Strange

27 Comments

1. 

   seabe on August 22, 2012 at 1:09 pm

   I don’t understand what this column is supposed to be about other than pointing out that there’s a gender pay-gap, and bitchez belong in the kitchen. Can you explain, monsieur host?

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     BooMan on August 22, 2012 at 1:12 pm

     Sure.  Sexy men are rich men.  And rich men father boys at a higher rate the everyone else because they’re sexy.  

2. 

   mainsailset on August 22, 2012 at 1:10 pm

   That is beyond words strange. The man needs to be committed to a mental institute by days’ end.

   I’m in the middle of reading a great book called Mongol Queens which is the story of how Genghis Khan  relied on his daughters to hold and rule the lands he conquered. A real jolt to put that book down and come here to read that article.

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     Steven D on August 22, 2012 at 6:12 pm

     I thought it was an Onion piece to be honest.

3. 

   Geov Parrish on August 22, 2012 at 1:44 pm

   I’m scrubbing and scrubbing, and I can’t get that column off of me. Ick.

4. 

   Geov Parrish on August 22, 2012 at 1:45 pm

   Your Republican Party: Men Who Hate Women, and the Women Who Love Them.

5. 

   dirtleg on August 22, 2012 at 1:49 pm

   It appears that Mittens is being encouraged to embrace his inner douche. See the asshole, be the asshole.

6. 

   donnah on August 22, 2012 at 1:52 pm

   I read that “article”, gagged, paused a moment,  then read the comments. THEN I threw up.

   It’s offensive on more levels than I can count. shudder.

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     MomSense on August 22, 2012 at 3:31 pm

     WTF is wrong with these people???

     Not only was that article offensive but it was also stupid.

7. 

   Indianadem on August 22, 2012 at 1:58 pm

   I get the vision of a return to feudal society, watched over by the resident deity Mammon.

   Since at least the 1960s, concurrent with when Marc Bloch’s Feudal Society (1939) was first translated into English in 1961, many medieval historians have included a broader social aspect that includes not only the nobility but all three estates of the realm, adding the peasantry bonds of manorialism and the estates of the Church, this is sometimes referred to as “feudal society” since it encompasses all members of society into the Feudal system.

   One might argue that we’ve already arrived.

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     Oui on August 22, 2012 at 4:04 pm

     FBI: Large-scale effort under way in Indiana

     INDIANAPOLIS (ABC Local)– An FBI spokeswoman says more than 300 federal agents (SWAT) are involved in what she calls “investigative activity” across Indiana.

     Special Agent Wendy Osborne says the FBI’s Indianapolis office brought in agents from neighboring offices for Wednesday’s actions across the state. WRTV-TV in Indianapolis reports at least 30 people have been arrested. WANE-TV in Fort Wayne reported arrests were made in northeastern Indiana and in Elkhart.

     WLFI-18 reported agents were seen in the parking lot of Bar Barry Liquors at Five Points. They also reported Lafayette Police nearby were unable to comment on the FBI’s whereabouts.

     FBI quiet on agents’ visit to Anderson

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       JeffL on August 22, 2012 at 4:30 pm

       One links says they’re after the Aryan Nations Brotherhood:

       http://www.wsbt.com/news/wxin-fbi-conducts-raids-across-indiana-of-drug-gunrunning-organizations-201
       20822,0,4953366.column

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         Indianadem on August 22, 2012 at 4:52 pm

         Interesting. I’ll have to note whether any of the usual hecklers are absent from the audience at the county council meeting tonight.

8. 

   blindtrust9 on August 22, 2012 at 2:01 pm

   

9. 

   Indianadem on August 22, 2012 at 2:07 pm

   Then there’s also the “He-Man Woman Haters Club”.

10. 

    Oui on August 22, 2012 at 2:10 pm

    This guy must be speechwriter for Willard’s campaign, a gross volume of lies and misrepresentations. Simply put: lecture for STUPID insofar they ever attempt to read anything.  

    Libertarian reviewer David Gordon criticizes the book, writing “Williamson lacks the ability to report facts accurately and his work contains preposterous errors.” Williamson previously worked at the Institute for Humane Studies [funding by Scaife, Koch, Bradley, Walton and Carthage foundations], where he directed college seminars on journalism. He was the editor of The Bulletin, a former daily newspaper in Philadelphia.

    BOOK REVIEW: The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism

    Mr. Williamson, a top editor at National Review and adjunct professor at New York City’s King’s College [seems to be the independent World Journalism Institute for Christians called to journalism – Oui], gets to the centerpiece of our contemporary experience with socialism on these shores in an entire chapter where he makes the case that Obamacare “looks like socialism because it is socialism.”

    …
    The socialist label is in no way reserved for Democratic presidents. The author brands Richard Nixon as a socialist, in part due to his wage and price controls and health care bill, the latter a forerunner to Hillarycare and Obamacare.

    “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Socialism” justifiably pinpoints Woodrow Wilson, our 28th president, as the man “who stands alone and uncontested as being the nearest thing to a Lenin or a Mussolini that the United States has ever endured.”

11. 

    Phil Perspective on August 22, 2012 at 2:11 pm

    Does the National Review edit things before they publish them? One has to wonder.

    Do we really have to wonder?  If they do have an editor, that person believes the same stuff as the author.

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      BooMan on August 22, 2012 at 2:26 pm

      The editor is Mr. Starbursts.

12. 

    Teacher Toni on August 22, 2012 at 2:19 pm

    I couldn’t make it past the first paragraph.  I resent the posting of that trash here. Thankfully, I did not toss my laptop across the room in anger.

13. 

    southerndem on August 22, 2012 at 2:33 pm

    This is what I got when I went to the link
    This NRO Section Is Currently Offline

    We should be back shortly. Thank you for your patience.
    Did they take it down?

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      dirtleg on August 22, 2012 at 3:37 pm

      Maybe someone on the staff finally read that tripe and pulled it in a blind fit of rationality.

      I’m sure it will be back up when cooler (thicker?) heads prevail.

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        puddleriver on August 22, 2012 at 6:42 pm

        They’re BAAAAAAAAAACK!!

14. 

    DerFarm on August 22, 2012 at 4:15 pm

    Off the subject, but latest from Sister Sarah:

    http://www.stltoday.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/political-fix/sarah-palin-asks-for-akin-to-exit
    -suggests-sarah-steelman/article_4722b59e-ec6d-11e1-8f8e-001a4bcf6878.html

    She wants Sarah Steelman to run 3rd party!!!!!

    Has anyone evertold this Bimbo she has as much political acumen as PeeWee Herman?

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      Geov Parrish on August 22, 2012 at 4:45 pm

      No, because Pee Wee has far more.

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      hz on August 23, 2012 at 10:21 am

      Pee Wee had the sense to know when it was time to get out of the spotlight and keep quiet.

15. 

    hz on August 23, 2012 at 10:27 am

    I couldn’t even make it past the family photo at the top of the story.  What is it about Willard and his penchant for coordinating everyone’s wardrobe?  It’s like that old Huckabee family pic in front of the AR Gov mansion with the guys all dressed up in Kingston Trio shirts, but on steroids.

    And d’you notice how almost every one of them has that same, exact same eerie smile.  

    And lastly, I haven’t seen a married couple who resembled each other as much as Mitt and Ann since Arnold and Maria.  Spooky.

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      hz on August 23, 2012 at 10:32 am

      I can’t get over those shirts.  It’s like the kids were watching The Sound of Music one day and decided to make outfits for themselves out of an old tablecloth.