tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post6977441828291432930..comments2024-03-28T03:15:55.088-04:00Comments on Fetch me my axe: Oh, Sarah Palin. Stay gold, you know?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger53125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-63942622019567985322013-01-10T09:48:30.239-05:002013-01-10T09:48:30.239-05:00When you check out the word the saying enjoy, with...When you check out the word the saying enjoy, with relation to its an amorous relationship using an additional, yet for a experiencing that may be engendered should you have miltchmonkey the best relationship with yourself far too -- or perhaps like a experience of higher oneness with the fam and also humanity - it then becomes a lot more magnificent that each anyone wants in daily life is like.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-56757417453996715062008-11-07T11:09:00.000-05:002008-11-07T11:09:00.000-05:00Re: Palin. Well, she'll be back, no doubt about i...Re: Palin. Well, she'll be back, no doubt about it. And the camp that is planning to move to someone like Romney is trying to drive a stake through future attempts ASAP. Palin is going to have to make it to the Senate at some point, possibly post-booting of Capt. Toobz.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-5516546890567467472008-11-07T03:04:00.000-05:002008-11-07T03:04:00.000-05:00...heh, I'd meant to write "cram," actually, but "......heh, I'd meant to write "cram," actually, but "crap" works as well, if a bit redundant. eh, I like it.belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-73257111598711828572008-11-07T02:55:00.000-05:002008-11-07T02:55:00.000-05:00Back to the subject title: are we all up on her l...Back to the subject title: are we all up on her latest campaign backstage mess? The diva-ness is not exactly a surprise, nor the dumbfuckitude, but really, not knowing the countries in NAFTA? or that Africa is a continent? she makes Dubya look like Winston Churchill, it's incredible.belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-37303185032389375852008-11-07T02:54:00.000-05:002008-11-07T02:54:00.000-05:00o absolutely. welllll technically we're supposed ...o absolutely. welllll technically we're supposed to be about "nonviolent communication" in this here school I'm in, but I figure "fuck you with a rusty chainsaw, you loathsome gobshite" is technically that, if you look at it in the proper Zen paradox mindset, really.<BR/><BR/>no, it's true: there -are- a lot of really great parables involving Zen Masters hitting dumbfucks with sticks, and it's belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-66278900814407923342008-11-07T02:49:00.000-05:002008-11-07T02:49:00.000-05:00For the record, I have spent my fair share of year...For the record, I have spent my fair share of years involuntarily dealing with the mung bean-crapping meditation tape-listening sorts, who, if they fart, think it's a profound statement about the universe which thus justifies or renders awesome whatever their particular racist, sexist, and/or homophobic dumbfuckery and it always makes me want to kick them in their nether regions.<BR/><BR/>And Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-18636631804216317442008-11-07T02:02:00.000-05:002008-11-07T02:02:00.000-05:00anyway, wtf is Nader still doing around? he's lik...anyway, wtf is Nader still doing around? he's like one of those godawful cancelled TV shows that they just won't yank out of rerun for some reason, even though it's less compelling than the Home Shopping Network.<BR/><BR/>how is it that he got more votes than McKinney when he's partyless and -nominally- the Greens are you know a Real Party? Is it true that overall they actually raised less belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-73236056098104243282008-11-07T01:59:00.000-05:002008-11-07T01:59:00.000-05:00VM: heh. Personally I think Zen is probably over...VM: heh. Personally I think Zen is probably overrated. anyway I'm currently surrounded by crunchy earnest peace-n-granola quasi-Buddhist etc. types, at least one straight liberal SNAG classmate of which has just informed me that he voted FOR prop 8, so, you know, not always all that impressed. crap your mung beans and meditation tapes where the sun don't shine, love.<BR/><BR/>"Hey, Ken. belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-2205463640506087172008-11-07T01:54:00.000-05:002008-11-07T01:54:00.000-05:00eh, I've seen a lot of the general idea. liberals...eh, I've seen a lot of the general idea. liberals losing their shit after 9/11 and going neocon, say. (the loathsome Gerard Van der Leun being one blogging case that sort of morbidly interested me for a bit: the constant throughline seeming to be his bein' a self-involved condescending dickhead, I eventually concluded). similar principle, except for instead of a huge terrorist attack killing belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-15542335393449459992008-11-06T22:46:00.000-05:002008-11-06T22:46:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-62458775695834807792008-11-06T21:38:00.000-05:002008-11-06T21:38:00.000-05:00Anyway, the strange evolution of Violet Socks is g...Anyway, the strange evolution of Violet Socks is going to remain an interesting case study for some time, simply because the difference between her attitudes and behaviour then and now (she protests that she's the same) is so stark.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-68232272046004847142008-11-06T17:03:00.000-05:002008-11-06T17:03:00.000-05:00belledame: "To everything there is a season," incl...belledame: "To everything there is a season," including assholery. For example, <A HREF="http://twitter.com/vmarinelli/statuses/992430307" REL="nofollow">me yesterday</A>. (Though there was a <A HREF="http://twitter.com/vmarinelli/statuses/992432677" REL="nofollow">follow-up</A>.) :)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-5857400400608568482008-11-06T08:43:00.000-05:002008-11-06T08:43:00.000-05:00the other thing about snark is--I mean I think Oba...the other thing about snark is--I mean I think Obama is genuine about the higher road; but I also think, y'know, there are a lot of good pragmatic reasons for taking such a stance in public, I mean I think this is a -good- thing, being a politician, it's what you do in order to...be in politics. <BR/><BR/>I guess, I'm not feeling the need to be as diplomatic, you know. <BR/><BR/>Yeah, I'm not belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-80410003086939999492008-11-06T08:33:00.000-05:002008-11-06T08:33:00.000-05:00yeah, I hear you, VM, thing is--I am large, I cont...yeah, I hear you, VM, thing is--I am large, I contain lunch. I believe in higher roads. I also believe in a healthy venting of snark. And I get that the rift with VS is painful for you, as a former (recent) friend--for me, I kind of lost any real emotional investment long since, so it's just mostly me sort of boggling at the boggleness of it all. <BR/><BR/>The other thing is, honestly? belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-15177229242614644662008-11-06T08:24:00.000-05:002008-11-06T08:24:00.000-05:00cultureSo...remind me. What "culture" is this, ex...<I>culture</I><BR/><BR/>So...remind me. What "culture" is this, exactly?<BR/><BR/>It's: one where choice isn't paramount but pornographic anything is the height of outrage, where a (white) woman's honor needs to be respected and we just happen to be scaremongering about the black guy and also now too hip hop, is it? Where it's just mostly important that a 30% (thank fuck, not "final," I guess) belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-15992217900230363502008-11-06T03:54:00.000-05:002008-11-06T03:54:00.000-05:00[with apologies in advance to all of you for the l...[with apologies in advance to all of you for the length of this comment, which I could have taken to my own blog but didn't, having vowed not to do another overtly political post for some time.]<BR/><BR/>***<BR/><BR/>I feel alternately queasy and relieved reading this thread since the last time I checked in, because I'd been trying on my own for some time to wrap my head around the apparent Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-36679904206883815352008-11-06T03:10:00.000-05:002008-11-06T03:10:00.000-05:00alternately, you know, maybe it all started when s...alternately, you know, maybe it all started when she took up huffing Republican bat guano. all the kids are doing it today, you know. <BR/><BR/>it's a theory.belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-50706292509910061432008-11-05T16:24:00.000-05:002008-11-05T16:24:00.000-05:00Meh, it's a matter of opinion. I mark the time as...Meh, it's a matter of opinion. I mark the time as being around when she started doing the "Dead" thing and when she banned me, and that was around the Anonymous Horde time. <BR/><BR/>I got the impression that she was always sympathetic to the doctrinaire anti side but was willing to indulge the opposing POV up to a point, but then finally decided to "Get Serious." It was much the same way when Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-16916787384608364622008-11-05T15:09:00.000-05:002008-11-05T15:09:00.000-05:00In my mind, the present version of Violet really b...<I>In my mind, the present version of Violet really begins at the time of the Anonymous attacks.</I><BR/><BR/>Do you think so? I think the rot set in about the time she attempted to become an "honest broker" between the pro- and anti-pornsitution wings of feminism and discovered that, so far as the antis were concerned, she was with'em or aggin'em and that if she was aggin'em she could expect noAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-35511016680844230092008-11-05T14:38:00.000-05:002008-11-05T14:38:00.000-05:00The fact is she goes weak at the knees at the thou...<I>The fact is she goes weak at the knees at the thought of a woman - political persuasion be damned! - in a position of political eminence and their isn't a principle she wouldn't sell down the river for a smile from a grandee in a dress. She's the feminist equivalent of Paul Johnson.</I><BR/><BR/>Well there's also the whole PUMA business of punishing the Democratic Party for allegedly rejectingAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-37994731080990529962008-11-05T14:36:00.000-05:002008-11-05T14:36:00.000-05:00Really? Back when she started, in, say, 2006, she ...<I>Really? Back when she started, in, say, 2006, she kept saying that choice was the most important issue around, and the Democrats were fools to ignore it and focus just on health and education, as they seemed to be doing at the time.</I><BR/><BR/>More important...than health and education. <BR/><BR/>But prior to the campaign, or at least prior to the "climax" of the primaries, she had already Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-42086260073874503552008-11-05T13:29:00.000-05:002008-11-05T13:29:00.000-05:00Violet never argued that reproductive rights were ...Violet never argued that reproductive rights were other than of paramount importance, or that a thoroughly reactionary mentality was compatible with feminism until Sarah Palin came on the scene. <BR/><BR/>The fact is she goes weak at the knees at the thought of a woman - political persuasion be damned! - in a position of political eminence and their isn't a principle she wouldn't sell down the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-62684590465633965612008-11-05T11:21:00.000-05:002008-11-05T11:21:00.000-05:00Violet allows this because she believes that femin...<I>Violet allows this because she believes that feminism is foremost about cultural and political power, not individual happiness, and while she's pro-choice, she herself asserts that that sort of thing is not first-ranked in her larger scheme of things.</I><BR/><BR/>Really? Back when she started, in, say, 2006, she kept saying that choice was the most important issue around, and the Democrats Alon Levyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12195377309045184452noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-36684481506641561632008-11-05T10:00:00.000-05:002008-11-05T10:00:00.000-05:00And today,When people are telling you that women o...And today,<BR/><BR/><I>When people are telling you that women ought to be happy for black men right now despite the tread marks on their own backs, think about that.<BR/><BR/>Is there any other oppressed group of people on earth who are expected to excuse any and all injuries to themselves as long as someone else benefits?</I><BR/><BR/>But, the point is, Violet is all about opposing the Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18375173.post-61782971107342772112008-11-05T02:43:00.000-05:002008-11-05T02:43:00.000-05:00oh lol"I expect Obama to win tonight, which is fru...oh lol<BR/><BR/><I>"I expect Obama to win tonight, which is frustrating but not surprising. What's most disturbing to me, though, is seeing women not only vote for this http://www.reclusiveleftist.com/2008/11/04/if-you-vote-for-obama-this..., but celebrate its triumph. It's deeply horrifying. It's perverse."</I><BR/><BR/>wow, I had -no idea- that Obama had designed pornographic Palin dolls! And belledame222https://www.blogger.com/profile/13947289856453172848noreply@blogger.com