The Democrats have Renaissance Weekend, and now conservatives are trying to catch up with their own weekend of policy brainstorming. Several tell our Suzi Parker that they are planning for the Steamboat Institute Inaugural Freedom Conference, slated for August 28-29 in Colorado.
As usual the same old retreads like Grover Norquist are involved in the conference, and if its anything you want associated with conservatism is the guy who declared that he wants government to be drowned like a baby in a bathtub.
He got what he wanted in the Republican response to Katrina, so what’s he so cranky about still?
Jesus. What a pointless post. Wah Wah I don’t like Republicans let me bash something stupid and insignificant like steamboats.
Hey McKee, I don’t tell you how to write your blog, try and do the same.
Is the title of your blog related to the fact most conservatives have trouble counting to 10 because they have to use all fingers on both hands, McKee?
Great post, O-Dub. More like that.
The stern-wheel riverboat is a perfect metaphor for the republican party: old, outmoded, obsolete, difficult to maneuvre, wasteful, destructive of the environment, more common in the deep south, associated with the good ol’ days of slavery, also associated with gambling and prostitution, getting rarer all the time.
Hey McKee, I don’t tell you how to write your blog…
I wish you did – he could use a few pointers.
Wilbur,
Don’t forget the steamboats’ common failing. When they moved too fast, the boiler exploded.
There must be a metaphor in that.
Wilbur, can’t disagree with you there.
Wilbur, can’t disagree with you there.
ROFL…I think he was talking about YOU
The Mississippi Queen won’t be rolling through Colorado I don’t imagine.
Wilbur, can’t disagree with you there.
You mean about the steamboat metaphor, right?
The Mississippi Queen won’t be rolling through Colorado I don’t imagine.
Yes, I suppose it is Steamboat _Springs_, but the image is still an apt one.
Actually Steamboat Springs also provides a good metaphor: lots of hot air and overweight white folks.
Really, how is it apt? It’s a mountain retreat in the ski resort town of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, where you are unlikely to see any steamboats at all, much less the Mississippi Queen.
Wilbur, what do you have against overweight people?
Nothing in general, like whiteness it’s just a prominent characteristic in the Republican demographic. I don’t criticize them for their girth, I criticize them for their republicanness
Really, how is it apt?
I meant the steamboat metaphor is an apt metaphor for the Republican party, and would be regardless of where the repubs were holding their coven.
You’re waffling, Wilbur. And without any supporting evidence, you’re only being prejudicial to say that being overweight means you are likely to be Republican.
If I showed a picture of overweight blacks enjoying some R&R and said something about them being likely Democrats, you’d say that was being racist. And you’d be justified in doing so.
Hey McKee, I don’t tell you how to write your blog…
I wish you did – he could use a few pointers.
See if you can get News Reference to help you, Uncle Gabby.
Dennis, I swear to god, you argue with liberals just for the sake of arguing with liberals.
“What do you mean that rain is wet? What do you have against rain?”
I meant the steamboat metaphor is an apt metaphor for the Republican party, and would be regardless of where the repubs were holding their coven.
Especially in a landlocked state. Kind of like the Republic party.
don’t fall for it, Wilbur. This is exactly the kind of bullshit argument that Denny thrives on. First it’s Taco Bell workers, now it’s fat white people. He will pounce on anything that is counter to anything you/we say.
Duros, I was called a Taco Bell chalupa slinger by a guy who to this day uses the Jon Stewart birth name I said in passing one day as his only reference to bigotry/anti-Semitism/racism that he can bring to mind against me, which he’s been doing for 5 months now. It merely shows he’s far more prejudicial than I am.
And so does this reference to overweight people. You guys spend half your day posting about the obscure references to racism and try your darnedest to paint all conservatives as being in league with the worst of them, but when called out on your blatant sterotyping and prejudicial debasements, like what Wilbur just displayed, you call it arguing for argument’s sake. You never want to recognize your own hypocrisy, even when it’s spelled out for you from your own writing here.
Being overweight isn’t Left-wing or Right-wing, but Wilbur claims it is. And he’s lying and covering for himself when he says he wasn’t criticising them. Your defending it is pathetic too.
blah blah blah.
I am defending nothing. I’m putting on some pounds myself, as I get older.
Wilbur was making a (to him) humorous observation at other people’s expense. What conservatives call humor. I thought you’d be down with that?
Oh, no I got it, now. When a Republican says something at the expense of others, it’s teh funnay x11. When a democrat does it, it’s hypocrisy. Thanks for clearing that up.
Please take your manufactured poutrage over to Redstate.
That’s fine, Duros, except that Wilbur is one of the guys who will not accept the excuse of simply harmless humor at someone else’s expense when it’s pointed out that a conservative or some obscure Republican activist or whatever has merely engaged in the same sort of thing.
I suppose it would largely depend on the content. And the ever-elusive context, right?
I don’t get it — didn’t the Renaissance Era take place before the Steamboat Era? So that would make the Democrats more old – fashioned, no?
You lefties sure are acting strange since you took over everything. Who ever said you guys should be in government, but never in charge of government, was he right!!
Bee-yootiful day at the beach today!
Dennis, I like to think I’m big enough to admit when I’m wrong. Thank you, my friend, for helping me to see where I went off track.
It was, of course, very wrong of me to imply that all fat white people were Republicans. I know very many corpulent caucasians, and many – nay most, I would say — are fine people, model citizens, loving husbands, wives and children, possessed of high intelligence and strong character and a vigorous sense of civic duty. Consequently they would never dream of joining the Republican Party, much less attend a Republican right-wing wankfest in the Colorado Mountains.
(By the way, did you realize that Strawberry Park hot springs at Steamboat is clothing-optional after dark? Hoo doggie! Imagine all the appalachian trail hiking that’s going to be going on there, imagine all the come-to-Jesus moments, imagine all the loofahs that Billo will try to jam in his carry-on.)
My apologies to melanin-challenged non-anorexics everywhere.
It was, of course, very wrong of me to imply that all fat white people were Republicans.
We fat white liberals are a forgiving sort.
“I don’t get it — didn’t the Renaissance Era take place before the Steamboat Era? So that would make the Democrats more old – fashioned, no?
No one is frolicking around in period clothing playing lutes, it’s based on its meaning:
Renaissance:
a renewal of life, vigor, interest, etc.; rebirth; revival
Synonyms:
resurgence, reawakening.
Steamboat:
a steam-driven vessel, esp. a small one or one used on inland waters.
How appropriate.
http://www.hedgehogreport.com/?p=591
Actually Democrats self identify as more overweight than Republicans. But let’s not let evidence get in the way.
Republicans also report being more mentally healthier than donkeys:
http://stuckon-stupid.com/2007/12/01/new-poll-reveals-republicans-healthier-mentally-than-democrats/
I love how Gabriel tries to deflate my sarcasm by pretending that I meant it literally. It’s a brilliant tactic and the fact that he’s willing to make himself look like an utter moron in doing so shows his devotion to the cause. Seventy virgins are waiting for you in paradise, brother Gabe.
And since Dennis has that Asperger’s problem I’m sure it overshot his cranium as well, so for your benefit, Dennis:
If you actually read my original post you will see that I never said that
1) all fat white people are stupid, or
2) all fat white people are republican.
What I insinuated was:
3) A significantly high percentage of republicans are fat white people, like the people in picture I posted of the hot pool steamboat springs.
In case it needs clarification, the only thing intrinsically wrong about being a “republican fat white person” is the “republican” part.
This party discrimination has to end.
This party discrimination has to end.
Take it up with Lee Atwater’s ghost.