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Athens Runaway Lands In Myrtle Beach, SC. Nikki Haley Blogging Ensues

Posted on | July 22, 2010 | 26 Comments

by Smitty

Our old blog buddy Jesse is chilling on Ocean Boulevard in Myrtle Beach, an aerial photograph of which graces the masthead at his new digs, Right Turns Only.

Starting off with a bang, Jesse catches us up on Democratic party tactics in the Gubernatorial race, where Nikki Haley toasted her GOP opponents to a well-deserved crisp in the primary.

Possibly unable to learn from a losing strategy, it looks like the Dems might be running from that failed GOP playbook, to read Jesse’s post, “First They Call You A Whore. . .“. Truly as fragrant as that paper plant in North Charleston, such ideas.

Maybe they can contact Ezra Klein and company for some more educated mud to fling. Instead of epistemic closure, maybe the Dems could attack, I don’t know, her purported lack of barbecue fu.

At which point she might break out a mean tandoor and just commence to own them.

I have no idea if that even applies to Nikki’s ethnic traditions, and apologize in advance for any cultural insensitivity on display.

Category: Blogging, South Carolina

Comments

26 Responses to “Athens Runaway Lands In Myrtle Beach, SC. Nikki Haley Blogging Ensues”

  1. smitty
    July 23rd, 2010 @ 4:30 am

    @gg,
    Stay beautiful. We need you as badly as another rusting vehicle hulk in the front yard, but, nevertheless, it is important that you feel loved and accepted.

  2. smitty
    July 23rd, 2010 @ 12:30 am

    @gg,
    Stay beautiful. We need you as badly as another rusting vehicle hulk in the front yard, but, nevertheless, it is important that you feel loved and accepted.

  3. smitty
    July 23rd, 2010 @ 5:37 am

    @gg,
    I just want you to know that, should you ever acquire some big boy pants and your own blog, you’ll find pipsqueak ad hominem the height of amusement.

  4. smitty
    July 23rd, 2010 @ 1:37 am

    @gg,
    I just want you to know that, should you ever acquire some big boy pants and your own blog, you’ll find pipsqueak ad hominem the height of amusement.

  5. Bob Belvedere
    July 23rd, 2010 @ 11:27 am

    Smitty: gg is your blog version of a bone spur.

  6. Bob Belvedere
    July 23rd, 2010 @ 7:27 am

    Smitty: gg is your blog version of a bone spur.

  7. goddessoftheclassroom
    July 23rd, 2010 @ 12:12 pm

    gg, please go back across the pond.

  8. goddessoftheclassroom
    July 23rd, 2010 @ 8:12 am

    gg, please go back across the pond.

  9. Rich Fader
    July 23rd, 2010 @ 4:01 pm

    gg’s (and the SC Democrats’) homework for the day: View “Robin Hood Daffy”. Pay particular attention to the quarterstaff scene. And the tree-swinging scene. Learn from them.

  10. Rich Fader
    July 23rd, 2010 @ 12:01 pm

    gg’s (and the SC Democrats’) homework for the day: View “Robin Hood Daffy”. Pay particular attention to the quarterstaff scene. And the tree-swinging scene. Learn from them.

  11. Jeff Weimer
    July 23rd, 2010 @ 5:29 pm

    gg –

    Hey Smitty, you know you are not the sharpest tool in the shed. And you’re so blunt!

    Granted, none of us are the sharpest tools in the shed of human experience, but as far as fine hone of intelligence, both he and Stacy are pure Damascus Steel to your Ginsu.

    Admittedly, this comes from actually knowing Smitty and Stacy in meatspace (for a not-insignificant amount of time), and you here with your often intemperate comments.

  12. Jeff Weimer
    July 23rd, 2010 @ 1:29 pm

    gg –

    Hey Smitty, you know you are not the sharpest tool in the shed. And you’re so blunt!

    Granted, none of us are the sharpest tools in the shed of human experience, but as far as fine hone of intelligence, both he and Stacy are pure Damascus Steel to your Ginsu.

    Admittedly, this comes from actually knowing Smitty and Stacy in meatspace (for a not-insignificant amount of time), and you here with your often intemperate comments.

  13. Randy Rager
    July 24th, 2010 @ 1:46 am

    They’re apparently bright enough to realize that redundancy does not equal “Teh Lulz!!!!”.

    Unlike a certain oozing sore of a commenter I could name.

  14. Randy Rager
    July 23rd, 2010 @ 9:46 pm

    They’re apparently bright enough to realize that redundancy does not equal “Teh Lulz!!!!”.

    Unlike a certain oozing sore of a commenter I could name.

  15. Thomas L. Knapp
    July 24th, 2010 @ 2:02 am

    Lack of barbecue fu is a serious defect in any political candidate, especially one seeking the highest office of a state in the midst of existential barbecue crisis.

    South Carolina is noted for its particularly confused conception of barbecue in which not only are multiple styles recognized, but all are treated as roughly equal to real, a/k/a Memphis-style, barbecue.

    Any candidate who has ever eaten “barbecue” in Texas or Kansas City, or who has not made at least one pilgrimage each to Corky’s in Memphis and McLard’s in Hot Springs, should be disqualified by statute.

  16. Thomas L. Knapp
    July 23rd, 2010 @ 10:02 pm

    Lack of barbecue fu is a serious defect in any political candidate, especially one seeking the highest office of a state in the midst of existential barbecue crisis.

    South Carolina is noted for its particularly confused conception of barbecue in which not only are multiple styles recognized, but all are treated as roughly equal to real, a/k/a Memphis-style, barbecue.

    Any candidate who has ever eaten “barbecue” in Texas or Kansas City, or who has not made at least one pilgrimage each to Corky’s in Memphis and McLard’s in Hot Springs, should be disqualified by statute.

  17. Thomas L. Knapp
    July 24th, 2010 @ 2:03 am

    Dammit. Forgot to close an italics tag. Sorry about that.

  18. Thomas L. Knapp
    July 23rd, 2010 @ 10:03 pm

    Dammit. Forgot to close an italics tag. Sorry about that.

  19. Randy Rager
    July 24th, 2010 @ 2:12 am

    There is only one true barbecue, and it is from Oklahoma.

    The rest of you other, lesser states can continue wallowing in your wasteland of culinary ignorance. We don’t mind. It’s funny!

  20. Randy Rager
    July 23rd, 2010 @ 10:12 pm

    There is only one true barbecue, and it is from Oklahoma.

    The rest of you other, lesser states can continue wallowing in your wasteland of culinary ignorance. We don’t mind. It’s funny!

  21. Thomas L. Knapp
    July 24th, 2010 @ 4:23 am

    Randy,

    When you’re located so close to Texas it’s easy to mistake anything that isn’t beef brisket, boiled and smothered in spicy ketchup, for “barbecue.”

    Barbecue is slow-smoked pork (ribs or pulled meat) or chicken, coupled with a sweet and spicy tomato-based sauce and cooked/assembled consumed in or west of Memphis, in or east of Hot Springs, and in or south of St. Louis.

    Everything else bears the same relation, in one degree or another, to barbecue as one of those car kits that you stick on an old VW chassis bears to an honest-to-God Lamborghini.

  22. Thomas L. Knapp
    July 24th, 2010 @ 12:23 am

    Randy,

    When you’re located so close to Texas it’s easy to mistake anything that isn’t beef brisket, boiled and smothered in spicy ketchup, for “barbecue.”

    Barbecue is slow-smoked pork (ribs or pulled meat) or chicken, coupled with a sweet and spicy tomato-based sauce and cooked/assembled consumed in or west of Memphis, in or east of Hot Springs, and in or south of St. Louis.

    Everything else bears the same relation, in one degree or another, to barbecue as one of those car kits that you stick on an old VW chassis bears to an honest-to-God Lamborghini.

  23. Estragon
    July 24th, 2010 @ 7:22 am

    Haley’s Democratic opponent is of Lebanese heritage, so our next Governor is going to break an old mold one way or another.

    Don’t worry about Haley – her asset is her commitment to reform, which is sorely needed in SC. Her sex and her ancestry have nothing to do with it.

  24. Estragon
    July 24th, 2010 @ 3:22 am

    Haley’s Democratic opponent is of Lebanese heritage, so our next Governor is going to break an old mold one way or another.

    Don’t worry about Haley – her asset is her commitment to reform, which is sorely needed in SC. Her sex and her ancestry have nothing to do with it.

  25. Estragon
    July 24th, 2010 @ 7:25 am

    A pet peeve of mine is how stupid campaigns are about music rights, though. All of these artists are signed with either ASCAP or BMI. A campaign can pay a nominal fee for events to those outfits and have the right to use their entire catalogs! The individual artists would have no say about it, and the campaigns would be in full compliance with the law. Considering the money they spend on events, it’s a pittance.

  26. Estragon
    July 24th, 2010 @ 3:25 am

    A pet peeve of mine is how stupid campaigns are about music rights, though. All of these artists are signed with either ASCAP or BMI. A campaign can pay a nominal fee for events to those outfits and have the right to use their entire catalogs! The individual artists would have no say about it, and the campaigns would be in full compliance with the law. Considering the money they spend on events, it’s a pittance.