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August 25, 2005

There goes the neighborhood!

Now that they are letting Jews in, what next? Homosexuals, Gypsies, Jehovah's Witnesses???

posted by Tanker at 08:33 PM

Comments

Anyone taking bets on how long it'll take Cedarford to show up in this comment thread?

Posted by: Sean M. on August 25, 2005 09:06 PM

Remember those Camp Casey chronicles I wrote?

I made fun of her tendency to infantilize her son:

Guess I wasn't too far off the mark. From today's HuffPo:

"So, after Joan Baez gave us a great concert tonight, I got up and I talked about Casey. About the sweet boy who grew up to be a remarkable young man. Casey was not always a brave, big soldier man. He was my sweet, sweet baby once. I told the people at the Camp named after him, that when he was about 2 years old, he would come up behind me and throw his arms around my legs, kiss me on the butt and say: "I wuv you mama."

This woman needs help. Intervention-type help. She's self-parodying.

Posted by: Slublog on August 25, 2005 09:42 PM

Slublog:

I bet your mom tells the same stories about you.

Posted by: on August 25, 2005 09:48 PM

Probably. But she doesn't use them to support something I would likely oppose.

Posted by: Slublog on August 25, 2005 09:50 PM

All 2-year old kids do that - even the ones with $5 crack whores as mothers. With no point of reference other than your own mother, anything looks good to a 2 year old.

My mom has all sorts of stories about me when I was a whelp. Usually they involve "cute" things like me running amok "washing" the kitchen floor with eggs though...

Posted by: Tony on August 25, 2005 10:03 PM

Yeah, my mom loves to tell the story about the time I ate a spider when I was a toddler.

Posted by: Slublog on August 25, 2005 10:06 PM

I'll say it again. This woman has a form of Munchausen by Proxy Syndrome. She is using the death of her son to make herself into a hero. Into something 'special'.

Appalling and not a little disgusting.

Posted by: Silk on August 25, 2005 10:15 PM

oh, and I bet she just sold her property in Germany now that they let the Zionists in.

Posted by: Silk on August 25, 2005 10:17 PM

The difference between the stories that Slublog's mother tells are that Slublog was hugging his mom's leg and kissing her butt at the age of 27.

Other than that, though, the stories are eerily similar.

Posted by: Jack M. on August 25, 2005 10:19 PM

The difference between the stories that Slublog's mother tells are that Slublog was hugging his mom's leg and kissing her butt at the age of 27.

Yep. We need a flame war soon.

People are itching.

Plus, buddy, that was your mom.

Posted by: Slublog on August 25, 2005 10:25 PM

And it wasn't her butt he was kissing.

Posted by: digitalbrownshirt on August 25, 2005 10:49 PM

Y'know, if you'd be a bit quiet, I can sneak in a boatload of greenhorns.

Posted by: TC@LeatherPenguin on August 25, 2005 10:52 PM

Plus, buddy, that was your mom.

She does love that rosewater, doesn't she?

Posted by: Dave in Texas on August 25, 2005 11:34 PM

Now lets be honest here; we've all enjoyed slubog's mom. Why should he be the only one left out?

Posted by: john on August 26, 2005 12:01 AM

Hey, I'm Mexican, man.

That sort of thing earns you a meeting with the wrong end of a butterfly knife, pendejo.

Posted by: Slublog on August 26, 2005 12:08 AM

Plus, john's saying things like that becuase he's jealous.

His mom?

See for yourself.

Posted by: Slublog on August 26, 2005 12:11 AM

She ain't that pretty, but she's all mine.

Posted by: john on August 26, 2005 12:16 AM

Over here in Okinawa they have a little jeep called a "Pejaro". Always makes me think of a spanish swear word.

BECAUSE OF THE JOOOOOS!

Posted by: Partisan Pundit on August 26, 2005 12:39 AM

slublug ----Mom just told me you've been licking her all over. I know you're in love with her, but man you've got to do something about that slobber. We had to get the plumber in here to drain it off. Poor mom's in hysterics cause of almost drowing. You got fine taste in women I must say, but a strange way of showing it.

Posted by: john on August 26, 2005 01:06 AM

Ew.

Posted by: Slublog on August 26, 2005 01:12 AM

Hatred of Jews (JOOOOOOOOOOOOOOS!) in Germany? Who knew?

Posted by: Sue Dohnim on August 26, 2005 08:38 AM

There are Jews left in Germany? Huh.

Posted by: S. Weasel on August 26, 2005 08:47 AM

http://www.petitiononline .com/pccpat/petition.html

fcc complaint agasint pat robertson

Posted by: on August 26, 2005 10:35 AM

fcc complaint agasint pat robertson

Cripes...

I'm annoyed at Pat Robertson because I think the man constantly finds ways to make Christians look bad.

But an FCC violation? Give me a break. What rules has he violated, exactly?

Go ahead, take a look and let us know.

Posted by: Slublog on August 26, 2005 10:40 AM

Germans:

"Its not that we hate the Joos or anything. It's just that we like the RIFs so much batter. And the're so sensitive about the whole Jooo thing, and you know how it is when they get upset.

Anyway, we have this nice Italian concrete factory where they could set up they're centre..."

Posted by: holdfast on August 26, 2005 10:45 AM

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