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Spasticularly Tubular!

What would you get if you linked a series of spastic tubes?

re: #3 Mocking Jay

What would you get if you linked a series of spastic tubes?

The RNC convention.

Hey. Is it me or did Todd Akin already take down his "liberal media" comment from his website?

Um, OK. Did I really just see an ad for a whacked out anti-Obama movie featuring Dinesh D'Souza on MSNBC?

Yikes.

re: #5 Gus

Hey. Is it me or did Todd Akin already take down his "liberal media" comment from his website?

Tweet's still there.

I apologized but the liberal media is trying to make me drop out. Please stand w/ me tonight by signing my petition at akin.org/still-standing

— Todd Akin (@ToddAkin) August 22, 2012

I haven't seen anyone mention this today.

Newsweek Tumblr Changes Cursor to Coat Hanger to Mock Women

As of right now, it's still there.

re: #7 Charles Johnson

Tweet's still there.

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Yep. But it's gone from his current page. Here's an older screenshot.

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Um, OK. Did I really just see an ad for a whacked out anti-Obama movie featuring Dinesh D'Souza on MSNBC?

Yikes.

In his new conservative doc, Dinesh D’Souza travels the world to get the goods on Barack Hussein Obama.

D’Souza’s documentary is based largely on his book The Roots of Obama’s Rage, which itself grew out of D’Souza’s Forbes cover story, one of the most influential of the decade. Obama, according to D’Souza, was an anti-colonialist. “He adopted his father's position that capitalism and free markets are code words for economic plunder,” wrote D’Souza. “Obama grew to perceive the rich as an oppressive class, a kind of neocolonial power within America.” Newt Gingrich recommended the theory to reporters—technically speaking, to Robert Costa and me. David Koch repeated it to a sympathetic Matthew Continetti.

The theory was Swiss-cheesed with logic holes. D’Souza found great significance in how Obama “demonizes his predecessor and his opponent,” as if only anti-colonialists did this. D’Souza insisted that Obama using the Gulf oil spill crisis to call BP “British Petroleum” is Anglophobia, revealed! But Obama didn’t call BP “British Petroleum.”

None of this makes it into 2016. We’re taught the controversy, with a montage of D’Souza defending his thesis in front of hostile interviewers. (There’s a sort of George Romero irony to these scenes, as D’Souza is filleted on shows like Countdown and Parker/Spitzer. They’re gone. He’s still here.) We’re shown just how deeply D’Souza researched this—shot of him thumbing through Dreams before boarding an Indonesian scooter, learning to hula in Hawaii, delivering three goats to buy an interview with Obama’s paternal grandmother Sarah. She turns him down. There is no Michael Moore-style waiting in the weeds to ambush a source.

re: #7 Charles Johnson

Tweet's still there.

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BuzzFeedAndrew just Tweeted that it's still up on FB.

re: #8 Sionainn

I haven't seen anyone mention this today.

Newsweek Tumblr Changes Cursor to Coat Hanger to Mock Women

As of right now, it's still there.

Yes I see, altho it doesn't appear to be a classic all-wire style coat hanger.

Some other incarnation over at his FB page. What a hoot. Blaming the liberal elitist media. Where in the world do they get elitist from? CNN and MSNBC is elitist? Huh?

re: #8 Sionainn

I haven't seen anyone mention this today.

Newsweek Tumblr Changes Cursor to Coat Hanger to Mock Women

As of right now, it's still there.

It appears to be a warning of where the Republicans want to take America with regards to abortions.

The coathanger is a political statement. It’s cutesy, but it’s a political statement. If pro-life politicians have their way, we’re going to see a regression to older, more unsafe forms of abortion. You can’t keep it safe and neat when you’re not funded, much less not legal. Their laws wont stop abortion, it would only make it more dangerous and cause the deaths of many women who go for an abortion regardless. That’s not very pro-life of them at all.

re: #7 Charles Johnson

Someone should send a Tweet to Hannity welcoming him to the liberal media.

I think Hell might have just froze over.

I went out for a smoke break at work about 10-15 minutes ago and Fox News was playing on the TV in our breakroom. Greta Van Sustern was on and Sarah Palin was her guest, talking about Akin. As I was walking back in to the breakroom from our smoking area outside, Van Sustern was asking Palin whether or not Akin should have bowed out of the Senate race with McCaskill and what I heard surprised me: Palin unequivocally said that Akin should drop out of the race because of what he said.

Imagine that: Sarah Palin, Queen of the Teabillies, agreeing with Romney, Ryan, and the GOP establishment on this.

re: #10 Kragar

In his new conservative doc, Dinesh D’Souza travels the world to get the goods on Barack Hussein Obama.

D’Souza’s documentary is based largely on his book The Roots of Obama’s Rage, which itself grew out of D’Souza’s Forbes cover story, one of the most influential of the decade. Obama, according to D’Souza, was an anti-colonialist. “He adopted his father's position that capitalism and free markets are code words for economic plunder,” wrote D’Souza.

Isn't someone who is against capitalism best described as an anti-capitalist?

We Need a ‘Conservative’ Party
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

re: #16 TedStriker

Sarah Palin 2 Greta suggested the way to win the Missouri Senate seat is for Steelman to run 3rd party.Says Akin should have gotten out

— Mark Halperin (@Markhalperin) August 22, 2012

re: #8 Sionainn

I haven't seen anyone mention this today.

Newsweek Tumblr Changes Cursor to Coat Hanger to Mock Women

As of right now, it's still there.

O.M.G. This is among the most offensive things I can imagine. Actually, no I can't imagine it. I can't begin to understand anyone who could. They think this is funny?

re: #17 Mattand

Isn't someone who is against capitalism best described as an anti-capitalist?

"Anti-colonialist" = RWNJ code for "angry Kenyan man".

It's a way for D'Souza to call Obama the N-word without actually using that word.

re: #16 TedStriker

I think Hell might have just froze over.

I went out for a smoke break at work about 10-15 minutes and Fox News was playing on the TV in our breakroom. Greta Van Sustern was on and Sarah Palin was her guest, talking about Akin. As I was walking back in to the breakroom from our smoking area outside, Van Sustern was asking Palin whether or not Akin should have bowed out of the Senate race with McCaskill and what I heard surprised me: Palin unequivocally said that Akin should drop out of the race because of what he said.

Imagine that: Sarah Palin, Queen of the Teabillies, agreeing with Romney, Ryan, and the GOP establishment on this.

She's only trying to vindicate her support of the (much worse I suppose) teabagger she endorsed v. Akin.

that is all. She gives no shit about women, rape, or legitimacy. It's all about her "name" and win/loss column.

Of course Greta had to take her on.

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where you can get insulted anytime but nobody can spill their drink on you

Romney says he’s spent his campaign money ‘a little wiser’ than Obama

Yeah, the fact that you've raised and spent more billionaires' money, yet you're still losing to a sitting President in a shitty economy, is definitely proof of how "wisely" you've spent that money.

re: #21 Lidane

"Anti-colonialist" = RWNJ code for "angry Kenyan man".

It's a way for D'Souza to call Obama the N-word without actually using that word.

yes, we should do a survey - how many ways has the right wing come up with to say NEGRO without getting called on it in the past five years

the little bastards think they're so cute with this crap...

re: #21 Lidane

"Anti-colonialist" = RWNJ code for "angry Kenyan man".

It's a way for D'Souza to call Obama the N-word without actually using that word.

That actually explains that. I've never understood that particular insult until now.

re: #22 Stanley Sea

She's only trying to vindicate her support of the (much worse I suppose) teabagger she endorsed v. Akin.

that is all. She gives no shit about women, rape, or legitimacy. It's all about her "name" and win/loss column.

Of course Greta had to take her on.

In that case, I partially retract my statement.

I knew there had to be an angle in there for Palin somewhere...

re: #20 allegro

O.M.G. This is among the most offensive things I can imagine. Actually, no I can't imagine it. I can't begin to understand anyone who could. They think this is funny?

Okay, I think that the original link that was outraged by Newsweek's using the coat hanger missed this statement from Newsweek Tumblr:

Lots of, erm, interest in our cursor swap. Here’s our statement we just sent to a reporter inquiring about the decision.

The coat hanger has clearly become a symbolic icon that triggers outrage and debate in our hearts and minds. We chose to switch the Tumblr cursor to a coat hanger after seeing the strong reactions our friends at the Huffington Post received. After all, 40 years after the Roe. v. Wade decision, a woman’s right to choose is still leading the national debate—and influencing the Republican Party’s national platform.

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he’s spent his campaign money ‘a little wiser’

this is another episode of The Long And Painful Death Of The Adverb

re: #14 Big Joe

It appears to be a warning of where the Republicans want to take America with regards to abortions.

Yes, thanks for making me look further into the Newsweek Tumblr site.

re: #16 TedStriker

I think Hell might have just froze over.

I went out for a smoke break at work about 10-15 minutes ago and Fox News was playing on the TV in our breakroom. Greta Van Sustern was on and Sarah Palin was her guest, talking about Akin. As I was walking back in to the breakroom from our smoking area outside, Van Sustern was asking Palin whether or not Akin should have bowed out of the Senate race with McCaskill and what I heard surprised me: Palin unequivocally said that Akin should drop out of the race because of what he said.

Imagine that: Sarah Palin, Queen of the Teabillies, agreeing with Romney, Ryan, and the GOP establishment on this.

Akin took down Palin's candidate that she campaigned for and endorsed. She has no love loss for him. My guess is she is still hopeful her candidate could end up on the ballot and she is starting her work to make that happen now.

Cheap internet caption, rather DERPy too. Unworthy of you, Charles.

re: #21 Lidane

"Anti-colonialist" = RWNJ code for "angry Kenyan man".

It's a way for D'Souza to call Obama the N-word without actually using that word.

I find it hilarious that "anti-colonialist" is being presented as a scandalous term to, you know, the free people of the USA. Colonialism over white people is intolerable and resistance to it is fundamental to both US history and mythology...but somehow, something is different about the nations of Europe stomping on the necks of variegated brown folks....

I mean, that right there says a whole bunch about the RWNJs that D'Souza hangs with.

re: #19 Lidane

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YEAH! A third party, so the Evangelical wingnuts and the Corporate wingnuts can both field their own candidates!
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Oh brother. Here we go...

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re: #17 Mattand

Isn't someone who is against capitalism best described as an anti-capitalist?

I think African anti-colonialism is something of a bugbear for D'Souza because it often ended up partially directed at Indians who lived in African countries (Dinesh D'Souza is an Indian immigrant).

re: #35 Gus

Oh brother. Here we go...

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[Link: www.9news.com...]

In Tampa, more than two dozen roads and streets, including a main expressway, will be closed to traffic. Others will temporarily be one-way lanes. Taxi drop-offs, roads leading to one of the city's main hospitals, public buses - all will be rerouted. Tampa General Hospital, the city's largest trauma center, is telling patients that driving to the facility could take 30-45 minutes longer than usual because of periodic road closures.
...
In Tampa, city and county office buildings will be closed and employees will work remotely or in other locations. Some companies located in Tampa's skyscrapers are allowing people to work from home.

re: #28 Sionainn

re: #35 Gus

Oh brother. Here we go...

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OUTRAGEOUS OUTRAGE!!1

[facepalm]

Wingnuts are freaking out about this.

DNC expected to affect cancer patients

re: #36 Dark_Falcon

I think African anti-colonialism is something of a bugbear for D'Souza because it often ended up partially directed at Indians who lived in African countries (Dinesh D'Souza is an Indian immigrant).

That would be true if he was aiming the insult at someone who is actually from Africa.

The fact that he's calling Barack Obama anti-colonial makes it nothing more than a coded way for him to call him the N-word without saying it.

re: #32 Dark_Falcon

Lighten up, Francis...

re: #40 Gus

Wingnuts are freaking out about this.

DNC expected to affect cancer patients

I guess the Republican convention is being held in the middle of the desert in order to avoid affecting anyone's traffic schedules?

re: #28 Sionainn

Okay, I think that the original link that was outraged by Newsweek's using the coat hanger missed this statement from Newsweek Tumblr:

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If that was their intent, I withdraw my complaint. The coathanger symbol has been used for some time to symbolically represent and evoke the horror of a return to the bad ol' days. As long as Newsweek makes that intent clear in its use (there's some question of a misfire there if they had to explain it later), that's cool.

I don't get the the problem with anti-colonialism. There were a lot of anti-colonialists here in the 1770s, too.

re: #32 Dark_Falcon

Cheap internet caption, rather DERPy too. Unworthy of you, Charles.

Ahem:

Dr. John C. Willke, a general practitioner with obstetric training and a former president of the National Right to Life Committee, was an early proponent of this view, articulating it in a book originally published in 1985 and again in a 1999 article. He reiterated it in an interview Monday.

“This is a traumatic thing — she’s, shall we say, she’s uptight,” Dr. Willke said of a woman being raped, adding, “She is frightened, tight, and so on. And sperm, if deposited in her vagina, are less likely to be able to fertilize. The tubes are spastic.”

It's a riff on a real statement by a Romney endorser. Deal with it.

re: #36 Dark_Falcon

Isn't someone who is against capitalism best described as an anti-capitalist?

I think African anti-colonialism is something of a bugbear for D'Souza because it often ended up partially directed at Indians who lived in African countries (Dinesh D'Souza is an Indian immigrant).

Anti colonialism should apply directly to Dinesh's parents, as they were liberated from Great Britain. His relatives time in Africa? HA.

Any, any, any rationalization of Dinesh needs to be well researched, because he is a hateful hack, already skewered in multiple articles of his falsehoods.

The deliberate twisting of truth in order to conserve the TEAM is breathtaking.

Tampa General Hospital prepares for RNC

re: #18 Gus

We Need a ‘Conservative’ Party
By THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

We have a conservative party - The Democrats - and we have a reactionary party - The Republicans. What we need is a real liberal party.

re: #42 TedStriker

Lighten up, Francis...

If I think something is a cheap shot, I'm going to say so.

re: #36 Dark_Falcon

Isn't someone who is against capitalism best described as an anti-capitalist?

I think African anti-colonialism is something of a bugbear for D'Souza because it often ended up partially directed at Indians who lived in African countries (Dinesh D'Souza is an Indian immigrant).

I wonder if he'd like India to go back to being a British property, so that no one could accuse him of anti-colonialism.

re: #45 Big Joe

I don't get the the problem with anti-colonialism. There were a lot of anti-colonialists here in the 1770s, too.

Sure. White anti-colonialists.

The POTUS is black. His father was from Kenya. Ergo, the RWNJ's suddenly have an issue with anti-colonialism while also revering the white anti-colonialists that founded this country.

re: #36 Dark_Falcon

Isn't someone who is against capitalism best described as an anti-capitalist?

I think African anti-colonialism is something of a bugbear for D'Souza because it often ended up partially directed at Indians who lived in African countries (Dinesh D'Souza is an Indian immigrant).

Barack Obama is against capitalism. Yes, sure. He is. Absolutely.

He's also stealing from you. You.

Hook line and sinker bullshit talking points.

re: #50 Dark_Falcon

If I think something is a cheap shot, I'm going to say so.

Ummm, see #46 please...

re: #47 Stanley Sea

Anti colonialism should apply directly to Dinesh's parents, as they were liberated from Great Britain. His relatives time in Africa? HA.

Any, any, any rationalization of Dinesh needs to be well researched, because he is a hateful hack, already skewered in multiple articles of his falsehoods.

The deliberate twisting of truth in order to conserve the TEAM is breathtaking.

Oh, he's an ass all right, and I condemned The Roots of Obama's Rage early and often. I was just trying to work out an angle, it wasn't intended as a defense of Dinesh D'Souza.

re: #48 Gus

Tampa General Hospital prepares for RNC

I put the over/under mark at 425 for people who have to go to the hospital from the heat. Mainly people from the Pacific North West.

re: #52 Lidane

Sure. White anti-colonialists.

The POTUS is black. His father was from Kenya. Ergo, the RWNJ's suddenly have an issue with anti-colonialism while also revering the white anti-colonialists that founded this country.

It all makes sense now!

Wait, what?

re: #57 Mattand

It all makes sense now!

Wait, what?

It's wingnut logic. Don't try to understand it. Just point and laugh.

re: #48 Gus

that delay is certain to result in someone's death. Outrage.

I think I goofed a bit with my #36. Here's how it should have read:

re: #17 Mattand

Isn't someone who is against capitalism best described as an anti-capitalist?

I think African anti-colonialism is something of a bugbear for D'Souza because it often ended up partially directed at Indians who lived in African countries (Dinesh D'Souza is an Indian immigrant).

I just paged this, but I'm posting it again here because it's so mind boggling.

GOP lawmaker: Virtually impossible to get AIDS through heterosexual sex

re: #53 Stanley Sea

Barack Obama is against capitalism. Yes, sure. He is. Absolutely.

He's also stealing from you. You.

Hook line and sinker bullshit talking points.

The only people who push the anti-capitalism line are laissez-faire cultists who're ideologically allergic to regulatory oversight.

[Link: www.baynews9.com...]
It's gonna be 90 in Tampa tomorrow WITH a 70% chance of rain. Feels like temp will prolly be 103. Heh.

re: #61 Velvet Elvis

I just paged this, but I'm posting it again here because it's so mind boggling.

GOP lawmaker: Virtually impossible to get AIDS through heterosexual sex

Not enough facepalms in the world.

re: #48 Gus

Tampa General Hospital prepares for RNC

Heh. Their big worry is either gonna be delegates OD'ing on Viagra in the local strip clubs, or the the morons who shoot themselves because they had to bring their gun to the convention.

re: #55 Dark_Falcon

Oh, he's an ass all right, and I condemned The Roots of Obama's Rage early and often. I was just trying to work out an angle, it wasn't intended as a defense of Dinesh D'Souza.

No angle Dark. No angle. Just truth and facts, por favor.

re: #56 Cannadian Club Akbar

I put the over/under mark at 425 for people who have to go to the hospital from the heat. Mainly people from the Pacific North West.

It will be either too hot, or too wet.

re: #61 Velvet Elvis

What in fresh hell is this:

“Most people realize that AIDS came from the homosexual community,” he told Michelangelo Signorile, who hosts a radio program on SiriusXM OutQ. “It was one guy screwing a monkey, if I recall correctly, and then having sex with men. It was an airline pilot, if I recall.”

Is that how they teach it?

re: #61 Velvet Elvis

I just paged this, but I'm posting it again here because it's so mind boggling.

GOP lawmaker: Virtually impossible to get AIDS through heterosexual sex

Wasn't that shit debunked back in the late 80's or early 90's?

I swear, the GOP is totally incapable of functioning in a post-Cold War world. Their platform committee was talking about removing Czechoslovakia, for fuck's sake. Now this?

re: #63 Cannadian Club Akbar

[Link: www.baynews9.com...]
It's gonna be 90 in Tampa tomorrow WITH a 70% chance of rain. Feels like temp will prolly be 103. Heh.

It's not the heat, it's the humidity.

re: #63 Cannadian Club Akbar

[Link: www.baynews9.com...]
It's gonna be 90 in Tampa tomorrow WITH a 70% chance of rain. Feels like temp will prolly be 103. Heh.

Florida! That's why the Superbowl is in Jan/Feb.

Really, AUGUST?

DNC no better in So Carolina.

Pander to the South, bitch and moan forever about heat and humidity.

re: #60 Dark_Falcon

I think I goofed a bit with my #36. Here's how it should have read:

I think African anti-colonialism is something of a bugbear for D'Souza because it often ended up partially directed at Indians who lived in African countries (Dinesh D'Souza is an Indian immigrant).

Yeah. That would still be misplaced anger, since the entire British Empire was built on transplanting subject populations to manage other subject populations with the full knowledge that it would create ethnic tension. Hence their fetish for "martial races" to not just employ as good soldiers, but as groups disconnected from the populace they were policing (or invading).

re: #65 Mattand

Heh. Their big worry is either gonna be delegates OD'ing on Viagra in the local strip clubs, or the the morons who shoot themselves because they had to bring their gun to the convention.

LOL

re: #61 Velvet Elvis

I just paged this, but I'm posting it again here because it's so mind boggling.

GOP lawmaker: Virtually impossible to get AIDS through heterosexual sex

I... ah... I... ah... WTF????

BTW, anyone knows if there's a Scientific Research on how some people are able to seem to function without a working brain? I think we have a prime candidate to contribute to that research.

re: #69 Lidane

Wasn't that shit debunked back in the late 80's or early 90's?

I swear, the GOP is totally incapable of functioning in a post-Cold War world. Their platform committee was talking about removing Czechoslovakia, for fuck's sake. Now this?

Someone should tell them to address the dictatorship in Freedonia.

re: #71 Stanley Sea

Florida! That's why the Superbowl is in Jan/Feb.

Really, AUGUST?

DNC no better in So Carolina.

Pander to the South, bitch and moan forever about heat and humidity.

I think it's funny that no one is talking about Carolina's weather. (ps. I thought it was North Carolina)

re: #61 Velvet Elvis

I just paged this, but I'm posting it again here because it's so mind boggling.

GOP lawmaker: Virtually impossible to get AIDS through heterosexual sex

"if I recall correctly"

Someone let this man know he didn't recall correctly.

re: #69 Lidane

Wasn't that shit debunked back in the late 80's or early 90's?

I swear, the GOP is totally incapable of functioning in a post-Cold War world. Their platform committee was talking about removing Czechoslovakia, for fuck's sake. Now this?

What do they want to remove Czechoslovakia from?

re: #72 The Ghost of a Flea

Yeah. That would still be misplaced anger, since the entire British Empire was built on transplanting subject populations to manage other subject populations with the full knowledge that it would create ethnic tension. Hence their fetish for "martial races" to not just employ as good soldiers, but as groups disconnected from the populace they were policing (or invading).

I know. But that would involve attacking the UK and most wingnuts wouldn't like that nearly so much. The continued references to Kenya are indeed a dog whistle.

re: #78 SanFranciscoZionist

What do they want to remove Czechoslovakia from?

The spelling bee.

To be merciful.

re: #77 Kragar

"if I recall correctly"

Someone let this man know he didn't recall correctly.

He also said an airline pilot screwed a monkey. I think it was a flight attendant, not a pilot.
//and the band played on...

re: #66 Stanley Sea

No angle Dark. No angle. Just truth and facts, por favor.

That's what I was shooting for Stanley. Might I ask though, since I was not trying to defend D'Souza or his works, that you remove your downding of #36?

re: #78 SanFranciscoZionist

What do they want to remove Czechoslovakia from?

It got a mention in an early draft of the platform for some odd reason.

Remember, gay airline pilots are the emissaries of Satan. And they probably screw monkeys too.

re: #81 Cannadian Club Akbar

He also said an airline pilot screwed a monkey. I think it was a flight attendant, not a pilot.
//and the band played on...

Very good use of the title of Randy Shilts' book, and very apt.

William Windom, TV Everyman, Dies at 88
By ERIC GRODE
Published: August 19, 2012

When you lose your online supporters like this guy, you know you're fucked.

Ryan hits Obama for "reckless, irresponsible defense cuts" that are a"result of prez's failed leadership" on Hannity. But he voted for them.

— Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) August 22, 2012

re: #61 Velvet Elvis

I just paged this, but I'm posting it again here because it's so mind boggling.

GOP lawmaker: Virtually impossible to get AIDS through heterosexual sex

“Most people realize that AIDS came from the homosexual community,” he told Michelangelo Signorile, who hosts a radio program on SiriusXM OutQ. “It was one guy screwing a monkey, if I recall correctly, and then having sex with men. It was an airline pilot, if I recall.”

It's all starting to come together... connect the dots!

Avi Lipkin:
...President Obama is going to collapse the world economy, causing Muslim immigrants to flood the U.S. and give Obama the opportunity to settle them on land seized under Agenda 21 and establish Sharia law.
...
After once again warning of the Obama-immigration-Agenda21-sharia plot, Lipkin said that the Muslim population in the U.S. isn’t 0.6 percent, as official estimates assert [pdf], but actually 10 percent because the government is flying millions of Muslims into the country on charter jets. Once they come in, they marry American women turn them into “baby factories for Islam.”
The Craziest Obama Conspiracy Theory Gets Even Crazier

re: #84 dragonath

Remember, gay airline pilots are the emissaries of Satan. And they probably screw monkeys too.

This is why I fly Jet Blue _balls
///

re: #86 Gus

William Windom, TV Everyman, Dies at 88
By ERIC GRODE
Published: August 19, 2012

re: #83 makeitstop

It got a mention in an early draft of the platform for some odd reason.

Must have been a very early draft. The country itself ceased to exist twenty years ago.

re: #84 dragonath

Remember, gay airline pilots are the emissaries of Satan. And they probably screw monkeys too.

So that's why I'm in economy and my monkey gets an upgrade to first class.

i wish i coulda got to see one of those old time conventions like the ones that h l mencken covered, where the bourbon flowed plentifully and getting informal meant the celluloid collars came off

re: #78 SanFranciscoZionist

What do they want to remove Czechoslovakia from?

For whatever reason, it was mentioned in a draft of the 2012 GOP platform. Someone had to point out that Czechoslovakia hasn't existed for over 20 years.

Slovak Foreign Minister Chides Romney on Missile Defense

Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney attacked President Barack Obama’s administration this week for abandoning Poland and the Czech Republic by altering plans for an American missile defense system in Europe.

But the Slovak foreign minister, in Washington this week for meetings with U.S. officials, said Thursday that Europe has fully embraced the new approach to missile defense and said Mr. Romney was dredging up settled debates.

“People have moved on,” said Miroslav Lajcak, the minister of foreign affairs and deputy prime minister, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal. “We are in a different situation now. We are discussing a different project. I see no reason to revisit discussions from three years back.”

re: #86 Gus

William Windom, TV Everyman, Dies at 88
By ERIC GRODE
Published: August 19, 2012

Oh, he was great in "It's My World And Welcome To
It."

Michelle Malkin, Dinesh D'Souza, two dark people trying to ingratiate themselves to people who don't particularly care for an abundance of melanin.
IMHO.

re: #79 Dark_Falcon

I know. But that would involve attacking the UK and most wingnuts wouldn't like that nearly so much. The continued references to Kenya are indeed a dog whistle.

Yeah. It's just one that really ticks me off.

D'Souza is one of those guys that imagines that any successes attained by India are the product of British intervention--a position which ignores how maliciously and purposefully the British played regional and religious tensions to maintain power, even during Partition. Of course, he'd also like to pretend that the Raj wasn't based on disproportionate acts of retaliatory violence and racism. I loathe the guy.

re: #95 Kragar

Slovak Foreign Minister Chides Romney on Missile Defense

Hahaha!

re: #76 Cannadian Club Akbar

I think it's funny that no one is talking about Carolina's weather. (ps. I thought it was North Carolina)

I may be wrong. NC/SC? I'm not there, that's all that matters.

re: #93 engineer cat

i wish i coulda got to see one of those old time conventions like the ones that h l mencken covered, where the bourbon flowed plentifully and getting informal meant the celluloid collars came off

And ladies jumped out of cakes.

Romney Planning To Perspire Visibly At Republican Convention

plans to let shirt be less than perfectly pressed at all times still under debate

re: #91 SanFranciscoZionist

Must have been a very early draft. The country itself ceased to exist twenty years ago.

Well you see one group on the committee thought that convincing their base it was 1958 might be easier if they kept the name as it was back then./

re: #100 Stanley Sea

I may be wrong. NC/SC? I'm not there, that's all that matters.

I really wanted to be in Tampa to take pics of the nutbar protesters. Not the regular ones. Oh well.

re: #101 prairiefire

And ladies jumped out of cakes.

I hear the GOP is going to do that again. But she won't be naked she will be wearing a green Augusta National blazer/

re: #86 Gus

William Windom, TV Everyman, Dies at 88
By ERIC GRODE
Published: August 19, 2012

RIP Commodore Decker.

re: #95 Kragar

Slovak Foreign Minister Chides Romney on Missile Defense

LOL. Once again, Mitt's way behind the eight ball.

re: #99 Gus

Hahaha!

Like women, the Slovaks don't really know what is good for them.///

re: #98 The Ghost of a Flea

Yeah. It's just one that really ticks me off.

D'Souza is one of those guys that imagines that any successes attained by India are the product of British intervention--a position which ignores how maliciously and purposefully the British played regional and religious tensions to maintain power, even during Partition. Of course, he'd also like to pretend that the Raj wasn't based on disproportionate acts of retaliatory violence and racism. I loathe the guy.

I think he may in some ways like the way the British set Indians above Africans in a number of ways. He may feel that the British were correct in placing Africans on "the bottom rail of the fence" to use an African-American description of similar treatment in the American South.

Of course, that would confirm D'Souza as a racist asshole, so before I attach weight to this idea I'd like to hear people's thoughts on it.

More spastic tubes: Slow-motion mammals shaking themselves dry

David Hu and his colleagues at the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta studied 16 soggy species, including mice, dogs, tigers and bears, and found that each creature tunes its shaking speed to get as dry as possible without wasting too much energy. Some achieve the feat in seconds, which is essential to conserving heat on a cold day.

I live in the NW.

We just learned that if the sun is shining directly into one of the sensors (you know, the sensors at the bottom that are meant to keep the door from closing on a child), the sensor can't function.

It took us eleven years.

Because this was the first time we had had the sun shining like that and had the door open at that time of day at the same time.

Yeah, the NW delegates need a little extra ice.

re: #111 Mostly sane, most of the time.

I live in the NW.

We just learned that if the sun is shining directly into one of the sensors (you know, the sensors at the bottom that are meant to keep the door from closing on a child), the sensor can't function.

It took us eleven years.

Because this was the first time we had had the sun shining like that and had the door open at that time of day at the same time.

Yeah, the NW delegates need a little extra ice.

Are you talking about sensors on van doors?

re: #112 Sionainn

Are you talking about sensors on van doors?

Garage door opener. There are little sensors a few inches off the floor on either side of the garage.

re: #91 SanFranciscoZionist

Must have been a very early draft. The country itself ceased to exist twenty years ago.

I don't think they got the memo.

re: #100 Stanley Sea

Thank you.

And there are a few relevant differences between the two Carolinas. The 2nd most important difference is that North Carolina was (and still is) considerably more egalitarian than South Carolina, at least among white people.

The most important difference between the two states is that my mother was born and spent much of her childhood in North Carolina, but never lived in South Carolina.

We can't be intimidated by the liberal elite. I will continue standing for life. Will you? akin.org/contribute/

— Todd Akin (@ToddAkin) August 22, 2012

3 minutes ago.

re: #113 Mostly sane, most of the time.

Garage door opener. There are little sensors a few inches off the floor on either side of the garage.

Oh...darn. I was hoping that explained why sometimes the van door shuts and sometimes it doesn't.

re: #116 Gus

@toddakin Step Down, Todd Akin.Serve the nation and the party, not your own ego.

— Kurt Akemann (@Dark_Falcon7) August 22, 2012

re: #116 Gus

The liberal elite meaning Sean Hannity and damn near the entire GOP leadership? Or is this some other imaginary liberal elite? Most of the liberals I saw on Twitter and online were cheering Akin on, wanting him to stay in the race.

re: #95 Kragar

Slovak Foreign Minister Chides Romney on Missile Defense

And this is the guy that says that Obama isn't good in foreign policy? Really?

re: #114 makeitstop

I don't think they got the memo.

They're too busy focusing on taking down the Soviet Union.

re: #119 Dark_Falcon

A wee too late for withdrawing...

re: #106 William Barnett-Lewis

RIP Commodore Decker.

I'll go back even further - he played Congressman Morley on the TV series 'The Farmer's Daughter'.

Inger Stevens was one of my earliest crushes. The woman was drop-dead gorgeous.

I will continue standing for a woman's right to decide where and when she will have sex.

re: #119 Dark_Falcon

Too late, Dark. The deadline for his withdrawal from the race without any penalty was this afternoon. It's why Hannity was pretty much openly groveling and begging him to quit on his show today.

The only way Akin can leave now is by court order AND with his campaign paying the costs of getting the ballots re-printed. Won't happen. He ignored Romney and the rest of the GOP, and he won't listen to anyone else now. He's in until the bitter end.

re: #109 Dark_Falcon

Partially, but let's not forget, Indians have their own issues with dark skin.
Dark=ugly and many times=lower caste.
'Fair and Lovely' is a popular skin bleach over there.

re: #126 Lidane

We could say, that they'll have to carry this to it's full term...

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re: #104 Cannadian Club Akbar

I really wanted to be in Tampa to take pics of the nutbar protesters. Not the regular ones. Oh well.

hope all's good @ your new adobe.

re: #128 andres

We could say, that they'll have to carry this to it's full term...

//

Pretty much. Despite their best efforts, the GOP wasn't able to get a late term abortion for Akin's candidacy. They're stuck with him, like it or not.

Of course, it was all bullshit anyway. Akin's views are reflected perfectly in the 2012 GOP platform and they're reflected perfectly by Paul Ryan, since Ryan and Akin have nearly identical voting records and sponsored anti-abortion and personhood bills together.

The GOP didn't want him to withdraw because they thought his ideas were repulsive. They agree with him. They're pissed because if he'd kept his mouth shut McCaskill wouldn't have a chance now at a comeback.

re: #126 Lidane

Too late, Dark. The deadline for his withdrawal from the race without any penalty was this afternoon. It's why Hannity was pretty much openly groveling and begging him to quit on his show today.

The only way Akin can leave now is by court order AND with his campaign paying the costs of getting the ballots re-printed. Won't happen. He ignored Romney and the rest of the GOP, and he won't listen to anyone else now. He's in until the bitter end.

Fine, then Akin can go legitimately rape himself with a railroad spike.

/pissed off

re: #119 Dark_Falcon

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He's a teabagger DF. Ego & theocracy is all that matters. The nation? Not so much.

re: #106 William Barnett-Lewis

RIP Commodore Decker.

Love that episode. Also liked him in My World and Welcome To It. Shame it didn't last more than a year.

re: #109 Dark_Falcon

I think he may in some ways like the way the British set Indians above Africans in a number of ways. He may feel that the British were correct in placing Africans on "the bottom rail of the fence" to use an African-American description of similar treatment in the American South.

Of course, that would confirm D'Souza as a racist asshole, so before I attach weight to this idea I'd like to hear people's thoughts on it.

At one point a young Mohandas Gandhi tried to argue to the British that Indians should have more franchise than the less-educated, less-civilized black Africans. I respect that as an older man he actually confronted that early compromise and found fault with himself.

Indian racism...is a thing, no denying it doesn't exist. There's the native variants: Light-skinned North Indians can be really ugly to dark-skinned South Indians; Certain regional castes/ethnicities maintain hella arrogant/racist sentiments about their bloodline versus other Indian groups. My cousin married into a Kashimiri family who were really into a gentrified, condescending racism...it was kind of horrid (especially since my favorite Indian relatives are from Tamil Nadu).

But there's also the ones that have internalized British racist sentiments: Indians were, after all, just below the Brits in the Empire's hierarchy, and learned to look down on blacks, East Asians, et cetera, as a result.

However, I see D'Souza as largely adopting US prejudices rather than manifesting Indian ones: also, he's a guy where I'm not sure how much he's playing to an audience versus a true believer. I mean, he's a very devout Catholic and quite social conservative (and prudish), but some of the stuff he says is just so...self-deceiving. He actually took apart Robert Spencer's Islamophobic arguments with surprising rigor in a debate, but then the stuff he writes is so conceptually muddy.

I dunno. The anti-colonialist thing just really bugs me...as does its lesser "Obama just isn't somehow American." It reminds me of stuff I saw when I was a kid in England: after two bumpy years I was considered "mostly assimilated"--which meant less fistfights. My best friend was from Kenya, but had been in the UK since he was 2 or 3...and he was never allowed to forget that he was black and foreign. Then I moved back to the US in time for Gulf War 1, and the Pakistani and Egyptian kid in my grade (both born in the US and culturally barely touched by their parent's culture) were being bullied for vaguely resembling Arabs.

That we have supposedly-serious politicians using the same tactic...it's horseshit. I can't take anyone who dabbles in this seriously, or forgive.

re: #75 Mattand

Someone should tell them to address the dictatorship in Freedonia.

Not to mention Franco still being dead.

re: #119 Dark_Falcon

I suspect Akin's refusal to step aside is partly his ego, partly his dedication to the TP "spirit" and partly his belief that committed Christians need to fight the (liberal) lions to the point of martyrdom.

Or he's just plain stupid.

"This is a traumatic thing — Romney and Ryan, shall we say, are uptight. They are frightened, tight and so on. And the realities, if deposited in their minds, are less likely to be able to fertilize. Their tubes are spastic."

re: #2 kerFuFFler

Welcome, hatchling.