Ok, so I'm foul-mouthed, easily irritated, and often write things which are in no way conducive to having a constructive conversation about anything.
On the plus side, I'm aware of this.
Over at Little Green Footballs, on the other hand:
8/16/2002: Birds of a Feather
Screwy Louie Farrakhan is going to stage a rally in Georgia to support Arab boot-licker Cynthia bin McKinney.
I don't think they are.
Although it's good to read this stuff, in a way -- white people generally have enough sense of self-preservation not to say shit like this when I'm around in what we'll jokingly call the real world -- it also reinforces my belief that we're all doomed. And that that isn't actually a bad thing. Given a choice between death and sharing a planet with Laurence Simon:
Okay, so we've got Screwie Louie and Jesse the Jackass on the record... that just leaves Irrevered Al and we've got all a hat-trick.
So, when all are together rallying for Cynthia McKinney, should they be called The Three Agreedoes, The Three Scrooges, or The Blaxis of Evil?
I'll take death, thanks
In fact, Biggie Size it.
np - the Sunday, March 17th Industrial Radio show. Every show starts with TNT Party Zone's Das Omen (Teil 1). Yet I never get tired of it. Go figure.
Update: dcthornton weighs in, with the sort of unique insight and penetrating perception that cause me to forget his blog even exists most of the time.
Meanwhile, at Mister Charlie's, something calling itself Jason O'Toole cheerfully declares:
Mckinney is now reaching out for that all-important black nazi vote!
Perhaps this caused Godwin's Law to kick in; it's the second comment, and the last at this time.
The first was Laurence repeating part of his little joke.
Gee, the sky's gone all dark and ominous. Maybe God is listening to me after all.
Update 2: Good shit - Remix of Front 242's Welcome to Paradise in the Industrial Radio show, about an hour and 40 minutes in.
Dumb shit - Amish Tech Support.
Update: Courtesy of COINTELPRO Tool (and anyone using that name is, quite clearly, an idiot):
C-SPAN has finally posted video of the McKinney-Majette debate from last Friday.
Enjoy. If that's the right word. I don't think it is.
Update 8/17: Jason makes with the balanced view again. But I swear he only does that so I'm the one who gets shot first.
It's impossible to have any real conversation with media-seeking shuck and jivers like Farrakhan.
And since conversation is impossible, based on your vast personal experience with the man, there is no reason to even try.
Yep, an extinction-level cataclysm sounds real good right about now.
Oh, wait, Europe and parts of Asia are getting that already.
Not a productive attitude, Oliver. And this is me saying that.
Is minister Farrakhan recognized as the "Leader of the Nation of Islam" worldwide, or is that a state-side title? What is the "Nation of Islam"? Why am I "quoting" everthing?
The Blaxis of Evil...god damn.
fuckin' crackers.
its involuntary, it really is.
okay, i really should give a more legitimate response.
Blaxis of Evil and Arab boot-licker Cynthia bin McKinney are just so unacceptable and for so many reasons I just can't even really deal.
We're not upset with Ms. McKinney because the money she received may be from terrorist organizations or empathizers (which are accusations still unfounded) but because the money is from people with names like Mohammed. And being critical of our war effort isn't politics its boot licking and because she doesn't stand behind President Bush on it she's like Osama Bin Laden?
Wow.
Kiss my ass.
Jason, leave Oliver alone.
CSCWebmaster, people always get that wrong. It's Nation of I-Slam. They don't like somebody, they slam 'em.
Would you want to be slammed by mother fuckers in bow ties calling themselves the Fruit of I-Slam? You never live that shit down.
Jason remember "Cracker ass crackers." It feels better. Try it.
i thought it was 'cracka-ass-cracka' :)
Heh. I saw some kids giving the bowtied boys some shit at the West Oakland BART station a couple of times.
"What up, fruits?"
"Goddamn, it's Howdy-fucking-Doody and his twin brother"
Hell yes I laughed but not out loud.
Yeah, Monique said I was saying it like a white girl...but I am a white girl so I stuck with it. 8-)
Dude, I just peeked at the guestbook (something I stopped doing when you added comments).
"going to BALI?"
"Why, you know just the other day I was chatting with Jeeves about a trip to the south pacific. I said 'you know Jeeves, I've simply got too much time and money on my hands, think I'll jet-set to the south pacific. Pack my bags and notify my wife post-haste.'"
As if an e-mail is just the thing you needed to help make the vacation destination decision.
THAT brought forth a giggle.
That name "Fruit of Islam" always makes me think of the scene in Life of Brian with Pilate talking about his friend Biggus Dickus. You know you want to laugh, and that you really, really shouldn't.
Michelle, say it however you like.
Dude, even I rarely visit the guestbook anymore. Bali? WTF?
I must say that from where I sit as a Jew (and a pro-Israel Jew, though not a Zionist) who happens to also be vehemently anti-Sharon, pro-Palestinian-statehood, and pro-Intifada, watching the whole issue of support for Palestinian statehood be reductio-ad-absurdumed into an American race issue is mighty darned interesting. I confess that I do wonder what the displaced Palestinians living in refugee camps would make of all this brouhaha...
I was also thinking, in re: having heard a fellow Jew characterize Rep. McKinney's attitude as "anti-American" earlier today -- exactly when did the nationality "American" become an explicit ideology as well? I'm asking in earnest here. Because ya know, an idea or a person's politics could be "anti-capitalist" or "anti-soviet" or "anti-Catholic" or whatever, but you never hear of someone's politics or ideas being "anti-Canadian" or "anti-Belgian" or "anti-Ghanian." Anyone got a bead on when "anti-American" started being used to reference an ideological condition? Pre-McCarthy, I'm guessing, but when?
That deserves a serious answer.
All I have are stupid ones.
Think the (G)Noam King actually went into the history of the expression somewhere, but the details escape me.
I'm sure the Palestinians are saying, "Couldn't we have the white people on our side instead, and the Jews get the black support? Since, you know, it isn't worth shit?"
Or this is projection on my part.
Note: You expected intelligence from someone who thinks the Amish are Quakers? (I'd kind of avoided Amish Tech Support on principle, since they won't know about it and I live in Amish Country). The group commonly referred to as the Amish are Old Order Mennonites. Quakers are something entirely else, and they don't even use the term Quakers much. It was a really derogatory term coined by the people who were hanging Friends for their blasphemy. >_
I make offensive commentary, and I rarely know what the fuck I'm talking about.
Usually someone happens by and tells me so, though. Sometimes I even listen.
Laurence doesn't seem to be terribly bright, no, so I tend to avoid the place. And when I do visit, there are things that have the form of jokes, only without the being funny part.
Nngh. Well, I guess that's the difference, then. You're amusing. He's not. You, I read and comment. Reading his little 'about me' sidebar made me want to stab him repeatedly with a calligraphy pen just to make nice little decorative cuts. "My, what a decorative corpse!"
Or something. I'm feeling particularly murderous after having been out baking in the sun all day.
How is it that everyone's finding my personal irritants lately, too? Nngh.
I think it's time to sleep now.
Farrakhan's invective ends the conversation before it gets started. To me, his words are almost as bad as a David Duke - and I disliked him way before he started dilly-dallying in the current affairs of the middle east.
(I remember reading once in his little newsletter about how dinosaurs could never have existed and were a plot by the white establishment. Ok, Louis. Don't forget your pills.)
in reply to hanne above: politicians and others often use the term "unAustralian" here. But it can refer to anything from supporting terrorists to ignoring sporting events.
Oliver, I'm confident that one day, you will express an original idea. What's more, you will do so in an interesting fashion. Some people would say, given your track record, that this is an impossible dream, but I believe in redemption. Call me naive.
Until then, you might want to start talking about Buffy.