The Iceland Meets RedState Open Thread
It's good to know that they use "WTF," too.
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Part 1: Socrates writes a diary titled Save the Whales - Nuke Iceland! which is actually supportive of Icelandic whaling efforts.
Part 2: An Icelandic blog that seems to be similar to Fark links this story, apparently not understanding that we do not, in fact, advocate nuclear war with Iceland.
Part 3: Hilarity ensues in the comments.
Ah, the internets... bringing the world together.
Open thread.
P.S. - If anyone can translate the sentence that appears on the Icelandic blog after "Save whales NUKE Iceland," we'd be very eternally grateful. Thanks.
UPDATE: A commenter informs us that the Icelandic text is "Harsh words toward us."
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of M1A1 armour and body armour in cold extremes against harpoons???
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If "pro" is the opposite of "con", what is the opposite of "progress"?
Apparently there have been meetings recently--results somewhat inconclusive.
http://www.defenselink.mil/Transcripts/Transcript.aspx?TranscriptID=3754
"I'm kind of old-fashioned. I like to engage my brain before my mouth." Donald Rumsfeld
you REALLY need to get a life. :>)
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If "pro" is the opposite of "con", what is the opposite of "progress"?
is getting hit by pieces of volcanic rock.
they may have migrated to more equatorial feeding grounds. if the Iceland fishery can't find these whales, the reason is clear:
BushLied.
Is because they didn't need to vocal competition from Bjork.
8-)
When men yield up the privilege of thinking, the last shadow of liberty quits the horizon.
— Thomas Paine
Sometimes I look to the heavens wishing that a 6 mile wide astroid would kill us all. We have it coming. More proof.
Envisioning when all that is Left is the Right.
"Hörð orð í okkar garð" == "Harsh words toward us"
That I have inadvertently triggered a downturn in Icelando-American relations.
I'm sorry, really. I hope they don't preemptively turn their dreaded Freeze Ray on us.
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Evil men hide from the truth, but good men stand upon it.
What's Icelandic for "Canadian Bacon"?
Just as every cop is a criminal, and all the sinners saints - Sympathy for the Democrats
What is Icelandic for "we have ways of making you blubber"?
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Partisanship...so 20th Century.
Someone needs to show some compassion and find a translator. :/ It was a clear misunderstanding.
"I'm just beginning...The pen's in my hand...Ending unplanned"
Speaking as someone who's been battered more than a bit hereabouts:
This is "nice."
LOL
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Partisanship...so 20th Century.
Highest number of bars per capita in the world and highest percentage of babies born out of wedlock. Coincidence? Perhaps. Regardless, it is a great place to party!
Oh yeah, and the hottest women you'll ever see who generally think they have a pretty poor selection of men. Kinda like DC actually (at least the second half of that anyway).
by be nice, I didn't mean poke them with a stick or imply stereotypes about them. It's starting to look mean-spirited and I have no idea what the point is about going off on Iceland on a site about Conservative values.
"I'm just beginning...The pen's in my hand...Ending unplanned"
When I think about Iceland, it kind of makes me want to smile. Isolated, peaceful, but modern and forward-thinking.
I wish I'd said that, too.
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Evil men hide from the truth, but good men stand upon it.
...a friend who used to live there. She said the beaches were completely undeveloped (probably not worth the investment for three days of fun in the sun a year) so there wasn't anywhere to change clothes. As a result, one of the most useful things she learned from her stay there was how to change clothes in public without ever getting nekkid.
Kinda makes you wonder why there aren't more Icelandic gymnasts.
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Partisanship...so 20th Century.
Socrates' post, which started this whole thing, went out of its way to be supportive of Iceland.
In response, Iceland forced hordes of angry commenters upon us.
This is the kind of situation in which all you can really do is laugh.
"We could find a speck of dust and scribble down our life stories..." - The Refreshments
He noticed. And then my cardinals beat his mets. It was worth it.
"I'm just beginning...The pen's in my hand...Ending unplanned"
My boys are in the world series!!!!!!!!!!
Iceland can hunt all the whales they want for all I care.
My boys are going to get some tigers. Grrrr!!!!
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The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated.-Reagan
was Chuck Norris --- Norris killed the whale that is, Pujols didn't kill Norris :-)
John
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Democratic civilization is the first in history to blame itself because another power is trying to destroy it.
... Jean-François Revel
that Pujols killed Osama Bin Laden with his magic baseball bat. but I think that's just an urban legend on the Cardinals ESPN messgae board. my own research suggests he borrowed Paul Bunyan's axe to do the deed.
It was a day game in St. Louis a while back. Osama got mad about the Budweiser signs (it's Busch Stadium, after all), and Albert thumped him on the side of the head. It was just a little tap, but the Leader of the Jihad and World's Greatest Whitney Houson Fanboy went sailing over the right field fence, plowing a whole through the upper deck, out over downtown StLouis, right through the Arch and into the Big Muddy.
He was last seen cursing the heathen gambling boats and bubbling something about not needing to swim in the desert.
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Evil men hide from the truth, but good men stand upon it.
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when will Vice Presiden Cheney be forced to release the names of the Icelandic fisheries directors who have visited his office?
Whales Died.
BTW, there is a story in tomorrow's NYT that Halliburton has taken a major stake in the world's largest whale oil production facility. Appparently Cheney has ordered the Air Force to invest in whale oil as an alternative fuel for the B-52 fleet. With this investment Halliburton will control 87.4% of the global whale oil production and will make a fortune.
John
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Democratic civilization is the first in history to blame itself because another power is trying to destroy it.
... Jean-François Revel
set to run in the weekend editions says that Karl Rove and Jeb Bush are planning to take a team of special "fishermen" from around Kinnebunkport, Maine, to Iceland, where they will be outfitted with certain laser-guided-whale-sonar listening devices by the CIA.
We will then have the technology to rule the world. Or we would have, if the NYT hadn't gotten the story and stopped the government in its tracks.
a certain "unusual" sense of humor pervading Redstate :-)
John
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Democratic civilization is the first in history to blame itself because another power is trying to destroy it.
... Jean-François Revel
They are harboring the international fugitive from justice, Bobby Fischer. Fischer violated US sanctions on Yugoslavia in the '90s when he played a rematch of his 1972 World Championship match with Boris Spassky, and received about $3 million for it.
We can't seem to track down Karazdic and other war criminals from the former Yugoslavia, but we know where Fischer is.
Nuke Iceland - now!
(not the Israeli one) I have to say that from my experience Icelanders are a wonderful people. They like America probably more than any other old Euro nation.
A couple of cheers for whale hunting! :)
"To discuss evil in a manner implying neutrality, is to sanction it." AR
Hopefully this won't spark a showdown with Iceland, what with our military being engaged elsewhere.