Off topic: (& first!!)

But I thought you should know: Rockers Creed in talks to reunite

So riddle me this….

My guess is that, even in the absence of donations from readers, they can manage to have a really rich guy step in and tide them over.

But…

I can’t really understand why the big foundations (Olin, Scaife, Bradley) always step in and make up the difference. I mean, I can understand subsidizing Thomas Sowell and the center at George Mason for Economists Who Love Rand. I can understand funding Cato and Heritage to produce faux-academic tomes about how the inheritance tax is the cause of all evil. But what’s the return on investment for the NRO crowd? If K-Lo and Crew stopped writing and posting their inanities tomorrow, would conservatism really be worse off? What’s the value of a non-thinking echo chamber to the boys at the Chamber of Commerce?

Look, I have a pretty good bet that NRO, NR, and the Weekly Standard don’t make money. The magazines don’t survive without extra funds. I can understand why you keep the WS and NR around to keep generating or marketing ideas, but NRO? What’s the value in that?

My Dad and his wife went on that cruise. For the last several months everytime we talked about anything to do about the Fall he’d mention, with no little pride, that immediately after the election he and the little woman would be going on A Cruise With The People From National Review. I giggled on the inside on the inside every time he said it.

If K-Lo and Crew stopped writing and posting their inanities tomorrow, would conservatism really be worse off?

I think movement conservatism would be better off, all the more reason for them to stay on the air

Sadly, I think now that William Fucking Buckley has bit it, the impetus to keep the National Review alive may have died with him. They don’t have to suck up to the old guy anymore, and he’s not their token non-Southern elite Ivy Leaguer anymore.

Of course, the really sad part of all this is that the National Review may die, but we’ll still have to see that moron Jonah Goldberg everywhere. He’s the wingnut version of Britney Spears — apparently no act of man or God can remove this vapid twit from our media.

Kathryn Jean Lopez and her tan lines? Ugh. That’s as frightening as that pic you used to run of John Podhoretz in a swimming pool with his alpaca sweater-like skin coating his pudgy body.

Wait–you mean that WASN’T a sweater he was wearing?!?!

We should all donate because someone has to keep the Titanic pointed at the iceberg.

Buckley was a mean spirited, queeny old bitch, just like most Republican “males,” including the NRO punks:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nYymnxoQnf8

I agree with Paulbeard. We should be helping these people and Sarah Palin and all the rest of the wingnuts stay on top of the “conservative movement”. We should donate to the NRO and every wingnut campaign in the country.

I bet Henry Paulson would consider sending some of the bailout bonanza their way — after all, they’re victims, too, and just as deserving as the big banks, no?

Right, because nothing could possibly go wrong with a plan like that…

There would be a certain divine justice if all of the readers of NRO had suddenly found themselves bankrupted by the maladministration they have cheered on for 30 years.

The more voices echoing this crap, the easier it is to pretend we’re a “center right” or even “conservative” nation. They don’t have to be smart voices. People remember someone said something that sounded vaguely anti-liberal and forget it was a total moron.

What could possibly be more fun than being on a “cruise” with a bunch of overweight, conservative white people?

Ooh, I know! Going to a Creed reunion concert.

*g*

Would you prefer to be shot or stabbed?

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Hell, the Washington Times (StRonnie’s favorite paper) has lost money every year they’ve printed. Only their benefactor, Rev. Moon, has kept the office open.

NRO readers are best reminded that K-Lo has tan lines from the cruise and she’s not afraid to share them

Didn’t you already post that picture?

Is there anyway, if we all donate enough money, that we can reset the course for the next NRO cruise to go through Somali pirate waters? Just trying to think outside the box.

I second that.

At least some of those tan lines may not be visible under her flesh apron, although whether that’s a blessing or not is up to the individual viewer.

The question is, do you want to be shot now, or wait ’til you get home? [/Fudd]

You know, the joy of the Christmas season always leads me to feel that I must contribute copious sums to keep alive a political spin distributorship that the sainted Free Market has seen fit to ignore. You too?

Lin? /s

psssst – did anyone tell Jack Fowler
that the reason he doesn’t have subway fare is bc the rest of the NRO crew get from point A to point B by cruiseline?

“It takes a lot of bucks to run NRO. Of course, each and every dollar we have is stretched to the max — we don’t have the luxury of, well, having luxuries.”

Oh, fer crying out loud, NRO takes fucking cruises! You think your readers are stupid or something?

Oh wait…

N-Pod’s got money, and Lucianne’s mouth can still provide suction, so the Knepotism Knuckleheads will keep on keepin’ on.

Next up: Heritage, AEI, Cato, Hoover and the rest of the wrecking crew need
to loose their tax-exempt status. Hey, I can dream.

Olin’s no longer in the game — they did a final funds disbursement in 2005 and closed up shop in accordance with Olin’s will, which specified that the foundation wasn’t to last for more than one generation after his death to avoid “mission drift” away from rabid conservatism.

Furthermore, some of the other big sugar daddies, such as Sheldon Adelson, have been buffeted about by the economic downturn and so have cut back on expenditures.

This is one reason why there’s a sudden drive to suck up to the religio-racist right, even though Sarah Palin doomed McCain with rational voters this year: With the flight of corporate money from conservatism, the TheoCons are becoming much more important as a potential sugar daddy for the wingnuts being hatched and nurtured in the sheltered workshops of the right.

curiosity got the best of me so I tried to find a picture of this k-lo…no can find, anyone can post a link?

Strap yourself in:

http://www.featurebank.com/?ti…..an%20Lopez

I kind of like he occasional “mean spirited, queeny old bitch.”

If it weren’t for the uni-brow, she’d be really unattractive.

you guys are NUTS. How could anyone resist the abundant and bountiful pleasures that lie under K-Lo’s pantsuits? The thick matted hair that runs from her thighs all the way up to her chest? The big soft belly you can sink into like a cozy but sexy armchair? The sweet sweet fragance of her womanly parts is like a Kentucky Fried Chicken scirroco, and just as greasy. be still my heart; stop churning, my stomach.

I’d have her on top, so I could look up at that gigantic quivering pile of guts she calls her body.

F*ck me, TBogg, but this is so hilarious I’m gonna have to start reading you regularly again…

Discount Reaganism…

ha ha

K-Lo is a corset, eating mayonnaise out of the jar with a spork.

Oh, gawd, that’s fantastic! Lose just one syllable somewhere and you have a perfect haiku…

Martin is going to lose decisively in Georgia despite Fulton’s votes. There is two wide a gap, too little Dem turnout although many of us did everything we could to get the vote out including getting people on the street to vote.

Of course Obama should have come in a couple times. He trumps TI who is hitting the talk show circuit pending his sentencing and federal incarceration for stupidly accumulating machine guns like a prototypical Chambliss backer.

I don’t know if Obama could have made a difference with what should have been 3 appearances here. He’s not that damn busy, and this economy and Iraq ain’t changing very quickly. The depression will set in, and there will still be nearly 70-100,000 troops in Iraq with the nauseaus tandem of Clinton and Gates at the helm with Biden trying to get a word in come 2010.

Obama was afraid to “squander his capital” whatever that existential concept is supposed to mean in a state that will remain a hick state, largely poorly educated and systemically biased for another 15 years until Latinos and Blacks overtake the white cracker tide.

From Nate’s live blog:

8:54 EST [Sean]: There just aren’t enough votes in DeKalb. Saxby Chambliss will win re-election.
8:40 EST [Sean]: From where I sit, this is looking pretty pessimistic for Jim Martin. The gap is 250,000 votes with over 1,000,000 in. We know that Fulton County hasn’t reported the heavy African-American precincts yet, but I’m also surprised the race hasn’t been called yet.

8:40 EST [Nate]: Well, I’ll say this … this race looks to be sufficiently nonclose that Obama is looking fairly smart for staying away from the state.

8:33 EST [Nate]. Most of Cobb County in … Chambliss won by 10.9 points on Election Day, winning by 27.6 points tonight. And turnout is fairly high there. Now, it may be the case that even within a given county, the more rural, redder areas tend to report first … but … frankly, I’m not sure why this hasn’t gotten called yet.

8:29 EST [Nate]: But even in DeKalb, Martin’s margins are materially off what they were on Election Day. On the other hand, turnout looks to be at a pretty good clip there.

8:23 EST [Sean]: DeKalb is coming in. About 14% of the precincts are in, and Martin gained 20,000 votes back.

8:20 EST [Sean]: The numbers look ominous from what’s in. On the other hand, DeKalb and Fulton aren’t in, and we’re hearing that there are good numbers there. If the gap gets to be 200,000 before those counties report, however, that’s probably all she wrote for Martin.

8:19 EST [Nate]: Sean should have more detail in a moment, but the reason this hasn’t gotten called yet is because there’s basically nothing in from the Democrat-heavy counties in Atlanta or the black belt. Martin, however, is going to need to do a lot better in those counties than he is elsewhere in the state, overperforming his November 4 margins and/or getting proportionately greater turnout than Martin is getting in red counties. But we’re in hail mary territory at this point, at least from where I sit.

8:01 EST [Nate]: I haven’t found a single county with a significant percentage of the vote in where Chambliss isn’t performing better than he did on November 4. This looks like a 14 point win for him or something.

7:54 EST [Nate]: Gwinnett County: Chambliss won by 10.8 points on November 4, winning by 28.9 points so far tonight. Don’t see how in the world this is happening for Martin.

7:50 EST [Sean]: For those following on the Georgia Secretary of State’s site, those numbers can appear to be fully in (i.e., 7 out of 7 precincts reporting), and may still change. So keep an eye on that.

7:45 EST [Sean]: Per reports in the field, long lines in Savannah were only just finishing up.

7:44 EST [Nate]: You’re in a better position than I am to know, Sean, but this looks like a good night for Chambliss so far. Take Whitfield County, for instance, which has 12 of its 25 precincts counted so far. Chambliss won that county by 31.3% on November 4, but he’s winning it by 40.6% so far tonight. Those results appear to be fairly typical. If you’re really scraping for good news for Martin, turnout is pretty light in Whitfield at least, extrapolating out less than 40% of November 4’s numbers.

7:39 EST [Sean]: As of three weeks ago, 174 unpaid veteran Obama organizers were in the state, and more flooded the state in the final days. Estimates put the number of experienced Obama organizers at over 300.

7:33 EST [Sean]: The polls have closed in Georgia, including in two Fulton County that stayed open half an hour later. In the very earliest returns Saxby Chambliss has opened with a large percentage lead. That might hold, but until we get Fulton and DeKalb results we’re not going to know for sure.

I’ve also noticed the NRO Tin Cup Banner the few times I’ve clicked through a link to verify, “No! He/She/They really said that???” That there was an iceberg in the Caribbean is — um — what’s German for a side of gravy?

I think (or hope) that now that Daddy Warbucks Buckley has shuffled off the mortal coil, we’ll see more of that. Based upon what I’ve observed, few of Miss Sarah’s adoring masses can pony up the same dough, even cumulatively, even after tapping out their kids’ GED funds. Those that could are probably tucking away some couch change for that villa in the (extradition proof) Bahamas.

Tangentially, I imagine that Rich, K-Lo, and the rest of the Keepers of the Flame think, in the dark of night, “Damn! Miss Sarah’s $150,000 RNC gift card could keep the lights on around here a few more weeks.”

Enough to soften the woodiest woody, I’m sure.

Chambliss 58%
Martin 42%

Ah jist cain’t unnerstan whah the white cracker JawJaws couldn’t get down with this kind of campaigner who was out for Jim Martin yesterday. It done seem to mesh with JawJaw valoos fer as ah kin tell.

“Yeah! Lady on the street freak in the bed” Usher and Ludacris on the 111th Congress

Got it on yo ringtone yet?

I met this girl named Keysha, she was so sweet, nails stay manicured, pretty little feet, shoes so sexy, body so hot, hair lookin like she just came from the shop, legs so smooth, clothes so tight, style so sexy, make her just right, never too much, never too little, black laced bra, vicki secrets in the middle, eyes so innocent, smile so bright, works in the mornin, but she’ll party all night, all for a man, all cause she bought it, all cause she crazy in love and dont doubt it, product of her birth place, know about the streets, clean in the work place, dirty in the sheets, keeps her own toaster, makes her own bread, lady in the streets, but a freak in the bed.

There weren’t a lot of Keyshas standin’ behind the Moroncuda with signs sayin’ “Don’t take mah Guns.”