Maybe he's laying ground for next year's Nobel, having stepped back from, "I could shoot someone on Fifth Avenue."

He could do a lot of things. Losing all oxygen to the brain would be a good start.

Definitely by design; poorly edumacated people are the Republicans best voters, and they go to great extents to make sure they stay poorly edumacated.
#46 | Posted by Corky at 2026-10-10 07:35 PM

In all fairness, West Virginia had Robert Byrd (D) funneling huge amounts of money into WV while in the Senate.

Lotsa great roads and contracts, I guess. But it didn't lift all boats.

But please remember, there's a hard core of West (and Old) Virginia (as Donnerboy said), that won't change, especially if people want them to. It's the mountain mentality. That's one reason moonshiners still exist. Sorry to say some of the mountaintops have been removed, of course. West Virginia is simultaneously beautiful and toxic and scary.

Where I lived before in a city in SW VA, there was not 100 percent running water in the houses within city limits. And that was by homeowner's choice. They've tried to get them to change but were told, "No thanks."

BellRinger is playing the card that doesn't fly with the three-digit IQ crowd:

Keep telling the lie, and they've believe it.

Sorry to deadname you, but JeffJ, aren't you one of the ones always complaining about anonymous sources, and you want independent corroborations?

Other than what's posted here, I don't know crap about Clownshack, Danforth, Snoofy, or Eberly, a host of others. But anything they've revealed about themselves, they tend to reinforce, because it's likely the truth. And when people call what sounds like --------, they'll back it up.

You've got a bunch of people here who witnessed the same types of exchanges at different times -- all of which Hans or His Friend indeed could find if so desired -- yet you'll claim it never happened. No. Not me.

Another thread was talking about old Retort memories. Another early memory of mine here was someone challenging Danforth on his membership in three different entertainment unions. No way could that be; poster called BS. Danforth simply explained that because of his work, he'd been required to join one or another at various times and never gave up his membership.

Telling the truth ain't hard, and it's easier to remember.

Lying sucks.

2027. Stop those presses.

"It's not hate, it's heritage."
This is how JeffJ and Boaz describe the Confederate Flag.
#65 | Posted by snoofy

Forty years ago, I edited Counterattack, the house organ of the Southern Defense Initiative; AI shows no reference to it yet.

One of the typesetting shops I worked for in a major southern city flat-out refused to work on it but recommended me because, as with most successful freelancers, earlier in my work I would accept almost anything--the weirder the better.

It was a heritage, not hate, stance, and my Alabama-born wife loved it when, instead of my $25 monthly paycheck, I asked for a T-shirt, which had the Confederate flag on the front and a pointillist picture of Nathan Bedford Forrest on the back. He played the states-rights card far more intelligently than any Retorter. Guy's name is Jim Giles, and you can look him up. Years later, he became a perpetual candidate for a while, running for anything he could, doing internet hate radio, etc.

Jim was an IBM manager, Sorbonne-trained, exceedingly well spoken, and had grown up deep in Mississippi. We got along great, but he eventually stopped publishing the magazine.

I'd check up on him now and then, and his posts had grown anti-Semitic.

At that point, I'd have no longer worked for him. But all the Southern Defense crap I found highly entertaining.

Stop the presses! Hey, he's still going in 2017. He may be a fascist, but he's my fascist.

Not at all soothing for most. One of my spawn saw them last night:

Deerhoof, live:

John Fahey, "Voice of the Turtle":