Nightmarishly Beautiful Animated Film: Jo Jo in the Stars

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The BAFTA winning debut film from AKA Director Marc Craste - JO JO IN THE STARS is a 12 minute story of love, self-sacrifice, and jealousy played out against a black and white world that is both nightmarish and hauntingly beautiful.

Director Marc Craste
Producer Sue Goffe
Produced by Studio AKA

AWARDS
BAFTA 2004 Winner, Best Short Animated Film
Cartoon D’or 2005 Winner of Cartoon D’Or 2005
Clermont Ferrand 2004 2004 Best Short Animated film
Sicaf 2004 2004 Short Film Grand Prize
Bradford Animation Festival 2004 Grand Prix
Brief Encounters - Bristol 2004 Best of British
Aspen Shortsfest 2004 Special Jury Prize
IFCT 2007 Award for Most Innovative Animation

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560 comments
1 Shvaughn  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 5:49:42pm

Developing news, Mesa shooting link.

2 Charles Johnson  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 5:56:49pm

re: #1 Shvaughn

[Link: www.azfamily.com…]

Here’s where it’s happening at Google Maps: [Link: maps.google.com…]

3 Charles Johnson  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 5:59:17pm

It’s looking like the Mesa shooting incident may be a false alarm.

4 engineer cat  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:08:47pm

beautiful!

the same classic german expressionism style that influenced citizen kane…

5 dragonath  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:09:53pm

One of the things that always struck me about the Phoenix metro area is how half the houses seem to have pools…

6 thedopefishlives  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:13:17pm

Evening Lizardim.

7 thedopefishlives  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:14:34pm

re: #5 dragonath

One of the things that always struck me about the Phoenix metro area is how half the houses seem to have pools…

Flying into Las Vegas over the Nevada desert was one of the most striking experiences I’ve ever had from the air. It’s just desert, desert, desert, GOLF COURSE. And the suburbs are dotted with brilliant blue pools and lush green lawns, interspersed among desert scrub.

8 lawhawk  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:15:29pm

re: #5 dragonath

A city that exists largely in a desert environment that lacks sufficient water and relies on a very limited source. What could possibly go wrong.

Or, if you’re China - an entire country that has turned its limited water supplies into a chemical bath.

9 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:17:51pm

wingnuts are so dumb.

10 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:23:32pm

Yeah paying Wal-Mart employees 30 dollars a hour would do that. Too bad, I don’t think anyone has advocated that. The fact of the matter is we’re technically paying workers less than what they made in the past. Incremental increases to the minimum wage are good for workers and the economy.

11 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:25:26pm

re: #8 lawhawk

A city that exists largely in a desert environment that lacks sufficient water and relies on a very limited source. What could possibly go wrong.

Or, if you’re China - an entire country that has turned its limited water supplies into a chemical bath.

I think China’s on its way to some trouble honestly. That’s part of the reason why I found Romney’s China boogeyman talk silly in the election.

12 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:26:29pm

Seeing that Pelosi is advocating raising the MW 10. There’s nothing unreasonable about that.

13 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:27:16pm

re: #10 FriendsofHummus

Yeah paying Wal-Mart employees 30 dollars a hour would do that. Too bad, I don’t think anyone has advocated that. The fact of the matter is we’re technically paying workers less than what they made in the past. Incremental increases to the minimum wage are good for workers and the economy.

It’s a wingnut talking point. “Why not raise minimum wage to $30 an hour! Why not $100 an hour!” So then ask “Why not pay workers rice & gruel?”

14 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:28:23pm

re: #13 Vicious Babushka

It’s a wingnut talking point. “Why not raise minimum wage to $30 an hour! Why not $100 an hour!” So then ask “Why not pay workers rice & gruel?”

Yeah true that. It’s stupid. Just because increasing the minimum wage to a really high number like 30 or 100 is economically unfeasible doesn’t mean it’s unfeasible to propose an increase. Idiots don’t seem to understand how a consumer economy actually works.

15 dragonath  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:29:02pm

re: #8 lawhawk

I’ve read how the reservoir behind the Three Gorges dam has become a settling ground for toxic wastes. The dam probably wiped out what was left of the Yangtze River Dolphin population, too.

The only positive environmental news I can think of right now is that China has invested in reforestation.

16 thedopefishlives  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:30:31pm

re: #13 Vicious Babushka

It’s a wingnut talking point. “Why not raise minimum wage to $30 an hour! Why not $100 an hour!” So then ask “Why not pay workers rice & gruel?”

Wingnuts are all about protecting the interests of the rich and powerful at the expense of the poor and needy. I’d imagine that someone will take you up on that at some point.

17 William Barnett-Lewis  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:31:54pm

re: #15 dragonath

The only positive environmental news I can think of right now is that China has invested in reforestation.

Only because they need it for their paper industry which is devastating to their water supply…

18 EPR-radar  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:32:00pm

re: #14 FriendsofHummus

Yeah true that. It’s stupid. Just because increasing the minimum wage to a really high number like 30 or 100 is economically unfeasible doesn’t mean it’s unfeasible to propose an increase. Idiots don’t seem to understand how a consumer economy actually works.

It is deliberate. The number is made unrealistically high, then the resulting straw man is beaten severely.

Meanwhile the sense and feasibility of the original proposal is forgotten.

However, this business of fighting over the minimum wage does make it very clear that some of the wealthy overlords really take delight in grinding the working poor into dust.

19 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:35:00pm

re: #18 EPR-radar

It is deliberate. The number is made unrealistically high, then the resulting straw man is beaten severely.

Meanwhile the sense and feasibility of the original proposal is forgotten.

However, this business of fighting over the minimum wage does make it very clear that some of the wealthy overlords really take delight in grinding the working poor into dust.

Yeah that much is clear. It’s stupid. Anyhow, did some reading, the bill in question would actually make minimum wage close to what it would have been if we had continued at the 1968 rates. Hardly radical at all. I really get amused seeing people act like a lack of a minimum wage would somehow be good for workers. You know that there’s some dickhead employers who would pay his employees dirt cheap. There needs to be some kind of safety net.

20 thedopefishlives  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:35:32pm

re: #18 EPR-radar

It is deliberate. The number is made unrealistically high, then the resulting straw man is beaten severely.

Meanwhile the sense and feasibility of the original proposal is forgotten.

However, this business of fighting over the minimum wage does make it very clear that some of the wealthy overlords really take delight in grinding the working poor into dust.

“Working poor” is an oxymoron! They just need to work harder and they can make it to the top! Never mind that most of us rich people inherit our money and maintain it through stock investments! DERP!

21 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:35:35pm

Dumb wingnut actually believes 2004 election map is “FBI gun crime” map.

22 engineer cat  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:35:41pm

Why not raise minimum wage to

because the next thing you know they’ll be marrying their dogs?

23 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:38:32pm

I closed the Tweetdeck. Had enough Derp for the day.

24 EPR-radar  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:38:40pm

re: #19 FriendsofHummus

Yeah that much is clear. It’s stupid. Anyhow, did some reading, the bill in question would actually make minimum wage close to what it would have been if we had continued at the 1968 rates. Hardly radical at all. I really get amused seeing people act like a lack of a minimum wage would somehow be good for workers. You know that there’s some dickhead employers who would pay his employees dirt cheap. There needs to be some kind of safety net.

A minimum wage is kind of basic. Much more needs to be done, from even a modestly left of center POV. My wish list includes breaking up the big banks, reduced job outsourcing and curbs on executive compensation.

25 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:38:50pm

How do you encourage people to look for work if their employers are just going to be legally allowed to pay them shitty wages? You know what’s a way to increase government dependency. Yeah……… Of course, they would prefer to get rid of that too.

26 engineer cat  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:39:06pm

re: #21 Vicious Babushka

Dumb wingnut actually believes 2004 election map is “FBI gun crime” map.

if it’s an “fbi gun crime map”, let em locate it on the actual fbi website

27 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:40:38pm

re: #25 FriendsofHummus

How do you encourage people to look for work if their employers are just going to be legally allowed to pay them shitty wages? You know what’s a way to increase government dependency. Yeah……… Of course, they would prefer to get rid of that too.

Walmart can get away with paying their employees shitty wages because government provides food stamps & Medicaid.

28 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:41:18pm

re: #24 EPR-radar

A minimum wage is kind of basic. Much more needs to be done, from even a modestly left of center POV. My wish list includes breaking up the big banks, reduced job outsourcing and curbs on executive compensation.

Yep especially right with you on executive pay. It’s beyond absurd to me to hear an executive complaining that legislation like Obamacare makes it hard for him to insure his employees and then we read about him giving himself a nice fat bonus. My big problem with outsourcing really isn’t outsourcing itself. I think outsourcing is going to happen but I think too often companies abandon regions simply because they cannot handle unionization and the fact that American workers demand more. I think that’s real shitty. Totally agreed on the banks too. We don’t need to go protectionist but this allowing businesses to do whatever the hell they want needs to be brought into check too.

29 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:41:43pm

re: #26 engineer cat

if it’s an “fbi gun crime map”, let em locate it on the actual fbi website

Does not exist. Some wingnut Photoshopped the 2004 election map and re-labeled it “FBI GUN CRIME STATE” and they keep reTweeting it, just like those stupid Fake Quotes.

30 dragonath  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:41:50pm

re: #26 engineer cat

if it’s an “fbi gun crime map”, let em locate it on the actual fbi website

Hey, look! J. Edgar Hoover in drag!

31 EPR-radar  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:42:10pm

re: #25 FriendsofHummus

How do you encourage people to look for work if their employers are just going to be legally allowed to pay them shitty wages? You know what’s a way to increase government dependency. Yeah……… Of course, they would prefer to get rid of that too.

This isn’t rocket science. The masters of the universe face a basic choice between two options:

1) The private sector pays living wages.

2) The private sector pays sub-living wages, and the masters of the universe get taxed to fund income redistribution to make up the difference.

Seems to me the private sector approach of #1 is better.

32 Kragar (Antichrist )  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:44:59pm

The same folks screaming the Chinese are going to take us over were the same ones who said the Japanese were going to take us over back in the 80s.

33 EPR-radar  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:46:42pm

re: #32 Kragar (Antichrist )

The same folks screaming the Chinese are going to take us over were the same ones who said the Japanese were going to take us over back in the 80s.

I remember a fellow grad student (who really should have known better) babbling about a Japanese takeover of the US back then.

The US presently faces no real external threat. If it is to decline and fall, it will be because of internal events and processes.

34 engineer cat  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:50:10pm

re: #29 Vicious Babushka

Does not exist. Some wingnut Photoshopped the 2004 election map and re-labeled it “FBI GUN CRIME STATE” and they keep reTweeting it, just like those stupid Fake Quotes.

here is one ‘us-gun-crime map’ that seems to show something different

35 thedopefishlives  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:52:32pm

re: #32 Kragar (Antichrist )

The same folks screaming the Chinese are going to take us over were the same ones who said the Japanese were going to take us over back in the 80s.

It’s a scare tactic to push pure market capitalism as the cure for our economic woes. No one is going to “take us over”; the United States, no matter the current relative strength of our economy, is still a powerhouse in the world market because of our 300 million consumers and the immense depth of our production capacity.

36 Charles Johnson  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:52:43pm

Great Rachel Maddow piece tonight on the history of the tobacco industry’s disinformation campaigns.

The same people and the same groups are now key figures in climate change denial disinformation campaigns.

37 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:53:38pm

re: #34 engineer cat

here is one ‘us-gun-crime map’ that seems to show something different

The wingnut couldn’t understand why there isn’t a county-by-county breakdown even though I tried to explain that isn’t possible because when comparing per/100,000 population. Math is hard.

38 engineer cat  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:54:24pm

… and here is actual raw fbi data on gun crime per state 2011

39 Gus  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:54:50pm
40 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:55:11pm

re: #38 engineer cat

… and here is actual raw fbi data on gun crime per state 2011

FBI are a bunch of liburls.//

41 engineer cat  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:55:32pm

re: #37 Vicious Babushka

The wingnut couldn’t understand why there isn’t a county-by-county breakdown even though I tried to explain that isn’t possible because when comparing per/100,000 population. Math is hard.

i’m sure where he lives meth is easier to find than math

42 EPR-radar  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:56:19pm

re: #35 thedopefishlives

It’s a scare tactic to push pure market capitalism as the cure for our economic woes. No one is going to “take us over”; the United States, no matter the current relative strength of our economy, is still a powerhouse in the world market because of our 300 million consumers and the immense depth of our production capacity.

Yes, the subtext to that kind of scare mongering is usually something like ‘people in the US have to work harder/smarter than the foreign competition’.

To hell with that. I do not accept the legitimacy of international wage arbitrage.

43 thedopefishlives  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:58:10pm

re: #37 Vicious Babushka

Math is hard.

I get that not everyone has a head for numbers - the Mrs. Fish is notorious for asking my help with anything more complicated than simple multiplication - but seriously, if you can’t understand the math, admit it up front. Don’t try to BS your way through it.

44 Gus  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:58:20pm

State withdraw the award for Samira Ibrahim.

45 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:58:20pm

re: #38 engineer cat

… and here is actual raw fbi data on gun crime per state 2011

WHY CAN’T WE SEE COUNTY BY COUNTY!!!! LIBRULZ WANT TO HIDE TEH FACT THEIR IS LESS GUN CRIME WEAR FARMERS HAS AR-15 ON THERE 10,000 ACRE SPREDZ!11!!!

46 Gus  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:58:35pm
47 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 6:59:47pm

re: #43 thedopefishlives

I get that not everyone has a head for numbers - the Mrs. Fish is notorious for asking my help with anything more complicated than simple multiplication - but seriously, if you can’t understand the math, admit it up front. Don’t try to BS your way through it.

Maybe I am harder on math-challenged people because I work with charts & statistics all day long so I get very impatient when people just don’t “get” something that to me is so freaking obvious.

48 EPR-radar  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:01:01pm

re: #46 Gus

I second the call in this news article for some digging into how this person was vetted for this proposed award. It would have been a PR disaster for this to have gone through.

50 Gus  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:07:40pm

re: #48 EPR-radar

I second the call in this news article for some digging into how this person was vetted for this proposed award. It would have been a PR disaster for this to have gone through.

OK. I said withdrew. Apparently they’re deferring it or delaying it. Probably looking into it. Government will be government and all that.

51 Gus  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:08:51pm

So what’s the deal with United Blue and Politicol? I’m not on any of those lists on Twitter.

53 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:09:29pm

re: #51 Gus

So what’s the deal with United Blue and Politicol? I’m not on any of those lists on Twitter.

#UniteBlue is the brain bleach for #TGDN

54 EPR-radar  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:09:41pm

re: #50 Gus

OK. I said withdrew. Apparently they’re deferring it or delaying it. Probably looking into it. Government will be government and all that.

If those tweets hold up as authentic, there is no way any award from State will go through.

55 simoom  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:09:42pm

re: #50 Gus

OK. I said withdrew. Apparently they’re deferring it or delaying it. Probably looking into it. Government will be government and all that.

She had initially claimed her account was hacked. If she’s now changed her tune the “deffered pending investigation” will morph into “withdrawn.”

56 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:11:11pm

re: #55 simoom

She had initially claimed her account was hacked. If she’s now changed her tune the “deffered pending investigation” will morph into “withdrawn.”

She was really excited when that bus full of Israeli tourists blew up in Bulgaria.

57 Gus  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:11:27pm

re: #53 Vicious Babushka

#UniteBlue is the brain bleach for #TGDN

Well, Politicol seems to be on a warpath against them. I’m just watching for the most part. I do know that Politicol is an anti-vaxxer.

58 Kragar (Antichrist )  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:11:34pm

re: #52 Vicious Babushka

2012 election map by population density from pale pink to deep blue

I like this one. I think it has a lot more impact:

Image: usa-population-map-1024x735.png

59 Gus  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:12:03pm

re: #56 Vicious Babushka

She was really excited when that bus full of Israeli tourists blew up in Bulgaria.

Yeah, that’s pretty fucked up.

60 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:12:23pm

re: #58 Kragar (Antichrist )

I like this one. I think it has a lot more impact:

Image: usa-population-map-1024x735.png

Well, that gets the point across.

61 Gus  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:12:48pm

She could be anti-Zionist but cheer the death of those people? That’s creepy to say the least.

62 EPR-radar  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:14:00pm

re: #61 Gus

She could be anti-Zionist but cheer the death of those people? That’s creepy to say the least.

Not to mention her celebration of a 9/11 anniversary.

63 Gus  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:14:48pm

re: #62 EPR-radar

Not to mention her celebration of a 9/11 anniversary.

All the other stuff too.

64 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:15:45pm

re: #59 Gus

Yeah, that’s pretty fucked up.

I kind of dismissed it last night because of all the adoration for Rand “Let’s Stop Welfare to Israel” Paul.

65 Gus  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:15:51pm

From this morning. Should have read “if someone’s account is hacked…” Anywho.

66 Gus  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:16:25pm

re: #64 Vicious Babushka

I kind of dismissed it last night because of all the adoration for Rand “Let’s Stop Welfare to Israel” Paul.

Mind boggling.

67 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:16:36pm

re: #65 Gus

From this morning. Should have read “if someone’s account is hacked…” Anywho.

Yeah or clarify that my account was hacked.

68 Gus  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:17:37pm

re: #67 FriendsofHummus

Yeah or clarify that my account was hacked.

There would have been at least that. “Oh shit. My account was hacked. I won’t delete them [derp] but they weren’t by me.” :O

69 Gus  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:18:19pm

Oh yeah. It appears some guy from the KKK hacked my account. Think I’ll leave those Tweets up. //

70 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:19:00pm

re: #68 Gus

There would have been at least that. “Oh shit. My account was hacked. I won’t delete them [derp] but they weren’t by me.” :O

Right. Total agreement.

71 Charles Johnson  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:19:05pm

re: #69 Gus

Oh yeah. It appears some guy from the KKK hacked my account. Think I’ll leave those Tweets up. //

No rush.

72 Kragar (Antichrist )  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:19:28pm

Mice with human brain cells have improved memory, researchers find

Mice with human cells grafted into their brains outperform their normal counterparts on tests of learning and memory, according to new research. The findings, published today in the journal Cell Stem Cell, suggest that evolution of the human brain involved a major upgrade to long-neglected cells called astrocytes, and could provide a better way of testing potential treatments for neurological and psychiatric diseases.

Traditionally, our remarkable mental abilities were thought to come down to the massive expansion of the brain relative to body size during the course of evolution. We now know that size isn’t everything, however, and some researchers have shifted their focus away from the brain’s overall size and shape to study its microscopic structure instead, the idea being that human brain evolution involved specializations at the cellular level.

73 Gus  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:20:20pm

re: #72 Kragar (Antichrist )

Mice with human brain cells have improved memory, researchers find

Uh oh. Christine O’Donnell was RIGHT!

74 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:21:04pm

Amy Goodman: America is shamed that only Rand Paul is talking about drone executions
Silly moonbats

75 goddamnedfrank  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:23:21pm

re: #37 Vicious Babushka

The wingnut couldn’t understand why there isn’t a county-by-county breakdown even though I tried to explain that isn’t possible because when comparing per/100,000 population. Math is hard.

Wait, it isn’t possible or it isn’t necessarily meaningful? You don’t need 100K people in a county to derive a per 100K rate, so it is in fact possible. You can make several arguments as to why the numbers you get from such a breakdown have issues of significance related to individual sample size and in specific cases confusion over where a murder took place, but there’s no intrinsic reason that such a breakdown would be impossible to make.

76 simoom  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:26:05pm

re: #56 Vicious Babushka

Here’s a couple of her latest tweets, translated from Arabic w/ Google Chrome:

Image: SamiraTwitter_2013-03-07_22-19-37.png

She goes right from claiming to be hacked, to now ranting about some sort of “Zionist” conspiracy. The state dept shouldn’t just rescind their offer, they should tell her to F-off.

77 Kragar (Antichrist )  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:26:44pm

re: #73 Gus

Uh oh. Christine O’Donnell was RIGHT!

I’ll wait for the National Institute of Mental Health to release their findings.

78 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:27:37pm

re: #75 goddamnedfrank

Wait, it isn’t possible or it isn’t necessarily meaningful? You don’t need 100K people in a county to derive a per 100K rate, so it is in fact possible. You can make several arguments as to why the numbers you get from such a breakdown have issues of significance related to individual sample size and specific cases confusion over where a murder took place, but there’s no intrinsic reason that such a breakdown would be impossible to make.

The wingnuts have already decided in advance that they want a “gun crime map” that looks just like this so they can then insist there is some correlation to “counties that voted democratic” other than, um, MOAR PEOPLE.

79 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:28:03pm

re: #76 simoom

Here’s a couple of her latest tweets, translated from Arabic w/ Google Chrome:

Image: SamiraTwitter_2013-03-07_22-19-37.png

She goes right from claiming to be hacked, to now ranting about some sort of “Zionist” conspiracy. The state dept shouldn’t just rescind their offer, they should tell her to F-off.

DERP.

80 aagcobb  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:28:17pm

re: #77 Kragar (Antichrist )

I’ll wait for the National Institute of Mental Health to release their findings.

There will be no release, that’s a secret!

81 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:28:28pm

See u at the bottom of the thread, tomorrow morning. Nighty nite!

82 Kragar (Antichrist )  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:28:31pm

Nobody tell Bryan about the pro-slavery CPAC panel.

83 EPR-radar  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:29:54pm

re: #82 Kragar (Antichrist )

RW fundamentalist nutjob preacher reveals his total ignorance of the bible.

What a surprise. //

84 aagcobb  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:30:23pm

This is unbelieveably cruel negligence. How the hell could this happen?

85 Gus  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:30:28pm

re: #74 Killgore Trout

Amy Goodman: America is shamed that only Rand Paul is talking about drone executions
Silly moonbats

I’m not shamed. Joining Al-Qaeda is a very risky proposition to say the least. Additionally, their members are already willing to sacrifice their lives and look forward to being martyred. al-Aulaqi died doing what he loved. :D So, sarcasm aside. We’ve only done it twice and while I supported getting Anwar I wasn’t too thrilled about his son. However, Anwar was the one that brought his children into that environment. The deal is this. If you’re an American and join Al-Qaeda you will become a target. I’m sure it all depends on rank so they won’t actually spend time seeking some level non-command Al-Qaeda fighter.

86 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:32:09pm

re: #82 Kragar (Antichrist )

Nobody tell Bryan about the pro-slavery CPAC panel.

DERP. So why does the Bible have all this stuff about HOW TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR SLAVE instead of just saying “Slavery is bad, mmkay.”

In fact slavery was a punishment for theft, since the ancient Israelites had no prisons. Someone who was convicted of theft, was sold as a slave by the court until had worked off the amount of the theft, plus a fine, or for seven years whichever came first.

87 Gus  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:32:27pm
88 EPR-radar  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:33:27pm

re: #85 Gus

I’m not shamed. Joining Al-Qaeda is a very risky proposition to say the least. Additionally, their members are already willing to sacrifice their lives and look forward to being martyred. al-Aulaqi died doing what he loved. :D So, sarcasm aside. We’ve only done it twice and while I supported getting Anwar I wasn’t too thrilled about his son. However, Anwar was the one that brought his children into that environment. The deal is this. If you’re an American and join Al-Qaeda you will become a target. I’m sure it all depends on rank so they won’t actually spend time seeking some level non-command Al-Qaeda fighter.

Goodman’s article was not just about US citizens. She was objecting to several thousand deaths by US drone, when we apparently can’t even identify 80% or so of the dead.

I’m not about to agree with her in toto without more research, but this may not be complete moonbattery.

89 Gus  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:35:35pm

re: #88 EPR-radar

Goodman’s article was not just about US citizens. She was objecting to several thousand deaths by US drone, when we apparently can’t even identify 80% or so of the dead.

I’m not about to agree with her in toto without more research, but this may not be complete moonbattery.

Drones are tactics. War is part of the larger strategy. Drones gets peoples’ attention. It could be a Predator CUAV, F-15, F-16, F-18, A-10, B-1, or B-2. Doesn’t make much difference. It’s not the “drones” it’s the war.

90 aagcobb  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:37:52pm

re: #88 EPR-radar

Goodman’s article was not just about US citizens. She was objecting to several thousand deaths by US drone, when we apparently can’t even identify 80% or so of the dead.

I’m not about to agree with her in toto without more research, but this may not be complete moonbattery.

The reality is that, compared to other forms of warfare, drones reduce civilian casualties.

91 Varek Raith  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:38:52pm

re: #89 Gus

Drones are tactics. War is part of the larger strategy. Drones gets peoples’ attention. It could be a Predator CUAC, F-15, F-16, F-18, A-10, B-1, or B-2. Doesn’t make much difference. It’s not the “drones” it’s the war.

Except we wouldn’t be flying those into Pakistani airspace for fear of losing pilots.

92 aagcobb  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:39:21pm

re: #87 Gus

Someone should go to jail for this. If they did it to a dog, they’d be convicted of animal cruelty.

93 aagcobb  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:39:52pm

re: #91 Varek Raith

Except we wouldn’t be flying those into Pakistani airspace for fear of losing pilots.

We flew them into Cambodia.

94 EPR-radar  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:40:14pm

re: #89 Gus

re: #90 aagcobb

Argh. I fell into the drone trap again. Goodman’s point about thousands dead with no clue who they are does not depend at all on drone vs. non-drone.

95 Varek Raith  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:40:58pm

re: #93 aagcobb

We flew them into Cambodia.

And how many have we flown over Pakistan?

96 simoom  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:41:07pm

Rand Paul: ‘Seriously’ weighing 2016 bid

Paul himself seemed to appreciate that this was an important moment for himself, confidently acknowledging to POLITICO in an interview that he was “seriously” considering running for president in 2016.

“I think our party needs something new, fresh and different,” he said. “What we’ve been running — nothing against the candidates necessarily — but we have a good, solid niche in all the solidly red states throughout the middle of the country.”

But he suggested previous Republican candidates have had limited appeal to voters beyond the Republican base.

“We have to figure out how to appeal to the West Coast, New England [and] around the Great Lakes area. We need to figure out how to appeal to the blue-collar voters that voted — that were Democrats that voted for Reagan and I think are drifting back because they see us as the party of the wealthy. … I do want to be part of making the Republican Party again more of a national party, less than a regional party, which I think we’re in danger of becoming.”

Yeah, good luck w/ that, particularly considering your obsession with shoe-horning “fetal-personhood” amendments into every random piece of legislation.

97 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:42:26pm

re: #86 Vicious Babushka

DERP. So why does the Bible have all this stuff about HOW TO TAKE CARE OF YOUR SLAVE instead of just saying “Slavery is bad, mmkay.”

In fact slavery was a punishment for theft, since the ancient Israelites had no prisons. Someone who was convicted of theft, was sold as a slave by the court until had worked off the amount of the theft, plus a fine, or for seven years whichever came first.

That just applies to fellow Hebrews. Foreigners could be made slaves for life (Lev. 25:44-46).

98 Gus  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:42:31pm

re: #91 Varek Raith

Except we wouldn’t be flying those into Pakistani airspace for fear of losing pilots.

Well. We had a secret bombing campaign of Cambodia with B-52s. Does it make it easier? Sure. I think more Shia are being killed in Pakistan due to sectarian violence.

99 EPR-radar  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:43:11pm

re: #96 simoom

As long as Rand Paul doesn’t latch onto bank reform as an issue, he should be a mostly harmless bit of entertainment as a presidential candidate.

100 aagcobb  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:43:50pm

re: #95 Varek Raith

And how many have we flown over Pakistan?

We’ve got drones now. But if we didn’t, we can’t just assume we wouldn’t bomb Pakistan.

101 aagcobb  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:47:02pm

re: #99 EPR-radar

As long as Rand Paul doesn’t latch onto bank reform as an issue, he should be a mostly harmless bit of entertainment as a presidential candidate.

I wonder why people can’t figure out that the utter irrelevance of the Libertarian Party is a pretty good indicator as to how popular libertarianism really is.

102 Interesting Times  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:49:08pm

re: #99 EPR-radar

As long as Rand Paul doesn’t latch onto bank reform as an issue, he should be a mostly harmless bit of entertainment as a presidential candidate.

Santorum/Rand 2016 - a frothy aqua buddha mix!

103 Political Atheist  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:50:52pm

re: #4 engineer cat

beautiful!

the same classic german expressionism style that influenced citizen kane…

German or maybe Soviet. The overly huge buildings minimizing the person compared the the state.

104 EPR-radar  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:51:08pm

re: #101 aagcobb

I wonder why people can’t figure out that the utter irrelevance of the Libertarian Party is a pretty good indicator as to how popular libertarianism really is.

Rand Paul may share some of his nuttiness with the libertarian party, but he is now part of the GOP teabag establishment. So, he is much more relevant than the libertarian party.

Popularity or sensibility of political positions seems alarmingly irrelevant in national US politics these days.

105 aagcobb  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 7:57:09pm

re: #104 EPR-radar

Rand Paul may share some of his nuttiness with the libertarian party, but he is now part of the GOP teabag establishment. So, he is much more relevant than the libertarian party.

Popularity or sensibility of political positions seems alarmingly irrelevant in national US politics these days.

At least in the GOP. It becomes pretty relevant when facing an increasingly diverse national electorate, as Romney learned.

106 simoom  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 8:00:08pm

I just noticed how Politico narrated the Rand Paul filibuster, in that presidential aspirations piece:

It wasn’t so much what Paul did but how he did it that’s generating excited chatter in political circles. The self-described libertarian senator and tea party hero calmly asked the administration to explicitly clarify its position on dispatching targeted drones on American soil. His language was often quite conciliatory to the president. There was no demagoguery or shouting, no name-calling or gamesmanship.

Huh?

107 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 8:01:21pm

re: #74 Killgore Trout

Amy Goodman: America is shamed that only Rand Paul is talking about drone executions
Silly moonbats

Given that the UK is deploying the same armed MQ-9 Reapers the US uses, ms. Goodman would do better to reflect on how little the public in both the US and UK really care about drone strikes against terrorists. Because the answer is: They tend to like such strikes, since they get rid of the enemy at relatively low cost and risk.

108 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 8:05:06pm

re: #99 EPR-radar

As long as Rand Paul doesn’t latch onto bank reform as an issue, he should be a mostly harmless bit of entertainment as a presidential candidate.

He wouldn’t get far even if he did. Like his father, he doesn’t really want to put together a bill and shepherd it through committees onto the floor for a vote, because that is teh hard. Much easier to shout “No!” and snipe.

109 EPR-radar  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 8:05:24pm

re: #107 Dark_Falcon

Given that the UK is deploying the same armed MQ-9 Reapers the US uses, ms. Goodman would do better to reflect on how little the public in both the US and UK really care about drone strikes against terrorists. Because the answer is: They tend to like such strikes, since they get rid of the enemy at relatively low cost and risk.

The public in the US and UK care nothing about drone strikes because they do not occur in the US or the UK.

110 EPR-radar  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 8:06:42pm

re: #108 Dark_Falcon

He wouldn’t get far even if he did. Like his father, he doesn’t really want to put together a bill and shepherd it through committees onto the floor for a vote, because that is teh hard. Much easier to shout “No!” and snipe.

Unfortunately, you’ve just described a reasonable strategy for getting thorough GOP primary season in 2016.

111 Targetpractice  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 8:09:49pm

re: #109 EPR-radar

The public in the US and UK care nothing about drone strikes because they do not occur in the US or the UK.

Drone strikes didn’t really become a hot button issue until US citizens fell under the crosshairs while overseas. It’s not really that big a leap of logic to ask what stands between killing a “terrorist” overseas and killing a “terrorist” here in the continental US. Holder’s response was great if one assumes that the government will agree with the public on just what constitutes “hostile activities.”

112 EPR-radar  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 8:12:27pm

re: #111 Targetpractice

Drone strikes didn’t really become a hot button issue until US citizens fell under the crosshairs while overseas. It’s not really that big a leap of logic to ask what stands between killing a “terrorist” overseas and killing a “terrorist” here in the continental US. Holder’s response was great if one assumes that the government will agree with the public on just what constitutes “hostile activities.”

Such agreement between the US government and public has been lacking in the past.

113 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 8:12:28pm

re: #110 EPR-radar

Unfortunately, you’ve just described a reasonable strategy for getting thorough GOP primary season in 2016.

It’s true for getting through either primary. Primary voters tend to be concerned about political purity, and any banking reform bill that could actually pass in Congress would need to incorporate compromises, which would subject its author to the inevitable shouts of “DINO!” or “RINO!”. Saying “No!” without suggesting something realistic you’d say yes to is the politically safe way.

114 thedopefishlives  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 8:12:45pm

You know, I’ve long been a proponent of the Pompous Windbag’s line, “Economics is not a zero-sum game.” The thing is, he’s only half right. It is possible for the economic “pie” to increase, and in fact, it usually does - but the distribution of money therein IS a zero-sum game. The rich have been gaining slices of economic pie faster than the poor for a long time, but the wingnuts continue to spread their half-baked economic theories under the mistaken belief that the poor “just need to work harder and they can earn a bigger slice of the pie without costing the rich any of their hard-earned wealth”. I’m sorry, but the economic growth at the top will have to slow in order to accommodate an increase in the growth rate at the bottom. It’s basic math, which we already established upthread the wingnuts know nothing about.

115 EPR-radar  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 8:18:02pm

re: #113 Dark_Falcon

It’s true for getting through either primary. Primary voters tend to be concerned about political purity, and any banking reform bill that could actually pass in Congress would need to incorporate compromises, which would subject its author to the inevitable shouts of “DINO!” or “RINO!”. Saying “No!” without suggesting something realistic you’d say yes to is the politically safe way.

Latching onto bank reform as a candidate would not involve these complexities, however. This issue is tailor-made for populism from either the right or the left, and in either case the results could be rather ugly.

I’d like to see this nettle of bank reform grasped sooner rather than later, since it isn’t going to get easier to deal with by delay. Hard, boring, bipartisan committee work in a functioning Congress would be ideal, but we all know that isn’t going to happen.

116 EPR-radar  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 8:19:37pm

re: #114 thedopefishlives

You know, I’ve long been a proponent of the Pompous Windbag’s line, “Economics is not a zero-sum game.” The thing is, he’s only half right. It is possible for the economic “pie” to increase, and in fact, it usually does - but the distribution of money therein IS a zero-sum game. The rich have been gaining slices of economic pie faster than the poor for a long time, but the wingnuts continue to spread their half-baked economic theories under the mistaken belief that the poor “just need to work harder and they can earn a bigger slice of the pie without costing the rich any of their hard-earned wealth”. I’m sorry, but the economic growth at the top will have to slow in order to accommodate an increase in the growth rate at the bottom. It’s basic math, which we already established upthread the wingnuts know nothing about.

Warren Buffet’s observation that class warfare has been ongoing for a long time in the US, and that his side is winning it, is on point here.

117 Targetpractice  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 8:20:35pm

re: #116 EPR-radar

Warren Buffet’s observation that class warfare has been ongoing for a long time in the US, and that his side is winning it, is on point here.

It’s only “class warfare” when the poor begin fighting back.

118 EPR-radar  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 8:28:15pm

re: #117 Targetpractice

It’s only “class warfare” when the poor begin fighting back.

These days we can amend it to ‘it’s only class warfare when the poor and middle class fight back’.

119 Kragar (Antichrist )  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 8:29:03pm

Research: Forced ultrasound doesn’t change women’s decision on abortion

Requiring women to receive an ultrasound and wait 24 hours before receiving an abortion does not change their decision. However, it does impose a significant burden on many women.

That is according to a three-year study conducted by the Texas Policy Evaluation Project, a group comprised of researchers at the University of Texas at Austin, Ibis Reproductive Health, and the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

The researchers sought to examine the impact of abortion restrictions passed by the Texas legislature in 2011. The law requires doctors to ask women to view the ultrasound images and listen to the heartbeat of the fetus. Women can choose not to view the image or listen of the heartbeat, but are still required to undergo the procedure 24-hours before receiving an abortion.

Proponents of the law said requiring women to receive an ultrasound would help them decide whether they really wanted to terminate their pregnancy. But the Texas Policy Evaluation Project found that 89 percent of women were “confident” or “extremely confident” in their decision both before and after the invasive procedure.

120 EPR-radar  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 8:31:14pm

re: #119 Kragar (Antichrist )

Proponents of enacting legal burdens on abortion tell fairy tales to justify the laws.

Surprise, surprise, surprise!

121 Lidane  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 8:53:45pm

Well that’s just great. Woke up today with a cough and scratchy throat. Chalked it up to the weather and went to work. Now my voice is completely shot. I’m not even trying to talk because that will just make things worse.

Ugh. A good part of my time at work is spent on the phone. Without being able to talk, I can’t do my job. Blah. Guess I might have to work from home tomorrow so I can rest.

122 engineer cat  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 9:18:04pm

it’s only going to be so long before murders start to be carried out by homemade drones

125 engineer cat  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 9:59:22pm

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this one is a beaut - the english is unusually high falutin, altho at the same time there are subtle grammatical/idiomatic mistakes - “being the manager London Regional Office”. i love the description ” Late Business Mogul Mr. Moises Saba Masri Billionaire, a Jew from Mexico”. the email address has .ph at the end, which i think is the philippines

also, it seems that i have been contacted after a desperate search for a suitable contact, alto exactly why i am so particularly appropriate is difficult to make out:

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i like the idea of how the choice has been ‘aroused’ - the writer has a good idea of how to talk fancy-like, but has overextended him/herself just a little bit

126 Gus  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 10:01:32pm
127 Gus  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 10:06:54pm
128 engineer cat  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 10:29:09pm

re: #126 Gus

that is really fun - the lyrics are clever and touching

Porque este amor ya no entiende
de consejos, ni razones
se alimenta de pretextos
y le faltan pantalones

which i can barely make out as perhaps

“because this love still doesn’t listen to advice, or reason - it feeds on pretexts and lacks pants”

Este amor no me permite
estar en pié
porque ya hasta me ha quebrado
los talones
y aunque me levante volveré a caer
si te acercas nada es útil
para esta inútil

“this love won’t let me stand on my feet, because now i’ve broken my heels, and i stand will turn to fall, since around you nothing is useful, to be useless”

does she always sing like that?

129 AlexRogan  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 11:06:40pm

re: #87 Gus

What.The.Fuck?!?

That situation is all sorts of fucked up…

130 Sol Berdinowitz  Thu, Mar 7, 2013 11:39:10pm

re: #33 EPR-radar

I remember a fellow grad student (who really should have known better) babbling about a Japanese takeover of the US back then.

The US presently faces no real external threat. If it is to decline and fall, it will be because of internal eventsgay marriage and processesabortion.

Wingnutted it fer ya.

131 RadicalModerate  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 12:45:43am

re: #87 Gus

There’s going to be some rather interesting political fallout from this incident.

The District Attorney for Dona Ana County, N.M. in 2005-2007, the period that Stephen Slavin was locked up, and forgotten in solitary confinement?
Why, that would be Susana Martinez (R), current Governor of New Mexico.

132 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 1:06:55am

People want Law and Order but they also Low Taxes. The result? Sheriff Joe in AZ and incidents like this in NM.

133 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:17:53am

Texas GOP Peddling Anti-Choice Conspiracy Theories

Tara Culp-Ressler at Think Progress reports on how Texas Republicans are trying to ban Planned Parenthood from participating in sex education because they don’t teach kids to hate themselves and fear their bodies. The debate over this, as is usual with the Texas legislature, was a demonstration of how effective Texas suburbs are at breeding the Bible-thumping lunatics.

During Tuesday’s hearing on Paxton’s bill, Renate Sims of Round Rock told the Senate Education Committee she strives to teach her five children that “married sex and only married sex is appropriate.”

“Abortion providers like Planned Parenthood and their affiliates can’t possibly communicate this message effectively because of their inherent conflict of interest. If teenagers consistently viewed sex as something to be saved for marriage, Planned Parenthood would lose abortion business,” Sims said.
Round Rock is a suburb of Austin, TX, where I lived for a long time, and let’s just say that it’s notorious for breeding people who have some wacky beliefs. (The schools are forever struggling with parents who fear their kids will learn witchcraft from naughty books and whatnot.) That said, what this woman is peddling here is widely believed in the anti-choice community, with the majority and probably vast majority of devoted anti-choice nuts believing this conspiracy theory.

134 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 2:33:59am

re: #133 Kragar (Antichrist )

If we expect teenagers to take responsibility for their actions, and especially the choices they make with regard to their sexuality, then we need to give them the information they require to make educated choices.

But there is no arguing that with a lot of GOP legislators, they are too hung up on imposing their morality on others and controlling people’s bodies. We can only hope to limit the damage they can do.

135 makeitstop  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 3:41:45am

re: #125 engineer cat

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136 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 3:48:26am

Sicilian with double pineapple? Crime against nature.

137 Shiplord Kirel  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 4:08:04am

re: #27 Vicious Babushka

Walmart can get away with paying their employees shitty wages because government provides food stamps & Medicaid.

We have a winner! Low wages are essentially subsidized by the taxpayers. The wingnut solution to this, of course, is to cut off this subsidy as well, in the strange belief that people would still work while their children starve. “They’ll work or they’ll starve!” gloat the smug teapartiers. There is another option, though: They can take to the streets and use their conveniently plentiful firearms to get what they need from the the wingnuts. FDR didn’t create the New Deal out of fuzzy headed idealism, or because he wanted to buy votes; he did it to head off a revolution.

138 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 4:12:17am

re: #137 Shiplord Kirel

They can take to the streets and use their conveniently plentiful firearms to get what they need from the the wingnuts.

Which is why wingnuts need an AR-15 with a 30-round clip: to defend their property against these moochers!

139 Shiplord Kirel  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 4:13:11am

In a showdown of starving masses vs. smug, over-fed, over-confident tea partiers, my money is on the starving masses.

140 freetoken  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 4:13:29am
MP3 Audio
141 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 4:16:19am

re: #139 Shiplord Kirel

In a showdown of starving masses vs. smug, over-fed, over-confident tea partiers, my money is on the starving masses.

Especially because if it gets to that point, plenty of the tea partiers will find themselves part of the starving masses.

142 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 4:18:58am

re: #122 engineer cat

it’s only going to be so long before murders start to be carried out by homemade drones

Already been tried:

[Link: www.cnn.com…]

143 Shiplord Kirel  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 4:20:31am

re: #138 Sol Berdinowitz

Which is why wingnuts need an AR-15 with a 30-round clip: to defend their property against these moochers!

They forget the Second Amendment works both ways, especially their frontier fantasy version of it:
Wingnut cowering behind bullet-riddled barricade: “Goddammit! Why didn’t we close that private sale loophole when we had the chance!”

144 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 4:27:44am

DERP.
What country was Chris Kyle the elected leader of?

145 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 4:40:05am

re: #144 Vicious Babushka

DERP.
What country was Chris Kyle the elected leader of?

Nothing less than a complete anti-Hugo hatefest will satisfy these people.

And remember: any leader, even a democratically elected one, is a “dictator” if they disagree with him.

146 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 4:52:30am

DERP. Leading causes of death in the US are cancer, heart disease, diabetes, car accidents.

147 Dr. Matt  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 5:02:17am

re: #90 aagcobb

The reality is that, compared to other forms of warfare, drones reduce civilian casualties.

Most importantly, it keeps our troops out of harms way. This entire fake outrage over Drones is nothing but the next Benghazi, birfer, and trufer wrapped into one. It truly IS a fake issue because it doesn’t exist. No one was talking about using drones on US soil except for the same lunatics who believe Benghazi is the next watergate/Obama is not a US citizen/and planes didn’t crash into the twin towers. If anyone on the Left is falling for this bullshit, then you’ve been had. You’re no different than those poor souls who tune into Fox to be spoon fed pure and utter propaganda. There are millions, if not billions, of other things that are more pressing and concerning in our lives than drones. True story. Don’t be a sucker.

148 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 5:09:26am

re: #147 Dr. Matt

Most importantly, it keeps our troops out of harms way. This entire fake outrage over Drones is nothing but the next Benghazi, birfer, and trufer wrapped into one. It truly IS a fake issue because it doesn’t exist. No one was talking about using drones on US soil except for the same lunatics who believe Benghazi is the next watergate/Obama is not a US citizen/and planes didn’t crash into the twin towers. If anyone on the Left is falling for this bullshit, then you’ve been had. You’re no different than those poor souls who tune into Fox to be spoon fed pure and utter propaganda. There are millions, if not billions, of other things that are more pressing and concerning in our lives than drones. True story. Don’t be a sucker.

They are lanched by Obamaz. Therefore they are eevil.

149 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 5:18:40am

WHAT RIGHT-WING RACISM? (racist Tweet is so toxic, not embedded, click at your own risk)

150 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 5:24:37am

Good morning lizards!

151 Lidane  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 5:58:55am

The 2014 Congressional midterms are going to be hilarious:

152 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:01:05am

Heavy snow flurrying going on in Philadelphia. Mainly flakes blowing horizontially and not a lot sticking. Though there appears to a be few inches on the ground in places north of the city.

The cats find it amusing and are sitting on the window sills watching it and the silly humans getting blown about by the wind. “Yo! Staff-human! Bring us more kibble, and some of the mulled wine!”

154 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:03:42am

re: #153 Killgore Trout

Rand Paul: ‘Seriously’ weighing 2016 bid

Please, please, please, please, please…

155 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:05:51am

re: #154 Decatur Deb

Please, please, please, please, please…

Just quotes from his filibuster rant alone, for fuck’s sake.

156 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:06:18am

[Link: www.nbcnews.com…]

MSM Conspiracy!

157 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:09:26am

Morning all!

How is it?

158 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:13:29am

Morning Happy Picture

159 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:14:45am

Greets and saluts from the snowy NYC metro area. The storm that was supposed to hit Wednesday with snow, finally made its snowy appearance this morning as the snow finally began accumulating around daybreak. It’s coming down pretty hard in Lower Manhattan and parts of the NYC metro area might still see a significant snow through mid afternoon.

But that’s not what’s troubling me. It’s all the reports about North Korea’s Kim Jong Un repudiating the hotline and the ceasefire agreement. By themselves, they’re pretty remarkable moves considering that he’s promising hellfire as a result of the UN SCR unanimously imposing stronger sanctions - including North Korea’s one-time backer China. While most folks would rather shrug at Un’s comments and positions, the fact he does have nukes lends an ominous character to them. He could be just that nutty to fire them off, regardless of the consequences.

China’s actions pretty much tell the story here. North Korea finally went too far for even the Chinese. China might have no problem with North Korea saber rattling from time to time to extricate further humanitarian aid from the West, but when they go ahead and test nukes without so much as a courtesy call and threaten to turn the Korean peninsula into a bloody warzone and nuke Japan and the US, things get more serious. China may have no love for the US or Japan, but recognizes the importance of the trade relationships with the US, Japan, and South Korea. It’s not going to jeopardize those relationships over the Hermit Kingdom’s militancy. [It’s the economy - even the Chinese know that a war on the Korean peninsula would have serious consequences to the global economy and harm domestic Chinese economic development.]

And there’s another thing to consider. Jong Un’s still trying to sort out who’s loyal to him and who might be on the fence. What better way to figure out and consolidate power than to push in this direction.

Jong Un might be looking for those who might reject bellicosity and send them packing to the gulag archipelago (alternatively, he might be looking to send the rest packing and this was his way to safely changing the guard in his favor). It’s a brutal sorting strategy either way, but even Jong Un has to know that he’s got no chance of coming out ahead in a fight with the US. He might bloody the Korean peninsula, but his family’s iron-fisted rule would come to an end. So, much of what’s going on is for domestic consumption.

160 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:15:20am

re: #154 Decatur Deb

Please, please, please, please, please…

I don’t know how that might play out. Populism is an easy gimmick. Sure he has some baggage but with a decent marketing team I think he could be repackaged into a viable candidate. Faced with a bland establishment Dem opponent he could win.

161 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:15:25am

re: #153 Killgore Trout

162 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:17:50am

re: #153 Killgore Trout

Rand Paul: ‘Seriously’ weighing 2016 bid

Bring it on.

164 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:21:11am

re: #160 Killgore Trout

I don’t know how that might play out. Populism is an easy gimmick. Sure he has some baggage but with a decent marketing team I think he could be repackaged into a viable candidate. Faced with a bland establishment Dem opponent he could win.

Hillary is a lot of things, bland not among them.

165 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:22:14am

[Link: inplainsight.nbcnews.com…]

Comments on this article are the usual talking-point theater mix. Heavy dollop of Obama/liberal blame with some push-back on that. A commenter named “atheist” taking a shot at the churches and gets push-back as well.

Article does point out that Camden has a fairly high amount of $/student spent and do not get results. I’m sure the teachers are to blame (not).

166 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:29:06am

Laura Bush: Salute to international women

167 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:32:19am

re: #165 Feline Fearless Leader

Camden has all the problems that Newark did, and then some. Yet Newark has rebounded in a way that Camden has so far not been able to.

Newark has benefited from the fact that companies have taken advantage of its proximity to NYC to set up headquarters and build in the comparatively cheap downtown area. It’s got proximity to EWR and Amtrak, so it’s conducive to economic development, and its current mayor Cory Booker is a huge booster of the city and has worked on improving education and reducing crime.

It’s still got a ways to go and there are areas of abject poverty, but other parts of the city are on a remarkable comeback, including the Ironbound and downtown. It hasn’t happened overnight, but there is a turnaround in that people are willing to come into the city to go to cultural and sports events - and that money is being spent and circulated in town.

Camden should have seen something similar, but it lacks an effective political structure. Corruption has been a huge problem, and the tax base has been shredded, leaving few avenues to improve basic services without massive infusions of state aid (which have come in fits and starts). There are a few bright spots - namely Rutgers at Camden, Cooper hospital, and the Adventure Aquarium, but people aren’t clamoring to go to Camden to spend money, let alone settle down, when there are thriving communities next door, and Philly across the river is preferable. A takeover of the police department may help improve public safety, and create a new and improved environment in which people will feel safer settling in, but that’s a long term endeavor that only began within the last year.

Changing the political culture in Camden is necessary too (though not all that different than the corruption up the road in Trenton where its mayor is currently under indictment on corruption).

168 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:37:15am

re: #166 NJDhockeyfan

Laura Bush: Salute to international women

Laura was always seen as quiet and passive, but she stood with women thru-out the Bush terms opposing her husband on abortion.

169 Political Atheist  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:37:18am

re: #144 Vicious Babushka

Aside from the derp, I did read his book. What he was doing with his company to help vets was a wonderful program. The bulk of the book is about his work as a sniper, often on overwatch for our forces. Heck of a guy. A tough read though. Dude had a brutal job.

170 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:39:19am

I’m reading Boneshaker because I’m tired of reality. Steampunk and Zombies, what could be better?

171 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:41:07am

re: #169 Political Atheist

Aside from the derp, I did read his book. What he was doing with his company to help vets was a wonderful program. The bulk of the book is about his work as a sniper, often on overwatch for our forces. Heck of a guy. A tough read though. Dude had a brutal job.

I also bought his book after hearing him interviewed on the radio. Fascinating story and his life came to such a tragic end after all he went through.

172 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:41:07am

re: #169 Political Atheist

Aside from the derp, I did read his book. What he was doing with his company to help vets was a wonderful program. The bulk of the book is about his work as a sniper, often on overwatch for our forces. Heck of a guy. A tough read though. Dude had a brutal job.

Wingnuts are making a CONSPIRICY!!1111!! over his unfortunate death, because in their alternative reality, NOBODY CAN EVER GET KILLED AT A GUN RANGE WEAR ALL TEH GOOD GUYS HAV GUNZ!11!!!!!

173 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:41:31am

re: #164 Decatur Deb

Hillary is a lot of things, bland not among them.

Except, Hillary won’t run. Between her age, her health issues and spending 4 years at Foggy Bottom getting to know what it’s like these days in Washington, I’ll lay money that she sits it out.

OTOH, an Elizabeth Warren campaign, especially against the banksters? Or Russ Feingold?

174 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:42:45am

re: #173 William Barnett-Lewis

Except, Hillary won’t run. Between her age, her health issues and spending 4 years at Foggy Bottom getting to know what it’s like these days in Washington, I’ll lay money that she sits it out.

OTOH, an Elizabeth Warren campaign, especially against the banksters? Or Russ Feingold?

I NEED TO BELIEVE that Hillary will Run. I’d take Elizabeth Warren on the ticket any day.

175 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:44:53am

re: #173 William Barnett-Lewis

Except, Hillary won’t run. Between her age, her health issues and spending 4 years at Foggy Bottom getting to know what it’s like these days in Washington, I’ll lay money that she sits it out.

OTOH, an Elizabeth Warren campaign, especially against the banksters? Or Russ Feingold?

According to most recent polls, Hillary is the top contender. She would have to be really seriously ill to not run. E. Warren is good too, but I really love the idea of Michelle as VP candidate.

176 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:45:03am

Hillary is too divisive and carries too much baggage. Cannot imagine her running again.

Elizabeth Warren would cause massive head assplosions on the right, I would root for her her for that reason alone…

177 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:46:01am

What is the deal with Dennis Rodmann in the DPRK?

178 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:46:37am

re: #177 FemNaziBitch

What is the deal with Dennis Rodmann in the DPRK?

Desperation that his 15 minutes are over…

179 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:47:38am

Polls also show Chris Christie as top contender for GOP even though wingnuts totally hate him.

180 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:49:27am

re: #177 FemNaziBitch

What is the deal with Dennis Rodmann in the DPRK?

He must have pissed them off.

Pyongyang To Cut North-South Hotline, Cancel Non-Aggression Pact

North Korea responded to new U.N. Sanctions aimed at starving its nuclear program by vowing to cut a Cold War-style hotline and scrap a non-aggression pact with the South.

State-run media said North Korea “abrogates all agreements on nonaggression reached between the North and the South … and also notifies the South side that it will immediately cut off the North-South hotline.”

181 blueraven  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:50:41am

Good jobs report

236,000 net jobs added - unemployment drops to 7.7%

183 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:52:36am

Bin Laden son-in-law to have New York trial

184 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:52:56am

This is how to properly win the lottery and spend the proceeds.

A Missouri couple that won a $136m powerball lottery has donated $50k to build a municipal sewer system for their town (it would have otherwise taken years to fully get a community on the municipal sewer system from septic systems), a new firehouse, ballfields, and a scholarship fund for the local high school.

185 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:53:04am

re: #173 William Barnett-Lewis

Except, Hillary won’t run. Between her age, her health issues and spending 4 years at Foggy Bottom getting to know what it’s like these days in Washington, I’ll lay money that she sits it out.

OTOH, an Elizabeth Warren campaign, especially against the banksters? Or Russ Feingold?

Would love warren, but she’s really too new to politics. 2024?

186 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:53:47am

re: #185 Decatur Deb

Would love warren, but she’s really too new to politics. 2024?

Obama was a junior senator.

187 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:53:50am

Idiots. Sequester took effect March 1. February was before the sequester.

188 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:54:57am

So, I just posted this on my fb

189 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:55:12am

re: #185 Decatur Deb

Would love warren, but she’s really too new to politics. 2024?

And Obama wasn’t?

190 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:55:55am

re: #186 Vicious Babushka

Obama was a junior senator.

But he set out on the path to office deliberately. EW was more or less shanghaied after the TPGOP went stupid on her confirmation.

191 blueraven  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:56:40am

re: #189 FemNaziBitch

And Obama wasn’t?

Obama was a politician though. He held state office for many years.

192 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:57:18am

re: #187 lawhawk

Idiots. Sequester took effect March 1. February was before the sequester.

Tell them that. I’m sure you’ll convince them. :O

193 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:58:45am

re: #188 FemNaziBitch

So, I just posted this on my fb

Foreignpolicy blocks it because I don’t have a subscription.

194 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:58:59am

What the $15 Billion Sex Toy Industry Tells Us About Sexuality Today
America is in the midst of another sexual revolution.

The Dominionists haven’t learned the first rule of repression?

195 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:59:27am

re: #167 lawhawk

Camden is in a deep hole. No tax base to pull themselves out. Efforts keep derailing due to internal corruption, inconsistent funding streams, and the fact that businesses find other areas more attractive. Needs time, money, and effort to rebuild infrastructure, an educated workforce, and make an environment attractive to people and business.

And you just can’t abandon it. These are still Americans stuck there. And leaving it as a lawless, corrupt, wreck makes it a haven.

196 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 6:59:58am

re: #195 Feline Fearless Leader

Camden is in a deep hole. No tax base to pull themselves out. Efforts keep derailing due to internal corruption, inconsistent funding streams, and the fact that businesses find other areas more attractive. Needs time, money, and effort to rebuild infrastructure, an educated workforce, and make an environment attractive to people and business.

And you just can’t abandon it. These are still Americans stuck there. And leaving it as a lawless, corrupt, wreck makes it a haven.

Sounds like Detroit.

197 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:00:09am

re: #193 Vicious Babushka

Foreignpolicy blocks it because I don’t have a subscription.

neither do I? I must have registered for their free but limited access.

Anyway, it is a photo of a girl with short hair holding up her passport showing a pic of her in a hijab. With a nasty note written in another language I can’t read.

198 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:00:27am

re: #196 Vicious Babushka

Sounds like Detroit.

Gary, Indiana too!

199 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:00:44am

re: #191 blueraven

Obama was a politician though. He held state office for many years.

one term

200 Sionainn  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:01:15am

re: #184 lawhawk

This is how to properly win the lottery and spend the proceeds.

A Missouri couple that won a $136m powerball lottery has donated $50k to build a municipal sewer system for their town (it would have otherwise taken years to fully get a community on the municipal sewer system from septic systems), a new firehouse, ballfields, and a scholarship fund for the local high school.

I need to get my eyes checked. I clicked on your link and read “Mork and Mindy Hill.”

201 Decatur Deb  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:01:17am

Off to transplant cucmbers—BBL.

202 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:02:06am

re: #201 Decatur Deb

Off to transplant cucmbers—BBL.

Is that what the kids are calling it these days?

203 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:03:00am

re: #198 FemNaziBitch

Gary, Indiana too!

YOONYUNZ!!!11111

204 blueraven  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:03:32am

re: #199 FemNaziBitch

one term

Three terms

[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

205 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:04:36am

DERP DE DERP

206 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:05:49am

re: #196 Vicious Babushka

Sounds like Detroit.

A lot of comparisons made to Detroit. Camden “wrecked” because they lost their main industries; ship-building (which also did a job on Philadelphia), and Campbell’s Soup. The former industry crashed some 30 years ago.

Camden has basically failed (or been very slow) in re-defining itself into something else that it can rebuild around. Pittsburgh, for instance, went from “Steel City” into finance and high tech after the mills closed in the 70s and 80s*.

* - It’s been a long process as former mill sites are remediated and made over into tech centers. And there are sections of towns in the Mon Valley that are still essentially abandoned and boarded up.

207 Kronocide  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:06:22am

re: #197 FemNaziBitch

neither do I? I must have registered for their free but limited access.

Anyway, it is a photo of a girl with short hair holding up her passport showing a pic of her in a hijab. With a nasty note written in another language I can’t read.

This particular photograph was posted by Dana Bakdounes, a young woman from Syria. In it, Bakdounes is pictured with her hair uncovered, holding her passport, which has a photo of her wearing a hijab. She also holds a sign which reads: “I am with the uprising of women in the Arab world because for 20 years I was not allowed to feel the wind in my hair and on my body.”

I’m interested in why Facebook blocked the photograph. I’m assuming authorities let FB operate in their country as long as FB adheres to local government policy.

208 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:06:53am

re: #199 FemNaziBitch

one term

It’ll be three terms by the time we’re finished! //

209 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:07:37am
“MARTIAL LAW IN THE UNITED STATES IS NOW A VERY REAL POSSIBILITY!” added the ConservativeDaily.com’s Tony Adkins, responding to Obama’s use of executive orders to further gun control with a doomsday prediction that could have come straight from the Patriot movement. “SUSPENSION OF THE U.S. CONSTITUTION IS A VERY REAL POSSIBILITY!” The Conservative Monster, a similar website, concluded that the president was conspiring with a variety of foreign enemies “to force Socialism on the American people.”

direct link, also posted in Pages

210 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:09:03am

re: #204 blueraven

Three terms

[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

Proof I need Aricept. Doctors don’t believe me.

211 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:09:19am

re: #207 Kronocide

I’m interested in why Facebook blocked the photograph. I’m assuming authorities let FB operate in their country as long as FB adheres to local government policy.

[Link: www.globalpost.com…]

Warning. Page has a video ad for you mobile data plan peeps.

212 geoffm33  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:10:23am

re: #186 Vicious Babushka

Obama was a junior senator.

Warren is a senior senator (technically) ;)

213 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:10:24am

re: #206 Feline Fearless Leader

A lot of comparisons made to Detroit. Camden “wrecked” because they lost their main industries; ship-building (which also did a job on Philadelphia), and Campbell’s Soup. The former industry crashed some 30 years ago.

Camden has basically failed (or been very slow) in re-defining itself into something else that it can rebuild around. Pittsburgh, for instance, went from “Steel City” into finance and high tech after the mills closed in the 70s and 80s*.

* - It’s been a long process as former mill sites are remediated and made over into tech centers. And there are sections of towns in the Mon Valley that are still essentially abandoned and boarded up.

Like Gary, IN. Corrupt local government and an people who won’t recognize change is needed with the change in the local economy.

214 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:10:34am

[Link: bites.today.com…]

On a lighter note for the day.

Need MOAR NUTELLA!!!

215 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:11:20am

re: #200 Sionainn

I need to get my eyes checked. I clicked on your link and read “Mork and Mindy Hill.”

They’re preparing that town for the Ork invasion. Once they upgrade/build the airfield it is imminent.
/

216 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:11:45am

Mas.

[Link: stream.aljazeera.com…]

217 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:11:49am

re: #215 Feline Fearless Leader

They’re preparing that town for the Ork invasion. Once they upgrade/build the airfield it is imminent.
/

Ignoring the zombies? idiots.

:0

218 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:12:22am

Oh. Linked to Al Jazeera! Guess that means I’m with Al Qaeda! :D

//

219 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:12:58am
The American Family Association issued predictions for the future that included the claims that conservative Christians will be treated like African Americans before the civil rights movement, that the state will take charge of children at birth, and that cities with names like St. Petersburg will be forced to change their names. Peter LaBarbera of Americans for Truth About Homosexuality said the 2012 election of openly gay Tammy Baldwin to a Senate seat representing Wisconsin signaled that America is “falling apart.” The volume of these kinds of comments seemed higher than ever before.

same link as before. I just can’t believe some of this shit.

220 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:13:43am

re: #213 FemNaziBitch

Like Gary, IN. Corrupt local government and an people who won’t recognize change is needed with the change in the local economy.

I also think the close proximity of a large city is a factor as well. Chicago and Philadelphia in these cases. Which, incidentally are also located in a different state than the city in question.

221 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:14:27am

re: #209 FemNaziBitch

I grow more convinced that these “Patriots” are going to do something to provoke the government through threats - or even acts - of violence into responding to them.

And when the government does its duty of reacting to this clear and present threat to public safety and order, the “Patriots” will then hold the governmen’t actions as disproportionate, unwarranted up and as final proof that “the government is out to get us all, the drones are coming!” etc.

222 sattv4u2  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:14:51am

re: #218 Gus

Oh. Linked to Al Jazeera! Guess that means I’m with Al Qaeda! :D

//

I linked to Chef Boyardee

Guess that makes me Al Dente!

223 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:14:56am

re: #219 FemNaziBitch

same link as before. I just can’t believe some of this shit.

224 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:14:56am

re: #221 Sol Berdinowitz

I grow more convinced that these “Patriots” are going to do something to provoke the government through threats - or even acts - of violence into responding to them.

And when the government does its duty of reacting to this clear and present threat to public safety and order, the “Patriots” will then hold the governmen’t actions as disproportionate, unwarranted up and as final proof that “the government is out to get us all, the drones are coming!” etc.

Yes, they are creating a self-fulfilling prophecy.

225 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:15:43am

re: #222 sattv4u2

I linked to Chef Boyardee

Guess that makes me Al Dente!

Only one way to find out. We have to throw you at a wall and see if you stick!
;)

226 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:17:37am

Where is Floral Giraffe?

227 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:18:07am

Humans Yelling Like Goats Yelling Like Humans

Youtube Video
228 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:18:54am

re: #223 Vicious Babushka

Clicks link. Waits…

229 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:19:06am

VDARE!

230 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:19:50am

re: #229 Gus

VDARE!

Imagine my surprise.

231 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:21:38am

America Is In The Throes Of A Burgeoning Police State—Christian, Please Wake Up!
By Chuck Baldwin on March 7, 2013 at 4:33pm

What is it going to take for pastors and churches to wake up and realize that America is in the throes of a burgeoning police state? Ladies and gentlemen, the long-standing veneration for law and order does not include blind submission to governmental abuse of power. Yet, it seems that very few Christian conservatives are even paying attention to what is happening before their very eyes.

For example, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has purchased over 2 billion rounds of hollow-point ammunition (enough to wage a 30-year war); the DHS has purchased over 7,000 AR-15s. The DHS calls them Personal Defense Weapons (PDW). These are the same semi-automatic rifles with high capacity magazines that when you and I buy them are called “assault rifles.” Plus, the DHS has purchased over 2,700 armored vehicles, the same kind that the US military uses in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Department of Defense (DOD) calls them MRAP (Mine Resistant Ambush Protected). They carry .50 caliber weapons that fire from inside the vehicle. The vehicle itself is impervious to mines and small-arms fire. They are the vehicle of choice for our combat troops in the Middle East.

See this report at Investor’s Business Daily:

DHS Buys Special Armored Fighting Vehicles

Pray tell, why does the DHS need that kind of firepower? And who do they anticipate using all of this firepower on?

Blah, blah, blah.

232 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:21:41am

C-SPAN’S BOOK TV now has a fb page and twitter feed!!!!!

in my world, this is big news.

233 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:22:34am

re: #231 Gus

America Is In The Throes Of A Burgeoning Police State—Christian, Please Wake Up!
By Chuck Baldwin on March 7, 2013 at 4:33pm

Pray tell, why does the DHS need that kind of firepower? And who do they anticipate using all of this firepower on?

Blah, blah, blah.

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234 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:22:42am

Like I said. That 2,700 “DHS tanks” hoax won’t die.

235 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:23:16am

High and Impregnable

236 Kronocide  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:24:50am

re: #234 Gus

Like I said. That 2,700 “DHS tanks” hoax won’t die.

It’s too juicy to give up.

237 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:27:06am

re: #236 Kronocide

It’s too juicy to give up.

They want to believe it. That’s how weird these people are. It’s kind of like people that want to believe in an eventual alien invasion of planet Earth. Or something.

238 Kronocide  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:29:51am

It is amazing how the internet is being used to merely enlarge people’s closed information loops.

239 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:30:20am

So even if you tell them, “well those 2,700 MRAPs is a Navy/USMC contract” they’ll fire back “liar, that just cover for DHS and they’ll eventually get those MRAPs.” I even had some anarchist ranting about this to me on Twitter. This first came up early last year on Firedoglake. Not sure how long that took to settle down. Then it got rekindled this year thanks to some idiot prepper, which went to Pat Dollard, then Jim Hoft and then linked by that dumb ass Drudge.

240 geoffm33  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:30:36am

re: #238 Kronocide

It is amazing how the internet is being used to merely enlarge people’s closed information loops.

Just as Al Gore envisioned.

241 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:30:49am

Poll: Majority of Americans Opposed to Being Killed by Drone

The poll, which has a margin of error of plus or minus five percentage points, showed that ninety-seven per cent of those surveyed “strongly agreed” with the statement, “I personally do not want to be killed by a drone,” with three per cent responding, “Don’t know/No opinion.”

“There’s no other way to interpret these numbers,” said the University of Minnesota’s Davis Logsdon, who oversaw the survey. “The idea of being killed by a drone is not playing well out there.”
….
At the White House, spokesman Jay Carney tried to make the best of the poll results, telling reporters, “Look, people are afraid of getting killed by a drone. We get that. But there is still broad public support for drones killing somebody else.”

242 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:30:59am

re: #237 Gus

They want to believe it. That’s how weird these people are. It’s kind of like people that want to believe in an eventual alien invasion of planet Earth. Or something.

Armchair psychology isn’t worth much, but for a lot of these people, a lot of conspiracy theorists, the common theme seems to be that it makes them matter. They’re not just some guy unhappy with Obama’s policy, they’re his Enemy and he fears or hates them enough to want to destroy them. A lot of it is vanity.

243 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:31:06am

re: #238 Kronocide

It is amazing how the internet is being used to merely enlarge people’s closed information loops.

They will defend their Fake quotes and their Fake Memes to the death (for example last night’s wingnut who could not let go of the 2004 election results map as representing “gun crime”)

244 Kronocide  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:31:13am

re: #240 geoffm33

Just as Al Gore envisioned.

Zing!

245 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:31:40am

re: #238 Kronocide

It is amazing how the internet is being used to merely enlarge people’s closed information loops.

It is amazing how the internet is being used to merely enlarge people’s closed information loops.
/echo chamber

246 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:31:48am

Daily Caller:

Left-wing Code Pink group to visit Rand Paul’s office to thank him

WASHINGTON — Very rarely do you see activists from the anti-war, anti-gun, left-wing Code Pink organization praise a Republican.

But on Thursday, members of the group – best known for interrupting political speeches and events while wearing pink — will make its way to the Capitol Hill office of Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul to thank him for his Wednesday filibuster concerning the Obama administration’s drone policy.

“Meet us @SenRandPaul office, 208 Russell, today 1pm,” the group tweeted Thursday. “Thank him for opposition to #drones. Bring a gift. #standwithrand.”

Heh.

247 geoffm33  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:31:56am

re: #243 Vicious Babushka

They will defend their Fake quotes and their Fake Memes to the death (for example last night’s wingnut who could not let go of the 2004 election results map as representing “gun crime”)

I saw some of that, I think he tried to pull a “fake but accurate” at one point. Derp.

248 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:33:19am

re: #247 geoffm33

I saw some of that, I think he tried to pull a “fake but accurate” at one point. Derp.

I haven’t opened the Tweetdeck since last night so I don’t know if he has sent me any new replies. My last question was how did he explain all that “gun crime” in Upper Minnesota. Must be all those Canadian Drug Gangs & illegal alien smuggling rings, eh!

249 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:33:19am

re: #241 Killgore Trout

Poll: Majority of Americans Opposed to Being Killed by Drone

At the White House, spokesman Jay Carney tried to make the best of the poll results, telling reporters, “Look, people are afraid of getting killed by a drone. We get that. But there is still broad public support for drones killing somebody else.”

I can’t argue with that. I would rather someone else get killed by a drone instead of me.

250 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:33:54am

re: #246 NJDhockeyfan

Daily Caller:

Left-wing Code Pink group to visit Rand Paul’s office to thank him

Heh.

The old Paulian-moonbat alliance is alive and well. I’m kind of surprised Rand is keeping his father’s legacy alive so well.

251 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:34:10am

You know, all those grannies who buy their prescription meds in Canada because it’s so much cheaper.

252 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:34:40am

re: #249 NJDhockeyfan

I can’t argue with that. I would rather someone else get killed by a drone instead of me.

Tyranny of the majority!

253 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:36:40am

After a link to my page here…

dusel1 says:
March 5, 2013 at 3:46 pm

The Lord giveth to the USMC; the Lord taketh away from the USMC (provisioned by the DHS).

It’s time to service Obama’s chamber pot that overfloweth with Chili-Con-Cornie; you’ve been slacking too much.

Response…

Chilidog says:
March 5, 2013 at 3:49 pm

What are you babbling about? Still trying to flog a lie, I see.

It sucks when you have to face the truth that the right wing puppet masters are lying to you, doesn’t it?

The USMC purchased 2700 armored vehicles, not the DHS.

END OF THE STORY.

Stop trying to make this into something it is not. You just look like a crackpot for your efforts.

Notice how the Navy/Marine contract morphs into a new conspiracy. The responder here gets it.

254 sattv4u2  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:36:42am

re: #249 NJDhockeyfan

I can’t argue with that. I would rather someone else get killed by a drone instead of me.

Me. I prefer slow death via bacon and vodka !

255 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:37:23am

NRO via Dkos: John Yoo defends Administration anti-terror policies

I can sleep peacefully tonight knowing that John Yoo is defending our administration’s policies.

You say potahto, I say potayto. You say Republicans, I say Democrats.

256 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:37:54am

re: #249 NJDhockeyfan

I can’t argue with that. I would rather someone else get killed by a drone instead of me.

I prefer to be killed by old age, in my sleep.

257 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:38:05am

re: #250 Killgore Trout

The old Paulian-moonbat alliance is alive and well. I’m kind of surprised Rand is keeping his father’s legacy alive so well.

A nice picture with Don and Derek Black will just about get him there.

258 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:38:16am

re: #253 Gus

After a link to my page here…

Response…

Notice how the Navy/Marine contract morphs into a new conspiracy. The responder here gets it.

“Western Journalism” is a white supremacist site.

259 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:38:37am

re: #255 Killgore Trout

NRO via Dkos: John Yoo defends Administration anti-terror policies

Ah, you’ve found a kindred spirit!

260 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:38:59am

re: #258 Vicious Babushka

“Western Journalism” is a white supremacist site.

Oops. :D

261 sattv4u2  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:39:09am

re: #256 FemNaziBitch

I prefer to be killed by old age, in my sleep.

Yup

Peacefully while sleeping. Just like my grandfather

Unfortunate for the other three people that were in the car he was driving at the time though!!
//

262 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:39:52am

Fix ed.

263 sattv4u2  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:40:12am

re: #262 Gus

Fix ed.

What was wrong with Ed ??

264 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:40:50am

re: #263 sattv4u2

What was wrong with Ed ??

He’s a horse.

265 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:41:07am

re: #259 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Ah, you’ve found a kindred spirit!

Attack drones!

At least his tyranny is consistent (1+ / 0-)
wonder if he would recant when he sees that drone coming at him?

by whenwego

266 sattv4u2  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:41:24am

re: #264 Gus

He’s a horse.

Well, thats what he told you, but can he be believed? I mean, after all, he has a horses ass!!

267 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:41:28am

re: #257 NJDhockeyfan

A nice picture with Don and Derek Black will just about get him there.

I doubt it. Ron Paul kept the progressive-libertarian thing alive while opposing abortion, civil rights, etc. Not to mention the racist news letters. The moronic convergence is moronic.

268 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:41:39am

re: #264 Gus

He’s a horse.

My kids love that show. I need to find some DVDs of that show.

269 Mattand  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:42:19am

re: #195 Feline Fearless Leader

Camden is in a deep hole. No tax base to pull themselves out. Efforts keep derailing due to internal corruption, inconsistent funding streams, and the fact that businesses find other areas more attractive. Needs time, money, and effort to rebuild infrastructure, an educated workforce, and make an environment attractive to people and business.

And you just can’t abandon it. These are still Americans stuck there. And leaving it as a lawless, corrupt, wreck makes it a haven.

This is why I get so angry when white people around here make the “I’m not a racist, BUT” comment of “Just bulldoze the city and start over.” A perfect of combo of condescension and disgust, with an undercurrent of “Look what happens when those people are in charge.”

Nobody wants to live in a slum or a city with no jobs. Camden residents are just as much American citizens as those in Center City or Haddonfield. I wish I had the answers, besides the obvious one of getting more industry.

270 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:43:06am

re: #238 Kronocide

It is amazing how the internet is being used to merely enlarge people’s closed information loops.

Did you see the joint statement from Vint Cerf, et al threatening that “By God, we will turn this Internet around and go right back home if you dipshits don’t straighten up and act civilized. We didn’t come all this way just so you could jump around like a bunch of meth-tweaking baboons, for fuck’s sake. And I’ll tell you another thing: one more stupid hashtag-laden outburst from you, and we’ll stop right here and leave you on the side of the road, and that’s a promise! Jesus Herbert Walker Christ!!”

I didn’t see it either, but I keep expecting it.

271 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:43:36am

re: #267 Killgore Trout

I doubt it. Ron Paul kept the progressive-libertarian thing alive while opposing abortion, civil rights, etc. Not to mention the racist news letters. The moronic convergence is moronic.

There has never been a significant amount of ‘progressive’ support for Ron Paul and there never will be, except in the fantasies of MBF addicts.

272 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:44:09am

re: #269 Mattand

This is why I get so angry when white people around here make the “I’m not a racist, BUT” comment of “Just bulldoze the city and start over.” A perfect of combo of condescension and disgust, with an undercurrent of “Look what happens when those people are in charge.”

Nobody wants to live in a slum or a city with no jobs. Camden residents are just as much American citizens as those in Center City or Haddonfield. I wish I had the answers, besides the obvious one of getting more industry.

I’ve had to dig deep and really look at myself many, many times in my life. Lately, I seem to be doing it every day. I’ve said many times, I grew-up in Detroit in the 70’s, That fear is very hard to unlearn. The first step is recognizing it and admitting it is wrong.

Most peope don’t want to look at themselves that way.

273 blueraven  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:44:38am

New York Man Finds $30 Million in Art in Garage

When Thomas Schultz moved into this mess he never thought he’d walk out a millionaire. Schultz and his business partner bought this New York bungalow back in 2007 as an investment property. At the time they thought the 300,000 dollar price tag was a bargain in the hot real estate market until they looked into the garage and discovered a tremendous amount of art work.

Along with trunks and a bunch of garbage, the home’s owners told the partners to throw it all away, but Schultz was curious, especially when he noticed many of the canvases were signed by the same name. He began organizing. It took years sorting through some of the 70,000 paintings, drawings and journals.

But this morning it was worth it. That garbage is a gold mine A collection of original works by an obscure abstract impressionist named Arthur Pinajian, who made his name illustrating comic books in the thirties

Schultz says the collection is now valued at some thirty million dollars.

274 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:45:37am

re: #272 FemNaziBitch

I’ve had to dig deep and really look at myself many, many times in my life. Lately, I seem to be doing it every day. I’ve said many times, I grew-up in Detroit in the 70’s, That fear is very hard to unlearn. The first step is recognizing it and admitting it is wrong.

Most peope don’t want to look at themselves that way.

What part of Detroit?

275 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:45:43am

re: #269 Mattand

This is why I get so angry when white people around here make the “I’m not a racist, BUT” comment of “Just bulldoze the city and start over.” A perfect of combo of condescension and disgust, with an undercurrent of “Look what happens when those people are in charge.”

Nobody wants to live in a slum or a city with no jobs. Camden residents are just as much American citizens as those in Center City or Haddonfield. I wish I had the answers, besides the obvious one of getting more industry.

There is some psych thing about creating oppression in the mind. Somehow we can convince ourselves the oppressed deserve it. I forget what it is called in the textbooks. I believe it is what Frederick Douglas called “insidious”.

276 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:46:09am

re: #268 NJDhockeyfan

My kids love that show. I need to find some DVDs of that show.

Clint Eastwood was on it once.

277 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:46:45am

re: #274 Vicious Babushka

What part of Detroit?

Well, actually, Grosse Pointe Park. The first that borders the city. We moved in right after the riots and the neighbors scared the bejeezsus out of my mom with stories of National Guard Tanks going past their houses.

278 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:47:21am

re: #273 blueraven

New York Man Finds $30 Million in Art in Garage

That would cheer me up.

279 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:47:25am

re: #277 FemNaziBitch

Well, actually, Grosse Point Park. The first that borders the city. We moved in right after the riots and the neighbors scared the bejeezsus out of my mom with stories of National Guard Tanks going past their houses.

I remember the 1967 riots. I was working at the DIA as a summer intern.

280 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:47:39am

re: #276 Gus

Clint Eastwood was on it once.

I saw that.

Youtube Video
Youtube Video
281 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:47:51am

re: #249 NJDhockeyfan

I can’t argue with that. I would rather someone else get killed by a drone instead of me.

I’m surprised that getting run over by a DHS tank rated so well. You’d think that the revolutionaries would appreciate the personal attention that getting targeted by a drone would imply.
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282 Mattand  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:48:06am

re: #272 FemNaziBitch

I’ve had to dig deep and really look at myself many, many times in my life. Lately, I seem to be doing it every day. I’ve said many times, I grew-up in Detroit in the 70’s, That fear is very hard to unlearn. The first step is recognizing it and admitting it is wrong.

Most peope don’t want to look at themselves that way.

I once had a guy who regularly worked jobsites in Camden tell me that 95% of the residents are good decent people who want a better the life, and don’t really care about messing with anyone, white or otherwise.

I keep learning the hard way how hard wired casual racism is coded into my many acquaintances and family members.

283 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:49:20am

re: #279 Vicious Babushka

I remember the 1967 riots. I was working at the DIA as a summer intern.

Theft and home invasion was a big deal when I was growing up. We were so close to the city border and that border delineated a major economic difference. that it was easy to see how people on one side would want what people on the other side had.

Looking back it’s easy to understand, then, it was all about race.

284 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:50:14am

re: #282 Mattand

I once had a guy who regularly worked jobsites in Camden tell me that 95% of the residents are good decent people who want a better the life, and don’t really care about messing with anyone, white or otherwise.

I keep learning the hard way how hard wired casual racism is coded into my many acquaintances and family members.

I call it “Fear of Slave Revolt.”

It embedded so deeply, I don’t think it will ever get eradicated totally.

285 sattv4u2  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:50:48am

re: #278 Gus

That would cheer me up.

Why. Do you know the guy!?!
/

286 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:51:05am

IDF: We’re ready for possible Hezbollah conflict

REVIVIM - Wary of a spillover from the conflict in Syria, Israel is preparing to take on the Hezbollah militia that it suspects is getting advanced weapons from a distracted Damascus.

Israel believes the Lebanese Shi’ite guerrillas also stand ready to retaliate if it carries out long-threatened strikes on the nuclear sites of Iran, another Hezbollah patron.

…”We want to preserve the quiet, and we want the other side to know that if they take a step that necessitates we exact a price, they will pay dearly,” the officer, who declined to be named, told foreign reporters while overseeing a simulated, regiment-strength battle with Hezbollah in a desert army base.

287 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:51:05am

re: #269 Mattand

This is why I get so angry when white people around here make the “I’m not a racist, BUT” comment of “Just bulldoze the city and start over.” A perfect of combo of condescension and disgust, with an undercurrent of “Look what happens when those people are in charge.”

Nobody wants to live in a slum or a city with no jobs. Camden residents are just as much American citizens as those in Center City or Haddonfield. I wish I had the answers, besides the obvious one of getting more industry.

Yep. And imagine the freak-out if you said, “Fine. We’ll bulldoze it to build the shining Camden of the future. In the interim we’re going to house some of the displaced people in this neighborhood since we can find minimum wage work for them near here.” And then the NIMBY explosion will occur.

288 sattv4u2  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:51:20am

bbiab

289 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:51:42am

The book/movie “The Help” resonated with me to a great degree. I experienced the Northern Version.

I had to tell some of my young co-workers that, yes, it really was like that and then tell them about our “black cleaning lady.” One AA girl didn’t believe me.

Which, in a way is wonderful.

290 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:53:20am

re: #289 FemNaziBitch

The book/movie “The Help” resonated with me to a great degree. I experienced the Northern Version.

I had to tell some of my young co-workers that, yes, it really was like that and then tell them about our “black cleaning lady.” One AA girl didn’t believe me.

Which, in a way is wonderful.

I went to Cass Tech High School and most of the kids I hung out with were Black. I could have gone to the district high school but wanted to get away from the kids who bullied me in Middle School.

291 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:55:12am

re: #290 Vicious Babushka

I went to Cass Tech High School and most of the kids I hung out with were Black. I could have gone to the district high school but wanted to get away from the kids who bullied me in Middle School.

I think what is the biggest red flag for me with all this right-wing Whackoism is that they are saying about the “poor” people today exactly what my parents said about “black” people in Detroit in the ’70s.

“It’s their fault, they don’t work hard enough.”

“Why should I give anything to them, I’ve worked hard for what we have, they do nothing.”

etc, etc, etc

292 geoffm33  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:56:24am

So my Congressman Stephen Lynch is going up against Congressman Markey in the special election for Kerry’s Senate seat. He’s getting a beating in the press for voting against the ACA and is double digits behind Markey. He’s got labor support but may not be enough.

He didn’t think the ACA went far enough but still decided to vote against it. He has his list of reasons but now people need to decide if they are revisionist reasons, or true to his heart.

293 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:56:28am

This guy is much worse than your average DERP, he is a really hateful deranged asshole.

294 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:58:23am

re: #293 Vicious Babushka

This guy is much worse than your average DERP, he is a really hateful deranged asshole.

Ay ay ay. How estupid.

Sure are a lot of crazy people out there.

295 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:58:57am

Oops. Had some extra baggage there. That was meant for…

ICYMI Image: James-OKeefe-Douche-Kit.png

296 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 7:59:57am

re: #290 Vicious Babushka

I went to Cass Tech High School and most of the kids I hung out with were Black. I could have gone to the district high school but wanted to get away from the kids who bullied me in Middle School.

We moved before I started driving, so I don’t recognize a lot of place names.

I didn’t know until I was in my 20’s that I was an “East-Side Girl”. Which was told to me with raised eyebrows.

A big sister of one of my friends married a Jewish man and you should have heard everything that was said about that. The wedding was divided between the Jews and the Catholics.

My girlfriend and her friends were seated at a table with older Jewish Couples. They were FANTASTIC. Blew all those pre-conceived (planted predjudices) out of the water. Still one of the best weddings I ever attended. Short ceremony and FUN reception.

297 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:00:44am

DHS TANKS!

I’ve read so much stuff on this over the past couple of days….

Now Business Insider is saying it’s 16 vehicles and that they did come from the USMC - Homeland Security Serving Warrants MRAP - Business Insider so is it possible that the internet got it wrong? Maybe.

I’m going to give it another couple of days before I start moving to my bunker but this Saturday is going to be massive ammo purchasing day just in case.

298 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:00:47am

Sheesh. That’s about the craziest anti Obama CT I ever saw and there are a lot of crazy anti Obama CTs.

299 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:01:41am

re: #296 FemNaziBitch

We moved before I started driving, so I don’t recognize a lot of place names.

I didn’t know until I was in my 20’s that I was an “East-Side Girl”. Which was told to me with raised eyebrows.

A big sister of one of my friends married a Jewish man and you should have heard everything that was said about that. The wedding was divided between the Jews and the Catholics.

My girlfriend and her friends were seated at a table with older Jewish Couples. They were FANTASTIC. Blew all those pre-conceived (planted predjudices) out of the water. Still one of the best weddings I ever attended. Short ceremony and FUN reception.

My best friend in high school (an African-American girl) married a WHITE GUY. You should have seen the church. Heh.

300 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:01:51am

re: #298 FriendsofHummus

I love Hummus!

301 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:02:05am

re: #299 Vicious Babushka

My best friend in high school (an African-American girl) married a WHITE GUY. You should have seen the church. Heh.

OMG!

302 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:02:10am

re: #290 Vicious Babushka

I went to Cass Tech High School and most of the kids I hung out with were Black. I could have gone to the district high school but wanted to get away from the kids who bullied me in Middle School.

In my public school in Connecticut, 99% of my classmates were white, but there was a huge class division between the ‘farm’ kids— and that was a catchall term for kids from working-class backgrounds— and the middle-class kids. Nearly all the bullies— not just angry kids that would get into fights, but actual bullies— came from the middle-class group. It was very similar to racism. The middle-class kids kind of ran the school, they were the arrogant loud ones in class, they were over-represented on the sports teams, and basically the working-class kids kind of disengaged from the school system.

When I later saw a school with a significant racial divide, it was similar, with both class and race in there at once: the Hispanic kids, especially the boys, were very disengaged, the white kids, on the whole, had more bullies and ran the school.

It’s this disengagement that’s the huge problem, even if you don’t give a shit about the feelings of the people involved. Black kids growing up getting frisked by the NYC cops for no actual reason other than being black and walking along the street, Hispanic kids growing up getting overlooked in school because of an accent, all of this shit, even if it doesn’t turn into resentment, makes that person more likely to view society antagonistically, rather than as something that helps them out. They see the social order as designed to preserve the position of their ‘superiors’. And to a certain extent they’re quite correct.

303 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:02:36am

Mom, Daughters Arrested in Attack on Teacher

SOUTH LOS ANGELES, Calif. (KTLA) — A woman and her daughters were arrested after allegedly attacking a teacher outside her classroom at a South Los Angeles school.

33-year-old Kiki Lolita Fowler went to John Muir Middle School to set up a meeting with the unidentified teacher, according to L.A. Unified School District officials.

But instead of leaving campus after arraigning an appointment, police say, Fowler and her daughters went to the teacher’s classroom.

The trio allegedly waited in the hallway, ambushing the teacher when she walked out, punching and kicking her.

School security heard screaming and came to the teacher’s aid.

Fowler and one daughter were booked on felony battery on a school campus.

The other daughter was booked on assault with a deadly weapon, the weapon being her feet and hand.

304 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:03:09am

re: #303 NJDhockeyfan

Mom, Daughters Arrested in Attack on Teacher

nice

305 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:04:18am

re: #282 Mattand

I once had a guy who regularly worked jobsites in Camden tell me that 95% of the residents are good decent people who want a better the life, and don’t really care about messing with anyone, white or otherwise.

I keep learning the hard way how hard wired casual racism is coded into my many acquaintances and family members.

My impression is that roughly 90% of people day-to-day are generally decent, don’t want to mess with other people, and wish to get on with their lives. Might be a lot of carping and minor stuff added in, but when it gets down to it there is a live-and-let-live attitude. A definite undercurrent of casual racism and assumptions brewing there - but not active.

Gather them into crowds, whip them up and set them off is a whole different ballgame — but that is often mainly young males as the core demographic for that. There generally has to be a catalyst or someone trying to tap that undercurrent to turn it into action.

306 geoffm33  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:05:54am

re: #293 Vicious Babushka

Let us assume for a second he was born abroad. He is still a citizen if all these requirements are met. Are they?

For persons born between December 24, 1952 and November 14, 1986, a person is a U.S. citizen if all of the following are true (except if born out-of-wedlock)[8]:
1) The person’s parents were married at the time of birth
2) One of the person’s parents was a U.S. citizen when the person was born
3) The citizen parent lived at least ten years in the United States before the child’s birth;
4) A minimum of 5 of these 10 years in the United States were after the citizen parent’s 14th birthday.

[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

1) Yes
2) Yes
3) All signs point to Yes
4) Yes

Bonus) Why the fuck did I bother with this anyway.

307 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:06:05am

re: #302 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

In my public school in Connecticut, 99% of my classmates were white, but there was a huge class division between the ‘farm’ kids— and that was a catchall term for kids from working-class backgrounds— and the middle-class kids. Nearly all the bullies— not just angry kids that would get into fights, but actual bullies— came from the middle-class group. It was very similar to racism. The middle-class kids kind of ran the school, they were the arrogant loud ones in class, they were over-represented on the sports teams, and basically the working-class kids kind of disengaged from the school system.

When I later saw a school with a significant racial divide, it was similar, with both class and race in there at once: the Hispanic kids, especially the boys, were very disengaged, the white kids, on the whole, had more bullies and ran the school.

It’s this disengagement that’s the huge problem, even if you don’t give a shit about the feelings of the people involved. Black kids growing up getting frisked by the NYC cops for no actual reason other than being black and walking along the street, Hispanic kids growing up getting overlooked in school because of an accent, all of this shit, even if it doesn’t turn into resentment, makes that person more likely to view society antagonistically, rather than as something that helps them out. They see the social order as designed to preserve the position of their ‘superiors’. And to a certain extent they’re quite correct.

Why the Pure Communism will never work-right?. People will always find a way to think better of themselves. The truly religious people would say it is because of a lack of a relationship with G-d. Meaning they don’t value themselves for their intrinsic humanity.

Unfortunately that message seems to be lost in most Churches. And we haven’t found any better way to teach it.

308 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:06:54am

re: #305 Feline Fearless Leader

My impression is that roughly 90% of people day-to-day are generally decent, don’t want to mess with other people, and wish to get on with their lives. Might be a lot of carping and minor stuff added in, but when it gets down to it there is a live-and-let-live attitude. A definite undercurrent of casual racism and assumptions brewing there - but not active.

Gather them into crowds, whip them up and set them off is a whole different ballgame — but that is often mainly young males as the core demographic for that. There generally has to be a catalyst or someone trying to tap that undercurrent to turn it into action.

Individuals are pretty much great. People suck.

I hate people.

309 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:08:50am

re: #306 geoffm33

Let us assume for a second he was born abroad. He is still a citizen if all these requirements are met. Are they?

1) Yes
2) Yes
3) All signs point to Yes
4) Yes

Bonus) Why the fuck did I bother with this anyway.

Birfers have pretty much moved on from the “born in Kenya” meme and now they’re flogging the “Fake SSN” meme.

310 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:09:07am

re: #308 FemNaziBitch

Individuals are pretty much great. People suck.

I hate people.

Ooh I like that.

311 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:09:15am

re: #308 FemNaziBitch

A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. /Agent K

312 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:10:23am

re: #311 lawhawk

A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it. /Agent K

Still a great movie after all these years.

313 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:10:41am

re: #301 FemNaziBitch

OMG!

It was bad enough that if you saw a black (then “colored”) person our neighborhood, that wasn’t obviously a cleaning lady walking to-and-from the bus stop, you called the cops.

But, we had one black teacher in the public high school. Everybody knew her name and who she was. I guess, so the cops never stopped her.

A few years ago, a friend here in Chicagoland, told me that her Uncle (Pakistani) was stopped in a Detroit suburb in the 90’s. The cop wanted to know what he was doing. Guess his skin was still too dark for the Detroit Suburbs. Strange, because this family is rather wealthy and I assume he was driving a luxury car. Perhaps it wasn’t a “Detroit” model. There was always a certain prejudice against foreign cars.

314 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:11:40am

You see the best and worst of what humanity has to offer. To steal from a song lyric, same world that has you down is going to be the same world that gets you up. I wish I could even sort of understand people. I always considered myself an outsider to some degree though.

315 sattv4u2  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:11:44am

re: #299 Vicious Babushka

My best friend in high school (an African-American girl) married a WHITE GUY. You should have seen the church. Heh.

They should have got Sammy Davis Jr. to sing at the reception!!
//

316 geoffm33  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:12:27am

re: #309 Vicious Babushka

Birfers have pretty much moved on from the “born in Kenya” meme and now they’re flogging the “Fake SSN” meme.

Well, I’ll tell you one thing. The fact that the President and his administration let these rumors/conspiracies fester is a great recruiting tool. For me, I grew tired of how stupid and outlandish these allegations became so I switched.

My only regret is I never voted for PBO. Talk about a 180 from November.

317 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:12:33am

Janet Napolitano Asked About DHS’s 2,700 Armored Trucks

Derp.

318 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:13:25am

re: #313 FemNaziBitch

It was bad enough that if you saw a black (then “colored”) person our neighborhood, that wasn’t obviously a cleaning lady walking to-and-from the bus stop, you called the cops.

But, we had one black teacher in the public high school. Everybody knew her name and who she was. I guess, so the cops never stopped her.

A few years ago, a friend here in Chicagoland, told me that her Uncle (Pakistani) was stopped in a Detroit suburb in the 90’s. The cop wanted to know what he was doing. Guess his skin was still too dark for the Detroit Suburbs. Strange, because this family is rather wealthy and I assume he was driving a luxury car. Perhaps it wasn’t a “Detroit” model. There was always a certain prejudice against foreign cars.

I work in Dearborn, which is supposed to be the “Sharia Capital” of the USA, I go shopping after work and all I see are normal people going about their normal business. Some ladies wear hijab, most don’t. And that “Giant Mosque” on Ford Road is surrounded by 5 (count ‘em) churches.

319 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:13:30am

re: #299 Vicious Babushka

Have you read Walter Mosley, by the way, the mystery writer?

320 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:13:31am

Russian scientists may have found new life under Antarctic ice

(Reuters) - Russian scientists believe they have discovered new life forms sealed off for millions of years in a subglacial lake deep under the Antarctic ice, the RIA news agency reported on Thursday.

…”After excluding all known contaminants, bacterial DNA was found that does not match any known species in world databases,” Sergei Bulat of the St Petersburg Nuclear Physics Institute told RIA.

“If it (the bacteria) had been found on Mars, then without a doubt we would have said there is life on Mars - but this is DNA from Earth,” he said. “We are calling this life form unidentified or unclassified.”

321 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:13:54am

re: #319 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Have you read Walter Mosley, by the way, the mystery writer?

never heard of him.

322 sattv4u2  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:14:32am

re: #320 NJDhockeyfan

Russian scientists may have found new life under Antarctic ice

Jimmy Hoffa??

323 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:14:48am

re: #320 NJDhockeyfan

Russian scientists may have found new life under Antarctic ice

Uh oh.

324 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:15:03am

Derp.

325 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:15:24am

re: #319 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Have you read Walter Mosley, by the way, the mystery writer?

I love his books.

326 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:15:56am

re: #320 NJDhockeyfan

Russian scientists may have found new life under Antarctic ice

Read a novel about that (forget the name of the book or author), a water company wants to sell bottles filled from this lake, with horrifying consequences.

327 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:16:01am

re: #321 Vicious Babushka

never heard of him.

You have to read his Easy Rawlins series if nothing else.

328 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:16:13am

Image: The+Thing.JPG
unavailable for comment.

329 makeitstop  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:16:19am

re: #231 Gus

America Is In The Throes Of A Burgeoning Police State—Christian, Please Wake Up!
By Chuck Baldwin on March 7, 2013 at 4:33pm

Pray tell, why does the DHS need that kind of firepower? And who do they anticipate using all of this firepower on?

Blah, blah, blah.

I can’t believe Christian is sleeping through this.

330 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:16:27am

re: #326 Vicious Babushka

Read a novel about that (forget the name of the book or author), a water company wants to sell bottles filled from this lake, with horrifying consequences.

My friend lived in Lake Orien when this was going on. OMG! It was the biggest news story ever.

331 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:16:29am

re: #327 FemNaziBitch

You have to read his Easy Rawlins series if nothing else.

I’ll look it up next time I am at the library.

332 geoffm33  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:16:52am

re: #324 Gus

Derp.

ZOMG DHS IS BUYING A BUNCH OF MRAPS

333 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:16:55am

re: #321 Vicious Babushka

never heard of him.

You have a hell of a treat waiting for you, then. He is an incredibly good writer. He’s got about 20 books. Some great heroes. Beautiful lyrical but still gritty writing.

And he’s a Jewish Black guy. Non-observant, I think.

Most famous for Devil in a Blue Dress, which got turned into a movie.

334 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:17:07am

re: #322 sattv4u2

Jimmy Hoffa??

Shoggoths.

336 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:18:46am

re: #326 Vicious Babushka

Read a novel about that (forget the name of the book or author), a water company wants to sell bottles filled from this lake, with horrifying consequences.

Lets hope life doesn’t imitate art this time.

337 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:18:55am

re: #333 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

You have a hell of a treat waiting for you, then. He is an incredibly good writer. He’s got about 20 books. Some great heroes. Beautiful lyrical but still gritty writing.

And he’s a Jewish Black guy. Non-observant, I think.

Most famous for Devil in a Blue Dress, which got turned into a movie.

And the movie was pretty true to the book, although it didn’t portray the emotions of Easy as well as the books.

The series should be read in order, tho.

His Sci-Fi is way, way out there. The spin-off mysteries are great too, but I think I enjoy them more because I remember the characters from the Easy Rawlins series.

The audio versions are well done.

338 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:19:54am

re: #337 FemNaziBitch

Yes, absolutely read the books in order. Easy changes a lot over time.

339 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:20:35am

Deep Throat Derp

340 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:22:41am

re: #338 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Yes, absolutely read the books in order. Easy changes a lot over time.

Yes, and his kids and his friends too!

You get very involved in all their lives.

341 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:23:32am

Jim Hoft will receive an “accuracy in media” award at CPAC.

342 makeitstop  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:23:49am

re: #339 Gus

Wyatt Deep Throat Derp

343 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:23:51am

Just be thankful that humans didn’t evolve with goat heads.

//

344 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:24:09am

re: #341 Gus

Jim Hoft will receive an “accuracy in media” award at CPAC.

ARE YOU SO BORED, you are actually paying attention to that crap?

345 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:24:12am

re: #340 FemNaziBitch

Yes, and his kids and his friends too!

You get very involved in all their lives.

What’s the name of the first book and when was it published?

Once I discovered John Sanford, Lee Child and Stephen Hunter I went back and read every one of their books which went back to the early 90’s.

346 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:24:28am

re: #342 makeitstop

Tales from the Derp Side

347 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:25:00am

re: #345 Vicious Babushka

What’s the name of the first book and when was it published?

Once I discovered John Sanford, Lee Child and Stephen Hunter I went back and read every one of their books which went back to the early 90’s.

Easy Rawlins

348 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:25:15am

Wingnut DERP O’TEH DAY

349 sattv4u2  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:25:17am

re: #343 Gus

Just be thankful that humans didn’t evolve with goat heads.

//

ummmm,,,Image: GoatBoy2.jpg

350 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:25:32am

re: #344 FemNaziBitch

ARE YOU SO BORED, you are actually paying attention to that crap?

Gee. I don’t know. Could have sworn that was a front page once.

351 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:26:35am

re: #349 sattv4u2

ummmm,,,Image: GoatBoy2.jpg

BOB!

352 blueraven  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:27:07am

Breaking News: Hagel arrives in Kabul, greets soldiers.

353 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:27:16am

re: #343 Gus

Just be thankful that humans didn’t evolve with goat heads.

//

Otherwise they’d scream like, humans?

354 Lidane  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:27:19am

If anyone is interested, Rachel Maddow is doing an AMA thread over at Reddit:

[Link: www.reddit.com…]

355 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:28:06am

re: #352 blueraven

Breaking News: Hagel arrives in Kabul, greets soldiers.

I think he’s the first former enlisted man to be Defense Secretary if I am not mistaken.

356 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:28:37am

re: #350 Gus

Gee. I don’t know. Could have sworn that was a front page once.

teehee, My eyes glaze over when I see ‘CPAC’ no matter where published.

357 geoffm33  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:28:57am

re: #348 Vicious Babushka

Wingnut DERP O’TEH DAY

Though I think removing the WWII “green army men” decorations from the cupcakes was overboard, I personally wouldn’t have taken much issue with it if I were the parent.

BUT, this is the derp line here:

Fountain said it was beyond outrageous to compare American soldiers to deranged mass murderers.

“In our politically correct society they can’t separate the good from the bad,” he said. ”I’m sure hammers are allowed in schools — although a lot of people are killed by hammers.”

358 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:30:56am

re: #348 Vicious Babushka

Wingnut DERP O’TEH DAY

I hope the kid’s parent wasn’t serving in Afghanistan at any time.

359 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:30:59am

re: #357 geoffm33

BUT, this is the derp line here:

”I’m sure hammers are allowed in schools — although a lot of people are killed by hammers.”

Oh yeah the derp meme

MOAR MURDERZ R DONE WITH HAMMERZ WHY DONT U BAN HAMMERZ!1111!!!!

360 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:31:37am

W.T.F.F. GIANT DOOBIE OF DERP

361 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:33:12am

re: #357 geoffm33

Though I think removing the WWII “green army men” decorations from the cupcakes was overboard, I personally wouldn’t have taken much issue with it if I were the parent.

BUT, this is the derp line here:

I don’t think kids are allowed to bring hammers into schools either. And I must have missed the many hammer deaths last year. Seriously, the school did go overboard but do people have to sound so stupid.

362 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:34:17am

Image: IMG_5272.JPG

363 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:35:37am

re: #360 Vicious Babushka

W.T.F.F. GIANT DOOBIE OF DERP

“Where is Hitler when you need him?”

Same place as when you don’t. Dead. After being defeated. In war. Which he claimed he was the best at.

364 geoffm33  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:35:47am

re: #361 FriendsofHummus

I don’t think kids are allowed to bring hammers into schools either. And I must have missed the many hammer deaths last year. Seriously, the school did go overboard but do people have to sound so stupid.

The worst funny part is, every wingnut that has read that with clenched teeth started doing fist-pumps when the guy mentioned hammers.

365 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:36:04am

There is a sinister threat haunting America. That threat is called…

DERP

//

366 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:36:37am

Gus:

The Derp at the OK Corral
Close Encounters of the Derp Kind
The Derp in a Blue Dress

367 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:36:46am

Image: america-under-communism.jpg

368 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:37:07am

re: #366 lawhawk

Gus:

The Derp at the OK Corral
Close Encounters of the Derp Kind
The Derp in a Blue Dress

Derpunism

369 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:37:39am

DERP IS STRONG.

370 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:37:40am

The Derp Menace

371 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:38:43am

I’m getting a headache from all this stupid. I really really need to go out tonight.

372 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:38:59am

I am, in a world of derp.

373 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:39:03am

How is it a “coup” if he was legitimately elected?

Oh yeah, wingnuts believe TEH ELECTION WUZ STOLE because Romney had MOAR RED SPACES.

374 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:39:03am

re: #369 Vicious Babushka

Does the D after the name indicate Derp?

375 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:39:35am

re: #373 Vicious Babushka

How is it a “coup” if he was legitimately elected? TWICE

Oh yeah, wingnuts believe TEH ELECTION WUZ STOLE because Romney had MOAR RED SPACES.

FTFY

376 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:39:47am

re: #369 Vicious Babushka

DERP IS STRONG.

Sister Honey (D)

More like Sister Honey (Derp)

377 Dr. Matt  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:39:48am

re: #362 Gus

Image: IMG_5272.JPG

I need bleach to cleanse my eyes now. Thanks.

378 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:40:25am

re: #376 Gus

Sister Honey (D)

More like Sister Honey (Derp)

Honey Doo Doo

379 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:41:51am

DERP!!!111

380 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:42:26am

DERP DERP!

381 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:43:21am

Cognitive dissonance:
Wingnuts complain about Obama DESTROYING ALL TEH JRRBZ and then they complain about WELFARE MOOCHERS JUST DON’T WANT TO GET A JRRB!11!!!

382 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:43:43am

re: #379 Vicious Babushka

DERP!!!111

No, but I do remember being called unpatriotic because I didn’t think the Iraq War was the greatest idea in the world. That was fun. Seeing wingnuts whine about how they’re treated as dissidents is hilarious shit. And if you make a broadbrush statement about a race or are talking about how the president is a Kenyan Muslim, yeah you’re going to get called racist. What a shocker.

383 geoffm33  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:43:45am

re: #380 Vicious Babushka

DERP DERP!

Wouldn’t it be better, in his fantasy tweet, if it were a Hiring Ban?

384 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:44:10am

I made a derp, and cleaned it up. :)

385 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:44:33am

Obama’s not doing enough on jobs! And then if he does try to do something, we’re told that government shouldn’t give people jobs. Pick a fucking narrative. God-fucking-damnit.

386 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:45:10am

I’m derped out, I thought justturnright was talking about WHITE Families doing more with LESS.

387 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:45:35am

re: #385 FriendsofHummus

Obama’s not doing enough on jobs! And then if he does try to do something, we’re told that government shouldn’t give people jobs. Pick a fucking narrative. God-fucking-damnit.

ITZ OBAMAZ FAULT!!!!11111

388 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:45:36am

Derpy Harry

“Go ahead, derp mah day.”

389 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:45:50am

re: #387 Vicious Babushka

It always is and always will be.

390 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:47:13am

We should start a hashtag #ReplaceMovieTitlesWithDerp

391 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:52:24am

re: #390 Vicious Babushka

We should start a hashtag #ReplaceMovieTitlesWithDerp

Who gets the Jacqueline Bisset role in “The Derp”?

392 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:54:17am

re: #390 Vicious Babushka

#ReplaceMovieTitlesWithDerp The Nightmare Before Derp / The Derp Before Christmas

393 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:54:51am

#ReplaceMovieTitlesWithDerp Derping Saddles

394 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:55:12am

#ReplaceMovieTitlesWithDerp Monty Python and the Holy Derp

395 Dr. Matt  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:55:36am

Atlas Derp: Part 1 #ReplaceMovieTitlesWithDerp

396 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:55:50am

re: #393 Vicious Babushka

#ReplaceMovieTitlesWithDerp Blazing Derp

397 geoffm33  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:56:40am

#ReplaceMovieTitlesWithDerp The World According to Derp

398 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:56:57am

#ReplaceMovieTitlesWithDerp The Derp Code

399 makeitstop  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:57:21am

#ReplaceMovieTitlesWithDerp The Unbearable Lightness of Derp

400 Dr. Matt  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 8:58:07am

2016: Derp’s America #ReplaceMovieTitlesWithDerp

401 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:02:35am

re: #390 Vicious Babushka

We should start a hashtag #ReplaceMovieTitlesWithDerp

Derping 2: Electric Boogaloo

402 SteveMcGazi  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:03:33am

Red Derp

403 SteveMcGazi  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:04:10am

I know What You Derped Last Summer

404 blueraven  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:05:31am

Derp: Deliverance II

405 SteveMcGazi  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:05:59am

There’s Something Derpy About Orly

406 iossarian  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:07:00am

re: #405 SteveMcGazi

There’s Something Derpy About Orly

Mr. Hoft Derps in Washington

407 The Ghost of a Flea  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:07:08am

The Derp the Shot Liberty Valance.

408 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:07:40am

Wiles: ‘Gay Rights Fanatics’ Are ‘Going to Get Us All Killed’

A few weeks ago, we started listening to Rick Wiles’ “Trunews” radio program because we discovered that he regularly interviews a variety of Religious Right activists that we monitor here. But since then, we’ve begun listening just because his show - “the only newscast reporting the countdown to the second coming of Jesus Christ” - is also a cavalcade of insanity.

And yesterday’s program was no exception, as Wiles’ grew increasingly worked up about North Korea’s latest threat against the United States, which he blamed on “gay rights fanatics”:
…
Elsewhere in the program, Wiles declared that the “Fast and the Furious” scandal is part of an effort by the Obama administration to arm Mexican gangs who will then wage war on Texas and Arizona while the administration stockpiles ammunition to supply “Obama’s commie army”:

409 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:08:31am

Star Beck 3: The Search for Derp

410 blueraven  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:09:02am

Derp, where’s my brain?

411 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:09:32am

re: #408 Kragar (Antichrist )

Wiles: ‘Gay Rights Fanatics’ Are ‘Going to Get Us All Killed’

Takes a special kind of right wing nutjob to associate gay rights advocacy with North Korea flapping their gums.

412 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:09:50am

I’ll play: Lawrence of Derp.

413 dragonath  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:11:09am

Have Derp, Will Travel

414 blueraven  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:12:11am

Derping Girl

415 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:12:42am

re: #412 FriendsofHummus

I’ll play: Lawrence of Derp.

David Lean epics:

The Bridge on the River Derp
Doctor Derp

416 makeitstop  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:12:46am

Debbie Does Derp

418 dragonath  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:12:53am

Moby Derp

419 Dr. Matt  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:13:15am

re: #416 makeitstop

Debbie Does Derp

‘Deep Derp’

420 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:13:18am

Slap Derp

421 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:13:19am

Just a city derp, born and raised in South Derp.

422 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:13:39am

Breitbart ‘Friends of Hamas’ hoaxer: ‘Of course Hitler was a left-winger’

Ben Shapiro, the Breitbart News editor-at-large who reported a false story about Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel’s ties to the non-existent group “Friends of Hamas,” says that there was no doubt “Hitler was a left-winger.”

During a Thursday radio interview with Fox News host Sean Hannity’s radio show, Shapiro accused the American “left-wing press” of supporting Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, Italian fascist Benito Mussolini and the Soviet Union.

“Of course Hitler was a left-winger!” Shapiro exclaimed. “The name of his party was National Socialism, he redistributed wealth, he shut down businesses. This argument that Hitler was a right-winger is absurd. It’s absolutely ridiculous and historically ignorant.”

He added: “It’s a slander put forward by the left in order to try and shut down all debate on the fact that socialism and the rise of the left in countries in a major way usually leads to dictatorial natures for more of than, for example, a limited government.”

423 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:13:47am

re: #416 makeitstop

Debbie Does Derp

That sounds so….. derpy….

424 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:13:50am

Derp Me Up! Derp Me Down!

425 dragonath  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:14:13am

“I was born a poor white derp”

426 Eventual Carrion  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:14:49am

re: #379 Vicious Babushka

DERP!!!111

Remember the good old days, when dissent was patriotic and not racist? #tcot #tgdn
— America’s Last Stand (@AmerLastStand) March 8, 2013

No, I remember when dissent was “You are with the terrorists” and “Traitor!”. And also “We won’t play your music any more”. Yeah, the good old days.

427 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:15:22am

re: #417 NJDhockeyfan

Apparently Hitler Ronald McDonald is An Actual Thing (and Thailand Thinks He’s Adorable)

Youtube Video
428 Dr. Matt  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:15:46am

Friday the Derpteenth, Parts I - VIII

429 dragonath  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:15:47am

Derpliet of the Spirits

430 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:16:19am

re: #422 Kragar (Antichrist )

Breitbart ‘Friends of Hamas’ hoaxer: ‘Of course Hitler was a left-winger’

Really, he’s using the they called themselves National Socialists then. Gosh, East Germany (The German Democratic Republic) was a democracy then. Oh and Ben are you ignoring that their primary rival for power was the German communist party and that among the first the first people they were persecuted were Communists and labor union members. Or the fact that they associated Judaism and Jews with leftism. Get a grip you revisionist idiot. Stop trying to act like no right wing regime is capable of evil. I have no problem with acknowledging that Stalin was an extreme leftist.

431 dragonath  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:16:56am

Waiting for Derpot

432 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:17:05am

Speaking of derp.

Conservative Blogs Think New Yorkers Can’t Read, Are Not Reading Actual Data

Seen that “80 percent of New York high school graduates can’t read” datapoint? It’s enticing. And it is also wrong — though you have to read pretty carefully to see how. Not everyone did.

The headline at CBS New York started the ball rolling: “Officials: 80 Percent Of Recent NYC High School Graduates Cannot Read.”

Since New York City — and especially its mayor Michael Bloomberg — are a favorite foil of political conservatives, it didn’t take long before conservative blogs picked up the story and started running. Over at Breitbart, a story by Ben Shapiro — the same reporter who misread the Chuck Hagel “Friends of Hamas” joke — jumped in with both feet:

Continues.

433 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:17:33am

re: #417 NJDhockeyfan

Apparently Hitler Ronald McDonald is An Actual Thing (and Thailand Thinks He’s Adorable)

That actually is pretty funny. I’d mock pose with that thing too. Doesn’t mean I like Hitler.

434 blueraven  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:17:56am

re: #424 Gus

Derp Me Up! Derp Me Down!

Love that (original movie)

Brando:

A Streetcar named Derp
The DerpFather
Last Tango in Derpville
Reflections in a Golden Derp
On the DerpFront

435 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:18:50am

re: #432 Gus

Speaking of derp.

Conservative Blogs Think New Yorkers Can’t Read, Are Not Reading Actual Data

Context. Motherfucker. How does it work.

436 dragonath  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:19:43am

O Brother Where Derp Thou

437 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:20:28am

Uh oh.

Syria ‘using chemical weapons’ in attacks against children

Children are being targeted in chemical weapon attacks by the Syrian army, it has been claimed.

Scores of youngsters, some of them infants, are being maimed by nerve gases as the civil war spirals yet further out of control, an exposé in French magazine Paris Match says.

Images of one of the alleged victims, a 13-year-old called Omar, are among a catalogue of disturbing pictures printed by the publication.

The teenager witnessed his entire family dying in an attack on their home city of Homs two months ago and was lucky to escape alive, the report continues.

‘A bomb like no other’, which caused ‘yellow smoke’ is how Omar describes the deadly weapons used by the Syrian army to totally wipe out his loved-ones.

Although he was evacuated to Libya, Omar has since suffered paralysed limbs, sores, blisters and burns – all the hallmarks of an attack using nerve gases such as Agent XV, medical experts suggested.

He travels each week to a treatment centre in Tripoli, where French/Syrian surgeon Dr Ghazi Azwad changes his bandages and those of the stream of young patients.

‘Welcome to the kingdom of mysterious suffering,’ the doctor tells journalist Frédéric Helbert.

438 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:20:31am

Really if 80% of recent NYC high school grads were illiterate, our literacy rate wouldn’t be near universal. Oh and having actually researched literacy, you know what a big factor in increased literacy is, yeah increased investment in schools so chew on that one Shapiro.

439 dragonath  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:20:41am

I, Derpius

440 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:21:11am

The Derps of New York

441 geoffm33  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:21:50am

re: #430 FriendsofHummus

Really, he’s using the they called themselves National Socialists then. Gosh, East Germany (The German Democratic Republic) was a democracy then. Oh and Ben are you ignoring that their primary rival for power was the German communist party and that among the first the first people they were persecuted were Communists and labor union members. Or the fact that they associated Judaism and Jews with leftism. Get a grip you revisionist idiot. Stop trying to act like no right wing regime is capable of evil. I have no problem with acknowledging that Stalin was an extreme leftist.

Ssssshhhhhhh. Hitler was a Democrat, MLK was a Republican. Got it?

442 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:22:01am

The Shawshank Rederption

443 dragonath  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:22:07am

The Magnificent Derpersons

444 iossarian  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:22:08am

re: #438 FriendsofHummus

Really if 80% of recent NYC high school grads were illiterate, our literacy rate wouldn’t be near universal. Oh and having actually researched literacy, you know what a big factor in increased literacy is, yeah increased investment in schools so chew on that one Shapiro.

No, we should defund public chools and then everyone will be taught by magical charter non-union rainbow-farting unicorns.

445 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:22:37am

Derp Hard.

446 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:23:17am

Raiders of the Lost Derp

447 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:24:46am

‘Fox & Friends’ Hosts Pretend Man Is Actually Thomas Jefferson

The gang at “Fox & Friends” celebrated “Founding Fathers Friday” by bringing on a Thomas Jefferson impersonator who stayed in character and on the tea party talking points throughout the bizarre interview.
…
Doocy closed by revealing that Jefferson was in fact Stephen McDowell, president of Biblical Worldview University.

448 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:25:24am

A lot of people graduate high school and even college with no knowledge of basic skills such as:

1. How to load a dishwasher
2. How to operate a washing machine
3. How to operate a vacuum cleaner
4. What the garbage disposal is for
5. How to wash dishes (if you don’t have a dishwasher)
6. How to fold and put away clothes

Some people never learn these skills. They are known as “men”

449 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:26:13am

Monty Python and the Holy Derp

450 iossarian  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:26:21am

re: #447 Kragar (Antichrist )

‘Fox & Friends’ Hosts Pretend Man Is Actually Thomas Jefferson

I’m surprised they didn’t roll with Republican Martin Luther King Jr.

“Why yes, Heather, I do agree that the Voting Rights Act is an abominable racial entitlement.”

451 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:26:51am

O’Keefe On ACORN Settlement: “This Is The Cost Of Exposing The Truth”

452 dragonath  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:27:21am

All About Derp

453 iossarian  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:27:54am

re: #448 Vicious Babushka

A lot of people graduate high school and even college with no knowledge of basic skills such as:

1. How to load a dishwasher
2. How to operate a washing machine
3. How to operate a vacuum cleaner
4. What the garbage disposal is for
5. How to wash dishes (if you don’t have a dishwasher)
6. How to fold and put away clothes

Some people never learn these skills. They are known as “men”

For the record, I totally school my wife on both 1) and 6). She has never figured out either that plates and bowls need to be kept separate, or that suit pants need to be held by the ankle cuffs to get the seams right on the hanger.

454 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:28:25am

re: #437 NJDhockeyfan

More than a few problems with that article factually.

Yellow smoke could indicate mustard gas, not “Agent XV.” Moreover, the injuries alleged are in line with a blister agent like mustard, not a nerve agent.

There’s no particular nerve agent called XV. VX is a nerve agent and it works by paralysis.

455 Flounder  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:28:31am

re: #432 Gus

Sigh, from the article:
[Link: newyork.cbslocal.com…]

When they graduated from city high schools, students in a special remedial program at the Borough of Manhattan Community College couldn’t make the grade.

They had to re-learn basic skills — reading, writing and math — first before they could begin college courses.

They are part of a disturbing statistic.

They are not talking about the whole class, just those in remedial classes.

456 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:28:48am

The fast and the Derpious

457 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:28:52am

Mr. Derp Goes to Washington

458 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:30:02am

Derpy Rotten Scoundrels

459 BongCrodny  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:30:13am

Derple Rain.
The Derple Rose of Cairo
Derple Indemnity

460 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:30:47am

Cool Hand Derp

461 dragonath  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:30:51am

I Know What You Derped Last Summer

462 CarleeCork  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:31:31am

Dirty Derping.

463 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:31:35am

Mother of the year
Mother Sends Son Named ‘Jihad’ To School in Bomb T-Shirt

Boucha Bagour apologized during a second court appearance in southern France Wednesday for sending her three-year-old son, Jihad, to school wearing a shirt emblazoned with the phrase “I am a bomb,” Sky News reports.

And if that wasn’t controversial enough, the back of the shirt also bears the words, “Jihad, born September 11.” Bagour appeared in court alongside her brother, Zeyad Bagour, who gave the shirt to his nephew as a gift and said he “had no intention to provoke or shock.”

464 Flounder  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:31:41am

re: #448 Vicious Babushka

I would like to seriously disagree with you on loading the dishwarsher. It is an art. My daughter, she is a lefty everything in the dishwasher is friggin backwards! My wife puts cups upright.

465 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:31:44am

Hey watch it, we’re getting derplicates.

466 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:32:06am

Gone with the Derp

467 geoffm33  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:32:32am

re: #448 Vicious Babushka

A lot of people graduate high school and even college with no knowledge of basic skills such as:

1. How to load a dishwasher
2. How to operate a washing machine
3. How to operate a vacuum cleaner
4. What the garbage disposal is for
5. How to wash dishes (if you don’t have a dishwasher)
6. How to fold and put away clothes

Some people never learn these skills. They are known as “men”

I’ve been doing 1-6 since I was about 12. Both my parents worked. I asked my mom about clean clothes one day and she showed me how the washing machine worked!

468 geoffm33  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:33:03am

re: #462 CarleeCork

Dirty Derping.

Nobody puts DimHoft in the corner!

469 Kragar (Antichrist )  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:33:21am

Boehner: Unemployment Still Above Levels Obama Promised

Here is an idea, you fucking Oompa Loompa. Pass a fucking jobs bill and actually do your job instead of trying to repeal Obama care 30 fucking times and obstructing everything Obama puts out.

470 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:33:39am

re: #467 geoffm33

I’ve been doing 1-6 since I was about 12. Both my parents worked. I asked my mom about clean clothes one day and she showed me how the washing macine worked!

I made it a point of teaching every one of my kids how to cook their favorite meal. It didn’t work for my youngest daughter because her favorite was takeout pizza.

471 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:33:43am

DEEP DERP?

472 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:34:19am

re: #464 Flounder

I would like to seriously disagree with you on loading the dishwarsher. It is an art. My daughter, she is a lefty everything in the dishwasher is friggin backwards! My wife puts cups upright.

Everyone has their own style. I never load another person’s dishwasher. Serious territorial issues.

473 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:34:35am

re: #469 Kragar (Antichrist )

Boehner: Unemployment Still Above Levels Obama Promised

Here is an idea, you fucking Oompa Loompa. Pass a fucking jobs bill and actually do your job instead of trying to repeal Obama care 30 fucking times and obstructing everything Obama puts out.

Maybe if you and your fellow Republicans weren’t so concerned about protecting the Defense of Marriage Act and repealing ACA, we’d have a jobs bill passed by now. Seriously Boehner. Man up you Tea Party stooge.

474 iossarian  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:34:45am

Great, now I have the Oompa Loompa song going round in my head.

475 Flounder  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:34:55am

Behind the green derp?

476 iossarian  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:35:34am

Are we onto #substitutederpinporntitles now?

477 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:35:37am

re: #453 iossarian

For the record, I totally school my wife on both 1) and 6). She has never figured out either that plates and bowls need to be kept separate, or that suit pants need to be held by the ankle cuffs to get the seams right on the hanger.

My kid and husband cannot hang-up a pair of pants to save their lives. How hard is it to line-up the seams at the ankle?

478 geoffm33  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:35:38am

re: #474 iossarian

Great, now I have the Oompa Loompa song going round in my head.

Willy Wonka and Derplate Factory

479 BongCrodny  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:36:24am

Djerpo Unchained.

480 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:36:47am

The Proderpers.

481 iossarian  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:37:00am

re: #477 FemNaziBitch

My kid and husband cannot hang-up a pair of pants to save their lives. How hard is it to line-up the seams at the ankle?

It seems simple but otherwise smart people are foxed by this straightforward approach to sharp attire.

482 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:37:58am

re: #420 NJDhockeyfan

Slap Derp

“Putting on the tin foil caps coach!”

483 iossarian  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:38:17am

Protip - when traveling, hang shirts at the far end of the hotel shower rail and turn the water on hot to steam out wrinkles.

484 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:38:26am

Derpicus

485 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:39:42am

To Kill a Mockingderp

486 dragonath  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:39:47am

The Derpomite Maneuver

487 BongCrodny  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:39:50am

re: #484 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Derpicus

I AM DERPICUS!

488 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:40:01am

re: #454 lawhawk

More than a few problems with that article factually.

Yellow smoke could indicate mustard gas, not “Agent XV.” Moreover, the injuries alleged are in line with a blister agent like mustard, not a nerve agent.

There’s no particular nerve agent called XV. VX is a nerve agent and it works by paralysis.

Voice of Russia says it a bs story.

Newspapers in the UK and France have claimed that the Syrian government is using chemical weapons against children. The reports say a 13-year-old boy in Homs witnessed his family being killed by a bomb giving off “yellow smoke”. VoR’s Sarah Johnston reports.

However the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the opposition Syrian National Coalition say there is no evidence of chemical weapons being used in the conflict.

489 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:40:35am

Developing story. Edit. Never mind. I’ll wait.

490 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:41:00am

Snow White and the Seven Derps.

491 CarleeCork  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:41:21am

The Sound of Derping

492 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:41:49am

re: #489 Gus

You’re linking ElderofZion now? Jeez be careful, that is a Kahanist site.

493 CarleeCork  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:42:00am

The Derp and I

494 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:42:16am

Clint Eastwood:
Derpy Harry
Magnum Derp
The Derpforcer
The Derp Pool
Play Derpy for Me
The Good, the Bad, and the Derpy
A Fistful of Derp
For a Few Derps More
Heartbreak Derp
In the Garden of Good and Derp
Derp of Our Fathers

495 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:42:28am

Derpless People

496 A Mom Anon  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:42:29am

Forrest Derp
Jurassic Derp
Eat,Pray,Derp
The Longest Derp

497 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:42:52am

re: #494 Feline Fearless Leader

Any which way you Derp
Any which way but Derp

498 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:43:35am

Photoshopped?

Either way, phunny!

499 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:43:47am

10 Things I Derp About You

500 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:43:55am

9 and a half Derps
Beauty and the Derp
Depa! Derpa! Derpa!

501 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:44:05am

re: #497 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Any which way you Derp
Any which way but Derp

High Plains Derper
Derpo Billy
The Derper Josey Wales

502 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:44:34am

re: #498 FemNaziBitch

Photoshopped?

Either way, phunny!

I dunno but I love the reassurance that they’re pretty sure that they’re not haunted. I mean they’re not positive that it is or is not but they’re pretty sure.

503 dragonath  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:44:41am

The Derp Goes West

504 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:45:04am

Oops. That links to Elder of Zion. My bad.

505 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:45:05am

Derpless in Seattle
Monty Python’s the meaning of Derp
Monty Python’s Life of Derp
Friday the Derpteenth
Nightmare on Derp Street
Aliens Vs. Derp

506 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:45:06am

re: #502 FriendsofHummus

I dunno but I love the reassurance that they’re pretty sure that they’re not haunted. I mean they’re not positive that it is or is not but they’re pretty sure.

It’s not a bad marketing ploy if it is real.

507 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:45:23am

re: #501 Feline Fearless Leader

two Derps for Sister Sarah

508 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:45:43am

Derpfellas

Raging Derp

The Derps of New York

The Derpiator

The Age of Derpiness.

509 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:45:44am

re: #479 BongCrodny

Djerpo Unchained.

The j is still silent.

510 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:46:11am

re: #502 FriendsofHummus

In some states you do have to disclose if a house is said to be haunted.

511 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:46:49am

re: #492 Vicious Babushka

You’re linking ElderofZion now? Jeez be careful, that is a Kahanist site.

Fixed:

re: #489 Gus

Developing story. Edit. Never mind. I’ll wait.

512 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:46:52am

My Fair Derp
Mary Derppins

513 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:47:01am

Pee Wee’s Big Derp
Earnest saves Derpmas
Earnest goes to Derp

514 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:47:22am

this is getting derpid.

515 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:47:53am

re: #510 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

In some states you do have to disclose if a house is said to be haunted.

Really? Did not know that.

516 wrenchwench  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:48:47am

re: #494 Feline Fearless Leader

In the Garden of Good and Derp

I’d make it In the Garden of Derp and Evil

517 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:49:01am

re: #489 Gus

Not a surprise. I was watching the live Gaza cam one night and caught an outgoing missile misfire. Probably a lot more common than reported.

518 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:49:30am

How The Derp Was Won
It’s a Derp, Derp, Derp, Derp World!

519 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:50:09am

The Hunt for Derp October (surprise)

520 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:51:09am

ARREST MICHELE BACHMANN BEFORE SHE SHOOTS UP A SCHOOL!

521 Eventual Carrion  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:51:26am

re: #435 FriendsofHummus

Context. Motherfucker. How does it work.

Probably went to New York schools.

522 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:52:29am

re: #515 FriendsofHummus

Yep

523 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:52:35am

Dial D for Derp

524 iossarian  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:52:40am

re: #521 Eventual Carrion

Probably went to New York schools.

o_O

525 Flounder  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:52:58am

re: #521 Eventual Carrion

Hey I resemble that remark!

526 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:53:49am

Fiddler on the Derp

527 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:53:57am

Derpillon

528 Gus  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:54:59am

re: #517 Killgore Trout

Not a surprise. I was watching the live Gaza cam one night and caught an outgoing missile misfire. Probably a lot more common than reported.

Rewrite on my part since I deleted that Tweet.

Report of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on the implementation of Human Rights Council resolutions (PDF)

On 14 November, a woman, her 11-month-old infant, and an 18-year-old adult in Al-Zaitoun were killed by what appeared to be a Palestinian rocket that fell short of Israel.

Jihad Masharawi’s 11 month old son was killed in Al-Zaitoun that day.

529 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:55:21am

28 Derps Later.
The Book of Derp
I am Derp
Saving Private Derp
Forest Derp

530 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:55:51am

Rosemary’s Derp

531 wrenchwench  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:58:21am

re: #526 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Fiddler on the Derp

Derper on the Roof.

532 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:58:25am

Who’s Afraid of Virginia Derp?

533 Political Atheist  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:58:45am

Is this a storybook photograph or what? Grabbed this off the web cam just a minute ago

Image: towercam.jpg

534 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:58:50am

South Dakota’s governor just signed into law a measure allowing teachers to come in to class packing heat.

While some other states have provisions in their gun laws that make it possible for teachers to be armed, South Dakota is believed to be the first state to pass a law that specifically allows teachers to carry firearms.

About two dozen states have proposed similar bills since the shootings in December at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., but all of them have stalled.

Supporters say that the measure signed by Mr. Daugaard, a Republican, is important in a rural state like South Dakota, where some schools are many miles away from emergency responders.

So, when the first teacher accidentally fires their weapon or has the weapon misplaced/taken and subsequently is fired causing an injury, and the emergency responders are miles away… good luck to the victim?

535 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:58:59am

Twilight: Breaking Derp

536 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:59:25am

re: #533 Political Atheist

Mt. Wilson IIRC?

537 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 9:59:43am

re: #534 lawhawk

South Dakota’s governor just signed into law a measure allowing teachers to come in to class packing heat.

So, when the first teacher accidentally fires their weapon or has the weapon misplaced/taken and subsequently is fired causing an injury, and the emergency responders are miles away… good luck to the victim?

Yeah, smart move. Sigh.

538 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:00:08am

Anatomy of a Derp

539 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:00:11am

Less Violent than the Passion of the Christ.

I’m going to hell, and laughing all the way there.

540 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:00:26am

re: #534 lawhawk

South Dakota’s governor just signed into law a measure allowing teachers to come in to class packing heat.

So, when the first teacher accidentally fires their weapon or has the weapon misplaced/taken and subsequently is fired causing an injury, and the emergency responders are miles away… good luck to the victim?

What could possibly go wrong?

541 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:00:33am

re: #510 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

In some states you do have to disclose if a house is said to be haunted.

by law? Seriously?

542 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:01:08am

re: #540 Vicious Babushka

What could possibly go wrong?

In South Dakota? Kids will bring rattlesnakes to class to watch the teacher blow them away.

543 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:02:04am

Syrian Shelling Forces UN Rescue Convoy to Retreat

A United Nations convoy sent to pick up 21 U.N. peacekeepers being held by Syrian rebels in the Golan Heights has reportedly been forced to retreat following shelling in the area.

Reports say the U.N. vehicles entered the village of Jamla on Friday, where the hostages are being held, but pulled out after Syrian military bombing made it impossible to travel further.

In New York, following a Security Council briefing on Friday, U.N. peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous confirmed that the area was under heavy bombardment by Syrian forces. He said he was hopeful that a cease-fire would be negotiated for a few hours to allow the peacekeepers to be released safely.

544 Political Atheist  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:03:15am

re: #536 lawhawk

Yes indeed. My dilemma is get up there tomorrow or go up Hwy 5 and get up behind Frazier Park and Pine Bluff. The snow is all over the mountains north of L.A.

545 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:04:19am

Derps of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

546 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:08:16am

Antarctic Lake Vostok yields ‘new bacterial life’

Aliens?

547 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:09:11am

re: #546 FemNaziBitch

Antarctic Lake Vostok yields ‘new bacterial life’

Aliens?

I don’t know but it’s really cool. There’s a lot of life out there just waiting to be discovered.

548 Eventual Carrion  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:10:44am

re: #539 FemNaziBitch

Less Violent than the Passion of the Christ.

I’m going to hell, and laughing all the way there.

Where are we going so fast, and why am I in this basket?

549 Political Atheist  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:11:30am

re: #547 FriendsofHummus

What are the odds we have ant natural immunity to a bacteria or virus unseen by man ever? Maybe a little worse than say the American Indians meeting Columbus.

//

Anyone else remember the Apollo astronauts getting quarantined when they came back?

550 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:14:56am

re: #549 Political Atheist

What are the odds we have ant natural immunity to a bacteria or virus unseen by man ever? Maybe a little worse than say the American Indians meeting Columbus.

//

Anyone else remember the Apollo astronauts getting quarantined when they came back?

That’s a good point. I imagine it would depend on how closely said bacteria is to stuff we’ve already had contact with over the years but I’m no scientist.

551 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:15:39am

re: #546 FemNaziBitch

Antarctic Lake Vostok yields ‘new bacterial life’

Aliens?

Youtube Video
552 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:19:11am

re: #550 FriendsofHummus

That’s a good point. I imagine it would depend on how closely said bacteria is to stuff we’ve already had contact with over the years but I’m no scientist.

The X-Files riffed on that a few times in the first season. Episodes “Ice” and “Darkness Falls”. Though “Ice” is heavily following the “Who Goes There” story plot that was adapted for “The Thing” movies.

553 Mattand  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:19:18am

re: #534 lawhawk

South Dakota’s governor just signed into law a measure allowing teachers to come in to class packing heat.

So, when the first teacher accidentally fires their weapon or has the weapon misplaced/taken and subsequently is fired causing an injury, and the emergency responders are miles away… good luck to the victim?

From the article’s comment section comes this gem of idiocy from Djbst82 in Albany:

This is the great thing about a laboratory of democracy. We can watch to see whether it works or is a disaster without being subject to the law everywhere else. At the end of a few years, we can compare the number of school shootings in SD to the number of shootings elsewhere.

Asshole.

And while I’m at it: Fuck America’s obsession with weapons. We’re an embarrassment to civilized people everywhere.

554 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:20:03am

re: #552 Feline Fearless Leader

The X-Files riffed on that a few times in the first season. Episodes “Ice” and “Darkness Falls”. Though “Ice” is heavily following the “Who Goes There” story plot that was adapted for “The Thing” movies.

“The Thing” is my favorite sci-fi/horror movie of all time.

555 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:20:49am

re: #553 Mattand

From the article’s comment section comes this gem of idiocy from Djbst82 in Albany:

Asshole.

And while I’m at it: Fuck America’s obsession with weapons. We’re an embarrassment to civilized people everywhere.

I think it’s creepy how we have a fair subset of the population that values their gun ownership than they do fellow people. I think that’s just sad and creepy.

556 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:24:02am

bbl

557 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:25:33am

re: #553 Mattand

From the article’s comment section comes this gem of idiocy from Djbst82 in Albany:

Asshole.

And while I’m at it: Fuck America’s obsession with weapons. We’re an embarrassment to civilized people everywhere.

It is a wingnut Article of Faith that MOAR GUNZ EVERYWHERE!!!!! = LESS CRIME!!!!!!111 and as “proof” they will show you a map of the 2004 Election Results compared to the 2012 Election Results.

558 Eventual Carrion  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:28:18am

re: #553 Mattand

From the article’s comment section comes this gem of idiocy from Djbst82 in Albany:

Asshole.

And while I’m at it: Fuck America’s obsession with weapons. We’re an embarrassment to civilized people everywhere.

I found one school shooting in South Dakota, January 4, 1961. Accidental, not intentional.

January 4, 1961: Delmont, South Dakota Donald Kurtz, 17-year-old senior at Delmont High School, was fatally wounded by a .22 caliber bullet from a rifle. The shot, intended as a sound effect for a school play, hit him in the chest during a rehearsal just minutes before the play was to take place.

559 HappyWarrior  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:31:41am

re: #558 Eventual Carrion

I found one school shooting in South Dakota, January 4, 1961. Accidental, not intentional.

January 4, 1961: Delmont, South Dakota Donald Kurtz, 17-year-old senior at Delmont High School, was fatally wounded by a .22 caliber bullet from a rifle. The shot, intended as a sound effect for a school play, hit him in the chest during a rehearsal just minutes before the play was to take place.

Obviously a teacher with a gun would have stopped that./

560 Political Atheist  Fri, Mar 8, 2013 10:56:31am

re: #552 Feline Fearless Leader

The X-Files riffed on that a few times in the first season. Episodes “Ice” and “Darkness Falls”. Though “Ice” is heavily following the “Who Goes There” story plot that was adapted for “The Thing” movies.

There was this sci fi novel where NASA sent astronauts to a Comet. A simple fungus got on board from their gloves and boots and could not be stopped. They could not come home.


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