You may not have thought it possible, but breitbart.com gets even creepier and more disgusting with the latest far right propaganda piece by psycho hack William Bigelow: NEW EVIDENCE FROM HIS DOCTORS SHOWS HITLER WAS GAY!!!
(h/t: C&L.)
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Amory Blaine Fri, May 10, 2013 6:04:40pm |
My wife and I sleep in separate rooms during workdays. We must be gay!!!
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freetoken Fri, May 10, 2013 6:04:56pm |
… and a communist (because we all know Nazism is really socialism, right?) … and a Darwinist, inspired by evolution to do eugenics, as all progressives desire.
So there.
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 6:05:05pm |
So what. No issue of public policy in the US today is remotely affected by Hitler’s sex life.
Is ‘category error’ the only game in town for RW hacks these days?
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Iwouldprefernotto Fri, May 10, 2013 6:05:44pm |
Can’t read but I am curious. Did Nazi Doctors invent Gaydar? If yes, I’m glad they didn’t use it to win the war.
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Kragar Fri, May 10, 2013 6:06:04pm |
In a actually some what related note, we were going thru some boxes in the basement this morning and found a bunch of pictures my dad’s uncle took during World War 2. Turns out he had liberated one of the concentration camps and we had some of those pictures sitting in the basement gathering dust. My mom had me bring them up and she’s going thru all that stuff now.
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Amory Blaine Fri, May 10, 2013 6:06:05pm |
Who knew all them Nuremberg marches were gay pride parades!!
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Kragar Fri, May 10, 2013 6:06:40pm |
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The Ghost of a Flea Fri, May 10, 2013 6:07:40pm |
re: #6 Iwouldprefernotto
Can’t read but I am curious. Did Nazi Doctors invent Gaydar? If yes, I’m glad they didn’t use it to win the war.
That would explains why the V-rockets unerringly struck bathhouses.
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GeneJockey Fri, May 10, 2013 6:07:46pm |
re: #3 Amory Blaine
My wife and I sleep in separate rooms during workdays. We must be gay!!!
You sleep during the workday? Where can I get a job like that?
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Decatur Deb Fri, May 10, 2013 6:08:14pm |
Hitler was gay at Compiegne, but was decidedly in a funk after Kursk.
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Charles Johnson Fri, May 10, 2013 6:09:38pm |
The evidence: a notoriously squirrely Army interviewer scribbled “Homosex” in his notes while interviewing one of Hitler’s doctors.
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darthstar Fri, May 10, 2013 6:10:56pm |
Hitler’s still dead, right? Why is this important?
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Kragar Fri, May 10, 2013 6:11:01pm |
re: #13 Charles Johnson
The evidence: a notoriously squirrely Army interviewer scribbled “Homosex” in his notes while interviewing one of Hitler’s doctors.
SCIENCE!
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Kragar Fri, May 10, 2013 6:11:29pm |
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Amory Blaine Fri, May 10, 2013 6:12:02pm |
And the homophobia flows like wine in the comment section..
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darthstar Fri, May 10, 2013 6:12:35pm |
re: #13 Charles Johnson
The evidence: a notoriously squirrely Army interviewer scribbled “Homosex” in his notes while interviewing one of Hitler’s doctors.
Actually, he was writing “home at six” because he promised his wife he wouldn’t be late for dinner, but because doctors have notoriously bad penmanship, it just looked like “homosex”…case closed.
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darthstar Fri, May 10, 2013 6:13:41pm |
And bin Laden was watching big tittie porn when we killed his ass…why aren’t we doing more to ban these weapons of mass distraction?
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bratwurst Fri, May 10, 2013 6:14:32pm |
Repost from earlier:
This is almost certainly not true, but even if it were it would say absolutely nothing about homosexuals. Hitler was DEFINITELY Austrian, but few people make the leap to suggest Austrians have a predilection to mass murder.
Of course, early Hitler supporter and head of the SA Ernst Röhm was gay, and he was not alone in that organization. However, one might think that the fact that he was jailed and killed as part of the “Night of Long Knives” in 1934, and the SA was sidelined from that point on would demonstrate how the Nazi government truly felt about homosexuals. Oh yeah…there is also that fact that an estimated 100,000 men were arrested in Germany as homosexuals between 1933 and 1945.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 6:18:35pm |
I don’t get the purpose of this. Most historians conclude that he was either heterosexual or asexual. But if he was gay? What would it prove? That gays somehow deserve to be persecuted the way Hitler persecuted people? Sorry Breitbart, Bryan Fischer, it doesn’t work that way and it shouldn’t. We know for a definite fact that Stalin and Mao Zedong were straight. Yet there’s no rush among gay activists to limits the rights of heterosexual men because those two were straight. I don’t think Hitler was gay but you know what even if he was, discrimination against LGBT people would still be wrong. There were definitely straight and Christian Nazis, and do we see the people on Breitbart advocating that they be treated like second class citizens because of that fact, no and nor should we. Fuck this stupid shit.
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GeneJockey Fri, May 10, 2013 6:18:36pm |
re: #17 Amory Blaine
And the homophobia flows like wine in the comment section..
Yeesh. I wouldn’t enter that place in hip waders.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 6:19:32pm |
re: #20 bratwurst
Repost from earlier:
This is almost certainly not true, but even if it were it would say absolutely nothing about homosexuals. Hitler was DEFINITELY Austrian, but few people make the leap to suggest Austrians have a predilection to mass murder.
Of course, early Hitler supporter and head of the SA Ernst Röhm was gay, and he was not alone in that organization. However, one might think that the fact that he was jailed and killed as part of the “Night of Long Knives” in 1934, and the SA was sidelined from that point on would demonstrate how the Nazi government truly felt about homosexuals. Oh yeah…there is also that fact that an estimated 100,000 men were arrested in Germany as homosexuals between 1933 and 1945.
Frigging Austrians. Always up to something. And man don’t get me started on those with dark hair and blue eyes. Bunch of monsters!
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GeneJockey Fri, May 10, 2013 6:20:15pm |
re: #21 HappyWarrior
Presumably IF Hitler = Gay, THEN Gay = Hitler.
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 6:21:57pm |
re: #21 HappyWarrior
Hitler was indisputably a creature of the political far right. So, that makes US wing nuts proto-Nazis?
Doesn’t work that way. I loathe wing nuts, but they have a long way to go before they get into Nazi territory.
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Joanne Fri, May 10, 2013 6:21:57pm |
re: #5 EPR-radar
So what. No issue of public policy in the US today is remotely affected by Hitler’s sex life.
Is ‘category error’ the only game in town for RW hacks these days?
It’s Teh Gheys. Supporting gay marriages encourages the next Hitler!
Or something.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 6:23:26pm |
re: #24 GeneJockey
Presumably IF Hitler = Gay, THEN Gay = Hitler.
Yeah but I don’t get how they explain the obvious straight and Christian Nazis. Of course, these are the same people who deny adamantly that gay people were ever persecuted by the Third Reich. Hitler’s not any more evil if he’s a gay man. He merely becomes that son of a bitch who happened to be gay, not someone gay who happened to be a sob. I mean if they used their same twisted logic on other people, they would realize how fucking stupid they look but because it’s gays, it’s okay I guess.
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 6:24:12pm |
re: #26 Joanne
It’s Teh Gheys. Supporting gay marriages encourages the next Hitler!
Or something.
Reminds me of the marriage cases. When pressed for evidence that gay marriage was a threat to society, all the nutjobs were able to present as ‘evidence’ was “its icky”.
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GeneJockey Fri, May 10, 2013 6:24:26pm |
re: #25 EPR-radar
Hitler was indisputably a creature of the political far right.
I’ve seen it disputed, but usually at the level of
It was called the National SOCIALIST Party, Libtard! CONFIRMED! FACT!!
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Amory Blaine Fri, May 10, 2013 6:25:21pm |
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Joanne Fri, May 10, 2013 6:25:26pm |
re: #25 EPR-radar
Hitler was indisputably a creature of the political far right. So, that makes US wing nuts proto-Nazis?
Doesn’t work that way. I loathe wing nuts, but they have a long way to go before they get into Nazi territory.
How many times have you seen KILL ALL LIBURALS!!!? I’ve seen it (the usual places and Twitter, of course) often. And dehumanizing humans truly is a step towards being able to readily kill another human being because they’re not human; they’re traitorous liburals.
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Eclectic Cyborg Fri, May 10, 2013 6:25:48pm |
re: #29 GeneJockey
I’ve seen it disputed, but usually at the level of
That’s kind of like the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Names can be meaningless.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 6:26:29pm |
re: #25 EPR-radar
Hitler was indisputably a creature of the political far right. So, that makes US wing nuts proto-Nazis?
Doesn’t work that way. I loathe wing nuts, but they have a long way to go before they get into Nazi territory.
Well in their mind, Hitle was a creature of the far left. Of course, they totally ignore that he persecuted both the moderate left and far left and the far left were among his earliest victims once in power but they’re fixated on the fact that the Nazis called themselves National Socialists and use that as proof that the Nazis were left wing. Ask them about the German Democratic Republic aka East Germany and you get a blank stare. Nazism was different from traditional European rightism in that it wasn’t monarchical or neo-monarchical in nature but make no mistake, Nazism was and is a part of the far right. You can’t hate on the left for embracing multiculturalism and then call us Nazis, a group that talked about “master race.” And I agree, I’ve got no love for them either but htey’ve got a way to go till they hit Nazi territory.
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Shiplord Kirel Fri, May 10, 2013 6:26:52pm |
So what. No issue of public policy in the US today is remotely affected by Hitler’s sex life.Is ‘category error’ the only game in town for RW hacks these days?
They want to see President Palin kick some Nazi ass:
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Joanne Fri, May 10, 2013 6:27:19pm |
re: #28 EPR-radar
Reminds me of the marriage cases. When pressed for evidence that gay marriage was a threat to society, all the nutjobs were able to present as ‘evidence’ was “its icky”.
So is fruitcake. Ban fruitcake!! (What’s that weird candied fruit shit inside? It’s icky! Icky I say!)
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GeneJockey Fri, May 10, 2013 6:27:42pm |
re: #27 HappyWarrior
Yeah but I don’t get how they explain the obvious straight and Christian Nazis.
TheY wuz LIB’RULS!!
Of course, these are the same people who deny adamantly that gay people were ever persecuted by the Third Reich.
Try telling them Communists and Union leaders were some of the first to get disappeared.
Hitler’s not any more evil if he’s a gay man. He merely becomes that son of a bitch who happened to be gay, not someone gay who happened to be a sob. I mean if they used their same twisted logic on other people, they would realize how fucking stupid they look but because it’s gays, it’s okay I guess.
If you think they’re thinking, you’re overthinking.
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 6:27:53pm |
re: #27 HappyWarrior
Yeah but I don’t get how they explain the obvious straight and Christian Nazis. Of course, these are the same people who deny adamantly that gay people were ever persecuted by the Third Reich. Hitler’s not any more evil if he’s a gay man. He merely becomes that son of a bitch who happened to be gay, not someone gay who happened to be a sob. I mean if they used their same twisted logic on other people, they would realize how fucking stupid they look but because it’s gays, it’s okay I guess.
Not only were gay people persecuted by the Third Reich, ‘liberation’ for gay concentration camp inmates by the Allies tended to be a transfer to a more humane prison system as opposed to any real liberation.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 6:28:34pm |
re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg
That’s kind of like the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Names can be meaningless.
or the German Democratic Republic, I believe North Korea has “democratic” in its name somewhere too. I also remember reading about a Russian far right party who are called the Liberal Democrats. The socialist part of National Socialist was a cynical ploy to get working class support. Lest it not be forgotten that Hitler gladly appealed to industrialists personally to support him. A socialist would not have done that.
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Joanne Fri, May 10, 2013 6:28:46pm |
re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg
That’s kind of like the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Names can be meaningless.
You mean like Progressive Conservatives? That one still gives me whiplash.
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GeneJockey Fri, May 10, 2013 6:29:40pm |
re: #35 Joanne
So is fruitcake. Ban fruitcake!! (What’s that weird candied fruit shit inside? It’s icky! Icky I say!)
You must not be using enough rum to soak it before eating.
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 6:30:51pm |
re: #38 HappyWarrior
Official name for the nork regime: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Extra helping of BS in the official name here.
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Joanne Fri, May 10, 2013 6:32:20pm |
re: #40 GeneJockey
You must not be using enough rum to soak it before eating.
There’s not enuf rum in the world to get me to eat fruitcake. That’s Fear Factor material.
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kirkspencer Fri, May 10, 2013 6:34:51pm |
re: #42 Joanne
There’s not enuf rum in the world to get me to eat fruitcake. That’s Fear Factor material.
While I’m rather “eh” about purchased fruitcake, a home-made one is something special.
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The Ghost of a Flea Fri, May 10, 2013 6:35:24pm |
re: #21 HappyWarrior
I don’t get the purpose of this. Most historians conclude that he was either heterosexual or asexual. But if he was gay? What would it prove? That gays somehow deserve to be persecuted the way Hitler persecuted people? Sorry Breitbart, Bryan Fischer, it doesn’t work that way and it shouldn’t. We know for a definite fact that Stalin and Mao Zedong were straight. Yet there’s no rush among gay activists to limits the rights of heterosexual men because those two were straight. I don’t think Hitler was gay but you know what even if he was, discrimination against LGBT people would still be wrong. There were definitely straight and Christian Nazis, and do we see the people on Breitbart advocating that they be treated like second class citizens because of that fact, no and nor should we. Fuck this stupid shit.
He was heterosexual enough to have multiple female lovers (other than Eva Braun), who were interviewed after the war.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 6:36:03pm |
re: #41 EPR-radar
Official name for the nork regime: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Extra helping of BS in the official name here.
I believe the Daily Show book, America did something like that with Congo. But yeah you’d think that wingnuts being huge anti-communists would know that sometimes a name is just a name. They also ignore that Hitler purged the left wing part of the Nazi party. And as I said, you can’t hate on the political left for being multicultural and accepting of different cultures and call them Nazis, sorry you just can’t. Of course, I love it when they call the KKK lefties too since the early KKK leaders were Democrats which proves nothing. Of course, if you also point out to them that many of the leaders of the Indiana Klan, OC klan, and New Jersey klan were in fact Republicans, you’ll get “WHY ARE YOU CALLING ME RACIST” These are the same people who shouted KKK Byrd but had no problem with Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms being members of their party and call the Civil War the War of Northern Aggression.
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Joanne Fri, May 10, 2013 6:38:58pm |
re: #43 kirkspencer
While I’m rather “eh” about purchased fruitcake, a home-made one is something special.
Ima gonna hafta take your word on that. ;-)
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 6:39:06pm |
re: #31 Joanne
How many times have you seen KILL ALL LIBURALS!!!? I’ve seen it (the usual places and Twitter, of course) often. And dehumanizing humans truly is a step towards being able to readily kill another human being because they’re not human; they’re traitorous liburals.
There are elements of the US far right that are flirting with Naziism, but IMO this is still a lunatic fringe, even for wingnuts. Open adherence to an ideology of elimination and physical thuggery by GOP leaders is absent, so far.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 6:39:11pm |
re: #44 The Ghost of a Flea
He was heterosexual enough to have multiple female lovers (other than Eva Braun), who were interviewed after the war.
Right. I believe he was too. You’d also think that the German left which was actually pretty tolerant of homosexuals in the Weimar Republic would have found some disgruntled lover to discredit Hitler at the polls. They didn’t. But as I said, even if he was gay which I think we can say looking at the evidence, it’s very probable that he was straight, it proves nothing if he was gay. The whole idea of one evil man being one thing and making that validate discrimination against that man’s group means you’re validating that evil. Note, I’m not comparing them to Nazis but I am saying that they clearly haven’t learned a damn thing from the lessons of the Nazis who scapegoated Jews, leftists, homosexuals, Romani, and others to get power.
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Joanne Fri, May 10, 2013 6:43:19pm |
re: #47 EPR-radar
There are elements of the US far right that are flirting with Naziism, but IMO this is still a lunatic fringe, even for wingnuts. Open adherence to an ideology of elimination and physical thuggery by GOP leaders is absent, so far.
Limbaugh, defacto leader of the GOP, has dehumanized liberals and democrats for 30+ years. I’m going to withhold judgement on GOP leadership for maybe 7-10 years. As they lose election after election that’s not gerrymandered, we’ll see how they respond.
Boehner went all Benghazi just yesterday.
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darthstar Fri, May 10, 2013 6:44:31pm |
re: #44 The Ghost of a Flea
He was heterosexual enough to have multiple female lovers (other than Eva Braun), who were interviewed after the war.
According to this documentary, he never really loved her.
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 6:45:29pm |
re: #49 Joanne
Limbaugh, defacto leader of the GOP, has dehumanized liberals and democrats for 30+ years. I’m going to withhold judgement on GOP leadership for maybe 7-10 years. As they lose election after election that’s not gerrymandered, we’ll see how they respond.
Boehner went all Benghazi just yesterday.
That’s pretty much where I’m at. If the demographic tide really does turn severely against the GOP, its transformation into a neo-Nazi/fascist party is a distinct possibility.
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Eclectic Cyborg Fri, May 10, 2013 6:48:21pm |
Outrage after theater hires fake gunmen to storm theater as part of ‘Iron Man’ publicity stunt
To promote its premiere of the new Iron Man movie, a theater in Jefferson City, Missouri, hired several people to dress in full tactical gear and storm the screening with fake weapons drawn.
Not surprisingly, some people were not too keen on the “publicity stunt.”
“We’re just getting into the car when I spotted a man in full assault gear, carrying what appeared to be a modified M-4 and 9 mm on his side,” said John Molock, an army war vet who says the experience triggered his PTSD.
In addition to stoking the ire of theatergoers, the stunt also garnered poor reviews from the local police department which was forced to field several nervous 911 calls.
“We received a series of 911 calls stating that a man dressed in all black and body armor and a rifle was walking into Capital 8 Theaters,” Capt. Doug Shoemaker told the local Fox affiliate.
“Everything was in place, it’s the opening night of a superhero movie, it’s somebody walking in all-dark clothes, everything pointed to bad things about to happen,” Shoemaker added, referencing the Aurora movie theater shooting that took place last July. “There’s really no good that can come of this.”
I can’t believe a theater owner would EVER think this was a good idea after what happened last summer, but apparently he did and he’s unapologetic about it:
But Capital 8 Theaters manager Bob Wilkins remains defiant, telling the ABC affiliate that he did not regret pulling the stunt, which he said was planned months in advance.
“My job is to entertain people,” Wilkins said, claiming only “a few” patrons were upset.
Shoemaker noted that angry customers would have been the least of Wilkins’ worries if someone with a concealed weapon would have mistaken the stunt for an active shooter event and acted in self-defense.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 6:52:21pm |
re: #49 Joanne
Limbaugh, defacto leader of the GOP, has dehumanized liberals and democrats for 30+ years. I’m going to withhold judgement on GOP leadership for maybe 7-10 years. As they lose election after election that’s not gerrymandered, we’ll see how they respond.
Boehner went all Benghazi just yesterday.
I’d buy a figurative 12 back for the first GOP leader to tell Rush to shut up and that his viciousness has no place in discourse but that will never happen anytime soon because the GOP leadership repeatedly shows they care more about satisfying Lord Limbaugh’s happiness rath er than the American people. I think they need a big landslide where the present idea of conservatism is totally repudiated. Again, I don’t see that happening because I think the way the country is now, at least 45% of the people will vote Republican even if someone completely wacko like Rick Santorum is the nominee. And who knows, being landslided may push some of those GOP state legislatures to try their crazy idea about making EVs proportional just out of spite. But as I said, perhaps a complete GOP landslide would do the trick. They need better leaders too. They need as I said a couple nights back a second Eisenhower. Someone from outside politics or at least their establishment who isn’t afraid to say “You know what, global warming is happening” or “We shouldn’t interfere with a woman’s right to choose” or “I don’t care if gays want to get married.” They need that or they’ll never get anywhere near this younger geneation of voters. Despite what they believe about us in Gen Y, we’re not suddenly going to forget that we support equality for gay couples because we have gay friends who we see as our equals and that’s not going to change whether I’m 25 like I am now or 55 in 30 years.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 6:53:13pm |
re: #52 Eclectic Cyborg
Outrage after theater hires fake gunmen to storm theater as part of ‘Iron Man’ publicity stunt
I can’t believe a theater owner would EVER think this was a good idea after what happened last summer, but apparently he did and he’s unapologetic about it:
Idiots. They could give someone a heart attack. Some of us like to go to the movies you know for quiet.
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Iwouldprefernotto Fri, May 10, 2013 6:53:58pm |
re: #53 HappyWarrior
I’d buy a figurative 12 back for the first GOP leader to tell Rush to shut up and that his viciousness has no place in discourse but that will never happen anytime soon because the GOP leadership repeatedly shows they care more about satisfying Lord Limbaugh’s happiness rath er than the American people. I think they need a big landslide where the present idea of conservatism is totally repudiated. Again, I don’t see that happening because I think the way the country is now, at least 45% of the people will vote Republican even if someone completely wacko like Rick Santorum is the nominee. And who knows, being landslided may push some of those GOP state legislatures to try their crazy idea about making EVs proportional just out of spite. But as I said, perhaps a complete GOP landslide would do the trick. They need better leaders too. They need as I said a couple nights back a second Eisenhower. Someone from outside politics or at least their establishment who isn’t afraid to say “You know what, global warming is happening” or “We shouldn’t interfere with a woman’s right to choose” or “I don’t care if gays want to get married.” They need that or they’ll never get anywhere near this younger geneation of voters. Despite what they believe about us in Gen Y, we’re not suddenly going to forget that we support equality for gay couples because we have gay friends who we see as our equals and that’s not going to change whether I’m 25 like I am now or 55 in 30 years.
I think that the first moderate Republican that stands up to Rush has a chance of winning the presidency. I said chance.
Night Lizards.
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Joanne Fri, May 10, 2013 6:58:13pm |
re: #53 HappyWarrior
I think right now Limbaugh is trying to figure out how to make mega bucks on the web (a la Glenn Beck) because he knows his days are numbered (at least on terrestrial radio).
Alas, Fox and the other radio mouth breathers are there to pick up any slack.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 6:58:16pm |
re: #55 Iwouldprefernotto
I think that the first moderate Republican that stands up to Rush has a chance of winning the presidency. I said chance.
Night Lizards.
or bringing new people into the party. Really, I can’t speak for everyone in my generation but the GOP’s problem with younger voters is their backwards as shit stances on cultural issues and Limbaugh’s a big part of that. We’re not despite what people like Jonah Goldberg believe leftists. Yes, I’ve known some leftists in my day but I’ve known some people who love the free market just as much. What most Gen-Y people have in common ideologically wise is a socially liberal to libertarian view of the world. We don’t think it’s right for you to tell women that they shouldn’t be able to get a procedure that has been accepted time and time again as constitutional. We don’t like being told that our gay friends and family don’t deserve the same rights as us because of a Holy Book especially knowing that holy book says a lot of other stuff. We don’t like being told Global Warming is a hoax despite evidence to the contrary. We don’t like an ideology that acts like government assistance is terrible because it’s big bad government but is okay with the excesses of the drug war. We’re not I guess truly “liberal” but we definitely don’t like modern Conservatism and I think the Gen-Y stay out of our way is why on paper why someone like Ron Paul appeals to young people. He shouldn’t because they should look at what he really says.
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Renaissance_Man Fri, May 10, 2013 7:00:10pm |
re: #52 Eclectic Cyborg
Outrage after theater hires fake gunmen to storm theater as part of ‘Iron Man’ publicity stunt
I can’t believe a theater owner would EVER think this was a good idea after what happened last summer, but apparently he did and he’s unapologetic about it:
Personally, I can’t believe that in the United States, a civilised Western democracy that has not seen war or martial law on its soil in over 100 years, people are so conditioned by the blood sacrifice of their fellow citizens that something like this, which would be a fairly obvious publicity stunt in other civilised democracies, has people immediately and justifiably afraid of yet another mass shooting.
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Joanne Fri, May 10, 2013 7:00:55pm |
re: #55 Iwouldprefernotto
Not a chance of making it through a primary. That’s what’s going to kill Christie’s chances.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 7:01:36pm |
re: #56 Joanne
I think right now Limbaugh is trying to figure out how to make mega bucks on the web (a la Glenn Beck) because he knows his days are numbered (at least on terrestrial radio).
Alas, Fox and the other radio mouth breathers are there to pick up any slack.
The problem is there’s so many Limbaugh clones out there. Some of whom like Alex Jones and Glenn Beck are even more a danger to the discourse in this country because they repeatedly try to act like Obama themselves has threatened them. Rush doesn’t do that or if he does, it’s not as common place as Beck or Jones claiming that Obama wants them dead. Not a defense of Rush but he doesn’t do that. Of course, he makes up for it by being one of the most hateful pricks out there.
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JeffFX Fri, May 10, 2013 7:03:58pm |
re: #57 HappyWarrior
Excellent rant, I agree completely, but if you can still edit, you should change “total” to “told”
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The Ghost of a Flea Fri, May 10, 2013 7:06:20pm |
re: #48 HappyWarrior
Right. I believe he was too. You’d also think that the German left which was actually pretty tolerant of homosexuals in the Weimar Republic would have found some disgruntled lover to discredit Hitler at the polls. They didn’t. But as I said, even if he was gay which I think we can say looking at the evidence, it’s very probable that he was straight, it proves nothing if he was gay. The whole idea of one evil man being one thing and making that validate discrimination against that man’s group means you’re validating that evil. Note, I’m not comparing them to Nazis but I am saying that they clearly haven’t learned a damn thing from the lessons of the Nazis who scapegoated Jews, leftists, homosexuals, Romani, and others to get power.
It’s not just that there’s no room for deeper analysis in the rhetorical scheme, it’s that there’s an utterly cynical desire to simplify everything down to “you’re the Nazis, YOU ARE WRONG”…and, being less forgiving than you, I think there’s a reason for that.
They’re distracting from their own revanchist, nationalist rhetoric that glorifies manly, retaliatory violence; talk of the merits of active discrimination and a tiered society; and a vague sociopolitical agenda that involves nostalgia for a bygone era in which their privilege was unchecked by legal or ethical complaints. They’re not Nazis, but they’re dipping into the same well of last-two-centuries rightist thoughts that resulted in fascism of the kind that emerged in Europe. That’s not a kind thing to say, but I don’t know how else to describe the mindset and accompanying legislative efforts.
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Joanne Fri, May 10, 2013 7:10:56pm |
re: #60 HappyWarrior
The problem is there’s so many Limbaugh clones out there. Some of whom like Alex Jones and Glenn Beck are even more a danger to the discourse in this country because they repeatedly try to act like Obama themselves has threatened them. Rush doesn’t do that or if he does, it’s not as common place as Beck or Jones claiming that Obama wants them dead. Not a defense of Rush but he doesn’t do that. Of course, he makes up for it by being one of the most hateful pricks out there.
(Sigh)
So correct.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 7:11:25pm |
re: #61 JeffFX
Excellent rant, I agree completely, but if you can still edit, you should change “total” to “told”
Hey, thanks and thanks for the catch. Really, I am sick of being told that we’re just a bunch of leftists who will see how great conservatism is once we get money. It’s not about money. I could be worth 1000 times what I am now and my social values would still be the same.
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Joanne Fri, May 10, 2013 7:13:06pm |
re: #62 The Ghost of a Flea
Not just less forgiving of you, thinks any way different than exactly as they do.
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 7:14:22pm |
re: #60 HappyWarrior
The problem is there’s so many Limbaugh clones out there. Some of whom like Alex Jones and Glenn Beck are even more a danger to the discourse in this country because they repeatedly try to act like Obama themselves has threatened them. Rush doesn’t do that or if he does, it’s not as common place as Beck or Jones claiming that Obama wants them dead. Not a defense of Rush but he doesn’t do that. Of course, he makes up for it by being one of the most hateful pricks out there.
It would get very dangerous if any of these wannabes has real charisma. A charismatic leader + a target for their hate would make US wingnuts a grave threat. Despite all the “death to liberals” chatter out there, liberals aren’t a good enough target. For one thing, some of the conservatives who can write in complete sentences like to call themselves ‘classical liberals’.
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jaunte Fri, May 10, 2013 7:14:36pm |
Merl wrote that Hitler was “hysterical,” a “megalomaniac,” and might have had Parkinson’s disease.
So, according to the same standards of evidence, the Breitbarts must conclude that Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh, and Michael J. Fox are also Nazis.
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SanFranciscoZionist Fri, May 10, 2013 7:16:06pm |
re: #13 Charles Johnson
The evidence: a notoriously squirrely Army interviewer scribbled “Homosex” in his notes while interviewing one of Hitler’s doctors.
Haven’t we known that for quite some time? I mean, I’ve heard that Hitler was gay approximately a million times, but I’m pretty sure I’ve also heard of this bit of notation before. Not recently, even. Why is this a bombshell of any sort?
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SanFranciscoZionist Fri, May 10, 2013 7:16:33pm |
re: #14 darthstar
Hitler’s still dead, right? Why is this important?
I’m not really seeing how it would be relevant if Hitler were still alive.
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 7:18:57pm |
re: #62 The Ghost of a Flea
Good analysis. IMO, the essence of right wing politics is the idea that it is proper for some form of aristocracy to rule over lesser beings. How the aristocrats are defined (birth, money, race, supposed merit) is a secondary issue.
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Joanne Fri, May 10, 2013 7:19:32pm |
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bratwurst Fri, May 10, 2013 7:20:04pm |
re: #56 Joanne
I think right now Limbaugh is trying to figure out how to make mega bucks on the web (a la Glenn Beck) because he knows his days are numbered (at least on terrestrial radio).
Keep in mind:
A) Beck is still on terrestrial radio every single day.
and
B) Clear Channel is under contract to pay Rush $50,000,000 per year through 2016.
If Rush’s days on terrestrial radio are numbered, we are looking at a 4 digit number. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but it is a fact.
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Joanne Fri, May 10, 2013 7:22:11pm |
re: #73 EPR-radar
Good analysis. IMO, the essence of right wing politics is the idea that it is proper for some form of aristocracy to rule over lesser beings. How the aristocrats are defined (birth, money, race, supposed merit) is a secondary issue.
Because…JOE THE PLUMMER syndrome; the certainty that you’ll be in that aristocracy in short order.
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The Ghost of a Flea Fri, May 10, 2013 7:23:45pm |
re: #65 Joanne
Not just less forgiving of you, thinks any way different than exactly as they do.
I should add that when I say less forgiving, I mean it as a positive trait. I am not a patient or tolerant person when it comes to this subject. I don’t think I want to explain it at length, but I’m aware that my harshness comes from personal trauma as much as from analysis.
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 7:24:00pm |
re: #76 Joanne
Because…JOE THE PLUMMER syndrome; the certainty that you’ll be in that aristocracy in short order.
We may end up in a new feudalism in the US because 30% of the voters think they’ll be in the top 1% and vote as if they’ve already made it.
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darthstar Fri, May 10, 2013 7:26:21pm |
re: #70 SanFranciscoZionist
I’m not really seeing how it would be relevant if Hitler were still alive.
If Hitler were still alive it would be because Benghazi.
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bratwurst Fri, May 10, 2013 7:30:03pm |
From tonight’s Chicagoland police blotter:
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 7:30:52pm |
re: #80 Gus
Did you read the comments? These people are weird.
Briefly. All it gave me was an urge to bathe.
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ProTARDISLiberal Fri, May 10, 2013 7:32:16pm |
re: #81 bratwurst
WHY??!!?!?!
Whywhywhywhywhywhy.
Why the fuck would you do that?!!?!?
That is absolutely disgusting to do to an animal. He needs to be put in the slammer for a long time.
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Gus Fri, May 10, 2013 7:32:25pm |
re: #82 EPR-radar
Briefly. All it gave me was an urge to bathe.
Just another example of high IQ productive “native Americans.” //
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jaunte Fri, May 10, 2013 7:32:48pm |
re: #80 Gus
Stephen Riggs:
You have no clue about history, the Hitler was a leftie is just plain contrary to facts.EpicMale:
Actually, it is YOU that hasn’t a historical clue. NAZI=National Socialist (Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei=German National Socialist Workers Party)! Get it? You better read more and speak less. Sheesh….
Sheesh!
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jaunte Fri, May 10, 2013 7:33:24pm |
It’s right there in the name! Look no farther! Sheesh!
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 7:34:25pm |
re: #85 jaunte
How cute. Internet self-beclowner and the parsing of the official name of the Nazi party, take 11ty million.
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Gus Fri, May 10, 2013 7:34:36pm |
re: #85 jaunte
Sheesh!
Yeah, that old leftie Hitler. He was really big on gay marriage, cultural diversity, and pacifism. //
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HoosierHoops Fri, May 10, 2013 7:34:39pm |
re: #75 bratwurst
It has been years ago when I watched Rush on ESPN spout his raciest crap and got fired. I haven’t listened to him since. I don’t give a shit about what he has to say about anything and vowed to never pay him a second of my time forever..
When he tried to become a co-owner of the St. Louis Rams and the NFL rejected his ass.. I couldn’t have been so proud of the NFL as that day.
I understand he has a radio show..Sorry to be so crude here, But I couldn’t give a shit about him. America will be a much better Country when they reject him and toss him and his buddies into the trash bin of history.
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DisturbedEma Fri, May 10, 2013 7:34:58pm |
re: #83 ProTARDISLiberal
shudder ick and wtf???? just gross and wrong…
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bratwurst Fri, May 10, 2013 7:35:38pm |
re: #86 jaunte
It’s right there in the name! Look no farther! Sheesh!
What do you mean the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy nor Roman? IT’S RIGHT THERE IN THE NAME!
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Gus Fri, May 10, 2013 7:36:28pm |
re: #92 DisturbedEma
loved him some socialism too /////
If Hitler had a bumper sticker it would be one of those COEXIST bumper sticker. That old lib’. //
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The Ghost of a Flea Fri, May 10, 2013 7:36:55pm |
re: #69 SanFranciscoZionist
Haven’t we known that for quite some time? I mean, I’ve heard that Hitler was gay approximately a million times, but I’m pretty sure I’ve also heard of this bit of notation before. Not recently, even. Why is this a bombshell of any sort?
Hm. A proposal:
Fringe-belief sites are really more about social rituals confirming tribal beliefs and thus tribal identities. Thus the “news” is less about facts or new information than the recapitulation of foundational myths. Communicated urgency (Bombshell! This Just In!) in turn isn’t so much about up-to-date-ness as about maintaining a sense of relevance and immediacy.
This specific article, then, is like seasonal festive right: The Annual Alignment of Nazi Culpability, in which the scapegoat is herded into the conceptual village of (ill-defined) Leftism.
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DisturbedEma Fri, May 10, 2013 7:37:13pm |
re: #80 Gus
the comments are the worst part…which is why I’m glad Charles posts samples of what the “masses” are “saying” even if it breaks my heart…and soul
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 7:37:14pm |
re: #94 bratwurst
It’s the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. With a name like that, it has to be good…
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 7:37:21pm |
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DisturbedEma Fri, May 10, 2013 7:38:08pm |
re: #95 Gus
Oh HELL ya fo sho ;) can’t we all just get along- Rodney King lifted that from him…////////////
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The Ghost of a Flea Fri, May 10, 2013 7:39:31pm |
re: #99 EPR-radar
It’s the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. With a name like that, it has to be good…
I love how the National-as-in-Nationalist part is downplayed. Because welfare state for pure Aryans, slave labor to the death for the rest of the world totally fits into the schematic of America politics.
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 7:39:55pm |
re: #97 The Ghost of a Flea
This is plausible. From my brief foray into the comment sewer there, the labeling of Hitler as a leftist did have a tribal bonding ritual feel to it.
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DisturbedEma Fri, May 10, 2013 7:41:08pm |
re: #97 The Ghost of a Flea
My take is a bit more simplistic and mean- the “gays” are winning rights to be full citizens…sooooo let’s link them with the most vile “human” of the 20th century… . .derpitude! grrrrrrr
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 7:41:30pm |
re: #104 EPR-radar
This is plausible. From my brief foray into the comment sewer there, the labeling of Hitler as a leftist did have a tribal bonding ritual feel to it.
See, I find the labeling of Hitler to be another exercise in “No True Scotsman.” The idea that a rightist is capable of mass murder means to them that their whole system would then be under question even though there’s a big difference between a mainstream conservative and Hitler just like there’s a big difference between a mainstream liberal and Stalin.
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jaunte Fri, May 10, 2013 7:43:05pm |
re: #106 HappyWarrior
It’s hard for some people to admit that with so much of their political worldview based on slippery slope arguments.
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Lidane Fri, May 10, 2013 7:43:26pm |
Ex- Guatemalan dictator Ríos Montt found guilty of genocide today. Story of some of those who helped bring him down motherjones.com/mixed-media/20…— Asawin Suebsaeng (@swin24) May 11, 2013
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 7:44:01pm |
re: #107 jaunte
It’s hard for some people to admit that with so much of their political worldview based on slippery slope arguments.
Right.
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Joanne Fri, May 10, 2013 7:44:23pm |
re: #78 EPR-radar
We may end up in a new feudalism in the US because 30% of the voters think they’ll be in the top 1% and vote as if they’ve already made it.
It’s good to have goals and aspirations. It’s better to know what’s going to help you achieve them. Voting for things that’re going to block your own achievements is dumb. Voting like you’ve ready arrived is going to ensure you never achieve.
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 7:45:18pm |
re: #103 The Ghost of a Flea
I love how the National-as-in-Nationalist part is downplayed. Because welfare state for pure Aryans, slave labor to the death for the rest of the world totally fits into the schematic of America politics.
Which is where the white nationalist fringe comes in.
I may have mentioned this before, but my mother’s parents emigrated from Germany to the US as they saw Hitler coming into power. After retirement, they became very conservative politically (big fans of Reagan, generally pro-Republican).
But there were exceptions. Pat Buchanan was regarded as talking like the Nazis did.
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Varek Raith Fri, May 10, 2013 7:46:20pm |
…Why does this make them happy…?
…
Fuck it, I don’t wanna know…
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The Ghost of a Flea Fri, May 10, 2013 7:46:34pm |
re: #105 DisturbedEma
re: #106 HappyWarrior
The other thing I see in the whole “Leftist Nazi” thing is a pre-emptive justification for cruelty that they’re going to inflict anyway.
Whether its insults or initmidation or violence, what’s being set up is a schema in which the gays/liberals/whathaveyou deserve what we’re giving them.
So, not just No True Scotsman, but having your schadenfreude cake and eating it to.
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Dancing along the light of day Fri, May 10, 2013 7:46:50pm |
Oh, FFS. What ELSE can the Breitfarts make up?
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 7:48:11pm |
re: #113 The Ghost of a Flea
re: #106 HappyWarrior
The other thing I see in the whole “Leftist Nazi” thing is a pre-emptive justification for cruelty that they’re going to inflict anyway.
Whether its insults or initmidation or violence, what’s being set up is a schema in which the gays/liberals/whathaveyou deserve what we’re giving them.
So, not just No True Scotsman, but having your schadenfreude cake and eating it to.
There is that too, yes. Which as I said completely shows how oblivious they are to the lessons of history.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 7:49:38pm |
re: #111 EPR-radar
Which is where the white nationalist fringe comes in.
I may have mentioned this before, but my mother’s parents emigrated from Germany to the US as they saw Hitler coming into power. After retirement, they became very conservative politically (big fans of Reagan, generally pro-Republican).
But there were exceptions. Pat Buchanan was regarded as talking like the Nazis did.
The amount of Buchanan was able to get in Republican administrations really I think says a lot. It’s why I laugh when I see Reagan admirers try to claim that Obama’s “terrible for Israel” when Ronnie had Pat, who is probably the most overtly Anti-Semitic person I’ve seen in modern politics working for him.
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 7:50:05pm |
re: #113 The Ghost of a Flea
re: #106 HappyWarrior
The other thing I see in the whole “Leftist Nazi” thing is a pre-emptive justification for cruelty that they’re going to inflict anyway.
Whether its insults or initmidation or violence, what’s being set up is a schema in which the gays/liberals/whathaveyou deserve what we’re giving them.
So, not just No True Scotsman, but having your schadenfreude cake and eating it to.
A non-trivial fraction of the US right is visibly looking for a suitable target for their hate. They are frustrated that their current targets (e.g., gays, liberals) don’t appear to be attracting much animus from the general population.
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 7:51:13pm |
re: #116 HappyWarrior
When Pat Buchanan won the NH primary in 1996, I applied for a passport.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 7:52:31pm |
re: #118 EPR-radar
When Pat Buchanan won the NH primary in 1996, I applied for a passport.
I don’t blame you. He’s truly a repulsive individual..
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Kragar Fri, May 10, 2013 7:57:17pm |
Because if Hitler was gay, then all gays are Nazis.
But if a Nazi was Christian, then he was a lone wolf.
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JeffFX Fri, May 10, 2013 7:57:44pm |
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jaunte Fri, May 10, 2013 8:02:52pm |
“I’m just a concerned single daddy who happens to have 400 feet of pipeline running through his property” bit.ly/133T973 #Keystone
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) May 11, 2013
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sattv4u2 Fri, May 10, 2013 8:03:47pm |
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JeffFX Fri, May 10, 2013 8:04:51pm |
re: #118 EPR-radar
When Pat Buchanan won the NH primary in 1996, I applied for a passport.
At the 1992 Republican Convention, Pat and his cheering crowd helped a young JeffFX realize that Republicans are insane.
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 8:06:19pm |
OT, but there is a link at DailyKos to some responses from Harvard relating to the Richwine thesis. There are statements from two of the three committee members and from the dean of the Kennedy School.
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 8:07:34pm |
re: #125 JeffFX
At the 1992 Republican Convention, Pat and his cheering crowd helped a young JeffFX realize that Republicans are insane.
Took me longer, sad to say. Fortunately, I’ve never voted in a presidential swing state.
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Joanne Fri, May 10, 2013 8:09:00pm |
re: #125 JeffFX
At the 1992 Republican Convention, Pat and his cheering crowd helped a young JeffFX realize that Republicans are insane.
Ditto.
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Lidane Fri, May 10, 2013 8:13:23pm |
re: #125 JeffFX
At the 1992 Republican Convention, Pat and his cheering crowd helped a young JeffFX realize that Republicans are insane.
Same here.
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OLDHEAD Fri, May 10, 2013 8:24:02pm |
So let’s follow the reasoning. Hitler was gay, so gay people must be OH MY GOD!!!! /
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palomino Fri, May 10, 2013 8:30:08pm |
re: #130 BLUE POINT 09
So let’s follow the reasoning. Hitler was gay, so gay people must be OH MY GOD!!!! /
Absolutely. Also Hitler had a mustache, a really bad one. So if you see a guy with bad facial hair, OMG as well.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 8:31:31pm |
re: #131 palomino
Absolutely. Also Hitler had a mustache, a really bad one. So if you see a guy with bad facial hair, OMG as well.
Crap this means me my last semester of college when I had the thick beard was Hitler.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, May 10, 2013 8:33:19pm |
re: #21 HappyWarrior
I don’t get the purpose of this. Most historians conclude that he was either heterosexual or asexual. But if he was gay? What would it prove? That gays somehow deserve to be persecuted the way Hitler persecuted people? Sorry Breitbart, Bryan Fischer, it doesn’t work that way and it shouldn’t. We know for a definite fact that Stalin and Mao Zedong were straight. Yet there’s no rush among gay activists to limits the rights of heterosexual men because those two were straight. I don’t think Hitler was gay but you know what even if he was, discrimination against LGBT people would still be wrong. There were definitely straight and Christian Nazis, and do we see the people on Breitbart advocating that they be treated like second class citizens because of that fact, no and nor should we. Fuck this stupid shit.
Just so. Hitler’s evil wasn’t related to his sexuality; His killing rage was born of frustrated ambition and his Jew-hate was the product of his mind fleeing the reality that Germany had in fact been militarily defeated in World War I.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 8:33:24pm |
re: #125 JeffFX
At the 1992 Republican Convention, Pat and his cheering crowd helped a young JeffFX realize that Republicans are insane.
I think five year old me would have agreed too. But I was too busy enjoying kindergarten and later going to Clinton’s inauguration. My Dad’s not the most political person but he liked Clinton and I am sure seeing that Clinton chose to have some neat bands play at his inaugural made going a no brainer. Of cousre, we live near D.C too but I know we didn’t go to Bush I’s inaugural in ‘89 and somehow I doubt my then childless folks were rushing to go to Ronnie’s in 85.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 8:35:42pm |
re: #133 Dark_Falcon
Just so. Hitler’s evil wasn’t related to his sexuality; His killing rage was born of frustrated ambition and his Jew-hate was the product of his mind fleeing the reality that Germany had in fact been militarily defeated in World War I.
That was my point. Hitler’s evil because he killed over ten million innocent people not because he might have been gay or straight. I don’t know why the people at Breitbart don’t get that. The heterosexuality of Stalin and Mao doesn’t make them any less evil.
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Single-handed sailor Fri, May 10, 2013 8:37:29pm |
re: #135 HappyWarrior
That was my point. Hitler’s evil because he killed over ten million innocent people not because he might have been gay or straight. I don’t know why the people at Breitbart don’t get that. The heterosexuality of Stalin and Mao doesn’t make them any less evil.
They were gay too. //
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darthstar Fri, May 10, 2013 8:37:38pm |
The horse is throwing bullets tonight…good game so far.
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darthstar Fri, May 10, 2013 8:38:45pm |
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Dark_Falcon Fri, May 10, 2013 8:40:38pm |
re: #135 HappyWarrior
That was my point. Hitler’s evil because he killed over ten million innocent people not because he might have been gay or straight. I don’t know why the people at Breitbart don’t get that. The heterosexuality of Stalin and Mao doesn’t make them any less evil.
They don’t care about ‘getting it’. The objective of this piece is to fling red meat to the gay=hating portion of their reader base.
It can actually be considered a decline for the site, since Andrew Breitbart himself was not an anti-gay person. But his successors don’t care about what their founder thought, so long as their own power and wallets are enlarged.
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sattv4u2 Fri, May 10, 2013 8:41:53pm |
re: #137 darthstar
The horse is throwing bullets tonight…good game so far.
Two one-hitters tonight
Red Sox/ John Lester and Cardinals Shelby Miller
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 8:44:14pm |
re: #140 sattv4u2
Two one-hitters tonight
Red Sox/ John Lester and Cardinals Shelby Miller
Call the Elias Sports Bureau. Wonder if that’s ever happened before.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 8:46:19pm |
re: #139 Dark_Falcon
They don’t care about ‘getting it’. The objective of this piece is to fling red meat to the gay=hating portion of their reader base.
It can actually be considered a decline for the site, since Andrew Breitbart himself was not an anti-gay person. But his successors don’t care about what their founder thought, so long as their own power and wallets are enlarged.
Nah Breitbart was just an angry dickhead. I see your point but it’s just amusing for me to see how twisted their logic is. As I say, heterosexual, homosexual, transsexual, whatever, the guy’s still one of the mass murderers in history.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 8:46:50pm |
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Dark_Falcon Fri, May 10, 2013 8:50:33pm |
re: #142 HappyWarrior
Nah Breitbart was just an angry dickhead. I see your point but it’s just amusing for me to see how twisted their logic is. As I say, heterosexual, homosexual, transsexual, whatever, the guy’s still one of the mass murderers in history.
I agree with you about Breitbart, but it offends me deeply when something is put into service of a bigotry its creator clearly opposed. That sort of action seems to me to be a true instance of perversion, unlike fake gay scandals (which only what bigots believe to be perversion.
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sattv4u2 Fri, May 10, 2013 8:52:48pm |
And on that note, the long quiet drive home beckons!
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 8:54:51pm |
re: #144 Dark_Falcon
I agree with you about Breitbart, but it offends me deeply when something is put into service of a bigotry its creator clearly opposed. That sort of action seems to me to be a true instance of perversion, unlike fake gay scandals (which only what bigots believe to be perversion.
Heh yeah true enough. Just ribbing about Breitbart. They’re eventually going to collapse under the weight of their own rage.
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CriticalDragon1177 Fri, May 10, 2013 8:55:22pm |
re: #13 Charles Johnson
The evidence: a notoriously squirrely Army interviewer scribbled “Homosex” in his notes while interviewing one of Hitler’s doctors.
Charles Johnson
Didn’t the Nazis, including Hitler, hate homosexuals? Rhetorical question of course. The Nazis tried to eliminate anyone they suspect of being homosexual, just as they tried to destroy people who they suspected of having “Jewish blood.” Yet that is supposed to prove that Hitler was gay, and that the Nazis didn’t have a problem with homosexuality? Is that it?
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 8:58:06pm |
re: #144 Dark_Falcon
I agree with you about Breitbart, but it offends me deeply when something is put into service of a bigotry its creator clearly opposed. That sort of action seems to me to be a true instance of perversion, unlike fake gay scandals (which only what bigots believe to be perversion.
I see on Wikipedia that Breitbart was on the advisory board of GOProud. Even so, I find it difficult to believe that any movement conservative rock star can really be all that opposed to anti-gay bigotry. Is there any record of Breitbart taking meaningful action on this front?
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Dark_Falcon Fri, May 10, 2013 9:02:11pm |
re: #148 EPR-radar
I see on Wikipedia that Breitbart was on the advisory board of GOProud. Even so, I find it difficult to believe that any movement conservative rock star can really be all that opposed to anti-gay bigotry. Is there any record of Breitbart taking meaningful action on this front?
I confess that I do not know. I don’t seek to depict Andrew Breitbart as anything other than the dick he was, but I feel his successors have proven even worse than he was.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 9:02:52pm |
re: #148 EPR-radar
I see on Wikipedia that Breitbart was on the advisory board of GOProud. Even so, I find it difficult to believe that any movement conservative rock star can really be all that opposed to anti-gay bigotry. Is there any record of Breitbart taking meaningful action on this front?
Isn’t Coulter on their board too? I can’t speak for Breitbart but we see Coulter say homophobic things all the time. Her calling Edwards a “faggot” is a good example of that. Cynic in me wonders if people like her and Breitbart just do that to be like “Hey, we’re not total bigots.” But who knows, I’ve never seen Coulter actively call out the party line on gays.
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Mich-again Fri, May 10, 2013 9:06:31pm |
re: #149 Dark_Falcon
I confess that I do not know. I don’t seek to depict Andrew Breitbart as anything other than the dick he was, but I feel his successors have proven even worse than he was.
His successors have sullied his name because they can.
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Mich-again Fri, May 10, 2013 9:08:07pm |
re: #13 Charles Johnson
The evidence: a notoriously squirrely Army interviewer scribbled “Homosex” in his notes while interviewing one of Hitler’s doctors.
Ricky and Lucy also slept in separate beds. Just sayin..
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 9:08:27pm |
re: #151 Mich-again
His successors have sullied his name because they can.
IMO, sullying Breitbart’s name is close to being a logical impossibility.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, May 10, 2013 9:11:15pm |
re: #153 EPR-radar
IMO, sullying Breitbart’s name is close to being a logical impossibility.
True, but those assholes pulled it off somehow.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 9:12:20pm |
re: #153 EPR-radar
IMO, sullying Breitbart’s name is close to being a logical impossibility.
True which is why I think they’re merely doing similar stuff to what he would have done had he not died. Lest we forget that Breitbart had no problem engaging in presenting a false video that ruined Shirley Sherrod’s reputation. This wasn’t merely someone that was someone that was disagreed with, this was someone who relished in ruining lives simply because he hated the left. If there was a left wing version of him, the right would have been crying for his arrest and punishment.
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Mich-again Fri, May 10, 2013 9:15:30pm |
re: #154 Dark_Falcon
True, but those assholes pulled it off somehow.
That’s my point. As bad as Andrew was, his successors have taken it to a whole new depth. Why not, it’s not their name on the door..
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 9:16:52pm |
re: #156 Mich-again
That’s my point. As bad as Andrew was, his successors have taken it to a whole new depth. Why not, it’s not their name on the door..
It’s like that South Park episode with James Cameron. You think they can’t sink deeper and they do. Oh they do.
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 9:17:17pm |
re: #154 Dark_Falcon
True, but those assholes pulled it off somehow.
We’re both speculating here, but I find it perfectly believable that Breitbart would have run with this stupid Hitler was gay article on a sufficiently slow news day for right wing red meat.
The ‘Nazis were leftists’ meme needs to be repeated frequently because it is so stupid.
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Flavia Fri, May 10, 2013 9:22:08pm |
One good note: one of the contributors on that site completely demolished the entire article with (gasp!) evidence:
“(Lot 181 at auctions[dot]alexautographs[dot]com).
It says absolutely nothing about female hormone injections or about Hitler being homosexual or having any homosexual feelings. On the contrary, it indicates that Hitler received injections in order to boost his *male* hormones and that his physician confirmed that Hitler did have sexual relations with Eva Braun.
So the records in question say absolutely nothing about Hitler either having sex with men or wanting to have sex with men and they confirm that he did have sexual relations with the woman that he ultimately married.
How sex with a woman and no sex with men “shows that Hitler was gay” is beyond me. If this is evidence of being gay, then every heterosexual man in the world is gay.”
& the very next comment was one thanking this poster! (WOW!)
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Mattand Fri, May 10, 2013 9:23:32pm |
re: #150 HappyWarrior
Isn’t Coulter on their board too? I can’t speak for Breitbart but we see Coulter say homophobic things all the time. Her calling Edwards a “faggot” is a good example of that. Cynic in me wonders if people like her and Breitbart just do that to be like “Hey, we’re not total bigots.” But who knows, I’ve never seen Coulter actively call out the party line on gays.
IIRC, GOProud or the Log Cabin Delusionals invited her to speak at a college somewhere, and she went full on anti-gay marriage.
I’d look up the details, but I’ve already spent far too much time thinking about ol’ Ann.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 9:25:27pm |
re: #160 Mattand
IIRC, GOProud or the Log Cabin Delusionals invited her to speak at a college somewhere, and she went full on anti-gay marriage.
I’d look up the details, but I’ve already spent far too much time thinking about ol’ Ann.
No need to look it up. I wouldn’t want to ruin your Friday night. Not surprised at all if that’s true. I’ve seen nothing about Ann that suggests that she’s open to the idea of homosexuals having equality under the law.
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 9:26:13pm |
re: #160 Mattand
IIRC, GOProud or the Log Cabin Delusionals invited her to speak at a college somewhere, and she went full on anti-gay marriage.
I’d look up the details, but I’ve already spent far too much time thinking about ol’ Ann.
The deal for GOProud and the Log Cabin fools is that they get treated like trash in exchange for tax policies they favor. Only works if you’re rich enough that being treated like trash is an inconvenience that can be bought off.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, May 10, 2013 9:28:07pm |
re: #158 EPR-radar
We’re both speculating here, but I find it perfectly believable that Breitbart would have run with this stupid Hitler was gay article on a sufficiently slow news day for right wing red meat.
The ‘Nazis were leftists’ meme needs to be repeated frequently because it is so stupid.
The thing is its not self-evidently stupid, so sometimes people buy into it without looking as deeply at the argument as they should. This is helped by the fact that most Americans are abysmally ignorant of WWII history, though I believed in this idea for a time and I knew (and still know) far more about the topic.
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Mattand Fri, May 10, 2013 9:30:07pm |
re: #162 EPR-radar
The deal for GOProud and the Log Cabin fools is that they get treated like trash in exchange for tax policies they favor. Only works if you’re rich enough that being treated like trash is an inconvenience that can be bought off.
This is the first explanation I’ve seen as to why a gay person would even consider joining the GOP that almost makes sense.
I still say being a gay Republican these days is like being a black Klansman.
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stabby Fri, May 10, 2013 9:32:40pm |
re: #97 The Ghost of a Flea
Hm. A proposal:
Fringe-belief sites are really more about social rituals confirming tribal beliefs and thus tribal identities. Thus the “news” is less about facts or new information than the recapitulation of foundational myths. Communicated urgency (Bombshell! This Just In!) in turn isn’t so much about up-to-date-ness as about maintaining a sense of relevance and immediacy.
This specific article, then, is like seasonal festive right: The Annual Alignment of Nazi Culpability, in which the scapegoat is herded into the conceptual village of (ill-defined) Leftism.
Yeah, 99.99% of what gets said on right wing sites, especially in the comment section is absolute idiots standing up to publicly repeat the current hate litany as not merely as emphatically as possible but MORE emphatically than anyone sane could state it.
It’s a disgusting ritual, and I point it out to right wingers whenever I can… They refuse to take any notice, then stand up to do it themselves.
Couldn’t be more disgusting.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 9:33:44pm |
re: #163 Dark_Falcon
The thing is its not self-evidently stupid, so sometimes people buy into it without looking as deeply at the argument as they should. This is helped by the fact that most Americans are abysmally ignorant of WWII history, though I believed in this idea for a time and I knew (and still know) far more about the topic.
Shit you can look at the famous First They Came For poem and realize that the Nazis were no friends of the political left. Some of this is just common sense. How can and I ask you this since you’re a conservative and I know you don’t believe this but how can people on the right criticize the left for supporting multiculturalism and cultural diversity and at the same time say we’re Nazis? I mean that just strikes me as just calling the Nazis leftists because they want arguably the most evil and depised regime in American history to be leftists because they can’t acknowledge that the political right is capable of evil too. And to be fair, I have seen a small part of the left try to get around the fact that Stalin and Mao were the worst aspects of far left.
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stabby Fri, May 10, 2013 9:33:49pm |
Gays are winning the right to marry, so it’s important for the hate cultists to stand up and say “gay = Hitler”
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 9:34:42pm |
re: #163 Dark_Falcon
The thing is its not self-evidently stupid, so sometimes people buy into it without looking as deeply at the argument as they should. This is helped by the fact that most Americans are abysmally ignorant of WWII history, though I believed in this idea for a time and I knew (and still know) far more about the topic.
I don’t mean to beat up on you, but it really is self-evidently stupid. Niemoller:
First they came for the communists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a communist.Then they came for the socialists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a socialist.Then they came for the trade unionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a trade unionist.Then they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me.
The watered down version apparently more commonly quoted in the US omits the communists and adds Jews, but it is still crystal clear.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, May 10, 2013 9:40:10pm |
re: #168 EPR-radar
If you think of that passage often. I don’t. I’m not the kind who’d speak up anyways, preferring to keep my head down and try make myself into someone who wouldn’t draw “their” ire.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 9:40:57pm |
re: #168 EPR-radar
I don’t mean to beat up on you, but it really is self-evidently stupid. Niemoller:
The watered down version apparently more commonly quoted in the US omits the communists and adds Jews, but it is still crystal clear.
Heh beat you to it. I think what many American conservatives choose to ignore and or of ignorant of is they seem to view all anti-capitalism as being Marxist or Marxist inspired or leftist in general even though European aristocrats didn’t like capitalism because they didn’t like upward mobility. One reason why I as an American liberal am glad to defend the virtues of capitalism is that it does allow for that. It’s not a perfect system of course but compared to what it replaced, it was and is a better system. To me in the end, the best economy is a mixed one of socialism and capitalism much like many American liberals want now. It may sound simple and hollow but to me it’s just this simple. Sometimes the government does it better. Sometimes free enterprise does it better. It’s on how much and what you think it does it better in that IMO makes you a conservative or a liberal. I trust the government being involved in stuff like transportation, education, etc but I’m less wary of the government in regulating people’s personal behaviors. A conservative may disagree.
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 9:42:47pm |
re: #169 Dark_Falcon
If you think of that passage often. I don’t. I’m not the kind who’d speak up anyways, preferring to keep my head down and try make myself into someone who wouldn’t draw “their” ire.
The poem is simply a distillation of the larger picture. Nobody can look at the history of Hitler’s rise to power and not conclude that the Nazi movement was right wing, unless very thick ideological blinders are in place.
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stabby Fri, May 10, 2013 9:45:03pm |
re: #154 Dark_Falcon
True, but those assholes pulled it off somehow.
I disagree.
Andrew Breitbart was a disgusting racist, slandering, political whore.
He knew how to distract attention from his racism by throwing just the right sort of righteous tantrums to distract attention whenever the pressure was on.
But it’s not even slightly a coincidence that the audience he attracted and help he hired are all 100% bigots who can’t hide their nature.
The fact that they’re not as good at lying means that he finally, in death, gets exposed for what he obviously always was.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 9:45:23pm |
re: #171 EPR-radar
The poem is simply a distillation of the larger picture. Nobody can look at the history of Hitler’s rise to power and not conclude that the Nazi movement was right wing, unless very thick ideological blinders are in place.
Right, that poem illustrates that the Nazis targeted the left early and let’s not forget that even though not all or even most Jews are Communists that the Nazis and many other right wing regimes equated Jews with Bolshevism, Marxism, and general Communism. Hell even here in the US, there was a strain of that during the Red Scare. It thankfully never got to be how it was in Germany and in other places but it was there. And yes, I realize that they were equated with capitalism too as they are to this day.
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bratwurst Fri, May 10, 2013 9:46:09pm |
If you were wondering whether Glenn Greenwald could get through his entire appearance on Real Time with Bill Maher tonight without referencing his disdain for Israel, the answer is no. One has to wonder if there is a single hour of any given day where he is not thinking about his feelings on this topic.
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Dancing along the light of day Fri, May 10, 2013 9:47:36pm |
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Dark_Falcon Fri, May 10, 2013 9:47:38pm |
re: #172 FemNaziBitch
How is it this evening?
It is well. I got in the second half of a two-seat sale today. I was able to make some good contacts this week as well, so the month has the potential to be a very good one.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 9:49:34pm |
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stabby Fri, May 10, 2013 9:49:54pm |
re: #175 bratwurst
You’re reminding me that when I was a kid, whenever you heard a certain sort of southern accent on the radio, you knew that the person, given enough time, would ALWAYS say something about the civil war or how blacks didn’t have it so bad…
Similarly, if you heard the very most upper class, aristocratic, posh British voice, then eventually, out would come the “more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger” bullshit about Israel. The British upper class can’t forgive Israel for existing.
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EPR-radar Fri, May 10, 2013 9:50:07pm |
re: #170 HappyWarrior
Heh beat you to it. I think what many American conservatives choose to ignore and or of ignorant of is they seem to view all anti-capitalism as being Marxist or Marxist inspired or leftist in general even though European aristocrats didn’t like capitalism because they didn’t like upward mobility. One reason why I as an American liberal am glad to defend the virtues of capitalism is that it does allow for that. It’s not a perfect system of course but compared to what it replaced, it was and is a better system. To me in the end, the best economy is a mixed one of socialism and capitalism much like many American liberals want now. It may sound simple and hollow but to me it’s just this simple. Sometimes the government does it better. Sometimes free enterprise does it better. It’s on how much and what you think it does it better in that IMO makes you a conservative or a liberal. I trust the government being involved in stuff like transportation, education, etc but I’m less wary of the government in regulating people’s personal behaviors. A conservative may disagree.
But the Nazis weren’t even anti-capitalist! They made some populist noises from time to time, but that was all BS.
I think the up-thread explanations are the real ones. Nazi = evil is embedded into the culture, so gay = Nazi is a way to get to gay = evil for tiny bigoted minds. And of course left = evil, so Nazi = left must follow.
It is reasoning that would be a disgrace to a five year old.
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FemNaziBitch Fri, May 10, 2013 9:50:41pm |
Had a wonderful evening in the City with my girlfriend. We attended a book talk. Author, Eve Ensler, is peddling her new book, In the Body of the World. I knew Eve was a good performer, but I had no idea she was so funny. I expected to enjoy the talk (many authors are sooooo dry) but I LOL’d a lot. She was as funny as PJ O’Rourke, although in a much more personal way. So, I highly recommnend the book for all genders. You’ll laugh thru any parts that make you uncomfortable.
Then we stopped for appetizers at a Mediterranean Restaurant before the long drive home to Near Iowa.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, May 10, 2013 9:51:51pm |
re: #179 stabby
You’re reminding me that when I was a kid, whenever you heard a certain sort of southern accent on the radio, you knew that the person, given enough time, would ALWAYS say something about the civil war or how blacks didn’t have it so bad…
Similarly, if you heard the very most upper class, aristocratic, posh British voice, then eventually, out would come the “more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger” bullshit about Israel. The British upper class can’t forgive Israel for existing.
“more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger” = “passive-aggressive” in my opinion, and Greenwald’s attitude towards Israel is centered on a serious case of DARVO.
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FemNaziBitch Fri, May 10, 2013 9:52:25pm |
re: #180 EPR-radar
But the Nazis weren’t even anti-capitalist! They made some populist noises from time to time, but that was all BS.
I think the up-thread explanations are the real ones. Nazi = evil is embedded into the culture, so gay = Nazi is a way to get to gay = evil for tiny bigoted minds. And of course left = evil, so Nazi = left must follow.
It is reasoning that would be a disgrace to a five year old.
Yep, Nazi is up there with Liberatarian, Fascist, Socialist and Communist. Words misused to the point of meaninglessness.
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FemNaziBitch Fri, May 10, 2013 9:53:14pm |
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 10, 2013 9:54:00pm |
re: #180 EPR-radar
But the Nazis weren’t even anti-capitalist! They made some populist noises from time to time, but that was all BS.
I think the up-thread explanations are the real ones. Nazi = evil is embedded into the culture, so gay = Nazi is a way to get to gay = evil for tiny bigoted minds. And of course left = evil, so Nazi = left must follow.
It is reasoning that would be a disgrace to a five year old.
Oh I know and agree with everything you’ve said here but the people we’re talking about hear the socialist part of National Socialist and assume the Nazis were anti-capitalist. I think it is what you’re pointing out here that if Nazis are evil, as is the left, and they must be the same. It’s the same mentality I guess that leads them to think Obama’s a closet Muslim all the while they hammer him for being too secular.Gingrich cynically did this when he “warned” about an alliance of secularists and Muslims working together. I can tell you this much as an agnostic, I wouldn’t be any happier under Sharia than I would Christian Law. You can take my beer and pork from my stone cold hands!
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FemNaziBitch Fri, May 10, 2013 9:57:01pm |
Did I tell you???
I GET to volunteer tomorrow at the Rover Rescue Pet Show!!! I get to hold a dog and talk about him/her to prospective adoptee families. My friend who is a member of Rover Rescue has thanked me about a million times for agreeing to volunteer and I’m like “I’d pay to do this.”
They have puppies too! as well as raffles and a pet show and stuff. I’m mostly excited about the puppies.
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Dark_Falcon Fri, May 10, 2013 9:57:44pm |
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Dancing along the light of day Fri, May 10, 2013 10:05:04pm |
re: #186 FemNaziBitch
I got to play with & hold a 6 week old Australian Shepard puppy today :)
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FemNaziBitch Fri, May 10, 2013 10:05:17pm |
On the way to our car this evening a kid (probably 23) started talking to us trying to sell us his CD’s. He was so cute, I gave him $5 and got the CD. He was soooo cute:
Since it is the Friday Night Music Thread.
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engineer cat Fri, May 10, 2013 10:07:08pm |
o.t.
i’m trying to think of the idiomatic expression you’d use to describe a place where everybody is working too hard, too fast, and with too much anxiety
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FemNaziBitch Fri, May 10, 2013 10:07:10pm |
re: #189 Dancing along the light of day
I got to play with & hold a 6 week old Australian Shepard puppy today :)
was it better than talk therapy?
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FemNaziBitch Fri, May 10, 2013 10:09:33pm |
re: #191 engineer cat
o.t.
i’m trying to think of the idiomatic expression you’d use to describe a place where everybody is working too hard, too fast, and with too much anxiety
ah, I learned that word tonite. Eve said Joe Ehrmann calls it “living a transactional life” as opposed to a trans… I forget. Transformational?
It’s the difference between a coach that trains his players to win and the coach that trains his players to play the game to the best of their ability as individuals and as a team.
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FemNaziBitch Fri, May 10, 2013 10:11:55pm |
re: #191 engineer cat
o.t.
i’m trying to think of the idiomatic expression you’d use to describe a place where everybody is working too hard, too fast, and with too much anxiety
Or you could just say “America”
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Dancing along the light of day Fri, May 10, 2013 10:13:49pm |
re: #192 FemNaziBitch
Better than an ice cream sandwich, even! Puppy breath!
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FemNaziBitch Fri, May 10, 2013 10:14:39pm |
re: #195 Dancing along the light of day
Better than an ice cream sandwich, even! Puppy breath!
ooooooooh! (in a high pitched jr high girl squeal)
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engineer cat Fri, May 10, 2013 10:39:21pm |
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FemNaziBitch Fri, May 10, 2013 10:41:44pm |
re: #198 engineer cat
e’s not dead - e’s just pinin’ for the fjords
where is Slartibartfast when you need him?
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FemNaziBitch Fri, May 10, 2013 10:47:18pm |
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Mattand Fri, May 10, 2013 10:51:56pm |
Just had two blackouts within 5 minutes. We didn’t have that happen when Sandy rolled through in October.
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AlexRogan Fri, May 10, 2013 11:14:06pm |
Been busy all day with a bunch of things, one of which was having to replace an almost 40-year-old Amana chest freezer (that my grandma bought before I was born and that we’ve had here at our house for almost twenty years) that’s on its last legs to keep from losing about $300 worth of frozen food; I got a Haier 5-cubic-foot freezer that was on sale at HH Gregg for $170 and wound up getting another 10% knocked off, so that’s a small victory for today.
I’d been looking at replacing the Amana for a while, seeing as it’d cost just as much for a tech to come out, look at it, and throw some R-12 in it (at a bare minimum), but my hand got forced on it when pretty much the top half inside was staying dangerously warm, so I went ahead and got the new freezer as an early Mother’s Day present for my mom. She likes it and it gets pretty damned cold; the fit, finish, and operation of this Haier unit is pretty decent and I couldn’t beat the price.
Anyways, just found this trailer for the Captain Phillips movie coming out in October about the Maersk Alabama hijacking; it looks pretty damn good with Tom Hanks in the title role:
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Sol Berdinowitz Fri, May 10, 2013 11:39:42pm |
re: #20 bratwurst
an estimated 100,000 men were arrested in Germany as homosexuals between 1933 and 1945.
Everybody knows that represed gays are the biggest homophobes.
See, the Breitbart logic is ironclad, just like a Tiger tank with its, long, glistening 88mm gun barrel clad in kill rings…
/
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Gus Fri, May 10, 2013 11:41:12pm |
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Sol Berdinowitz Fri, May 10, 2013 11:47:49pm |
re: #168 EPR-radar
First they came for the thirty round magazines,
and I didn’t speak out because I only used ten round clips.Then they came for the confederate revisionists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a confederate revisionist.Then they came for the creationists,
and I didn’t speak out because I wasn’t a creationistThen they came for me,
and there was no one left to speak for me because they were all too busy appearing on Fox news, whining and shouting about how oppressed they were.
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Kragar Sat, May 11, 2013 12:17:24am |
re: #205 Sol Berdinowitz
Everybody knows that represed gays are the biggest homophobes.
See, the Breitbart logic is ironclad, just like a Tiger tank with its, long, glistening 88mm gun barrel clad in kill rings…
/
Bryan Fischer would have strapped on jackboots in a heart beat.
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wheat-dogghazi Sat, May 11, 2013 12:29:59am |
re: #204 AlexRogan
Haier is a Chinese brand. Their apartment-size small-size washers are pretty good. I had one in the States and now have one in China.
[Fixed to correct possible misinterpretation.]
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Sol Berdinowitz Sat, May 11, 2013 1:05:17am |
re: #210 Ace-o-aces
Also, he only had one ball.
Göring had two, but verry small…
(Himmler was somewhat similar)
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Sol Berdinowitz Sat, May 11, 2013 1:11:41am |
re: #209 wheat-dogghazi
Haier is a Chinese brand. Their
apartment-sizesmall-size washers are pretty good. I had one in the States and now have one in China.[Fixed to correct possible misinterpretation.]
Unless you are referring to the size of a typical Chinese apartment…
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wheat-dogghazi Sat, May 11, 2013 1:48:04am |
re: #212 Sol Berdinowitz
Unless you are referring to the size of a typical Chinese apartment…
Some people sleep on top of their washing machines …
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Sophist is the VillageGreen Preservation Society Sat, May 11, 2013 2:20:59am |
Douchebaggery, ho!:
Mark Steyn, at NRO’s International House of Jaw-dropping Metaphors: “Victoria Nuland and the State Department vacuumed any real “intelligence” out of the CIA talking-points like Dr Kermit Gosnell suctioning the brains out of Philadelphia babies.”
Mark Steyn is a classless hack. Discuss.
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William of Orange Sat, May 11, 2013 3:12:16am |
Sure… And that’s why he married Eva Braun. Figures…
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William of Orange Sat, May 11, 2013 3:14:19am |
Florida Man Accused Of Water-Boarding Girlfriend Over Facebook Post | buff.ly/13HU0gD
— Florida Man (@_FloridaMan) May 10, 2013
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Sol Berdinowitz Sat, May 11, 2013 3:30:33am |
re: #215 William of Orange
Sure… And that’s why he married Eva Braun. Figures…
The lead chracters in Brokeback Mountain were both married, too.
There. Ran rings around your logic.
/
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Dr Lizardo Sat, May 11, 2013 3:40:33am |
What we know of Der Führer’s sexuality is minimal at best.
He did carry on an affair with his niece, Geli Raubal, until she committed suicide; a death that by all contemporary accounts affected Hitler profoundly. There were also rumors that he carried on affairs with quite a few women before he finally settled down with Eva Braun. Hitler always portrayed himself as ‘married to Germany’, at least as far as his public image went.
There are rumors that he may have had some rather kinky proclivities such as coprophilia and urolagnia - indeed, his fondness for that is rumored to be one of the reasons behind Ms. Raubal’s suicide, along with that fact that Hitler was apparently singularly possessive of her. Bernard Stempfel, a Hieronymite priest, was said to have been in possession of a letter from Hitler to Ms. Raubal in which Hitler wrote of his enjoyment of those activities. However, these are simply rumors, and that’s all. Stempfel was, if I recall correctly, killed during the Night of the Long Knives.
The truth of Hitler’s sexuality will never be fully known, but I’m rather inclined to the view that he was heterosexual, albeit, a rather kinky heterosexual. And there’s absolutely nothing wrong with being kinky, as long as it’s consensual.
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William of Orange Sat, May 11, 2013 3:42:59am |
re: #217 Sol Berdinowitz
The lead chracters in Brokeback Mountain were both married, too.
There. Ran rings around your logic.
/
Fiction and reality…
Besides that, what’s the point? The thing we know most about Hitler was that he’s was a nasty bastard who plunged Europe in 12 years of darkness.
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Sol Berdinowitz Sat, May 11, 2013 4:04:59am |
re: #218 Dr Lizardo
The truth about Hitler’s sexuality is entirely incidental: it is simply propaganda to support the assertion that gay marriage will lead to fascism.
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Sol Berdinowitz Sat, May 11, 2013 4:06:06am |
re: #219 William of Orange
Fiction and reality…
Besides that, what’s the point? The thing we know most about Hitler was that he’s was a nasty bastard who plunged Europe in 12 years of darkness.
Brokeback Mountain was about propagating the Gay Agenda. And gays often marry to hide their true agenda from unsuspecting heteros.
/
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Dr Lizardo Sat, May 11, 2013 4:10:52am |
re: #220 Sol Berdinowitz
The truth about Hitler’s sexuality is entirely incidental: it is simply propaganda to support the assertion that gay marriage will lead to fascism.
That’s very true; indeed, the RW has been making such claims for several years now. The most common theme seems to be that the NSDAP was a militant gay political party.
Which is laughable on so many levels, it approaches the bizarre.
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Sol Berdinowitz Sat, May 11, 2013 4:23:58am |
re: #222 Dr Lizardo
That’s very true; indeed, the RW has been making such claims for several years now. The most common theme seems to be that the NSDAP was a militant gay political party.
Which is laughable on so many levels, it approaches the bizarre.
And they were “Socialists”.
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steve_davis Sat, May 11, 2013 4:28:27am |
re: #18 darthstar
Actually, he was writing “home at six” because he promised his wife he wouldn’t be late for dinner, but because doctors have notoriously bad penmanship, it just looked like “homosex”…case closed.
OMG! Hitler was Homeatsixual!!!
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Dr Lizardo Sat, May 11, 2013 4:35:15am |
re: #223 Sol Berdinowitz
And they were “Socialists”.
The other part of their absurd equation. They completely ignore the fact that Hitler himself said - more than once - that he’d wished he’d dropped the ‘Socialist’ part of NSDAP. Not to mention that Hitler said on scores of occasions how opposed he was to Socialism in general.
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Sol Berdinowitz Sat, May 11, 2013 4:44:40am |
re: #225 Dr Lizardo
The other part of their absurd equation. They completely ignore the fact that Hitler himself said - more than once - that he’d wished he’d dropped the ‘Socialist’ part of NSDAP. Not to mention that Hitler said on scores of occasions how opposed he was to Socialism in general.
It has nothing to do with anything but Godwinism and discrediting one’s opponents in any way possible. I do not listen to such arguments from any end of the political spectrum.
And by the way, the MBF is a gay fascist…
/
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Dr Lizardo Sat, May 11, 2013 4:47:31am |
re: #226 Sol Berdinowitz
It has nothing to do with anything but Godwinism and discrediting one’s opponents in any way possible. I do not listen to such arguments from any end of the political spectrum.
And by the way, the MBF is a gay fascist…
/
I was always under the impression that the MBF is a gay atheist IslamoCommieNazi liberal fascist. Heh - I learn something new every day.
/
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Sol Berdinowitz Sat, May 11, 2013 4:52:42am |
re: #227 Dr Lizardo
I was always under the impression that the MBF is a gay atheist IslamoCommieNazi liberal fascist. Heh - I learn something new every day.
/
who hates guns, unless they are in the hands of criminals and terrorists…
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Dr Lizardo Sat, May 11, 2013 4:56:43am |
re: #228 Sol Berdinowitz
who hates guns, unless they are in the hands of criminals and terrorists…
…..and the MBF is clearly the driving force behind the plan to establish a Muslim Brotherhood gay atheist fascist IslamoCommieNazi Agenda 21 Caliphate in the USA, the evidence of which was covered up in
BENGHAZI!!1!11ty!
It’s all becoming so clear now…….
/
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Sol Berdinowitz Sat, May 11, 2013 5:05:03am |
re: #229 Dr Lizardo
…..and the MBF is clearly the driving force behind the plan to establish a Muslim Brotherhood gay atheist fascist IslamoCommieNazi Agenda 21 Caliphate in the USA, the evidence of which was covered up in
It’s all becoming so clear now…….
/
The fact that it was not clear to you from the outset makes you somehow suspect…
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Dr Lizardo Sat, May 11, 2013 5:14:56am |
re: #230 Sol Berdinowitz
The fact that it was not clear to you from the outset makes you somehow suspect…
It’s likely because I don’t listen to enough Glenn Beck, Alex Jones, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity nor read enough Pam Gellar, Robert Spencer, or Bryan Fischer.
I suppose a little homework with those folks should help me see the light.
//
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Dark_Falcon Sat, May 11, 2013 5:38:02am |
re: #205 Sol Berdinowitz
Everybody knows that represed gays are the biggest homophobes.
See, the Breitbart logic is ironclad, just like a Tiger tank with its, long, glistening 88mm gun barrel clad in kill rings…
/
Actually, the Germans painted the barrel of the Tiger’s gun so that it would not glisten, as glistening tended to invite attention of Allied TDs and tanks armed with 17-pounder, and 90mm guns. The similar Soviet guns were the 100mm and 122mm.
/Straight man
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ProTARDISLiberal Sat, May 11, 2013 5:40:42am |
We’ve had some sort of blast in Reyhanli, Turkey.
Hurriyet reports 4 people killed, 18 injured in #Reyhanli explosion. Source is Interior Minister. #Turkey
— MiddleEast_BRK (@MiddleEast_BRK) May 11, 2013
Also, bombing of 2 Police Stations in Benghazi overnight.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, May 11, 2013 5:51:46am |
re: #233 ProTARDISLiberal
We’ve had some sort of blast in Reyhanli, Turkey.
Also, bombing of 2 Police Stations in Benghazi overnight.
BENGHAZI!!1!11ty!
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Sol Berdinowitz Sat, May 11, 2013 6:18:02am |
re: #232 Dark_Falcon
Actually, the Germans painted the barrel of the Tiger’s gun so that it would not glisten, as glistening tended to invite attention of Allied TDs and tanks armed with 17-pounder, and 90mm guns. The similar Soviet guns were the 100mm and 122mm.
/Straight man
They did it to make it look more phallic, they were all homosexuals.
/
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Dark_Falcon Sat, May 11, 2013 6:31:07am |
re: #235 Sol Berdinowitz
They did it to make it look more phallic, they were all homosexuals.
/
Gays don’t use camo patterns unless they involve lavender. I saw that on The Blaze, so it must be true!
///
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Dark_Falcon Sat, May 11, 2013 7:01:08am |
re: #237 Sol Berdinowitz
But no body ever accuses the SAS of being gay. The haters simply use the accusation of gayness for denigration.
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Romantic Heretic Sat, May 11, 2013 7:11:40am |
re: #7 Kragar
In a actually some what related note, we were going thru some boxes in the basement this morning and found a bunch of pictures my dad’s uncle took during World War 2. Turns out he had liberated one of the concentration camps and we had some of those pictures sitting in the basement gathering dust. My mom had me bring them up and she’s going thru all that stuff now.
Get them on the net! Please. We can’t lose history!
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Dark_Falcon Sat, May 11, 2013 7:14:13am |
re: #239 Romantic Heretic
Get them on the net! Please. We can’t lose history!
Concur. Or at least have them digitized and backed up.
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Romantic Heretic Sat, May 11, 2013 7:14:17am |
re: #23 HappyWarrior
Frigging Austrians. Always up to something. And man don’t get me started on those with dark hair and blue eyes. Bunch of monsters!
You have to wonder how those who describe themselves as ‘conservative’ can adore Austrian economics and hate Hitler at the same time.
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Romantic Heretic Sat, May 11, 2013 7:19:15am |
re: #31 Joanne
How many times have you seen KILL ALL LIBURALS!!!? I’ve seen it (the usual places and Twitter, of course) often. And dehumanizing humans truly is a step towards being able to readily kill another human being because they’re not human; they’re traitorous liburals.
I’ve been on the receiving end of ‘conservatives’ way too often to believe that they have any interest in anything other than the power to impose their worldview. I got to be homeless thanks to a ‘conservative’ politician here in Ontario. My career as a writer took a big hit because of the behaviour of a ‘conservative’ I was working with.
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, May 11, 2013 7:23:10am |
re: #150 HappyWarrior
Isn’t Coulter on their board too? I can’t speak for Breitbart but we see Coulter say homophobic things all the time. Her calling Edwards a “faggot” is a good example of that. Cynic in me wonders if people like her and Breitbart just do that to be like “Hey, we’re not total bigots.” But who knows, I’ve never seen Coulter actively call out the party line on gays.
In Coulter’s case, it’s a little weird. She sort of positions herself as the Barbra or Liza of the conservative gay world, this straight woman who fancies herself as an icon for gay men. (My apologies to Streisand and Minelli for this comparison.) She’s actually taken flak from True Believers over her GOProud and similar over her fondness for teh Gheys. At the same time, she’s said horrible stuff, like her crap about how if she had a son and he came out, she’d tell him he was adopted.
My take on Coulter is that she’s like Limbaugh—completely cynical. She lives in communities where being gay and out is unremarkable, and I seriously doubt she is homophobic in her daily life and interactions. She probably has much more contempt for financially struggling conservatives from flyover country than she has for rich liberals, or rich gay people. In real life. But in celebrity life, her schtick is being hateful toward approved targets.
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, May 11, 2013 7:24:48am |
re: #152 Mich-again
Ricky and Lucy also slept in separate beds. Just sayin..
And Ricky, please note, was a Cuban, hence a Commie, hence a Nazi, hence gay. You see how this works?
(“Dale, there are no Cubans.” “Oh yeah? If there are no Cubans, how do you explain Desi Arnaz?” “OK, there are Cubans. But no Cubans are out to get you.”)
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Dark_Falcon Sat, May 11, 2013 7:29:52am |
re: #244 SanFranciscoZionist
And Ricky, please note, was a Cuban, hence a Commie, hence a Nazi, hence gay. You see how this works?
(“Dale, there are no Cubans.” “Oh yeah? If there are no Cubans, how do you explain Desi Arnaz?” “OK, there are Cubans. But no Cubans are out to get you.”)
No, that doesn’t work, since many people of Cuban origins are Republicans. Going after Cubans in general would be a bridge too far for today’s wingnuts, as they’d have to attack Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz in doing so.
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darthstar Sat, May 11, 2013 7:30:42am |
Mornin’ gang. Happy Saturday. Think I’ll walk the boys on down to the beach for a bit. I got enough Hitleral stimulation yesterday.
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William Barnett-Lewis Sat, May 11, 2013 7:32:29am |
re: #243 SanFranciscoZionist
Hey, SFZ, it’s good to see your nic here again. I hope things are going acceptably for you and yours?
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Dark_Falcon Sat, May 11, 2013 7:33:49am |
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, May 11, 2013 7:33:57am |
re: #221 Sol Berdinowitz
Brokeback Mountain was about propagating the Gay Agenda. And gays often marry to hide their true agenda from unsuspecting heteros.
/
Yes, because as Soviet forces shell the crap out of Berlin, the thing on your mind has GOT to be, “I must marry Eva now, so that my true agenda will be hidden from the unsuspecting heteros. The heteros cannot possibly have grasped my true agenda yet.”
Which reminds me of the Jon Stewart chart on American lobbies. It includes the ‘stated agenda’ and the ‘hidden agenda’. For NAMBLA, under hidden agenda, it just says, “Dude, did you read the stated agenda?”
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SanFranciscoZionist Sat, May 11, 2013 7:36:06am |
re: #248 William Barnett-Lewis
Hey, SFZ, it’s good to see your nic here again. I hope things are going acceptably for you and yours?
Pretty good.
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Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts Sat, May 11, 2013 7:36:23am |
I don’t know why, but Jonah Jameson is on my mind.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, May 11, 2013 7:36:57am |
re: #252 Bert’s House of Beef and Obdicuts
I don’t know why, but Jonah Jameson is on my mind.
Because you read about the media so much is why.
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Bert's House of Beef and Obdicuts Sat, May 11, 2013 7:38:14am |
re: #253 Dark_Falcon
Truly, Jonah Jameson was a prophetic warning about inaccurate and propagandizing media.
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HappyWarrior Sat, May 11, 2013 7:38:43am |
re: #250 SanFranciscoZionist
Yes, because as Soviet forces shell the crap out of Berlin, the thing on your mind has GOT to be, “I must marry Eva now, so that my true agenda will be hidden from the unsuspecting heteros. The heteros cannot possibly have grasped my true agenda yet.”
Which reminds me of the Jon Stewart chart on American lobbies. It includes the ‘stated agenda’ and the ‘hidden agenda’. For NAMBLA, under hidden agenda, it just says, “Dude, did you read the stated agenda?”
Heh I was thinking about that book last night when we were talking labels for Congo.
Name Inherent lies in name Oppression level
Congo 0 Bloody
Republic of the Congo 1 Sadistic
Democratic Republic of the Congo 2 Inhuman
People’s Democratic Republic of the Congo 3 Genocidal
Shiny, Happy, People’s Republic of the Congo 66 Hide
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sattv4u2 Sat, May 11, 2013 7:42:42am |
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Targetpractice Sat, May 11, 2013 7:46:33am |
Somehow, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that I wake up and read that wingnuts are using the IRS story to claim Democrats stole the election. Or at least seem set to argue such.
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HappyWarrior Sat, May 11, 2013 7:47:27am |
re: #257 Targetpractice
Somehow, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that I wake up and read that wingnuts are using the IRS story to claim Democrats stole the election. Or at least seem set to argue such.
I guess with that, you can at least say it’s something new. Though I would laugh if they claimed ACORN stole this election as well.
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Sol Berdinowitz Sat, May 11, 2013 7:47:33am |
re: #257 Targetpractice
Somehow, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that I wake up and read that wingnuts are using the IRS story to claim Democrats stole the election. Or at least seem set to argue such.
It will be offered as reason to impeach and or engage in armed rebellion to TAKE YOAR COUNTRY BACK!!!
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Dark_Falcon Sat, May 11, 2013 7:48:02am |
re: #257 Targetpractice
Somehow, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that I wake up and read that wingnuts are using the IRS story to claim Democrats stole the election. Or at least seem set to argue such.
Sliming the other side, even if in a dishonest way, is not the same as stuffing a ballot box.
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Stanghazi Sat, May 11, 2013 7:50:38am |
Some guilty neighbor returned my plant. Wow. My sign worked.
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Iwouldprefernotto Sat, May 11, 2013 8:04:40am |
re: #261 Stanghazi
Some guilty neighbor returned my plant. Wow. My sign worked.
Perhaps your plant wanted to meet new people.
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Stanghazi Sat, May 11, 2013 8:08:28am |
re: #264 Iwouldprefernotto
Perhaps your plant wanted to meet new people.
He had a wild week of debauchery probably. He deserved it.
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kirkspencer Sat, May 11, 2013 8:10:58am |
re: #265 Stanghazi
He had a wild week of debauchery probably. He deserved it.
You should probably have it checked out. Who knows what sorts of wild cross-pollination it participated in.
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Stanghazi Sat, May 11, 2013 8:11:34am |
re: #266 kirkspencer
You should probably have it checked out. Who knows what sorts of wild cross-pollination it participated in.
New buds in 9 months. Ha
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allegro Sat, May 11, 2013 8:16:58am |
I flipped on the TV this morning to see the day’s weather prediction since I want to go plant and dirt shopping. They had this young woman on to make suggestions for Mother’s Day gifts, with that special day of honor being tomorrow. No flowers or candy for Mom, of course - how boring and passe even if she, yanno, loves getting flowers and candy. Instead, here are the creative ideas she put forth for consideration:
1. Monthly subscription for 15 minute work-out videos. She can even play them on her iPhone! Imagine being able to get in a quick work-out any time and any place!
2. Frying pan with great non-stick coating!
3. Citrus juicer for only $19.99 at WalMart!
4. Anti-wrinkle skin care creams!
Yeah, let’s whip that old broad into shape, slather her wrinkled face with chemicals, and get her back in the kitchen to fix you up some bacon and eggs and fresh-squoze OJ!
I just loves me some misogyny in the morning.
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Roger S Sat, May 11, 2013 8:22:34am |
Check out this little gem right here:
Pierre Paul PeoplesRepublicOfMd • a day ago
Obama can’t escape the fact that his intelligent side come from his white ancestors. That’s what makes him a megalomaniac.
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Mattand Sat, May 11, 2013 8:23:29am |
re: #243 SanFranciscoZionist
Funny you should mention this. The subject of Coulter’s homophobia came up last night. To paraphrase myself, I believe ol’ Ann got invited to speak at a college as a guest of GOProud or the Log Cabin Delusionals. She then promptly told the audience that gays should never be allowed to marry, with the subtext being they’re freaks of nature.
Is there any evidence she considers herself a gay icon? Because every public utterance out of her mouth regarding gays involves her shitting all over them as 3rd class citizens and sub-human.
Good to see you back, BTW.
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Stanghazi Sat, May 11, 2013 8:25:39am |
re: #269 Roger S
Check out this little gem right here:
Pierre Paul PeoplesRepublicOfMd • a day ago
Obama can’t escape the fact that his intelligent side come from his white ancestors. That’s what makes him a megalomaniac.
15 6
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Ugh
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HappyWarrior Sat, May 11, 2013 8:26:10am |
re: #269 Roger S
Check out this little gem right here:
Pierre Paul PeoplesRepublicOfMd • a day ago
Obama can’t escape the fact that his intelligent side come from his white ancestors. That’s what makes him a megalomaniac.
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Obviously a plant. No true conservative would admit that Obama’s intelligent./
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HappyWarrior Sat, May 11, 2013 8:30:42am |
Of all the things that man has invented, the idea that one man is inferior because of the color of his skin is probably the dumbest. And we invented the double down!
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wheat-dogghazi Sat, May 11, 2013 8:33:22am |
re: #268 allegro
The last thing most Moms/wives want is another kitchen appliance or household gadget. I’m pretty sure they want something that does not remind of their domestic activities.
Let me guess: this was on the local network affiliate station.
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sattv4u2 Sat, May 11, 2013 8:33:50am |
re: #275 HappyWarrior
Of all the things that man has invented, the idea that one man is inferior because of the color of his skin is probably the dumbest. And we invented the double down!
Sadly, as long as there are two people left standing on this ball traveling through space, one (if not both) will always find something about the other that they “fear” or have a bias or prejudice against
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sattv4u2 Sat, May 11, 2013 8:34:39am |
re: #276 wheat-dogghazi
The last thing most Moms/wives want is another kitchen appliance or household gadget
Funny, but thats the 1st (or close to it) things I want!
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allegro Sat, May 11, 2013 8:34:39am |
re: #276 wheat-dogghazi
The last thing most Moms/wives want is another kitchen appliance or household gadget. I’m pretty sure they want something that does not remind of their domestic activities.
Let me guess: this was on the local network affiliate station.
NBC local.
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wheat-dogghazi Sat, May 11, 2013 8:36:23am |
re: #279 allegro
It sounds like the same kind of witless advice my former local affiliates would offer to clueless families.
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Stanghazi Sat, May 11, 2013 8:36:40am |
re: #277 sattv4u2
Sadly, as long as there are two people left standing on this ball traveling through space, one (if not both) will always find something about the other that they “fear” or have a bias or prejudice against
My favorite shocking response
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HappyWarrior Sat, May 11, 2013 8:36:55am |
re: #277 sattv4u2
Sadly, as long as there are two people left standing on this ball traveling through space, one (if not both) will always find something about the other that they “fear” or have a bias or prejudice against
No doubt.
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Stanghazi Sat, May 11, 2013 8:39:23am |
re: #279 allegro
NBC local.
I have a really sad memory of the time me and my brother bought my mom one of those screens you put over a fry pan for m-day or a birthday. What a shitty gift. As seen on TV!!
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Sol Berdinowitz Sat, May 11, 2013 8:39:32am |
re: #275 HappyWarrior
Of all the things that man has invented, the idea that one man is inferior because of the color of his skin is probably the dumbest. And we invented the double down!
I believe part of it is hard-wired. Our way of reacting to others was developed while living in small tribes, where outsiders, especially those who looked different, were seen as threats or competitors.
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allegro Sat, May 11, 2013 8:43:39am |
re: #283 Stanghazi
I have a really sad memory of the time me and my brother bought my mom one of those screens you put over a fry pan for m-day or a birthday. What a shitty gift. As seen on TV!!
If you’re a kid, it’s forgivable. For a TV network, even a blathering Saturday morning local thing, it’s tone-deaf as hell.
But you reminded me of something funny. When my brother and I were little we decided to get up early on Mother’s Day to fix Mom breakfast in bed. We fixed up the eggs and bacon and stuff but Mom was still sleeping. We didn’t want it to get cold so we put her plate in the oven. We turned the oven up high to make sure it would all stay real hot. It was a plastic plate. Comedy ensued.
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Stanghazi Sat, May 11, 2013 8:47:14am |
re: #285 allegro
If you’re a kid, it’s forgivable. For a TV network, even a blathering Saturday morning local thing, it’s tone-deaf as hell.
But you reminded me of something funny. When my brother and I were little we decided to get up early on Mother’s Day to fix Mom breakfast in bed. We fixed up the eggs and bacon and stuff but Mom was still sleeping. We didn’t want it to get cold so we put her plate in the oven. We turned the oven up high to make sure it would all stay real hot. It was a plastic plate. Comedy ensued.
Oops!!
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wrenchwench Sat, May 11, 2013 8:47:14am |
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PhillyPretzel Sat, May 11, 2013 8:50:31am |
I remember one Mother’s Day we got my mom a dust buster. She initially did not like it. All of us ended up using it and thinking it was the greatest thing around.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, May 11, 2013 8:54:43am |
re: #288 wrenchwench
Grumpy cat says what all cats think, only they would not wait for the pork to be cured before eating. But that’s just cats being predatory, which is what they are.
Edited. PIMF
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wrenchwench Sat, May 11, 2013 8:57:10am |
re: #290 Dark_Falcon
Grumpy cat says what all cats think, only they would wait for the pork to be cured before eating. But that’s just cats being predatory, which is what they are.
One of our cats likes ham, the other one likes hamburger.
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stabby Sat, May 11, 2013 8:59:54am |
I think the mini baby pig with boots was an Onion thing.
That was the weaponized cuteness that Al Qaeda invented to make people oggle emails instead of doing their work, thus destroying capitalism.
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Dark_Falcon Sat, May 11, 2013 9:04:39am |
This article comes from the Daily FAIL, but its actually interesting and a reasonable good piece of tech reporting:
‘Wearable robots’ are allowing paralysed patients once unable to move to walk again
Michael Gore, 42, suffered a serious work accident 11 years ago and damaged his spine which left him unable to walk. Yet today he is able to get out of his chair, stand six foot two inches tall and walk across the room.
This is all thanks to a lightweight robot he wears, referred to as ‘electronic legs’ or a ‘powered exoskelton’.
Michael’s model is called Indego, and is among several competing products being used and tested in U.S. rehabilitation hospitals that hold promise not only for people with spinal injuries, but also those recovering from strokes or suffering with multiple sclerosis and cerebral palsy.
The technology is thought to be at least a year away from the market, and at two stone, the Indego is the lightest of the powered exoskeletons.
It snaps together from pieces that fit into a backpack.
The goal is for the user to be able to carry it on a wheelchair, put it together, strap it on and walk independently.
None of the products, including the Indego, are yet approved for personal use, meaning they must be used under the supervision of a physical therapist.
Michael, from North Carolina, demonstrated the device this week at the American Spinal Injury Association meeting in Chicago, and successfully negotiated a noisy, crowded hallway of medical professionals and people with spinal injuries in wheelchairs.
The pictures were taken at the Sheraton on Fairbanks/Columbus Driver, right next to the Chicago River (I used to work across the street in the NBC Tower).
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Dark_Falcon Sat, May 11, 2013 9:06:58am |
re: #294 Dark_Falcon
Sorry about the extended quote, but I didn’t want to break up the explanation, and wanted to show off my knowledge of Chicago.
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Stanghazi Sat, May 11, 2013 9:10:50am |
Out for awhile. Gotta get house supplies. I want to get fresh flowers but just realized this is probably not the weekend for deals.
See ya later.
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ProTARDISLiberal Sat, May 11, 2013 9:10:55am |
re: #234 Dark_Falcon
At this point, there should be no doubt the Muslim Brotherhood is trying to overthrow the elected, popular government in Libya.
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sattv4u2 Sat, May 11, 2013 9:11:22am |
re: #295 Dark_Falcon
Sorry about the extended quote, but I didn’t want to break up the explanation, and wanted to show off my knowledge of Chicago.
Not exaclty a unique talent!
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Dark_Falcon Sat, May 11, 2013 9:12:41am |
re: #297 ProTARDISLiberal
At this point, there should be no doubt the Muslim Brotherhood is trying to overthrow the elected, popular government in Libya.
No, there’s no doubt. But they may succeed, because others may not be willing to fight another civil war to stop them.
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ProTARDISLiberal Sat, May 11, 2013 9:16:41am |
re: #299 Dark_Falcon
I’m not so sure. The government may be weak, but still has the people’s support. In the past several weeks, there have been a number of protests against the MB that end up turning into “Let’s burn their Local Office!” So the people themselves may stop this through sheer attrition.
Also, don’t forget we already gave a big warning to the militias, in a joint statement with France and the UK. And if Libya asks for help, they will likely get it.
The French First Republic survived outside pressure, if you remember.
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GeneJockey Sat, May 11, 2013 9:20:09am |
re: #294 Dark_Falcon
‘Wearable robots’ are allowing paralysed patients once unable to move to walk again
Help, Grommit! It’s the Wrong Trousers! And they’ve gone wrong! Gro-o-ommm-i-i-itt!!!!
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darthstar Sat, May 11, 2013 9:47:37am |
re: #246 darthstar
Mornin’ gang. Happy Saturday. Think I’ll walk the boys on down to the beach for a bit. I got enough Hitleral stimulation yesterday.
And we’re back…holy shit that was a long walk. Fozzie (who’s close to 14 years old) was happily running up to every dog he saw, then got far enough away he couldn’t see us anymore, so he kept trucking along, looking for us in every group he found, further and further down the beach, as I walked, then jogged, and finally did a bit of running, to catch up with him.
When he finally did turn around and see Banjo and I, he ran up as if to say, “Where the hell have you two been? I’ve been looking all over for you.” and lead the way towards home. Got an extra couple of miles in, easily.
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Best of April 2024 Nothing new here but these are a look back at the a few good images from the past month. Despite the weather, I was quite pleased with several of them. These were taken with older lenses (made from the ...
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Gateway Pundit, Sued by Election Workers, Declares BankruptcyA onetime favorite, now just pathetic figure around these parts, Jim Hoft aka SMOTI ("Stupidest Man On The Internet"), has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in response to the defamation lawsuits filed against him to the same election workers that ... Khal Wimpo (free internal organs upon request!)
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ...
Cheechako
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ... Cheechako
Alone in a Bathroom: The Fear and Uncertainty of a Post-Roe Medication Abortion Angel tucked two white pills into each side of her mouth, bracing herself as they began to dissolve. Her deepest fears and anxieties took over. Angel had wanted to talk to a doctor before she took the pills to ... Cheechako
They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
