The Janeane Garofalo of academia
It’s one thing for Hollywood twit Janeane Garofalo to smear the Tea Party movement as RAAAAACIST. We expect ignorant celebrities to be ignorant. But when newspapers phone up “experts” in academia to provide commentary and analysis on social and political trends, it would be nice if they based their assessments on reality, wouldn’t it?
In the Christian Science Monitor today, one professor of emeritus plays the Janeane Garofalo of academia:
Jeffrey Kimball, a professor emeritus of history at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, says the protesters seemed to represent the most extreme adherents of American conservatism, hardly representative of the average American.
“We may have just seen the whole movement” at these protests, says Mr. Kimball. “I don’t see it as a groundswell, but a manifestation by those people who form the core of … the extreme right reacting both to the condition of our time and President Obama – he’s black and he’s liberal.“
Where’s my cluebat?
California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger booed at Sacramento Tea Party: White and Republican.
California GOP chairman Ron Nehring booed at Sacramento Tea Party: White and Republican.
Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, Sens. Orrin Hatch, and Bob Bennett all booed at Salt Lake City Tea Party: White and Republican.
Rep. Gresham Barrett booed at Greenville SC Tea Party: White and Republican.
Reality doesn’t fit Hollywood’s narrative — or left-wing academia’s. Must be lovely to live life immunized from the truth.
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I hope everyone realizes this is the most publicity Garofalo has had in YEARS. Being a professional brainless sewermouth
finally paid off for her!
It was hoped, when we placed institutions of higher learning on fenced off campuses, that this would enable scientists and other learned academics to conduct research without the distractions of the world at large. Instead, the tenured ivory tower has replaced patriotism as the last refuge of scoundrels.
And that has happened by design; see “Bill Ayers, PhD in Education”.
There are still “points of light” that resist that trend, though.
TAMU, my undergrad alma mater is one.
I think it is still true that more Congressional Medal of Honor citations have come out of that student body than any other in the nation.
I think the only thing we are missing now, is for the Dixie Chicks to jump on the RACIST bandwagon.
Wait for it…. wait for it….
Oh jeez….. an aggie…. now Im in a quandry…. how about learning how to build a bonfire first before you jump into national politics.
Rags:
I get what u mean about standing. But perhaps we need to move out of the box that jurisprudence puts around the protected class of government leaders.
The precedents are being laid as we speak with all this war crime crap.
What is to stop us from having show trials and tribunals of our own…..to illuminate the issues and make the dysfunction of our leaders glaringly public.
We could stage these trials and put them on youtube as the hottest new reality show that cable or MSM doesnt carry….yet.
Truth is stranger than fiction. We may not have standing in rigged courts, but we are still “We The People.”
Back during the buildup to the American Revolution the world looked at the Founders as anything but patriotic. Yet, it was the written and spoken word, grounded in reason and a “spirit” of truth, backed by sound strategic action, which brought down the British Empire and forced them to negotiate a truce— and eventually their own world around empire.
I completely understand your apprehension re the things I mention as the three things waiting to befall the middle class here in the USA. The writing has been on the wall since Gulf War 1.
I have never let conspiracy lunatics direct my thinking. However, they and folks like me, are looking at the same set of facts— so there is bound to be overlap.
But it doesn’t necessarily mean the kind of chaos that destroys civilization as we know it— if we are prepared and not caught in a pinch that would leave us DEPENDENT on the government for food.
It will mean the end of liberal fascism for they will not have a tax base to extort power from. Decentralizing the wealth of the middle class is exactly what preparation will do. Confiscations of land, precious metals, medical supplies, food caches, weapons….. none of that happens if it cant be found.
Indians of the Americas have survived in some ways untouched by the Government’s reach. We’ve been living under the radar for years. The Government is doomed to eat itself. It can no longer protect its people and it is about to devour our private property on philosophical grounds their Messiah is pledged to his benefactors to uphold (abolishing private property— the lynchpin of the enlightened way of governing human populations). That spells the end of the Government- not America.
I appreciate the refined thinking you offer on “standing”. It challenged me to rethink what can be done. And will be done.
The more the government tries to control us, it creates the opposite effect….tis the nature of paradox. Barry Soetoro is an ignorant sycophant but as dangerous as a child wielding a revolver with the safety off.
Good day, Friend.
Bear1909 out
Now, THAT was really low…
BTW, how many successfully built bonfires were there…???
Hmmm…???
Geezzz…one mistake, and that’s all anybody can talk about…
Rush was right with his definition of a racist:
anyone winning an argument with a liberal.
Spot on.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Bear, that is a GREAT idea!!!
We really don’t have any forum in the “real” courts, but we can and should provide an effective “court of public opinion”.
Agitprop is not the sole province of our enemies, and I have never had a problem adopting and adapting what works…
quite the opposite.
I think adherence to what has been proven NOT to work is simply stupid.
I appreciate your thoughtfulness, and I pray you are not totally correct in your predictions.
If you will forgive a slightly smarmy aside… I know of no revolver that has a “safety”. That’s why I only carried auto-loaders when I had kids in the house. I have several wheel guns, but I still rely on my autos. The wheel guns were my father’s, and include two early post-war SAA Colts, and a first-run .44 mag Ruger sent to him by the factory when he was writing a book on handguns.
I’m more than happy to see them drink from the great collective kool aid punchbowl.
All the better for them being unprepared each November election!
No, low would be equating # of posthumous MoHs to Aggie grads.
Not that its an engineering school or anything…. but they give a bad name to rednecks. How hard is it to stack a bunch of telephone poles together and then go “Phor sum mor ghas ohnit….. rhun Coy Bob rhun”
(dont worry, Ive got one of those shingles too
)
yeh yeh yeh Jackie Sherrill’s god… lol
That would be fantastic! Especially if they are staged with real judges presiding over trials where both sides are represented by true believers of their side. It would terrify anyone in office. No one would go to jail but lots of pols would have lots to explain.
I doubt there are many politicians in this country whose daily activities could withstand the glare of the public spotlight.
RS,
When I was first there…pre-vet studies…I had already been in the Army, and was older than most of the kids there.
I was never a “rah-rah” Aggie, being a husband and dad who had to work while attending school.
But, I have to admit, the one Aggie game I attended…as an usher…well, you cannot hear and see the Aggie Band without having a lump in your throat.
At least I can’t…
There’s no need to tear down the GOP. They’ve done a fine job of doing that themselves.
If the GOP survives, it will be relegated to third-party status. There’s just no getting around that. They’ve been co-opted by the libs just like the Donks.
Only worse, because they pretend to be conservative.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Know what you mean. When that Architecture at UT wasnt going to pay the bills for a wife and kids, then I sold out to go where the computer money was going to be. Everything else stayed in Austin |..|
Now, these days, I have to justify sitting here with Ward Churchhill too….
Well, at least you have the dubious pleasure of knowing he’s in range…
Let them eat cake!!!!
I don’t post often because of my strong conservative thoughts are many times criticized or ridiculed by my fellow conservatives that do not share my particular strong views. Nobody likes to be belittled for what he thinks, believes, or enunciates. Think about it conservatives. We are always on the defensive. Liberals have specific talking points and they are indoctrinated into repeating these points over and over again until they themselves believe them, the liberal media in this country has propagandized and parroted liberal talking points without regards to their validity, and our educational system has utterly failed to teach the Constitutional principal and has adopted the liberal rhetoric. So we find ourselves defending our way of life from not only from liberals but also defending ourselves to our fellow conservatives. You know there are always going to be people that don’t like blacks, homosexuals, Catholics, protestants, Jews, bankers, skinheads, Hispanics, Bible believers, atheists, and I could spend the rest of the bandwidth with people, religions, ethnicity, ethics, and morals we disagree with. Our Constitutions and Bill of Rights deals with most of those problem situations. In my opinion, our country needs to go back to our Constitutional roots and that will solve the majority of the problems facing this nation. Loose the unconstitutional laws, give the states and local government the sovereignty that are required by the constitution, and get the oath breakers out of governmental positions. I believe we have a started a way back to legitimate government. It is evident in the grassroots tea party movement, the evidence of the gun and ammunition resurgence, the evidence of less attention to liberal media and a surge in conservative talk radio and conservative TV, and the defensiveness of the liberals. Would I like to see an armed civil war, NO. We can “fight” by letters, faxes, speeches, protests, town hall meetings, getting involved, show trials, and anything else to stop the liberal steam roller. But there are people, just as in the 1700’s that are ready to do the “shot heard round the world”. I have asked myself, should that happen what would I do? I have made my decision, have you?
But, perhaps you will agree, there are alternatives that we have never employed.
I suggest a non-violent tax boycott.
I can provide very clearly reasoned arguments for it, just as there are those who would oppose it.
The whole idea of civil disobedience was not available to our Founders.
I submit it is a powerful tool, an eminently moral tool, and that it has been employed my minority movements throughout American history, to good effect.
I submit it is worth trying. Only then would any more desperate means be remotely justified.
I have had this experience; I have asked rooms full of patriotic men…men who have served their country in time of war…if they would die for the principles we hold dear. To a man (and woman), they have raised their hands YES!
I have then asked them if they would go to prison for their country. That has been a question that many of them never pondered before, and it gave them pause.
Ponder it now, yourselves.
The problem with a tax revolt is that those who participate have much to lose and so the participation will be minimal. You may choose not to pay your taxes but the government will simply impound your bank account, your house, your paycheck and ultimately, they will haul your butt in jail.
Furthermore, the government ranks organized efforts to persuade others to not pay their taxes right up their with armed insurrection and counterfeiting. They are direct challenges to the sovereignty of the government as the legally elected representatives of the people.
What we are currently doing, as Lumberman eloquently describes, is working. We are winning and we are doing it within our constitutional rights.
At some point, the government may very well negate its legitimacy by canceling elections or imposing martial laws in peacetime aimed at preventing us from exercising our rights to protest. At that point, I would be a resister. If the government were to introduce guns into the negotiation, we would have no alternative than fight for our freedom.
The constitution is very clear that we have God-given rights that governments cannot take away from us and one of those God-given rights is to dispose of any government that no longer defends our rights.
I just don’t see it coming to that. We’ve come pretty far with just regular people taking time off from work to have what amounted to a national picnic last Wednesday. The over-the-top reactions by the MSM gained us many new friends. The establishment is already desperate and they are too undermanned. To counter with a grassroots response. They have to pay their “volunteers”. We do it for free.
Well, first, in that case we are doomed. If that is the depth of patriotism in America…the measure of our yearning for liberty, we are lost.
Second, who says? How do you know how popularly it will be supported? I know this; it fails per force if it is never tried.
And THERE is the moral demonstration.
To whom does my paycheck belong? And if, as a manifestation of my disapproval of my government…my exercise of MY sovereignty as a free citizen…I have come to the extremity of defying them, what does that tell them, and my fellow citizens?
And I can tell you this as a trial attorney…due process would make it impossible for the government to respond to this efficiently if popularly supported. NOR WOULD IT TAKE LONG FOR THEM TO GET THE MESSAGE.
Forgive me, but where did you get THAT BS?!?! They do not. Check the criminal code. I’m doing it now, and I am not breaking any law.
YES…!!! And it would WORK precisely because of that, if popularly supported.
And they are doing it every day…and we are letting them.
I say it is time to stop that process.
It can’t be done by voting and going to rallies, writing letters to people who we send to Washington, working for their election, etc.
Decades of experience have shown me that.
The problems are systemic. They are in the gears of the machine.
We have to starve the beast.
Don’t be afraid. Give it place in your thinking.
Some of you claim to be optimists. What would happen if we try this, and it works?
I’ll tell you something that’s worrying me as I read here, Anti-Idiotarian Rottweiler, Little Green Footballs, and other places:
We want a White Knight to emerge from somewhere, ride to our rescue, rejuvenate the Republican Party, and miraculously have nothing bad in his or her background that can be criticized.
Newt? Nope. He had a bad divorce or two, and he’s flip-flopped on a few things. Giuliani? Nope, he had a nasty divorce and some of his kids don’t agree with him. Palin? Nope, she scares people. ? Nope, he’s not conservative enough. ? Nope, he’s got X wrong with him. and on, and on, and on, until there is NOBODY we can rally behind, and by golly, the Dems win again because they’ve got a smooth-talking pretty boy for a puppet to dance on the National stage.
Third party will kill us. We cannot go there. If you don’t believe me, please PLEASE do your homework. Read about the Bull Moose Party and how can we forget Perot??? All either of them managed to do was split the conservative vote and guarantee that the Dems won.
I’ve no love for the Republicans, and they’re not much different than the Dems. But until the Dems start throwing up the occasional true-conservative sport, we’re stuck with the Pubs.
Look, PP…just think about this—
1. Let’s say that it became apparent that lots of Americans were changing their W-2 forms to effectively deny the government as much withholding as possible.
2. Let’s say that next year, there was an organized “Starve The Beast” movement, and MILLIONS of Americans refused to file ON TIME. Just ON TIME, maybe delaying their filing until July 4th.
3. If nobody is paying attention to that, then we go to a full boycott.
That is incremental, rational, and it exposes nobody to MUCH (if any) real risk in steps 1 and 2. That should tell us if government is listening to us.
If our government isn’t listening to us, do we actually have a Constitutional government any longer?
Rags: very curious logic. Because people aren’t willing to impale themselves on your sword they have no “depth of patriotism”? You first pal. Get us started. Refuse to pay your taxes and let us know how that works out.
Even if you got a few people to do it, how long do you think it would take to get it snowballing? Fifty years? You are asking us to stop what we are doing just when we have both parties on their heels to experiment on something that dubious?
Besides, we are already starving the beast with unemployment and cratering tax receipts. Watch what is about to happen on CA. Prepare to be amazed.
Rags: pay close attention to the news coming out of the WH today about the economy/banks/etc… The bank bailouts might be cut-off soon. His budget is also in deep trouble, that McCain-Leiberman Cap and Trade Bill is sinking it.
Our liberal opponents are very desperate and know they have missed their narrow window of opportunity. They don’t have the troops to turn the tidal wave (us) heading their way.
And you want to give up?
I would not ask you to do something I was not prepared to take the lead in doing.
Remember, I am an officer of the Court. The mace would fall hardest on me, if it falls.
I’m prepared.
God, I’m glad Patrick Henry isn’t here to hear you say what you just did.
You are truly delusional. The Political Class has never been more in charge.
I call on you again…
just think.
We have a president once again returning home with his tail between his legs after having his butt kicked yet again. The best he can do is remind Castro, Ortega and Chavez that their complaints didn’t happen on his watch? The Dems have already squandered their contrived “mandate” and they know it. Still, the GOP can’t get out of its own way.
We need to keep kicking butt hard all around and see what happens. If the GOP is going to survive this, they need new leadership FAST. Otherwise, both parties’ incumbents will be decimated next year and the only unstoppable force will be US.
PP, truth now…
how old are you?
Rags: I salute you were you to start this because I would like nothing better than to be proven wrong. But I have witnessed politics close up and I assure you that as entrenched as the criminals in government are, their hands are being tied because more and more of us are paying attention. Their machine is falling apart and another election could take the whole thing down.
One sign to look for would be the re-instating of the Glass-Steagall Act. It would signal a major defeat for the one-world globalists. The stock markets would rally big if that were to happen. As it is, you might as well should the N-word in Jesse’s face as utter Glass-Steagall to anyone in DC. It has been uttered the past 2-3 days.
I don’t know what you are looking for but this battle is being fought in my territory and I see nothing but desperate Hail Mary passes that are not being caught. Hail Mary passes are a closing seconds strategy.
All of the things I have mentioned earlier would also signal a tidal shift, a break in the dam that would be irreversible. We win by the inch until the dam bursts. We are getting there.
Correction:
As it is, you might as well
shouldshout the N-word in Jesse’s face as utter Glass-Steagall to anyone in DC.No, I didn’t. As I said the last time somebody started pushing a tax strike, “You first”.
Now you can go ahead and play fantasy games like a liberal does, or you can try to do the possible, as has been reflected here through various suggestions by a variety of posters. As for me, I don’t see that we can do all that much until the 50%+ of the country that thinks they can live off of the government and other people’s money finally learns the price of slavery. And that won’t happen very soon. Those things that can be done in the meantime, we should be doing and many have been suggested above.
There you go again with your lawyer’s tricks. This isn’t moot court. You’d be surprised where I’ve been.
What will replace “both parties’ candidates”….?
Who is “US”?
People who understand power…and that would be the Political Class…don’t give a rat’s asp about a million protesters. A protest does not translate into a power gradient. Not by itself.
A million mad voters? Snore. That’s a walk in the park for ACORN to counter.
Those million mad voters are dissipated all over a nation. No threat there.
Tell me, who is “US” going to unseat in the coming election cycle. Maybe you could name a few people. So?
In a few years, they will be voting in the same direction as those you thought you threw out, with very few exceptions.
How do I know? Because I’ve tried everything you think will work…and delusionally think is working now.
There is an economy to liberty. You don’t get it cheap, which is what you are wishfully “thinking”.
I’m not a racist. I hate everybody equally.
So, this man is a racist.
This man is a racist.
Gee. I still find it funny how color seems to matter to the left only when there is a “color clash” with their screwball propoganda.
If this will help persuade a few wobblies, here is a link describing the “Singing Revolution” in Estonia.
What they accomplished is inspiring and a screaming testament to what people united to regain freedom can do. They did it LEGALLY even within the Soviet Union!
If you can catch it somewhere or order the DVD, do so. I reluctantly started watching it on PBS last week but was very glad I did. The Estonians never forgot who they were even after almost 80 years of occupation. It kept them united via their choral signing and they prevailed. It is a “must see”.
As I recall, that was the attitude of about 75% of the population of the Colonies, when considering fighting the greatest military power of the time.
Why is it impossible?
Wasn’t having women gain the right to vote “impossible” to little minds?
How about an integrated South…or North…?
Wasn’t an independent India “impossible”.
Sorry, go back to sleep. I apologize for disturbing your happy slumbers.
Again, you lawyer tricks. One of my favorite gags when arguing with someone is make them name a million people.
“Do you realize MILLIONS of people adore the Lakers?!?!?”
ME: “Get out! No way! Name them!”
It’s a dumb trick.
I’ll tell who ISN’T one of us, YOU. I’m sure the Michelle Malkin fans know who “us” is.
Eww…
groovy…a movie…
and a musical, too…!!!
Did it escape you that this was civil disobedience…??!?!?
Yeah…thought so.
Yet another sly trick. Candidates and incumbents are not interchangable. Are you responding to what I actually said or to what you need for me to have said? Very annoying.
Focus, Rags, focus.
I never did that. I asked who you were going to unseat.
You defected that question with your bullspit about naming a million people.
Then you compounded that cowardice by pretending to speak for our host’s fans.
I think that was a very pretty demonstration of your intellectual integrity…
and your apparent age.
Okay you two…consider the “Texas Option….”
I have…
So has Walter Williams…
and a whole lot of other folks…
OK…
I’m hearing a lot of cricket song in response to my question about who “US” is going to run to decimate the incumbents (all of whom, BTW, are candidates) in the coming election cycle.
Mmmm…hummm….hummm….
Waiting…
right_on: first of all, 75% of Texas wouldn’t vote for it and second, you have your history wrong.
The agreement adding Texas to the Union has no wording granting the state a right to secede. No state has that right. What was granted was the right to break up into four further states.
The Mexican-American War was pursued by pro-slavers interests whose intent was to greatly expand their influence in the US by adding Texas and splitting up into ten(?) states and thus winning forever the struggle for slavery rights. Limiting them to four kept the balance. Never mattered. Texas seceded during the Civil War and was on the losing side.
I don’t know if I got that perfect but I’m very sure Texas has no right to secede. The US Constitution applies to Texas exactly the same way it applies to every other state. Secession is an act of war.
Am I the only one watching “24″ hoping that Jack Bauer finds an excuse to shoot Garafalo’s character?
Seriously: exactly what makes Garafalo an expert on anything but being an ignorant boob? A B.S. in History? Taught by liberal profs at Providence College? Meh. Weak comedienne or actress? Double meh.
And really, how hard is it to find a hard core liberal in academia to belittle the Tea Parties? Come to western Massachusetts and check out WNEC economics prof. Michael Meeropol, son of the executed spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. His economics are demonstrably leftwing.
Every State has, as one of the sovereigns that breathed life into the United States, a right to secede. You don’t destroy an entity that has the power to form another entity. According to the Framers, the Federal government was the creation of the States, and was to be subservient to them, except in the enumerated areas of its authority.
Texas was a republic. It entered the Union with that status, accepting statehood. That made it unique, arguably with the exception of Hawaii.
But, I refer you to the Declaration…which you will benefit by reading and understanding.
Yeh, but then there’s the fireants, the mosquitos, the mesquite trees, the stickers, the chiggers, the poison oak, the heat, the humidity, the allergies, the incessant race ‘issues’, the heat, the fireants….
Can we re-annex the states we gave away? I hate to tell all you New Mexicans, Coloradans and Utahans…. you really did used to be Texans too…
Citation, please.
STILL waiting on the people “US” will unseat, “decimating both parties”….
That twit has no talent at all. Did you see her on 24 this season? She was the worst actor of them all.
Is it just me or why do brainless lefties like her always look puke-ugly?
That’s as may be….but what do you call it when the Federal government repeatedly tramples clearly-elucidated rights which are held by the states, and overreaches its own clearly-defined limits of power?
Right…….. and which little enclave of Berkeley California did they take that poll in.
Maybe they should actually poll the native people to get the correct answer.
And did you remember the heat and fireants….?
See, we’re contrary enough to have sort of grown to like all that…
Keeps it “real”, ya know…?
Okay, I’ll bite…are you claiming to know the minds of all Texans, or just 3/4′s of them?
I personally have trouble believing people who toss out blanket declarations of certitude like they are fact. How did you come by that statistic?
Now, y’all don’t confuse the boy…
he’s on Wikipedia right now, trying to find anything to answer my question with…
wait your turns….
And so should trying to incorporate this country into a New World Order that we dont control.
Or turning the US into a socialist/facist/whatever nation, while handing our national secrets over people who cant pass a basic security clearance.
So how is secession any different than what liberals are trying to do to this country on a daily basis?
Alright. Here’s one for you brainwashed trolls.
The Rasmussen poll of April 17,2009.
And Rags, I can’t believe you are a trial attorney. The Declaration of Independence is not the government document on secession. It is the US Constitution where the states surrendered that right and a few other specific powers to a federal government. A competent attorney would have known that.
But then again, your aren’t here to further a discussion but to “win” arguments by any means necessary.
You know, this is funny. When I tell people about Seattle, it usually goes like this:
We have no fireants, no big mosquito problem, no poison snakes, no poison spiders, chiggers, or ticks, no tornadoes, no hurricanes, not a lot of snow in winter, no blizzards, no humidity, no thunderstorms, very few floods, and only the occasional earthquake.
On the other hand, we do have: liberal politics, corruption beyond belief, hellacious traffic congestion, barely passable public transportation, and a distinct lack of sunshine, 8 months a year.
RS,
Being somewhat familiar with the Constitution, and its derivation…
I’d just be shocked to find that it said secession was an act of war.
See, I can’t imagine one beating heart in that process who would have signed off on that.
The whole deal was an experiment…to replace the previous experiment (Articles of Confederation) that had been a bust.
NOBODY there would have signed away their State’s sovereignty…and for good reason. They’d have been strung up if they had…
OT
And now – back to Rags and Phil…
Show me the citation, junior.
You…as usual…are showing your ignorance.
It’s early days on the polling for Texas secession. Most people are fat, stupid, and complacent. Nothing personal…
Unfortunately, he wasnt indoctrinated with Texas History all through school.
If you’re not from Texas then you all may not understand. Football runs the world in Texas. When you’re told you live in the best country in the world, and that you live in the best state in the country, and then you’re on one of the best football teams in the state and then you go and join the Marines…. (yeh did that too)
Its hard to accept that the rest of the country is sooooo squishy.
When Bush said ‘Bring it on’, we weren’t kidding…
No offense but to ship all that in from China you’ll have to negotiate with Hawaii. We own the Pacific.
But, Aloha…the Aggie YELL Leaders are guys in military uniform…you know…cavalry pant and riding boots…
with spurs…
Please say that doesn’t attract you…
Watch it…
I have fireants…and I’m NOT afraid to use them…
You have confused me with Chap. But I tuned in and watched the cheerleaders for an hour before I realized there was a football game happening.
No offense, but doesnt Japan own you…
Scurvy has a known cure, so I think we can go straight to the source without needing to do a layover for pineapples.
My wife and I (both gainfully employed) attended the Tea Party in Cincinnati with our pre-school daughter.
My guess is, “Professor” Kimball did not make the 45 mile trek from Oxford to actually see what “the movement” actually represents.
See, Dude,…you’re just HARSH…!!!
The rest of the country is SO CUTE!
They always think fire ants are little sugar ants with red flames painted down their bodies
If you’ve never been, you need to go to an Aggie game.
Nothin’ like it…
They did but they went broke in the 90s and gave much of it up. The Koreans have been shopping…and now the Chinese…
RS,
Most of my fire ants got drowned by the four inches of rain I had here over the last two days.
Only the strong survive…
Still waiting…
…list of US candidates that are decimating the incumbents of both Parties…
AND…
citation from U.S. Constitution making secession an act of war…
hmmm…dee…dee…mmmm…
For Texas to secede would mean a loss of two Republican senators and a net loss of 8 Rebublican members of the House.
When you look at it this way, without the Lone Star State, America could finally get the nation it deserves and desires with universal medical coverage, action on global warming, high speed rail… Hell, it could also help just to have the buffer to keep drugs out!
But don’t worry, I’ll still visit for the bbq, bars and women.
Brainwashed trolls??? Name calling now? Didn’t I just see that somewhere on this site that indicated that was a sign that the liberal has just lost an argument to a conservative? Well, that puts you in a totally different light for me now. The term “spinning one’s wheels” comes to mind.
Civil discourse is impossible with one who is not only so full of knowledge, but so full of themselves. I guess your handle should have been a “giveaway.” Silly me.
Ummmmmm, they dont drown. The little f’ers float and then they’re just pissed off.
Kinda like gangbangers in N.O. after Katrina
Yeah, those pesky jets are just too fast!
While you’re waiting a year and a half for your cancer care, MD Anderson will be humming along.
Uh, hellloo, they will have northern borders too…
Oh my bad
I’ll up my intake of Sushi and keep the Kimchi on the down-low so that we can get you guys back on track. You should have said something sooner.
That is actually true “natural science?…up to a point. They get tired after a while, though, and succumb. I never felt compelled to build them any teeny, little rafts. I’m hard that way…
That may be true, but I havent actually seen any fireants on the welfare roles. I did hear they all voted for Obama and Sheila Jackson-Lee though.
ACORN is signing them up as we speak….er, write…
Most Republicans were swept from office in Harris County (Houston). Only a few survived.
But that’s ALL about to change when those “US” TEA Party candidates get to going…
Lessee…
I’ve been to the bathroom…
Made and eaten dinner…
Fed the dog…
Checked my email…
Smoked ANOTHER good cigar…
Drank a tall G&T…
when is that boy going to provide my his citation to the Constitution…?
When is he going to tell me that list of “decimating” candidates the TEA Parties are producing…???
I mean, sleep will over-take me at some point…
AG, you keep me in STITCHES!
What do we expect? Liberals voted for Obama because he is black, so they naturally assume anyone who opposes him does so for the same reason.
This is a uniquely stupid and angry woman. Why even cover her??
Well, here’s a thought…
Our friend PP says that voting, writing letters, going to demonstrations, supporting good candidates for office…
and the good high-school civics stuff we all have been doing for DECADES…
is going to ensure liberty.
That we are…in fact…just around the corner from total victory.
What one of those things can Ms. Grrr-buffalo not do…???
and, in so doing, effectively cancel out what you or I or PP do?
And who has a forum that reaches many tens-of-thousands of people…?
I thought this worth reading…
Though PP declaims it comes from that nest of RINOS Townhall.com
http://townhall.com/columnists/DavidRStokes/2009/04/19/what_about_bob
David Axelrod is now the newest member of the medical community to offer his professional opinion on the “unhealthy” Tea Parties:
http://thelcabroadside.wordpress.com/
Ragspierre said:
Aggie Yell Leaders are guys dressed in white shirts and pants. No cavalry pants and riding boots.
I did not read all the comments so someone probably stated what I am going to say.
YES YES YES I do want his policies to FAIL. He is a Socialist/Commie. I want almost everything he touches to blow up on him. I don’t want to live in second rate commie S**t***e
Sigh… I stand corrected. I did say I was never a rah-rah Aggie. There are entire volumes of Aggie culture of which I confess ignorance.
That one long-haired guy isn’t wearing a shirt at all…though he does have his “pants” on.
Mine was funnier…
“bradley,”
That is an excellent, well expressed statement!
Bravo!
William
From the excerpt from the Christian Science Monitor, quoted in Michelle’s opening thread commentary above
Notice that it is actually authentic, dyed in the wool racists like this Professor Kimball who spin their racist, bigoted, prejudicial pabulum?
Who is the person who is looking at race? Jerry Kimball, Professor emeritus.
Who is the person who is attempting to foment racist animosity, creating friction and even possibly violence among the races? Jerry Kimball, Professor emeritus.
Who is the person whose racism is so strong that he actually took the time to make an issue of Barrack Hussein Obama’s race? Jerry Kimball, Professor Emeritus.
Notice that the TEA party participants, the conservatives who want smaller government and are outraged over the overspending in government don’t care about Barrack Hussein Obama’s race, but the leftists, the left leaning main stream media, and Hollywood celebrities DO notice race, are the REAL racists, and actually get into making race an issue.
No. The racists are clearly all leftists, and always have been throughout history.
While we have better things to concern ourselves with other than what someone’s race is, and while the leftists have such hate and racist bigotry and class hatred in their hearts and have nothing better to do than act on their racism and bigotry, the country is being dragged down by a socialist/fascist/left leaning sell out, who bad mouths our nation, and our citizens, to dictators and oppressors of others.
What a world!
Perhaps the term “What you don’t know doesn’t hurt you” refers to ones own mind?
I wouldn’t know, but do know that the Italians know all about white shirts and pants. they could use a translator though (don’t worry, PG). AC Milan…
And there you have it in a nutshell…
lib fascists like garof@ckup, if they’re fortunate enough to make it out of the womb, do so feeling they need therapy from day one.
Then their lifetime of therapy drives them to self-loathing, and then just plain loathing. They have no self-esteem, their therapist tells them this is normal, so therefore no one else deserves to have self-esteem.
Patriotism is foreign to them. A fairy tale, if that. Normalcy is foreign to them. Authority figures (ie, parents) are not to be trusted, because parents are always the source of the problems in their sick little worlds.
Garof@ckup should have grown up a long time ago, but it is simply too late for her.
Those of us on this blog that have kids need to teach them right from wrong, and that libs are not to be trusted. Parents are the springboard of our kids’ lives, and deserve respect. We are authority figures for the good of our children, and no “village” or therapist will ever love them like we do.
My kids do not even know who garof@ckup is, and won’t as long as they are living in my home. However, they do know who this Hollywood patriot is.
Night all. Packing for Disney.
Janeane Garofalo is nearly as funny as Al Franken, perhaps she should run for the Senate? Maybe even the UN?
I’d like to see Janeane Garofalo debate Ron White. I don’t care what they debate about, I’d pay to see it.
Now, THOSE guys have my pants on…
pant, pant, pant, yaroooooOOOO…!!!