Declaration of Independence
It’s the morning of the Fourth of July, and as admin is busy making his world famous potato salad, I’m in my backyard preparing a fireworks show that you will be able to see from fucking space…
I would just like to take a second to recognize how we lucky sons-of-bitches live in the greatest country in the world, and Tim Robbins, Alec Baldwin, Sean Penn, Johnny Depp, and any other asshole who complains about how things go down in this country can all just get the fuck out.
Let freedom ring, bitches.
Oh yeah, and fuck the British… You come over here and try that shit again and we’ll knock out the 3 or 4 filthy teeth you have left.
Take a report.
-Largee Doodle Dandee
July 4th, 2008 at 9:27 am
Going to your house, Large. I am not bringing food. The idea is to help myself when I get there.
July 4th, 2008 at 10:11 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT0OqHr3wHQ
July 4th, 2008 at 10:23 am
we Brits consider ourselves lucky to be rid of you. We should have left it to the Native Americans shortly after we set foot on the continent.
July 4th, 2008 at 10:34 am
Well said Large! BTW, women in bikinis is why they hate us… (hint, hint). Give us something to ’salute’ to….
July 4th, 2008 at 10:55 am
Happy 4th, everybody
July 4th, 2008 at 11:09 am
Oh, Group Captain. How dare you post something like that on the 4th of July. Take a Fuckin Report, LYMIE!!!
July 4th, 2008 at 11:28 am
Large,
Opposition is the corner stone of Democracy. Fools think they have a fresh political perspective and recommend that all who oppose the establishment should turn tail and leave the Country.
What makes me a good American is my opposition. Like Jefferson and Adams, two forefathers, at the birth of a new Nation, who were bitterly apposed to one another’s positions and ideologies, I support the notion of a loud minority fueled by critical perspectives on a wide range of American ideological rat holes and baseless assumptive reasoning.
So lay off the critics. Around here their ideas often end up going mainstream.
“America, love it or leave it” ??? Fuck That. I remain here and Love it by attempting to change it.
July 4th, 2008 at 11:41 am
Congrats on being born somewhere. Nice work.
July 4th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
If only the mexicans were as offended as Hollywood……
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nT0OqHr3wHQ
July 4th, 2008 at 1:53 pm
Nothing like burning off your eyebrows with illegal fireworks bought in Chinatown to celebrate our Independence!!
Bring in the big stuff… and Happy Fucking Fourth of July!
link is a clip from Large’s back yard later tonight…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPXVGQnJm0w
July 4th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
God Guts and Guns have kept America free.
FUCK THE HATERS
July 4th, 2008 at 2:01 pm
God Guts and Guns have kept America free.
FUCK THE HATERS
July 4th, 2008 at 2:36 pm
Blowmay, OPPOSITION is not the cornerstone of democracy, open and free thought is. Vetted thoughts and ideas, then voted upon by free thinking informed people is. And certainly NOT opposing IDEOLOGIES. The cornerstone must have a foundation somewhere, in understanding of the fair and basic tenents of democracy. How many people have actually read the Constitution, THE cornerstone of democracy?
You are right about the “love it or leave it” crowd, they are also simplistic and moronic. However, similarly uneducated poorly informed people (Sean Penn, Alec Baldwin, Cruise) ARE in fact accorded the opportunity to vote with their feet (as opposed to disidents in China or the former USSR). The issue with those types is that the are willing to grandstand outside the boundaries of a wholely united AMERICAN front. Therefore, if they believe in the purposes of ones individual disturbance to the detriment of the entire system, that is where i say , “get out”.
There are many alternative choices in the world, and people here are afforded the freedom to say smart AND dumb things. Ultimately, you live by the popular vote or die by killing the game that brung us all here. Case in point, how many liberals thought Reagan was wrong until the Berlin wall fell? How many people think Bush is wrong, unless Iraq does become a free democracy? What i strongly disagree with is a front running national press that takes it’s own agenda and power to try and create perhaps an undesirable outcome that kills the golden egg. People do realize that IF Bush were to possibly be right on Iraq, the ENTIRE liberal perspective is HOGWASH. And to lean and report the “unfacts” is plain wrong. Dissent, but don’t bend and lie.
I don’t know if you saw the recent report on the ABC TV survey of the soldiers in Iraq when asked who they would vote for, and they were given a choice of Mc Cain, Obama, and Hillary. It was something like 25 for McCain, 5 for Obama, and 2 for Hillary. You know what they showed on the soundbyte here? They showed the soldiers interviewed ONLY saying the 5 for Obama and the 2 for Hillary. You cannot make this crap up! Its just wrong.
What would todays press have disclosed about what are now the US liberators on D Day, had they had the chance to crack the news for a scoop, to the detriment of hundreds of thousands of lives, because they were, what you call “opposition”. There does need to be a side, a morally correct side and a winnning side. In todays world, where it’s not even OK for anyone to win a kickball game and EVERYONE gets a trophy, i know i’m old skool. But there is a difference between open dissent and OPPOSITION. And most of all, remember, “WITHOUT THE BRAVE, THERE IS NO LAND OF THE FREE”. People like Penn and Baldwin are allowed to say and do stupid things because of the sacrifices and bravery of men they will never meet. They are a disgrace.
Enjoy Your Freedom TAR babies.
Oh, anyone consider which other countries (Except our great and prized true friends in the UK) are allowed to have outrageous humor like Large does every day? Not any countries that the “throat cutters” come from.
July 4th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
Blowmay: actually, fundamental moral and ethical values were the cornerstone of the USA. “Vocal” minorities are tolerable when it comes to distribution of goods and services, or large vs. small government, war/tariffs/excise taxes vs. none, or isolationism vs. global involvement.
The “vocal” minority you refer to has, in the past few decades, changed from addressing such economic and political issues to eroding the fundamental (yeah, let’s just say it, Christian) moral and ethical values and thus the cornerstone. I’m not saying Bush or any politician is right. But on this celebration of our independence, I’m just reminding everyone that we fought for independence from outside control and thereafter established a nation founded not just with inalienable rights, but with inalienable “truths” that once bound us together at least in some core.
I have listened to countless lectures about how our forefathers were racist, or rich elites, etc. and thus this country was fundamentally flawed from the get go. What I took away was the “get go.” And that, I believe, is where those of us who say “celebrate it or get the fuck out” are coming from.
I don’t care if a minority says “this is wrong.” I do care about it when they say “this is wrong and this country is shit and if ___ happens I’m leaving.” Because after all the bickering about the remaining faults of this great nation, the fact remains that among other things, I can sit my ass at a computer after six beers and write this on a sweet computer with unrestricted internet access on the 4th, shortly before I go hang out with some moral but scantily dressed babes at a pool party here in Houston. I’m celebrating our independence and greatness in that I don’t have to spend the day herding goats, or scrapping for food, or admiring women wearing black sheets and towels with eyeholes cut out, or scarfing down beef offal with arrogant French pricks.
Happy 4th everybody! Celebrate the ability to be gluttonous, or the ability to starve yourself. Celebrate the ability to crank up the A/C or recycle and “go green.” Celebrate that we have those CHOICES, and that those choices remain because we indeed have some remaining fundamental values that hold us together.
And if you don’t like that, then yeah, get the fuck out!
July 5th, 2008 at 2:25 am
SPHINCTER SHRINKER, if you believe that story about ABC news, then you sir have been watching way too much FOX News, cuz there’s no way that’s true. No possible way.
Your writing tells me you’re educated enough, but your opinion says you’ve never left your state. What gives?
[Here's what gives: I see some standard TAR banter, a few guys offering their July 4th thoughts, and you insulting others where no one else had been doing so previously.]
July 5th, 2008 at 9:20 am
The interviewer in Iraq is a relative. Game, set match my friend.
July 5th, 2008 at 9:26 am
Here it is. Sorry i didn’t cite the actual source at the time, rather than ABC TV. Now back to my regularly scheduled MUFF HUNT! This is not a political site, (sorry admin/large)
My niece, Katelyn, stationed at Baluud , Iraq was assigned, with others of her detachment, to be escort/guard/ watcher for Martha Raddatz of ABC News as she covered John McCain’s recent trip to Iraq . Katelyn and her Captain stood directly behind Raddatz as she queried GI’s walking past. They kept count of the GI’s and you should remember these numbers. She asked 60 GI’s who they planned to vote for in November. 54 said John McCain, 4 for Obama and 2 for Hillary. Katelyn called home and told her Mom and Dad to watch ABC news the next night because she was standing directly behind Raddatz and maybe they’d see her on TV. Mom and Dad of course, called and emailed all the kinfolk to watch the newscast and maybe see Katelyn. Well, of course, we all watched and what we saw wasn’t a glimpse of Katelyn, but got a hell’ uva view of skewed news. After a dissertation on McCain’s trip and speech, ABC showed 5 GI’s being asked by Raddatz how they were going to vote in November; 3 for Obama and 2 for Clinton . No mention of the 54 for McCain.
July 5th, 2008 at 9:50 am
Spirited debate makes my head hurt… How the comments turned into an Algonquin Roundtable on a vacation day, I’ll never know.
Can we all at least agree that Sean Penn is a douche?
-Large
July 5th, 2008 at 11:53 am
Large: Sean Penn is a douche.
July 5th, 2008 at 2:16 pm
Sean Penn is a MAJOR douche.
And SchincterFace actually has a pretty interesting news item, which sounds credible (after some poking). It involves covert political jerrymandering which support his views and are substaniated by relatives overseas. Call the police!
July 5th, 2008 at 10:27 pm
Upgrading Sean Penn from a Douche (D) to an Aggresive Douche (AD), with a Price target of zero at Sphincer Securites (Member SIPC)….as usual, my analysts follow the chart breakout from a long time ago and are late, late, late! however, finally a douchebag that can shoot a gun to help save the country:http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70/alienzero/tafanen/seanpenn.jpg
July 6th, 2008 at 1:29 pm
http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y70/alienzero/tafanen/seanpenn.jpg
July 7th, 2008 at 7:45 am
Drive-by Journalism….
July 7th, 2008 at 11:27 am
See Large/Admin, that’s going after the person as well as the message, I think you jumped the gun before.
[See? See what, Abe? (Rhetorical questions, I deleted offending content)
Please refrain from "going after the person" whenever possible.]
July 7th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Interesting dialog here. Now I’m one of those old school conservatives who thought (but didn’t claim to know) that doing Iraq would be a tragedy of historic proportions. We can debtate the issue ’til we’re blue (or red, depending on one’s politcal leanings) in the face. But being a market participant, I prefer the Jim Rome “SCOREBOARD!” method. How have we as a nation fared since the war started? Here are a few prices since the start of the Iraq War:
U.S. Dollar down 65% in value/gold up 185% (the way we did it in before the Keynesians screwed us all over with fake money)
Crude oil up 350% (as China laughs at us and cuts deals with all the producing countries)
NY Heating oil prices up 400% (TG I live in LA where we can keep warm by burning the natural gas seeping into our crawl spaces or setting a brush fire in our back yard — you guys have fun filling up the tank this winter!)
Wheat up 215%
Corn up 225%
Barley (still a baragin at) up only 140% (now that hits TAR readers where it hurts)
Thanks to President Pubes, all us kick-ass don’t take-nuthin’-off-nobody Uh-mur-i-kuns done got poorer - and God rest their souls, many honorable men and women paid the ultimate price.
But hey, at least we now have Youporn so my porn vids are free!
July 7th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Note to self…my blowhard posts need spell check before hitting “Submit Comment”
debtate = debate
baragin= bargain
July 7th, 2008 at 5:26 pm
WTF saw the invasion as a tragedy of historic proportions, I see. Yeah, I guess it has been, if you call removing a tyrant that would make Joe Stalin cringe and ‘imposing’ self-rule in a place on earth uniquely unfriendly to the idea of the rights of man a disaster. What was your plan for dealing with Iraq after 9-11? Oh, yeah, we don’t worry about that one. We should have been a little more patient in our 12-year rush to war, I guess. And our only worry now is whether the constable blundered, not whether what we did/are doing was/is right.
And I’m also sure that Iraq had everything in the world with corn prices rising, not ethanol subsidies, or global warming bullshit. And the dollar is down not because of a credit crisis, but because we’re printing money to burn as fuel. You sure that the wildfires that will burn your home down aren’t also caused by Iraq? Correlation doesn’t equal causation, but don’t let that stand in the way of your bullshit blue-state narrative. Fucktard.
And if all you’ve got as problems are fucked up commodity prices - Jesus, wow, that’s quite a sacrifice you’ve had to make! But maybe (and I’m just spitballing here), if this is all you’ve been asked to sacrifice, I’d call you one lucky bastard. Lucky enough to be able to wag your tongue like the ungrateful cur you and not have it cut out. Or worse. Like you would have if you’d been in Iraq, before we won. You dimwitted left coast moron.
Yeah, link a bunch of shit that has nothing to do with Iraq and use it to call it a failure. Fuck you… in the ass, like you like it.
And anybody who uses the Jim Rome scoreboard method should be treated like Jim Everett treated Jim Rome - like the bitch that he is. That showed the difference between a quarterback and a monday-morning quarterback.
And with that, I extend to you my warmest personal secretions.
Peace, and don’t be hatin’!
Chuck U. Farley
July 7th, 2008 at 7:35 pm
Nice rant, Chuckie-boy. Saddam worse than Joe Stalin? And speaking of correlation and causation, Iraq and 9/11? Those two statements reveal a lot about your knowledge. As John Adams said in defending British soldiers of the Boston Massacre, “Facts are stubborn things…” JA, what a fucktard, huh?
Post really wasn’t meant for your small yet profanity-filled and homoerotically-obessessed brain. Didn’t expect the likes of you to understand classical economics. I beg you, please hold all your investments in dollars — it’s the patritotic thing to do!
You’re right, I haven’t sacrificed much. Never claimed I did. The again, the “sacrifice” we were called to perform by President Pubes was “take a vacation” so I guess I really put it all on the line!! Seriously, I’ve tried to “sacrifice” as little as possible in the insanity currently reigning in this great nation. It’s called “enlightened self-interest” — a concept that the Founders embraced and statists like you abhor. My question is what have YOU sacrificed, since your such a belligerent douche and obviously a fan of this whole deal?
Finally, what it is about Gestapo types and freaked out homo-erotic torture? Light-sticks up prisoners’ backdoors, forced masturbation, etc at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo, and now you’re chokin’ it to fantasies of ass-rape?? Maybe it’s time for you to come out of the closet and work off some of your sexual frustration. ‘Til then, whatever gets you off as you post from your Mom’s basement, I guess.
July 8th, 2008 at 7:56 am
I’ve been served.
WTF, now I see it – you weren’t trying to blame everything but sunspots on Iraq, you were just trying to give us an economics lecture! Allow me to offer my most profuse apologies to you, Great One. I don’t know why I didn’t see it sooner. Must be my Gestapo-like homoerotic brain keeping me from seeing the golden light of your profundity. I guess what threw me was when you gave a bunch of metrics about the dollar, oil, and grains and then associated those changes with Iraq. I can see now that you were just outlining how supply and demand works, following in the footsteps of Keynes, Smith, Friedman, et. al. trying to shine a light where all else is dark. By all means accept my apology. (Head smack) How could I have been so blind?
And don’t be so modest, comparing yourself to one of the Founding Fathers – their words are clearly no match for your rapier-like ripostes. You should aim much higher. Don’t sell yourself so short!
You know, you’re absolutely right about 9-11 and Iraq, too. There was no connection between 9-11 and Iraq. Bush even said so. I think (and you be sure to let me know if I’m off base here) that there was a connection between our view toward Iraq before 9-11 and after. Before that day, we could take our time in getting rid of him (which was the order of the day, if I’m not mistaken). Afterward, well, maybe not so much. And if the worst thing we’ve done is get rid of a dictator and free a people, history will forgive us for that. If by not acting, we’d have lost a city, again, maybe not so much. That’s the point I was making. But, hey, I’m sure your expertise also runs not only in economics but also in foreign policy – Kissenger, Bismark, Metternicht – bah! I’m sure you’ll enlighten us further on what should have been done, and what to do now. I can’t wait!
Re sacrifice: you know, you’re right again. (Damn, you’re good!) Neither one of us has sacrificed a whole lot. I’ve never worn a uniform, shouldered a weapon, or stood a post. But should we shit on those who are? That kind of rubs me the wrong way, but if you say so, ok!
But enough talk – it’s time for action. Tell you what – let’s go join up together! Let’s meet at a recruiting station of your choice and sign up for duty. Service of your choice. And if you don’t like any of our branches of service, you can get a one-way ticket to Damascus where they’ll have a bomb vest waiting for you. Hell, I’ll pay for your ticket. Delta is ready when you are.
And lastly, I must say you are quite perceptive. You really tagged me perfectly. I’m a profanity-filled retarded uneducated-about-economics closeted statist homoerotically-obessessed ass-raping Nazi homo in my mom’s basement – and I was also head of torture/hazing at Abu Ghraib and Gitmo!
You weren’t calling me names, you were just speaking truth! Bravo, Great One. Again I bow to your superior intellect. You’ve seen through my elaborate ruse. What a fool I was for thinking I could put one past you.
I hereby retract my offer of warm personal secretions to you.
Good Day to you, sir.
July 8th, 2008 at 8:10 am
Locking this baby up.