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1 Charles Johnson  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 6:27:46pm

I need to turn off Fox News now. There is something seriously wrong with them.

2 freetoken  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 6:29:12pm

What does Breton think about evolution?

Here’s what America thinks:

School Board candidate Q&A: Should alternatives to the theory of evolution, sometimes called creationism or intelligent design, be taught in science classes?

In the days leading to the April 2 municipal election, we’ll be publishing responses from School Board candidates to a range of questions.[…]

Q: Should alternatives to the theory of evolution, sometimes called creationism or intelligent design, be taught in science classes?

[…]

Bettye Davis: No

Don Smith: I think that all aspects should be presented and taught to our students

[…]

Stephanie Cornwell-George: I believe children should be educated to understand different perspectives. I think building an understanding of what others believe helps reduce social problems and hatred. I do not believe it should be taught as “the” theory of evolution. I think that this was covered in history or social studies while I was growing up but I can’t recall exactly.

Eric Croft: No

David Nees: If that is what the public wants

Will the public get what they want?

3 freetoken  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 6:30:20pm

So 2 out of 5 candidates agree with the Constitution as understood by all including the USSC.

The other 3… not so much.

4 Interesting Times  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 6:31:35pm

Is this another spammer? Comment makes no sense in context.

5 PhillyPretzel  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 6:31:49pm

Getting back to the cat. That was just purrfect.

6 PhillyPretzel  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 6:35:00pm

re: #4 Interesting Times

Probably is.

7 Gus  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 6:38:12pm

re: #4 Interesting Times

Is this another spammer? Comment makes no sense in context.

Nah. GGT mentions reading something in #96. Has already made three other comments.

8 Gus  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 6:39:06pm

Actually a bunch of other comments about books and reading.

9 Charles Johnson  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 6:43:57pm

re: #7 Gus

Nah. GGT mentions reading something in #96. Has already made three other comments.

Yeah, I think it’s a reply to an earlier comment. Spammers would post links to spam sites.

10 Charles Johnson  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 6:47:05pm

re: #4 Interesting Times

Thanks for keeping an eye peeled, though.

11 freetoken  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 6:49:12pm

Logic… how does it work?

Cobb sounds off as Facebook goes red in support of gay marriage

[…]

One woman who has not “gone red” is Georgia GOP Chairwoman Sue Everhart of east Cobb, although she’s aware of the movement.

“Lord, I’m going to get in trouble over this, but it is not natural for two women or two men to be married,” Everhart said. “If it was natural, they would have the equipment to have a sexual relationship.”

Everhart said while she respects all people, if same sex marriage is legalized across the country, there will be fraud.

“You may be as straight as an arrow, and you may have a friend that is as straight as an arrow,” Everhart said. “Say you had a great job with the government where you had this wonderful health plan. I mean, what would prohibit you from saying that you’re gay, and y’all get married and still live as separate, but you get all the benefits? I just see so much abuse in this it’s unreal. I believe a husband and a wife should be a man and a woman, the benefits should be for a man and a woman. There is no way that this is about equality. To me, it’s all about a free ride.”

Everhart said if she had a young child, she wouldn’t want them to have gay parents who would influence that child’s sexual orientation.

“You’re creating with this child that it’s a lifestyle, don’t go out and marry someone else of a different sex because this is natural,” Everhart said. “But if I had a next door neighbor who was in a gay relationship, I could be just as friendly to them as I could be to you and your wife or anybody else. I’m not saying that we ostracize them or anything like that. I’m just saying I’m against marriage because once you get the gay marriage you get everything else.”

Everything from non sequiturs to slippery slopes…

How does re-messaging work?

12 Interesting Times  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 6:50:05pm

re: #7 Gus

Nah. GGT mentions reading something in #96. Has already made three other comments.

Right, right, I remember now. Moral of the story: Proper use of the Reply and Quote buttons is your friend!

13 engineer cat  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 7:06:08pm

re: #7 Gus

GGT mentions reading something in #96

is dis a context?

14 Charles Johnson  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 7:09:47pm

re: #13 engineer cat

I CAN HAZ CONTEXT?

15 Kragar  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 7:42:28pm

Dad is home resting. Doctor’s ruled out a heart attack or stroke. They think it was some kind of inner ear inflection. They gave him some super strength antibiotics, told him to get a few days rest and they’ll keep going thru the rest of the tests to see if it was anything else.

I crashed for a while. Took my anxiety meds and had one of my rare beers and passed out myself.

16 calochortus  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 7:43:57pm

re: #15 Kragar

I’m glad to hear that.

17 Political Atheist  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 7:46:42pm

re: #15 Kragar

Great news. Sometimes the smallest thing can put us down for a minute.

19 jaunte  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 7:53:53pm

Donald Trump Drops $5 Mil Monkey Suit Against Bill Maher (For Now)

“…Trump sued Maher in February, claiming Maher skipped out on a promise to donate $5 mil to charity if Trump could prove he wasn’t part orangutan. Maher made the offer during an appearance on “Leno” … after Trump made his $5 million challenge to President Obama regarding the POTUS’ birth certificate.”

20 William Barnett-Lewis  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 7:53:55pm

I am presuming/hoping/praying ;) this is an April Fool’s Day page … Anti-Drone shells anyone?

12 ga - 3” Uranium Drone Load - 1 3/8 oz - Tacnition - 5 Rounds

21 jaunte  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 7:59:28pm

re: #20 William Barnett-Lewis

Google Nose tells me something smells funny about uranium priced so low.

22 Kragar  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 8:00:48pm

Need to engage in some serious rocking out to unwind

Youtube Video
23 Varek Raith  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 8:00:54pm

re: #15 Kragar

Dad is home resting. Doctor’s ruled out a heart attack or stroke. They think it was some kind of inner ear inflection. They gave him some super strength antibiotics, told him to get a few days rest and they’ll keep going thru the rest of the tests to see if it was anything else.

I crashed for a while. Took my anxiety meds and had one of my rare beers and passed out myself.

Hear hear!
/So going to hell.

24 Kragar  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 8:08:19pm
Youtube Video
25 Thundermother(it will turn your head around)  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 8:12:10pm

re: #24 Kragar

Yeah, that one always gets my cranky old cynical ass a little weepy.
Be well, man.

26 Kragar  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 8:17:42pm
Youtube Video
27 Mich-again  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 8:23:38pm

From the what could go wrong? department..

Boy, 8, accidentally kills self at gun show
Child was firing an Uzi submachine gun under adult supervision at fair

An 8-year-old boy died after accidentally shooting himself in the head while firing an Uzi submachine gun under adult supervision at a gun fair.
The boy lost control of the weapon while firing it Sunday at the Machine Gun Shoot and Firearms Expo at the Westfield Sportsman’s Club, police Lt. Lawrence Vallierpratte said.

28 Kragar  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 8:25:36pm
Youtube Video
29 Sionainn  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 8:30:56pm

re: #27 Mich-again

From the what could go wrong? department..

Boy, 8, accidentally kills self at gun show
Child was firing an Uzi submachine gun under adult supervision at fair

That’s from 2008.

30 Mich-again  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 8:35:29pm

re: #29 Sionainn

Thanks for pointing that out.. I was just drifting through Twitter when I saw that.

31 William Barnett-Lewis  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 8:41:46pm

Good night all. Take care Kragar, glad things are looking up now.

32 makeitstop  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 8:54:39pm

Has anyone else seen these bad Photoshop images of Obama kissing men yet? I was looking at Facebook and saw one with Hugo Chavez and one with John Edwards.

Both had the same caption - Obama wants it off the internet.” What the actual fuck??

33 freetoken  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 8:57:09pm

Repeating something often enough so people will believe it:

Pope Francis visits St. Peter’s tomb under Vatican

Pope Francis on Monday took an emotional, close-up look at the tomb of Peter, the church’s first pontiff, buried beneath St. Peter’s Basilica, the Vatican said.

By doing so, Francis became the first pontiff to visit the necropolis, where pagans and early Christians were buried, since extensive archaeological excavations were conducted at the ancient site decades ago, the Vatican said.

The 45-minute “visit of devotion to the tomb of St. Peter” was private, the Vatican said, but it later released a video of it.

The basilica was built over the location where early Christians would gather in secret, at a time of persecution in ancient Rome, to pray at an unmarked tomb believed to be that of Peter, the apostle Jesus chose to lead his church.

[…]

There is no archeological evidence for there being a “Peter.

There is no archeological evidence that a “Peter” as head of what would late become the Papacy is buried there.

And, the idea of Christians being persecuted by the Romans is over-blown and taken out of context.

However, later generations repeated these stories, so they must be true. No?

The current, Renaissance-built basilica does indeed sit over an older Christian site, but one from the 4th century, from Constantine’s time. It was built over older Roman ruins, but then again so is everything in the area. Romans did indeed inter bones underground, but that is hardly special of Christians, and certainly says nothing about a “Peter”.

But the new Pope repeats the tale for a new generation.

34 Targetpractice  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 9:09:38pm

I gotta stop watching gaming streams. I keep ending up wanting to try out the games I watch being played, and that’s just no good for my income stream.

35 freetoken  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 9:13:09pm

Worth investigating:

Announcing my MOOC, Human Evolution: Past and Future

I have begun a project that may change the way we teach and communicate the science of human evolution. Starting in January, 2014, I will be offering a massive open online course titled, “Human Evolution: Past and Future”.

This course and all its materials will be open and free for anyone, anywhere in the world. As of this moment, more than 6500 people have already signed up for the course. The course is still more than nine months away, and I’ll be developing materials across the entire time up through January.

Developing this course is a huge investment for me. My institution, the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is making it possible — but at the same time I’m actively seeking out partnerships and sponsors. I’ll be documenting the development process here on the blog, and in a series of presentations and publications as I go. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) have begun to change the way universities approach online education, and the course will be a research platform as well as an educational experience.

What will be new in this course:

Expert interviews. […]

Mini-documentaries. […]

Guided laboratories. We’ll be exploring genome data, providing some excellent virtual laboratories with the fossil evidence, and running experiments with evolutionary change.

Participatory science. […].

Looking to the future. The course title is “Human Evolution: Past and Future.” To me, the path of our evolution in the past is closely tied to where our species may be going. To that end, the course will be looking at the next hundred, thousand and ten thousand years of our evolution. I’ll be interviewing people who are thinking about the impact of technology on our future evolution, and students will come up with their own scenarios based on a strong understanding of the forces that shaped human evolution in the past.

I’m doing this because human evolution is important. The effects of the past shape who we are today, our health and choices, our societies and imaginations.

Anthropology can engage people in their own lives and experience. […]

What you can do:

Sign up for the course. […]

Look for your opportunity to help. […]

Adopt the materials. […] If you’re teaching human evolution in a college or high school setting, [good luck with that one!] look out for additional information on how to use materials and develop curriculum that works in your context!

[…]

36 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 9:17:05pm

re: #29 Sionainn

That’s from 2008.

Whew, what a relief.

37 dragonath  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 9:19:13pm

Yeah but can Pope Francis do this?

Image: enhanced-buzz-15542-1271074684-108.jpg

38 freetoken  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 9:20:22pm

re: #37 dragonath

The “Flying Pope” was unique.

39 Targetpractice  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 9:23:54pm

re: #38 freetoken

The “Flying Pope” was unique.

As was the Force lightning.

//

40 freetoken  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 9:38:20pm

National Review (this time none other than senior editor Rich Lowry) once again proving that it once again that it will chose ignorance over reality:

The New Climate Deniers

[…]

The new climate deniers are the liberals who, despite their obsession with climate change, have managed to miss the biggest story in climate science, which is that there hasn’t been any global warming for about a decade and a half.

[…]

Lowry’s claime is based solely on this article at the Economist:

A sensitive matter

The Economist article has no byline nor references.

The Economist article does try to tackle some difficult subtleties in climatology and doesn’t come the conclusion that Lowry presents… which of course Lowry seems to ignore.

The Economist article, while no where as know-nothing as Lowry’s piece, still over-looks a lot of data, but does briefly mention the now demonstrated greater energy flow into the deeper ocean.

That NRO ignores what the actual article they link actually says, an Economist article that itself struggles to come to terms with an esoteric subject but at least doesn’t diss science, is fully in keeping with the American atavists and their desire to run from reality and modernity.

National Review - putting two extra syllables in “know-nothing”.

41 engineer cat  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 9:48:34pm

today teh google is honoring early feminazi leftist and entymologist Maria Sibylla Merian in yet another attempt to undermine the morels and toadstools of american society

42 wrenchwench  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 9:53:46pm

re: #41 engineer cat

today teh google is honoring early feminazi leftist and entymologist Maria Sibylla Merian in yet another attempt to undermine the morels and toadstools of american society

You seem like a fungi.

43 engineer cat  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 10:08:05pm

re: #42 wrenchwench

You seem like a fungi.

have a spore!

44 engineer cat  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 10:16:31pm

re: #40 freetoken

The Economist article does try to tackle some difficult subtleties in climatology and doesn’t come the conclusion that Lowry presents… which of course Lowry seems to ignore.

citing and linking articles and claiming that they say things that, in fact, they don’t, is becoming an everyday practice with wingnuts

45 Dancing along the light of day  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 10:18:05pm

re: #43 engineer cat

Be taken by a gnome!

46 wrenchwench  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 10:27:15pm

Image: h2640B5A0.gif

Later, lizards.

47 freetoken  Mon, Apr 1, 2013 11:08:11pm

Villa-Lobos’ “Bachianas brasileiras № 2” mvt. 1:

MP3 Audio
48 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 1:20:01am

re: #38 freetoken

The “Flying Pope” was unique.

Yeah, but it got cancelled after the first season…

49 freetoken  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 1:33:40am

Continuing on with the Villa-Lobos, mvt. 2 (“Aria - O canto de nossa terra”), which has a beautiful cello parts:

MP3 Audio
50 freetoken  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 1:54:08am

Might as well go all the way… it’s a good piece of music and I think Villa-Lobos is still under appreciated in many markets:

mvt. 3 “Danca - Lembraca do sertao”

MP3 Audio

mvt. 4 “Toccata - O trenzinho do Caipira”

MP3 Audio
51 freetoken  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 2:18:18am

An update on this story:

Suspicion in Texas DA death shifts to white supremacists

52 freetoken  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 2:44:59am

You want this to be an April Fool’s joke, don’t you?

Alien message embedded in our genetic code?

PTI : Washington, Tue Apr 02 2013, 13:49 hrs

The answer to whether alien life exists may be hiding inside our own body!

According to a new theory, human genetic code is embedded with a “designer label” that may be an indelible stamp of a master extraterrestrial civilisation that preceded us by many millions or billions of years.

Researchers Vladimir I shCherbak of al-Farabi Kazakh National University of Kazakhstan, and Maxim A Makukov of the Fesenkov Astrophysical Institute, hypothesise that an intelligent signal embedded in our genetic code would be a mathematical and semantic message that cannot be accounted for by Darwinian evolution.

[…]

Well, ok, so it’s dated 2nd April… but then again it’s from some off beat Indian publication and they’re always into weird stuff… but wait, look who they are quoting:

Calling it “biological SETI”, shCherbak and Makukov argue that the scheme has much greater longevity and chance of detecting alien life than a transient extraterrestrial radio transmission, the ‘Discovery News’ reported.

[…]

Discover News? Ok, so let’s see what Discovery says:

Is An Alien Message Embedded In Our Genetic Code?

APR 1, 2013 11:27 AM ET // BY RAY VILLARD

The answer to whether or not we are alone in the universe could be right under our nose, or, more literally, inside every cell in our body.

Could our genes have an intelligently designed “manufacturer’s stamp” inside them, written eons ago elsewhere in our galaxy? Such a “designer label” would be an indelible stamp of a master extraterrestrial civilization that preceded us by many millions or billions of years. As their ultimate legacy, they recast the Milky Way in their own biological image.

[…]

Aha! The story is dated April 1st… has to be an April Fools joke… oh wait… Discovery gives a reference:

Writing in the journal Icarus, they assert: “Once fixed, the code might stay unchanged over cosmological timescales; in fact, it is the most durable construct known. Therefore it represents an exceptionally reliable storage for an intelligent signature. Once the genome is appropriately rewritten the new code with a signature will stay frozen in the cell and its progeny, which might then be delivered through space and time.”

Is Icarus playing an Aprils Fool Joke? From the Icarus link:

The “Wow! signal” of the terrestrial genetic code
Vladimir I. shCherbaka, , Maxim A. Makukovb, 1

Article history
Received 26 June 2012
Revised 31 January 2013
Accepted 12 February 2013
Available online 6 March 2013

Sigh… no. Here’s the the pre-press PDF.

When the announcement of the publication broke it got some press, and the IDiots did jump on it and those with more critical eyes pointed it out (example.)

Yet as the Indian newspaper article shows these things will have a life of their own, and once again the publishing corporations demonstrate that if you can pay the fee they’ll print it.

53 goddamnedfrank  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 2:52:26am
“I don’t support the gay marriage,” the congressman said. But Salmon emphasized that he loved and respected his son and did not consider homosexuality a choice.

“My son is by far one of the most important people in my life. I love him more than I can say,” an emotional Salmon told 3TV. “It doesn’t mean that I don’t have respect, it doesn’t mean that I don’t sympathize with some of the issues. It just means I haven’t evolved to that stage.”

Translation: I still need the votes and support of fuckfaced bigots to keep my job, and that’s more important to me than advocating basic equality under the law for my own son.

54 freetoken  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 2:56:04am

Mathematicians (like the two authors of that paper) can get caught up into a lot of woo…

A famous quote:

A mathematician may say anything he pleases, but a physicist must be at least partially sane.

55 Targetpractice  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 3:19:15am

re: #52 freetoken

You want this to be an April Fool’s joke, don’t you?

Alien message embedded in our genetic code?

Well, ok, so it’s dated 2nd April… but then again it’s from some off beat Indian publication and they’re always into weird stuff… but wait, look who they are quoting:

Discover News? Ok, so let’s see what Discovery says:

Is An Alien Message Embedded In Our Genetic Code?

Aha! The story is dated April 1st… has to be an April Fools joke… oh wait… Discovery gives a reference:

Is Icarus playing an Aprils Fool Joke? From the Icarus link:

Sigh… no. Here’s the the pre-press PDF.

When the announcement of the publication broke it got some press, and the IDiots did jump on it and those with more critical eyes pointed it out (example.)

Yet as the Indian newspaper article shows these things will have a life of their own, and once again the publishing corporations demonstrate that if you can pay the fee they’ll print it.

Pretty sure that was an episode of The Outer Limits.

56 freetoken  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 3:22:44am

re: #55 Targetpractice

Pretty sure that was an episode of The Outer Limits.

I believe it is a Star Trek episode.

57 freetoken  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 3:29:10am

MJ succeeds in getting “NRA”, “Koch” and “Dark Money” (it is related to Dark Matter or Dark Energy?) into one headline:

Inside the NRA’s Koch-Funded Dark Money Campaign

58 freetoken  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 3:33:08am

Dark Matter - holds a galaxy together
Dark Energy - pushes the universe apart
Dark Money - pays Karl Rove’s restaurant tab

59 freetoken  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 3:42:59am

Ambulance chasers prepping for the next millennium?


Gene Pool Rules

It’s never too early to prepare for a law suit.

60 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 3:58:40am

Another day, another bunch of cops in LA beating up random people.

laist.com

61 Dancing along the light of day  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 4:49:53am

re: #55 Targetpractice

Or, the Twilight Zone…

62 lawhawk  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 6:04:01am

Developing this morning - a massive corruption sweep in NY, with multiple arrests of local politicians.

State Sen. Malcolm Smith and city Councilman Dan Halloran were arrested this morning on charges they were plotting to rig this year’s mayoral election through fraud and bribes.

The pols allegedly formed an alliance built on cash payments and fraud to get Smith — one of the state’s top Democrats — placed on the GOP mayoral ballot, sources said.

FBI agents arrested them both at their Queens homes shortly after 6 a.m.

“I have no idea,” Halloran, in handcuffs, told a Post reporter when asked if he knew why he was being arrested.

Others arrested include the Queens and Bronx Republican chairs - and they are all being accused of trying to rig the mayoral election.

As alleged, Senator Malcolm Smith tried to bribe his way to a shot at Gracie Mansion - Smith drew up the game plan and Councilman Halloran essentially quarterbacked that drive by finding party chairmen who were wide open to receiving bribes. After the string of public corruption scandals that we have brought to light, many may rightly resign themselves to the sad truth that perhaps the most powerful special interest in politics is self-interest. We will continue pursuing and punishing every corrupt official we find, but the public corruption crisis in New York is more than a prosecutor’s problem.”

If Halloran’s name sounds familiar, it’s because he was a blowhard who allegedthat Sanitation workers purposefully slowed down snow removal during the blizzard a few years back. Investigations found no evidence of any kind of slowdown.

Smith’s name should sound familiar as well, as he was part of the breakaway Democrats in the State Senate who gave temporary control of the Senate to Republicans in a coup against Democratic leaders.

This scandal threatens to upturn the entire Republican campaign for NYC mayor, as key behind-the-scenes officials are involved and it’s entirely possible that others could find themselves perp-walked.

63 CuriousLurker  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 6:27:52am

re: #62 lawhawk

Wow. Reminds me of the perp walks in the Jersey corruption arrests a few years back. O_o

64 lawhawk  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 6:34:24am

re: #63 CuriousLurker

In many ways, this one is worse. Not as many people involved at the moment, but the nature of the corruption is worse. It was about ballot access - trying to get Smith on the ballot. Payoffs to GOP leaders to get them to sign off on Smith going on the GOP ballot in NYC.

The thing to keep in mind is that the Democratic side of the ballot is real long, and there are a couple of heavyweights on that side - Quinn being chief among them (current City Council honcho). They’ve got money and position. On the GOP side, there’s a belief that there’s more flexibility and ability to run without as much of a primary challenge (one of the reasons that Bloomberg and Rudy took the GOP ID). While the big names on the GOP side are Joe Lhota (former MTA head and a deputy mayor under Rudy) and real estate/grocery store billionaire John Catasmatidis, there was a chance that others could sneak in and get an advantage. That’s what Smith was trying to do - buying his access to the ballot.

And it also threatens to throw the GOP side of the ballot into a mess with key GOP borough leaders arrested in connection with the bribery plot. More here.

65 CuriousLurker  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 6:37:43am

re: #64 lawhawk

Yikes. Thanks for the additional link—I’ll have to read up on all of it later this evening. Sounds like there’s some serious drama unfolding in the Big Apple.

66 wheat-dogghazi  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 6:43:28am

re: #64 lawhawk

I guess they didn’t pay attention to the Blagovich (sp?) mess in Illinois. That didn’t work out so well for him.

67 lawhawk  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 6:51:32am

That communist/socialist/Marxist Obama just keeps on rolling:

The GOP and right wing were so vested in seeing the economy tank, that seeing the Wall Street profits go through the roof, and top the record levels set before the rash must hurt; though they’re now spinning that the benefits aren’t reaching everyone (in a bit of cognitive dissonance because they were looking to max out the tax benefits to the rich and stick everyone else with the tab).

68 lawhawk  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 6:58:49am

Text of the complaint in the NYC corruption case:

69 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:09:46am

re: #68 lawhawk

Wow. And even though it’s Republicans and a conservative Democrat fixing the GOP race, I bet this gets blamed on liberals before the day is out.

70 makeitstop  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:11:54am

re: #69 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Wow. And even though it’s Republicans and a conservative Democrat fixing the GOP race, I bet this gets blamed on liberals before the day is out.

But of course.

Democrat = guilty culprit.
Republican = Liberal plant to make conservatives look bad.

71 lawhawk  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:14:39am

re: #69 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Yeah, I’m fully expecting the usual suspects to blame this on the liberal nature of NYC politics and rampant corruption and politicking that goes on.

But this particular scandal is centered on Malcolm Smiths quest for power - a quest that drove him to engage in a coup in the State Senate, got him elevated as Senate Majority Leader for a time, and now saw him stalking for a mayoral bid from the GOP because the Democratic Party side is full of bigwigs with more stashed in their campaign war chests.

72 lawhawk  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:16:29am

re: #70 makeitstop

Well, Dan Halloran is a plant of a sort - the kind with a potted plant mentality who can’t help but find himself in these situations.

The FBI was investigating him on unrelated matters, when this fell into their lap.

73 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:22:32am

Good morning lizards!

There is a lizard on Google today!

74 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:35:20am

This is interesting.

Anonymous hackers claim to have stolen 15,000 passwords from North Korea’s Uriminzokkiri site

A hacker, or hackers, purporting to be part of the Anonymous group claim to have got their hands on more than 15,000 passwords belonging to users of Uriminzokkiri.com, one of North Korea’s primary sites on the Internet.

An anonymously written note – first spotted by the North Korea Tech blog — makes the claim, and discloses what are said to be six sample user records for the site, which is run out of China.

The posting, which is in English, boldly demands that Kim Jong-un resigns and installs free democracy in the country. It also calls on the country to stop its commitment to nuclear weapons and introduce universal Internet access for its citizens. According to the note, the hacker/hackers have access to the country’s local intranets, mail servers and Web servers and are promising to wreak more havoc later this month as part of the Anonymous #OpFreeKorea campaign.

“First we gonna wipe your data, then we gonna wipe your badass dictatorship ‘government’”, the statement says.

Looking at the names of the email addresses of the half a dozen supposed leaks, three appear to be Korean, with the other three Chinese.

I wonder how much damage this group can do to Lil Kim with the information it claims it has?

75 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:38:45am

re: #74 NJDhockeyfan

This is interesting.

Anonymous hackers claim to have stolen 15,000 passwords from North Korea’s Uriminzokkiri site

I wonder how much damage this group can do to Lil Kim with the information it claims it has?

Not much. Information isn’t free in North Korea, and they’re heavily propagandized. It’s like a more extreme example of the right-wing media bubble in the US. There are still plenty of people in the us who think that ACORN was corrupt/rigged the election, that Obama wasn’t born in the US, that climate change isn’t real, and other things, and it’s not because they’re stupid, it’s because they believe in the propaganda and don’t have enough other sources challenge it.

76 wheat-dogghazi  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:48:59am

Trying out Soundcloud, like freetoken does. Here’s some nice guitar playing.

SoundCloud

This track is 43 minutes long, including Blue Rondo a Turk and Monk’s Mood.

77 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:49:25am

There’s a really sickening article in the Daily Post about ‘freeloaders’ staying at ‘four-star’ shelters. It’s a total bash-the-poor, ‘lucky Ducky’ article, and even worse because it’s main ‘shocking’ thing is how many of these people are from out of town. Well, yeah, if I’m from some shitheel little town outside of New York City that doesn’t have a homeless shelter, I’ll go to New York City if I can. Especially if it’s because I lost my house and it’s my whole family and I with nowhere to go. A single man or woman can drift around a little, but a family, that’s hard.

The percentage of the homeless that are families has grown hugely during the recession, as people, often multiple generations in the same family, are losing their homes or having to get much smaller ones.

We need to fund homeless shelters a lot more. We can either deal with the homeless as a social problem or a criminal problem. Social problem is a lot better.

78 Bulworth  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:55:40am

Dem Senator Tom Carper (Delaware) has evolved on the freedom to marry. Now favors it. So say the Twitters I follow.

79 Bulworth  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:58:28am

re: #77 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

I bet these lucky duckies get to have TVs in their four star hotel rooms, too. Are there no workcamps?! /

80 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:04:41am

Bangladesh arrests three atheist bloggers

DHAKA — Bangladesh police have arrested three atheist bloggers for allegedly defaming Islam and the Prophet Mohammed, police said Tuesday, amid calls from religious fundamentalists for an Internet crackdown.

The arrest of the three, who were paraded in handcuffs at a news conference, followed pressure from Islamists who have organised a march from all over the country to the capital to demand the death penalty for atheist bloggers.

“They have hurt the religious feelings of the people by writing against different religions and their prophets and founders including the Prophet Mohammed,” said deputy commissioner of Dhaka police, Molla Nazrul Islam.

The three could face 10 years in jail if convicted under the country’s cyber laws which outlaw “defaming” a religion, Islam said.

81 calochortus  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:07:52am

re: #73 NJDhockeyfan

Good morning lizards!

There is a lizard on Google today!

Good book on Maria Sybilla Merian

82 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:16:47am

re: #74 NJDhockeyfan

This is interesting.

Anonymous hackers claim to have stolen 15,000 passwords from North Korea’s Uriminzokkiri site

I wonder how much damage this group can do to Lil Kim with the information it claims it has?

I like the thought of a bunch of smelly hackers taking out a tin-horn dictator.

83 Lidane  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:32:00am
84 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:33:41am

‘Egyptian Jon Stewart’ defended by American original

Jon Stewart slammed Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi for the arrest and interrogation of satirist Bassem Youssef.

Comedy Central
85 wrenchwench  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:41:16am
86 lawhawk  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:44:03am

re: #83 Lidane

It wasn’t so long ago that the NRA and LaPierre were behind getting universal background checks as sensible and reasonable (1999 Congressional Testimony). But then, they went off the rails and decided to block any and all attempts to reduce the chances that someone with a criminal background could get their hands on firearms.

87 lawhawk  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:46:51am

Right wing conspiracy mongering commenced previously - outrageous outrage recommencing in 2… 1…

Never mind that the law doesn’t take away or abrogate the 2d Amendment in any fashion, it applies to international arms trade, not the individual right to bear arms in the US. It’s just not how treaties work as applied to federal law or the Constitution; the Constitution supersedes treaty requirements where any conflict may exist.

88 Lidane  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:48:07am

And I rue the day that this jackwagon became Governor of Texas:

Link goes to Breitbart.

89 Gus  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:50:33am

re: #87 lawhawk

Right wing conspiracy mongering commenced previously - outrageous outrage recommencing in 2… 1…

Never mind that the law doesn’t take away or abrogate the 2d Amendment in any fashion, it applies to international arms trade, not the individual right to bear arms in the US. It’s just not how treaties work as applied to federal law or the Constitution; the Constitution supersedes treaty requirements where any conflict may exist.

Dey tuk er gunz!

90 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:50:37am

re: #55 Targetpractice

Pretty sure that was an episode of The Outer Limits.

Star Trek: Next Generation actually IIRC. And one of the people chasing after the supposed message joked that it was going to end up being the alien aunt’s biscuit recipe.

en.wikipedia.org

91 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:53:12am

North Korea’s Fighter Fleet Is Full Of Decrepit Russian MiG 21s

The same model of jet that inspired the creation of the U.S. Navy’s “Top Gun” program (and so popularized, by proxy, such memorable phrases as “kick the tires and light the fires”) is now home to the airborne equivalent of your grandfather’s old Buick — the MiG-21.

Yes, the MiG 21 is no longer the scourge it used to be, especially in the hands of a North Korea (DPRK) wracked to strangulation with international sanctions.

Even Grampa’s buick is probably in better order than the DPRK’s fleet of approximately ~150 or so MiG 21 flying jalopies — the country’s most numerous fighter jet.

NK fighters vs US fighters = a turkey shoot.

92 William Barnett-Lewis  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:57:47am

re: #91 NJDhockeyfan

North Korea’s Fighter Fleet Is Full Of Decrepit Russian MiG 21s

NK fighters vs US fighters = a turkey shoot.

Could be. OTOH, there is nothing as dangerous as a desperate amateur. If the US uses it’s usual ROE (requiring visual confirmation of the target before firing) forex, then the MiG-21’s would be able to be close enough to pose a real threat with their own missile armament.

93 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:58:56am

I guess one of the hanging questions is whether China finally decides that it’s chained pit bull is rabid and needs to be put down.

94 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:04:58am

Anderson Cooper and Matt Damen. Don’t mess with Matt Damen, you’ll get a Smatt Down.

95 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:05:38am

and how is it today?

96 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:07:02am

re: #95 FemNaziBitch

and how is it today?

Allergies are acting up. :p

97 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:08:51am

re: #96 Feline Fearless Leader

Allergies are acting up. :p

Mine too! I think I got a little bug as well. Slight fever, sore throat.

98 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:11:52am

North Korea VS. South Korea

This is a very subjective and satiric comparison of North and South Korean military power.

Song: Benny Hill Theme Song & Bob Bradley - Trenches

Recently, tension has been rising in the Korean peninsula after North Korea carried out rocket launch and nuclear test. While the media’s attention is focused on North Korea and its military, did you ever wonder how North’s Southern neighbor is holding up?

Youtube Video
99 makeitstop  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:12:31am

Check Out The Last 16 Covers Of The NRA’s ‘Pure News Magazine’

Galloping paranoia, in four colors and on glossy stock. Unreal.

100 lawhawk  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:14:30am

re: #91 NJDhockeyfan

More details about the North Korean air force, disposition, and threat.

101 dragonath  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:15:08am

re: #99 makeitstop

Check Out The Last 16 Covers Of The NRA’s ‘Pure News Magazine’

Galloping paranoia, in four colors and on glossy stock. Unreal.

“United States of South Africa”

Ooh.

Subtle.

102 Kragar  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:17:22am

Pratt: ‘Angry Liberals Should Not Have Guns’

Larry Pratt, the extremist and conspiratorial leader of Gun Owners of America, last week gave a speech to We the People Tea Party of Northwest Louisiana where he mused that liberals should not be allowed to own guns.

After saying that President Obama held a shotgun “girly like” while skeet shooting, the Shreveport Times reports that Pratt told the group that Democrats like Obama “almost got me convinced to modify my purist Second Amendment position: there are people that shouldn’t have guns, angry liberals should not have guns.”

103 Lidane  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:17:36am

OUTRAGE!

Cue the ‘splodey heads in 3…2…1…

104 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:17:36am

re: #100 lawhawk

More details about the North Korean air force, disposition, and threat.

It looks like they are having a problem keeping these things in the air.

Frequently, the MiG-21s you see don’t appear to be in working order. Some are clearly stripped of parts, decaying, or even sitting in ponds of standing water. Many appear to be mere decoys.

105 Gus  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:17:56am

re: #100 lawhawk

More details about the North Korean air force, disposition, and threat.

== VIRUS WARNING ==

106 Kragar  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:20:13am

Fischer: The Left Is Driven by ‘Dark, Satanic Powers’

On yesterday’s program, shortly after saying that Ben Carson had been the victim of the Left’s “demonic hatred,” Bryan Fischer urged listeners to always stand on the word of God and refuse to apologize, compromise, or ever back down because they are involved in “spiritual warfare” and must stand firm against as they wrestle “with these dark, satanic powers.”

Those who oppose Fischer’s bigoted and theocratic worldview, he insisted, are being used by demonic forces and “what’s animating these people, the energy they’re drawing on, the energy that is being fed to them is coming from the powers of darkness”:

That is obviously it. What reason other that Satan could anyone have to oppose Bryan Fischer’s beliefs?

107 Lidane  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:22:11am

re: #103 Lidane

108 Gus  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:22:38am

Virus or whatever it might be.

109 Gus  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:24:25am

Checks out here.

110 Eventual Carrion  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:24:53am

re: #102 Kragar

Pratt: ‘Angry Liberals Should Not Have Guns’

So guns for everyone, except those that they don’t want to have guns? What about non-affiliates of any party or ideology like me, the loose cannons as it were. Can I have a gun? Those fucking idiots.

111 Bulworth  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:29:22am

re: #99 makeitstop

Wait, I coulda swore at least one of those covers didn’t feature PBO. //

112 HappyWarrior  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:30:20am

re: #102 Kragar

Pratt: ‘Angry Liberals Should Not Have Guns’

Yeah but angry conservatives should have as many guns as they want right, Larry? Talks about anger from a guy who Pat Buchanan had to fire for being too bigoted are amusing though.

113 HappyWarrior  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:30:49am

re: #103 Lidane

OUTRAGE!

Cue the ‘splodey heads in 3…2…1…

Good on him.

114 Dr. Matt  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:32:21am

re: #102 Kragar

Pratt: ‘Angry Liberals Should Not Have Guns’

Ah, another “pro-2A” type wanting to dictate who should and who shouldn’t have guns…..just like the Framers intended.

115 Bulworth  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:32:43am

re: #99 makeitstop

Wait, where’s the cover featuring the victims of Sandyhook?

/

116 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:35:35am

re: #100 lawhawk

More details about the North Korean air force, disposition, and threat.

Comparisons of World Military Strengths - North Korea vs South Korea

117 Bulworth  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:35:54am

re: #103 Lidane

RINO!!

No more CPAC invitations for him. //

118 Gus  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:57:38am
119 Lidane  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:00:38am
120 Charles Johnson  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:03:15am

Why are all these raving wingnuts with #TGDN in their profile suddenly trying to follow me on Twitter?

If the profile has #TGDN, #TCOT, #WAR, or #IAmBreitbart in it, that’s an instant block. If the profile picture has a Gadsden flag or a bald eagle clutching a flag or a picture of Andrew Breitbart, likewise.

121 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:05:02am

re: #119 Lidane

Why Mark Kirk’s statement is key: He says gov’t doesn’t have power to exclude gays from marriage

That’s the point. You don’t have to approve or see them as maaried in the eyes of God, you just can’t deny them their civil rights.

122 Lidane  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:05:32am

re: #120 Charles Johnson

Maybe they think you’re that hack from the Daily Caller. No one has ever accused the TGDN nutters of being smart.

123 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:09:07am

Tell the GOP

124 lawhawk  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:10:22am

re: #122 Lidane

Yup. We’re talking about the folks who thought Google was honoring Hugo Chavez, not Cesar Chavez on Easter Sunday.

125 Charles Johnson  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:11:21am
126 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:12:13am

re: #125 Charles Johnson

That’s the story of Love!

127 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:12:25am

bbl

128 wrenchwench  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:16:01am

re: #120 Charles Johnson

Why are all these raving wingnuts with #TGDN in their profile suddenly trying to follow me on Twitter?

If the profile has #TGDN, #TCOT, #WAR, or #IAmBreitbart in it, that’s an instant block. If the profile picture has a Gadsden flag or a bald eagle clutching a flag or a picture of Andrew Breitbart, likewise.

Don’t forget the dreaded Benghazi ribbon.

129 Lidane  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:22:54am

The freepers are taking Mark Kirk’s annoucement well:

More RINOs coming out of the closet. Good. Maybe they can get honest work outside of government.
—-

Garbage thinking. A wholesale movement of state level legislators need to replace these federal clowns…get the GOP back to true values.
—-

Exactly what year was it when we passed Sodom on the sin scale?

Sooner or later, God is going to call in his chips and a lot of people aren’t going to be ‘celebrating’ anything.
—-

May a Democrat take the place of every Republican that flips on sodomy.
—-

Seems not so long ago one recalls the topic of “family values” reverberating around the halls of GOP venues. Now, they jump headlong into sheer deviancy.

Between the GOP cowardly caving all over the place on amnesty, Obamacare, and this repellance… the whole Republican Party just makes me want to vomit!!! I seriously don’t know I’ll ever vote GOP again. Voted for them all my life, but the Party just no longer shares my values.
—-

Monday is the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 17th amendment to the U.S. Constitution - removing Senatorial elections from state legislatures.

One of the darkest days in the history of the Republic.

130 Bulworth  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:31:11am

Monday is the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 17th amendment to the U.S. Constitution - removing Senatorial elections from state legislatures.

One of the darkest days in the history of the Republic.

Ah, the cult of reducing democracy. /

131 kirkspencer  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:59:36am

re: #130 Bulworth

One of the darkest days in the history of the Republic.

Ah, the cult of reducing democracy. /

It’s sorta fun listening to the reasoning for this amendment revocation. In simple the argument is that Senators are beholden to their sponsors, who will either be the (greedy and ignorant) general population of the state (aka the masses) or the (informed and interested) leadership of the state.

It completely ignores the effects of gerrymandering on both state legislatures and the House, for which the state-wide election of a Senator provides balance.

132 steve_davis  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 11:41:25am

“Lord, I’m going to get in trouble over this” Number 9 in things wingnuts say right before they burn whatever tenuous bridge they still had with the forces of moderation.

133 [deleted]  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 2:25:37pm

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