Sarah Palin’s ‘Assclown’ Moment

The right wing kooks will love it
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Half-governor Sarah Palin tweeted today, in full-on mean girl mode:

She didn’t say ass once, she said it twice. And then she got even more incoherent on Facebook: (287) Yuk It Up Media And…

Yuk it up media and pols. While America is buried in taxes and a fight for our rights, the permanent political class in DC dresses up and has a prom to make fun of themselves. No need for that, we get the real joke.

Wasn’t it just two years ago that Sarah Palin, the woman who was almost a heartbeat away from the Presidency, was eagerly showing up as the “surprise guest” of those very same assclowns?

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386 comments
1 FemNaziBitch  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 6:36:59pm

She’s had only one?

2 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 6:37:18pm

she is the patron saint of assclowns…

3 Belafon  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 6:37:33pm

This one’s easy: Nobody mentioned her last night.

4 jaunte  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 6:37:43pm

Chilling. What a bullet we missed.

5 Decatur Deb  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 6:38:22pm

A creationism thread followed by an SP thread—Oldies Week.

6 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 6:38:30pm

It’s a harmless social event, Sarah, you silly twit.

I swear, that woman has less brains than a caribou.

7 Varek Raith  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 6:38:57pm

Need moar dowsing.
;)

8 jaunte  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 6:39:31pm

re: #7 Varek Raith

Weirdest flounce topic ever.

9 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 6:40:11pm

re: #4 jaunte

Chilling. What a bullet we missed.

but there was a prominently displayed Big Gulp in the “House of Nerds” spoof.
That was probably as close as she got to a mention.

oops! That was a reply to re: #3 Belafon

10 Kragar  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 6:44:00pm

This from a woman who quit halfway thru her first term as Governor in the midst of a ethics scandal so she could make more money pandering to the lunatic fringe.

11 Decatur Deb  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 6:45:28pm

re: #10 Kragar

This from a woman who quit halfway thru her first term as Governor in the midst of a ethic scandal so she could make more money pandering to the lunatic fringe.

SP is a national treasure. She’s going to help keep the TPGOP in an ever-accelerating circlejerk through 2016.

12 Kragar  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 6:46:42pm

re: #11 Decatur Deb

SP is a national treasure. She’s going to help keep the TPGOP in an ever-accelerating circlejerk through 2016.

Which is great news for John McCain.

13 Charles Johnson  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 6:47:48pm

re: #10 Kragar

This from a woman who quit halfway thru her first term as Governor in the midst of a ethics scandal so she could make more money pandering to the lunatic fringe.

It worked, too.

14 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 6:49:26pm
15 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 6:50:16pm

DERP


DERP DERP

16 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 6:52:06pm

Sarah Palin another great reason not to tweet.

17 Kragar  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 6:52:08pm

re: #15 Vicious Babushka

Did what exactly?

18 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 6:52:36pm

re: #17 Kragar

Did what exactly?

Did more Derp

19 Varek Raith  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 6:52:48pm

re: #14 Vicious Babushka

Yeah, ok.
Keep it up!
You’ll win for sure!
/Totally not trolling

20 Kragar  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 6:54:30pm

re: #18 Vicious Babushka

Did more Derp

“Never before in the history of man has so much been derped by so many for the profit of so few.” - Churchill

21 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 6:58:41pm
22 thedopefishlives  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:03:26pm

I used to think she was intelligent. Then she opened her mouth.

Evening Lizardim.

23 klys  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:05:01pm

Sarah Palin provoked the only political donation I have ever made to a candidate.

That candidate was not John McCain.

24 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:09:51pm

rain falling here on a metal roof…best way to fall asleep, so I shall.
niters lizards.

25 Grackle  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:12:10pm

re: #13 Charles Johnson

Good lesson. Quit and pander. She is truly an inspiration to us all.

26 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:16:01pm

re: #22 thedopefishlives

I used to think she was intelligent. Then she opened her mouth.

Evening Lizardim.

She fooled a lot of people at first, but eventually enough saw through to see her as the vacuous know-nothing she really is.

27 krypto  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:19:56pm

Nothing sets the rightwing kooks into seething rage as effectively as seeing an audience, let alone the entire country, responding warmly and favorably to Barack Obama.

28 thedopefishlives  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:21:16pm

re: #27 krypto

Nothing sets the rightwing kooks into seething rage as effectively as seeing an audience, let alone the entire country, responding warmly and favorably to Barack Obama.

It drives them nuts that the eeevul libruls have all the charismatic and charming people and the conservatives are stuck with the Oompa-Loompa and Caribou Barbie.

29 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:25:54pm

re: #28 thedopefishlives

It drives them nuts that the eeevul libruls have all the charismatic and charming people and the conservatives are stuck with the Oompa-Loompa and Caribou Barbie.

They need to strike back by getting a conservative stalwart like Colbert to speak at that dinner. Oh wait, they already tried that.
;)

30 thedopefishlives  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:27:13pm

re: #29 Feline Fearless Leader

They need to strike back by getting a conservative stalwart like Colbert to speak at that dinner. Oh wait, they already tried that.
;)

They could try the pompous windbag… Oh wait, that only continues my previous point.

31 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:29:50pm

She’s also a creationist.

Just sayin’.

32 allegro  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:35:34pm

OT (or not if you have imagination):

On this day in 1919 was the first successful parachute jump.

I’m seeing “successful” as an operative word here…

33 thedopefishlives  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:36:20pm

re: #32 allegro

OT (or not if you have imagination):

On this day in 1919 was the first successful parachute jump.

I’m seeing “successful” as an operative word here…

Not entirely off-topic, as Palin’s political career can easily be likened to jumping without a ‘chute.

34 Decatur Deb  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:37:32pm

re: #32 allegro

OT (or not if you have imagination):

On this day in 1919 was the first successful parachute jump.

I’m seeing “successful” as an operative word here…

“If at first you don’t succeed, parachuting might not be for you.”

35 Tigger2  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:37:39pm

DanRiehl @DanRiehl

I sure hope Palin owns that #nerdprom #Assclown Tweet - Bonus, most Americans won’t only agree, they’ll wish she was in the WH. ha ha ha
11:37 PM - 27 Apr 2013

Hey Assclown Most Americans didn’t even want her as a VP the sure wouldn’t want her as the POTUS.

36 Mattand  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:37:40pm

re: #32 allegro

OT (or not if you have imagination):

On this day in 1919 was the first successful parachute jump.

I’m seeing “successful” as an operative word here…

LOL, as in “survived most of the crippling injuries received.”

37 thedopefishlives  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:38:12pm

re: #35 Tigger2

DanRiehl @DanRiehl

I sure hope Palin owns that #nerdprom #Assclown Tweet - Bonus, most Americans won’t only agree, they’ll wish she was in the WH. ha ha ha
11:37 PM - 27 Apr 2013

Hey Assclown Most Americans didn’t even want her as a VP the sure wouldn’t want her as the POTUS.

Make no mistake - there are a LOT of people I know, even in conservative circles, who explicitly voted against Palin.

38 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:39:15pm

re: #35 Tigger2

DanRiehl @DanRiehl

I sure hope Palin owns that #nerdprom #Assclown Tweet - Bonus, most Americans won’t only agree, they’ll wish she was in the WH. ha ha ha
11:37 PM - 27 Apr 2013

Hey Assclown Most Americans didn’t even want her as a VP the sure wouldn’t want her as the POTUS.

Riehl has the intellect of a warm pool of dog vomit.

39 Mattand  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:39:54pm

re: #37 thedopefishlives

Make no mistake - there are a LOT of people I know, even in conservative circles, who explicitly voted against Palin.

I hope so, because most of the people I know voted for her because:

A) They had a “Yeah, but whaddya gonna do?” attitude.

B) Black guy on the other ticket.

40 allegro  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:40:03pm

re: #36 Mattand

LOL, as in “survived most of the crippling injuries received.”

I’m also thinking about the guy who jumped on April 27. Splat?

41 thedopefishlives  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:40:35pm

re: #39 Mattand

I hope so, because most of the people I know voted for her because:

A) They had a “Yeah, but whaddya gonna do?” attitude.

B) Black guy on the other ticket.

I heard a lot of the B variant, too. But there were a number of “I ain’t votin’ for no woman to be vice president of the United States!”

42 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:41:13pm

re: #41 thedopefishlives

I heard a lot of the B variant, too. But there were a number of “I ain’t votin’ for no woman to be vice president of the United States!”

Then that sort of bigot simply didn’t vote. Good riddance.

43 Kragar  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:43:58pm

Palin calling out someone as an assclown is like Bryan Fischer saying someone is intolerant.

44 BigPapa  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:45:13pm

I forgot about Prince Assclown Reihl.

Now we need the Assclown Court Jester Dim Hoft to show up.

45 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:46:23pm

re: #44 BigPapa

I forgot about Prince Assclown Reihl.

Now we need the Assclown Court Jester Dim Hoft to show up.

This is beginning to sound like the Royal Court of Assclown.

46 thedopefishlives  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:48:19pm

re: #45 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

This is beginning to sound like the Royal Court of Assclown.

Ladies and gentlemen, the modern GOP: The Royal Court of Assclown.

47 Tigger2  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:48:59pm

re: #44 BigPapa

I forgot about Prince Assclown Reihl.

Now we need the Assclown Court Jester Dim Hoft to show up.

They all think with one collective brain so if one speaks it’s like hearing them all speak.

48 dragonath  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:55:38pm

Sarah Palin is about as edgy as a box of wet Q-Tips.

49 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:56:06pm

re: #48 dragonath

Sarah Palin is about as edgy as a box of wet Q-Tips.

ewww.

50 jaunte  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:58:43pm
51 engineer cat  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 7:59:05pm

sarah palin

somehow i missed out on this talent for making big bucks spewing bullshit

52 Targetpractice  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:03:22pm

5 years later, Palin still bitter that America took one look at her and voted for the black guy instead.

53 alpuz  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:03:51pm

re: #51 engineer cat

It’s a thriving industry.

54 engineer cat  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:04:13pm

re: #38 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Riehl has the intellect of a warm pool of dog vomit.

i’ll take Oblique Vice President References for $400, Alex

55 engineer cat  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:06:15pm

‘charlie parker with strings’ on charles’ turntable tonite

bird lives!

56 blueraven  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:08:02pm

Smacks of desperation. Look at me. Look at me!!

Grow up Sarah.

57 William Barnett-Lewis  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:12:08pm

re: #55 engineer cat

‘charlie parker with strings’ on charles’ turntable tonite

bird lives!

I’m not sure why that reference made me think this, but it suddenly gives me the desire to play “Money Jungle” a trio of Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus & Max Roach that is just a delightful side but rather different than the Bird.

58 stabby  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:14:02pm

re: #6 Dark_Falcon

It’s a harmless social event, Sarah, you silly twit.

I swear, that woman has less brains than a caribou.

You came awfully close to insulting caribou.

59 stabby  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:14:41pm

re: #52 Targetpractice

5 years later, Palin still bitter that America took one look at her and voted for the black guy instead.

That’s a great quote.

60 Targetpractice  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:15:07pm

re: #56 blueraven

Smacks of desperation. Look at me. Look at me!!

Grow up Sarah.

She ceased being a marketable item awhile back. The wingnuts liked to parade her around the first couple years after Obama was elected as a sort of “See what sorta gal ya’ll missed out on voting for!” But she grifted so much and so badly that even her diehard supporters eventually realized that she’s going nowhere fast.

61 PT Barnum  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:15:51pm

Sarah Palin’s assclown moment? Her entire life.

62 Kragar  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:18:15pm

re: #61 PT Barnum

Sarah Palin’s assclown moment? Her entire life.

Remember when she edited the caribou to the ground? A golden moment of derp.

63 stabby  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:18:32pm

re: #60 Targetpractice

She made a lot of money with that grifting. You know it’s not actually legal to collect money for a campaign after you’ve decided not to run, and her daughter let it out of the bag that she knew she wasn’t gonna run and then collected ?millions? to put in her pocket.

64 stabby  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:20:51pm

re: #27 krypto

Nothing sets the rightwing kooks into seething rage as effectively as seeing an audience, let alone the entire country, responding warmly and favorably to Barack Obama.

Yeah, you can find long long mad rants on the rwnj forums today. They’re still trying SO hard to paint pictures of the President as this or that, and no one cares. I almost feel sorry for them.

65 PT Barnum  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:21:11pm

re: #62 Kragar

Remember when she edited the caribou to the ground? A golden moment of derp.

Hey how you doing? My Father in Law is doing much better. We have to go through the whole assessment process before he can go back to the assisted living place and get on hospice to help him his pain management.

66 Targetpractice  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:22:39pm

re: #64 stabby

Yeah, you can find long long mad rants on the rwnj forums today. They’re still trying SO hard to paint pictures of the President as this or that, and no one cares. I almost feel sorry for them.

It irritates the fuck out of them that the majority of Americans do not hate and loathe the man as they do. They spent four years demonizing the man, sure that when he ran for reelection they could make a campaign issue out of how “unlikable” he was and sell whoever ran as a good alternative. Might have worked if they hadn’t nominated a man with all the charisma of a tax audit.

67 PT Barnum  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:22:55pm

re: #64 stabby

Yeah, you can find long long mad rants on the rwnj forums today. They’re still trying SO hard to paint pictures of the President as this or that, and no one cares. I almost feel sorry for them.

Has anyone compiled all of the dire predictions of the right wingers of what would happen if Obama was elected in the first place?

68 TBPlayer  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:23:37pm

I’m not one to clutch pearls and whine about tone and civility, but honestly, a former major-party VP candidate using “asshat” in a deliberately public utterance?

69 Timothy Watson  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:23:39pm

It’s nice to see Palin competing with the likes of Cato, Cicero, Abrahim Lincoln, Winston Churchill, and Ronald Reagan in the competition of great political orators. /sarc

70 PT Barnum  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:23:59pm

re: #66 Targetpractice

It irritates the fuck out of them that the majority of Americans do not hate and loathe the man as they do. They spent four years demonizing the man, sure that when he ran for reelection they could make a campaign issue out of how “unlikable” he was and sell whoever ran as a good alternative. Might have worked if they hadn’t nominated a man with all the charisma of a tax audit.

Being exceptionally competent isn’t fair!

71 TBPlayer  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:24:44pm

re: #68 TBPlayer

Oops, “assclowns.”

72 Kragar  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:24:50pm

re: #65 PT Barnum

Hey how you doing? My Father in Law is doing much better. We have to go through the whole assessment process before he can go back to the assisted living place and get on hospice to help him his pain management.

He is home, settling in. Its just waiting now.

73 PT Barnum  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:27:30pm

re: #72 Kragar

He is home, settling in. Its just waiting now.

I am keeping him in my thoughts and prayers. Let him know he’s loved and cared for and take care of yourself.

74 blueraven  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:30:13pm

re: #68 TBPlayer

I’m not one to clutch pearls and whine about tone and civility, but honestly, a former major-party VP candidate using “asshat” in a deliberately public utterance?

She acts like a teenager or a 20 something. I have a couple of friends with kids of that age and they cant seem to manage hanging with their kids without trying to emulate them. Very unattractive.

75 PT Barnum  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:31:01pm

re: #74 blueraven

She acts like a teenager or a 20 something. I have a couple of friends with kids of that age and they cant seem to manage hanging with their kids without trying to emulate them. Very unattractive.

I’m guessing Sarah’s kids are more mature than she is.

76 jaunte  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:31:33pm

re: #71 TBPlayer

If she’d used “assclownhats”, she’d get a point for originality.

77 PT Barnum  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:33:33pm

re: #76 jaunte

If she’d used “assclownhats”, she’d get a point for originality.

I much prefer the classier fuckwits or a delicate dumbshit.

78 Decatur Deb  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:34:48pm

re: #72 Kragar

He is home, settling in. Its just waiting now.

re: #65 PT Barnum

Hey how you doing? My Father in Law is doing much better. We have to go through the whole assessment process before he can go back to the assisted living place and get on hospice to help him his pain management.

Been kind of fogged out this week, so I let your situations slide. Had to erase a lot of comments.

79 PT Barnum  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:37:26pm

re: #78 Decatur Deb

Been kind of fogged out this week, so I let your situations slide. Had to erase a lot of comments.

No worries

80 alpuz  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:38:50pm

re: #57 William Barnett-Lewis

The bass fought back.

81 ProBosniaLiberal  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:42:49pm

Still writing the page. It’s a big un.

82 PT Barnum  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:43:20pm

Well I’m off to bed. Have to get into work early tomorrow. Hoping to hear whether I got the job I interviewed for last week.

83 jaunte  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:44:48pm

NC NAACP calls for protests of GOP initiatives

“When you look at the attack on the sick, the attack on the unemployed, the attacks on education, the attack on the incarcerated, the attack on fundamental voting rights and combine all of that together, we are at a crisis,” Barber said.
sfgate.com

84 Petero1818  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:45:17pm

Here is the part i don’t quite understand. Palin does not work for a living. Her husband is a professional skidoo racer which I don’t think qualifies as a job, her daughter occasionally shows up on a B list tv show and is otherwise unemployed. So when she says the rest of America is out there working “our asses off” I am trying to understand what she means. The President works probably 18 hours a day for not much money. The press in Washington like them or not, have brutal careers that see extremely long hours. Who the hell does she think she is fooling (other than about 35% of the GOP).

85 allegro  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:49:36pm

re: #84 Petero1818

Here is the part i don’t quite understand. Palin does not work for a living. Her husband is a professional skidoo racer which I don’t think qualifies as a job, her occasionally shows up on a B list tv show and is otherwise unemployed. So when she says the rest of America is out there working “our asses off” I am trying to understand what she means. The President works probably 18 hours a day for not much money. The press in Washington like them or not, have brutal careers that see extremely long hours. Who the hell does she think she is fooling (other than about 35% of the GOP

Well we’re talking about her again, so she got something out of it.

86 Targetpractice  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 8:50:35pm

re: #84 Petero1818

Here is the part i don’t quite understand. Palin does not work for a living. Her husband is a professional skidoo racer which I don’t think qualifies as a job, her occasionally shows up on a B list tv show and is otherwise unemployed. So when she says the rest of America is out there working “our asses off” I am trying to understand what she means. The President works probably 18 hours a day for not much money. The press in Washington like them or not, have brutal careers that see extremely long hours. Who the hell does she think she is fooling (other than about 35% of the GOP

The legions of fans who she no longer has. At this point, the only people who are cheering her on are fellow grifters.

87 klys  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 9:06:13pm

I am going to go with: she was mad she wasn’t prom queen.

88 mikec6666  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 9:10:09pm

Roses are red
Violets are Blue
I took your money
Now fuck you

89 Cheechako  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 9:12:10pm

I see most of you didn’t read the memo. The correct spelling is “Sara Phailin”.

Actually some in Alaska might want her back. During her 1/2 term as Governor she did get the taxes raised big time on the oil cartel. However, in this last legislative session, the Republican Senate and House along with the Republican Governor gave all the tax increases plus a whole lot more $’s back to the cartel. All the state got was a “promise” to increase production and exploration. Going to cost the State about $5 BILLION in tax revenue over the next few years. Even Senators who, in their real job, are high management level employees of oil companies did not recuse themselves and voted for the tax give-away.

Of course Alaska has given away her virginity many times before for just a token promise.

90 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 9:21:23pm

Secessionist “Republic of Texas” yahoos, apparently in my hometown, as showcased by Russia Today.

Just in case you haven’t facepalmed enough today.

91 Gus  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 9:30:41pm

re: #90 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Secessionist “Republic of Texas” yahoos, apparently in my hometown, as showcased by Russia Today.

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Just in case you haven’t facepalmed enough today.

Mmm. Russia Today.

92 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 9:32:53pm

re: #91 Gus

It’s a weird convergence.

93 Gus  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 9:34:45pm

re: #92 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

It’s a weird convergence.

Whatever you do just don’t make fun of flying horses. These guys? Well, you’re allowed to make fun out of them.

94 Gus  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 9:35:49pm

In other news. Sarah Palin Tweeted something.

95 goddamnedfrank  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 9:36:17pm

Words fail me:

A sworn complaint was filed against William Daniel Lloyd, 31, for discharging a firearm in public and possession of ammunition by a convicted felon, Officer Ben Tobias stated in a press item.

Officer Diana Mattern responded to a medical emergency call at 600 SE 12th Terrace and learned that Lloyd had taped the cartridge to the end of a BB gun to shoot a squirrel, Tobias said.

Lloyd fired the BB gun, causing the BB to strike the cartridge’s primer. The cartridge discharged and fragmented, striking Lloyd in the upper arm and lower leg.

Lloyd told police he was trying to shoot a squirrel with a Pumpmaster 760 BB gun. His girlfriend told police that Lloyd told her he was trying to shoot a squirrel for dinner, according to police.

96 Decatur Deb  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 9:37:45pm

re: #90 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Secessionist “Republic of Texas” yahoos, apparently in my hometown, as showcased by Russia Today.

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Just in case you haven’t facepalmed enough today.

Needs moar cows.

97 Gus  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 9:38:47pm

re: #90 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Secessionist “Republic of Texas” yahoos, apparently in my hometown, as showcased by Russia Today.

[Embedded content]

Just in case you haven’t facepalmed enough today.

Actually, some of these guys are pretty leftist in thinking. Starting around 18:00. Of course, that still won’t placate the pro-federalist Democrat liberals.

98 moderatelyradicalliberal  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 9:40:49pm

Well, I’ll bet you guys are sorry this classy lady isn’t your VP now!

//

99 engineer cat  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 9:45:08pm

i’d have to place the universe of game of thrones as parallel to western europe in the 13th century, since, altho there is plate armor, there are no firearms

wiksterpedia tells me that guns were first used in europe in the mid 1300s…

100 ProBosniaLiberal  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 9:49:53pm

Holy shit, it be done.

Only had about 3000 characters left to use.

My view of Croatia has dropped because of that book, though they worked to redeem themselves since.

However, I see storms on the horizon to be ready for.

101 blueraven  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 10:05:09pm

re: #97 Gus

Actually, some of these guys are pretty leftist in thinking. Starting around 18:00. Of course, that still won’t placate the pro-federalist Democrat liberals.

Yes, very leftist prog secessionists. /

102 Gus  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 10:14:31pm

re: #101 blueraven

Yes, very leftist prog secessionists. /

I don’t give a crap either way.

103 Gus  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 10:20:47pm

If you opposed GWB you were un-American. If you oppose PBO you’re un-American. No change. Same old federalist mentality.

104 Gus  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 10:21:40pm

If you spend you’re night kvetching about a Tweet you need to reassess your life’s values and goals.

105 Gus  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 10:22:15pm

Otherwise, it’s not much different than Breitbart.

106 Gus  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 10:24:34pm

Obamabots are weird people.

107 dragonath  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 10:27:32pm

Up for 20 hours

Strong Coffee

Rawr

108 Gus  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 10:31:41pm
109 Gus  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 10:32:47pm

I know. Scary right? Need to get word from Ms. Derp, Amy Goodman if I’m allowed to post this.

110 SteveMcGazi  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 10:34:40pm

re: 107 dragonath

call me in another 24 hours. BTW I never drink coffee. I drink Coca Cola because I like my caffeine cold and bubbly. (Is that a contradiction?)

111 SteveMcGazi  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 10:46:22pm

re: #103 Gus

If you opposed GWB you were un-American. If you oppose PBO you’re un-American. No change. Same old federalist mentality.

Riiight

112 dragonath  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 10:49:14pm

Well, at least liberals have cleverer bumper stickers than “O’Vomit”

113 SteveMcGazi  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 10:51:04pm

“Daddy farted and we can’t get out”

114 blueraven  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 10:56:48pm

Some days we need a WTF rating for comments in addition to -/+

Night Lizards…be careful what you say.

115 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 10:58:07pm

re: #103 Gus

If you opposed GWB you were un-American. If you oppose PBO you’re un-American. No change. Same old federalist mentality.

Simple. “What’s good for the GOP is what is good for America.”
///

116 klys  Sun, Apr 28, 2013 11:00:50pm

I thought advocating secession was rather un-American by definition.

117 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 12:08:45am

There’s a gnat up in the light and the cat is freaking out trying to hunt it down.

:-/

118 Sol Berdinowitz  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 12:25:25am

Sarah is trying to sell herself as Kingmaker for the next round of elections and untimately for the 2016 nomination.
But anyone smart enough to look at her record sees what an objective failure she has been in backing “winners”.

119 Targetpractice  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 12:38:09am

re: #118 Sol Berdinowitz

Sarah is trying to sell herself as Kingmaker for the next round of elections and untimately for the 2016 nomination.
But anyone smart enough to look at her record sees what an objective failure she has been in backing “winners”.

I remember reading awhile back that, if one wished to be generous, they could classify her success so far in endorsing candidates as “50/50.”

120 Sol Berdinowitz  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 12:39:51am

re: #119 Targetpractice

I remember reading awhile back that, if one wished to be generous, they could classify her success so far in endorsing candidates as “50/50.”

Sarah: as effecitve at picking candidates as a blind squirrel!

121 klys  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 1:06:56am

re: #120 Sol Berdinowitz

Sarah: as effecitve at picking candidates as a blind squirrel!

That seems unfair to the blind squirrel. You’d have to have a pretty decent size slate of candidates for the squirrel to statistically approach 50/50.

Going back to that whole statistics discussion from earlier.

122 freetoken  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 1:08:25am
123 freetoken  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 1:19:52am
124 freetoken  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 1:52:19am

Something funky has happened to the mp3 player.

125 Sol Berdinowitz  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 1:52:28am

re: #121 klys

That seems unfair to the blind squirrel. You’d have to have a pretty decent size slate of candidates for the squirrel to statistically approach 50/50.

Going back to that whole statistics discussion from earlier.

It is terribly unfair to the blind squirrel, Sarah was backing candidates based on ideological purity and her own personal interests, not that of the GOP.

126 freetoken  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 1:53:33am

Anyway, continuing on with some more Sviridov:

127 klys  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 1:53:33am

It’s 2ammmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm………….

Someday I will be an intelligent adult and go to bed at a reasonable time.

128 freetoken  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 2:02:51am

Your special bonus track this morning - Herbert Howells’ “Requiem”:

129 Sol Berdinowitz  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 2:10:54am

re: #128 freetoken

Your special bonus track this morning - Herbert Howells’ “Requiem”:

[Embedded content]

any relative of Thurston’s?

130 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 2:57:52am

re: #104 Gus

If you spend you’re night kvetching about a Tweet you need to reassess your life’s values and goals.

What if you spend your night kvetching about a website and ‘Obamabots’?

131 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 3:05:39am

Man, I hadn’t even heard about this:

thelocal.fr

Corsica has had 107 political killings since 2007. It’s being called ‘mafia’ killings but I’m not sure if they’re saying that’s the Cosa Nostra or just a mafia-like place.

“I am not sensitive to fear, although maybe that’s a handicap I have,” he said. “The guards are very professional but it makes it hard to go shopping in the supermarket with two people next to me,” said Giacobbi, who has decided to spend his summer holidays this year in India rather than in Corsica.

‘I am not interested in money, you cannot corrupt me’

Nearly all of Corsica’s murders have been blamed on organised crime, with rival gangs engaged in turf wars to control everything from drug trafficking to gambling and prostitution.

A property boom in recent years has encouraged criminal gangs to bury their “dirty money” in property and land.

With hardened criminals becoming property speculators, local officials have come under intense pressure every time they are asked to grant planning permission for new homes or developments. With so much money at stake and officials living in fear, corruption is never far away.

Giacobbi believes corruption is one of the reasons why criminals want to target him specifically.

“I am not interested in money and I am not involved at all in corruption. It is impossible to corrupt me and they know that,” he said.

Giacobbi believes his decision to ask police to investigate every tender for public works programmes in Corsica – worth millions of euros each year – for any evidence of corruption, may have rubbed some dangerous people up the wrong way.

I also didn’t know Corsica was still a region of France.

132 Sol Berdinowitz  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 3:24:32am

re: #131 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

I also didn’t know Corsica was still a region of France.

I believe it falls under the general heading of “too small to be a country, too big to be an insane asylum”.

133 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 4:33:00am

I have had the same damn annoying song stuck in my head for two days.

Why are brains so broken, honestly.

134 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 4:35:16am

re: #133 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

I have had the same damn annoying song stuck in my head for two days.

Why are brains so broken, honestly.

Zedushka gets annoying ad jingles from the ‘60’s stuck in his head and he deals with it BY SINGING OUT LOUD!

I’m tempted to shove a dirty sock in his mouth.

Also, the “Gilligan’s Island” theme, even though he insists he never watched it!

135 Jimmah  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 4:39:16am

re: #133 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

I have had the same damn annoying song stuck in my head for two days.

Why are brains so broken, honestly.

It’s “Walk Like An Egyptian” isn’t it?

Don’t ask me how I know.

136 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 4:41:04am

re: #135 Jimmah

It’s some song I don’t even know the title of, that my wife keeps playing on her morning get-motivated playlist. The repeated lyric is “I’m addicted and just can’t get enough.”

Just looked it up. It’s called “Just can’t get enough.” Unsurprisingly.

I’m going to put on some Pixies and see if that blasts my skull clean.

137 Jimmah  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 4:42:29am

re: #136 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Lol I use the Pixies for that too.

138 Sol Berdinowitz  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 4:46:55am

re: #133 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

I have had the same damn annoying song stuck in my head for two days.

Why are brains so broken, honestly.

I fell asleep in the car on a long trip to Pharoah Sanders, and the music must’ve got stuck between ears and brain, I had a big-band soundtrack in my head for days…

139 Decatur Deb  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:13:42am

re: #131 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Man, I hadn’t even heard about this:

thelocal.fr

Corsica has had 107 political killings since 2007. It’s being called ‘mafia’ killings but I’m not sure if they’re saying that’s the Cosa Nostra or just a mafia-like place.

I also didn’t know Corsica was still a region of France.

Not going to be mafia or cosa nostra, unless they are operating there as interlopers. That’s like saying “Major League Baseball” when you are thinking of the Pittsburgh Penguins. There are about a half-dozen or so distinct but somewhat similar crime/social organizations between Sicily and Rome. They are very localized and competitive unless they are sticking to a specialty.

fbi.gov

‘Morning. all

140 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:15:22am

re: #104 Gus

If you spend you’re night kvetching about a Tweet you need to reassess your life’s values and goals.

Gus WTF? Are you having a bad pain day?

141 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:16:39am

re: #139 Decatur Deb

Thanks. My knowledge of ‘the mafia’ is extremely small. I know a lot more about Jewish gangsters in the US in the 1920s.

142 Decatur Deb  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:20:38am

re: #141 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Thanks. My knowledge of ‘the mafia’ is extremely small. I know a lot more about Jewish gangsters in the US in the 1920s.

Comes from reading the local papers in N. Italy (where all the southern groups are equally despised and feared). “Mafia” is mostly a lumper journalistic shorthand—the serious Italian amateur crimewatchers are like ornithologists.

143 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:20:49am

re: #141 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Thanks. My knowledge of ‘the mafia’ is extremely small. I know a lot more about Jewish gangsters in the US in the 1920s.

Heh. My dad’s Uncle Jack was making bathtub gin at home and the Purple Gang put him out of business.

144 Lidane  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:25:13am

Dear John McCain,

Fuck you for foisting this twit on the rest of us.

No love,
Me

145 Lidane  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:27:15am

re: #26 Dark_Falcon

She fooled a lot of people at first, but eventually enough saw through to see her as the vacuous know-nothing she really is.

She was a vacuous know-nothing from the moment that McCain brought her on the ticket.

146 Decatur Deb  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:34:11am

Gotta love Freep—you don’t even have to go to Stormfront to find someone defending the GA segregated prom.

147 Sol Berdinowitz  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:35:36am

re: #145 Lidane

She was a vacuous know-nothing from the moment that McCain brought her on the ticket.

I think she was supposed to be a blank canvas onto which True Conservatives could project their image of what the Ideal Candidate should look like.

But that would have involved her keeping her mouth shut.

148 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:39:03am

re: #146 Decatur Deb

Gotta love Freep—you don’t even have to go to Stormfront to find someone defending the GA segregated prom.

I have an older black friend, with a, therefore, older dad (stick with me now) who is pro-segregation, against blacks and whites marrying, etc. Some local nutjobby media got ahold of this, and did an interview with him. What they weren’t expecting was that he was in favor of segregation because he goddamn hated white people, didn’t trust them at all, and wanted an independent black nation. Then they tried to get him to say he wanted a violent uprising, but he quite calmly said the only way to achieve this real segregation would have been through white people actually upholding the ‘equal’ bit in separate but equal, so if the white racists were angry about race-mixing they ought to be angry at themselves for creating the conditions that allowed it.

He is a weird and interesting guy, and apparently just being Jewish is enough to make me ‘not-white’ in his eyes so I’ve gotten to hang out with him. He also had his kneecap smashed by some white supremacist long ago and wears confederate socks so he can step on that flag every day.

149 Lidane  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:39:40am

OUTRAGE!

150 A Mom Anon  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:40:04am

re: #146 Decatur Deb

I have a feeling that if the parents who encouraged and sponsored the whites only prom had backed the hell off, the kids would have solved this issue on their own a lot sooner. Yes, it’s Georgia, but the kids are way ahead of their parents on this one, mostly anyway.

151 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:40:18am

re: #146 Decatur Deb

Gotta love Freep—you don’t even have to go to Stormfront to find someone defending the GA segregated prom.

The Freep.com domain is actually owned by the liberal Detroit Free Press. Free Republic has expressed its disappointment many times.

152 William Barnett-Lewis  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:41:48am

re: #145 Lidane

She was a vacuous know-nothing from the moment that McCain brought her on the ticket.

Ah, but there were a lot of people who desperately wanted to believe that McCain knew what he was doing. That disillusionment was what did the most damage to his campaign. I agree that there was nothing there from day one and he’d have been much better off thumbing his nose at the religous right and having Leiberman join him. He would have still lost, I believe, but it would have been better for the nation either way. That moment of moral cowardace, however, must be remembered as the most important point in John McCain’s entier political career for it loosed the Quitter on the national scene.

153 William Barnett-Lewis  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:43:33am

re: #148 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

and wears confederate socks so he can step on that flag every day.

Whatever else about that man, that’s got style. Good for him.

154 Lidane  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:44:20am

Oh boy. Cue the RWNJ derp about godless sports teams and the decline of all that is good in the world:

155 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:47:01am

re: #148 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

I have an older black friend, with a, therefore, older dad (stick with me now) who is pro-segregation, against blacks and whites marrying, etc. Some local nutjobby media got ahold of this, and did an interview with him. What they weren’t expecting was that he was in favor of segregation because he goddamn hated white people, didn’t trust them at all, and wanted an independent black nation. Then they tried to get him to say he wanted a violent uprising, but he quite calmly said the only way to achieve this real segregation would have been through white people actually upholding the ‘equal’ bit in separate but equal, so if the white racists were angry about race-mixing they ought to be angry at themselves for creating the conditions that allowed it.

He is a weird and interesting guy, and apparently just being Jewish is enough to make me ‘not-white’ in his eyes so I’ve gotten to hang out with him. He also had his kneecap smashed by some white supremacist long ago and wears confederate socks so he can step on that flag every day.

BTW I must thank you for alerting me to Walter Moseley’s Easy Rawlins novels. I’m now on “Big Bad Brawly Brown.” My only complaint is that they are more like novellas than full size novels.

156 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:49:22am

re: #153 William Barnett-Lewis

Whatever else about that man, that’s got style. Good for him.

Yeah, obviously I don’t condone his racism at all, but it’s not the product of just wanting to feel better than another person, it’s the product of being beaten, cheated, abused, and having his friends and family beaten, cheated, and abused by white people. The number of things that this guy endured was massive. He’s had a house burned down, was refused a driver’s license so that he’d get fired from his job so a white man could take it, his son (my friend) who is brilliant was classified as retarded, etc. etc. It’s important to remember, in the context of people like Reverend Wright and their fiery sermons, that there really are black people who have just been completely shat on by the white establishment their entire goddamn lives.

They were trying to get him to say shit about Obama in his interview, ‘cuz Obama is the product of an interracial relationship, but all he’d say is “That’s got nothing to do with me.”

The idiots also chose a white reporter to interview him. The interview never aired, either.

157 William Barnett-Lewis  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:49:57am

re: #154 Lidane

Oh boy. Cue the RWNJ derp about godless sports teams and the decline of all that is good in the world:

Hope he socked away alot of those big high draft paychecks because he won’t be making the big money in football anymore. He’s a proven bust and the best he can hope for is either a year or two at a desperate team or, far more likely, a career as a backup to a good QB.

158 lawhawk  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:50:48am

re: #154 Lidane

Oh boy. Cue the RWNJ derp about godless sports teams and the decline of all that is good in the world:

Sorry, you can’t extrapolate from Tebow’s release anything other than the incompetence and gross mismanagement of the New York Jets.

Getting Tebow after the Broncos released him was the most mistifying thing the Jets have done in recent years - right behind the failure to play him more than a handful of plays all of last year even as Sanchez was stinking up the joint to the point that even their diehard fans were putting bags over their heads. Fireman Ed hung it up. Ryan couldn’t coach his way out of a paper bag and the management decided to fire the GM but not the head coach, leaving the new GM to deal with a team filled with malcontents and no talent fill-ins.

With all the team’s needs, what do the Jets do? They go for another QB when they don’t have any WRs, TEs, and their offensive and defensive lines are filled with more holes than the Swiss could impart on their cheese.

You don’t go getting another QB when you’ve already got 5 on the roster and at least two of them suck with a coach who doesn’t know offense.

Fans will suffer through another season of incompetence and misfortune until the new GM gets the chance to fire Ryan. That’s when the team may finally have a chance to rebuild and recover.

159 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:52:41am

re: #155 Vicious Babushka

BTW I must thank you for alerting me to Walter Moseley’s Easy Rawlins novels. I’m now on “Big Bad Brawly Brown.” My only complaint is that they are more like novellas than full size novels.

I’m glad you’re enjoying him! He’s really one of my all-time favorite writers in any format. Some are longer than others, but yeah, I always want more. But I think the kind of spare, stripped-down style is part of the charm; you get the sense of Rawlins having to work hard just to keep on top of stuff.

He’s got another great hero in Leonid McGill, but that’s a shorter 4-book series.

160 lawhawk  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 5:53:28am

re: #157 William Barnett-Lewis

His best chance is to sign on as a backup for say Pittsburgh or Washington - both have starting QBs that have the proven ability to scramble, but frankly I don’t see either going for it because Tebow can’t throw the ball worth a damn. Awful accuracy. Bad mechanics, and the most telling thing about Tebow was that they dumped him after a playoff run because they knew that it was such a fluke that they did as well with him as they did (and got help from a Pittsburgh secondary that disappeared giving him the chance to win in that playoff appearance).

161 lawhawk  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:00:24am

re: #149 Lidane

Christie has been generally good with being out front in making sure NJ gets the aid it needs, but there are some serious issues with the rebuilding in NJ.

AshBritt, which got a no-bid contract to haul waste away, appears to be padding its numbers. A report over the weekend highlighted how the company would get a higher reimbursement rate for miles hauled over 30 miles. Many towns were fewer than 30 miles to the landfill sites, yet were billed for going over 30 miles. That’s hundreds of thousands of dollars to do, but the Christie Administration is downplaying that, as well as other complaints that towns that contracted with parties other than AshBritt got even better rates.

Meanwhile, NY hauling rates were significantly higher - though most of that was due to the fact that the landfill to which the NY debris was being hauled was located more than 100 miles away, so the higher haul rates applied.

It’s six months since Sandy hit, and many towns and communities are still hurting bad. Some may never come back the way they were - Breezy Point being one, but other places are seeing significant signs of rebuilding. Many shore communities are working hard to get their boardwalks rebuilt so that the tourists can come back to something resembling normal. Tourism is a huge economic engine in NY and NJ, so getting those areas rebuilt is a priority. The rebuilding in NJ isn’t generating the numbers of jobs either, and the focus on the businesses and boardwalks is further along than the rebuilding of homes along the shore (which is often linked to rebuilding at a higher level to secure flood insurance - and higher costs to rebuild result).

162 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:08:03am

re: #35 Tigger2

One would think that if most Americans wanted Palin in the WH, McCain would have won.

If it is one thing Americans really do not like, that would be a quitter, and Sarah No Nothing Palin couldn’t even hack it as a full term governor.

163 Eventual Carrion  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:09:23am

re: #32 allegro

OT (or not if you have imagination):

On this day in 1919 was the first successful parachute jump.

I’m seeing “successful” as an operative word here…

Štefan Banič from Slovakia invented the first actively used parachute, patenting it in 1914.

He immigrated to the US and settled in my hometown. They have a sky diving competition in his honor at the airport every year.

164 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:13:37am

re: #68 TBPlayer

I’m not one to clutch pearls and whine about tone and civility, but honestly, a former major-party VP candidate using “asshat” in a deliberately public utterance?

That was my first thought. And this is after saying “WTF” on national television. And she expects anyone with two functioning brain cells to take her seriously? I mean, what you say to someone else off mic is one thing, even if you got caught on mic accidentally…still one thing, but to say this shit (WTF, asses, assclown) purposely? As presidential as my dog taking a dump on the lawn.

Palin is nothing but klassy…in the trailer trash sort of way.

165 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:16:01am

re: #164 Joanne

That was my first thought. And this is after saying “WTF” on national television. And she expects anyone with two functioning brain cells to take her seriously? I mean, what you say to someone else off mic is one thing, even if you got caught on mic accidentally…still one thing, but to say this shit (WTF, asses, assclown) purposely? As presidential as my dog taking a dump on the lawn.

Palin is nothing but klassy…in the trailer trash sort of way.

She’s trying to be “hip” and “cool”

166 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:16:28am

re: #84 Petero1818

Here is the part i don’t quite understand. Palin does not work for a living. Her husband is a professional skidoo racer which I don’t think qualifies as a job, her daughter occasionally shows up on a B list tv show and is otherwise unemployed. So when she says the rest of America is out there working “our asses off” I am trying to understand what she means.

But both mom and daughter rake in the dough in speaking fees (which I have to say amuses me to no end, coz speakin’ ain’t ‘xactly ‘er forte).

167 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:20:31am

re: #106 Gus

Obamabots are weird people.

I think I missed something. I have whiplash.

168 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:22:39am

re: #164 Joanne

I really don’t like the phrase trailer trash. Lots of good people live in trailers. And I know, you’re just talking about the bad ones, but still, a person who grew up in a trailer, hearing that, may feel ashamed of having been poor.

169 Bulworth  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:28:38am
Wasn’t it just two years ago that Sarah Palin, the woman who was almost a heartbeat away from the Presidency, was eagerly showing up as the “surprise guest” of those very same assclowns?

Oh, so she wasn’t invited this year.

170 Bulworth  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:30:19am
That #WHCD was pathetic. The rest of America is out there working our asses off while these DC assclowns throw themselves a #nerdprom

Who is this “our” of which she speaks? Is Sarah employed?

171 Sol Berdinowitz  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:34:41am

re: #168 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

I really don’t like the phrase trailer trash. Lots of good people live in trailers. And I know, you’re just talking about the bad ones, but still, a person who grew up in a trailer, hearing that, may feel ashamed of having been poor.

All I can say about Sarah is that she is entirely unqualified to serve as President of the United States. And anybody who thinks that she can somehow qualify herself based on her ideological purity and hard-working-mom credentials is delusional.

172 iossarian  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:37:41am

re: #171 Sol Berdinowitz

All I can say about Sarah is that she is entirely unqualified to serve as President of the United States. And anybody who thinks that she can somehow qualify herself based on her ideological purity and hard-working-mom credentials is delusional.

She doesn’t have any ideological purity. It’s all bullshit.

If the government started handing out money to clapped-out bullshit artists she’d be the first in line.

173 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:37:52am

I’ve got a live wingnut on the hook who is trying to explain how BENGHAZI!!11!! is WORSER than the 11 Embassy attacks & 60 deaths that occurred under Bush.

174 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:38:38am



175 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:39:22am

I keep asking for links to back up what he’s saying, wait for it, he’ll tell me I should Google it.

176 Sol Berdinowitz  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:39:32am

re: #172 iossarian

She doesn’t have any ideological purity. It’s all bullshit.

If the government started handing out money to clapped-out bullshit artists she’d be the first in line.

“Ideological purity” in that she is 100% opposed to anything Obama is in favor of.

177 Targetpractice  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:43:59am

re: #174 Vicious Babushka

That’s really all they can say about Benghazi, that Obama’s crime was that “he didn’t do anything.” People who quake in fear about grand conspiracies where Obama is working to assume power that no president should ever have…think he has that power already and chose not to use it.

178 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:47:46am

*FACE PALM*

179 iossarian  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:48:49am

re: #176 Sol Berdinowitz

“Ideological purity” in that she is 100% opposed to anything Obama is in favor of.

True, although to be *really* accurate you have to bring in some modal logic there.

“If Obama is in favor of policy X at time T then Palin is opposed to policy X at time T + dt”.

Where dt is some variable dependent on the time it takes for news to reach Russia-seein’ central.

180 lawhawk  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:50:24am

It took more than a decade for the US to finally get OBL after the 1998 embassy bombings that killed more than 200 (and almost 10 years following the 9/11 attacks). Bombers and those involved in other terror attacks from the 1990s and 2000s are still being hunted and captured or killed.

It doesn’t happen overnight.

That those responsible for the Benghazi attacks haven’t been brought to justice (or taken out in UAV strikes) doesn’t diminish the President’s role or focus on counterterrorism and going after those who have done harm to the US and its FSOs.

But those criticizing the President are doing so because they simply hate anything and everything the President does (or has done). It’s ideological blindness to the facts and a willingness to accept conspiracy theories to explain events (which also is mental laziness).

181 William Barnett-Lewis  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:53:13am

re: #173 Vicious Babushka

I’ve got a live wingnut on the hook who is trying to explain how BENGHAZI!!11!! is WORSER than the 11 Embassy attacks & 60 deaths that occurred under Bush.

Ask him about the 250 Reagan let die in Beruit…

(I was in the military then and knew people who lost loved ones there.)

182 iossarian  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:54:59am

I will say this for Palin. Her comments have a tendency to be of the “laughable, but forgettable” variety. Really the only ones that stand the test of time are “Putin rears his head” and “I can see Russia from my house”, both of which came at the same time.

Compare and contrast with Willard Romney:

- dancing horses
- car elevator
- buddies who own NASCAR teams
- store bought cookies
- 47%

The list goes on and on.

183 iossarian  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:55:42am

re: #182 iossarian

I will say this for Palin. Her comments have a tendency to be of the “laughable, but forgettable” variety. Really the only ones that stand the test of time are “Putin rears his head” and “I can see Russia from my house”, both of which came at the same time.

Compare and contrast with Willard Romney:

- dancing horses
- car elevator
- buddies who own NASCAR teams
- store bought cookies
- 47%

The list goes on and on.

“Corporations are people too, my friend.”

184 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 6:57:58am

re: #181 William Barnett-Lewis

Ask him about the 250 Reagan let die in Beruit…

(I was in the military then and knew people who lost loved ones there.)

So far he hasn’t provided any links.

185 darthstar  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:01:10am

Happy Monday, everyone…from a friend’s fb feed:

“mom why did the chicken cross the road?”

Why Charles?

“Because North Korea’s long range missiles can’t get that far!”

Bahahahaha! Funny kid!

186 lawhawk  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:01:10am

So, I was checking my usual news sources, and there was a report that Verizon and Vodaphone may be in talks for Verizon to buy out Vodaphone’s remaining ownership in Verizon Wireless (giving Verizon 100% ownership over the wireless system).

The key sticking point is how to structure a possible deal that minimizes the tax obligations.

The report indicated that the capital gains tax hit could be as much as $38 billion. But, Verizon might be able to structure the deal that could substantially reduce that hit by buying a foreign-based Vodaphone subsidiary, eliminating the tax hit.

It’s an interesting report on strategies that companies come up with to deal with taxes, and tax avoidance (legal) strategies.

187 GunstarGreen  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:02:51am

Ex-Half Governor Moosehead is intensely jealous and butthurt that Washington progresses along without her. Film at 11.

188 Targetpractice  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:03:48am

Benghazi in their minds has to be Obama’s fault, because otherwise they have to acknowledge a reality that is at odds with their beliefs. That cutting government funding means less security forces for foreign embassies and consulates. That the cavalry is not always over the next hill and the US military is not just a phone call away. And that the noxious shit done in America under 1st Amendment protections does not always play well in parts of the world without such protections.

189 GunstarGreen  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:05:20am

re: #188 Targetpractice

Benghazi in their minds has to be Obama’s fault, because otherwise they have to acknowledge a reality that is at odds with their beliefs. That cutting government funding means less security forces for foreign embassies and consulates. That the cavalry is not always over the next hill and the US military is not just a phone call away. And that the noxious shit done in America under 1st Amendment protections does not always play well in parts of the world without such protections.

CUT THE BUDGET! CUT THE BUDGET! WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CUT FAA HOURS?!

190 Bulworth  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:05:27am

re: #174 Vicious Babushka

Goalposts, moving….

191 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:08:03am

re: #190 Bulworth

Goalposts, moving….

BUSH NEW ABOUT TEH EMBASSY ATTACKS & TRIED TO PROTECT THEM & SOMETIMES HE FAILED BUT OBAMA DIDN’T EVEN TRY!!11!!!111


Then you point out some facts n shit and they shriek

WHAT DIFFERENS DUZ IT MAEK!!11!!!!1

(their canned answer to everything)

192 Targetpractice  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:08:42am

re: #189 GunstarGreen

We must end the FAA furloughs, because I…I mean Americans can’t stand waiting for delayed flights. But cancer clinic funds? Headstart program funds? FUCK’EM!

193 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:08:44am

In other news, the Emperor Vespasian may have been a time-travelling Lyndon Johnson.

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194 Bulworth  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:11:26am

re: #191 Vicious Babushka

I forgot that PBO had advance warning of the Benghazi attack. //

195 Dr. Matt  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:17:41am

re: #191 Alouette

BUSH NEW ABOUT TEH EMBASSY ATTACKS & TRIED TO PROTECT THEM & SOMETIMES HE FAILED BUT OBAMA DIDN’T EVEN TRY!!11!!!111

Well, if he “tried to protect them”, then he really fucking failed:

*June 14, 2002, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
Suicide bomber kills 12 and injures 51.

*February 20, 2003, international diplomatic compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Truck bomb kills 17.

*February 28, 2003, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
Gunmen on motorcycles kill ed two consulate guards.

*July 30, 2004, U.S. embassy in Taskkent, Uzbekistan
Suicide bomber kills two.

*December 6, 2004, U.S. consulate in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
Militants stormed and occupied perimeter wall. Five killed, 10 wounded.

*March 2, 2006, U.S. consulate in Karachi, Pakistan
Suicide car bomber killed four, including a U.S. diplomate directly targeted by the assailants.

*September 12, 2006, U.S. embassy in Damascus, Syria
Gunmen attacked embassy with grenades, automatic weapons, and a car bomb (though second truck bomb failed to detonate). One killed and 13 wounded.

*January 12, 2007, U.S. embassy in Athens, Greece
A rocket-propelled grenade was fired at the embassy building. No one was injured.

*July 9, 2008, U.S. consulate in Istanbul, Turkey
Armed men attacked consulate with pistols and shotguns. Three policemen killed.

*March 18, 2008, U.S. embassy in Sana’a, Yemen
Mortar attack misses embassy, hits nearby girls’ school instead.

*September 17, 2008, U.S. embassy in Sana’a, Yemen
Militants dressed as policemen attacked the embassy with RPGs, rifles, grenades and car bombs. Six Yemeni soldiers and seven civilians were killed. Sixteen more were injured.

196 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:18:04am

re: #165 Vicious Babushka

She’s trying to be “hip” and “cool”

I am ok with hip and cool to a point. I don’t want someone *that* hip and cool at the expense of being presidential. I think Obama has a coolness factor, but he is always presidential, IMHO.

197 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:18:34am

re: #168 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Understood. My apologies.

198 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:20:47am

re: #195 Dr. Matt

*September 17, 2008, U.S. embassy in Sana’a, Yemen
Militants dressed as policemen attacked the embassy with RPGs, rifles, grenades and car bombs. Six Yemeni soldiers and seven civilians were killed. Sixteen more were injured.

BUSH TOTALLY WON THAT!!11!!


199 iossarian  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:20:50am

re: #195 Dr. Matt

Bush tried -

people died.

200 iossarian  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:21:57am

If Americans don’t die, it counts as a win.

I’m reminded of Kevin Kline in “A Fish Called Wanda”.

“We did not lose Vietnam! It was a tie!”

201 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:22:13am

Wingnuts do not count non-American fatalities as people.

202 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:22:34am

re: #197 Joanne

Understood. My apologies.

Eh, no need to apologize. it’s just one of those phrases, like “Gyp”, that people use without stopping to think of the origins of it. I know you weren’t saying that she was crap because she was poor or raised poor, rather that she had an insular view, is proud of her ignorance, etc.

203 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:23:32am

re: #201 Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts do not count non-American fatalities as people.

Because they don’t count non-Americans as people. Then again, they don’t count Americans whose beliefs differ as American, either.

Either you’re with us or you’re from Uranus! (The place their entire beings revolve around.)

204 darthstar  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:23:38am

So, it appears my predictions about Sarah Palin are still pretty much on track. Now that she’s lost her gig on TV she’s shouting at the internet for attention with all the effectiveness(and relevance) of side-kick girlfriend #2 of any b-movie about bitchy high school girls at a prom.

205 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:24:23am

re: #202 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Eh, no need to apologize. it’s just one of those phrases, like “Gyp”, that people use without stopping to think of the origins of it. I know you weren’t saying that she was crap because she was poor or raised poor, rather that she had an insular view, is proud of her ignorance, etc.

I always thought it was jip, not Gyp. I never would have made the connection without your spelling.

206 Dr. Matt  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:25:15am

Can anyone remind me the last time Prez Obama, First Lady Obama, Hillary, VP Biden, Dr. Biden, etc ever called anyone an “assclown”? Stay classy, you fucking hick, Sarah.

207 GunstarGreen  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:27:49am

re: #206 Dr. Matt

Can anyone remind me the last time Prez Obama, First Lady Obama, Hillary, VP Biden, Dr. Biden, etc ever called anyone an “assclown”? Stay classy, you fucking hick, Sarah.

You have to keep in mind that being a hick is her ‘thing’. Her entire punditry career (such as it is) is based around pandering to backwards, ignorant people by putting on the appearance of being just as much of a hick as they are.

YOU BETCHA.

208 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:34:19am

re: #206 Dr. Matt

Can anyone remind me the last time Prez Obama, First Lady Obama, Hillary, VP Biden, Dr. Biden, etc ever called anyone an “assclown”? Stay classy, you fucking hick, Sarah.

I can imagine Biden doing it, frankly.

But NOT to any president.

209 darthstar  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:37:08am

re: #202 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Eh, no need to apologize. it’s just one of those phrases, like “Gyp”, that people use without stopping to think of the origins of it. I know you weren’t saying that she was crap because she was poor or raised poor, rather that she had an insular view, is proud of her ignorance, etc.

Alternatively, the ‘white trash’ label, while classist as all get out, really does apply to Sarah Palin, in part because it’s a descriptor of which she herself is cognizant, even though she’d probably never use that word in a sentence herself.

210 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:38:25am

STAY CLASSY WINGNUTS.
MOAR proof that Wingnuts not only want to ban all abortion, but also ban access to contraception and force The Poors to NOT HAVE SEX.

211 darthstar  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:38:44am

re: #209 darthstar

* ‘that word’ above refers to ‘cognizant’

212 jaunte  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:39:34am

From this morning’s WSJ email, The Weekend Interview with Donald Kagan:
‘Democracy May Have Had Its Day’
The Wall Street Journal editorial board appears to be attempting to provide an intellectual rationale for voter disenfranchisement.

As he looks at his Yale colleagues today, he says, “you can’t find members of the faculty who have different opinions.”

….

Democracy, wrote Mr. Kagan in “Pericles of Athens” (1991), is “one of the rarest, most delicate and fragile flowers in the jungle of human experience.” It relies on “free, autonomous and self-reliant” citizens and “extraordinary leadership” to flourish, even survive.

These kinds of citizens aren’t born—they need to be educated.

….

Taking a grim view of the Periclean era in Athens, Plato and Aristotle believed that democracy inevitably led to tyranny.

213 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:40:31am

re: #209 darthstar

Yeah, I don’t like white trash for different reasons, which is that it basically implies that white people should act better than that.

I don’t like a lot of stuff tho.

214 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:41:06am

re: #212 jaunte

There is almost zero relationship between Athenian democracy and our system.

215 Lidane  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:41:16am

re: #212 jaunte

The Wall Street Journal editorial board appears to be attempting to provide an intellectual rationale for voter disenfranchisement.

Of course they are. Obama got re-elected and future demographics are death for the GOP unless they either disenfranchise everyone or the GOP enters the 20th Century.

216 darthstar  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:41:24am

re: #213 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Yeah, I don’t like white trash for different reasons, which is that it basically implies that white people should act better than that.

I don’t like a lot of stuff tho.

No shit?

217 jaunte  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:41:39am

TYRANNY!

218 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:42:03am

re: #213 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Yeah, I don’t like white trash for different reasons, which is that it basically implies that white people should act better than that.

I don’t like a lot of stuff tho.

The “white trash” designation has its origin in racist history, where it originally meant 1) White people who can’t afford to own slaves 2) White people who act worse than Negroes.

219 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:42:29am

re: #208 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

I can imagine Biden doing it, frankly.

But NOT to any president.

That’s just it…you can imagine it. But for him to say this in a public speech? Or tweet it? I cannot see that. I could imagine him doing it, but I don’t think he would.

It’s like Palin has no inner filter as to what is appropriate to her desired status as statesperson. She might envision herself as presidential, but she is not, in any way, shape or form.

220 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:43:21am

re: #210 Vicious Babushka

STAY CLASSY WINGNUTS.
MOAR proof that Wingnuts not only want to ban all abortion, but also ban access to contraception and force The Poors to NOT HAVE SEX.

With a side of racism tossed into the mix.

221 iossarian  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:43:47am

re: #212 jaunte

From this morning’s WSJ email, The Weekend Interview with Donald Kagan:
‘Democracy May Have Had Its Day’
The Wall Street Journal editorial board appears to be attempting to provide an intellectual rationale for voter disenfranchisement.

Shorter Kagan: Kids These Days.

222 jaunte  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:45:20am

re: #221 iossarian

Shorter Kagan: Kids These Days.

Get off Victor Davis Hanson’s lawn!

223 Stanley Sea  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:49:13am

re: #211 darthstar

Darth, the Padres? The freaking Padres??

224 iossarian  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:50:15am

I love reading whiny “we are doomed unless college students study the classics” screeds because they always make absurd leaps of logic that the likes of Socrates would have absolutely eviscerated in their day.

Kagan throws out Christianity and “turning the other cheek” as a factor in the decline he claims to detect in Western security.

Excuse me, I must have missed the fucking “turning the other cheek” our “Christian” GOP leadership demonstrated after 9/11.

225 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:52:17am

*FACE PALM*

226 iossarian  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:52:24am

re: #223 Stanley Sea

Darth, the Padres? The freaking Padres??

Who in their right mind ever thought camo uniforms were a good idea?

“I want to watch a sports game. I know, I’ll pick the one that reminds me of WAR.”

227 iossarian  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:53:55am

Image caption: A Christian Leader Turns The Other Cheek

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228 lawhawk  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:54:08am

re: #226 iossarian

229 Targetpractice  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:54:35am

re: #225 Vicious Babushka

*FACE PALM*

You got $15,000 in your pocket for when you need a gallbladder removed and the doctor doesn’t take a check?

230 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:55:06am

re: #207 GunstarGreen

You have to keep in mind that being a hick is her ‘thing’. Her entire punditry career (such as it is) is based around pandering to backwards, ignorant people by putting on the appearance of being just as much of a hick as they are.

YOU BETCHA.

yes, her fans love the fact that she talks “just like them”.

231 William Barnett-Lewis  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:55:23am

re: #221 iossarian

Shorter Kagan: Kids These Days.

Actually it’s more like: The Owner of the WSJ hates freedom and needs me to invent the intellectual justification.

232 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:56:44am

re: #229 Targetpractice

You got $15,000 in your pocket for when you need a gallbladder removed and the doctor doesn’t take a check?

BUT MY GRANDPA TOLD ME THAT BACK IN TEH DAY TEH DOCTER MADE HOUSECALLS AND ONLY CHARGED $5!!11!!!!

233 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:58:06am

re: #232 Vicious Babushka

and chickens!!!

234 Targetpractice  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:58:20am

re: #232 Vicious Babushka

Your grandpa was also dirt poor and would have had to sell the house to afford a hospital stay. And if he needed major surgery, then the family’s finances were fucked.

235 iossarian  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:58:27am

Muslims are so warlike with their violent Islamic nastiness! Not like peaceful Christians with their turning-the-other-cheekiness!

236 bratwurst  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 7:58:36am

re: #225 Vicious Babushka

*FACE PALM*

I was SURE that had to be a parody account, but a quick look convinces me he is probably for real.

Speaking of Twitter, are my eyes deceiving me or is there someone up thread who used to be on Twitter 24/7 now criticizing others for posting and discussing tweets? To be fair, I haven’t had my coffee yet…and sometimes I hallucinate hypocrisy pre-caffeine.

237 danarchy  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:08:59am
238 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:10:30am

re: #237 danarchy

Ehab Sadeek is an Egyptian Muslim who calls the marathon bombers “cowards.”

“They don’t represent my faith. They don’t’ represent my religion. They will not hijack my religion,” he told WBZ NewsRadio 1030.

“Being a Muslim, I felt I cannot stay quiet about that.”

So Sadeek says, with the urging of his young daughter, he has decided to give 100-percent of the profits from his retail bagel business to the One Fund Boston, and he will keep it up until the last victim is out of the hospital.

That’s really cool. It’s easy to just make a one-time donation. This is a nice connection.

239 Decatur Deb  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:10:51am

re: #225 Vicious Babushka

*FACE PALM*

I agree with Car Guy, but he doesn’t agree with me. Get for-profit insurance and employers out of the equation. In the last month I’ve started many thousands of dollars worth of eye treatment, paid for by good insurance and Medicare It will keep me from going blind.

120,000 Americans didn’t get that kind of treatment and are blind, frequently because they don’t have medical coverage. Another million or so cases are in progress. The cost to the economy is estimated at 1.5 Billion per year.

Single payer or STFU.

glaucoma.org

240 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:13:12am

Good morning Lizards.

Gotta love a weekend which was going good until the motherboard in your computer gets fried leaving you with a large paperweight.

241 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:14:13am

re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth

yes, her fans love the fact that she talks “just like them”.

The problem is that she thinks just like them, too.

242 Sol Berdinowitz  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:16:22am

re: #225 Vicious Babushka

WHY do we have to have Health Insurance? Why can’t we just go to a Doctor? SCREW the Middleman..

Don’t forget to bring a chicken…

243 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:16:41am

re: #239 Decatur Deb

That was my take, too. Get for-profit health deniers out of the insurance markets.

244 Decatur Deb  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:17:54am

re: #243 Joanne

That was my take, too. Get for-profit health deniers out of the insurance markets.

Yeah—but VB has posted Car Guy before—his medical plan is ‘devil take the hindmost’.

245 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:19:45am

re: #244 Decatur Deb

Yeah—but VB has posted Car Guy before—his medical plan is ‘devil take the hindmost’.

Which I suppose is slightly better than fuck ‘em, if they can’t afford insurance let ‘em die.

246 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:30:43am

WINGNUT STRAW MAN


Nobody is supporting Gosnell. And nobody is supporting late-term abortions just for grins. It is a complicated procedure that should not be performed unless medically necessary.

247 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:36:39am

re: #246 Vicious Babushka

WINGNUT STRAW MAN


Nobody is supporting Gosnell. And nobody is supporting late-term abortions just for grins. It is a complicated procedure that should not be performed unless medically necessary.

Try telling the true idiots on twitter that. They can’t even understand what a xygote is. You’re talking about people who believe in personhood for a clump of cells at conception. But then again, you’d have to go all sciencey on their asses and that would confuse them even more.

248 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:37:49am

re: #246 Vicious Babushka

WINGNUT STRAW MAN


Nobody is supporting Gosnell. And nobody is supporting late-term abortions just for grins. It is a complicated procedure that should not be performed unless medically necessary.

Yeah. This is one of the big differences between Gosnell and, say, an abortion clinic bomber. Gosnell gets zero support— in fact, totally castigated— by everyone on the pro-choice side.

But the abortion clinic bomber gets a lot of support, minimizing of his actions, criticism of his victims, etc.

249 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:38:09am

re: #247 Joanne

Try telling the true idiots on twitter that. They can’t even understand what a xygote is. You’re talking about people who believe in personhood for a clump of cells at conception. But then again, you’d have to go all sciencey on their asses and that would confuse them even more.

These freaking morons are still freaking out over Sandra Fluke because Rush told them she wanted FREE BIRTH CONTROL for all the wild sex she was having.

250 NJDhockeyfan  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:39:32am

Good morning lizards!

I’ve been sick with a cold for a week. I lost me voice on Thursday. This sucks.

251 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:40:13am

re: #250 NJDhockeyfan

Good morning lizards!

I’ve been sick with a cold for a week. I lost me voice on Thursday. This sucks.

And you became Irish, too.

252 Decatur Deb  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:40:38am

re: #250 NJDhockeyfan

Good morning lizards!

I’ve been sick with a cold for a week. I lost me voice on Thursday. This sucks.

Sucks for you. Have you polled your friends and family?

253 sattv4u2  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:41:08am

re: #250 NJDhockeyfan

Good morning lizards!

I’ve been sick with a cold for a week. I lost me voice on Thursday. This sucks.

That’s not what your wife said!

254 NJDhockeyfan  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:41:10am

re: #251 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

And you became Irish, too.

I’m 1/8th Irish. Must be why I like whiskey.

255 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:42:56am

re: #249 Vicious Babushka

These freaking morons are still freaking out over Sandra Fluke because Rush told them she wanted FREE BIRTH CONTROL for all the wild sex she was having.

I am floored that people are so stupid that, first, they listen to Rush, but, more to the point, that they think you take birth control every time you have sex. The ignorance on that statement alone stunned me.

And how many of these geniuses are setting policy (see: Committee, Science)?

256 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:43:08am

re: #250 NJDhockeyfan

Good morning lizards!

I’ve been sick with a cold for a week. I lost me voice on Thursday. This sucks.

I hope you feel better soon.

257 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:44:02am

re: #255 Joanne

I am floored that people are so stupid that, first, they listen to Rush, but, more to the point, that they think you take birth control every time you have sex. The ignorance on that statement alone stunned me.

And how many of these geniuses are setting policy (see: Committee, Science)?

Yeah, Rush told them that birth control pills for women are just like condoms and viagra for men, the more you use, the more sex you have.

And Rush has been MARRIED 4 TIMES.

258 NJDhockeyfan  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:44:17am

re: #256 Joanne

I hope you feel better soon.

Thank you. I was off all week last week. I’m trying to work today although my bosses are telling me to go home.

259 Lidane  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:46:22am

re: #255 Joanne

I am floored that people are so stupid that, first, they listen to Rush, but, more to the point, that they think you take birth control every time you have sex. The ignorance on that statement alone stunned me.

See? Abstinence only sex ed DOES work!

////

261 sattv4u2  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:49:39am

re: #260 lawhawk

NBA Center Jason Collins comes out as first openly gay professional sports athlete in major sport.

Good on him. Talk is that 4 NFL players are going to have a joint announcement in the coming weeks also

262 geoffm33  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:50:32am

re: #260 lawhawk

NBA Center Jason Collins comes out as first openly gay professional sports athlete in major sport.

re: #261 sattv4u2

Good on him. Talk is that 4 NFL players are going to have a joint announcement in the coming weeks also

Logged on to post the same article!

This is big and good news.

263 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:51:40am

re: #257 Vicious Babushka

Yeah, Rush told them that birth control pills for women are just like condoms and viagra for men, the more you use, the more sex you have.

And Rush has been MARRIED 4 TIMES Which is why Rush has been married 4 times.

FIFY

His lack of understanding of sex pretty much precludes a happy marriage. Then again, who on earth would marry that jackass to start with? :-)

264 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:52:10am

Wingnut meltdown over Obama WHCD continues:

265 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:52:37am

re: #259 Lidane

See? Abstinence only sex ed DOES work!////

In Rush’s case, that is the only type of marriage I could envision.

266 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:52:42am

re: #263 Joanne

FIFY

His lack of understanding of sex pretty much precludes a happy marriage. Then again, who on earth would marry that jackass to start with? :-)

RICH CELEBRITY

267 darthstar  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:53:29am

Jason Collins is trying to distract us from Bengayzi…OMFG IT’S ALREADY HAPPENED!

268 jaunte  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 8:54:15am

re: #264 Vicious Babushka

Greg Howard @GregWHoward
Patriot bull charging through the china shop of party politics, shattering the lies.

Wotta maroon.

269 NJDhockeyfan  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:00:14am

I bet we have no idea where all this money ended up.

With Bags of Cash, C.I.A. Seeks Influence in Afghanistan

KABUL, Afghanistan — For more than a decade, wads of American dollars packed into suitcases, backpacks and, on occasion, plastic shopping bags have been dropped off every month or so at the offices of Afghanistan’s president — courtesy of the Central Intelligence Agency.

All told, tens of millions of dollars have flowed from the C.I.A. to the office of President Hamid Karzai, according to current and former advisers to the Afghan leader.

“We called it ‘ghost money,’ ” said Khalil Roman, who served as Mr. Karzai’s deputy chief of staff from 2002 until 2005. “It came in secret, and it left in secret.”

The C.I.A., which declined to comment for this article, has long been known to support some relatives and close aides of Mr. Karzai. But the new accounts of off-the-books cash delivered directly to his office show payments on a vaster scale, and with a far greater impact on everyday governing.

Moreover, there is little evidence that the payments bought the influence the C.I.A. sought. Instead, some American officials said, the cash has fueled corruption and empowered warlords, undermining Washington’s exit strategy from Afghanistan.

“The biggest source of corruption in Afghanistan,” one American official said, “was the United States.”

The United States was not alone in delivering cash to the president. Mr. Karzai acknowledged a few years ago that Iran regularly gave bags of cash to one of his top aides.

270 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:02:45am

My brother just successfully defended his thesis and got his PhD! And he just negotiated for his first PhD-level job— he’ll be primary investigator doing research on wolf/caribou/bear interactions in Alaska.

He rules.

Image: jbenson.jpg

271 darthstar  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:02:48am

Alex Wagner is cute as a button…and she’s witty. Enjoying a home office morning as I’ve got a few candidate phone screens to do.

272 darthstar  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:03:54am

re: #270 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Awesome. Congrats to your brother.

273 Decatur Deb  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:04:33am

re: #270 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

My brother just successfully defended his thesis and got his PhD! And he just negotiated for his first PhD-level job— he’ll be primary investigator doing research on wolf/caribou/bear interactions in Alaska.

He rules.

Image: jbenson.jpg

Another prissy ivory-tower academic…

274 GunstarGreen  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:06:27am

re: #257 Vicious Babushka

Yeah, Rush told them that birth control pills for women are just like condoms and viagra for men, the more you use, the more sex you have.

And Rush has been MARRIED 4 TIMES.

There’s a reason the number is 4, and not 1.

They marry him, then they realize what a misogynist douchecanoe he is and get out.

But yes, let it be said that if a person does not actually understand how human reproduction and contraception work, they should not be listened to in the discussion on reproductive rights.

275 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:06:38am

re: #273 Decatur Deb

Another prissy ivory-tower academic…

He’s always had fun playing off the fact that his looks are very not what people expect from a scientist. He often pretends to be a dumb jocky roughneck for awhile before breaking out some cogent observations about hybridization and fertility among canids.

He has one of the world’s best collections of beat-to-hell-and-back baseball caps.

276 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:07:27am

re: #275 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

He’s always had fun playing off the fact that his looks are very not what people expect from a scientist. He often pretends to be a dumb jocky roughneck for awhile before breaking out some cogent observations about hybridization and fertility among canids.

He has one of the world’s best collections of beat-to-hell-and-back baseball caps.

Sounds like my kind of scientist.

277 wrenchwench  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:07:29am

re: #270 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

My brother just successfully defended his thesis and got his PhD! And he just negotiated for his first PhD-level job— he’ll be primary investigator doing research on wolf/caribou/bear interactions in Alaska.

He rules.

Image: jbenson.jpg

Good for him!

wolf/caribou/bear interactions

I wouldn’t want to be in the middle of those. High-powered binoculars only!

278 lawhawk  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:07:46am
279 Decatur Deb  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:08:46am

re: #278 lawhawk

Wrapping mind around Galactic Virgins.

280 Political Atheist  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:09:22am

re: #269 NJDhockeyfan
Heh. Just paged. AKA How to make a long war longer

281 William Barnett-Lewis  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:10:26am

re: #270 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

My brother just successfully defended his thesis and got his PhD! And he just negotiated for his first PhD-level job— he’ll be primary investigator doing research on wolf/caribou/bear interactions in Alaska.

He rules.

Image: jbenson.jpg

That sounds like fascinating work. I would imagine that the intereactions of the various species would be complex (one large herd based herbavore, one smaller pack based carnavore & one usually solitary omnivore) especially as the climage continues to change. Within those interactions, I wonder sometimes how the smaller prey/predator interactions are impacted as well - fox/rodent for one example - or where carrion comes into play with theses three as well with other species trying to live on the leavings of them? Complex interactions but I’m sure he must find it rewarding to have run the academic gauntlet for it.

282 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:12:27am

re: #270 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Congrats! Good for him!!

283 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:13:02am

re: #281 William Barnett-Lewis

Yeah, he’s hella psyched. He’ll have to live in a town of 300 people, which will blow, but aside from that it’s exactly what he wants. He gets to define the scope of the project, he has no ‘superior’, no boss, he’s an employee but as primary investigator they can’t just tell him how to do things. In fact, one of his early sticking points was that he refuses to study by kill-harvesting— by just shooting a few wolves to do autopsies on them.

It means I’m barely going to see him, but I’m used to that.

284 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:13:30am

re: #271 darthstar

Alex Wagner is cute as a button…and she’s witty. Enjoying a home office morning as I’ve got a few candidate phone screens to do.

I love her. I listen to her every day. I think she’s a stitch…sometimes her sarcasm is biting. Deservedly so.

285 sattv4u2  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:14:43am

re: #279 Decatur Deb

Wrapping mind around Galactic Virgins.

Captain Kirk found one
Image: TrekGreenLady43.jpg

286 iossarian  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:15:06am

re: #283 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Yeah, he’s hella psyched. He’ll have to live in a town of 300 people, which will blow, but aside from that it’s exactly what he wants. He gets to define the scope of the project, he has no ‘superior’, no boss, he’s an employee but as primary investigator they can’t just tell him how to do things. In fact, one of his early sticking points was that he refuses to study by kill-harvesting— by just shooting a few wolves to do autopsies on them.

It means I’m barely going to see him, but I’m used to that.

Did he do his PhD research in similarly remote areas?

287 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:15:15am

re: #285 sattv4u2

Captain Kirk found one
Image: TrekGreenLady43.jpg

Not after Kirk got ahold of her! ;-)

288 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:15:43am

re: #286 iossarian

Did he do his PhD research in similarly remote areas?

Yep. Hinterlands of Canada.

289 darthstar  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:16:19am

re: #284 Joanne

I love her. I listen to her every day. I think she’s a stitch…sometimes her sarcasm is biting. Deservedly so.

Her monologue the morning after the second Obama/Robot debate was hilarious…she made 22 boxing references in the space of about three minutes, redelivering the beating Romney took against Obama with a wink and a smile.

291 iossarian  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:18:42am

re: #288 Glenn Beck’s Grand Unifying Theory of Obdicut

Yep. Hinterlands of Canada.

Neat. I got to sit in an attic office for four years.

We had a dartboard though so it wasn’t all bad.

292 The Mountain That Blogs  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:18:51am

Ben Shapiro really bringing the class in response to the Collins story.

293 Decatur Deb  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:19:23am

re: #285 sattv4u2

Captain Kirk found one
Image: TrekGreenLady43.jpg

Alta:

Image: 40.andgetsaneyefull5.jpg

Stick with the classics.

294 iossarian  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:21:02am

re: #292 The Mountain That Blogs

Ben Shapiro really bringing the class in response to the Collins story.

What a doofus. These guys really don’t get it - the rebranding only works if you stop shrieking about gay people whenever they’re in the news.

295 Dr. Matt  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:21:30am
296 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:22:24am

re: #295 Dr. Matt

Hindsight is always 20/20. Too bad she didn’t have second thoughts before casting the damn vote.

297 NJDhockeyfan  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:26:18am
298 geoffm33  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:28:26am

re: #292 The Mountain That Blogs

299 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:29:52am

Weird. There are a bunch of spambots spamming wingnut talking points.

300 sattv4u2  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:31:06am

The ULTIMATE game of King Of The Mountain!!

Police near Mount Everest are investigating reports of a fight on the upper reaches of the world’s highest mountain between two foreign climbers and their Nepalese guides

france24.com

301 lawhawk  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:31:39am

re: #292 The Mountain That Blogs

It would be nice if Collins’ announcement came out and no one took notice - because that would have indicated that we’ve already gotten past the homophobia and accept this without blinking.

But the professional sports (NBA, NHL, MLB, NFL) culture is still such that coming out is a huge deal. There’s still lots of homophobia, ignorance, and machismo at play too.

Collins isn’t the first gay player (just the first to openly declare it while playing -ed), and surely wont be the last. It’s notable in its own right.

302 lawhawk  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:33:28am

re: #300 sattv4u2

They’ve entered Thunderdome. Two men enter. One man leaves.

303 sattv4u2  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:33:39am

re: #301 lawhawk

Collins isn’t the first, and surely wont be the last

Yes, but he’s the 1st in a major US sports league. And as I stated, reports are that 4 NFL players are going to make a joint announcement some time prior to training camp (early August)

304 Sol Berdinowitz  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:33:45am

re: #297 NJDhockeyfan

Gaaaaah!

Mamma Mia! Bookie offers odds on ABBA reunion

The Winner Takes it All

305 The Mountain That Blogs  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:34:35am

re: #298 geoffm33

I’m partial to this one:

306 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:35:05am

Wingnuts still beating the Rose/O’Keefe drum that 30-week terminations are performed all the damn time.

Teh Stupid It Burnssss!

307 wrenchwench  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:36:33am

re: #292 The Mountain That Blogs

Ben Shapiro really bringing the class in response to the Collins story.

Too bad Benny doesn’t play basketball so Collins could set a hard pick against him.

I don’t even know what that means, but I read Collins’s story in SI, and he said he’d do that.

308 Bulworth  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:37:29am

re: #264 Vicious Babushka

With binders full of Muslim Brotherhood advisors!!!!!

/

309 Stanley Sea  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:39:08am

re: #304 Sol Berdinowitz

The Winner Takes it All

Take a chance on me.

310 The Mountain That Blogs  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:39:09am

re: #307 wrenchwench

311 Decatur Deb  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:39:29am

re: #305 The Mountain That Blogs

I’m partial to this one:

Statistically, there would have been a bunch of gays among the living and dead at Normandy. Ben Shapiro? Not likely to have a CI(fukn’)B.

312 wrenchwench  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:40:59am

re: #310 The Mountain That Blogs

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That’d break Benny in two.

313 Sol Berdinowitz  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:46:02am

re: #311 Decatur Deb

Statistically, there would have been a bunch of gays among the living and dead at Normandy. Ben Shapiro, not likely to have a CI(fukn’)B.

And all they would have needed to do was to out themselves and they would have been discharged and sent home…

314 Bulworth  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:47:06am

re: #292 The Mountain That Blogs

I’m sure Bryan Fischer will have lots of classy things to say, too.


/

315 thedopefishlives  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:58:17am

Afternoon Lizardim.

316 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:58:57am

Wingnuts do not consider this an “Bush failure” since only non-American brown things (otherwise known as “people”) were killed.

317 NJDhockeyfan  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 9:59:33am

My bosses told me to go home so I’m heading out. Later folks!

318 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:03:44am

Wait for the wingnuts to claim this is a Photoshop. Wait for it…

319 thedopefishlives  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:04:05am

re: #318 Vicious Babushka

Wait for the wingnuts to claim this is a Photoshop. Wait for it…

That photo gave me the chills.

320 geoffm33  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:04:24am

NBA Twitter reaction to Jason Collins coming out:

nymag.com

321 Stephen T.  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:05:19am

re: #313 Sol Berdinowitz

And all they would have needed to do was to out themselves and they would have been discharged and sent home…

At that time, outing themselves would have resulted in being sent to jail, not home.

322 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:05:57am
323 Political Atheist  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:06:14am

re: #296 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Gotta wonder if she would say this if the Bush admin had not been so bad. I doubt it. What has happened in the intervening years is all about his performance not how Florida managed to screw up a national election.

324 Decatur Deb  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:08:02am

re: #321 Stephen T.

At that time, outing themselves would have resulted in being sent to jail, not home.

Would certainly have exposed them to the risk—don’t have the numbers on it.

325 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:10:33am

...

326 geoffm33  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:11:25am

re: #301 lawhawk

327 Decatur Deb  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:13:47am

re: #321 Stephen T.

At that time, outing themselves would have resulted in being sent to jail, not home.

Found some history. From Wiki:

With the mass mobilization and deployment of troops for operations in World War II, it became impractical to convene court-martial boards for homosexual conduct offenses. Commanders instead issued blue discharges – a form of administrative military discharge – to gay personnel. The blue discharge, which was also issued disproportionately to African Americans, was neither honorable nor dishonorable. However, blue discharge holders faced difficulties in civilian life because the blue discharge carried with it a negative association. The Veterans Administration denied blue-discharge veterans the benefits of the G.I. Bill as a general policy.[7] In 1944, a policy directive ordered that homosexuals were to be committed to military hospitals, examined by psychiatrists and discharged under Regulation 615-360, section 8.[8]

en.wikipedia.org

328 stabby  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:13:53am

Vicious Babushka, in a current thread on Harry’s Place I was arguing with our newest dumbest American wingnut (and that’s saying a LOT) about the white house corespondent’s dinner. He or she is livid that the President didn’t take time during his jokes to denounce Islam as the cause of the Boston bombing.

When I said that a president saying that would be very harmful both to America’s diplomacy and our society, he asked if it’s the position of “Progs to cower before Chechnya”

These people have less than brains. What the hell?

329 Kragar  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:15:02am

Irate Boston man confronts ‘sh*theel’ Alex Jones reporter over ‘false flag’ claim

“Your boy said this was a false flag, the bomb that blew up people was a false flag,” the angry man in the video notes. “The FBI is behind the bombing, that’s what you’re here to cover. And that’s why I’m the asshole? Because the FBI blew up those people at the Boston Marathon? That’s right. That’s because you’re a dope. And what you say is dangerous and people like you shouldn’t be able to drive a car, much less espouse your opinions in public.”

“But we have a First Amendment, got to protect it. But you’re an asshole. And so is Alex Jones… And that’s the nicest thing I can say about you, you son of a bitch.”

“Anything else you got to say?” Bidondi asked.

“Yeah, I just said it, motherfucker,” the man shot back. “I am the smart guy because I’m not standing here saying the FBI blew up the people at the Boston Marathon, you fucking shitheel.”

“We got the photos to prove it,” Bidondi insisted.

“You got shit, you got jack shit, you got your dick in your hand,” the Boston resident replied. “You fucking asshat.”

330 stabby  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:15:10am

Forgive my grammar I was up most of the night programming. Now I have to get to work :/

331 Decatur Deb  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:16:46am
332 wrenchwench  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:17:30am

re: #327 Decatur Deb

Found some history. From Wiki:

With the mass mobilization and deployment of troops for operations in World War II, it became impractical to convene court-martial boards for homosexual conduct offenses. Commanders instead issued blue discharges - a form of administrative military discharge - to gay personnel. The blue discharge, which was also issued disproportionately to African Americans, was neither honorable nor dishonorable. However, blue discharge holders faced difficulties in civilian life because the blue discharge carried with it a negative association. The Veterans Administration denied blue-discharge veterans the benefits of the G.I. Bill as a general policy.[7] In 1944, a policy directive ordered that homosexuals were to be committed to military hospitals, examined by psychiatrists and discharged under Regulation 615-360, section 8.[8]

en.wikipedia.org

Ben Shapiro wants to return to those times.

333 Stanley Sea  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:19:11am
334 iossarian  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:22:50am
335 iossarian  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:23:16am

“You don’t belong up here in Cambridge where people have half a brain.”

336 Decatur Deb  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:23:39am

re: #334 iossarian

The first amendment at work!

And worked by a Bostonian who knows what it’s about.

337 Skip Intro  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:24:58am

re: #292 The Mountain That Blogs

People who are heroes to Ben Shapiro.

338 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:25:11am

re: #329 Kragar

That was fucking awesome! That’s pretty much what everyone was thinking when whoever that asshole was at the first press conference asked about the False Flag and taking away our freedom. Well, that is what hubby and I thought, at least. We were both not just incredulous but really angry just hearing such a dumbass question.

339 geoffm33  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:26:35am

re: #329 Kragar

Irate Boston man confronts ‘sh*theel’ Alex Jones reporter over ‘false flag’ claim

I just added a new task to my Bucket List.

34) Buy the guy who called Alex Jones et al shitheels, asshats and motherf*ckers a beer.

340 Dr. Matt  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:27:33am

The only thing that would make that video better is if someone jumped that plumpy fat ass pummeled him into next week.

341 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:27:39am

re: #332 wrenchwench

Ben Shapiro wants to return to those times.

All Republican’s do.

342 thedopefishlives  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:28:10am

re: #340 Dr. Matt

The only thing that would make that video better is if someone jumped that plumpy fat ass pummeled him into next week.

The Buzz Aldrin school of dealing with conspiracy theorists.

343 Kragar  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:28:59am

re: #341 Joanne

All Republican’s do.

A return to the good ole days, when they could bully, harass and terrorize everyone who doesn’t agree with them into submission.

344 Cardio (formerly JRCMYP)  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:29:18am

re: #329 Kragar

Irate Boston man confronts ‘sh*theel’ Alex Jones reporter over ‘false flag’ claim

OMG. I love living here! That was priceless. “You got your dick in your hand.” Ha!

345 Dr. Matt  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:29:43am

re: #342 thedopefishlives

The Buzz Aldrin school of dealing with conspiracy theorists.

I love that video clip.

346 Bulworth  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:30:00am

re: #337 Skip Intro

Twitter, how the fock does it work?

347 thedopefishlives  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:30:34am

re: #345 Dr. Matt

I love that video clip.

I hadn’t seen the video of this Boston guy, only knew that it had happened. Reading the excerpt was absolutely priceless. I would totally go for beers with this guy if ever I was in Boston (and I don’t drink as a rule).

348 wrenchwench  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:31:11am

re: #337 Skip Intro

On the phenomenal @marklevinshow tonight to discuss ‘Bullies’! Very excited. Mark’s a hero.

And the seven foot tall, 255 lb. Jason Collins was the one afraid to come out. I don’t think it was because of ‘How the Left’s Culture of Fear and Intimidation Silences Americans’.

349 Decatur Deb  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:32:15am

re: #337 Skip Intro

People who are heroes to Ben Shapiro.

Calculating their Normandy-like military service. How do you divide 0 by 3 ?

350 Bulworth  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:32:25am

re: #334 iossarian

Except in the wingnut mind, if someone challenges anything a wingnut says or does, that violates the wingnut’s FA rights.

351 wrenchwench  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:33:02am

re: #349 Decatur Deb

Calculating their Normandy-like military service. How do you divide 0 by 3 ?

First, you subtract all the facts.

352 thedopefishlives  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:33:07am

re: #350 Bulworth

Except in the wingnut mind, if someone challenges anything a wingnut says or does, that violates the wingnut’s FA rights.

Teh Furst Amendment means I have the right to say whatever I want AND YOU HAVE TO BELIEVE ME!!!!

353 iossarian  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:33:13am

re: #350 Bulworth

Except in the wingnut mind, if someone challenges anything a wingnut says or does, that violates the wingnut’s FA rights.

aka the “big meanie” corollary.

354 lawhawk  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:34:15am

re: #329 Kragar

This is the same Alex Jones who peddled Troofer conspiracies. You’d think that would have been toxic to wider appeal, but instead it’s as though it’s a selling point - especially for Drudge.

And I’m bracing for a new wave of trooferism now that additional plane parts have been found in the past week - behind 51 Park Place no less.

355 GunstarGreen  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:38:51am

< Insert One-Word Negative Pronoun/Past-Tense Verb Here >: How the < Insert Opposing Political Party/Affiliation Here > < Insert Optional Possessive Object Here > is < Insert "Ruining America"/"Killing Freedom" Or Similar Phrase As Appropriate Here >

356 Bulworth  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:39:19am

re: #349 Decatur Deb

I don’t know about Adam Corolla, but have you forgotten the mighty brave, heroic and unflinching courage of Cruz battling the Agenda 21 foe? Or how Mark Levin has yelled faithfully for years out of a radio booth and into the front seats of brave, heroic wingnut listeners who agree with everything he tells them? That’s almost the exact same thing as landing at Omaha Beach and taking machine gun fire from concrete pillboxes of the German army. ///

357 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:43:57am

re: #349 Decatur Deb

Calculating their Normandy-like military service. How do you divide 0 by 3 ?

0/3=Loudmouthed Chickenhawk Pussy

358 Decatur Deb  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:45:02am

If you only read that epic Boston rant, that’s the PG version. The video linked is the full gale.

360 Bulworth  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:46:11am

re: #359 Kragar

Of course. It all makes sense now. /

361 Decatur Deb  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:46:55am
362 iossarian  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:47:09am

re: #359 Kragar

Klayman: Texas blast was a terrorist attack meant to kill George Bush

Are these people competing for some kind of dumbass trophy?

363 Joanne  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:47:55am
364 iossarian  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:50:18am

*breaks into song*

America, America!

Bulletproof Backpacks as Alternative to Gun Control

365 Kragar  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:51:22am

re: #358 Decatur Deb

If you only read that epic Boston rant, that’s the PG version. The video linked is the full gale.

“Keep running your piss flaps.”

I love that line.

366 compound_Idaho  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:52:07am

re: #329 Kragar

Somebody find out where that guy goes after work so I can buy him a beer.

367 Ian G.  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:52:24am

Tim Tebow released and Jason Collins out of the closet on the same day. I’m imagining the taste of Tony Perkins’ tears. They are delicious.

Also, I have no love for Kobe Bryant, but he gets endless kudos from me for that tweet in support of Collins.

368 Bulworth  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:52:26am

Pretty interesting segment on CBS This Morning where the hosts were interviewing former FBI official John Miller (who’s on the show a lot even before the Boston attack).

First Charlie Rose asked Miller for his response to members of Congress claiming the FBI fell down on the job identifying the terrorists. Miller pointed out that there is no perfect sure fire way to catch would-be terrorists, especially unconnected amateurs like the Boston bombers and that politicians were doing what they do best, come in after the damage has been done to “bayonnet the wounded”. I thought that was pretty good.

Norah O’Donnell further asked Miller to respond to the claim from certain members of Congress that the two brothers had to have had outside help in triggering the bombs because the Inspire website didn’t have information on triggering the bombs from a distance. In response Miller said “That’s how much members of Congress know about making bombs. If you scroll down on the website the information is there about triggering the bomb.”

369 Kragar  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:53:28am

Two Critics Of Government Spending Are Forcing The Army To Build Tanks It Doesn’t Want

Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH) and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) are the two members of congress at the helm of the effort to spend $436 million on upgrading the Abrams tank, “a weapon the experts explicitly say is not needed.” The reason? Both represent Ohio, home to the nation’s only tank manufacturing plant, which would profit from the money.

The move is contradictory for the two politicians; both are also vocal advocates for fiscal austerity, and have made careers insisting that the government cut what they see as wasteful spending. It would seem that pushing for tank production against the will of the Army — as Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno put it, “If we had our choice, we would use that money in a different way” — is in direct contradiction to that aim.

370 Bulworth  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:54:37am

re: #365 Kragar

Likely response from Fox Nation: Boston liberal Democrat party activist curses at conservative newsman.

371 Kragar  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 10:58:13am

Washington Lawmaker’s Office: If Gay People Face Discrimination, They ‘Can Just Grow Their Own Food’

A bill introduced in Washington state last week would allow people to use their “sincerely held religious beliefs” to justify discrimination against people based on their sexual orientation. One activist started calling the bill’s sponsors to find out more about why they supported such a negative bill. His primary question was, “What are rural gays supposed to do if the only gas station or grocery store for miles won’t sell them gas and food?”

A staffer at state Sen. Mike Hewitt’s (R) office had a unique reply:

Well, gay people can just grow their own food.

372 freetoken  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 11:01:36am

re: #371 Kragar

How does re-messaging work?

373 Kragar  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 11:02:15am

re: #372 freetoken

How does re-messaging work?

Not very well apparently.

374 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 11:05:04am

re: #371 Kragar

Washington Lawmaker’s Office: If Gay People Face Discrimination, They ‘Can Just Grow Their Own Food’

To me that is almost worse than “legitimate rape”. In a perfect world, that staffer would be fired.

375 freetoken  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 11:05:47am

Interesting assertion via headline:

A look into the Judeo-Christian past

For those with an interest in religion or the history of civilization, the Museum of Science in Boston plans a fascinating and thought- provoking look into the past by way of ancient religious script.

On Sunday, May 19, the Museum of Science will unveil to the public its “Dead Sea Scrolls: In Ancient Times” exhibit in partnership with the Israel Antiquities Authority and Brandeis University. The exhibit takes a 2,000-plus year old look into the past with up close examination of fragments of the scrolls and is arguably the most significant archaeological find of the last century.


[…]

So, are the DSS:

(1) Jewish, or
(2) “Judeo-Christian”?

If one wants to accept the DSS community as proto-Christians then I will have no problem with that. It may or may not be true, but it is a possibility.

Or, perhaps it is a marketing ploy, to get people who are not Jewish but nominally Christian to show up at the exhibit?

OTOH, I expect the news writer just doesn’t know anything.

376 HappyWarrior  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 11:05:56am

Yeah Sarah you’re just like the rest of us struggling to find your way back to reality TV. Gosh she’s bitter.

377 thedopefishlives  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 11:06:26am

I wonder what happened to our intrepid lizard overlord?

378 Ian G.  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 11:07:14am

re: #305 The Mountain That Blogs

I’m partial to this one:

Ben Shapiro remains a pimple on the buttocks of humanity. Jonah Keri, on the other hand, is a fantastic baseball writer, and my man-crush on him just grew a little bit bigger with that tweet.

379 HappyWarrior  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 11:07:19am

re: #371 Kragar

Washington Lawmaker’s Office: If Gay People Face Discrimination, They ‘Can Just Grow Their Own Food’

Heh that’s one of the most stupid replies I’ve ever seen to discrimination. Yeah grow your own food in a society that is over 70% urban. What a dumb nut.

380 wrenchwench  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 11:09:30am

re: #377 thedopefishlives

I wonder what happened to our intrepid lizard overlord?

He’s right behind you.

Logged in: Charles

BOO!

381 Kragar  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 11:09:52am

Technically, if I owned a business in Washington, under this proposed law, I could ask a customer if they have accepted Jesus Christ as their saviour, and if they answer yes, I could tell them to get the fuck out of my store.

HOORAY FOR DISCRIMINATION!
/

382 HappyWarrior  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 11:10:02am

Just seeing the story about the NBA player. Neat he’s a Wizard. And despite what little shit Shapiro says, it is brave and heroic of him to come out when there are people like Shapiro who think being gay is something worthy of public scorn and humiliation.

383 thedopefishlives  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 11:11:40am

re: #380 wrenchwench

BOO!

And there go the wheels from that plan.

384 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 11:13:40am

re: #250 NJDhockeyfan

Good morning lizards!

I’ve been sick with a cold for a week. I lost me voice on Thursday. This sucks.

Don’t look at me, I didn’t take it.

385 William Barnett-Lewis  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 11:14:04am

re: #375 freetoken

Interesting assertion via headline:

A look into the Judeo-Christian past

So, are the DSS:

(1) Jewish, or
(2) “Judeo-Christian”?

If one wants to accept the DSS community as proto-Christians then I will have no problem with that. It may or may not be true, but it is a possibility.

Or, perhaps it is a marketing ploy, to get people who are not Jewish but nominally Christian to show up at the exhibit?

OTOH, I expect the news writer just doesn’t know anything.

Jewish + dumb writer. There is some connection to the Essene community but that’s about it.

386 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Apr 29, 2013 11:22:28am

re: #362 iossarian

Are these people competing for some kind of dumbass trophy?

I hear CPAC gives awards for that sort of thing.


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