. I'll start with Tom Delay. Former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay (R-TX), in his new book No Retreat, No Surrender, on being charged with violating Texas campaign-finance laws

I still fail to see how he is irrelevant when he regularly has some of the most powerful people in the country on his show (like McCain & Lieberman). Hell, one presidential candidate even announced his run on the Imus show. And why can't "black leaders" do two things? *white person uses a racial slur* Mecca: DON'T WORRY ABOUT THAT, THERE'S A GANGSTA CULTURE!

Tom Delay again, expanding on the quote that started the thread (on his campaign finance violation charges)

Because a whole lotta bitches talkin shit