“Where did all the Obots go?”

CWaltz, on January 9th, 2009 at 3:24 pm Said:

Reagan was a great speechifier though- He made people feel all warm and fuzzy while his shadow government pillaged.

I’m really loving the “shadow government” phrase. I think I’m going to take it home with me, have dinner with it, and then ram it in the rear for a few hours.

I’m sure when the 18 million PUMAs show up at 1 PM to protest and everyone has already left to attend the parade, they will be mighty confused.

They’ll probably run around high-fiving each other and shouting that they stopped the inauguration.  Press release to follow…

I’m picturing about 20 Hovarounds turning down the street, right behind the streetsweepers.

20 Hovarounds turning down the street, right behind the streetsweepers.

If you hear that quiet electric humm and the unmistakable sound of roofies rattling in their pockets, run like hell.

I think they might be serious about the date rape thing, pack a whistle and some mace.

Scooter, I think I can outrun them. You know they’ll be in the left lane, driving ten under with their turn signal on.

Scooter, I think I can outrun them. You know they’ll be in the left lane, driving ten under with their turn signal on.

Do remember to stay at least 3 miles away from them. Some of their cats are ferocious hunter/gatherer types.

myiq is trying to get laid again, and as usual failing:

myiq2xu, on January 9th, 2009 at 6:44 pm Said:
“it’s so scary…dark…and alone!”
That sounds like the first time I had sex

myiq2xu, on January 9th, 2009 at 6:44 pm Said:
“it’s so scary…dark…and alone!”
That sounds like the <strike>first</strike> time I had sex

Fixt

Noah - That epic PUMA fail is similar to the comment that Kevin posted downstairs.  Where 538 was referred to as “little known” or some such thingy.  These people pride themselves as being both politically savvy and active, therefore you would think that they would KNOW all this stuff.  Yet, it turns out they know absolutely nothing, NOTHING, I mean anyone who can refer to 538 (or whatever the number is as the poster said) as “a little known blog”, when the geek god Nate has been almost universally lauded as the most utterly and eerily accurate blogger in the ENTIRE 2008 election process, just proves that anything outside of their echo chamber simply does not exist, or is not important.  Anyone who was not F5ing 538 in the days leading up to the election was simply not paying attention.

justlen—It’s going around. Brad Mays was on there last night joking about getting a foursome going.

Confluence gals just bring out the hound in any man.

StrangeAppar8us, not me. I don’t find muumuus and curlers attractrive.

Remember to get your PUMA fix in soon!  Kevin keeps threatening to have a PUMA moratorium soon.

The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay act of 2009 was passed in the House today by a vote of 247-141.

Obviously a real squeaker, in which PUMA pressure made all the difference.

Remember to get your PUMA fix in soon!  Kevin keeps threatening to have a PUMA moratorium soon.

Yeah, I know Betty’s down with it and Marin seems to be, too. The awards kinda forced us into it bigtime again, but we may be cutting out soon, at least as far as posts go.

Well, shit. There’s go my livelihood.

At least have a weekly puma open thread so that we can keep up with it on here, I hate going to that god forsaken blog everyday to catch up!

Speaking of PUMAs not getting 538:

Ok, well, remember when the PUMAs declared that they were going to do everything in their power to prevent Barack Obama from winning a second term and being sworn in on January 20th, 2012?

Dear Sir,

Your obsession with numbers only exposes you as a patriarchal wymyn lyncher who is overly concerned about MEASUREMENTS. We, the 18 million weak/strong residents of the PUMAverse are not restrained by dates, names, numbers, logic or facts. Therefore when Obama doesn’t take the oath of office at 1 pm it will be a great VICTORY for PUMAdom.

I second the vote for an occasional open puma thread, but I am betting their insanity will bring Kevin back to them like an alcoholic being asked to go to an open bar wedding reception by his Wife.

Well, shit. There’s go my livelihood.

Believe me, after looking at Ace of Spades today, there’s plenty of material out there. I just don’t feel like feeding that attention-starved pack anymore. You can make the transition, Strange.  It’s pretty much the same language.

Noah - the fact that these people simply do not “get” 538 tells me that these people simply do not “get” politics, AT ALL.  I mean really, Nate’s site was probably the MOST important election site in the history of elections, the fact that his final prediction of the election results were the equivalent of “dropping a quarter from a 20 story building into a shot glass” accurate (HT John Cole) is the equivalent of calling the winner of the super bowl the day the season starts.  Nate was, not to be too fine a point on it, so uncannily accurate that it is clear he is not to be messed with in the future, he not only deserves his votes in the category he is in, but to give the award to anyone else would be a travesty to be honest.  The simple fact that these people don’t get it is another illustration that they have absolutely no clue about a) politics and b) elections generally.  They CLAIM to be politically active but in fact they KNOW NOTHING about politics, or its workings, it is truly sad to be honest.

It makes you wonder if they did any more than glance at 538’s main page, clock that the polls weren’t spinnable that day, and go off in a huff to foment more hatred.

IMHO, 538’s coverage deserves an award for the “We’re voting for the n*gger” story alone.

Always glad to vote for a Brummie, north west loyalty and all that.

PS) technically I know that Birmingham is not the “north west” technically it is “the midlands” however it is not “london” or “the south” so I am choosing my loyalty on the closest thing to the North West…, just in case anyone was going to go all geographically rabid on me.

yetanotherfreakingbrit.  -  Where are you from?  We have been trading barbs for a while but I still don’t know where you are from.  Me Lancaster.

justlen—The truth is that—in their irrelevant, larval post-election stage—they only sporadically rise to the level of urgently smackdown-worthy idiocy they were able to routinely sustain back when they actually thought someone was paying attention to them.

Of course, every time I say that, they surprise me…or, I casually piss them off on another site and they follow me back here.

I have no doubt that they will continue to provide amusement in the future, but even I’m getting bored with them, which is saying something. I used to write interesting stuff about interesting topics. But, more and more, this is like watching the Rocky Horror Picture Show with an audience that already knows all the dialogue and shoutbacks by heart.

While I’m here, if any of you have a little votey love to spare, maybe you could feed some to Best UK Blog contender Created in Birmingham.

Will do.  May I add that the reason I got interested in the intertubez in the first place was to get a first-hand take on what life is like in other countries.  Since I’ve visited the UK, Israel, Belgium and France, I’m a little more interested in those countries, but look forward to any international links you’d recommend.

Believe me, after looking at Ace of Spades today, there’s plenty of material out there. I just don’t feel like feeding that attention-starved pack anymore. You can make the transition, Strange.  It’s pretty much the same language.

Good point. While I have messed with the kitties long before I found this wonderful blog I do agree they sound like an estrogen starved broken record.

If you can bring us new forms of fucknuttery, oh blogmaster, I would love to mock.

(Despite a concept the kitties wouldn’t understand, out here in Seattle if I don’t get dinner started my Wife is gonna kick my ass. Have fun.)

Barbs? Oh dear. *Resolves to revise posting style*

I was born in Wales, lived in the sarf (Reading in fact, the reserve armpit of the universe, Wokingham or possibly Slough being the first-teamer) for far too long when I was in my 20s, been living in Scotland (which feels like my spiritual and political home) with Mrs. yetanotherfreakingbrit, who for some weird inexplicable reason is a Noo Yorker, for about 30 years now.

Yes, I’m that old. PUMAs get over it.

Lancaster’s pretty. Not that I’ve done much more than whizz through it or past it, except for the odd conference or meeting or interminable wait in the station.

Lack of self-awareness alert:

If I thought it would last more than 10 seconds, I’d like to post on The Effluence to ask myiq WTF he’s doing lurking on that dating site and checking out 22-year-old women.

I have my own theory, of course.

KK—I jest. PUMA was a diversion from the Wingnut Wars, and there is certainly no shortage of assholery on the Web. I’ve had OTHER hobbies. ;->

This poor girl posted an embarrassing sexual event at okcupid and the misogyny sharks are having a feeding frenzy.

Is anyone here posting over there?  It was amusing but certainly not worth registering for a dating site.

Frankly, I’m a bit offended that he assumes any of us are there making misogynist remarks.  I shouldn’t be surprised at the level of “research” he put into that comment, I suppose.  Dipshit…

yetanotherfreakingbrit - SCOTLAND!  I was born in Lancaster, then joined the WRNS so from there I went to Reading (HMS Dauntless the most annoying train announcement ever) to Lee on Solent, (HMS Daedalus), to Helston (HMS Seahawk), Yeovil (HMS Heron) to Hong Kong (HMS Tamar), to MHQ Pitrevie (HMS Cochrane).... (near Dunfermlime) with a side trip to Pembroke for basic training and Plymouth for more advanced training (HMS Drake) “I’ve been everywhere man” :)  I loved Dunfermline and Edinburgh, best time ever.  When I left the WRNS it was from HMS Cochrane in Dunfermline…. I was SAD…

The Outrage Soup is thin tonight.

Ms. Magazine makes Barry a superhero of feminism on its special inauguration cover, and Dr. Heidi gets the vapors:

Once we get past Awards season, have cleaned up the confetti from the Weblog Night parties, discussed Kevin’s acceptance speech and dished his outfit, we can all take a break, go for seaweed wraps, and otherwise rejuvenate. I for one have done nothing useful for a week, can’t close my bloodless fingers around the stem of a martini glass, have adopted the sleeping schedule of a desert hermit, and my eyes look like two piss holes in the snow.

But until such time as we have secured that glittering prize, it’s once more into the breach!

Maybe a once weekly PUMA thread, like bowling night, unless there’s a particularly bad outbreak. I hear PUMA prions can live in the soil for decades.

Wow, litlebrit. Don’t want to take over this whole blog, but you certainly joined the WRNS and saw ... a lot of the UK!

We’re near Faslane/Coulport here, so plenty of Navy/ex-Navy and Civil Service folks around - some good friends and neighbours. That wasn’t directly what brought me up here, of course. I was on the other side of the fence, let’s say.

I hear PUMA prions can live in the soil for decades.

Just like Mad Cow Disease!  But it’s Mad PUMA Disease.

misogyny sharks

Sweet jeebus, I have to get my digs in on that transparent, imaginary-crotch-sniffing emotional cripple while I still can.  Who in the fuck gets away with putting those two words together?

The answer: no one.

* head butt *

Now who wants a biscuit?

Maybe we should do a whole thread consisting of nothing but words between asterisks. It will be the longest thread ever and we will dominate.

Heidi Li’s “Museum of Misogynistic Memorabilia” sounds like a fun day out, doesn’t it?

She’s shaking the cup for donations to create this, this, this….

I am out of perjoratives. Help me.

I don’t have a vote in this, but I’d kind of like to see Rumproast become more of a David Sylvian/Ryuichi Sakamoto appreciation site, with an occasional poetry slam and a regular feature on Japanese manga and toy robots. But, you know, that’s just me.

Word jumbles are always nice, too.

Say what you like, but Heidi knows her audience:

Good grief, Heidi - I’ll send you some more $ and a message to the editor of Ms. Magazine.

Posted by: Joanelle | January 09, 2009 at 08:46 PM

I propose that once this entire silly thing is over we actually get to know each other a little better.  (Not trying to be icky) However, who are we, where do we come from, what is our life?  That kind of stuff. 

Yetanotherfreakingbrit - I have done the UK, I have to admit, I have not done Faslane, I hear that it is incredible.

Litlebritdifrnt—I hear what you’re saying. But the less we know about each other, the better.

I mean, just in case one of us gets captured.

Should we throw some votes over to the christians to piss of dwp and nice deb?

Ryuichi Sakamoto

Stop making up names, silly bunny!

johD—I don’t know. Chanting at the Urn is whittling away at our decimal point. Maybe we should wait until Sunday.

I agree Strange

Mar, Puvine Spungiform Encephalopathy is nothing to laugh at. After that interview with Darragh and Will, MSNBC had to autoclave David Schuster.

With regard to Heidi Li’s Pepperoni, I saw her outrage over the Ms. cover and wondered what it must be like to go through life looking for things to be offended by.

AltHippo—It is perhaps more instructive to wonder what it must be like to go through life looking for things that will outrage other people enough to send you money.

Something tells me that the “Joanelle” and “Christal” comments are pump-priming artifices.

This “51%” thing ain’t exactly roaring off the launch pad.

I just couldn’t help myself checking into PUMA PAC. Priceless.

Let’s just say that when the Ms. staff check their incoming email tomorrow, there’s going to be choruses of “WTF?!”

Something tells me that the “Joanelle” and “Christal” comments are pump-priming artifices.

Absolutely could be.  My take on Murphy is that she’s looking for the money angle.  What motivates riverchucky and heili is harder for me to grasp.

I think they’re attracted more by visibility than by money, but I’m not sure.

As you point out, heilium’s outrage is exaggerated.

Orly Taitz is having none of it.  And… she’s now posting an innocent woman’s private info on her site?

The Ms. Meltdown:

myiq2xu, on January 9th, 2009 at 9:27 pm Said:

The Clintons are racists.

Democrats disenfranchising voters in two states.

Experience isn’t a requirement to be President

Feminists opposing women candidates

Dr Ray Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes…
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together… mass hysteria!

It makes you wonder if they did any more than glance at 538’s main page, clock that the polls weren’t spinnable that day, and go off in a huff to foment more hatred.

Yes. Next question please.

The funny thing is, if 538 had been horribly wrong in HRC’s favor, the PUMice would be c-razee about him.

mimi—There is a great need for hack dentists in the US Penal System. Dr. Taitz is perilously close to relocating her practice.

Deb55 01.09.09 at 9:37 pm

  Boy I miss spell check, walk really mean walked!

That, right there, is some of the most fucked up haiku ever.

Boy I miss spell check
Please empty my drool bucket
Walk really mean walked

Fixed.

StrangeAppar8us,

Yeah… someone said she had posted a press release saying her case was to be heard.  And, she did post that.  It’s not true, it was distributed for conference, but that’s not how the title read.  It read Justice so and so agreed to hear my case.

Next she posts all kinds of crazy addresses that obama may or may not have any interest in, and asks people to look into it.

Than she posts some woman’s NAME & PHONE NUMBER and an SSN saying she called her and the SSN, though recorded in someplaces as hers, is not hers?  who cares?  SHE POSTED HER INFO. 

She is totally nuts.

GUY PUMA HAIKU

How cruel of fate
to be able to lick
where your balls once were

riverdaughter, on January 9th, 2009 at 9:36 pm Said:

incredible. I’ve been a feminist since I was 12 years old and this cover just repudiated everything I have ever stood for. I fired off an email to Ms. It is now time to take drastic action.

Bring me the earth-man, Flash Gordon…and prepare my Aero-Barge for takeoff!

mimi—Have you ever visited these folks?

Patrick MacKinnion

Was he in the Pogues?

The Museum of Misogynistic Memorabilia has about six exhibits so far, one being of course the Favreau picture, another a picture of the Hillary Nutcracker, and a third apparently a grad student’s paper (GSU, Spring 06) about the depiction of fat women in early cinema. Nothing that can’t be Googled in less than half an hour. The six exhibits are grandly and bizarrely divided into two categories: the “General Collection” and “Bloopers”.

I kind of love the grandiosity of the MMM. I once knew a guy who started an internet business reselling novelties like dancing snowmen figurines and ceramic geese in calico sunbonnets, and the business card he handed me was all-encompassing: “Jerry’s World of Products”.

Hee. The web of stupid grows ever thicker on the Effluence Ms. cover frothathon:

madamab, on January 9th, 2009 at 8:39 pm Said:

Myiq - my hubby just saw that cover and thought it was a Photoshop.

Oh, and maybe someone can help me here - Is it wrong of me to get perverse pleasure out of visiting the PUMA blogs and using their handy Weblogwars voting widgets to vote for choices diametrically opposed to theirs?

Yeah.  I know about Orly.  And, she can be nuts.  I know about the correspondence course to get her law degree, etc.

But… don’t be posting people’s private info on the internets… ya know?

And… nobody else there has a problem with it?  I’ve been attacked as being offensive.  I guess I am offended that Orly would post private info on a woman who just happened to be mixed up in this because of a fluke.

Whatever.  Let ‘em roast me.

Was he in the Pogues?

Who wasn’t?

Mimi, those people have the collective wattage of a ‘70s toaster oven. They couldn’t warm up a bran muffin, much less roast anybody.

This be the place.

The Yanket made the pages of The Consumerist

But since the FYWP filter is on, here’s the redacted link:

consumerist.com/5127857/snuggies-and-shamwows-beseige-nat ions-cheap-airwaves

MSNBC had to autoclave David Schuster.

My vote for comment of the day.

AltHippo—How dare you mock me, you insensitive twat!

How dare you mock me, you insensitive twat!

To badly paraphrase Bush: “Some folks like to say I mock people.  In DC we call that ‘saying hello.’”

Pardon me to be off topic but last time i checked The Anchoress still ahead of Driftglass.

So to anyone here who read this message please vote for Driftglass for Best Individual Blogger.

FYI no i’m not related to Driftglass.

Hey Rumps,

A few threads back yall posted a bunch of techno gibberish bait about how you were hacking into the Weblog Award software to throw the election.

Didn’t take long.

Darragh has taken the bait is bragging on Wonkette how she has ‘uncovered’ your plot.

She does not mention the digital collider, but she keeps saying PERL.

Excellent job

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MurphyPUMA says at 6:16 pm, January 9th, 2009
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We’ve figured out how you and rumproast have been cheating. We know It’s not through a proxy server. It should be easy to demonstrate how it is done with a script of the procedure. Our resident perl hacker is pulling it together. Of course, we would only be doing this for documentation and informational purposes, not cheating, and…
...blah blah blah….
Oh Yeah, stay tuned for the pig of the day…

skutre says at 11:13 pm, January 9th, 2009
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MurphyPUMA:

“We’ve figured out how you and rumproast have been cheating.”

OMG, Murphy has discovered Rumproast’s fourtran digital collider, how did she ever hear about it?

She has an awesome PUMA intelligence network, a crack team of techno-amazons: Riverbottm, MotherBored, and MountainGoat just to name a few.

A team like that, and Murphy’s awesome credibility, hell, they could take over the Internets, Pinky.

Blimey.

A few days ago (seems like years *harmonica*) I said that the PUMAs taking on Wonkette would turn out badly for them. It didn’t take Nostradamus to predict that.

What did they do? Murphy and myiq2xu and the rest decided to bait them repeatedly. Real bright.

I can only imagine they enjoy manning the PUMA barricades. At the moment the Wonketters seem by and large bored stiff with them, but if they want a REAL war that’ll make the primaries and election look like a PUMA picnic - especially if some of the Anonymous crowd can be stirred up to steam on in - they just need to keep it up a little longer.

Their best defense is to be as boring as possible. Can PUMAs play possum?

I give up. I was new to this blog but I can’t keep up with the snark.

I’ll just read in the awesomeness in the future.

freakingbrit: Murph and Myqwho? are doing the equivalent of piling into a jalopy and joyriding around looking to rumble. The FBI article on hate groups I’m always blathering on about discusses the excitement and adrenaline rush the nascent haters begin to crave from confrontations.

The Internet brings us closer to these comedians, so they don’t have to careen around the back roads looking for us or Wonkette with their small arsenal of lawn darts and stagnant water balloons. Really fortunate for them.

*****WARNING WILL ROBINSON DANGER DANGER ******

Effluvience has just posted moar epic PUMA/VOGON poetry. Please remove all sharp objects and firearms from your computer area before proceeding. Resist temptation to swallow your tounge or gouge out thine eye if it offends thee. A non-sequitor youtube is attached, with cool explosions.

Here in this space people have gathered.
They aren’t this. They aren’t that. They have lives.
They have struggles. They have pain. They are in torment.
They are angry. They are offended. They are defiled.

although Orly publishing that woman’s number and Lynette Long wanting groups of people to actually confront John Favreau’s mother among other people, that’s getting scary.

Mrs. Polly—Yeah, I’m sure your analysis is right. I must re-read your article when I’m a bit more compos mentis. I guess sheer idiocy and lack of foresight play their parts as well, so I shouldn’t be surprised after all this time boggling at them. It’s the usual slow-mo trainwreck.

That crap coming out of Orly is indeed nasty, and no doubt illegal. I didn’t know about Lynette Long’s efforts. That’s pretty sick. I hope someone’s managed to tip them off and put in place whatever measures might be necessary.

OK, I have to nominate Dr. Oily Taint as wingnut of the century.  I know it’s only nine years old, but Jesus God!

And how did she manage to find the hair and makeup artists responsible for maintaining the timeless beauty of the Lennon Sisters?

So the Pumas have had their panties in a knot over that OKCupid post… well, it turns out this might be another Ashley Todd incident.

Around the 3000th post, both the “victim” and “her date” admit to being sock-puppets who made up the story to cause mischief.

Another classic PUMA fail!

Than she posts some woman’s NAME & PHONE NUMBER and an SSN saying she called her and the SSN, though recorded in someplaces as hers, is not hers?

Is that where the poor woman’s phone number came from?  It’s all over Texasdarlin’s blog.  That poor woman—I hope she gets a restraining order, calls the FBI and buys a really loud whistle to blow into the phone whenever one of these crackpots calls her up.

Not that they could do much damage, from the befuddled way they all act.  I get the feeling they dial a phone number by banging the phone with their forehead.

Michael-

Another classic PUMA fail!

Is it possible to maintain a perfect zero batting average for this long?
It seems a statistical improbability.

Could it be that these PUMAs are not what they seem, if you can, for the life of you, figure out what the fuck they seem?

Perhaps they do not have a perfect record of picking losers, perhaps the very act of their embrace creates a time-Fail vortex which folds linear event lines, cause and effect is turned inside out of order.

Are they agents of fail, stumbling backwards through the matriX? Hillary was a shoo-in, remember?

Think about it.

The perfection of PUMA FAIL is very suspicious, I think they might be trans dimensional tourists from the Planet Fail, who waundered off the tour bus, and don’t remember who they are.

Doomed to waunder the Earth forever, creating epic fail from mediocre doldrum, turning wine to water and flesh to stale bread, sickening the healthy, and bringing life back to death.

PUMAs, the Ghosts of the forest, searching for trees.

Neither here, nor there.

stalking confusion, pouncing at knives.

The ancients tell a story of a man, with no direction, who was lost, and fell prey to the PUMAs.; There wasn’t much left of the old vagrant, it looked as if his head had been jammed into and industrial Food processor.

It was as if he had a Waring Hobo’s Face.

A real mess

Can I haz the threadz?

From Confluence

barkingPuma, on January 10th, 2009 at 4:49 am Said:

they share. And they jibe. And they stab. And they bleed.

pffft, frankly I don’t trust anything that bleeds for five days and doesn’t die.

-hockeyMom

Althippo—Since I’ve visited the UK, Israel, Belgium and France, I’m a little more interested in those countries, but look forward to any international links you’d recommend.

Always nice to find someone who knows where Belgium is ;-) I’d recommend some blogs, but the ones I read are written in Dutch so… Not too much going on here though, our government has collapsed (again), the chocolate is still good, the beer’s better and some freak is predicting the end of the world in 2012 (I think NBC is going to do a documentary on him, if that happens I might translate some of his stuff and the reaction of the scientific community here. Should be fun.)

I’ve been a feminist since I was 12 years old

“Menstruating” is not a synonym of “Feminist.”

So the Pumas have had their panties in a knot over that OKCupid post… well, it turns out this might be another Ashley Todd incident.

Around the 3000th post, both the “victim” and “her date” admit to being sock-puppets who made up the story to cause mischief.

Wow. Well spotted.

The perfection of PUMA FAIL is very suspicious, I think they might be trans dimensional tourists from the Planet Fail, who waundered off the tour bus, and don’t remember who they are.

Well, I have seen a theory floated (possibly on renowned liberal blog Wonkette) that PUMA is a double-reverse ratfuck to discredit everything from nu-wave feminism to Sarah Palin to the GOP to ... well, every other cause they focus on.

If so, hats off, Murphy Riverdaughter and myiq2xu (come on - admit it, you all had your suspicions) - it can’t be easy going in so deep for so long and managing to keep a straight face.

But sometimes, I think Murphy risks blowing her cover with the dogwhistles to us rubberneckers:

You know, Doc, sometimes it’s better to just MOVE ON than to make a national mockery of yourself.

Always nice to find someone who knows where Belgium is ;-) I’d recommend some blogs, but the ones I read are written in Dutch so…

I don’t speak Dutch, but am handy with babelfish.

I worked for a Belgian company in the mid 90’s, and would spend about 2 months out of the year in Ieper. Weekends I’d usually head off to Brugges, Ghent, or Antwerp.

If I may quote Samuel Beckett: “Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”

That’s the problem, innit? The PUMAs just keep failing worse. And worse. AND worse.

By the way, did any of them ever offer up a cogent argument for why they didn’t get behind Cynthia McKinney and the Green Party as a protest vote instead of McCain? I mean, if their “18 million” had all voted for her, she still wouldn’t have won, but it would have been enough to keep Obama out, which was presumably the punitive goal (The Vindictiveness of Hope).

And she was even more progressive than HRC on the issues, a woman, someone who had spoken out on election reform—gee, I just can’t think of a single thing about her that would have turned off the PUMAs. /snark.

More 538 cluelessness, this time from Larry Johnsons krew.

Comment by NCgirl | 2009-01-09 19:09:43

You mean that fivethirtyeight or whatever it is? I never heard of it, so I checked it out. It looks like they are PEBO worshipers, so I guess that explains it.
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Comment by truthtelling007 | 2009-01-09 19:51:33
PEBO…ah..finally got what that was…I thought it was Pebo Bryson or something, lol. even though he spells his name ‘peabo’.

Can I haz the threadz?

I hate when people pull that “FTW” bullshit but I’m going to make an exception and say, yes you can haz.  That was great.

I’ve been thinking though that PUMAs are so comically ineffectual that it’s hard to call what they do failing.  Is it accurate to call a doomed from the start effort failure?  I’m sure it does indeed feel that way to them just as I feel like a failure right now since I tried to use my willpower to make today sunny and 60 degrees (looks out window, shakes fist at clouds).  Maybe they’re just expert at identifying a failing cause and getting behind it so as to maintain their perfect record.  Maybe they realize that the worst thing that could happen to their movement is to get behind a winning cause.  If for instance Gov. Paterson chooses someone other than Caroline Kennedy they will celebrate for about 30 seconds and then the trouble will start.  Murphy will be the first to take credit which will piss off Riverchucky and then Will Bower will show up in comments at both their places to remind them of the heroic efforts he made on Facebook and just then they’ll realize he’s got a penis and will turn on him which will lead to myiq calling them both cunts, poof, he disappears and next the commenters will start piping up and wondering why nobody is sending them flowers and chocolate for their heroic emails to Paterson and their signatures on various petitions but hey I signed more petitons than you did you bitch and isn’t this supposed to be a democratic movement and hold on just a second, Darragh, about all that money we donated and then the banning stick comes out and next thing you know every last fucking PUMA who can figure out how to is starting her/his own blog to attack Darragh and RiverChucky and Will Bower and all the other commenters they’ve always secretly hated but were just being nice and now they’re all spending every waking hour alternating between leaving nasty comments on each others blogs and deleting the nasty comments on their own blogs and then the internet just collapses under the weight of all the spite and ill will.  Also.

^ Truth

Man, what did we do before we had the Internets to amuse ourselves with these kitties from a safe distance?