That was cute.

Never met the smaller critters, but I saw the big pink one shopping at Walmart.

I bet as a back massage, that felt kind of good.

Another good one from the Dkos rec list today….
Both MSNBC & Daily Kos appear focused on anti-Republican tribalism. How do we effect change?

I hope this becomes a national trend. I think the partisan noise machines are burning out their audience.

Me likey bouncy!

re: #4 Killgore Trout

How do we change the culture of the bribery of politicians and endemic corruption? Real action to overturn Citizens United vs. FEC would be one example.

Any clues as to what that would be?

re: #6 jaunte

It’s obvious, but will be incredibly hard to do.

A Constitutional Amendment to strip Corporate Personhood.

The issue is getting it to pass.

I went to PetSmart this morning to get food for the critters and this lady was in there with a teeny, tiny little baby pig. Cutest thing ever. She said it wouldn’t get very big, it’s a miniature pig of some sort. It wags its little tail like a puppy when it’s happy, too much cuteness.

17 bills to overturn Citizens United proposed by members of Congress;
none have made it to the floor.

united4thepeople.org

re: #6 jaunte

Any clues as to what that would be?

Me? No. I suppose that would require stacking the court or ammending the constitution. I also notice the first suggestion in the comments is “OWS!” (lol) I’m not a progressive so I’m not really that interested in seeing them advance their agenda but I applaud them for realizing that they’ve been on an unproductive path. I think the national conversation would improve greatly if more people gave up the tribalism and started thinking more about providing their own solutions.

That’s a huge pig.

re: #9 jaunte

The crazy asses and obstructionists have to be voted out first. Get some sane people in office who aren’t easily intimidated and then those bills might have a chance of seeing daylight.

re: #10 Killgore Trout

Me? No. I suppose that would require stacking the court or ammending the constitution. I also notice the first suggestion in the comments is “OWS!” (lol) I’m not a progressive so I’m not really that interested in seeing them advance their agenda but I applaud them for realizing that they’ve been on an unproductive path. I think the national conversation would improve greatly if more people gave up the tribalism and started thinking more about providing their own solutions.

A lot have
See, the problem is a certain party blocks everything. Everything.
Kind of hard to get shit done with that, no?

re: #12 A Mom Anon

The crazy asses and obstructionists have to be voted out first. Get some sane people in office who aren’t easily intimidated and then those bills might have a chance of seeing daylight.

Shhh, yer being all tribal and shit. That’s a bad, bad thing doncha know.

///

re: #11 Gus

Huge pigs are referred to as hogs.

re: #15 PhillyPretzel

Huge pigs are referred to as hogs.

This one prefers ‘Bob’.

re: #13 Varek Raith

A lot have
See, the problem is a certain party blocks everything. Everything.
Kind of hard to get shit done with that, no?

If there was more public support for solutions and getting things done politicians would be less likely to obstruct.

re: #2 Shiplord Kirel

Never met the smaller critters, but I saw the big pink one shopping at Walmart.

Did you walk in on an Undercover Boss episode at the time? ///

re: #17 Killgore Trout

If there was more public support for solutions and getting things done politicians would be less likely to obstruct.

You mean like the 90% support for universal background checks?

re: #19 klys

You mean like the 90% support for universal background checks?

Or ending the Bush tax cuts.
Or closing Gitmo.
Yep.

re: #17 Killgore Trout
You honestly think the people who are doing the most obstruction and fear mongering give a shit about what their constituents think at this point?

See, the GOP doesn’t give a shit what the majority want. They only care about not getting primaried by a nutty TPer. All thanks to GOP gerrymandering.

re: #6 jaunte

Any clues as to what that would be?

BTW, I consider Citizen’s United to be a bit of a red herring. Between PAC’s, soft money, “Think tanks”, partisan activists and dedicated propaganda news networks the lines have become blurred beyond all recognition or legislative fix.

re: #14 allegro

I know, I’m so awful and unreasonable.

Senators Who Voted To Kill Background Checks Dodge Meetings With Gun Victims
Case in point; not giving a shit.

re: #20 Varek Raith

Or ending the Bush tax cuts.
Or closing Gitmo.
Yep.

I look forward to hearing about Republicans discussing their need to evaluate actually advocating solutions instead of having their strategy just be about winning against that black man in the white house.

re: #26 klys

Another case in point: all the idiotic nullification laws being proposed, and in some cases passed. Yeah, that’s just Democrats and lefties being tribal.

Some days I swear if I rolled my eyes at some of this bullshit they’d get stuck in the back of my head.

Conservative Says Hispanics Are Lazy Liberals So GOP Shouldn’t Reach Out To Them (AUDIO)

re: #23 Killgore Trout

The idea of “one man one vote” sounds good on paper, but society has always had a pecking order (we are primates, after all) and, put simply, some people get their way more than others.

re: #28 BigPapa

Conservative Says Hispanics Are Lazy Liberals So GOP Shouldn’t Reach Out To Them (AUDIO)

Rebranding!!!

re: #28 BigPapa

Conservative Says Hispanics Are Lazy Liberals So GOP Shouldn’t Reach Out To Them (AUDIO)

More quality rebranding.

re: #11 Gus

That’s a huge pig.

Domestic pigs can be huge. That girl looks about 300lbs. Most pigs go to market at about 200lbs.

re: #25 Varek Raith

Senators Who Voted To Kill Background Checks Dodge Meetings With Gun Victims
Case in point; not giving a shit.

The article cites SIX different senators either declining meetings or refusing to respond to the people inquiring about them.

re: #32 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Domestic pigs can be huge. That girl looks about 300lbs. Most pigs go to market at about 200lbs.

So much for “this little piggy went to market…”

re: #11 Gus

Should we ask you how your leg is coming along?

We don’t need no stinkin Big Tents.

re: #34 Eclectic Cyborg

So much for “this little piggy went to market…”

Yup.
They are incredibly strong too. I got tossed out of a pen by a boar one day while changing his straw. I must have pissed him off, because he just jammed his snout under my foot and lifted.

re: #17 Killgore Trout

If there was more public support for solutions and getting things done politicians would be less likely to obstruct.

Bullshit.

As long as the GOP’s troglodyte base wants nothing to do with the ni-CLANG in the White House, it doesn’t matter what the public wants.

See: background checks for guns. Also see: closing corporate tax loopholes.

re: #28 BigPapa

Conservative Says Hispanics Are Lazy Liberals So GOP Shouldn’t Reach Out To Them (AUDIO)

Looks like Reince is doing a stellar job with his rebranding efforts.

re: #39 Lidane

Looks like Reince is doing a stellar job with his rebranding efforts.

“Helluva job Priebus…ie!”

re: #28 BigPapa

Conservative Says Hispanics Are Lazy Liberals So GOP Shouldn’t Reach Out To Them (AUDIO)

Krikorian: “Hispanics as a whole are the biggest supporters of Obamacare, are big supporters of gun control, are opposed to reducing the size of government. Native-born Hispanic Americans, who make up most Hispanic voters, have a majority of the children that are born to them are illegitimate, very high rates of welfare use. So this is a description of an overwhelmingly Democratic voter group. Not all of them, obviously, because there’s a big group and there’s a lot of differences among them. But generally speaking, Hispanic voters are Democrats, and so the idea of importing more of them as a solution to the Republican Party’s problems is kind of silly.”

Is the tribal part the part where we listen, or the part where he says it in the first place?

Little Benny Shapiro is taking that ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’ thing a bit too literally there with Limbaugh, isn’t he?

Yay!

The Doctor Who fandom is the first to be recognized with a word in the OED.

Whovian!

Now, we just need to convince a Big Three network to pick up Dr. Who.

It’s been raining in Churchill Downs… and thus a sloppy field for today’s race. I don’t watch horse racing, but I do remember as a boy going to a few of the buggy races. I preferred the demolition derby, however.

re: #29 freetoken

The idea of “one man one vote” sounds good on paper, but society has always had a pecking order (we are primates, after all) and, put simply, some people get their way more than others.

Which is why I applaud the effort of the Dkos diary but they’re only beginning to to ask the right questions. The focus on something like Citizen’s is still a vestige of the noise machine. Removing the money from politics is probably not practical and I think they’d be disappointed that the end result would probably not be a progressive utopia. However, they’d be much more likely to succeed in their goal by thinking about solutions rather than just pointing fingers at Republicans. For example, they’d be much more likely to succeed in pressuring Obama for appointing donors and blunderers than stopping the next Republican president for doing the same thing.

so basically we are sticking w the pig theme for almost all the comments in this thread so far

re: #43 ProBosniaLiberal

Yay!

The Doctor Who fandom is the first to be recognized with a word in the OED.

Whovian!

Now, we just need to convince a Big Three network to pick up Dr. Who.

I think that “trekkie” predates it by more than a decade.

Speaking of “tribal” warfare:

1,000 attend anti-Semitic rally in Budapest

A far-right political party in Hungary said 1,000 people attended an anti-Semitic rally in Budapest, where the World Jewish Congress is meeting.

Jewish groups have noted a steady uptick in anti-Semitism in the country, with some polls suggesting more than 60 percent of Hungarians hold disapproving opinions of Jewish people.

[…]

re: #43 ProBosniaLiberal

Yay!

The Doctor Who fandom is the first to be recognized with a word in the OED.

Whovian!

Now, we just need to convince a Big Three network to pick up Dr. Who.

I finally caught a few episodes. I hadn’t seen the show since the old late 70’s version. They did a great job updating it while still keeping the campy humor and “soft sci fi” (like the original star trek) vibe to it. Very well done.

re: #41 jaunte

Is the tribal part the part where we listen, or the part where he says it in the first place?

He’s also calling Hispanics sluts and bastards. That should go a long way in 2014.

re: #46 engineer cat

so basically we are sticking w the pig theme for almost all the comments in this thread so far

Oink!

i think progressives might be able to make progress if we pooled our resources & started to buy up republican congressmen

re: #46 engineer cat

so basically we are sticking w the pig theme for almost all the comments in this thread so far

Oink, oink.

re: #45 Killgore Trout

At this point I’m sort of accepting that my society isn’t going to change for the better very quickly, that change takes time and is driven as much or more so by inventions and discoveries than by intentionally trying to manage society.

Afternoon Lizardim from the cold and breezy wild north country. How go things among the Lizardfolk this afternoon?

re: #55 thedopefishlives

Afternoon Lizardim from the cold and breezy wild north country. How go things among the Lizardfolk this afternoon?

Jumping on pigs.
You?

re: #52 engineer cat

i think progressives might be able to make progress if we pooled our resources & started to buy up republican congressmen

So wrong, you have to be able to use money and hate preachers to do hostile takeovers of Republican primaries just like the big guys do (Koch, Norquest, religious nuts) otherwise they won’t vote your way.

re: #56 Varek Raith

Jumping on pigs.
You?

Me, I hurt. Just went through a taekwondo exam. But the fishfolk are all good, resting this afternoon now that both the fishspawn are asleep.

re: #54 freetoken

At this point I’m sort of accepting that my society isn’t going to change for the better very quickly, that change takes time and is driven as much or more so by inventions and discoveries than by intentionally trying to manage society.

I’ve come to the same conclusion and changed my focus inwards towards what I believe and things I should do. I’m still very interested in the way the world works and the religious/political machines and how they work but I’m fairly passive in my observations.

re: #58 thedopefishlives

How did the exam go? Belt test?

re: #52 engineer cat

I’d just like to have a Democrat to vote for. My House member(s- there have been two since I moved here) has run unopposed for the last 15 yrs. I literally have never had anyone to vote for here.

re: #40 AlexRogan

“Helluva job Priebus…ie!”

Reince, lather slobber, repeat

re: #58 thedopefishlives

Me, I hurt. Just went through a taekwondo exam. But the fishfolk are all good, resting this afternoon now that both the fishspawn are asleep.

Did you up your belt?

re: #45 Killgore Trout

in my view the republican party exists exclusively for the purpose of lowering taxes on wealthy people and corporations and removing consumer and workplace protection

this may be simplistic but as a rule of thumb it works very well

re: #60 Political Atheist

How did the exam go? Belt test?

Brown belt, and I passed. It was a very strenuous exam.

re: #59 Killgore Trout

Heh, heh, society IS changing for the better, that’s why the right wingers are livid and trying to scuttle the boat.

re: #52 engineer cat

If someone, anyone would step up and replace NRA campaign dollars it would be a huge step in the right direction. You can replace a congressman, but not his or her need to compete to keep the seat.

re: #65 thedopefishlives

Brown belt, and I passed. It was a very strenuous exam.

Congrats. Tests get pretty damn tough that high.

re: #55 thedopefishlives

Afternoon Lizardim from the cold and breezy wild north country. How go things among the Lizardfolk this afternoon?

Another achingly beautiful day in the ‘04!

Hope that didn’t come off as too tribal…

;-)

This is what we are dealing with:

NRA’s LaPierre says gun rights struggle a ‘long war’

Wayne LaPierre, the nation’s most visible gun rights advocate, rallied supporters on Saturday for a renewed fight against gun-control, saying membership is up since the Newtown massacre and calling the effort to stop new limits a “long war” and a “fight for everything we care about.”

Remarks by the National Rifle Association’s executive vice president at the group’s annual convention in Houston were heavy with militaristic and sweeping patriotic rhetoric and were characteristically hard on President Barack Obama, who has pushed for new firearms restrictions following the Connecticut school massacre in December.

The worldview to which LaPierre clings is out of time, defunct, and stays around because people are easily scared.

LaPierre and his followers want an 18th century society in the 21st.

It won’t fit, and that becomes more evident every year.

But they cling to it, oh yes, they cling.

Stoned furby.
Dude!

re: #68 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Congrats. Tests get pretty damn tough that high.

Yes, they do, but it’s so worth it when it’s all over. I’m fiercely competitive and it satisfies my inner demon when I survive an exam like that.

re: #57 stabby

meant it more as a cynical crack

re: #71 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

ooo that looks like a furby cake!

re: #70 freetoken

This is what we are dealing with:

NRA’s LaPierre says gun rights struggle a ‘long war’

The worldview to which LaPierre clings is out of time, defunct, and stays around because people are easily scared.

LaPierre and his followers want an 18th century society in the 21st.

It won’t fit, and that becomes more evident every year.

But they cling to it, oh yes, they cling.

Fear is a damned good motivator, and it swings people to the conservative side.

re: #74 stabby

ooo that looks like a furby cake!

I believe it is.

re: #72 thedopefishlives

Yes, they do, but it’s so worth it when it’s all over. I’m fiercely competitive and it satisfies my inner demon when I survive an exam like that.

I wish I could return to Hapkido and go for my blue.
Body says no.

re: #75 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Fear is a damned good motivator, and it swings people to the conservative dark side.

Someone had to do it. It’s is after all Star Wars Day.

May the 4th be with you.

Meanwhile, down in Texas:

House OKs guns on campus, school marshals bills

The Texas House has approved contentious plans to let college students carry concealed weapons to class and create special marshals for public schools statewide.

Both measures were part of what has been unofficially dubbed “gun day” at the Texas House on Saturday.

[…]

re: #77 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

I wish I could return to Hapkido and go for my blue.
Body says no.

The Mrs. Fish is a first-degree black belt. She hasn’t been able to train much since we started having kids, but she was the one who dragged me into it back when we first met. She managed to arrange things so that I could go back and finish through my first degree. I haven’t decided if I’m going to keep training after that yet.

Texas atavists want it to be 1836 again.

re: #77 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

I wish I could return to Hapkido and go for my blue.
Body says no.

I wish I could return to the days before leaf blowers. Damn I hate those things. There are TWO of them going outside my windows. My head is about to crack open from the decibels.

re: #71 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Stoned furby.
Dude!

The English produce curious artisans:

“Hand made!”

Oh shit, I hope they rescue this guy.

Man threatening to jump from #Brooklyn Bridge. Police have closed traffic in… rightnow.io/breaking-news/… #BrooklynBridge via @alastormspotter

— Right Now I/O Feed (@rightnowio_feed) May 4, 2013

Man atop Brooklyn Bridge, cops are out of sight, everyone on esce twitter.com/weesiev/status…

— Weesie Vieira (@weesiev) May 4, 2013

re: #65 thedopefishlives

Congratulations. It does get hard at that level. The kicks are big fast and ridiculously powerful.

re: #82 allegro

I wish I could return to the days before leaf blowers. Damn I hate those things. There are TWO of them going outside my windows. My head is about to crack open from the decibels.

My neighborhood, collectively, is paranoid about keeping their lawns perfectly groomed. Not two days after the last snowstorm, I heard people out mowing. Not just tuning up their lawn mowers, oh no - they were actually out MOWING THE GRASS THAT HADN’T STARTED GROWING YET.

re: #79 freetoken

Meanwhile, down in Texas:

House OKs guns on campus, school marshals bills

Can I tell you how grateful I am now to be a RETIRED professor? Good lord, it’s going to be open fucking season.

re: #43 ProBosniaLiberal

Yay!

The Doctor Who fandom is the first to be recognized with a word in the OED.

Whovian!

Now, we just need to convince a Big Three network to pick up Dr. Who.

I’m surprised… I’d have thought Trekkie or Trekker would have made the cut decades ago.

re: #86 thedopefishlives

My postage stamp in the front and the strip in the back have been cut a couple of times.

re: #88 sagehen

We are either 1st or second.

BTW, Blazing Saddles is just about to start on AMC.

re: #91 sagehen

I started watching that yesterday - but they’ve cut out so much of the dialog, it’s really annoying. I have the unedited version on DVD. It’s MUCH better.

Looks there are a few police officers up there with him.

Hope this guy can stay strong and realize there is something to live for! #brooklynbridge #jumper #soscary twitter.com/catblasko/stat…

— Cat Blasko (@catblasko) May 4, 2013

re: #91 sagehen

BTW, Blazing Saddles is just about to start on AMC.

The TV edit of the campfire scene should be seen by everyone at least once to truly understand the phrase ‘the banality of evil’.

re: #87 allegro

Can I tell you how grateful I am now to be a RETIRED professor? Good lord, it’s going to be open fucking season.

No shit. Drunken frat boys are little bags of testosterone as it is. But with guns?

Headline News!:

“Pi Phi shot to death after turning down Deke’s request for date”

re: #94 AntonSirius

The TV edit of the campfire scene should be seen by everyone at least once to truly understand the phrase ‘the banality of evil’.

And avoid beans.

re: #86 thedopefishlives

My neighborhood, collectively, is paranoid about keeping their lawns perfectly groomed. Not two days after the last snowstorm, I heard people out mowing. Not just tuning up their lawn mowers, oh no - they were actually out MOWING THE GRASS THAT HADN’T STARTED GROWING YET.

Lawns are a desert wasteland for wildlife. They are a bourgeois relic of middle class imitating the the great lawns of European aristocratic estates. The generate nothing but noise. A garden is another story.

re: #92 Charles Johnson

I started watching that yesterday - but they’ve cut out so much of the dialog, it’s really annoying. I have the unedited version on DVD. It’s MUCH better.

Bad as the Blazing Saddles edit is though, the best/worst of all time is still Big Lebowski. “This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps!”

re: #89 PhillyPretzel

My postage stamp in the front and the strip in the back have been cut a couple of times.

I thought you were talking about a Brazilian wax.

Oops.

re: #99 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

I thought you were talking about a Brazilian wax.

Oops.

Oh good, I’m glad I’m not the only one who had that thought.

re: #96 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

And avoid beans.

That’s just it… the TV edit removes all the fart sounds. It’s just a full minute of cowboys sitting around a campfire quietly eating dinner.

re: #49 Killgore Trout

Not only that, but the Doctor’s new outfit is snappy!

re: #99 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

lol. I live in a city row house. There is no such thing as a “lawn.” It is a patch of grass in the front and a strip in the back.

re: #103 PhillyPretzel

lol. I live in a city row house. There is no such thing as a “lawn.” It is a patch of grass in the front and a strip in the back.

That’s what SHE said.///

Atavism is not usually topically selective, as in the case of Chester Crandell - a name you might not recognize but he is the one who successfully passed that bill in AZ to get gold and silver as legal tender in that state:

Governor Vetoes Crandell’S Gold Bill

Gov. Jan Brewer Thursday vetoed a bill introduced by Sen. Chester Crandell (R-Heber) that would have made gold and silver coins and bullion legal tender in Arizona.

Crandell, whose district includes all of Rim Country, introduced Senate Bill 1439 and got it all the way through the House and Senate because he said the U.S. Constitution favors gold and silver as legal tender and gives the states the authority to produce their own money.

[…]

This year Crandell also sponsored Senate Concurrent Resolution (SCR) 1016, which prohibits state workers from enforcing any federal action that the people have deemed unconstitutional — presumably without waiting for a federal court to interpret the Constitution itself. That bill never made it to the governor.

[…]

GOLD!!

NULLIFICATION!!

The two seem to go together. Next thing you know he’ll want Bibles in schools. … oh… wait….

He also sponsored a measure to require science teachers to teach all sides of any controversial issues in science class, which many interpreted as an effort to make sure that science teachers teach not only the scientific theory of evolution but the Bible-based belief in creationism.

Crandell is like LaPierre - these people just don’t like the 21st century.

re: #98 AntonSirius

At least they didn’t dub over with stupid phrases in Blazing Saddles - they just cut out most of the movie’s best jokes.

If you saw the edited version for the first time you’d wonder WTF was supposed to be so funny about it.

re: #103 PhillyPretzel

lol. I live in a city row house. There is no such thing as a “lawn.” It is a patch of grass in the front and a strip in the back.

After reading the comment you were responding to I figured that out.

re: #97 Killgore Trout

I despise them as well, but for different reason.

Personally, I am in favor of housing which causes population density to go up.

re: #92 Charles Johnson

I started watching that yesterday - but they’ve cut out so much of the dialog, it’s really annoying. I have the unedited version on DVD. It’s MUCH better.

I love it when the guy introduces Lili von Shtupp. They’ve bleeped the word Shtupp, *but it is written on the sign immediately behind him*!

Inane, senseless, and as stupid as a box of hammers.

Why is it they’re always creationists?

re: #101 AntonSirius

That’s just it… the TV edit removes all the fart sounds. It’s just a full minute of cowboys sitting around a campfire quietly eating dinner.

Thats what I meant - the funniest damn scene ever filmed, with all humor removed.

flickr.com Here is what the lawn looks like.

re: #110 freetoken

Why is it they’re always creationists?

They have been working toward dominating RW politics for years.

re: #111 Charles Johnson

Thats what I meant - the funniest damn scene ever filmed, with all humor removed.

Good thing I didn’t suggest to the Mrs. Fish that she watch it. I think the movie is funny as all hell, but she’s never seen it and exposing her to that travesty would not do it any justice.

re: #112 PhillyPretzel

flickr.com Here is what the lawn looks like.

Those two statues on the lawn look out of place.

re: #112 PhillyPretzel

flickr.com Here is what the lawn looks like.

What’s up with parking on both sides of a one way street?!?

re: #115 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Those are “neighbors” who think my grass is their playground.

re: #67 Political Atheist

If someone, anyone would step up and replace NRA campaign dollars it would be a huge step in the right direction. You can replace a congressman, but not his or her need to compete to keep the seat.

That’s what Bloomberg is doing with his PAC

re: #116 bratwurst

It is a city row home. It is a hard to find a good parking spot.

Brooklyn Bridge is essentially closed down. Everyone is waiting to see if the cops can talk this guy off the ledge. twitter.com/guncearkan/sta…

— gunce arkan (@guncearkan) May 4, 2013

re: #120 NJDhockeyfan

Yow. That’s a long way down. That cop sitting next to him has some balls on him.

Police officers never cease to amaze me. I know there are a lot of bad apples in that bunch, but there are so many good people who work hard to serve and protect and I love them for it. God bless ‘em.

re: #121 austin_blue

Yow. That’s a long way down. That cop sitting next to him has some balls on him.

Looks like the cop has a tether.

Wayne LaPierre, the nation’s most visible gun rights advocate, rallied supporters on Saturday for a renewed fight against gun-control, saying membership is up since the Newtown massacre and calling the effort to stop new limits a “long war” and a “fight for everything we care about.”

the nra and the gop are still better at using the modern sales technique of selling the lifestyle, not just the product

the democratic party does this well usually only at the national conventions, which i think is a big reason it tends to win the presidential elections and then lose the midterms. most of the time democrats and progressives get hung up in the details of the virtues of individual policies, as if people bought cars based on mileage and efficiency instead of coolness and glamour

the gop knows that it doesn’t really matter so much to their low info voters what most of the policies are that they want them to go along with, so they sell them as policies that All Raht Thinkin Amuricans Nachurally Support Because Y’All Are The Real Amuricans And Not A Buncha Lazy Welfare Queens And Snotty Elitists

re: #121 austin_blue

Yow. That’s a long way down. That cop sitting next to him has some balls on him.

Amazing seeing them in action like that. They regularly train for this.

re: #71 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Stoned furby.
Dude!

Ever seen a G-Pen being used? I saw a couple at the theater using one, almost no one the wiser. E-cig style smoking of pot. Huh.

Wow.

Photo: Close up of Brooklyn Bridge jumper via telescope lens! twitter.com/Niketa/status/…

— Niketa Patel (@Niketa) May 4, 2013

Is this the trailer to the prequel of George Orwell’s “Animal Farm?”

Is this what really set the pigs off?

re: #109 austin_blue

I love it when the guy introduces Lili von Shtupp. They’ve bleeped the word Shtupp, *but it is written on the sign immediately behind him*!

Inane, senseless, and as stupid as a box of hammers.

The Teutonic Titwillow.

WOW.

Wouldn’t have known about the Brooklyn Bridge situation had I not been here. Good commenters!

Keeping fingers crossed…

Brooklyn Bridge jumper moves towards cops. Crowds gathered nearby cheer!!’n

— Niketa Patel (@Niketa) May 4, 2013

Brooklyn Bridge At Standstill Due To Possible Jumper

Reports at the scene indicate there is a lot of chaos on the bridge, with many people gathering to watch the standoff and some cars attempting to back up off the bridge: “Cop walking among the trapped cars screaming “MAKE YOUR OWN JUDGEMENT” re: backing up off the Brooklyn Bridge. This is gonna go well,” tweeted Jordana Rothman.
gothamist.com

Good news, it’s over.

Jumper is in police custody now. Thank goodness! Pic taken by my husband earlier: twitter.com/Niketa/status/…

— Niketa Patel (@Niketa) May 4, 2013

re: #131 NJDhockeyfan

So what happens to the guy once they get him to come down? He’s obviously hurting, they wouldn’t arrest him or anything like that would they?(edited to add).. Glad he’s ok and didn’t jump.

re: #134 A Mom Anon

So what happens to the guy once they get him to come down? He’s obviously hurting, they wouldn’t arrest him or anything like that would they?

Trip to Riker’s for a check-up from the neck up.

re: #68 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Congrats. Tests get pretty damn tough that high.

Yep. No more Tiger 1 Form. By brown belt it’s trying to turn yourself into a piece of impenetrable leather while fellow students take turns seeing if they can kick you in the balls, which are technically unrackable if you are using proper technique. At least, that was how Goju Ryu did it.

My brain is an asshole.

My first thought was to tell him that as the one thousandth jumper, he’s won a million dollars.

re: #134 A Mom Anon

So what happens to the guy once they get him to come down? He’s obviously hurting, they wouldn’t arrest him or anything like that would they?

Probably just check him over, then encourage him to get counseling.

re: #134 A Mom Anon

So what happens to the guy once they get him to come down? He’s obviously hurting, they wouldn’t arrest him or anything like that would they?(edited to add).. Glad he’s ok and didn’t jump.

I’d imagine he goes in for a psych eval.

New York State Office of Mental Health
Suicide Prevention Education and Awareness Kit:

- Approximately 1,300 New Yorkers take their own lives each year, and it is estimated that for every suicide death, there are anywhere from 8-25 suicide attempts. ( NYS Dept. of Health)
- Approximately 150,000 New York teenagers attempt suicide each year, and 70 will die as a result. (Center for Disease Control)
- Suicide is now the third leading cause of death among young New Yorkers ages 15-24. (National Center for Health Statistics)

omh.ny.gov

Nice.

Nice rescue on the Brooklyn Bridge @ny_police. I may be a psychologist but you guys are on the frontlines of mental illness 24-7.

— Linnea Mavrides PsyD (@LinneaMavrides) May 4, 2013

Frank says:
Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.

now let me figure out how i am gonna make it sound like i meant to play that clam

Arrrgh.

A friend/customer just told me about some hot info emailed to her by a (very) different friend. Apparently the Obamacare bill has the word ‘dhimmitude’ in it on page whatever and all health care for Muslims will be subsidized by Christians.

I told her it was all made up bullshit.

For those who want some reading this fine day, James Tabor, the guy who is pushing the Talpiot tomb discovery as relating to “Jesus”, put up a PDF of his arguments from a recent conference:

bibleinterp.com

Two dissenting opinions put online this week:

bibleinterp.com

bibleinterp.com

One of the big problems I have with Tabor is that he continues to associate himself with Jacobovici, who is a producer of sensationalist material and has stated his agenda that as a Jew he’s trying to minimize or disprove “Jesus”.

re: #143 wrenchwench

The Factcheck site has some more detail, if you want:

factcheck.org

Google Glass Goes to Large Hadron Collider on.mash.to/102KDr7

— Pete Cashmore (@mashable) May 4, 2013

re: #135 austin_blue

Trip to Riker’s Bellevue for a check-up from the neck up.

A 3-day involuntary commitment and assessment… depending on results, either a hearing asking for longer commitment, or a hearing on charges of creating a public nuisance/disturbing the peace.

Heh.

This Horror Film for Cats Sucks in 3D [COMIC] on.mash.to/102Hpnw

— Pete Cashmore (@mashable) May 4, 2013

re: #145 jaunte

The Factcheck site has some more detail, if you want:

factcheck.org

Oh, thank you!

I happen to have her email address. She’s gonna get dueling emails now.

By the way, the new spell checker does not like your nic. Would you like to be Jaunt, Jaunty, Jauntier, or Janet?

Cops are slowly descending down the Brooklyn Bridge with the jumper now: twitter.com/Niketa/status/…

— Niketa Patel (@Niketa) May 4, 2013

re: #143 wrenchwench

Oh God. That and a similar story in a previous thread reminds me that one of my common thoughts these days:
Republicans’ all paranoid lies all the time stuff is very effective at capturing idiots.

I once argued with a kid whose parents had shipped him away from Lebanon because they could see that he’d been captured by Hezbollah propaganda… I also argued with an actual member of Hezbollah, a western idiot who’d been drawn in. You CAN’T IMAGINE Hezbollah’s derp - it makes the very worst American wingnuts look like the very models of sanity, intelligence, tolerance, knowledge, education and insight.

But still I feel like the wingnuts are slouching in that direction. How long would it take us to deteriorate that far?

re: #137 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Dude, what are you doing up there?

A rare cloud formation called a mammatus in Regina, Saskatchewan. twitter.com/Fascinatingpic…

— Fascinating Pictures (@Fascinatingpics) May 4, 2013

re: #152 wrenchwench

Dude, what are you doing up there?

Wow. The sky is falling, indeed.

re: #152 wrenchwench

Dude, what are you doing up there?

Did this just turn into a boob thread?

So

Sitting here at work about an hour ago and i hear a “SPLAT”

Look up and a ceiling tile crumbled and fell.

Upon further inspection (cause I’m a curious type-a-guy) the SPLATTED tile is kinda ,,,, SOAKED

Up the ladder i go to discover a leak in the roof,,,, RIGHT above our video wall (pictured below,,,,, right)
Image: atlantateleport.jpg

CLEAN UP IN AISLE 16 !!!!

I’m pleased that the jumper is safe… however - When I see scenes like that I think of all the photographers who would just love to be able to take pictures from that location, but no… jumpers and attempted jumpers make is next to impossible to get to high places in many spots. I could probably hang out up there with my lens all day and all night and still not want to come down.

Something weird going on with reply and quote buttons in chrome, wonder if Charles is doing something?

re: #157 Randall Gross

Something weird going on with reply and quote buttons in chrome, wonder if Charles is doing something?

Try reloading the page?

I can’t upding anything. When I try, it just kicks me back to the front page.

The page went belly up! Just a temporary glitch no doubt.

re: #152 wrenchwench

Dude, what are you doing up there?

Being boobs.

When my grandpa’s research on his ancestry gets here, I will post the big stuff. There is apparently a map included.

I expect the map to look kind of like the nations involved in the 30 Years War.

re: #162 ProBosniaLiberal

When my grandpa’s research on his ancestry gets here, I will post the big stuff. There is apparently a map included.

I expect the map to look kind of like the nations involved in the 30 Years War.

Good for you. Sometimes I wish my father’s side of the family had cared more about their ancestry. My mother’s side kept meticulous records.

Prof sorry for Keynes gay remark

Harvard history professor had said the economist was less invested in the future because he was gay and had no children.

another case of selling the lifestyle rather than the policy

re: #163 thedopefishlives

Good for you. Sometimes I wish my father’s side of the family had cared more about their ancestry. My mother’s side kept meticulous records.

Opposite way for me. My cousin has traced my father’s father’s family back to the mid-19th century. He’s traced our maternal grandmother’s family back to before the Revolutionary War.

re: #165 Dark_Falcon

Opposite way for me. My cousin has traced my father’s father’s family back to the mid-19th century. He’s traced our maternal grandmother’s family back to before the Revolutionary War.

As far as I can tell, my father’s father’s family only goes back 2 or 3 generations. Even my father’s mother’s family has more information than that. My mother’s side of the family has records all the way back to their Scottish heritage.

re: #162 ProBosniaLiberal

When my grandpa’s research on his ancestry gets here, I will post the big stuff. There is apparently a map included.

I expect the map to look kind of like the nations involved in the 30 Years War.

The people you really should show the map to: Your parents. It might make them realize how silly they are in matters of origins.

it seems all my great grandparents arrived from central and eastern europe in the 1870s and 1880s - which puts them before the bulk of jewish immigration that took place from the 1890s through WWI

…except for one grandparent whose people came over in the 1840s. his grandfather was recorded as a cigar maker and listed as eligible for service in the civil war

re: #159 Dark_Falcon

I can’t upding anything. When I try, it just kicks me back to the front page.

I’m fine (Safari on a Mac).

re: #169 austin_blue

I’m fine (Safari on a Mac).

The problem has cleared up. I think Charles was just working on something.

re: #168 engineer cat

it seems all my great grandparents arrived from central and eastern europe in the 1870s and 1880s - which puts them before the bulk of jewish immigration that took place from the 1890s through WWI

…except for one grandparent whose people came over in the 1840s. his grandfather was recorded as a cigar maker and listed as eligible for service in the civil war

My ancestors are of Irish and Scottish stock (with a dash of German for flavor, plus I’m sure some other stuff we don’t know about), and were among the first settlers to reach the Indiana Territory in the early 1800’s. We still have one of the trunks that came through Ellis Island.

re: #171 thedopefishlives

My ancestors are of Irish and Scottish stock (with a dash of German for flavor, plus I’m sure some other stuff we don’t know about), and were among the first settlers to reach the Indiana Territory in the early 1800’s. We still have one of the trunks that came through Ellis Island.

since the last of my ancestors to come over arrived in 1891, they all came over before ellis island was in operation

re: #149 wrenchwench

Sorry for the late reply, I was out planting in the garden. I’ll always go for the jauntier option.