1 I can't remember where I read this- too busy exulting over my fantasy football championship (for money, folks!)- but the whole Rick Warren thing brings up the greatest problem with most libs these days (and also with the American Family Association)- can we talk about anything without its political implications?

Christ, my Saints could win the Super Bowl, and it'd be discussed as how it's a repudiation of George Bush.

And Gabe, I'll be right alongside you on using the Campbell's... also because my wife greatly prefers their chicken broth.

tmi3rd

2 Don't go too far with trying to asserting control, Hillary. 

3

The Times cited an unnamed Hillary Clinton adviser as saying her push for a more vigorous economic team stems from her belief that the State Department needs to play a part in the recovery from the global financial crisis, while economic issues also are at the heart of key diplomatic relationships, notably with China.

The former first lady also is reportedly likely to name several high-powered envoys to world hotspots.

 

While Barry is out posing and getting his ass kissed by the media, Hillary will be doing everything she can to run as much as she can.

4 Okay, so the minx site displays the google cache link wrong. Can't seem to fix it and have to get on another plane now.

Goodbye Oklahoma, Hello Virginia!

5 Sorry Gabe,

I'm happy about the heads-up over Campbells soup. Reason being, the gay community is pissing all over anyone that they think was behind Prop 8, while the schmucks that were working against it get off scott-free. Examples: Google, Yahoo, Macintosh... These are big names. A boycott worked with MacDonalds, it's time to put the crunch to Campbells. I have nothing against homosexual behavior. Knock yourselves out. I have a big problem with insanely militant gays trying to push the notion that what they do is normal onto American Society. Bullsh*t!

6
You broke the blog, Malor.

7

More crap from CNN. This morning they remarked that this was the worst recession since WWII. In other words, since the depression. And yet we are still not officially in a recession.

8

While Barry is out posing and getting his ass kissed by the media, Hillary will be doing everything she can to run as much as she can.

Behind every great man is a woman.  Usually his wife or mother, but whatever.  Hill is nobody's fool.  I can still see her ruling the world somewhere down the line.

9 Campbells is shit. Try Wolfgang Puck's or Progresso.

10 And that has no relation to the gay stuff.

11 Ace saves a woman's life in Canada using that nose that's finely-honed to sniffing out hobos, no matter what the weather is like. And all for free other than a T-bone and, maybe, some beer.

12

can we talk about anything without its political implications?

When even the simplest of questions like, "how's the weather" can provoke a diatribe about how we're destroying the planet because of 8 years of failed Bush policies, I'm afraid the answer is no.

13 Hillary!= Cheney.  Pupetmasters.

14 Bill @ 5...I'm right there with ya, man.

15

can we talk about anything without its political implications?

YOU people would love that, wouldn't you??

16

can we talk about anything without its political implications?

Ever read the comments on the homepage news articles?  That would be a "no".  Life is political.

17 Campbells is mmm mmm good. But homosexuality tastes like shit. So Campbells is coming out with shit soup. Mmm mmm shit.

18 The Barry Commission Report is due today.

It will blame Bush and carbon dioxide.

19 In the future monitors will expand when comment sections do.

20

Campbell's Soup = Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol = teh ghey

Transitive relation: Campbell's Soup = ghey.

OT, the company's "2008 Corporate Social Responsibility Report" definitely gives off that creepy corporate vibe: "social responsibility"/endorsement of questionable environmental causes/championing of ill-defined "diversity celebration"/mission to get involved in your life whether or not you know it or care.

Just make soup, people; I don't need your rescue. And thanks for split-pea and ham. Awesome.

21

In the future, monitors will be monitored. 

Big Brother is watching you.

22 Does Progresso make a cream of soup suitable for white-trash-green-bean-casserole?

23

In the spirit of making everythng political, from today's WSJ:

"In its first holiday season under new Chief Executive John Donahoe, eBay is suffering a slide in visitor traffic and deteriorating sales. Customers are leaving for fixed-priced sites where eBay has less of an edge, and because of continued problems with unscrupulous sellers."

Remember way back in the fall when "our" candidate for President was touting eBay as an example for his economic policies when the equity and credit markets were collapsing and Bernanke and Paulson were running around like Chicken Little? It's a miracle Chicago Jesus didn't sweep all 57 states.

24 Sorry-  Campbell's cream of chicken with garlic is the best thing ever for colds.  Not givin' it up.

25 Does Progresso make a cream of soup suitable for white-trash-green-bean-casserole?

Hell naw. Campbell's cream of mushroom is the Universal Binding Ingredient.

26

Does Progresso make a cream of soup suitable for white-trash-green-bean-casserole?

The secret to the green bean casserole is the dried onions.  Any kind of cream soup is sufficient as long as you have plenty of onions.

27 I knew it!

Preservatives cause teh Gay!

28 BTW, fix yer frikkin link.

29 Well, they ruined The Day The Earth Stood Still, so why not ruin Forbidden Planet too?

30 Oh, and "casserole" isn't one a them co-opted gay code words, is it? Not that I wanna know for what exactly, y'unnerstan'...

31 Campbell Bean With Bacon Soup, Sunday, Dec 21, 2008: $1.49 for the dinky can.

32

Dried Onions! I could eat those by the bushel. Of course, my wife won't let me near her for a week.

 

Win-win!

33

aren't they "fried" onions?

 

yes.  yes they are.

34 >>>

In entertainment news, J. Michael Straczynski's rumored remake of The Forbidden Planet might actually be a trilogy. James Cameron is said to be looking to direct.

<<<

Eh, sounds like a 5-6 hour remake of Star Trek's "Charlie X" episode.

I'm predicting teh suckage.

35 Campbells's is a surprise?  Rosie O eats a shit load of Chunky Soup

36 # 1

And Gabe, I'll be right alongside you on using the Campbell's... also because my wife greatly prefers their chicken broth.


I can not politicize my soup choices just yet.  Campbell's is currently better for soup, but really, for chicken broth?  Swanson's, FTW™, no?

37 Who broke the blog?

38 Malor broke the blog.

39 The are also rolling out Vicar's Ass Potato Soup for next year's gay pride parade

40

Washington (AP): In a season of political high theatre, one university professor is stirring the soup--the ideological soup, that is.

After seven years of surveying and analysis, Dr. Phil Mycrakin has determined that political affiliation can be traced to affinity for certain flavors of the ubiquitous Campbells Soup.

Chicken noodle soup, he claims, is the favorite of the left-leaning prole: "There's a completely unjustifiable belief in its therapeutic properties," he said. "It's 'cubed chicken'-infused salt water with flakes of dried parsley and turmeric for coloring. It's entirely benign--and useless as a common cold cure." His finding, he claims, coincides with Left affinities for scientifically baseless environmental causes, belief in a Jungian-style "societal commonality of good intention," and electoral attraction to style over substance. "JFK was a chicken-soup candidate," Mycrakin claims. "The current president-elect embodies this insubstantial, non-challenging characteristic." 

Conservatives, on the other hand, gravitate to the more substantial legume-based flavors. "Split pea with ham? Straight GOP ticket voter. Same with bean and bacon. Both were favorites of Ronald Reagan."

He dismissed the cream-based soups from consideration, nothing that these types constitute "an emphemeral body of soup that lacks any defining characteristic, save for the 'creaminess' of its constituency. You could make 'cream of beef' soup, and you'd have a conservative soup. A 'cream of tofu' liberal construction would likewise be possible--and be likewise disgusting."

41 Hrm, looks like life in Alaska isn't as free as we we've been led to believe.

Snow sculpture, dire threat to peoplekind.

42 I think boycotting Campbell's for their marketing choices is as silly as buying their product only because they were boycotted by the first group of idiots.

This is the free market, let them advertise wherever they want as long as they are not trying to convert anybody. (either way.)

43

Can anyone pinpoint the year when it became fashionable for companies and entertainment acts to get political and come down on one side or another?

 

Take the example of the Dixie Chicks making their inane anti0-Bush anti-U.S. statements over in Britain. Unless they were totally stupid they had to know it was going to piss off a lot of their fans and audience members. Well, they did it and it did and they went into a tailspin. They eventually recovered somewhat, but they never did get their original fan base back.

 

Anytime a company that has to sell a product to make a profit endorses one side of an argument they are asking for the other side to quit buying their product. It just doesn’t make any sense for a CEO to kill a large portion of the company’s target population. If I was on the BODs of one of these companies that did something like this I would start a board movement to fire the CEO.

 

Campbell’s should be in the business of selling soup, not endorsing anything.  

44
I'll be using Campbell's for all my Christmas day casserole needs.

I won't.

45

Gabe,

Christmas casserole?  Did you mean "catch and roll"? 

Screw Campbell's.  A business sells shit, they don't need to take positions on shit.  My products are for everyone with the money.  Don't piss off consumers by being jerks.  NO more Campbell's for me.  Hope the 2% gay population can make up for the loss of 40% of Campbell's customers.

Gabe, looks like you and your friends will be eating a lot of soup.

Merry Christmas,

Kemp

 

46

Fuck. What's gonna be politicized next? Chewing gum?

 

47

Advertisement = conversion.

Can anyone pinpoint the year when it became fashionable for companies and entertainment acts to get political and come down on one side or another?

Can't "pinpoint" it, but my guess is entertainment acts would be 1960 (The Rat Pack for JFK) and maybe eight years later for Nixon (Burma-Shave roadside placards: "Keep Your/Mug All/Nice And Spiffy/Else You'll Be/A Goddamn Hippie/Nixon's The One In '68")

Or sumpin' like that.

48 Isn't Hillary Gay? In a chunky^tm way.

49 SHe's just thick in the britches

50 I've liked Progresso ever since they started, with the one kind of soup: beans & pasta.  Now they have 92 different kinds, I can't find the Pasta e Fagioli anymore, and the prices are outlandish.  Guess I ought to make my own soup from scratch.  Best thing I've discovered since the financial panic began: Aldi's.

51 Fuck off, Kemp. Cambells had the audacity to advertise in a gay magazine and you're blaming them for politicizing it? They're just trying to sell soup. It's not their fault the AFA has to lose its shit every time a gay person breathes.

52 Soup, casseroles, "cum" recipes?!
There HAS to be something in the val-u-rite.
(could explain Twat)

53  Alright, I pulled the google cache link.

54

The Fitz is asking IL pols  to back off on looking into the Blog’s criminal activities. That will make it hard to impeach.

55

gp:

Aldi's actually has some good stuff, especially the German cookies and beer. And produce is produce.

56 WTF people, get a grip.  The ads don't have any 'political' content, unless you think acknowledging that gay people exist and buy soup is political.

They advertised in a gay magazine.  They tailored the ads to the target audience somewhat by having a lesbian couple in one.  The other ads have a chef who looks like a homo, but isn't identified as such.  BFD.  If they advertised in Ebony, they'd use black people in the ads, but I wouldn't assume they supported Reverend Wright's 'kill whitey' agenda.

57 Gabe,

Good point.  Campbell's is trying to make money from everyone.  Plus, you must have nuts theeeees beeeeeeeg to put yourself out there knowing a generally unfavorable response is coming your way.

-Peter

58

gay people exist and buy soup

Gays don't "buy soup." 

Gays roast the veal bones in a pan they bought at Williams-Sonoma. Then they deglaze with red wine to create the stock, add a sachet of mirepoix, and gently reduce--without boiling--until the volume is halved. While reducing, they caramelize sliced onions in butter until translucent...

59 Gabe is awesome..in a ghey way. So there!

60 Since I don't actually use Campbells products, I don't really care either way. What can I say, I'm a Progresso kinda guy.

But that reminds me of the time I was having a slice of pizza at a local pizzaria that was basically across the street from a Taco Hell, and this really smoking hawt bleeding heart liberal chick came in and sat down and asked me to boycott Taco Hell for some sin - I think buying el cheapo veggies picked by migrant labor for 5 cents on the dollar. I nodded sympathetically, said it was terrible injustice and sure I'd avoid Taco Hell all the while enjoying the increase in blood pressure and heart rate due to her hawtness.

Of course, I can't say when the last time I've ever been to a Taco Hell. I should have asked her for her number. So we could, ummm, discuss the plight of the migrant farm worker.

Or something like that...

61

WASHINGTON – Vice President-elect Joe Biden said Tuesday that a report due to be released imminently will show "no inappropriate contact" between President-elect Barack Obama's staff and embattled Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich.

 

Thanks Joey. Glad you could clear that up for us.

62 Progresso is better than Campbells anyway. So I've been pre-emptively boycotting them this whole time.

63

Gays don't "buy soup." 

Gays roast the veal bones in a pan they bought at Williams-Sonoma. Then they deglaze with red wine to create the stock, add a sachet of mirepoix, and gently reduce--without boiling--until the volume is halved. While reducing, they caramelize sliced onions in butter until translucent...

Most folks would roast the bones for marrow.  Maybe you meant deglaze w/ veal stock and red wine, add mirepoix and boquet garni, reduce.  Also, when you caramelize onions, they're brown black.  sweat onions until translucent?  

At least that's how real gays like me roll...

64

PHOTO # 5

Yikes! When Winston Curhchill said the "nothing is as exhillerating as being shot at to no effect" I don't think that is what he had in mind.

I've stood beyond the berm at my gun club watching bullets fly overhead and land in the backstop twenty yards away many times with great nonchalance, untill I shot some .308 tracers in the dark at the same backstop at 100 yards and watched them bounce everywhere.  It was an eye opener.

65 Obama and Joe Biden make me miss Bill Clinton.

66

About 10 years ago or so one could boycott comanies for taking certain political/moral stands and you could make a noticeable splash in the pool.  Nowadays, lifestyles and politics are so enmeshed with business, etc, that if one boycotted every product/company that they disagreed with on a political basis, you would have to become a mountain hermit.

btw: I don't buy Campbell's because it's generally the most expensive brand on the shelf.  I'm a cheapskate.

67 Kudos!  These are altogether the best photos of the year I've seen! Allah sends his regards.  (Sura 2:29) 

68 #65 - Yup, I had the same thought. The thought of  the incoming celebrity President and senile VP makes me rather depressed.

69

Most folks would roast the bones for marrow. 

In so many words, yes. The result's the same.

Maybe you meant deglaze w/ veal stock and red wine, add mirepoix and boquet garni, reduce. 

Actually I meant what I said, but hey, de gustibus non disputandem est. I was going for effect, not Escoffier.

Also, when you caramelize onions, they're brown black. 

When they're caramelized, they're brown. "Brown black" onions are burned onions.

 

70 WTF Malor,

What is this, Ace of Spades got a touch of a the velvet now? Camman dude. Whether you're gay or not, it's none of anyone's business but yer own. We don't need to know about it, k bud? Unless Ace is willing to have posters in support of man-boy love? I mean, if being a fag is okay so is man-boy love. Where do you draw the line? And since when did an inner sexual preference become public all the sudden? ...

Campbells. Andy Warhol. Tamato's --- wtf. I make my Scottish soup hearty and dip it w/ rugged crusty old bread. Nuff said, Fred.

Nat

71

And since when did an inner sexual preference become public all the sudden? ...

Seems like making ones sex life is daily fare around here.

72

Seems like making ones sex life is daily fare around here. =

Seems like making ones sex life public is daily fare around here.

73 On a positive note: Cream of Mushroom is a great quickie meal. And, in a pinch, makes a great lube.

74 "I mean, if being a fag is okay so is man-boy love. Where do you draw the line?"

At the age of 18?

That's where it's drawn right now, most places....

But casserole? What's next, hot dish? Didn't know Minnesota cuisine had so polluted the nation.

(By the way, for a tasty and surprising alternative to cream of mushroom soup, try a can of coconut milk! -- This message brought to you by the coconut milk importers of America.)

75

Actually I meant what I said, but hey, de gustibus non disputandem est. I was going for effect, not Escoffier.

But the effect is achieved through the details.  Sachet mirepoix?  That's weak sauce...

When they're caramelized, they're brown. "Brown black" onions are burned onions.

True.   But my onions are only black from the waist down. 

76 Lemme append what I said: Whatever way you swing is irrelevant to matters of the mind. Politics is the science of the mob. I hope readers here enjoy perhaps being at least a foot above the mob? Maybe for a little serene moment of reflection? I myself live in the mountains. No one but animals up here. The occasional liberal stumbles up here... I usually have to help him down, because the sun has set and they can't walk back without a guide.

My point is: when you're walking the path, day or night, up the mountain or down, the last thing on my mind is the sexual preference of the person I'm helping. Unless it's a hot chick, but even then my concern for her safety is greater than whether she takes it or not.

A mensch overcomes his bodily desires. What man allows his 'cattle' to overcome him?

77 I don't think Campbell co. should be supporting or opposing homosexuality. Soup and sex (straight or gay) do not mix.

78 Campbell's is cheap shit. Their chicken noodle sucks ass. Maybe that's why they support teh gays. Progresso chicken noodle is so much better.

79 I can haz gey soop?

80 I think the word you want is "amend," not "append," since your second post pretty much totally contradicted your first one. And your first one, what with the "touch of the velvet," and "man-boy love" cracks, sort of gave your game away.

But, since you say "no one but animals up here," I guess we know where you draw the line.

Just curious, are you all bothered when Ace posts up the big-titted Japanese chick pic's, too? What about the mostly-naked Kate Winslet? Or the occasional "accidental" link to midget Thai tranny hooker pron?

After all, "A mensch overcomes his bodily desires."

81

New official theme song for Global Climate Change:

http://tinyurl.com/7gvajd

82 Hi katya,

Yer right. Nevermind. Once again, I am the ignorant one-eyed ogre whose knuckles are calloused from too much draggin'.

My ma always said I was the sensitive one of the family. Yet I feel like such an uncultured dolt when around the most dovish of intellectuals...sorry to ruin your appetites, mon freres.

OOhhgga. Back to my cave...

83

Earlier this year McDonalds made some humongous donation to the homosexual political movement and hubby and I discusses whether or not to boycott (they make pretty good coffee most of the time).  Hubby sent them an email asking them why they were compelled to make a public, political statement; he thought they were in the food-selling business.  Their reply was some vague, fluffy statement about how they supported families, blah, blah, that could have been the Declaration of Independence if you wanted it to.  Anyhow, we decided to keep buying coffee from McD's. 

Unless you're a noisy thug that gets your 15 minutes of fame on CNN, I don't think a personal boycott carries any weight anymore.

I forgot where I was going with this, but I think it was that I buy what I like and don't worry about their politics or orientation anymore.  America is no longer a "Christian" nation, but we are still free (mostly).

84 "Soup and sex (straight or gay) do not mix."

Tushar, you're so Victorian in your understandings....

You might want to reread certain passages of the Kama Sutra.

I'm sure there's one position that called for four cups of cream of mushroom soup, and two cups of New England-style clam chowder.

85

What a thread.  From Cream of Sum Yung Guy to beastiality and back again.

Norman Rockwell has nothing on this place.

86

Heather,

When the recipes call for Campbell's soups to make a cassarole, basically the soups take the place of a white sauce. Learn to make the white sauce, put a little celery or mushrooms in it and you have a better sauce than Campbell's at a cheaper price.

And no I am not gay. I like to eat. I also think that any business that has to make political commentaries probably does not want my business. Anybody that does so is straying from their business plan, which makes me think that they have poor leadership.

87 Notropis, tender one, ... where do you hearken from? I myself live in a cave within a cave within a cave. I raise goats here, and if I had another eye, I would probably eat humans.

I personally feel a warmth in my heart for Ace... I do. Why? He's like a brother. Does it bother me when he posts... well he doesn't post that as far as I recall. I've been reading this blog probably longer than Thee. 3 years... and only now I have the stupidity to post in the comment box.

88 Are there any journalists in the house?

89 Ace!

Now it's okay to post pictures of man's buttocks! Let's see some sweaty wash-board stomachs, and suggests and hints of bulging T-bags!!

Fairies who post here need to get wood too... I mean really, we are not menschen at all, just a bunch of toothless morons waiting for our food-stamps to show up.

*lights another Marlb*

Party on...

90 "Does it bother me when he posts... well he doesn't post that as far as I recall."

Sorry for your brain damage. Loss of memory is a bitch.

http://minx.cc/?post=280010

http://minx.cc/?post=280104

(OK, neither of those were posted by Ace, but they were posted in the last 24 hours, and apparently without a single complaint from you, so how about:

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/257055.php#257055

-- that's the famous big-breasted Japanese girl who made it into about 100 threads after that

And if you missed the Thai Tranny Hookers, well I'm truly sorry for you.)

91 I haven't eaten canned or packaged soups for years. My wife's homemade soups are to die for, especially when she drops a big ham bone, with chunks of meat still on it, into a bubbling pot of split pea soup...

92

51 Fuck off, Kemp.

Oh, Gabe you devil.  The best offer I've had all day.

As they said in animal house "Eat Me".

So Gabe, if Campbell advertises in a Klan magazine, that going to be OK with you?  Or how about on a Pedophile website? 

Think about this through our eyes, not through your sweet baby blue eyes.

Merry Christmas, sugar.

Kemp

93 Let me also say that I despise the way the Democrats play fast and loose with the Constitution. Clinton and Biden need to learn the responsibilities of their new positions and limit themselves to that. It is easy to imagine though that they are thinking about future runs at the Presidency. Our politics are going to the dogs. I doubt that our metrosexual President has the macho to put Biden and Clinton in their place.

94 Man, and here's me feeling foolish because I sent a recipe for artichoke dip out to Katya the other night.  I'm good.

95 >>89 Ace!

Now it's okay to post pictures of man's buttocks! Let's see some sweaty wash-board stomachs, and suggests and hints of bulging T-bags!!

Fairies who post here need to get wood too... I mean really, we are not menschen at all, just a bunch of toothless morons waiting for our food-stamps to show up.

*lights another Marlb*

Party on...

Posted by: Nathanael at December 23, 2008 01:18 PM (wG8js)

NO! NOT GOOD ENOUGH! I must see pix of hard throbbing cock! And men with their asses spread like Goatse! And Blago porn! And Ace raping a hobo! And Obama fucking farm animals!

96 Notropis,

Kama Sutra has really altered perceptions about India in the West. What that book and those sculptures show are the activities of the royals. The common man could not afford to indulge in these things. He would be grateful if his wife would put out once in a while, just like people all over the world.

BTW, I have no problem with Campbell advertising in gay magazines. Even targeted ads showing lesb couples. As long as they are hot.

But I do get pissed at all the advertisers showing men as dumb dolts and women as smart ones. No one dares do it the other way.

97 "I'll be using Campbell's for all my Christmas day casserole needs"

I sure as hell won't: Campbell's soup sucks (inadvertent pun, although I wouldn't have thought so prior to your politicizing bad soup: which, btw Malor, is exactly what YOU did ...try reading your copy prior to posting dude: how the hell did you THINK the above was going to be read ...so your false protestations of righteous indignation seem a bit shallow given after that fact ...can't not note that it's sad that the idiots maneuvering the post-8 disturbances are trying to conflate legal acceptance with social approval ...which ain't gonna happen, primarily since hedonism - which is pretty much THE point if you take away the bogus pseudo-genetic shit, eh - in general is a sign of cultural malaise in every historical context) ...and has ever since my taste buds developed beyond their [unlamented] adolescent angst period.

Progresso makes canned soups good enough to stand on their own (note that I said *canned*). Campbell's is a tasteless-other-than-too-much-sodium heart attack in a can (to de-gayify the argument).

...and if I want base stock for anything, I make it (or tear open the packaging).

98

>> No one dares do it the other way.

no one married.

99 Never much cared for Progresso.  the ones i've tried tasted like crap to me.  AFA is having a hernia over a BFD, this coming from a guy who is for traditional marriage and against the militant homo agenda - your typical "concerned christian conservative".  Gabe, im behind... err beside... ya on this one.  Welcome to beautiful VA btw, even if lots of libs are bringing their f'd up politics with them to my home state.  It got real cold here so Al Gore is probably nearby.

as for supporting homosexual families... I dont get that out of the ad.  And if they are parents already (according to the AFA), then why not?  its better for the kid.

campbells has done alot of good humanitarian work, so I am not gonna knock them.  I remember the "collect the labels" soup drive for the hungry from when I was a kid.  Frankly, sometimes doing such work is a benefit to the business and enhances their sales.  So when people complain that a company needs to get back to selling x, that is usually what they are doing by conveying an image of being a good corporate citizen within the community.  I know I would rather buy a product from a decent person than some satchel of douchedom.  Walmart buys lots of stuff from china, so I try to avoid them; Target kicks santa to the curb, so I try to avoid them as well.

my fav campbells are the chunky chicken gumbo and the mexican tortilla.  what does that make me politically?  Lindsay Graham? 

the last secretary to pull in lots of power and publicity (that I recall) was hoover.  Hoover took the credit for the roaring 20's, the late boom courtesy of his meddling, to become president.  Coolidge wanted to fire his ass, but couldnt in large part due to his popularity.  And we all know how much he helped in the long run.  We are in a similar situation today in part because people, once again, forgot the basic lesson from "the ant & the grasshopper" tale.

100

Heather,

When the recipes call for Campbell's soups to make a cassarole, basically the soups take the place of a white sauce. Learn to make the white sauce, put a little celery or mushrooms in it and you have a better sauce than Campbell's at a cheaper price.

...

Posted by: Harry at December 23, 2008 01:12 PM (AJPnu)

Thick white sauce:

2 tbs. butter
2 tbs. flour
1/4 tsp. salt
Dash pepper
1 cup milk

Melt butter, add dry ingredients, mix well.
Turn heat to medium, add milk all at once, stir until bubbly, continue stirring for 3-4 more minutes until thickened. For a thin white sauce use 1 tbs. flour and 1 tbs. flour. The thick stuff is the sauce you use for SOS. For a celery flavor you can add celery seed to taste.

I love my SOS!

101 Nathaniel, for someone who's supposedly been here for 3 years, you've missed a lot.

Any of Ace's Andi Sullivan posts would lead you to RawMuslGlutes, if that's what you really want:

http://ace.mu.nu/archives/273703.php#273703

among dozens of others.

102
Oops!

For thin white sauce use 1tbs. butter and 1 tbs. flour.

103 Didn't anyone read the ads?  Everyone is talking Campbells, but the ads are for Swansons stock, a subsidiary of Campbells.

I read the ads, and was not offended in the slightest, and I am not the ghey.  Some Master Chef in NYC uses Swansons to create his favorite dish?  Awesome, show me to a empty table!  A pair of Lesbians cook dinner for the kid and friends?  Which brand of beer goes best with it, and what time should I show up?

AFA is making much ado over nothing, IMHO.

Of course, if you go to AFA's website and use their form letter generator to express your "outrage" to Campbells, you get put on the list to be hit up for donations for every "outrage" they find in the future.

Business is business.

104 Tushar:

"But I do get pissed at all the advertisers showing men as dumb dolts and women as smart ones. No one dares do it the other way."

Then, by all means, avoid the "Berenstain Bears" children's books, when you're reading to the little Tushar(s). Every one of them has the theme: Stupid, braggart Dad gets into trouble; kids (or Mom) get him out.

Fun for (almost) the entire family.

105 Faulty scripts are never a problem if you use FF and NoScript plugin. I use the flashblock as well, as users know, you just click a button to let them play. I was amazed how much "hidden" flash there is. I can open 20+ tabs in my "open all tabs" blogs folder and they load tout suite, never a script problem. You can temp allow a page if you need it to run with just one click. I highly recommend both. Too many webmasters are so full of themselves and junk up their sites with useless flummery *coughLGFcough* so these 2 plugins (plus Adblock and Adblock Plus Elements hider, with which you can even hide text ads) make surfing a pleasure again. Recently I was on another comp and had to use IE and I could barely recognize some of the sites I see every day, due to all the crap the webmasters put on them.

106

#100

The only thing that I would add to that is make sure the milk is cold. Cold milk keeps lumps from forming. It makes a smoother sauce.

107 Now Swanson's ...that's a different kettle of fish (damn, but I can mix metaphors with the best of 'em). Both their beef and chicken stock make Q&E meals (when you really, really just don't have the time to do it right) a reality.

...couldn't even get that right, eh Gabe?

108
In a perfect world, Malor's oath to buy Campbell's products would be as poorly considered as the AFA's call to boycott them. In our world, however, I'd have to side with Malor. When you're being disenfranchised by society, you have little choice but to support those who treat you as a full-fledged citizen.

The Right needs to come to an accommodation with its gay adherents. They're not going anywhere, and they're not going to "be cured."

109

my fav campbells are the chunky chicken gumbo and the mexican tortilla.  what does that make me politically?

Gay.  Or Michael Jackson.  Either or.

The only beef I have with you gay chuckleheads is your taste in music.  Show tunes?  Barbra Streisand?  Barry Manilow?  What the fuck?

I couldn't give a rat fart who or what you want to do with each others whohas.  In fact, you are making the odds better for the rest of us by taking yourselves out of the game.  But your taste in music is practically a crime against humanity. Knock that shit off.

 

110 So what's up with the "dumb husband/smart wife" thing?

Are women's egos that fragile that they need to be pandered to, or do most wives just hate their stupid fucking husbands?

This schtick must sell product or they wouldn't keep using it.

111 AFA is making much ado over nothing, IMHO.

As they do over most everything.  These morons are where the "Right-wing hater!!1!1!!" stereotype that we get branded with comes from.  Well, them and the usual anti-gay idiots, like Kemp, Corona, and thebronze.  Nice work, boys. 

112 Learn to make the white sauce, put a little celery or mushrooms in it and you have a better sauce than Campbell's at a cheaper price.

Last year I went on vacation in November and had Thanksgiving dinner at an upscale restaurant that used a formal white sauce with a little celery in the green bean casserole.  It was quite tasty; certainly the best green bean casserole I have ever eaten.  I would eat it again.  But it wasn't white-trash-green-bean-cream-of-soup casserole like my long-dead grandmother used to make, and thus, it felt wrong for Thanksgiving.

Maybe I'm weird.

113

Slightly offtopic: Ranba Ral's random thought of the day:
Karl Marx was the original underpants gnome. My proof:

A.) He has a huge beard
B.) He's short and stocky
C.) His trirade basically boils down to:
     1. Destroy capitalism
     2. ???
     3. Workers paradise

114 ALl the same, promoting homosexual-parent "families" is not something I approve of. It's one thing to tolerate, another to celebrate and treat as within the range of normal rather than exceptional and to be discouraged.

115 Notropis,

currently we are reading Goodnight Moon, and sing 'Old McDonald' a lot. I will remember to avoid the books you mention.

116

The Right needs to come to an accommodation with its gay adherents.

Why?

Please solve for x < y  where

x=gay voters welcomed into the GOP (and willing to vote GOP) and y=heterosexual voters offended enough by homosexuality to vote against it when voting for GOP candidates.

Show your work.

This post has nothing to do with soup, advertisements, guns, guitars, or Scientology. All rights reserved.

117 Are women's egos that fragile that they need to be pandered to, or do most wives just hate their stupid fucking husbands?

Both, as far as I can tell.  When some woman is bitching away about what an awful worthless Neanderthal piece of shit her husband is, don't remind her that she chose to marry him instead of staying blissfully (grass, septic tank, greener) single.  Just make a noncommittal grunting noise and get away quickly and quietly.

118 And so you know I-Kid-You-Not, here are the official biographies of Papa Bear:

http://www.berenstainbears.com/papa-bio.html

and Mama Bear:

http://www.berenstainbears.com/mama-bio.html

119 >>56 They tailored the ads to the target audience somewhat by having a lesbian couple in one. 

Posted by: Brendan at December 23, 2008 12:20 PM (2jQGY)

Were the lesbians hot? Did they do naughty things to each other? Did they lick soup off each others b00bz? Cuz if they did I'm gonna go buy me sum delicious soup RIGHT FUCKING NOW, and watch lesbian pr0n whilst I eat it.

120

Are women's egos that fragile that they need to be pandered to, or do most wives just hate their stupid fucking husbands?

Yes. 

When some woman is bitching away about what an awful worthless Neanderthal piece of shit her husband is, don't remind her that she chose to marry him instead of staying blissfully (grass, septic tank, greener) single. 

And for some reason they are the same ones who cannot live without a man, to the degree that if they are without, they will go the the nearest dive and sit on a bar stool until they have one; seemingly the first one that comes along.

121 I don't care enough not to use the Swanson's broth in my pantry.
I suppose a big demographic of broth-buying is totally gay chefs.

But I don't really approve of selling soup that way.

122 Already have the State Department in my shorts, busting my balls, and giving me an unlubricated fisting.  Hard to imagine how they could have a "bigger role in economic affairs". 

123 "Already have the State Department in my shorts, busting my balls, and giving me an unlubricated fisting."

Wooah. What'd you do to them? I didn't even get that much attention from the State Department when I was an employee.

124 Oh, come on, make the joke.

You know you want to.

125 52 Soup, casseroles, "cum" recipes?!
There HAS to be something in the val-u-rite.
(could explain Twat)

Posted by: sickinmass at December 23, 2008 12:09 PM (/i4dU)

Twat is unavailable for comment, as he's presently busy sucking Campbell's Soup out of my anus through a straw.

126 yeesh, forgot my own name.

Time for more egg nog.

127 I'd rather be anonymous, have already said something less than flattering about the State Department.  The last thing we need here is for them to find another way to fuck us farther into chapter 11.

128 I have to ask: do companies really think there is a larger market segment who will be pleased by openly endorsing homosexual activity than those who will be displeased? Seriously?

129

20:

"Just make soup, people; I don't need your rescue..."

Exactly.  I don't need to know how "enlightened" you are.  I need you to make soup.

Regardless of one's viewpoint, don't people find it a little creepy how every company has to demonstrate its political fealty and hipness nowadays ?  Replace Hitler and Stalin with the Rainbow Coalition and Greenpeace and you could trot out all the old "Blood and Soil" and agitprop posters again. 

Campbell's would just put Uncle Joe right on the can to show the Party they were faithful to the cause.  "Iron Joe's Hearty Beet & Water - now with bits of real kulak !  Keeps you goin' on those long cold days in the gulag while you Struggle for Progress !"

They could still try Cuba.  "October Suprise - Celebrate the Holiday with Maximum Portions of dog, rat and savory bits of old shoes !"  Or "Cheddar Che's" Soup - great for dipping !

Eeevil corporations run the planet ?  Puh-leeeeze.  They are notorious lapdogs, curling up at the feet of whoever fills their dish and whacks them with a newspaper once in awhile.

Americans used to take to the streets to protest whiskey taxes, not the right of teletubbies to carry whatever purse they like - "yeah, you tell 'em, sister !"  I shudder to think what history books will say of this decade 50 years from now.  "The 2000's - Decade of the Pink Scare."

130 Geez, I'm gonna have to quit recommending this blog to my kids!

131 Were the lesbians hot? Did they do naughty things to each other? Did they lick soup off each others b00bz?

One was, the 2nd was decidedly NOT hot.

No.

No.

132 notropis - if you are looking for busty asians, check out Hitomi Tanaka.  much cuter than the one you provided plus has natural j-cups.  insane. 

kackstraw - I wasnt aware that "gay" nor "michael jackson" were political stances.  but we now know what things are on your mind.  your singular focus on that is eerily similar to the dementia demonstrated by libtards when they blame anything and everything on bush/agw.  you need help before your name becomes a subsitute for "catholic priest" in dirty jokes.

ranba - hilarious.

133

Yeah, I know, Nacho Che's Soup is a better line.  Came to me right after I hit "Post."  My bad.

134 Top headlines?

What... nothing about Bush's $200B S&L Bailout??

Oh, wait.

135

Who in the ding-dang-diddley hell cares about what ad is in what magazine?  If there was a specific gun advertised in a gay magazine, Nathaneal, would you shake your fist at the heavens and curse God and swear you'd never buy that gay gun?  thebronze, Kempermanx, if a beer was advertised in a gay magazine, would you shriek and run about, hysterical that a brand of beer was suddenly "gay?"

How lame. 

Incidentally, the Chinese place down the street makes the best soup ever, and I don't care if their gay chef and lesbian waitress put cut-up cat in it.

136 If Gabriel lived near Waterloo, I would hire him as my lawyer because he's a good lawyer.  His gayness has nothing to do with him competence as a lawyer.

137 128 I have to ask: do companies really think there is a larger market segment who will be pleased by openly endorsing homosexual activity than those who will be displeased? Seriously? Posted by: Christopher Taylor

I am thinking that Gay Activist groups approach large companies with their demographics, and ask "What have you done for US lately"?  Swanson paid for 4 ads in a large circulation Gay magazine.  This does not bother me.

What bothers me is that someone from AFA is looking for issues to trumpet while leafing through a Gay magazine.  It is all about intent.  I suppose someone on their staff does nothing but look at porn, as well?

138 A.G.

I wasn't looking for busty Asians, but rather Ace's posts; but I do appreciate the "pointers."

I don't really worry about the Asian part, but I'm always pro-"busty." J-cups? Didn't even know they existed. (I can get by with a 46-B, myself....)

139

#130:

You used to recommend this blog to your kids ?

140

The name is JackStraw.  Learn to type you humorless asshole.

This is a thread about militant gay attitudes and the companies that cater to them.  You ask what your taste in soups make you.

If I have to point this out your are not nearly as smart as you think you are.

141

someone from AFA is looking for issues to trumpet while leafing through a Gay magazine.  It is all about intent.  I suppose someone on their staff does nothing but look at porn, as well?

Hmmm.  Good point.

142 NO way am I eating cats. I don't care how many gays are angry with me.

143

Cats are good eatin'....

 

...a little stringy though.

144 "NO way am I eating cats. I don't care how many gays are angry with me."

You read that, Gabe? THIS is the monster your supposedly harmless observation created.

Cats v. Gays.

There IS no middle ground.

145

You used to recommend this blog to your kids ?

My college-age kids.  This blog is a wonderful resource for political sanity.  I do warn them about the occasional offensive link and frequent f-bombs and such.

146 Is it a coincidence that Babylon 5 orbited an Altair-like planet?

147
@ 128 I have to ask: do companies really think there is a larger market segment who will be pleased by openly endorsing homosexual activity than those who will be displeased? Seriously?

Ace sure seems to think so....

148 "Ace sure seems to think so...."

Don't think Ace has even shown up yet today.

149 >>I do warn them about the occasional offensive link and frequent f-bombs and such.

One would thinks the College-age kids would warn the parents about the offensive things. Kids now-a-days are totally desensitized to these things.

150

If there was a specific gun advertised in a gay magazine, Nathaneal, would you shake your fist at the heavens and curse God and swear you'd never buy that gay gun?

First things first: I applaud your coining of the term "gay gun." I don't know how I can work that into my act, but it's solid.

I for one would like to see the results of an attempt by Springfield Arms to buy ad space for the XD40 in The Advocate.

Who in the ding-dang-diddley hell cares about what ad is in what magazine? 

The above should answer your question about "who cares about buying ad space in which magazine," but if it doesn't, the answer is "the readers of said magazine."

151

#64

"PHOTO # 5

Yikes! When Winston Curhchill said the "nothing is as exhillerating as being shot at to no effect" I don't think that is what he had in mind."

Not only that, 7HEAVENS, but did you see the trigger discipline? Fucking Marines, people!

152 I just can't figure out how this is going to help any company. I can see the idiot 20-something college graduates advising the board and running the marketing department thinking its hot and new and edgy, but I can't see anyone with any business sense or experience buying into it.

153 >>I applaud your coining of the term "gay gun."

Wasn't the Pentagon working on a Gay Bomb that will cause the enemy to stop fighting and start loving each other?

154

http://tinyurl.com/7oz474

This is a gay gun. There are others like it, but this one is gay.

155

I can see the idiot 20-something college graduates advising the board and running the marketing department thinking its hot and new and edgy, but I can't see anyone with any business sense or experience buying into it.

You've clearly not dealt with modern corporate management or execs.

156 Tushar,

Since you're still around: I've never actually read the Kama Sutra, or even parts of it. I think our (American) attitudes about Indians and sex is more: "Dude, they've got about a billion people. That's a lot of sex." And then we need an excuse as to why. And it's better to blame the Kama Sutra, then to think that yet another ethnic group kicks our manhood's ass (to mix physiological metaphors.)

157 kackstraw - first off, i typed that intentionally.  you might want to proofread your last post before criticizing others, btw.  Like I stated in my first post, I dont like the militant homo types either, but agreed that this was looking for a problem where there wasnt one.  As my wife did modelling as a teen and has d-cups, and we have a child, i think its rather unlikely I am gay.  Didnt care about that.  Because Im not a paranoid homophobe.  But you called me a pedophile (the MJ comment), so you deserve whatever wrath I dish out. 

So is a kackstraw something andy sullivan uses? nevermind, id rather be ignorant of such things.  you two just keep it behind closed doors, so the rest of the country doesnt become a vomitorium.

158 "then" = "than"

159 Funny how we never see grieving families holding up dead children after terrorists/insurgents detonate a bomb in crowded marketplace or grieving children morning over the dumped body of a loved one that has been beaten, burned, cut and perforated with a power drill.

Only from air strikes, because we all know who is conducting the air strikes.  Amerikkka.

160 Notropis,

Fertility rates were very high in India till mid-eighties. They have come down sharply since then. Reason? TV became widespread in India, and people suddenly had something else to do. If you want US population to grow, take away the TV, the DVR, the Playstation and the Internet.

Most Indians have not heard about the Kama-Sutra.

161 @148 Don't think Ace has even shown up yet today.

I was referring to the latest episode of "Gay Heartbreak/Outrage" in the Top Headline Posts.

whatever.

162

I do warn them about the occasional offensive link and frequent f-bombs and such.

One would thinks the College-age kids would warn the parents about the offensive things. Kids now-a-days are totally desensitized to these things.

When I 'warn' them, I'm letting them know that I'm aware these thing are on here and while I'm endorsing the blog, I don't approve of some the embellishments.

163
Please solve for x < y  where

Thank God you don't earn your living doing math. Like I do.

It's not a matter of voters, it's a matter of adherence to conservative principles. If we can't expand the tent to include acceptance of gays as they are (whereby I mean their orientations, not some of the behaviors we've seen), then we lose the high ground.

That doesn't mean that I don't agree with SarahW's comment above, but I don't think conservative gays are the problem, there.

164

Really, A.G.?  It bothers you to have someone make a joke about you, the kind of thing that happens here everyday to just about everyone?  Do you even know where you are or are you too distractecd thinking about how macho you are? I called you a pedophile because I joked that your taste in soup likened you to Michael Jackson?  Your a fucking child.

Ask me if I give a fuck about your wrath.  Go fuck yourself you self-important douchebag, Michael Jackson wannabe.

165 You've clearly not dealt with modern corporate management or execs.

This is true. It does appear that the companies who got rich, powerful, influential, and big on smart business and careful management are turning into a collective batch of retarded chimpanzees lately. It amazes me that the same guys who can build a little company into a multinational empire can be so very stupid about business in such a short time. I can only guess that the guys who got them there either died or were leveraged out and the ones who replaced them are great at interoffice politics but know less about business than a goldfish.

166 Were the lesbians hot?

When I first glanced at the ad, I thought it was a woman with her daughter and grandchild.  I had to read the copy to find out they were a couple.

So, no.

167

railwriter:

"The above should answer your question about "who cares about buying ad space in which magazine," but if it doesn't, the answer is "the readers of said magazine.""

Don't be using your logic on me.  I got cat to eat.

168 If we can't expand the tent to include acceptance of gays as they are (whereby I mean their orientations, not some of the behaviors we've seen), then we lose the high ground.

Huh?? What on earth are you talking about?

169 "If you want US population to grow, take away the TV, the DVR, the Playstation and the Internet."

Kids, these days. I've tried most of those, and, just speaking for myself, I prefer sex. But, maybe it's more that the women got the Lifetime channel, and it's pretty much been downhill from there. Something the WHO should look into, if they really want to control population growth.

(Oh, and I don't really want the US population to grow. But I get your point.)

170 Regarding the 2008 Pictures:

Did anyone else look at picture #23 and think: "Giant bow and arrow battles!  Awesome!", or was it just me?

171 Hey Gabe?

You're queer. We know. We get it. We don't have to be reminded EVERY time you post.

172 168 If we can't expand the tent to include acceptance of gays as they are (whereby I mean their orientations, not some of the behaviors we've seen), then we lose the high ground.

Huh?? What on earth are you talking about?

I think he's saying that, you know, the big tent isn't infinitely large, and if we're going to include gays we'll have to toss the stoners to make room.

But I could be mistaken.

173 Is that the same big tent that gets the Colin Powells of the world to vote in our primaries to vote for folks like McCain, when they ultimately decide they're Democrats when it matters?

174

Christopher, you pretty much hit the nail on the head. 

I just recently quit working at Office Depot as a tech sales guy.  A few years ago the company was doing fairly well.  Then the board brought in a new CEO on dow to district managers.  They hired the guys who killed Autozone and are all surprised that stock plumeted from around $25 a share to $1.50 before our current 'great depression mk 2'.  Dealing with corporate became life lessons in douchespeak 101.

The most illuminating thing for me was this conference call we had about the remote tech services about 2-3 months before I quit.  They were on like the 4th call bitching us out about why we werent' selling more of them, because the test market in Florida said we should have like a 3x higher attachment rate that we did.  Turns out the prices for the same services in the test  market were 1/2 what they were for the national market.  I asked if anyone had heard of price elasticity of demand, and there was dead silence.  It's bad when your low-level grunt knows more about economic policy and theory than your DM's and execs.

175 Two chicks.  One empty Campbells can.

176

So is Ace's site going to turn into the Gabe-I'm-Gay-Validate-Myself site akin to Michelle's Hot Air and Allah-I'm-Athiest-Validate-Myself?

This is all about comment count, right? and revenue generated therefrom?

177 #58 WTH are you, a Robert Parker novel?

178 #171 Gabe gets to post about what matters to him. If it's a problem, it's Ace's.

And the rest of us get to post back to him.

That wacky 1st Amendment...

179

I don't really give a crap about the advertising in teh gehay mag thing, but Campbells bought Franco-American and fucking ruined my Spahgetti-O's.  Fucking assholes.  No pun intended.  Oh, what the hell, all puns intended.  It's my Christmas gift to them.

180 usual anti-gay idiots, like Kemp, Corona, and thebronze.  Nice work, boys. 

and the Hog.  You're welcome.

181

ushie,

A gay beer? That would probably Fat tire or Sam Adams.  A gay car? Lesbouru, aka Subaru.

Market your shit anyway you want to, remember straights don't drive or drink ghey shit. 

Niche marketing can work.  Kool Cigarettes, Blacks.  Seagram's Gin, Black.  Black have 12% of the market, Ghey's 2%. 

Do gays have enough much money to make product as main stream as soup a hit?  I doubt it. 

But, good luck Campbell's, your stock can not get much lower and your HQ is in a ghetto.  Hell, maybe ghey IS the answer.

Kemp.

182 "Swansons?" Isn't that French for "Swish?"

183

railwriter

Er straight WOMEN like pink shit.  But, that sure would look pretty in Gabe's bedroom.

Kemp

184

151 PaleoMedic

Not only that, 7HEAVENS, but did you see the trigger discipline? Fucking Marines, people!

Actually since I have none at all, I didn't notice.  I confess I'm old school, but I guess I need to get some.  I once was in a prone position on a 1000 yd course and as I moved I had an unwanted discharge, which though it went straight down the range, was at an angle that made it go considerably more than 1000 yards as a 7mm Magnum 140 grain boatail would do.  No one came up dead so I guess I got away with it.  I never forgot that.  Guess I'll try it.

185 Kempermanx, if it's beer, it's not queer...

186 and as I moved I had an unwanted discharge

Happens to all of us at one time or another.

187 test

188

straight WOMEN like pink shit.

I don't.

189 I don't know, I think that pink shotgun would be excellent for home defense.  Imagine the criminal's reaction to it.  And the police report.

190 What soup will Hillary be serving at the State Department, as our first token presidency gets underweigh...

191

Company X should be in the business of selling Product Y, not endorsing anything. 

This would be easier to agree with if 99% of the people who said it  didn't cry "Censorship" whenever Companies that support their pet causes get boycotted by their political opponents.

A company should be free support whatever causes it wants and people should be free to boycott a company if they don't like the causes it supports.    The company isn't doing anything imoral and neither are the boycotters.

192 A gay beer? That would probably Fat tire or Sam Adams.

Here I thought that would be Schmidt's Gay.

193
Huh?? What on earth are you talking about?

I speak of conservative principles in the secular sense, of course. If we treat one group unfairly, then we are untrue to those principles. Allowing a group like AFA to taint the conservative cause by exaggerating the importance of a simple advertisement amounts to tacit acceptance of that unfairness. And in general, the GOP needs to be more aggressive in assuring that there is a place for all (or almost all) people who share conservative values.

We're all tired of loud gay activists turning everything into a gay issue, and we're all concerned about them insisting that alternative sexuality be introduced into the classroom. But those aren't the people we're talking about. Conservative gays don't approve of the activists' behaviors, either.

194

I speak of conservative principles in the secular sense, of course. If we treat one group unfairly, then we are untrue to those principles.

This is the problem with lobbyists and campaign donators, etc.  The law should stand true for all: Christians, homosexuals. etc.  I have a problem with corporations, etc giving contributions to anyone.  This includes religious groups that are near and dear to my heart. 

195 THIS IS FOR NOTROPIS:

What's yer problem kid? Sounds like you got a serious splinter in your ass and you're takin' it out on us poor fools. Well why should I take yer crap, eh? What ya doin here, man? Trying to show off?

I was here with the Japanese girl debacle. That was hilarious. I guess you missed the 'grok' I was gettin from all those funny posts.

And I don't care who you are. Your web page doesn't work. And guess what?

This is a conservative blog. Conservatives like to conserve our tradition of heterosexuality. Anything under the counter stays there. I don't wanna look at it.

Like Robert Frost, I don't want to behold my fallen nature, and the poor sad prick that's between my legs. I want to look outside at nature. To behold the snow on the trees, and the silence of late December. That is my peace which is eternal... and some rowdy prick on a blog ain't going to put a scratch in it.

Whoever you are, I'd suggest you get an enema or something. Idk. Toxicity ain't pretty whether it's 'witty' style or blunt. Toxic anything sucks sweaty hairy donkey balls. Live with it. You're the alien here, not I.

New to the comments...
Nat

196

You know the real problem with public corporations giving to charity/political causes?

Its the stockholders profits they're giving away!

 

197 What bothers me is that someone from AFA is looking for issues to trumpet while leafing through a Gay magazine. It is all about intent. I suppose someone on their staff does nothing but look at porn, as well?

Indoor work with no heavy lifting. What more could you want?

198

I suspect that Campbells is betting that the number of people so massively offended by Campbell's daring to advertise Swanson's broth to and using gay people that they are ACTUALLY going to boycott (as opposed to talking about it) is a lot lower than the circulation of The Advocate (165,000?) and the pro-C/S backlash any such boycott would generate.  

I'm not an anti-gay advocate, but it just doesn't seem like boycotting Campbell's/Swanson would be a particularly effective way to combat homosexuality. Unless one is concerned that the anti-prop-8 protesters may have cornered the market on drama-hissy-fits, and feels the need to reclaim some of that drama for the other side of the aisle. It's not like they're going to turn around and say, "nope, gay people can't buy OUR soup!"

Campbell still does Soup Labels for Education, btw.

199 BTW!

One of my favorite 'edifying' philosophast/writers is Allan Bloom. He was one of Leo Strauss's students, translator of Plato and Rousseau, friend of Saul Bellow's, and professor of philosophy at the University of Chicago. And Bloom was homosexual. But he didn't make a stink of it! He was classy about it. Where did the classiness go?

I do recall, also, that he liked South Asian men... his boyfriend was Japanese, I believe... or Thai? I can't remember. It's all in Ravelstein... anyway... Bloom hated faggy behavior.

Sure Bloom had his faults, of which Seth Bendardete and friends were aware of, but at least his attitude was spot-on.

Those were the days...

200

185 Kempermanx, if it's beer, it's not queer...

Good point wtf was I thinking.

Kemp

201 "us poor fools."

Whose the "us?" You seem to be pretty much alone "out there" or "up there" or wherever you are, contemplating sweaty hairy donkey balls or whatever it is you're doing.

Whatever.

And I don't know exactly what you mean by my web page "doesn't work." Not sure what it's supposed to do, beyond what it does.

(And the link works just fine, if you click on it....)

202 Sorry, "whose" should be "who's."

203  

I can see the idiot 20-something college graduates advising the board and running the marketing department thinking its hot and new and edgy, but I can't see anyone with any business sense or experience buying into it.

You've clearly not dealt with modern corporate management or execs.

QFT

204
171 Hey Gabe?

You're queer. We know. We get it. We don't have to be reminded EVERY time you post.


No shit.  I could care less about the whole Campbell's Soup thing, but it gets a little old with Gabe throwing out the "By the way, I'm gay" thing.  Gabe, I respected you before, but you cheapen yourself with constant "BTWIG" stuff.  Who needed to know that?  I certainly don't.  Nor do I particularly care what your orientation is.  But I don't like it being shoved in my face every time I read something by you.  Leave it alone.  You being gay, isn't the story.

205 I speak of conservative principles in the secular sense, of course. If we treat one group unfairly, then we are untrue to those principles.

Your presumption of what is unfair is odd, to say the least.

206

You being gay, isn't the story.

No, but it gives a different slant to the story.  A POV of someone who, by the way, is gay.  And not everyone lurking here necessarily knows he is gay.  I've been here daily for going on a year now and I just figured it out about 2 weeks ago.  Yes, I may be a tad slow on the uptake, but still...

207 #197 -- Actually, that was just his excuse when he got caught with it in the can...

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212 Posted by: Christopher Taylor at December 23, 2008 02:51 PM (PQY7w)

165 - "I can only guess that the guys who got them there either died or were leveraged out and the ones who replaced them are great at interoffice politics but know less about business than a goldfish."

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216 Geoff:

Your plea for attention ("I do math") has not gone unacknowledged. You're probably right.

Now swallow. There's cab fare on the dresser. And close the door behind you.

217
Your plea for attention ("I do math") has not gone unacknowledged. You're probably right.

Heh. I was here long before you and I'll be here long after you. I've had more than enough attention to suit me, so I rarely comment any more. But your comment was both innumerate and irrelevant.

Not bad for so few lines.

218
No, but it gives a different slant to the story.  A POV of someone who, by the way, is gay.  And not everyone lurking here necessarily knows he is gay.  I've been here daily for going on a year now and I just figured it out about 2 weeks ago.  Yes, I may be a tad slow on the uptake, but still...

Join the club, I only figured it out within the last couple weeks, but I don't think he's really put it out there before that.  But maybe I just wasn't paying attention.  If that's the case, why the sudden need to bring attention to something that wasn't an issue before?

As for the different slant; I don't need it.  Somehow, I've managed just fine without it here.

219
Your presumption of what is unfair is odd, to say the least.

Presuming that discrimination is unfair is odd? You puzzle me, Christopher.

220 OK first off, yes, presuming discrimination is unfair is odd. Discrimination is not bad or wrong in its essence. When you read Ace of Spades HQ instead of Joe's Car Blog, you've discriminated. When you date Mary instead of Bob, you've discriminated. All discrimination means is "making a choice."

Thus, that's an odd statement to make. Discrimination only becomes wrong when it is unethical, harmful, or unlawful.

You seem to be starting from the position that any disagreement with homosexuality or condemnation of homosexual activity is by definition wrong and bad. Yet you don't argue that or defend that position, you assume and assert it, then attack people who disagree.

That's why I say it's odd. People shouldn't abandon their principles and integrity simply to be more popular and socially acceptable. Anyone who does is not to be trusted.

221
Discrimination is not bad or wrong in its essence.

Don't hide behind a lame semantic argument - Merriam Webster includes the definition I was using as well:

3 a: the act, practice, or an instance of discriminating categorically rather than individually b: prejudiced or prejudicial outlook, action, or treatment

And it was quite clear from the context of my earlier comments that that was the definition I was using.

Yet you don't argue that or defend that position, you assume and assert it, then attack people who disagree.

Nobody has yet disagreed - one guy misinterpreted it, and all you've done is say "huh?" And I never attacked anyone for disagreeing - I criticized railwriter's attempt at patronizing me via math, but then I explained why I thought his comment had no bearing on my point. It wasn't until he decided to try his hand at the very tired genre of gay humor that I said anything critical of anybody.

People shouldn't abandon their principles and integrity simply to be more popular and socially acceptable.

And as I pointed out to railwriter, that's exactly the argument I'm not making. The argument is that it's difficult to reconcile secular conservative principles with the AFA's attitude. I further argued that it's time to come to an accomodation with conservative gays, rather than continuing to brush it under the carpet.

So far, nobody has addressed either point.

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