PostPanic director Mischa Rozema’s new short film, Stardust, is a story about Voyager 1 (the unmanned spacecraft launched in 1977 to explore the outer solar system). The probe is the furthest man-made object from the sun and witnesses unimaginable beauty and destruction. The film was triggered by the death of Dutch graphic designer Arjan Groot, who died aged 39 on 16th July 2011 from cancer.
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jaunte Sun, Feb 3, 2013 9:03:52pm |
Arjan Groot Graphic Design:
[Link: www.arjangroot.net…]
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dragonfire1981 Sun, Feb 3, 2013 9:16:30pm |
A page was posted a couple of days ago about the benefits of transitioning immigrants to full citizens on a shorter time frame rather than have millions of people on permanent residency status.
I wanted to offer my thoughts on that based on my own experiences as I immigrated to this country.
Currently I have a permanent Green Card. Issued last year, it is valid for ten years. So in 2022 I will have the option to renew for another 10 if I so choose.
My ultimate goal always was and remains U.S. citizenship. I am actually eligible to apply for citizenship right now. Becoming a citizen would obviously negate my need to renew any green card or do anything else related to immigration.
So why haven’t I done it yet?
The main reason is money.
I have already spent over $4000 on the immigration process. You have to pay for the initial visa application and all the elements that go along with it (such as acquiring documents, visiting doctors, etc.). Then once you arrive in this country you have to pay more money to do what is called an “Adjustment of status” to get your first green card. This first card is good for only two years. Before that time expires, you have to pay more money and file for a permanent green card, repeating many of the same steps you did for the temporary one (yes it’s true).
And, like me, once you have that permanent card in hand you’ll have to fork out even MORE money to take the citizenship test and become a bona fide American.
At the moment, I can’t really afford it. The other thing is though there’s no urgency for me to do it. My green card is good for another NINE years. I have plenty of time to save up and apply for citizenship.
Honestly, there are only a scant few things a citizen can do that a permanent resident can’t. Near as I can tell, the only things I can’t do as a resident are: Apply for a passport, participate in jury duty, work for the government/military/certain private companies, vote or run for public office.
As a permanent resident I can own property, take out loans and I believe even purchase firearms in most states.
Now you might think the need for a passport would be a significant enough that I’d be encouraged to get my citizenship soon, but I still have a Canadian passport that I can (and have) traveled on that’s good for another several years. After that point I can renew it if I wish and for much less a cost than applying for citizenship.
I know every visa is different and the experiences of every immigrant are unique but in my case, it’s the money holding me back from becoming a citizen. Sure being able to vote would be nice, but there won’t be another Federal election until 2016 anyway. I know there are regional elections and whatnot before that but I’m really not in any hurry to get to the ballot box.
Personally I think the fees charged for legal immigration are too high. I’d like to see them lowered or, at the very least, a minimal cost to go from permanent green card to U.S. Citizen. I’ve already completed over 80% of this journey. Why should I be nickel and dimed again just to finish it off?
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freetoken Sun, Feb 3, 2013 9:30:54pm |
re: #2 dragonfire1981
Near as I can tell, the only things I can’t do as a resident are: Apply for a passport, participate in jury duty, work for the government/military/certain private companies, vote or run for public office.
Are you sure about that? While there are security requirements for many positions that require citizenship, there are also jobs for many others. On some the pecking order for hiring may place citizens higher up the pile (especially if one is a veteran), the US has hired, I believe, many non-citizens also.
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Single-handed sailor Sun, Feb 3, 2013 9:36:51pm |
re: #2 dragonfire1981
Yep, same reason I’m still a Resident Alien.
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Gus Sun, Feb 3, 2013 9:44:15pm |
Queen - Live Wembley Stadium FRIDAY 1986 FULL CONCERT (London, England H…: youtu.be/OQpmyRvHbq8 via @youtube— Gus (@Gus_802) February 4, 2013
Fucking aye.
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wrenchwench Sun, Feb 3, 2013 9:47:49pm |
re: #2 dragonfire1981
Personally I think the fees charged for legal immigration are too high. I’d like to see them lowered or, at the very least, a minimal cost to go from permanent green card to U.S. Citizen. I’ve already completed over 80% of this journey. Why should I be nickel and dimed again just to finish it off?
From the first of the two links on that Page:
[…]
For those who can outlast the lengthy wait for legal status and citizenship, another hurdle exists: the cost of sponsorship and processing visas, and any fines potentially levied on aspiring citizens. One reason the founders were committed to awarding citizenship based largely on time-in-residence was that it fit with the American belief that citizenship should not be for sale or restricted to the affluent. Time, in the form of uniform probationary periods, translates this belief elegantly by allowing anyone, rich or poor, to become a citizen.
For the founders, Obama’s call to reward people for “playing by the rules” would require rewarding citizenship to continuous residents who have invested their labor and affections in this land, rather than punishing them with fines and lengthy waits for legal status. The Obama administration has strengthened immigration enforcement more than the George W. Bush administration did, reaching most of the goals laid out in a 2007 immigration bill. Despite this, we find ourselves no closer to living in a country of political equals.
[…]
The Page and I agree with you.
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Kragar Sun, Feb 3, 2013 9:51:10pm |
Just found out Sony Online has been billing me for the last 2 months for a game I cancelled. Got to straighten that shit out tomorrow.
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FemNaziBitch Sun, Feb 3, 2013 10:25:56pm |
So, I just watched Alicia Keys and Beyonce.
I certainly enjoyed both.
Not sorry I missed the game tho.
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freetoken Sun, Feb 3, 2013 10:55:40pm |
When I visit online forums about genealogy and genetics it is discouraging to see how many people are quite ignorant of exactly what genetics inheritance is, how it works, and what testing means.
Genetics itself can be pretty esoteric and I don’t expect anyone out of specialists to understand the subtleties, but some of the basics, it appears, are quite a stumbling block for many.
Oh, and once again I appreciate how well written most of the comments at LGF are, compared to comments elsewhere. On many forums it’s hard to believe the people commenting have graduated from high school.
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Sol Berdinowitz Sun, Feb 3, 2013 11:10:31pm |
Sorry, Karl, but the barn door is open, the horse is long gone. You lost all credibility in your party after you wasted 300 million dollars losing an election:
Conservative Groups Mock Crossroads’ Initiative
Karl Rove tried to warn his party as early as 2010 that they should not nominate “unelectable” candidates. Problem is, “unelectable” to Karl is also the Tea Party’s definition of “someone who passes our political litmus test and meets our ideological standards”.
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freetoken Sun, Feb 3, 2013 11:47:05pm |
re: #10 Sol Berdinowitz
From the link:
Law and others want to avoid what has become known as the “Todd Akin problem” in some GOP circles. Republicans lost two high-profile Senate battles last year in which their candidate had expressed controversial views on social issues.
This is just euphemistic blather. Akins et. al. weren’t just controversial - indeed, to their core groups they weren’t really controversial at all - but rather they were stupid, demeaning, and ugly.
Until the “conservatives” can admit that to themselves we can expect them to keep stepping on their own cranks.
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Sol Berdinowitz Sun, Feb 3, 2013 11:54:03pm |
re: #11 freetoken
The infighting is going public, which is a good thing for normal people. The GOP does not care that these people hold such trogolodytic views, they are just concerned about the way these idiots express them in public so everybody recognizes their agenda before it is time to implement it.
But we are dealing with idealists, people who are too convinced that they are morally right to be able to engage in the sort of politicking that is needed to win elections, especially at a national level.
Which means they cannot keep their mouths shut, and as with Aikin, they have to distance themselves from them or be dragged down by their failures.
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Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Feb 4, 2013 2:46:06am |
on the hourly drip regimen…just like my coffee
(translating some real buulshit bingo for a consulting firm)
team empowerment, workshop facilitation, servant leadership, etc…mix and match.
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HoosierHoops Mon, Feb 4, 2013 3:17:39am |
Good Morning Lizards! Time to drink the Java after Super Bowl, folks..Don’t you wish this is a national holiday? It’s coming up on 5AM here and had a wonderful party tonight. Time to hit the sack soon but will bookmark this.
So much to talk about..But the funny thing is…I told our girl Floral to call at halftime earlier this week but forgot about it and sure enough she called. It was really funny.. I tried getting drinks at the bar and these big cowboys were asking me what kind of shot I wanted, Bitch, Loud!
Sorry Floral..
Who was that?
Just some guy..
Pay no attention..
Who is that on the cell? Is it a girl?
Hi Floral? How are you? Who is that?
Who is that?
A cutie from California..
I wanna talk to her!
Go away!
It was pretty funny..
It was so much fun tonight..
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Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Feb 4, 2013 3:19:10am |
re: #17 HoosierHoops
Good Morning Lizards! Time to drink the Java after Super Bowl, folks..Don’t you wish this is a national holiday?
I know this would be a terrific break with tradition, but why can’t they just hold the damn Super Bowl on a Saturday so fans have a chance to recover and tidy up after the festivities?
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sattv4u2 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 3:41:27am |
re: #18 Sol Berdinowitz
I know this would be a terrific break with tradition, but why can’t they just hold the damn Super Bowl on a Saturday so fans have a chance to recover and tidy up after the festivities?
because that would shorten the day(s) prior to the game for the host city to make $$$$
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sattv4u2 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 3:43:00am |
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BongCrodny Mon, Feb 4, 2013 4:20:01am |
re: #19 sattv4u2
because that would shorten the day(s) prior to the game for the host city to make $$$$
Exactly.
You don’t sell one day’s worth of beer when you can sell two days’ worth of beer.
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sattv4u2 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 4:26:06am |
re: #21 BongCrodny
Exactly.
You don’t sell one day’s worth of beer when you can sell two
days’WEEKS worth of beer.
ftfy
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 4:28:06am |
re: #8 FemNaziBitch
So, I just watched Alicia Keys and Beyonce.
I certainly enjoyed both.
Not sorry I missed the game tho.
The only thing Beyonce’s performance was missing was Ron Jeremy.
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Decatur Deb Mon, Feb 4, 2013 4:49:10am |
‘Morning, all. The kid has been in the bunker for the seventh day. Yesterday the bus driver was buried—surrounding counties sent schoolbuses to the procession.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 4:54:52am |
re: #24 Decatur Deb
‘Morning, all. The kid has been in the bunker for the seventh day. Yesterday the bus driver was buried—surrounding counties sent schoolbuses to the procession.
WHAT DOES THE FUCKER WANT?
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 4:56:23am |
My boss is all happy this morning, wearing his Ravens jacket. Got a big smile on his face.
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sattv4u2 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 4:59:12am |
re: #26 Vicious Babushka
My boss is all happy this morning, wearing his Ravens jacket. Got a big smile on his face.
Time to ask for a raise!!
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sattv4u2 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:00:33am |
re: #25 Vicious Babushka
WHAT DOES THE FUCKER WANT?
iirc, this whole thing started when he was due in court on another matter. Probably wanted those charges dropped/ reduced
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:02:52am |
BEST COMMERCIALS:
TIDE “Joe Montana Miracle”
CHRYSLER Paul Harvey farmers
BUDWEISER Horsey first love
SODA STREAM (I totally have to get one!)
WORST COMMERCIALS:
VOLKSWAGEN Jamaican accent white guy
Guy tried to get his favorite T-shirt off the girl he woke up with
GoDaddy (because GoDaddy always suck)
Add your own!
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:03:45am |
re: #27 sattv4u2
Time to ask for a raise!!
He does not make those decisions, he’s just a tech supervisor.
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Decatur Deb Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:04:54am |
re: #25 Vicious Babushka
WHAT DOES THE FUCKER WANT?
The media’s information is very well controlled. (Part of the Waco problem was the effect of public howling on the Fed decision-makers.) There is a credible report that he offered early on to trade the kid for a specific reporter to “tell his story”. Don’t think that is an LE play, except on TV.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:05:30am |
Another WIN: COKECHASE.COM (Vegas chorus girls bus, yeah!)
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:07:36am |
Whatta dumbass, who does he think MAKES those trucks? FILTHY UNION THUGS.
Dodge Ad scares the pee out of those filthy urbanites, that’s why they hate it. They realize the ‘flyover’ Red states FEED THEM! #tcot #tgdn— WitCoHE (@EricStrobel) February 4, 2013
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Feline Fearless Leader Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:11:25am |
[Link: usnews.nbcnews.com…]
Now there is a good use for state government resources. Not.
Nice comment by the female doctor. Do you get the feeling that she is not happy with Mr Sheehy?
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A Mom Anon Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:12:03am |
re: #33 Vicious Babushka
For being a physicist he’s kind of a dumbass. Who hated that commercial? I didn’t and I live in one of those filthy cities he’s whining about. Someone needs more fiber in their diet I think.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:14:17am |
re: #35 A Mom Anon
For being a physicist he’s kind of a dumbass. Who hated that commercial? I didn’t and I live in one of those filthy cities he’s whining about. Someone needs more fiber in their diet I think.
Aren’t most farms today Big Agri? How many independent family farms are there?
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:16:49am |
So now they’re all gonna go out and buy Chrysler products, which in their hive minds are all being MADE IN CHINA.
The REAL reason the Paul Harvey “God Made a Farmer” ad is beloved & resonating today>IT’S ANTI SOCIALIST, ANTI LIBERAL, ANTI OBAMACRAP #tgdn— Federal Spy Guy (@FederalSpyGuy) February 4, 2013
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Feline Fearless Leader Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:16:58am |
Good morning Lizards.
Resident Raven fan (cubicle next to mine) is not in it. Then again, he might not be in at all today.
Was not particularly impressed by anything last night. Game had its moments, but overall was sort of “meh”.
I commented on the halftime show in the last thread. Either do musical acts as musical acts, or do big dance numbers and concentrate on that.
Most of the commercials were essentially pretty terrible. The “Montana Stain” Tide commercial probably the best since it had a really good punch line. The yearly Budweiser Clydesdale commercial was typically overwrought. And I thought the “Coke chase” was their typical overdone piece of crap as well. Finally, *please* retire the E*Trade baby, it was old after the first two commercials in the chain.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:18:34am |
re: #38 Feline Fearless Leader
Good morning Lizards.
Resident Raven fan (cubicle next to mine) is not in it. Then again, he might not be in at all today.
Was not particularly impressed by anything last night. Game had its moments, but overall was sort of “meh”.
I commented on the halftime show in the last thread. Either do musical acts as musical acts, or do big dance numbers and concentrate on that.
Most of the commercials were essentially pretty terrible. The “Montana Stain” Tide commercial probably the best since it had a really good punch line. The yearly Budweiser Clydesdale commercial was typically overwrought. And I thought the “Coke chase” was their typical overdone piece of crap as well. Finally, *please* retire the E*Trade baby, it was old after the first two commercials in the chain.
Add E*Trade Baby to the list of WORST Commercials.
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Feline Fearless Leader Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:20:42am |
And the Paul Harvey “God Made a Farmer” thing was playing with the myth of the family farmer still being the bedrock of America. That’s been long gone for a while. Like the bit, dislike that it was used to make a car commercial. (Then again, the Rolling Stones were used as backdrop for a Benz commercial. Guess they couldn’t afford to bring in Jagger or Richards as one of Dafoe’s previous clients.)
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A Mom Anon Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:23:11am |
re: #36 Vicious Babushka
Exactly. Those family farms are a rare thing. Big agribusinesses have taken over most of the nation’s farm land or they lease it from farmers who can no longer afford to farm. The days of the multiple crop/livestock farms are limited unless we change how we use land for food in this country. There’s small steps in that direction, but there’s another problem: finding young people willing to do the physical labor needed to be a farmer. High school age kids often think that sort of work is beneath them and so do their parents.
My son’s high school had a gorgeous greenhouse and one summer we helped the horticulture teacher build a sustainable garden right outside the greenhouse. She had stories,lol. Kids telling her they were taking her class for the “easy A”, and other telling her that growing food was the job of mexicans, not them. Many didn’t even know what some food looked like while growing. That program is no longer in existence-budget cuts-yay. The garden is overrun with weeds and the greenhouse is now a storage area for desks and chairs. It’s sad.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:28:05am |
re: #41 A Mom Anon
Next time you are at the supermarket, check the produce section and see how much of the fresh fruits and vegetables are grown in the USA.
Of course it’s winter now so a lot of the produce is from Mexico and South America where it is the growing season. But even in the summer I see a lot of produce from Canada and even Europe.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:30:36am |
*FACE PALM*
Oprah Jeep Ad Claims “America Will Be Whole Again”… 3 Weeks After Jeep Moves Jobs to China?#TEAPARTY #TCOT #TGDN #BRTT?bit.ly/11IzOIm— GulfDogs (@GulfDogs) February 4, 2013
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compound_Idaho Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:32:38am |
re: #36 Vicious Babushka
Aren’t most farms today Big Agri? How many independent family farms are there?
According to the USDA the vast majority of farms are family owned.
[Link: www.nifa.usda.gov…]
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:35:13am |
re: #44 compound_Idaho
According to the USDA the vast majority of farms are family owned.
[Link: www.nifa.usda.gov…]
Good to know. Thanks.
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Feline Fearless Leader Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:40:51am |
re: #41 A Mom Anon
Exactly. Those family farms are a rare thing. Big agribusinesses have taken over most of the nation’s farm land or they lease it from farmers who can no longer afford to farm. The days of the multiple crop/livestock farms are limited unless we change how we use land for food in this country. There’s small steps in that direction, but there’s another problem: finding young people willing to do the physical labor needed to be a farmer. High school age kids often think that sort of work is beneath them and so do their parents.
My son’s high school had a gorgeous greenhouse and one summer we helped the horticulture teacher build a sustainable garden right outside the greenhouse. She had stories,lol. Kids telling her they were taking her class for the “easy A”, and other telling her that growing food was the job of mexicans, not them. Many didn’t even know what some food looked like while growing. That program is no longer in existence-budget cuts-yay. The garden is overrun with weeds and the greenhouse is now a storage area for desks and chairs. It’s sad.
Pity about the horticulture training and greenhouse use getting the axe. That’s the sort of class that you would think would and should get support across the entire political spectrum. Not to mention the additional use it could get for use by science classes, or in support of classes studying specific pieces of literature, etc.
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Feline Fearless Leader Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:42:31am |
re: #42 Vicious Babushka
Next time you are at the supermarket, check the produce section and see how much of the fresh fruits and vegetables are grown in the USA.
Of course it’s winter now so a lot of the produce is from Mexico and South America where it is the growing season. But even in the summer I see a lot of produce from Canada and even Europe.
Not to mention the hit the international fruit and vegetable market put on home canning and food preservation. Anyone for some rose hip tea?
;)
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:45:12am |
Looks like Kyleghazi is the new Banghazi
RIP *AMERICAN PATRIOT* NAVY SEAL CHRIS KYLE wp.me/p35KLZ-6f#TCOT #TGDN #PJNET #LNYHBT #REDNATIONRISING #TEAPARTY #PATRIOTS #GOP— Republican Believer (@cubfanbeerguy) February 4, 2013
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Eventual Carrion Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:53:31am |
re: #26 Vicious Babushka
My boss is all happy this morning, wearing his Ravens jacket. Got a big smile on his face.
Well I didn’t want the Ravens to win, but I did walk away $180 richer :-)
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Mon, Feb 4, 2013 5:59:40am |
re: #45 Vicious Babushka
Good to know. Thanks.
But, digging deeper:
Most of the U.S. domestic production of food and fiber comes from relatively few large operations. The 2007 Ag Census showed that large and very large family farms produced over 63 percent of the value of all products sold (though they accounted for less than 9 percent of all family farms,) while non-family farms produced approximately 21 percent, and the nearly 2 million small farms and ranches (sales under $250,000) produced approximately 15 percent.
The farm can still be a huge sprawling corporation as long as it’s a family corporation, and remain a family farm.
In addition, the farms aren’t as self-sufficent as they were in the past. Now they’re heavily dependent on Monsanto, most of the time, for genetically altered crops that they’re not allowed to reseed, that they have to buy every year.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:03:26am |
re: #50 Obdicut
But, digging deeper:
The farm can still be a huge sprawling corporation as long as it’s a family corporation, and remain a family farm.
In addition, the farms aren’t as self-sufficent as they were in the past. Now they’re heavily dependent on Monsanto, most of the time, for genetically altered crops that they’re not allowed to reseed, that they have to buy every year.
Monsanto, evil, food supply controlling SUPERVILLAINS.
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Mattand Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:05:26am |
re: #52 Vicious Babushka
Monsanto, evil, food supply controlling SUPERVILLAINS.
That’s problem with dealing with alt med/health people when it comes to genetically modified foods; Monsanto is their go-to Godwin.
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Feline Fearless Leader Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:06:39am |
re: #50 Obdicut
But, digging deeper:
The farm can still be a huge sprawling corporation as long as it’s a family corporation, and remain a family farm.
In addition, the farms aren’t as self-sufficent as they were in the past. Now they’re heavily dependent on Monsanto, most of the time, for genetically altered crops that they’re not allowed to reseed, that they have to buy every year.
Just touching the top of a very complex relationship I am sure. That short article points out some of the variables - varying fertility of land, water access, proximity to markets, and even what sort of products they produce. Though one thing that is clear from that is that a majority of the agricultural goods are coming from a relatively small number of very large operations. Which, if you think about it, is probably not surprising.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:10:35am |
It must suck to be these people.
#TGDN #p2 Just Remember: Lefty ALWAYS comes for your guns, 4 “your own good”. Then, the murdering starts, all those who disagree with Lefty.— Perry (@BAMAPERRY) February 4, 2013
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:10:50am |
re: #52 Vicious Babushka
Monsanto, evil, food supply controlling SUPERVILLAINS.
Just a big asshole company acting like assholes and maximizing profit while impeding efficiency.
But they do have a super villain name.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:11:39am |
Kyleghazi
Watch: Murdered Navy SEAL Sniper Chris Kyle Spoke out Against Obama Gun Grab is.gd/xzBOzl#tcot #nra #lnyhbt #sot #tgdn #teaparty— Patrick Dollard (@PatDollard) February 4, 2013
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Feline Fearless Leader Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:13:46am |
First Rule of Paranoia Club is that Obama is after you.
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lawhawk Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:21:19am |
re: #38 Feline Fearless Leader
The Allstate mayhem ad beginning with the Garden of Eden Apple, all the way through the Chicago fire and the NFL replacement refs was quite funny.
Liked the Paul Harvey bit (Paul Harvey can’t be bad, ever), even if it’s in a Dodge commercial. It’s the one ad that got everyone to focus on the tv during the entire Super Bowl timeframe. If it’s an ad that does that, that tells you something about the game.
The rest? The Bud Clydesdale foal was cute, but most everything else was eh…
And the game itself was okay. Until the last 5 minutes when things got weird - and probably pissed off nearly everyone who had a box in their office pool.
Oh, and the power outage?
I blame Johnny. He was mayhem before there was Mayhem.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:22:29am |
Oh geez, not this shit again.
Israel Science and Technology finds @barackobama ‘s birth certificate a forgery. is.gd/SgPEbG #RedNationRising #TGDN #tcot— John Wayne (@John_Wayne1111) February 4, 2013
The domain name science.il expired and some wingnuts grabbed it to load their conspiracy crap. Has NOTHING to do with “Israeli science”
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lawhawk Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:22:57am |
re: #55 Vicious Babushka
They can never be wrong. It’s part of the conspiracy. /
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Feline Fearless Leader Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:24:34am |
re: #61 lawhawk
They can never be wrong. It’s part of the conspiracy. /
Rule 2 of Paranoia Club is that *all* the conspiracies are right.
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makeitstop Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:24:56am |
re: #29 Vicious Babushka
BEST COMMERCIALS:
TIDE “Joe Montana Miracle”
CHRYSLER Paul Harvey farmers
BUDWEISER Horsey first love
SODA STREAM (I totally have to get one!)
Completely agree. Tide may have been the best of them all.
I did like the Mercedes ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ ad as well.
And as someone who has a Sodastream, I highly recommend it. The flavors are good, they have quite a variety, and you can get them with natural sweeteners if you’re so inclined.
And IIRC, didn’t you say you liked seltzer? Whipping up a bottle of seltzer is literally as easy as pushing a button. You won’t regret buying one.
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PhillyPretzel Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:25:23am |
re: #60 Vicious Babushka
One of the product forums on amazon still has a “discussion” about the President’s birth certificate. I have not gone into that discussion and I do not think I ever will. [Link: www.amazon.com…]
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Feline Fearless Leader Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:25:56am |
re: #59 lawhawk
The Allstate mayhem ad beginning with the Garden of Eden Apple, all the way through the Chicago fire and the NFL replacement refs was quite funny.
Liked the Paul Harvey bit (Paul Harvey can’t be bad, ever), even if it’s in a Dodge commercial. It’s the one ad that got everyone to focus on the tv during the entire Super Bowl timeframe. If it’s an ad that does that, that tells you something about the game.
The rest? The Bud Clydesdale foal was cute, but most everything else was eh…
And the game itself was okay. Until the last 5 minutes when things got weird - and probably pissed off nearly everyone who had a box in their office pool.
Oh, and the power outage?
I blame Johnny. He was mayhem before there was Mayhem.
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That intentional safety actually gave me a chance in the office pool. I just needed a last second fluke touchdown by the Ravens… ;P
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:27:24am |
re: #63 makeitstop
Completely agree. Tide may have been the best of them all.
I did like the Mercedes ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ ad as well.
And as someone who has a Sodastream, I highly recommend it. The flavors are good, they have quite a variety, and you can get them with natural sweeteners if you’re so inclined.
And IIRC, didn’t you say you liked seltzer? Whipping up a bottle of seltzer is literally as easy as pushing a button. You won’t regret buying one.
My daughter has a SodaStream, and we sell them at the Zionist Mall.
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Feline Fearless Leader Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:27:47am |
re: #63 makeitstop
Completely agree. Tide may have been the best of them all.
I did like the Mercedes ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ ad as well.
And as someone who has a Sodastream, I highly recommend it. The flavors are good, they have quite a variety, and you can get them with natural sweeteners if you’re so inclined.
And IIRC, didn’t you say you liked seltzer? Whipping up a bottle of seltzer is literally as easy as pushing a button. You won’t regret buying one.
I have friends with a Sodastream as well. Not sure how much they’re using it still. Will have to check whether there was an equipment problem, expense of supplies, or they simply opted to cut back on it for some reason.
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geoffm33 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:28:31am |
re: #63 makeitstop
Completely agree. Tide may have been the best of them all.
I did like the Mercedes ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ ad as well.
And as someone who has a Sodastream, I highly recommend it. The flavors are good, they have quite a variety, and you can get them with natural sweeteners if you’re so inclined.
And IIRC, didn’t you say you liked seltzer? Whipping up a bottle of seltzer is literally as easy as pushing a button. You won’t regret buying one.
If you were unaware, this is the Sodastream ad that was supposed to air but was rejected by the network:
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:29:36am |
re: #68 Geoff with a G
If you were unaware, this is the Sodastream ad that was supposed to air but was rejected by the network:
[Embedded content]
They did show it.
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Interesting Times Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:30:44am |
Alabama hostage taker “kept to himself and listened to a lot of conservative talk radio” I’m shocked! abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?sec…— James Carter (@JECarter4) February 4, 2013
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makeitstop Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:33:14am |
re: #67 Feline Fearless Leader
I have friends with a Sodastream as well. Not sure how much they’re using it still. Will have to check whether there was an equipment problem, expense of supplies, or they simply opted to cut back on it for some reason.
As far as cost of supplies, where you buy them really makes a difference.
Target near us has them, as does Staples. And for some reason, Staples murders Target on the pricing.
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geoffm33 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:33:21am |
re: #69 Vicious Babushka
They did show it.
Excellent! Must have missed it. I thought I saw an older sodastream ad, did they show both?
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makeitstop Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:34:08am |
re: #69 Vicious Babushka
They did show it.
I saw a slightly different one, same idea with the exploding bottles. I’m assuming they ran two.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:35:34am |
re: #72 Geoff with a G
Excellent! Must have missed it. I thought I saw an older sodastream ad, did they show both?
I only saw one, but I did not see all the commercials.
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geoffm33 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:36:14am |
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:47:51am |
What right-wing racism?
#UniteBlue Just got mine in the mail! been waiting forever! #TGDN #Tcot twitter.com/RCope48/status…— RayCo (@RCope48) February 4, 2013
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geoffm33 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:49:06am |
re: #76 Vicious Babushka
What right-wing racism?
Thank god card says “(If Person of Color)”. I would have thought just anyone could apply for one.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:51:52am |
re: #77 Geoff with a G
Thank god card says “(If Person of Color)”. I would have thought just anyone could apply for one.
I was thinking about doing another TGDN page about “What right-wing racism” but for now all the overt racism seems to be coming from the same few accounts while all the others are still seething over Benghazi-ghazi-ghazi-stan. When they start reTweeting the hardcore racist stuff (as opposed to the run-of-the-mill birther shit) we’ll know that stuff just got real.
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Interesting Times Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:57:38am |
re: #78 Vicious Babushka
I was thinking about doing another TGDN page about “What right-wing racism” but for now all the overt racism seems to be coming from the same few accounts
Does anyone call for those “same few accounts” to be blocked, or accuse them of being false flags? If not, I’d say that’s tacit approval right there.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 6:59:16am |
re: #79 Interesting Times
Does anyone call for those “same few accounts” to be blocked, or accuse them of being false flags? If not, I’d say that’s tacit approval right there.
Not that I have seen. They have lots of followers.
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Lidane Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:05:15am |
Favorite ads last night: The Tide commerical with the miracle stain was hilarious. Loved that one. Also, seeing The Flaming Lips in a commercial was pretty awesome. And I liked the Mercedes ad with Willem Dafoe.
I think my favorite ad, though, was a local one that wouldn’t have been aired nationally. It’s for the Texas grocery store chain HEB:
There were some terrible ads. That GoDaddy ad with the model and the nerd needs to be burned and destroyed and never aired again. And the E-Trade baby is played out already.
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sattv4u2 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:10:10am |
re: #81 Lidane
Downside of being in the broadcast side of an event like the Super Bowl. Because we’re taking the feed directly from the stadium then putting it up on satellite for Europe and South America we don’t see the commercials. What we do see/ hear is the interplay between the broadcast booth (the announcers) and the truck (the director) during the commercial breaks
Upside of being in the broadcast side of an event like the Super Bowl.
We don’t see the commercials!!
:)
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makeitstop Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:10:13am |
re: #81 Lidane
Also, seeing The Flaming Lips in a commercial was pretty awesome.
My wife is a long-time Lips fan, and she was kind of bummed to see them do a commercial. I told her they have to pay for their stage show somehow. :)
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:12:12am |
re: #81 Lidane
Speaking of the E*Trade baby, there was a commercial (not shown on the SB) that had adult actors with little kid voices, I think it was for some fast food chain but not sure which one. HORRIBLE.
I also liked the Kia Space Babies.
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Feline Fearless Leader Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:12:51am |
re: #82 sattv4u2
Downside of being in the broadcast side of an event like the Super Bowl. Because we’re taking the feed directly from the stadium then putting it up on satellite for Europe and South America we don’t see the commercials. What we do see/ hear is the interplay between the broadcast booth (the announcers) and the truck (the director) during the commercial breaks
Upside of being in the broadcast side of an event like the Super Bowl.
We don’t see the commercials!!
:)
Ah, so did you request an extended power outage and stoppage of play in order to make a beer run?
;)
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Feline Fearless Leader Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:13:43am |
re: #84 Vicious Babushka
Speaking of the E*Trade baby, there was a commercial (not shown on the SB) that had adult actors with little kid voices, I think it was for some fast food chain but not sure which one. HORRIBLE.
I also liked the Kia Space Babies.
Subway ad campaign from a few years back if I recall correctly.
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Eventual Carrion Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:13:54am |
re: #65 Feline Fearless Leader
That intentional safety actually gave me a chance in the office pool. I just needed a last second fluke touchdown by the Ravens… ;P
It made all the difference in the world for me. Girlfriend thought I was nuts the way I was yelling when he ran out of the end-zone for the safety. Was the most excitement of the game for me.
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Lidane Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:14:11am |
re: #83 makeitstop
My wife is a long-time Lips fan, and she was kind of bummed to see them do a commercial. I told her they have to pay for their stage show somehow. :)
I’m a Lips fan and I thought it was great. It was funny and incoroprated their weirdness nicely.
Plus, like you said —more $$$ for the band is a good thing. :)
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sattv4u2 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:15:02am |
re: #82 sattv4u2
We don’t see the commercials!!
A little more insight ,, actually, we do “see” the (national) commercials
two or three days prior to the Super Bowl (or like event) the network (in the case of last night, CBS) will air via satellite all the commercials from their main facility and the people onsite (again, in this case, the production truck in New Orleans) will record them for later playback during the game
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:16:39am |
re: #86 Feline Fearless Leader
Subway ad campaign from a few years back if I recall correctly.
That was awful. AWFUL. I suppose they thought they could flip the E*Trade baby, but it didn’t work too well.
Speaking of ripoffs, Lincoln was using last year’s Chrysler “Imported from Detroit” theme.
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sattv4u2 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:17:12am |
re: #85 Feline Fearless Leader
Ah, so did you request an extended power outage and stoppage of play in order to make a beer run?
;)
YOU try sitting on a conference call with the production truck and foreign TV stations taking the game for 6 hours without a potty break!!!
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:18:25am |
Another lame commercial: Taco Bell with all the seniors from the Old Age home acting like a bunch of out of control teenagers. That made me cringe.
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Lidane Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:19:02am |
re: #84 Vicious Babushka
Speaking of the E*Trade baby, there was a commercial (not shown on the SB) that had adult actors with little kid voices, I think it was for some fast food chain but not sure which one. HORRIBLE.
That was Subway IIRC.
I also liked the Kia Space Babies.
Yeah, that was a good one too.
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Feline Fearless Leader Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:20:48am |
re: #92 Vicious Babushka
Another lame commercial: Taco Bell with all the seniors from the Old Age home acting like a bunch of out of control teenagers. That made me cringe.
I had totally forgotten that one. Same for the Doritos commercial.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:22:59am |
What right-wing racism?
At least @toddkincannon told the truth about wild blacks like Trayvon who grow up to be gangbangers. Must be stopped or WE lose guns. #TGDN— GenuineAmerican (@CountryBack1776) February 4, 2013
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Lidane Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:25:41am |
*sigh*
@holistic_hugh By the way, Jesus isn’t the pacifist that so many want Him to be. Temple cleanings aside, read Revelation. @toddkincannon— Charles H Fuller, Jr (@bold4Christ) February 4, 2013
Well, that settles that then. Guess we all need an AR-15 and a copy of Atlas Shrugged.
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Feline Fearless Leader Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:29:11am |
re: #96 Lidane
*sigh*
Well, that settles that then. Guess we all need an AR-15 and a copy of Atlas Shrugged.
Gives one an insight on how they view the world. Cherry pick their holy book for the bits that support the world view they desire. From that you can guess that they cherry pick everything else (politics, society, science, etc.) in order to find further reinforcement of that view. They start with the end result and then find the “data” that supports that view. All else is detractors, lies, and conspiracy by the enemy.
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sattv4u2 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:35:23am |
Ahmadinejad wants to be Iran’s first astronaut
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that he’s ready to take the risk of being the first Iranian astronaut sent into space as part of Iran’s goal of a manned space flight.
“I’m ready to be the first Iranian to sacrifice myself for our country’s scientists,” the official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying in an address to space scientists in Tehran.
[Link: news.yahoo.com…]
I’ll send a few bucks to their program to make that happen!!
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Killgore Trout Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:50:36am |
re: #98 sattv4u2
Ahmadinejad wants to be Iran’s first astronaut
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that he’s ready to take the risk of being the first Iranian astronaut sent into space as part of Iran’s goal of a manned space flight.
“I’m ready to be the first Iranian to sacrifice myself for our country’s scientists,” the official IRNA news agency quoted him as saying in an address to space scientists in Tehran.
[Link: news.yahoo.com…]I’ll send a few bucks to their program to make that happen!!
I’m sure the monkeys will contribute to the cause as well.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:52:56am |
Shooting reported at Oklahoma school: tpm.ly/Y5rlgc— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) February 4, 2013
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sattv4u2 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:53:30am |
re: #99 Killgore Trout
I’m sure the monkeys will contribute to the cause as well.
comment from the article
Unfortunately he came in second in the intelligence test, so they sent the monkey.
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Killgore Trout Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:54:17am |
Egypt Opposition: Police Torture Activist to Death
El-Gindy went missing for several days after protesting on Jan. 27 in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. The protesters are opposed to Egypt’s Islamist President Mohammed Morsi’s policies and are pressing him to amend the constitution, which was drafted by a panel dominated by Islamists and approved in a public referendum last year.
Party spokeswoman Mona Amer said she saw el-Gindy’s body and that it carried marks of torture. She said he was electrocuted, had broken ribs and a “cord appeared to have been wrapped around his neck.” A medical report cited brain hemorrhage as cause of death.
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Killgore Trout Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:55:00am |
re: #101 sattv4u2
comment from the article
Unfortunately he came in second in the intelligence test, so they sent the monkey.
Ahmadinejad also might not make the hieght requirement.
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sattv4u2 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:57:09am |
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Gus Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:58:17am |
Don’t wanna be an American Jesus.
Don’t want a nation under the new media
And can you hear the sound of hysteria?
The subliminal mind fuck America.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:58:19am |
REPORT: School in Coweta, Oklahoma in lockdown after a student committed suicide in the bathroom thkpr.gs/YOO85J— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) February 4, 2013
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sattv4u2 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 7:58:26am |
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lawhawk Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:00:57am |
re: #100 Vicious Babushka
Super. Less than a week after the last school shooting.
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Ghost of Tom Joad Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:01:50am |
re: #108 Gus
Never took you for a Green Day fan :-)
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kirkspencer Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:02:16am |
Suicide. so, gay, geek, or sex assault victim?
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Gus Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:03:09am |
re: #113 Ghost of Tom Joad
Never took you for a Green Day fan :-)
Not a fan per se but that song grew on me. They have others too.
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Gus Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:04:49am |
Wut?
Defense Intelligence Agency tells employees: “Don’t be a plain Jane” and “paint your nails” tpm.ly/Y5sRyT— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) February 4, 2013
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:04:49am |
What right-wing racism?
The schools need to get back to their Christian roots to teaching the “curse of ham” #Christianity #TGDN #Tcot— Black Crime (@wwwblackcrime) February 4, 2013
I’ve already bought the bleach I’ll need to clean my porch of the mess I’ll make of them when they show up. @ksmith474 @sharonvl94 #TGDN— GenuineAmerican (@CountryBack1776) February 4, 2013
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:05:19am |
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:05:34am |
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Gus Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:06:04am |
…Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, the DIA director, called the presentation “highly offensive” in a letter to employees. Flynn wrote that he hoped the intentions were “pure of heart and intended to help… but even smart people do dumb things sometimes. That said, no one is going to be taken to the wood shed over this. They’ll require some counseling (to be sure) on what it means to think before you act.”
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Gus Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:06:53am |
re: #118 Vicious Babushka
Did that include the men too?
Ha. Read my mind. Was going to ask TPM, “is that just for the men?” :O
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geoffm33 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:09:07am |
re: #117 Vicious Babushka
Are “they” the Government or the Gang Bangers I wonder.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:09:13am |
Wait, I thought they were at a gun range and they all had guns? Wingnut conspiracies are complicated!
Gun Grabbing Trolls: your logic failed. Bad guy bushwhacked 2 unarmed men. Chris Kyle had no chance. #NRA #TGDN #rap #p2 #tcot #GunRights— Voting Female (@VotingFemale) February 4, 2013
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:10:22am |
re: #123 Geoff with a G
Are “they” the Government or the Gang Bangers?
According to the wingnuts, they are one and the same.
Haven’t decided if “Genuine American” is a racist wingnut or a parody account. At this point I think it’s real.
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dragonfire1981 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:11:31am |
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Ghost of Tom Joad Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:13:37am |
re: #116 Gus
Wut?
“You’re not here for your brains, ladies. You’re just eye-candy for the Men who do the actual defense work. Stop coming in looking all frumpy because you’re hurting our productivity!” ///
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dragonfire1981 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:15:11am |
re: #96 Lidane
*sigh*
Well, that settles that then. Guess we all need an AR-15 and a copy of Atlas Shrugged.
Because there’s nothing on the scale between Pacifist and violent, bloodthirsty monster.
Even I don’t think Jesus was a pacifist, but I don’t think he was a violent monster either.
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Gus Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:16:26am |
re: #127 Ghost of Tom Joad
“You’re not here for your brains, ladies. You’re just eye-candy for the Men who do the actual defense work. Stop coming in looking all frumpy because you’re hurting our productivity!” ///
Slips and stocking are required on all womens wearing skirts or dresses. No pant allowed! //
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:17:38am |
re: #117 Vicious Babushka
“GenuineAmerican” has GOT to be a parody account. Right? I can’t even begin to tell the difference anymore.
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geoffm33 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:17:50am |
Woah boy, hold onto your hats folks:
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:20:17am |
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lawhawk Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:20:51am |
re: #131 Geoff with a G
Well… of course he is. Famous name. Famous political family. Why not.
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:21:07am |
re: #125 Vicious Babushka
According to the wingnuts, they are one and the same.
Haven’t decided if “Genuine American” is a racist wingnut or a parody account. At this point I think it’s real.
Ask him.
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:21:15am |
re: #131 Geoff with a G
Woah boy, hold onto your hats folks:
This ad sponsored by Fleece the Donors, LLC
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:22:02am |
re: #125 Vicious Babushka
I mean, really:
@gregwhoward Obama is going to assasinate more Patriots who speak out like Chris Riley. When will we stand up to him? #TGDN #TCOT #OPSLAM— GenuineAmerican (@CountryBack1776) February 4, 2013
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makeitstop Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:23:31am |
re: #131 Geoff with a G
Woah boy, hold onto your hats folks:
Wait, wasn’t he the one who said he’d never want to run for office?
Like his father, Tagg Romney attended Brigham Young University and earned his MBA from Harvard Business School. However, he told the New York Times that “I’d be really surprised if I did [run for office]. It’s a really horrible process, and honestly I just don’t want to go through it.”
I wonder what happened? A little familial pressure, perhaps?
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Interesting Times Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:23:45am |
re: #131 Geoff with a G
Woah boy, hold onto your hats folks:
If Tagg runs and loses, the Romneys would basically be the anti-Kennedys, right?— Tim Murphy (@timothypmurphy) February 4, 2013
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:24:14am |
re: #134 JeffFX
Ask him.
From looking at its list of followers and following, I’m inclined to believe it is not a parody account.
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:24:36am |
re: #138 Gus
Who’s Chris Riley?
The google says he’s a golfer, football player, rugby player, or writer.
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:25:09am |
re: #142 Vicious Babushka
From looking at its list of followers and following, I’m inclined to believe it is not a parody account.
That makes asking him more fun.
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Gus Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:25:51am |
re: #143 JeffFX
The google says he’s a golfer, football player, rugby player, or writer.
The idiot meant Chris Kyle. Funny how these bozos get upset when you put that shooting in the context of gun control but no one bats an eye when they put that shooting in the context of some crazy conspiracy about Obama having him assassinated.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:26:03am |
re: #144 JeffFX
That makes asking him more fun.
@futuremonkey Are you trying to be cute? Do you condone allowing America to slip into the hands of armed drug-dealing gang bangers? #TDGN— GenuineAmerican (@CountryBack1776) February 4, 2013
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geoffm33 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:26:49am |
re: #138 Gus
Who’s Chris Riley?
I don’t know but he’s going to be very pissed when he finds out he’s been assassinated.
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sattv4u2 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:27:05am |
re: #133 lawhawk
Well… of course he is. Famous name. Famous political family. Why not.
That NEVER happens in politics!!!
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Ghost of Tom Joad Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:27:53am |
re: #139 makeitstop
Wait, wasn’t he the one who said he’d never want to run for office?
I wonder what happened? A little familial pressure, perhaps?
Grifters gonna grift, as they say.
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dragonfire1981 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:28:10am |
re: #146 Vicious Babushka
As opposed to armed, drug dealing geriatrics?
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geoffm33 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:28:27am |
re: #140 Interesting Times
Which is exactly why he shouldn’t run. I don’t think he has a shot.
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dragonfire1981 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:28:53am |
re: #139 makeitstop
Wait, wasn’t he the one who said he’d never want to run for office?
I wonder what happened? A little familial pressure, perhaps?
Two words: KA CHING!
Like a lot in life, it’s all about the money baby.
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Ghost of Tom Joad Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:30:22am |
re: #146 Vicious Babushka
Armed drug-dealing gangbangers? I don’t even, lol.
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makeitstop Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:32:14am |
re: #153 dragonfire1981
Two words: KA CHING!
Like a lot in life, it’s all about the money baby.
Like that family needs any more money.
I think pop got in his ear. Or maybe mom - she seems to like the idea of people in her family holding office.
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lawhawk Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:32:19am |
re: #146 Vicious Babushka
Wait, our nation is now in the grips of armed drug dealing gang bangers?
Hell’s Angels? /
The majority of those murdered by firearms are family members and acquaintances, and not strangers/unknown.
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Ghost of Tom Joad Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:32:36am |
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Lidane Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:34:11am |
re: #98 sattv4u2
Ahmadinejad wants to be Iran’s first astronaut
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that he’s ready to take the risk of being the first Iranian astronaut sent into space as part of Iran’s goal of a manned space flight.
I’m all for it if the rocket is aimed at the sun. =P
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geoffm33 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:35:02am |
GenuineAmerican (@CountryBack1776) twitter bio:
From sea to shining sea, it’s time to take our country back! The White House can no longer be an ironic name for our leader’s home.
What right-wing racism?
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Gus Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:35:19am |
.@gus_802 Chris Riley is the hero sniper who came back from Iraq and was assassinated at a gun range after speaking out against gun grabbers— GenuineAmerican (@CountryBack1776) February 4, 2013
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sattv4u2 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:35:35am |
re: #160 Lidane
I’m all for it if the rocket is aimed at the sun. =P
I’d be MORE for it if it was strapped to his back!!
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:35:47am |
re: #139 makeitstop
“I’d be really surprised if I did [run for office].”
He makes it sound like running for office is a function of the autonomic nervous system. Can you imagine the press conference when he announces his intent to run?
Ladies and gentlemen, let me just say that none of you find this announcement more surprising than I do. I have no idea how or why I made the decision to run, and frankly this has disturbing implications for the question of free will. Nevertheless, as I sail helplessly on the winds of fate, very much like a dandelion seed, I will appreciate your enthusiastic support at the various campaign events I might inexplicably find myself organizing and attending in the coming months.
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Lidane Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:36:33am |
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Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:36:34am |
re: #160 Lidane
I’m all for it if the rocket is aimed at the sun. =P
No worry, they’ll launch him at night
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geoffm33 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:37:30am |
re: #165 Gus
Yeesh. Not sure if I want to inform him now. He’s for real.
Nah, let him tweet/retweet the wrong name.
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Gus Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:37:51am |
The thought did cross my mind however. That Kyle was assassinated. Being somewhat close to normal though I thought that it could be a hit ordered by al-Qaeda.
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Feline Fearless Leader Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:38:44am |
re: #164 Our Precious Bodily Fluids
He makes it sound like running for office is a function of the autonomic nervous system. Can you imagine the press conference when he announces his intent to run?
Remember that his father had to be talked into running for President. ;p
(Or at least that’s what they said after he lost.)
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:40:18am |
re: #169 Gus
The thought did cross my mind however. That Kyle was assassinated. Being somewhat close to normal though I thought that it could be a hit ordered by al-Qaeda.
I thought assassins only choose to operate in “Gun-Free Zones”//
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geoffm33 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:41:31am |
re: #170 Feline Fearless Leader
Remember that his father had to be talked into running for President. ;p
(Or at least that’s what they said after he lost.)
I think it was Tagg (or one of his sons) that supposedly talked him into running. Mitt returning the favor?
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Lidane Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:41:54am |
*headdesk*
Texas 6th graders design flags for a new socialist nation eagnews.org/texas-6th-grad… #tcot #tgdn— Take Back America (@AmericaTakeback) February 4, 2013
So a class project where students are taught about flag symbols like the hammer and sickle is now ZOMG LIBRUL INDOKTRINASHUN. What the fuck.
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Dr. Matt Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:42:41am |
re: #95 Vicious BabushkaWhat right-wing racism?
At least @toddkincannon told the truth about wild blacks like Trayvon who grow up to be gangbangers. Must be stopped or WE lose guns. #TGDN
— GenuineAmerican (@CountryBack1776) February 4, 2013
“Wild blacks”? A kid armed with skittles and a canned beverage who ran away from an armed lunatic is a “wild black”? Great “logic”.
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lawhawk Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:43:01am |
re: #173 Lidane
Wait, so the military aircraft recognition playing cards I used to have were really an indoctrination into socialism? Seriously? /
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Gus Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:44:31am |
re: #174 Dr. Matt
At least @toddkincannon told the truth about wild blacks like Trayvon who grow up to be gangbangers. Must be stopped or WE lose guns. #TGDN
— GenuineAmerican (@CountryBack1776) February 4, 2013“Wild blacks”? A kid armed with skittles and a canned beverage who ran away from an armed lunatic is a “wild black”? Great “logic”.
Considering the source… As you know I’m no fan of Todd Kincannon, but I’m pretty sure this “Genuine American” weirdo is putting words in his mouth.
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Feline Fearless Leader Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:44:46am |
re: #175 lawhawk
Wait, so the military aircraft recognition playing cards I used to have were really an indoctrination into socialism? Seriously? /
“If it’s silver it’s American. If it’s green, it’s British. If you don’t see it at all, it’s the Luftwaffe.”
(Wehrmacht joke in late 1944.)
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Lidane Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:44:58am |
When it comes to gun registration and confiscation >all I can say is : Molon Labe ! #TGDN #LNYHBT @nrablog— Dave Lane (@Minuteman223) February 4, 2013
Yes, because gun control laws are exactly like Thermopylae. WTF.
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Gus Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:45:15am |
Also. This guy calling himself “Genuine American” is an embarrassment to this nation. :D
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erik_t Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:45:49am |
re: #174 Matt
“Wild blacks”? A kid armed with skittles and a canned beverage who ran away from an armed lunatic is a “wild black”? Great “logic”.
I’m afraid to say it probably means he was not yet in a cage.
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Gus Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:45:58am |
re: #178 Lidane
Yes, because gun control laws are exactly like Thermopylae. WTF.
What gun confiscation?
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Gus Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:47:16am |
re: #180 erik_t
I’m afraid to say it probably means he was not yet in a cage.
That quote got messed up. That’s from Dr. Matt. In any event.
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Dr. Matt Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:47:56am |
re: #179 Gus
Also. This guy calling himself “Genuine American” is an embarrassment to this nation. :D
He’s another fetishist who believes times were better in 1776….you know, when the average life span was around 47, people shit in a hole in the ground, no paved roads, no regulations on food and drinks, no safe public water supplies, woman couldn’t vote, blacks were slaves, etc., etc.,
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:48:11am |
Hmm. It’s gotta be a parody.
Shooter commits suicide before attempting to shoot others. Armed schools work! goo.gl/DucvG #win #tgdn #tcot #p2 #uniteblue— GenuineAmerican (@CountryBack1776) February 4, 2013
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erik_t Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:48:20am |
re: #182 Gus
That quote got messed up. That’s from Dr. Matt. In any event.
Changed with the edit button, because I am a wizard.
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dragonfire1981 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:49:14am |
re: #184 Vicious Babushka
Hmm. It’s gotta be a parody.
Not necessarily. I think he’s implying the shooter decided to give up and take his own life before shooting other people because he thought with a bunch of other armed people around he wouldn’t get very far.
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dragonfire1981 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:50:38am |
Heh, heh
Shorter Wayne LaPierre: Richard III would be alive today if only he’d had a gun. #NRA— Wallace Ritchie (@WallaceRitchie) February 4, 2013
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erik_t Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:51:05am |
re: #184 Vicious Babushka
Hmm. It’s gotta be a parody.
Obviously this twitter user wishes to return to the legal protection afforded to gun ownership in the year 1776.
Sounds good to me.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:51:20am |
What right-wing racism? (Also, is this quote fake?)
Happy Black History Month. Frederick Douglass has a message for U.S. #Uniteblue #TGDN #TCOT #TLOT #Blacks twitter.com/DanielFoster_5…— Daniel Foster (@DanielFoster_55) February 4, 2013
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jaunte Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:51:21am |
re: #174 Dr. Matt
At least @toddkincannon told the truth about wild blacks like Trayvon who grow up to be gangbangers. Must be stopped or WE lose guns. #TGDN
— GenuineAmerican (@CountryBack1776) February 4, 2013
“Wild blacks”? A kid armed with skittles and a canned beverage who ran away from an armed lunatic is a “wild black”? Great “logic”.
He’s obviously not up on the latest language:
Michigan Tea Partiers have come up with a new,
improved TeaBilly Dog Whistle™®.
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Lidane Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:51:29am |
re: #181 Gus
What gun confiscation?
The same one that’s coming no matter what the government says, according to Wayne LaPierre.
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Lidane Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:52:15am |
re: #109 Vicious Babushka
Shooter commits suicide before attempting to shoot others. Armed schools work! goo.gl/DucvG #win #tgdn #tcot #p2 #uniteblue— GenuineAmerican (@CountryBack1776) February 4, 2013
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Dr. Matt Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:52:42am |
re: #188 erik_t
Obviously this twitter user wishes to return to the legal protection afforded to gun ownership in the year 1776.
Sounds good to me.
“Give me High Capacity Muzzle Loading Weapons, or Give me Death!!!!!”
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Lidane Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:54:00am |
re: #194 Vicious Babushka
See #184
Yeah, missed that. I was going through TPM looking for those statements by LaPierre where he says that the government is going to seize guns no matter what they say.
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geoffm33 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:54:13am |
re: #189 Vicious Babushka
Looks real, but seemingly void of any context:
[Link: www.frederickdouglass.org…]
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Interesting Times Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:54:19am |
re: #176 Gus
Considering the source… As you know I’m no fan of Todd Kincannon, but I’m pretty sure this “Genuine American” weirdo is putting words in his mouth.
I don’t think so:
.@holistic_hugh I lost all empathy for that Trayvon kid after I read his Twitter. Druggy thuggy trash.— Todd Kincannon (@ToddKincannon) February 4, 2013
.@dawncatherine No, Trayvon deserved to die because he was trying to do great bodily harm to an innocent person. @margie10— Todd Kincannon (@ToddKincannon) February 4, 2013
.@coreybking Will karma find me as quick as it did Trayvon? Oh wait I make it past my 18th birthday. So I guess the answer is no.— Todd Kincannon (@ToddKincannon) February 4, 2013
.@coreybking Hey what’s the difference between Trayvon Martin and a dead baby? They’re both dead, but Pepsi doesn’t taste like Trayvon.— Todd Kincannon (@ToddKincannon) February 4, 2013
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dragonfire1981 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:55:49am |
re: #190 jaunte
He’s obviously not up on the latest language:
Michigan Tea Partiers have come up with a new,
improved TeaBilly Dog WhistleTM(r).
“Ethnically challenged families” ??
Good grief that’s horrendous.
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Gus Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:56:10am |
@linnyitssn twitpic.com/afqyj0— Teddy (@TeddyShepherd) February 4, 2013
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Ghost of Tom Joad Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:56:44am |
re: #198 Interesting Times
I don’t think so:
Wait…they put dead babies in Pepsi? Damn, I gotta start donating more to various abortion clinics./
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:59:05am |
re: #202 Ghost of Tom Joad
Wait…they put dead babies in Pepsi? Damn, I gotta start donating more to various abortion clinics./
Also, where do you think baby oil and baby powder comes from?
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Gus Mon, Feb 4, 2013 8:59:33am |
Kind of stunning really. That conservatives would want to sign up with that kind of rhetoric…
In other TGDN news…
”@toddkincannon: !!! @dailykos story “Todd Kincannon Wins Douchebag Super Bowl”: m.dailykos.com/story/2013/02/…” What a douche, read this one.— Todd Hatecannon (@GreenBudAtheist) February 4, 2013
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Lidane Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:00:13am |
Yeah. We’re in real danger of becoming North Korea 2.0:
22 Signs That Barack Obama Is Transforming America Into A Larger Version Of North Korea n360.to/Xid9j2 #TGDN— The Billie Williams (@bcwilliams92) February 4, 2013
These people lead a sad, sad existence. I cannot imagine looking at the world around me and seeing conspiracy and treason at every turn.
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dragonfire1981 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:01:24am |
I wish some of these people could live in a REAL communist nation for awhile…they’d be begging to come back to Obama’s “socialist paradise” in no time.
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jaunte Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:01:25am |
Caution NRO writers, the linked post uses the phrase “senseless lynching.”
[Link: blogs.archives.gov…]
Ida B. Wells was among many individuals whose letters bombarded the Department of Justice demanding Federal help to fight racial violence. These letters are found among Year Files, 1884 1903, located in RG 60, General Records of the Department of Justice (DOJ). This file consists of many letters, correspondence, newspaper clippings, and telegrams pertaining to the lynching of Postmaster Frazier B. Baker with his two-year-old daughter, Julia, in Lake City, South Carolina, on February 22, 1898
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sattv4u2 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:01:43am |
and on that note, the long quiet drive home beckons
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kirkspencer Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:02:43am |
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Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:05:02am |
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:05:17am |
re: #184 Vicious Babushka
Hmm. It’s gotta be a parody.
Or completely deranged. Poe’s Law applies more these days than ever before.
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Gus Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:05:51am |
So Ahmadinejad wants to be first Iranian in space - wasn’t he just there last week? “Iran launches monkey into space” news.yahoo.com/iran-launches-…— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) February 4, 2013
Whoa.”@senjohnmccain: So Ahmadinejad wants to be first Iranian in space - wasn’t he just there last week? “Iran launches monkey into space”“— Justin Amash (@repjustinamash) February 4, 2013
Re: Iran space tweet - lighten up folks, can’t everyone take a joke?— John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) February 4, 2013
Maybe you should wisen up & not make racist jokes. “@senjohnmccain: Re: Iran space tweet - lighten up folks, can’t everyone take a joke?”— Justin Amash (@repjustinamash) February 4, 2013
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kirkspencer Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:06:41am |
re: #211 Sol Berdinowitz
“Leave the black man alone” at that time meant to stop putting them in chains…
Yep.
If you see him on his way to school, let him alone, don’t disturb him! If you see him going to the dinner-table at a hotel, let him go! If you see him going to the ballot-box, let him alone, don’t disturb him! [Applause.] If you see him going into a work-shop, just let him alone,—your interference is doing him a positive injury. — from the same speech
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:07:47am |
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Gus Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:07:59am |
Born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and raised in Kentwood, Michigan, Amash is a second generation Arab-American of Palestinian Christian and Syrian Greek Orthodox descent His father is a Palestinian business owner, whose family immigrated to the United States in 1956 through the sponsorship of a Christian pastor and his family. Amash attended Kelloggsville Christian School and graduated as class valedictorian from Grand Rapids Christian High School. He graduated from the University of Michigan magna cum laude with an A.B. in Economics and earned his J.D. at the University of Michigan Law School in 2005.
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geoffm33 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:08:49am |
re: #214 Gus
Holy wow. He’s finally topped his chart busting hit “Bomb bomb bomb, bomb bomb Iran!”
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:10:04am |
TGDN is totally freaking out over @spaceagenegro and his awesome collection of Derp lists.
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Ghost of Tom Joad Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:10:28am |
re: #213 Gus
I think most people would get a pass on that, but McCain and his recent obstruction to PBO has pretty much killed any chance at the benefit of the doubt.
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Ghost of Tom Joad Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:11:09am |
re: #219 Vicious Babushka
TGDN is totally freaking out over @spaceagenegro and his awesome collection of Derp lists.
Ok…I generally loathe all the Twitter bullshit and I don’t keep up…but wtf is TGDN?
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geoffm33 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:11:11am |
Did you confuse your Polident with your PreparationH @senjohnmccain , is that why you talk like an asshole?— SpreadTheWord (@word_34) February 4, 2013
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:11:33am |
re: #214 Gus
I just thanked him for pushing back against the crazies that suggested that he and like-thinkers could save his party. Anything positive out of Republicans is rare and should be encouraged and nurtured.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:12:37am |
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Gus Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:13:10am |
re: #223 JeffFX
I just thanked him for pushing back against the crazies that suggested that he and like-thinkers could save his party. Anything positive out of Republicans is rare and should be encouraged and nurtured.
Indeed.
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dragonfire1981 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:13:12am |
re: #206 Lidane
Yeah. We’re in real danger of becoming North Korea 2.0:
These people lead a sad, sad existence. I cannot imagine looking at the world around me and seeing conspiracy and treason at every turn.
I think a lot of falls into the category of “not wanting to accept responsibility for one’s own circumstances”. It’s always convenient to blame something on outside forces you had no control over.
For example, it’s easier to say: “My job sucks and I don’t have as much money anymore because Obama screwed me” than it is to accept that decisions you made had a big impact on that as well.
These people really, REALLY overestimate the power of the POTUS. The President has limited power over gas prices, prices of other consumer goods, job creation and whatnot, but still all the blame lands at his feet.
For these people, Obama is America’s biggest scapegoat. Why blame yourself for your problems when you can blame him for all of it and make yourself feel better in the process?
“I’m not the problem! The blacks and the illegals and the muslims and the welfare whores and Obama are the problem!”
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:13:51am |
re: #221 Ghost of Tom Joad
Ok…I generally loathe all the Twitter bullshit and I don’t keep up…but wtf is TGDN?
Keep that attitude. LGF sucked me into the Twitter maelstrom, and it’s not pretty.
Twitter Gulag Defense Network. It’s a name based on a delusion regarding magic twitter tags and persecution complexes in obnoxious people.
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kirkspencer Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:14:32am |
re: #221 Ghost of Tom Joad
Ok…I generally loathe all the Twitter bullshit and I don’t keep up…but wtf is TGDN?
Twitter Gulag Defense Network is the literal. Vicious Babushka’s post is a better description.
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:15:11am |
re: #228 kirkspencer
Twitter Gulag Defense Network is the literal. Vicious Babushka’s post is a better description.
I still think it’s “That God Damned N*****”
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NJDhockeyfan Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:15:35am |
Again with comparing someone with Nazis. This time it’s the entire USA by far left loser Noam Chomsky…
U.S. Linguist Noam Chomsky Compares Colin Powell to Von Ribbentrop and the U.S. to Nazi Germany
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:16:16am |
re: #230 NJDhockeyfan
Again with comparing someone with Nazis. This time it’s the entire USA by far left loser Noam Chomsky…
U.S. Linguist Noam Chomsky Compares Colin Powell to Von Ribbentrop and the U.S. to Nazi Germany
Have you accomplished anything close to what Chomsky has?
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:16:56am |
re: #230 NJDhockeyfan
Again with comparing someone with Nazis. This time it’s the entire USA by far left loser Noam Chomsky…
U.S. Linguist Noam Chomsky Compares Colin Powell to Von Ribbentrop and the U.S. to Nazi Germany
One lone moonbat against the TGDN swarms. Magical Balance Fairy can’t be bothered.
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jaunte Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:17:09am |
Michigan Tea Partier: Charter Schools Are For Kids From “Ethnically Challenged Families”
…at the Michigan citizens training, one of the featured speakers, Norm Hughes, a member of the North Oakland Tea Party Patriots, offered this take on charters:
“Kids aren’t going to charter schools if they’re “A” students. They go to charter schools because they’re failing students and, by and large, the charter schools have a higher percentage of poor families, ethnically challenged families…”
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dragonfire1981 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:18:34am |
Oregon Bakery refuses to make cake for same sex couple, calls them ‘abominations’
What’s a wedding without a cake? A decidedly less delicious one, which is why couples heading for the altar are in the habit of testing out cakes before the big day so they can choose their favorite. In other words, they get to eat a lot of cake to find a winner. But one same-sex couple in Oregon is claiming in a complaint filed with the state’s attorney general’s office that their experience at a local bakery was far from fun when the owner refused to sell them a cake.
In the complaint, a Portland woman says she and her fiancée and her fiancée’s mother visited a local bakery for a cake testing in January, reports The Oregonian. But when the owner realized the cake was meant for a same-sex wedding, the women claim in a consumer complaint that he called them “abominations unto the lord.”
“We were then informed that our money was not equal,” one woman wrote in the complaint filed the next day. “My fiancée was reduced to tears.”
According to The Oregonian, the man who owns the bakery said that his business doesn’t discriminate when selling pastries and cakes to customers. But as same-sex marriage isn’t in line with his and his wife’s Christian faith, they have decided not to sell cakes for those occasions.“I believe marriage is a religious institution between a man and woman as stated in the Bible,” he said. “When someone tells me that their definition is something different, I strongly disagree. I don’t think I should be penalized for that.”
Just more of that great Christian love…*sigh*
Let me say here, if you want to be against same sex marriage, fine, that’s your right.
But you don’t need to INSULT, DEMEAN or DISPARAGE those who aren’t because of that!
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Ghost of Tom Joad Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:19:04am |
re: #227 JeffFX
Wow…Twitter Gulag Defense Network…..man I’m not even that old, but that just sounds really childish. First thing that came to mind was Erik Erikson’s “Red State Strike Force” which was beautifully parodied by various bloggers.
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Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:19:21am |
re: #228 kirkspencer
Twitter Gulag Defense Network is the literal. Vicious Babushka’s post is a better description.
I don’t remember who came up with it, but I really liked “Teabaggers-Gonna-Derp Network.”
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:21:10am |
re: #235 Ghost of Tom Joad
Wow…Twitter Gulag Defense Network…..man I’m not even that old, but that just sounds really childish. First thing that came to mind was Erik Erikson’s “Red State Strike Force” which was beautifully parodied by various bloggers.
No one there matured beyond the point of your average 15 year old.
Thank’s for the downding Matt. Why are you so OK with an unaccomplished person calling someone very accomplished a loser that you’d give a downding?
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:22:49am |
re: #236 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi
I don’t remember who came up with it, but I really liked “Teabaggers-Gonna-Derp Network.”
The best thing about #tgdn is that lunatics use it to self-identify. The FBI doesn’t have to track these groups or even set up honeypots to find insurrectionist loons. They documented themselves!
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:22:49am |
re: #235 Ghost of Tom Joad
Wow…Twitter Gulag Defense Network…..man I’m not even that old, but that just sounds really childish. First thing that came to mind was Erik Erikson’s “Red State Strike Force” which was beautifully parodied by various bloggers.
It’s a scheme to GET MOAR FOLLOWERZ!1! and they also think that by having a whole bunch of followers their Twitter accounts can’t get suspended for TOS, but they have all created second accounts anyway.
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NJDhockeyfan Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:23:58am |
re: #231 JeffFX
Have you accomplished anything close to what Chomsky has?
I have never met with Hezbollah… so no.
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Dr. Matt Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:24:29am |
re: #237 JeffFX
Thank’s for the downding Matt. Why are you so OK with an unaccomplished person calling someone very accomplished a loser that you’d give a downding?
Why are you OK with someone “accomplished” referring to another accomplished person as a Nazi?
Why does it matter if someone is “accomplished”? Does that give them license to call others Nazis?
Why are you calling people you don’t even know “unaccomplished”. Yet, if someone is “unaccomplished”, does that make their opinions about an “accomplished” less important? For that matter, please provide inclusion and exclusion criteria to define some as “accomplished” and “unaccomplished”.
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Mattand Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:24:50am |
re: #221 Ghost of Tom Joad
Ok…I generally loathe all the Twitter bullshit and I don’t keep up…but wtf is TGDN?
Many of the conservatives brandishing the #tgdn hashtag got their accounts suspended for spamming. Rather than acting like adults, some RWNJ (Todd Kincannon, IIRC), got the brilliant idea that if you put #tgdn in your tweet, people would follow you and prevent you from ever being “gulaged”.
At least that’s how I keep it straight in my mind. It’s so fucking stupid, I try to delete it in favor of important stuff, like the recipe for ice. If I got that wrong, let me know.
To the best of my knowledge, no TGDN accounts have been suspended yet. Then again, I don’t care enough to really find out.
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Killgore Trout Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:25:11am |
re: #230 NJDhockeyfan
Again with comparing someone with Nazis. This time it’s the entire USA by far left loser Noam Chomsky…
U.S. Linguist Noam Chomsky Compares Colin Powell to Von Ribbentrop and the U.S. to Nazi Germany
On Iranian state tv chnanel Press TV. The moonbats sure love the mullahs for some reason.
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Mattand Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:27:58am |
re: #230 NJDhockeyfan
Again with comparing someone with Nazis. This time it’s the entire USA by far left loser Noam Chomsky…
U.S. Linguist Noam Chomsky Compares Colin Powell to Von Ribbentrop and the U.S. to Nazi Germany
Is there a full interview available somewhere?
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:28:14am |
re: #241 Dr. Matt
Why are you OK with someone “accomplished” referring to another accomplished person as a Nazi?
Why does it matter if someone is “accomplished”? Does that give them license to call others Nazis?
Why are you calling people you don’t even know “unaccomplished”. Yet, if someone is “unaccomplished”, does that make their opinions about an “accomplished” less important? For that matter, please provide inclusion and exclusion criteria to define some as “accomplished” and “unaccomplished”/
I did not comment on Chomsky’s comment, and do not approve of much of his politics. I merely pointed out that someone was calling a very accomplished person a loser.
Chomsky has proven himself to be more intelligent than most, and he’s accomplished tons in linguistics. He’s not a loser by any stretch of the imagination.
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Gus Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:29:29am |
re: #244 Mattand
Is there a full interview available somewhere?
[Link: www.presstv.com…]
*Not an endorsement of PressTV.
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NJDhockeyfan Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:29:31am |
re: #244 Mattand
Is there a full interview available somewhere?
Here is the MEMRI video.
[Link: www.memritv.org…]
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:30:16am |
Chris Kyle is the new Benghazi!
I’ll bet anyone $20 that @oprah won’t do a tribute piece to Chris Kyle! She’s a liberal POS. Too busy with her big ass condos. #TGDN— J (@3dgenfire) February 4, 2013
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Tigger2 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:30:23am |
re: #117 Vicious Babushka
What right-wing racism?
How is he going to clean his porch up after a drone hits his house. /
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Kragar Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:30:59am |
Florida father with assault weapon forces wife to watch as he kills two sons
Victoria Flores Zavala told Boynton Beach police that 45-year-old Isidro Zavala went to her home on Saturday with a plan to kill her and their two boys because she had filed for divorce last year, according to WTVJ. But Isidro Zavala decide to spare his wife at the last minute so she could suffer while watching him murder 12-year-old Eduardo Zavala and 11-year-old Mario Zavala.
“What Mrs. Zavala had to go through — watch her children killed before her — is probably the most horrific thing you could ever imagine, at least for me,” Boynton Beach Police Chief G. Matthew Immler explained at a press conference.
“She tried fighting him off and begged him to kill her and not the children,” he explained. “He told her she was going to stay alive and suffer the loss of them.”
The Palm Beach Post reported on Sunday that Isidro Zavala had killed himself with .38-caliber pistol, but police also recovered a bag with a TEC-9 semi-automatic handgun, extra ammunition, duct tape and cutting shears from the crime scene.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:31:04am |
re: #249 Tigger2
How is he going to clean his porch up after a drone hits his house. /
Won’t be a porch.
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Dr. Matt Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:31:38am |
re: #248 Vicious Babushka
Chris Kyle is the new Benghazi!
I thought PBO’s skeet shooting is the new Benghazi? Or is PBO’s skeet shooting the old Benghazi and Chris Kyle is the new, NEW Benghazi?
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Killgore Trout Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:31:52am |
re: #244 Mattand
Is there a full interview available somewhere?
This looks like the segment in question
US, a leading terrorist state in world: Chomsky
He also brings up the killing of Bin Laden as a Nazi-like tactics so Obama is included in his list of Western Nazis. He’s a dick.
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Bulworth Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:31:58am |
re: #233 jaunte
I thought charter schools were teh awesome because they’re less regulated by evil unions and because Freedom?
/
I’m going to charitably guess the teabagger meant to say “ethically” challenged. Not that would have been much less idiotic.
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:32:10am |
re: #242 Mattand
To the best of my knowledge, no TGDN accounts have been suspended yet. Then again, I don’t care enough to really find out.
I wonder if that’s true, because if it is, the modern people at Twitter have to be screwing with these clowns to make them think their magical talisman works. That or the FBI may have asked them to stop banning the people with serious mental health issues to make their delusions easy to track.
I’d be very surprised if no one in government is tracking the movement of anti-American madness through the less educated population.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:32:26am |
re: #252 Dr. Matt
I thought PBO’s skeet shooting is the new Benghazi? Or is PBO’s skeet shooting the old Benghazi and Chris Kyle is the new, NEW Benghazi?
Chris Kyle is the new Benghazi and skeet shooting is the new Birth Certificate!
Get your conspiracies straight.
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Mattand Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:33:31am |
re: #248 Vicious Babushka
Chris Kyle is the new Benghazi!
Jesus, if we can get through the next four years without a civil war erupting, I’ll be shocked.
I really think that many conservatives/Republicans are just in full mental breakdown over The Scary Black Man™ being re-elected. The eruption of conspiracy theories is frightening.
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Ghost of Tom Joad Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:33:39am |
re: #252 Dr. Matt
I thought PBO’s skeet shooting is the new Benghazi? Or is PBO’s skeet shooting the old Benghazi and Chris Kyle is the new, NEW Benghazi?
Obviously PBO practicing shooting skeet was him secretly preparing to shoot Chris Kyle in the face. There’s a Dick Cheney joke somewhere in here, but I can’t find it./
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Kragar Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:33:42am |
re: #256 Vicious Babushka
Chris Kyle is the new Benghazi and skeet shooting is the new Birth Certificate!
Get your conspiracies straight.
Chris Kyle died in Benghazi trying to find the birth certificate? OK, got it.
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:33:55am |
re: #256 Vicious Babushka
Don’t forget Chris Riley. Obozo Coverup!!!
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Dr. Matt Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:33:58am |
re: #256 Vicious Babushka
Chris Kyle is the new Benghazi and skeet shooting is the new Birth Certificate!
Get your conspiracies straight.
Ugh, too much to process the Monday after the Super Bowl.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:34:18am |
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Bulworth Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:35:07am |
re: #248 Vicious Babushka
Wow, $20. Impressive.
And Oprah a “POS liberal”. A true “values voter” no doubt.
//
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NJDhockeyfan Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:35:57am |
re: #243 Killgore Trout
On Iranian state tv chnanel Press TV. The moonbats sure love the mullahs for some reason.
Chomsky just called the US a ‘top terrorist state’ a week ago. Which is it, terrorist state or Nazi Germany?
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Mattand Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:36:18am |
re: #255 JeffFX
I wonder if that’s true, because if it is, the modern people at Twitter have to be screwing with these clowns to make them think their magical talisman works. That or the FBI may have asked them to stop banning the people with serious mental health issues to make their delusions easy to track.
I’d be very surprised if no one in government is tracking the movement of anti-American madness through the less educated population.
I know Kincannon was soliciting money for legal fees through a couple of tweets. The implication was that there was some sort of legal action against for God-knows-what, and that TGDN was involved.
So much for the magic talisman.
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Kragar Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:37:23am |
Santorum: Dropping Gay Ban Will ‘Murder’ the Boy Scouts
Rick Santorum warns that ending the Boy Scouts’ national ban on gay members could kill the group, and the group’s board would have “its fingerprints on the murder weapon.” The likely presidential candidate says the “vote is a challenge to the Scouts’ very nature and is another example of the left attempting to remove God from all areas of public life” and argues that gay Scouts would undermine the Scout values of being “trustworthy, loyal, courteous, thrifty, obedient, clean and reverent.”
If this prediction is even half as accurate at the predictions made when DADT was repealed, the Boy Scouts will be just fine.
I wonder if they’ve even bothered to consider the people who might be more willing to get involved in the BS weren’t beholden to the evangelical nutjobs.
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Kragar Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:38:09am |
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Ghost of Tom Joad Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:38:37am |
re: #257 Mattand
Outright civil war? Nah, we’ll just continue to have strings of ‘isolated incidents’ every week. Kids being shot at school, children being kidnapped and held hostage off of school buses etc.
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:38:47am |
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Bulworth Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:40:02am |
Rick Santorum warns that ending the Boy Scouts’ national ban on gay members could kill the group, and the group’s board would have “its fingerprints on the murder weapon.”
Will the murder weapon be a credit card or ping pong balls?
/
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NJDhockeyfan Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:40:38am |
Baboons Declare War On Humans in Saudi Arabia
It’s a story Alfred Hitchcock would love. Baboons, extraordinarily social animals whose collective noun is appropriately “troop” are harassing a Saudi village, targeting houses in coordinated assaults while cleverly avoiding poison bananas the villagers have left behind. Arab News brings us the bizarre story:
A minor war has broken out south of Qunfudah in the village of Kiad where large groups of hungry baboons from nearby valleys are attacking residences in search of food and drink. Residents have employed a variety of methods to combat the primates but it is still a daily battle from sunrise to sunset.
Hussein Al-Barakati, a resident of Kiad, said that he feared for his mother’s safety as she lives alone near the valley. Baboons raid her home from time to time in search of water. Weather conditions have left the valley parched and prompted the baboons to forage among the humans.
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jaunte Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:40:42am |
re: #264 NJDhockeyfan
Chomsky just called the US a ‘top terrorist state’ a week ago. Which is it, terrorist state or Nazi Germany?
Whatever it is, it’s apparently not bad enough for him to move away.
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Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:41:46am |
re: #266 Kragar
Santorum: Dropping Gay Ban Will ‘Murder’ the Boy Scouts
If this prediction is even half as accurate at the predictions made when DADT was repealed, the Boy Scouts will be just fine.
I wonder if they’ve even bothered to consider the people who might be more willing to get involved in the BS weren’t beholden to the evangelical nutjobs.
There is nothing to prevent Rick and like-minded individuals from setting up their own fully gay-free organization, one that does not use any public funding or facilities.
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Lidane Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:42:01am |
re: #272 jaunte
Whatever it is, it’s apparently not bad enough for him to move away.
Srsly. For every stupid thing he says, it’s not like Chomsky is in any rush to go somewhere else.
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Ghost of Tom Joad Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:42:13am |
re: #271 NJDhockeyfan
So the CIA finally trained baboons to do their dirty work?/
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:43:21am |
re: #267 Kragar
Alas, I do not twit.
I started just to push back against the crazies, and put one more voice of modernity out there against these anti-Enlightenment “thinkers”.
Anti-American assholes have organized and are completely open with their hatred of all that is good or reasonable, and their desire to pull us down into chaos. Pointing out what they are to less sophisticated minds can help us all keep this civilization thing rolling. Or maybe I’m too optimistic today.
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Mattand Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:44:12am |
re: #268 Ghost of Tom Joad
Outright civil war? Nah, we’ll just continue to have strings of ‘isolated incidents’ every week. Kids being shot at school, children being kidnapped and held hostage off of school buses etc.
Life must be hell for the Secret Service since 2009.
If there’s a bright side, at least they know where to look. Twitter, as someone else pointed out earlier. Watching Fox News probably give one insight into the nutbar mindset.
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:44:59am |
re: #272 jaunte
Whatever it is, it’s apparently not bad enough for him to move away.
He probably knows on some level that he’s become more and more of a crank.
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NJDhockeyfan Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:46:15am |
re: #272 jaunte
Whatever it is, it’s apparently not bad enough for him to move away.
re: #274 Lidane
Srsly. For every stupid thing he says, it’s not like Chomsky is in any rush to go somewhere else.
I bet he could get a nice house at a great price in Tehran and his own show on PressTV. He should look into it.
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Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:46:16am |
re: #254 Bulworth
I thought charter schools were teh awesome because they’re less regulated by evil unions and because Freedom?
/
I’m going to charitably guess the teabagger meant to say “ethically” challenged. Not that would have been much less idiotic.
Context is pretty clear. He meant “ethnic”.
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geoffm33 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:47:26am |
This must’ve been posted in the Superb Owl thread last night, I just saw it now. But holy shitballs racism-man:
This Super Bowl sucks more dick than adult Trayvon Martin would have for drug money.— Todd Kincannon (@ToddKincannon) February 4, 2013
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Vicious Babushka Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:48:24am |
re: #282 Geoff with a G
This must’ve been posted in the Superb Owl thread last night, I just saw it now. But holy shitballs racism-man:
It’s getting a thorough re-Tweeting by #UniteBlue. They made a screenshot in case he deletes the original Tweet.
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NJDhockeyfan Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:48:44am |
Without @codepink, we would have no #SuperBowl.— CODEPINK (@codepink) February 4, 2013
Heh.
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Decatur Deb Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:49:04am |
re: #282 Geoff with a G
This must’ve been posted in the Superb Owl thread last night, I just saw it now. But holy shitballs racism-man:
Good. He has obviously given up hope of running for office in the Bible belt.
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makeitstop Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:49:49am |
re: #282 Geoff with a G
This must’ve been posted in the Superb Owl thread last night, I just saw it now. But holy shitballs racism-man:
That’s gotta be gulag-worthy.
This asshole can spout toxic shit like that and still be allowed to Tweet? That sucks.
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jaunte Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:50:20am |
re: #282 Geoff with a G
Kincannon must have some lynchers in his recent family tree.
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Ghost of Tom Joad Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:50:50am |
re: #282 Geoff with a G
This must’ve been posted in the Superb Owl thread last night, I just saw it now. But holy shitballs racism-man:
What the hell? Obama conspiracies are one thing…but that? If this guy was on fire, I’d piss on him to put it out, then light him on fire again.
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Decatur Deb Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:51:54am |
re: #286 makeitstop
That’s gotta be gulag-worthy.
This asshole can spout toxic shit like that and still be allowed to Tweet? That sucks.
Let him rant. Any opponent can do a dramatic reading of his antholoigy to the local Women’s Christian Temperance Union’s town hall rally.
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:52:18am |
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Kragar Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:52:24am |
re: #288 erik_t
Did I miss something? Who is Todd Kincannon?
As Ponzi is to schemes, Kincannon is to TGDN
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jaunte Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:52:45am |
re: #288 erik_t
Attorney, former Exec. Director of SC GOP, TwitterDouchebag, scammer.
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:53:01am |
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Decatur Deb Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:53:04am |
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Dr. Matt Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:54:39am |
re: #288 erik_t
Did I miss something? Who is Todd Kincannon?
That orangish, rust-like stain that lines a toilet bowl that hasn’t been cleaned for several weeks.
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Decatur Deb Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:55:46am |
re: #296 Dr. Matt
That orangish, rust-like stain that lines a toilet bowl that hasn’t been cleaned for several weeks.
He is a river to his people.
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erik_t Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:55:51am |
re: #293 jaunte
Attorney, former Exec. Director of SC GOP, TwitterDouchebag, scammer.
Quite an impressive piece of shit, then. I assumed he was just some random asshole.
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NJDhockeyfan Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:56:22am |
What an asshole.
Chris Kyle’s death seems to confirm that “he who lives by the sword dies by the sword.” Treating PTSD at a firing range doesn’t make sense— Ron Paul (@RonPaul) February 4, 2013
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:56:44am |
re: #296 Dr. Matt
That orangish, rust-like stain that lines a toilet bowl that hasn’t been cleaned for several weeks.
I know how to remove that, and it doesn’t constantly clamor for attention like Todd does. If only his mother had paid attention to him and not let his father be so rigidly authoritarian.
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Decatur Deb Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:56:55am |
re: #298 erik_t
Quite an impressive piece of shit, then. I assumed he was just some random asshole.
There are no random assholes in a world that is Intelligently Designed. Every asshole is special.
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:58:55am |
re: #299 NJDhockeyfan
What an asshole.
I think that first he’s a total and complete asshole, and second he’s right. It was very poor judgement to take someone with PTSD to somewhere where people are firing guns. Worse to hand him one.
We just don’t normally criticize well-meaning people who are killed by a moment of poor judgement.
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makeitstop Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:59:05am |
re: #299 NJDhockeyfan
What an asshole.
As much as I’m loath to admit it, Luap Nor is right about giving someone who suffers from PTSD a loaded gun. It was not a good idea, however good the intentions were.
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Lidane Mon, Feb 4, 2013 9:59:18am |
Crazy Uncle Liberty has the wingnuts all in a frenzy today over that tweet. They’re going even more nuts than usual on Twitter pushing back at him.
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:00:40am |
@ronpaul It was poor judgement, but you’re an asshole for bringing it up like this.Is this really Ron Paul, or an angry teenager?— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) February 4, 2013
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Kragar Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:01:49am |
Hey Angry People—White History Month Already Exists
The beginning of February brings with it the end of the excitement of a new year, the hope of spring, and the annual reemergence of a lot of idiots insisting that because Black History Month exists, we ought to have a White History Month. It’s a form of deep and racist foolishness expressed by everyone from former actress Victoria Jackson to randos on social media. But all this stupidity and privilege actually reveals something very interesting: the extent to which people ignore that whiteness isn’t a natural phenomenon, but an aggregation of ethnicities.
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NJDhockeyfan Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:02:24am |
re: #302 JeffFX
I think that first he’s a total and complete asshole, and second he’s right. It was very poor judgement to take someone with PTSD to somewhere where people are firing guns. Worse to hand him one.
We just don’t normally criticize well-meaning people who are killed by a moment of poor judgement.
Saying Chris Kyle’s death seems to confirm that “he who lives by the sword dies by the sword.” was way out of line IMO.
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Kragar Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:02:29am |
re: #305 JeffFX
They really don’t like hearing that the answer might not be “MOAR GUNZ!”
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Sol Berdinowitz Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:02:48am |
re: #304 Lidane
Chris Kyle’s death seems to confirm that “he who lives by the sword dies by the sword.” Treating PTSD at a firing range doesn’t make sense
This is what I meant a while back about how we need not only a moonbat font, but a special font for people who are so psychonutterbutters that you really don’t know if it is right or left crazy.
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Lidane Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:03:27am |
re: #299 NJDhockeyfan
You have to admit he’s got a point, though.
I’m not a Luap Nor fan. At ALL. But treating someone’s PTSD by putting a loaded gun in their hands seems like a bad idea.
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:04:54am |
re: #311 Lidane
You have to admit he’s got a point, though.
I’m not a Luap Nor fan. At ALL. But treating someone’s PTSD by putting a loaded gun in their hands seems like a bad idea.
We all thought that, but had the maturity to show some respect for the dead. He’s not having a great insight, he’s acting like a teenager. Publicly.
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NJDhockeyfan Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:05:11am |
re: #311 Lidane
You have to admit he’s got a point, though.
I’m not a Luap Nor fan. At ALL. But treating someone’s PTSD by putting a loaded gun in their hands seems like a bad idea.
That’s fine for him to post about that but what he wrote first is a fucked up statement.
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Romantic Heretic Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:05:40am |
re: #97 Feline Fearless Leader
Gives one an insight on how they view the world. Cherry pick their holy book for the bits that support the world view they desire. From that you can guess that they cherry pick everything else (politics, society, science, etc.) in order to find further reinforcement of that view. They start with the end result and then find the “data” that supports that view. All else is detractors, lies, and conspiracy by the enemy.
It’s easier than thinking.
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Lidane Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:06:30am |
re: #312 JeffFX
We all thought that, but had the maturity to show some respect for the dead. He’s not having a great insight, he’s acting like a teenager. Publicly.
Hey, I agree it was out of line to post it so soon after Chris Kyle’s death. I’m not a Paultard who thinks the guy can do no wrong.
But in this case, Luap Nor said what people are thinking out loud.
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:08:06am |
re: #315 Lidane
Hey, I agree it was out of line to post it so soon after Chris Kyle’s death. I’m not a Paultard who thinks the guy can do no wrong.
But in this case, Luap Nor said what people are thinking out loud.
I see that as a lack of maturity. Adults keep some thoughts to themselves for a reason.
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jaunte Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:08:21am |
This is possibly the most awesome tweet in the history of Twitter: bit.ly/XE1eOf I literally can’t stop laughing!
— Todd Kincannon (@ToddKincannon) February 4, 2013
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NJDhockeyfan Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:09:58am |
re: #315 Lidane
Hey, I agree it was out of line to post it so soon after Chris Kyle’s death. I’m not a Paultard who thinks the guy can do no wrong.
But in this case, Luap Nor said what people are thinking out loud.
He could have used a much better choice of words. Even his fans are having a problem with it.
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Is it Ron actually running this? Because this last tweet is pretty offensive…
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Chris Kyle’s death seems to confirm that “he who lives by the sword dies by the sword.” Treating PTSD at a firing range doesn’t make sense
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Kragar Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:10:39am |
Glenn Beck Is Going to ‘Change the Way We Celebrate the Fourth of July’
Back when Glenn Beck was unveiling his grandiose plans to “go Galt” with the construction of a massive $2 billion Randian paradise to be known as Independence Park, he also revealed plans to produce a spectacular live show this Fourth of July called “The Man In The Moon” which will tell the story of America from the perspective of the moon as Beck “defends man to the moon [who] has been around for a while and has been waiting for someone to step up and do it right and to do the right thing and to be more.”
Your 4th of July sucks dude.
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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:11:06am |
re: #293 jaunte
Attorney, former Exec. Director of SC GOP, TwitterDouchebag, scammer.
Don’t forget add “alleged internet exhibitionist” to that list.
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Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:11:22am |
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:11:30am |
re: #317 jaunte
@toddkincannon It’s clear that you’ve become increasingly deranged in recent days.What’s wrong Todd? Please get some help.— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) February 4, 2013
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Decatur Deb Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:12:55am |
re: #317 jaunte
If you read the twitter stream there, you know why I think there is a place in the community for hi-cap magazines.
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Lidane Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:13:07am |
re: #318 NJDhockeyfan
He could have used a much better choice of words. Even his fans are having a problem with it.
Well, yes. I absolutely agree it’s a poor choice of words, and that it’s certainly in bad taste to post something like that so soon after Chris Kyle’s death.
He could have made the point about using loaded weapons to treat PTSD being a bad idea in a much better, more productive way. But if he did that, he wouldn’t be Crazy Uncle Liberty.
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Kragar Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:13:20am |
re: #322 JeffFX
First, you get them all in one place. Then when you reach peak wingnut, WHAM, you spring the trap.
Kincannon is obviously a false flag crisis actor.
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:13:52am |
re: #324 Decatur Deb
If you read the twitter stream there, you know why I think there is a place in the community for hi-cap magazines.
We delegate our violence to government, which will sweep up any of these goons who actually act-out their violent fantasies.
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Lidane Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:14:01am |
Racism and sexism in less than 140 characters:
#NextWhiteHousePhoto Michelle Obama taking Malia & Sasha to get their free birth control from planned parenthood#tcot #tgdn #benghazi #2A— yqvinktgun (@yqvinktgun) February 4, 2013
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erik_t Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:14:43am |
re: #328 Lidane
Racism and sexism in less than 140 characters:
That’s pretty much the most fucked-up way possible to talk about someone else’s little kids.
Also, too: what the fuck does this have to do with Benghazi? Is this becoming another wingnut talisman?
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Decatur Deb Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:15:36am |
re: #327 JeffFX
We delegate our violence to government, which will sweep up any of these goons who actually act-out their violent fantasies.
In the living memory of this area’s Black population the government was aiding, if not actively engaged, in the violence.
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Kragar Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:16:33am |
re: #319 Kragar
Glenn Beck Is Going to ‘Change the Way We Celebrate the Fourth of July’
Your 4th of July sucks dude.
Watching Beck’s ideas, I can only assume he has been freebasing pure Ayn Rand. 30’ mechanical men and a live action fight between Edison and Tesla? Really?
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jaunte Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:16:40am |
Twitter is highly attractive to trolls playing the “free speech martyr” game.
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:17:47am |
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NJDhockeyfan Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:18:10am |
re: #332 jaunte
Twitter is highly attractive to trolls playing the “free speech martyr” game.
I’m glad I don’t have a twitter account.
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Kragar Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:19:11am |
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jaunte Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:19:35am |
re: #334 NJDhockeyfan
It’s a pretty good news stream, but the outrageous statements tend to get passed around, so there is some incentive for trolling.
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JeffFX Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:20:35am |
re: #335 Kragar
I prefer Zinc or Nickel.
You’re clearly part of the penny conspiracy to replace the copper with zinc and DemonRat listening devices.
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jaunte Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:22:04am |
A Baseball Salvaged From A Civil War Battlefield
This ball was found and retrieved in 1862 in Shiloh, in southwestern Tennessee, on the grounds of one of the Civil War’s bloodiest battles. The ball is inscribed: “Picked Up on the Battle Field at Shiloh by G.F. Hellum.” Giles Hellum was an African-American who worked as an orderly for the Union Army at Shiloh. He later enlisted as a soldier in the 69th Colored Infantry.
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Interesting Times Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:22:11am |
re: #336 jaunte
It’s a pretty good news stream
Also seems to be the best way of directly contacting, and getting responses from, famous or semi-famous people. I don’t think most of them even bother reading (let alone responding to) comments on their facebook pages, but they will reply to tweets.
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Gus Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:22:28am |
re: #311 Lidane
You have to admit he’s got a point, though.
I’m not a Luap Nor fan. At ALL. But treating someone’s PTSD by putting a loaded gun in their hands seems like a bad idea.
Kyle wasn’t “treating” Routh.
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Decatur Deb Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:22:47am |
re: #333 JeffFX
True. Some people need to defend themselves. I’m aware of our ignorant racist past and present.
Speaking of, is anyone watching Copper?
Remember, the idiot heading that race-war tweet sequence was an important part of the dominant political party in his state. He is where their government comes from.
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geoffm33 Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:23:35am |
re: #342 Gus
Don’t do it!!!!!!
EDIT: Nevermind, thought you meant check the latest on TGDN and/or @ToddKincannon.
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Gus Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:24:26am |
Never mind.
Former SEAL Chris Kyle Allegedly Killed by Former Marine He Was Trying to Help
Former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle and his neighbor Chad Littlefield took former Marine Eddie Ray Routh to a Texas gun range to help him, but for some reason Routh allegedly turned his gun on his two mentors, killing them both, police said today…
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Varek Raith Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:25:53am |
FFS, treating PTSD patients by giving them a gun and taking them to a range.
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Lidane Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:35:22am |
Not sure if serious or just trolling:
I’m thinking about cutting back to the lowest level of cable TV service—-I’m sick of cable’s anti-White attitude. #tgdn #tcot #nwo #TV— Krafty.Wurker (@KraftyWurker) February 4, 2013
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William Barnett-Lewis Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:46:56am |
re: #178 Lidane
Yes, because gun control laws are exactly like Thermopylae. WTF.
These twits always remind me of a guy at a the LGC who has “Moron Label” in his .sig …
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Bulworth Mon, Feb 4, 2013 10:47:31am |
spectacular live show this Fourth of July called “The Man In The Moon” which will tell the story of America from the perspective of the moon as Beck “defends man to the moon [who] has been around for a while and has been waiting for someone to step up and do it right and to do the right thing and to be more.”
Uh, what?
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ...
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Alone in a Bathroom: The Fear and Uncertainty of a Post-Roe Medication Abortion Angel tucked two white pills into each side of her mouth, bracing herself as they began to dissolve. Her deepest fears and anxieties took over. Angel had wanted to talk to a doctor before she took the pills to ... Cheechako
They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... CheechakoJoe Bacon ✅
March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
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Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
