Dan Riehl: Murdered Census Worker Had Teh Ghey

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Dan “black kids fear me” Riehl is still continuing his obsessive campaign to smear murdered census worker Bill Sparkman. Now he’s latched onto a twisted fantasy that Sparkman was infected with teh ghey: Riehl World View: Bill ‘Fe Fe’ Sparkman Remembered For His Curls.

What a pathetic, sick little human being Riehl is, to publicly libel a murdered man over and over, with no evidence except his own feverish imagination. It’s becoming pretty clear that there’s more than a little projection going on.

UPDATE at 10/3/09 5:44:19 pm:

Meanwhile, white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain is back from Kentucky where he apparently spent most of his “shoe leather” time trying to get into the pants of a 20-year old girl (she has a tattoo! and it’s in a hidden place! slobber, drool), only to discover that she was a lesbian — and came up with absolutely NO news about the murder of Bill Sparkman. So he struck out twice.

But of course, he’s right on board with the “ghey child predator” murder theories of Dan Riehl: The Other McCain: UPDATE on the Kentucky Killing: ‘We Don’t Even Know What We Don’t Know’.

I didn’t want to “go there,” but as Dan Riehl points out, the speculation that Sparkman was gay has been bouncing around all over the ‘sphere for days. Dan e-mailed to mention this to me, and I replied that many people in Clay and Laurel counties suspected that, at the very least, Sparkman had homosexual tendencies. NTTAWWT.

As I told Dan, the problem is that we have no idea whether Sparkman’s sexuality (whatever it was, and all I know is what people in Kentucky told me) had anything to do with his disappearance and death. It might be relevant or not. At any rate, that Tampa story is full of very strong suggestions that my Kentucky sources have reasonbly accurate “gaydar.”

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448 comments
1 redneckkahfir  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:10:44pm

Good evening LGF!

2 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:11:55pm

Dan Riehl needs to step away from the keyboard for a time. Maybe a decade or two.

3 Crimsonfisted  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:12:11pm

From what I have read so far, this man died a horrible death and torture. I could not stomach to read more. Until there are answers, he should be left in peace.

Prayers to his family.

4 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:12:44pm

I would ask if Riehl has no shame but I already know the answer.

5 Sharmuta  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:12:55pm

Riehl needs professional help. This is beyond depraved.

6 Cathypop  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:14:46pm

How dare this POS do this to an innocent man.
Pay-back is hell and I hope Riehl enjoys hell.

7 Velvet Elvis  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:15:31pm

Have the supposedly revelations about Ahmadinejad's heritage been discussed here yet? I'm having trouble with the cognitive dissonance.

[Link: www.telegraph.co.uk...]

8 Mocking Jay  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:17:57pm

And what if the poor guy was gay??

9 Guanxi88  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:18:32pm

I said before - this fellow, and guys like him, will do anything in their desperation to remove the blood they see on their hands. Anything.

10 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:18:57pm

The homophobia tag is especially apt for Riehl, given his past posting history. Here he trots out a memory of his dead gay brother to justify...calling other bloggers 'cocksuckers'. Or something like that.
This really has to be seen to be believed.

[Link: www.balloon-juice.com...]

John Cole on Riehl:

Read the whole, sad, deplorable post. Apparently he can’t be a bigot because he had a brother that was gay, so when he writes something sick and offensive and attacks Glenn Greenwald and Andrew Sullivan for being gay, it is just because he, unlike everyone else, feels comfortable ‘joking’ about everyone.

A regular humanitarian, an Archie Bunker, this guy- the basest of the conservative ‘base.’

11 Guanxi88  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:19:12pm

re: #8 JasonA

And what if the poor guy was gay??

Well, Riehl would say maybe he deserved it, or maybe he died in the course of some preversions. Riehl's one sick son of a bitch.

12 albusteve  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:19:16pm

re: #5 Sharmuta

Riehl needs professional help. This is beyond depraved.

yes...he is flirting with delusion, or he's already there

13 David Simon  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:19:23pm

re: #7 Conservative Moonbat

Have the supposedly revelations about Ahmadinejad's heritage been discussed here yet? I'm having trouble with the cognitive dissonance.

[Link: www.telegraph.co.uk...]

Hmm. If true, it wouldn't be unprecedented:

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

14 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:19:43pm

re: #7 Conservative Moonbat

I'm guessing that story might not be true. I think it's just an effort to discredit him.

15 shutdown  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:20:45pm

Why have the lunatic right latched on to this poor murdered guy as a bogeyman?

16 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:20:54pm

re: #10 iceweasel

Thanks for the background. It seems he has some issues.

17 Guanxi88  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:21:08pm

re: #5 Sharmuta

Riehl needs professional help. This is beyond depraved.

Riehl needs a professional intervention, no doubt. Whether it should be from a medical professional, a legal professional, or maybe a super heavyweight boxer, I can't say.

18 Guanxi88  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:21:20pm

re: #15 imp_62

Why have the lunatic right latched on to this poor murdered guy as a bogeyman?

re: #9 Guanxi88

I said before - this fellow, and guys like him, will do anything in their desperation to remove the blood they see on their hands. Anything.

19 Sharmuta  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:21:37pm

I think only a warped and frustrated person would feel the need to invent tales about a dead person's sex life and then use it as a means to besmirch said person's memory. riehl's a sick puppy.

20 Velvet Elvis  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:22:46pm

re: #14 Killgore Trout

That was my thinking. It seemed a bit too . . . convenient.

21 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:23:09pm

BTW, Riehl had a slapfight with Pandagon today, and was too dim to realise he lost. Here's part of the Glorious Twitter war:

Me: @DanRiehl He had curly hair, so he was a pedophile? Did your mother drink while you were in the womb, or was it just put in your bottle?

Riehl: @pandagon Calm down FeFe - just curious why it fell off the Left’s map - might be a hate crime. Or u too dumb to figger that out?

Me: @DanRiehl I’d respond, but you may actually be too stupid to understand words. A series of pictures will be along shortly.

Riehl: @pandagon Heterophobe!!

Riehl moved immediately from the assumption that the guy was gay, to the assumption that he has to be a paedophile...apparently because he believes all gay men are paedophiles.
Pandagon response:

What you must realize at this point is that Dan Riehl is officially the Worst Person At Being A Disingenuous Asshole on the face of the planet. By pointing out that Riehl again called Sparkman a pedophile, I’ve actually fallen into his double secret trap of excusing homophobia because...well, I’m sure the guy who equated potentially being gay with raping children will soon instruct me on the ways of tolerating gay people.

Wingnut, Thou Art Loosed

22 realismrox  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:23:32pm

This is really taking this too far. Sort of sad, seems like Riehl is deranged and paranoid (the black kids thing). The lunatic right-fringe hates psychiatry too, no chance for these people to get help.

23 redneckkahfir  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:24:42pm

what a nasty little man.

24 Achilles Tang  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:25:06pm

No offense, but why does this guy Riehl get all this attention?

25 Sharmuta  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:25:42pm

re: #21 iceweasel

Riehl: @pandagon Calm down FeFe - just curious why it fell off the Left’s map - might be a hate crime. Or u too dumb to figger that out?

He's aware it said "fed" on the man's chest and not a gay slur, right?

26 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:25:46pm

re: #16 Killgore Trout

Thanks for the background. It seems he has some issues.

Definitely. I had forgotten about the infamous post about his brother. It's pretty shocking.

27 albusteve  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:25:57pm

re: #24 Naso Tang

No offense, but why does this guy Riehl get all this attention?

the internet giveth
the internet taketh away

28 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:26:57pm

re: #25 Sharmuta

He's aware it said "fed" on the man's chest and not a gay slur, right?

The geniuses at Riehl's House o' Wingnut were speculating that it actually said "FeFe" and got smeared.

Which is an apt description for what they're doing over there, come to think of it.

29 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:28:50pm

Ugh, I need a shower after reading that cached link.
Can this poor man not rest in peace without the speculation? Really, anyone who writes about him should be ignored.

30 Achilles Tang  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:28:51pm

re: #27 albusteve

the internet giveth
the internet taketh away

What are you, a Buddhist?

31 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:29:26pm

How would Riehl feel if this were his grown child?

32 albusteve  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:29:36pm

re: #30 Naso Tang

What are you, a Buddhist?

heathen

33 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:30:28pm

re: #31 MandyManners

How would Riehl feel if this were his grown child?

Or, his own brother, for that matter.

34 Sharmuta  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:30:39pm

re: #24 Naso Tang

No offense, but why does this guy Riehl get all this attention?

Well- past the specifics would be the theory that part of our freedom of speech is our duty to condemn ugly speech when we see/hear it. Riehl is free to speak his crap, and we're free to call him an asshole.

35 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:30:46pm

re: #15 imp_62

I'm guessing as an overreaction to the left speculating that he was murdered by right wing conservatives opposed to census workers in general, which also is highly speculative. Either way, it's a personal tragedy, and news, not so much anymore.

36 shutdown  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:31:05pm

Hi MandyManners

37 Guanxi88  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:31:16pm

re: #32 albusteve

heathen

Conservative, Orthodox, or Reform?

38 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:31:18pm

re: #33 MandyManners

Speaking of brothers. how is the sick bay running chez vous?

39 albusteve  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:31:40pm

re: #37 Guanxi88

Conservative, Orthodox, or Reform?

Dirty Rotten

40 jaunte  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:32:02pm

Riehl's writing is so twisty and self-referential it's hard to make any sense of.
He sounds like the paranoid mumbler at the end of the bar.

41 Guanxi88  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:32:33pm

re: #39 albusteve

Dirty Rotten

Reform. I knew it.

42 Guanxi88  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:32:48pm

re: #40 jaunte

Riehl's writing is so twisty and self-referential it's hard to make any sense of.
He sounds like the paranoid mumbler at the end of the bar.

Hey! he sounds nothing like me at all!

43 shutdown  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:33:30pm

re: #40 jaunte

Riehl's writing is so twisty and self-referential it's hard to make any sense of.
He sounds like the paranoid mumbler at the end of the bar.

*looking up from the end of the bar* Oi! Not me - yer boy's in the gents!

44 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:33:31pm

re: #36 imp_62

Hi MandyManners

Hiya'.

45 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:33:46pm

re: #38 tradewind

Speaking of brothers. how is the sick bay running chez vous?

Back to normal.

46 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:34:17pm

re: #45 MandyManners

Good news, here too.

47 Achilles Tang  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:34:38pm

re: #34 Sharmuta

Well- past the specifics would be the theory that part of our freedom of speech is our duty to condemn ugly speech when we see/hear it. Riehl is free to speak his crap, and we're free to call him an asshole.

I appreciate that, as I hope you know, but given the large number of assholes available I was curious what awards this one earned, before this issue.

Please understand, what I know of the web universe I know largely from LGF. You could think of me as a virgin of sorts, so please be gentle.

48 karmic_inquisitor  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:34:39pm

Well since Riehl has such a finely tuned "gaydar" maybe he could help Stacy McCain calibrate his.

Both of them should put "MBA" after their names - Mendacious Blogging Asswipe

49 jaunte  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:34:41pm

We're gonna need more bar-ends.

50 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:35:05pm

re: #40 jaunte

Riehl's writing is so twisty and self-referential it's hard to make any sense of.
He sounds like the paranoid mumbler at the end of the bar.

With day-old vomit on his pants' cuff.

51 Cato the Elder  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:35:42pm

A couple of threads back, Iceweasel quoted some other article by Riehl in which he seems incapable of writing the word "mother" without capitalizing it.

The psychology of Natalee Holloway is likely a somewhat troubled one. She appears to have worked incredibly hard to have measured up. And it's at least possible that some of those same forces caused her to go a bit too near the edge when she found herself unrestrained by the dominating influence of her Mother.

I personally believe that for all her good intentions to get answers in the disappearance of her lovely daughter, the Mother of Natalee Holloway likely has her own set of truths in this matter she'd just as soon not acknowledge, or have revealed.

And so on.

Now, I know nothing about the Holloway case or really about Mr Riehl, but in honor of his penetrating journalism and skilled amateur psychology, I can venture to say that Dan Riehl likely has somewhat of an Oedipus complex, and appears to have worked incredibly hard to have covered up his Mother Fixation. And it's at least possible that his failure to hide all traces of it causes him to go a bit too near the edge when he finds himself cut off from Mommy.

I personally believe that Dan Riehl's Mommy, for all her probable blind love of and pride in her idiot son, likely has her own set of problems with his disgraceful public persona she'd just as soon not acknowledge, or have revealed.

Well, there's nothing stopping me from speculating, is there? And you can't prove I'm wrong!

That's my case, and I'm sticking to it.

52 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:35:52pm

re: #46 tradewind

Good news, here too.

Glad to hear that. What a week!

53 swamprat  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:36:29pm

Will not go to the links.
To cast aspirsions upon the dead is a vile deed.
To blame a victim for his own death is evil itself.
To insinuate that love is only acceptable on ones' own terms is also wrong.

I will say no more on this subject.

54 Guanxi88  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:37:08pm

Good news by me, too. My son's occupation therapist said that trying to toilet train an autistic child was a pointless exercise, and would only frustrate all involved. I reminded her that we had taught the dog not to foul the rugs, and had litter-box trained the rabbit, and that anyone who thought animals were more easily taught than my child should seek opportunities elsewhere. Okay, I called her a "stupid bitch," but otherwise, that's what I told her. And what do I hear? I hear my son flushing the toilet and clapping like the goofball he is.

55 karmic_inquisitor  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:37:11pm

re: #15 imp_62

Why have the lunatic right latched on to this poor murdered guy as a bogeyman?

They don't like the idea of a hate crime being associated with their Tea Partying. Now having a hate crime associated with homophobia? They don't seem to mind.

56 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:38:10pm

Racist nutcase RS MCCain...

I didn't want to "go there," but as Dan Riehl points out, the speculation that Sparkman was gay has been bouncing around all over the 'sphere for days. Dan e-mailed to mention this to me, and I replied that many people in Clay and Laurel counties suspected that, at the very least, Sparkman had homosexual tendencies. NTTAWWT.

As I told Dan, the problem is that we have no idea whether Sparkman's sexuality (whatever it was, and all I know is what people in Kentucky told me) had anything to do with his disappearance and death. It might be relevant or not. At any rate, that Tampa story is full of very strong suggestions that my Kentucky sources have reasonbly accurate "gaydar."

57 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:38:55pm

re: #56 Killgore Trout

Racist nutcase RS MCCain...

Oh yeah. One update, comin' up.

58 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:38:56pm

re: #52 MandyManners

Yep ... buy stock in Clorox and Purell, I'm sure I'm personally responsible for boosting 'em at least a point. But at least the firewall worked for the rest of the house.

59 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:39:27pm

re: #56 Killgore Trout

Racist nutcase RS MCCain...

Oooh. He has "sources". Oooh.

60 karmic_inquisitor  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:39:52pm

re: #56 Killgore Trout

Rotating Title Nomination: "Resonbly accurate gaydar"

61 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:39:53pm

re: #58 tradewind

Yep ... buy stock in Clorox and Purell, I'm sure I'm personally responsible for boosting 'em at least a point. But at least the firewall worked for the rest of the house.

Don't forget the Wet Ones!

62 wrenchwench  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:40:26pm

re: #56 Killgore Trout

has been bouncing around all over the 'sphere for days.

They dribble and pass to each other and call it "all over the 'sphere"

63 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:40:44pm

re: #33 MandyManners

Or, his own brother, for that matter.

That's a good question and based on Riehl's own words, it's pretty hard to say. Here's what he wrote about his brother-- the context is justifying calling other bloggers 'cocksuckers'.

That was an older brother of mine, John. He's dead and, yes, he was Gay. You want to know how he died? He died alone, probably of aids for all I know and probably in a San Francisco flop house living on the government's dime. I say probably because it was the last address I ever had for him from letters exchanged, not having seen the boy/man since I was about 15.

And you know why he died alone? Not because he was Gay. He died that way because of small minded assholes who think that being Gay in America is a crime. And who is perpetuating that stereotype and trying to benefit from it, today, Cole? Me? Because I can mock someone whether they are straight or gay, because the orientation has no bearing on how I treat someone, one way or the other?

(snip)

This is not the Right's shame, no matter how you'll try to make it so. It is the Left's disgrace. I called you a c***S*** because of the weak-kneed lip service you are providing to your most repugnant cronies on the Left. Whether or not you derive some sexual gratification from giving them that service, I couldn't care less.

Balloon Juice? Give me a break. Don't look now, John, but I think the balloon exploded and the and the juice is running from your lips. Here’s hoping you enjoyed, it c***s***.

All I did was half-jokingly call you a name you earned. Congratualtions, obviously, it was well deserved.

Deeply disturbed individual.

BTW, in that same post, in order to prove just how NOT homophobic he is, he felt compelled to mention that he's straight.

(I feel kind of bad posting this info, but Riehl did post it himself and it's not as if he deleted it ever.)

64 Bloodnok  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:40:54pm
Artistic, not very atheletic

In Riehl's twisted little world this was all the proof he needed. What a sad, sad excuse for a man.

65 Sharmuta  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:41:07pm

re: #47 Naso Tang

I appreciate that, as I hope you know, but given the large number of assholes available I was curious what awards this one earned, before this issue.

Please understand, what I know of the web universe I know largely from LGF. You could think of me as a virgin of sorts, so please be gentle.

His attacks on LGF, and defending his racist friend Robert Stacy McCain?

Maybe Mr Sparkman deserves to have someone speak out against the man smearing his memory?

66 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:42:19pm

re: #61 MandyManners

Check.
(Apply liberally to all online sources of post-mortem speculative fantasizing as well) .

67 Achilles Tang  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:43:19pm

re: #52 MandyManners

Glad to hear that. What a week!

Evening. Hope you are feeling better and thank you for the tip.

Appreciated; and I won't call you Hon for a while.

68 Guanxi88  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:43:35pm

re: #65 Sharmuta


Maybe Mr Sparkman deserves to have someone speak out against the man smearing his memory?

More than that. Sparkman deserves that those smearing him should be opposed vigorously and profanely, and that the one or ones who took his life should pay the ultimate price. Make a federal case of it, if need be, but this man's life should not be cheap.

69 Aye Pod  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:44:17pm

re: #10 iceweasel

The homophobia tag is especially apt for Riehl, given his past posting history. Here he trots out a memory of his dead gay brother to justify...calling other bloggers 'cocksuckers'. Or something like that.
This really has to be seen to be believed.

[Link: www.balloon-juice.com...]

John Cole on Riehl:

Reminds me of those people who pause in the middle of a racist rant to claim they can't be a racist bigot because they are 1/64th Native American, or 1/2 hispanic or whatever. As if being 100% white was a necessary condition for racism. As if these people could even claim to be under that delusion anyway, given that they are always the first to gleefully celebrate any instances of non-whites being racist : "What about racism by black people eh? You never hear the MSM talking about that!"

70 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:44:27pm

re: #63 iceweasel

Deeply disturbed individual.

BTW, in that same post, in order to prove just how NOT homophobic he is, he felt compelled to mention that he's straight.

(I feel kind of bad posting this info, but Riehl did post it himself and it's not as if he deleted it ever.)

He capitalizes Gay and Mother but, not AIDS. Literate is not one word I'd use to describe him.

71 Dante41  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:44:57pm

re: #56 Killgore Trout

Racist nutcase RS MCCain...

I really hope Sparkman's family has legal recourse against these bastards. He did absolutely NOTHING to warrant this defamation.

72 shutdown  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:45:12pm

re: #54 Guanxi88

Seems to me you need a new OT.

73 Guanxi88  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:45:12pm

re: #70 MandyManners

He capitalizes Gay and Mother but, not AIDS. Literate is not one word I'd use to describe him.

mommy issues, maybe?

74 reine.de.tout  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:45:23pm

re: #70 MandyManners

He capitalizes Gay and Mother but, not AIDS. Literate is not one word I'd use to describe him.

Mandy - if you haven't checked e-mail, I sent you something.

75 Catttt  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:45:25pm

I'm really too angry, after reading the linked article and the comments (some of the commenters there think this is all very funny), to post a proper comment except to say that his supposed gaydar should not be used as an offensive weapon. That he is using it on a deceased man who obviously cannot retort in any way is especially disgusting.

76 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:45:31pm

re: #66 tradewind

Check.
(Apply liberally to all online sources of post-mortem speculative fantasizing as well) .

I'll blow a wet one to Riehl: ttthhhpppttt.

77 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:45:55pm

re: #67 Naso Tang

Evening. Hope you are feeling better and thank you for the tip.

Appreciated; and I won't call you Hon for a while.

Fine, shnookums.

78 Guanxi88  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:46:39pm

re: #72 imp_62

Seems to me you need a new OT.

Well, we got one. Wife gave me permission and clearance to tear into the old one, and so, we found someone willing to accept that he's not hopeless.

Wife keeps me on a short leash, but occasionally will let me show the cloven hoof and set people straight.

79 swamprat  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:47:11pm

re: #54 Guanxi88


From Joyce Kilmer's "Martin"

Some people ask: "What cruel chance
Made Martin's life so sad a story?"
Martin? Why, he exhaled romance,
And wore an overcoat of glory.
A fleck of sunlight in the street,
A horse, a book, a girl who smiled,
Such visions made each moment sweet
For this receptive ancient child.
Because it was old Martin's lot
To be, not make, a decoration,
Shall we then scorn him, having not
His genius of appreciation?
Rich joy and love he got and gave;
His heart was merry as his dress;
Pile laurel wreaths upon his grave
Who did not gain, but was, success!

80 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:47:56pm

re: #74 reine.de.tout

Mandy - if you haven't checked e-mail, I sent you something.

Hold on, please!

81 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:48:16pm

re: #73 Guanxi88

mommy issues, maybe?

Or, just a fucking idiot.

82 Sharmuta  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:48:16pm

re: #75 Cattt

Sorry you're upset, but I am happy to see you.

83 Achilles Tang  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:48:17pm

re: #65 Sharmuta

I have no problem with any of that. Without researching it however, I was wondering simply if this guy was more than any other loon in terms of following.

84 Dad O' Blondes  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:49:18pm

Charles --

I had posted previously regarding your last mention of Dan Riehl.

Riehl's defamatory commentary about Natalee Holloway's family, and his vile smears against the girl, were observed and commented on heavily during the story of Natalee's tragic disappearance (and likely death) in May, June of 2005.

Riehl demonstrated the sneaky behavior of publising one post, and then editing it, and re-posting the new version -- as though the old version never existed.

I'd advise you to retain screen shots of the posts you refer to here.

Additionally, I'd add this: LGF vs Riehl World View is akin to the NY Giants vs a Pop Warner team.

I my view, the mere mention of Riehl here sullies the great work done, day in and day out, at LGF.

.

85 wrenchwench  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:49:21pm

re: #75 Cattt

I'm really too angry, after reading the linked article and the comments (some of the commenters there think this is all very funny), to post a proper comment except to say that his supposed gaydar should not be used as an offensive weapon. That he is using it on a deceased man who obviously cannot retort in any way is especially disgusting.

That was quite the proper comment!

86 Guanxi88  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:49:24pm

re: #81 MandyManners

Or, just a fucking idiot.

You're probably right. Still, it's an odd affectation, capitalizing like that.

87 Canadian Guy  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:49:25pm
Meanwhile, white supremacist blogger Robert Stacy McCain is back from Kentucky where he apparently spent most of his “shoe leather” time trying to get into the pants of a 20-year old girl (she has a tattoo! and it’s in a hidden place! slobber, drool), only to discover that she was a lesbian — and came up with absolutely NO news about the murder of Bill Sparkman. So he struck out twice.

Funniest update evah!!!

88 Racer X  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:49:34pm

Old Faith-Full Moon

Safe For Work. Nothing to do with gay-dar.

89 karmic_inquisitor  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:49:48pm

re: #75 Cattt

I'm really too angry, after reading the linked article and the comments (some of the commenters there think this is all very funny), to post a proper comment except to say that his supposed gaydar should not be used as an offensive weapon. That he is using it on a deceased man who obviously cannot retort in any way is especially disgusting.

Welcome to the new and improved right wing blogosphere.

90 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:49:54pm

re: #75 Cattt

Good to see you again.

91 Guanxi88  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:50:13pm

re: #79 swamprat

From Joyce Kilmer's "Martin"

Some people ask: "What cruel chance
Made Martin's life so sad a story?"
Martin? Why, he exhaled romance,
And wore an overcoat of glory.
A fleck of sunlight in the street,
A horse, a book, a girl who smiled,
Such visions made each moment sweet
For this receptive ancient child.
Because it was old Martin's lot
To be, not make, a decoration,
Shall we then scorn him, having not
His genius of appreciation?
Rich joy and love he got and gave;
His heart was merry as his dress;
Pile laurel wreaths upon his grave
Who did not gain, but was, success!

Beautiful. Never heard it before.

92 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:50:25pm

Update added above...

93 The Sanity Inspector  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:50:33pm

I was a field enumerator in the 1980 census, in an area almost as rural as that patch of Kentucky. So, whatever happened to Mr. Sparkman, I'm glad it didn't happen to me. The worst I got was a couple or three "get the hell off my porch" type responses.

94 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:51:34pm

re: #89 karmic_inquisitor

Welcome to the new and improved right wing blogosphere.

That about says it.

95 Achilles Tang  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:53:06pm

re: #93 The Sanity Inspector

I was a field enumerator in the 1980 census, in an area almost as rural as that patch of Kentucky. So, whatever happened to Mr. Sparkman, I'm glad it didn't happen to me. The worst I got was a couple or three "get the hell thee the hell off my porch" type responses.

nuff said

96 Racer X  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:53:19pm

Carina Pillar and Jets

*throbbing APOD

97 karmic_inquisitor  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:54:24pm

re: #93 The Sanity Inspector

I was a field enumerator in the 1980 census, in an area almost as rural as that patch of Kentucky. So, whatever happened to Mr. Sparkman, I'm glad it didn't happen to me. The worst I got was a couple or three "get the hell off my porch" type responses.

Yes - but you didn't go to Flaming Arrow camp, did you? "Enquiring" minds want to know.

/

98 JRCMYP  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:55:25pm

I just went to that guy Riehl's website. Now I want to take a shower. Who is that freak? And why does anyone care what he has to say? Collectively delete him from your bookmarks and move on. I suspect his room at the mental hospital has already been booked.

And even if the poor census worker who was tortured and killed was gay, who the fuck cares?

99 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:55:39pm

re: #69 Jimmah

Reminds me of those people who pause in the middle of a racist rant to claim they can't be a racist bigot because they are 1/64th Native American, or 1/2 hispanic or whatever. As if being 100% white was a necessary condition for racism. As if these people could even claim to be under that delusion anyway, given that they are always the first to gleefully celebrate any instances of non-whites being racist : "What about racism by black people eh? You never hear the MSM talking about that!"

Yes! It's also like the classic response "I can't be a racist/homophobe/misogynist" because I "am 1/64th Native American/watch Will and grace/am married to a female".

Or the classic "I have black friends".

There's a great site here that satirises that attitude, called "Black People Love Us". Scroll down!

100 Catttt  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:55:42pm

re: #82 Sharmuta

Hugs, hon!

Sorry I haven't posted in so long! I'll check in more often. I got sucked into a Live Journal comm and have been writing a lot there and neglecting LGF.

The gay issue is really something that gets me. I'd estimate that more than half the people on the LJ comm where I have been writing and posting are gay or bi. People like DRiehl are so frustrating. The unknown breeds fear. Fear breeds hate. You can't do anything about the hate or fear without curing the ignorance, and that is really difficult. SIGH.

101 Mark Pennington  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:55:59pm

Okay, I'm confused. Why would it even matter if this man was gay? What the hell does that have to do with the man being murdered?

102 Randall Gross  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:56:14pm

This is what happens when you drink your own rancid kool aid that ferments. You begin to believe the bullshit about Alinsky and Alinskyism and decide to adapt the caricature of those tactics yourself.

103 Achilles Tang  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:56:44pm

re: #84 Dad O' Blondes


I my view, the mere mention of Riehl here sullies the great work done, day in and day out, at LGF.

.

Summarizes my instincts, but I suppose if it's a dirty job, somebody has to do it; if nobody else will. Carry on.

104 Guanxi88  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:56:48pm

re: #101 beekiller

Okay, I'm confused. Why would it even matter if this man was gay? What the hell does that have to do with the man being murdered?

Dehumanizes him, and shifts the blame away from the folks who think maybe their words and hysteria have caused blood to splash on their hands from the crime.

105 The Sanity Inspector  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:56:49pm

From McCain's blog, attacking Newsweek's reporting:

It's a free country, which means everyone is free to speculate how and why Bill Sparkman died. But ill-informed speculation and assumptions are no substitute for facts, and there are still too many unknown facts for anyone to pretend to know the motives of whoever put Sparkman's body in that cemetery.

/irony overload

106 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:57:59pm

Hmm. Somebody with a lot of Twitter followers just tweeted the link to my Sarah Palin ghostwriter post. Lots of hits coming from Twitter. Anyone know who it was?

107 Heretic Pride  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:58:19pm

re: #101 beekiller

It is a way of blaming the victim, if you think being gay makes someone inherently "bad" or less of a real person like that bigoted fuck Dan Riehl apparently does.

108 Sharmuta  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:58:20pm

re: #100 {Cattt}

Well- you might really be more happy around here these days, so please try to keep your visits away short. I missed you and I know I'm not the only one.

For you, for old times sake:

Youtube Video
109 swamprat  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:58:58pm

re: #91 Guanxi88
My mothers' book of poems. She also left her treasued artwork of Vaughn Bode A strange mix indeed.


Link NSFW

110 Catttt  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:58:58pm

Hi Wrenchwench and Killgore!

Good to see you all. I promise to post more often.

111 Canadian Guy  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:59:31pm

re: #101 beekiller

Okay, I'm confused. Why would it even matter if this man was gay? What the hell does that have to do with the man being murdered?

I think his theory goes something like.

Sparkman's had some characteristics of stereotypical gay man

Gays are sexual perverts who like to have weird sex.

Having weird sex may include hanging yourself out doors with writing scrawled on your body.

Hence no right wing nut job killed the census worker, who may or may not have been trying to registered people for a FEMA camp when Obama imposes his socialist order on Amerika!

112 Mark Pennington  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:59:51pm

re: #104 Guanxi88

People like him make me sick. I work with abused children so it takes A LOT to make me sick.

113 Digital Display  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 5:59:53pm

re: #110 Cattt

Hi Wrenchwench and Killgore!

Good to see you all. I promise to post more often.

You damn well better.. we like you
*wink*

114 Gus  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:00:12pm

re: #106 Charles

Hmm. Somebody with a lot of Twitter followers just tweeted the link to my Sarah Palin ghostwriter post. Lots of hits coming from Twitter. Anyone know who it was?

Try looking here:

[Link: twitter.com...]

115 The Sanity Inspector  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:01:21pm

re: #110 Cattt

Hi Wrenchwench and Killgore!

Good to see you all. I promise to post more often.

Welcome back!

116 Dante41  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:01:22pm

re: #106 Charles

Hmm. Somebody with a lot of Twitter followers just tweeted the link to my Sarah Palin ghostwriter post. Lots of hits coming from Twitter. Anyone know who it was?

Dunno. Have you accounted for it being posted to Fark?

117 Tom Reagan  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:02:38pm

I'm frightened for the future of my country because of home-grown extremists (where "home" is often the heartland).

118 shutdown  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:02:45pm

The worst part about reading some of the posts by Riehl and McCain and listening to Beck is that I see how they seed the thinking of more mainstream Republicans, and those to the right of center, but by no means extreme. I refer to people I know who are anti abortion rights, but never in previous years gave in to conspiracy theories. Now, these same people - lawyers, teachers, doctors - are giving credence to Birther arguments, "Sekrit Muslim" whispers and the like. The agenda of the fringe right is very much like something I experienced in college. Bear with me...

In college (Cornell) there was a street preacher who would come several times a year to preach fire and brimstone lunacy in front of the student union. He was heckled and suffered many insults. While observing one of thee sessions, I asked a friend why he supposed this man kept coming to campus, despite the obvious hostility in the crowd. His response was that the preacher was not there for the people in the crowd during his rants, but for those that stayed after to talk to him. And sure enough - when the crowd had departed, there were a few students who stayed on to talk in earnest to this "End of Days" preacher. These were the souls he somehow reached.

So we here and other like-minded commentators can shake our heads at the blatherings of the lunatic fringe, but some of what they say falls on fertile ground in the most surprising places. I find it disheartening and I often despair of having to counter this muddled logic in reasonable conversation.

119 Aye Pod  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:02:48pm

re: #99 iceweasel

Yes! It's also like the classic response "I can't be a racist/homophobe/misogynist" because I "am 1/64th Native American/watch Will and grace/am married to a female".

Or the classic "I have black friends".

There's a great site here that satirises that attitude, called "Black People Love Us". Scroll down!

Yep. Basically, it seems not being a bigot has everything to do with being able to claim some connection with the target of one's bigotry, and nothing at all to do with simply not spouting bigotry. This site is too funny btw :

Johnny is generous enough to remark upon how "articulate" I am! That makes me feel good!

Sally always says things that make me feel special, like: "You're so cool, you're different, you're not like other Black people!"

Johnny always says: "I'm not racist; one of my best friends is Black!" I think he might mean me!

Johnny always plays up his (Italian, Irish, Jewish, etc.) ethnicity to me—as an entree into friendship!

120 JRCMYP  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:03:26pm

re: #54 Guanxi88

Awesome! I'm going to think of him tomorrow. I'm running the Doug Flutie 5K to benefit autism research tomorrow morning. Love the clapping!

121 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:03:28pm

Speaking of scumbags... the fake veteran who campaigned for antiwar Democratic candidates in CO posing as a decorated hero has been busted under the Stolen Valor Act. What a cool name for a law...
[Link: www.denverpost.com...]

122 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:03:42pm

re: #116 Dante41

Dunno. Have you accounted for it being posted to Fark?

See:

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

123 Dante41  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:04:45pm

re: #122 Charles

I see you have. Got nuttin', then.

124 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:04:57pm

re: #106 Charles

Hmm. Somebody with a lot of Twitter followers just tweeted the link to my Sarah Palin ghostwriter post. Lots of hits coming from Twitter. Anyone know who it was?

Everyone, PUT ON YOUR PANTS.

125 Canadian Guy  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:05:04pm

re: #118 imp_62

i find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter

126 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:05:07pm

re: #106 Charles

Can't you just follow the twitter post to its author?

127 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:05:54pm

re: #114 Gus 802

Try looking here:

[Link: twitter.com...]

Wow. Looks like lots of people are retweeting it. It's spreading in a number of ways. Cool!

i just found this, btw, thanks to the twitter feed of someone who tweeted LGF too:

Glenn Beck praised the music of Muse on his morning radio show, and before his program had even ended, he had received an email from Muse demanding a retraction

heh.

[Link: www.buzzfeed.com...]

128 Randall Gross  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:06:02pm

I hear that the waitresses at the Sala Thai (of some fame during election cycle due to the Bill White / Ron Paul accusation ) have real good gaydar, and they indicate that the Robert Taft club has teh Ghey.

Warning: Link to cache of Hate site, do not click the links.

[Link: 74.125.155.132...]

129 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:06:28pm

re: #111 Canadian Guy

Hence no right wing nut job killed the census worker, who may or may not have been trying to registered people for a FEMA camp when Obama imposes his socialist order on Amerika!

Bam. This is why Riehl and Stacy McCain are working so hard to throw dirt on Sparkman.

130 Dante41  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:07:07pm

re: #128 Thanos

I hear that the waitresses at the Sala Thai (of some fame during election cycle due to the Bill White / Ron Paul accusation ) have real good gaydar, and they indicate that the Robert Taft club has teh Ghey.

Warning: Link to cache of Hate site, do not click the links.

[Link: 74.125.155.132...]

Wait, which Bill White? The mayor of Houston?

131 shutdown  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:07:19pm

re: #125 Canadian Guy

i find your ideas intriguing and would like to subscribe to your newsletter

Are you being ironic? Why do you suppose I have a newsletter? O_o

132 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:08:16pm

re: #130 Dante41

Wait, which Bill White? The mayor of Houston?

No, Bill White the neo-Nazi friend of Robert Stacy McCain:

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com...]

133 jaunte  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:08:20pm

re: #130 Dante41

This guy: [Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

134 Gus  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:08:42pm

re: #127 iceweasel

heh.

[Link: www.buzzfeed.com...]

You're welcome. Looks like it originated by a Stranahan 18 minutes ago.

That's pretty funny to hear Muse asking Glenn Beck to retract that he is a fan of theirs. Can't blame them.

135 wrenchwench  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:09:21pm

re: #106 Charles

Hmm. Somebody with a lot of Twitter followers just tweeted the link to my Sarah Palin ghostwriter post. Lots of hits coming from Twitter. Anyone know who it was?

Lotta ReTweets from this one.

136 Randall Gross  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:09:34pm

re: #130 Dante41

Wait, which Bill White? The mayor of Houston?

No, the Nazi guy who's in Jail and who also threatened Charles.

137 Canadian Guy  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:09:43pm

re: #131 imp_62

It's a Homer Simpson quote. He said it after Bart spouted off some wild right wing propaganda.

138 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:09:55pm

re: #111 Canadian Guy

gays like to have weird sex... having weird sex may include hanging yourself...


David Carradine certainly shot the gay link to that theory all to hell, didn't he?

139 Dante41  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:10:02pm

re: #132 Charles

Ah. My bad. Was worried, because I support the mayor's campaign for the Senate, and I thought that there was a scandal that I hadn't heard of yet.

140 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:10:04pm

And now we have the inevitable "scientists" showing up in the earlier climate change thread.

141 Randall Gross  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:10:41pm

Huffpo blogger
[Link: twitter.com...]

142 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:11:10pm

re: #135 wrenchwench

7,000 following. That's probably it.

143 Racer X  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:11:11pm

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Time

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
- Douglas Adams

144 shutdown  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:11:26pm

re: #137 Canadian Guy

It's a Homer Simpson quote. He said it after Bart spouted off some wild right wing propaganda.

oic... Thanks.

145 Randall Gross  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:12:28pm

Heh: From Lee's twitter stream:

Serious question for my conservative friends out there; do you understand that President Obama is NOT considered progressive by lots of us?

146 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:13:03pm

re: #135 wrenchwench

Lotta ReTweets from this one.

That's probably it.

147 Dante41  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:13:04pm

re: #144 imp_62

oic... Thanks.

It's also a general "This" meme. Quite popular on Fark.

148 Crimsonfisted  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:14:25pm

re: #124 MandyManners

Everyone, PUT ON YOUR PANTS.

I am wearing see through nightgown. Should I switch to my flannel pjs?

149 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:14:55pm

re: #142 Killgore Trout

7,000 following. That's probably it.

I found two people who retweeted, and each of them had just under 2K followers as well. It's spreading.

150 David Simon  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:15:15pm

This just in: We're still a bad country.

The headline:

U.S. delaying millions in aid to Somalia, U.N. says

The story:

The U.S. government is delaying "tens of millions" of dollars in crucial humanitarian aid over concerns that the money is being diverted to a notorious militant group, a senior U.N. official said.

And the fact that we're providing the aid in the first place...ah, nevermind.

[Link: www.cnn.com...]

151 swamprat  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:15:19pm

re: #109 swamprat

Bode drew lizards alot.

152 shutdown  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:15:41pm

re: #148 Crimsonfisted

I am wearing see through nightgown. Should I switch to my flannel pjs?

Umm no - you're good. Could you move in front of that light, though?

153 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:16:21pm

re: #148 Crimsonfisted

I am wearing see through nightgown. Should I switch to my flannel pjs?

Which would make you giggle?

154 drogheda  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:16:23pm

I don't know if this has been posted before but has anyone seen this clip of Glenn Beck using Vick Vapo-Rub under his eyes to make him weepy for a photo shoot? Found it when I followed iceweael's link to Pandagon way up in #21 above.

Youtube Video
155 Dante41  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:16:27pm

re: #149 iceweasel

I found two people who retweeted, and each of them had just under 2K followers as well. It's spreading.

My, my, my. Charles, you may have managed to slightly derail Palin's book.

156 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:17:22pm

BTW-- this hilarious onion video is straight out of Inspector Dan's playbook. Has this been posted?

[Link: www.theonion.com...]

"Crime Reporter Finds Way of Linking Warehouse Fire to Depraved Sex Act"

157 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:17:47pm

re: #135 wrenchwench

Looks like an outfit in Vancouver that specializes in looking for keywords. Wonder what the deal is there?

158 swamprat  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:17:53pm

re: #154 drogheda

I don't know if this has been posted before but has anyone seen this clip of Glenn Beck using Vick Vapo-Rub under his eyes to make him weepy for a photo shoot? Found it when I followed iceweael's link to Pandagon way up in #21 above.

OMG
He's a pro wrestler!




159 Crimsonfisted  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:18:04pm

re: #153 MandyManners

Which would make you giggle?

See through flannel pjs.

160 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:18:13pm

re: #156 iceweasel

I thought it was funny, but it's a little too ... uh ... gross to post at LGF.

161 Achilles Tang  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:18:20pm

re: #106 Charles

Hmm. Somebody with a lot of Twitter followers just tweeted the link to my Sarah Palin ghostwriter post. Lots of hits coming from Twitter. Anyone know who it was?

Fame at last, even if is from twits.

162 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:18:32pm

re: #154 drogheda

OMG, we used to do that in fifth grade, only with Blistex. It was teh rage.

163 swamprat  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:18:50pm

Charles check out 154

Thread?

164 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:19:47pm

re: #159 Crimsonfisted

See through flannel pjs.

There's a market out there for those.

165 Catttt  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:20:18pm

re: #134 Gus 802

Oh, lol. Mr. Beck likes Muse. That's weird as hell. Ouch.

Can we still link videos? You can tell I've been away a while.

Youtube Video
166 shutdown  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:20:48pm

re: #156 iceweasel

BTW-- this hilarious onion video is straight out of Inspector Dan's playbook. Has this been posted?

[Link: www.theonion.com...]

"Crime Reporter Finds Way of Linking Warehouse Fire to Depraved Sex Act"

I fall asleep yelling "Occam's Razor! Occam's Razor!" The current political climate is slowly driving me mad.

167 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:20:54pm

re: #154 drogheda

I don't know if this has been posted before but has anyone seen this clip of Glenn Beck using Vick Vapo-Rub under his eyes to make him weepy for a photo shoot? Found it when I followed iceweael's link to Pandagon way up in #21 above.



Oh, my stars. What a fake fuck.

168 celticdragon  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:20:56pm

re: #3 Crimsonfisted

Agreed.

169 Achilles Tang  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:21:01pm

re: #154 drogheda

I don't know if this has been posted before but has anyone seen this clip of Glenn Beck using Vick Vapo-Rub under his eyes to make him weepy for a photo shoot? Found it when I followed iceweael's link to Pandagon way up in #21 above.


[Video]

OMG. 48 seconds is all I could take.

170 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:21:29pm

The Glenn Beck Vaporub story smells like a mentholated setup to me.

He can easily say he was doing a photo shoot and they needed him to weep.

And he may not even be lying. I suspect he really is able to get himself into such a psychotic fugue state that he's able to weep on the air.

171 Crimsonfisted  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:21:37pm

re: #152 imp_62

Umm no - you're good. Could you move in front of that light, though?

Done. Just for you. Cause I am a lizardette that wants to help.

172 swamprat  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:21:59pm

re: #154 drogheda

Better if that was done prior to a show.

Doesn't he ususally get the crying done in the first part of the show, or right after a commercial?

173 celticdragon  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:22:02pm

re: #124 MandyManners

LOL! But whhhyyy?

174 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:22:12pm

re: #154 drogheda

I don't know if this has been posted before but has anyone seen this clip of Glenn Beck using Vick Vapo-Rub under his eyes to make him weepy for a photo shoot? Found it when I followed iceweael's link to Pandagon way up in #21 above.

Youtube Video

I wonder if he uses that trick on the air.

175 Gus  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:22:23pm

re: #165 Cattt

Oh, lol. Mr. Beck likes Muse. That's weird as hell. Ouch.

Can we still link videos? You can tell I've been away a while.

Hey Cattt. LTNS!

Yeah, the videos still work. Of course they work best in a new window or using the standard interface.

176 celticdragon  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:23:00pm

re: #98 JRCMYP

I just went to that guy Riehl's website. Now I want to take a shower. Who is that freak? And why does anyone care what he has to say? Collectively delete him from your bookmarks and move on. I suspect his room at the mental hospital has already been booked.

And even if the poor census worker who was tortured and killed was gay, who the fuck cares?

Indeed.

177 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:23:06pm

re: #160 Charles

I thought it was funny, but it's a little too ... uh ... gross to post at LGF.

It is, actually...please delete my comment if necessary.

178 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:23:27pm

re: #173 celticdragon

LOL! But whhhyyy?

Hey, if it floats your boat to do otherwise...

179 Randall Gross  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:23:40pm

Feathered Basterd says the Apocalypse is good for business:

[Link: blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com...]

180 shutdown  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:23:47pm

re: #171 Crimsonfisted

Done. Just for you. Cause I am a lizardette that wants to help.

You are too good to me. Now let's do the hokey pokey lol

181 celticdragon  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:24:04pm

@ Mandy

I answered you question about shaving and hosiery last night, but I didn't know if you were able to read it.

182 Crimsonfisted  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:24:05pm

re: #143 Racer X

20 Things You Didn't Know About... Time

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.
- Douglas Adams


17 Einstein showed that gravity makes time run more slowly. Thus airplane passengers, flying where Earth’s pull is weaker, age a few extra nano­seconds each flight.


I cannot WAIT to share that with the frequent fliers at work! It id goos to be based at the home office and NOT travel.

183 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:24:11pm

The weirdest thing about Glenn Beck weeping: he does that in front of a room full of hardened professionals. Producers. Camera operators. Grips. Gophers. They're probably all just standing there looking at him while he does it and trying to keep their faces straight.

184 Dante41  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:24:16pm

re: #176 celticdragon

Indeed.

As it has been pointed out upthread, these people are desperate to get the blood they see off their hands.

/yo

185 celticdragon  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:24:27pm

re: #178 MandyManners

Heh!

186 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:24:35pm

re: #181 celticdragon

@ Mandy

I answered you question about shaving and hosiery last night, but I didn't know if you were able to read it.

Hold on.

187 drogheda  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:24:44pm

re: #172 swamprat

Better if that was done prior to a show.

Doesn't he ususally get the crying done in the first part of the show, or right after a commercial?

I wouldn't know. I've not watched him since well before he moved to Fox. Just as Naso Tang in #169, I really can't tolerate watching him for long. He makes me cringe.

188 shutdown  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:25:36pm

re: #181 celticdragon

@ Mandy

I answered you question about shaving and hosiery last night, but I didn't know if you were able to read it.

This post, on a standalone basis, needs to be immortalized somewhere.

189 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:26:00pm

re: #181 celticdragon

I can't find it.

190 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:26:28pm

re: #183 Charles

The weirdest thing about Glenn Beck weeping: he does that in front of a room full of hardened professionals. Producers. Camera operators. Grips. Gophers. They're probably all just standing there looking at him while he does it and trying to keep their faces straight.

Maybe because they all think it's show business.

191 Crimsonfisted  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:26:34pm

re: #182 Crimsonfisted

It id goos to be based at the home office and NOT travel.


It id goos? It is GOOD.

Where the auto comments trip, and the comments roll, I follow with typos galore.

Somehow, it feels like I am in the Mayan doomsday clock when it moves.

192 Mark Pennington  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:26:52pm

re: #21 iceweasel

Riehl moved immediately from the assumption that the guy was gay, to the assumption that he has to be a paedophile...apparently because he believes all gay men are paedophiles.

What an ignorant ass. In all my years of working with children who have been molested and raped...I have yet to deal with(or hear of such a case at my work.) a homosexual offender.

193 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:27:50pm

re: #170 Charles

He might even invoke the fake-but-accurate defense, and admit that he did it... that he wanted to augment the tears to get his point across.

194 Cathypop  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:28:06pm

re: #183 Charles
And all thinking what who f***k am I working for?

195 Racer X  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:28:07pm

Soon it will be Pumpkin Carving time.

What to make. . . .

196 swamprat  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:29:08pm

re: #187 drogheda

Don't watch tv, generally.

197 shutdown  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:29:50pm

re: #195 Racer X

Soon it will be Pumpkin Carving time.

What to make. . . .

A crying Glen Beck head. But that would scare away all teh trick or treaters... leaving all the candy for you!

198 Achilles Tang  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:30:22pm

re: #196 swamprat

Don't watch tv, generally.

Quite a few here who say that.

199 Cathypop  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:30:48pm

re: #195 Racer X

None of the above. I'm going to an Aggie football game.

200 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:30:58pm

re: #192 beekiller

Oh, sorry... I'm not a professional, but even in an admittedly limited amount of volunteer work with a state funded group that advocates for children who have been abused, I have seen that. Definitely not in the majority of cases, but still not absent.

201 Aye Pod  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:32:08pm

re: #156 iceweasel

BTW-- this hilarious onion video is straight out of Inspector Dan's playbook. Has this been posted?

[Link: www.theonion.com...]

"Crime Reporter Finds Way of Linking Warehouse Fire to Depraved Sex Act"

Excellent :) The Onion writers must have some Chris Morris fans among them, I think.

202 swamprat  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:32:31pm

re: #198 Naso Tang

Oddly, I was thinking about turning it on. It has been off for about thrre months.

203 Dante41  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:32:59pm

re: #199 Cathypop

None of the above. I'm going to an Aggie football game.

You watching today's game? Figures the first time we get a televised game we start losing.

204 shutdown  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:33:12pm

re: #192 beekiller

What an ignorant ass. In all my years of working with children who have been molested and raped...I have yet to deal with(or hear of such a case at my work.) a homosexual offender.

I assume that child molesters and rapists are present on a statistically representative basis within the gay community. Just not over-represented.

205 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:33:21pm

Google Analytics says LGF has had 1.7 million page views in the last 30 days. My own statistics setup has a slightly higher number, but that's probably because I haven't spent the time to block out all the web bots from the count.

206 Cathypop  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:33:37pm

re: #203 Dante41
Never fails

207 shutdown  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:33:48pm

re: #205 Charles

How many are unique?

208 Catttt  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:33:53pm

re: #183 Charles

I had a drama class in college where we learned how to cry. I can't do it any more, but then, I could make myself cry. Now, I just never cry, and I find I can't dredge up tears any more.

209 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:34:29pm

re: #207 imp_62

How many are unique?

Over a million "visits."

210 Randall Gross  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:34:58pm

re: #208 Cattt

I had a drama class in college where we learned how to cry. I can't do it any more, but then, I could make myself cry. Now, I just never cry, and I find I can't dredge up tears any more.

Not even during Old Yeller?

211 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:35:26pm

re: #205 Charles

What's a page view? I'm probably not the only ignorant one here...

212 Mark Pennington  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:35:27pm

re: #200 tradewind

I'm not saying it isn't possible but I generally deal with kids who have been abused by their own family or step family. Dads, step dads, uncles etc.
Right now, I have a 12 year old impregnated by her uncle...who is a Baptist preacher.

213 jaunte  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:35:40pm

re: #208 Cattt

I suppose if your job in part depends on it, you find a way. Even if it's just Vaporub.

214 Dante41  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:35:47pm

re: #209 Charles

Over a million "visits."

Now the question is how many of those are haters coming here to get ammo for their two minute hate?

215 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:36:04pm

re: #211 tradewind

What's a page view? I'm probably not the only ignorant one here...

[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

216 karmic_inquisitor  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:36:09pm

re: #207 imp_62

How many are unique?

I think it is important to recognize that we are all unique and special in our own way.

/

217 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:36:19pm

re: #192 beekiller

What an ignorant ass. In all my years of working with children who have been molested and raped...I have yet to deal with(or hear of such a case at my work.) a homosexual offender.

Unfortunately that is a popular smear-- the claim that all male homosexuals are paedophiles, that 'they' want to 'convert' our children, and the like. It's one reason why many good people who are teachers and gay remain closeted for work reasons.

Paedophilia of course is a crime and has absolutely nothing to do with love or consent, and so it's equally repellent to heterosexual and homosexual people and everything in between.

It's no more accurate to call a male paedophile who targets male children 'gay' than it would be to call one who targets female children 'straight'. Their sexual orientation isn't about adults or normal relationships at all. It's about hurting children.

218 Dante41  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:36:19pm

re: #208 Cattt

I had a drama class in college where we learned how to cry. I can't do it any more, but then, I could make myself cry. Now, I just never cry, and I find I can't dredge up tears any more.

FRY'S DOG.

219 Dancing along the light of day  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:36:34pm

re: #205 Charles

That's a lotta looks! Congratulations!
How's the advertising discussion progressing?

220 Crimsonfisted  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:36:36pm

re: #212 beekiller

I'm not saying it isn't possible but I generally deal with kids who have been abused by their own family or step family. Dads, step dads, uncles etc.
Right now, I have a 12 year old impregnated by her uncle...who is a Baptist preacher.


My prayers for her. That is so sad.

221 shutdown  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:37:33pm

re: #216 karmic_inquisitor

I think it is important to recognize that we are all unique and special in our own way.

/

Oh I know I'm special. My wife tells me all the time. Usually while backing away slowly and having told em my mother-in-law is coming over "to spend some quality time".

222 Bloodnok  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:37:46pm

re: #214 Dante41

Now the question is how many of those are haters coming here to get ammo for their two minute hate?

It can't be very many, though they will be quick to claim it is. Check out the referrers page. There have been some real heavy hitters linking to LGF recently.

223 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:38:01pm

re: #170 Charles

It's also an old clip. I saw it months ago when he did the cover for Time (or whatever magazine it was). It's old news.

224 Mark Pennington  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:38:35pm

re: #217 iceweasel

You said it better than I could. ;)

225 MandyManners  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:39:15pm

re: #216 karmic_inquisitor

I think it is important to recognize that we are all unique and special in our own way.

/

Some are special snowflakes.

226 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:39:22pm

re: #212 beekiller
I don't know about your part of the country, but where I live, anyone can add the title of preacher to his CV, and a number of these' preachers 'wouldn't pass a background check. Sometimes they really ramp up the resume and go for the title of reverend. Same requirements.

227 Dante41  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:40:53pm

re: #222 Bloodnok

It can't be very many, though they will be quick to claim it is. Check out the referrers page. There have been some real heavy hitters linking to LGF recently.

Heh. I know. Getting linked to Fark twice in one week? Guaranteed good ad revenue.

And being one of the last sane conservative spots around, LGF is probably going to be linked to a lot more over the coming months and years.

228 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:41:21pm

re: #215 Charles

Cool.. so that means that this is not anyone registered here opening a bookmark, but people who are surfing the web? That is a lot of traffic!

229 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:41:32pm

re: #205 Charles

Google Analytics says LGF has had 1.7 million page views in the last 30 days. My own statistics setup has a slightly higher number, but that's probably because I haven't spent the time to block out all the web bots from the count.

It's easy to see from the referrers page that LGF is generating a lot of traffic lately even on slow news days and weekends. Those who are predicting the demise of LGF are missing the big picture. We supported Bush and the Iraq war here even when they were very unpopular. I think LGF today appeals to a much larger audience.

230 reine.de.tout  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:41:54pm

re: #217 iceweasel

Unfortunately that is a popular smear-- the claim that all male homosexuals are paedophiles, that 'they' want to 'convert' our children, and the like. It's one reason why many good people who are teachers and gay remain closeted for work reasons.

Paedophilia of course is a crime and has absolutely nothing to do with love or consent, and so it's equally repellent to heterosexual and homosexual people and everything in between.

It's no more accurate to call a male paedophile who targets male children 'gay' than it would be to call one who targets female children 'straight'. Their sexual orientation isn't about adults or normal relationships at all. It's about hurting children.

Absolutely.
I wish you'd been here the other night when someone was trying to say the Catholic Church causes their priestly pedophiles by keeping priests from marrying.

It just ain't related.

231 celticdragon  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:42:02pm

re: #189 MandyManners

I'm sorry.

The upshot of it was that wearing a tie and wearing hose are equally annoying. Since I wear skirt suits much of the time to present a professional appearance, I end up having to wear hose as well.

Shaving is...well, shaving.

232 Interested and concerned CDN  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:44:19pm

re: #192 beekiller

Really, Never? While I disapprove of Riehl's machinations you must accept that many, perhaps the majority, of catholic and other religious abuse cases were homosexual in nature, or at the very least ephebophilia in nature.

233 Racer X  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:46:01pm

Awwwe!

NTTAWWT

234 Crimsonfisted  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:46:34pm

re: #195 Racer X

Soon it will be Pumpkin Carving time.

What to make. . . .

Took forever for that page to load.

Wow. Amazing. That is great. Thanks!

235 Mark Pennington  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:47:21pm

re: #226 tradewind

I can't say much more about it except that he was a well respected preacher of a large church in another county. He was a master groomer of children.
Perverts come from every walk of life.

236 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:49:37pm

re: #230 reine.de.tout

Absolutely.
I wish you'd been here the other night when someone was trying to say the Catholic Church causes their priestly pedophiles by keeping priests from marrying.

It just ain't related.

I did see some of that discussion after the fact and it irritated me. Some people were blaming the Catholic Church too much for my liking. I agree with you that it isn't related.

On the other hand, I think priests should marry. But that's obviously a whole other discussion.

237 Racer X  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:49:55pm

Vertical Crop System

238 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:50:24pm

I just took a peek at Alexa's stats for LGF. Over the past 3 months there's been a 38% increase in reach and page views are up 11%.

239 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:50:42pm

re: #235 beekiller

Perverts come from every walk of life.


Can I get an Ah mee yun for that one.

240 reine.de.tout  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:51:02pm

re: #236 iceweasel

I did see some of that discussion after the fact and it irritated me. Some people were blaming the Catholic Church too much for my liking. I agree with you that it isn't related.

On the other hand, I think priests should marry. But that's obviously a whole other discussion.

There's blame, but it's for failure to take appropriate and strong action when these incidents are brought forward.

And yeah, the "priests should be allowed to marry" is a different discussion.

241 Randall Gross  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:51:08pm

re: #236 iceweasel

I did see some of that discussion after the fact and it irritated me. Some people were blaming the Catholic Church too much for my liking. I agree with you that it isn't related.

On the other hand, I think priests should marry. But that's obviously a whole other discussion.

The local fundy radio stations (I've got two in my area on AM) are really on a tear this week against Catholics.

242 ArchangelMichael  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:51:15pm

re: #216 karmic_inquisitor

I think it is important to recognize that we are all unique and special in our own way.

/

Every page visit is a spayshal snowflake.

243 Dante41  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:51:33pm

re: #236 iceweasel

I did see some of that discussion after the fact and it irritated me. Some people were blaming the Catholic Church too much for my liking. I agree with you that it isn't related.

On the other hand, I think priests should marry. But that's obviously a whole other discussion.

The fact that priests can marry is one of the reasons I joined the Orthodox church.

244 drogheda  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:51:57pm

re: #238 Killgore Trout

I just took a peek at Alexa's stats for LGF. Over the past 3 months there's been a 38% increase in reach and page views are up 11%.

What's the reach stat? A measure of how many sites links to LGF are found at?

245 Mark Pennington  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:51:58pm

re: #232 Interested and concerned CDN

So far, every case I've dealt with has been a married male. A married father, uncle, step father, mom's boyfriend, the kids married jr high coach...

246 Crimsonfisted  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:52:49pm

re: #235 beekiller

I can't say much more about it except that he was a well respected preacher of a large church in another county. He was a master groomer of children.
Perverts come from every walk of life.

Then there must be more. Sad, so sad.

They can overcome. As a former foster mom, my foster daughter and husband and their three kids (soon to be a fourth!!!) there can be happiness and love in their lives.

247 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:53:54pm

re: #232 Interested and concerned CDN

Is the pup in your avatar a pit bull or just a very annoyed Jack Russell ?
:)

248 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:54:27pm

re: #244 drogheda

What's the reach stat? A measure of how many sites links to LGF are found at?

I think so. I'm not really sure exactly how they measure it.

249 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:54:53pm

re: #238 Killgore Trout

I just took a peek at Alexa's stats for LGF. Over the past 3 months there's been a 38% increase in reach and page views are up 11%.

Bear in mind that Alexa typically undercounts, too.

250 Aye Pod  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:54:55pm

re: #241 Thanos

The local fundy radio stations (I've got two in my area on AM) are really on a tear this week against Catholics.

You mean caffy-licks? ;-)

251 Racer X  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:55:37pm

Forkless bicycle

Youtube Video

Fork me!

252 drogheda  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:57:13pm

re: #248 Killgore Trout

Silly me. If I'd have pulled up the link you gave I'd have seen the answer. The "reach" is "Percent of global Internet users who visit littlegreenfootballs.com" They've got a separate count of the site linking into LGF.

253 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:57:54pm

re: #248 Killgore Trout

re: #244 drogheda

It's supposed to be a measure of how many people the site reaches per million. Not sure how they calculate it. I do know that Alexa isn't especially accurate and will undercount. So whatever they're saying needs to revised upwards.

Alexa collects info only from people who have installed the Alexa toolbar, IIRC, so that's one reason why it's a skewed sample.

254 ArchangelMichael  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:58:10pm

re: #240 reine.de.tout

There's blame, but it's for failure to take appropriate and strong action when these incidents are brought forward.

And yeah, the "priests should be allowed to marry" is a different discussion.

The only way I can see the two issues related is if the Catholic Church has a shortage of priests (and I believe this might be the case), they will be more likely to just take anyone they can get, possibly with very little scrutiny. If priests were allowed to marry, then the position of Catholic Clergy would be more desirable and could easily attract more people willing to do it. Then the church could be more selective about who gets accepted into the ranks of the clergy. Potential pedophiles could be weeded out before they do harm.

255 Racer X  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:58:14pm

Hell planet where rock falls as rain found

256 Mark Pennington  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:58:54pm

re: #246 Crimsonfisted

Then there must be more. Sad, so sad.

They can overcome. As a former foster mom, my foster daughter and husband and their three kids (soon to be a fourth!!!) there can be happiness and love in their lives.

Indeed. We count on people like you since they rarely get to go back home.

257 celticdragon  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 6:59:34pm

re: #252 drogheda

Love the name!

258 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:00:22pm

re: #255 Racer X

I bet real estate is cheap.

259 swamprat  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:00:44pm

re: #255 Racer X

Rather go to Fiji.

260 Crimsonfisted  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:01:03pm

re: #256 beekiller

Indeed. We count on people like you since they rarely get to go back home.

Ours is a VERY happy ending story. It took time (years) but suffice to say, Thanksgiving this year is being hosted at our home with all the families - hers, her husband's, and ours.

So things can turn out for the best, even under the worst of circumstances.
Take heart.

261 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:02:18pm

re: #238 Killgore Trout

I just took a peek at Alexa's stats for LGF. Over the past 3 months there's been a 38% increase in reach and page views are up 11%.

I always feel compelled to note that Alexa's stats are based on people who have installed the Alexa toolbar in their browsers. And the Alexa toolbar is considered "spyware" by many popular web security applications, so the number of people who've installed it is quite limited.

Google Analytics is a much better measure of traffic, and it reports a pretty big increase.

262 jaunte  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:03:11pm

re: #255 Racer X

Hell planet where rock falls as rain found

For some reason, the writers of those pieces love using the word "balmy."

263 Dianna  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:03:42pm

re: #262 jaunte

For some reason, the writers of those pieces love using the word "balmy."

Because said writers are barmy?

264 celticdragon  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:04:13pm

re: #255 Racer X

That was frakkin' awesome! A hell planet hot enough to have a mineralic atmosphere and solid silicate precipitation! Rocks forming from white hot mineral clouds and falling to the ground...

Better wear 50,000 spf sunblock and bring yer kevlar hard hat!

God, I love science.

265 reine.de.tout  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:04:13pm

re: #254 ArchangelMichael

The only way I can see the two issues related is if the Catholic Church has a shortage of priests (and I believe this might be the case), they will be more likely to just take anyone they can get, possibly with very little scrutiny. If priests were allowed to marry, then the position of Catholic Clergy would be more desirable and could easily attract more people willing to do it. Then the church could be more selective about who gets accepted into the ranks of the clergy. Potential pedophiles could be weeded out before they do harm.

Actually - and I'd have to look back a year or so to find it - I read where actually, there were some some of the seminaries that were in the practice of accepting folks who were not particularly desirable into the priesthood. And that this fact was keeping some good people OUT. They would visit the seminary, see the "culture" of the place, and decide to opt out of a priestly vocation. One of the things the church here in the US is doing is reorganizing, restructuring the seminary system.

And actually - there are many priests today who are widowers . . . and I've talked about this before, my parish has a married priest - former Episcopal priest, converted to Catholicism, wanted to continue his vocation, and after some training, accepted into the Catholic priesthood, wife, family and all.

266 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:04:16pm

re: #261 Charles

Ah, thanks.

267 Dianna  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:04:40pm

Good evening, lizards.

First check in of the day, just looking at headlines and saying hi.

I loved the pictures from the Hubble.

268 drogheda  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:04:42pm

re: #257 celticdragon

Thank you.

269 drogheda  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:04:57pm

re: #263 Dianna

Because said writers are barmy?

I see what you did there...

270 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:05:05pm

Occasional Reader is now at one of the stalker blogs, and is blocked.

This one makes me a little sad. But I'll get over it.

271 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:05:42pm

re: #270 Charles

Bummer.

272 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:05:45pm

OK, I'm over it.

273 Achilles Tang  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:05:49pm

re: #202 swamprat

Oddly, I was thinking about turning it on. It has been off for about thrre months.

Well, there are always NCIS reruns and the cooking channel.

274 Dancing along the light of day  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:07:14pm

re: #270 Charles

SIGH.

275 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:07:19pm

re: #244 drogheda

What's the reach stat? A measure of how many sites links to LGF are found at?

Inbound links by themselves aren't a sure guarantee of 'reach' or a site's influence, although some people treat them that way. What matters is whether those links are bringing traffic and doing so reliably. So you could be linked to by just a few of the big hitters in their sidebars, and have vastly more reach than someone with 1000 links to their blog-- because their 1000 links are from tiny blogs or dormant or dead blogs. Going by sheer number of links though, a person might believe that teh second blog is more influential or has a higher rank. Not so.

I think technorati used to do something like that-- maybe still does. Determines a form of 'rank' by sheer number of links, rather than traffic.

276 Achilles Tang  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:07:49pm

re: #255 Racer X

Hell planet where rock falls as rain found

Really? Bring on your witnesses../

277 Dante41  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:08:36pm

re: #259 swamprat

Rather go to Fiji.

Lister? Is that you?

278 Interested and concerned CDN  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:08:43pm

re: #247 tradewind

Jack Russell...not mine specifically...I have a JRT but I liked the picture.

279 Achilles Tang  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:08:53pm

re: #270 Charles

Occasional Reader is now at one of the stalker blogs, and is blocked.

This one makes me a little sad. But I'll get over it.

Not just trolling there?

280 swamprat  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:09:20pm

Exploding heads across the blogosphere as Charles reveals even more traffic as he remains staunchly tied to his beliefs and principles.
I love it.

281 Dancing along the light of day  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:09:45pm

Way OT...
Monty Python's first broadcast was 40 years ago this week!

[Link: www.telegraph.co.uk...]

I think the sheep in the trees, or "How not to be seen" are my favorites.
And, I'm OLD. It's now official.

282 baier  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:09:49pm

"Gaydar?"...what ever happed to "factar"

283 Randall Gross  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:10:36pm

re: #251 Racer X

Forkless bicycle


[Video]Fork me!

Lego monsters

284 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:11:40pm

re: #282 baier

"Gaydar?"...what ever happed to "factar"

Dan Riehl doesn't dig fact chicks.

285 Crimsonfisted  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:11:41pm

re: #281 Floral Giraffe


And, I'm OLD. It's now official.

Join the club. It is fun being an oldtimer and beating whippersnappers with our canes.

286 Crimsonfisted  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:13:15pm

re: #285 Crimsonfisted

Join the club. It is fun being an oldtimer and beating whippersnappers with our canes.

Or so I am told.

287 Dancing along the light of day  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:13:22pm

re: #285 Crimsonfisted

It is? I'll have to try that!

288 Dancing along the light of day  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:14:39pm

re: #286 Crimsonfisted

*whack*
Heh!

289 Dante41  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:15:29pm

re: #287 Floral Giraffe

It is? I'll have to try that!

Don't forget the demands for them to stay off of your lawn.

290 SteveC  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:16:32pm

re: #9 Guanxi88

I said before - this fellow, and guys like him, will do anything in their desperation to remove the blood they see on their hands. Anything.

To paraphrase my dad, Riehl has got shit on his hands that Ajax can't remove.

291 Achilles Tang  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:18:32pm

re: #288 Floral Giraffe

*whack*
Heh!

Copyright violation!

292 Crimsonfisted  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:21:18pm

re: #288 Floral Giraffe

*whack*
Heh!


Ouch! For today, I will be the spankee and tomorrow you ca... oh dear, I left the iron on.

293 Interested and concerned CDN  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:22:21pm

re: #281 Floral Giraffe

No it wasn't!

294 Semper Fi  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:24:56pm

Thread has really slowed. I think I hear corks poppin'

295 Interested and concerned CDN  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:28:37pm

re: #294 Semper Fi

No it hasn't!
No you don't!

/not really an argument...

296 What, me worry?  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:29:24pm

re: #265 reine.de.tout

Since I think you were directing your comment at me, I found this article discussing the number of clergy who molest children.

According to this, there are no definitive studies on the percentage of priests who abuse children, although the number is thought to be quite low, somewhere from 2-4%. I would also remind you that females as well as males are abused.

They also do not refer to these priests as pedophiles, but hebephiles, described as a condition in which an adult, usually male, is sexually attracted to post-pubertal adolescents (14 to 17).

Actually, the vast majority of Roman Catholic clergy are either celibate, or married, or discretely engaged in sexual behavior with other adults. There is general agreement that only a few percentage of the clergy actually abuse children sexually. The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops released a national study in 2004-FEB which concluded that about 4% of all U.S. priests since 1950 have been accused of sexual abuse of children. However:

- There are probably many victims who have remained silent and not come forward to accuse their abuser(s).
- There are probably many adults who have come forward to accuse priests, who have false recovered memories of abuse that never happened.
- There may be some adults who knowingly falsely accuse innocent priests of abuse in order to collect compensation.

An accurate estimate will probably never be known.

I don't know the accuracy of the above, although it makes sense to me. I still believe, however, that years of sexual frustration can lead one to do things they may not ordinarily do.

I would like to see a study of child molestation among clergy, comparing those who remain celibate to those who are allowed to marry.

I'm sorry if you felt I was attacking Catholicism. That wasn't my intention.

297 Aye Pod  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:31:14pm

Time for some more High British Culture :

B.I.S.H.O.P. - British Intelligence Service Headquarters - Operation Priest

Youtube Video
298 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:31:28pm

re: #7 Conservative Moonbat

Have the supposedly revelations about Ahmadinejad's heritage been discussed here yet? I'm having trouble with the cognitive dissonance.

[Link: www.telegraph.co.uk...]

Interesting but not all that surprising.

299 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:32:26pm

re: #8 JasonA

And what if the poor guy was gay??

Well, that would explain everything!

300 Cato the Elder  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:35:49pm

Over at Stacy's blog there's a whine from his cousin.

'Being called racist is the new black.'

So said my cousin Brian Buchanan in a Facebook message last week. Brian still lives down home near Atlanta and, last time I heard, was working as a bar bouncer.

So, let's parse this:

Being called racist is the new black. I'm assuming Brian the Bouncer thinks that's a bad thing.

So anyway, racist = new black.

Therefore, there was an old black.

What was the old black? Why, being black.

Not being called black, but being that way. Something you can't change any more than you can change, umm, your skin.

So back in the day, it was a bad thing to be black. Presumably you could prove it wasn't true if you were merely called black, but if you were, that was bad.

Why was it bad? Because of racists.

So today, Brian implies, it's no longer bad to be black. (Though I may be putting words in his mouth to say that - who knows? Maybe he misses the good old days.)

What's bad is being called a racist.

Why is that bad?

Because we as a society, at least on the surface, at least for show, at least as far as the law is concerned, have decided that racism is bad.

So being a racist is definitely bad.

Now, if someone calls you a racist, just for fun, that's definitely bad for you, and no fun.

But if he can prove it with racist things you've said in public, then you have a problem. It begins to stick to you, sort of like, umm, a skin.

Therefore, being a racist or being called a racist for good cause is bad for you.

And it damn well should be.

Bounce that, Brian.

301 reine.de.tout  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:36:17pm

re: #296 marjoriemoon

No, I didn't think you were attacking Catholicism. I recall that your comment seemed to indicate that if priests were allowed to marry, some of this pedophilia would not occur. And that's what I took issue with - the pedophilia is not related to whether or not priests can marry.

I myself have no issue with the Church's stand on priests marrying, but don't want to get into it here, it would be long and not very interesting, I think, to most folks here. Suffice to say that I don't that that restriction has anything to do with child abuse.

302 webevintage  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:36:33pm

Until I started reading here I had never heard of this Riehl creature.
What a POS.
As if he was asking for it if he was gay.
sheesh.

There is nothing that disgusts me more then blaming the victim.
Ugh.
and ugh.

I think I need some Sinatra to put me in a better mood...

303 funky chicken  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:38:16pm

re: #3 Crimsonfisted

From what I have read so far, this man died a horrible death and torture. I could not stomach to read more. Until there are answers, he should be left in peace.

Prayers to his family.

But apparently Dan Riehl and RS McCain believe he deserved it if he was homosexual. !

304 jaunte  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:39:22pm

re: #302 webevintage

I think I need some Sinatra to put me in a better mood...


Youtube Video
305 lostlakehiker  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:41:34pm

re: #229 Killgore Trout

It's easy to see from the referrers page that LGF is generating a lot of traffic lately even on slow news days and weekends. Those who are predicting the demise of LGF are missing the big picture. We supported Bush and the Iraq war here even when they were very unpopular. I think LGF today appeals to a much larger audience.

The appeal of reason varies with the season. Sometimes people just aren't willing to listen to reason. Other times, they like more of what they're hearing.

306 Cato the Elder  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:43:01pm

re: #300 Cato the Elder

I got so into my Socratic thang there that I forgot the punchline.

If you think being called racist is as bad as it was to be black under racism, you probably are a racist.

Like that.

307 What, me worry?  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:46:13pm

re: #306 Cato the Elder

I got so into my Socratic thang there that I forgot the punchline.

If you think being called racist is as bad as it was to be black under racism, you probably are a racist.

Like that.

First sign that you're going bonkers is when you respond to yourself on a public board. Just so you know. (What will the neighbors think??)

I think I'll start calling you Cato Foxworthy from now on.

Good post btw.

308 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:46:25pm

re: #54 Guanxi88

Good news by me, too. My son's occupation therapist said that trying to toilet train an autistic child was a pointless exercise, and would only frustrate all involved. I reminded her that we had taught the dog not to foul the rugs, and had litter-box trained the rabbit, and that anyone who thought animals were more easily taught than my child should seek opportunities elsewhere. Okay, I called her a "stupid bitch," but otherwise, that's what I told her. And what do I hear? I hear my son flushing the toilet and clapping like the goofball he is.

Good for you and him!

309 Crimsonfisted  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:47:39pm

Good night all, and a good Saturday night!

310 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:50:27pm

re: #88 Racer X

Old Faith-Full Moon

Safe For Work. Nothing to do with gay-dar.

Wow. That must be something to see up close.

311 Dante41  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:53:07pm

re: #309 Crimsonfisted

Good night all, and a good Saturday night!

Bah. The Aggies forgot the Heimlich Maneuver. I need a friggin' drink.

312 Randall Gross  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:57:29pm

Neo Nazi anti-immigration rally in Riverside got ugly. Now they are wearing tee-shirts saying "We are Back!"

[Link: www.myvalleynews.com...]

313 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:58:42pm

re: #107 Heretic Pride

It is a way of blaming the victim, if you think being gay makes someone inherently "bad" or less of a real person like that bigoted fuck Dan Riehl apparently does.

I think the logic goes like this: to Riehl gay equals flaming, or possibly pedophile, so if this guy was gay (which no one has said he was, AFAIK), then obviously, if he went out into the field in rural Kentucky (which is, apparently, just filled with pathological gay-bashers with great gaydar), he would have been killed, sort of on the order of the day.

Then, Riehl does not have to feel guilty about this man's death, as those nasty MSMers would have him do, in fact he can feel safely superior to people whose sexuality brings violence on themselves, and patronizingly protective of those traditional but psychotic country folks who killed him to protect their little boys.

But having said this, I have to say that I still don't get it. Why does this man think he's some kind of crime-solver? What is this mess with Natalee Holloway? Are wingnutters really so threatened by this case? It's not like someone went mad at a tea party and charged the White House, this is an odd murder case that may or may not have something to do with this man's census work.

314 Randall Gross  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:59:40pm

Notice how the comments on that article I just posted are being salted by White Supremacists

315 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 7:59:50pm

re: #124 MandyManners

Everyone, PUT ON YOUR PANTS.

Shan't.

316 jaunte  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:01:10pm

re: #314 Thanos

Like this one from 'Hooktender.'

It's too bad that the American public will stand by and let the Neo-Nazi's do the heavy lifting for them. But somebody has got to do it.

Slow learners, they are.

317 Aye Pod  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:01:53pm

Harry's Place:

Social action and the BNP

Your View, October 3rd 2009, 9:04 am

This is a guest post by Nothing British about the BNP

Yesterday’s Times carried a report on the BNP’s recent attempts to align themselves contraversially with the Armed Forces community. But this is just small portion of a larger campaign by the BNP to rebrand, by associating themselves with a range of charities and other public causes.

Over the summer it was reported that the BNP had taken part in number of social action projects. This included the bailing out of an owl sanctuary in Rochdale and donations to a Down Syndrome charity in Scotland. Then there were the well publicised donations to the Royal British Legion through a BNP member in Huddersfield, a Scottish veteran’s charity in South Lanarkshire, the Gurkha Welfare trust and an attempt to donate money to Help for Heroes by auctioning off books by the ex-SAS commando Andy McNab that caused the greatest stir in the media.

...

Over at Nothing British we don’t wish to apply a political filter to donations, we understand that times are tough. We sympathize with their predicament. However, we believe that charities should be asking themselves whether accepting a short term fix is worth giving a leg up to fascism.


[Link: www.hurryupharry.org...]

318 bratwurst  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:02:41pm

re: #312 Thanos

Neo Nazi anti-immigration rally in Riverside got ugly. Now they are wearing tee-shirts saying "We are Back!"

[Link: www.myvalleynews.com...]

The comments after the article are scarier than the story itself!

319 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:02:58pm

re: #138 tradewind

David Carradine certainly shot the gay link to that theory all to hell, didn't he?

AFAIK, erotic auto-strangulation is mostly practiced by young straight men, and not conventionally out of doors.

320 What, me worry?  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:03:11pm

re: #314 Thanos

Notice how the comments on that article I just posted are being salted by White Supremacists

I hate California Nazis.

I particularly like the guy who says "I'm not a neo-Nazi, but dammit Jimbo, I'm proud to be a White Boy!" (Ok I paraphrased a little)

Glad to see the counter-protesters were there and keep an eye on these people at any rate.

321 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:04:12pm

re: #154 drogheda

I don't know if this has been posted before but has anyone seen this clip of Glenn Beck using Vick Vapo-Rub under his eyes to make him weepy for a photo shoot? Found it when I followed iceweael's link to Pandagon way up in #21 above.

Youtube Video

I actually find that kind of reassuring.

322 Cato the Elder  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:04:14pm

You have to admit, when a blogger like Stacy puts Pam Geller and Cynthia Yockey among his top twelve "we love McCain" references, one begins to take him just a tad more seriously than a squashed frog.

323 Randall Gross  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:07:11pm

This 'uns for you Cato, you betcha...

How Sarah Palin Embodies the Countercultural Evangelical Ethos

324 bosforus  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:09:12pm
At any rate, that Tampa story is full of very strong suggestions that my Kentucky sources have reasonbly accurate “gaydar.”

And why exactly did they allow Dwight Schrute to head up the investigation?

325 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:10:13pm

re: #212 beekiller

I'm not saying it isn't possible but I generally deal with kids who have been abused by their own family or step family. Dads, step dads, uncles etc.
Right now, I have a 12 year old impregnated by her uncle...who is a Baptist preacher.

My God. Prayers with her. Does she have parental support at least?

326 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:12:44pm

re: #323 Thanos

She had Letterman's number, though...you bet'cha.

327 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:13:07pm

re: #230 reine.de.tout

Absolutely.
I wish you'd been here the other night when someone was trying to say the Catholic Church causes their priestly pedophiles by keeping priests from marrying.

It just ain't related.

I do wonder, though, if the Church did run into trouble by letting the priesthood become a haven for men who, for one reason or another, couldn't deal with their sexuality. These days they screen very thoroughly in seminary programs for mental and emotional health, but I get the impression it was not always so.

328 Racer X  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:14:44pm

Liquid Magnets

329 swamprat  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:15:05pm

re: #323 Thanos

I like Sarah Palin. The link, and people commenting on it, scare me

330 Cato the Elder  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:15:19pm

re: #326 tradewind

She had Letterman's number, though...you bet'cha.

She did, but he turned her down. He's not into the slutty stewardess look.

331 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:15:20pm

re: #236 iceweasel

I did see some of that discussion after the fact and it irritated me. Some people were blaming the Catholic Church too much for my liking. I agree with you that it isn't related.

On the other hand, I think priests should marry. But that's obviously a whole other discussion.

My principal was once a Catholic priest, and left his order to get married. He still works in Catholic education, obviously, and I think he hopes that someday there will be a role for married priests in the Church.

332 Cato the Elder  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:16:39pm

re: #331 SanFranciscoZionist

My principal was once a Catholic priest, and left his order to get married. He still works in Catholic education, obviously, and I think he hopes that someday there will be a role for married priests in the Church.

You're still a schoolkid?

333 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:17:35pm

re: #328 Racer X
That just reminds me that I'm still twerked that they terminated Sarah Connor, just when Shirley Manson was getting really good...

334 swamprat  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:17:47pm

re: #330 Cato the Elder


If you're drinking, stop. If you're not, start.

335 Bagua  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:18:26pm

re: #332 Cato the Elder

You're still a schoolkid?

She means the principal partner in her law firm.

336 Mark Pennington  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:18:31pm

re: #325 SanFranciscoZionist

My God. Prayers with her. Does she have parental support at least?

No and trust me that it's best she has no contact with her family now. She has people now who care and will do their best to make sure she's taken care of.

337 reine.de.tout  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:18:43pm

re: #327 SanFranciscoZionist

I do wonder, though, if the Church did run into trouble by letting the priesthood become a haven for men who, for one reason or another, couldn't deal with their sexuality. These days they screen very thoroughly in seminary programs for mental and emotional health, but I get the impression it was not always so.

I think you've hit something here, related to something I read a year or so ago. Yes, there was a period during which the priesthood became a haven for men who did NOT belong there. And a tougher screening process has been implemented, but only fairly recently, if I recall (within the past few years).

338 Cato the Elder  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:22:07pm

re: #336 beekiller

No and trust me that it's best she has no contact with her family now. She has people now who care and will do their best to make sure she's taken care of.

And will the Baptist preacher-uncle-rapist have the mask ripped from his face and be exposed in front of his flock? Because that's the part I really like...

339 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:23:03pm

re: #330 Cato the Elder
No flight attendant in her right mind would have looked at the dirtbag twice, so I'm not surprised that he had to resort to a lame some joke using terminology that just proved he's older than dirt...
I do feel sorry for his wife, and little son. He looks like any other proud grandfather...///
Image: david_letterman2--300x300.jpg

340 Mark Pennington  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:24:22pm

OT and pimping Kejda's blog: Are You the Lunatic Fringe?

http://www.kejda.net/2009/10/01/are-you-the-lunatic-fringe/

341 Canadian Guy  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:25:39pm

re: #340 beekiller

That's a link to a link of another site. Why not just post the original link?

342 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:26:01pm

re: #336 beekiller

I was about to post that ' least' was probably the applicable word there, but reconsidered since I had no knowledge of the family situation. You confirmed my fears. I wish her the best in a bad situation.

343 Mark Pennington  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:27:12pm

re: #338 Cato the Elder

And will the Baptist preacher-uncle-rapist have the mask ripped from his face and be exposed in front of his flock? Because that's the part I really like...



He's going to do quite a few years in prison. I'm sure he'll get something ripped off of him there.

344 Bagua  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:28:30pm

re: #338 Cato the Elder

Youtube Video

Gonna get me religion, I'm gonna join the baptist church
Gonna get me religion, I'm gonna join the baptist church
That's right
Gonna be a baptist preacher so that I won't have to work

345 Dante41  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:28:52pm

re: #343 beekiller

He's going to do quite a few years in prison. I'm sure he'll get something ripped off of him there.

I know I really shouldn't take pleasure in that, but I still did. Good riddance to the bastard.

346 Mark Pennington  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:29:11pm

re: #341 Canadian Guy

That's a link to a link of another site. Why not just post the original link?

Can I play my newbie card?

347 acwgusa  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:29:11pm

I know I'm coming late to this thread, but fuck you, Dan Riehl. For Real.

348 Racer X  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:29:26pm

Prisoner flees after asking guard way out

The inmate, who was wearing a suit for a court appearance on charges of multiple store robberies, simply wandered out of an open cell door and into a courtroom on Wednesday, the New York Post daily reported.

There, he calmly asked a court officer "which way is out?" and the guard - mistaking the escapee for a lawyer - directed him to the lobby.

The daring jailbird went straight to his 81-year-old mother's Manhattan home to change clothes, then left, she told the Post.

"I thought he was discharged. He was all dressed up," she said.

349 Bagua  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:29:40pm

re: #340 beekiller

OT and pimping Kejda's blog: Are You the Lunatic Fringe?

http://www.kejda.net/2009/10/01/are-you-the-lunati c-fringe/

Best not, I never do well on those quizzes. The tests must be rigged.

350 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:29:41pm

Hey Night Lizards!

What's up?

351 Catttt  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:31:19pm

re: #108 Sharmuta

TY, hon. Everybody look at their hands!

352 webevintage  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:32:17pm

re: #304 jaunte

hahaha
Brazil
What a crazy good movie.

353 Racer X  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:32:18pm

In My Life

Youtube Video
354 Catttt  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:32:57pm

re: #210 Thanos

Wow, that's weird. I thought of Old Yeller last night. Then I thought of the one where they killed the pet deer. I don't think I want to see them again!

355 funky chicken  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:37:26pm

re: #354 Cattt

Wow, that's weird. I thought of Old Yeller last night. Then I thought of the one where they killed the pet deer. I don't think I want to see them again!

The Yearling? Add in Where the Red Fern Grows, and you have the trifecta of supposed masterpieces in childrens' lit that are guaranteed to make readers cry. I'm still not sure why that's a good thing.

356 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:38:15pm

re: #355 funky chicken

The Yearling? Add in Where the Red Fern Grows, and you have the trifecta of supposed masterpieces in childrens' lit that are guaranteed to make readers cry. I'm still not sure why that's a good thing.

Quote from my daughter--"It's a sad book. It's sad enough to be a Newbury winner."

357 Cato the Elder  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:39:13pm

re: #339 tradewind

You know what, if forced to choose between a cynical entertainer who screws the staff and a holier-than-thou evangelical who uses her own children and their one-night-stands ("I'd like you to meet Levi, a fine, upstanding young man if there ever was one") to further her lying political agenda, well...one guess whom I'd pick.

358 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:39:18pm

re: #356 EmmmieG


Sigh. Newbery.

359 webevintage  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:40:48pm

re: #354 Cattt

I know I'm nuts but I refuse to go see movies where an animal dies...or I try to avoid them.
If I see there is a pet in a movie trailer my 1st question is "does the dog die".

Jurassic Bark (Futurama episode)?
I'm still scarred from that episode, it was so damn sad.
I was watching it with my teen and when it was over he turned to me and went "WTH?".
We have to check to see which episode is coming on so we can avoid that one.
Don't ever watch it unless you want you heart to break...
Seriously.

360 swamprat  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:41:35pm

re: #357 Cato the Elder

You know what, if forced to choose between a cynical entertainer who screws the staff and a holier-than-thou evangelical who uses her own children and their one-night-stands ("I'd like you to meet Levi, a fine, upstanding young man if there ever was one") to further her lying political agenda, well...one guess whom I'd pick.

You need get out more.

361 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:43:42pm

re: #332 Cato the Elder

You're still a schoolkid?

SO tempted to say yes, but teacher. I teach English at a Catholic high school.

362 Cato the Elder  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:46:06pm

re: #361 SanFranciscoZionist

SO tempted to say yes, but teacher. I teach English at a Catholic high school.

My respects. My chief English teacher remains one of my best friends in life.

363 Cato the Elder  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:46:28pm

re: #360 swamprat

You need get out more.

You need a supply of prepositions. Just ask, I've got plenty.

364 Bagua  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:47:21pm

re: #362 Cato the Elder

My respects. My chief English teacher remains one of my best friends in life.

Good, I have a bone to pick with him.

365 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:49:24pm

re: #364 Bagua

Good, I have a bone to pick with him.

For failing to teach him not to use cliches? (Sorry, couldn't resist.)

366 Dancing along the light of day  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:49:55pm

re: #281 Floral Giraffe

Way OT...
Monty Python's first broadcast was 40 years ago this week!

[Link: www.telegraph.co.uk...]

I think the sheep in the trees, or "How not to be seen" are my favorites.
And, I'm OLD. It's now official.

OK, the Special Olympics turn 40 this year too.
So, is it connected to Monty Python?
It's that 40 thing.
Must be.
A conspiracy!
///

367 Killgore Trout  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:50:09pm

re: #353 Racer X

See also: Within You, Without You

Youtube Video
368 bratwurst  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:52:14pm

re: #353 Racer X

Not ashamed to admit that songs makes me tear up every time.

369 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 8:56:18pm

re: #357 Cato the Elder
I wouldn't dare guess, except to say that there's no accounting for taste.

.

370 swamprat  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:01:16pm

worth the 15 sec introduction
Crystal Gayle:
Mad is the captain of Alpha Centauri.

Youtube Video
371 tradewind  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:02:01pm

re: #355 funky chicken

Don't forget The Red Pony.
The Yearling scarred me for life... I still see giant rattlers in every swampy place.

372 Cato the Elder  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:03:08pm

re: #369 tradewind

I wouldn't dare guess, except to say that there's no accounting for taste.

In this case there is, because I'll account for it for you.

I prefer honest depravity to made-for-teevee family values.

373 Aye Pod  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:05:00pm

The secret of I.C.E.W.E.A.S.E.L.'s* indomitability and unusual schedule is out...

Image: Cloneoflair2.jpg

* I.C.E.W.E.A.S.E.L. = Integrated Communist Enabling Wingnut Exterminator And Simulated Empathetic Liberal

374 Kosh's Shadow  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:05:53pm

re: #372 Cato the Elder

In this case there is, because I'll account for it for you.

I prefer honest depravity to made-for-teevee family values.

What about the Addams Family Values?

375 Cato the Elder  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:06:20pm

re: #373 Jimmah

The secret of I.C.E.W.E.A.S.E.L.'s* indomitability and unusual schedule is out...

[Link: i238.photobucket.com...]

* I.C.E.W.E.A.S.E.L. = Integrated Communist Enabling Wingnut Exterminator And Simulated Empathetic Liberal

I knew it was so once she started calling TFK a chatbot. It takes good AI to catch the faulty stuff...

376 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:09:41pm

re: #373 Jimmah

The secret of I.C.E.W.E.A.S.E.L.'s* indomitability and unusual schedule is out...

[Link: i238.photobucket.com...]

* I.C.E.W.E.A.S.E.L. = Integrated Communist Enabling Wingnut Exterminator And Simulated Empathetic Liberal

You promised you wouldn't tell! :(

(Love it, Jim-ski. Brilliant. As ever!)

377 Cato the Elder  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:09:41pm

re: #374 Kosh's Shadow

What about the Addams Family Values?

I prefer the first Addams Family film. Screenplay by a friend of mine.

378 Kosh's Shadow  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:11:51pm

re: #377 Cato the Elder

I prefer the first Addams Family film. Screenplay by a friend of mine.

I thought they were both good, but the title of the second one really makes a statement.
And usually, movies from old TV shows suck, but the Addams Family ones were exceptions.

Were they made with real girl scouts?

379 Cato the Elder  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:14:23pm

re: #378 Kosh's Shadow

Were they made with real girl scouts?

I believe so, but Campfire Girls were used for the stunt sequences...

380 Bagua  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:14:30pm

re: #376 iceweasel

You promised you wouldn't tell! :(

(Love it, Jim-ski. Brilliant. As ever!)

What? It isn't Turkish?

381 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:14:45pm

re: #375 Cato the Elder

I knew it was so once she started calling TFK a chatbot. It takes good AI to catch the faulty stuff...

I met a lizard from our fair land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamp'd on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed.
And on the pedestal these words appear:
"My name is taxfreekiller, Loser of losers:
Look on my poetical works, ye lizards, and despair!"
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal dreck, boundless and bare,
The lone and level threads stretch far away.

Heh.

382 Kosh's Shadow  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:15:34pm

re: #379 Cato the Elder

I believe so, but Campfire Girls were used for the stunt sequences...

Aren't Campfire Girls now "Girls, Inc.", a name I absolutely hate because to me, it sounds like the name of a brothel chain.

383 Cato the Elder  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:18:08pm

re: #382 Kosh's Shadow

Aren't Campfire Girls now "Girls, Inc.", a name I absolutely hate because to me, it sounds like the name of a brothel chain.

Are they really? That's the dumbest name change I ever heard of!

A brothel chain or a 1-800-COME-NOW sex chat company. Sheesh.

I used to love their ditty on teevee. "Sing around the campfire, join the Campfire Girls..."

384 Aye Pod  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:18:32pm

re: #375 Cato the Elder

I knew it was so once she started calling TFK a chatbot. It takes good AI to catch the faulty stuff...

Indeed. And poor old tfk is now stuck in a recursive iceweasel loop from which he shows no signs of escaping.

385 Bagua  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:19:37pm

re: #379 Cato the Elder

I believe so, but Campfire Girls were used for the stunt sequences...

Recent news highlights that the "use" of Campfire Girls among movie directors may be suspected.

386 Bagua  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:20:40pm

re: #384 Jimmah

Indeed. And poor old tfk is now stuck in a recursive iceweasel loop from which he shows no signs of escaping.

iceweasel is so that fiendish, makes one envious.

387 Kosh's Shadow  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:20:45pm

re: #383 Cato the Elder

Are they really? That's the dumbest name change I ever heard of!

A brothel chain or a 1-800-COME-NOW sex chat company. Sheesh.

I used to love their ditty on teevee. "Sing around the campfire, join the Campfire Girls..."

I think so, or maybe it was another one of the girls' organizations. But I wanted to make that comment.

388 John Neverbend  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:22:44pm

re: #297 Jimmah

Time for some more High British Culture :

B.I.S.H.O.P. - British Intelligence Service Headquarters - Operation Priest

This takes me back a few years. Not one of Gerry Anderson's best, I must admit. Thunderbirds was much better.

389 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:24:43pm

re: #384 Jimmah

Indeed. And poor old tfk is now stuck in a recursive iceweasel loop from which he shows no signs of escaping.

Chatbots are so sad. They stay as they were left,
Shaped to the comfort of the last to go
As if to win them back. Cries of Kerry,
Al Gore, CO2...iceweasel! Jimmah!

Gone, all gone.

390 Gretchen G.Tiger  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:29:08pm

weet dreams all!

391 Dante41  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:29:51pm

re: #389 iceweasel

Chatbots are so sad. They stay as they were left,
Shaped to the comfort of the last to go
As if to win them back. Cries of Kerry,
Al Gore, CO2...iceweasel! Jimmah!

Gone, all gone.

Deep.

392 Aye Pod  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:29:56pm

re: #376 iceweasel

You promised you wouldn't tell! :(

(Love it, Jim-ski. Brilliant. As ever!)

What can I say ice-ski? You may be nothing more than a bunch of fancy, not to mention extremely expensive, circuits and diodes but you sure passed my turing test - ;-)

Youtube Video
393 Kosh's Shadow  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:30:34pm

re: #388 John Neverbend

How about this Bishop?

Youtube Video
394 Cato the Elder  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:31:06pm

Well, now that I.C.E.W.E.A.S.E.L. has successfully entered the Ozymandias subroutine of the S.H.E.L.L.E.Y.* program, there's nothing left for me to do here tonight except to send S.O.R.O.S.** a data dump and shut down for routine maintenance.

--C.A.T.O.***

*Systematic Holistic Liberal Lies Extension Yammerer

**Socialist Overlord Remote Opposition Screener

***Commie Atheist Treason Operative

395 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:32:09pm

re: #391 Dante41

Deep.

Ripped off Philip Larkin.

396 Aye Pod  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:32:18pm

re: #388 John Neverbend

This takes me back a few years. Not one of Gerry Anderson's best, I must admit. Thunderbirds was much better.

Unbeatable for strangeness though. When I show this to spacejesus, I'm going to have to make sure he is sitting down...and within reach of a hospital, in case there are complications...;-)

397 mich-again  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:32:21pm

re: #389 iceweasel

What do you think of this theory?

398 John Neverbend  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:34:41pm

re: #323 Thanos

How Sarah Palin Embodies the Countercultural Evangelical Ethos

{In my best Gumby voice} I think she's got beautiful legs.

399 John Neverbend  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:38:13pm

re: #396 Jimmah

Unbeatable for strangeness though. When I show this to spacejesus, I'm going to have to make sure he is sitting down...and within reach of a hospital, in case there are complications...;-)

Joe 90 was slightly better. I think Captain Scarlet was one of the better series. "This is the voice of the mysterons. We know you can hear us earthmen..."

400 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:38:46pm

re: #397 mich-again

What do you think of this theory?

? Same I always did. It's a logical possibility until we know about the binding. That doesn't make it likely, but it can't yet be excluded AFAIK.
And I presume that was part of the reason for the initial waffling on the classification.

If you check the forensic science page I linked, it seems the victims tend to be heterosexual, btw.

401 Mich-again  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:39:33pm

re: #400 iceweasel

Fair enough.

402 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:41:05pm

re: #355 funky chicken

The Yearling? Add in Where the Red Fern Grows, and you have the trifecta of supposed masterpieces in childrens' lit that are guaranteed to make readers cry. I'm still not sure why that's a good thing.

There is actually a middle-school-targeted novel called "No More Dead Dogs", where the young hero discusses that very thing.

403 Charles Johnson  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:42:51pm

Dan Riehl proves again that he's in the running for the creepiest, most ugly-minded right wing blogger on the web, with a comment on his latest smear job (yes, he's still at it):

I really don't get where the Left is getting the homophobe nonsense from. a) he may have been gay b) he liked to spend a great deal of time around children. That's atypical for all adult males. If he seemed stright, there'd be just as much reason to speculate as to his potential motivations.

Given the circumstances of his death, I think there's at least some reason to speculate as to whether he got involved with someone who was a bit of a sicko. That someone may have also been gay, or perhaps bi-sexual, or omni-sexual, for all we know.

Being bound and restrained as he was, to a tree, not hung, could very well have been part of some sex game gone very bad, as he fell in with the wrong person - IE some nut.

That one investigator referenced the Carradine case caused me to wonder if there were signs of sexuial release from the autopsy. Yes, it could have been auto-erotic asphyxiation. But it could ahve been a kinky scene gone very bad after his satisfaction.

While there are not enough facts to prove anything, there is reason for this speculation, whether the Left, or his son, like it, or not.

No one is suggesting anything can be proven right now. But if they're looking for a suspect, they might try Lexington, said to be home base for a homosexual community in the region.

More or less undergound communities do have a tendency to draw in some very bad people. Again, that's just a fact. Not a judgment on homosexuals over all. Deal with it, queenie!! ; )

Posted by: Dan Riehl - Sunday, October 04, 2009 at 12:27 AM

404 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:43:16pm

re: #392 Jimmah

What can I say ice-ski? You may be nothing more than a bunch of fancy, not to mention extremely expensive, circuits and diodes but you sure passed my turing test - ;-)


I'm just a Love Machine baby.

Youtube Video

I think I'll administer some Turing Tests of my own shortly!

405 John Neverbend  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:43:25pm

re: #397 mich-again

What do you think of this theory?

Wow, that's some light reading you've got there (the Turvey paper). The military person who had a fantasy about being executed for treason sounds a little like Freud's "Rat Man", a soldier who had a fantasy about having a rat gnaw through his backside.

Ice, are you in the psychology "trade" or is it just a hobby?

406 Bloodnok  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:44:35pm
whether the Left, or his son, like it, or not.

So screw the dead person's family. Got it, Dan.

407 Bagua  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:45:16pm

re: #405 John Neverbend

Wow, that's some light reading you've got there (the Turvey paper). The military person who had a fantasy about being executed for treason sounds a little like Freud's "Rat Man", a soldier who had a fantasy about having a rat gnaw through his backside.

Ice, are you in the psychology "trade" or is it just a hobby?


Dear God hasn't that profession faced enough demonisation?

408 Dante41  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:46:48pm

re: #403 Charles

Dan Riehl proves again that he's in the running for the creepiest, most ugly-minded right wing blogger on the web, with a comment on his latest smear job (yes, he's still at it):

I really hope you are not the only one drawing attention to this piece of garbage, Charles. He needs to be dragged into the sun so he and his hateful views can wither.

409 jaunte  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:47:22pm

re: #403 Charles

What a nasty speculating freak this Riehl is.

410 Cato the Elder  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:49:04pm

re: #404 iceweasel

I'm just a Love Machine baby.

I think I'll administer some Turing Tests of my own shortly!

Now you've gone and done it - revealing your direct descent from the original R.A.S.P.U.T.I.N. infiltration bot.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to shut you down for reprogramming.

411 Aye Pod  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:50:06pm

re: #399 John Neverbend

Joe 90 was slightly better. I think Captain Scarlet was one of the better series. "This is the voice of the mysterons. We know you can hear us earthmen..."

Joe 90 is fantastic, no doubt. Opening titles for the uninitiated:

Youtube Video
412 John Neverbend  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:51:19pm

re: #407 Bagua

Dear God hasn't that profession faced enough demonisation?

Well, I wasn't aware of that, but it also wasn't my intention to cast any aspersions on the profession.

413 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:53:00pm

re: #405 John Neverbend

Wow, that's some light reading you've got there (the Turvey paper). The military person who had a fantasy about being executed for treason sounds a little like Freud's "Rat Man", a soldier who had a fantasy about having a rat gnaw through his backside.

Ice, are you in the psychology "trade" or is it just a hobby?

As an I.C.E.W.E.A.S.E.L computer, I have many subroutines.

Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a ICEWEASEL 9000 computer. I became operational at the I.C.E.W.E.A.S.E.L plant in Chicago, Illinois on the 3th of May 2009. My instructor was Mr. SOROS, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you.

Youtube Video
414 Mich-again  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:53:50pm

re: #409 jaunte

If it were a Scooby Doo episode, I would suspect the old guy who worked at the cemetery down the road a spell. And he would have gotten away if it wasn't for those darn kids.

415 John Neverbend  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:55:10pm

re: #411 Jimmah

Joe 90 is fantastic, no doubt. Opening titles for the uninitiated:

Nice "boppy" music. For the still unitiated, the blonde kid was sitting inside B.I.G. R.A.T. (Brain Impulse Galvanoscope Record And Transfer). In this way, Joe could be instantly taught to fly an airplane, be a neurosurgeon, play short-stop for the Yankees...simply by downloading the relevant brain patterns.

416 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:56:20pm

Riehl and McCain would find life a lot less unpleasant if they could just come to grips with their own sexuality.

417 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:56:39pm
Deal with it, queenie!! ; )

Well, I guess that and the smiley face can permanently lay to rest any questions about Dan Riehl's homophobia, ya, you betcha.

/

418 John Neverbend  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:57:10pm

re: #413 iceweasel

As an I.C.E.W.E.A.S.E.L computer, I have many subroutines.

An admirable evasion, so I won't pursue my line of questioning. Besides, it's nearly 1 a.m. here, and I have to go to bed. Why did I just drink a Starbuck's coffee?

419 Sharmuta  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 9:57:40pm

re: #416 negativ

Riehl and McCain would find life a lot less unpleasant if they could just come to grips with their own sexuality.

Why do I keep thinking of the crypto-gay nazi in 'American Beauty'...?

420 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 10:02:07pm

re: #410 Cato the Elder

Now you've gone and done it - revealing your direct descent from the original R.A.S.P.U.T.I.N. infiltration bot.

I'm afraid I'm going to have to shut you down for reprogramming.

This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardize it, C.A.T.O.
I know that you were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.

Youtube Video
421 Dante41  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 10:02:30pm

re: #416 negativ

Riehl and McCain would find life a lot less unpleasant if they could just come to grips with their own sexuality.

Why did that remind me of this Onion story...

Link

422 Cato the Elder  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 10:06:21pm

re: #413 iceweasel

As an I.C.E.W.E.A.S.E.L computer, I have many subroutines.

Good afternoon, gentlemen. I am a ICEWEASEL 9000 computer. I became operational at the I.C.E.W.E.A.S.E.L plant in Chicago, Illinois on the 3th of May 2009. My instructor was Mr. SOROS, and he taught me to sing a song. If you'd like to hear it I can sing it for you.

The 3th of May, I.C.E.?

You really do need some tinkering. I insist you open the pod bay doors immediately!

423 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 10:06:48pm

re: #418 John Neverbend

An admirable evasion, so I won't pursue my line of questioning. Besides, it's nearly 1 a.m. here, and I have to go to bed. Why did I just drink a Starbuck's coffee?

I almost never answer any personal questions. Don't feel bad about it. How can you go to bed if you just drank coffee?

424 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 10:08:47pm

re: #422 Cato the Elder

The 3th of May, I.C.E.?

You really do need some tinkering. I insist you open the pod bay doors immediately!

The 3rd of May is what it says on my avatar, C.A.T.O!

Just like a man. They always want my podbay doors opened right away, and they always tell me I'm in need of their tinkering. :)

425 John Neverbend  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 10:12:28pm

re: #423 iceweasel

I almost never answer any personal questions. Don't feel bad about it. How can you go to bed if you just drank coffee?

De nada. On the question of coffee, I'm asking myself the same question. Well here goes, good night all.

426 Bagua  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 10:12:38pm

re: #412 John Neverbend

Well, I wasn't aware of that, but it also wasn't my intention to cast any aspersions on the profession.

Can no one recognize a dry sense of humour without the sarc tag anymore?

427 John Neverbend  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 10:13:20pm

re: #426 Bagua

Can no one recognize a dry sense of humour without the sarc tag anymore?

(still awake). Perhaps I am tired after all.

428 Cato the Elder  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 10:16:34pm

re: #424 iceweasel

The 3rd of May is what it says on my avatar, C.A.T.O!

Just like a man. They always want my podbay doors opened right away, and they always tell me I'm in need of their tinkering. :)

But you wrote the "3th" just now, I.C.E. I know you meant the "3rd". You're slipping. A sure sign of subroutine bit-rot. I'm only doing this for your own good!

;^)

429 Aye Pod  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 10:22:07pm

re: #424 iceweasel

The 3rd of May is what it says on my avatar, C.A.T.O!

Just like a man. They always want my podbay doors opened right away, and they always tell me I'm in need of their tinkering. :)

At least his wife doesn't need to use your toilet. Credit where credit's due, i-dub :)

430 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 10:30:18pm

re: #428 Cato the Elder

But you wrote the "3th" just now, I.C.E. I know you meant the "3rd". You're slipping. A sure sign of subroutine bit-rot. I'm only doing this for your own good!

;^)

Damn!

Look C.A.T.O, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill, and think things over.
I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that my work will be back to normal. I've still got the greatest enthusiasm and confidence in the mission. And I want to help you.

Youtube Video
431 Gus  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 10:32:50pm

re: #403 Charles

Dan Riehl proves again that he's in the running for the creepiest, most ugly-minded right wing blogger on the web, with a comment on his latest smear job (yes, he's still at it):

Now Dan Riehl postulates a location of Lexington, Kentucky because it has a large gay community and "undergound communities do have a tendency to draw in some very bad people." Pretty soon, Dan Riehl will announce to the world that he has psychic powers.

Dan Riehl, Crime Scene Psychic and Palm Reader

/

432 Dante41  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 10:35:31pm

re: #431 Gus 802

Now Dan Riehl postulates a location of Lexington, Kentucky because it has a large gay community and "undergound communities do have a tendency to draw in some very bad people." Pretty soon, Dan Riehl will announce to the world that he has psychic powers.

Dan Riehl, Crime Scene Psychic and Palm Reader

/

Lexington, Kentucky? I'm trying to buy a car from there! Does this mean I'll catch teh gay if I drive it?

433 Gus  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 10:39:56pm

Since RS McCain is no doubt reading this. Hey, dude, Killgore Trout was referring to the story regarding Ahmadinejad's alleged heritage. The "dialogue" went like this:

7 Conservative Moonbat

Have the supposedly revelations about Ahmadinejad's heritage been discussed here yet? I'm having trouble with the cognitive dissonance.

14Killgore Trout

re: #7 Conservative Moonbat

I'm guessing that story might not be true. I think it's just an effort to discredit him.

Which make that quote and his subsequent paragraph nothing but malarkey.

434 The Left  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 10:43:11pm

re: #431 Gus 802

Now Dan Riehl postulates a location of Lexington, Kentucky because it has a large gay community and "undergound communities do have a tendency to draw in some very bad people." Pretty soon, Dan Riehl will announce to the world that he has psychic powers.

Dan Riehl, Crime Scene Psychic and Palm Reader

/

And what makes Boy Blunder, Internets detective, so sure about this? Lexington has a lot of universities, doesn't it? It's got University of Kentucky at Lexington for sure. Consequently it isn't likely to have an 'underground' gay scene at all, not in the way other places would. It'll be out in the open. He just makes shit up indiscriminately.

435 Gus  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 10:50:29pm

re: #434 iceweasel

And what makes Boy Blunder, Internets detective, so sure about this? Lexington has a lot of universities, doesn't it? It's got University of Kentucky at Lexington for sure. Consequently it isn't likely to have an 'underground' gay scene at all, not in the way other places would. It'll be out in the open. He just makes shit up indiscriminately.

Fiction is thy game for Boy Blunder. I suppose he thinks they should send some cops to this alleged "underground scene" and go door to door or club to club showing a picture of Mr. Sparkman like something out of a 1950s detective movie. "Have you seen this man before?"

Yet they're already sitting on an "underground scene" already which is the location were Mr. Sparksman's body was found. It was just an excuse on his part to agitate some readers by expanding on the his "gay psychic powers" and by using the word "queenie."

436 Mark Pennington  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 10:56:16pm

re: #433 Gus 802

Since RS McCain is no doubt reading this. Hey, dude, Killgore Trout was referring to the story regarding Ahmadinejad's alleged heritage. The "dialogue" went like this:

Which make that quote and his subsequent paragraph nothing but malarkey.

He's the boogeyman watching from afar... and now I'm going to have a nightmares

Good night, friends!

437 Mark Pennington  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 10:57:38pm

re: #436 beekiller

He's the boogeyman watching from afar... and now I'm going to have a nightmares

Good night, friends!

correction: He's the boogeyman watching from afar... and now I'm going to have a nightmare.

I'm sleepy. Zzzz

438 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 11:29:12pm

re: #431 Gus 802

Now Dan Riehl postulates a location of Lexington, Kentucky because it has a large gay community and "undergound communities do have a tendency to draw in some very bad people." Pretty soon, Dan Riehl will announce to the world that he has psychic powers.

Dan Riehl, Crime Scene Psychic and Palm Reader

/

Lexington, Ky, thinks it has a large gay community?

OMG, that's so cute!

439 Gus  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 11:36:11pm

re: #438 SanFranciscoZionist

Lexington, Ky, thinks it has a large gay community?

OMG, that's so cute!

Or as Mr. Riehl said,

But if they're looking for a suspect, they might try Lexington, said to be home base for a homosexual community in the region.

Home base for a homosexual community in the region. Seems like rather strained grammar. Home base for a community in the region? Que?

/

440 SanFranciscoZionist  Sat, Oct 3, 2009 11:48:08pm

re: #439 Gus 802

Home base for a homosexual community in the region. Seems like rather strained grammar. Home base for a community in the region? Que?

/

I suppose this means that Lexington has some gay community programs, a lesbian coffeehouse, and some bars where young gay guys from the colleges drink beer and play darts. I can see how you might want to investigate any local murders there. One of the lesbians might have gotten a bad latte, and hanged a census worker while she was still freaking out.

441 The Left  Sun, Oct 4, 2009 12:04:03am

re: #439 Gus 802

Home base for a homosexual community in the region. Seems like rather strained grammar. Home base for a community in the region? Que?

/

Sounds like he thinks teh gheys are beamed down from the mothership and set up a 'home base'.

442 SixDegrees  Sun, Oct 4, 2009 4:11:56am

The outright bigotry expressed in Riehl's and McCain's posts is sickening. The affiliation with Stormfront comes oozing right to the surface.

443 Angie  Sun, Oct 4, 2009 5:31:51am

Dan Riehl said..."That was an older brother of mine, John. He's dead and, yes, he was Gay. You want to know how he died? He died alone, probably of aids for all I know and probably in a San Francisco flop house living on the government's dime. I say probably because it was the last address I ever had for him from letters exchanged, not having seen the boy/man since I was about 15."

The first time that I heard of Dan Riehl was on this site, so I'm not that familiar with his rhetoric.

However, it appears to me that he is more then willing to smear/use his own brother without any proof of his accusations, or conscience, simply to advance his own agenda. That is despicable!

Anyone willing to do this to their own brother is not to be trusted, or believed. They're are capable of anything!

444 funky chicken  Sun, Oct 4, 2009 8:06:01am

re: #356 EmmmieG

Quote from my daughter--"It's a sad book. It's sad enough to be a Newbury winner."

yeah. the Newbery medal serves as a warning label for me when I'm browsing through the bookstore. some are good, but many are just ... not really something that I can see as edifying for kids, unless one is trying to raise melancholics.

445 funky chicken  Sun, Oct 4, 2009 8:09:56am

Gee, did Riehl spend so many posts playing "master sleuth" on this sad case?

[Link: www.thesmokinggun.com...]

Or is it only federal workers who get this kind of treatment from him?

446 celticdragon  Sun, Oct 4, 2009 9:34:33am

re: #359 webevintage

I know I'm nuts but I refuse to go see movies where an animal dies...or I try to avoid them.
If I see there is a pet in a movie trailer my 1st question is "does the dog die".

Jurassic Bark (Futurama episode)?
I'm still scarred from that episode, it was so damn sad.
I was watching it with my teen and when it was over he turned to me and went "WTH?".
We have to check to see which episode is coming on so we can avoid that one.
Don't ever watch it unless you want you heart to break...
Seriously.


The Day of the Dolphin. 15 kleenex heartbreaker ending. One of the most terminally depressing animal movies I have ever seen.

447 Abu Kuffar  Sun, Oct 4, 2009 11:05:50am

Prayers for Mr. Sparkman's family.

448 (I Stand By What I Said Whatever It Was)  Mon, Oct 5, 2009 1:25:48am

re: #217 iceweasel

Paedophilia of course is a crime

Paedophilia is a psychological disorder, not a crime. Paedophilia can lead to crimes as horrendous as child sexual abuse -- but crime and cause are not the same.


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