In honor of the 74th anniversary of the first Hollywood screening of “The Wizard of Oz,” Jake plays his rendition of “Over The Rainbow,” which he recorded on his latest album, “Grand Ukulele.” He also talks about how the recording on “Grand Ukulele” came to be.
“No Borders, no Language, no Culture”. Is Savage describing himself? @Green_Footballs
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) October 27, 2015
From Chuck’s facebook:
Looking for a neurologist to help me confirm whether a presidential candidate has Alzheimer’s.
re: #3 Kragar
From Chuck’s facebook:
I admit, I read this and was like “well, Ben Carson has both those angles covered.”
re: #3 Kragar
From Chuck’s facebook:
Adding to the list of things Chuck doesn’t understand.
Neurology
Medical ethics
Alzheimer’s
the meaning of the word “confirm”.
re: #5 Ace-o-aces
Is he planning on autopsying some of them?
UpChuck posted this link to his Facebook, check out the first few comments.
re: #9 Dark_Falcon
Michael Savage is one of *the* voices of conservatives, third highest ranking radio show in terms of listeners. Many in your party take that snakes-for-brains psycho at his word. Your people own that motherfucker, dude.
re: #3 Kragar
From Chuck’s facebook:
The only way to “confirm” it would be to perform tests on the patient in question. Merely observing videos is not sufficient evidence.
Who do you reckon he’s going after now?
re: #11 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
The only way to “confirm” it would be to perform tests on the patient in question. Merely observing videos is not sufficient evidence.
Who do you reckon he’s going after now?
The absolutely obvious target? Hillary. The not-so-obvious target? Trump. That’s my guess.
re: #7 teleskiguy
Also from the Daily Mail was have this story, wherein a Saudi prince tried and failed to be Gustavo Fring in real life:
A Saudi prince has been arrested after two tonnes of amphetamines were seized before they were due to be loaded onto his private jet in Lebanon, it has been revealed.
Lebanese officials say they have foiled one of the biggest drug smuggling attempts in the country’s history after the haul of pills was found at Beirut airport.
Saudi prince Abdel Mohsen Bin Walid Bin Abdulaziz and four others were detained while allegedly ‘attempting to smuggle about two tons of pills and some cocaine,’ a security source said.
I hope this prince gets to be ruler of a concrete cell for the next couple decades.
re: #10 teleskiguy
Michael Savage is one of *the* voices of conservatives, third highest ranking radio show in terms of listeners. Many in your party take that snakes-for-brains psycho at his word. Your people own that motherfucker, dude.
I don’t. I’ve pulled people away from that a-hole, TSG. I’m not perfect, but on the matter of Michael Savage my hands are scarred but clean.
re: #13 Dark_Falcon
Also from the Daily Mail was have this story, wherein a Saudi prince tried and failed to be Gustavo Fring in real life:
I hope this prince gets to be ruler of a concrete cell for the next couple decades.
Don’t hold your breath.
re: #12 teleskiguy
The absolutely obvious target? Hillary. The not-so-obvious target? Trump. That’s my guess.
Neither acts like they have Alzheimer’s, IMO.
re: #16 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Neither acts like they have Alzheimer’s, IMO.
Goes to show how badly UpChuck reads people. Total sociopath.
re: #14 Dark_Falcon
I don’t. I’ve pulled people away from that a-hole, TSG. I’m not perfect, but on the matter of Michael Savage my hands are scarred but clean.
Pretty sure you mean, STG, eh?
re: #18 teleskiguy
Pretty sure you mean, STG, eh?
I think he was trying to abbreviate your name. TeleSkiGuy.
re: #17 teleskiguy
Goes to show how badly UpChuck reads people. Total sociopath.
He still believes Cruz will be the nominee, too.
re: #19 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I think he was trying to abbreviate your name. TeleSkiGuy.
Nah. He means Swear To God.
:-P
re: #21 teleskiguy
Nah. He means Swear To God.
:-P
Either way, he’s still happy to vote for the folks who will appear on the show, and want the same crazy vote that follows it.
Just some housekeeping, when I address other Lizards, I refer to them by their given name, the name they used when they first signed up to this joint. No nicknames, no abbreviations, no shortened names. goddamnedfrank is goddamnedfrank, Dark_Falcon is Dark_Falcon, ggt is not I Stand With Planned Parenthood, Blind Frog Belly White is not GeneJockey. If you have a problem with that, tell me, and I’ll refer to you to whatever name you want me to. That includes you dragonfire1981!
re: #19 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I think he was trying to abbreviate your name. TeleSkiGuy.
That was my intention, yes.
re: #23 teleskiguy
Just some housekeeping, when I address other Lizards, I refer to them by their given name, the name they used when they first signed up to this joint. No nicknames, no abbreviations, no shortened names. goddamnedfrank is goddamnedfrank, Dark_Falcon is Dark_Falcon, ggt is not I Stand With Planned Parenthood, Blind Frog Belly White is not GeneJockey. If you have a problem with that, tell me, and I”ll refer you to whatever name you want me to. That includes you dragonfire1981!
I prefer to be called “Your Highness The Doctor” but when you’re running short on time “The Doctor” will do.
re: #22 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Either way, he’s still happy to vote for the folks who will appear on the show, and want the same crazy vote that follows it.
Yup. He’s hopeless. Trump gets the nomination, next October we’re going to hear from Dark_Falcon how he’ll be a great president.
re: #14 Dark_Falcon
I don’t. I’ve pulled people away from that a-hole, TSG. I’m not perfect, but on the matter of Michael Savage my hands are scarred but clean.
Do you have a game plan for how your’e going to deal with Trump the Racist or Carson the Religious Fanatic Bigot as the nominee and titular head of the GOP? Or are you still in denial about the cancer that has sunk its claws into the very bones of your party?
re: #22 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Either way, he’s still happy to vote for the folks who will appear on the show, and want the same crazy vote that follows it.
Marco Rubio hasn’t been on Savage’s show, and in fact has been the subject of some vile attacks by Mr. Savage. I’m not going to embed that video because I don’t want to see it. The description is enough for me to know that its M. Savage in his hateful groove.
re: #23 teleskiguy
Just some housekeeping, when I address other Lizards, I refer to them by their given name, the name they used when they first signed up to this joint. No nicknames, no abbreviations, no shortened names. goddamnedfrank is goddamnedfrank, Dark_Falcon is Dark_Falcon, ggt is not I Stand With Planned Parenthood, Blind Frog Belly White is not GeneJockey. If you have a problem with that, tell me, and I”ll refer you to whatever name you want me to. That includes you dragonfire1981!
Actually, I am. GeneJockey is my original nic, the one I use all over the innertubes. BFBW was to remind me of a friend who passed sometime back, but I found that I like it.
re: #28 Dark_Falcon
Dude, why are you showing us videos that you haven’t even seen?
Speaking of Saudi princes, this one is upset that Britain does not condone Saudi Arabia’s medieval criminal justice system.
How dare the UK criticize public beheadings and stonings! We observe their laws, why can’t they observe ours?
re: #29 Blind Frog Belly White
T’is why I call you GeneJockey! That’s your moniker, yo!
re: #26 teleskiguy
Yup. He’s hopeless. Trump gets the nomination, next October we’re going to hear from Dark_Falcon how he’ll be a great president.
Nope, that you won’t hear. I’m not going to vote for Donald Trump, period. If it were Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton, I’d have to hold my nose and vote for HRC.
re: #32 teleskiguy
T’is why I call you GeneJockey! That’s your moniker, yo!
But based on the previous phrase about ggt, I think you got it backwards.
re: #34 Blind Frog Belly White
Totally OT, but when did you change to the Zim avatar? Or has it just been that way for ages and I failed to notice?
re: #34 Blind Frog Belly White
But based on the previous phrase about ggt, I think you got it backwards.
There are a number of others I could name, you were the easiest that I thought of.
I see your point, though. One of the nice things about LGF is the flexibility of one’s username on the screen.
You’re still GeneJockey to me!
re: #35 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Totally OT, but when did you change to the Zim avatar? Or has it just been that way for ages and I failed to notice?
I think at least two years ago. Zim is one of the Older Boy’s favorite cartoons.
re: #37 Blind Frog Belly White
I think at least two years ago. Zim is one of the Older Boy’s favorite cartoons.
I got into it in university with some roommates.
I have apparently just been asleep.
re: #36 teleskiguy
There are a number of others I could name, you were the easiest that I thought of.
I see your point, though. One of the nice things about LGF is the flexibility of one’s username on the screen.
You’re still GeneJockey to me!
You can call me anything but late to dinner.
re: #38 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I got into it in university with some roommates.
I have apparently just been asleep.
Well, it is really, really small.
re: #3 Kragar
From Chuck’s facebook:
Looking for a neurologist to help me confirm whether a presidential candidate has Alzheimer’s.
Oh, come now. Ben Carson is far to young for it to be Alzheimer’s.
About that video from Spring Valley High in South Carolina; I don’t care how mouthy or rude the gal was to her teacher or the assaulting officer, the actions taken by the officer amount to felony assault. Chances are she was being a typical moody teenager in a new school (reports say she was a new student). The violence inflicted on her was fucked. If you think that the gal *deserved* what happened to her because of her behavior, you’re a fucking racist.
re: #43 teleskiguy
About that video from Spring Valley High in South Carolina; I don’t care how mouthy or rude the gal was to her teacher or the assaulting officer, the actions taken by the officer amount to felony assault. Chances are she was being a typical moody teenager in a new school (reports say she was a new student). The violence inflicted on her was fucked. If you think that the gal *deserved* what happened to her because of her behavior, you’re a fucking racist.
There’s nothing short of a physical attack on her part that could excuse that reaction on his part, IMO. You don’t do that to someone who’s just mouthing off. Not unless you really hate your job, and don’t mind losing it and a substantial chunk of your future earnings.
re: #43 teleskiguy
About that video from Spring Valley High in South Carolina; I don’t care how mouthy or rude the gal was to her teacher or the assaulting officer, the actions taken by the officer amount to felony assault.
Yeah, but when the cop grabbed her by the throat and tried to yank he out of the desk she started flailing around, which means she was resisting arrest and/or assaulting an officer, so she deserved it and the cop did nothing wrong.
And I fucking wish I was joking, but I’ve already seen people making that argument.
#BlackLivesMatter has opened my eyes. I’ve received an education about how black people have to go about their day-to-day lives since Michael Brown was killed in Ferguson. I’ve even befriended POC in the process.
Black Lives Matter.
re: #44 Blind Frog Belly White
There’s nothing short of a physical attack on her part that could excuse that reaction on his part, IMO. You don’t do that to someone who’s just mouthing off. Not unless you really hate your job, and don’t mind losing it and a substantial chunk of your future earnings.
Or unless you think you won’t get punished. But I think he will be punished, since he beat up a girl on video.
re: #12 teleskiguy
The absolutely obvious target? Hillary. The not-so-obvious target? Trump. That’s my guess.
Yeah, Hilliary would be my guess as well. Because someone with dementia would hold up sooooo well after 11 hours of congressional testimony.
re: #45 Sophist C. Johnson
Yeah, but when the cop grabbed her by the throat and tried to yank he out of the desk she started flailing around, which means she was resisting arrest and/or assaulting an officer, so she deserved it and the cop did nothing wrong.
And I fucking wish I was joking, but I’ve already seen people making that argument.
The Supreme Court of the United States declared “racism” a thing of the past when they struck down key provisions of the Voting Rights Act a few years ago. So it’s cool now.
Racist folks are always looking for ways to criminalize Black victims. It never fails. Shit is so predictable!
— Chihiro Ogino (@WickedBeaute) October 27, 2015
China is working on a massive “social credit” system, which goes far beyond credit-worthiness scores. Imagine if Peeple joined forces with Facebook, Twitter, credit scoring agencies like Experian, the national crime database and the secret police to create a giant database of everything you do online and everything everyone else has about you online.
It is times like this that I am thankful that UpChuck is banned from Twitter. Can you imagine the tweets he’d post in re: #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh? Just unbridled ugliness.
That said, he has access to Twitter. He’s not being a fucking loudmouth, though. Maybe he got some good advice from the Burns Law Firm in St. Louis and “weev,” his neo-nazi buddy hiding out in eastern Europe who strangely still has a Twitter account. UpChuck is there, though. @CCJFans
re: #52 teleskiguy
It is times like this that I am thankful that UpChuck is banned from Twitter. Can you imagine the tweets he’d post in re: #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh? Just unbridled ugliness.
That said, he has access to Twitter. He’s not being a fucking loudmouth, though. Maybe he got some good advice from the Burns Law Firm in St. Louis and “weev,” his neo-nazi buddy hiding out in eastern Europe who strangely still has a Twitter account. UpChuck is there, though. @CCJFans
He’d be doxing the girl, trying to prove it was all her fault the cop manhandled her.
re: #53 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
He’d be doxing the girl, trying to prove it was all her fault the cop manhandled her.
Quite Concur. He’d also blow the racist dog whistle a few times.
Chuck is, however, begging for donations, as usual. From a recent post about releasing those Planned Parenthood scam videos:
Publishing the abortion videos is less about their contents and more about the right for the public to be informed.
If you want to help fund our research and work here’s the link.
Then he goes on about all the people he has exposed, and also the Gawker suit.
re: #12 teleskiguy
The absolutely obvious target? Hillary. The not-so-obvious target? Trump. That’s my guess.
I was speculating Bernie Sanders.
Also, because it’s so zany, here again is that image I pulled from a FB group that supports Donald Trump:
BTW, someone was asking downstairs about the Johnson v. Gawker suit. Gawker’s counsel has asked for an extension for their response to Burns & Johnson’s motions, which was due Friday. I’m not sure of the new deadline.
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re: #57 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, because it’s so zany, here again is that image I pulled from a FB group that supports Donald Trump:
re: #59 teleskiguy
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You know, I follow people on Facebook who have some claim to fame: musicians, actors and so on. Their “likes” usually number in the hundreds. Chuck’s rarely seem to top 15.
Draw your own conclusions from this anecdotal evidence.
re: #61 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
You know, I follow people on Facebook who have some claim to fame: musicians, actors and so on. Their “likes” usually number in the hundreds. Chuck’s rarely seem to top 15.
Draw your own conclusions from this anecdotal evidence.
re: #25 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I prefer to be called “Your Highness The Doctor” but when you’re running short on time “The Doctor” will do.
No Guarantees.
:)
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re: #45 Sophist C. Johnson
Yeah, but when the cop grabbed her by the throat and tried to yank he out of the desk she started flailing around, which means she was resisting arrest and/or assaulting an officer, so she deserved it and the cop did nothing wrong.
And I fucking wish I was joking, but I’ve already seen people making that argument.
Idiots.
Bad lawyers could make that argument, but it doesn’t convince people with IQs above room temperature.
Apropos of Everything. pic.twitter.com/NgmtflzQkx
— g’damnedfrankenstein (@goddamnedfrank) October 27, 2015
It’s been twenty-five years since this image was first displayed on TV screens tuned into the FOX Network.
re: #65 goddamnedfrank
That is awesome. Are prints available ?
re: #70 goddamnedfrank
I put your friend on the internet, in the form of a tweet.
This is a beautiful portrait of the Leadership of the United States from 2001 to 2009. I almost cried 1st time I saw pic.twitter.com/5K1x79PQVA
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) October 27, 2015
*cough* *laugh* *cough* *cough* *spit*
re: #13 Dark_Falcon
Also from the Daily Mail was have this story, wherein a Saudi prince tried and failed to be Gustavo Fring in real life:
I hope this prince gets to be ruler of a concrete cell for the next couple decades.
He will most likely be remanded to “rehab” and on probation. But only on paper to make it look like they did something
re: #33 Dark_Falcon
Nope, that you won’t hear. I’m not going to vote for Donald Trump, period. If it were Donald Trump versus Hillary Clinton, I’d have to hold my nose and vote for HRC.
I do not look forward to voting for HRC, but I cannot imagine the current GOP fielding anyone I could even consider voting for.
re: #49 teleskiguy
The Supreme Court of the United States declared “racism” a thing of the past when they struck down key provisions of the Voting Rights Act a few years ago. So it’s cool now.
Police officer was just making an example out of her so that other teenagers would even think of giving him a hard time.
Again, wish I was being ironic or joking.
re: #71 teleskiguy
I put your friend on the internet, in the form of a tweet.
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*cough* *laugh* *cough* *cough* *spit*
No laser cannon mounted on the shark’s head?
re: #72 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
He will most likely be remanded to “rehab” and on probation. But only on paper to make it look like they did something
Saudi princes can get away with murder. Literally, I believe. Money and political influence somehow resolves the problem.
Freeper Madness, early edition.
Coming Out Could Mean Jail Time in Russia
Yes, it could become illegal to come out as gay in Russia. The freepers are delirious in their approval, since the news gives them a chance to indulge two of their favorite pastimes, gay-bashing and Putin-love.
“Fine with me. Its legal to be gay there. You just cant propagandize children. And that’s what this “coming out” BS is. Nobody has to “come out” to just live their life.”
“Wish we woulda had this law a few decades back.”
“Good for Russia. Those with nasty habits will not be marketing the vile behavior to others other than their perversion partner. What they keep private won’t get them in trouble.”
This one spells it out:
“Seems like every week lately, Russia is a better run country than our dear Republic. It’s nice to see a government treat homosexuality as the mental illness it is.”
60 years ago, the right wing wanted to hang people who promoted Kremlin policy as an example for this country; or at least exile them to the wilds of darkest Berkeley. Now they are those people.
At this point, I have no doubt that Stalin would have been enormously popular with the American right if he hadn’t threatened their corporate overlords or bashed organized superstition (something he quit doing during World War II, btw).
re: #77 Shiplord Kirel
Well, if the freepers love Russia and Putin so much, they should just STFU and move there.
Love it or leave it!
re: #77 Shiplord Kirel
60 years ago, the right wing wanted to hang people who promoted Kremlin policy as an example for this country; or at least exile them to the wilds of darkest Berkeley. Now they are those people.
Putin rides horses bare-chested with a gun slung across his shoulder and a dead bear across the saddle. That is their image of manly virtue.
Now I am imagining a concert pairing Jake Shimabukuro and Tommy Emmanuel. That would be awesome!
There is no evidence that this girl punched a cop before he floorslammed her.
#AdviceForTeenagersIn4Words do not punch cops.
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) October 27, 2015
re: #82 The Vicious Babushka
There is no evidence that this girl punched a cop before he floorslammed her.
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And even if she did, Fuck That Shit.
And if you look at the kids in the front of the room, you can tell that officers doing this is a normal occurrence.
I went to a high school with about a 50/50 white-minority split. Lower on the socioeconomic ladder. Had multiple officers in the building. But one of the things our school system did was to place a large number of minority officers there. They engaged in community policing in the school. Sure everyone knew who the drug dealers and gang members were. But even when there would be confrontations, nothing like this happened, or was accepted. Worked out the way it was supposed to. Even had some friends (and nearly myself) join the local police force. Some work as officers in the schools.
re: #71 teleskiguy
I put your friend on the internet, in the form of a tweet.
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*cough* *laugh* *cough* *cough* *spit*
Somebody hd to be on LSD when they drew that!
re: #52 teleskiguy
It is times like this that I am thankful that UpChuck is banned from Twitter. Can you imagine the tweets he’d post in re: #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh? Just unbridled ugliness.
That said, he has access to Twitter. He’s not being a fucking loudmouth, though. Maybe he got some good advice from the Burns Law Firm in St. Louis and “weev,” his neo-nazi buddy hiding out in eastern Europe who strangely still has a Twitter account. UpChuck is there, though. @CCJFans
I’ve worked at Social Security for 37 years. Dealt with lots of people like Ginger Snapped and I know how he will eventually wind up. In a couple years he’ll be on Supplemental Security Disability living on the fringes of Skid Row in Los Angeles. He’ll also be banned from our offices for his behavior. You’ll see him pushing a shopping cart around shuffling from mission to mission downtown and he’ll still mumble about how he hates the Government.
By stupid Steve’s “logic”, the Feds should have shot to kill the Bundy Ranch assholes but note they did not. Hmmm.
Student Arrested Says She Was Standing Up for Classmate | https://t.co/Nf5AbPYjoO #scnews #sctweets pic.twitter.com/tUM1bZn7oi
— News 19 WLTX (@WLTX) October 27, 2015
Some people really shouldn’t be cops. End of story.
re: #82 The Vicious Babushka
There is no evidence that this girl punched a cop before he floorslammed her.
Just shut up and do what police say unless you are a Sovereign Citizen.
re: #77 Shiplord Kirel
Freeper Madness, early edition.
Coming Out Could Mean Jail Time in Russia
Yes, it could become illegal to come out as gay in Russia. The freepers are delirious in their approval, since the news gives them a chance to indulge two of their favorite pastimes, gay-bashing and Putin-love.This one spells it out:
60 years ago, the right wing wanted to hang people who promoted Kremlin policy as an example for this country; or at least exile them to the wilds of darkest Berkeley. Now they are those people.
At this point, I have no doubt that Stalin would have been enormously popular with the American right if he hadn’t threatened their corporate overlords or bashed organized superstition (something he quit doing during World War II, btw).
Criminalizing coming out and the “small government” “individual rights” freepers love it. Again the inner fascist authoritian mindset behind American conservatism bears its head for all to see.
Jeffrey Dahmer wasn’t beaten by the police and they had discovered he murdered people. This crap about just respect the cops and you’ll be fine is pure bullcrap.
#BREAKING: FBI and U.S. Justice Dept. to Investigate Spring Valley Incident | https://t.co/5CeeTdH855 #News19 #SCNews #SCTweets
— News 19 WLTX (@WLTX) October 27, 2015
re: #90 HappyWarrior
Criminalizing coming out and the “small government” “individual rights” freepers love it. Again the inner fascist authoritian mindset behind American conservatism bears its head for all to see.
Russia is turning into a Theocracy headed by the Orthodox Church. Problem with America there is no Orthodox Protestantism, just dozens of sects competing to see who can be the most biblical.
re: #93 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Russia is turning into a Theocracy headed by the Orthodox Church. Problem with America there is no Orthodox Protestantism, just dozens of sects competing to see who can be the most biblical.
Yeah. You’re right. All these different flavors of Evangelical Protestantism who see their faith as the one true one. Russia does have a growing Evangelical population though.
re: #94 HappyWarrior
Yeah. You’re right. All these different flavors of Evangelical Protestantism who see their faith as the one true one. Russia does have a growing Evangelical population though.
But the Orthodox church is clearly politically established with the Putin regime.
re: #95 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
But the Orthodox church is clearly politically established with the Putin regime.
Right, Putin is interesting. He combined Soviet nostalgia with Orthodox theocracy and Pan-Russian nationalism as seen in his Georgia and Ukraine policies. It’s actually quite politically brilliant, he’s in it for the long haul.
re: #96 HappyWarrior
Right, Putin is interesting. He combined Soviet nostalgia with Orthodox theocracy and Pan-Russian nationalism as seen in his Georgia and Ukraine policies. It’s actually quite politically brilliant, he’s in it for the long haul.
Cannot underestimate his political savvy. Sergey disagrees, but I believe that there was a conscious policy to let chaos reign for several years after the collapse of the USSR so that the people would embrace a strong authoritarian leader who would restore order and stability even at the cost of a few of those superfluous freedoms.
re: #77 Shiplord Kirel
“Seems like every week lately, Russia is a better run country than our dear Republic. It’s nice to see a government treat homosexuality as the mental illness it is.”
Freedom. Less Government. Liberty. Individual Rights. Get Government Out of the Way and off our Backs. Don’t Tread On Me.
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re: #97 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Cannot underestimate his political savvy. Sergey disagrees, but I believe that there was a conscious policy to let chaos reign for several years after the collapse of the USSR so that the people would embrace a strong authoritarian leader who would restore order and stability even at the cost of a few of those superfluous freedoms.
I’d have to read more about Russia in the 90’s but there definitely exists in a sizable part of Russian society a support for authoritarian government as long as it feels Russia’s interests are being served hence Stalin being a popular figure, a fact that certainly shocks most Westerners.
re: #98 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Freedom. Less Government. Liberty. Individual Rights. Get Government Out of the Way and off our Backs. Don’t Tread On Me.
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…and Theocracy. They are a Christian nation, why aren’t we?
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re: #99 HappyWarrior
I’d have to read more about Russia in the 90’s but there definitely exists in a sizable part of Russian society a support for authoritarian government as long as it feels Russia’s interests are being served hence Stalin being a popular figure, a fact that certainly shocks most Westerners.
They knew nothing else.
I’ve been a huge fan of MSF for quite some time - they do the work that few (any) are willing to do in providing health care to those in the middle of war zones, lawless regions, and virulent epidemics. Time and again, their staff put their lives on the line to help others.
And again, their staff has come under fire. This time, Saudi airstrikes hit a MSF facility in Saana, Yemen causing casualties.
Another #MSF hospital hit. This time in Yemen by Saudi-led air strikes: Medecins Sans Frontieres. https://t.co/r8N1IG0guc
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 27, 2015
The coalition, which includes Saudi Arabia, had the coordinates of the clinic.
re: #77 Shiplord Kirel
“Wish we woulda had this law a few decades back.”
But Obamacare is Tyranny
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re: #101 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
They knew nothing else.
That and he’s credited with winning WWII and modernizing. People like Gorbachev and Khrushchev aren’t popular. I’ll ask Sergey next time he’s here but I’m curious about how Brezhnev is viewed, he was in charge nearly two decades and certainly left a mark.
I just can’t even.
Sack of diseased dickmeat Steve Crowder is justifying the floorslamming cop==>
‘Course => Spring Valley: Latest “Racist, Police Brutality” Story Changes with New Video… https://t.co/sdkzA7r9Q3 pic.twitter.com/30XZRLC0qo
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) October 27, 2015
re: #105 The Vicious Babushka
I just can’t even.
Sack of diseased dickmeat Steve Crowder is justifying the floorslamming cop==>
What’s new about this video?
re: #105 The Vicious Babushka
One MEEELION points/updings for the phrase “sack of diseased dickmeat”. Something is seriously wrong with him.
I am sorry but I get that being a police officer is a stressful job. Hell so is a teacher though. If there were a rash of teachers abusing students, we’d want to do something about it so why are cops any different? The police unions seem upset that we are holding them to a high standard. They act as if we don’t respect cops. I think it shows less respect to cops to just excuse police brutality. We get it. Being a cop isn’t easy but you still have to respect people’s rights. And if that makes me anti cop, so be it, I actually think the idiots like Crowder who make excuses for police brutality are actually more so since they think being a good cop means brutalizing people.
re: #106 Belafon
What’s new about this video?
He goes through it frame by frame and tries to point out where he thinks the girl “attacked” the cop by struggling to protect herself as he flips over the desk with her in it.
re: #104 HappyWarrior
That and he’s credited with winning WWII and modernizing. People like Gorbachev and Khrushchev aren’t popular. I’ll ask Sergey next time he’s here but I’m curious about how Brezhnev is viewed, he was in charge nearly two decades and certainly left a mark.
People were on one hand dissatisfied with the system under Brezhnev, Chernenko and Andropov, but they knew the ins and outs and how to skirt the rules and which mouse holes they could wriggle through to get things done and obtain hard-to-find goods.
Nobody had to work to hard and at least their basic needs were covered.
re: #109 The Vicious Babushka
He goes through it frame by frame and tries to point out where he thinks the girl “attacked” the cop by struggling to protect herself as he flips over the desk with her in it.
She shattered cop’s eye socket. Here is file photo everybody has seen.
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More details on what brought the officer to the classroom. The student had taken out her phone. That’s it. https://t.co/ujNhBDeQEu
— Jamelle Booo-eeee! (@jbouie) October 27, 2015
Last RT: She had her phone out. If that’s “disruptive behavior” meriting a violent police response, our next faculty meeting will be BRUTAL
— Kevin Gannon (@TheTattooedProf) October 27, 2015
re: #109 The Vicious Babushka
He goes through it frame by frame and tries to point out where he thinks the girl “attacked” the cop by struggling to protect herself as he flips over the desk with her in it.
Thanks. At the point the cop grabs her, it’s too late for anyone to claim she attacked him. Had she been throwing a punch and then he moved towards her that would be one thing, but not if he’s the one lunging.
re: #105 The Vicious Babushka
I just can’t even.
Sack of diseased dickmeat Steve Crowder is justifying the floorslamming cop==>
He is clear about who is supposed to just shut up and obey police officers, and it ain’t armed white men in pickup trucks…
re: #108 HappyWarrior
I am sorry but I get that being a police officer is a stressful job. Hell so is a teacher though. If there were a rash of teachers abusing students, we’d want to do something about it so why are cops any different? The police unions seem upset that we are holding them to a high standard. They act as if we don’t respect cops. I think it shows less respect to cops to just excuse police brutality. We get it. Being a cop isn’t easy but you still have to respect people’s rights. And if that makes me anti cop, so be it, I actually think the idiots like Crowder who make excuses for police brutality are actually more so since they think being a good cop means brutalizing people.
We have to realize that at least some (many?) of the big city police unions echo the NRA anti gun control strategy on “cop control”. Like climate denial echoes tobacco company tactics. They get to define the circumstance, control the whole discussion or you are some kind of horrible liberal or… something.
re: #115 Great White Snark
We have to realize that at least some (many?) of the big city police unions echo the NRA anti gun control strategy on “cop control”. Like climate denial echoes tobacco company tactics. They get to define the circumstance, control the whole discussion or you are some kind of horrible liberal or… something.
We also bought into the notion that more police officers = better police protection without thinking about the costs and effort that go into training police officers to do their job properly. It is not just a matter of sheer numbers.
And then we send them out into a social setting in which guns are easily accessible, crime is widespread and social tensions are high. We are asking a lot more than we are prepared to pay for, and incidents like the recent classroom beating are what arise from it.
re: #110 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
People were on one hand dissatisfied with the system under Brezhnev, Chernenko and Andropov, but they knew the ins and outs and how to skirt the rules and which mouse holes they could wriggle through to get things done and obtain hard-to-find goods.
Nobody had to work to hard and at least their basic needs were covered.
Right but what I wonder about is how he’s viewed today. Our perceptions of leaders change with times.
She took her phone out. All righty then, that totally deserves a beatdown.
Students claim officer’s brutal takedown of Spring Valley student was over phone use. https://t.co/YupDVLKjKu pic.twitter.com/6M53gDkXd5
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) October 27, 2015
re: #115 Great White Snark
We have to realize that at least some (many?) of the big city police unions echo the NRA anti gun control strategy on “cop control”. Like climate denial echoes tobacco company tactics. They get to define the circumstance, control the whole discussion or you are some kind of horrible liberal or… something.
Have to agree, the police unions are just reining any reasonable conversation that could be had by denouncing everyone who criticizes police misconduct as “cop haters.”
re: #118 The Vicious Babushka
She took her phone out. All righty then, that totally deserves a beatdown.
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He needs to be fired. No excuse for that.
re: #117 HappyWarrior
Right but what I wonder about is how he’s viewed today. Our perceptions of leaders change with times.
Muscovites I talked to tell me that the summer of 1980 was one of the best times of their lives: the Olympics were on, the city was cleaned up, the shops were full, the streets were safe, and the trains and buses ran on time.
re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Muscovites I talked to tell me that the summer of 1980 was a one of the best times of their lives: the Olympics were on, the city was cleaned up, the shops were full, the streets were safe, and the trains and buses ran on time.
Gotcha. I’d love to learn more about him and his times. There hasn’t been a major Western bio as far as I know.
oh, we have a hatchling who is a Trump fan…
re: #123 Backwoods_Sleuth
oh, we have a hatchling who is a Trump fan…
HURR HURR WHY R U INSULTING HIS CHARACTER!!!! ONE MILLION DOLLARS IS LIKE TOTALLY NOTHING IN REAL ESTATE BIZ!!!!11!!!
Trump tells it how it is except when he totally contradicts himself!
re: #125 The Vicious Babushka
HURR HURR WHY R U INSULTING HIS CHARACTER!!!! ONE MILLION DOLLARS IS LIKE TOTALLY NOTHING IN REAL ESTATE BIZ!!!!11!!!
YOU PEOPLE CAN’T TAKE A JOKE!!11!!
re: #127 Backwoods_Sleuth
YOU PEOPLE CAN’T TAKE A JOKE!!11!!
Hey, he’s just not a politically correct person. //
re: #126 HappyWarrior
Trump tells it how it is except when he totally contradicts himself!
Which, I would say, is exactly how it is.
re: #126 HappyWarrior
Trump tells it how it is except when he totally contradicts himself!
He’s displayed a certain flexibility when it comes to his wealth as well. He participates in grade inflation - because “everyone” does it, except that most everyone else isn’t complaining when they find their wealth to be inflated by 2x or more (as Trump usually is).
re: #118 The Vicious Babushka
BREAKING: Spring Valley High School officer Ben Fields placed on administrative leave. https://t.co/ERWGi52tiD
— Mic (@micnews) October 27, 2015
LOL Frontier Gibberish Lady weighs in on the bodyslamming cop==>
ALL ppl shld obey authority whn asked 2 move out of a schl rm whn thy Break th rules or laws! Y is burden on Cops whn U call 4 help!? #TCOT
— gayle ryan (@gayle_ryan) October 27, 2015
re: #134 The Vicious Babushka
LOL Frontier Gibberish Lady weighs in on the bodyslamming cop==>
There’s a point in there I want to ask: Why did the teacher call for the cop over a phone? At my kids school, they confiscate the phone until the end of the class.
re: #133 HappyWarrior
There’s reports out today about a homicide spike, which points to selected cities where there have indeed been year over year increases in homicides.
But that ignores the wider trend, which is that crime rates continue to decline. The FBI announced that crime rates continued to drop from 2013 in their 2014 crime statistic compendium. They haven’t put together the 2015 stats, so it’s hard to tell what’s going on - but we’re at or near historic lows on crime across the nation, even as there are pockets where crime remains a major concern.
So of course the GOP will claim that crime is out of control, when the fact is that crime rates (overall or per capita) have not been this low in generations.
There’s a tentative budget deal that would increase the debt limit till 2017 and some folks aren’t liking it:
Louisiana Republican Rep. John Fleming told reporters Boehner essentially “threw committee chairmen under the bus” and suggested this big deal was being dropped on members now because the committees failed to do their work.
But, in Fleming’s telling, House Budget Committee Chairman Tom Price, R-Georgia, pushed back, saying that he was in fact working on fiscal reforms but was told by leadership to stand down.
Roughly 10 House conservatives got up and complained in the meeting about the process of cutting a major deal and rushing it to the floor without going through regular order, lawmakers said.
WHO GAVE THE STAND DOWN ORDER???!?!?
re: #134 The Vicious Babushka
LOL Frontier Gibberish Lady weighs in on the bodyslamming cop==>
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re: #134 The Vicious Babushka
LOL Frontier Gibberish Lady weighs in on the bodyslamming cop==>
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In English please.
re: #138 It’s on his hat!
If you can’t condense your thoughts into 140 characters wtht tlkn lk ths, or can’t figure out how to properly multi-tweet, you should delete your account, and probably send your mobile phone through the wood chipper.
Brilliant! *Guinness*
re: #136 lawhawk
There’s reports out today about a homicide spike, which points to selected cities where there have indeed been year over year increases in homicides.
But that ignores the wider trend, which is that crime rates continue to decline. The FBI announced that crime rates continued to drop from 2013 in their 2014 crime statistic compendium. They haven’t put together the 2015 stats, so it’s hard to tell what’s going on - but we’re at or near historic lows on crime across the nation, even as there are pockets where crime remains a major concern.
So of course the GOP will claim that crime is out of control, when the fact is that crime rates (overall or per capita) have not been this low in generations.
Right. I expect the nominee to claim that Obama’s policies have made crime “out of control” and we need to be more “tough on crime.”
re: #137 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Still, the private talks and the frantic effort to push the measure into law only prompted sharp criticism from many House and Senate Republicans, who contended that Boehner gave away too much in the name of getting a deal.
Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, a member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, strongly objected to the deal.
“We’re not just here to take commands,” Amash said. “People back home expect us to participate in the process. I hope that Paul Ryan will let us know how he feels about the process.”
WERE NOT HERE TO TAKE COMMANDS!!!!!
re: #141 HappyWarrior
Right. I expect the nominee to claim that Obama’s policies have made crime “out of control” and we need to be more “tough on crime.”
Even respected news orgs have trumpeted “Obama’s hometown” seeing homicide rates rise.
re: #138 It’s on his hat!
If you can’t condense your thoughts into 140 characters wtht tlkn lk ths, or can’t figure out how to properly multi-tweet, you should delete your account, and probably send your mobile phone through the wood chipper.
Remember when trolls on LGF used to get disemvoweled before they were stinkhammered?
re: #144 The Vicious Babushka
I am but a young lizard, so no. But that sounds hilarious.
re: #143 It’s on his hat!
Even respected news orgs have trumpeted “Obama’s hometown” seeing homicide rates rise.
CHICAGO!
re: #144 The Vicious Babushka
Remember when trolls on LGF used to get disemvoweled before they were stinkhammered?
oooow, stinkhammered
Donald Trump is confused about his drop in the polls: “I don’t quite get it” https://t.co/MIE6w1EcSm (Ertl/Reuters) pic.twitter.com/cu3Hgrq2V6
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) October 27, 2015
re: #148 Backwoods_Sleuth
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He’s really not going to get it when he finds out he’ll never be president.
I thought I was the proto-nihilist in the family, but SWMBO is thinking about a Trumpidency for the LULZ.
re: #136 lawhawk
There’s reports out today about a homicide spike, which points to selected cities where there have indeed been year over year increases in homicides.
When I put the spike into my brain and I tell ya, things just ain’t the same…
re: #150 Bird in the Paw
I thought I was the proto-nihilist in the family, but SWMBO is thinking about a Trumpidency for the LULZ.
What is SWMBO
I am SHOCKED!!11!!
Rand’s first chapter on George Washington is almost entirely wrong. Fake quotes/fake stories. https://t.co/wOU7xxmebb
— Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) October 27, 2015
re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth
I am SHOCKED!!11!!
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“Don’t quote me on that.” George Washington
re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth
I am SHOCKED!!11!!
My middle son is into mythology and wants to be a writer. I keep asking him to think about what myths would come out of America in a thousand years. I’ll have to show him that stuff to give him some ideas.
Donald Trump is gonna build a giant wall around that CBS News Poll and make CBS pay for it.
— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) October 27, 2015
re: #143 It’s on his hat!
Even respected news orgs have trumpeted “Obama’s hometown” seeing homicide rates rise.
NYC produces weekly crime stats, which include comparisons to last year, including year over year, 2 year, 5 year, 10 year, and even comparing to 1990, 1993, 1998, and 2000.
You get a real sense of how crime has been slashed in the city, so even a weekly or monthly blip evens out over time. It also shows that even while rape and murder in NYC is up slightly YTD, all the other crimes are actually down 3.1% from last year.
Dim Jim blames Fox News for Trump’s plunge in the polls==>
After Weeks of Attacks from FOX News=> @RealDonaldTrump Slides to Second in National Poll https://t.co/Qg90slVjzs via @gatewaypundit
— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) October 27, 2015
re: #161 The Vicious Babushka
Dim Jim blames Fox News for Trump’s plunge in the polls==>
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LOL, it’s almost as if he’s mad that they’re being journalists. He would have no problem with attacks on Hillary or those he deems RINOs but Fox being even remotely critiical of Shithead is not fair!
UpChuck just posted one of the Daleiden videos on his FB page.
re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth
UpChuck just posted one of the Daleiden videos on his FB page.
Wasn’t he ordered not to do that by their lawyers?
re: #164 HappyWarrior
Wasn’t he ordered not to do that by their lawyers?
Chuck only respects Moon Law
re: #161 The Vicious Babushka
Dim Jim blames Fox News for Trump’s plunge in the polls==>
Little surprised Dim Jim and others are so in the tank for Trump. Would think there are moar severely conservative candidates running.
re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth
UpChuck just posted one of the Daleiden videos on his FB page.
Award winning journalist hawking somebody else’s “work”. Great job, CCJ.
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re: #166 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Little surprised Dim Jim and others are so in the tank for Trump. Would think there are moar severely conservative candidates running.
Trump hates Latinos the most so he’s a perfect fit for DJ. Trump seems very popular with the RAGE wing of the party.
Bucket of carcinogenic smoked penismeat Steve Crowder has a TIMELINE of the Brave Cop defending himself against a DEMONIC HIGH SCHOOL GIRL MONSTER WITH FEARSOME SUPERPOWERS OF BLACKNESS
My man @scrowder breaks down #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh with some FACTS pic.twitter.com/WY0g3GcJxS
— King of No Chill (@PizzaPartyBen) October 27, 2015
SHE LAUNCHED HERSELF AT THE COP USING THE DESK AS AN ATTACK HOVERBOARD!!!!!
Well, I actually include the two new videos that you might have not seen. Cop NEVER flips the desk. She does. https://t.co/izOoQ9UlEZ
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) October 27, 2015
re: #169 The Vicious Babushka
Bucket of carcinogenic smoked penismeat Steve Crowder has a TIMELINE of the Brave Cop defending himself against a DEMONIC HIGH SCHOOL GIRL MONSTER WITH FEARSOME SUPERPOWERS OF BLACKNESS
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And yet James Holmes who actually killed people wasn’t brutalized. What does that little Stevie and his dumb friends who look for everything to justify police bruality. They can fuck off with their hypocrisy because they’re the first to complain about the big bad feds.
This is America indeed though where privileged white conservatives look for everything to rationalize violence against black people and try to talk down to them.
re: #171 HappyWarrior
And yet James Holmes who actually killed people wasn’t brutalized.
Nor was Dylann Roof.
Because Kentucky doesn’t have enough loons running for public office:
Two have filed as write-in candidates for governor: Gatewood B. Gatewood of Eubank and Blackii Effing Whyte of Berea. ^JB
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) October 27, 2015
here’s an article about Blackii Effing Whyte.
sigh.
re: #170 The Vicious Babushka
SHE LAUNCHED HERSELF AT THE COP USING THE DESK AS AN ATTACK HOVERBOARD!!!!!
The stuff he’s smoking causes serious empty cranial cavity damage.
re: #173 The Vicious Babushka
Nor was Dylann Roof.
Well, they did buy him Burger King, which could almost be considered cruel & unusual punishment.
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re: #177 makeitstop
Well, they did buy him Burger King, which could almost be considered cruel & unusual punishment.
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The horror. Where was the black lives matter movement then? //
re: #161 The Vicious Babushka
Dim Jim blames Fox News for Trump’s plunge in the polls==>
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Trump is behind Carson. Carson leads Republican polls.
Think. About. That.
Steve Whitesplains TEH FEARSOME SUPERPOWERS OF BLACKNESS!!!!!!
Ever leaned back too far on your chair? Do that, now add punches and upward kicks. https://t.co/RCsqGVwaz2
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) October 27, 2015
But as the Roof and Holmes cases show, police are perfectly capable when they want to of being gentle and even kind to perps.
re: #179 WhatEVs
Trump is behind Carson. Carson leads Republican polls.
Think. About. That.
I actually find Carson more scary than Trump.
re: #172 HappyWarrior
This is America indeed though where privileged white conservatives look for everything to rationalize violence against black people and try to talk down to them.
Time and again, we see how serial killers (who are white), mass murderers (who are white) and countless other categories of criminals are not abused by law enforcement, including those who are cop killers, but when the suspect/perpetrator is a minority, there appears to be an outpouring of excuses from people who think that the minority being abuse somehow deserved it through their actions - that the cop/authority figure is justified in the use of force (including deadly force) for not listening.
All the while, these same folks are talking about standing up against authority up to and including use of force and deadly force with firearms as their god-given 2d Amendment solution to government overreach.
A black girl who simply refuses to comply with putting away their phone can be manhandled, but the Crowderheads come out of the woodwork to blame the excessive force on the girl who simply had their phone out.
re: #174 Backwoods_Sleuth
Because Kentucky doesn’t have enough loons running for public office:
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here’s an article about Blackii Effing Whyte.
sigh.
I didn’t see in the article other than it is his ‘legal’ name. Doesn’t say if that was the name he was given at birth.
Big news from Atlantic Media: National Journal to lose a quarter of its staff; The Atlantic will launch a new ‘Washington bureau.’
— ErikWemple (@ErikWemple) October 27, 2015
Charles mentioned problems at The Atlantic yesterday as why the outlet’s quality has suffered. This isn’t going to help with the quality I’m afraid.
re: #180 The Vicious Babushka
So now she is a teenage ninja? #TwistedLogic @scrowder
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) October 27, 2015
re: #183 lawhawk
Time and again, we see how serial killers (who are white), mass murderers (who are white) and countless other categories of criminals are not abused by law enforcement, including those who are cop killers, but when the suspect/perpetrator is a minority, there appears to be an outpouring of excuses from people who think that the minority being abuse somehow deserved it through their actions - that the cop/authority figure is justified in the use of force (including deadly force) for not listening.
All the while, these same folks are talking about standing up against authority up to and including use of force and deadly force with firearms as their god-given 2d Amendment solution to government overreach.
A black girl who simply refuses to comply with putting away their phone can be manhandled, but the Crowderheads come out of the woodwork to blame the excessive force on the girl who simply had their phone out.
Exactly. We have seen people who actually have murdered people treated respectfully by the cops and without brutality. It’s why I don’t buy the excuse of a stressful work environment on police misconduct and brutality. Alex Holmes, Dylann Roof, and others actually killed people and the cops not only caught them alive but without much harm or any harm to them. This young woman refused to put away a cell phone and she gets bodyslammed. You have to be a particularly fucked up individual and nothing about Stevie Crowder suggests to me he isn’t to attempt to rationalize that.
re: #185 Eventual Carrion
I didn’t see in the article other than it is his ‘legal’ name. Doesn’t say if that was the name he was given at birth.
He had his name legally changed.
re: #182 HappyWarrior
I actually find Carson more scary than Trump.
My point exactly. Carson is a soft-spoken man with serious anger issues and a god complex. He literally wants Christian fascism. He, to me, is a savant. He is a gifted surgeon who is close to if not clinically insane.
re: #190 WhatEVs
My point exactly. Carson is a soft-spoken man with serious anger issues and a god complex. He literally wants Christian fascism. He, to me, is a savant. He is a gifted surgeon who is close to if not clinically insane.
Yep. The other thing is Trump’s outrageousness makes people forget that guys like the others aren’t as extreme as they are. Paul still wants to have an economic plan from the Gilded Age, Rubio still is 100% anti choice, Cruz too is a theocratic fascist, etc.
re: #190 WhatEVs
My point exactly. Carson is a soft-spoken man with serious anger issues and a god complex. He literally wants Christian fascism. He, to me, is a savant. He is a gifted surgeon who is close to if not clinically insane.
Just entirely out of his element and unaware of what he is letting himself be played for.
I am learning to ignore these GOP poll leaders and concentrate on Rubio, who seems the likeliest to actually gain the nomination and butt heads with Hillary.
re: #191 HappyWarrior
Yep. The other thing is Trump’s outrageousness makes people forget that guys like the others aren’t as extreme as they are. Paul still wants to have an economic plan from the Gilded Age, Rubio still is 100% anti choice, Cruz too is a theocratic fascist, etc.
They are an awesome smokescreen.
re: #192 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Just entirely out of his element and unaware of what he is letting himself be played for.
I am learning to ignore these GOP poll leaders and concentrate on Rubio, who seems the likeliest to actually gain the nomination and butt heads with Hillary.
I haven’t really heard too much from Rubio. Just that he came out 100% against the right to choose. I think Rubio would be paired with an experienced governor or senator if he were the nominee.
re: #193 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
They are an awesome smokescreen.
One would hope that Dem opps research isn’t letting the smoke cloud them.
LOL now I’m getting Stevebots in my mentions HURR HURR U CALLED STEVE A RACIST!!!! LIBRULS IS TEH RACIST!!!!!!
Block, mute, rinse, repeat.
@scrowder @viciousbabushka didn’t you know, you can’t take an action against someone who’s black without being racist? New rules.
— Toni (@ToniMZ81) October 27, 2015
re: #197 The Vicious Babushka
LOL now I’m getting Stevebots in my mentions HURR HURR U CALLED STEVE A RACIST!!!! LIBRULS IS TEH RACIST!!!!!!
Block, mute, rinse, repeat.
Don’t want to be called a racist, don’t be one. It’s that simple conservatives.
re: #190 WhatEVs
My point exactly. Carson is a soft-spoken man with serious anger issues and a god complex. He literally wants Christian fascism. He, to me, is a savant. He is a gifted surgeon who is close to if not clinically insane.
As the punchline from an old joke said, “I’m in here because I am crazy, not stupid!”.
re: #198 The Vicious Babushka
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Wrong but when you hold black people to a different standard than white people which Steve is doing whether he realizes it or not, you are definitely being racist. Steve never asks himself why Dylann Roof who had killed several people got treated to Burger King by the police yet this woman was bodyslammed.
Steve thinks this video “proves” the student is at fault. There is definitely something wrong with the way his brain processes visual signals.
Another video from different angle of #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh in South Carolina by officer of a peaceful student: pic.twitter.com/EOp3wnjoJ1
— Niraj Warikoo (@nwarikoo) October 27, 2015
re: #199 HappyWarrior
Don’t want to be called a racist, don’t be one. It’s that simple conservatives.
Can you imagine him tossing a white girl across a class room over a phone? If you wouldn’t do it to a white student, don’t do it to a brown or black one either.
re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
When I put the spike into my brain and I tell ya, things just ain’t the same…
I guess I just don’t know.
What I still can’t quite grasp is where Carson came from. How does a neurosurgeon make the leap from that profession to “I’m going to run for POTUS as a thinly-disguised theocrat”? Whose idea was this?
We’ve had crazy-eyed theocrats run for POTUS before, but at least most of them have had experience in elected office. This guy doesn’t have a solid grasp on budgets, foreign policy, or just about anything besides the very narrow focus he has on a handful of social issues dear to the GOP base.
How can anyone objectively look at Carson the candidate and say he’d make a good President?
re: #191 HappyWarrior
Yep. The other thing is Trump’s outrageousness makes people forget that guys like the others aren’t as extreme as they are. Paul still wants to have an economic plan from the Gilded Age, Rubio still is 100% anti choice, Cruz too is a theocratic fascist, etc.
Rubio is anti-choice, and hates his job. He doesn’t do his own job, even as he complains that if some federal worker missed their job, they should be fired.
Rubio has missed a majority of the votes in the Senate, and complains that he can’t get anything done in the Senate even though the GOP has the majority. If he can’t get anything done in a Senate that the GOP controls, how should anyone take him seriously when dealing with the Middle East or US-Russia or US-China relations, let alone North Korea or Iran? The guy is a lightweight and he can’t even do the job that Floridians sent him to DC to do.
re: #203 Big Beautiful Door
Can you imagine him tossing a white girl across a class room over a phone? If you wouldn’t do it to a white student, don’t do it to a brown or black one either.
Exactly, that’s the rule that should be used here. If it would outage you with a white person, it should with a black person or any non white.
re: #205 It’s on his hat!
Most recently Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee, both of whom have served in office as Senator and Governor respectively.
re: #206 lawhawk
Rubio is anti-choice, and hates his job. He doesn’t do his own job, even as he complains that if some federal worker missed their job, they should be fired.
Rubio has missed a majority of the votes in the Senate, and complains that he can’t get anything done in the Senate even though the GOP has the majority. If he can’t get anything done in a Senate that the GOP controls, how should anyone take him seriously when dealing with the Middle East or US-Russia or US-China relations, let alone North Korea or Iran? The guy is a lightweight and he can’t even do the job that Floridians sent him to DC to do.
Yeah he’s a joke. Still worth watching though. I don’t see him as a particularly tough nominee personally. I think their field is as the saying goes a mile long but only an inch deep.
She doesn’t “clearly punch him” Steve. She’s flailing around because SHE’S BEING FLIPPED UPSIDE DOWN IN HER DESK. Jesus Christ what a Scheißteufel Stevie is.
This one. Where she clearly punches him. https://t.co/UXsHoOpB9I https://t.co/GKDpa3Nnlh
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) October 27, 2015
re: #208 lawhawk
Most recently Rick Santorum and Mike Huckabee, both of whom have served in office as Senator and Governor respectively.
And, thankfully, along with Bachmann, they dropped off of the radar quickly and early. I can only hope we’ll see history repeat itself with Carson.
re: #210 The Vicious Babushka
She doesn’t “clearly punch him” Steve. She’s flailing around because SHE’S BEING FLIPPED UPSIDE DOWN IN HER DESK. Jesus Christ what a Scheißteufel Stevie is.
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Need to get to that doctor for that brain injury he clearly has.
re: #211 It’s on his hat!
And, thankfully, along with Bachmann, they dropped off of the radar quickly and early. I can only hope we’ll see history repeat itself with Carson.
A scenario where Cruz & Rubio come out on top is not something to look forward to.
re: #205 It’s on his hat!
What I still can’t quite grasp is where Carson came from. How does a neurosurgeon make the leap from that profession to “I’m going to run for POTUS as a thinly-disguised theocrat”? Whose idea was this?
We’ve had crazy-eyed theocrats run for POTUS before, but at least most of them have had experience in elected office. This guy doesn’t have a solid grasp on budgets, foreign policy, or just about anything besides the very narrow focus he has on a handful of social issues dear to the GOP base.
How can anyone objectively look at Carson the candidate and say he’d make a good President?
Frankly, the only way he’s more qualified for the job than I am is one simple thing. The age requirement. The media really should be asking him- what on earth qualifies you to be in charge of a country. Same thing with Trump but at least Trump can point to be being chairman of a large company. Carson’s a quack who said somethings that the mouth droolers at CPAC liked and he’s been running off of that ever since.
re: #191 HappyWarrior
Yep. The other thing is Trump’s outrageousness makes people forget that guys like the others aren’t as extreme as they are. Paul still wants to have an economic plan from the Gilded Age, Rubio still is 100% anti choice, Cruz too is a theocratic fascist, etc.
Honestly, of the entire bunch, Trump is collectively the least insane. Sure, he’s a complete narcissistic megalomaniac. He hates minorities. A plus side for the rightie nutjobs. But thinks Social Security and Medicare are good. He waffles on abortion. He’s not a religious fanatic. How they support him remains a mystery. Apparently hating minorities trumps all in Trumpville.
All the other GOP also-ran’s, including their new front-runner, opposes everything (hate minorities [another Think About That moment], SocSec, Medicare, women). Except, perhaps, Rubio who may or may not doing something with immigration. (He won’t, but he wants to sound like he will.)
re: #213 The Vicious Babushka
A scenario where Cruz & Rubio come out on top is not something to look forward to.
Rubio would worry me more than Cruz. Cruz if he opened his mouth would alienate most of the population. Rubio is more of a smooth talking bullshit artist who likes to sell himself as a moderate and voice of reason.
re: #203 Big Beautiful Door
Can you imagine him tossing a white girl across a class room over a phone? If you wouldn’t do it to a white student, don’t do it to a brown or black one either.
He actually might which is why I would refrain from applying the racist description without any additional information. What is clear from the videos is that he is a violent authoritarian lacking in self control who has no business in a school or any other public venue in any professional capacity.
Trump’s going to drop to Jeb! levels if he keeps saying things like this.
“You know Ben wants to knock out Medicare. I heard that over the weekend, he wants to abolish Medicare. And I think, you know, abolishing Medicare. I don’t think you’re going to get away with that one. And it’s actually a program that’s worked,” Trump said.
How dare he say any government program works? He’s toast.
re: #210 The Vicious Babushka
She doesn’t “clearly punch him” Steve. She’s flailing around because SHE’S BEING FLIPPED UPSIDE DOWN IN HER DESK. Jesus Christ what a Scheißteufel Stevie is.
Find a picture of someone puffing out their cheeks and post it as evidence that their head is about to explode.
re: #211 It’s on his hat!
And, thankfully, along with Bachmann, they dropped off of the radar quickly and early. I can only hope we’ll see history repeat itself with Carson.
Santorum didn’t drop off quickly; he stayed in the race winning some primaries for quite awhile, and Carson could definitely do the same.
re: #210 The Vicious Babushka
She doesn’t “clearly punch him” Steve. She’s flailing around because SHE’S BEING FLIPPED UPSIDE DOWN IN HER DESK. Jesus Christ what a Scheißteufel Stevie is.
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There’s got to be a better way to extract a noncompliant student from a desk that doesn’t involve flipping the fucking thing upside-down with her in it. That alone is cause for an inquiry.
re: #215 WhatEVs
Honestly, of the entire bunch, Trump is collectively the least insane. Sure, he’s a complete narcissistic megalomaniac. He hates minorities. A plus side for the rightie nutjobs. But thinks Social Security and Medicare are good. He waffles on abortion. He’s not a religious fanatic. How they support him remains a mystery. Apparently hating minorities trumps all in Trumpville.
All the other GOP also-ran’s, including their new front-runner, opposes everything (hate minorities [another Think About That moment], SocSec, Medicare, women). Except, perhaps, Rubio who may or may not doing something with immigration. (He won’t, but he wants to sound like he will.)
And that’s the thing. Trump seems beloved because of his hatred of minorities. That’s definitely what drew the racist psycho Coulter to him for sure.
re: #192 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Just entirely out of his element and unaware of what he is letting himself be played for.
I am learning to ignore these GOP poll leaders and concentrate on Rubio, who seems the likeliest to actually gain the nomination and butt heads with Hillary.
He scares me the most because he comes off as reasonable. But he’s not. His past words show how right wing he is. Rubio has already started his Etch-a-Sketch period. Whether it gets him through the primary or not remains to be seen.
re: #218 Skip Intro
Trump’s going to drop to Jeb! levels if he keeps saying things like this.
How dare he say any government program works? He’s toast.
Not if he keeps on hating on Latinos.
re: #223 WhatEVs
He scares me the most because he comes off as reasonable. But he’s not. His past words show how right wing he is. Rubio has already started his Etch-a-Sketch period. Whether it gets him through the primary or not remains to be seen.
Yeah Rubio is Romney with more youth and less of a record to run on.
re: #218 Skip Intro
Trump’s going to drop to Jeb! levels if he keeps saying things like this.
How dare he say any government program works? He’s toast.
You forget most of the GOP base is on Medicare, which is popular with GOP voters. They don’t think of it as a government program or welfare because they worked for it. Only the GOP donor class wants it cut.
Any way to find out who’s funding which candidates?
re: #220 Big Beautiful Door
Santorum didn’t drop off quickly; he stayed in the race winning some primaries for quite awhile, and Carson could definitely do the same.
My memory is fuzzy, but I remember Frothy doing well in Iowa and then tanking after that, which is what I expect of Carson.
I try not to think about Santorum too much.
/me runs to Wikipedia to refresh memory
re: #216 HappyWarrior
Rubio would worry me more than Cruz. Cruz if he opened his mouth would alienate most of the population. Rubio is more of a smooth talking bullshit artist who likes to sell himself as a moderate and voice of reason.
Marco Rubio: Eliminating capital gains tax helps bartenders get more tips #tcot #UniteBlue https://t.co/1UYvLDSFSC pic.twitter.com/Ywcn0YDr2R
— Witches Ba-BOO!-shka (@viciousbabushka) October 27, 2015
re: #205 It’s on his hat!
What I still can’t quite grasp is where Carson came from. How does a neurosurgeon make the leap from that profession to “I’m going to run for POTUS as a thinly-disguised theocrat”? Whose idea was this?
We’ve had crazy-eyed theocrats run for POTUS before, but at least most of them have had experience in elected office. This guy doesn’t have a solid grasp on budgets, foreign policy, or just about anything besides the very narrow focus he has on a handful of social issues dear to the GOP base.
How can anyone objectively look at Carson the candidate and say he’d make a good President?
Embrace your new Republican constituency. This is what they want.
re: #216 HappyWarrior
Rubio would worry me more than Cruz. Cruz if he opened his mouth would alienate most of the population. Rubio is more of a smooth talking bullshit artist who likes to sell himself as a moderate and voice of reason.
Some of the RWNJs are going to town on Rubio’s record of missing votes, saying how that shows he’s not responsible. When I brought up the issue of Cruz missing votes and committee meetings, well, lets just say “Well that’s not the same thing at all….”
Right-Wingers going over #springvalleyhigh video frame by frame but accept the PlannedParenthood videos without question #tcot #UniteBlue
— Witches Ba-BOO!-shka (@viciousbabushka) October 27, 2015
re: #206 lawhawk
Rubio is anti-choice, and hates his job. He doesn’t do his own job, even as he complains that if some federal worker missed their job, they should be fired.
Rubio has missed a majority of the votes in the Senate, and complains that he can’t get anything done in the Senate even though the GOP has the majority. If he can’t get anything done in a Senate that the GOP controls, how should anyone take him seriously when dealing with the Middle East or US-Russia or US-China relations, let alone North Korea or Iran? The guy is a lightweight and he can’t even do the job that Floridians sent him to DC to do.
And apparently all the hanky-panky with the Republican Party funds (via credit card) doesn’t matter. Apparently, that, too, is a bonus to Republican voters.
re: #228 It’s on his hat!
My memory is fuzzy, but I remember Frothy doing well in Iowa and then tanking after that, which is what I expect of Carson.
I try not to think about Santorum too much.
/me runs to Wikipedia to refresh memory
Not exactly. He actually I think gave Mitt a legitimate scare. I think Frothy with more money and Frothy in an alternate universe being Evangelical not Catholic could have seriously pushed Mitt even more. You and I may not see the Catholic thing as a big deal since crazy conservative Christian reactionary is just that but there still does exist a fundie mistrust of Catholics which we saw when the Pope talked about social justice.
re: #229 The Vicious Babushka
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He’ s an idiot. I’d enjoy watching Hillary give Marco figurative noogies on the campaign trail. He’s out of depth. He’s someone who only got to the Senate in the first place playing off of fake outrages. I’d love to hear what Charlie Crist thinks of the little brat.
re: #230 WhatEVs
Embrace your new Republican constituency. This is what they want.
That’s what I find most frustrating about all of this. I live in a red area of a blue state, and not all of the people around me that vote R or lean that way don’t think like this at all. Are they representative of a vanishing minority or a silent majority, or somewhere in between? It’s really hard to reconcile national polls with what I see on the ground. I realize I see only a small sliver of the GOP electorate, but it’s just… nonsensical.
re: #233 WhatEVs
And apparently all the hanky-panky with the Republican Party funds (via credit card) doesn’t matter. Apparently, that, too, is a bonus to Republican voters.
I think the donor base sees how the Dem base responded to a relatively inexperienced young Senator who was the son of immigrants.
GotNwes explains
Why we publi$hed the Planned Parenthood abortion video$
It’s not so much what the abortion videos show, it’s more about the right for the public to be informed.
Also, we need money. If you want to help fund our research and work here‘s the link.Our other reasons are largely irrelevant, so we won’t bore you with the details.
Oh, what the hell. Probably we should pretend there’s some noble cause. So, read on.
re: #221 It’s on his hat!
There’s got to be a better way to extract a noncompliant student from a desk that doesn’t involve flipping the fucking thing upside-down with her in it. That alone is cause for an inquiry.
He could have broken her neck. I would have been throwing punches in that case. He grabbed her in a headlock and tossed her backwards with her desk attached.
re: #238 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
GotNwes explains
All comes down to money as my grandpa always said.
re: #225 HappyWarrior
Yeah Rubio is Romney with more youth and less of a record to run on.
Bonuses to the crazies. His own record can’t come back to bite him. Hopefully his own words will.
I got a DCCC flyer in the mail, and they ask a bunch of questions about who I think is the toughest challenger, who I think should be the Democrats nominee, and priorities for the party.
I get that the DCCC does this to make it appear inclusive and responsive to Democrats, but here’s the thing.
Democrats have to get this straight -
1) GOTV is paramount, and it starts with local elections. The more Democrats are elected to positions, the better it is for the party nationally. It builds up the bench, and it also translates into a stronger GOTV (a positive feedback loop).
2) It shouldn’t matter who the opponent is in November 2016. The GOP agenda is, with minor disagreements, remarkably consistent in rolling back civil rights, women’s rights, abortion rights, etc. It wont matter who the GOP nominates - they’re going to seek the same kind of policy changes, especially with a Congress that remains in GOP hands.
3) Supreme Court nominations is going to be a huge part of the race - as it should be. There’s a potential for a couple of nominations that could swing the makeup of the Court and put decisions like Roe at risk of reversal.
4) GOTV.
5) Overcoming Clinton-fatigue is easier when you understand that the alternative is a GOP dominated government that will roll back the safety net, and has made it its mission to destroy Obamacare, even as it’s helped reduce uninsured rates, and continue shifting tax burdens from the rich to everyone else.
6) GOTV.
7) GOTV.
8) GOTV.
9) GOTV.
10) GOTV (get the hint). GOTV makes all the other things possible.
re: #241 WhatEVs
Bonuses to the crazies. His own record can’t come back to bite him. Hopefully his own words will.
Yep. If I’m Dem opps research, I’m definitely looking at Marco’s past rhetoric and speeches.
re: #238 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
If you want to help fund our
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I’m honestly relieved though that the nominee likely won’t be Jeb. Not to mention this interesting tidbit that the GOP hasn’t won an election with a Nixon or Bush on it since 1928. Really, look it up. It’s mostly a crazy coincidence IMO but it’s still note worthy how vital the Bushes have been to the GOP’s success snce WWII and Nixon too before Watergate of course.
Chuck asks the question, then answers it in the second paragraph.
re: #236 It’s on his hat!
That’s what I find most frustrating about all of this. I live in a red area of a blue state, and not all of the people around me that vote R or lean that way don’t think like this at all. Are they representative of a vanishing minority or a silent majority, or somewhere in between? It’s really hard to reconcile national polls with what I see on the ground. I realize I see only a small sliver of the GOP electorate, but it’s just… nonsensical.
But in the end, how will they vote? If they are deep red and they will vote red, that means they are not a vanishing or silent anything, they are the GOP. (Not meaning to pick on you for what you said, it’s just that you can’t not see the BS but keep supporting it.) Until the crazy takes a complete trouncing (not like Romney who still got high 40%, I mean they get the crazy 27% vote) this will propagate election cycle after election cycle.
re: #202 The Vicious Babushka
Steve thinks this video “proves” the student is at fault. There is definitely something wrong
with the wayhis brainprocesses visual signals.
re: #237 HappyWarrior
I think the donor base sees how the Dem base responded to a relatively inexperienced young Senator who was the son of immigrants.
That’s an interesting concept, but as always, they neglected to see the depth that went along with it. The GOP so often sees the trees but misses the forest.
re: #99 HappyWarrior
I remember years ago, I had a computer game that was set in 1990s Russia, it was all about taking control of the country after the fall of the Soviets. You could pick a variety of different organizations to run - KGB, Mafia, the Orthodox Church. It was fascinating. Can’t remember the name of it though
re: #249 WhatEVs
That’s an interesting concept, but as always, they neglected to see the depth that went along with it. The GOP so often sees the trees but misses the forest.
Right, Obama is actually a likable and intelligent guy. I don’t find Rubio particularly intelligent and I’m biased of course but he’s far from likable either.
re: #234 HappyWarrior
Not exactly. He actually I think gave Mitt a legitimate scare. I think Frothy with more money and Frothy in an alternate universe being Evangelical not Catholic could have seriously pushed Mitt even more. You and I may not see the Catholic thing as a big deal since crazy conservative Christian reactionary is just that but there still does exist a fundie mistrust of Catholics which we saw when the Pope talked about social justice.
Frothy forced Sheldon Adelson to intervene and donate enough money to Newt Gingrich to split the opposition to Mitt and keep Santorum off the GOP convention floor, where it would have gotten embarrassingly ugly
re: #247 WhatEVs
But in the end, how will they vote? If they are deep red and they will vote red, that means they are not a vanishing or silent anything, they are the GOP. (Not meaning to pick on you for what you said, it’s just that you can’t not see the BS but keep supporting it.) Until the crazy takes a complete trouncing (not like Romney who still got high 40%, I mean they get the crazy 27% vote) this will propagate election cycle after election cycle.
In the end, it’s probably just my naïve optimism trying to convince the rest of my brain that the world isn’t actually this crazy, and that my friends and neighbors aren’t, either.
re: #250 KGxvi
I remember years ago, I had a computer game that was set in 1990s Russia, it was all about taking control of the country after the fall of the Soviets. You could pick a variety of different organizations to run - KGB, Mafia, the Orthodox Church. It was fascinating. Can’t remember the name of it though
Russia as Churchill said is “is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Truly a fascinating place. It’s fascinated me from an early age. I had neighbors that sometimes went and I studied it extensively in school and I have cousins that were adopted from there.
re: #252 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Frothy forced Sheldon Adelson to intervene and donate enough money to Newt Gingrich to split the opposition to Mitt and keep Santorum off the GOP convention floor, where it would have gotten embarrassingly ugly
Would have loved to seen that debacle!
re: #156 The Vicious Babushka
LOL from the Rumpole series.
“She who must be obeyed” was originally from H. Rider Haggard’s She. Upding for the Rumpole reference.
re: #254 HappyWarrior
Russia as Churchill said is “is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.” Truly a fascinating place. It’s fascinated me from an early age. I had neighbors that sometimes went and I studied it extensively in school and I have cousins that were adopted from there.
Yes, interested me enough to learn Russian in College (MA degree) and even go try to work and live there in 1992-93.
re: #253 It’s on his hat!
In the end, it’s probably just my naïve optimism trying to convince the rest of my brain that the world isn’t actually this crazy, and that my friends and neighbors aren’t, either.
I’m gonna feel awfully cynical about my neighbors if we re-elect our Bashar Al-Assad fanboy, rape apologetic, state senator. Fortunately his opponent has raised a lot of money and I’ve even seen TV ads for her.
re: #251 HappyWarrior
Right, Obama is actually a likable and intelligent guy. I don’t find Rubio particularly intelligent and I’m biased of course but he’s far from likable either.
The Rubio reboot of this year is much more likable (to me) than the Rubio of past. He is the only one that, to me, sounds even remotely presidential. Where he seemed out of his depth the last go round (Water for everyone!), now he seems to have matured.
Which I guess means he lies better. Because the record he does have is terrible.
And the reason why he misses votes is likely that he doesn’t want to be held accountable for those votes.
re: #253 It’s on his hat!
In the end, it’s probably just my naïve optimism trying to convince the rest of my brain that the world isn’t actually this crazy, and that my friends and neighbors aren’t, either.
FWIW, I share your naive optimism and hope, nay pray, that they do realize how crazy the right has become.
re: #257 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Yes, interested me enough to learn Russian in College (MA degree) and even go try to work and live there in 1992-93.
I got so close to going in 2008 but no one else signed up. That was disappointing. I did end up going on a memorable trip to Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Hungary instead which was my first trip overseas but I really wanted to go to Russia. One of my favorite professors was going to be in charge of the trip. And yeah I majored in history but I took extensive classes on Russian history and wrote my term paper on the pogroms.
re: #259 WhatEVs
The Rubio reboot of this year is much more likable (to me) than the Rubio of past. He is the only one that, to me, sounds even remotely presidential. Where he seemed out of his depth the last go round (Water for everyone!), now he seems to have matured.
Which I guess means he lies better. Because the record he does have is terrible.
And the reason why he misses votes is likely that he doesn’t want to be held accountable for those votes.
Good points. I really haven’t seen too much of him so far. And you’re right. He’s not voting because he knows he’ll be called out on it. Easier to dodge the bullet and act wishy washy.
re: #262 HappyWarrior
Good points. I really haven’t seen too much of him so far. And you’re right. He’s not voting because he knows he’ll be called out on it. Easier to dodge the bullet and act wishy washy.
I really, really wish we had an election cycle like Canada does. A few weeks prior to the election and done. None of this perpetual campaigning which creates the environment where elected officials feel they have to skirt their responsibilities because they don’t want their votes held against them.
Talk about the most selfish reason for running for office. I want to collect the not-insignificant paycheck to do nothing so I can get to the next level of higher non-insignificant paycheck. Oh, and power, too.
It’s really disgusting.
re: #261 HappyWarrior
I got so close to going in 2008 but no one else signed up. That was disappointing. I did end up going on a memorable trip to Germany, Austria, the Czech Republic, and Hungary instead which was my first trip overseas but I really wanted to go to Russia. One of my favorite professors was going to be in charge of the trip. And yeah I majored in history but I took extensive classes on Russian history and wrote my term paper on the pogroms.
I would still be living there if it was possible to make a decent and honest living without starving. I found that one rather excluded the other.
Janitorial sign addition of the day https://t.co/ZSYxCqp3pQ pic.twitter.com/Bfl0o3FyFL
— The Poke (@ThePoke) October 27, 2015
re: #264 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I would still be living there if it was possible to make a decent and honest living without starving. I found that one rather excluded the other.
How’s your Russian? I tried taking it as my foreign language. Didn’t go over too well. I guess that sealed my fate for any diplomatic career aspirations. Foreign language is one of my big weaknesses although I do have an appreciation for foreign cultures and travel.
re: #266 HappyWarrior
How’s your Russian? I tried taking it as my foreign language. Didn’t go over too well. I guess that sealed my fate for any diplomatic career aspirations. Foreign language is one of my big weaknesses although I do have an appreciation for foreign cultures and travel.
I was fully functionally fluent back then, still read easily it but am out of practice on speaking.
re: #263 WhatEVs
I really, really wish we had an election cycle like Canada does. A few weeks prior to the election and done. None of this perpetual campaigning which creates the environment where elected officials feel they have to skirt their responsibilities because they don’t want their votes held against them.
Talk about the most selfish reason for running for office. I want to collect the not-insignificant paycheck to do nothing so I can get to the next level of higher non-insignificant paycheck. Oh, and power, too.
It’s really disgusting.
Yeah I agree. Our cycle creates Senators who and I hate to MBF this is absolutely true for both parties but it causes Senators rom both parties not to vote on important legislation because it’s easier to hide behind a non vote than a controversial aye or nay.
re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I was fully functionally fluent back then, still read easily it but am out of practice on speaking.
Ah okay. Yeah the reading would have done me in. I still would love to go eventually.
Guys, we’re just one day away from the next GOP debate.
[checks popcorn supply]
re: #210 The Vicious Babushka
She doesn’t “clearly punch him” Steve. She’s flailing around because SHE’S BEING FLIPPED UPSIDE DOWN IN HER DESK. Jesus Christ what a Scheißteufel Stevie is.
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That’s what happens when you absolutely, positively MUST believe the officer is always right in any confrontation with an unarmed black person.
re: #271 Blind Frog Belly White
That’s what happens when you absolutely, positively MUST believe the officer is always right in any confrontation with an unarmed black person.
Orbital Blowout Syndrome
This all-male Fox News panel about women’s leggings is really something else https://t.co/F4u3bTNwD3 pic.twitter.com/cGo9R3MsNh
Seriously, this is pretty screwed up. This is the GOP in a nutshell - both the base and the candidates who pander to them.
Chewbacca arrested during Ukraine Election. Sky News.
Couldn’t the officer have enlisted the aid of one of the guys in the class and the two of them could have picked up the desk, girl and all, and taken it out to the hall?
Bet it would have defused the situation.
re: #263 WhatEVs
I really, really wish we had an election cycle like Canada does. A few weeks prior to the election and done. None of this perpetual campaigning which creates the environment where elected officials feel they have to skirt their responsibilities because they don’t want their votes held against them.
Talk about the most selfish reason for running for office. I want to collect the not-insignificant paycheck to do nothing so I can get to the next level of higher non-insignificant paycheck. Oh, and power, too.
It’s really disgusting.
Agreed. Not to mention shorter elections are WAAAY fucking cheaper too.
re: #276 calochortus
Couldn’t the officer have enlisted the aid of one of the guys in the class and the two of them could have picked up the desk, girl and all, and taken it out to the hall?
Bet it would have defused the situation.
The point was to make an example of this girl so that other uppity students would not get similar ideas.
re: #274 lawhawk
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Seriously, this is pretty screwed up. This is the GOP in a nutshell - both the base and the candidates who pander to them.
Really? This is what Fox wastes their time on? Bitching about leggigs. Go home, Fox you’re drunk. And lol at the clown who says if it’s not allowed in the monastery, it’s not in my home. So jeans are frowned upon? Yeah you really represent mainstream American valuse quite well there chief.
I’m starting to think we’ll see a Carson/Bush ticket when all is said and done.
No one’s bitching about Willie Robertson dressed like he’s going hunting when he could be dressed professionally but I get it Fox he has a dick so he can wear whatever he wants without you guys calling him out.
re: #280 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m starting to think we’ll see a Carson/Bush ticket when all is said and done.
No way man. No way would Jeb take number two to a guy like Carson or honestly anyone at all. I have no idea who Carson would pick but I doubt it would be Jeb or if Jeb would even want it.
re: #281 HappyWarrior
No one’s bitching about Willie Robertson dressed like he’s going hunting when he could be dressed professionally but I get it Fox he has a dick so he can wear whatever he wants without you guys calling him out.
The Duck Dynasty guys are like pro wrestlers. Gotta stay in Character while out in public.
re: #283 Eclectic Cyborg
The Duck Dynasty guys are like pro wrestlers. Gotta stay in Character while out in public.
Yep even though they’re a bunch of yuppie fakes.
re: #278 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
The point was to make an example of this girl so that other uppity students would not get similar ideas.
That’s totally what I want a police officer to do in the school.
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re: #281 HappyWarrior
No one’s bitching about Willie Robertson dressed like he’s going hunting when he could be dressed professionally but I get it Fox he has a dick so he can wear whatever he wants without you guys calling him out.
Plus, I defy anyone to call him sexy when dressed like that. Creepy? Sure, but not attractive.
re: #286 calochortus
Plus, I defy anyone to call him sexy when dressed like that. Creepy? Sure, but not attractive.
Yeah I have had my beard a lot less scruffy than that and called anything but sexy. He just looks like a creeper. And probably is given he shares his dad’s worldview.
re: #286 calochortus
Plus, I defy anyone to call him sexy when dressed like that. Creepy? Sure, but not attractive.
Aqualung. Eyeing little girls with bad intent…
Active shooter training in my baby’s preschool is a sickening form of security theater. But, y’know, apparently there’s no other solution…
— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) October 27, 2015
I could see Ben Carson sitting on the jury of the Salem Witch Trials, scratching his head and thinking, “those little girls make sense.”
— MATTY ICE (@MattyIceAZ) October 27, 2015
re: #290 Backwoods_Sleuth
There’s a new book out today on the Salem Witch Trials. Looks interesting.
The Duck Dynasty morons have outlasted their 15 minutes by far too much at this point.
re: #276 calochortus
Couldn’t the officer have enlisted the aid of one of the guys in the class and the two of them could have picked up the desk, girl and all, and taken it out to the hall?
Bet it would have defused the situation.
Engaging a student puts them at legal risk. They don’t have any kind of coverage and could be sued. A teacher perhaps but not a student.
re: #291 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
There’s a new book out today on the Salem Witch Trials. Looks interesting.
I saw something about that a few days ago. Yes, it does look interesting.
re: #277 Eclectic Cyborg
Agreed. Not to mention shorter elections are WAAAY fucking cheaper too.
Well, can’t have THAT!
re: #286 calochortus
Plus, I defy anyone to call him sexy when dressed like that. Creepy? Sure, but not attractive.
I live in Canada right over the border into Michigan. You have no idea the things that are sold in camouflage now…bras, underwear, things that really make you go HUH? I mean shit that would never make it into the backwoods if you ever go hunting.
re: #295 WhatEVs
Well, can’t have THAT!
Imagine all that Citizen’s United money being spent in a six-week span? The political ads wold be worse than those damn Draft Kings spots. There wold be no way to avoid them.
The networks wold probably love it, though. More money than they could count.
re: #297 makeitstop
Imagine all that Citizen’s United money being spent in a six-week span? The political ads wold be worse than those damn Draft Kings spots. There wold be no way to avoid them.
The networks wold probably love it, though. More money than they could count.
The more I think about the CU decision the more awful I think it is.
re: #297 makeitstop
Imagine all that Citizen’s United money being spent in a six-week span? The political ads wold be worse than those damn Draft Kings spots. There wold be no way to avoid them.
The networks wold probably love it, though. More money than they could count.
The Koch Brothers bought 6 candidates on electionkings.com! Try it out today with bonus election bucks, promo code FREEDOM!
re: #293 WhatEVs
Engaging a student puts them at legal risk. They don’t have any kind of coverage and could be sued. A teacher perhaps but not a student.
OK, a teacher or some other employee. Whatever works.
re: #299 It’s on his hat!
The Koch Brothers bought 6 candidates on electionkings.com! Try it out today with bonus election bucks, promo code FREEDOM!
You jest but it does seem like we have more buying of candidates by wealthy interests a lot like we did in the Gilded Age.
re: #301 HappyWarrior
You jest but it does seem like we have more buying of candidates by wealthy interests a lot like we did in the Gilded Age.
Oh, it’s a joke, just not in the way I would like. ;-)
When the Roberts court ruled money = speech, that meant some speech is greater than others which to be blunt is something I find unAmerican.
re: #300 calochortus
OK, a teacher or some other employee. Whatever works.
If the point was to remove her. Which I don’t think it was. I think what others are saying is right…to show them other kids that you do not fuck with The Law because The Law will fuck you up.
It was a power play with a teenage girl in the middle.
And the horrible thing is he will likely not face any charges or lose his job.
re: #302 It’s on his hat!
Oh, it’s a joke, just not in the way I would like. ;-)
I know. Makes me depressed. All this progress and a desire to return to the policies of our great grandparents days.
First world problem: Microsoft Win10 does not recognize a CD boot file that is deemed a security risk. It also is critical to hundreds of older games including the Civ series. To complete the FU, the last time my Vista machine went online, MS ran an update that reaches back and disables it in Vista and Win7. The workaround is to edit the registry each time you wish to play one of these games.
Windows users need a security patch to protect their machines from Microsoft.
re: #304 WhatEVs
If the point was to remove her. Which I don’t think it was. I think what others are saying is right…to show them other kids that you do not fuck with The Law because The Law will fuck you up.
It was a power play with a teenage girl in the middle.
And the horrible thing is he will likely not face any charges or lose his job.
I totally agree. I was just suggesting something which might be more effective.
Kids that age can be extremely frustrating. They know exactly how far the school is allowed to go in making them do something. The key word is allowed. Obviously the officer exceeded that because of his frustration. That is why he shouldn’t have a school assignment. It takes a certain kind of temperament to do that sort of work and he doesn’t have it.
UN General Assembly approves Havana-backed resolution to lift embargo on Cuba, 191-2 - @CNNEE https://t.co/FqenMwH3Xa
— Breaking News (@BreakingNews) October 27, 2015
AGENDA 21!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The amazing thing about the assault by the officer is that apparently the problem was the girl wasn’t “participating” in the class. I had plenty of days in high school where I checked out and didn’t really “participate” in class (as did many classmates). I can’t imagine any of my teachers/administrators decided that the best way to handle it was having a cop/security guard physically remove us from the class room. If she’s just sitting there doodling (or hell, even napping - did that a few times), what’s the issue?
re: #306 Decatur Deb
First world problem: Microsoft Win 10 does not recognize a CD boot file that is deemed a security risk. It also is critical to hundreds of older games including the Civ series. To complete the FU, the last time my Vista machine went online, MS ran an update that reaches back and disables it in Vista and Win7. The workaround is to edit the registry each time you wish to play one of these games.
Windows users need a security patch to protect their machines from Microsoft.
I’m not going anywhere near Win10 until I know it can run Fallout 4 without any issues.
re: #310 KGxvi
The amazing thing about the assault by the officer is that apparently the problem was the girl wasn’t “participating” in the class. I had plenty of days in high school where I checked out and didn’t really “participate” in class (as did many classmates). I can’t imagine any of my teachers/administrators decided that the best way to handle it was having a cop/security guard physically remove us from the class room. If she’s just sitting there doodling (or hell, even napping - did that a few times), what’s the issue?
again, the point was to make an example of this uppity girl so that others would learn to respect his authoritye
GAH
We need universal background checks on people who want to rant against gun rights.
— Dana Loesch (@DLoesch) October 27, 2015
re: #313 The Vicious Babushka
We need universal background checks on people who want to rant against gun rights.
— Dana Loesch
For the purpose of…..
re: #313 The Vicious Babushka
Because ranting is exactly the same is someone getting killed.
This is an interesting tidbit I learned today during my random look at GOP polls - in order to have your name on the ballot, you must win a majority of delegates from at least eight states. It is, therefore, entirely possible that Trump might be the only person who qualifies for the floor ballot, but won’t have enough delegates to secure the nomination on the first ballot. Talk about the ultimate shitshow…
re: #316 Belafon
Because ranting is exactly the same is someone getting killed.
Dana complaining about someone else’s ranting is really pretty rich. Ranting is Dana’s occupation.
re: #313 The Vicious Babushka
GAH
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Again, limiting the 1st Amendment to worship the 2nd.
re: #310 KGxvi
The amazing thing about the assault by the officer is that apparently the problem was the girl wasn’t “participating” in the class. I had plenty of days in high school where I checked out and didn’t really “participate” in class (as did many classmates). I can’t imagine any of my teachers/administrators decided that the best way to handle it was having a cop/security guard physically remove us from the class room. If she’s just sitting there doodling (or hell, even napping - did that a few times), what’s the issue?
I spent most of high school not participating. Until I went to college, I hated school with a passion.
re: #311 It’s on his hat!
I’m not going anywhere near Win10 until I know it can run Fallout 4 without any issues.
This site lists the games that are crippled. Because it’s a gamer site, and gamers are often assholes, I’d try to use the cache:
re: #314 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Also Jade Helm 15 some how.
THE REAL THREAT IS JADE HELM 16 THIS YEAR WAS JUST A TRAINING MISSION TO GET EVERYTHING PREPPED TO DECLARE MARTIAL LAW AND OBAMA’S TERM!!1!
re: #306 Decatur Deb
First world problem: Microsoft Win10 does not recognize a CD boot file that is deemed a security risk. It also is critical to hundreds of older games including the Civ series. To complete the FU, the last time my Vista machine went online, MS ran an update that reaches back and disables it in Vista and Win7. The workaround is to edit the registry each time you wish to play one of these games.
Windows users need a security patch to protect their machines from Microsoft.
I keep a single XP machine handy for just such an occasion.
re: #312 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I get that. But what I’m asking, is why was he even in the room to begin with? Why did the teacher and/or administrator decide that this girl who “wasn’t participating” needed to be removed? If not participating in class is grounds to be removed, half of my high school would have spent every class session in the quad.
re: #313 The Vicious Babushka
GAH
We need universal background checks on people who want to rant against gun rights.
I really fail to see the value in just sitting around all day complaining about shit on Twitter.
Dana and Shapiro seem to do nothing but that. All day. Every day. That’s really gotta suck. I’d kinda hate to be either one of them.
re: #313 The Vicious Babushka
GAH
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Because ideological differences are a reason to do background checks on people. How very fascist of you Dana. By the way, please just shut the fuck up about guns for once and find a more constructive hobby.
re: #320 Blind Frog Belly White
Again, limiting the 1st Amendment to worship the 2nd.
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re: #314 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Also Jade Helm 15 some how.
You know, if Obama really wanted to troll the RWNJs, he should have requested the exercise be called Jade Helm 21.
re: #327 HappyWarrior
Because ideological differences are a reason to do background checks on people. How very fascist of you Dana. By the way, please just shut the fuck up about guns for once and find a more constructive hobby.
I suggest we do what she suggests the next time there are multiple deaths from a mass shouting.
re: #326 makeitstop
I really fail to see the value in just sitting around all day complaining about shit on Twitter.
Dana and Shapiro seem to do nothing but that. All day. Every day. That’s really gotta suck. I’d kinda hate to be either one of them.
I and I don’t follow them on Twitter since I don’t Tweet but they always seem negative as hell. They just seem like a bunch of miserable people. Dana in particular, she really is a living embodiment of what President Obama was talking about when he said people cling to their guns.
re: #326 makeitstop
I really fail to see the value in just sitting around all day complaining about shit on Twitter.
Dana and Shapiro seem to do nothing but that. All day. Every day. That’s really gotta suck. I’d kinda hate to be either one of them.
For Dana and Ben, that’s their business model. They need to keep their followers riled up on Twitter to drive them to their blogs radio shows. It’s the circle of grift.
re: #332 Eclectic Cyborg
For Dana and Ben, that’s their business model. They need to keep their followers riled up on Twitter to drive them to their blogs radio shows. It’s the circle of grift.
Rage is all they have.
re: #316 Belafon
Because ranting is exactly the same is someone getting killed.
I pulled a word on you and I killed you. Softly.
re: #324 Eclectic Cyborg
I keep a single XP machine handy for just such an occasion.
I hope it’s airgapped, or has nothing important on it…
re: #324 Eclectic Cyborg
I keep a single XP machine handy for just such an occasion.
The Vista machine is dedicated to Civ, otherwise it’s a throwaway I use on travel. Without Civ, we will have only one reason to have MS in the house (TurboTax). Number 2 son made me a Penguinista years ago.
re: #314 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Also Jade Helm 15 some how.
And of course “FEMA prison trains”
I still get a kick out of that nonsense
re: #316 Belafon
Because ranting is exactly the same is someone getting killed.
it’s exactly like the holocaust, you know…
or slavery…
or something, something…
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re: #338 FormerDirtDart
And of course “FEMA prison trains”
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I still get a kick out of that nonsense
What could they be used for?
re: #337 Decatur Deb
I can’t go to the website, so this is a google search. But Steam offers Civ5 that runs on Linux.
re: #338 FormerDirtDart
And of course “FEMA prison trains”
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I still get a kick out of that nonsense
YOU CANT EXPLAIN THAT!!!!!
re: #338 FormerDirtDart
And of course “FEMA prison trains”
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I still get a kick out of that nonsense
Maybe those are President Trump’s deportation train cars?
re: #338 FormerDirtDart
CARS DON’T NEED WINDOWS!!1!
How do you see when you’re driving?
SHUT UP! THAT’S NOT WHAT I MEANT!
Oh, you mean inside the train car? Well, I don’t notice any lights in those train cars, maybe it’s a means of having natural light?
I SAID SHUT UP LIBTARD! JUST WAIT, IT’LL HAPPEN, FIRST THEY CAME FOR…
You have no idea what that poem is about, do you?
re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth
it’s exactly like the holocaust, you know…
or slavery…
or something, something…
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…because a bullet-ridden body is less awful that shooting holes in our Right to Bear Arms
re: #340 Kilroy01
What could they be used for?
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I’LL BE DAMNED IF I LET SOMEONE PUT ME IN A CAR AND THEN PUT THAT CAR ON A PRISON BOX CAR!
Here’s what gets me and Timothy’s cartoon nailed it. After shootings, we do talk about limiting certain forms of speech whether that’s video games, music, movies, etc. Do gun nuts not see the problem with that while acting like policies like background checks, closing the gun show loophole, etc are somehow attacks on the very foundation of the 2nd? The second isn’t meant to be “Get as many guns as you can with no regulations.” And frankly I think many gun owners time and time again prove themselves irresponsible. I hear so much about “good guys” with guns whose guns go off and either they themselves are injured or killed or worse a child is. I really think firearm ownership should be regulated for the precise reason we’re talking about a machine that can in a second end a human life.
Please proceed:
The Benghazi hearing went so badly for the GOP that Michael Savage thinks Republicans are in cahoots with Clinton https://t.co/zdHFqFQmPB
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 27, 2015
re: #346 b.d.
I’LL BE DAMNED IF I LET SOMEONE PUT ME IN A CAR AND THEN PUT THAT CAR ON A PRISON BOX CAR!
CHECKMATE!
re: #336 It’s on his hat!
I hope it’s airgapped, or has nothing important on it…
Pretty much both actually. It’s just a rig I used for old games and emulators and such. Nothing vital.
re: #349 Lidane
Please proceed:
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Oh the Weiner man. He’s always good to see what the really fucked up part of right wing talk radio thinks.
re: #338 FormerDirtDart
And of course “FEMA prison trains”
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I still get a kick out of that nonsense
“WHY DO CARS NEED WINDOWS?”
Why would a prison box car need windows?
I just got back from doing light barn chores (filling feed bins, cleaning out and refilling the water bucket, etc) for the first time in 27 days.
Had to do it pretty much one-handed, but I got the job done.
Yay me!
re: #355 Kragar
“WHY DO CARS NEED WINDOWS?”
Why would a prison box car need windows?
Well, how else do you expect the the UN troops to see the prisoners as they shackle them????
I thought that putting windows in our prison trains was a nice gesture of President Obama.
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re: #338 FormerDirtDart
And of course “FEMA prison trains”
I still get a kick out of that nonsense
‘Since when do cars need windows?’
Since windows are cheaper than wiring every car for electricity, maybe?
Exhibit A for why the two-year budget deal would be the best parting gift that Sir John of Orange could give Paul Ryan:
Freedom Caucus member demands speaker candidates oppose budget deal https://t.co/q7unAlpEKF pic.twitter.com/iAP0L8iwfT
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) October 27, 2015
re: #361 Lidane
Exhibit A for why the two-year budget deal would be the best parting gift that Sir John of Orange could give Paul Ryan:
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He probably also has demanded the right to be able to eat his food with his hands too.
re: #359 b.d.
I thought that putting windows in our prison trains was a nice gesture of President
ReaganBushClintonBushObama.//
Had to accurize that
re: #361 Lidane
Exhibit A for why the two-year budget deal would be the best parting gift that Sir John of Orange could give Paul Ryan:
Each presidential candidate will need to oppose it, too. Because.
re: #361 Lidane
Exhibit A for why the two-year budget deal would be the best parting gift that Sir John of Orange could give Paul Ryan:
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Boehner should also move to rename a post office after Bill Ayers in that guy’s district
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re: #357 Backwoods_Sleuth
I just got back from doing light barn chores (filling feed bins, cleaning out and refilling the water bucket, etc) for the first time in 27 days.
Had to do it pretty much one-handed, but I got the job done.
Yay me!
Those must be hungry and thirsty animals. /////
Yay you!
Today is the one year anniversary of me getting hit by a car. You suffered more pain than I did. I’m working on the bike of the medic who took care of me in the helicopter. He said, ‘I’m the one that gave you the drug that let you forget that day!’ I’m thanking him with a spotless bike (but not for free.)
HURR HURR THEIR LYNCHIN ME ON TEH TWITTERS!!!!!!1!!!!
We’ve reached a point where saying “let’s wait for the evidence” is seen as less reasonable than a Twitter-lynch-mob. America.
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) October 27, 2015
re: #336 It’s on his hat!
I hope it’s airgapped, or has nothing important on it…
I would just use a Virtual Machine and disable the NIC on it.
re: #367 The Vicious Babushka
HURR HURR THEIR LYNCHIN ME ON TEH TWITTERS!!!!!!1!!!!
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Lynch mob? Asshole please. If you say something stupid for the whole Twittersphere to see, you’re going to be attacked. Likewise, if you ever and I expect this would be a challenge for you say something insightful, you’d get props. Stop being a whiny asshole who can’t handle criticism when they say stupid shit.
re: #364 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Each presidential candidate will need to oppose it, too. Because.
Yep and then they’ll act like they didn’t once the GE happens to move ot hte “center.”
re: #367 The Vicious Babushka
HURR HURR THEIR LYNCHIN ME ON TEH TWITTERS!!!!!!1!!!!
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Projection, not just a river in Egypt.
So, looks like I’ll be running the entertainment at the annual Halloween Party. For the audience’s viewing delectation, I’ve decided (with my boss’ approval) to go with John Carpenter’s The Thing.
I reckon that’s a good Halloween movie. And not many people here have seen it to boot, so that’s a plus.
re: #365 b.d.
Boehner should also move to rename a post office after Bill Ayers in that guy’s district
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I’d die of laughter if that happened.
re: #369 HappyWarrior
Lynch mob? Asshole please. If you say something stupid for the whole Twittersphere to see, you’re going to be attacked. Likewise, if you ever and I expect this would be a challenge for you say something insightful, you’d get props. Stop being a whiny asshole who can’t handle criticism when they say stupid shit.
Funny how the wingnuts who are all HURR HURR LETS WAIT FOR TEH EVIDENS!!!! embraced the CMP videos the split second they were released.
re: #372 Dr Lizardo
So, looks like I’ll be running the entertainment at the annual Halloween Party. For the audience’s viewing delectation, I’ve decided (with my boss’ approval) to go with John Carpenter’s The Thing.
I reckon that’s a good Halloween movie. And not many people here have seen it to boot, so that’s a plus.
Oh man, excellent excellent choice. That’s my favorite sci-fi movie ever too.
re: #340 Kilroy01
Auto racks or car max setups. 20-22 motor vehicles. The “windows” aren’t windows per se, but ventilation to keep the interiors from becoming blistering hot and potentially damaging to the vehicles - and the personnel who have to shift the vehicles in/out at the origination/termination points.
It also reduces freight-related damage such as when debris hits the vehicles (road debris as when carried by a truck on a car-carrier) to say nothing of vandalism, theft, or unauthorized personnel riding on the car carrier.
Versions have been around for decades, but only more recently have tri-level cars been in widespread usage. The manufacturers of cars found this to be a huge time/cost saver due to protecting vehicles from damage and efficiency of moving large numbers of vehicles at a time.
re: #360 makeitstop
‘Since when do cars need windows?’
Since windows are cheaper than wiring every car for electricity, maybe?
“You’ll be right at home with the rest of the sheeple”
re: #366 wrenchwench
Those must be hungry and thirsty animals. /////
The guy who has been helping me out didn’t show up yesterday, so I figured I’d better go check on things (missing a day isn’t a problem except in winter when the water bucket freezes)…the water bucket was low and seriously filthy, so that definitely needing dealing with.
Yay you!
Today is the one year anniversary of me getting hit by a car. You suffered more pain than I did. I’m working on the bike of the medic who took care of me in the helicopter. He said, ‘I’m the one that gave you the drug that let you forget that day!’ I’m thanking him with a spotless bike (but not for free.)
Yay you, too!
re: #374 The Vicious Babushka
Funny how the wingnuts who are all HURR HURR LETS LAIT FOR TEH EVIDENS!!!! embraced the CMP videos the split second they were released.
Of course.
re: #358 FormerDirtDart
Well, how else do you expect the the UN troops to see the prisoners as they shackle them????
And don’t forget it will make it easier to hose out when the trip is over.
It isn’t like they’d have to take care of prisoners biological needs or anything.
Maybe the holes are for this kind of FEMA Cage watering bottle.
re: #367 The Vicious Babushka
HURR HURR THEIR LYNCHIN ME ON TEH TWITTERS!!!!!!1!!!!
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Hey, I’ve got an idea, Steve! Let’s not use violent hyperbole to refer to arguing on the Internet. Let’s save that for actual violence, or threats thereof. Deal?
re: #367 The Vicious Babushka
HURR HURR THEIR LYNCHIN ME ON TEH TWITTERS!!!!!!1!!!!
Let’s way all the facts about this video before deciding on…OMG LOOK AT PLANNED PARENTHOOD KILLING AND SELLING BABIES PARTS!!!! DEFUND!!!! ARREST!!!!
re: #367 The Vicious Babushka
HURR HURR THEIR LYNCHIN ME ON TEH TWITTERS!!!!!!1!!!!
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Am I alone in not knowing what a Steven Crowder is?
Mental health break:
Watch these adorable lion cubs get their first checkups: https://t.co/osyhpHDpRw https://t.co/GGFRMpbN4l
— Mashable (@mashable) October 27, 2015
re: #381 It’s on his hat!
Hey, I’ve got an idea, Steve! Let’s not use violent hyperbole to refer to arguing on the Internet. Let’s save that for actual violence, or threats thereof. Deal?
No kidding. Really he got criticized and called a racist. Big whoop. In a lynch mob, he’d be murdered and brutalized. He wants to make his opinions known for the world to see, he’s going to have to put his pampers on and deal with the fact that not everyone’s going to see things in the narrow right wing prism he does.
re: #369 HappyWarrior
Lynch mob? Asshole please. If you say something stupid for the whole Twittersphere to see, you’re going to be attacked. Likewise, if you ever and I expect this would be a challenge for you say something insightful, you’d get props. Stop being a whiny asshole who can’t handle criticism when they say stupid shit.
Video lynch mobs worser than Holocaust.
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re: #313 The Vicious Babushka
@DLoesch With a statement like that, you’re too stupid to own a gun.
— Eric The Fruit Bat (@ericdafruitbat) October 27, 2015
re: #375 HappyWarrior
Oh man, excellent excellent choice. That’s my favorite sci-fi movie ever too.
One of my favorites as well; I know it didn’t do well (like Bladerunner, which was coincidentally released on the same day) but it’s now regarded as a classic of the sci-fi and horror genres. It’s a good flick, and I’m curious as to what Czech will think of it.
re: #367 The Vicious Babushka
HURR HURR THEIR LYNCHIN ME ON TEH TWITTERS!!!!!!1!!!!
What evidence is Steve-O waiting for? He’s been ranting about the girl in the video all morning?
re: #361 Lidane
Exhibit A for why the two-year budget deal would be the best parting gift that Sir John of Orange could give Paul Ryan:
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Anyone who supports this legislation is complicit in supporting “the way things are” in Washington. We are at an important crossroads in the House of Representatives. We have an opportunity to bring about real reform and fundamentally change the broken system in place on Capitol Hill.
You eejits have had several years to do that and failed, so STFU.
re: #383 b.d.
Am I alone in not knowing what a Steven Crowder is?
I only know him since I’m pretty sure he’s that stupid right wing “Comedian” who insisted that liberals would be okay with Muslim bakers denying a gay couple a wedding cake and then found out that Musilm bakers actually were more okay with it than Christian ones. Not to mention, that he ignores that liberals repeatedly condemn Muslim anti-gay bigotry, we just don’t use it like conservatives do as a skirt against criticism of Christian homophobia.
re: #372 Dr Lizardo
That’s a damned fine choice.
Other options:
Army of Darkness (camp - Raimi style)
Alien (horror/sci-fi - HR Geiger style)
The Birds (horror/suspense - Hitchcock style)
The Shining (horror - Kubrick style)
*facepalm*
Dear white people, you don’t speak the language, know the culture or any other relevant skills. Stop going to Syria. https://t.co/Ie1zAinz57
— Zeddonymous (@ZeddRebel) October 27, 2015
Seriously, Kurdistan is not your chance to live out some misreading of a Hemingway book. You’ll get someone killed. Donate to a refugee org.
— Zeddonymous (@ZeddRebel) October 27, 2015
re: #388 Dr Lizardo
One of my favorites as well; I know it didn’t do well (like Bladerunner, which was coincidentally released on the same day) but it’s now regarded as a classic of the sci-fi and horror genres. It’s a good flick, and I’m curious as to what Czech will think of it.
I think they’ll like it. It’s genuinely suspenseful and the not knowing who is the Thing will keep your fellow Halloween guests on edge. I need to get a copy of that movie for my collection. It’s just so wonderful. The prequel was meh, not awful but it wasn’t as magical as the first one. The first one IMO is Carpenter’s best work.
re: #378 Backwoods_Sleuth
The guy who has been helping me out didn’t show up yesterday, so I figured I’d better go check on things (missing a day isn’t a problem except in winter when the water bucket freezes)…the water bucket was low and seriously filthy, so that definitely needing dealing with.
Yay you, too!
When I was a kid I had a job for a couple of years for $5.00 a week; I’d throw hay twice a day into three corrals, one with 20 sheep and the others with a few horses. Once a week I’d dump the bathtubs they were watered in, clean the moss out and refill them. The biggest problem was the Black Widow spiders on the bottoms.
re: #392 lawhawk
That’s a damned fine choice.
Other options:
Army of Darkness (camp - Raimi style)
Alien (horror/sci-fi - HR Geiger style)
The Birds (horror/suspense - Hitchcock style)
The Shining (horror - Kubrick style)
Rear Window is also a good Hitchcock one. That’s my favorite of his.
re: #361 Lidane
Exhibit A for why the two-year budget deal would be the best parting gift that Sir John of Orange could give Paul Ryan:
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It’s also Exhibit A over why Ryan’s speakership is pretty much a joke. It seems the only way he’d take the job is if Boehner would clear the deck for him.
re: #396 HappyWarrior
Rear Window is also a good Hitchcock one. That’s my favorite of his.
Excellent choices, all. I watched Alien recently and aside from the “futuristic” computers, it holds up really well.
re: #376 lawhawk
Auto racks or car max setups. 20-22 motor vehicles. The “windows” aren’t windows per se, but ventilation to keep the interiors from becoming blistering hot and potentially damaging to the vehicles - and the personnel who have to shift the vehicles in/out at the origination/termination points.
It also reduces freight-related damage such as when debris hits the vehicles (road debris as when carried by a truck on a car-carrier) to say nothing of vandalism, theft, or unauthorized personnel riding on the car carrier.
Versions have been around for decades, but only more recently have tri-level cars been in widespread usage. The manufacturers of cars found this to be a huge time/cost saver due to protecting vehicles from damage and efficiency of moving large numbers of vehicles at a time.
All that logical thinking is beyond the realm of understanding for most people looking for and believing in conspiracy theories.
Try hard enough and you can make anything into a CT.
DL though, how well do your Czech hosts know the Scream series? When I first saw that, I found the twist:
Two killers and the double red herring. Make Billy appear to be the killer and then absolve him and presto reveal him to be one of the two was brilliant on Craven’s part
re: #389 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
What evidence is Steve-O waiting for? He’s been ranting about the girl in the video all morning?
HURR HURR WHAT EVIDENS HAS U THAT TEH HEROIC POLIS OSSIFER IS TEH RACIST!!!!! U CANT PRUVES HE IS TEH RACIST!!!!!1!!
re: #383 b.d.
Am I alone in not knowing what a Steven Crowder is?
Not only not knowing but really not caring. He’s another StupidMOTI.
re: #398 It’s on his hat!
Excellent choices, all. I watched Alien recently and aside from the “futuristic” computers, it holds up really well.
I think with horror and suspense what holds up to me are the themes. RW came out hell before even my mom was born but the feeling of uneasy you get when you look through Jeff’s camera at the neighbors is great. Just like with the Thing. The paranoia you feel the members having is great. I think ultimately the best horror have transcendent themes like that. Now that said, Insidious scared the crap out of me and I can’t listen to Tiny Tim without being freaked the hell out.
re: #392 lawhawk
That’s a damned fine choice.
Other options:
Army of Darkness (camp - Raimi style)
Alien (horror/sci-fi - HR Geiger style)
The Birds (horror/suspense - Hitchcock style)
The Shining (horror - Kubrick style)
We were also considering The Birds and The Shining. We might run The Birds after midnight; the party will go on for quite a while.
This year, we’re having the party here, at the castle:
watch where you step…goalpost being moved…
Trump says polls are “not very scientific” now that he’s no. 2 in Iowa https://t.co/KCYupsiqfp pic.twitter.com/y2xqSMAqK6
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) October 27, 2015
re: #405 Backwoods_Sleuth
watch where you step…goalpost being moved…
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that sonic boom you heard was the goalposts being moved into outer space
re: #394 HappyWarrior
I think they’ll like it. It’s genuinely suspenseful and the not knowing who is the Thing will keep your fellow Halloween guests on edge. I need to get a copy of that movie for my collection. It’s just so wonderful. The prequel was meh, not awful but it wasn’t as magical as the first one. The first one IMO is Carpenter’s best work.
I never got around to seeing the prequel, to be honest. Carpenter’s version remains, for me, the best telling of the story, and far more faithful to the novella it’s based on.
re: #404 Dr Lizardo
We were also considering The Birds and The Shining. We might run The Birds after midnight; the party will go on for quite a while.
This year, we’re having the party here, at the castle:
Good thing you’re in the Czech Republic and not in Romania. That looks fun though. I’ve always wondered what it would be like to celebrate Halloween abroad. I’ve only been overseas in the summer. So I have been overseas for the fourth of July. The first time with other Americans so we celebrated some and the second time I really didn’t have time to celebrate since I was catching a plane to Madrid.
re: #405 Backwoods_Sleuth
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I’m going to laugh so hard when Trump goes after Carson tomorrow night at the debate.
Carson may try to stab him.
//
re: #392 lawhawk
That’s a damned fine choice.
Other options:
Army of Darkness (camp - Raimi style)
Alien (horror/sci-fi - HR Geiger style)
The Birds (horror/suspense - Hitchcock style)
The Shining (horror - Kubrick style)
Night of the Living Dead (horror - Romero style)
So how’s Shmuckabee doing in the polls? *?
LET’S SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY BY MAKING THOSE LAZY CRIPPLES GET JERBS!!!!
This is typical Washington, like when ObamaCare raided $700 billion from the Medicare Trust Fund. #BudgetDeal
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) October 27, 2015
I have a better idea, let’s reform the disability insurance program, which is full of endless waste, fraud & abuse. https://t.co/mZFAw4f5I8
— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) October 27, 2015
David Williams on the digeridoo. Here he motions the snake, kangaroo and the kookaburra. @Gilimbaa pic.twitter.com/OqdwYwXM0Y
— Bishop Museum (@bishopmuseum) October 27, 2015
re: #407 Dr Lizardo
I never got around to seeing the prequel, to be honest. Carpenter’s version remains, for me, the best telling of the story, and far more faithful to the novella it’s based on.
It’s not bad but it’s not the same IMO. I haven’t read the original Novella. I just love how Carpenter’s version is pretty simple in its brilliance. You have about 8-10 guys so there’s not too many characters. In a way, it’s kind of like a horror version of Lumet’s 12 Angry Men. It works in its limitations. It has so many memorable scenes. It was always my favorite movie to watch on VHS at my best friend’s house when we were kids. I even did a third grade project on it lol which probably had my teacher wondering.
re: #404 Dr Lizardo
Hmmm… Young Frankenstein (comedy sending up horror genre). :)
re: #411 The Vicious Babushka
So how’s Shmuckabee doing in the polls? *?
LET’S SAVE SOCIAL SECURITY BY MAKING THOSE LAZY CRIPPLES GET JERBS!!!!
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You’re an endless waste, Fuckabee.
re: #409 b.d.
I’m going to laugh so hard when Trump goes after Carson tomorrow night at the debate.
Carson may try to stab him.
//
Really looking forward to the “Slavery or Holocaust” round in the next GOP debate. Betting Ben Carson will win by answering “Both!”
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) October 27, 2015
re: #413 HappyWarrior
It’s not bad but it’s not the same IMO. I haven’t read the original Novella. I just love how Carpenter’s version is pretty simple in its brilliance. You have about 8-10 guys so there’s not too many characters. In a way, it’s kind of like a horror version of Lumet’s 12 Angry Men. It works in its limitations. It has so many memorable scenes. It was always my favorite movie to watch on VHS at my best friend’s house when we were kids. I even did a third grade project on it lol which probably had my teacher wondering.
Here is the original story.
re: #366 wrenchwench
Those must be hungry and thirsty animals. /////
Yay you!
Today is the one year anniversary of me getting hit by a car. You suffered more pain than I did. I’m working on the bike of the medic who took care of me in the helicopter. He said, ‘I’m the one that gave you the drug that let you forget that day!’ I’m thanking him with a spotless bike (but not for free.)
I was thinking about that yesterday, you know why? I knew it was coming up soon because last year I bought a Halloween font that was on sale that was all dingbats (I made the “Tag! You’re it.” monster with it)—the part about you is that I bought it because one of the dingbats was a really creepy/funny looking crow and I was gonna make you something with it. I never got to. :-(
I’m really, really glad you’re here for this Halloween. {{{wrenchwench}}}
re: #408 HappyWarrior
Good thing you’re in the Czech Republic and not in Romania. That looks fun though. I’ve always wondered what it would be like to celebrate Halloween abroad. I’ve only been overseas in the summer. So I have been overseas for the fourth of July. The first time with other Americans so we celebrated some and the second time I really didn’t have time to celebrate since I was catching a plane to Madrid.
Halloween is slowly catching on here; the big difference being it’s more a holiday for adults. I’ve never seen any kids trick-or-treating here. But I’ve seen adults dressed up in costumes and going to parties.
If I quit being lazy and hit the gym, maybe next year I’ll try for this - I think I could pull it off pretty well, actually:
re: #410 Targetpractice
Night of the Living Dead (horror - Romero style)
Night of the Living Dead - the only film that absolutely scared the hell of out my mom.
re: #417 Kragar
Here is the original story.
Thanks man. I emailed it to myself. I’ll read it one of these days. Really looking forward to seeing how it compares to the film.
So Steve was abused as a child. That explains a lot.
Nobody was thrown. I was thrown across a room once. The one and only time I got physical with my dad. Totally earned. Totally worked.
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) October 27, 2015
re: #419 Dr Lizardo
Halloween is slowly catching on here; the big difference being it’s more a holiday for adults. I’ve never seen any kids trick-or-treating here. But I’ve seen adults dressed up in costumes and going to parties.
If I quit being lazy and hit the gym, maybe next year I’ll try for this - I think I could pull it off pretty well, actually:
Ah, I see. I like the Bane idea. I haven’t come up with a good costume idea in years.
re: #420 Dr Lizardo
Night of the Living Dead - the only film that absolutely scared the hell of out my mom.
They’re coming to get you, Barbara…they’re coming to get you.
Budget deal would NOT cut entitlement benefits, a group devoted to protecting benefits tells me: https://t.co/2kYKVrGdC1
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) October 27, 2015
There’s been some confusion on this issue…
Zedushka used to think Silence of the Lambs was the scariest movie he ever saw & Hannibal Lechter the most evil character ever. But now he thinks it’s Amy from Gone Girl.
re: #423 HappyWarrior
Ah, I see. I like the Bane idea. I haven’t come up with a good costume idea in years.
I loathe any costume that makes drinking a beer more difficult.
re: #421 HappyWarrior
Thanks man. I emailed it to myself. I’ll read it one of these days. Really looking forward to seeing how it compares to the film.
Slightly bigger scale in the novel. Base is made up of about 40-50 men, plus they’ve got livestock. Set back in the 1930s, when it was written.
re: #411 The Vicious Babushka
.@GovMikeHuckabee except that’s not how that worked. Liar. https://t.co/JbupsW3jqf
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 27, 2015
Neither Obama nor his health care law literally cut funding from the Medicare program’s budget. Rather, the health care law instituted a number of changes to try to bring down future health care costs in the program.
What kind of spending reductions are we talking about? They were mainly aimed at insurance companies and hospitals, not beneficiaries. The law made significant reductions to Medicare Advantage, a subset of Medicare plans run by private insurers. Medicare Advantage was started under President George W. Bush, and the idea was that competition among the private insurers would reduce costs. But the plans have actually cost more than traditional Medicare. So the health care law scales back the payments to private insurers.
Hospitals, too, will be paid less if they have too many re-admissions, or if they fail to meet other new benchmarks for patient care.
It’s a fundamental misunderstanding/misapplication of information. Huckabee claims this was a cut. That isn’t how it worked. The ACA tries to reduce costs by getting providers to make fewer mistakes, reduce costs, etc. That includes reducing readmissions by doing more to make sure that patients are stable, that they’re getting proper care after being discharged, etc.
Huckabee is flat-out lying.
re: #425 Jenner7
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There’s been some confusion on this issue…
If that’s the case, it’s not wonder the Suicide Caucus is howling.
re: #427 b.d.
I loathe any costume that makes drinking a beer more difficult.
Yep my leprechaun costume made that hard. I lost my keychain that night too.
re: #395 wrenchwench
When I was a kid I had a job for a couple of years for $5.00 a week; I’d throw hay twice a day into three corrals, one with 20 sheep and the others with a few horses. Once a week I’d dump the bathtubs they were watered in, clean the moss out and refill them. The biggest problem was the Black Widow spiders on the bottoms.
OMG, last night I was looking up this terribly poisonous snake called a Gaboon viper and in Google Images I somehow ended up looking at poisonous snake bites.
Don’t ever Google that if you want to keep your meal down. I had no idea, and I’ll bet some spider bites are nearly as bad.
re: #425 Jenner7
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There’s been some confusion on this issue…
yes, the wingnut contingent in the GOP haz a real sad about that.
Oh, and I’ve got a bunch of Crowderheads tweeting nonsensical ravings who don’t like the fact that they wouldn’t have liked it if the cop did this to their own kid, though one of them said that they’d do far worse if a cop/security had to respond to their actions (which again, never rose to the point where this kind of force was required in the first place).
re: #14 Dark_Falcon
I don’t. I’ve pulled people away from that a-hole, TSG. I’m not perfect, but on the matter of Michael Savage my hands are scarred but clean.
As long as you continue to reflexively support his party, none of you is clean. You can’t have it both ways. When your party becomes xenophobic, anti-immigrant, racist, and run by religious extremists, you don’t get to stay a member AND wash your hands of the whole thing. That’s just dishonest crap.
re: #411 The Vicious Babushka
On Medicare and Social Security: Nancy Altman, the president of Social Security Works, a group that strenuously opposes benefits cuts and argues for their expansion, tells me that the deal “doesn’t actually cut benefits or really hurt beneficiaries who aren’t gaming the system.”
Altman says the Medicare cuts are all on the provider side, which could harm beneficiaries at some point, but it’s not a major concern. “On the Medicare side, they limited their cuts to far in the future, and to providers,” Altman says. “There’s time to correct that.”
On the change to Social Security, Altman says: “They stiffened the penalties for fraud, they extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole in which people were gaming the system. They didn’t change eligibility requirements or reduce the level of benefits.”
From motherjones.com.
I remember in 2002ish. I guess I was a sophomore in HS but an upper classman in my photography class told me and another guy that The Ring gave him nightmares. I rented it with my younger brother and meh. I mean it had its creepy moments but nothing really scary or suspenseful. And the Hostel movies while not scary do make me cringe just like the Saw movies.
CNN analyst blames black teen for being assaulted by cop: ‘She had no respect’ https://t.co/L98R5POSbj pic.twitter.com/JP44103Smu
— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 27, 2015
asshole…
re: #438 HappyWarrior
I remember in 2002ish. I guess I was a sophomore in HS but an upper classman in my photography class told me and another guy that The Ring gave him nightmares. I rented it with my younger brother and meh. I mean it had its creepy moments but nothing really scary or suspenseful. And the Hostel movies while not scary do make me cringe just like the Saw movies.
I never saw the point of torture porn movies.
re: #439 Backwoods_Sleuth
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asshole…
Hopefully this guy never loses his cool if he ever gets a traffic ticket. // Really what the fuck is wrong with these people? You want respect? Respect isn’t brutalizing someone over a fucking cell phone. He says the girl had no respect, I think the cop had no respect for basic human dignity.
re: #418 CuriousLurker
I was thinking about that yesterday, you know why? I knew it was coming up soon because last year I bought a Halloween font that was on sale that was all dingbats (I made the “Tag! You’re it.” monster with it)—the part about you is that I bought it because one of the dingbats was a really creepy/funny looking crow and I was gonna make you something with it. I never got to. :-(
I’m really, really glad you’re here for this Halloween. {{{wrenchwench}}}
Thanks for thinking of me! I have a Halloween association too; yesterday someone who has a kid in the preschool (where the woman who gave me CPR works) came to see if it’s OK to bring the kids here on Halloween. (They trick-or-treat the businesses.) I still have some of what I got for them last year, but I’m going to get a fresh bag for this year!
re: #439 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Wingnuts scream all the time about how we live in a “police state” when they can’t buy buckets of bullets without questions asked, but then turn around and nod in approval when the cops throw a teen around because they weren’t being “respectful.”
re: #440 Kragar
I never saw the point of torture porn movies.
Yeah neither have I. I wanted to see Hostel though since it’s set in Slovakia where I have family and have since visited though. Saw I wanted to see because of the hype but agh those movies are just pointless.
re: #439 Backwoods_Sleuth
Respect is earned, not given.
re: #443 Targetpractice
Wingnuts scream all the time about how we live in a “police state” when they can’t buy buckets of bullets without questions asked, but then turn around and nod in approval when the cops throw a teen around because they weren’t being “respectful.”
Wingnuts cry about big government and health care but they’re perfectly fine with police brutality. It really shows you the inner authortiarian in conservative ideology.
re: #443 Targetpractice
Wingnuts scream all the time about how we live in a “police state” when they can’t buy buckets of bullets without questions asked, but then turn around and nod in approval when the cops throw a teen around because they weren’t being “respectful.”
Being in a police state is OK when you’re not the ones being beaten.
re: #433 CuriousLurker
OMG, last night I was looking up this terribly poisonous snake called a Gaboon viper and in Google Images I somehow ended up looking at poisonous snake bites.
Don’t ever Google that if you want to keep your meal down. I had no idea, and I’ll bet some spider bites are nearly as bad.
Mr. w got a bite from a Black Widow before I met him. All I’ll say about it is there was an outhouse involved.
re: #444 HappyWarrior
Yeah neither have I. I wanted to see Hostel though since it’s set in Slovakia where I have family and have since visited though. Saw I wanted to see because of the hype but agh those movies are just pointless.
I watched the first Saw movie just because of the hype. Simply worthless.
re: #306 Decatur Deb
First world problem: Microsoft Win10 does not recognize a CD boot file that is deemed a security risk. It also is critical to hundreds of older games including the Civ series. To complete the FU, the last time my Vista machine went online, MS ran an update that reaches back and disables it in Vista and Win7. The workaround is to edit the registry each time you wish to play one of these games.
Windows users need a security patch to protect their machines from Microsoft.
Link to information about this problem:
forums.civfanatics.com
It looks like if you install the 3.19 patch (to civ), you should at least be able to play BTS,
re: #449 Kragar
I watched the first Saw movie just because of the hype. Simply worthless.
Yeah very much agreed. I saw that and then later I saw they made several sequels. Plus the killer’s motive just is lame as hell.
the problem with the “respect the police” contingent is, much like fundamental religious people, respect = fear.
Totally NOT the same thing.
And they wonder why sane people don’t agree with them.
re: #448 wrenchwench
Mr. w got a bite from a Black Widow before I met him. All I’ll say about it is there was an outhouse involved.
Oh dear.
re: #430 Backwoods_Sleuth
BTW, it’s Black Cat Appreciation Day.
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We haz pumpkin to make pieOh, and if people start screaming about the 20% SSDI cut, this deal prevents it:
“The new agreement also would prevent a 20 percent cut in benefits next year to the 11 million Americans enrolled in the Social Security Disability Insurance program. The cut would be avoided by diverting some of the incoming payroll tax money from Social Security’s much bigger retirement insurance program for six years, something Republicans previously said they wouldn’t do without cuts to benefits.”
re: #433 CuriousLurker
OMG, last night I was looking up this terribly poisonous snake called a Gaboon viper and in Google Images I somehow ended up looking at poisonous snake bites.
Don’t ever Google that if you want to keep your meal down. I had no idea, and I’ll bet some spider bites are nearly as bad.
I got bit in the leg by a copperhead almost 20 years ago.
It was fairly gruesome for a while.
re: #440 Kragar
I never saw the point of torture porn movies.
I have the same problems with shows like Criminal Minds. What Mandy Patinkin wrote when he left the show is a good summary of my views.
A couple of other worthy horror movies for Halloween
Event Horizon
Alien
Cube
Hellbound: Hellraiser 2
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
You could also watch the Resident Evil films if you want to want something cheesy to sit there and riff with friends.
re: #457 Timothy Watson
I have the same problems with shows like Criminal Minds. What Mandy Patinkin wrote when he left the show is a good summary of my views.
I only watched Criminal Minds for Shemarr Moore. HUBBA HUBBA.
Reading right now about Donald Grump reacting to being in second place. Never before has reading the news felt like eating a juicy steak.
— God (@TheGoodGodAbove) October 27, 2015
re: #458 Kragar
A couple of other worthy horror movies for Halloween
Event Horizon
Alien
Cube
Hellbound: Hellraiser 2
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Yes to all.
re: #458 Kragar
Event Horizon is a good one. Great cast and concept.
Speaking of horror, the Chowderheads are now on about how there’s a second video showing that the girl hit the security guy after he put his hands on her - as though that proves something. These folks look for everything to blame the victim, especially when the victim is not white.
re: #448 wrenchwench
Mr. w got a bite from a Black Widow before I met him. All I’ll say about it is there was an outhouse involved.
Ugh. I had a neighbor once who was bitten by a brown recluse. It had happened quite some time before we met, but she still had a big gaping hole in her hand—you could see straight down to the muscle. *shudder, gag*
That Gaboon viper? Nasty one. Apparently (luckily) they’re pretty shy and you basically have to step on one or really provoke the crap out of it to get bitten, but they have the longest fangs of any snake and put out a HUGE amount of venom with one bite. The main toxin is… can’t remember the medical term, but it has something to do with proteins and breaking down the walls of your cells, causing them to burst and leak into the surrounding tissue—you basically hemorrhage to death from every orifice within 15 minutes. Gaaaaahhhhhh!
I have a weakness for bad horror films so I enjoy the Child’s Play and Leprechaun sequels.Also the Jack Frost series too. They’re lame, they’re terribly acted, and the jokes are lame but they’re fun to watch on a chilly fall night.
re: #458 Kragar
A couple of other worthy horror movies for Halloween
Event Horizon
Alien
Cube
Hellbound: Hellraiser 2
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
I’ve always liked Event Horizon, Sam Neill is just so creepy in that movie.
re: #454 Feline Fearless Leader
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Those are the good pumpkins! But Butternut squash makes even better pie!
re: #458 Kragar
Event Horizon is the only movie that has ever made me turn the light on in the room while I was watching it.
re: #463 lawhawk
Event Horizon is a good one. Great cast and concept.
Speaking of horror, the Chowderheads are now on about how there’s a second video showing that the girl hit the security guy after he put his hands on her - as though that proves something. These folks look for everything to blame the victim, especially when the victim is not white.
You know, if someone jumped me and put me in a chokehold, I’m thinking I might just fight back.
re: #463 lawhawk
Event Horizon is a good one. Great cast and concept.
Speaking of horror, the Chowderheads are now on about how there’s a second video showing that the girl hit the security guy after he put his hands on her - as though that proves something. These folks look for everything to blame the victim, especially when the victim is not white.
She is just flailing out with her arms as she is being overturned.
Another video from different angle of #AssaultAtSpringValleyHigh in South Carolina by officer of a peaceful student: pic.twitter.com/EOp3wnjoJ1
— Niraj Warikoo (@nwarikoo) October 27, 2015
re: #440 Kragar
I never saw the point of torture porn movies.
Neither have I, but 1974’s The Texas Chainsaw Massacre still stands (for me, at least) as a minor classic. I consider it more along the lines of an exploitation, albeit, a damned good one.
re: #456 Backwoods_Sleuth
I got bit in the leg by a copperhead almost 20 years ago.
It was fairly gruesome for a while.
Yikes!
re: #466 Timothy Watson
I’ve always liked Event Horizon, Sam Neill is just so creepy in that movie.
My buddies and I call it a Warhammer movie just because of the way the stardrive works.
re: #450 Snarknado!
Link to information about this problem:
forums.civfanatics.comIt looks like if you install the 3.19 patch (to civ), you should at least be able to play BTS,
Reading through comments on the 3.19 patch, some seem to be succeeding but others are being locked into a dead-end “administrator privileges” trap. I’ll get the kid to write a batch file to toggle the security file. From now on I’ll physically remove its access to our wireless. From the size of the disabled game list, MS must have pissed off a million or two old-game fans.
re: #473 Kragar
My buddies and I call it a Warhammer movie just because of the way the stardrive works.
Color me shocked.
;)
I only tried seeing it once but Paranormal Activity just did not do it for me. Ghosts actually do interest me. There was a neat show on the History Channel back in the day called Haunted History that was quite interesting since it had ghost stories from various cities along with some history about the cities. On the subject of reading scary stories, I loved the Alvin Schwartz, Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark series. I think that sparked my interest in folklore and urban myths. We even have a famous legend here in Northern Va- the Bunny Man.
re: #476 HappyWarrior
I only tried seeing it once but Paranormal Activity just did not do it for me. Ghosts actually do interest me. There was a neat show on the History Channel back in the day called Haunted History that was quite interesting since it had ghost stories from various cities along with some history about the cities. On the subject of reading scary stories, I loved the Alvin Schwartz, Scary Stories To Tell in the Dark series. I think that sparked my interest in folklore and urban myths. We even have a famous legend here in Northern Va- the Bunny Man.
I’ve read about him.
re: #464 CuriousLurker
Ugh. I had a neighbor once who was bitten by a brown recluse. It had happened quite some time before we met, but she still had a big gaping hole in her hand—you could see straight down to the muscle. *shudder, gag*
That Gaboon viper? Nasty one. Apparently (luckily) they’re pretty shy and you basically have to step on one or really provoke the crap out of it to get bitten, but they have the longest fangs of any snake and put out a HUGE amount of venom with one bite. The main toxin is… can’t remember the medical term, but it has something to do with proteins and breaking down the walls of your cells, causing them to burst and leak into the surrounding tissue—you basically hemorrhage to death from every orifice within 15 minutes. Gaaaaahhhhhh!
They call a pair of holes together in a flat bicycle tube a ‘snakebite’, and usually it’s from pinching the tube between the wheel’s rim and a curb or something, but one of my customers got one from a rattlesnake that he couldn’t stop pestering. Some people….
re: #458 Kragar
A couple of other worthy horror movies for Halloween
Event Horizon
Alien
Cube
Hellbound: Hellraiser 2
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
The Orphanage.
That’s the only movie I’ve watched in like 30 years that made me get up and turn on the lights. *shudder* The oddest part is that the end, while sad, is quite touching.
re: #467 wrenchwench
Those are the good pumpkins! But Butternut squash makes even better pie!
There are claims that all canned pumpkin pie filler is based on a generic squash. USDA doesn’t make a labelling distinction.
He’s saying this like they are equivalent==>
“Are you saying that girl was wrong?!” “Yes. Also, the cop could be wrong too.” TWITTER RAGE!!
— Steven Crowder (@scrowder) October 27, 2015
re: #477 Dr Lizardo
I’ve read about him.
I scared the crap out of my brother’s friends by telling them about him when we came back from the beach one night. But yeah I hadn’t heard the story ever but in one of my English classes, I attended a seminar by a folklore professor. It very nearly inspired me to take folklore for a class but I ended up going with post WWII American lit instead. A happy ending really since it”s how I discovered John Cheever’s work.
re: #479 CuriousLurker
The Orphanage.
That’s the only movie I’ve watched in like 30 years that made me get up and turn on the lights. *shudder* The oddest part is that the end, while sad, is quite touching.
This Hitcher, the original with Rutger Hauer.
re: #481 The Vicious Babushka
He’s saying this like they are equivalent==>
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The Babadook is a good scary film. It was on Netflix a few months ago, not sure now.
re: #480 Decatur Deb
There are claims that all canned pumpkin pie filler is based on a generic squash. USDA doesn’t make a labelling distinction.
Squashes are all inter-breedable, I think.
The difference between the girl being wrong and the cop being wrong is like littering a piece of junk mail out your car window and shooting up a daycare center.
re: #486 Jenner7
The Babadook is a good scary film. It was on Netflix a few months ago, not sure now.
It still is. I saw it on there when I was looking around for something to watch last SUnday.
re: #479 CuriousLurker
The Orphanage.
That’s the only movie I’ve watched in like 30 years that made me get up and turn on the lights. *shudder* The oddest part is that the end, while sad, is quite touching.
For me, The Haunting, from 1963. Still creeps me out to this day.
And also an honorable mention in the “Films That Make Your Skin Crawl”, Noroi. en.wikipedia.org
re: #481 The Vicious Babushka
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You know what I’ve always found amazing? Conservatives love to claim the mantle of the founding fathers and claim to be opposed to tyranny, etc, etc.
The founding fathers started a goddamn war because 5 “thugs” who were assaulting and threatening the lawful authority were killed in the Boston “Massacre”.
re: #366 wrenchwench
Those must be hungry and thirsty animals. /////
Yay you!
Today is the one year anniversary of me getting hit by a car. You suffered more pain than I did. I’m working on the bike of the medic who took care of me in the helicopter. He said, ‘I’m the one that gave you the drug that let you forget that day!’ I’m thanking him with a spotless bike (but not for free.)
Chiming in on the list of Lizards happy you are still with us.
It would not be the same without our LOLcats.
re: #476 HappyWarrior
For ghost movies, I liked “Below”, haunted submarine during WWII.
re: #481 The Vicious Babushka
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Wrong for what, Steven? Not showing the cop “respect”? The justifies being manhandled?
re: #493 Kragar
For ghost movies, I liked “Below”, haunted submarine during WWII.
OOoh, I need to look for that. Sounds good.
re: #495 CuriousLurker
Thanks, I was just gonna go look for it. Never heard of that one before.
Not a movie, urban myth but it appears they did make a film of it.
Return of the Living Dead! Wait, that’s not a horror film.
Ok, I’m here.
Who called this meeting & what is it about?
re: #360 makeitstop
‘Since when do cars need windows?’
Since windows are cheaper than wiring every car for electricity, maybe?
The crazy thing is, those aren’t windows to let in light. Those walls aren’t structural, AFIAK. They’re perforated panels to keep shit off the cars.
Scariest movie I ever saw was 2001, A Space Odyssey. Probably because I was only 8 years old.
re: #499 b_sharp
Ok, I’m here.
Who called this meeting & what is it about?
Just here for the donuts.
re: #498 Targetpractice
Return of the Living Dead! Wait, that’s not a horror film.
Actually, while that movie was played for laughs, it actually creeped me out more than most other zombie movies.
re: #490 Dr Lizardo
For me, The Haunting, from 1963. Still creeps me out to this day.
And also an honorable mention in the “Films That Make Your Skin Crawl”, Noroi. en.wikipedia.org
Don’t Look Now. Watched it again about 18 months ago—still as creepy as ever.
en.wikipedia.org
re: #503 Varek Raith
Any Uwe Boll film.
The only horror is when the credits roll and you realize you could have watched a far better film.
Surprisingly, I haven’t yet seen any attempts to defend the cop on my facebook feed yet. Sadly, when these sort of stories happen, there’s always a few derptastic posts. So far, nothing. Then again, nothing the other way either, which suggests the story hasn’t picked up a lot of steam yet.
My favorite urban myth though is this one. A guy’s driving to prom or some kind of high school dance. He sees a pretty girl on the highway. He picks her up. They go to the dance and have a real good time. They get in the car and he gives her his jacket since she’s chilly. She also insists that he drop her off at the side of the road. He realizes the next day that he left his jacket with her and tries to find out where she lives. He finds a house. An older woman opens the door. She has a daughter but her daughter died in a car accident twenty years prior. Are You Afraid of the Dark, my favorite horror program as a kid in the 90’s did a variation on it.
re: #376 lawhawk
Auto racks or car max setups. 20-22 motor vehicles. The “windows” aren’t windows per se, but ventilation to keep the interiors from becoming blistering hot and potentially damaging to the vehicles - and the personnel who have to shift the vehicles in/out at the origination/termination points.
Do not let rational facts get in the way of a good “we have to eliminate Obama by force” fantasy
re: #504 Kragar
Actually, while that movie was played for laughs, it actually creeped me out more than most other zombie movies.
True, it’s creepier than 2 was, though 3 is a genuine horror film. Thank God there were no more sequels after that.
Perhaps the creepiest wasn’t really a horror flick. The 1930’s Lost Horizon hit some really hallucinatory notes.
re: #374 The Vicious Babushka
Funny how the wingnuts who are all HURR HURR LETS WAIT FOR TEH EVIDENS!!!! embraced the CMP videos the split second they were released.
Even when after watching them (even edited) there was nothing illegal about any of it.
I thought the end of Amreican Beauty was shocking.
Conservative columnist says armed white people must fight Obama before he destroys America https://t.co/5SsITOZFD3
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) October 27, 2015
re: #508 HappyWarrior
My favorite urban myth though is this one. A guy’s driving to prom or some kind of high school dance. He sees a pretty girl on the highway. He picks her up. They go to the dance and have a real good time. They get in the car and he gives her his jacket since she’s chilly. She also insists that he drop her off at the side of the road. He realizes the next day that he left his jacket with her and tries to find out where she lives. He finds a house. An older woman opens the door. She has a daughter but her daughter died in a car accident twenty years prior. Are You Afraid of the Dark, my favorite horror program as a kid in the 90’s did a variation on it.
He goes to the cemetery to visit her grave and there’s his jacket hanging on the tomb stone.
The story gets around and pretty soon all the guys recognize this creepy girl and don’t stop to pick her up.
So though, I’ve got this idea for a novella or short story or maybe even a screenplay. Basically, a regular middle aged guy starts his day like any other day. He feels his memory slowly fading- he forgets things like his wife and kids’ names, where he works, etc. He goes to bed and wakes up as a toddler- revealing that his entire life that he thought he had known was a dream. I’ve never written anything lke that before but I think it would be brilliant.
re: #514 Kragar
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But god-forbid if a black student refuses to comply with an unlawful arrest.
re: #514 Kragar
Conservative columnist says armed white people must fight Obama before he destroys America
and that is why they are so receptive to every boneheaded Obama conspiracy theory: they need validation for this article of faith
re: #515 The Vicious Babushka
He goes to the cemetery to visit her grave and there’s his jacket hanging on the tomb stone.
The story gets around and pretty soon all the guys recognize this creepy girl and don’t stop to pick her up.
That’s right. THe jacket is on the headstone. It’s a good one. I think it started in the 50’s. Not sure though. I
GOP Rep. blasts immigration reform because “it changes the voter pool” https://t.co/l8xBYHcjjm pic.twitter.com/fwfG1QBxcZ
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) October 27, 2015
re: #508 HappyWarrior
Resurrection Mary.
She’s in urban legends everywhere.
And the great anti-horror ghost story is The Ghost and Mrs Muir. It’s been back on cable recently.
re: #516 HappyWarrior
So though, I’ve got this idea for a novella or short story or maybe even a screenplay. Basically, a regular middle aged guy starts his day like any other day. He feels his memory slowly fading- he forgets things like his wife and kids’ names, where he works, etc. He goes to bed and wakes up as a toddler- revealing that his entire life that he thought he had known was a dream. I’ve never written anything lke that before but I think it would be brilliant.
The Strange Case of Benjamin Button.
re: #520 Lidane
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A lot of them are honest enough to admit that they don’t want immigration reform because they know nautralized Latinos means they’re fucked at the polls. Good, you treat the Latino people like they’re all criminals and you deserve to have the Latino community vote against you in large numbers.
Sad that, of the horror films I own, there’s only four I’d actually recommend. One’s The Thing, which has already been mentioned. The others are the original Night of the Living Dead, Children of the Corn, and Zack Snyder’s version of Dawn of the Dead.
re: #508 HappyWarrior
my home town has a legend sort of like that… The Pink Lady of Yorba Linda - supposedly she died on the way home from a high school dance in 1910 (I’ve also heard a version that it was around graduation) when her carriage overturned and she appears around midnight on June 15 every year (or every other year).
Dudebros have a sad:
After @SXSW cancelled two Gamergate forums, @BuzzFeed threatens to boycott - https://t.co/NKChKPBauZ
— AustinBizJournal (@MyABJ) October 27, 2015
When I was in high school I read this collection of short stories edited by Alfred Hitchcock Stories That Scared Even Me.
Do not read these stories at home alone.
re: #523 The Vicious Babushka
The Strange Case of Benjamin Button.
Nah, a little different than Benjamin Button. Benjamin Button actually was getting younger slowly. It’s a similar premise I concede but in this, the whole thing was a dream- the wife, the kids, the life, etc.
re: #525 Targetpractice
Sad that, of the horror films I own, there’s only four I’d actually recommend. One’s The Thing, which has already been mentioned. The others are the original Night of the Living Dead, Children of the Corn, and Zack Snyder’s version of Dawn of the Dead.
We are watching Shawn of the Dead with the family right now…
re: #515 The Vicious Babushka
A particular trope which I think has played its course nowadays.
In every zombie movie where they’re a new occurrence, there is the obligatory scene where soldiers/cops fight the zombies and unload their weapons into them with no effect before they get overrun. This has gone on for far too long and doesn’t work on generations raised with zombie movies.
A platoon of soldiers faces a horde, aims center mass and they don’t go down. A soldier yells, “Guys! They’re zombies! Headshots!” and switch their tactics.
re: #530 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
We are watching Shawn of the Dead with the family right now…
Oh yeah, forgot about that one, think I left it upstairs.
re: #530 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
We are watching Shawn of the Dead with the family right now…
Yeah boy-eeeeee!
re: #529 HappyWarrior
Nah, a little different than Benjamin Button. Benjamin Button actually was getting younger slowly. It’s a similar premise I concede but in this, the whole thing was a dream- the wife, the kids, the life, etc.
There was a Nicolas Cage movie a couple of years ago with that premise but it sucked so bad I don’t remember the name. Tea Leoni was in it.
re: #526 KGxvi
my home town has a legend sort of like that… The Pink Lady of Yorba Linda - supposedly she died on the way home from a high school dance in 1910 (I’ve also heard a version that it was around graduation) when her carriage overturned and she appears around midnight on June 15 every year (or every other year).
I think there’s a lot of variations of it. Folklore is neat like that since it changes. See, in the versions I’m used to, the young lady died in a car accident, in yours, she died in a carriage one.
re: #534 The Vicious Babushka
There was a Nicolas Cage movie a couple of years ago with that premise but it sucked so bad I don’t remember the name. Tea Leoni was in it.
Oh okay. Don’t remember hearing that. I think it would work better in print form. but I’m biased.
And then there is the classic shower scene:
Psycho
re: #492 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Chiming in on the list of Lizards happy you are still with us.
It would not be the same without our LOLcats.
Thanks! I was just going to DM you on twitter and saw that I had said what I was gonna say last December (re: thnx for card for Mr. w, in particular). Hopefully the memory is improving some.
Another one that’s supposed to be camp but comes off creepy as fuck is Night of the Creeps.
The Haunting
nothing beats that one for chills
b/w original, not the remake
breathing door
re: #535 HappyWarrior
If the story in my town was 30 or 40 years later, it’d have been a car crash, but since it was 1910, it had to be a carriage. I wonder if people still go to the old cemetery to look for her. It was a thing to do back in the day, if only because the old cemetery is now in the middle of a residential neighborhood and we had nothing else to do in that bloody town.
re: #474 Decatur Deb
Reading through comments on the 3.19 patch, some seem to be succeeding but others are being locked into a dead-end “administrator privileges” trap. I’ll get the kid to write a batch file to toggle the security file. From now on I’ll physically remove its access to our wireless. From the size of the disabled game list, MS must have pissed off a million or two old-game fans.
Yeah, and they wonder why we won’t upgrade. (I also still have an XP machine, and I’m not looking to upgrade from 7 any time soon.)
re: #542 KGxvi
If the story in my town was 30 or 40 years later, it’d have been a car crash, but since it was 1910, it had to be a carriage. I wonder if people still go to the old cemetery to look for her. It was a thing to do back in the day, if only because the old cemetery is now in the middle of a residential neighborhood and we had nothing else to do in that bloody town.
Right the times are vital. That’s weird though with the cemetery being in a residential neighborhood.
re: #525 Targetpractice
Sad that, of the horror films I own, there’s only four I’d actually recommend. One’s The Thing, which has already been mentioned. The others are the original Night of the Living Dead, Children of the Corn, and Zack Snyder’s version of Dawn of the Dead.
For me, with Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead (which wasn’t bad), the part that still gives me the chills is the opening credits.
My dad watched the silent version of Phantom of the Opera and he said it gave him nightmares for years.
I’m a big fan of horror movies and most of the sub-genres (with the exception of torture porn). Here are a few of my favorites:
Lake Mungo: Not really scary, but still one of my favorites. A slow burn that (IMO) has a satisfying payoff.
What We Do In The Shadows: a vampire comedy, told in a faux-documentary style. Lighthearted fun with some clever takes on the vampire mythology. Interestingly enough, the director and main character has been tabbed to direct Thor: Ragnarok.
Frankenstein’s Army: Not a great film by any stretch (very light on plot/story/characters/etc), but fun for it’s frenetic pace and utterly batshit crazy creative creature design
re: #520 Lidane
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Oh goody. Mo “Pre-Impeach-Not-Yet-POTUS-Hillary-Clinton” Brooks admits his issue is purely political because GOP policies suck so badly if anyone but old white folks are allowed to vote they’d be fucked beyond belief.
They never learn (thank goodness) to keep their yaps shut.
re: #526 KGxvi
my home town has a legend sort of like that… The Pink Lady of Yorba Linda - supposedly she died on the way home from a high school dance in 1910 (I’ve also heard a version that it was around graduation) when her carriage overturned and she appears around midnight on June 15 every year (or every other year).
You’re from Yorba Linda? My dad and several of my siblings lived there. Mom & me and one sis were in Fullerton. My brother and I snagged a ‘Land of Gracious Living’ sign one night. It went to his dorm room.
re: #516 HappyWarrior
So though, I’ve got this idea for a novella or short story or maybe even a screenplay. Basically, a regular middle aged guy starts his day like any other day. He feels his memory slowly fading- he forgets things like his wife and kids’ names, where he works, etc. He goes to bed and wakes up as a toddler- revealing that his entire life that he thought he had known was a dream. I’ve never written anything lke that before but I think it would be brilliant.
I like it. Go for it! I’d read it.
re: #527 Lidane
C’mon Lidane, you’re from the valley, right? La lechuza, the dancing devil (Urban Legends of South Texas), la llorona (Wiki)… Of course, we also have the one about the girl who died, but sometimes she takes a taxi.
re: #545 Dr Lizardo
For me, with Snyder’s Dawn of the Dead (which wasn’t bad), the part that still gives me the chills is the opening credits.
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The DVD included two smaller movies, both effectively video journals of events as they happened. The first is a news broadcast that starts at the beginning of the reports of “unprovoked violence” and goes for close to 16 hours before leaving the air. The second is the gun shop owner slowly breaking down, starting from his first run-in with a zombie to just before the big climax of the film.
re: #550 WhatEVs
I like it. Go for it! I’d read it.
Okay, thanks. I am going to try writing some of it this weekend. I need to come up with a clever title that does not give the twist ending away.
re: #57 Eclectic Cyborg
If you hadn’t mentioned it was from a group supporting the Donald, I would have thought it was a parody. Poe’s Law in action.
re: #553 HappyWarrior
Okay, thanks. I am going to try writing some of it this weekend. I need to come up with a clever title that does not give the twist ending away.
Regression. :-)
re: #549 wrenchwench
Grew up there, my folks and sister (and her kids) are still there. I’m in Long Beach now, but still spend a lot of time in the YL.
re: #544 HappyWarrior
Not really, the whole town used to be a handful of Spanish land grant ranches. The residential area was built on the site of one of the main ranches. They had a private cemetery (apparently one of the oldest in California) on the ranch. Since people don’t like to move cemeteries, it has remained more or less the same while the rest of the city has gone from ranches to suburb. There’s another one like that in Whittier (I think), old, tiny little cemetery (maybe a dozen graves) in the middle of an industrial area.
re: #57 Eclectic Cyborg
Also, because it’s so zany, here again is that image I pulled from a FB group that supports Donald Trump:
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ROFLMAO!!!
re: #558 CuriousLurker
ROFLMAO!!!
They totally got the scale of the head wrong. If anyone needs to be displayed with a bigger head its Trump. :-)
re: #538 wrenchwench
Thanks! I was just going to DM you on twitter and saw that I had said what I was gonna say last December (re: thnx for card for Mr. w, in particular). Hopefully the memory is improving some.
On the plus side, the longer it goes, the more you can just blame it on age instead. ;)
re: #559 WhatEVs
They totally got the scale of the head wrong. If anyone needs to be displayed with a bigger head its Trump. :-)
QFT
@GovMikeHuckabee The only good ideas you’ve had involve gravy.
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re: #530 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
We are watching Shawn of the Dead with the family right now…
Neighbors are a little ‘bitey’.
re: #338 FormerDirtDart
And of course “FEMA prison trains”
I still get a kick out of that nonsense
They have windows so us Liberals can point and laugh at you all as the train goes by.///
re: #563 Eventual Carrion
Neighbors are a little ‘bitey’.
“We had our jabs last year when we went to the Isle of Wight.”
re: #458 Kragar
A couple of other worthy horror movies for Halloween
Event Horizon
Alien
Cube
Hellbound: Hellraiser 2
Behind the Mask: The Rise of Leslie Vernon
Event Horizon was the reason I bought a DVD player… although while watching it in the theater I was thinking “I need to get a laserdisc player” as DVDs became the “it” format just when that came out on home release… or at least when it became more affordable.
I don’t get the hate that movie gets in some circles.
re: #478 wrenchwench
but one of my customers got one from a rattlesnake that he couldn’t stop pestering. Some people….
A friend and I encountered a BIG rattlesnake while out for a ride one day. We stayed about 20-30 feet away until it decided to head on into the bushes. “Pestering” was about the last thing on our minds! We waited a while even after he had gone, just in case. And man, hearing the rattles in real life is creepy as hell.
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