Who the fuck is Mike Pence and why should I care what the fuck he said?

Let’s see… the last time a rock was turned over and a hot, steamy “potential GOP candidate for 2012″ slithered into the daylight, we all got to play the “Appalachian Trail nudge nudge” game.

I give it a month before stories start surfacing about Mike Pence and his penchant for little boys/goats/french ticklers/his neighbor’s wife and/or annie de franco’s really old stuff. And then it’ll be *so* over for the Lion of Indiana…

Pence might actually be dumber than Sarah Palin, but Ambinder doesn’t recognize stupid when he sees it. He just reports what stupid says, like a good towel boy.

And here is Matt Yglesias pointing out, time and again, that Mike Pence is a dumbshit who knows nothing about policy.

Jesus, I weep for this country.

Put Joe the Plummer in an Armani suit and through a two week public relations course at the Heritage Foundation and, voila, you have Mike Pence.

I defense of Ambinder, they would have to be dumber than he is before he would notice it.

Dress up a brain-damaged female baboon, put her through the same course and, voila, Sarah Palin.

Remember how there wasn’t even a murmur from the GOP when Joe Klein called them nihilists? That’s because they don’t know what the word meant.

Re the little old lady: Why is America so fucking ugly?

I’m pretty sure that Mike Pence said James Whitcomb Riley was an “asshole.” And I know he said Elnora Comstock was “loose.” Pass it on.

Could be big. Developing…

He’s Joe Six Pence!

potential White House hopeful

Damn, he’s a shoo-in!

I look forward to this one being caught in an airport washroom stall in two wet suits and a strap on. Cuz you know he’s into it.

I think you want to point to this Big Media Matt post. It’s quite stunning.

I wouldn’t bet on his being caught in any amusing peccadilloes. He’s obviously too dumb to negotiate the subterfuge.

As for his 2012 prospects, forget it. McCain, Romney, Giuliani, Huckabee; they may be wrong about everything, but they ain’t stupid.

I dunno….

Almost 60 million people voted last year for Caribou Barbie to be one heartbeat away from being President behind a sickly, angry, 72 year old man. They “met” her just two months earlier, and she did nothing but flounder the more she had to reveal herself, yet that many people still voted for her ticket.

With proper stage management, you can get a Repub to do just about anything, so I wouldn’t rule out Joe Six Pence no matter how much of a moran he is.

No, teh butt secks is just an added bonus for them.

I went to college with Pence. We graduated in the same class form a small college. He was a self-righteous dweeb then and he hasn’t changed. He’s dangerous. Dumb as a bag of rocks but thinks he’s really smart….

He “cherishes Limbaugh’s voice”?
“Rush doesn’t have a racist bone in his body”?
Give him credit — he lies pretty good with his lips firmly attached to Boss Limbaugh’s anal-cyst butt.

“Norah, I think we can all agree that when Rush Limbaugh says, ‘I want Obama to fail’ he’s saying that, like all of us, he wants the president to succeed.”

And you wonder why the GOP has been whittled down to finks, dwarfs, phonies, and frogs.

Here is Mike Pence demonstrating, again, that Van Jones is an astute judge of politicians like Mr. Pence himself.

Doesn’t anyone here want to comment on Van Jones comments trash talking the USA and being a committed Communist?? His admission that “green job czar” is just a ploy to take over the economy? His admission that he is a “truther” and actually believes George Bush blew up the Towers? The silence in the progressive press is deafening. Good. If Obama keeps Van Jones, the cancer on the Presidency will grow and Obama will be histoire by the Congress in 2011. Bye-Bye Health Care Socialism. And good riddance.

Forgot your meds today, did you?

Now I’m really confused! If Obama’s Hitler and Pat Buchanan spent all last week babbling about how Hitler was really quite awesome and just, kinda, you know, misunderstood, does that mean “Uncle Pat” is now an Obama supporter?

Wasn’t that snark? No sane person would write that kind of nonsense, right?

You obviously have not been reading the letters to the editor in my local paper.

force butt sex down America’s throat

That’s the part that has me freaked out. I don’t think it’s even topologically possible.

The Ds are always caught flat footed when one of their own commits these gaffs, while the Rs take advantage full bore. Similarly, the Ds never take advantage of the Rs far more serious gaffs. This is where I type: Darwin Awards for the Ds all around.

It’s a chain reaction.

Well, if even your jaws are unhinged…

I dunno, it seems almost unavoidable given the prevalence of asshattery these days.

“Pence-Schilling 20l2…no Guineas, but a whole lot of Farthing”

I live in Indiana and, well, what can I say about Pence?

We all have our cross to bear.

Gotta ’splain that one to me. I’m totally clueless.

Some sort of currency exchange.

I caught that part, but the currencies seem to be ancient British and I don’t know how that relates to the U.S.

Mark Pence is a fucking douche nozzle and there is not opne reason on God’s green earth to give a shit about one single thing that comes out of his fucking mouth – because it’s a fucking lie, whetever it is.

Their homoerotic fantasies are obviously getting totally out of hand.

A bit of non-sequitur word-play, methinks.

Did someone say farting ?

And apparently an incoherent and incomprehensible lie at that.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Funny.

The slipperier ones are hard to maintain a grip on.

Whatever happened to that other asshole? Not Boner. the one that looks like a goofy, geeky kid ?

So it wasn’t about farting?

Pence, shillings (12p), guineas (12s) , and farthings (1/4p).

I don’t understand the conflict here.
My understanding is that most Rebublicans try as hard as they can to be assholes and are proud of their efforts.
Since when do they disavow their assholism?

You know that the ones protesting being called assholes are in fact, the biggest assholes.
I thought this was common knowledge.

Can we get Thers in here to clear up this controversy?
Perhaps Repubs are pissed because they should be properly classified as “fucking assholes?”

Which one? They have so many that I cannot keep track of them all.

Reply to self:

Eric Cantor. what’s he been up to?

It’s so interesting that all these people refer to Obama as Hitler because most of them know absolutely nothing about Hitler. It’s unlikely they ever even been to German – before, during or after Hitler. It seems a shame for them to keep referring to a man who caused the world so much pain and there are people living today who suffered because of his lunatic ideas. Shame on the wingnuts.

Is that the proper classification? Did not know that. That’s what I’ve been calling them all along pretty much.

Guineas seem to be a recurring theme around here.

Praying for Obama’s death?

ROFL!

He’s been busy figuring out that we can use borrowed money to pay off the federal debt.

Yeah. They’d really love to see Joe The Biden in the Oval Office.

That or “fucking shitty assholes”.

??????

You are assuming that they are even capable of foresight or grasping the notion of cause and effect.

I believe that you are correct, but would defer to Thers in the proper use of the “fucking” classification.

these people vote for whoever their clerics tell them to. Just like the corresponding set in Iran.

Could be either one as far as I’m concerned. Foxman’s probably right. Thers would have then definitive answer if there is one.

New Guinea, (old) Guinea, and guinea pigs all cropped up a couple nights ago.

My question is What THE fuck IS Mike Pence? And I know he is not capable of any thought that could be described as coherent!

Wow. That’s pretty obscure!

Agreed. Hadn’t read that when I put up my #61.

Ahhh. Just a mild “senior moment” on my part. At least we have never gotten into Guinea fowl.

It is his area of expertise. One of them anyway.

It was only a matter of time.

You have to know anthropologists (like cinnamonape, EDP, and myself). We revel in obscure trivia.

He’s a dick.

I always wondered what kind of country comes up with such irregular units of exchange.. or of measure for that matter.

In my case a matter of “times,” as in how many times today?

Well, I hope someone clears it up.

I’ve been calling em “Mutha Fucking Assholes” every time I see one on TV.

That’s usually right before I throw something at it.

Go on Jeoprady, man!

I take exception to that. On behalf of the dicks of the world I disown him (and Cheney, too).

I hope you have fun with each other.

But not a DrDick.

I made the distinction in #77.

This one always comes to mind when I see Pennce, Boner, Cantor, Palin…………….. &c.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zZrB9WS9oA

Most of them originally. The regularization of currency and measures are recent phenomena, mostly dating to the Enlightment. From the Wikipedia article on the topic (I had to look up the actual value of the currencies), a shilling was originally the price of a sheep. Prior to Henry VIII, a yard was the distance from the tip of your nose to the tip of your middle finger. A fathom was the distance between finger tips with arms outstretched. A cubit was from the elbow o the finger tip. A foot was just that, the length of your foot. Henry standardized them to his measurements.

Right. Thought it went without saying. No offense intended. Doctor. (Pause) Dick. (As sooozanne sez)

No problema. After surviving adolescence, it does not phase me a bit anymore.

Henry VIII was a fucking asshole, too.

So was King George…. W that is, the “decider.”

Standardization of weights & measures contributed mightily to economic development. I’m no expert in economic history, but have picked this up from my general reading.

Adolesence was rough was it? Seriously. No bullshit. I was gonna ask “do you prefer Dick or was it forced on you?” Think I’ll just drop that whole line. where were we?

Bigfoot, given that his foot was actually a foot long.

In that case, it sounds like Napoleon had a point. ‘course he flip flopped on metric a couple of times. Flipflopper.

That was part of the forces behind it, along with the emerging science.

All i know is I’m ‘merican an’ I don’t want nothin’ to do with that one-world-gummint metric stuff.

In fact, Henry VIII’s habit of discarding the old wife and replacing with a newer one set the standard for modern Republican politicians.

Only metric stuff I ever leanrt was 28 grams in an ounce.

That’s what I said. Fucking asshole.

Ah! so when Cheney went on TV and said he was proud of telling a Dem Senator to go F..k himself on the Senate floor.Ambinder & the other village bufoons had no problem with that scenario but “asshole” coming from the mouth of an AA who works at the WH is a no-no.Hmmmmm!not much has changed folks.

I never really had a choice, but always have though of myself as “Dick.” My non-academic friends gave me the nick “Dr. Dick” as a joke, which I also enjoy and have adopted as my nome de blog. Adolescence was rather rough, not helped by the fact that I have Tourettes which manifested itself in a rather spectacular manner about then.

Did come out right in print. I meant Henry VII was a fucking asshole thereby setting the standard for today’s Republican fucking asshole. In print it looks like I’m calling you a Fucking Asshole, Foxman. Not what i meant at all.

speaking personally, I equate a desire to stick with archaic measurement units with da’ Republics. Perhaps the Dems should adopt conversion to the metric system as a party platform.. bein’ the forward lookin’ party an’ all.

And 2.2 lbs to the Kilo. Free enterprise is very educational.

Lots of contributors, but standardization of weights & measures is a frequently overlooked one, because it seems so trivial from today’s POV.

Wow. Can I sell you a “pound” of gold?

The desire to stick with all things archaic can be equated with da’ Republics.

Did noty know you had Tourettes. Adolesence was when I first learned i was epileptic which freaked out my peers. I got very little shit about it, though. I honestly think I scared the piss out of alot of people.

I have a great nephew with a mild form of Tourettes (head circling). Does it become less prominent with age, or did you remediate somehow?

good point.

It’s funny. I do quite a bit of work with energy economics. The old guys at work do all their measurements in BTUs. The young ones use KWh. It’s pretty funny watching them confuse each other.

No apology necessary. I was just kicking myself for not ending #91 with “fucking asshole.”

well, metric is my preferred system but why don’t we give our present sysytem a few more years and if we don’t like it we can adopt a mechanism to trigger the beginning of an eventual possible conversion to the metric system.

You cannot really make large scale commerce work without standardized weights and measures. In addition to the highly variable body part measures I mentioned, there were a number of competing systems of measure in most European countries. All of this was fine as long as commerce was limited and fairly localized as it was in the Middle Ages, but became unmanageable as commerce expanded.

LOL

It seems like an opportunity for an Obama to come along and propose a post-BTU-kwh regime.

I would rather know my weight in stone than pounds, sounds better.

I was at the airport a few months ago and saw TSA idiots trying to detain a guy with tourettes at the metal detectors because they thought he was a terrist or something. They had to call for reinforcements because so many angry passengers were shouting at the insensitive TSAers, trying to explain that the guy had a real clinical condition. They shushed everyone away before I could see whether or not they ultimately let the poor guy through.

whatever happened to just having wars and whoever wins, that’s whose system you use. seems much simpler that way.

When I visit a country or a city I try to read a book somehow associated with it. When I went to Florence, I happened upon a very detailed academic book about the Medicis and how they did business internationally in an era when the R.C. church forbade interest payments. As dry as it was, it was fascinating. Contained actual entries from Medicis books. But it taught me a lot about the benefits of standardization, and the complications of not having it. One of the Medicis’ great advantages was figuring out a bookkeeping system to take account of all the nonstandard business items.

It’s a smaller number, but your health is influenced by reality, not by the number you measure it in. (Note to reality-creationists.)

Well, good for the ordinary folks waiting in line. I wouldn’t have thought Tourettes was so widely understood as to elicit public support in the situation you describe.

Acapulco, Moroccan, or…

I had fairly severe Tourettes, but fortunately it tends to moderate and sometimes go into remission as you age. Normally this happens in the later 20s, but waited until the 40s for me. I still have some muscular tics, but only episodically (especially when I am tired or under stress). Most of the time I am largely asymptomatic now.

How old is your nephew? There are a number of other behavioral issues associated with Tourettes (OCD behaviors, ADHD, emotional volatility, a tendency to depression, and others) that often get overlooked in the face of the muscle tics and can cause a lot of grief. The Tourettes Association has good information on this, as does the CDC.

My choice as BFL wants to adhere to nonstandard measures.

Everybody must get stoned!

You could have told me AFTER I finished dessert.

You know it’s blogs like this that give DFHs a bad rep with our conservative, “respectable” Republican fellow citizens.
We use bad words to humiliate and dehumanize them; they use torture and murder.
We are SO fucked up.

Al Lawson was here before. Didn’t know he was running against a Blue Dog.

In one of those coincidences the boggle the mind, one of my colleague’s mother is a physician in NYC who is an expert on Tourettes.

Bob said once that the song was about criticism, although I’m confident the ambiguity was intentional.

it was at SFO. I have the impression that they do a little more idjucamayshun in that city. I wouldn’t be that optimistic at SAN or LAX.

Yeah, I saw that on a drive by. I didn’t either. No time like the present to crank it up.

eCAHN – I was referring to the type of “gold” *g* Mayhaps if I’da said Afghan finger hash with an opium stripe…

You think it’s dehumanizing someone to say he is a douchebag?

My great nephew is 12. He’s been diagnosed, the first step to remediation IMO, as the mother of an ADD, and the boss of a research assistant with learning disabilities. My great nephew also is ADD. He’s quite articulate about himself, as he’s really really smart. So articulate and smart that it’s all the understanding adults can do to put up with him. Re the head circling, he says he knows when he does it but not enough in advance to be able to stop doing it.

I think he’ll be OK. His Mom is really on top of it.

Insteresting aside: No one in the family, including my great nephew’s Mom’s sister, with whom she is close, know the sexual orientation, or even if there is one, of my great nephew’s Mom. She teaches 3 year olds at a private school, has always baby sat, has never has a sexual relation that anyone in the family knows about. Went thru artificial insemination twice, and a difficult pregancy to produce this wonderful boy. We all want the very very best for him

Speaking of dessert, I have a wonderful prune-plum cobbler that is way too much for me. Anyone wanting a serving, hold out your plates.

I think my great nephew is well served, but can you give me the name of the Tourette’s expert in case it is needed?

Still my choice!

Thank you *holding out plate* Go away, Gabby, you don’t like cobbler.

Prune-plum cobbler? That’s a joke, right? I just got me some red,white & blue cupcakes at Publix.

That may not mean what we think it does in the rethug dialect of orcish. For them it involves tying someone who disagrees with ‘em to a wall and hurling rocks at ‘im.

One other point worth mentioning is that Tourettes is a genetically dominant heritable trait, but does not necessarily manifest in same way. I think I inherited it from my father who had a number of minor tics. so far as I can tell my son dodged the bullet.

Must be something in the mix for kittahs.

Thanks, filler up please.

It depends on your definition of the word “douchebag.”
(h/t Bill Clinton: definition of the word “it”)

At the risk of being pedantic, prune plums are the ones that are purple on the outside, kind of oval, yellow on the inside. Dried, they are prunes. Fresh they make good eating and a great cobbler.

have you checked out a few rethug blogs these days? even comments on routine politics articles at Faux? They use much worse bad words we do.. mostly racial epithets and gender-curse words. Their blogs let the commenters get away with it as long as they echo the poster’s bigotry.

With or without whipped cream. (Squeeeesh. I knew the A before I asked the Q. Whipped cream piled up really high.)

Her last name is Appelbaum (or her husband’s is anyway), but I do not know the first name. She may be retired as my colleague is in her 40s. Here is a link to Tourettes resources. The Tourette Society of America is also a good resource.

Thanks. My theory is that nothing is fattening if I eat with my eyes closed.

In my case, it is as long as I do not look in the mirror.

I just don’t have the stomach to read the Red blogs or listen to Limbaugh, or watch FOX “News.”
I have to rely on second hand accounts from folks with more intestinal fortitude to report on the miscreants behaviour.
But I do know they go nuts when somebody to their left says “asshole” or “fuck.”

Fuck those assholes.

Thanks.

& ratfood. Thanks for the tips.

you should see what they’re calling Van Jones…. The Czar has been THE headliner over at Faux all day. One of their commentators actually said that he’s shocked that the Secret Service would let such a dangerous “communist” into the WH to visit, much less to take a job.

Pretty funny that those folks think that we should be afeared of a “communist” in the 21st century.
Personally, I’m more afraid of corporate lobbyists interaction with government.

Every village had their own set of measures that merchants had to abide by or face fines. I imagine that locals had a pretty good idea of what those standards were, but outsiders likely had to spend a lot of time juggling their volumes and weights before County Faires. The standardization opened up trade and cut the cheating.

Interesting coincidence a friend of mine just wrote a Commentary on calling people a “douchebag”

“Let’s see… the last time a rock was turned over and a hot, steamy “potential GOP candidate for 2012″ slithered into the daylight, we all got to play the “Appalachian Trail nudge nudge” game. “

Recent “bright new stars” of the GOP, Sarah Palin and Bobby Jindal are waiting to welcome pence into the winners circle.

Beck and Faux just did BO and the Dems a big favor in kicking Jones out before the next election.

I really like you guys.

In a manly way, of course.