1 | Shvaughn Thu, Jan 10, 2013 6:10:43pm |
Here’s something Ted Nugent and Rosa Parks have in common: neither has written a good song in the last 30 years. #RIPTedNugent— Rob Tannenbaum (@tannenbaumr) January 11, 2013
2 | Charles Johnson Thu, Jan 10, 2013 6:21:17pm |
re: #1 Shvaughn
Ted Nugent has found a new niche as a right winger trolling the media with outrageous comments. The old niche of exploiting the dumb head-banging male rock audience dried up.
Actually, he’s probably still appealing to the same dumb audience, just older. These days they’re watching Fox News instead of sitting with their heads 6 inches from a stack of roaring Marshall amps.
3 | EPR-radar Thu, Jan 10, 2013 6:23:49pm |
re: #2 Charles Johnson
Ted Nugent has found a new niche as a right winger trolling the media with outrageous comments. The old niche of exploiting the dumb head-banging male rock audience dried up.
Actually, he’s probably still appealing to the same dumb audience, just older. These days they’re watching Fox News instead of sitting with their heads 6 inches from a stack of roaring Marshall amps.
Sitting 6 inches from a stack of roaring amps (with the volume set to 11) sounds like excellent training for appreciating the finer point of Fox News discourse.
4 | Decatur Deb Thu, Jan 10, 2013 6:24:57pm |
re: #3 EPR-radar
Sitting 6 inches from a stack of roaring amps (with the volume set to 11) sounds like excellent training for appreciating the finer point of Fox News discourse.
The kids who stayed cool were listening to Phil Ochs, acoustic.
5 | austin_blue Thu, Jan 10, 2013 6:37:25pm |
Cool! Quite the crew they had working the lights.
Evening, all! Happy end to the penultimate day of the work week. Hope the Lizardii are doing well.
Oh, and that two to three inches of rain we had the other day? Didn’t do squat for our reservoir levels.
6 | Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 10, 2013 6:41:19pm |
re: #5 austin_blue
Cool! Quite the crew they had working the lights.
Evening, all! Happy end to the penultimate day of the work week. Hope the Lizardii are doing well.
Oh, and that two to three inches of rain we had the other day? Didn’t do squat for our reservoir levels.
The ground ate it all up?
7 | Charles Johnson Thu, Jan 10, 2013 6:45:46pm |
re: #5 austin_blue
Cool! Quite the crew they had working the lights.
I’ll bet it’s a whole lot of individual shots stitched together in Adobe After Effects.
8 | austin_blue Thu, Jan 10, 2013 6:54:51pm |
re: #7 Charles Johnson
I’ll bet it’s a whole lot of individual shots stitched together in Adobe After Effects.
I don’t know. If you take a look at pedestrians on the street, especially when the cam is on the second building, they are moving smoothly (but *really* fast), not popping in and out.
Which makes it even better. That kind of coordination is like conducting a symphony. It’s a killer bee performance.
9 | Vicious Babushka Thu, Jan 10, 2013 6:55:36pm |
THE DAILY DERP
What movie was this? CLUE: IT WAS A MOVIE
GunControl?? I watched a movie where a kid took his bow and arrows to school and killed dozens. Reactionary politicians r a safety hazard— di kele (@Pudingtane) January 11, 2013
Shouldn’t be Tweeting either
If a person is too mentally ill to own a gun, he probably shouldn’t be walking our streets either. #tcot— di kele (@Pudingtane) January 11, 2013
WTF?
What about the other Shooters at the scene that police chased into the woods at Sandy Hook ???? Hah? #tcot #tgdn— Cool Car Guy (@JoeSixpackSays) January 11, 2013
WTFF?
How many laws has Obozo violated already?He doesn’t follow the Constitution AT ALL!#ImpeachTheBastard— PolitixGal (@PolitixGal) January 11, 2013
10 | CuriousLurker Thu, Jan 10, 2013 6:56:16pm |
re: #9 Vicious Babushka
There you are! I have a link for you—hang on…
11 | Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 10, 2013 6:58:45pm |
Paul Watson is out of the next season of Whale Wars:
“Whale Wars” TV conservationist Paul Watson quit his conservation society Tuesday because of a recent federal court injunction against him and his group’s anti-whaling activities.
Last month, the Japanese research foundation Institute of Cetacean Research and the Japanese firm Kyodo Senpaku Kaisha Ltd. secured a U.S. District Court injunction against Watson and his Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, according to the institute’s website.
The injunction prohibits Watson and his group from coming within 500 yards of the plaintiffs on the open sea, according to a copy of the court document on the institute’s website.
Watson has become renowned for his attempts to disrupt Japanese whalers on the open water through Animal Planet’s “Whale Wars” TV show.
12 | CuriousLurker Thu, Jan 10, 2013 6:59:41pm |
re: #9 Vicious Babushka
I just tweeted this a little while ago. Maybe good for your blog?
13 | Stan the Demanded Plan Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:04:10pm |
re: #9 Vicious Babushka
WTFF is pretty good.
14 | Stan the Demanded Plan Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:05:55pm |
what the fucking fuck obvious. I lean to what the flying fuck.
15 | Vicious Babushka Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:06:35pm |
re: #12 CuriousLurker
I just tweeted this a little while ago. Maybe good for your blog?
Thanks!
Jewish Daily Forward is embarrassed by Jews who keep kosher.
16 | Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:07:47pm |
re: #9 Vicious Babushka
There are times like this when i find myself force to root for Barack Obama at least a little, because I really do admire his ability to keep calm and decent while subject to the kinds of extreme nate that are aimed at him. Barack, this one is for you:
17 | Vicious Babushka Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:08:50pm |
re: #13 Stanghazi
WTFF is pretty good.
I kind of gave up the DERP search after WTFF. They retweet and retweet this shit over and over and over so it’s all one big insane wingnut echo chamber. The fake quotes, the Hitler photoshops, the Sandy Hook troofers, make me want to gouge out my eyes with a rusty screwdriver.
18 | goddamnedfrank Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:08:52pm |
re: #14 Stanghazi
what the fucking fuck obvious. I lean to what the flying fuck.
Wave the flemish flag!
19 | CuriousLurker Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:09:47pm |
re: #15 Vicious Babushka
Thanks!
My pleasure! There’s always room for a little tzedakah/sadaqah. ;)
Jewish Daily Forward is embarrassed by Jews who keep kosher.
Sheesh.
20 | Stan the Demanded Plan Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:13:35pm |
freezing here in san diego. well 49ish with major wind. We are grilling salmon in our winter coats.
21 | Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:14:17pm |
re: #17 Vicious Babushka
I kind of gave up the DERP search after WTFF. They retweet and retweet this shit over and over and over so it’s all one big insane wingnut echo chamber. The fake quotes, the Hitler photoshops, the Sandy Hook troofers, make me want to gouge out my eyes with a rusty screwdriver.
Give yourself a break: Don’t look at that crap again till Sunday. It’s depressing filth and you need a couple of days away from it.
22 | CuriousLurker Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:19:19pm |
re: #20 Stanghazi
freezing here in san diego. well 49ish with major wind. We are grilling salmon in our winter coats.
Winter coats at 49° F? LMAO —> Cali girl
// I was the same way when I first moved to the East Coast and I LMAO at ppl in NJ who complained about the heat when it was 85° out. Now, if it gets above 70° I think I’m melting, heh.
23 | Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:24:56pm |
re: #20 Stanghazi
freezing here in san diego. well 49ish with major wind. We are grilling salmon in our winter coats.
What are you wearing? And don’t the coats make it take longer to cook the salmon?
24 | Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:27:16pm |
re: #22 CuriousLurker
Winter coats at 49° F? LMAO —> Cali girl
// I was the same way when I first moved to the East Coast and I LMAO at ppl in NJ who complained about the heat when it was 85° out. Now, if it gets above 70° I think I’m melting, heh.
heh. 44 F in Philly right now and that is overly warm for this part of January. A regular tropical heat wave… ;)
25 | Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:29:14pm |
re: #23 Feline Fearless Leader
What are you wearing? And don’t the coats make it take longer to cook the salmon?
Last night I grilled a salmon in my winter coat. What it was doing in my winter coat I’ll never know.
26 | Vicious Babushka Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:30:05pm |
I am just so fucking sick of the fake quotes.
GO VIRAL! The REAL George Washington quote. He was against #Outsourcing #tcot #tgdn #p2 #tlot bit.ly/V0isX3 twitpic.com/bu61ey— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 11, 2013
27 | Vicious Babushka Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:32:13pm |
re: #19 CuriousLurker
My pleasure! There’s always room for a little tzedakah/sadaqah. ;)
Sheesh.
Found this. :)
28 | prairiefire Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:32:56pm |
re: #9 Vicious Babushka
Some real charmers in that group. Twitter is like a man hole cover with plumes of smoke coming out, ready to blow.
29 | Bubblehead II Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:34:58pm |
re: #20 Stanghazi
freezing here in san diego. well 49ish with major wind. We are grilling salmon in our winter coats.
Puhleeze. Cry me a river would you. We ned the water.
Edit. BTW, it is 25 degrees here in Twin Falls, Id.
30 | prairiefire Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:36:19pm |
re: #20 Stanghazi
freezing here in san diego. well 49ish with major wind. We are grilling salmon in our winter coats.
“Oh, no! That’s below 50!” : )
31 | Gus Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:36:51pm |
re: #26 Vicious Babushka
I am just so fucking sick of the fake quotes.
[Embedded content]
First Annual Message to Congress
George Washington
January 8, 1790
33 | CuriousLurker Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:39:09pm |
re: #27 Vicious Babushka
Found this. :)
Cool, thanks.
Let them fight a proxy war in the Pages while we try to figure out another way to get past our differences. ;)
34 | Gus Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:40:40pm |
…Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention, that of providing for the common defence will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of perserving peace.
A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined; to which end, a uniform and well digested plan is requisite: and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories, as tend to render them independent on others for essential, particularly for military supplies.
The proper establishment of the troops, which may be deemed indispensable, will be entitled to mature deliberation. In the arrangements which may be made respecting it, it will be of importance to conciliate the comfortable support of the officers and soldiers with a due regard to economy…
35 | dragonath Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:44:30pm |
There’s still a tradition of reading Washington’s Farewell Address before the Senate on his birthday. Last year Jeanne Shaheen did the reading.
36 | Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:46:59pm |
re: #34 Gus
…Among the many interesting objects which will engage your attention, that of providing for the common defence will merit particular regard. To be prepared for war, is one of the most effectual means of perserving peace.
A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined; to which end, a uniform and well digested plan is requisite: and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories, as tend to render them independent on others for essential, particularly for military supplies.
The proper establishment of the troops, which may be deemed indispensable, will be entitled to mature deliberation. In the arrangements which may be made respecting it, it will be of importance to conciliate the comfortable support of the officers and soldiers with a due regard to economy…
In that bolded passage, Washington echoes Flavius Vegetius Renatus and Sun Tzu, in the former case likely deliberately. But that bit of advice is as true today as it was back then. And the availability of arms as a deterrent is a core part of the right to keep and bear arms. By being able to defend yourself you might prevent others from attacking you in the first place.
37 | CuriousLurker Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:52:21pm |
re: #24 Feline Fearless Leader
heh. 44 F in Philly right now and that is overly warm for this part of January. A regular tropical heat wave… ;)
Heh, same here—40 right now—it was really nice earlier this afternoon. Much warmer than usual.
38 | CuriousLurker Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:55:19pm |
Yikes! If you live in Florida, you might want to stay out of the water for now…
Great White Sharks Spotted Off Fla. Coast
A pair of great white sharks have been spotted swimming off the coast of Jacksonville Beach, Fla., this week, thanks to the help of a new GPS tracking device that allows researchers to follow their movements up and down the U.S. east coast.
Jacksonville’s First Coast News reported that two great whites — the first named Mary Lee, who weighs more than 3,400 pounds and measures 16 feet long, and the second named Genie, a 14-footer who weighs nearly 2,300 pounds — were first spotted near the Florida coast this week after being tagged off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass. […]
O_o
39 | dragonath Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:55:42pm |
Well, Washington can cross the Delaware without any impediment now. The river is ice free.
FREEDOM!
40 | Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:56:44pm |
re: #39 dragonath
Well, Washington can cross the Delaware without any impediment now. The river is ice free.
FREEDOM!
Won’t cost him any tolls to get into NJ. However, on the way out it is another story!
41 | Bubblehead II Thu, Jan 10, 2013 7:58:41pm |
Night Lizards. Starting to spit snow. Will be interesting to see what the A.M. brings. Sleep well and may the Deity of your choice smile down upon you.
42 | prairiefire Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:00:43pm |
re: #38 CuriousLurker
Yikes! If you live in Florida, you might want to stay out of the water for now…
O_o
Everybody, leave them the hell alone!
43 | Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:01:49pm |
re: #38 CuriousLurker
Yikes! If you live in Florida, you might want to stay out of the water for now…
O_o
I posted on that one last night. Big fish, those two. Though the expedition that tagged them thankfully had a boat big enough for the job. :D
44 | Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:03:13pm |
re: #39 dragonath
Well, Washington can cross the Delaware without any impediment now. The river is ice free.
FREEDOM!
It had actually become free of those type of ice floes by the Civil War. The 1850’s saw the end of the Little Ice Age and North America warmed up dramatically.
45 | CuriousLurker Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:03:38pm |
46 | Four More Tears Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:05:41pm |
48 | Gus Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:06:33pm |
re: #45 CuriousLurker
re: #43 Dark_Falcon
There aren’t too many things scarier than a 16-ft Great White. *shudder*
[Link: sharks-ocearch.verite.com…]
50 | b_sharp Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:09:04pm |
re: #38 CuriousLurker
Yikes! If you live in Florida, you might want to stay out of the water for now…
Great White Sharks Spotted Off Fla. Coast
A pair of great white sharks have been spotted swimming off the coast of Jacksonville Beach, Fla., this week, thanks to the help of a new GPS tracking device that allows researchers to follow their movements up and down the U.S. east coast.
Jacksonville’s First Coast News reported that two great whites — the first named Mary Lee, who weighs more than 3,400 pounds and measures 16 feet long, and the second named Genie, a 14-footer who weighs nearly 2,300 pounds — were first spotted near the Florida coast this week after being tagged off the coast of Cape Cod, Mass. […]
O_o
Quick everybody, jump it!
51 | CuriousLurker Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:09:52pm |
#ThingsScarierThanAGreatWhiteShark
Sarah Palin, Rick Santorum, or Michele Bachmann as POTUS
52 | CuriousLurker Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:10:40pm |
53 | sagehen Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:10:48pm |
re: #40 Feline Fearless Leader
Won’t cost him any tolls to get into NJ. However, on the way out it is another story!
well, duh. Nobody would pay to get into Jersey, anybody and everybody would pay to get out.
FREE MARKET!!!
54 | Belafon Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:11:15pm |
re: #36 Dark_Falcon
I see you stopped highlighting before you got to the next paragraph. Did you stop reading there as well?
55 | Belafon Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:13:09pm |
re: #32 Gus
It’s interesting, but the image you supplied left this part out:
to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite;
56 | Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:14:33pm |
re: #46 Four More Tears
[Embedded content]
Well, Long Lance torpedoes were something as scary as a shark, if you happened to be in an Allied ship. Their use of liquid oxygen meant they left little wake, they were very fast, and their large warheads almost always detonated upon impact.
57 | Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:14:59pm |
re: #53 sagehen
well, duh. Nobody would pay to get into Jersey, anybody and everybody would pay to get out.
FREE MARKET!!!
Q. Why is it that New Jersey has so many toxic waste dumps and California has so many lawyers?
A. Jersey got first pick.
58 | CuriousLurker Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:15:19pm |
It’s getting late here, I’m out. G’nite, everyone.
59 | Gus Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:15:30pm |
re: #55 Belafon
It’s interesting, but the image you supplied left this part out:
That whole quote is bogus.
60 | Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:20:13pm |
re: #54 Belafon
I see you stopped highlighting before you got to the next paragraph. Did you stop reading there as well?
No, I read it. Frankly, there is a great deal in that passage for me to expound on, but by focusing on one part of it I was able to keep my post to a manageable length.
61 | Kragar Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:23:00pm |
The book I’ve been waiting 16 years for finally arrived at my door this evening.
62 | Targetpractice Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:24:57pm |
re: #61 Kragar
The book I’ve been waiting 16 years for finally arrived at my door this evening.
The Necronomicon?
//
63 | dragonath Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:28:29pm |
re: #44 Dark_Falcon
Actually, ice events used to be more common. The last real ice jam that affected areas downstream was in 1996.
64 | Kragar Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:28:49pm |
re: #62 Targetpractice
The Necronomicon?
//
No, I picked up a copy of that back in high school.
The 14th and final Wheel of Time book.
65 | prairiefire Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:38:05pm |
re: #43 Dark_Falcon
I posted on that one last night. Big fish, those two. Though the expedition that tagged them thankfully had a boat big enough for the job. :D
Good! I swear to goodness I will stuff the head of anybody who wants to make a trophy of them! I’m still upset about the pregnant lady hammerhead.
66 | Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:41:55pm |
re: #65 prairiefire
Good! I swear to goodness I will stuff the head of anybody who wants to make a trophy of them! I’m still upset about the pregnant lady hammerhead.
Sharks of that size are rare, so I understand why you feel as you do.
67 | Interesting Times Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:42:31pm |
re: #65 prairiefire
Ironic humans should complain about sharks invading “people” space after they’ve done so much incalculable damage to their natural habitat, the world’s oceans.
The most horrific predators on Earth always have been, and always will be homo sapiens.
68 | Kragar Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:52:47pm |
Joe Walsh Suggests Breaking Law to Fight Affordable Care Act in Chicago
Tea Party favorite Joe Walsh says conservatives are losing the “war” for U.S. voters and encouraged his backers at a South Loop rally to engage in civil disobedience to defy the Affordable Care Act or new gun regulations.
At his most aggressive, he told dozens of supporters to “defy and or break the law and engage in civil disobedience” if faced with federal health care law restrictions or new gun laws.
He paraphrased Thomas Jefferson in saying, “We may have to shed blood every couple hundred years to preserve our freedoms.”
The one-term McHenry County congressman, who lost his re-election bid to Democrat Tammy Duckworth in November, openly contemplated breaking away from the Republican Party during a Wednesday rally at Blackie’s, 755 S. Clark St.
And in the end of the rally he began organizing a statewide movement he said would “scare Republicans and Democrats.”
69 | Dark_Falcon Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:55:59pm |
re: #68 Kragar
Joe Walsh Suggests Breaking Law to Fight Affordable Care Act in Chicago
I hate this guy, why won’t he just go away?
70 | Targetpractice Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:57:47pm |
re: #69 Dark_Falcon
I hate this guy, why won’t he just go away?
I’ve spent the last four years wondering the same thing about Sarah Palin.
71 | dragonath Thu, Jan 10, 2013 8:59:55pm |
re: #68 Kragar
He paraphrased Thomas Jefferson in saying, “We may have to shed other people’s blood every couple hundred years to preserve our freedoms.”
Yup.
72 | Targetpractice Thu, Jan 10, 2013 9:05:53pm |
re: #68 Kragar
Joe Walsh Suggests Breaking Law to Fight Affordable Care Act in Chicago
I’m assuming the paraphrase is of Jefferson’s “tree of liberty” bit. The irony in that is thick, as it was Jefferson’s response to word of Shay’s Rebellion, which itself was armed rebellion over taxes and debt collection. And while Jefferson seemed to approve of armed revolution in the name of avoiding debts, word of the rebellion inspired Washington and many others to push for a stronger federal government and expanded military powers in order to address such uprisings.
Jefferson was a good man, one whose ideas helped inspire this nation and whose work on the Declaration of Independence was fundamental. But when it came to dealing with the reality of a new nation, he was still very much an idealist.
73 | erik_t Thu, Jan 10, 2013 9:12:58pm |
re: #68 Kragar
At his most aggressive, he told dozens of supporters to “defy and or break the law and engage in civil disobedience” if faced with federal health care law restrictions or new gun laws.
Maybe if Joe Walsh hadn’t ‘defied and or broken the law’ to keep from putting food on his kids’ fucking table, I’d consider him worthy to polish the boot-scrubber outside the National Archives door nearest to the Constitution.
74 | erik_t Thu, Jan 10, 2013 9:14:53pm |
Joe Walsh is a bigger national embarrassment than Twilight.
75 | HappyWarrior Thu, Jan 10, 2013 9:20:35pm |
re: #68 Kragar
Joe Walsh Suggests Breaking Law to Fight Affordable Care Act in Chicago
Well Joe there’s a reason why you’re an ex Congressman and this is a good example why. Enjoy paying child support asshole.
76 | prairiefire Thu, Jan 10, 2013 9:20:44pm |
This is certainly the land of the free when a man who is as big of a twit as Mr. Walsh can win, and lose, an elected office.
77 | HappyWarrior Thu, Jan 10, 2013 9:21:31pm |
I’m still amazed he won office to begin with to be honest. Just another example why you should never vote for a party just because you’re angry with the other. Stupid way to vote.
78 | Targetpractice Thu, Jan 10, 2013 9:23:22pm |
re: #77 HappyWarrior
I’m still amazed he won office to begin with to be honest. Just another example why you should never vote for a party just because you’re angry with the other. Stupid way to vote.
Indeed, “protest votes” or simply refusing to vote at all does nothing but just help the other guy. And I know a lot of folks are angry with that, think it a cop-out. But in our present political climate, it’s going to take a great deal of defections from either party to a third party to move the needle.
79 | erik_t Thu, Jan 10, 2013 9:23:36pm |
re: #77 HappyWarrior
you should never vote for a party
Edited for succinctness.
(however you can certainly vote against one.)
80 | HappyWarrior Thu, Jan 10, 2013 9:25:04pm |
re: #79 erik_t
Edited for succinctness.
(however you can certainly vote against one.)
Yeah, I can’t imagine voting for anyone that the Virginia GOP is going to put in front of me anytime soon.
81 | prairiefire Thu, Jan 10, 2013 9:30:37pm |
One of Kansas City’s own fictional writers, Evan Connell, dies at the age of 88 ~ [Link: www.latimes.com…]
82 | FemNaziBitch Thu, Jan 10, 2013 9:39:36pm |
While living out in the real world today, actually was paying attention. I tried to take a steadier shot, but it’s difficult in a moving car. I did some post processing, but it didn’t help much.
How was your day?
83 | FemNaziBitch Thu, Jan 10, 2013 9:41:57pm |
84 | prairiefire Thu, Jan 10, 2013 9:46:56pm |
re: #82 FemNaziBitch
While living out in the real world today, actually was paying attention. I tried to take a steadier shot, but it’s difficult in a moving car. I did some post processing, but it didn’t help much.
How was your day?
I like it! The highlighted part is what the kids like in “hyper-realism” for wallpaper, etc.
85 | FemNaziBitch Thu, Jan 10, 2013 9:57:54pm |
re: #84 prairiefire
I like it! The highlighted part is what the kids like in “hyper-realism” for wallpaper, etc.
Thanks. It took me a minute to start laughing. Either the managers of the company have a wicked sense of humor or someone was trying to be helpful. I can’t decide which.
Thanks for posting something too! I thought I killed the thread again. :(
86 | FemNaziBitch Thu, Jan 10, 2013 10:20:28pm |
I did, I killed it.
Well, at least I didn’t kill Kenny.
87 | wheat-dogghazi Thu, Jan 10, 2013 10:33:08pm |
re: #86 FemNaziBitch
Funny pic though.
I’ve seen semis with “If you can read this, you’re too close.” on the back end.
89 | Kragar Thu, Jan 10, 2013 10:47:14pm |
90 | Targetpractice Thu, Jan 10, 2013 10:52:44pm |
re: #89 Kragar
I remember the 2020 version
That was back when I was still a kid. Hadn’t even really heard of cyberpunk til I was in high school.
91 | Gus Thu, Jan 10, 2013 10:54:44pm |
Inside the #Saudi Kingdom (BBC #Documentary) Lionel Mill’s film has unique access to Prince Saud bin Abdul Mohsen: youtu.be/au9Aqd_-2hc— Gus (@Gus_802) January 11, 2013
Excellent.
92 | Kragar Thu, Jan 10, 2013 11:07:14pm |
re: #90 Targetpractice
That was back when I was still a kid. Hadn’t even really heard of cyberpunk til I was in high school.
My buddies and I used to play as bounty hunters. I had a Nomad who worked as the driver and had friends in low places.
93 | freetoken Thu, Jan 10, 2013 11:14:10pm |
re: #83 FemNaziBitch
Speaking of which, as I’m undertaking an exhaustive genealogy exercise, to fill in some holes in mine (one quarter, to be exact, from an unknown grandfather), I am struck about how hard it can be to track someone down, but at the same time appreciate that our society sees fit to keep written records.
I’m doing a hail-mary just to up my chances - a genetic search. It’s a long shot, especially as my mother has deep roots in this country, all the way back to the 17th century, so I know that there will be very many “5th” cousins showing up in genetic matches.
Oh, and even with all the computerized support out there I’m also struck by how crude so much of it is - really poor user interfaces, lack of cross checked references, etc. Quite a few erroneous entries made by people through time, including some of my distant relative ancestors who drew family trees before the age of computers.
And, I’m one of those who probably will be hampered by the loss (by fire) of the 1890 census files. I need to track some lines back through Ohio, Indiana, and probably Kentucky during the late 19th century. And speaking of censuses, I notice how often the data entered first hand is erroneous - I’ve caught some from the 1930 and 1940 censuses already. It’s amazing how wrong people can get their own birth year or their spouses.
94 | Gus Thu, Jan 10, 2013 11:15:27pm |
re: #92 Kragar
My buddies and I used to play as bounty hunters. I had a Nomad who worked as the driver and had friends in low places.
95 | freetoken Thu, Jan 10, 2013 11:18:49pm |
One neat factoid I learnt today - besides one of my great great grandfathers who served the Union (cavalry) in the War, his father (my g^3 grandfather) was in it too, though he was much older. My g-g-grandfather was pretty young to be in the cavalry so I wondered why he signed up, but it turns out his father did also. The old guy served in a special unit for “grey hairs”, that relieved the youngsters of doing behind the line duties such as guarding prisoner camps.
96 | Kragar Thu, Jan 10, 2013 11:21:39pm |
101 | freetoken Thu, Jan 10, 2013 11:33:31pm |
Actually, it was my g-g-grandfather’s father-in-law who was also in the “War of the Rebellion”, which raises the question, since by g-g-grandfather was married only after the war, if he met his woman by meeting his future-father-in-law, or, did he enlist to impress his to-be-father-in-law?
How far will a young man go to get a woman?
104 | wrenchwench Thu, Jan 10, 2013 11:37:07pm |
107 | wheat-dogghazi Thu, Jan 10, 2013 11:43:15pm |
re: #93 freetoken
I’ve done the same thing, and some of the errors in census records can either be attributed to clerical errors, poor memory, or language problems. My great-grandfather, who really was born in New Jersey, has his birthplace listed variously in NJ or NY in later censuses. Probably one of his kids was the person being interviewed, but who knows?
I knew my grandfather had been been married before he married my grandma, but I didn’t know (and maybe my dad didn’t either) that grandpa and his first wife adopted a baby girl. She lived long enough to marry and have kids, but died fairly young soon afterward. Her granddaughter and I connected on the Internet a few years back, and discovered we each had the same baby picture of this woman.
111 | Gus Thu, Jan 10, 2013 11:49:09pm |
Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop: youtu.be/ZCUcbRTB6Rs via @youtube— Gus (@Gus_802) January 11, 2013
114 | TedStriker Fri, Jan 11, 2013 12:25:14am |
re: #112 Kragar
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Dio’s style really did evolve over time…from 60s frat rock to Black Sabbath to “Holy Diver”.
He was the progenitor of power metal.
115 | Kragar Fri, Jan 11, 2013 12:31:09am |
re: #114 TedStriker
Dio’s style really did evolve over time…from 60s frat rock to Black Sabbath to “Holy Diver”.
Yup. The guy was a legend.
116 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 12:31:15am |
re: #56 Dark_Falcon
Well, Long Lance torpedoes were something as scary as a shark, if you happened to be in an Allied ship. Their use of liquid oxygen meant they left little wake, they were very fast, and their large warheads almost always detonated upon impact.
And if their name was “Lance”, they were probably on steroids…
117 | TedStriker Fri, Jan 11, 2013 12:32:22am |
118 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 12:34:50am |
First pun of the day…and we’ve hit a tanker!!!
119 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 2:30:44am |
PLEASE SOMEBODY STOP ME BEFORE I KILL ANTOHER THREAD!!!
121 | freetoken Fri, Jan 11, 2013 3:31:34am |
Three cheers for the puritans in MA - they liked to keep records, and passed that on to their descendants.
Looking for records, it’s clear that all states aren’t equal. NY didn’t require b/d registrations until 1881 - boo. My g-g-g grandfather of whom I wrote earlier was supposedly born in that state, but that was in the early 19th century and official records probably don’t exist. The old Bible records page does give a date and county in NY, but there is no way to verify that, probably. Which is a shame, as his ancestry that was researched over the years is at odds with what I can find on the internet. If it weren’t for old Bible records there probably wouldn’t be much genealogical history before the Civil War.
122 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 3:42:02am |
re: #121 freetoken
Puritans and Mormons have a few redeeming features, like keeping meticulous genealogical records. And tidy front lawns. Great for keeping up property values.
123 | Tigger2005 Fri, Jan 11, 2013 4:21:41am |
re: #36 Dark_Falcon
In that bolded passage, Washington echoes Flavius Vegetius Renatus and Sun Tzu, in the former case likely deliberately. But that bit of advice is as true today as it was back then. And the availability of arms as a deterrent is a core part of the right to keep and bear arms. By being able to defend yourself you might prevent others from attacking you in the first place.
They were talking about entire countries, not individuals. When each citizen is preparing for war against his own neighbors, what kind of society is that? And anyway, the stats simply do not bear out the belief that having a gun makes you safer. Instances of people using guns to fend off intruders are the exception, not the rule. Guns purchased for self-defense are more likely to be used in domestic arguments, road rage incidents, suicides, accidental shootings, etc. etc. etc. Guns also raise the likelihood that arguments will result in catastrophic injury or death.
If a single mom wants a gun to protect her kids, fine…but statistically, the gun makes her family less, not more, safe. I guess “feeling” safer is more important than actually BEING safer.
124 | Tigger2005 Fri, Jan 11, 2013 4:26:52am |
re: #123 Tigger2005
They were talking about entire countries, not individuals. When each citizen is preparing for war against his own neighbors, what kind of society is that? And anyway, the stats simply do not bear out the belief that having a gun makes you safer. Instances of people using guns to fend off intruders are the exception, not the rule. Guns purchased for self-defense are more likely to be used in domestic arguments, road rage incidents, suicides, accidental shootings, etc. etc. etc. Guns also raise the likelihood that arguments will result in catastrophic injury or death.
If a single mom wants a gun to protect her kids, fine…but statistically, the gun makes her family less, not more, safe. I guess “feeling” safer is more important than actually BEING safer.
And let me add this…in George Washington’s day, you couldn’t just pick up a gun and shoot somebody. You had to put the powder in and load the ball.
125 | Obdicut Fri, Jan 11, 2013 4:27:17am |
re: #123 Tigger2005
If a single mom wants a gun to protect her kids, fine…but statistically, the gun makes her family less, not more, safe. I guess “feeling” safer is more important than actually BEING safer.
That’s not how statistics work. This is annoying. You cannot apply general statistics to a single situation. A particular single mom may actually be in a dangerous enough situation where a gun makes her safer.
We don’t have to declare every gun in every situation to be more dangerous than that situation without the gun.
126 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 4:28:55am |
re: #36 Dark_Falcon
In that bolded passage, Washington echoes Flavius Vegetius Renatus and Sun Tzu, in the former case likely deliberately. But that bit of advice is as true today as it was back then. And the availability of arms as a deterrent is a core part of the right to keep and bear arms. By being able to defend yourself you might prevent others from attacking you in the first place.
If you want to defend yourself in your home with a gun, then you need training and steady nerves.
To defend others in a crowded public place, you need extensive training, experience, nerves of steel and a sound sense of judgement, otherwise, you can easily complicate an already dangerous situation.
That skills set is not automatically conferred upon you when you get a gun permit. Guns are not some kind of talisman.
The teacher at the last shooting in California managed to disarm the assailant without using a gun…
127 | Obdicut Fri, Jan 11, 2013 4:45:12am |
re: #126 Sol Berdinowitz
And the armed deputy didn’t prevent it, nor did the armed guards at Virginia Tech or at a ton of other places. Guns are not magic talismans, nor are ‘armed guards’. The only way to reduce gun death is to increase gun regulation and decrease the number of guns floating around out there.
128 | compound_Idaho Fri, Jan 11, 2013 4:54:41am |
re: #122 Sol Berdinowitz
Puritans and Mormons have a few redeeming features, like keeping meticulous genealogical records. And tidy front lawns. Great for keeping up property values.
My aunt is the researcher and keeper of my family history. In the system, each family member is assigned a unique ID number. When I got married, my wife’s ID number became #666. She is certain it is no accident.
129 | Dark_Falcon Fri, Jan 11, 2013 5:04:06am |
re: #126 Sol Berdinowitz
I’m not arguing that guns are magic talismans, but what I am arguing is that the training and nerves are useless without arms to back them up. I’m not a fan of some untrained yahoo firing blind at a burglar, but I want that yahoo to have the opportunity to own a weapon and get the training, without having to justify to the government his need to defend his home.
131 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 5:19:25am |
132 | Obdicut Fri, Jan 11, 2013 5:45:36am |
re: #129 Dark_Falcon
So how strict do you want the training and regulation to be?
133 | Renaissance_Man Fri, Jan 11, 2013 5:46:52am |
re: #129 Dark_Falcon
I’m not arguing that guns are magic talismans, but what I am arguing is that the training and nerves are useless without arms to back them up.
If so, why do you think they have magical powers like somehow warding off America’s enemies while in civilian hands?
134 | Geoff with a G Fri, Jan 11, 2013 5:50:12am |
#RIPTedNugent put a fake birth cert in a bear trap to catch Obama but forgot about it and lunged at it, mistaking it for a draft deferment— woodmuffin (@woodmuffin) January 11, 2013
135 | Geoff with a G Fri, Jan 11, 2013 6:00:47am |
re: #39 dragonath
Well, Washington can cross the Delaware without any impediment now. The river is ice free.
FREEDOM!
Speaking of GW, I do so enjoy being able to walk up the hill at the end of my driveway to Dorchester Heights and think of the history there.
136 | lawhawk Fri, Jan 11, 2013 6:02:17am |
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. I see that the NRA isn’t happy with how yesterday’s meeting with VP Biden went. They were disappointed and warn (threaten) that comprehensive gun control wont happen this year.
Of course, it goes without saying that they’d oppose any kind of comprehensive gun control or any kind of assault weapons ban, and that they’d further oppose anything that might even be considered a restriction or regulation on top of existing laws.
Never mind that the existing laws have loopholes that you can drive a convoy of assault weapons through and have enough room for enough ammo to last several lifetimes.
There’s room to do something about fixing the broken system, but it should be apparent to anyone that the NRA isn’t going to be a willing partner to solve this conundrum.
137 | ProBosniaLiberal Fri, Jan 11, 2013 6:07:52am |
Turkey, what the hell did you do?
138 | Targetpractice Fri, Jan 11, 2013 6:09:44am |
re: #136 lawhawk
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. I see that the NRA isn’t happy with how yesterday’s meeting with VP Biden went. They were disappointed and warn (threaten) that comprehensive gun control wont happen this year.
Of course, it goes without saying that they’d oppose any kind of comprehensive gun control or any kind of assault weapons ban, and that they’d further oppose anything that might even be considered a restriction or regulation on top of existing laws.
Never mind that the existing laws have loopholes that you can drive a convoy of assault weapons through and have enough room for enough ammo to last several lifetimes.
There’s room to do something about fixing the broken system, but it should be apparent to anyone that the NRA isn’t going to be a willing partner to solve this conundrum.
The NRA’s a lobbying firm for the gun manufacturers these days. Doesn’t matter what the polls say its membership wants, it’s not going to support any laws that could potentially eat into the sales of the companies bankrolling it. Better to instead focus on marginalizing it, which it’s doing most of the heavy work by continuing to freak out at the littlest things.
139 | Ian G. Fri, Jan 11, 2013 6:20:33am |
Via Sullivan, an article about geoengineering from the SF Chronicle: Link
What do people think about geoengineering schemes? I feel like a good analogy is chemotherapy. Normally, putting powerful poisons in one’s body would be a bad idea, but if the other option (cancer) is even worse, you do it, at least until the threat recedes.
Climate Change is planetary cancer, and until we reach the point where we’ve replaced carbon fuel with green energy entirely, we’re at risk. I think there will be a green energy revolution sooner rather than later, but it may be too late to stop the worst effects of climate change. We know how the 1991 eruption of Mt. Pinatubo affected the climate, and have a pretty good idea about the effects of other powerful eruptions in the past via ice cores and tree rings, so we wouldn’t really be going into an unknown zone.
The objections strike me as naive “you’re tinkering with forces beyond your control”. “You’re messing with natural systems.” “It could have unpredictable negative effects”. Um, and this is different from what we’re currently doing by pumping zillions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere….how?
140 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 6:40:54am |
Top 10 best and worst educated states, and how they voted ( photo) twitter.com/rochshelly/sta… #TGDN #tcot #GOP #FOX #NRA #teaparty— mock_you_men_tory (@LiteisoN) January 11, 2013
141 | Achilles Tang Fri, Jan 11, 2013 6:45:05am |
re: #139 Ian G.
The objections strike me as naive “you’re tinkering with forces beyond your control”. “You’re messing with natural systems.” “It could have unpredictable negative effects”. Um, and this is different from what we’re currently doing by pumping zillions of tons of CO2 into the atmosphere….how?
The difference is not naive. We can’t predict the consequences of geoengineering with any certainty, whereas we can predict with considerable certainty the effects of simply stopping doing certain other things.
142 | Ian G. Fri, Jan 11, 2013 6:45:23am |
re: #140 Vicious Babushka
Usually, when you look at a list of states ranked by some indication of human development, there’s a consistent bottom 5: Mississippi, Alabama, West Virginia, Louisiana, and Arkansas. Here we’ve got a bottom 6 with Kentucky added.
And usually, among the best are those socialist hellholes of Massachusetts and Vermont.
143 | Ian G. Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:01:28am |
re: #141 Achilles Tang
The difference is not naive. We can’t predict the consequences of geoengineering with any certainty, whereas we can predict with considerable certainty the effects of simply stopping doing certain other things.
What’s the likelihood that those “certain other things” will be stopped anytime soon? That’s the problem.
144 | Targetpractice Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:07:52am |
*facepalm*
Gun Appreciation Day Leader: If Blacks Had Guns, They Would Not Have Been Slaves
Larry Ward, chairman of the national Gun Appreciation Day gun rights advocates have planned for the weekend of President Obama’s second inauguration, told CNN Friday that there never would have been slaves in America if black people had guns.
“I think Martin Luther King, Jr. would agree with me if he were alive today that if African Americans had been given the right to keep and bear arms from day one of the country’s founding, perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our history,” Ward said.
Somebody get my hip-waders, because it is gettin’ deep.
145 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:10:02am |
re: #129 Dark_Falcon
I’m not arguing that guns are magic talismans, but what I am arguing is that the training and nerves are useless without arms to back them up. I’m not a fan of some untrained yahoo firing blind at a burglar, but I want that yahoo to have the opportunity to own a weapon and get the training, without having to justify to the government his need to defend his home.
That is not in question here; the Second Amendment and its current interpretation covers the right to own a gun to defend one’s home, it is just a matter of regulating and registering privately owned firearms.
146 | Geoff with a G Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:13:19am |
re: #144 Targetpractice
*facepalm*
Gun Appreciation Day Leader: If Blacks Had Guns, They Would Not Have Been Slaves
Somebody get my hip-waders, because it is gettin’ deep.
This might be the single dumbest thing I’ve read in a really, really, really long time.
147 | Geoff with a G Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:15:09am |
re: #144 Targetpractice
*facepalm*
“I think Martin Luther King, Jr. would agree with me if he were alive today that if African Americans had been given the right to keep and bear arms from day one of the country’s founding, perhaps slavery might not have been a chapter in our history,” Ward said.
I mean, can he not see the irony here?
148 | iossarian Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:15:33am |
150 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:17:01am |
“Jesus Christ would not have been crucified if he and his disciples had been properly armed!”
151 | BongCrodny Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:17:20am |
re: #146 geoffm33
This might be the single dumbest thing I’ve read in a really, really, really long time.
I used to say things like that, but then I’d read something dumber not five minutes later.
152 | darthstar Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:19:33am |
re: #144 Targetpractice
*facepalm*
Gun Appreciation Day Leader: If Blacks Had Guns, They Would Not Have Been Slaves
Somebody get my hip-waders, because it is gettin’ deep.
These idiots need to stick with the Hitler references. The Rosa Parks/Slavery stuff is just beyond their ability to sound like even half assed loons.
153 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:21:22am |
re: #152 darthstar
These idiots need to stick with the Hitler references. The Rosa Parks/Slavery stuff is just beyond their ability to sound like even half assed loons.
DERP. FAIL.
The DEMOCRAT PARTY. working to enslave America since 1861#tcot #tgdn twitter.com/Pw9X/status/28…— trev (@Pw9X) January 11, 2013
154 | Targetpractice Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:22:18am |
re: #152 darthstar
These idiots need to stick with the Hitler references. The Rosa Parks/Slavery stuff is just beyond their ability to sound like even half assed loons.
They’re just digging themselves in all kinds of deeper. In any sane world, such a statement would have been slapped down with examples of laws enacted all the way up til the Civil Rights Era banning gun ownership to blacks, laws enacted and enforced by…that’s right…white Christian men.
155 | BongCrodny Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:24:36am |
“If only Abraham Lincoln had been armed and had eyes in the back of his head…”
156 | Geoff with a G Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:25:38am |
re: #155 BongCrodny
Time to deregulate rear-facing-eyes.
157 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:25:56am |
Then there’s that Jefferson quote they are so fond of retweeting:
“No freeman shall ever be debarred the use of arms.”
Except that wingnuts put a space between “free” and “man” not realizing that when Jefferson wrote that, he used “freeman” in the context of “NOT A SLAVE.”
In Jefferson’s time slaves were always debarred the use of arms.
158 | Ian G. Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:26:15am |
re: #153 Vicious Babushka
Do wingnuts ever wonder why African-Americans overwhelmingly vote Democratic despite their constant harping on the ancient history of the Democratic Party? Are they genuinely unaware that the Dixiecrats all became Republicans, or is it just mass delusion that what happened in 1860 matters more than what happened in 2008?
159 | darthstar Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:28:44am |
re: #154 Targetpractice
They’re just digging themselves in all kinds of deeper. In any sane world, such a statement would have been slapped down with examples of laws enacted all the way up til the Civil Rights Era banning gun ownership to blacks, laws enacted and enforced by…that’s right…white Christian men.
Now to find Republican congresscritters willing to have an Akin/Mourdock moment by defending this asshole…you know some of them will be going to the Gun Appreciation Day festivities…time to get them on tape.
160 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:29:29am |
re: #153 Vicious Babushka
DERP. FAIL.
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So all these people running around today with Confederate flags are really Democrats. Hmmm. Who knew.
161 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:29:57am |
re: #158 Ian G.
Do wingnuts ever wonder why African-Americans overwhelmingly vote Democratic despite their constant harping on the ancient history of the Democratic Party? Are they genuinely unaware that the Dixiecrats all became Republicans, or is it just mass delusion that what happened in 1860 matters more than what happened in 2008?
They refuse to admit the fact that a “Southern Democrat” was basically just a Republican who lives south of the Mason-Dixon line and could not hope to get elected by being a member of the party that freed the nig…,ahem, I mean slaves.
162 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:32:24am |
re: #158 Ian G.
Do wingnuts ever wonder why African-Americans overwhelmingly vote Democratic despite their constant harping on the ancient history of the Democratic Party? Are they genuinely unaware that the Dixiecrats all became Republicans, or is it just mass delusion that what happened in 1860 matters more than what happened in 2008?
Wingnuts live in their own Bizarro world, where MLK was a Republican and Blacks only vote for Democrats because “they get free stuff”
163 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:32:32am |
re: #160 Gus
So all these people running around today with Confederate flags are really Democrats. Hmmm. Who knew.
FAKE quote! Jefferson NEVER said “Those who hammer their guns into plows..&c.” monticello.org/site/jefferson… #tcot #p2 #tgdn #Jefferson #guns— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 11, 2013
164 | wheat-dogghazi Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:35:12am |
re: #147 geoffm33
Words fail me.
If African-Americans in the South used weapons to fight for their civil rights, how would that have turned out, eh?
165 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:36:35am |
Sure enough…
@wretchedmaniam “Those who hammer their guns into plows” etc. FAKE QUOTE! monticello.org/site/jefferson… #tgdn #tcot #tlot #Jefferson— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 11, 2013
166 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:37:41am |
re: #163 Vicious Babushka
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Whenever I see the word “guns” or “firearms” attributed to a historical figure I’m suspicious. They rarely used both words back then.
167 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:38:35am |
re: #166 Gus
Whenever I see the word “guns” or “firearms” attributed to a historical figure I’m suspicious. They rarely used both words back then.
Somebody should put up a page of the Top 20 Fake Quotes on Twitter.
168 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:39:27am |
re: #167 Vicious Babushka
Somebody should put up a page of the Top 20 Fake Quotes on Twitter.
Fake gun quotes? Could be done I suppose.
169 | lawhawk Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:39:45am |
re: #166 Gus
The suspicion about quotes attributed to historical figures in general is a good idea. Many that float about the ‘net are bogus, mischaracterizations, or exaggerations.
170 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:40:19am |
Fake…
“Firearms are second only to the Constitution in importance; they are the peoples’ liberty teeth.” George Washington— Janie Johnson (@jjauthor) January 10, 2013
171 | Four More Tears Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:42:30am |
re: #144 Targetpractice
*facepalm*
Gun Appreciation Day Leader: If Blacks Had Guns, They Would Not Have Been Slaves
Somebody get my hip-waders, because it is gettin’ deep.
They’ve become completely divorced from reality. I mean, the papers have been signed and the lawyers have rested their cases…
172 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:46:56am |
Here’s the mother lode of bogus quotes on Twitter: Results for firearms “George Washington”
174 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:47:47am |
re: #164 wheat-dogghazi
Words fail me.
If African-Americans in the South used weapons to fight for their civil rights, how would that have turned out, eh?
The South did not even want to arm blacks to fight for the Confederacy, because that would have entailed freeing them afterwards…
175 | Interesting Times Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:48:57am |
Heh. On the other hand, I think the NRA *would* consider this a solution!
176 | Ian G. Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:49:15am |
re: #164 wheat-dogghazi
Words fail me.
If African-Americans in the South used weapons to fight for their civil rights, how would that have turned out, eh?
Probably with mass executions and more repression all around. You know, like this.
David Frum had a good tweet in response to all the nonsense about the Nazis being stopped if Germans (or Jews) were armed. He mentioned that the Polish army had guns in 1939. How did that turn out?
Also, Hungary had guns in 1956. A fat lot of good that did them against the Red Army….
177 | wheat-dogghazi Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:52:52am |
re: #170 Gus
On a hunch, I checked Google. This quote turns up on several “famous quotes” websites. Brainy Quote, the one I checked, offers no way to comment on the veracity of a quote. So, doubtlessly, these brainiacs are using the “if it’s on the Internet, it must be true” line of reasoning.
178 | darthstar Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:54:25am |
re: #176 Ian G.
Well, in all fairness, if the Iraqi army was fully armed in 2003 George Bush never would have given the order to invade. We only did that because we knew they couldn’t really fight back…at least militarily.
179 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:54:32am |
re: #177 wheat-dogghazi
On a hunch, I checked Google. This quote turns up on several “famous quotes” websites. Brainy Quote, the one I checked, offers no way to comment on the veracity of a quote. So, doubtlessly, these brainiacs are using the “if it’s on the Internet, it must be true” line of reasoning.
Yeah, I noticed the same. So they’re to blame as well.
180 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:55:19am |
re: #176 Ian G.
Probably with mass executions and more repression all around. You know, like this.
David Frum had a good tweet in response to all the nonsense about the Nazis being stopped if Germans (or Jews) were armed. He mentioned that the Polish army had guns in 1939. How did that turn out?
Also, Hungary had guns in 1956. A fat lot of good that did them against the Red Army….
typo fixed. Amused by suggestion that gun control in Germany enabled Nazis. Polish army had guns. How’d they do against the Wehrmacht?— davidfrum (@davidfrum) January 10, 2013
181 | darthstar Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:55:37am |
re: #177 wheat-dogghazi
“I LIKE CORN DOGS!” —John McCain, in response to why he suspended his campaign in 2008.
It’s true…it’s right there…on the internet.
182 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:57:51am |
YouTube’s Most Popular ‘Gun Nut’ Found Shot to Death, Surrounded by Guns
Keith Ratliff was better known to the gun-loving side of YouTube as the user FPSRussia, aka Professional Russia, with his channel of ammunition porn racking up 3.5 million subscribers and over 500 million views. Last week, in a gruesome and still mysterious twist of fate, Georgia police found him shot in the head and surrounded by guns — just not the one that left him dead.
The Agenda 21 ninja/assassins are already inside the wire!!!
183 | wheat-dogghazi Fri, Jan 11, 2013 7:58:19am |
re: #174 Sol Berdinowitz
As a general rule, allowing subjugated peoples to have firearms sometimes turns out badly for the subjugators. Does the moron who suggested the “arm the slaves” idea consider who the slaves would have been shooting at? Could have been one of his ancestors.
184 | wheat-dogghazi Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:01:55am |
re: #181 darthstar
“I LIKE CORN DOGS!” —John McCain, in response to why he suspended his campaign in 2008.
It’s true…it’s right there…on the internet.
As I writing teacher, one of my most difficult jobs now is to teach my students not to trust any source they find on the Internet, unless it is clearly an academic site. They really have no concept that most of the shit on the Internet really is shit.
185 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:02:40am |
re: #173 Gus
Maybe not a mother lode. Anyway, there are a bunch.
It just seems like there are more, because the same ones get retweeted over and over in the wingnut echo chamber.
The Jefferson fake quotes are easy to debunk because Monticello.org has a collection. I can’t find a reliable source for debunking the Washington “liberty’s teeth” fake quote, but last night I was able to debunk that “armed and disciplined” since it was a misrepresentation of a real quote.
GO VIRAL! The REAL George Washington quote. He was against #Outsourcing #tcot #tgdn #p2 #tlot bit.ly/V0isX3 twitpic.com/bu61ey— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 11, 2013
186 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:06:58am |
re: #183 wheat-dogghazi
As a general rule, allowing subjugated peoples to have firearms sometimes turns out badly for the subjugators. Does the moron who suggested the “arm the slaves” idea consider who the slaves would have been shooting at? Could have been one of his ancestors.
I seem to recall that even the Union was hesitant about using freed slaves to fight against the Confederacy until they started running low on manpower…
187 | darthstar Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:06:59am |
“It makes me happy when Nancy slips a finger into my butt.” —Ronald Reagan to Mikhail Gorbachev after the Berlin Wall came down.
188 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:07:04am |
re: #185 Vicious Babushka
It just seems like there are more, because the same ones get retweeted over and over in the wingnut echo chamber.
The Jefferson fake quotes are easy to debunk because Monticello.org has a collection. I can’t find a reliable source for debunking the Washington “liberty’s teeth” fake quote, but last night I was able to debunk that “armed and disciplined” since it was a misrepresentation of a real quote.
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There’s this from Guncite:
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Of course when you’re dealing with a case of not being able to prove or disprove the general rule is to discard.
189 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:07:27am |
re: #184 wheat-dogghazi
As I writing teacher, one of my most difficult jobs now is to teach my students not to trust any source they find on the Internet, unless it is clearly an academic site. They really have no concept that most of the shit on the Internet really is shit.
virality is veracity!
190 | Mattand Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:07:40am |
So I’m already having a shitty day, and I click over to Talking Points Memo and see this:
Gun Appreciation Day Leader: If Blacks Had Guns, They Would Not Have Been Slaves
The amount of self-delusion and stupid it takes to say this with a straight face defies all rational thought.
To every conservative that posts here: seriously, people, this is the problem. Right here. Your party and movement are infested with these lunatics, and at best, you guys respond with a No True Republican defense.
This is why you guys lost the Presidency and two Senate seats.
What. The. Fuck.
191 | lawhawk Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:07:52am |
re: #185 Vicious Babushka
Debunking the Liberty’s teeth quote:
This has several variations including “hour” for “moment” and sometimes added as part of an actual Washington quote “A free people ought not only to be armed…” The various citations are even more numerous than different wordings: Address to the Second Session of the First U.S. Congress; Speech to Congress of January 7, 1790, printed in the Boston Independent Chronicle, January 14, 1790; The Federalist No. 53; Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 1785.
The problems with this quote are many. (1) Prairie wagons were not being utilized and the prairies were uninhabited by European settlers at the time. (2) The percentage use and other modern English phrases such as “safe and sane” are suspicious and atypical for the time period. (3) The bold proclamation of needing firearms is odd since nobody was considering gun control against law-abiding people at the time. (4) Too many convenient topics are covered in one passage.
192 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:08:08am |
re: #185 Vicious Babushka
Re: “a uniform and a well-digested plan”
I’ve seen quite a few NRA spokesheads on television lately, mouthing the talking point that an armed citizen is equipped with an effective defense against our own government, but none of the interviewers has yet followed up with any questions about how a couple of hunters, or even an informal (and unelected) militia group would have either the right or the capability of resisting their legal government.
194 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:08:57am |
195 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:09:22am |
re: #192 jaunte
Re: “a uniform and a well-digested plan”
I’ve seen quite a few NRA spokesheads on television lately, mouthing the talking point that an armed citizen is equipped with an effective defense against our own government, but none of the interviewers has yet followed up with any questions about how a couple of hunters, or even an informal (and unelected) militia group would have either the right or the capability of resisting their legal government.
WOLVERINES!1!
196 | Jolo5309 Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:09:46am |
re: #64 Kragar
No, I picked up a copy of that back in high school.
The 14th and final Wheel of Time book.
Cheese is swept, is that how many there are now? I quit at 4.
197 | Mattand Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:09:53am |
re: #187 darthstar
“It makes me happy when Nancy slips a finger into my butt.” —Ronald Reagan to Mikhail Gorbachev after the Berlin Wall came down.
I need a citation on that. Not because I’m a Reagan fan, but because that image makes me throw up in my mouth. A lot.
198 | wheat-dogghazi Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:10:02am |
re: #185 Vicious Babushka
It may be too late to debunk it. This quote has been posted and re-posted so many times it’s now become as legendary as Washington chopping down the cherry tree and throwing a coin across the river.
Clearly, Washington never said it. It’s modern English, not the way people spoke or wrote in the 18th century.
199 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:10:05am |
re: #183 wheat-dogghazi
As a general rule, allowing subjugated peoples to have firearms sometimes turns out badly for the subjugators. Does the moron who suggested the “arm the slaves” idea consider who the slaves would have been shooting at? Could have been one of his ancestors.
Or their ancestors came over the ocean after the Civil War when the political equivalents of their current viewpoint were (still) agitating to turn them back at Ellis Island due to be from the wrong ethnic group or simply not being American.
Know Nothingism/Isolationism seems to come to the fore in US politics on a cyclical basis - roughly every 30-40 years.
200 | erik_t Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:10:06am |
re: #191 lawhawk
It reads falsely on its face, frankly.
“99 99/100 percent of them”? Really, folks? Show some fucking effort.
203 | erik_t Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:11:20am |
re: #201 Gus
Firearms site:gwpapers.virginia.edu
Nada.
Google, being from the Bay Area, has a well-known liberal search bias.
What does Conservoogle turn up?
204 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:11:21am |
re: #200 erik_t
It reads falsely on its face, frankly.
“99 99/100 percent of them”? Really, folks? Show some fucking effort.
Yeah, that’s pretty modern too: 99 99/100%.
Would be better if they said 99 and 44/100ths //
205 | darthstar Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:11:43am |
re: #197 Mattand
I need a citation on that. Not because I’m a Reagan fan, but because that image makes me throw up in my mouth. A lot.
206 | wheat-dogghazi Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:12:02am |
re: #199 Feline Fearless Leader
Or their ancestors came over the ocean after the Civil War when the political equivalents of their current viewpoint were (still) agitating to turn them back at Ellis Island due to be from the wrong ethnic group or simply not being American.
Know Nothingism/Isolationism seems to come to the fore in US politics on a cyclical basis - roughly every 30-40 years.
“Irish need not apply.”
207 | erik_t Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:12:19am |
re: #204 Gus
Yeah, that’s pretty modern too: 99 99/100%.
I’d say it’s not so much modern as uneducated.
208 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:12:23am |
re: #192 jaunte
Re: “a uniform and a well-digested plan”
I’ve seen quite a few NRA spokesheads on television lately, mouthing the talking point that an armed citizen is equipped with an effective defense against our own government, but none of the interviewers has yet followed up with any questions about how a couple of hunters, or even an informal (and unelected) militia group would have either the right or the capability of resisting their legal government.
These people have already determined taht the currently elected government is a band of illegal usurpers led by a foreign-born Muslim.
They are convinced that the President stole the election by promising free handouts to social parasites who, in their eyes, should not have been allowed to vote.
209 | Ian G. Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:12:37am |
re: #200 erik_t
Really, folks? Show some fucking effort.
It makes me think of the huckster minister who published a book “proving” the existence of heaven by “quoting” his child who had a near-death experience and met Jesus. Jesus, apparently, had the brightest of blue eyes and blond hair.
Yeah, lots of blond-haired, blue-eyed people in 1st-century Israel. Again, show some fucking effort.
210 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:13:13am |
211 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:13:21am |
re: #200 erik_t
It reads falsely on its face, frankly.
“99 99/100 percent of them”? Really, folks? Show some fucking effort.
Rifles did not exist in George Washington’s time.
213 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:14:05am |
re: #208 Sol Berdinowitz
I’m eager to see the interviewer that will press them on that.
214 | Jolo5309 Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:15:07am |
re: #197 Mattand
I need a citation on that. Not because I’m a Reagan fan, but because that image makes me throw up in my mouth. A lot.
If you give someone with talent & photoshop an hour, maybe they can show you a picture of it actually happening. Not me though, I have neither talent nor photoshop
215 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:15:40am |
re: #211 Vicious Babushka
Rifles did not exist in George Washington’s time.
They did. But not as the general issue military weapons since smoothbore muskets had a higher firing rate and were easier to make. The backwoodsmen used rifles, and did the German jaeger troops.
216 | Mattand Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:15:44am |
217 | Mattand Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:16:17am |
re: #214 Jolo5309
If you give someone with talent & photoshop an hour, maybe they can show you a picture of it actually happening. Not me though, I have neither talent nor photoshop
I have both, but the Geneva Convention and good taste prevent me from doing so.
218 | erik_t Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:16:28am |
re: #211 Vicious Babushka
Rifles did not exist in George Washington’s time.
HA
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Oh, quite right. In a broad sense, they did not. If Wikipedia is to be believed, they were a very fringe weapon used by the sharpest of sharpshooters, but were by no means a general-use weapon and would surely not be discussed in lieu of muskets.
219 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:16:37am |
Wooden choppers
You’ll one day see ‘em
On a shelf
In some museum
— George Washington
220 | darthstar Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:16:50am |
221 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:17:04am |
Our sister site FlackCheck produced this video on our article about the worst viral emails of 2012: ow.ly/gJyTZ— Fact Check (@factcheckdotorg) January 11, 2013
222 | lawhawk Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:17:47am |
re: #194 Vicious Babushka
Fairly reliable. Gun Cite also refers to it, but notes that the gun rights folks provide attributions to various speeches/documents, and yet a review of any and all of those documents reveal no such language.
223 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:17:57am |
re: #212 Gus
Ummm, I didn’t say that.
— George Washington
What were the results on Skewed Quotes?
;)
OR Unskewed Quotes for that matter?
224 | erik_t Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:19:00am |
re: #222 lawhawk
Fairly reliable. Gun Cite also refers to it, but notes that the gun rights folks provide attributions to various speeches/documents, and yet a review of any and all of those documents reveal no such language.
The Big Lie is a cornerstone of modern Republican discourse. ‘Trust but verify’ is, sadly, too charitable.
225 | iossarian Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:22:24am |
Madness to the rescue: Don’t Quote Me On That
226 | darthstar Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:22:32am |
“Crossing the Delaware 2nite to surprize some bitchezzz! #punkassenglish” - George Washington if he had twitter.
227 | Lidane Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:23:15am |
Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-GA) delivers a dramatic re-enactment of every rape controversy since August bit.ly/WJneVG— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) January 11, 2013
228 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:23:35am |
Another one.
Rep. Gingrey (R-GA) says its hard for women who are actually raped to get pregnant because they are “tense and uptight” thkpr.gs/VPSyG9— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) January 11, 2013
229 | Jolo5309 Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:23:44am |
re: #212 Gus
Ummm, I didn’t say that.
— George Washington
I thought the most famous Washington quote was:
Hookers and ham sandwiches, so good you just can’t have one
230 | wheat-dogghazi Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:24:23am |
re: #224 erik_t
They learned their history at the feet of David Barton.
231 | Lidane Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:25:02am |
re: #190 Mattand
To every conservative that posts here: seriously, people, this is the problem. Right here. Your party and movement are infested with these lunatics, and at best, you guys respond with a No True Republican defense.
This is why you guys lost the Presidency and two Senate seats.
What. The. Fuck.
A+ post, would quote and upding again.
These are the kinds of morons that appeal to the party base because they ARE the party base. They are why the GOP is shrinking and becoming a regional white party.
232 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:25:12am |
re: #230 wheat-dogghazi
They learned their history at the feet of David Barton.
Some credit to a group to whom the past is as flexible as the future. Talk about living in the Now.
/
233 | wheat-dogghazi Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:25:36am |
re: #228 Gus
Is this yokel married? Does he have a daughter? What a fuckhead.
234 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:25:41am |
Rifles, with their spiraled grooves, required a tight-fitting ball, which made it very slow to load. They were reserved for the light infantry and sharpshooters.
Smoothbore muskets could be loaded a lot more quickly, because they could take a looser-fitting ball and could be loaded by simply tapping down on the butt.
Assault rifles did not come about until WWII.
236 | lawhawk Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:26:40am |
By the way, here’s an actual GW quote that is usually the basis for the modified and bogus quotes see elsewhere online:
A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well digested plan is requisite: And their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories, as tend to render them independent on others, for essential, particularly for military supplies.
—-George Washington’s First Annual Message to Congress (January 8, 1790)
And the original version as preserved by the Library of Congress’ Washington Papers collection.
Yale Law collection of annual messages.
So yeah, that’s how it’s actually written.
237 | wrenchwench Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:26:56am |
Tags at the top:
Nine Inch Nails, Short Film, Video, Vimeo
OMG, you stealthily made me upding Nine Inch Nails! Auuuugh!
238 | wheat-dogghazi Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:27:04am |
239 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:27:24am |
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
— Hanlon’s razor
240 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:27:25am |
re: #236 lawhawk
By the way, here’s an actual GW quote that is usually the basis for the modified and bogus quotes see elsewhere online:
And the original version as preserved by the Library of Congress’ Washington Papers collection.
Yale Law collection of annual messages.
So yeah, that’s how it’s actually written.
Tweeted that one last night.
GO VIRAL! The REAL George Washington quote. He was against #Outsourcing #tcot #tgdn #p2 #tlot bit.ly/V0isX3 twitpic.com/bu61ey— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 11, 2013
241 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:28:12am |
re: #236 lawhawk
By the way, here’s an actual GW quote that is usually the basis for the modified and bogus quotes see elsewhere online:
And the original version as preserved by the Library of Congress’ Washington Papers collection.
Yale Law collection of annual messages.
So yeah, that’s how it’s actually written.
And it is obvious he is talking about things at a national level. That a *country* should have the ability to manufacture sufficient arms and powder, rather than be dependent upon imports from another.
242 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:28:21am |
A free people ought not only to be armed but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well digested plan is requisite: And their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories, as tend to render them independent on others, for essential, particularly for military supplies.
Meaning the entire citizenry, acting together for our interests in common.
243 | lawhawk Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:28:42am |
re: #226 darthstar
“Crossing the Delaware 2nite to surprize some bitchezzz! #punkassenglish” - George Washington if he had twitter.
Sorry, but that’s Benedict Arnold’s twitter. GW wouldn’t be posting that until after he overruns the Hessians in Trenton.
244 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:29:47am |
HOLY FREAKING CRAP
Who is ready for a real American to take the white house back? I am! Why wait 4 years? #PJNET #RedNationRising #TGDN RT!— #RedNationRising (@AaronProSol) January 11, 2013
245 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:30:16am |
re: #241 Feline Fearless Leader
And it is obvious he is talking about things at a national level. That a *country* should have the ability to manufacture sufficient arms and powder, rather than be dependent upon imports from another.
He was totally against outsourcing.
246 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:30:24am |
re: #242 jaunte
Meaning the entire citizenry, acting together for our interests in common.
Shorter GW: you guys should put together something like the Pentagon.
247 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:31:44am |
We still do that WRT to defense procurement. One reason we don’t buy off the shelf aircraft made by other nations. I forgot the word they use but it’s similar to native production.
248 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:32:08am |
re: #246 Gus
Oh look, the 2nd was written about the national defense, not a whiny crank revolt!
249 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:33:00am |
re: #248 jaunte
Oh look, the 2nd was written about the national defense, not a whiny crank revolt!
I’m willing to compromise. :D
250 | kirkspencer Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:33:28am |
re: #184 wheat-dogghazi
As I writing teacher, one of my most difficult jobs now is to teach my students not to trust any source they find on the Internet, unless it is clearly an academic site. They really have no concept that most of the shit on the Internet really is shit.
One of the things I used to offer in an attempt to drum up business was information literacy courses, most of which included the section: How to trust your internet sources. Unfortunately, everyone thinks they already know how to trust them. Kinda hard to drum up business with a tagline that amounts to “the customer is wrong.”
251 | erik_t Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:33:52am |
re: #247 Gus
We still do that WRT to defense procurement. One reason we don’t buy off the shelf aircraft made by other nations. I forgot the word they use but it’s similar to native production.
I think it’s called ‘because ours are better’.
/ and/or ;)
253 | Lidane Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:34:57am |
re: #244 Vicious Babushka
I love how these morons keep pushing the bigoted meme that POTUS isn’t a “Real American”.
Way to do minority outreach, morons.
254 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:35:52am |
re: #245 Vicious Babushka
He was totally against outsourcing.
Also understood from experience that if you’re fighting the UK that the Royal Navy is going to blockade your ports and make such imports a mite more difficult.
Go forward four score years and you get the “Anaconda Plan” where the US puts a similar hitch in the CSA’s armaments.
255 | wrenchwench Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:36:25am |
re: #238 wheat-dogghazi
A medical doctor? It gets worse.
Good one. RT @lolgop: More like a OB/GYN-INO #Illseemyselfout RT @sarahposner: How did I not know that Phil Gingrey is an OB/GYN.— Sarah Posner (@sarahposner) January 11, 2013
256 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:37:08am |
Just like clockwork.
WorldNetDaily columnist and Fox News regular Erik Rush today is suggesting that President Obama may be behind the recent murder of gun enthusiast Keith Ratliff. Rush admits that while he has “no proof” besides his own “inclination,” the extremist writer claims Obama helped kill Ratliff as just “the first of many such executions that will take place in order to silence individuals whom the government deems a threat to their oligarchical collectivist agenda.”
257 | Ghost of Tom Joad Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:37:09am |
re: #227 Lidane
What in the? We’re back to this dumbshittery now? This was supposed to be “Gun-Nut” week. Now this asshole has to start clogging the airwaves with his deranged misogyny.
Anybody who talks about rape in any way that’s not “Rape means no consent given” just needs to be taken out back for a severe beating. And anybody who tries to redefine rape in order to push their woman-hating fetus-fetish deserves to be set on fire.
(Apologies for promoting any violence and offending the pacifist crowd, but these fucking people are some of the most vile cretins in existence.)
258 | wheat-dogghazi Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:37:52am |
re: #250 kirkspencer
One of the things I used to offer, in an attempt to drum up business, was information literacy courses, most of which included the section: How to trust your internet sources. Unfortunately, everyone thinks they already know how to trust them. Kinda hard to drum up business with a tagline that amounts to “the customer is wrong.”
I don’t know about that. Isn’t that how consultants make their dough?
259 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:38:15am |
re: #184 wheat-dogghazi
As I writing teacher, one of my most difficult jobs now is to teach my students not to trust any source they find on the Internet, unless it is clearly an academic site. They really have no concept that most of the shit on the Internet really is shit.
My brother issues a set of guidelines to students every term regarding research and papers. Rules for how and what to cite, including format. And this includes a specific statement that most Internet sites and specifically Wikipedia will *not* be accepted as a primary reference.
260 | erik_t Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:38:53am |
re: #256 jaunte
Just like clockwork.
I have no proof beyond my own inclination, but I suspect Erik Rush is a fucking pants-on-head homemade-chemtrail-sniffing nutter that sullies the name of decent and humble eriks around this great nation.
261 | wheat-dogghazi Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:40:14am |
re: #259 Feline Fearless Leader
Yup. Same as me. Many students just don’t get it. And I get a lot of copypasta here in China.
262 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:40:37am |
‘I have no proof beyond my own inclination’
is this month’s
‘not intended to be a factual statement.’
263 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:40:45am |
re: #260 erik_t
I have no proof beyond my own inclination, but I suspect Erik Rush is a fucking pants-on-head homemade-chemtrail-sniffing nutter that sullies the name of decent and humble eriks around this great nation.
Erik Rush killled Raitliff so he could blame it on Obama. No proof, just a hunch…
264 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:41:33am |
re: #256 jaunte
Just like clockwork.
Want my guess? He was with a friend that night and it was an accidental shooting. Right now it’s just a “suspected” murder.
265 | Kaessa Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:41:38am |
re: #256 jaunte
Just like clockwork.
I saw that one coming as soon as I heard the news. IT’S ALL A CONSPIRACY TO TAKE OUR GUNS!
266 | wheat-dogghazi Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:42:59am |
After midnight here. See you all later on.
267 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:43:27am |
“Is Obama appointing too many white dudes? Here to discuss that: A panel of white dudes.” #cableTVlife— daveweigel (@daveweigel) January 11, 2013
268 | Interesting Times Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:43:28am |
re: #228 Gus 802
Another one.
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A man’s body has hormones that will kill prostate cancer. If a man gets it, it’s because he wanted it.— William K. Wolfrum (@Wolfrum) January 11, 2013
269 | kirkspencer Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:43:38am |
re: #259 Feline Fearless Leader
My brother issues a set of guidelines to students every term regarding research and papers. Rules for how and what to cite, including format. And this includes a specific statement that most Internet sites and specifically Wikipedia will *not* be accepted as a primary reference.
The funny thing is that wikipedia is actually a good first reference - as good as the Encyclopedia Britannica. This is especially true if you’ll check for the (almost always) obvious signs of manipulation in the history.
270 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:43:39am |
re: #244 Vicious Babushka
HOLY FREAKING CRAP
Who is ready for a real American to take the white house back? I am! Why wait 4 years? #PJNET #RedNationRising #TGDN RT!
— #RedNationRising (@AaronProSol) January 11, 2013
The left is a bunch of grown children that still throw them self on the floor at the grocery store when they don’t get the cereal the want.
— #RedNationRising (@AaronProSol) January 11, 2013
This is some kind of new, possibly cold-fusion-powered projection.
271 | Interesting Times Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:44:06am |
And in the “birdbrains of a feather flock together” category:
Climate Denier Lord Monckton Teams Up With Anti-Islam, Anti-Abortion Creationist Pastor bit.ly/XWaKAQ— Climate Progress (@climateprogress) January 11, 2013
272 | darthstar Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:46:06am |
re: #259 Feline Fearless Leader
My brother issues a set of guidelines to students every term regarding research and papers. Rules for how and what to cite, including format. And this includes a specific statement that most Internet sites and specifically Wikipedia will *not* be accepted as a primary reference.
Back when I was a teacher and encyclopedias were just starting to get popular on CD-ROM I’d get papers from students who obviously just printed direct from the CD - including (because of color ink-jet printers) bold blue words which were obviously links to other entries in the encyclopedia. My favorite was a paper by a true red-neck that had a few paragraphs about Dante’s circles of hell. When I asked him about it, he said, “Dante? Who the hell is he? I wrote that paper!”
I’m sure teachers today have even better examples.
273 | goddamnedfrank Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:46:07am |
re: #237 wrenchwench
Tags at the top:
OMG, you stealthily made me upding Nine Inch Nails! Auuuugh!
274 | kirkspencer Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:46:17am |
re: #258 wheat-dogghazi
I don’t know about that. Isn’t that how consultants make their dough?
That’s the conventional wisdom. Either I’m doing it wrong or conventional wisdom is wrong. Either, of course, is possible.
275 | Ghost of Tom Joad Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:47:18am |
re: #270 jaunte
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This is some kind of new, possibly cold-fusion-powered projection.
Projection at its finest, especially coming from the crowd that sounds like a newborn who just had their pacifier taken away while Mr. Teddy was run through a paper shredder because there’s a small but decent chance they won’t be able to buy an assault rifle next Christmas.
276 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:48:42am |
re: #275 Ghost of Tom Joad
Or twenty a day until next Christmas.
277 | BongCrodny Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:49:20am |
re: #244 Vicious Babushka
HOLY FREAKING CRAP
Who is ready for a real American to take the white house back? I am! Why wait 4 years?
That whole democracy/free election thing is so overrated.
278 | wrenchwench Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:50:17am |
re: #273 goddamnedfrank
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Is that a Nine Inch Nails song?
You’re reorienting my reality! It’s painful!!!
279 | Ghost of Tom Joad Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:51:23am |
re: #277 BongCrodny
That whole democracy/free election thing is so overrated.
They’re taking away our freedoms!!! We need to counter this by overthrowing a democratically-elected government!!!
Irony, like the Magical-Balance Fairy, are way underpaid for the systematic abuse they take.
280 | Lidane Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:51:48am |
*headdesk*
He’s a Marxist! And I Still Can’t Spell His Name!
Cathie Adams, president of the far-right Texas Eagle Forum, has had more than four years to learn how to spell the name of the president of the United States and still can’t. She still seems more interested in making sure people know that his middle name is Hussein and that she thinks he’s a dirty ol’ MARXIST.
Agenda 21! Marxism! The death of liberty! Eleventy!
281 | BongCrodny Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:52:21am |
re: #256 jaunte
Just like clockwork.
He should get together with that professor from Florida who thinks the Newtown massacre was staged and see which one of them can out-nutball the other.
282 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:53:12am |
I’m still stumped about how so many people think PBO is this massive lefty.
283 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:54:26am |
re: #282 Gus
I’m still stumped about how so many people think PBO is this massive lefty.
He’s a Marxist! He’s a Communist! He’s a Kenyan! He HATES this country! He’s comin 2 take yrr gunz!1!ty
284 | Ghost of Tom Joad Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:55:12am |
re: #281 BongCrodny
He should get together with that professor from Florida who thinks the Newtown massacre was staged and see which one of them can out-nutball the other.
Just to preserve my own sanity, I believe that a lot of this deranged hysteria is really nothing more than the degenerates just trying to one-up each other. Yes, they’re racists/bigots/misogynists etc. and they hate Obama, but I find it difficult to believe these people actually believe some of the things they spew onto the keyboard. It seems to be a lot of hyperbole.
Sure, there’s genuine guanopsychotics, but they all can’t just be bugfuck crazy…..can they?
285 | Lidane Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:55:58am |
re: #282 Gus
I’m still stumped about how so many people think PBO is this massive lefty.
Because they’re stupid. That’s why.
Anyone who thinks that Barack Obama is a far left hippie has never paid attention to anything the man says or does.
286 | Lidane Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:56:36am |
The only thing the GOP learned from 2012 was something they knew in 2011: Don’t nominate Mitt Romney.— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 11, 2013
287 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:57:32am |
re: #280 Lidane
From that pdf doc:
“…His Obamacare policies, for example, are already wreaking havoc socially and economically. His idea of “social and economic justice” is to create death panels to make life and death decisions based not upon the fact that people are created in the image of God, but by what value those people have to an all-powerful State. Obama’s endeavor for “environmental justice” has also been an abysmal failure with at least a dozen solar companies filing bankruptcy after receiving millions of your tax dollars.
FREE Americans enjoying FREE markets have created the cleanest, healthiest* and most prosperous country in the world, but the constitutional republic that set the stage for those successes is in Obama’s crosshairs with his policies to implement “sustainable development.”
Death Panel zombie meme still shambling around in Texas.
*ORLY?
288 | BongCrodny Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:57:52am |
re: #284 Ghost of Tom Joad
Just to preserve my own sanity, I believe that a lot of this deranged hysteria is really nothing more than the degenerates just trying to one-up each other. Yes, they’re racists/bigots/misogynists etc. and they hate Obama, but I find it difficult to believe these people actually believe some of the things they spew onto the keyboard. It seems to be a lot of hyperbole.
Sure, there’s genuine guanopsychotics, but they all can’t just be bugfuck crazy…..can they?
Yeah, exactly — we’ve already got two references in this thread to guys why have no proof as to the way they *believe* things unfolded, but are willing to share it with the rest of the world because they know the rest of their idiot kind will gladly tag along like a hungry dog.
289 | Ghost of Tom Joad Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:58:10am |
re: #282 Gus
I’m still stumped about how so many people think PBO is this massive lefty.
It’s because that there’s been a massive shift of the conservative/right-wing/Republican base further to the right. The sane ones who stayed behind who used to be extreme right-wingers are now considered centrists at best, and everybody else is an extreme lefty.
290 | goddamnedfrank Fri, Jan 11, 2013 8:58:50am |
re: #278 wrenchwench
Is that a Nine Inch Nails song?
You’re reorienting my reality! It’s painful!!!
Yep. Probably the most poignant, beautiful performance of Johnny Cash’s life was a cover of a song written by Trent Reznor.
291 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:01:04am |
re: #285 Lidane
Because they’re stupid. That’s why.
Anyone who thinks that Barack Obama is a far left hippie has never paid attention to anything the man says or does.
Yeah, it was a rhetorical question on my part. I know this. Right now the real far-left is fuming about the recent cabinet announcements and totally oppose Chuck Hagel, Jack Lew, and John Brennan. Bernie Sanders, whom I don’t consider to be far-left, has already said he won’t be voting for Jack Lew.
292 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:02:56am |
Fox News: it only appears to be getting warmer, send scientists to jail till they stop saying so mediamatters.org/blog/2013/01/1… #allinyourmind
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) January 11, 2013
Defenders of freedom.
293 | BongCrodny Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:03:14am |
re: #287 jaunte
From that pdf doc:
FREE Americans enjoying FREE markets have created the cleanest, healthiest and most prosperous country in the world
Riiiiiiiiiight.
294 | erik_t Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:03:17am |
re: #275 Ghost of Tom Joad
Projection at its finest, especially coming from the crowd that sounds like a newborn who just had their pacifier taken away while Mr. Teddy was run through a paper shredder because there’s a small but decent chance they won’t be able to buy an assault rifle next Christmas.
Or, worse, that they won’t even be able to buy an assault rifle next Holiday Season’s Greetings Nojesus.
295 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:03:18am |
Drones, Afghanistan, CIA renditions, GITMO, marijuana, Bradley Manning, Julian Assange, etc.
296 | Bubblehead II Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:03:58am |
DERP!
Brought to you by none other than Fox News.
Wyoming Considers Gun Protection Bill
The bill reads: “No public servant as defined in W.S. 6-5-101, or dealer selling any firearm in this state shall enforce or attempt to enforce any act, law, statute, rule or regulation of the United States government relating to a personal firearm, firearm accessory or ammunition that is owned or manufactured commercially or privately in Wyoming and that remains exclusively within the borders of Wyoming.”
States Rights!
297 | Ghost of Tom Joad Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:04:10am |
re: #289 Ghost of Tom Joad
It’s because that there’s been a massive shift of the conservative/right-wing/Republican base further to the right. The sane ones who stayed behind who used to be extreme right-wingers are now considered centrists at best, and everybody else is an extreme lefty.
And it’s been quite recent. I think that 9/11 and the subsequent Bush years drove a big wedge into that group. Hell, I know a lot of folks, including myself, as well as a good number of folks here, who probably would be considered modern/centrist Republicans in the 90s, but somewhere between 2001-2008 were…disgusted (not sure what other term for it) with the rightward shift, and now we’re probably considered lefty/hippie/Dems etc.
Disclaimer-I voted for Bush, twice (I know, I know, it’s like that one-night stand that always comes back to haunt you in some way).
298 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:05:55am |
re: #297 Ghost of Tom Joad
And it’s been quite recent. I think that 9/11 and the subsequent Bush years drove a big wedge into that group. Hell, I know a lot of folks, including myself, as well as a good number of folks here, who probably would be considered modern/centrist Republicans in the 90s, but somewhere between 2001-2008 were…disgusted (not sure what other term for it) with the rightward shift, and now we’re probably considered lefty/hippie/Dems etc.
Disclaimer-I voted for Bush, twice (I know, I know, it’s like that one-night stand that always comes back to haunt you in some way).
HypnoBush //
299 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:06:20am |
NRA: Can you people stop shooting people for 5 minutes so we can convince America that guns are needed!?!?
— Nadine Cross (@cross_nadine) January 11, 2013
300 | BongCrodny Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:07:51am |
re: #297 Ghost of Tom Joad
Disclaimer-I voted for Bush, twice (I know, I know, it’s like that one-night stand that always comes back to haunt you in some way).
“Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, more shame on you.” — John Eddie
301 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:08:24am |
re: #297 Ghost of Tom Joad
And it’s been quite recent. I think that 9/11 and the subsequent Bush years drove a big wedge into that group. Hell, I know a lot of folks, including myself, as well as a good number of folks here, who probably would be considered modern/centrist Republicans in the 90s, but somewhere between 2001-2008 were…disgusted (not sure what other term for it) with the rightward shift, and now we’re probably considered lefty/hippie/Dems etc.
Disclaimer-I voted for Bush, twice (I know, I know, it’s like that one-night stand that always comes back to haunt you in some way).
I also voted for Bush in 2000. Just could not bring myself to vote for Gore/Liebermann, especially for the latter. Nothing to do with his religion, I just find him an obnoxious little twit.
But apropos Liebermann, he would have been McCain’s first pick in 2008 if he had been allowed his choice, but by then the Religious Right had a stranglehold on the party and they made it clear that Liebermann was unacceptable due to his religion.
302 | Ghost of Tom Joad Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:09:18am |
re: #300 BongCrodny
“Fool me once, shame on you.
Fool me twice, more shame on you.” — John Eddie
I thought it was
“Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice…fool…can’t fool me again..”
Something like that.
303 | BongCrodny Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:11:39am |
re: #302 Ghost of Tom Joad
I thought it was
“Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice…fool…can’t fool me again..”Something like that.
I’ve also been known to fall for a practical joke now and again. I supported Dean in 2004 and Edwards in 2008, so I’m not exactly Nostradamus when it comes to picking political candidates.
304 | Ghost of Tom Joad Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:11:54am |
re: #301 Sol Berdinowitz
I also voted for Bush in 2000. Just could not bring myself to vote for Gore/Liebermann, especially for the latter. Nothing to do with his religion, I just find him an obnoxious little twit.
But apropos Liebermann, he would have been McCain’s first pick in 2008 if he had been allowed his choice, but by then the Religious Right had a stranglehold on the party and they made it clear that Liebermann was unacceptable due to his religion.
It’s like two quarter-pound stools of alien space shit crashed into a toxic waste dumpster in Stamford, Connecticut, fucked, and out came their mutilated, blood-soaked carcass of a baby rat-child, Senator Joseph Lieberman.
Read more at [Link: wonkette.com…]
305 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:12:00am |
re: #302 Ghost of Tom Joad
I thought it was
“Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice…fool…can’t fool me again..”Something like that.
I think the 22nd Amendment imposed a two-fool limit…
306 | wrenchwench Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:12:00am |
-@sweetal @only4rm this isn’t about where they went to school, it’s about how they reject the science they learned to enact an agenda.— Amadi (@amaditalks) January 11, 2013
308 | BongCrodny Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:16:07am |
re: #290 goddamnedfrank
Yep. Probably the most poignant, beautiful performance of Johnny Cash’s life was a cover of a song written by Trent Reznor.
There are times when I find it hard to believe that two songs as good as “The Man Comes Around” and “Hurt” can be found on the same album.
309 | Eventual Carrion Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:16:07am |
re: #190 Mattand
So I’m already having a shitty day, and I click over to Talking Points Memo and see this:
Gun Appreciation Day Leader: If Blacks Had Guns, They Would Not Have Been Slaves
[snip]
Yep, and if all prisoners had guns I bet they wouldn’t be prisoners anymore either.
310 | erik_t Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:16:22am |
311 | Killgore Trout Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:18:06am |
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow hits Obama’s ‘Orwellian’ drone program (video)
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is the latest member of prorgressive media to criticize President Obama’s drone program, calling it “the wholesale embrace of a secretive, psuedo-legal, deniable, Orwellian means of raining death from the sky all over the world, even in places where we’re not technically at war.”
“The fact that we know that these things are happening and that our government considers these things deniable is frankly one of the more Orwellian things about being an American in the 21st century,” Maddow said on her show last night.
…..
“Does President Obama appointing John Brennan to appoint the CIA mean that he does care about that critique from the left? Or is it the opposite?” she asked. “By promoting the architect of the drone program we’ve got now, is this a punch-the-hippie moment? Is this a sign that he is happy for drone warfare to be his legacy?”
312 | iossarian Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:19:14am |
re: #296 Bubblehead II
DERP!
Brought to you by none other than Fox News.
Wyoming Considers Gun Protection Bill
The bill reads: “No public servant as defined in W.S. 6-5-101, or dealer selling any firearm in this state shall enforce or attempt to enforce any act, law, statute, rule or regulation of the United States government relating to a personal firearm, firearm accessory or ammunition that is owned or manufactured commercially or privately in Wyoming and that remains exclusively within the borders of Wyoming.”
States Rights!
Brilliant. So you’re not allowed to regulate guns that stay in Wyoming.
Tell you what bud. You show me a gun that can’t be taken out of Wyoming, and I’ll back off with the regulations.
313 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:21:12am |
Wow. Derpers think Obama wants to put himself on Mt. Rushmore. They think Rush belongs there.
[Link: twitter.com…]
314 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:24:02am |
FUCKING ANALOGIES, HOW DO THEY WORK?
Well said…#TGDN #2ndAmendment #nra #AAA #GUNRIGHTS #GunsSaveLives #molonlabe twitter.com/dattiljs/statu…— Joseph D. (@dattiljs) January 11, 2013
315 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:25:26am |
“So did Hitler and the Nazis really take away Germans’ guns, making the Holocaust unavoidable?” mojo.ly/11mrRwA cc @waitmanb— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) January 11, 2013
316 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:25:58am |
re: #314 Vicious Babushka
FUCKING ANALOGIES, HOW DO THEY WORK?
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Getting really tired of all of these dumb analogies.
317 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:26:37am |
re: #316 Gus
Getting really tired of all of these dumb analogies.
That one set some kind of Platinum standard for Derp.
318 | erik_t Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:26:50am |
re: #314 Vicious Babushka
FUCKING ANALOGIES, HOW DO THEY WORK?
If my gun has a dead battery, can I call the NRA and get a jump?
319 | wrenchwench Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:27:05am |
Today is getting weirder.
Just got an email from Michele Bachmann: “I need your advice.”// Really?— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) January 11, 2013
320 | iossarian Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:28:35am |
When is the walled compound freakshow in Idaho opening up? I am in serious need of some point-and-laugh entertainment right now.
321 | Ghost of Tom Joad Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:29:13am |
re: #320 iossarian
When is the walled compound freakshow in Idaho opening up? I am in serious need of some point-and-laugh entertainment right now.
I’d be careful about pointing anything at those people, because they’ll point something else back and fire it.
322 | BongCrodny Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:29:58am |
re: #319 wrenchwench
Today is getting weirder.
Just got an email from Michele Bachmann: “I need your advice.”// Really?
I hope Frum answered “retire.”
323 | iossarian Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:30:31am |
re: #321 Ghost of Tom Joad
I’d be careful about pointing anything at those people, because they’ll point something else back and fire it.
Seriously, though, I want to see how long it takes these Galtian Overlords to decide that they need to club together and set up some kind of “postal service”.
324 | wrenchwench Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:33:01am |
re: #322 BongCrodny
I hope Frum answered “retire.”
Corn, not Frum. She’s asking a Known Liberal for advice?
325 | Eventual Carrion Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:33:07am |
re: #229 Jolo5309
I thought the most famous Washington quote was:
Hookers and ham sandwiches, so good you just can’t have one
See, I thought that was ol’ Ben Franklin.
326 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:33:13am |
Embrace the GOP: It’s scientists’ fault for being too partisan
“To prevent science from continuing its worrying slide towards politicization, here’s a New Year’s resolution for scientists, especially in the United States: gain the confidence of people and politicians across the political spectrum by demonstrating that science is bipartisan.”
How can scientists do anything but reject a party that has rejected not only their findings, but science and reason itself?
327 | erik_t Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:33:58am |
re: #326 Sol Berdinowitz
Embrace the GOP: It’s scientists’ fault for being too partisan
“To prevent science from continuing its worrying slide towards politicization, here’s a New Year’s resolution for scientists, especially in the United States: gain the confidence of people and politicians across the political spectrum by demonstrating that science is bipartisan.”
How can scientisty do anything but reject a party that has rejected not only their findings, but science and reason itself?
BIPARTISAN. IS NOT. FUCKING. NONPARTISAN.
THERE SHOULD BE NO PARTISAN IN FUCKING SCIENCE. ZERO. NONE. ZILCH. NADA.
328 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:34:07am |
MOAR ANALOGY FAIL
RT @dhrxsol1234: Bumper sticker: I’ll Pay for Your Contraception when You Pay for My Ammunition!! #tcot #tgdn #guncontrol— USABob (@USABob) January 11, 2013
329 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:34:26am |
re: #326 Sol Berdinowitz
To be fair, they only reject the science and reason that they think will have bad policy implications.
/Poe’s law joke
330 | erik_t Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:35:07am |
re: #328 Vicious Babushka
These people hate like it’s a full time job and they get triple for overtime.
331 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:35:46am |
re: #329 jaunte
To be fair, they only reject the science and reason that they think will have bad policy implications.
Which is almost everything, from climate studies to evolotionary science to energy policy.
332 | Bubblehead II Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:36:22am |
re: #320 iossarian
When is the walled compound freakshow in Idaho opening up? I am in serious need of some point-and-laugh entertainment right now.
And what walled compound freak show are you talking about?
333 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:36:37am |
re: #327 erik_t
BIPARTISAN. IS NOT. FUCKING. NONPARTISAN.
THERE SHOULD BE NO PARTISAN IN FUCKING SCIENCE. ZERO. NONE. ZILCH. NADA.
read the article…scientists are citizens, too. they have a right to defend their interests against a party that is undermining not only their findings, but the very field they work in
334 | iossarian Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:37:39am |
re: #332 Bubblehead II
And what walled compound freak show are you talking about?
Read it and weep (or giggle, or whatever):
[Link: www.eclectablog.com…]
335 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:37:51am |
Survivalist group, The Citadel, eyes North Idaho
The Citadel, which arose on the Internet, envisions a walled and armed community in the mountains.
The project would be a “martial endeavor designed to protect residents in times of peril” and “built as a fortified bastion of liberty,” according to the group’s website.
[Link: www.mcclatchydc.com…]
336 | The Ghost of a Flea Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:38:11am |
Paul Ryan Once Again Sponsors the Bill That Would Make It Possible for Women’s Rapists to Sue Them
In an unsurprising turn of events, Ryan has signed on as cosponsor to the Sanctity of Human Life Act again. The original bill — which declares that life begins with fertilization, and would give states the right to ban all abortion, even in the cases involving incest, rape, or the life of the mother — thankfully died in Congress in 2011.
But now it’s baaaaack, which is scary because not only is the above terrifying, there’s all sorts of other creepy shit hidden in this monster. Like, if a woman who was raped in a state that banned abortions went to a state that didn’t ban abortions and had an abortion? Her rapist could theoretically sue to stop the abortion from happening, and probably win. And it doesn’t stop there with the reproductive weirdness, if passed, it’ll probably make many forms of IVF illegal.
Bold and Serious. Laser-like focus on the economy.
337 | erik_t Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:39:03am |
re: #333 Sol Berdinowitz
read the article…scientists are citizens, too. they have a right to defend their interests against a party that is undermining not only their findings, but the very field they work in
Scientists are whatever they want to be. More power to them.
If it’s partisan of any flavor, it’s making decisions and judgments based on outside biases, and it’s not science.
338 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:42:04am |
re: #337 erik_t
Scientists are whatever they want to be. More power to them.
If it’s partisan of any flavor, it’s making decisions and judgments based on outside biases, and it’s not science.
Read the article. The point is that science tried to remain non-partisan until the GOP started attacking not just their findings, but the entire scientific method.
Now they are being chided for being too, well, partisan.
340 | Lidane Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:46:41am |
re: #336 The Ghost of a Flea
Paul Ryan Once Again Sponsors the Bill That Would Make It Possible for Women’s Rapists to Sue Them
Bold and Serious. Laser-like focus on the economy.
Zombie-eyed granny starver and misogynist. And the GOP’s “economic guru” and “young gun”.
341 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:47:08am |
The Citadel blog:
[Link: iiicitadel.blogspot.com…]
Playland for gun nuts. Lots of pictures of European castles and a bronze Minuteman statue from Lexington, Mass.
342 | Decatur Deb Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:47:23am |
re: #332 Bubblehead II
And what walled compound freak show are you talking about?
Two (count ‘em), two showed up yesterday—the Citadel in your neck of the woods, and Glenn Beck’s Derpland. Both are in the early planning (send me your money) stage.
343 | wrenchwench Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:47:58am |
344 | Lidane Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:48:08am |
re: #336 The Ghost of a Flea
Hey girl, I’ve been thinking about you. huff.to/U4JTOg— Paul Ryan Gosling (@PaulRyanGosling) January 11, 2013
346 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:48:56am |
re: #343 wrenchwench
His number of followers is rising with great speed.
We got our decree from Dawkins! :O
Follow @danieldennett.One of the world’s premier intellectuals, but unpretentious and he works hard to be understood.— Richard Dawkins (@RichardDawkins) January 11, 2013
347 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:49:51am |
re: #341 jaunte
The Citadel blog:
[Link: iiicitadel.blogspot.com…]Playland for gun nuts. Lots of pictures of European castles and a bronze Minuteman statue from Lexington, Mass.
Citadel Features
III Arms Factory
Curtain Wall & Towers
Main Gate
John Parker Town Green
Town Hall
Community Armory
Citadel Firearms Museum
Farmer’s Market
Medical Center
Retirement Facility
Citadel Schools
Boarding School
Library
Tourist Visitor Center
Town Center - Retail/Commercial
Houses/Townhomes/Condos
Canals
Lake/Ponds
Firearms Ranges
Archery Range
Sports Fields
Hotel
III Bank
Churches
Power Plant
Underground Shelter
Post Office
Fire House
Stockade/Jail
Grounds Building
Biomass Plant
Walking Trails
Orchards/Gardens/Parks
Outdoor Pavilions
Large Amphitheatre
Command & Control Center
Media Center
Airstrip
Helipad
Shuttle System
Parking Center
Amenities!
350 | Bubblehead II Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:50:33am |
re: #334 iossarian
re: #335 jaunte
Great. Just what we need, more fucking idiots.
How in the hell did I miss this?
/Can we have our Aryan Nations group back now?
352 | Decatur Deb Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:51:09am |
355 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:52:56am |
re: #347 Gus
They already have the wilderness walking trails. There’s one to check off the to-do list.
356 | wrenchwench Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:52:58am |
re: #346 Gus
We got our decree from Dawkins! :O
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Actually, the number of followers varies, depending on whether you’re looking at his Tweets, Followers, or Following pages. But they’re all going up.
357 | iossarian Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:53:07am |
re: #347 Gus
Citadel Features
Amenities!
Really looking forward to reports of the inaugural Citadel public spending budget committee meeting.
A partial transcript follows:
BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG BANG
…
BANG
358 | Eventual Carrion Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:54:16am |
re: #235 The Mountain That Blogs
Rep. Phil Gingrey, MD. OB/GYN
No I’m not a gynecologist, but yeah I’ll take a look.
359 | Ian G. Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:54:56am |
re: #292 jaunte
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Defenders of freedom.
It seems the lunatic right is having more problems with facts and data than normal these days. Global temperatures rising? CPI indicating low inflation? The polls showing Obama would win? Jobs being created quicker than anticipated? Well, the obvious solution is not to alter one’s worldview to accommodate those pesky facts, it’s to pretend the data is cooked.
Poor Danny Moynihan. People apparently are entitled to their own facts these days.
360 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:55:28am |
re: #357 iossarian
Every able-bodied Patriot aged 13 and older governed by this Agreement shall annually demonstrate proficiency with a handgun of choice by hitting a man-sized steel target at 25 yards with open sights at the Citadel range. Each Resident shall have 10 shots and must hit the target at least 7 times.
“I’m sorry, you only hit the target six times. Sadly, we must now expel you and your family’s economic contributions to our club.”
361 | lawhawk Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:55:50am |
re: #359 Ian G.
All data is cooked. Would you like yours bloody as hell, or burnt to a crisp? /
362 | engineer cat Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:55:56am |
MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow hits Obama’s ‘Orwellian’ drone program
america must be a center-right country since we just re-elected a president with center-right policies
363 | Obdicut Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:56:37am |
re: #339 Gus
Dennett’s book “Darwin’s Dangerous Idea” is the most intellectually stimulating book I have ever read.
364 | lawhawk Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:59:37am |
Hoo boy:
Three: Every able-bodied Patriot aged 13 and older governed by this Agreement shall annually demonstrate proficiency with a handgun of choice by hitting a man-sized steel target at 25 yards with open sights at the Citadel range. Each Resident shall have 10 shots and must hit the target at least 7 times.
Four: Every able-bodied Patriot of age within the Citadel will maintain one AR15 variant in 5.56mm NATO, at least 5 magazines and 1,000 rounds of ammunition. The responsibility for maintaining functional arms and ammunition levels for every member of the household shall fall to the head of household. Every able-bodied Patriot will be responsible for maintaining a Tactical Go Bag or Muster Kit to satisfy the Minuteman concept. Details TBD and posted elsewhere.
So, the requirements are that someone with a firearm must show proficiency on an annual basis? That’s so much beyond what current state/fed law requires.
Yet, if the state were to require annual proficiency registration, these same folks would go ballistic.
Can’t help but wonder where these folks would take their go-bag if they’ve already mustered to this far-flung corner of Idaho? You can’t get much more remote than that, except maybe by heading into Canada. /
365 | Obdicut Fri, Jan 11, 2013 9:59:41am |
re: #363 Obdicut
Dennett’s book “Darwin’s Dangerous Idea” is the most intellectually stimulating book I have ever read.
That being said, I see no point to following him on twitter. He writes books. nice long ones. I can read those.
I prefer my twitter light:
@sabrarambam I get it. You & Alex Jones believe the New World Order is denying you the Cocoa Puffs you are both cuckoo for.— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) January 9, 2013
366 | Mattand Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:00:32am |
re: #190 Mattand
So I’m already having a shitty day, and I click over to Talking Points Memo and see this:
Gun Appreciation Day Leader: If Blacks Had Guns, They Would Not Have Been Slaves
The amount of self-delusion and stupid it takes to say this with a straight face defies all rational thought.
To every conservative that posts here: seriously, people, this is the problem. Right here. Your party and movement are infested with these lunatics, and at best, you guys respond with a No True Republican defense.
This is why you guys lost the Presidency and two Senate seats.
What. The. Fuck.
And just when you think the GOP has hit rock bottom, they break out the heavy machinery and make a dash to the Earth’s mantle:
GOP Rep: Todd Akin ‘Partly Right’ On Legitimate Rape
Conservatives: I want you guys to think about this for a minute. Your party elected to national office an ob-gyn who doesn’t understand how female anatomy works, and tries to downplay rape.
This is why I don’t vote Republican any more. The fact that you guys keep repeatedly voting for people like Gingrey and Akin, often with large margins, makes me think you really just care about being in power, rather than managing the country.
To paraphrase Jon Stewart: You’re hurting the country. Please stop.
367 | Lidane Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:02:27am |
re: #364 lawhawk
a man-sized steel target at 25 yards
Ballistics gel torso filled with fake blood and organs or GTFO.
If you’re going to convince yourself that you can kill another man, then see what you’ll do to them. Shooting at steel targets? Pfft.
368 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:03:00am |
“The beauty of the 2nd Amendment is that it will Not be Needed until they try to take it” ~Thomas Jefferson #BANG #TGDN twitter.com/ChristiChat/st…— Conservative (@ChristiChat) January 11, 2013
369 | Decatur Deb Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:03:39am |
re: #364 lawhawk
Hoo boy:
So, the requirements are that someone with a firearm must show proficiency on an annual basis? That’s so much beyond what current state/fed law requires.
Yet, if the state were to require annual proficiency registration, these same folks would go ballistic.
Can’t help but wonder where these folks would take their go-bag if they’ve already mustered to this far-flung corner of Idaho? You can’t get much more remote than that, except maybe by heading into Canada. /
They take them down Ruby Ridge street and assemble at David Koresh Junior High for the Last Stand.
370 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:03:51am |
re: #269 kirkspencer
The funny thing is that wikipedia is actually a good first reference - as good as the Encyclopedia Britannica. This is especially true if you’ll check for the (almost always) obvious signs of manipulation in the history.
I’d say Wikipedia is a potential starting point for a student - in order to find the primary references the Wikipedia article is based on. And those should be referenced in the article.
And since he is teaching geosciences the odds are that those references are what the student should be citing, and also know how to find and read them.
371 | Obdicut Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:05:15am |
re: #368 Vicious Babushka
A really stupid one, too, because it is claiming the only purpose of bearing arms is resisting the government’s attempts to disarm you, which is way circular, dude.
372 | iossarian Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:05:18am |
re: #368 Vicious Babushka
So fucking obvious. “Until ‘they’ try to take it”? Really?
HAVE A BRAIN MOARNS!!!
373 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:05:44am |
“The beauty of the Second Amendment…” ANOTHER FAKE #JEFFERSON QUOTE #tcot #tgdn #p2 #tlot #guns monticello.org/site/jefferson…— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 11, 2013
374 | Lidane Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:06:24am |
WATCH LIVE: President Obama/Hamid Karzai joint press conference on-air and online at 1:15pm ET nbcnews.to/UVsVpu— NBC News (@NBCNews) January 11, 2013
375 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:06:44am |
re: #372 iossarian
So fucking obvious. “Until ‘they’ try to take it”? Really?
HAVE A BRAIN MOARNS!!!
SEE! HE KNEW THAT SOMEDAY A KENYAN IMPOSTER WOULD USURP THE WHITE HOUSE!1!
376 | Eventual Carrion Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:09:03am |
re: #292 jaunte
Fox News: it only appears to be getting warmer, send scientists to jail till they stop saying so mediamatters.org/blog/2013/01/1… #allinyourmind
— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) January 11, 2013
Defenders of freedom.
Nobody expects the Fox Inquisition.
377 | Ian G. Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:10:19am |
I’m just hoping that, as the loony right scours websites looking for quotes by Jefferson that support their views on guns, they’re coming across his many quotes skeptical of religion and his desire to build up that “wall of separation” between church and state in this country.
378 | Lidane Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:10:37am |
re: #371 Obdicut
A really stupid one, too, because it is claiming the only purpose of bearing arms is resisting the government’s attempts to disarm you, which is way circular, dude.
I had some moron on a friend’s FB page try to make that same argument, that the availability of guns was so that citizens were at the same level of firepower as the government in case the government tried to take their guns.
I had to point out that until civilians have access to drones, nukes, aircraft carriers, fighter planes, and the entire US military and its resources, citizens will never be at the same level of firepower as the government. He didn’t have an answer for that.
379 | lawhawk Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:11:04am |
For those who were hoping to see a possible dream matchup of politics, style, and issues in New Jersey, you’re going to have to wait. Instead of running against Gov. Chris Christie, Newark Mayor Cory Booker has filed to run for the US Senate seat currently held by Frank Lautenberg. It’s not clear whether Lautenberg will run again or whether another NJ Democrat, Frank Pallone, will consider a run against Booker in the primary.
I think this is a good career move for Booker, though I would have loved to see the Booker-Christie matchup. There’s genuine respect there, and that could actually help in the long run if Booker wins the Senate race.
380 | engineer cat Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:11:38am |
The beauty of the 2nd Amendment is that it will Not be Needed until they try to take it
brought to you by the same group of people who begged the government to take away their 4th amendment rights to privacy in their personal communications and records
sorry, the freedom you gave away ain’t a gonna be won back by a bunch of morons with assault rifles getting mowed down by tanks and assault helicopters
381 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:12:34am |
re: #312 iossarian
Brilliant. So you’re not allowed to regulate guns that stay in Wyoming.
Tell you what bud. You show me a gun that can’t be taken out of Wyoming, and I’ll back off with the regulations.
They’ll just pass a Fugitive Gun Law for chasing after the escapees and expect the other states to enforce that for them.
382 | iossarian Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:12:53am |
re: #380 engineer cat
The beauty of the 2nd Amendment is that it will Not be Needed until they try to take it
brought to you by the same group of people who begged the government to take away their 4th amendment rights to privacy in their personal communications and records
sorry, the freedom you gave away ain’t a gonna be won back by a bunch of morons with assault rifles getting mowed down by tanks and assault helicopters
Don’t forget they’ll be holed up in a spiffy walled compound, with orchards and everything!
383 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:13:35am |
re: #378 Lidane
until civilians have access to drones, nukes, aircraft carriers, fighter planes, and the entire US military and its resources, citizens will never be at the same level of firepower as the government. He didn’t have an answer for that.
LEFTIST!!!
384 | Mattand Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:14:21am |
re: #376 Eventual Carrion
Nobody expects the Fox Inquisition.
Fear, stupidity, and ignorance are two… no, THREE! Three of our chief weapons!
385 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:14:49am |
re: #381 Feline Fearless Leader
They’ll just pass a Fugitive Gun Law for chasing after the escapees and expect the other states to enforce that for them.
Fine, then the federal government will be empowered to surround Wyoming with a fence and install metal detectors at tall the gates.
387 | engineer cat Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:16:41am |
re: #382 iossarian
Don’t forget they’ll be holed up in a spiffy walled compound, with orchards and everything!
why don’t they have comic books already narrating their fantasy of defending themselves against hordes of angry brown and black people who have lost their food stamps when the massive inflation comes and the gummint runs outta welfare money
i want to see the scenes where they try to figure out what to do with all the gold they bought
388 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:16:48am |
re: #382 iossarian
Don’t forget they’ll be holed up in a spiffy walled compound, with orchards and everything!
They’re going to need a few more billionaires.
389 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:17:36am |
“Twitter is the biggest bunch of morons in the universe.”—Thomas Jefferson.
390 | wrenchwench Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:17:41am |
We are not only related to monkeys, we are related to rocks.
I can’t embed it from here, I can only link it.
391 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:17:55am |
re: #387 engineer cat
why don’t they have comic books already narrating their fantasy of defending themselves against hordes of angry brown and black people who have lost their food stamps when the massive inflation comes and the gummint runs outta welfare money
i want to see the scenes where they try to figure out what to do with all the gold they bought
Odds are that Jack Chick has already covered that.
//
392 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:18:13am |
@christichat Someone once tried to tell me Jefferson was pro control. I threw this quote at them. Great quote.— Keagan Federici(@KeaganFederici) January 11, 2013
Conservative; libertarian; Thomas Jefferson fan. If you are after some good old conservative sense check out…
Apparently, Thomas Jefferson fans are not interested in facts.
393 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:18:42am |
re: #386 Gus
“Yippee-Ki-Yay, Molester of Mothers.”
— Andrew Jackson
394 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:19:55am |
re: #393 jaunte
“Yippee-Ki-Yay, Molester of Mothers.”
— Andrew Jackson
Go ahead, make my day.
— John Adams
395 | Eventual Carrion Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:20:36am |
re: #335 jaunte
Survivalist group, The Citadel, eyes North Idaho
[Link: www.mcclatchydc.com…]
Heavily armed religious radicals living in the mountains. Where have I heard of people like that before?
[scratches beard]
396 | wilburs Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:20:55am |
re: #392 Gus
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Apparently, Thomas Jefferson fans are not interested in facts.
When I get these “Jefferson” quotes thrown at me I always ask
So, how many people did Jefferson shoot?
Never get an answer
397 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:20:57am |
re: #392 Gus
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Apparently, Thomas Jefferson fans are not interested in facts.
Aww butthurt baby, @ChristiChat blocked everyone who pointed out this was a FAKE QUOTE.
399 | efuseakay Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:21:26am |
re: #378 Lidane
I had some moron on a friend’s FB page try to make that same argument, that the availability of guns was so that citizens were at the same level of firepower as the government in case the government tried to take their guns.
I had to point out that until civilians have access to drones, nukes, aircraft carriers, fighter planes, and the entire US military and its resources, citizens will never be at the same level of firepower as the government. He didn’t have an answer for that.
They are working hard on one, believe me. It probably involves Hitler and Benghazi.
400 | The Ghost of a Flea Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:21:40am |
I have 99 problems, but a non-consenting slave mistress isn’t one.
Thomas Jefferson.
401 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:21:47am |
re: #390 wrenchwench
We are not only related to monkeys, we are related to rocks.
I can’t embed it from here, I can only link it.
Can’t view that due to being a work, but seeing Neil Shubin’s name on there I presume this is going to somehow reference back to Tiktaalik. And I can somehow see the trail of stupidity somehow trying to claim that since that is a fossil we’re related to rocks. Much as we’re related to moldering dead things since that’s their current condition. :p
But since it’s Colbert I’m sure he’s just doing his schtick that veers so close to actual nutjob talking points you cannot tell the difference.
402 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:21:54am |
re: #394 Gus
“I’ll Be Back.”
— James Monroe, after re-election.
403 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:22:28am |
re: #397 Vicious Babushka
Aww butthurt baby, @ChristiChat blocked everyone who pointed out this was a FAKE QUOTE.
#TGDN SPAM BLOCK —> @viciousbabushka NOW! RT!!11TY
//
404 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:23:07am |
re: #402 jaunte
“I’ll Be Back.”
— James Monroe, after re-election.
A wed wose. How womantic.
— Martha Washington
405 | iossarian Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:23:36am |
re: #400 The Ghost of a Flea
I have 99 problems, but a non-consenting slave mistress isn’t one.
Thomas Jefferson.
That sound? It’s just the Internet shattering into a billion glittering fragments.
406 | engineer cat Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:23:47am |
The Citadel, which arose on the Internet, envisions a walled and armed community in the mountains.
The project would be a “martial endeavor designed to protect residents in times of peril” and “built as a fortified bastion of liberty,” according to the group’s website.
Members already created at least one Idaho company to make firearms and employ residents, but the fate of the project is uncertain, one member said in an email to the Idaho Statesman. It isn’t clear yet whether it would even be built in Idaho.
“Currently we are a loose collection of several hundred people with a germ of an idea,” the representative wrote in response to an interview request.
The plan is to build a community with a fortified castle and firearms museum in addition to typical city features like a bank, jail and library. The complex would have 3,500 to 7,000 families living on about 2,000 to 3,000 acres in Benewah County south of Coeur d’Alene, according to the website.
The group picked Benewah County because of its sparse population and “shared world-view” of independence, self-sufficiency and patriotism, the website said.
please proceed
407 | The Ghost of a Flea Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:23:51am |
Strike me down, and I shall become more powerful than ever.
Abraham Lincoln
408 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:24:41am |
re: #403 Gus
#TGDN SPAM BLOCK —> @viciousbabushka NOW! RT!!11TY
//
LaLaLaLaLa canthearyou LaLaLaLaLa.
This has been a test of the TGDN warning system. If this had been a real event of actual facts being Twittered to us this warning would have been followed by a large scale derp dump of denial, lies, and logical fallacies.
////
410 | iossarian Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:25:09am |
Patrolling - they try to catch me riding dirty.
— Paul Revere
411 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:25:26am |
“Hessians! Tonight We Dine In….. Trenton!!!”
— George Washington
414 | The Ghost of a Flea Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:25:45am |
IS JAMES K POLK GOING TO HAVE TO CHOKE A BITCH?
415 | efuseakay Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:25:57am |
re: #406 engineer cat
The Citadel, which arose on the Internet, envisions a walled and armed community in the mountains.
The project would be a “martial endeavor designed to protect residents in times of peril” and “built as a fortified bastion of liberty,” according to the group’s website.
Members already created at least one Idaho company to make firearms and employ residents, but the fate of the project is uncertain, one member said in an email to the Idaho Statesman. It isn’t clear yet whether it would even be built in Idaho.
“Currently we are a loose collection of several hundred people with a germ of an idea,” the representative wrote in response to an interview request.
The plan is to build a community with a fortified castle and firearms museum in addition to typical city features like a bank, jail and library. The complex would have 3,500 to 7,000 families living on about 2,000 to 3,000 acres in Benewah County south of Coeur d’Alene, according to the website.
The group picked Benewah County because of its sparse population and “shared world-view” of independence, self-sufficiency and patriotism, the website said.
please proceed
Why do they need a jail if they have a ‘“shared world-view” of independence, self-sufficiency and patriotism’?
416 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:26:58am |
re: #397 Vicious Babushka
Aww butthurt baby, @ChristiChat blocked everyone who pointed out this was a FAKE QUOTE.
WHY CAN’T “THEY” JUST MIND THEIR OWN BUSINESS? BLOCKED ALL 4 >>>@viciousbabushka @jaunte @mattand @lidane #Pathetic #BusyBody #TGDN #FUN :-D— Conservative (@ChristiChat) January 11, 2013
417 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:27:00am |
re: #406 engineer cat
Don’t mention to them that the Bastille was originally a castle/fortress.
418 | wrenchwench Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:27:07am |
re: #401 Feline Fearless Leader
Can’t view that due to being a work, but seeing Neil Shubin’s name on there I presume this is going to somehow reference back to Tiktaalik. And I can somehow see the trail of stupidity somehow trying to claim that since that is a fossil we’re related to rocks. Much as we’re related to moldering dead things since that’s their current condition. :p
But since it’s Colbert I’m sure he’s just doing his schtick that veers so close to actual nutjob talking points you cannot tell the difference.
No, more like “We are stardust”. Everything in the universe is related because it’s all the same chemistry. My brother the evolutionary biologist who went to U. Chicago posted it on Facebook.
419 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:27:24am |
@christichat @/viciousbabushka @/jaunte @/mattand @/Lidane ->Spam Blocked this TRASH….!! #TwistedTruthWhores!!— John Cannon (@jdcannonsr) January 11, 2013
420 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:28:03am |
Oops. Refresh page. Anyway. Here’s the other one.
@christichat @/viciousbabushka @/jaunte @/mattand @/Lidane ->Spam Blocked this TRASH….!! #TwistedTruthWhores!!— John Cannon (@jdcannonsr) January 11, 2013
422 | engineer cat Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:28:10am |
re: #415 efuseakay
Why do they need a jail if they have a ‘“shared world-view” of independence, self-sufficiency and patriotism’?
the whole thing sounds like a giant jail
423 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:28:28am |
re: #418 wrenchwench
No, more like “We are stardust”. Everything in the universe is related because it’s all the same chemistry. My brother the evolutionary biologist who went to U. Chicago posted it on Facebook.
Ah, like the xkcd cartoon on the universe’s ingredient list:
Hydrogen, Time.
424 | iossarian Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:28:30am |
Yesterday… All my troubles seemed so far away…
— ChristiCat
425 | Mattand Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:28:54am |
426 | Obdicut Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:28:57am |
re: #406 engineer cat
Bank, jail, library, firearms museum, that’s pretty much what you need in a town.
Do they keep the bullets in the bank or in the library?
427 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:29:19am |
re: #397 Vicious Babushka
Aww butthurt baby, @ChristiChat blocked everyone who pointed out this was a FAKE QUOTE.
Here’s what I sent her:
@christichat I think in the real fake quote, Jefferson actually said the 2nd was “Wicked Cool”
— Robert Arthur (@jaunte) January 11, 2013
428 | iossarian Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:29:29am |
re: #422 engineer cat
the whole thing sounds like a giant jail
Or, alternatively, a giant fail.
That works too.
429 | Mattand Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:30:23am |
re: #427 jaunte
Here’s what I sent her:
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Yeah, I think Christi’s going to have so much blockage on her Twitter account that it’ll need a triple bypass.
430 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:30:58am |
re: #428 iossarian
Or, alternatively, a giant fail.
That works too.
Oh, you have to bet somewhere in the web and “we need donations” chain someone is grifting.
431 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:31:00am |
KY radio host Mandy Connell: Gun regs = Nazi “yellow stars”. Right-wing Nazi hyperbole somehow sinks to a new low: mediamatters.org/blog/2013/01/1… #p2— Brian Powell (@briandpowell) January 11, 2013
432 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:31:13am |
Original quote:
“The Beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to repeal the 22nd Amendment”
433 | Eventual Carrion Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:31:26am |
re: #369 Decatur Deb
They take them down Ruby Ridge street and assemble at David Koresh Junior High for the Last Stand.
And gather all the young children in the Timothy McVeigh daycare center.
434 | lawhawk Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:31:54am |
Well, I’m a mushroom-cloud-layin’ motherfucker, motherfucker!
— Harry S. Truman
435 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:31:55am |
re: #431 Gus
Gun-free zone:
51 upcoming gun shows require attendees to check their guns at the door thkpr.gs/VQ8wAf
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) January 11, 2013
436 | The Ghost of a Flea Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:32:45am |
re: #432 Sol Berdinowitz
Original quote:
“The Beauty of the Second Amendment is that it will not be needed until they try to repeal the 22nd Amendment”
“…also, black kids with hoodies….”
437 | iossarian Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:32:58am |
re: #430 Feline Fearless Leader
Oh, you have to bet somewhere in the web and “we need donations” chain someone is grifting.
I see two images in my scrying dish - visions from 2014:
- a muddy scrap of land on top of a hill in the middle of Idaho, with some confused-looking families unloading their belongings out of pickup trucks
- a newly-built McMansion in the Boise suburbs with some gleaming Cadillacs out front
438 | allegro Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:33:29am |
re: #406 engineer cat
The plan is to build a community with a fortified castle and firearms museum in addition to typical city features like a bank, jail and library. The complex would have 3,500 to 7,000 families living on about 2,000 to 3,000 acres in Benewah County south of Coeur d’Alene, according to the website.
I notice that in all of their descriptions there are no plans for food production, water resources, clothing materials, etc. 3,000 acres for 7,000 people sure isn’t gonna cut it. Are they planning on trucking that stuff in and out? If they are under siege, what good are their guns if their Piggly Wiggly is out of Cheerios?
439 | Stan the Demanded Plan Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:33:55am |
LOL people! Its a good day at LGF!
440 | The Ghost of a Flea Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:34:46am |
re: #438 allegro
I notice that in all of their descriptions there are no plans for food production, water resources, clothing materials, etc. 3,000 acres for 7,000 people sure isn’t gonna cut it. Are they planning on trucking that stuff in and out? If they are under siege, what good are their guns if their Piggly Wiggly is out of Cheerios?
…and that’s the detail that makes Citadel less of a actual plan and more of a setting for a Bioshock module.
441 | lawhawk Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:35:34am |
You calling me on a cell phone? I don’t know you. Prank caller. Prank caller. Prank caller. /Richard M. Nixon
442 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:35:37am |
re: #438 allegro
I notice that in all of their descriptions there are no plans for food production, water resources, clothing materials, etc. 3,000 acres for 7,000 people sure isn’t gonna cut it. Are they planning on trucking that stuff in and out? If they are under siege, what good are their guns if their Piggly Wiggly is out of Cheerios?
The Popular Front for the Liberation of Real American will airdrop them Cheetos and Mountain Dew.
/
443 | Ian G. Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:36:18am |
re: #438 allegro
I notice that in all of their descriptions there are no plans for food production, water resources, clothing materials, etc. 3,000 acres for 7,000 people sure isn’t gonna cut it. Are they planning on trucking that stuff in and out? If they are under siege, what good are their guns if their Piggly Wiggly is out of Cheerios?
None of the “preppers” ever seem to think of this, do they? They’ll live off of the end products of industrial civilization, like cans of Spaghetti-Os and AR-15s, without considering what happens if industrial civilization collapses, even though that’s what they’re allegedly prepping for.
The hippies who grow their own food on little organic plots of land are much more “prepared” than these numbskulls.
444 | Sol Berdinowitz Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:37:28am |
re: #438 allegro
I notice that in all of their descriptions there are no plans for food production, water resources, clothing materials, etc. 3,000 acres for 7,000 people sure isn’t gonna cut it. Are they planning on trucking that stuff in and out? If they are under siege, what good are their guns if their Piggly Wiggly is out of Cheerios?
I assume that they will take a leaf from their Mormon neighbors and have at least a year’s worth food (and three years’ supply of ammo) stockpiled underground in radiation and chemical/biological weapon-safe storage vaults.
445 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:37:50am |
Pro tip for gun rights advocates. If you’re going to quote Jefferson or Washington, avoid fictional/bogus quotes.— Gus (@Gus_802) January 11, 2013
446 | dragonath Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:37:52am |
“I have strong feelings about gun control. If there’s a gun around, I want to be controlling it.”
-James Madison, author of the 2nd Amendment
447 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:38:18am |
re: #444 Sol Berdinowitz
I assume that they will take a leaf from their Mormon neighbors and have at least a year’s worth food (and three years’ supply of ammo) stockpiled underground in radiation and chemical/biological-safe storage vaults.
And then forget about sanitation, disbelieve Germ Theory, and meet Mr Cholera.
//
448 | iossarian Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:38:23am |
re: #443 Ian G.
None of the “preppers” ever seem to think of this, do they? They’ll live off of the end products of industrial civilization, like cans of Spaghetti-Os and AR-15s, without considering what happens if industrial civilization collapses, even though that’s what they’re allegedly prepping for.
The hippies who grow their own food on little organic plots of land are much more “prepared” than these numbskulls.
To be fair to the lunatics, I think the idea is that there is farmland outside the walled compound. Obviously that doesn’t answer the question of a long-term siege, but it does mean that they might last for a couple of years if everyone leaves them alone and there are no major disease outbreaks.
449 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:39:01am |
“You know who else is going to want gun control?”
— Andrew Jackson
450 | Obdicut Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:39:02am |
451 | iossarian Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:39:38am |
Happiness is a warm gun - bang bang, shoot shoot.
— John Lennon
(You can never trump real life when it comes to irony.)
452 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:40:37am |
Ted Nugent is a wimp.
- Theodore Roosevelt
453 | Ghost of Tom Joad Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:41:49am |
re: #422 engineer cat
the whole thing sounds like a giant jail
It should be treated like a leper colony. Let’s hope they never come out.
454 | Decatur Deb Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:41:54am |
re: #444 Sol Berdinowitz
I assume that they will take a leaf from their Mormon neighbors and have at least a year’s worth food (and three years’ supply of ammo) stockpiled underground in radiation and chemical/biological weapon-safe storage vaults.
The food requirement is in the ‘agreement’.
456 | wrenchwench Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:42:31am |
re: #451 iossarian
Happiness is a warm gun - bang bang, shoot shoot.
— John Lennon
(You can never trump real
lifedeath when it comes to irony.)
FTFHim
457 | dragonath Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:42:48am |
re: #450 Obdicut
You should post that last one surreptitiously on Twitter and see how many crazy people repost it.
458 | The Ghost of a Flea Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:43:23am |
You gotta fight for your right to party.
Thomas Jefferson
459 | Decatur Deb Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:43:59am |
“Please proceed.”
—Pres Badass Hussein Obama
461 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:44:58am |
re: #458 The Ghost of a Flea
You gotta fight for your right to party.
Thomas Jefferson
You should reword that one in more archaic terms and let it loose.
462 | Lidane Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:45:57am |
re: #383 jaunte
Close enough. The best he could do was tell me that my “complacency” about guns (i.e., I wasn’t paranoid and freaked out like he was) was somehow going to lead to a rebirth of the same types of internment camps we put Japanese-Americans in during WW2.
I told him not to insult my intelligence with that garbage and to STFU because it was insulting to the memories of the people who died in those camps. Asshole.
463 | Ghost of Tom Joad Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:46:02am |
re: #443 Ian G.
None of the “preppers” ever seem to think of this, do they? They’ll live off of the end products of industrial civilization, like cans of Spaghetti-Os and AR-15s, without considering what happens if industrial civilization collapses, even though that’s what they’re allegedly prepping for.
The hippies who grow their own food on little organic plots of land are much more “prepared” than these numbskulls.
They think they’re the original settlers of America coming from a foreign land. “Wow, it’s really cold this winter and we ain’t got shit to eat. Let’s steal it from the Indians and then kill them for being on our land.”
Eventually they’ll send out bands of roving marauders to “appropriate” food and supplies from the civilized world.
Christ in a jacuzzi somebody just get these people a computer and a copy of Fallout 3.
464 | Ian G. Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:46:07am |
re: #452 Feline Fearless Leader
Given that Teddy volunteered to attack a fortified hill in Cuba during the Spanish-American War, while Nugent dodged the draft, I’d have no doubt that Teddy would feel that way if he were still around.
One of my favorite photos of all time, Teddy and John Muir after hiking to Glacier Point in Yosemite: Link
None of these preppers or gun nuts would last a day living like Teddy or Muir did.
465 | dragonath Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:46:13am |
“I don’t always buy guns, but when I do, I prefer Bushmaster”
-Mother Teresa
466 | lawhawk Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:46:33am |
I’m sexy and I know it. /John F. Kennedy
And this one in confirming the aforementioned JFK quote
- He’s sexy and he knows it /Marilyn Monroe
467 | Obdicut Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:47:15am |
re: #457 dragonath
I did this instead, for the cheapness.
@christicat Careful, not all Jefferson quotes may be real. #tcot twitter.com/TamOBedlam/sta…— Tom Benson (@TamOBedlam) January 11, 2013
468 | dragonfire1981 Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:47:43am |
re: #461 Feline Fearless Leader
You should reword that one in more archaic terms and let it loose.
“It is vitally important that men be at any time prepared to fight and defend that which they hold so dear whether spiritual or material.”
470 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:48:12am |
re: #462 Lidane
Close enough. The best he could do was tell me that my “complacency” about guns (i.e., I wasn’t paranoid and freaked out like he was) was somehow going to lead to a rebirth of the same types of internment camps we put Japanese-Americans in during WW2.
Ask him to consider how that would have gone if it was a fight between the Army and a few armed civilians.
471 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:48:34am |
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? Hell no!
— Franklin Delano Roosevelt
472 | Obdicut Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:48:51am |
I’m a devil on the run
A six gun lover
A candle in the wind
— Aristotle
473 | Ian G. Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:48:56am |
“Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Instead, cap that motherfucker with your glock.”
Matthew 26:52, New NRA International version.
476 | Obdicut Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:50:07am |
You talking to me? I don’t see anyone else here, so you must be talking to me?
—- Saint Simeon Stylites
477 | Decatur Deb Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:50:26am |
re: #473 Ian G.
“Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Instead, cap that motherfucker with your glock.”
Matthew 26:52, New NRA International version.
“Never take a gladius to a ballista fight.”
—Vercingetorix
478 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:50:55am |
re: #467 Obdicut
I did this instead, for the cheapness.
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479 | blueraven Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:50:57am |
480 | Ghost of Tom Joad Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:50:58am |
re: #473 Ian G.
“Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword. Instead, cap that motherfucker with your glock.”
Matthew 26:52, New NRA International version.
Heh, D.L. Hughley did a skit like this, something to the effect of;
“C’mere Jesus, hideth this under your robe. When you speak to the Pharaoh, tell him “let my people go, or I’ll pop a cap in yo ass. It’s from the Book of Smith & Wesson, Chapter 357.”
481 | Lidane Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:52:18am |
re: #416 Gus
Seriously? A single, harmless tweet pointing out that it’s a fake quote gets people blocked?
What a bunch of whiny drama queens.
482 | Eventual Carrion Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:52:52am |
re: #415 efuseakay
Why do they need a jail if they have a ‘“shared world-view” of independence, self-sufficiency and patriotism’?
If the wimmin start getting uppity.
// half
483 | dragonath Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:52:57am |
re: #464 Ian G.
“I see a paper mill and a mining operation, a green belt between lakeside condos and a waste management facility focusing on the newest rage in waste - medical refuse. Infected bandages, body parts, tubing, syringes, fluid, blood, radioactive waste - all contained, sunken in the lake and sealed for centuries. I ask you, what do you see?”
-John Muir
484 | lawhawk Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:53:17am |
re: #481 Lidane
They’re allergic to facts, logic, or rationality.
485 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:53:19am |
486 | Ghost of Tom Joad Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:53:59am |
Where the hell did all these illegal immigrants come from?!?!
General George Custer.
487 | iossarian Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:54:02am |
Lazy, lazy iossarian:
[Link: pinterest.com…]
Most of these are shit, but I quite like:
Halt - it is once again the moment of the mallet.
They attempted to force me into rehabilitation - quoth I, “Nay, nay, nay.”
The Milkshake one.
etc.
488 | Decatur Deb Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:54:08am |
re: #481 Lidane
Seriously? A single, harmless tweet pointing out that it’s a fake quote gets people blocked?
What a bunch of whiny drama queens.
Balloon, meet porcupine.
489 | Jolo5309 Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:55:03am |
re: #351 Gus
[Link: iiicitadel.com…]
A 1200 sq ft house on an acre inside the walls, with an Emergency micro-suite inside the walls and a 450 sq ft workshop for only 1044/month!
Sign me up, my current house is 1200 sq ft with 1/3rd acre and my mortgage is 200/month more!
490 | Gus Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:55:11am |
re: #481 Lidane
Seriously? A single, harmless tweet pointing out that it’s a fake quote gets people blocked?
What a bunch of whiny drama queens.
Pretty much. She deleted that Tweet. Still had the bogus quote up though.
492 | Decatur Deb Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:57:02am |
re: #489 Jolo5309
A 1200 sq ft house on an acre inside the walls, with an Emergency micro-suite inside the walls and a 450 sq ft workshop for only 1044/month!
Sign me up, my current house is 1200 sq ft with 1/3rd acre and my mortgage is 200/month more!
It’s more expensive if the house has, you know, walls.
493 | jaunte Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:57:23am |
The Stupid Just Keeps Getting More and More Stoopid (part 2) blog.wallack.us/2013/01/the-st… Requiring federal agents to get consent from sheriffs.— Michael Wallack (@MSWallack) January 11, 2013
“…And SB127 doesn’t just require local consent; it also requires the State of Indiana to prosecute a federal official who acted without that local consent. Just picture, if you will, what our society would look like if states like Indiana start prosecuting FBI agents for their attempts to enforce federal laws. We would suddenly have a system where there would no longer be a national standard; there wouldn’t even be state standards. Rather, each county, throughout the country, would be a jurisdiction unto itself. I can just see some “whites only” or “no Muslims allowed” counties. Maybe counties where gays can be tied to fence posts after being beaten would be OK. Perhaps efforts to ensure that all people are allowed to vote wouldn’t be permitted in some counties. If that’s your view of America, perhaps you should find a more accommodating Banana Republic in which to reside.”
Complain of a conspiracy to destroy your country, then proceed to destroy the country to save it from the conspiracy. #ArabTyrantManual
— Iyad El-Baghdadi (@iyad_elbaghdadi) January 11, 2013
494 | The Ghost of a Flea Fri, Jan 11, 2013 10:59:14am |
re: #486 Ghost of Tom Joad
Where the hell did all these illegal immigrants come from?!?!
General George Custer.
Where the hell did all these illegal immigrants come from?!?!
-Crazy Horse
495 | Ghost of Tom Joad Fri, Jan 11, 2013 11:01:40am |
re: #494 The Ghost of a Flea
Touche, lol, touche.
496 | dragonath Fri, Jan 11, 2013 11:02:15am |
497 | Lidane Fri, Jan 11, 2013 11:04:43am |
re: #490 Gus
So after sending that single Tweet and a single RT, I now see this:
Twitter indicates that you’re not allowed to make this request due to daily update limit.
What a bunch of whiny bitches. Teenage girls are more mature.
498 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 11:14:00am |
re: #496 dragonath
Crazy Horse?
“No, no, zayt nisht meshuge!”
Hostu gezehn in dein leben? Zay zenen tunkler fun uns!
499 | gwangung Fri, Jan 11, 2013 11:14:30am |
re: #462 Lidane
Close enough. The best he could do was tell me that my “complacency” about guns (i.e., I wasn’t paranoid and freaked out like he was) was somehow going to lead to a rebirth of the same types of internment camps we put Japanese-Americans in during WW2.
That is damn patronizing and a total insult to the people who had to live through the camps.
Of course, if he’s really down the with the comparison, you should call him a traitor, inherently disloyal to America and subhuman.
500 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Jan 11, 2013 11:14:44am |
501 | Decatur Deb Fri, Jan 11, 2013 11:16:13am |
502 | lawhawk Fri, Jan 11, 2013 11:23:04am |
re: #500 Vicious Babushka
If I’m not me, who the hell am I / Thomas Jefferson
503 | lawhawk Fri, Jan 11, 2013 11:24:57am |
re: #494 The Ghost of a Flea
Don’t fence me in.
/variously attributed to Geronimo, Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull. Originally uttered by Cochise
504 | wheat-dogghazi Fri, Jan 11, 2013 5:16:59pm |
re: #272 darthstar
Back when I was a teacher and encyclopedias were just starting to get popular on CD-ROM I’d get papers from students who obviously just printed direct from the CD - including (because of color ink-jet printers) bold blue words which were obviously links to other entries in the encyclopedia. My favorite was a paper by a true red-neck that had a few paragraphs about Dante’s circles of hell. When I asked him about it, he said, “Dante? Who the hell is he? I wrote that paper!”
I’m sure teachers today have even better examples.
One I got just this term was an introductory paragraph lifted from Wikipedia, complete with the disambiguation disclaimers at the beginning.