Breitbart.com Continues Stalking the President’s Daughters

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Amazingly, the right wing attack dogs at breitbart.com are continuing to stalk President Obama’s daughters on vacation: Report: First Daughters Now Spring-Breaking on Idaho Slopes.

This is me, just shaking my head at this madness. They have absolutely no concern for the safety of the President’s family. I’ve seen a lot of ugliness from the right wing over the years, but this is something new, and something extremely creepy and disturbing.

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1 darthstar  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:33:46pm

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2 Bulworth  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:35:53pm

And the first daughters’ skiing is relevant information for the public to know, why?

3 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:36:10pm

I didn’t quote any of the comments, but once again they’re full of vile racial slurs and sexism.

4 Big Steve  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:38:04pm
but this is something new,

Hardly…..Bush Daughters

5 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:39:47pm

For fuck’s sake. The Bush sisters used to go out on the town, and that requires a fuckload of Secret Service protection too. I’m sure they went on vacation a bunch as well. And we were in a recession, and in war.

This is totally transparent. It is just hatred for Obama and his family. They’re just children, for fuck’s sake. Adorable children from a two-parent, committed marriage of the type that these people attacking him claim to uphold.

I didn’t like Bush the Sr.’s policies much at all, but he and Barbara really seemed to have a vital connection and it was sweet to see how gallant he was with her. Obama and Michelle are loving, caring parents, a solid marriage, and it’s something that the right wing should be holding up as an ideal. That they can’t bring themselves to do this is the most ungracious petty hatred, whether it’s purely political or racial, it’s just as ugly and shameful.

6 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:41:07pm

re: #4 Big Steve

Hardly…..Bush Daughters

How on earth do you think that article is the same?

7 stabby  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:41:55pm

Next time some mainstream news source even mentions the Breitbarts they need to be reminded that it’s a hate site stalking the Obama’s wife and daughters!

It is NOT just a conservative site, it’s a hate site. It built its reputation using racist slander to make Sharod lose her job.

It’s a platform for serving the Republican party with deniable racism they hoped would defeat Obama by attracting racists to the party and energizing the ones already there. Breitbart was a whining racist who had the ability to hide his racism by distracting attention with temper tantrums on other subjects whenever cornered. His fans are too stupid to the man to hide anything.

8 erik_t  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:42:21pm

re: #6 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

How on earth do you think that article is the same?

A complete lack of critical thinking combined with blinders big enough for a Clydesdale. But we already knew that.

9 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:42:22pm

re: #4 Big Steve

Hardly…..Bush Daughters

Not even close. The Bush daughters got into the news for underage drinking and other bad behavior. You can argue whether the media should have covered these stories, but this is not the same as what’s going on here.

10 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:45:27pm

“Veronica Coffin” (based on Twitter timeline) is either a full-blown white supremacist or an FBI honey trap.

11 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:46:08pm

re: #5 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

For fuck’s sake. The Bush sisters used to go out on the town, and that requires a fuckload of Secret Service protection too. I’m sure they went on vacation a bunch as well. And we were in a recession, and in war.

This is totally transparent. It is just hatred for Obama and his family. They’re just children, for fuck’s sake. Adorable children from a two-parent, committed marriage of the type that these people attacking him claim to uphold.

I didn’t like Bush the Sr.’s policies much at all, but he and Barbara really seemed to have a vital connection and it was sweet to see how gallant he was with him. Obama and Michelle are loving, caring parents, a solid marriage, and it’s something that the right wing should be holding up as an ideal. That they can’t bring themselves to do this is the most ungracious petty hatred, whether it’s purely political or racial, it’s just as ugly and shameful.

I didn’t think I could get any more disgusted with right wing media, but I was wrong.

12 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:47:06pm
13 Interesting Times  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:47:58pm

re: #4 Big Steve

Hardly…..Bush Daughters

This is the third time you’ve either defended, deflected, or tried to distract from the disgusting behavior of breitbart.com. May I ask what the hell is wrong with you?

14 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:48:19pm

And I did find it stupid when people attacked the Bush daughters for drinking and partying. I feel bad for the kids of any president. But this is an entirely different tone. They’re not being attacked on even the weak pretext of bad behavior, they’re solely being attacked because they get nice things.

15 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:48:46pm
16 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:49:41pm
17 iossarian  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:50:36pm

re: #15 Vicious Babushka

The whole point of capitalism is that the folks at the top of the pile get to go on nice vacations and have lots of stuff.

The Republicans just can’t take it because the top guy in this case happens to be a black man.

18 Varek Raith  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:51:00pm

re: #15 Vicious Babushka

re: #16 Vicious Babushka

Excuse me, I have to go outside and scream before my brain explodes.

19 stabby  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:51:29pm

re: #14 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Agreed.

I also vaguely remember someone saying creepy, threatening things about Chelsie Clinton too. Maybe letting people know where she was, I think this was even a little AFTER Clinton left office.

But that’s “someone” not a whole crowd.

20 Interesting Times  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:52:41pm

re: #14 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

And I did find it stupid when people attacked the Bush daughters for drinking and partying. I feel bad for the kids of any president. But this is an entirely different tone. They’re not being attacked on even the weak pretext of bad behavior, they’re solely being attacked because they get nice things.

And let’s not forget what Chelsea Clinton, a minor child at the time, was subjected to by defacto GOP leader Rush Limbaugh.

So yeah, Big Breitbart Defender may be right - this isn’t new (certainly as far as the rabid right goes)

21 wrenchwench  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:52:50pm

re: #4 Big Steve

Hardly…..Bush Daughters

If you don’t see a difference, it might be because you don’t want to.

22 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:54:37pm

Charles…
They have absolutely no concern for the safety of the President’s family.
They do, it’s just not a HEALTHY or HAPPY concern.

23 klys  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:54:51pm

re: #4 Big Steve

Can you please explain to me how this is remotely equivalent in your mind? Aside from the fact that both involved the children of presidents?

That story has some substance (there were reports that the embassy was concerned about security after a flurry of press in foreign media and that’s what the story you linked seems to be about).

This story is essentially “how dare these minor children of the president get to have nice things!”

24 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:54:58pm

Oh and their usual meme of hating on The Poors

25 Varek Raith  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:55:24pm

re: #4 Big Steve

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26 stabby  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:55:50pm

re: #20 Interesting Times

Oh right, Rush insulting a 13 year old girl to fill time on his show…
They’ve been the ugly party for a long time, but the difference was that back then, the Republican party still had a bit of a spine and wasn’t being run by the likes of Limbaugh and Fox, the way it is now.

27 Varek Raith  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:56:28pm

re: #23 klys

Can you please explain to me how this is remotely equivalent in your mind? Aside from the fact that both involved the children of presidents?

That story has some substance (there were reports that the embassy was concerned about security after a flurry of press in foreign media and that’s what the story you linked seems to be about).

This story is essentially “how dare these minor children of the president get to have nice things!”

I’m going to go out on a limb and say, “No.”

28 klys  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:57:05pm

re: #27 Varek Raith

I’m going to go out on a limb and say, “No.”

That’s going to be my guess too, but I figured I’d ask nicely.

29 Interesting Times  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:58:28pm

re: #27 Varek Raith

I’m going to go out on a limb and say, “No.”

Durr hurr, I said something against Charles and LGF’s point of view, that makes me such a heroic and fascinating rebel! Derp.

30 Varek Raith  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 12:58:38pm

Interesting…
SecureROM won’t let me install Fallout 3 while steam in running…
I hate DRM.

31 122 Year Old Obama  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:00:29pm

re: #30 Varek Raith

Funny how these anti-piracy measures do more harm to legitimate customers than they do anything to actually prevent piracy.

32 Mattand  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:01:03pm

re: #4 Big Steve

Hardly…..Bush Daughters

It’s bullshit and you know it.

A group of right wing “journalists” are stalking the President’s kids, potentially endangering their lives. And like a good Republican, you can’t bring yourself to admit this and go running to the Magical Balance Fairy.

What the fuck is wrong with you people? Are you guys that blinded with hatred to Obama that you’re okay with overtly making his kids’ life miserable?

33 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:02:53pm

How is one thing not like the other.

Right wingers taking potshots about Chelsea Clinton’s appearance [hey pudgy bastard Rush, we’re looking at you].

Articles that note the behavior of the Bush daughters, including violations of state statutes on underage drinking.

Right wing articles complaining about the Obama daughters taking a vacation.

It’s not even a matter of context. In the first instance, the right wing went after Chelsea for who she was and what she looked like. In the third instance, the right wing went after Obama’s daughters because he’s a President that they seek to destroy by any means necessary. That means wearing him down by any and all means - up to and including attacking his children because they were able to take a vacation from the White House (which pretty much every modern president who has remarked about the situation considers it to be a fishbowl and looks to get away as much as possible). It’s not the best place to raise kids, precisely because of the media attention, but it can be done - pretty successfully by the last four occupants with youngish kids (Carter, Clinton, Bush, and Obama) despite the media attention.

As for vacations/trips and cost - the Executive Budget is agreed to by Congress and includes the expenses for the WH and the First Family. It includes costs for USSS coverage for the First Family. Trips involving the kids without their parents isn’t newsworthy, unless the kids do something to get in the news (like say get injured on the ski slopes, break the law, etc.). It’s a rationale that other presidents have sought for their kids while in the WH, and the Obama’s aren’t an exception.

34 Gus  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:04:23pm
35 stabby  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:04:48pm

re: #33 lawhawk

There was NO more excuse for attacking a 13 year old girl’s appearance (explain to me how there could have been anything wrong with that) than there is for stalking Obama’s children.

36 Lidane  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:05:18pm
37 What's in the box, Jokey?!  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:06:23pm

re: #31 122 Year Old Obama

Funny how these anti-piracy measures do more harm to legitimate customers than they do anything to actually prevent piracy.

Much like the minds of far too many TP/RWNJs, DRM is seriously flawed - those pirating the stuff won’t have to think about it at all, while the legit users get screwed with having to deal with it with increasing frequency. And don’t even get me started on the whole “online connection needed to run an offline game” junk that’s been popping up lately…

38 erik_t  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:06:24pm

When I think disgusting gilded-age excess, I totally think skiing trips to fucking Idaho.

39 Mattand  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:07:10pm

re: #4 Big Steve

Hardly…..Bush Daughters

And while I’m at it: I rarely downding, but for making such a blindingly stupid fucking comparison, I’m making an exception.

Swear to God, it seem like just about everyone who associates with the Republican Party these days has the compassion of a scorpion.

40 What's in the box, Jokey?!  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:08:53pm

re: #39 Mattand

Swear to God, it seem like just about everyone who associates with the Republican Party these days has the compassion of a scorpion.

On behalf of scorpions everywhere, you take that back mister!
/kinda

41 Interesting Times  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:10:02pm

re: #40 What’s in the box, Jokey?!

On behalf of scorpions everywhere, you take that back mister!

True. Scorpions don’t single people out for stinging based on gender, race, or sexual orientation.

42 Ming  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:10:31pm

re: #9 Charles Johnson

Not even close. The Bush daughters got into the news for underage drinking and other bad behavior. You can argue whether the media should have covered these stories, but this is not the same as what’s going on here.

Another distinction, relevant in my opinion to the creepiness factor in “reporting” these stories: ages. I believe when the stories about them came out, the Bush daughters were well past age 18, maybe 22 or so. Sasha and Malia are what, 10 and 15?

43 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:11:46pm

Joan Walsh, paraphrased again: When people attack Obama’s children for doing the very same thing that other President’s children have done there is only one reason I can see for it

44 What's in the box, Jokey?!  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:12:41pm

I genuinely believe that some of these nut-job stalkers won’t be satisfied until something really horrible happens to the kids, and if such a thing were to happen, they’ll still find a way to blame the president/government for it with thinly covered glee…

45 Gus  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:13:25pm
46 Sionainn  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:13:35pm

re: #4 Big Steve

Hardly…..Bush Daughters

Adults versus children. Children! WTF, Steve?

47 Mattand  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:14:09pm

re: #44 What’s in the box, Jokey?!

I genuinely believe that some of these nut-job stalkers won’t be satisfied until something really horrible happens to the kids, and if such a thing were to happen, they’ll still find a way to blame the president/government for it with thinly covered glee…

It’s what racists do.

48 Interesting Times  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:16:33pm

re: #46 Sionainn

Adults versus children. Children! WTF, Steve?

…and (surprise!) he’s no longer online.

So, drop derp and run - how very “big” of him 9_9

49 AlexRogan  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:17:33pm

re: #19 stabby

Agreed.

I also vaguely remember someone saying creepy, threatening things about Chelsie Clinton too. Maybe letting people know where she was, I think this was even a little AFTER Clinton left office.

But that’s “someone” not a whole crowd.

Rush Limbaugh called her a “dog”.

Before and after her father was sworn in as President.

When she was still just a kid.

On November 6, 1992 (before Clinton was even inaugurated), Rush said on his television show: “In: A cute kid in the White House. Out: Cute dog in the White House.’ Could—could we see the cute kid? Let’s take a look at—see who is the cute kid in the White House. [A picture is shown of Millie the dog] No, no, no. That’s not the kid. [Picture shown of Chelsea Clinton] That’s—that’s the kid. We’re trying to…[Applause] No, just kidding.”

(Yes, that links to a DKos page, because it’s the first place that I found the quote, in its entirety and context.)

Here’s another one of Rush’s greatest hits, this one after Clinton took office:

When her dad, former President Bill Clinton, was in the White House and Limbaugh was on television as well as radio, the conservative commentator had this to say about the teenage girl living at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. back in 1993:

“Socks is the White House cat. But did you know there is also a White House dog?” Limbaugh said on his television show before showing an image of the young Clinton.

50 darthstar  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:17:45pm

Does Stand Your Ground still apply if you stalk someone for 25 miles, pick a fight with him, then get your ass kicked, only to have your wife come to your aid afterward and hand you a gun so you can shoot the other person’s vehicle?

witn.com


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51 darthstar  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:18:54pm
52 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:19:09pm
53 Lidane  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:19:17pm

OUTRAGE!

54 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:20:16pm

re: #53 Lidane

OUTRAGE!

Maybe the reason that the WH asked this news source to delete the story was all the racist and hateful comments that were posted.

55 A Mom Anon  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:23:34pm

How are they finding this stuff out? Are they literally following the Obama daughters or do they have someone in the WH who is feeding them the info?

56 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:23:56pm

Fancy that - Young comes around to an apology:

57 darthstar  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:25:11pm

re: #56 lawhawk

Fancy that - Young comes around to an apology:

I’m really sorry that my bigotry might negatively impact my political career.

Happy now?

58 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:26:46pm

Charles, LGF just crashed on me. Spinning wheel of death!

59 BeenHereAwhile  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:27:11pm

re: #20 Interesting Times

And let’s not forget what Chelsea Clinton, a minor child at the time, was subjected to by defacto GOP leader Rush Limbaugh.

So yeah, Big Breitbart Defender may be right - this isn’t new (certainly as far as the rabid right goes)

Rush’s Chelsea Clinton comments were one of the reasons I quit listening to his show. As I recall, his degrading remarks regarding Chelsea started after Clinton began his first term in 1993.

IIRC, some elder lady Republicans like Barbara Bush, told Rush to cease and desist, as children of politicians were off limits.

Rush’s comments about Chelsea ceased.

Too bad there are no elders in the Republican party willing today to do the same in regards to the Obama children.

60 darthstar  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:29:09pm

re: #56 lawhawk

Fancy that - Young comes around to an apology:

Gotta love the screenshot of the page behind him and the expression on her face.

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61 AlexRogan  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:29:33pm

re: #56 lawhawk

Fancy that - Young comes around to an apology:

Fucker’s not sorry he said that stuff, because he meant it; otherwise, why say it to begin with?

He’s sorry that he called out on it for what it was: racist and bigoted; here’s his non-apology:

“I apologize for the insensitive term I used during an interview in Ketchikan, Alaska,” Young said in a statement. “There was no malice in my heart or intent to offend; it was a poor choice of words. That word, and the negative attitudes that come with it, should be left in the 20th century, and I’m sorry that this has shifted our focus away from comprehensive immigration reform.”

The only reason he came out with this is because Boehner of Orange leaned on him.

62 darthstar  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:30:58pm

re: #58 Dancing along the light of day

Charles, LGF just crashed on me. Spinning wheel of death!

Youtube Video
63 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:31:17pm

re: #57 darthstar

I’m really sorry that my bigotry might negatively affect my fellow GOPers and outreach to minorities.

Happy now?

FTFY. He didn’t come to this because he would personally suffer a political backlash. GOP leadership probably came down hard on him because they’re trying to get past this latest declaration of GOP id.

64 AlexRogan  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:31:39pm

re: #59 BeenHereAwhile

Rush’s Chelsea Clinton comments were one of the reasons I quit listening to his show. As I recall, his degrading remarks regarding Chelsea started after Clinton began his first term in 1993.

IIRC, some elder lady Republicans like Barbara Bush, told Rush to cease and desist, as children of politicians were off limits.

Rush’s comments about Chelsea ceased.

Too bad there are no elders in the Republican party willing today to do the same in regards to the Obama children.

See my comment above about this: Rush started in on Chelsea a month after the 1992 election, two months before Bill’s inauguration.

65 Mattand  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:31:40pm

re: #52 Vicious Babushka

re: #53 Lidane

66 AlexRogan  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:37:15pm

re: #63 lawhawk

FTFY. He didn’t come to this because he would personally suffer a political backlash. GOP leadership probably came down hard on him because they’re trying to get past this latest declaration of GOP id.

Indeed.

We only got this because Boehner “demanded” that Young apologize and Priebus denounced him.

Roll Call: Boehner Demands Young Apologize

68 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:37:50pm

National Ransom.

69 Political Atheist  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:38:41pm

Well that was just quite an experience. I just got off an elevator that had a major door breakdown, literally rained door(?) parts on me as I stepped out. Stuck my foot in the door so it did not close and trap a couple people behind me. Maybe its silly but I was terrified the thing was going to go up with the broken doors wide open and someone in the middle. Probably very silly of me.

70 erik_t  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:39:18pm

re: #67 Varek Raith

Republicans Introduce Legislation To Discriminate Against Non-English Speakers
Rebranding!

And of course, absolutely zero chance of passing. Elected Republican officials exist to posture, not to govern.

71 Varek Raith  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:40:24pm

re: #69 Political Atheist

Well that was just quite an experience. I just got off an elevator that had a major door breakdown, literally rained door(?) parts on me as I stepped out. Stuck my foot in the door so it did not close and trap a couple people behind me. Maybe its silly but I was terrified the thing was going to go up with the broken doors wide open and someone in the middle. Probably silly of me.

See, this is why I don’t trust elevators.

72 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:40:28pm

re: #62 darthstar

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Revenge!

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73 AlexRogan  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:40:44pm

re: #67 Varek Raith

Republicans Introduce Legislation To Discriminate Against Non-English Speakers
Rebranding!

If you can’t neuter the VRA (among other things) going the front way, try the back way:

Rep. Steve King (R-IA), most recently in the headlines after attacking President Obama’s young daughters for going on vacation, introduced the English Language Unity Act in the House earlier this month, along with Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-OK) in the Senate. As King notes on his website, the bill would require “all official functions of the United States to be conducted in English.” Federal and state governments print thousands of documents every year, many of which are translated into other languages besides English.

One major impact King’s bill could have is to stop the decades-long practice of printing non-English ballots in areas where there’s a significant non-English language group. Indeed, Section 203 of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 currently requires local jurisdictions with a substantial number of non-English speakers to allow them to vote in other languages.

King’s bill currently enjoys 39 co-sponsors in the House—37 Republicans and two conservative Democrats—though that number will likely increase over time. Inhofe’s Senate bill has five co-sponsors, all Republicans.

The bill’s current co-sponsors: H.R.997 - English Language Unity Act of 2013

Surprise, surprise…one of my state’s reps (John Duncan) is a co-sponsor.

74 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:41:33pm

re: #69 Political Atheist

Glad you got out OK!

75 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:41:50pm
76 Gus  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:43:10pm
77 AlexRogan  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:44:45pm

re: #75 Charles Johnson

Hey, but it worked for Rush, right?

///

78 Political Atheist  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:46:45pm

re: #74 Dancing along the light of day

Thanks. I picked up the parts that fell on me to give to the manager. He tends to defer and delay and procrastinate. I think this little burned looking copper bearing will help him get right on it.

79 Political Atheist  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:47:51pm

re: #71 Varek Raith

I like escalators. They break ya still got stairs.

80 AlexRogan  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:48:53pm

re: #79 Political Atheist

I like escalators. They break ya still got stairs.

Until they eat you.

81 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:50:31pm

THEY TOOK OUR JRRRB.

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82 taserian  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:50:46pm

re: #77 AlexRogan

I wonder if that’s the reasoning behind their behavior - just copy Rush’s stuff from back then, and in so many years, they’ll be just as popular.

Well, if you can call that “reasoning”…

83 Varek Raith  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:52:58pm

Derka derka!

84 bubba zanetti  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 1:55:19pm

re: #45 Gus

posted this downstairs, but the caption should be “what, me sorry?”

85 Destro  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:01:28pm

I am guessing having black people at a ski resort is irking them somewhat because no other explanation for them being outraged makes sense (concerned about the cost of their security during the budget battles is a bogus excuse. It’s a racial attack on Obama via his daughters).

86 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:02:00pm
87 Varek Raith  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:02:37pm

re: #86 Charles Johnson

Couldn’t possibly imagine why…

88 stabby  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:03:02pm

Wingnuts seem completely oblivious to the fact that ranting about the President’s daughters makes them look like demented, angry losers.

That’s worded as if the problem was appearance. The wonder of the internet is that we can show that they really are angry demented losers 24/7.

The question is, now that we know what they are and can prove it, how do we keep them from having power in politics.

89 Eclectic Cyborg  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:03:13pm

re: #69 Political Atheist

Well that was just quite an experience. I just got off an elevator that had a major door breakdown, literally rained door(?) parts on me as I stepped out. Stuck my foot in the door so it did not close and trap a couple people behind me. Maybe its silly but I was terrified the thing was going to go up with the broken doors wide open and someone in the middle. Probably very silly of me.

My job requires regular use of elevators. I’ve been stuck in a few over the years which really sucks when you’re claustrophobic. Few things scare the daylights out of me more than the possibility of being stuck in an elevator for an indeterminate length of time. Fortunately, every time I’ve been stuck I’ve been freed in less than 20 minutes.

That’s why I appreciate stairs. Stairs don’t break down (ok, ok they RARELY break down).

90 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:03:31pm

re: #69 Political Atheist

Well that was just quite an experience. I just got off an elevator that had a major door breakdown, literally rained door(?) parts on me as I stepped out. Stuck my foot in the door so it did not close and trap a couple people behind me. Maybe its silly but I was terrified the thing was going to go up with the broken doors wide open and someone in the middle. Probably very silly of me.

Quick thinking on your part.

91 AlexRogan  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:05:10pm

re: #86 Charles Johnson

And, yes, the use of “confederates” was definitely on purpose.

92 stabby  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:05:51pm

re: #86 Charles Johnson

Ha ha ha! He’s THIS close to self awareness.

[Maxwell Smart voice] “Missed it by that much!”

93 erik_t  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:06:42pm

re: #86 Charles Johnson

@benshapiro It is truly amazing that every political argument from the left now boils down to “You guys are mean and hateful.”

It is not truly amazing that everything from the right now boils down to meanness and hate.

94 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:08:30pm
95 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:09:24pm
96 klys  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:10:19pm

re: #95 Charles Johnson

Well, no, because snarking requires wit, and I suspect that’s not a strong point of his.

97 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:11:39pm
98 AlexRogan  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:14:29pm

re: #95 Charles Johnson

re: #96 klys

Well, no, because snarking requires wit, and I suspect that’s not a strong point of his.

Oh, he’ll block me for sure after this one…

;-P

99 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:15:55pm

re: #97 Charles Johnson

“Help, help, I’m bein’ repressed! Come see the violence inherent in the system!”

100 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:16:31pm

I’m thinking that it may be necessary for me to buy Bioshock Infinite.

101 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:17:59pm

re: #100 Charles Johnson

I want these skills!

Tear Through Time - Open Tears in time and space to shape the battlefield and turn the tide in combat by pulling weapons and other resources out of thin air.

102 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:18:24pm

re: #100 Charles Johnson

I’m thinking that it may be necessary for me to buy Bioshock Infinite.

Definitely worth it. The guys at Irrational matched, if not surpassed, the bar they set with the first game.

103 Eclectic Cyborg  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:22:07pm

re: #101 Dancing along the light of day

I want these skills!

Sounds like a Matrix-esque ability.

104 Gus  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:23:04pm
105 AlexRogan  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:23:40pm

re: #104 Gus

Hehehe…

106 Tiny alien kittens are watching you  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:25:57pm

re: #100 Charles Johnson

I’m thinking that it may be necessary for me to buy Bioshock Infinite.

That and the Tomb Raider reboot are both simply awesome games. I haven’t finished Bioshock Infinite yet, I’m being a looky-lo by inspecting every possible nook, cranny and item and trying to savor it.

107 darthstar  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:26:01pm

Michelle Shocked still being a dick about the whole thing.

sfgate.com

108 Interesting Times  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:26:02pm

re: #104 Gus

That achieves epic levels of creepy hilarity :) Also, #UniteBlue is another good hashtag to tweet these to.

109 Mattand  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:26:24pm

I know I shouldn’t say all conservatives are stupid, but this guy just walked right into that one.

Ironically, I can thank Big Steve’s asinine comment for supplying the ammo.

110 Tiny alien kittens are watching you  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:30:00pm

re: #101 Dancing along the light of day

I want these skills!

That really isn’t you, that is the girl you came to kidnap/rescue Elizabeth doing that, but you do get other special powers through “vigors” (much like the plasmids and tonics in Bioshock I and II).

111 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:32:05pm

re: #100 Charles Johnson

You’re probably aware if this, but on the off chance you’re not:

112 stabby  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:32:19pm

re: #107 darthstar

Actually she sounds a bit crazy.

113 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:32:40pm

I just bought one of these today.

Toshiba C855D-S510 Laptop Computer

I hope it isn’t a lemon.

114 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:33:02pm

re: #111 CuriousLurker

You’re probably aware if this, but on the off chance you’re not:

Yes, LGF is already using the new API.

115 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:33:03pm

MOAR DERP!


116 stabby  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:34:03pm

re: #109 Mattand

I know I shouldn’t say all conservatives are stupid, but this guy just walked right into that one.

Ironically, I can thank Big Steve’s asinine comment for supplying the ammo.

A disappointing thing I’ve noticed is that you can deflate most right wing outrages with 3 minutes of googling. After seeing that 99% of them have nothing to them, I no longer have the patience to argue or debunk.

117 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:34:31pm

re: #115 Vicious Babushka

MOAR DERP!

She’s mistaking the execs for the managers, who are getting incentives to make life a living hell for the people actually doing the real work.

118 freetoken  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:36:49pm

re: #56 lawhawk

Fancy that - Young comes around to an apology:

The Rinsed One may have called Young and complained that he was stomping on his groove?

119 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:36:55pm

re: #113 NJDhockeyfan

I just bought one of these today.

Toshiba C855D-S510 Laptop Computer

I hope it isn’t a lemon.

I like Toshibas.

120 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:38:04pm

re: #117 Targetpractice

She’s mistaking the execs for the managers, who are getting incentives to make life a living hell for the people actually doing the real work.

It’s like shooting fish in a barrel.

121 Mattand  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:39:25pm

re: #116 stabby

A disappointing thing I’ve noticed is that you can deflate most right wing outrages with 3 minutes of googling. After seeing that 99% of them have nothing to them, I no longer have the patience to argue or debunk.

This guy can’t even keep track of what he said.

122 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:39:29pm
123 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:39:55pm

re: #119 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

I like Toshibas.

Me too. It’s my second one. The other one is big and heavy. I was looking for a light laptop so I went to Best buy and got this one.

124 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:41:43pm

re: #123 NJDhockeyfan

Me too. It’s my second one. The other one is big and heavy. I was looking for a light laptop so I went to Best buy and got this one.

I have my mom get nothing but Toshibas because it makes for far fewer times I have to help her out with a problem.

They also come with the smallest amount of bloatware of the big companies.

125 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:43:10pm

re: #124 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

I have my mom get nothing but Toshibas because it makes for far fewer times I have to help her out with a problem.

They also come with the smallest amount of bloatware of the big companies.

I am looking forward to playing with Windows 8.

126 Mattand  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:43:16pm

re: #100 Charles Johnson

re: #106 Tiny alien kittens are watching you

re: #102 Targetpractice

I downloaded a timed one hour trial last night. I’m debating playing it and getting hooked, or just waiting until I get the game.

127 makeitstop  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:44:11pm

re: #121 Mattand

This guy can’t even keep track of what he said.

You might want to point out that Bush was the most vacationin’ sumbitch ever to occupy 1600.

128 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:44:54pm

re: #120 Vicious Babushka

It’s like shooting fish in a barrel.

All this business about “working your way up” went out with Carter. These days, if you’re not on the family’s friend’s list, then you might as well get used to being on the bottom of the ladder.

129 freetoken  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:45:17pm

Hmmm… wondering if the GOP money boys (Priebus and Pals) having been making several phone calls today…?

New GOP darling: Sorry if ‘anyone was offended’ by comparing ‘gays’ and NAMBLA

Yet again, it’s one of those apologies that isn’t really an apology.

It is a re-message, though.

130 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:45:49pm
131 What's in the box, Jokey?!  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:46:21pm

re: #106 Tiny alien kittens are watching you

That and the Tomb Raider reboot are both simply awesome games. I haven’t finished Bioshock Infinite yet, I’m being a looky-lo by inspecting every possible nook cranny and item and trying to savor it.

Agree on Bioshock, not so much on TR, which this webcomic really sums up my view on it nicely: How To Play: Tomb Raider

Haven’t played Bioshock Infinite as much as i wish i could at the moment, but it’s been quite awesome so far.

132 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:48:29pm

re: #125 NJDhockeyfan

I am looking forward to playing with Windows 8.

When you tire of the annoying startup invest a couple of bucks in Start8. It bypasses the Modern UI crap.

133 Patricia Kayden  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:48:46pm

Can’t the Secret Service look into this? I interpret this as endangering the lives of the Malia and Sascha. I can’t imagine this would be allowed for other Presidents’ children.

Have any Republican leaders condemned this? Had any leftwing media stalked the Bush daughters, every Democrat would have had to apologize.

134 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:49:45pm

re: #132 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

When you tire of the annoying startup invest a couple of bucks in Start8. It bypasses the Modern UI crap.

Start8?

135 Kragar  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:51:27pm

All that extra water is coming from the tears of baby Jesus, crying about gay marriage.

136 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:51:35pm

We have a dead thread hero on a last chance power dive.

/subcomment

137 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:51:53pm

re: #134 NJDhockeyfan

Start8?

It’s only 4.99. Thanks, I will keep that in mind.

138 freetoken  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:52:59pm

Did you know that PolitiFact is a ” liberal editorial outfit not a neutral fact checker”?

This I know, for Ted Cruz told me so.

The Houston Chronicle has a column titled “Texas on the Potomac” which is trying to stir up the locals with the idea that Cruz may be correct:


Ted Cruz v. PolitiFact: Whose pants are on fire?

Confusion is likely to follow.

139 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:53:00pm
140 kirkspencer  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:53:32pm

re: #115 Vicious Babushka

MOAR DERP!

Depends.

Most of the executives of retail and manufacturing I know came in on one of the “executive tracks” and haven’t worked more than a few months at most on the floor.

Start with Mike Duke (president-CEO). His first job out of college was management (well, department management) of a Rich department store store. Arguably part of the floor, though if you’ve ever worked retail you know that’s not quite accurate.

Bill Simons, president-CEO of Walmart US, went to senior sales and marketing after a career in the US Navy. Never saw the floor.

In fact, of the 38 people named on Walmart’s executive management page, only seven appear to have any direct experience with daily operations on the floor - provided you accept department management as “on the floor”.

The executives “worked themselves up” to their positions, but they didn’t start at the bottom before getting there. I seem to recall a phrase about the idea, something about born on third base and thinking they hit a triple. Just… never let them have to be at bat again.

141 klys  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:54:00pm

re: #135 Kragar (Antichrist )

All that extra water is coming from the tears of baby Jesus, crying about gay marriage.

Meanwhile, CA is sitting dry and boring, weatherwise. It makes me cry, at least.

142 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:54:55pm

re: #128 Targetpractice

All this business about “working your way up” went out with Carter. These days, if you’re not on the family’s friend’s list, then you might as well get used to being on the bottom of the ladder.

*FACE PALM*

143 Amory Blaine  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:55:10pm

re: #48 Interesting Times

…and (surprise!) he’s no longer online.

So, drop derp and run - how very “big” of him 9_9

Image: tumblr_m0d75cxXjx1qlxzrz.png

144 Patricia Kayden  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:55:34pm

re: #75 Charles Johnson

You forgot to add “and racists”. Joan Walsh got it right.

145 kirkspencer  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:56:18pm

re: #121 Mattand

This guy can’t even keep track of what he said.

And gets his correction wrong, too. As already noted, he needs to check W’s vacation logs.

146 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:56:22pm

re: #135 Kragar (Antichrist )

All that extra water is coming from the tears of baby Jesus, crying about gay marriage.

*facepalm*

147 Amory Blaine  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:56:24pm

re: #106 Tiny alien kittens are watching you

That and the Tomb Raider reboot are both simply awesome games. I haven’t finished Bioshock Infinite yet, I’m being a looky-lo by inspecting every possible nook, cranny and item and trying to savor it.

Tomb Raider was awesome. Just started Bioshock with all its Randian goodness.

148 Patricia Kayden  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:56:54pm

re: #121 mattand

Didn’t Bush the Younger set a record for taking time off on his “ranch”? Why do Rightwingers always lie?

149 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:57:45pm

re: #142 Vicious Babushka

*FACE PALM*

They bitch and moan when folks aren’t out looking for jobs, then bitch louder when those folks demand to be paid a decent wage for working their asses off doing thankless jobs for the same fuckers who are doing nothing but bitching.

150 Mattand  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:57:58pm

re: #145 kirkspencer

And gets his correction wrong, too. As already noted, he needs to check W’s vacation logs.

Yeah, I was gonna go after him on that, but a lot of these guys just go into 4-year-old “NUH-UH, IT’S NOT TRUE” on that factoid.

151 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:58:36pm

re: #134 NJDhockeyfan

Start8?

It’s a Win8 app that pops you into the desktop and gives you a Win7 style start button.

Win 8 may work well as is on touch screens, but it sucks on systems limited to a mouse or touch pad.

152 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 2:58:52pm

re: #147 Amory Blaine

Tomb Raider was awesome. Just started Bioshock with all its Randian goodness.

Bioshock Infinite definitely has no Rand to it. If anything, it’s a serious slap in the face to “American Exceptionalism”…for the most part.

153 freetoken  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:00:39pm

The white nationalists will have a sad:

Federal judge permanently blocks 2 key provisions of Indiana’s immigration law

154 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:01:45pm

re: #149 Targetpractice

They bitch and moan when folks aren’t out looking for jobs, then bitch louder when those folks demand to be paid a decent wage for working their asses off doing thankless jobs for the same fuckers who are doing nothing but bitching.

As a salaried professional, I have worked in UAW shops and the work environment is way better. “Right to Work” is a scam that benefits nobody except for the Koch Brothers who are buying it in every state.

155 freetoken  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:02:00pm

Zumba and sex… is there any real difference anyway?

Zumba instructor pleads guilty to 20 counts in Maine prostitution scandal

156 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:02:50pm

re: #154 Vicious Babushka

As a salaried professional, I have worked in UAW shops and the work environment is way better. “Right to Work” is a scam that benefits nobody except for the Koch Brothers who are buying it in every state.

“Right To Work“‘s success in recent years is just a great example of how Orwellian newspeak has fooled the masses into buying into absolute bullshit.

157 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:03:31pm

re: #156 Targetpractice

“Right To Work“‘s success in recent years is just a great example of how Orwellian newspeak has fooled the masses into buying into absolute bullshit.

It has nothing, NADA to do with “Right to Work” just a “Right to Abuse Workers”

158 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:03:35pm
159 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:04:12pm

re: #158 Vicious Babushka

…

Abuse in what way?

160 kirkspencer  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:04:35pm

re: #151 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

It’s a Win8 app that pops you into the desktop and gives you a Win7 style start button.

Win 8 may work well as is on touch screens, but it sucks on systems limited to a mouse or touch pad.

I didn’t particularly mind it with the mouse. But I’m rather pleased with my workaround/solution. I set up a win8 tablet to connect through RDP (VPN) on command, and use it as a graphic tablet type touchpad instead of a mouse.

There are several other advantages to this, including the times I really need the desktop’s power. Send the stuff from pad to desk, RDP and run the desk, send it back to the tablet.

161 freetoken  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:05:24pm

re: #154 Vicious Babushka

In many less populated areas, Walmart may be the largest private employer in the region, and by running smaller retailers out of business have a de facto monopoly on retail jobs. It’s a very non-level playing field, developed in part by decades of employing ultra-cheap Asian labor to lower prices on the US store shelves.

The worldview of the one-company-town polloi has always been one of never realizing that they are being taken advantage of because they refuse to act as one community to defend themselves.

162 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:05:26pm
163 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:05:49pm
164 Amory Blaine  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:06:19pm

re: #152 Targetpractice

Yeah I just drew 77 in the raffle. Not far at all.

165 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:08:12pm

re: #164 Amory Blaine

Yeah I just drew 77 in the raffle. Not far at all.

Better hope you know how to run fast.

166 Tiny alien kittens are watching you  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:08:14pm

re: #131 What’s in the box, Jokey?!

Agree on Bioshock, not so much on TR, which this webcomic really sums up my view on it nicely: How To Play: Tomb Raider

Haven’t played Bioshock Infinite as much as i wish i could at the moment, but it’s been quite awesome so far.

But see, I LIKE action games, explorey puzzley games not quite so much…

The new Tomb Raider may not be the same as the old games but there is exploring to be done and puzzles to be solved, just not as much or as difficult. It does have a lot more of an action shooter element to it than the old games, but for me that is perfectly alright. :)

167 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:10:41pm

re: #160 kirkspencer

I didn’t particularly mind it with the mouse. But I’m rather pleased with my workaround/solution. I set up a win8 tablet to connect through RDP (VPN) on command, and use it as a graphic tablet type touchpad instead of a mouse.

There are several other advantages to this, including the times I really need the desktop’s power. Send the stuff from pad to desk, RDP and run the desk, send it back to the tablet.

My solution is less complex, and I’m quite comfortable using a keyboard and touch pad. I use VPN to fix customers systems. My desktop, laptop, phone and tablet all connect to dropbox so transfer of files is easy.

If I was an artist I would use your system.

168 Lidane  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:11:04pm
169 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:12:11pm

re: #168 Lidane

Must have missed that part in my history books.

170 Lidane  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:12:24pm
171 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:12:39pm

re: #159 Targetpractice

…

Abuse in what way?

Not pay them enough to live on.

172 Lidane  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:13:25pm

re: #169 Targetpractice

Must have missed that part in my history books.

Don’t you remember Sodom and Gomorrah?!

////

173 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:13:54pm

re: #171 Vicious Babushka

Not pay them enough to live on.

Ah, yeah, I’d definitely agree with that. This idea that you should have to work at least a decade just to make what a guy in 1968 started out at is just an utter fucking disgrace.

174 What's in the box, Jokey?!  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:15:49pm

re: #166 Tiny alien kittens are watching you

But see, I LIKE action games, explorey puzzley games not quite so much…

The new Tomb Raider may not be the same as the old games but there is exploring to be done and puzzles to be solved, just not as much or as difficult. It does have a lot more of an action shooter element to it than the old games, but for me that is perfectly alright. :)

Well, what can I say/write, i’m not a fan of the trend of FPS-ing up game titles that weren’t as such to begin with… I mean, it was a nice game, but this and a couple more small irritating things prevent me from considering it anything more, which is a shame…

175 efuseakay  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:15:58pm

Remember when they defended that one Bush daughter…

176 The Ghost of a Flea  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:16:30pm

re: #169 Targetpractice

Must have missed that part in my history books.

Visigoths: really, really gay Visigoths.

177 Lidane  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:17:09pm

North Korea has provided me with lots of Twitter laughs today. My fellow Austinites are a fun bunch:

#WhyAustin

178 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:17:38pm

I read this review of Bioshock Infinite and OK, I’m sold. Amazon gets some more of my dough.

179 freetoken  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:17:46pm

This is America, 2013:

Fossil record is not evidence of evolution

[…]

For example, the claim that the DNA of similar organisms being more closely aligned than those that are significantly different doesn’t support evolution any more than creation.

But how close is it? The oft-touted statistic that chimpanzees and humans share 98 percent of the same DNA has now, through additional discovery, been lowered to be at most 70 percent and probably less as more information about DNA is unraveled. [Wrong, just Wrong.]

[…] Rogers chided me for using the term “higher life forms,” but I thought lower to higher was the reasoning behind biological evolutionary thinking. [Wrong, just Wrong.] His claim that the fossil record shows a clear line of transitional forms from fish to amphibians (lower to higher?) is more a tribute to the drawings of artists than the fossil remains themselves. Rarely is an entire fossil found, so scientists fill in the unknown pieces from what they believe them to be by using artists’ drawings. With such additions it is difficult to determine where science ends and imagination begins. The gaps in actual fossils recovered remain annoyingly unchanged. [Wrong, wrong, and wrong.]

[…] However, most science textbooks offer no critical analysis and often present unproven theories as fact. One of the most outrageous examples of this was Haeckel’s Embryonic Recapitulation Theory, which was discredited shortly after it was proposed, but remained in many text books without caveat until recently. [Haeckel!!]


[and so forth]

180 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:17:54pm

Oh, here’s the review: thedailybeast.com

181 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:17:55pm

re: #174 What’s in the box, Jokey?!

Well, what can I say/write, i’m not a fan of the trend of FPS-ing up game titles that weren’t as such to begin with… I mean, it was a nice game, but this and a couple more small irritating things prevent me from considering it anything more, which is a shame…

Agreed. See also: Shit, pretty much any game series in the last decade. Think the most recent offenders that come to mind were the Mass Effect and Dead Space series.

182 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:18:51pm

re: #175 efuseakay

And I’ll defend her too. She had every right to be a normal drunky twenty-something without having cameras shoved in her face all the time. That picture and taking an interest in it represent a bad side of our culture.

But at least she as an adult, and it was about her actually doing something, not just existing and going on vacation.

183 freetoken  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:19:13pm

Creationists’ unwillingness to restate basic science correctly is curiously similar to how wingnuts treat anything to do with Obama.

184 Skip Intro  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:21:19pm

re: #107 darthstar

Sad. I hope she doesn’t have access to any guns. Things could get ugly.

185 Tiny alien kittens are watching you  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:21:33pm

re: #168 Lidane

Strange I seem to remember that the Roman empire lasted for quite a long time before they converted to Christianity and then fell less than a hundred years later (western empire, not Byzantium).

186 kirkspencer  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:22:15pm

re: #167 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

My solution is less complex, and I’m quite comfortable using a keyboard and touch pad. I use VPN to fix customers systems. My desktop, laptop, phone and tablet all connect to dropbox so transfer of files is easy.

If I was an artist I would use your system.

I’m not much of an artist, but I could see why you would think so from rereading my description.

The big thing is not that it’s a graphics tablet. It’s that it makes the screen a defacto touchscreen without requiring me to reach out and touch it (assuming I purchased one). Not just swiping, but all the various useful things touch (and pinch and spread) allows come into reach.

My taste, of course.

187 Dancing along the light of day  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:22:20pm

re: #122 Charles Johnson

Youtube Video

Willin!
188 What's in the box, Jokey?!  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:22:22pm

re: #181 Targetpractice

Think the most recent offenders that come to mind were the Mass Effect and Dead Space series.

Sigh, you just HAD to remind me of Mass Effect… really hoping Bioshock Infinite helps me finally wipe away the bad taste of ME3 effectively ruining the entire series (played relatively recently)…

189 gwangung  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:22:51pm

re: #183 freetoken

Creationists’ unwillingness to restate basic science correctly is curiously similar to how wingnuts treat anything to do with Obama.

Where did you think wingnuts learned to do that?

190 Varek Raith  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:24:57pm

re: #181 Targetpractice

Agreed. See also: Shit, pretty much any game series in the last decade. Think the most recent offenders that come to mind were the Mass Effect and Dead Space series.

God, if they fuck up DA3 like they did to 2….
RAGEFACE

191 The Ghost of a Flea  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:25:10pm

re: #185 Tiny alien kittens are watching you

Strange I seem to remember that the Roman empire lasted for quite a long time before they converted to Christianity and then fell less than a hundred years later (western empire, not Byzantium).

It was a slow death from Creeping Poofdom.

192 freetoken  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:28:59pm

A poorly written AP story tries to address this late March European cold spell and skepticism over global warming:

Q&A: Europe’s freezing Easter, global warming and melting Arctic ice

It suffers from over simplification and attempts to avoid placing two multi-syllabic words adjacent to each other.

193 danarchy  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:32:01pm

re: #151 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

It’s a Win8 app that pops you into the desktop and gives you a Win7 style start button.

Win 8 may work well as is on touch screens, but it sucks on systems limited to a mouse or touch pad.

I have no problem with the Win8 UI with mouse or track pad, it is essentially just replacing the start menu with a start screen instead, but I am still looking forward to playing around with one of these guys:

Leapmotion

194 Amory Blaine  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:32:42pm

Pat Robertson joins ammo conspiracy theory: Feds ‘going into battle… against us’

Televangelist Pat Robertson on Thursday became the latest conservative voice to promote the conspiracy theory that the government was buying millions of rounds of ammunition to use against the American people.

For months, conservative sites like Alex Jones’ Infowars have been pushing reports like: “Obama DHS Purchases 2,700 Light-Armored Tanks to Go With Their 1.6 Billion Bullet Stockpile.”

The same theories have also been picked up in recent weeks by the Fox News Channel and the Fox Business Network.

And on Thursday, Robertson weighed in on the side of the conspiracy theorists, calling it “like something out of science fiction: long trains of full or armored vehicles, personnel carriers with armor.”

“What are they for, the Army going into battle against the enemy?” the TV preacher asked. “They’re used by Homeland Security against us!”

195 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:32:58pm

re: #188 What’s in the box, Jokey?!

Sigh, you just HAD to remind me of Mass Effect… really hoping Bioshock Infinite helps me finally wipe away the bad taste of ME3 effectively ruining the entire series (played relatively recently)…

Well, that’s the great thing about Bioshock Infinite, that you don’t go into it carrying baggage from prior games, with the corresponding expectations.

196 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:35:43pm

re: #188 What’s in the box, Jokey?!

The way I think of it is that the Mass Effect stories tend to suck in general, but the interactions between the characters are great.

197 BongCrodny  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:36:04pm

Alrighty, then!

Jim Carrey blasts Fox news for “irresponsible buffoonery” and being a “media colostomy bag.”

I liked “Cold Dead Hand,” but I think I like “media colostomy bag” even more.

198 What's in the box, Jokey?!  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:36:30pm

re: #190 Varek Raith

God, if they fuck up DA3 like they did to 2….
RAGEFACE

I’m seriously hoping that the pounding that both EA and Bioware took on account of the ME3 fiascoes (day-1 on disc DLC and the disaster that was the ending) forced them to learn something, anything.
Either way, neither I nor anyone else I know are gonna make the mistake of buying any other EA title in the future before reading many reviews first - certainly not after the utter insanity that happened fairly recently with Simcity (another case of DRM taken to extremes exploding in people’s faces).

199 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:37:36pm

re: #86 Charles Johnson

If the shoe fits.

200 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:40:55pm

I’m not totally down on ME3. The game seemed to be pretty good, at least right up til the last 10-15 minutes. And I don’t think the ending would have been taken so bad if the response from the developers to fandom’s outrage was “It’s art, we’re not changing it!”

201 Tiny alien kittens are watching you  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:45:45pm

Pause for a moment to laugh at the utter ignorance displayed…

Three Reasons The Bible Is True And Christianity Isn’t Just Made Up.

Reason #3 - The Sun Burns, But There Isn’t Any Oxygen in Space?

Let’s take a moment to appreciate our devoted scientists.

Scientists have proven that the sun burns.
Scientists have proven things need two things to burn: Carbon Dioxide and Oxygen.
Scientists have proven there is no Oxygen in Space.

Then why does the sun burn. The sun burns because God put it there, God created it and it has a special job: to keep us warm and give us hope.

Sigh…what are they teaching the kids these days?

202 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:46:48pm

re: #201 Tiny alien kittens are watching you

Pause for a moment to laugh at the utter ignorance displayed…

Three Reasons The Bible Is True And Christianity Isn’t Just Made Up.

Sigh…what are they teaching the kids these days?

Mongo’s head hurts.

203 kirkspencer  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:47:38pm

re: #193 danarchy

I have no problem with the Win8 UI with mouse or track pad, it is essentially just replacing the start menu with a start screen instead, but I am still looking forward to playing around with one of these guys:

Leapmotion

agreed.

Can I tell my dream? Of course I can.

A leapmotion (or improved connect) hung on a necklace. A strong smartphone with autoconnect VPN to distributed processor, distributed memory, and/or specific (example my desktop) as my requirements demand. A visual display - NOT glasses - on demand. Unobtrusive augmented reality on demand.

A side-note about glasses. The google glasses and their ilk always seem to be what’s pushed. The thing is I’m convinced the people designing and choosing these have two characteristics: they’re young, and they don’t need glasses.

I wear glasses and have since I was in the 5th grade. I hate them. They’re in the way, even featherweight leaves indentations on the nose and wear spots on the ears. They fog, they get dirty, they prevent me from wearing most sunglasses or goggles, the list goes on. And now I get to have this box that’s sitting just outside my lens. Oh, neat, a place to catch dust and is harder to clean, that by the way is going to require special lens grinding so my myopic or hyperopic eyes can focus on the little screen right there.

As to age, almost everyone over the age of 40 starts to suffer from presbyopia. Basically it’s harder to focus on things that are extremely close. Threading needles, measuring small gaps, that sort of thing become frustratingly difficult and start requiring tools and techniques as workarounds. That lens modification above? It might not be enough for the presbyopic regardless of its magnification.

Personally I’m rooting for two options. One, the less desirable, is a small visor that hangs at the end of a hat brim. Just a little inch or two display hanging down or perhaps incorporating the brim itself. The other, much more desirable, is lensal or retinal projection. The image gets projected either onto the eye of the lens or onto the retina itself. It works “in the lab”, but it’s tricksy and expensive and requires just the right touch for each individual user.

I dream…

204 Lidane  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:48:09pm

re: #198 What’s in the box, Jokey?!

Either way, neither I nor anyone else I know are gonna make the mistake of buying any other EA title in the future before reading many reviews first - certainly not after the utter insanity that happened fairly recently with Simcity (another case of DRM taken to extremes exploding in people’s faces).

The Sim City thing pissed me off so much. This is probably my favorite review of that whole debacle. Completely NSFW:

escapistmagazine.com

205 What's in the box, Jokey?!  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:48:31pm

re: #201 Tiny alien kittens are watching you


* Tries to find his well-illustrated “The Stoopid, It Burns!” image *

206 Gus  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:49:02pm

Oy, I detect proselytizing now.

207 Tiny alien kittens are watching you  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:49:04pm

re: #200 Targetpractice

The new ending expansion made it a little better, before that I was going…

“What? Thats it? The whole fleet is trapped in Earth system orbiting a planet that has just been devasted? Gee, I guess they all starved to death or killed each other after the credits were over?…”

208 Belafon  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:49:30pm

re: #135 Kragar (Antichrist )

I often wonder if people like this gasp in awe at how their refrigerators work. “You mean, to make it colder, I have to give it more power?”

209 lawhawk  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:51:19pm

re: #201 Tiny alien kittens are watching you

Nuclear fusion. How does it work.

210 What's in the box, Jokey?!  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:52:46pm

re: #207 Tiny alien kittens are watching you

The new ending expansion made it a little better, before that I was going…

“What? Thats it? The whole fleet is trapped in Earth system orbiting a planet that has just been devasted? Gee, I guess they all starved to death or killed each other after the credits were over?…”

I would have thought it was a ‘little better’ too until i noticed that they also introduced a new choice possibility beyond the “Red, green and blue” ending options, which really reflected what many of us thought about the ending - but when chosen, leads directly to a “screw you, the cycle continues” ending where everyone dies and folks 50,000 years in the future see a message left by one of the characters…

211 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:55:52pm

re: #210 What’s in the box, Jokey?!

I would have thought it was a ‘little better’ too until i noticed that they also introduced a new choice possibility beyond the “Red, green and blue” ending options, which really reflected what many of us thought about the ending - but when chosen, leads directly to a “screw you, the cycle continues” ending where everyone dies and folks 50,000 years in the future see a message left by one of the characters…

I thought it good for, if no other reason, than that it actually does more than give you pretty much the same ending either way. You play through three games and then you find that all your choices were an illusion.

212 kirkspencer  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 3:58:02pm

re: #200 Targetpractice

I’m not totally down on ME3. The game seemed to be pretty good, at least right up til the last 10-15 minutes. And I don’t think the ending would have been taken so bad if the response from the developers to fandom’s outrage was “It’s art, we’re not changing it!”

There was a fan interpretation with some excellent youtube explanations made that had me totally accepting the ending as good. Then the developers yielded and made the DLC endings which broke them.

The explanations, by the way? It’s all a game in the mind head as they try one last time to suborn Shepard. Notice that the paragon and renegade options are reversed, just as an example. Notice that two of the choices are rephrasings of choices offered previously: Saren’s “we can merge with them and be more than we were” synthesis, and the Illusive Man’s “we can control them” offer. Only the third, destruction, ends with Shepard still at the base of the tower, suddenly taking a breath - defeating the reapers in all their subtlety.

213 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 4:01:31pm

re: #179 freetoken

This is America, 2013:

Fossil record is not evidence of evolution

Funny.

214 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 4:01:55pm

re: #212 kirkspencer

There was a fan interpretation with some excellent youtube explanations made that had me totally accepting the ending as good. Then the developers yielded and made the DLC endings which broke them.

The explanations, by the way? It’s all a game in the mind head as they try one last time to suborn Shepard. Notice that the paragon and renegade options are reversed, just as an example. Notice that two of the choices are rephrasings of choices offered previously: Saren’s “we can merge with them and be more than we were” synthesis, and the Illusive Man’s “we can control them” offer. Only the third, destruction, ends with Shepard still at the base of the tower, suddenly taking a breath - defeating the reapers in all their subtlety.

Yeah, the Indoctrination theory.

215 What's in the box, Jokey?!  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 4:02:18pm

re: #212 kirkspencer

Ah yes, you mean the “indoctrination theory”. Not perfect, but hell, the fans really gave Bioware a way out of a mess and they ruined even that…

216 kirkspencer  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 4:02:58pm

re: #214 Targetpractice

Yeah, the Indoctrination theory.

thanks for the name. It made the ending made sense to me.

217 Varek Raith  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 4:08:25pm

re: #201 Tiny alien kittens are watching you

Pause for a moment to laugh at the utter ignorance displayed…

Three Reasons The Bible Is True And Christianity Isn’t Just Made Up.

Sigh…what are they teaching the kids these days?

OMFG.

218 Targetpractice  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 4:08:31pm

re: #215 What’s in the box, Jokey?!

Ah yes, you mean the “indoctrination theory”. Not perfect, but hell, the fans really gave Bioware a way out of a mess and they ruined even that…

We have dismissed that claim.

//

219 Gus  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 4:10:37pm

re: #217 Varek Raith

OMFG.

…

harmony155 11 months ago from Atlanta, Georgia

Just curious: does the Bible mention Noah bringing in plants and flowers into the ark?

Answer!

17Bree 11 months ago from Southern Ontario Hub Author

Have you ever heard of plants under the sea?

A lot of plants can grow under the sea, and I’m sure he did.

As well as I’m sure he had seeds. People in those days were almost all Farmers, making their own food, so they should have seeds with them anyhow.

220 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 4:12:59pm

re: #193 danarchy

I have no problem with the Win8 UI with mouse or track pad, it is essentially just replacing the start menu with a start screen instead, but I am still looking forward to playing around with one of these guys:

Leapmotion

I find having to scroll sideways half a dozen screens just to access a program more than a little annoying. I can access pretty much any program I want with 4 clicks a lot faster than trying to find it on the Win8 start screens.

221 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 4:13:20pm

re: #206 Gus

Oy, I detect proselytizing now.

Fundamentalism is a painful psychic state.

222 efuseakay  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 4:13:40pm

re: #178 Charles Johnson

I read this review of Bioshock Infinite and OK, I’m sold. Amazon gets some more of my dough.

It’s pretty damn impressive.

223 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 4:13:58pm

re: #201 Tiny alien kittens are watching you

Pause for a moment to laugh at the utter ignorance displayed…

Three Reasons The Bible Is True And Christianity Isn’t Just Made Up.

Sigh…what are they teaching the kids these days?

Wow. Just wow.

224 Gus  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 4:16:24pm

re: #221 Charles Johnson

Fundamentalism is a painful psychic state.

He’s referring to you, right?

225 Gus  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 4:17:18pm

re: #223 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Wow. Just wow.

Yeah, farmers always had seeds. You know, like the seeds to every known plant on the planet at the alleged time frame! //

226 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 4:18:18pm

re: #224 Gus

I guess. I can’t be arsed to look up his stupid Bible quote, but I have a pretty good idea what I’d find.

227 Gus  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 4:19:38pm

re: #226 Charles Johnson

I guess. I can’t be arsed to look up his stupid Bible quote, but I have a pretty good idea what I’d find.

“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye?”

228 Joanne  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 4:54:00pm

re: #201 Tiny alien kittens are watching you

Pause for a moment to laugh at the utter ignorance displayed…

Three Reasons The Bible Is True And Christianity Isn’t Just Made Up.

Sigh…what are they teaching the kids these days?

Comment of the day:

Dave Hooke 1973 36 hours ago from London, United Kingdom

17Bree, may I introduce you to Nuclear Fusion:

en.wikipedia.org

It is a different process to burning:

en.wikipedia.org

While I’m here, the Jordan River is not the Red Sea:

en.wikipedia.org

en.wikipedia.org

As for Noah’s Ark, I fully believe it is in the middle of nowhere.

229 Feline Fearless Leader  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 5:27:47pm

re: #99 Targetpractice

“Help, help, I’m bein’ repressed! Come see the violence inherent in the system!”

Is Mitt Romney and pals shaking him down for his milk money again?

230 majii  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 9:02:07pm

The Breitbart crew can stalk by keyboard all they want to stalk, but the one thing that you probably couldn’t pay them a million dollars to do is go to where Sasha and Malia are and try to approach them. They are wimps who use their keyboards to get others all riled up and motivated to act, but they won’t do anything themselves. They’re instigators are not compelled to do anything much, other than drive traffic to the web site. They know that should they attempt to approach either of the girls personally, the Secret Service wouldn’t hesitate to intervene and shoot to kill if they think it’s necessary.

231 majii  Fri, Mar 29, 2013 9:06:55pm

re: #2 Bulworth

See, Bulworth, it’s like this, according to the Breitbarters, we black folks are NOT supposed to ski, not supposed to have the money to go skiing, and when we do, we’re acting uppity. I know it’s stupid, but they can’t seem to stop saying/doing stupid things. In the 1950s and 1960s, my mom and dad took themselves and us six kids on vacation every year in our Town and Country station wagon, but don’t tell the Breitbarters because they would never believe it.

232 chadu  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 9:04:36am

re: #148 Patricia Kayden

Because they’re assholes.


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