tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post8209592431637606184..comments2024-03-28T16:26:28.642-05:00Comments on driftglass: That dorky little billionairedriftglasshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09379167083253389153noreply@blogger.comBlogger27125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-36988235582042042952007-07-21T07:59:00.000-05:002007-07-21T07:59:00.000-05:00I've already sent my favorite nugget to several fr...I've already sent my favorite nugget to several friends, with the driftglass URL. It begins with "Dubya was, by any measure, a shallow, incompetent, sadistic failure.." and ends with that incredible paragraph describing how he personifies our worst traits as a country. Two great rants for the price of one!<BR/><BR/>--gravieAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-8826703269032166362007-07-20T23:02:00.000-05:002007-07-20T23:02:00.000-05:00Driftglass,I have really come around to see what y...Driftglass,<BR/>I have really come around to see what you see. What you are describing here is the story of America NOW. The dominance of rotten people and their evil political party smashing every value we hold dear, while the media looks the other way or makes excuses, like a negligent mother making covering for her violent kid. <BR/>I will repeat it to anyone who has ears form here on out until something changes. I hope I don't die first, this kind of evil takes time to kill, but what else are we going to do, leave without a fight? No way.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-1782226578801642182007-07-20T19:09:00.000-05:002007-07-20T19:09:00.000-05:00And, Andy, I would LOVE to take you up on that. ...And, Andy, I would LOVE to take you up on that. The scenery is stunning, and I'm convinced there are no women less-than-beautiful in the entire country. :o)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-65401422891476741682007-07-20T19:07:00.000-05:002007-07-20T19:07:00.000-05:00Andy; they're going to find Bin Laden! The clever...Andy; they're going to find Bin Laden! <BR/><BR/>The clever dog has been hiding up there all this time, instead of actually roughing it in Waziristan.<BR/><BR/>(Also, they might get lucky and come up with 500 tons of missing WMD's, and a few semis full of yellowcake from Niger.)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-44236279745667916892007-07-20T16:42:00.000-05:002007-07-20T16:42:00.000-05:00I'll have to agree with Scout - cut and pasted tha...I'll have to agree with Scout - cut and pasted that paragraph to my "Favorite Phrases" notebook.<BR/>Funny thing though...it seems to be filled with more drifty quotes than anything else.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-89022634448315281512007-07-20T14:54:00.000-05:002007-07-20T14:54:00.000-05:00Rob: Skiing is ok this season, not my thing. check...Rob: Skiing is ok this season, not my thing. check out Queenstown and Wanaka (Shania Twain lives there!!), fish and ski on the same day!<BR/><BR/>All you need to come to NZ is a passport, a heightened sense of irony and $$. Just come over for a BBQ and a few beers and check it out. You are all more than welcome.<BR/><BR/>Tanbark: Yes its cold, but you should hear what they say about us.<BR/><BR/>I see they are putting bush to sleep to check his arse this week, will they find condi's teeth marks? Or Cheney's DNA?<BR/><BR/>Andy in NZAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-63864623919465883572007-07-20T14:48:00.000-05:002007-07-20T14:48:00.000-05:00Didn't even know he was a billionaire until you me...Didn't even know he was a billionaire until you mentioned it. Wikipedia is our friend.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-3686728482965184712007-07-20T11:11:00.000-05:002007-07-20T11:11:00.000-05:00Thanks for this. Someone should send the Moustach...Thanks for this. Someone should send the Moustache of Understanding the link.<BR/><BR/>Try this: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2004/4/28ward.htmlAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-21031077010528559832007-07-20T10:25:00.000-05:002007-07-20T10:25:00.000-05:00Andy:"Every Kiwi that emigrates to..."That's cold,...Andy:<BR/><BR/>"Every Kiwi that emigrates to..."<BR/><BR/>That's cold, mate. <BR/><BR/>But funny. :o)<BR/><BR/>In other news, I see where the "surge assessment" is now manfully being wrestled back to November by that part of our military willing to trade lives and their credibilty, for a promotion. <BR/><BR/> Whomever that guy was who coined "Friedmans", he HAS to be on our side, and I sure as fuck hope he copywrited that sumbitch, 'cause it's gonna be used more and more. <BR/><BR/>I've been saying for a couple of years that turning the Iraq "timeline" into thin-as-a-condom latex was going to be THE survival tactic for bush and the borgs. <BR/><BR/> In the heat of a coastal South Carolina summer, I go now to toast myself (and Drift...:o))with a cold one. :o)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-64968511799434976652007-07-20T04:57:00.000-05:002007-07-20T04:57:00.000-05:00Andy,what are the requirements for a dirty furrine...Andy,<BR/>what are the requirements for a dirty furriner to emigrate to NZ? <BR/><BR/>oh, and I know the fishing's great, but how'z the skiing?<BR/><BR/>just.. ya know, curious.<BR/>Cheers,<BR/>-RobAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-65922291227267615632007-07-20T04:07:00.000-05:002007-07-20T04:07:00.000-05:00Pure gold, the whole thing.I am with scout:"As her...Pure gold, the whole thing.<BR/><BR/>I am with scout:<BR/><BR/>"As heroes are idealized versions of our virtues, Dubya is the perfect personification of our every national failing. Our callowness and stupidity. Our smothering fear. Our sense of absolute entitlement to...everything...regardless of the cost to our planet and our children's future. Our CEO-culture’s desire to slide past doing as little as possible while being praised and paid as much as possible. Our hatred of and terror of the sick, the weak and the poor because they remind us of where a little bad luck could land us. Our lust to be the ass-kicking bully and not the faggy peacemaker. Our contempt not just for our own government, but for the history and sacrifice that gave us our democracy, and the true genius involved in balancing out the terrible forces and temptations inherent in the exercise of any coercive power so that we might avoid falling into one of tyranny’s many traps."<BR/><BR/>as a dirty furriner, it sums up 'modern america' and the culture you guys export. Some twat on my TV mentioned a political issue as being in 'the beltway', WTF I am from NZ we don't have a beltway. <BR/><BR/>We even get the silly edwards hair cut shit in our papers. Murdoch is a shit and an aussie and is single handidly dumbing you dooowwwwnnnnn. We have a saying here muttered by a long gone Prime minister, every kiwi that emigrates to Australia raises the IQ of both countries.<BR/><BR/>I cry for your country. But there is hope and this is the bravest man in your country today:<BR/><BR/>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1knqJ5QS_g<BR/><BR/>the guy that offers to do 15 months in Iraq if GWB goes with him.<BR/><BR/>Andy in NZAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-39878239988933408752007-07-20T02:34:00.000-05:002007-07-20T02:34:00.000-05:00Worthy selections, one and all! I must admit to a...Worthy selections, one and all! I must admit to a prejudice in my vote--I likes me sum o 'dat HST-flavored snark!<BR/><BR/>Often times, when I read our friend DG, I hear echoes of what first attracted me to the Doktor's work.<BR/><BR/>Selah.<BR/>CAGaryAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-56655262534350680142007-07-20T00:54:00.000-05:002007-07-20T00:54:00.000-05:00-- Friedmind --Le Mot Juste of this piece -- trade...-- <I>Friedmind</I> --<BR/><BR/>Le Mot Juste of this piece -- trademark it, Drifty!<BR/><BR/>And I'm with Scout on the "As heroes are the idealized versions ..." passage. Sing it, brotha!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-28637552605545393292007-07-20T00:21:00.000-05:002007-07-20T00:21:00.000-05:00I get outrage-spikes, pretty often these days; an...I get outrage-spikes, pretty often these days; and I get down when we can't even get ALL the democrats to help put the screws to these assholes.<BR/><BR/>But then, I remind myself, there are 16 MONTHS until the election, and EVERY single day we will be able to hear the repubs squealing louder as the 'nad vise gets another handle-turn. :o)<BR/><BR/> By God, that's sweeter than J.S. Bach on a starry night. :o)<BR/><BR/> The bunker is shrinking as we speak. Condoleeza Rice HAS to be getting tired of shitting in a wastebasket. <BR/><BR/> Bring it on. :o)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-82168012611071821382007-07-19T21:18:00.000-05:002007-07-19T21:18:00.000-05:00Friedman can blather all the republican shitspeak ...Friedman can blather all the republican shitspeak he wants to, and it won't help bush achieve the one thing that's impossible.<BR/><BR/>That is, his and the GOP's desperate attempt to somehow separate what is now going on in Iraq, from his/their decision to invade the country 4-plus years ago. <BR/><BR/> They would have us believe that this all descended on Iraq in a shower of golden jesuspiss 6 weeks ago. <BR/><BR/> I don't believe they can squeeze enough Friedmans out of the shitmire to do that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-75890439993544568322007-07-19T18:47:00.000-05:002007-07-19T18:47:00.000-05:00Thing is, Friedman ain't free. 'It' has to be pai...Thing is, Friedman ain't free. 'It' has to be paid for in blood and treasure..............Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-39033316113155206922007-07-19T18:36:00.000-05:002007-07-19T18:36:00.000-05:00Aye, far more than one good nugget be found in thi...Aye, far more than one good nugget be found in this little ditty, Drifty!lostnacfgophttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18144608078707094464noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-36518915853768050062007-07-19T17:33:00.000-05:002007-07-19T17:33:00.000-05:00I dunno y'all, myself, I was particlarly captivate...I dunno y'all, myself, I was particlarly captivated by this little lava flow of righteous, tasty, classic Drifty goodness:<BR/><BR/>"As heroes are idealized versions of our virtues, Dubya is the perfect personification of our every national failing. Our callowness and stupidity. Our smothering fear. Our sense of absolute entitlement to...everything...regardless of the cost to our planet and our children's future. Our CEO-culture’s desire to slide past doing as little as possible while being praised and paid as much as possible. Our hatred of and terror of the sick, the weak and the poor because they remind us of where a little bad luck could land us. Our lust to be the ass-kicking bully and not the faggy peacemaker. Our contempt not just for our own government, but for the history and sacrifice that gave us our democracy, and the true genius involved in balancing out the terrible forces and temptations inherent in the exercise of any coercive power so that we might avoid falling into one of tyranny’s many traps."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-7586198181815628152007-07-19T16:00:00.000-05:002007-07-19T16:00:00.000-05:00Haven't been able to post for a long while, but al...Haven't been able to post for a long while, but always readin' and always enjoyin'. Thanks Drifty.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-71059224889786503922007-07-19T15:14:00.000-05:002007-07-19T15:14:00.000-05:00Dubya was, by any measure, a shallow, incompetent,...Dubya was, by any measure, a shallow, incompetent, sadistic, drunken failure most of his life, and the only reason he isn’t spending his declining years caroming soddenly off the walls of some doublewide in a West Texas trailer park, or running Lil’ Dubya’s Cut Rate Liquor and Fireworks outlet, is that his daddy had money and his daddy had clout."<BR/><BR/>I second the vote for this as the real nugget of this post. Rock on, D.BitterHarvesthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02369427899704828145noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-31359325872043837882007-07-19T12:28:00.000-05:002007-07-19T12:28:00.000-05:00The definitive Capt. Obvious column is "Because We...The definitive Capt. Obvious column is <A HREF="http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/06/04/nyt.friedman/" REL="nofollow">"Because We Could</A> the most venial justification of the war ever printed :<BR/><I>Smashing Saudi Arabia or Syria would have been fine. But we hit Saddam for one simple reason: because we could, and because he deserved it and because he was right in the heart of that world.</I><BR/>This strips Capt. Obvious of any right to discuss the war, period.Stephen Ahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10245318453265301485noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-7064546504108873152007-07-19T11:17:00.000-05:002007-07-19T11:17:00.000-05:00It must be Drifty's discount coupon day - cuz befo...It must be Drifty's discount coupon day - cuz before clipping this lil nugget I had no idea the checkout aisle was already open! (as an irregular commentariat protuberance here in the back alley I think it funneh that somes of us thinks in similars ways)<BR/> <BR/>snip*&clip*<BR/>"Because Dubya was raised to believe there is no such thing as the greater good. That unfettered capitalism fueling the slaughterhouse machinery of the merciless marketplace was the Greatest Good".<BR/><BR/>And as you rightly pointed out that his caste believes anything remotely smacking of 'commons' is commie!!,and needs to be privatized or stamped out of existence. And that's what grills my eggplant. That so many who identify with the 29%s, who have little (if what?) to gain from destroying the commons, the constitution, and the bedrock of their once proud 'liberty' that apparently the whole wide world 'just hates, I tells ya, just hates us for' (but apparently they hate even more) -- would support every iota of this trainwreck administration with every fiber of their slumgullion souls. <BR/> <BR/>Yes, this enigma has been addressed better by T. Franks "what's the matter with Kansas?" book.<BR/><BR/>In looking for answers the only suggestion I can reconcile my mind with, is that the 'Nutters are every bit as howling mad as their Towely-Ban cohorts, who would blow up ancient statuery (ie national treasures) because the visage of anything that does not look, smell, pray, beat their wives in exact a manner as they do must be DESTROYED. <BR/><BR/>Or muhbbe the 27%s are actually DALEKS dressed in golfshirts?<BR/><BR/>grumblegrumblegrumble...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-17167941935005492792007-07-19T09:39:00.000-05:002007-07-19T09:39:00.000-05:00I like the verb, "protuberate." Makes me wonder i...I like the verb, "protuberate." Makes me wonder if DG is familiar w/a classic of 70's porno-chic, _Flesh Gordon_, in which the minions of Flesh's Evil Enemy addressed him as "Your Assholiness" or "Your Protuberance," usually while saluting smartly.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-956151474382489992007-07-19T09:10:00.000-05:002007-07-19T09:10:00.000-05:00Friedman clings to the "Center" because he can't t...Friedman clings to the "Center" because he can't think. Having two points to pocket-protractor a position from is vital.<BR/><BR/>And he can't even do anything complicated with his pocket-protractor. All he can do is find the middle.WereBearhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17746779803342657146noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11363027.post-72404741259020994912007-07-19T00:54:00.000-05:002007-07-19T00:54:00.000-05:00This passage gets my vote as the gold nugget of th...<I>This passage gets my vote as the gold nugget of this driftglass rant. There is always at least one.</I><BR/><BR/>And the last paragraph is the silver nugget:<BR/><BR/><I>And so [Captain Obvious] prattles along, stamping his tiny feet, demanding an explanation and makeup sex from a Monster which, when it bothers to notice his existence at all, no doubt laughs itself hoarse at what a useless, clueless shit he is.</I><BR/><BR/>Perhaps on these occasions Friedman should be referred to as "Captain Oblivious"?Mister Robotohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08724938709642010624noreply@blogger.com