1 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 1:56:05pm

Insane Clown Posse is already taken.

2 makeitstop  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 1:56:09pm

‘Insane Clown Posse’ is already taken. Heh.

3 Varek Raith  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:03:18pm

‘Takes a lot of hard work and intelligence to remain stupid’

4 Kid Skeeter  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:03:56pm

re: #1 Kragar

Insane Clown Posse is already taken.

As is The Damned.

5 erik_t  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:04:59pm

The previous troll got jealous of all of the attention and has stumbled back through the door downstairs.

6 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:05:41pm

re: #5 erik_t

The previous troll got jealous of all of the attention and has stumbled back through the door downstairs.

Talking to himself in a dead thread?

7 Charles Johnson  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:10:34pm

re: #6 Kragar

Talking to himself in a dead thread?

Now defunct, I’m sorry to report. Actually, I’m not sorry.

8 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:10:53pm
9 erik_t  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:11:46pm

re: #7 Charles Johnson

Now defunct, I’m sorry to report. Actually, I’m not sorry.

Anybody have some spare briquettes? I cleared out my supply for the winter.

10 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:13:10pm

Giggling teen flips judge the bird, judge not amused

Never mess with people who have the power to make your life miserable. That includes DMV employees, waiters and baggage handlers. And judges. Especially them.

A Miami woman facing drug charges made her situation much worse when she laughed at and then flipped off the man with the gavel. File this case under: Ill advised.

11 The Ghost of a Flea  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:15:00pm

I love the continuing motif of “drop in, insult everyone, make stupid assumptions, and shut down other people’s opinions; then get gravely offended and accuse everyone else of being insulting, making assumptions, and shutting down other people’s opinions.”

12 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:16:39pm

re: #11 The Spectre of the Ghost of a Flea

I love the continuing motif of “drop in, insult everyone, make stupid assumptions, and shut down other people’s opinions; then get gravely offended and accuse everyone else of being insulting, making assumptions, and shutting down other people’s opinions.”

Got to love the classic bits.

13 EPR-radar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:16:39pm

re: #11 The Spectre of the Ghost of a Flea

I love the continuing motif of “drop in, insult everyone, make stupid assumptions, and shut down other people’s opinions; then get gravely offended and accuse everyone else of being insulting, making assumptions, and shutting down other people’s opinions.”

It’s just about the only pattern in the RWNJ internet playbook, so it gets over used.

14 EPR-radar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:19:09pm

re: #10 Kragar

You need to have the big bucks, high priced lawyers, and be a bit less literal when flipping off the US justice system. It also helps to be a Wall Street CEO.

If one of Leona Helmsley’s ‘little people’ tries it, the hammer comes down pretty hard.

15 Skeetghazi  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:21:06pm

re: #10 Kragar

Giggling teen flips judge the bird, judge not amused

I have a feeling she was still high.

16 TedStriker  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:21:08pm

re: #10 Kragar

Giggling teen flips judge the bird, judge not amused

Dumbasses gonna derp…

17 b_sharp  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:22:15pm

re: #7 Charles Johnson

Now defunct, I’m sorry to report. Actually, I’m not sorry.

You burned our chew toy? Awww.

18 Decatur Deb  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:22:47pm

When they say “right to remain silent’, they mean mime, too.

19 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:23:26pm

This thing is so dumb it actually thinks it knows MOAR den MOI

20 Charles Johnson  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:23:44pm

re: #17 b_sharp

Not jackw33, the stalker sock puppet.

21 Skeetghazi  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:24:25pm

re: #19 Vicious Babushka

This thing is so dumb it actually thinks it knows MOAR den MOI

I’m wondering what the response is to your quote kat.

22 Lidane  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:24:40pm

re: #17 b_sharp

You burned our chew toy? Awww.

The troll-shaped punching bag is still around.

The dumbass stalker troll who posted a link to their site is now pining for the fjords.

23 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:24:57pm

DERP KEEP ON A’DERPIN

24 The Ghost of a Flea  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:25:23pm

re: #13 EPR-radar

It’s just about the only pattern in the RWNJ internet playbook, so it gets over used.

It’s almost like engagement wasn’t the motive, but rather some kind of masturbatory ritual in which it is paradoxically reaffirmed that they’re both the aggressor yet oppressed when stymied….

25 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:25:54pm

re: #23 Vicious Babushka

DERP KEEP ON A’DERPIN

Nah, this is a “squirrel/nut” moment for Bryan. Rubio giving the response in Spanish is a gimmick.

26 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:26:19pm

re: #19 Vicious Babushka

This thing is so dumb it actually thinks it knows MOAR den MOI

Low Information Voters: People who get their news from places other than FOX, WND, and Rush.

27 TedStriker  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:26:32pm

re: #17 b_sharp

You burned our chew toy? Awww.

No, wrong troll; jackw33 is still derping and rolling up that negative karma.

GhostofHugoChavez is the one that got airlocked.

28 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:26:38pm

re: #21 Skeetghazi

I’m wondering what the response is to your quote kat.

Here’s the conversation.

29 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:26:53pm

re: #23 Vicious Babushka

DERP KEEP ON A’DERPIN

English only conservatives are already fucking aliens.

30 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:27:15pm

re: #28 Vicious Babushka

FACT!

31 Decatur Deb  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:27:27pm

re: #24 The Spectre of the Ghost of a Flea

It’s almost like engagement wasn’t the motive, but rather some kind of masturbatory ritual in which it is paradoxically reaffirmed that they’re both the aggressor yet oppressed when stymied….

More of a team-building morale ploy, like counting coup or a panty raid.

32 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:28:05pm

re: #26 Kragar

Low Information Voters: People who get their news from places other than FOX, WND, and Rush.

Ayep. If you call them on their bullshit, they’ve taken to sniffing and saying how the Democrats have “fooled” you into believing a lie when they “know” that it is a much more “complicated” matter…before spouting the latest talking point from Rush/Beck/Hannity.

33 Dr Lizardo (The Manchurian Muslim)  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:28:09pm

re: #25 Targetpractice

Nah, this is a “squirrel/nut” moment for Bryan. Rubio giving the response in Spanish is a gimmick.

Actually, this may be the one time Bryan is right. Giving the SOTU response in Spanish is a gimmick of sorts on behalf of the GOP, and I think a good segment of the GOP’s rabidly xenophobic base would indeed be pissed off about it.

34 The Ghost of a Flea  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:28:26pm

re: #31 Decatur Deb

More of a team-building morale ploy, like counting coup or a panty raid.

Counting derp.

35 Lidane  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:28:39pm

re: #23 Vicious Babushka

DERP KEEP ON A’DERPIN

“English-Only conservatives” don’t even consider Rubio a citizen, so that’s a moot point.

36 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:28:52pm

G-D it’s so freaking dumb

37 EPR-radar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:28:56pm

re: #33 Dr Lizardo

Actually, this may be the one time Bryan is right. Giving the SOTU response in Spanish is a gimmick of sorts on behalf of the GOP, and I think a good segment of the GOP’s rabidly xenophobic base would indeed be pissed off about it.

Meanwhile, the GOP needs a lot more than little gimmicks like this to make headway with Latino voters.

38 The Ghost of a Flea  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:29:04pm

re: #32 Targetpractice

Ayep. If you call them on their bullshit, they’ve taken to sniffing and saying how the Democrats have “fooled” you into believing a lie when they “know” that it is a much more “complicated” matter…before spouting the latest talking point from Rush/Beck/Hannity.

There are four lights.

39 Decatur Deb  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:29:08pm

re: #33 Dr Lizardo

Actually, this may be the one time Bryan is right. Giving the SOTU response in Spanish is a gimmick of sorts on behalf of the GOP, and I think a good segment of the GOP’s rabidly xenophobic base would indeed be pissed off about it.

Looking for the downside, here..

40 calochortus  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:29:31pm

re: #36 Vicious Babushka

G-D it’s so freaking dumb

Also, IIRC, northern Maine.

41 Dr Lizardo (The Manchurian Muslim)  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:30:47pm

re: #37 EPR-radar

Meanwhile, the GOP needs a lot more than little gimmicks like this to make headway with Latino voters.

That goes without saying. It’s putting lipstick on a pig quite frankly, and a grotesquely cynical move on the GOP’s part.

42 Dr Lizardo (The Manchurian Muslim)  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:31:17pm

re: #39 Decatur Deb

Looking for the downside, here..

There isn’t a downside in this case.

43 CuriousLurker  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:31:32pm

re: #39 Decatur Deb

Looking for the downside, here..

Exactly. Insult Hispanics & piss off the base. Brilliant!

44 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:31:36pm

re: #41 Dr Lizardo

That goes without saying. It’s putting lipstick on a pig quite frankly, and a grotesquely cynical move on the GOP’s part.

How dare you insult Sarah Palin like that?!?!

45 Decatur Deb  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:32:35pm

re: #44 Targetpractice

GOP spells that “Saraj”, now.

46 Dr Lizardo (The Manchurian Muslim)  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:32:35pm

re: #44 Targetpractice

Heh. Yeah, I’m sneaky like that.

47 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:33:46pm

re: #40 calochortus

Also, IIRC, northern Maine.

GUN VIOLINS

48 EPR-radar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:35:15pm

On the topic of the OP, the work of Frank Luntz is essentially the ‘Newspeak’ of 1984.

49 calochortus  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:35:17pm

re: #47 Vicious Babushka

Well, that explains everything!

50 Bubblehead II  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:35:49pm

re: #10 Kragar

Ahhhhh, the stupidity of youth.

51 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:36:43pm

New York Republican on gun control: Hitler would be proud of Gov. Cuomo

“We had been there since 9am, it’s now eleven at night and we’re told basically to shut up and vote,” he explained. “And that’s what this is all about. Just don’t question it, vote. That’s basically the message here. If that’s not dictatorial I don’t know what is. Hitler would be proud. Mussolini would be proud of what we did here. Moscow would be proud, but that’s not democracy.”

When questioned by a reporter, McLaughlin insisted Cuomo was “Mussolini-like” and then compared the governor to Russian President Vladimir Putin.

52 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:37:00pm

re: #43 CuriousLurker

Exactly. Insult Hispanics & piss off the base. Brilliant!

That’s the monster they’ve created. Have only themselves to blame.

53 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:37:41pm

re: #51 Kragar

New York Republican on gun control: Hitler would be proud of Gov. Cuomo

Sheesh.

54 Ghost of a Dopefish  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:38:55pm

Evening Lizardim from the snowapalooza-bound wild north country. How go things from the front lines in the war on derp?

55 Dr Lizardo (The Manchurian Muslim)  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:39:24pm

re: #52 HappyWarrior

That’s the monster they’ve created. Have only themselves to blame.

Indeed. The GOP made a Faustian bargain with some of the ugliest, most reactionary elements in American culture.

This is what happens when you make a deal with the devil.

56 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:40:25pm

re: #55 Dr Lizardo

Indeed. The GOP made a Faustian bargain with some of the ugliest, most reactionary elements in American culture.

This is what happens when you make a deal with the devil.

Yep. From the party of Lincoln to the party of people who boo openly gay soldiers.

57 EPR-radar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:42:06pm

re: #56 HappyWarrior

Yep. From the party of Lincoln to the party of people who boo openly gay soldiers.

“Let them die” should also not be forgotten. Hopefully, the GOP will not win the Presidency until this insanity has passed —- it is bad enough that they still control the House.

58 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:42:38pm

Damsel, Arise: A Westboro Scion Leaves Her Church

I first met Megan in the summer of 2011, when I went to Topeka to spend a few days with the Westboro folks for my book project. During that visit, we talked about faith, we talked about church, we talked about marriage (and Megan’s feeling that, given the prospects, it would require no small amount of divine intervention in her case), and we talked about Harry Potter (for the record, she’s a fan). She seemed so sure in her beliefs, that I could not have imagined that some fifteen months later, we’d be having a conversation in which she tearfully told me that she was no longer with her family or with the church.

Mostly, the tears have subsided—“in public, anyway,” she says one afternoon, as we sit in a Tribeca café. “I still cry a lot.” Forget what you know of the church. Just imagine what it is like to walk away from everything you have ever known. Consider how traumatic it would be to know that your family is never supposed to speak to you again. Think of how hard it would be to have a fortress of faith built around you, and to have to dismantle it yourself, brick by brick, examining each one and deciding whether there’s something worth keeping or whether it’s not as solid as you thought it was.

As we talk, Megan repeatedly emphasizes how much she loves those she has left behind. “I don’t want to hurt them,” she says. “I don’t want to hurt them.”

Her departure has hurt them already—she knew it would—yet there was no way she could stay. “My doubts started with a conversation I had with David Abitbol,” she says. Megan met David, an Israeli web developer who’s part of the team behind the blog Jewlicious, on Twitter. “I would ask him questions about Judaism, and he would ask me questions about church doctrine. One day, he asked a specific question about one of our signs—‘Death Penalty for Fags’—and I was arguing for the church’s position, that it was a Levitical punishment and as completely appropriate now as it was then. He said, ‘But Jesus said’—and I thought it was funny he was quoting Jesus—‘Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.’ And then he connected it to another member of the church who had done something that, according to the Old Testament, was also punishable by death. I realized that if the death penalty was instituted for any sin, you completely cut off the opportunity to repent. And that’s what Jesus was talking about.”

59 Bubblehead II  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:42:40pm

re: #54 Ghost of a Dopefish

Evening Lizardim from the snowapalooza-bound wild north country. How go things from the front lines in the war on derp?

Well the latest casualty was GoHC. Jackw33 is still hang on.

60 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:44:01pm

re: #57 EPR-radar

“Let them die” should also not be forgotten. Hopefully, the GOP will not win the Presidency until this insanity has passed —- it is bad enough that they still control the House.

Yeah that was a pretty low moment too. And yeah it really is bad enough that they still have the House. I unfortunately can’t see that changing any time soon. It really changed hands at the worst possible time since it also coincided with Republicans taking over state houses and governorships.

61 Ghost of a Dopefish  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:44:15pm

re: #59 Ghost Of The Mare Island Mud Puppy

Well the latest casualty was GoHC. Jackw33 is still hang on.

Alas, poor GoHC. May he rest in peace. His gamey buttocks will be remembered as particularly delectable, with heaping helpings of troll fat to soften the meat.

62 kirkspencer  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:44:28pm

re: #50 Ghost Of The Mare Island Mud Puppy

Ahhhhh, the stupidity of youth.

Actually, just watched the video, and… ok, maybe I’ve been around too many high schoolers recently but I think the judge may have gone a bit overboard here. Oh, not once she flipped him the bird - at that point the 30 days was right. But the first two responses, especially the second, was to my eyes way too much a case of Cartman’s Authoritie.

So she’s nervous and giggles and it irritates the judge, so he chastises. she responds and he sets bail. And then when he makes that rather childish “Bye-bye” instead of a more proper goodbye or even not saying anything gets annoyed when she responds in kind with “adios”.

Yes, she was stupid when she flipped him off. But again, I’m not feeling so kindly toward the judge in this case.

63 Dr Lizardo (The Manchurian Muslim)  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:44:57pm

re: #56 HappyWarrior

Yep. From the party of Lincoln to the party of people who boo openly gay soldiers.

Every culture and society has these reactionary elements; we have them here in the Czech Republic as well. The difference is that here, at least, there’s no major political party who caters to their whims. Reactionaries here are treated with polite derision.

64 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:45:02pm

RWNJ Circular “logic” Buncha moronz.

65 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:45:46pm

This is how RWNJ’s “argue.” Look at jackiew.

66 EPR-radar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:45:52pm

re: #60 HappyWarrior

Yeah that was a pretty low moment too. And yeah it really is bad enough that they still have the House. I unfortunately can’t see that changing any time soon. It really changed hands at the worst possible time since it also coincided with Republicans taking over state houses and governorships.

Yes, and the GOP is still too close for comfort nationwide. If the Democrats nominate a weak candidate in 2016, the Republican nominee could plausibly win.

67 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:46:15pm

re: #63 Dr Lizardo

Every culture and society has these reactionary elements; we have them here in the Czech Republic as well. The difference is that here, at least, there’s no major political party who caters to their whims. Reactionaries here are treated with polite derision.

Oh for sure. It’s honestly kind of tragic considering the party was founded to stop the spread of slavery and now they have people who seem to care more about denying GLBT, women, and others rights more than do anything else.

68 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:47:16pm

re: #66 EPR-radar

Yes, and the GOP is still too close for comfort nationwide. If the Democrats nominate a weak candidate in 2016, the Republican nominee could plausibly win.

It is a good thing that demographics are changing but I agree. A weak Dem candidate and a relatively strong Republican one could mean the Republicans reclaim the WH in 2016 which would frankly suck considering how nuts that party is getting.

69 EPR-radar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:48:05pm

re: #67 HappyWarrior

Oh for sure. It’s honestly kind of tragic considering the party was founded to stop the spread of slavery and now they have people who seem to care more about denying GLBT, women, and others rights more than do anything else.

More than that, the ‘race realists’ and neo-confederates in the GOP would bring back slavery itself if they got their way.

70 Dr Lizardo (The Manchurian Muslim)  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:50:06pm

re: #67 HappyWarrior

Oh for sure. It’s honestly kind of tragic considering the party was founded to stop the spread of slavery and now they have people who seem to care more about denying GLBT, women, and others rights more than do anything else.

The reactionaries are the last stand of a patriarchal culture; their fear, anger and loathing stems from the fact which they unconsciously recognize that their world is slipping away, slipping out of their grasp more and more with each passing year.

71 Bubblehead II  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:50:56pm

re: #62 kirkspencer

I don’t think she was nervous. She was treating the hearing like it was a joke. But as Stanley pointed out in his #15, I think she was either high, figures Daddy is going to bail her out of her problems or both.

72 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:53:56pm

Head Full of Doubt / Road Full of Promise

by Megan Phelps-Roper (Yes, one of the WBC Phelps)

In a city in a state in the center of a country lives a group of people who believe they are the center of the universe; they know Right and Wrong, and they are Right. They work hard and go to school and get married and have kids who they take to church and teach that continually protesting the lives, deaths, and daily activities of The World is the only genuine statement of compassion that a God-loving human can sincerely make. As parents, they are attentive and engaged, and the children learn their lessons well.

This is my framework.

Until very recently, this is what I lived, breathed, studied, believed, preached – loudly, daily, and for nearly 27 years.

I never thought it would change. I never wanted it to.

Then suddenly: it did.

And I left.

Where do you go from there?

73 Skeetghazi  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:58:50pm

re: #71 Ghost Of The Mare Island Mud Puppy

I don’t think she was nervous. She was treating the hearing like it was a joke. But as Stanley pointed out in his #15, I think she was either high, figures Daddy is going to bail her out of her problems or both.

What a bummer to be her parent.

74 kirkspencer  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 2:58:53pm

re: #71 Ghost Of The Mare Island Mud Puppy

I don’t think she was nervous. She was treating the hearing like it was a joke. But as Stanley pointed out in his #15, I think she was either high, figures Daddy is going to bail her out of her problems or both.

My opinion is based on watching teen girls in stress situations facing anonymous/unknown authority. They fidget, especially playing with their hair. They giggle. They are “flighty”. Oh, not all, but an extremely large proportion. And yes it comes across as them treating it as a joke. I’m going to guess that for some it is exactly that, and this might be such a case.

On the other hand I’m still peeved at the judge. I might be giving the girl slack she shouldn’t get, and to be honest when he chastised her for the first bit he might well have been in the right. But the “bye-bye” was /exactly/ what he was condemning, and he destroyed his credibility when he got mad at the “adios”. He set the bar then punished because she met it.

75 Skeetghazi  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:02:10pm

Well, day 8 of unemployment. Dying of boredom, except the 31 days of Oscar is currently running on TCM. Watched “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane” this a.m., now onto “Night of the Iguana”.

Classic fare.

Oh and I have a really good temp (hopefully not) job starting tomorrow. PHEW.

76 Killgore Trout  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:03:04pm

DC shooter wanted to kill as many as possible, prosecutors say

After years of thinking it over, Floyd Corkins finally had a plan.

He’d bought a gun and learned how to use it. He’d loaded three magazines. And he had stopped by Chick-fil-A to pick up 15 sandwiches, which he planned to smear in the dying faces of staffers he expected to kill at the Family Research Council in Washington.
….He purchased the gun used in the attack a week before at a Virginia gun store, where a French television crew taped him while doing a story about the widespread availability of guns in America, according to prosecutors.

77 Ghost of a Dopefish  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:03:37pm

re: #75 Skeetghazi

Well, day 8 of unemployment. Dying of boredom, except the 31 days of Oscar is currently running on TCM. Watched “Whatever Happened to Baby Jane” this a.m., now onto “Night of the Iguana”.

Classic fare.

Oh and I have a really good temp (hopefully not) job starting tomorrow. PHEW.

Yeah. By the time I got to the end of my short stay in unemployment, even the Mrs. Fish was glad to be rid of me.

78 Skeetghazi  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:04:48pm

re: #77 Ghost of a Dopefish

Yeah. By the time I got to the end of my short stay in unemployment, even the Mrs. Fish was glad to be rid of me.

It’s brutal!!! I live in a condo complex. Neighbors are nice when I don’t see them 24/7. I’m sick of them now, they are irritating!

79 Ghost of a Dopefish  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:08:37pm

re: #78 Skeetghazi

It’s brutal!!! I live in a condo complex. Neighbors are nice when I don’t see them 24/7. I’m sick of them now, they are irritating!

Yeah. Like I said when you first joined the unemployment club, I had people actually ask me why I didn’t take the opportunity of my layoff to “take a brief vacation from working.” I responded that the time I’d already taken had driven me absolutely batty and that I had to find something productive to do.

80 Joanne  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:16:23pm

re: #10 Kragar

Giggling teen flips judge the bird, judge not amused

LOVE this comment: Amazingly, she stopped laughing at the same time that I started.

81 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:20:10pm

Rios Claims Gay Men Are Child Predators by Nature

Today, the Boy Scouts of America board said that it will postpone a final decision on the future of the ban on gay members until May. Two days before the announcement, the American Family Association’s Sandy Rios said that gay men are child predators by nature and consequently should be banned from Scouting.

While responding to an email she received from a listener named David who opposes the current prohibition on gay Boy Scouts, Rios argued that gay men “like youth, most of them like young men” and go into professions like teaching and coaching so “they can be around boys.”

Based on the preponderance of evidence, it would seem Priests and Football coaches who purport to be heterosexuals are more likely to be child predators..

82 Joanne  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:22:34pm

re: #23 Vicious Babushka

DERP KEEP ON A’DERPIN

Ah, Bryan Fischer…that tweet was delicious! Keep it up, Bryan! I hear that tent shrinking with every tweet.

83 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:25:08pm

It amazes me how Bryan can actually comment on the evidence of Global warming and think it supports his belief that its not happening.

84 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:25:49pm

“Ethics modulated,” “ethics modulated!”

I’m going to refer to all those new Jim-Crow 3/5’s of a person Republican voting white only vote counting schemes as “ethics modulated” from now on!

85 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:28:16pm

U.S. Corporations Haven’t Been Paying The Full Corporate Tax Rate For 45 Years

In 2011, U.S. corporations paid a 12.1 percent effective corporate income tax rate, a 40-year low. The statutory corporate tax rate is 35 percent, but companies drive their rates fare lower due to the proliferation of loopholes and deductions and the growing use of offshore tax havens.

This isn’t a new problem, as Goldman Sachs’ David Kostin shows. In fact, corporations have been paying below the statutory rate for 45 years (the chart uses 39 percent due to its inclusion of state corporate taxes):

86 Ghost of a Dopefish  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:30:03pm

re: #85 Kragar

U.S. Corporations Haven’t Been Paying The Full Corporate Tax Rate For 45 Years

Well, DUH. We can’t tax the job creators, after all. Corporations are basically just really rich people!

87 Skeetghazi  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:30:49pm

re: #79 Ghost of a Dopefish

Thanks Fish!

88 Charles Johnson  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:31:44pm

A love note from a German IP address:

Chuck:

At one time I was deeply devoted fan of yours and your site. However,
your conversion to the left on every issue has left me with the greatest
hatred of you.

I would like to see something rotten happen to you. Perhaps you can
contract a resistant strain of a disease and buy the farm. Yes. That
would be great.

89 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:31:46pm

ASSHOLE

90 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:32:09pm

On Frank Luntz, Fox News, and the GOP:

“…bullshitters seek to convey a certain impression of themselves without being concerned about whether anything at all is true. They quietly change the rules governing their end of the conversation so that claims about truth and falsity are irrelevant. Frankfurt concludes that although bullshit can take many innocent forms, excessive indulgence in it can eventually undermine the practitioner’s capacity to tell the truth in a way that lying does not. Liars at least acknowledge that it matters what is true. By virtue of this, Frankfurt writes, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.”

Harry G. Frankfurt: On Bullshit

91 Ghost of a Dopefish  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:32:16pm

re: #87 Skeetghazi

Thanks Fish!

I do what I can. Good luck with your temp job, I hope it turns into more than a temp!

92 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:33:19pm

After Prison in Syria I Cannot Ever Forget

The author was imprisoned after participating in a nonviolent protest and carrying a sign that read: “Only in Syria: the thinking mind is imprisoned.” Since her Jan. 9 release, she has felt a responsibility to share the stories of those she left behind in that prison cell.

93 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:33:58pm

re: #88 Charles Johnson

A love note from a German IP address:

Creepy.

94 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:34:07pm

re: #88 Charles Johnson

derply devoted

95 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:36:56pm

re: #26 Kragar

Normally I’d defined “Low Information Voter” as people with an IQ above drool.

One odd creature I know is a very intelligent Brit who moved to this country and obsesses over trying to prove the Republicans right and not-racist despite the fact that the only thing he has in common with them is crazy-paranoid climate denial (it’s a conspiracy!), hatred of libs, greed and a total lack of caring for anyone not in his family.

Other than that he’s an atheist, theoretically socially liberal (though he seems to like the far right nuts and hate the liberals who agree with him), and even an educated medical researcher. Did I mention that he’s totally obsessed?

96 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:38:56pm

re: #89 Vicious Babushka

I heard a bit of him being interviewed the other day telling lies about how he can’t afford to give his workers health insurance, despite the fact that he DOESN’T compete on price and his yuppy customers would be happy to pay enough to support that.

The fucker needs to be replaced. I’m boycotting the place.

97 Joanne  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:39:02pm

re: #83 Kragar

It amazes me how Bryan can actually comment on the evidence of Global warming and think it supports his belief that its not happening.

Especially when he keeps referring to extreme weather. His one earlier was that Russia was going to get the snowstorm of the century. Sandy escapes him.

98 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:39:13pm

“Effective & efficient government”…except the GOP doesn’t support that, because if government were effective and efficient, they couldn’t bitch endlessly about how it’s the enemy, how it’s holding everybody back, and how America was so much better when government was “small.”

99 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:40:03pm

re: #98 Targetpractice

They want it inefficient so that people give up on it.

100 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:40:38pm

re: #97 Joanne

Especially when he keeps referring to extreme weather. His one earlier was that Russia was going to get the snowstorm of the century. Sandy escapes him.

Last summer, he asked how could there be global warming when it was snowing in South Africa.

Fucking Northern and Southern hemispheres, how do they work?

101 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:40:38pm

re: #97 Joanne

Especially when he keeps referring to extreme weather. His one earlier was that Russia was going to get the snowstorm of the century. Sandy escapes him.

I think he’d only believe global warming if every day of the year had an average of over an 100 degree. He clearly doesn’t understand the actual science behind it or anything.

102 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:41:07pm

re: #100 Kragar

Last summer, he asked how could there be global warming when it was snowing in South Africa.

Fucking Northern and Southern hemispheres, how do they work?

Hemisphere? Sounds like an Obamunist plot.

103 Ghost of a Dopefish  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:42:08pm

re: #101 HappyWarrior

I think he’d only believe global warming if every day of the year had an average of over an 100 degree. He clearly doesn’t understand the actual science behind it or anything.

Because science is bad, mmkay? God and science can’t mix in his pointy little head, so he just throws science out.

104 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:42:36pm

How is a smaller government supposed to keep homosexuals from having rights, force women to have no control over their bodies, and push religious doctrine as valid scientific theory?
/

105 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:42:36pm

re: #101 HappyWarrior

He’d believe in it if Jesus had mentioned it. That’s the only criterion.

Don’t expect that he does any reality checking at all in his life. None.

106 b_sharp  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:43:19pm

re: #101 HappyWarrior

I think he’d only believe global warming if every day of the year had an average of over an 100 degree. He clearly doesn’t understand the actual science behind it or anything.

I vote for “He clearly doesn’t understand the actual science behind it or anything.”

107 Ghost of a Dopefish  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:43:32pm

re: #104 Kragar

How is a smaller government supposed to keep homosexuals from having rights, force women to have no control over their bodies, and push religious doctrine as valid scientific theory?
/

Because those are things the dumpy white male majority want, so they’ll just happen naturally as an outgrowth of government becoming more hands-off. Come on, Kragar, read your talking points next time./

108 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:44:03pm

And Mr. Luntz, “reform & protect entitlements” only works when your party base isn’t screaming to anyone who will listen (and many who won’t) that we need to do away with Medicare and Social Security because the free market won’t gamble with people’s retirement dollars and treat their medical needs as a reason to bleed them of their last pennies.

109 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:44:22pm

re: #103 Ghost of a Dopefish

Because science is bad, mmkay? God and science can’t mix in his pointy little head, so he just throws science out.

Are you going to trust research conducted by generations of people investigating the subject and constantly refining their knowledge or centuries old folklore tossed around between drunk shepherds?

110 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:47:09pm

re: #106 b_sharp

I vote for “He clearly doesn’t understand the actual science behind it or anything.”

Yeah that’s one constant with this guy. Frankly, I’m amazed he knows how to use the computer and possibly wipe his own ass.

111 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:47:55pm

re: #110 HappyWarrior

Yeah that’s one constant with this guy. Frankly, I’m amazed he knows how to use the computer and possibly wipe his own ass.

Note to self: Don’t use his keyboard.

112 gwangung  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:48:52pm

re: #85 Kragar

U.S. Corporations Haven’t Been Paying The Full Corporate Tax Rate For 45 Years

So basically, US corporations are cheating, paying lower taxes than elsewhere in the world, having less unionization and STILL are just keeping even with places like Germany and Japan?

113 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:50:51pm

DERPTY DERP

114 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:51:58pm

re: #113 Vicious Babushka

DERPTY DERP

What “truth,” oh wise and aged one?

///

115 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:52:58pm

Republican Congresswoman Likens Regulations Of For-Profit Colleges To The Holocaust

Rep. Virginia Foxx (R-NC) compared efforts to regulate the for-profit college industry to the Holocaust during a speech Tuesday. Speaking at the National Association of Independent Colleges and Universities, Foxx invoked a famous Holocaust maxim in order to defend for-profit colleges against increased scrutiny. “They came for the for-profits, and I didn’t speak up,” the North Carolina congresswoman said.

116 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:53:12pm

re: #114 Targetpractice

What “truth,” oh wise and aged one?

///

DEMONS!

117 Ghost of a Dopefish  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:53:23pm

re: #113 Vicious Babushka

I confess, I never quite got the idea behind God “hating” anyone. God loves people. He may not particularly appreciate what they do, but He loves them just the same. Why can’t people like Fischer get that through their pointy little skulls?

118 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:54:23pm

re: #115 Kragar

Republican Congresswoman Likens Regulations Of For-Profit Colleges To The Holocaust

Nazi Germany: Serving Republican victimhood since 2009.

119 EPR-radar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:54:27pm

re: #115 Kragar

OK. So Republican primaries consist of a talent show among internet trolls?

120 EPR-radar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:55:22pm

re: #117 Ghost of a Dopefish

I confess, I never quite got the idea behind God “hating” anyone. God loves people. He may not particularly appreciate what they do, but He loves them just the same. Why can’t people like Fischer get that through their pointy little skulls?

Fischer has made his God in his own image. Not surprisingly, this God hates all the same things Fischer does.

121 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:56:07pm

re: #120 EPR-radar

Fischer has made his God in his own image. Not surprisingly, this God hates all the same things Fischer does.

Fischer’s, in particular, seems to strike me as particularly self-loathing.

122 Ghost of a Dopefish  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:57:01pm

re: #120 EPR-radar

Fischer has made his God in his own image. Not surprisingly, this God hates all the same things Fischer does.

I’m just glad my God isn’t anything like that. I’d have to fire Him.

123 EPR-radar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:57:16pm

re: #121 Targetpractice

Fischer’s, in particular, seems to strike me as particularly self-loathing.

Agreed. He is obsessive, and there is likely to be something nasty driving the obsession.

124 Political Atheist  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:58:41pm

Aha, done with work for today. Charles, your disemvoweler sure does the trick. Saw that deployed downstairs, always funny to see.

Any discussion today about the DC shooter?

Washington (CNN) — After years of thinking it over, Floyd Corkins finally had a plan.

He’d bought a gun and learned how to use it. He’d loaded three magazines. And he had stopped by Chick-fil-A to pick up 15 sandwiches, which he planned to smear in the dying faces of staffers he expected to kill at the Family Research Council in Washington.

It would be a statement, he said, “against the people who work in that building,” according to documents filed in U.S. District Court, where Corkins pleaded guilty on Wednesday to three charges related to the August shooting at the conservative policy group.

Corkins told Judge Richard Roberts that he hoped to intimidate gay rights opponents.

125 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:58:54pm

re: #115 Kragar

Republican Congresswoman Likens Regulations Of For-Profit Colleges To The Holocaust

Yeah just like the Holocaust. Shut the fuck up Virginia Foxx, you trivialize the evil of the real Nazis with this crap.

126 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:59:47pm

re: #113 Vicious Babushka

DERPTY DERP

Yeah love is calling them pedophiles and blaming them for Nazism, Bryan. Why don’t you leave them the fuck alone and focus on your own problems because you not gay people are the one with them.

127 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 3:59:49pm

re: #123 EPR-radar

Agreed. He is obsessive, and there is likely to be something nasty driving the obsession.

Mommy issues. His mother left his father for another man and Bryan stayed with the Dad. His latching onto a system which teaches the man is lord of his castle and women should serve haven’t helped any, but does explain a lot.

128 EPR-radar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:02:31pm

re: #124 Political Atheist

Aha, done with work for today. Charles, your disemvoweler sure does the trick. Saw that deployed downstairs, always funny to see.

Any discussion today about the DC shooter?

I haven’t seen much. The shooter was a violent Moonbat who targeted the FRC. Since this kind of violent Moonbattery doesn’t really have a political home in the US (even at the agitprop level), there may not be much to discuss.

129 Ghost of a Dopefish  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:02:35pm

re: #125 HappyWarrior

Yeah just like the Holocaust. Shut the fuck up Virginia Foxx, you trivialize the evil of the real Nazis with this crap.

My wingnut FB friend posted a link that compared the Obama admin to Hitler for “persecuting gun owners.” Sometimes I wish I could reach through the Internet and punch people in the face.

130 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:03:04pm

HA HA HA


WARNING: Link is to Weasel Zippers
Freaking out over this.

131 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:04:02pm

Love the talk from Luntz about “effective & efficient government,” when today the USPS declared that in order to fulfill obligations set upon it by government to pre-fund 75 years worth of pensions payments, it has to stop Saturday mail deliveries. And of course, all the wingnuts I’m hearing have already started to swear up and down that the unions are the ones who actually bleeding USPS dry and not the payments for employees who won’t be hired for decades yet.

132 EPR-radar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:05:22pm

re: #127 Kragar

Mommy issues. His mother left his father for another man and Bryan stayed with the Dad. His latching onto a system which teaches the man is lord of his castle and women should serve haven’t helped any, but does explain a lot.

I think there is more to it than that. You don’t obsess 24/7 over the gays because of relatively normal parenting issues. Even generic hard core wing nut patriarchy is probably not enough to explain it.

133 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:05:49pm

DERP FAIL


THAT’S A PHOTOSHOP U MORAN

134 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:06:35pm

re: #132 EPR-radar

I think there is more to it than that. You don’t obsess 24/7 over the gays because of relatively normal parenting issues. Even generic hard core wing nut patriarchy is probably not enough to explain it.

Definitely more than that, but its a start.

Fischer is a profoundly broken person.

135 Lidane  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:07:55pm

re: #133 Vicious Babushka

DERP FAIL


THAT’S A PHOTOSHOP U MORAN

That’s Justin Bieber, actually. And yes, I’m ashamed I know that.

136 Gus  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:08:00pm

re: #133 Vicious Babushka

DERP FAIL


THAT’S A PHOTOSHOP U MORAN

That’s Justin Bieber.

137 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:08:31pm

re: #136 Gus

That’s Justin Bieber.

Justin Bieber’s head photoshopped on to Rachel Maddow, and the idiot wingnut thought it was real.

138 The Mountain That Blogs  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:08:50pm

re: #129 Ghost of a Dopefish

I really wish someone would do this: [Link: xkcd.com…]

139 Killgore Trout  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:09:51pm

re: #124 Political Atheist

Aha, done with work for today. Charles, your disemvoweler sure does the trick. Saw that deployed downstairs, always funny to see.

Any discussion today about the DC shooter?

I thought this was a freaky coincidence

He purchased the gun used in the attack a week before at a Virginia gun store, where a French television crew taped him while doing a story about the widespread availability of guns in America, according to prosecutors.

The guy seems like a real asshole. It was a pretty speedy trial. Similar cases like the Glenn Beck fan caught on his way to shoot up the Tides Foundation haven’t even started hearings as far as I know. Sadly this guy will probably only get 20 years or so in jail. Probably released in 10-15 years.

140 Gus  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:10:09pm

re: #137 Vicious Babushka

Justin Bieber’s head photoshopped on to Rachel Maddow, and the idiot wingnut thought it was real.

Not Photoshopped either.

Image: justin-bieber-glasses-photo.jpg

141 EPR-radar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:11:07pm

re: #140 Gus

Those glasses are… unfortunate.

142 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:11:11pm

re: #140 Gus

Not Photoshopped either.

Image: justin-bieber-glasses-photo.jpg

Wow, thanks for the correction. Even bigger FAIL.

143 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:12:45pm

Define “chutzpah”:

Levin Postpones Hagel Confirmation Vote

Sen. Carl Levin (D-MI), who chairs the Senate Armed Services Committee, said on Wednesday he would be postponing a vote on the nomination of Chuck Hagel as the nation’s next secretary of defense.

“The committee’s vote on Senator Hagel’s nomination has not been scheduled,” Levin said in a statement. “I had hoped to hold a vote on the nomination this week, but the committee’s review of the nomination is not yet complete. I intend to schedule a vote on the nomination as soon as possible.”

The vote was expected as early as Thursday, but Republicans on the committee, including Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), clamored for more information on groups or individuals that compensated Hagel for speeches he has given in the past.

They’re accusing Hagel, quietly when not out loud, of being under foreign influence through compensation both financial and otherwise. Note this is a week after accusing him of not being beholden enough to Israel for their tastes.

144 b_sharp  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:13:33pm

re: #140 Gus

Not Photoshopped either.

Image: justin-bieber-glasses-photo.jpg

Did he puke on his hand?

145 EPR-radar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:15:30pm

re: #131 Targetpractice

Love the talk from Luntz about “effective & efficient government,” when today the USPS declared that in order to fulfill obligations set upon it by government to pre-fund 75 years worth of pensions payments, it has to stop Saturday mail deliveries. And of course, all the wingnuts I’m hearing have already started to swear up and down that the unions are the ones who actually bleeding USPS dry and not the payments for employees who won’t be hired for decades yet.

If the private sector still did pensions, there is not a company in existence that would not go bankrupt if forced to fund the pension 75 years in advance.

146 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:17:41pm

I actually thought about changing my nic to insaneclownposseferrethunter, but decided to stick with the one I have. I think it’s more offensive to some.

What do you think?

147 Gus  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:18:32pm

re: #144 b_sharp

Did he puke on his hand?

Don’t know. Just hobbled back from the kitchen. Leg hurts. Took a Vicodin and have two left. Getting colder. Have to go back to the hospital and see about getting a cast.

148 Ghost of a Dopefish  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:19:43pm

re: #147 Gus

Don’t know. Just hobbled back from the kitchen. Leg hurt. Took a Vicodin and have two left. Getting colder. Have to go back to the hospital and see about getting a cast.

Oh, I’m sorry. {Gus}

149 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:20:44pm

Ireland finally admits state collusion in Magdalene Laundry system

After more than seven decades of exploitation and a 10-year struggle for justice, Ireland on Tuesday admitted its role in the enslavement of thousands of women and girls in the notorious Magdalene Laundry system, but stopped short of issuing a formal apology from the government.

A long-awaited report headed by Senator Martin McAleese said there was “significant state involvement” in how the laundries were run – a reversal of the official state line for years, which insisted the institutions were privately controlled and run by nuns.

But the Irish Premier Enda Kenny’s failure to give the women and their supporters a full, formal, public apology in the Dail on Tuesday afternoon has infuriated the victims and their supporters, who said such an approach risked undermining Ireland’s attempt to right a historic wrong. Instead Kenny stated his “regret” about the stigma hanging over the women.

“The stigma that the branding together of all the residents, all 10,000, in the Magdalene Laundries, needs to be removed, and should have been removed long before this,” Kenny said. “And I really am sorry that that never happened, and I regret that it never happened.”

Claire McGetterick of the Justice For Magdalenes group said last night: “Frankly their country has failed them again”.

Labelled the “Maggies”, the women and girls were stripped of their names and dumped in Irish Catholic church-run laundries where nuns treated them as slaves, simply because they were unmarried mothers, orphans or regarded as somehow morally wayward.

150 EPR-radar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:25:16pm

I just saw the title of the previous thread out of the corner of my eye, and mis-read it as “Tea Party Hot Mess vs. Turd Blossom”.

Oddly appropriate.

151 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:28:19pm

The Horrorwitz screed

“PowerLine has graciously reprinted David Horowitz’s stirring pamphlet, “Go For the Heart: How Republicans Can Win,” which in reality is a 6,000-word screed that goes for the jugular, because Democrats are rotten. You may recall former New Leftist Horowitz from his reformed, radical rightist years of online toil devoted to convincing America’s parents that our colleges and universities are brimming with subversive layabouts and Trotskyite cutthroats; woe to the innocent American youth who offers his tabula rasa to the wicked designs of the scheming professorial class.”

152 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:29:49pm

I really don’t know how they can adjust “theocracy” into a verbage people would believe. How do you turn that into “jobs for everyone”?

Lutz has his work cut out for him.

153 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:31:49pm

Horowitz, on how to convince African Americans to vote GOP:

“Democrats will fight to the death to prevent poor parents from getting vouchers to provide their children with the same education that well-heeled Democratic legislators provide for theirs. This is a moral atrocity. This is an issue to get angry about and mobilize constituencies over. This is an issue that could drive a Gibraltar-size wedge through the Democratic base. But Republicans are too polite to do that.*

This is merely the most obvious atrocity that Democrats are committing against America’s impoverished minorities. Subverting family structures through a misconceived welfare system, encouraging food stamp dependency, providing incentives to bring into this world massive numbers of children who have no prospect of a decent life just to earn a welfare dollar. These are the corrupt fruits of Democratic welfare policies which are spiraling out of control. Republicans criticize these programs as “wasteful.” They need to start attacking them as destructive, as attacks on the human beings who are ensnared by them.”

*Not intended to reflect reality.

154 EPR-radar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:32:06pm

re: #152 FemNaziBitch

I really don’t know how they can adjust “theocracy” into a verbage people would believe. How do you turn that into “jobs for everyone”?

Lutz has his work cut out for him.

They’ve used “family values” as cover for theocracy for years. It isn’t working for them any more.

155 gwangung  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:32:13pm

re: #130 Vicious Babushka

HA HA HA


WARNING: Link is to Weasel Zippers
Freaking out over this.

Sally Jewell, top flight corporate CEO, entrepreneur and businesswoman?

Riiiiiigggghhhht.

156 Dr Lizardo (The Manchurian Muslim)  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:32:47pm

re: #89 Vicious Babushka

ASSHOLE

A friend of mine up in the Pac NW worked for WF for five years. She hated them with a passionate burning rage after awhile. She told me she’d never shop there in a billion years, they treat people like shit, and the happiest day of her life was when she quit.

She now works for another, small organic co-op. She’s sort of a granola, but we’ve known each other since we were teenagers.

157 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:32:59pm

re: #149 Kragar

Ireland finally admits state collusion in Magdalene Laundry system

Free Labor in the Name of G-d.

Nice gig if you can get it.

158 chadu  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:33:10pm

re: #100 Kragar

Fucking Northern and Southern hemispheres, how do they work?

Magnets?

O/T
Love your username, btw. Except you’re not as overlookable as your probable namesake.

159 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:33:15pm

Eye yiy yiy…

Eyeball falls out in court, mistrial declared

160 chadu  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:34:38pm

re: #113 Vicious Babushka

Do you like gladiator movies, Bryan?

161 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:36:08pm

re: #159 NJDhockeyfan

Eye yiy yiy…

Eyeball falls out in court, mistrial declared

So, I’m thinking there is a zombie joke in there, but I can’t find it.

162 TedStriker  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:36:10pm

re: #149 Kragar

Ireland finally admits state collusion in Magdalene Laundry system

Shameful…Catholic-run slavery slathered with tacit approval and support from the Irish state.

And the Irish government is still couching their words, in hopes that they won’t be put on the hook for reparations, even though they benefited greatly from Magdalene Laundry slave labor.

163 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:36:22pm

These birthers are freaking delusional. What are they going to do when SCOTUS laughs themselves into speechless stupor?

164 chadu  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:36:41pm

re: #129 Ghost of a Dopefish

My wingnut FB friend posted a link that compared the Obama admin to Hitler for “persecuting gun owners.” Sometimes I wish I could reach through the Internet and punch people in the face.

The FacePunch-over-IP (FPoIP) protocol is hung up in committee.

165 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:37:59pm

re: #164 chadu

The FacePunch-over-IP (FPoIP) protocol is hung up in committee.

The Rules Committee is having a hard time finding precedent.

166 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:38:28pm

I don’t understand Justin Beebeeboy.

do I have to try?

167 Lidane  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:39:04pm

re: #163 Vicious Babushka

These birthers are freaking delusional. What are they going to do when SCOTUS laughs themselves into speechless stupor?

Popcorn + wine + watching the TGDN feed when SCOTUS ignores Orly Taitz again = Total hilarity

I’m going to love the meltdowns.

168 EPR-radar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:39:48pm

re: #162 TedStriker

Shameful…Catholic-run slavery slathered with tacit approval and support from the Irish state.

And the Irish government is still couching their words, in hopes that they won’t be put on the hook for reparations, even though they benefited greatly from Magdalene Laundry slave labor.

Chickenshits. Too scared to face the simple fact that it was so ‘convenient’ to make slaves out of people for alleged ‘moral failings’

169 Bubblehead II  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:41:13pm

re: #89 Vicious Babushka

Thankfully, we don’t have them here. Conversely, we did have our first Chick-Fil-A recently open.

Not even tempted to give these bigots my business.

170 EPR-radar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:41:37pm

re: #144 b_sharp

Did he puke on his hand?

Seems to be a baby boa constrictor being auctioned off for charity, according to the internet hive mind.

171 Gus  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:43:23pm
173 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:46:49pm

Caution, gruesome images.

Killed By the Regime: Aleppo’s River of the Dead

…Bustan al-Qasr is located on the edge of no-man’s land between the fronts in the divided city of Aleppo. The Quweiq River flows from districts of Aleppo located on higher ground that are controlled by the regime down to the parts below under the control of the rebels. A prison belonging to Assad’s security service is located upstream in the regime area.

This time hundreds had come to the river, making the journey from other cities to Aleppo to search for missing relatives. Many found them and were able to not only identify some of the dead, but also to explain why so few had been identified in recent days and weeks. The dead were students enrolled at the University of Aleppo who had come from other cities to stand exams.

174 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:46:51pm

re: #168 EPR-radar

Chickenshits. Too scared to face the simple fact that it was so ‘convenient’ to make slaves out of people for alleged ‘moral failings’

They were only girls. Disposable and dispensable… .

*grr*

175 Bubblehead II  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:48:34pm

re: #113 Vicious Babushka

FRC not a hate group but a truth group. Loves homosexuals enough to tell them the truth.

Yeah, your going to burn in Hell. REPENT!!!!!!

176 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:48:43pm

re: #173 jaunte

Caution, gruesome images.

Killed By the Regime: Aleppo’s River of the Dead

linky no worky

177 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:49:28pm

THIS AIN’T YOUR GREAT-GREAT-GRANDDAD’S GOP

178 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:49:33pm

re: #176 FemNaziBitch

Thanks, I corrected it.

179 Killgore Trout  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:49:43pm

An interesting public relations effort now on Reddit
I am running for President of Iran. My name is Dr. Hooshang Amirahmadi, ask me anything!
Not much information available on him but judging from his answers he’s completely full of shit, probably not a reformist candidate. He is American educated and seems to know how to dupe moonbats.

180 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:50:30pm

re: #177 Vicious Babushka

“And so they claim we hate Black people…”
[Link: twitter.com…]

181 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:51:12pm

re: #180 jaunte

“And so they claim we hate Black people…”
[Link: twitter.com…]

Heh.

182 Lidane  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:53:16pm

Hahahahahaha:

California fires back at Rick Perry, calls Texas ad campaign “a cry for help”

183 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:55:30pm

re: #182 Lidane

Brown noted the ad buy was for $24,000 — “barely a fart.”

I think Perry has made more than that on a single insider land deal.

184 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:55:57pm

re: #58 Kragar

I realized that if the death penalty was instituted for any sin, you completely cut off the opportunity to repent. And that’s what Jesus was talking about.”

OMG! she actually used her brain.

I am impressed!

Seriously!

185 Ghost of a Dopefish  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:57:21pm

re: #184 FemNaziBitch

OMG! she actually used her brain.

I am impressed!

Seriously!

Some of us do grow out of it. The rest go on to be the Bryan Fischers of the world.

186 TedStriker  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:58:35pm

re: #184 FemNaziBitch

OMG! she actually used her brain.

I am impressed!

Seriously!

And for that, she (and her sister) was cast out among the Sodomites, as it were.

Shunned and treated as dead by their own family.

The WBC folks are a fucking cult, by any metric one cares to use; at least some deprogram themselves and get out, though it has to hurt to have your family turn their backs on you.

187 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:58:58pm

re: #182 Lidane

Hahahahahaha:

California fires back at Rick Perry, calls Texas ad campaign “a cry for help”

The editorial is exactly right, Republican states of late haven’t been able to create jobs, just poach them from other states by offering sweet-heart tax credits and relaxed regulations, all of which they’re dumping on the working class and the poor.

188 Bubblehead II  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 4:59:47pm

re: #117 Ghost of a Dopefish

“God loves people. He may not particularly appreciate what they do, but He loves them just the same.”

But, because he doesn’t “appreciate” what they do, he will cast them into a lake of fire for an eternity of pain and suffering for not following “his” laws.

Thanks, but no thanks.

189 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:02:25pm

GOP hate tweets is really cooking tonight.

[Link: twitter.com…]

190 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:06:53pm

That’s quite a load the Iranians were sending to their terrorist friends.

Yemen: Seized Iranian ship carried varied weapons

SANAA, Yemen — A ship seized by Yemeni authorities last month carried a wide variety of Iranian-made weapons, Yemen’s Defense Ministry said Wednesday.

They included material for bombs and suicide belts, explosives, Katyusha rockets, surface-to-air missiles, rocket-propelled grenades and large amounts of ammunition.

In a statement, the ministry detailed contents of the Iranian ship seized in Yemen’s territorial waters in mid-January. It described contents as “large, diverse and dangerous” weapons that also included night vision binoculars and goggles, remote devices, circuits, wires and rifle silencers.

191 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:07:33pm

re: #178 jaunte

Thanks, I corrected it.

So sad.

Unbelievably sad.

192 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:08:10pm

re: #182 Lidane

Hahahahahaha:

California fires back at Rick Perry, calls Texas ad campaign “a cry for help”

Like an alcoholic’s “cry for help’?

193 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:09:37pm

re: #186 TedStriker

And for that, she (and her sister) was cast out among the Sodomites, as it were.

Shunned and treated as dead by their own family.

The WBC folks are a fucking cult, by any metric one cares to use; at least some deprogram themselves and get out, though it has to hurt to have your family turn their backs on you.

I have a friend who did that with a Whacky Offshoot of the Morman church. It takes a strong person.

194 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:11:49pm

re: #188 Ghost Of The Mare Island Mud Puppy

“God loves people. He may not particularly appreciate what they do, but He loves them just the same.”

But, because he doesn’t “appreciate” what they do, he will cast them into a lake of fire for an eternity of pain and suffering for not following “his” laws.

Thanks, but no thanks.

Love the Sinner, hate the sin seems to be lost on a lot of “believers”. As well as the fact that we are all born with “original sin”.

But there is never a shortage of preachers who take Mastercard, Visa, American Express and PayPal.

195 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:12:33pm

Why do people “check-in” on fb and tell the whole world where they are?

196 dragonfire1981  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:14:38pm

Every time I see Bryan Fishers Twitter avatar I just want to punch him out.

197 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:16:28pm

re: #195 FemNaziBitch

Why do people “check-in” on fb and tell the whole world where they are?

I asked the girl at work the same thing. Her daughter posts when she goes to the store, what she is eating, etc. That’s why I don’t have an account. I don’t want to read that shit.

198 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:17:35pm

Speaking of higher thinking skills:

In the United States, only 7 percent of students reached the advanced level in eighth-grade math, while 48 percent of eighth graders in Singapore and 47 percent of eighth graders in South Korea reached the advanced level. As those with superior math and science skills increasingly thrive in a global economy, the lag among American students could be a cause for concern.

Is there any wonder the GOP has any following?

199 Bubblehead II  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:18:02pm

re: #195 FemNaziBitch

Why do people “check-in” on fb and tell the whole world where they are?

Because they think the world revolves around them and that everyone they interact with is just dieing to know what they are doing?

There is a word for that. What is it? Nar, Narcist. Narcissistic! That’s the word

200 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:18:38pm

re: #197 NJDhockeyfan

I asked the girl at work the same thing. Her daughter posts when she goes to the store, what she is eating, etc. That’s why I don’t have an account. I don’t want to read that shit.

Well, I really don’t want potential bad guys to know when my house is unoccupied or where my car is parked.

If I want to promote a business or restaurant I enjoy, I post about it later and link to it.

201 Political Atheist  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:19:27pm

re: #197 NJDhockeyfan

I asked the girl at work the same thing. Her daughter posts when she goes to the store, what she is eating, etc. That’s why I don’t have an account. I don’t want to read that shit.

That kind of thing is proving hazardous for the unlucky. Burgled, robbed. Tag yourself in Tahiti on that two week vacation. Then some all too clever bastard has his way with your belongings.

202 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:19:30pm

re: #195 FemNaziBitch

Why do people “check-in” on fb and tell the whole world where they are?

I don’t know about FB but there is this stupid app on Twitter called 4square which lets people “check in” and they win coupons n shit. I unfollowed everyone who was Tweeting their location on 4sq like every 5 minutes, but there are a bunch of burglars who are very into 4sq.

203 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:19:41pm

re: #199 Ghost Of The Mare Island Mud Puppy

Because they think the world revolves around them and that everyone they interact with is just dieing to know what they are doing?

There is a word for that. What is it? Nar, Narcist. Narcissistic! That’s the word

I can see teenagers txting back and forth:

“OMG! I was just there, I missed you, dude, by like 3 nanoseconds”
or
“That place is the shit! How long u gonna be there, we can meet-up.”

But adults?

204 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:20:14pm

re: #202 Vicious Babushka

I don’t know about FB but there is this stupid app on Twitter called 4square which lets people “check in” and they win coupons n shit. I unfollowed everyone who was Tweeting their location on 4sq like every 5 minutes, but there are a bunch of burglars who are very into 4sq.

Marketing demographics people have to love the free data!

205 Lidane  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:20:56pm

re: #194 FemNaziBitch

Love the Sinner, hate the sin seems to be lost on a lot of “believers”. As well as the fact that we are all born with “original sin”.

Original Sin is one of the biggest loads of horseshit in all of Christendom.

And “love the sinner, hate the sin” is little more than an excuse to be a sanctimonious douche to others. Pfft.

206 Killgore Trout  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:21:32pm

re: #190 NJDhockeyfan

That’s quite a load the Iranians were sending to their terrorist friends.

Yemen: Seized Iranian ship carried varied weapons

The Iranians are working overtime trying to destabilize the whole region. Hopefully it’s a sign that they sense the clock is ticking down for them.

207 Charles Johnson  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:21:46pm
208 Charles Johnson  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:23:32pm

OK, so who linked to this guy’s website anyway?

209 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:23:46pm

re: #205 Lidane

Original Sin is one of the biggest loads of horseshit in all of Christendom.

And “love the sinner, hate the sin” is little more than an excuse to be a sanctimonious douche to others. Pfft.

I think Original Sin is an archaic and badly taught concept. The truth, as I see it, is that NO ONE IS PERFECT. Not one human is without flaws.

When I finally figured that out and got over the “guilty by birth” stigma, I became a much more compassionate person.

I mean, using the words “original sin” is teaching kids they are going to hell just because they were born. WTF?

210 Bubblehead II  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:24:21pm

re: #203 FemNaziBitch

I can see teenagers txting back and forth:

“OMG! I was just there, I missed you, dude, by like 3 nanoseconds”
or
“That place is the shit! How long u gonna be there, we can meet-up.”

But adults?

Status? I was there therefore I am hip? Hell, don’t ask me.

/// I wrap my cell phone in a tin foil shield to keep out the evil GPS.

211 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:24:23pm

re: #208 Charles Johnson

OK, so who linked to this guy’s website anyway?

No idea, but I’ll take the blame. I’m going to hell anyway… .

212 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:24:48pm

re: #210 Ghost Of The Mare Island Mud Puppy

Status? I was there therefore I am hip? Hell, don’t ask me.

/// I wrap my cell phone in a tin foil shield to keep out the evil GPS.

Maybe so employers or spouses know you aren’t goofing off?

213 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:26:00pm

re: #208 Charles Johnson

OK, so who linked to this guy’s website anyway?

I post random Tweets from TGDN but it looks like this troll is not on the Derp Net. It just Derps all by itself.

214 Bubblehead II  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:27:17pm

re: #207 Charles Johnson

Not me, but I bet it showed a lot of bat shit crazy that he didn’t want seen.

Sun light. The Worlds best disinfectant.

215 Gus  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:28:46pm

re: #208 Charles Johnson

OK, so who linked to this guy’s website anyway?

Ah, me. Let me see…

216 Gus  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:29:23pm

re: #208 Charles Johnson

OK, so who linked to this guy’s website anyway?

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com…]

217 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:29:53pm

That guy sure likes his gun porn.

218 wrenchwench  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:30:09pm

re: #213 Vicious Babushka

I post random Tweets from TGDN but it looks like this troll is not on the Derp Net. It just Derps all by itself.

A listless derper.

219 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:30:52pm

So, I just printed my pharm records from Walgreens for 2012. For a total of 12 scripts my insurance saved me $1,904.

Who could afford that without insurance? Antibiotics and vaccinations and shit.

220 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:31:42pm

A raging loony bin of bike gangers with no fixed ideology.

221 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:32:17pm

Pictures of this breed of baby animal never get tiresome.

222 Ghost of a Dopefish  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:32:32pm

re: #219 FemNaziBitch

So, I just printed my pharm records from Walgreens for 2012. For a total of 12 scripts my insurance saved me $1,904.

Who could afford that without insurance? Antibiotics and vaccinations and shit.

When the Mrs. Fish and I first got married, she wanted to go on the pill like a proper heathen. My insurance didn’t cover it and it cost upwards of $100/mo. Freaking ridiculous. My new insurance actually does cover it, after the new one arrives she is dead set on getting a prescription.

223 TedStriker  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:33:10pm

re: #216 Gus

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com…]

I don’t know why the RWNJ is complaing about; they probably got more traffic today than over the past month or more, I’ll bet.

224 Bubblehead II  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:33:36pm

re: #208 Charles Johnson

OK, so who linked to this guy’s website anyway?

In retrospect.

WHAT! THE GREAT CHARLES ISN’T OMNIPOTENT? HE DOESN’T KNOW WHO POSTED A LINK? ATTCK!!!!!

225 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:34:09pm

re: #223 TedStriker

I don’t know why the RWNJ is complaing about; they probably got more traffic today than over the past month or more, I’ll bet.

Like the florist who turned away business for the gay couple’s wedding. They are in business to make money!!!!

Weird concept of capitalism, that.

226 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:34:23pm

re: #224 Ghost Of The Mare Island Mud Puppy

In retrospect.

sinner!

227 chadu  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:34:24pm

re: #221 FemNaziBitch

Pictures of this breed of baby animal never get tiresome.

I like seeing baby bats: [Link: www.zooborns.com…]

228 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:34:29pm

re: #217 jaunte

That guy sure likes his gun porn.

Gun oil is not to be used as a personal lubricant.

229 TedStriker  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:35:07pm

re: #222 Ghost of a Dopefish

When the Mrs. Fish and I first got married, she wanted to go on the pill like a proper heathen. My insurance didn’t cover it and it cost upwards of $100/mo. Freaking ridiculous. My new insurance actually does cover it, after the new one arrives she is dead set on getting a prescription.

Don’t y’all have a little Dopefish and are soon expecting another?

Sounds like birth control FAIL.

///

230 lawhawk  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:35:27pm

re: #219 FemNaziBitch

Talking with coworkers. One said that their pharma cost last year for a repeating script was now 3x the former cost. On the other hand, my own two scripts were far less than they would have been last year due to way they now calculate the costs. Would have been $20 last year. This year, $7 in one instance, $4 and change in the other. I think it depends on the drugs involved.

231 TedStriker  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:36:15pm

re: #228 Kragar

Gun oil is not to be used as a personal lubricant.

Ummm, some company actually does make a personal lube called ‘Gun Oil’.

I’m at work, otherwise I’d link it.

232 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:37:02pm

I posted these separately earlier, but decided to combine and page them. Please take the time to check them out. With all the nutballs out there, its nice to see someone who broke free and was willing to change their life.

A Westboro Scion Leaves Her Church

233 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:38:25pm

re: #228 Kragar

Gun oil is not to be used as a personal lubricant.

works well in car locks tho.

234 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:38:33pm

re: #231 TedStriker

Ummm, some company actually does make a personal lube called ‘Gun Oil’.

I’m at work, otherwise I’d link it.

I’d really rather you didn’t. I’m not sure how many more mental scars I can handle.

235 lawhawk  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:39:00pm
236 TedStriker  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:39:42pm

re: #234 Targetpractice

I’d really rather you didn’t. I’m not sure how many more mental scars I can handle.

It’s not like Larry Flynt bad, but it’s got the gun/military motif going on and all.

237 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:40:07pm

And now, I have a Khajit who needs my attention.

238 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:40:51pm

re: #237 Kragar

And now, I have a Khajit who needs my attention.

Hey man, TMI.

///

239 Charles Johnson  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:40:57pm

re: #232 Kragar

I posted these separately earlier, but decided to combine and page them. Please take the time to check them out. With all the nutballs out there, its nice to see someone who broke free and was willing to change their life.

A Westboro Scion Leaves Her Church

Great story!

240 Ghost of a Dopefish  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:42:01pm

re: #229 TedStriker

Don’t y’all have a little Dopefish and are soon expecting another?

Sounds like birth control FAIL.

///

This is why we wanted to go on the pill. ;)

241 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:42:55pm

re: #228 Kragar

Gun oil is not to be used as a personal lubricant.

You mean I’ve been putting that on the wrong ‘gun’?

242 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:44:15pm

re: #234 Targetpractice

I’d really rather you didn’t. I’m not sure how many more mental scars I can handle.

Some of the names of condom brands are hilarious to me.

Joe Helmut, Magnum, Rough Rider?

really?

243 Charles Johnson  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:46:47pm

Right wing blogs going insane tonight (I know, again) because the guy who attacked the office of the Family Research Council said he looked up anti-gay groups and found the FRC at the Southern Poverty Law Center site.

Right wingers are screaming that the SPLC “triggered” and “inspired” the shooting. The smell of projection is everywhere.

[Link: www.memeorandum.com…]

244 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:47:50pm

re: #243 Charles Johnson

Right wing blogs going insane tonight (I know, again) because the guy who attacked the office of the Family Research Council said he looked up anti-gay groups and found the FRC at the Southern Poverty Law Center site.

Right wingers are screaming that the SPLC “triggered” and “inspired” the shooting. The smell of projection is everywhere.

[Link: www.memeorandum.com…]

Didn’t they do this shit the day of the shooting, accusing the SPLC of inspiring the attack because it had labeled FRC a “hate group”?

245 Thundermother(it will turn your head around)  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:48:43pm

re: #219 FemNaziBitch

I’ve been diabetic since I was 8. I spend at least a couple grand a year on meds. That’s with insurance.

Not included in that total are visits to the doctor, and an endocrinologist.

And no.. my diabetes isn’t a result of drinking too many cokes.

246 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:48:44pm

I just can’t keep up.

“House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) held a press conference this morning to address, among other things, the looming automatic spending cuts called the “sequester,” which kick in three weeks from tomorrow. And watching him read his written remarks, it occurred to me that I not only disagree with Boehner, I’m convinced the Speaker — or whomever is writing his speeches — is deeply confused about the basics of the fiscal debate.”

How do dictionary makers do it?

247 wrenchwench  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:49:27pm

Image: h8EB3E88C.jpg

Later, lizards.

248 Charles Johnson  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:51:01pm

re: #244 Targetpractice

Didn’t they do this shit the day of the shooting, accusing the SPLC of inspiring the attack because it had labeled FRC a “hate group”?

Never mind that anybody searching for “anti-gay groups” is going to find the Family Research Council prominently featured, because they ARE an anti-gay hate group. This must be the SPLC’s fault because they called out these hateful creeps.

249 Gus  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:51:24pm

re: #243 Charles Johnson

Right wing blogs going insane tonight (I know, again) because the guy who attacked the office of the Family Research Council said he looked up anti-gay groups and found the FRC at the Southern Poverty Law Center site.

Right wingers are screaming that the SPLC “triggered” and “inspired” the shooting. The smell of projection is everywhere.

[Link: www.memeorandum.com…]

So dumb. Let’s say they’re not a hate group however we keep other groups like the KKK and the neo-Nazis as hate groups. That still doesn’t mean people should go out and kill people in the KKK or neo-Nazi groups.

250 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:52:04pm

re: #216 Gus

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com…]

You naughty boy.

251 TedStriker  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:52:49pm

re: #241 NJDhockeyfan

You mean I’ve been putting that on the wrong ‘gun’?

This is my rifle, this is my gun.
This is for fighting, this is for fun.

///

252 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:52:51pm

re: #220 jaunte

A raging loony bin of bike gangers with no fixed ideology.

Rotating title!

253 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:53:33pm

re: #252 Vicious Babushka

It was something like that.

254 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:54:00pm

re: #9 erik_t

Anybody have some spare briquettes? I cleared out my supply for the winter.

I’ve got some. Give me a few more minutes and I’ll get the troll on the grill.

255 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:54:01pm

re: #246 FemNaziBitch

I just can’t keep up.

How do dictionary makers do it?

John of Orange isn’t even trying anymore. You can pretty much see the strings moving that little puppet along. He opens his mouth and you can hear Rush Limbaugh’s voice belching out.

256 austin_blue  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:54:14pm

Evening all! A drive-by OT video of the Reynosa Pemex gas distribution facility explosion in September, 2012:

Youtube Video

The first shot is looking toward the initial rupture point. You can’t really see unless you slow the vid down to 6%, but when the primary high pressure main ruptures it tears those silver process lines in the distance, just past the semi-truck, to pieces. The released gas/product expands with the original expanding gas cloud and then ignites.

The second view is from the side. You’ll see the same semi-truck from the first view in the upper right hand corner going left to right when the rupture occurs. This is a massive industrial explosion. Thirty-one dead, 47 wounded including some with massive burns. So sad.

257 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:55:05pm

re: #248 Charles Johnson

Never mind that anybody searching for “anti-gay groups” is going to find the Family Research Council prominently featured, because they ARE an anti-gay hate group. This must be the SPLC’s fault because they called out these hateful creeps.

If there’s a way to create a conspiracy against groups they hate, they’ll not hesitate to “connect the dots.”

258 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:55:31pm
259 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:57:22pm

# one Priority per boner:

Consider his very first sentence: “The number one priority for the American people is creating jobs and getting our spending under control.”

John Boehner: Ending Abortion Is ‘One Of Our Most Fundamental Goals This Year’

I’m just not seeing it, What is the difference between a Fundamental Goal and a Priority?

260 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 5:59:39pm

re: #259 FemNaziBitch

# one Priority per boner: today.

John Boehner: Ending Abortion Is ‘One Of Our Most Fundamental Goals This Year’

JOBS!

261 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:00:11pm

re: #257 Targetpractice

If there’s a way to create a conspiracy against groups they hate, they’ll not hesitate to “connect the dots.”

And if there’s not a way, those committed to conspiracism will still declare “Conspiracy!”, because they don’t like reality.

262 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:00:36pm

re: #260 Kragar

JOBS!

Yeah, I fixed/edited my post. I didn’t complete my thought (I know, not unusual) before I hit “Post it”.

It’s the rhetoric, I am sooo tired of it all!

263 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:01:40pm

re: #261 Dark_Falcon

And if there’s not a way, those committed to conspiracism will still declare “Conspiracy!”, because they don’t like reality.

If there are freckles, they can be connected with a marker, therefore there must be a cartoon drawing of Nostradamus on your skin. Honestly, that is proof of his quatrains.

264 Gus  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:03:24pm

re: #250 Vicious Babushka

You naughty boy.

Just your average gun nut site experiencing a momentary bout of reason.

265 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:03:55pm

The Latest Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory: Obama Death Squads Targeting Gun Rights Activists

…According to Liberty.com, one of the sites perpetuating this latest story, Russian intelligence has outlined the whole nefarious plot in a memo for President Vladimir Putin, detailing the Obama’s administration’s dispatch of “VIPER teams…which is the acronym for Visible Intermodal Prevention and Response Team, a programme run by the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and whose agents terrify millions of Americans with Nazi-like Gestapo tactics on a daily basis at airports and who report to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).”

266 darthstar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:05:48pm

re: #254 Dark_Falcon

I’ve got some. Give me a few more minutes and I’ll get the troll on the grill.

Dude…where the hell have you been? It’s all dried out now and will be chewy as hell. You’re going to have to shrink wrap it in plastic and sous-vide it for two days before it’s edible.

267 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:06:44pm

In other words: Why should the State Government pay for something extra, when the Fed pays for the basics. We want a smaller federal government.

am I getting that right?

268 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:06:59pm

re: #266 darthstar

Dude…where the hell have you been? It’s all dried out now and will be chewy as hell. You’re going to have to shrink wrap it in plastic and sous-vide it for two days before it’s edible.

Troll jerky…no thanks.

269 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:07:29pm

re: #268 Targetpractice

Jerky in, jerky out.

270 darthstar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:08:09pm

re: #269 jaunte

Jerky in, jerky out.

Jerky more than three times and you’re playing with it.

271 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:08:34pm

re: #266 darthstar

Dude…where the hell have you been? It’s all dried out now and will be chewy as hell. You’re going to have to shrink wrap it in plastic and sous-vide it for two days before it’s edible.

I was on my way home from work. Have a care, Darth. I’ll just baste the troll carcass and grill it longer over a fire. It’ll take some time, but it’ll produce a decent Troll-Roast.

272 darthstar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:09:15pm

re: #271 Dark_Falcon

I was on my way home from work. Have a care, Darth. I’ll just baste the troll carcass and grill it longer over a fire. It’ll take some time, but it’ll produce a decent Troll-Roast.

Fair warning though…this troll was boring as hell.

273 Ghost of a Dopefish  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:09:20pm

re: #271 Dark_Falcon

I was on my way home from work. Have a care, Darth. I’ll just baste the troll carcass and grill it longer over a fire. It’ll take some time, but it’ll produce a decent Troll-Roast.

Relax, I’ve got your back. Troll barbecue is all heated and brushed and ready to go.

274 Gus  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:09:22pm

re: #269 jaunte

Jerky in, jerky out.

You can’t explain that.

275 darthstar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:09:57pm

re: #274 Gus

You can’t explain that.

BENGHAZI!

276 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:11:19pm

re: #274 Gus

You can’t explain that.

MAGNETS!

277 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:11:39pm

re: #265 jaunte

The Latest Right-Wing Conspiracy Theory: Obama Death Squads Targeting Gun Rights Activists

Conspiracy theories like that are liable to get a federal agent killed at some point, and possibly more than one. Which would be horrible for the slain and their families and catastrophic for those who own firearms responsibly. That sort of insanity has to be shouted down at every opportunity.

278 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:12:26pm

Did you see this one?

Long necks are a good thing

279 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:12:51pm

re: #273 Ghost of a Dopefish

Relax, I’ve got your back. Troll barbecue is all heated and brushed and ready to go.

Cool. It’s roasting now, so we’ll let it get done while I prep the green beans and mashed potatoes to go with it.

280 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:13:45pm

re: #278 FemNaziBitch

Did you see this one?

Long necks are a good thing

That’s some serious Cute right there.

281 Ghost of a Dopefish  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:14:33pm

From my wingnut FB friend:

Obama Hitler Youth

I am so close to just blocking him completely.

282 darthstar  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:14:58pm

re: #278 ggt

Did you see this one?

Long necks are a good thing

I’ll bet they’re great in a stew.

283 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:15:39pm

re: #281 Ghost of a Dopefish

From my wingnut FB friend:

Obama Hitler Youth

I am so close to just blocking him completely.

Link did not work.

284 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:16:05pm

re: #279 Dark_Falcon

Cool. It’s roasting now, so we’ll let it get done while I prep the green beans and mashed potatoes to go with it.

Always remember and never forget

285 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:16:25pm

re: #282 darthstar

I’ll bet they’re great in a stew.

*&^%!!!!!

286 Ghost of a Dopefish  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:16:29pm

re: #283 Dark_Falcon

Link did not work.

Must be due to their FB restrictions on who the original poster shared it with. Gimme a min to download and re-upload it.

287 Ghost of a Dopefish  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:17:19pm

Try again.

288 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:18:15pm

re: #287 Ghost of a Dopefish

Try again.

ah yes, I’ve seen the Beyonce inclusion in the insanity.

People need to get over it.

289 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:18:46pm

re: #287 Ghost of a Dopefish

“You know who else had ten fingers?”

290 Decatur Deb  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:19:44pm

re: #289 jaunte

“You know who else had ten fingers?”

Hitler played “Itsy-Bitsy-Spider”?

291 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:19:58pm

re: #288 FemNaziBitch

ah yes, I’ve seen the Beyonce inclusion in the insanity.

People need to get over it.

DIAMOND DALLAS PAGE IS A NAZI?

292 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:20:26pm

re: #291 Kragar

DIAMOND DALLAS PAGE IS A NAZI?

Who knew?

293 Ghost of a Dopefish  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:20:45pm

re: #289 jaunte

“You know who else had ten fingers?”

Sometimes I think I’m too much of a bleeding heart. I know that if I unfriended this guy - like I should - he’d go off the deep end and probably beat somebody. So I suffer through it. Although I did at least take the liberty of restricting what kind of updates I get from him.

294 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:21:09pm

re: #293 Ghost of a Dopefish

Sometimes I think I’m too much of a bleeding heart. I know that if I unfriended this guy - like I should - he’d go off the deep end and probably beat somebody. So I suffer through it. Although I did at least take the liberty of restricting what kind of updates I get from him.

just hide his posts. He’ll never know.

wait, I don’t think people get notified if you unfriend you. I never have and I know I’ve lost a few.

295 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:22:02pm

re: #291 Kragar

DIAMOND DALLAS PAGE IS A NAZI?

Image: ddp.jpg

Isn’t that Guy Fieri?

296 Bubblehead II  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:22:20pm

Shakes Shoulders and Hips. Damn slipping that skin off feels good

297 Ghost of a Dopefish  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:22:35pm

re: #294 FemNaziBitch

just hide his posts. He’ll never know.

Pretty much what I did.

298 Gus  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:22:54pm

Drones!

299 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:22:58pm

Well, I see in the new Skyrim DLC, they took away my ability to get archery to 50 for free away.

Grumble.

300 engineer cat  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:23:02pm

re: #281 Ghost of a Dopefish

From my wingnut FB friend:

Obama Hitler Youth

I am so close to just blocking him completely.

yeah, um, that hand symbol is the jewish symbol of the eternal flame, not to mention the vulcan ‘live long and prosper’ symbol

301 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:23:23pm

re: #298 Gus

Saudi bases!

302 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:23:44pm

HA!

HOBO DOTS 16 up, 10 down
sign tattooed on the skin between the forefinger and the thumb is known as hobo dots in Sweden, and probably has a protective significance The three dots are said to be symbols of faith, hope and love.

- three dots shown in the form of a triangle

303 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:24:53pm

re: #300 engineer cat

yeah, um, that hand symbol is the jewish symbol of the eternal flame, not to mention the vulcan ‘live long and prosper’ symbol

DO NOT GET YOUR STAR TREK TRIVIA WRONG!!!

304 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:24:55pm

re: #302 FemNaziBitch

HA!

HOBO DOTS 16 up, 10 down
sign tattooed on the skin between the forefinger and the thumb is known as hobo dots in Sweden, and probably has a protective significance The three dots are said to be symbols of faith, hope and love.

- three dots shown in the form of a triangle

Wouldn’t any 3 dots not in a straight line form a triangle?

305 Gus  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:25:39pm

re: #301 jaunte

Saudi bases!

What would you say if a President Bachmann had this power. Hmmm??!?!?!?

//

306 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:25:44pm

re: #304 Kragar

Wouldn’t any 3 dots not in a straight line form a triangle?

Now you are involving math … .

307 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:26:28pm

re: #305 Gus

What would you say if a President Bachmann had this power. Hmmm??!?!?!?

//

She’d send a platoon of infantry missionaries with fully automatic bibles.

308 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:26:33pm

re: #287 Ghost of a Dopefish

Try again.

Sick, just sick. That guy needs to be placed in isolation for two weeks and while isolated subjected to intensive deprogramming efforts to undue the wingnut brainwashing he has been subjected to.

309 ReamWorks SKG  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:26:54pm

“The Stupid Party!”

That would be a good choice.

310 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:28:03pm

Rimmer: Seventh Day Advent Hop-ists. They believed that every Sunday should be spent hopping. They would hop to church, hop through the service, then hop back home again. I tell you, Sunday lunchtimes were a nightmare - we all had to wear sou’westers and asbestos underpants. You see, they took the Bible literally - Adam and Eve, the snake and the apple, took it word for word. Unfortunately, their version had a misprint. It was all based on 1 Corinthians 13: “Faith, Hop and Charity, and the greatest of these is Hop.”

311 Gus  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:28:09pm

Yes. I’m just another Dick Cheney.

//

312 Bubblehead II  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:29:18pm

re: #282 darthstar

Floral is so going to take you to task.

313 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:29:26pm

Kid is Skyping with a friend in China.

The future is so cool. This is the type of stuff I’m glad I’m here to see.

314 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:34:48pm

Kid is recovered from his surgery (similar to what Gus is going to have to go thru) and is now working, waiting to start college in the summer. I’m really glad he didn’t go away right after high school.

Even his minimum-wage job is a huge education. I’ve seen the activation of a lot of brain gears (that don’t necessarily translate into home life—like chores etc).

He’s getting more responsibility and asking to go in on his days off if he sees they are short staffed —that kind of stuff. He is recognizing opportunity and seeing the difference it makes in his paycheck.

He might turn out to be a capitalist after all.

*snicker*

315 chadu  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:35:29pm

re: #303 FemNaziBitch

DO NOT GET YOUR STAR TREK TRIVIA WRONG!!!

Vulcan weapons: Lirpa, an-whoon, and that wacky psi-weapon from Next Gen.

A friend of mine uses the Vulcan weapons as a “geek test” and I blew her mind when I reminded her of the psi-weapon for TNG.

316 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:37:22pm

re: #315 chadu

Vulcan weapons: Lirpa, an-whoon, and that wacky psi-weapon from Next Gen.

A friend of mine uses the Vulcan weapons as a “geek test” and I blew her mind when I reminded her of the psi-weapon for TNG.

Trekkies.
(scorn and derision)

317 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:38:06pm

re: #315 chadu

Vulcan weapons: Lirpa, an-whoon, and that wacky psi-weapon from Next Gen.

A friend of mine uses the Vulcan weapons as a “geek test” and I blew her mind when I reminded her of the psi-weapon for TNG.

Stone of Gol.

318 chadu  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:38:39pm

re: #316 Kragar

Pish and perhaps tush.

319 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:38:46pm

re: #315 chadu

Vulcan weapons: Lirpa, an-whoon, and that wacky psi-weapon from Next Gen.

A friend of mine uses the Vulcan weapons as a “geek test” and I blew her mind when I reminded her of the psi-weapon for TNG.

I’m not a weapon’s geek.

Although I could probably identify the one Worf used.

and the Phaser.

320 chadu  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:39:39pm

re: #317 Targetpractice

Stone of Gol.

RAWK! m/

Thank you!

321 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:39:47pm

re: #319 FemNaziBitch

I’m not a weapon’s geek.

Although I could probably identify the one Worf used.

and the Phaser.

Bolter beats phaser.

322 Romantic Heretic  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:40:21pm

re: #251 TedStriker

This is my rifle, this is my gun.
This is for fighting, this is for fun.

///

In the Salvation Army it goes:

This is my rifle, this is my gun.
One is for fighting, the other I shun.

323 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:40:28pm

re: #317 Targetpractice

Stone of Gol.

I remember that episode!

324 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:40:46pm

re: #321 Kragar

Bolter beats phaser.

scissors cut paper

325 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:41:36pm

re: #320 chadu

RAWK! m/

Thank you!

No prob. I’m actually sort of surprised I could still remember the name without needing to first look it up. Been forever since I sat down and watched those episodes.

326 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:42:27pm

re: #325 Targetpractice

No prob. I’m actually sort of surprised I could still remember the name without needing to first look it up. Been forever since I sat down and watched those episodes.

Me too. The new Spock and his feelings has kinda shattered me.

327 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:42:32pm

re: #324 FemNaziBitch

scissors cut paper

chainsword beats batleth

328 chadu  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:42:52pm

re: #319 FemNaziBitch

The point was that the Vulcans were mostly pacificistic, so naming their weapons was Deep Geekery, and thus an indicator of being cool.

(Phaser, Disruptor, D’k tahg, Teral’n, Bat’leth, Qutluch)

329 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:42:57pm

re: #327 Kragar

chainsword beats batleth

batleth! that’s it.

330 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:44:16pm

re: #328 chadu

The point was that the Vulcans were mostly pacificistic, so naming their weapons was Deep Geekery, and thus an indicator of being cool.

(Phaser, Disruptor, D’k tahg, Teral’n, Bat’leth, Qutluch)

Such guy stuff.

331 Bubblehead II  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:44:44pm

Night Lizards. Tough day tomorrow. Mom is getting prepped for Chemo and Radiation. Uterine Cancer that has spread to the lymphatic system.

I know. I am a atheist. But at this point and time, I will take all the help She can get.

Thanks.

332 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:44:48pm

re: #326 FemNaziBitch

Me too. The new Spock and his feelings has kinda shattered me.

Eh, Spock in the Original Series could get emotional. Amok Time was one of the big ones.

333 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:46:09pm

re: #332 Targetpractice

Eh, Spock in the Original Series could get emotional. Amok Time was one of the big ones.

eh, just doesn’t count.

334 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:46:27pm

re: #331 Bubblehead II

Night Lizards. Tough day tomorrow. Mom is getting prepped for Chemo and Radiation. Uterine Cancer that has spread to the lymphatic system.

I know. I am a atheist. But at this point and time, I will take all the help She can get.

Thanks.

Positive Thoughts can’t hurt.

335 Targetpractice  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:47:44pm

re: #333 FemNaziBitch

eh, just doesn’t count.

Well, one thing to remember is that the Spock in the new Trek films is a younger guy. Granted, that’s relative when speaking about Vulcans, but it still counts.

336 chadu  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:49:15pm

O/T

Lizardim, I’m confused.

Many of my pages get a nice number of tweets, but no rating updings or comments.

What am I doing wrong?

I’d like to fix it.

Thanks in advance.

337 chadu  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:49:50pm

re: #331 Bubblehead II

Love, luck, and light.

338 lawhawk  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:53:23pm

re: #324 FemNaziBitch

Spock smashes scissors, but paper disproves Spock.

339 Romantic Heretic  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:53:53pm

re: #332 Targetpractice

Eh, Spock in the Original Series could get emotional. Amok Time was one of the big ones.

Sending positive vibes your way.

340 lawhawk  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:54:35pm

re: #331 Bubblehead II

Best of luck.

341 Charles Johnson  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:55:10pm

re: #336 chadu

Just keep doing what you’re doing - you’re on the right track.

342 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:56:57pm

re: #336 chadu

O/T

Lizardim, I’m confused.

Many of my pages get a nice number of tweets, but no rating updings or comments.

What am I doing wrong?

I’d like to fix it.

Thanks in advance.

The Modern Mystery of Social Media™

343 chadu  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 6:59:25pm

re: #341 Charles Johnson

Thanks, Charles… Though I will try to stop posting three pages in an evening. ;)

344 goddamnedfrank  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:00:21pm

re: #112 gwangung

So basically, US corporations are cheating, paying lower taxes than elsewhere in the world, having less unionization and STILL are just keeping even with places like Germany and Japan?

Exactly. Because those foreign corporations get a lot more bang for their tax buck. Universal healthcare systems equate to less lost productivity from lack of preventative care. Keeping their military spending in check means they haven’t had to gut their public higher education systems. In the end they can count on a healthier, better educated workforce.

345 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:01:08pm

Because Doctors are G-d and know how many eggs will be viable:

The senator said that, after prayer, he thinks life begins at the moment of fertilization, be it inside the mother or “creatively outside the mother’s womb.”

“That union between the sperm and the egg is where life begins, and maybe where God places his spirit inside that child, so to speak,” McGill said.

“Therefore, I would hope that the legislation that we push in the future would state that all the eggs fertilized need to be placed in the mother’s womb.”

McGill said that means doctors should fertilize only as many eggs as they plan to implant.

Yeah, I paged it. Now, I’m going to look-up more about McGill. Because I like being pissed-off, I guess.

346 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:01:50pm

And after slow-roasting the troll for a hour, its finally done. Gamey Buttocks is now being served!

347 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:02:44pm

re: #344 goddamnedfrank

Exactly. Because those foreign corporations get a lot more bang for their tax buck. Universal healthcare systems equate to less lost productivity from lack of preventative care. Keeping their military spending in check means they haven’t had to gut their public higher education systems. In the end they can count on a healthier, better educated workforce.

The way Japan is going its education system is going to run out of students.

348 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:02:45pm

*FACE PALM*
Because going to Africa and urging them to execute gays is “polite”

349 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:03:53pm

re: #348 Vicious Babushka

We’re not supposed to notice that part.

350 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:05:38pm

re: #348 Vicious Babushka

*FACE PALM*
Because going to Africa and urging them to execute gays is “polite”

No member of #TGDN could be a Sith. It requires too much concentration too much contact with reality.

351 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:07:46pm

re: #228 Kragar

Gun oil is not to be used as a personal lubricant.

You have no idea what you’re talking about :p
[Link: www.walgreens.com…]

352 goddamnedfrank  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:09:13pm

re: #347 Dark_Falcon

The way Japan is going its education system is going to run out of students.

The down side to striving towards racial/ethnic homogeneity is risking a population contraction. They’ll still have students, and in any case it’s better than running out of teachers.

353 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:09:44pm

re: #351 stabby

Force Recon?
[Link: www.walgreens.com…]

354 Decatur Deb  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:11:14pm

re: #353 jaunte

Force Recon?
[Link: www.walgreens.com…]

Marketing decision—it was almost “Slick Willie”.

355 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:14:50pm

Shadrock McGill researched enough and Pages Post updated.

356 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:16:21pm

re: #354 Decatur Deb

Marketing decision—it was almost “Slick Willie”.

They missed out there: Bill Clinton would have happily endorsed such a product.

357 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:16:29pm

re: #348 Vicious Babushka

*FACE PALM*
Because going to Africa and urging them to execute gays is “polite”

There is a Liberal Race? Is there a genetic marker or a finishing line?

358 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:17:21pm

re: #357 FemNaziBitch

There is a Liberal Race? Is there a genetic marker or a finishing line?

I added it to the DERPTY DERP list but now I’m wondering if it might be a parody account.

359 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:19:37pm

re: #358 Vicious Babushka

I added it to the DERPTY DERP list but now I’m wondering if it might be a parody account.

TGDN is beyond parody.

360 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:19:39pm

How can you tell a wingnut?

They believe Obama’s birth certificate is FAKE but happily accept FAKE quotes and FAKE “Gun Violence” maps.

361 klys  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:20:03pm

OT, but the cat is not amused when you grab the end of his tail while he is looking out the window.

362 chadu  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:20:24pm

I just posted a page I’d be interested in comments on:

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com…]

Thank you.

363 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:20:27pm

re: #361 klys

OT, but the cat is not amused when you grab the end of his tail while he is looking out the window.

You should know better.

364 Gus  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:20:42pm

re: #348 Vicious Babushka

*FACE PALM*
Because going to Africa and urging them to execute gays is “polite”

Yes. Because nothing spells liberty and freedom like supporting a man behind the kill the gays bill in Uganda.

365 Mentis Fugit  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:21:41pm

re: #350 Dark_Falcon

No member of #TGDN could be a Sith. It requires too much concentration too much contact with reality.

Either “Sith” is an anagram, or he’s a Poe.

366 goddamnedfrank  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:23:57pm

re: #357 FemNaziBitch

There is a Liberal Race? Is there a genetic marker or a finishing line?

Well, there’s this:

A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives’ brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other “primitive” emotions. At the same time, conservatives’ brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate — the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.

367 klys  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:24:00pm

re: #363 FemNaziBitch

You should know better.

I should, but it was too tempting to resist.

368 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:33:39pm

The evolution of the football, 1894-2012:
[Link: blogs.smithsonianmag.com…]

ALERT TEXAS!

369 Interesting Times  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:45:16pm

re: #361 klys

Check your ding on jaunte’s #368 - mouse misfire, most likely - because who (other than Barbara Cargill, perhaps) would downding that? o_O

370 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:47:55pm

re: #368 jaunte

The evolution of the football, 1894-2012:
[Link: blogs.smithsonianmag.com…]

ALERT TEXAS!

The King James football was good enough for Jesus, it’s good enough for me!
GOOOAAAAALLLL!
(I meant the *real* football!)

;)

371 klys  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:49:20pm

re: #369 Interesting Times

Check your ding on jaunte’s #368 - mouse misfire, most likely - because who (other than Barbara Cargill, perhaps) would downding that? o_O

Thanks for the heads up - it was. I like the MBA in most things but the trackpad can be the world’s most sensitive thing at times.

372 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:50:15pm

re: #370 Feline Fearless Leader

I think the Nazareth Nine must have used a goatskin.

373 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:52:46pm

re: #372 jaunte

I think the Nazareth Nine must have used a goatskin.

Heathens use soccer balls!

374 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:55:01pm

The GOP, Fox political purge

Republicans and Fox News are moving to purge the controversial political creatures they created.

Both were damaged badly in 2012 by loud, partisan voices that stoked the base — but that scared the hell out of many voters. Now, the GOP, with its dismal image, and Fox News, with its depressed ratings in January, are scrambling to dim those voices.
…..

“The fact that we lost a winnable election has caused Republicans to take this very, very seriously,” Jindal told us in an interview. “I don’t think it’s just a marketing change. I don’t think it’s just cosmetic changes. It is going to require some serious changes, not in principles, but in the way we talk and act.”

Same principles, different smile.

375 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:55:30pm

re: #366 goddamnedfrank

Well, there’s this:

hmm is the amygdala involved in the reward system or addiction?

Seems people can be weaned-off Fear. But they have to want it.

:0

376 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:59:02pm

re: #375 FemNaziBitch

Their brains are tuned for fear and other negative emotions as a result of:

1) believing in Hell, in a God who will destroy them and
2) fearing their own sexuality etc - fighting their own needs on pain of damnation
3) hating others for not living under the same misery

377 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:00:49pm

Religion is abuse, both child abuse and adult abuse.

And an eventual downward trajectory to one’s personality is a common result.

378 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:01:44pm

re: #376 stabby

Their brains are tuned for fear and other negative emotions as a result of:

1) believing in Hell, in a God who will destroy them and
2) fearing their own sexuality etc - fighting their own needs on pain of damnation
3) hating others for not living under the same misery

Baloney. Lots of people believe in Hell without going nuts. Arguing religion makes people nutty is foolish.

379 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:02:28pm

re: #378 Dark_Falcon

Define nuts.

380 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:02:29pm

re: #377 stabby

Downding for the BS.

381 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:03:15pm

Downding for being utterly wrong about human nature.

382 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:06:14pm

re: #374 jaunte

The GOP, Fox political purge

Same principles, different smile.

So Jindal means they’re going to stop with the homophobic and sexist dog whistles. Oh wait……….

383 makeitstop  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:06:27pm

re: #208 Charles Johnson

OK, so who linked to this guy’s website anyway?

Someone (Gus, maybe, I forget) linked to a page on his site where the guy debunks the ‘gun violence’ map for Alouette.

384 Political Atheist  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:06:48pm

re: #377 stabby

Religion is abuse, both child abuse and adult abuse.
And an eventual downward trajectory to one’s personality is a common result.

That’s quite the broad brush ya got there. You could do some of us people of faith a favor and save it for the fringe players. Telling a few billion people they are abusing their children by taking them to church is a bit much.

385 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:07:24pm

re: #194 FemNaziBitch

Love the Sinner, hate the sin seems to be lost on a lot of “believers”. As well as the fact that we are all born with “original sin”.

But there is never a shortage of preachers who take Mastercard, Visa, American Express and PayPal.

Define “fact.”

386 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:08:08pm

re: #384 Political Atheist

That’s quite the broad brush ya got there. You could do some of us people of faith a favor and save it for the fringe players. Telling a few billion people they are abusing their children by taking them to church is a bit much.

Just because you can’t do anything about it doesn’t change the truth.

If your point of view is that uncomfortable truths should be covered up and never spoken, you’ll never convince me to respect you or your opinion.

387 Gus  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:09:07pm

People are free to believe in original sin but don’t count me as one of them.

388 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:09:51pm

re: #386 stabby

From broad brushes to broad jumps to conclusions. Still baloney.

389 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:10:00pm

re: #348 Vicious Babushka

*FACE PALM*
Because going to Africa and urging them to execute gays is “polite”

Yeah Lively is so polite that he advocates laws that kill gay people. But Dan Savage is so much worse.//

390 Political Atheist  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:13:56pm

re: #386 stabby

Just because you can’t do anything about it doesn’t change the truth.

If your point of view is that uncomfortable truths should be covered up and never spoken, you’ll never convince me to respect you or your opinion.

You will gain no respect from me by disrespecting the views of myself & others like that. If you choose to disrespect me for being a person of faith, that of course is your choice. But a shallow one IMHO.

391 William Barnett-Lewis  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:14:09pm

re: #377 stabby

Religion is abuse, both child abuse and adult abuse.

And an eventual downward trajectory to one’s personality is a common result.

If that’s the case, I really must pray you never get religion. You’d be even more of a hopeless mess then.

392 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:15:17pm

O’Reilly: Epidemic of disrespect due mainly to public schools

After years of calling his political opponents “pinheads,” Fox News host Bill O’Reilly on Wednesday night lamented the decline of respect in the United States.

He observed that a woman recently received 30 days in jail for cursing at a Wisconsin judge and giving him the finger. O’Reilly said the incident highlighted the “epidemic of disrespect in America.” The public school system, he concluded, was mostly to blame.

O’Reilly noted New York public schools revised their disciplinary code last year in an attempt to keep more students in the classroom. Insubordinate students can no longer be suspended for one-time, low-level infractions, such as talking back to teachers or carrying a smartphone.

393 engineer cat  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:15:40pm

re: #366 goddamnedfrank

Well, there’s this:

A study at University College London in the UK has found that conservatives’ brains have larger amygdalas than the brains of liberals. Amygdalas are responsible for fear and other “primitive” emotions. At the same time, conservatives’ brains were also found to have a smaller anterior cingulate — the part of the brain responsible for courage and optimism.

just call me an amygdaloid

394 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:16:03pm

re: #377 stabby

Religion is abuse, both child abuse and adult abuse.

It’s a human thing, with the full human range of result.

395 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:16:46pm

re: #394 jaunte

So is slavery.

So is rape.

Is there a point here?

396 Mich-again  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:16:53pm

re: #381 stabby

Jesus would not recognize his own message after the centuries of translations and interpretations by people who aim to use the Gospels to justify their hate. I kind of get what you are trying to say, but I wouldn’t reject all Religion as abuse.

397 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:17:23pm

re: #395 stabby

Your original criticism was so broad as to be pointless.

398 Gus  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:17:35pm

Leave child abuse to child abuse. The other day someone mentioned something about teaching creationism being child abuse. I don’t agree. It might be stupid but it’s not child abuse. Parents can teach their children evolution and wind up being child abusers. It’s not corollary.

399 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:17:51pm

re: #392 Kragar

O’Reilly: Epidemic of disrespect due mainly to public schools

Yeah because you’re only polite to people you disagree with Bill. Sigh, why don’t you come out and say how you really feel that you would be happier if schools had stayed segregated you stupid old bigot because kids were going to public schools just as much when you were a kid as they do now. Hell I’d wager that home schooling is probably more common now than it was in the 1950’s.

400 Mich-again  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:19:35pm

re: #392 Kragar

O’Reilly: Epidemic of disrespect due mainly to public schools

O’Reilly is more revolted by someone giving a judge the bird than he was by a someone gunning down 20 kids.

401 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:23:00pm

re: #398 Gus

Teaching children about damnation is deep deep abuse that prevents minds from being built in the future.

It might not be an exaggeration to call it soul-murder if one defines “soul” as the potential of the mind and the heart.

One who learns not to think, out of panic at damnation is a person who’s mind has been mutilated. A person who fears his own thoughts is a person who is being beaten internally.

Teaching a person to despise the feelings and needs that are normal and human whether for intimacy or perhaps the needs that some people have to fall in love with their own sex - this is abuse too.

The way that religious people treat their own family, perhaps a daughter gets pregnant or falls in love with someone who isn’t the right religion, this is also often abuse.

402 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:23:42pm

re: #400 Mich-again

O’Reilly is more revolted by someone giving a judge the bird than he was by a someone gunning down 20 kids.

Is what this is about? Yeah because no kids disrespected adults when Bill was a boy. Sigh I fucking hate it when old bastards like this revise the past to suit their agenda.

403 Gus  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:24:30pm

re: #401 stabby

Teaching children about damnation is deep deep abuse that prevents minds from being built in the future.

It might not be an exaggeration to call it soul-murder if one defines “soul” as the potential of the mind and the heart.

One who learns not to think, out of panic at damnation is a person who’s mind has been mutilated. A person who fears his own thoughts is a person who is being beaten internally.

Teaching a person to despise the feelings and needs that are normal and human whether for intimacy or perhaps the needs that some people have to fall in love with their own sex - this is abuse too.

The way that religious people treat their own family, perhaps a daughter gets pregnant or falls in love with someone who isn’t the right religion, this is also often abuse.

You start calling religion child abuse you enter a slippery slope. Parents are arrested for child abuse. prosecuted and if found guilty sent to prison. Effectively you’re saying that religion, being child abuse, will result in parents going to prison. For. Religion.

404 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:25:24pm

re: #397 jaunte

My original point was that fear of damnation can change brains and destroy personalities.

How is such a profound claim “meaninglessly broad”?

405 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:26:24pm

re: #403 Gus

You start calling religion child abuse you enter a slippery slope. Parents are arrested for child abuse. prosecuted and if found guilty sent to prison. Effectively you’re saying that religion, being child abuse, will result in parents going to prison. For. Religion.

Your legalistic misinterpretation of what I wrote would seem to be your problem with reading comprehension.

406 jaunte  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:27:31pm

re: #404 stabby

How is such a profound claim “meaninglessly broad”?

I can’t tell you.

407 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:28:03pm

re: #406 jaunte

If you can’t tell me what you mean, then why write it?

408 Mich-again  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:30:39pm

re: #402 HappyWarrior

Bill O’Reilly tells the youth of the world.. Get Off My Lawn!

409 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:32:44pm

re: #408 Mich-again

Bill O’Reilly tells the youth of the world.. Get Off My Lawn!

Heh, this gets me thinking but this is why I never had the teenage rebellion thing against my Dad. He never really tried to do that whole “Things were so much better in my Dad” crap that I see a lot of people do.

410 chadu  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:35:02pm

re: #401 stabby

Teaching children about damnation is deep deep abuse that prevents minds from being built in the future.

Interesting. It didn’t stop my mind from rejecting it, and hopefully being built up later.

But, hey, I was raised as a ridiculously liberal Catholic, who later turned into a Panenthiest, so what do I know?

[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

411 Mich-again  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:35:59pm

re: #401 stabby

The way that religious people treat their own family, perhaps a daughter gets pregnant or falls in love with someone who isn’t the right religion, this is also often abuse.

The way you lump all religious people together into one big ball of hate is pretty shitty.

412 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:37:37pm

re: #410 chadu

I think some children are lucky enough to recognize that they’re being manipulated through words and to reject the manipulation early.

413 chadu  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:39:16pm

re: #412 stabby

I’d alter that to “more than some,” but I dig your perspective on this point.

414 Gus  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:40:14pm

Thinking.

415 chadu  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:40:57pm

It’s really fear, I think, more than a threat.

A threat is there to cause fear.

416 Mich-again  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:41:27pm

re: #404 stabby

My original point was that fear of damnation can change brains and destroy personalities.

Fear is poor motivator. It has a very short shelf life. My experience from raising children is that they pretty much ignore what you say but they do follow your example. Granted, the sample size I base that on is pretty small.

417 chadu  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:43:04pm

I got 15 minutes before my homemade frozen-dinner pasta is done in the oven, and I finally eat after a long, long, long day.

Some other Lizardim throw out an idea for me to cogitate on overnight, and I’ll post a page.

418 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:44:09pm

It’s not the same subject, but I never get over being flabbergasted that some people feel that they can tell us what God thinks let alone ascribe the dumbest most harmful crap to him.

I can’t prove that there’s a God or not, but I can easily prove that idiots can and do ascribe any nonsense to his opinion, his being and his actions. You can’t prove anything about God, but you can easily show that people have no fucking clue what they’re talking about.

419 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:45:49pm

re: #416 Mich-again

You no doubt told them to fear their mom and dad rather than fear eternal damnation.

That’s not the same thing. You’re not going to torture them ever let alone for eternity. You didn’t make real fear at all.

420 wrenchwench  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:47:34pm

re: #417 chadu

I got 15 minutes before my homemade frozen-dinner pasta is done in the oven, and I finally eat after a long, long, long day.

Some other Lizardim throw out an idea for me to cogitate on overnight, and I’ll post a page.

Here ya go:

Too deep?

421 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:47:40pm

But yeah, not everyone really buys that shit.

Every member of Westborough Baptist believes it though.

422 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:48:51pm

re: #420 wrenchwench

Youtube Video
423 engineer cat  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:49:14pm

buddha started out teaching a philosophy, claiming only to be a teacher, teaching non attachment to desire

it didn’t take long for people to start treating him like a god, making statues of him, and putting offerings in front of the statue, supplicating it for things they desire

something similar happened to that hippie love and peace preacher from nazareth. i don’t imagine burning at the stake was something he had in mind…

how do we know that in two centuries ignorant fucks won’t have turned science on its head and are doing equally stupid things in its name?

424 Mich-again  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:51:32pm

re: #419 stabby

You no doubt told them to fear their mom and dad rather than fear eternal damnation.

That’s not the same thing. You’re not going to torture them ever let alone for eternity. You didn’t make real fear at all.

You are totally wrong about everything in that post. I never ever hit them, I never grounded them, I never even yelled at my kids other then to say DINNERS READY. And they are awesome young adults now.

425 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:52:08pm

I think both the story of Jesus and Buddha suggest that they were a bit cracked. Maybe nice people, maybe smart ones, but talking for God isn’t normal neither is “enlightenment”. They’re neurological problems.

But don’t get me started on Mohammad. You can pity him but you can’t call him smart or nice.

426 chadu  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:52:22pm

re: #420 wrenchwench

Here ya go:

I’M ONLY SUPERFICIAL ON THE INSIDE.

Too deep?

Nope. Not even worthy of extended cogitation: we’re all superficial on the inside, taking our personal experiences and emotions as cosmic verities, and extrapolating from that (wrongly).

Also, the oven just beeped, and I forgot how rocket-hot these homemade frozen dinners end up being. 10 more minutes.

427 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:52:36pm

re: #424 Mich-again

Everything? You told them to fear fear fear God?

428 engineer cat  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:52:43pm

you can tell i’m really tired when i don’t even bother to make up silly test data to amuse myself

i’m just entering “test data”

429 Mich-again  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:53:36pm

re: #419 stabby

WTF is wrong with you to even accuse me of any of that nonsense?

430 chadu  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:53:55pm

re: #428 engineer cat

i’m just entering “test data”

Chuck Testa.

431 Mich-again  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:54:17pm

re: #427 stabby

Everything? You told them to fear fear fear God?

Never told them to fear God. You are a nutjob.

432 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:54:33pm

re: #428 engineer cat

This will make you drool over how easy testing could be

Youtube Video
433 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:55:30pm

re: #431 Mich-again

Never told them to fear God. You are a nutjob.

Then you didn’t read carefully enough to have the foggiest notion what I was talking about.

It makes me wonder why you responded to my posts at all since you understood nothing of what I was talking about.

434 Mich-again  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:56:02pm

If my 9 years on LGF are any indication of what comes next, Its the idiot referred to as Stabby flouncing in the typical way.

435 wrenchwench  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:57:12pm

re: #434 Mich-again

Time flies, doesn’t it?

436 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:57:23pm

re: #434 Mich-again

You seem to be talking to yourself. Do you do that whenever you’re offended? Lecture without bothering to read or understand, in the slightest, what you’re responding to?

437 chadu  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:58:31pm

I’mma going upstairs for my last couple minutes before NOM. Later, Lizardim!

438 Mich-again  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:58:59pm

re: #436 stabby

No I’m talking to you. I must be your only friend.

439 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:59:02pm

bye

440 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 8:59:06pm

re: #376 stabby

Their brains are tuned for fear and other negative emotions as a result of:

1) believing in Hell, in a God who will destroy them and
2) fearing their own sexuality etc - fighting their own needs on pain of damnation
3) hating others for not living under the same misery

Yeah, condtinueing in the theme started in chadu’s Post, I think we need to get back to the LGF standard of evidence vs. opinions. We (I included) see so much of the same bad logic and it’s easy to apply it to every situation —thereby falling into the same trap of myths and emotions we (I) often accuse other’s of.

There is such a thing as Religious Abuse, it is not pervasive. Simply being raised in a religious does not consitute religious abuse.

441 Mich-again  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 9:00:09pm

re: #440 FemNaziBitch

Simply being raised in a religious does not constitute religious abuse.

Exactly.

442 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 9:00:48pm

re: #385 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

Define “fact.”

LOL, good catch.

Original Sin being the religious interpretation of” imperfect, without flaws, or omniscient.”

I think it is a fact that no human is perfect.

443 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 9:01:59pm

I friend of mine’s son told me that he heard Satan’s voice in his sleep a few times and he was scared.

He was maybe 14 years old at the time and he was freightened like a little child.

Sigh.

444 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 9:03:04pm

His father had unexpectedly found religion when the boy was a little..

The logic of Christianity has horrible pitfalls though.

445 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 9:04:21pm

re: #434 Mich-again

If my 9 years on LGF are any indication of what comes next, Its the idiot referred to as Stabby flouncing in the typical way.

Wow, we (I think) are close to the same age!

446 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 9:05:29pm

re: #443 stabby

I friend of mine’s son told me that he heard Satan’s voice in his sleep a few times and he was scared.

He was maybe 14 years old at the time and he was freightened like a little child.

Sigh.

Yeah, that would probably be a sign of early schizophrenia.

447 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 9:06:58pm

He’s not schizophrenic, he was, however frieghtened of Satan, and therefore of his own mind. That’s not healthy.

A hundred million wingnuts would disagree with me. That’s what makes them wingnuts.

448 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 9:10:27pm

re: #447 stabby

He’s not schizophrenic, he was, however frieghtened of Satan, and therefore of his own mind. That’s not healthy.

A hundred million wingnuts would disagree with me. That’s what makes them wingnuts.

Ah, so that is the standard we should all use —your opinion?

449 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 9:11:26pm

re: #448 FemNaziBitch

Ah I should never use my judgment.

Thanks for setting me straight.

450 engineer cat  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 9:11:27pm

re: #432 stabby

This will make you drool over how easy testing could be

[Embedded content]

after 27 years i don’t have any problems testing

what i do have problems with:

db engineers who change the schemas without telling you and then leave for the day

junior engineers who can’t seem to let ten minutes go by without getting stuck and asking you another question

the wonderful new philosophy that designing the project ahead of time is old fashioned and that the new way to go is to come up with one feature at a time, and then change it whenever a new idea occurs to them - this is called “agile” because the engineers have to jump around like monkeys tearing up code to keep up with it

451 engineer cat  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 9:13:32pm

i am, however, now trying to find out why the value “chuck testa” is not getting saved to the backend

452 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 9:15:28pm

re: #450 engineer cat

Hey, I managed to install the GCC collection and gnu tools on my android tablet.

….

Now what do I do with that? Heh I could run any text mode linux program. I could compile Emacs (my tablet has a keyboard) and program in SLIME for Lisp or something … Run an apache server… Ok I guess I don’t have any GOOD ideas for it.

453 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 9:18:42pm

Actually the charger connection for the keyboard is broken. I’m gonna have to send the tablet back tomorrow.

It’s cool but cheap.

The batteries for the tablet crap out at 40%

The clip on keyboard is messed up.

Also the camera is FAKE (heh no where near the resolution they claim)

but other than that it’s sweet

454 Mich-again  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 9:19:22pm

I stayed in the Church to be a pain in the arse for the true believers who refuse to acknowledge the horrible abuse that was part and parcel of the Church leadership for decades, and even centuries. I am a critic of all the evil people who have enabled child abuse regardless of the positions and titles they gained. I think the best way to affect change is from within. I do not disagree that many people used and continue to use religion to enable hate and abuse. I don’t give a crap if Churches go bankrupt paying off lawsuit awards to victims of their abuse. I don’t think Churches deserve tax exemptions. All that said, I do think there is a good message in the Gospels. Love all, serve all.

455 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 9:20:50pm

I AM in love with how wonderful the screens on tablets are now. They’re much better than laptop screens.

You can see them from any angle, the resolution is higher, the color is better and they’re touch.

456 engineer cat  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 9:24:32pm

re: #452 stabby

Hey, I managed to install the GCC collection and gnu tools on my android tablet.

….

Now what do I do with that? Heh I could run any text mode linux program. I could compile Emacs (my tablet has a keyboard) and program in SLIME for Lisp or something … Run an apache server… Ok I guess I don’t have any GOOD ideas for it.

i always wanted to write a cfg and compile it on yacc, since yacc is so cool, but i dunno what for since i doan care if anything is well-formed

you could try writing recursive fibonacci in Lisp, the see how many numbers you could run it for before you blow the stack. remember, recursive fibonacci is n to the nth!

457 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 9:26:55pm

What does CFG stand for?

Right now I’m trying to learn [Link: www.jetbrains.com…] so that I can write a language (and editor for it) that I’ve been wanting for a long time.

I have some language ideas that got lost in mists of time that I want to resurrect, and I want to target Java including Android Java.

458 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 9:29:13pm

Cheap tablets are coming with up to 2 gig of memory and 4 core processors. They’re required to have pretty good video chips. Really they rival desk machines.

459 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 9:31:46pm

I remember, back in the late 70’s reading about a symbolic math program called MacSyma and wanting to have a calculator that could run it. I have its direct descendant, Maxima, installed on my tablet.

Heh, a dream came true.

460 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 9:35:22pm

Oh CFG is context free grammar.

Yeah I’ve done grammars on yacc and Bison and some commercial compiler compiler at work and on Antlr…

It’s sad how hard it often is to get grammars working right.

461 Usually refered to as anyways  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 10:28:41pm

re: #443 stabby

I friend of mine’s son told me that he heard Satans’s voice in his sleep a few times and he was scared.

He was maybe 14 years old at the time and he was freightened like a little child.

Sigh.

I friend of mine’s son told me that he heard Clown’s voice in his sleep a few times and he was scared.

He was maybe 14 years old at the time and he was freightened like a little child.

Sigh.

462 stabby  Wed, Feb 6, 2013 11:00:59pm

[Link: badgods.com…]


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