On MLK Day, #Breitbart.com’s John Nolte Links to Anti-MLK White Supremacist Site

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It’s Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, and today at breitbart.com, editor John Nolte celebrates the civil rights legend’s birthday by launching an attack on Roots author Alex Haley, and linking to an anti-MLK hate site hosted by the white supremacists of stormfront.org:

ALEX HALEY: THE LANCE ARMSTRONG OF LITERATURE.

That link is at the bottom of this screenshot, labeled “the cover up.”

Here’s Google’s cache of the page John Nolte is using for a source; right at the bottom you can see “Hosted by Stormfront,” which to most people would be a red flag. These white supremacists somehow registered the domain name “martinlutherking.org.”

Their “Suggested Books” page features a book about Martin Luther King Jr.’s “plagiarism,” and an advertisement for the autobiography of former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. Yes, really.

The rest of the site is full of nauseatingly hateful content that I won’t quote here.

Stormfront is well-known as one of the web’s main centers of ugly racist hatred, but I guess John Nolte didn’t notice anything wrong when he linked to one of their sites. Apparently their very thin disguise was enough to fool Nolte.

He searched for an attack piece on Alex Haley for some weird right wing reason, and — imagine my surprise — found what he was looking for on a white supremacist hate site.

(h/t: Mark Dujsik.)

UPDATE at 1/21/13 6:06:33 pm

At about 6:02 pm Pacific, John Nolte edited the post to remove the link to the Stormfront site, replacing it with a link to loony Birther site American Thinker, with this update:

UPDATE: This post has been updated to remove a link to a 2002 “New York Post” story posted at an unacceptable site linked to in error. A new source has been added to the post.

Sure, just a harmless “error,” linking to a white supremacist site on MLK Day. Anyone could have done it.

Here’s a saved copy of Nolte’s original post at WebCite, just for the record.

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1 SpaceJesus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:24:12pm

This needs to be tweeted everywhere

2 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:24:22pm

Since the Republican mission for Obama’s first term (i.e., no second term) worked so well, I was wondering what was next for the GOP. Perhaps pissing on fire hydrants and baying at the moon would be a good match for their skill set and temperament.

I’ll admit to being unpleasantly surprised that the RW political hacks would get so close to Stormfront so soon —- they usually try to have a fig leaf or two in place.

3 erik_t  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:26:49pm

re: #2 EPR-radar

I’ll admit to being unpleasantly surprised that the RW political hacks would get so close to Stormfront so soon —- they usually try to have a fig leaf or two in place.

They don’t have to run against Obama again. No point in holding up the veil any longer.

4 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:28:30pm

I am utterly shocked by complete lack of being utterly shocked.

5 Shvaughn  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:28:57pm

This is how white supremacist concepts get mainstreamed into GOP politics. Slowly but surely.

6 erik_t  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:29:26pm

re: #5 Shvaughn

This is how white supremacist concepts get got mainstreamed into GOP politics. Slowly but surely.

Corrected your tense.

7 Shvaughn  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:29:57pm

re: #6 erik_t

Corrected your tense.

Correction accepted!

8 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:30:01pm

re: #3 erik_t

They don’t have to run against Obama again. No point in holding up the veil any longer.

Colin Powell, Democrat for President, 2016.

/Sits back and watches pinheads asplode

9 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:31:33pm

re: #5 Shvaughn

re: #6 erik_t

I think both are true. The transformation of the GOP into a straight-up white nationalist party is a work in progress.

10 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:32:07pm

Alex Haley’s book came out like 35+ years ago.

There have been other plagiarists since then—GET OVER IT.

11 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:33:04pm

BeJeezus—FEW voters even remember Roots.

WTF?

12 makeitstop  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:33:46pm

Breitbart quotes Stormfront.

I’m sure they’ll be very happy together.

And we’re in for a long four years, sad to say.

13 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:34:23pm

re: #10 FemNaziBitch

Alex Haley’s book came out like 35+ years ago.

There have been other plagiarists since then—GET OVER IT.

What is the point of a plagiarism charge against Alex Haley? He stole someone else’s material, therefore slavery good?

Is this really all the geniuses at the RW fringe have?

14 HoosierHoops  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:34:54pm

re: #8 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too

Colin Powell, Democrat for President, 2016.

/Sits back and watches pinheads asplode

I think they already blew up today when the Pres. Spoke of Climate change.
You know what came into my mind was the echo’s of words past..
We don’t do these things because they are easy… we do these things because they are hard…

15 Shvaughn  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:35:37pm

re: #13 EPR-radar

What is the point of a plagiarism charge against Alex Haley? He stole someone else’s material, therefore slavery good?

Is this really all the geniuses at the RW fringe have?

Also, they hate all black people.

16 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:36:26pm

re: #15 Shvaughn

Also, they hate all black people.

Well, yes, but I thought they weren’t supposed to say that in public yet.

17 thecommodore  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:36:42pm

re: #10 FemNaziBitch

Alex Haley’s book came out like 35+ years ago.

There have been other plagiarists since then—GET OVER IT.

You need only go to Wikipedia to read about Haley and “Roots.” But Nolte had to go to a White Supremacist site…

I bet there’s some choice comments for that article… *eyeroll*

18 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:36:48pm

White people plagiarize too.

19 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:37:04pm

re: #13 EPR-radar

What is the point of a plagiarism charge against Alex Haley? He stole someone else’s material, therefore slavery good?

Is this really all the geniuses at the RW fringe have?

He made a mistake and is therefore going to hell 11ty!

20 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:37:23pm

re: #18 Vicious Babushka

White people plagiarize too.

THAT’S RACIST!

21 erik_t  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:38:05pm

re: #18 Vicious Babushka

White people plagiarize too.

Just look at the last four or five Republican presidential campaigns.

22 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:38:48pm

re: #18 Vicious Babushka

White people plagiarize too.

And a lot of it is honest mistakes brought on by the digital age and bad proofreading. Not premeditated attempts to steal intellectual property.

23 SpaceJesus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:40:21pm

Nolte and Breitbart have basically been plagarizing The Turner Diaries for years

24 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:40:30pm

re: #17 thecommodore

You need only go to Wikipedia to read about Haley and “Roots.” But Nolte had to go to a White Supremacist site…

I bet there’s some choice comments for that article… *eyeroll*

And from Wikipedia, it looks like very weak tea. 2 suits, one dismissed, the other settled for pocket change (relative to book earnings).

25 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:41:08pm

Do they honestly think they can discredit Haley’s depiction of what slavery and the slave trade was like? There are plenty of other sources to back-up facts in the story he wrote.

No amount of plagiarism can refute that.

26 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:41:22pm
27 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:41:31pm

Powell: Republican leaders should stop ‘idiot presentations’ from Palin and birthers

“The Republicans have to stop buying into things that demonize the president,” he explained. “I mean, why aren’t Republican leaders shouting out about all this birther nonsense and all these other things? They’re silent. We should speak out.”

“This is the kind of intolerance that I’ve been talking about, where these idiot presentations continue to be made and you don’t see the senior leadership of the party saying, ‘No, that’s wrong,’” Powell continued. “In fact, they sometimes by not speaking out, they’re encouraging it. And the base keeps buying the stuff. And it’s killing the base of the party. I mean, 26 percent favorability rating for the party right now. It ought to be telling them something, you know?”

“So, instead of attacking me or whoever speaks like I do, look in the mirror and realize, how are we going to win the next election?”

I expect the Wingnut effort to focus on attacking Powell, while the GOP focuses on rigging elections they can’t win any other way.

28 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:41:58pm

Doris Kearnes Goodwin earned redemption and she wrote about LBJ.

29 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:42:54pm

re: #27 Kragar

Powell: Republican leaders should stop ‘idiot presentations’ from Palin and birthers

I expect the Wingnut effort to focus on attacking Powell, while the GOP focuses on rigging elections they can’t win any other way.

Agreed. See state level rigging of the electoral votes in PA, possibly also WI and OH.

30 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:43:03pm

re: #25 FemNaziBitch

Do they honestly think they can discredit Haley’s depiction of what slavery and the slave trade was like? There are plenty of other sources to back-up facts in the story he wrote.

No amount of plagiarism can refute that.

Yeah, no, that’s not how it works in wingnut-land. If you debunk or discredit one book or author, the whole kit and kaboodle is suspect. I know I keep drawing this comparison, but it keeps becoming more and more valid - the right-wing nutjobs are acting like bona fide conspiracy theorists. I’m just waiting for them to break out the tinfoil hats.

31 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:43:36pm

Check this page from Nolte’s neo-Nazi source (Google cache link): [Link: www.google.com…]

32 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:43:50pm

It’s the outright liars that I can’t stand —IIRC, Running with Scissors?

33 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:44:00pm

Mayan Word For ‘Apocalypse’ Actually Translates More Accurately As ‘Time Of Pale Obese Gun Monsters’

34 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:44:06pm

What’s going on with Tweetdeck?

35 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:45:18pm

ahhh! I have to take Brat Puppy to exercise class. (Agility)

Have a great evening all!

36 Skip Intro  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:45:38pm

Breitbart never fails to find a way to swim deeper in the sewer.

37 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:47:44pm

re: #34 Vicious Babushka

What’s going on with Tweetdeck?

Twitter is really struggling today.

38 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:48:33pm
39 The Force Ghost of a Flea  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:48:45pm

re: #36 Skip Intro

Breitbart never fails to find a way to swim deeper in the sewer.

Sommeliers of sewage. Taking deep swigs to appreciate the terroir.

40 majii  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:50:13pm

re: #25 FemNaziBitch

“Do they honestly think they can discredit Haley’s depiction of what slavery and the slave trade was like? There are plenty of other sources to back-up facts in the story he wrote.

No amount of plagiarism can refute that.”

I don’t think that’s what they’re after, FNB. I think they want to deny that slavery in the U.S. ever existed! RWers, especially in the South, are already rewriting history books to indicate that slavery wasn’t so bad. I’ve been black while living in the South for 60 years, and there are a lot of people who want to forget that GA and other states were slaveholding states, that the Civil War was about slavery, and that the negative effects of slavery persist to this day.

41 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:50:27pm

re: #31 Charles Johnson

Even if all of the allegations made about MLK’s personal life are true (which is highly doubtful), it remains to be seem how these alleged lapses justify segregation in the South, or lessen the moral force of the civil rights movement that MLK was part of.

These leaps of logic are so obvious to racists and white supremacists, and so unclear to normal people, that they can probably be used as diagnostics.

42 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:50:28pm

re: #37 Charles Johnson

Twitter is really struggling today.

Must be all that BLOCKING OF TEH EBIL KOMMUNISTZ by #TGDN

43 Shiplord Kirel  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:51:42pm

Not sure what it has to do with anything, but I ran across this astonishing video of a Chilean military parade in 1992, complete with a rousing rendition of Preussens Gloria. You may not know the title, but you’ll recognize the music as well as a few other things in the video. Again, this was in 1992.

Lest you think this has changed with the demise of the dictatorship, this is the 2012 Grand Parade in Santiago, longer but with the same choreography and costuming:

44 Manji  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:51:49pm

holy moly, Bill Clinton still has it!!

Im telling ya, that guy is HOT !
I’d wear a beret tomorrow, wink wink. wow

45 erik_t  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:52:06pm

re: #39 The Ghost of a Flea

Sommeliers of sewage. Taking deep swigs to appreciate the terroir.

I believe they prefer to be called ‘freedom divers’.

46 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:52:44pm

re: #44 Manji

holy moly, Bill Clinton still has it!!

Im telling ya, that guy is HOT !
I’d wear a beret tomorrow, wink wink. wow

I heard from a younger female friend of mine that both him and Jimmy Carter cleaned up rather well today. I was half-convinced she was being sarcastic.

47 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:53:29pm

re: #40 majii

I don’t think that’s what they’re after, FNB. I think they want to deny that slavery in the U.S. ever existed! RWers, especially in the South, are already rewriting history books to indicate that slavery wasn’t so bad. I’ve been black while living in the South for 60 years, and there are a lot of people who want to forget that GA and other states were slaveholding states, that the Civil War was about slavery, and that the negative effects of slavery persist to this day.

It’s the same reason why the gun nutters are pulling out the nonsense argument that if only the slaves had had guns, they wouldn’t have been slaves, or if only the Selma marchers had had guns, they would’ve gotten their rights faster.

O RLY? Because we all know that the white South, both pre-Civil War and in the Jim Crow era, would have been totally understanding about black people with guns demanding their rights. They wouldn’t have shot and/or lynched them at all.

48 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:57:11pm

re: #40 majii

“Do they honestly think they can discredit Haley’s depiction of what slavery and the slave trade was like? There are plenty of other sources to back-up facts in the story he wrote.

No amount of plagiarism can refute that.”

I don’t think that’s what they’re after, FNB. I think they want to deny that slavery in the U.S. ever existed! RWers, especially in the South, are already rewriting history books to indicate that slavery wasn’t so bad. I’ve been black while living in the South for 60 years, and there are a lot of people who want to forget that GA and other states were slaveholding states, that the Civil War was about slavery, and that the negative effects of slavery persist to this day.

To be a little more precise, I don’t thing the goal is to deny the existence of slavery.

The goal is to deny the evils of slavery. The only apparent point of that exercise in moral monstrosity is as a prelude to bringing slavery back. Comparatively small tweaks to the prison-industrial complex, and we’d be there.

49 erik_t  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:57:15pm

re: #47 Lidane

O RLY? Because we all know that the white South, both pre-Civil War and in the Jim Crow era, would have been totally understanding about black people with guns demanding their rights. They wouldn’t have shot and/or lynched them at all.

The rarely-employed “it’s your fault for not being well armed enough to keep us from enslaving you” defense.

50 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:58:15pm

re: #49 erik_t

The rarely-employed “it’s your fault for not being well armed enough to keep us from enslaving you” defense.

That’s more of an offense than a defense…

51 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:58:31pm

Jesus Christ, what’s with right wingers and the inability to check, or care to check, their sources?!

52 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:59:40pm

re: #51 Varek Raith

Jesus Christ, what’s with right wingers and the inability to check, or care to check, their sources?!

They’ve gone full-metal-Bircher.

Somewhere, Bill Buckley is crying.

53 erik_t  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:59:53pm

re: #50 EPR-radar

That’s more of an offense than a defense…

It’s not even a fence. It’s, like, a little berm made of dogshit.

54 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 3:59:57pm

re: #51 Varek Raith

Jesus Christ, what’s with right wingers and the inability to check, or care to check, their sources?!

It’s not inability. Somebody posted that knowing full well what the source was. Now, I’m expecting one of two things: 1) Some kind of half-assed non-apology apology that tries to placate “teh ebil libruls” whilst not alienating the base, or 2) a defiant “I did nothing wrong” post that throws a significant chunk of red meat to the wingnut base. Wonder what the betting odds are on those two options.

55 wrenchwench  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:05:37pm

re: #18 Vicious Babushka

White people plagiarize too.

Yeah, but white people often have somebody around to take the fall for them. Like my congressman.

Plagiarism

In 2005, Pearce was accused of having plagiarized articles from think tanks like the Heritage Foundation.[17] The articles were published under Pearce’s name in small papers throughout New Mexico. His press secretary, Jim Burns, admitted to having plagiarized the articles himself without Pearce’s knowledge, and quickly resigned.[18]

56 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:05:59pm

Bam!

NoSleepTil

Quick question for you, Nolte:

What kind of scumbag are you that you would link to a white supremacist website—and on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, no less?

57 majii  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:07:05pm

re: #27 Kragar

The republican leaders already know the GOP base is shrinking. IMO, it’s the major reason all of them are scared sh*tless to say anything about the racism and bigotry which have found a refuge in the party. Look at how Senator Hatch debased himself to get reelected. He became one of the meanest SOBs in the GOP. It’s ironic that they show such fear because for over 30 years they’ve sold themselves as the party of the strong and the Democratic Party as the party of the weak. Who/what they really are has been revealed since Barack Obama has been president. When they start talking about MLK, I tune them O.U.T. It’s impossible for them to convince me, a Black American, with their platitudes about MLK that they really believe in what he stood for—not when their politicians are talking about “blah” people and saying things like “We’ve got to teach black kids how to work and appreciate the value of work.” I’m a parent with a child who graduated from high school and college with honors. My kid has a good job, and I know lots of blacks whose kids also graduated high school and college and know the value of work. The bullsh*t that comes out of RW politicians’ mouths only sells well to the members of their base, not to wider America. This is why they were so “shocked” when they discovered on election night that most Americans don’t hate the president the way their media has programmed them to hate him.

58 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:07:55pm

re: #56 Varek Raith

Bam!

In the past Nolte has just quietly deleted this kind of stuff. We’ll see if he bothers to try to hide it this time. It’s a little late now.

59 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:07:57pm
60 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:08:34pm

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61 PhillyPretzel  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:09:44pm

re: #51 Varek Raith

It goes further than just the RWNJ. I remember a co-worker misquoting Theodore Roosevelt’s “speak softly and carry a big stick.” Co-worker used “walk softly and carry a big stick.” I pointed out the mistake and gave him the original quote as well as Roosevelt’s version and the NYT reference. He poo-pooed it saying that I was wrong pointing to his “source” on the internet.

62 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:10:03pm

re: #58 Charles Johnson

In the past Nolte has just quietly deleted this kind of stuff. We’ll see if he bothers to try to hide it this time. It’s a little late now.

I quote, once again, the first law of the Internet: The Internet is forever. Once it goes out, it can never come back.

63 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:10:57pm

re: #61 PhillyPretzel

It goes further than just the RWNJ. I remember a co-worker misquoting Theodore Roosevelt’s “speak softly and carry a big stick.” Co-worker used “walk softly and carry a big stick.” I pointed out the mistake and gave him the original quote as well as Roosevelt’s version and the NYT reference. He poo-pooed it saying that I was wrong pointing to his “source” on the internet.

“They can’t put anything on the Internet that isn’t true.”

64 PhillyPretzel  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:11:29pm

re: #63 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too

lol

65 wrenchwench  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:12:31pm

re: #60 Varek Raith

How did you get that information? Are you a witch?

DNSSEC:Unsigned

I read that as ‘unhinged’.

66 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:13:28pm

re: #63 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too

“They can’t put anything on the Internet that isn’t true.”

YOU MEAN TEH INTERNETZ IS FULL OF LIES?!!1

67 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:17:51pm

re: #66 Dr Lizardo

No.

68 erik_t  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:17:54pm

re: #66 Dr Lizardo

YOU MEAN TEH INTERNETZ IS FULL OF LIES?!!1

Unfortunately it’s mostly clueless mistruths. Lies might be an upgrade.

69 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:19:29pm

Pamz (& Poison Shorty) get PWN3D.

Pam composed an article in honor of Martin Luther King Day, promoting the hoax letter “To an Anti-Zionist” which was totally not written by MLK. To “authenticate” the bogus letter, she linked to Alouette’s research site.

Anyone clicking through for “authenticated MLK quotes” gets this message:

It has been brought to our attention that this page is being linked by some questionable sites. Therefore we have removed all quotes and reminiscences that we have not been able to personally verify.

Jewish-History.com has attempted to track down the source of this Internet hoax and find out who could have composed this bogus letter, without success. There is no evidence that Dr. King uttered these words at a speech given at Harvard, and whether or not he may have said something like this to someone in a private conversation is impossible to verify.

The hoax appears to have originated with either Marc Schneier or Michael Salberg in spite of vehement denials from CAMERA and the ADL. Somebody obviously thought it would be cool to make up a bogus MLK quote in support of a cause that he may or may not have endorsed.

We warn everyone to be wary of “quotes” from famous people that they may encounter on the Internet.

70 Stanghazi  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:21:04pm

re: #69 Vicious Babushka

PITIFUL

71 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:21:49pm

re: #64 PhillyPretzel

lol

It’s honestly one of my more favorite commercials at the moment. It’s starting to get overdone a little bit, but it just makes me giggle, thinking about how often CT’ers make the same mistake. “It’s on teh Interwebz, it must be da Twoof!”

72 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:21:54pm

I’m really sorry for not checking my referer logs earlier.

73 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:21:55pm

re: #69 Vicious Babushka

You should write a Page about that!

74 CuriousLurker  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:22:41pm

re: #69 Vicious Babushka

Pamz (& Poison Shorty) get PWN3D.

Pam composed an article in honor of Martin Luther King Day, promoting the hoax letter “To an Anti-Zionist” which was totally not written by MLK. To “authenticate” the bogus letter, she linked to Alouette’s research site.

Anyone clicking through for “authenticated MLK quotes” gets this message:

Hahahahahaha! You rock, VB.

75 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:24:32pm

re: #69 Vicious Babushka

Pamz (& Poison Shorty) get PWN3D.

Pam composed an article in honor of Martin Luther King Day, promoting the hoax letter “To an Anti-Zionist” which was totally not written by MLK. To “authenticate” the bogus letter, she linked to Alouette’s research site.

Anyone clicking through for “authenticated MLK quotes” gets this message:

LOL! Way to nail ‘em. Good. And as Charles suggested, you should write a page on it.

76 Stanghazi  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:25:00pm

So today I said fuck you to my company’s internet survaillance and watched the entire inaguration (until my time was up)

I loved the poem by Richard Blanco. Wow. He spoke to NPR prior, talking about the honor and the stress of the duty. He did fantastic.

That the President said the words “Stonewall” with Selma, was fucking huge.

Everything was really great.

I loved MO’s coat. Just fucking loved it.

whooooooo

77 lawhawk  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:25:11pm

Stormfront. There is no greater hive of scum and villainy in all the Internet.

And Breitbart.com couldn’t care less that they’re linking there.

Anyone who knows anything about hate sites online knows that Stormfront is a den of white supremacists and haters. Breitbart doesn’t care.

That tells you all you need to know about Nolte and the rest of the Breitbarters.

78 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:25:54pm

Right wing “journalism” at its finest. I cam across the website in question yesterday and saw the David Duke connection within seconds.

79 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:26:42pm

Sign in front of the Breitbart store: whites only.

80 CuriousLurker  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:28:06pm

re: #51 Varek Raith

Jesus Christ, what’s with right wingers and the inability to check, or care to check, their sources?!

My best guess is that since they don’t check their sources, they assume others don’t/won’t either.

81 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:29:49pm

re: #77 lawhawk

Stormfront. There is no greater hive of scum and villainy in all the Internet.

And Breitbart.com couldn’t care less that they’re linking there.

Anyone who knows anything about hate sites online knows that Stormfront is a den of white supremacists and haters. Breitbart doesn’t care.

That tells you all you need to know about Nolte and the rest of the Breitbarters.

Indeed. Now Breitbart is openly associating with white supremacists. I have a feeling the folks on Stormfront are gonna be over the moon on this one. I’m sure they’ve been looking for media exposure just like this.

Fuck you very much, Nolte and Breitbart.

Assholes.

82 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:29:52pm

Left a comment there.

83 lawhawk  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:30:27pm

re: #80 CuriousLurker

You’re only as good as the links and cites you reference. That they’re more than willing to link to stormfront tells you all you need to know.

And they know that others aren’t going to check on it either.

Now, would anyone else who is aggregating and using Breitbart want to be associated with this kind of thing? I would wager dollars to donuts that they wouldn’t. The last thing that major media companies and online companies would want to do is be associated with a site that spreads hate speech. That’s what Nolte’s piece does, and that’s what Breitbart.com is doing.

84 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:30:59pm

re: #80 CuriousLurker

My best guess is that since they don’t check their sources, they assume others don’t/won’t either.

And/or they want to mainstream their sources. Nothing would make racists happier than for Stormfront to somehow become “respectable” without actually changing its content.

It would signify that overt racism is once again mainstream in the culture.

85 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:32:11pm

And it’s gone!
Lol.

86 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:32:54pm

re: #85 Varek Raith

And it’s gone!
Lol.

Correction: “gone”. Remember the first law of the Internet. Some dumps are too big to flush down the memory hole.

87 lawhawk  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:34:28pm

re: #86 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too

Correctamundo.

88 CuriousLurker  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:35:44pm

re: #83 lawhawk

You’re only as good as the links and cites you reference. That they’re more than willing to link to stormfront tells you all you need to know.

And they know that others aren’t going to check on it either.

Now, would anyone else who is aggregating and using Breitbart want to be associated with this kind of thing? I would wager dollars to donuts that they wouldn’t. The last thing that major media companies and online companies would want to do is be associated with a site that spreads hate speech. That’s what Nolte’s piece does, and that’s what Breitbart.com is doing.

Exactly. And even if someone did decide to check and leave a comment pointing out the problem, it would almost surely get memory holed.

89 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:36:16pm
90 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:36:41pm

Oops!
How’d that happen?
Image: Morans.png

91 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:38:38pm

And my comment is ‘gone’ again.
Amused, I am.

92 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:38:54pm
93 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:39:54pm

re: #92 Vicious Babushka

PAGED!

The Tweet posting field gets all funky. I had to edit it.

94 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:40:36pm

Oh, never mind. It works. Derpity.

95 ProBosniaLiberal  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:41:35pm

My computer can run Fallout 3 at the highest settings.

There is, however a catch. Fallout 3 doesn’t like 4 Core processors. So I have had to go into Fallout’s startup programming and make it run on only 2 Cores.

And it still doesn’t bat an eye in performance.

96 Amory Blaine  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:42:03pm

Barney Frank!!!!!111!!ty

97 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:42:13pm

re: #91 Varek Raith

And my comment is ‘gone’ again.
Amused, I am.

And here I thought you were referring to the article in your original post. I shouldn’t be surprised; these people have no shame anymore. They don’t care if they post overtly racist crap. They won’t take it down, unless under the circumstances I outlined above.

98 CuriousLurker  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:42:14pm

Briebart page WebCited, just in case: [Link: www.webcitation.org…]

99 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:44:00pm

The Internet, like diamonds, is forever.

100 Amory Blaine  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:45:16pm

Red pill please.

101 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:46:05pm

re: #100 Amory Blaine

Red pill please.

Away team to Enterprise: Beam us up, Scotty. There is no intelligent life down here.

102 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:46:23pm

The Breitbart crew has a thing about black people. Weird that.

103 wrenchwench  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:47:22pm

re: #99 Varek Raith

The Internet, like diamonds, is forever.

And just as sparkly!

104 Stanghazi  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:48:12pm

Twitter is failing.

105 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:48:52pm

re: #104 Stan the Demanded Plan

Twitter is failing.

I’m givin’ ‘er all she’s got, cap’n!

106 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:48:54pm

re: #102 Gus

The Breitbart crew has a thing about black people. Weird that.

I’m sure the Breitbart crowd has few problems with black people who don’t vote and don’t agitate for civil rights.

107 Stanghazi  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:49:07pm

re: #99 Varek Raith

The Internet, like diamonds, is forever.

Ooooh I want one!

108 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:49:18pm

re: #105 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too

I’m givin’ ‘er all she’s got, cap’n!

EJECT THE WARP CORE!!11ty

109 Stanghazi  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:51:32pm

ok, the tweet is back.

Anyone have the twitter account of Richard Blanco, the poet?

110 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:53:24pm

re: #109 Stan the Demanded Plan

ok, the tweet is back.

Anyone have the twitter account of Richard Blanco, the poet?

@rblancopoet

111 Stanghazi  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:54:03pm

Twitter is FOLDING under the pressure. Now I’ve got the spinning wheel of death.

For real rich huge company? You make us THINK about how fragile everything is……

112 Stanghazi  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:54:17pm

re: #110 Gus

@rblancopoet

oh thank you!

113 Stanghazi  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:54:45pm

re: #110 Gus

@rblancopoet

uh, if I could get into twitter………………..

115 CuriousLurker  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:56:17pm

re: #113 Stan the Demanded Plan

Tweetdeck is working, but it looks like the website is down.

116 Stanghazi  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:57:35pm

re: #115 CuriousLurker

Tweetdeck is working, but it looks like the website is down.

hit, miss, hit, miss, HIT!

117 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 4:58:20pm

Don’t make me press the button!
Image: 2506370-internet-on-off.jpg

118 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:00:21pm

Way to go Obama, you crashed twitter!

119 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:00:35pm
120 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:02:09pm

re: #118 Varek Raith

Way to go Obama, you crashed twitter!

Impeach!

121 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:02:50pm

re: #120 Gus

Impeach!

I CAN’T TWITTER IS DOWN!11!

122 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:04:38pm

re: #121 Varek Raith

I CAN’T TWITTER IS DOWN!11!

I QUESTION TEH TIMING AND THIS MIGHT BE OBUMMBERS ATTEMPT TO CREATE A TWITTER GULAG FOR EVERYONE!!11TY

123 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:06:07pm

re: #121 Varek Raith

I CAN’T TWITTER IS DOWN!11!

Everyone knows that Twitter going down is the prelude to a brutal crackdown by the evil tyrannical regime! BRB, loading teh gunz!

124 HoosierHoops  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:06:16pm

re: #121 Varek Raith

I CAN’T TWITTER IS DOWN!11!

Warning Warning…
An armed breakout is going on it the Twitter Gulag holding hostages and making demands

125 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:09:12pm

re: #123 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too

WE DON’T HAVE TIME!
ABANDON REALITY!
RUNAWAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!

126 CuriousLurker  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:10:36pm

re: #122 Gus

re: #123 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too

Yep, there go the 1st & 2nd Amendments.

TEH END OF THE REPUBLIC IS NIGH!!11!

Oh shit, what’s that?? I think I hear helicopters in the distance…

127 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:11:23pm

re: #126 CuriousLurker

re: #123 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too

Yep, there go the 1st & 2nd Amendments.

TEH END OF THE REPUBLIC IS NIGH!!11!

Oh shit, what’s that?? I think I hear helicopters in the distance…

Oh, if only those ebil libruls had let us carry our shoulder-fired missiles!

128 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:14:11pm

Stellar Converters for everyone!

129 wrenchwench  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:16:55pm

If the little bitty Taos News in tiny Taos, NM, can figure out how to police comments, big blogs have no excuse.

Dear taosnews.com commenters,

It’s time we had a chat.


Recently, we at taosnews.com have had a spate of negative and inappropriate comments on stories.

Many comments have been inspired by outrage over certain topics the newsroom has covered. Others seem to be random, make little sense, and have nothing to do with the stories the comments are posted to.

Some have expressed frustration that their comments did not appear on taosnews.com

Now, this is a free country. But taosnews.com has the right to refuse to post any comments that we deem to be in violation of our Comment Forum Rules of Conduct.

[…]

Among other rules of play, The Taos News does not tolerate profanity — even if it’s “self-edited” with asterisks, dollar signs or other characters. Try as the commenter might, such edits do little to distract from the inappropriate message being conveyed, even, this day in age, for children. Sorry.

[…]

RTWT.

130 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:18:25pm
131 calochortus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:18:41pm

re: #47 Lidane

It’s the same reason why the gun nutters are pulling out the nonsense argument that if only the slaves had had guns, they wouldn’t have been slaves, or if only the Selma marchers had had guns, they would’ve gotten their rights faster.

O RLY? Because we all know that the white South, both pre-Civil War and in the Jim Crow era, would have been totally understanding about black people with guns demanding their rights. They wouldn’t have shot and/or lynched them at all.

Don’t you remember these same people supporting the Black Panthers when they availed themselves of their constitutional right to carry weapons in public?
Neither do I…

132 PhillyPretzel  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:19:41pm

re: #114 Varek Raith

That is my dad. The one time he was typing something on my old computer he got the BSOD. I got back to the main screen. He has not touched my computer since.

133 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:24:11pm

MSDOS loops.
Fun.
/

134 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:26:30pm

UAV Crash Landing

Afghanistan 2008

135 wrenchwench  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:27:33pm

re: #130 Gus

[Embedded content]

Moar gang signs!!1!!

136 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:28:40pm

re: #134 Killgore Trout

UAV Crash Landing

Afghanistan 2008

[Embedded content]

137 wrenchwench  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:30:04pm

Image: h31294795.jpg

Later, lucite-walled lizards.

138 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:30:39pm

re: #90 Varek Raith

Oops!
How’d that happen?
Image: Morans.png

They deleted your comment? Really?

139 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:31:43pm

re: #138 Charles Johnson

They deleted your comment? Really?

They aren’t just oblivious anymore. They are actively trying to get this crap passed off as legit.

140 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:32:38pm

Eyeroll.

141 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:33:20pm

Twitter is still flaky for me.

142 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:33:37pm

It’s slowwwww.

143 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:33:56pm

re: #140 jaunte

Eyeroll.

[Embedded content]

Somehow, I think Dr. King would have absolutely approved of a black man being inaugurated to his second term as President on this day.

144 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:34:01pm

re: #140 jaunte

Eyeroll.

[Embedded content]

N’derp.

145 freetoken  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:34:19pm

re: #140 jaunte

Nolte is concerned about MKL’s legacy?

146 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:34:38pm

re: #143 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too

Funny how that would seem perfectly appropriate.

147 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:34:59pm

re: #145 freetoken

Oh yeah, right.

148 CuriousLurker  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:39:02pm

re: #143 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too

Somehow, I think Dr. King would have absolutely approved of a black man being inaugurated to his second term as President on this day.

Indeed. Dr. King’s thunder wasn’t stolen today, it was embodied, made manifest.

149 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:39:21pm

re: #138 Charles Johnson

They deleted your comment? Really?

Unless I’m misunderstanding Disqus, yep.
In total, I posted three comments to that effect.
All gone.

150 Stanghazi  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:42:47pm

re: #141 Charles Johnson

Twitter is still flaky for me.

fucked. I’ve been trying trying trying to tweet

151 darthstar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:42:48pm

re: #141 Charles Johnson

Twitter is still flaky for me.

Twitter flaky…Isn’t that redundant?

152 CuriousLurker  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:43:19pm

re: #148 CuriousLurker

Indeed. Dr. King’s thunder wasn’t stolen today, it was embodied, made manifest.

Which is something that people like Nolte hate & fear. They’re furiously trying to stuff the genie back into the bottle. Not gonna happen.

153 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:43:22pm

Right. We cancel the ceremonial inauguration in the USA out of deference to MLK. It’s a tradition don’t you know. I’m sure that Romney would have canceled it as well. Yep.

Happy Not Romney Day people!

154 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:43:26pm

And now the Breitbart audience is sticking up for Stormfront:

JOHN

Is it more honest a place for info than a Jeremiah Wright sermon?

26 minutes ago in reply to NoSleepTil - 2 Likes

155 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:44:37pm

re: #149 Varek Raith

I see the comments by user Nosleeptil are still there, referencing the link to Stormfront.

Yeah, I’d also like to see Mr. Nolte address this.

156 bratwurst  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:45:28pm

re: #140 jaunte

Eyeroll.

[Embedded content]

I guess Nolte means to challenge Glenn Beck for the title of the most ridiculous standard-bearer for the legacy of MLK.

157 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:45:36pm

Nolte called Jeremiah Wright a “racialist demagogue” and “America-hating,” but now he supposedly has great respect for Martin Luther King?

MLK: “It didn’t cost the nation one penny to integrate lunch counters. It didn’t cost the nation one penny to guarantee the right to vote. And the things that we are calling for now would mean that the nation will have to spend billions of dollars in order to solve these problems. In other words, we are in a period where there cannot be a solution to the problem without a radical redistribution of economic and political power.”

158 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:45:45pm

re: #154 Charles Johnson

And now the Breitbart audience is sticking up for Stormfront:

Oh, offhand I’d imagine there’s a few Stormfront users that post comments on Breitbart routinely. I wouldn’t surprise me at all.

159 freetoken  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:45:53pm

Interesting human evolution news (though probably not for that Louisiana assemblyman who is concerned about bacterial evolution):

A relative from the Tianyuan Cave

Ancient DNA has revealed that humans living some 40,000 years ago in the area near Beijing were likely related to many present-day Asians and Native Americans

An international team of researchers including Svante Pääbo and Qiaomei Fu of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, sequenced nuclear and mitochondrial DNA that had been extracted from the leg of an early modern human from Tianyuan Cave near Beijing, China. Analyses of this individual’s DNA showed that the Tianyuan human shared a common origin with the ancestors of many present-day Asians and Native Americans. In addition, the researchers found that the proportion of Neanderthal and Denisovan-DNA in this early modern human is not higher than in people living in this region nowadays.

Humans with morphology similar to present-day humans appear in the fossil record across Eurasia between 40,000 and 50,000 years ago. The genetic relationships between these early modern humans and present-day human populations had not yet been established. Qiaomei Fu, Matthias Meyer and colleagues of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, extracted nuclear and mitochondrial DNA from a 40,000 year old leg bone found in 2003 at the Tianyuan Cave site located outside Beijing. For their study the researchers were using new techniques that can identify ancient genetic material from an archaeological find even when large quantities of DNA from soil bacteria are present.

The researchers then reconstructed a genetic profile of the leg’s owner. “This individual lived during an important evolutionary transition when early modern humans, who shared certain features with earlier forms such as Neanderthals, were replacing Neanderthals and Denisovans, who later became extinct”, says Svante Pääbo of the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, who led the study.


The genetic profile reveals that this early modern human was related to the ancestors of many present-day Asians and Native Americans but had already diverged genetically from the ancestors of present-day Europeans. In addition, the Tianyuan individual did not carry a larger proportion of Neanderthal or Denisovan DNA than present-day people in the region. “More analyses of additional early modern humans across Eurasia will further refine our understanding of when and how modern humans spread across Europe and Asia”, says Svante Pääbo.

[…]

The paper will show up in PNAS later this week.

The relative percentage of DNA related to the Neanderthal and Denisova samples so far decoded, being the same as with most modern populations (except the Papuans) indicates that at least some of the interbreeding happened well before 40,000 years ago. However, there remains the possibility, as shown by some of the populations around Indonesia, that there were later inter-breeding events too.

Humans have been walking (and having sex with each other) on this planet for some time.

Just don’t tell some of the American politicians.

160 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:47:53pm

re: #155 Dr Lizardo

I see the comments by user Nosleeptil are still there, referencing the link to Stormfront.

My new comment seems to be staying up.

161 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:48:35pm

re: #160 Varek Raith

My new comment seems to be staying up.

Until it burns down, falls over, and sinks into the swamp.

162 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:48:55pm

Not entirely sure why I bothered…
Heh.

163 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:50:01pm

re: #152 CuriousLurker

Which is something that people like Nolte hate & fear. They’re furiously trying to stuff the genie back in the bottle. Not gonna happen.

Bingo. Watch wingnut heads explode when the Election of 2012 is read out as an example of “content of character” prevailing over “color of skin”.

164 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:50:25pm

re: #160 Varek Raith

My new comment seems to be staying up.

Hope it stays up this time.

Too bad there’s not an e-mail where one can contact Mr. Nolte.

I’d like to ask him, “Stormfront? Really?”

165 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:50:47pm

Is that “vetting” done yet, Breitbarts?

166 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:51:29pm
167 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:52:21pm

re: #166 Gus

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Kneel before Zod!

168 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:52:25pm

Alternate.

[Link: www.ustream.tv…]

169 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:52:33pm

re: #140 jaunte

OK. So the list of taboo subjects for RW douchebag politicians, pundits and talking heads is now expanded from “rape” to “rape and anything relating to civil rights”.

170 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:53:28pm

re: #167 Varek Raith

Kneel before Zod!

WHY DON’T THEY TAKE UP ARMS AND FORM A COUP!!11TY

171 Stanghazi  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:54:12pm

Watching on TV. Service members talking from afar!

172 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:54:36pm

re: #171 Stan the Demanded Plan

Watching on TV. Service members talking from afar!

Clearly a witch.

173 SpaceJesus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:57:25pm

Freep on Obama’s inauguration

To: a fool in paradise
He wouldn’t have been there without the conservative press getting on their knees. And they wouldn’t have gotten to their knees if Soros hadn’t figuratively held a gun to their heads (as confirmed by law enforcement), just like he did to Bill and Hillary Clinton (and their friends Bill Gwatney and Stephanie Tubbs, who were each killed shortly after agreeing to present a petition challenging Obama’s eligibility at the 2008 dem convention), and like he did to the eligibility judges one after the other (as it appears from their blatant unethical and/or unlawful actions - which seem to me to be red flags to tell us they were acting under duress).

2008 was a coup. The systems are all hostage.

The stage is being set for some combination of economic crash, EMP from Iran, and/or biological warfare - most likely at the hands of Hezbollah and Hamas operatives who were flown on direct unchecked flights from Iran to Venezuela, possibly bearing both Saddam Hussein and Bashar Assad’s WMD’s including biological WMD’s, and for whom Eric Holder is paving the way by suing to keep the border unenforced and arming the drug cartels that have been smuggling in terrorists. By now there could be biological weapons stockpiled in every major city just waiting for the signal.

And Obama first had to get Obamacare passed before pushing the Muslim agenda he supports - as he told the (now-ousted0 Egyptian ambassador in January of 2010 - because he wanted to drive doctors out of business and bring on shortages of medicines before the biological warfare hit.

The agenda all sects of Islam agree on is the destruction of the US and Israel and the institution of worldwide sharia. Everything Obama has ever done has advanced those 3 goals. The goals of the communist-Islamist alliance under George Soros - a worldwide alliance that illegally put a foreign enemy combatant into our White House to destroy us from within, as both the communists and Muslims have always said they would do.

America is dead.


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174 SpaceJesus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:58:04pm

^american conservatism’s present state

175 Stanghazi  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:58:40pm

oh Michelle looks beautiful.

This is a great day.

176 CuriousLurker  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:58:45pm

re: #163 EPR-radar

Bingo. Watch wingnut heads explode when the Election of 2012 is read out as an example of “content of character” prevailing over “color of skin”.

Yep. Him being elected one could’ve been brushed off as a fluke, a token nod to a black man. But twice? Not so much. Twice makes it real.

177 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:59:10pm

re: #173 SpaceJesus

America is dead.

Freepzombies!

178 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:59:26pm

Woohoo!

179 Stanghazi  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 5:59:30pm

ooooooh

180 Stanghazi  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:00:08pm

they want to jam, but protocol and all that bs.

181 Douchecanoe and Ryan Too  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:00:17pm

Night Lizardim.

182 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:00:41pm

re: #173 SpaceJesus

It’s still early, but this is a strong contender for Derp of the Year. People who actually believe this stuff need to be in straitjackets.

183 SpaceJesus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:00:47pm

re: #175 Stan the Demanded Plan

freep again

Image: 2auxLBk.png

184 Stanghazi  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:00:51pm

Whitey is FREAKING OUT.

185 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:01:00pm

If I were Pres, I’d be playing death metal at these events.
True story.
XD

186 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:01:01pm

Nice.

187 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:01:13pm

The thing is, when you go around calling you people don’t like Hitler, its sort of understood that you don’t go around supporting people who are Nazis.

Its just kind of a thing.

188 SpaceJesus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:01:34pm

why are conservatives allowed to interact with the public at large in any way

189 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:02:02pm

The Commonwealth of Virginia would like to remind America why you can’t turn your back on the GOP for a single second:

Virginia GOP Pulls ‘Dirty Trick’ On Inauguration Day

Democrats in Virginia are accusing state Republicans of taking advantage of a prominent civil rights leader’s trip to Washington for the presidential inauguration to pull a “dirty trick” in order to take control of the state Senate in the 2015 elections.

The state Senate is split 20-20 between Republicans and Democrats. On Monday, while state Sen. Henry Marsh (D) — a 79-year-old civil rights veteran — was reportedly in Washington to attend President Obama’s second inaugural, GOP senators forced through a mid-term redistricting plan that Democrats say will make it easier for Republicans to gain a majority.

With Marsh’s absence, Senate Republicans in Richmond had one more vote than Senate Democrats and could push the measure through. The new redistricting map revises the districts created under the 2011 map and would take effect before the next state Senate elections in Virginia and would redraw district lines to maximize the number of safe GOP seats.

This seems to be the GOP’s answer to increasing diversity and a shrinking base: use whatever means necessary to stack the deck in their favor.

190 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:02:59pm

Nolte just edited the post.

191 wilburs  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:03:30pm

re: #173 SpaceJesus

author butterdezillion describes herself as follows

I am a happily-married Christian mother of 4, working part-time and pouring a lot of my time into research which I hope will benefit this country

it shows

192 RadicalModerate  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:03:33pm

Douche move of the week goes to the Virginia state Senate today.

Va. Republicans push through rewrite of Senate districts

Senate Republicans this afternoon pushed through a surprise rewrite of the 2011 redistricting plan that erases a Democratic seat in western Virginia and creates a sixth majority black district that would be located between Petersburg and Danville.

Democrats were shocked by the move, vowing to oppose the new plan in court.

The so-called re-redistricting plan was woven into House-passed legislation that makes technical adjustments to delegates’ districts.

The revised plan cleared the Senate on a party-line vote of 20-19. Missing this afternoon was Sen. Henry L. Marsh III, D-Richmond, who was in Washington for President Barack Obama’s inauguration ceremony.

The new redistricting plans that Virginia Republicans passed would likely change the state senate from a 20-20 tie between Democrats and Republicans to a 27-13 supermajority for Republicans.
[Link: notlarrysabato.typepad.com…]
It’s also worth mentioning that today’s special session was held in honor of Confederate Civil War hero Stonewall Jackson.

193 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:04:12pm

Riiiggghhttt…

UPDATE: This post has been updated to remove a link to a 2002 “New York Post” story posted at an unacceptable site linked to in error. A new source has been added to the post.

194 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:04:53pm

re: #176 CuriousLurker

Yep. Him being elected one could’ve been brushed off as a fluke, a token nod to a black man. But twice? Not so much. Twice makes it real.

The Democratic presidential candidate was going to win in 2008. Few RW true believers were so deep into denial that the political effect of 8 years of disaster under W was denied.

In 2012, the GOP saw the failure of a 4-year campaign of hate and fear the black man in the White house.

195 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:04:57pm

And the new link is American Thinker…
Sheesh.

196 Stanghazi  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:05:08pm

Jason Wu for those who care.

I do.

197 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:06:39pm

re: #193 Varek Raith

Riiiggghhttt…

They don’t disagree with the info, so they found another source so they can get a few more degrees of separation from the Nazi provided material.

198 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:06:56pm

Anybody watching “The Following”?

199 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:06:56pm

Jack Cashill.
Really Nolte?
Really??
Lol.
Morons.

200 Stanghazi  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:07:00pm
201 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:07:06pm

re: #193 Varek Raith

Riiiggghhttt…

In other words “Our latest attempt to normalize white supremacism has experienced high levels of pushback. We’ll try again in a few months.”

202 makeitstop  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:07:27pm

re: #192 RadicalModerate

Douche move of the week goes to the Virginia state Senate today.

It’s also worth mentioning that today’s special session was held in honor of Confederate Civil War hero Robert E Lee.

No, Stonewall Jackson.

“On motion of Senator Stosch, the Senate adjourned in memory or [sic] General Thomas J. ‘Stonewall’ Jackson at 4:10 p.m. to convene Tuesday, January 22, 2013,” read the official minutes of the legislative day.

203 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:07:28pm

I’ve skipped most of the inauguration stuff today. Anything from Obama on Mali or the hostage situation?

204 CuriousLurker  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:07:34pm

re: #193 Varek Raith

Riiiggghhttt…

Bald faced lie. Why am I not surprised?

205 bratwurst  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:07:42pm

re: #193 Varek Raith

Riiiggghhttt…

As we have seen recently on the LGF Pages, right wingers sometimes need to be reminded that it is maybe…um…not cool to use sources associated with the organized hate movement.

206 Bubblehead II  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:08:43pm

Night Lizards. Much to digest.

May The Deity Of Your Choice Smile Down Upon You.

And May Your Rock and Burrow be Warm in the coming days.

Sleep well Lizards

207 lawhawk  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:09:10pm

re: #190 Charles Johnson

Edited. But of course, but the original stain has left its mark.

208 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:09:12pm

Cashill has an article up at AT debunking the Sandy Hook debunkers.
Whatever the hell that means.

209 RadicalModerate  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:09:12pm

re: #202 makeitstop

Okay - fixed.

210 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:09:19pm

re: #195 Varek Raith

And the new link is American Thinker…
Sheesh.

Ah, the American Thinker, a site that assured me that Romney would win by a landslide because the media was overhyping black turnout (“he’s done nothing for them!”) and underreporting the building undercurrent of hatred towards him that would rise up and defeat him decisively.

211 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:10:01pm

MLK Day, no vacation from white angst.

212 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:10:08pm
213 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:10:22pm

re: #192 RadicalModerate

Nice catch. The total opportunism and essential thuggery of the GOP needs to be made visible for each instance. Sunlight is a disinfectant.

214 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:10:33pm

Looks like Tweetdeck has been sent to TwitterGulag.

215 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:11:55pm

George Zornick ‏@gzornick

BREAKING: Sean Hannity did not like the president’s inaugural address.

216 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:11:55pm

re: #214 Vicious Babushka

Looks like Tweetdeck has been sent to TwitterGulag.

Isn’t that some kind of paradox???

217 SpaceJesus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:12:05pm

To: RoosterRedux
I seriously doubt that a black person would be treated unfairly “in the world of Donna Reed”.

Seriously, the 50’s middle class Western Culture society would be the absolute best circumstances for anyone of any skin color to live in.

The deal would be, though, that you’d have to behave within the expectations of that culture in order to thrive.


12 posted on 1/21/2013 10:30:01 AM by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he’s working for)
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218 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:13:02pm

re: #216 Varek Raith

Isn’t that some kind of paradox???

Tweetception!

219 CuriousLurker  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:13:30pm

re: #214 Vicious Babushka

Looks like Tweetdeck has been sent to TwitterGulag.

Mine is still chirping away. Maybe because I’m using the old Tweetdeck client. Or maybe a regional slowdown.

220 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:13:40pm

re: #217 SpaceJesus

Seriously, the 50’s middle class Western Culture society would be the absolute best circumstances for anyone of any skin color to live in.
Hmm.

On December 1, 1955, in Montgomery, Alabama, Parks refused to obey bus driver James F. Blake’s order that she give up her seat in the colored section to a white passenger, after the white section was filled.
[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

221 SpaceJesus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:15:00pm
222 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:15:08pm

re: #219 CuriousLurker

Mine is still chirping away. Maybe because I’m using the old Tweetdeck client. Or maybe a regional slowdown.

Twitter.com is working, just not Tweetdeck.

223 PhillyPretzel  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:15:11pm

I hope everyone got their share of the roasted troll. Good Night to my fellow Lizards.

224 lawhawk  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:15:24pm

Okay, so who is getting the shakes from not being able to twitter. Anyone? Be honest. /

225 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:15:58pm

re: #210 Targetpractice

Ah, the American Thinker, a site that assured me that Romney would win by a landslide because the media was overhyping black turnout (“he’s done nothing for them!”) and underreporting the building undercurrent of hatred towards him that would rise up and defeat him decisively.

They never claimed they were good at thinking.

226 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:16:28pm

re: #224 lawhawk

Okay, so who is getting the shakes from not being able to twitter. Anyone? Be honest. /

I’m fine. I can quit any time. No problem.

227 Stanghazi  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:16:46pm

re: #222 Vicious Babushka

Twitter.com is working, just not Tweetdeck.

Twitter.com - barely. every second click.

228 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:17:05pm
Seriously, the 50’s middle class Western Culture society would be the absolute best circumstances for anyone of any skin color to live in.
The deal would be, though, that you’d have to behave within the expectations of that culture in order to thrive

So was the Dark Ages by that dumb logic.

229 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:17:08pm
230 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:17:19pm

re: #225 Kragar

They never claimed they were good at thinking.

Well they are also no good as being American, so that makes their name an oxymoron on two counts. Efficient, for a two word name.

231 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:17:41pm

I closed Tweetdeck and Twitter. Srsly. Fuck ‘em.

232 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:17:48pm

Tweetdeck! You’re back!

233 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:18:05pm

re: #231 Vicious Babushka

I closed Tweetdeck and Twitter. Srsly. Fuck ‘em.

re: #232 Charles Johnson

Tweetdeck! You’re back!

CONSPIRACY!

234 Stanghazi  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:18:15pm

re: #224 lawhawk

Okay, so who is getting the shakes from not being able to twitter. Anyone? Be honest. /

I spent 12 minutes in my reply to Nolte. It was worth the effort. That dude is another poison making money off his poison. We have Father Coughlins everywhere.

235 Shvaughn  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:18:20pm

re: #220 jaunte

Rosa Parks didn’t “behave within the expectations of that culture.”

///

236 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:18:24pm

OK, not all the way back, but there’s some action there.

237 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:19:02pm

More Phlogiston Crystals!

238 Stanghazi  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:19:03pm

Chris Cornell, remind me?

239 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:19:30pm

Spending that little time at Breitbart was like being on another planet.
Weird.

240 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:19:45pm
241 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:20:11pm

American Thinker should sponsor this guy:

242 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:20:45pm

re: #238 Stan the Demanded Plan

Chris Cornell, remind me?

Soundgarden, Audioslave, all around amazing singer

243 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:21:07pm

re: #241 Kragar

American Thinker should sponsor this guy:

[Embedded content]

MONGO SMASH

244 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:22:42pm

re: #241 Kragar

Very efficient. The GOP approach to governance completely captured in a 30 second video clip.

245 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:22:50pm

What a complete asshole.

246 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:23:09pm

Yeah, having a lifestyle which has you place more importance on myths than facts, and a sexual lifestyle forcing women to have no control of their lives is fucking barbaric.

247 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:23:17pm

OK, Tweetdeck’s choking again.

No problem. I don’t need it.

248 lawhawk  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:23:27pm

re: #242 Kragar

Sang the theme to the 007 reboot Casino Royale - You Know My Name

249 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:24:49pm

Hooray for Rachel Maddow for just letting the feed from the inauguration play, without feeling the need to blather endlessly about trivial bullshit.

250 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:25:09pm

re: #245 jaunte

[Embedded content]

What a complete asshole.

Hey Ari! :P

John Philip Sousa - El Capitan

251 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:26:31pm

re: #246 Kragar

Fischer’s sexual lifestyle of getting off on the promotion of hatred cloaked in religion is certainly worse than most.

252 CuriousLurker  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:26:49pm

re: #233 Varek Raith

re: #232 Charles Johnson

CONSPIRACY!

The MiB showed up at Twitter HQ while everyone was distracted by the the inauguration and forced them to infect all users’ Twitter clients with a backdoor trojan. Now the Obamunist regime will be able to capture your every keystroke, look at all the files on your computer, and even watch you through your webcam.

253 Stanghazi  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:27:43pm

Jennifer Hudson is great.

The POTUS and FLOTUS are fantastic.

oooooh and aaaaaah

I’m a PATRIOT

254 Shiplord Kirel  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:28:17pm

re: #43 Shiplord Kirel

Not sure what it has to do with anything, but I ran across this astonishing video of a Chilean military parade in 1992, complete with a rousing rendition of Preussens Gloria. You may not know the title, but you’ll recognize the music as well as a few other things in the video. Again, this was in 1992.

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Since noone apparently looked at this, I probably should have spelled out what I found interesting. The Chilean army, today, looks like a re-creation of Hitler’s Wehrmacht, complete with WW2 style German coal scuttle helmets and uniforms and even a lot of goose stepping. I realize that these people are not Nazis, at least most of them are not, but you would think democratic Chile might be a little more sensitive to some of the associations that come with their Prussian military tradition.

255 Interesting Times  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:29:22pm

re: #252 CuriousLurker

The MiB showed up at Twitter HQ while everyone was distracted by the the inauguration and forced them to infect all users’ Twitter clients with a backdoor trojan. Now the Obamunist regime will be able to capture your every keystroke, look at all the files on your computer, and even watch you through your webcam.

^^^I could post this verbatim on freerepublic and it would be indistinguishable from the regular comments.

…and that is why America can’t have nice things.

256 Dancing along the light of day  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:29:40pm

re: #226 Charles Johnson

I’m fine. I can quit any time. No problem.

Giggles, I never started!

EDITED to include that LGF is enough for me!

257 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:29:41pm

re: #254 Shiplord Kirel

Since noone apparently looked at this, I probably should have spelled out what I found interesting. The Chilean army, today, looks like a re-creation of Hitler’s Wehrmacht, complete with WW2 style German coal scuttle helmets and uniforms and even a lot of goose stepping. I realize that these people are not Nazis, at least most of them are not, but you would think democratic Chile might be a little more sensitive to some of the associations that come with their Prussian military tradition.

Chile—isn’t that the country Pinochet was dictator of? Just sayin’ that might have something to do with it.

258 The Force Ghost of a Flea  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:29:46pm

re: #237 jaunte

More Phlogiston Crystals!

We require more Pylons.

259 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:29:50pm

re: #254 Shiplord Kirel

Since noone apparently looked at this, I probably should have spelled out what I found interesting. The Chilean army, today, looks like a re-creation of Hitler’s Wehrmacht, complete with WW2 style German coal scuttle helmets and uniforms and even a lot of goose stepping. I realize that these people are not Nazis, at least most of them are not, but you would think democratic Chile might be a little more sensitive to some of the associations that come with their Prussian military tradition.

I’m not enough of a military history buff to know for sure, but I’m hoping that the undeniably German appearance of those parades is a relic of Prussian influence as opposed to Nazi influence.

260 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:31:04pm

Does Pam still have the link to my site or did she take it down? I don’t wanna go there.

261 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:31:13pm

FWIW my Twitter feed is working fine now. Has been for over an hour. It’s probably moving around the country between servers.

262 Shiplord Kirel  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:32:32pm

re: #257 Vicious Babushka

Chile—isn’t that the country Pinochet was dictator of? Just sayin’ that might have something to do with it.

Pinochet appears in the 1992 video, the old guy in the Goering style outfit saluting the troops at about 1:15. But no, the Pinochet/German relationship may be the other way around. The German influence, ie obsession, in the Chilean military dates back to the 1870s.

263 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:35:25pm

re: #262 Shiplord Kirel

From wikipedia, it looks like Goose Stepping is seen neutrally in many parts of the world, and as inherently fascist/militaristic in the UK and US. The article also notes that Chile has preserved the original Prussian form unchanged.

[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

264 CuriousLurker  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:36:17pm

re: #260 Vicious Babushka

Does Pam still have the link to my site or did she take it down? I don’t wanna go there.

She’s linking to 3 different sources now (one on each word):

Martin Luther King, Jr., was an opponent of the jihad against Israel. While there are some disputed quotations circulating in this connection, here are some key and authenticated MLK quotes. Take them to heart today:

265 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:37:45pm
266 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:38:31pm

re: #264 CuriousLurker

She’s linking to 3 different sources now (one on each word):

Musta done a bunch of crazy drunk Googling. I’m wondering if those sites rely on that 1999 email from CAMERA.

Yeah, they all kinda do. Also that Seymour Martin Lipset book, quoted by CAMERA, where he pulled MLK quotes out of his rectum.

267 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:39:54pm
268 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:40:16pm

re: #245 jaunte

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What a complete asshole.

The second really does seem to be the wingnut approach to Obama’s 2nd term: “He’s not playing nice!!”

269 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:42:27pm

re: #268 Targetpractice

The first one is a little more problematic, given the crazy right fringe.

270 Shvaughn  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:43:01pm

First family fun: OMG this is the best.

Image: tumblr_mgzxv38hTu1rqrnlao1_500.gif

271 CuriousLurker  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:43:07pm

re: #265 Lidane

[Embedded content]

Gawd, their constant whining is tiresome. Someone please send them to their rooms and tell them not to come out until they’re ready to behave.

272 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:43:13pm

re: #268 Targetpractice

The second really does seem to be the wingnut approach to Obama’s 2nd term: “He’s not playing nice!!”

And what is this “center-right” nonsense the RW spouts. It might actually be true, but this is usually pulled out right before advocating for some policy that would be a better match for Italy under Mussolini or Chile under Pinochet than in any real center-right country.

273 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:43:30pm

re: #268 Targetpractice

The second really does seem to be the wingnut approach to Obama’s 2nd term: “He’s not playing nice!!”

“Waaah! He won’t let us set the agenda anymore!”

I think POTUS has made it clear in his recent statements, including his inaugural speech, that he’s done negotiating with himself and he’s going to work to draw clear lines between him and the GOP.

274 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:44:43pm

Give it to me…

275 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:44:45pm

re: #272 EPR-radar

And what is this “center-right” nonsense the RW spouts. It might actually be true, but this is usually pulled out right before advocating for some policy that would be a better match for Italy under Mussolini or Chile under Pinochet than in any real center-right country.

“Center-right” for everyone else in the world = President Obama and his agenda

“Center-right” for the GOP = Far right to everyone else

276 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:45:27pm

re: #272 EPR-radar

And what is this “center-right” nonsense the RW spouts. It might actually be true, but this is usually pulled out right before advocating for some policy that would be a better match for Italy under Mussolini or Chile under Pinochet than in any real center-right country.

“Center-right” is guys like Paul Ryan, who would sell his own grandmother in a heartbeat. He’s actually come out this past week jumping on the “prioritization” bandwagon, which says that the GOP can take the country past the debt limit by having Congress instruct the White House and the Treasury Department to prioritize servicing the nation’s debt first and then everything else in an order Republicans agree with.

277 CuriousLurker  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:45:58pm

Okay, I’m out. Later, lizards.

278 freetoken  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:46:21pm

re: #250 Gus

If I were to think of a song that might apply to Ari Fleischer… maybe this forgotten 1961 tune might fit:

279 Stanghazi  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:46:55pm

re: #270 Shvaughn

First family fun: OMG this is the best.

Image: tumblr_mgzxv38hTu1rqrnlao1_500.gif

LOL, the best!

280 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:46:58pm

re: #273 Lidane

I think POTUS has made it clear in his recent statements, including his inaugural speech, that he’s done negotiating with himself and he’s going to work to draw clear lines between him and the GOP.

Obama’s second term would have to be viewed as a big success if, by proposing reasonable common sense measures to address some pressing problems, the irrational GOP rage against Obama exposes the GOP for what it now is.

Nothing might actually get done for four years, but obliging the GOP to reform or perish would be worth it.

281 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:48:06pm

McConnell warns gun owners: Obama and Democrats have you ‘literally surrounded’

In an email sent to his supporters on Sunday night, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) warned that the President and his Democratic allies were planning to take Americans’ guns away.

“You and I are literally surrounded,” McConnell’s campaign manager Jesse Benton wrote. “The gun-grabbers in the Senate are about to launch an all-out-assault on the Second Amendment.”

The email falsely claimed President Barack Obama planned to issue 23 executive orders “to get your guns.” Obama plans to nominate a director for the ATF and direct the Centers for Disease Control to research the causes of gun violence, among other executive actions. None of the executive orders he outlined last week involve anything remotely like gun confiscation.

“The gun-grabbers are in full battle mode,” Benton continued. “And they are serious. What’s at stake? There are almost too many schemes to list.”

Yeah, that really helps the whole “rationable debate”.

282 freetoken  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:48:53pm

re: #281 Kragar

Like, actually, literally.

283 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:49:04pm

Total Bullshit alert:

284 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:49:34pm

re: #276 Targetpractice

“Center-right” is guys like Paul Ryan, who would sell his own grandmother in a heartbeat. He’s actually come out this past week jumping on the “prioritization” bandwagon, which says that the GOP can take the country past the debt limit by having Congress instruct the White House and the Treasury Department to prioritize servicing the nation’s debt first and then everything else in an order Republicans agree with.

Agreeing to prioritization would be completely stupid for the Democrats. With prioritization, the GOP will have every incentive to balk on the debt limit. However, it does make the GOP agenda quite clear. Make the nation insolvent, and then carve it up and deliver it to creditors.

285 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:49:45pm

re: #281 Kragar

“There are almost too many schemes to list”

Glenn Beck: “Challenge accepted.”

286 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:49:51pm

re: #281 Kragar

McConnell warns gun owners: Obama and Democrats have you ‘literally surrounded’

Joe Biden called. He wants the word “Literally” back, since McConnell is doing it wrong.

287 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:51:07pm

re: #280 EPR-radar

Obama’s second term would have to be viewed as a big success if, by proposing reasonable common sense measures to address some pressing problems, the irrational GOP rage against Obama exposes the GOP for what it now is.

Nothing might actually get done for four years, but obliging the GOP to reform or perish would be worth it.

Except the GOP’s found a way around that: Rig the odds in a manner that would put Vegas under the mafia to shame. Gerrymander Congressional districts to create a majority of “safe” ones, “reform” the electoral college by either giving away EVs by district instead of winner-take-all, and abolishing items like registering to vote on election day while also shortening or doing away with early-voting hours and restricting the number of polling booths.

I think it’s about time to consider just dubbing them the “Banana Republican” party.

288 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:51:23pm

re: #283 Lidane

Some more appropriation going on:

289 Shvaughn  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:51:24pm

re: #279 Stan the Demanded Plan

LOL, the best!

I love that family, I really do. Apart entirely from politics.

290 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:51:25pm

Image: 22inaugural_511-slide-U527-superJumbo.jpg

Boom!

291 calochortus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:51:37pm

re: #276 Targetpractice

“Center-right” is guys like Paul Ryan, who would sell his own grandmother in a heartbeat. He’s actually come out this past week jumping on the “prioritization” bandwagon, which says that the GOP can take the country past the debt limit by having Congress instruct the White House and the Treasury Department to prioritize servicing the nation’s debt first and then everything else in an order Republicans agree with.

I can’t remember who said it, but apparently it might not be possible to pay some of the obligations and not others-the computers are simply not programmed in a way that allows it. So, Ryan can dream on.

292 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:51:52pm

re: #283 Lidane

Total Bullshit alert:

[Embedded content]

Their source: A guy who publishes on WND books

My surprise, let me show you

293 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:52:25pm

re: #281 Kragar

McConnell warns gun owners: Obama and Democrats have you ‘literally surrounded’

Yeah, that really helps the whole “rationable debate”.

I always love when I read stories like this, then hear wingnuts who tell me that Obama’s the one “making enemies” and the GOP is totally willing to work with him if he’d just extend the hand of friendship instead of trying to score points by demonizing them.

294 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:53:02pm

re: #292 Kragar

Their source: A guy who publishes on WND books

My surprise, let me show you

Show us your pokemon.

295 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:53:05pm

[Link: www.cnn.com…]

296 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:54:02pm

re: #291 calochortus

I can’t remember who said it, but apparently it might not be possible to pay some of the obligations and not others-the computers are simply not programmed in a way that allows it. So, Ryan can dream on.

Treasury laid it out to Congress back in ‘11, they don’t have the power to prioritize spending and couldn’t do so even if they did. They are required to pay bills as they come, with the last resort being to stretched out the payment dates. If on any one day, the Treasury has more bills than it has revenue, then we default.

297 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:54:07pm

re: #287 Targetpractice

Except the GOP’s found a way around that: Rig the odds in a manner that would put Vegas under the mafia to shame. Gerrymander Congressional districts to create a majority of “safe” ones, “reform” the electoral college by either giving away EVs by district instead of winner-take-all, and abolishing items like registering to vote on election day while also shortening or doing away with early-voting hours and restricting the number of polling booths.

I think it’s about time to consider just dubbing them the “Banana Republican” party.

I am hoping that this crap gets some in the middle to take a hard anti-GOP stance, and perhaps even peel off a few of the relatively sane GOPers.

It is getting very clear that these people have the same view of voting that Stalin had: “The voters decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything”

298 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:54:39pm
299 Obdicut  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:57:24pm

Why am I getting “Single and Christian” ads? And why are the women in them so weird-looking? Where have I been visiting on the interwebs, what have I been searching for or discussing or emailing about that gets me bombarded with ads for squinty Christian blondes with big heads, saying “Find God’s match for you”?

And this is the same God who did the Job thing, right? I think I’ll handle my own match.

300 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:58:31pm

How the Vatican built a secret property empire using Mussolini’s millions

Few passing London tourists would ever guess that the premises of Bulgari, the upmarket jewellers in New Bond Street, had anything to do with the pope. Nor indeed the nearby headquarters of the wealthy investment bank Altium Capital, on the corner of St James’s Square and Pall Mall.

But these office blocks in one of London’s most expensive districts are part of a surprising secret commercial property empire owned by the Vatican.

Behind a disguised offshore company structure, the church’s international portfolio has been built up over the years, using cash originally handed over by Mussolini in return for papal recognition of the Italian fascist regime in 1929.

Since then the international value of Mussolini’s nest-egg has mounted until it now exceeds £500m. In 2006, at the height of the recent property bubble, the Vatican spent £15m of those funds to buy 30 St James’s Square. Other UK properties are at 168 New Bond Street and in the city of Coventry. It also owns blocks of flats in Paris and Switzerland.

301 freetoken  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:58:34pm

re: #299 Obdicut

If you ever visit a site that has “God” or any term related to religion, you’ll get those kind of ads. I get them too, probably because I visit creationist and theology websites.

302 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:58:45pm

Virginia Republicans Give Blacks the Finger on MLK Day

The Virginia state senate is evenly divided between Democrats and Republicans, 20-20. Republicans really hate this, but what can they do? Answer: wait for a Democratic state senator to be absent and jam through a mid-decade redistricting plan that switches one seat from D to R by creating a new pack-and-crack majority black district just south of Richmond. The vote was 20-19.

But wait! That’s not all. The deed was done on Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and at the end of the session Republicans adjourned in memory of Confederate general Stonewall Jackson, whose birthday is today.

On motion of Senator Stosch, the Senate adjourned in memory or General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson at 4:10 p.m. to convene Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 12 m.

303 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:59:01pm

re: #299 Obdicut

Why am I getting “Single and Christian” ads? And why are the women in them so weird-looking? Where have I been visiting on the interwebs, what have I been searching for or discussing or emailing about that gets me bombarded with ads for squinty Christian blondes with big heads, saying “Find God’s match for you”?

And this is the same God who did the Job thing, right? I think I’ll handle my own match.

Use AdBlock. Or even better, get a subscription.

304 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 6:59:20pm

re: #299 Obdicut

Why am I getting “Single and Christian” ads? And why are the women in them so weird-looking? Where have I been visiting on the interwebs, what have I been searching for or discussing or emailing about that gets me bombarded with ads for squinty Christian blondes with big heads, saying “Find God’s match for you”?

And this is the same God who did the Job thing, right? I think I’ll handle my own match.

Single and Christian? So saddlebacking is an option?

305 calochortus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:00:17pm

re: #296 Targetpractice

I have yet to hear a Republican explain why it would be OK to default on debts we’ve already taken on. The party of responsibility…

306 Mentis Fugit  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:00:34pm

re: #275 Lidane

“Center-right” for everyone else in the world = President Obama and his agenda

“Center-right” for the GOP = Far right to everyone else

That’s what happens when Fox News hurls a brick through the Overton Window.

307 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:00:50pm

Senator Walter A. Stosch’s Special Interest Group Ratings
[Link: votesmart.org…]

308 b_sharp  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:00:57pm

re: #299 Obdicut

Why am I getting “Single and Christian” ads? And why are the women in them so weird-looking? Where have I been visiting on the interwebs, what have I been searching for or discussing or emailing about that gets me bombarded with ads for squinty Christian blondes with big heads, saying “Find God’s match for you”?

And this is the same God who did the Job thing, right? I think I’ll handle my own match.

Where indeed.

309 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:01:09pm

On eve of Roe v. Wade anniversary, Gov. Rick Perry vows to continue anti-abortion crusade

Because its not like Texas has any other problems.

And if prayer solves everything, why is he devoting government resources to deal with it?

310 freetoken  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:01:34pm

re: #302 jaunte

My paternal ancestry is descended from the Vikings of old, yet I don’t feel the need to celebrate their raping and pillaging of large parts of Europe.

Sometimes it is best to just accept that one’s ancestors fucked up.

311 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:01:49pm

re: #299 Obdicut

Why am I getting “Single and Christian” ads? And why are the women in them so weird-looking?

Squashed by binders?

312 Obdicut  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:01:53pm

re: #301 freetoken

If you ever visit a site that has “God” or any term related to religion, you’ll get those kind of ads. I get them too, probably because I visit creationist and theology websites.

I really haven’t, in the past week. I did send out an email where I said “God fucking dammit” fifty times in a row. Maybe that’s it.

313 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:02:00pm

re: #308 b_sharp

Where indeed.

Far too easy.

314 b_sharp  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:03:03pm

re: #310 freetoken

My paternal ancestry is descended from the Vikings of old, yet I don’t feel the need to celebrate their raping and pillaging of large parts of Europe.

Sometimes it is best to just accept that one’s ancestors fucked up.

No? My Scot/German heritage makes me want to toss giant sausages.

315 bratwurst  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:03:09pm

re: #299 Obdicut

Why am I getting “Single and Christian” ads? And why are the women in them so weird-looking? Where have I been visiting on the interwebs, what have I been searching for or discussing or emailing about that gets me bombarded with ads for squinty Christian blondes with big heads, saying “Find God’s match for you”?

And this is the same God who did the Job thing, right? I think I’ll handle my own match.

I mentioned Lifelock ONCE (in reference to Rush Limbaugh, as a sponsor he is in no danger of losing) and I am now seeing their ads here regularly. Somebody out there is pretty sure you are indeed single and Christian! ;)

316 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:03:28pm

One of my favorite shows, the “Bones” TV show, is heading into shark-infested waters with a bunch of bungee cords.

They’re gonna jump them a bunch of sharks.

317 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:03:35pm

Army’s in the house!

318 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:04:45pm

Biden’s up!

[Link: www.cnn.com…]

319 freetoken  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:04:58pm

I have plenty of ancestry on my mother’s side that dates back to the early (even founding) of many of the colonies. That includes the slave states of the Carolinas and Virginia, and the free states of Pennsylvania, New York, Massachusetts and Maine.

When it comes to the War of the Rebellion, I’ll gladly acknowledge that my ancestors who fought on the Union side (of which I know for sure one g-g-grandparent and one g-g-g-grandparent) were on the right side.

320 EPR-radar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:05:12pm

re: #309 Kragar

Hey, Rick Perry:

I might take your anti-abortion posturing about a culture of life with the slightest degree of seriousness, if movement conservatism weren’t a death cult.

I recommend greater attention paid to consistency.

321 Obdicut  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:05:55pm

re: #310 freetoken

My paternal ancestry is descended from the Vikings of old, yet I don’t feel the need to celebrate their raping and pillaging of large parts of Europe.

Sometimes it is best to just accept that one’s ancestors fucked up.

Most of the successful Vikings just did long-distance trade.

322 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:06:45pm

re: #316 Vicious Babushka

One of my favorite shows, the “Bones” TV show, is heading into shark-infested waters with a bunch of bungee cords.

They’re gonna jump them a bunch of sharks.

The whole Doctor on the run scenario?

I saw the last season on Netflix and wondered what the hell the writers were thinking.

323 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:06:50pm

re: #302 jaunte

Virginia Republicans Give Blacks the Finger on MLK Day

On motion of Senator Stosch, the Senate adjourned in memory or General Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson at 4:10 p.m. to convene Tuesday, January 22, 2013 at 12 m.

I guess it’s some measure of progress. Up til a few years ago, today was known as “Lee-Jackson-King Day” here in the Commonwealth. Now we just celebrate “Lee-Jackson Day” the Friday before.

Yes folks, come to the South, where we still stew in the butthurt of our own stupidity over 150 years later.

324 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:07:08pm
325 Obdicut  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:07:15pm

re: #319 freetoken

I’m happy to be able to say that I have no slave-owning or trading ancestry on either side. I do have slave ancestry, though. Or ‘indentured servants’ for three generations.

326 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:07:28pm

The Eight Current Members of Congress Who Voted Against Martin Luther King Jr. Day

“…Congress was hardly unanimous in its support for giving King such recognition. The House of Representatives approved of the holiday by a vote of 338 to 90, and the Senate by 78 to 22. Of those 112 dissenters, the vast majority have died or retired by now, but eight of them still remain in Congress today. Let’s take a moment to embarrass them.”

327 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:07:56pm

re: #316 Vicious Babushka

One of my favorite shows, the “Bones” TV show, is heading into shark-infested waters with a bunch of bungee cords.

They’re gonna jump them a bunch of sharks.

I know how that feels. I used to be a CSI: Las Vegas fan back in the day.

328 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:08:20pm

re: #324 Lidane

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Did they forget today was a holiday?

329 calochortus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:08:43pm

re: #321 Obdicut

Most of the successful Vikings just did long-distance trade.

Sadly my Scandinavian ancestors seem to have been marginally successful peasants rather than bold Vikings, although I suppose the English side might have involved Vikings who settled in Britain.

330 freetoken  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:09:37pm

re: #325 Obdicut

I’m happy to be able to say that I have no slave-owning or trading ancestry on either side.

Are you sure? Remember, at the level of 10 generations back and you have 1024 ancestors.

331 CuriousLurker  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:10:03pm

re: #320 EPR-radar

Hey, Rick Perry:

I might take your anti-abortion posturing about a culture of life with the slightest degree of seriousness, if movement conservatism weren’t a death cult.

I recommend greater attention paid to consistency.

Okay, couldn’t resist coming back for that one. The GOP’s/Perry’s culture of life:

Now I’m really leaving. I swear I can quit. Anytime I want to… //

332 calochortus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:10:05pm

re: #328 Kragar

Did they forget today was a holiday?

Apparently they did.

333 RadicalModerate  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:11:04pm

re: #328 Kragar

Did they forget today was a holiday?

Most likely he doesn’t acknowledge its existence, or chooses to celebrate it as “Robert E Lee Day”.

334 prairiefire  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:11:06pm

re: #325 Obdicut

I’m happy to be able to say that I have no slave-owning or trading ancestry on either side. I do have slave ancestry, though. Or ‘indentured servants’ for three generations.

I’ve got slave owners, the Williams in Virginia. I’m going to try to find out more about them.

335 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:11:25pm

Ironically, their LNYHBT tag stands for this:

Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. — John 14:1, KJV

Real Christian sentiment in that tweet, eh?

336 calochortus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:11:26pm

re: #330 freetoken

Are you sure? Remember, at the level of 10 generations back and you have 1024 ancestors.

And we’re all the descendants of Charlemagne. At least those of us with European ancestry.

337 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:12:39pm

re: #322 Kragar

The whole Doctor on the run scenario?

I saw the last season on Netflix and wondered what the hell the writers were thinking.

There is this psycho serial killer who’s also a freaking genius, in the last season he committed murders and planted fake evidence to make it look like “Dr. Bones” was the perp so she had to go on the lam.

Now he’s baaaack and has ramped up the psycho killing with MOAR BRILLYUNT JEENYUS KLOOZ.

Also, fake-looking wigs on guys look fake! The guys on Criminal Minds also all wear really fake-looking wigs, except for Shemar Moore who is THE HOTTEST MAN ON TV.

338 freetoken  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:13:05pm

re: #336 calochortus

And we’re all the descendants of Charlemagne. At least those of us with European ancestry.

Probably, but he is likely 50 to 60 generations back for most of us, during which means those of us from European descent have just about any group/person in our ancestry.

339 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:15:06pm

re: #335 Lidane

Looks like they’re raising a PatriotArmy to livefreeordie:
[Link: twitter.com…]

340 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:15:28pm

I stopped watching “24” after the nuke went off in LA.

341 calochortus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:15:35pm

re: #338 freetoken

Statistically it is extremely likely. Charlemagne had 20 known children (legitimate and illegitimate) and there have been about 40 generations. Someone worked out the statistics on it a few years back.

342 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:16:05pm
343 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:16:22pm

re: #341 calochortus

Statistically it is extremely likely. Charlemagne had 20 known children (legitimate and illegitimate) and there have been about 40 generations. Someone worked out the statistics on it a few years back.

I thought Genghis Kahn’s DNA is the most widespread.

344 Obdicut  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:16:51pm

re: #330 freetoken

Are you sure? Remember, at the level of 10 generations back and you have 1024 ancestors.

Oh, for fuck’s sake. I meant in the context of the last ~500 years or so, the New World. If you’re going to talk about the full ancestry, then everyone has everything in their ancestral tree.

345 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:17:09pm

re: #340 Vicious Babushka

I stopped watching “24” after the nuke went off in LA.

I stopped after they raided the Chinese embassy or some other such nonsense

346 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:17:15pm

Twitter is not loading for me. That is probably a very good thing.

347 calochortus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:18:09pm

I have no idea whether any of my ancestors owned slaves-Dad’s side didn’t, they immigrated after slavery ended. Mom’s side has been trickling over since 1620 and there was a surprising amount of slavery in colonial New England.

348 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:18:29pm

re: #342 Lidane

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I thought we were supposed to be the Nazis?

//

349 jamesfirecat  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:18:33pm

re: #342 Lidane

///Now there is a comment that has no unpleasant connotations to it at all!

350 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:19:25pm

Biden’s gonna dance.

351 Interesting Times  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:19:27pm

re: #338 freetoken

Probably, but he is likely 50 to 60 generations back for most of us, during which means those of us from European descent have just about any group/person in our ancestry.

On a semi-related note, yesterday, out of sheer curiosity, I looked up the range of human eye color - this bit in particular stood out:

In 2008, new research suggested that people with blue eyes have a single common ancestor. Scientists tracked down a genetic mutation that leads to blue eyes. “Originally, we all had brown eyes,” said Eiberg.[30] Eiberg and colleagues showed in a study published in Human Genetics that a mutation in the 86th intron of the HERC2 gene, which is hypothesized to interact with the OCA2 gene promoter, reduced expression of OCA2 with subsequent reduction in melanin production.[31] The authors concluded that the mutation may have arisen in a single individual probably living in the northwestern part of the Black Sea region (around modern Romania) 6,000–10,000 years ago during the Neolithic revolution.[30][31][32] Eiberg stated, “A genetic mutation affecting the OCA2 gene in our chromosomes resulted in the creation of a ‘switch,’ which literally ‘turned off’ the ability to produce brown eyes.

352 freetoken  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:19:33pm

re: #344 Obdicut

10 generations is only about 300 years back, on average.

It really is amazing what one can discover in our backgrounds.

One thing that’s been driven home to me as I dig into my ancestry is how contingent my very own existence is on the various odd happenings of my ancestors, being the result of numerous long shots of migration and survival.

353 calochortus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:20:09pm

re: #343 Vicious Babushka

I thought Genghis Kahn’s DNA is the most widespread.

That is quite possible. I tell my daughter and her husband that they will be producing children who are descendants of Charlemagne and Genghis Khan. What a pedigree! (If they ever get around to it…)

354 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:20:33pm

re: #339 jaunte

Looks like they’re raising a PatriotArmy to livefreeordie:
[Link: twitter.com…]

355 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:20:51pm

re: #342 Lidane

[Embedded content]

“Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?”

356 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:21:09pm

re: #351 Interesting Times

creation of a ‘switch,’ which literally ‘turned off’ the ability to produce brown eyes.”

You would think that people who are all scientific and stuff would know the meaning of the word “literally.”

357 freetoken  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:21:32pm

re: #343 Vicious Babushka

I thought Genghis Kahn’s DNA is the most widespread.

[Link: news.nationalgeographic.com…]

358 b_sharp  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:21:49pm

re: #329 calochortus

Sadly my Scandinavian ancestors seem to have been marginally successful peasants rather than bold Vikings, although I suppose the English side might have involved Vikings who settled in Britain.

My grandkid’s father’s last name is Johnson, which is from Vikings who successfully invaded some Scottish lasses a few hundred years ago.

359 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:21:53pm

Fake quote alert:

360 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:22:19pm

So my brother was sent by his company to cover Sundance film festival this year

361 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:22:32pm

re: #343 Vicious Babushka

I thought Genghis Kahn’s DNA is the most widespread.

Yes, in the world as a whole. But given the ethnic makeup of the US, you’d be more likely to find a descendant of Charlemagne here.

362 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:23:02pm

Might be recorded already. Not sure. It says “live” at CNN.

363 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:23:51pm

re: #350 Gus

Biden’s gonna dance.

Pants or no pants? These small things make a difference.

364 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:24:23pm

re: #363 Killgore Trout

Pants or no pants? These small things make a difference.

No pants.

365 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:24:56pm

Hey, it is a ballroom.

366 calochortus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:25:32pm

re: #357 freetoken

Someone here recommended the book Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. I read it and also recommend it.

367 Killgore Trout  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:26:09pm

re: #364 Gus

No pants.

“It ain’t a party til someone’s ridin’ Biden! Yeeehaw!”

368 Dancing along the light of day  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:26:26pm

re: #299 Obdicut

Responds with a VERY flirtatious wink!

369 Obdicut  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:26:38pm

re: #352 freetoken

10 generations is only about 300 years back, on average.

There wasn’t the sort of movement that we have these days, though. On one side I have Icelandic, which hasn’t had slavery since about 1200 or so, and I can actually trace that ancestry very well thanks to Icelands bizarre naming system. That side is virtually all icelanders, with a small influx of Swedes and Danes into Iceland. On the other side, I have Sephardic Jewish, and the history is slightly more muddled but there’s not really anywhere they could have lived that they owned slaves. It’s quite possible that some of my ancestors who were slaves were raped by their slave owners, I guess.

And you’re likely to have repeats in that 1024, especially when you’re dealing with small, insular communities like Sephardic Jews and Icelanders.

370 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:26:46pm

re: #359 Lidane

Protect my shores, deliver my mail, & stay the Hell out of my life…

Not a fan of the interstate road trip.

371 Dancing along the light of day  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:26:56pm

re: #367 Killgore Trout

Pass the brain bleach STAT!

372 SpaceJesus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:28:57pm

re: #354 Lidane

holy shit i want to post this as an ad in next week’s bar bulletin

373 b_sharp  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:32:02pm

re: #359 Lidane

Fake quote alert:

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I hope we shall crush in its birth the aristocracy of our monied corporations which dare already to challenge our government to a trial by strength, and bid defiance to the laws of our country. — Thomas Jefferson

374 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:32:44pm

Did anyone save a serving of the troll Philly Pretzel roasted for me?

375 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:33:25pm

Yeah! The Queen totally slums it in Leeds, don’tcha know.

376 b_sharp  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:36:36pm
I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. — Thomas Jefferson
377 Interesting Times  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:37:21pm

re: #351 Interesting Times

For shame. I completely forgot to post the picture of the blue-eyed koala

378 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:37:32pm

re: #375 Lidane

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Yeah! The Queen totally slums it in Leeds, don’tcha know.

Yeah, just like the queen Obama’s children are guaranteed a position in American politics. Yep. /

379 Patricia Kayden  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:38:18pm

re: #280 EPR-radar

I think the GOP would be very foolish to not help President Obama pass immigration reform. That would further destroy their standing in the Latino/non-White community.

380 freetoken  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:38:26pm

re: #369 Obdicut

And you’re likely to have repeats in that 1024, especially when you’re dealing with small, insular communities like Sephardic Jews and Icelanders.

Especially with those groups, the “collapse” of the ancestral tree will be noticeable. Any two ancestors 10 generations could easily be 100 years apart in their life-periods.

Iceland is quite an isolated community.

Sephardic Jews, like many Iberian populations, have a very complicated history. So many migrations in and out of that corner of Europe. Even if your ancestors strictly enforced marriage within the religion/cult, some Jews could have ended up in Iberia from early Roman times. Just about any empire has tried to land there or invaded for convenience (yes, even Vikings.) One reason the Basques are of interest to genetics studies is that they have tried to remain an isolated population and outside of the wide mixing that was happening on the peninsula.

381 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:38:51pm

Virginia Senate Sneaks Through Gerrymandering Bill While Country Watches Inauguration

While the eyes of the nation were turned toward President Barack Obama’s second inauguration on Monday, the Virginia State Senate managed to hurriedly pass a bill that would redistrict the state’s senate seats.

The vote, 20-19, would have been a tie had Democratic Senator Henry Marsh been present. Marsh, a civil rights leader, was in Washington, D.C., attending the inauguration.

Bastards

382 b_sharp  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:39:04pm
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear. — Thomas Jefferson
383 Manji  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:40:19pm

HELP!
when I am loading these pages it’s crashing my page and I get some little drop down that says Internet explorer is not wanting to load the page. it’s so slow. is there some pop up or something that is here? anybody know how I can tweak my settings to block the ads from crashing my laptop? I’m not very tech savvy

384 Dancing along the light of day  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:40:27pm

re: #374 Dark_Falcon

Yes, but it’s on a french roll & you’ll need to warm it up!
Sauces are in the fridge!

385 Obdicut  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:40:55pm

re: #380 freetoken

Yeah, I’m fairly sure my Sephardic Jewish ancestors got raped a lot post-Reconquidista. So there probably is slave owners in my genetic ancestry, but not my cultural ancestry, as it were.

I mean, given the high rate of infidelity among humans, any family tree is basically bullshit anyway.

386 b_sharp  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:41:02pm
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. — Thomas Jefferson
387 Obdicut  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:41:09pm

re: #383 Manji

Get Chrome.

388 Patricia Kayden  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:41:38pm

re: #299 Obdicut

Why are you assuming that there aren’t a load of squinty-eyed blondes with big heads posting comments on this website? (Not me, but just saying).

389 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:43:07pm

re: #374 Dark_Falcon

Did anyone save a serving of the troll Philly Pretzel roasted for me?

That stuff will clog up your arteries.

390 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:43:15pm

re: #377 Interesting Times

For shame. I completely forgot to post the picture of the blue-eyed koala

Spooky.

391 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:43:25pm
392 Obdicut  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:43:40pm

re: #388 Patricia Kayden

Why are you assuming that there aren’t a load of squinty-eyed blondes with big heads posting comments on this website? (Not me, but just saying).

I apologize to any squinty-eyed big-headed blondes who I may have offended by calling them weird looking. I’m still not going to marry them.

393 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:43:52pm

re: #384 Dancing along the light of day

Yes, but it’s on a french roll & you’ll need to warm it up!
Sauces are in the fridge!

Thanks.

394 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:44:07pm
395 calochortus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:44:10pm

re: #391 Lidane

[Embedded content]

My heart bleeds.

396 b_sharp  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:44:29pm
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors. — Thomas Jefferson

Is there nothing this man has not said?

397 Obdicut  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:45:44pm

re: #396 b_sharp

Is there nothing this man has not said?

“Since slavery is a moral abomination, I free all my slaves, even though it will send me into debt and penury.”

Never said that.

398 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:46:35pm

I’m already expecting Fox Nation to fail hard on this photo:

399 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:46:47pm

re: #396 b_sharp

“When you can balance a tack hammer on your head,
you will head off your foes with a balanced attack.”

— Thomas ‘The Sphinx’ Jefferson

400 Manji  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:46:51pm

re: #387 Obdicut

Get Chrome.

oh goodness. I can barely change my screen saver. that might be a job for the geek squad.

401 Dancing along the light of day  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:48:01pm

re: #400 Manji

I utilize teenage nieces & nephews!
I am known as “Aunt Techtard!” LOL!

402 Mentis Fugit  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:48:41pm

re: #399 jaunte


“When you can balance a tack hammer on your head,
you will head off your foes with a balanced attack.”

— Thomas ‘The Sphinx’ Jefferson

Autodungdinged.

403 darthstar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:48:55pm

re: #398 Lidane

When we were watching the President’s inaugural address, there was a camera shot of Malia yawning…I figured the wingnuts would make hay from that.

404 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:49:09pm

re: #397 Obdicut

“Since slavery is a moral abomination, I free all my slaves, even though it will send me into debt and penury.”

Never said that.

No, he ultimately decided maintaining his and his family station was what he cared about more.

405 andres  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:49:47pm

re: #375 Lidane

[Embedded content]

Yeah! The Queen totally slums it in Leeds, don’tcha know.

He ought to say that on the Queen’s face.

The ass-kicking would be royal!

406 darthstar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:50:18pm

Twitter still be fucked and shit.

407 Manji  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:50:50pm

this website keeps crashing my computer!
I don’t understand. sorry very frustraging because I enjoy reading it but I go all over the internet without any problem. am I doing something wrong? is there a bug on this website. are you all having problems? I just reg’d the other day so I have no historical comparison but have had problems from the get-go
appreciate the help

408 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:51:08pm
409 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:51:46pm

re: #394 Lidane

[Embedded content]

You lost the election. In the immortal words of Ahnold: “STOP WHINING!”

410 darthstar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:51:56pm
411 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:52:16pm
412 Manji  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:52:32pm

will hit best buy tomorrow. LOL

413 Usually refered to as anyways  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:52:35pm

re: #407 Manji

OS and Browser versions?

414 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:52:53pm

Man, Jefferson said a lot of things:

415 bratwurst  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:53:48pm

re: #399 jaunte


“When you can balance a tack hammer on your head,
you will head off your foes with a balanced attack.”

— Thomas ‘The Sphinx’ Jefferson

Sweat thee not the petty things.
Nor should thee pet the sweaty things.

— Thomas Jefferson

416 andres  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:55:00pm

re: #379 Patricia Kayden

I think the GOP would be very foolish to not help President Obama pass immigration reform. That would further destroy their standing in the Latino/non-White community.

They’ve never cared enough for those communities aside from lip service. They’ll look for useful idiots among them, and prop them enough to say, “See, we don’t hate you people!”

417 freetoken  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:55:10pm

re: #407 Manji

Are you using an old version of Explorer?

418 calochortus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:55:28pm

re: #408 Lidane

[Embedded content]

Answer: No, he isn’t. No one said Jeeps wouldn’t be built in China, just that they weren’t closing a plant here, making them in China, and then importing them. And no one said Africa was going to be an incredibly stable place.

419 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:56:02pm

ICYMI

Today’s Moderate Rand Paul:
GOP Must ‘Evolve And Adapt’ Or Risk Becoming A ‘Permanent Minority Party’

Today’s Bizarro Rand Paul:
Obama in guns-to-jihadists cover-up?

420 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:56:44pm
421 BongCrodny  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:57:48pm

re: #387 Obdicut

Get Chrome.

I’ve got that stupid Google redirect virus on my computer that I haven’t been able to shake, although I was able to make it “go away” (at least temporarily) by doing a system restore.

That’s on Internet Explorer. Bill Gates, you suck.

I know I’m taking a chance talking about it, but I have yet to experience even the slightest problem using Google Chrome.

422 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:58:00pm

re: #420 Lidane

[Embedded content]

Glad to know we’ve all gotten over tragedies like the OKC bombing, 9/11, the Challenger disaster, the Kennedy assassination, and so forth. Watching the other guy get inaugurated just totally eclipses the deaths of thousands of innocents.

///

423 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:59:02pm

Right now on the site Yougov.org (which is ostensibly a marketing research organization but has somehow become a right-wing fever swamp) you can see the following:

url: [Link: today.yougov.com…]
screenshot: Image: rC5bGlq.png

who knew Charles Johnson wrote for Breitbart?

//// x eleventy

424 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 7:59:17pm

re: #420 Lidane

[Embedded content]

Pearl Harbor? 9/11? Great Depression? All nothing compared to the fact a black man is still in the White House.
///

425 jaunte  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:00:16pm

re: #420 Lidane

Four more years of hysteria.
[Link: www.boston.com…]

426 BongCrodny  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:01:43pm

re: #399 jaunte


“When you can balance a tack hammer on your head,
you will head off your foes with a balanced attack.”

— Thomas ‘The Sphinx’ Jefferson

I’ve noticed that The Sphinx and Patches O’Houlihan had a lot in common. They probably went to the same school.

427 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:01:43pm
428 The Force Ghost of a Flea  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:02:15pm

As Thomas Jefferson said, reverse the polarity of the neutral flow.

429 calochortus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:03:46pm

re: #427 Lidane

[Embedded content]

‘Cause retweeting it will make a huge difference? He’s still president. Get over it.

430 freetoken  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:05:24pm

re: #420 Lidane

431 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:05:26pm

re: #428 The Ghost of a Flea

As Thomas Jefferson said, reverse the polarity of the neutral flow.

Reversing the polarity won’t work, we’ve got to initiate a cascade failure by releasing tetryon particles into the field.

/(geek moment)

432 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:05:37pm

re: #428 The Ghost of a Flea

As Thomas Jefferson said, reverse the polarity of the neutral flow.

“You don’t start shit, there won’t be shit” - Thomas Jefferson at the Battle of the Alamo

433 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:06:04pm

Sorry, but I’m too tired to contribute tonight. Good Night, All.

434 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:06:05pm
435 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:06:53pm

re: #431 Targetpractice

Reversing the polarity won’t work, we’ve got to initiate a cascade failure by releasing tetryon particles into the field.

/(geek moment)

Are you sure sir? It would mean changing the bulb.
/geekx2

436 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:06:54pm

re: #429 calochortus

‘Cause retweeting it will make a huge difference? He’s still president. Get over it.

I love it. From all the hysterical RT’s about how they’re not watching the inaugural to the RT’s encouraging “patriots” to wear red tomorrow as a ‘warning’ to Obama that the Red Nation is coming for him to all the depressed Tweets about today being a tragedy, I have to say that all the conservative tears are hilarious.

437 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:07:01pm

re: #427 Lidane

[Embedded content]

Where were these fuckers when the ‘00 election stunk to high heaven? Oh right, “Get over it!”

438 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:08:18pm

Fuck those people.

439 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:09:17pm

re: #427 Lidane

[Embedded content]

This being the same week the GOP is openly bragging the only reason they kept the house is because they rigged local elections.

440 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:10:31pm

re: #429 calochortus

‘Cause retweeting it will make a huge difference? He’s still president. Get over it.

One of my favorite Tweets today:

441 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:12:15pm
442 calochortus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:12:19pm

re: #440 Lidane

Love it!

443 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:12:37pm

re: #439 Kragar

This being the same week the GOP is openly bragging the only reason they kept the house is because they rigged local elections.

And are now pushing bills in blue states where they have majority governments to change winner-take-all to proportional so that red rural districts can give their votes to the Republican and thus ensure that they no longer have to worry about trying to appeal to urban voters at all.

444 austin_blue  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:15:25pm

re: #436 Lidane

I love it. From all the hysterical RT’s about how they’re not watching the inaugural to the RT’s encouraging “patriots” to wear red tomorrow as a ‘warning’ to Obama that the Red Nation is coming for him to all the depressed Tweets about today being a tragedy, I have to say that all the conservative tears are hilarious.

Doubt if they can wear it like this:

[Link: www.glamour.com…]

That’s pretty stunning.

445 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:17:00pm

re: #436 Lidane

I love it. From all the hysterical RT’s about how they’re not watching the inaugural to the RT’s encouraging “patriots” to wear red tomorrow as a ‘warning’ to Obama that the Red Nation is coming for him to all the depressed Tweets about today being a tragedy, I have to say that all the conservative tears are hilarious.

Those people aren’t patriots. They need to get on a boat and start their own country in some far off undiscovered land.

446 austin_blue  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:18:09pm

re: #445 Gus

Those people aren’t patriots. They need to get on a boat and start their own country in some far off undiscovered land.

Liberia?

447 calochortus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:18:24pm

I think I’m going to call it a night. Hasta mañana.

448 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:19:20pm

re: #446 austin_blue

Liberia?

Somalia maybe.

449 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:19:33pm

re: #445 Gus

Those people aren’t patriots. They need to get on a boat and start their own country in some far off undiscovered land.

“Welcome to Stargate Command. Your petition to establish a new colony has been approved. Lets get you on your way to… Jesusland? Seriously?”

450 Lidane  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:19:45pm

re: #444 austin_blue

Doubt if they can wear it like this:

[Link: www.glamour.com…]

That’s pretty stunning.

Hot! Love that dress.

I like her bangs, too. I cut my hair into a shag not too long ago. I could probably rock the bangs pretty easy, at least once I get the layers freshened.

451 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:23:20pm

re: #449 Kragar

“Welcome to Stargate Command. Your petition to establish a new colony has been approved. Lets get you on your way to… Jesusland? Seriously?”

“Enjoy your trip!”

452 Gus  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:24:04pm

re: #451 Varek Raith

“Enjoy your trip!”

“Need anything? Food? Money? Anything I can do to help…”

453 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:24:13pm
454 Pawn of the Oppressor  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:25:11pm

re: #299 Obdicut

Why am I getting “Single and Christian” ads? And why are the women in them so weird-looking? Where have I been visiting on the interwebs, what have I been searching for or discussing or emailing about that gets me bombarded with ads for squinty Christian blondes with big heads, saying “Find God’s match for you”?

And this is the same God who did the Job thing, right? I think I’ll handle my own match.

Yeah, I get the same thing. I’ve been getting splattered with ads for ChristianMingle in e-mail and online for a while now. Not sure if I need to clear cookies, or just avoid reading about religion online.

They’ve got TV ads, though, too, so maybe they’re just shoving it up everyone’s nose lately.

455 Pawn of the Oppressor  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:27:15pm

re: #414 Lidane

Man, Jefferson said a lot of things:

[Embedded content]

I love it when Jefferson quotes sound nothing like 18th-century English.

456 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:29:24pm

re: #449 Kragar

“Welcome to Stargate Command. Your petition to establish a new colony has been approved. Lets get you on your way to… Jesusland? Seriously?”

“Can I suggest something more fitting, like ‘Botany Bay’?”

457 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:29:45pm

re: #455 Pawn of the Oppressor

I love it when Jefferson quotes sound nothing like 18th-century English.

“I like ample posteriors and I cannot utter a fallacy” - Thomas Jefferson

458 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:30:33pm

re: #456 Targetpractice

“Can I suggest something more fitting, like ‘Botany Bay’?”

Sorry, the Star Trek geeks already registered that one.

459 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:31:24pm

re: #458 Kragar

Sorry, the Star Trek geeks already registered that one.

Frak!

460 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:31:45pm

re: #453 Kragar

Did the first lady’s dress show that Obama is secretly a Romulan agent?

We have to ask these important questions.

I KNEW IT

461 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:32:42pm

re: #459 Targetpractice

Frak!

Frell!

462 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:36:30pm

re: #461 Varek Raith

Frell!

Smeg!

463 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:36:46pm

re: #461 Varek Raith

Frell!

Feth!

464 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:43:27pm

Feldercarb. I killed the thread.

465 Dancing along the light of day  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:43:53pm

re: #462 Targetpractice

Smeg!

Smegma!

466 austin_blue  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:44:14pm

re: #465 Dancing along the light of day

Smegma!

Eeeeew!

467 freetoken  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:45:16pm

re: #464 Kragar

468 Kragar  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:50:22pm

re: #467 freetoken

[Embedded content]

Because it was late last night when I found this:

469 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:52:59pm

Latest wingnut “logic” I’ve run into to explain why the GOP is actually the good guys in the debt limit fight: They’re not against raising the debt limit, they’re just against raising it unless their demands for severe cuts to “entitlements” are met.

They’ve turned hair-splitting into a competitive sport.

470 austin_blue  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:57:29pm

re: #469 Targetpractice

Latest wingnut “logic” I’ve run into to explain why the GOP is actually the good guys in the debt limit fight: They’re not against raising the debt limit, they’re just against raising it unless their demands for severe cuts to “entitlements” are met.

They’ve turned hair-splitting into a competitive sport.

Huh. Which entitlements, I wonder? To Big Oil? Big Ag? Drug companies? Or old people, the poor, the disabled, and to children?

Golly! I’m betting….

471 geoduck  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:57:57pm

re: #436 Lidane

I love it. From all the hysterical RT’s about how they’re not watching the inaugural to the RT’s encouraging “patriots” to wear red tomorrow as a ‘warning’ to Obama that the Red Nation is coming for him to all the depressed Tweets about today being a tragedy, I have to say that all the conservative tears are hilarious.

The hilarious thing is, not all that long ago, “red” was the evil Commie color. You see some of the GOP stagecraft these days, and it doesn’t look much different than something the Supreme Soviet would have churned out.

472 The Force Ghost of a Flea  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 8:58:22pm

re: #457 Kragar

“I like ample posteriors and I cannot utter a fallacy” - Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson has turned into Joseph Ducreux.

473 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 9:00:02pm

re: #470 austin_blue

Huh. Which entitlements, I wonder? To Big Oil? Big Ag? Drug companies? Or old people, the poor, the disabled, and to children?

Golly! I’m betting….

Well, of course the ones that are “out of control,” of course. Subsidies, tax credits, tax deducations, and numerous other items that benefit rich investors and mega-corporations? The defense budget bigger than most of the first world combined? Those totally aren’t an issue, which is why saying they are proves you’re not “serious” about getting the deficit under control and the debt paid down.

474 austin_blue  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 9:08:31pm

re: #473 Targetpractice

Well, of course the ones that are “out of control,” of course. Subsidies, tax credits, tax deducations, and numerous other items that benefit rich investors and mega-corporations? The defense budget bigger than most of the first world combined? Those totally aren’t an issue, which is why saying they are proves you’re not “serious” about getting the deficit under control and the debt paid down.

Pitiful, isn’t it?

Social Security could be saved tomorrow if the $110,000 income limit was abolished and if stock options (adjusted for inflation) were treated as income and taxed as such.

475 Romantic Heretic  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 9:13:57pm

re: #396 b_sharp

Is there nothing this man has not said?

The ancient Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks for I alone of all the Greeks know that I know nothing. - Socrates.

476 Romantic Heretic  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 9:19:17pm

re: #419 jaunte

Today’s Bizarro Rand Paul:
Obama in guns-to-jihadists cover-up?

ICYMI

He’s thinking of Reagan.

477 Mattand  Mon, Jan 21, 2013 9:46:56pm
478 stabby  Tue, Jan 22, 2013 4:07:47am

re: #427 Lidane

I love that he put #FAIL in his own fail tweet

479 Eventual Carrion  Tue, Jan 22, 2013 4:31:24am

re: #427 Lidane

[Embedded content]

Maybe if he had been installed by the Supreme Court rather than popular vote it would have made it better.

480 William of Orange  Tue, Jan 22, 2013 7:07:56am

The Lance Armstrong of litarature??!

Hunter S. Thompson is spinning in his grave.

481 CriticalDragon1177  Tue, Jan 22, 2013 5:55:21pm

re: #79 Gus

Sign in front of the Breitbart store: whites only.

Probably also whites only, bring your guns!

482 CriticalDragon1177  Tue, Jan 22, 2013 5:58:25pm

re: #246 Kragar

In response to Bryan Fischer, yeah some chooses are worse than other, like choosing to support people like you and your agenda.


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