Ten Million Comments and Counting

Breaking the eight-digit barrier
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I’m proud to announce that today, Little Green Footballs stored our ten millionth comment in the database, posted by long-time LGF supporter Varek Raith: LGF Comment #10000000.

Bam!

Short, sweet, and to the point.

Varek Raith will be receiving a copy of “Drift: The Unmooring of American Military Power,” signed by Rachel Maddow herself. Thanks to Varek and Rachel Maddow, and to all the LGF readers who continue to make this one of the best sites for intelligent discussion on the Internet.

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226 comments
1 Randall Gross  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:10:56pm

Congrats Varek!

2 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:12:50pm

{{{{Varek}}}}}

Is that bad, do the Undead like to be hugged?

3 HappyWarrior  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:13:32pm

Already did it downstairs but I’ll wish Varek another congratulations.

4 Varek Raith  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:16:40pm

Thank you Charles for the awesome site.
And thank you to the awesome posters.
:)

5 Joanne  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:20:06pm

Congrats!

6 Charles Johnson  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:20:24pm
7 Ming  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:20:33pm

Congratulations Varek!

Congrats to Charles and to all of us. There’s a lot to be proud of in these many comments. We’ve had some good discussions.

8 teleskiguy  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:21:25pm
and to all the LGF readers who continue to make this one of the best sites for intelligent discussion on the Internet.

Amen to that! This is the first blog I ever read (after Charles was on Drudge Radio talking about Reuters photo doctoring) and knowing that this is a wholly independent operation makes me smile because Charles and the Lizards won’t be compromised by anything. Charles and the Lizards will say what they want and intelligently debate what’s been said. This has been going on here since I started reading LGF in 2004.

Keep up the good work, Charles!

9 Kid A  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:24:10pm

Keep up the good fight, Charles. I’m a proud Lizard, and you run the best damn site on the interwebs. Cheers, Lizards!!!

10 Varek Raith  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:25:01pm

Good night everyone.
i.chzbgr.com

11 Kid A  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:26:01pm

Congrats, Varek!

12 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:26:19pm

It’s probably a good time to remind everyone to hit the tip jar, become a subscriber or order from Amazon from this site.

Charles can’t do it without our help.

13 Kid A  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:27:50pm

For real, name me one, ONE site for intelligent discussion that’s better than this? Can’t find one, can ya bitches???!!! BWHAHAHAHA!

14 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:28:52pm

Charles, way back when, did you ever think you’d be doing this in 2013?

15 blueraven  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:29:44pm

I knew it would be Varek! or maybe Space Jesus.

Congrats Varek, and to Charles for 10 million comments! And thanks to all the posters here for keeping it real.

16 Interesting Times  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:30:31pm

re: #15 blueraven

I knew it would be Varek! or maybe Space Jesus.

I’m just glad it wasn’t dead thread derp.

17 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:32:24pm

re: #16 Interesting Times

I’m just glad it wasn’t dead thread derp.

That wasn’t really DERP, though. A bit stereotyped, but not DERP.

18 blueraven  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:37:15pm

re: #16 Interesting Times

I’m just glad it wasn’t dead thread derp.

Oh brother…

19 blueraven  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:37:58pm

re: #17 Dark_Falcon

That wasn’t really DERP, though. A bit stereotyped, but not DERP.

No, it was full on DERP.

20 goddamnedfrank  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:40:18pm
Countering a flurry of reports that suggested there were multiple unexploded devices scattered throughout Boston, NBC’s Pete Williams reported Tuesday morning on MSNBC that a senior law enforcement official said the only explosive devices in the city were the two that erupted near the finish line of the Boston Marathon.

Williams said a number of bystanders dropped what they were carrying and ran after the deadly explosions, leaving scores of unattended packages throughout the city. Several of those packages were detonated by authorities, according to Williams, but there is no indication that they were unexploded devices.

Williams noted that it is somewhat disappointing for investigators that there were no unexploded devices, which might have represented an “investigative gold mine.”

Becoming more plausible that this could have been the work of just one person. Breivik’s assumption, and it seems fairly reasonable, was that someone not on a watch list had a 30% chance of being apprehended before a bombing plot was completed, but that the risk rose to 90 to 95% by the time 5 people were involved.

21 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:44:49pm

re: #20 goddamnedfrank

Becoming more plausible that this could have been the work of just one person. Breivik’s assumption, and it seems fairly reasonable, was that someone not on a watch list had a 30% chance of being apprehended before a bombing plot was completed, but that the risk rose to 90 to 95% by the time 5 people were involved.

That’s another thing about Anders Breivik that makes one hate him all the more: The extent to which he correctly calculated things out. Law enforcement and informed media people are going to be studying those calculations for years, giving the shithead a recognition I’d very much rather he not receive.

/spits

22 blueraven  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:45:35pm

re: #20 goddamnedfrank

Becoming more plausible that this could have been the work of just one person. Breivik’s assumption, and it seems fairly reasonable, was that someone not on a watch list had a 30% chance of being apprehended before a bombing plot was completed, but that the risk rose to 90 to 95% by the time 5 people were involved.

Somebody knows.
Even if it was a lone wolf, and I am beginning to think that too…somebody knows something.

23 AlexRogan  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:48:44pm

re: #16 Interesting Times

I’m just glad it wasn’t dead thread derp.

My reply:

re: #177 budda10000

Explain Eric Rudolph and the 1996 Olympic Park bombing then, for starters.

24 Interesting Times  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:50:52pm

re: #23 AlexRogan

Exactly. Or the attempted bombing of the MLK parade route.

25 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:53:08pm

Dirtbag Summit:

In an interview with former Illinois Republican Congressman Joe Walsh, Ted Nugent called for civil disobedience among Illinois gun owners. “It’s time for a Rosa Parks from ‘We the People.’” Nugent said. “The law forbidding that black lady from sitting on that bus — her choice of seat — she had to at some point go, ‘I’ve had it. The law is evil. The law is against human rights.’ The Illinois gun laws are against the instincts and the rules of humanity. It must be changed as quickly as possible.”

Joe Walsh took it even one step further and stated that Illinois residents should ignore the current laws and carry concealed anyway. “I don’t care if we don’t have a conceal carry law right now,” said Walsh on his talk show. “There isn’t a law abiding citizen in this city that doesn’t have the right to protect themselves… and if that means breaking the law to do it, we’re going to do it.”

The Rosa Parks line is especially bad. Carrying a gun illegally is no game, and someone charged with doing so will face a far worse punishment than what Rosa Parks faced. Nor can concealed carry be likened to the civil rights movement in a real way. I think CCW appropriate, but its not being allowed is not like being forced to move to the back of a bus simply because of your skin color.

26 Gus  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 8:56:43pm

Cops Get Owned!!! - Epic Pee Prank

Youtube Video
27 freetoken  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:01:08pm
Bam!

No one will ever again question the elegance of one syllable posts.

28 sagehen  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:01:23pm

re: #13 Kid A

For real, name me one, ONE site for intelligent discussion that’s better than this? Can’t find one, can ya bitches???!!! BWHAHAHAHA!

((pssst:
ta-nehisi-coates))

But this is a close second.

29 Gus  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:01:40pm

Giving Cops A Buzz! - PRANK

Youtube Video
30 freetoken  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:04:29pm

Doing genealogy… and wondering why so many people give their children the same name as everybody else. Today we’d say parents are just being trendy, but 200 years ago, when literacy was still scarce in certain parts of this country, maybe it was because the parents only knew a few names?

Anyway, it makes sifting through old documents (like pre-1850 censuses) a pain.

31 Gus  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:05:02pm

Epic Spray Paint Prank - On Cops!

Youtube Video
32 freetoken  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:06:58pm

Suggestion for expecting parents out there: whatever you do, don’t give you child the same name as all your friends and neighbors are doing to their issue. Also, don’t reuse your parents name unless you can spell it differently or give a middle name that is so different no one will ever confuse the two.

33 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:09:49pm

re: #25 Dark_Falcon

These reprehensible jackasses like Ted Nugent and the usual gang of idiots make it extremely difficult to advocate a ‘pro-2nd Amendment’ point of view. The loudest voices seem invariably to be the most stupid and beligerent, and somehow they end up becoming the public face of gun owners. They do more harm to their own pet cause than their opposition could ever hope to do.

34 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:12:12pm

re: #13 Kid A

For real, name me one, ONE site for intelligent discussion that’s better than this? Can’t find one, can ya bitches???!!! BWHAHAHAHA!

The comments section on Roger Ebert’s blog was/is remarkably civil, at least by internet standards.

35 Lidane  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:13:59pm
36 klys  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:15:02pm

re: #34 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

The comments section on Roger Ebert’s blog was/is remarkably civil, at least by internet standards.

John Scalzi’s blog has a decent comment section as well.

37 ProBosniaLiberal  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:18:07pm

re: #35 Lidane

If that is true, then we need to pack up. No one will ever top that headline, if it is true.

38 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:22:29pm

re: #33 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

These reprehensible jackasses like Ted Nugent and the usual gang of idiots make it extremely difficult to advocate a ‘pro-2nd Amendment’ point of view. The loudest voices seem invariably to be the most stupid and beligerent, and somehow they end up becoming the public face of gun owners. They do more harm to their own pet cause than their opposition could ever hope to do.

The stupid and belligerent often are the one’s monomaniacal enough to keep shouting the same thing, even if it doesn’t make sense. That is what gets them their platform, in part because a smarter person’s “It’s more complicated than that…” doesn’t play well on TV.

39 klys  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:23:03pm

re: #37 ProBosniaLiberal

If that is true, then we need to pack up. No one will ever top that headline, if it is true.

Having used the Google, it appears it was a satirical video. Sadly.

The Daily Fail was just displaying its normal journalistic standards.

40 SpaceJesus  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:25:11pm

Freep continues to flip its shit over DHS

To: True Grit
The gvt may have the bullets, but we have the guns.

I predict that in any armed conflict between the gvt and the Patriots, the Patriots will win, providing the military does not get involved. If the military does get involved, we’ll still win but it will take much longer and be much bloodier.

Buy more ammo.


13 posted on 4/16/2013 8:07:45 PM by upchuck (To the faceless, jack-booted government bureaucrat who just scanned this post: SCREW YOU!)
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Shit guys, the commie lib government forgot to buy guns :(

41 Targetpractice  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:26:34pm

re: #40 SpaceJesus

Freep continues to flip its shit over DHS

Shit guys, the commie lib government forgot to buy guns :(

“Take much longer”? This nimrod apparently wasn’t paying attention to either Ruby Ridge or Waco.

42 SpaceJesus  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:27:17pm

And another side post in the same thread

Now is as good as time as any to bring the subject of SWAT team tactics up with your mayors and town councilors. Grab a friend, make an appointment and go do it.

IMO, it should be common knowledge where our city, state and federal officials live. Yes, the county bureaucrats, the local, state and federal police officers, every single one of them. Let’s remove the cloak of anonymity from these public officials! They work for us, remember?

It is not difficult to make someone live in fear for their lives as many of you already know. Making our elected local, county, state or federal officials acutely aware of that feeling is not a popular idea but I assure you after once having that taste in your mouth, it is not one quickly forgotten. Why should we be the ones who fear them if we are not criminals? Don’t go after them in their protected offices when their homes and families are as vulnerable as ours are.

If our LEO’s or military troops under the orders of our elected officials ever administer violence to US citizens then I believe it should be returned in equal force to their superiors families.

I promise you that a single bullet through the kitchen window of the Mayors house will make for an excited dinner conversation with his wife that evening. The Mayor will then understand exactly what he did when he ordered violence against his townspeople.

The Chief of Police’s wife wouldn’t hesitate to explain in detail to her husband what a wonderful job he’s doing if her home were to receive a copper jacketed message through the front door.


45 posted on 6/15/2011 9:15:51 AM by B4Ranch (Allowing Islam into America is akin to injecting yourself with AIDS to prove how tolerant you are…)

43 SpaceJesus  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:28:23pm
To: B4Ranch

I pray it doesn’t come to that.

22 posted on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 8:48:26 PM by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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44 SpaceJesus  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:28:39pm
To: driftdiver

Think of your neighbors as people who possibly voted for Obama. How many of them fit the description? They are who I’m talking about.

25 posted on Tuesday, April 16, 2013 8:54:49 PM by B4Ranch ( There’s Two Choices. Stand Up and Be Counted … Or Line Up and Be Numbered.)
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45 SpaceJesus  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:31:58pm

“We need to start targeting the families of people who voted for Obama and possibly kill them or shoot up their homes.” - Freep

46 Targetpractice  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:32:16pm

re: #42 SpaceJesus

And another side post in the same thread

Ladies and gents, Exhibit A on why the wingnuts are hoping and praying that Monday’s bombing was perpetrated by Muslims and not another McVeigh-style “patriot.”

47 Joanne  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:34:53pm
48 Joanne  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:40:04pm

re: #25 Dark_Falcon

I can’t believe the people from my state - my area - ever voted for this loud-mouthed, lying, deadbeat jerkoff.

And now he’s on the radio. SMFH

49 TheSwedish  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:40:15pm

So wait, Mz. Maddow is an LGF fan?!

Awesome.

50 Dancing along the light of day  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:45:18pm

re: #49 TheSwedish

So wait, Mz. Maddow is an LGF fan?!

Awesome.

Of COURSE she is….

51 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:48:03pm

Part of the LGBT/Jihadist/Athiest cabal out to take over the country and deliver it handcuffed into the hands of UN occupation troops…

52 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 9:57:47pm

re: #48 Joanne

I can’t believe the people from my state - my area - ever voted for this loud-mouthed, lying, deadbeat jerkoff.

And now he’s on the radio. SMFH

It’s my state too, Joanne. I despise Walsh: He’s a disgrace to his party and I’m glad he’s not in Congress anymore.

53 goddamnedfrank  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 10:02:54pm

So sad for the sadists:

The report rejected the contention that torture resulted from of a “few bad apples,” as Bush said following the release of sickening photos showing American soldiers abusing prisoners at Abu Ghraib in Iraq. The authors cited two decisions as key to this conclusion: Bush’s declaration that the Geneva Conventions did not apply to detainees in Afghanistan and the Guantanamo Bay detention center, and his authorization to allow the CIA to use brutal techniques against some detainees. The report also cited comments by Vice President Dick Cheney that the U.S. must work on “the dark side” and other similar comments leading to the perception that such practices would be tolerated.

The investigation concluded further that there was no evidence that torture produced any significant information, much of the information provided was unreliable, and it did not lead to the capture Osama Bin Laden.

54 Targetpractice  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 10:07:27pm

re: #53 goddamnedfrank

So sad for the sadists:

President Obama will, rightly, find himself held responsible by future generations for following in Ford’s footsteps of not holding the previous administration accountable for its crimes, sweeping it instead under the rug with the hope that people would forget with the passage of time.

55 Joanne  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 10:08:13pm

re: #52 Dark_Falcon

Yeah, but if I remember, you’re a south-sider. Not like real Chicago! (Grins, ducks, and runs)

56 Lidane  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 10:11:14pm
57 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 10:12:32pm

re: #55 Joanne

Yeah, but if I remember, you’re a south-sider. Not like real Chicago! (Grins, ducks, and runs)

The Hell you say! I’m North Side, born and raised!

58 Targetpractice  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 10:12:42pm

re: #56 Lidane

Now that is a righteously awesome way to submit a resignation.

59 Lidane  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 10:12:45pm

re: #41 Targetpractice

“Take much longer”? This nimrod apparently wasn’t paying attention to either Ruby Ridge or Waco.

He also hasn’t paid attention to the militia and sovereign citizen dipshits that this government shuts down without much effort.

60 Targetpractice  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 10:13:42pm

re: #59 Lidane

He also hasn’t paid attention to the militia and sovereign citizen dipshits that this government shuts down without much effort.

Government? Hell, most of these bozos wouldn’t last against a single SWAT raid. A couple cans of tear gas through the front window and they’ll be begging for mercy.

61 Lidane  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 10:16:21pm

re: #60 Targetpractice

Government? Hell, most of these bozos wouldn’t last against a single SWAT raid. A couple cans of tear gas through the front window and they’ll be begging for mercy.

Well, yes. I was counting SWAT raids, actually, since IIRC those are local government most of the time.

I always laugh at these “patriots” thinking they have a chance in an armed insurrection against a country that spends as much as we do on defense. Really? You think your single AR-15 stands a chance? Pfft.

62 klys  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 10:57:20pm

I need another cat.

63 freetoken  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 11:17:01pm

Wrestling with genealogical records… and noticing that those very same parts of the country in which records were not kept, or were partly kept, and which did not require counties to keep track of vitals… seem to also be prone to lots of inbreeding (first cousin marriage.)

A coincidence - not.

64 freetoken  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 11:33:38pm

Another thing that bugs me… a “historical society” for a county which doesn’t actually bother to keep historical records. Many do, but there are some out there which seem more like tourism boards than a real historical society.

65 danhenry1  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 11:37:19pm

Congrats Varek, And thank you for the journey Charles.

66 Gus  Tue, Apr 16, 2013 11:40:45pm

I remain, a skeptic.

67 Kragar  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 12:02:26am

Pat Robertson On Boston Explosions: ‘Don’t Talk To Me About Religion Of Peace’

Televangelist Pat Robertson has linked religion to the Boston Marathon bombings, although he did not specifically mention any one religion.

On Tuesday morning’s episode of the Christian Broadcast Network’s “The 700 Club,” the 83-year-old evangelical Christian began discussing the tragic events that unfolded at Copley Square Monday afternoon, Media Matters for America notes.

“Our hearts go out to these people who were wounded and injured,” he began, adding that it all started as a “joyous” occasion. “[T]o think that somebody would be so vicious, so evil as to want to kill little children, and maim families who were there rejoicing in a sporting contest on a beautiful day in Boston, it just makes you sick at your stomach. Don’t talk to me about religion of peace, no way.”

68 Gus  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 12:11:39am
69 efuseakay  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 12:15:10am

re: #45 SpaceJesus

“We need to start targeting the families of people who voted for Obama and possibly kill them or shoot up their homes.” - Freep

Heh… this one Obama voter has his own guns and ammo. Bet they never considered something like that…

70 efuseakay  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 12:18:26am

re: #53 goddamnedfrank

So sad for the sadists:

Can we send them to The Hague now? They did far more damage to this country than any actual terrorists did.

71 EdDantes  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 12:22:36am

re: #68 Gus

The Israelis must have done something really bad to make them do something like that.

72 Gus  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 12:24:47am

re: #71 EdDantes

The Israelis must have done something really bad to make them do something like that.

Just another sign that the Gazans want peace. At least when they’re not grabbing men off the street and forcing them to get haircuts. But, the Amish. //

73 EdDantes  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 12:26:29am

re: #72 Gus

Just another sign that the Gazans want peace. At least when they’re not grabbing men off the street and forcing them to get haircuts. But, the Amish. //

Don’t get me started on the Amish!

74 Gus  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 12:29:23am

re: #73 EdDantes

Don’t get me started on the Amish!

I remember when we always visited Amish country coming back and thinking about the cow manure odor.

75 Gus  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 12:30:48am

Small magnet sales to be banned in Canada

76 Gus  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 12:32:46am

In the future, all toys will have to be larger then a 4 inch diameter ball so stupid children won’t swallow it.

77 EdDantes  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 12:35:52am

re: #76 Gus

It is a miracle that I survived to my great age considering all the crap I have swallowed. I can only surmise that today’s children are less robust.

78 Gus  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 12:42:25am

re: #77 EdDantes

It is a miracle that I survived to my great age considering all the crap I have swallowed. I can only surmise that today’s children are less robust.

Might have eatten some Styrofoam when I was about 4. Once. Ot was these candies that came in these little Styrofoam flying saucers.

79 Gus  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 12:45:54am
80 EdDantes  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 12:46:24am

re: #78 Gus

When I was 4 we didn’t have Styrofoam and we like it! We had rocks!

81 EdDantes  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 12:48:35am

re: #79 Gus

Sick, sick people. I will never shut up about her. I hope those behind the former iron curtain know who she was.

82 EdDantes  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 12:50:42am

Good night, all.

83 Gus  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 12:54:51am

re: #81 EdDantes

Sick, sick people. I will never shut up about her. I hope those behind the former iron curtain know who she was.

Thatcher’s death increased my productivity by staying away from Twitter for close to a week. I’ve been kind of mum since. For that and health reasons.

84 Tigger2  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 1:27:33am

re: #69 efuseakay

Heh… this one Obama voter has his own guns and ammo. Bet they never considered something like that…

Yeah this Obama voter would also shoot back.

85 freetoken  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 2:11:12am
MP3 Audio
86 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 2:22:17am

re: #75 Gus

Small magnet sales to be banned in Canada

Canadians, how do they work?

87 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 4:18:41am

re: #56 Lidane

That takes the cake!

88 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 4:26:43am
89 Decatur Deb  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 4:51:58am

re: #62 klys

I need another cat.

OK, but chew this one slowly.

90 Decatur Deb  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 4:58:21am

re: #45 SpaceJesus

“We need to start targeting the families of people who voted for Obama and possibly kill them or shoot up their homes.” - Freep

This is something those of you who live in sane blue/purple states might contemplate while wondering how Confederate-state progressives can be anti-anti-gun.

91 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 5:03:17am

Is there an LGF app for android?

92 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 5:09:36am

re: #86 Sol Berdinowitz

Canadians, how do they work?

Just for context:

Last summer, the American Consumer Product Safety Commission banned the sale of Buckyballs, powerful little “rare earth” magnets sold as toys and desktop accessories.

The magnets pose serious risks, the department said, because if swallowed they can pinch together and create an internal blockage or perforate intestinal walls.

Just like all those things you blithely swallowed as a small child.

93 Decatur Deb  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 5:11:19am

re: #92 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

Just for context:

Just like all those things you blithely swallowed as a small child.

We lost our cultural masculinity when we banned Lawn Darts!!1!

94 Dr. Matt  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 5:14:53am

I’m closing in on 2,000 Karma……what’s my prize?!?!!?!

95 Amory Blaine  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 5:26:01am

re: #94 Dr. Matt

Here. Have a hit off this doobie.

96 Dr. Matt  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 5:29:11am

re: #95 Amory Blaine

Here. Have a hit off this doobie.

Ugh. That sounds so good right about now.

97 Dr. Matt  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 5:32:44am

Detroit Free Press does the responsible thing and provides a schematic of a pressure cooker bomb.

98 freetoken  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 5:32:50am

This is America, 2013:

Texas lawmaker: Colleges shouldn’t discriminate against creationism research

A Texas lawmaker wants to make the state’s colleges and universities safe for creationism.


Zedler.
State Rep. Bill Zedler, from Arlington, has filed legislation (HB 285) that would prohibit discrimination by colleges and universities against faculty members and students who want to conduct research relating to intelligent design.

Here’s the principal text from the legislation:

No institution of higher education may discriminate against or penalize in any manner, especially with regard to employment or academic support, a faculty member or student based on the faculty member’s or student’s conduct of research relating to the theory of intelligent design or other alternate theories of the origination and development of organisms.

[…]

Nasty academics, discriminating against creationism.

Read about the legislator from his own sites:
house.state.tx.us
billzedler.org

99 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 5:38:52am

Many years ago, when I was a newlywed, I visited a neighbor’s house. There was a huge mess on the ceiling. YES, ON THE FREAKING CEILING! I said, “Holy crap, what is that?” She said she was preparing some food in the pressure cooker, when her husband saw the regulator on top shaking away. He said “what’s this little shaking thing?” AND HE REMOVED THE REGULATOR.

Presto offering to ceiling kitteh.

100 Charleston Chew  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 5:41:12am

re: #67 Kragar

Pat Robertson On Boston Explosions: ‘Don’t Talk To Me About Religion Of Peace’

Or the sorter, more accurate headline:

Robertson: “Don’t Talk To Me”

101 iossarian  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 5:45:01am

re: #96 Dr. Matt

Ugh. That sounds so good right about now.

Just say no, kids!

This message brought to you by the Uptight White Society of America!

102 Charleston Chew  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 5:46:57am

re: #97 Dr. Matt

Detroit Free Press does the responsible thing and provides a schematic of a pressure cooker bomb.

With insights like: “Shrapnel can cause penetrating wounds” and “Force of blast can knock people down”.

103 Romantic Heretic  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 5:48:33am

Well done, dude.

104 Amory Blaine  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 6:06:00am

How Much Unemployment Was Caused by Reinhart and Rogoff’s Arithmetic Mistake?

That’s the question millions will be asking when they see the new paper by my friends at the University of Massachusetts, Thomas Herndon, Michael Ash, and Robert Pollin. Herndon, Ash, and Pollin (HAP) corrected the spreadsheets of Carmen Reinhart and Ken Rogoff. They show the correct numbers tell a very different story about the relationship between debt and GDP growth than the one that Reinhart and Rogoff have been hawking.

Just to remind folks, Reinhart and Rogoff (R&R) are the authors of the widely acclaimed book on the history of financial crises, This Time is Different. They have also done several papers derived from this research, the main conclusion of which is that high ratios of debt to GDP lead to a long periods of slow growth. Their story line is that 90 percent is a cutoff line, with countries with debt-to-GDP ratios above this level seeing markedly slower growth than countries that have debt-to-GDP ratios below this level. The moral is to make sure the debt-to-GDP ratio does not get above 90 percent.

There are all sorts of good reasons for questioning this logic. First, there is good reason for believing causation goes the other way. Countries are likely to have high debt-to-GDP ratios because they are having serious economic problems.

105 geoffm33  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 6:13:52am

The International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 103 in Boston has this giant “Jumbotron” type billboard on the highway leading into Boston.

Here was the message for those responsible for the marathon bombings

106 geoffm33  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 6:14:46am

re: #100 Charleston Chew

Or the sorter, more accurate headline:

Robertson: “Don’t Talk To Me”

Or the more more accurate

Robertson: “Don’t Listen to Me”

107 Bulworth  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 6:15:03am

re: #45 SpaceJesus

“We need to start targeting the families of people who voted for Obama and possibly kill them or shoot up their homes.” - Freep

Law abiding. Family values. Liberty. /

108 Bulworth  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 6:16:38am

CNN tells me investigators have found the lid of the pressure cooker believed used in the bombings.
cnn.com

109 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 6:21:23am

re: #107 Bulworth

Law abiding. Family values. Liberty. /

The FBI must have a field day sometimes with FR. I’m sure there’s a few “Freepers” who are either FBI or informants.

110 efuseakay  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 6:31:07am

re: #108 Bulworth

CNN tells me investigators have found the lid of the pressure cooker believed used in the bombings.
cnn.com

They should be so lucky to find fingerprints… If only.

111 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 6:32:20am

re: #97 Dr. Matt

Detroit Free Press does the responsible thing and provides a schematic of a pressure cooker bomb.

Not like the most cursory Internet seach would not turn one up.

112 BongCrodny  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 6:33:07am

New Man of Steel trailer released:

Youtube Video

Can’t say it’s as awesome as the latest Star Trek trailer, but it does look rather epic.

And after watching Michael Shannon steal the show on Boardwalk Empire, I’m definitely looking forward to his General Zod.

113 BongCrodny  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 6:35:45am

re: #110 efuseakay

They should be so lucky to find fingerprints… If only.

Yeah, whoever is responsible isn’t rushing to take credit, so it’s likely they were smart enough to wear gloves while building the things.

However, I would love to be proven wrong.

114 Amory Blaine  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 6:40:09am

Claire McCaskill: Police Have Suspect In Ricin Mailing

Police have a suspect in mind as they investigate a letter mailed to Sen. Roger Wicker that tested positive for poisonous ricin, a Senate colleague said.

“The person that is a suspect writes a lot of letters to members,” Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., said Tuesday as she emerged from a classified briefing.

Authorities declined to comment on a suspect or any other aspect of the investigation being led by Capitol Police and the FBI after tests indicated that a letter mailed to the Mississippi Republican’s Washington office contained the potentially deadly toxin. The letter was intercepted at a Senate mail facility in Prince George’s County, Md., just outside Washington, said Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin, a member of the Senate’s Democratic leadership.

115 Charleston Chew  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 6:42:46am

re: #112 BongCrodny

New Man of Steel trailer released:

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Can’t say it’s as awesome as the latest Star Trek trailer, but it does look rather epic.

And after watching Michael Shannon steal the show on Boardwalk Empire, I’m definitely looking forward to his General Zod.

Back in the early 2000s I was thoroughly sick of the shaky cam fad (from 80s commercials to shows like NYPD Blue to shitty 90s Dogma to Bourne movies) so it took me extra long to discover The Office (the original) was actually worth seeing because the nightmare that was the first season photography of Arrested Development had me reaching for the Dramamine and swearing off any production that couldn’t be bothered to invest in a camera mount.

But I guess it’s here to stay. Shit directors discovered that no one could tell how bad they are at making movies because no one can see anything to begin with. It’s the perfect crime.

116 Bulworth  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 6:45:59am

re: #112 BongCrodny


Michael Shannon’s been really good in a bunch of stuff. So yeah, this sounds good, too.

117 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 6:52:55am
118 Bulworth  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 6:54:23am

Via Wonkette, a wingnutty Missourin state legislator gets wingnutty with a constituent:

blogs.riverfronttimes.com

119 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 6:56:14am

re: #78 Gus

Might have eatten some Styrofoam when I was about 4. Once. Ot was these candies that came in these little Styrofoam flying saucers.

weren’t those flying saucers supposed to be melt-in-your-mouth stuff like communion wafers?
oh, crap…

120 BongCrodny  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 7:03:11am

re: #117 Vicious Babushka

I guess I’m reading too much into this.

I don’t interpret Creepy Pedophile Guy’s threat as being suicidal in nature, so is she saying she wants him to follow through on his threat?

121 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 7:05:00am

re: #120 BongCrodny

I guess I’m reading too much into this.

I don’t interpret Creepy Pedophile Guy’s threat as being suicidal in nature, so is she saying she wants him to follow through on his threat?

I guess she’s saying he’s not dead, so why isn’t he in jail?

122 efuseakay  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 7:16:02am

re: #120 BongCrodny

I guess I’m reading too much into this.

I don’t interpret Creepy Pedophile Guy’s threat as being suicidal in nature, so is she saying she wants him to follow through on his threat?

Threat? I thought it was a promise..

123 CuriousLurker  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 7:20:33am

Good morning, everyone.

I hate to start off the day with this, but apparently AQ is just as puzzled as the FBI, however being the twisted assholes that they are they’re hoping the bomb making instructions they recently published in their “Inspire” magazine actually did inspire someone to do something evil:

FBI and al Qaeda both “struggling” to identify culprit behind Boston Marathon bombing

[…] The video is being reference [sic] often by jihadists in light of the Boston bombings, with many expressing hope that someone buying into the al Qaeda philosophy was behind the attack.

“Even if this was the work of a ‘lone wolf’, a claim by al Qaeda would probably have a big impact on the U.S., and most importantly, would encourage others to follow suit,” urges one online jihadist.

But CBS News’ analysis of prominent, credible jihadist web portals shows they are grappling for answers just as the FBI investigators are. Most recent terror attacks have been claimed by jihadist groups within about three days.

“The investigators are struggling with that question,” explains Miller, “as al Qaeda, on the other side of the world, is wondering ‘was that us?’”

Miller says it could turn out that the Boston attack represents “the maturation” of al Qaeda’s relatively new lone wolf ideology. It’s possible, says Miller, that having put out the call for “lone wolves” to strike, “they’ve done it, and they just don’t know how to claim responsibility.”

Miller notes, however, that this remains just one theory to explain the attack on the marathon. The investigation is still “wide open,” he says, stressing that pressure cooker bombs are, “easy to make if you know what you’re doing,” and citing many previous incidents — some long before the advent of al Qaeda — of such bombs being used in attacks carried out by domestic or non-jihadist groups.

Okay, gotta get back to work…

124 Amory Blaine  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 7:30:18am

THE SAUDI MARATHON MAN

A twenty-year-old man who had been watching the Boston Marathon had his body torn into by the force of a bomb. He wasn’t alone; a hundred and seventy-six people were injured and three were killed. But he was the only one who, while in the hospital being treated for his wounds, had his apartment searched in “a startling show of force,” as his fellow-tenants described it to the Boston Herald, with a “phalanx” of officers and agents and two K9 units. He was the one whose belongings were carried out in paper bags as his neighbors watched; whose roommate, also a student, was questioned for five hours (“I was scared”) before coming out to say that he didn’t think his friend was someone who’d plant a bomb—that he was a nice guy who liked sports. “Let me go to school, dude,” the roommate said later in the day, covering his face with his hands and almost crying, as a Fox News producer followed him and asked him, again and again, if he was sure he hadn’t been living with a killer.

Why the search, the interrogation, the dogs, the bomb squad, and the injured man’s name tweeted out, attached to the word “suspect”? After the bombs went off, people were running in every direction—so was the young man. Many, like him, were hurt badly; many of them were saved by the unflinching kindness of strangers, who carried them or stopped the bleeding with their own hands and improvised tourniquets. “Exhausted runners who kept running to the nearest hospital to give blood,” President Obama said. “They helped one another, consoled one another,” Carmen Ortiz, the U.S. Attorney for Massachusetts, said. In the midst of that, according to a CBS News report, a bystander saw the young man running, badly hurt, rushed to him, and then “tackled” him, bringing him down. People thought he looked suspicious.

125 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 7:40:25am

Good morning lizards!

126 CuriousLurker  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 7:41:03am

re: #124 Amory Blaine

THE SAUDI MARATHON MAN

*SIGH* People seriously need to move beyond the knee-jerk terrorist = Arab-looking thing. Let’s say it was a jihadi—he could’ve been white, black, hispanic, asian, or anything in between, and that type of thinking would’ve allowed him to walk (or in this case run) away without anyone giving him a second glance.

127 efuseakay  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 7:43:10am

re: #124 Amory Blaine

THE SAUDI MARATHON MAN

All because he was “brown”, I’m sure. That poor guy.

128 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 7:45:25am

DERP.
Boston is so yesterday. Twitter has gone back to its usual HATE OBAMA and

WE NEEDZ ARE GUNZ TA RESIST TEH TYRANNIE!!11!!

129 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 7:45:29am

Erik Rush haz an upset…

Link

130 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 7:47:08am

Wife of Ex-Judge Arrested in Slain Texas DA Case

North Texas authorities have arrested the wife of a former justice of the peace who was charged with making a terroristic threat in connection with the shooting deaths of a district attorney and his wife.

Kim Lene Williams was arrested early Wednesday. Online jail records do not list charges against her and efforts to reach Kaufman County Sheriff David Byrnes, county Judge Bruce Wood and others were not successful.

A law enforcement official has said authorities are trying to build a case against her husband, Eric Lyle Williams, in the deaths of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, whose bodies were found at their home March 30.

A probable cause affidavit says Eric Williams sent an email, one day after the McLellands’ bodies were discovered, implying there would be another attack if authorities didn’t respond to various demands. The email was sent from Eric Williams’ personal computer. Authorities arrested him on Saturday and charged him with making a terroristic threat.

He was being held on $3 million bond on that charge.

131 Bulworth  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 7:47:24am

re: #128 Vicious Babushka

DERP.
Boston is so yesterday. Twitter has gone back to its usual HATE OBAMA and


WE NEEDZ ARE GUNZ TA RESIST TEH TYRANNIE!!11!!

Also2: millions of babies kilt abortion!!

132 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 7:48:37am

re: #131 Bulworth

Also2: millions of babies kilt abortion!!

And: BENGHAZI!!11!!!!

133 Bulworth  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 7:50:04am

re: #128 Vicious Babushka

DERP.
Boston is so yesterday. Twitter has gone back to its usual HATE OBAMA and


WE NEEDZ ARE GUNZ TA RESIST TEH TYRANNIE!!11!!

Why won’t Obummer keep us SAFE!! Argh, don’t take are gunz!! TSA internment camps for conservatives!!!111

134 CuriousLurker  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 7:54:34am

re: #129 Backwoods_Sleuth

Erick Rush haz an upset…

Link

Awww, another wingnut “victim”. So sad. I guess that means he’d be totally okay with someone sarcastically calling for the killing of all black people. //

135 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 7:55:25am

‘France railway bans black workers amid Peres visit’

France’s national railway banned black workers from the station where Israeli President Shimon Peres arrived to ensure that no Arab workers were present.

British media reported late Sunday that SNCF, France’s national railway, excluded black and North African railway workers from the Gare du Nord station when Peres came for a visit on March 8 on a high-speed train from Belgium.

136 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 7:56:09am

The only thing RWNJ’s have got from the new Boston Massacre is a new meme:

DON’T BAN GUNZ, BAN PRESSURE COOKERZ!!11!!

137 CuriousLurker  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 7:59:01am

re: #135 NJDhockeyfan

‘France railway bans black workers amid Peres visit’

The same stupid thinking as I just mentioned in my #126.

138 Interesting Times  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:05:27am

re: #137 CuriousLurker

The same stupid thinking as I just mentioned in my #126.

Yep, racial profiling would so totally have caught this person //

Image: abc_jihad_jane_100309_mn.jpg

139 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:06:26am

WTF is wrong with these people?

140 CuriousLurker  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:12:33am

re: #138 Interesting Times

Yep, racial profiling would so totally have caught this person //

Image: abc_jihad_jane_100309_mn.jpg

Exactly. It’s not as if anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism are limited to Arabs, especially in Europe, as anyone who follows the news there would know.

141 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:13:16am

congrats Varek and good morning fellow Lizards.

142 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:14:20am

DERP

143 CuriousLurker  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:14:31am

Okay, back to the salt mines for me….

144 aagcobb  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:16:50am

re: #115 Charleston Chew

Back in the early 2000s I was thoroughly sick of the shaky cam fad (from 80s commercials to shows like NYPD Blue to shitty 90s Dogma to Bourne movies) so it took me extra long to discover The Office (the original) was actually worth seeing because the nightmare that was the first season photography of Arrested Development had me reaching for the Dramamine and swearing off any production that couldn’t be bothered to invest in a camera mount.

But I guess it’s here to stay. Shit directors discovered that no one could tell how bad they are at making movies because no one can see anything to begin with. It’s the perfect crime.

After watching The Blair Witch Project, I hurled in the theater restroom. And it wasn’t even scary.

145 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:18:00am

re: #144 aagcobb

After watching The Blair Witch Project, I hurled in the theater restroom. And it wasn’t even scary.

The worst of all: Cloverfield.

146 blueraven  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:18:52am

Fuck it all…The watered down “expanded background check” bill is probably going down to defeat today in the Senate. Unreal.

147 Bulworth  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:19:24am

re: #139 Vicious Babushka

Do they know the government has tanks and nuclear missiles and stuff like that?

148 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:21:01am

re: #147 Bulworth

Do they know the government has tanks and nuclear missiles and stuff like that?

They’re fighting an imaginary government still using horses and bayonets.

149 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:21:15am

re: #128 Vicious Babushka

DERP.
Boston is so yesterday. Twitter has gone back to its usual HATE OBAMA and

If only the people at the marathon had been armed they could have something something MORE GUNZ!!!

150 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:21:21am

re: #147 Bulworth

Do they know the government has tanks and nuclear missiles and stuff like that?

WERE GONNA SHOOT DOWN TEH DRONEZ WIF ARE GUNZ!!11!!

151 Bulworth  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:21:29am

re: #148 wheat-dogghazi

They’re fighting an imaginary government still using horses and bayonets.

Wolverines!!

152 makeitstop  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:21:44am

re: #145 Vicious Babushka

The worst of all: Cloverfield.

I actually rooted for the aliens in that movie, because all of the characters were very annoying.

153 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:22:10am

re: #139 Vicious Babushka

WTF is wrong with these people?

They are stupid. We know that. They have an entire national organization to broadcast their stupid.

154 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:23:43am

re: #147 Bulworth

I was talking with a friend who’s definitely a gun nut, nice guy but one of those uber libertarian types. He was going on about the gov’t taking people’s guns and I asked him point blank. What is an AR-15 going to do against an armed drone? Then told him, face it if the gov’t wanted to take your guns or all guns they could and there’s not much anyone could do about it.

156 Dr. Matt  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:24:17am

re: #145 Alouette

The worst of all: Cloverfield.

I sat in the very back row and it wasn’t that bad. Rewatching on a flat screen at home was not a good experience though.

157 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:24:36am

re: #156 Dr. Matt

I sat in the very back row and it wasn’t that bad. Rewatching on a flat screen at home was not a good experience though.

You can’t fix suck.

158 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:24:48am

re: #145 Alouette

I have to say I loved Cloverfield. I also liked the social media stuff done in it with the characters having, at the time, MySpace profiles and a bunch of stuff to make it look like they actually existed. Plus…well…Dagon!

159 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:28:05am

*HEAD DESK*

160 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:29:54am

re: #159 Vicious Babushka

He links to that nutcase Walid Shoebat, hardly a reliable source.

161 Dr. Matt  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:32:03am

re: #155 blueraven

Letter sent to President Obama with suspicious substance…intercepted.

Strange and similar pattern to 9/11: terrorist attacks followed by anthrax letters to politicians.

162 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:32:09am

re: #159 Vicious Babushka

Proof that you can’t fix stupid.

163 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:32:45am

Uh oh. A union doesn’t support Obamacare anymore.

Roofers’ Union Seeks Repeal/Reform Of Affordable Care Act

WASHINGTON, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers International President Kinsey M. Robinson issued the following statement today calling for a repeal or complete reform of President Obama’s Affordable Care Act (ACA):

“Our Union and its members have supported President Obama and his Administration for both of his terms in office.

But regrettably, our concerns over certain provisions in the ACA have not been addressed, or in some instances, totally ignored. In the rush to achieve its passage, many of the Act’s provisions were not fully conceived, resulting in unintended consequences that are inconsistent with the promise that those who were satisfied with their employer sponsored coverage could keep it.

These provisions jeopardize our multi-employer health plans, have the potential to cause a loss of work for our members, create an unfair bidding advantage for those contractors who do not provide health coverage to their workers, and in the worst case, may cause our members and their families to lose the benefits they currently enjoy as participants in multi-employer health plans.

For decades, our multi-employer health and welfare plans have provided the necessary medical coverage for our members and their families to protect them in times of illness and medical needs. This collaboration between labor and management has been a model of success that should be emulated rather than ignored. I refuse to remain silent, or idly watch as the ACA destroys those protections.

I am therefore calling for repeal or complete reform of the Affordable Care Act to protect our employers, our industry, and our most important asset: our members and their families.”

The United Union of Roofers, Waterproofers and Allied Workers, based in Washington, D.C., has 22,000 members participating in 9 regional district councils across the United States

164 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:33:27am

DERP. This idiot just assumes I have never been to Israel and don’t know what is going on there.

165 The Ghost of a Flea  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:33:36am

re: #160 wheat-dogghazi

He links to that nutcase Walid Shoebat, hardly a reliable source.

I would say, with confidence and without hyperbole, that Walid Shoebat is the exact opposite of a reliable source.

166 CuriousLurker  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:33:37am

re: #160 wheat-dogghazi

He links to that nutcase Walid Shoebat, hardly a reliable source.

Yeah, there’s a whole little sub-industry of supposed former Muslims, terrorists, etc. that are making a pretty good living off of telling these credulous asshole wingnuts exactly what they want to hear.

167 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:34:08am
168 wrenchwench  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:35:40am

re: #167 Vicious Babushka

Fortunately, there’s a way to shut that whole thing down.

Register and vote!

169 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:35:46am

re: #165 The Ghost of a Flea

I would say, with confidence and without hyperbole, that Walid Shoebat is the exact opposite of a reliable source.

Isn’t Walid Shoebat a BFF of Pamela Geller?

(Just Googled, they are a happy pair)

170 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:38:19am

You know how most workplaces have fire drills and tornado drills?

Well this afternoon we are having a “shooter in the building” drill. :(

171 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:39:16am

re: #159 Vicious Babushka

*HEAD DESK*

Just stop it. We all know that this guy is an incorrigible asshat.

172 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:40:07am

re: #171 Sol Berdinowitz

Just stop it. We all know that this guy is an incorrigible asshat.

The DERP is too great to bear alone.

173 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:41:11am

Officials: 2nd letter to Senate tested for ricin

WASHINGTON • Law enforcement officials say a second letter sent to the U.S. Senate has been intercepted and is being tested for poisonous ricin.

Two officials told The Associated Press on Wednesday that the letter was being treated in the same manner as a separate one sent to Mississippi Sen. Roger Wicker and was undergoing field tests.

…It was not immediately clear which senator the second letter was addressed to.

174 The Ghost of a Flea  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:41:40am

re: #169 Vicious Babushka

Isn’t Walid Shoebat a BFF of Pamela Geller?

I dunno. It seems like Shoebat specializes in working audiences of socially-conservative Christians, which means he overlaps somewhat with Gaffney, Geller, et al. But I don’t know if he’s ever cited her or name-dropped her. And Pam I don’t follow beyond what turns up here or a few other sites.

175 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:42:02am

re: #173 NJDhockeyfan

Officials: 2nd letter to Senate tested for ricin

176 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:42:52am

re: #174 The Ghost of a Flea

I dunno. It seems like Shoebat specializes in working audiences of socially-conservative Christians, which means he overlaps somewhat with Gaffney, Geller, et al. But I don’t know if he’s ever cited her or name-dropped her. And Pam I don’t follow beyond what turns up here or a few other sites.

I Googled “Walid Shoebat Pamela Geller” and he has definitely endorsed her and I am pretty sure that she hearts him back.

177 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:43:03am

re: #175 Vicious Babushka

That’s 3 letters so far. I wonder how many more will be found?

178 CuriousLurker  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:43:29am

re: #159 Vicious Babushka

*HEAD DESK*

The stupid, it burns.

Harb tribe

Harb (Arabic: حرب‎) is a large Sunni Tribe in the Arabian peninsula. There is no official tribe population count but it is estimated to be approximately four million in Saudi Arabia. It is originally a Qahtani tribe. Several authentic sources on Arab tribes genealogy state that the great-grandfather of Harb tribe is Harb ibn Saad ibn Saad ibn Khawlan ibn Amr ibn Qadha’ah ibn Himyar ibn Qahtan. Harb tribal lands extend from the Red Sea coast in Tihamah (Western Part of Saudi Arabia) to the heart of Najd in the central region of Saudi Arabia, and from North the Harbi lands extend from Madinah (a holy city for Muslims) to Al Qunfudhah in the south. The tribe’s reach extends to other countries like Kuwait, Iraq, Egypt and UAE .

Just wait till someone tells them that harbi means warlike, belligerent, military, etc.

I swear I’m really gonna get back to work now and stop peeking at the Spy. //

179 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:43:35am

re: #172 Vicious Babushka

The DERP is too great to bear alone.

Yunno, a turd on the sidewalk only smells in one place…spread around, it can stink up and entire apartment block…

180 Dr. Matt  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:44:24am

The teabagging libertarians that are responsible for these recent attacks are attempting to throw investigators off their trail by following a similar pattern to 9/11: a terrorist attack followed by “poison letters” to politicians.

181 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:44:32am
182 Kronocide  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:45:42am

re: #66 Gus

I remain, a skeptic.

I’m more of a septic.

183 The Ghost of a Flea  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:46:01am

Barth’s Notes: Pamela Geller Abuses Anyone who Doesn’t Know Whether Boston Attack was “Jihad”

Etc. Geller’s confidence is based in part on an NY Post report that a Saudi national had been “detained” as a suspect, although details are currently uncertain. However, it also fits a pattern which again leads me to believe that Geller’s real target is not just Islam, but reasonable discourse and behaviour.

Of course the attack may well turn out to have been the work of Islamic extremists, but there are also other possibilities. Geller – and her close associate Robert Spencer – don’t wish merely to whip up hatred; they also wish to stigmatise the process of thinking about things reasonably.

If Islamic extremists are in due course shown to have been the attackers, Geller will present herself as someone who was willing to name the enemy while others were either weak and vacillating or attempting to suppress the truth; should she turn out to be in the wrong, she will either sniff and move on or delete anything that makes her look foolish (she took the latter course after denouncing the media for failing to expose Obama for supposedly wearing a Muslim ring).

Emphasis mine.

Apparently she’s latched on to the NYP report and already has articles up spinning rumor into concrete, damning facts.

184 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:48:05am

re: #183 The Ghost of a Flea

Barth’s Notes: Pamela Geller Abuses Anyone who Doesn’t Know Whether Boston Attack was “Jihad”

Emphasis mine.

Apparently she’s latched on to the NYP report and already has articles up spinning rumor into concrete, damning facts.

Reasonable thinking is being stigmatized every day in this country. And spread about by Twitter.

185 Eventual Carrion  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:49:38am

re: #159 Vicious Babushka

*HEAD DESK*

Boston: Detained Saudi is member of Al-Harbi clan, which has 6 members in Al Qaeda, 6 in Gitmo. shoebat.com/2013/04/17/inn…
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) April 17, 2013

And George Bush the Elder is business partners with bin Laden’s and many other unsavory Saudi’s. So your point is Mr. Fischer?

186 Bulworth  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:55:15am
However, it also fits a pattern which again leads me to believe that Geller’s real target is not just Islam, but reasonable discourse and behaviour.

Ah, I think we have a winner here.

187 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:57:11am

re: #185 Eventual Carrion

And George Bush the Elder is business partners with bin Laden’s and many other unsavory Saudi’s. So your point is Mr. Fischer?

It’s also like blaming everyone named Smith for the actions of one guy.

188 sattv4u2  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:57:39am

re: #182 Kronocide

I’m more of a septic.

That’s because it’s in your system

189 ReamWorks SKG  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:59:08am

Ok Folks! I’m off to the Czech Republic, and then on to Israel! See y’all in a couple of weeks.

190 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 8:59:52am

re: #189 ReamWorks SKG

Ok Folks! I’m off to the Czech Republic, and then on to Israel! See y’all in a couple of weeks.

Nesiah tovah!

191 wrenchwench  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:00:11am

re: #189 ReamWorks SKG

Ok Folks! I’m off to the Czech Republic, and then on to Israel! See y’all in a couple of weeks.

Well Czech you out!

192 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:01:03am

re: #189 ReamWorks SKG

Ok Folks! I’m off to the Czech Republic, and then on to Israel! See y’all in a couple of weeks.

Be careful about the midget who tries to sneak into your suitcase, asking if you can cache a small Czech.

193 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:04:03am

WE had big storms in Chicago overnight. It’s still nasty out.

you?

194 darthstar  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:04:48am

Ricin apparently sent to President Obama and another Senator, this time from Alabama…obviously, someone is targeting Republicans.

195 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:04:53am

re: #175 Vicious Babushka

Update:

…An FBI bulletin obtained by Fox News said the letter sent to Obama is still being screened.

The bulletin said both letters included the phrase: “To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance.”

Both were signed, “I am KC and I approve this message.”

…

196 ReamWorks SKG  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:05:07am

re: #190 Vicious Babushka

Nesiah tovah!

! יהיו לי נסיעה טובה

197 CuriousLurker  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:05:44am

re: #187 wheat-dogghazi

It’s also like blaming everyone named Smith for the actions of one guy.

Oh look—I just googled nazi fischer and found these three guys at the top of the list: Ludwig Fischer, Eugen Fischer, and Fritz Fischer.

So I guess according to Bryan Fischer’s logic that makes him…

//

198 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:06:12am

“They” are trying to confiscate guns in NYC? I having hard time finding any non-right wing source for this.

199 iossarian  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:07:02am

re: #191 wrenchwench

Well Czech you out!

Are you quite Finnish’d?

200 iossarian  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:08:57am

re: #170 Vicious Babushka

You know how most workplaces have fire drills and tornado drills?

Well this afternoon we are having a “shooter in the building” drill. :(

Just in case!!!

201 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:10:33am

WOW.

Sen. Richard Shelby’s Washington office being searched because of ‘suspicious envelope’

CNN is reporting that a man has been detained at the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington D.C. after officials found he had a backpack filled with “suspicious envelopes” and was delivering them to lawmakers’ offices.

Earlier, it was reported that officials are searching Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby’s Capitol office because of a “suspicious envelope” delivered to his office.

202 blueraven  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:10:53am

re: #195 NJDhockeyfan

Update:

Sounds like a real Einstein, this one. //
They will be arrested soon.

203 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:12:05am

re: #202 blueraven

Sounds like a real Einstein, this one. //
They will be arrested soon.

Shall we go full conspiracy theorist on this one and link it to the Boston Marathon?

:0

204 Bubblehead II  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:13:18am

Morning Lizards.

205 blueraven  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:13:29am

re: #203 FemNaziBitch

Shall we go full conspiracy theorist on this one and link it to the Boston Marathon?

:0

No doubt that some will.

206 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:15:07am

CNN: Letter to President Obama intercepted at off-site facility tests positive for ricin, FBI says.

207 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:17:36am
Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-Mo.) said members were briefed that the substance had been found in a letter and that a suspect has been identified.

McCaskill said the letter came from an individual who frequently writes to lawmakers. She wouldn’t identify the person but confirmed officials were investigating someone.

McCaskill said state offices have been told what to look for if there are more letters containing the toxic substance.

Read more: politico.com

208 sattv4u2  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:17:36am

re: #206 NJDhockeyfan

CNN: Letter to President Obama intercepted at off-site facility tests positive for ricin, FBI says.

There’s a cell being prepared at Leavenworth as we speak!

209 Varek Raith  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:18:35am

re: #208 sattv4u2

There’s a cell being prepared at Leavenworth as we speak!

Nope.
Normal prison.

210 blueraven  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:18:46am

re: #206 NJDhockeyfan

CNN: Letter to President Obama intercepted at off-site facility tests positive for ricin, FBI says.

The thing is this could just be ground up castor beans, it will need to be cultured before a full determination can be made.

211 wrenchwench  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:20:44am

re: #199 iossarian

Are you quite Finnish’d?

Oman, you’re Ghana get me started. Where do you want Togo with this?

212 sattv4u2  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:21:22am

re: #194 darthstar

Ricin apparently sent to President Obama and another Senator, this time from Alabama…obviously, someone is targeting Republicans.

re: #201 NJDhockeyfan

it was reported that officials are searching Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby’s Capitol office because of a “suspicious envelope” delivered to his office.

Looks as if this person is an equal opportunity whack job
Enjoy prison!

213 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:23:15am
To see a wrong and not expose it, is to become a silent partner to its continuance

I Googled this quote (excluding results more recent than 7 days) and it appears to be popular at sites that are dedicated to whistleblowing, medicare & welfare fraud abuse.

214 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:26:27am
Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. All human progress, even in morals, has been the work of men who have doubted the current moral values, not of men who have whooped them up and tried to enforce them. The truly civilized man is always skeptical and tolerant, in this field as in all others. His culture is based on “I am not too sure.” -H.L. Mencken, writer, editor, and critic (1880-1956)
215 iossarian  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:26:39am

re: #211 wrenchwench

Oman, you’re Ghana get me started. Where do you want Togo with this?

Talk to Djibouti, cause da face ain’t listening.

216 Bulworth  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:30:40am

re: #214 FemNaziBitch

Many, many updings, if I had many updings to give any one post.

217 makeitstop  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:30:41am

re: #199 iossarian

Are you quite Finnish’d?

Finnish or Danish, your coffee’s getting cold.

218 wrenchwench  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:31:04am

re: #215 iossarian

Talk to Djibouti, cause da face ain’t listening.

That’s how you’re Gondwana be? I Haiti when you’re like that. I thought you’d Gabon.

219 jaunte  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:33:33am

re: #213 Vicious Babushka

I see at some sites that quote is credited to a chiropractor in Longview, Texas (Louie Gohmert country).

220 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:33:33am

re: #216 Bulworth

Many, many updings, if I had many updings to give any one post.

:)

221 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:34:21am

re: #159 Vicious Babushka

*HEAD DESK*

The name al-Harbire: #178 CuriousLurker

The stupid, it burns.

Just wait till someone tells them that harbi means warlike, belligerent, military, etc.

I swear I’m really gonna get back to work now and stop peeking at the Spy. //

It also means this (from Wikipedia):

Dar al-Harb (Arabic: دار الحرب “house of war”; also referred to as Dar al-Garb “house of the West” in later Ottoman sources; a person from “Dar al-Harb” is a “harbi” (Arabic:حربي)) is a term classically referring to those countries where the Muslim law is not in force …

222 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:36:44am

re: #211 wrenchwench

Oman, you’re Ghana get me started. Where do you want Togo with this?

Uganda get me started too, you Laos.

223 iossarian  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:39:48am

re: #218 wrenchwench

That’s how you’re Gondwana be? I Haiti when you’re like that. I thought you’d Gabon.

Kenya not think of anything better than that? Uganda get into trouble this way.

224 Romantic Heretic  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:45:43am

re: #126 CuriousLurker

*SIGH* People seriously need to move beyond the knee-jerk terrorist = Arab-looking thing. Let’s say it was a jihadi—he could’ve been white, black, hispanic, asian, or anything in between, and that type of thinking would’ve allowed him to walk (or in this case run) away without anyone giving him a second glance.

If he was from Bosnia he could easily be blond and blue eyed.

One of my favorite techno-thrillers had a terrorist in this mold.

225 wrenchwench  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 9:58:33am

re: #222 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

Uganda get me started too, you Laos.

re: #223 iossarian

Kenya not think of anything better than that? Uganda get into trouble this way.

You guys better Qatar out.

226 CuriousLurker  Wed, Apr 17, 2013 10:20:08am

re: #221 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

It also means this (from Wikipedia):

Yes, as I said it refers to war, though not specifically with the West (although it may have during later Ottoman times, as the Wiki entry asserts).

I think the definition over at the Oxford Islamic Studies website, which the Wiki entry cites as a source, is much clearer and more in line with my understanding of the term. Emphasis mine:

Dar al-Harb

Territory of war. Denotes the territories bordering on dar al-Islam (territory of Islam), whose leaders are called upon to convert to Islam. Refers to territory that does not have a treaty of nonaggression or peace with Muslims; those that do are called dar al-ahd or dar al-sulh. Jurists trace the concept to Muhammad , whose messages to the Persian, Abyssinian, and Byzantine emperors demanded that they choose between conversion and war. When the leaders of dar al-harb accept Islam, the territory becomes part of dar al-Islam, where Islamic law prevails; conversely, according to the majority of jurists an Islamic territory taken by non-Muslims becomes dar al-harb when Islamic law is replaced. Like other classical legal concepts, dar al-harb has been affected by historical changes, and with the fragmentation of the Muslim world into numerous states, the concept has little significance today.


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