4 | Gus Thu, Sep 13, 2012 9:36:54pm |
I'm used to people being angry at atheism. I don't demand any special rights.
5 | Targetpractice Thu, Sep 13, 2012 9:37:38pm |
re: #1 Dark_Falcon
Looks like a Pixar film.
Aye, which says more about the advances of computer technology in recent years than anything else. Still boggles my mind to think that, just 20 years ago, making the T-1000 look real was cutting edge SFX.
7 | Gus Thu, Sep 13, 2012 9:42:07pm |
re: #6 jaunte
Well, you got a pencil, what else do you need?
I know. Just wondering when I need to kill people in the name of atheism.
8 | Kragar Thu, Sep 13, 2012 9:42:39pm |
New video card up and running, XCOM prepurchased, game on Sunday.
9 | Reverend Mother Ramallo Thu, Sep 13, 2012 9:43:45pm |
re: #7 Gus
I know. Just wondering when I need to kill people in the name of atheism.
Soon...Very soon...
10 | Targetpractice Thu, Sep 13, 2012 9:43:58pm |
re: #8 Kragar
New video card up and running, XCOM prepurchased, game on Sunday.
Did your computer ask to play a nice game of chess?
//
11 | Gus Thu, Sep 13, 2012 9:46:24pm |
re: #9 Reverend Mother Ramallo
Soon...Very soon...
That's one of the cool parts about being an atheist. I'm used to being ridiculed by people that believe in ghosts. I laugh. I also don't ask for special rights like religious people are always demanding.
12 | Digital Display Thu, Sep 13, 2012 9:46:56pm |
Well Lizards..My knee is much better and done taking painkillers.
I have an issue with Charles :)
Ok.. A few days ago I saw a vid of Charles playing some Funk With George Duke...Now I have always been an average player but I know my way around an axe. I can play some funk and rock.. ( Some here have my CD so I'm not just talking shit ) Back in the Funk days everybody played this 9th fricking chord structure I don't know what it's called in music terms..I can play me some funk.
Here is what really pissed me off...George wants to play a little funk and Charles does this little 9th thing chop and he BENDS ALL THE STRINGS AT ONCE in a little fucky pattern. Charles! You can't fucking do that! Sure.. You are jamming with one of the greatest musicians of all time.. BUT YOU CAN'T DO THAT! Mad skills!
I see that shit and I know I really suck as a guitarist...
Damn Charles.. So where are all the links of you playing music?
13 | Kragar Thu, Sep 13, 2012 9:47:18pm |
re: #10 Targetpractice
Did your computer ask to play a nice game of chess?
//
It knows better than that.
14 | Targetpractice Thu, Sep 13, 2012 9:48:20pm |
re: #13 Kragar
It knows better than that.
I played a couple rounds of DEFCON with my computer awhile back. It told the only winning move was not to play.
15 | Kragar Thu, Sep 13, 2012 9:52:04pm |
re: #14 Targetpractice
I played a couple rounds of DEFCON with my computer awhile back. It told the only winning move was not to play.
Lies!!!
16 | Targetpractice Thu, Sep 13, 2012 9:54:41pm |
re: #15 Kragar
Lies!!!
Well, I have to give it to the computer. I mean, when a game's tagline is "Everybody Dies," it's hard to "win."
17 | JamesWI Thu, Sep 13, 2012 9:56:58pm |
Romney says U.S. seems "at the mercy of events" in world
"As we watch the world today, sometimes it seems that we're at the mercy of events, instead of shaping events," he said in Fairfax, a suburb of Washington.
"Yeah! That darn Obama can't magically control all the events that happen on the planet! He has no business being President!"
What a joke.
18 | Reverend Mother Ramallo Thu, Sep 13, 2012 9:57:59pm |
re: #11 Gus
That's one of the cool parts about being an atheist. I'm used to being ridiculed by people that believe in ghosts. I laugh. I also don't ask for special rights like religious people are always demanding.
Yeah. I feel you.
I think religious people suffer from cognitive dissonance. But that's only part of it. Most uber-religious people I know replaced some traditional vice with religion as their new drug of choice.
Makes them crazy in the end.
I'm not exactly an Atheist, but I don't worship a deity.
19 | simoom Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:02:50pm |
Ick. Romney camp, you're not going to successfully politically exploit this poor guy's death. Stop digging and let him rest in peace:
Romney camp tells WashPost that Obama steering "amateur hour" foreign policy; suggests ambassador would not have been killed under Romney
— Peter Hamby (@PeterHambyCNN) September 14, 2012
20 | prairiefire Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:02:59pm |
re: #18 Reverend Mother Ramallo
I worship a deity and have had a clash with the right leaning Christians and my lefty roots for 30 years.
I'm afraid it has made me more insular in my faith. Crazy nut bars.
21 | Kragar Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:04:28pm |
re: #16 Targetpractice
Well, I have to give it to the computer. I mean, when a game's tagline is "Everybody Dies," it's hard to "win."
Everybody dies, but you can always lose on your own terms.
22 | Targetpractice Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:04:34pm |
re: #17 JamesWI
Romney says U.S. seems "at the mercy of events" in world
What a joke.
That's alright, one of his foreign policy advisers had the balls to say the attacks wouldn't have happened under a Romney presidency.
23 | Reverend Mother Ramallo Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:06:32pm |
Ballz !!!
Well, it feels like I'm developing my annual sinus infection.
Off to bed, sweet dreams y'all.
24 | Kragar Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:07:42pm |
re: #22 Targetpractice
That's alright, one of his foreign policy advisers had the balls to say the attacks wouldn't have happened under a Romney presidency.
Of course not, we would be engaged in a war with all of them, so an embassy attack would be out of the question.
25 | Reverend Mother Ramallo Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:08:49pm |
re: #20 prairiefire
I worship a deity and have had a clash with the right leaning Christians and my lefty roots for 30 years.
I'm afraid it has made me more insular in my faith. Crazy nut bars.
Understandable.
They ruin it for everybody, don't they?
26 | darthstar Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:09:47pm |
Heard this in the car coming over Devil's Slide on the way home...scared my wife a bit because one must follow directions when this song is on, and with a 400 foot vertical cliff down to the ocean, it's also a good idea to keep both hands on the wheel.
27 | Targetpractice Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:09:55pm |
re: #24 Kragar
Of course not, we would be engaged in a war with all of them, so an embassy attack would be out of the question.
Yeah, that was my thought as well, President Romney would have jumped on the chance to get us involved in wars with both countries, if not others.
Seriously, this man does not know when to stop digging. Wingnuts have tried to portray this election as Carter/Reagan, but that's bullshit. Reagan had the decency to let politics stop at the water's edge and publicly voiced support for whatever decisions Carter made to address the hostage crisis. Romney's a rank amateur who's trying to make for lack of experience with sheer bravado.
29 | freetoken Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:12:08pm |
re: #17 JamesWI
That pretty clearly illustrates the essential insecurity to which Romney is marketing. He's playing on the fantasy that the US ought to control the world - yes, control - which is opposite of reality, where there are bigger influences and smaller influences but no one really is in control.
30 | dragonath Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:12:11pm |
re: #17 JamesWI
Events, how do they work?
US population : 310 MIllion
Rest of World: 7 Billion
'k, thanks for playing!
31 | Mich-again Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:13:00pm |
Being a mega-rich vulture capitalist who only ever negotiated from a position of strength with cash desperate clients is poor training for the office of the Presidency. All those bobble heads saying yes sir, thats a great idea sir, have given Mitt a false sense of being enlightened and well liked. Truth is, no one likes the plastic man. His supporters only latched on to him because they hate the other guy more.
32 | freetoken Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:13:34pm |
re: #30 dragonath
Yeah, the idea that 4.5% of the world's population ought to be in control of, and richer than, and superior to, and ahead of, the other 95.5% is the definition of hubris.
33 | gwangung Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:14:06pm |
re: #19 simoom
Ick. Romney camp, you're not going to successfully politically exploit this poor guy's death. Stop digging and let him rest in peace:
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Hey, waddya expect from an amateur hour team that lied so baldly and poorly.
Even the rankest newbie from a fourth rate power of a country could out maneuver the Romney team
34 | Targetpractice Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:14:25pm |
re: #29 freetoken
That pretty clearly illustrates the essential insecurity to which Romney is marketing. He's playing on the fantasy that the US ought to control the world - yes, control - which is opposite of reality, where there are bigger influences and smaller influences but no one really is in control.
It's a might like the belief that the US, which controls something like 10% of the world's oil output, could bring down world oil prices significantly just by increasing oil production. That countries with far vaster reserves and larger chunks of global oil production, making good money on higher prices, would not take steps to ensure prices remain high.
35 | Kragar Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:15:55pm |
re: #32 freetoken
Yeah, the idea that 4.5% of the world's population ought to be in control of, and richer than, and superior to, and ahead of, the other 95.5% is the definition of hubris.
Why do you hate America?
36 | Targetpractice Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:17:41pm |
re: #33 gwangung
Hey, waddya expect from an amateur hour team that lied so baldly and poorly.
Even the rankest newbie from a fourth rate power of a country could out maneuver the Romney team
Thing is, his foreign policy advisers, at least the one's I've seen mentioned in the press, aren't amateurs. They're Bush retreads mostly, "peace through force" dipshits who think that blowing up countries is the way the US wins hearts and minds.
37 | JamesWI Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:18:56pm |
New NBC/WSJ/Marist state polls out tonight (Nate Silver says they tend to lean Dem by about 1 point):
Obama is up 50-43 in Ohio, 49-44 in Florida, 49-44 in Virginia.
38 | darthstar Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:19:18pm |
A friend of mine posted this on facebook from his flight home from NYC. Fucking priceless exchange. Woman eventually gets upgraded from business class to first while the guy gets tossed a napkin and told not to complain.
39 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:19:19pm |
Suggesting the death would not have happened under a Romney presidency is just digging the hole even deeper imo. Then again that must be part of #Romneystrength
40 | darthstar Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:21:39pm |
re: #39 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Suggesting the death would not have happened under a Romney presidency is just digging the hole even deeper imo. Then again that must be part of #Romneystrength
Romneystrength is pretty fucking hilarious.
If only Lance Armstrong had used #Romneystrength instead...— Allen Fire (@Allenfire) September 14, 2012
41 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:23:09pm |
re: #40 darthstar
Yeah, i've been posting some good ones and loving the others.
42 | JamesWI Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:25:23pm |
re: #37 JamesWI
More bad news for Romney from those polls:
In Virginia: Among Obama’s supporters likely to cast a ballot, 87% think they will not waver. This compares with 80% of Romney’s backers who say they strongly support Romney.
In Ohio: 84% of likely voters who support the president are strongly committed to him. This compares with 82% of Romney’s backers who express a similar level of support.
In Florida: 86% of President Obama’s backers report they are firmly in his camp while 83% of Romney’s supporters say the same.
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So, not only is Obama opening up a big lead in the states that would clinch the election (and Romney needs to win all 3 to even have a chance), but he also has the lead in the voters who say they won't change their mind between now and November.
43 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:26:09pm |
[Link: mobile.twitter.com...]
44 | Kragar Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:26:25pm |
Romneystrength keeps pet carriers firmly attached to the roof of your car.
45 | darthstar Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:27:09pm |
There will be no terrorist attacks on American diplomatic targets abroad when I'm president is not a particularly keepable commitment.— AdamSerwer (@AdamSerwer) September 14, 2012
46 | Kragar Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:27:35pm |
Romneystrength effectively conceals tax returns after 2 years
47 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:28:18pm |
[Link: www.twitter.com...]
48 | Kragar Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:28:25pm |
Romneystrength gets rid of pesky jobs and ships them to China
49 | JamesWI Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:31:08pm |
In Ohio: 51% of likely voters have a favorable opinion of President Obama. 44% perceive him unfavorably, and 5% are unsure.
50% view Romney unfavorably. However, 40% think well of him. Nine percent are unsure.
In Florida: 51% view President Obama favorably. 46%, however, have an unfavorable impression of the president, and 3% are unsure.
47% have a favorable impression of Romney, compared with 45% who perceive him less favorably. Eight percent are unsure.
In Virginia: 53% of likely voters have a positive impression of the president. 43% have an unfavorable one, and 4% are unsure.
Regarding Romney, 46% of likely voters perceive him favorably while 45% do not. Nine percent are unsure.
50 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:31:57pm |
Not working so well posting tweets frm my phone lol.
51 | darthstar Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:32:21pm |
Besides being more calm and knowledgable in crisis, doncha think the bad guys know Ninja Badass Obama is the one who hunts their kind down?— Bill Maher (@billmaher) September 13, 2012
53 | Kragar Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:43:39pm |
Obama has a track record of eliminating threats to the US
Romney has a track record of sending jobs to them.
54 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:48:21pm |
re: #53 Kragar
That wins the internets i think
55 | ReamWorks SKG Thu, Sep 13, 2012 10:57:10pm |
!שנה טובה
I'll probably be off-line 'til after Simchat Torah. Have a great New Year, one and all.
56 | The Ghost of a Flea Thu, Sep 13, 2012 11:05:05pm |
re: #55 ReamWorks SKG
!שנה טובה
I'll probably be off-line 'til after Simchat Torah. Have a great New Year, one and all.
Happy New Year
57 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Thu, Sep 13, 2012 11:05:39pm |
Wow...i was just the target of an attempted insult from jennifer rubin...damn i feel special.
58 | sagehen Thu, Sep 13, 2012 11:16:34pm |
ABC has put the pilot for their new show, "Last Resort", online for those who can't wait until the 27th (or who welcome the chance to watch without commercials):
[Link: tv.yahoo.com...]
Andre Braugher is captain of a nuclear sub who refuses an illegal order, the US government tries to kill his sub and everyone on it, conspiracies and action and war and and and... Tom Clancy-ish with 24-style inside-our-govt villains, looks pretty awesome. Writer/producer is Shawn Ryan ("The Shield")
NBC's "Revolution" is also online early, but there's as many commercials on the network website as there'd be watching it on broadcast.
[Link: www.nbc.com...]
59 | Digital Display Thu, Sep 13, 2012 11:24:50pm |
re: #58 sagehen
ABC has put the pilot for their new show, "Last Resort", online for those who can't wait until the 27th (or who welcome the chance to watch without commercials):
[Link: tv.yahoo.com...]
Andre Braugher is captain of a nuclear sub who refuses an illegal order, the US government tries to kill his sub and everyone on it, conspiracies and action and war and and and... Tom Clancy-ish with 24-style inside-our-govt villains, looks pretty awesome. Writer/producer is Shawn Ryan ("The Shield")
NBC's "Revolution" is also online early, but there's as many commercials on the network website as there'd be watching it on broadcast.
[Link: www.nbc.com...]
I can't wait to see it!
one issue that bugs me..The sub threatens to fire it's missiles to protect itself.. One little plot issue...
No Fire control computer will ever allow you to launch a Nuke against US territory. You can't over ride it period...Fucking period...I sleep well at night knowing a spurred ex can't blow up NYC cause she is sleeping with his best friend. But..Looks like a great show
60 | Kragar Thu, Sep 13, 2012 11:26:17pm |
re: #58 sagehen
ABC has put the pilot for their new show, "Last Resort", online for those who can't wait until the 27th (or who welcome the chance to watch without commercials):
[Link: tv.yahoo.com...]
Andre Braugher is captain of a nuclear sub who refuses an illegal order, the US government tries to kill his sub and everyone on it, conspiracies and action and war and and and... Tom Clancy-ish with 24-style inside-our-govt villains, looks pretty awesome. Writer/producer is Shawn Ryan ("The Shield")
NBC's "Revolution" is also online early, but there's as many commercials on the network website as there'd be watching it on broadcast.
[Link: www.nbc.com...]
Just finished watching the first season of "Revenge" on Netflix. I liked it.
61 | sagehen Thu, Sep 13, 2012 11:31:02pm |
re: #59 Digital Display
I can't wait to see it!
one issue that bugs me..The sub threatens to fire it's missiles to protect itself.. One little plot issue...
No Fire control computer will ever allow you to launch a Nuke against US territory. You can't over ride it period...Fucking period...I sleep well at night knowing a spurred ex can't blow up NYC cause she is sleeping with his best friend. But..Looks like a great show
(Kobayashi Maru)
spoiler hint... what's the offshore territorial limit?
62 | freetoken Thu, Sep 13, 2012 11:47:10pm |
Our America, Sept 13, 2012:
Dr Pepper Facebook Ad Ignites Evolution Debate
Dr Pepper set off a heated debate over evolution on Thursday after posting an advertisement to its Facebook page, which showed an ape evolving into a man thanks to the discovery of a can of Dr Pepper.
“My ancestors were created in the Garden of Eden,” one user posted in response to the advertisement. “I ain’t no freaking chimp. No more Dr Pepper for my household. God Bless y’all,” Another complained: “this is showing the theory of men evolving from apes. I have lost all respect for Dr Pepper and if Dr Pepper wants business from thousands of people they will need to apologize.” (Spellings have been corrected throughout.)
Others shot back, including a couple of commenters who posted, “The day your faith gets shaken by a Dr Pepper ad is the day you should probably start reconsidering your faith.”
Since the post went up three hours ago, it has been liked more than 15,000 times and received more than 1,100 comments. The post has also been picked up in an atheism forum on Reddit, which has only fueled the Facebook debate even more.
[...]
63 | Kragar Thu, Sep 13, 2012 11:55:10pm |
re: #62 freetoken
Our America, Sept 13, 2012:
People who don't believe in evolution should go live naked in the wilderness as God intended them to.
64 | sagehen Fri, Sep 14, 2012 12:14:08am |
I still haven't forgiven Dr Pepper for discontinuing the Cherry Vanilla and Berries & Cream flavors. (not that I don't drink the remaining flavors, but... I haven't forgiven them. I really liked that berries & cream, dammit)
65 | Kragar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 12:14:44am |
Why do so many people lack the faith in God that they think he has to resort to magic over a few thousand years instead of using observable scientific phenomenon over a period of billions of years?
67 | sagehen Fri, Sep 14, 2012 12:20:45am |
Because some people think "in god's image" means he's a petty little egotist of limited imagination, just like them.
The god I believe in wrote the laws of physics, the laws of chemistry, whatever other immutable universal laws there may be, and then set in a motion a process adherent to those laws that took billions of years to eventually lead to humanity with the intellectual capacity to discover and describe those laws.
A god who kind of likes it that resulting intellectual capacity, and technological capability, means we're now his partners in the ongoing process of creation. (though he's puzzled why we'd chose to guide creation towards a planet with no coral reefs, dead zones in the ocean, more volatile weather and no temperate latitudes. But then, there's no accounting for taste, and if that's what we want he won't stop us.)
68 | Kragar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 12:20:57am |
re: #66 researchok
Study is hard.
They can be as pig headed ignorant as they want, but when they decide they want special treatment because they're ignorant fucks, they can take a bag of dicks, mix in some balls and assholes and enjoy some crotch trail mix as they fuck right off.
69 | engineer cat Fri, Sep 14, 2012 12:25:48am |
re: #65 Kragar
Why do so many people lack the faith in God that they think he has to resort to magic over a few thousand years instead of using observable scientific phenomenon over a period of billions of years?
well i certainly think the complex mechanism of evolution operating over hundreds of millions of years makes a much more impressive dramatic effect than magic tricks with mud and ribs
70 | researchok Fri, Sep 14, 2012 12:28:32am |
re: #68 Kragar
No argument.
And for the record, I am a believer.
Reality and faith are not mutually exclusive.
71 | Kragar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 12:33:19am |
re: #70 researchok
No argument.
And for the record, I am a believer.
Reality and faith are not mutually exclusive.
I believe in God.
I don't believe in the bronze age tripe that passes as "devout" religious belief nowadays.
73 | engineer cat Fri, Sep 14, 2012 12:43:51am |
as an atheist, the universe makes more sense to me with its indifference and cruelty undesigned and unintended, than with an intelligent and moral god who would unexplicably inflict it on us
yet even so, the beauty, and, especially, the kindness, that does happen is all the more amazing to me because of these wonderful brave gestures that are defiantly flung in the face of the howling void
74 | Kragar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 12:49:01am |
re: #73 engineer cat
I try to never ascribe human emotions or frames of reference to God. He does work in mysterious ways. As sentient creatures, we should be doing our best to figure them out, not make up stories because someone could not.
75 | iossarian Fri, Sep 14, 2012 12:54:56am |
re: #62 freetoken
Our America, Sept 13, 2012:
Dr. Pepper marketing plan:
1) Post evolution-based ad
2) Post poorly-spelled lunatic evangelical outraged reactions to said ad
3) ??? (gawker?)
4) PROFIT
76 | researchok Fri, Sep 14, 2012 12:55:22am |
re: #74 Kragar
I just don't wear my faith on my sleeve.
For me,belief is an intensely personal experience.
And I have no faith based issue with science of any kind.
77 | researchok Fri, Sep 14, 2012 12:56:05am |
re: #75 iossarian
Business does not play dice with the universe.
78 | AK-47% Fri, Sep 14, 2012 12:56:29am |
It is not that people are saying "I disagree with the theory of Evolution becasue", it's that people take personal affront at it and what it involves.
80 | iossarian Fri, Sep 14, 2012 12:57:43am |
Lol: palace reaction to Kate Middleton topless photos:
"There has been a significant hardening of William and Kate's response to the publication of the topless photos."
FNARR FNARR
[Link: www.bbc.co.uk...]
81 | researchok Fri, Sep 14, 2012 1:01:14am |
re: #80 iossarian
Headline writers do not play dice with the universe.
82 | researchok Fri, Sep 14, 2012 1:02:07am |
re: #81 researchok
Well, maybe they do at the beebs
83 | iossarian Fri, Sep 14, 2012 1:04:47am |
re: #82 researchok
Well, maybe they do at the beebs
The hack responsible for that gem, Peter Hunt, doesn't look like the kind of guy who plays fast and loose with sexual innuendo:
Image: _53407582_hunt-analysis.jpg
On the other hand, that just enhances the effect.
84 | Kragar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 1:06:49am |
Joyce Coffey Arrested 4 Times In 26 Hours For Playing AC/DC Too Loud
Authorities say a New Hampshire woman has been arrested four times in 26 hours for blasting the AC/DC song "Highway to Hell" and other loud music from her home and for throwing a frying pan.
85 | researchok Fri, Sep 14, 2012 1:11:03am |
re: #83 iossarian
He looks exactly the type.
"His neighbors said he was a quite, unassuming man..."
//
86 | sagehen Fri, Sep 14, 2012 1:11:45am |
re: #80 iossarian
Lol: palace reaction to Kate Middleton topless photos:
FNARR FNARR
[Link: www.bbc.co.uk...]
Anything that requires an ultra-telephoto lens (and even at that is sort of blurry from having to be enlarged beyond the lens' capability)... there's a fair argument to be made about invasion of privacy.
Harry and the girl he invited to his room who brought her own little phone-cam... not so much.
87 | AK-47% Fri, Sep 14, 2012 1:14:05am |
re: #80 iossarian
Lol: palace reaction to Kate Middleton topless photos:
FNARR FNARR
[Link: www.bbc.co.uk...]
These people are royalty. It means that their bodies and souls belong to the Empire, not to themselves. There has to be a down side to being King, or everybody would want to be one...
89 | ozbloke Fri, Sep 14, 2012 1:22:35am |
re: #80 iossarian
Lol: palace reaction to Kate Middleton topless photos:
FNARR FNARR
[Link: www.bbc.co.uk...]
I think I need to see them to decide whether they are suitable for public viewing.
90 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 1:23:01am |
I have never really hated anyone (minus dictators and the such) as much as I do Michael Bloomberg. To him Freedom means whatever he and his council thinks is right. Douche.
[Link: news.yahoo.com...]
And good morning Honcos.
91 | Kragar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 1:25:59am |
Kansas Goes Birther: State Board Considers Removing Obama From Ballot
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, an informal advisor to Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, said on Thursday he and his fellow members of a state board were considering removing President Barack Obama from the Kansas ballot this November.
Kobach is part of the State Objections Board along with Attorney General Derek Schmidt and Lt. Gov. Jeff Colyer, all Republicans. The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that on Thursday the board agreed consider whether to take Obama off the ballot because they said they lacked sufficient evidence about his birth certificate.
“I don’t think it’s a frivolous objection,” Kobach said, according to the Capital-Journal. “I do think the factual record could be supplemented.”
Eat shit, Kobach.
92 | AK-47% Fri, Sep 14, 2012 1:36:02am |
re: #91 Kragar
Kansas Goes Birther: State Board Considers Removing Obama From Ballot
Eat shit, Kobach.
They must have the last word on this, and they will, regardless of how Neanderthal it makes them appear.
93 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 1:36:04am |
re: #84 Kragar
Joyce Coffey Arrested 4 Times In 26 Hours For Playing AC/DC Too Loud
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and for throwing a frying pan.
It's nice that she's staying with the heavy metal theme.
94 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 1:39:19am |
re: #91 Kragar
Kansas Goes Birther: State Board Considers Removing Obama From Ballot
Eat shit, Kobach.
Makes no electoral difference, so I hope he keeps it up. Nate Silver puts Kansas in the R column by 99.7%.
95 | goddamnedfrank Fri, Sep 14, 2012 2:05:05am |
re: #94 Decatur Deb
Makes no electoral difference, so I hope he keeps it up. Nate Silver puts Kansas in the R column by 99.7%.
Fucks up the popular vote count though. The goal is to delegitimize any Obama win by denying him as many votes as possible. If he wins the EC but loses the popular count the wingnuts will go apeshit, real violence could ensue.
96 | iossarian Fri, Sep 14, 2012 2:12:14am |
re: #95 goddamnedfrank
Fucks up the popular vote count though. The goal is to delegitimize any Obama win by denying him as many votes as possible. If he wins the EC but loses the popular count the wingnuts will go apeshit, real violence could ensue.
It's so deliciously totalitarian: employ legal chicanery to prevent undesirable candidates from appearing on the ballot, thus apparently delegitimizing their support.
"Communist party re-elected with 99% of vote"
97 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 2:14:01am |
re: #95 goddamnedfrank
Fucks up the popular vote count though. The goal is to delegitimize any Obama win by denying him as many votes as possible. If he wins the EC but loses the popular count the wingnuts will go apeshit, real violence could ensue.
Wingnuts gonna do what wingnuts gonna do. Perhaps removing 45% of Kansans from the national election will make a few of them wonder What's Wrong With Kansas.
98 | AK-47% Fri, Sep 14, 2012 2:26:54am |
re: #95 goddamnedfrank
Fucks up the popular vote count though. The goal is to delegitimize any Obama win by denying him as many votes as possible. If he wins the EC but loses the popular count the wingnuts will go apeshit, real violence could ensue.
Just like it did in 1980 when Bush won while losing the popular vote, right?
99 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 2:33:57am |
States that give Obama less than 1% chance (per NS).
Idaho
Wyoming
Utah
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Arkansas
Louisiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
Mississippi
Alabama
Any, perhaps all, of these states could secede (again) and not change the outcome.
100 | iossarian Fri, Sep 14, 2012 2:46:03am |
re: #99 Decatur Deb
States that give Obama less than 1% chance (per NS).
Any, perhaps all, of these states could secede (again) and not change the outcome.
Outcome: not changed.
National deficit: changed.
101 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 2:49:04am |
re: #100 iossarian
Outcome: not changed.
National deficit: changed.
Any conservative Yankee who is fanatical about lower taxes should be fighting to eject most of that list.
102 | palomino Fri, Sep 14, 2012 2:55:29am |
re: #99 Decatur Deb
States that give Obama less than 1% chance (per NS).
Idaho
Wyoming
Utah
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Arkansas
Louisiana
Kentucky
Tennessee
Mississippi
AlabamaAny, perhaps all, of these states could secede (again) and not change the outcome.
Texas is probably the only one of those states that's likely to turn purple in the not too distant future. It's already a minority-majority state and its white population continues to shrink in comparative terms. Furthermore, it's got Dem strongholds like Austin, San Antonio and the rural communities of south Texas.
The other states are smaller and less urbanized than TX, and have more monolithically conservative political cultures. So they are all likely to stay deep red for many years to come. Even TX will take a while though--they just re-re-elected Gov Perry in 2010. He's now served longer as TX Gov than FDR did as President. Ugh, I weep for my home state.
103 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 2:56:09am |
"We've thought about it some more Kansas, and you're really not ready for statehood. Puerto Rico, we've got an opening."
104 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:01:06am |
RT @ctliberalmom: John Kasich at Romney Event: Our Wives Aren't Here Because "They're at Home Doing the Laundry," "T.. bit.ly/OkOSp9— Sandra F. Woodward (@KySandy) September 14, 2012
106 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:07:18am |
re: #103 Decatur Deb
"We've thought about it some more Kansas, and you're really not ready for statehood. Puerto Rico, we've got an opening."
HR. 2499.
107 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:10:20am |
NSF people offended by Moses and Jesus getting masturbated by Ganesha while he fists Buddha.
[Link: www.theonion.com...]
108 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:11:45am |
so I thought I was working to work Saturday. Well I am doing a friend a favor. I have no idea who. BUT, he is an assistant to a congresscritter.
109 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:12:51am |
re: #108 Cannadian Club Akbar
so I thought I was working to work Saturday. Well I am doing a friend a favor. I have no idea who. BUT, he is an assistant to a congresscritter.
Does it involve a shovel and a couple bags of gypsum?
110 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:15:36am |
re: #109 darthstar
Does it involve a shovel and a couple bags of gypsum?
not as far as I know. But then again I have planted more pineapple plants than I wish too////
And banana trees
111 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:17:59am |
re: #110 Cannadian Club Akbar
not as far as I know. But then again I have planted more pineapple plants than I wish too////
And banana trees
I was thinking more along the lines of dead interns...it being time for Joe Scarborough's show and all.
Time to go back to sleep...I don't often wake up like this. Usually I'm wearing a hat.
112 | palomino Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:22:59am |
re: #104 darthstar
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Ann Romney needs to stay home to do the laundry? And she's busy "taking care of" her adult children?
113 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:25:28am |
re: #112 palomino
Ann Romney needs to stay home to do the laundry? And she's busy "taking care of" her adult children?
My mom tried to do my laundry ever week. Do you have a point?
114 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:32:54am |
re: #113 Cannadian Club Akbar
My mom tried to do my laundry ever week. Do you have a point?
And, BTW, she tried to tell me, when I was 27, that I wasn't allowed to move to Miami. I moved anyway.
115 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:35:09am |
re: #114 Cannadian Club Akbar
And, BTW, she tried to tell me, when I was 27, that I wasn't allowed to move to Miami. I moved anyway.
No problem. The US Postal Service has a laundry mailer:
116 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:36:43am |
re: #113 Cannadian Club Akbar
My mom tried to do my laundry ever week. Do you have a point?
Yeah: Ann Romney probably isn't at home doing the laundry and taking care of the children.
117 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:39:12am |
re: #115 Decatur Deb
No problem. The US Postal Service has a laundry mailer:
Have you ever checked out Wired Magazine's "Return to Sender" competition? It's basically 'what's the weirdest thing you can slap stamps on and get the USPS to actually deliver?'.
[Link: www.wired.com...]
118 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:41:39am |
re: #116 Obdicut
Yeah: Ann Romney probably isn't at home doing the laundry and taking care of the children.
Hmm. Do you have a point, other than she didn't raise boys?
119 | sattv4u2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:44:08am |
re: #116 Obdicut
Yeah: Ann Romney probably isn't at home doing the laundry and taking care of the children.
18 grandkids
my mother had only 4. She was constantly baby sitting one of our kids
18 gives lots of opportunity to "take care of the children"
120 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:44:56am |
re: #117 Obdicut
Have you ever checked out Wired Magazine's "Return to Sender" competition? It's basically 'what's the weirdest thing you can slap stamps on and get the USPS to actually deliver?'.
[Link: www.wired.com...]
We used the laundry mailers to smuggle things past our school's censorship--mostly newspapers and candy bars.
When I was deployed to Turkey, my wife baked a date-nut cake sized to a .50 calibre ammo can, and mailed it. The APO clerks sniffed it right through the airtight seal, and called dibs.
121 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:46:08am |
re: #119 sattv4u2
18 grandkids
my mother had only 4. She was constantly baby sitting one of our kids
18 gives lots of opportunity to "take care of the children"
You're missing the point!! It's, um, and uh, ....
122 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:47:28am |
re: #118 Cannadian Club Akbar
Hmm. Do you have a point, other than she didn't raise boys?
Yeah: Kasich's statement was mind-bogglingly stupid and insulting to women.
123 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:50:27am |
re: #122 Obdicut
Yeah: Kasich's statement was mind-bogglingly stupid and insulting to women.
So, I am supposed to worry about Ohio politics? OMG!! I should worry about EVERY race!!!!
124 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:51:05am |
re: #120 Decatur Deb
The Wired contest is about doing without the packaging. For example, sending this:
125 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:51:23am |
re: #123 Cannadian Club Akbar
So, I am supposed to worry about Ohio politics? OMG!! I should worry about EVERY race!!!!
Huh? What are you talking about? Who's telling you to worry?
126 | sattv4u2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:53:24am |
re: #123 Cannadian Club Akbar
So, I am supposed to worry about Ohio politics? OMG!! I should worry about EVERY race!!!!
No,, just about every off the cuff statement uttered by every politician be they national, state or local if that pol leans or falls totally to the right, because, you know ,,, 'we're" all in agreement because 'we're" all the same
nudge nudge ,, wink wink ,, youknowwhatmydogwhistlemeans
127 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:54:09am |
re: #124 Obdicut
The Wired contest is about doing without the packaging. For example, sending this:
Reminds me of the time Mad magazine got a subscription in an envelope with only a sticker of Alfred E. Neuman as an address.
(The ammo can was unwrapped, giving the mail clerks an opening to 'discuss' it with me.)
128 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 3:54:52am |
re: #125 Obdicut
Huh? What are you talking about? Who's telling you to worry?
You brought up Ann Romney. then you brought up Kasich.
129 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:01:28am |
re: #124 Obdicut
The Wired contest is about doing without the packaging. For example, sending this:
In Israel, we were at the ass end of everybody's supply chain, so it was common for guys on temporary duty to get a shopping list from people in the office. I once mailed 4 radial tires from the Army PX in Vilseck, GE to our embassy mail room just by taping an address band around each.
131 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:04:41am |
re: #128 Cannadian Club Akbar
You brought up Ann Romney. then you brought up Kasich.
Actually, someone else did, and then I joined into the conversation. I'm sorry, I really have no clue what your objection to that is.
132 | sattv4u2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:04:50am |
re: #129 Decatur Deb
In Israel, we were at the ass end of everybody's supply chain, so it was common for guys on temporary duty to get a shopping list from people in the office. I once mailed 4 radial tires from the Army PX in Vilseck, GE to our embassy mail room just by taping an address band around each.
Sent a whole Jeep home one piece at a time, didjya!
133 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:05:18am |
re: #129 Decatur Deb
The USPS is surprisingly chill in what they'll delivery. Probably livens their day up a lot.
134 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:08:37am |
re: #132 sattv4u2
Sent a whole Jeep home one piece at a time, didjya!
That's my dad's generation, Jeeps and 'war trophies' you couldn't get away with today. In my time, the Army PO had a lot of trouble with small munitions coming back from the Gulf/Iraq/Afghanistan.
135 | simoom Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:08:43am |
Here's the Guardian's Middle East liveblog for anyone looking to follow the Friday protests across the region (Yemen, Egypt, Qatar, Jordan, etc.):
[Link: www.guardian.co.uk...]
An excerpt:
Turkey's prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has condemned both the anti-Islamic film and the violent protests that it sparked.
The Turkish daily Hurriyet quoted him saying:
"Those who made this movie should be condemned in the harshest terms. But insulting religion cannot be an excuse to attack people."
AP said he exhorted Muslims to condemn the attack on the US consulate in Libya.
136 | palomino Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:11:41am |
re: #113 Cannadian Club Akbar
My mom tried to do my laundry ever week. Do you have a point?
I find it hard to believe that Ann Romney needs to stay at home doing laundry. And I'm fairly sure she doesn't need to stay home to raise her adult children. So Kasich's remarks are bullshit, that's my point.
And how is your mother relevant? Was your dad running for president while she did your laundry?
137 | sattv4u2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:15:28am |
re: #134 Decatur Deb
That's my dad's generation, Jeeps and 'war trophies'
You still have the Jeep your dad "bought" you !?!?!
/
138 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:19:05am |
re: #137 sattv4u2
That's my dad's generation, Jeeps and 'war trophies'
You still have the Jeep your dad "bought" you !?!?!
/
Nah--that's just a WWII legend. Think I have seen credible stories of hairy small-arms coming back.
(My '73 Land Rover was legally imported from a Belgian Army surplus yard--the paperwork in Flemish and Walloon has stayed with it. Gave the Alabama DMV girl a chore.)
139 | Shropshire_Slasher Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:20:45am |
'Airplane!' funniest movie? Shirley it's a top contender
Read more: [Link: www.timesunion.com...]
140 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:20:54am |
re: #119 sattv4u2
18 grandkids
my mother had only 4. She was constantly baby sitting one of our kids
18 gives lots of opportunity to "take care of the children"
I have 30 grandkids. So we will be controlling the world soon (actually we already do). Bow to your Zionist overlords!
141 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:22:53am |
re: #139 Tommy's cone of shame
'Airplane!' funniest movie? Shirley it's a top contender
Read more: [Link: www.timesunion.com...]
I can't believe "Blazing Saddles" isn't on there.
142 | sattv4u2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:23:18am |
re: #140 Sheila Brovlofski
I have 30 grandkids. So we will be controlling the world soon (actually we already do). Bow to your Zionist overlords!
me, I would insist my kids named all their kids the same name ( al a George Foreman)
Nothing would be worse than calling one of your grandkids the wrong name, and with 30 of them, i certainly would!!
143 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:25:53am |
re: #141 Sheila Brovlofski
The Big Lebowski isn't on there either. This 'laughs per minute' metric is weird, too.
144 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:29:57am |
re: #141 Sheila Brovlofski
I can't believe "Blazing Saddles" isn't on there.
Only saw two on the list. It was a painful movie, but Mad, Mad, Mad World gets it for cast and laughs/minute.
145 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:30:04am |
re: #143 Obdicut
The Big Lebowski isn't on there either. This 'laughs per minute' metric is weird, too.
"Blazing Saddles" "Big Lebowski" and "Life of Brian" are the top 3 of all time.
146 | sattv4u2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:32:05am |
re: #141 Sheila Brovlofski
I can't believe "Blazing Saddles" isn't on there.
"funniest" is subjective. The list linked has Airplane as #1
This list [Link: www.boston.com...] has it as #6
147 | iossarian Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:32:18am |
re: #145 Sheila Brovlofski
"Blazing Saddles" "Big Lebowski" and "Life of Brian" are the top 3 of all time.
You also have to throw in (at least) one of "Trading Places" and "Coming to America".
148 | sattv4u2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:33:22am |
At least one of The Marx Brothers films has to crack the top ten!
149 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:36:22am |
Let's see:
Bringing up Baby
His Girl Friday
Duck Soup
The Philadelphia Story
The Lady Eve
I don't think the list has anything old on it at all, really.
150 | palomino Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:41:36am |
re: #149 Obdicut
Let's see:
Bringing up Baby
His Girl Friday
Duck Soup
The Philadelphia Story
The Lady EveI don't think the list has anything old on it at all, really.
Only 3 movies on the list are more than 10 years old. None are more than 30 years old. So yeah, it's a little skewed I'd say.
151 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:42:17am |
re: #148 sattv4u2
At least one of The Marx Brothers films has to crack the top ten!
Those lists are back-loaded to the last decade or so. Missing:
Marx Bros
Peter Sellers (esp Strangelove)
LA Story
Danny Kaye
Jerry Lewis (a few)
Elaine May
Tight Little Island
Alec Guinness
Mad, Mad World (greatest cast)
152 | palomino Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:44:10am |
re: #151 Decatur Deb
Those lists are back-loaded to the last decade or so. Missing:
Marx Bros
Peter Sellers (esp Strangelove)
LA Story
Danny Kaye
Jerry Lewis (a few)
Elaine May
Tight Little Island
Alec Guinness
Mad, Mad World (greatest cast)
Plus Spinal Tap and most of Woody Allen's early-mid 70s films.
154 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:45:18am |
re: #142 sattv4u2
me, I would insist my kids named all their kids the same name ( al a George Foreman)
Nothing would be worse than calling one of your grandkids the wrong name, and with 30 of them, i certainly would!!
I remember all their names AND BIRTHDAYS (I have a program to track the birthdays) and yes, there are multiple names.
155 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:45:19am |
re: #152 palomino
And Best In Show. Man, that movie is awesome.
156 | dragonath Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:45:40am |
OMG, that list
The Producers (1968)
O Brother Where Art Thou
Freaked
Some like It Hot
The Ten Commmandments
Any one of those movies is funnier than anything on that "list", except maybe Life of Brian and Airplane.
157 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:45:52am |
re: #150 palomino
Only 3 movies on the list are more than 10 years old. None are more than 30 years old. So yeah, it's a little skewed I'd say.
I can't believe "Superbad" made the list. That was so lame.
158 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:45:55am |
re: #134 Decatur Deb
That's my dad's generation, Jeeps and 'war trophies' you couldn't get away with today. In my time, the Army PO had a lot of trouble with small munitions coming back from the Gulf/Iraq/Afghanistan.
My grandmother's brother somehow managed to get home from WWII with a Japanese rifle, a Colt "Official Police Model" revolver with a severely bent grip that he said he got off a dead Japanese soldier, a blow gun that he got from some Filipino natives, a ton of various forms of foreign currency, and probably other things that I never knew about.
He claimed that he tried to smuggle a live monkey, but got caught. No idea if that's true, but that's the story anyway.
159 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:46:23am |
Here is the SomethingAwful page memorializing Sean Smith.
He was two years younger than me. Damn.
162 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:52:24am |
re: #141 Sheila Brovlofski
I can't believe "Blazing Saddles" isn't on there.
List includes "Superbad" but omits "Young Frankenstein" and "Office Space."
Politifact rating: Pants on Fire
163 | palomino Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:54:31am |
re: #157 Sheila Brovlofski
I can't believe "Superbad" made the list. That was so lame.
I actually kinda liked Superbad, but you're right: it doesn't belong anywhere near such a list.
In the category of relatively recent gross-out films, I'd put Something About Mary and 40 Year Old Virgin way above Superbad.
Just a few more in no particular order: MASH, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Dr. Strangelove, Monty Python Holy Grail, even Dumb and Dumber are all stronger contenders.
164 | William Barnett-Lewis Fri, Sep 14, 2012 4:54:36am |
Good Morning,
re: #24 Dark_Falcon
I wasn't, but Jay Cutler got sacked a few times. And since the Packers have locked up tonight's game, wlewskii is going to let me have it the next time he's here.
Nah, not right now DF. I'm more surprised that GB pulled it's shit together as well as it did. Pleasantly surprised, but surprised none-the-less. GB's defense is a bit of a mess to put it nicely...
165 | palomino Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:01:58am |
re: #164 William Barnett-Lewis
Good Morning,
Nah, not right now DF. I'm more surprised that GB pulled it's shit together as well as it did. Pleasantly surprised, but surprised none-the-less. GB's defense is a bit of a mess to put it nicely...
Could be wrong, but I think last year's Packers were the first team in history to have the league's best record while giving up more total yards than they gained. They racked up a ton of interceptions to offset that somewhat, but their defense had problems clearly. Wasn't that surprised they lost early in playoffs; when D is that shaky, something has to give eventually (most of the time.)
166 | sattv4u2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:09:22am |
re: #158 Our Precious Bodily Fluids
and probably other things that I never knew about.
He was given shots and meds for those!!!
//
167 | iossarian Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:11:24am |
re: #151 Decatur Deb
Those lists are back-loaded to the last decade or so. Missing:
Marx Bros
Peter Sellers (esp Strangelove)
LA Story
Danny Kaye
Jerry Lewis (a few)
Elaine May
Tight Little Island
Alec Guinness
Mad, Mad World (greatest cast)
Also missing Pete and Dud.
The Devil (Peter Cook): "Terrible sins I've got here. Must be the wages."
168 | RadicalModerate Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:20:55am |
Three more that were better than most of the movies on that listing.
Top Secret!
The Princess Bride
Real Genius
169 | AK-47% Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:23:05am |
re: #168 RadicalModerate
Three more that were better than most of the movies on that listing.
Top Secret!
The Princess Bride
Real Genius
"La Cage Aux Folles" is a movie I went to see not knowing what to expect and came out sore from laughing. Have not seen the remake.
170 | Gus Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:24:44am |
Can it get any stupider than this? 'Crowd in Lebanon torches KFC in anger over pope visit/film.' -- jpost.com/Headlines/Arti...— Jeffrey Goldberg (@JeffreyGoldberg) September 14, 2012
172 | sattv4u2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:27:00am |
re: #170 Gus
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I never knew the Pope liked KFC. I figured he was more of an Olive Garden type!!
173 | Gus Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:27:28am |
New Photo: KFC set on fire by islamists in Tripoli, north #Lebanon (via @adelsamia) twitter.com/adelsamia/stat...— Jean (@jeanassy) September 14, 2012
174 | Gus Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:28:37am |
re: #172 sattv4u2
I never knew the Pope liked KFC. I figured he was more of an Olive Garden type!!
The bozos are still at it. Must have high unemployment in these countries. A bunch of poser young men with nothing to do.
175 | iossarian Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:28:46am |
re: #171 Obdicut
Probably smelled great, though.
I'm currently living near a street that features about 10 no-brand fast food outlets in a 100-yard stretch (yes, it's near a university).
It's like a symphony of grease on Friday nights.
176 | sattv4u2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:29:50am |
re: #175 iossarian
I'm currently living near a street that features about 10 no-brand fast food outlets in a 100-yard stretch (yes, it's near a university).
It's like a symphony of grease on Friday nights.
My arteries are hardening just reading that
177 | iossarian Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:30:27am |
I've got money like Charles Dickens
Got the girlies in the Coupe like the Colonel's got the chickens
178 | sattv4u2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:31:09am |
re: #174 Gus
The bozos are still at it. Must have high unemployment int these countries. A bunch of poser young men with nothing to do.
Well then, that makes sense
Burn down a place that actually, you know,, hires people!!
179 | AK-47% Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:31:29am |
re: #175 iossarian
I'm currently living near a street that features about 10 no-brand fast food outlets in a 100-yard stretch (yes, it's near a university).
It's like a symphony of grease on Friday nights.
I remember seeing the exhaust fan at our favorite greasy spoon diner, there was a grease waterfall dripping from it.
180 | dragonath Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:32:20am |
Poetry in motion!
"Sometimes in campaigns you can drive yourself crazy with the micro-targeting and the pollsters and the tea leaves and the pixie dust trying to twist yourself into triple back-flips to appeal to the three percent that are the undecideds that live in suburbs and have lawns that are less than 20 feet long and all that bullshit. Just tell the base why you're doing what you're doing and why you're better than the other guy."
-- Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley (D)
181 | Gus Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:33:42am |
re: #178 sattv4u2
Well then, that makes sense
Burn down a place that actually, you know,, hires people!!
Would have been more peaceful to just boycott KFC. //
Irony: KFC is packed during Ramadan.— Anis Tabet (@AnisTabet23) September 14, 2012
182 | iossarian Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:34:20am |
re: #179 Expand Your Ground
I remember seeing the exhaust fan at our favorite greasy spoon diner, there was a grease waterfall dripping from it.
Despite our warnings, a teammate of mine once went for a cheeky pee down the alley next to the Jamaican jerk chicken joint after a somewhat raucous team dinner.
He came back out with the (now empty) bucket they used to collect the stale chicken drippings in on his head.
183 | AK-47% Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:34:36am |
re: #180 dragonath
Americans like to vote for people who project the image of being sincere and being guided by a set of principles. That is what won Bush the election, especially ibn 2004: even people who disagreed with him on a lot of issues preferred someone who projected the image of being consistent and predictable in his actions.
184 | AK-47% Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:35:13am |
185 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:35:23am |
DERPTY DERP FROM TEH BOSS OF DERP
ObamaCare will cut KFC profits in half. Means fewer jobs, lower wages.washingtonexaminer.com/franchisors-wa...— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) September 14, 2012
If wages at KFC got any lower, the workers would be paying THEM
186 | Gus Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:36:22am |
re: #184 Expand Your Ground
Good thing they did not open a Chick-Fil-A there!
The irony would be that Islamists agree with Chick-Fil-A. D'oh!
187 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:36:53am |
I've been out of bed for a half hour, and already this lying SOB is on my nerves.
Romney: Obama During Debates Will ‘Say Things That Aren’t True’
How fucking dare he?
188 | Gus Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:39:22am |
Sky Sources: Protestors now inside German Embassy in Khartoum, Sudan— Sky News Newsdesk (@SkyNewsBreak) September 14, 2012
Oh boy RT @france24: BREAKING - SUDAN: protestors storm German, British embassies in Khartoum (AFP) f24.my/rxo4QT— sunny hundal (@sunny_hundal) September 14, 2012
190 | AK-47% Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:40:00am |
re: #187 makeitstop
I've been out of bed for a half hour, and already this lying SOB is on my nerves.
Romney: Obama During Debates Will ‘Say Things That Aren’t True’
How fucking dare he?
"“I’ve looked at prior debates," Romney said. "And in that kind of case, it’s difficult to say, ‘Well, am I going to spend my time correcting things that aren’t quite accurate? Or am I going to spend my time talking about the things I want to talk about?'”
In other words: "I'm going to change the subject whever something uncomfortable gets brought up".
191 | Gus Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:48:51am |
RT @simonjhanna: #BinLaden poster being carried around #tahrir now . twitpic.com/augh68 via @jenanmoussa— Jim Roberts (@nytjim) September 14, 2012
193 | sattv4u2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:49:38am |
re: #188 Gus
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NOTE TO SELF
Call my travel agent and cancel my trip to the Sudan, to Cairo, to Libya to ,,,,,,,,
194 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:57:04am |
Romney: "If I were Prez things would be different. Bin Laden would be alive. GM would be dead. But I lost to McCain. And he picked Palin"— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) September 14, 2012
195 | iossarian Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:57:35am |
If you adopt a world view in which human rights one and two are:
1) The right to say anything you like, no matter if it pisses other people off
2) The right for everyone to be armed to the teeth at all times
it should hardly come as any surprise if pissed-off heavily-armed people turn up every so often at your doorstep.
196 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:59:09am |
re: #195 iossarian
If you adopt a world view in which human rights one and two are:
1) The right to say anything you like, no matter if it pisses other people off
2) The right for everyone to be armed to the teeth at all times
it should hardly come as any surprise if pissed-off heavily-armed people turn up every so often at your doorstep.
Actually most of the people who believe in these two inviolable Human Rights only for themselves, not for others.
197 | aagcobb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 5:59:28am |
re: #91 Kragar
Kansas Goes Birther: State Board Considers Removing Obama From Ballot
Eat shit, Kobach.
I hope they do, it can only help to turn sane voters away from the GOP. If I were Romney I would tell Kansas in no uncertain terms that if they do this they're practically clinching the President's reelection bid.
199 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:03:13am |
re: #191 Gus
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Any bets on how long until some RWNJ claims that Obama endangered national security by killing Osama bin Laden?
200 | A Mom Anon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:04:35am |
I wonder sometimes how accurate or skewed the news we get from the other side of the world is. Are the people in these countries fighting back against oppression and terrorism or are the oppressors and terrorists using force to stop any progress towards a form of democracy? How can we know for sure? Or is it both? I'd still like to know who fanned the flames of all this and why now?
I know shamefully little about the history and politics of Africa and the Middle East so I can't offer much to this discussion that would be constructive. I will say though that any fight against oppression and power is not going to be pretty. Our own country's early years were pretty ugly,so was our Civil War. Are there peaceful ways we can offer hope and help to those who want freedom and democracy? Is it stupid of me to expect that violence and suffering could minimized at least?
201 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:08:39am |
re: #191 Gus
What's sad is right next to that guy is someone holding a very reasonable sign. Sad that the guy with the reasonable sign can tolerate being in the same place as the Bin Laden guy, that is.
202 | sattv4u2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:09:09am |
re: #199 Our Precious Bodily Fluids
Any bets on how long until some RWNJ claims that Obama endangered national security by killing Osama bin Laden?
I don't ascribe to that, but I am somewhat surprised that the reaction to the killing wasn't sooner and more widespread
perhaps "they' were just waiting for an opportunity/ reason/ excuse and the movie opened the door
203 | iossarian Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:09:41am |
re: #200 A Mom Anon
From my indirect involvement with the developing world (mostly via people I know who work there) it really seems to me that the most you can do is attempt to do constructive stuff (education, infrastructure, development of local stability and so on) and just hope for the best in the long term. The top-down, "support the strong man" approach always seems to end the same way, with corruption and then inevitable turmoil when he is finally overthrown.
Anyway - got to go and get some work done. Laters all.
204 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:10:43am |
re: #199 Our Precious Bodily Fluids
Any bets on how long until some RWNJ claims that Obama endangered national security by killing Osama bin Laden?
Rush already claimed that Al-Qaeda gave up Bin Laden just in order to make Obama look good.
205 | William Barnett-Lewis Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:11:03am |
re: #200 A Mom Anon
I wonder sometimes how accurate or skewed the news we get from the other side of the world is.
It's always skewed and inaccurate. That's the real evil of Fox and it's "fair & balanced" shtick - the only fair & balanced journalism is the stats box on the sports page.
The only thing you can do is to read as many sources, preferably primary, as possible and think it through. Unfortunately our schools are too busy having to teach our kids to the meaningless tests of "Every Child Left Behind" to have any chance of teaching them how to think or use logic in their reasoning.
206 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:11:52am |
re: #199 Our Precious Bodily Fluids
Any bets on how long until some RWNJ claims that Obama endangered national security by killing Osama bin Laden?
They kinda hit that already, with the insipid 'Osama is alive, GM is dead' meme earlier this week, the rationale being that Osama's ideas are stronger now than they were when he was alive.
Some stupid shit flying around out there.
207 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:12:14am |
Holy hell, the new Cat Power album is goddamn awesome.
208 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:18:42am |
re: #91 Kragar
Kansas Goes Birther: State Board Considers Removing Obama From Ballot
Eat shit, Kobach.
Question: What happens if the election board in Kansas actually pulled Obama off its ballot?
209 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:20:50am |
re: #208 Dark_Falcon
Question: What happens if the election board in Kansas actually pulled Obama off its ballot?
Well, obviously Obama can't win the election without Kansas, so...
/
210 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:22:41am |
re: #208 Dark_Falcon
Question: What happens if the election board in Kansas actually pulled Obama off its ballot?
I don't know if write-in campaigns are allowed there, but there would certainly be a lot put in. I don't know whether the board would then reject those too.
The worst effect would be, then, not counting all the votes that Kansas citizens cast for Obama, which might bring his popular vote total down significantly. It's just Kansas, though, so it would 'only' be half a million or so votes. Obama won the popular vote by ten million last time.
The main effect it's currently having is displaying Romney's unfitness for the presidency, since it's his senior adviser who is considering this racist, contemptible, divisive action.
211 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:23:19am |
re: #208 Dark_Falcon
Question: What happens if the election board in Kansas actually pulled Obama off its ballot?
I think this is another play for the hardcore wingnut/Fox News constituency - a voting bloc they should have had sewn up before the convention, but one that they're still trying to win over. They'll make noise about it then not actually do it.
If Kobach actually tries to go through with this, it would attract everyone's attention to the full slate of GOP insanity, in a heartbeat.
If Romney's staff has a single brain between the lot of them, they'll tell Kobach to dial it back. But there's no guarantee that they do have a brain between the lot of them.
212 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:25:26am |
re: #209 Our Precious Bodily Fluids
Well, obviously Obama can't win the election without Kansas, so...
/
It's just that sometimes I like to "wargame" a crazy scenario out.
Just to be clear, I am certain Barack Obama is a natural-born US Citizen and to try to keep him off the ballot in any state would be the same in my eyes as Southern state refusing to allow Republican candidates onto the ballot back in the late 19th / early 20th centuries.
213 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:27:24am |
re: #212 Dark_Falcon
It's just that sometimes I like to "wargame" a crazy scenario out.
Just to be clear, I am certain Barack Obama is a natural-born US Citizen and to try to keep him off the ballot in any state would be the same in my eyes as Southern state refusing to allow Republican candidates onto the ballot back in the late 19th / early 20th centuries.
So what do you think about Romney, given that he made this guy who's considering it and thinks the idea has merit, his senior immigration adviser?
214 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:30:03am |
A commenter posted on TPM yesterday that between the states named (Kansas, Mississippi and Arizona) that this is the Koch brothers floating a trial balloon for secession.
The uproar that would ensue from this is something Team Liar won't want to get within a mile of - but since it's one of their senior advisors pushing it, it'll dirty up Romney even worse than he is now.
215 | BongCrodny Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:30:10am |
re: #212 Dark_Falcon
It's just that sometimes I like to "wargame" a crazy scenario out.
Just to be clear, I am certain Barack Obama is a natural-born US Citizen and to try to keep him off the ballot in any state would be the same in my eyes as Southern state refusing to allow Republican candidates onto the ballot back in the late 19th / early 20th centuries.
You could send them a sternly-worded letter.
That'll show them.
216 | sattv4u2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:32:38am |
re: #215 BongCrodny
You could send them a sternly-worded letter.
That'll show them.
Who do you think you are, the UN!?!?
/
217 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:32:57am |
re: #214 makeitstop
A commenter posted on TPM yesterday that between the states named (Kansas, Mississippi and Arizona) that this is the Koch brothers floating a trial balloon for secession.
Yeah, cause that worked out so great the last time.//
218 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:34:13am |
re: #215 BongCrodny
You could send them a sternly-worded letter.
That'll show them.
You could send them the 82nd Airborne.
219 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:34:50am |
re: #214 makeitstop
The actual math on secession just doesn't work-- hell, it didn't work back in the civil war days, but especially not now. Those states depend on the Federal government funding them. If Kansas seceded, it'd become a largely agrarian state having to trade that surplus (now without any federal subsidies for farmers, having to pay now for US weather reports even if the US kept doing them, without US officials doing soil sampling, etc. etc.) for manufactured goods.
Historically, that is not the side of the equation you want to be on. They'd basically be creating a third-world country, bounded on all sides by the US and completely dependent on them.
220 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:35:14am |
re: #214 makeitstop
A commenter posted on TPM yesterday that between the states named (Kansas, Mississippi and Arizona) that this is the Koch brothers floating a trial balloon for secession.
The uproar that would ensue from this is something Team Liar won't want to get within a mile of - but since it's one of their senior advisors pushing it, it'll dirty up Romney even worse than he is now.
That was just what a commenter said. You can't take those seriously without evidence, and you'd be wise not to make such a claim yourself without evidence. All you'd do launching that sort of conspiracy theory in to make yourself look bad and allow the Koch Brothers to look good calling you a crazy person. Because its a crazy idea.
221 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:35:47am |
Juan Cole writes about Obama's 'gaffe' of whether Egypt is an 'ally' or not.
The bottom line is, it worked.
White House spokesman Jay Carney added on Thursday that “Obama spoke with President Mohamed Morsi, the first Islamist leader following an uprising which toppled Mubarak last year, on Wednesday and impressed upon him the need to protect US diplomats…”
Under Obama’s pressure, Morsi, in Brussels seeking European aid, finally explicitly condemned Tuesday’s attack on the US embassy in Egypt:
“we don’t accept, condone, or approve at all for there to be attacks on embassies, consulates or people, or killing in any way.”
“We want to cooperate with the entire world and we are cooperating now with the E.U. and the European people and with the American people and others and the U.S. administration to prevent such practices in the future. Also, we insist on the protection of persons, properties and embassies. The Egyptian people are very civilized and could not ever express their rejection of such practices with an attack on an embassy or person or consulate.”
Some of Morsi’s sudden willingness to say all this was fueled by Obama’s pressure.
222 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:37:51am |
re: #220 Dark_Falcon
That was just what a commenter said. You can't take those seriously without evidence, and you'd be wise not to make such a claim yourself without evidence. All you'd do launching that sort of conspiracy theory in to make yourself look bad and allow the Koch Brothers to look good calling you a crazy person. Because its a crazy idea.
Oh, wait. After all the shit Team Liar has pulled this week, you're admonishing people not to make claims without evidence?
Tell it to your candidate. I'm just mentioning a comment on a blog. Your candidate is making claims without evidence, repeatedly, in news conferences.
223 | BongCrodny Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:38:46am |
re: #218 Decatur Deb
You could send them the 82nd Airborne.
Hey, if Kansas weren't landlocked, we could send in destroyers.
224 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:39:19am |
re: #219 Obdicut
The actual math on secession just doesn't work-- hell, it didn't work back in the civil war days, but especially not now. Those states depend on the Federal government funding them. If Kansas seceded, it'd become a largely agrarian state having to trade that surplus (now without any federal subsidies for farmers, having to pay now for US weather reports even if the US kept doing them, without US officials doing soil sampling, etc. etc.) for manufactured goods.
Historically, that is not the side of the equation you want to be on. They'd basically be creating a third-world country, bounded on all sides by the US and completely dependent on them.
Kansas (like the rest of the wheat belt) is in the midst of one of the worst droughts in history. Without Federal aid, Kansas would become Somalia.
225 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:39:46am |
re: #213 Obdicut
So what do you think about Romney, given that he made this guy who's considering it and thinks the idea has merit, his senior immigration adviser?
It's either a bad pick or Mitt's crazy like a fox and its still a bad pick.
Birtherism does little but woo people on the conspiracist right, and Mitt's already got all of those people he's going to get. The remainder won't vote for him because of a variety of factors, both from his career and religion, and because they feel he won't change enough things compared to Obama. Either way, its past time to write that sort of loon off. If Mitt can't win without them, then he can't win and should just accept that.
226 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:41:21am |
re: #225 Dark_Falcon
So what does it make you think about Mitt as an ethical being, that he's willing to not only tolerate birtherism, but endorse it?
227 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:42:12am |
228 | aagcobb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:42:30am |
re: #208 Dark_Falcon
Question: What happens if the election board in Kansas actually pulled Obama off its ballot?
A federal lawsuit requesting an emergency injunction to prevent the removal of the President from the ballot.
229 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:42:43am |
Guys, drop this 'secession' sillyness. You're basing it a on a comment from another blog. It's just plain foolish to even entertain that such an theory might be real with any evidence.
This not a consipracist blog.
230 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:42:58am |
Good morning lizards!
Was KFC responsible for that movie trailer?
231 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:43:31am |
re: #229 Dark_Falcon
Guys, drop this 'secession' sillyness. You're basing it a on a comment from another blog. It's just plain foolish to even entertain that such an theory might be real with any evidence.
This not a consipracist blog.
Why do you hate Sarah and Todd?
232 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:43:35am |
re: #219 Obdicut
The actual math on secession just doesn't work-- hell, it didn't work back in the civil war days, but especially not now. Those states depend on the Federal government funding them. If Kansas seceded, it'd become a largely agrarian state having to trade that surplus (now without any federal subsidies for farmers, having to pay now for US weather reports even if the US kept doing them, without US officials doing soil sampling, etc. etc.) for manufactured goods.
Historically, that is not the side of the equation you want to be on. They'd basically be creating a third-world country, bounded on all sides by the US and completely dependent on them.
Understood. I have to wonder whether people like Kobach think things through on the same level you do, though.
233 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:44:30am |
re: #229 Dark_Falcon
Guys, drop this 'secession' sillyness. You're basing it a on a comment from another blog. It's just plain foolish to even entertain that such an theory might be real with any evidence.
This not a consipracist blog.
Calm down. It was mentioned in passing. No one's taking it seriously.
234 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:45:13am |
re: #231 Decatur Deb
Why do you hate Sarah and Todd?
Because they spew Burning Stupid all across America and dumb down the national discourse.
235 | ShaunP Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:45:48am |
re: #221 makeitstop
Juan Cole writes about Obama's 'gaffe' of whether Egypt is an 'ally' or not.
The bottom line is, it worked.
David Frum called it Obama's Shrewdest Gaffe:
[Link: www.thedailybeast.com...]
236 | aagcobb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:45:58am |
re: #229 Dark_Falcon
Guys, drop this 'secession' sillyness. You're basing it a on a comment from another blog. It's just plain foolish to even entertain that such an theory might be real with any evidence.
This not a consipracist blog.
I will say that I expect that if the President is relected, the talk of Civil War and secession will explode on the extreme right. Not that any of those blowhards will actually follow through, except for a handful of very dangerous people like that militia group within that army base.
237 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:46:01am |
You have to admit, Kansas would be a great place to corral all the anti-choicers, anti-vaxxers, birthers, truthers, and global warming deniers. It's big enough for that much shit, right?
238 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:46:11am |
re: #234 Dark_Falcon
Because they spew Burning Stupid all across America and dumb down the national discourse.
Would you have voted McCain/Palin?
239 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:46:12am |
re: #229 Dark_Falcon
Guys, drop this 'secession' sillyness. You're basing it a on a comment from another blog. It's just plain foolish to even entertain that such an theory might be real with any evidence.
This not a consipracist blog.
I don't think that it's real. Nobody is treating it seriously. Do you honestly think we're taking it seriously when we say shit like "If it weren't landlocked, we could send in the destroyers"?
What is being treated seriously is that Mitt Romney, the GOP candidate for the presidency, is endorsing birtherism as a tactic for attacking Obama, and that fucking blows.
240 | BongCrodny Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:46:37am |
re: #226 Obdicut
So what does it make you think about Mitt as an ethical being, that he's willing to not only tolerate birtherism, but endorse it?
Nobody does the Captain Kirk-Nomad thing better than you. :-)
241 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:47:03am |
re: #233 makeitstop
Calm down. It was mentioned in passing. No one's taking it seriously.
It's didn't seem like that to me. People here seemed to be giving it credence. And I've long believed that the best way to stop a conspiracy theory from growing is to step on it hard and fast.
242 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:47:58am |
re: #238 Decatur Deb
Would you have voted McCain/Palin?
He's voting for Romney/Ryan, for pete's sake...leave the kid alone.
I know, I know...I should talk...I like fucking with DF as much as the next person, but there's only so much crazy you can ask him to defend.
243 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:47:58am |
244 | aagcobb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:48:37am |
245 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:48:47am |
246 | BongCrodny Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:49:02am |
re: #229 Dark_Falcon
Guys, drop this 'secession' sillyness. You're basing it a on a comment from another blog. It's just plain foolish to even entertain that such an theory might be real with any evidence.
This not a consipracist blog.
The Koch brothers told you to say that, didn't they?
247 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:49:41am |
re: #242 darthstar
He's voting for Romney/Ryan, for pete's sake...leave the kid alone.
I know, I know...I should talk...I like fucking with DF as much as the next person, but there's only so much crazy you can ask him to defend.
Jast askn'.
248 | bratwurst Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:49:55am |
re: #244 aagcobb
Heck, I think Charles voted McCain/Palin.
And has since apologized for doing so on a regular basis.
249 | Mattand Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:50:01am |
re: #241 Dark_Falcon
It's didn't seem like that to me. People here seemed to be giving it credence. And I've long believed that the best way to stop a conspiracy theory from growing is to step on it hard and fast.
Joining late in the conversation, and skirting close to a "No True Scotsman" fallacy, but IMO most of the LGF commentariat recognize any secession talk for what it is: right wing hot air fueled by in no small part by racism.
250 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:50:54am |
re: #249 Mattand
And a complete fantasy that wouldn't possible be able to work in the least.
251 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:50:57am |
re: #248 bratwurst
And has since apologized for doing so on a regular basis.
Voting Dem means never having to say you're sorry.
252 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:50:58am |
253 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:51:00am |
McCain/Palin would have won if they had #Romneystrength.
Is anyone following the bullshit about Romney's campaign saying that Americans won't get killed abroad if Romney's president?
Top Romney adviser faults Obama for murder of U.S. ambassador, claims Romney would have prevented attack thkpr.gs/PyvRUC #icymi— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) September 14, 2012
254 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:51:56am |
re: #249 Mattand
Joining late in the conversation, and skirting close to a "No True Scotsman" fallacy, but IMO most of the LGF commentariat recognize any secession talk for what it is: right wing hot air fueled by in no small part by racism.
I thought it was all about designing a new flag.
/
255 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:52:27am |
re: #251 Decatur Deb
Voting Dem means never having to say you're sorry.
Not if you live in Illinois. If you do and you voted Dem in 2006, then you have to apologize for Blago.
256 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:52:30am |
re: #251 Decatur Deb
Voting Dem means ALMOST never having to say you're sorry.
Unless you voted for Joe Lieberman.
257 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:52:42am |
Carter criticizes U.S. drone attacks
DES MOINES – Former President Jimmy Carter said Thursday that America is engaging in — and its citizens are accepting — human rights violations that “would never have been dreamed of” before the terrorist attacks that occurred in this country 11 years ago.
The nation’s 39th president said the U.S. government under both Republican and Democratic administrations has violated 10 of 30 provisions set out in a universal declaration of human rights that was forged after World War II, including perpetually detaining people in prison without informing them of any charges, providing them access to legal counsel or bringing them to trial and, more recently, by killing people via the use of unmanned drones.
“We have now decided as a nation that it’s OK to kill people without a trial with our drones, and this includes former American citizens who are looked upon as dangerous to us,” Carter told a group of Drake University students involved in a social-justice learning program.
“Not just terrorists, but innocent participants in weddings and so forth that happen to be there. I think this is acting in a way that turns people against us unnecessarily because there is a great deal of animosity about the United States that is unnecessary, in my opinion, because our drones are performing these things” in places like Pakistan, Afghanistan, Yemen and even in the Philippines, he said.
Meanwhile Jimmy Carter isn't going to like this.
US Drone airplanes were flying on Libya as we speak. #Libya— Libyan(TM) (@dovenews) September 14, 2012
258 | sattv4u2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:52:50am |
re: #251 Decatur Deb
Voting Dem means never having to say you're sorry.
[cough} carter [cough} edwards {cough cough}
259 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:52:51am |
re: #255 Dark_Falcon
Not if you live in Illinois. If you do and you voted Dem in 2006, then you have to apologize for Blago.
Word.
260 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:53:44am |
More Jimmy...
Carter disagreed with delegates to his Democratic Party’s national convention who restored a platform position that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel, saying the same thing happened when he was running for president in the 1970s and he made a public announcement in opposition to it. He said the best hope for peace in the Middle East is a two-state solution for Israel and Palestine with Jerusalem as a shared capital.
“I personally think that’s a mistake for the Democratic and Republican parties to call for Jerusalem to be the capital just for the Jews,” he said.
261 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:53:59am |
re: #253 darthstar
McCain/Palin would have won if they had #Romneystrength.
Is anyone following the bullshit about Romney's campaign saying that Americans won't get killed abroad if Romney's president?
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That one's right up there with Romney warning people that Obama will lie to them during the debates.
That one set me off even before I had my coffee this morning.
262 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:54:08am |
263 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:54:23am |
re: #258 sattv4u2
[cough} carter [cough} edwards {cough cough}
Carter was a good president and is a great ex president. He just got caught up in an economic downturn which helped bring Reagan into existence.
Edwards was a great Senator but a shitty husband.
264 | aagcobb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:54:27am |
re: #255 Dark_Falcon
Not if you live in Illinois. If you do and you voted Dem in 2006, then you have to apologize for Blago.
I think they must have had to build a gubernatorial wing to one of Illinois' prisons.
265 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:55:28am |
re: #261 makeitstop
That one's right up there with Romney warning people that Obama will lie to them during the debates.
That one set me off even before I had my coffee this morning.
I hadn't seen that one yet. Is he really preparing for the debates by trying to set up the narrative that Obama's going to lie?
Obama should cancel the first debate just to fuck with him.
266 | sattv4u2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:56:48am |
re: #263 darthstar
Carter was a good president
i'll give him props for the Camp David Accord,,, the rest, not so much
and is a great ex president
Again, props for Habitat for Humanity
Peace Not Apartheid,, again, not so much
267 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:57:46am |
Bachmann now defending her anti-Muslim witch hunt at #VVS12— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) September 14, 2012
268 | BongCrodny Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:58:00am |
269 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 6:59:32am |
re: #257 NJDhockeyfan
Nobody under 45 can credibly consider Jimmy Carter a bogeyman or some sort of evil incarnate. I don't know why anyone thinks that bringing him up is a big deal anymore.
270 | lawhawk Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:00:01am |
re: #253 darthstar
And the billion dollar question is how exactly Romney would have prevented the events that transpired that resulted in the Ambassador's death, along with three other US citizens. What would he have said/done to prevent it?
Other than being NOT Obama, that is. And that's not a policy, that's simply claiming that events would be different for the sake of difference - not any substantive policy difference he could point to.
271 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:00:14am |
Benghazi airspace closed for several hours to enable US drone patrols #Libya: libyaherald.com/?p=14380 @inkermangroup— George Grant (@GeorgePBGrant) September 14, 2012
272 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:00:38am |
re: #265 darthstar
I hadn't seen that one yet. Is he really preparing for the debates by trying to set up the narrative that Obama's going to lie?
Obama should cancel the first debate just to fuck with him.
Romney: Obama During Debates Will ‘Say Things That Aren’t True’
These guys are intent upon standing the truth on its head. Orwell would be beaming.
273 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:01:01am |
re: #267 Lidane
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Michelle Bachmann's Speech to VVS: The Bigoted Defense of the Indefensible.
I never favored her for president, I don't want her to stay in Congress, and National Review doesn't support her witch hunt. So I don't have anything to answer for where she's concerned.
274 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:01:03am |
File this under the 'foundation is cracking' category...
AMES, Iowa -- A Republican appointed to the Electoral College, Melinda Wadsley was expected to cast her vote for Mitt Romney if he won the state of Iowa in the presidential election.
Wadsley decided Thursday she couldn't in good conscience vote for Romney – she had backed Ron Paul during the GOP primary – and resigned to allow the Iowa GOP to choose someone else for that duty.
"I have always been a straight-ticket Republican, and for the first time in my life I am an undecided voter, therefore, I need to resign my position as a Republican presidential elector," Wadsley said in an email exchange with The Associated Press.
Iowa loses their one principled Republican...and it turns out she was a Ron Paul supporter.
275 | Tigger2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:01:49am |
re: #269 Lidane
Nobody under 45 can credibly consider Jimmy Carter a bogeyman or some sort of evil incarnate. I don't know why anyone thinks that bringing him up is a big deal anymore.
I'm 60 and I have never considered him a boogyman.
276 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:02:28am |
re: #272 makeitstop
Romney: Obama During Debates Will ‘Say Things That Aren’t True’
These guys are intent upon standing the truth on its head. Orwell would be beaming.
Reread "Politics and the English Language"...Orwell is doing a facepalm in his coffin.
277 | sattv4u2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:02:41am |
And on that note, the long quiet drive home beckons
And for added bonus points, I get to go to the cardiologist today to ensure the old ticker is up to the strains of my impending surgery(s)
oh ,, joy
278 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:02:48am |
re: #269 Lidane
I don't know why anyone thinks that bringing him up is a big deal anymore.
I know why.
279 | lawhawk Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:03:52am |
re: #260 NJDhockeyfan
Memo to Jimmy: West Jerusalem has been Israel's capital since 1948. United Jerusalem - the Jerusalem that includes East Jerusalem (including the Old City, the Temple Mount, Wailing/Western Wall/Kotel, and Dome of the Rock/al Aqsa Mosque) is disputed - Palestinians claim it as their capital while Israel has enacted law to make all Jerusalem as one and indivisible.
A peace deal would have to address the status of Jerusalem, but as I've repeatedly pointed out - no deal can ever occur while Palestinians are themselves divided and one half of the Palestinian side refuses to recognize Israel's right to exist, let alone abide by any agreement on land for peace or any other issue for that matter that would establish Israel's legitimacy. Hamas is thoroughly opposed to Israel's very existence and there's no peace unless Israel has a partner willing to recognize Israel's rights.
280 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:04:19am |
re: #270 lawhawk
And the billion dollar question is how exactly Romney would have prevented the events that transpired that resulted in the Ambassador's death, along with three other US citizens. What would he have said/done to prevent it?
Other than being NOT Obama, that is. And that's not a policy, that's simply claiming that events would be different for the sake of difference - not any substantive policy difference he could point to.
What could have been done would have been to fire off non-lethal weapons when it looked like the crowd was too big to control.
Failing that (because I'm not sure that would have been a good idea), I would have ordered the security force to fire as soon as the attack force started to move to make entry. This would have killed some people in the crowd, but I'm of the view that in such a case you kill the bad guys and deal with any blowback later.
281 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:04:23am |
re: #277 sattv4u2
And on that note, the long quiet drive home beckons
And for added bonus points, I get to go to the cardiologist today to ensure the old ticker is up to the strains of my impending surgery(s)
oh ,, joy
Lots of people get penis enlargement these days...don't feel bad.
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282 | aagcobb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:04:55am |
re: #269 Lidane
Nobody under 45 can credibly consider Jimmy Carter a bogeyman or some sort of evil incarnate. I don't know why anyone thinks that bringing him up is a big deal anymore.
Almost all GOP voters are over 45.
283 | Tigger2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:06:12am |
re: #281 darthstar
Lots of people get penis enlargement these days...don't feel bad.
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And dammit I just found out Medicare doesn't cover that. lol
284 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:06:44am |
re: #280 Dark_Falcon
What could have been done would have been to fire off non-lethal weapons when it looked like the crowd was too big to control.
Failing that (because I'm not sure that would have been a good idea), I would have ordered the security force to fire as soon as the attack force started to move to make entry. This would have killed some people in the crowd, but I'm of the view that in such a case you kill the bad guys and deal with any blowback later.
It was a coordinated attack on the compound. Militants with small arms, RPGs, and they fired on the compound for 4 1/2 hours. Bean bags and water cannons wouldn't have worked. The compound was outnumbered and outgunned.
285 | lawhawk Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:06:56am |
re: #280 Dark_Falcon
The US ROE on how to address these kinds of situations is a constantly changing one. That may have been exactly what was done, and there are reports that the US fired in the air to warn off the protesters in Libya, but the attackers used heavier weapons than the US was at that point able to defend against - RPGs, which set fire to several parts of the facility and set in motion a 4-hour battle.
And I'm willing to give the guys on the ground - and that would be US Marines - the benefit of doubt on whether/how to defend the facility as it became the focus of the protests and then sustained heavy attacks.
286 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:07:05am |
re: #283 Tigger2
And dammit I just found out Medicare doesn't cover that. lol
Try the National Endowment for the Parts.
287 | sattv4u2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:07:07am |
re: #281 darthstar
Lots of people get penis enlargement these days...don't feel bad.
/
I just want to make sure the one I get still is good for you
288 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:08:04am |
re: #282 aagcobb
Almost all GOP voters are over 45.
Falcon's only 34. There are tons of useful young-uns for the GOP. Just not as many as there used to be, thankfully.
290 | aagcobb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:08:28am |
re: #274 darthstar
File this under the 'foundation is cracking' category...
Iowa loses their one principled Republican...and it turns out she was a Ron Paul supporter.
There are a handful of other GOP electors who are Luap Nor cultists saying they either won't vote for Romney or are considering it.
291 | Eventual Carrion Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:09:03am |
re: #253 darthstar
McCain/Palin would have won if they had #Romneystrength.
Is anyone following the bullshit about Romney's campaign saying that Americans won't get killed abroad if Romney's president?
Fine, he should make a pledge then. If anything like that happens during his admin (if he gets elected), he will leave office in shame and turn over control to the next Dem in line of succession. But I expect that statement to happen as much as I think the Drill here, Drill now pushers to sign a statement saying all oil drilled here will be kept here in the US and not sold on the open world market. NOT GONNA HAPPEN.
292 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:09:30am |
re: #287 sattv4u2
I just want to make sure the one I get still is good for you
Oh baby, I love it when you talk dirty.
293 | Eventual Carrion Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:10:25am |
re: #258 sattv4u2
[cough} carter [cough} edwards {cough cough}
What's wrong with Carter? Was he selling munitions to Iran?
294 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:13:11am |
re: #285 lawhawk
The US ROE on how to address these kinds of situations is a constantly changing one. That may have been exactly what was done, and there are reports that the US fired in the air to warn off the protesters in Libya, but the attackers used heavier weapons than the US was at that point able to defend against - RPGs, which set fire to several parts of the facility and set in motion a 4-hour battle.
I know, and that why non-lethal weapons before the RPG fire began might have been a good idea. Once the bombardment started, defensive fire wasn't possible till the attack force detached itself.
But one thing that might have been doable would be a sniper in one of the annex buildings to gun down the RPG grenadiers (RPG means 'anti-tank grenade' in Russian, so the launcher operators are sometimes called grenadiers). That would have had a good effect, as it would have allowed the defenders better visuals of the attack force's approach, and it would have lessened damage to the building.
295 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:17:28am |
re: #294 Dark_Falcon
Armchair quarterbacking this isn't that useful. The real, serious people whose job it is to defend against this sort of shit are doubtless trying to come up with plans even now.
But you can't have an embassy or consulate that's at once open to people and locked down and impregnable. They're contrary missions.
In the Sudan, the government itself sponsored the protests. In that case, I think that the US is probably considering withdrawing its diplomats. If the host country is actively encouraging attacks, the situation really becomes untenable. But our diplomats are made of stern stuff, and may stick it out come hell, high water, or napalm.
296 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:18:29am |
4 killed as Yemeni police, demonstrators clash at U.S. Embassy
...Twenty-four security force members were reported injured, as were 11 protesters, according to Yemen's Defense Ministry, security officials and eyewitnesses.
...No embassy personnel were harmed, U.S. officials said.
297 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:23:10am |
Tahrir is a fairly dangerous place for anyone right now...
#protip RT @mattmcbradley: Man in black net mask threatened to kill me. If you're going to Tahrir avoid masked men!— DavidKenner (@DavidKenner) September 14, 2012
Foreign journo friend of mine chased and beaten by mob in #Tahrir, #Egypt. Please be careful out there guys. #Cairo— Sara Hussein (@sarahussein) September 14, 2012
298 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:24:44am |
re: #297 NJDhockeyfan
Tahrir is a fairly dangerous place for anyone right now...
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"Avoid masked men" is filed under "Thank you, Captain Obvious!".
299 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:24:58am |
Hotel guests freaking out, some with their luggage ready but unable to leave, their eyes tearing up from the strong tear gas. #come2egypt— Deena Adel (@deena_adel) September 14, 2012
300 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:25:31am |
re: #293 RayFerd
What's wrong with Carter? Was he selling munitions to Iran?
Carter is a favorite Pearl To Clutch for the frustrated GOPers having a hard time dealing with the reality that the GOP is completely nucking futz.
301 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:25:41am |
re: #297 NJDhockeyfan
And the drought-- made worse by the beginnings of real AGW effects-- are going to continue to raise food prices, making these areas even more volatile.
Brave new millennium.
302 | A Mom Anon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:26:31am |
A question(not sure if this is that cut and dried,but here goes):
What are the "sides"here? In other words,who is fighting who in Libya,Egypt,Sudan etc?
303 | kirkspencer Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:26:33am |
re: #294 Dark_Falcon
I know, and that why non-lethal weapons before the RPG fire began might have been a good idea. Once the bombardment started, defensive fire wasn't possible till the attack force detached itself.
But one thing that might have been doable would be a sniper in one of the annex buildings to gun down the RPG grenadiers (RPG means 'anti-tank grenade' in Russian, so the launcher operators are sometimes called grenadiers). That would have had a good effect, as it would have allowed the defenders better visuals of the attack force's approach, and it would have lessened damage to the building.
No, it wouldn't have been doable.
Let me rephrase that. If we were spending a lot more money it would be doable. But in this time of cut, cut, cut it wouldn't. You need to keep a cycle of bodies in that position. And anything you have the person doing during the 90+% of the time he's not sniping or doing overwatch of possible sniping needs has to work in conjunction with the sniping.
Oh, and you've got a choice (annex building) of everybody (including the potential enemy) knowing what that position is OR spending a lot of time and effort concealing it (both the position and the explanation of why there's a rolling roster to keep the position manned - especially after the first panic room drill).
Taken in isolation it's doable. Taken in context with the logistical, operational, and to some extent strategic constraints it isn't.
304 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:27:31am |
re: #293 RayFerd
What's wrong with Carter? Was he selling munitions to Iran?
Yes, but he did it under the guise of Reagan...sneaky bastard.
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305 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:28:12am |
re: #302 A Mom Anon
A question(not sure if this is that cut and dried,but here goes):
What are the "sides"here? In other words,who is fighting who in Libya,Egypt,Sudan etc?
I blame the Bears for getting their asses handed to them by Green Bay last night.
306 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:29:08am |
TRUTH STILL LOOKING UNDER THE BED FOR THE LEFT SNEAKER
False notion of Israeli Jew & 100 Jewish backers behind film "now has legs and is gathering speed around the world" - Abraham Foxman #ADL— ADL (@ADL_National) September 14, 2012
307 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:30:04am |
Romney defines 'middle-income' as between $200,000 and $250,000 in annual income washingtonpost.com/national/romne...— Michael F Ozaki MD (@brontyman) September 14, 2012
308 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:30:13am |
Report: Protesters try to climb gates of U.S. Embassy in Tunis, #Tunisia. on.cnn.com/OMkllo— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) September 14, 2012
309 | Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:30:28am |
re: #185 Sheila Brovlofski
DERPTY DERP FROM TEH BOSS OF DERP
If wages at KFC got any lower, the workers would be paying THEM
The 1% would be happy with that solution. YOU should feel honored to serve them.
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310 | A Mom Anon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:30:56am |
re: #305 darthstar
Oh sure,blame the Bears,does anyone ever point fingers at the squirrels? Huh? Or how about those damned sparrows? Oh they look harmless enough,but I've seen them looking at me with their beady little eyes....
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311 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:31:25am |
re: #309 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste
The 1% would be happy with that solution. YOU should feel honored to serve them.
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1% don't eat at KFC any more than they shop at Wal Mart.
312 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:31:43am |
I don't think this is the response Mitt was hoping for with his violent rhetoric.
[Link: www.latimes.com...]
Now, I used to think this kind of stuff was just campaign rhetoric, red meat for Republicans who see Democrats as too soft to protect American interests. Then came Bush. And -- surprise -- he meant it. Thousands of lives and billions of dollars later, we’ve learned the cost of not listening to a Republican candidate who talks tough.
So, yes, I’m glad Romney’s letting us know now what kind of foreign policy he’d pursue as president. And I’m going to take him at his word that he’d get tough with Iran, that he’d stand by Israel to the end, even if that end meant another U.S.-led war in the Middle East.
And I’m going to remember that when I vote on Nov. 6. Because now I have two teenage sons. And now I know for sure that when a Republican presidential candidate talks tough, it pays to listen -- and to get the body bags ready.
313 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:32:29am |
re: #310 A Mom Anon
Oh sure,blame the Bears,does anyone ever point fingers at the squirrels? Huh? Or how about those damned sparrows? Oh they look harmless enough,but I've seen them looking at me with their beady little eyes....
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It's the Alouettes, with their beady little eyes and their flapping heads and weird football rules.
Blame Canada!
314 | aagcobb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:33:31am |
re: #311 Sheila Brovlofski
1% don't eat at KFC any more than they shop at Wal Mart.
But they do own them.
315 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:33:41am |
316 | Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:33:49am |
re: #311 Sheila Brovlofski
1% don't eat at KFC any more than they shop at Wal Mart.
I meant serve as in labor in their sweatshops and other industries, not as in directly serve them food. They won't rub elbows with the hoi polloi in any case, unless it's to verify the provenance of the cookies.
317 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:33:56am |
re: #310 A Mom Anon
Oh sure,blame the Bears,does anyone ever point fingers at the squirrels? Huh? Or how about those damned sparrows? Oh they look harmless enough,but I've seen them looking at me with their beady little eyes....
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The Sparrows could have beaten the Bears last night, if there was a team called the Sparrows....actually, I like that name better than Redskins...maybe we could get Washington to consider changing. And the Houston Texans could be renamed the Bats - for the bat-shit crazy politics in their state.
318 | Tigger2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:34:20am |
re: #307 Sheila Brovlofski
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You talk about being out of touch that sure reinforces just how out of touch Romney is.
319 | Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:35:06am |
re: #317 darthstar
The Sparrows could have beaten the Bears last night, if there was a team called the Sparrows....actually, I like that name better than Redskins...maybe we could get Washington to consider changing. And the Houston Texans could be renamed the Bats - for the bat-shit crazy politics in their state.
Should the Chiefs change their names to the "Birthers"? (I know, KC is in Missouri, but it's close enough.) Maybe make it the "Chefs" to save on paint!
320 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:35:14am |
Congress’ own nonpartisan research and analysis arm, the Congressional Research Service, has concluded that a Republican bill making its way through the House will have the effect of sidestepping the work requirements that are one of the pillars of welfare reform.
321 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:35:17am |
At least 1 killed in clash at KFC restaurant in #Lebanon. on.cnn.com/OMkllo— CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) September 14, 2012
322 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:36:01am |
re: #319 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste
Should the Chiefs change their names to the "Birthers"? (I know, KC is in Missouri, but it's close enough.) Maybe make it the "Chefs" to save on paint!
The Legitimates.
323 | Eventual Carrion Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:36:51am |
324 | A Mom Anon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:37:08am |
re: #314 aagcobb
Which is why I don't understand the concept of destroying the middle class. Without us there aren't going to be enough people to buy their stuff. Why destroy your consumer base in a consumer driven economy? Or does having alot of money just cut off the air supply to your brain? There simply aren't enough wealthy people to keep these companies in business with their purchasing power.
325 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:37:43am |
re: #321 NJDhockeyfan
We have people killed in fast food restaurants here all the time.
[Link: www.google.com...]
326 | Killgore Trout Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:40:22am |
327 | Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:42:09am |
re: #91 Kragar
Kansas Goes Birther: State Board Considers Removing Obama From Ballot
Eat shit, Kobach.
I do wonder if any of them thought about the ramifications of actually splitting legal hairs and getting a major party presidential candidate stripped from a state ballot less than two months before the election.
Yes, you get the de facto "win" assuming a court does not block implementing it. (And it is pretty much guaranteed there will be a court challenge if they try to do it.) Though that is just affecting popular vote totals since Kansas is expected to go for Romney and the GOP anyways.
Beyond that? Pretty much a great deal of national outrage, more court cases (Federal probably), and I think a fairly large backlash against the GOP at the state and probably national level. Post-election, but the "victory" will be short term compared to the long term repercussions.
328 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:43:57am |
re: #303 kirkspencer
No, it wouldn't have been doable.
Let me rephrase that. If we were spending a lot more money it would be doable. But in this time of cut, cut, cut it wouldn't. You need to keep a cycle of bodies in that position. And anything you have the person doing during the 90+% of the time he's not sniping or doing overwatch of possible sniping needs has to work in conjunction with the sniping.
Oh, and you've got a choice (annex building) of everybody (including the potential enemy) knowing what that position is OR spending a lot of time and effort concealing it (both the position and the explanation of why there's a rolling roster to keep the position manned - especially after the first panic room drill).
Taken in isolation it's doable. Taken in context with the logistical, operational, and to some extent strategic constraints it isn't.
The funding can be gotten from elsewhere. Cut it from the aid you give to the country, thereby making clear to the government that failing to provide adequate security has costs.
329 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:45:27am |
re: #327 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste
Beyond that? Pretty much a great deal of national outrage, more court cases (Federal probably), and I think a fairly large backlash against the GOP at the state and probably national level. Post-election, but the "victory" will be short term compared to the long term repercussions.
Fully agree. There would be no way to spin back the backlash. But I'm not sure if Kobach has the mental horsepower to actually think this through.
Having said that, I still think this is a play to the cheap seats, to fire up the birthers and keeping them from wandering off to the Libertarian camp.
330 | aagcobb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:45:54am |
re: #324 A Mom Anon
Which is why I don't understand the concept of destroying the middle class. Without us there aren't going to be enough people to buy their stuff. Why destroy your consumer base in a consumer driven economy? Or does having alot of money just cut off the air supply to your brain? There simply aren't enough wealthy people to keep these companies in business with their purchasing power.
I guess they think that as long as they can keep squeezing wages they can create a profit margin that way. I also think that, to a certain extent, its a power trip. If the 1% made only about twenty times as much as the average worker, as in the sixties, then they are merely mortals. Making a couple of hundred times as much as the average worker allows them to imagine they are a higher form of being.
331 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:47:11am |
re: #326 Killgore Trout
Damn. It's going to be one of those days.
It's out of control.
Protesters set fire to trees, break windows inside US Embassy compound in Tunis, witness says bit.ly/QLrPrs #Tunisia— Michael (@_cypherpunks_) September 14, 2012
One woman 'america kills Bin Laden, we have 1000s Bin Ladens, I will bring my son up like Bin Laden' #Tahrir #USembassy #Cairo— Bel Trew - ?? ??? (@Beltrew) September 14, 2012
Crowd burns and spits on American and Israeli flags outside US embassy in London #benghazi #cairo @viceuk twitter.com/Henry_Langston...— Henry Langston (@Henry_Langston) September 14, 2012
REUTERS REPORTER HEARS GUNFIRE AT US EMBASSY COMPOUND IN SUDAN— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) September 14, 2012
332 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:47:50am |
FLASH - Sudanese protesters moving in cars, buses towards U.S. embassy outside Khartoum: Reuters witness— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) September 14, 2012
333 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:48:07am |
QE3 initiated. Cue Romney complaining about printing more money and how this is proof that Obama is failing because Obama should be doing nothing.
Or something.
334 | aagcobb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:48:45am |
re: #329 makeitstop
Fully agree. There would be no way to spin back the backlash. But I'm not sure if Kobach has the mental horsepower to actually think this through.
Having said that, I still think this is a play to the cheap seats, to fire up the birthers and keeping them from wandering off to the Libertarian camp.
You are likely right, and they will back down when it comes to it, though now that they have openly contemplated it, there will be howls of outrage from birferdom if they allow the President to remain on the ballot.
335 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:49:15am |
#Tunisia : Black smoke billowed up from inside the building of American Embassy— syria news (@syrianews1) September 14, 2012
337 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:49:39am |
re: #331 NJDhockeyfan
All they need is more US aid.
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338 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:50:13am |
Pentagon says Marine "Fast" platoon sent to Yemen, now on ground to bolster U.S. embassy security bit.ly/PpLQAG— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) September 14, 2012
339 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:50:20am |
re: #331 NJDhockeyfan
It's out of control.
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If this shit gets much worse mitt Romney won't have to say anything, the images that sort of rage against the USA will drive Obama's poll numbers down by themselves. Don't think they won't.
340 | aagcobb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:51:24am |
re: #331 NJDhockeyfan
For those inclined to believe in the deliberate ginning up of "October Surprises" to influence the presidential election, the sudden materialization of just such a crisis (though a bit early) will undoubtably serve as confirmation of their beliefs in their minds. The only question to debate will be who is orchestrating it.
341 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:51:34am |
re: #339 Dark_Falcon
If this shit gets much worse mitt Romney won't have to say anything, the images that sort of rage against the USA will drive Obama's poll numbers down by themselves. Don't think they won't.
He needs to cancel his fundraisers until this blows down.
342 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:52:21am |
re: #341 NJDhockeyfan
He needs to cancel his fundraisers until this blows down.
Yea. That'll happen about never.
343 | aagcobb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:52:38am |
re: #339 Dark_Falcon
If this shit gets much worse mitt Romney won't have to say anything, the images that sort of rage against the USA will drive Obama's poll numbers down by themselves. Don't think they won't.
There could be a "rally around the flag" effect.
344 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:53:06am |
re: #339 Dark_Falcon
If this shit gets much worse mitt Romney won't have to say anything, the images that sort of rage against the USA will drive Obama's poll numbers down by themselves. Don't think they won't.
Stop touching yourself like that.
345 | kirkspencer Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:53:12am |
re: #328 Dark_Falcon
The funding can be gotten from elsewhere. Cut it from the aid you give to the country, thereby making clear to the government that failing to provide adequate security has costs.
Ah, this again. Move money from state to DoD, and micromanage to ensure it only gets spent where we want it. Oh, and don't realize how much money it really entails.
Dark, arguably the money spent on aid is as critical to security as paying for additional marines or civilian security contractors. Strategically it is more-so, as any security can be overwhelmed by sufficient numbers and determination, which aid undercuts.
346 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:53:32am |
Oh shit!
How sad "@alaabayoumi: AlJazeera reporter: Black flag raised instead of #American #flag inside #US #Embassy in #Tunisia"— Fouad, MD (@FouadMD) September 14, 2012
I hope this doesn't mean we have more dead Americans. Fuck!
347 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:53:59am |
re: #339 Dark_Falcon
If this shit gets much worse mitt Romney won't have to say anything, the images that sort of rage against the USA will drive Obama's poll numbers down by themselves. Don't think they won't.
Go ahead and tell me more how this is Obama's fault, all caused by apologizing for something or other.
348 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:54:17am |
re: #341 NJDhockeyfan
He needs to cancel his fundraisers until this blows down.
Watch him make another stupid statement. The urge to hammer Obama will be strong, and he's demonstrated he doesn't have the will to resist the urge.
349 | kirkspencer Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:54:19am |
re: #341 NJDhockeyfan
He needs to cancel his fundraisers until this blows down.
Why? do you think Romney will do so?
350 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:54:54am |
Protesters in #Tunisia preaching the walls of #USEmbassy and Palestinians in #Gaza and #Jerusalem clashing with Israeli forces via @ase— Mai Shams El-Din (@maishams) September 14, 2012
351 | Killgore Trout Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:55:10am |
Egyptian riot police locked in confrontation with protesters
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood canceled nationwide demonstrations Friday, except for one in Cairo's Tahrir Square against the controversial film about the Prophet Mohammed, the group said in a Twitter message.
Let me guess, they only announced the cancellation of the protest in their English language twitter account.
352 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:56:36am |
This doesn't look good.
Guys on #Tahrir stop bus to make it close it's windows as it drives through tear gas #USembassy #Cairo— Bel Trew - ?? ??? (@Beltrew) September 14, 2012
353 | Killgore Trout Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:56:38am |
re: #346 NJDhockeyfan
Oh shit!
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I hope this doesn't mean we have more dead Americans. Fuck!
Not necessarily. It means they've gone over the wall but the building is probably still secure. Let's hope the protesters run around the grounds for a bit and leave.
354 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:56:57am |
Anyway, excuse me while I boycott absolutely nothing because I don't give a flying **** about a film that I know won't affect my beliefs.— Ismael (@ChangeInLibya) September 14, 2012
355 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:57:27am |
Instead of working, studying, and trying to match Americans in education and success, we burn down their stuff. Yeah, that'll show em #Arabs— Ismael (@ChangeInLibya) September 14, 2012
356 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:58:25am |
re: #343 aagcobb
There could be a "rally around the flag" effect.
There could also be a lot of exaggerated panic in the news. It's late Fri afternoon now. Prayer is letting out in different timezones.
357 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 7:59:35am |
Protesters enter US embassies in Tunisia, Sudan
Tunisian protesters jumped over the wall of the U.S. embassy compound in Tunis and broke windows and set fire to trees, a Reuters witness said.
A large fire could be seen burning inside the compound. Police fired teargas at the hundreds of protesters who were demonstrating at the embassy.
Broadcaster Al-Jazeera showed footage of Sudanese protesters knocking over the walls of the U.S. mission in in Khartoum and entering the embassy compound. Another Al-Jazeera footage from Tunis showed protesters within U.S. embassy grounds lowering the American flag from a pole and replacing it with a black flag.
Demonstrators furious at a film they say insults the Prophet Mohammad clashed with police near the U.S. embassy in Cairo today before a nationwide protest called by the Muslim Brotherhood which propelled Egypt's Islamist president to power.
Protesters also clashed with police in Yemen, where one person died and 15 were injured on Thursday when the U.S. embassy compound was stormed, and crowds gathered against the California-made film in Malaysia, Bangladesh and Iraq....A group of protesters managed to break into the German Embassy in Khartoum, Reuters reported. A witness reportedly said a fire was started in front of the Embassy's main gate as protesters pulled down the German emblem on the building and replaced it with an Islamic flag.
...
358 | Killgore Trout Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:02:22am |
Al jazeera live feed
[Link: www.aljazeera.com...]
359 | lawhawk Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:04:12am |
This situation smells, make that reeks, of the trajectory followed in the cartoon jihad that cost more than 100 lives across the world and resulted in embassies of several countries being attacked.
We have an obscure publication that gets picked up and within days is turned into a rallying cry for rioting and protests. Instead of the targets being embassies of the Danes, US diplomatic facilities are being targeted. In some instances, it appears that local governments are backing protests, while others - as in Libya - the government is actively trying to block the attacks/protests.
US diplomatic facilities are on higher alert and FAST teams are being dispatched as I type.
360 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:04:32am |
wut
University of Texas at Austin orders evacuation of all buildings "due to threats on campus"— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) September 14, 2012
361 | Killgore Trout Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:04:43am |
re: #358 Killgore Trout
Al jazeera live feed
[Link: www.aljazeera.com...]
The situation in tunis doesn't look good.
362 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:05:12am |
Nothing on TV on this yet RT @lrozen Explosion, gunshots reported at US Embassy in #Tunisia— Eric Ortega (@EricOnTheHill) September 14, 2012
363 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:05:55am |
re: #343 aagcobb
There could be a "rally around the flag" effect.
Maybe, but Mitt should be able to take advantage of that as well. He should talk to those in the GOP with military experience and push hard for aggressive action against Radical Islam. Note the term used, as we need to target Islamists, not some unemployed yahoos who took part is some Salafist's Rent-a-Mob. Make clear that a vote for Romney is a vote to hunt the Islamists are kill them.
Now, Obama's not been a cupcake on this issue, so this sort of stance isn't going to turn the public against the president. What it will do, though, is show Romney as firm and decisive. This will make him a plausible alternative to Obama if things worsen,
364 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:06:07am |
A UT official told the Austin American-Statesman that the university had received multiple bomb threats to multiple buildings.
Shenanigans?
365 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:06:58am |
re: #361 Killgore Trout
The situation in tunis doesn't look good.
They're rioting in Africa. They're starving in Spain. There's hurricanes in Florida, and Texas needs rain.
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls. The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles.
Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch. And I don't like anybody very much!
But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud, for man's been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud.
And we know for certain that some lovely day, someone will set the spark off... and we will all be blown away.
They're rioting in Africa. There's strife in Iran. What nature doesn't do to us... will be done by our fellow man.
366 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:08:09am |
More Pirates = Global Warming logic:
'Obama's Middle East Policy Is in Ruins'
US embassies in the Muslim world were on high alert Friday following days of violent protests against an anti-Islam film. Germany, too, closed several embassies in fear of attacks. Some German commentators argue that the violence shows that Obama's Middle East policies have failed.
367 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:08:43am |
re: #364 Our Precious Bodily Fluids
Shenanigans?
Hopefully. I could see it being real, though the question would be "by who?".
368 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:09:01am |
re: #363 Dark_Falcon
Imagine if Romney had called President Obama, asked how he could be of assistance in this time of crisis, offered to appear at his side at a press conference to demonstrate that, when American lives are at risk, politics stop at the water’s edge—and then had his staff put out the word that he’d done these things, which would have made him look noble and might have made Obama look like the petty one if he’d waved away these offers.
But none of this is in Romney. He imagined a chink in Obama’s armor, an opening for a political assault on the president’s strength and leadership, and so he dashed to the barricades without a moment of reflection, a nod to propriety, or a smidgen of good strategy.
Face it, Romney has one skill, and that's to make money by wrecking failing businesses. He has no business anywhere near the Oval Office except possibly as a tourist.
369 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:10:42am |
re: #363 Dark_Falcon
Maybe, but Mitt should be able to take advantage of that as well. He should talk to those in the GOP with military experience and push hard for aggressive action against Radical Islam. Note the term used, as we need to target Islamists, not some unemployed yahoos who took part is some Salafist's Rent-a-Mob. Make clear that a vote for Romney is a vote to hunt the Islamists are kill them.
Now, Obama's not been a cupcake on this issue, so this sort of stance isn't going to turn the public against the president. What it will do, though, is show Romney as firm and decisive. This will make him a plausible alternative to Obama if things worsen,
So you're totally cool with Romney politicizing this unfolding crisis? That works for you, while American lives are in danger?
370 | Interesting Times Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:11:12am |
Yes, because given the present world situation, this is exactly the kind of issue on which a "small government" should focus:
Hmm RT @ericapayneap: In other news, the #Romney campaign says that porn is "important to them."bit.ly/PAsFHU— Dave McW (@DaveMc99TA) September 14, 2012
WASHINGON DC — Mitt Romney’s campaign told a leading anti-pornography group that the Republican nominee will pursue and prosecute pornography if elected president.
Three months ago, well after Romney became the presumptive Republican nominee, his campaign held multiple meetings with Morality in Media, a group which describes itself as the “leading national organization opposing pornography and indecency,” according to executive director Dawn Hawkins.
371 | Tigger2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:12:00am |
re: #339 Dark_Falcon
If this shit gets much worse mitt Romney won't have to say anything, the images that sort of rage against the USA will drive Obama's poll numbers down by themselves. Don't think they won't.
Bullshit
372 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:14:00am |
re: #368 Our Precious Bodily Fluids
Face it, Romney has one skill, and that's to make money by wrecking failing businesses. He has no business anywhere near the Oval Office except possibly as a tourist.
But Obama would simply accept the offer then use the Bully Pulpit to upstage Romney. For Romney to be gracious like that would be to simply end the campaign right now.
373 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:14:07am |
"Crowds in #Tahrir #Cairo calling on #Morsi to take stronger stance against US. Not visit US" @sherinet aljazeera.com/watch_now/— Adam Nima Pourahmadi (@ANPour) September 14, 2012
374 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:14:46am |
re: #365 Decatur Deb
They're rioting in Africa. They're starving in Spain. There's hurricanes in Florida, and Texas needs rain.
The whole world is festering with unhappy souls. The French hate the Germans, the Germans hate the Poles.
Italians hate Yugoslavs, South Africans hate the Dutch. And I don't like anybody very much!
But we can be tranquil and thankful and proud, for man's been endowed with a mushroom-shaped cloud.
And we know for certain that some lovely day, someone will set the spark off... and we will all be blown away.
They're rioting in Africa. There's strife in Iran. What nature doesn't do to us... will be done by our fellow man.[Embedded content]
I always thought that song was by Tom Lehrer, not the Kingston Trio. Also, isn't there a line "And everybody hates the Jews!"
375 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:15:27am |
re: #369 Mocking Jay
So you're totally cool with Romney politicizing this unfolding crisis? That works for you, while American lives are in danger?
That's not politicizing it. It's not tearing down Obama, what I wrote is saying how Mitt should build himself up.
376 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:15:36am |
re: #374 Sheila Brovlofski
I always thought that song was by Tom Lehrer, not the Kingston Trio.
Think he wrote it, they had the hit.
377 | Tigger2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:15:54am |
re: #371 Tigger2
Bullshit
What do you think the American people will do elect Romney so he can start 6 more fucking wars. religious fanatics are fucking nuts theirs and ours.
378 | lawhawk Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:16:34am |
re: #374 Sheila Brovlofski
That's Lehrer's National Brotherhood Week:
Oh, the Protestants hate the Catholics,
And the Catholics hate the Protestants,
And the Hindus hate the Muslims,
And everybody hates the Jews.
379 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:17:39am |
RT @buzzfeedandrew: Wow. RT @weeddude: Photo: U.S. Embassy in Tunis twitpic.com/auicre (@sarah_bh)
— Jim Roberts (@nytjim) September 14, 2012
380 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:17:44am |
This is horrible.
#Muslim protests have spread to #Bangladesh, #Indonesia, #Malaysia, #Kashmir, #Iraq, #Gaza Strip, #Kuwait, #Sudan, #Tunisia & even #Israel.— M. K. Al-Binateej (@ATEEKSTER) September 14, 2012
381 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:18:16am |
re: #378 lawhawk
Have "Merry Minuet" credited to Sheldon Hamick.
383 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:18:42am |
Reuters is reporting that at least five protesters were injured when police opened fire on protesters storming the U.S. embassy in Tunis. The Reuters correspondent present reported that it's unclear whether live rounds or rubber bullets were used on the crowd.
At least Tunisia hasn't left our people hanging out there on their own.
384 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:18:48am |
Voices of Salafi groups approaching the #USEmbassyTN now. Security forces managed a 500m buffer so far. #tunisia bullets being fired now!— Ben Ben Tunisia (@benbentn) September 14, 2012
385 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:19:04am |
Eric Cantor: Election Not Just About Economy -- Also, Abortion And Gay Marriage livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/eric-can... via @benjysarlin— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 14, 2012
386 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:19:07am |
387 | aagcobb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:19:36am |
re: #363 Dark_Falcon
Maybe, but Mitt should be able to take advantage of that as well. He should talk to those in the GOP with military experience and push hard for aggressive action against Radical Islam. Note the term used, as we need to target Islamists, not some unemployed yahoos who took part is some Salafist's Rent-a-Mob. Make clear that a vote for Romney is a vote to hunt the Islamists are kill them.
Now, Obama's not been a cupcake on this issue, so this sort of stance isn't going to turn the public against the president. What it will do, though, is show Romney as firm and decisive. This will make him a plausible alternative to Obama if things worsen,
We will see if Romney has the skill to improve his image during this crisis.
388 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:19:48am |
re: #378 lawhawk
That's Lehrer's National Brotherhood Week:
I get those songs mixed up all the time.
389 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:20:15am |
re: #379 Mocking Jay
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A guy called "WeedDude" posts a photo of a building with a huge amount of smoke pouring out of it, and it's not meant as a joke. Satire is truly impossible these days.
390 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:20:56am |
Bill Bennett said Romney was "courageous" to speak at NAACP, laments blacks aren't backing him en masse #VVS12— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) September 14, 2012
Gee. I can't imagine why the GOP has problems with minority outreach. I mean, it's not like they've been actively allowing a racist conspiracy theory about the POTUS to run rampant among their party and elected officials.
391 | goddamnedfrank Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:21:20am |
re: #375 Dark_Falcon
That's not politicizing it. It's not tearing down Obama, what I wrote is saying how Mitt should build himself up.
Except, in the real world, Romney is lying about Obama apologizing, because Mitt is an ethically gut shot fuck.
392 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:21:22am |
re: #387 aagcobb
We will see if Romney has the skill to improve his image during this crisis.
These seething Third World countries are not some struggling business that Romney can overload with debt and then strip the assets and outsource the workers.
393 | Mr. Crankypants Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:21:26am |
re: #374 Sheila Brovlofski
I always thought that song was by Tom Lehrer, not the Kingston Trio. Also, isn't there a line "And everybody hates the Jews!"
Yes. It's callled the Merry Minuet. My dad, god rest is soul, had that album when I was a kid and I listened to it any number of times.
394 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:21:34am |
BREAKING: Romney Apologizes to Muslim Rioters (aka condemns anti-Muslim film) 2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/09/mitt-r... via @tpm— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 14, 2012
396 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:22:13am |
re: #389 Our Precious Bodily Fluids
A guy called "WeedDude" posts a photo of a building with a huge amount of smoke pouring out of it, and it's not meant as a joke. Satire is truly impossible these days.
Weeddude is a former disaster photog. I think Obdi mentioned that he met him earlier this week.
397 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:22:26am |
Dots! Obama!
Can you connect the dots? How do they connect?
Dots! Because Obama.
How do they connect?
This is horrible! Dots!
Hello? Is anybody there?
398 | Eventual Carrion Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:22:32am |
re: #363 Dark_Falcon
Maybe, but Mitt should be able to take advantage of that as well. He should talk to those in the GOP with military experience and push hard for aggressive action against Radical Islam. Note the term used, as we need to target Islamists, not some unemployed yahoos who took part is some Salafist's Rent-a-Mob. Make clear that a vote for Romney is a vote to hunt the Islamists are kill them.
Now, Obama's not been a cupcake on this issue, so this sort of stance isn't going to turn the public against the president. What it will do, though, is show Romney as firm and decisive. This will make him a plausible alternative to Obama if things worsen,
Smoke them out where ever they may hide? They are wanted dead or alive? What other euphemism did Bush use about hunting Osama? How did that work out?
399 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:23:08am |
re: #391 goddamnedfrank
Except, in the real world, Romney is lying about Obama apologizing, because Mitt is an ethically gut shot fuck.
Romney isn't used to having to answer for anything. He can just lie with impunity and there are plenty of useful idiots on the right who will defend him once the RWNJ media explains how he's not actually lying.
400 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:23:16am |
re: #392 Sheila Brovlofski
These seething Third World countries are not some struggling business that Romney can overload with debt and then strip the assets and outsource the workers.
The Romney response: Image: knapp01.png
401 | Killgore Trout Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:23:19am |
Lots of black smoke still coming from the embassy in tunis. Al Jaz live stream showing the evacuation of a wounded police/soldier.
402 | Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:23:53am |
re: #397 Kronocide
Dots! Obama!
Can you connect the dots? How do they connect?Dots! Because Obama.
How do they connect?This is horrible! Dots!
Hello? Is anybody there?
I heard about dots --back in college. Never ate any.
403 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:24:00am |
#Yemen | RT @narrabyee : 61 cars completely damaged, 13 burnt, 1 stolen in US embassy attack Sanaa Thursday, says Interior Ministry.— Haykal Bafana (@BaFana3) September 14, 2012
404 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:24:03am |
re: #393 PT Barnum
Yes. It's callled the Merry Minuet. My dad, god rest is soul, had that album when I was a kid and I listened to it any number of times.
I listened to it too. Funny how the lyrics are just as timely today as when they were written.
Remember that song about Charlie and the train? It was some local Boston political thing that was outdated even before the album hit the airwaves and record stores.
405 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:24:24am |
re: #398 RayFerd
Smoke them out where ever they may hide? They are wanted dead or alive? What other euphemism did Bush use about hunting Osama? How did that work out?
Besides, the whole 'I'll be tough on terrists' thing is not something that Obama isn't already doing.
Except Obama does it without waving his dick around. Romney seems compelled to do that in any situation.
406 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:25:00am |
re: #403 NJDhockeyfan
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Isn't that what happens when the Lakers win a championship?
407 | lawhawk Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:25:00am |
If the intent of whoever was behind the mystery film was to disrupt US diplomatic missions around the world, mission accomplished.
The overdubbed video clips have taken on a life of their own and it's no longer about the video, but anger directed at the US for no reason other than it's the in-thing to do in places like Tunisia and Egypt. At a time when the economic conditions in those countries isn't improving after regime change, protesting against the US (and throw in the anti-Israel sentiments expressed in some) is a safe way to divert attention away from the inability to improve the economic conditions as fast as everyone wants.
Blame the US is better than trying to create jobs in those countries. Claim that the US engaged in blasphemy or somehow supports blasphemy is easier than trying to understand that free speech is a universal right and includes the right to say things that other groups might not like or want to hear or see, but it doesn't give anyone the right to blow stuff up or riot and destroy property. Free exercise of religion means not imposing your religious views on others, or other nations for that matter.
Those behind the film are agent provocateurs who sought to sow discord and create conflict. They achieved those goals, and now the US and those regimes in the Middle East and elsewhere these protests/riots are going on have to deal with the fallout.
One has to also wonder who benefits from the repercussions of these protests/riots/attacks. Iran definitely comes to mind, as do the regimes that replaced longstanding brutal regimes that did not tolerate dissent. This is something that has to be explored at greater depth.
408 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:25:03am |
At least 150 Marines now in Sanaa, #Yemen to protect embassy. - Al Jazeera— Adam Henry (@viewofadam) September 14, 2012
410 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:25:59am |
re: #405 makeitstop
Besides, the whole 'I'll be tough on terrists' thing is not something that Obama isn't already doing.
Except Obama does it without waving his dick around. Romney seems compelled to do that in any situation.
Bullshit. He spikes the football when it's right.
411 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:26:00am |
re: #363 Dark_Falcon
Make clear that a vote for Romney is a vote to hunt the Islamists are kill them.
Because if there's something Obama can be hit with, it's that he's been a lazy bastard at sending drones and missile strikes after anyone who attacks us and against terror cells.
Face it -- Romney is a shitty candidate and has royally fucked his own campaign over with all his lies and posturing during this crisis.
412 | Mr. Crankypants Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:26:20am |
re: #398 RayFerd
Smoke them out where ever they may hide? They are wanted dead or alive? What other euphemism did Bush use about hunting Osama? How did that work out?
But he didn't mean it, it was just talk. Obama has actually hunted them down and taken them out. Commando raid got OBL and drone strikes are getting many of the others.
I saw a series back in the 80s by Gwynn Dyer on the future of war. One of the things he mentioned in the program was unmanned drones and not knowing when you might get a missile in your ass. (he didn't put it that way)
413 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:26:38am |
Bill Bennett proudly reading Mitt Romney's statement reacting to attacks in Egypt and Libya. Crowd gives it a standing ovation. #VVS12
— Sabrina Siddiqui (@SabrinaSiddiqui) September 14, 2012
414 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:27:33am |
BLACK BLOC OWS INTERNATIONAL!
.@cnn reports Protesters have taken down a U.S. flag from a pole at the U.S. Embassy in Tunis, Tunisia, and replaced it with a black flag...— National Review (@NRO) September 14, 2012
415 | Mr. Crankypants Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:27:47am |
re: #404 Sheila Brovlofski
I listened to it too. Funny how the lyrics are just as timely today as when they were written.
Remember that song about Charlie and the train? It was some local Boston political thing that was outdated even before the album hit the airwaves and record stores.
Yup. My dad had a lot of Chad Mitchell Trio as well, The John Birch Society and Barry's Boys are still current as well, even though Barry isn't around any more.
416 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:27:55am |
UPDATE, 10 a.m.: UT officials said in a statement:
At 8:35 a.m. the university received a call from a male with a middle eastern accent claiming to have placed bombs all over campus. He said he was with Al Qaeda and these bombs would go off in 90 minutes. President Powers was notified and it was decided to evacuate all of the buildings out of an abundance of caution.
EARLIER: The University of Texas emergency alert system posted the following notice:
Evacuation due to threats on campus. Immediately evacuate ALL buildings and get as far away as possible. More information to come.
A UT official told the American-Statesman that the university had received multiple bomb threats to multiple buildings.
My gut suspects shenanigans, but the gut is generally an idiot (not having brains directly attached and what-not), and not to be trusted.
417 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:28:06am |
Wingnut logic:
Bill Bennett says denunciations of Romney's dishonest statements on Libya PROVES "that they are true" #VVS12— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) September 14, 2012
418 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:29:11am |
RT @benjysarlin: Here is Romney's full condemnation of anti-Muslim film next to the full Cairo embassy statement: bit.ly/SkMIXH
— e mcmorris-santoro (@evanmc_s) September 14, 2012
419 | bratwurst Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:29:37am |
Bill Bennett says Romney critics practice "intellectual smugness" #VVS12— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) September 14, 2012
This from a world renowned expert on smugness!
420 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:29:51am |
421 | goddamnedfrank Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:30:33am |
What I keep coming back to is that the Christian assholes who created that film tried to deflect all this blowback onto Jews.
422 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:30:53am |
re: #410 Cannadian Club Akbar
Bullshit. He spikes the football when it's right.
Spiking a football is a celebration of actually accomplishing something. Waving your dick around is an accomplishment in and of itself, the goal of which is to say 'hey look at me' while holding your own dick.
The two aren't comparable.
423 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:31:26am |
424 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:31:44am |
re: #421 goddamnedfrank
What I keep coming back to is that the Christian assholes who created that film tried to deflect all this blowback onto Jews.
Maybe Pam will finally realize they're not her friends.
Or is that too much to hope for?
425 | kirkspencer Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:32:00am |
re: #410 Cannadian Club Akbar
Bullshit. He spikes the football when it's right.
Exactly. See the difference?
426 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:32:42am |
re: #421 goddamnedfrank
What I keep coming back to is that the Christian assholes who created that film tried to deflect all this blowback onto Jews.
And what I keep coming back to is that all this shit is happening because people are arguing over which mythical sky father is supposedly the best.
Makes no sense to me at all.
427 | bratwurst Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:32:45am |
re: #421 goddamnedfrank
What I keep coming back to is that the Christian assholes who created that film tried to deflect all this blowback onto Jews.
Funny how that whole "Judeo-Christian" thing plays out sometimes.
428 | Killgore Trout Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:32:55am |
Looks like police in Tunis are losing control, pulling back.
429 | Eventual Carrion Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:33:50am |
430 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:33:57am |
Protesters set fire to American school in Tunis, follow live updates here: bit.ly/PpLQAG #Tunisia Reuters— Michael (@_cypherpunks_) September 14, 2012
431 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:34:15am |
re: #428 Killgore Trout
Looks like police in Tunis are losing control, pulling back.
Do we still have people inside?
432 | Mr. Crankypants Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:34:25am |
re: #422 Kronocide
Spiking a football is a celebration of actually accomplishing something. Waving your dick around is an accomplishment in and of itself, the goal of which is to say 'hey look at me' while holding your own dick.
The two aren't comparable.
Waving your dick around is usually a sign that you don't have one and are instead waving your imaginary dick. Romney has shown no signs of having a dick.
433 | Killgore Trout Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:35:29am |
re: #431 NJDhockeyfan
Do we still have people inside?
I think so, probably just essential staff. It's apparently huge compound so hopefully they can stay safe.
434 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:35:49am |
More wingnut logic:
Sen. Jim DeMint compares Chicago teachers to "thugs" in the Middle East thkpr.gs/SkH4Vg— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) September 14, 2012
435 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:36:29am |
436 | goddamnedfrank Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:36:32am |
re: #427 bratwurst
Funny how that whole "Judeo-Christian" thing plays out sometimes.
Not so much funny as typical. This is exactly how the term usually plays out, Christians using Jews for some kind of political cover or advantage.
437 | lawhawk Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:36:37am |
[Link: www.theatlanticwire.com...]
Map updating where protests are underway.
438 | Mr. Crankypants Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:36:42am |
439 | Gus Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:37:28am |
re: #433 Killgore Trout
I think so, probably just essential staff. It's apparently huge compound so hopefully they can stay safe.
These things never happened before that film came out.
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440 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:38:09am |
re: #437 lawhawk
[Link: www.theatlanticwire.com...]
Map updating where protests are underway.
A quick count, I see 21.
441 | Gus Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:39:15am |
#BREAKING: North Dakota State U. orders all employees, students off campus after receiving bomb threat.— abc7newsBayArea (@abc7newsBayArea) September 14, 2012
442 | Mr. Crankypants Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:39:36am |
Paul Ryan speaking to the Value Voters and lying his ass off, as usual.
443 | Killgore Trout Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:39:39am |
re: #414 Kronocide
BLACK BLOC OWS INTERNATIONAL!
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Since you brought up OWS, this story is making the rounds this morning.
Suspect Sought in Rape of Occupy Wall Street Protester Near South Street Seaport
The police released a photo on Thursday of a man wanted for raping a woman and throwing her over a second-story railing near the South Street Seaport on Monday, breaking her pelvis.
The woman, who was in New York to take part in Occupy Wall Street demonstrations, recognized the man from earlier protests, the police said. With the anniversary of the 2011 occupation of Zuccotti Park coming up on Monday, the police urged protesters and others to be on the lookout for the man, whom they identified as Jackie Barcliff, 44.
Mr. Barcliff, the police said, served four months in jail after he was arrested in December on charges of assault and resisting arrest in front of Liberty Plaza, one of the demonstration sites, and then tried to escape. He was released in June. A 44-year-old named Jackie Barcliff is listed in the state’s inmate database as having served time in prison for selling drugs and attempted robbery.
Around 2 a.m. Monday, the police said, Mr. Barcliff forced the woman to accompany him to the elevated level of the new Pier 15 park just south of the Seaport, and then raped her and threw her over a railing to the ground below.
444 | Gus Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:40:03am |
Your God is the best God. In fact, he's the only God.All other Gods are ridiculous, made up rubbish. Not yours though. Yours is real.— Ricky Gervais (@rickygervais) September 11, 2012
445 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:40:46am |
re: #443 Killgore Trout
Since you brought up OWS, this story is making the rounds this morning.
Suspect Sought in Rape of Occupy Wall Street Protester Near South Street Seaport
Raping women? BFD. We're busy burning shit.
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446 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:40:52am |
re: #434 Lidane
More wingnut logic:
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Clearly he's interested in creating unity and solving problems.
447 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:42:20am |
Somewhere out there, Ayn Rand is hurt and insulted:
Ryan says Bill Bennett was his most influential mentor. If he becomes VP, we're making a film about those who "really" shaped Ryan's views!— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) September 14, 2012
448 | Mr. Crankypants Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:42:30am |
The rubes are eating it up. Ryan's speech is essentially "Obama sucks"
Ryan can't present a coherent plan for getting out.
449 | Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:43:13am |
450 | wrenchwench Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:43:19am |
If there's ever going to be a good anti-Islam movie, it's going to be made with news footage from this week. Seriously, wake up, idiots.— Arie Amaya-Akkermans (@Dilmunite) September 14, 2012
451 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:43:20am |
452 | Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:43:30am |
re: #441 Gus
I see this whole string of protests overseas and bomb threats at universities in the US being played the same way:
1. Pundits at the high end claiming that Obama is unable to keep US facilities secure.
2. Nut conspirators at the low end claiming that Obama is orchestrating this - either to set up the imminent UN takeover, or simply to create a "false crisis" to rally support as a panic response to the upcoming landslide loss to Romney.
453 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:43:53am |
There are reports that US marine snipers have deployed over the building housing the Tunisian American Embassy. #Tunisia— Songa Samuel-Stone (@SongaStone) September 14, 2012
454 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:44:01am |
re: #448 PT Barnum
The rubes are eating it up. Ryan's speech is essentially "Obama sucks"
Ryan can't present a coherent plan for getting out.
The rubes don't want a coherent plan. They just want to hear that Obama sucks and that he hates America.
As long as Ryan does that, the drooling knuckle-draggers will be happy.
456 | Mr. Crankypants Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:44:54am |
re: #452 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste
I see this whole string of protests overseas and bomb threats at universities in the US being played the same way:
1. Pundits at the high end claiming that Obama is unable to keep US facilities secure.
2. Nut conspirators at the low end claiming that Obama is orchestrating this - either to set up the imminent UN takeover, or simply to create a "false crises" to rally support as a panic response to the upcoming landslide loss to Romney.
I'm not seeing the first, but the second goes without saying. It's hard to satirize the wingnut mindset.
457 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:45:19am |
re: #453 NJDhockeyfan
Snipers are the good guys. You're dead before you hear the shot.
458 | Tigger2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:45:38am |
re: #452 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste
I see this whole string of protests overseas and bomb threats at universities in the US being played the same way:
1. Pundits at the high end claiming that Obama is unable to keep US facilities secure.
2. Nut conspirators at the low end claiming that Obama is orchestrating this - either to set up the imminent UN takeover, or simply to create a "false crises" to rally support as a panic response to the upcoming landslide loss to Romney.
It's all a right wing plot./
459 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:46:05am |
"About 200 protesters are burning USA and Israeli flags outside the US embassy in London," Al Jazeera reports.
460 | Mr. Crankypants Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:46:12am |
461 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:46:13am |
Tear gas in hotel, people trying to leave, lots of confusion and panic #Cairo— PaulaSlier_RT (@PaulaSlier_RT) September 14, 2012
462 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:46:26am |
Because there is nothing more American then the love of an Evangelical Christian for American corporations. USA!USA! #WS12— just julie (@vintagegoddess) September 14, 2012
463 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:47:11am |
Amazing how this whole free speech thing completely goes over these people's heads.
464 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:47:17am |
Ben Bernanke is a RINO! Who knew?
Fox Host: Ben Bernanke "is driving this oil price spike just as much as the Middle East" bit.ly/PAIH4E #p2— Media Matters (@mmfa) September 14, 2012
466 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:47:24am |
re: #447 Lidane
Somewhere out there, Ayn Rand is hurt and insulted:
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Isn't Bennett the one with the gambling problem?
467 | Tigger2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:47:50am |
re: #463 Mocking Jay
Amazing how this whole free speech thing completely goes over these people's heads.
They have never had it before. if you're talking about the people protesting.
468 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:48:02am |
469 | Mr. Crankypants Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:48:57am |
Paul Ryan is standing at the podium, teleprompters at each hand.
470 | lawhawk Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:49:00am |
Germany's embassy in Khartoum was torched (it was evacuated at the time). The issue again appears to be blasphemous imagery carried by Germans exercising their free speech rights.
In Sudan, a prominent sheik on state radio urged protesters to march on the German Embassy to protest alleged anti-Muslim graffiti on mosques in Berlin and then to the U.S. Embassy to protest the film.
“America has long been an enemy to Islam and to Sudan,” Sheik Mohammed Jizouly said.
Soon after, several hundred Sudanese stormed into the German embassy, burning a car parked behind its gates and setting fire to trash cans. Protesters danced and celebrated around the burning barrels as palls of black smoke billowed into the sky.
Part of the embassy building was also in flames, German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle told reporters in Berlin. “Fortunately... the employees are safe,” he said.
Police firing tear gas drove the protesters out of the compound. Some then began to demonstrate outside the neighbouring British embassy, shouting slogans, while others left, apparently heading to the American embassy, which is outside of the capital.
Again, shades of cartoon jihad.
472 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:49:56am |
re: #469 PT Barnum
Paul Ryan is standing at the podium, teleprompters at each hand.
Teleprompters are only an issue if you're Barack Obama. IOKIYAR.
473 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:50:09am |
@france24correspondent in Tunis @_davidthomsonquotes a policeman as saying at least 8k are taking part in protests #Tunisia #Tunis— Fadil Aliriza (@FadilAliriza) September 14, 2012
8000? Wow
474 | goddamnedfrank Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:50:30am |
re: #465 Kronocide
What about freedom of speech?
What about Christian filmmakers taking responsibility for their own speech instead of creating a chaff ejector out of a non existent Jew?
475 | Mr. Crankypants Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:50:37am |
re: #465 Kronocide
What about freedom of speech?
For me, not for thee. Every authoritarian regime be it political or religious feels very strongly you should be able to criticize everyone but them.
476 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:50:41am |
Aw, shit...I'm an extremist.
477 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:51:03am |
Because Liberal Media!
SPLIT SCREEN - CNN & Fox News carrying Paul Ryan speech live; MSNBC carrying White House briefing live— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) September 14, 2012
Weird, seems our crack LGF News Team is focused on the same thing the White House and MSNBC are.
478 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:51:40am |
#Cairo anti-film protests spread beyond the streets leading to the US embassy. A major bridge across the Nile now shut. #Egypt— Derek Stoffel (@DerekStoffelCBC) September 14, 2012
479 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:52:39am |
re: #477 Kronocide
Because Liberal Media!
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Weird, seems our crack LGF News Team is focused on the same thing the White House and MSNBC are.
MSNBC? Is anyone watching?
480 | AK-47% Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:53:29am |
re: #463 Mocking Jay
Amazing how this whole free speech thing completely goes over these people's heads.
The uneducated masses in a lot of countries assume that anything thatis publisched or broadcast must have the government's approval, or that it is put out directly by the government.
The educated persons in the Middle East know better but are happy to incite the masses.
This is also likely to lead to higher gasoline prices, which will be laid at Obama's doorstep as well...as the undereducated in America assume that it is the President's main job to ensure us a steady flow of cheap petroleum from politically unstable parts of the world...
481 | Tigger2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:54:11am |
482 | Gus Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:54:32am |
re: #479 Cannadian Club Akbar
MSNBC? Is anyone watching?
Don't they usually get about 300,000 viewers more or less?
483 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:54:42am |
re: #480 Expand Your Ground
so, I can blame Obama and his oil buddies?
484 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:56:03am |
485 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:56:58am |
re: #474 goddamnedfrank
What about Christian filmmakers taking responsibility for their own speech instead of creating a chaff ejector out of a non existent Jew?
Onward Christian Propaganda Soldiers!
486 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:58:13am |
Mormons Baptized Obama's Mother: CONFIRMED huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/06/mor...— PeaceKnitter (@PeaceKnitter) September 14, 2012
487 | Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:58:19am |
Taking My Mom to lunch ---well, I'm driving anyway.
bbl
488 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:58:19am |
re: #479 Cannadian Club Akbar
MSNBC? Is anyone watching?
The Pearl Clutchers watch it with a furrowed brow.
489 | Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:58:40am |
490 | Mr. Crankypants Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:58:47am |
re: #481 Tigger2
I am, but it muted because Ryans on.
Me too. Trying to decide if Paul Ryan has a more pieable face than Eric Cantor or Mitt Romney. Thinking it's a three way tie. Now to decide whether it should be a dogshit or cowshit pie. Think I'll go with bullshit.
491 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 8:59:55am |
re: #486 darthstar
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To be fair, I wish all religious extremists were as boring as these.
492 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:00:08am |
re: #488 Kronocide
The Pearl Clutchers watch it with a furrowed brow.
Kinda like the people who watch Fox, only different?
493 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:00:14am |
re: #489 ggt
I really DON'T understand.
They were just trying to protect her eternal soul from her Kenyan Muslim spawn.
/
494 | Mr. Crankypants Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:01:51am |
It's remarkable how much Paul appears to be reading straight off the teleprompters. Need to start a new meme.
495 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:02:07am |
WOW. JUST WOW.MT@michelleinbklyn Ryan: Obama "has never once lifted a hand to defend the child waiting to be born."— BWD (@theonlyadult) September 14, 2012
496 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:02:27am |
re: #492 Cannadian Club Akbar
Kinda like the people who watch Fox, only different?
Oh yes. In scale and proportionate grasp on reality. You didn't notice a difference?
(Eyebrow raised)
497 | Mr. Crankypants Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:02:34am |
Bottom line of Ryan's speech: Obama bad, us good. No plan no logic, no facts.
498 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:03:29am |
499 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:03:48am |
re: #496 Kronocide
Oh yes. In scale and proportionate grasp on reality. You didn't notice a difference?
(Eyebrow raised)
Very nice.:)
500 | Mr. Crankypants Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:03:49am |
re: #495 Sheila Brovlofski
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I'll believe the right wing wants every embryo to be born when they all volunteer to take on being surrogates for every embryo in storage.
501 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:03:53am |
Dana Loesch tweet.
If you were to look at the feeds of Team Obama, it's like the embassy attacks and bomb threats aren't happening at all. WOW.
She must have missed the MSNBC feed carrying the White House presser.
502 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:03:59am |
One of several Romney campaign buses making the rounds in the USA made a stop on the campus of Central Michigan University in Mount Pleasant this week and drew a teeming crowd of “about 17″. Michigan Victory Communications Director Kelsey Knight said, “We’re here in an effort to splash how strong our grassroots efforts here in Michigan.”
[Link: eclectablog.com...]
He's bringing them in by the teens, people!
503 | Tigger2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:04:13am |
re: #497 PT Barnum
Bottom line of Ryan's speech: Obama bad, us good. No plan no logic, no facts.
The Republicans have no plan except cut taxes for their rich friends.
504 | Mr. Crankypants Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:05:14am |
re: #502 darthstar
[Link: eclectablog.com...]
He's bringing them in by the teens, people!
a crowd of 17"? Apparently not a lot of supporters, but they're not very tall either.
505 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:05:27am |
My friend is hung over. I can't quite explain to him to "keep drinking". Sad, really.
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506 | Eventual Carrion Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:05:54am |
re: #480 Expand Your Ground
[snip]
This is also likely to lead to higher gasoline prices, which will be laid at Obama's doorstep as well...as the undereducated in America assume that it is the President's main job to ensure us a steady flow of cheap petroleum from politically unstable parts of the world...
I know. Why isn't Obama using the magic wand, which Bush lost and Obama must have found, to lower the prices. But of course doing that would make him a socialist stepping on the free market rights of the oil companies. Fucked if you do, fucked if you don't.
507 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:05:59am |
re: #504 PT Barnum
a crowd of 17"? Apparently not a lot of supporters, but they're not very tall either.
They would have a really bad day at Disney.:)
508 | Tigger2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:06:52am |
re: #504 PT Barnum
a crowd of 17"? Apparently not a lot of supporters, but they're not very tall either.
rotflmao
509 | lawhawk Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:06:56am |
re: #501 Kronocide
She must be missing that the State Department is issuing a steady stream of watches, warnings, and updates. [Link: twitter.com...]
You know - the Cabinet level post and government department that oversees US diplomatic missions and efforts around the world.
Asshat.
510 | Interesting Times Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:07:00am |
re: #495 Sheila Brovlofski
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Yes, Paul Ryan. Defend the child waiting to be born. But when that child is born, screw that baby AND the mother. #VVS12— Ayn Rand Paul Ryan (@AynRandPaulRyan) September 14, 2012
511 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:07:11am |
re: #506 RayFerd
I know. Why isn't Obama using the magic wand, which Bush lost and Obama must have found, to lower the prices. But of course doing that would make him a socialist stepping on the free market rights of the oil companies. Fucked if you do, fucked if you don't.
I googled "bush/oil buddies" and got 180,000,000 results.
512 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:07:37am |
re: #497 PT Barnum
Bottom line of Ryan's speech: Obama bad, us good. No plan no logic, no facts.
In other words, it's a perfect Republican speech.
513 | CriticalDragon1177 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:08:11am |
Charles Johnson,
That was a cute cartoon. I liked the little girl and her pet monsters. I also liked the old guy.
514 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:08:30am |
515 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:08:51am |
Cue the wingnut outrage in 3...2...1...
Obama, Clinton To Attend Transfer Of Remains Ceremony For U.S. Diplomats Killed In Libyalivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entry/obama-cl... via @davidtaint— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) September 14, 2012
516 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:09:25am |
re: #504 PT Barnum
a crowd of 17"? Apparently not a lot of supporters, but they're not very tall either.
I think Romney's support in Michigan is about the right height...for Obama.
517 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:09:28am |
#Libya's deputy interior minister ordered the withdrawal of security forces from the scene in the early stages of the protest on Wed night— Kid Mania (@KidManiaBlog) September 14, 2012
518 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:10:38am |
Real meaning of Ryan speech:
A set of bootstraps for every unborn baby, that's our idea of small government
519 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:10:46am |
520 | Eventual Carrion Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:12:09am |
re: #511 Cannadian Club Akbar
I googled "bush/oil buddies" and got 180,000,000 results.
When was Obama in the oil business? Who in the oil business did his father or mother hang with? When was the last time Obama tongue boxed with an oil Sheik prince? Not hard to get hits on Bush and oil buddies since he fucking grew up with them from the day he could take the fucking golden spoon out of his mouth and replace it with a golden parachute.
521 | Big Steve Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:14:29am |
Been reading the series of Game of Thrones books. Three quarters of the way through book three......no spoiler for the HBO version but man o man am I going to stay away from weddings for awhile!
522 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:14:33am |
Has it occurred to any of you the Muslim protests are about shitty movies and pathetic production and editing processes?
523 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:14:53am |
re: #520 RayFerd
Gee, sorry. I thought we were talking about how Obama has no way to control the price of oil but Bush did.
524 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:15:44am |
re: #522 Kronocide
Has it occurred to any of you the Muslim protests are about shitty movies and pathetic production and editing processes?
And without seeing the movie, I'm guessing the acting is second rate.
525 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:16:02am |
re: #522 Kronocide
Has it occurred to any of you the Muslim protests are about shitty movies and pathetic production and editing processes?
So how come they didn't riot over the "Twilight" movies?
527 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:16:16am |
re: #524 Cannadian Club Akbar
And without seeing the movie, I'm guessing the acting is second rate.
It's not that good.
528 | HappyWarrior Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:16:23am |
re: #522 Kronocide
Has it occurred to any of you the Muslim protests are about shitty movies and pathetic production and editing processes?
Death to bad edits.
530 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:17:11am |
531 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:17:52am |
re: #529 Kronocide
Gee, that Obama sure is an apologetic wuss. Let's riot!
I'm with you!! (can we start at a 7-11? I want a slurpee)
532 | Eventual Carrion Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:19:19am |
re: #523 Cannadian Club Akbar
Gee, sorry. I thought we were talking about how Obama has no way to control the price of oil but Bush did.
It is a shell game. Neither could/can do anything about it directly. At least Obama is trying (alternate energy sources), but being blocked at every turn by ... wait for it ... slime mouthpieces for the OIL COMPANIES.
533 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:19:33am |
Meanwhile:
Drank 32 oz. soda and now moving on to heroin.— Steve Martin (@SteveMartinToGo) September 14, 2012
534 | Gus Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:20:28am |
re: #533 Our Precious Bodily Fluids
Meanwhile:
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@stevemartintogo Is Heroin still legal in New York?— sean machado (@smachado) September 14, 2012
535 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:21:21am |
re: #534 Gus
If heroin was legal, Bloomberg would tax it. Just sayin'.
536 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:22:06am |
People in other countries are like children. Talk tough and they'll step in line. Talk weak and they act out.
Spare the Rod Spoil the Child Diplomacy
537 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:22:57am |
Lee and Farah...in Fila.
538 | blueraven Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:23:13am |
re: #517 NJDhockeyfan
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Why would you post something like that with no source?
Do you know the person who tweeted this?
539 | Big Steve Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:23:24am |
re: #526 Tigger2
No President can control gas prices.
Well technically a President can but only in a short term and at great cost. The President, on his signature, can release the oil reserve which would drive prices down but only briefly.
540 | AK-47% Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:24:42am |
re: #526 Tigger2
No President can control gas prices.
Newt promised us $2.50 per gallon gas prices, Michelle Bachmann underbid him and promised $2. Our own fault for not electing the right people...
541 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:24:47am |
542 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:24:51am |
@simsimt @his_moezness actually this is a photo of a cafeteria outside the embassy that was set on fire.
— U.S.Embassy Khartoum (@USembassykrt) September 14, 2012
543 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:25:37am |
544 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:26:13am |
re: #537 darthstar
Lee and Farah...in Fila.
I posted a shitload of tweets. Why are you only asking about one single tweet?
545 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:26:25am |
@lolgop Because accusing the President of treason worked so well for him this week he figured he was on a roll.— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) September 14, 2012
546 | lawhawk Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:26:37am |
re: #527 Sheila Brovlofski
It's so bad that it makes Plan 9 From Outer Space look like Citizen Kane.
547 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:27:11am |
re: #543 Cannadian Club Akbar
I had a Farah T shirt. Fawcett, not Joesph.:)
Me too...and I wore it with my sweat-shirt zipped up just a couple of inches like Lee's...but I was 10 years old...and in love.
548 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:28:54am |
Just in time for Occupy Wall Street's first anniversary: yet another rape dailycaller.com/2012/09/14/jus...— Jim Treacher (@jtLOL) September 14, 2012
Rapey Stabbey!
549 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:29:30am |
550 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:29:49am |
Over 21 countries had anti-film/anti-US protests, some more violent than others - is.gd/vRKXgF - A Map of Anti-Film protests— Gigi Ibrahim(@Gsquare86) September 14, 2012
551 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:30:09am |
re: #546 lawhawk
It's so bad that it makes Plan 9 From Outer Space look like Citizen Kane.
I would really like to see a MST3K episode of this video.
552 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:30:21am |
Hussies!
Group at prominent conservative conference urges women to "go home and put some clothes on" thkpr.gs/PAPJpU
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) September 14, 2012
553 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:30:27am |
Islam's Media Apologists Keep Excusing, Ignoring Violence - On Sept. 11, 2012, riots erupted in Egypt, Libya and now... ow.ly/1mrXUL— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) September 14, 2012
Hm....
554 | blueraven Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:30:50am |
re: #544 NJDhockeyfan
I posted a shitload of tweets. Why are you only asking about one single tweet?
Was that supposed to be directed to my #538?
If so...because that is a serious accusation posted by this really serious person
Kid Mania
@KidManiaBlog
Video games, toys, movies, apps, anime, manga, art, books, tech, music, videos, cooking. GamerFamily. Reviews by kids, for kids.
Just curious why you would repeat it?
555 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:31:22am |
556 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:31:32am |
President Obama Skips Intel. Briefing One Day After Embassy Attacks, Media Silent on the Issue ow.ly/1mrXUM— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) September 14, 2012
557 | HappyWarrior Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:31:49am |
558 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:32:27am |
re: #554 blueraven
Was that supposed to be directed to my #538?
If so...because that is a serious accusation posted by this really serious person
Just curious why you would repeat it?
Do you do research on every tweet you post?
559 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:32:47am |
560 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:33:07am |
re: #554 blueraven
Was that supposed to be directed to my #538?
If so...because that is a serious accusation posted by this really serious person
Just curious why you would repeat it?
I did his homework for him.
[Link: www.nytimes.com...]
Libya’s deputy interior minister, Wanis al-Sharif, made somewhat contradictory and defensive-sounding statements about the attack.
He acknowledged that he had ordered the withdrawal of security forces from the scene in the early stages of the protest on Wednesday night. He said his initial instinct was to avoid inflaming the situation by risking a confrontation with people angry about the video.
He also said he had underestimated the aggression of the protesters. But he criticized the small number of guards inside the mission for shooting back in self-defense, saying their response probably further provoked the attackers.
The small number of Libyans guarding the facility, estimated at only six, did not hold out long against the attackers, who had substantial firepower, the interior minister and State Department officials said. Defending the facility would have been a “suicide mission,” Mr. Sharif said.
Mr. Sharif also faulted the Americans at the mission for failing to heed what he said was the Libyan government’s advice to pull its personnel or beef up its security, especially in light of the recent violence in the city and the likelihood that the video would provoke protests. “What is weird is that they refrained from this procedure, depending instead on the simple protection that they had,” he said. “What happened later is beyond our control, and they are responsible for part of what happened.”
561 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:33:13am |
re: #544 NJDhockeyfan
I posted a shitload of tweets. Why are you only asking about one single tweet?
562 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:33:38am |
re: #554 blueraven
Was that supposed to be directed to my #538?
If so...because that is a serious accusation posted by this really serious person
Just curious why you would repeat it?
I'll take 'Who pushes the same narratives as the right wing blogosphere' for $500 Alex.
563 | HappyWarrior Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:33:38am |
re: #559 Cannadian Club Akbar
So, you prefer your women with almost nothing on? wait...
Well, yeah............
564 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:33:59am |
re: #558 NJDhockeyfan
Do you do research on every tweet you post?
I do, yeah. Keeps me from posting stupid bullshit.
565 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:34:19am |
Note: #Egypt intelligence said Tuesday they've warned Interior Ministry of possible terror attacks on #US & #Israeli Embassies.— Reem Abdellatif ??? (@Reem_Abdellatif) September 14, 2012
566 | blueraven Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:34:45am |
567 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:34:47am |
re: #558 NJDhockeyfan
Do you do research on every tweet you post?
Some of us hate being wrong, so yeah we kinda do.
568 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:34:55am |
re: #564 Obdicut
I do, yeah. Keeps me from posting stupid bullshit.
Especially when the tweet doesn't link to an article supporting it.
569 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:35:31am |
re: #564 Obdicut
I do, yeah. Keeps me from posting stupid bullshit.
re: #560 Mocking Jay
I did his homework for him.
[Link: www.nytimes.com...]
Libya’s deputy interior minister, Wanis al-Sharif, made somewhat contradictory and defensive-sounding statements about the attack.
He acknowledged that he had ordered the withdrawal of security forces from the scene in the early stages of the protest on Wednesday night. He said his initial instinct was to avoid inflaming the situation by risking a confrontation with people angry about the video.
Thanks Mocking Jay.
570 | AK-47% Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:35:48am |
re: #568 darthstar
Especially when the tweet doesn't link to an article supporting it.
I don't Twitter and I find posting unsubstantiated links a waste of time.
571 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:36:25am |
Oh wow. Looks like one of my grad school classmates ran across a screening of this film a few months ago in LA. She and her boyfriend like to walk around and explore the city and they came across a theater screening it. They took a photo of the poster used to advertise it.
I've asked if it would be okay to share it here, but I haven't heard back yet.
572 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:36:44am |
573 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:37:15am |
EL OH FUCKING EL
Would Someone Please tell @edrollins to GO AWAY!What a freakin idiot. He obviously is not following the Polls Showing Romney Up #GetAClue— Jim Hoft (@gatewaypundit) September 14, 2012
574 | wrenchwench Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:38:14am |
From yesterday:
Semi-paranoid, but if backer$ of anti-Muslim film say they foresaw violent response, did they do it to saddle Obama w/ a Middle East crisis?— Richard Conniff (@RichardConniff) September 13, 2012
575 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:38:14am |
576 | HappyWarrior Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:38:52am |
re: #573 Kronocide
EL OH FUCKING EL
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I'm not a fan of Ed Rollins but unlike Dim Jim the man has directed campaigns before so he knows what he's talking about as opposed to DimJim who photoshops sickles and hammers on the president for laffs.
577 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:39:28am |
re: #573 Kronocide
EL OH FUCKING EL
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Hoft calling anyone a 'freaking idiot' is priceless.
578 | lawhawk Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:39:43am |
re: #570 Expand Your Ground
We've gone from "the revolution will be televised" to "the war will be instigated via Twitter".
579 | Mr. Crankypants Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:39:43am |
re: #559 Cannadian Club Akbar
So, you prefer your women with almost nothing on? wait...
I do, but only if I'm sleeping with them. Otherwise eye candy is overrated.
580 | Killgore Trout Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:40:07am |
Al JAz reporting an attack on UN outpost in Sinai.
581 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:40:20am |
Related topic:
582 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:40:25am |
Its going out of hand.#Egypt state TV Friday sermon blames Zionists whom he says"were responsible for US Tower event", presumably means 9/11— Ghanem Nuseibeh ???? (@gnuseibeh) September 14, 2012
583 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:40:46am |
re: #579 PT Barnum
I do, but only if I'm sleeping with them. Otherwise eye candy is overrated.
YOU TAKE THAT BACK!! DOWNDING!!!
/
584 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:40:58am |
LOL
ROFLMMFAO RT @jrubinbiogger @dreggas and you should get a hooker— Josh M. (@dreggas) September 14, 2012
585 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:41:44am |
re: #574 wrenchwench
From yesterday:
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Definitely not out of the realm of possibility. And portraying Sam Becile as a Jew is what is probably caused the demonstrations at the Israel embbasy in London today.
A lot of what's going on seems deliberately orchestrated. A lot.
586 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:42:06am |
re: #585 makeitstop
yeah it does.
587 | Gus Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:42:08am |
re: #580 Killgore Trout
Al JAz reporting an attack on UN outpost in Sinai.
This never happened before that film!
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588 | Mr. Crankypants Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:42:22am |
re: #583 Cannadian Club Akbar
YOU TAKE THAT BACK!! DOWNDING!!!
/
What's the use of a nicely wrapped package that you never get to open to see what's inside?
589 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:43:10am |
re: #580 Killgore Trout
Al JAz reporting an attack on UN outpost in Sinai.
@ajelive reports that MFO peace keepers have opened fire on protesters in North Sinai, one possible death. #Egypt security nowhere in sight— Liam Stack (@liamstack) September 14, 2012
590 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:43:24am |
re: #588 PT Barnum
What's the use of a nicely wrapped package that you never get to open to see what's inside?
you just described my love life.
591 | Killgore Trout Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:43:34am |
re: #582 NJDhockeyfan
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I think the Muslim Bros have fucked up big time by promoting these protests. I seriously doubt they are capable of governing. They'll learn eventually but but not nearly fast enough.
592 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:43:56am |
So the bomb threat here in Austin didn't pan out:
All activities except classes will resume at 5 p.m. Buildings may be reentered at noon. Today's classes are cancelled.— UTAustin (@UTAustin) September 14, 2012
593 | efuseakay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:44:12am |
re: #255 Dark_Falcon
Not if you live in Illinois. If you do and you voted Dem in 2006, then you have to apologize for Blago.
Blago never got anyone killed. Not like Governor Ryan did.
594 | lawhawk Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:44:43am |
re: #573 Kronocide
He's also pushing a meme that the Ambassador and other Americans were dragged away before deaths. His proof? Bloody handprints on a wall.
It could have been someone holding themselves or someone who was injured being assisted up. One person who it likely wasn't was Ambassador Stevens, since it's reported he died of asphyxia and not from other wounds. Even the photo he shows of the Ambassador being carried away doesn't support the claim.
There were more than 30 people who were injured in and around the compound, besides the 4 who were killed. He somehow concludes that the photo indicates they were dragged away.
595 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:44:51am |
re: #592 Lidane
So the bomb threat here in Austin didn't pan out:
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Those bomb threats are a little smelly, too, IMO.
596 | The Ghost of a Flea Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:45:15am |
re: #585 makeitstop
Definitely not out of the realm of possibility. And portraying Sam Becile as a Jew is what is probably caused the demonstrations at the Israel embbasy in London today.
A lot of what's going on seems deliberately orchestrated. A lot.
You're suggesting the film wasn't paid for by "100 Jewish doctors"?
I'm shocked, shocked, at the implication that the people that put it out used non-existent Jewish people as decoys. It's almost like they want a war in the Middle East or something...
597 | Killgore Trout Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:45:25am |
598 | Gus Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:46:10am |
Derp!
@illumlnati 1,980 Retweets on something that is false: snopes.com/politics/romne...— Gus (@Gus_802) September 14, 2012
599 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:46:15am |
re: #597 Killgore Trout
Shorter Morsi, please don't cut off the aid your countries give us, I just realized we really, really need it.
600 | lawhawk Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:46:44am |
re: #596 The Ghost of a Flea
It's the same 100 Israeli Jews who didn't show up at the WTC on the day of the 9/11 attacks of course.
601 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:46:56am |
Think globally, act stupidly
This is rumor from twitter. The person who started this isn't even in Libya He is gaddafi supporter @rsmccain @michellemalkin @kerrypicket— I-AM* (@politaire) September 14, 2012
602 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:47:16am |
re: #597 Killgore Trout
Morsi slams anti-Islam film at Rome presser, rejects 'strife between nations'
Egyptian President Mohamed Morsi on Friday reiterated his condemnation of a controversial short film that denigrates Islam and the Prophet Mohamed. The president was speaking at a joint press conference in Rome with his Italian counterpart.
Yeah, that should calm things down.
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603 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:47:40am |
re: #599 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Shorter Morsi, please don't cut off the aid your countries give us, I just realized we really, really need it.
Yep. Turns out Obama played it right with that 'gaffe.' Snapped Morsi's ass right back into line.
605 | lawhawk Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:49:02am |
re: #599 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Obama issues statement that Egypt's not really an ally (and all that it entails with foreign assistance, loans, military support, etc.) and Morsi realizes that pissing off one of the most important nations isn't a good idea.
Actions have consequences.
606 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:49:13am |
re: #255 Dark_Falcon
Not if you live in Illinois. If you do and you voted Dem in 2006, then you have to apologize for Blago.
Wow. Try applying that logic to voting for the GOP.
607 | AK-47% Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:49:18am |
Romney would really benefit from a hostage crisis...he wants to see 1980 all over again, doesn't he?
608 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:49:41am |
This is turning into just a street battle:
A friend in #Tunisia living next to USA embassy: "me & neighbors armed and ready to attack the salafi extremists, its us or them tonight"— Ahmed Zahran (@A_Zahran) September 14, 2012
609 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:50:03am |
Steve Earle's great...love this quote:
New Steve Earle chat on video. "I make an embarrassing amount of money for a borderline Marxist."bit.ly/OuWhIf— Greg Mitchell (@GregMitch) September 14, 2012
610 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:50:15am |
OK. So my friend who took the photo of the anti-Muslim film's poster just got back to me. She's on the phone with the LA Times and will get back to me. I wouldn't be surprised if they end up with the photo soon.
611 | Gus Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:50:25am |
re: #605 lawhawk
Obama issues statement that Egypt's not really an ally (and all that it entails with foreign assistance, loans, military support, etc.) and Morsi realizes that pissing off one of the most important nations isn't a good idea.
Actions have consequences.
The MB will try and play it both ways. SNAFU.
612 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:51:08am |
Protesters from Salafist groups in Sinai have stormed camp for UN multinational peacekeepers in town of Sheikh Zuwayed aje.me/QSTTLH— AJELive (@AJELive) September 14, 2012
613 | dragonath Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:52:32am |
What a brave new world. Just about any demagogue can mobilize a critical mass of assholes. The Egpytian government is going to have to figure out if God or money speaks louder to them.
614 | AK-47% Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:52:43am |
I suspect that the basic Romney message will be "This only happens because people don't know how to show America the respect it deserves. And Obama encourages disrespect!"
615 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:52:58am |
re: #610 Lidane
OK. So my friend who took the photo of the anti-Muslim film's poster just got back to me. She's on the phone with the LA Times and will get back to me. I wouldn't be surprised if they end up with the photo soon.
Most people don't take photos of random movie posters they see.
616 | Killgore Trout Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:53:25am |
Mitt gets 3 Pinocchios
The Romney campaign’s repeated errors on the Cairo embassy statement
618 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:53:44am |
619 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:53:47am |
Romney hasn't gotten one thing right in a month. I half expect him next to call himself "Mitch," as Letterman does.— Keith Olbermann (@KeithOlbermann) September 14, 2012
620 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:54:02am |
EARTH TO MITT:
#ECONOMY : US income distribution infographic >>twitpic.com/aujgq5— Leah McElrath (@leahmcelrath) September 14, 2012
621 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:54:05am |
622 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:55:03am |
re: #618 NJDhockeyfan
That's why all this "protest out of control" bullshit is just that. The protest was a distraction for the assault.
623 | jaunte Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:55:26am |
Sheikh Zuwayed power station in Sinai attacked
Gunmen reportedly attacked the Sheikh Zuwayed power station in North Sinai on Tuesday, tried to kidnap two employees and exchanged fire with the armed forces before they fled the scene.
[Link: www.egyptindependent.com...]
624 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:55:46am |
re: #615 Sheila Brovlofski
Most people don't take photos of random movie posters they see.
Eh, this isn't a poster for a RomCom. It may have been picture-worthy.
625 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:55:52am |
Real time map of #muslimprotests #benghazi #cairo #khartoummaps.google.com/maps/ms?msid=2...— tamaranorbust (@tamaranorbust) September 14, 2012
Check out the map.
626 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:56:20am |
re: #624 Mocking Jay
Eh, this isn't a poster for a RomCom. It may have been picture-worthy.
We'll soon see.
627 | jaunte Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:57:39am |
Security forces raid weapon caches in Sinai, killing five
A joint army and police operation has confiscated several weapons in Kharouba, northern Sinai, with the help of local Bedouin residents, said Interior Minister Ahmed Gamal al-Din at a press conference.
...
The confiscated weapons included five anti-tank mines, one anti-tank missile, and mortars, as well as automatic weapons and a machine gun.
628 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:58:03am |
re: #625 NJDhockeyfan
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Check out the map.
The Maldives? They should be more worried about 6 inches of water than some film about a prophet...
629 | dragonath Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:58:11am |
Also from Egypt, this time from Al Jazeera:
Protesters belonging to ultraconservative groups in Sinai have stormed a camp for the UN multinational peacekeepers in the town of Sheikh Zuwayed. They brought down the flag and placed a black Islamic banner with the words "There's no God but Allah, Mohammed is the Prophet of Allah."
The peacekeepers responded with firing on the attackers, said Al Jazeera's Rawya Rageh. At least one man is believed to be injured.
Egyptian security was nowhere to be seen, though army vehicles were reportedly headed to the area.
630 | Kragar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:58:37am |
Cameron: America Was Modeled on the 'Hebrew Republic Under Moses'
History has never been Kirk Cameron's strong suit, which can probably be partly attributed to the fact that he relies on "experts" like David Barton for his information.
So it didn't come as much of a surprise when Cameron delivered another rather strange history lesson today while speaking at the Values Voter Summit when he proclaimed that America has been so successful because our Founding Fathers relied "on the very eternal principles that had not been tested and tried from the ground up for three thousand years since the ancient Hebrew republic under Moses":
Dafuq?
631 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:59:38am |
re: #630 Kragar
Cameron: America Was Modeled on the 'Hebrew Republic Under Moses'
Dafuq?
What, what, WHAT!!?
632 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:59:50am |
First video from inside the US Embassy in #Tunis #UsEmbassyTn youtube.com/watch?v=m8-ur-… v @merkkur @akhbar
— Jenan Moussa (@jenanmoussa) September 14, 2012
633 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 9:59:52am |
634 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:00:45am |
re: #630 Kragar
Cameron: America Was Modeled on the 'Hebrew Republic Under Moses'
Dafuq?
Hu Dafuq Wazzat was the source of that story.
635 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:00:52am |
re: #615 Sheila Brovlofski
Most people don't take photos of random movie posters they see.
She's a "non-fiction" (i.e., documentary) film producer and she and her boyfriend love to walk around and explore stuff. Anything film related catches her eye. It's a total shot in the dark that she just happened to run past that film back in June.
Honestly, I'm not surprised she happened to have a photo of it.
636 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:00:58am |
re: #632 Mocking Jay
And sometimes you post a tweet and you hope you're wrong...
637 | Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:01:02am |
re: #522 Kronocide
Has it occurred to any of you the Muslim protests are about shitty movies and pathetic production and editing processes?
So, this is the sequel to "Burn, Hollywood, Burn"? Another Alan Smithee production I assume.
638 | Kragar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:01:43am |
Bachmann: Obama has 'Enforced Islamic Speech Codes Here in the United States'
Speaking this morning at the Values Voter Summit, Rep. Michele Bachmann dedicated her remarks to attacking the Obama administration for supposedly catering to radical Islam and that Muslim Brotherhood, citing a decision by the FBI to purge hundreds of anti-Muslim documents from its training materials as proof that the administration was enforcing "Islamic speech codes here in the United States":
639 | Killgore Trout Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:02:03am |
640 | HappyWarrior Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:02:31am |
re: #638 Kragar
Bachmann: Obama has 'Enforced Islamic Speech Codes Here in the United States'
Spoken like someone who knows their political career is done and is just trying out for Fox News to get a show at the moment.
641 | AK-47% Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:03:12am |
re: #640 HappyWarrior
Spoken like someone who knows their political career is done and is just trying out for Fox News to get a show at the moment.
The Joe McCarthy of the Anti-Jihad movement...
642 | HappyWarrior Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:03:57am |
re: #641 Expand Your Ground
The Joe McCarthy of the Anti-Jihad movement...
Without the whiskey to slightly excuse it.
643 | dragonath Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:04:22am |
Hey, I didn't know Morsi's kids had American citizenship...
644 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:05:25am |
Congratulations. #Egypt has gone to the dark ages. PM proudly declares first day of school will be all about Mohamed.almasryalyoum.com/node/1114396— Omar Kamel (@omarkamel) September 14, 2012
645 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:05:30am |
re: #626 Sheila Brovlofski
We'll soon see.
It's all in Arabic except for the title -- "Innocence of Bin Laden". There's a photo of the Qu'ran on one side and of OBL on the other. And the theater has a hand-written sign saying that it's a one-night screening on June 30th.
On its own it's not much to look at, but reading a translation of all the Arabic text would be interesting.
646 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:08:05am |
re: #644 NJDhockeyfan
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Shit like this reminds me how important it is for us to keep the separation of church and state strong in this country, and to reject the GOP's attempts to break it down and to base laws off of supernatural beliefs.
Stuff like this could happen here too. In Louisiana, there are Christian charter schools teaching curriculum just as unscientific and based on credulous religion.
We have to fight back against that.
647 | HappyWarrior Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:08:41am |
re: #646 Obdicut
Shit like this reminds me how important it is for us to keep the separation of church and state strong in this country, and to reject the GOP's attempts to break it down and to base laws off of supernatural beliefs.
Stuff like this could happen here too. In Louisiana, there are Christian charter schools teaching curriculum just as unscientific and based on credulous religion.
We have to fight back against that.
Yeah, reading that reminded me of why I think separation of church and state is a great concept.
648 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:09:00am |
I wish wish it was like the good old days when oppressive dictatorships bought off with $ and weapons kept these brown folk in line. Now they're all uppity. See what happens? #SpareTheRodSpoilTheChild
650 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:10:00am |
LOL forever:
Creationists unhappy at Dr Pepper ad, per @copyranterbuzzfeed.com/copyranter/cre...— Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) September 14, 2012
651 | Kragar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:10:50am |
re: #650 Lidane
LOL forever:
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I'm unhappy with creationists for being dimwitted throwbacks.
652 | dragonfire1981 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:11:32am |
653 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:12:00am |
654 | Cannadian Club Akbar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:13:07am |
655 | HappyWarrior Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:13:10am |
656 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:13:21am |
Paul Ryan: Obama doesn't truly believe "we're in this together" because he's pro-choice tpm.ly/RX3W17— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) September 14, 2012
Says the man whose Medicare plan amounts to Groupons for Grandparents and who would destroy the economy to give Mitt Romney and their other rich friends a tax cut.
657 | Kragar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:14:26am |
Bennett: The Press Attacked Romney on Libya and Tried to 'Kill This Truth in the Womb'
After falsely claiming that the administration responded to the attacks "by shuddering and shaking and wondering at the consequences of our First Amendment," Bennett then declared that the fact that Romney's response was so widely pilloried as tactless and inappropriate by the media was itself proof that what he sad was true because the press sought to "kill this truth in the womb; something it is well-practiced at":
658 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:14:33am |
RT @salon: Mitt Romney guesses middle income people make $200,000-$250,000. Actual median household income: abt $50Kbit.ly/Pg5NM8— Sigrid Ellis (@sigridellis) September 14, 2012
659 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:14:37am |
re: #634 Kronocide
Hu Dafuq Wazzat was the source of that story.
Along with his brother, Wut Dafuq Wazzat.
660 | HappyWarrior Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:15:36am |
re: #657 Kragar
Bennett: The Press Attacked Romney on Libya and Tried to 'Kill This Truth in the Womb'
I'll say it again, I love it when people who are part of the media like Bennett has become whine about the media. Really, the press wouldn't have "attacked" Romney if Romney wasn't such a crass asshole.
661 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:15:48am |
662 | Kragar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:15:50am |
re: #656 Lidane
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Says the man whose Medicare plan amounts to Groupons for Grandparents and who would destroy the economy to give Mitt Romney and their other rich friends a tax cut.
Ryan and Bachmann are speaking at a Religious Right conference that is making a mockery of diplomacy and even the threat of terrorism. Consider the following:
the conference features a fake terrorist who claims to have smuggled weapons into the U.S. and carried out “bloody terror” missions against Israel
the video that sparked the unrest in Egypt and Libya was created and promoted by anti-Muslim activists who have worked with backers of Bachmann’s effort to purge the U.S. government of Muslim Americans and key players in the effort to block the so-called Ground Zero mosque (e.g. ACT! for America and the Christian Anti-Defamation Commission)
in July, misinformation promoted by Bachmann and two upcoming speakers at the Values Voter Summit, Frank Gaffney and Jerry Boykin, sparked aggressive protests against American diplomats in Egypt, including Secretary Clinton, whose motorcade was pelted by protestors – Boykin and Gaffney have been the leading forces behind Bachmann’s witch hunt against Muslim Americans in the U.S. government
former Lt. Gen. Jerry Boykin, now the executive vice president of the Family Research Council, which hosts the conference, significantly set back American diplomacy in 2003, drawing a rebuke from President Bush and Pentagon investigators, when he repeatedly denounced and insulted Islam in uniform and characterized the “war on the terror” as a war in the name of Jesus
Taken together, this suggests more than a lack of seriousness. It suggests that many Religious Right activists are far more interested in fighting a holy war than they are with diplomacy, peace or religious freedom. Unfortunately for the rest of us, we have the live in the same world as them.
663 | HappyWarrior Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:16:00am |
664 | dragonfire1981 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:16:41am |
More on that "women, put your clothes on" thing from Value Voters:
In flyers and brochures on display at Values Voters, the social conservative conference where Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan spoke, an organization called Modesty Matters criticized women for dressing “immodestly” at church, and blamed women for causing men to stare lustfully at them.
Women must “embrace MODESTY in dress and behavior,” one of the handouts read. Women dressed immodestly in church are “an insult to a holy God,”
Right because it's not the fault of the men that they can't control where their eyes go, it's the fault of the women for dressing like skanks.
Let me tell you something, I've worked hard to primarily have eyes for my wife regardless of WHAT women around me are wearing. It's called discipline and self control. These folks should try it sometime instead of blaming their problems on someone else.
665 | blueraven Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:17:00am |
666 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:17:24am |
re: #658 Lidane
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Most Americans make less than Mitt's tax write-off for his dancing pony.
667 | Kragar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:17:26am |
668 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:18:03am |
Huntsman: "Americans don't want an impetuous candidate..." on Andrea Mitchell Reports just now.#p2— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) September 14, 2012
669 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:18:12am |
The U.S. Embassy in Cairo was warned there could be trouble, official says
(CNN) -- Concerned about the reaction to an anti-Muslim film that was gaining attention online, the U.S. intelligence community sent a cable to the embassy in Cairo, Egypt, warning of the concern, a U.S. official told CNN.
The intelligence cable was sent 48 hours before the protests in Cairo and in Benghazi, Libya, the U.S. official said.
The cable did not warn of any specific threat, the official said. It warned instead about the existence of a portion of the movie being posted on the Internet and the fact that it was gaining attention. A seven-minute portion of the movie aired on an Egyptian TV talk show, according to a Department of Homeland Security/FBI memo obtained by CNN on Thursday.
The cable was not sent to the embassy in Tripoli, Libya, or the consulate in Benghazi, where protests over the film ended in a deadly attack. U.S. officials have said there was no intelligence ahead of the attack in Benghazi, which intelligence officials still believe was not planned.
The White House spokesman, Jay Carney, said Friday there was no "actionable intelligence" indicating an attack was being planned.
There are hundreds if not thousands of cables sent each day, the official said, and there was no specific threat attached to this one, because a specific threat was not known.
670 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:18:14am |
In flyers and brochures on display at Values Voters, the social conservative conference where Republican Vice Presidential nominee Paul Ryan spoke, an organization called Modesty Matters criticized women for dressing “immodestly” at church, and blamed women for causing men to stare lustfully at them.Women must “embrace MODESTY in dress and behavior,” one of the handouts read. Women dressed immodestly in church are “an insult to a holy God,”
Great! So when do they start handing out burqas?
Oh, wait. Wrong religious fanatics. =P
671 | dragonfire1981 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:19:13am |
re: #657 Kragar
Bennett: The Press Attacked Romney on Libya and Tried to 'Kill This Truth in the Womb'
Epic assholery, thy name is...this guy.
672 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:19:28am |
If only Obama didn't apologize, all these crazy religious people wouldn't be attacking our embassies.
673 | blueraven Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:19:29am |
674 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:19:38am |
*sigh*
Top Romney foreign policy adviser blames Obama for embassy attacks, confuses Baltics and Balkans: on.cnn.com/OMSEZO— Ryan Lizza (@RyanLizza) September 14, 2012
675 | Eventual Carrion Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:19:43am |
re: #662 Kragar
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Taken together, this suggests more than a lack of seriousness. It suggests that many Religious Right activists are far more interested in fighting a holy war than they are with diplomacy, peace or religious freedom. Unfortunately for the rest of us, we have the live in the same world as them.
If a religious war is what they want they should strap on, lock and load and take their fucking asses over there and do their thing. Leave me and my kids out of it. Fucking assholes.
677 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:21:19am |
re: #669 NJDhockeyfan
The U.S. Embassy in Cairo was warned there could be trouble, official says
The cable was not sent to the embassy in Tripoli, Libya, or the consulate in Benghazi, where protests over the film ended in a deadly attack. U.S. officials have said there was no intelligence ahead of the attack in Benghazi, which intelligence officials still believe was not planned.
So... Cairo was warned that protests were going to happen and they've happened. So what?
678 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:21:50am |
re: #674 Lidane
*sigh*
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Baltics, Balkans, Libyans, Lebanese, does it matter? They aren't giving money to the campaign, so they don't count.
//
679 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:22:17am |
! RT @washingtonpost: CONFIRMED: White House asked YouTube to review anti-Muslim film to see if it violates rules wapo.st/Sl9VZE
— Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) September 14, 2012
680 | HappyWarrior Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:22:28am |
re: #674 Lidane
*sigh*
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Note to Williamson, if you're going to bash Obama for his handling of foreign policy, get the Baltic and Balkan straight. Thanks, me.
681 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:22:35am |
re: #677 Mocking Jay
So... Cairo was warned that protests were going to happen and they've happened. So what?
No Concern Cookie for you.
682 | Kragar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:22:40am |
re: #675 RayFerd
If a religious war is what they want they should strap on, lock and load and take their fucking asses over there and do their thing. Leave me and my kids out of it. Fucking assholes.
We can't ask them to fund contraception because it violates their religious beliefs, but we're all supposed to pay and fight their wars for them?
Fuck those assholes.
683 | Eventual Carrion Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:23:01am |
re: #670 Lidane
Great! So when do they start handing out burqas?
Oh, wait. Wrong religious fanatics. =P
But same ideas. And when push comes to shove, will/have had the same retaliatory tactics. They just call them '2nd amendment solutions' rather than 'I'll fucking kill you'.
684 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:23:10am |
re: #675 RayFerd
If a religious war is what they want they should strap on, lock and load and take their fucking asses over there and do their thing. Leave me and my kids out of it. Fucking assholes.
They want other people's kids to fight their holy wars.
Just look at Mitt Romney. He protested FOR the Vietnam draft when he was of age to fight, then ran and hid in a French castle. All these wingnut whackjobs are like that. They talk a lot of shit but when it counts they want other people to die in their place.
685 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:23:28am |
Stupidest Man On The Internet Thinks Obama Thanked Libyan President For Killing Our Diplomats bit.ly/OuZTtD— Wonkette (@Wonkette) September 14, 2012
686 | Kronocide Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:23:38am |
re: #682 Kragar
We can't ask them to fund contraception because it violates their religious beliefs, but we're all supposed to pay and fight their wars for them?
Fuck those assholes.
War is the oldest form of birth control in the book.
688 | ShaunP Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:24:27am |
re: #680 HappyWarrior
Note to Williamson, if you're going to bash Obama for his handling of foreign policy, get the Baltic and Balkan straight. Thanks, me.
Who can remember all those unimportant countries anyway?
Uzbeki-beki-beki-stan
689 | Gus Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:24:57am |
POTUS notifies Congress he's sending troops "quipped for combat" to Libya/Yemen w/purpose of protecting "American citizens and property."— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) September 14, 2012
690 | Lidane Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:25:17am |
Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-CA) says Obama has been "pandering to radical Islamic forces" bit.ly/QfYYMm— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) September 14, 2012
Who knew that drones and missile strikes = pandering?
691 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:26:08am |
Huntsman endorses Romney after criticizing his actions this week, then says, "I don't ever talk to him." (and with a bit of a smirk) #p2— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) September 14, 2012
It was pretty funny...Mitchell asks Huntsman who he'll vote for and he says, "Mitt Romney - he understands how to start the economic engine." She asks, "How often do you talk to him?" and he says, "I don't ever talk to him."
692 | HappyWarrior Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:26:12am |
re: #690 Lidane
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Who knew that drones and missile strikes = pandering?
Rohrabacher praised the Taliban in the 90's.
[Link: en.wikipedia.org...]
Also hilarious that he criticized the media for "sensationalism" focusing on the Taliban Shariah law but now is silent when people in his own party and ideology accuse the POTUS of wanting Sharia in the US.
693 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:27:11am |
From a friend's facebook feed: "Hey Republicans, stop calling in bomb threats pretending you're Al Q'aeda. It's not gonna work"
694 | Killgore Trout Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:27:33am |
re: #669 NJDhockeyfan
The U.S. Embassy in Cairo was warned there could be trouble, official says
This is a very similar situation to the pre-9-11 intelligence reports that a lot of people try to make a big deal about. These warnings and memos are a dime a dozen. Very common, most don't pan out.
695 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:28:06am |
re: #678 darthstar
Baltics, Balkans, Libyans, Lebanese, does it matter? They aren't giving money to the campaign, so they don't count.
//
Somebody get Romney a tank to ride around in. You know he's clueless enough to do it.
696 | Killgore Trout Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:29:07am |
re: #687 Gus
Uh oh.
Yeah, not good. I've also seen reports that California is reviewing one of the movie makers for possible parole violations. This is dangerous territory.
697 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:31:21am |
Egyptian media: 3 #UN soldiers wounded in #Sinai after angry mob storms UN compound #Egypt— Haaretz.com (@haaretzonline) September 14, 2012
698 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:31:24am |
BREAKING: Tunisia's official news agency says 2 dead, 29 injured in U.S. Embassy protest: apne.ws/PB5HjW
— The Associated Press (@AP) September 14, 2012
699 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:32:11am |
re: #696 Killgore Trout
Well, he sounds like a habitual criminal, from his record. I don't see what's ominous about investigating him after he came to national attention.
And the government asking Youtube to review it is still a request. As long as there's not even the hint of coercion about it, as long as there's no power or force behind it, that's all it is.
700 | Gus Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:32:34am |
re: #699 Obdicut
Well, he sounds like a habitual criminal, from his record. I don't see what's ominous about investigating him after he came to national attention.
And the government asking Youtube to review it is still a request. As long as there's not even the hint of coercion about it, as long as there's no power or force behind it, that's all it is.
Right.
701 | Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:32:36am |
re: #675 RayFerd
If a religious war is what they want they should strap on, lock and load and take their fucking asses over there and do their thing. Leave me and my kids out of it. Fucking assholes.
Possibly. But how about all those living over there who are not Islamic fanatics out to kill Christians?
702 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:33:28am |
re: #699 Obdicut
Well, he sounds like a habitual criminal, from his record. I don't see what's ominous about investigating him after he came to national attention.
And the government asking Youtube to review it is still a request. As long as there's not even the hint of coercion about it, as long as there's no power or force behind it, that's all it is.
Even if YouTube removes it for TOS, it will move over to LiveLeaks. Once something is out on Teh Intertubez, it stays on Teh Intertubez forever.
703 | ReamWorks SKG Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:33:32am |
Boy, things have really turned from bad to worse, and all because of a YouTube video! If people want freedom, you need to also have a thicker skin.
704 | blueraven Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:33:58am |
You tube pulls video all the time after they are reported.
It is their decision
705 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:34:35am |
re: #699 Obdicut
Well, he sounds like a habitual criminal, from his record. I don't see what's ominous about investigating him after he came to national attention.
And the government asking Youtube to review it is still a request. As long as there's not even the hint of coercion about it, as long as there's no power or force behind it, that's all it is.
The problem is that if it were to be removed it would leave everybody wondering. It's a bad idea.
706 | blueraven Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:35:29am |
re: #703 ReamWorks SKG
Boy, things have really turned from bad to worse, and all because of a YouTube video! If people want freedom, you need to also have a thicker skin.
I dont think for a minute all this violence is because of this stupid video. But it was the match that lit the timber.
707 | abolitionist Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:35:40am |
re: #664 dragonfire1981
More on that "women, put your clothes on" thing from Value Voters:
Right because it's not the fault of the men that they can't control where their eyes go, it's the fault of the women for dressing like skanks.
Let me tell you something, I've worked hard to primarily have eyes for my wife regardless of WHAT women around me are wearing. It's called discipline and self control. These folks should try it sometime instead of blaming their problems on someone else.
No lady, I'm not staring at your boobies --just admiring that cross that you have dangling on your long necklace.
708 | ReamWorks SKG Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:35:51am |
re: #684 Lidane
And, not only did he spend his Vietnam years in a French castle, he has repeatedly indicated that he feels his Missionary "service" is equivalent to serving in the military.
709 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:36:43am |
re: #702 Sheila Brovlofski
Even if YouTube removes it for TOS, it will move over to LiveLeaks. Once something is out on Teh Intertubez, it stays on Teh Intertubez forever.
Yeah. You can't get it to go away, but at least this way the US government can show that, while they don't want to suppress it, they recognize that just because they're bound to protect free speech doesn't mean they have to pretend all free speech is automatically doing good just by existing.
710 | Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:37:13am |
re: #708 ReamWorks SKG
And, not only did he spend his Vietnam years in a French castle, he has repeatedly indicated that he feels his Missionary "service" is equivalent to serving in the military.
Yep. The French put up tiger pits, punji sticks, and other traps to keep the Mormon missionaries away...
/// :P
711 | Killgore Trout Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:37:20am |
re: #705 Mocking Jay
The problem is that if it were to be removed it would leave everybody wondering. It's a bad idea.
Agreed. Smae with reviewing the guy's parole. If he is arrested, even for valid reasons, it's going to look very bad. I'm also not happy that a DoD official called Terry Jones attempting to get him to denounce the film. It's all starts to look like government action against free speech. This needs to be handled very carefully.
712 | Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:38:09am |
You know what would get super-banned? A YouTube video of Hitler's reaction to the anti-Muhammad film.— davidfrum (@davidfrum) September 14, 2012
713 | William of Orange Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:38:47am |
714 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:39:36am |
re: #705 Mocking Jay
The problem is that if it were to be removed it would leave everybody wondering. It's a bad idea.
I don't think it would. I don't think that most people actually wonder if the government intimidates media sources into shutting up. We have a wonderfully free media in this country, and it's a pity they spend so much of that freedom on trivial bullshit. We have only slightly less press freedom than in the most free countries, basically Northern Europe.
717 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:40:07am |
re: #706 blueraven
I dont think for a minute all this violence is because of this stupid video. But it was the match that lit the timber.
The video is the MacGuffin.
718 | Gus Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:40:47am |
Hahaha! Hickenlooper.
Colorado Governor comes out against marijuana legalization initiative thkpr.gs/PB6Nfy— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) September 14, 2012
719 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:40:50am |
RT: @reuters: "Breaking: Rioters at @usembassycairo in #Egypt demand US tourist visas. Said one: "Florida sounds lovely this time of year"".— Joseph Garcin (@_JosephGarcin) September 14, 2012
720 | Kragar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:41:15am |
Romney: Obama During Debates Will ‘Say Things That Aren’t True’
Mitt Romney told Good Morning America that he expects President Obama to "say things that aren't true" during the presidential debates this fall.
“I’ve looked at prior debates," Romney said. "And in that kind of case, it’s difficult to say, ‘Well, am I going to spend my time correcting things that aren’t quite accurate? Or am I going to spend my time talking about the things I want to talk about?'
721 | Sheila Broflovski Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:41:44am |
re: #716 Gus
Hitler? Outrage!
That subtitled clip from Niedergang was funny the first time I saw it, the second, third, fourth and nth times, not so much.
722 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:42:06am |
Romney estimates US "middle income" at $200-250k. Actual figure: $50k. Keep up the good work Daddy Warbucks. huffingtonpost.com/2012/09/14/rom...— Dorian Lynskey (@Dorianlynskey) September 14, 2012
723 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:42:15am |
The MFO Sinai peacekeeping compound has been attacked, observation tower lit on fire, 2 columbians and egyptian official wounded #egypt— betsy hiel (@betsy_hiel) September 14, 2012
724 | HappyWarrior Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:42:35am |
re: #720 Kragar
Romney: Obama During Debates Will ‘Say Things That Aren’t True’
And Mitt will only speak the truth because he has never uttered one falsehood this whole campaign. God this guy's a desperate fool.
725 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:44:00am |
re: #723 NJDhockeyfan
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This is non-stop entertainment for you, isn't it? That's okay...I feel the same way about watching Romney's campaign imploding...but at least people aren't dying there.
726 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:44:14am |
I think a lot of Americans don't understand just how much freedom we do have, just how good a government we have, just how little corruption we have, and just how good we have it in terms of our society and government.
727 | Eventual Carrion Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:44:54am |
re: #701 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste
Possibly. But how about all those living over there who are not Islamic fanatics out to kill Christians?
I would rather they (anti muslim crowd) would come to their senses and quit stoking anti American sentiment with their actions. But if they are unable to do that then they need to go somewhere else to do it rather than bring me and mine (perceived) into the shit.
728 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:45:33am |
re: #725 darthstar
This is non-stop entertainment for you, isn't it? That's okay...I feel the same way about watching Romney's campaign imploding...but at least people aren't dying there.
I see what is going on out there as extremely serious. What Romney is doing, not so much.
729 | Gus Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:45:50am |
re: #721 Sheila Brovlofski
That subtitled clip from Niedergang was funny the first time I saw it, the second, third, fourth and nth times, not so much.
I commenting on something else.
730 | HappyWarrior Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:46:06am |
re: #726 Obdicut
I think a lot of Americans don't understand just how much freedom we do have, just how good a government we have, just how little corruption we have, and just how good we have it in terms of our society and government.
I very much agree. Anyhow, brings me to a historical point but the Election of 1800 I think is one of the most important elections in US but world history as well. Rarely you had peaceful transfer of power before that election. So long story short, kudos John Adams.
731 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:46:43am |
re: #728 NJDhockeyfan
I see what is going on out there as extremely serious. What Romney is doing, not so much.
Romney and his allies are trying to use the unrest in the Middle East for political gain. That's pretty fucking serious...wanting American deaths to help you politically.
732 | HappyWarrior Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:46:51am |
re: #728 NJDhockeyfan
I see what is going on out there as extremely serious. What Romney is doing, not so much.
You don't think how a presidential nominee is responding to the situation is serious? Especially one who thinks he's better equipped to handle situations like this one.
733 | blueraven Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:47:35am |
re: #726 Obdicut
I think a lot of Americans don't understand just how much freedom we do have, just how good a government we have, just how little corruption we have, and just how good we have it in terms of our society and government.
Conversely, a lot of Americans cant comprehend that most people in the ME have been under dictator rule and they dont understand the concept of personal freedoms.
734 | Gus Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:47:44am |
@richarddawkins The problem with the world today is that there are so many people determined to be offended.— Skye Nicolas(@SKYENICOLAS) September 14, 2012
735 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:48:07am |
Average Muslims's life today: got up, ate food, worked, went to school, went to bed.— Zaid Jilani (@ZaidJilani) September 14, 2012
736 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:48:17am |
re: #732 HappyWarrior
You don't think how a presidential nominee is responding to the situation is serious? Especially one who thinks he's better equipped to handle situations like this one.
Foreign policy is a distraction.
/
737 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:49:03am |
re: #731 darthstar
Romney and his allies are trying to use the unrest in the Middle East for political gain. That's pretty fucking serious...wanting American deaths to help you politically.
Romney is rooting for American deaths? Really? Got a link?
738 | wrenchwench Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:50:32am |
COINCIDENCE? In Two Presidential Elections, An Anti-Muslim Film Has Emerged Exactly 7 Weeks Election Daywallstreetonparade.com/2012/09/in-the...— Barry Ritholtz (@ritholtz) September 14, 2012
740 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:52:37am |
re: #737 NJDhockeyfan
Romney is rooting for American deaths? Really? Got a link?
I didn't say rooting for more deaths, I said, "wanting American deaths to help you politically"...see his press conference from Wednesday when he didn't even acknolwedge the loss except in the context of how President Obama failed in Libya. He accused the President of siding with the people who killed the ambassador he appointed.
So yeah, fuck Mitt Romney.
741 | Gus Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:54:53am |
This is all starting to give me headache. Been a while since I've gotten one.
742 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:55:43am |
re: #740 darthstar
I didn't say rooting for more deaths, I said, "wanting American deaths to help you politically"...
Disagreeing with his politics is fine but saying he is wanting American deaths is just insane.
743 | efuseakay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:55:49am |
re: #740 darthstar
I didn't say rooting for more deaths, I said, "wanting American deaths to help you politically"...see his press conference from Wednesday when he didn't even acknolwedge the loss except in the context of how President Obama failed in Libya. He accused the President of siding with the people who killed the ambassador he appointed.
So yeah, fuck Mitt Romney.
Don't forget:
"If I were President, this wouldn't happen."
744 | Tigger2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:56:10am |
I'm not surprised the riots are taking place seeing how the right wing is always pushing muslim hate. no wonder they think all Americans feel that way.
745 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:56:12am |
746 | HappyWarrior Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:56:57am |
re: #735 darthstar
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That's your average life for anyone heh. Though I still need to eat.
747 | Kragar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:57:02am |
In Meetings With Anti-Pornography Group, Romney Campaign Promised To Prosecute Porn
Three months ago, well after Romney became the presumptive Republican nominee, his campaign held multiple meetings with Morality in Media, a group which describes itself as the “leading national organization opposing pornography and indecency,” according to executive director Dawn Hawkins. She told ThinkProgress that they had met with Alex Wong, Romney’s political director and legal policy adviser, to discuss the issue of pornography and what he would do about it if elected president.
During that meeting, Wong allegedly told Morality in Media that the campaign “would pursue prosecutions” of pornography and that the issue is “important to them.” The Romney campaign met with the organization “a number of times” in the past three months, Hawkins said.
No regulations on banking, energy or industry, but we'll be damned if we'll let people get away with lewd behavior!
748 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:57:04am |
re: #743 efuseakay
well it may not once Romney orders the military to basically level the greater M.E.
749 | efuseakay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:57:10am |
re: #742 NJDhockeyfan
Disagreeing with his politics is fine but saying he is wanting American deaths is just insane.
He is wanting American deaths to help him politically.
750 | HappyWarrior Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:57:53am |
re: #747 Kragar
In Meetings With Anti-Pornography Group, Romney Campaign Promised To Prosecute Porn
No regulations on banking, energy or industry, but we'll be damned if we'll let people get away with lewd behavior!
You'll take my pornography from my ice cold modem.
751 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:57:57am |
re: #741 Gus
This is all starting to give me headache. Been a while since I've gotten one.
Me too. It's getting pretty weird in here right now. I have to go do some work anyway.
Have a great weekend!
752 | NJDhockeyfan Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:58:40am |
753 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:58:55am |
re: #747 Kragar
this is what I find so hysterical, the wingnuts tend to be the largest consumers of porn, claim to be for individual liberty, claim to be all about the first amendment but they continually vote for puritans who would end all of it.
754 | Kragar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:59:15am |
Pornography, another industry Mitt wants to send offshore.
755 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:59:35am |
re: #750 HappyWarrior
You'll take my pornography from my ice cold modem.
or from warm, hairy palms...
756 | efuseakay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:59:37am |
re: #748 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
well it may not once Romney orders the military to basically level the greater M.E.
Too bad for Romney there are also Muslims in the US. Asia. Canada. Israel. Europe...
757 | darthstar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 10:59:41am |
758 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:00:24am |
re: #749 efuseakay
correction, I do not believe he wants American deaths, however he has shown he has no problem exploiting them for political gain.
759 | blueraven Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:00:44am |
re: #749 efuseakay
He is
wantingusing American deaths to help him politically.
761 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:01:14am |
re: #752 NJDhockeyfan
Fuckin A...you people are nuts today.
Context (that you snipped) is important.
762 | efuseakay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:01:29am |
re: #752 NJDhockeyfan
Fuckin A...you people are nuts today.
Double fucking A for blatantly misquoting me and completely missing the point of what's being said.
763 | HappyWarrior Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:01:36am |
re: #759 blueraven
Well, it's thankfully not working because to most people outside right wing hacks, the response to what he said Monday was overwhelmingly negative.
764 | Someone Please Beam Me Up! Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:01:49am |
re: #742 NJDhockeyfan
Disagreeing with his politics is fine but saying he is wanting American deaths is just insane.
Egypt isn't an ally but it's not an enemy.
He is wanting American deaths to help him politically.
Looks like it's contagious.
765 | Killgore Trout Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:02:18am |
re: #744 Tigger2
I'm not surprised the riots are taking place seeing how the right wing is always pushing muslim hate. no wonder they think all Americans feel that way.
You are out of your mind if you think wingnuts caused this
Rioters Chant ‘Obama, Obama, We Are All Osamas,’ Burn Stuff at U.S. Embassy in Tunisia
766 | Kragar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:02:32am |
Walid Phares, a controversial (to say the least) member of Mitt Romney’s Foreign Policy and National Security Advisory Team, is accusing President Obama of trying to “quit the ideological confrontation” with radical Islamic groups while speaking with Frank Gaffney this week.
Phares: Since 9/11 our military, our security agencies have been very successful, every battle we fought against the jihadists in Afghanistan and elsewhere, the elimination of their leaders, our military, our intelligence, was successful. Where we were not successful was ideologically, the political response, specifically of this administration. The last two years, probably (inaudible), but this administration has decided to quit the ideological confrontation and that's why we're not ending this war.Phares also said that the Muslim Brotherhood has succeeded in penetrating “the national security apparatus” and political institutions, and that many Muslim-American organizations are actually fronts for the Brotherhood. He even alleged that the Obama administration is now doing the work of the Brotherhood and deliberately undermined “our capacity as a nation and as a government to understand where the threat is coming from,” demanding Congress investigate the supposed infiltration.
What fucking planet are these assholes from?
767 | Tigger2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:02:41am |
Damn need a new thread this one is slowing down new comments don't want to load.
768 | dragonath Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:02:51am |
re: #752 NJDhockeyfan
I think people would take you more in good faith if you weren't supporting a party that supports the weakening of the separation between Church and State, school prayer, etc.
769 | makeitstop Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:03:33am |
re: #766 Kragar
What fucking planet are these assholes from?
They're going all in on all fronts, no matter how crazy it makes them look.
Smells like desperation.
770 | blueraven Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:03:43am |
re: #763 HappyWarrior
Well, it's thankfully not working because to most people outside right wing hacks, the response to what he said Monday was overwhelmingly negative.
Just trying to clear up darth's statement a little...that's how I read it anyway.
771 | HappyWarrior Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:03:44am |
re: #766 Kragar
What fucking planet are these assholes from?
Quit war on terror? Yeah, that explains why the number of terrorists has gone up in Obama's presidency.
772 | wrenchwench Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:04:01am |
re: #767 Tigger2
Damn need a new thread this one is slowing down new comments don't want to load.
Switch to Spy Mode (under the 'donate' button at the top.)
773 | efuseakay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:04:06am |
re: #759 blueraven
Using. And wanting these deaths to help him politically. He doesn't actually want Americans to die.
774 | HappyWarrior Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:04:13am |
re: #770 blueraven
Just trying to clear up darth's statement a little...that's how I read it anyway.
Yeah I know. Anyhow, screw Romney for what he did.
775 | Tigger2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:05:01am |
re: #765 Killgore Trout
You are out of your mind if you think wingnuts caused this
Rioters Chant ‘Obama, Obama, We Are All Osamas,’ Burn Stuff at U.S. Embassy in Tunisia
Yeah I do believe it, they have heard hate from the American right for years. Obama is the President so he is getting blamed for all the right wing shit.
776 | blueraven Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:06:19am |
re: #744 Tigger2
I'm not surprised the riots are taking place seeing how the right wing is always pushing muslim hate. no wonder they think all Americans feel that way.
No. This is not any better than saying "lefties" caused this.
777 | efuseakay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:07:07am |
re: #765 Killgore Trout
You are out of your mind if you think wingnuts caused this
Rioters Chant ‘Obama, Obama, We Are All Osamas,’ Burn Stuff at U.S. Embassy in Tunisia
You're even further out of your mind trying to pin this on the President.
778 | Kragar Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:07:56am |
GOP Farm Bill Obstruction Could Defund 90 Percent Of Department Of Agriculture
The 2012 Farm Bill is still languishing in the House, with GOP leadership in the chamber intentionally preventing action on the legislation for political reasons. According to the New York Times, “House leaders declined to take up either [the Senate or the House] version of the legislation. They are not eager to force their members to take a vote that would be difficult for some of them, nor would they wish to pass a measure largely with Democrats’ votes right before an election.”
But without a new five-year Farm Bill or at least a temporary extension of current legislation, the Department of Agriculture may be forced to shutter almost all of its operations.
The Farm Bill serves as a mass funding mechanism for the USDA — it provides funding for roughly 90 percent of the Department’s operations, meaning those operations may have to shut down if the Farm Bill isn’t renewed. According to the National Sustainable Agriculture Commission, the effect of even a temporary shutdown could be long-lasting:
779 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:09:14am |
780 | Mocking Jay Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:09:41am |
re: #779 Mocking Jay
Claims that President Obama disarmed embassy Marines turns out to be another cowardly wingnut lie
Hey, weren't there some useful idiots in here posting this story yesterday?
781 | Obdicut Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:09:52am |
re: #778 Kragar
GOP playing chicken with the economy again.
783 | Tigger2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:10:42am |
re: #780 Mocking Jay
Hey, weren't there some useful idiots in here posting this story yesterday?
Of course it is they don't know how to do anything else.
784 | Tigger2 Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:13:22am |
LOL someone on the news just said the tea party of Libya are the ones rioting.
785 | Interesting Times Fri, Sep 14, 2012 11:20:46am |
Don't want people accusing you of wanting US deaths? Then quit smirking like a psychopathic idiot when you talk about them:
Still don't know who you will vote for? This picture will end your indecision. @arianna8927 twitter.com/AynRandPaulRya... #p2— Heidi Hanson(@HansonHeidi) September 13, 2012
786 | simoom Fri, Sep 14, 2012 1:08:08pm |
re: #556 Kronocide
President Obama Skips Intel. Briefing One Day After Embassy Attacks, Media Silent on the Issue ow.ly/1mrXUM
— NewsBusters (@newsbusters) September 14, 2012
You're buying into a BS lie made up by former Bush speechwriter Marc Thiessen. All he's doing is looking at the public schedule and when they don't see a security briefing listed they've decided it means he's getting none at all.
President Obama returned to the practice of reading the written daily briefing, as was done in most prior admins, and writing any additional questions for further research and response. His public schedule doesn't reflect his getting the briefings, it just shows he doesn't have someone read them to him.
Beyond all that, NewsBusters... really???
[Link: www.washingtonpost.com...]
787 | BeenHereAwhile Fri, Sep 14, 2012 1:47:43pm |
re: #133 Obdicut
The USPS is surprisingly chill in what they'll delivery. Probably livens their day up a lot.
I shipped a set of IH Scout II dual exhaust pipes from Colorado to Miami via UPS. Imagine two 1-1/2" pipes with bends approx 9 feet long.
788 | BeenHereAwhile Fri, Sep 14, 2012 1:51:40pm |
re: #138 Decatur Deb
re: #137 sattv4u2
That's my dad's generation, Jeeps and 'war trophies'
You still have the Jeep your dad "bought" you !?!?!/
Nah--that's just a WWII legend. Think I have seen credible stories of hairy small-arms coming back.
(My '73 Land Rover was legally imported from a Belgian Army surplus yard--the paperwork in Flemish and Walloon has stayed with it. Gave the Alabama DMV girl a chore.)
IIRC Alabama is the state that issued a vehicle license tag for a Porsche 917.
789 | Decatur Deb Fri, Sep 14, 2012 1:54:52pm |
re: #788 BeenHereAwhile
IIRC Alabama is the state that issued a vehicle license tag for a Porsche 917.
Could well be.
The state was a laundry for stolen car titles until about 20 years ago, then went puritanical. Once gave up on licensing a 20 yr old MG Midget and sold it for parts.