Wrongthink

OK, I’ll leave out their habit of puppy eating (Fettucini El Fido; Borzoi Bok Choy; etc.)

(From an email sent to Kathy Shaidle)

This is just a tangential issue but it’s something that has irritated me for a while. I’ve got some news for her correspondent: puppies are just meat, just like lamb and bunny and all the other cute animals. I probably wouldn’t eat dog unless I had to, but I don’t have the same sentimental attachment to Korean table doggy as I would to, say, a dog of my own. But I do eat lamb (I’ve only eaten rabbit once, in Europe a long time ago, and it tasted good but it was very tough). I know people who won’t eat lamb because “Awww, cute!” Well if we want to keep on making fun of vegetarians who won’t eat “anything with a face” then we shouldn’t make fun of Koreans for eating something with a face that we Western meat eaters don’t.

Or, How Americans Deal With Intrusive Government Questionnaires. Anyway, this is the sort of thing that makes this country great. Samples:

I planned on filling all the checkboxes in.

I did what I had to do. What I had to do was make my own box, checked it, and then wrote white is a color, not a race on the margin. Then what I had to do was lift the tails of all three chihuahua’s and dab that thing on their little bho’s. It is in the mail.

I’m just going to staple my Federation passport to it.

To be honest I was going to put in ”Dunedain”.

Somehow I can’t see anyone in any other country reacting this way. Unless it’s in one of those formerly Communist countries in Eastern Europe where some of the citizenry have learned what cooperating with the government gets you.

Wait — what? They didn’t have any “Arabic” (or what sounds like the usual generic Middle Eastern cuisine — you know, taboule, falafel, that sort of thing) in California before this? Heck, I live in what some people might regard as Lesser Hicksville (the Shenandoah Valley, Virginia — and they’d be mistaken, but no matter) and I can get that stuff in the grocery store. And when I lived in Florida, we had Middle Eastern restaurants all over the place — usually Lebanese-inspired, as there is a pretty large Lebanese community in Florida. Anyway, say what you will about Arab culture as a whole, their food is pretty good. And the best part is? In America you can get all the ingredients and make it yourself. You don’t need to import Arabs to cook it for you. I know, right? What a concept.

(Via five feet of fury)

In honor of the latest Democra– I mean non-partisan, not-affiliated-with-any-political belief — response to the Tea Party movement — the totally grassroots, completely spontaneous, 100-percent dedicated to civility in politics, Coffee Party, I bring to you the The 5 Phases of Caffeine Intake.

Hmmm… “fright wing.” I like it.

In the middle of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, the New York State legislature proposes to destroy New York’s restaurant business. I just hope I’m able to visit New York City before they pass this law and render every meal prepared in that state inedible.

The American people will eat their Federally-distributed fake crab legs and soy tuna substitute and like it. However, not to worry — all of us in the time-traveling business know that after the Federal takeover of the waters the fish bred freely, and soon evolved into a race of ruthless, cunning aquatic warriors, who first took over the seas, then the land (slaughtering all life upon it including all human life — what, you think that killer whale killing that trainer was just some sort of bizarre accident?), and then raised the seas so that nothing but the highest mountain ranges were exposed. There they sent recalcitrant subjects to be executed. The rest of the time was spent worshipping and invoking Great Cthulhu, who finally (in what would have been the year 167299 AD) gained enough strength to return from the chaotic other nothingness, and that was the beginning of the Great Devouring, when the armies of the Great Old One set forth from the former Earth and started a war in which whole galaxies were not just destroyed, but made to never have been formed and existed at all.

If only humanity had been more vigilant.

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To my fellow “right wing extremists”: when someone of a liberal persuasion, or from some semi-socialist Western European country, or someone like that, asks you in studied perplexity why we hate the very idea of anything that so much as gives off a whiff of socialism, tell them it’s because we don’t want things like this to happen here:

“Communism changed our mentality,” said Daniel Apostol, editor in chief of Romania’s Money Channel. “We are still fighting now to come back to what we were. We lost the culture of private property. We lost this sense of privacy and respecting each other’s time and respecting people as individuals, as human beings. That was the worst thing that happened to us. This is why we are struggling so much now to get back to the capitalist society, to the free market, which can run only if there is respect for private property.”

Or this:

“At the macro level,” she said, “it was known that in Romania people were killed, but there are personal stories which were completely unknown. When we move to the micro level, the human level, we help the families find the bodies and learn what happened to each person.”

“What was the main thing that could get a person killed during the communist era?” I said.

“Most of them were killed because they opposed the collectivization process,” she said.

Remember, none of the former communist countries thought things would go so bad. We’re no more human than the Romanians; it can happen here.

Read the whole thing.

Found: the following review of the Bilbo Baggins Restaurant in Alexandria, VA:

We’ve always enjoyed Bilbo Baggins and have gone there for years. But if guns are now to be allowed in Virginia restaurants, this and a couple of other favorites will drop off our restaurant list.

Take that, Virginia! There’s one couple (or threesome or more — who am I to judge?) who will be taking their dining out business to a state where only the criminals can bring guns into a restaurant. I hope you’ve learned your lesson!

EPIC FAIL: Christian Science Monitor says Pentagon shooter right wing extremist

Lesse here.

1) 9/11 Truther
2) Doper
3) Registered Democrat

That certainly sounds like a right wing extremist to me.

So, since I don’t do/am not any of those things, I guess I’m a liberal again? It’s so hard to keep track of this stuff.