"A surprise boner"
This whole protest thing... Well, when it first started, I did a little looking around. Before long I stumbled across a blog written by a young conservative where he described hatching the plan for this protest with a bunch of his fellow young conservatives.
I thought it was kind of funny. Here is what it said:
So, in my spare moments tonight as I planned our glorious upcoming Rock the Vote Awards event, I went looking for that special blog again, but surprise! it had disappeared!
Instead of that lively, entertaining, and brutally honest section, it now says,
You can see the cached version here of the original. I saved a PDF version. If that link doesn't work you can still find the cached version by searching "www.rockthevotesux" on google.
Wonder what Grover Norquist said to this guy?
To sum it up: Some guy wrote a hilarious account on his blog of the origins of this little protest. But when the "30 year old virgins" found out about his characterization of their sitting around "masturbating to the idea of being rich" and planning this protest, they must have put the fear of God in him. So he pulled it down, and wrote "THIS SECTION EDITED FOR FEAR OF MY LIFE."
Stop it! You guys are killing me! I mean, really!
Eagerly awaiting to see who is willing to admit that they are a 30 year old virgin on Wednesday.
UPDATE: As a consolation prize to the author, whose writing skills I genuinely admire and greatly appreciate, get in touch with me and I'll hook you up with a couple of free passes to the afterparty...
I thought it was kind of funny. Here is what it said:
My second day of “work” at my D.C. summer conservative grassroots organization “job” further demonstrated my life’s progressive, and exponentially rapid descent into terminal absurdity.
After picking my nose for 3 hours (for those of you who are familiar with my nose you know that my nose picking is not a simple hobby, but instead a substantial work-out) I was summoned into a meeting with my fellow brilliant “activists” (a flexible euphemism for Republicans who can’t get real jobs) to decide how best to cleverly protest the upcoming Rock the Vote awards ceremony in D.C. via the Web.
The best that us college chaps could do after an hour of masturbating to the idea of being rich, was to arrive at the following conservative version of a poor excuse for being “edgy”: www.rockthevotesux.com.
I suggested the novel spelling of “sux.” But not before suggesting that we go with the slogan, “Everybody gets laid.”
This slogan did not jibe well in a room full of 30-year old virgins whose raciest memory was seeing Kevin Bacon’s surprise boner in “Friday the Thirteenth Part II” up on the big-screen.
Come to think of it, I don’t think I ever saw that boner.
So, in my spare moments tonight as I planned our glorious upcoming Rock the Vote Awards event, I went looking for that special blog again, but surprise! it had disappeared!
Instead of that lively, entertaining, and brutally honest section, it now says,
[THIS SECTION EDITED FOR FEAR OF MY LIFE]
You can see the cached version here of the original. I saved a PDF version. If that link doesn't work you can still find the cached version by searching "www.rockthevotesux" on google.
Wonder what Grover Norquist said to this guy?
To sum it up: Some guy wrote a hilarious account on his blog of the origins of this little protest. But when the "30 year old virgins" found out about his characterization of their sitting around "masturbating to the idea of being rich" and planning this protest, they must have put the fear of God in him. So he pulled it down, and wrote "THIS SECTION EDITED FOR FEAR OF MY LIFE."
Stop it! You guys are killing me! I mean, really!
Eagerly awaiting to see who is willing to admit that they are a 30 year old virgin on Wednesday.
UPDATE: As a consolation prize to the author, whose writing skills I genuinely admire and greatly appreciate, get in touch with me and I'll hook you up with a couple of free passes to the afterparty...
posted by Hans Riemer at 12:06 AM
9 Comments:
From the makers of "Clear Skies," "Patriot Act" and "No Child Left Behind" comes another chapter in the saga of right-wing jackasses naming stuff after its antithesis: "Original Liberal"!
In case you missed your own saecond paragraph, it doesn't matter where the standards are set if schools will cheat, and the standards don't mean a thing compared to the improvement of the students.
But aside from that, your comments are all over the place. Take a toke, relax for a minute, and breathe deeply before you hyperventilate. And if you don't like the blog, I'm sure some of the sanctimonious boobs at Powerline would love to have you there.
So does this mean Rock the Vote is abandoning its claims to non- partisanship?
Please guys, no name calling and all that. Thanks for your comments!!
I would like to thank "Actual Liberal" for brilliantly pointing out, once again, that the liberal left cannot discuss a single issue without throwing around insults and vitriol.
Want to see how corrupt the modern left has become? Just read everything "Actual liberal" posts.
It's a damn shame what has happened to the left. They once behaved with class, like "Original Liberal" does, but now they've come down to flat out hate. Totally unfortunate for America, and totally unfortunate for a Democratic Party that once stood for great things.
"Wow, I've got a headache from how stupid your comment was."
Well, I hope this one gives you an aneurysm! And while the word Democrat didn't appear in the post, the words “Republicans” and “conservative” did, and unless you missed that the post’s subject was a Rock the Vote protest, and that the tone was derisive, the partisan implications should have been obvious. Now what didn’t appear in the post was anything regarding the Republican’s current political dominance. I don’t really know what you’re getting at with that or with the fascism accusations, seeing as how fascists were arch liberals, anyway.
Oh, and since I wrote that RTV was “abandoning it’s claims to non- partisanship,” it would seem that I thought that RTV had always been partisan, not that it was becoming partisan, and that it was their claims to the contrary that were changing. Now, who’s illiterate?
I am at a loss for words here. Trying to figure out the point of the original post...
"I am at a loss for words here. Trying to figure out the point of the original post..."
Yeah, it wasn't very coherent.
The Old and the Rested
By JOHN TIERNEY
Published: June 14, 2005
Men in their 70's raced on bikes for 40 kilometers in this month's National Senior Games in Pittsburgh. A 68-year-old woman threw the discus 85 feet, and a 69-year-old man hurled the javelin nearly half the length of a football field.
Is it possible that people this age are still physically capable of putting in a full day's work at the office?
I realize I'm being impolitic. In the Social Security debate, the notion of raising the retirement age is the elephant in the room, as Robin Toner and David Rosenbaum reported in The Times on Sunday. Both liberal and conservative economists favor the change, but politicians are terrified to even mention it to voters.
Americans now feel entitled to spend nearly a third of their adult lives in retirement. Their jobs are less physically demanding than their parents' were, but they're retiring younger and typically start collecting Social Security by age 62. Most could keep working - fewer than 10 percent of people 65 to 75 are in poor health - but, like Bartleby the Scrivener, they prefer not to.
The problem isn't that Americans have gotten intrinsically lazier. They're just responding to a wonderfully intentioned system that in practice promotes greed and sloth. Social Security is widely thought of as a kumbaya program that unites Americans in caring for the elderly, but it actually creates ugly political battles among generations.
With the help of groups like AARP, the elderly have learned to fight for the right to retire earlier and get bigger benefits than the previous generation - all financed by making succeeding generations pay higher taxes than they ever did themselves.
The result is a system that burdens the young and creates perverse incentives for people to retire when they're still middle-aged. Once you've worked 35 years, more work often yields only a tiny increase in your benefits (sometimes none at all), but you still have to keep paying the onerous Social Security tax, which has more than doubled over the last half century.
If the elderly were willing to work longer, there would be lower taxes on everyone and fewer struggling young families. There would be more national wealth and tax revenue available to help the needy, including people no longer able to work as well as the many elderly below the poverty line because they get so little Social Security.
Getting that kind of system seems politically hopeless at the moment here, but it already exists in Chile. Its pension system has a stronger safety net for the older poor than America's (relative to each country's wages) and more incentives for people to work, because Chileans' contributions go directly into their own private accounts instead of a common pool like Social Security.
Once Chileans accumulate enough money in the account to finance a pension that pays at least half their salary (which is better than what the typical American gets from Social Security), they can start collecting the pension and still go on working. In fact, they have an extra incentive to go on working because they keep more of their paychecks: elderly Chileans, unlike Americans, are freed of the obligation to continue making pension contributions.
The result has been a big change in working habits. Before the private-account system began in 1981, Chile had a traditional pension system going broke with the same problems as America and Europe: rising taxes on the young to pay for older workers who were retiring earlier and earlier. But under the new system, there's been a 30 percent increase in the labor force participation by workers in their 60's, according to two economists, Estelle James and Alejandra Cox Edwards.
Best of all, Chileans who control their own private-account pensions don't have to count on politicians or groups like AARP to decide when they can retire. It's a personal choice, not a public battle, and the Chileans I interviewed had a saner attitude about retirement than the American baby boomers dreaming of retiring to decades of golf.
A 57-year-old schoolteacher, Maria Clara Meyer, told me she was thinking of spending her 60's running her own tutoring program or setting up an ecotourism business in Chile. "I'm a little tired of my teaching job," she said, "but I'm not stupid, so I shall keep doing something. It's not healthy for you to stop working if you're still able." And not healthy for your country, either.
Hey there I just got this in e-mail. What is this about? Any truth to it?
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PASS IT ON!
Ok, here is the deal: I hate, really dislike, getting email chain letters, petitions, etc. as they are generally about as inspirational as watching paint dry, or as effective as baying at the moon. HOWEVER I have come across one "pass it along" that may actually do some good:
Copy this email and send it to everyone in your address book. We will know we have made a real "dent" in the world when the institutional news channels, bloggers, and radioheads start to report this rumor:
Karl Rove has a male lover named Teddy Cacafuego, AKA the human Banana-Boy!
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