A Terrific Short Film on the Historians of the Web: Internet Archive

Attempting to preserve the Internet’s contents on a massive scale
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Archive is a documentary focused on the future of long-term digital storage, the history of the Internet and attempts to preserve its contents on a massive scale.

Part one features Brewster Kahle, founder of the Internet Archive and his colleagues Robert Miller, director of books, and Alexis Rossi, director of web collections. On a mission to create universal access to all knowledge, the Internet Archive’s staff have built the world’s largest online library, offering 10 petabytes of archived websites, books, movies, music, and television broadcasts.

The video includes a tour of the Internet Archive’s headquarters in San Francisco, the book scanning center, and the book storage facilities in Richmond, California.

Directed by Jonathan Minard

Cinematography by John Behrens, Alexander Porter, and Fearghal O’dea

Produced at the Internet Archive on October 22-26, during the Books in Browsers Conference and 10 Petabyte Celebration. Project supported by Eyebeam

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243 comments
1 Charles Johnson  Mon, May 6, 2013 5:59:55pm

By the way, there’s a new feature for you LGF power users - if you’re on any page that’s showing a list of posts, either front page articles or LGF Pages, you can now use the keyboard to jump instantly to the beginning of the next or previous post, with the J and K keys.

J = next post
K = previous post

2 darthstar  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:14:14pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Apparently doesn’t do much when there’s only one post.

3 thedopefishlives  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:14:56pm

re: #2 darthstar

Apparently doesn’t do much when there’s only one post.

Well, gee, imagine that.

4 darthstar  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:18:35pm

Holy crap! The Bulls are in the NBA Playoffs? I haven’t seen Pippen, Rodman, Parish or Jordan in years…glad to see they’ve still got it.

5 bratwurst  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:18:49pm
6 jaunte  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:23:21pm

re: #5 bratwurst

I’m imagining a very very slo-o-o-ow quick draw contest.

7 engineer cat  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:25:59pm

3-d printer

i’ll wait for the matter compiler to come out

8 jaunte  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:27:23pm
9 thedopefishlives  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:31:36pm

re: #7 engineer cat

3-d printer

i’ll wait for the matter compiler to come out

Real programmers use the butterfly effect.

10 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:36:08pm

re: #9 thedopefishlives

Real programmers use the butterfly effect.

Emacs is too top heavy (Nano/Vim user)

11 thedopefishlives  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:38:22pm

re: #10 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Emacs is too top heavy (Nano/Vim user)

I’m a vim guy, myself. I got way turned off to the complexity of Emacs very early in my Linux career. Once I learned how to actually use a proper text editor, vim become my closest companion.

12 Vicious Babushka  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:43:35pm

I wandered around in the house of mirrors that is the wingnut BENGHAZI!!11!! conspiracy derpapalooza. Good G-D each and every wingnut site has a different timeline of the event. I wonder if they even know what fucking TIME ZONES are and how they work.

According to the derpfest (which we all already know)

BENGHAZI WAS THE WORSTEST THING EVER TO HAPPEN IN HISTORY WORSER THEN TEH 9/11 AND TEH HOLOCAUST EVEN!!!1111!!!

I have a stomach ache now. It will go away when I throw up.

13 thedopefishlives  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:44:39pm

re: #12 Vicious Babushka

I really do appreciate the work you and your hip waders do. These thugs can’t be allowed to disappear into the echo chamber with this crap.

14 darthstar  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:48:24pm
15 PT Barnum  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:49:29pm

re: #13 thedopefishlives

I really do appreciate the work you and your hip waders do. These thugs can’t be allowed to disappear into the echo chamber with this crap.

But both sides do it, don’t you know. Just had that argument thrown at me by a Facebook friend.

16 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:49:32pm

re: #11 thedopefishlives

I’m a vim guy, myself. I got way turned off to the complexity of Emacs very early in my Linux career. Once I learned how to actually use a proper text editor, vim become my closest companion.

I find Vi/Vim a bit non-intuitive, so I use nano a bit more now.

17 thedopefishlives  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:51:01pm

re: #15 PT Barnum

But both sides do it, don’t you know. Just had that argument thrown at me by a Facebook friend.

The Magical Balance Fairy is one of the most annoying creatures in all of Wingnuttia.

18 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:52:29pm

re: #17 thedopefishlives

I just had a friend of my Imam’s from Pakistan deny the genocide in 1971 occurred, and that Jamaat-i-Islami is peaceful.

Denialism!! It’s everywhere.

19 Vicious Babushka  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:53:29pm

re: #13 thedopefishlives

I really do appreciate the work you and your hip waders do. These thugs can’t be allowed to disappear into the echo chamber with this crap.

It’s like watching a car crash in slow motion. It’s wrong to gawk & rubberneck but I’m all like, WTF is driving these people that BENGHAZI!!11!! is such a fixation with them, more important even than Sandy Hook, Boston Marathon, or anything even in their own lives.

I just can’t understand this, this monomania.

20 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:55:22pm

re: #19 Vicious Babushka

It’s like watching a car crash in slow motion. It’s wrong to gawk & rubberneck but I’m all like, WTF is driving these people that BENGHAZI!!11!! is such a fixation with them, more important even than Sandy Hook, Boston Marathon, or anything even in their own lives.

I just can’t understand this, this monomania.

Rwnj echos can never be destroyed=1st law of Derpodynamics.

21 PT Barnum  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:55:49pm

re: #17 thedopefishlives

The Magical Balance Fairy is one of the most annoying creatures in all of Wingnuttia.

My usual response is “Why do you think that’s an excuse for bad behavior? You wouldn’t accept that as an excuse from a 10 year old, why would you expect anyone else to accept it from you”

22 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:56:29pm

re: #18 ProBosniaLiberal

I prefer to call this Cranio-Rectal Syndrome.

23 Vicious Babushka  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:57:12pm
24 PT Barnum  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:57:39pm

re: #17 thedopefishlives

The Magical Balance Fairy is one of the most annoying creatures in all of Wingnuttia.

The problem is that it’s not really limited to Wingnuttia but is also used by the Village to avoid noticing that one side is openly fomenting armed revolution and political violence.

25 thedopefishlives  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:58:53pm

re: #24 PT Barnum

The problem is that it’s not really limited to Wingnuttia but is also used by the Village to avoid noticing that one side is openly fomenting armed revolution and political violence.

Oh, it’s invoked by all kinds of people. It’s certainly made a home for itself among the wingnuts, but in the true spirit of the MBF, it has beach houses among moonbats and all across the political spectrum.

26 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Mon, May 6, 2013 6:59:32pm

re: #25 thedopefishlives

Oh, it’s invoked by all kinds of people. It’s certainly made a home for itself among the wingnuts, but in the true spirit of the MBF, it has beach houses among moonbats and all across the political spectrum.

Yah, but they do it too.

27 Vicious Babushka  Mon, May 6, 2013 7:00:10pm
28 PT Barnum  Mon, May 6, 2013 7:01:09pm

re: #24 PT Barnum

The problem is that it’s not really limited to Wingnuttia but is also used by the Village to avoid noticing that one side is openly fomenting armed revolution and political violence.

The Village likes it because without it, they might actually have to commit actual journalism.

29 thedopefishlives  Mon, May 6, 2013 7:01:24pm

re: #26 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Yah, but they do it too.

I’m not talking to you anymore.///

30 thedopefishlives  Mon, May 6, 2013 7:04:17pm

And on that completely ironic note, night Lizardim.

31 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Mon, May 6, 2013 7:04:26pm

re: #29 thedopefishlives

I’m not talking to you anymore.///

First CL, now you.

I’m getting depressed.

32 jaunte  Mon, May 6, 2013 7:07:48pm

Huck Predix!

33 wheat-dogghazi  Mon, May 6, 2013 7:08:41pm

re: #32 jaunte

Dream on, Huckster

34 jaunte  Mon, May 6, 2013 7:09:20pm

I see a reverse-mortgage ad in Huckabee’s future.

35 Kragar  Mon, May 6, 2013 7:09:43pm

re: #32 jaunte

Huck Predix!

Still waiting for him to force people to listen to David Barton at gunpoint.

36 Kragar  Mon, May 6, 2013 7:11:43pm
37 Kragar  Mon, May 6, 2013 7:14:53pm

Mediaite Learns: ‘Vast Majority Of National Advertisers Now Refuse To Air Ads During Limbaugh’s Show’

Mediaite’s own sources confirm that the ad troubles in connection with Limbaugh’s show are, indeed, severe. In fact, one source within the radio advertising world with direct knowledge of the ad buys on Limbaugh’s show confirms the extent of the problem: “The vast majority of national advertisers now refuse to air their ads during Rush Limbaugh’s show,” our source tells us.

Limbaugh is reportedly considering a departure from Cumulus (or vice versa) after Cumulus CEO Lew Dickey‘s public comments that the Fluke incident is “still causing problems” with potential ad buyers. Limbaugh currently hosts the number-one most-listened-to radio show in the United States, and his departure would present a huge shake-up for the radio business.

The next earnings call for Cumulus is tomorrow and Dickey will undoubtedly be asked by Wall Street analysts how Limbaugh’s performing on the 40 Cumulus stations that carry the show. Despite Limbaugh’s immense value, Dickey has previously claimed that Cumulus’s top three stations had lost $5.5 million as a result of the anti-Limbaugh backlash.

38 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, May 6, 2013 7:20:14pm

I do think the Two State Solution for Israel and Palestine is now dead.

39 Kragar  Mon, May 6, 2013 7:21:19pm

Christian Post predicts a new moral majority will rise up and crush the homosexual agenda.

The Unstoppable New Majority and America’s Electoral Future

America’s New Majority is fast becoming fact.

Its impact on the nation’s electoral future is thundering down on the land like a tsunami.

And it is every bit as unstoppable as the tidal surge from an 8.6 earthquake in the sea bottom. The tremors have been building for years far below the American political-scape. Huge waves have already hit. They are nothing compared to what is racing toward the United States in the 2016 elections and beyond.

The New Majority tsunami will demolish everything that stands in its path – including the Republican Party establishment and all others who hunker down in denial.

40 wheat-dogghazi  Mon, May 6, 2013 7:28:35pm

re: #39 Kragar

The writer is Wallace Henley, a megachurch pastor and no stranger to “crisis situations,” if we can trust this bio. wallacehenley.net

Some people see crisis situations everywhere, it seems.

41 prairiefire  Mon, May 6, 2013 7:34:18pm

re: #39 Kragar

{{Kragar}} sorry for your loss. He was awfully young, very sad.

42 PT Barnum  Mon, May 6, 2013 7:39:41pm

re: #41 prairiefire

{{Kragar}} sorry for your loss. He was awfully young, very sad.

Same here Kragar. My thoughts are with you and your family

43 PT Barnum  Mon, May 6, 2013 7:40:28pm

re: #40 wheat-dogghazi

The writer is Wallace Henley, a megachurch pastor and no stranger to “crisis situations,” if we can trust this bio. wallacehenley.net

Some people see crisis situations everywhere, it seems.

‘We’re not being allowed to tell everyone what to believe and who to love!!!! We’re being oppressed!”

44 jaunte  Mon, May 6, 2013 7:41:53pm

re: #39 Kragar

If the GOP does not provide a voting vehicle for the New Majority, the Grand Old Party will be sunk, inglorious as the riven-hulled Titanic inert now in the murky sand. The porous moderates in the Party who compromise principle in their attempt to fashion a tsunami-proof vessel will only make a ship with a hull of sponge.
….
What the GOP and other political movements must recognize is the new face provided by the New Majority. The old political structures must put on the new face, but not as a cosmetic subterfuge. The new face must not be a facelift, the repackaging of the old contours in a sexier, younger profile, but it must be genuine, going to the very cellular structure.

That means sincere inclusion, not philosophical diversity but ethnic multiplicity. Not tokenism, but true incorporation. A Ted Cruz-Ben Carson presidential ticket, or something like it, might be the type of voting vessel many in the New Majority could happily board.

Shipwrecked in the Sea of Simile, with a daytrip to Makeup Beach.

45 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 6, 2013 7:48:35pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

By the way, there’s a new feature for you LGF power users - if you’re on any page that’s showing a list of posts, either front page articles or LGF Pages, you can now use the keyboard to jump instantly to the beginning of the next or previous post, with the J and K keys.

J = next post
K = previous post

The problem that has caused for me is that those keys also cause the page to jump when you try to enter your password, and they don’t print onto the password field. So if your password has a lower case j or k you have to copy and paste it into the box.

46 Mich-again  Mon, May 6, 2013 7:57:55pm

The downside of attempting to store everything from the internet’s history is that 99.999% of it was not worth saving. Its like trying to save all the dirt that was shoveled through by prospectors looking for gold.

47 engineer cat  Mon, May 6, 2013 8:02:53pm

re: #46 Mich-again

The downside of attempting to store everything from the internet’s history is that 99.999% of it was not worth saving. Its like trying to save all the dirt that was shoveled through by prospectors looking for gold.

one person’s worthless red dirt is another person’s iron ore

48 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 6, 2013 8:06:31pm

re: #47 engineer cat

one person’s worthless red dirt is another person’s iron ore

As the Aztecs found out to their dire cost. Iron ore they thought was worthless was refined by the Spanish to produce cannons to blast down Aztec defenses.

49 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 6, 2013 8:22:09pm

Darn it, I broke the thread!

50 Targetpractice  Mon, May 6, 2013 8:24:03pm

It’s sort of sad that I’ve gotten more play out of a $8 game since yesterday than I have the $60 copy of Bioshock Infinite I got on Saturday.

51 The Ghost of a Flea  Mon, May 6, 2013 8:24:04pm

re: #48 Dark_Falcon

As the Aztecs found out to their dire cost. Iron ore they thought was worthless was refined by the Spanish to produce cannons to blast down Aztec defenses.

Weirdly, had the Spanish not arrived when they did, the Aztecs likely would have been toppled by their Western neighbors, the Tarascan, who were experiencing an Iron Age of their own.

52 Mich-again  Mon, May 6, 2013 8:24:18pm

re: #48 Dark_Falcon

As the Aztecs found out to their dire cost. Iron ore they thought was worthless was refined by the Spanish to produce cannons to blast down Aztec defenses.

On a semi related note.. IIRC, the Aztecs stored all their important data and history in gold to preserve it forever, then the Spaniards were like, HOLY SHIT look at all this gold, lets melt it down into bars!

53 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Mon, May 6, 2013 8:27:47pm

re: #52 Mich-again

On a semi related note.. IIRC, the Aztecs stored all their important data and history in gold to preserve it forever, then the Spaniards were like, HOLY SHIT look at all this gold, lets melt it down into bars!

Probably didn’t matter. If they’d recorded everything on tree bark or parchment, the Spaniards would have been like, HOLY SHIT look at all this pagan deviltry, let’s burn it to ash!

54 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 6, 2013 8:32:20pm

re: #52 Mich-again

On a semi related note.. IIRC, the Aztecs stored all their important data and history in gold to preserve it forever, then the Spaniards were like, HOLY SHIT look at all this gold, lets melt it down into bars!

Because to Spaniards, gold was money, not a medium for recording things. History was to be recorded in books, but those books had to be written by the right people. This was doubly true because much Aztec data was about their religion, which the fiercely Catholic Spaniards regarded as a pagan abomination (human sacrifice having been forcibly ended in Iberia by the Romans over 1500 years before). Thus the destruction of indigenous religious materials was regarded a religious duty by the Spaniards, with failure in such a duty imperiling the souls of those whom Spain had conquered, who the Spanish believed must be introduced into the worship of the one true God if their souls were to achieve salvation.

55 engineer cat  Mon, May 6, 2013 8:32:47pm

re: #53 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

Probably didn’t matter. If they’d recorded everything on tree bark or parchment, the Spaniards would have been like, HOLY SHIT look at all this pagan deviltry, let’s burn it to ash!

actually, they did write books, and, indeed, many of them were burnt as pagan deviltry. but some were saved by monks:

publications.newberry.org

56 The Ghost of a Flea  Mon, May 6, 2013 8:35:23pm

re: #53 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

Probably didn’t matter. If they’d recorded everything on tree bark or parchment, the Spaniards would have been like, HOLY SHIT look at all this pagan deviltry, let’s burn it to ash!

It happened.

Equally depressing—the destruction of the quipu records of the Andean Civilizations (also) taken over by the Spanish.

57 jamesfirecat  Mon, May 6, 2013 8:45:12pm

re: #50 Targetpractice

It’s sort of sad that I’ve gotten more play out of a $8 game since yesterday than I have the $60 copy of Bioshock Infinite I got on Saturday.

I am still playing the free Path of Exile game because I want something stupid and non thinks or at least less thinky than Starcraft 2 heart of the swarm brutal mode which I still need to beat before I start playing Bioshokc Infinite at all….

58 Targetpractice  Mon, May 6, 2013 8:51:59pm

re: #57 jamesfirecat

I am still playing the free Path of Exile game because I want something stupid and non thinks or at least less thinky than Starcraft 2 heart of the swarm brutal mode which I still need to beat before I start playing Bioshokc Infinite at all….

In my case, I didn’t have much time to play during the day yesterday due to needing to help clear out the garage so our old washer/dryer set could be carted off and the new ones installed. After that, I just sort of lost interest for the rest of the day.

59 PT Barnum  Mon, May 6, 2013 8:57:24pm

re: #50 Targetpractice

It’s sort of sad that I’ve gotten more play out of a $8 game since yesterday than I have the $60 copy of Bioshock Infinite I got on Saturday.

What game?

60 Targetpractice  Mon, May 6, 2013 8:58:16pm

re: #59 PT Barnum

What game?

Game Dev Tycoon. Slowly getting the hang of it.

61 PT Barnum  Mon, May 6, 2013 8:59:18pm

re: #60 Targetpractice

I write software for a living..that would just make me sad.

63 Targetpractice  Mon, May 6, 2013 9:01:31pm

re: #61 PT Barnum

I write software for a living..that would just make me sad.

It’s sort of like a simplified version of the old The Movies games, so I can see why it would feel a bit insulting.

64 Kragar  Mon, May 6, 2013 9:05:14pm

re: #62 jaunte

Charles Ramsey rescues three women, gives greatest interview in the history of television

“Bro, I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway.”

65 PT Barnum  Mon, May 6, 2013 9:05:25pm

re: #63 Targetpractice

It’s more a matter of not wanting to think about writing code more than I already do. I’ve only played a couple of sim games ever, Sim Theme Park and Lemonade stand. My tastes tend to run more toward RPGs, adventure games, and puzzlers.

Of course I do most of my gaming on my Android phone now instead of my PC.

66 jaunte  Mon, May 6, 2013 9:06:54pm

re: #64 Kragar

Smart guy. From the 911 call:
Does she need an ambulance?
She need everything bro, she’s been kidnapped. Put yourself in her shoes!”

67 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 6, 2013 9:07:07pm

re: #64 Kragar

“Bro, I knew something was wrong when a little pretty white girl ran into a black man’s arms. Something is wrong here. Dead giveaway.”

Mr. McCain, is that you?

/Robert Stacy McCain, of course. John Sidney McCain III isn’t a racist.

68 Targetpractice  Mon, May 6, 2013 9:08:31pm

re: #65 PT Barnum

It’s more a matter of not wanting to think about writing code more than I already do. I’ve only played a couple of sim games ever, Sim Theme Park and Lemonade stand. My tastes tend to run more toward RPGs, adventure games, and puzzlers.

Of course I do most of my gaming on my Android phone now instead of my PC.

Ah, yeah I can understand that. It’s like how I tend to stay away from restaurant-themed games after a long shift.

Amazing how a few hours tromping through the Mojave Wasteland can make a person forget a bad day…or maybe it’s the reducing the local wildlife to red paste with high explosive?//

69 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, May 6, 2013 9:08:49pm

re: #66 jaunte

I got a Chrome Security Warning. :/

I want to see.

70 jaunte  Mon, May 6, 2013 9:10:09pm

re: #69 ProBosniaLiberal

Here’s another one on Youtube:

71 PT Barnum  Mon, May 6, 2013 9:10:50pm

Hey everybody…I’m off to bed.

In good news, though, I got the job, (going through the obligatory background check and drug test. As long as they don’t find out about the incident with the penguin, the spatula, and the baby oil, I should be okay)

Father in law is doing better, although he’s being a bit of a petulant child about doing his physical therapy, but I can’t really blame him, they’ve been dosing him with laxatives so he’s terrified he’s gonna have an attack of diarrhea any minute.

72 goddamnedfrank  Mon, May 6, 2013 9:14:22pm

re: #62 jaunte

Charles Ramsey rescues three women, gives greatest interview in the history of television

Yo Charles, Imma let you finish, but Kai the homeless hatchet wielding hitchhiker gave the best interview in the history of television of all time … OF ALL TIME!

73 jaunte  Mon, May 6, 2013 9:16:24pm

re: #72 goddamnedfrank

“I’m smarter than that, bro. I’m telling you where the crime was, not my house.” — Charles Ramsey

74 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 6, 2013 9:22:38pm

re: #72 goddamnedfrank

Yo Charles, Imma let you finish, but Kai the homeless hatchet wielding hitchhiker gave the best interview in the history of television of all time … OF ALL TIME!

[Embedded content]

Jackass.

//

75 jaunte  Mon, May 6, 2013 9:27:44pm

UPDATE 10:21pm: One of the persons arrested has been identified as 52-year-old Ariel Castro, a Cleveland City Schools bus driver. He is the owner of the home and was arrested for domestic violence in 1992. A grand jury declined to indict him. He has lived in the house since 1992.

cleveland.cbslocal.com

76 Kragar  Mon, May 6, 2013 9:31:34pm

Jon Stewart gleefully mocks NRA’s blatant contradictions

Speakers at the event blasted Democrats for using emotion-based arguments in favor of stricter gun laws. Conservative radio host Glenn Beck vowed to fight “their tactics of fear” and “their tactics of darkness.” But Stewart showed that Beck offered up his own hyperbolic fear-mongering by saying the only thing preventing your mom and sister from getting raped was a gun. Other speakers warned terrorists had more rights than American citizens, and that “deranged school shooters” and rapists were “waiting and planning and plotting.”

“These types of contradictions — they use fear, we use fear — are not an anomaly, not a bug in the NRA’s system, but a feature,” Stewart said. “At the heart of the NRA’s message is, ‘Don’t let liberals say it’s a dangerous world and scare you into gun control. Let us say it’s a dangerous world and scare you into a gun-a-pa-looza.’”

In another contradiction, Beck portrayed the ever-wishing-to-be-tyrannical government as the bad guy while Wayne LaPierre portrayed the very same terrorist-catching government as the the good guy.

“So police are the good guys and who do they work for? The government. So you have no idea who the good guys are and the bad guys are. In fact, these guys aren’t too sure about the difference between democracy and tyranny either,” Stewart said, playing a clip of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) boasting about his filibuster of legislation that was supported by 9 of 10 Americans. Three minutes later, Cruz demonized Democrats for filibustering his legislation.

77 blueraven  Mon, May 6, 2013 9:32:02pm

re: #75 jaunte

UPDATE 10:21pm: One of the persons arrested has been identified as 52-year-old Ariel Castro, a Cleveland City Schools bus driver. He is the owner of the home and was arrested for domestic violence in 1992. A grand jury declined to indict him. He has lived in the house since 1992.

cleveland.cbslocal.com

Oh hell

UPDATE: 11:29pm: Fox 8 News reports, live on-air, three men have been arrested – all brothers over the age of 50.

78 klys  Mon, May 6, 2013 9:38:19pm

re: #60 Targetpractice

Game Dev Tycoon. Slowly getting the hang of it.

I’ve looked at it and thought about it.

On the other hand, there are some really pretty serious parallels between their game and a game put out by a Japanese company that I’m finding kind of hard to ignore.

79 klys  Mon, May 6, 2013 9:45:07pm

re: #78 klys

I’ve looked at it and thought about it.

On the other hand, there are some really pretty serious parallels between their game and a game put out by a Japanese company that I’m finding kind of hard to ignore.

To be fair to them, a little more poking has found acknowledgement that, in fact, they created this game in response to playing the one mentioned above and wanting some different controls - something to consider. I wish they had made slightly more effort to produce a different aesthetic, though.

80 Dark_Falcon  Mon, May 6, 2013 10:10:26pm

Goodnight, all.

81 wrenchwench  Mon, May 6, 2013 11:11:14pm
82 freetoken  Tue, May 7, 2013 1:51:47am
83 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, May 7, 2013 2:02:17am

drip…ping…drip…ping…drip…

84 EdDantes  Tue, May 7, 2013 2:52:16am

re: #83 Sol Berdinowitz

drip…ping…drip…ping…drip…

So are the days of our lives.

85 freetoken  Tue, May 7, 2013 2:55:51am
86 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 4:16:54am

Oh hai, anybody up?

As I was driving in to work the radio newscaster read a teaser “WINGNUTS GO CRAZY IN DETROIT” and I had to wait through the commercial break to find out if there was some kind of frenzied Tea Party demonstration.

Oh. The Red Wings won the hockey game. I shoulda known that.

87 Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts  Tue, May 7, 2013 4:32:44am

re: #86 Vicious Babushka

I’m up but editing 300 pages of bad science.

89 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 6:01:55am

re: #72 goddamnedfrank

Yo Charles, Imma let you finish, but Kai the homeless hatchet wielding hitchhiker gave the best interview in the history of television of all time … OF ALL TIME!

Antoine Dodson is what, chopped liver?

90 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 6:22:19am

Wingnuts think this is a Bad Thing? It’s nice to know that she was hot back in the day. [FAKE]

91 Gus  Tue, May 7, 2013 6:29:56am

re: #90 Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts think this is a Bad Thing? It’s nice to know that she was hot back in the day.

snopes.com

92 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, May 7, 2013 6:31:49am

Hmmmm…

93 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 6:38:11am

I’m getting swarmed by a bunch of “Christian” spambots on Twitter. “ChristianBooks” “ChristianMoms” “ChristianDads” “ChristianTweets”

I’m PERSECUTING them all by block & reporting for spam.

Let them go crying to Bryan Fischer.

94 lawhawk  Tue, May 7, 2013 6:42:27am

re: #92 NJDhockeyfan

So far, I’m seeing that reported only in the Jerusalem Post via the BBC. It’s possible that the Iranians had a missile test go bad or some kind of industrial accident.

It’s happened before.

95 lawhawk  Tue, May 7, 2013 6:42:51am

re: #93 Vicious Babushka

I’m getting swarmed by a bunch of “Christian” spambots on Twitter. “ChristianBooks” “ChristianMoms” “ChristianDads” “ChristianTweets”

I’m PERSECUTING them all by block & reporting for spam.

Let them go crying to Bryan Fischer.

Naw, Glenn Beck. He’s good with crying. /

96 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 6:44:12am

Got another new follow—-

Oh wow! Awesome! Tammy Duckworth! (follow back)

97 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 6:45:07am

I think because of this:

98 Bulworth  Tue, May 7, 2013 6:45:08am

re: #93 Vicious Babushka

Make sure they don’t have TGDN in their profiles/tweets. Else they’ll be immune to the Twitter Gulag.

99 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, May 7, 2013 6:48:37am

So, in Shakespeare’s _Hamlet For Modern Times_ is Prince Hamlet indecisive due to conflicting advice from his Twitter followers?

And does the soliloquy now start “To Tweet, or not to Tweet?”

;)

Good morning Lizards. Hazy and fairly warm today. Perhaps rain by this evening. How goes it for yunz guys?

100 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 6:48:47am

re: #98 Bulworth

Make sure they don’t have TGDN in their profiles/tweets. Else they’ll be immune to the Twitter Gulag.

I think they are all spambots, not actual people.

101 Bubblehead II  Tue, May 7, 2013 6:55:14am

Morning Lizards

102 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 6:57:57am

That didn’t take long:


Ohio does not require a party affiliation to register. FAIL.

103 lawhawk  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:07:49am

Big news out of NJ today is that Gov. Chris Christie underwent lap band surgery back in February. After years of battling obesity, he went for the procedure. It’s not something to be done lightly, but count on some folks to question whether this is also done for, and in advance of, his running for the White House.

New Jersey politicos aren’t speculating, but I will. He’s probably considering it, knowing that there’s lots of moderates and independents who might take a liking to his style/persona, but he’s going to have to overcome a GOP that has gone full metal wingnut.

In the end, his surgery is about making him healthier regardless of his political choices - if he runs for the WH, losing the weight wont hurt.

104 Bulworth  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:09:29am
In case anyone is wondering, 3 Castro Brothers Arrested in Cleveland for the alleged kidnapping of 3 girls are registered Democrats.
#TGDN
— Stuart Smith (@ForeverReagan)
May 7, 2013

Believe it or not, I wasn’t wondering. Now please go back under the rock from which you emerged, mister stuart smith.

Also, too: STFU

105 HappyWarrior  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:12:19am

re: #103 lawhawk

Big news out of NJ today is that Gov. Chris Christie underwent lap band surgery back in February. After years of battling obesity, he went for the procedure. It’s not something to be done lightly, but count on some folks to question whether this is also done for, and in advance of, his running for the White House.

New Jersey politicos aren’t speculating, but I will. He’s probably considering it, knowing that there’s lots of moderates and independents who might take a liking to his style/persona, but he’s going to have to overcome a GOP that has gone full metal wingnut.

In the end, his surgery is about making him healthier regardless of his political choices - if he runs for the WH, losing the weight wont hurt.

Losing the weight will do him good in the end. I finally decided to address my weight problem. Weekday trips to the gym and daily walks. And once the pool opens up, laps. Christie’s going to have a tough time though as you say since he’s a relatively sane voice in a party gone insane. I don’t think he will win but I do hope that he can incorporate some sanity in to the discussion before someone like Jindal or someone like him becomes the nominee. They need it. I don’t like the GOP but the country’s better off with two sane parties.

106 Bulworth  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:13:18am

Meanwhile, at the NRAGOP conference this past weekend, this was said about the gun background check bill:

“Acronyms,” Sarah Palin said, like MSNBC, CBS, ABC, “one day they will think themselves accursed that they were not in this fight with us.”

So, one day, we will all look back on the time during which we supported tyrannical background checks at gun shows. Does someone have the glue for me to sniff?

107 HappyWarrior  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:14:05am

re: #104 Bulworth

Believe it or not, I wasn’t wondering. Now please go back under the rock from which you emerged, mister stuart smith.

Also, too: STFU

No kidding. I don’t know the story but if the guys were registered Republicans, it wouldn’t prove all Republicans are evil just like this guy implying that these guys being registered Democrats means that. I mean if I want to be a real dick, I’d loudly point out that the actual Republican governor of Washington hired Ted Bundy.But then someone would point out the photo of Gacy and Rosslyn Carter and so on. Really stupid partisanship like this is stupid. IF the first thing you’re thinking after a crime is, “I wonder what party they were registered with and if they’re anyway connected with a party I hate, I’m going to go on Twitter and indict on people in that party as being evil criminals,” Then frankly you’re a fuckwad, a stupid fuckwad.

108 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:20:06am

It’s shit like this that pisses me off. Psychics are such bullshit artists who tug on people’s heart strings for $$$.

Amanda Berry is dead, psychic tells her mother on Montel Williams’ show (republished)

For 19 months, Louwana Miller refused to give up hope that her missing daughter might still be alive.

Not anymore.

Desperate for any clue as to Amanda Berry’s whereabouts, and tired of unanswered questions from authorities, Miller turned to a psychic on Montel Williams’ nationally syndicated television show.

The psychic said what the FBI, police and Miller hadn’t.

“She’s not alive, honey,” Sylvia Browne told her matter-of-factly. “Your daughter’s not the kind who wouldn’t call.”

With those blunt words, Browne persuaded Miller to accept a grim probability that has become more likely with each passing day.

Miller went back to the West Side home where she had been keeping Amanda’s things in careful order and cleaned up. She gave away her daughter’s computer and took down her pictures. “I’m not even buying my baby a Christmas present this year,” she said.

Miller said she returned devastated from the show, taped this month in New York.

109 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:22:40am

re: #108 NJDhockeyfan

It’s shit like this that pisses me off. Psychics are such bullshit artists who tug on people’s heart strings for $$$.

Amanda Berry is dead, psychic tells her mother on Montel Williams’ show (republished)

The mother passed away in 2006, at age 44.

110 Bulworth  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:23:00am

re: #108 NJDhockeyfan

Hopefully Williams or someone else will follow up with Sylvia Browne about this.

111 Joanne  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:23:45am

re: #103 lawhawk

Exactly. I am no Christie fan but he is way too big. And the stress of the job along with the probably close to 400 pounds of body mass will put him six foot under in relatively short order.

Good for him. I hope it works out for him.

That said, I do not want him as a POTUS.

112 wheat-dogghazi  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:24:29am

re: #108 NJDhockeyfan

Silvia Browne is a consummate huckster, and a heartless one at that. One guy had a Stop Silvia Browne website going at stopsylvia.com Not sure how current it is, though.

113 Bulworth  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:24:30am

re: #109 Vicious Babushka

Yeah the article was reprinted from 2004.

114 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:25:35am

Wingnuts are still Tweeting Birther shit. Just in case they get bored of BENGHAZI!!11!!

115 lawhawk  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:25:53am

Put this in perspective a bit.

It’s several times (nearly 5x) the number of those killed in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (146).

It’s roughly a 1/3 of the number killed in the Johnstown flood.

It’s a bit more than 4 times the number killed in the OKC bombing (168).

It’s several times larger than the number killed in the Mumbia, Madrid or London train/subway bombings/terror attacks.

It’s about 1/4 of the 2,977 of those killed in the 9/11 attacks.

And the death toll keeps climbing. It appears that heavy machinery and generators contributed to the collapse of the illegally built structure.

It’s the price we pay for cheap clothes.

116 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:27:07am

re: #115 lawhawk

Put this in perspective a bit.

It’s several times (nearly 5x) the number of those killed in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (146).

It’s roughly a 1/3 of the number killed in the Johnstown flood.

It’s a bit more than 4 times the number killed in the OKC bombing (168).

It’s several times larger than the number killed in the Mumbia, Madrid or London train/subway bombings/terror attacks.

It’s about 1/4 of the 2,977 of those killed in the 9/11 attacks.

And the death toll keeps climbing. It appears that heavy machinery and generators contributed to the collapse of the illegally built structure.

It’s the price we pay for cheap clothes.

BUT BENGHAZI!!!1!!!!

117 HappyWarrior  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:27:59am

re: #115 lawhawk

Put this in perspective a bit.

It’s several times (nearly 5x) the number of those killed in the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire (146).

It’s roughly a 1/3 of the number killed in the Johnstown flood.

It’s a bit more than 4 times the number killed in the OKC bombing (168).

It’s several times larger than the number killed in the Mumbia, Madrid or London train/subway bombings/terror attacks.

It’s about 1/4 of the 2,977 of those killed in the 9/11 attacks.

And the death toll keeps climbing. It appears that heavy machinery and generators contributed to the collapse of the illegally built structure.

It’s the price we pay for cheap clothes.

And people wonder why I’m pro union. Not here mind you but in general. Good perspective tho.

118 HappyWarrior  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:30:00am

re: #111 Joanne

Exactly. I am no Christie fan but he is way too big. And the stress of the job along with the probably close to 400 pounds of body mass will put him six foot under in relatively short order.

Good for him. I hope it works out for him.

That said, I do not want him as a POTUS.

I do too. He’s got relatively young kids too. Not a fan either but I don’t want him to die. And as I said, I can relate since I’ve had problems with my weight. Glad I finally decide to do something about it myself. I’d recommend to him that even if he gets an operation that he still try to exercise more.

119 Sionainn  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:34:53am

re: #89 Vicious Babushka

Antoine Dodson is what, chopped liver?

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I’d never seen that one. Love these interviews!

120 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:35:56am

re: #112 wheat-dogghazi

Silvia Browne is a consummate huckster, and a heartless one at that. One guy had a Stop Silvia Browne website going at stopsylvia.com Not sure how current it is, though.

The author, Robert Lancaster, had a major stroke some time back. He survived, but it really slowed him down.

This isn’t the first time Sylvia Browne and Montel Williams have used the suffering of grieving parents and relatives to (ultimately) enrich themselves. They’re both despicable.

121 DisturbedEma  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:36:35am

re: #104 Bulworth

And Ted Bundy was a Republican…your point Mr. Smith???

Doh!

122 efuseakay  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:39:27am

re: #121 DisturbedEma

And Ted Bundy was a Republican…your point Mr. Smith???

Doh!

Lies. He was a false flag guy to make the Tea Party look bad!

/

123 DisturbedEma  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:42:45am

re: #120 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Oh SNAP

Has the woman EVER been correct???

124 DisturbedEma  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:43:15am

re: #122 efuseakay

Ok, I LOLed BIG TIME:)

125 lawhawk  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:47:38am

re: #123 DisturbedEma

In 1992, Browne was convicted of investment fraud and grand theft.

Bet she didn’t see that coming.

126 Joanne  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:48:11am

re: #121 DisturbedEma

And Ted Bundy was a Republican…your point Mr. Smith???

Doh!

And not just your average Republican:

In early 1968 he dropped out of college and worked at a series of minimum-wage jobs. He also volunteered at the Seattle office of Nelson Rockefeller’s presidential campaign,[35] and in August, attended the 1968 Republican National Convention in Miami as a Rockefeller delegate.[36]

After graduating from UW in 1972[43] Bundy joined Governor Daniel J. Evans’s reelection campaign.[44] Posing as a college student, he shadowed Evans’s opponent, former governor Albert Rosellini, recording his stump speeches for analysis by Evans’s team.[45][46] After Evans’s reelection he was hired as an assistant to Ross Davis, Chairman of the Washington State Republican Party. Davis thought well of Bundy, describing him as “smart, aggressive … and a believer in the system.”[47] In early 1973, despite mediocre Law School Admission Test scores, Bundy was accepted into the law schools of UPS and the University of Utah on the strength of letters of recommendation from Evans, Davis, and several UW psychology professors.[48][49]

During a trip to California on Republican Party business in the summer of 1973 Bundy came back into the life of ex-girlfriend Brooks, who marveled at his transformation into a serious, dedicated professional, seemingly on the cusp of a distinguished legal and political career.

While it doesn’t explicitly say it here, I could have sworn I remember him being touted as an up and coming Republican candidate.

It’s funny how no one links Bundy to the entirety of the GOP, but the nuts on the right always love to show even the thinnest of connections to some lawless schmuck who might be registered as a dem (whether they actually vote or not) as being a party operative.

127 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:48:56am

re: #126 Joanne

And not just your average Republican:

While it doesn’t explicitly say it here, I could have sworn I remember him being touted as an up and coming Republican candidate.

It’s funny how no one links Bundy to the entirety of the GOP, but the nuts on the right always love to show even the thinnest of connections to some lawless schmuck who might be registered as a dem (whether they actually vote or not) as being a party operative.

128 Bulworth  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:51:28am
FACT: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is just another angry, violent DEMOCRAT.
#tcot
#tgdn
#uniteblue
PHOTO:
twitter.com/NYCGuy2012/sta…
— NYCguyLive (@NYCGuy2012)
May 2, 2013

Confirmed. FACT. ///

But I admit that being called ‘violent’ bothers me. Who is it that has all the gunz?

129 Gus  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:54:56am

Whenever I read these TGDN Tweets I typically think of the r-word.

130 A Mom Anon  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:56:32am

OK, I just looked up Arial Castro’s voter info. I know I got the right guy because the address matches the news reports. There is NO mention at all of party registration. I’m assuming this is because, just like here in GA you don’t register party affiliation, it appears nowhere in the state records. So the geniuses spouting this bullshit have no idea what the fuck they’re talking about, they’re just LYING their asses off.

Surprise, surprise, surprise.

131 Joanne  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:56:55am

re: #127 Vicious Babushka

FACT: Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is just another angry, violent DEMOCRAT. #tcot #tgdn #uniteblue PHOTO: pic.twitter.com/Mi0eTxWQIz

So did, what was it, 53 million (?) others. :-)

132 Joanne  Tue, May 7, 2013 7:58:09am

re: #130 A Mom Anon

That’s how they roll.

Reality is what reverberates around the empty mass inside their skulls.

133 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:02:45am

re: #130 A Mom Anon

OK, I just looked up Arial Castro’s voter info. I know I got the right guy because the address matches the news reports. There is NO mention at all of party registration. I’m assuming this is because, just like here in GA you don’t register party affiliation, it appears nowhere in the state records. So the geniuses spouting this bullshit have no idea what the fuck they’re talking about, they’re just LYING their asses off.

Surprise, surprise, surprise.

Of course it’s bullshit.

134 DisturbedEma  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:03:24am

re: #126 Joanne

Actually when I googled “Ted Bundy political affiliation” a subsearch was titled “Ted Bundy Political aspirations” and found that he was interested in politics…whoa!

135 DisturbedEma  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:05:01am

re: #127 Vicious Babushka

I gave up my guns about 5 years ago…may get more someday, but I like guns and I wanted Romney to lose too…and I didn’t plan any attacks…hmmm guess I missed a step ////

136 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:05:03am

Grandpa lost the lottery :(

137 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:07:07am

On the other hand, my son-in-law received his Green Card.

138 Joanne  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:09:08am

re: #136 Vicious Babushka

Grandpa lost the lottery :(

Great grandpa here, as well.

139 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:10:41am

GAH

140 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:11:18am

*FACE PALM*

141 Bulworth  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:11:50am

re: #140 Vicious Babushka

So Bryan hates the military?

142 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:12:51am

re: #141 Bulworth

So Bryan hates the military?

Totally, since they repealed DADT and even allow TEH MUSLIMZ

143 Bulworth  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:12:54am
support for sodomy-based marriage.

I think Bryan has a bit of a fixation.

144 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:13:30am

I wish someone would create a parody account Gay Bryan Fischer. I would so follow that.

145 efuseakay  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:17:47am

re: #140 Vicious Babushka

*FACE PALM*

Yeah… Christians never sexually abuse people. Look to the priesthood for proof!

146 Political Atheist  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:19:22am

We really must have reform. A hand with a conscience on the throttle of quotas.

But immigration laws from back when? My ancestor is on this list. 1634, London Heh, the weather and tides were the only immigration laws back then.

147 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:26:22am

Cleveland escaped kidnapped women has knocked BENGHAZI!!11!! off the front page of Foxnews.com.

148 Joanne  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:28:58am

re: #144 Vicious Babushka

I wish someone would create a parody account Gay Bryan Fischer. I would so follow that.

I think it would be difficult to tell the difference.

149 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:29:28am

re: #148 Joanne

I think it would be difficult to tell the difference.

No, Gay Bryan Fischer would be MOAR FABULOUS!

150 Joanne  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:29:50am

re: #147 Vicious Babushka

Cleveland escaped kidnapped women has knocked BENGHAZI!!11!! off the front page of Foxnews.com.

Momentary slip of laser like focus.

151 blueraven  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:33:52am

re: #147 Vicious Babushka

Cleveland escaped kidnapped women has knocked BENGHAZI!!11!! off the front page of Foxnews.com.

Oh they’re just tamping it down for one day because tomorrow:

EXPLOSIVE HEARINGS ON BENGHAZI!!!!

152 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:37:55am

DERP

153 Bulworth  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:39:22am

re: #152 Vicious Babushka

So how’s that rebranding going, Ann?

154 Joanne  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:40:05am

re: #152 Vicious Babushka

Ann Coulter @AnnCoulter

Just 3 more “social conservative” Hispanic immigrants! Frantic 911 call leads to 3 girls missing for 10 yrs. bit.ly

My wingnut decoder ring is busted. I know not what this means.

155 Bulworth  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:40:48am

re: #152 Vicious Babushka

So the 3 brothers are illegal immigrants? Or just immigrants? Or is Ann just pulling shit out of her bony ass?

156 Bulworth  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:41:54am

re: #154 Joanne

Know the feeling. All the Benghazi deRp has broken my decoder.

157 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:42:26am

re: #155 Bulworth

So the 3 brothers are illegal immigrants? Or just immigrants? Or is Ann just pulling shit out of her bony ass?

Let me translate from wingnut:

TYPICAL HISPANIC DEMOCRATS!!11!!

158 Gus  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:50:46am

re: #157 Vicious Babushka

Let me translate from wingnut:

Spi-CLANG!

159 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:51:26am

re: #103 lawhawk

Big news out of NJ today is that Gov. Chris Christie underwent lap band surgery back in February. After years of battling obesity, he went for the procedure. It’s not something to be done lightly, but count on some folks to question whether this is also done for, and in advance of, his running for the White House.

New Jersey politicos aren’t speculating, but I will. He’s probably considering it, knowing that there’s lots of moderates and independents who might take a liking to his style/persona, but he’s going to have to overcome a GOP that has gone full metal wingnut.

In the end, his surgery is about making him healthier regardless of his political choices - if he runs for the WH, losing the weight wont hurt.

I would go so far as to say that his current weight issues would keep him out of the White House.

Not that it would influence my decision to vote for or against him at all, but it is just the sad fact that Americans are so pathetically obsessed with body image and things we stuff in our mouths (and other orifices) that it would become a serious drag on his candidacy.

160 DisturbedEma  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:53:02am

re: #158 Gus

What does it mean, this “clang”?

161 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:53:52am

re: #160 DisturbedEma

What does it mean, this “clang”?

It means THE SHERIFF IS NEAR!

162 Gus  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:56:16am

re: #160 DisturbedEma

What does it mean, this “clang”?

From Blazing Saddles…

163 William Barnett-Lewis  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:56:28am

re: #160 DisturbedEma

What does it mean, this “clang”?

From a scene in “Blazing Saddles”.

164 kirkspencer  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:56:42am

re: #160 DisturbedEma

What does it mean, this “clang”?

Referencing blazing saddles, when the lookout is trying to tell everyone the approaching sheriff is black, in racist terms. He gets the “ni” out, then the church bell rings. hence ni-CLANG.

165 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:57:12am
166 Gus  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:57:34am

[Gabby Johnson sees the sheriff riding into town]
Gabby Johnson: Hey! The sheriff’s a nig…
[Clock bell chimes]
Harriet Johnson: What did he say?
Dr. Sam Johnson: He said the sheriff’s near.
Gabby Johnson: No, gone blame it dang blammit! The sheriff is a nig…
[Clock bell chimes again]

167 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:58:59am

re: #155 Bulworth

So the 3 brothers are illegal immigrants? Or just immigrants? Or is Ann just pulling shit out of her bony ass?

Longer exegesis:
Democrats hope, and Republicans worry, that Hispanic immigrants will swell the ranks of Democratic voters. One rejoinder to this is that Hispanics tend to be socially conservative (e.g. highly religious) and thus are potential targets for enlistment into the Republican cause. Ann sneers at this rejoinder by taking these specific three individuals to be representative of the entire Hispanic community.

Shorter exegesis:
DERP.

168 DisturbedEma  Tue, May 7, 2013 8:59:04am

Ah yes, ok- I’ve seen the movie several times…just got confused until I realized you were spelling the sound:)

169 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:00:36am

re: #166 Gus

[Gabby Johnson sees the sheriff riding into town]
Gabby Johnson: Hey! The sheriff’s a nig…
[Clock bell chimes]
Harriet Johnson: What did he say?
Dr. Sam Johnson: He said the sheriff’s near.
Gabby Johnson: No, gone blame it dang blammit! The sheriff is a nig…
[Clock bell chimes again]

Hedley Lamarr: If I could find a sheriff who so offends the citizens of Rock Ridge, that his very appearance would drive them out of town. [looks out to audience] Well, where would I find such a man? Why am I asking YOU?

170 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:02:06am

There is a family dispute going on over what is the Greatest Comedy Of All Time, BLAZING SADDLES vs. THE BIG LEBOWSKI

171 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:06:44am

DERP

172 erik_t  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:06:45am

Looks like Ye Olde State of Bachmann sometimes does politics right.

Minnesota House to vote on same-sex marriage proposal Thursday

The Minnesota House will hold a final floor vote on whether to legalize same-sex marriage Thursday. House Speaker Paul Thissen, DFL-Minneapolis, said he would not bring the measure up for a floor vote until he was certain it had the votes to pass. The Senate is expected to take up the measure soon after. DFL Gov. Mark Dayton is a supporter of same-sex marriage and said he will sign the proposal into law.

173 lawhawk  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:07:23am

re: #170 Vicious Babushka

There is a family dispute going on over what is the Greatest Comedy Of All Time, BLAZING SADDLES vs. THE BIG LEBOWSKI

History of the World Part I.
Oedipus (while begging): Hey Josephus.
Josephus: Hey Mofo!

174 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:07:40am

re: #167 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

Longer exegesis:
Democrats hope, and Republicans worry, that Hispanic immigrants will swell the ranks of Democratic voters. One rejoinder to this is that Hispanics tend to be socially conservative (e.g. highly religious) and thus are potential targets for enlistment into the Republican cause. Ann sneers at this rejoinder by taking these specific three individuals to be representative of the entire Hispanic community.

Shorter exegesis:
DERP.

Midsize exegesis: the GOP has written off any hope of attracting the Hispanic Vote, because to move even moderately and reasonably on immigration reform would alienate their own xenophobic, racist base.

175 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:09:58am

re: #170 Vicious Babushka

There is a family dispute going on over what is the Greatest Comedy Of All Time, BLAZING SADDLES vs. THE BIG LEBOWSKI

Big Lebowski hands down.

But that is because when I lived in Arizona I had a big, goofy long-haired friend who wore Hawaiian shirts and answered to “Dude”, still have an oriental rug that really ties the place together and had a Vietnam-era veteran psychotic friend…

176 Bulworth  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:10:31am

re: #175 Sol Berdinowitz

Now, ‘Dude’, that’s a name no one would self-apply where I come from.

177 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:10:33am

re: #175 Sol Berdinowitz

Big Lebowski hands down.

But that is because when I lived in Arizona I had a big, goofy long-haired friend who wore Hawaiian shirts and answered to “Dude”, still have an oriental rug that really ties the place together and had a Vietnam-era veteran psychotic friend…

Who kept Shabbos?

178 lawhawk  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:10:37am

re: #171 Vicious Babushka

While the feds will probably lose money on the GM shares (they would have to appreciate significantly over the next year to exit with a profit), the rest of TARP resulted in the government actually making a couple of billion dollars on the whole enterprise excepting the bailouts for Chrysler and GM.

179 lawhawk  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:11:37am

re: #176 Bulworth

Now, ‘Dude’, that’s a name no one would self-apply where I come from.

Funny, but I can have an entire conversation with a friend of mine using nothing but the word Dude and different inflection.

Dude? Dude! Dude…. etc.

180 Bulworth  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:11:53am

re: #171 Vicious Babushka

Ah, another “Let GM go bankrupt” supporter….

181 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:12:18am

WTF DERP…
Who goes to an abortion clinic for a regular labor & delivery?
(Wingnuts including Michelle Malkin are derping this derp all over Twitter)

182 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:12:33am

re: #179 lawhawk

Funny, but I can have an entire conversation with a friend of mine using nothing but the word Dude and different inflection.

Dude? Dude! Dude…. etc.

You should sue the makers of Finding Nemo for plagiarism.

183 Bulworth  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:13:06am

re: #181 Vicious Babushka

Well, the news source is “Lifenews”, so it must be totally accurate. //

184 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:13:59am

re: #183 Bulworth

Well, the news source is “Lifenews”, so it must be totally accurate. //

Yeah, they are a total source of Derp.

185 William Barnett-Lewis  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:14:06am

re: #170 Vicious Babushka

There is a family dispute going on over what is the Greatest Comedy Of All Time, BLAZING SADDLES vs. THE BIG LEBOWSKI

Blazing Saddles.
The Princess Bride.
Some Like It Hot.
Dr. Strangelove.
Harvey

I probably should finish the Big Lebowski someday but I always fall asleep during it.

186 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:14:10am

Your Child Shooting of the Day

187 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:15:10am

re: #185 William Barnett-Lewis

Blazing Saddles.
The Princess Bride.
Some Like It Hot.
Dr. Strangelove.
Harvey

I probably should finish the Big Lebowski someday but I always fall asleep during it.

I’m a big fan of A Fish Called Wanda.

188 wrenchwench  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:15:14am
189 sattv4u2  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:16:23am

re: #181 Vicious Babushka

Article indicates she went there not for “regular labor & delivery” but rather for an abortion
fta ,,, ” a pregnant woman named “Angele,” decided to abort her 22 week old unborn baby. She was in her 30s, divorced, and already had two children. She did not want a third child”

190 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:16:58am

re: #188 wrenchwench

That’s just creepy.

191 Gus  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:18:15am

re: #188 wrenchwench

Chief Wiggum took the call.

192 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:18:35am

re: #189 sattv4u2

Article indicates she went there not for “regular labor & delivery” but rather for an abortion
fta ,,, ” a pregnant woman named “Angele,” decided to abort her 22 week old unborn baby. She was in her 30s, divorced, and already had two children. She did not want a third child”

And then changed her mind?

193 sattv4u2  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:19:40am

re: #192 Vicious Babushka

And then changed her mind?

Prior to going back for her follow up the next morning, when she (again, fta) “When Angele went back to the hotel, she continued to feel her baby kick. This confused her because she had been led to believe that the baby would be dead.”

194 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:20:47am

re: #177 Vicious Babushka

Who kept Shabbos?

He tells me tht he never got sent to Vietnam for being court-martialled for putting LSD in the officer’s coffee…then when in the brig, he declared that he had defected to the Vietcong and demanded to be treated as a POW.

He lived out of the back of his camper van and reparied imported sportscars for a living, he’d come into town, earn another grupbstake doing repairs for a few days and then disappear back out into the wilderness again, where he spent his time looking for lost treasures and hidden gold mines…

195 wrenchwench  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:21:44am

re: #191 Gus

Chief Wiggum took the call.

Did you see the obit for Matt Groening’s mother?

Groening, Margaret Ruth 94 March 23, 1919 April 22, 2013 Margaret Groening died peacefully in her sleep on April 22, 2013, in Portland. Born Margaret Wiggum on March 23, 1919, in Chisolm, Minn., Margaret was 94 years old. Margaret’s parents, Matt and Ingeborg Wiggum, met on the boat coming to America from Norway. They settled in Everett, Wash., where the paper mill “smelled like money,” and Matt worked as a machinist. As high school valedictorian and Miss Everett, Margaret’s highest honor was being named May Queen of Linfield College. She graduated from Linfield in 1941 and married classmate Homer Groening, whom she chose because he made her laugh the most. Margaret taught high school English before starting a family, and her love of language was apparent in the many Double-Crostics she completed (in ink). Margaret and Homer supported the Oregon Symphony, the Portland Trail Blazers and many local yarn shops (Margaret was a talented needlework artist). Besides Homer, Margaret was preceded in death by her oldest daughter, Patty, who died in Jan., 2013. She is survived by her brother, Arnold; her children, Mark, Matt, Lisa and Maggie; eight grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. The family thanks the wonderful caregivers from Visiting Angels and the hospice nurses from Housecall Providers. Special appreciation also goes to loyal friend, Grace Clark.

Oops, link.

196 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:21:56am

re: #187 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

I’m a big fan of A Fish Called Wanda.

It is a movie that has to be appreciated on the big screen. It does not hold up well on DVD unless you have already seen and appreciated the full-size version of it.

197 Gus  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:23:05am

re: #195 wrenchwench

Did you see the obit for Matt Groening’s mother?

Ah, a Wiggum!

198 sattv4u2  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:24:00am

re: #185 William Barnett-Lewis

Blazing Saddles.
The Princess Bride.
Some Like It Hot.
Dr. Strangelove.
Harvey

I probably should finish the Big Lebowski someday but I always fall asleep during it.

Any list that does not contain at least ONE Marx Brothers movie on it ,,, feh !!!

199 Sionainn  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:24:30am

re: #181 Vicious Babushka

WTF DERP…
Who goes to an abortion clinic for a regular labor & delivery?
(Wingnuts including Michelle Malkin are derping this derp all over Twitter)

That doctor’s license has been suspended.

200 Joanne  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:24:42am

re: #159 Sol Berdinowitz

Honestly, it might keep me from voting for him (of course, if I was inclined to do so to start with), because we vote for president not vice president (see Palin, Sarah) and in Christie’s case, we could likely have a Veep who is one 400 lb heartbeat from the nuclear football.

201 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:27:13am

re: #200 Joanne

Honestly, it might keep me from voting for him (of course, if I was inclined to do so to start with), because we vote for president not vice president (see Palin, Sarah) and in Christie’s case, we could likely have a Veep who is one 400 lb heartbeat from the nuclear football.

It would not be any major factor for me, right now, his politics alone are enough to keep me from voting for him unless the Dems ran a particularly lame candidate.

202 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:29:52am

re: #185 William Barnett-Lewis

Blazing Saddles.
The Princess Bride.
Some Like It Hot.
Dr. Strangelove.
Harvey

I probably should finish the Big Lebowski someday but I always fall asleep during it.

Dr. Strangelove
Airplane!
Young Frankenstein
Office Space
Anchorman
Galaxy Quest
Monty Python’s $MOVIE_TITLE
There are probably others that I like, but those are the memorable ones.

203 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:31:57am

re: #202 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Dr. Strangelove
Airplane!
Young Frankenstein
Office Space
Anchorman
Galaxy Quest
Monty Python’s $MOVIE_TITLE
There are probably others that I like, but those are the memorable ones.

Paul Newman in Slap Shot!

204 Sionainn  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:32:09am

re: #199 Sionainn

That doctor’s license has been suspended.

He also served time in prison.

205 William Barnett-Lewis  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:32:48am

re: #198 sattv4u2

Good point.

Charlie Chaplin
The Marx Brothers
Laurel & Hardy
Buster Keaton
Monty Python

Would round out my top ten.

206 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:36:12am

My Cousin Vinny is up there.

207 chadu  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:37:03am

re: #198 sattv4u2

Any list that does not contain at least ONE Marx Brothers movie on it ,,, feh !!!

Animal Crackers is a fave of mine.

208 sattv4u2  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:40:02am

re: #207 chadu

Animal Crackers is a fave of mine.

I have a book with the dialog from each of their movies. Even though I’ve seen each multiple times, it amazed me how many little things I missed that I found in that book
Their double entendres’ and word plays were genius

209 RadicalModerate  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:40:44am

Real Genius needs some attention here.
Easily one of the most quotable movies from the 1980s.

Also worth mentioning -
Top Secret!
Caddyshack
Hot Shots! & Hot Shots! Part Deux

210 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:41:55am

Time Bandits is in my top five.

211 allegro  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:56:22am

Animal House!

212 Political Atheist  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:58:59am

re: #209 RadicalModerate

Childhood fave-Mad Mad Mad World. Maybe the first movie I can remember seeing in the theater.

213 lawhawk  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:00:09am

In no particular order:

The Producers
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Trading Places
Monty Python’s Holy Grail, Meaning of Life, and Life of Brian
Zuckers’ Airplane! and Kentucky Fried Movie
Brooks’ History of the World, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein
Raising Arizona
Office Space
Babes in Toyland (March of the Wooden Soldiers)
Three Stooges (any/all)
Marx Bros (any/all)
Abbott and Costello (any/all)
Caddyshack
Hot Shots!

214 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:03:03am

1-2-3
The Russians Are Coming!

215 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:03:50am

re: #214 Vicious Babushka

1-2-3
The Russians Are Coming!

definitely two of the best comedies of the 60’s

216 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:05:02am

re: #215 Sol Berdinowitz

definitely two of the best comedies of the 60’s

The Cold War was a ton of laughs!

217 lawhawk  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:05:20am

Oh… this is absolutely priceless.

218 William Barnett-Lewis  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:08:10am

Reading about the three women in Cleveland, I was struck by this comment at the bottom of the NPR article:

Note: As happens when stories such as this are developing, there will likely be reports that turn out to be mistaken. We will focus on news being reported by NPR, other news outlets with expertise, and statements from authorities who are in a position to know what’s going on. And if some of that information turns out to be wrong, we’ll update.

More and more I am convinced that NPR is the last bastion of journalism in America. They are hardly without their flaws but they still remain far above the garbage of Fox, CNN & the rest.

219 lawhawk  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:10:24am

Aw crap… left off Ghostbusters and Dr. Strangelove from my list.

220 wrenchwench  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:11:42am

re: #218 William Barnett-Lewis

Reading about the three women in Cleveland, I was struck by this comment at the bottom of the NPR article:

More and more I am convinced that NPR is the last bastion of journalism in America. They are hardly without their flaws but they still remain far above the garbage of Fox, CNN & the rest.

In their on-air coverage of the Cleveland women this morning, they never mentioned Charles Ramsay. I’m guessing they broke the bleeper trying to edit some tape.

221 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:13:52am
222 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:19:02am

re: #221 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

A lady who left an indelible mark on modern American comedy.

223 leftynyc  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:23:09am

re: #157 Vicious Babushka

Let me translate from wingnut:

I think it’s something else. Pubs (like rubio) are trying the “Hispanics are natural repubs because they are socially conservative”…this is annie saying she’s doesn’t want them as pubs at all.

224 Gus  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:26:40am

What happened with cached links in Google?

225 Gus  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:27:50am

Oh. Nevermind. The geniuses changed it again to this tiny arrow.

226 Varek Raith  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:28:36am

re: #225 Gus

Oh. Nevermind. The geniuses changed it again to this tiny arrow.

You’ll need Google Glasses to find it.
/

227 Gus  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:29:38am

re: #226 Varek Raith

You’ll need Google Glasses to find it.
/

A magnifying glass.

228 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:31:14am

BENGHAZI!!11!!! Derping is at 11.5.

I don’t understand why the wingnuts have this monomaniacal fixation.

229 Mattand  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:31:48am

I’ve been online for about 10 minutes and my head is ready to explode (thanks, Adobe. Jerks.)

We need an impatient, pissy dog break.

230 Bulworth  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:36:24am

re: #228 Vicious Babushka

Because the WHERE’s THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?????? and BILL AYERS!!!! and SOSHULIST!!!!! memes haven’t worked out too well.

231 Vicious Babushka  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:37:15am

re: #230 Bulworth

Because the WHERE’s THE BIRTH CERTIFICATE?????? and BILL AYERS!!!! and SOSHULIST!!!!! memes haven’t worked out too well.

They Derp that too but BENGHAZI!!!11!!! is the favorite, hands down.

233 efuseakay  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:40:33am

So I was just banned from a local gun forum for asking what would be wrong with closing the gun show loophole. I guess their love for inanimate objects really is stronger than the 1st Amendment. I wish I was surprised.

234 A Mom Anon  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:47:36am

re: #233 efuseakay

Maybe they ought to be a tad less concerned about the 2nd amendment and much more concerned about the 9th COMMANDMENT since they claim to be so much more righteous than anyone else.

235 wrenchwench  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:49:12am
236 Gus  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:50:13am

re: #235 wrenchwench

That big red hand makes it easy to find, though.

That’s the big red hand of God. //

238 goddamnedfrank  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:51:58am

re: #233 efuseakay

So I was just banned from a local gun forum for asking what would be wrong with closing the gun show loophole. I guess their love for inanimate objects really is stronger than the 1st Amendment. I wish I was surprised.

Universal background checks should definitely be the law, both the Republicans and the NRA have squandered a huge opportunity to look like adults in opposing them, but I also wish people would stop casually conflating the 1st Amendment with ownership restraint on a private forum. Charles has deleted comments and blocked the accounts of tons of trolls on this forum, not one of those actions was in any way inconsistent with the 1st Amendment.

239 Gus  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:52:41am

re: #237 Varek Raith

Lame, google, lame.

Google Adds Green Arrows To View Cache, Similar Pages & To Share Results On Google+

Really important shit here.

240 wrenchwench  Tue, May 7, 2013 10:56:04am

It gets weirder.

241 efuseakay  Tue, May 7, 2013 12:50:14pm

re: #238 goddamnedfrank

Universal background checks should definitely be the law, both the Republicans and the NRA have squandered a huge opportunity to look like adults in opposing them, but I also wish people would stop casually conflating the 1st Amendment with ownership restraint on a private forum. Charles has deleted comments and blocked the accounts of tons of trolls on this forum, not one of those actions was in any way inconsistent with the 1st Amendment.

Private forum and all that. I get it. But for all their talk about the Constitution, they sure know how to completely ignore it when they hear something they don’t like.

No big deal though. I re-registered via my phone. Have to keep track of who has ammo in stock. ;)

242 wheat-dogghazi  Tue, May 7, 2013 4:18:44pm

re: #171 Vicious Babushka

I would assume to make Caddies to be sold in China, a la Jeeps.

243 prairiefire  Tue, May 7, 2013 9:18:50pm

re: #178 lawhawk

While the feds will probably lose money on the GM shares (they would have to appreciate significantly over the next year to exit with a profit), the rest of TARP resulted in the government actually making a couple of billion dollars on the whole enterprise excepting the bailouts for Chrysler and GM.

Plus buoyed the prospects of our military. We can’t lose the framework of Detroit because of Alexandria.


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