Blog-Pool: I say Sarah emits her Miranda Twitter between 9 and 10 tonight.

Strange - I love you dude, I really do, but you are guilty of what has been pissing me off all fucking day.  THERE WAS NO BOMBING!  There have been bobble heads all day saying “the New York City bombing suspect”  Would everyone please refer to the incident as “the attempted New York City bombing” and refer to the guy as the “unsuccessful bomb suspect” if only to save my fucking sanity.  Jees if we Brits got our panties in a wad every time the IRA failed to blow some shit up we would have been in a state of constant meltdown.

Right now, this is pure, unthinking reaction.  They’re against the Left, and want to turn back the clock—ON EVERYTHING!  They don’t need to consider things, damn it!  They know they’re right!

If (when) the Teabaggers get uniforms and start getting violent, they’ll have shifted into full-blown fascist mode.  At that point—get ready for things to get ugly. 

Okay—uglier.

Litlebrit, I feel like we read different posts.  I think “bomber-wannabee” and “unbelievably half-assed non-bombing” say exactly what you said.

@Litlebritdifrnt—Point taken, and corrected in the post. Thank you for calling me out on my sloppy reporting. The “bomb” design was fantastically stupid in principle, and the report that he loaded the car with a not-even-potentially-explosive (poop-based?) fertilizer still in the bags makes me wonder what the hell they’re teaching these guys at Al Qaeda camp.

@marindenver—Litlebritdifrnt was quite right. I just changed the post in response to her comment.

Sorry for the confusion. Litlebritdifrnt is totally on point and majestically correct here.

PS: Sorry, sorry, sorry for correcting the post before posting my comment announcing that I had corrected the post. marindenver called it exactly the way it looked, whilst I was bumbling around the back office.

They hate us for our freedom.

Thank you Strange, I may stop drinking heavily now.  Well maybe not.

Don’t stop on my account. I can’t stop, because I’m going for my ASBO certificate.

@Allan—Yeah, that just keeps gettin’ funnier every time I hear it. You wonder if wingers are really dumb enough to buy that shit.

No, wait—of course they are.

Strange - I have a cousin (the daughter of my great aunt) who is famous in the UK for being sent to prison for repeatedly violating an ASBO.  She was a 70 year old complete and utter nut job who just couldn’t help herself at screaming at her neighbors and in the end they sent her to the big house.  If she lived in the US she would be a teabagger.

Litlebritdifrnt, I’m ashamed to admit that I only became aware of the ASBO practice a couple of weeks ago, but I am now fully engaged in the history and folklore of ASBO, and keen to be written-up and presented with a framable citation.

Bless your cousin, and bless the land of my belligerent, shitfaced ancestors for producing such a colorful and useful designation!

I had to look ASBO up, and now I’m just full of terrible puns about not knowing my ass from my ASBO.

Constitution-Optional Conservativism

What a neat distillation of the whole wretched movement.

Nearly as useful as ASBO, though without the chic.

We don’t have official ASBO candidates, but we do have PINS; if Strange and Oblo are ASBO merit scholars, perhaps I can at least claim PINSmanship.

Strange - I have a cousin (the daughter of my great aunt) who is famous in the UK for being sent to prison for repeatedly violating an ASBO.  She was a 70 year old complete and utter nut job who just couldn’t help herself at screaming at her neighbors and in the end they sent her to the big house.  If she lived in the US she would be a teabagger.

Not whatshername, Forkner?

No her name is Jenny Smith

“Jenny Smith” is a perfect name for the crazy woman in a penny dreadful. And somewhere, I’m sure there must be at least ten different men known as “ASBO Jack.”