Wingnut Blogger Jim Hoft Uncovers Another Secret Far Left Plot

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DERPThere is one man who is truly the Dimmest Wingnut Blogger of Them All: St. Louis religious fanatic Jim Hoft, the Gateway Pundit. In a field crammed with hateful, reality-impaired numbskulls, Hoft is a stand-out for his astoundingly dense, yet mind-bendingly dishonest blog posts. Who will ever forget the time he claimed a closed caption was actually a secret plot by the Obama-thing to tell the audience when to applaud? Then refused to correct it? Ah, good times.

Today Hoft is trumpeting another STUNNER of a story, pulling back the curtain on yet another plot by “hardcore activists” to oppress right wingers by taking away their God-given right to control women’s reproductive systems: Stunner. Georgetown “Coed” Sandra Fluke Is a 30 Year-Old Women’s Rights Activist.

What a shock! It was all a BIG PRODUCTION!
The Democrat’s token abused college coed is actually a 30 year-old hardcore women’s rights activist.

Sandra Fluke is also the past president of Law Students for Reproductive Justice.

Yes, the dastardly hardcore Ms Fluke cleverly concealed the evidence of her feminazi activism by listing her name on the front page of the Law Students for Reproductive Justice website.

Who would ever think of looking there? And … an activist who testifies to Congress? Inconceivable!

Thank Ronnie Reagan’s ghost that we have true patriots like Jim Hoft to keep us aware of the secret machinations of the hardcore, far left women’s rights movement.

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478 comments
1 Lidane  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 12:58:13pm

Dumbest man on the internet, hands down.

I'm amazed he gets through the day without a crash helmet.

2 wrenchwench  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 12:59:35pm

re: #1 Lidane

Dumbest man on the internet, hands down.

I'm amazed he gets through the day without a crash helmet.

What's that on his head, then? Oh, wait...

3 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 12:59:40pm

So the big secret is that a women's rights activist is a women's rights activists?

Next you're going to try and tell me she was talking about prescription drugs being covered by her insurance and not about having sex.

4 Obdicut  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:00:39pm

I thought she was a 19 year old nun.

Newsflash, Mr. Hoft: She wasn't calling herself a co-ed, you rube.

5 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:00:54pm

I am surprised this didn't come with a poorly microsoft paint job painting devil horns on Fluke's head. Jim Hoft is even dumber than Limbaugh.

6 erik_t  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:01:14pm

Again with the 'coed coed coed'.

Someday, can we call female college students 'college students'?

7 Obdicut  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:02:05pm

They also still don't get that she was testifying on behalf of her friend, maybe because the concept of altruism is just too foreign to them.

8 Lidane  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:02:31pm

re: #6 erik_t

Someday, can we call female college students 'college students'?

That would involve respecting women. Not going to happen anytime soon.

9 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:02:34pm

re: #4 Obdicut

I thought she was a 19 year old nun.

Newsflash, Mr. Hoft: She wasn't calling herself a co-ed, you rube.

It was the right wing who started this "coed" crap in the first place - that nasty CNS News article I posted.

10 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:02:46pm

re: #7 Obdicut

They also still don't get that she was testifying on behalf of her friend, maybe because the concept of altruism is just too foreign to them.

I think that is what has me angered most about the whole thing.

11 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:03:03pm

re: #4 Obdicut

I thought she was a 19 year old nun.

Newsflash, Mr. Hoft: She wasn't calling herself a co-ed, you rube.

Wingnut misinterprets story, other wingnuts pile on, further distorting the original story, Fox News and conservative Talk media pile on board to discuss the controversy.

We now have the conservative media business model.

12 Lidane  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:03:38pm

re: #11 Kragar

Wingnut misinterprets story, other wingnuts pile on, further distorting the original story, Fox News and conservative Talk media pile on board to discuss the controversy.

We now have the conservative media business model.

It's basically the telephone game, but with more stupid and fail.

13 wrenchwench  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:05:52pm

re: #7 Obdicut

They also still don't get that she was testifying on behalf of her friend, maybe because the concept of altruism is just too foreign to them.

Her friend, who didn't need contraception.

Another foreign concept.

14 goddamnedfrank  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:06:37pm

re: #6 erik_t

Again with the 'coed coed coed'.

Someday, can we call female college students 'college students'?

It's way overdue, since women have long surpassed men in college enrollment and most recently in the attainment of advanced post graduate degrees.

15 wrenchwench  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:07:46pm

re: #14 goddamnedfrank

It's way overdue, since women have long surpassed men in college enrollment and most recently in the attainment of advanced post graduate degrees.

So at this point, "coed" should mean "Male college student", if anything.

16 jaunte  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:08:40pm

What's a hardcore women’s rights activist?

17 Bulworth  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:09:10pm

I bet she's a community organizer, too. /

18 RurouniKenshin  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:09:14pm

I mean, besides the fact that DUH, they don't bring random grad students in to testify before congress, what does 30 years old have to do with ANYTHING?

This man is so dumb that reading about him on LGF actually makes me feel slightly dumber.

19 Charleston Chew  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:09:59pm

I wouldn't have guessed that Hoft had something in common with Jack Weinberg, the 60s leader of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, who said, "Don’t trust anybody over 30."

20 efuseakay  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:10:53pm

There's a thread on FR where they are trying to dig up any and all "dirt" on her. It's sad really... "What kind of clothes does she wear? She have a trust fund?" etc...

Lots of typical nastiness coming from them.

Here

Rush as always was right, Sandra Fluke is an unmarried woman having sex and is therefore a slut.

America was lost her way over the last couple years where today the queers want to get married and these unmarried ladies want to have sex.

24 posted on 03/02/2012 11:33:08 AM PST by Uncle Slayton
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21 SpaceJesus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:11:04pm

lol Practically every person in Law School is a member of an advocacy group. Hell, I was treasurer of my school's Federalist Society and the ACLU at the same time.

22 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:11:04pm

re: #19 Charleston Chew

I wouldn't have guessed that Hoft had something in common with Jack Weinberg, the 60s leader of the Free Speech Movement at Berkeley, who said, "Don’t trust anybody over 30."

They probably trusted Timothy Leary :) but yeah. Who cares that she's 30. Yeah maybe she's a little older than the average law student but that has no bearing whatsoever on who she is and what she said and the pathetic attacks on her.

23 Batman  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:11:12pm

Maybe he's surprised people over thirty can have sex?

24 Bulworth  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:11:25pm

re: #16 jaunte

What's a hardcore women’s rights activist?

Someone who means it. Someone who takes action. Can't have that. /

25 SpaceJesus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:11:28pm

what a moron

26 erik_t  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:11:58pm

America has lost her way over the last couple years where today ... these unmarried ladies want to have sex

Interesting definition of 'a couple'.

27 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:12:06pm

Speaking of dumb wingnuts...

Sarah Palin rips GOP race: Petty, bickering

Sarah Palin says Republican voters are starting to get sick and tired of the “pettiness” and the “bickering” in the GOP presidential primary race.

“Alaskans whom I speak with, we’re so tired of the pettiness within the GOP process,” Palin said in an interview with Greta Van Susteren to air on Fox News Friday night, a preview of which was posted online. “As you know, the folks are bickering back and forth about different tactics taken within their campaigns in this nominating process.”

28 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:12:29pm

re: #25 SpaceJesus

what a moron

that's an insult to morons.

Seriously there needs to be a new term for this level of dumb. I mean there's low intelligence then there is looooooooowwwwwwwwww intelligence.

29 Charleston Chew  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:12:48pm

re: #3 Kragar

So the big secret is that a women's rights activist is a women's rights activists?

Next you're going to try and tell me she was talking about prescription drugs being covered by her insurance and not about having sex.

Perhaps when a person reaches an extreme level of paranoia, the best way to keep something secret from them is to just tell them all about it. They'll never believe you.

30 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:13:09pm

re: #27 Kragar

The Alaskans she speaks of are the ones in her head I am guessing?

31 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:14:07pm

re: #20 efuseakay

There's a thread on FR where they are trying to dig up any and all "dirt" on her. It's sad really... "What kind of clothes does she wear? She have a trust fund?" etc...

Lots of typical nastiness coming from them.

Here

Because every guy I knew growing up wanted nothing to do with sex until he could do so as a married man. Such activity was unheard of until those damn hippies came around and ruined everything.

32 Bulworth  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:14:10pm

re: #27 Kragar

Speaking of dumb wingnuts...

Sarah Palin rips GOP race: Petty, bickering

Palin's been to Alaska lately? Thought she pretty much decamped to Arizona.

33 Mocking Jay  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:14:22pm

Holy shit!

Saints Violated 'Bounty Rule': New Orleans Defenders Targeted Opponents With Intent To Injure

NEW YORK -- The NFL says that New Orleans Saints players maintained a bounty program over the last three seasons that targeted opponents with the intent to injure them.

The league disclosed the findings of an investigation Friday, saying between 22 and 27 defensive players and at least one assistant coach were involved. No punishments have been handed out yet, but they could include suspensions and fines.

Commissioner Roger Goodell said he is troubled because the system, "involved not just payments for `performance,' but also for injuring opposing players. The bounty rule promotes two key elements of NFL football: player safety and competitive integrity."

Friggin' barbarians. Ooo, fines and suspensions. That'll put a stop to this.

*eyeroll*

34 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:14:39pm

re: #27 Kragar

Speaking of dumb wingnuts...

Sarah Palin rips GOP race: Petty, bickering

There's something funny about a bickering and petty person like Palin calling that out. Don't tell me why, I'm thinking about it.

35 Charleston Chew  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:14:44pm

re: #6 erik_t

Again with the 'coed coed coed'.

Someday, can we call female college students 'college students'?

"Coed" is one of those words only people older than me say. Like "gal", "slacks", and "the john".

36 Varek Raith  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:16:07pm

Lol what an idiot.

37 SpaceJesus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:16:27pm

More Derp.

Conservative Christians are going after Miley Cyrus for tweeting science.

[Link: popcrush.com...]

38 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:16:40pm

re: #29 Charleston Chew

Perhaps when a person reaches an extreme level of paranoia, the best way to keep something secret from them is to just tell them all about it. They'll never believe you.

One of the RPGs I used to play had an empire based on various monster races joining together. The group with the highest literacy rate was the one who was convinced the others were writing nasty things about them.

39 Bulworth  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:17:32pm

re: #37 SpaceJesus

More Derp.

Conservative Christians are going after Miley Cyrus for tweeting science.

[Link: popcrush.com...]

Miley also expressed some rather wingnutty incorrect words for teh gay. They hate her.

40 Big Steve  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:17:48pm

I got my first degree in Philosophy (yea I know pretty useless) but that (and a minor in chemistry) got me a lab tech job. Then while working full time, I went back to school and got a graduate degree in chemical engineering which I completed when I was 30.....so being a student at 30 is absolutely normal so a big Fuck off to Mr Hoft.

41 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:17:58pm

re: #20 efuseakay

There's a thread on FR where they are trying to dig up any and all "dirt" on her. It's sad really... "What kind of clothes does she wear? She have a trust fund?" etc...

Lots of typical nastiness coming from them.

Here

Let me know when they determine what kind of counter-tops she has...

42 Lidane  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:17:59pm

re: #20 efuseakay

There's a thread on FR where they are trying to dig up any and all "dirt" on her. It's sad really... "What kind of clothes does she wear? She have a trust fund?" etc...

Typical shaming tactics. I'm not surprised.

It's no better than Michelle Malkin digging through a family's trash to try and prove they were abusing SCHIP.

43 Lidane  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:18:56pm

What right wing sexism?

44 SpaceJesus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:19:11pm

re: #39 Bulworth

indeed, she has no problem with ssm. she's also a young woman, a fact of gender which infuriates them to no end.

45 Bulworth  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:20:04pm

re: #44 SpaceJesus

indeed, she has no problem with ssm. she's also a young woman, a fact of gender which infuriates them to no end.

I think they all expected her to grab a gun and start talking about how awesome it is to shoot small, defenseless animals.

46 Charleston Chew  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:20:45pm

re: #26 erik_t

Interesting definition of 'a couple'.

By that measurement, I estimate Columbus discovered America approximately 10 couples of years ago.

47 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:20:49pm

Miley said she's smoked pot before too. Her music isn't my cup of tea but she seems like a reasonable person. Same thing with Lady Gaga. I don't have any Gaga on my iPod but Gaga's been a huge voice for gay rights.

48 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:21:00pm

re: #44 SpaceJesus

indeed, she has no problem with ssm. she's also a young woman, a fact of gender which infuriates them to no end.

I missed the extra s in ssm and read it as sm....I WOOHOO'd for a moment...I know I am a bad person.

49 SpaceJesus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:21:46pm

re: #45 Bulworth

i think they expect her to grab an apron and get to making them dinner

50 Romantic Heretic  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:21:52pm
Rush as always was right, Sandra Fluke is an unmarried woman having sex and is therefore a slut.

America was lost her way over the last couple years where today the queers want to get married and these unmarried ladies want to have sex.

24 posted on 03/02/2012 11:33:08 AM PST by Uncle Slayton
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Well Jesus, buddy. Just because your only sexual relationship is with your right hand doesn't mean you should unload on people you think are getting some.

51 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:22:06pm

re: #47 HappyWarrior

Miley said she's smoked pot before too. Her music isn't my cup of tea but she seems like a reasonable person. Same thing with Lady Gaga. I don't have any Gaga on my iPod but Gaga's been a huge voice for gay rights.

if you had gaga on your i-pod shouldn't you wipe it off, or is that only if it's googoo?

52 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:22:23pm

re: #40 Big Steve

Absolutely. The LCAC put together an analysis and found that while 50% of applicants are coming directly from undergrad (age 22-24), roughly 30% were 25-29 and nearly 20% being 30 or older.

53 Charleston Chew  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:22:26pm

re: #27 Kragar

Speaking of dumb wingnuts...

Sarah Palin rips GOP race: Petty, bickering

In other words, Sarah Palin bickers pettily over petty bickering. If that woman ever discovers what irony is, it will blow her mind.

54 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:23:08pm

I really hate how super hypocritical and judgmental people are when it comes to other peoples sex lives. Mind your own damn business.

55 Mocking Jay  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:23:40pm

re: #54 HappyWarrior

I really hate how super hypocritical and judgmental people are when it comes to other peoples sex lives. Mind your own damn business.

Sounds like someone's having too much sex...

Oh wait, you're a guy. Nevermind.

56 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:24:37pm
Youtube Video
57 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:25:05pm

re: #55 The Right Height

Sounds like someone's having too much sex...

Oh wait, you're a guy. Nevermind.

define too much?

58 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:25:26pm

re: #54 HappyWarrior

I really hate how super hypocritical and judgmental people are when it comes to other peoples sex lives. Mind your own damn business.

The Government has no business telling a company how to manage its employee benefits, its drilling operations in sensitive lands, or managing home loans, but it definitely needs to tell every American what they can and can't do with their own reproductive organs.

59 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:26:23pm

re: #58 Kragar

The Government has no business telling a company how to manage its employee benefits, its drilling operations in sensitive lands, or managing home loans, but it definitely needs to tell every American what they can and can't do with their own reproductive organs.

Ladies and Gentlemen, modern American conservatism.

60 Lidane  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:27:17pm

Who cares about sexism and misogyny now? You're going to get paid later!

61 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:27:23pm

Rush Limbaugh puts 1300 American auto workers out of work

62 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:27:42pm

BTW, Hoft must have thought it clever to use the term hardcore to describe Fluke's activities as an activist. Riffing on Rush's calls for her to make a video or something... meh.

63 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:28:20pm

re: #35 Charleston Chew

"Coed" is one of those words only people older than me say. Like "gal", "slacks", and "the john".

Rush thought you said "gal", "slacks" and "a john".
/

64 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:28:33pm

re: #60 Lidane

Who cares about sexism and misogyny now? You're going to get paid later!

I'm going to win the lottery later, so I'll just live the life now and pay it off when I get the payday.

65 Obdicut  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:28:42pm

re: #61 Kragar

It's only for five weeks, at the moment.

66 erik_t  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:29:26pm

re: #61 Kragar

Rush Limbaugh puts 1300 American auto workers out of work

You can't put a gun rack in a radio program.

67 iossarian  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:29:34pm

re: #6 erik_t

Again with the 'coed coed coed'.

Someday, can we call female college students 'college students'?

I know, but then the Republicans are stuck in the 50s, so it's no surprise that they still use the language of bobby sox and soda fountains.

68 Sionainn  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:30:22pm

re: #58 Kragar

The Government has no business telling a company how to manage its employee benefits, its drilling operations in sensitive lands, or managing home loans, but it definitely needs to tell every American what they can and can't do with their own reproductive organs.

"If I wanted the government in my womb, I'd f*ck a senator"

69 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:30:39pm

re: #65 Obdicut

It's only for five weeks, at the moment.

Tell that to the guys not getting paid for 5 weeks

70 jaunte  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:30:47pm

re: #67 iossarian

It's another Welsh plot:
Image: Betws_y_coed.jpg

71 Obdicut  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:31:28pm

re: #69 Kragar

Tell that to the guys not getting paid for 5 weeks

I'm not disputing it's crappy, but this is also being reported as a big failure of the government in 'mandating' Volt production, and how it's going to bankrupt GM.

72 SpaceJesus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:31:31pm

re: #35 Charleston Chew

the only time i've heard somebody use the term "co-ed" was when i met some of my father's old professors.

oh, and when you talk about mixed-gender kick ball leagues

73 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:32:08pm

re: #72 SpaceJesus

the only time i've heard somebody use the term "co-ed" was when i met some of my father's old professors.

oh, and when you talk about mixed-gender kick ball leagues

And porn.

74 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:33:00pm

re: #60 Lidane

Who cares about sexism and misogyny now? You're going to get paid later!

These guys keep on making themselves look like bigger jerks.

75 Charleston Chew  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:33:03pm

re: #61 Kragar

Rush Limbaugh puts 1300 American auto workers out of work

The American auto industry does not have clean hands when it come to anti clean energy propaganda, so I consider this "blowback".

76 erik_t  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:37:46pm

re: #72 SpaceJesus

the only time i've heard somebody use the term "co-ed" was when i met some of my father's old professors.

oh, and when you talk about mixed-gender kick ball leagues

Use of 'coed' in intramural sports classification is right and proper.

77 makeitstop  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:39:50pm

re: #50 Romantic Heretic

Well Jesus, buddy. Just because your only sexual relationship is with your right hand doesn't mean you should unload on people you think are getting some.

Maybe not the best choice of words there. After mentioning 'right hand,' the rest of the sentence comes off kind of... icky.

78 Mocking Jay  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:40:54pm

re: #77 makeitstop

Maybe not the best choice of words there. After mentioning 'right hand,' the rest of the sentence comes off kind of... icky.

Exactly. We should all be focused on unloading on Limbaugh...

79 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:41:07pm

So what we have here

is an old entitled white man with a fucked up face and a whole bunch of privilege and a whole bunch of rich-white-man connections (heh not too many twitter followers, fewer than your garden-variety webcomic writer)


telling a college student that she shouldn't be able to speak out about something that affects every woman in america

yep, that's a republican all right

80 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:42:25pm

re: #62 lawhawk

BTW, Hoft must have thought it clever to use the term hardcore to describe Fluke's activities as an activist. Riffing on Rush's calls for her to make a video or something... meh.

You gotta watch out for these feminazis

they're gonna start enjoying sex


theyn they'll start wanting to pick their own partners, instead of waiting for daddy to choose a husband for them


then they'll even start wanting to read!

81 DREd  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:44:39pm

#45 March 2, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Jim W commented:

Since when are students covered under a school’s health insurance policy?

Wow. Where do these people come from?

82 Obdicut  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:45:48pm

Tedd Nugent just endorsed Romney.

So another Racist for Romney!

83 Sheila Broflovski  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:45:51pm

Since when is a 30-year-old college student an unheard-of thing?

I graduated college when I was 36!

My daughter is getting her Master's at Columbia and she is 37!

84 erik_t  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:45:54pm

re: #81 DREd

#45 March 2, 2012 at 2:19 pm
Jim W commented:

Since when are students covered under a school’s health insurance policy?

Wow. Where do these people come from?

Ah, yes, those large STUDENT HEALTH SERVICES buildings are probably for faculty-only, or something.

Someone pass me more flabber, I'm no longer able to gast.

85 ArchangelMichael  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:46:30pm

re: #61 Kragar

Rush Limbaugh puts 1300 American auto workers out of work

Right wing kooks have been ranting about that car since the day it came out about how it's something Obama forced on GM as part of the bailout in... 2009.

This ignores that fact that car has been on GMs drawing board for like a decade and the first concept prototypes were show at auto shows in... 2008.

86 erik_t  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:47:56pm

re: #85 ArchangelMichael

Right wing kooks have been ranting about that car since the day it came out about how it's something Obama forced on GM as part of the bailout in... 2009.

This ignores that fact that car has been on GMs drawing board for like a decade and the first concept prototypes were show at auto shows in... 2008.

Time machines are a well-known component of the Secular-Muslim Liberal Soros Media Conspiracy. See also: Obama's exclusive ownership of TARP, or how gas prices collapsed the housing bubble.

87 Lidane  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:49:51pm
88 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:50:42pm

re: #87 Lidane

I am not a big fan Keith but this bears repeating.

89 Lidane  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:51:31pm

re: #81 DREd

Since when are students covered under a school’s health insurance policy?

Wow. Where do these people come from?

From the Know-Nothing past, obviously.

My university requires proof of health insurance. If you don't have a policy of your own, you have to buy into theirs. There's no opt-out.

90 ArchangelMichael  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:53:04pm

re: #83 Learned Mother of Zion

Since when is a 30-year-old college student an unheard-of thing?

I graduated college when I was 36!

My daughter is getting her Master's at Columbia and she is 37!

I got my bachelors' degree when I was 34. I know many college students who are in their 30s from first years up to graduate students. Many of them spent their 20s in the military. You know that thing that wingnuts claim to support so much.

91 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:53:29pm

*sigh* I've come to realize in recent days what Rush's place in the grand scheme of the Right's politics are. He's not simply the spokesman of the GOP, it's also his mission to sufficiently poison the well on any topic, spreading disinformation and stupidity that his followers and useful idiots repeat, until the original issue becomes completely lost under the "outrage" at the fake scenario he's created.

92 erik_t  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:53:44pm

re: #89 Lidane

From the Know-Nothing past, obviously.

My university requires proof of health insurance. If you don't have a policy of your own, you have to buy into theirs. There's no opt-out.

This is universal in my experience.

93 Lidane  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:53:56pm

re: #88 HappyWarrior

I am not a big fan Keith but this bears repeating.

I haven't watched Keith in ages. I follow his tweets because he gets punchy with the conservatives on Twitter and it's hilarious. And he's right here -- Rush isn't just aiming at Sandra Fluke. He's calling all women who use insurance to pay for birth control whores and sluts.

94 jaunte  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:54:19pm

Fox commenter blaming the victim:

Of course it is wrong to call a woman such a crude and derogatory name...that's a no-brainer. But why in the world would any sane woman agree to speak before a congressional committee about contraceptives, of all things? What was she thinking? Didn't someone warn her that she might be fair game for comments about her sex life? Surely Speaker Pelosi warned her, right? I thought law students were smart people, but obviously not, if she was willing to be led astray for the sake of those who are adament that govt-controlled health care must include anything and everything, no matter what the cost.

This whole controversy about contraceptions is so ludacrous!! Is life unbearable without "the pill?" Is a woman's life in danger? Does the use of contraceptives save one's life? I am so confused about why this has become such a banner cry for women's rights?
[Link: foxnewsinsider.com...]

95 Lidane  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:54:43pm
96 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:55:43pm

re: #94 jaunte

Fox commenter blaming the victim:

Translation: "How dare that woman speak out of turn!? Where's her man to put her in her place?!"

97 jaunte  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:56:53pm

re: #96 Targetpractice

"I remain adament: it's ludacrous!"

98 Lidane  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:56:58pm

re: #83 Learned Mother of Zion

Since when is a 30-year-old college student an unheard-of thing?

I graduated college when I was 36!

My daughter is getting her Master's at Columbia and she is 37!

I got my BBA when I was 36. I'll be 39 when I graduate with my MBA. Most of my classmates in grad school are close to 30 and a few are in their 30's.

Anyone who thinks that college students are only 18-22 is a fucking moron. Plenty of older students go to college too.

99 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:56:58pm

re: #94 jaunte

Fox commenter blaming the victim:

How dare she make comments about a friend losing an ovary to cysts because the medication wasn't covered by insurance and not realize that wingnuts would misconstrue the whole argument!

100 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:56:58pm

It bears repeating that Fluke was TESTIFYING for a friend that had lost an ovary. She's primarily concerned with health issues. If that makes her a slut, then we're all sluts I guess in the narrow minded world of right wing nuttia.

101 Obdicut  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:57:22pm

re: #94 jaunte

She probably knew, and had the courage to do it anyway.

102 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:57:53pm

HOLY SHIT!!! An advocate for women's rights is actually :drumroll: a women's rights advocate!!!

/and she would have gotten away with it, too, if it weren't for those meddling bloggers.

Someone toss Jim a Scooby Snack, he's earned it.

103 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 1:58:36pm

re: #98 Lidane

I got my BBA when I was 36. I'll be 39 when I graduate with my MBA. Most of my classmates in grad school are close to 30 and a few are in their 30's.

Anyone who thinks that college students are only 18-22 is a fucking moron. Plenty of older students go to college too.

When I was in art school, I was 22-ish, but two of my classmates (undergrads) were 30-ish, one was in her 50s, she went back to school to become the watercolor virtuoso she always dreamed of being (she was REALLY GOOD)

104 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:00:16pm

re: #100 HappyWarrior

It bears repeating that Fluke was TESTIFYING for a friend that had lost an ovary. She's primarily concerned with health issues. If that makes her a slut, then we're all sluts I guess in the narrow minded world of right wing nuttia.

I've repeated that at least a dozen times now to the same wingnut. And, like a broken record, I keep hearing "She was talking about birth control! Why does she need it if at $1,000 a year if she ain't having a whole lot of sex?!"

Like I said, Rush has sufficiently poisoned the well that discussing this issue has been rendered virtually impossible.

105 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:00:17pm

Planned Parenthood on FB has post with a cartoon that says it all:

STOP MESSING WITH MY RIGHTS!

106 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:01:06pm

re: #100 HappyWarrior

It bears repeating that Fluke was TESTIFYING for a friend that had lost an ovary. She's primarily concerned with health issues. If that makes her a slut, then we're all sluts I guess in the narrow minded world of right wing nuttia.

Note how easily this has gone into the Republicans literally shaming and damning a woman for speaking out at all

That's what they want, to control women utterly

When they repeatedly call women sluts and prostitutes, believe them, that's actually how they think, it's not just "politics", it's their nature

107 Lidane  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:01:24pm

re: #103 windupbird is in the gravity well

When I was in art school, I was 22-ish, but two of my classmates (undergrads) were 30-ish, one was in her 50s, she went back to school to become the watercolor virtuoso she always dreamed of being (she was REALLY GOOD)

I spent my 20's working. I tried going back to college at 25, but didn't have any real direction or idea what the hell I wanted out of life, so I quit. When I hit 35, I realized I didn't want to turn 40 and feel like I could have done more with my life and my education.

Ergo, a BBA at 36 and an MBA by 39. I set myself a five year timeline to get both degrees, and I'm going to have them with a year to spare. Screw these people for not seeing that older students go to college too.

108 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:01:30pm

re: #104 Targetpractice

I've repeated that at least a dozen times now to the same wingnut. And, like a broken record, I keep hearing "She was talking about birth control! Why does she need it if at $1,000 a year if she ain't having a whole lot of sex?!"

Like I said, Rush has sufficiently poisoned the well that discussing this issue has been rendered virtually impossible.

They never seem to make the connection that "she" is having sex with "someone."

109 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:02:11pm

Speaking of degrees. I just got my BA. I'm 24 1/2. And I wonder what DimJim would say to the retirees who were my fellow undergrads but went back to school because they wanted to try something new.

110 wrenchwench  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:02:39pm

Score. I was downdinged by the BrainSurfer. Twice!

111 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:03:04pm

re: #83 Learned Mother of Zion

Since when is a 30-year-old college student an unheard-of thing?

I graduated college when I was 36!

My daughter is getting her Master's at Columbia and she is 37!

The local state college offers free tuition to people 60 and older. If I'm still here at that age, and still alive, I am sooo taking advantage of that.

112 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:03:10pm

re: #90 ArchangelMichael

I got my bachelors' degree when I was 34. I know many college students who are in their 30s from first years up to graduate students. Many of them spent their 20s in the military. You know that thing that wingnuts claim to support so much.

Being in the military is like being in the womb. Once you're out they don't care.

113 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:03:12pm

re: #107 Lidane

I spent my 20's working. I tried going back to college at 25, but didn't have any real direction or idea what the hell I wanted out of life, so I quit. When I hit 35, I realized I didn't want to turn 40 and feel like I could have done more with my life and my education.

Ergo, a BBA at 36 and an MBA by 39. I set myself a five year timeline to get both degrees, and I'm going to have them with a year to spare. Screw these people for not seeing that older students go to college too.

Awesome! I graduated young and THEN did the what-am-I-doing-with-my-stupid-life thing :D

114 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:03:22pm

re: #107 Lidane

I spent my 20's working. I tried going back to college at 25, but didn't have any real direction or idea what the hell I wanted out of life, so I quit. When I hit 35, I realized I didn't want to turn 40 and feel like I could have done more with my life and my education.

Ergo, a BBA at 36 and an MBA by 39. I set myself a five year timeline to get both degrees, and I'm going to have them with a year to spare. Screw these people for not seeing that older students go to college too.

Welcome to the Brave New World. Going back to school is necessary to remain marketable. Doctors and Lawyers constantly go for continuing education in the form of conferences and additional board tests. Industries die or leave the country, people need to retrain.

Conservatives are the last to recognize change (and not usually until it is already happened and is old news).

115 erik_t  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:04:06pm

re: #110 wrenchwench

Score. I was downdinged by the BrainSurfer. Twice!

Talk about motivation for the changeable-nickname functionality.

116 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:04:08pm

re: #110 wrenchwench

Score. I was downdinged by the BrainSurfer. Twice!

This calls for some appropriate brainsurf rock!

Youtube Video
117 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:04:15pm

re: #111 Slumbering Behemoth

The local state college offers free tuition to people 60 and older. If I'm still here at that age, and still alive, I am sooo taking advantage of that.

If I were 60 and that were an Oregon thing, I'd just collect music and art classes like they were baseball cards

118 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:04:17pm

At least we can count on Fox Commenters to stay classy...

gccnc 2 minutes ago

$3000??

she must have a crack you could yodel in :-P
...
donttreadonme53 3 minutes ago

Hey boy king...don't you have a LOT more important things to worry about?

Watch out Rush... for Breitbart syndrome.
...
king_solomon 3 minutes ago

WHY SHOULD WE HAVE TO PAY FOR THIS "SL UTS" PILLS????? THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH WOMEN'S HEALTH BECAUSE IF SHE WAS THAT CONCERNED ABOUT HER HEALTH, SHE WOULD NOT BE SLEEPING AROUND SO MUCH. MAKE HER MULTIPLE LOVERS BUY A FKKING RUBBER
...
moocher_libs 3 minutes ago

A mooching liberal DOG is...........................a mooching liberal DOG.

DIE MOOCHING libtard SLUUT..............FUUKIN DIE !!!!!!


LMFAO !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

119 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:05:10pm

re: #118 Kragar

Now imagine how many of those commenters are raising children

120 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:05:19pm

re: #118 Kragar

At least we can count on Fox Commenters to stay classy...

die? These people need help.

121 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:05:22pm

re: #108 ggt

They never seem to make the connection that "she" is having sex with "someone."

The few that I've gotten to actually look at the testimony? Yeah, then they go on a tear about how the one she talked about was her lesbian friend. "Why does a lesbian need birth control?! And on my dime!" And the second part's ultimately the clincher, the thing that they're all up in arms about. These idiots all got it in their heads, courtesy of Rush, that Fluke and women like her are demanding "we," the taxpayers, cover her birth control.

122 celticdragon  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:05:25pm

Uppity female lawyers are the tools of the devil and must be crushed by righteous male erections fortitude to save our civilization

123 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:05:41pm

re: #119 windupbird is in the gravity well

Now imagine how many of those commenters are raising children

Shit man, they're raising themselves that's scary enough.

124 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:05:51pm

re: #117 windupbird is in the gravity well

If I were 60 and that were an Oregon thing, I'd just collect music and art classes like they were baseball cards

Our local community college offers free "update your skills" courses thru the unemployment office: Quickbooks, Excell, etc.

I am so doing during the next round of offerings.

2-3 hour classes made for old people. How kewl is that?

125 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:06:39pm

re: #117 windupbird is in the gravity well

That, and maybe some history and foreign language classes. Hell, anything really. What else am I gonna do with my time at that age? Watch fucking TV? No thanks.

126 Lidane  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:07:15pm

re: #114 ggt

Welcome to the Brave New World. Going back to school is necessary to remain marketable.

Oh, no kidding. I see a lot of entry-level jobs now that require at least a Bachelor's degree, if not a Master in some cases. In a lot of industries if you don't have the long resume, having the degrees helps give you credibility.

Conservatives are the last to recognize change (and not usually until it is already happened and is old news).

It's like Maureen Dowd said recently, they're a post-mortem group fighting battles that were won a long time ago by the other side.

127 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:07:29pm

re: #124 ggt

Our local community college offers free "update your skills" courses thru the unemployment office: Quickbooks, Excell, etc.

I am so doing during the next round of offerings.

2-3 hour classes made for old people. How kewl is that?

Excel is one of those applications that has a million and one uses, people use it for everything from balancing their checkbook, to using it as a development tool for computer games

128 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:07:44pm

re: #125 Slumbering Behemoth

That, and maybe some history and foreign language classes. Hell, anything really. What else am I gonna do with my time at that age? Watch fucking TV? No thanks.

Are your knees intact? I hear Skyrim is looking for guards.
;)

129 jaunte  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:08:02pm

Janet Mefferd jumps on the idiot wagon

Yesterday Religious Right talk show host Janet Mefferd ranted against Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown law student who was barred from testifying at Darrell Issa’s hearing on the administration’s contraception policy and later spoke at a Democratic panel, for discussing how her university’s refusal to cover contraceptives is harmful to female students. Mefferd first joked about Fluke’s “whining” and then went on to say that Fluke was asking for taxpayers to cover her contraceptive costs, when she was actually just defending the administration’s plan to ensure that religiously-based universities cover contraception in their insurance plans. After twisting and poking fun at Fluke’s remarks, Mefferd told Fluke, “If you want to go out and fornicate, you need to pay for it.”

130 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:08:21pm

re: #121 Targetpractice

The few that I've gotten to actually look at the testimony? Yeah, then they go on a tear about how the one she talked about was her lesbian friend. "Why does a lesbian need birth control?! And on my dime!" And the second part's ultimately the clincher, the thing that they're all up in arms about. These idiots all got it in their heads, courtesy of Rush, that Fluke and women like her are demanding "we," the taxpayers, cover her birth control.

But paying for the babies is ok. This is what I'll never understand.

Perhaps I just don't get it. I was created in love by two people who wanted me and planned for me. I think every child should be made that way.

I just don't think everytime people have sex they are both thinking "Oh, I really hope we make a baby this time."

Do these Whacko's even think, at all?

Prevention is always cheaper. It's an economic no-brainer.

But I guess Private Prisons make more profit.

/

131 Hawaii69  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:08:27pm

I'm suprised he took time out of his busy schedule of pushing Breitbat assasination theories.

Jim may be dumb....and dishonest....but I get the impression that some
of his commenters are mentally ill. No, I mean actually impared.

132 Lidane  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:08:30pm

re: #128 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste

Are your knees intact? I hear Skyrim is looking for guards.
;)

Heh:

[Link: icanhascheezburger.com...]

133 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:09:10pm

re: #127 windupbird is in the gravity well

Excel is one of those applications that has a million and one uses, people use it for everything from balancing their checkbook, to using it as a development tool for computer games

Or even as the game engine...

Youtube Video
134 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:09:19pm

re: #128 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste

I haven't even played that game yet.

135 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:09:42pm

re: #127 windupbird is in the gravity well

Excel is one of those applications that has a million and one uses, people use it for everything from balancing their checkbook, to using it as a development tool for computer games

I love excel. I actually still use a lot of Lotus 1-2-3 commands. So I figure there is a lot I could learn.

136 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:09:48pm

re: #133 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste

AWESOME

137 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:09:49pm

re: #133 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste

Is there excel-based "game of life"?

138 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:10:10pm

re: #134 Slumbering Behemoth

I haven't even played that game yet.

My current addiction is kingdoms of Amalur: The Reckoning.

139 SpaceJesus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:10:21pm

Santorum campaign is formally requesting an investigation of Michigan

Scribd Document
140 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:10:49pm

re: #129 jaunte

Janet Mefferd jumps on the idiot wagon

Isn't it the child that actually ends-up paying?

Is there ANY logic here?

141 Hawaii69  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:11:35pm

I think many of his commenters might also be old, and new to the intre: #16 jaunte

What's a hardcore women’s rights activist?

Nina Hartley & Sharon Mitchell, for instance....

142 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:12:08pm

re: #139 SpaceJesus

Santorum campaign is formally requesting an investigation of Michigan

[Link: www.scribd.com...]

oh I could just eat this up with a spoon ^_^

143 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:13:02pm

What's the song:

"I'm a Bitch
I'm a Mother,
I'm a Whore
I'm a Lover

And you wouldn't want it any other way."

144 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:13:48pm

re: #135 ggt

I love excel. I actually still use a lot of Lotus 1-2-3 commands. So I figure there is a lot I could learn.

I use it with a bunch of RPG stuff for record tracking and simple calculations.

Especially useful with a multi-generational game where I am trying to track family trees and the associated marriages, deaths, and children.

145 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:14:18pm

I have no idea what the hell I just watched, but I now have a sudden urge to buy hula hoops.

Youtube Video
146 jaunte  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:14:46pm

Amazing. Some sick people out there.

@BrentTeichman
Hey, @butterflybesos9 - You can go stick your tail in the air for every guy who walks by. Just don't expect me to pay for it. Cool?
Retweeted by Teri Christoph
[Link: twitter.com...]

147 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:15:01pm

re: #130 ggt

But paying for the babies is ok. This is what I'll never understand.

Perhaps I just don't get it. I was created in love by two people who wanted me and planned for me. I think every child should be made that way.

I just don't think everytime people have sex they are both thinking "Oh, I really hope we make a baby this time."

Do these Whacko's even think, at all?

Prevention is always cheaper. It's an economic no-brainer.

But I guess Private Prisons make more profit.

/

I've stopped trying to figure it all out. The reasons for opposition run the gamut from the predictable (misogynist assholes who think strong women are the downfall of society) to the bizarre (contraception is a form of eugenics) to the outright puritanical (women should stay in the home as is their place in the "natural order").

The mindnumbingness of it all is such that I've started to slowly tune myself out again. I want to believe it just election year politics, that I can take a hiatus, come back, and some sanity will have been restored. But the problem is such free days disappeared in 2010 and I fear they won't be coming back.

148 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:16:42pm

re: #144 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste

I use it with a bunch of RPG stuff for record tracking and simple calculations.

Especially useful with a multi-generational game where I am trying to track family trees and the associated marriages, deaths, and children.

I keep track of everything in excell.

I love being able to sort multiple ways and see what is actually going on.

Even my Dodd-Frank acronym database is in Excel.

I actually use it more for words than numbers. Although all my financial stuff is in it too.

I could never understand why people would buy all these little programs when (if you know how to use them) Excel and Word will do everything they will do. When I was really good at it, the programs were Lotus and Word Perfect. Still miss the liner notes in Word Perfect.

I think I used Word to the max for photos, so now, I'm learning Photoshop. So far it is the only "other" program I've needed. (Although CAD would be totally kewl, but I really don't have a need for it).

149 Mich-again  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:16:56pm

re: #139 SpaceJesus

Santorum campaign is formally requesting an investigation of Michigan ]

Why? Because I said he looked like Bob without the pipe link ? Is that against the law? I'm not ascared one bit..

150 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:17:07pm

re: #146 jaunte

Amazing. Some sick people out there.

Why are my tax dollars being used for prostate cancer screenings? Those perverts should stop having gay sex.

/wingnut logic in action

151 SpaceJesus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:17:14pm

re: #142 windupbird is in the gravity well

I don't blame them for being pissed; this looks like plain rigging.

152 jaunte  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:17:26pm

Obama Backs GOP Into Limbaugh-Shaped Corner

With one phone call, President Obama has forced the Republican candidates for president into a Sophie’s Choice with potentially far-reaching implications: Do they stand up to Rush Limbaugh, who made divisive comments about a law student this week, or do they stand up for a highly influential conservative leader who’s embarrassed the Republicans who’ve crossed him in the past?

153 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:18:17pm

re: #152 jaunte

Obama Backs GOP Into Limbaugh-Shaped Corner

Obama, you magnificent bastard, I read your book*
*Okay I merely own it, have yet to read it.

154 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:18:26pm

re: #149 Mich-again

He thinks you might be having sex on the tax payer's dime.
/

155 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:18:55pm

re: #147 Targetpractice

I've stopped trying to figure it all out. The reasons for opposition run the gamut from the predictable (misogynist assholes who think strong women are the downfall of society) to the bizarre (contraception is a form of eugenics) to the outright puritanical (women should stay in the home as is their place in the "natural order").

The mindnumbingness of it all is such that I've started to slowly tune myself out again. I want to believe it just election year politics, that I can take a hiatus, come back, and some sanity will have been restored. But the problem is such free days disappeared in 2010 and I fear they won't be coming back.

I comes down to power. Women have the power to conceive and give birth. Men will probably never have that power (don't want it either -wimps). Some men will never accept that they are denied this power. So they will try to use force or legislate it and use every trick in the book to convince people they are really doing something else. Stupid Women fall for it.

156 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:18:57pm

re: #152 jaunte

Obama Backs GOP Into Limbaugh-Shaped Corner

They'll take Option C: Continue to ignore the issue, denying any connection to Rush when questioned, and indignantly remarking that they don't have to answer for Rush.

157 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:19:06pm

re: #148 ggt

I like that there are a bunch of excel-lovers here. I use it for work, lots of calculation tables, and the way it allows to make things easier - esp. the arrays - is great. Open-source analogs, like OpenOffice's thing, don't come close.

158 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:19:18pm

re: #156 Targetpractice

They'll take Option C: Continue to ignore the issue, denying any connection to Rush when questioned, and indignantly remarking that they don't have to answer for Rush.

Yep.

159 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:19:31pm

re: #151 SpaceJesus

I don't blame them for being pissed; this looks like plain rigging.

Oh i know! The fix is totally in!


It's just nice, when, you know, they cheat and fuck each other over, as opposed to us poor bastards :D


it's impossible to root for either side, so I root for mayhem. Santorum on the top rope, with the time-keeper's bell-what's this, Newt with a folding chair coming in from the dressing room!

160 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:19:47pm

re: #153 HappyWarrior

Honestly, Obama is really good.

161 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:20:17pm

re: #160 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Honestly, Obama is really good.

Yes, he is.

162 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:20:20pm

re: #159 windupbird is in the gravity well

they only complain about voter fraud because they are the ones committing it on a consistent basis.

163 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:20:28pm

Obama standing with Fluke is a masterstroke politically


LOVE IT

164 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:21:03pm

re: #163 windupbird is in the gravity well

well I guarantee him doing it is no....fluke..

bah-dum-bum

165 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:21:10pm

re: #162 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

they only complain about voter fraud because they are the ones committing it on a consistent basis.

Right! They know the truth :D

166 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:21:16pm

Why don't I ever get an error code like this one?

[Link: xkcd.com...]

167 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:21:34pm

"Limbaugh shaped corner" is funny as hell

168 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:21:37pm

re: #166 William Barnett-Lewis

Why don't I ever get an error code like this one?

[Link: xkcd.com...]

It's not the code, it's the manual.

169 Mich-again  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:21:42pm

Wouldn't a "Limbaugh shaped corner" actually be round?

170 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:22:28pm

re: #160 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Honestly, Obama is really good.

To paraphrase a wiser man than I, it only becomes an issue that Obama can win on if he makes it an issue. Saying that this puts the GOP in a tight spot doesn't make it so, as Rush can now ramp up acting like an ass, knowing that the GOP can deny responsibility for him while reaping the "outrage" people have at Obama taking time to personally talk to Fluke while he won't talk to others of more "importance."

171 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:22:32pm

re: #157 The Ineffable Name

I like that there are a bunch of excel-lovers here. I use it for work, lots of calculation tables, and the way it allows to make things easier - esp. the arrays - is great. Open-source analogs, like OpenOffice's thing, don't come close.

I used to write really long macros in Lotus to combine reports from other programs and produce one concise report in various ways.

That was a long, long time ago. Now it seems everything I used to have to write a macro for is now a click away. Thinking the "update your skills" class might be a good idea.

172 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:22:49pm

re: #167 windupbird is in the gravity well

"Limbaugh shaped corner" is funny as hell

Kinda balloon shaped?

173 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:22:56pm

re: #166 William Barnett-Lewis

Why don't I ever get an error code like this one?

[Link: xkcd.com...]

back in the world of no hard drives, we did have Guru Meditation Errors

174 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:23:46pm

From Atrios:

was rush limbaugh between wives when he brought his boner pills to the dominican republic?

175 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:25:07pm

Derp!

176 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:25:33pm

re: #168 The Ineffable Name

It's not the code, it's the manual.

True, that.

177 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:25:39pm

This is funny:

Thank Ronnie Reagan’s ghost that we have true patriots like Jim Hoft to keep us aware of the secret machinations of the hardcore, far left women’s rights movement.

178 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:26:29pm

re: #157 The Ineffable Name

I like that there are a bunch of excel-lovers here. I use it for work, lots of calculation tables, and the way it allows to make things easier - esp. the arrays - is great. Open-source analogs, like OpenOffice's thing, don't come close.

NOT. Oh evil, thy name is Excel. I hate, hate, hate Excel.

Numbers. Math. Yuck. Not my friends.

179 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:26:47pm

re: #160 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Honestly, Obama is really good.

re: #161 HappyWarrior

Yes, he is.

He's also very lucky. I (and the VP) think he made a needless mistake and turned it into a TPGOP suicide pact.

180 BongCrodny  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:26:52pm

re: #37 SpaceJesus

More Derp.

Conservative Christians are going after Miley Cyrus for tweeting science.

[Link: popcrush.com...]

I'm probably remembering this incorrectly, but I remember a TV show where the lead character talked about how when he died, he thought his atoms would travel into space; merge with other atoms, maybe create a sun and warm other living beings.

It was the most radical thing I've ever heard in a throwaway television show, and I was stunned that, from the hundreds and hundreds of TV shows that it could have been from, it was from Sliders.

181 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:27:45pm

[Link: www.nytimes.com...]

But the armed anti-Qaddafi militia forces in Libya also “committed serious violations,” including war crimes and breaches of international rights law that continue today, the 220-page report said.

Through January 2012, militia members continued with the mass arrests of former soldiers, police officers, suspected mercenaries and others perceived to be Qaddafi loyalists, the report said. Certain revenge attacks have continued unabated, particularly the campaign by the militiamen of Misurata to wipe a neighboring town, Tawergha, off the map; the fighters accuse its residents of collaborating with a government siege.

Such attacks have been documented before, but the report stressed that despite previous criticism, the militiamen were continuing to hunt down the residents of the neighboring town no matter where they had fled across Libya. As recently as Feb. 6, militiamen from Misurata attacked a camp in Tripoli where residents of Tawergha had fled, killing an elderly man, a woman and three children, the report said.

The commission remains “deeply concerned” that no independent investigations or prosecutions appear to have been instigated into killings by such militias, the report said.

182 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:27:52pm

re: #178 CuriousLurker

NOT. Oh evil, thy name is Excel. I hate, hate, hate Excel.

Numbers. Math. Yuck. Not my friends.

You kinda need them to play your street shaman, though

183 Lidane  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:28:01pm

re: #169 Mich-again

Wouldn't a "Limbaugh shaped corner" actually be round?

Youtube Video
184 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:28:21pm

re: #173 windupbird is in the gravity well

back in the world of no hard drives, we did have Guru Meditation Errors

Oh, yeah. I loved looking them up when my 500 crashed.

It was even more funny when the A2000 w/ a video toaster that was running the local cable company would crash and the channel that was supposed to list what was on would have the Guru Meditation on the top third of the screen :D

I really wish I still had my A500.

185 lgffan  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:28:26pm

It's bad enough you "promote" this dim wit and give him any publicity (as any pub is good pub). We gotta see a picture of the guy to boot?
//

186 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:28:39pm

re: #180 BongCrodny

I'm probably remembering this incorrectly, but I remember a TV show where the lead character talked about how when he died, he thought his atoms would travel into space; merge with other atoms, maybe create a sun and warm other living beings.

It was the most radical thing I've ever heard in a throwaway television show, and I was stunned that, from the hundreds and hundreds of TV shows that it could have been from, it was from Sliders.

John Rhys Davies!

187 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:28:52pm

re: #178 CuriousLurker

NOT. Oh evil, thy name is Excel. I hate, hate, hate Excel.

Numbers. Math. Yuck. Not my friends.

This is why excel is soooo kewl.

It does the math for you!

188 Hawaii69  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:29:03pm

re: #16 jaunte

What's a hardcore women’s rights activist?

Ugh....the post was supposed to say

"Nina Hartley and Sharon Mitchell?"

189 jaunte  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:29:07pm

Did Hoft "break" this "30-year-old-activist" story, or did he just copy Michelle Malkin?

Malkin: "For me the interesting part of the story has the ever evolving “coed”. I put that in quotes because in the beginning she was described as a Georgetown law student. It was then revealed that prior to attending Georgetown she was an active women’s right advocate. In one of her first interviews she is quoted as talking about how she reviewed Georgetown’s insurance policy prior to committing to attend and seeing that it didn’t cover contraceptive services she decided to attend with the express purpose of battling this policy. During this time she was described as a 23 y/o coed. Magically at the same time congress is debating the forced coverage of contraception she appears and is even brought to capitol hill to testify. This morning in an interview with Matt Lauer on the Today show it was revealed that she is 30 y/o NOT the 23 that had been reported all along.

In other words, folks, you are being played. She has been an activist all along and the Dems were just waiting for the appropriate time to play her."

John Cole:

"You see! She’s an activist so that not only invalidates everything she said in her testimony but also makes it ok to call her a slut! And the Democrats had her in their back pocket all along, just waiting to spring her on the Republicans. Nancy Pelosi has known for years that in 2012 the wingnut Republicans would get themselves embroiled in a political mess over contraception, so she just waited for the perfect moment to break out the Fluke card." [Link: www.balloon-juice.com...]

190 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:29:11pm

re: #177 Gus

Oh no! Lord Reagan's name taken in vain!//

191 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:29:20pm

re: #186 windupbird is in the gravity well

John Rhys Davies!

I liked that show.

192 DREd  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:29:22pm

Does Limbaugh have a definable shape?

193 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:29:33pm

re: #179 Decatur Deb

Not to go all eleven dimensional chess here but something tells me he knew that the TPGOP would freak out over this, especially given their penchant for going after women's health ever since they took the house. So he has sebelius announce the plan as it was originally, cue OUTRAGE. Then they change it over to "Ok the religious orgs don't need to cover it but the insurance company does" once again making it something Insurance HAS to do as part of the new law, and it's something they never necessarily did in the past.

True to form the wingers walked right into the trap.

194 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:29:54pm

re: #184 William Barnett-Lewis

Oh, yeah. I loved looking them up when my 500 crashed.

It was even more funny when the A2000 w/ a video toaster that was running the local cable company would crash and the channel that was supposed to list what was on would have the Guru Meditation on the top third of the screen :D

I really wish I still had my A500.

I wish I had my Atari1040ST more (I got it way earlier, when i was 13 or so, I may break down and buy one from this Atari collector in Portland) but I sure loved my A500 ^_^ SHADOW OF THE BEAST, OMG SO MUCH PSYGNOSIS

195 Lidane  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:29:56pm

re: #192 DREd

Does Limbaugh have a definable shape?

Round is a shape. =P

196 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:30:02pm

re: #180 BongCrodny

I'm probably remembering this incorrectly, but I remember a TV show where the lead character talked about how when he died, he thought his atoms would travel into space; merge with other atoms, maybe create a sun and warm other living beings.

It was the most radical thing I've ever heard in a throwaway television show, and I was stunned that, from the hundreds and hundreds of TV shows that it could have been from, it was from Sliders.

I miss that show. So many interesting ideas. Though the later seasons sort of went off the rails, it was still one of the greats.

197 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:30:23pm

re: #191 ggt

I liked that show.

I never watched much of it, I just liked that Davies was in it, I love that guy

198 Mich-again  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:30:28pm

re: #157 The Ineffable Name

I like that there are a bunch of excel-lovers here.

I use it to plot raw test data on log-log charts, and then use it to find the best fit power curve functions that I need for some spreadsheet calculations.

When I graduated from college 25 yeras ago that would have been an all-day job, now it takes me 3 minutes.

199 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:30:42pm

re: #193 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Not to go all eleven dimensional chess here but something tells me he knew that the TPGOP would freak out over this, especially given their penchant for going after women's health ever since they took the house. So he has sebelius announce the plan as it was originally, cue OUTRAGE. Then they change it over to "Ok the religious orgs don't need to cover it but the insurance company does" once again making it something Insurance HAS to do as part of the new law, and it's something they never necessarily did in the past.

True to form the wingers walked right into the trap.

I really, really hope he's that good. But I'll take lucky.

200 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:31:22pm

re: #195 Lidane

Round is a shape. =P

Sir, what we have here is what we call a non-repeating phantasm, or a class-5 free roaming vapor

201 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:31:24pm

re: #192 DREd

Does Limbaugh have a definable shape?

Is "dick" a shape?

202 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:31:48pm

re: #201 The Ineffable Name

Is "dick" a shape?

That's a state of being.

203 jaunte  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:32:00pm

re: #192 DREd

Does Limbaugh have a definable shape?

I believe mathematically he could be described as toroidal.

204 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:32:11pm

re: #187 ggt

This is why excel is sooo kewl.

It does the math for you!

Yeah, IF you know which calculation to use. I always end up screwing things up. I get frustrated because it makes me feel incompetent and it's all Excel's fault. //

205 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:32:13pm

re: #198 Mich-again

I use it to plot raw test data on log-log charts, and then use it to find the best fit power curve functions that I need for some spreadsheet calculations.

When I graduated from college 25 yeras ago that would have been an all-day job, now it takes me 3 minutes.

I had a friend that graduated in engineering. His first job he did math calculations all day (in the 1980's). I thought it was the worst idea of a job I'd ever heard of. No matter how much he made, it wasn't worth it to me.

206 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:32:29pm

re: #201 The Ineffable Name

Is "dick" a shape?

It generally requires that you are taller than you are wide.

207 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:32:49pm

re: #204 CuriousLurker

Yeah, IF you know which calculation to use. I always end up screwing things up. I get frustrated because it makes me feel incompetent and it's all Excel's fault. //

I've never had any problem setting up the equation. It's what comes after that I could never do.

208 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:33:08pm

re: #206 Decatur Deb

It generally requires that you are taller than you are wide.

In some cases that is true only with viagra.

209 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:33:32pm

re: windupbird is in the gravity well

I wish I had my Atari1040ST more (I got it way earlier, when i was 13 or so, I may break down and buy one from this Atari collector in Portland) but I sure loved my A500 ^_^ SHADOW OF THE BEAST, OMG SO MUCH PSYGNOSIS

OMG, Psygnosis made some really excellent games. But Shadow of the Beast was even more fun on an Atari Lynx. Now that's a toy I shouldn't have given away.

210 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:33:44pm

re: Decatur Deb

He let Hillary and McCain walk into a lot of traps during 08 and has been able to do the same on occasion while being president. I think it's a sort of "Give them enough rope" strategy or, as they say, the "Rope-A-Dope".

211 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:34:36pm

re: Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

He let Hillary and McCain walk into a lot of traps during 08 and has been able to do the same on occasion while being president. I think it's a sort of "Give them enough rope" strategy or, as they say, the "Rope-A-Dope".

Yes, he's good like that. There is some luck in that his opponents are wackos though.

212 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:34:55pm

Rush Limbaugh's shape:
[Link: news.daylife.com...]

213 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:35:30pm

re: Gus

Rush Limbaugh's shape:
[Link: ]

looks like he has a dick in his mouth

:0

214 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:35:35pm

Something happened? Where are the comment nos. in replies?

215 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:35:39pm

Someone said that the past 2 days = a RW Media breakdown.

I concur.

216 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:36:00pm

If she got up and said, "I've never been an activist on this cause," that would be deceitful.

Otherwise, you can assume that everyone who testifies before congress probably has been involved with that cause for some time.

217 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:36:15pm

re: The Ineffable Name

Something happened? Where are the comment nos. in replies?

Need to rotate the hamsters?

218 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:36:39pm

Testing a new feature to make it easier to post embedded tweets:

Now you can just paste in the URL of the individual tweet (which you get to by opening the tweet and clicking 'Details'), and it will be converted to the proper code for embedding a tweet. No more copying and pasting the full embed code.

I still don't have a way to then convert it to the actual Twitter embedded code dynamically - that has to happen when the page is loaded. But you will see the text of the tweet and a link to it in a blockquote, when you post a comment dynamically, and then you'll see the Twitter-formatted embedded tweet the next time you reload the page.

219 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:36:45pm

re: ggt

looks like he has a dick in his mouth

:0

Here he is wearing coolots or mom shorts:
[Link: news.daylife.com...]

220 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:36:48pm

re: William Barnett-Lewis
[Link: handy.sourceforge.net...]

221 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:37:42pm

re: To hold my temper, most of the time.

If she got up and said, "I've never been an activist on this cause," that would be deceitful.

Otherwise, you can assume that everyone who testifies before congress probably has been involved with that cause for some time.

duh, how do they they become noticed enough to be invited to testify.

Do people think Congressional Staff just open up the phone book and randomly pick people to testify. Believe it or not, Congress Critters do work and aren't going to waste their time to listen to testimony from anyone that doesn't have a track record of being relevant (to someone).

222 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:37:49pm

re: windupbird is in the gravity well

You kinda need them to

223 aagcobb  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:38:14pm

Had a little excitement here as a tornado warning just expired, but I think all we got was a thunderstorm.

224 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:38:35pm

re: Gus

Here he is wearing coolots or mom shorts:
[Link: ]

No, that is Omar the Tentmakers special modification for the golf course.

225 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:38:42pm

re: ggt

I had a friend that graduated in engineering. His first job he did math calculations all day (in the 1980's). I thought it was the worst idea of a job I'd ever heard of. No matter how much he made, it wasn't worth it to me.

In basic training, an accident caused the Army to cancel my orders as a still photographer (84B) and made me a finance clerk. After 18 months of calculating a battalion's pay by hand I put in for Explosive Ordnance Disposal. OTOH, a lot of guys were getting smoked in Viet Nam.

226 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:38:50pm

The fact she's an activist is irrelevant. You don't call a woman a slut and then claim the people criticizing you for saying so are the real meanies. It just doesn't work that way.

227 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:38:55pm

re: windupbird is in the gravity well

You kinda need them to

I love it when clients "design" things in Excel.

Hey, how come my animated gif wouldn't show up? :-/

228 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:39:00pm

re: ggt

duh, how do they they become noticed enough to be invited to testify.

Do people think Congressional Staff just open up the phone book and randomly pick people to testify. Believe it or not, Congress Critters do work and aren't going to waste their time to listen to testimony from anyone that doesn't have a track record of being relevant (to someone).

Also, she probably has thought this out and knows what she wants to say. No surprises, no sudden brain freezes, no long, rambling, odd testimony.

229 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:39:03pm

re: William Barnett-Lewis

Why don't I ever get an error code like this one?

[Link: ]

I had one in a program that printed: "If you got this error message you cheated." Was basically a trap for a logical drop-through indicating something like a buffer overflow corrupting something. No way for the regular logic flow in the program to get to it.

230 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:39:04pm

re: Charles Johnson

Charles, do you think it is possible to make a "reload comment content" mini-button for each displayed comment? This could be useful both for tracking other people's edits without reloading the whole page, as well as for these tweets.

231 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:39:10pm

re: Youcan'ttouchthis

Had a little excitement here as a tornado warning just expired, but I think all we got was a thunderstorm.

It's really getting gnarly in the Very Far Western Suburbs of Chicagoland. May have to pay my teenager to stay in tonite.

232 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:39:10pm

re: Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

[Link: ]

As if I needed another time black hole... :D

233 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:39:36pm

re: Mich-again

Wouldn't a "Limbaugh shaped corner" actually be round?

Yep. And then the Lovecraftian monsters emerge from it.

234 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:40:01pm
235 Hawaii69  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:40:36pm

Allow me to sink the Jim's level for a moment....

Can't way get Dana Loesch to take that dude to a hair stylist, and maybe shopping for some new glasses......and clothes.

I mean, the guy just makes it to easy. It's not like you handpicked a photo that makes him look like a slackjawed rube....You'd be hard pressed to find a photo that doesn't

236 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:40:40pm

re: Gus

Okay, that almost caused a spit take. Rush Limbaugh has sunk to a level that even Santorum finds disagreeable?

237 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:40:42pm

re: Gus

Three words you won't hear from me probably ever again. "Good for Santorum." Last I heard Romney was being silent on this. There's a shocker.

238 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:40:57pm

re: Decatur Deb

In basic training, an accident caused the Army to cancel my orders as a still photographer (84B) and made me a finance clerk. After 18 months of calculating a battalion's pay by hand I put in for Explosive Ordnance Disposal. OTOH, a lot of guys were getting smoked in Viet Nam.

I don't know. . . I used to help my mom do payroll before computers. She had an "adding machine". Figuring tax was a bitch every week for hourly employees.

239 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:41:24pm

re: CuriousLurker

NOT. Oh evil, thy name is Excel. I hate, hate, hate Excel.

Numbers. Math. Yuck. Not my friends.

The Japanese version keeps failing spectacularly in taking over a city.[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

240 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:41:25pm

Some derpiness from Jennifer Rubin:

Santorum takes the bait
By Jennifer Rubin

I have received two requests for comment on Rush Limbaugh’s “slut” comment (in reference to Sandra Fluke, the Georgetown University student who testified that the government should pay for contraception) from a fellow working for a left-wing Soros group masquerading as a news outfit. Needless to say I don’t respond to faux journalists, and I have nothing to say about a radio talk show host’s comments.

But as silly as it would be for me to weigh in on Limbaugh verbiage (recall, he’s not in office and is not running for office) it is positively nuts for the president of the United States to call up Fluke. He’s leader of the Free World, for goodness sakes. This is what he finds a good use of his time? But of course he does, because every second of his day and every syllable he utters is directed to one end: Reelection. So it makes perfect sense to pander to single women voters (a two-for because he needs college kids as well!).

And then in wades Rick Santorum, who has only a few days to save his campaign and has been struggling to get back on an economic message. What does he do? He pops off on CNN (Wolf Blitzer luring him into a cul-de-sac of distraction) on Limbaugh’s remark: “He’s being absurd, but that’s you know, an entertainer can be absurd. He’s in a very different business than I am.” Thunk...

241 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:41:28pm

re: Targetpractice

Okay, that almost caused a spit take. Rush Limbaugh has sunk to a level that even Santorum finds disagreeable?

Below the Santorum Level.

242 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:41:29pm

The new feature uses Twitter's oembed endpoint to get the code for the embedded tweet, so if they change something it will still work.

[Link: dev.twitter.com...]

243 Obdicut  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:41:32pm

re: Gus

I don't really see that as much of a rip.

"He's being absurd, but that's you know, an entertainer can be absurd," Santorum told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on "The Situation Room." "He's in a very different business than I am."

Santorum stopped short of actually denouncing Limbaugh, who called Fluke a "slut" and a "prostitute" for asking that employers and schools include contraception coverage in their health plans. Instead, Santorum criticized the president for his birth control policy.

244 Lidane  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:41:56pm

re: HappyWarrior

Three words you won't hear from me probably ever again. "Good for Santorum." Last I heard Romney was being silent on this. There's a shocker.

Of course he's being silent. Rush's $400 million contract is owned by Clear Channel, which is owned by Bain.

245 Obdicut  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:42:16pm

re: Targetpractice

Okay, that almost caused a spit take. Rush Limbaugh has sunk to a level that even Santorum finds disagreeable?

Nope. He just said he's being absurd, but he can be, because he's an entertainer.

246 BongCrodny  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:42:21pm

re: Targetpractice

I miss that show. So many interesting ideas. Though the later seasons sort of went off the rails, it was still one of the greats.

I don't think I'd go that far, but I watched the pilot again on Netflix a week or so back, and enjoyed it enough to start watching the series again. I'm just getting to the close of Season 1 now.

247 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:42:46pm

re: Obdicut

I don't really see that as much of a rip.

So Santorum just played the same dog-earred card that the GOP's been playing for-fucking-ever, namely the "He's an entertainer, he's supposed to be outrageous!" card. Way to show some backbone there, Torquemada.

248 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:42:48pm

See? Now that up above is supposed to say Test... and be linked to an animated gif (14.3K). I see the code, but it doesn't show up in the preview or post.

249 wrenchwench  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:43:26pm

re:
Gus

Some derpiness from Jennifer Rubin:

By Jennifer Rubin

Jennifer Rubin is loathsome.

250 BrainSurfer  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:43:26pm

re:
Decatur Deb

I really, really hope he's that good. But I'll take lucky.

I think he is good, very very good. It's hard to be lucky in politics all that often.

251 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:43:34pm

re:
Obdicut

I don't really see that as much of a rip.

And I take back what I said. Santorum is just being passive aggressive. Gosh, people who criticized Sarah Palin's qualifications and aptitude for the vice presidency were called for worse.

252 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:43:58pm

re:
BongCrodny

I don't think I'd go that far, but I watched the pilot again on Netflix a week or so back, and enjoyed it enough to start watching the series again. I'm just getting to the close of Season 1 now.

I liked that he always had to check the front-gate to his house to see if his "special" mark was there. That way he would know if he had visited that particular quantum reality before.

253 Sheila Broflovski  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:44:14pm

You're not going to freaking believe this.

My brand new son-in-law just asked if I have an ironing board and iron, so he can freshen up his shirt.

OMG HE IRONS!

I was like, totally startled. I asked him if this was a British thing.

My daughter should hold on to this one!

254 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:44:21pm
255 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:44:26pm

re:
Gus

Some derpiness from Jennifer Rubin:

By Jennifer Rubin

Rubin is an absolute hack of a journalist. Really Soros? Really Jennifer, really? I'm gonna check under my bed for Soros tonight because he's everywhere!

256 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:44:56pm

re: #238 ggt

I don't know. . . I used to help my mom do payroll before computers. She had an "adding machine". Figuring tax was a bitch every week for hourly employees.

The tactical (STRAC) section of our shop used to go into the woods wearing a wooden "backpack" with a hand-cranked tabulator bolted to it. There they paid other soldiers on the exercise with play money. It's not all machine guns and hand grenades, you know.

257 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:45:04pm

re: #254 Gus

Scotty's looking for cover now that the Blunt amendment got shit-canned.

258 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:45:19pm

One question.

Is Viagra covered by Group Insurance paid for by religious institution employers?

259 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:45:21pm

Heh, slight malfunction -- now reverting to previous code. The blank links are my fault.

260 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:45:29pm

re: #257 Targetpractice

Scotty's looking for cover now that the Blunt amendment got shit-canned.

Maybe but good for him for calling Limbaugh out in plain English.

261 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:45:48pm

re: #257 Targetpractice

Scotty's looking for cover now that the Blunt amendment got shit-canned.

Capt'n, I just canno get it to pass . . .

262 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:45:55pm

re: #259 Charles Johnson

Heh, slight malfunction -- now reverting to previous code. The blank links are my fault.

I was going nuts trying to figure out what TV show they're talking about.

263 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:46:17pm

re: #248 CuriousLurker

See? Now that up above is supposed to say Test... and be linked to an animated gif (14.3K). I see the code, but it doesn't show up in the preview or post.

Who's stealing my code??? It must be the socialist Kenyan usurper. He's probably redistributing it to some awful people who think they're entitled!!11!

If I suddenly "disappear" for saying that, y'all will know why...

264 BongCrodny  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:46:33pm

re: #240 Gus

Some derpiness from Jennifer Rubin:

Santorum takes the bait
By Jennifer Rubin

I agree, because solidifying your base is completely nuts.

About the best thing you can say these days about the Washington Post is that it's not the Washington Times.

265 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:46:57pm

re: #246 BongCrodny

I don't think I'd go that far, but I watched the pilot again on Netflix a week or so back, and enjoyed it enough to start watching the series again. I'm just getting to the close of Season 1 now.

I liked it better towards the middle seasons, when they got into the swing of things. But the last two seasons, when they started jettisoning the old cast, totally lost me.

266 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:47:10pm

re: #259 Charles Johnson

Heh, slight malfunction -- now reverting to previous code. The blank links are my fault.

I love it when a man admits fault in writing.

;)

267 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:47:24pm

re: #264 BongCrodny

I agree, because solidifying your base is completely nuts.

About the best thing you can say these days about the Washington Post is that it's not the Washington Times.

That's the only reason why I subscribe to the Post honest. It's not the Times and I'm used to its sports section.

268 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:47:36pm

Testing.

269 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:48:18pm

re: #265 Targetpractice

I liked it better towards the middle seasons, when they got into the swing of things. But the last two seasons, when they started jettisoning the old cast, totally lost me.

I watched it when my kid was younger and in school and I didn't have anything else to do. So, my watching was rather sporadic.

Did a lot of x-files reruns too.

270 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:48:23pm

re: #259 Charles Johnson

Heh, slight malfunction -- now reverting to previous code. The blank links are my fault.

Suuure, they were. Uh-huh. How much are Soros and Obama paying you? HOW MUCH, DAMMIT???

271 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:49:58pm
272 BongCrodny  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:50:01pm

re: #244 Lidane

Of course he's being silent. Rush's $400 million contract is owned by Clear Channel, which is owned by Bain.

Hey, Mitt!

$400,000,000 is the equivalent of 1,000 Staples workers at $10 per hour for twenty years.

If you really want to put people back to work, I got a suggestion...

273 austin_blue  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:50:04pm

re: #270 CuriousLurker

He's payed in Unicorns, silly!

274 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:50:45pm

re: #273 austin_blue

He's payed in Unicorns, silly!

I hear with the right alchemy, their farts can be transformed into GOLD!

275 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:51:54pm

All Right Lizards,

It's been a blast, but I have to log-off.

Have a great evening all!

276 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:51:54pm

And from that link at Balloon Juice we find low IQ Malkin referencing the low IQ Jamie Wearing Fool (former and now banned Lizard):

Ahh, but there is another tactic, and good old counter-top inspector Michelle Malkin is on the job:

Yep. Sandra Fluke’s no “slut.” Call her moocher. Tool. Hypocrite. And budding femme-agogue. Won’t be long before she’s Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s new press secretary. Screechy McScreeches of a feather…

Who is Sandra Fluke? JWF takes a closer look:

For me the interesting part of the story has the ever evolving “coed”. I put that in quotes because in the beginning she was described as a Georgetown law student. It was then revealed that prior to attending Georgetown she was an active women’s right advocate. In one of her first interviews she is quoted as talking about how she reviewed Georgetown’s insurance policy prior to committing to attend and seeing that it didn’t cover contraceptive services she decided to attend with the express purpose of battling this policy. During this time she was described as a 23 y/o coed. Magically at the same time congress is debating the forced coverage of contraception she appears and is even brought to capitol hill to testify. This morning in an interview with Matt Lauer on the Today show it was revealed that she is 30 y/o NOT the 23 that had been reported all along.

In other words, folks, you are being played. She has been an activist all along and the Dems were just waiting for the appropriate time to play her.

277 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:52:44pm

re: #274 ggt

I hear with the right alchemy, their farts can be transformed into GOLD!

That was just a lie perpetrated for the sole purpose of getting you to sniff donkey flatulence.

278 Gretchen G.Tiger  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:53:07pm

Ok, WHO THE HELL uses "co-ed" anymore.

Does anyone under the age of 70 think it is even a word?

Tell's you who the target audience is . . .

bye
again

279 BongCrodny  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:53:17pm

re: #265 Targetpractice

I liked it better towards the middle seasons, when they got into the swing of things. But the last two seasons, when they started jettisoning the old cast, totally lost me.

Same here. There was a run of episodes where it seemed like Sliders was doing a monster-of-the-week, and it lost me for good after that.

280 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:53:58pm

I keep trying to figure out what the "outrage" is supposed to be about. Okay, she's a woman's right activist. Is having her testify on this any more bogus than having four religious men talking about birth control, regardless of how bullshit the "reason" for doing so is?

281 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:54:18pm

re: #276 Gus

Why, that sneaky hardcore activist! She concealed the fact that she was 30 years old by announcing it on the Today show. Doesn't get much more nefarious.

282 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:54:22pm

re: #276 Gus

And from that link at Balloon Juice we find low IQ Malkin referencing the low IQ Jamie Wearing Fool (former and now banned Lizard):

So the fact she's 30 and not 23 makes it okay to call her a slut when she was testifying for her friend that lost an ovary? Oh and the fact that her university's president has come out in support of her. Malkin is really a pathetic psycho who we've seen in the past will harass kids even if they don't share her agenda. As far as I'm concerned, she's more of a criminal than journalist.

283 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:55:24pm

re: #276 Gus

Jinkies!!! At this rate, we're gonna run out of Scooby Snacks right quick.

284 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:55:33pm

re: #282 HappyWarrior

So the fact she's 30 and not 23 makes it okay to call her a slut when she was testifying for her friend that lost an ovary? Oh and the fact that her university's president has come out in support of her. Malkin is really a pathetic psycho who we've seen in the past will harass kids even if they don't share her agenda. As far as I'm concerned, she's more of a criminal than journalist.

Both the spittling Malkin and Jamie Wearing Idiot.

285 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:55:36pm

re: #280 Targetpractice

I keep trying to figure out what the "outrage" is supposed to be about. Okay, she's a woman's right activist. Is having her testify on this any more bogus than having four religious men talking about birth control, regardless of how bullshit the "reason" for doing so is?

If she wasn't an activist last month, she became one with her first paragraph of testimony. Idiots.

286 BongCrodny  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:55:41pm

re: #282 HappyWarrior

So the fact she's 30 and not 23 makes it okay to call her a slut when she was testifying for her friend that lost an ovary? Oh and the fact that her university's president has come out in support of her. Malkin is really a pathetic psycho who we've seen in the past will harass kids even if they don't share her agenda. As far as I'm concerned, she's more of a criminal than journalist.

Burn her! Burn her at the stake!

287 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:57:16pm

re: #281 Charles Johnson

Why, that sneaky hardcore activist! She concealed the fact that she was 30 years old by announcing it on the Today show. Doesn't get much more nefarious.

Yeah, they never make any mistakes. Like that "Muslim judge" that turned out to be a Lutheran.

Dumb and dumber. These wingnut bloggers are just pathetic.

288 austin_blue  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:57:21pm

re: #286 BongCrodny

Burn her! Burn her at the stake!

Does she float?

289 Darth Vader Gargoyle  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 2:58:11pm

re: #288 austin_blue

Does she float?

Build a bridge out of her!

290 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:00:08pm

re: #289 Prison life's structured...

Build a bridge out of her!

Did you know that hitting your nic brings up a menu blurb for a BBQ sandwich?

291 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:00:18pm

Some dork Tweets Scott Brown.

Rosalie Stafford ‏ @StRosalie
Follow

@ScottBrownMA IN A PIG'S EYE: Rush is right & you should just do your job. What have you done about Sheriff Joe's revelations? Nothing? yep

Didn't want to embed that one.

292 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:01:55pm

re: #291 Gus

Some dork Tweets Scott Brown.

Didn't want to embed that one.

Who wants to bet this crazy nut isn't even one of his constituents?

293 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:02:08pm

Sheriff Joe! Duh-e!

294 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:02:13pm

re: #281 Charles Johnson

Why, that sneaky hardcore activist! She concealed the fact that she was 30 years old by announcing it on the Today show. Doesn't get much more nefarious.

Another test of the embedded tweets.

295 BongCrodny  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:03:47pm

re: #290 Decatur Deb

Did you know that hitting your nic brings up a menu blurb for a BBQ sandwich?

A Taylor's Maid-Rite is a loose meat sandwich made of finely ground hamburger. The hamburger is cooked and put in a bun, then served with mustard, pickles or chopped onions. And now after 70 yrs - ketchup is now available on the counter!

Diversification is the key to success.

296 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:04:20pm

How is a "hardcore activist" different from an activist? Please enlighten me Gateway Pundit with your wit and wisdom that often is accompanied by poor photoshops and fauxrages.

297 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:05:14pm

Little trick for searching in Twitter. You can use "to:enter name here" or "from: enter name here" to get either Tweet sent to or from said member. You don't use the nickname but the actually Twitter account name.

So for example to search for Tweets to Scott Brown you'd would search for to:ScottBrownMA.

298 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:05:41pm

re: #291 Gus

What the hell is he supposed to do about Sheriff Joe's 'revelations'? Is Scott Brown a psychiatrist or something?

299 Darth Vader Gargoyle  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:05:42pm

re: #290 Decatur Deb

Did you know that hitting your nic brings up a menu blurb for a BBQ sandwich?

No, it brings up the website for Taylor's Maid-Rites, the best sandwich ever invented!!! If you are tryin to get in touch with me, try nic at yahoo dot com.

300 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:06:38pm

I thought Fluke's cost estimate for BC was out of line, but my RN wife went online and found that you could spend about 1000/yr on Ortho tri-cycline and a doctor visit or two. Now I'm convinced, and Google is convinced my 64 yr-old wife is a slut on a rampage.

301 austin_blue  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:06:48pm

Wow. Kentucky is one giant tornado warning:

[Link: radar.weather.gov...]

Heavy weather, indeed! I wish them the best.

302 Lidane  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:07:24pm
303 wrenchwench  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:08:06pm

re: #291 Gus

What have you done about Sheriff Joe's revelations?

L

O

L

304 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:08:23pm

re: #302 Lidane

alienating one voter at a time. :).

305 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:08:41pm

re: #299 Prison life's structured...

I believe that was featured on a PBS documentary about famous sandwiches.

306 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:10:16pm

Damnit. Now I'm hungry. Okay, laters all.

307 Darth Vader Gargoyle  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:11:17pm

re: #305 Slumbering Behemoth

I believe that was featured on a PBS documentary about famous sandwiches.

I got to visit there over Christmas. My Grandparents lived outside of Marshalltown IA where that particular culinary Nirvana is located.

308 BongCrodny  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:13:16pm

re: #299 Prison life's structured...

No, it brings up the website for Taylor's Maid-Rites, the best sandwich ever invented!!! If you are tryin to get in touch with me, try nic at yahoo dot com.

From that line about ketchup to the caption under the photo -- "A meal on a bun!" -- to the slogan "The king of the loose meat sandwich," I really thought I was reading somebody's inspired parody.

309 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:13:46pm

re: #307 Prison life's structured...

I got to visit there over Christmas. My Grandparents lived outside of Marshalltown IA where that particular culinary Nirvana is located.

Think we talked about this. Marshalltown is sacred to archaeoloy:

Image: trowels.JPG

310 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:13:59pm

The wingnuts have fallen down the rabbit hole and are now hopelessly stuck in Wonderland where they take all their cues from the always furious Queen of Hearts.

The ones that aren't angry are attending a Tea Party with the Mad Hatter. Hey, maybe that's where the TP got their name from...

Youtube Video
Youtube Video
311 celticdragon  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:14:05pm

Perpetual Concern Troll Rod Dreher has a sad about college students and staff having sexy time at any Catholic institution...but he has called out the Magical Balance Faerie for overtime on this one.

Limbaugh, Fluke, Obama Deserve Each Other

OK, that was trashy language. He shouldn’t have put it like that. His point is not a bad one — that Fluke is saying she and women like her can’t afford to have all the sex they’re having, unless the college pays for it — but he ought to have known that this was a bad way to express it. Look, I have very little use for Rush Limbaugh, who often shows himself to be a perfect boob, but this Fluke person really did go before Congress to complain about how unfair it was that women like her are being oppressed because her elite university won’t subsidize the pill that allows them to have consequence-free sex. Even if one sees nothing at all wrong with premarital sex, this is still a shameful thing, to have the nerve to complain to Congress that your university is doing you dirty by not subsidizing your sex life.

Wacko wingnut commenter Erin Manning is appalled that birth control is even legal at all.

Erin Manning, on March 2nd, 2012 at 5:00 pm Said:

The thing that gets me about all of this is the following: the American government sincerely believes that ALL American women are sluts–that is, that we all, without exception, want to have lots of pre- and extra-marital contraceptive sex as well as married contraceptive sex and that we all demand that someone else pay for our pills, prophylactics, shots, abortion pills and/or sterilization surgeries. But we’re not allowed actually to use the “s” word because the WORD–not the idea that all American women are such entitlement-minded horny sex-crazed anti-child harpies with no self-control that providing all of us with “free” birth control is necessary for our “health”–is the only thing that is offensive.

She later links to Jim 'Dim' Gateway idiot...

Erin Manning, on March 2nd, 2012 at 5:15 pm Said:

Rod, re: your comment at 5:09: it’s especially amazing when you consider that Fluke is not a fragile young college student, but a thirty-year-old with a background as a “reproductive rights” activist:

[Link: www.thegatewaypundit.com...]

(And I’m sorry, but when a 30-year-old is complaining that she just can’t afford the birth control she needs to have sex approx. 2.74 times a day, the correct answer is not “Poor dear! We’ll make the Catholic Church buy you some!” but “Grow up and get a job.”)

312 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:14:18pm
313 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:15:02pm

re: #299 Prison life's structured...

No, it brings up the website for Taylor's Maid-Rites, the best sandwich ever invented!!! If you are tryin to get in touch with me, try nic at yahoo dot com.

Nah. Just trying to mouse over your mock-nic.

314 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:15:05pm

re: #312 Gus

Well, thank God he won't be.

Evening Lizardim.

315 Darth Vader Gargoyle  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:15:15pm

re: #309 Decatur Deb

Think we talked about this. Marshalltown is sacred to archaeoloy:

Image: trowels.JPG

We did. My Granddad had defect handles from the Trowel company that the grandkids used for building blocks.

316 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:15:22pm

re: #312 Gus

Poor Newt. Still thinks he can get in the White House. He's second to Ron Paul in the department of delusional thinking.

317 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:15:45pm

OK, sorry for that little snafu messing up some links, but the embedded tweet feature is now functional.

If you paste in the bare URL of a tweet's individual page, like this one, it will be converted to the embedded tweet code.

If you link to that page within the text, like I did above, no conversion.

318 austin_blue  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:16:56pm

OK, this is bad bad juju.

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE CHARLESTON WV
608 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2012

KYC043-127-WVC099-022330-
/O.CON.KRLX.TO.W.0003.000000T0000Z-120302T2330Z/
LAWRENCE KY-CARTER KY-WAYNE WV-
608 PM EST FRI MAR 2 2012

...A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 630 PM EST FOR
SOUTHEASTERN CARTER AND LAWRENCE COUNTIES IN KENTUCKY...AND EXTREME
WEST CENTRAL WAYNE COUNTY IN WEST VIRGINIA...

AT 601 PM EST...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR AND STORM
SPOTTERS WERE TRACKING A LARGE AND EXTREMELY DANGEROUS TORNADO. THIS
TORNADO WAS LOCATED 15 MILES WEST OF MARTHA...OR NEAR WEST LIBERTY...
MOVING EAST AT 60 MPH.

OTHER LOCATIONS IN THE WARNING INCLUDE BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO
BLAINE...HOUCKVILLE...WEBBVILLE...CHARLEY...ULYSSES...BUCHANAN...
GALLUP...FALLSBURG...YATESVILLE LAKE STATE PARK...LOUISA AND FORT GAY

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

IN ADDITION TO THE TORNADO...THIS STORM IS CAPABLE OF PRODUCING GOLF
SIZE HAIL AND DESTRUCTIVE STRAIGHT LINE WINDS.

IF IN MOBILE HOMES OR VEHICLES...EVACUATE THEM AND GET INSIDE A
STURDY SHELTER. IF NO SHELTER IS AVAILABLE...LIE FLAT IN THE NEAREST
DITCH OR OTHER LOW SPOT AND COVER YOUR HEAD WITH YOUR HANDS.

319 Lidane  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:16:56pm

re: #311 celticdragon

Perpetual Concern Troll Rod Dreher has a sad about college students and staff having sexy time at any Catholic institution...but he has called out the Magical Balance Faerie for overtime on this one.

Dreher's an insufferable douche. Has been for years. His "crunchy granola conservative" nonsense got old ages ago.

320 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:17:04pm

Testing...

[Link: twitter.com...]

321 wrenchwench  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:17:14pm



Cool!

322 austin_blue  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:17:59pm

re: #320 Gus

Testing...

[Link: twitter.com...]

Worked!

323 wrenchwench  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:18:03pm

re: #320 Gus

Testing...

[Link: twitter.com...]

324 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:18:10pm

re: #317 Charles Johnson

OK, sorry for that little snafu messing up some links, but the embedded tweet feature is now functional.

If you paste in the bare URL of a tweet's individual page, like this one, it will be converted to the embedded tweet code.

If you link to that page within the text, like I did above, no conversion.

Cool. Testing it...

325 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:18:29pm

[Link: twitter.com...]

326 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:19:50pm

Not seeing it. All I'm seeing in my comments is "[Link: twitter.com...]".

327 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:20:17pm

Bryan Fischer: Secular sharia: Imam Obama to Christians: convert, submit or go to prison

When Muslim armies invade, they give Christians three choices and three choices only: convert, submit, or die.

They either must convert to Islam, submit by paying the jizya tax, which is essentially protection money, or prepare to defend themselves against warriors whose aim is to cut their heads off.

In other words, there is no such thing as religious freedom in Islam or under Islam.

But neither is there religious freedom under secular fundamentalism and the dogma of ObamaCare. A secular version of sharia law is being imposed by President Obama on all Christian employers and institutions, and it is in effect as we speak.

With the failure of Sen. Blunt's Conscience Protection Amendment yesterday on the Senate floor, there now is nothing except Anthony Kennedy standing between people of faith and the tyranny of the central government.

Secular sharia, the imposition of secular fundamentalism on people of Christian faith, is now the law in what used to be the land of the free and the home of the brave.

/facepalm

328 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:20:55pm

re: #326 Gus

Not seeing it. All I'm seeing in my comments is "[Link: twitter.com...]".

That's weird. Let me try with your link...

329 wrenchwench  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:21:12pm


330 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:21:15pm

re: #328 CuriousLurker

Gus are bork.

331 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:21:46pm

In 2012, contraception is the new satanism

The conservatives freaking out about Satanism in the 80's are the same people freaking out about contraception now

332 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:22:01pm

re: #326 Gus

Not seeing it. All I'm seeing in my comments is "[Link: twitter.com...]".

Apparently, you're cursed.

333 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:22:18pm

[Link: twitter.com...]

334 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:22:31pm

:(

335 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:22:51pm

Perhaps try refreshing the page, for Sergey and Gus? If Charles has been fiddling with the code, it could take a page reload to institute the latest changes.

336 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:23:05pm

re: #334 The Ineffable Name

:(

Yeah. Just like that is what I'm seeing. The others seem to be working.

337 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:23:12pm

re: #333 The Ineffable Name

[Link: twitter.com...]

You too? Must be...what? A browser issue?

338 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:23:25pm

re: #335 thedopefishlives

I actually tried. But it shouldn't depend on that, as links are processed by the server.

339 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:23:44pm

re: #331 windupbird is in the gravity well

In 2012, contraception is the new satanism

The conservatives freaking out about Satanism in the 80's are the same people freaking out about contraception now

And they're just as full as shit today.

340 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:24:08pm

re: #335 thedopefishlives

Perhaps try refreshing the page, for Sergey and Gus? If Charles has been fiddling with the code, it could take a page reload to institute the latest changes.

Did that. Tried F5 and Ctl + F5.

341 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:24:24pm


342 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:24:36pm

Haha.

Gus, add https.

343 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:24:41pm

I'm on FF + Win7.

344 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:25:08pm

re: #342 The Ineffable Name

Haha.

Gus, add https.

Ahh. Fully qualified links. But nobody uses those anymore./

345 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:25:14pm

Charles, https links are converted, http not...

346 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:25:40pm

Santorum says Rush comments "absurd" I can't find the vid to see the whole quote but please

absurd sure, he fucked your whole platform.

But correct statement is hateful.

347 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:25:47pm

re: #339 Kragar

And they're just as full as shit today.

Yep

Hopefully it won't end with a McMartin trial

348 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:26:00pm

re: #342 The Ineffable Name

Haha.

Gus, add https.

Ha! I thought about that, then I thought "Nah, that couldn't be it." Gah, I should know better.

349 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:26:06pm

[Link: twitter.com...]

350 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:26:09pm

Steve Doocy: ‘Media Matters May End President Obama’s Hopes Of Getting Re-Elected’

Things that make you go hmmm… On Friday’s Fox and Friends, co-host Steve Doocy introduced an interview with Alan Dershowitz and made the startling declaration that Fox News watchdog group Media Matters could doom President Obama‘s releection chances.

“The liberal left wing organization with close ties to the White House may end President Obama’s hopes of getting re-elected in November,” Doocy said. “Those words now coming from a well known Harvard Law Professor, Professor Alan Dershowitz and he says Media Matters is posting anti-Jewish, anti-Israel hate speech on their site and that their rhetoric is dangerous for the president.”

Doocy asked Dershowitz why he had declared war on the liberal advocacy group.

“Well, you know, I’m a liberal Democrat,” Dershowitz explained. “But I can’t tolerate bigotry on any site of political spectrum, Media Matters has crossed the line.”

Dershowitz explained the site was posting anti-Semitic invective.

“They have accused any supporters of Israel of being Israel-firsters. They’ve accused AIPAC, the organization that President Obama is going to speak in front of, as having only one loyalty to Israel and not to America at all.”

351 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:26:19pm

CL, try to post http link please...

352 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:27:22pm

re: #350 Kragar

Dershowitz explained the site was posting anti-Semitic invective.

I seem to remember Killgore saying something very much like this

353 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:27:22pm

[Link: twitter.com...]

354 wrenchwench  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:27:28pm

My newest followee:

[Link: twitter.com...]

That one is supposed to post that way, it's not one tweet.

355 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:27:34pm


356 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:27:52pm

re: #351 The Ineffable Name

CL, try to post http link please...

Yep, that was it. Here's the same link with http:

357 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:27:59pm

re: #353 CuriousLurker

Aha!

358 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:28:17pm

re: #347 windupbird is in the gravity well

Yep

Hopefully it won't end with a McMartin trial

I was thinking Judas Priest

In the summer of 1990, the band was involved in a civil action that alleged they were responsible for the self-inflicted gunshot wounds in 1985 of 20-year-old James Vance and 18-year-old Raymond Belknap in Sparks, Nevada, USA.[15] On 23 December 1985, Vance and Belknap, after hours of drinking beer, smoking marijuana and allegedly listening to Judas Priest music, went to a playground at a church in Sparks with a 12-gauge shotgun to end their lives. Belknap was the first to place the shotgun under his chin. He died instantly after pulling the trigger. Vance then shot himself but survived, suffering severe facial injuries.[5]

The men's parents and their legal team alleged that a subliminal message of "do it" had been included in the Judas Priest song "Better By You, Better Than Me" from the Stained Class album (actually a cover of a Spooky Tooth number). They alleged the command in the song triggered the suicide attempt.[15] The trial lasted from 16 July to 24 August 1990, when the suit was dismissed.[15] One of the defense witnesses, Dr. Timothy E. Moore, wrote an article for Skeptical Inquirer chronicling the trial.[15]

The trial was covered in the 1991 documentary Dream Deceivers: The Story Behind James Vance Vs. Judas Priest. In the documentary, Halford commented that if they wanted to insert subliminal commands in their music, killing their fans would be counterproductive and they would prefer to insert the command "Buy more of our records." Regarding the plaintiff's assertions that the statement "do it" was a command to commit suicide, Halford pointed out "do it" had no direct message.

359 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:29:10pm

re: #354 wrenchwench

My newest followee:

[Link: twitter.com...]

That one is supposed to post that way, it's not one tweet.

Location: Unfortunately not Costa Rica

360 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:29:16pm

re: #350 Kragar

So, by criticizing AIPAC (I'm not their biggest fan either) MediaMatters will cause Obama to lose re-election because of what? Oligarhy?

361 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:29:49pm

re: #360 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

So, by criticizing AIPAC (I'm not their biggest fan either) MediaMatters will cause Obama to lose re-election because of what? Oligarhy?

Jesus.

362 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:29:52pm

re: #350 Kragar

Derp.

363 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:30:17pm

twitter.com/#!/DavidCornDC/status/175720516571758592

[Link: twitter.com...]

364 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:30:32pm

re: #359 Oooh, the Vagina uses birth control

Location: Unfortunately not Costa Rica

I love the new display name.

365 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:30:47pm

re: #362 The Ineffable Name

Derp.

JESUS DIED FOR OUR DERPS!

366 dragonfire1981  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:31:19pm

Oh this is rich...

Wisconsin GOP introduce bill that equates single parenthood with child abuse

The bill reads in part:

Section 1. 48.982 (2) (g) 2. of the statutes is amended to read:
48.982 (2) (g) 2. Promote statewide educational and public awareness campaigns and materials for the purpose of developing public awareness of the problems of child abuse and neglect. In promoting those campaigns and materials, the board shall emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect.

Section 2. 48.982 (2) (g) 4. of the statutes is amended to read:
48.982 (2) (g) 4. Disseminate information about the problems of and methods of preventing child abuse and neglect to the public and to organizations concerned with those problems. In disseminating that information, the board shall emphasize nonmarital parenthood as a contributing factor to child abuse and neglect.

367 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:33:01pm

You're a fucking uncle tom, ken melhman, apology not accepted, eat shit

"As I’ve been involved in the fight for marriage equality, one of the things I’ve learned is how many people were harmed by the campaigns in which I was involved," he continued. "I apologize to them and tell them I am sorry. While there have been recent victories, this could still be a long struggle in which there will be setbacks, and I’ll do my part to be helpful."

You "learned"? that politics that demonizes gay people as rapists and monsters might have consequences? This just occurred to you, ken?

God, they're so slimy and ridiculous and nasty

368 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:33:07pm

The Dersh finally jumped the shark. Heh.

369 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:33:16pm

re: #366 dragonfire1981

tell me the one again about how the 2010 elections were all about jobs?

370 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:33:28pm

re: #358 Kragar

dream deceivers!

371 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:33:45pm


372 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:34:01pm

re: #366 dragonfire1981

Oh this is rich...

Wisconsin GOP introduce bill that equates single parenthood with child abuse

The bill reads in part:

Can we introduce a bill that says raising a child in a household governed by medieval fantasies constitutes abuse or does that constitute religious oppression?

373 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:35:05pm

bad tornado (F-4) just tore through Henryville Indiana.

374 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:35:48pm

BTW, maybe I missed something but when was the last time we had such massive tornado outbreaks in the middle of february?

375 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:35:56pm

re: #366 dragonfire1981

Wow


So it turns out that by small government, the GOP means government so big it can ruin your life outright for no reason

The Americna taliban is here, it's no longer just a phrase, they really are here

376 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:36:17pm

re: #371 Gus

That, my friend, applies only to liberals and moderate conservatives. A lot of dittoheads will actually be aroused.

377 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:36:43pm

re: #372 Kragar

Can we introduce a bill that says raising a child in a household governed by medieval fantasies constitutes abuse or does that constitute religious oppression?

We're on the road back towards good old fashioned witchburnings again, praise be!

378 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:36:47pm

re: #375 windupbird is in the gravity well

Wow

So it turns out that by small government, the GOP means government so big it can ruin your life outright for no reason

The Americna taliban is here, it's no longer just a phrase, they really are here

They never said less government.

379 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:39:23pm

re: #378 Kragar

They never said less government.

Well we GOTTA burn the witches that take the birth control! Those stakes cost money, dammit!

To the modern GOP, the Crucible is a sourcebook

380 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:40:07pm

re: #378 Kragar

nope they said smaller. Meaning only the departments of Chastity and Morality will exist.

381 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:40:29pm

re: #374 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

BTW, maybe I missed something but when was the last time we had such massive tornado outbreaks in the middle of february?

The answer, by the way, is 2009.

382 What, me worry?  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:41:21pm

re: #16 jaunte

What's a hardcore women’s rights activist?

re: #296 HappyWarrior

How is a "hardcore activist" different from an activist? Please enlighten me Gateway Pundit with your wit and wisdom that often is accompanied by poor photoshops and fauxrages.

My guess is lesbian. These guys love their codewords.

383 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:41:38pm

re: #364 thedopefishlives

I love the new display name.

It covers a couple of RW freakouts at once. :)

384 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:41:46pm

Just remember, the same party that says increased regulation kills business, that failed industries can police themselves despite a recession to the contrary, and that government trying to ensure passenger safety on planes is too intrusive has no problem in telling Americans who they can spend their lives with and what they're legally allowed to do with their own reproductive organs.

385 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:42:23pm

re: #379 windupbird is in the gravity well

Well we GOTTA burn the witches that take the birth control! Those stakes cost money, dammit!

To the modern GOP, the Crucible is a sourcebook

We should start referring to Republicans with the title Ayatollah before their last name.

• Ayatollah John Boehner
• Ayatollah Mitch McConnell
• Ayatollah Louie Gohmert

386 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:42:34pm

re: #350 Kragar

Steve Doocy: ‘Media Matters May End President Obama’s Hopes Of Getting Re-Elected’

That's odd becuase it seems to (somewhat) contradict what Dershowitz said in the article Randall referenced in his Page earlier today.

There's so much spin these days it's hard to know for sure what anyone actually thinks or says. *sigh*

387 Shiplord Kirel  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:42:40pm

If Dim Jim fell down a well (not impossible, considering), the average IQ at his house would go up 30 points. That's assuming the only other resident is a chihuahua.

388 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:42:42pm

re: #385 Gus

We should start referring to Republicans with the title Ayatollah before their last name.

• Ayatollah John Boehner
• Ayatollah Mitch McConnell
• Ayatollah Louie Gohmert

I'm so doing this

389 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:42:51pm

re: #385 Gus

We should start referring to Republicans with the title Ayatollah before their last name.

• Ayatollah John Boehner
• Ayatollah Mitch McConnell
• Ayatollah Louie Gohmert

Mullah Tim laHaye

390 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:42:57pm

re: #381 thedopefishlives

Didn't realize that, maybe they're just more intense this time around.

391 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:43:53pm

re: #386 CuriousLurker

That's odd becuase it seems to (somewhat) contradict what Dershowitz said in the article Randall referenced in his Page earlier today.

There's so much spin these days it's hard to know for sure what anyone actually thinks or says. *sigh*

I don't see a contradiction. The only thing Dersh said there is that he did not approve of the ad and that ECI are clowns. He did not take back his idiotic accusations against Media Matters.

392 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:44:03pm

re: #389 windupbird is in the gravity well

Mullah Tim laHaye

The Grand Ayatollah Ronald Wilson Reagan!

393 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:44:09pm

re: #390 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Didn't realize that, maybe they're just more intense this time around.

Perhaps. Tornado outbreaks always seem so unusual at the time they occur. I should also add that a tornado outbreak that far north, this early, is unusual. Note that the 2009 outbreak was a considerable ways south.

394 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:44:20pm

re: #372 Kragar

Can we introduce a bill that says raising a child in a household governed by medieval fantasies constitutes abuse or does that constitute religious oppression?

The governor of Maryland offers the true Catholic case for civil marriage equality:

Yesterday was a day for Maryland's children. It was a day for human dignity. After years of hard work, we signed a bill into law that protects individual civil marriage rights and religious freedom equally. Yesterday, we came together as One Maryland and showed that there is more that unites us than divides us. Our efforts were in essence about the dignity of every child's home. All of us, wherever we happen to stand on the marriage equality issue, can agree that all our children deserve the opportunity to live in a loving, caring, committed, and stable home, protected equally under the law.

395 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:44:24pm

re: #386 CuriousLurker

That's odd becuase it seems to (somewhat) contradict what Dershowitz said in the article Randall referenced in his Page earlier today.

There's so much spin these days it's hard to know for sure what anyone actually thinks or says. *sigh*

I guess the rule of thumb is if it's Fox and Friends, it's absolute nonsense


Watching that show is like watching teletubbies for republicans

396 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:45:42pm

re: #391 The Ineffable Name

Oops, sorry, ECI are clowns = Ackerman. So the only thing Dersh said: "I don’t approve of the ad". Weak tea.

397 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:46:29pm

re: #393 thedopefishlives

That's more what I meant, that this one is pretty far north and these storms and super cells seem to be keep a lot of strength over a large distance. Reminds me of last year when they had the bad ones ripping through that area.

398 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:48:50pm

Okay, I've got some more coding to do, so I'm out for now. Laters.

399 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:49:01pm

re: #397 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

That's more what I meant, that this one is pretty far north and these storms and super cells seem to be keep a lot of strength over a large distance. Reminds me of last year when they had the bad ones ripping through that area.

Yeah. Tornado-capable supercells in the Indiana area have produced some of the more damaging outbreaks in US history. My mom and dad's hometown was hit by one on Good Friday, 1965. My mom tells the story of sneaking away to sit at her plate-glass front window as the tornado bounced across the creek behind their house, over their house, and crashed down across the street to parade through downtown.

400 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:51:28pm

I'm waiting on the 700 club to blame the tornadoes on Obama and the birth control debate.

401 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:52:31pm

16 Alabama counties just went under a tornado watch, but that's not too unusual for us. Yesterday was the anniversary of the storm that killed 8 kids in a local HS. Got my weather radio and Weather Underground up.

402 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:53:09pm

Got one on the ground at Geneva, AL.

403 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:53:17pm

re: #401 Decatur Deb

16 Alabama counties just went under a tornado watch, but that's not too unusual for us. Yesterday was the anniversary of the storm that killed 8 kids in a local HS. Got my weather radio and Weather Underground up.

Stay safe down there. I've seen my fair share of tornadoes and tornado damage firsthand.

404 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:58:37pm

On the Rush front:

emokidsloveme ‏ @emokidsloveme

@AngryBlackLady Sleep number, Sleep train, Quicken Loans and the Cleveland @cavs have all dropped Rush: bit.ly/yQKrps

405 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 3:59:23pm

The CAVS advertised on Rush?

406 bubba zanetti  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:00:51pm

Made the mistake of looking at the to:sandrafluke tweets. Aside from all the vitriol, are people really that clueless about insurance?

407 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:01:13pm
408 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:01:35pm

The Princess went to Body Worlds today.

Do you know what they have at Body Worlds? They have preserved genitals. They also had, on this day, boys from a local middle school.

You should have heard her imitation of them, it was priceless.

PENIS! Huh huh huh huh...

One of her friends shut them down by going over and making loud comments about size, which is probably funnier.

409 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:03:06pm

Grand Ayatollah or Grand Old Party?
Who said it: Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei or U.S. Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum?

410 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:03:28pm

[Link: twitter.com...]

411 jaunte  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:05:05pm

How Access To Contraception Benefits The Economy

"...consulting giant McKinsey explains that without the huge increase in women’s workforce participation since the 1970s, “our economy would be 25% smaller today..."
...
According to the Guttmacher Institute, “every $1 spent on public funding for family planning saves taxpayers $3.74 in pregnancy-related costs.” When California spent $400 million on family planning services in 2002, “$1.1 billion was saved in public funds that would have been spent on medical care, income support, and social services through averting pregnancies up to age two, and $2.2 billion up to age five.”

412 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:06:57pm

Don't know if all of you saw my tweet from earlier today, but I was in a pub, usually totally GOP, where the numerous, loud, and mostly male consensus was against Limbaugh, and oh how they linked him to the GOP in general.

Birth Control was the worst issue to choose you idiots.

I had a great lunch.

413 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:07:05pm

re: #410 The Ineffable Name

Ah, I see why yours isn't working yet. You're not using Javascript, and you're not going through the dynamic comment posting script.

414 makeitstop  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:07:44pm

re: #405 Oooh, the Vagina uses birth control

The CAVS advertised on Rush?

Probably a local buy in the Cleveland market. That the only thing I can think of.

415 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:08:06pm

re: #411 jaunte

How Access To Contraception Benefits The Economy

Yes, but what about all those single mothers! All those problem kids! All the poverty! Damnit, don't you care about America's moral fiber!? We must do away with contraception, so that women are back where they belong: back home, taking care of the kids!!

416 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:09:03pm

re: #413 Charles Johnson

Ah, I see why yours isn't working yet. You're not using Javascript, and you're not going through the dynamic comment posting script.

I am using javascript, and if I add https it works OK.

CuriousLurker posted without https and hers wasn't converted too.

417 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:11:37pm

re: #413 Charles Johnson

Also cf. #351, #353.

418 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:12:55pm

OK, fixed now:

419 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:13:13pm


420 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:13:27pm


421 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:13:37pm

Yay.

422 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:13:41pm

re: #418 Charles Johnson

OK, fixed now:

There it is.

423 jaunte  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:16:24pm
424 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:18:13pm

Wow. Local CBS took Arpaio seriosuly, while Local Fox was critical? Through the rabbit hole...

[Link: mediamatters.org...]

425 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:21:06pm

re: #423 jaunte

And McConnell you fuck just presided over a vote on the same exact bullshit.

OH GOP

426 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:21:33pm

re: #424 The Ineffable Name

Wow. Local CBS took Arpaio seriosuly, while Local Fox was critical? Through the rabbit hole...

[Link: mediamatters.org...]

Clown show.

427 Locker  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:22:28pm

The after working baking aside my wife and I just about died laughing as I read Charles' copy to her out loud. She literally fell off the bed and right on her ass when I showed her clown boy's picture and she realized it said "Derp" underneath.

Thanks man, good way to start a weekend.

428 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:22:54pm

re: #426 Gus

Clown show.

Insane Clown Posse: fucking layers, how do they work?

429 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:29:41pm

They killed the thread! You bastards!

430 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:30:23pm

re: #423 jaunte

Please tell me that's a joke. Because if it's serious, then McConnell truly is as stupid as we've all believed him to be.

431 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:31:33pm

re: #429 The Ineffable Name

They killed the thread! You bastards!

Youtube Video
432 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:32:00pm

re: #430 Targetpractice

News-based jokes account.

433 bubba zanetti  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:33:04pm

If I ever get to dictate my employees' health care plans, I'm definitely not going to cover any golfing injuries. If you can afford the country club, you can pay for your own carpal tunnel treatments.

///

434 Locker  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:33:17pm

re: #424 The Ineffable Name

Wow. Local CBS took Arpaio seriosuly, while Local Fox was critical? Through the rabbit hole...

[Link: mediamatters.org...]

Nice one man. I just sent kudos to that station from here:

[Link: www.myfoxphoenix.com...]

435 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:33:39pm
436 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:34:46pm

re: #435 Gus

DERP.

437 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:35:07pm

re: #431 Kragar

[Embedded content]

438 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:35:21pm

“First, we established incentives for those who were uninsured to buy insurance...Using tax penalties, as we did, or tax credits, as others have proposed, encourages ‘free riders’ to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others.”
-- Mitt Romney

439 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:35:48pm

re: #438 Gus

“First, we established incentives for those who were uninsured to buy insurance...Using tax penalties, as we did, or tax credits, as others have proposed, encourages ‘free riders’ to take responsibility for themselves rather than pass their medical costs on to others.”
-- Mitt Romney

Cognitive dissonance, how does it work?

440 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:35:52pm


441 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:38:51pm

re: #435 Gus

Obama truly is blessed to have so many fucking idiots for enemies.

442 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:38:57pm

re: #439 thedopefishlives

Cognitive dissonance, how does it work?

Mitt Romney is the shape shifter of American politics.

443 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:45:52pm

re: #441 Targetpractice

Obama truly is blessed to have so many fucking idiots for enemies.

QFT, but of course, there's more to the more.

444 ProGunLiberal  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:47:07pm

OT, but Flooding in Australia is beginning to turn into a massive disaster:

Australians living in the north-western Sydney suburbs of Richmond, Pitt Down and Grono Point are evacuated as the Nepean-Hawkesbury River system floods after [[Warragamba Dam overflows.

The Nepean-Hawkesbury River system surrounds the Sydney Metro. This is really bad.

445 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:49:46pm

Derp.

446 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:50:47pm

re: #445 Gus

Derp.

*facepalm*

447 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:50:58pm

re: #445 Gus

Derp.

SO FUCKING WEAK.

Where are the leaders that would say the truth? GOP fail again. Own it.

448 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:51:46pm

re: #445 Gus

Derp.

I guess getting one's balls chopped off and placed into a communal lockbox must be a requirement for joining the Republican Party.

449 Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:53:06pm

re: #445 Gus

A true leader!

450 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:53:27pm

re: #445 Gus

Derp.

You know what, I've changed my mind, I want Mittens to be the nominee.

451 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:53:55pm

re: #450 Targetpractice

You know what, I've changed my mind, I want Mittens to be the nominee.

Honestly, at this point, it could be any of the four. They're all derpy enough to completely fail, and be entertaining whilst doing so.

452 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:55:42pm

re: #449 The Ineffable Name

A true leader!

Vying for the position as "leader of the free world" yet he's afraid of Rush Limbaugh. They're all afraid of Rush Limbaugh. It's really pathetic. The Republican Party is a group of cowering old white guys marching in lock step to an immoveable agenda. It's not a political party, it's a cult.

453 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:56:47pm

re: #451 thedopefishlives

Honestly, at this point, it could be any of the four. They're all derpy enough to completely fail, and be entertaining whilst doing so.

At the end of this long week, I'm at my wits end, and the idea of watching the GOP eat itself with a derpularity in the wake of a Romney loss sounds way too fucking tempting. You wanna see Boehner break and sweat and McConnell turn a color other than corpse white? Watch the establishment's nominee, the living symbol of all that they "believe," knocked off by the "anti-Christ."

455 Achilles Tang  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 4:59:20pm

re: #439 thedopefishlives

Cognitive dissonance, how does it work?

In his case this is not cognitive dissonance, it is cognitive dishonesty.

456 ProGunLiberal  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 5:01:45pm

re: #444 ProGunLiberal

Meanwhile, at home, we have a major tornado outbreak ravaging wide area of the US east of the Mississippi

457 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 5:02:51pm

re: #456 ProGunLiberal

Meanwhile, at home, we have a major tornado outbreak ravaging wide area of the US east of the Mississippi

Cue the crying from the GOP if any of these states dares to apply for FEMA assistance.

458 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 5:04:19pm

re: #456 ProGunLiberal

Meanwhile, at home, we have a major tornado outbreak ravaging wide area of the US east of the Mississippi

either its God's will or God's wrath for the Birth Control debate

459 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 5:04:53pm

re: #457 thedopefishlives

Cue the crying from the GOP if any of these states dares to apply for FEMA assistance.

And open talk about "paying for assistance" through budgetary cuts to a Democrat-supported program/grant/etc.

460 ProGunLiberal  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 5:05:09pm

re: #457 thedopefishlives

Nah, several Republican states have been hit hard. They'll be clamoring at the trough.

461 Kragar  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 5:05:50pm

re: #460 ProGunLiberal

Nah, several Republican states have been hit hard. They'll be clamoring at the trough.

They obviously didn't love Jesus enough.
/

462 ProGunLiberal  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 5:06:12pm

re: #459 Targetpractice

And because that is the way the Republicans act now, I get very vindictive.

463 Page 3 in the Binder of Women  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 5:07:51pm

David Axelrod ‏ @davidaxelrod

Rush's vile, appalling assault on Sandra Fluke deserves universal condemnation. How can folks who calls themselves leaders walk away?

Yeah, VILE is the word, not "words I wouldn't use" bullshit

464 Linden Arden  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 5:11:28pm

Bill-O is now on the "slut"wagon... as of 8pm EST.

I cannot believe it. The GOP has lost any semblance of decency... I officially disavow any past relation to the GOP now.

465 Gus  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 5:12:29pm

re: #463 Oooh, the Vagina uses birth control

David Axelrod ‏ @davidaxelrod

Rush's vile, appalling assault on Sandra Fluke deserves universal condemnation. How can folks who calls themselves leaders walk away?

Yeah, VILE is the word, not "words I wouldn't use" bullshit

Republican men are afraid of Rush Limbaugh. They're afraid of a 30 year old Georgetown University student. Republican men are also afraid of women -- both young and old. It is the proverbial "boys club". In many respect the "good ol' boys" club.

466 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 5:12:58pm

I'm starting a band called Dominican Sex Limbaugh

We all wear Rush limbaugh masks, dresses, and do shonen knife covers

467 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 5:13:13pm

re: #462 ProGunLiberal

And because that is the way the Republicans act now, I get very vindictive.

I understand a desire for vindication, but also understand that those who suffer should be those responsible, not innocent bystanders. Which is why I'd rather see the GOP establishment brought down by the very monster they've brought to life than exact "revenge" by "punishing" states.

468 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 5:14:04pm

re: #465 Gus

Republican men are afraid of Rush Limbaugh. They're afraid of a 30 year old Georgetown University student. Republican men are also afraid of women -- both young and old. It is the proverbial "boys club". In many respect the "good ol' boys" club.

Normal men have wet dreams about beautiful young sexually liberated women. Republican men call those nightmares. #goodoldboysclub

469 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 5:14:08pm

re: #464 Linden Arden

Bill-O is now on the "slut"wagon... as of 8pm EST.

I cannot believe it. The GOP has lost any semblance of decency... I officially disavow any past relation to the GOP now.

Bill-O the erotic fiction writer, of course, suddenly quivering with outrage, liver spots glowing

470 bubba zanetti  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 5:15:06pm

re: #466 windupbird is in the gravity well

I'm starting a band called Dominican Sex Limbaugh

We all wear Rush limbaugh masks, dresses, and do shonen knife covers

There's a limbaughda pun in there somewhere. The forbidden dunce?

471 ProGunLiberal  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 5:16:24pm

There are tornadoes on the ground, moving towards the Atlanta Metro.

Oh shit.

472 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 5:16:45pm

Romney on Limbaugh: "I would have used more godly terms like meretrix, strumpet or harlot, slut is just too coarse for church."

473 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 5:17:07pm

re: #470 bubba zanetti

There's a limbaughda pun in there somewhere. The forbidden dunce?

ahahahahaa brilliant

474 McSpiff  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 5:23:02pm

re: #471 ProGunLiberal

There are tornadoes on the ground, moving towards the Atlanta Metro.

Oh shit.

Guess my roommate won't be flying out of Atlanta tonight...

475 ProGunLiberal  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 5:25:38pm

re: #474 McSpiff

Tonight is going to be a disaster. Another one was just spotted in the far-west Metro.

FEMA better be real ready.

476 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 5:28:53pm

re: #442 Gus

Mitt Romney is the shape shifter of American politics.

Liquid Nitrogen is our only hope!

477 Tiny Alien Kitties are Watching You  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 5:47:58pm

So Mr. Hoft apparently thought that some random female college student with no connection at all to the issue of contraception would be picked to testify before the Democratic caucus?

His feigned shock,SHOCK I SAY!, at discovering that the woman actually is involved in this issue and has worked to promote reproductive rights for women only makes him seem even more idiotic than usual. Perhaps he has just grown used to the Republican habit of calling people to testify before Congress who know absolutely nothing about the issue, or worse, deny the issue even exists based solely on religious doctrinal grounds?

God forbid that Congress ever hear from anyone with direct experience or knowledge about an issue before they vote on legislation about it. That would possibly nullify some of the influence of the paid corporate lobbyists who currently claim the right to tell our representatives what to think and how to vote.

After all, as everyone knows our constitution upholds the ideal of a government "by the people and for the people." And as the Supreme Court recently ruled in "Citizens United" Corporations actually are "people"...right?

478 Typhaeon  Fri, Mar 2, 2012 8:45:10pm

I always think Dim Jim's eyeballs are permanently fused to his glasses' frames whenever that fabulous thumbnail comes up. Must be uncomfortable wearing them to bed so your eyes don't pop out, eh Hoft?


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