If only he could make up the rules. But Calvin Ball is taken…

Does Mr. FreeHamburger even know what a Va-jay-jay is? Inquiring minds need to know.

I think the last one he was in close proximity to belonged to his mom

So bowling leagues are now churches? Separation of pins and State!

Freeburg! Whooo!

It’s possible that is the last one that FreeHamburger *wishes* to be in close contact with. Just saying…

Did we hear a certain incumbent president talk about civility once?

Oh, sure, Obama’s responsible for those nasty ladies and their sluttrollopy bowling team names.

We never hear the end of how churches need to keep their mouths shut about politics lest they endanger their tax-exempt status, but tax-exempt groups on the other side can donate to the most radical, brazenly partisan organizations on the block?

So the two sides = Churches vs. “the other side,”?

Pretty much openly acknowledging that for him, it’s Team Politics.

And, gee, as along as we’re taking sides, I don’t suppose there are any radical, brazenly partisan organizations on the right?

Also, too: because giving your bowling team a tacky name is EXACTLY THE SAME as vocally wishing for the murder of those with whose politics you disagree.

Apparently he is quite sure that his Bronze Age, goat herder-derived, then ecclesiastically-sorted for piety (meaning “what we approve of”) in the Middle Ages and the content “adjusted” ever since is of much higher Sky Daddy juju juice than anything those dirty little sluts on the Kiss my Uter-Ass team might have, you know, juju-wise. Or maybe in this case it is Va-jay-jay-wise. He’ll never know, just like he’ll never know the joys of an up close and personal relationship with a Va-jay-jay and the person it belongs to.*

* Of course, he’ll never agree that anyone’s va-jay-jay actually belongs to the person it is attached to; that’s church property.

I see he attends Hillsdale College where George Roche III once presided. Now there was a man who knew the joys of an up close and personal relationship with a Va-jay-jay and the person it belongs to.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillsdale_College

I do so wish the churches, synagogues, mosques, ashrams and various religious outfits started paying their fair share of society’s burden. Then they can spout off all the bizarro political nutty-ness they want. Something about by their deeds/words/stupidity you will know them.

and teams that contain names for women’s private parts that only Bill Maher feels comfortable saying.

Only Bill Maher! Wow! Does that mean every liberal/feminist blogger is Bill Maher in disguise?

He does have a whiff of the Gary Bauer about him, now that you mention it.

Well, I ventured over to Calvin the Cleanser’s personal blog
and found this nugget in his “About Me” section;

(On the apolitical side of things, I’m also a trumpet player, a cat person, and a science fiction nerd with an offbeat sense of humor.)

That’s a recipe for a lot of Saturday nights spent alone, guzzling Grape Nehi by the gallon, and nodding off at 9:30 half-way through the Designing Women marathon on TV Land.

And the self loathing is strong with this one.

I just have to say that anyone who uses the word “homunculus” in a sentence is alright by me.

Hey! A lotta us working types nod off at 9.30! (That’s what the marathon LawnOrders iz for, after all.) 4.30am comes damned early, Scout!

Heh – the creature who tried to destroy my life (and who was ultimately destroyed himself by his inequities) sorta ‘taught’ at Hillsdale. I’ve always ‘treasured’ that school for its absolute lack of standards, ethics and scholarship.

This is OT but you do have a tag “I touch myself”. And Breitbart .com is part of this. That is, this, TBogg is becoming serious punditry. He is so serious people are stealing his material!

Breitbart.com’s Joel Pollak explained that the ‘Forward’ “borrows…from decades of communist iconography.” Pollak checks off a litany of scary historixcal world leaders whose lineage Obama is supposedly following, from Marx, Stalin, and Mao, to Benito Mussolini, to Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa. “Communist leaders frequently used — and still use — the word ‘forward,’” he notes.

The Washington Times also sees a “rich association with European Marxism,” quoting at length from Wikipedia to prove the point.

Meanwhile, ever-hyperbolic blogger Jim Hoft went straight for Hitler, writing that ‘Forward’ was a “marching song of the Hitler youth.” He added a helpful illustration of Hitler Youth wearing Obama pins.

Most of us did not make the connection of Obama and the Hitler Youth. But, a historian such as Pat Buchanan can connect those dots.

You know who else wore a cat costume and seduced Dr. Who with a trumpet serenade?

Yup yup yup.

Osama Obama.

He does twitter twat though. Does that count?

Is that a picture of Rick Santorum as a teenager?

Twenty minute trumpet jam?

That’d be dope!

…more than several…

is that, like, a smattering?

It’s not so much that Pat Buchanan’s a historian of the wrong side in WW2, as he just remembers it. I expect he’s where Jonah got the idea that the Nazis were liberal. “God, what a bunch of pinkos,” Pat would tell him.

Meanwhile, ever-hyperbolic blogger Jim Hoft

This would be the brilliant Jim Hoft who managed to mistake a closed-captioned video for the hearing impaired that indicated when applause occurred, to the government’s heavy hand ordering the assembled minions to applaud the President?

Good times….

Some of us can’t even make it that late. And 4:30 really comes early some days….

Well, ya done got Cal’s attention:

Calvin Freiburger ‏ @CalFreiburger

Some delinquent at @FireDogLake doesn’t like me very much: http://fdl.me/JGBryY Note well the total lack of counter-argument…

[Thx to guns@21 for the twitter link, which made this glorious find possible.]

Oh no you don’t!

Hatmandu@15 did it!

Be proud of the find, guns! But I recommend a proven product to get the Santorum-stink out. I hear that bathing in tomato juice doesn’t actually work.

Dayum, this is a big moment for ol’ Cal. He has fewer followers than my pseudonymous account, and I ain’t even trying – unless frequent retweeting of @pourmecoffee and @MacMcClelland counts as effort.

This can only help his valiant cause. He should come to the rescue of @tracydavisgop, who was so terrorized by TBogg recently. Something beautiful interesting best left undiscussed might come of that.

Au contraire, Cal. We like you a whole lot.

And what kind of counter argument could you possibly expect for “The women-folk made rude bowling team names?”

Please keep posting.

People should know better than to mess with an yclept irate historian.

Oh, Joy! Tbogg got a rise out of his outrageous-peckerhead-of-the-week and can now cross swords with him indefinitely, while ignoring Obama’s drift into political oblivion…and progressives with him.

Just what we need; no pressure on our beloved centrist preznint, while shrieking about every wingnut who’s talking out of his ass, AND who is dragging Romney to the right…not to mention allowing Obama to blithely hang out about 3 percentage points to the left of him.

Tbogg, are you sure you’re not getting something under table from the RNC?

“Some delinquent at @FireDogLake”

A somewhat popular delinquent no doubt.

It’s a big internet tanbark. If you are looking for Obama bashing, you can certainly find it somewhere.

Start at Glenn Greenwald at Salon and go from there.

We”ll just keep doing our thing here.

drift into political oblivion…and progressives with him.

I think you’re more upset that Obama didn’t lead you out of political oblivion, not that he’s taking you there with him.

I blame Obama for your whiny attempts to hijack comment threads.

Start your own blog, Champ. Take your whining to the masses…

‘Some delinquent’? Incorrigible!

I take TBogg as my mentor in such things.

Just what we need; no pressure on our beloved centrist preznint,

Seriously, tanbark? Seriously????? You think writing concern trollery like yours “pressures” the decisions of Washington, so you sternly must pooh-pooh the snark?

Who the fuck are you, Allen West?

Go get ‘em, Tanbark! After all, truly knowledgeable people know that all the key political battles – the ones that shift public opinions and values, and in turn take their political representatives to better policies – take place on Internet blogs.

It’s to your credit that you recognize that the magical invisible Unicorn of Hopes & Dreams cannot fail, it can only be failed.

My ‘Free Mumia’ T-Shirt is getting pretty worn out. Mind if I borrow your comment as a substitute?

Either self-loathing, or mere self-ignorance, to coin a phrase. To tell others that you have “an offbeat sense of humor” is to raise nerd-ish, arrested adolescent obliviousness to the level of performance art.

Jeebus, Tbogg, where do you find these mutants?

I know this is really uncivil of me but the first thing I thought when I saw Cal’s image up there was,”You sure got some purty lips there, boy.”

Jeebus, Tbogg, where do you find these mutants?

They’re EVERYWHERE!

Abortion is “partisan” now? Well, these bowlers are puttin’ the “parti” back in it, I guess.

~ Harry R. Sohl

Just what we need; no pressure on our beloved centrist preznint, while shrieking about every wingnut who’s talking out of his ass, AND who is dragging Romney to the right…not to mention allowing Obama to blithely hang out about 3 percentage points to the left of him.

Tbogg, are you sure you’re not getting something under table from the RNC?

Tanbark is correct! Tbogg is helping Romney in this election by pointing out the craziness of his base. You can only truly help Obama, by attacking Obama. Like noted, left-wing Superpac, Foxnews.

Or, in other words:

Self-righteous, purist scold, scolds fellow liberals for wasting valuable time and energy on pointless blog post by wasting valuable time and energy posting on pointless blog post. Again.

Tanbark/Halperin 2012!

Self-righteous, purist scold, scolds fellow liberals for wasting valuable time and energy on pointless blog post by wasting valuable time and energy posting on pointless blog post. Again.

I intend to immortalize this comment. Embroidery on cushion, I think; or maybe needlepoint.

To all the pom-pommers in their little mouseketeer “O” jerseys:

Ranting about Ann Romneys walk-in shoe closet, or digging up some outrageous knuckle-dragger to drag around and flay on while ignoring the reality of what Obama is doing to the progressive agenda, is nothing but flacking for another four years of this lamest of lame ducks. That you people are at ease with it, and are defending Obama pimps like TBogg means one thing:

You are part of the problem; not the solution.

TBogg why don’t you use your real name?

Afraid some crazy idiot blogger will try and tear you down?

My advice is that you take your serious concern for what you believe is the real issue and offer it to someplace where they might actually give a shit.

Or you could try this site. You can send them emails and everything! I’m told they have a bit more control of things that matter to you more than A Somewhat Popular Blogger does.

Are you telling us that your parents – whose surname, apparently, are the Lifes – named you Get A? What does your middle initial stand for? Around? After? Amway? Or is it like Harry S Truman, who just added an middle initial to his name so it would look impressive?

Do your friends call you Get? Getty? Getmeister? Getarino?

I know what I call someone who uses a fake name on the internet to bitch about someone using a fake name on the internet, but I’d like to open the floor to suggestions.

You missed the point. Calvin frihamberger, or whatever, at least has the balls to use his name.

TBogg uses this guys personal life to make fun of him… so who is really the one that is hiding?

Tanbark-you are so awesome. I feel your points are completely valid. For years I’ve been ignoring what Obama is doing to the progressive agenda and now you have pointed this very important issue out to me. Please direct me to the website where the progressive agenda is made in such detail and with great care.

One more question, besides bringing your particularly boring and humorless brand of scolding to the party at Chez Bogg, what are you doing for the progressive agenda?

It took me two clicks to find out TBogg’s real name. I used the internet to do it. Pretty amazing thing, if you ask me.

Plus, if you took the time to scroll up to the top of this page, you would have found that the name of the person he’s writing about is Calvin Freiburger. I just copied it from there and pasted it in. I know – rocket science, eh?

And you missed my point. You’re using a fake name to criticize someone for using a fake name. And it’s clearly obvious from Freiburger’s post that he has no balls. He’s posting a pointless complaint on the internet criticizing people for doing something that gives him the vapors. Ironic, huh?

The big bag of salted dicks is open. We invite you to eat from it.

You got me. My real name is Sarah Phillips.

God. That is so freeing….

New around here? TBogg’s real name has never been a secret, although stupid people have occasionally thought it might be. This has a pretty long history, here’s one from 2006: http://tbogg.blogspot.com/2006/08/very-passive-aggressive-outing-blogger.html

I would have guessed Emo Phillips, but that’s just me.

TBogg IS his real name, silly

I would’ve guessed Master Thespian, myself.

Wait! You mean it’s not Dorothy?!

You mean Mrs T is straight?

Mrs. T, yes. I’m a little less certain about Wembley.

I get your point and I agree with the sense of it, but I do find TBogg (mostly) very funny and I wonder how hacking at the Betrayer in Chief gets to be his job.

Maybe you’ll give me a straight answer to the question I’ve been trying to get the various trolls like tanbark to answer.

If not O’bama then who?

Nader/Paul 2012!

Obviously.

How did O’bama betray us?

What did he actually do to betray the progressive movement?

Also, I don’t really recall O’bama running as a “Progressive” Candidate. So how can he betray the nation by not being a “Progressive” when he never really claimed to one?

If anything O’bama is a Pragmatist, great responsibility tends to have that affect on a person.

“AND who is dragging Romney to the right…”

You’re kidding, right? Romney has a mansion/mausoleum built on the Right. He was born there, lives there, will die and be buried there. The only dragging goin’ on here, is the dragging through the fetid fever swamps of unchecked, unregulated Koch-inspired PAC ads we’ll be subjected to in the six months.

“…dragging,” my ass.

Great Ticket!

We’ll all be nailed to a Cross of Gold, then get run over by a Chevy Corvair.

Romney or third party. Are there other possibilities I haven’t thought of?

Please review his campaign speeches. He talked a lot and the evidence is all over the web. Youtube is an excellent place to start. Just last night saw an example of his transparency promise. It was stirring, great applause lines. I didn’t believe him in the first place so I wasn’t surprised at the ending, but, you know, some people did think he’d keep his word here and there. I find him very like a woman I knew who always said the opposite of what she actually intended: whatever she said, just turn it around to the opposite and there she was. Kind of heart stopping when she said, “I would never leave my children.” I knew she would, and she did.

I’ll get the ball rolling, besides transparency, that is. Obama ran against Hillary’s insurance mandate health care plan. Made the point repeatedly, to great applause. NO INSURANCE MANDATE.

Why Romney? What on his resume says “Progressive” to you?

Third Party is a wasted vote. That’s how Reagan, Clinton and “W” got elected.

Funny.

But GWPDA is entitled to GWPDA’s candidate choice. Supposing GWPDA is serious.

Did I say progressive? Where did I say progressive? Don’t put words in my comments.

To tell others that you have “an offbeat sense of humor” is to raise nerd-ish, arrested adolescent obliviousness to the level of performance art.

Oh now, all he means is that he laughs at inappropriate times and at inappropriate things. Someone tells him their mom died he gets the giggles is all that he meant.

You’re right, you never did say Progressive but you did say that you understood tanbark’s point (when he complained that O’bama was “Centrist”). Tanbark recently has become a regular troll on this site, and he has never complained that O’bama wasn’t far enough to the Right on the ideological spectrum.

Apparently you don’t really understand tanbark’s point.

No your not. I knew Sarah Phillips and you TBogg are no Sarah Phillips.

The Questions still stand.

1) What did O’bama do to betray us?

2) Why Romney?

P.S.
It would be a waste of my time to guess at which parts of all of O’bama’s campaign speeches offended you and/or what you think is a betrayal. As I demonstrated above I can’t read your mind. Why don’t you just tell us in plain words what you think and let’s go from there?

P.P. S.
O’bama isn’t your acquaintance, he didn’t abandon her children. It’s not O’bama’s fault.

And I’m entitled to make a joke that plays off of his joke, and I’m entitled to make a joke even if he was serious.

Y’ain’t from round here, are ya, pardner?

???

How true.

GWPDA is a frequent commenter at this blog.

Republicans like to pretend they don’t know about the existence of closed-captioned broadcasts for the hearing-impaired and/or in noise-heavy environments such as stadiums and sports bars. Sarah Janacek did so in order to pimp the “applause signs” lie against the Williams Arena memorial event in honor of the late Paul Wellstone.

Dodging the questions?

What am I to make of this?

GWPDA is a frequent (and fun) commenter at this blog.

Hope you don’t mind the edit….

So, GWPDA was being facetious?

No, just dodging you.

Well, I won’t speak for GWPDA but since tanbark doesn’t think it can get any worse than Obama I’d like to see:

Cheney/John Negroponte, the Darth Vader/Death Squad Ticket in 2012!

Why?

Not up to the task of putting together a coherent argument supporting your statement that O’bama is the “Betrayer in Chief” and that we should all vote for Romney?

If you are looking for a place to throw Pooh without being challenged, then this isn’t the site for you.

Good one! I’m nostalgic for Pat Paulsen, myself. Now there was a man of the people.

If you are looking for a place to throw Pooh without being challenged, then this isn’t the site for you.

I don’t think there are many places where one could throw a harmless teddy bear without someone at least asking why.

I think liberalarts either really doesn’t GET the point of this blog or is being paid not to.

Kinda burns my cookies to think of how much money the social network monkey-wrenchers…er…operatives are going to be making this summer.

I would be so gratified to burn your cookies.

Given the quality of your posts so far, I don’t think you are up to the task.