Whiskey Fire

Amazing World of Nature

We all deserve a break (Today!) from the daily horrors & lunacies the reactionary to neo-feudal wings of the R party spit in the public eye & ear on a daily basis; let's follow Thers' example & vacate. These lucky mammals don't know & don't care about any of it.

— M. "Stroke of Mid-night" Bouffant

No Slapping!*

Apparently Thers' no slapping policy is not being followed by some political elements.

Stolen from Raw Story.

Speaking of "Ha ha, it's O.K., just fantasy cartoon violence, ha ha," note the level of outrage demonstrated by Noel Sheppard here (Also note Noel's "See Dick run. Dick runs fast. Dick likes short declarative sentences. Dick is a bit slow," style. He knows his readersaudience.):

These pictures were taken at the Otsego County Fair in Morris, New York.

Morris, a town of 1,878 people, is about 90 miles west of Albany.

For those unfamiliar with upstate New York, it is far more conservative than the perilously liberal New York City.

Readers may be aware that this isn't the first time Obama's likeness has been disgracefully used this way.

Three years ago, a carnival in Roseto, Pennsylvania, had a game where constestants [Freudian sic?] shot darts at an image of a suited black man holding a healthcare bill and wearing a presidential seal.

After some complaints, the exhibit was changed to a pirate theme.

Alright, he typed "disgracefully" once (as well as "perilously liberal New York City") but his real function is providing space for commenters to work out their individual issues. And issues they have:

Uh-oh. Here come the "racist" shouts. And 5, 4, 3, ...

How'd he guess? 

You could also use his photo to line a bird cage, or put down on the floor to potty train a puppy..............I've heard of Obama toilet paper (I think Dave might have some), but I wouldn't disrespect my own arse by getting a likeness of the purple-lipped petulant punk near it!!!!

Couldn't work "party-pooping prick" in? Or "nappy-headed?" Try harder!

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*No slappers, either!

— M. Bouffant

No Carping!

I'll see If's carp & raise him (Gambling-style, not fish farm-style.) a load of goldfish.

Maybe these are carp too; as a rootless & cosmopolitan city boy (w/ suburban roots) I have no idea.
— M. Bouffant

Lake Siri Butterflies 8.05.2013

Carmi's Thematic Photographic 255 is Repetitious. I'm going to keep taking pictures of these critters until I get it right. (Not to mention, see you and raise, M.B.!)





Special Appearance! Goldie the Carp:


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Tedious

Also: Too.— M. Bouffant

Filling In

Trying to avoid politics & idiots because I'm barely able to control my raging anger & can not type anything w/o cheap (but sincere, if any of these clowns ever cross my path) threats of criminal violenceslapping the smug morons (political & otherwise) surrounding me; how about some nice pictures instead, so Thers doesn't get in trouble when I wax nihilistic?

(Later, pictures demonstrating that we live in a world of shit & pain that is visually polluted by advertising that we can't fucking escape.)

— M. Bouffant

Where I Stopped Reading

In the second paragraph of this Jennifer Rubin drivel:

Jonah Goldberg has an exceptionally insightful piece explaining just how ...

— M. Bouffant

Neighborhood Imagery plus The Unbearable Tree

They can bearly resist it...


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Vacation

For the next week I will be living in a cabin next to a lake in the Adirondack mountains.

I leave you with this, something that rocks.

Lynch-Picking

The things they'll run with...

Gracious. All right, whatever, if we must, the National Review.

Oprah Winfrey, Lee Daniels, and Forest Whitaker star in the upcoming film, The Butler, in which Whitaker plays a White House butler who serves seven presidential administrations. To tout their new film, the trio sat down with Parade — and had a factually challenged conversation about race in America.

Factually challenged. Sure.

What are we sneering at, precisely...?

On using the N-word:
Lee Daniels: It’s a word I used quite a bit, until Oprah sat me down and talked to me about its power.
Winfrey: You cannot be my friend and use that word around me. It shows my age, but I feel strongly about it. . . . I always think of the millions of people who heard that as their last word as they were hanging from a tree

And...?

On “whether young people today know enough about the civil-rights movement,” Winfrey declared, “They don’t know diddly-squat. Diddly-squat!”

Right...?

The Tuskegee Institute estimates that 3,446 blacks were lynched between 1882 and 1968. Perhaps Winfrey should brush up on her history before lamenting this generation’s ignorance.

For fuck's sake.

"Only thousands were lynched, not millions!" is kind of the most pathetic nitpicking as regards shrugging off racism ever.

And then, you'd have to be exactly the kind of babybrained tit who writes for the National Review to accept the cursory Googling performed by Breitbart Dot Com and fucking Ben Shapiro as "proof" of anything. The idea that there are exact lynching statistics like they were fucking batting averages is goddamn stupid.

But beyond that, really?

Really?

Millions of black people were enslaved, and then died as victims of injustice, and the American Right goes berserk with Trivial Pursuit point-sneering when a black woman explains why she doesn't like the word "nigger"?

Wow.

Wow.

They think they won the argument, don't they...

Wow.