Damned good thing that none of the wingtards read this blog.They get enough crazy ideas of their own. And they have no concept of satire or irony in their tiny little epistemically closed minds. They’d run with this for at least a couple of hours.

From the same minds that think wearing a red tie is a signal.

Shit bow has run amok

I’m sorry. Her name is Bun?

Kuhl.

Please note that in the picture linked to, the First Lady is bowing deeper than Obama is. That is the most important marker of relative status. And the Investor’s Business Daily wonders why the Japanese are kicking our butts in SE Asia?

Actually, when they do start frothing at the mouth about this, we can point to this as the origin for their frothings, and then they are revealed as idiots like unto the Cons that keep passing around Onion articles as proof of various things.

Speaking of frothings, all it takes to stir up some froth with some folks on the port side is to state the obvious — namely, that without something like ranked-choice voting, third parties can’t be much more than spoilers whose effect on the political process, when it exists, is often the opposite of what the third-partiers want. (To show that my thesis works for the right-wing third parties as much as those on the left, I used the example of how the original 2007 TEA Party movement, which was libertarian and secularist as well as opposed to bailouts by both GOP and Dem pols, was coopted by religious-right-allied guys like Dick Armey and his conservative billionaire buddies who stripped out the secularism and anti-corporatism and turned it into a standard RNC adjunct that pretended to be independent so as to attract those Republicans who might have otherwise left the GOP.)

Hey, you abandoned me over there. No matter, I’m tired of arguing the third party bullshit for now. Wait another four years and then we can all repost the same thing.

I didn’t abandon you, I was coming over here to see if I could get reinforcements. ;-)

Truth be told, I’m getting tired of explaining political reality to people who are inherently disposed to be ineffective at electoral politics. That’s why the left in America is so messed up: Whereas disaffected religious right-wingers worked to take over the GOP back in the 1970s and 1980s, disaffected lefties, influenced I suspect by the Leninist-inspired disdain for participation in electoral politics as a validation of a system that they wanted to see collapse, tended to get even more cynical than they already were about politics — and cynicism saps energy.

Oh yeah, she looks furious.

You know, even assuming they’re right (a big assumption under any circumstances) isn’t the takeaway that Obama didn’t make a scene out of it, which is how presidents are supposed to act on diplomatic missions? If it was Bush they’d be screaming that we need to reduce Phnom Penh to a pile of ash.

I’m not an expert in these matters, but if I had to guess, I’d say the gesture so troubling to the esteemed Dead Breitbart probably means:

“If you agree not to bomb Cambodia back into the stone age (again), we’ll try our best to hook you up with the Prime Minister of Thailand. She love you long time…”

They’d run with this for at least a couple of hours.

Cool. Let’s figure out a way they can link to it.

I love the smell of wingnut heads exploding in the morning…Smells like…Victory.

I hear you. The whole thing gets very old. Best just let it be.

Wearing a red tie? Heck, these are the same minds that think a TV cookery-show hostess wearing a scarf was a signal. They should all get new metal-free fillings next time they go to the dentist, so as to short out the messages they’re hearing in their teeth now.

Sounds like the unemployed Kremlinologist veterans association had a reunion at their intermediate care facility. It’s amazing how fluent in international body language these anti-multiculturalism folks are.

Or calmly ignore it….

All the people over there speak French fluently too. :-)

Dude, the link to the body language photos is grrrrrreat! Every one of them is begging for a caption.
Did someone sleep on the couch, you know like Bill haddadu. Oh, the good old fun days.

…Bun Rany appeared to be insulting the president, according to the Investor’s Business Daily

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Based in Los Angeles, the Investor’s Business Daily, provides some good financial information but only on the stocks, However, it appears to be run by a bunch of ignorant lunatics, presumably Republicans, when it comes to general knowledge of politics and world affairs. You may vomit at their level of stupidity if by chance you happen to read one of their commentaries and editorials which is mostly blind bashing of whoever the Democrat happens to be in the White House and/or in the Congress even though they deserve to be criticized often/ sometimes.

Hee! I see they’ve now done their favored trick of having everyone in the gang Recommend it and then flood it with comments on the idea that the more comments made, the greater the validity of the arguments behind them. Thousand-comment thread, here we come!

Meanwhile, I do wish the wingnut hotline would get its stories straight. One day they’re saying that Obama’s being seduced by female Asian heads of state, the next that he’s being dissed by them.

They manage the singular feat of making the Wall Street Journal editorial staff look sane in comparison.

It is, indeed!

Good job, Tbogg! I am so sick of blowing up Arabs. Such a bore. Let’s spread the wealth; blow up some Asians for a change. Nostalgia, thy name is Southeast Asia.

Phoenix Woman and Bluedot -
I enjoyed reading that diary thread.
Margaret did her usual wonderful job as well.
But, now to get back to thinking of captions or thought bubbles for those photos. Hubba Hubba.

I found it amusing that they took exception to being called the Sparkle Pony Unicorn Party. They clearly engage in magical voting. Somehow, if you vote for a third party candidate who will be lucky to break 10% (they could not break 5% all combined this year) everybody has to take notice of you and do exactly what you want them to.

When I want to learn about the delicate nuances of intercultural manners and etiquette, I know that Dead Breitbart is the best resource.

Seriously, has any one of them even MET a Cambodian person?

Sorry Kampuchea, you had a nice run but you’re about to become Kampu-SEE-YA wouldn’t want to be ya.

I am not accustomed to this level of cleverness and sly humor in FDL posts. Please tone it down a bit, or I’ll think I’ve wandered onto the website for The Daily Show or maybe even Colbert.

disaffected lefties, influenced I suspect by the Leninist-inspired disdain for participation in electoral politics as a validation of a system that they wanted to see collapse, tended to get even more cynical than they already were about politics — and cynicism saps energy

How did you know I had become a Leninist? Oh well, since the cat’s out of the bag, might as well post the musical interlude from our last meeting:

http://bit.ly/2vT25v

…but the Investor’s Business Daily editorial board claimed the move was “a little dig that was probably lost on him but not to Asians.”

That would be the same “Investor’s Business Daily” that whipped it out and began wanking to Mitt Romney’s growing lead?

according to the Investor’s Business Daily

A phrase that carries the gravitas of rigorous accuracy equal to “according to World Net Daily and Rush Limbaugh”.

If they think wearing a red tie is a signal, wonder what the “Breitards” make of that nifty napkin holder built into Bun-Rany’s suit jacket?

Don’t know if they have, but I have. I had several as students many years ago.

You don’t think politicians dress purposefully for political events?

Here’s a photo of the Thai PM and Cambodian First Lady in the same photo… it might help on the quiz.

Those little yellow bastards! Load up the napalm and give Robert Duval a call.

If you can’t read the body language in that shot, lemme tell you that he’s totally thinking about banging her like a gong.

And her body language is saying, in a raspy, whiskey voice: “Tell me, Schatzie, is it twue what they say about your people?”

the Investor’s Business Daily editorial board claimed the move was “a little dig that was probably lost on him but not to Asians.”

“Lost on him but not to Asians”?? W.T.F! You mean they’ve already totally forgotten that Obama was raised in an Indonesian madrassa? People! Indonesia is not in Africa!

Sigh, I was there, from ’53 thru ’62 or so.

Saigon, Bangkok, Thailand, Vientienne . . .

I was raised there, then.

N then, I watched as I hit my teens and we, well, that story’s been told, guys I went to hi school with died and came back in a box.

Heh, Dragon Lady, good one TBogg.

Nice summary, yer usual grand snark . . . spot on.

N still, sometimes I weep for the people I knew pre teen, who are dead from that time, not dead from time. N lives ruined, from that time.

N sometimes, I smile for my father’s works, two of those who worked with him, all who saved and rescued thousands of thousands of refugees thru the years during and after fall of Saigon.

N it GET it, I completely get it, when you do this snark you do, about the faux shit others put forth as real news.

Been there, done that. About it all. Nothing surprises me anymore for the most part, when it comes to international politics, empire, and the imposition of US Might upon others.

Hell, I was raised amongst it when you were a yearling. Hugging bassets. ;-)

Yer still better at snarkin it and tellin it . . . I’d must harsh yer snark if I went on TOO long about the reality you hint of . . . ;-)

Thanks for all you do, about the eternal doo doo’s . . . I guess the whole human race has to live with it all, the horrors of war, since time began.

I mean, the hard part is learning that this shit went down . . . and that we DID, and DO, horrors, still, again.

How do they forget so fast? How do they forget, these humans in this race, when the proof is so readily available, regarding their failings and foibles?

How could they fucking POSSIBLY forget any of it?

I spent some of my formative years on the Socialist Liberty listserv, watching different sects of Communists jump all over the Socialists (when they weren’t jumping all over each other) for being so corrupted as to engage in electoral politics. David McReynolds of the War Resisters League was a favored rhetorical punching bag of theirs, even though he knew more about Marxism than most of his critics did put together (and is one of the nicest and sweetest human beings around, and plays a mean game of chess to boot), because he had dared to lend validation to the capitalist system by running for president.

They weren’t upset because he couldn’t win; they were upset because participating in electoral politics was delaying the inevitable and wished-for collapse that would cause The Masses (which most of these mokes avoided at all costs) to rise up and unite under the Communist banner.

Ah, the famous Lilli von Schtupp!

I live very near the largest concentration of Hmong, Cambodian and Vietnamese families in the state of Minnesota, the McDonough projects. I helped teach English as a second language to the first wave of immigrants when I was in high school.

One of my friends was a young Hmong woman named Kao Ying. Her family was one of the better-off ones in terms of wealth; I don’t know if they were connected to Vang Pao’s clan, but it wouldn’t surprise me. She knew French because she’d worked in a Paris television station, and I tried to get her out of the TESOL class — which used the “Fun with Dick and Jane” books because that’s all we had at the time — and into Mrs. Froehle’s third-year French class, where at least she’d be able to pick up English in a class of French students, instead of having to recite “See Spot run” over and over.

Okay, you win.

As you were, troops. When someone only allows the other party to touch one finger of their unextended right hand with two or more fingers of their reaching hand, it is a total dis to any dis the other party tried to put on you. Investor’s Business Daily and Once and Future Breitbart Blogs didn’t get this, but all of eastern Africa, the Middle East, U.S. big government believers, and communists in general understand it and are yucking it up at the U.S. putdown of the Cambodian government and the mare they tried to ride in on. But don’t anyone tell John McCain. Let the president pull the old “Proceed Senator” trick on him.

“Is that your body language, or are you just happy to see me?”

So, we have “appeared to be treated like a servant”, “appeared to get flirty”. Did any of them mention young bucks or T Bone steaks?

This is the best line:

“The president and Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra could be seen laughing together and exchanging playful glances through a state dinner at the Government House in Bangkok on Sunday.”

“Could be seen”, as if they were hoping not to be. It looks like the Daily Mail mixed up the “seen in an out of the way Washington Bistro” story template with the one about a Presidential state visit.

Lady PM has decided on dark meat for Thanksgiving.

You know, I always rely on the Business Investors Daily editorial board to interpret Asian gestures. Infallible.

In the placement of her hands and her posture towards Obama, Bun Rany appeared to be insulting the president when she was introduced to him, according to the Investor’s Business Daily.

An “insult” which had approximately the same impact and consequence as does writing “InFernal Revenue Service” on the check that accompanies your tax return – which is to say, none at all. The check gets cashed; the world continues to turn.

But someone should totally tell the Breitards about the InFernal Revenue Service diss, which is sure to make them feel all WOLVERINES!!1!! in their tingly parts when they file their next tax return and strike a mighty blow of resistance against our hated encroaching federal government.

Let me just add that President Shinawatra has a magnificent name that sounds like Barbara Walters interviewing Frank while drunk.

I’d have thought it would be to get rid of the mercury that is leeching and slowly turning their brains to(even mushier) mush.

Leftist sectarian splinter-group internecine politics: ain’t they great?

Oh, indeed.

You’ve got the wrong lady. The picture with the fingers (not to be confused with the vessel with the pestle) is of the Prez with Thai Prime Minister Singluck Shinawatra, who is not only her nation’s chief exec but gorgeous.

The so-called “maybekindacouldbe insult” greeting may be viewed at the Breitbartians’ source, this Daily Mail page, and shows Obama with a different woman, namely Bun Rany, the wife of the Cambodian P.M. Different lady, different country, different gesture. (As little as one may think of the Mail, they do have a detailed explanation of the different variations on the subject palms-together greeting and their meanings.)

Also in the Mail you can see more of Obama and the beauteous Prime Minister Shimawara obviously getting along OK. You can’t trust still pix. They show deceptive split seconds of larger gestures, expressions, and meanings.

I know.

~~~heart~~

Even though the last B52 was built in 1962, they’re still our go-to bomber, and will be until 2040.

Yeee-Haw! Ride ‘em Slim!

Okay then, it’s the secret Harvard hand symbol for “I’m rubber, your glue, whatever you say/do, etc. etc.” when the little finger is approximately 1/4 inch away from the next finger and the hand in held in the position the President’s is in the picture you link. I’m rusty at it, but once you learn how to play this game, you nver forget.

The trolls are getting less creative and the flame wars aren’t what they used to be.

Now if they’d only go back to just harassing their relatives, instead of the world, as well. I’m surprised they haven’t noted how, while visiting the reclining Buhdda, the President is actually taking down strike points so he, as a secrit mooslim, can order it’s destruction.

I’m so glad to learn the subtleties of bowing from people who find this and this acceptable. Wingnuts and Consistency are not on a first-name basis.

The kerning is only scrutable to a select few.

The thought the rules was to tie up the loose ends of the last genocide before you get bombed again. Murder of a Gentle Land, and all that.