Sunday, May 03, 2009

Say it loud enough and maybe people will believe it

More Up-is-Downism from your friendly GOP:

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney compared the GOP to Americans fighting the British during the Revolutionary War. "We are the party of the revolutionaries, they [Democrats] are the party of the monarchists," he told the overwhelmingly Republican crowd, saying the Republicans needed to "once again lead the American Revolution."
Tell me again, which party is it where kids inherit their parents' political influence, Lord ROMNEY? And which party is it where kids with NO leaders in their ancestry can actually rise to govern the country?

The GOP has become pathologically projective.

Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Take over

"MY Cable Box. MY Television. MY Gergen..."

Thursday, February 05, 2009

Things that make you go 'hmm'

It has occurred to me to wonder if the GOP wouldn't mind too much if civilization actually, you know, fell. I mean, they've already got their fortifiable compounds and plenty of guns...

Just throwing that out there.

Friday, January 09, 2009

Lost characters as conservative icons

Ben Shapiro at Big Hollywood finds conservative virtue in the Lost characters. Go read it, then come back for my reaction.

WARNING - SPOILERS FOR SEASONS 1-4 BELOW:

He's clearly cherry-picking his data here, heh. Biggest goof - John Locke. I mean, come on. Locke lived in a commune with a bunch of pot-growing hippies, forpetesake. He was in Australia in the first place to go on some heathen spiritual quest, and when in doubt on the Island, he gets inner direction by ... taking drugs in a sweatlodge. He's no conservative icon, he's a hippy-dippy neo-pagan. His spirit name is probably Dances with Guns (or possibly knives).

I'll give him Mr. Eko. Yeah, drug-running warlord turned Jesus-freak? Total conservative.

And Sawyer? More conservative that his description would have you believe. I mean, think about it - Sawyer, seeking revenge on the guy who caused his parents' deaths, shoots and kills.... the wrong guy. An innocent bystander, set up by people who wanted him dead, who feed wrong info to Sawyer to goad the gullible, not-terribly-bright conman into performing the hit for them. Lessee - suckered into killing someone who didn't harm him... yeah, that's a conservative alright.

The jury's still out on Ben. Oh, it's easy to call him 'evil' if you were on Flight 815, but from an outside perspective, the Oceanic Survivors have killed more of the original inhabitants than vice versa. One might be justified in considering Ben's people patriots fighting back against alien occupiers. Oh sure, he stole a stranger's infant daughter and raised her as his own, but I'm sure he thought he was justified. After all, he could give the child all the benefits of suburban life in New Otherton - backyards, modern medicine, shielding against smoke monsters... he's the equivalent of nanny-state liberalism's Child Protective Services, taking children away from their unfit parents (or their rightful parents, if you're a conservative).

I don't care enough about Claire and Charlie to argue his characterization of their 'conservative icon' status. I do however have to wonder how he missed the most archtypical of the conservative icons on the Island?

I refer, of course, to Rousseau. She's a central casting conservative - after being shipwrecked, she decides her colleagues are 'sick' (now there's a good Gingrichian term for you) and kills them all. She lives in underground bunkers in a state of perpetual paranoia. She likes to blow things up. Oh, and she's batshit insane.

I'm surprised she doesn't already have a blog on PajamasMedia.

Friday, January 02, 2009

Pay it forward

Via Shakesville, a member whose father suddenly died needs help paying back a loan for a plane ticket to New Zealand.

Wednesday, December 31, 2008

She's HERE!

Miss Abigail: She needs eyedrops and antibiotics twice a day and she's currently hiding under the kitchen table. But she cheeps like a baby bird. And she's already discovered the catfood bowls.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

Subtle, yet effective

For those of you in search of the True Meaning of Christmas, I give you... the burning cross: The American Family Association is selling this little fashion statement for a mere $81.85.

Decorate this holiday season with the Original Christmas Cross to remind your friends, family, neighbors, and all who drive by your home, office, or church of the real meaning of Christmas. You won't find the Original Christmas Cross in stores, so order online today!
For those of you having to cut back this Christmas, I should point out that you can achieve the same effect with a pair of two-by-fours and some gasoline. Dramatic, too!