If they were “potty” trained, it wouldn’t be too bad.

How’d you like to come home to find Baboon stuff on your carpet?

it is not the poo that would disturb me as much as those nasty fangs in their snouts…

Redefining wild neighborhood, that’s for sure.

These are very dangerous animals - those guys were pretty bold (read: stupid) to get in a small room with one holding only a broom.

Made for some great video, though.

Those two on the kitchen counter - that’d be my male Greyhound, if he could figure out how to do it.

There has to be a joke in this somewhere.

all about baboons

This is the first entry tagged: Baboons

Lesson: Keep your babroom handy.

Oh, wait. It’s ‘close the windows’.

re: #8 dragonath

This is the first entry tagged: Baboons

I know, I could hardly believe it. “Marauding Primates,” too. I have to start putting those tags to work.

A Primate’s Memoir is an awesome book about baboon and also humans because let’s face it, we’re not that different.

re: #8 dragonath

This is the first entry tagged: Baboons

Shows how restrained our political comments have been.

re: #12 Decatur Deb

Shows how restrained our political comments have been.

Too much respect for actual baboons.

re: #12 Decatur Deb

Shows how restrained our political comments have been.

I was thinking the same. The thread title sounds like a Freep comment about the current occupants of the White House.

None of these baboons were seen flinging any poo, which kind of puts a lid on any comparisons to politicians.

Heck of a set of teeth.

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When guns are babooned, only baboons will have guns.

THANKS, OBAMA

Still, I think baboons in the house are better than raccoons.

Either would be an improvement on politicians.

re: #4 Charles Johnson

These are very dangerous animals - those guys were pretty bold (read: stupid) to get in a small room with one holding only a broom.

Made for some great video, though.

I came came face-to-face with a troop of them when visiting the ruins of Great Zimbabwe some years ago - man, they like showing you just how big their teeth are!

From Youtube’s septic baboon bite collection.

Back in the very early 1970s, I had a very large apartment right next to the University of Cincinnati campus when I was a student (I was a geology major back then klys!). Rent was very cheap…$60/month and the first two months free.
Reason?
Previous tenant had many, MANY exotic pets, including a python that had gotten loose and was happily living on mice and rats in the walls.
Oh…and there was monkey shit on the floors, walls and ceilings…

Hoo boy, tornado spotted on the NY-MA border:

forecast.weather.gov

What’s crazy is that Copake and Great Barrington were struck by a powerful tornado (F-4) in 1995. I mean, Moore, OK, you can kind of understand being hit repeatedly by tornadoes. It’s Oklahoma. You don’t expect the same towns in New York and Massachusetts to be hit repeatedly.

re: #10 Charles Johnson

I know, I could hardly believe it. “Marauding Primates,” too. I have to start putting those tags to work.

I suggest you can start here:

Protesters Chant ‘Stop the IRS’ in Cincinnati

“It’s going to be up to the grass-roots movement to do something,” said Paul Wheeler, dressed in Colonial-era attire with tri-cornered hat and holding a sign saying: “Internal ‘Revenge’ Service Stop.” He said he came from Indianapolis, some 100 miles way, because Cincinnati is “the epicenter of some of the complaints.”

re: #23 dragonath

I suggest you can start here:

Protesters Chant ‘Stop the IRS’ in Cincinnati

The chant is “no taxation without representation”, not “no taxation”.

Dipshit.

CINCINNATI IS THE EPICENTER

At least they have a beautiful view.

Foolish not to lock the hell up of your house though.

Speaking of baboons, Ted Cruz just said, “Reserving the right to object” and got shouted down “There’s nothing to object to!”

re: #23 dragonath

“…A Chicago rally of some 100 people was led by former U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh, a suburban Chicago Republican who lost his seat in 2012 after being among tea party candidates who won office in 2010. He decried “crimes committed against Americans” and said the IRS targeting should spark renewed interest in the tea party movement.”

It’s just not a baboon thread until Joe Walsh shows up.

re: #22 Ian G.

Hoo boy, tornado spotted on the NY-MA border:

forecast.weather.gov

What’s crazy is that Copake and Great Barrington were struck by a powerful tornado (F-4) in 1995. I mean, Moore, OK, you can kind of understand being hit repeatedly by tornadoes. It’s Oklahoma. You don’t expect the same towns in New York and Massachusetts to be hit repeatedly.

Is that the one that “walked” on the water? I don’t recall where that was but I think it was in that area. I had never seen a tornado cross water like that before.

re: #22 Ian G.

Hoo boy, tornado spotted on the NY-MA border:

forecast.weather.gov

What’s crazy is that Copake and Great Barrington were struck by a powerful tornado (F-4) in 1995. I mean, Moore, OK, you can kind of understand being hit repeatedly by tornadoes. It’s Oklahoma. You don’t expect the same towns in New York and Massachusetts to be hit repeatedly.

Now one in Ct.

Tornado reported heading for Canaan, Connecticut! This looks like it could be a large tornado! Take shelter west of Canaan! #tornado

— Georgia Storm Chaser (@StormCoker) May 21, 2013

Too bad KidA is not in. According to Marissa Mayer who just bought photo centric Tumbler on behalf of Yahoo for a billion dollars-Professional photographers don’t really exist anymore.

re: #30 NJDhockeyfan

WTF

re: #31 Political Atheist

And to think that was what I wanted to do after high school. Well. At least I still have my enlarger.

re: #30 NJDhockeyfan

It’s the same storm. It’s basically crossing the NY-CT-MA triple point. Either way, though, the thing has a nice hook echo and strong rotation on radar:

radar.weather.gov

That’s a serious storm. People need to take shelter.

Ok, well, I have to get ready for class.

Have a good evening all!

re: #33 dragonath

And to think that was what I wanted to do after high school. Well. At least I still have my enlarger.

And there are no longer any professional writers either given all those cheap pencils lying about.

re: #25 dragonath

CINCINNATI IS THE EPICENTER

And there’z monkey shit on apartment wallz!

Disappointed. I thought this was about Congress.

Pretty day in Half Moon Bay…wish I wasn’t at work.

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re: #23 dragonath

I suggest you can start here:

Protesters Chant ‘Stop the IRS’ in Cincinnati

Yeah, we apparently have some TPers down at our federal courthouse here in Nashville protesting today, just the same week that my mom got called up for jury duty (and me and my brothers get to drop her off and pick her up, since she doesn’t drive).

Fabulous…

If you want to watch pure, unadulturated crazy in real time, check out C-SPAN2 right now. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are going Galt and even John McCain is calling for reasonable behavior on their part.

c-span.org

re: #33 dragonath

And to think that was what I wanted to do after high school. Well. At least I still have my enlarger.

Nikkor tanks make good cocktail shakers.

Kitteh update…
Three of the five orphan kittehs went to Rainbow Bridge this past week.
The remaining two (Piglet & Growler) are now three weeks old and feisty wee beasties:

Escape Artists

Yep…as if on cue, Alex Jones is blaming the tornado on Obama.

Tornado truthers? Seriously now? maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/05/…

— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) May 21, 2013

According to Jones, we need to know whether locals saw helicopters and small aircraft “in and around the clouds, spraying and doing things.”

re: #44 darthstar

Yep…as if on cue, Alex Jones is blaming the tornado on Obama.

gee, and the thumpers always say it’s because of teh gayz…
they really need to make up their minds about this stuff.

re: #41 darthstar

If you want to watch pure, unadulturated crazy in real time, check out C-SPAN2 right now. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are going Galt and even John McCain is calling for reasonable behavior on their part.

c-span.org

McCain left the Tea Party window open, and now the baboons are taking over…

re: #44 darthstar

Yep…as if on cue, Alex Jones is blaming the tornado on Obama.

According to Jones, we need to know whether locals saw helicopters and small aircraft “in and around the clouds, spraying and doing things.”

Oh, FFS.

re: #25 dragonath

CINCINNATI IS THE EPICENTER

It’s IRS auditors all the way down!!!!11ty

/

re: #48 AlexRogan

It’s IRS auditors all the way down!!!!11ty

/

CINCINNATI IS THE EPICENTER

Damn. Read that as ‘Cincinnati is the sphincter”. Still very tired from hospital watch.

re: #49 Decatur Deb

Damn. Read that as ‘Cincinnati is the sphincter”. Still very tired from hospital watch.

That would explain Skyline Chili.

re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth

gee, and the thumpers always say it’s because of teh gayz…
they really need to make up their minds about this stuff.

The wonderful thing about being a Wingnut is the ability to simultaneously believe two mutually exclusive conspiracy theories.

re: #51 GeneJockey

The wonderful thing about being a Wingnut is the ability to simultaneously believe two mutually exclusive conspiracy theories.

Some people manage to believe at least half a dozen impossible things before breakfast.

re: #51 GeneJockey

The wonderful thing about being a Wingnut is the ability to simultaneously believe two mutually exclusive conspiracy theories.

Black helicopters with gay pilots.

re: #53 Decatur Deb

Black helicopters with gay pilots.

And they look FABULOUS!

re: #52 jamesfirecat

Some people manage to believe at least half a dozen impossible things before breakfast.

Ah. A Liddel humour.

re: #55 Decatur Deb

Ah. A Liddel humour.

ouch.

re: #55 Decatur Deb

Ah. A Liddel humour.

Eat me.

re: #57 jamesfirecat

Eat me.

Drink me.

re: #51 GeneJockey

The wonderful thing about being a Wingnut is the ability to simultaneously believe two mutually exclusive conspiracy theories.

But see, when you’re as AWAKE as Alex Jones is you understand that all conspiracies are just tentacles of The Big Conspiracy that’s so secret and big and evil that the people who run the smaller conspiracies don’t even know about it.

No word on why the conspirators who can control ‘weaponized weather’ can’t manage to arrange for the guy who keeps discovering all their plots to have a little “accident” (wink wink, nudge nudge), though.

re: #57 jamesfirecat

Looking at Twitter Trends right now, I think Beiber’s followers are a cult.

re: #44 darthstar

On the May 21 edition of The Alex Jones Show, a caller asked Jones whether he was planning to cover how government technology may be behind a recent spate of sinkholes. After laying out how insurance companies use weather modification to avoid having to pay ski resorts for lack of snow, Jones said that “of course there’s weather weapon stuff going on — we had floods in Texas like 15 years ago, killed 30-something people in one night. Turned out it was the Air Force.”

FEMA chem-trailers.

re: #49 Decatur Deb

CINCINNATI IS THE EPICENTER

Damn. Read that as ‘Cincinnati is the sphincter”. Still very tired from hospital watch.

DAMN YOU AUTOCORRECT!

these people are just insane: Oklahoma Tornado Proven False Flag Conspiracy ow.ly/lgic8 #uniteblue #latcot #tcot #p2

— Edward Branley (@YatPundit) May 21, 2013

LOL EPIC

! Wolf Blitzer to tornado survivor: “You gotta thank The Lord right?” Response: “Actually I’m an atheist.” Awkward.

— Ashley Huston (@ashleyshuston) May 21, 2013

re: #64 Vicious Babushka

That’s my kinda tornado survivor! ‘No Atheists in foxholes’, my ass!

re: #63 Vicious Babushka

6. One of my friends heard a self-proclaimed zionist talking to a shapeshifting white guy. They said that all the earthquake in oklohoma lately are a result of massive underground contruction. they were talking about how the Jewish race wishes to expand rapidly and that they are building massive Jewish settlements and Palestinian slave labor camps under Oklohoma…the reason… supposedly ak-la ham aer, which sound like oklohoma, means “Jews are the best, screw the rest” in hebrew. beforeitsnews.com

And these people are out driving around.

re: #66 jaunte

6. One of my friends heard a self-proclaimed zionist talking to a shapeshifting white guy. They said that all the earthquake in oklohoma lately are a result of massive underground contruction. they were talking about how the Jewish race wishes to expand rapidly and that they are building massive Jewish settlements and Palestinian slave labor camps under Oklohoma…the reason… supposedly ak-la ham aer, which sound like oklohoma, means “Jews are the best, screw the rest” in hebrew.

That’s gotta be parody.

re: #64 Vicious Babushka

LOL EPIC

LOL. Fuck you, Wolf, and fuck your scum-sucking shambling corpse of a network, moving from wound to wound and monetizing the festering.

I wonder how many shape-shifters are in Glenn Beck’s convoy.

JUMANJI!

re: #69 jaunte

I wonder how many shape-shifters are in Glenn Beck’s convoy.

That is up to the Lord.

re: #66 jaunte

And these people are out driving around.

Geez. Let me guess - the tornado was the result of turning on the ventilator fans for the underground New Israel, with adjacent New Palestine? BTW, I wonder how stupid they think The Jooz are, to recreate the whole occupation/Intifada thing underneath Oklahoma?

Are they sure it’s not because the Injuns are the Lost Tribe of Israel?

“He spoke Hebrew at him for FIVE WHOLE MINUTES, and he PRETENDED not to understand!”

Tornado watches in CT and atheists in OK? What the hell is going on?!

— Hunter (@HunterDK) May 21, 2013

Update from Oklahoma.. It missed us and came down in Moore, The next town over.
The guy in the cube next to me lost everything when his subdivision was leveled.. We were worried about him when he texted this morning that He and his wife and 3 children had left and drove North past OKC. He is returning today to nothing..Nothing at all. Everybody in the office will make sure they can buy clothes.
A girl in our office was beside herself this morning.. Her friend was the lady and child that were killed in the cold storage room of the 7-11. She had to go home cause she couldn’t stop crying this morning.
There is great pain here today. I went and gave blood. I feel helpless for those living in such hurt and pain and don’t know what to do.

re: #69 jaunte

I wonder how many shape-shifters are in Glenn Beck’s convoy.

Hard to tell.

re: #71 blueraven

That is up to the Lord.

He’s one of ‘em!

re: #72 GeneJockey

Geez. Let me guess - the tornado was the result of turning on the ventilator fans for the underground New Israel, with adjacent New Palestine? BTW, I wonder how stupid they think The Jooz are, to recreate the whole occupation/Intifada thing underneath Oklahoma?

Are they sure it’s not because the Injuns are the Lost Tribe of Israel?

“He spoke Hebrew at him for FIVE WHOLE MINUTES, and he PRETENDED not to understand!”

That’s because the Native Americans speak Yiddish, not Hebrew.

re: #74 HoosierHoops

Hoops, it’s good to know you’re ok.

Here’s the video…fucking hilarious - she says, “And I don’t blame anybody for thanking the lord”…

freebeacon.com

re: #58 Backwoods_Sleuth

Drink me.

I’d be happy to just be licked a little.

re: #74 HoosierHoops

Update from Oklahoma.. It missed us and came down in Moore, The next town over.
The guy in the cube next to me lost everything when his subdivision was leveled.. We were worried about him when he texted this morning that He and his wife and 3 children had left and drove North past OKC. He is returning today to nothing..Nothing at all. Everybody in the office will make sure they can buy clothes.
A girl in our office was beside herself this morning.. Her friend was the lady and child that were killed in the cold storage room of the 7-11. She had to go home cause she couldn’t stop crying this morning.
There is great pain here today. I went and gave blood. I feel helpless for those living in such hurt and pain and don’t know what to do.

{{{Hoops}}}

And stop touching my son’s feet, you freak!

re: #74 HoosierHoops

Glad you’re safe. Disasters are fucked up. Period.

re: #77 Vicious Babushka

That’s because the Native Americans speak Yiddish, not Hebrew.

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There is an old show business story that the ‘Indian’ extras in a lot of old B-reel westerns worked-in Yiddish when they had to ad-lib tribal murmers.

re: #74 HoosierHoops

So glad you and Winston are safe!! But sad at the loss of,well everything.
Many hugs to you and yours Hoops.

re: #74 HoosierHoops

Update from Oklahoma.. It missed us and came down in Moore, The next town over.
The guy in the cube next to me lost everything when his subdivision was leveled.. We were worried about him when he texted this morning that He and his wife and 3 children had left and drove North past OKC. He is returning today to nothing..Nothing at all. Everybody in the office will make sure they can buy clothes.
A girl in our office was beside herself this morning.. Her friend was the lady and child that were killed in the cold storage room of the 7-11. She had to go home cause she couldn’t stop crying this morning.
There is great pain here today. I went and gave blood. I feel helpless for those living in such hurt and pain and don’t know what to do.

Thanks for checking in. We were concerned.

Sorry about your peeps.

re: #74 HoosierHoops

Oh man, I thought you were back in Napa for some reason. Glad you’re alright. I’m sure there’ll be volunteer efforts you can pitch in to.

re: #60 ProTARDISLiberal

Looking at Twitter Trends right now, I think Beiber’s followers are a cult.

Bieber’s followers are open minded and easy going compared to Glenn Greenwald’s fans online. I am not exaggerating…just try to point out Glenn regularly engages in hyperbole and dueling with straw men and see what happens.

re: #88 bratwurst

If they make Beiber’s fans look tolerant, that is disturbing.

re: #88 bratwurst

Bieber’s followers are open minded and easy going compared to Glenn Greenwald’s fans online. I am not exaggerating…just try to point out Glenn regularly engages in hyperbole and dueling with straw men and see what happens.

I have to ask - why does Bieber have any fans?

@green_footballs There’s no truth in his words-only fraudulent envirocultist zealotry. You’re as contemptible as he if you believe it. #tcot

— Joe Lex (@Slider6294) May 21, 2013

Prog wingnuts LOVE Agenda 21 They KNOW global warming is true & we are destroying planet because —- ALIENS TOLD THEM SO! @green_footballs

— THE REAL TEAPARTY(TM) (@NHTeaParties) May 21, 2013

re: #90 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Good damn question. Something scientists working with sounds and teenagers will have to study and discover.

/half

Lol about gop freaking out about apple & taxes after ge & romney

re: #88 bratwurst

Bieber’s followers are open minded and easy going compared to Glenn Greenwald’s fans online. I am not exaggerating…just try to point out Glenn regularly engages in hyperbole and dueling with straw men and see what happens.

Some practical joker dropped hints on Bieber fansites that if they could win concert tickets and albums if they Tweeted to the hashtag #TGDN, for “Talented, Gorgeous, Divine? Naturally!”

Hilarity ensued.

re: #91 Charles Johnson

Every day these people make the case for mental health parity in our healthcare system. I’m not even close to joking. This level of hate,denial and zealotry is not normal.

If no taxes means more jobs why are there still unemployed? (Hey, if creationists can do it..)

re: #91 Charles Johnson

That’s got spoilers all the way down written all over it (now if I could remember 1- how to do spoilers; and 2 - recall whether they can be nested, which I doubt).

These people just suck.

A real man vs a real bitch. @barackobama@dkeithloyd56 #rednationrising #tcot #tgdn #lnyhbt twitter.com/AaronProSol/st…

— #RedNationRising (@AaronProSol) May 18, 2013

re: #94 Vicious Babushka

I want to meet the fellow who did this. I want to shake his hand.

re: #99 ProTARDISLiberal

I want to meet the fellow who did this. I want to shake his hand.

It was EPIC. Beliebers kept saying “Why are all these crazy old gun nuts posting to our Talented Gorgeous Divine Naturally hashtag?”

re: #61 jaunte

Yeah, but the real conspiracy is that those are all smokescreens for the real “natural disaster” weapons - Grazer 1. And plane crashes? Grazer 1 causes earthquakes in the sky. Proof? Flight 587 - FAA says that it was wake turbulence caused by being too close to plane ahead and pilot overcorrection, but truth is that we shook the thing apart, because we could. ////////////////////////////////TY

re: #97 lawhawk

For one spoilers are this without the spaces:

[ spoilers ] Example [ / spoilers]

As for two, well, let me test.

[/spoiler]

re: #102 ProTARDISLiberal

Nope. Not able too.

re: #67 Vicious Babushka

That’s gotta be parody.

No, this was parody, in 1988, courtesy the Dead Milkmen. A quarter century later it’s somebody’s gospel truth:

You know what Stuart? I like you. You’re not like the other people here in the trailer park. Oh no, don’t get me wrong, they’re fine people, good Americans. But they’re content to sit back, maybe watch a little Mork and Mindy on channel 57. Maybe kick back a cool Coors 16-ouncer. They’re good fine people, Stuart. But they don’t know what the queers are doing to the soil.

You know that Johnny Wurster kid - the kid who delivers papers in the
neighborhood? He’s a fine kid. Some of the neighbors say he smokes crack, but I don’t believe it. Anyway, for his 10th birthday, all he wanted was a burrow owl, just like his old man. “Dad, get me a burrow owl. I’ll never ask for anything else as long as I live”. So the guy breaks down and buys him a burrow owl. Anyway at 10:30 the other night I go out into my yard and there’s the Wurster kid looking up in the tree. I said, “What are you looking for?” He said, “I’m looking for my burrow owl.” I say, “Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick! Everybody knows that a burrow owl lives in a hole in the ground! Why the hell do you think they call it a burrow owl, anyway?” Now Stuart, do you think a kid like that is gonna know what the queers are doing to the soil?

I first became aware of this about 10 years ago, the summer my oldest boy Bill Jr. died. You know that carnival that comes to town every year?
Well that year it came with a ride called the Mixer. The man said “Keep your head and arms inside the Mixer at all times.” But Bill Jr., he was a daredevil, just like his old man! He was leaning out saying, “Hey everybody! Look at me, look at me!” POW! He was decapitated! They found his head over by the snow cone concession. A few days after that, I open up the mail and there’s a pamphlet in there, from Pueblo, Colorado. And it’s addressed to Bill Jr. And it’s entitled, “Do you know what the queers are doing to our soil?”

Now Stuart, if you look at the soil around any large U.S. city with a big
underground homosexual population - Des Moines, Iowa, perfect example.
Look at the soil around Des Moines, Stuart. You can’t build on it, you can’t grow anything in it. The government says it’s due to poor farming. But I know what’s really going on, Stuart. I know it’s the queers. They’re in it with the aliens. They’re building landing strips for gay Martians. I swear to God.

You know what Stuart, I like you. You’re not like the other people, here in the trailer park.

re: #104 AntonSirius

Internal working draft of the GOP platform, 2016?

re: #102 ProTARDISLiberal

That’s what I thought.

And I’m glad that you’ve come around on Clara. But the way that story line goes, Clara has been his companion all along - stepping in to save the Doctor every time he needed assistance.

And I’m totally loving all the Harry Potter crossovers into the Whoverse. After all, the Emperor in the last episode (Warwick Davis), played Griphook and one of the Professors at Hogwarts, and John Hurt was Olivander.

They’ve also had Dumbledore, Michael Gambon, (who played a Scrooge character in a Christmas episode).

re: #106 lawhawk

re: #107 ProTARDISLiberal

Keep that complete goddamn hack away from Dr. Who, thanks.

re: #108 Bert’s House of Beef and Obdicuts

Keep that complete goddamn hack away from Dr. Who, thanks.

Updung so hard I broke my kyboard.

re: #107 ProTARDISLiberal

re: #98 Vicious Babushka

These people just suck.

You know, if you check google images for “president, umbrella,” “reagan, umbrella” or “bush, umbrella,” images of someone military holding an umbrella over POTUS will be right up there. Where was the outrage? And how long are those RWNJs going to keep chewing on this one?

Shit. Sheldon Whitehouse apologized because of the asshole uprising. I’m so sick of these freaking people ruining every damned thing they touch.

re: #108 Bert’s House of Beef and Obdicuts

Keep that complete goddamn hack away from Dr. Who, thanks.

Seriously? Maybe it’s because I started out watching Dr. Who back in the John Pertwee days, and to me Tom Baker is THE Doctor, but I have difficulty taking it as serious as it seems to take itself.

Then again, my signature on forums that allow signatures is from Pogo:
Don’t take life so serious, son. It ain’t no how permanent.

re: #111 LWNJ

Where was the outrage? And how long are those RWNJs going to keep chewing on this one?

Till the President stops being black.

re: #113 GeneJockey

Oh, I don’t take it seriously at all. They have Christmas monsters and sentient plastic. That doesn’t mean it’s easy to write. It’s hard to be get the tone right.

re: #113 GeneJockey

See, I have a differing interpretation on the show taking itself seriously. Namely, I don’t think it does. If it did, we wouldn’t have Strax.

example of Strax:

[Strax, driving a coach, halts on an empty Yorkshire street]
Strax: Horse, you have failed in your mission! We are lost, with no sign of Sweetville! Do you have any final words before your summary execution?
[The horse grunts]
Strax: The usual story! [Strax aims a Sontaran gun at the horse] Fourth one this week, and I’m not even hungry!
Boy: Sweetville, sir?
Strax: [Lowers his weapon and turns to the boy nearby] Do you know it?
Boy: Turn around, when possible, then, at the end of the road, turn right.
Strax: What?
Boy: Bear left for a quarter of a mile, then you will have reached your destination.
[At Strax’s beckoning, the boy joins Strax at the driver’s seat]
Strax: Thank you. What is your name?
Boy: Thomas, sir. Thomas Thomas.
Strax: I think you will do well, Thomas Thomas.

Fun hashtag.

Powerful, captivating, and just a whole lot of fun to read. #TweetReviewsThatAreAlsoTheTweetsTheyReview

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 21, 2013

re: #116 ProTARDISLiberal

See, I have a differing interpretation on the show taking itself seriously. Namely, I don’t think it does. If it did, we wouldn’t have Strax.

Dunno, man. Matt Smith’s Doctor gets awfully messianic at times. Then again, I missed about 5 Doctors - went right from Peter Davidson to Matt Smith.

re: #113 GeneJockey

Seriously? Maybe it’s because I started out watching Dr. Who back in the John Pertwee days, and to me Tom Baker is THE Doctor, but I have difficulty taking it as serious as it seems to take itself.

Then again, my signature on forums that allow signatures is from Pogo: Don’t take life so serious, son. It ain’t no how permanent.

Pogo. Now there’s something to take seriously!

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re: #119 GeneJockey

It swerves and curves all around the seriousness spectrum in an awesome way.

It’s too bad Ian M. Banks is dying for a lot of reasons, but one of them is I always wished he’d write some Who. He could do it.

re: #119 GeneJockey

Tenth was Messianic. The Ninth might have been PTSD doctor. This Doctor has been more goofy and out there compared to those two.

Strax

I have to imagine though that the BBC got a lot of complaints from Glasgow over the weekend.

re: #123 ProTARDISLiberal

HA! Watched that one. I wondered how my boss, who’s a Scot, would like it…

Probably love it. He got a charge out of me doing the Robin Williams riff on Golf with a fake Scots accent.

re: #121 Bert’s House of Beef and Obdicuts

Did you know that Douglas Adams wrote a number of the Tom Baker episodes?

re: #98 Vicious Babushka

I dunno…seems to me that one of the two has some real juice if he doesn’t even have to hold his own umbrella.

I would further add that I was unaware that holding or not holding one’s umbrella was the test of one’s manhood.

re: #125 GeneJockey

And had it not been for the BBC strike during production, Shada might have occurred.

re: #120 wrenchwench

Pogo. Now there’s something to take seriously!

When I was a kid, we had a couple Pogo books, but I mostly remember “G.O. Fizzikle Pogo”, and the in-jokes still live in the family. We’re likely to refer to butterflies as ‘Boosterflies’, like Miz Mam’selle Hepzibah, for example.

Evening Lizards. This video. A representation of the Republican party as it is today.

Nothing more than a bunch of apes bent on taking what they can take before they are driven off.

Sad, but true. Ding me down for dehumanizing them, but they take what they want, when they want and screw the rest of us.

I for one am tired of it.

Edited 5/21/2013 !0:00 hrs

Mwahahahha! I have Hijacked the Thread.

re: #130 ProTARDISLiberal

Mwahahahha! I have Hijacked the Thread.

Yer a poopy-head.

re: #64 Vicious Babushka

LOL EPIC

Lets go to the video tape!

@wolfblitzer Asks #Tornado Survivor if She Thanked the #Lord; Replies She’s an #atheist.youtu.be/6uBfc4DylEM

— got2bkidding (@got2bkidding) May 21, 2013

re: #122 ProTARDISLiberal

Strax

I remember when I first saw the Sontarans back in the day:

Sontaran: We are from the Sontaran Special Space Service.

Doctor: The SSSS? Don’t you think that’s carrying alliteration a bit too far?

re: #128 GeneJockey

When I was a kid, we had a couple Pogo books, but I mostly remember “G.O. Fizzikle Pogo”, and the in-jokes still live in the family. We’re likely to refer to butterflies as ‘Boosterflies’, like Miz Mam’selle Hepzibah, for example.

One of my brothers made off with the books. I don’t know what happened to the vinyl. Maybe it’s still at Mom’s house.

re: #4 Charles Johnson

These are very dangerous animals - those guys were pretty bold (read: stupid) to get in a small room with one holding only a broom.

Made for some great video, though.

Yeah, that was incredibly stupid. Baboons are meat eaters and they are fully capable of tearing someone’s face off if they get annoyed enough.

re: #134 wrenchwench

One of my brothers made off with the books. I don’t know what happened to the vinyl. Maybe it’s still at Mom’s house.

I was unaware of the records, but then I grew up in a really small town.

Oh, and of course, we INVARIABLY sing ‘Deck Us All With Boston Charlie’ every Christmas.

re: #135 steve_davis

Yeah, that was incredibly stupid. Baboons are meat eaters and they are fully capable of tearing someone’s face off if they get annoyed enough.

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re: #111 LWNJ

You know, if you check google images for “president, umbrella,” “reagan, umbrella” or “bush, umbrella,” images of someone military holding an umbrella over POTUS will be right up there. Where was the outrage? And how long are those RWNJs going to keep chewing on this one?

Heh…Image: AP8912010561.jpg

re: #111 LWNJ

You know, if you check google images for “president, umbrella,” “reagan, umbrella” or “bush, umbrella,” images of someone military holding an umbrella over POTUS will be right up there. Where was the outrage? And how long are those RWNJs going to keep chewing on this one?

send them to this article. Includes pictures of Bush pere with soldier and marine holding his umbrella, and W’s soldier holding his umbrella.

Outrageous outrage that raises the question, again, “what’s different about these pictures?”

re: #113 GeneJockey

I’m a Tom Baker devotee, though I thought that David Tennant was a fine Doctor and Matt Smith has taken it in a different direction

Huge eruption of cheers in committee room as Senate Judiciary approves immigration bill in 13-5 vote. Story coming.

— The Hill (@thehill) May 21, 2013

Immigration Bill passed out of Senate Judiciary. Next step - full Senate, and the House version has yet to be approved by that Chamber, let alone reconciled with the Senate versions.

In other words, we’re a long way off from any kind of deal - and the usual suspects have plenty of opportunities to scuttle a deal here too.

re: #140 lawhawk

He hosted Have I Got News For You and it’s brilliant but unfortunately BBC has done takedowns of a lot of HIGFNY and it’s gone from youtube.

If you can find it, it is brilliant.

re: #141 lawhawk

Immigration Bill passed out of Senate Judiciary. Next step - full Senate, and the House version has yet to be approved by that Chamber, let alone reconciled with the Senate versions.

In other words, we’re a long way off from any kind of deal - and the usual suspects have plenty of opportunities to scuttle a deal here too.

If the muttering about the House bill is anything to go by, I’m getting the impression that the Tea Party intends to scuttle the whole thing there. Unless Boehner is willing to once again violate the “Hastert Rule.”

GAH. When will they stop? When Hillary is elected?

#tgdn #teaparty Obama & the Lib-Hole stole the election thru Fraud & IRS Voter Suppression time for BHO to vacate the WH Romneysthe POTUS

— Luke K-Ski (@harleycuda) May 22, 2013

re: #140 lawhawk

Another one you missed.

re: #141 lawhawk

Immigration Bill passed out of Senate Judiciary. Next step - full Senate, and the House version has yet to be approved by that Chamber, let alone reconciled with the Senate versions.

In other words, we’re a long way off from any kind of deal - and the usual suspects have plenty of opportunities to scuttle a deal here too.

Some say the Epidemic of White House Scandals has helped immigration reform by diverting the attention of the wingnuts.

I say, whatever works.

But I still don’t have very high hopes for the result when the first part of the bill is about border security, a (nearly) completely unrelated issue.

re: #146 wrenchwench

Some say the Epidemic of White House Scandals has helped immigration reform by diverting the attention of the wingnuts.

I say, whatever works.

But I still don’t have very high hopes for the result when the first part of the bill is about border security, a (nearly) completely unrelated issue.

The border security issue is supposedly being used as a means of “reassuring” the wingnuts. They have to know that the government is “serious” about stopping illegal immigration before they’ll even consider allowing immigrants already here to try for citizenship.

re: #145 ProTARDISLiberal

Well, after all - it is a small country. They only have so many actors.

And after all, a ‘series’ there is like 6-10 episodes, not like the 26 you have to do for American TV. I imagine there’s lots of time in between jobs. you can supplement your ‘Masterpiece Theater’ income with a little Dr. Who or Harry Potter!

re: #147 Targetpractice

The border security issue is supposedly being used as a means of “reassuring” the wingnuts. They have to know that the government is “serious” about stopping illegal immigration before they’ll even consider allowing immigrants already here to try for citizenship.

Almost everything that was recommended in the failed 2007 bill has been implemented as far as border security goes. For instance, the number of border patrol agents was doubled. So now they want to double them again. They’re already having friendly fire incidents, which can only get worse with twice the number of agents.

re: #149 wrenchwench

Almost everything that was recommended in the failed 2007 bill has been implemented as far as border security goes. For instance, the number of border patrol agents was doubled. So now they want to double them again. They’re already having friendly fire incidents, which can only get worse with twice the number of agents.

THAT’S UNPOSSIBLE!!! EVERYONE KNOW NOBAMA LETS ALL THE ILLEGAL MESSICANS IN!!!

Seriously, they won’t believe it.

re: #149 wrenchwench

Almost everything that was recommended in the failed 2007 bill has been implemented as far as border security goes. For instance, the number of border patrol agents was doubled. So now they want to double them again. They’re already having friendly fire incidents, which can only get worse with twice the number of agents.

What it comes down to is they refuse to accept the idea that undocumented immigrants can ever be citizens, so making virtually impossible requests (a “secure” border) is their way of ensuring that they have an excuse when the reform effort ultimately fails. “They’ll just flood across the border!” is their go-to argument.

re: #148 GeneJockey

And you just stated the flaw Doctor Who had this season.

Many, if not most, of the episodes would have been better served being 2-parters.

re: #141 lawhawk

Immigration Bill passed out of Senate Judiciary. Next step - full Senate, and the House version has yet to be approved by that Chamber, let alone reconciled with the Senate versions.

In other words, we’re a long way off from any kind of deal - and the usual suspects have plenty of opportunities to scuttle a deal here too.

It will be interesting to see what happens. In addition to the unhelpful chorus from wingnut howler monkeys, there are powerful interests in both parties that are happy with the presently broken state of affairs.

re: #145 ProTARDISLiberal

Not missed, just didn’t get to him in the timeline yet. /

Speaking of crossovers between the Whoverse and Potterverse, we’ve got:

John Cleese (Nearly Headless Nick)
Zoe Wanamaker (Professor Hooch)
David Bradley (Filch)
Helen McCrory (Narcissa Malfoy)

Night Lizards.

May your rock be warm.

Sleep well

OU Geography Department just shared this on Facebook.

Arg. A couple of years ago I bought two HD enclosures with a Firewire 800 interface for external drives - a few months ago one of those enclosures had a power supply failure, and today the other one did too. The 1TB drive is just fine - I took it out of the enclosure and plugged it in a USB dock and it started right up.

Obviously a design flaw in these enclosures. Just ordered another from a different manufacturer: Macally Hi-Speed eSATA/FireWire/USB 2.0 Storage Enclosure for 3.5-Inch SATA Hard Disk. Hope this one lasts a little longer.

While I was at it, I also grabbed one of these: Toshiba 3.5-Inch 3TB 7200 RPM SATA3/SATA 6.0 GB/s 64MB. (Great price for a 3TB 7200rpm drive.)

re: #155 Bubblehead II

I used to work with a fella from a part of Idaho you would be familiar with. When he was young, he would sleep with a rock from the fireplace to stay warm. I guess that was before the days of central heat/air.

re: #98 Vicious Babushka

These people just suck.

You know, if you replaced TGDN with trolls from 4chan, you could tell the difference because the trolling kids would be funnier.

#BREAKING: Tornado reported in Innisfil, Ontario. A barn and a train have been destroyed, still unconfirmed. #Onstorm

— Viktor Elias (@Eliasviktor001) May 22, 2013

Ontario?

re: #160 NJDhockeyfan

Ontario?

Holy shit, that is north of Toronto!

I, for one, will no longer complain about the occasional mouse that tries to take up residence under the sink anymore.

RBS
Honey, we got baboons, call the Orkin man!!!!!

re: #44 darthstar

Yep…as if on cue, Alex Jones is blaming the tornado on Obama.

According to Jones, we need to know whether locals saw helicopters and small aircraft “in and around the clouds, spraying and doing things.”

Voice of the Republican party. When Rush is gone, Alex will be king.

Heh, there is no global warning, only black foreign fake presidents attacking America with their Muslamic Ray Guns.

re: #151 Targetpractice

What it comes down to is they refuse to accept the idea that undocumented immigrants can ever be citizens, so making virtually impossible requests (a “secure” border) is their way of ensuring that they have an excuse when the reform effort ultimately fails. “They’ll just flood across the border!” is their go-to argument.

Exactly.

Big disappointment number one:

Gays Won’t Be In Immigration Reform Bill

Sen. Lindsey Graham: “If you redefine marriage for immigration purposes [by the amendment], the bill would fall apart because the coalition would fall apart. It would be a bridge too far.” Devoted LGBT allies Sen. Chuck Schumer and Sen. Al Franken both reluctantly agreed that removing the amendment to include gay couples was better than sinking the entire bill.

re: #163 stabby

I’ll would be willing to make a large wager that most republican voters do not know who Alex Jones is.

re: #166 compound_Idaho

I’ll would be willing to make a large wager that most republican voters do not know who Alex Jones is.

Maybe not, but the conspiracy theories he peddles to the rubes often become mainstream right wing memes.

Drudge Report has been promoting him for years now, and that means huge traffic.

re: #166 compound_Idaho

State Rep. Stella Tremblay (R-Auburn) posted on conservative talk show host Glenn Beck’s Facebook page Friday that the attack and the subsequent search for suspects was playing out how Beck had suggested. She said the bombings were a plot by the federal government, and included a link to a video from another conservative talk show host Alex Jones, in which Jones also claims the federal government planned the bombing. Tremblay’s message to Beck was posted Friday morning, before suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested.

The right wing media’s promotion of a widely-debunked Alex Jones conspiracy theory about the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) ammunition acquisitions prompted House Republicans to hold a hearing to investigate. The theory, which assigns some sinister motivation behind the recent ammo purchases, first gained traction on the websites of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones before finding its way to Fox News and Fox Business and finally to the halls of Congress.

On April 25, Republican Reps. Jim Jordan (OH) and Jason Chaffetz (UT) held a joint hearing “to examine the procurement of ammunition by the Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General.”

And another response to a Jones’ conspiracy theory:

Republicans want to limit the number of bullets federal agencies can purchase so American gun owners can buy more.

Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe and Rep. Frank Lucas have introduced a bill that would prohibit every government agency — except the military — from buying more ammunition each month, than the monthly average it purchased from 2001 to 2009

re: #165 wrenchwench

Big disappointment number one:

Gays Won’t Be In Immigration Reform Bill

I’m left wondering how many deals with the devil are going to be made to get this bill passed. I’ve heard that the House GOP are dead set on making it virtually impossible for the road to citizenship to even begin, and the best estimate for how long under their proposal before the first immigrants can hope to be citizens? 15 years.

re: #167 Charles Johnson

Maybe not, but the conspiracy theories he peddles to the rubes often become mainstream right wing memes.

Drudge Report has been promoting him for years now, and that means huge traffic.

One doesn’t have to know the name of a bullshit artist to be suckered by him.

remarkable that immigration reform passes 1st major hurdle and it will be, what, 4th most discussed news tomorrow?

— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) May 22, 2013

@chrislhayes yes. in private bills backers are quite grateful for IRS-scandal-leak-gate-azi

— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) May 22, 2013

re: #169 Targetpractice

I’m left wondering how many deals with the devil are going to be make to get this bill passed. I’ve heard that the House GOP are dead set on making it virtually impossible for the road to citizenship to even begin, and the best estimate for how long under their proposal before the first immigrants can hope to be citizens? 15 years.

I’d like to be wrong about this, but my assumption is that many awful compromises will be made, and then it will still not pass. I don’t see anything except ‘border security’ getting out of this GOP House.

re: #169 Targetpractice

I’m left wondering how many deals with the devil are going to be make to get this bill passed. I’ve heard that the House GOP are dead set on making it virtually impossible for the road to citizenship to even begin, and the best estimate for how long under their proposal before the first immigrants can hope to be citizens? 15 years.

Well, it’s 10 years for us legal immigrants.

re: #172 EPR-radar

I’d like to be wrong about this, but my assumption is that many awful compromises will be made, and then it will still not pass. I don’t see anything except ‘border security’ getting out of this GOP House.

Agreed, it’s looking like ‘07 again, and it really shouldn’t considering all the talk the GOP leadership has made about the need to broaden their tent and to stop pissing off potential voters. The base doesn’t yet realize that a party of old white people in the current demographic environment is not long for this world.

The Alex Jones conspiracy-mongering crowd is a very vocal part of today’s right wing base. Just take a quick look through FreeRepublic or Breitbart.com or Hot Air or just about any right wing site, and you’ll find a lot of commenters pushing this stuff.

re: #169 Targetpractice

I’m left wondering how many deals with the devil are going to be made to get this bill passed. I’ve heard that the House GOP are dead set on making it virtually impossible for the road to citizenship to even begin, and the best estimate for how long under their proposal before the first immigrants can hope to be citizens? 15 years.

CNN is saying 13 years. Either way, it’s probably optimistic. And in the meantime, are the immigrants who embark on this road eligible for health care? Drivers’ licenses? College aid? Loans? If not, why wouldn’t they just skip the inquisition and stay undocumented? That’s what wingnuts want, so they won’t be able to vote, but they’ll lose the benefits of ‘bringing people in from the shadows’.

re: #175 Charles Johnson

Yeah, I’ve seen it happen. The fringe guys post something and it gradually becomes accepted.

re: #176 wrenchwench

It’s pretty awful. 13 years isn’t a “path to citizenship,” it’s a big chunk of your life.

I guess this is what it looks like when the GOP “cooperates” with the Democrats. You get legislation that is simply crazy.

Derp update:

Some libs blaming global warming for Oklahoma tornado. In 1975, they blamed global cooling. stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/197…

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) May 21, 2013

FYI..Posting this from my new badass iMac.. :)
Took Winston on his walk tonight..Went by the kids area where all the parents take the kids to play..It’s a daily thing where the kiddies get to pet Winston and I talk to the neighbors..One thing struck me..
I was watching kids play with pure joy and fun..
One town to our North is suffering from destruction and loss of life..Really bad.
The children were playing as if there nothing has happened..
Let me explain what struck me..
We all have lost our innocence years ago..And no matter what any preacher tells you..You ain’t gett’n that shit back.. Once it’s gone. It’s gone
You know what isn’t gone? Watching the child be completely innocent. They know nothing else..We get to share that moment of being a child with them..Sharing their innocence for a minute in time..I think that was best part of raising kids.
I have to do something to help..They are turning away people to clean up..That’s Oklahoma for you..People rushing in to help..There is a frontier spirit of good people.
Pray for their pain in this hour..We need good positive thoughts going to Moore.

re: #180 HoosierHoops

Best to ya, buddy. Stay safe and sane.

re: #179 Kid A

That’s been posted like 4 times

stop posting Bryan ok? We know!

re: #166 compound_Idaho

I’ll would be willing to make a large wager that most republican voters do not know who Alex Jones is.

WE TRUE MERICANS TOTALLY KNOW WHO ALEX JONES IS!!11 HE LOADED UP 2 18 WHEELERS AND A BUNCH OF SUVS WITH WATER AND DIAPERZ FOR TEH TORNADO AND FEMA STILL ISN’T THEIR!!11

Later, lizards.

re: #144 Vicious Babushka

GAH. When will they stop? When Hillary is elected?

@ harley”cuda” … anyone using “cuda” in their name is a sarah palin fan club member.

re: #175 Charles Johnson

The Alex Jones conspiracy-mongering crowd is a very vocal part of today’s right wing base. Just take a quick look through FreeRepublic or Breitbart.com or Hot Air or just about any right wing site, and you’ll find a lot of commenters pushing this stuff.

Actually I remember seeing something over on FreeRepublic that JimRob had banned any mention or links to Alex Jones on his site, and that anybody that did would be ‘zotted’. Don’t know what causes it, but you know you’re crazy when ever the freepers say “he’s a loon”.

RBS
Who doesn’t even try to create an account in FR any more, never lasts long enough to set up a good sting.

Finally! Something important on Twitter!

An update on Justin Bieber’s abandoned monkey-son. jezebel.com/justin-biebers…

— Lindy West (@thelindywest) May 22, 2013

RE: The iMac..
I became a Mac guy Friday after work..It’s bad ass and I have enjoyed it and glad I bought it.. I’m still having issues learning it..It’s going to take some time for a Windows guy. Some stuff just pisses me off cause I just don’t get it.
I keep going Back to google to read more.. But really. The window control resizing/minimize/close is on the left side in Apple and the right side in Windows..I always go right!
It seems everything is opposite or something..:)
Over all.. I love my 24” wide screen iMac..Rating: A kick ass 5 stars.

re: #188 HoosierHoops

Hi Hoops. I hope everything is okay with you. Did you get any damage from the tornadoes? I am happy to hear you got a Mac. They are good computers.

Rand Paul demands Congress ‘apologize’ to Apple for tax avoidance hearing

At a committee hearing on Tuesday, Paul was livid that Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked to testify.

“I’m offended by a $4 trillion government bullying, berating and badgering one America’s greatest success stories,” the Kentucky Republican told the committee. “Tell me what Apple has done that is illegal?”

Paul added that he was also “offended” that that the IRS would “bully” tea party groups.

re: #178 Charles Johnson

It’s pretty awful. 13 years isn’t a “path to citizenship,” it’s a big chunk of your life.

I guess this is what it looks like when the GOP “cooperates” with the Democrats. You get legislation that is simply crazy.

I suspect what comes out of the House will basically be a Just Be Glad We Aren’t Going To Deport Your Ass bill.

re: #189 PhillyPretzel

Hi Hoops. I hope everything is okay with you. Did you get any damage from the tornadoes?

Hi You! It missed us by a Whisker. Moore is the Next town to Norman.
I watched angry clouds go by on their way lay waste..
Thanks Philly..

re: #190 Kragar

As usual, Rand Paul is full of it. Apple’s CEO getting to explain to Congress how Apple can legally pay no tax sounds like one of the most worthwhile Congressional hearings in quite some time.

Even though congressional hearings are usually circuses, some circuses are actually useful.

re: #190 Kragar

Rand Paul demands Congress ‘apologize’ to Apple for tax avoidance hearing

Alright, here’s an apology: “Sorry your ass got caught trying to avoid paying taxes.”

re: #191 moderatelyradicalliberal

I suspect what comes out of the House will basically be a Just Be Glad We Aren’t Going To Deport Your Ass bill.

If the House GOP follows the Hastert rule, even that would be too much to hope for.

IMO, the most important parts of the bill are employer sanctions, which don’t seem to be getting much attention. If the sanctions don’t have teeth, the problem will simply recur as employers go for the cheapest possible labor.

Bachmann: ‘God Is Going to Answer Our Prayers’ and Repeal Obamacare

God gets to vote in the Congress and the Senate and he is a Republican?

re: #194 Targetpractice

Alright, here’s an apology: “Sorry your ass got caught trying to avoid paying taxes.”

The thing is, Apple isn’t breaking any laws. Why have they been singled out? Take that as you may. I’ll admit I am an APPL shareholder and receive a very healthy dividend check every quarter. But if they were found breaking laws, I’d definitely have something to say at the next shareholder’s meeting. You can count on that.

re: #196 Kragar

Bachmann: ‘God Is Going to Answer Our Prayers’ and Repeal Obamacare

God gets to vote in the Congress and the Senate and he is a Republican?

Further cementing my belief that the “God” that the GOP prays to is a sadistic bastard who takes pleasure in the suffering of others.

re: #193 EPR-radar

As usual, Rand Paul is full of it. Apple’s CEO getting to explain to Congress how Apple can legally pay no tax sounds like one of the most worthwhile Congressional hearings in quite some time.

Even though congressional hearings are usually circuses, some circuses are actually useful.

Here is my idea..You can’t penalize corporations and drive them off-shore..Let’s just tax any overseas money that returns to America at a very low rate..Say 10% or so.. Big Biz would be scrambling to pay the lowest rate in the economic Powerhouse America.
We could build trust over a period of time..And don’t forget 10% of something is better than nothing.

re: #188 HoosierHoops

As to the Apple; remember the Genius Bar and the telephone help. They can help you when you are stuck.

re: #197 efuseakay

The thing is, Apple isn’t breaking any laws. Why have they been singled out? Take that as you may. I’ll admit I am an APPL shareholder and receive a very healthy dividend check every quarter. But if they were found breaking laws, I’d definitely have something to say at the next shareholder’s meeting. You can count on that.

Which was rather the point of the hearing, that we have a very dysfunctional tax system, where companies are incentivized to pass money between shell companies to avoid paying taxes.

re: #196 Kragar

Bachmann: ‘God Is Going to Answer Our Prayers’ and Repeal Obamacare

God gets to vote in the Congress and the Senate and he is a Republican?

Is that the same God that told Bachmann to run for President?

If so, I’m feeling a bit better about Obamacare’s long-term prospects.

re: #199 HoosierHoops

Here is my idea..You can’t penalize corporations and drive them off-shore..Let’s just tax any overseas money that returns to America at a very low rate..Say 10% or so.. Big Biz would be scrambling to pay the lowest rate in the economic Powerhouse America.
We could build trust over a period of time..And don’t forget 10% of something is better than nothing.

Overseas money that returns to America=in the form of executive pay and shareholder dividends for the 1%?

re: #197 efuseakay

The thing is, Apple isn’t breaking any laws. Why have they been singled out? Take that as you may. I’ll admit I am an APPL shareholder and receive a very healthy dividend check every quarter. But if they were found breaking laws, I’d definitely have something to say at the next shareholder’s meeting. You can count on that.

Somebody needs to be in the Congressional hot seat when questions about the broken US tax system start being asked. The wealthiest corporation on the face of the Earth seems like a reasonable guest to invite to the circus.

It remains to be seen if this is going to go anywhere, or if it is just a Kabuki exercise.

re: #196 Kragar

Bachmann: ‘God Is Going to Answer Our Prayers’ and Repeal Obamacare

God gets to vote in the Congress and the Senate and he is a Republican?

If Michelle Bachmann gets water dumped on her does she melt?

re: #188 HoosierHoops

I’m still having issues learning it..

/ pedant on

is*sue
/ˈiSHo͞o/
Noun
An important topic or problem for debate or discussion.

you mean to say you’re still having -problems- learning it. the use of the word “issue” for “problem” is a rank euphemism promoted by fainthearted HR departments

pedant off /

re: #202 BongCrodny

Is that the same God that told Bachmann to run for President?

If so, I’m feeling a bit better about Obamacare’s long-term prospects.

So if God’s going to take care of it, does that mean Congress won’t need to have another vote about it?

re: #202 BongCrodny

Is that the same God that told Bachmann to run for President?

If so, I’m feeling a bit better about Obamacare’s long-term prospects.

God did tell her to run for President. Only he was answering Barack Obama’s prayer to make his enemies ridiculous.

re: #199 HoosierHoops

Here is my idea..You can’t penalize corporations and drive them off-shore..Let’s just tax any overseas money that returns to America at a very low rate..Say 10% or so.. Big Biz would be scrambling to pay the lowest rate in the economic Powerhouse America.
We could build trust over a period of time..And don’t forget 10% of something is better than nothing.

We had a “one-time only” tax holiday back in ‘04, under the promise that the money repatriated would go to creating jobs and building companies. It went to shareholders and investors instead.

You make it 10% and in a year’s time, there will be Republicans on Capital Hill arguing for 5%, with some asking aloud why we have a tax at all.

re: #199 HoosierHoops

Here is my idea..You can’t penalize corporations and drive them off-shore..Let’s just tax any overseas money that returns to America at a very low rate..Say 10% or so.. Big Biz would be scrambling to pay the lowest rate in the economic Powerhouse America.
We could build trust over a period of time..And don’t forget 10% of something is better than nothing.

A sensible idea, provided that domestic earnings don’t magically become offshore earnings. As I recall, that tends to happen when there is an overseas earnings tax break.

re: #205 Iwouldprefernotto

If Michelle Bachmann gets water dumped on her does she melt?

I’ve been told that she weighs the same as a duck.

E. W. Jackson: No Federal Role In Disaster Relief Because That Turns Government Into God

E. W. Jackson, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor of Virginia, said he opposes emergency federal aid in the case of natural disasters during his unsuccessful bid for U.S. Senate last year.

In response to a question regarding the role of government “in helping folks following predictable natural disasters,” Jackson replied: “I don’t think that the federal government has much of a role at all constitutionally, at all.”

“I think as a constitutional matter the federal government doesn’t have a whole lot to do with that,” he continued, lamenting that “we’ve turned the federal government into a kind of God and you turn to the federal government for everything.”

“We don’t need the heavy hand of federal government stepping in every time something goes wrong,” Jackson said. “I don’t think there is any constitutional authority to do it.”

Taken to the logical conclusion of that chain of thought, no person should ever help anyone because you would be tampering in God’s plan for them.

re: #205 Iwouldprefernotto

If Michelle Bachmann gets water dumped on her does she melt?

No, she multiplies.

re: #206 engineer cat

/ pedant on

is*sue
/ˈiSHo͞o/
Noun
An important topic or problem for debate or discussion.

you mean to say you’re still having -problems- learning it. the use of the word “issue” for “problem” is a rank euphemism promoted by fainthearted HR departments

pedant off /

On the other hand, the contemporary usage of issue as a synonym for ‘problem’ lends itself to wonderful expressions such as “he has more issues than the National Geographic”.

re: #203 Vicious Babushka

Overseas money that returns to America=in the form of executive pay and shareholder dividends for the 1%?

Hi You..
Once they return the money home and we get a slice of the pie..I could care less what they spend in on.. Upgrades..New construction, Golden parachutes.. Who cares? Hopefully they will spend it on what is best for their business and grow. A lot of companies are very responsible in vision and goals..

re: #209 Targetpractice

We had a “one-time only” tax holiday back in ‘04, under the promise that the money repatriated would go to creating jobs and building companies. It went to shareholders and investors instead.

You make it 10% and in a year’s time, there will be Republicans on Capital Hill arguing for 5%, with some asking aloud why we have a tax at all.

Tax holidays for overseas corporate earnings fall into the ‘been there, done that, it sucked’ category.

re: #213 moderatelyradicalliberal

No, she multiplies.

Bummer.

re: #207 Kragar

So if God’s going to take care of it, does that mean Congress won’t need to have another vote about it?

Unfortunately, no.

There are 233 Republicans in the House of Representatives.

There have been 37 attempts to repeal Obamacare.

Assuming that God speaks to every Republican once, I figure we’ve got another 196 attempts.

re: #212 Kragar

In an interview with The Post the day after the convention, Cuccinelli indicated that he would not be answering for Jackson’s controversial beliefs.

“I am just not going to defend my running mates’ statements at every turn,” he said. “They’ve got to explain those themselves. Part of this process is just letting Virginia voters get comfortable with us, on an individual basis, personally.”washingtonpost.com

“In fact, I have no idea who he is!”

re: #215 HoosierHoops

Hi You..
Once they return the money home and we get a slice of the pie..I could care less what they spend in on.. Upgrades..New construction, Golden parachutes.. Who cares? Hopefully they will spend it on what is best for their business and grow. A lot of companies are very responsible in vision and goals..

Please give some examples of where this has actually worked, instead of the money just going straight into the pockets of the 1%.

re: #201 Targetpractice

Which was rather the point of the hearing, that we have a very dysfunctional tax system, where companies are incentivized to pass money between shell companies to avoid paying taxes.

Exactly, hence my “Take that as you may” comment. This won’t be enough to light a fire under anyone’s ass who is in a position to make real changes… Simply due to the high likelihood they too are tied to any of the other companies doing the same thing.

As EPR eluded to, I feel it’s just all for appearances.

re: #205 Iwouldprefernotto

If Michelle Bachmann gets water dumped on her does she melt?

re: #213 moderatelyradicalliberal

No, she multiplies.

re: #217 CarleeCork

Bummer.

No, no, no.

If you feed her after midnight, then she multiplies; if that happens, you use bright light to kill the spawn.

/

re: #221 efuseakay

Exactly, hence my “Take that as you may” comment. This won’t be enough to light a fire under anyone’s ass who is in a position to make real changes… Simply due to the high likelihood they too are tied to any of the other companies doing the same thing.

As EPR eluded to, I feel it’s just all for appearances.

A fair point. An honest assessment is that nobody on Capital Hill is in any real rush to do more than pass another patch on the system, one that the tax lawyers employed by companies like Apple will quickly find a way around.

re: #222 AlexRogan

No, no, no.

If you feed her after midnight, then she multiplies; if that happens, you use the water to kill the spawn.

/

Nope I got it right. First Gizmo got wet and made a bunch of other Gizmos. Then they are fried chicken and turned into gremlins.

I’m sure because I just saw Gremlins this past Saturday. It’s still funny!

re: #221 efuseakay

Exactly, hence my “Take that as you may” comment. This won’t be enough to light a fire under anyone’s ass who is in a position to make real changes… Simply due to the high likelihood they too are tied to any of the other companies doing the same thing.

As EPR eluded to, I feel it’s just all for appearances.

It doesn’t help that a significant chunk of those who want to change the tax code want to break it further by implementing some version of the fair tax/flat tax.

The tax brackets that define a progressive tax system take 1 page of the tax code to set forth. All remaining countless pages of the tax code have to do with what is and is not taxable income.

So getting rid of the brackets benefits the wealthy and has zero impact on the complexity of the tax code.

re: #219 jaunte

“In fact, I have no idea who he is!”

Seems to me like he has enough trouble explaining his own.

re: #213 moderatelyradicalliberal

No, she multiplies.

I wanted to make a joke about a re: #222 AlexRogan

No, no, no.

If you feed her after midnight, then she multiplies; if that happens, you use the water to kill the spawn.

/

I get it the topic is the worst baboon and the answer is Michelle Bachmann.

re: #212 Kragar

E. W. Jackson: No Federal Role In Disaster Relief Because That Turns Government Into God

Taken to the logical conclusion of that chain of thought, no person should ever help anyone because you would be tampering in God’s plan for them.

Of course if he gets elected with his fellow kook, Cuccinneli and a hurricane inevitably hits us here in Virginia, he will be blasting Obama and the feds for not doing more. Seriously people like this scare the crap out of me and what’s more, I wouldn’t be shocked if him and Cuccinneli and the otehr kook running for AG actually won all three offices.

re: #220 Vicious Babushka

Please give some examples of where this has actually worked, instead of the money just going straight into the pockets of the 1%.

Ok..To solve the issue of companies claiming domistic as an off-shore taxation I’d freeze the level of that to this years level. That baseline can never change.
Apple could have brought 67 BILLION dollars home at 10% tax rate.
To think that exec’s would pocket that yearly deduction is laughable on its face.
As they plan yearly for this transfer..Yes the big shots will get cool serious cash..
Maybe split up a Billion..That leaves 66 Billion to invest somewhere be it Corporate bonds, expansion or whatever..Let’s get that money back

re: #224 moderatelyradicalliberal

Nope I got it right. First Gizmo got wet and made a bunch of other Gizmos. Then they are fried chicken and turned into gremlins.

I’m sure because I just saw Gremlins this past Saturday. It’s still funny!

Eh, got my Gremlins rules all jacked up.

Don’t get Mogwais wet (because they’ll multiply), don’t feed them after midnight (because they’ll turn into Gremlins), and don’t expose them to bright light (because that kills them).

re: #227 Iwouldprefernotto

I wanted to make a joke about a re: #222 AlexRogan

I get it the topic is the worst baboon and the answer is Michelle Bachmann.

I think a baboon would take umbrage.

re: #228 HappyWarrior

Of course if he gets elected with his fellow kook, Cuccinneli and a hurricane inevitably hits us here in Virginia, he will be blasting Obama and the feds for not doing more. Seriously people like this scare the crap out of me and what’s more, I wouldn’t be shocked if him and Cuccinneli and the otehr kook running for AG actually won all three offices.

If the GOP wins here in November, I’m getting the fuck out of the state. Perhaps take my chances up north, above the Mason-Dixon craziness.

re: #229 HoosierHoops

Ok..To solve the issue of companies claiming domistic as an off-shore taxation I’d freeze the level of that to this years level. That baseline can never change.
Apple could have brought 67 BILLION dollars home at 10% tax rate.
To think that exec’s would pocket that yearly deduction is laughable on its face.
As they plan yearly for this transfer..Yes the big shots will get cool serious cash..
Maybe split up a Billion..That leaves 66 Billion to invest somewhere be it Corporate bonds, expansion or whatever..Let’s get that money back

All I see is the 1% playing a shell game, no working people are ever going to enjoy a dime of that offshore money.

re: #230 AlexRogan

Eh, got my Gremlins rules all jacked up.

Don’t get Mogwais wet (because they’ll multiply), don’t feed them after midnight (because they’ll turn into Gremlins), and don’t expose them to bright light (because that kills them).

Yes. “Bright light! Bright light!”

re: #233 Vicious Babushka

All I see is the 1% playing a shell game, no working people are ever going to enjoy a dime of that offshore money.

Yeah, pretty much.

re: #28 jaunte

It’s just not a baboon thread until Joe Walsh shows up.

Stop insulting baboons in that fashion! Joe Walsh is not even baboon poo, which can at least be dried and burned for heating. Joe Walsh is toxic waste.

re: #234 moderatelyradicalliberal

Yes. “Bright light! Bright light!”

It’s actually sunlight that kills them. Bright indoor lighting won’t harm a gremlin, but if you turn a UV lamp on them they cook into a puddle of goo.

I was in South Africa last November and saw these guys hanging out on the side of the road. I also saw groups of them crossing the highway, after making sure no cars were coming.. Baboons in South Africa hanging out on the side of the road..