Live Video: Festival of the Wingnuts, Day 1 (CPAC)
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:39:37am |
#RandPaul: “I was told I had ten lousy minutes. Just in case, though, I brought 13 hours worth of notes.” Crowd roars. #cpac— Ellen Kolb (@nhflatlander) March 14, 2013
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dragonath Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:41:22am |
If this is a festival, who is the GOP’s Landru?
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Charles Johnson Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:41:51am |
Rand Paul is the latest right wing kook to pull a high profile stunt involving deranged conspiracy theories. So of course he’s now the hero of every Teabagger.
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:42:28am |
Rand Paul claiming that Obama is trying to combine executive and judicial powers with unlimited detention #cpac— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) March 14, 2013
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:43:12am |
GOP, please nominate Rand/Rubio!
I want to laugh so hard when Hillary wins Texas.
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:44:02am |
How many days does this derpfest last?
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Gus Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:44:52am |
So when is the crypto-black face party I mean Obama zombie party slated to begin?
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:45:04am |
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:45:25am |
DERP
I’m may not like Rand #Paul, but I agree once again with him. This speech he is giving at #CPAC has got truth to it.— ?l???H (@MilitantAnon) March 14, 2013
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:45:32am |
re: #7 Gus
So when is the crypto-black face party I mean Obama zombie party slated to begin?
Probably Friday when they get all liquorerd up.
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:46:22am |
#CPAC “the idea of squeezing more and more money out of Americans is completely backwards yet we find $250M to give to Egypt!” Paul— millennialelephants (@MillElephants) March 14, 2013
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Charles Johnson Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:46:54am |
Rand Paul: “Not one penny more to countries that are burning our flag.” (Huge cheer.) I didn’t realize that “countries” could burn flags.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 14, 2013
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Charles Johnson Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:47:03am |
Now Rand Paul is bashing scientific research. Classic right wing stupid.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 14, 2013
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:47:05am |
“President thinks we can borrow $50K a second” @senrandpaul #CPAC— JoannShields (@weshouldallcare) March 14, 2013
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:47:56am |
Rand Paul asks what about “the $3 million we spend to study monkeys on meth” #cpac— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) March 14, 2013
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:48:48am |
Rand Paul is attacking a government study to develop a menu when we colonize Mars. Newt Gingrich’s hands are clenched in fists of rage #cpac— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) March 14, 2013
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lawhawk Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:49:25am |
re: #6 Kragar (Antichrist )
The derpitude is killing me. I hope it’ll last. /Willy Wonka
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kirkspencer Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:52:02am |
re: #16 Vicious Babushka
Yes, obviously we should go straight to human subjects.
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Gus Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:52:33am |
The Water Boarding Party like Rand Paul. It’s too early to start drinking.— Gus (@Gus_802) March 14, 2013
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Charles Johnson Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:53:16am |
Just did a quick Google search on that “monkeys on meth” study, and it’s $3.6 million over TEN YEARS, to study the effects of methamphetamine.
These assholes really piss me off with this crap.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:53:19am |
re: #21 Gus
It’s always Happy Hour somewhere but yeah you got to love the disconnect.
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:54:07am |
re: #22 Charles Johnson
Just did a quick Google search on that “monkeys on meth” study, and it’s $3.6 million over TEN YEARS, to study the effects of methamphetamine.
These assholes really piss me off with this crap.
THEY COULD HAVE STUDIED ON REDNECKS FOR FREE!!1!!!!!111
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iossarian Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:54:19am |
re: #22 Charles Johnson
Just did a quick Google search on that “monkeys on meth” study, and it’s $3.6 million over TEN YEARS, to study the effects of methamphetamine.
These assholes really piss me off with this crap.
Why study volcanoes? Who ever got hurt by a volcano?
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:54:21am |
re: #22 Charles Johnson
Just did a quick Google search on that “monkeys on meth” study, and it’s $3.6 million over TEN YEARS, to study the effects of methamphetamine.
These assholes really piss me off with this crap.
I still remember Palin belittling “fruit fly research in Paris, France.” and the RWNJs eating it up. Yeah, stupid fruit fly research, we don’t want to understand genetics do we!
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Charles Johnson Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:54:26am |
And now Rand Paul advocates eliminating the Department of Education, and cutting corporate tax in half. Still stand with Rand, liberals?— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 14, 2013
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Bulworth Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:54:33am |
re: #13 Charles Johnson
Now Rand Paul is bashing scientific research. Classic right wing stupid.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 14, 2013
Scientific research? Bible and Ayn Rand are all that’s necessary. //
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Bulworth Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:56:16am |
re: #4 Vicious Babushka
Wake me when Paul comes out for closing Gitmo.
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:56:17am |
Rand Paul says “we need a Republican Party that goes to the South Side of Chicago and shouts at the top of our lungs” #cpac— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) March 14, 2013
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:56:51am |
Room empties as Rand Paul leaves and panel on Benghazi begins.Somewhere @elilake is crying #cpac— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) March 14, 2013
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:57:39am |
VOMIT
“The only stimulus is leaving money in the hands that earned it” PREACH #CPAC— Courttttt (@loveyouWONGtime) March 14, 2013
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:58:00am |
re: #30 Vicious Babushka
And you’re going to do that, Rand, you who think the civil rights legislation that banned discrimination based on race was so tyrannical. Good luck with that one dude. Talk to Aqua Buddha and get back to me.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:59:01am |
re: #31 Bulworth
??
I think he’s trying to say they need more minority outreach. I dunno. Or maybe that they need to shame minorities more. This guy sucks. He’s a fraud just like his father is and I’d say in some ways he’s worse than his father.
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Bulworth Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:59:28am |
re: #33 Vicious Babushka
VOMIT
“The only stimulus is leaving money in the hands that earned it” PREACH #CPAC
— Courttttt (@loveyouWONGtime) March 14, 2013
Herbert Hoover, is that you?
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dragonath Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:59:53am |
What’s worse, burning flags or the Civil Rights Act?
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 10:59:57am |
This white supremacist is live-tweeting CPAC. Has been sending out disgusting racist tweets all morning.
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AlexRogan Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:00:17am |
re: #30 Vicious Babushka
Yeah…go up there, take a page from the old Lee Atwater playbook, and shout “n****r, n****r, n****r”, right, Rand?
*spits*
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erik_t Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:00:42am |
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Charles Johnson Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:01:19am |
These people are totally unmoored from rationality.
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:01:25am |
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:02:35am |
Haha! Current #CPAC2013 foreign policy panel actually has Breitbart editor-in-chief @joelpollak on it. #FriendsOfHamas #CPAC #p2 #tcot— FreedomWorks Panda (@NicoleGennette) March 14, 2013
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:02:55am |
re: #33 Vicious Babushka
VOMIT
Because a parent working two jobs to make ends meet hasn’t earned a damn thing.
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Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:03:28am |
re: #33 Vicious Babushka
VOMIT
Isn’t that support for a minimum wage, or limiting maximum corporate profits or dividends?
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Bulworth Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:03:28am |
re: #44 Vicious Babushka
I sure hope there’s a panel on Paul Krugman’s bankruptcy…./
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:03:31am |
re: #44 Vicious Babushka
That’s embarrassing even for them. Really Joel Pollak on a foreign policy panel?
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:04:07am |
re: #45 Kragar (Antichrist )
Because a parent working two jobs to make ends meet hasn’t earned a damn thing.
Only people with six figures and over earn anything, the rest of you are just moochers and takers!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:05:15am |
re: #46 Feline Fearless Leader
Isn’t that support for a minimum wage, or limiting maximum corporate profits or dividends?
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They are talking about the productive, job-creating, all-American WALTONS not the worthless loafers who perform routine chores that every American teenager should be doing for free after school!
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:07:28am |
American conservatism as we know it is a sham philosophy. Have no problem using the government to push your morality but then flip your shit if government is used to help someone less well off than you. Yay conservatism.
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:07:57am |
After non-stop criticism of his unChristian War on the Poor, Paul Ryan’s desperately trying to tweak his #CPAC speech twitter.com/TheDailyEdge/s…— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) March 14, 2013
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:08:29am |
Apparently journalists have “behaved like hockey goalies in front of Barack Obama’s net” on Benghazi #cpac— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) March 14, 2013
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Charles Johnson Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:08:37am |
Classic:
If you see Black/Asian/Latino people at #CPAC…take a picture and Tweet it here …We need lots of ammo before press does it’s dirty work.— ? BLACK REPUBLICAN ? (@blackrepublican) March 8, 2013
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Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:09:38am |
re: #54 Charles Johnson
Classic:
Why do they need to do that? Should be plenty of Herman Cain photos on hand from previous years.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:09:47am |
re: #54 Charles Johnson
Classic:
If you’re asking for tweets of photos of minorities………..then isn’t that kind of proving the point that CPAC’s lily white.
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:10:45am |
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:11:23am |
You want to make conservatism more acceptable to people? Maybe you should stop being a philosophy based on exclusion and resentment and instead be a philosophy focused on inclusion and respect.
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:11:54am |
Breitbart editor accusing someone else of lying. #LOL #CPAC— Josh Dorner (@JoshDorner) March 14, 2013
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Killgore Trout Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:12:08am |
Keith Ellison lauds Rand Paul’s drone filibuster
Podesta On Drones: Obama Subverting Checks And Balances
John Podesta, president of the Center for American Progress and Bill Clinton’s former chief of staff, argued Thursday that the Obama administration should release any and all information, redacted as necessary, relating to its targeted drone killing program because to not do so would undermine the nation’s system of checks and balances.
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The Ghost of a Flea Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:12:22am |
re: #56 HappyWarrior
If you’re asking for tweets of photos of minorities………..then isn’t that kind of proving the point that CPAC’s lily white.
*ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED*
Black Person Attending CPAC No liberal can ever call you racist ever again, and they’re the real racists because they’re surrounded by deluded black supporters that are still “on the Democratic Plantation.”
*ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED*
Hispanic Person Attending CPAC Because Cubans can tell us everything we need to know about Hispanics, right?
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Bulworth Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:12:24am |
re: #54 Charles Johnson
Classic:
If you see Black/Asian/Latino people at #CPAC…take a picture and Tweet it here …We need lots of ammo before press does it’s dirty work.
— ? BLACK REPUBLICAN ? (@blackrepublican) March 8, 2013
Because a handfull of pics of non-white peoples at CPAC totally outweighs the 95% of African Americans who voted for PBO in November. //
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:12:54am |
*FACE PALM*
#Benghazi Worst National Security Failure since 9-11 #CPAC Obama’s dereliction of duty caused ppl to see US as weak.— JoannShields (@weshouldallcare) March 14, 2013
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Charles Johnson Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:13:25am |
Every noogie, wedgie & virgin joke of six years of middle & high school is written across Joel Pollak’s demeanor in squirrelly terror. #CPAC— Jeb Lund Sese Seko (@Mobute) March 14, 2013
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:13:34am |
re: #61 The Ghost of a Flea
*ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED*
Black Person Attending CPAC No liberal can ever call you racist ever again, and they’re the real racists because they’re surrounded by deluded black supporters that are still “on the Democratic Plantation.”*ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED*
Hispanic Person Attending CPAC Because Cubans can tell us everything we need to know about Hispanics, right?
Seriously. I am sure there are racial minorities there. But it doesn’t prove shit.
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erik_t Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:14:26am |
re: #63 Vicious Babushka
*FACE PALM*
I still can’t decide if people actually believe this, or they merely want others to think they do.
It’s just so absurd on its face that it’s sort of hard to imagine.
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:15:34am |
Wardrobe Fail
Right next to Rand Paul at #CPAC #CPAC2013 twitter.com/MEsposito29/st…— Michael Esposito (@MEsposito29) March 14, 2013
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lawhawk Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:16:45am |
Here come the CPAC photos on Getty (and here).
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The Ghost of a Flea Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:16:54am |
re: #66 HappyWarrior
Seriously. I am sure there are racial minorities there. But it doesn’t prove shit.
Several days ago I made a snarky post about treating inclusion like some kind of video game achievement, but beneath the cattiness there was an actual point: if you’re viewing the inclusion of some people of [minority group x] as a magic shield against all criticism of your held positions about [minority group x], then you’re a bare minimum missing the point, and more likely are vastly cynical.
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Eclectic Cyborg Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:17:09am |
Most of these morons can’t grasp the concept that “redistribution of wealth” is the core of ANY economic system.
Money is always moving, it’s always going somewhere and there’s always a FINITE amount of it. Yes, more can be printed, but you can’t endlessly print money without devaluing a currency and crashing an economy.
That means we have to live in an America with a finite amount money which inevitably gets distributed somewhere. Even if the government isn’t in the picture at all, there’s still money being “redistributed”.
A company makes $100 million, its customers have “distributed” their money to it in exchange for goods and services. The company then turns around and “redistributes” it in order to be able to provide more goods and services as well as salaries for their employees, bonuses for their managers, air conditioning for their offices and so on and so forth.
A lopsided wealth distribution, where a select few hold the majority of the money, does not make for a very strong economic system, nor for high morale among citizens.
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Gus Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:17:24am |
Paraplegic will leave wheelchair behind for Tel Aviv marathon lat.ms/15NDM6e— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) March 14, 2013
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:17:41am |
White racist pretending to be “edgy” and “hip”. (Content warning, click at your own risk)
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BongCrodny Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:18:30am |
re: #30 Vicious Babushka
Rand Paul says “we need a Republican Party that goes to the South Side of Chicago and shouts at the top of our lungs”
‘YOU NEGROES NEED TO JOIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WHERE YOU’LL BE TREATED WITH RESPECT, AS LONG AS YOU DON’T EXPECT TO EAT AT THE SAME RESTAURANTS WITH THE REST OF US.”
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Eclectic Cyborg Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:19:17am |
re: #74 BongCrodny
‘YOU NEGROES NEED TO JOIN THE REPUBLICAN PARTY, WHERE YOU’LL BE TREATED WITH RESPECT, AS LONG AS YOU DON’T EXPECT TO EAT AT THE SAME RESTAURANTS WITH THE REST OF US.”
Or, as The Rock likes to say: KNOW YOUR ROLE AND SHUT YOUR MOUTH!
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:19:20am |
re: #70 The Ghost of a Flea
Several days ago I made a snarky post about treating inclusion like some kind of video game achievement, but beneath the cattiness there was an actual point: if you’re viewing the inclusion of some people of [minority group x] as a magic shield against all criticism of your held positions about [minority group x], then you’re a bare minimum missing the point, and more likely are vastly cynical.
Right, I mean it’s like they want us to ignore the race baiting the right repeatedly does because there happens to be some minorities at 2013 CPAC? All while actual CPAC has a mural with Goldwater, Reagan, Buckley, and Helms, all men who opposed Civil Rights at one point in their lives or used opposition to it for political gain. Yeah way to conservatives. You’re totally racially inclusive!
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:20:00am |
THIS IS JUST CREEPY.
#IMetBen twitpic.com/cbc38j #CPAC— LMH (@laurenmarie10) March 14, 2013
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Charles Johnson Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:20:25am |
I think it’s good that society has changed enough that John Solomon can come out as a hardcore rightwing journalist.— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 14, 2013
Former executive editor of the extreme right wing, often white nationalist Washington Times.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:22:04am |
re: #77 Vicious Babushka
THIS IS JUST CREEPY.
I wouldn’t even know if it was Franklin if not for the bifocals.
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dragonath Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:22:43am |
There’s something mean and brutal about Rand I can’t quite put a finger on. Ryan seems almost compassionate in comparison.
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:23:34am |
Crime Lab Scandal Leaves Mass. Legal System In Turmoil
A scandal in a Massachusetts crime lab continues to reverberate throughout the state’s legal system. Several months ago, Annie Dookhan, a former chemist in a state crime lab, told police that she messed up big time. Dookhan now stands accused of falsifying test results in as many as 34,000 cases.
As a result, lawyers, prosecutors and judges used to operating in a world of “beyond a reasonable doubt” now have nothing but doubt.
Already, hundreds of convicts and defendants have been released because of the scandal. Now, the state’s highest court may weigh in on how these cases should be handled.
“I don’t think anyone ever perceived that one person was capable of causing this much chaos,” says Norfolk County District Attorney Michael Morrisey, one of many DAs now digging through old drug cases, trying to sort out how many should now be considered tainted.
“You can see the entire walls full of boxes,” Morrissey says, gesturing at dusty files piled six feet high in a conference room near his office. “In one of these cardboard boxes, there could be hundreds of cases … in each box.”
The cases represent nearly a decade’s worth of work that could take years and tens of millions of dollars to review.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:24:10am |
re: #80 dragonath
There’s something mean and brutal about Rand I can’t quite put a finger on. Ryan seems almost compassionate in comparison.
Yeah I know what you mean. Ryan occasionally shows some decency- voted for ENDA and the VAWA. Rand Paul on the other hand………yeah
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jaunte Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:24:49am |
Hearing anyone from the Party of Fear of Grover Norquist talking about “courage” is surreal.
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Gus Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:24:54am |
Twitter should add a filter option. Tired of reading about the new Pope already and the fucking Italian this and Argentinian that crap.
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GunstarGreen Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:25:28am |
Another year, another CPAC full of myopic Republicans (no matter how much they try to rebrand themselves as ‘conservatives’, we all know who they are) that either cannot or refuse to see the basic, fundamental problem with their party:
When you claim to be the party of small government and simultaneously demand that the government be used to restrict the social freedoms of your fellow citizens, rational and intelligent people not only fail to see you as the party of small government, but begin to also see you as the party of lies.
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erik_t Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:25:28am |
re: #80 dragonath
There’s something mean and brutal about Rand I can’t quite put a finger on. Ryan seems almost compassionate in comparison.
Here’s your finger: he doesn’t recognize that his positions need to be cloaked to be palatable.
Same reason closet racists don’t bother me quite as much as vocal racists. They at least know they should feel ashamed, even if they don’t.
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dragonath Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:26:27am |
Interesting that Christie releases this during CPAC:
It’s harder to hate up close. youtube.com/watch?v=BumQSP…— Governor Christie (@GovChristie) March 12, 2013
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dragonath Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:27:33am |
The Youtube video is titled My First Job Is For New Jersey Not My Political Party
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Killgore Trout Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:27:59am |
Sources: Benghazi suspect detained in Libya
A man suspected of involvement in the September attack on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi is being held in Libya, according to two sources who have spoken with CNN.
Both sources confirmed the man’s name as Faraj al-Shibli (also spelled Chalabi). One of the sources, who has been briefed on the arrest by Western intelligence officials, said al-Shibli was detained within the past two days and had recently returned from a trip to Pakistan.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:28:15am |
re: #90 dragonath
Interesting that Christie releases this during CPAC:
Is that actually Christie’s twitter feed? I only ask because sometimes the fake twitter accounts look like they could be the real ones. Anyhow, it’s a paradox. Christie will do better in his re-election campaign by distancing himself from the nutjobs in his party and ideology but at the same time, I don’t think he’s coming close to being nominated for president by the Republican Party in 2016 or any time.
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lawhawk Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:30:46am |
I’m seeing quite a few tweets about how Obamacare is so long/difficult to apply for.
10 Things That Are Simpler Than Applying For Obamacare buzzfeed.com/annanorth/10-t… via @buzzfeedshift— Ben Smith (@BuzzFeedBen) March 14, 2013
What exactly are they comparing it to? For someone who couldn’t get insurance before - say for a preexisting condition, the application might not be ideal, but they are getting insurance (something Ryan and the rest want to abolish).
This is the draft application, and it isn’t actually that hard. It has a bunch of pages - 21 in total, but that’s in part due to the need to deal with more than one person being covered (say in a household). An individual wouldn’t need to fill out most of the form (or 10 out of the 21 pages). It includes instructions that add to the page count, and some wouldn’t apply to most of those seeking insurance in this manner (the page for Native Americans wouldn’t apply for one).
And it ignores the amount of information that insurers get from employers during the annual benefits scramble that includes much of this information too.
The comparison to the tax form is somewhat illustrative. The 1040EZ is quite short, but if you’ve got an itemized return, you’re going to use the long form and have to include any number of schedules and worksheets to complete. It could potentially be much longer than the draft insurance form.
The draft form is meant to deal with the most common situations and most people wont need to utilize all 21 pages (or more if with a larger family).
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:31:06am |
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Killgore Trout Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:31:08am |
re: #92 Killgore Trout
In US custody. I assume that also means extradition and a US civilian trial. That’s starting to become more common.
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Dr. Matt Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:31:14am |
re: #94 Gus
Word salad. Ironically Iran is suing Hollywood now. WTFE
Iran and the teahadists both hate Obama and Hollywood. Shocking.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:31:14am |
re: #94 Gus
Word salad. Ironically Iran is suing Hollywood now. WTFE
Yeah what the fuck is that. That’s not irony. Oh I see, Hollywood=Iranian government sympathizers!
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Charles Johnson Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:31:27am |
What a snoozefest this Benghazi panel is. Even the wingnuts seem bored with this idiotic fake outrage.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 14, 2013
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:31:50am |
Very dull birther convo unfolding next to me. Both women, who just met, have submitted affidavits that O’s birth certificate is fake #CPAC— Raf Sanchez (@rafsanchez) March 14, 2013
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:32:07am |
re: #98 Dr. Matt
Iran and the teahadists both hate Obama and Hollywood. Shocking.
Really I thought Iran would love Hollywood. In fact Ahmadinjad wants Clooney to play him in the movie!
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lawhawk Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:33:46am |
re: #94 Gus
Yeah, they’re claiming Ben Affleck is a CIA Agent.
My response is that there’s no way he’s Jack Ryan. I know Jack Ryan. Ben’s no Jack Ryan.
But more succinctly, Iran can file suit all it wants - just wait til discovery.
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dragonath Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:34:43am |
re: #93 HappyWarrior
Yeah, it’s his real feed. It’s actually kind of pleasant compared to other GOP governors. For example, Jindal is pushing the elimination of the LA income tax in an ideological, all the time way.
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:34:45am |
re: #97 Killgore Trout
In US custody. I assume that also means extradition and a US civilian trial. That’s starting to become more common.
Gitmo would be the best place so our intelligence people can interview him. More likely he will be brought to the US and lawyer up instead.
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jaunte Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:34:59am |
#CPAC2013 panelists claim Obama is hostile to free speech & has a “Third World, anti-colonial, anti-Western orientation”
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) March 14, 2013
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:34:59am |
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:35:20am |
re: #103 lawhawk
Yeah, they’re claiming Ben Affleck is a CIA Agent.
My response is that there’s no way he’s Jack Ryan. I know Jack Ryan. Ben’s no Jack Ryan.
But more succinctly, Iran can file suit all it wants - just wait til discovery.
Actually, wasn’t he Jack Ryan at least once?
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:36:26am |
I’m sure Ben is getting a kick out of that. By the way Argo was good. I remember learning about the guy he played in the movie when I took international relations. There’s a funny story about how when Tony Mendez was in high school, he disguised himself as a girl to sneak into prom. Apparently he and the buddy flipped a coin and Tony came up on the short side.
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Gus Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:36:29am |
re: #107 Vicious Babushka
So says the White Supremacist:
One eye rolling moment - Rand Paul claiming GOP should show up in South Side of Chicago. And say what? Cut taxes? #CPAC #PClibertarianism— Virginia Dare (@vdare) March 14, 2013
ni-CLANG!
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kirkspencer Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:36:46am |
re: #107 Vicious Babushka
So says the White Supremacist:
Riiiight. So which CPAC said 2012 would be a battle between Romney and somebody?
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Charles Johnson Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:37:40am |
Rubio: Climate change science is debatable, but it’s “absolute fact” life begins at conception thkpr.gs/YbSstK— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) March 14, 2013
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Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:37:47am |
re: #110 Bulworth
What about Paul Ayn Rand Ryan?
I expect his next trip is advocating for all names to be shortened in order to same space on forms and the memory space allocated to storing documents. Only moochers and leeches will expect to get more than one syllable.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:37:51am |
re: #110 Bulworth
What about Paul Ayn Rand Ryan?
I think Paul isn’t going to do well. He’ll be tied to the loser, Romney.
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Charles Johnson Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:38:08am |
IOW, Romney’s campaign speech. RT @rightwingwatch: #CPAC2013 panelists: Obama hostile to free speech, “3rd World anti-colonial anti-Western”— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 14, 2013
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Killgore Trout Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:38:34am |
re: #105 NJDhockeyfan
Gitmo would be the best place so our intelligence people can interview him. More likely he will be brought to the US and lawyer up instead.
Gitmo is out of the question. The al qaeda guy picked up a few weeks ago floated through the hands of various other countries for about a month before we took custody of him. It’s a pretty safe assumption he was thoroughly interrogated. My guess is this Bneghazi guy is going to get (or already has been) through the same treatment.
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jaunte Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:38:43am |
Rubio: Denying Marriage To Gays ‘Does Not Make Me A Bigot’
Rubio joked about his much-publicized sip of water during the GOP response to President Obama’s State of the Union address and appeared on stage with a tray of water glasses, before complaining about feeling judged for opposing marriage equality, access to reproductive health care services, and the science behind climate change — suggesting that his positions should be respected no matter how out of step they are with mainstream consensus…
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:39:06am |
re: #117 Charles Johnson
Christ this shit gets old. But hey they seem to think it’s a winning strategy. Let the idiots show again why they’re losers.
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lawhawk Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:39:20am |
re: #109 Kragar (Antichrist )
The Sum of All Fears is that movie that shall not be mentioned. Alec Baldwin was the one true Jack Ryan. Harrison Ford was passable, but Baldwin actually got the character’s motivations better (and was more age appropriate too).
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jaunte Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:39:59am |
re: #120 dragonath
“I’m not a scientist, man”
“Despite that, you have to respect my amateur opinion on your field of study!”
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:40:14am |
OMG they used CLIP ART of minorities in the backdrop at #CPAC because they couldn’t find real ones! LOL!!! slate.com/blogs/weigel/2…— Carol Morgan (@CounselorCarol1) March 14, 2013
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:40:42am |
re: #119 jaunte
Nah it just makes you an asshole and a hypocrite because you’ve made your name railing against big government and the lack of individual liberty but yet you want to have that same government tell gay couples they can’t get marry. So here’s some simple language for you to understand Marco, you’re a fraud and you always will be as long as you push big government to justify your social conservatism.
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GunstarGreen Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:42:04am |
re: #71 Eclectic Cyborg
Most of these morons can’t grasp the concept that “redistribution of wealth” is the core of ANY economic system.
Money is always moving, it’s always going somewhere and there’s always a FINITE amount of it. Yes, more can be printed, but you can’t endlessly print money without devaluing a currency and crashing an economy.
That means we have to live in an America with a finite amount money which inevitably gets distributed somewhere. Even if the government isn’t in the picture at all, there’s still money being “redistributed”.
A company makes $100 million, its customers have “distributed” their money to it in exchange for goods and services. The company then turns around and “redistributes” it in order to be able to provide more goods and services as well as salaries for their employees, bonuses for their managers, air conditioning for their offices and so on and so forth.
A lopsided wealth distribution, where a select few hold the majority of the money, does not make for a very strong economic system, nor for high morale among citizens.
My god, what is this? An actual understanding of basic economics?
As said, an ideal money supply is not increasing, or at the very least not increasing with any sort of speed — that’s inflation, and makes your dollar buy less than it did before because there are more dollars to go around for the same products. So really, in an ideal situation, what’s happening is the continuous cycling of a relatively static money supply.
1. The people buy products, which transfers money from the people to the companies.
2. The companies buy products, which transfers money from the companies to the other companies.
3. The companies all eventually pay their employees, which transfers money from the companies to the people.
4. GOTO 1.
To concentrate the wealth (money supply) at one end, you have to shift it away from the other end. And pretty much every economic chart or data set you can find will show you the same thing: it’s been flowing from the bottom to the top since the 70s. The companies (that is to say, the people at the top of the companies) are doing everything in their power to ensure that they keep the majority of the money by reducing the money they give to their lower-rank employees, replacing them with cheap labor in other countries or replacing humans altogether with robots.
The problem is that these short-sighted masters of avarice fail to account for the cycle. The more they squeeze their employees, the less money the people have to buy the products, which chokes off the flow. They’re slowly starving themselves by stuffing their gobs full to overflowing with cash, heedless of the fact that it’s making eating difficult.
Eventually, as happens in all national economic collapses, the stuffed gullets of the top clog entirely, and the beast starves and dies.
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Eclectic Cyborg Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:42:06am |
re: #122 lawhawk
The Sum of All Fears is that movie that shall not be mentioned. Alec Baldwin was the one true Jack Ryan. Harrison Ford was passable, but Baldwin actually got the character’s motivations better (and was more age appropriate too).
There’s a new Jack Ryan film out the end of this year starring Chris “James Kirk” Pine as Ryan.
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Charles Johnson Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:42:44am |
Oh, this should be good. Now they’re going to speculate what the “dirty little secret of Benghazi” is.
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:43:32am |
re: #90 dragonath
wow, Impressive but let’s see how long that lasts.
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Eclectic Cyborg Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:43:52am |
re: #128 Charles Johnson
Oh, this should be good. Now they’re going to speculate what the “dirty little secret of Benghazi” is.
LAYERS!!
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Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:44:22am |
re: #131 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s ogres all the way down.
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kirkspencer Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:44:25am |
re: #131 Eclectic Cyborg
You mean, like a cake?
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Charles Johnson Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:45:20am |
Pollak: “The dirty secret is that the administration thought they could contain the risk.” BOMBSHELL!!!— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 14, 2013
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lawhawk Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:47:37am |
re: #114 Charles Johnson
Life may begin at conception in the form of a zygote, then an embryo and a fetus at later stages of development, but personhood doesn’t. That comes only after viability outside the woman’s body.
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Charles Johnson Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:48:18am |
That was freaking hilarious. Joel Pollak’s speculation on the dirty secret of Benghazi: they were trying to act responsibly. #triplefacepalm— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 14, 2013
That’s what he said! They were trying to be careful and not send more American personnel into a situation that was still fluid.
DIRTY DIRTY SEKRIT!
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:49:45am |
re: #126 GunstarGreen
My god, what is this? An actual understanding of basic economics?
As said, an ideal money supply is not increasing, or at the very least not increasing with any sort of speed — that’s inflation, and makes your dollar buy less than it did before because there are more dollars to go around for the same products. So really, in an ideal situation, what’s happening is the continuous cycling of a relatively static money supply.
1. The people buy products, which transfers money from the people to the companies.
2. The companies buy products, which transfers money from the companies to the other companies.
3. The companies all eventually pay their employees, which transfers money from the companies to the people.
4. GOTO 1.To concentrate the wealth (money supply) at one end, you have to shift it away from the other end. And pretty much every economic chart or data set you can find will show you the same thing: it’s been flowing from the bottom to the top since the 70s. The companies (that is to say, the people at the top of the companies) are doing everything in their power to ensure that they keep the majority of the money by reducing the money they give to their lower-rank employees, replacing them with cheap labor in other countries or replacing humans altogether with robots.
The problem is that these short-sighted masters of avarice fail to account for the cycle. The more they squeeze their employees, the less money the people have to buy the products, which chokes off the flow. They’re slowly starving themselves by stuffing their gobs full to overflowing with cash, heedless of the fact that it’s making eating difficult.
Eventually, as happens in all national economic collapses, the stuffed gullets of the top clog entirely, and the beast starves and dies.
THIS, as many times as the Waltons have $$.
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:50:02am |
re: #137 Charles Johnson
did he actually say they were trying to behave responsibly?
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Gus Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:50:20am |
On 10th anniversary, study calculates costs of Iraq war: 189,000 lives lost; $2 trillion spent by US. reut.rs/Zqph4H— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) March 14, 2013
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BongCrodny Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:50:23am |
re: #136 lawhawk
Life may begin at conception in the form of a zygote, then an embryo and a fetus at later stages of development, but personhood doesn’t. That comes only after viability outside the woman’s body.
ZYGOTES FOR RUBIO 2016!
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:50:58am |
White Supremacist live-tweeting CPAC tweets his first Juice of teh Day. (Content Warning)
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:51:40am |
re: #141 Gus
Remember Senator McCain’s investigative zeal on that. Yeah……… I don’t either.
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:52:38am |
DERP
Your daily dose of #LiberalLogic #tcot#CPAC twitter.com/Lib_Media/stat…— Lib Media Exposed(TM) (@Lib_Media) March 14, 2013
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Interesting Times Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:54:26am |
re: #145 Vicious Babushka
He keeps using “they are that stupid.” It does not refer to the people he thinks it does.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:55:44am |
re: #146 Interesting Times
He keeps using “they are that stupid.” It does not refer to the people he thinks it does.
I noticed that. And Obama’s speech was pretty clear in congratulating the SEALS but frankly Obama should take credit. He approved the operation ultimately. If it failed, he would be getting blame and not the SEALs which is how it goes. Oh and the right still blames Carter even though Carter’s been out of office 32 years now- a larger gap between Hoover leaving office and his death FWIW.
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BongCrodny Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:55:57am |
Good lord, but this looks like it’s going to be awful.
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Gus Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:56:07am |
re: #145 Vicious Babushka
DERP
Yeah. Stupid. That’s not liberal logic. Looking from the outside that’s SOP.
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Mattand Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:56:27am |
re: #90 dragonath
Interesting that Christie releases this during CPAC:
“It becomes harder to hate up close.”
This coming from the NJ governor who used NJ state troopers to intimidate/bully a NJ resident at a town hall.
Please…
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:56:46am |
Norquist: Republicans who raise taxes ‘are rat heads in a Coke bottle’
Speaking to the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on Thursday, the Americans for Tax Reform founder employed an unusual metaphor to blast Republicans who violated their pledge to never raise taxes.
“We had the pledge out there and we branded the modern Republican as the party that would not raise your taxes,” Norquist explained. “Branding is important. Coca-Cola spends a lot of time, quality control branding Coca-Cola. Everybody knows what’s in Coca-Cola. And so you can buy a bottle of Coke, take it home, you don’t have to ask what’s in it.”
“You get two-thirds the way through your bottle of Coke and you look in and there’s a rat head in what’s left in your Coke bottle,” he continued. “You begin to wonder whether you will buy Coke in the future, you go on local TV and you show the cool rat head. Coca-Cola has a very large problem worldwide. It damages the brand.”
“Republican elected officials who vote for tax increases are rat heads in the Coke bottle. They damage the brand for everybody else.”
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aagcobb Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:56:56am |
re: #126 GunstarGreen
Well, because we don’t have a static population, we actually do need a growing money supply. A reasonable amount of inflation serves useful functions, especially when the economy isn’t running on all cylinders like ours right now. It tells consumers to buy, and producers they can hire more employees and increase production. With 20 million Americans either unemployed or underemployed, the Fed would do well to encourage inflation to at least reach its target level of 2%.
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:57:12am |
re: #147 HappyWarrior
I noticed that. And Obama’s speech was pretty clear in congratulating the SEALS but frankly Obama should take credit. He approved the operation ultimately. If it failed, he would be getting blame and not the SEALs which is how it goes.
Seals can’t act on their own, they have to take orders from a commander. And Bush fucked up the economy so bad it couldn’t be fixed in only 4 years.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:58:14am |
re: #153 Vicious Babushka
Seals can’t act on their own, they have to take orders from a commander. And Bush fucked up the economy so bad it couldn’t be fixed in only 4 years.
Precisely. Stupid dumbasses.
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Mattand Thu, Mar 14, 2013 11:58:54am |
re: #119 jaunte
Denying benefits that are available to everyone else because a group of people aren’t the “right” sexuality?
Yeah, that makes you a bigot.
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Dr. Matt Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:00:04pm |
Has anyone released any “bomb shell” videos of Obama walking his white dog in the streets of Chicago while he was a community organizer?
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aagcobb Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:00:08pm |
re: #151 Kragar (Antichrist )
Norquist: Republicans who raise taxes ‘are rat heads in a Coke bottle’
The dirty little secret of Ryan’s budget which he hides by not specifying what tax loopholes he wants to eliminate, is that the only way his budget balances in 10 years while giving a massive tax cut to the rich is by increasing taxes on the middle class.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:00:30pm |
re: #155 Mattand
Denying benefits that are available to everyone else because a group of people aren’t the “right” sexuality?
Yeah, that makes you a bigot.
STOP DISCRIMINATING AGAINST MARCO BECAUSE HE”S A CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN!
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:01:39pm |
re: #158 HappyWarrior
STOP DISCRIMINATING AGAINST MARCO BECAUSE HE”S A HISPANIC CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN! U RACIST!11!!!!!!TY
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:02:45pm |
Really, he’s entitled to believe that but his beliefs do entitle discrimination being permitted. So yeah Marco you’re a bigot, deal with it buddy.
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aagcobb Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:03:20pm |
re: #158 HappyWarrior
STOP DISCRIMINATING AGAINST MARCO BECAUSE HE”S A CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN!
When you say you won’t engage in homosexual sex or enter into a same-sex marriage because you think its sinful, you are a conservative christian. When you say you want the state to discriminate against gays for not complying with your theological beliefs, you are a bigot.
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Bulworth Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:04:24pm |
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:04:56pm |
HERE IS A LIBRUL QUIVERING IN FEAR
If I saw a piano about to fall on Allen West’s head I don’t think I’d yell lookout. What an embarrassment to humanity. #CPAC— travis bryant (@travlord) March 14, 2013
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Charles Johnson Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:06:18pm |
Tucker Carlson: “Firearms and Big Gulps are integral to American happiness.”— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 14, 2013
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:06:26pm |
re: #161 aagcobb
When you say you won’t engage in homosexual sex or enter into a same-sex marriage because you think its sinful, you are a conservative christian. When you say you want the state to discriminate against gays for not complying with your theological beliefs, you are a bigot.
Exactly. He’s entitled to believe that homosexuality is sinful and that marriage is between a man and a woman. Fine, but it is bigoted to think that gays should be denied equality under the law if you believe that.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:07:50pm |
re: #164 Charles Johnson
Yeah but not good health care and schools. Can’t have that. Seriously, I get it. I thought Bloomberg’s law was silly but I think it’s sad that the right cares more about protecting the right to get as much soda as you want than the state being able ot provide a good education, provide health care to those who need it, etc.
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:08:00pm |
re: #164 Charles Johnson
Partial to porn and gaming myself. A gun never made me happy and I’ve sworn off sodas.
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:09:38pm |
#CPAC audience Boo’s Social Security. Cheer at Enron taking control of Social Security….— Ina (@InaMaziarcz) March 14, 2013
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Charles Johnson Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:10:13pm |
Oh God no. They’re trying to be funny. This is really painful. I may need to turn it off.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:10:34pm |
re: #169 Charles Johnson
Oh God no. They’re trying to be funny. This is really painful. I may need to turn it off.
Oh hell no.
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dragonath Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:10:57pm |
re: #168 Vicious Babushka
The entire audience is probably on Social Security…
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Eclectic Cyborg Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:11:50pm |
re: #167 Kragar (Antichrist )
Partial to porn and gaming myself. A gun never made me happy and I’ve sworn off sodas.
Amen to that. My health is much better without that HFCS loaded junk in my body.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:11:50pm |
I think I’ve come off with one thing after a half day of CPAC. And it’s that conservatives don’t want to learn a damn thing from the past elections.
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:14:00pm |
re: #174 Eclectic Cyborg
Amen to that. My health is much better without that HFCS loaded junk in my body.
The caffeine withdrawal was the worst part I think. I haven’t had a soda since November.
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Single-handed sailor Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:14:29pm |
re: #174 Eclectic Cyborg
Amen to that. My health is much better without that HFCS loaded junk in my body.
I just dilute the hfcs with rum.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:14:31pm |
Need to quit soda. Damned addictive personality.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:14:51pm |
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iossarian Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:15:32pm |
re: #176 Kragar (Antichrist )
The caffeine withdrawal was the worst part I think. I haven’t had a soda since November.
Good for you. I recently managed to kick coffee via tea.
Soon we’ll all be eating raw fruit and vegetables.
/liberal nirvana
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erik_t Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:16:17pm |
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Charles Johnson Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:16:47pm |
Tucker Carlson: Iranian nukes are “scary, but not as bad as Medicare.”
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:17:03pm |
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lawhawk Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:17:16pm |
re: #174 Eclectic Cyborg
I stock up on the real sugar stuff (Kosher for Passover Coke, for instance). It’s a taste thing too. I’ve cut back on soda consumption generally, drinking flavored seltzers instead, but when I need a caffeine kick, Coke’s it.
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:17:28pm |
re: #180 iossarian
Good for you. I recently managed to kick coffee via tea.
Soon we’ll all be eating raw fruit and vegetables.
/liberal nirvana
I’ve tried to limit myself to only eating meat at dinner time. Sticking with cereal and oatmeal for breakfast. Yogurt and fruit for lunch. Weekends I relax a little because of sleeping in, going out with the family for meals, etc.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:17:32pm |
re: #182 Charles Johnson
Tucker Carlson: Iranian nukes are “scary, but not as bad as Medicare.”
Medicare is so bad that the Tea Partiers wanted the government to take their hands off of it. And I realize Tucker’s trying to be funny but that’s just stupid and not even funny.
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lawhawk Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:18:26pm |
re: #182 Charles Johnson
Right, except for all those people who’d be screwed if there wasn’t Medicare in place at all. That’s the scary part.
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Gus Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:19:34pm |
They’re actually using “game show hostesses” in mini-dresses / CPAC Paul Begala vs Tucker Carlson “debate.” #p2 #tlot twitter.com/Gus_802/status…— Gus (@Gus_802) March 14, 2013
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Political Atheist Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:20:32pm |
re: #188 Gus
Looks like a ring girl in a dress instead of a string bikini.
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iossarian Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:21:22pm |
re: #185 Kragar (Antichrist )
I’ve tried to limit myself to only eating meat at dinner time. Sticking with cereal and oatmeal for breakfast. Yogurt and fruit for lunch. Weekends I relax a little because of sleeping in, going out with the family for meals, etc.
Marrying a vegetarian (who’s cool with me occasionally eating meat) was perhaps the best thing that ever happened to me health-wise (it was certainly the best thing that ever happened to me in general).
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:21:30pm |
re: #188 Gus
And Carlson ridiculed Jon Stewart why? At least Jon knows he’s there for shits and giggles.
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The Ghost of a Flea Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:22:24pm |
re: #191 HappyWarrior
And Carlson ridiculed Jon Stewart why? At least Jon knows he’s there for shits and giggles.
IIRC, Jon Stewart has drunk his milkshake repeatedly.
Also, Carlson is a douche.
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:22:35pm |
re: #184 lawhawk
I stock up on the real sugar stuff (Kosher for Passover Coke, for instance). It’s a taste thing too. I’ve cut back on soda consumption generally, drinking flavored seltzers instead, but when I need a caffeine kick, Coke’s it.
KOSHER FOR PASSOVER COKE IS AVAILABLE AT OUR LOCAL SUPERMARKET.
There are people who wait all year for this. And they’re not even Jewish.
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lawhawk Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:23:34pm |
re: #188 Gus
All that’s missing is Michael Buffer - let’s get ready to rumbleeeeee . /
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The Ghost of a Flea Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:23:59pm |
re: #194 Vicious Babushka
KOSHER FOR PASSOVER COKE IS AVAILABLE AT OUR LOCAL SUPERMARKET.
There are people who wait all year for this. And they’re not even Jewishl.
(raises hand)
Yep. That would be me. Passover Coke and matzoh farfel.
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The Ghost of a Flea Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:24:18pm |
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:24:39pm |
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dragonath Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:26:20pm |
Instead of soda, I drink this
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:28:36pm |
Former Iron Maiden drummer Clive Burr dies at 56 dlvr.it/34tJGg #breaking #clt— Charlotte Observer (@theobserver) March 14, 2013
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:29:33pm |
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Romantic Heretic Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:31:29pm |
re: #81 Kragar (Antichrist )
We had a similar problem a few years ago here in Ontario. A pathologist turned out to be completely incompetent and a lot of people were released from prison because this guy fucked up big time.
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:32:00pm |
re: #126 GunstarGreen
The problem is that these short-sighted masters of avarice fail to account for the cycle. The more they squeeze their employees, the less money the people have to buy the products, which chokes off the flow. They’re slowly starving themselves by stuffing their gobs full to overflowing with cash, heedless of the fact that it’s making eating difficult.
It’s like you combined the worst, most unappealing and destructive qualities of a narcissist, a hoarder, and a sadist into an entire class of people, and removed all obstacles to their ruinous behavior. And then for good measure handed them an entire political party full of crazies and ass-kissers who are only in government as a CV-building stepping stone to a corporate lobbying job.
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:33:55pm |
#BREAKING: Tentative deal reached over compensation for women whose truck was shot during Dorner search 4.nbcla.com/12TFdCx— NBC Los Angeles (@NBCLA) March 14, 2013
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Gus Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:34:23pm |
re: #202 HappyWarrior
That’s all this whole event is.
No vision. No creativity. No plans. Just complain and complain.
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Bulworth Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:34:41pm |
re: #188 Gus
They’re actually using “game show hostesses” in mini-dresses / CPAC Paul Begala vs Tucker Carlson “debate.” #p2 #tlot twitter.com/Gus_802/status…
— Gus (@Gus_802) March 14, 2013
Don’t these people have jobz?
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aagcobb Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:36:46pm |
re: #174 Eclectic Cyborg
Amen to that. My health is much better without that HFCS loaded junk in my body.
I’m addicted to Diet Dr. Pepper, I’m diabetic, and its the only diet soda that doesn’t taste like crap to me.
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wrenchwench Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:36:48pm |
re: #209 Bulworth
Don’t these people have jobz?
Yer lookin’ at ‘em.
The female has a part time temp job. No hazard pay for those heels, either.
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Bulworth Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:38:54pm |
re: #201 NJDhockeyfan
He was the drummer on their first three albums, which were my favorites of the band. Although Piece of Mind was pretty good, too.
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:39:22pm |
re: #204 Romantic Heretic
We had a similar problem a few years ago here in Ontario. A pathologist turned out to be completely incompetent and a lot of people were released from prison because this guy fucked up big time.
There was a pretty heinous pathologist in the Texas Panhandle several years ago. I remember one of the “bodies stored in an abandoned house” stories from the newspapers but I’ve never found an inking of it on line.
Because he covered a rural area, Dr. Erdmann did not always work under ideal conditions. In cases of decomposing bodies, many of the smaller hospitals denied him access to autopsy space because of the stink. As a result, he performed autopsies in funeral home garages, hospital loading docks, parking lots, and abandoned houses. Dr. Erdmann once performed an autopsy on a door laid across two 55-gallon drums.
It wasn’t just his take-charge work ethic that made Dr. Erdmann so popular with detectives and county prosecutors. What they especially liked about this pathologist was his unabashed eagerness to tailor his autopsy findings to their law enforcement needs. If the prosecution needed a victim or suspect to have alcohol in his or her blood, no problem. It didn’t matter that no blood-alcohol test had been administered. If a certain time of death was necessary to incriminate a defendant, Dr. Erdmann would provide it, even if such a precise estimation was not scientifically feasible.
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darthstar Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:39:32pm |
So…at least we know why Christy wasn’t there…
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Dr Lizardo Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:40:31pm |
re: #199 Kragar (Antichrist )
For those of you tired with CPAC;
Kick Ass 2: Red Band Trailer
[Embedded content]
I’m there.
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Blue Point Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:40:54pm |
Welcome To Buzz Kill Bitch Fest What About Me I Don’t Need NO Government That’s Why I Run Boy Look At The Stupid Assembled Here Looks Like Planters Nut Factory Exploded Can I Have Some More Derp Please Touch My Mingle Stick Public Jack Off 2013.
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Shiplord Kirel Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:41:56pm |
I don’t drink soda either, haven’t since I was about 14. Can’t stand the sticky consistency of the sugared stuff. As for the no-sugar alternatives, I have always been deeply suspicious of artificial sweeteners. I am told, for example, that uranium oxide is sweet to the taste. I don’t know who discovered this or what became of them. Soda sweetener might just be a sweeter and more soluble formulation of that yellow-cake cheese-like substance they include in Kraft Mac and Cheese Dinner.
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Charles Johnson Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:42:26pm |
Rick Perry: “The ‘ministration’s policy of benign glect.”— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 14, 2013
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:43:15pm |
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darthstar Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:44:09pm |
re: #218 Charles Johnson
In Perry’s defense, he finds it difficult to pronounce the phoneme ‘neg’ without following it up with something that rhymes with ‘her’.
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Dr Lizardo Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:45:38pm |
re: #220 Kragar (Antichrist )
“You got some dog on your balls.”
It looks good. Nice to see they got the original cast back….I can’t picture Hit Girl being played by anyone else but Chloë Grace Moretz.
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:45:45pm |
re: #212 Bulworth
[Link: news.yahoo.com…]
He was the drummer on their first three albums, which were my favorites of the band. Although Piece of Mind was pretty good, too.
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:46:19pm |
re: #223 Dr Lizardo
It looks good. Nice to see they got the original cast back….I can’t picture Hit Girl being played by anyone else but Chloë Grace Moretz.
Yeah, didn’t quite recognize Jim Carrey at first.
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:47:55pm |
Companies sanctioned today under #Iran Sanctions Act, Iran Threat Reduction & #Syria Human Rights Act. go.usa.gov/2Nc4— Department of State (@StateDept) March 14, 2013
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dragonath Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:49:50pm |
re: #217 Shiplord Kirel
Same thing with lead “sugar”. Who figured this out, beats me.
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Dr Lizardo Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:50:24pm |
re: #225 Kragar (Antichrist )
Yeah, didn’t quite recognize Jim Carrey at first.
Neither did I! I was wondering, how the hell is that?!
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:51:24pm |
re: #228 Dr Lizardo
Neither did I! I was wondering, how the hell is that?!
Yeah, good make up job there. The main character also looks like he’s bulked up a lot from the first movie.
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The Ghost of a Flea Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:53:48pm |
re: #208 Gus
No vision. No creativity. No plans. Just complain and complain.
Their chief weapons are complaining and indignation.
And a manufactured sense of oppression.
Their chief weapons are complaining, indignation, and a manufactured sense of oppression.
And utter contempt of the civil liberties of people outside their clade.
Amongst their weaponry are complaining, indignation, a manufactured sense of oppression, and utter contempt of the civil liberties of people outside their clade.
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Romantic Heretic Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:53:48pm |
re: #126 GunstarGreen
As said, an ideal money supply is not increasing, or at the very least not increasing with any sort of speed — that’s inflation, and makes your dollar buy less than it did before because there are more dollars to go around for the same products.
My take on inflation is not that it is a problem, it is a diagnostic tool. Like the human body temperature.
A human with a temperature of 106F (41C) is very sick. Something fun like a hemorrhagic fever or meth addiction. Similarly someone with a temperature of 95F (35C) is also very sick. Maybe bleeding out, or has been in ice cold water.
In either case, the temperature isn’t the problem. It’s an indicator there is a problem.
I believe it’s the same with inflation. A certain amount indicates a healthy economy. Wide variations from the norm means problems.
My take on it.
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Slap Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:55:30pm |
re: #221 darthstar
Heh. Reminds me of Lenny Bruce’s routine about LBJ just after the JFK assassination, where he riffed on southerner LBJ having trouble pronouncing the word “negro” without slipping….
Sadly, I can’t remember which recording it was on. But it was DEFINITELY funny.
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Charles Johnson Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:57:17pm |
re: #233 Slap
Heh. Reminds me of Lenny Bruce’s routine about LBJ just after the JFK assassination, where he riffed on southerner LBJ having trouble pronouncing the word “negro” without slipping….
Sadly, I can’t remember which recording it was on. But it was DEFINITELY funny.
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Eclectic Cyborg Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:58:50pm |
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wrenchwench Thu, Mar 14, 2013 12:59:24pm |
Watch this video of pi transposed into song - amazing j.mp/ZQD0DX HT @adamclarkestes— DISCOVER Magazine (@DiscoverMag) March 14, 2013
Happy Pi day, 3-14, 1:59 (MDT).
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:00:13pm |
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Eclectic Cyborg Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:01:15pm |
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Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:01:51pm |
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aagcobb Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:03:15pm |
re: #213 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
The FBI had a bullet analyst whose claims were pure BS. It resulted in at least one high profile murderer’s conviction being overturned.
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William Barnett-Lewis Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:03:54pm |
re: #194 Vicious Babushka
KOSHER FOR PASSOVER COKE IS AVAILABLE AT OUR LOCAL SUPERMARKET.
There are people who wait all year for this. And they’re not even Jewishl.
As for those who don’t need kosher, why wait? Mexican Coke is the same thing.
Still, I prefer a nice cup of american style black drip coffee.
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palomino Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:04:01pm |
re: #208 Gus
No vision. No creativity. No plans. Just complain and complain.
That’s really the core of the problem with today’s GOP. They are a protest party, not a governing party. If there’s a stalemate in DC, they win (or at least feel like they have) since what they want is generally the status quo with less spending.
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Tigger2 Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:05:03pm |
re: #207 NJDhockeyfan
I don’t see why this was ever an issue, The cops fucked up and distroyed her truck they should just quit crying and buy her a new one.
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Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:05:13pm |
My wife just emailed me:
today we are basically making the cervical cancer equivalent of dippin dots don’t be jealous
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:06:31pm |
Well, my wife just informed me that our very religious neighbors, the ones who were spending $1200 a month on private school so their kids wouldn’t learn about evolution or homosexuals, spent the entire morning screaming at each other and his wife just announced “I’m fucking tired of your bullshit”, packed her kids and a few bags into their minivan and drove off.
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aagcobb Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:08:51pm |
re: #237 Kragar (Antichrist )
But the crowd came around as he went on to suggest that an economic message, not immigration, was what was needed to win over Hispanic voters.
As frickin Newt Gingrich pointed out, when you tell someone you want to deport grandma, its going to be hard to get them to listen to your message on the economy.
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erik_t Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:08:59pm |
The party’s principal fiscal road map, Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-Wis.) budget blueprint, has left some Republican conservatives dissatisfied because it would not repeal the Obama administration’s healthcare reform law entirely.
“I think the Ryan budget is a strong positive step that doesn’t go nearly far enough,” said Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas)
These fucking people are going to ruin my fucking country.
Thanks for governing, assholes.
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iossarian Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:09:13pm |
re: #245 Kragar (Antichrist )
Well, my wife just informed me that our very religious neighbors, the ones who were spending $1200 a month on private school so their kids wouldn’t learn about evolution or homosexuals, spent the entire morning screaming at each other and his wife just announced “I’m fucking tired of your bullshit”, packed her kids and a few bags into their minivan and drove off.
My wife just called to ask what type of batteries I need: AA or AAA?
Wives, eh?
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:09:22pm |
Homosexuality is an illness, says Iranian official whose job is to protect human rights: gu.com/p/3eegk/tw via @guardian #Iran #gay— Saeed Kamali Dehghan (@SaeedKD) March 14, 2013
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Eclectic Cyborg Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:11:24pm |
re: #248 iossarian
My wife just called to ask what type of batteries I need: AA or AAA?
Wives, eh?
Real Men use 9 volt.
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Eclectic Cyborg Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:11:53pm |
re: #249 NJDhockeyfan
Ok, when did Bryan Fischer move to Iran??
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Eclectic Cyborg Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:12:20pm |
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aagcobb Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:13:22pm |
re: #251 Kragar (Antichrist )
Bryan Fischer agrees.
Iran is Fischer’s vision for America; all you have to do is exchange him for the Ayatollah.
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:13:34pm |
Apparently Fischer had Robert Spencer on his show today to discuss how CPAC has been taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood.
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Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:15:27pm |
re: #255 Kragar (Antichrist )
Apparently Fischer had Robert Spencer on his show today to discuss how CPAC has been taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Is it me, or is Geller/Spencer vs CPAC a win-win for rational forces?
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:15:33pm |
Robert Spencer on Islamic infiltration of conservative movement: youtu.be/9_MdFOtfNls via @youtube— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) March 14, 2013
Talking w/ Cliff Kincaid today about the infiltration of the homosexual agenda into the conservative movement. 1:15pm.— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) March 14, 2013
OMG! WEEZ BEING INFULTRATEDZ!
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Lidane Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:15:39pm |
The speed of progress:
The high point for me is the one dude in the 2005 photo with his flip phone. Heh.
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:15:52pm |
re: #256 Feline Fearless Leader
Is it me, or is Geller/Spencer vs CPAC a win-win for rational forces?
Fun to watch at least.
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Skip Intro Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:16:03pm |
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Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:16:43pm |
re: #259 Kragar (Antichrist )
Fun to watch at least.
After you protect your brain cells with a liberal internal application of medicinal alcohol.
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Gus Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:17:05pm |
re: #251 Kragar (Antichrist )
Bryan Fischer agrees.
We should probably tell gay Iranians this to make them feel safer.
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erik_t Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:19:35pm |
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Romantic Heretic Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:20:16pm |
re: #214 darthstar
So…at least we know why Christy wasn’t there…
[Link: firstread.nbcnews.com…]
Um, I thought unions were evil.
American Conservative Union chairman Al Cardenas
I guess this explains a lot about those claiming to be conservatives these days. They’re union members! ///
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:20:56pm |
Next up, Bryan will be warning us about womenz infultrating the conserbativs
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Shiplord Kirel Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:21:06pm |
re: #257 Kragar (Antichrist )
OMG! WEEZ BEING INFULTRATEDZ!
COINTELPRO LIVES! Yes, Bryan, we are everywhere. You must treat all new recruits as Soros/FBI plants. You must have them followed, check into their backgrounds, maybe bug their houses. They will notice this and assume it is the liberal surveillance machine in action. The paranoia will then grow until your heads explode and your movement disintegrates, all without a single actual infiltrator or spy being deployed.
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The Ghost of a Flea Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:21:22pm |
re: #264 erik_t
Gotta keep that tent nice and cozy.
At this point, it’s less of a tent, more of a hoop skirt.*
*I was going to go for poncho, but then realized that was a bit too multicutural for CPAC.
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:22:35pm |
re: #268 The Ghost of a Flea
At this point, it’s less of a tent, more of a hoop skirt.*
[sub]*I was going to go for poncho, but then realized that was a bit too “ethnic” for CPAC.[/sub]
Is that a Sears poncho?
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kirkspencer Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:23:46pm |
re: #268 The Ghost of a Flea
At this point, it’s less of a tent, more of a hoop skirt.*
[sub]*I was going to go for poncho, but then realized that was a bit too “ethnic” for CPAC.[/sub]
I suppose if you’re willing to ignore the cheeto(tm) stains you could use the bathrobe.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:23:55pm |
re: #257 Kragar (Antichrist )
OMG! WEEZ BEING INFULTRATEDZ!
Haha can’t have pro gay rights people within the conservative movement. God what a joke this movement is.
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Charles Johnson Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:24:26pm |
Coming up at 5pm ET:
“STOP THIS: Threats, Harassment, Intimidation, Slander and Bullying from the Obama Administration,” featuring Breitbrat Ben Shapiro.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:24:36pm |
I didn’t vote or Rand Paul or Teh Turtle, but I’m still stuck with them as my senators. So, please be kind to me the newbie…it’s hell trying to be able to think when I live in a place where every.single.day is like being at CPAC…
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:25:51pm |
re: #272 Charles Johnson
Coming up at 5pm ET:
“STOP THIS: Threats, Harassment, Intimidation, Slander and Bullying from the Obama Administration,” featuring Breitbrat Ben Shapiro.
Irony shields set at overcharge.
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Tigger2 Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:26:59pm |
re: #273 Backwoods_Sleuth
I didn’t vote or Rand Paul or Teh Turtle, but I’m still stuck with them as my senators. So, please be kind to me the newbie…it’s hell trying to be able to think when I live in a place where every.single.day is like being at CPAC…
I’m sure glad we left KY when I was young, god I was even from The Turtles city. lol
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Backwoods_Sleuth Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:28:30pm |
re: #237 Kragar (Antichrist )
that would be the racist cranky_wanker or whatever his twitter name is?
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Gus Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:29:06pm |
re: #272 Charles Johnson
Coming up at 5pm ET:
“STOP THIS: Threats, Harassment, Intimidation, Slander and Bullying from the Obama Administration,” featuring Breitbrat Ben Shapiro.
@green_footballs Somebody call the whambulance! twitter.com/Gus_802/status…— Gus (@Gus_802) March 14, 2013
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wrenchwench Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:29:10pm |
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:30:10pm |
re: #273 Backwoods_Sleuth
I didn’t vote or Rand Paul or Teh Turtle, but I’m still stuck with them as my senators. So, please be kind to me the newbie…it’s hell trying to be able to think when I live in a place where every.single.day is like being at CPAC…
Welcome, maybe you can answer a question.
What the hell do you guys put in that jelly? It tastes terrible.
/rimshot
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:30:32pm |
re: #272 Charles Johnson
Coming up at 5pm ET:
“STOP THIS: Threats, Harassment, Intimidation, Slander and Bullying from the Obama Administration,” featuring Breitbrat Ben Shapiro.
Coming from the Friends of Hamas slander spreader, this is pure gold. But go on Ben please tell us why Obama’s team and not you and Breitbart.com are the mean bullies. Really, we’d love to hear you say it with a straight face while we know that you accused the Secretary of Defense of being a Hamas supporter.
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aagcobb Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:31:34pm |
re: #273 Backwoods_Sleuth
I didn’t vote or Rand Paul or Teh Turtle, but I’m still stuck with them as my senators. So, please be kind to me the newbie…it’s hell trying to be able to think when I live in a place where every.single.day is like being at CPAC…
Welcome, hatchling, from Frankfort Ky.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:33:00pm |
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Romantic Heretic Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:33:08pm |
re: #255 Kragar (Antichrist )
Apparently Fischer had Robert Spencer on his show today to discuss how CPAC has been taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Mr. Spencer? Has it occurred to you that you’re such a big asshole even CPAC is embarrassed to be associated with you?
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The Ghost of a Flea Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:33:46pm |
re: #280 Kragar (Antichrist )
Welcome, maybe you can answer a question.
What the hell do you guys put in that jelly? It tastes terrible.
/rimshot
Sexual repression and petroleum byproducts.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:34:36pm |
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Romantic Heretic Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:34:59pm |
re: #267 Shiplord Kirel
You, sir, are evil. I knew there was reason I liked you.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:35:01pm |
re: #284 Romantic Heretic
Mr. Spencer? Has it occurred to you that you’re such a big asshole even CPAC is embarrassed to be associated with you?
Seriously, it’s quite an accomplishment when CPAC wants nothing to you because you’re too nuts and then you go out and prove it by accusing them of being Muslim Brotherhood infiltrated. I mean I don’t like CPAC either but really, Spencer, infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood. I swear, that’s this dumbass and his stupid pal Pam’s response to anyone who doesn’t want anything to with them, THEY MUST BE MUSLIM TERRORISTS. Or it could be that your batshit is annoying.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:35:41pm |
A short Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer, everyone’s in the Muslim Brotherhood but us!
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Backwoods_Sleuth Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:35:51pm |
re: #280 Kragar (Antichrist )
Welcome, maybe you can answer a question.
What the hell do you guys put in that jelly? It tastes terrible.
/rimshot
Obviously it needz mohr moonshine….
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Backwoods_Sleuth Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:37:35pm |
re: #282 aagcobb
Welcome, hatchling, from Frankfort Ky.
thank you from a holler in the extreme backwoods of eastern Kentucky where the sun doesn’t rise until at least 11 am.
Ever.
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Tigger2 Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:38:05pm |
re: #275 Tigger2
I’m sure glad we left KY when I was young, god I was even from The Turtles city. lol
Now I live in that great bastion of liberal thinking with Mike Pence that great centrist leader as my Governor./////////// Out of the frying pan into the fire. lol
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:38:24pm |
Its becoming increasing obvious that Gellar and Spencer are Muslim Brotherhood operatives whose mission is to destroy the Counter-Jihad by making them look like a bunch of paranoid lunatics.
///
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Big Steve Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:41:18pm |
re: #273 Backwoods_Sleuth
I didn’t vote or Rand Paul or Teh Turtle, but I’m still stuck with them as my senators. So, please be kind to me the newbie…it’s hell trying to be able to think when I live in a place where every.single.day is like being at CPAC…
Tis ok…..his father was my congressman for decades and we survived and prospered just fine.
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darthstar Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:42:45pm |
Quote of the day (honesty from a Republican!):
“The politics are going to overwhelm the policy. It is good politics to oppose the black guy in the White House right now, especially for the Republican Party.”
— South Carolina state Rep. Kris Crawford (R), quoted by the Charleston Regional Business Journal.
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:43:03pm |
Gays Out, Racists in at CPAC, Again
Last year we wrote about how CPAC allowed notorious white nationalists to speak on multiple panels but banned the gay conservative group GOProud. This year the CPAC organizers, who aren’t entirely oblivious to the 2012 election, are trying to emphasize diversity. There’s even a panel entitled, “Conservative Inclusion: Promoting the Freedom Message to all Americans,” which boasts a racially diverse lineup of conservative activists.
“Conservative inclusion” is a nice idea, but it doesn’t go very far at CPAC. For the second year in a row, the gay conservative group GOProud has been banned from the conference. So at best, “inclusion” at CPAC means “straights only.”
Even more telling is the roster of sponsors and exhibitors at CPAC. Most troubling is the inclusion of the anti-immigrant group ProEnglish, which is run by longtime white nationalist organizer Bob Vandervoort. The Institute for Research & Education on Human Rights has reported extensively on his activities:
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dragonath Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:44:00pm |
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:44:36pm |
re: #298 Kragar (Antichrist )
Yet the LCR and GOProud still insist that the GOP and conservatism is more gay friendly. Yeah guys remind me which party and ideology is defending DOMA to the death or flipped its shit when Obama proposed repealing DADT. Bueller?!?
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:45:30pm |
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Bulworth Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:45:52pm |
re: #255 Kragar (Antichrist )
Apparently Fischer had Robert Spencer on his show today to discuss how CPAC has been taken over by the Muslim Brotherhood.
Fischer, Spencer, CPAC, MB…there’s so much kooky in that I just have to laugh.
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Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:48:06pm |
re: #258 Lidane
The speed of progress:
[Link: www.facebook.com…]
The high point for me is the one dude in the 2005 photo with his flip phone. Heh.
That looks exactly like the phone I have today. I guess I’m cutting-edge for 8 years ago.
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EPR-radar Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:48:48pm |
re: #300 HappyWarrior
Yet the LCR and GOProud still insist that the GOP and conservatism is more gay friendly. Yeah guys remind me which party and ideology is defending DOMA to the death or flipped its shit when Obama proposed repealing DADT. Bueller?!?
The LCR and GOProud consist of fools with enough money to think they won’t be nailed by the social conservative vipers they are cozening up to.
Their money puts them far down on the target list, because easier targets are preferred. However, no amount of money can get them off the target list.
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Lidane Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:49:03pm |
Heh:
#CPAC2013 is here just in time to make yesterday’s pope business seem less old-fashioned.— CC:Indecision (@indecision) March 14, 2013
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:49:38pm |
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:49:42pm |
Man commits suicide in front of children during gun safety class
A 50-year-old man shot and killed himself in front of a group of people, including children, who were attending a gun safety class Sunday in Bellevue, Washington, according to The Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
Brian J. Parry reportedly used a pistol provided to participants to end his life in front of about a dozen people. A coroner’s report issued earlier in the week ruled his death a suicide, the Intelligencer noted.
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dragonath Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:51:38pm |
re: #306 HappyWarrior
Remember kids nothing says hip like William Buckley, Jr!
In high school, the conservatives used to wear shirts blaming democrats for Joseph Stalin, so no, I don’t think style is very high up on their list.
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The Ghost of a Flea Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:52:06pm |
re: #306 HappyWarrior
Remember kids nothing says hip like William Buckley, Jr!
Makin’ arguments about the Civil Rights Act look slightly more clever, mid-20th century style!
Brought to you by: Everybody smokes constantly, even when on TV.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:52:24pm |
re: #308 dragonath
In high school, the conservatives used to wear shirts blaming democrats for Joseph Stalin, so no, I don’t think style is very high up on their list.
Blaming Democrats for Stalin? I don’t even want to touch on how big a fail that is.
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Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:53:03pm |
re: #310 HappyWarrior
Blaming Democrats for Stalin? I don’t even want to touch on how big a fail that is.
Their next poster will say “No Crown For Roosevelt”!
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:53:14pm |
And let’s not forget about the original king of cool, Ronald Reagan! Yeah conservatives, you really get young people.
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Lidane Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:53:59pm |
John Eastman, National Organization For Marriage Leader, Calls Adoption ‘Second-Best Option’
The leader of a prominent anti-gay organization called Supreme Court Chief John Roberts’ decision to adopt children the “second-best option,” the AP reports.
“You’re looking at what is the best course societywide to get you the optimal result in the widest variety of cases. That often is not open to people in individual cases. Certainly adoption in families headed, like Chief Roberts’ family is, by a heterosexual couple, is by far the second-best option,” said John Eastman, chairman of the National Organization for Marriage.
Eastman was responding to a question about the Chief Justice’s position on the rights of same-sex couples. Roberts and his wife adopted two children, Jack and Josie, in 2000. Both children are now 12 years old.
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Shiplord Kirel Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:54:01pm |
re: #307 Kragar (Antichrist )
Man commits suicide in front of children during gun safety class
What a jerk. If you’re going to off yourself, please do it in private, or at least away from children. One guy here in Lubbock was considerate enough to pull into the driveway of a fire station before he shot himself, conveniently close to a body bag and professional responders for the aftermath.
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The Ghost of a Flea Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:55:08pm |
re: #312 HappyWarrior
And let’s not forget about the original king of cool, Ronald Reagan! Yeah conservatives, you really get young people.
Numerology and off-book funding of paramilitary fascist organizations is cool.
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:55:26pm |
Census: Record 1 in 3 US counties are now dying
Census data show that 1,135 of the nation’s 3,143 counties are now experiencing “natural decrease,” where deaths exceed births. That’s up from roughly 880 U.S. counties, or 1 in 4, in 2009. Already apparent in Japan and many European nations, natural decrease is now increasingly evident in large swaths of the U.S., much of it rural.
Despite increasing deaths, the U.S. population as a whole continues to grow, boosted by immigration from abroad and relatively higher births among the mostly younger migrants from Mexico, Latin America and Asia.
“These counties are in a pretty steep downward spiral,” said Kenneth Johnson, a senior demographer and sociology professor at the University of New Hampshire, who researched the findings. “The young people leave and the older adults stay in place and age. Unless something dramatic changes — for instance, new development such as a meatpacking plant to attract young Hispanics — these areas are likely to have more and more natural decrease.”
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:56:28pm |
re: #315 The Ghost of a Flea
Numerology and off-book funding of paramilitary fascist organizations is cool.
Oh, it’s way cool. Just like using an imaginary woman on welfare as a scapegoat.
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CarleeCork Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:57:14pm |
re: #178 HappyWarrior
Need to quit soda. Damned addictive personality.
One can of soda contains the equivalent of 27 sugar cubes. Sugar is terrible for the body.
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The Ghost of a Flea Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:57:27pm |
re: #314 Shiplord Kirel
What a jerk. If you’re going to off yourself, please do it in private, or at least away from children. One guy here in Lubbock was considerate enough to pull into the driveway of a fire station before he shot himself, conveniently close to a body bag and professional responders for the aftermath.
Egoistic suicide: where you kill yourself explicitly to hurt or scare other people. It exists, though it’s sort of a rarity and associated with certain types of Axis-2 personality disorders like narcissism and borderline.
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Eclectic Cyborg Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:58:00pm |
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:58:52pm |
Cue the TGDN rage:
Boehner Rejects Defunding Obamacare In Government Spending Bill
On Thursday, House Speaker John Boehner avoided one more tripwire when he rejected conservative demands that Republicans use government funding legislation to pick a fight over defunding the Affordable Care Act.
“Trying to put Obamacare on this vehicle risks shutting down the government,” Boehner told reporters at his weekly Capitol briefing.”That’s not what our goal is. Our goal is to reduce spending.”
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allegro Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:59:45pm |
re: #314 Shiplord Kirel
What a jerk. If you’re going to off yourself, please do it in private, or at least away from children. One guy here in Lubbock was considerate enough to pull into the driveway of a fire station before he shot himself, conveniently close to a body bag and professional responders for the aftermath.
If I read the excerpt right, he went to the gun class to obtain the gun with which to blow his brains out. He didn’t have one of his own so he went to where someone would hand him a gun and say “Here ya go! Shoot!”
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 1:59:58pm |
re: #319 The Ghost of a Flea
Egoistic suicide: where you kill yourself explicitly to hurt or scare other people. It exists, though it’s sort of a rarity and associated with certain types of Axis-2 personality disorders like narcissism and borderline.
Maybe it was the easiest way he could get access to a gun.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:00:52pm |
re: #318 CarleeCork
One can of soda contains the equivalent of 27 sugar cubes. Sugar is terrible for the body.
I know, I know. Old habits die hard though. Soda for me is what cigarettes are for others.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:00:55pm |
re: #313 Lidane
“second best option” because first and best option is all about punishing those unmarried harlots by making them keep those god-gift babies.
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:02:48pm |
re: #324 HappyWarrior
I know, I know. Old habits die hard though. Soda for me is what cigarettes are for others.
I was the same way until my doctor said “lose weight or die young.”
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allegro Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:03:29pm |
re: #325 Backwoods_Sleuth
“second best option” because first and best option is all about punishing those unmarried harlots by making them keep those god-gift babies.
I think that’s only the melanin enriched babies. They want the white babies to sell to nice christian homes.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:04:14pm |
re: #326 Kragar (Antichrist )
I was the same way until my doctor said “lose weight or die young.”
Yeah, I need to do that too especially with my heart condition.
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Kragar (Antichrist ) Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:05:09pm |
After Sandy Hook, NRA Told Gun Makers LaPierre Would Handle It
According to a new BloombergBusinessweek article, the relationship between the country’s most visible gun rights advocacy organization and the industry itself is more complex than commonly understood. In the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in December, for instance, executives from major U.S gun makers contacted the NRA, looking for help handling the public-relations crisis.
“[T]he NRA reassured nervous gun company reps that they could stand down, according to people familiar with the situation,” reporter Paul Barrett wrote in the article published on Thursday. “[NRA chief Wayne] LaPierre would handle it.”
Gun companies have given millions of dollars to the NRA over the years, but according to Barrett, the NRA maintains quite a bit of power over its donors:
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CarleeCork Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:10:31pm |
re: #324 HappyWarrior
I know, I know. Old habits die hard though. Soda for me is what cigarettes are for others.
I used to smoke and drank 3 mountain dews a day. I gave up soda first, lost 20 lbs in two months. I understand.
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Dr Lizardo Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:11:21pm |
Hey, Lizards…..I found a great video that what surely make heads at CPAC go ‘splodey. It’s a science documentary. And the host is Dr. Maggie Aderin-Pocock.
Watch it and you’ll see what I mean.
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wrenchwench Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:11:46pm |
Here’s a grin from @fermilabtoday: Happy pi day! #piday twitpic.com/cbcujd— LosAlamosNationalLab (@LosAlamosNatLab) March 14, 2013
It’s Pi Day, It’s Pi Day! wp.me/p10bqa-5d8— anibundel (@anibundel) March 14, 2013
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wrenchwench Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:15:59pm |
OK, no pi here, but I have to do it anyway.
#Winning twitter.com/nmmnboy/status…— Mark McAllister (@nmmnboy) March 14, 2013
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Decatur Deb Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:19:06pm |
The Pope has already enriched the lives of many people. His odds on one of the remaining Irish betting sites was 1 in 33.
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Lidane Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:19:31pm |
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:23:55pm |
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Lidane Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:24:26pm |
Wow. Senate budget committee Rs just opposed measure to make it harder for corporations to pay NO taxes: washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-lin…— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) March 14, 2013
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Bubblehead II Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:28:37pm |
re: #333 Dr Lizardo
Got the video opened up in second window. Get to watch it and keep up with LGF.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:29:45pm |
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Dr Lizardo Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:30:04pm |
re: #343 Bubblehead II
It’s fascinating, and the host is not only enthusiastic about the subject, but is good at explaining things at the level of the average layman.
CPAC would go nuts if you showed that video there.
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Mich-again Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:31:49pm |
re: #321 Kragar (Antichrist )
Cue the TGDN rage:
Boehner Rejects Defunding Obamacare In Government Spending Bill
John Boehner is like a dad driving a station wagon full of whiny kids.
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Targetpractice Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:31:53pm |
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freetoken Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:33:22pm |
Democracy in action:
Colt shuts plant, workers talk to Conn. lawmakers
The president of one of the nation’s oldest gun manufacturers closed down his Connecticut factory Thursday morning and bused 400 of his workers to the state Capitol so they could personally urge lawmakers not to pass gun control legislation that they say could risk their livelihoods.
Dennis Veilleux, president of the Hartford-based Colt’s Manufacturing Co., said even though he has spoken with legislators and Gov. Dannel P. Malloy’s staff about his trepidations several times, he believes they don’t truly understand the financial ramifications of the legislation being proposed in the wake of the deadly Dec. 14 massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown.
[…]
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thedopefishlives Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:34:12pm |
Evening Lizardim. How goes the derp-fest that is CPAC?
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:34:22pm |
I would stand in line, to shove a pie in his face.
Lline to meet Paul Ryan at #CPAC. Those waiting encouraged to sign up for mailing list, Tweet with #teamryan twitter.com/bykowicz/statu…— Julie Bykowicz (@bykowicz) March 14, 2013
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:35:55pm |
Robert Spencer says #CPAC has become a “sharia-compliant conference” where Islamic law has been implemented: bit.ly/152HpD5— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) March 14, 2013
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freetoken Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:36:45pm |
re: #352 Vicious Babushka
Loving the circular firing squads.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:36:55pm |
re: #352 Vicious Babushka
Sharia compliant conference? Spencer does know that they’re going to be in a major US city during St. Patrick’s Day weekend right?
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thedopefishlives Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:36:56pm |
re: #352 Vicious Babushka
He’s just butthurt because they refused to let his particular brand of crazy in the door.
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erik_t Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:37:01pm |
re: #352 Vicious Babushka
How do I ensure I’m Sharia-compliant? Is it anything like ISO-9000 certification?
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EPR-radar Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:37:03pm |
re: #340 Lidane
The GOP is really letting it all hang out these days.
How much in the way of voter suppression and other assorted dirty tricks is it going to take to manufacture election ‘victories’ for a platform of such naked greed?
They truly do have the CEO mentality when it comes to government. All costs to be borne by the poor and middle class, all benefits to be reaped by the top fraction of a per cent.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:38:38pm |
re: #351 Vicious Babushka
That is just sad. Do none of these children know how to grow their own pot yet? Good grief, it’s a freakin’ weed (that’s why it’s called WEED!)
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Dr Lizardo Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:39:02pm |
re: #356 erik_t
You have to go to your local mosque and collect your Sharia9000 Certifcate of Compliance from the imam.
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Targetpractice Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:39:24pm |
re: #340 Lidane
At this point, anybody who says “both sides are at fault” needs their head examined.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:39:54pm |
I’m amused that they’re standing in line to get spammed by Rand Paul because that’s what happens when you sign up with someone running for president.
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Mich-again Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:40:28pm |
re: #351 Vicious Babushka
Theme music for that crowd.. Detroit’s own Electric Six She’s White
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Bulworth Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:40:50pm |
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Backwoods_Sleuth Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:40:51pm |
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:42:26pm |
re: #363 Bulworth
Well, they did ban teh gay, so maybe he’s onto something….
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Yes the worst threat of all, gay shariah!
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Lidane Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:44:57pm |
re: #352 Vicious Babushka
WTF. Is this because Norquist is at CPAC and Geller and Spencer aren’t?
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Dr Lizardo Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:45:11pm |
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Backwoods_Sleuth Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:48:01pm |
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Dr Lizardo Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:48:04pm |
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:49:13pm |
Heh.
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:49:15pm |
To be clear, I would not waste a perfectly good well-baked, delicious pie on the stupid face of Paul Ryan, but I would totally paste him with one of those shaving-cream pies like Soupy Sales.
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HappyWarrior Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:49:50pm |
re: #370 Dr Lizardo
LOL!!
I am just glad I finally got a good pun in. I am usually terrible with them.
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FemNaziBitch Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:50:57pm |
I’m still thinking about the Scott Prouty interview on MSNBC. (the guy who took and released the 47% video of Romney).
There isn’t a Wiki on him yet and Ed, the interviewer from the Ed Show, really didn’t delve into the guy’s past or education.
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Kid A Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:51:52pm |
Just arrived in Dallas to catch a couple of Stars hockey games with some buddies. Thanks for the CPAC entertainment while on the road, lizards. I haven’t laughed this hard at the idiocy since, well, yesterday.
HOCKEY IS A SPORT POPULATED BY EURO-WEENIES FROM COMMIE COUNTRY!!!! USA! USA! USA!
Or something like that… Go Ducks tonight, and Hawks on Saturday! (I hate Dallas, actually)
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thedopefishlives Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:52:17pm |
re: #375 Kid A
Just arrived in Dallas to catch a couple of Stars hockey games with some buddies. Thanks for the CPAC entertainment while on the road, lizards. I haven’t laughed this hard at the idiocy since, well, yesterday.
HOCKEY IS A SPORT POPULATED BY EURO-WEENIES FROM COMMIE COUNTRY!!!! USA! USA! USA!Or something like that… Go Ducks tonight, and Hawks on Saturday! (I hate Dallas, actually)
Canadians are Euro-weenies now? When did that happen?
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FemNaziBitch Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:53:03pm |
re: #354 HappyWarrior
Sharia compliant conference? Spencer does know that they’re going to be in a major US city during St. Patrick’s Day weekend right?
I think he meant the Christian version of Sharia. You know, repression, repression, perversion, perversion .…
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NJDhockeyfan Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:53:20pm |
re: #371 NJDhockeyfan
Heh.
I messed that one up.
This joke is funny.
New joke in #iran - #Assad sends message to Ahmadinejad: if I die don’t come to my funeral, I am very sensitive about my mother”— Meir Javedanfar (@MeirJa) March 14, 2013
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Kid A Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:55:04pm |
re: #376 thedopefishlives
RUSKIES!!! SWEDES! CANADA IS AMERICA’S HAT!!!!!
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FemNaziBitch Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:55:06pm |
New thread and I just started the Moon Video.
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darthstar Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:55:26pm |
Ugh…reading resumes is so much fun. Hey, you’ve got 20 years of experience and you still have your college GPA on your resume? 3.5? Awesome…you were a B student!
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thedopefishlives Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:55:48pm |
re: #379 Kid A
RUSKIES!!! SWEDES! CANADA IS AMERICA’S HAT!!!!!
Hey, be nice to our Swedes. Most of them are polite enough. It’s them damn Norwegians you have to watch out for./
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FemNaziBitch Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:56:29pm |
Didn’t a Franz Leiber novel explore the subject of the planet without the moon? The Wanderer???
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Backwoods_Sleuth Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:57:52pm |
re: #374 FemNaziBitch
I’m still thinking about the Scott Prouty interview on MSNBC. (the guy who took and released the 47% video of Romney).
There isn’t a Wiki on him yet and Ed, the interviewer from the Ed Show, really didn’t delve into the guy’s past or education.
on wiki at en.wikipedia.org but awaiting wiki’s “notability guildeline for biographies”.
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 2:58:11pm |
Vincent DePaul truck came to our house this afternoon and said that the living room sectional I wanted to donate WAS TOO CRAPPY FOR THEM and they refused to accept it.
That sucks because our new furniture is being delivered on Sunday.
Zedushka found a junk hauler to take it away but he has a sad that Vincent DePaul thought our furniture sucked.
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Dr Lizardo Thu, Mar 14, 2013 3:00:10pm |
re: #383 FemNaziBitch
The video I linked to on YouTube is an interesting documentary about the effect of the Moon, and how much it’s necessary.
What I was referring to in that it would drive the RWNJ’s bonkers is that
A) it’s science!
B) it deals with evolution!
C) The presenter is a black female scientist!!
Hat trick of wingnut head ‘splodey factors.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Thu, Mar 14, 2013 3:00:31pm |
re: #375 Kid A
Just arrived in Dallas to catch a couple of Stars hockey games with some buddies. Thanks for the CPAC entertainment while on the road, lizards. I haven’t laughed this hard at the idiocy since, well, yesterday.
Or something like that… Go Ducks tonight, and Hawks on Saturday! (I hate Dallas, actually)
“commie country”? Is that what they are calling Canada now?
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Randall Gross Thu, Mar 14, 2013 3:02:54pm |
re: #383 FemNaziBitch
There was that Fritz Leiber story “A Pail of Air” in which the Earth has no Moon nor Sun after a dark sun pulls us out of orbit and away.
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kirkspencer Thu, Mar 14, 2013 3:02:57pm |
re: #381 darthstar
Ugh…reading resumes is so much fun. Hey, you’ve got 20 years of experience and you still have your college GPA on your resume? 3.5? Awesome…you were a B student!
You would not believe the conflicting advice out there about resumes. I’ve got a bunch, all redesigned by people who “see resumes all the time”.
Make it a standard layout/format, but make it stand out. Keep it short, but put in your experience - and don’t forget the proofs for your claims.
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thedopefishlives Thu, Mar 14, 2013 3:03:13pm |
Speaking of Canadians, I know they have a reputation for politeness (and I’ve no doubt this has been linked already), but after seeing This YouTube clip, I don’t particularly feel like tangling with one.
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Bubblehead II Thu, Mar 14, 2013 3:06:44pm |
re: #388 Randall Gross
There was that Fritz Leiber story “A Pail of Air” in which the Earth has no Moon nor Sun after a dark sun pulls us out of orbit and away.
I remember that one. The kid has to go out and collect frozen Oxygen. Iirc, at the end, they get “rescued” and the rescuers get drunk from the high O2 levels in their shelter.
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darthstar Thu, Mar 14, 2013 3:07:01pm |
re: #389 kirkspencer
You would not believe the conflicting advice out there about resumes. I’ve got a bunch, all redesigned by people who “see resumes all the time”.
Make it a standard layout/format, but make it stand out. Keep it short, but put in your experience - and don’t forget the proofs for your claims.
His was a laundry list of keywords and gibberish. I told the recruiter I didn’t even want to talk to him. Not a single detail about what he’d done at any of his dozens of contracting gigs…and the fact that he only had four perm positions in 20 years was pretty telling.
I did get a couple of other good resumes though…two I’m very excited about. Love a good engineer on paper.
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Vicious Babushka Thu, Mar 14, 2013 3:07:14pm |
THEY TOTALLY DO! IT’S CALLED COMIC-CON!
I’ve always been amazed that the left doesn’t have it’s own version of #cpac.— john r stanton (@dcbigjohn) March 14, 2013
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chadu Thu, Mar 14, 2013 4:19:17pm |
re: #383 FemNaziBitch
Didn’t a Franz Leiber novel explore the subject of the planet without the moon? The Wanderer???
Don’t know (anybody know?), but I loves me some Leiber.
(Though a couple stories in Swords & Ice Magic and The Knight & Knave of Swords squick me.)