Chanting Points Memo: I Accuse

Conservative have been claiming for decades that the press is biased toward the left.

It’s hard to look at the Twin Cities’ media’s record of mangled context, selective reporting and generalized ennui this past three months and reach any conclusion other than this; the Twin Cities media has an agenda.

Let’s go over the past few months’ campaign events and the coverage – or lack of it – from the regional mainstream media.

Lies?  What Lies?:  Factcheck.org determined that Alliance for a Better Minnesota’s entire ad campaign is essentially untrue.

Not a word in the Twin Cities media.

Bad For Business: Last week, the Sorosphere began claiming that Target was suffering financially due to its support for Emmer’s campaign.

A simple check of the Dow Jones for that week showed that all mid-to-upper-range retailers had trouble that week, contemporaneously with a bad consumer confidence report.

No Lie Left Challenged: the Entenza campaign tried to make hay over Emmer’s “support for No Child Left Behind”.

Emmer was opposing NCLB before it was cool – not that you’d know it from our media.

The “DUI”s:  The media dutifully reported twice that Tom Emmer had two “DWI” convictions – once in close conjunction with a smear ad from Alliance for a Better Minnesota.  They also ran with ABM’s claims that this was directly connected to Emmer “sponsoring legislation to reduce punishment for drunk drivers”, at the alleged behest of “DWI Defense Attorneys”.

The media couldn’t be bothered to fact-check the story.  The facts are:

  • Emmer was never convicted of DUI.  It was “Careless Driving” in both cases.  Emmer openly admits that both cases were alcohol-related; he’s quite publicly taken responsibility for his mistakes which were, let’s recall, 20 and 30 years ago, when Emmer was in his teens and late twenties.
  • Emmer’s main piece of legislation was to eliminate prior consent hearings – the civil procedure by which accused drunk drivers get their licenses returned while going through the criminal system on the DWI charge.  These cases add a huge burden to the legal system, especially in the metro area; former Minnesota Supreme Court Chief Judge Magnuson supported the bill, as did groups within the Attorney General’s office.
  • Emmer’s other piece would have allowed convicted DWIs to get some of their rights back after ten years of good behavior.  Neither bill would have “lessened punishments” in any way.
  • The “DWI Defense attorneys” were also prosecutors, who also did personal injury and wrongful death litigation against convicted drunk drivers.  Nobody in the Twin Cities media could be bothered to note that the claim was absurd; a DWI defense attorney should want stricter penalties, which would generate more markets for their services!

“The Corrosive Effect of Money in Politics”: In mid-July, I posted some findings from research into campaign finance records that showed that the Alliance for a Better Minnesota was largely funded by a PAC called “Win Minnesota” – which, in turn, was largely funded by contributions from the Dayton family, and especially Dayton’s ex-wife Alida Messinger, an heir to the Rockefeller fortune.

This happened about a week before the Target flap – at which point the narrative turned to hand-wringing about the corrosive effect of (corporate) money in politics.

Although MPR’s Tom Scheck noted the findings obliquely at the time, and WCCO’s Pat Kessler ran a story on the subject this past week, the mainstream media in the Twin Cities has been largely uninterested.

Perhaps they’re too busy reporting on Target to note that Alida Messinger alone has given three times more money than Target, and almost as much as the entire MNForward PAC.

ABM’s Lies: By early July, the Alliance for a Better Minnesota was kicking its epic ad buy into high gear.  Their first rounds of ads was found to be almost completely devoid of fact – although that apparently never rated a mention in the regional media.

Emmer’s Legal Record – Or At Least The Parts Of It That Make Good Smear Material:  On June 28, the Strib’s Pat Doyle ran a piece about a few episodes from Tom Emmer’s legal past; an office manager what swindled Emmer’s law firm, a suit over a disputed car crash (which Emmer won), another in which Emmer had been injured, and a suit against a landscaper.

Doyle’s “reporting” was notable for the meticulousness with which it omitted any shred of information from the record that might have portrayed Emmer as anything but a heartless pushy bully.   Nobody in the Twin Cities’ media reported that…:

  • ….the office manager, who took a plea deal that involved an apology and restitution to Emmer in exchange for not being prosecuted for much more serious charges, violated the terms of her plea bargain by talking to Doyle.
  • That the legal wrangling in Emmer’s accident litigation was the norm rather than the exception
  • That the landscaper who sued Emmer only did so because he had no case against Jacquie Emmer, and tried to sue Tom Emmer under a novel and ultimately specious theory that Emmer had “unjustly enriched” himself – in a suit that was thrown out with prejudice, with the judge requiring the landscaper to pay Emmer’s legal bills; the case had no merit whatsoever, although neither the Strib nor any other Twin Cities media outlet apparently felt the need to set the story straight.

The Detailed Plan – For a brief few weeks in June, the media and chattering classes asked almost as one “where is Emmer’s plan?” This, of course, without asking the same of any of the Democrats, whose primary race was just starting to (ahem) “heat up”.

Oddly, this would have been right during the planning phase for Alliance for a Better Minnesota’s biggest-in-history smear campaign against Emmer;  I’ll speculate that someone was trolling for material.

“He Wants To Cut How Much?”:  Much of the Twin Cities media and the leftyblog chatterbots beneath them ran with the “story” that Emmer said he’d cut the state budget by 30%.

This was, of course, based on a brief “mis-speak” during a live radio interview, which Emmer corrected immediately. This, however, remained largely unreported.

Nonetheless, radio spots for Matt Entenza after last week were still claiming that “Emmer would cut the budget a devastating 30%!”.  Perhaps nobody cares because Entenza was DOA from week one – but one needs to ask “do facts matter at all?”

“Emmer Hates Gays”:  The crux of the meme that the Dayton campaign has used to nationalize the governor’s race is the fallacy that “Emmer is rabidly anti-gay” – based on his support for a gay marriage amendment supported by a majority of Minnesotans, and I suspect a majority of legislators on both sides of the aisle – and his alleged “support” of punkdamentalist preacher Bradlee Dean and his controversial “You Can Run But You Can Not Hide” street ministry.

Nobody in the Twin Cities media bothered to fact-check the claim at the root of this meme – a story by Andy Birkey at the Soros-bankrolled Minnesota “Independent” that, a cursory examination by an amateur hobby hack showed, was built on clumsily-mangled context and some circumstantial gossip fodder.

“Local Government Aid Cuts Are Destroying Minnesota!”:  When Alliance for a Better Minnesota launched a campaign claiming that Governor Pawlenty’s cuts to Local Government Aid had caused huge problems, nobody in the Twin Cities media seemed to have the time to fact-check the claims.  It took a lowly blogger not one, not two, not three, not four, but five articles to do the sort of fact-checking that we ostensibly have a regional media that gets paid to do fulltime.

“Uncertified Teachers“:  One of the “Alliance for a Better Minnesota’s first claims was that Tom Emmer favors “uncertified teachers”.

A fairly detemined search didn’t show that any regional media fact-checked this story which,  of course, was a lie – Emmer favors alternative licensing, so that we can actually get enough teachers in fields like science and math where our humanities-glutted Educational-Industrial Complex isn’t producing enough candidates.

“Extreme“:  The left’s chanting point from the very beginning was that “Emmer is Extreme”.

To Rachel Stassen-Berger’s credit, she did report that Emmer’s record, at least on a range of key selected issues, is a virtual mirror of that of Margaret Anderson-Kelliher – who, Kelliher reminded us in the debate, is more centrist than Dayton.

The Big Green Stiff: Right after the convention, the DFL candidates gathered to hold a “Green Issues Summit”.  Dayton and Entenza gamboled about the fact that Emmer never showed up at the event-  which the media duly carried.

Unreported:  That Emmer had quite publicly declined to attend because it was his youngest child’s first communion.

120 thoughts on “Chanting Points Memo: I Accuse

  1. “Sgt Tom voted straight GOP in last election, I suspect he won’t make that mistake again.”
    “You told me he voted for Obama. Please clarify.”

    Ruh-Roh. It seems our Flash is caught in the spin cycle big time. Better call in the pro’s from the Current Cypher’s White House Press Ops, Flash. Hey anybody that can spin the Cyphers clear declarations that he was opposed to Gay Marriage into his newly found full support of it can probably get you out of this jam. Good Luck with all that.

  2. He definitely voted Bush both times

    Was he 18 in 2000? Because Will turned 19 just in time for that election.

  3. “I’ll have to ask him…”

    Why bother, Flush? You’ve been making crap up since before he was 10, I’m sure he’s used to it by now.

    Pfffft.

    Flush, why do Democrats hate teh truth?

  4. Say Flush?

    Why not get the rest of the Sorosphere brain trust together, put your empty heads together and produce “The Complete Moonbat Lexicon of Made-up Shit to Asshat Dance to”?

    You could sell it at Garrison Keillor’s barking book shop…make a mint.

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!

  5. Because the truth is there enemy, Swiftee.
    Same-Sex “Marriage”? Lol. You might as well make it legal for men to get menopause.
    “Equal Opportunity” rules that discriminate. “job creation” bills that don’t create jobs, but instead give more to them that has got. “Public Safety” measures designed to disarm you & leave you helpless.

  6. (cue George)

    Dad, tell again about teh coting, an’ how I used to split it.”

    (/George)

    HAHAHAHAHAhaha(Tom voted for P-BO, before he didn’t)hahahahahhaAHAHAHAHAHhahahahahahahahaha!

  7. You might as well make it legal for men to get menopause.

    Hi-yooooooooo!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHahahahahahAHAHAhahahaHaHAHAHAHAHaaaaa!

    Oh, Flush you really have to come over here more often, you prro witless boob. We LOVE you!

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahaHAHAHAHAHAHahaHAHAHHAAAA!

  8. not casting aspersions – I just thought that Tom was like 16 in 2000; my stepson Will used to babysit him, so I’m just doing the math in my head.

    Whether he voted for Bush once or twice isn’t as important as the fact that he apparently voted for Bush and Mac as opposed to Kerry and The One, meaning that he made good, and served his country at the polling station as well as in Iraq.

    Kudos, as always, to him! He was always (I say this with absolute sincerity, with no snark whatsoever) a great kid. Everyone should be proud of him.

  9. it is Centrisity, a non word which I defined as “Being Right, even though you lean Left
    Ah, I see. More dissembling and false promotion. Good for you! You are a perfect liberal: disingenuous to the core.

  10. He definitely voted Bush both times

    Was he 18 in 2000? Because Will turned 19 just in time for that election.

    HATER!!!! RAAAAAAACIST!!!!!HOMOPHOBE!!!!!!

  11. “The scary part? After reading the demented lunacy on the vast majority of leftyblogs, Flash is STILL one of the more sensible ones.”

    Faint praise in the comparison.

  12. Make mine the same, Mitch.

    The kid has obviously got his shit together. It’s not his fault dad drank the kool-aid and turned into a lefty dolt that spews moronic lies all over the internet.

  13. Flush? “Centrisity” Flush?

    *Crickets*

    HAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahaahahahahaaaaa!

    Stop by any time, ol’ boob. Hey, bring Linda with you next time, will ya?

    HAHAHAHAHAHAhahahahahahahahAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAA!

  14. “not casting aspersions – I just thought that Tom was like 16 in 2000; ”

    correct, he wouldn’t have voted in 2000. But Bush for sure in 2004 and I’ll check with him on 2008.

  15. Like that matters, Flash. It doesn’t change the fact that you misrepresent yourself as “centrist” when in fact you are a flaming liberal.
    But that’s cool. I never expect honesty from Democrats.

  16. “Dayton is the DFL elite.”

    Except that they kicked him out of the last convention!!!! FACT!

    Dayton is too moonbat for the moonbats!!!

    Bwwwaaahahahahahahahaaaa!

  17. Another example of the hypocrisy from the left:

    Flush said:
    “so as it is you simply make shit up. ‘mitch’ is the best at it. “

    Flush, you don’t allow any vulgarity on your blog but you are always quick to use it on other blogs.

    Got hypocrisy?

    I’ve taken Flush to task too many times to keep track of.

    I still remember the email when flush said Obama would appoint a “moderate” to replace justice Sandra Day O’Connor.

    Kinda reminds me of Biden’s comment on how FDR got on TV after the crash of ’29…

    Bwwwwahahahahahahaaaaa!

  18. so as it is you simply make shit up. ‘mitch’ is the best at it.

    Yeah, that’s kinda no-go. Other than obvious satire (which is too complicated for some people, I know), there’s never been anything, ever, “made up” on this blog.

  19. Swiftee wrote,”Flush, why do Democrats hate teh truth?”

    I’m not Flash, and I’m not a Democrat, but I’ll address this one.

    Both sides have people who lie. Both sides have people who care about the truth and fact check. It is not just the right. Which if you followed the fact check sites you would know.

    Mitch, I hope you did decide not to ride your bike home this evening, and that you made it in time to vote in the primary. Our polling place had a good turn out despite the weather. It will be interesting to see if the storms and tornado watch made any difference to the turn out.

  20. Deegee, only a real dim-wit would waltz into the well earned mockery of a moonbat using his own kid as a foil for his lies, and flap her gums about “fact check”.

    Flush has been forced from the field in shame, but you deserve to be hung out as proof positive that even the biggest moron can always be topped.

    You’re not Flush, and your probably too dense even for the Democrat party, but you have managed to thrill us by taking teh stoopid to a whole new level., dear.

    Congratulations….have another kombucha.

  21. Flash wouldn’t get dumped on so much here if he’d not act like such a boob. A few weeks ago, Flash logged in with the information (true or not) that a fraudulent vote had been cast for a republican! And so the republicans were stupid for trying to keep fraudulent voting to a minimum! Or something!
    That doesn’t pass as anything but snark. Who in God’s good name cares if a fraudulent vote is cast for the GOP? The democrats encourage fraudulent voting (by not investigating or prosecuting it, or even much caring about it). The GOP is on the record as being concerned about fraudulent voting. If the GOP is stupid for being against fraudulent voting because a felon cast a vote for Coleman (or whoever), the Dems are stupid for not being fiends on the subject of ballot fraud.
    It’s like WTF? Is Flash even sane? Doesn’t he think these things through?

  22. DG, I think Swiftee has got you on this one. You countered Swiftee’s “Flush, why do Democrats hate teh truth?” with a general argument that all people lie. Not the same thing at all.
    The democrats like to call themselves “pro-woman”. The abortion policies of China have resulted in many, many more girl children being aborted than male children. I have never heard of a democrat politician condemning the Chinese policy on “choice”. Have you?

  23. The GOP is not on the record for objecting to fraudulent voting, the GOP is on the record for attempting to prevent legitimate voters from vorting who would, in their estimation, vote for democrats.

    Learned Foote wrote “Dayton is a manic depressive and an alcoholic.” And i believe I’ve seen at least one other claim that Dayton is bi-polar. And the word crazy has been thrown around freely.

    In this little truth fest you have going on, complaining about opposition lies, you contributed your own share of untruths.

    Dayton has suffered from treated mild depression, not manic depression or bi-polar disorder.

    He appears to be a recovering alcoholic who has been sober for a credible period of time.

    As I’ve shared with Mitch, I sincerely hope for Emmer and his family that his problems with alcohol are in his past, just as I wish it for Dayton and his family. Both men appear to have addressed their problems; good for them.

    We are reliant in this election on the candidates for both parties to be self-reporting, which is notoriously unreliable generally. What I wish, but do not expect and would certainly not demand of either of them is for them to volunteer for a drug test for alcohol as a more objective demonstration of their respective mastery of their problems.

    As to the demeaning and dismissive way in which mental health issues are discussed here, it seems to me to only discourage honesty from candidates, and that is not a good outcome for anyone – not the candidate and not the voters.

    I was just reading some recent statistics about our problem with the military rate of suicides, domestic abuse, and other related problems. It saddened me to read the way those subjects were treated here. The comments seem to directly reflect the concerns about stigmatization being one of the principle reasons our armed forces personnel do not seek treatment even when they know they need help. If they see disparaging comments about people coming forward acknowledging dealing with their problems in places like this blog, it will only reinforce that fear of stigma. Shame on you gentlemen.

    Multiple sources, including his own writing, indicate that a legendary Republican, Abraham Lincoln suffered from fairly severe depression. It might make interesting reading to see what other prominent political figures have coped successfully with that particuar challenge, as an offset to the opinions expressed here.

  24. As a context gentlmen, you might want to check out this Duke University study. It addresses both alcohol and depression. The numbers are surprising:

    “After culling data from presidential biographies, Davidson was joined by Kathryn Connor, associate professor of psychiatry, and Marvin Swartz, professor and head of the social and community division of psychiatry, to analyze the information. Together, they diagnosed the commander-in-chiefs from 1776 to 1974.

    According to the study, published in January in the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, of the 37 presidents researched, 18 were found to suffer a mental illness of some form. Depression was the most prevalent disorder among presidents, occurring at a rate of 24 percent.

    The researchers wrote that the 49 percent rate mirrored national mental illness statistics, but the rate of depression was high for a male population.

    “A fairly high number of people have mental disease at some level, so it would be surprising if presidents didn’t,” said John Aldrich, professor of political science. “Certain things, like depression, are associated with artistic accomplishment.”

    Other diagnoses included anxiety, alcohol abuse, bipolar disorder and social phobia. Howard Taft apparently suffered from sleep apnea.

    At least 10 presidents were affected by episodes while in office, and the study found evidence that symptoms interfered with their performance in almost all cases.

    To make their diagnoses, the researchers used the criteria of the DSM-IV, the Diagnostic Statistical Manual all psychiatrists use to treat patients. They examined the data to identify symptoms, determine if they were persistent and caused dysfunction and then establish their own levels of confidence that mental illness existed.”

    The report goes on to acknowledge the deficiencies in relying on biographical material, but also claims that in compensation for those difficulties they have erred on the side of undercounting.

  25. Massive fail, Dog Gone.
    You are trying to make Emmer’s reckless driving convictions the equivalent of Dayton’s admission that he is an alcoholic.
    Emmer has never been convicted of an alcohol related incident. He plead guilty to reckless driving. Dayton has confessed to being an alcoholic, and to have had a “relapse” while he filled the office of US Senator from Minnesota, just over three years ago. He also admits to “lifelong depression”. Lifelong “minor depression”? You’ve got to be kidding.
    If you think these things are like one another, you are are not thinking straight.
    Example #1:
    “Dad, I want you to meet Tom. He’s a good guy, but he did have a DUI charge against him lawyered down to reckless driving nineteen years ago.”

    Example #2:
    “Dad, I want you to meet Mark. He is a depressive alcoholic, though he says it’s been three years since he a drink on the job!”

    See the difference?
    Oh, Dog Gone, there is no such diagnosis as “minor depression” Check your PDR.

    And of course your last comment was about a pop-psychology “study” that is utterly meaningless. Do you think that any real psychiatrist or psychologist would diagnose a patient based on what others, who had not known the subject, decided to write about him? Not even the writing of the subjects themselves? This is a joke.
    Your inability to properly evaluate what is and what is not effective support for an argument is truly breathtaking, Dog Gone.

  26. Both sides have people who lie. Both sides have people who care about the truth and fact check. It is not just the right.
    Yes, but only the Democrats have 90% of the media promoting the lies they tell.

    As for Mark Dayton, he is a coddled mental deficient who has tried repeatedly (with limited success) to buy political offices in his crusade to ameliorate his obvious lack of qualification. Please Dog, continue to defend this worthless trust fund baby. It is very amusing, at least until morons put him into positions of authority.

  27. From Sgt. Tom:

    Re: 2008 vote
    I didn’t get to vote, my ballot didn’t get to me until after the election, Iraq mail=snail mail. I was in Iraq and I didnt even get to vote for the pres lol. oh well

    I guess you can add this to you conspiracy folder LOL

  28. Except that they kicked him out of the last convention!!!! FACT!

    Completely true, except Dayton didn’t seek the endorsement, so he wasn’t a candidate in the convention, and therefore couldn’t be “kicked out.”

    Emmer has never been convicted of an alcohol related incident.

    Neither has Dayton. And actually, the reckless driving to which Emmer pleaded did involve alcohol. So it was alcohol related.

    it’s been three years since he a drink on the job!

    Did he admit to being drunk while actually doing the job, or just in the time frame while he was a senator. Because unless he said he was drunk while voting or meeting constituents and such, you’re just making shit up.

    My BIL is a manic depressive and an alcoholic. My BIL, while running his elderly grandfather’s finances stole lost $20 million dollars and stole another $9 million, leavinng his grandfather with nothing to live on.

    So all manic-depressive alcoholics are bad with money? Is that what you’re trying to say there? (P.S. Manic-depression is not what Dayton has)

    My BIL once pleaded a DUI charge down to reckless driving. He’s also pretty racist and hates gays. Oh, and he’s bad with money. Shall we draw any parallels, or would that not make any sense as an argument?

  29. The GOP is not on the record for objecting to fraudulent voting, the GOP is on the record for attempting to prevent legitimate voters from vorting who would, in their estimation, vote for democrats.

    No,DG- that’s not “the record”. That’s “the left’s spin”.

    You have a consistent difficulty distinguishing between the two.

  30. “Dayton has suffered from treated mild depression, not manic depression or bi-polar disorder.”

    I stand corrected. Doesn’t change my conclusion, though. This guy should be nowhere near the levers of power.

  31. swiftee said:

    “Troy, Flush’s kid is a Marine”

    Got it, and though it is a mark in his favor, but it doesn’t inspire me to dip his opinions in gold and set them on my mantle. *shrug*

    LearnedFoot said:

    “This guy should be nowhere near the levers of power”

    Indeed. Why let him have a chance to become Time’s “Worse Governor”?

  32. I guess you can add this to you conspiracy folder LOL

    So your son confirms that you’re a liar. Thanks Flush.

    Dayton has suffered from treated mild depression, not manic depression or bi-polar disorder.

    How the hell do you know? Are you Dayton’s shrink? Are you reading from his medical file?

    Why do you leftist dolts continue to lie? What form of mental illness do you suffer from that makes you willing to lay lie against lie?

    He appears to be a recovering alcoholic who has been sober for a credible period of time.

    He’s on record as having been swilling alcoholic beverages as recently as two weeks ago. Did you see him stumbling around the polling place trying to vote yesterday?

    He only appears to be sober to you because you’re so far into the bag you can’t tell up from down!

  33. DiscoStoo:

    You backed into my point. If Dayton – er, Alliance for a BM – can run an ad of a crying mother excoriating Emmer for a 20 year old reckless driving conviction (the only true assertion in that ad) and put it forward as an assertion of Emmer’s unfitness, then why couldn’t the GOP run an ad about my grandfather who was bankrupted by a guy who suffers from substantially the same condition as Dayton? Sure Dayton’s condition hasn’t harmed anyone yet – just like Emmer has never killed anybody driving drunk.

    And I think that my “Alliance for a BM” line was just full of awesome.

  34. Mitch, I see you still have your little pack of trolls that picks on any left or moderate thinker audacious enough to voice an opinion that contradicts the MOB (which, according to your own standards, must have an agenda of its own). Do you recruit them, or just encourage them?

    p.s. Between the history of depression and the drunk driving record, if one plays the other plays. I’m going for neither. Etenza’s “Emmer will get drunk and run over your children” add was worse than his “MN Republicans are responsible for the Gulf Oil spill” add. I’m glad he’s out of the race.

  35. And I think that my “Alliance for a BM” line was just full of awesome.
    I concur. There has been a constant supply being presented on local TV, and now that Congenital Idiot Dayton has the nod from the DFL rank and file, I expect the political Metamucil will be flowing like wine.

    Speaking of whine, AB confuses instigation with audacious. No shock there.

  36. apathyboy said:

    “little pack of trolls”

    You cut us to the quick, sir! Or you might have if you knew what a ‘troll’ was, and if you did not fit the definition better than most people here.

    “picks on any left or moderate thinker audacious enough to voice an opinion”

    Heard on battle.net:

    “cry more noob”

  37. Sounds like he’s still being medicated for depression:

    Former U.S. Sen. Mark Dayton confirmed Sunday that he has long been medicated for depression. A recovering alcoholic, Dayton also said he relapsed before the end of his Senate term, leaving voters to decide whether the revelations will hobble the enigmatic millionaire’s bid for the state’s highest office.

    http://www.startribune.com/politics/state/80168257.html

    Sipping from a bottle of kombucha, a fermented tea that has become a campaign trail staple, this former U.S. senator is trying to revive an up-and-down political career at age 63.

    http://www.startribune.com/politics/local/97234679.html
    Kombucha is a popular drink with “recovering” alcy’s these days. It normally contains 0.5% alcohol so it is not classified as an alcoholic drink. It can, however, contain up to 1.5% ethyl alcohol. Fail your urine test? “Hey, it must have been that darn non-alcoholic kombucha!”

  38. “Speaking of whine, AB confuses instigation with audacious.”

    There’s a difference? At least I spelled it correctly (or I assumed I did by Terry’s silence on the matter).

    “Or you might have if you knew what a ‘troll’ was,”

    I don’t listen to hip-hop.

  39. Poor spelling doesn’t bother me, Apathyboy. It is poor usage that really grates my cheese. Modifying absolutes, passive voice, etc. Split infinitives are okay. We speak English, not Latin. Ditto ending a sentence with a preposition.

  40. Ayebee, it’s nice of you to come out of retirement to help deegee carry teh stoopid.

    You good boy ayebee; here’s biscuit.

  41. Since one of my little time-killers is keeping a rolling count of the average number of comments per post (shooting to keep it above ten), I’m all for the whole “running up the total” thing.

  42. And I think that my “Alliance for a BM” line was just full of awesome.

    ah, a blast from the past, a classic KAR poopy reference…

    as such, should say that line was full of win…

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