From Peter Bocking's friend Tony Glaser (via Clarice Feldman), here is a collection of songs featuring PUK. US Mail includes a photo montage to honor and remember our friend.
After You've Gone
Angel Eyes
Bocking Bits
Georgia
I Get Along Without You
US Mail
Photos courtesy of Manchester Beat and Mark Goodwin
"I wish I could have heard him play guitar.
I wish he could have heard how he made me laugh."
-- Kyle
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BTW,In general it should be stated emphatically and ofeten that newspapers are commercial enterprizes,not public amenities, all of them ,from the Editor in Chief to the doorman are in it for the money.
Posted by: PeterUK April 22, 2006 at 10:16 PM
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Gee Barney,Now look what you have done,upset a liberal,almost as bad as running over a hippy.
Posted by: PeterUK June 30, 2006 at 04:45 PM
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"when you look inside yourself".
Every time he does that it goes dark.
Posted by: PeterUK July 14, 2006 at 01:37 PM
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"Wow, either ali-cleown's light bulb finally came on",
Nah,that was the refrigerator door opening.
Posted by: PeterUK September 14, 2006 at 09:23 PM
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Connor,
I know you are addressing Rick,but that is the lamest copout since John Kerry cought in his zip and claimed enemy fire.I'm afraid I shall have to sound the Dueglo,the rest we be along in a minute,don't worry it will be quite painful.
Posted by: PeterUK September 14, 2006 at 10:17 PM
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"They should be hunted down and punished to the full extent of the law - but our system of justice has due process protections so that we actually punish the guilty -"
This is classic,these people are armed to the teeth,they are not running they are coming for you,they glorify death,they blow themselves up rather than surrender,this isn't a law and order issue, it is war.You need to understand Texas Taqiya,that it isn't a matter of punishing the guilty,it is about stopping terrorism,dead.
Posted by: PeterUK September 15, 2006 at 02:26 PM
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My advice to Mr Libby,Scoot,Venezuela beckons,write the book,make the movie,should recoup you legal fees on the book deal alone.Shake hands with Hugo,don't swap spit,you could make Attorney General in any Democrat administration.
Posted by: PeterUK. July 02, 2007 at 04:27 PM
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May I take this opportunity to congratulate the commenters from the left for the fair minded and sportsmanlike way in which they have greeted this act of decency by President George W.Bush?
No? Ok!
HA HA HA HA HA Ha Ha Ha Ha ha ha ha ha.....
Posted by: PeterUK. July 02, 2007 at 06:51 PM
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There's a new book out folks,tales of derring do and espionage,it's call "Undercover,My Life With Larry",written by his toupee.
Posted by: PeterUK. July 02, 2007 at 07:54 PM
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"Institutions have a collective wisdom greater than that of any one individual."
Hey,we're back to Galileo! Or the Party knows best.
Posted by: PeterUK. July 03, 2007 at 06:51 AM
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JJ,How about,
"LIBERALS - ENEMA OF THE PEOPLE"
Posted by: PeterUK. July 03, 2007 at 08:53 AM
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"The unexamined life is not worth living".
The unlived life is not worth examining.
-PeterUK
Posted by: PeterUK. July 03, 2007 at 11:38 AM
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"I'm not brilliant enough to understand your inscrutable remark about "COULD and SHOULD,"
Easy Witless,You should go and fuck yourself but it is a question of whether you could.
Posted by: PeterUK. June 06, 2007 at 12:21 PM
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In the light of legal developments, SCAM is proud to announce the launch of the EMOTOMETER,a handy device which can be fitted to any politician.The EMOTOMETER will register varying degrees of reaction,from mildly surprise,slightly taken aback, through shocked rigid,startled of ones wits and on to bowled over into the bushes in a coma.Easy to download into a PC at the ended of every waking day and save to disk.$99.99 Scam Prods.com
Posted by: PeterUK. June 27, 2007 at 03:58 PM
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"Iran has to be toppled from within because they're holding too strong a hole card."
The biggest "a hole card" being the liberal left.
Posted by: PeterUK. June 28, 2007 at 02:51 PM
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"UK Peter aka Dick from UK:"
Penis envy will get you nowhere Deb.
Posted by: PeterUK. June 29, 2007 at 08:41 AM
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Clarice,
"Looks like we'll have Al Gore to kick around again.
Convenient Untruth"
"An Inconvenient Girth"?
Posted by: PeterUK. June 29, 2007 at 03:27 PM
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If Larry's brain was made of Semtex,there wouldn't be enough to blow his hat off.
Posted by: PeterUK. June 29, 2007 at 05:01 PM
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""She is genetically programmed to want just one man who will stick with her and help raise their children."
But not genetically programmed to want one lot of alimony.I salute that small selfless band of the fair sex who sacrifice themselves for the sisterhood.Please would they wear badges?
Posted by: PeterUK August 13, 2007 at 11:49 AM
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" just like her late father was, who turned the lights off when people left a room and turned the heat off at nights even during cold Chicago winters, she said.
"I'm acting more and more like him all the time," Clinton said. "
Leaving Bill and Monica in the dark,no wonder he couldn't find the ashtray.
Posted by: PeterUK August 13, 2007 at 05:29 PM
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That dang google is failing me (I Blame Bush).
Posted by: hit and run August 13, 2007 at 03:23 PM
Here we call it "Brewer's Droop".
Posted by: PeterUK August 13, 2007 at 05:35 PM
Just to make sure, I went agooglin' to see if Brewer's Droop meant what I thought it meant. And in the process learned Australians call it Foster's Flop. ::grin::
Posted by: Sue August 13, 2007 at 05:46 PM
Sue,Yes,too much beer gets to your old dang google.
Posted by: PeterUK August 13, 2007 at 05:55 PM
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These geezers have their heads between their legs looking for the echo and they have to audacity to predict weather in the future.If they are that good why aren't they rich?
Posted by: PeterUK August 14, 2007 at 11:53 AM
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Oh good,Jay Rockefeller endorses Forename Obama,now we can play Kevin Bacon with Bashar al Assad.
Posted by: PeterUK March 01, 2008 at 10:40 AM
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"Wow so much for teaching our kids about the right to free speech."
Jamie Gorelick - "Another Brick in the Wall".
Posted by: PeterUK March 28, 2008 at 02:48 PM
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"the out-of-touch Harvard fop." is an exemplar of the kind of creature which inhabits the liberal left across the Western world.The name Versailles springs unbidden to mind,one can hear the faint rumble of the tumbrils and bare feet on the cobblestones.
Posted by: PeterUK April 13, 2008 at 09:28 AM
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Mr Uk,
I wonder if there's any money in "Honkey Pigs for Obama" buttons or bumperstickers?
Posted
by: Rick Ballard June 01, 2008 at 01:41 PM
Mr Ballard,
Our "Jive Assed Honkies for Obama" are selling well with the white guilt crowd.
Posted by: PeterUK June 01, 2008 at 02:25 PM
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Has anyone noticed that being a friend and mentor of Barack Hussein Obama is like getting a kiss from the Don?
Posted by: PeterUK June 02, 2008 at 02:51 PM
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"A true conservative would know, without a thought, that knowing another language is the mark of an educated, worldly person."
In this part of the world,"worldly" is a euphemism for somewhat degenerate.
Posted by: PeterUK July 09, 2008 at 02:00 PM
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I have visions of Little Boy Blue sat in his Prius after a blowout,late for his hairdressing appointment,trying to find something to cover his head so he can get out of the car.
If the tire changers and hairdressers ever go on strike it would paralyze the entire Democratic elite.
Posted by: PeterUK July 09, 2008 at 02:56 PM
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This troll is so lofty and arrogant, it is probably John Kerry's hairpiece.
Posted by: PeterUK July 09, 2008 at 04:00 PM
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"Speaking of Bulldoggy and Edward Said..."
SShhh! It's only a rumour.
Posted by: PeterUK October 06, 2008 at 08:13 PM
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"My husband and I recall it fondly--it was a place both our parents would take us on weekends for a special treat..a rare meal away from home."
You were a child bride?
Posted by: PeterUK December 03, 2008 at 02:36 PM
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"Rice, 44, says her connection to Obama was forged in part by a shared opposition to the war in Iraq, but she is the only top figure in Obama’s national security team who opposed the war."
"Forged",like so many other things about Obama.
Posted by: PeterUK December 03, 2008 at 02:53 PM
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Barrack Hussein Obama is not a "Miserable Failure",he is an exceptionally good failure.The depths of his talent for failure are as yet unplumbed. Give the man a chance,give him the time to fail on the epic scale the only he can achieve,but wear your Kevlar and Lead underwear.
Posted by: PeterUK February 12, 2009 at 01:07 PM
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"Such modesty from the Intelligence Chair!"
Don't know how "modesty" and "intelligence" got in there,but Feinstein is certainly a chairhead.What a vacuous,halfwitted dimbo.
Posted by: PeterUK February 14, 2009 at 03:56 PM
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"Earth to Newsweek: midway between Lyndon Johnson and Pol Pot is not "the center"."
That would be Toss Pot.
Posted by: PeterUK March 10, 2009 at 05:44 PM
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"Fifty-five vegetables, forsooth".
Those would be Obama's White House advisers?
Posted by: PeterUK March 21, 2009 at 07:54 AM
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It is rumoured that Obama used the Teleprompter when Michelle ordered him to propose to her.
Posted by: PeterUK March 21, 2009 at 10:15 AM
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Surprising Spector didn't go for a plea of insanity,he has the wigs for it.
Posted by: PeterUK April 13, 2009 at 08:04 PM
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The picture of Spector on Drudge confirms his insanity.An American badge pin on one side and a "Obama Rocks on the Other.Obama seems to have a lot of suppor amongst the felon classes.
Posted by: PeterUK April 14, 2009 at 05:30 AM
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"Both positions are daft"
If you could let us know which pages of the Karam Sutra you are on?
Posted by: PeterUK April 14, 2009 at 12:37 PM
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The existance of Liberals is the biggest argument against "intelligent Design" there is.
Posted by: PeterUK April 14, 2009 at 10:44 AM
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"I think we agree on what Krugman was up to -- ridiculing fundamentalists and tea patyers by calling up memories of the Monkey Trial, Elmer Gantry, and other assorted horrors".
Isn't that emanating beyond the penumbra?
Posted by: PeterUK April 14, 2009 at 12:41 PM
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"that we are "nothing but glorified apes"
Look,if Appalled wants to be a glorified ape,give her a banana and let's move on.
Posted by: PeterUK April 14, 2009 at 05:21 PM
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It is obvious Osama bin Laden is dead,Obama isn't having talks with him.
Posted by: PeterUK April 27, 2009 at 02:30 PM
Osama is alive,he changed the second letter of his name and is hiding somewhere in the New World.
Posted by: PeterUK April 27, 2009 at 05:41 PM
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Actually,strictly on the quiet,Prince Charles is Trig's father.
Posted by: PeterUK April 30, 2009 at 02:09 PM
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Politicians rank lower than journalists,pimps and kiddy fiddlers.Interesting times cousins,very interesting times.
Posted by: PeterUK May 21, 2009 at 08:44 PM
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Odd that nobody has mentioned it is the Twelfth of June ,12/06/09 or to you 06/12/09.Two many numbers divisible by three - Brunn had a 30-30.This numerology lark is most interesting,no wonder Krugman went into it instead of getting a day job.
Posted by: PeterUK June 12, 2009 at 02:31 PM
Why on earth did Krugman not note the significance of the number 88 being exactly 13 more than the number of trombones needed to lead the "Big Parade". Thirteen is itself a highly significant mystical prime number.Coincidence? I think not!
Posted by: PeterUK June 12, 2009 at 12:20 PM
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"Obama is Missing"
Obama was missing right up until he was elected.
Posted by: PeterUK June 12, 2009 at 02:51 PM
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Live Healthy - Die Bored.
Posted by: PeterUK July 06, 2009 at 07:09 AM
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Righteous Christianist is Septic under yet another pseudonym.You can re-name it but you can't re-brain it.
Posted by: PeterUK. July 30, 2009 at 05:13 AM
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"we can be as powerful all we want we will still be disliked.."
You can be as weak as you like and still get sand kicked in your face.
Posted by: PeterUK August 17, 2009 at 05:30 PM
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If Obama tries to take credit for Clarice giving up smoking,he will end up with a cheroot up the snoot.
Posted by: PeterUK September 22, 2009 at 02:03 PM
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Previous PUK posts:
Sure, a picture may be worth a thousand words,
but ten words from PUK is about the same.
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Barney,
Leftism is a faith,if you discuss any of the catastrophic socialist experiments,where millions perished,the retort will be,"That wasn't socialism,real socialism hasn't been tried yet",a direct analogy to the question,"Why haven't my prayers been answered?"..."Because you didn't pray hard enough,sincerely enough or in the right way,go back and try again".
Posted by: PeterUK April 15, 2006 at 03:17 PM
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That's why it is Istambul not Constatinople,it was too hard pronouncing Byzantium
Posted by: PeterUK May 07, 2006 at 06:17 AM
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Has anyone noticed that the terrorist leadership are runners to a man,they set things in motion and are gone. Chicken bin Laden,Mullah "On yer bike"Omar, Abu Musab " The world is our battlefield but I'm washing my turban tonight" al-Zarhawi and Sayyed Hassan " I can get a much better picture of the action from Damascus" Nasrallah,what a pathetic bunch.
Posted by: PeterUK July 29, 2006 at 05:55 PM
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But Clarice,what about the mosquito's right to life,surely if Gaia created them....?
Posted by: PeterUK August 01, 2006 at 06:45 PM
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No SG,it's a cheap SOROSCO troll TM won on eBay,accidentally using the "Buy It Now" option,he's stuck with it until Rotor Rooter comes and gets it out of the drains.
It is running down now,repeating itself,gabbling insanely,can't manage a full paragraph,it'll be singing "Daisy" very soon.
Posted by: PeterUK October 11, 2006 at 08:03 PM
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"The thought of Keller, Sulzberger, Risen and Lichtblau wandering aimlessly around the exercise yard at Leavenworth always cheers me up".
I always see it as the showers.
Posted by: PeterUK October 22, 2006 at 03:54 PM
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The reason these mighty panjandrums of the press flipped the administration the bird is obvious,the latter were not sufficiently deferential,they should have said pretty pleae,with sugar on it,if that had failed they should have used the horses head
Posted by: PeterUK October 22, 2006 at 09:15 PM
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There are few more impressive sights in the world than an Executive Director of a cheesy acronym on the make.
Posted by: PeterUK December 31, 2006 at 09:29 AM
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Isotope dating,geological dating...you guys will go out with anyone.
Posted by: PeterUK December 31, 2006 at 10:46 AM
What can I say? In younger days I was Rock Star.
Posted by: boris December 31, 2006 at 10:47 AM
There are some things even rock stars won't do,not many but.....
Posted by: PeterUK December 31, 2006 at 11:13 AM
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Scientifically speaking it is 2007 here.HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Posted by: PeterUK December 31, 2006 at 07:03 PM
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"A mixup between metric and imperial measurements in the controlling software caused the spacecraft to miss its intended 140–150 km altitude above Mars during orbit insertion, instead entering the Martian atmosphere at about 57 km."
Those bloody French again.
Posted by: PeterUK December 31, 2006 at 10:52 PM
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Clarice,"Nowhere in the dispatch does Edwards explain what his hedge-fund work taught him about poverty."
Poverty,something that money can't buy.
Posted by: PeterUK. May 09, 2007 at 06:15 PM
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Semanticleo,We Earthlings speak a rich and diverse range of languages,it would better if you had some slight grasp of one of them before trying to communicate.What you are putting before us is obvious from Uranus,it simply does not compute.
Posted by: PeterUK July 16, 2007 at 08:51 PM
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"And you sit down, and then you start to order something, and your father says, we have to leave, because we can‘t pay for this. And you get up and leave, and it is humiliating.
So we do not want anybody to be treated without dignity and respect in this country, which is what is part of what motivates me to this cause."
So we are going to enact legislation compelling all restaurants,cafes and diners etc to post the menu outside giving the prices.
Posted by: PeterUK July 18, 2007 at 06:39 PM
Clarice,"PUK, In D.C. (as in France) menus are posted outside restaurants with prices".
Same here,even greasy spoons.I think Edwards was highlighting adult literacy problems.
It could be though, that as a child he was posing little git and his family left in embarrassment.
Posted by: PeterUK July 18, 2007 at 06:59 PM
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"Ever listen to a liberal drone on about the great Presidency of Jimmy Carter? I rest my case."
That is most unfair, ex-President Carter is revered wherever the ruling party has more than 90% of the vote,he is the father of the Iranian Revolution and bequeathed America its internationally respected FISA courts.His name has been put foeward for the World Council of the Senile,sorry Elders,the man is up there with Kofi Annan.
Posted by: PeterUK July 30, 2007 at 03:45 PM
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"Yon Chuckius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous".
Posted by: PeterUK July 30, 2007 at 05:36 PM
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How can you people mock John "Does my Subprime look big in this?" Edwards so?
Posted by: PeterUK September 29, 2007 at 07:06 AM
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Jane is a bigger pull than John "Does my hair look real?" Edwards.
Posted by: PeterUK October 10, 2007 at 05:29 AM
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So we get the Christmas Pantomime "Carry on Kerry in Cambodia" again this year?
Posted by: PeterUK November 06, 2007 at 07:18 PM
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"I have never been certain of the cause of the injury, but I believe it may have occurred when he fell against the bulkhead of the Swift, either because a mine went off or when the boat made a sharp high-speed turn.."
Or could it simply be that Swift Boats are not design for a tall streak of piss like Kerry and he simply didn't duck going through a door or a hatch?
Posted by: PeterUK November 06, 2007 at 08:17 PM
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When the deranged CO2 targets kick in and the construction of vast renewable energy schemes,we are all going to be eating our shoes.
Posted by: PeterUK January 11, 2008 at 02:17 PM
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Why not the Divil's ticket,Mr and Mrs Clinton and Obama get divorced and Hillary and Barrack get married.Perfect! A Man a woman and a person of colour.
Posted by: PeterUK January 24, 2008 at 03:50 PM
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Mr Ballard,
"I believe that allowances should be made in consideration of who he faced every morning."
Consider the possibility that if his wife is elected he will be walking behind her for four years.
Reminds one of the story,of the man strangling his mistress,fortunately she broke free and asked him why,he said "Sorry he had a bad dream and though it was his wife".
Posted by: PeterUK January 24, 2008 at 05:01 PM
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Mr Ballard,
Soros keeps saying that the US and the UK are heading for problems and we all know he makes his money out of other people's problems.
Posted by: PeterUK January 24, 2008 at 06:09 PM
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A socialist it someone who hates capitalism.Socialists cannot abide living in capitalist countries and must perforce convert those countries in to socialist states.Having succeeded,socialists them move somewhere else where they can make money.
Posted by: PeterUK March 05, 2008 at 06:19 PM
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The Prime Minister's initiative whereby organ donors have to opt out of donating rather than ,er ,donate is such a confidence building measure.Before the kind young man in the white coat was probably checking one's condition.Now he is weighing one up for spare parts.Socialism is such a wonderful thing don't you think?
Posted by: PeterUK April 11, 2008 at 01:25 PM
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It is quite obvious,that this wasn't bombing to terrorise,but bombing to educate.Pyrotechnical pedagoguery was the latest thing when Ayers was an militant.
Posted by: PeterUK April 30, 2008 at 02:27 PM
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Obama is clueless and has lived in an environment where bullshit baffles brains.Unfortunately he now in the grown up world where his fantasies count.
Posted by: PeterUK July 28, 2008 at 02:16 PM
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Looks like his hair is divorcing his head on the grounds of incompatibility.
Posted by: PeterUK July 28, 2008 at 08:09 PM
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""ComeOn.org" grab everybody?" The one by Eddie Cochran ?
Posted by: PeterUK August 08, 2008 at 04:21 PM
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"For just a moment when I saw an ad about Obama called "tiny" I hoped it was not phallically based."
No,just a phallacy.
Posted by: PeterUK August 27, 2008 at 04:43 PM
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Look Sue,"All God's Children have rhythm",it is just that in some it is more deeply hidden.Just remember,when Bonto takes over you vill be clappink on ze off beat.
Posted by: PeterUK September 05, 2008 at 07:57 PM
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Jor,What is the matter,did George Bush stand you up on a date,or are you John F. Kerry?
Posted by: PeterUK November 05, 2008 at 08:41 PM
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RUSSIANS Bomb typepad.
Posted by: PeterUK November 05, 2008 at 09:08 PM
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Mark Steyn's publisher has made discrete inqiries as to his whereabouts.Steyn hasn't been seen since the cruise.No action will be taken if the JOMer who took him quietly puts him back.
Posted by: PeterUK November 17, 2008 at 06:52 AM
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"Yes, he's going to issue an order on his first day that Gitmo be closed."
That is what he was elected for,to look after the interests of your enemies.
New interrogation technique,
A phone call from Blago,
Lunch with Nancy,
Breakfast with Michelle.
Posted by: PeterUK January 12, 2009 at 05:45 PM
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Why would there be any need foe SERE school? The Obama Schutzstaffel won't actually get captured.
Posted by: PeterUK January 12, 2009 at 07:47 PM
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"Announcing the “Frank Marshall Davis roundtable for change” on the Obama website, Maki, a Democratic Party activist and casino worker organizer,"
"I am referring to capitalism―a thoroughly rotten system"
Has the bloke had an ironectomy?
Posted by: PeterUK January 12, 2009 at 08:21 PM
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"Why not put them up in the Lincoln bedroom?"
Arafat stole the towels.
Posted by: PeterUK January 12, 2009 at 08:38 PM
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"Actually I was in oil business for a awhile."
You were a sardine packer?
"I also suspect I was voting Republican before you were born."
That's it then,a Moby.
Posted by: PeterUK January 13, 2009 at 11:54 AM
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"Pew has done polls in Pakistan and they hate Israel and us, and I can confirm that from personal knowledge."
This is understandable.Do you not think world peace would be better served if you,personally,stopped traveling?
Posted by: PeterUK January 13, 2009 at 12:05 PM
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I like trolls,it is so nice to see a third rate mind with a first rate ego at work.
Posted by: PeterUK January 13, 2009 at 09:21 PM
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Mars obviously needs a Community Organiser.
Posted by: PeterUK January 15, 2009 at 12:20 PM
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"underneath the surface of Mars are massive cattle yards......."
Of course there are,where else do you think MarsBurgers come from?
Posted by: PeterUK January 15, 2009 at 01:01 PM
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At first I thought this was a new band,"Methane and the Microbes" but it could easily be the new administration.
Posted by: PeterUK January 15, 2009 at 01:12 PM
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On the contrary,it is a great idea to start a pissing match.Barack "Da Finga" Obama won't be able to resist it. The street will come bubbling up,Obama will exhibit all the charm of a used wart salesman.
Posted by: PeterUK March 04, 2009 at 07:50 PM
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For America,Obama is the dog you picked up at a party. You broke up with a long time partner,things had been rocky,and you went on the piss to forget.Today is the following day,when disheveled and hungover,you view the object of the previous nights desire disappearing out of the door with your money and your car keys having crapped in the shower.
Posted by: PeterUK March 20, 2009 at 10:09 AM
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Whilst all the above,and no doubt below,rationalisations are interesting,the most obvious explanation is,Obama is a prat.He has spent his life winging it with post-modern waffle,now it is coming back to bite his bum.
Posted by: PeterUK March 25, 2009 at 03:11 PM
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A nation,its culture,polity and constitution are like a magnificent old building that has taken centuries to build.Putting your nation in to the hands of Obama is akin to entrusting the building to a window dresser whose concern is only the fashion of the moment.Folks,you have handed the Vatican over to a condo developer.
Posted by: PeterUK March 25, 2009 at 05:04 PM
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"I am too young to have a good memory of it, but was it this bad during Carter or is Obama going further?"
Obama hit the ground fumbling.
Posted by: PeterUK March 25, 2009 at 05:07 PM
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Verner,Watched it,put me right off my black cherry jam on wholemeal butty.
The dreadful truth is,prior to stealing the Premiership of the other shyster,Gordon had a set of Hollywood teeth installed.The poor bugger cannot help it. No matter what the event,those teeth make him grin like a ventriloquists dummy.A bit like going to a fancy dress party and dscovering it's a funeral.
Now if you will excuse me,I have a bout of political noro-virus coming on.
Posted by: PeterUK March 25, 2009 at 07:03 PM
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If O could solve anything,he'd fix M's overbite.
Posted by: PeterUK April 29, 2009 at 03:07 PM
Must be like kissing a pair of pliers.
Posted by: PeterUK April 29, 2009 at 03:18 PM
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Why shouldn't Michelle Antoinette have the kind of night out that the Obamas couldn't possibly afford if he were not president.This is simply jealousy on the part of the sans culottes.
Posted by: PeterUK May 31, 2009 at 09:57 AM
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"Maybe I'm dreaming about a time that never was ... time when journalists were like Clark Kent ".
Some obviously still wear their shorts over their pants.
Posted by: PeterUK June 30, 2009 at 01:21 PM
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Clarice,
"I hope the first things that freeze and die are Gore's and Pinch's balls."
If they do,I'll have them mounted as earrings for you.
Posted by: PeterUK July 21, 2009 at 01:56 PM
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Porchlight,Like everything else politic has been dumbed down. Now the vote is for Celebrity Big Brother.
Posted by: PeterUK June 30, 2009 at 05:12 PM
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Time to lose "Climate Skepticism".How about Climate Confidence.The planet worked before we were here and it will work after we have gone.
Posted by: PeterUK July 20, 2009 at 05:44 PM
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Warmers are no different to the other Millenarian cult which have reared their insane heads over the centuries.Except some of the bastards have found a way of making money out of it.
Posted by: PeterUK July 20, 2009 at 06:04 PM
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" He is very analytical. He's very deliberate about the way he goes through things. He wants to understand everything. He delves very deeply into these issues."
Avoids, nicely,any real positive praise. A nice euphemism for "Dumb as a wrestler's jockstrap".
Posted by: PeterUK October 01, 2009 at 02:51 PM
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"When Senator DeMint lifts these holds and allows these individuals to receive an up or down vote on the Senate floor, the Committee will approve his travel to Honduras, a country that is in the middle of delicate, political crisis."
So the fate of a country depends on Democrat nominations.John F. Kerry,once a shit always a shit.
Posted by: PeterUK October 01, 2009 at 08:46 PM
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Why don't you imprison Andy for drug abuse,keep him and a couple of hundred lonely inmates happy.
Posted by: PeterUK October 06, 2009 at 07:53 PM
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"Mr. Cohen retreats from "global thirsting" to "basically a European call" within one paragraph."
Actually,a handful of Norwegian politicos thirsting. Outside a mention in the press,nobody I know has even mentioned president Nemo's Nobel.Sorry,it is as interesting as watching a coffin warp.
Posted by: PeterUK October 14, 2009 at 11:59 AM
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Previous PUK posts:
Post two of "PUK's Greatest Hits" from JustOneMinute.
Some people have a way with words; many do, in fact.
But PUK had his way with words, and the words never stood a chance.
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Sue,"how do you unring the bell?"
!GNUD
Posted by: PeterUK April 14, 2006 at 02:07 PM
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Glib Dana,do you have a point,other than your cranial malformation?
Posted by: PeterUK April 15, 2006 at 10:28 AM
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It is our solemn duty to subject them to derision,if they didn't want to be insulted they wouldn't be liberals.Look at Dementedleo for example,locked away with the ointment, only a laptop,the NYT and her piles for company,what kind of life is that for a cretin? Here she can individuate herself before the mocking multitudes,teeming millions of internet users intimately aquainted with her personal problems.It is a kindness,otherwise she would be on Jerry Springer,images of her...well images, would be beamed across the world,people would recognise her in the street,"How are the haemorrhoids?" they would cry,much better this way.Cruel to be kind.
Posted by: PeterUK June 29, 2006 at 06:04 PM
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"Obesity, hypertension, high cholesterol."
Well that explains Ted Kennedy,but how does it explain Hezbollah?
Posted by: PeterUK August 03, 2006 at 10:06 AM
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Quite simply, nerds are those who do incredibly nerdish things like conduct research into nerdishness,Mary Bucholtz is the epitome of nerdity.To her I say "Nerd know thyself".As a side bar,there had to have a racial aspect ,otherwise her nerdishness would not have got funding.
Posted by: PeterUK July 29, 2007 at 11:20 AM
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Gosh! Did Kerry sail his Swift Boat up the Amur River in Manchuria?
Posted by: PeterUK August 07, 2007 at 09:21 PM
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Daddy,
Beauchamp is to star in the remake of "Platoon",to be called "Spittoon".
Posted by: PeterUK August 08, 2007 at 10:19 AM
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Rick,
I heard tell that if they were really annoyed the source of annoyance was dragged down into the basement and thrown into the central heating furnace.Ah! Nostalgia,brings a tear to the eye.
Posted by: PeterUK August 08, 2007 at 03:21 PM
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"Maybe he thought he was Kerry-lite?"
Sounds like some low fat Irish butter.
Posted by: PeterUK August 08, 2007 at 04:51 PM
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"It's called living your cover. This had nothing to do with what I was doing," Plame Wilson says"
"Living Your Cover", the Hit Song from the New Musical "OUT!!" This is going to leave,"Paint Your Wagon and "Climb Every Mountain" in the shade.
There is a come back for Britney in this.
Posted by: PeterUK October 22, 2007 at 07:04 PM
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You are all being somewhat unfair to "Paunchy Larry",he may be fat,but his hair is thin.
Posted by: PeterUK October 24, 2007 at 06:32 AM
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"Does anyone else get the same impression I'm getting? Namely that Joe and Val have lied to each other all along,"
"Darling,does my bum look big in this"?
"Oh course not Joe".
Posted by: PeterUK October 24, 2007 at 04:01 PM
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"And she never takes her eye off the Main Chance."
Every time she takes her eyes of the Main Chancer he grabs another intern
Posted by: PeterUK February 13, 2008 at 04:21 PM
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"It's as if Thatcher had never existed."
For British feminists,she didn't.Mention Margaret Thatcher and there is an instant replay of the bedroom scene from "The Exorcist".I think most of them would like a female Prime Minister, as long as it isn't another woman.
Posted by: PeterUK February 13, 2008 at 08:01 PM
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"The worst I've done is accuse PUK of drinking warm beer."
Philistine.
Posted by: PeterUK February 27, 2008 at 05:46 PM
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"Zero-tolerance tolerance rules absolutley mandate a "permanent manifestation" of change of heart. Tattoos, brands, ear notches (with short hair) and tongue clips are acceptable."
Ok Boris report for tattooing,Barack on one hand Obama on the other,where you put the Hussein is your business.
Posted by: PeterUK February 27, 2008 at 08:23 PM
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"Come on you idiot political wives. Get angry at your husbands".
Political wives don't get angry,they get alimony.
Posted by: PeterUK March 10, 2008 at 04:27 PM
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"They're about the causes we champion and the people we fight for. -- John Kerry"
He's not supporting the Viet Cong again is he?
Posted by: PeterUK March 20, 2008 at 06:07 PM
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"I don't think Obama is a black Lincoln."
There is some European socialist in him,perhaps he is a Lincoln Continental?
Posted by: PeterUK March 20, 2008 at 08:19 PM
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"How many Punks Does It Take To Embarrass Glenn Greenwald?"
How many can he get in a cabana?
Posted by: PeterUK March 23, 2008 at 02:13 PM
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"Dating Hillary's lies",sounds as bad as dating Cindy Sheehan.Ask Cruella what sniper fire sounds like.
Posted by: PeterUK March 25, 2008 at 03:08 PM
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"public lynching Italian style. ...!"
That's the Cosa Nostra vote down the tubes.
Posted by: PeterUK March 26, 2008 at 01:44 PM
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James,No cliche uncoined eh?
"When readers confuse the viking conquerors of centuries past with the concomitant discrimination of today, you know our education system has failed."
Unfortunately for you you have picked the wrong blog,these folks have education coming out of the wazoo. Best get out whilst you are in one piece.
Posted by: PeterUK March 26, 2008 at 07:29 PM
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"Obama's church awarded Farrakhan the Dr. Jeremiah A. Wright Jr. Trumpeter Award, saying Farrakhan "truly epitomized greatness."
Yeah,he's up there with Miles Davis.
Posted by: PeterUK March 26, 2008 at 07:43 PM
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"Let's Move Hillary From Ohio To England".
This would put a strain on Anglo=American relations to say the least.We have a government full of left wing loonies as it is.
Posted by: PeterUK April 08, 2008 at 10:53 AM
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Hillary has coven at 3 am.Broom practice Tuesdays and Wednesdays,weather permitting.Barry has to sort this out himself.
Posted by: PeterUK April 16, 2008 at 06:01 PM
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“My attitude is that I’m less concerned about what you’re wearing on your lapel than what’s in your heart."
Is this where the Obamascope comes in,or is it up the step pyramid again?
Posted by: PeterUK April 16, 2008 at 06:15 PM
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"Just flipped the debate on and heard Hillary Clinton say that if she had been President there never would have been a sub-prime mortgage problem."
Nice technique,If I had been Prime Minister there would have been no WWII.If I'd been around I would have prevented the Black Death,the Wars of the Roses and the hula hoop.Ooops,I was around for the latter,still no one is perfect
Posted by: PeterUK April 17, 2008 at 10:37 AM
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"What was it about her that attracted Barack, I wonder?"
She ordered him to be attracted.
Posted by: PeterUK May 04, 2008 at 06:13 PM
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"It is the light of opportunity that led my father across an ocean."
It's the same thing that leads young people to Bali.
Posted by: PeterUK May 07, 2008 at 06:29 AM
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"Someone else referring to Obama as a poser. Seems to be a trend..."
Obama is a "poodlefaker".
Posted by: PeterUK June 26, 2008 at 03:49 PM
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The more I hear about Obama,the less I know about him.Odd about his birth,perhaps they should have called him Damien.
Posted by: PeterUK June 27, 2008 at 02:03 PM
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"How strange the change from Barry to Barack".
Posted by: PeterUK June 28, 2008 at 08:32 AM
Anyone who elongates their name is a pretentious prat.
Posted by: PeterUK June 28, 2008 at 08:37 AM
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"It's plausible that I was stolen from the circus as a child, but I've never bothered to investigate such a plausibility."
Do you get irresistible urges to wear baggy pants and pour water down them? Is every day a "red nose day".Do you paint a smile on your face,even on Mondays?
Do you find yourself doing this?
Posted by: PeterUK. August 04, 2009 at 01:08 PM
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"Imagine. Lying about illicit sex. It staggers the imagination".
Septic must be fun to be married to,make an ideal spouse for Edwards,they could both cheat.
Posted by: PeterUK August 08, 2008 at 09:21 PM
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"I found the video of Ann Dunham not being able to change Barry's diaper rather interesting:-)"
Barack Hussein Obama does not come from a diaper culture.
Posted by: PeterUK June 28, 2008 at 12:15 PM
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"Okay, watched the video. "A couple of weeks old . . ." Really? And mama-bama had not yet changed even one poo diaper? "
What makes you think Obamessiah excretes? He probably emits pixie dust which wafts away on the breeze.
Posted by: PeterUK June 28, 2008 at 01:55 PM
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On the contrary, liberals are all bile and no brains.
Posted by: PeterUK June 28, 2008 at 03:50 PM
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Unfortunately now they have ratified the Lisbon Treaty/ Constitution all they can do is grab their collective ankles and think of Brussels.
Posted by: PeterUK August 09, 2008 at 07:30 PM
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"1. Poland is totally screwed."
Not at all,Poland is a member of the EU.There will be a discussion about fixing a date for a consultation about a meeting of the European Council,when the the holidays are over,weather permitting.There the wording of a stiff letter of disappointment at the actions of the Russians will be thrashed out.This will then be left until the French no longer have the rotating presidency and no odium can be attached to France.Poland is safe.
Posted by: PeterUK August 11, 2008 at 02:49 PM
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"When does a prog ever miss an opportunity to lick a tyrant's boot?"
It's the only sex they get.
Posted by: PeterUK August 11, 2008 at 06:06 PM
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As soon as one reads "Surgical strikes" one knows one is in the presence of a truly awesome fuckwit.
Posted by: PeterUK August 11, 2008 at 06:40 PM
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Mr Ballard,
As we speak a crack team of Belgian Choclatiers is in training for an assault on Russian sensibilities.This fine body of people,irrespective of race creed or sanity will put the fear of God into the Russians.I know they do me.
Posted by: PeterUK August 12, 2008 at 06:51 AM
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"'Butch Georgian female police officers dressed in US style police uniforms'!"
In Gitmo that would have earned them a clutch of Democrat senators,a bunch of liberal left lawyers,condemnation of the US from the UN,Amnesty International and compensation.It pays to be seen in the right places with your "butch female police officers".Perhaps SCAM should start an agency?
Posted by: PeterUK August 12, 2008 at 11:49 AM
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"I have noticed the spirit of brotherly love and human kindness that illuminates this board. Nothing says 'love thy fellow man' quite like discussions of fat asses, guns, and blackhawks"
I feel I must contradict your statement,JOM is the very fount of brotherly love and human kindness.Now piss off!
Posted by: PeterUK October 06, 2008 at 10:31 AM
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"We lost New Orleans? That'd be like blaming Teddy Roosevelt for losing San Francisco in 1906. Or is the President now officially charged with steering hurricanes and lowering the level of the oceans?"
Not Bush,but certainly the next one.
Posted by: PeterUK November 29, 2008 at 04:22 PM
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"Obama was president of Harvard Law Review and a lecturer at U of Chicago."
You would be amazed how unimpressed human beings are by this.
Posted by: PeterUK November 29, 2008 at 07:30 PM
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Jor,"However, you can sleep easy knowing that I'm in a top profession, sub-specializing in a very competitive area."
You're a hooker doing S&M ?
Posted by: PeterUK November 29, 2008 at 08:18 PM
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"His family emphasized education. Barack saw the value of this and so went first to Occidental then to Columbia then to Harvard Law. After Harvard he taught Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago."
He dodged a day job like Clinton dodged the Draft.
Posted by: PeterUK November 29, 2008 at 08:21 PM
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If you can keep your head whilst all those around you are losing theirs,you either don't understand the problem or you are on something.
Posted by: PeterUK November 30, 2008 at 11:41 AM
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Barrack Hussein Mbama Obama has been been very cool about the slaughter in Mumbai Bombay.
First test as president elect and nothing,just the breeze in the trees.
Posted by: PeterUK November 30, 2008 at 01:56 PM
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Rick,The SCAM expedition to locate The One's college results and his birth certificate is going to be the biggest thing since the discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls.
The worlds libraries and museums of modern history are already in the bidding.
Posted by: PeterUK November 30, 2008 at 05:00 PM
A tragedy that some of the most important works of the 20th century are missing,even Nazi looters can not be blamed.
Posted by: PeterUK November 30, 2008 at 05:07 PM
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Captain,
You are wasting your time,the left live within its own narrative.Like Obama,it writes the script then lives it.
Posted by: PeterUK November 30, 2008 at 07:03 PM
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JM Hanes
"they're the ones now having to defend a candidate who hasn't even waited to take office before abandoning the central planks of his campaign."
Truth being one of the abandoned planks,plank being the operative word.
Posted by: PeterUK November 30, 2008 at 07:42 PM
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"Oh, my, God. What have we done."
You bought a one billion dollar president with a ten cent character.
Posted by: PeterUK February 10, 2009 at 07:45 PM
You are an incredibly generous man.
Posted by: bad February 10, 2009 at 07:52 PM
bad,I was allowing for inflation.
Posted by: PeterUK February 10, 2009 at 07:59 PM
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"Although I'm starting to feel sorry for Geithner."
Don't,this is the biggest bunch of shysters,carpebaggers,chiselers and snake oil salesmen since the Sheriff of Nottingham.
Posted by: PeterUK February 10, 2009 at 08:50 PM
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Experts are often wrong about the future."
This benighted lot are even wrong about the past.
Posted by: PeterUK February 10, 2009 at 08:52 PM
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"what is a "derivative" trader?"
The way things are going,dead meat.
Posted by: PeterUK February 20, 2009 at 06:39 PM
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Clarice,"Yes, but does SCAM have an exclusive license on halberds? Now there's a fine weapon for peasant in revolt against high taxes and an arbitrary leader."
I'm afraid we do,SCAM is the sole licensing agency for all pole arms and training in the use thereof.Young master Hit is welcome to the use of one of our products,may I recommend the Welsh Bill? There is an obligatory one weeks trained and users must practice every day.Please note users are breathalised and blood tests taken at regular intervals.This is a necessary precaution as careless usage is somewhat more dangerous to your own side than the enemy.
Posted by: PeterUK February 21, 2009 at 07:03 AM
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"So somebody send me the Rosetta on who are the females in the group,"
Didn't you get the "JOM Babes" Christmas Calendar? Phaww!! It put me in intensive care for a week.
Posted by: PeterUK February 21, 2009 at 01:45 PM
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"Is that sweater made from wool from (gasp) flatulent sheep?"
Or the flatulence of a woolen mind?
Posted by: PeterUK February 23, 2009 at 04:25 PM
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"Matthews: "I thought 8,000 was the floor, and it looks like 6,000 is the floor. People are angry, I'm getting angry."
Hell hath no fury like a frontman scorned.Honeymoon over,and they didn't get round to the sex.
Posted by: PeterUK February 23, 2009 at 09:05 PM
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It might stop cap and trade,but Obama will be tilting a windmills for at least four years.Future generations are going to look at them like we look at the monuments on Easter Island - WTF ???
Posted by: PeterUK February 25, 2009 at 06:16 PM
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I Thought They Were Supposed To Hold Hands
Obama bowing to the Saudi king. My goodness. Must be a Muslim thing.
Props to Clarice, who claims the top of the hill at Memeorandum.
Posted by Tom Maguire on April 02, 2009 Permalink
WOW!! Wait till they see the hot shots I have of PUK and the Queen!!!
Posted by: clarice April 02, 2009 at 07:47 PM
Clarice,We were both much younger then.
Posted by: PeterUK April 02, 2009 at 08:29 PM
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The newspapers are absolutely ridiculous,plastering their pages with super models and film stars,then they try and convince us these two bag jobs are glamorous.Nurse! The screens!
Posted by: PeterUK April 02, 2009 at 08:44 PM
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There is nothing more boringly self-obsessed than those who insist on defining themselves by their sexuality.In some cases,it is a form of bullying.
Posted by: PeterUK May 07, 2009 at 04:29 PM
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"But I don't think concentrating on the issue leads anywhere good for the Republican party."
Wow! Is JOM the entire Republican Party? I'd better clean up my act!
Posted by: PeterUK August 06, 2009 at 01:21 PM
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French? How passe!
I'm not a Tory I'm a liberal anarchist. Anarchos, without leader. We are all too grown up to need parent substitutes.
Posted by: PeterUK August 06, 2009 at 01:33 PM
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" flagged you to the new White House office in charge of hazy argumentation."
Hazy Argumentation,she the new Britney Spears?
Posted by: PeterUK August 06, 2009 at 03:38 PM
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Obama popularity plunge makes UK papers. He doesn't look too happy.The virgin birth may be tosh,but it could be worth the odd percentage.
Posted by: PeterUK August 06, 2009 at 05:11 PM
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"Why would he go so far as to wink at an audience member? "
I thought that was weird, as well. Why copy something like that? I wanna call the dude a Chameleon, but that doesn't seem exactly right, either."
He will be wearing glasses and red high heels next.
Posted by: PeterUK August 12, 2009 at 11:22 AM
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The Man?
Take a deep breath and say "Obama is president now,"Hope and Change"" Then get your arse into gear and do something.
Posted by: PeterUK September 01, 2009 at 02:29 PM
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You seem to be operating in a time warp Nick. Here we are in 2009,with a new president,a Democrat super majority,and you are still whining.
Posted by: PeterUK September 01, 2009 at 02:53 PM
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Please, someone tell Michelle to stand up straight.
Posted by: MayBee October 02, 2009 at 08:40 PM
Maybee. It's a bit hard balancing that load.
Posted by: PeterUK October 02, 2009 at 08:43 PM
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You don't understand,Obama handed Ayers a sheet of paper with,I,me,mine,myself saying,"Flesh this out a bit for me Bill".
Posted by: PeterUK October 08, 2009 at 02:15 PM
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"Maybe Obama thought he was Anastasia."
Anaesthesia.
Posted by: PeterUK October 08, 2009 at 06:27 PM
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What will the Reverend Jeremiah Wright say? That medal has an image of a dead white man on it.
Posted by: PeterUK October 09, 2009 at 11:58 AM
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The comment section over at Tom Maguire's JustOneMinute is close-knit community. Even a family. One that I consider myself immeasurably blessed to be a part of.
Our family lost a member recently. PeterUK has passed away.
PUK, as we called him on JOM, was Peter Bocking. He was a legendary guitarist from Manchester.
The Manchester Beat has a tribute page up in his honor.
I'll leave here a few more links about Peter Bocking: A little history. A photo. A mention in a Crosby, Stills & Nash biography. And a glimpse into his generous spirit.
Peter Bocking was a genius on the guitar.
On JOM our PUK was a genius of wit and wisdom.
Some of his brilliance from JOM is pulled together below (yes, this is an extremely long post; as it should be).
I miss him terribly.
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" In addition to his little train trip, he apparently told that supreme dolt DK Goodwin he expected to be a pres in the ranks of old Abe and told his staff he expects some of his words to be chiselled in marble."
'My name is Ozybamias, King of Kings;Look on my works. Ye Mighty, and despair!'
Either that or the headstone.
Posted by: PeterUK January 24, 2009 at 06:01 PM
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Well folks,you have got an aristocracy.No reason why they shouldn't be as batshit crazy like the ones here.
Posted by: PeterUK February 04, 2009 at 01:25 PM
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I made some bread once - it was like breeze block,but not as tasty.
Posted by: PeterUK February 26, 2009 at 06:30 PM
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" Rush just called Obama the Totus"
So Obama and Biden,"The Totus and the Hair"?
Posted by: PeterUK March 18, 2009 at 02:53 PM
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"Buys its own debt with what?
More fiat money? More inflation by definition?"
Here it is called "Quantitive Easing",similar to the effects of a laxative.
Posted by: PeterUK March 18, 2009 at 03:51 PM
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"Obama's teleprompter has its own blog!!!"
There is a rumour that the teleprompter is leaving Obama since there are things that even a teleprompter won't do.
Posted by: PeterUK March 19, 2009 at 01:29 PM
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"16 year old pirate.."
What are you people thinking of ? This is a natural for Madonna? Have him bathed and sent to her tent.
Posted by: PeterUK April 12, 2009 at 08:03 PM
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"Hey Ben, and that poll was probably before Andrew Sullivan found out the Uighurs were moving next door!"
Not at all,women's arms have the same effect on him.
Posted by: PeterUK April 24, 2009 at 07:14 PM
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"Has anybody speculated on how the Chicoms will react to the Uighurs not being sent back to them?"
Very badly,they already have the Uighur's body parts up on eBay.
Posted by: PeterUK April 24, 2009 at 08:09 PM
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""I forgot to mention last night that following World War II war crime trials were convened. The Japanese were tried and convicted and hung for war crimes committed against American POWs. Among those charges for which they were convicted was waterboarding," he told reporters at a campaign event"
One tiny little detail is ignored - the Japanese lost!
This is probably a historical first,the victorious side leads itself off in chains
Posted by: PeterUK April 25, 2009 at 08:29 AM
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Septic,Your logic chip is faulty.Report to the recycling centre,there may be some parts that can be used for a hairdryer.
Posted by: PeterUK April 26, 2009 at 04:04 PM
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"Well, quite obviously the strategy from the beginning was to lie about everything and let the goddamn Mediacrats cover for him".
Not quite a strategy,more a way of life.The guy is a BS artist of the first water.His first instinct is to lie,his second instinct is to elaborate on it.
Posted by: PeterUK May 02, 2009 at 06:18 PM
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"He seems to be in a similar situation as Thatcher was when she 1st became prime minister."
He wears a frock? The difference is Thatcher had a pair of balls,Michelle wears Obama's for earrings.
Posted by: PeterUK May 05, 2009 at 06:00 PM
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Arlen Specter,"Sold his birthright for a mess of pottage".
Posted by: PeterUK May 06, 2009 at 06:31 AM
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"And whatver happened to the NYC plane explanation? Hasn't it been more than a week?"
The plane was trying to escape to Cuba and claim asylum.
Posted by: PeterUK May 13, 2009 at 12:35 PM
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"Pelosi should have just pulled a piece of paper out of her safe..."
She can't even pull her head out of her arse.
Posted by: PeterUK May 14, 2009 at 05:56 PM
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"I propose we close down the S and M show for the night --or--I could unpack those pistolas.."
Clarice I maintain we are performing a public service.Here Septic is in the hands of experts,our rolls never die on us and we get useful information about the hysterie du jour in the hive.
Posted by: PeterUK May 16, 2009 at 11:13 PM
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DoT.
Glad somebody else has noticed Obama's addiction to the first person singular.
Looks like the rest of his speech is simply something to hang his verbal onanism on.
Posted by: PeterUK May 23, 2009 at 06:31 PM
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"I have always said,I,uh,that is me,I,the President of America,believe,that,I uh,have always held the position ,that I uh,will not flinch from the,uh, challenges that,I, as President of America,uh face me.Godamnit this teleprompter has too many vowels".
Posted by: PeterUK May 23, 2009 at 07:01 PM
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Of course they are utterly self obsessed,that is why they go into politics.Where else can these people get to play "Simple Simon Says" with everybody's lives.
They should have fixed terms,after which we strangle them and throw their bodies into a bog.The traditional way.
Posted by: PeterUK May 23, 2009 at 09:47 PM
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Clarice,
God created the universe, the earth, the sun, moon and stars, plants and animals, and the first two people within six ordinary (approximately 24-hour) days.Are you saying Obama isn't up to it?
In the beginning there was Obama and he said let there be Me and there was Me.Me created the first person singular becoming "I" and I looked upon it and it was good.
Posted by: PeterUK May 24, 2009 at 10:36 AM
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"“I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life,” said Judge Sotomayor,"
Was that wise? Amazing how these lefties come off sounding like adolescent,all mouth and trousers.Being liberal means never having to talk sense.
Posted by: PeterUK May 29, 2009 at 09:33 PM
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"our gender and national origins may and will make a difference in our judging."
I hope every WASP attorney has that tattooed over his heart.
Posted by: PeterUK May 30, 2009 at 05:41 AM
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"You can rest assure that President Obama has been on top of the auto giant's situation before leaving for a night out.
Better for us had he been on top of an intern."
Better still,if he had been on top of an upturn
Posted by: PeterUK May 31, 2009 at 10:24 AM
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"Is the term "green shoots" a relatively new development or has it been around for a while?"
It has been used here for a couple of years or so to explain the verdant bits on a corpse."The first green shoots of recovery".
Same stable as "Dew Fresh Morning Picked Free Range Baby Mushrooms".Produced the same way in the dark and fed on manure.
Posted by: PeterUK June 01, 2009 at 11:08 AM
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The moat is rather traditional old Tory, but Ed Balls charging thirty quid for a memorial wreath and Frank Cook a fiver for a church collection is just socialism.
Alistair Darling,the Chancellor of the Exchequer another good little Marxist had more "second homes" than some people have hot dinners.
Still,all of them will have more time to spend with their families.Shame about the guillotine though.
Posted by: PeterUK June 02, 2009 at 07:57 PM
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"Cleo
Since you spend so much time here, DITTO - you closet neo con."
Nah Cleo just likes arguing with lots of people,Cleo is a mass debater.
Posted by: PeterUK June 04, 2009 at 11:04 AM
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"using a non-threatening approach that outwitted the detainee - even getting him to talk by using his childhood nickname."
Which means they have captured his mother."Oh Ali was so cute he used to have this little stuffed goat called Moomoo,used to take it to bed with him". "I remember the time when he was........" "Mother! For the Love of Allah......All right I'll talk".
Posted by: PeterUK June 11, 2009 at 02:54 PM
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" Whadda buncha idiots. What are these people doing on television?"
forget television,what are they doing off a sex offender's register?
Posted by: PeterUK June 13, 2009 at 03:35 PM
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Talking of dogs.That is the most incompetent dog handling I've seen,absolutely no control whatsoever. I hope these aren't the same methods she used to train Barry.
Posted by: PeterUK June 15, 2009 at 07:35 PM
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" Why did I go to school with people so much older than I am??There must be some mistake somewhere."
That's what come of being a child prodigal Clarice.
Posted by: PeterUK June 28, 2009 at 12:16 PM
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Now the Jomettes will start drooling.
Posted by: PeterUK July 01, 2009 at 03:57 PM
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The Wise Latina would have insisted on a making sure there was balanced diversity in the rescue team. Then there would be a discussion on the phallic implications of the crane.
Posted by: PeterUK July 01, 2009 at 04:23 PM
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The White House announced today,that in honour of Michael Jackson,whose untimely demise covered up the debacle over Iran and the disastrous Cap and Trash Bill,America is going to be renamed "Neverland".
Posted by: PeterUK July 02, 2009 at 01:15 PM
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Great galloping Engels Sylvia! You are dead on the button with 19th century Marxism.This is the new economics? Get a refund from your Professors at once,you have been robbed.
Posted by: PeterUK July 06, 2009 at 07:03 PM
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"Anybody know what the administration position actually is?"
In the groove.Not on the right cheek,not on the left cheek,but right in the groove.
Posted by: PeterUK July 06, 2009 at 08:23 PM
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"Ivy League Economists",which means they have to work in academia because they are not good enough to be head croupier at Goldman Sachs.
Posted by: PeterUK July 07, 2009 at 10:35 AM
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Brooks is to journalism as Bill Ayers is to patriotism.
Posted by: PeterUK July 07, 2009 at 03:16 PM
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This administration has a death wish. Do they not realise that Cheney will have some files? Open,worms,can.
Posted by: PeterUK July 12, 2009 at 06:35 PM
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"And what they can get out of the clients is astonding. she's even done operations on pet tarantualas."
I got a hearing aid for mine. She walks quite well with sticks.
Posted by: PeterUK July 13, 2009 at 08:17 PM
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"Hit, hopefully granny won't become a food source too..."
Surely you have heard of Soylent Gran?
Posted by: PeterUK July 13, 2009 at 08:18 PM
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"Second, I think Øbama should be cut some slack"
Especially in the crotch of his jeans.No wonder he was running like a fairy.
Posted by: PeterUK July 15, 2009 at 12:57 PM
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"Barry chose Joe for the same reason Hardy chose Laurel, Abbot chose Costello and Moe chose Curly."
Yes,but,Laurel,Costello and Curly were comic geniuses. Biden is special needs.
Posted by: PeterUK July 17, 2009 at 12:21 PM
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Mr Ballard,
Whilst the mouth moves and the head goes from side to side,the eyes of Obama are those of a dead cod. People will notice.
Posted by: PeterUK July 17, 2009 at 09:19 PM
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"Obama is a divisive jerk".
Indeed he is,but Obama is also proof that it isn't just the females that suck blood.
Posted by: PeterUK July 19, 2009 at 04:45 AM
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Did you know that arugula,as well as making tasty dishes like Arugula Surprise,can also be woven into clourful native costumes?
Posted by: PeterUK July 19, 2009 at 08:14 PM
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"If I wanted to call a cop every name in the book that is my freedom of speech and yours as well. I would assume you'd cherish that."
Yes,it is also an inalienable right to poke a bull in the balls with a stick.Ga ahead feel free.
You are right about this being about liberty.The liberty not to have your name dragged out in public by the president. America isn't a banana state yet.There are penalties for upsetting the president's friend,are there?
Posted by: PeterUK July 25, 2009 at 11:41 AM
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"(A big chunk of dough is being authorized to be spent fighting obesity "
Yes they get $2000 in fifties and hold it between their teeth at meal times.
Posted by: PeterUK. July 29, 2009 at 12:46 PM
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" The so-called "birther" movement, which demands that Barack Obama prove that he’s really, um, an American citizen, has been debunked by every sane political journalist,"
SANE POLITICAL JOURNALIST ????????
Ye Gods,that is like a man eating gerbil!!
Posted by: PeterUK. July 30, 2009 at 07:36 PM
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LL
"Why, then, all the attention now?"
It's like this. You buy a horse at an auction,sold as a yearling,you get it home and find it has false teeth,a limp,a squint,it won't run and it won't pull a wagon. Do you complain or feed it to your dog?
Posted by: PeterUK July 31, 2009 at 08:28 PM
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"But doesn't he know how many pubic hairs he has, and shouldn't an affadavit supporting that statistic be provided?"
Well you're stuck to his bum,you count them. On second thoughts you probably have pet names for them.
Posted by: PeterUK July 31, 2009 at 08:51 PM
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Clarice,The Coroner's report said that the teleprompter took its own life because it couldn't stand the shame.
Posted by: PeterUK July 31, 2009 at 09:30 PM
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Captain
I prefer women shaped women,not someone who looks like beef jerky.
Posted by: PeterUK August 02, 2009 at 01:45 PM
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"I heard that the Brooks Brothers dudes are Democrat plants."
Yeh,one's a pansy and the other is a geranium.
Posted by: PeterUK August 05, 2009 at 09:14 PM
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The speech by Obama with the superfluous words omitted.
I....me...I...my...we...I...us...I...I...I...I'm...I...I...I...I.
Self obsessed Moi?
Posted by: PeterUK August 07, 2009 at 01:46 PM
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Another good idea. Poke a bunch of,trained liars,subversives,torturers,assassins,spies and secret snatchers in the balls with a stick.
You know it makes sense!
Posted by: PeterUK August 10, 2009 at 05:52 PM
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"The evidence shows that Obama has always been in favor of "death panels". He just prefers that they be called something else."
He found,Einsatzgruppen too old fashioned and firing squads had consumer resistance. Give him time.
Posted by: PeterUK August 18, 2009 at 06:33 PM
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As Creator,surely God would have created a partner who didn't need a teleprompter?
Posted by: PeterUK August 21, 2009 at 08:02 PM
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What is it about liberals,always changing their minds with their underwear?
Posted by: PeterUK August 25, 2009 at 05:49 PM
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Why use enhanced interrogation when all you have to do is threaten a lift home by a Democrat Senator.
Posted by: PeterUK August 29, 2009 at 05:41 PM
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Bush can fly an aircraft.Obama can fly only with the aid of substance abuse,
Posted by: PeterUK August 29, 2009 at 10:04 PM
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"Wasn't Hildog the first person to use the line "vast right wing conspiracy", in reference to the scoundrels who claimed her husband was unchaste outside the marital chamber? "
That was because Bill was unchased in the marital chamber.
Posted by: PeterUK September 05, 2009 at 06:36 AM
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"--Jones, a towering figure in the environmental movement...-- "
Like a midget in the Snake Limbo Dancing Community.
Posted by: PeterUK September 06, 2009 at 11:04 AM
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It is also never safe to underestimate a lefty smooching a derriere.
Posted by: PeterUK September 06, 2009 at 02:19 PM
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I'll settle for the unicorn.With one of those, you can get the rest. Besides,it will save cutting the grass.
Posted by: PeterUK September 06, 2009 at 02:38 PM
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“I think she really unnerves him because he knows inside she's better than he is--she's more beautiful, has accomplished more, is braver ,smarter,and more fearless than he is"
And he will never get to wear the red shoes in public.
Posted by: PeterUK September 09, 2009 at 04:14 PM
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You've seen one Obama speech,you've seen them all.Looks like a Punch and Judy Show.
Posted by: PeterUK September 13, 2009 at 08:51 PM
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The Obama Roadshow is getting like a Spinal Tap tour.
Posted by: PeterUK September 16, 2009 at 04:13 PM
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I think Obama is trapped by his own smartarsedness. Because his mantel of omnipotence forces him to opine on every subject that arises,he goes into the blagging mode that he has used all his life."I've always said...."The man bears the imprint of the last person who spoke to him.
Posted by: PeterUK September 20, 2009 at 06:22 PM
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Like all actors,Obama depends on the suspension of disbelief. Have you ever watched a film,play,TV and notice that the protagonists are speak utter balderdash? You know so because,it is your field of expertise,you migh even have written the book.But there they are gabbling away,drivel spouting from their mouths.That is the way you have to get people looking at Obama."That isn't a four iron,it's a shovel".
Posted by: PeterUK September 20, 2009 at 06:40 PM
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Raa,
"every elementary school I've ever been to has retarded songs like this --"
You went to retard school?
Posted by: PeterUK September 24, 2009 at 05:34 PM
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Typical Obamas all false Ayers and graces.
Posted by: PeterUK September 24, 2009 at 07:59 PM
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Oh definitely.But would playing bushkazi with Biden's head actually interfere with his functions as VP?
Posted by: PeterUK September 27, 2009 at 09:15 AM
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This chain of command,isn't it time somebody pulled it?
Posted by: PeterUK September 28, 2009 at 01:01 PM
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"Could you be the next Dana Milbank or Eugene Robinson?"
If so,help is at hand.Just one JournoGo pill in the morning will relieve those irritating symptoms of punditry.
Posted by: PeterUK September 29, 2009 at 01:26 PM
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There is an alternative scenario. Obama is so dire the rest of his administration were simply trying to get him out of the way.This would fit with all the other time consuming fripperies that he engages in.
Posted by: PeterUK October 03, 2009 at 03:42 PM
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"you are singing a fugal entrance into a long run of accidentals that aren't necessarily making any immediate sense against what the girls in front are singing at the same time."
But cheaper than buying them dinner.
Posted by: PeterUK October 04, 2009 at 06:33 PM
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It is a matter of who has the most fun,infants in the infantry or adults in adultery.
Posted by: PeterUK October 11, 2009 at 11:26 AM
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Zero's idea of bold is wearing his shirt outside his underpants.
Posted by: PeterUK October 20, 2009 at 09:18 PM
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"I'm trying to think of why the opinion of Gore Vidal means anything, and for the life of me I just can't come up with anything."
Because his name is an anagram of "overlaid".
Posted by: PeterUK September 30, 2009 at 11:47 AM
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The long march through the indecisions.
Posted by: PeterUK October 01, 2009 at 05:59 AM
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Sue,
She used to need a bra,but that is all behind her now.
Posted by: PeterUK October 02, 2009 at 03:00 PM
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Obama.
Lip syncs
Has a body double for the love scenes.
Somebody does all his stunts.
And now they notice?
Posted by: PeterUK August 11, 2009 at 12:50 PM
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I wish you would all stop beating up Sylvia,it is like watching someone playing tennis with a jelly fish.
Posted by: PeterUK October 13, 2009 at 01:45 PM
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The "All will have Prizes" syndrome has resulted in the morass of microcephalic mountebanks which is laughingly called a government.
Posted by: PeterUK October 15, 2009 at 11:13 AM
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Obama isn't dithering over Afghanistan. The Taleban are waiting for moderate Democrats to emerge so they can negotiate.
Posted by: PeterUK October 19, 2009 at 01:21 PM
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Ayers - Geppetto.
Obama - Pinocchio.
Just like a fairy tale – Grimm.
Posted by: PeterUK October 19, 2009 at 08:54 PM
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I know bugger all about fashion,but she looks like she has been made out of two people!
Posted by: PeterUK October 21, 2009 at 04:06 PM
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"In a real breakthrough for MS-LSD, Keith Olbermann and Rachel Maddow were invited to sit on Obama's knee and listen to the President whine about how mean the Fox News people are."
If they can be trusted not to pee on Obama's knee.....
Posted by: PeterUK October 23, 2009 at 05:25 PM
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Captain.
The left has been absolutely gagging for another Vietnam,in Obama they have found a president who will give them one – hard.
Posted by: PeterUK October 24, 2009 at 12:32 PM
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"And the real shame is that our CinC could so easily reassure military families."
Perhaps,but Michelle won't let him resign.
Posted by: PeterUK October 24, 2009 at 02:50 PM
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This is a continuing effort with the long march through the JOM archives still in the early stages. It will probably take the better part of a week to get through, including greatly appreciated help from JOM's Elliott and hopefully other JOMers as well contributing their favorite PUK comments and quotes.
Rest in peace, dear friend.
UPDATE: Thank you Manchester Beat, JustOneMinute and iOwnTheWorld for linking.
The second post of PUK's Greatest Hits is up. There will be more.
It was one year ago today that Dean Barnett passed away. I wouldn't change what I said at the time:
This world could use so many more Deans, yet now has lost its only one.
Nothing has changed that view in the past year.
When Dean passed away, I felt the less I said the better -- so many other people knew him so much better and were so much closer to him.
But he was to me a friend.
Like so many others, I'm sure, I emailed Dean many times. And like few others in his position, he replied to almost all of them. To be sure, most of them were a "thanks" or a "hah!" or something short and to the point. But the point was that he took the time to acknowledge and appreciate the communication.
When I started this blog, I decided to let him know. He liked the blog, and he linked an early post at the Weekly Standard. He linked to my blog a few times, including one of the last posts he did at WS.
As we began corresponding more frequently, he made the friendly suggestion that if the inspiration hit, I should submit something to be published at the Weekly Standard. Cool. And one Friday night in June, I had a piece and forwarded it to him. We spent the weekend with him as my editor tweaking the article for submission, going back and forth on email probably a couple dozen times. While unfortunately the article didn't get picked up, it was the time with Dean that weekend that I valued most.
There was also one time when he was guest-hosting Hugh Hewitt's radio show. During the show I fired off an email just as an "attaboy". To my surprise, during the break he emailed back and told me to call in and he would get me on at the top of the hour. Well, the timing was bad with kid duty on a school night, but the gesture was very entertaining.
We had talked about him coming down for golf. I had him convinced that he should come. I continue to tell myself that were he still here, I would have had the pleasure of having my hat handed to me on the course by him.
Dean was a friend to me. And in our respective positions in the blogosphere, that meant a lot. It meant the world.
But even more than our positions in the blogosphere, it meant the world because he was just that damn good of a person, as good of a friend as I have made online.
To you, Dean.
A couple things about Obama's schedule kinda puts things into perspective...
SUNDAY:
So, Obama's been catching a little grief that in his (now 24*) golf games and in the congressional basketball game recently, he had never invited a woman.
So, he invited Melody Barnes to join his foursome Sunday. Barnes is Obama's domestic policy advisor.
Now, is it just me or...
...is Barry trading a little grief with the press in exchange for a trip to the doghouse by Michelle?
And while it is unconfirmed, there are reports that Ms. Barnes put Obama in his place on the course:
Well.
MONDAY:
These are tweets from CBS White House correspondent Mark Knoller posted Sunday night:
Tomorrow a the WH: Obama convenes another Afghanistan policy session with top advisors in the Situation Room - the 6th since Sep 13th.
October 25 from webBut his schedule only allows about 75 minutes rather than the 3 hrs given previous Afghanistan policy review sessions.
October 25 from webObama leaves the WH early afternoon for Florida - principally to attend TWO Democratic Congressional fund-raisers in Miami Monday evening.
October 25 from web
Golf on Sunday, campaigning on Monday, with a little bit of Afghanistan review thrown in to put on the time sheet.
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*Per Mark Knoller, with his round Sunday, just over 9 months into his presidency, Obama has equalled the number of golf rounds played by Bush, which Bush took 2 years and 10 months to accomplish. After that Bush gave up golf because the he felt it wasn't proper for the president to play golf while the nation was at war.
Leon Wolf at Red State posts about TARP Inspector General Neil Barofsky's report on the sorry state of how TARP funds have been spent and how poorly that spending has been tracked. Go read it.
Wolf concludes his post with this:
Democrats in Congress have a chance to end Geithner’s reckless control over billions of dollars of taxpayer money, but they must act fast. My guess is that they’ll be too busy trying to give the Obama administration control over trillions more taxpayer dollars through his healthcare plan to even try.
As Glenn Reynolds is wont to say, "this country's in the very best of hands". But sometimes even the "very best of hands" runs out of fingers:
Two Mark Knoller posts in a row?
Yes We Can!
Mark tweeted this yesterday:
http://twitpic.com/mchhj - WH driveway getting new blacktop. Maybe it's stimulus funding. Highway jobs.
Now, I'm not accusing Mark of airbrushing his photo, but you will notice that his (twitpic link above) does not have the sign in it:
Hmmmm....
CBS News' Mark Knoller is covering Obama at a New York City fund-raiser tonight and tweeted this:
At the WH, joked Obama, he said he ranks 4th behind Michelle, Malia & Sasha -- and that Bo the dog is coming on fast.
Cute joke.
But you know, if Obama had started it with, "Stop me if you've heard this before", we might have*...
In a 2004 interview with the Chicago Tribune, Michelle [Obama] observed: "What I notice about men, all men, is that their order is me, my family, God is in there somewhere, but me is first. ... And, for women, me is fourth, and that's not healthy."
Seriously, is Michelle Obama writing President Obama's jokes?
And perhaps more importantly, does Michelle at this point consider Barack a woman?
That's not healthy.
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*That is, of course, had we been there. Which, obviously, we weren't. We're not too proud to admit that we could never afford a $30,400 per couple dinner.
Last November, at the dawn of the Obama Era, From52to48WithLove was born, wherein Obama voters reached out in a well-meaning way with very meaningful photos of themselves expressing their love for and support of defeated McCain voters in the name of bringing hope and change.
Funny thing though, it is many of them who have changed.
While I'm not saying that if given the chance they would go back and change their vote for McCain, they are saying that when given the chance, they aren't intending to repeat their vote.
Via Instapundit:
POLL: Obama Would Get 43% Today. “In what may be the ultimate job rating, 43 percent of voters say that they would vote to re-elect President Obama if the 2012 election were held today, down from 52 percent six months ago, from April 22-23, 2009.”
That is, in less than a year we have witnessed the birth of "from 52 who voted for Obama to 43 who would do so again, with love".
Of course that number will fluctuate, and probably greatly over the coming months and years before another actual vote with Obama actually on the ballot is held. But for now, let us sign off as is appropriate for this day...
With love,
The New 57
[Insert meaningful photo here]
Moe Lane tells us that Al Gore will be appearing Friday in Virginia to campaign for Creigh Deeds in the governor's race in that state.
We'll leave the politics of the appearance of the appearance of politicos to Moe (the post is titled "Booby Prize for Creigh Deeds" afterall).
Us? We're issuing a winter storm warning for the greater Northern Virginia area as a Gore Effect front moves into the region. Let's go to the telestrator!
Bundle up out there.
It was, I believe, Dan Collins at POWIP who first coined the term paraphrasing the famous Seinfeld line.
But it was this post by Mary Katherine Ham that brought me to do this:
Ham's post concludes:
If the Washington Post wants to lecture us on civility it should stick to instances of incivility that are a) actually incivil and b) actually documented, and stop making excuses for incivility, as long as it comes from Dems.
Or they could just continue yelling, "Civility NOW!" which of course they will.
We could call them Frank, but really they should remember what befell ...Kramer... in that episode.
Because the signs already exist that they're well on their way down that path.
Sportswriter Jason Whitlock is having none of this business of Rush Limbaugh becoming part owner of the St. Louis Rams. He takes Rush Limbaugh to task for past comments he deems as racist, even though the quotes are fabricated and unsourced.
In Whitlock's defense, though, he does not rest his opposition to Limbaugh's ownership on those quotes alone. But his article does present a rather large target for critics of his current position.
He writes in his Fox News article on the subject:
And here come the Left Brothers — Al "747" Sharpton and Jesse "DC 10" Jackson — barreling in for a landing on top of Goodell's dome. And this time every black person with an ounce of common sense and self-respect is riding shotgun with Jesse and Al, who have justifiably voiced their displeasure with Limbaugh's ownership bid.
But Whitlock is being called out for "throwing his lot in with the terrorists":
"Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are domestic terrorists lighting fires and picking everyone's pocket on the way out of town."
That was Jason Whitlock, in 2007 (covering the Don Imus “nappy headed ho” controversy, which I touched on at American Thinker at the time, here).
Next, Jason Whitlock puts up a pre-emptive offense against the anticipated defense that Limbaugh is no less controversial than rapper Jay-Z who is part owner of the New Jersey Nets:
I'd say we're less than 24 hours from Limbaugh playing the Jay-Z card. Brother Jay owns a piece of the New Jersey Nets and has a library of rap tunes spewing the same kind of black-degrading lyrics, phrases and stereotypes that have made Limbaugh rich enough to buy a chunk of the St. Louis Rams.[...]
This is the major difference between Rush and Jay-Z. Beyonce's boyfriend raps a bunch of dumb, racist, sexist (spit) but serious people don't take Jay-Z or his music seriously. Jay's expression of self-hatred does not bother NBA players, NBA fans or remotely overshadow what transpires on the court.
But Whitlock is being called out for ignorantly downplaying the significance of the pernicious and destructive effects of the hip hop/gangsta culture on American blacks:
Thank you, Don Imus. You’ve given us (black people) an excuse to avoid our real problem. […]
While we’re fixated on a bad joke cracked by an irrelevant, bad shock jock, I’m sure at least one of the marvelous young women on the Rutgers basketball team is somewhere snapping her fingers to the beat of 50 Cent’s or Snoop Dogg’s or Young Jeezy’s latest ode glorifying nappy-headed pimps and hos.
I ain’t saying Jesse, Al and Vivian are gold-diggas, but they don’t have the heart to mount a legitimate campaign against the real black-folk killas.
It is us. At this time, we are our own worst enemies. We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.
Again, Whitlock in 2007 (the original Kansas City Star article is now behind an archives pay-wall).
With that strong of a condemnation of the embrace of hip hop culture in 2007, Whitlock strongly called out the sell-outs willing to sit out because of the almighty dollar:
We all know where the real battleground is. We know that the gangsta rappers and their followers in the athletic world have far bigger platforms to negatively define us than some old white man with a bad radio show. There’s no money and lots of danger in that battle, so Jesse and Al are going to sit it out.
But this past righteous anger met a cruel fate this past July when Whitlock raised his personal white flag:
I’ve reluctantly made peace with the fact that black comedians and rappers can make millions of dollars shouting the N-word and lampooning/promoting negative black stereotypes.
If Barack Obama made use of the N-word a death-penalty offense, commercial rap music would disappear and nearly every black comedian would have to rewrite their material. My point is I understand the economic impact of outlawing our (black) self-hate.
Give him his due, though: Whitlock still speaks forthrightly about many issues facing the black community. But he's gone backwards, not forward in this effort.
Why was Whitlock so much more courageously post-racial in 2007 vs 2009?
Even though Limbaugh's bid to become part-owner in an NFL franchise is a political issue invading the sports world, and the election of Barack Obama as the first African-American president is by far the biggest political development over that time, it would be unfair to blame Obama.
But give it a couple of years, based on the trajectory, and Whitlock may reluctantly make peace with the fact that Obama is culpable for his retreat.
So, Obama has been awarded a Nobel Peace Prize.
We've done most of our commentary on this at either JustOneMinute or at twitter.
But this John Kass article is definitely worth a quote and link here:
It's a 12-day miracle! Praise Obama and pass the Hopium
Isn't it great that President Barack Obama has won the Nobel Peace Prize?
He'd been in office only 12 days when the Nobel nominations were due. That's a mere 288 hours for Obama to have been credentialed as President Peace.
It's not every day that a Chicago politician with City Hall guys running the White House goes and wins the Nobel Prize. So when the news broke last week, a bold decree was read across the land:
Henceforth, the 12 glorious days shall be known as Barack's Golden Almost-Fortnight; or Barack's Amazing Days of Peace, Harmony, and Universal Love!
We've seen that statement around and about regarding the nominations for the peace prize being due only 12 days into Obama's first term.
Which got us to thinking, what did he do during that almost-fortnight?
So we took a look at the WhiteHouse.gov Statements and Releases page, picking out the most memorable entry for each day. We'll start on Day 2, just noting that the inauguration, obviously, was a big, impactful and yes, an inspiring day for all Americans.
1/21/2009
Statement from the Press Secretary on the President's signing of two Executive Orders and three MemorandaThe President today signed two Executive Orders and three Presidential Memoranda. These five documents represent a bold first step to fulfill his campaign promises to make government more responsible and accountable, to launch sweeping ethics reform, and to begin a new era of transparent and open government
[VIMH: Obama, responsible, accountable, reform, transparent, open. One of those words is not like the other. One of those words just doesn't belong]
1/22/2009
BACKGROUND: President Obama signs Executive Orders on Detention and Interrogation PolicyExecutive Order requires closure of the Guantanamo detention center no later than one year from the date of the Order. Closure of the facility is the ultimate goal but not the first step. The Order establishes a review process with the goal of disposing of the detainees before closing the facility.
[VIMH: I'm sure the Executive Order about Guantanamo was very, very impressive at the time and curried great favor with the Nobel Committee. Of course, it was meaningless, as we have been learning recently that Team Obama won't meet their deadline. Not any more meaningless than the Nobel Peace Prize itself. Oh and not any less meaningless, either.]
1/23/2009
Statement of President Barack Obama on Rescinding the Mexico City PolicyIt is clear that the provisions of the Mexico City Policy are unnecessarily broad and unwarranted under current law, and for the past eight years, they have undermined efforts to promote safe and effective voluntary family planning in developing countries. For these reasons, it is right for us to rescind this policy and restore critical efforts to protect and empower women and promote global economic development.
[VIMH: In an ironic twist (of the knife), Obama made this move one day after the 36th anniversary of Roe v. Wade.]
1/25/2009
Statement from the Press Secretary on Executive Office BuildingEarly this afternoon, the D.C. Fire Department was called to the Executive Office Building in response to reports of smoke on the 4th floor. A limited number of staff were temporarily evacuated and have now returned to their offices. There were no injuries and no apparent damage to the building.
[VIMH: From the statement: "There were no injuries and no apparent damage to the building." Just for the record, we on the right are less concerned with damage to the building than the damage Obama is doing to the office.]
1/26/2009
No Statements or Releases
[VIMH: And on the sixth day, Obama rested (kidding, I'm sure Obama did something. It just wasn't something worth mentioning).]
1/27/2009
Dr. Jill Biden Announces Plans to Continue TeachingContinuing her 28-year career as an educator, Dr. Jill Biden returned to teaching today at a DC-area community college. Dr. Biden will work as an adjunct professor at Northern Virginia Community College this semester, teaching two English courses.
[VIMH: FWIW, Even Dr! Jill Biden gets mentioned on the WH.gov website before VP Joe.]
1/28/2009
Statement of the President on the House Passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment ActI am grateful to the House of Representatives for moving the American Recovery and Reinvestment plan forward today. There are many numbers in this plan. It will double our capacity to generate renewable energy. It will lower the cost of health care by billions and improve its quality. It will modernize thousands of classrooms and send more kids to college. And it will put billions of dollars in immediate tax relief into the pockets of working families.
[VIMH: Just for the record, ARRA made it out of Congress on Feb 13, the same night Obama and the First Lady hosted a concert honoring Stevie Wonder at the White House and one day before Obama and the First Lady had a wonderful Valentine's Day dinner in Chicago. It was four days before Obama signed the act into law.]
1/29/2009
Statement from President Obama on Rod BlagojevichToday ends a painful episode for Illinois. For months, the state had been crippled by a crisis of leadership. Now that cloud has lifted. I wish Governor Quinn the best and pledge my full cooperation as he undertakes his new responsibilities.
[VIMH: To paraphrase former Governor Blago, "A Nobel Peace Prize is a f**king valuable thing!"]
1/30/2009
Obama Announces Middle Class Task ForcePresident Barack Obama today announced the creation of a White House Task Force on Middle Class Working Families to be chaired by Vice President Joe Biden. The Task Force is a major initiative targeted at raising the living standards of middle-class, working families in America.
[VIMH: Finally, Joe Biden gets a mention on an effort that has surely become a household phrase across America. Not a day goes by that someone in every corner of this great land thanks their lucky stars that the Middle Class Task Force is on the job, headed by Joe]
1/31/2009
Obama On Iraqi Provincial ElectionsI congratulate the people of Iraq on holding significant provincial elections today. Millions of Iraqi citizens from every ethnic and religious group went peacefully to the polls across the country to choose new provincial councils. It is important that the councils get seated, select new governors, and begin work on behalf of the Iraqi people who elected them.
[VIMH: Now here is something that is genuinely and completely related to the concept of peace. Of course, Obama had absolutely nothing to do with it, and in fact did everything in his power to undermine efforts to stabilize Iraq. In other words, he inherited this situation from the previous administration.]
2/1/2009
No Statements or Releases
[VIMH: Fitting.]
You know who's *REALLY* excited by Rio de Janeiro getting the 2016 Olypmic bid and Obama's humiliation in failing to secure it for Chicago?
A young woman who President Obama made famous this past July. Rio de Janeiro resident Mayara Taveres, that's who:
The leader of the free world and his French counterpart were caught sneaking a peek at a the pink-satin-draped booty of a 17-year-old junior G-8 delegate just moments before the summit's official group photo was snapped in Italy yesterday. [...]
The beauty who prompted the president to channel his inner Bill Clinton was identified as Rio de Janeiro resident Mayara Tavares. The girl from Ipanema had been selected to attend a meeting of young people held in conjunction with the summit.
H/T Elliott at JOM
All things being equal, I like the idea of the Olympics being hosted by a US city as a matter of national pride.
I do however think it is a monumentally politically tone-deaf move for President Obama to jet off to Copenhagen to make the big close on Chicago's bid to win the 2016 nod, not to mention Michelle Obama's contention that going to Eurpoe to make the pitch is a...sacrifice.
It's for the (fat and lazy) children, of course (thanks Michelle, for all you do!).
But let's just note that a large portion of the city of Chicago itself is not so excited.
And now at Commentary's John Steele Gordon (surely that's a well-chosen pseudonym of a superhero, isn't it?) makes a comment about Chicago's main rival for the Games:
Brazil’s government is pushing hard for the 2016 summer games to be held in Rio de Janeiro and they have a very good case.
I'll say.
I mean, the governor of Tokyo has told us:
Tokyo governor Shintaro Ishihara warned on Wednesday the 2016 Olympics could be the last Games, with global warming an immediate threat to mankind.
Well, if global warming is threatening then the most logical answer is to ... give the Games to the city in the Southern hemisphere, where it is their winter, ameliorating the concern about high temperatures, with average Aug/Sep highs in Rio in the upper 70s (mid 20s celsius), and not Northern hemispherical cities Chicago or Tokyo (the third city in the running) who would be in the dog days of global warming enhanced summers.
Because if global warming is so bad and its effects so immediate, then a Chicago heat wave could be dangerous for athletes and spectators alike and potentially deadly on a massive scale.
And don't get me started on Tokyo:
In the summer of 2004, temperature went record high up to 42.7°C (109°F) in the middle of Tokyo (Adachi ward)...It was hotter in Tokyo than in the subtropical islands of Okinawa.
It was caused not only by the "global warming" going on everywhere around the world, but also by "urban heat island syndrome". Grounds covered with concrete and asphalt keep the sun's heat even during night times, and continuously working air-conditioners and millions of cars produce artificial heat 24 hours a day.
OK, to sum up: because of Global Warming:
Sorry, Chicago.
Sayonara, Tokyo.
Annnnd...
Olá, Rio!
As famous late 20th century philosopher Simon Le Bon has said of Rio:
"You know you're something special and you look like you're the best."
HMMMMM: Since Moe Lane points to Chicagoans for Rio! perhaps this post should be subtitled "Al Gorians for Rio!"
But thinking out loud here, that provides the easy solution for Chicago: promise to have Al Gore hold a Global Warming Summit in the city during the Olympics, guaranteeing unseasonably cooler temperatures during the Games through the mystical power of the "Gore Effect".
Jim Geraghty tweeted this morning:
According to NBC/WSJ poll, 9% of Americans say they have seen or heard too little from Obama so far in his presidency.
You may not have guessed this, but I am in that group!
A very exclusive group, I might add.
But why?Well, sure, because I oppose Obama, think he's on the verge of becoming greatly overexposed (don't worry, I've already identified saying "Obama's overexposed" as racist, so you don't have to) in the eyes of many voters.
But even more than that obviously politically partisan reason?
There exists a very selfishly personal reason.
You see, every time Obama gives a speech, my blog traffic goes up nearly five-fold because as of this moment I am the third [update: now second!, but I won't keep updating, it may change at various points over time] highest result for the Google search "Obama speech summary" (the search points to this very old post on Obama's Big Speech on Race from the campaign).
More Speeches!
I don't want this to come across as ungrateful. Really, you enrich my life in so many ways, that a complaint like this seems almost petty.
But please, if it wouldn't be too much trouble, could you stop sending my reimbursement for opposing ObamaCare in giant checks. The banks won't cash them.
Thank you for your consideration in this matter.
