1 Political Atheist  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 4:39:28pm

Only Jon Stewart could get me through those clip and keep me laughing instead of giving me a headache.

2 Eclectic Cyborg  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 4:41:54pm

That was epic. Absolutely EPIC.

3 EPR-radar  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 4:44:04pm

Splendid. There really is only one freedom in the Wingnut Constitution (TM), and this is the right to be a heavily armed right wing nut job.

4 Charles Johnson  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:24:23pm

Wow, very cool feature of jQuery I just discovered - you can embed a JSON data structure in an HTML5 data attribute, and when you call jQuery’s .data() function on the element, the JSON structure is parsed into a Javascript object.

I know, gibberish, right? But this is something we use every day here at LGF.

Here’s the code I’m now using to embed videos:

<div class="vcent">
<a class="media" data-opts='{"width":560,"height":315,"type":"swf","params":{"allowScriptAccess":"always","allowFullScreen":true,"wmode":"transparent"},"flashvars":{"launch":"51653479","width":560,"height":315}}' href="http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32545640">MSNBC Video</a>
</div>

Inside the attribute “data-opts” you see the JSON data structure - and notice that it can contain nested objects. The value of the data-opts attribute is inside single quotes; I normally like to use double quotes for HTML attributes, but the JSON standard says that keys and string values need to be surrounded by double quotes, and HTML doesn’t care. Hence the single quotes.

When you use the jQuery .data() function on it, like this:

var opts = $('.media').data('opts');

…the variable opts automagically becomes the Javascript object described in that JSON code above, and you can reference the elements of the object with standard JS notation, for example:

var width = opts.width, height = opts.height, wmode = opts.params.wmode;

This ends our irregularly scheduled nerd-out moment of the evening.

5 thedopefishlives  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:25:48pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

That’s pretty shiny.

6 Charles Johnson  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:26:05pm

And on another note, Fjordman just followed me on Twitter. Blocked.

7 Charles Johnson  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:26:53pm

The bigot brigade is getting frisky tonight.

8 thedopefishlives  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:27:43pm

re: #7 Charles Johnson

The bigot brigade is getting frisky tonight.

I say, bring it on. I got my first good sleep in over a week, I’m feeling frisky right back. The Lizardim might be advised to go for their asbestos scales, as there’s gonna be a-flamin’ tonight.

9 stabby  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:34:53pm

In the previous thread I confused Steven Wright with Steve Reich:

Youtube Video

I’ve been listening to this piece for 30 years

10 GeneJockey  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:41:03pm

re: #9 stabby

I’ve been listening to this piece for 30 years

Don’t you own any other albums?

11 Charles Johnson  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:42:00pm
12 jaunte  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:44:12pm
13 stabby  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:46:36pm

I wonder how many people like that kind of music. I once gave that album as a gift but I don’t think it went over that well.

14 Cap'n Magic  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:47:35pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

When dealing with these folks, I’d rather send Doug Piranha than Dinsdale Piranha. At least there’s no physical scars left behind.

I think it’s time to start following the money with these folks.

15 PT Barnum  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:48:10pm

Evening all. Rough day today. Father in law is going into hospice with a combination of renal failure and congestive heart failure.

Still looking for new contract after my current one ends.

16 stabby  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:49:05pm

Kind of cool, if you buy the album from Amazon it comes with a downloadable mp3 as well as a cd.

17 Cap'n Magic  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:49:48pm

re: #15 PT Barnum

I have a co-worker flying up my way to deal with her failing-health father as well. You have my best wishes and prayers.

18 CuriousLurker  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:51:20pm

re: #15 PT Barnum

Evening all. Rough day today. Father in law is going into hospice with a combination of renal failure and congestive heart failure.

Still looking for new contract after my current one ends.

Very sorry to hear about you father-in-law. {{PTB}}

19 sattv4u2  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:52:47pm

re: #15 PT Barnum

{manly hug}

20 Cap'n Magic  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:54:54pm

re: #13 stabby

I played a few minutes of it, and it didn’t hook me. Maybe I need to be in a particular state to experience its power/beauty/indescribable force.

21 Charles Johnson  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:55:02pm

re: #15 PT Barnum

Evening all. Rough day today. Father in law is going into hospice with a combination of renal failure and congestive heart failure.

Still looking for new contract after my current one ends.

Sorry to hear that, PT. Hang in there.

22 darthstar  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:58:16pm

So Fox has whittled it down to The Bill of Right (to bear arms).

23 darthstar  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:59:01pm
24 Stanley Sea  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:59:12pm

re: #15 PT Barnum

Evening all. Rough day today. Father in law is going into hospice with a combination of renal failure and congestive heart failure.

Still looking for new contract after my current one ends.

Hang tough PT

25 Backwoods_Sleuth  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 5:59:50pm

re: #15 PT Barnum


{{gentle hugs}}

26 Kragar  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 6:00:00pm

re: #15 PT Barnum

Evening all. Rough day today. Father in law is going into hospice with a combination of renal failure and congestive heart failure.

Still looking for new contract after my current one ends.

Sorry man. My Dad comes home Saturday for hospice care

27 stabby  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 6:01:12pm

re: #20 Cap’n Magic

It moves very very slowly. Mostly the piece induces trances. And I’m not enjoying this performance as much as the original, probably because it’s only a 300k youtube recording.

28 Vicious Babushka  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 6:03:19pm

I made a blueberry pie. It’s in the oven now.

29 Iwouldprefernotto  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 6:06:06pm

re: #28 Vicious Babushka

I made a blueberry pie. It’s in the oven now.

My favorite. I love it for breakfast.

30 thedopefishlives  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 6:06:32pm

re: #15 PT Barnum

Evening all. Rough day today. Father in law is going into hospice with a combination of renal failure and congestive heart failure.

Still looking for new contract after my current one ends.

Sorry to hear that.

31 Kragar  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 6:09:30pm

April sucks. I hereby declare it is now May.

32 sattv4u2  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 6:11:32pm

re: #31 Kragar

April sucks. I hereby declare it is now May.

Can’t we skip right to June? I don’t have any vacation days in May

33 SpaceJesus  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 6:14:20pm

theonion.com

34 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 6:17:17pm

re: #15 PT Barnum

Evening all. Rough day today. Father in law is going into hospice with a combination of renal failure and congestive heart failure.

Still looking for new contract after my current one ends.

Sorry to hear that PT.

35 stabby  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 6:18:00pm

re: #28 Vicious Babushka

Yay!

I used to live somewhere where Saskatoonberries grew. They’re like tart blueberries, perfect for pie.

36 Charles Johnson  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 6:18:41pm
37 Cap'n Magic  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 6:20:06pm

re: #27 stabby

My own tastes in music flow from Beethoven to Shostakovitch in the classical sphere to ProgRock (Floyd, Alan Parsons) and a good old torch song/power ballads a la Steinman, Journey, Firehouse, et al-with an occasional chanson thrown in to mix it up, with an occasional earworm thrown in every once in a while. Never got into any country at all, save Johnny Cash and Roy Clark’s cover of Azanvour’s “Yesterday When I was Young (Hier Encore)”.

38 Cap'n Magic  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 6:21:30pm

re: #33 SpaceJesus

Not one of their better efforts, sad to say.

39 Cap'n Magic  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 6:23:09pm

re: #23 darthstar

Of course, al-Qaeda’s own use of the Boys of Afghanistan (Frontline) is just an aberration as well….

40 Cap'n Magic  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 6:24:12pm

re: #27 stabby

Hell, if it’s good for a trance it might make good mediation music.

41 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 6:38:51pm

re: #36 Charles Johnson

That asshole will never learn.

42 Charles Johnson  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 6:49:29pm

Just watched the episode of The Shield in which Aceveda is sexually assaulted by the meth head criminal.

Intense.

43 Charles Johnson  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 6:51:40pm

I’d put a spoiler tag, but the show’s 8 years old. Somehow I missed it back in the day. Great show - Amazon has it for free to Amazon Prime members.

44 Bubblehead II  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 6:56:33pm

Night Lizards. May The Deity of YOUR CHOICE smile down upon you and yours.

45 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 6:58:25pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

I’d put a spoiler tag, but the show’s 8 years old. Somehow I missed it back in the day. Great show - Amazon has it for free to Amazon Prime members.

It’s an incredible show. I greatly enjoyed it, and I think you will too.

46 Varek Raith  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 6:59:38pm

Good evening.

47 sattv4u2  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 7:06:24pm

re: #46 Varek Raith

Good evening.

Youtube Video

12 seconds in
48 Charles Johnson  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 7:31:49pm
49 sagehen  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 7:47:14pm

re: #42 Charles Johnson

Just watched the episode of The Shield in which Aceveda is sexually assaulted by the meth head criminal.

Intense.

Do you want spoilers as to how this incident reverberates years later?

50 Charles Johnson  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 7:56:29pm

re: #49 sagehen

I’m sure it will. No spoilers though, please.

51 PT Barnum  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 8:32:17pm

Hey everybody. Thanks for the good thoughts. The rough part is watching someone writhe in pain so bad that all they keep saying is “I want to die.” I don’t understand the medical profession when someone is in such obvious agony and they worry about overmedicating and so won’t prescribe enough pain medication to make a difference. Look he wants to die because he’s in agony. He’s gonna die anyway, let him at least do it with some dignity.

52 SpaceJesus  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 8:33:22pm

re: #51 PT Barnum

because lawyers

53 PT Barnum  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 8:34:19pm

The good thing is once he did get the right level of relief, he didn’t want to die anymore, he just wanted to rest. We’re hoping he’ll be well enough to go home again, but we’re not counting on it at this point.

54 PT Barnum  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 8:36:43pm

re: #52 SpaceJesus

because lawyers

I have a response to that, but every time I suggest violence, even in jest, I get a lot of downdings. Rightful down dings, but down dings none
theless.

55 stabby  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 8:44:35pm

re: #52 SpaceJesus

because lawyers

Lawyers are reflecting our laws which reflect our official “morality” and official “ethics” which are entirely creations of the power of our meddling religious leaders.

It all stems from both the history and current remenants of officially respectable religious power. We have always officially pretended that morality is rooted in the bible and that decisions of life and death have to be based in Christian concepts of morality, ie. poorly disguised dogma.

56 stabby  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 8:47:43pm

As long as we cede to the lie that Religion is moral, this sort of injustice results. In short, many Americans die in pain because the church decided that suffering purified the soul and that drugs are sinful.

For that same reason, Mother Theresa shouldn’t be so loved, since her hospices made sure that its patients died that way, explicitly to purify their souls.

57 PT Barnum  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 8:48:26pm

I keep thinking re: #55 stabby

Lawyers are reflecting our laws which reflect our official “morality” and official “ethics” which are entirely creations of the power of our meddling religious leaders.

It all stems from both the history and current remenants of officially respectable religious power. We have always officially pretended that morality is rooted in the bible and that decisions of life and death have to be based in Christian concepts of morality, ie. poorly disguised dogma.

It all comes down to favoring quantity of life over quality. It’s a difficult balance. Once they got my Dad-in-law’s pain under control he perked right up. I had to get a little testy with the nursing staff to get them to call the doctor. To their credit, they walked down to surgery and got him to approve the order.

58 stabby  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 8:52:09pm

re: #57 PT Barnum

That’s only the more secular side of it, but if reasons were purely secular we’d be given the same full range of choices that people have in European countries. Our laws were shaped by the horror that we might overtreat the dying, and by alieving their suffering, help them sin in their last moments thus delivering their souls to hell.

Suicide is a moral sin, is it not?

59 abolitionist  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 8:53:02pm

752 752 752 752 752 752 752 752 …

ABC’s Scandal was intense tonight. No spoilers, please.

60 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 8:55:46pm

re: #54 PT Barnum

I have a response to that, but every time I suggest violence, even in jest, I get a lot of downdings. Rightful down dings, but down dings none
theless.

Not so much private lawyers as prosecutors. Doctors have been charged criminally for prescribing more pain-killers than a prosecutor thought appropriate. It’s not something doctors can push back against, either, since being charged is significantly damaging to one’s career, even if the case is dismissed before trial.

61 stabby  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 8:59:18pm

If it were up to me, we’d have an amendment to the constitution to the effect that there will be no laws against victimless crimes. That means that people have a right to decide to take dangerous drugs at any time or even get help to commit suicide. I can not see any moral excuse for restricting the freedom of others to take risks with their own lives. Meddling where one isn’t wanted with the policeman’s gun backing you up is not morally excusable.

62 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 9:09:14pm

re: #61 stabby

In Reply:

1. Saying people “have a right to decide to take dangerous drugs at any time” is actually quite wrong, unless followed by the words ‘so long as doing such does not endanger others’. Some drugs, such as PCP and crystal meth, can be prohibited independent of any moral concerns because they cause their users to become dangerous in and of themselves. By the same token, while I favor marijuana legalization, public safety requires that one not drive while high from pot; Anyone who does drive while high puts others at risk and thus should be charged with DUI.

2. If a person willfully decides to take a stupid risk and gets himself/herself hurt badly, they should not have the right to burden others with the cost of clearing up their mess. Thus, a health insurance company should be free to demand an additional premium from someone using a hard drug, much as it would from a smoker.

63 PT Barnum  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 9:11:28pm

re: #61 stabby

If it were up to me, we’d have an amendment to the constitution to the effect that there will be no laws against victimless crimes. That means that people have a right to decide to take dangerous drugs at any time or even get help to commit suicide. I can not see any moral excuse for restricting the freedom of others to take risks with their own lives. Meddling where one isn’t wanted with the policeman’s gun backing you up is not morally excusable.

Unwanted care is a huge issue in end of life care. If we can’t sustain life at a certain level of quality, we should give people the opportunity to vote for quality over quantity.

64 PT Barnum  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 9:16:24pm

WEll g’nite all. I need to get some sleep.

65 stabby  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 9:16:46pm

re: #62 Dark_Falcon

In Reply:

1. Saying people “have a right to decide to take dangerous drugs at any time” is actually quite wrong, unless followed by the words ‘so long as doing such does not endanger others’. Some drugs, such as PCP and crystal meth, can be prohibited independent of any moral concerns because they cause their users to become dangerous in and of themselves. By the same token, while I favor marijuana legalization, public safety requires that one not drive while high from pot; Anyone who does drive while high puts others at risk and thus should be charged with DUI.

Ok

2. If a person willfully decides to take a stupid risk and gets himself/herself hurt badly, they should not have the right to burden others with the cost of clearing up their mess. Thus, a health insurance company should be free to demand an additional premium from someone using a hard drug, much as it would from a smoker.

The cost of medical treatment for people who’ve hurt themselves is no doubt less than the societal cost of NOT treating people who’ve hurt themselves.

I would also say that denying people their freedom is itself a kind of cost, one so many magnitudes greater than the petty thing you’re worrying about that yours shouldn’t come into the main argument at all.

And it is THIS petty: conservatives just want to express their hatred of sinners, the unworthy, and often enough, of the poor. Your attitude is about a display of authority and disapproval. And this “cost” red herring is just a convenient hook to hang that harmful attitude on.

66 stabby  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 9:18:21pm

Also it’s about the need to control others, to manipulate them into being “good”

67 Mich-again  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 9:21:14pm

re: #36 Charles Johnson

68 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 9:23:13pm

re: #65 stabby

You are reading into my “attitude” things that I have not claimed.

69 Mich-again  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 9:25:07pm

Lord Farquaad from the movie “Shrek” summed up GWB’s speech prior to invading Iraq in one sentence.

“Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice I am willing to make.”

70 allegro  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 9:36:02pm

I watched the first 2 episodes of Hemlock Grove, the Netflix original series.

There’s 2 hours I will never get back. It blows. Shoulda read the reviews FIRST.

71 Kragar  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 9:36:55pm

re: #70 allegro

I watched the first 2 episodes of Hemlock Grove, the Netflix original series.

There’s 2 hours I will never get back. It blows. Shoulda read the reviews FIRST.

Yeah, pretty lame.

72 dragonath  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 9:48:31pm

Speaking of horror stories, that brings this story up from last month:

Why Did Rush Limbaugh Tell His Listeners That Netflix Is Raising Prices?

Stupidest. Metaphor. Ever.

73 engineer cat  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 9:56:56pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

Wow, very cool feature of jQuery I just discovered - you can embed a JSON data structure in an HTML5 data attribute, and when you call jQuery’s .data() function on the element, the JSON structure is parsed into a Javascript object.

I know, gibberish, right? But this is something we use every day here at LGF.

Here’s the code I’m now using to embed videos:

[Embedded content]

This ends our irregularly scheduled nerd-out moment of the evening.

hmmm now lgf is becoming a good place to get code tips i can use at work muchas gracias senor charles

74 engineer cat  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 10:45:13pm

re: #4 Charles Johnson

I normally like to use double quotes for HTML attributes, but the JSON standard says that keys and string values need to be surrounded by double quotes

i had been contemplating that without the existence of both single and double quotes javascript wouldn’t be possible and the entire internet would fall apart

75 Lidane  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 10:52:47pm

27 Reasons Kids Are Pretty Much Just Tiny Drunk Adults

Heh.

76 bws58  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 11:00:28pm

re: #63 PT Barnum

Unwanted care is a huge issue in end of life care. If we can’t sustain life at a certain level of quality, we should give people the opportunity to vote for quality over quantity.

My husband did just that, he voted quality because he knew the quantity was going to just make the quality worse.

He did a few rounds of chemo (to say he tried) and then we just kept him home, well medicated (good docs who agreed & cheerfully wrote scripts), no hospice and stoned as could be.

His cancer was very aggressive, but until the last day when he had to go to the hospital, he was happy(considering the circumstances), lucid and able to celebrate his life with each breath.

I have no regrets about supporting his choices, since I knew we were in a no win situation.

77 Kragar  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 11:27:30pm

re: #76 bws58

We’re going thru that right now with my dad. He could go thru chemo and maybe get a few more weeks, but with zero chance of actual recovery. He’s opted for home care, meds and passing at home.

78 stabby  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 11:53:34pm

Tamerlan Tsarnaev was an Alex Jones fan

Obdicut throws vacuous abuse at me whenever I mention my intuition that there’s something similar in the thinking of conspiracy nuts and dangerous radicals like Tamerlan. I don’t think Obdicut has a real opinion, rather I overstepped his preferred PC narrative, and he’s the sort of control freak who has to try to shut up and insult anyone who does that.

79 stabby  Thu, Apr 25, 2013 11:55:06pm

Anyway, I guess I’m vindicated.

I’m still not sure whether to think that Alex Jones fans deeply believe that crap or whether they’re just pathetic and bored and don’t care what the truth is.

80 Kragar  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 12:01:23am

re: #79 stabby

Anyway, I guess I’m vindicated.

I’m still not sure whether to think that Alex Jones fans deeply believe that crap or whether they’re just pathetic and bored and don’t care what the truth is.

Conspiracy theories are very comforting. It reinforces the idea that you’re important enough for people to try and fool, while also absolving you of responsibility for your own fucked up choices, because you’re a victim of the system.

81 stabby  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 12:16:12am

tbh, reading the article says that Al Qaeda’s ideology (which was a sort of conspiracism itself) had more effect on his plot. I suppose if you’re already a conspiracist you look to other conspiracy theories to fit into your main one.

82 stabby  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 12:17:56am

But I think my original intuition came from the observation that anyone who thinks the FBI did Boston projects evil onto innocent people and it’s quite a short step from that to killing innocent people.

83 freetoken  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 2:16:19am
MP3 Audio
84 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 2:47:41am

re: #78 stabby

I just think you’re wrong and you should actually listen to why, but you refuse to, for some damn reason or another.

You’re so goddamn weird.

85 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 2:59:03am

I want to camp out on top of one of these. Somehow.
Image: unbelievable-places-12-1.jpg

86 Targetpractice  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 3:00:13am

re: #85 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

I want to camp out on top of one of these. Somehow.
Image: unbelievable-places-12-1.jpg

You couldn’t pay me to go up on one of those.

87 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 3:06:46am

re: #86 Targetpractice

You couldn’t pay me to go up on one of those.

Phobias are such interesting things. My dad has a very strong fear of heights, to the extent that he doesn’t like to see other people standing on a high place, that scares him too. My brothers and I all lack a fear of heights, and even enjoy it, and I wonder if it came from just messing with dad as kids by seeking out high places.

88 Targetpractice  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 3:10:59am

re: #87 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Phobias are such interesting things. My dad has a very strong fear of heights, to the extent that he doesn’t like to see other people standing on a high place, that scares him too. My brothers and I all lack a fear of heights, and even enjoy it, and I wonder if it came from just messing with dad as kids by seeking out high places.

Pretty much always been afraid of heights. According to my mother, I became afraid of spiders due to one high-strung babysitter. And I’m afraid of drowning because of an incident when I was at a lake and went out farther than I could swim.

89 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 3:17:41am

re: #88 Targetpractice

I love the ocean, I love sharks, but I’m afraid of ‘sharks’ when I’m swimming. Basically, I get sudden fears that a giant shark is going to rise out of the depths and bite me. And actual shark? Doesn’t freak me out. The idea of a shark is what freaks me out.

90 Targetpractice  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 3:32:24am

re: #89 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

I love the ocean, I love sharks, but I’m afraid of ‘sharks’ when I’m swimming. Basically, I get sudden fears that a giant shark is going to rise out of the depths and bite me. And actual shark? Doesn’t freak me out. The idea of a shark is what freaks me out.

Same here with spiders. It’s not the sight of a spider that scares me shitless these days so much as the idea that there might be spiders in the room that I can’t see.

91 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 3:44:49am

re: #90 Targetpractice

Same here with spiders. It’s not the sight of a spider that scares me shitless these days so much as the idea that there might be spiders in the room that I can’t see.

There’s always a spider you can’t see. You know why your place isn’t overflowing with wasps, flies, crickets, and roaches? “Because I’m not a disgusting slob,” you say. That’s only part of the reason. The rest of the story is that the 7 or 8 very discreet and professional spiders that live with you do their part to mercilessly assassinate those critters when they enter the perimeter.

Spiders are your friend. Treat them as such. Especially the invisible ones.

92 Targetpractice  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:04:35am

re: #91 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

There’s always a spider you can’t see. You know why your place isn’t overflowing with wasps, flies, crickets, and roaches? “Because I’m not a disgusting slob,” you say. That’s only part of the reason. The rest of the story is that the 7 or 8 very discreet and professional spiders that live with you do their part to mercilessly assassinate those critters when they enter the perimeter.

Spiders are your friend. Treat them as such. Especially the invisible ones.

Thanks, that’s what I really needed to pick up my day, to live in constant paranoia in every room I enter.//

Nah, I know they’re there, I just prefer not to think about them…overly much.

93 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:16:21am

Good morning! It’s Pie Day!

Today’s pie is Blueberry!

Pie will be served in the Lizard cafeteria throughout the day. Enjoy!

94 Backwoods_Sleuth  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:26:51am

re: #93 Vicious Babushka

Good morning! It’s Pie Day!

Today’s pie is Blueberry!

Pie will be served in the Lizard cafeteria throughout the day. Enjoy!

YAYS!!!!

95 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:30:15am

re: #93 Vicious Babushka

Good morning! It’s Pie Day!

Today’s pie is Blueberry!

Pie will be served in the Lizard cafeteria throughout the day. Enjoy!

Just save one for throwing at stabby. ;)

96 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:32:42am

BRYAN U SUCK. NO PIE 4 U!

97 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:36:18am

Bryan is Derpin’ up a storm.

98 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:39:20am

re: #96 Vicious Babushka

BRYAN U SUCK. NO PIE 4 U!

No more 1st Amendment either, in Fischer’s America.

/spits

99 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:40:39am

re: #98 Dark_Falcon

No more 1st Amendment either, in Fischer’s America.

/spits

100 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:40:55am

What a fuckhead.

101 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:49:40am

*FACE PALM*
Bryan probably also thinks that states can decide if they want to allow citizens to own other human beings, and to count slaves as 3/5 of a person for representation purposes.
IT WAS IN THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION.

102 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:49:52am

re: #100 Vicious Babushka

What a fuckhead.

Quite Concur. BBT

103 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:55:24am
104 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 4:57:36am

Bryan is tying himself all in knots trying to explain that the 1st Amendment really does not forbid the establishment of a state religion.

105 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:00:00am

JESUS WEPT

106 Decatur Deb  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:01:24am

re: #99 Vicious Babushka


Bryan Fischer @BryanJFischer

According to Constitution as given, states have authority over religious expression. Can ban mosques if they wish.

And all states can ban agnostics.
And Utah can ban non-Mormons.
And everyone can ban Jews.
And some day NY gets to ban Christians.

Fuckstick never quite thinks it through…

107 William Barnett-Lewis  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:07:05am

re: #105 Vicious Babushka

JESUS WEPT

Lot’s of people have spewed that hate before you Brian. Go play with a goat; you’ll be separated with them someday …

108 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:20:22am

OK HE ADMITS HE’S TOTALLY TROLLING


109 Decatur Deb  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:22:27am

re: #108 Vicious Babushka

OK HE ADMITS HE’S TOTALLY TROLLING

I don’t think “Eat a bag of dicks” is bloviation. More like dismissive contempt.

110 Flounder  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:29:28am

I don’t get it, how do you eat a bag of dicks?

111 Flounder  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:31:36am

Hit and run, damn work and alll…..

112 Decatur Deb  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:31:42am

re: #110 Flounder

I don’t get it, how do you eat a bag of dicks?

Same way you eat an elephant.

113 Targetpractice  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:34:44am

re: #108 Vicious Babushka

OK HE ADMITS HE’S TOTALLY TROLLING

“Rational”? “Constitutional”? I don’t think those words mean what he thinks they mean.

114 Decatur Deb  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:38:47am

Off to garden a bit before the sun gets high—

115 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:40:31am

re: #114 Decatur Deb

Off to garden a bit before the sun gets high—

I’ve put off starting my garden until the nighttime frosts have stopped.

116 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:41:12am

re: #110 Flounder

I don’t get it, how do you eat a bag of dicks?

Like you eat a bag of potato chips. You can’t eat just one.

117 lawhawk  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 5:54:45am

re: #85 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Camping? That’s the easy part. It’s the getting there and back that’s the real adventure. I think those particular formations are in China, aren’t they?

118 kirkspencer  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:07:32am

re: #108 Vicious Babushka

OK HE ADMITS HE’S TOTALLY TROLLING

Except I have not seen a constitutional response to Islam from him. For that matter I really don’t expect such from anyone, given

Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; …

119 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:11:44am

re: #118 kirkspencer

Except I have not seen a constitutional response to Islam from him. For that matter I really don’t expect such from anyone, given

He has this delusion that only the Fed is prohibited from establishing a religion, but that states can do so if they want to.

He does not understand that what is forbidden at the Fed level, also applies to all the states.

120 kirkspencer  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:14:50am

re: #99 Vicious Babushka

And working backwards, I see this. No, Mr. Fisher, the constitution does not grant the right to control (respect to establish) religion to states. The ability of the states to make laws which are in conflict with federal law is forbidden, both by constitution (see supremacy clause) and historical act (see nullification act of 1838, see US civil war, see civil rights movement).

You are neither Nehemiah Scudder or Zachary Comstock.

[edited to add - I see VB was posting while I wrote this, and gmta. Or something like that.]

121 Sol Berdinowitz  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:18:58am

There is no arguing with These idiots that we are a Christian Nation and that (their bigoted, fundamentalistic view of ) Christianity should be afforded a Special Status as the State Religion.

All we can to is to try and limit the amount of damage they can do to the Constitution and legislation.

122 Eventual Carrion  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:23:17am

re: #105 Vicious Babushka

JESUS WEPT

Yes Bryan, just like someone had to say the Jews were the problem and propose a final solution. It just had to be said then too, didn’t it Bryan.

123 lawhawk  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:26:30am

re: #118 kirkspencer

Only way to even begin to argue that Derp Fischer has a point is if he views the “Constitution as given,” as not including the Bill of Rights, which was ratified later (December 15, 1791). The Constitution was ratified March 4, 1789.

But by his rationale, the government can clamp down on free speech, abridge your rights to trial, you have no privacy rights, and the government can establish a religion (and note to Derp Fischer - that means it can impose a version of Christianity, Cromism, Cthulhuism, agnosticism, Judaism, Islam, or any other religion or cult as a federally-designated-religion even as states themselves have their own constitutions to follow and largely track the federal Constitution and Bill of Rights).

In other words, in his perverted view of the Constitution, the government can trample all over his rights. The govenrment could come in and seize him without a trial, without evidenciary protections, could quarter troops in his home, prohibit him and everyone else from ever owning any firearm, etc. But not surprising since he has no clue as to the unintended consequences of staking out nutty positions on the law and the Constitution.

124 kirkspencer  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:29:26am

In (small) fairness, our interpretation isn’t the “original” interpretation. 1947, Everson v Board of Education. A 5-4 decision on the case at hand’s decision, but both majority and all dissenters agreed in the interpretation that the establishment clause applied to state as well as federal government.

125 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:31:22am

WINGNUTS, TODAY & 10 YEARS AGO

126 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:34:30am

What is this… I don’t even…
Grandma has superpowers?

127 Decatur Deb  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:36:32am

If the states’-rights Tenthers over reach, it will cause a blowback that will turn the states into symbolic anachronisms. I’ve lived or worked in half the states, and have no artificial allegiance to any one of them. If we need governments below the federal level, a dozen or so rational geographic/economic/administrative regions will do.

128 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 6:39:08am

LOL just got a new follower

129 Decatur Deb  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:02:45am

re States’ Rights—

in 2000, only 60% of Americans were born in their state of residence. Even (The Erstwhile Republic of) Texas had only 62.2% natives. Nevada had only21.3 %.

130 Decatur Deb  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:04:18am

Note edit in 129.

131 darthstar  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:13:20am

Mornin’ everyone…I’m guessing this guy saw the latest star-studded pastel romantic comedy with Di Niro, Keaton, Williams, etc… Just the previews are enough to make me want to puke.

132 HappyWarrior  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:15:13am

re: #131 darthstar

Mornin’ everyone…I’m guessing this guy saw the latest star-studded pastel romantic comedy with Di Niro, Keaton, Williams, etc… Just the previews are enough to make me want to puke.

Uncle Fredo’s Boat Ride.

133 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:15:14am

Wingnuts are totally Derping over PEOPLE WHO SPEAK SPANISH CAN GET FOOD STAMPS!!11!!!

134 Sionainn  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:37:47am

re: #129 Decatur Deb

re States’ Rights—

in 2000, only 60% of Americans were born in their state of residence. Even (The Erstwhile Republic of) Texas had only 62.2% natives. Nevada had only21.3 %.

Non-Nevada natives drive me nuts (bunch of dumbass “libertarians”).

135 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:38:10am

HOLY CRAP

136 Jolo5309  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:39:02am

re: #35 stabby

Yay!

I used to live somewhere where Saskatoonberries grew. They’re like tart blueberries, perfect for pie.

Yes they are!

John, living in Saskatoon

137 Decatur Deb  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:39:47am

re: #134 Sionainn

Non-Nevada natives drive me nuts (bunch of dumbass “libertarians”).

How many of the true-blue 21% are Elvis tribute artists?

138 Sionainn  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:43:41am

re: #137 Decatur Deb

How many of the true-blue 21% are Elvis tribute artists?

LOL! I don’t know any Elvis impersonators, but I do know a native who is a John Lennon impersonator.

139 lawhawk  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:45:20am

re: #135 Vicious Babushka

It’s the mainstreaming (and mainlining) of conspiracy mongering on the right. Conspiracy theories that were once on the fringe are becoming central to GOP and its right wing institutions, PACs, advocacy groups, watchdog groups, etc.

Drudge issued the warning shot when he began highlighting and featuring Infowars and Alex Jones conspiracy mongering on his site - touting it as a feature (not a bug). He’s embraced the conspiracies, and the rest of the right wing seems to be following without regard to where it leads.

Add to that the right wing echo chamber and they’ve begun the wholesale divorce proceedings from reality, facts, and logic.

140 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:46:13am

re: #139 lawhawk

It’s the mainstreaming (and mainlining) of conspiracy mongering on the right. Conspiracy theories that were once on the fringe are becoming central to GOP and its right wing institutions, PACs, advocacy groups, watchdog groups, etc.

Drudge issued the warning shot when he began highlighting and featuring Infowars and Alex Jones conspiracy mongering on his site - touting it as a feature (not a bug). He’s embraced the conspiracies, and the rest of the right wing seems to be following without regard to where it leads.

Add to that the right wing echo chamber and they’ve begun the wholesale divorce proceedings from reality, facts, and logic.

Twitter has played a huge role.

141 lawhawk  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:46:35am

Not only made requests for Aptera to get federally subsidized loans, but actively sought to change the federal law so that Aptera could qualify for the loans (the company’s vehicles were 3-wheelers and didn’t meet the terms of the loan program as originally written).

142 dragonath  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:47:56am

Ah, craigslist.

Some guy is trying to sell a used Raspberry PI (new, $25) for 150 dollars.

Muslims… somehow?

143 jaunte  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:50:32am

re: #129 Decatur Deb

re States’ Rights—

in 2000, only 60% of Americans were born in their state of residence. Even (The Erstwhile Republic of) Texas had only 62.2% natives. Nevada had only21.3 %.

“I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all.”
― Kurt Vonnegut

144 sattv4u2  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 7:54:25am

Hurry up July Hurry up July Hurry up July Hurry up July Hurry up July !!!
nbcnews.com

145 dragonath  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:00:25am

re: #126 Vicious Babushka

What is this… I don’t even…
Grandma has superpowers?

GRANDMA’S A WITCH

STONE HER

146 sattv4u2  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:01:58am

re: #145 dragonath

GRANDMA’S A WITCH

STONE HER

“Back in the day”, we used to get stoned with my friends grandma. She was kinda cool.
Does that count?

147 abolitionist  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:10:15am

re: #142 dragonath

Ah, craigslist.

Some guy is trying to sell a used Raspberry PI (new, $25) for 150 dollars.

Muslims… somehow?

For your consideration:
Dell 1130n Laser Printer, with approximately 10,000 percent markup:
refurbisheddellprinters.com

Ever wonder how money-laundering works?

148 leftynyc  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:20:04am

re: #76 bws58

My husband did just that, he voted quality because he knew the quantity was going to just make the quality worse.

He did a few rounds of chemo (to say he tried) and then we just kept him home, well medicated (good docs who agreed & cheerfully wrote scripts), no hospice and stoned as could be.

His cancer was very aggressive, but until the last day when he had to go to the hospital, he was happy(considering the circumstances), lucid and able to celebrate his life with each breath.

I have no regrets about supporting his choices, since I knew we were in a no win situation.

Same with my dad - when he was first diagnosed with pancreatic cancer he insisted we all promise we let him do things his way and we, of course, agreed. When he had had enough he stopped the chemo (which wasn’t helping) he had a month or so of no pain, his 75th birthday and his last Passover with the family. He went very quickly from an infection - was in the hospital for 2 days where the doctors gave him all the pain meds he needed to be comfortable. I’ll never forget how great the doctors, nurses and all the other healthcare workers were. They were determined to let him leave this life with dignity. May both our dads be resting in peace.

149 leftynyc  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:21:37am

re: #76 bws58

So sorry, just saw it was your husband, not your father.

150 calochortus  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:28:30am

re: #126 Vicious Babushka

What is this… I don’t even…
Grandma has superpowers?

So why am I still here? Both my grandmothers died in the late 1950s.

If grandma is keeping anyone alive it’s because if she finds out what you’re doing she’ll tell your parents so fast it will make your head spin…

151 lawhawk  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:33:22am
152 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:39:58am

DERP
In their little world, women don’t even exist.

153 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:41:23am

*FACE PALM*
In early Victorian times, abortion was totally legal.

154 Bulworth  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:43:50am

re: #152 Vicious Babushka

Pregnant people, how the f0ck do they work?

155 Bulworth  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:45:17am

re: #133 Vicious Babushka

Good grief you mean there’s not a language exclusion for the welfares?!

//

157 iossarian  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:47:39am

re: #154 Bulworth

Pregnant people, how the f0ck do they work?

KEEP THEM INDOORS AND COMMENCE RITUAL WASHING

158 Joanne  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:52:27am

I can’t watch Comedy Central in Canada…we have to watch our own network. But look at the message I see on the video at the top of the page.

Comedians all!

159 Bulworth  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:54:14am

re: #152 Vicious Babushka

DERP
In their little world, women don’t even exist.

Do you have a copy of this youth pastor’s tweets back when we were debating the ACA? He must have been a strong advocate of universal health care, especially for children. //

160 darthstar  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:57:35am

Damn…Bob Weir collapsed on stage last night. I hope he’s okay.

Youtube Video

You can tell he’s having a hard time focusing after they get him into a chair…that jam is mostly muscle memory, and the band had a hard time bringing him back to the song as he kept going off on spacey riffs.

161 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:58:34am

re: #160 darthstar

Damn…Bob Weir collapsed on stage last night. I hope he’s okay.

[Embedded content]

You can tell he’s having a hard time focusing after they get him into a chair…that jam is mostly muscle memory, and the band had a hard time bringing him back to the song as he kept going off on spacey riffs.

Drugged out or some neurological problem?

162 darthstar  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 8:59:43am

re: #156 NJDhockeyfan

George Jones, Admired and Copied Country Singer, Dies at 81

Mojo Nixon on Outlaw Country always says, “George Jones! Sings so pretty it’ll make your dick hard.”

Loved his music…he was one of my favorites.

163 GunstarGreen  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:13:17am

re: #152 Vicious Babushka

DERP
In their little world, women don’t even exist.

Oh, women exist in their world, alright.

They exist as property and breeding stock.

164 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:13:56am
165 blueraven  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:19:35am

re: #156 NJDhockeyfan

George Jones, Admired and Copied Country Singer, Dies at 81

Grew up on that music. My Dad would be blasting it early on Saturday mornings. RIP George

Youtube Video
166 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:25:20am

Why did the thread die mommy?

167 darthstar  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:31:36am

re: #165 blueraven

Grew up on that music. My Dad would be blasting it early on Saturday mornings. RIP George

[Embedded content]

I knew that would be a song linked today.

168 darthstar  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:39:19am

Image: 401192_585479758139706_1569282780_n.jpg

169 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:39:44am

re: #166 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Why did the thread die mommy?

OBAMA’S FAULT!!11!!11 THREADGHAZI!!11!!TY

170 Varek Raith  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:40:19am

re: #166 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Why did the thread die mommy?

Youtube Video
171 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:45:03am

re: #170 Varek Raith

[Embedded content]

Get that camera out of my bedroom. NOW!

172 iossarian  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:48:18am

re: #166 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Why did the thread die mommy?

Because the sun is out for the first time in 6 months?

VB - can you see the sky from your workstation?

173 lawhawk  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:48:40am

re: #166 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Why did the thread die mommy?

It was a collective moment of silence for George Jones.

Alternatively, it’s because of that scary crypto-fascist Marxist zombie black dude in the White House who is stealing all your guns and buying up all the ammo. /

174 A Mom Anon  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:48:45am

re: #159 Bulworth

You know, when my daughter was little, we were broke ass poor. Our PP clinic would see her if the health dept was too crowded or I simply couldn’t get to the HD. These morons think that PP is nothing but a giant room filled with women getting simultaneous abortions. I don’t know what the hell we would have done without PP, for my then little girl (who will be 29 this yr)or myself. I never went to PP for an abortion, I went there so I wouldn’t be in the position to have to make that decision.

I’m about to the point of saying that men need to STFD and STFU about women’s biology until they can pass a basic health and human biology class. Idiots.

175 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:49:03am

re: #172 iossarian

Because the sun is out for the first time in 6 months?

VB - can you see the sky from your workstation?

There is a window the next cubicle row down.

176 stabby  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:49:32am

re: #142 dragonath

Much nicer than a RaspberryPi for $10 more
BeagleBone Black fixed link, I think
arstechnica.com
They like to point out that this one comes with a power supply (which the pi is missing).
I wonder how programmable the PRU is

177 iossarian  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:50:34am

re: #175 Vicious Babushka

There is a window the next cubicle row down.

Enjoy! /

Well, I hope you get to enjoy the sunshine later on at least.

178 stabby  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:50:44am

Somehow the first link went to the wrong page. There was a space in the url.

179 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:51:21am

re: #174 A Mom Anon

You know, when my daughter was little, we were broke ass poor. Our PP clinic would see her if the health dept was too crowded or I simply couldn’t get to the HD. These morons think that PP is nothing but a giant room filled with women getting simultaneous abortions. I don’t know what the hell we would have done without PP, for my then little girl (who will be 29 this yr)or myself. I never went to PP for an abortion, I went there so I wouldn’t be in the position to have to make that decision.

I’m about to the point of saying that men need to STFD and STFU about women’s biology until they can pass a basic health and human biology class. Idiots.

Y U SCARLET WIMMENZ NEED BURTH CONTROL? KEEP AN ASPIRIN BETWEEN UR KNEEZ U SLUT!!11!!

180 darthstar  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:52:38am

Just saw GE’s new Matrix themed commercial. Cute, but with a fairly disturbing ending.

Youtube Video
181 Lidane  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:56:34am

RIP Possum. :(

182 Lidane  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:57:48am

re: #151 lawhawk

FALSE FLAG! LONE WOLVES! It’s the FBI’s fault! Eleventy!

/////

183 Lidane  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:58:29am
184 blueraven  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 9:59:08am

re: #167 darthstar

I knew that would be a song linked today.

Went to see him a couple of times here in Austin. Both times at Antone’s, the first one in which he lived up to his nic and was a “no show”. I kept the billing poster of that for years. Maybe I still have it somewhere.

I did make it to the second concert where he did show and it was great!

dannygarrett.com

185 GeneJockey  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:03:57am

re: #126 Vicious Babushka

What is this… I don’t even…
Grandma has superpowers?

I think the appropriate response is, “Grandma doin’ the nasty is the ONLY reason ANY of us is here.”

186 Varek Raith  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:06:55am

re: #185 GeneJockey

I think the appropriate response is, “Grandma doin’ the nasty is the ONLY reason ANY of us is here.”

…
..
.

187 lawhawk  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:07:21am

re: #180 darthstar

Mr. Anderson. Welcome back. We… missed you. /

Having Smith as your spokesoftware? Not exactly a good idea considering he went homicidal on both the human race and the software.

Only thing worse would have had Skynet give an endorsement.

What is with companies advertising lately? Hyundai focusing on a suicidal guy in a commercial about its lack of emissions. Now this?

I get the clever reference with the red and blue lollipops, but it falls into creepy territory b/c it’s a kid he’s making the offer to.

188 lawhawk  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:08:10am

re: #185 GeneJockey

I think the appropriate response is, “Grandma doin’ the nasty is the ONLY reason ANY of us is here.”

And it wasn’t just good Christian sex either. Wild pagan sex may have played a role. /Chef at the Drunken Barn Dance

189 wrenchwench  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:12:08am
190 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:12:37am

omg!

How is it, so far, today?

191 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:12:42am

Wingnuts totally freaking out over POTUS speech at Planned Parenthood.

192 Kragar  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:13:09am

re: #191 Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts totally freaking out over POTUS speech at Planned Parenthood.

Fixed

193 iossarian  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:13:28am

re: #189 wrenchwench

The TSA thing pisses me off. You know that Congress did it because their rich consultant buddies were getting pissed at being delayed in airports.

Meanwhile, Kindergarten teachers get nothing.

194 GeneJockey  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:14:03am

re: #188 lawhawk

I come from a family of 6 kids. One time a stranger, upon learning my Mother had had so many kids, said, “You must really love children!”

My Mom replied, “Well, I really love their father.”

195 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:14:36am

re: #194 GeneJockey

I come from a family of 6 kids. One time a stranger, upon learning my Mother had had so many kids, said, “You must really love children!”

My Mom replied, “Well, I really love their father.”

Heh.

196 iossarian  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:14:50am

re: #194 GeneJockey

I come from a family of 6 kids. One time a stranger, upon learning my Mother had had so many kids, said, “You must really love children!”

My Mom replied, “Well, I really love their father.”

Lol. “More tea, vicar?”

197 GeneJockey  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:14:52am

re: #190 FemNaziBitch

They say that like it’s a BAD thing.

198 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:15:32am

re: #191 Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts totally freaking out over POTUS speech at Planned Parenthood.

I missed it, got a link?

199 Kragar  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:15:52am

Washington Republicans file bill to legalize discrimination against LGBT people

A bill filed by a group of 12 Republican state senators in Washington would allow businesses to discriminate against LGBT people based on religious or “philosophical” beliefs.

Earlier this year, Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson filed a lawsuit against a florist who said that she could not supply flowers for a gay couple’s wedding “because of my relationship with Jesus Christ.”

In response, state Sen. Sharon Brown (R) and 11 other of the 23 Republicans in the Washington state Senate want to legalize discrimination against gay and lesbian couples with Senate Bill 5927. The measure goes far beyond religious exceptions, allowing business to discriminate based on “philosophical beliefs” or even “matters of conscience.”

My philosophical beliefs mean I can discriminate against moronic zealots.

200 klys  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:16:19am

One cat is having his morning freakout around the house. There’s a pile of cat vomit on the floor.

How’s everyone else’s morning?

201 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:16:28am
202 Vicious Babushka  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:17:52am

re: #198 FemNaziBitch

I missed it, got a link?

Obama Slams Anti-Abortion State Laws in Planned Parenthood Speech.

203 Bulworth  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:18:07am

re: #200 klys

I do like it, though, when my always vomiting female feline alerts me to a soon to come vomit onslaught by making all kinds of whiny noises. Poor girl. She’s quite healthy otherwise.

204 GunstarGreen  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:18:59am

re: #193 iossarian

The TSA thing pisses me off. You know that Congress did it because their rich consultant buddies were getting pissed at being delayed in airports.

Meanwhile, Kindergarten teachers get nothing.

Pretty much. They let cuts and furloughs and layoffs fuck over everyone else, but the very instant it hits in an area that impacts the wealth-god class? Shit gets reversed lightning-quick.

205 lawhawk  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:20:51am

House GOPers Chafetz and Jordan hold hearings, inviting none other than Alex Jones to testify on how the feds are stockpiling 1.6 billion rounds of ammo.

Oh, and the solution to the stockpiling is a bill that GOPers have introduced that would prohibit the practice of stockpiling ammo.

In other words, these clueless morons will increase the costs to law enforcement agencies within the federal government from taking advantage of bulk purchases to meet their multi-year needs for training, use, and availability. Yeah, that’s fiscally responsible alright.

Inhofe is in on that too. And peddling nonsense about how the federal government is pushing civilian purchasers out of the market with the bulk buys - all while ignoring that even the NRA has put the kibosh on this nonsense. Any shortages in ammo for civilian use is due to a run on ammo by people who think that the government is going to ban guns and buying into the right wing scare tactics.

Corrected - Jones wasn’t invited, but the hearing was essentially held to air Jones’ conspiracy minded claims about the stockpiling of ammo.

206 Bulworth  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:21:27am

Meanwhile, I have been without my second computer monitor at work for like THREE WHOLE DAYS, people. Finally got a new one today. Please procede, everyone….

207 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:21:35am

re: #179 Vicious Babushka

Image: planned_parenhood.PNG

208 Bulworth  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:22:11am

re: #205 lawhawk

Seriously?

209 lawhawk  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:22:52am

Video and transcript of the President’s speech at PP:

210 blueraven  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:24:05am

re: #201 Vicious Babushka

Hmmm…those number dont seem right. Did we ever have a 5.6 trillion surplus?

211 klys  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:24:29am

re: #203 Bulworth

I do like it, though, when my always vomiting female feline alerts me to a soon to come vomit onslaught by making all kinds of whiny noises. Poor girl. She’s quite healthy otherwise.

I think this one is someone ate their food too fast. And probably did not come from the one tearing around the house, although I have no way to be sure.

I have to wait to clean it up to avoid …contributing.

212 Bulworth  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:24:42am
In other words, these clueless morons will increase the costs to law enforcement agencies within the federal government from taking advantage of bulk purchases to meet their multi-year needs for training, use, and availability. Yeah, that’s fiscally responsible alright.

Waste and fraud in gubmit!! Runaway outofcontrol spending!! We have a spending problem not a revenue problem!!!Why won’t Obummer cut spending!?!?

213 Kragar  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:25:53am

Ron Paul’s Extreme Ties Re-emerge At New Institute

Paul, who retired this year from the House, is running a new think tank aimed at supporting his “non-interventionist” foreign policy and libertarian domestic politics. But rather than a new chapter for the longtime representative, The Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity looks more like a return to the old extremist ties he tried to shake off in recent years as his movement gained a more mainstream following.

As Jamie Kirchick reports in The Daily Beast, his group’s advisory board includes incendiary columnist Lew Rockwell, who has been identified in news reports as the most likely author of a series of racist, homophobic and conspiracy-laden newsletters Paul published in the ’80s and ’90s.

Despite being marketed with his endorsement and sometimes presented under his name, Paul denied any knowledge of their content in his recent presidential runs. But Rockwell’s re-emergence into Paul’s inner circle suggests he hasn’t put the past behind him.

Other board members profiled by Kirchick include John Laughland, who made defending Slobodan Milosevic from ethnic cleansing charges a personal cause, and economics professor Walter Block, who argued on Rockwell’s website that the country would be better off if the Confederate states had successfully cut ties with the “monster Lincoln.” This is not far from Paul’s own comments — in a 2007 Meet The Press appearance he said that the “iron-fisted” Lincoln should never have fought the “senseless Civil War.”

214 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:26:13am

re: #211 klys

I think this one is someone ate their food too fast. And probably did not come from the one tearing around the house, although I have no way to be sure.

I have to wait to clean it up to avoid …contributing.

Oh just buck up and wipe it up. It’s only a little cat puke with smelly cat food, saliva, stomach fluids and a bit of cat hair.

Excuse me I need to run to the bathroom…

215 GeneJockey  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:26:36am

re: #211 klys

One of my Greyhounds sometimes do that when she eats too fast - which happens at every meal or snack. Luckily it’s self-resolving.

216 klys  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:28:17am

re: #215 GeneJockey

One of my Greyhounds sometimes do that when she eats too fast - which happens at every meal or snack. Luckily it’s self-resolving.

Funny, my cats don’t seem interested in food the second go around.

217 stabby  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:28:24am

Luckily

218 Bulworth  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:28:43am
This is not far from Paul’s own comments — in a 2007 Meet The Press appearance he said that the “iron-fisted” Lincoln should never have fought the “senseless Civil War.”

And yet, still, African Americans vote overwhelmingly Democratic. Don’t AA’s know that Ron Paul’s Republican Party fought against slavery!?!?!?!

//

219 kirkspencer  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:30:01am

re: #211 klys

I think this one is someone ate their food too fast. And probably did not come from the one tearing around the house, although I have no way to be sure.

I have to wait to clean it up to avoid …contributing.

I have a couple of cats who will, sometimes, decide inhaling their food is necessary. After which they hork a bit, then throw it up.

The dogs start gathering as soon as the horking starts, then argue over who gets to clean it up. Unless I get in there right away and use a rag or paper towel.

I’ve become much more sanguine about the whole thing.

220 lawhawk  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:30:32am

re: #201 Vicious Babushka

Those budget numbers are wrong. While Clinton did have budget surpluses for the years 1998-2001, there was the cumulative debt that was still present and growing.

Bush inherited a budget situation that resulted in surpluses for a couple of years, which quickly got erased both due to the recession, the 9/11 attacks, and then WoT, Iraq, and Afghanistan. Since 2009, the budget deficit for each year has decline, and is expected to continue to decline - but the cumulative deficit is going to continue growing.

221 kirkspencer  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:31:05am

re: #218 Bulworth

And yet, still, African Americans vote overwhelmingly Democratic. Don’t AA’s know that Ron Paul’s Republican Party fought against slavery!?!?!?!

//

It was that mass brainwashing that happened in the 1960s that flipped the natural order of things, doncha know.

222 klys  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:33:24am

re: #219 kirkspencer

We don’t have dogs, so I don’t have to worry about that. At least.

The husband is much more capable of dealing with it immediately.

223 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:42:13am

re: #222 klys

We don’t have dogs, so I don’t have to worry about that. At least.

The husband is much more capable of dealing with it immediately.

He licks it up?

224 klys  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:45:37am

re: #223 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

He licks it up?

ROFL.

No, he’s just less likely to lose his own lunch.

Which is good, because the kitties have now added round two.

225 leftynyc  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:53:57am

re: #212 Bulworth

But it’ll put more bucks in the gun and ammo manufacturer’s pockets which is all the NRA wants anyway.

226 I Am Kreniigh!  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 10:59:26am

re: #53 PT Barnum

The good thing is once he did get the right level of relief, he didn’t want to die anymore, he just wanted to rest. We’re hoping he’ll be well enough to go home again, but we’re not counting on it at this point.

Sorry to hear that you’re going through this. My father-in-law spent his last week in hospice last October. Very sad all around.

227 I Am Kreniigh!  Fri, Apr 26, 2013 1:37:52pm

re: #91 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

There’s always a spider you can’t see. You know why your place isn’t overflowing with wasps, flies, crickets, and roaches? “Because I’m not a disgusting slob,” you say. That’s only part of the reason. The rest of the story is that the 7 or 8 very discreet and professional spiders that live with you do their part to mercilessly assassinate those critters when they enter the perimeter.

Spiders are your friend. Treat them as such. Especially the invisible ones.

I will never in a thousand years convince my fiancee of this. Instead, I have to quietly smuggle any that I find in the house to a place of safety. It’s basically “Schindler’s Web”.


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