Pretzel Logic

Kevin Drum tries to explain how the New York Times ruining spy programs is actually beneficial to the War on Terror. If I had thought of this argument before him, it would have made a nice absurdist humor piece. Meant seriously, it’s a bit pathetic.
This could be a fun mental exercise, though. In the comments, take something disastrous and explain the upside to it.
E.g. “Few people talk about how the Black Plague freed up real-estate leading to cheap homes for the survivors.”
and
“If Hillary Clinton is elected President, at least I can sleep in Sundays since I’ll know for certain there is no God.”

34 Comments

  1. Another example:
    Monkey Faced Liberal is a complete fool who trolls comment sections on conservative blogs raising the average blood pressure. The upside is I get to have fun poking him with my stick
    ::poke poke poke::
    HA!

  2. The devastating 1906 earthqauke caused millions of dollars of damage and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses in the bustling big west city. The only explanation is that the city new its destiny was to become a cesspool of filth due to rampant homosexuality and liberalism and the City attempted suicide as a preemptive strike… Unfortunately, the city’s sole liberal didn’t care that the city had a “Do not recucitate” card and revived it anyway…
    Stupid homosexual liberals!

  3. Something disastrous: 9-11
    Upside: Bush suspends constitution with Patriot;
    Bush Family raises their fortune four fold;
    Steals from the poor, gives to the rich, the stupid bitch thus raising level of humour around the country.
    USA/NATO war against the taliban who were raised from nothing by the same USA and used to fight the (boooo)Soviets where the trigger happy and the big bomb droppers can loosen up so the production of white poppys can continue to supply Europe and North-America.
    USA agression of Iraq, US takes control of oil as the Iraqis had changed the denomination of their Food for Oil accounts to Euros.
    Both previous actions besides helping a lot the north american militar industrial complex divert US attention and so, for a while, they are hindered in their false flag and black ops and the level of coups d’état decreases dramatically.

  4. hear hear!
    Porto: you are hereby Blog Banished to the Bowels of, well… your idol Michael Moore!
    You have got to be the most unintelligent supposed intellectual. I barely find you sentient.
    You are that boil on my ass that never goes away. I bet you never left your parents house to get out on your own because your too sc’r’d.
    Fag
    ::Smack smack smack:: That’s a by Porty Porty!

  5. Jay,
    Have you ever heard Michael Moore say something about the Bush connection to the Bin Laden family, they even used to own a french newspaper. Did he say something about the export of WTC debris? And what about the chief of security of the WTC who died in his first day at the job, while he had been sacked from the FBI where he was responsible for the investigation of the Bin Ladens who were the only ones allowed to fly when all air traffic was grounded? Michael Moore is a Bush stooge ensuring high levels of debate in a very narrow frame that leaks only what is not that serious and re-hides the most important. Moore reveals, and if you trouble yourself checking the etimology of the word you will find it means in fact to hide again, to put another veil over something already veiled. The same applies to lots of supposed MFL’s like for example Noam Chomsky.
    Do you know who as the manager of the French firm called American Lafarge that sold the chemical needed by Ali and Saddam to gas the Kurds in 1992: Hillary Clinton.
    This comment does not need any further Echelon contribution.

  6. Hey, quit impersonating (imtrollating?) me!
    A giant asteroid hitting the earth and killing all higher lifeforms would be great!
    There would be no one left but me and Porto.
    Kisses!
    Hail Satan,
    Monkey Faced Liberal

  7. I meant 1982 and Osama the CIA agent himself recruited by George Washington who in turn started to climb the CIA ladder right after the Kennedy assassination.
    I am sorry I never saw any Moore documentary, just heard about it.

  8. “If Hillary Clinton is elected President, at least I can sleep in Sundays since I’ll know for certain there is no God.”
    Thanks Frank! I really needed that laugh today. Keep up teh funny!

  9. {Quote]I meant 1982 and Osama the CIA agent himself recruited by George Washington who in turn started to climb the CIA ladder right after the Kennedy assassination.
    I am sorry I never saw any Moore documentary, just heard about it.
    Posted by: porto do graal on June 27, 2006 03:32 PM[/quote]
    George WASHINGTON?!?!?!?!?!?
    Sheesh!
    D*umba$$

  10. Adolph Hitler may have been one of the evilist men to ever walk the face of the earth, responsible for the death of tens of millions of people, and the suffering of countless millions of others, but, on the other hand, he was an amazing painter. He could paint an entire appartment in one afternoon. Two coats!

  11. Porto-let:
    I believe that the real Port-o-let (if’n the one who posted was not) would be mighty mad, by golly!
    I know he is just like all kinds of MFL’s who really and truly worship Moore and the soap that has never graced his corpulent Jabba-esque physique.
    Eric90320 :
    Don’t worry, Mikey Moore has never MADE a documentary.
    True, so true… as evidenced by the following:
    1. None of the so called “documentary” has even a shred of credibility in its arguments. I never saw Fahrenheit 911 , but I know it was tripe. I did see Bowling for Columbine because when I was in Baghdad, I think I saw every DVD that was ever made. I am a lifelong NRA member and that “movie” really pissed me off for its forgery, fakery and general tom-foolery!
    As to his more recent… We all know that it was lies packed on top of other lies… just look at the fact that there is a soldier who was wounded in Iraq and ended up giving this interview that was re-edited by Moore’s lackies to make it look like he said something that he didn’t. Tsk Tsk Tsk!
    Well, ok… I digress to the original topic:
    “Michael Moore explodes… his blubber creates a Nuclear Winter blocking the sun’s rays. The upside is that FrankJ and his Crack IMAO staff have created a “Vault 13”-type underground layer stocked with food water and air to make only the most die hard and devout Conservative commenters on his blog survive for the next 100 years. Oh, and I am sure there will be some hot chicks (we can brainwash the liberal out of them later with some really good detergent.) Mega upside… there may be some mutants on the surface (due to liberal inbreeding in the frozen climes), but they will all be shot due to FrankJ being the new Exaulted Ruler and Rule-maker. All hail FrankJ!

  12. If Harry Potter is killed off in the last book, kids will learn that sorcery leads to death. ‘Course they shoulda figured that out from the first book, Harry Potter’s mom and dad are dead, the kid from the Goblet of Fire is dead, Dumbledore’s dead…OOOPS

  13. You know how we were JOKING about circular liberal reasoning eating its own head like a snake pleasuring itself by shoving its head up its own anus?
    Porto, you can come up for air any day now. Especially after that Moore/Chomsky bit.
    Hmmm. That snake image seems very appropriate – when the Kos Kids take over the party, they can replace the donkey with that – they could use a lowercase Delta character for shorthand since it has that general look – it is the Greek letter D, after all.

  14. You know how we were JOKING about circular liberal reasoning eating its own head like a snake pleasuring itself by shoving its head up its own anus?>You know how we were JOKING about circular liberal reasoning eating its own head like a snake pleasuring itself by shoving its head up its own anus?>You know how we were JOKING about circular liberal reasoning eating its own head like a snake pleasuring itself by shoving its head up its own anus?>You know how we were JOKING about circular liberal reasoning eating its own head like a snake pleasuring itself by shoving its head up its own anus?<
    I’ve always liked the P.J. O’Roarke analogy of liberalism being like a dog chasing it’s tail, that’s finally managed to catch it and has now chewed it’s way up to the back of it’s ears.

  15. One of the best pretzel logic statements I’ve heard (seriously, I didn’t make this up) was a pro-choice sentiment at a rally near UNM a while back that abortion is actually very good for families, as it alleviates the strain of feeding & housing another hungry mouth, and therefore also helps the domestic violence rate drop among the financially challenged.
    So apparantly, abortion = domestic serenity.

  16. I like pretzel logic with my beer logic. MFL you ignorant slut, and Porkobello you septic tank swimmer. Put on your tinfoil hats a fly off to the paradise planet of Hillary 7. The NY Slimes is full of anti-american dips who whould sell their families into slavery if it could be connected to the Bush administration. BTW Frank, there is a God and Hillary will never be president. (Al Gore told me that as my BMW was melting due to global warming).

  17. I don’t get it.
    a) I don’t think this is an invasion of privacy at all.
    b) The administration has ALREADY told us they’re tracking finances to find terrorists.
    c) The SWIFT system isn’t by any means secret!
    d) It’s on SWIFT’s own webpage that they work with the FATF which does, guess what? Tracks terrorist’s finances!

  18. Have you ever heard Michael Moore say something about the Bush connection to the Bin Laden family
    Okay, this annoys me to no end.
    Frank, I beg your forgiveness for pimping my blog, but I highly recomment people read this post of mine (“The Bin Ladin Group vs. Usama bin Ladin”) for some perspective on the Bin Ladin Group.
    The realities of the situation are different than how they may be portrayed. In other words, Moore’s allegation that there are close ties between the Bush family and the Bin Ladin family (more correctly, the Bin Ladin Group) is an utter misrepresentation: he’s not explaining what this actually means.
    When you’ve lived in an Arab country and have seen “Bin Ladin Group” on the barriers of construction sites for years, one learns to be sensitive to realities as they are rather than as some may want them to be.

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