is this it? did it happen? are we all dead?

Not being at the top of the food chain can suck at times.

re: #1 SpaceJesus

is this it? did it happen? are we all dead?

Five minutes.

yep. the world ended and this is hell. stuck in an lgf thread with df

oh hey happywarrior

re: #4 SpaceJesus

yep. the world ended and this is hell. stuck in an lgf thread with df

re: #4 SpaceJesus

yep. the world ended and this is hell. stuck in an lgf thread with df

Hell is other people.

I don't know what all this end of the world business is about. I don't feel any different.

Wait, BRB, somebody's pounding on the front door.

re: #8 Targetpractice

I don't know what all this end of the world business is about. I don't feel any different.

Wait, BRB, somebody's pounding on the front door.

I remember waiting for the dead to rise back during y2k.

I was so disappointed.

AAAAHHHHHHHH THE HEAAAT!! I'M BURRRRRRRRNEEEEEENGGGGGG!

Tell my wife I love her.

it's...it's...beautiful

A Norquist Before Crying #BoehnerFilms

— Richard Hine (@richardhine) December 21, 2012

My God, it's full of stars!

*THUMP*

12:00 EST.

i should have gone to church more/ever

I had a vision but I'm not going to tell any of you about it.

Buy my book

...

itchy...

tasty...

...

re: #11 HappyWarrior

Tell my wife I love her.

She knows.

I shouldn't have coveted thy neighbor's mother in law.

re: #21 HappyWarrior

I shouldn't have coveted thy neighbor's mother in law.

NMILILF

It's smaller

but cleaner

@buzzfeedandrew And Cloverfield (1/9) Movie CLIP - The Statue of Liberty's Head (2008): youtu.be/RkFcHUvyJ-k via @youtube

— Gus (@Gus_802) December 21, 2012

Leopard gets upstaged:

re: #8 Targetpractice

I don't know what all this end of the world business is about. I don't feel any different.

Wait, BRB, somebody's pounding on the front door.

Don't answer it! It's the grim reaper! End of the world! 12/21/12!

Well, it's 12/21/2012 America time! The world is saved!

//

how do we prove we're not all dead exactly

Though shalt not covet thy neighbor's tax bracket

re: #28 Gus

Well, it's 12/21/2012 America time! The world is saved!

//

What time zone is Maya in?
/

Quetzalcoatl dry humped my leg

re: #28 Gus

Well, it's 12/21/2012 America time! The world is saved!

//

Methinks we have less than 24 hours! Never give up the end times. Not until 23:59:5999!

someone call m. night

re: #29 SpaceJesus

how do we prove we're not all dead exactly

Only one way...

LETS GO STREAKING!!!

re: #34 SpaceJesus

someone call m. night

Shamalamadingdong?

re: #33 Joanne

Methinks we have less than 24 hours! Never give up the end times. Not until 23:59:5999!

We've got a window!

Does anyone know the next end times date?

re: #38 Joanne

12/25

re: #38 Joanne

They're like buses; one will be along any minute.

Jim Gaffigan - Beyond the Pale - Hot Pockets: youtu.be/N-i9GXbptog via @youtube

— Gus (@Gus_802) December 21, 2012

BTW:

LDS Church President John Taylor wrote:

The story of the life of the Mexican divinity, Quetzalcoatl, closely resembles that of the Savior; so closely, indeed, that we can come to no other conclusion than that Quetzalcoatl and Christ are the same being. But the history of the former has been handed down to us through an impure Lamanitish source.[20]

Uh oh

re: #38 Joanne

Does anyone know the next end times date?

January 21 according to some.

re: #27 Joanne

Don't answer it! It's the grim reaper! End of the world! 12/21/12!

You want to stop the world from ending? Don't wear a red shirt tomorrow! MBB

— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) December 21, 2012

On a true note. I'm bummed it's the first day of winter. Spring can't come soon enough.

Recent Top Stories: Scientific Doomsday: Ways the World Could Actually End oak.ctx.ly/r/1nou

— Wired (@wired) December 21, 2012

re: #42 dragonath

BTW:

Uh oh

Well, the Aztecs though Hernando Cortez might be Quetzalcoatl. That didn't work out too well for them.

re: #45 jaunte

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Now that's actually funny.

re: #43 Kragar

January 21 according to some.

And this is based upon...?

And now, Sex Robot.

re: #50 Joanne

And this is based upon...?

Obama's inauguration I believe. Not sure the deets but I think he reveals his true identity- the anti-christ who is also a Muslim Socialist Marxist Nazi Progressive Homosexual Hippie.

Happy Not-Pocalypse! Now go to bed, you've got work tomorrow!

re: #52 HappyWarrior

Obama's inauguration I believe. Not sure the deets but I think he reveals his true identity- the anti-christ who is also a Muslim Socialist Marxist Nazi Progressive Homosexual Hippie.

Play summary.

"@thespoiler28: @williamshatnerwill be keeping Christ in Christmas this year, true or false" You do know that I'm Jewish...

— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) December 10, 2012

The veiled threats & crazed abuse I get from'gun rights' people on here merely confirms my view that many guns are in dangerous hands.

— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan) December 20, 2012

re: #52 HappyWarrior

Duh! I should have gotten that.

I thought there was seven years after the anti Christ showed himself. Or was I just hoping for a few extra years?

re: #57 Joanne

Duh! I should have gotten that.

I thought there was seven years after the anti Christ showed himself. Or was I just hoping for a few extra years?

I don't know. I'm sure whoever Obama's successor as the standard bearer of the Democratic Party will be the true Anti-Christ though and somehow that's not a coincidence. More seriously speaking. What I love about this crap is that people have been talking this kind of crazy talk for generations and generations. And they keep on being shown to be fools but they persist in their foolish stubborness.

The scene here in Cleveland is devastating. The river is on fire, homes abandon, and a dystopian future has taken hold. Business as usual.

— Andrew Kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) December 21, 2012

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Holy crap. Photo of Australia at the moment: i.imgur.com/Chm5B.jpg

— Jessie Kaufman (@JessieKPhoto) December 21, 2012

re: #58 HappyWarrior

I'm sure, one day, Yellowstone is going to pop its top, or some other major catastrophe will befall humanity. It may very well be end times for most living things. But I'm certain it won't be because Jesus has returned.

re: #60 jaunte

Image: jokers.jpg

The one on the left is hunched over a bit and has a sneakiness about him, so that'd be Heath Ledger's Joker. The one on the right is more upright and seemingly straightforward, so that one's Jack Nicholson's Joker.

I'm getting ads for Billy Crystal movies. It really is the apocalypse.

re: #61 jaunte

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I don't know man, but I think that might be faked. If not, we're seriously fucked.

re: #61 jaunte

Awesome photo editing there. :-)

Wait a minute. I'm hearing noises.

It's like a giant thud sound. Something big, walking.

"Baked in a buttery flaky crust"

How hard can it be to say six words on camera? (funny stuff)

re: #63 Dark_Falcon

They're actually soviets:
[Link: englishrussia.com...]

Did we say 12/21/2012?

We meant 12/21/2112.

-- The Mayans

re: #71 BongCrodny

Did we say 12/21/2012?

We meant 12/21/2112.

-- The Mayans

HEY TOM SAWYER HE GETS HIGH ON YOU

re: #71 BongCrodny

Did we say 12/21/2012?

We meant 12/21/2112.

-- The Mayans

Great, it's going to be hell to pay when I'm 125.

re: #55 dragonath

You want to stop the world from ending? Don't wear a red shirt tomorrow! MBB

— William Shatner (@WilliamShatner) December 21, 2012

The grim, brooding Batman is pretty cool, but I kinda miss the Batman who couldn't figure out that Joe Kerr was an alias of The Joker.

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re: #23 Kragar

You pre-outclassed me DAMN YOU!

re: #76 dragonath

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THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT!

re: #69 watching you tiny alien kittens are

"Baked in a buttery flaky crust"

How hard can it be to say six words on camera? (funny stuff)

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That chicken pot pie looks damned good!! (I think I'm hungry!)

re: #76 dragonath

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re: #75 BongCrodny

The grim, brooding Batman is pretty cool, but I kinda miss the Batman who couldn't figure out that Joe Kerr was an alias of The Joker.

I don't. I have to root for idiots in the run up to elections, so I don't like to do it when I'm watching a movie.

Night all!

re: #81 Dark_Falcon

I don't. I have to root for idiots in the run up to elections, so I don't like to do it when I'm watching a movie.

I gave you an upding even though I don't believe you had to.

RT @forbestech: The culture shock of India's call centers bit.ly/T0xMRN

— Christian Verstraete (@christianve) December 21, 2012

Interesting background on the caller who says his name is Tom, when it's really Raja.

Sonam Nidur, who’s worked on the floor for two years in North Bangalore, had come to some conclusions of her own. The Canadians were fine, but she didn’t want to field any calls from Americans. “I was working for Cricket, but the customers were scary. Americans won’t calm down,” she said, repeating the mantra we’d heard from others that US customers are impossible to deal with.

re: #83 Usually refered to as anyways

I gave you an upding even though I don't believe you had to.

Whatever party you vote for, some of its candidates are always idiots.

re: #85 Dark_Falcon

Whatever party you vote for, some of its candidates are always idiots.

Whilst that may be true, I would consider the degrees to be relevant.
The Republicans do have some serious extremists.

Can't keep up with all the upcoming end times prophecies and predicted future apocalyptic events? Do you feel at a loss when the water cooler conversation at work turns to the First Millennium Apocalypse prophecy but you never payed much attention in class to medieval apocalypse memes? Then Wikipedia has you covered...

List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events

:p

The supernatural does not exist.

Goodnight, all.

Bill Monroe - Blue Moon Of Kentucky

re: #88 Gus

The supernatural does not exist.

Sure it does. I've watched the last few seasons on Netflix.

I wonder if the annoying ice cream truck will have Apocalypsicals this Summer

re: #91 Kragar

Sure it does. I've watched the last few seasons on Netflix.

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Brick from Oncoming Truck Kills Passenger

re: #88 Gus

The supernatural does not exist.

It might. I think its most correct to say I don't know one way or the other.

re: #94 Mich-again

It might. I think its most correct to say I don't know one way or the other.

I'll wait for proof.

Well all the talk about instituting certain bans has had the predicable effect. Hi capacity magazines are selling like crazy. In many cases people are buying them for guns they don't even own yet, often just as a speculative investment. The online gun stores have pretty much all sold out inventories that would normally last several months, especially for popular plinker platforms like the Ruger 10/22. Midway has so many backorders on BX-25's that their current estimate on shipping is six months out.

I have a very disturbing song stuck as an earworm.

You can look up "bacterial contamination" if you're curious, and then look up the english translation if you're really curious. One odd thing is that the song is only sung by Hatsune Miku not a real person.

re: #88 Gus

The supernatural does not exist.

Look, if the supernatural existed then we'd tax it.

We don't tax it, QED

Grover Norquist's Ghost would oppose it...

Good morning, godless heathens.

"Lord, Spare Me This Godforsaken Holiday Card!"

re: #1 SpaceJesus

is this it? did it happen? are we all dead?

Yes

I never really believed in an afterlife. So I was wrong. It wouldn't be the first time.

Afterlife

A translation of the romanza, courtesy Wikipedia:
A single furtive tear
from her eyes sprang:
As if of those playful youths
envious she appeared to become.
What more need I look for?
What more need I look for?
She loves me! Yes, she loves me, I see it. I see it.
Just for an instant the beating of
her beautiful heart I felt!
And my sighs became as one
fleetingly with her sighs!
Her heart beating, her heart beating to feel,
our sighs confounded as one...
Heavens! Yes I could, I could die!
More I can't ask, I can't ask.
Oh, heavens! Yes I could! Yes I could die!
More I can't ask, I can't ask.
Yes I could die! If I could die of love.

I had to look this up, it's another case of love potion number wine.

Also, VIP:

Happy Solstice everyone, we emerge once more from the depths of the night of darkest dark -- every day forward from now until June 21st we gain daylight, and every night will shrink. In Fairbanks they will gain 7 minutes per day for a while. And so it goes that for people from the far North 12/21 is such a happy day. Go jump over a bonfire or something if you haven't already.

I really noticed that this morning, woke up at 7:30 and it was still dark here in Germany, just below the 50th parallell. My friends in Oulu, Finland have it worse...about an hour of dusk at midday.

re: #106 Sol Berdinowitz

I think this means during Saturnalia you're going to have to party extra hard to appease the Rock and Roll God, Thor.

It's still dark here in Kansas, almost six in the am.

Really excellent article from a 'liberal Christian' blogger about the insane right-wing religious response to Sandy Hook and how it actually clearly shows that abortion and the murder of children are not viewed the same even by those who claim they believe abortion to be murder.

[Link: www.patheos.com...]

But for Dobson, “the murder of children” refers not to Sandy Hook, but to abortion. Hence the weird assertion on his radio program Monday that the murder of 20 schoolchildren is somehow God’s judgment falling on America because of the murder of “54 million babies.”

The incoherence there comes from Dobson’s heartfelt and undeniable recognition that the Newtown massacre was far, far worse than any number of abortions. He knows that. He feels that.

But Dobson has painted himself into an ethical and rhetorical corner and so he cannot allow himself to admit that.

For decades, James Dobson has insisted that abortion is “murder,” that it is “killing babies” and that no distinction — ethical, moral, theological, legal — can be allowed between those “unborn babies” and actual babies. Like most evangelicals and many Catholics, Dobson has always fiercely maintained that the killing of unborn “children” is no different from the killing of actual children.

But whenever horrible crimes like this one occur, then Dobson, just like the rest of us, beholds what has happened and recognizes that it is vastly different and wholly incomparable.

Dobson knows this. Decades of rhetorical obfuscation have deprived him of any way of expressing it or of admitting it, but James Dobson still knows this.

All that talk has left him unable to describe what he is feeling or why. He doesn’t know how to name the sorrow he feels on the news of the actual murder of actual children.

But he knows that this is a different thing. He knows that his revulsion at this crime is nothing at all like the opposition he has always expressed to abortion, even though for all these years he has used identical language demanding that we all regard the two things as identical and equivalent.
But they are not identical and they are not equivalent. Dobson knows this. Every moral intuition he has screams that these things are not equivalent.
We all know this. All of us. Even those of us who have staked our rhetoric, our politics, and our moral reasoning on the glib pretense that it is not so.
Every “pro-life” evangelical, every Operation Rescue picketer, every March for Life participant, every Christianity Today editorialist, every Catholic bishop, priest and pope knows that the murder of 20 children is essentially different and far worse than any 20 abortions. All their beloved rhetoric of “abortion is murder” and “abortion kills unborn children” turns to ashes in the wake of incidents like the slaughter in Newtown.

Happy Solstice everyone, we emerge once more from the depths of the night of darkest dark -- every day forward from now until June 21st we gain daylight, and every night will shrink. In Fairbanks they will gain 7 minutes per day for a while. And so it goes that for people from the far North 12/21 is such a happy day. Go jump over a bonfire or something if you haven't already.

I haven't seen the sun in weeks.

re: #109 Obdicut

That article seems to be saying that people like Dobson who are uselessly blaming the Newtown massacre on "God's judgement" over abortion, gays etc. are sputtering because they are too proud to admit that the massacre made it clear to them that the murder of children is not the same thing as, is much worse than abortion.

But he's missing a few things. While it's true that they are reacting more strongly to this than they would to the weeks abortion statistics, and that implicitly proves that point, what they're really doing is maintaining an assertion that bad things happen only when God is angry at the victim - ie. that providence prevents all real evil.

That this involves blaming innocent people like gay newlyweds for the slaughter of children - indeed involves even blaming the children for being part of the same nation as those gays - is not a coincidence.

For one thing there's Exodus "... I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, punishing the children for the sin of the fathers to the third and fourth generation of those who hate me"

The inhumanity, the horror, the monsterousness of believing in providence was always there. If you believe in providence, then you have to believe that 6 million Jews, families and all, were so hated by God that he inflicted the Holocaust on them. If you believe in providence, then you have to believe that AIDS victims are being justly punished for their sins. If you believe in providence, then you have to believe that the plagues that swept the New World when the Europeans arrived were a judgement on the heathens who already lived here. You have to believe that God hated Africans so much that he allowed slavery in the US. etc. etc. etc.

Belief in providence is not just childish wishful thinking, but it's childishness necessarily married to inhumanity. And what we see in these inhuman statements by religious nutcase after religious nutcase is how many of them are deeply embedded in wishful thinking AND inhumanity.

This shouldn't be a surprise. If you've been paying attention to the right, then you know, for instance, that opposition to environmental legislation has long been rooted in a belief in providence. Rush Limbaugh said "God would not make a world that man could harm"

Opposition to health care insurance was predicated on something similar.

Opposition to AIDS funding was predicated on providence.

Etc.

The problem is that these people are deeply immature, unable to face neither the nature of evil nor the fact that mankind, that society has responsibilities to prevent tragedy. The can face the fact that people have to, sometimes, oppose evil, but they can't face the fact that God doesn't protect from massive tragedy. That's too big for them.

Perhaps their belief in God and in an afterlife are also based in the unwillingness to face the possibility of horror. Perhaps, if they were emotionally capable of facing the reality of being unprotected they wouldn't be believers in the first place.

Whatever party you vote for, some of its candidates are always idiots.

While this is true, only in the Republican party is it required by the voters.

re: #110 Renaissance_Man

I haven't seen the sun in weeks.

stop looking down!
/

Morning Lizardim. Happy Friday from the bitterly cold wild north country. How go things among the Lizardim, as I prepare for my trip back to fish country?

re: #111 stabby

They believe in a big, bearded guy in the sky who moves us around like chess pieces. That system of belief still exists in the backward parts of the world...

I wanted to fix a grammatical error, but when I hit the edit button I get the message "editing time has expired" WTF?

Crap, world's still here, guess I gotta go to work after all.

re: #116 stabby

I wanted to fix a grammatical error, but when I hit the edit button I get the message "editing time has expired" WTF?

iirc, it's a 10 (or so) minute window to edit

Report: Mark Sanford to Run for House

Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford plans to run in the special election for Rep. Tim Scott’s seat, CNN reports.

The Republican’s entrance into the race shakes up a field that could include his ex-wife, Jenny Sanford, among other candidates.

This could be fun.

This is the most boring apocalypse I've ever been a part of.

It wouldn't have been if you all had entertained my ideas of human sacrifice.

re: #120 Henchman 25

This is the most boring apocalypse I've ever been a part of.

Yeah, at least the Rapture was entertaining because of the fact that all my Christian friends got involved and had a good time. Not even any of my Facebook wingnuts are saying anything this time around.

I'm not sick but I'm not weeell ♪_♪♫♪♪^♩♩♫♪♪♫

re: #121 dragonath

It wouldn't have been if you all had entertained my ideas of human sacrifice.

Do you know how hard it is to get blood out of the carpet?

re: #124 Targetpractice

That's why my preferred method of human sacrifice is "car accident"

Blood washes right off the bumper and no one seems to notice a child embedded in your grill anyway.

re: #120 Henchman 25

This is the most boring apocalypse I've ever been a part of.

We did our part--1 to 5 tornadoes touched down nearby.

re: #124 Targetpractice

That's why I hold all my exorcisms and blood feasts at the Red Carpet Inn. The cleaning ladies can't tell the difference anyway.

I'm abusing search engines. ... I'm not sure I really wanted to know that someone has lipsynced My Little Pony to death metal.

re: #120 Henchman 25

This is the most boring apocalypse I've ever been a part of.

Damn, we're still here? I totally forgot about today's date.

Bryan is having a DERP meltdown.

So much DERP, what to make fun of?

re: #130 Vicious Michigan Union Thug

I'm starting to wish that LGF would unfollow him.

@bryanjfischer And how did those tax cuts for "job creators" prevent the economic meltdown? Oops, they totally didn't. #FAIL

— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) December 21, 2012

re: #123 stabby

re: #131 stabby

I'm starting to wish that LGF would unfollow him.

But so many laughs!

re: #132 Vicious Michigan Union Thug

Every time someone uses the phrase "job creators" as a euphemism for "obscenely rich", I want to reach through the Internet and slap them in the face.

Seems that scheduled the NRA's press conference for 10:45EST. This should be a hoot.

re: #135 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too

Every time someone uses the phrase "job creators" as a euphemism for "obscenely rich", I want to reach through the Internet and slap them in the face.

Well, I guess he's technically correct, since Boehner wanted to raise taxes on the middle class and the poor, whose demand for goods creates all those jobs.

re: #137 Targetpractice

yeah, half the country does. They're losing the propaganda war that they made up themselves.

Damn it, internet, I'm finding cool things that are too NSFW and too immature to post here.

You know the game "curling"? I remember it from Canada. Rocks slide across ice, and people with brooms...

So why do I see a picture of naked, lubed up japanese women sliding across fake ice and other women with brooms... why?

Just dropped junior off at his high school. The police have squads parked around campus due to threats associated with the whole end of the world buzz.

Police and ATF raid East Windsor gun shop after theft of AR-15 from store.

Oh, and it's the same store that had sold the gun used in the Sandy Hook massacre.

Adam Lanza had two pistols and the AR-15 when he entered Sandy Hook Elementary School Friday morning, and in just a matter of minutes, he fired multiple rounds, killing 20 children and six adults. Before the school shooting, he shot his mother four times.

Riverview Gun Sales is the same store where police believe a different man stole an assault weapon and was trying to carry out a similar attack.

In a video obtained by Eyewitness News, Jordan Marsh, 26, of South Windsor, can be seen stealing an AR-15 with a scope just four days earlier.

Marsh was caught stealing a 50-caliber long gun from the Riverview Gun Sales on Saturday. Police found the AR-15 in a duffel bag in a room at the Hartford Hilton that day.

"It's scary, I mean I got three kids," said Sharon Hodge of South Windsor, who spoke with Eyewitness News.

For the past two years, she has opened her home to Marsh, who is her boyfriend's son.

Marsh, who Hodge said suffers from schizophrenia as well as other mental issues, was off his medication when he was arrested Saturday.

"It's unbelievable," Hodge said after seeing the story on WFSB.

Police said Riverview Gun Sales had no idea the AR-15 Marsh stole was missing. Management at the store didn't know about 11 guns that Marsh had allegedly stolen last year until they were notified by detectives.

Inventory control issues at Riverview Gun Sales have occurred before. In 2007, state police raided a Somers home and found a bunch of stolen guns from the store.

"It was found that the same Riverview gun store was missing upwards of 30-plus guns," said East Windsor police Detective Matthew Carl.

If gun shops have such lackluster security, do we expect anyone else to do better?

Apparently this gun shop has no clue about its inventory - they only learned of the stolen guns after police told them of the thefts.

Here's what I don't get - video purportedly shows the thefts, but the store didn't know they had occurred? Was this BATF or local LEOs who had their own cameras installed, or was this further incompetency by the store to not actually view/review security video.

re: #141 lawhawk

Police and ATF raid East Windsor gun shop after theft of AR-15 from store.

Oh, and it's the same store that had sold the gun used in the Sandy Hook massacre.

If gun shops have such lackluster security, do we expect anyone else to do better?

Apparently this gun shop has no clue about its inventory - they only learned of the stolen guns after police told them of the thefts.

"No gun shop would ever sell to a crazy person!"

They're right, the crazy guy just walks in and takes what he likes.

re: #142 Targetpractice

It's such an efficient system.

re: #130 Vicious Michigan Union Thug

Good grief. His first tweet was at 7:45am ET, which is 6:45am his time (Tupelo, MS). Sunrise in Tupelo was at 6:57am. That means this asshat gets up with the roosters to start his hateful crowing. O_o

re: #135 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too

Every time someone uses the phrase "job creators" as a euphemism for "obscenely rich", I want to reach through the Internet and slap them in the face.

Well, they DO create jobs, like at Walmart, McD's, and in Bangladesh sweatshops.

Convenient too. Except for the victims.re: #145 Vicious Michigan Union Thug

They create the jobs that count.... lobbyists!

re: #141 lawhawk

Marsh was caught stealing a 50-caliber long gun from the Riverview Gun Sales on Saturday. Police found the AR-15 in a duffel bag in a room at the Hartford Hilton that day

What tipped the police to go to the Hilton to check on this guy Marsh?

In a video obtained by Eyewitness News, Jordan Marsh, 26, of South Windsor, can be seen stealing an AR-15 with a scope just four days earlier.

Did the police get the surveillance video from the store before or after the tip?

Or is that just sloppy reporting?

LMAO:

Judge: 1st Amend = can flip finger in holiday lights. Wrong. Protects political speech, not profanity. fxn.ws/ZYl8Ip

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) December 21, 2012

Flipping the bird isn't Constitutionally protected free speech!!11! Only political speech is protected--everything else is subject to censorship!

re: #148 CuriousLurker

LMAO:

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I want to see a picture of that lights display!

VDH goes Whiny Conservative about race.

Hilarity ensues.

re: #141 lawhawk

Police and ATF raid East Windsor gun shop after theft of AR-15 from store.

Oh, and it's the same store that had sold the gun used in the Sandy Hook massacre.

If gun shops have such lackluster security, do we expect anyone else to do better?

Apparently this gun shop has no clue about its inventory - they only learned of the stolen guns after police told them of the thefts.

Here's what I don't get - video purportedly shows the thefts, but the store didn't know they had occurred? Was this BATF or local LEOs who had their own cameras installed, or was this further incompetency by the store to not actually view/review security video.

The vast majority of gun stores have proper and tight security. This one didn't and it likely should have its FFL pulled for that (or put on probation if it isn't already, since a single screw-up that wasn't a result of the dealer breaking the law isn't usually grounds for revocation).

Pretty close to have the new computer up.

Tell me computer wonks, are McAfee and SpySweeper worth keeping on the laptop hard drive, which will be removed and put into the desktop?

Medieval II's installation goofed a bit, so it is being uninstalled, repurchased on Steam on the new computer, then reinstalled.

If the new racialism grows unchecked, it will eventually lead to cycles of backlash and counter-backlash -- and some day to something like the Balkans or Rwanda.

What he means:

Those who cry racism are the real racists.

re: #150 Kronocide

VDH goes Whiny Conservative about race.

Hilarity ensues.

Not a good piece, but thankfully its not hateful either. I'm glad Hanson avoided Derbyshire's path, though its still an alarmist piece.

re: #147 sattv4u2

That's puzzling. I'm wondering whether the store had the video but never checked it or whether LEOs had installed their own cameras to see what was going on there and found it independent of any security initiative by the store itself.

It's a very curious detail.

re: #148 CuriousLurker

LMAO:

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I would love to see the Supreme Court try to figure out a way to divide the line between "Bryan Fischer's political tweets are idiotic" and "Bryan Fischer's political tweets are fucking idiotic."

re: #151 Dark_Falcon

The guy who stole the AR-15 (apparently the same model as the one used in the massacre) also was found in possession of the .50 caliber weapon.

Two weapons. At least.

BTW, I've paged the gun shop situation.

re: #154 Dark_Falcon

Not a good piece, but thankfully its not hateful either. I'm glad Hanson avoided Derbyshire's path, though its still an alarmist piece.

That's one of the worst ones I've ever seen from him. Not hateful? Maybe spiteful would be the word.

If the new racialism grows unchecked, it will eventually lead to cycles of backlash and counter-backlash -- and some day to something like the Balkans or Rwanda.

Basically, it's a lament that there's a double standard, and if it goes unchecked, we'll end up like the Balkans or Rwanda. So black people should just STFU about race.

It's pretty vile stuff.

re: #155 lawhawk

That's puzzling. I'm wondering whether the store had the video but never checked it or whether LEOs had installed their own cameras to see what was going on there and found it independent of any security initiative by the store itself.

It's a very curious detail.

They would have needed a judges order (not out of the question considering the stores history) but then they would have also had to have been able to identify Marsh from that video (hard unless he already was 'known' to the cops) or else how would the cops have known it was him and then tracked him to the Hilton

re: #150 Kronocide

VDH has been unreadably stupid for a while.

Everyone who slid over to Pajamas media went lazy and derped so hard I'm surprised they haven't forgotten to breath and died.

Apparently wingnuts are bad for each other's mental health.

Mila Kunis is well-liked in the West, but her fame has attracted some haters in her native Ukraine. And those haters are of the worst sort:

Mila Kunis has been targeted in an anti-Semitic rant.

A slur was reportedly made against the 29-year-old actress - who has been dating Two And A Half Men star Ashton Kutcher for nine months - by a politician in her native Ukraine.

According to gossip website TMZ.com, Jewish organisations around the globe are furious that Igor Miroshnichenko said the Ted star was not a true Ukrainian and called her a 'zhydovka.'

The statement translates as 'dirty Jewess' and is reportedly a derogatory word against Jewish people that was used during the Holocaust, TMZ said.

Protests have broken out in recent days after the Ukrainian Justice Ministry ruled that using the term to describe a Jewish person was legal, turning back a petition demanding that the offensive word be banned from the public sphere.

And to Mr. Miroshnichenko, let me just say:

Fuck You, you hate-spewing son of a bitch!

re: #157 lawhawk

The guy who stole the AR-15 (apparently the same model as the one used in the massacre) also was found in possession of the .50 caliber weapon.

Two weapons. At least.

Oops.

Grover Norquist and Newt Gingrich suggest a gift

Gore Vidal?!!

re: #151 Dark_Falcon

The vast majority of gun stores have proper and tight security. This one didn't and it likely should have its FFL pulled for that (or put on probation if it isn't already, since a single screw-up that wasn't a result of the dealer breaking the law isn't usually grounds for revocation).

This post edited per info given by Lawhawk.

re: #165 Dark_Falcon

Up shit creek doesn't even describe how much trouble the gun store and this guy are in.

re: #163 Dark_Falcon

Actually, the two guns (the AR-15 and the 50 cal) were only the latest weapons to be stole. The suspect had stolen 11 other guns from the store.

Police said Riverview Gun Sales had no idea the AR-15 Marsh stole was missing. Management at the store didn't know about 11 guns that Marsh had allegedly stolen last year until they were notified by detectives.

Inventory control issues at Riverview Gun Sales have occurred before. In 2007, state police raided a Somers home and found a bunch of stolen guns from the store.

Despite all the inventory control problems, the store remained open.

Somehow, I don't think that will be the case now.

The main thing about the Wingnuts like Victor David Hansen is that no matter how stupid, no matter how specious his arguments are, he has a hozzana chorus that will tell him that he's brilliant.

By now he's devolved into being lazier and making less sense than a toddler. His mind has totally gone to seed.

re: #164 dragonath

Grover Norquist and Newt Gingrich suggest a gift

NAME: Newt Gingrich, author and presidential candidate
GIFT: A Lincoln kit

i've always wanted to build my own Abraham Lincoln.

Well as long as what he writes judgmental toward outsiders, they'll love him. That's all they demand, and he's happy to give it to them.

If he ever criticized Republicans that would be another matter, but none of them ever break that rule.

re: #168 stabby

By now he's devolved into being lazier and making less sense than a toddler. His mind has totally gone to seed.

I think he sold out. There's a market for this madness, it sells.

re: #167 lawhawk

Actually, the two guns (the AR-15 and the 50 cal) were only the latest weapons to be stole. The suspect had stolen 11 other guns from the store.

Despite all the inventory control problems, the store remained open.

Somehow, I don't think that will be the case now.

That bad? Yeah, for that sort of failure the ATF will close down a gun store and yank its owner's FFL, and they should. Not know a gun had been stolen for a day or two might be understandable, though not tolerable, but not knowing for over a year that your inventory had been shrunk like that? The guy's not only a disgrace to gun dealers, he's also a disgrace to store management. No retail location whose inventory I was responsible for ever had that kind of fuck-up on my watch, I can tell you that.

re: #141 lawhawk

IF you read ATF regs (I have since I have a FFL03) you'll know these people either are felony stupid or they knew and didn't report the thefts. Either will get them a 10 year vacation at Club Fed.

This is not how a legal gunshop is run and they will pay, bigtime, for that.

re: #156 BongCrodny

I would love to see the Supreme Court try to figure out a way to divide the line between "Bryan Fischer's political tweets are idiotic" and "Bryan Fischer's political tweets are fucking idiotic."

Some of his tweets are hilariously derpy. This one cracked me up too:

"God put the Republican Party on earth to cut taxes. If they don't do that, they have no useful function." ~ Robert Novak

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) December 21, 2012

Was that like the lost 11th commandment or something? "Thou shalt not raise taxes!" I had no idea that God was responsible for the formation of the GOP and the creation of their anti-tax platform.

If I'd known his early morning tweets are so entertaining I'd have started reading them long ago.

re: #154 Dark_Falcon

Not a good piece, but thankfully its not hateful either. I'm glad Hanson avoided Derbyshire's path, though its still an alarmist piece.

Shorter Victor Davis Hanson:

"Oh, those uppity Negroes!"

re: #171 Kronocide

I think it's an emotional thing. The call of the "hate group"

Lots of right wingers I remember from blogs used to be smart people, but eventually they just turn into a mush of indistinguishable haters, where everything they say is bitter and stupid, but they're all one big family who agrees with each other all the time...

The Mayans now have a serious credibility problem!

I think I'll stop supporting them: no more Mayannaise!

And I think it's the "hate" part that takes over their minds, not the "family" part...

Human beings are very vulnerable to negative emotions.

For instance all you need to do is give some semblance of danger and you can entrance someone in a tv show because the brain doesn't really distinguish real danger from fake.. And during that time the person will have their positive emotions blunted.

Do that every day and you can destroy their personality.

People are even more vulnerable to enmity than to danger.

And the results are worse

re: #174 CuriousLurker

Some of his tweets are hilariously derpy. This one cracked me up too:

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Was that like the lost 11th commandment or something? "Thou shalt not raise taxes!" I had no idea that God was responsible for the formation of the GOP and the creation of their anti-tax platform.

If I'd known his early morning tweets are so entertaining I'd have started reading them long ago.

Nah, 12th Commandment. 11th Commandment is "Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican."

re: #179 Targetpractice

Nah, 12th Commandment. 11th Commandment is "Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican."

Tribal feeling. Are they even aware that they're enslaved by it?

More details about the ongoing investigations at Riverview Gun, including background:

Seifert said Thursday that neither Nancy nor Adam Lanza are believed to have engaged in target shooting over the last six months.

Two law enforcement sources said that, on Thursday, ATF agents returned to the store to re-examine records that they had examined on a prior visit.

On Saturday, a South Windsor man — who had received a suspended prison sentence and two years probation in May on charges of stealing a dozen rifles and shotguns from Riverview Sales — tried to steal a sniper rifle from the same store, police said.

Jordan Marsh, 26, pleaded guilty May 10 to a single count of stealing a firearm and received a suspended prison sentence and two years of probation.

According to East Windsor police, on Saturday, Marsh grabbed a Bushmaster .50-caliber rifle from Riverview Sales valued at $5,000 and ran from the store. When store employees confronted Marsh, he pulled a knife, then fled on foot. Police officers eventually caught and arrested him.

In June 2007 a Somers man who occasionally worked at Riverview Sales was charged with stealing 33 guns from the business. In that case the store's owner, David E. Laguercia, contacted ATF after determining his store could not account for 33 firearms. Video surveillance showed the man taking two guns.

In March 2008 that man pleaded no contest to two counts of stealing a firearm from the store and received an 18-month suspended prison sentence.

So, it appears the store had thefts from both employees and outsiders. In the instance of the cited inside job, the store promptly reported.

I dunno, the Cleveland Indians weren't very good this year...

re: #62 Joanne

I'm sure, one day, Yellowstone is going to pop its top, or some other major catastrophe will befall humanity. It may very well be end times for most living things. But I'm certain it won't be because Jesus has returned.

That's what they told the brachiopods back in the Permian Era.

re: #180 stabby

Tribal feeling. Are they even aware that they're enslaved by it?

Probably, but hey, it's the fast track to a great lobbying job when you get tossed out on your ass. And easy money until then.

re: #177 ReamWorks SKG

The Mayans now have a serious credibility problem!

I think I'll stop supporting them: no more Mayannaise!

The Mayans (or those that are descended from them) have never claimed this was the end. It was idiot Westerners who latched on to that trope. It's not their fault.

So about this concept that mass shootings have increased because of our feminized culture (after other wingnuts implied mass shootings are decreasing).

It's about as mind numbingly stupid as the rest of them, if not more. That's saying a lot.

Our culture is more feminized, so it makes it easier for the crazy nutters (the strong?) victimize us. So we need to be stronger (more bravado, guns) to counter the victimization by the strong (nutters).

We can call this Caveman Doctrine. It's the hardwired instinct of only the strong survive.

Not for once second do these Cavemen (and Cavewomen) think that maybe we are progressing as a society and these events are not results of this progress: in another time and place, Adam Lanza would be called 'crazy' and nothing else would be done about this event.

re: #182 dragonath

I dunno, the Cleveland Indians weren't very good this year since 1948...

ftfy

"Let's rush at the guys who are shooting at us!" That's why Pickett's Charge is the most successful maneuver in military history.

Wait, what?

re: #142 Targetpractice

"No gun shop would ever sell to a crazy person!"

They're right, the crazy guy just walks in and takes what he likes.

Hey, precedent set by the T-800 remember?
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re: #187 sattv4u2

'Thank God This Isn't Cleveland'

[Link: www.box.com...]

re: #152 ProMayaLiberal

Pretty close to have the new computer up.

Tell me computer wonks, are McAfee and SpySweeper worth keeping on the laptop hard drive, which will be removed and put into the desktop?

Medieval II's installation goofed a bit, so it is being uninstalled, repurchased on Steam on the new computer, then reinstalled.

Time for you to change the nick since the Maya have let you down. But "ProFischerLiberal" will get you too much flak, almost as much as "ProCowboysLiberal".

re: #191 Feline Fearless Leader

Time for you to change the nick since the Maya have let you down. But "ProFischerLiberal" will get you too much flak, almost as much as "ProCowboysLiberal".

He's from Colorado, so he could go with "ProManningLiberal".

/Dives into bunker.

re: #152 ProMayaLiberal

Pretty close to have the new computer up.

Tell me computer wonks, are McAfee and SpySweeper worth keeping on the laptop hard drive, which will be removed and put into the desktop?

Ah, McFugitive Antivirus protection

re: #191 Feline Fearless Leader

Time for you to change the nick since the Maya have let you down. But "ProFischerLiberal" will get you too much flak, almost as much as "ProCowboysLiberal".

ProPackersLiberal or ProCheeseheadLiberal are both good ... :whistles innocently:

re: #174 CuriousLurker

Some of his tweets are hilariously derpy. This one cracked me up too:

Was that like the lost 11th commandment or something? "Thou shalt not raise taxes!" I had no idea that God was responsible for the formation of the GOP and the creation of their anti-tax platform.

If I'd known his early morning tweets are so entertaining I'd have started reading them long ago.

Apparently "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's" only applies to salad any more.

Good morning lizards!

I woke up and we are still here?

re: #193 dragonath

God no!

McAffee is the SLOWEST antivirus ever. And it will lock up your computer 10 times a day updating.

BUY ANYTHING ELSE.

I recommend eset.

re: #194 William Barnett-Lewis

ProPackersLiberal or ProCheeseheadLiberal are both good ... :whistles innocently:

SMACK!

Also McAffee makes booting slow as hell.

re: #188 Vicious Michigan Union Thug

"Let's rush at the guys who are shooting at us!" That's why Pickett's Charge is the most successful maneuver in military history.

Wait, what?

Ordered by the Confederate hero (and marble man) R E Lee.

re: #192 Dark_Falcon

He's from Colorado, so he could go with "ProManningLiberal".

/Dives into bunker.

How about "ProTebowLiberal". "ProSanchiseLiberal" if he wants to piss off New Yorkers.
;)

re: #199 stabby

Also McAffee makes booting slow as hell.

Well, he's known to be a bit unstable.

re: #194 William Barnett-Lewis

ProPackersLiberal or ProCheeseheadLiberal are both good ... :whistles innocently:

ProPatriotsLiberal would f*** peoples heads on many levels!!!
/

I switched back to the generic Windows Security a while back and I'm pretty happy with it.

Well, that was rather pointless. Boehner gave a presser, despite the House having thrown in the towel until after Christmas, and basically reiterated his BS from yesterday. Namely that it's now the Senate's job to pull his ass out of the fire by giving the Republicans everything they want.

re: #204 Killgore Trout

I switched back to the generic Windows Security a while back and I'm pretty happy with it.

Same here. I've been using it for a couple of years now without any problems.

re: #205 Targetpractice

Well, that was rather pointless. Boehner gave a presser, despite the House having thrown in the towel until after Christmas, and basically reiterated his BS from yesterday. Namely that it's now the Senate's job to pull his ass out of the fire by giving the Republicans everything they want.

What do you want to bet that Obama has already sat down with Bill Clinton and discussed how he handled Newt the last time the GOP threw a tantrum and threatened to shut down the government. I suspect that the Democrats are now well prepared to dig in and let the GOP go over the cliff. And Obama has already emailed Boehner the message "Please proceed Mr Speaker."

I wonder if the Republicans would have insisted on all this far right wing dismantling of the US if we'd elected a white male Democrat.

My feeling is "no".

No racial divide, no tea party.

re: #200 Feline Fearless Leader

Ordered by the Confederate hero (and marble man) R E Lee.

Lee was an excellent general, but he order an attack that was doomed before it even began. For all its valor, Pickett's Charge is best commemorated with a line from the Crimean War of a decade before:

C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre: c'est de la folie

re: #208 stabby

I wonder if the Republicans would have insisted on all this far right wing dismantling of the US if we'd elected a white male Democrat.

My feeling is "no".

No racial divide, no tea party.

In a way it was good to get it out in the open to be pointed at, laughed, and hopefully marginalized before it causes to much damage. The nutty undercurrent has been there in the GOP at least as far back as the Clinton Administration.

re: #207 Feline Fearless Leader

What do you want to bet that Obama has already sat down with Bill Clinton and discussed how he handled Newt the last time the GOP threw a tantrum and threatened to shut down the government. I suspect that the Democrats are now well prepared to dig in and let the GOP go over the cliff. And Obama has already emailed Boehner the message "Please proceed Mr Speaker."

The difference is that Boehner has tried harder to avoid a problem, but he got back-handed by his reps, who don't want to make a deal that raises taxes.

re: #211 Dark_Falcon

The difference is that Boehner has tried harder to avoid a problem, but he got back-handed by his reps, who don't want to make a deal that raises taxes.

Difference is that when Newt was in power, he might have expected that his own party had his back when he was playing chicken with Clinton over the budget. From all appearances, Boehner never had his party's support in these negotiations and was wasting everybody's time with them.

re: #209 Dark_Falcon

Lee was an excellent general, but he order an attack that was doomed before it even began. For all its valor, Pickett's Charge is best commemorated with a line from the Crimean War of a decade before:

C'est magnifique, mais ce n'est pas la guerre: c'est de la folie

The Union troops on the line who started chanting "Fredericksburg" knew what was about to happen. Payback.

And the Union tactical command on the 3rd day did a lot of things quite well given how thin their line was. Stannard and the Vermont troops in particular. Compare that to the ad hoc actions to save things on the 2nd day post Sickle's Folly. (1st Minnesota's sacrificial charge in particular.)

re: #212 Targetpractice

Difference is that when Newt was in power, he might have expected that his own party had his back when he was playing chicken with Clinton over the budget. From all appearances, Boehner never had his party's support in these negotiations and was wasting everybody's time with them.

Gee, maybe Boehner could have tried something different, like be a *American leader* and come up with something that was actually bipartisan.
/

Mr Orange, leader?

BWAHAHAHAHAHAA!

re: #214 Feline Fearless Leader

Gee, maybe Boehner could have tried something different, like be a *American leader* and come up with something that was actually bipartisan.
/

Bipartisan to the current GOP is political theater, something they bring out when they want to whine that Democrats aren't playing along anymore with their BS. Boehner pretty much made that clear at the presser, when questioned as to whether he'd allow Obama's proposal to be brought to a vote or if "Plan B's" failure meant he'd work closer with Democrats, by saying that they have two House Republican bills sitting in the Senate and "bipartisan" is the Democrats passing those bills and Obama signing them.

BBL

It's the end of the world as we know it because Michael Stipe feels fine.

Well, the afterlife bears a striking resemblance to the....beforelife, or whatever you call it.

'Morning, Lizards. Raining cats and dogs here on LI today.

Hmm, time to go make some popcorn and prepare drinks for the NRA press conference. Also get the protective tarp ready for all the BS that is going to be spouted.

re: #219 makeitstop

Well, the afterlife bears a striking resemblance to the....beforelife, or whatever you call it.

'Morning, Lizards. Raining cats and dogs here on LI today.

It's Mayan calendar apocalypses all the way down. Until you reach the Christian Hell level and are issued an accordion.

BRYAN U R SO GOING TO HELL

God doesn't send anybody to hell who doesn't want to go there. They would rather live there than near the God they hate.

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) December 21, 2012

So, what should I wish people today? Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, or Happy End of the World Day?

I wonder if the Republicans would have insisted on all this far right wing dismantling of the US if we'd elected a white male Democrat.

My feeling is "no".

Guarantee you the answer is 'yes'.

The Conservative cult media really rose to power with Clinton, after all. Hatred sells.

re: #222 Vicious Michigan Union Thug

BRYAN U R SO GOING TO HELL

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They spend decades beating into people's heads that any bad act, any bad intention, hell any bad thoughts, will doom them to Hell. And then have the gall to tell folks they don't go to Hell if they don't think they deserve to be there?

'Hazardous Device' Found In College Park

COLLEGE PARK, Md. (WUSA) -- Prince George's County Fire Spokesperson Mark Brady says a hazardous device was found in a College Park neighborhood on Friday morning and several people of interest were questioned. Brady did not know whether there had been any arrests.

The device was reported around 6 a.m. at the intersection of Edgewood Road and Rhode Island Avenue. Homes on either side of the device, in the 5000 block of Edgewood Road, were evacuated. A man says he was alerted about the situation by a neighbor who told him the whole block was cordoned off. The man reported that he heard a boom and saw smoke near a white van at a home.

...According to Brady, a device described as a pipe bomb exploded on a front porch of a house earlier this week in the 8800 block of 48th Avenue in College Park. He says authorities have not ruled out the possibility that the two incidents may be related, but also says the investigation into that incident is also ongoing.

re: #222 Vicious Michigan Union Thug

wtf, is he just making up his religion?

He's new apostolic right? Does that just let them make shit up?

And if so why is the stuff they make up so poisonous?

re: #225 Targetpractice

actually normal fundies don't believe that acts have any bearing on getting into heaven, they think only belief and repentance does. both, one isnt' enough

But new apostolic makes regular fundies look like disney.. These people are SO fucked up.

re: #226 NJDhockeyfan

'Hazardous Device' Found In College Park

Is that where Bryan Fischer is? He's Perpetual Intellectual Napalm.

re: #227 stabby

wtf, is he just making up his religion?

He's new apostolic right? Does that just let them make shit up?

And if so why is the stuff they make up so poisonous?

When you spin up the outrage machine you eventually have to set it to '11' since you always have to top the previous outrage in competition with the other outragers. And since fear and hate have been selling so well with their followers for the last decade or two they stay with that product. The fact that it is in complete opposition to the religious philosophy they supposedly follow is ignored since there is additional dogma indicating that they are the elect and thus above the rules.

Also loved how a reporter asked Boehner if "Plan B's" failure puts his speakership in danger, and Boehner telling her that he's sure that it's secure. Meanwhile, Cantor's standing next to him with this look that says he's trying to figure out where he's gonna put that dagger in John's back.

re: #232 Targetpractice

Can't. Stand. Cantor. He always looks so... smirky.

The NRA presser is set to start at 11am.

re: #234 lawhawk

The NRA presser is set to start at 11am.

And I gotta head to work, where internet access will be gone. Crap.

Why couldn't the world have ended like they said it would?//

re: #194 William Barnett-Lewis

I had to find a stopgap after ProGunLiberal became obsolete. :P

So McAfee goes away. What about SpySweeper?

re: #234 lawhawk

The NRA presser is set to start at 11am.

Thanks. This should be good.

And by 'good,' I mean 'self-serving and ultimately of no use to solving the problem.'
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Cops: 2 guns seized from home of teen who threatened shooting at Pa. school, classes canceled

PHILADELPHIA — Police have seized two handguns from the bedroom of a teen they say threatened a shooting at his suburban Philadelphia high school a week after the mass killing at a Connecticut elementary school.

Northampton Township police say the Council Rock South High School ninth-grader was taken into custody Thursday after fellow students reported he made threatening statements.

Detective Sgt. Bill Klein says two 9 mm handguns were in plain sight in the boy's bedroom when police went to his home.

How do parents let their 14 year old keep handguns in their bedroom? It's not like he was hiding them. They must have known.

Ha. The NRA won't be taking questions. Cool press conference, guys!

— Philip Bump (@pbump) December 21, 2012

Leading with the victim card. Impressive.

5 minutes in and the NRA is already blaming "gun free zones". Yawn.

Oh man, he is advocating more guns...armed security at schools.

Moar Gunz

Happy Solstice Lizards!! I am just thrilled that we're getting closer and closer to Daylight Savings Time again. I really hate that it gets dark at around 6 pm and doesn't get light out again until almost 7:30 am. Ack.

I wonder if the media will get off their asses enough to ask the NRA spokesperson about the gun store that got raided in Newtown, CT. I also wonder just how many other gun stores are that lax and careless. And can I ask, WTF do we need gun shows for? Can we not just have people have to go to a real freaking gun store to buy their armaments? No internet, no gun shows. It might help in keeping track of the damned things.

Sounds like he's headed for armed guards at schools.

He's calling for armed guards at schools.

And a protester just stopped things in their tracks...

Right, because there were no armed guards at Virginia Tech.

CNN has the NRA presser on now, and LaPierre is essentially saying the anti-gun people are responsible for Newtown.

And there's a protestor.

Protestor saying "NRA is killing our children" being herded out.

My web stream is making LaPierre look like an evil android.

Image: lapierre-android.jpg

re: #245 CuriousLurker

Seriously, fuck this nutjob. If the NRA gave a shit about dead children LaPierre would be out of a job.

Protestor in room, blocking LaPierre with banner saying "NRA is killing our kids." Brilliant.

— Philip Bump (@pbump) December 21, 2012

Now blaming the media.

Media's fault

People who are so evil, it doesn't matter if there are armed guards. They'll still carry out their heinous acts.

At this very moment, there are people who are having all too easy access to guns. But the solution is to add more guns to the mix. Gotcha.

LaPierre: "When it comes to (children), we as a society leave them every day utterly defenseless...That must change now."

— Molly Ball (@mollyesque) December 21, 2012

Issue little bazookas.

Database of mentally ill.

Criminals.

[Link: twitter.com...]

Feds don't prosecute criminals for gun violations.

OK,now I want to throw things. Oh a data base of the mentally ill, but not a word about fucking guns and bullets having a role to play here. What a self serving DICK this guy is.

The media again... video games.

Shadow industry...violent video game

Callous and corrupt industry - the video game industry.

Mortal Combat?

La Pierre is off his fucking rocker.

Movies.