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Liberals are the new fascist.  evidence http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Fascism

Therefore, it only stands to reason that conservatives are the new communists.

Nah, its just Brooks pretending to be even-handed, as he does every so often.  He'll go off the deep end again in a moment, or engage in moral equivalency or something.

Besides, what he is doing here is a modern day version of the aristocrats calling for intellectuals to defend the Ancien Regime in France, once the revolution was over.  "Write essays praising absolute monarchy, and I shall give you this lump sum of cash as a prize".

YES, ITS THE MOTHERFUCKING 90S ALL OVER AGAIN!

Via Sadly, No:

This rush to buy guns, whether real or not, has become a conservative shibboleth lately, stemming from the avidly held prospect that an Obama administration would outlaw gun ownership, and the even more eagerly dreaded couch-time fantasy of a socioeconomic catastrophe that calls for the stockpiling of canned and dehydrated food and ammunition, the appointment of a 'bug-out vehicle' (in the imagined form, perhaps, of a suburban minivan with a jerry-built roof turret and spikes welded to the wheel hubs), and the merciless shooting of revenooers, bushy-haired and/or dusky-hued strangers, strangers in general except for attractive young women in distress, stray dogs and other previously non-huntable wildlife, and actual or potential thieves of canned and dehydrated food and ammunition.

The ongoing stock market crash has given a keen edge to this perennial daydream, this powerful intersection of the desires of the cod-Libertarian science-fiction fan and those of the cod-populist rural crank. When Confederate Yankee drops the name "Barack" at the end of his tale, it's meant to invoke something that he, himself might not be able to explain in plain language, but that's nevertheless pretty easy to understand for anyone who's experienced the antics of the Confederate-Yankocracy since the mixed blessing of the Internet enabled them in media other than the micro-scrawled journal and the talk radio call-in line.

It signifies a return to the wingnut ethos of the Clinton years, before the conspiratorial, wackadoo right wing fell in love with George W. Bush, and thus with government power and weird neo-royalist notions of the Executive Branch. It's a return to the "jackbooted government thugs" iconography of the '90s, in which incidents such as Ruby Ridge and Waco were seen as defining a historical fault line between an illegitimate, runaway Federalism and a perpetually threatened organic America — the often agrarian, invariably pre-capitalist order imagined and extolled throughout the early 20th Century by characters from William Jennings Bryan to Father Coughlin, and later as even sillier farce by conservatives from Pat Buchanan, to G. Gordon Liddy, to Rod Dreher. Armed militias, or at least groups of yo-yos with guns, sprang up to oppose a hallucinatory, originally Birch-concocted trend toward world government and to defend the sanctity of the Constitution — whose feckless shredding they would later, as we know, cheer, as soon as a spite-lofted pseudoconservative administration again controlled the White House.

In brief and to sum up, an Obama presidency will yield us a bounty of delicious 180-degree reversals, hanging contradictions, forehead-smacking discontinuities, and flaming self-pwnages from our wingnut pals, as their entire political edifice turns heliotropically to face the warming light of the new Hated Thing. Their doings of the past eight years will seem, to them although not to ourselves, like fragments from a dream. They will charge the George W. Bush presidency with a Reaganlike aura of indistinct, dumb uplift and nonspecific moral rectitude. And they will struggle to recapture those great days of America, always so intrinsic but so sadly vanished, held always and each time just out of their grasp.

I'm planning on doing closer to 2000 words a day and taking the weekend off.

Besides, I know I will write more in the first week and the last week than I will in the middle two, possibly double of what I need to.  The enthusiasm of starting/the desire to finish will probably spur on ideas and the drive to complete it far beyond the necessary daily requirements.  Once I'm in the writing zone, I can easily see myself getting way ahead of what is needed, at least for a while.

Pro-tip: work for any bank whose collapse would impact very badly on Goldman-Sachs.

Paulson is a G-Sachs man through and through, and will not let it be hurt by the current financial crisis (which is why he would not let AIG collapse, but let Lehman brothers sink without a trace).

Its only 1667 words per day.

You should be able to do that in 2 hours, 3 at worst.

Album 5: Secrets of Alamut

Track listing:

Skinny Puppy - Magnifishit
They Might Be Giants - I Should Be Allowed To Think
Earfatigue Productions - The Revolution
Bloc Party - Uniform
The Briefs - No More Presidents
Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet
Kyuss - Demon Cleaner
Manic Street Preachers - ifwhiteamericatoldthetruthforonedayit'sworldwouldfallapart
Wu-Tang Clan - unpredictable, feat. Dexter Wiggle
Covenant - We Want Revolution
Muse - Feeling Good
Immortal Technique - Third World, feat. DJ Green Lantern
The Rolling Stones - Undercover of the Night
El-P - Flyentology
Propagandhi - Haillie Selasse, Up Your Ass
Alien Sex Fiend - I Walk The Line
Chris Korda - 6 Billion Human's Can't Be Wrong
Refused - Tannhauser/Derive

Download from:  http://www.megaupload.com/?d=NG7N4PW4

Reminder: we now have a chat room.

#nanowrimo

On the maddshark server.  Feel free to invite people not on the forum.

I'm waiting for the crowd to start screaming "darksided!" until they collapse.

I will not be satisfied until this happens at a Palin speech.

Did his big burly biceps pull the Dow out of the shitter then?

Oh shit, I saw this on The Poor Man Institute.

Part 2 is just as good.  Also, bloodlines is now a meme.

Actually, I wanna dip my balls in it.

[I don't know and neither does anyone else. Asking questions is not trolling. Being immature is not trolling. Not understanding is not trolling.]

Well if you're ignoring him, I'm clearly not talking to you, because that was the entire idea behind my little troll talk a while back.

But what's a little thing like that when you can take the cheap shot, right?  If I don't know, no-one else knows either, and I'm not the one going out of my way to try and label someone's communications as worthless and deliberately provocative on the basis of no evidence.

This poster has been called a troll for days for being a bit dim and asking questions.  Oh teh noes, not questions.  I'm almost tempted to bring some actual trolls here, just because this place clearly has no idea what an actual troll is.  And of course, you'll always get some idiots who then decide to "troll the troll", because they cannot help themselves.  And if Paikayu is a troll, then you are doing what he wants by reacting.  And if he's not, well congratulations - you've just decided to have a go at someone for no reason at all.

FFS, the fact I even have to explain this is putting my teeth on edge.  I don't know and neither does anyone else.  Asking questions is not trolling.  Being immature is not trolling.  Not understanding is not trolling.

I know my credit around here is already at a full time low, and that I can expect to be disparaged for even voicing an opinion on several subjects, but if I know nothing else, I know how to troll.  How about some of you try to listen to someone who may have some practical experience, before running your mouths and fingers off without reason?

The only people trolling here are the people self-trolling by crying about trolls all the time.

Do I really have to give the talk about trolls to you all again?  With Cram's useful introduction?  Because it seems most of you chose to ignore that lesson, especially with Janvier. 

Seems to me that maybe such a lesson didn't sink in the first time, and its time to acquaint you with it again.  Maybe with somewhat more empahsis, so that you all don't forget the minute someone doesn't act the way you expect them to.

There is no high road in the McCain - Palin campaign.

Its just an ever decreasing series of lows.