The Breitbrat Hagiographies: Year One A.B. (After Breitbart)

Honoring their founding screamer
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I have to admit, I’m only posting this because the ridiculous clumsy photoshop of Andrew Breitbart’s too-big head on a John Singleton Copley painting is totally hilarious in that inadvertent wingnut way: POP CULTURAL CONSERVATISM, YEAR ONE A.B. (AFTER BREITBART).

The photoshop:

The original painting they defaced:

Come on! You can’t buy this kind of comedy! Andrew did say, after all, that he was proud to be a teabagger; now they have him dressed like one.

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160 comments
1 Bulworth  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:15:05pm

1. Obama re-elected
2. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell demolished
3. Marriage Equality a reality in 4 more states
4. Obamacare continues…

Pretty good so far..

2 erik_t  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:16:56pm

Does there exist a picture of Andrew Breitbart smiling?

3 b_sharp  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:18:18pm

I laughed so hard I choked to death on my spittle.

4 Bulworth  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:20:23pm

5. Women in combat allowed
6. Friends of Hamas smear exposed/Hagel confirmed

5 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:22:49pm

7. NRA crapping in its pants over its loss of power to intimidate politicians

6 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:22:59pm

Here … I made the picture better.

7 Bulworth  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:23:51pm

8. Joe Deadbeat Walsh unelected.
9. Todd legitimate rape Akin defeated.
10. Richard Mourdoch defeated

8 brennant  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:24:15pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Still too small.

9 Eclectic Cyborg  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:24:37pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Here … I made the picture better.

It’s like one of those Big Head cheat codes from the old arcade games.

10 Eclectic Cyborg  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:24:57pm

re: #8 brennant

Still too small.

Monitors do have limits you know.

11 b_sharp  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:25:10pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Here … I made the picture better.

Can you make it into a bobble head?

12 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:25:39pm

re: #8 brennant

Still too small.

OK, even better.

13 Bulworth  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:25:49pm

23. Sarah Palin shitcanned from Faux.
39.2. Richard Dicky Morris shitcanned from Faux.

14 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:26:50pm

Oops, wrong one. This is much better.

15 darthstar  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:27:22pm

Had some jesus freaks knock on my door a few minutes ago…first, solicitors just set the dogs off to barking, which I do my best to quell quickly, though in this instance as I opened the door and saw the glossy photo of Jesus carrying a lamb to slaughter, I simply said, “Oh, hell no.” and stepped back inside…Banjo finished explaining my position on solicitors through the window.

16 Mentis Fugit  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:27:30pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

Here … I made the picture better.

I see a Terry Gilliam style animation in which the head continues to inflate until the whole thing floats away.

17 Political Atheist  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:28:13pm

Personally I think they should have gone with Napoleon. The one hand in the vest and all. Like This… (Couldn’t resist)


Andrew Napoleon Brietbart

18 jaunte  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:32:28pm

Copleyization of conservatives. It could be a trend.

Image: fischer,copleyized.jpg

19 Bulworth  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:32:36pm

True Story:

Being a single guy I sign up for EHarmony.com. Why the hell not.

I finish filling out their “compatability” questionaire with its zillion questions, many of which are essentially the same question but reworded to try to trip you up or something.

Anyway I get through that, make it about as plain and clear as can be I’m dirty effin hippy and who do I get among my matches? Some gal who digs her some Andrew Breitbart.

Yeah, that’s some awesome questionaire eHarmony has set up. //

20 klys  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:32:56pm

THE DATA IS SKEWED.

21 A Mom Anon  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:35:21pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

Looks very Alice in Wonderland-ish.

22 Tigger2  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:35:34pm

re: #15 darthstar

Had some jesus freaks knock on my door a few minutes ago…first, solicitors just set the dogs off to barking, which I do my best to quell quickly, though in this instance as I opened the door and saw the glossy photo of Jesus carrying a lamb to slaughter, I simply said, “Oh, hell no.” and stepped back inside…Banjo finished explaining my position on solicitors through the window.

If I see them in the neighborhood I just chain my dog up outside my front door, A funny thing happens they will not walk into my yard to knock on my door. lol

23 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:36:24pm

re: #17 Political Atheist

Personally I think they should have gone with Napoleon. The one hand in the vest and all. Like This… (Couldn’t resist)

Andrew Napoleon Brietbart

He looks good in that pose.

24 darthstar  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:37:57pm

Fucker’s still dead, right? Yeah, he was a dick, but he’s dead now. I have no problem mocking his remaining website spawn, but Breitbart himself I’ll gladly let go…out of respect for his widow and their children.

25 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:41:41pm

I learned a long time ago that colonial portrait painters had collections of stock bodies, and when they commissioned a painting they just painted in the face.

It makes sense, people had to sit for a long time to have a portrait made, and the painter probably had better outfits.

26 brennant  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:43:29pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

Warmer… warmer… disco.

27 Lidane  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:46:42pm

Meanwhile, the White House’s nerd win continues:

[Link: www.facebook.com…]

Unacceptable, these severe cuts are.

28 klys  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:47:51pm

re: #27 Lidane

Meanwhile, the White House’s nerd win continues:

[Link: www.facebook.com…]

And then I read some of the comments and despair for humanity once again.

29 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:48:11pm

re: #27 Lidane

Meanwhile, the White House’s nerd win continues:

[Link: www.facebook.com…]

He’s totally trolling the right now. I love it.

30 erik_t  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:49:43pm

re: #29 Charles Johnson

He’s totally trolling the right now. I love it.

When you know that by merely opening your mouth you can make your opponents piss themselves in anger, you can play some really fun games.

31 engineer cat  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:49:48pm

mwahahaha i love being ‘root’

I CAN HAZ TEH POWAH!!!

32 ProBosniaLiberal  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:50:31pm

re: #29 Charles Johnson

So, he’s now this guy?

Youtube Video
33 erik_t  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:51:24pm

re: #31 engineer cat

mwahahaha i love being ‘root’

I CAN HAZ TEH POWAH!!!

Sudo make me a sandwich.

34 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:54:42pm

re: #31 engineer cat

You gotta be root to get down.

35 erik_t  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 2:57:56pm

I don’t love being root. Being root scares me.

You know how you go to the railing at the edge of a tall building and a little voice in the back of your head momentarily wonders what it’d be like to jump off?

Every once in a while, I want to know what it would look like to hit enter after typing, and I hesitate to even put these characters in a row, ‘rm -rf /’.

36 erik_t  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:00:43pm

re: #35 erik_t

Fortunately, there’s a youtube for that.

Youtube Video
37 Lidane  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:02:31pm

re: #34 Charles Johnson

You gotta be root to get down.

Now this song is stuck in my head:

Youtube Video
38 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:07:24pm

Wow, Flash Player just blocked itself in Safari. Told me to get a security update.

I didn’t realize Flash Player could auto-disable itself.

39 erik_t  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:08:15pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

I didn’t realize Flash Player could auto-disable itself.

That’s the most charming euphemism I’ve ever heard for ‘crash like a buggy piece of shit’.

40 BongCrodny  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:11:25pm

re: #1 Bulworth

1. Obama re-elected
2. Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell demolished
3. Marriage Equality a reality in 4 more states
4. Obamacare continues…

Pretty good so far..

Wonder what kind of reaction we would have seen from Breitbart re the story of that Occupier being found not guilty today.

41 Lidane  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:14:21pm

Derp:

42 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:15:03pm

re: #36 erik_t

Epic.

43 funky chicken  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:22:00pm

Did Copley paint man faces on all his wife portraits, or just the ones at that link?

44 erik_t  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:23:52pm

Speaking of youtube, this is pretty much the most awesome thing ever.

Youtube Video

Our helical trip through the Milky Way

*EDIT* Looks like Charles’ scripting magic chops out the start-time. If you just want quick pretty stuff, start around 4:00.

45 SpaceJesus  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:24:55pm

Hahahaha The Duke of Derp poses for his likeness

46 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:30:00pm

re: #44 erik_t

Speaking of youtube, this is pretty much the most awesome thing ever.

*EDIT* Looks like Charles’ scripting magic chops out the start-time. If you just want quick pretty stuff, start around 4:00.

For embedded videos, you need to set the start time like this:

youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=C4V-ooITrws&start=242

47 SpaceJesus  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:30:44pm

They should also photoshop James OKeefes face onto a yorkshire terrier and insert that into the painting as well

48 3eff Jeff  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:33:02pm

re: #16 Mentis Fugit

I see a Terry Gilliam style animation in which the head continues to inflate until the whole thing floats away.

What a great idea.

Image: L01fJYL.gif

49 Romantic Heretic  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:33:53pm

re: #48 3eff Jeff

What a great idea.

Image: L01fJYL.gif

Brilliant!

50 Eclectic Cyborg  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:34:46pm

re: #41 Lidane

Derp:

More like Concerned Husbands of the Women of America.

51 3eff Jeff  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:40:46pm

re: #35 erik_t

I don’t love being root. Being root scares me.

You know how you go to the railing at the edge of a tall building and a little voice in the back of your head momentarily wonders what it’d be like to jump off?

Every once in a while, I want to know what it would look like to hit enter after typing, and I hesitate to even put these characters in a row, ‘rm -rf /’.

Back in the 90s, there was a set of instructions for installing Slackware Linux that had “As root, run ‘rm -rf /’” as the second to last step. The last instruction was “Start over and read all the way through random instructions on the ‘net before you blindly follow them next time.”

52 b_sharp  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:41:16pm

re: #33 erik_t

Sudo make me a sandwich.

sudo su.

53 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:41:56pm

re: #16 Mentis Fugit

I see a Terry Gilliam style animation in which the head continues to inflate until the whole thing floats away.

Around the World In Eighty Derps?

54 b_sharp  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:42:12pm

re: #35 erik_t

I don’t love being root. Being root scares me.

You know how you go to the railing at the edge of a tall building and a little voice in the back of your head momentarily wonders what it’d be like to jump off?

Every once in a while, I want to know what it would look like to hit enter after typing, and I hesitate to even put these characters in a row, ‘rm -rf /’.

Good way of clearing off the junk.

55 b_sharp  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:45:22pm

re: #51 3eff Jeff

Back in the 90s, there was a set of instructions for installing Slackware Linux that had “As root, run ‘rm -rf /’” as the second to last step. The last instruction was “Start over and read all the way through random instructions on the ‘net before you blindly follow them next time.”

Slackware is making a comeback.
Any century now they’ll be up to Redhat and Debian.

56 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:45:24pm

Breaking news:

Andrew Breitbart is still dead.

57 3eff Jeff  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:46:03pm

re: #54 b_sharp

Good way of clearing off the junk.

It actually can be. I keep my personal data isolated from the OS install directories, so my normal upgrade technique is “blow away system directories, install new version from scratch”, rather than try to stick around on the upgrade treadmill. (Although, I still don’t run rm -rf /, I do something more dangerous and final: I format the system partitions with mkfs.)

58 b_sharp  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:46:17pm

re: #56 Kragar (Antichrist )

Breaking news:

Andrew Breitbart is still dead.

I heard that, but thought is was just a Twitter rumour.

59 b_sharp  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:47:29pm

re: #57 3eff Jeff

It actually can be. I keep my personal data isolated from the OS install directories, so my normal upgrade technique is “blow away system directories, install new version from scratch”, rather than try to stick around on the upgrade treadmill. (Although, I still don’t run rm -rf /, I do something more dangerous and final: I format the system partitions with mkfs.)

I do the same. My /home partition is separate from the / partition.

60 3eff Jeff  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:47:51pm

re: #55 b_sharp

Slackware is making a comeback.
Any century now they’ll be up to Redhat and Debian.

I updinged you, but I’m typing this from a Slackware box. There are nutters out there who still use it. There are downsides to Debian and Redhat (although: I love Debian for server installs, Redhat, well, let’s just say RPM is what drove me to Slackware 15 years ago…).

61 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:48:10pm

Jeffress: Most Catholics Going to Hell, Obama Paving the Way for the Antichrist

First Baptist Dallas Pastor Robert Jeffress, who made headlines when Tim Tebow backed out of an upcoming appearance at his new $130 million megachurch campus, spoke at length about the controversy during a recent appearance on the Alan Colmes Radio Show. Jeffress complained that he had been taken out of context and tried to downplay and sidestep some of his most explosive remarks. But for the most part, he just cemented his reputation as an extremist.

Jeffress began his defense on an inauspicious note, noting that he has a Jewish friend in New York so he can’t possibly be anti-Semitic. While we’ve never called him anti-Semitic, we have noted that Jeffress believes Jews are destined for hell – along with Catholics, Mormons, Muslims and gays, so at least they’ll have company.

Colmes asked Jeffress about many of his most contentious remarks, such as whether he ever said that “Roman Catholicism is Satanic.” “I never used the term ‘Satanic,’” Jeffress responded. That’s technically true but highly misleading: Jeffress has said Satan is behind the Catholic Church. It only got more disingenuous from there.

Jeffress relegated the overwhelming majority of the world’s Catholics to hell while trying to make it sound like he was doing no such thing.

62 b_sharp  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:48:40pm

This place is so cool.
We have Linux geeks!

63 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:50:24pm

Posted by a friend of mine in FB:

So the Catholic Church and Groupon are both leaderless right now. Couldn’t they save money on headhunter fees by just swapping CEOs?

Experienced German manager to rein in Silicon Valley excess: Check.
50% discount off your next confession: Check.

What could go wrong?

64 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:54:54pm

‘Troublemaker of the Year’ tells Moyers science studies needed to ‘ensure the survival of the human race’

Rep. Paul Broun’s (R-GA) infamous speech calling evolution and other scientific theories “lies from the pits of hell,” education advocate Zack Kopplin told Moyers, exemplified attitudes that need to be changed.

“While he may think they’re lies from the pit of hell, they’re not,” Kopplin said. “They’re good, established science. And if our students don’t learn it, they’re going to be at a disadvantage to the rest of the world, to China, to Britain to France. And we’re not going to do what we need to really make the advances to keep our way of life and ensure the survival of the human race, if we don’t teach our students science.”

The Louisiana native and current Rice University student was named the first “Troublemaker of the Year” by a private foundation on Feb. 15 in honor of his campaign to repeal the Louisiana Science Education Act, which became state law in 2008.

65 HoosierHoops  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 3:59:30pm

I’m going to repost this from this morning about Woodward.

Good Morning.. I taped and rewatched the Woodward interview from last night on Hannity. ( I can’t stand the Hannity show.. I’d would have rather married Ann Coulter in Vegas after a 2 days of a drinking binge than watch Hannity ).
I said I’d keep an open mind on this and I think I have.
I don’t agree with Woodward’s actions in this case. I can’t say if it’s to sell books or he is out of his prime as a reporter and I’m surprised.
If what he thinks is a threat by the WH then he should retire from politics.
It’s a blood sport and if you can’t stand the heat get out of the the kitchen.
He lost his years of built up credibility in Washington. Sad but true.

66 Ojoe  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:04:23pm

LinkAt least he hasn’t fooled with the Painter of Light.

67 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:05:56pm

re: #66 Ojoe

LinkAt least he hasn’t fooled with the Painter of Light.

Image: 1047153654_4a32212f93.jpg

68 Ojoe  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:07:28pm

re: #67 Kragar (Antichrist )

Oh my. Some creature from the very young earth. What fly was that angler using?

69 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:09:15pm

re: #66 Ojoe

One of the worst painters the world has ever seen, and one of the most boorish, too.

70 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:09:54pm

re: #68 Ojoe

Oh my. Some creature from the very young earth. What fly was that angler using?

Hula popper.

71 Ojoe  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:10:57pm

re: #61 Kragar (Antichrist )

God is in hell also. Jeez Louise Jeffress, have some respect.

72 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:11:46pm

And who can forget the inspirational “Indian shitting doves”?

73 Ojoe  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:12:53pm

LinkHula popper, watch out.

74 kirkspencer  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:14:52pm

re: #60 3eff Jeff

I updinged you, but I’m typing this from a Slackware box. There are nutters out there who still use it. There are downsides to Debian and Redhat (although: I love Debian for server installs, Redhat, well, let’s just say RPM is what drove me to Slackware 15 years ago…).

And installing and running gentoo for a couple of years is what finally taught me linux. and computers.

75 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:21:30pm

Megyn Kelly To Rachel Maddow: Don’t Call Scalia A ‘Troll’

I agree, describing Scalia as a pustulent tumor on the ass of the judicial system is far more accurate.

76 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:22:18pm

re: #20 klys

THE DATA IS SKEWED.

Well somebody got skewed.

77 kirkspencer  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:24:23pm

re: #75 Kragar (Antichrist )

Megyn Kelly To Rachel Maddow: Don’t Call Scalia A ‘Troll’

I agree, describing Scalia as a pustulent tumor on the ass of the judicial system is far more accurate.

Megyn thinks the justices vote their consciences. First that assumes they have consciences. Second, they should vote the law, not their conscience.

78 3eff Jeff  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:24:46pm

re: #74 kirkspencer

And installing and running gentoo for a couple of years is what finally taught me linux. and computers.

It’s a good way to do it. It’s how I learned to program, except with SuSE and Slackware, because Gentoo was still a few years in the future when I started with Linux. It turns out: commercial compilers are expensive, particularly for high school students.

79 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:28:43pm

re: #62 b_sharp

This place is so cool.
We have Linux geeks!

My machine doulbleboots Mint Linux and Windows7, thanks to my kid. I’m not a Linux Geek—found it easier to breed and educate one.

80 3eff Jeff  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:31:44pm

re: #79 Decatur Deb

My machine doulbleboots Mint Linux and Windows7, thanks to my kid. I’m not a Linux Geek—found it easier to breed and educate one.

Good enough for me. My dad letting me install Linux on his computer back when I was in High School was one of the most important bits of career development (I’m a professional sysadmin and engineer at a start up these days). Screwing around with that could actually be useful later on.

81 engineer cat  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:33:08pm

re: #68 Ojoe

Oh my. Some creature from the very young earth. What fly was that angler using?

Young Earth Creationist Arrested For Consorting With Underaged Planets

was attempting to get eve to mate with brachiosaurus

82 engineer cat  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:34:22pm

re: #62 b_sharp

This place is so cool.
We have Linux geeks!

i’m working on Sinux

it’s an open source operating system that you install through your nose

83 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:34:31pm

Fischer: Impeach Obama over DOMA; Government Should Campaign Against Homosexuality

But remember, we need to be on guard against creeping Sharia.

84 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:38:24pm

Pretty much hate country music, except for Willie and the Man in Black. Despise my wife’s Christian Contemporary Crap.

So here comes a CW/CC group I heard on a flea market muzak, and it really works:

Youtube Video
85 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:39:51pm

re: #84 Decatur Deb

Pretty much hate country music, except for Willie and the Man in Black. Despise my wife’s Christian Contemporary Crap.

So here comes a CW/CC group I heard on a flea market muzak, and it really works:

[Embedded content]

Here, try this:

Youtube Video
86 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:42:09pm

re: #85 Kragar (Antichrist )

Here, try this:

[Embedded content]

Not the same thing as the Harlem Shake.

Oh yeah—that’s more Newgrass to me. (Love mountain music from E. KY)

(Typed that before listening—confused it with Union Station.)

87 makeitstop  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:45:16pm

re: #84 Decatur Deb

Pretty much hate country music, except for Willie and the Man in Black. Despise my wife’s Christian Contemporary Crap.

So here comes a CW/CC group I heard on a flea market muzak, and it really works:

[Embedded content]

I hear them non-stop on the London radio station I listen to.

Go check out video of them. They headbang like Slayer when they play.

88 Gus  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:45:49pm
89 Ojoe  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:46:31pm

re: #83 Kragar (Antichrist )

1st amendment separation of church and state ought to be applied here; the state issues civil unions to whomever, and that’s it. But the fanatics on all sides want power & won’t let it drop. That’s my take on it anyway.

90 3eff Jeff  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:46:37pm

re: #84 Decatur Deb

They’re actually British (hence makeitstop hearing it on his London radio station). It’s excellent. My wife picked up their 2009 release recently, and I love it.

91 Ojoe  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:48:00pm

LinkThen there’s the immortal Dogs Playing Poker.

92 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:48:03pm

re: #84 Decatur Deb

Pretty much hate country music, except for Willie and the Man in Black.

Shut your mouth.

Youtube Video
93 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:48:33pm

re: #89 Ojoe

1st amendment separation of church and state ought to be applied here; the state issues civil unions to whomever, and that’s it. But the fanatics on all sides want power & won’t let it drop. That’s my take on it anyway.

Gay people who want to be married by the state are not ‘fanatics’, they just want equal rights.

94 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:48:38pm

re: #89 Ojoe

1st amendment separation of church and state ought to be applied here; the state issues civil unions to whomever, and that’s it. But the fanatics on all sides want power & won’t let it drop. That’s my take on it anyway.

As long as marriage has federal benefits for taxes, inheritance, benefits, etc, it absolutely is a federal rights issue.

95 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:48:47pm

re: #88 Gus

It’s cynically amusing, but much of what my Prez’s Executive Branch is doing is called the “Washington Mounument Gambit”. Every time we had Fed cuts, furloughs, and artificial funding crises, the National Parks Service put the Monument at the top of the closure list. Became an in-joke.

96 Ojoe  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:49:23pm

re: #93 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

The civil union ought to specify that.

97 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:49:26pm

re: #86 Decatur Deb

Not the same thing as the Harlem Shake.

Oh yeah—that’s more Newgrass to me. (Love mountain music from E. KY)

(Typed that before listening—confused it with Union Station.)

One more:

Youtube Video
98 Gus  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:49:50pm

re: #92 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Shut your mouth.

[Embedded content]

Love it.

99 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:50:01pm

re: #90 3eff Jeff

They’re actually British (hence makeitstop hearing it on his London radio station). It’s excellent. My wife picked up their 2009 release recently, and I love it.

Been checking their YTubes. They have the same number in a live Red Rocks concert, but it’s much poorer quality than the audio-only.

100 chadu  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:51:48pm

re: #75 Kragar (Antichrist )

Jebus Haploid Christ, the right wing just cannot take any criticism of people on their team, can they?

Bullies, hypocrites, and victims — that’s all they are.

101 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:52:13pm

re: #88 Gus

Well, looks like there will be no air show at the local naval station this year. Not that there’s much to it these days.

102 Ojoe  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:52:23pm

If you can’t stand country you will really not like the Pine Box Boys. (they are sort of rockabilly)

BBL

103 3eff Jeff  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:52:23pm

re: #96 Ojoe

The civil union ought to specify that.

The word “marriage” is what’s in all the laws and company policies. “Civil Unions” are a separate-but-equal canard. There isn’t a way to write a sane law that really grants equal rights without letting them have the word “marriage”. Also, I have plenty of atheist friends who are married. The word marriage is not owned by any church. It is partially a secular thing, and there isn’t a way to separate it at this point.

104 chadu  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:53:24pm

re: #84 Decatur Deb

Check out Christian Kane. More country/rock, in the style of JCM.

Youtube Video
105 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:53:51pm

re: #96 Ojoe

The civil union ought to specify that.

But it doesn’t. There aren’t civil unions with all the same rights as marriage. And if they were, they’d be marriage. Sure, the problem would be solved if the government changed the name of the legal contract to ‘civil union’ (and did a trillion tons of paperwork) but the problem would also be solved by the totally simple extension of marriage rights to same-sex couples.

Can you explain exactly what the problem is with just extending marriage rights to same-sex couples? This is speaking purely in state, legal terms.

106 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:54:27pm

re: #103 3eff Jeff

The word “marriage” is what’s in all the laws and company policies. “Civil Unions” are a separate-but-equal canard. There isn’t a way to write a sane law that really grants equal rights without letting them have the word “marriage”. Also, I have plenty of atheist friends who are married. The word marriage is not owned by any church. It is partially a secular thing, and there isn’t a way to separate it at this point.

Iceweasel posted a full summary of that a couple years ago. The mechanics make expanding “marriage” much more do-able. If the churches don’t like it, no one is making them play.

107 Randall Gross  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:55:49pm

Gosh, does this mean that Breitbart was a freemason?

[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

108 Gus  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:56:36pm

Ricky Gervais on Noah’s Ark

Youtube Video
109 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:57:32pm

Abolish marriage as a legal term, allow anyone to get civil unions and give them legal benefits and protections for doing so, problem solved.

If you want to have a pretty little religious ceremony and call it a marriage, go for it.

How hard is that?
/

110 3eff Jeff  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:57:37pm

re: #105 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Can you explain exactly what the problem is with just extending marriage rights to same-sex couples? This is speaking purely in state, legal terms.

What I’ve learned from following the Prop8 trial is that all the money of the Mormon Church has not been able to buy a viable explanation for that.

111 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:58:58pm

re: #109 Kragar (Antichrist )

Abolish marriage as a legal term, allow anyone to get civil unions and give them legal benefits and protections for doing so, problem solved.

If you want to have a pretty little religious ceremony and call it a marriage, go for it.

How hard is that?
/

Pretty hard. It means hunting down and re-casting hundreds of laws and administrative requirements that hang on the word.

112 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 4:59:24pm

re: #110 3eff Jeff

What I’ve learned from following the Prop8 trial is that all the money of the Mormon Church has not been able to buy a viable explanation for that.

It’s true. Nobody has ever shown any injury, any problem caused to them by the extension of marriage rights except the trivial one that marriage comes with rights that they might benefit from that might have economic value— which isn’t an argument against civil rights.

113 3eff Jeff  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:00:02pm

re: #111 Decatur Deb

Pretty hard. It means hunting down and re-casting hundreds of laws and administrative requirements that hang on the word.

Or angering every married voter whose life has ever been made easier by obscure marriage laws and corporate policies.

114 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:00:23pm

re: #111 Decatur Deb

Pretty hard. It means hunting down and re-casting hundreds of laws and administrative requirements that hang on the word.

So you’re saying its infinitely easier just to allow more people to marry?

Why do you hate America?
/

115 BongCrodny  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:00:33pm

re: #85 Kragar (Antichrist )

Here, try this:

[Embedded content]

I’ve heard two songs by the Alabama Shakes and I already want to see them in concert.

116 Gus  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:00:42pm

Image: Bob-Woodward-Throbbing-2.gif

117 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:01:41pm

re: #115 BongCrodny

I’ve heard two songs by the Alabama Shakes and I already want to see them in concert.

Better make sure with a third:

Youtube Video
118 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:02:22pm

re: #115 BongCrodny

I’ve heard two songs by the Alabama Shakes and I already want to see them in concert.

They’re good, but I bet they don’t spend much time here in Alabama.

[Link: www.alabamashakes.com…]

119 Gus  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:02:46pm
120 Gus  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:03:57pm
Dear Friends and Contributors,

Masthead editors at The Times informed me around noon today that they plan to discontinue the Green blog and devote resources elsewhere.

Sandy Keenan and I are deeply grateful to you for your engrossing contributions and support over the last three years. Our deepest thanks to all of you. I will be following up with individual e-mails as best I can; I apologize for the abruptness here.

On Monday, I will begin a new editing assignment on the Times culture desk and will be reachable at the same e-mail address.

Fond regards,
Nancy Kenney

121 Gus  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:05:07pm
122 Gus  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:07:49pm

#YouMightBeADictator

Morons.

123 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:08:19pm
124 Varek Raith  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:09:57pm

re: #122 Gus

#YouMightBeADictator

Morons.

Fucking morons to be precise.

125 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:11:19pm

Huh, EA, Microsoft, and Zynga all signed onto abolishing the DOMA.

Guess even evil empires have standards.

126 Gus  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:14:34pm

re: #123 Charles Johnson

Something like that. On a bus no less. Got me to thinking about the possibility of somebody setting off a bomb. Ick. She’s fucking pushing the limits on incitement.

127 Dr. Matt  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:16:15pm

I’m surprised Faux News didn’t have a day long memorial to Breitbart.

128 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:16:45pm

re: #122 Gus

#YouMightBeADictator

Morons.

If you win 2 open elections.

Oh wait.

129 ProBosniaLiberal  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:17:08pm

re: #126 Gus

You get my Tweet?

Don’t know how I missed that Sandmonkey was a nut for so long.

130 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:17:57pm

Yup, every US right is gone. True fact.

131 Gus  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:19:25pm

re: #129 ProBosniaLiberal

You get my Tweet?

Don’t know how I missed that Sandmonkey was a nut for so long.

Responded. Yeah, he goes back and forth. Today was blame Obama day for him since Kerry is in Cairo.

132 ProBosniaLiberal  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:20:19pm

re: #130 Kragar (Antichrist )

Strangely, they are the same ones who want too strip the rights from those who aren’t White, Male, Heterosexual, Conservative Christians.

Projection, I see it.

Hell, he likely would agree with the Muslim Brotherhood if they were the Christian Brotherhood instead.

133 chadu  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:20:33pm

re: #104 chadu

Check out Christian Kane. More country/rock, in the style of JCM.

I made a page:

[Link: littlegreenfootballs.com…]

134 Gus  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:20:45pm
135 ProBosniaLiberal  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:24:57pm

re: #131 Gus

Us freezing out Cuba really hasn’t worked, and the only reason Iran is on the brink is because of International Sanctions.

Still feel a bit proud of myself for contacting my congressmen. (R-Lamborn, D-Bennet, and D-Udall) I feel that someone should speak up for the Bengalis being intimidated and attacked by the Jamaat-i-Islami nuts.

I personally feel that if we find anyone here who has provided help to that group during their violence in the past month (an analog to David Headley), they need to be thrown in jail.

136 kirkspencer  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:27:09pm

re: #78 3eff Jeff

It’s a good way to do it. It’s how I learned to program, except with SuSE and Slackware, because Gentoo was still a few years in the future when I started with Linux. It turns out: commercial compilers are expensive, particularly for high school students.

Sorry, I forgot the snark. I learned computers back in the late 1970s/early 1980s. I was even getting paid for working with computers when I first played with linux in various flavors.

Even so, GENTOO is the flavor that actually brought a bunch of “aha” moments into play. Things I knew already that suddenly clicked together in my mind. I don’t recommend it for casual use, and I don’t think it’s the best flavor for most purposes. But because of my experience it’s the one I use for people wanting to _learn_ linux — because even though it’ll make assumptions for you, it tells you what assumptions it’s making and what some of the alternatives might be.

137 Gus  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:27:42pm

re: #135 ProBosniaLiberal

Us freezing out Cuba really hasn’t worked, and the only reason Iran is on the brink is because of International Sanctions.

Still feel a bit proud of myself for contacting my congressmen. (R-Lamborn, D-Bennet, and D-Udall) I feel that someone should speak up for the Bengalis being intimidated and attacked by the Jamaat-i-Islami nuts.

I personally feel that if we find anyone here who has provided help to that group during their violence in the past month (an analog to David Headley), they need to be thrown in jail.

Yep. Basically he wants the US to treat Egypt much like Iran. Maybe not as harsh. That would never work and could possibly make things worse. You know, they’re the ones that voted in the MB. They even voted to ratify the constitution which the secular groups, women and progressives of Egypt were again.

138 Gus  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:28:25pm
139 engineer cat  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:29:51pm

yet you strip your ‘subjects’ of ALL their Rights

you have the right to remain silent

140 prairiefire  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:30:55pm

Happy Friday, lizards!

141 simoom  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:33:02pm

It’s really quite pathetic that Politico still feels comfortable describing those two RW-operatives through their Democratic Party bona fides, which is obviously spectacularly misleading to their readership:

“Douglas E. Schoen is a former pollster for Bill Clinton and Patrick H. Caddell is a former pollster for President Jimmy Carter.”

142 ProBosniaLiberal  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:35:34pm

re: #137 Gus

The image I am getting out of Egypt and Tunisia is this.

The actions of the MB in the past year or so has made them unpopular. But the Progressives and others were repressed as much, if not more than, these nuts. So, they are very disorganized, more so than the MB. And it’s not like the MB has improved either economy. Hell, in Egypt, it is worse than under Mubarak, as the MB tends to extremely Free-Market.

Libya is doing better economically than either of them. And they are dealing with what we dealt with 220+ years ago. A weak, post-revolutionary government.

Then again Libya got a front-row seat to the duplicity of the Muslim Brotherhood. Probably why they are having a harder time getting a foothold than in either Egypt or Tunisia.

143 Political Atheist  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:36:20pm

re: #140 prairiefire

Happy Friday, lizards!

Same to you. Plus it’s the cocktail hour.

144 Gus  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:37:06pm
145 ProBosniaLiberal  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:37:18pm

re: #142 ProBosniaLiberal

Hoo boy, did Libya get a front row seat to deceit of the MB. They will bear the scars of it for a long, long time.

146 BongCrodny  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:38:27pm

re: #117 Kragar (Antichrist )

Better make sure with a third:

[Embedded content]

No, that’s two. :-)

147 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:39:50pm

or your State motto.

Damn you, Wisconsin.

148 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:40:46pm

re: #147 Kragar (Antichrist )

or your State motto.

Damn you, Wisconsin.

That is a much better Wisconsin state motto.

149 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:46:18pm

re: #144 Gus

Curiously, no blip in the stock market this week as it became clear there was no deal. I bet there won’t be a credit downgrade again. Institutional investors and credit agencies figured this deal was signed, sealed and delivered long ago. Smart people figured this out. It’s a shame nobody in the press figured this out and bothered to tell us about it.

150 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:46:27pm

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

Other acceptable mottoes:

Craziest judiciary in the Union

A Dysfunctional Legislature Like No Other

151 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:48:38pm

re: #149 Killgore Trout

Curiously, no blip in the stock market this week as it became clear there was no deal. I bet there won’t be a credit downgrade again. Institutional investors and credit agencies figured this deal was signed, sealed and delivered long ago. Smart people figured this out. It’s a shame nobody in the press figured this out and bothered to tell us about it.

There are plenty of people in the press who correctly predicted the GOP would let the sequester happen by refusing to raise revenue, actually. How have you managed to miss them all?

152 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:48:44pm

WTF, I take a nap and someone I’ve never heard of shows up. ???

153 engineer cat  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:54:51pm

re: #147 Kragar (Antichrist )

or your State motto.

Damn you, Wisconsin.

is that like the new york city state motto, “it was some asshole from jersey”

154 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:56:56pm

re: #151 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Image: what-if-i-told-you-all-politicians-lie_1_.jpg

155 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 5:59:21pm

re: #154 Killgore Trout

Wow, you just blew my mind, man. I can’t believe I’ve been such a Sheeple. Of course Obama and Antony Scalia are basically the same person. I feel like such a fool.

But seriously, there have been a ton of people who correctly called that the deal wouldn’t happen. It’s been, I’d say, the mainstream of the reporting.

How did you miss that?

156 jamesfirecat  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 7:28:31pm

re: #89 Ojoe

1st amendment separation of church and state ought to be applied here; the state issues civil unions to whomever, and that’s it. But the fanatics on all sides want power & won’t let it drop. That’s my take on it anyway.

Yes those fanatical gay right advocates who zealously demand that homosexuals have a right to see each other in the hospital if they fall ill or are in an accident, the horror!

157 stabby  Fri, Mar 1, 2013 11:13:16pm

The original looks like Steve Carell to me, down to the goofy, self satisfied smile.

158 William of Orange  Sat, Mar 2, 2013 6:16:51am

Who knew?

Breitbart did have a human side after all.

159 kwb2003  Sat, Mar 2, 2013 8:27:40am

So Breibart’s followers are starting at year one like the Khmer Rouge?

160 subterraneanhomesickalien  Sat, Mar 2, 2013 10:15:21pm

re: #89 Ojoe

That’s your position because you are a duplicitous idiot.

Anything about the New Wig party to drop? You know that thing you found that would make it easier for you to hold all your old Supply Side bullshit dogma, because it has the name Republican attached to it, because you know that brand has taken a hit over the last four or five years? And who wants all that extra baggage attached to their ankles when the need to still hold onto discredited horse shit economic theory needs to be passed on to a new generation?

So yeah your just an “independent” that knows how to speak truth to power to “both sides” and you know they “both do it” after all.

You’re a pussy.


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