Mark Sanford Wins SC House GOP Primary Runoff

Lying philanderer charms South Carolina Republicans
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Remember, kids — it’s OK if you’re a Republican! Mark Sanford Wins South Carolina House GOP Primary Runoff.

Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford (R) has won his House primary runoff, setting up a high-profile special election against businesswoman Elizabeth Colbert Busch (D), the sister of comedian Stephen Colbert.

Sanford led attorney Curtis Bostic (R) by 57 to 43 percent as of 8:40 p.m., with 96 percent of precincts reporting. The Associated Press has called the race.

The win is the latest step in Sanford’s rehabilitation after an extramarital affair derailed his political career in 2009 — but his biggest test lies ahead in the Republican-leaning district.

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357 comments
1 jaunte  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 6:51:52pm

“I promise, kids, this Father’s Day, if elected, you’ll know where I am!”

2 BongCrodny  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 6:56:35pm

“God has forgiven me!”

3 jaunte  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 6:56:43pm

OT:
Google keywords on oil spills:
Image: Screen-Shot-2013-04-02-at-8.54.jpg

4 AlexRogan  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:03:53pm

Mark “Appalachian Trail” Sanford versus the sister of Stephen Colbert.

Life is truly stranger than fiction.

5 AlexRogan  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:04:45pm

re: #3 jaunte

OT:
Google keywords on oil spills:
Image: Screen-Shot-2013-04-02-at-8.54.jpg

Hey, you can’t buy that kind of publicity and exposure!

/

6 blueraven  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:05:11pm

Its more about his lies, dereliction of duty and the abuse of funds than the affair, although that was crappy as well for such a holier-than-thou “values” leader.

hypocrite.

7 Robert O.  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:05:43pm

Meanwhile, the NRA has joined forces with North Korea, Iran and Syria to oppose the UN Treaty to curb the international arms trade.

edition.cnn.com

8 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:08:03pm

re: #7 Robert O.

Meanwhile, the NRA has joined forces with North Korea, Iran and Syria to oppose the UN Treaty to curb the international arms trade.

edition.cnn.com

The NRA has been on record as opposing that treaty for years. Their position owes nothing to those rogue states, but rather stems from a fear of saidsame treaty being used to curtail access to firearms within the US.

9 BongCrodny  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:12:40pm

From Daily Kos:

Yes, your neighbors might be crazy

4% of voters say they believe “lizard people” control our societies by gaining political power

All I can say is, it’s about fucking time.

10 goddamnedfrank  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:16:08pm
Mark Sanford spends a lot of his campaign asking for forgiveness from his term as governor when he made headlines for admitting to an extramarital affair, but on the News 2 set he describes marriage as sacred between one man and one woman.

“It is not to say every marriage makes it but it is to say that is the ideal we are aiming for,” Sanford said.

Hypocritical, bigoted and clownish is no way to go through life.

11 Skip Intro  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:16:54pm

Chalk up another big endorsement loss for Rick Santorum, Ann Coulter, James Dobson, and GOP superstar Pat Boone.

12 engineer cat  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:18:22pm

but at least he added a new euphemism to the amurican language

“um, well, he was ‘walking the appalachian trail’ y’see…”

13 jaunte  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:20:12pm

If I was AWOL and out of contact from my job for a week, I don’t think I would be able to keep it like Sanford did, much less be rehired to do it again.

14 engineer cat  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:21:07pm

re: #11 Skip Intro

Chalk up another big endorsement loss for Rick Santorum, Ann Coulter, James Dobson, and GOP superstar Pat Boone.

if you can pat boone you can petaluma

15 Stanley Sea  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:22:03pm

Bring back big dick Anthony Weiner! YEAH! It’s all cool.

16 jaunte  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:22:41pm

Random paid time off for everyone!

17 Stanley Sea  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:22:48pm

re: #13 jaunte

If I was AWOL and out of contact from my job for a week, I don’t think I would be able to keep it like Sanford did, much less be rehired to do it again.

S o u t h C a r o l I n a

18 Skip Intro  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:22:52pm

re: #12 engineer cat

but at least he added a new euphemism to the amurican language

“um, well, he was ‘walking the appalachian trail’ y’see…”

I thought he was “stalking some Argentinian tail”.

19 Stanley Sea  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:24:04pm

re: #18 Skip Intro

I thought he was “stalking some Argentinian tail”.

URL, hrughpmp, FIANCÉ

20 Skip Intro  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:25:11pm

re: #17 Stanley Sea

S o u t h C a r o l I n a

Your employer doesn’t have the same low standards that the typical SC GOP voter does.

21 Lidane  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:28:02pm

re: #8 Dark_Falcon

Their position owes nothing to those rogue states, but rather stems from a fear of saidsame treaty being used to curtail access to firearms within the US.

In other words, it stems from abject stupidity, since international treaties DON’T WORK THAT WAY.

22 Kragar  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:29:20pm

“We can have a disgraced white male who ducked out on his job and cheated on his wife or a competent woman with no skeletons in her closet.”

“WHITE MALE! WHOOHOO!!!”

23 gwangung  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:35:24pm

re: #8 Dark_Falcon

The NRA has been on record as opposing that treaty for years. Their position owes nothing to those rogue states, but rather stems from a fear of saidsame treaty being used to curtail access to firearms within the US.

In other words, they’re being just as crazy as North Korea, except maybe with better hair.

24 EdDantes  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:37:38pm

As republican I can’t believe he would show his face again. He cannot be rehabilitated.

25 engineer cat  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:39:51pm

re: #22 Kragar

“We can have a disgraced white male who ducked out on his job and cheated on his wife or a competent woman with no skeletons in her closet.”

“WHITE MALE! WHOOHOO!!!”

competence?

depends more on who would make the most interesting reality tv star

26 Targetpractice  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:45:30pm

Newt last year and Sanford this year. I think we can go ahead and put the “family values” business to rest.

27 blueraven  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:46:20pm

re: #24 EdDantes

As republican I can’t believe he would show his face again. He cannot be rehabilitated.

How can you say that when he just won the primary? Are all SC republicans hypocrites or what?

28 EmmaAnne  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:46:38pm

re: #10 goddamnedfrank

Hypocritical, bigoted and clownish is no way to go through life.

Except apparently it is. :(

29 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:47:39pm

OH HAI! We are PASSED OVER. All the dishes washed, dried and put away for next year. My son just went out to to collect the Holy Ritual of Pizza which concludes this year’s observance.

30 EdDantes  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:48:33pm

re: #27 blueraven

How can you say that when he just won the primary? Are all SC republicans hypocrites or what?

I stand by what I said. I have no idea about SC republicans.

31 blueraven  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:51:40pm

re: #30 EdDantes

I stand by what I said. I have no idea about SC republicans.

Well, good for you, but watch and see what happens. This is a fairly wealthy district and I suspect money will outweigh values.

32 goddamnedfrank  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:52:03pm

re: #24 EdDantes

As republican I can’t believe he would show his face again. He cannot be rehabilitated.

It’s stereotypical Republican behavior, not just that he returned but that his party is welcoming him with a primary win.

Honest self reflection and personal growth in response to deserved shame isn’t exactly a hallmark of modern conservatism. It’s more a hodgepodge of narcissism mixed with deliberate ignorance and alternatively, inappropriate fear or apathy.

33 moderatelyradicalliberal  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:53:51pm

re: #31 blueraven

Well, good for you, but watch and see what happens. This is a fairly wealthy district and I suspect money will outweigh values.

Money is what they value, the rest is just hustling the rubes.

34 AlexRogan  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:56:27pm

re: #31 blueraven

Well, good for you, but watch and see what happens. This is a fairly wealthy district and I suspect money will outweigh values.

Pretty much, it’s “he’s a bastard, but he’s OUR bastard!”

35 Aligarr  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:57:10pm

Well we’re talkin’ South Carolina ….wasn’t it Miss S.Carolina who didn’t know where Africa was ?

36 moderatelyradicalliberal  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 7:59:19pm

re: #34 AlexRogan

Pretty much, it’s “he’s a bastard, but he’s OUR bastard!”

Yeah, but there were other GOP bastards in the primary for them to vote for.

37 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:03:28pm

re: #35 Aligarr

Well we’re talkin’ South Carolina ….wasn’t it Miss S.Carolina who didn’t know where Africa was ?

No, she just gave an incoherent answer to a pageant question. Subsequent reporting made clear that she’s not a stupid or mean-spirited person. So she really doesn’t belong I conversation about that asshole Mark Sanford.

38 Gus  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:03:29pm

Family values.

39 Kragar  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:07:49pm

Conservative Media Watchdog Questions Whether African-American Host Is Dark Enough

Tim Graham, director of media analysis at the conservative Media Research Center, questioned MSNBC’s description of newly announced weekend host Karen Finney as African-American because of her skin color on Tuesday.

40 engineer cat  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:08:34pm

re: #34 AlexRogan

Pretty much, it’s “he’s a bastard, but he’s OUR bastard!”

or maybe more like “well, he strayed a bit but he’s the Right Type”

e.g. aristocratic native

41 Targetpractice  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:10:26pm

re: #39 Kragar

Conservative Media Watchdog Questions Whether African-American Host Is Dark Enough

Boehner’s an Oompa-Loompa-American.

42 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:10:49pm

re: #39 Kragar

Conservative Media Watchdog Questions Whether African-American Host Is Dark Enough

And cue the ‘orange’ jokes, although it really isn’t John Boehner’s fault this asshole mentioned him.

43 Kragar  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:11:05pm

And then anyone who speaks against you can be accused of attacking your religious beliefs. Its win/win.
///

44 engineer cat  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:11:18pm

re: #39 Kragar

Conservative Media Watchdog Questions Whether African-American Host Is Dark Enough

oferkrissakes we should really accept this kind of self description at face value for the same reason rabbi schindler used to say he would accept anybody as jewish if they said that they were jewish

“because why else would they put up with the tsuris?”

45 Targetpractice  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:11:30pm

re: #43 Kragar

And then anyone who speaks against you can be accused of attacking your religious beliefs. Its win/win.
///

Who’s this “Creator”?

46 Gus  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:12:20pm

re: #39 Kragar

Conservative Media Watchdog Questions Whether African-American Host Is Dark Enough

Why do they even say… oh never mind.

47 Gus  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:13:42pm
48 Kragar  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:14:22pm

re: #45 Targetpractice

Who’s this “Creator”?

The Elder Things, obviously.

49 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:16:54pm

re: #47 Gus

According to Twitterbot SparkyGreg, instead of restricting gun rights, just round up everybody with goggly eyes!

50 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:17:12pm

re: #46 Gus

Why do they even say… oh never mind.

Obsession with skin color, it’s an old and ugly story. Better were that story ended for all time, but that seems unlikely.

51 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:18:10pm

OK Pizza is eated. Have work tomorrow. See u at the bottom of the thread!

52 darthstar  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:24:20pm

He’s running against a Colbert…he has no chance.

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53 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:33:45pm

re: #52 darthstar

Really. The guy whose name is a punchline running against someone whose brother is a professional comedian.

54 engineer cat  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:37:28pm

Creator is source of all civil rights

some meaningless statements are more meaningless than other meaningless statements

55 aagcobb  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:43:27pm

re: #42 Dark_Falcon

And cue the ‘orange’ jokes, although it really isn’t John Boehner’s fault this asshole mentioned him.

Though it is his fault that he is orange.

56 Kragar  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:52:01pm

Bill O’Reilly: Calling same sex marriage foes ‘Bible thumpers’ was accurate

“If you’re going to stand up for heterosexual marriage and exclude gay marriage, if you’re going to do that, you’ve got to do it outside the Bible,” O’Reilly explained. “You can’t cite the Bible because you will lose if you do.”

Ingraham told O’Reilly it was “disrespectful” to suggest Christians couldn’t cite the Bible, but was quickly interrupted by the infamously vocal host.

“In their private life they can,” he shouted. “We’re talking about policy here. Don’t you understand the difference between private beliefs and public policy? I guess you don’t understand because you’ve done it twice.”

Ingraham also questioned why O’Reilly used the word “thumper.”

“Because that’s the way you get it across” O’Reilly responded. “There are Bible thumpers and all they do is say, ‘I object to gay marriage because God objects to it.’ You don’t win a policy debate in America with that.”

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57 darthstar  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:55:46pm

re: #55 aagcobb

Though it is his fault that he is orange.

Word.

58 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 8:59:04pm

re: #55 aagcobb

Though it is his fault that he is orange.

True.

59 goddamnedfrank  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:02:40pm

re: #50 Dark_Falcon

Obsession with skin color, it’s an old and ugly story. Better were that story ended for all time, but that seems unlikely.

You should realize that sexual orientation is the flip side of that same coin, something people are born with. If you didn’t choose who you’re attracted to why would you think anybody else does? So as long as you continue making excuses for treating people unequally under the law for a victimless personal preference that’s beyond their control you’re perpetuating official bigotry. No different really than racism, which coincidentally is also endemic to your party.

60 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:04:08pm

re: #56 Kragar

Bill O’Reilly: Calling same sex marriage foes ‘Bible thumpers’ was accurate

Image: jon-stewart-popcorn11.gif

O’Reilly is correct in his analysis: Gay marriage cannot be effectively opposed on religious grounds. Modern constitutional jurisprudence (properly) does not permit barring something solely on religious grounds. If Laura Ingraham does not like this situation, then she can not like it. But as is often noted here:

Ms. Ingraham is entitled to her own opinions. She is not, however, entitled to her own facts.

61 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:06:59pm

re: #59 goddamnedfrank

You should realize that sexual orientation is the flip side of that same coin, something people are born with. If you didn’t choose who you’re attracted to why would you think anybody else does? So as long as you continue making excuses for treating people unequally under the law for a victimless personal preference that’s beyond their control you’re perpetuating official bigotry. No different really than racism, which coincidentally is also endemic to your party.

Mark Kirk supports gay marriage and so do I. Resisting it is folly, and if approving it were put to a referendum in Illinois I would vote to approve it.

62 Kragar  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:08:57pm

re: #60 Dark_Falcon

O’Reilly is correct in his analysis: Gay marriage cannot be effectively opposed on religious grounds. Modern constitutional jurisprudence (properly) does not permit barring something solely on religious grounds. If Laura Ingraham does not like this situation, then she can not like it. But as is often noted here:

Ms. Ingraham is entitled to her own opinions. She is not, however, entitled to her own facts.

The problem is the Wingnuts are still under the impression the Bible is law.

63 Kragar  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:11:43pm

Connecticut responds to Newtown with groundbreaking gun control laws

Less than four months after the tragic shooting in Newtown, Conn., the Connecticut legislature is expected to enact a new law on Wednesday that will give it one of the toughest gun control laws in the nation.

It incorporates many of the “must haves” of gun control advocates, such as universal background checks to purchase a gun and an expanded ban on assault rifles and high capacity magazines. But it also includes some unusual items, such as a first-in-the-nation dangerous-weapon offender registry and the requirement to obtain “eligibility” certificates to obtain bullets, rifles, and shotguns.

64 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:12:32pm

re: #62 Kragar

The problem is the Wingnuts are still under the impression the Bible is law.

Those who think that are wrong, simple as that. Bill O’Reilly is right to simply remind them of that fact.

65 sagehen  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:14:40pm

re: #8 Dark_Falcon

The NRA has been on record as opposing that treaty for years. Their position owes nothing to those rogue states, but rather stems from a fear of saidsame treaty being used to curtail access to firearms within the US.

Bullshit.

It’s about gun manufacturers (that’s who the NRA works for, not individual gun owners) wanting to be able to sell as much as they can produce to whoever has the money. Wherever they may be. Even if it’s country we’ve got sanctions against, they just run it through some int’l arms dealer who fakes the paperwork.

66 bratwurst  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:17:05pm

re: #39 Kragar

Conservative Media Watchdog Questions Whether African-American Host Is Dark Enough

Limbaugh devoted a large portion of his show to racial matters today as well. Once again we find today’s political right focused like a LAZER on jobs and the economy.

67 sagehen  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:17:24pm

re: #35 Aligarr

Well we’re talkin’ South Carolina ….wasn’t it Miss S.Carolina who didn’t know where Africa was ?

Well, some people don’t *have* maps. Such as.

68 Gus  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:18:29pm

Daily douche.

69 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:20:35pm

re: #65 sagehen

Bullshit.

It’s about gun manufacturers (that’s who the NRA works for, not individual gun owners) wanting to be able to sell as much as they can produce to whoever has the money. Wherever they may be. Even if it’s country we’ve got sanctions against, they just run it through some int’l arms dealer who fakes the paperwork.

Got proof? Because there are very few cases of US firms doing such. US gun manufacturers actually operate under fairly tight export rules, and a manufacturer whose shipment of guns turned up in an overseas war zone would be in deep trouble with the BATFE.

70 engineer cat  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:21:25pm

o’reilly is just pissed off that the bible doesn’t mention him by name

71 Kragar  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:23:00pm

I’m sure as soon as biblical law is invoked, all those folks with tattoos will line right up to get stoned to death.

72 goddamnedfrank  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:23:41pm

re: #61 Dark_Falcon

Mark Kirk supports gay marriage and so do I. Resisting it is folly, and if approving it were put to a referendum in Illinois I would vote to approve it.

Quite a change from a few months ago, when you were making intellectually bankrupt arguments like this:

Sexual orientation isn’t in the 14th Amendment, and therefore I do not think that amendment is directly on point. This interpretation is an admittedly literalist one.

Race isn’t in the 14th Amendment either.

One one hand I’m happy to see and acknowledge that you’re coming around, finally, after years of making these kinds of strained, ridiculous arguments against equality. On the other, you might at some point want to self reflect on why it took so long.

Pro tip: Nothing in your answer actually touched on equality. You cite Mark Kirk and the folly of further resistance in changing times, but you’re still not articulating the underlying principles at issue. It seems like even now this is still all about political expedience, not integrity.

73 Kragar  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:27:56pm

Purity police can go door to door to look for blended fabrics, then drag the dirty heretics using them out into the streets so be burned in the cleansing flame.

74 Gus  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:48:11pm

Some more Group C tasty goodness.

Youtube Video
75 dragonath  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:56:12pm

Tonight I am visiting LGF through a mid-90s Packard Bell monitor.

mah eyes

76 freetoken  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:56:15pm

re: #73 Kragar

Not to mention boiling kids in their mother’s milk.

77 engineer cat  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 9:58:46pm

re: #74 Gus

Some more Group C tasty goodness.

[Embedded content]

jägermeister

i refuse to believe that actual germans drink this viscous concoction neat

78 AlexRogan  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:01:50pm

re: #69 Dark_Falcon

Got proof? Because there are very few cases of US firms doing such. US gun manufacturers actually operate under fairly tight export rules, and a manufacturer whose shipment of guns turned up in an overseas war zone would be in deep trouble with the BATFE.

An example of this is what happened to Sabre Defence a couple of years ago.

Nashville Post: Nashville defense contractor and corporate officers indicted

nashvillepost.com

79 Gus  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:02:00pm

Woohoo! Some awesome super scale RC here.

Warbirds over Oberhausen 2012 (The Movie)

Youtube Video
80 bws58  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:02:08pm

re: #77 engineer cat

Not just neat, try it “frozen”..keep it in the freezer, and then shoot it

81 engineer cat  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:03:45pm

re: #80 bws58

Not just neat, try it “frozen”..keep it in the freezer, and then shoot it

i suppose one could do the same thing with vick’s vapo rub, to much the same effect

82 bws58  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:06:45pm

re: #81 engineer cat

i suppose one could do the same thing with vick’s vapo rub, to much the same effect

Smith Brothers Throat Drops is what it tastes like..lol…my love for Jaeger helped propel me to rehab a lifetime ago

84 Gus  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:27:46pm

re: #77 engineer cat

jägermeister

i refuse to believe that actual germans drink this viscous concoction neat

Sure beats boring NASCAR or Indy racing.

85 dragonath  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:30:02pm

I prefer Fisherman’s Friend Special Blend

86 Lidane  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:30:54pm

re: #77 engineer cat

jägermeister

i refuse to believe that actual germans drink this viscous concoction neat

Nobody drinks it neat. That’s why Red Bull was invented.

87 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:33:01pm

re: #78 AlexRogan

An example of this is what happened to Sabre Defence a couple of years ago.

Nashville Post: Nashville defense contractor and corporate officers indicted

nashvillepost.com

Like I said, its very rare and in this case law enforcement detected what it believed was unlawful activity and acted.

“What it believed” is used because the case has not yet gone to trial and it would be inappropriate to presume Mr. Savage’s guilt without it being established by a jury.

88 Amory Blaine  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:40:03pm

Job slump is Walker’s fault

Yes, it’s totally appropriate to blame the governor’s policies for the slumbering condition of Wisconsin’s economy. Here’s why.

For starters, there’s no longer a question of whether Wisconsin’s economy is doing well. It’s not.

The “whether” question was settled once and for all by last week’s release of data showing Wisconsin slumping to 44th among the states in private-sector job growth. This was not an out-of-the-blue statistical blip, but the latest in a dismal series of poor showings.

The governor and his supporters argue there is some job growth in Wisconsin. True. But the real issue is how strong that growth is and how it compares with the national economy.

Nationally, the number of private-sector jobs has been growing about 2% a year. In Wisconsin, it’s only about 1% a year. The gap began when Scott Walker took office in January 2011 and widened when his policies took effect that July.

89 Gus  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 10:46:07pm

Sanford will likely win in SC. Would be a mistake for Dem to throw money away in that election. Thems the facts.

90 engineer cat  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 11:08:57pm

Doctors are calling Garcinia Cambogia the “Holy Grail” of Weight Loss

i’ll wait until she releases her first music video

91 freetoken  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 11:13:04pm
MP3 Audio
92 klys  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 11:14:02pm

“Little Miss Un-Shine”

Also, my husband totally had to explain the Knights in White Satin bit to me.

93 Amory Blaine  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 11:33:35pm

I’ve lost ~27 lbs. since around Christmas. 30 more to go!!!

94 Dancing along the light of day  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 11:37:43pm

re: #93 Amory Blaine

Congratulations! How are you doing it?
(lost over 40 myself, but it has taken 2 years)

95 Amory Blaine  Tue, Apr 2, 2013 11:58:52pm

re: #94 Dancing along the light of day

Congratulations! How are you doing it?
(lost over 40 myself, but it has taken 2 years)

Well the first ten pounds fell off after I quit drinking a liter of soda a day. With the soda went the chips and other snacks. I quit drinking milk and switched to almond milk. Switched eggs to beaters. No cheese either (well a little this is Wisconsin!). Fiber One cereal. No more finishing my plate, if I ain’t hungry dang gumit I’m not eating it.

No more (mostly) fast food either. With my crazy work schedule, sometimes with 16 hour shifts days in row I just get exhausted and have been grabbing burgers or whatever. I’ve been getting by on cereal and fruit instead. Popcorn. It hasn’t been all sacrifice though. I just have been doing things different. Peeling skin off my chicken. Eating more chicken instead of beef. Wife has me eating kale and tuna.

I’ve started walking 3x a week. Vigorous pace up incline. I’m still really out of shape and need to walk more. I wont start running until I lose more weight. I used to like running when I was younger and would like to again on a more limited basis but I don’t want to injure myself. I’m going to have to step it up in exercise. Oh a new favorite snack of mine is sugar free Jello cherry, with a vanilla greek yogurt dumped in. Yum.

96 freetoken  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 12:10:19am
MP3 Audio
97 freetoken  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 1:48:58am

Well, so much more meditation… here’s something a bit more lively:

MP3 Audio
98 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 1:57:44am

re: #29 Vicious Babushka

OH HAI! We are PASSED OVER. All the dishes washed, dried and put away for next year. My son just went out to to collect the Holy Ritual of Pizza which concludes this year’s observance.

Do you mark the doorframes of your houses with blood so the pizza guy knows where to deliver?

99 Amory Blaine  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 2:59:24am

Whatever happened to this guy?

100 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 3:12:19am

re: #99 Amory Blaine

Whatever happened to this guy?

I hope he went back to get his GED.

101 freetoken  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 3:40:07am

Lena ca. 1940:

MP3 Audio
102 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 4:27:14am

DERP

103 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 4:28:27am

re: #102 Vicious Babushka

What’s bizarre is using a picture of Buckley, who was racist and was all upset that his sister was marrying a Jew, as his avatar.

104 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 4:29:47am

re: #103 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

What’s bizarre is using a picture of Buckley, who was racist and was all upset that his sister was marrying a Jew, as his avatar.

I think Buckley would be considered A LIBRUL!!11!! by today’s wingnut standards.

105 Flounder  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 4:33:05am

Some candid phots of the cast from Walking Dead
timesunion.com

106 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 4:42:00am

DERP

107 steve_davis  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 4:52:20am

re: #9 BongCrodny

From Daily Kos:

Yes, your neighbors might be crazy

All I can say is, it’s about fucking time.

Shleestacks, baby!! The only time I get any peace is when they’re hibernating.

108 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 4:57:05am


Let me help you out here, Mr. Buckley-Admirer. Off the top of my head:
Mark Sanford (subject of this thread)
Mitt Romney
Rand Paul
Bryan Fischer
Pat Robertson
Sarah Palin (technically not a man, but still arrogant & corrupt)

109 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:01:45am

re: #108 Vicious Babushka

Joe Arpaio, for sure
Karl Rove

Rand Paul is not corrupt, AFAIK, but he is loopy.

110 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:06:51am

re: #109 wheat-dogghazi

Joe Arpaio, for sure
Karl Rove

Rand Paul is not corrupt, AFAIK, but he is loopy.

If Rand Paul is not corrupt, he is a fascist and a demogogue. Scary as shit.

111 Varek Raith  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:11:04am

re: #106 Vicious Babushka

DERP

Dear Bryan,
PROJECTION.

112 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:11:11am

Good morning Lizards!

Seeing if I can get time off in July for a trip to a convention out in Irvine, CA. Will it be worth while to add on a few extra vacation days, pick up a rental car, and bounce around that area? (Only previous visits to CA were for a meeting in San Jose where I didn’t get out, and going through LAX in transit between places.)

113 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:11:37am

re: #110 Vicious Babushka

Well, no argument there.

114 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:19:49am

What the…

usnews.nbcnews.com

That’s a new twist. And indicates some serious lack of oversight in the hierarchy.

115 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:22:52am

DERP
These people in their DERPiverse are well insulated from anything that even remotely resembles “Truth”

116 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:24:19am

re: #115 Vicious Babushka

The Truth™ — owned and operated by True Conservatives, LLC

117 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:29:42am


118 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:30:30am

re: #115 Vicious Babushka

DERP
These people in their DERPiverse are well insulated from anything that even remotely resembles “Truth”

They do seem to be retreating into a world of slogans aren’t they. Sounds more and more like the 50s and 60s stereotype of Communist China where everything is slogans and referring to the US as “Imperialist running dogs” or as “decadent something-or-others”.

119 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:31:42am

re: #118 Feline Fearless Leader

They do seem to be retreating into a world of slogans aren’t they. Sounds more and more like the 50s and 60s stereotype of Communist China where everything is slogans and referring to the US as “Imperialist running dogs” or as “decadent something-or-others”.

Well, a twitter feed and a banner being held aloft at a May Day parade are by nature limited to around 140 characters…

120 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:32:59am

re: #118 Feline Fearless Leader

They do seem to be retreating into a world of slogans aren’t they. Sounds more and more like the 50s and 60s stereotype of Communist China where everything is slogans and referring to the US as “Imperialist running dogs” or as “decadent something-or-others”.

At least the Communist Chinese didn’t need fake Mao quotes.

121 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:37:19am

re: #120 Vicious Babushka

At least the Communist Chinese didn’t need fake Mao quotes.

In fact, most of Mao’s little red book probably wasn’t written by him, but by his associates. And China has a way of “revising” official history — or omitting large sections of history from official accounts — so in those respects, China’s government and the RW in America are in tune with each other.

The National Museum in Beijing, for example, carefully omits mention of the Great Famine, the Cultural Revolution and the 1989 Tian’anmen protests.

122 Gus  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:38:43am
A JOINT RESOLUTION to proclaim the Rowan county, north carolina, defense of religion act of 2013.

Whereas, the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment of the Constitution of the United States reads:”…Congress shall make no law respecting an Establishment of Religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;…”; and

Whereas, this prohibition does not apply to states, municipalities, or schools; and

Whereas, in recent times, the federal judiciary has incorporated states, municipalities, and schools into the Establishment Clause prohibitions on Congress; and

Whereas, the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States reads: “The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”; and

Whereas, the Tenth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States prohibits the federal government and prohibits the federal courts from expanding the powers of the federal government beyond those powers which are explicitly enumerated; and

Whereas, the Constitution of the United States does not grant the federal government and does not grant the federal courts the power to determine what is or is not constitutional; therefore, by virtue of the Tenth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, the power to determine constitutionality and the proper interpretation and proper application of the Constitution is reserved to the states and to the people; and

Whereas, each state in the union is sovereign and may independently determine how that state may make laws respecting an establishment of religion; and

Whereas, Rowan County, North Carolina, asserts that the protections afforded to citizens of the United States under the First Amendment are not in any way to be abridged when such citizens become government actors by virtue of their appointment, election, contract, employment, or otherwise engagement; and

Whereas, Rowan County, North Carolina, requests and encourages the North Carolina General Assembly to pass a resolution declaring that the State of North Carolina does not recognize the authority of federal judicial opinions arising from the exertion of powers not granted to the federal government by the Constitution of the United States; Now, therefore,

Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring:

SECTION 1. The North Carolina General Assembly asserts that the Constitution of the United States of America does not prohibit states or their subsidiaries from making laws respecting an establishment of religion.

SECTION 2. The North Carolina General Assembly does not recognize federal court rulings which prohibit and otherwise regulate the State of North Carolina, its public schools, or any political subdivisions of the State from making laws respecting an establishment of religion.

SECTION 3. This resolution is effective upon ratification.

123 Varek Raith  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:40:14am

re: #122 Gus

Whereas, this bill is totally unconstitutional and would like to waste taxpayer money in defending its defeat in court.

124 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:41:47am

re: #122 Gus

WTF? They’re claiming that the Supreme Court has no authority to judge the constitutionality of federal law, and claiming nullification besides?

What manner of stupidity is this?

125 Gus  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:42:23am

re: #123 Varek Raith

Whereas, this bill is totally unconstitutional and would like to waste taxpayer money in defending its defeat in court.

I don’t know what the heck it is. Found it through, Proposal would allow state religion in North Carolina. Text here. It’s a resolution so it probably won’t carry much legal weight.

126 Gus  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:43:40am

Anyway, praise GOP Jesus.

127 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:44:11am

re: #125 Gus

I don’t know what the heck it is. Found it through, Proposal would allow state religion in North Carolina. Text here. It’s a resolution so it probably won’t carry much legal weight.

Then it’s just some state politician pandering to his theocratic base. In other words, a lotta hot air.

128 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:45:11am

I’ll be in Kentucky later this month. I wonder how I can take advantage of the new religious freedom law there …

129 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:48:45am

Sovereign citizens have the right to determine which laws apply to them and where.

130 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:49:18am

re: #124 wheat-dogghazi

WTF? They’re claiming that the Supreme Court has no authority to judge the constitutionality of federal law, and claiming nullification besides?

What manner of stupidity is this?

Tenth Amendment fighting the Fourteenth Amendment about whether or not a state is allowed to freely abuse its own residents without Federal interference.

131 Gus  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:50:49am

“Whereas the North Carolina General Assembly asserts its rights through the 10th Amendment and reaffirms its right to slavery.”

//

132 Decatur Deb  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:51:36am

re: #124 wheat-dogghazi

WTF? They’re claiming that the Supreme Court has no authority to judge the constitutionality of federal law, and claiming nullification besides?

What manner of stupidity is this?

Johnny Reb Derp.

‘Morning, all.

133 Gus  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:52:05am
134 Gus  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:57:35am

A Course in Miracles, Lesson 93 - Oprah.com

135 thatthatisis  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:57:58am

If you want to see how truly horrible those on the right wing can be, here’s a link to FR which is just truly unbelievable. And these people claim to be Christians.

freerepublic.com

136 Gus  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:58:34am

Oprah dot com can provide North Carolina some study materials.

//

137 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:58:59am

re: #134 Gus

Does that refer to the book called A Course in Miracles? Dog help us if Oprah is touting it now.

138 Gus  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 5:59:53am

re: #137 wheat-dogghazi

Does that refer to the book called A Course in Miracles? Dog help us if Oprah is touting it now.

Yes.

139 Gus  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:00:57am

re: #137 wheat-dogghazi

Does that refer to the book called A Course in Miracles? Dog help us if Oprah is touting it now.

Also see…

Image: 8eb9cdb3a4ebe463_marianne.xxxlarge_1.jpg

140 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:01:01am

re: #137 wheat-dogghazi

Does that refer to the book called A Course in Miracles? Dog help us if Oprah is touting it now.

Oprah touts all kinds of dumb shit.

141 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:01:37am

re: #138 Gus

My ex had that book. I tried reading it, and my brain went numb. A load of tripe masquerading as profound statements, kind of like Depak Chopra’s stuff.

142 Gus  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:05:36am

re: #141 wheat-dogghazi

My ex had that book. I tried reading it, and my brain went numb. A load of tripe masquerading as profound statements, kind of like Depak Chopra’s stuff.

Is it religion or a marketing scheme? //

143 Gus  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:06:38am

They all have that same look too.

144 Gus  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:06:41am

Image: marianne-williamson-interview-banner.jpg

145 lawhawk  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:07:23am

re: #140 Vicious Babushka

She’s touted Dr. Phil and Jenny McCarthy. ‘Nuf said.

146 Gus  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:07:49am

Lose weight, find Jesus, and make more money. It’s sort of like astrology meets Christianity. A sort of new age religion.

147 Gus  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:10:06am

Image: june2012cover-230x300.jpg

“Crazy sexy diet.”

148 lawhawk  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:10:14am

Watch for this story to make headlines along the right wing as proof that moar guns will stop crime. Intruder killed entering home in CO.

The home was owned by a local prosecutor and her spouse was a sheriff. Both were armed and both apparently shot the intruder, but it’s not clear who fired the fatal shot.

It’s not clear whether this incident is related to the murders of a CO corrections official or two DAs in Texas - which may be linked via white supremacist gangs taking revenge on those clamping down on white supremacists in the prison system and beyond.

150 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:11:08am

re: #146 Gus

Pretty much. There are courses in A Course in Miracles, believe it or not. Not only does Williamson make money off sales of the book, but there is a secondary level of “practitioners” who also charge money to try to make sense of it.

151 Gus  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:13:19am

re: #150 wheat-dogghazi

Pretty much. There are courses in A Course in Miracles, believe it or not. Not only does Williamson make money off sales of the book, but there is a secondary level of “practitioners” who also charge money to try to make sense of it.

It’s a sales job. Part of the self-book industry. They prey a lot on shattered people. Some would say they feed off each other since many of the authors seem to be shattered themselves.

152 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:13:21am

re: #148 lawhawk

So expect the spin to be heavely skewed to the 2nd Amendment and not to the threat from radical white supremacists.

153 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:16:17am

DERP

154 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:16:38am

re: #151 Gus

It’s a sales job. Part of the self-book industry. They prey a lot on shattered people. Some would say they feed off each other since many of the authors seem to be shattered themselves.

I haven’t met any of the authors, but I’ve met plenty of New Age-y types who are, um, unique, shall we say. Their grip on reality is often pretty tenuous.

155 JeffFX  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:27:03am

re: #47 Gus

Reminds me of this guy

156 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:30:14am

DERP RAGE

157 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:35:00am

re: #153 Vicious Babushka

Everyone should pay their fair share and their own way… Got $3000 for my slutty sexual appetite…?

If you want to insist that women who use contraceptive care are sluts and libertines, then please continue…see how much farther you can sink in your standing among women voters.

158 Varek Raith  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:36:59am

Image: foxvfox-autosurge1.jpg
Derp!

159 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:38:34am

re: #158 Varek Raith

Image: foxvfox-autosurge1.jpg
Derp!

I sure wish Germany were really as sunny as Fox reports it to be…

160 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:40:09am

re: #159 Sol Berdinowitz

I sure wish Germany were really as sunny as Fox reports it to be…

You know who else enjoyed springtime in Germany…

;)

161 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:41:59am

re: #160 Feline Fearless Leader

You know who else enjoyed springtime in Germany…

;)

Not Holland or France…

162 lawhawk  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:44:13am

re: #156 Vicious Babushka

So, another derper who has no problem limiting firearms to those who he opposes - out of ideological grounds. The right to bear arms is not conditioned on political affiliation, though the derpers seem to think otherwise. They seem to have no problem imposing restrictions on political grounds, but universal background checks (something the NRA was willing to back as recently as 1999) are verbotten.

163 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:48:55am

re: #162 lawhawk

So, another derper who has no problem limiting firearms to those who he opposes - out of ideological grounds. The right to bear arms is not conditioned on political affiliation, though the derpers seem to think otherwise. They seem to have no problem imposing restrictions on political grounds, but universal background checks (something the NRA was willing to back as recently as 1999) are verbotten.

164 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:52:01am

re: #29 Vicious Babushka

OH HAI! We are PASSED OVER. All the dishes washed, dried and put away for next year. My son just went out to to collect the Holy Ritual of Pizza which concludes this year’s observance.

The Most Holy and Sacred Ritual of Pizza is how I end Ramadan once it concludes - the full Ramadan period, not the daily fast breaking.

Congrats on being PASSED OVER.

165 William Barnett-Lewis  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:56:19am

re: #163 Vicious Babushka

They do like to ignore all the gun control Ronnie pushed as Governor & President. He was very happy to grab guns from anyone not rich or not white.

166 Bulworth  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:57:40am

re: #117 Vicious Babushka

Glad to have you back, VB.

So, derper is upset about liberal plan that doesn’t exist to confiscate 300 million gunz, uses said plan that doesn’t exist to something something illegal immigrants.

Sometimes the derp is just too much….

167 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 6:58:25am

re: #166 Bulworth

Glad to have you back, VB.

So, derper is upset about liberal plan that doesn’t exist to confiscate 300 million gunz, uses said plan that doesn’t exist to something something illegal immigrants.

Sometimes the derp is just too much….

But same derper has no problem with controlling the uteri of 157 million women.

168 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:00:15am
169 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:03:01am

And yet Wayne LaPierre keeps saying “Track crazy, goggly-eyed people, not gun owners!”

170 BongCrodny  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:03:07am

re: #160 Feline Fearless Leader

You know who else enjoyed springtime in Germany…

;)

“Don’t be stupid, be a smarty/Come and join the Nazi Party.”

171 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:07:04am

Doesn’t look like the 2004 election map, does it now?

172 Bulworth  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:08:37am

re: #169 Vicious Babushka

Ah, another Patriot patriotically providing data via social media who says he won’t provide data via background check.

173 William Barnett-Lewis  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:08:40am

A great little toon utterly unimaginable to those who hate deep time and what it really means…

Image: stratigraphic_record.png

174 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:09:09am

re: #171 Vicious Babushka

Doesn’t look like the 2004 election map, does it now?

yeah but abortion

/

175 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:11:25am

re: #174 Sol Berdinowitz

yeah but abortion

/

Wingnuts have been retweeting the 2004 election results map claiming it represents “Gun Violence”

176 lawhawk  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:13:59am

re: #169 Vicious Babushka

Even though the current background check system is meant for checks only and doesn’t create a permanent record. The system was designed with that specific complaint addressed. It requires a FFL to contact NICS to search the databases for those who are prohibited persons. No new record is created; it can either tell the FFL that the sale is prohibited (requiring a denial) or the sale can proceed.

The main problem with the NICS is that it isn’t required for all sales - gun shows and private purchases between parties who aren’t FFLs. One of the main proposals to the Obama plan (or the Maloney proposals) is that NICS checks would have to be conducted in all instances except say between family members. It wouldn’t change the fact that the NICS doesn’t create a record of sales - only that the database was accessed to verify that a person was allowed or prohibited from purchasing.

BTW, someone called in at least three death threats against Rep. Maloney (D-NY) after she proposed new gun control legislation. The FBI is investigating.

177 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:21:30am
178 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:24:58am

re: #177 Vicious Babushka

They will be quick to point out that it was meant metaphorically in context of the next election and that hateful lierals are all going to overreact to 1st and 2nd Amendment rights, etc…

It is still absolutely tasteless and base, but there is little we can do except not to support these people politically or financially.

179 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:32:17am

How is it today?

I feel like crap.

you?

180 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:33:17am

re: #179 FemNaziBitch

How is it today?

I feel like crap.

you?

much the same, massively undermotivated

181 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:36:10am

re: #179 FemNaziBitch

How is it today?

I feel like crap.

you?

Been at work for about three hours and taking part in my third conference call of the day.

“We’ll keep having these meetings every day until we figure out why no one is getting any work done.”

(Though I am using the time to look over potential itineraries for visiting California in July.)

182 iossarian  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:36:38am

re: #179 FemNaziBitch

How is it today?

I feel like crap.

you?

Feeling pretty good I’m afraid. Sun is out. Job interview tomorrow.

183 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:37:01am

re: #182 iossarian

Feeling pretty good I’m afraid. Sun is out. Job interview tomorrow.

Good luck. What kind of job?

184 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:38:21am

BUT NO MOAR FOOD STAMPZ & NO MINIMUM WAGE! GRUEL 4 EVERYONE!!11!!!


185 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:39:43am

re: #184 Vicious Babushka

Image: Eat_Your_Gruel.jpg

186 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:40:08am

re: #180 Sol Berdinowitz

{{{{Sol}}}}}


re: #181 Feline Fearless Leader

I hate meetings and conference calls. At least with conference calls (if you have a bluetooth) you can move around.


re: #182 iossarian

Awesome! Good luck!

187 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:41:32am

re: #186 FemNaziBitch

{{{{Sol}}}}}

re: #181 Feline Fearless Leader

I hate meetings and conference calls. At least with conference calls (if you have a bluetooth) you can move around.

re: #182 iossarian

Awesome! Good luck!

I at least have a headset so my hands are free and I’m not trying to use my neck to hold the phone to my ear.

:)

188 lawhawk  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:41:36am

DERP. Screw the clean air and clean water….


189 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:42:29am

DERP. The day that every wingnut gun hoarder is waiting for.

190 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:43:59am

re: #189 Vicious Babushka

DERP. The day that every wingnut gun hoarder is waiting for.

And that is what scares me: the thought that some natural and/or man-made catastrope could lead to the collapse of order over a large populated area, which would probably have these guys coming out of the woodwork to live out their crazed minuteman fantasies.

191 iossarian  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:47:06am

re: #183 Vicious Babushka

Good luck. What kind of job?

Thanks! It’s in the same higher education field - basically a step up the ladder (my current boss isn’t going anywhere and there aren’t really any obvious ways to progress here, much as I love my current job).

We’ll see - it’s nice to be in a position where the outcome isn’t crucial. Makes me very lucky in the contemporary job market, a fact of which I am well aware.

192 lawhawk  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:48:55am

re: #190 Sol Berdinowitz

We’ve had multiple natural disasters across the nation in recent years without the need for gun-toting hordes. Hurricane Sandy, Irene, and Katrine didn’t result in gangs of roving hoodlums ransacking, raping, and murdering (despite media reports exaggerating isolated events of looting or fixating on other reports that some people refused to leave areas because of a fear of looting).

Earthquakes in CA didn’t cause a breakdown of society either. Wildfires in CO? Nope. Not their either. Flooding in the Midwest or South? Nope. Tornadoes across Southeast or Tornado Alley? Not there either.

Simply put, local law enforcement and state national guards have done a pretty good job in maintaining law and order even in areas that suffer from massive natural disasters and that most people are law-abiding.

193 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:50:04am

AT some point in the recent past, a Lizard was interested in learning more about Europe and the changes that ensued because of WWI? I think. We talked about the Treaty of Versailles and other stuff.

Anyway, I was listening to an author interview last night from iTunes U New Books Network, Books in History and this author talked about her book in a very intriguing interview. It think the title betrays the subject, but she was rather impressive.

194 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:51:31am

Good morning lizards!

195 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:51:58am

re: #192 lawhawk

Yes, I agree.

But for starters, I am talking about a major disaster - one that hits without much advance warning - and one that covers wide areas, and one that compels the government to declare marital law, which is sure to raise hackles among True Conservatives who will insist that it all as a ploy to seize power permanently, etc…

196 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:52:13am

re: #192 lawhawk

We’ve had multiple natural disasters across the nation in recent years without the need for gun-toting hordes. Hurricane Sandy, Irene, and Katrine didn’t result in gangs of roving hoodlums ransacking, raping, and murdering (despite media reports exaggerating isolated events of looting or fixating on other reports that some people refused to leave areas because of a fear of looting).

Earthquakes in CA didn’t cause a breakdown of society either. Wildfires in CO? Nope. Not their either. Flooding in the Midwest or South? Nope. Tornadoes across Southeast or Tornado Alley? Not there either.

Simply put, local law enforcement and state national guards have done a pretty good job in maintaining law and order even in areas that suffer from massive natural disasters and that most people are law-abiding.

During Katrina they actually confiscated firearms and lost their ass in court afterwards. I’m not worried about the average gun owner. There are some whackos that frankly, I’m afraid will shoot themselves in the foot before they do any damage.

At the few gun education seminars I’ve attended, the trainers are well versed in the law. Most are former military or cops that understand there is a plan already in place for such events.

197 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 7:54:29am

re: #187 Feline Fearless Leader

I at least have a headset so my hands are free and I’m not trying to use my neck to hold the phone to my ear.

:)

Never. I used to do telemarketing and learned the value of a headset. I’ve had one for personal use ever since. Bluetooth technology is proof that G-d loves us and wants us to be pain-free.

198 Stoatly  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:00:05am

re: #192 lawhawk

Simply put, local law enforcement and state national guards have done a pretty good job in maintaining law and order even in areas that suffer from massive natural disasters and that most people are law-abiding.

Yeah, but where’s the fun? Running round in cammo shooting “suspicious” (i.e. dusky) folks (and settling a few old scores on the side) is much more entertaining than leaving it to the people who know what they’re doing

199 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:09:06am

And the Ultimate Question:

Are Americans the Weirdest People on Earth?

200 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:10:24am

OK. I’m using Chrome on Vista, and just now the comments suddenly won’t load. I restarted Chrome, and got the same result.

I haz a sad.

201 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:11:04am

re: #198 Stoatly

Yeah, but where’s the fun? Running round in cammo shooting “suspicious” (i.e. dusky) folks (and settling a few old scores on the side) is much more entertaining than leaving it to the people who know what they’re doing

That is exactly the scenario I fear - or “patriots” taking potshots at the National Guard “occupation” troops.

202 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:16:27am

Uh oh…

Syrian jet flies into Lebanon, fires missile

No causalities reported as Syrian jet flies 20km into Lebanese territory; target of missile unclear.

203 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:17:36am

re: #200 wheat-dogghazi

OK. I’m using Chrome on Vista, and just now the comments suddenly won’t load. I restarted Chrome, and got the same result.

I haz a sad.

Doesn’t China have issues with Google right now - - so they’ve carried it on to Chrome hate as well.

;)

Only odd behavior I am seeing right now is if I look at am image it takes me back to the middle of the thread when I close it. (Firefox on Win 7)

204 kirkspencer  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:18:13am

re: #195 Sol Berdinowitz

… and one that compels the government to declare marital law …

I’ve just spend a minute or two laughing - frightened the dogs and cats, even. I know it’s a typo but i’d just finished reading more “gay marriage is ebil” crap elsewhere and, well, that helped.

205 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:18:28am

Now I am on Firefox. Before I logged in, I could see the comments. As soon as I logged in, they disappeared.

Spy mode doesn’t work either. I just get a blank screen under the banner.

206 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:18:45am

re: #201 Sol Berdinowitz

That is exactly the scenario I fear - or “patriots” taking potshots at the National Guard “occupation” troops.

Yep. Not fun to live in the neighborhood of jumpy people with automatic weapons or other sources of serious firepower.

207 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:19:30am

Where did all the money go? How $700 million in Katrina relief money went missing

Where did all the money go?

“Your guess is as good as mine,” David Montoya, the inspector general of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, says of $700 million in missing taxpayer money that Louisiana homeowners were given in the wake of Hurricane Katrina to elevate and protect their homes from future storms.

A new report released from the inspector general’s office shows that more than 24,000 homeowners who received grants of up to $30,000 to elevate their homes either misspent or pocketed the money.

“The fact of the matter is that the money they received was for a specific purpose and the specific purpose was to elevate these homes to avoid future catastrophes,” Montoya tells Power Players.

He rates the home elevation program as little more than a complete failure.

“Considering there was just under $1 billion earmarked for this particular program and there’s $700 million that wasn’t used for that, I’d give it a very low D,” he says.

208 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:20:31am

re: #206 Feline Fearless Leader

Yep. Not fun to live in the neighborhood of jumpy people with automatic weapons or other sources of serious firepower.

yes, then National Guardsmen get jumpy and start shooting first and asking questions later, and it all spirals out of control against a screaming background of demagogic vitriol.

That is the very scenario fear

209 kirkspencer  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:24:55am

re: #205 wheat-dogghazi

Now I am on Firefox. Before I logged in, I could see the comments. As soon as I logged in, they disappeared.

Spy mode doesn’t work either. I just get a blank screen under the banner.

I’m using chrome on Win7 right now, no problem here. I’ll check the Win8 box later if necessary.

210 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:25:20am

It makes no difference which browser I use, I get the same results. So, I’ll pack it in for the night, and see what happens tomorrow. See you all!

211 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:25:59am

re: #210 wheat-dogghazi

It makes no difference which browser I use, I get the same results. So, I’ll pack it in for the night, and see what happens tomorrow. See you all!

turn everything off and restart?

212 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:27:46am

DERP RAGE

213 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:28:32am

re: #211 FemNaziBitch

turn everything off and restart?

214 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:29:20am

DERP


215 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:30:36am

re: #212 Vicious Babushka

these people are really going off the deep end. It would be funnier if it wasn’t so scary at times.

216 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:31:40am

re: #215 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

these people are really going off the deep end. It would be funnier if it wasn’t so scary at times.

How’d that “Civil War” thing work out the last time?

217 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:33:18am

re: #216 Vicious Babushka

How’d that “Civil War” thing work out the last time?

This time Europe will recognize the Confederacy and the Britsh Fleet will break the blockade!!!

218 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:36:27am

re: #216 Vicious Babushka

How’d that “Civil War” thing work out the last time?

it didn’t work out well for the south but then again the south was more civilized than these yahoos and there were standing armies. These guys are a bunch of lone wolf types who bomb abortion clinics, practice “guerrilla” tactics and are far less organized which makes them far more unpredictable.

219 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:38:51am

re: #218 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

it didn’t work out well for the south but then again the south was more civilized than these yahoos and there were standing armies. These guys are a bunch of lone wolf types who bomb abortion clinics, practice “guerrilla” tactics and are far less organized which makes them far more unpredictable.

And this time the blacks do have guns.

220 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:38:57am

IIRC, Roe v Wade did not affect birth rates. It did, however, affect maternal death rates.

221 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:40:01am

DERP

222 Gus  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:42:07am

Moron Lame!

223 Bulworth  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:42:26am

re: #212 Vicious Babushka

DERP RAGE

Well, I guess wingnuts gave voting one last try in 2012, and what did it get them? A growing DOW and a vacation for the first daughters. TYRANNY! ///

224 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:43:08am

DERP

225 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:43:28am

hmmm:

et al. analyzed the effect of abortion legalization on fertility in the United
States by comparing fertility rates over time between states where abortion was legalized at different dates.’ The authors concluded that “a complete recriminalization of abortion nationwide could result in 440000 additional
births per year.”99)

Most countries that have legalized abortion have done so for public health purposes, namely, to reduce (with great success) maternal mortality and morbidity resulting from illegal abortions. This objective was indeed
endorsed by the American Public Health Association as early as 1968.2 Levine et al. analyzed trends in fertility rates; these are not by themselves indicators ofpublic health.
… .
Above all, however, the issue ofabortion cannot be examined without taking into consideration social and health consequences. It has been shown all over the world that any legalization of abortion leads to a substantial drop in abortion-related mortality and morbidity; conversely, more restrictive access to abortion services leads to a significant increase in maternal mortality and morbidity.5’6 In countries where abortion is severely restricted, women often attempt to have abortions by unauthorized means. This practice results in approximately 600 000 deaths per year in the worldwide, not to mention damage to women’s health and the effects on the psychological and social welfare of both women and men.

226 lawhawk  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:45:35am

Thought experiment. If we did somehow come to agree on a complete ban of abortion, would birth rates really increase? Or would people shift to more contraception? GGT noted above there wasn’t any real change in birth rates after Roe, so that raises an interesting question about causality and relationship between abortion and birth rates.

The followup question is what percentage of the people who oppose abortion under all circumstances also oppose contraception (let alone insurance coverage requirements for contraception)?

If anything, the opposition to abortion and contraception would increase burdens on women, and undermine their rights across a broad spectrum of issues - whether its employment in the workforce (if you’re forcing women to have to carry unwanted pregnancies, you’re forcing them to decide between jobs (and advancement) and child rearing). That leads to lower women participation rates in the workforce, which may well be an unstated goal of these opponents who want to turn the clock back to before WWII. It would lower wages for women, and lower standard of living for women generally.

227 Gus  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:49:51am

What the heck is YOLO? I know, I can Google. Just felt like asking.

228 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:49:52am

re: #226 lawhawk

Thought experiment. If we did somehow come to agree on a complete ban of abortion, would birth rates really increase? Or would people shift to more contraception? GGT noted above there wasn’t any real change in birth rates after Roe, so that raises an interesting question about causality and relationship between abortion and birth rates.

The followup question is what percentage of the people who oppose abortion under all circumstances also oppose contraception (let alone insurance coverage requirements for contraception)?

If anything, the opposition to abortion and contraception would increase burdens on women, and undermine their rights across a broad spectrum of issues - whether its employment in the workforce (if you’re forcing women to have to carry unwanted pregnancies, you’re forcing them to decide between jobs (and advancement) and child rearing). That leads to lower women participation rates in the workforce, which may well be an unstated goal of these opponents who want to turn the clock back to before WWII. It would lower wages for women, and lower standard of living for women generally.

The data I referenced said there was a change in birth rates …so, I’m not so sure about that and I don’t have the stamina to do more research right now.

What will change is the level of illegal abortions. Some women will be more vigilent about contraception, but in areas in which comprehensive education is not mandated in public schools, ignorance will return to Comstock Era levels. White children available for adoption might increase, might not. The foster care system will be burdened as these children will not be born to families that can support them. Crime will increase and more little girls will die in illegal abortions.

229 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:49:52am

re: #224 Vicious Babushka

Let’s just continue subsidizing Wal Mart’s wages with food stamps and Medicaid…

Because FREE MARKET!!!

/

230 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:51:02am

re: #227 Gus

What the heck is YOLO? I know, I can Google. Just felt like asking.

Without looking I’d guess “You Only Live Once”.

231 Gus  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:51:58am

re: #230 Feline Fearless Leader

Without looking I’d guess “You Only Live Once”.

Si.

232 lawhawk  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:52:05am

re: #227 Gus

You only live once [except if you’re 1) an immortal and go through the quickening; 2) an a toaster, in which you can live forever - or as long as regeneration is available]

233 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:52:20am

DERP

234 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:53:06am

re: #232 lawhawk

You only live once [except if you’re 1) an immortal and go through the quickening; 2) an a toaster, in which you can live forever - or as long as regeneration is available]

3) a Timelord

235 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:53:09am

re: #229 Sol Berdinowitz

Let’s just continue subsidizing Wal Mart’s wages with food stamps and Medicaid…

Because FREE MARKET!!!

/

236 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:53:21am

May I have some help?

237 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:53:48am

re: #234 Feline Fearless Leader

3) a Timelord

4) Cat Overlord

238 Lidane  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:53:48am

Hola Lizards! The highlight of morning today has been watching my conservative and Paultard friends on FB whine about the weather, wondering why it’s so cold and rainy in April. It couldn’t possibly be AGW, of course, because it’s cold, not hot.

*sigh*

239 lawhawk  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:54:03am

re: #228 FemNaziBitch

You posted the data after I sent through my post, so I’m going to revise my post to say that it’s not clear whether birth rates changed.

240 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:54:12am

re: #231 Gus

Si.

heh. 1855 reference!

en.wikipedia.org

241 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:55:02am

MLNE?

Yolo is a lot easier!

242 lawhawk  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:55:42am

re: #234 Feline Fearless Leader

Time lords can die - permanently as when the Time Lock was restored, the Master was killed, etc.Both the 10th Doctor and 11th Doctor indicated that that you can die before regeneration is completed.

243 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:55:48am

re: #239 lawhawk

You posted the data after I sent through my post, so I’m going to revise my post to say that it’s not clear whether birth rates changed.

Thanks. I started to research it and while reading the article I referenced, my eyes started to cross. Allergies are not conducive to good research.

244 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:55:56am

re: #233 Vicious Babushka

DERP

We don’t have a Christian problem. We have an asshole problem. Though the assholes would like to claim the “True Christian” label for themselves since otherwise they will be an obvious minority that should be shunned.

245 William Barnett-Lewis  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:56:08am

re: #227 Gus

What the heck is YOLO? I know, I can Google. Just felt like asking.

You Obviously Like Owls?

246 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:56:29am

re: #244 Feline Fearless Leader

We don’t have a Christian problem. We have an asshole problem. Though the assholes would like to claim the “True Christian” label for themselves since otherwise they will be an obvious minority that should be shunned.

There is a joke in there somewhere concerning a Scotsman.

247 Bulworth  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:56:40am

re: #233 Vicious Babushka

DERP

Sigh. I remember the dayz when “Teh gay marriage has been defeated at the polls every time!”. Now teh gay is a JUGGERNAUGHT that will destroy Christianity.

248 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:56:41am

re: #245 William Barnett-Lewis

You Obviously Like Owls?

Obviously

249 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:57:54am

re: #247 Bulworth

Sigh. I remember the dayz when “Teh gay marriage has been defeated at the polls every time!”. Now teh gay is a JUGGERNAUGHT that will destroy Christianity.

G-D help her clients if “Patriot” is actually a lawyer and not just someone who once stayed at a Holiday Inn Express.

250 William Barnett-Lewis  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:58:11am

re: #244 Feline Fearless Leader

We don’t have a Christian problem. We have an asshole problem. Though the assholes would like to claim the “True Christian” label for themselves since otherwise they will be an obvious minority that should be shunned.

They know and fear this. What’s worse is they might actually have to live up to what they claim to believe and that’s not going to be easy for them.

251 Gus  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:58:19am

Cause of Death: Reading #TGDN Tweets

//

252 BongCrodny  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:59:22am

re: #242 lawhawk

Time lords can die - permanently as when the Time Lock was restored, the Master was killed, etc.Both the 10th Doctor and 11th Doctor indicated that that you can die before regeneration is completed.

If The Doctor is the “Last Of The Time Lords,” that’s not exactly a ringing endorsement of their alleged immortality, is it?

253 wrenchwench  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 8:59:40am

re: #228 FemNaziBitch

The data I referenced said there was a change in birth rates …so, I’m not so sure about that and I don’t have the stamina to do more research right now.

What will change is the level of illegal abortions. Some women will be more vigilent about contraception, but in areas in which comprehensive education is not mandated in public schools, ignorance will return to Comstock Era levels. White children available for adoption might increase, might not. The foster care system will be burdened as these children will not be born to families that can support them. Crime will increase and more little girls will die in illegal abortions.

Little girls? More like women between the ages of 10 and 52.

To me it does not matter how abortion affects the birth rate. It’s not like we need more people to be born. If birth rate is an issue, then contraception is a bigger deal than abortion.

254 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:00:56am

re: #247 Bulworth

Sigh. I remember the dayz when “Teh gay marriage has been defeated at the polls every time!”. Now teh gay is a JUGGERNAUGHT that will destroy Christianity.

And those “dayz” weren’t so long ago.

The wingnuts’ real fear is that their socially conservative stance against the LGBT community will rapidly become an anachronism, and they’ll be left simply looking like irrelevant, backward a**holes.

Which they are.

255 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:01:16am

re: #253 wrenchwench

If birth rate is an issue, then contraception is a bigger deal than abortion.

Controlling women’s bodies is a bigger deal than either contraception or abortion.

256 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:01:30am

re: #253 wrenchwench

Little girls? More like women between the ages of 10 and 52.

To me it does not matter how abortion affects the birth rate. It’s not like we need more people to be born. If birth rate is an issue, then contraception is a bigger deal than abortion.

Yes, I agree.

Education and Contraception are IMHO, the biggest issues of our time, yet they are ignored, for the most part. The obvious get’s lost in the DERP on both sides.

Keeping people willfully ignorant of how their bodies work is beyond insane to me. Makes me wonder what the ultimate goal is? …

Baba, have any idea?

257 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:02:40am

re: #256 FemNaziBitch

Yes, I agree.

Education and Contraception are IMHO, the biggest issues of our time, yet they are ignored, for the most part. The obvious get’s lost in the DERP on both sides.

Keeping people willfully ignorant of how their bodies work is beyond insane to me. Makes me wonder what the ultimate goal is? …

Baba, have any idea?

I love you
A bushel and a peck
A bushel and a peck
And a chain around the neck…

258 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:03:40am

re: #255 Sol Berdinowitz

Controlling women’s bodies is a bigger deal than either contraception or abortion.

The problem is that in controlling women’s bodies, one is indirectly controlling men. Men who care anyway. Men who will forgo their dreams and settle for meaningless jobs to support their family.

It’s a way of creating an underclass.

Monty Python got it right, IMHO.

259 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:04:50am

SCAMMING TEH DERPERS

260 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:05:38am

Jon Stewart sparks Twitter fight between U.S. Embassy and Egyptian president’s office

The U.S. Embassy in Cairo has earned a reputation for being awfully active on Twitter, where it often engages critics directly and, at times, even jabs at Egypt’s most powerful people and institutions.

The embassy’s official Twitter feed took a bit of a swipe at Egyptian President Mohamamed Morsi today, linking to a “Daily Show” segment in which Jon Stewart lambasted Morsi for his government’s arrest of Bassem Youssef, a hugely popular TV political satirist who is sometimes compared to Stewart himself. Youssef, now released on bail, was imprisoned briefly this weekend for “insulting Islam” and “belittling” Morsi.

The searing “Daily Show” segment portrayed Morsi as clownish, hypocritical, abusive and insecure. “When you are actually powerful, you don’t have to be petty,” Stewart said, talking directly into the camera. “For someone who spent time in jail yourself under [former President Hosni] Mubarak, you seem awfully eager to send other people there for the same non-crimes. And just like you, they will emerge stronger and more determined.” At one point, he referred to Morsi as a “crazy guy.”

Within a few hours, the official Twitter feed of the Egyptian president’s office responded directly, tweeting back at the embassy, “It’s inappropriate for a diplomatic mission to engage in such negative political propaganda.” Strong words, chastising the embassy and calling its tweet, and perhaps the Daily Show segment itself, “negative political propaganda.” This is not Morsi’s personal Twitter account, but it does represent his office and is marked as “verified” by Twitter.

Heh.

261 lawhawk  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:05:59am

re: #247 Bulworth

These people simply can’t or wont understand that extending gay marriage does not affect any religious meaning of a marriage. It isn’t forcing churches or religious groups to recognize gay marriage.

But they are determined to create victimhood status for themselves at all costs.

And to do so, they’ll jump through hoops such as claiming that requiring insurers to cover contraception or extend benefits to gay married spouses is a violation of their religious freedoms. It’s one of the reasons that religious groups are suing on PPACA provisions requiring contraceptive coverages.

262 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:06:00am

re: #242 lawhawk

Time lords can die - permanently as when the Time Lock was restored, the Master was killed, etc.Both the 10th Doctor and 11th Doctor indicated that that you can die before regeneration is completed.

But it’s not immortality, it’s violating “you only live once”. Unless one wants to argue that regeneration is simply a continuation of the single life. Though given the personality and physique changes The Doctor (and other Time Lords) go through it’s a pretty twisted continuity.

263 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:06:55am

re: #248 FemNaziBitch

Obviously

O_O

Go Temple!

264 Lidane  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:07:08am

Because that’s totally Constitutional:

265 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:08:27am

re: #264 Lidane

Because that’s totally Constitutional:

More job creation for lawyers.

266 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:09:32am

the North Dakota Abortion Legislation will be the test, I think. It will be appealed and struck down. the Supreme Court will probably refuse to hear it if it goes that far.

267 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:10:32am

Sean Hannity is still selling “Muslims are the biggest threat we face”. And people are still buying it.

This scares the shit out of me.

People really do want a religious war. The next series of Crusades, if you will.

268 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:11:54am

re: #264 Lidane

Because that’s totally Constitutional:

There was a state legislator in Louisiana who seem surprised to learn that charter funds could go for Muslim schools, that is not at all what she had in mind when she supported the legislation.

269 Lidane  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:14:00am

Hurr durr…

270 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:14:29am

DERP Who gets degrees in these things? Except for my sister.

271 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:14:52am

re: #207 NJDhockeyfan

Where did all the money go? How $700 million in Katrina relief money went missing

Heh. Should have had the government take care of it instead of giving money to citizens to do it themselves.

272 Dancing along the light of day  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:16:26am

re: #112 Feline Fearless Leader

YES! Disneyland (because you can) and the Crab Cooker, and the Wedge are all fun! Mail me if you want more suggestions!

273 Bulworth  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:16:35am

re: #270 Vicious Babushka

DERP Who gets degrees in these things? Except for my sister.

I don’t know how we as a republic have managed to survive so long without the wit and wisdom of patriotic teabagging Americans.

/

274 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:17:29am

re: #268 Sol Berdinowitz

There was a state legislator in Louisiana who seem surprised to learn that charter funds could go for Muslim schools, that is not at all what she had in mind when she supported the legislation.

IMAGINE!

275 Bulworth  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:18:07am

re: #259 Vicious Babushka

Get off the grid AND keep your twitters!

276 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:19:28am

It’s National Walking Day.

Who knew?

277 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:19:58am

re: #270 Vicious Babushka

DERP Who gets degrees in these things? Except for my sister.

What if the person is studying to be an art teacher?

278 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:20:48am

re: #277 FemNaziBitch

What if the person is studying to be an art teacher?

I think art teachers are artists trying to augment their art income.

279 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:21:20am

re: #272 Dancing along the light of day

YES! Disneyland (because you can) and the Crab Cooker, and the Wedge are all fun! Mail me if yo want more suggestions!

Thanks for the reply. I’ll do that if I get permission to go. (Me and two co-workers all want the same week off and are trying to wiggle managerial permission to pull it off.)

I think Disneyland is part of the package for the convention I want to attend. Beyond that I’m thinking of tagging on 3-4 days to go sight-seeing on my own.

280 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:22:17am

re: #278 Vicious Babushka

I think art teachers are artists trying to augment their art income.

What art income?

281 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:22:18am

re: #270 Vicious Babushka

I don’t know any unemployed yoga teachers who actually are trained in it, too.

282 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:22:46am

re: #280 FemNaziBitch

What art income?

AHA!

283 lawhawk  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:23:04am

re: #207 NJDhockeyfan

Here’s the actual report and the intro letter. There are indeed questions, but the reason that the IG can’t figure out what happened to the nearly $700 million isn’t as clear as the headline indicates:

As of August 31, 2012, the State’s documentation showed that a total of 24,042 homeowners either were noncompliant, including those that had not elevated their homes; were nonresponsive; or did not provide sufficient supporting documentation. Therefore, the State did not have conclusive evidence that the $698.5 million in Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) disaster recovery funds had been used to elevate homes

So, there were three kinds of problems.

1) Those recipients who were noncompliant, including not elevating their homes at all.
2) Nonresponsive recipients.
3) Recipients who didn’t provide sufficient information.

They did a study of homes in LA. 199 homeowners. the State had determined that there were 149 noncompliant homeowners who had not elevated their homes. Only 50 homes had been elevated. Of the 149 in noncompliance, 52 were interviewed by phone and indicated that there were money or contractor issues preventing compliance. Despite the low compliance rate, the State reported that 187 homeowners had returned to their homes.

As of April 27, 2012, only 18 of these noncompliant homeowners had returned grant funds, either in full or in part, to the State.

Digging deeper into the article, noncompliance could be anything from not raising the home to not carrying the appropriate insurance.

It’s clear that better oversight is needed, both in LA and in the areas affected by Sandy that are expecting similar grants of assistance to help with rebuilding.

284 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:23:04am

re: #281 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

I don’t know any unemployed yoga teachers who actually are trained in it, too.

Yoga teacher training isn’t usually held at Universities, IIRC.

LOL

285 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:23:15am

re: #278 Vicious Babushka

I think art teachers are artists trying to augment their art income.

That would describe one of the art teachers I knew in high school. Lived a street over from us, was a known local artist, and worked Ski Patrol as well. I have a couple of framed watercolors of his that he made from sketches while working Ski Patrol for the 1980 Winter Olympics.

286 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:23:44am

re: #271 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Heh. Should have had the government take care of it instead of giving money to citizens to do it themselves.

They should check some freezers. I heard it’s a good place to keep a pile of cash.

287 Bulworth  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:23:49am

re: #269 Lidane

Also, too: FEMA trailers.

/

288 kirkspencer  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:24:58am

re: #270 Vicious Babushka

DERP Who gets degrees in these things? Except for my sister.

It’s the people who think college should be trade school. Only “practical” classes - classes that prepare you for a job - should be included. They rant against minority studies and pretty much all literature, art, and music.

Nevermind that we humans are generalists, and nevermind how many brilliant ideas come of noticing art or literature or music or, heck, yoga (which has caused insights in this small field called ergonomics).

Only fools waste their time and money on frivolity. Now move aside.

289 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:24:59am

re: #285 Feline Fearless Leader

That would describe one of the art teachers I knew in high school. Lived a street over from us, was a known local artist, and worked Ski Patrol as well. I have a couple of framed watercolors of his that he made from sketches while working Ski Patrol for the 1980 Winter Olympics.

My dad was a very prolific artist. He created hundreds of canvases, and he took art classes at the local community center, then with a private art coach.

He never put on a gallery show. He didn’t think he was “good enough.” :(

290 Lidane  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:26:42am
291 Lidane  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:27:25am

Oh, this is too good:

292 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:27:56am

What?

Obama administration pushes banks to make home loans to people with weaker credit

The Obama administration is engaged in a broad push to make more home loans available to people with weaker credit, an effort that officials say will help power the economic recovery but that skeptics say could open the door to the risky lending that caused the housing crash in the first place.

I think we went down this road before and it didn’t end well.

293 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:28:26am

re: #289 Vicious Babushka

My dad was a very prolific artist. He created hundreds of canvases, and he took art classes at the local community center, then with a private art coach.

He never put on a gallery show. He didn’t think he was “good enough.” :(

A common illness among creative people.

294 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:29:28am

re: #292 NJDhockeyfan

What?

Obama administration pushes banks to make home loans to people with weaker credit

I think we went down this road before and it didn’t end well.

I think that is an overgeneralization. The weak credit people weren’t the cause of the meltdown. Having their mortgages tranched and incorrectly rated by the rating organizations might have had a bit to do with it.

295 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:30:35am

re: #288 kirkspencer

It’s the people who think college should be trade school. Only “practical” classes - classes that prepare you for a job - should be included. They rant against minority studies and pretty much all literature, art, and music.

Nevermind that we humans are generalists, and nevermind how many brilliant ideas come of noticing art or literature or music or, heck, yoga (which has caused insights in this small field called ergonomics).

Dog forgive we have classes that inspire people to actually THINK.

296 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:31:25am

re: #293 FemNaziBitch

A common illness among creative people.

Zedushka & my sons tried to persuade my dad to put on a gallery show but he wouldn’t listen to them. Then after he passed away my son wanted to sell some of his paintings to a gallery and my mom screamed HOW DARE YOU CHEAPEN HIS MEMORY.

297 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:33:04am

re: #296 Vicious Babushka

Zedushka & my sons tried to persuade my dad to put on a gallery show but he wouldn’t listen to them. Then after he passed away my son wanted to sell some of his paintings to a gallery and my mom screamed HOW DARE YOU CHEAPEN HIS MEMORY.

It is very, nearly, impossible to create and market at the same time. Different parts of the brain. I can’t do it.

I have a life-time of work. I figure a grandchild will stumble upon it and find a way to sell it.

298 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:33:20am

re: #292 NJDhockeyfan

What?

Obama administration pushes banks to make home loans to people with weaker credit

I think we went down this road before and it didn’t end well.

It was not the weak credit on the part of the homeowners that wrecked the economy, it was banks recapitalizing and selling those loans off that did us in.

299 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:34:49am

re: #270 Vicious Babushka

DERP Who gets degrees in these things? Except for my sister.

Anybody pursuing a BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) in ceramics, for example.

300 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:34:51am

re: #298 Sol Berdinowitz

It was not the weak credit on the part of the homeowners that wrecked the economy, it was banks recapitalizing and selling those loans off that did us in.

absolutely! It was a free-for all, the home buyers were the dupes.

301 Dancing along the light of day  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:34:54am

re: #232 lawhawk

Bonus upding for toaster!

302 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:35:57am

re: #299 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

Anybody pursuing a BFA (Bachelor of Fine Arts) in ceramics, for example.

Then again, it’s difficult to get a job at the Smithsonian or any of the great institutions we love without such a degree. Granted those jobs are finite.

303 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:37:30am

re: #286 NJDhockeyfan

They should check some freezers. I heard it’s a good place to keep a pile of cash.

Why would they be keeping cash in a freezer?

304 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:37:34am

re: #302 FemNaziBitch

Then again, it’s difficult to get a job at the Smithsonian or any of the great institutions we love without such a degree. Granted those jobs are finite.

Wouldn’t you also have to have some academic credentials to get a job at the Smithsonian or at any art or historical museum?

305 kirkspencer  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:38:33am

re: #292 NJDhockeyfan

What?

Obama administration pushes banks to make home loans to people with weaker credit

I think we went down this road before and it didn’t end well.

Hark, it’s the CRA fallacy. No, the CRA did not cause the collapse. The banks are allowed to put in various tests and have higher payments for weaker credit loans. They did so back then and the rates of failure were no worse than good credit loans.

The worst failures tended to be on the oversize loans. But even they wouldn’t have mattered if the banks hadn’t sliced, diced, and over-loaded financial instruments in bad faith.

306 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:38:42am

re: #292 NJDhockeyfan

What?

Obama administration pushes banks to make home loans to people with weaker credit

I think we went down this road before and it didn’t end well.

Nope. The housing meltdown was not because of banks being pushed to give loans. This is a completely debunked, bash-the-poor-and-minorities myth. In fact, loans given out under the direction of the government programs had lower default levels than average.

307 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:40:20am

re: #306 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Nope. The housing meltdown was not because of banks being pushed to give loans. This is a completely debunked, bash-the-poor-and-minorities myth. In fact, loans given out under the direction of the government programs had lower default levels than average.

What caused the housing collapse was not that loans were given to borrowers with poor credit, but the banks then repackaged these bad loans as “securities” and sold them to pension funds, etc.

308 Eventual Carrion  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:40:28am

re: #128 wheat-dogghazi

I’ll be in Kentucky later this month. I wonder how I can take advantage of the new religious freedom law there …

Smoke ganja Rasta man!

309 Lidane  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:41:23am

Laser-like focus, etc. —

310 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:41:34am

re: #304 Vicious Babushka

Wouldn’t you also have to have some academic credentials to get a job at the Smithsonian or at any art or historical museum?

huh?

311 Stanley Sea  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:41:41am

Omg! Its 2008!

312 Eventual Carrion  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:42:23am

re: #131 Gus

“Whereas the North Carolina General Assembly asserts its rights through the 10th Amendment and reaffirms its right to slavery.”

//

At least we will get an answer to the wingnut question of “What would have happened if the slaves had guns?”

313 Dancing along the light of day  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:43:49am

re: #311 Stanley Sea

Omg! Its 2008!

LOL!
And, it’s almost 10 AM!

314 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:45:44am

The problem for the artist is that once art is sold is becomes product. That is a HORROR in and of itself.

315 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:47:06am

re: #307 Vicious Babushka

What caused the housing collapse was not that loans were given to borrowers with poor credit, but the banks then repackaged these bad loans as “securities” and sold them to pension funds, etc.

And it wan’t even good or bad credit that was the issue; mostly it was banks fudging the income requirements for the loans. A lot of people with perfectly good credit had it ruined in the meltdown because they’d been persuaded to take out big loans and then lost their jobs.

316 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:47:27am

re: #307 Vicious Babushka

What caused the housing collapse was not that loans were given to borrowers with poor credit, but the banks then repackaged these bad loans as “securities” and sold them to pension funds, etc.

If they are going to let the banks do subprime loans again I’m going back in the mortgage business. I actually loved doing them. They people who got those loans were more grateful and happy than the rich people with perfect credit.

317 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:49:00am

re: #314 FemNaziBitch

The problem for the artist is that once art is sold is becomes product. That is a HORROR in and of itself.

My dad’s favorite subject for painting was sports scenes. Do you realize how much money he could have made if he showed his paintings, not at galleries, but at stadiums? Or let’s say some athlete commissioned him to paint that winning basketball shot or home run?

My son is in the process of identifying the athletes who are portrayed in his sports scenes. We have two paintings of Kobe Bryant.

318 kirkspencer  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:49:08am

re: #309 Lidane

Laser-like focus, etc. —

Some people still don’t get the supremacy clause.

319 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:49:39am

re: #315 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

And it wan’t even good or bad credit that was the issue; mostly it was banks fudging the income requirements for the loans. A lot of people with perfectly good credit had it ruined in the meltdown because they’d been persuaded to take out big loans and then lost their jobs.

HIgher-ups mandated loan officers approve any loan possible, bonuses were given up and down the line for quantity, not quality. Even the people who valued the home for the mortgage companies were given incentives to fudge the numbers. Homes without proper insurance coverage were given loans. It was rotten from the top down and bottom up.

As long as housing prices continued to rise, all would be well.

then … .

320 kirkspencer  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:49:53am

re: #315 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

And it wan’t even good or bad credit that was the issue; mostly it was banks fudging the income requirements for the loans. A lot of people with perfectly good credit had it ruined in the meltdown because they’d been persuaded to take out big loans and then lost their jobs.

*raises hand*

321 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:50:11am

re: #316 NJDhockeyfan

If they are going to let the banks do subprime loans again I’m going back in the mortgage business.

Banks are already doing subprime loans. What are you talking about?

322 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:50:38am

re: #317 Vicious Babushka

My dad’s favorite subject for painting was sports scenes. Do you realize how much money he could have made if he showed his paintings, not at galleries, but at stadiums? Or let’s say some athlete commissioned him to paint that winning basketball shot or home run?

My son is in the process of identifying the athletes who are portrayed in his sports scenes. We have two paintings of Kobe Bryant.

I’d go for it. Sell all you can.

323 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:50:59am

re: #309 Lidane

Laser-like focus, etc. —

The people behind this cannot be that truly stupid: they just want to see it shot down in the courts so they can claim that libruls are trying to outlaw Christianity, just like in Saudi Arabia, so in response they need a state religion (just like Saudi Arabia, except Christianity instead of Islam)

324 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:52:06am

Remember when people would come to this country so they could practice their religion without state interference?

325 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:52:08am

re: #318 kirkspencer

Some people still don’t get the supremacy clause.

WATZ A SOOPREHMASEE CLAUSE? IS THAT SANTA’S BROTHER OR CUZZIN OR SUMTHING?

326 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:52:16am

re: #316 NJDhockeyfan

If they are going to let the banks do subprime loans again I’m going back in the mortgage business. I actually loved doing them. They people who got those loans were more grateful and happy than the rich people with perfect credit.

Granting subprime loans was one aspect, it was the securitization scam that make bankers grunt, snort and squeal with glee

327 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:53:09am

re: #318 kirkspencer

Some people still don’t get the supremacy clause.

they don’t get the Constitution or even Civics & Government 101, fer chrissakes

328 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:54:29am

re: #323 Sol Berdinowitz

The people behind this cannot be that truly stupid: they just want to see it shot down in the courts so they can claim that libruls are trying to outlaw Christianity, just like in Saudi Arabia, so in response they need a state religion (just like Saudi Arabia, except Christianity instead of Islam)

They probably want to see it shot down in the Courts, which it would be, so they can claim ITZ TEH CREEPING SHARIA!1! nonsense, and that now the courts are involved in turning American into some kind of Khalifat.

Sadly, I’m not being all that sarcastic.

329 erik_t  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:54:39am

re: #318 kirkspencer

Some people still don’t get the supremacy clause.

There you go again, pretending that Republicans actually care about enacting legislation that will take and remain in effect.

It’s grandstanding. It’s always grandstanding. Gotta get the RAEG going so the money keeps flowing.

330 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:54:58am

re: #317 Vicious Babushka

My dad’s favorite subject for painting was sports scenes. Do you realize how much money he could have made if he showed his paintings, not at galleries, but at stadiums? Or let’s say some athlete commissioned him to paint that winning basketball shot or home run?

My son is in the process of identifying the athletes who are portrayed in his sports scenes. We have two paintings of Kobe Bryant.

Ebay, people will bid just because of the name Kobe.

331 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:55:13am

DERP

332 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:55:19am

re: #321 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Banks are already doing subprime loans. What are you talking about?

I have a job offer in Nashville at a mortgage company. He said loans are not allowed for people with credit score below 580 right now. Subprime loans used to be available for scores down to 520.

333 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:56:02am

The current GOP is proof the 9/11 hijackers won.

334 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:57:45am

So, Leno is leaving the Tonite Show because he pissed-off Obama.

I forgot that Obama was Dictator-du-jour.

335 erik_t  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:57:48am

re: #331 Vicious Babushka

DERP

@BryanJFischer North Carolina can establish a state religion if they wish. Constitution prohibits only Congress. huff.to

Sweet.

By the way, it’s, uh, totally legit if my state just wants to go ahead and ban firearms entirely, right Bryan? Or establish zomg radical Islam as the state religion, right?

…right?

336 lawhawk  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 9:59:29am

re: #316 NJDhockeyfan

If they are going to let the banks do subprime loans again I’m going back in the mortgage business. I actually loved doing them. They people who got those loans were more grateful and happy than the rich people with perfect credit.

Subprime loans never went away, despite what you may have heard. It’s just that lenders were taking the risk at face value and reduced the amount being lent in subprime since that now affects their stress test scores (needing to have available capital to offset potential losses as one of the conditions examined).

Subprimes that were repackaged and massaged to make them appear to be credit worthy and safe investments is what did in the credit markets. People couldn’t tell the difference between prime and subprime after they were repackaged and massaged by various banks and investment houses to sell them as new product. When no one could figure out the risks associated with individual investments the markets froze up, lending dried up, and the market came very close to shutting down completely but for the TARP lifeline.

337 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:00:11am
338 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:00:29am

Chavez comes to bless Maduro in the form of ‘little bird’

The deceased Venezuelan Comandante, Hugo Chavez has allegedly come back from the dead disguised as a “little bird” to give his blessing to acting President Nicholas Maduro.

In the run-up to presidential elections slated for April 14, Chavez’s successor confessed he had been approached by the spirit of the legendary freedom fighter during a morning prayer.

During the speech at the opening rally of his campaign in Chavez’s native state of Barinas, Nicholas Maduro told a crowd of onlookers that, as he was praying in solitude in a small chapel, a little bird flew whistling in, circled three times over his head and perched on a ceiling beam.

“I whistled to it in response,” Mr. Maduro told the stunned crowd, “the bird gave me a weird look, whistled again, flew around me and vanished.”

Maduro confessed it was then that he felt the spirit of the late Chavez. “I felt him there as though he were giving me a blessing, saying: ‘Today the battle begins. Onwards to victory. You have our blessing!”

Must have been a dodo bird.

339 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:03:44am

DERP

340 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:03:57am

re: #338 NJDhockeyfan

*headdesk*

341 lawhawk  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:05:30am

re: #296 Vicious Babushka

I’ve given thought about doing a gallery or public viewing of some of my photos, but I always am a harsher critic on their quality than say other folks who have seen them.

If I get past that, I might find a way to show them in a gallery setting. Selling photos, on the other hand, is tough since it’s so easy to take/make good photos. For now, I don’t need to go and buy art, I can simply find a few photos in my now extensive collection and enlarge ‘em.

342 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:08:59am

‘Best Jobs In North Korea Pay $62 A Month; Now They’re Diplomatic Pawns

At an industrial park where they build appliances and other products for companies from South Korea, 55,000 North Koreans typically earn about $62 each a month, a North Korea expert tells NPR.

And they’ve got some of the best jobs in one of the world’s poorest nations, Aidan Foster-Carter from Leeds University said on All Things Considered this week. Per capita income in the North is estimated to be as little as $1,000 a year. Not only is the pay at the Kaesong Industrial Complex better than elsewhere (other estimates put it as high as $100 a month), but the workers are “reasonably well-looked after,” Foster-Carter said.

Now those jobs and what’s done at the Kaesong complex are in the international spotlight. On Wednesday, North Korean authorities blocked trucks and workers coming from the South to the complex about six miles inside North Korea.

343 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:11:21am

re: #341 lawhawk

I’ve given thought about doing a gallery or public viewing of some of my photos, but I always am a harsher critic on their quality than say other folks who have seen them.

If I get past that, I might find a way to show them in a gallery setting. Selling photos, on the other hand, is tough since it’s so easy to take/make good photos. For now, I don’t need to go and buy art, I can simply find a few photos in my now extensive collection and enlarge ‘em.

I tend to give mine as gifts. AT least to people I know (or think I know) enjoy it.
I have some stuff up on Cafe Press and Zazzle. Mostly I just share it with friends. I do it for me. It’s a NEED.

It was better when my hands worked. I like making stuff people can actually use. Not so much with photography or photoshop art. That’s why I put it on t-shirts etc.

344 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:13:46am

OT, but on an unfortunate note, Roger Ebert has noted that his cancer has returned. He’ll be taking a ‘leave of presence’ to deal with it.

I wish him all the best.

katu.com

345 Lidane  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:17:32am
346 peguyjaures  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:17:50am

re: #270 Vicious Babushka

Yeah, because ceramist or yoga teacher are not “proper” jobs.
Just like university lecturer or community organiser - as in “Obama never had a real job”.

Wingnuts are totally unable to imagine other life choices than their own.

(PS: I’m reacting, of course, to the original Twitter DERP, not to Vicious Babushka’s comment)

347 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:18:19am

re: #345 Lidane

Ya know, gunning down law enforcement is serious shit.

348 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:19:04am

re: #345 Lidane

IF ONLY HE HAD A GUN!!11!!

349 Decatur Deb  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:19:34am

re: #347 FemNaziBitch

Ya know, gunning down law enforcement is serious shit.

re: #345 Lidane

What right-wing fostered anti-governance?

350 Gus  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:21:21am

re: #349 Decatur Deb

re: #345 Lidane

What right-wing fostered anti-governance?

Something seriously strange going on here.

351 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:22:00am

Speaking of wearable ART

The butterfly started as a watercolor I did years ago. I scanned it and played with the colors and Voila!

352 Glenn Beck's Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:23:38am

re: #332 NJDhockeyfan

I have a job offer in Nashville at a mortgage company. He said loans are not allowed for people with credit score below 580 right now. Subprime loans used to be available for scores down to 520.

That’s not due to government regulation, that’s the banks doing it on their own, though.

Unless this is a state-level thing.

Do you understand that it was not any government involvement in sub-prime loans that caused the financial meltdown, but instead the securitization of mortgages?

353 Decatur Deb  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:24:28am

re: #350 Gus

Something seriously strange going on here.

A cultural movement against the rule of law or men has been evident for a couple decades. It was even present in the US Army’s shifting approach to command independence and regulations.

354 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:24:31am

re: #350 Gus

Something seriously strange going on here.

It’s the “Turner Diaries” coming to life.

355 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 10:25:56am

re: #352 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

That’s not due to government regulation, that’s the banks doing it on their own, though.

Unless this is a state-level thing.

Do you understand that it was not any government involvement in sub-prime loans that caused the financial meltdown, but instead the securitization of mortgages?

And ended with the global economy being a gamble on US housing prices. Not repayment of loans, per se. If a home buyer defaulted, the banks were left with property that could NOT be sold for enough to cover the loan.

Stupidity and Greed. And those responsible are still in powerful jobs and still collecting outrageous paychecks and bonuses.

356 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Apr 3, 2013 11:39:02am

re: #345 Lidane

He’s dead.

wsaz.com

357 William of Orange  Thu, Apr 4, 2013 12:50:36pm

I’m waiting for Anthony Wiener to announce his candidacy again.


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