The best use of stock footage I’ve seen in, well, ever. Darwin Deez is making some excellent off-kilter music videos. This is from Songs for Imaginative People.
Sorry to go off topic so quickly, but there was a gas main explosion and a huge fire at Kansas City’s iconic Country Club Plaza, and I have to share these FIRST THREE comments in response to Yahoo’s coverage:
Damn it! Now is the time to ban cars!
BAN GAS, these explosions are an epidemic, children might be killed. Mass casualties are possible. Gas is not even guaranteed by the constitution, GET RID OF GAS.
I just checked back on PJ media to an article claiming that there was no voter suppression to see how people (are continuing) to react to my point that it’s Republicans who caused it, and that it’s a serious flaw that America is the only non-totalitarian country that has partisan officials in charge of voting.
The reaction: The website deleted the whole thread with some 30 comments and replaced it with a single comment.
Sorry to go off topic so quickly, but there was a gas main explosion and a huge fire at Kansas City’s iconic Country Club Plaza, and I have to share these FIRST THREE comments in response to Yahoo’s coverage:
Damn it! Now is the time to ban cars!
BAN GAS, these explosions are an epidemic, children might be killed. Mass casualties are possible. Gas is not even guaranteed by the constitution, GET RID OF GAS.
Looks like we need to ban gas mains and cars
finally, my movement to ban everything since the neolithic is getting some traction
Sorry to go off topic so quickly, but there was a gas main explosion and a huge fire at Kansas City’s iconic Country Club Plaza, and I have to share these FIRST THREE comments in response to Yahoo’s coverage:
Damn it! Now is the time to ban cars!
BAN GAS, these explosions are an epidemic, children might be killed. Mass casualties are possible. Gas is not even guaranteed by the constitution, GET RID OF GAS.
Looks like we need to ban gas mains and cars
But think about how many explosions there would be if everyone had multiple gas mains in their back yards.
Oh yeah I remember that guy. LOL He was awesome. The whole anti-immigrant crowd he was lecturing wound up being speechless. They finally dispersed because of him.
“There are 11 million people living here illegally,” he said. “We are not going to get enough buses to deport them.”
Some audience members shouted out their disapproval.
One man yelled that only guns would discourage illegal immigration. Another man complained that illegal immigrants should never be able to become citizens or vote. A third man said illegal immigrants were illiterate invaders who wanted free government benefits.
McCain urged compassion. “We are a Judeo-Christian nation,” he said. McCain’s other town hall meeting took place in Green Valley, south of Tucson.
I’d be willing to bet that the idiots screaming at John McCain are employing undocumented immigrants as gardeners and housekeepers and handymen. A huge part of Arizona’s economy is dependent on them.
I’d be willing to bet that the idiots screaming at John McCain are employing undocumented immigrants as gardeners and housekeepers and handymen. A huge part of Arizona’s economy is dependent on them.
If not keeping labor costs down through other services.
Caracal International, the small arms subsidiary of Tawazun, Abu Dhabi’s strategic defence investment company, has introduced a new aluminium assault rifle, on show for the first time on Stand 05-A10, writes Brian M Walters.
The latest addition to the company’s already extensive product range, the CAR 816 embraces 21st century concepts in ergonomics, design and manufacturing techniques. Based on the widely used M16/ M4 system, the CAR 816 is a gas-operated piston system with a rotary bolt mechanism in the 5.56x45mm NATO calibre. The new weapon is available in three different barrel lengths and is also equipped with standard interfaces for the pistol grip and butt stock, providing users with the highest modularity.
The barrel is of cold-forged chromium molybdenum steel with optional chrome plate inside the upper and lower receiver, as well as the hand guard, each made of high-strength aluminium.
Caracal’s current product range includes full-, compact- and subcompact-sized pistols, as well as 9mm carbines and sniper rifles in various calibres. In addition it offers a wide range of accessories for its products such as key-locks, quick-loaders and specially designed sight systems. To ensure that its customer’s needs are met, Caracal provides basic and advanced tactical shooting training and also carries out turnkey weapons maintenance services.
I’d be willing to bet that the idiots screaming at John McCain are employing undocumented immigrants as gardeners and housekeepers and handymen. A huge part of Arizona’s economy is dependent on them.
BUT NO MINIMUM WAGE FOR THOSE WORTHLESS MOOCHERS!1!
They can’t run their farms without illegals but they’re going nuts on them anyway as if they don’t care.
Is the immigrant hatred all people who failed at their career and blame immigrants, or is the problem something else? Are their successful people who hate the immigrants too?
Unlike Galileo and other controversial astronomers, however, Copernicus had a good relationship with the Catholic Church. It may come as a surprise, considering the Church banned Copernicus’ “Des revolutionibus” for more than 200 years. Copernicus was actually respected as a canon and regarded as a renowned astronomer. Contrary to popular belief, the Church accepted Copernicus’ heliocentric theory before a wave of Protestant opposition led the Church to ban Copernican views in the 17th century.
TEH DERP OUTDERPS IT SELF
(I could only watch 20 seconds of this video. How much can you watch without throwing up?)
I would not hire this person to work even for 9¢ an hour.
They can’t run their farms without illegals but they’re going nuts on them anyway as if they don’t care.
Is the immigrant hatred all people who failed at their career and blame immigrants, or is the problem something else? Are their successful people who hate the immigrants too?
Well, there are ways to use robots for farm tasks. But that takes greater education on the part of the farmer, which Bryan Fischer opposes for fear that it might lead to dancing.
“John McCain tried,
but his wisdom they denied.
And if they lose they’ll have but themselves to blame,
‘cause John McCain tried.”
/With apologies to Merle Haggard
You got to admire him for standing up to his constituency like this. He’s basically on board with the president. Marco Rubio is also on board but apparently he hasn’t noticed that yet.
Sorry to go off topic so quickly, but there was a gas main explosion and a huge fire at Kansas City’s iconic Country Club Plaza, and I have to share these FIRST THREE comments in response to Yahoo’s coverage:
Damn it! Now is the time to ban cars!
BAN GAS, these explosions are an epidemic, children might be killed. Mass casualties are possible. Gas is not even guaranteed by the constitution, GET RID OF GAS.
You got to admire him for standing up to his constituency like this. He’s basically on board with the president. Marco Rubio is also on board but apparently he hasn’t noticed that yet.
Rubio knows, but it’s more difficult for him. He’s a first term Senator in a competitive state, so he has to be part of the compromise while keeping his distance from the president.
Rubio knows, but it’s more difficult for him. He’s a first term Senator in a competitive state, so he has to be part of the compromise while keeping his distance from the president.
TEH DERP OUTDERPS IT SELF
(I could only watch 20 seconds of this video. How much can you watch without throwing up?)
I would not hire this person to work even for 9¢ an hour.
Gaah! They’re announcing their new registration system for PJ media and mentioning their other sites. I didn’t know about some of them. NextGeneration (dot) tv:
Our Mission: We examine the issues of the day through the lens of the next generation.
We encourage all Americans to stand up for our nation’s collective future.
- that’s with a fucking picture of Alan West on the front
I wasn’t really interested in anything michael totten when he was there, and gawking at the tea party derp on their front page/tattler.
I noticed, long ago, that they had a Glen Beck University type section of videos, propagandizing tea party economics and “freedom” and God knows whatever other derp, I couldn’t bring myself to watch any of the videos (with our virtual president Bill Whittle and other creepy “luminaries”).
From that chart, one could infer that the way to get the maximum buying-power value out of the minimum wage is to ensure that a large percentage of people who would likely be employed in minimum-wage jobs are involuntarily conscripted into military service during the peak of a war from which they may or may not return.
You got to admire him for standing up to his constituency like this. He’s basically on board with the president. Marco Rubio is also on board but apparently he hasn’t noticed that yet.
It remains to be seen whether Sen. Rubio’s focused on getting immigration reform passed or on just getting his name out in front for ‘16.
They want kids to sign up for a “weekly newsletter from Allen West.”
“become a volunteer to spread the word.”
“Upload photos of yourself and friends.”
“Watch our videos.”
They want kids to sign up for a “weekly newsletter from Allen West.”
“become a volunteer to spread the word.”
“Upload photos of yourself and friends.”
“Watch our videos.”
It remains to be seen whether Sen. Rubio’s focused on getting immigration reform passed or on just getting his name out in front for ‘16.
Given his words during and after his response to the State of the Union, he really wants to pass a real reform. But he needs to do it while keeping his electoral coalition together and part of that is working to keep Obama’s fingerprints off of the compromise bill.
Given his words during and after his response to the State of the Union, he really wants to pass a real reform. But he needs to do it while keeping his electoral coalition together and part of that is working to keep Obama’s fingerprints off of the compromise bill.
There’s an irony here given that Florida is known for a large influx of Cuban refugees that technically came into the USA illegally. You know, like his dad who gave up on fighting for Castro and came here with what? 100 bucks? Do the anti-amnesty Floridians understand this?
Given his words during and after his response to the State of the Union, he really wants to pass a real reform. But he needs to do it while keeping his electoral coalition together and part of that is working to keep Obama’s fingerprints off of the compromise bill.
What I see is a young guy very eager to have his name associated with a major Congressional bill, in the hopes that its passage and any good faith it will generate amongst the Latino community will boost the party as a whole and himself in particular.
[Link: fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com…]
Silver has an interesting article Re:Rubio. Not sure what to make of it but I’ve never really been that impressed with Marco Rubio. But it’s not people like me he has to win over if he wants to be president.
What I see is a young guy very eager to have his name associated with a major Congressional bill, in the hopes that its passage and any good faith it will generate amongst the Latino community will boost the party as a whole and himself in particular.
That’s pretty accurate. For what my view is worth, I think he’s acting in good faith and wants reform for enough of the right reasons.
There’s an irony here given that Florida is known for a large influx of Cuban refugees that technically came into the USA illegally. You know, like his dad who gave up on fighting for Castro and came here with what? 100 bucks? Do the anti-amnesty Floridians understand this?
Some few might, but too many are Know-Nothings concerned with purity and not victory. Which is why Rubio courts ‘Caribbean Latinos’, to expand the GOP coalition in Florida enough to reduce the Know-Nothing’s influence.
That’s pretty accurate. For what my view is worth, I think he’s acting in good faith and wants reform for enough of the right reasons.
The question is, how much of his ideals and principles is he willing to compromise just to get a bill that the GOP will accept. As we saw today in Arizona, the wingnuts are already frothing at the idea that undocumented workers might get a shot at citizenship instead of all being marched across the border at gunpoint.
It eventually wound up by my feet. Thought it was a mouse at first. Heard a small ruckus and was looking down when I saw something flying overhead at first. Some small crunching sound now as he’s downing his 9 PM snack.
Ugh. He’s done and left a little mess of feathers. Bird’s gone. He just headed out the door for more hunting I’m sure. You think he’d take a nap after this. :D
You got to admire him for standing up to his constituency like this. He’s basically on board with the president. Marco Rubio is also on board but apparently he hasn’t noticed that yet.
Both sides want a bill. They actually want the same bill — or at least they’ve both signed on to the same bill. But there’s the problem, a political problem. Establishment Republicans feel they must support the immigration bill the President supports. But they need to convince the base of their party that they fought him like crazy to get it passed. That’s a challenge.
So we’re now treated to the spectacle of Senators like Marco Rubio and others straining to find some big point of disagreement with the president to pivot off of even though it’s almost impossible to find something to disagree about. Yes, there are some points of divergence. But they are all the sorts of minor differences — not ones of principle — that are easy to accomodate when there’s any interest in doing so.
Actually my comment about Zombie was unfair. Joking that she “isn’t thoroughly stupid” and therefor “won’t be on PJ long” was wrong, because it’s actually a good article, I agree with much of her point, and it’s written so that you CAN agree with the article even if you DON’T buy her point.
The establishment really isn’t the problem. They’re aware of reality- that the party cannot be seen as hostile to Latino voters especially. However, you’ve got others who aren’t in the establishment at all and come from probably bright red states where they’re fairly safe anyhow. I hope something passes but I have to admit that I’m skeptical given what I heard about McCain today. The base I think is going to raise a shit fit regardless of what happens.
Actually my comment about Zombie was unfair. Joking that she “isn’t thoroughly stupid” and therefor “won’t be on PJ long” was wrong, because it’s actually a good article, I agree with much of her point, and it’s written so that you CAN agree with the article even if you DON’T buy her point.
I disagree. It is not a good article. It’s a whole lot of BS.
Ah, I see what Zombie is saying. What the conservatives are doing in that hashtag is wrong but they’re just playing into the Commie Pinko hands! Or something. I’m a weird liberal and heard Rep. Salazar’s comments and thought they were kind of stupid. Maybe rambling. Otherwise I think not having CCWs on college campuses is fine.
The argument that guns are useful for self defense is a totally valid one.
It isn’t made as often because it’s not based in the constitution and therefore there’s no GUARANTEE that congress or any level of government will honor it. But it’s a totally valid argument, and it’s part of the argument over rape and gun rights.
Also, I caught part of Hannity’s show on Faux News and instantly felt dumber when I heard him talk. I had to switch to Storage Wars just to find more interesting conversations.
when lincoln was alive, he was called a hairy baboon, a tyrant, a “black” republican, and was accused of wanting the federal government to mandate mixing of the ‘races’
these days we know about this if we trouble to read about peripheral issues of the politics of the time which are now relatively obscure
Ah, I see what Zombie is saying. What the conservatives are doing in that hashtag is wrong but they’re just playing into the Commie Pinko hands! Or something. I’m a weird liberal and heard Rep. Salazar’s comments and thought they were kind of stupid. Maybe rambling. Otherwise I think not having CCWs on college campuses is fine.
Also that Twitter is stupid because there’s only 140 characters. Zombie needs Wall O’ Text to sound smart.
The argument that guns are useful for self defense is a totally valid one.
It isn’t made as often because it’s not based in the constitution and therefore there’s no GUARANTEE that congress or any level of government will honor it. But it’s a totally valid argument, and it’s part of the argument over rape and gun rights.
Yes, but there’s no statewide emergency in Colorado that requires women to run and get CCWs in order to fend of rapists. Most rape victims know their rapist. I seriously doubt a young woman would get a CCW and shoot someone she thought was her friend as he begins to rape her. That would require being on the wire all the time and ready to draw a weapon on her friend who is now attacking her like Dirty Harry. Not gonna happen. CCWs are still available for most people in Colorado and will remain as such even after this bill that passed tonight moves ahead. There was no bans on semi-auto weapons included.
The most was a limit of 15 rounds per magazine. Frankly, it probably won’t make much of a dent since crazy people will still be crazy people. You can fire off a semi-auto and reload another 15 round magazine in seconds. There are new background check requirements but as we’ve seen before you can pass those and still go berserk at any moment because humans are frail creatures controlled by a rather complicated CPU composed of a meat like substance.
There’s a semi famous case of a serial rapist from Colorado that used to sneak into women’s homes and rape them in the dead of night. How is having a hand gun going to stop that? It’s different if they’re being stalked and know their lives are in danger. Otherwise what? You wake up and someone is on top of you and then go to grab your gun from the night stand drawer? You’d have to go to sleep holstered. Maybe that would work.
There’s a semi famous case of a serial rapist from Colorado that used to sneak into women’s homes and rape them in the dead of night. How is having a hand gun going to stop that? It’s different if they’re being stalked and know their lives are in danger. Otherwise what? You wake up and someone is on top of you and then go to grab your gun from the night stand drawer? You’d have to go to sleep holstered. Maybe that would work.
Exactly. Someone linked to an article explaining the fallacy of this thought too. Pointed out that just about half of rape victims are under the age of 18 too. I mean every situation’s going to be different. Acting like “if only someone had a gun” I think is naive thinking at the very least.
The joy of wingnuts devouring the Republican elite: WWE has a new tea party/wingnut antagonist called “Zeb Colter” who spends his time running down immigrants, especially Mexicans, and he comes complete with a Gadsen flag and various accouterments.
Anyway, on their show last night the WWE announcers mentioned (derisively) that the fans of Colter were the Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Alex Jones types - yes they mentioned those names explicitly.
Sure enough, today on Infowars the Alex Jones crowd is complaining:
This is part of the divide and conquer tactic of cultural subversion to manufacture racial division and to characterize the Tea Party, conservatives, libertarians, opponents of uncontrolled illegal immigration and constitutionalists as racist, extremist radicals who should be pushed to the fringes of the political discourse.
Now the demonization runs so deep that it’s even being bolstered by WWE wrestling.
The fact that WWE is owned by Vince and Linda McMahon, who are part of the Republican establishment, also tells us a lot about how grass roots conservatives and libertarians are viewed by those near the top of the power structure.
[…]
Also Jones was on someone’s show (I think Piers Morgan) ranting about this WWE character.
I wonder how far Vince McMahon is going to take this character? Is this his way of finding someone to blame for his wife’s second loss?
Also, apparently some Fox News show picked up on this WWE character and whined about it also.
Because in NRA world, perpetrators are always strangers. The only crime that exists is the caricatures of actual criminals that follow women into alleyways or threaten people with knives.
Because in NRA world, perpetrators are always strangers. The only crime that exists is the caricatures of actual criminals that follow women into alleyways or threaten people with knives.
Frat party tonight. Better come packing heat! Right. Everyone forgets that in a lot of these cases lots of alcohol is involved. People also forget about “date rape” drugs.
Of course, the irony of this is that their cracker wrestler will likely boost teabagger enrollment as good christian fathers teach their sons to be good christian bigots. It’s all part of the Tea Party shtick.
//I only wish.
Here’s the PrisonPlanet video with some of the WWE video - note that WWE has been sweeping up all content on Youtube since before Linda’s last campaign really got underway, but the PrisonPlanet video uses only a short segment that is probably allowable under copyright laws. At around 1:34 you can hear the WWE commentators mentioned the wingnut radio host names, and Michael Cole makes it a point to mention Alex Jones twice:
An Alex Jones/Infowars fanboy that I know was derping about that today and about how ZOMG WWE HATES CONSERVATIVES. He got schooled by another guy pointing out that the people running the WWE are hardly bleeding heart hippies or friends of the left.
The may be true, but corporately WWE has made the strategic decision to target Spanish speaking audiences, and one of their leading protagonists is a Mexican wrestler. I’ll also note that a couple of years ago when SI did a poll of “sports” fans on their political inclinations, professional wrestling audiences were one of the few that clearly leaned Democratic (the other being NBA fans.)
I thought the right liked capitalism. Because that’s what the WWE is doing here. They’re making money by poking fun at the wingnuts. I guess businesses are free to pollute the atmosphere or violate the law but making fun of the Tea Party, oh heavens no!
The may be true, but corporately WWE has made the strategic decision to target Spanish speaking audiences, and one of their leading protagonists is a Mexican wrestler. I’ll also note that a couple of years ago when SI did a poll of “sports” fans on their political inclinations, professional wrestling audiences were one of the few that clearly leaned Democratic (the other being NBA fans.)
I remember that survey. That surprised me really given wrestling’s reputation. I’ve actually heard that baseball has one of the most conservative viewership. Not sure what to make of that, my only guess is that baseball probably has the oldest viewership which I realize isn’t fair because old doesn’t necessary mean conservative and vice versa.
I thought the right liked capitalism. Because that’s what the WWE is doing here. They’re making money by poking fun at the wingnuts. I guess businesses are free to pollute the atmosphere or violate the law but making fun of the Tea Party, oh heavens no!
And the fact the owner, Linda McMahon, and the tea party had a falling out had nothing to do with it.
In the last stretch of her recent campaign, Linda McMahon was running TV ads about how well she gets along with President Obama and how as a Senator she could work with him.
Yeah, she was desperate and it is Connecticut, but the reality is that the wealthy NE Republicans have nothing to gain from the wingnuts, but the latter are albatrosses.
I wasn’t aware of that actually. I pay as much attention to the WWE as I do hockey which is to say zero.
After the election, they had one of their good guys go bad and start making Obama type speeches, had the Rock comeback making standard GOP speeches, and now they’ve got a wingnut.
The universe doesn’t love me enough for this to happen:
Yeah, I can’t wait for Begich to remind Alaskan voters that she quit on her state to become a right wing shill. Hopefully this is the blow that finally does her in.
In the last stretch of her recent campaign, Linda McMahon was running TV ads about how well she gets along with President Obama and how as a Senator she could work with him.
Yeah, she was desperate and it is Connecticut, but the reality is that the wealthy NE Republicans have nothing to gain from the wingnuts, but the latter are albatrosses.
Yeah I do remember hearing about that come to think of it.
This SEScoops article has embedded the Fox Five show from today where the host seems a bit ruffled about what the WWE is doing with their new character. It also contains a short portion of one of the WWE skits by Zeb Colter that frankly looks like it could fit into any wingnut youtube account:
You do have to love right wing humor. They’ll joke about waterboarding people they don’t like and that will include liberal politicians but man they get pissy if someone makes fun of them. They remind me of the kid who will talk non stop trash to you at school. So finally you pull a Spider from Goodfellas and tell him to go fuck himself and he just gets in a fucking rage. I think we’ve all known someone like that in our lives. That’s what the wingnuts remind of when it comes to humor. They can have people like Limbaugh call a woman a slut because he doesn’t like what she’s doing politically but their movements are off limits for sppofing. Of course, if you ask me, the Tea Party wrote its own parody with all the throwback colonial garb they wore. Note to TP. Wearing tricorne hats and claiming you’re the successors to the Founders doesn’t make you so.
This SEScoops article has embedded the Fox Five show from today where the host seems a bit ruffled about what the WWE is doing with their new character. It also contains a short portion of one of the WWE skits by Zeb Colter that frankly looks like it could fit into any wingnut youtube account:
There’s Kimberly Guilfoyle with her legs. Greg Gutfeld babbling. Honestly, if people never brought these weirdos to my attention I would have never heard about them.
They remind me of the kid who will talk non stop trash to you at school. So finally you pull a Spider from Goodfellas and tell him to go fuck himself and he just gets in a fucking rage.
I realized that when she reported on a speech by (former Labor secretary/UC professor/Market Place commentor) Robert Reich that I heard on the radio and she claimed to be at UC Berkeley listening to.
She lied about the content and slandered Reich something fierce. When I complained about that, there was a bit of an argument and, as is usual on PJ Media, I was banned from the thread in time to let everyone else think they got the last word in. But in the middle of it she admitted that she wasn’t listening to Reich carefully. So she wrote an article to slander someone about a speech she didn’t pay attention to.
Regarding the “caprice” aka capriccio, the well known Italian composer Paganini wrote several of the best known, but even he might be surprised by how well the Eugen Cicero Trio’s take on his #24 lives up to the meaning of the word:
Actually my comment about Zombie was unfair. Joking that she “isn’t thoroughly stupid” and therefor “won’t be on PJ long” was wrong, because it’s actually a good article, I agree with much of her point, and it’s written so that you CAN agree with the article even if you DON’T buy her point.
I know her website.
I know that she’s a hateful paranoid who believes every single slander about Obama that’s ever been written.
I know that like every other person who’s ever written at PJ, she’s lost her damn mind and lets the paranoia and greed all hang out…
sigh.
But she’s also smart enough to notice the bubble that the right lives in and know the difference between it and the rest-of-the-world. She’s just too freaked out and disgusted by the world outside the right wing bubble to be willing to live here.
She’s argued that the left and right have different FACTS instead of having policy arguments. How she can notice that and NOT notice that the right’s facts are confined to Fox, Limbaugh, the stupid religious nut kooks and a bunch of paid for industry lobbyists, ie NOT REAL MEDIA, I have no idea.
TEH DERP OUTDERPS IT SELF
(I could only watch 20 seconds of this video. How much can you watch without throwing up?)
I would not hire this person to work even for 9¢ an hour.
The arguments are asinine. If you cannot live and support a family on the minimum wage, then the government finds itself providing de facto wage subsidies in the form of food stamps and health care.
Of course, these people would also like to see those programs diminished or abolished: nothing increases motivation better than hunger, right?
Actually my comment about Zombie was unfair. Joking that she “isn’t thoroughly stupid” and therefor “won’t be on PJ long” was wrong, because it’s actually a good article, I agree with much of her point, and it’s written so that you CAN agree with the article even if you DON’T buy her point.
That would only happen if LGF starts to expose secrets the Chinese leaders would rather not be made public, and if LGF gains a substantial following in China.
So I guess some people are cool with making a page titled What type of Republican are you? which links to a chart showing different types of human feces. Classy. Very mature. Think about it. Replace “Republican” with “Democrats.” Replace “Republican” with “Muslim.” Would that be OK then?
I bet if someone made a page like that titled “What type of terrorist are you?” some people would be crying something or another about not dehumanizing out enemies.
I bet if someone made a page like that titled “What type of terrorist are you?” some people would be crying something or another about not dehumanizing out enemies.
The most common sort of Republican, not shown on that scale:
The person who grew up with their parents presenting them with a certain set of values, who went to a school in an area where the teacher was too browbeaten by the local PTA to teach evolution, who listened to the bubble of conservative radio, who has a conservative social circle, and who isn’t a naturally bad person but has learned a lot of false things and believes in them. May be personally a perfectly fine human being that you can trust and will be generous to you. Likely to be highly religious.
re: #146 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut
The most common sort of Republican, not shown on that scale:
The person who grew up with their parents presenting them with a certain set of values, who went to a school in an area where the teacher was too browbeaten by the local PTA to teach evolution, who listened to the bubble of conservative radio, who has a conservative social circle, and who isn’t a naturally bad person but has learned a lot of false things and believes in them. May be personally a perfectly fine human being that you can trust and will be generous to you. Likely to be highly religious.
I have seen other examples: my friend, the gay Republican, was raised by very liberal college professor parents, and his idea of rebelling against them was to embrace conservative Republicanism, even as a gay.
He is not concerned with reproductive rights, nor does he seem to care about being able to marry his gay partner, so he is full-on free market.
I’ve got a list but it all involves pain. Not up voluntarily.
Didn’t figure. My wife’s broken leg was a pretty big trial for her. Frustrated her beyond belief when it wasn’t just hurting like a son of a bitch. We are not intelligently designed.
re: #154 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut
Didn’t figure. My wife’s broken leg was a pretty big trial for her. Frustrated her beyond belief when it wasn’t just hurting like a son of a bitch. We are not intelligently designed.
No surgery required, but she broke both bones, right near the ankle. The smaller bone completely broken through, but a clean break, the other one had a little knobby bit of it break off and they were worried that’d need surgery but it reattached okay. She was in a splint-cast (they couldn’t do a real cast because the swelling was too high) for three weeks, then in a walking boot for a long, long time.
We’re in a 4th floor walkup. That was probably the hardest part. First week she had to get down and scoot up on her butt, one step at a time. Her arms got pretty buff.
re: #156 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut
No surgery required, but she broke both bones, right near the ankle. The smaller bone completely broken through, but a clean break, the other one had a little knobby bit of it break off and they were worried that’d need surgery but it reattached okay. She was in a splint-cast (they couldn’t do a real cast because the swelling was too high) for three weeks, then in a walking boot for a long, long time.
We’re in a 4th floor walkup. That was probably the hardest part. First week she had to get down and scoot up on her butt, one step at a time. Her arms got pretty buff.
We were practicing tennis— our friend is into it so we were trying to get into it too, I actually quite liked it— on an outside court on the university campus. There was a patch of slimy leaf mold/algae something on one side that someone hadn’t cleaned up. It looked like dirt. It turned out to be very, very slippery, as she found when running full speed to return an errant hit by me. When she stepped on it one leg went out from under her and the other folded under her and her full weight went down on it.
And of course immediately some jackass ran over and stood with his hands on his hips and said “That’s slippery”. Yeah, thanks, brainianc.
And because this was on the university campus, she didn’t want to sue even though it was obviously negligent because it might get political and interfere with her graduation etc.
So I guess some people are cool with making a page titled What type of Republican are you? which links to a chart showing different types of human feces. Classy. Very mature. Think about it. Replace “Republican” with “Democrats.” Replace “Republican” with “Muslim.” Would that be OK then?
Thanks for pointing that out; it’s Not Acceptable in my book.
Thanks for pointing that out; it’s Not Acceptable in my book.
Makes us look bad too. For me it’s mostly about not wanting to see someone do that to liberals or Democrats. Like I said, the golden rule. Now Jimmah’s all mad at me for one comment and down dinging that page.
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We were practicing tennis— our friend is into it so we were trying to get into it too, I actually quite liked it— on an outside court on the university campus. There was a patch of slimy leaf mold/algae something on one side that someone hadn’t cleaned up. It looked like dirt. It turned out to be very, very slippery, as she found when running full speed to return an errant hit by me. When she stepped on it one leg went out from under her and the other folded under her and her full weight went down on it.
And of course immediately some jackass ran over and stood with his hands on his hips and said “That’s slippery”. Yeah, thanks, brainianc.
And because this was on the university campus, she didn’t want to sue even though it was obviously negligent because it might get political and interfere with her graduation etc.
Crikey. Mine folded under too but it was on the front step so my rear end did some cushioning. Still, hurt like mad that very second. She must have gone down pretty hard. The pain isn’t that bad as it was the first two weeks. I am getting some of that weird zapping from I guess the nerves regrouping in places.
“Dear” Bryan:
These trends are caused by the “sub minimum wage” advocates such as yourself. My first professional job out of college paid $10/hr, this was in 1986! Today such a job would be an unpaid internship, why pay them when you can get them to work for NOTHING, just for “experience” to put on a resume?
When sheriff’s deputies arrived at a home, they discovered 18 year old Emily Allen shot in the head. It appeared the bullet entered her forehead and exited the top of the head. EMS responded to the scene. Emily was alert and talking as she was taken to Bay Medical/Sacred Heart hospital.
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Deputies say at that time the 2 year old boy discovered a 38 caliber pistol under the mattress and took the gun and accidentally shot the teen.
Yeah, Maddow was making fun of them last night and their ‘fury’ for not being invited to the golf course.
Yeah. It’s become entrenched. A sort of monopoly and monotony of repetitive mindsets and questions. Shorter version: same people all the time and no new blood.
Twenty-nine groups of boys (n= 64) took part in the study. The mean age of participants was 9.8 years. Twenty-one of the groups (72%) discovered the handgun (n = 48 boys); 16 groups (76%) handled it (n = 30 boys). One or more members in 10 of the groups (48%) pulled the trigger (n = 16 boys). Approximately half of the 48 boys who found the gun thought that it was a toy or were unsure whether it was real. Parental estimates of their child’s interest in guns did not predict actual behavior on finding the handgun. Boys who were believed to have a low interest in real guns were as likely to handle the handgun or pull the trigger as boys who were perceived to have a moderate or high interest in guns. More than 90% of the boys who handled the gun or pulled the trigger reported that they had previously received some sort of gun safety instruction.
Twenty-nine groups of boys (n= 64) took part in the study. The mean age of participants was 9.8 years. Twenty-one of the groups (72%) discovered the handgun (n = 48 boys); 16 groups (76%) handled it (n = 30 boys). One or more members in 10 of the groups (48%) pulled the trigger (n = 16 boys). Approximately half of the 48 boys who found the gun thought that it was a toy or were unsure whether it was real. Parental estimates of their child’s interest in guns did not predict actual behavior on finding the handgun. Boys who were believed to have a low interest in real guns were as likely to handle the handgun or pull the trigger as boys who were perceived to have a moderate or high interest in guns. More than 90% of the boys who handled the gun or pulled the trigger reported that they had previously received some sort of gun safety instruction.
This is the problem with people who have a handgun in their house with children around. Too many freaking accidents like this.
Point of clarification from a former newspaperman: the White House is a beat, the WH press corps are beat reporters. A “beat” is a reporter’s area of specialization: police beat, education beat, etc.
Maybe the tweet means to replace the “expert” WH press corps with a rotating crew of general assignment reporters, i.e., those who don’t yet have beats. Sounds like a colossally stupid idea from a journalistic standpoint.
Vice President Biden sounded skeptical Tuesday after he got a question at an online town hall hosted by Parents Magazine that once again led him to opine about the best gun to own in case of home invasion or social meltdown.
“Is this Parents Magazine?” Biden said. “I have Parents Magazine in my home. I’ve never heard anybody in Parents Magazine ask these kinds of questions.”
I think the rule should be locked and unloaded, when kids are around. Redundancy. Because you will eventually forget the lock or the kid will figure out how to open it, or you will eventually leave it loaded or the kid will figure out where the ammunition is. Even then it’s not really safe and if you don’t have an actual need for the gun, if you live in a safe neighborhood, you’re putting your kids at more risk by having it.
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I think the rule should be locked and unloaded, when kids are around. Redundancy. Because you will eventually forget the lock or the kid will figure out how to open it, or you will eventually leave it loaded or the kid will figure out where the ammunition is. Even then it’s not really safe and if you don’t have an actual need for the gun, if you live in a safe neighborhood, you’re putting your kids at more risk by having it.
BUT WHAT IF YOU NEED TO GET AT IT WHEN THERE IS A RAPIST RUNNING AROUND RAPING EVERYBODY! HIDE YOU WIFE, HIDE YOU KIDS, GET YOU GUNZ!111
Lock and load! I’m going to my college frat party! Never know when you might be attacked. I’m trying to imagine having that kind of mindset.
We are being sold an image of America in which you expect to be attacked when you leave home and invaded if you stay there. One that is just one natural/man-made catastrophe away from chaos and social breakdown.
And I am sure that there are people out there looking forward to such an incident to prove that they were “right about gun control”.
Lock and load! I’m going to my college frat party! Never know when you might be attacked. I’m trying to imagine having that kind of mindset.
Says to that nice cute guy she just met at the party: “Oh that Long Island Iced Tea you got for me is really going to my head. Can you watch my AR-15 while I go lie down for a couple of minutes?”
My mom kept a loaded gun in her nightstand drawer. She never talked to me about it and I was never taught how to use it (or not use it). I thought it was fascinating, and took it out to look at it a few times when she wasn’t home.
Rotating people in from the politics desk or the foreign affairs desk seems perfectly fine to me. The corps is a little moribund, but so is all journalism. I’m willing to try a lot of things to try to change the culture it’s gotten.
John Brennan by all intents and purposes is a Republican. PBO has actually picked quite a few Republicans for his cabinet and position. Another being Jon Huntsman as the 9th United States Ambassador to China.
John Brennan by all intents and purposes is a Republican. PBO has actually picked quite a few Republicans for his cabinet and position. Another being Jon Huntsman as the 9th United States Ambassador to China.
By now, most folks should be familiar with the Chuck Hagel nomination and the kerfuffle over his refusal to release any and all information relating to the “Friends of Hamas” group. Well, there’s a good reason for that. The group doesn’t exist and the entire reason that “Friends of Hamas” is even in the vernacular is because a reporter, Dan Friedman, asked a question as to whether Hagel had met with controversial groups and proposed names were so over-the-top, so linked to terrorism in the Middle East, that it was clear that Friedman was talking hypothetically and hyperbolically.
Well, the folks who took the hyperbole and ran with it at Breitbart basically took the questions out of context and began running the malicious smear campaign against Hagel.
‘Friends of Hamas’: Dan Friedman’s unwitting role in the birth of a malicious rumor tinyurl.com/bfyqk5d
By now, most folks should be familiar with the Chuck Hagel nomination and the kerfuffle over his refusal to release any and all information relating to the “Friends of Hamas” group. Well, there’s a good reason for that. The group doesn’t exist and the entire reason that “Friends of Hamas” is even in the vernacular is because a reporter, Dan Friedman, asked a question as to whether Hagel had met with controversial groups and proposed names were so over-the-top, so linked to terrorism in the Middle East, that it was clear that Friedman was talking hypothetically and hyperbolically.
Well, the folks who took the hyperbole and ran with it at Breitbart basically took the questions out of context and began running the malicious smear campaign against Hagel.
Wingnuts are also making up Fake Quotes and attributing them to Hagel. But that’s so typical of TGDN.
Good morning Lizards from “sunny in name only” Philadelphia.
New Feline Overlords have discovered the concept of “buttermilk biscuit” and heartily approve of the new potential foodstuff. They also approve of lean ground beef being browned for making chile — as long as a proper tribute to their supervisory prowess is made before the meat goes into the pot.
L.C. visited the vet yesterday for his initial check-up. Behaved well and interacted peacefully with the tech and the vet. Puffin’s turn is today and I do not expect as smooth of an experience.
We know Pope Benedict is stepping down and will soon be replaced by a new Pope. The chosen few who are selecting the next pope from amongst their number have quite the task ahead of them.
Dealing with the sex abuse scandals in the US and Europe are among them. Pinning the blame on gay priests, however, isn’t going to solve the problem. One of the Cardinals who is among the leading candidates, Ghanaian Cardinal Peter Turkson (who would be the first black Pope if selected), thinks the problem is due to having too many gay priests in the US and Europe - and that the problem isn’t as bad in Africa because society doesn’t look favorably on homosexuality.
“African traditional systems kind of protect or have protected its population against this tendency,” he said. “Because in several communities, in several cultures in Africa homosexuality or for that matter any affair between two sexes of the same kind are not countenanced in our society.”
Never mind that there is no evidence that homosexuals are abusers in any greater numbers than heterosexual men, the Church’s problems aren’t just the widespread abuses, but the coverup.
It’s the coverup of the abuse by shifting priests from one location to another, thwarting law enforcement actions, stonewalling, etc., that is the core problem with the Church, not that there are homosexual priests (or too many of them as Turkson believes).
To me, the comments indicate a level of denial that is crippling to the Church’s long term survival in Europe and North America, and it’s one that will also undermine the health of the church elsewhere.
Didn’t McCain say the other day that Hagel “used to be a Republican”?
“There’s a lot of ill will towards Senator Hagel because when he was a Republican, he attacked President Bush mercilessly, at one point said he was the worst president since Herbert Hoover, said the surge was the worst blunder since the Vietnam War, which is nonsense, and was anti his own party and people,”
Fuckin’ hilarious…and sad. Almost makes me want to sign up with the Brietbrats to see what kinds of shit I can get Lindsey Graham, John McCain and Kelly Ayotte (the so-called ‘sane’ Republicans in the Senate) to say on TV.
Chuck Hagel called the Vatican a cloister of dagos!
President Obama caddied for Tiger on their golf day!
I saw Hannity bloviating about this last night and instantly felt dumber for it. Good lord that guy is a whiny child. And his guests were even more annoying.
Apparently privately owned gambling businesses can go bankrupt just as surely as a state-run one (NYS OTB a few years back).
Revel Casino in Atlantic City is filing for bankruptcy, less than a year after opening. The casino received quite a few tax breaks too from the state to get done. Another operator will likely pick up the pieces so all’s not lost.
Cue the angry tweets from the Paultards and Neo-Confederate idiots. It looks like Virginia won’t mint its own currency after all:
The U.S. dollar will remain the only legal tender in the commonwealth for now. The Virginia Senate today killed a House proposal that would have established a joint subcommittee to study the feasibility “of a metallic-based monetary unit” as an alternative to the dollar.
The cost of the study was estimated at $17,440.
After lawmakers on both sides of the aisle urged the defeat of House Joint Resolution 590, sponsored by Del. Robert G. Marshall, R-Prince William, the Senate dispatched the resolution on a voice vote.
Marshall had suggested that the state create its own currency to compete with the dollar. “It would be an additional vehicle of trade and commerce,” he said in an interview earlier this month.
Marshall’s proposal, which the House had passed by a two-thirds vote, attracted national notoriety because the Republican had said that he wanted to prepare Virginia for the impact of a major financial meltdown, caused by hyperinflation, cyber attacks on banks and the Federal Reserve’s increasing control over the nation’s money supply.
You know what’s funny about this? A fellow Lizard down dinged another Lizard for saying he would resolutely “dehumanize” Hamas no matter what. Hamas seems to scare a lot of people. But apparently they’re not Republicans. Very strange. //
Africa 11
Asia & Middle East 11
Europe 61
Oceania 1
Americas 33
I wish they’d go Fabian
Eusebius of Caesarea (Church History, VI. 29) relates how the Christians, having assembled in Rome to elect a new pope, saw a dove alight upon the head of Fabian, a layman and stranger to the city, who was thus marked out for this dignity and was at once proclaimed bishop by acclamation, although there were several famous men among the candidates for the vacant position.
Good morning all. I’m in gear lust mode this morning. I gotta knuckle down and sell some prints so I can get this camera when it comes out later this year. The Canon EOS 7D MkII
My investment in the original 7D paid off big. I think I’ll get the same out of the new camera.
You know what’s funny about this? A fellow Lizard down dinged another Lizard for saying he would resolutely “dehumanize” Hamas no matter what. Hamas seems to scare a lot of people. But apparently they’re not Republicans. Very strange. //
Nice. I’m a big Canon fan, but the 60D meets my needs for a camera at this time (and if I’m going to spend more on gear at this point, it would be on better glass). I’m not a pro by any stretch, but want the flexibility to take shots that can be printed in large format.
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Rotating people in from the politics desk or the foreign affairs desk seems perfectly fine to me. The corps is a little moribund, but so is all journalism. I’m willing to try a lot of things to try to change the culture it’s gotten.
One of the big problems with the WH press corps is its parochialism. So few of them ever go outside the government “bubble,” so to speak, that they seldom judge politicians from a more distanced perspective. Or, to put it another way, they get so close to the pols that they forget they’re supposed to be independent observers, not part of the problem.
So, yeah, some stirring of the pot would bring in fresh perspectives, and maybe more stringent questioning of the politicians, but replacing the pros with general assignment reporters, who are generally youngsters just starting in the business, would be a mistake.
Nice. I’m a big Canon fan, but the 60D meets my needs for a camera at this time (and if I’m going to spend more on gear at this point, it would be on better glass). I’m not a pro by any stretch, but want the flexibility to take shots that can be printed in large format.
I’ve wanted to buy a nice camera for a while…Costco has some good entry level Nikons and Canons for under $1,000. And now they have one that, at their price, is over $2,800…WTF? I just want a good camera…I don’t want to know there’s a more expensive one.
Speaking of which, I got an offer on Monday. Interviewed with another company yesterday as well just to have an apple to compare. That also looked promising, though they appear to have a pain point a little higher than company 1…either way I’d be in pretty good shape though.
So my job search took me five weeks at the end of the day. That’s not too bad.
HELP! I have found one part-time job and possibly a 2nd. However I have the urgent situation that I am just about out of funds until pay starts coming in from one or both, and that won’t be until after the first of the month.
She’s made $175 so far. But she promises to “pay it foward” like she’s some kind of child actor. Borrow from friends and pay it back. It’s more honest.
Bahrain has accused Iran’s Revolutionary Guard and the Lebanese Hezbollah of setting up a militant cell to assassinate public figures in the Gulf Arab kingdom and attack its airport and government buildings.
Bahraini authorities said on Sunday they had arrested eight Bahrainis in the group, with links to Iran, Iraq and Lebanon.
In a statement published by the official Bahrain News Agency late on Tuesday, Bahrain’s head of public security said the cell was part of a group called the “Imam Army” which included Bahrainis at home and abroad and members of other nationalities.
It claimed an officer from Iran’s Revolutionary guard, codenamed ‘Abu Nasser’ paid the suspects $80,000 to take photos of ‘sensitive locations’, and collect information on public figures in the country.
She’s made $175 so far. But she promises to “pay it foward” like she’s some kind of child actor. Borrow from friends and pay it back. It’s more honest.
Either way, unless she’s a huge scam artist (and that she’s asking for the specific non-outrageous amount of $1200 ) I don’t see anything terrible about it
Either way, unless she’s a huge scam artist (and that she’s asking for the specific non-outrageous amount of $1200) I don’t see anything terrible about it
I think the point is that it’s ironic that people who support the political party that doesn’t want society to help the less fortunate, then ask for help from society when they find themselves in a less fortunate position.
Well, I know you’re out on the West Coast, but I’d still recommend a couple of NYC metro places to buy one: Unique Photo in NJ and B&H and Adorama NYC (all 3 sell online too).
Good experiences with all three and they carry the entire Canon inventory. Prices are quite competitive - Unique’s was lowest when I got the 60D. All three have impeccable service and their staff is as knowledgeable as it gets.
Either way, unless she’s a huge scam artist (and that she’s asking for the specific non-outrageous amount of $1200) I don’t see anything terrible about it
True…and it’s easier than standing in front of a stoplight holding a piece of cardboard.
I think the point is that it’s ironic that people who support the political party that doesn’t want society to help the less fortunate, then ask for help from society when they find themselves in a less fortunate position.
No
She’s not running to the gov’t for help but rather soliciting it from those that can/ want to is the point
Society has the duty to help the less fortunate, BUT, there are other ways, as this lady seems to be trying
Either way, unless she’s a huge scam artist (and that she’s asking for the specific non-outrageous amount of $1200 ) I don’t see anything terrible about it
Wingnuts want people to work for less than minimum wage but then they get all angry when the same people can’t support themselves, so they are supposed to get MOAR JOBZ at less than minimum wage.
It’s kind of funny really. Hamas was instrumental in getting UN recognition which the left supported. Now, the left is trying to distance themselves from any alleged support of Hamas by Chuck Hagel because he’s PBO’s nominee for SoD.
The University of Missouri’s men’s basketball team, the Tigers, beat the Florida Gator’s last night. They came from behind to win by 3 points. My brothers and all of their friends are freaking out on Facebook.
No
She’s not running to the gov’t for help but rather soliciting it from those that can/ want to is the point
What’s the difference? Government is elected by society - it’s one way we have of deciding who gets help and who doesn’t. This woman is apparently relying on the fact that conservatives are OK with helping people who look like them, but not those damn inner-city “takers”. Why is she not being accused of freeloading, or being told to “get a job”?
Society has the duty to help the less fortunate, BUT, there are other ways, as this lady seems to be trying
Yes, but since you admit that society has the duty to help the less fortunate, it’s ironic in the extreme that the tcot people would be up in arms if you suggested a penny tax on millionaires to restore the food programs that are about to be yanked from poor mothers and children.
Just finished sending an email of encouragement to one of the at-large Boston City Councilors (John Connolly). He is considering a run at Mayor Menino for Boston Mayor. His platform would focus on improving the public school system.
If you live in Boston (or have friends/relatives that do), please give him a look-see.
There are three proposals before a review board for improving the system through funding and changing the way the zones are assigned. Menino, for all his public speaking woes and slipups, has been great to the city. But I think there needs to be a new face to steer the change.
There are three proposals before a review board for improving the system through funding and changing the way the zones are assigned. Menino, for all his public speaking woes and slipups, has been great to the city. But I think there needs to be a new face to steer the change.
Yeah, he’s done an okay job, but time for new blood imho (haven’t lived there since 1999 but still have friends/ relatives and still keep tabs)
Menino has something else on his side. No incumbent mayor in Boston has lost since 1949, when James Michael Curley was defeated after he spent part of his term in federal prison for mail fraud. Since Menino took office, he has easily dispatched challenges by three city councilors: Peggy Davis-Mullen, whom he defeated by more than 50 percentage points; Maura Hennigan by 35 percentage points; and Flaherty by 15 percentage points.
Oh. I know. I was there through the Hynes, Collins, White, Flynn and the 1st two terms of the Menino eras. non of them were ever really tested when they ran for their 2nd, 3rd, or even in Whites case 4th terms
It has recently come to my attention that there is a nearby barn covered in anti-Obama slogans. It sounds like the Howard Finster of ODS. I must investigate.
It has recently come to my attention that there is a nearby barn covered in anti-Obama slogans. It sounds like the Howard Finster of ODS. I must investigate.
I’ve only been in the city about 15 years, grew up on the South Shore. Menino is all I’ve ever known :(
I’m reading Tip O’Neills autobiography and have a glimpse into Curley. Will likely read more into Boston politics after I’m finished.
White was a trip! One year he wanted a huge increase in the property tax rates, something in the order of 8%. What he did was have his cronies on the city council propose a 15% increase. It was the talk of the town. Pleas to the Mayor from the people to intercede with the council . “You must do something Mayor White, to stop this from happening”. White told everyone he would fight it tooth and nail
Then, it was announced by him that there would be an increase but it would be only 8%, not the outlandish 15% the council wanted,, HOORAY, went the people,, KEVIN SAVED THE DAY!!!
What part of I have found one part-time job and possibly a 2nd. didn’t you understand?
I understood it just fine. I also understand that she’s a wingnut who rails against evil libruls for being moochers and takers and a drain on society.
Why should anyone else support her again? She should practice what she preaches and be self-sufficient. Or go to your family and ask for money with a promise to pay it back once you get paid. Isn’t that how conservatives do things?
I understood it just fine. I also understand that she’s a wingnut who rails against evil libruls for being moochers and takers and a drain on society.
Why should anyone else support her again? She should practice what she preaches and be self-sufficient. Or go to your family and ask for money with a promise to pay it back once you get paid. Isn’t that how conservatives do things?
The reason she can’t make ends meet is working part time for sub minimum wage, according to the wingnut self-help business model, so has to rely on donations.
The reason she can’t make ends meet is working part time for sub minimum wage, according to the wingnut self-help business model, so has to rely on donations.
Pfft. If she’s working for less than minimum wage, why does she have luxuries like an internet connection, or a computer, or electricity or AC? Taxpayers shouldn’t be subsidizing her lavish lifestyle. Bootstraps for everybody!
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In all seriousness, though - just imagine if her two jobs provided a living wage. She might not need those donations. And I’m less than sympathetic to people who rant and rave against “moochers and takers” that are a drain on society then they go online and beg for money. WTF.
In all seriousness, though - just imagine if her two jobs provided a living wage. She might not need those donations. And I’m less than sympathetic to people who rant and rave against “moochers and takers” that are a drain on society then they go online and beg for money. WTF.
Well, she is at least honest about her situation, unlike Todd Kincannon who wanted money for “maintaining” the TGDN hashtag.
Either get a latex glove, cut off the fingers, put a drop of neosporin in each one you need, and keep them on all day, or, if the cuts are very shallow and not bleeding, use a styptic pencil.
A couple of rightwing blogs I occasionally check out, Carm and Freerepublic, are down. Anyone notice if any others are having problems? Is it possible hackers are targeting far-right Blogs?
Well, I know you’re out on the West Coast, but I’d still recommend a couple of NYC metro places to buy one: Unique Photo in NJ and B&H and Adorama NYC (all 3 sell online too).
Good experiences with all three and they carry the entire Canon inventory. Prices are quite competitive - Unique’s was lowest when I got the 60D. All three have impeccable service and their staff is as knowledgeable as it gets.
Allow me to add Cameta Camera to the list.
Local joint, where I bought my Nikon. They sell online, too.
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Either get a latex glove, cut off the fingers, put a drop of neosporin in each one you need, and keep them on all day, or, if the cuts are very shallow and not bleeding, use a styptic pencil.
That would be a home made finger cot, which is good, but I find they don’t like Neosporin. Makes ‘em too slippy.
I like finger tip bandaids. Mainly, keep ‘em covered ‘til they heal, Babushka. When they dry out, they stay open.
Well, I know you’re out on the West Coast, but I’d still recommend a couple of NYC metro places to buy one: Unique Photo in NJ and B&H and Adorama NYC (all 3 sell online too).
Good experiences with all three and they carry the entire Canon inventory. Prices are quite competitive - Unique’s was lowest when I got the 60D. All three have impeccable service and their staff is as knowledgeable as it gets.
The big talking point among RWNJs on Facebook today is the sequester was ‘Obama’s idea,’ and they’re pissy that now he’s ‘blaming’ them for it.
As if agreeing to someone else’s idea absolves Republicans of any blame.
Try getting out of a contract on the grounds of ‘It wasn’t my idea’ and see how that works out for ya.
If they don’t want blame for the sequester, they should pass something reasonable out of the House and dare the Senate and the President not to pass it. Otherwise noone is going to be fooled except their own delusional base.
Just finished listening to the audio/podcast version of Rachel Maddow’s run-up to the Iraq War doc. Since no one asked me for my opinions, here they are:
1. I didn’t really learn anything new, but the sheer audacity of the Bush administration is breathtaking. Given the damage he did to both the American and Iraqi peoples, hearing Bush insist it was the right choice is infuriating.
I had forgotten how much his voice grates on me, with its combo of folksy, condescension and arrogance.
2. Is Maddow correct about LBJ lying about the Gulf of Tonkin? Need to look that one up, as I hadn’t heard it before.
3. I’m still angry at the “godless libruls” like Kerry and Hillary for supporting this. It was like giving Charles Manson keys to a gun shop and saying, “All right, Chuck, don’t you do anything crazy now, you scamp!”
4. I know this is going to sound condescending, but I still don’t understand how people bought the whole WMD story. My big problem at the time was the Administration initially pushing the Al Queda angle.
Bin Laden hated everybody who wasn’t Wahabi. To think he would work wiht Saddam just didn’t make sense. If Bush and Cheney were pushing this, why were they to be trusted on anything else?
My big thing is that Bush and Cheney absolutely should be brought up on some kind of charges. Not that it’ll ever happen.
And when you listen to conservatives pushing for an attack on Iran, I just get depressed. Because sooner or later, these loons will get control of government again.
If they do, it’s just a matter of time before WW III begins.
Well, the folks who took the hyperbole and ran with it at Breitbart basically took the questions out of context and began running the malicious smear campaign against Hagel.
It’s even worse than that. Senate GOP staffers laundered the rumor through Breitbart so that their own bosses could later react with great concern to it.
Sequester was supposed to be the fiscal equivalent of MAD. Neither GOP nor Democrat would want it because its austerity measures would severely curtail economic growth during what has been a modest recovery from the recession and real estate/fiscal market collapses.
It was supposed to result in both sides coming up with cuts that were more targeted and focused on areas where there is real fat to trim. Instead, the GOP went all or nothing and refuses to allow for tax hikes or loophole closures while pushing for cut to entitlement program after entitlement program.
The alternatives proposed by Democrats have been a combination of hikes and cuts, and most Americans want to see the combination approach.
So, it’s not without irony that the GOP is busy bashing Obama for the sequester when they were in on the deal and have refused to budge on their no-tax nonsense.
They own the sequester just as much as Democrats do.
And if this was any other President other than Obama, the GOP would be crowing about how the president (or GOP for that matter) has cut federal spending and cut the deficit as a percentage of GDP more than any president since Ike (and which has essentially held the budget flat during his term).
Just finished listening to the audio/podcast version of Rachel Maddow’s run-up to the Iraq War doc. Since no one asked me for my opinions, here they are:
1. I didn’t really learn anything new, but the sheer audacity of the Bush administration is breathtaking. Given the damage he did to both the American and Iraqi peoples, hearing Bush insist it was the right choice is infuriating.
I said it yesterday - I watched the report and it made me just as pissed off as I was the day we went into Iraq.
3. I’m still angry at the “godless libruls” like Kerry and Hillary for supporting this. It was like giving Charles Manson keys to a gun shop and saying, “All right, Chuck, don’t you do anything crazy now, you scamp!”
4. I know this is going to sound condescending, but I still don’t understand how people bought the whole WMD story. My big problem at the time was the Administration initially pushing the Al Queda angle.
Consider the tenor of the time. The country was still reeling from 9/11, the media was fully on board with Moar War, and anyone who even questioned the wisdom of going to war with Iraq was called a terrist sympathizer.
And the Bush administration had free run of every media outlet in the country at that time. They used it to relentlessly push their propaganda, and the media pretty much got out of the way and let them bloviate to their hearts’ content. Anti-war voices were few and far between in those days because the news nets didn’t want to piss off the White House and risk being called anti-American.
It was a dark time, and we were being led by a bunch of cynical mofos who would stop at nothing to get their war. And they got it.
The Syrian Free Army (FSA) has issued an ultimatum to Lebanese Hezbollah group to cease its operations in Syria or face attacks on its installations in South Lebanon.
FSA Chief of Staff Brigadier General Salim Idris told Al Arabiya that Hezbollah, a staunch ally of President Bashar al-Assad, has 48 hours to end its involvement in Syria or the Syrian opposition army will begin targeting its positions in Lebanon.
2. Is Maddow correct about LBJ lying about the Gulf of Tonkin?
There were actually two Gulf of Tonkin incidents. One real, one imagined/ made up/ ginned up
The two together combined the passage of a bill granting the President the power to assist any Southeast Asian country whose government was considered to be jeopardized by a communist threat of aggression
DERP. As if paying their employees minimum wage would mean that a Walton would have to fly business class instead of in a private jet.
You cannot legislate the poor into prosperity by legislating the wealthy out ofprosperity.#tcot#tgdn
— Tom Lynch (@trumpetman) February 20, 2013
Ah, I see today’s RWNJ meme is “You can’t legislate XYZA”. It’s one of my favorites. It’s a flexible meme. Doesn’t apply in cases of abortion or other cases where government intervention is desired. //
TGDN swarm all hurr-hurring that SEQUESTRATION TOTALLY OBAMUZ FAULT!1!
Buncha freaking morons.
I thought wingnuts wanted lots of big spending cuts because we have a spending problem not a taxing problem and spending is all out of control and stuff.
One party wanted a clean debt ceiling increase and an unconnected grand bargain. The other side demanded, “Give us matching discretionary spending cuts to debt ceiling increases, or the country gets it.” The super committee & sequestration was the ransom that second party finally accepted to back off shooting their hostage. Neither would have ever existed without the unprecedented use of the debt ceiling as legislative leverage, and intimating the real possibility of default.
I thought wingnuts wanted lots of big spending cuts because we have a spending problem not a taxing problem and spending is all out of control and stuff.
They want to do away with all welfare and food stamps but MOAR TANKS N GUNZ N BOMBZ N AIRCRAFT CARRIERS N WAR SHIT.
(starting the “prep’ day cleansing for tomorrows colonoscopy,,, Oh,, Joy!!!)
When my dad was still practicing medicine he’d say to his patients, “I’m going to put one hand on your back. You only need to worry if you feel both of my hands on your back.”
When my dad was still practicing medicine he’d say to his patients, “I’m going to put one hand on your back. You only need to worry if you feel both of my hands on your back.”
I suppose that isn’t much of a surprise given some of what I say here.
When my dad was still practicing medicine he’d say to his patients, “I’m going to put one hand on your back. You only need to worry if you feel both of my hands on your back.”
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If in the winter I am working with concrete or other cementious materials I apply bag balm on my hands at night. If it is real bad I will cover my hands with latex gloves too.
I said it yesterday - I watched the report and it made me just as pissed off as I was the day we went into Iraq.
Consider the tenor of the time. The country was still reeling from 9/11, the media was fully on board with Moar War, and anyone who even questioned the wisdom of going to war with Iraq was called a terrist sympathizer.
And the Bush administration had free run of every media outlet in the country at that time. They used it to relentlessly push their propaganda, and the media pretty much got out of the way and let them bloviate to their hearts’ content. Anti-war voices were few and far between in those days because the news nets didn’t want to piss off the White House and risk being called anti-American.
It was a dark time, and we were being led by a bunch of cynical mofos who would stop at nothing to get their war. And they got it.
I will add one more point. “Trusted Source” is the term. Specifically, when the government says it has information that is classified so cannot be shown in detail, most of us trust the government to not be lying.
It’s that, by the way, for which I most condemn the Bush-Cheney administration. Part of the GOP has striven for years to destroy trust in the government, and that was a major blow. That trust extends to a lot of other things, and in the end it’s that trust that determines the existence of our nation as it was. It’s of a part of the reason I despise Ronald Reagan.
Because in modern politics it’s more important to score points and accumulate sound bites to use against your opponent in the next election than to get anything of substance done
Alouette, when they do turn the water on, turn your taps on for a while, it takes time to clear out all the gunk, especially if the sewer and water were placed in the same trench. (old school they don’t do that anymore) I hope they fix ya soon!
Opponents of Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel are fuming in the aftermath of sloppy work by their allies that has backfired and risks turning their cause into a joke.
The bumble: A thinly sourced claim that Hagel had taken money from a heretofore unheard of group called “Friends of Hamas,” floated by the conservative website Breitbart.com, and sourced to Capitol Hill.
“This sort of thing drives me crazy because it undermines legitimate concerns about Sen. Hagel, his views and financial associations,” said a Senate Republican aide involved with the anti-Hagel efforts. “In this business we deal in facts or the pursuit of facts and making up groups like the Friends of Hamas distracts us from legitimate questions as to what private foreign foundations and wealthy foreign individuals are contributing to the Atlantic Council or investing in Sen. Hagel’s firms.”
Even odds that “Senate Republican aide” is the same one that leaked the original smear to breitbart.
Alouette, when they do turn the water on, turn your taps on for a while, it takes time to clear out all the gunk, especially if the sewer and water were placed in the same trench. (old school they don’t do that anymore) I hope they fix ya soon!
Good advice
Also, get to a store and buy a few gallon jugs of water. You can use it to replace the water when you flush a toilet or of course, use it for drinking/ cooking/ washing
Also, get to a store and buy a few gallon jugs of water. You can use it to replace the water when you flush a toilet or of course, use it for drinking/ cooking/ washing
Also, get to a store and buy a few gallon jugs of water. You can use it to replace the water when you flush a toilet or of course, use it for drinking/ cooking/ washing
And once you have a few empty plastic gallon containers you can refill them with tap water from work or elsewhere. (Assuming it’s not a long trudge with heavy containers.)
My brother did that for years. His well water was heavy enough with sulfides and such that it was pretty icky for cooking and drinking. So he shuttled milk crates carrying four plastic gallons of water home from work all the time. Partially due to not liking the taste of the stuff that came out of his water softening system that cleaned the well water.
If everybody agrees sequester is a mistake, instead of arguing whose idea it was, why not repeal and revert to regular budget process?
Because a “regular” budget process is no longer possible under current GOP leadership, that is how sequestration came to be proposed in the first place: as a threat to get people to behave like adults.
Hey, I work all day, he is the retired grump old man house-husband!
If I were him, home with no water, no idea when it would be fixed, my days agenda would be take a book/ magazine and go have a nice lunch somewhere, followed by a matinee, then call a neighbor to see if it’s fixed yet, and if not meet you for dinner!
I loved the first episode. David Lynch Fincher sure can provide the best look to the camera work, lighting etc. That breaking the 4th wall thing is pretty cool, that is to say when Kevins character addresses the camera directly. I like it. That series is going to eat an entire lazy Sunday soon for me.
On last night’s television program, Glenn Beck explained that it wasn’t Adam Lanza’s mental health problems or access to assault weapons that were responsible for the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School, but rather Lanza’s infatuation with video games.
“Our sons and daughters are becoming desensitized to right and wrong,” Beck warned, and “video games are a gateway drug for our kids and instead of a high, they get a numbness, they get an indifferent heart and a mind that cannot tell the difference between fiction and reality. This is medical fact, this is not crazy theory.
Glenn, just because you think it doesn’t make it a fact.
PETERJENKEM
The mainstream media has completely failed to investigate the question of Ben Shapiro gobbling monster donkey dongs for money at filthy Mexican PCP orgies. My sources indicate that Shapiro may have even accepted money from Donkey Dicks for America (DDfA), the radical pro-donkey dick advocacy group. When is he going to release the records that prove otherwise? The ball is in his court.
Yeah blame video games not absurdly easy access to weapons. It’s the right wing way, distract, distort, and outright lie. Sick of video games being used as a scapegoat by gun nuts. I love the Grand Theft Auto series. I won’t lie but the thought of shooting up an actual school is the furthest thing from my mind and is with 99.9(even more)% of gamers.
This is the problem the establishment is going to have. You’ve got many in the GOP base who see anything on making the naturalization process easier and not mass deportations as somehow treachery. Now, McCain did end up being the nominee in 2008 despite this but that was before the GOP base discovered Barack Obama and how much they hate anything he will do. I’m not worried about the GOP establishment on immigration reform. They while they are doing it to save their political asses realize its necessity. The base and the nutters(read Rand Paul types in Congress) are what the biggest roadblock will be.
I blame cap guns, playing cowboys and Indians, and Westerns! I knew after three months of playing with my G.I. Joe and his M-16 that I wanted to kill, kill, kill!
Pretty sad really but that’s how it is sometimes. We’ve reached the point where we have to design everything for the lowest percentile. Activity X cause 0.000005% of the population to go berserk therefore ban Activity X. Or something.
I blame cap guns, playing cowboys and Indians, and Westerns! I knew after three months of playing with my G.I. Joe and his M-16 that I wanted to kill, kill, kill!
I blame the rattle we got as infants. Shake em right, and they sound just like AK 47’s going off, so later in life, you need that same aural sensation!!
Pretty sad really but that’s how it is sometimes. We’ve reached the point where we have to design everything for the lowest percentile. Activity X cause 0.000005% of the population to go berserk therefore ban Activity X. Or something.
I blame the rattle we got as infants. Shake em right, and they sound just like AK 47’s going off, so later in life, you need that same aural sensation!!
I blame cap guns, playing cowboys and Indians, and Westerns! I knew after three months of playing with my G.I. Joe and his M-16 that I wanted to kill, kill, kill!
Youngster. Our G.I. Joes had M-1 (or maybe M-14), and liked them!
;)
Pretty sad really but that’s how it is sometimes. We’ve reached the point where we have to design everything for the lowest percentile. Activity X cause 0.000005% of the population to go berserk therefore ban Activity X. Or something.
It’s a constant. Before video games and film, I’m sure people would blame violence on controversial books and the lack of the Bible which is funny because the Bible when you really look at is one of the most violent books ever written.
It’s a constant. Before video games and film, I’m sure people would blame violence on controversial books and the lack of the Bible which is funny because the Bible when you really look at is one of the most violent books ever written.
Must have been _Johnny Got His Gun_ since that’s the only book my parents banned me from reading before high school. I can see what might get people upset about that as compared to tame stuff like _Catcher In the Rye_.
Probably. It’s a true point about banned books. I’m reading Madame Bovary right now, which was apparently banned upon its initial release and I think I read that Flaubert even went on trial for obscenity or some nonsense like that.
My brother took a dive on one of those in Brooklyn. 7 stitches. I think it was 7. Lot of blood. The monkey bars were made of iron pipe.
LOL, that sounds like such a NYC thing.
“Oh yeah? When I was in school, our slide had rusty nails sticking out of it, and you landed in a pit of broken glass and rabid rats. AND WE LIKED IT!”
You’re quite right, - in fact ice advised me similarly. I blame it on the booze and drugs I’m high on right now :-)
Glad to see you acknowledge it. Outing the contents of private emails is a bad, bad path to travel (I’m sure you remember the ex-LGF member who did that). If nothing else, it makes it so that someone wouldn’t ever trust you again in that respect. Definitely not worth whatever temporary reward it brings.
Glad to see you acknowledge it. Outing the contents of private emails is a bad, bad path to travel (I’m sure you remember the ex-LGF member who did that). If nothing else, it makes it so that someone wouldn’t ever trust you again in that respect. Definitely not worth whatever temporary reward it brings.
I was never going to do that. I shouldn’t have threatened it either.
People do sometimes take advantage though of the disparity between what they say to you in email and what they say on LGF, and having been a victim of this several times, I felt I had to draw a line in the sand, ironically enough :)
Especially considering I thought these people were my friends.
You are the one who started attacking us. Try to be honest mate. Even the other other day when you were making a complete arse of your self and ending up in the bottom ten we didn’t downding you. Because we considered you a friend.
You are the one who started attacking us. Try to be honest mate. Even the other other day when you were making a complete arse of your self and ending up in the bottom ten we didn’t downding you. Because we considered you a friend.
Attacking you? All I was attacking was that stupid page and the idea behind it. That’s not attacking you but an attack of a mindset with regards to demonizing a group of people. You’re the one who personally attacked me and are continuing to do as such. I logged off and lurked and saw that you had posted some other personal exchange I had with Ice. That’s about as low as you can get buddy. You came back and posted whatever personal information you have after that very same page was deleted. Yet you’re going to claim that I personally attacked you because I was focused on the premise of demonization? Seriously? I have not said one thing negative about you only with respect to feeling let down with this revelation of your sinister dark side.
The deleted comment in this thread contained no personal information - just a rehash of what you already saw in the now-deleted Page. Just want to make that clear, nothing’s been revealed that could “out” your offline identity.
The deleted comment in this thread contained no personal information - just a rehash of what you already saw in the now-deleted Page. Just want to make that clear, nothing’s been revealed that could “out” your offline identity.
OK, thanks. Still, it sets a precedent. There is no trust here anymore.
Seriously, please don’t comment under those conditions - posting while drunk/high/angry/stressed leads to bad things, bad places, and crappy consequences.
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