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1 Charles Johnson  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 6:37:17pm

The full album at SoundCloud:

SoundCloud
2 Tigger2005  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 6:37:18pm

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

3 Charles Johnson  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 6:38:45pm

It’s true, gas is not guaranteed by the Constitution. Hard to argue against that.

4 stabby  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 6:45:21pm

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.

Problem solved!

5 engineer cat  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 6:45:31pm

re: #2 Tigger2005

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

6 Eclectic Cyborg  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 6:47:20pm

re: #2 Tigger2005

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.

7 stabby  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 6:49:45pm

Ah I see, they have a new register to comment system. And they’ve deleted their old comments.

Nothing lost, except a long history of tea party derp and racism.

8 Charles Johnson  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 6:55:54pm

I scrolled back to May 2012 before Safari started seriously getting nauseated.

9 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:01:24pm

Haterz gotta hate

10 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:04:23pm

re: #9 Vicious Babushka

Haterz gotta hate

Youtube Video
11 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:04:25pm

Haterz gotta hate

12 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:05:21pm

Deport them all!

13 stabby  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:06:35pm

re: #9 Vicious Babushka

I remember when intolerant hate was considered anti-American.

14 Lidane  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:07:02pm

re: #12 Gus

And remember, folks — the GOP’s problem is the messaging, not the message.

Gotta love that right wing Latino outreach.

15 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:07:25pm

re: #12 Gus

Deport them all!

I know someone who would agree.

Youtube Video
16 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:10:06pm

re: #14 Lidane

And remember, folks — the GOP’s problem is the messaging, not the message.

Gotta love that right wing Latino outreach.

“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

17 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:10:43pm

This is actually the best DEVO video ever made.

18 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:11:05pm

re: #15 Kragar (Antichrist )

I know someone who would agree.

[Embedded content]

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.

19 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:13:06pm

McCain is just mad
that his biggest legacy
is Sarah Palin

/haikued

20 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:16:18pm
“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.

21 Charles Johnson  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:16:54pm

re: #12 Gus

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.

22 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:18:27pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

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.

23 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:19:08pm

Here’s some thing from the Arab world that wingnuts will like:

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.


They look good, that’s sure.

24 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:19:19pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

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!

25 stabby  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:20:40pm

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?

26 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:24:47pm

Copernicus and the Church: What the history books don’t say

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.

27 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:24:53pm

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.

28 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:25:48pm

re: #25 stabby

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.

29 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:26:18pm

re: #16 Dark_Falcon

“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.

30 Stanley Sea  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:27:07pm

re: #2 Tigger2005

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

your neighbors, the idjits. Good luck

31 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:30:02pm

re: #29 Gus

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.

32 Interesting Times  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:33:22pm

re: #31 Dark_Falcon

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.

Image: a09bc_worlds-smallest-violin.jpg

33 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:34:53pm

re: #27 Vicious Babushka

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.

Declining minimum wage chart.

34 stabby  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:37:34pm

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”).

35 stabby  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:39:36pm

Also a SIGNATURE by Alan West.

Apparently Alan West is picking video propaganda. For kids!

36 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:40:32pm

re: #33 Gus

Declining minimum wage chart.

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.

37 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:41:46pm

re: #32 Interesting Times

Image: a09bc_worlds-smallest-violin.jpg

Heh. I’m just trying to lay out his situation. Sympathy is another question entirely.

38 Targetpractice  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:42:10pm

re: #29 Gus

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.

39 stabby  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:43:47pm

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.”

Allen Westbook!

40 stabby  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:45:44pm

I keep facepalming and stopping. I need to scroll to read the whole thing before posting.

He has 4 levels of membership from free all the way up to $30 per month. Yeah, he’ll get that. And that’s a PJ Media site!

41 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:46:05pm

re: #39 stabby

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.”

Allen Westbook!

Then they talk about the Obama youth.

42 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:46:26pm

re: #38 Targetpractice

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.

43 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:46:41pm

re: #38 Targetpractice

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.

That could be the case.

44 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:49:21pm

re: #42 Dark_Falcon

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?

45 HappyWarrior  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:49:42pm

We’ll see what happens with Rubio. Pass or fail, being on the frontline of immigration reform is going to get him a lot of attention.

46 Targetpractice  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:50:37pm

re: #42 Dark_Falcon

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.

47 HappyWarrior  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:52:27pm

[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.

48 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 7:58:39pm

re: #46 Targetpractice

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.

49 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:00:46pm

re: #44 Gus

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.

50 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:02:25pm

Oh for crying out loud. The cat just brought in a bird at 9 PM. Poor little ol’ Chickadee. Dead now.

51 stabby  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:02:40pm

Hmm, actually a conservative take on the #liberaltips2avoidrape hashtag that isn’t thoroughly stupid.

[Link: pjmedia.com…]

For a moment I think, if she keeps it up, Zombie won’t be on PJ long, but then I remember her paranoid rant the day that Obama won reelection.

52 Targetpractice  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:02:50pm

re: #48 Dark_Falcon

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.

53 Targetpractice  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:03:21pm

re: #50 Gus

Oh for crying out loud. The cat just brought in a bird at 9 PM. Poor little ol’ Chickadee. Dead now.

And it brought it to you?

54 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:05:12pm

re: #53 Targetpractice

And it brought it to you?

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.

55 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:06:18pm

This cat never stops eating. Indoor/outdoor cat. Dry food, wet food at 5 PM and then the hunted meals.

56 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:06:35pm

re: #48 Dark_Falcon

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.

Especially when he keeps voting for things like opposing the VAWA or proposing exemptions for companies to bypass providing healthcare.

57 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:06:44pm

Crunch, crunch.

58 Targetpractice  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:07:01pm

re: #55 Gus

This cat never stops eating. Indoor/outdoor cat. Dry food, wet food at 5 PM and then the hunted meals.

Well, at least he’s getting some variety.

/

59 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:11:43pm

re: #55 Gus

This cat never stops eating. Indoor/outdoor cat. Dry food, wet food at 5 PM and then the hunted meals.

Cats hunt, its their nature. Their teeth are sharp for a reason.

60 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:11:45pm

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

61 Varek Raith  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:11:59pm

re: #50 Gus

Oh for crying out loud. The cat just brought in a bird at 9 PM. Poor little ol’ Chickadee. Dead now.

If you find a horse head in your bed, run.

62 makeitstop  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:12:02pm

re: #29 Gus

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.

Josh Marshall has an interesting take on the whole thing.

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.

63 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:13:02pm

re: #50 Gus

Oh for crying out loud. The cat just brought in a bird at 9 PM. Poor little ol’ Chickadee. Dead now.

Image: kitty4.jpg

64 stabby  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:13:49pm

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.

65 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:14:08pm

re: #63 Kragar (Antichrist )

Image: kitty4.jpg

I got to see the latter.

66 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:14:57pm

re: #63 Kragar (Antichrist )

Image: kitty4.jpg

Very good Gladiator reference in the first panel.

67 HappyWarrior  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:15:37pm

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.

68 wrenchwench  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:24:23pm

re: #64 stabby

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.

How sure are you that Zombie is a ‘she’?

69 stabby  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:27:31pm

re: #68 wrenchwench

She used to be at LGF back before she started hiding her gender online.

70 stabby  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:28:31pm

There’s actually a picture of me handing out flyers on her website, but I didn’t see her take it.

71 wrenchwench  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:30:13pm

re: #69 stabby

She used to be at LGF back before she started hiding her gender online.

I know. I was here too. He or she never actually claimed to be male or female. It was a ‘big secret’ then, too.

So how sure are you that Zombie is a ‘she’?

72 stabby  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:31:57pm

I think if you go back far enough there was a post as female.

73 wrenchwench  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:32:33pm

I’ll take that as a ‘not sure’.

74 stabby  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:33:26pm

Sure, it is the internet and the evidence was merely reading text. But I don’t consider relying on memory inherently unreliable.

75 engineer cat  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:34:46pm

Why do I hate Obama so much?

let me count my toes the ways

76 engineer cat  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:37:18pm

re: #9 Vicious Babushka

re: #11 Vicious Babushka

re: #27 Vicious Babushka

it’s springtime and de NILE is flooding

77 darthstar  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:37:39pm

re: #66 Dark_Falcon

Very good Gladiator reference in the first panel.

That makes me miss my cat Bflat…he was never happier than when he was killing something.

78 darthstar  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:39:10pm

re: #72 stabby

I think if you go back far enough there was a post as female.

If you go back far enough we’re all female. (some of us still act like unfertilized eggs)

79 Tigger2005  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:45:19pm

re: #11 Vicious Babushka

She’s right, Fox News made that happen.

80 prairiefire  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:46:37pm

Where’s Stanley? Staaaannnnley? The Tigers won!

81 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:47:09pm

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.

82 stabby  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:50:22pm

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.

83 Lidane  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 8:52:41pm

*sigh*

NO. Just…no. STFU you ignorant TGDN nutter:

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.

84 engineer cat  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:00:56pm

Why do I hate Obama so much?

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

and that will be the fate of these morons

85 wrenchwench  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:02:59pm

re: #81 Gus

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.

86 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:03:31pm

re: #82 stabby

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.

87 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:04:38pm

re: #85 wrenchwench

Also that Twitter is stupid because there’s only 140 characters. Zombie needs Wall O’ Text to sound smart.

Dr. Holdren is taking over the universe!

88 The Mountain That Blogs  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:05:51pm

re: #86 Gus

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

Also known as “Wayne LaPierre’s Utopia”.

89 TedStriker  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:08:50pm

re: #85 wrenchwench

Also that Twitter is stupid because there’s only 140 characters. Zombie needs Wall O’ Text to sound smart.

Didn’t someone find out that Zombie is a dude, IIRC?

90 wrenchwench  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:08:57pm

re: #87 Gus

Dr. Holdren is taking over the universe!

OK, Wall O’ Text doesn’t always work…..

91 wrenchwench  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:10:52pm

re: #89 TedStriker

Didn’t someone find out that Zombie is a dude, IIRC?

Supposedly, but I don’t think it was definitive.

Suffice to say Zombie is a moron partisan hack.

92 TedStriker  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:11:44pm

re: #91 wrenchwench

Supposedly, but I don’t think it was definitive.

Suffice to say Zombie is a moron partisan hack.

Well, yeah, I’ll buy that.

93 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:12:00pm

re: #88 The Mountain That Blogs

Also known as “Wayne LaPierre’s Utopia”.

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.

94 wrenchwench  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:13:28pm

Image: h49FC6654.jpg

Later, lizards.

95 HappyWarrior  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:14:20pm

re: #93 Gus

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.

96 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:14:30pm

78% of the men identified (as rapists) were an acquaintance, friend or boyfriend of the victims.

97 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:15:29pm

How are we to expect a young woman to shoot a friend or acquaintance?

98 freetoken  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:22:33pm

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.

Sure enough, the Brats are whining:
WWE SCORCHES TEA PARTY CHARACTER AS RACIST

And of course Twitchy whines in too:
WWE’s racist Tea Party villain as realistic as pro wrestling

Let the wingnuts and the rich-boy Republicans fight it out, I say.

99 The Mountain That Blogs  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:24:13pm

re: #97 Gus

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.

100 Single-handed sailor  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:25:45pm

re: #98 freetoken

That’s page-worthy.

101 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:27:57pm

re: #99 The Mountain That Blogs

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.

102 darthstar  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:31:23pm

re: #98 freetoken

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.

103 freetoken  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:36:10pm

re: #102 darthstar

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:

Youtube Video

Vince McMahon is probably producing Cole directly via headsets, so we can be pretty sure this is coming from McMahon himself.

104 Lidane  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:37:05pm

re: #98 freetoken

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.

105 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:38:53pm

re: #98 freetoken

What in hell. Basura Blanca.

106 freetoken  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:42:06pm

re: #104 Lidane

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.)

107 Political Atheist  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:43:06pm

re: #97 Gus

Perhaps when it’s not about sex but raw destructive violence, which is also often the case.

108 HappyWarrior  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:44:30pm

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!

109 HappyWarrior  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:46:46pm

re: #106 freetoken

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.

110 bratwurst  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:48:54pm

So now wingnuts are complaining that BIG LIBERAL WRESTLING has it in for them? Heh.

111 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:49:28pm

re: #108 HappyWarrior

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.

112 HappyWarrior  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:50:06pm

re: #111 Kragar (Antichrist )

And the fact the owner, Linda McMahon, and the tea party had a falling out had nothibg to do with it.

I wasn’t aware of that actually. I pay as much attention to the WWE as I do hockey which is to say zero.

113 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:52:19pm

re: #107 Political Atheist

Perhaps when it’s not about sex but raw destructive violence, which is also often the case.

That’s atypical on college campuses.

114 Lidane  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:52:23pm

The universe doesn’t love me enough for this to happen:

115 freetoken  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:53:39pm

re: #112 HappyWarrior

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.

116 Kragar (Antichrist )  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:53:41pm

re: #112 HappyWarrior

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.

Linda is just playing a game with idiots.

117 HappyWarrior  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:54:04pm

re: #114 Lidane

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.

118 HappyWarrior  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:55:02pm

re: #115 freetoken

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.

119 freetoken  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 9:56:42pm

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:

[Link: www.sescoops.com…]

120 HappyWarrior  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 10:00:38pm

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.

121 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 10:03:45pm

re: #119 freetoken

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:

[Link: www.sescoops.com…]

“Pro-wrestling” has always been trash. Really don’t see the point. They’re all playing on each other here.

122 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 10:06:59pm

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.

123 Lidane  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 10:08:46pm

re: #120 HappyWarrior

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.

Wingnuts make me think of this:

Youtube Video
124 HappyWarrior  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 10:17:40pm

re: #123 Lidane

Wingnuts make me think of this:

[Embedded content]

Yeah, I like South Park episodes when Cartman gets his just desserts. I watched Awesome-O again the other day on Netflix.

125 Gus  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 10:27:10pm

Greg Gutfeld has a following of 0.05 percent of the US population.

126 freetoken  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 10:29:47pm

A late work of Saint-Saens, “Caprice andalou”, a well known piece:


MP3 Audio
127 stabby  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 10:32:01pm

re: #91 wrenchwench

Supposedly, but I don’t think it was definitive.

Suffice to say Zombie is a moron partisan hack.

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.

128 freetoken  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 10:39:14pm

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:

MP3 Audio
129 freetoken  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 10:41:59pm

Here’s a straight version (by Perlman):

MP3 Audio
130 austin_blue  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 11:02:31pm

re: #64 stabby

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.

You don’t know who Zombie is do you??

131 simoom  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 11:09:41pm

re: #27 Vicious Babushka

(I could only watch 20 seconds of this video. How much can you watch without throwing up?)

I watched the whole thing. It was worth it for this (I set the video to jump to the right couple of seconds):

Youtube Video

~~~

“Thanks, Obama!”:
[Link: knowyourmeme.com…]

Youtube Video
132 stabby  Tue, Feb 19, 2013 11:36:01pm

re: #130 austin_blue

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.

133 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 12:08:56am

re: #12 Gus

McCain Jeered At Town Hall After Opposing Mass Deportation

He deserves whatever backlash he gets: he is one of the people who let the nutjobs take over the GOP

134 freetoken  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 12:10:29am
MP3 Audio
135 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 1:42:57am

re: #27 Vicious Babushka

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?

136 Jimmah The Unacceptable  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 2:23:47am

re: #64 stabby

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.

You’re a waste of a great avatar, stabby.

137 SteveMcGazi  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 2:42:45am

There’s no way Sarah Palin ever runs for office again. It would kill what’s left of the brand.

138 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 3:02:16am

Interesting. I can’t access Vimeo directly from China, but I had no problem viewing this video on LGF. Hmmmm.

139 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 3:14:46am

re: #138 wheat-dogghazi

Interesting. I can’t access Vimeo directly from China, but I had no problem viewing this video on LGF. Hmmmm.

They will soon fix that: you won’t be able to access LGF from China…

140 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 3:15:26am

re: #133 Sol Berdinowitz

He deserves whatever backlash he gets: he is one of the people who let the nutjobs take over the GOP

Meh, that doesn’t matter to me.

141 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 3:17:51am

re: #139 Sol Berdinowitz

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.

142 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 3:27:38am

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?

143 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 3:29:05am

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.

144 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 3:38:40am

re: #142 Gus

That’s pretty stupid. I hadn’t looked at that. Weird.

re: #143 Gus

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.

No we wouldn’t.

145 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 3:39:09am

re: #144 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

That’s pretty stupid. I hadn’t looked at that. Weird.

re: #143 Gus

No we wouldn’t.

Some people. Some. ;)

146 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 3:40:46am

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.

147 Varek Raith  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 3:41:23am

Good morning.

148 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 3:41:42am

re: #145 Gus

Some people. Some. ;)

I haven’t seen world of music around, he’s the only one I can think of that’d do that. Not sure if that guys serious or not, either.

149 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 3:42:33am

re: #148 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

I haven’t seen world of music around, he’s the only one I can think of that’d do that. Not sure if that guys serious or not, either.

Changed his name to Billy the Weatherman.

150 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 3:43:44am

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.

151 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 3:46:56am

Golden rule.

152 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 3:49:31am

re: #151 Gus

Golden rule.

Silver guideline.

Copper advisory.

Tungsten recommendation.

Rhodium law.

153 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 3:51:05am

re: #152 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Silver guideline.

Copper advisory.

Tungsten recommendation.

Rhodium law.

I’ve got a list but it all involves pain. Not up voluntarily.

154 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 3:51:56am

re: #153 Gus

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.

155 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 3:52:22am

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.

How bad was the break?

156 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 3:55:04am

re: #155 Gus

How bad was the break?

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.

157 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 3:56:16am

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.

Ouch. Much worse than mine. What happened?

158 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:00:10am

re: #157 Gus

Ouch. Much worse than mine. What happened?

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.

159 Shvaughn  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:00:40am

re: #142 Gus

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.

160 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:02:54am

re: #159 Shvaughn

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.

161 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:05:13am

re: #158 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

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.

162 Shvaughn  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:06:27am

re: #160 Gus

Makes us look bad too.

Not to mention horribly immature. It’s literally the type of “joke” a child would make. Ha ha, you’re poop!

163 Varek Raith  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:07:04am

re: #162 Shvaughn

Not to mention horribly immature. It’s literally the type of “joke” a child would make. Ha ha, you’re poop!

What kind of biscuit are you????

164 Shvaughn  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:09:55am

re: #163 Varek Raith

What kind of biscuit are you????

I don’t get it?

165 Varek Raith  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:15:49am

re: #164 Shvaughn

I don’t get it?

Riff on Jimmah’s thread.
;)

166 Varek Raith  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:16:13am

And damn!
That wind cuts right through ya!

167 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:16:25am

Ibuprofen finally kicking in.

168 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:17:02am

Not for the ankle either! Wheeee!

169 Varek Raith  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:19:18am

re: #168 Gus

Not for the ankle either! Wheeee!

You sure that wasn’t laced with weed???
;)

170 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:20:00am

re: #169 Varek Raith

You sure that wasn’t laced with weed???
;)

I wish.

171 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:23:34am

Boker tov!

172 Varek Raith  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:24:22am

re: #171 Vicious Babushka

Boker tov!

Kapla!

173 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:37:38am

First DERP of the Day:


“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?

174 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:39:45am

18 Year Old Girl Accidentally Shot in Head By Toddler

…

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.

…

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.

…

175 Shvaughn  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:43:10am

Time for me to hit the hay, bye lizards.

176 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:46:11am

Oh crap. Watched 2 videos on my 4G card. Lost 0.1 gigs. Not much.

177 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:48:42am

I like this idea.

178 Varek Raith  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:49:34am

re: #177 Gus

I like this idea.

Yeah, Maddow was making fun of them last night and their ‘fury’ for not being invited to the golf course.

179 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:52:15am

re: #178 Varek Raith

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.

180 dragonath  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:53:44am

re: #177 Gus

A traveling troupe of bongo musicians?

181 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:55:03am

re: #174 Gus

And yet there was that idiotic pro-gun-for-self-defense woman claiming a 3 year old couldn’t pull a trigger.

There’s also this:

Nearly half of 8-12 year old boys will pull the trigger on a gun they found.

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.

182 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 4:55:28am

re: #177 Gus

I like this idea.

That might revitalize journalism a little. I’m all for it.

184 Lidane  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:00:26am

re: #177 Gus

God yes. The White House press corps are a joke. The same people have been there for years. They need new blood badly.

185 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:01:57am

re: #181 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

And yet there was that idiotic pro-gun-for-self-defense woman claiming a 3 year old couldn’t pull a trigger.

There’s also this:

Nearly half of 8-12 year old boys will pull the trigger on a gun they found.

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.

186 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:02:36am

re: #183 dragonath

Officer Who Thwarted Sovereign Citizens Rampage To Be Honored At Medal Of Valor Ceremony

How dare he interfere with Sovereign Citizens defending themselves against state oppression?

187 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:05:25am

My dad always had a lock on the guns.

188 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:06:41am

re: #177 Gus

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.

189 dragonath  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:08:14am

Good for Biden:

Biden Doubts ‘Parents Magazine’ Questioner Reads Parents Magazine, And He May Be Right

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.”

190 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:08:38am

re: #187 Gus

My dad always had a lock on the guns.

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.

191 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:10:35am

re: #190 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

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

193 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:15:00am

re: #192 Jimmah The Unacceptable

Image: tumblr_m4hsczoKDV1rwdujzo1_400.gif

Selectively of course. Right?

194 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:16:41am

re: #191 Vicious Babushka

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.

195 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:16:53am

Good morning lizards!

196 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:18:53am

re: #194 Gus

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”.

197 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:19:24am

re: #194 Gus

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?”

198 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:23:16am

Chuck Hagel is a Republican.

199 OtterQueen  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:31:13am

re: #187 Gus

My dad always had a lock on the guns.

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.

Luckily, I was also scared of it.

200 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:34:06am

re: #188 wheat-dogghazi

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.

201 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:37:07am

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.

202 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:37:20am

re: #198 Gus

Chuck Hagel is a Republican.

Yes, but being a Repulican is no guarantee if you are not as full-on nutjob as the Tea Party.

203 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:38:04am

re: #201 Gus

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.

RINO!1!1

204 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:38:18am

re: #202 Sol Berdinowitz

Yes, but being a Repulican is no guarantee if you are not as full-on nutjob as the Tea Party.

Perhaps but we do not dehumanize them as a whole by comparing the group to fecal matter.

205 dragonath  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:39:12am

[insert nazi analogy here]

206 Bubblehead II  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:39:39am

Morning Lizards from a snow covered Twin Falls.

About 4 inches so far with more on the way.

BTW, Is there a limit on how many KB you can have in your Image Library? Trying to upload a picture and it wount let me.

207 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:39:48am

re: #205 dragonath

[insert nazi analogy here]

Seriously. I was thinking about that.

208 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:40:55am

re: #206 Bubblehead II

Morning Lizards from a snow covered Twin Falls.

About 4 inches so far with more on the way.

BTW, Is there a limit on how many KB you can have in your Image Library? Trying to upload a picture and it wount let me.

There is a limit on the size of a picture you can upload.

209 lawhawk  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:43:24am

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.

210 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:44:40am

re: #209 lawhawk

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.

211 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:52:26am

Somehow, I don’t think I’m getting through. It’s all about the dings. :D

212 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:54:02am

WTF

213 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:55:41am

re: #211 Gus

Somehow, I don’t think I’m getting through. It’s all about the dings. :D

Gus, sounds like you need some plane pr0n.

Image: se5a.jpg

214 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:57:08am

re: #198 Gus

Chuck Hagel is a Republican.

Didn’t McCain say the other day that Hagel “used to be a Republican”?

215 lawhawk  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:59:22am

re: #214 Feline Fearless Leader

That was before he became an Obamunist, don’t ya know.

216 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 5:59:47am

re: #214 Feline Fearless Leader

Didn’t McCain say the other day that Hagel “used to be a Republican”?

Did he? I don’t know. Hard to keep up with McCain.

217 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:02:38am

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.

218 Bubblehead II  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:04:33am

Lets see if this worked.

This is what it looked like at my home about 0600 this morning. About 4 inches and it’s still snowing.

Image: Snow_Covered_Lights.JPG

219 Bubblehead II  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:05:54am

re: #208 Vicious Babushka

There is a limit on the size of a picture you can upload.

400K, Had to jump through some hoops, but I finally managed to get the blasted thing to upload.

220 lawhawk  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:06:29am

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.

221 geoffm33  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:07:09am

re: #212 Vicious Babushka

Great..repping my home city with that nonsense.

222 geoffm33  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:08:38am

re: #214 Feline Fearless Leader

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,”

Link

223 geoffm33  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:09:33am

Oh, and Good Morning!

224 Stoatly  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:11:49am

re: #213 Feline Fearless Leader

Gus, sounds like you need some plane pr0n.

Image: se5a.jpg

“pr0n?” The SE5a is a “Reader’s Wives” type IMO…

225 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:12:39am

re: #224 Stoatly

“pr0n?” The SE5a is a “Reader’s Wives” type IMO…

OK, I should have posted a picture of a B-26 instead I guess?
;)

226 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:14:47am

re: #225 Feline Fearless Leader

OK, I should have posted a picture of a B-26 instead I guess?
;)

Or the Decatur Deb. (Where is Deb BTW? I haven’t seen him in a while)

227 Lidane  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:16:31am
228 darthstar  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:18:25am

Mornin’ gang…

229 Lidane  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:20:10am
230 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:22:23am
231 darthstar  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:22:29am

re: #227 Lidane

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!

232 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:23:38am
233 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:24:41am

re: #228 darthstar

Mornin’ gang…

damn, where did I put my leather vest and studded gloves!

234 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:25:00am

Repeating this same shit even after being pounded with facts. TGDN: facts roll off ‘em like they’re coated with teflon.

235 Lidane  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:26:01am

Frum’s been tweeting a lot about guns lately. He’s not making any friends on the right for it, either.

236 darthstar  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:28:41am

re: #233 sattv4u2

damn, where did I put my leather vest and studded gloves!

You’re such a Jet.

237 Lidane  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:28:58am

OUTRAGE!

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.

238 lawhawk  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:29:21am

re: #233 sattv4u2

damn, where did I put my leather vest and studded gloves!

Michael Jackson’s estate called, they want his wardrobe back.

239 lawhawk  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:33:24am

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.

240 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:33:36am
241 Interesting Times  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:33:52am

re: #237 Lidane

Speaking of Hannity, did you know Marco Rubio is busily kissing his posterior? That alone disqualifies him from any public office at any time for any reason.

242 Lidane  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:35:35am

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.

243 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:36:15am

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. //

244 dragonath  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:37:13am

re: #220 lawhawk

The papal electorate is overwhelmingly European:

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.

245 dragonath  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:38:28am

Quick, elect the guy covered in birdseed!

246 darthstar  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:39:27am

I like a little Hamas on my Benghazi…it adds balance,

247 Political Atheist  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:40:13am

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.

248 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:40:27am

re: #246 darthstar

I like a little Hamas on my Benghazi…it adds balance,

The punchline here is that Hamas really does suck.

249 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:40:37am

re: #243 Gus

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. //

What type of Republican Hamas are you?
/

250 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:41:22am

re: #249 sattv4u2

What type of Republican Hamas are you?
/

I must be more sensitive to their feewings!

251 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:43:04am

What? Me? I never said a good thing about Hamas.

//

252 darthstar  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:44:02am

Not to start any internet rumors or anything, but the question needs to be asked…just how involved with the Sandinistas was Chuck Hagel? Huh? Huh?

Now, everyone close your eyes for thirty seconds while that question finds its way to Fox news.

253 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:44:51am

It’s a bad day for Hamas in America.

254 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:45:40am

re: #252 darthstar

Now, everyone close your eyes for thirty seconds
No way

Last time you told me to do that my wallet went missing and the dog was moaning!!

255 b_sharp  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:46:56am

re: #251 Gus

What? Me? I never said a good thing about Hamas.

//

What’s wrong with humas?

256 darthstar  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:47:30am

Their non-existence also explains why nobody showed up for the Friends of Hamas Luau Chuck Hagel hosted.

257 b_sharp  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:48:10am

re: #256 darthstar

Their non-existence also explains why nobody showed up for the Friends of Hamas Luau Chuck Hagel hosted.

Ben Shapiro did.

258 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:50:21am

re: #255 b_sharp

What’s wrong with humas?

Humus. I don’t know. Something about being aligned with Hizbullets.

259 dragonath  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:51:46am

Tastes pretty good tho

260 darthstar  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:52:17am

re: #258 Gus

Humus. I don’t know. Something about being aligned with Hizbullets.

If I eat too much hummus I falafel.

261 Stoatly  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:52:23am

re: #225 Feline Fearless Leader

OK, I should have posted a picture of a B-26 instead I guess?
;)

I was thinking more of prettier biplanes, like the Sopwith Pup or Camel

But if you include monoplanes…. the Mosquito or Hawker Hunter
Or maybe the beautiful Gannet

262 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:52:55am

This is probably part of a coordinated effort WRT the hunger strike in the PA.

263 lawhawk  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:54:07am

re: #247 Political Atheist

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.

264 darthstar  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:54:18am

re: #262 Gus

This is probably part of a coordinated effort WRT the hunger strike in the PA.

What’s going on in Pennsylvania?
/

265 darthstar  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:55:35am

I like to eat…if I was in PA I’d do a Philly Cheesesteak strike. Fuck hunger…I hate being hungry.

266 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:56:12am

re: #264 darthstar

What’s going on in Pennsylvania?
/

The usual. Death to America and something about Teh Juice.

267 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:57:11am

re: #200 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

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.

268 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:57:34am

re: #261 Stoatly

I was thinking more of prettier biplanes, like the Sopwith Pup or Camel

But if you include monoplanes…. the Mosquito or Hawker Hunter
Or maybe the beautiful Gannet

Got a Mossie and a Tempest. But I hear the Gannet wets its nest!

Image: mossie.jpg

Image: tempest_1_.jpg

269 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:57:52am
270 darthstar  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:58:05am

re: #263 lawhawk

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.

271 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:58:13am

re: #266 Gus

The usual. Death to America and something about Teh Juice.

Sounds like central Pennsylvania all right.
//

272 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:58:23am

Boom! Bad craziness.

273 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 6:58:31am

GET A JOB, FREELOADER!

274 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:04:01am

Up ding! Down ding!

275 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:05:09am

re: #274 Gus

Up ding! Down ding!

Okay

I gave you one of each. Now what?

276 darthstar  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:05:23am

re: #273 Vicious Babushka

GET A JOB, FREELOADER!

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.

277 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:06:04am

re: #275 sattv4u2

Okay

I gave you one of each. Now what?

Damn you!

[Shakes fist.]

278 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:06:33am

re: #277 Gus

Damn you!

[Shakes fist.]

ummm,, what the hell is that thing in your fist

279 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:06:35am

re: #265 darthstar

I like to eat…if I was in PA I’d do a Philly Cheesesteak strike. Fuck hunger…I hate being hungry.

Hmm, what would be a Palestinian Cheesesteak? Semi-seriously.

280 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:07:34am

re: #278 sattv4u2

ummm,, what the hell is that thing in your fist

A bottle of Metamucil. //

281 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:08:52am

re: #273 Vicious Babushka

GET A JOB, FREELOADER!

Reading. It’s fun!!

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

282 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:10:05am

re: #281 sattv4u2

Reading. It’s fun!!

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

I don’t click links embedded in TGDN tweets. They tend to go to some bad places.

283 darthstar  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:10:12am

Love re: #273 Vicious Babushka

GET A JOB, FREELOADER!

I had to look…

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.

284 iossarian  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:11:22am

We would all be better off if people unable to support themselves financially were just left to die by the side of the road.

285 Killgore Trout  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:11:46am

Iranians are busy


Bahrain says Iran, Hezbollah behind “terror cell”

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.

286 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:12:31am

re: #283 darthstar

Love

I had to look…

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

287 iossarian  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:13:35am

re: #286 sattv4u2

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.

288 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:13:52am

damn i’m exhasted

289 b_sharp  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:14:35am

re: #288 sattv4u2

damn i’m exhausted

Crawling around in tailpipes will do that.

290 lawhawk  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:14:48am

re: #270 darthstar

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.

291 darthstar  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:15:01am

re: #286 sattv4u2

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.

292 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:15:07am

re: #287 iossarian

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

293 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:15:37am

re: #286 sattv4u2

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.

294 b_sharp  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:15:42am

re: #292 sattv4u2

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

She needs to flash some skin.

295 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:15:47am

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.

296 darthstar  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:16:39am

re: #289 b_sharp

Crawling around in tailpipes will do that.

Suck-starting a Harley can’t be easy.

297 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:17:04am

re: #296 darthstar

Suck-starting a Harley can’t be easy.

His name was Harley? He told me it was Sam!!

298 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:17:08am

It’s morning

again

299 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:17:14am
300 b_sharp  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:17:31am

re: #296 darthstar

Suck-starting a Harley can’t be easy.

Knowing Satt he was likely blowing.

301 prairiefire  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:17:46am

re: #80 prairiefire

Where’s Stanley? Staaaannnnley? The Tigers won!

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.

302 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:17:47am
303 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:18:23am

re: #294 b_sharp

She needs to flash some skin.

I want to upding this. But then the thought occurred to me “What if a righty said this,, they would be called a misogynistic”

304 iossarian  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:18:42am

re: #292 sattv4u2

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.

305 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:21:52am

re: #295 Gus

It’s kind of funny really. Hamas was instrumental in getting UN recognition which the left supported.

Some on the ‘left’ supported. Hilary Clinton was angry about the vote, and said so. So were a lot of prominent people on the ‘left’.

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.

Isn’t it more just that it’s factually untrue?

306 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:23:22am
307 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:24:03am

DERP FAIL

308 geoffm33  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:27:45am

File under “All Politics is Local”:

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.

309 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:29:44am

re: #308 geoffm33

What does Mumbles have to say on the state of the schools there?

310 iossarian  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:31:15am

re: #305 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Isn’t it more just that it’s factually untrue?

Again with the pesky “facts”.

311 Interesting Times  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:31:33am

I’ve going to post this by itself:

Image: 644309_10151432373942509_2144665258_n.jpg

…instead of linking to the facebook thread, because, as you might expect, it now overflows with anti-vaxxer derp :(

312 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:32:29am

[Link: www.bbc.co.uk…]

313 geoffm33  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:35:01am

re: #309 sattv4u2

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.

314 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:36:30am

re: #313 geoffm33

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)

315 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:38:54am

re: #312 FemNaziBitch

[Link: www.bbc.co.uk…]

Clever Hans.

316 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:39:04am

re: #307 Vicious Babushka

DERP FAIL

50 Million?

317 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:39:59am

re: #316 FemNaziBitch

50 Million?

50 million is the estimated number of abortions performed since Roe v. Wade 40 years ago.

318 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:41:21am

re: #317 Vicious Babushka

50 million is the estimated number of abortions performed since Roe v. Wade 40 years ago.

Ah!

How do you recall such things so early in the day?

319 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:43:51am

re: #300 b_sharp

Knowing Satt he was likely blowing.

Is your mind always in the gutter?

:0

320 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:44:19am

bbl

321 geoffm33  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:44:43am

re: #314 sattv4u2

Fun fact:

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.

Paywall: BostonGlobe.com Link

322 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:48:06am

re: #321 geoffm33

Fun fact:

Paywall: BostonGlobe.com Link

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

323 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:48:26am

re: #319 FemNaziBitch

Is your mind always in the gutter?

:0

I need company!

324 dragonath  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:49:22am

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.

325 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:50:10am

re: #321 geoffm33

My dad is obsessed with Curley. Has read every book on him, happy to have a four hour conversation about him.

326 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:51:15am

re: #324 dragonath

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 suspect the horse from FenNazis 312

Cute, yes,, clever, definitely,

But I think she has sinister eyes !!

327 geoffm33  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:53:43am

re: #322 sattv4u2

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.

328 dragonath  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:59:22am

Was Mayor Shemp reelected?

329 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 7:59:43am

re: #327 geoffm33

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!!!

330 geoffm33  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:02:24am

re: #329 sattv4u2

“Nothing is on the level. Everything is a deal. No deal is too small”

331 Lidane  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:04:39am

re: #281 sattv4u2

Reading. It’s fun!!

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

Know what else is fun? Bootstraps! That person should try some, especially since they’re a wingnut who rails against the 47% moocher class.

332 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:08:04am

bbiabre: #331 Lidane

Know what else is fun? Bootstraps! That person should try some, especially since they’re a wingnut who rails against the 47% moocher class.

What part of I have found one part-time job and possibly a 2nd. didn’t you understand?

Looks to me as if she’s trying “bootstraps”

333 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:09:19am

bbiab

334 Lidane  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:10:07am

re: #332 sattv4u2

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?

335 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:11:19am

re: #334 Lidane

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.

336 Lidane  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:15:39am

re: #335 Vicious Babushka

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!

////

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.

337 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:16:46am

re: #336 Lidane

////

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.

338 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:17:43am

PAPERCUTS!

I have these papercuts on the tips of my fingers and they just don’t seem to heal. Remedies?

339 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:19:50am

re: #338 Vicious Babushka

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.

340 makeitstop  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:21:04am

re: #213 Feline Fearless Leader

Gus, sounds like you need some plane pr0n.

Let me add to this. From our trip to the Cradle of Aviation Museum on Monday…

The Spirit of St. Louis

341 calochortus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:21:08am

re: #338 Vicious Babushka

PAPERCUTS!

I have these papercuts on the tips of my fingers and they just don’t seem to heal. Remedies?

Have you tried Eucerin cream? And apparently you need to stay away from paper. It may be out to get you.

342 aagcobb  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:21:10am

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?

343 calochortus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:22:29am

re: #342 aagcobb

FR has a note up that their server died and they are replacing it. No hack there.

344 makeitstop  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:23:21am

re: #290 lawhawk

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.

(If not applicable, never mind.)

345 wrenchwench  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:24:03am

re: #339 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

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.

346 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:25:14am

re: #290 lawhawk

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.

My daughter works at B&H!

347 Mattand  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:29:13am

re: #343 calochortus

FR has a note up that their server died and they are replacing it. No hack there.

I think someone mentioned yesterday that the RWNJs are ignoring FR’s own statement and riding the bus to Conspiracy-ville.

Stupid, stupid people.

348 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:33:07am

re: #347 Mattand

I think someone mentioned yesterday that the RWNJs are ignoring FR’s own statement and riding the bus to Conspiracy-ville.

Stupid, stupid people.

The message about the server being down is part of the hack obviously.
//

349 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:34:02am

Oooo… Great Yellow Sphere of Fusion sighting in Philadelphia.

350 calochortus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:34:41am

re: #347 Mattand

I think someone mentioned yesterday that the RWNJs are ignoring FR’s own statement and riding the bus to Conspiracy-ville.

Stupid, stupid people.

It seems like a harmless direction for them to go in…

351 makeitstop  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:35:04am

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.

352 Lidane  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:36:16am

re: #351 makeitstop

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.

Related:

353 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:36:18am

re: #351 makeitstop

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.

GOP wants the sequester just so everything can go to shit and then they have MOAR BLAME OBAMA.

That is how fucked up the Obama Derangement has become.

354 aagcobb  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:41:39am

re: #351 makeitstop

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.

355 makeitstop  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:41:48am

re: #353 Vicious Babushka

GOP wants the sequester just so everything can go to shit and then they have MOAR BLAME OBAMA.

That is how fucked up the Obama Derangement has become.

Yep. I’ve been asking the RWNJs that if it was such a horrible idea in the first place, why the Republicans even agreed to it.

All I get back it ‘It was Obama’s idea.’ I guess they’re waiting for the next round of talking points to come down from Limbaugh today.

356 Lidane  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:42:53am

re: #353 Vicious Babushka

GOP wants the sequester just so everything can go to shit and then they have MOAR BLAME OBAMA.

That is how fucked up the Obama Derangement has become.

Seriously. They’re completely deranged.

357 Mattand  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:45:20am

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.

358 iossarian  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:47:32am

re: #357 Mattand

My big thing is that Bush and Cheney absolutely should be brought up on some kind of charges. Not that it’ll ever happen.

Suggesting this course of action means that you are not a Serious Person and therefore cannot be taken Seriously.

OUR PRESIDENTS CANNOT BE WAR CRIMINALS BECAUSE RUSSIA

359 simoom  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:47:36am

re: #209 lawhawk

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.

360 lawhawk  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:49:29am

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).

361 iossarian  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:49:35am

BBL

362 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:50:14am

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.

363 Slap  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:50:29am

re: #228 darthstar

Mornin’ gang…

“We’re not a gang — we’re a CLUB!!!!”

(You’ll just have to picture the bee costume.)

364 Mattand  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:53:39am

re: #363 Slap

“We’re not a gang — we’re a CLUB!!!!”

(You’ll just have to picture the bee costume.)

Here; have some pollen.

365 makeitstop  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:54:30am

re: #357 Mattand

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.

366 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:54:32am

re: #285 Killgore Trout

Iranians are busy

Bahrain says Iran, Hezbollah behind “terror cell”

That is not surprise with Hezbollah being the terrorist group that they are and Iran continuing to spread unrest in the entire region.

Meanwhile the Syrian Free Army has given Hezbollah 2 day to GTF out of Syria.

FSA gives Hezbollah 48-hour ultimatum to stop intervention in Syria

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.

Get out the popcorn.

367 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 8:58:34am

re: #357 Mattand

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

368 Bulworth  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:01:06am

re: #362 Vicious Babushka

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.

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. //

369 Killgore Trout  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:01:28am

re: #366 NJDhockeyfan

That is not surprise with Hezbollah being the terrorist group that they are and Iran continuing to spread unrest in the entire region.

Meanwhile the Syrian Free Army has given Hezbollah 2 day to GTF out of Syria.

FSA gives Hezbollah 48-hour ultimatum to stop intervention in Syria

Get out the popcorn.

It’s pretty clear Iran is setting itself up to create as much chaos in the region as possible if they feel threatened enough.

370 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:04:05am

Ready
Set
GO

(starting the “prep’ day cleansing for tomorrows colonoscopy,,, Oh,, Joy!!!)

371 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:04:44am

TGDN swarm all hurr-hurring that SEQUESTRATION TOTALLY OBAMUZ FAULT!1!

Buncha freaking morons.

372 makeitstop  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:06:44am

re: #371 Vicious Babushka

TGDN swarm all hurr-hurring that SEQUESTRATION TOTALLY OBAMUZ FAULT!1!

Buncha freaking morons.

It’s like the word ‘agreement’ and all the connotations thereof simply do not exist. Stupid, stupid, stupid.

373 Bulworth  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:08:13am

re: #371 Vicious Babushka

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.

374 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:08:57am

re: #227 Lidane

How an over-the-top joke became a Republican talking point against Chuck Hagel

There was a time when sloppy, hare-brained journalism would cost you your reputation and your career.

Now it is a source of talking points.

375 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:11:23am

re: #260 darthstar

If I eat too much hummus I falafel.

But I had a halavah time and am feeling a tahini bit better now

376 simoom  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:12:40am

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.

377 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:14:20am

re: #373 Bulworth

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.

378 darthstar  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:15:35am

Tell me…are your trees…experienced?

Image: 551555_10200498082644397_786708322_n.jpg

379 darthstar  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:18:16am

re: #370 sattv4u2

Ready
Set
GO

(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.”

380 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:18:33am

re: #378 darthstar

Tell me…are your trees…experienced?

Image: 551555_10200498082644397_786708322_n.jpg

Mine are in a Purple haze

Image: PurpleTree.jpg

381 darthstar  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:19:39am

re: #379 darthstar

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.

382 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:19:43am

re: #379 darthstar

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.”

“Using the whole fist there, doc”

Youtube Video
383 Lidane  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:24:50am

re: #377 Vicious Babushka

They want to do away with all welfare and food stamps but MOAR TANKS N GUNZ N BOMBZ N AIRCRAFT CARRIERS N WAR SHIT.

Also, rounding up and confiscating 300 million guns = ZOMG INVASIVE GUBMINT OVERREACH N TYRANEE N STUFF

Rounding up and deporting 12 million illegal immigrants = A-OK and totally doable.

384 Flounder  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:25:00am

For dry hands and knuckles, including paper cuts, try bag balm.[Link: www.google.com…]


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.

385 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:25:25am

re: #383 Lidane

Also, rounding up and confiscating 300 million guns = ZOMG INVASIVE GUBMINT OVERREACH N TYRANEE N STUFF

Rounding up and deporting 12 million illegal immigrants = A-OK and totally doable.

Not to mention micro-managing every uterus in the country.

386 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:26:20am

GODWIN DERP

387 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:26:30am

Zero to Sixty in 4 seconds!!

Starbucks’ most expensive drink has 40 shots of espresso

Read more: [Link: www.myfoxdc.com…]
Follow us: @myfoxdc on Twitter | myfoxdc on Facebook

388 kirkspencer  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:28:19am

re: #365 makeitstop

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.

389 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:28:50am

Here’s your Tea Party flag.

390 darthstar  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:28:56am

re: #387 sattv4u2

Zero to Sixty in 4 seconds!!

Starbucks’ most expensive drink has 40 shots of espresso

Read more: [Link: www.myfoxdc.com…]
Follow us: @myfoxdc on Twitter | myfoxdc on Facebook

Chase that down with a 64 ounce Dr. Pepper and you could pee for a week without stopping.

391 The Mountain That Blogs  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:29:33am

re: #387 sattv4u2

Zero to Sixty in 4 seconds!!

Starbucks’ most expensive drink has 40 shots of espresso

Read more: [Link: [Link: www.myfoxdc.com…]…]

I’d say why not just put it straight into your veins at that point, but…yeah

392 kirkspencer  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:29:59am

re: #386 Vicious Babushka

Looked in a mirror, did he?

393 Bulworth  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:30:45am

re: #389 Vicious Babushka

Winning!

394 Lidane  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:33:25am

Irony, thy name is Ben Shapiro:

395 simoom  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:34:17am
396 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:34:25am

re: #390 darthstar

re: #391 The Mountain That Blogs

Jeez Louise. I mean, I love coffee (not a StarBucks fan however) but “He ordered a 52-ounce venti with 40 shots of espresso,”

“ZOOM, to the moon, Alice” !!

397 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:37:23am

re: #395 simoom

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

398 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:39:06am

re: #391 The Mountain That Blogs

but…yeah

That’s why I drink mine black

That milk’ll get ya every time!!!

399 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:47:12am

Zedushka just called. Water main broke, water shut off to all houses on the block until they fix it, which can take hours.

Carnival cruise ship in the comfort of your own home!

400 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:53:06am

DERP.

401 Flounder  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:53:41am

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!

402 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:56:41am

Maybe I’ll work late or go to the mall or something.

403 simoom  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:56:46am

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.

404 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:58:19am

re: #399 Vicious Babushka

re: #401 Flounder

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

405 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:58:21am

re: #403 simoom

Even odds that “Senate Republican aide” is the same one that leaked the original smear to breitbart.

It’s Benghazi all the way down.
/

406 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:58:51am

re: #404 sattv4u2

re: #401 Flounder

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

Good idea.

407 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:59:23am

Hopefully this will be fixed before I get home.

408 makeitstop  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:59:33am

re: #403 simoom

“In this business we deal in facts or the pursuit of facts…”

We’ve got an early candidate for Lie Of The Year here.

409 geoffm33  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 9:59:54am

re: #403 simoom

Even odds that “Senate Republican aide” is the same one that leaked the original smear to breitbart.

Frank Underwood?

Edit: He’s fictional, not a republican, and not an aide, but I still think it was him.

410 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:01:20am

re: #404 sattv4u2

re: #401 Flounder

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

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.

411 Lidane  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:03:14am

Hurr durr…

412 Flounder  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:03:47am

Not a fun time to be fixing pipes in the winter. Some munis have an emergency contractor to do the work.

413 Political Atheist  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:05:49am

Anyone watching House Of Cards on Netflix? Pretty dark view of inside DC dealmaking.

414 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:06:44am

re: #407 Vicious Babushka

Hopefully this will be fixed before I get home.

Sure. As long as Zedushka is inconvenienced, not you!!!

//

415 Lidane  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:07:20am

re: #413 Political Atheist

Anyone watching House Of Cards on Netflix? Pretty dark view of inside DC dealmaking.

I watched the entire series. Kevin Spacey was brilliant. I liked it a lot.

416 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:07:40am

re: #414 sattv4u2

Sure. As long as Zedushka is inconvenienced, not you!!!

//

Hey, I work all day, he is the retired grump old man house-husband!

417 geoffm33  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:08:55am

re: #413 Political Atheist

Yes. Finished the available chapters (13) and eagerly awaiting the next release (not sure when?).

My wife made it through chapter 6 until she couldn’t watch anymore. Too much backstabbing/tension/etc for her to watch before sleepytime.

She was holding me back anyway ;)

418 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:09:51am

re: #395 simoom

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.

419 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:10:30am

re: #416 Vicious Babushka

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!

420 Political Atheist  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:12:03am

re: #417 geoffm33

re: #415 Lidane

re: #417 geoffm33


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.

421 Sionainn  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:12:22am

re: #413 Political Atheist

Anyone watching House Of Cards on Netflix? Pretty dark view of inside DC dealmaking.

We just watched the last episode last night. Great series! Any idea when the next season starts?

422 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:14:37am

Beck: Video Games Were Responsible for Sandy Hook Massacre

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.

423 Lidane  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:15:26am

John McCain, librul:

424 Political Atheist  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:16:33am

re: #421 Sionainn

We just watched the last episode last night. Great series! Any idea when the next season starts?

All I know is it’s in production. That and Justified have both grabbed me this season.

425 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:16:52am

re: #422 Kragar (Antichrist )

Beck: Video Games Were Responsible for Sandy Hook Massacre

Glenn, just because you think it doesn’t make it a fact.

You know what country plays the most violent, and also the most crazy porno video games in the world?

JAPAN!

426 Eventual Carrion  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:17:03am

re: #422 Kragar (Antichrist )

Beck: Video Games Were Responsible for Sandy Hook Massacre

Glenn, just because you think it doesn’t make it a fact.

To Godwin things, What video game were Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and their ilk playing. THAT would be the first game we should ban.

427 Sionainn  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:17:08am

re: #424 Political Atheist

All I know is it’s in production. That and Justified have both grabbed me this season.

Haven’t seen Justified. I’ll have to look into that. Can’t wait for Breaking Bad, too.

428 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:17:45am

VIDEO GAMES CAUSED THE MASSACRE OF NANKING!1!1

429 Lidane  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:19:27am

re: #424 Political Atheist

All I know is it’s in production. That and Justified have both grabbed me this season.

Justified is great. I love that show. Raylan and Boyd have one of the best love/hate relationships on TV.

430 Professor Chaos  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:19:37am

Shapiro doubles down on “Friends of Hamas”

[Link: www.breitbart.com…]

The comments are being trolled hard:

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.

431 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:20:02am

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.

432 Kragar (Antichrist )  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:20:30am

re: #426 Eventual Carrion

To Godwin things, What video game were Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, and their ilk playing. THAT would be the first game we should ban.

Hello Kitty Island Adventure

433 Eventual Carrion  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:21:09am

re: #432 Kragar (Antichrist )

Hello Kitty Island Adventure

Have to admit, that might make me go postal also.

434 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:22:00am

re: #432 Kragar (Antichrist )

Hello Kitty Island Adventure

I am sure the Japanese have a hardcore porno version of that.

435 makeitstop  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:22:17am

re: #427 Sionainn

Haven’t seen Justified. I’ll have to look into that. Can’t wait for Breaking Bad, too.

We recently got hooked on Justified. I enjoy that show.

436 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:22:56am

re: #423 Lidane

John McCain, librul:

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.

437 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:23:44am

I blame 50s film noir and 40s gangster movies!

438 Varek Raith  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:24:24am

re: #434 Vicious Babushka

I am sure the Japanese have a hardcore porno version of that.

Bet I could find it real quick.
Ah, the internet.

439 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:25:18am

I blame facial hair for the first world war.

440 Varek Raith  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:25:45am

re: #425 Vicious Babushka

You know what country plays the most violent, and also the most crazy porno video games in the world?

JAPAN!

Games that would never, ever, ever be released here.
Yet, they don’t have mass shootings…

441 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:26:36am

re: #438 Varek Raith

re: #434 Vicious Babushka

I am sure the Japanese have a hardcore porno version of that.

Bet I could find it real quick.
Ah, the internet.

I could too, but only after I sludge through all the other internet free porn

BBIAB DECADE

442 lawhawk  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:26:53am

The modern GOP: It’s tax cuts or bust [the economy].

443 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:27:11am

re: #439 HappyWarrior

I blame facial hair for the first world war.

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!

444 Varek Raith  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:27:31am

re: #441 sattv4u2


re: #434 Vicious Babushka

I am sure the Japanese have a hardcore porno version of that.

I could too, but only after I sludge through all the other internet free porn

BBIABDECADE

Yeah, but I know where to look.
Wait, what?

445 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:27:44am

re: #416 Vicious Babushka

Hey, I work all day, he is the retired grump old man house-husband!

If you buy water is he going to give you any flak for doing so?

446 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:28:51am

re: #445 Feline Fearless Leader

If you buy water is he going to give you any flak for doing so?

Flak in a Flask!

447 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:29:43am

re: #437 Gus

I blame 50s film noir and 40s gangster movies!

TOP OF THE WORLD, MA! TOP OF THE WORLD!

I blame Big Oil!
;)

448 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:30:15am

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.

449 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:30:26am

re: #443 Gus

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!!

450 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:31:10am

re: #448 Gus

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.

Ah, the lost joy of playing in monkey bars!!

451 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:31:20am

re: #449 sattv4u2

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!!

Bang, bang! You’re dead!….

Suspended and sent for child counseling. //

452 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:31:41am

re: #443 Gus

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!
;)

453 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:32:14am

re: #451 Gus

Bang, bang! You’re dead!….

Suspended and sent for child counseling. //

We should start taking away childrens fingers!!

454 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:32:17am

re: #448 Gus

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.

455 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:32:27am

re: #450 sattv4u2

Ah, the lost joy of playing in monkey bars!!

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.

456 Varek Raith  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:32:27am

COBRAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

457 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:33:17am

re: #454 HappyWarrior

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.

What’s that famous book?

458 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:33:46am

re: #455 Gus

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.

Wimp! A little mud over the cut, a “you’ll be okay” and a “walk it off” from an adult, and back climbing within a minute

459 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:33:49am

Some book they tried to ban. 60s I think.

460 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:34:46am

re: #423 Lidane

McCain calls himself a Repub. But his “Dismissive” attitude 2-ward American Citizens shows a Liberal Heart/mind.

He desreves whatever backlash he gets: he helped make bat-shit crazy the accepted standard in his party

461 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:35:03am

re: #458 sattv4u2

Wimp! A little mud over the cut, a “you’ll be okay” and a “walk it off” from an adult, and back climbing within a minute

I got whacked by a door at Gimbels in Manhattan. Cut my ear.

462 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:35:24am

Catcher and the Rye?

463 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:35:51am

Video games, pool halls, books, rock and roll music.

464 Varek Raith  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:35:53am

re: #462 Gus

Catcher and the Rye?

Read it in HS.
Thought it was…
Meh.

465 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:36:05am

re: #457 Gus

What’s that famous book?

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_.

466 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:36:22am

re: #461 Gus

I got whacked by a door at Gimbels in Manhattan. Cut my ear.

What a coincidence

I got whacked in my Gimbles by a door in Manhattan!!

467 Lidane  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:38:18am

*cough*

468 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:38:25am

re: #462 Gus

Catcher and the Rye?

Sounds right. I’ve never actually read it to my embarrassment.

469 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:40:16am

re: #468 HappyWarrior

Sounds right. I’ve never actually read it to my embarrassment.

Neither have I. But there was always some other book blamed for causing violence. Rock lyrics are the most notorious.

470 wrenchwench  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:40:57am

re: #462 Gus

Catcher and in the Rye?

FTFJD.

re: #468 HappyWarrior

Sounds right. I’ve never actually read it to my embarrassment.

I think you’re too old for it now.

471 Varek Raith  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:41:34am

It was Doom.
And ICP.
And comic books.
And books.
And ankle skirts.

472 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:42:23am

re: #471 Varek Raith

It was Doom.
And ICP.
And comic books.
And books.
And ankle Poodle skirts.

(damn, I’m old)

473 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:43:59am

re: #470 wrenchwench

FTFJD.

re: #468 HappyWarrior

I think you’re too old for it now.

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.

474 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:44:05am

re: #470 wrenchwench

FTFJD.

re: #468 HappyWarrior

I think you’re too old for it now.

Tanks! Woops. Violence. //

475 HappyWarrior  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:44:45am

re: #471 Varek Raith

It was Doom.
And ICP.
And comic books.
And books.
And ankle skirts.

And Pokemon! I mean I thought that was the stupidest fad ever but I still remember the nutjobs acting like that was demonic somehow.

476 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:45:10am

Hand guns are hereby prohibited. From now on any child found on the playground playing with hand guns shall be imprisoned for no less than 30 years.

//

477 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:46:01am

Tweety Bird is hereby banned for promoting violence! As is Tom and Jerry! Tweety Bird Unchained is OK however. //

478 Mattand  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:48:58am

re: #455 Gus

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!”

479 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:56:43am

re: #477 Gus

Tweety Bird is hereby banned for promoting violence! As is Tom and Jerry! Tweety Bird Unchained is OK however. //

The Three Stooges!

480 sattv4u2  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 10:57:56am

re: #477 Gus

re: #479 sattv4u2

The Three Stooges!

Can’t even tell you how many times I hit my kid sister over the head with a hammer or poked her in both eyes after watching a Three Stooges film!

481 [deleted]  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 11:25:07am
482 Shvaughn  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 11:40:32am

re: #481 Jimmah The Unacceptable

What are you even trying to do now?

483 Charles Johnson  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 12:14:51pm

re: #481 Jimmah The Unacceptable

That’s not cool. If you’re having a problem with someone, that’s not the way to handle it.

484 Jimmah The Unacceptable  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 12:22:52pm

re: #483 Charles Johnson

That’s not cool. If you’re having a problem with someone, that’s not the way to handle 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 :-)

485 Interesting Times  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 12:31:36pm

re: #484 Jimmah The Unacceptable

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.

486 wrenchwench  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 12:46:52pm

re: #484 Jimmah The Unacceptable

You’re quite right, - in fact ice advised me similarly. I blame it on the booze and drugs I’m high on right now :-)

I suppose you apologized in a private email?

487 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 12:49:55pm

re: #483 Charles Johnson

That’s not cool. If you’re having a problem with someone, that’s not the way to handle it.

Did he reveal any personal information?

488 Jimmah The Unacceptable  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 12:50:11pm

re: #485 Interesting Times

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 :)

489 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 12:50:20pm

re: #486 wrenchwench

I suppose you apologized in a private email?

Won’t work. We’re through. I blocked both Ice and Jimmah. This is unacceptable.

490 wrenchwench  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 12:52:36pm

re: #489 Gus

Won’t work. We’re through. I blocked both Ice and Jimmah. This is unacceptable.

It was egregious, but not necessarily unforgivable. That’s totally up to you. Stranger things have been forgiven.

491 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 12:53:43pm

re: #490 wrenchwench

It was egregious, but not necessarily unforgivable. That’s totally up to you. Stranger things have been forgiven.

Maybe, but right now I’m pretty damn well fucking pissed off and have been holding back believe it or not. This is completely out of control.

492 wrenchwench  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 12:56:22pm

re: #491 Gus

Actually, I hadn’t read the comment above your previous one when I posted. Oh, well. Maybe after some sobering up….

493 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 12:56:22pm

re: #490 wrenchwench

It was egregious, but not necessarily unforgivable. That’s totally up to you. Stranger things have been forgiven.

Especially considering I thought these people were my friends.

494 Jimmah The Unacceptable  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 12:59:13pm

re: #493 Gus

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.

495 wrenchwench  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 1:01:27pm

Go to your respective corners and wait for the bell.

496 Jimmah The Unacceptable  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 1:05:00pm

re: #495 wrenchwench

Go to your respective corners and wait for the bell.

Good advice :)

BTw I am HIGH AS FUCK right now!

497 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 1:06:35pm

re: #494 Jimmah The Unacceptable

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.

498 wrenchwench  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 1:09:27pm

I didn’t hear the bell yet…

499 Interesting Times  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 1:10:54pm

re: #497 Gus

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.

500 Gus  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 1:12:30pm

re: #499 Interesting Times

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.

501 Interesting Times  Wed, Feb 20, 2013 1:14:40pm

re: #496 Jimmah The Unacceptable

Good advice :)

BTw I am HIGH AS FUCK right now!

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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