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The Next Big Stink
Weekly Sandard ^ | 31 jan 09 | P.J. O'Rourke

Posted on 01/31/2009 7:40:28 AM PST by rellimpank

The killjoys are back in charge--the mopes, the fusstails, the glum pots. Their wet blanket has been thrown over the White House and Congress. They're worrying up a storm. (Good thing that George W. Bush is no longer in charge of the weather and FEMA the way he was during Hurricane Katrina.) America is experiencing a polar ice cap and financial meltdown, causing sea levels to rise and sending cold water flooding into Wall Street where the rapidly acidifying ocean is corroding our 401(k)s and releasing mortgage securities full of hot air into the atmosphere until our every breath is full of CO2 especially when we exhale, which should be banned when children are present lest their uninsured health care be harmed by second-hand greenhouse gases that are causing endangerment of plant and animal species (Republicans are extinct already), leading to a shortage of green, leafy vegetables vital to the fight against America's growing epidemics of obese hunger and housing foreclosures on the homeless.

You remember the killjoys. They've been all over liberal Democratic politics like ugly on an ape since the Carter adminis-tration. They are the people who conceived the late, little-mourned, double-nickel speed limit, which is doubtless now rising undead from its grave to turn us all into road zombies dragging ourselves down I‑70 numbed to a state of murderous catatonia by our 55-mile-per-hour rate of travel.

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KEYWORDS: bhoepa; democrats; envirowhackos; greens; nannystate; obama; orourke; pjorourke

1 posted on 01/31/2009 7:40:28 AM PST by rellimpank
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To: rellimpank

But, but, but Zero said, several months ago, that the sea level would begin to recede due to his success in the Dem primaries. Did he LIE?


2 posted on 01/31/2009 7:42:01 AM PST by originalbuckeye
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To: rellimpank

Always read the name of the author before you start getting steamed ggggg.


3 posted on 01/31/2009 7:42:19 AM PST by DManA
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To: rellimpank
The only way I can sneak a smoke nowadays is to borrow a buddy's hunting cabin in the Maine backwoods, lock myself in the bathroom, and stand in the shower stall with the curtain pulled tight and the water running.

That ain't like no hunt'n "shack" I ever been in. Running water, what a sissy.

4 posted on 01/31/2009 7:45:35 AM PST by DManA
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To: rellimpank
"They are the people who conceived the late, little-mourned, double-nickel speed limit, which is doubtless now rising undead from its grave to turn us all into road zombies dragging ourselves down I‑70 numbed to a state of murderous catatonia by our 55-mile-per-hour rate of travel."

It's already started...


5 posted on 01/31/2009 7:59:49 AM PST by null and void (We are now in day 11 of our national holiday from reality.)
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To: DManA

That ain’t like no hunt’n “shack” I ever been in. Running water, what a sissy.
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Take it easy on PJ ,, after all the drugs he’s done he’s lucky to have 2 brain cells left to rub together..


6 posted on 01/31/2009 8:14:03 AM PST by Neidermeyer
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To: rellimpank
Another great wordsmith! Thanks for posting it.

Raining on parades requires no skill or effort on the part of a politician. This is what draws people--and Democrats--into politics. All a Democrat needs is the upper-story window of public attention and the chamber pot of rhetoric.

7 posted on 01/31/2009 8:37:12 AM PST by RhoTheta
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To: DManA

The guys were all at a deer camp.
No one wanted to room with Bob, because he snored so badly.
They decided it wasn’t fair to make one of them stay
with him the whole time, so they voted to take turns.
The first guy who slept in the same room with Bob comes to breakfast the
next morning with his hair a mess and his eyes all bloodshot.
They said, ‘Man, what happened to you?
He said, ‘Bob snored so loudly, I just sat up and watched him all night.’

The next night it was a different guy’s turn.
In the morning, same thing -
hair all standing up, eyes all bloodshot.
They said, ‘Man, what happened to you?
You look awful!’ He said, ‘Man, that
Bob shakes the roof with his snoring.
I watched him all night.’

The third night was Fred’s turn.
Fred was a big, tanned, older cowboy; a man’s man.
The next morning he came to breakfast bright eyed and
bushy tailed.
Good morning,’ he said..
They couldn’t believe it!
They said, ‘Man, what happened?’
He said, ‘Well, we got ready for bed..
I went and tucked Bob into bed,
patted him on the butt, and kissed him good night.

Bob sat up and watched me all night


8 posted on 01/31/2009 12:01:44 PM PST by razorback-bert (Save the planet...it is the only known one with beer!)
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To: razorback-bert

My husband and I laughed out loud when I read your post to him. That sounds exactly like something that would be done by a guy who is a member of their deer camp, excepting his name isn’t Fred.


9 posted on 01/31/2009 1:01:03 PM PST by LucyJo
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