A few posts ago I remarked that the world had gotten funny without my being able to laugh. I wrote, “The subjects have become so fantastic they are almost unreal. It’s like a horror movie where everybody is inexplicably funny. Maybe I should go have a beer.” The NY Post reports that a UN interpreter may need two six packs to recover his sanity after trying to interpret for Khadafy.
After struggling to turn Khadafy’s insane ramblings at the UN into English for 75 minutes, the Libyan dictator’s personal interpreter got lost in translation. “I just can’t take it any more,” Khadafy’s interpreter shouted into the live microphone – in Arabic.
At that point, the U.N.’s Arabic section chief, Rasha Ajalyaqeen, took over and translated the final 20 minutes of the speech. “His interpreter just collapsed – this is the first time I have seen this in 25 years,” another U.N. Arabic interpreter told The Post.
I’m afraid that as statesmen go, we ain’t seen nothing yet.
Cooling her heels somewhere offstage is Hillary Clinton, the Secretary of State from whom nothing has been heard recently. There’s Vice-President Joe Biden and of course Barack Obama. In Britain there is Gordon Brown. And almost in as sad a condition are the Republicans. One can can only hope that some international crisis does not break out forcing the world to rely on the skills our great leaders to steer us through, or else we too, like the Arabic interpreter, will be headed for the liquor store, to buy or loot from its ruins depending on the circumstances.
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From the same article:
You know America is in trouble when Chavez & Khadafi give praise to our President.
I just caught Venezuelan pres Hugo Chavez ranting at a Fox news correspondent. The reporter was trying to get Chavez’ reaction to Ahmadinejad’s holocaust denial. Chavez then attacked the correspondent and the Fox network by quoting his pal Sean Penn, “Senn Penn says ‘you guys are stupid.’” (For the record I’m fluent in Spanish so I understood him without the interpreter). In other words, he avoided the question by attacking the reporter: “What about American soldiers in Iraq? What about all the killing going on in Africa and Latin America the holocaust of Native peoples and your own Indians? How come you TV station never shows any of that?” Then he said that the reporter’s mind was full of poison.
As a gringo high school student (and college student) in Central America I heard this kind of ranting almost daily. It’s a blame America script that Latin American Marxists can deliver in their sleep. Attack attack attack, that’s the method these bullys use. In reality, Chavez is the one who comes across as stupid, managed by a reptilian brain. As the great novelist RM Koster wrote somewhere (my paraphrase):Latin American throws up these brute reptilian thugs every generation. They are mocked by the business and political intelligencia until the day the intelligencia wakes up with their tender parts in his grip; then the mockery stops. Then the country gives way to the reptilian thug and the whole country swirls drainward…
That’s my flash impression of Chavez. That our president even bothers to speak to him repulses me. What does it mean? I think it means, well, we elected a marxist graduate student who digs the crap Chavez dishes out. It means: hang on folks, we’ve got a three and a half year sit in a political dental chair….
Khadafy certainly has the Bono look down pat. Stranger in a Strange Land…
So, lemme get this straight:
Under GWB, Khadafy gives up his nukes and runs for cover.
Under BHO, Khadafy rants at the UN and basks in the spotlight.
Okee dokee.
L3
Das said “we’ve got a three and a half year sit in a political dental chair….”
…without benefit of novocaine.
Of course the winded messenger wags his tongue to show what great exertion was put out to deliver the news.
Ghadafy is a macho enough to take credit for “wearing out” an interpreter, but pretty dapper with his Bono shades and “pill-box” hat.
Too bad he must utter such unintelligible crap to keep up the pace with his mouth.
Dictators are rock stars to Leftists.
Oh, gee, I don’t know … I think it is kinda fun to have a UN meeting that is like a cross between an episode of Get Smart and a Monty Python skit – with Omar Sharif’s Congressional testimony from Johnny Dangerously thrown in to add some local color.
“Youse fargin iceholes…”
But we shoulda borrowed an F-111 or three from the Aussies to buzz Kaddafy Duck’s tent.
Since it seems we are into totally frivolous & fun articles today, let me add the following from ~2000 years ago, also about speaking in different tongues & translating:
If someone comes & views the United Nations, would we not also say that the united nations is out of their minds?
It certainly seems to me, that many people would view Khadafy … and other leaders … as out of their minds.
DD and I went to see a movie some years ago about an interpreter who overheard something she shouldn’t have, and life got way too interesting. DD promptly decided that being a UN interpreter was no longer on her wish list. She’s aiming for a position where she can limit her exposure to evil and speak truth instead of falsehoods. I told her she may end up only wanting to translate her own words…
I believe that translator was suffering from what you also described in simile as something akin to “a bongo convention”
Death to the Dictator!
Death to the Jews!
Death to the Russians!
Death to the French!
Death to the British!
overheard in Iran
Allahakbar!
Just take a look at the current offerings on The Drudge Report. Tain’t funny, McGee.
I actually heard two minutes of the live translation yesterday and thought he sounded very labored and distressed, and now it all makes sense.
This makes my day, and it wasn’t a good day. I love this guy.
Well, I sure hope said interpreter has gotten political asylum, and all of his friends and relatives have already escaped Libya…
Look here, people.
We just need to listen to these folk; their ideas are just as good as anybody else’s.
Baraq said so.
I really expected Hillary would be marginalized in this administration. What I cannot understand is why in the hell she took the job. He was going to let her be the next John Foster Dulles??? There is an article from Foreign Affairs that talks at length about the dysfunction at State (which any sentient citizen has known about for years) and that the solution was the dissolution of the department and reassignment of large portions to DOD. Nobody in their right mind would try to run that operation. By definition its either the oldest or next to oldest bureaucracy in the Federal Govt. If bureaucracies inevitably ossify, this one is concrete.
Somewhere, Bono is looking for his shades.
Okay, that’ll teach me to post a comment before reading (as opposed to skimming) the whole thread. But it’s nice to know, great minds, yada yada and all that.
Lookee, Libya was elected to chair the UN’s Human Rights Commission for a reason. Same reason Arafat got a Nobel Peace Prize.
God just wants to see who’s paying attention.
But, oh, where is Jonathan Swift when you need him?
JJRedfan (#5), forget the anesthetic, where’s my nitrous oxide???
Kadafy (or Quadafi, or whatever) certainly looks the clown. But in the previous post about the failures of the League of
Extraordinary DimwitsNations, I’m sure I’m not the only one who noted how clownish Il Duce looked, jutting his jaw out and otherwise chewing the scenery. And in honor of our host, didn’t a temporarily unemployed Dictator from his neck of the woods release a workout video, attempting to prove he was still vile, er I’ mean virile?Like Wretchard said, it’s funny but I can’t laugh. I’m one of those who’s always been creeped out by clowns, and I think history is on my side on this one.
Quadafi can talk all he wants. As long as what he’s doing is Jaw Jaw instead of building WMDs or funding terrorists it’s fine with me. Who listens anyway?
It’s the little monkey-man and his bud Chavez that are the problem. It’s a good thing that more than half the seats were empty when monkey-man spoke.
Big O is of course wasting time with his nuke-free world talk. He’s got a lot more important things on his plate.
Oh, I remember that Marcos video. He worked out stripped to the waist, wearing make-up, which made him look like the action figure on the label of that popular rotgut si hoc tong, AKA “Fighter Wine”, the choice of unemployed gangsters. That infamous Chinese flavored wine is something you will never see in polite company. I doubt whether the Chinese even invented it, except as a joke to play on Filipinos. But yes, I know the video. The only thing more garish was the label on “Robin Hood” pomade.
Battle Command remarked tonight that Quadaffy (or whatever) looks like a melting wax figure. I have to agree.
I think that we wear the stresses of our lives on our faces as we age. Khadaffy looks to me as if he is completely dissipated, corruption registers on his countenance.
Our POTUS’s age in office. Look at how some of them have fared. Some well, some badly, some very badly. I think it is already showing on BHO.
Send in the clowns
There have to be clowns
Don’t bother
They’re here
You know, this is exactly the world that the Leftist Utopians dreamed of. Chaos, stupidity triumphant, anarchy in the streets (see G-20 summit in ….Pittsburgh? Take that, Bogie Wheel!).
I wonder how Mayor Bloomberg of NY City feels about the UN hosting….Holocaust deniers? And old Mayor Koch?
What a zoo, and Obama wants to be ringmaster. Is it just me, or does he seem now to be a rather small man, when all is said and done?
3 and 1/2 more years, and no novocaine, or laughing gas. Thanks, I’ll have another beer.
WMD and one shot delivery systems and asymmetric warfare terrorist proxies can wound the US. Given the downward spiral that any ruler like Chavez, or Ahmadinejehad or Kim imposes on their societies just how much of a serious threat do any of them pose? Are they worthy of confronting because they can serve as a base for other threats, as the Taliban did? Is it right for an outside power to impose regime change out of a decent respect for the victims of these rulers and should we include in our calculations the wealth and creativity thwarted by these poisonous egos? Those opportunity costs make the world poorer for having these men around. Those same costs make their regimes less of a threat.
Is the answer reviving the very 17 – 19th centuries concept of different classes of nations? The civilized nations that were treated as legal and moral equals in the post Westphalian order, especially in the post Napoleonic world order, included the Powers of Europe (Britain, France, Spain, HRE-Austrian Empire, Russia, and by special dispensation the Ottoman Sublime Porte.) These were joined at the table by the Low Countries, the Scandinavians, the Holy See and Poland while it lasted. Later America got a seat. China was a case closer to the Ottoman Caliphate in that it’s pretensions so far exceeded its reality that it was more propped up by jealous outside rivals than by it’s own efforts. Near the end Italy and Germany were admitted as equals. The vast majority of the planet was seen as inhabited as other nations which were deemed incapable of conducting the business of diplomacy and abiding to basic norms regarding law, contracts and impartiality at the level practiced by members of the civilized club.
Both the British Empire and the League made the division into different classes of nationhood explicit. The British Empire was never a single unified structure but rather a series of bilateral relations that reflected the status of the parties. The League indicated the different classed of members or potential members both in the Council and Assembly structure and in the Mandate system.
Those members of the Empire deemed capable of self government and most important of contribution and participation in external affairs up to European standards became the Dominions. In other cases there were a hodgepodge of differing grades of dependency. In India some Princely States, Hyderabad is an example, were in effect independent countries in a treaty of alliance with the Crown. Other nations became Protectorates. A relatively few places became pure colonies ruled directly by Britain and inhabited by a native population with only limited self government.
In the League the Council included Japan and Italy as being among the first rank nations but not America, or Russia. Germany. was restricted to the Assembly where they were eventually joined by the Russians. There were three classes of Mandates for nations not deemed ready to assume the considerable responsibilities that came with membership. Mandates were territories surrendered by the defeated Central Powers and reassigned by the League to other members for a period of tutelage and development under the supervision of the assigned Mandatory Power and of the League. The League was after all both a legal system, with members pledged to abide by the standards of International Law, and a treaty of alliance with members pledged to undertake military burdens in a collective security pact.
Class A Mandates were expected to rapidly assume full independence and become full members of the League. They had or were assumed to have internal cohesion, that is an effective native government that could execute the laws and control defined borders over a territory inhabited a defined population. Those were the traditional attributes of sovereignty in international law. In addition they were reasonably solvent and potentially prosperous. One example of a Class A Mandate was Mesopotamia. Upon further reflection we may ask how this territory invented by the British by cobbling together Ottoman Viliyats and importing a Hashemite Prince could have been judged to meet the listed criteria. It was however one of the best developed territories and started with high hopes. All of the Class A Mandates were former Ottoman territories. Remember that I mentioned above that treating the Ottomans as a rough equal had been a principal of the pre-war international system. Therefor it was easy to assume that territories separated from the defeated Ottomans were nearly ready for independence.
Former German colonial territories were to be reorganized as Class B Mandates. In practice this meant that they were open to periodic inspection by representatives of the Mandate Committee with the long term goal of preparing them to move up to Class A status. I am unaware of any territory that made that transition.
Class C Mandates were considered special territories with almost no capacity for self government. The Japanese received the Marianas Islands as a Class C Mandate and the South Africans received South-West Africa. Other Pacific territories were assigned to Australia and New Zealand.
Former territories of the Austro-Hungarian Empire did not become Mandates. They were reorganized as independent countries and admitted directly to the League.
In the 2009 Freedom House ranking of 193 countries and 16 dependent of disputed territories they showed fewer than half as Free and things are not getting better. My proposition is simple. Anyone who represents one of the 42 “Not Free” countries should have no say at all in determining international law. They have not earned a vote. They should not be admitted to the table or the podium used by the Free. They should be kept in a separate room, one with rubber walls.
“It’s like a horror movie where everybody is inexplicably funny” –or a comedy where everybody is inexplicably horrifying –
He said nothing could be scarier
Than tangled in the barrier
Of M. Khadafi’s language soaring on
For hours at a time when pinned
By syntax blowing in the wind
And lies and accusations boring on
I sympathize with this man’s plight
And hope that things will turn out right
And he and all his family survive
His honest and distress filled gaffe
The one that made Khadafy laugh
When crying into microphone alive
He couldn’t take it any more
And thus we wonder what’s in store
For such a man who made his master blush
I have the sense to his surprise
The man has hastened his demise
As M. Khadafy whispered there’s no rush
The car will be here in a trice
A little ride for you’d be nice
And you can think of me as you lament
Your outburst on this UN stage
That caused me to misplace my page
And say a few things that I never meant
Goodbye old friend you’ve served me well
But if you’re weak just for a spell
I fear that your employment’s at an end
I hate to do what I must do
The scimitar will strike well true
And as you go please think of me as friend
Let’s all step up and give a few bucks to the Hannah Giles Defense Fund
She’s earned it the honest way.
see G-20 summit in ….Pittsburgh? Take that, Bogie Wheel!
Oh, trust me, we know allllll about the G-20 here in the Burgh. Local news is covering it like, well, Troy Polamalu on a pass play.
One of our reporters did mention (no pix to accompany this anecdote, unfortunately) that at one of the protests, people who were evidently locals had to put a Pittsburgh spin on things. There, in the presence of several ranks of riot police, stood a bunch of Pittsburgh sports nuts yelling “Let’s Go Pens!” and hoisting a replica of a Stanley Cup.
In other news titled “Honduras’ fallen leader told The Miami Herald he is being subjected to mind-altering gas and radiation”:
So maybe the mind-altering gas is making our leaders lose their minds?
Or maybe its just the lack of sunspots?
I think the lack of sunspots will make many of our leaders go out of their minds:
it’s true about the israeli mercenaries –it’s the cold-virus sized nano-special forces –probably camping back in the guy’s throat somewhere. gargling won’t help, either –they got scuba gear.
Kaddaffi Duck looks like Abbie Hoffman on acid. The world is currently led by a collection of insane immmoral dwarves . The best and the brightest they ain’t.
What this crowd at the UN needs is a real leader, someone like…..Hedley Lamarr!
Click on my name for inspirational diversion!
people who were evidently locals had to put a Pittsburgh spin on things. There, in the presence of several ranks of riot police, stood a bunch of Pittsburgh sports nuts yelling “Let’s Go Pens!” and hoisting a replica of a Stanley Cup.
What, no Pirates fans protesting the standings in the NL Central?
Khadafy always looks like he spent the night boozing it up and now has a hangover.
I can just imagine Khadafy saying: “I swear by Allah, that American Fire Water is the best in the world. Luckily, I brought my own medication.”
“Ah, the khat and the opium are working. Now, I can start my speech.”
Have you ever seen Khadafi and Bono in the same place?
Kadaffy sports the look of tertiary syphilis, I think…
I swear I saw some media rats putting on little life vests.
Yeah, he does have the Bono glasses. But they don’t do a thing for him. He’s forgotten the rule: if you wear something cool it only makes the contrast greater. Never dress a corpse in a tuxedo unless you intend to bury him. But even before then, comes a time in a man’s life when it’s actually time to put away the nifty shades and don those drug store sunglasses; to set aside the silk shirt in favor of the track pants and discount store sweatshirt.
Khadfy is slightly endearing in a thuggish sort of way. His vanity humanizes him; his bufoonery can make you momentarily forget who he is. Or maybe who he was. He’s still got a bagful of marbles, maybe, but there’s a hole in the bottom and they’re dribbling out but only the interpreter can acknowledge their patter on the pavement.
To think Kducky’s speech is beaming out into the darkness of space at the speed of light…towards all those listening discs…thankfully the alien ears have been earlier loosened up by The Life of Riley.
Amit Green #30: In the tradition of other great small third world thugs!
When the Israelis freed those hostages in his country, Idi Amin Da Da Goo Goo Ma Ma claimed they used “nuclear nerve gas grenades” to accomplish the feat.
Funny how they still know how to use the hot button leftist keywords after Elvis has left the building.
they say his personality is intents
luddy barsen,
Man goes to a psychiatrist and say, “Doc help me. Some days I think I’m a Wigwam and some days I think I’m a Teepee.”
The psychiatrist pulls his glasses down his nose and says, “Acch zo zat iz zee prahbluhm. You arhrr due tents.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Frd53vbCHLg
We’ll be here all week folks. Be kind to your servers. Thank you.
First Obama’s teleprompter commits suicide, and now this.
Coincidence? I think not.
Keep the humor coming, guys – we need it!
Speaking of counterweights to an increasingly bizarre and depressing reality, Wretchard’s beautiful post with the accompanying Beethoven video has disappeared – what’s up, boss?
The American Tradition flew 24 men to the moon. The Muslim Tradition flew 19 men into three buildings. Way to go, Mo. But we’re embarked on that second path now, as Obama (the first Muslim to actually embrace government pork) turns this into the Land of the FEE and the home of the DEPRAVED.
“One can can only hope that some international crisis does not break out forcing the world to rely on the skills our great leaders to steer us through…”
HA! Yeah, our “leaders” couldn’t manage a spilled milk crises.
#45 Marynmcl,
The “beautiful post with the accompanying Beethoven video” is still here: Equal to Ourselves.
I would like to say a word in Omar’s behalf. I totally approve of his female bodyguards. I’m going to dress mine in spandex — for agility, of course.
Photos in “PlayBurqua” here.
@48 Amit Green
Yikes – right under my nose. That’ll teach me to skim the board before I’m fully awake. Thanks!
Wow, I forgot about Khadafy’s female bodyguards. Forget Bono, his hero is obviously Han from “Enter the Dragon”
“Statesmen”
We need to recall Robert A. Heinlein’s defintion of the term “Statesman”:
“A politician who has died.”
And I hope we have many more statesmen in the near future, especially the clowns and clones described in these posts.
Perhaps they are not exactly bodyguards. His holiness Mahatma Gandhi slept (in the same bed) with six young assistants in his old age. That is a type of bodyguard.
They inflict upon us Chavez and Kaddaffy. And in turn we inflict Obama and Bloomberg. Who can say who lost this duel? Everyone did. But America returned as bad as we got, and national dishonor has been maintained. /sarc.
Circus has left town but clowns still remain.
Thank you once again Wretchard for throwing a bit of humor into an otherwise dismal scene. Personally, I can only take solance in the concept that the Pax Americana was so successful, even now in its death throes the world is pacified to the point where buffoons of this quality can play at rulership in relative safety.
It is all too obvious this time of safety is quickly passing, but I shall enjoy it for as long as it lasts.
Cheers.
E.Nigma: to the Mayors they are just tourists, or, as we say today, visitors.
They have seen much worse.
The various LEO’s love it. They get special pay for this nonsense.
No matter the detractors here:
Those Glasses are Cool!
Obama’s act requires lots of straight men. He needs to play the visionary to the assembly of staid non-hope non-change world politicians.
But the UN venue has Obama blowing smoke for whack-o, halucinatory, Jews-did-it-with-gamma-rays world leaders. It’s glorious to be a prophet. It’s humiliating to be one in a madhouse.
I’ve never had the guts to watch the movie “Freaks,” but the point of the movie seems to be that the freaks take over the institution and think they are in control. But they are still freaks. Sooner or later the authorities (voters) arrive to put things right.
I wonder what torture awaits the interpreter upon return to Libya? One would think the torture of having to listen to Ka-Daffy is enough but then the guy has to interpret too? If ever there is a case Amnesty should pursue this is it.
32. trangbang68: — I think it would probably be more novel to see Abby Hoffman off of acid instead of on it.
#46 Teresita
the Land of the FEE and the home of the DEPRAVED
Consider that line SO stolen for a T-shirt, under an Obama symbol and the words “Democrats’ America”.
Moving from the ridiculous [you have to laugh sometimes at what is happening to our country and the world, lest you cry] to the sublime; being the reaction of the “reality based community” and the State Controlled Media to the G20 meeting, and the measures taken by the police. I admit to less than a fondness for any international organization that at any time seeks to control this country. However the reaction of Leftists is amateurish and counterproductive at best. For which I am, by the way, grateful.
In any case, I would offer as a tactic, any time that my fellow BC-ers encounter a Chiroptera Lunarii in debate; if they try to bring up the “violence” of all the nasty conservatives at Town Halls and Tea Parties, mention the little detail that literally all of the violence was perpetrated by their side, mostly against senior citizens by ACORN, Union thugs, and Democratic Party workers. Contrast that with the riots, arson, vandalism, and mayhem by their side at the G20.
Subotai Bahadur
“”"”"”" 41. RWE:
Amit Green #30: In the tradition of other great small third world thugs!
When the Israelis freed those hostages in his country, Idi Amin Da Da Goo Goo Ma Ma claimed they used “nuclear nerve gas grenades” to accomplish the feat.
Funny how they still know how to use the hot button leftist keywords after Elvis has left the building. “”"”"”
What is it with vile, virulent anti-semites (oops, excuse me, “Anti-Zionists”) and their penchant for ascribing super-human abilities to “Da Jooz”? The pattern started early: when the outmanned, out-gunned, brand-new Israeli army (which included teenage girls) routed the Arabs in ’48 (’47?), local Arabs claimed afterwards that the Jews had an unfair advantage because they had the “Atomika Bumba.”
I once had a conversation with some virtual neo-Nazis in which I lightheartedly accused them of inadvertently giving Jews “master race” status by ascribing so much power to them. The refreshing thing is, these guys thought it was funny too, and laughed at themselves. Go figure.
So how about Obama being shocked, shocked, at the “secret” Iranian enrichment facility?
Idi Amin loved his people. In fact he usually had seconds. no seriously, if you were holding a planeload of hostages at your capitol city’s downtown airport, and your enemy da jooz landed there, wiped out your army units, rescued the hostages, and flew them home –wouldn’t YOU claim they had used super atomic electron magnet death ray evil eye hand grenades?
Here’s my contribution to the theater of the
absurd. Until the very last paragraph the story had me in stitches.
What’s the age of consent for cows?
Article mentions a calf. Surely this goes too far.
“If the cow had the cognitive ability to form thought and speak, would it say, ‘Where’s the milk? I’m not getting any milk,’” Judge James J. Morley reportedly said.
Lordy.
I’m not so sure. Have you ever seen a calf bucket?
Context is so peculiar. NASA has just reported
that billions of gallons of water have been found
on the moon. Great. That means that people will be able to get water and oxygen and power on the moon (the later two by electrolysis) If you let the video go on you’ll
hear a story about a woman who had another couple’s embryo implanted in her by mistake. I, frankly, didn’t know whether to laugh or cry.
That water on the moon comes from a giant old civilization rusting away under the lunar surface, Charles, according to Richard Hoagland of Enterprise Mission. He used to work for NASA, and was Walter Cronkite’s science advisor, so he knows what he is talking about. Heard it on Coast to Coast just last night.
Bob,
Sounds like you believed the story about Americans landing on the moon a couple decades back.
The Police – Walking on the Moon
Rush Limbaugh shifted from discussing Khadafi speach to discussing underwear for left handed men.
Obama’s UN speech touched on “the occupation that started in 1967.” If that’s not tragically amusing for all the Jewish-Americans who voted for Obama, I don’t know what is. Ok, it’s actually not funny at all, but I didn’t want to disrupt the milieu of the post.
Wretchard, could you update your links on the right side of the page? Yours is usually the first stop, but it would be nice for easy navigation to the other sites.
UN’s revised axis-of-evil countries: Australia, Israel, Poland, and the United States of America.
250-Foot Long Hybrid Airship Will Spy Over Afghanistan Battlefields
I heard report regarding G20 summit in Pittsburg that local Pittsburg residents arming themselves with baseball bats to discourage rioters.
Gee, 20 something anarchists vs. Pittsburg locals. Mmmmmm, which side is going to ‘win’?
I give up.
Its OT I know, but I heard something today that appealed to my weak and perverted sense of humor:
Q: Do you know how to serve Obama?
A: With a dry white wine–and make sure the meat is cooked well done–to kill the parasites you know.
always right,
20 something anarchists versus Pittsburgh residents
Change that to Steel town residents and the point becomes clearer.
If I was running for POTUS I’d go to Pittsburgh and say the following
“Here is my Stimulus plan. Elect me and next year we will cut steel to build 50 warships. The next year we will cut steel to build 100 warships. The following year another 100. If you good citizens and The Lord grant me the time I intend to go on like that for 8 years. Any questions?
Thank you”
I heard report regarding G20 summit in Pittsburg that local Pittsburg residents arming themselves with baseball bats to discourage rioters.
Bogie wheel knows that Pirates fans are a rowdy lot.
79. LOTM
Yes, Sir. Thank you, Sir. I can get behind your plan 100%.
When are you running, 2012?
“Polish and Czech Officials Slam Obama’s Missile Defense Shift as a Betrayal”
“An editorial in Hospodarske Novine, a respected pro-business Czech newspaper, said: “an ally we rely on has betrayed us, and exchanged us for its own, better relations with Russia, of which we are rightly afraid.”
http://tinyurl.com/nrjo3f
“The United States does Israel no favors when we fail to couple an unwavering commitment to its security with an insistence that Israel respect the legitimate claims and rights of the Palestinians.”
President Obama
http://tinyurl.com/lafwb6
So, Mr. President, how much would your commitment to Israel be worth?
Onesimus
What, no Pirates fans protesting the standings in the NL Central?
Alas, all six of them were at PNC Park watching the Bucs lose to the Reds last evening.
FWIW, I have not heard anything about my fellow yinzers taking up cudgels (Louisville Slugger or otherwise) against G-20 protesters. On the news last night, however, they did show a few residents of Lawrenceville and Bloomfield (neighborhoods near Downtown where the Anarchists smashed windows of some businesses yesterday) cheering on the cops as the latter moved in on the A-vandals.
That said, while I know that Texans have a (well-deserved) rep for 2nd Amendment enthusiasm, the whole of Southwestern Pennsylvania is still very much a hunter culture. Owning firearms and knowing how to use them are so normal around here that liberals pretty much don’t even bother with the gasps and grimaces when the gun folks get to swapping stories. Community college classes are devoid of male students on the first day of hunting season. (No kidding … I used to teach at CCAC.)
So … to paraphrase Rick’s warning to Major Strasser, “There are parts of Pittsburgh that I wouldn’t advise anyone to try to invade.”
(Hey, they don’t call us “Pennsyltucky” for nothing!)
So, Mr. President, how much would your commitment to Israel be worth?
Onesimus, you’re gonna have to focus that question a little tighter. Do you men, now –or later. Do you mean, for real –or for tactical advantage. It’s a very complex issue. It’s not that simple. There are those who would have you believe that their own definition of ‘commitment’ is the only definition there is. They are wrong. Next question?
84 bogie wheel
My Uncle Karl had a farm in Perry County and did a lot of hunting– he used to refer to “Pennsyltucky” too. There are parts of the Commonwealth east of the Alleghenies that the G20 protesters would be well advised to avoid. As Lee found out in 1863.
“”"”" What’s the age of consent for cows? “”"”"”
Which state?
PAC/86; you advise no ‘pickets charge’ ?
88 luddy barsen
‘Pickets charge’ didn’t bust that Union, did it?
So, Mr. President, how much would your commitment to Israel be worth?
About as much as a piece of used toilet paper, I imagine. What have his commitments to anyone been worth?
Political dentist’s chair?
No anesthesia?
I shopped around and found Steve Martin and Bill Murray
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=On3mrKW-Nk0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAKYQjpDtpA&feature=related
PAC/89; –LOL–okay, you win (again) –scratch one scab
heyyou/99; ‘little white house of horrors’ ?
“With a dry white wine–and make sure the meat is cooked well done–to kill the parasites ”
Jeesh Tcobb, I thought you’d have the taste to eat his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
Gotta throw in one more non sequitur.
Sorry Muammar, you just dont, not even close to gettin it. When anything in Libya gets this cool…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzP0GCILr7c&feature=related
Wake me up. This is just the start. Easy fluff stuff. Bono sucks and his band knows it. Drop that look MK.
I think Muammar and I need to redefine our definition of cool. Maybe have a few, if we can find a translator.
Spindok
76. Teresita:
250-Foot Long Hybrid Airship Will Spy Over Afghanistan Battlefields
And how long will that last, do you think?
I think I just heard Ahmadinejad is gonna be on Larry King Live tonight, in a exclusive interview.
An interview for the ages.
But not for the aged.
“…or else we too, like the Arabic interpreter, will be headed for the liquor store, to buy or loot from its ruins depending on the circumstances.”
As our true best and brightest [read: the wondrous young men of our Armed Forces] are fed into the maw of tyranny….
“[...] a million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it [...]” – Thomas Pynchon
bob,
Will you ever be able to look at veal again?
LotM/99; i couldn’t –it’d be pullet for me
(*groan*)
Jeesh Tcobb, I thought you’d have the taste to eat his liver with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
You have to be careful about eating the livers of carnivores or parasites. They often can be toxic. I don’t know about fava beans==I’ve never had them. Chianti is good–but there is that eternal question–when it comes to swine do you serve it with white wine or red?
Well, I think the UN ought to lighten up and have some fun. They are too staid and take themselves too seriously.
Once in a while, maybe close to Halloween, they ought to dress up in funny costumes and get up and say ridiculous things.
Wait a minute….
That describes this session.
Never mind.
United Nations: A place where dictators opposed to free speech (Castro, Putin, Ahmedinejad, Mugabe, Obama, Chavez, Kim Jong Il) demand to to heard
Today’s forecast from the Belmont Club: Cloudy, with a chance of apocalypse.
Tcobb @ 101:
Fava beans are like overgrown lima beans, as in the infamous ham and lima beans C-rats. They are also known as braod beans or horse beans. Romans, among other Mediterranean folks, have eaten them for centuries. They are nourishing but usually are coarse in texture and pretty chewy.
More than you ever wanted to know about fava beans…
erc rodsen,
So the mighty Roman legions announced their approach with a blare of trumpets and by passing wind?
This is the kid of stuff that made teaching HS History fun.
the Scenturions fought in front of the Lesion Airs
Charles:
That Lunar H20 was placed there by the Joos.
It was a Zionist Plot to rust out our lunar landers.
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Lifeof:
That is the stuff of kidders, for sure.
rotgut si hoc tong, AKA “Fighter Wine”, the choice of unemployed gangsters. That infamous Chinese flavored wine is something you will never see in polite company.
Filipino Mad Dog 20/20 then? Ray Buhen would be appalled.
I did a YouTube search for that Marcos video. “Ferdinand Marcos Exile” produced 7 pages of hits, 6+ of them tributes to the Aquinos (and one of the Shoe Museum…). Score one for the good guys. Couldn’t find the workout tape.
Lesson hair, for blowing up a stiff wind lentils for the gentiles are the thing.
Regarding “si hoc tong”. Wikipedia says:
From a related entry:
My memory has not wholly failed me, and it’s identification with “Fighter Wine” is noted in this article, aptly named “How I Beat Alcoholism” authored by a man who narrowly escaped the clutches of strong spirits:
No mention of alcohol would be complete without mention of that favorite beverage, Marca Demonyo gin, which as its name implies translates to the Mark of Satan gin, though I believe even he should be careful of it. It’s label depicts Saint Michael in a death struggle with Lucifer; and a vintage bottle, suggestively shaped like a coffin is reproduced as proof of its distinguished lineage.
luddy says:
the Scenturions fought in front of the Lesion Airs
Pun spelled backwards is nup. And a nup is a nup!!
I’m looking forward to the Saturday Night Live send-up of Khadafy, with the translator running from the U.N. chambers screaming, “I can’t take it anymore.”
Writes itself, although in this case SNL might take a pass. When truth is funnier than fiction, how do you top it and not end up looking like rank amateurs?
That certain air of savoir faire
In the Merry Old Land of Oz