1 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jun 17, 2013 9:20:16pm

The video has no pause button.

2 simoom  Mon, Jun 17, 2013 9:23:37pm

Yeah there’s no player interface and it autoplays. Maybe just do a screenshot that goes to the site when clicked?

3 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jun 17, 2013 9:34:25pm

Reload and you now have all the video controls.

4 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jun 17, 2013 9:38:37pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Reload and you now have all the video controls.

Thank you.

5 simoom  Mon, Jun 17, 2013 9:38:48pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Thanks, works great now. Is that flv player part of LGF?

I wonder what’s going on with Rose’s site. Now instead of the proxy error it’s not coming up at all.

6 piratedan  Mon, Jun 17, 2013 9:40:12pm

re: #5 simoom

it’s time for them to do their direct access download to the NSA

7 Gus  Mon, Jun 17, 2013 9:44:10pm

People need to stop thinking these guys are like Robocop Thunder NCIS with holograms or something.

8 darthstar  Mon, Jun 17, 2013 10:08:25pm
9 darthstar  Mon, Jun 17, 2013 10:09:37pm
10 Gus  Mon, Jun 17, 2013 10:33:45pm
11 Kragar  Mon, Jun 17, 2013 10:37:38pm

John Oliver: Just f*cking ignore Sarah Palin’s turd supermarket of self-contradictory nonsense

“I just don’t even know where to begin with her,” he said. “I mean — hold on. I think I’ve just realized something. Fuck it, this is exactly what she wants. Just because I walked into a turd supermarket doesn’t mean I have to buy anything.”

Though Oliver could mock Palin in the typical Daily Show-esque fashion by mashing up clips of the conservative commentator contradicting her own “nonsense,” the more prudent move was to “just fucking ignore her.”

“I promise America it will feel so good,” he remarked. “It will be like we give our brains an enema together.”

12 Gus  Mon, Jun 17, 2013 10:51:28pm

Mrow.

13 Weet  Mon, Jun 17, 2013 11:03:38pm

Just watched the conversation between Obama and Charlie Rose.
How anyone could call this man a ‘liar’ or show disrespect for him — it’s beyond my understanding. And yet, there are comments like that on any progressive/liberal blog.

It’s strong confirmation that anyone supporting Snowflake over President Obama is lacking in critical thinking skills, is mentally lazy, and/or is lacking in character.

14 piratedan  Mon, Jun 17, 2013 11:11:19pm

re: #13 Weet

Just watched the conversation between Obama and Charlie Rose.
How anyone could call this man a ‘liar’ or show disrespect for him — it’s beyond my understanding. And yet, there are comments like that on any progressive/liberal blog.

It’s strong confirmation that anyone supporting Snowflake over President Obama is lacking in critical thinking skills, is mentally lazy, and/or is lacking in character.

over at Balloon Juice, they refer to those people as “the poniless”. Everytone else got thios cool new black President, but they didn’t get THEIR pony. Because despite all of things that the man has helped manage through the sausage machine ( and kudos to Nancy Smash for her huge assistance), because he didn’t put the Bushies in jail and didn’t get single payer and didn’t repeal DOMA or any other number of pet issues he’s just as bad as the Texas Asshat. Still marvel at what might get done if the Dems can finally find their balls and defeat those gerrymandered R’s out of the house. That supposes that Harry Reid tired of the bullshit and does some rules modification to prevent the casual abuses currently employed by the Minority Party in Power. Still, footwork has to be done and the media is ripe to finally be ignored and we have this wonderful track record of what the House has done, so maybe it’s doable, certainly worth working for.

15 Gus  Mon, Jun 17, 2013 11:14:58pm
16 Kragar  Mon, Jun 17, 2013 11:55:16pm

re: #15 Gus

What?

17 Gus  Mon, Jun 17, 2013 11:59:47pm

re: #16 Kragar

What?

His first Tweet.
He’s going to avenge the acts of NATO on Twitter with furious Tweets.

18 Romantic Heretic  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 12:43:52am

re: #16 Kragar

What?

Patois

19 freetoken  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 2:08:46am

MP3 Audio

20 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 2:10:29am

re: #15 Gus

Do you wear the devil to touch someone else’s country

When I think about you, I touch someone else’s country…

21 dragonath  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 2:10:55am

Chrysler expected to make Jeep recall refusal official

In one of the biggest-ever showdowns between an automaker and the government, Chrysler on Tuesday is expected to file papers explaining its refusal to recall 2.7 million older Jeep SUVs that are at risk of catching fire in rear-end collisions.

22 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 2:11:39am

re: #21 dragonath

Chrysler expected to make Jeep recall refusal official

That could seriously cut into their bonus packages…

23 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 3:54:40am

re: #20 Sol Berdinowitz

Do you wear the devil to touch someone else’s country

When I think about you, I touch someone else’s country…

Show me on the map where he touched you..

24 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 4:28:55am

re: #15 Gus

I think he meant to say, “Do you wear Prada when you go out to invade another country.”

25 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 4:30:54am

re: #24 Vicious Babushka

I think he meant to say, “Do you wear Prada when you go out to invade another country.”

Image: Prada-Camo.jpg

26 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 4:31:26am

re: #25 Decatur Deb

Image: Prada-Camo.jpg

A bargain at only $30,000!

27 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 4:33:11am

re: #18 Romantic Heretic

Patois

Authentic Frontier Gibberish

Youtube Video

28 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 4:33:23am

re: #26 Vicious Babushka

A bargain at only $30,000!

DoD Acquisition Corps

29 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 4:33:57am

Teh wingnut Twitters is full of Teh Racist because of L’il Wayne’s performance. Not embedding any of that shit here.

30 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 4:34:34am

re: #29 Vicious Babushka

Teh wingnut Twitters is full of Teh Racist because of L’il Wayne’s performance. Not embedding any of that shit here.

Thank you for not Twittering that shit…

31 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 4:35:10am

re: #30 Sol Berdinowitz

Thank you for not Twittering that shit…

There is some Derp that shall remain Derpless.

32 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 4:39:26am

re: #31 Vicious Babushka

There is some Derp that shall remain Derpless.

it is enough to report on it…as I occasionally mention the stalker site without linking it here

33 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 4:47:20am

re: #13 Weet

I just got a breaking news email that more and more Americans think Obama directed the IRS to spy on conservative groups.

This country is broken.

34 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 4:48:27am

Bryan Fischer is Derping about ObamaPhones now.

I wonder if he will come up with an abortion joke.

35 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 4:53:05am

re: #34 Vicious Babushka

Bryan Fischer is Derping about ObamaPhones now.

I wonder if he will come up with an abortion joke.

We had to abort the baby to stop him from masturbating!!!

36 lawhawk  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 5:08:55am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. There’s a couple of old stories back in the news this morning. The FBI and NYPD are digging up the driveway, backyard, and basement of notorious mass murderer Sirius Black mobster Jimmy the Gent Burke.

If his name doesn’t quite sound familiar, maybe you’re more familiar with his movie persona - Jimmy Conway from Goodfellas. The FBI and NYPD are following up on a lead about whether Burke buried human remains or some of the famous $5m Lufthansa heist (the biggest heist in US history to that point). Nearly all of that was never recovered.

Halfway across the country, law enforcement is digging up a Michigan field looking for another Jimmy. Jimmy Hoffa. That’s based on a credible source.

37 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 5:10:34am

re: #36 lawhawk

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. There’s a couple of old stories back in the news this morning. The FBI and NYPD are digging up the driveway, backyard, and basement of notorious mass murderer Sirius Black mobster Jimmy the Gent Burke.

If his name doesn’t quite sound familiar, maybe you’re more familiar with his movie persona - Jimmy Conway from Goodfellas. The FBI and NYPD are following up on a lead about whether Burke buried human remains or some of the famous $5m Lufthansa heist (the biggest heist in US history to that point). Nearly all of that was never recovered.

Halfway across the country, law enforcement is digging up a Michigan field looking for another Jimmy. Jimmy Hoffa. That’s based on a credible source.

Considering the huge number of alleged burial sites for Jimmy Hoffa, do you think that his parts were, um, scattered over a wide area?

38 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 5:14:55am

There are as many final resting places for Jimma Hoffa as there were atoms in his body…

39 lawhawk  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 5:19:20am

re: #37 Vicious Babushka

Wood chipper? Yeah, that’s entirely possible. And I can’t count how many times they’ve claimed credible sources pointing to different spots.

40 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 5:41:28am
41 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 5:56:17am

And while we were talking about how minimum wage earner gets ripped off by being paid in a debit card that charges a fee every time it’s used, here is what Teh Dumbest Man on Teh Internets is Derping about today:

42 kirkspencer  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:01:58am

re: #41 Vicious Babushka

And while we were talking about how minimum wage earner gets ripped off by being paid in a debit card that charges a fee every time it’s used, here is what Teh Dumbest Man on Teh Internets is Derping about today:

The complaints over the poor buying good things are just sumptuary laws revisited. “How dare you misrepresent your class.”

43 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:03:44am

Why do I have the feeling that “Patriot” totally would love to close down all Muslim schools?

44 lawhawk  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:05:19am

Obamaphones, which is a continuation of a program started way back by notorious Democrat Ronald Reagan and later expanded by the other notorious socialist George W. Bush.

45 lawhawk  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:06:48am

re: #43 Vicious Babushka

Gee, criticizing separate but equal (which the situation in Ireland is analogous to when you have schools for the Catholics and separate schools for the Protestants and never the two shall mix), but her takeaway is to say that Obama’s calling for the elimination of religious schools.

46 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:08:02am

re: #44 lawhawk

Obamaphones, which is a continuation of a program started way back by notorious Democrat Ronald Reagan and later expanded by the other notorious socialist George W. Bush.

Wingnuts don’t allow silly facts like that to destroy their meme of

OMG OBAMA IZ GIVING AWAY FREE IPHONE 5’S AND POORS IS JUST TURNING AROUND AND SELLING THEM FOR DRUGS AND PRADA HANDBAGS!!11!!

47 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:09:07am

re: #45 lawhawk

Gee, criticizing separate but equal (which the situation in Ireland is analogous to when you have schools for the Catholics and separate schools for the Protestants and never the two shall mix), but her takeaway is to say that Obama’s calling for the elimination of religious schools.

Yeah but, she would be totally cool with the elimination of Muslim schools.

48 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:09:58am

re: #44 lawhawk

Obamaphones, which is a continuation of a program started way back by notorious Democrat Ronald Reagan and later expanded by the other notorious socialist George W. Bush.

You jest. Today, Reagan would totally be a Democrat.

49 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:12:13am

re: #44 lawhawk

Obamaphones, which is a continuation of a program started way back by notorious Democrat Ronald Reagan and later expanded by the other notorious socialist George W. Bush.

Meme update: Freepers freeping about a feature, the emergency/disaster alert, which can’t be switched off by menu. Unfortunately, many years ago, that feature was labeled “Presidential Alert”.

50 Tigger2  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:13:41am

re: #48 Joanne

You jest. Today, Reagan would totally be a Democrat.

If Reagan was alive today he would running to the right at the speed of light.

51 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:14:30am

re: #41 Vicious Babushka

Well, I’ve sold all my Obamaphones for free stuff. Don’t you?

////

52 freetoken  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:14:51am

This is daft:

Draft Hillary Clinton for president group gets big name support

This fixation, even fetish, some in the Democratic Party have for Hillary Clinton is destructive of moving forward. There’s just too much baggage on the Clinton train.

53 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:15:20am

re: #34 Vicious Babushka

Obamaphones: the Derp that just won’t die.

54 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:18:18am

re: #41 Vicious Babushka

And while we were talking about how minimum wage earner gets ripped off by being paid in a debit card that charges a fee every time it’s used, here is what Teh Dumbest Man on Teh Internets is Derping about today:

Line up another Accuracy In Media award!

/

55 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:21:27am

re: #52 freetoken

This is daft:

Draft Hillary Clinton for president group gets big name support

This fixation, even fetish, some in the Democratic Party have for Hillary Clinton is destructive of moving forward. There’s just too much baggage on the Clinton train.

I’ll back her as long as she has the best numbers. Kneecapping the TPGOP is that important. Other than that, both she and Pres Obama are corporatist millionaires—but that’s a battle for another generation.

56 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:21:40am
57 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:23:50am

re: #43 Vicious Babushka

Why do I have the feeling that “Patriot” totally would love to close down all Muslim schools?

Travelling through Norther Ireland, I saw sections of curbs painted red, white and blue, while others were painted orange, green and white.

I asked what that was about, it was the designated places where Protestant and Catholic children stand to wait for their respective (and separate) busses.

And so they learn to associate “us and them” politics with religion from an early age.

58 William Barnett-Lewis  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:23:53am

re: #52 freetoken

This is daft:

Draft Hillary Clinton for president group gets big name support

This fixation, even fetish, some in the Democratic Party have for Hillary Clinton is destructive of moving forward. There’s just too much baggage on the Clinton train.

Couple that with the medical issues she had right before stepping down from State? I doubt she’d want to. The Democrats need to say “Thank you for all you’ve done” and find some other candidate to rally behind.

59 dragonath  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:25:04am

So Florida has banned pipes, bongs, hookahs, and now sick leave…

Image: florida7ls7o.gif

60 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:25:24am

re: #50 Tigger2

If Reagan was alive today he would running to the right at the speed of light.

I didn’t much care for Reagan, especially after he basically evicted all the mentally ill people who were just too expensive to care for, but he did appear to have some desire to do something for the country, and he didn’t seem to me to be crazy (we’ll leave off the last couple of years of his presidency when he was starting to slip into Alzheimer’s). Maybe you’re right…the desire for power can corrupt thought beyond expectations.

61 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:29:27am

re: #41 Vicious Babushka

And while we were talking about how minimum wage earner gets ripped off by being paid in a debit card that charges a fee every time it’s used, here is what Teh Dumbest Man on Teh Internets is Derping about today:

And then there’s this (wrongly, IMHO, named article) about Guitar Center (bought by Bain Capital in 2007):

Workers at Guitar Center make the legal minimum wage plus commission, but they aren’t paid that commission until they sell a certain amount of product against their base pay.

“Where that becomes an issue is during slower months, like this month for example, or if a sales person has a bad month, which everyone eventually does, sometimes you don’t sell enough product and you ultimately don’t make enough money for the company to cover minimum wage, even though you’ve worked full-time and you’ve showed up to work on time and did your job to its fullest, you’re making minimum wage that month,” he says.

That’s problematic for a number of reasons. All the money workers make in heavily trafficked months, they hang onto in preparation for months ahead. There’s never a consistent pay check. They’re never fully sure what they receive in pay is going to cover their bills because minimum wage in New York City is extremely low.

“We’re in this grey area where we have solid jobs, which are hard to get in New York and we have benefits, but at the same time, we’re not making enough money to survive, and a lot of us end up selling our instruments to make rent and living off of credit cards.”

And the problem isn’t just in New York.

“There were many weeks where I only ate one meal a day, sometimes none, due to low wages,” said another Guitar Center employee in a southern state who asked to remain anonymous out of concern for their job. “Some brands pay more than others. Successful sales people sell what makes money, not what is truly needed.”

62 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:33:42am

re: #61 Joanne

And then there’s this (wrongly, IMHO, named article) about Guitar Center (bought by Bain Capital in 2007):

But…JRRB CREAYTERZ!!11!

63 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:33:46am

re: #58 William Barnett-Lewis

Couple that with the medical issues she had right before stepping down from State? I doubt she’d want to. The Democrats need to say “Thank you for all you’ve done” and find some other candidate to rally behind.

Her medical issues were a result from a fall, IIRC. That shouldn’t have anything to do with her running or not.

Whoever is the Dem candidate, they get my vote. Across the board. We see what the GOP has in store for America, for American women (and by extension of policies they implement, women around the world), for those not at the top of the financial ladder, for the middle class, etc., etc., etc. ad nauseum.

There is no reason to ever vote for a Republican, ever. No matter how pretty their words sound, they are a collective, like the Borg. Once they get to Washington, they vote as a block for shit that serves no one but rich white men (and the occasional rich white woman or rich person of color…but only peripherally).

64 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:38:05am
65 freetoken  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:39:14am

I hate it when I write up a comment and get the “comment is too long” pop-up.

66 freetoken  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:40:04am

Sometimes your friends aren’t really helping.

E.g.:

Explaining the Global Warming Hiatus

Grappling with climate-change nuance in a toxic political environment

The subtitle looks promising. Let’s check out the first paragraph:

Even as scientists asserted an incontrovertible consensus on climate change, a funny thing has happened over the last 15 years: Global warming has slowed down. Since 1998, the warmest year of the twentieth century, temperatures have not kept up with computer models that seemed to project steady warming; they’re perilously close to falling beneath even the lowest projections.

Good grief.

1) “computer models that seemed to project steady warming” - NO. No, they did not project “steady” warming. The dude has confused first of all smoothed (multi-model runs) surface temperature with “warming”. This is a common set of misunderstandings.

The author may mean well, but once you’ve led the reader down the path of wrong thinking it is hard to recover.

This confusion between SURFACE temperature and the entire climate system isn’t helped by his later several paragraphs of trying to explain that indeed the Earth is more complex than a single graph can convey.

The meaning, denotation, of “esoteric” is “intended for or likely to be understood by only a small number of people with a specialized knowledge or interest “. Climatology like all other modern sciences are indeed esoteric. Science writers struggle with communicating these subjects to the laity and compromises have to be made, but in this particular case the tradeoffs were not a particularly good one.

The hardest thing to explain about climate change is what is meant by “climate”. Simply saying it is the long term average of “weather”, though not totally inaccurate, is misleading. Because to most people “weather” consists of (1) what’s the temp outside, and (2) is it raining. But those two questions don’t do your physical environment justice, because the physical environment is too complex to be explained by those two questions.

While I believe the global inaction on climate change has much more to do with the short-horizon nature of human decision making (which manifests itself in all of human decisions) - we really have a short temporal horizon - than it has to do with the lack of understanding climatology (or physical science in general), I do believe increasing the awareness of people to their physical environment may lead some to make wiser decisions.

[continued]

67 freetoken  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:40:12am

[continued]

The article also demonstrates how the laity does not really understand the scientific establishment or why science as a field of human endeavor has succeeded as well as it has:

In the end, the so-called scientific consensus on global warming doesn’t look like much like consensus when scientists are struggling to explain the intricacies of the earth’s climate system, or uttering the word “uncertainty” with striking regularity. Nowhere is there more uncertainty than in the clouds. “It’s like cancer,” Herd said, referring to the “many, many problems” posed by the many kinds of clouds, each with their own special properties that might reflect or trap more or less of the sun’s heat. Some progress has been made on clouds, especially with cirrus clouds.

If any scientist presents her findings to me and does not spend a significant amount of time discussing measurement uncertainties then I would cast doubt on how well they’ve analyzed their results. It’s part of the territory - it’s what it means to do empirical science.

And, btw, this hyperventilating over clouds is a misdirection. There have been clouds since the Earth has had an atmosphere, and in the big picture of the Pleistocene the changes in temperature were not driven by clouds nor did the ice not advance, or retreat.

68 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:43:35am
69 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:43:44am

re: #11 Kragar

John Oliver: Just f*cking ignore Sarah Palin’s turd supermarket of self-contradictory nonsense

I so agree!

70 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:44:56am

*FACE PALM*

71 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:45:44am

Andrea Silver is the biggest idiot ever, maybe even stupider than Jim Hoft.

72 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:46:59am

This is the saddest Twitter profile ever.

73 makeitstop  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:47:24am

re: #61 Joanne

And then there’s this (wrongly, IMHO, named article) about Guitar Center (bought by Bain Capital in 2007):

I hate Guitar Center. Luckily, there are still a few mom & pop music stores left around here. I’d rather drive the extra distance and buy supplies from a small store than set foot inside a GC.

As for buying guitars - I’ve been finding everything I want on Craig’s List lately so screw Guitar Center.

74 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:52:51am

re: #61 Joanne

Commission against Draw sucks. IMHO

I’ve always thought one should make a minimum amount to cover the basic work you do for the company in servicing accounts, spreading their name, and answering the phone.

75 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:53:22am

re: #70 Vicious Babushka

Gotta be parody, right?

76 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:54:28am

How is it today folks?

Coolish by me.

77 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:55:21am

re: #70 Vicious Babushka

So why would a person claim PBO was the biggest worstest threat to Amercia ever also tweet out a let-not-your-heart-be-troubled hashtag? It would sound as if her heart is very troubled indeed, and that everyone else’s should be, too.

78 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:56:22am

re: #77 Bulworth

So why would a person claim PBO was the biggest worstest threat to Amercia ever also tweet out a let-not-your-heart-be-troubled hashtag? It would sound as if her heart is very troubled indeed, and that everyone else’s should be, too.

I once looked at the #LNYHBT hashtag, it’s even more batshit insane than #TGDN.

79 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 6:58:36am

I guess facebook is taking on the whole hashtag thing. Once again, I have to learn something new.

80 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:07:15am

re: #78 Vicious Babushka

I once looked at the #LNYHBT hashtag, it’s even more batshit insane than #TGDN.

Let Not Your Heart Be Troubled, like this:

From the article:

At least when the Democrats are shredding the Constitution, and imposing more statism destined to catapult this republic “forward” into bankruptcy, it’s easier to recruit the next Ted Cruz or the next generation of Jim DeMints. Nothing stifles the GOP grassroots more than the GOP establishment.

Yes, let not your heart be troubled by facts.

81 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:07:43am
What he did then, and what he does now, are all part of the same crusade, he said. “There’s nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering,” he said — “for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.”

He stopped, realizing that sounded grandiose, or at least corny.

“I’m not kidding,” he said.

82 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:08:47am

I AM SO FRICKIN’ TIRED OF HEARING the Whackos talk about the Constitution. It’s gotten to the level of Godwin.

83 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:11:01am
84 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:12:50am
If their conclusions are correct, that all-important knowledge can be gained by immersing yourself in a work of literature. There’s no antidote to black-or-white thinking like reading “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.”

ha!

85 Gus  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:14:57am
86 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:15:29am

Vocabulary Word of the Day

Zymurgy

87 Eventual Carrion  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:17:21am

re: #86 FemNaziBitch

Vocabulary Word of the Day

Zymurgy

I’ll drink to that,

88 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:17:54am

Today’s cuteness.

Scroll down to pic #2

89 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:18:18am

re: #83 Vicious Babushka

Facts. BAH! We don’t need no stinkin’ facts when that communist democrat is in the White House spending our money and not allowing our kids to go on WH tours!

90 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:21:22am

re: #80 Joanne

“Next generation of Ted Cruz/Jim DeMint…”

Yikes.

The teabaggers/Birchers are the descendents of the planter class. Workers/women/minorities don’t have any rights, only the right to labor all day in return for the owner of the house’s letting them sleep in a shack.

91 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:21:49am

REPUBLICAN JESUS

92 Gus  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:28:44am
93 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:28:45am
The State of Our Nation’s Bridges

Despite billions of dollars in federal, state and local funds directed toward the maintenance of existing bridges, 68,842 bridges — 11.5 percent of total highway bridges in the U.S. — are classified as “structurally deficient,” requiring significant maintenance, rehabilitation or replacement.

Two key problems persist: while Congress has repeatedly declared bridge safety a national priority, existing federal programs don’t ensure that aging bridges actually get fixed; and the current level of investment is nowhere near what is needed to keep up with our rapidly growing backlog of aging bridges.

94 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:29:13am
95 Gus  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:30:06am

Oddball: Why don’t you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don’t you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don’t you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?

Moriarty: Crap!

96 Gus  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:32:08am
97 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:32:28am

re: #93 FemNaziBitch

Two key problems persist: while Congress has repeatedly declared bridge safety a national priority, existing federal programs don’t ensure that aging bridges actually get fixed; and the current level of investment is nowhere near what is needed to keep up with our rapidly growing backlog of aging bridges.

Not to mention, you have a greedy bazillionaire who owns a Bridge all by himself, and spends $$$millions$$$ to PREVENT BUILDING ANOTHER BRIDGE because wants to keep the Bridge Monopoly all to himself.

Oh and he doesn’t put a dime into repairs and maintenance on HIS PERSONALLY OWNED BRIDGE preferring to spend it all on propaganda.

98 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:38:10am

re: #97 Vicious Babushka

Not to mention, you have a greedy bazillionaire who owns a Bridge all by himself, and spends $$$millions$$$ to PREVENT BUILDING ANOTHER BRIDGE because wants to keep the Bridge Monopoly all to himself.

Oh and he doesn’t put a dime into repairs and maintenance on HIS PERSONALLY OWNED BRIDGE preferring to spend it all on propaganda.

FEUDalism at it’s best!

99 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:38:47am

re: #96 Gus

According to a puritopian of my acquintance my volunteering for Elizabeth Warren and my work on the (failed) legislation helping independent workers not get screwed over by employers were just ‘cover’, because I obviously have an agenda to sap the progressive movement of its energy through casting doubt on the heroic Snowden.

What is interesting about this exchange was that he basically said it was fine for him to (I feel rather baselessly) speculate on my motives, but me speculating on Snowden’s motives was petty and foul.

Meanwhile, on the ‘other’ side, a ‘libertarian’ (really GOP) friend of mine sent me a smug email about how at least Bush was open about being authoritarian. Authoritarian. He’s now basically just using it to mean ‘any kind of law that I decide is too restrictive’. The FISC court getting a subpoena reviewed by a federal judge in accordance with a law passed by an overwhelming majority of reps and senators who were and continue to be elected in open elections is ‘authoritarian’.

100 lawhawk  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:40:22am

re: #93 FemNaziBitch

Yup. Gas taxes aren’t keeping up with higher fuel economy and lower consumption, and other sources aren’t filling the gap either. State taxes aren’t keeping up with infrastructure needs either.

The ARRA of 2009 did help close the gap to some degree, but that was a one-shot, and the nation needs a long term sustained investment in infrastructure and not just highways and bridges. There’s a ton of infrastructure needs that needs replacement - anything from when the Interstate Highway System was built out in the 1950s and meeting the end of its functional life to bridges and systems built at the end of the 1800s.

There’s also sewage systems that need modernization and upgrades, water delivery systems that need upgrades, and a power grid that need to be far more robust to handle natural disasters of all flavors.

It takes money, and the cost cutting GOP pays lip service to infrastructure all while they continue cutting the very programs that sustain infrastructure over the long term.

102 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:42:36am

re: #100 lawhawk

Yup. Gas taxes aren’t keeping up with higher fuel economy and lower consumption, and other sources aren’t filling the gap either. State taxes aren’t keeping up with infrastructure needs either.

The ARRA of 2009 did help close the gap to some degree, but that was a one-shot, and the nation needs a long term sustained investment in infrastructure and not just highways and bridges. There’s a ton of infrastructure needs that needs replacement - anything from when the Interstate Highway System was built out in the 1950s and meeting the end of its functional life to bridges and systems built at the end of the 1800s.

There’s also sewage systems that need modernization and upgrades, water delivery systems that need upgrades, and a power grid that need to be far more robust to handle natural disasters of all flavors.

It takes money, and the cost cutting GOP pays lip service to infrastructure all while they continue cutting the very programs that sustain infrastructure over the long term.

Sadly, the Free Market GOP doesn’t seem to get that Market’s can’t survive if farmers/manufacturers don’t have infrastructure to get their goods to said market. Perhaps they just want to outsource the construction and have privateers charge tolls on each bridge to recoup their costs.

103 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:43:50am

re: #102 FemNaziBitch

The whole privateer controlled bridge didn’t work in the first place, that’s why the English Government took over roads and bridges. IIRC.

104 Romantic Heretic  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:44:32am

re: #60 Joanne

I didn’t much care for Reagan, especially after he basically evicted all the mentally ill people who were just too expensive to care for…

Like most people he didn’t believe in mental illness, he believed in mental weakness. And like most people he believes the weak should learn to sink or swim.

It’s one of the last acceptable forms of social Darwinism.

105 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:45:05am

re: #103 FemNaziBitch

The whole privateer controlled bridge didn’t work in the first place, that’s why the English Government took over roads and bridges. IIRC.

Except for Detroit/Windsor Bridge, largest border crossing in North America.

106 wheat-dogghazi  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:45:18am

re: #84 FemNaziBitch

ha!

Yet, the Common Core standards call for students to read mostly non-fiction now. What better way to kill student interest in reading?

[I was a comparative literature major. Take my remarks with that in mind.]

107 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:47:07am

“Watch a sonogram of a 15-week baby, and they have movements that are purposeful,” said Burgess, a former OB/GYN. “They stroke their face. If they’re a male baby, they may have their hand between their legs. If they feel pleasure, why is it so hard to believe that they could feel pain?”

I know it’s been around. I just still can’t believe he said it.

108 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:47:48am

The Bridge Troll is suing the Government of Canada for interfering with his Bridge monopoly. How fucked up is that?

109 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:48:04am

re: #106 wheat-dogghazi

Yet, the Common Core standards call for students to read mostly non-fiction now. What better way to kill student interest in reading?

[I was a comparative literature major. Take my remarks with that in mind.]

IIRC, there is actually a ‘Literature” Major at West Point now.

110 Dr. Matt  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:48:11am

re: #107 FemNaziBitch

But, but, but…….isn’t masturbation a sin!?!?!??

111 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:48:40am

re: #108 Vicious Babushka

The Bridge Troll is suing the Government of Canada for interfering with his Bridge monopoly. How fucked up is that?

definition of CHutzpah?

112 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:48:56am

re: #110 Dr. Matt

But, but, but…….isn’t masturbation a sin!?!?!??

Only if you think it is.

113 wheat-dogghazi  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:50:31am

re: #110 Dr. Matt

Fetuses haven’t been born (with original sin) yet, so they get a pass. Once out in the open, hands off your parts kid, or it’s hell and damnation!

114 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:52:02am

re: #102 FemNaziBitch

Sadly, the Free Market GOP doesn’t seem to get that Market’s can’t survive if farmers/manufacturers don’t have infrastructure to get their goods to said market. Perhaps they just want to outsource the construction and have privateers charge tolls on each bridge to recoup their costs.

There’s also no market when people cannot afford to purchase. A far reaching middle class with no money to burn cannot sustain the US economy. We can buy a bunch of cheap shit from China, but that doesn’t do much for the American economy.

Collections of large amounts of cash in the upper echelons of US society does nothing for the US as a whole. The memes of makers and takers are pointless because, even assuming you by into the whole taker bullshit, they still spend. And spending is what an economy is all about.

115 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:55:00am

re: #114 Joanne

There’s also no market when people cannot afford to purchase. A far reaching middle class with no money to burn cannot sustain the US economy. We can buy a bunch of cheap shit from China, but that doesn’t do much for the American economy.

Collections of large amounts of cash in the upper echelons of US society does nothing for the US as a whole. The memes of makers and takers are pointless because, even assuming you by into the whole taker bullshit, they still spend. And spending is what an economy is all about.

If the “Job Creators” don’t pay their workers enough money for the workers to buy their shit, WHO IS GOING TO BUY IT? The CEO’s?

116 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:56:04am

re: #114 Joanne

There’s also no market when people cannot afford to purchase. A far reaching middle class with no money to burn cannot sustain the US economy. We can buy a bunch of cheap shit from China, but that doesn’t do much for the American economy.

Collections of large amounts of cash in the upper echelons of US society does nothing for the US as a whole. The memes of makers and takers are pointless because, even assuming you by into the whole taker bullshit, they still spend. And spending is what an economy is all about.

You mean Trickle-Down Economics doesn’t work?

/

117 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:56:34am

re: #114 Joanne

There’s also no market when people cannot afford to purchase. A far reaching middle class with no money to burn cannot sustain the US economy. We can buy a bunch of cheap shit from China, but that doesn’t do much for the American economy.

Collections of large amounts of cash in the upper echelons of US society does nothing for the US as a whole. The memes of makers and takers are pointless because, even assuming you by into the whole taker bullshit, they still spend. And spending is what an economy is all about.

These goombahs see the The Free Market as some sort of divine natural state that only comes into existence when the government removes itself from every aspect of commerce.

All we get out of that is survival of the fittest.

118 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:56:39am

re: #109 FemNaziBitch

IIRC, there is actually a ‘Literature” Major at West Point now.

Sergeant Major Edgar Allen Poe was a West Pointer (for a while).

119 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:56:51am

re: #115 Vicious Babushka

If the “Job Creators” don’t pay their workers enough money for the workers to buy their shit, WHO IS GOING TO BUY IT? The CEO’s?

Yeah, I never got that idea of “job Creators.” People don’t go into business to create jobs, they go into business to make money for themselves.

120 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:56:58am

re: #116 FemNaziBitch

You mean Trickle-Down Economics doesn’t work?

/

I know. Shocking, ain’t it.

121 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:57:51am

re: #117 Sol Berdinowitz

It’s worse than that, in a way. Or rather, the fitness landscape of an unregulated economy is one where the most ‘fit’ companies are those that cut the most corners and pass on as much cost as they can to others, in the form of environmental pollution, overworking employees, using shoddy materials, etc. etc.

122 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:57:57am

re: #117 Sol Berdinowitz

These goombahs see the The Free Market as some sort of divine natural state that only comes into existence when the government removes itself from every aspect of commerce.

All we get out of that is survival of the fittest.

And very few will be fit. And very soon after, we will see the French Revolution, on steroids.

123 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:58:32am

re: #116 FemNaziBitch

You mean Trickle-Down Economics doesn’t work?

/

It works like this.

124 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:59:12am

I recall reading about how the head of GM was showing the head of the UAW his new fully automated productin line and remarked, “Not one of those workers is a union member!”, to which the UAW boss replied “And not one of them is a customer, either!”

125 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:59:25am
126 Romantic Heretic  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 7:59:30am

re: #117 Sol Berdinowitz

These goombahs see the The Free Market as some sort of divine natural state that only comes into existence when the government removes itself from every aspect of commerce.

All we get out of that is survival of the fittest.

Makes think of this little bit from one of my favorite games.

127 Interesting Times  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:00:04am

re: #115 Vicious Babushka

If the “Job Creators” don’t pay their workers enough money for the workers to buy their shit, WHO IS GOING TO BUY IT? The CEO’s?

Citigroup’s plutonomy memos

We project that the plutonomies (the U.S., UK, and Canada) will likely see even more income inequality, disproportionately feeding off a further rise in the profit share in their economies, capitalist-friendly governments, more technology-driven productivity, and globalization… Since we think the plutonomy is here, is going to get stronger… It is a good time to switch out of stocks that sell to the masses and back to the plutonomy basket.

128 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:00:39am

Glad to report that Illinois is at the lower end of the rankings of deficient bridges (scroll down)

I know Denny Hastert got a big highway bill thru before he “retired”. I notice the roads in his part of the world (near me) got a few pothole patches right after that.

129 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:00:43am
130 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:01:49am

re: #127 Interesting Times

Citigroup’s plutonomy memos

they downgraded Pluto a few years ago —didn’t they?

131 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:02:22am

re: #125 Joanne

I can think of 2 things that enjoy majority gopteabag support in the House: repealing ACA and restricting abortion access. Both, obviously, based on a laser-beam focus on jobs and the economy. /

132 Romantic Heretic  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:02:38am

re: #121 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

It’s worse than that, in a way. Or rather, the fitness landscape of an unregulated economy is one where the most ‘fit’ companies are those that cut the most corners and pass on as much cost as they can to others, in the form of environmental pollution, overworking employees, using shoddy materials, etc. etc.

As my favorite author note, “The level playing field in not level. Instead it’s a slippery slope where only the biggest and strongest can grab hold while the rest of us slide to the bottom and claw one another’s eyes out in a desperate bid for survival.

133 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:02:48am
134 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:03:18am
135 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:03:39am

2nd Vocabulary Word for the Day

Plutomony

136 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:03:53am

Oh fuck me.

137 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:04:36am

re: #134 Vicious Babushka

Y no hearing on Obomafonez?!11?!!!

138 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:04:52am

re: #135 FemNaziBitch

2nd Vocabulary Word for the Day

Plutomony

They claim that it causes economic “growth” WTF??

139 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:04:53am

Whackos want a Theocracy.

They truly think we are fighting a Holy War against Iran/Saudi/SpaghettiMonster.

140 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:05:00am

re: #129 Joanne

Ten:

ACLU, Planned Parenthood Fight Alabama Abortion Law

usatoday.com

141 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:05:05am

re: #136 Joanne

Just kill us all, now.

142 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:05:45am

re: #138 Vicious Babushka

They claim that it causes economic “growth” WTF??

Well, that growth depends on slaves. (as I understand such things)

Thus, no abortion or contraception for the Proletariat!

143 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:06:55am

re: #142 FemNaziBitch

Well, that growth depends on slaves. (as I understand such things)

Thus, no abortion or contraception for the Proletariat!

Slave owners fed, housed and clothed their little slavelings.

144 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:07:37am

re: #143 Vicious Babushka

Slave owners fed, housed and clothed their little slavelings.

That’s because they wanted to protect their investment. Plutocrats have no investment in human capital.

145 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:08:04am

Also, during the “Gilded Age” of unregulated industry and child labor, there were actually things that you could buy for a penny.

146 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:08:07am

re: #143 Vicious Babushka

Slave owners fed, housed and clothed their little slavelings.

Benighted, inefficient waste. Let the market decide.

147 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:09:31am

re: #144 FemNaziBitch

That’s because they wanted to protect their investment. Plutocrats have no investment in human capital.

In this world there are Plutocrats and Parasites.

I swear if I get one more Wacko post on my fb page about Welfare Parasites, I will tell the poster what I think.

148 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:09:34am

Carl Hiaasen has a new book!!! Bad Monkey. About time.

149 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:10:24am

re: #147 FemNaziBitch

In this world there are Plutocrats and Parasites.

I swear if I get one more Wacko post on my fb page about Welfare Parasites, I will tell the poster what I think.

150 Dr. Matt  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:10:48am

re: #148 Joanne

Carl Haaisen has a new book!!! Bad Monkey. About time.

James O’Queef has a new book too.

151 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:11:07am

re: #149 Vicious Babushka

They had Twitter in 1874?

//

152 Romantic Heretic  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:11:08am

re: #142 FemNaziBitch

Well, that growth depends on slaves. (as I understand such things)

Thus, no abortion or contraception for the Proletariat!

There’s that damn song in my head again.

Youtube Video

153 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:11:16am

re: #148 Joanne

Carl Haaisen has a new book!!! Bad Monkey. About time.

Never read him.

Reading Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson right now (Audible)

Very cool, steampunky

154 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:11:22am

re: #149 Vicious Babushka

His Twitter handle should be @ForeverImaginaryReagan.

155 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:11:55am

re: #152 Romantic Heretic

There’s that damn song in my head again.

I love that song!

156 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:12:11am

re: #149 Vicious Babushka

What about immigrants who are Radical Islam trying to undermine R Christian society?!!11???

//

157 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:12:44am

DERP
Has this moran ever made an international call? It’s pretty hard to dial “by accident”

158 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:13:07am

It’s kinda sad that the Marxist terms for “labor” etc seem to apply now more than ever.

159 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:13:39am

re: #157 Vicious Babushka

I hate it when I accidentally dial terrorists. //

160 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:13:43am

re: #150 Dr. Matt

James O’Queef has a new book too.

I read about that yesterday. (shaking head)

If you’re really ready to get excited, Glenn Beck has a new novel out. Another Ayn Randian utopia thriller. Woot.

I do have to say, though, that this could be amusing/terrifying: Christian Nation, a novel of alternate reality where McCain/Palin won, and McCain died shortly thereafter. I might have to get this one.

161 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:14:22am

re: #157 Vicious Babushka

DERP
Has this moran ever made an international call? It’s pretty hard to dial “by accident”

WEll, let’s see idiot. Since the people doing this work don’t want to waste their time or have some ACLU lawyer breathing down their back, they’ll probably notice that your number or the one you were dialing is one digit off from the normal number dialed.… … .

162 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:14:42am

re: #160 Joanne

I read about that yesterday. (shaking head)

If you’re really ready to get excited, Glenn Beck has a new novel out. Another Ayn Randian utopia thriller. Woot.

I do have to say, though, that this could be amusing/terrifying: Christian Nation, a novel of alternate reality where McCain/Palin won, and McCain died shortly thereafter. I might have to get this one.

Ayn is rolling in her grave.

163 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:15:02am

re: #160 Joanne

I read about that yesterday. (shaking head)

If you’re really ready to get excited, Glenn Beck has a new novel out. Another Ayn Randian utopia thriller. Woot.

I do have to say, though, that this could be amusing/terrifying: Christian Nation, a novel of alternate reality where McCain/Palin won, and McCain died shortly thereafter. I might have to get this one.

No, only if you can get it without having to add to his bank account!

164 Romantic Heretic  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:15:24am

re: #155 FemNaziBitch

I love that song!

Yeah, that keeps happening in history. You really have to wonder why the people with power never learn. They always end up mistaking their well being for the well being of the society they have authority over.

And they always end up under the guillotine, or in front of a firing squad. If they’re lucky.

165 Dr. Matt  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:15:27am

re: #157 Vicious Babushka

DERP
Has this moran ever made an international call? It’s pretty hard to dial “by accident”

@RepMikeRogers Ask him what happens if you accidently dial or a terrorist accidently dials your number? #tcot #tgdn #teaparty
— Robert P Smith #TGDN (@TruckerBobS) June 18, 2013

Tell Sean Hannity you’ll call him back?

166 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:15:39am

re: #159 Bulworth

I hate it when I accidentally dial terrorists. //

They hate it when they accidentally dial you.//

167 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:15:53am

re: #153 FemNaziBitch

Hiaasen is, in a single word, AwsomelyAmazinglyFantasticlyAwesome! Weirdest, funniest characters. He was always worth buying in hardcover. Since I don’t buy physical books very often, he is first on my Kindle app. Check him out. He has lots of books to keep you amused.

168 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:16:05am

re: #163 FemNaziBitch

U people better go out and by Becks book because he’s damn near broke because he cares and loves Amercia and believes in something. /

169 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:16:11am

re: #164 Romantic Heretic

Yeah, that keeps happening in history. You really have to wonder why the people with power never learn. They always end up mistaking their well being for the well being of the society they have authority over.

And they always end up under the guillotine, or in front of a firing squad. If they’re lucky.

Power is the most insidious vice.

170 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:17:02am

re: #165 Dr. Matt

I guess TruckerBob ain’t too worried about NSA reading his derpy tweets.

171 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:17:46am

Morning Happy PictureMorning Happy Picture

(from Real Men are Kind to Animals)

172 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:17:50am

re: #145 Vicious Babushka

Also, during the “Gilded Age” of unregulated industry and child labor, there were actually things that you could buy for a penny.

During the Gilded Age a decent team of carriage horses cost roughly the same as a Chevy in 1990, relative to a farmer’s/UAW worker’s income.

173 Romantic Heretic  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:17:55am

re: #158 FemNaziBitch

It’s kinda sad that the Marxist terms for “labor” etc seem to apply now more than ever.

Well, our plutocrats agree with Marx. So it’s not surprising our usage of the word is Marxist.

The only difference between most capitalists and most Marxists is whether capitalism is a good thing and who will win the class war it triggers. On everything else about capitalism they are in agreement.

174 Dr. Matt  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:18:09am

re: #170 Bulworth

I guess TruckerBob ain’t too worried about NSA reading his derpy tweets.

Or monitoring his CB transmissions over public airwaves.

175 Dr. Matt  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:18:45am

re: #171 FemNaziBitch

Morning Happy PictureMorning Happy Picture

(from Real Men are Kind to Animals)

That’s a lot of poop machines right there.

176 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:19:00am

re: #171 FemNaziBitch

Y no kitty cat pics?

177 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:19:08am

Some CBS journalist was on O’Really last night. Her computer was hacked and O’Really kept implying it was the government.

I just love how he leads the audience.

/

178 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:19:18am

re: #176 Bulworth

Y no kitty cat pics?

It’s still early.

179 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:20:24am

Just to clarify, Christian Nation isn’t a Beck book, it’s by Frederic C. Rich.

From Amazon:

“They said what they would do, and we did not listen. Then they did what they said they would do.”

So ends the first chapter of this brilliantly readable counterfactual novel, reminding us that America’s Christian fundamentalists have been consistently clear about their vision for a “Christian Nation” and dead serious about acquiring the political power to achieve it. When President McCain dies and Sarah Palin becomes president, the reader, along with the nation, stumbles down a terrifyingly credible path toward theocracy, realizing too late that the Christian right meant precisely what it said.

In the spirit of Philip Roth’s The Plot Against America, one of America’s foremost lawyers lays out in chilling detail what such a future might look like: constitutional protections dismantled; all aspects of life dominated by an authoritarian law called “The Blessing,” enforced by a totally integrated digital world known as the “Purity Web.” Readers will find themselves haunted by the questions the narrator struggles to answer in this fictional memoir: “What happened, why did it happen, how could it have happened?”

180 Dr. Matt  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:20:46am
181 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:20:53am

Then and Now

182 bratwurst  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:21:15am

If anyone is interested, author Kurt Eichenwald is debating Glenn Greenwald on Twitter (and SHOCKINGLY getting called names)

183 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:21:34am

re: #175 Dr. Matt

That’s a lot of poop machines right there.

Soooooooooooooo cute! I should try to get a pic of my seven dogs. That alone could be an entire days worth of effort.

184 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:22:24am

re: #177 FemNaziBitch

That must have been Sharyl Atkisson, winner of Accuracy in Media’s illustrious, um, accuracy in media award for carrying water on behalf of the Fast&FuriousBenghazi “scandals”. RWNJ always love when some establishment figure takes their BS seriously.

185 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:22:31am

re: #179 Joanne

Just to clarify, Christian Nation isn’t a Beck book, it’s by Frederic C. Rich.

From Amazon:

bbbbbbut, It Can’t Happen HERE!

186 Romantic Heretic  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:22:58am

re: #179 Joanne

Just to clarify, Christian Nation isn’t a Beck book, it’s by Frederic C. Rich.

If This Goes On

187 Dr. Matt  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:24:54am

It’s only a matter of time before Dim Jim jumps on it…..

188 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:25:22am

Remember When the Patriot Act Debate Was All About Library Records?

HA!

189 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:26:08am

re: #187 Dr. Matt

I’m still recovering from last week’s terrible scandal of PBO getting to the lectern without his notes and his “yelling” at his staffers.

/

190 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:27:02am

re: #189 Bulworth

I’m still recovering from last week’s terrible scandal of PBO getting to the lectern without his notes and his “yelling” at his staffers.

/

It’s was UmbrellaGate that did it to me.

/

191 makeitstop  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:27:41am

re: #143 Vicious Babushka

Slave owners fed, housed and clothed their little slavelings.

Speaking of which - here on Long Island, DoJ and Homeland Security raided 14 7-11 stores and arrested the owners on charges of human trafficking and ID theft.

More than a dozen 7-Eleven franchises took in more than $180 million in revenue by running a “modern-day plantation system,” prosecutors in New York charged on Monday, built on the unpaid labor of dozens of illegal immigrants hired using sham Social Security numbers.

…

Through the scheme, the defendants, who as franchisees for the parent company were licensed to use 7-Eleven buildings, trademarks and Slurpee and hot dog machines, recruited more than 50 illegal immigrants and gave them identities stolen from American citizens, including children and dead people.

The employees worked for 100 hours a week but were paid for a fraction of that time, and were forced to live in substandard housing owned by the operators of the convenience stores, the authorities said.

The 7-11 around the corner from my house was among the stores that were seized. I’d always thought that something was weird, because the whole crew that worked at the store lived in a house directly across the street, and I’d go into the store in the morning and then late at night, and the same guys would be behind the registers.

Those owners are in a world of hurt, as they should be. And I’m assuming the counter staff is already on their way back to Pakistan.

It kind of sucks to think I’ve been tacitly supporting human trafficking for the past ten years.

192 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:28:16am

re: #191 makeitstop

Speaking of which - here on Long Island, DoJ and Homeland Security raided 14 7-11 stores and arrested the owners on charges of human trafficking and ID theft.

The 7-11 around the corner from my house was among the stores that were seized. I’d always thought that something was weird, because the whole crew that worked at the store lived in a house directly across the street, and I’d go into the store in the morning and then late at night, and the same guys would be behind the registers.

Those owners are in a world of hurt, as they should be. And I’m assuming the counter staff is already on their way back to Pakistan.

It kind of sucks to think I’ve been tacitly supporting human trafficking for the past ten years.

I think I Paged that.

193 Dr. Matt  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:28:37am

re: #189 Bulworth

I’m still recovering from last week’s terrible scandal of PBO getting to the lectern without his notes and his “yelling” at his staffers.

And Stalin did the same thing all the time.

194 wheat-dogghazi  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:29:24am

re: #159 Bulworth

I hate it when I accidentally dial terrorists. //

I just had a mental image of Bob Newhart accidentally calling a terrorist.

” … What do you mean you’ll blow up my house? I was just calling to get an estimate on getting rid of rats!”

195 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:29:50am

re: #193 Dr. Matt

And Stalin did the same thing all the time.

Next Obama will want to go to the dentist during business hours —and NOT CLOCK OUT —!!!

196 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:30:17am

re: #194 wheat-dogghazi

I just had a mental image of Bob Newhart accidentally calling a terrorist.

” … What do you mean you’ll blow up my house? I was just calling to get an estimate on getting rid of rats!”

That woudl be a great SNL skit. Bob would do it too!

197 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:33:29am

I see a bunch of liberals getting pwn3d by DailyCurrant articles.

198 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:34:10am

OFFA. From this guy starting off with the “Democrat party” through the history of the GOP being against slavery…in the 1800s…what a clusterfuck of a video. Of course the loonies on the right love it.

199 Gus  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:35:10am

Twitter TL currently: stupid. OK, not all of it.

200 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:35:13am

re: #198 Joanne

OFFA. From this guy starting off with the “Democrat party” through the history of the GOP being against slavery…in the 1800s…what a clusterfuck of a video. Of course the loonies on the right love it.

He was always a wingnut…he just ran as a “Democrat” in his district because the GOP had a poor track record there. He just gone back to his roots.

201 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:36:46am

re: #198 Joanne

MAKE IT VIRAL!!!!

RETWEET TO IMPEACH!!!!

202 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:37:31am

Good morning lizards!

203 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:37:49am

re: #197 Vicious Babushka

I see a bunch of liberals getting pwn3d by DailyCurrant articles.

??

204 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:38:22am

re: #200 Vicious Babushka

He was always a wingnut…he just ran as a “Democrat” in his district because the GOP had a poor track record there. He just gone back to his roots.

This talking point has been kicking around for some time, I remember encountering it here a good five years ago: Youtube Video

and it is a big talking point within the party: namely that there is no point trying to court black/minority votes because these people apparently are unable to act in their own self-interests, they are just attracted to the party of “free stuff”

205 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:38:50am

Wait, O’Keefe made the “Obama Phones” video that was in the Daily Fail? Now we know for sure it’s fake.

206 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:39:31am

re: #203 Joanne

??

207 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:40:28am

Scientists: Timber at possible Griffin shipwreck site has been in Lake Michigan for centuries

FAIRPORT, Mich. - Scientists say a wooden beam extending from the floor of northern Lake Michigan appears to have been there for centuries, an important finding as they try to determine whether it’s part of the Griffin, the first European-style ship to sail on North America’s upper Great Lakes.

Marine archaeologists from the U.S. and France are studying the timber and digging a pit beneath it. They said Tuesday a probing device has detected what appears to be a solid surface up to 20 feet (6 metres) below the lake floor.

They say they’re not certain they’re dealing with a shipwreck. But Michel L’Hour of France’s Department of Underwater Archaeological Research says the timber appears to be a bowsprit, a pole that extends from a vessel’s stem.

The Griffin disappeared in 1679.

208 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:41:20am

re: #207 NJDhockeyfan

Scientists: Timber at possible Griffin shipwreck site has been in Lake Michigan for centuries

300 years before the Edmund Fitzgerald!

209 Gus  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:41:45am

re: #206 Vicious Babushka

Derp.

210 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:41:51am

re: #205 Vicious Babushka


Why can’t OKeefe just release it?

211 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:42:52am

re: #206 Vicious Babushka

Is this a piss-take?

A sick side of me hopes that it is not, I cannot wait to hear the people defending her actions.

“After all, that female pilot only became a decorated Air Force pilot as a result of affirmative action in the military”, etc…

212 Gus  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:43:07am

Like I said.

213 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:43:43am

re: #211 Sol Berdinowitz

I believe the Daily Current is an Onion-like fake news site.

214 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:43:47am

re: #208 Vicious Babushka

300 years before the Edmund Fitzgerald!

OMG! I’ll be happy if I never hear that song again. It was played ad infinitum in he Detroit area when I was young.

215 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:44:17am

LOL!


The weird shit you learn on Twitter.

216 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:44:44am

re: #211 Sol Berdinowitz

Is this a piss-take?

A sick side of me hopes that it is not, I cannot wait to hear the people defending her actions.

“After all, that female pilot only became a decorated Air Force pilot as a result of affirmative action in the military”, etc…

It’s a fake story. DailyCurrant is a site like The Onion. A lot of people get pwn3d because they think it’s a real news story.

217 Mattand  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:44:52am

re: #206 Vicious Babushka

Ann Coulter Refuses to Board Airplane With Black Pilot

This reads like an Onion article. I have to admit, part of me is skeptical of this story, in that it seems over the top even for Coulter.

I’m still of the mind that people like her and Beck aren’t Krazy Konservatives, but milking the mouth breathers for money. Then again, maybe this is the proof that the woman is an out-and-out racist.

218 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:44:53am

We call on ALLL journamalists to release the WHitey tape! Damning material!

219 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:45:04am

re: #213 Bulworth

I believe the Daily Current is an Onion-like fake news site.

Sadly, Ann is off-the-rails enough that it almost could be true. Somehow, I think her lawerly powers of survival would prevent such actions.

220 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:45:57am

re: #214 FemNaziBitch

OMG! I’ll be happy if I never hear that song again. It was played ad infinitum in he Detroit area when I was young.

Fuck, it’s going around and around in my head now.

I need earworm cleaner.
Youtube Video

221 Mattand  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:46:31am

re: #217 Mattand

This reads like an Onion article. I have to admit, part of me is skeptical of this story, in that it seems over the top even for Coulter.

I’m still of the mind that people like her and Beck aren’t Krazy Konservatives, but milking the mouth breathers for money. Then again, maybe this is the proof that the woman is an out-and-out racist.

LOL, never mind. Thanks to everyone for pointing out it is a spoof site. On the bright side, my skeptical meter still works.

222 piratedan  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:46:39am

re: #148 Joanne

it’s a good read, but no cameos from his past works

223 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:46:47am

re: #206 Vicious Babushka

Uhm…wow.

Although, I must admit to its plausibility.

224 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:47:50am

re: #214 FemNaziBitch

It was played ad infinitum in he Detroit area when I was young.

Chicago, too.

225 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:49:06am
226 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:49:27am

The Daily Currant takes pride in the amount of people who are pwn3d by its fake stories. They are not a humor site like The Onion but they actually try to trick people.

227 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:50:04am
228 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:50:09am

Except that fapping fetus story did not originate at The Daily Currant.

229 Gus  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:50:47am

I find the comparison between terrorism and bath tub falls or whatever to be silly.

230 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:52:00am

So, my enquiring mind wants to know. Do female fetuses fap?

231 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:55:35am

This has to be a parody site. HAS TO BE!!

North Korea looks towards Hitler and the Third Reich

232 Gus  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:56:58am
233 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:57:14am

re: #206 Vicious Babushka

Admittedly fake by the Currant.

234 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:57:57am

Frederica Wilson D-FL

235 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:58:16am

re: #228 Vicious Babushka

Except that fapping fetus story did not originate at The Daily Currant.

Snopes puts their fingerprints on it.

snopes.com

236 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:58:46am

It was in 1977. There is probably a video of it somewhere.

237 piratedan  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:59:31am

re: #232 Gus

Glenn Beck is the manifestation of a man who has an Id that he lets run amok without the benefit of a Superego. Hard to say if it’s simply an act or if the man should really seek help.

238 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:59:47am

Frederica Wilson D-FL

fb video link, tell me how it works. I can’t find it anywhere else yet.

239 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:59:53am

re: #229 Gus

I find the comparison between terrorism and bath tub falls or whatever to be silly.

Our economy never collapsed because of a rash of bathtub slip and falls.

240 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 8:59:58am

First Rick Perry and now…


Must be nice to be an elected official in Texas, that bastion of anti-government, makers v. takers, and fiscal conservatism.

241 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:00:21am

re: #236 Vicious Babushka

It was in 1977. There is probably a video of it somewhere.

HenryVIII.com

242 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:01:21am

Try again.

243 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:03:04am

re: #242 FemNaziBitch

Try again.

You can’t watch a FB video outside of FB.

244 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:06:34am
245 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:07:24am

A Kitteh Video

Youtube Video

246 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:07:40am

Ugh.

247 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:07:41am

re: #243 Vicious Babushka

You can’t watch a FB video outside of FB.

Then why does it give an “embed” code?

248 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:08:35am

re: #183 Joanne

Soooooooooooooo cute! I should try to get a pic of my seven dogs. That alone could be an entire days worth of effort.

Most spectacular pet portrait evah. Every one of them shows a distinct personality:

Image: samoyeds.jpg

249 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:08:59am

re: #246 Joanne

Ugh.

Just because nature gives us drives and urges does not mean that we have to give into them, that is the basis of a lof of what we have come to call “civilization”…

250 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:09:15am

re: #246 Joanne

Ugh.

Because they all know that “a stiff prick has no conscious” —a little alcohol or other substance, wrong place, wrong time and they could all be in a “sticky situation”.

Meaning, none of us is immune from crimes of Power and Control.

251 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:10:49am

re: #236 Vicious Babushka

And yet, I bet the tweeter believes in eternal hell fire for unbelievers.

252 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:12:27am

Dana Loesch is Derping up a storm about something but I can’t figure out WTF she’s all butthurt about.

253 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:13:03am

re: #252 Vicious Babushka

It’s a case of perpetual butthurt.

254 wrenchwench  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:13:21am

re: #244 Vicious Babushka

Huh. The original observation, questionable as it is, was of a 32 week FEMALE fetus.

Any media reports on masturbation by fetuses can almost exclusively be traced back to a single letter written by two OB/GYNs in Italy in 1996 and published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology. The letter related an anecdote in which the two doctors had “recently observed a female fetus at 32 weeks gestation touching the vulva with the fingers of the right hand” before the female fetus experienced prolonged spasms, and “finally…relaxed and rested.”

255 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:14:24am

re: #254 wrenchwench

Huh. The original observation, questionable as it is, was of a 32 week FEMALE fetus.

32 weeks is 8 months, so that’s a full size baby already. But I’m still not buying it.

256 abolitionist  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:15:36am

Charles might wake up on the dark side of the bed today:

Amazon’s Invasion of the CIA Is a Seismic Shift in Cloud Computing - By Cade Metz 06.18.13

The rumors are true. Amazon is providing cloud services to the CIA.
[snip]
But Amazon’s CIA contract is important for far bigger reasons, and marks a much bigger shift than most people realize.

You see, the GAO ruling on the matter reveals that the contract involves Amazon building cloud services inside CIA data centers.

257 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:15:38am

re: #248 Decatur Deb

Most spectacular pet portrait evah. Every one of them shows a distinct personality:

Image: samoyeds.jpg

No kidding!

Alas, all my dogs have either ADD or dogzeimer’s.

258 piratedan  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:15:39am

re: #250 FemNaziBitch

Because they all know that “a stiff prick has no conscious” —a little alcohol or other substance, wrong place, wrong time and they could all be in a “sticky situation”.

Meaning, none of us is immune from crimes of Power and Control.

I’d like to think that most of us want a willing partner, that sometimes the decision making process is affected by booze or drugs is understandable but there’s no denying that there is a small subset of folks that see sex in a different light, some more or less accepted (certain fetishists and folks that are into S&M) some that aren’t (Rapists, natch). It’s that latter group that really find a way to parley their power and control issues into the mainstream that’s bothersome in that there are so many apologists out there for them. Scary that so many of them fall into that theological camp that allows them to have their kicks validated by the invisible sky buddy.

259 Mattand  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:15:56am

re: #254 wrenchwench

Huh. The original observation, questionable as it is, was of a 32 week FEMALE fetus.

Sometimes, a fetus touching itself is just a fetus touching itself.

260 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:16:53am
261 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:16:55am

re: #236 Vicious Babushka

And yet the tweeter no doubt considers our country’s early Puritan societies a model for the kind of Amercia he or she prefers, with its putting people in the stocks, hanging of witches and so forth.

262 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:18:08am

re: #261 Bulworth

And yet the tweeter no doubt considers our country’s early Puritan societies a model for the kind of Amercia he or she prefers, with its putting people in the stocks, hanging of witches and so forth.

So then it wouldn’t be satisfied with the answer that the last beheading execution was in France, in 1977, because France is a SECULAR country.

263 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:20:31am
264 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:22:37am

re: #263 Joanne

“More documents” are said to be coming. I’m shaking. //

265 piratedan  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:23:27am

re: #264 Bulworth

“More documents” are said to be coming. I’m shaking. //

I bet those documents aren’t even breathing hard…..

266 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:23:36am

re: #258 piratedan

I’d like to think that most of us want a willing partner, that sometimes the decision making process is affected by booze or drugs is understandable but there’s no denying that there is a small subset of folks that see sex in a different light, some more or less accepted (certain fetishists and folks that are into S&M) some that aren’t (Rapists, natch). It’s that latter group that really find a way to parley their power and control issues into the mainstream that’s bothersome in that there are so many apologists out there for them. Scary that so many of them fall into that theological camp that allows them to have their kicks validated by the invisible sky buddy.

IMHO, alcohol is is responsible for many rapists misinterpretation of events and flawed hindsight.

I think many are honestly surprised when they are accused of rape.

Alcohol doesn’t absolve one of responsibility tho.

267 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:24:44am

re: #255 Vicious Babushka

Cells formed at conception=full sized baby!!111

268 Gus  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:25:15am

re: #240 Joanne

First Rick Perry and now…


Must be nice to be an elected official in Texas, that bastion of anti-government, makers v. takers, and fiscal conservatism.

Triple dipping.

269 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:25:21am

re: #264 Bulworth

“More documents” are said to be coming. I’m shaking. //

You really need to see the whole convo.

It’s a doozy.

270 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:26:16am

It’s 2013 and they are still finding these bastards.

‘Most wanted’ Nazi war criminal indicted in Hungary

Laszlo Csatary, 98, allegedly deported 15,700 Jews to Auschwitz and abused many others; he denies the charges.

271 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:26:57am

bbl,

Must take brat puppy to the vet.

272 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:27:17am

re: #271 FemNaziBitch

bbl,

Must take brat puppy to the vet.

Hope puppy is ok!

273 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:28:38am

re: #266 FemNaziBitch

IMHO, alcohol is is responsible for many rapists misinterpretation of events and flawed hindsight.

I think many are honestly surprised when they are accused of rape.

Alcohol doesn’t absolve one of responsibility tho.

Yunno, there was this odd and outdated tradition of “courtship” that was practiced in rural parts of the USA well into the 2nd half of the XXth century: it involved giving the male partner a chance to demonstrate that he could be a gentleman and respect a lady’s wishes in all situations, even compromising ones…

274 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:30:19am

re: #268 Gus

Ur just haten people for bein sucksessfull!!1!!!

If Democrat

Impeach!!!!!1!!

275 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:32:55am

Wingnuts believe that POTUS is a DICTATOR and a TYRANT JUST LIKE HITLER and HE’S READING ALL UR TWEETS & EMAILS AND LISTENING 2 ALL UR PHONE CALLS but they can’t stop themselves from Tweeting shit like this everywhere

276 jayjaybear  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:33:34am

If you’d told me five years ago that I would one day all but flee Daily Kos for LGF, I’d have laughed in your face then called the men in the white coats. But DKos has become so frustratingly hair-on-fire about all the NSA stuff (and so hero-worshippy about Snowjob) that I can’t do much more than scan the front page anymore. Even the Snopes boards (which is usually pretty politically agnostic) are looking pretty goofy about the whole thing.

I’m gonna go work on a meteor-attractor…

277 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:37:10am

re: #276 jayjaybear

Yeah. If you told me two years ago LGF would be my main site of destination I’d have done the same. Haven’t read GOS in a long time.

278 Gus  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:38:15am

Ron Paul has a congressional pension and and air force pension. Down with government!

//

279 darthstar  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:38:32am
280 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:39:01am

re: #275 Vicious Babushka

Probably believe they’re anonymous on the Twitters.

281 Mattand  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:41:41am

re: #276 jayjaybear

re: #277 Bulworth

I kinda did the same thing with Crooks&Liars and Raw Story. There were some good stories there, but many of the bloggers and the commentariat unfortunately are the living definition of moonbat: 9/11 truthers, anti-vax, anti-GMO, Obama is worse than Bush, etc.

282 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:41:51am

So when I’m on the Twitters I see that some tweets will have in the message someone’s Twitter account name with a period in front of it, like .@thissite. What is the period used for when referencing a Twitter account?

283 Gus  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:42:46am

re: #282 Bulworth

So when I’m on the Twitters I see that some tweets will have in the message someone’s Twitter account name with a period in front of it, like .@thissite. What is the period used for when referencing a Twitter account?

They’re addressing the Tweet to that person.

284 darthstar  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:42:56am
285 Mattand  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:43:00am

re: #282 Bulworth

So when I’m on the Twitters I see that some tweets will have in the message someone’s Twitter account name with a period in front of it, like .@thissite. What is the period used for when referencing a Twitter account?

I think that allow all of Twitter to view the post, not just the recipients.

286 Gus  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:44:29am

Derp.

287 piratedan  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:44:43am

re: #266 FemNaziBitch

Booze and drugs lower inhibitions which naturally is related to questionable judgements and impaired decision making. I agree, it doesn’t absolve one of one’s actions but that does play both ways, I can see where two people get buzzed and/or blitzed and wake up in each others arms and then instant regret/remorse sets in or at least leaves room for doubt. Those are always hard to unravel imho.

and let me clarify… that just because the woman has a couple of drinks doesn’t mean that she’s asking for it…. just saying that I’ve seen a few ladies under the influence of alcohol do things and/or people that I would rarely see them consider doing while sober.

288 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:45:43am

re: #283 Gus

Wouldn’t that be the same as not having the period?

289 Gus  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:46:55am

re: #288 Bulworth

Wouldn’t that be the same as not having the period?

If it’s a number of Tweeps then the person with the period in front of their name it the one they’re addressing.

290 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:47:19am

re: #289 Gus

OK, thanks

291 Gus  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:50:59am

Crazy person.

292 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:51:01am

re: #276 jayjaybear

If you’d told me five years ago that I would one day all but flee Daily Kos for LGF, I’d have laughed in your face then called the men in the white coats. But DKos has become so frustratingly hair-on-fire about all the NSA stuff (and so hero-worshippy about Snowjob) that I can’t do much more than scan the front page anymore. Even the Snopes boards (which is usually pretty politically agnostic) are looking pretty goofy about the whole thing.

I’m gonna go work on a meteor-attractor…

Man, this 1000x. It’s not just DKos. It’s Crooks and Liars (which I left years ago because they’re fucking crazy. One of their now editors would write something one day and then write something diametrically opposite in a matter of days [or sometimes hours!] I felt I was the only one who noticed the complete craziness. Even after bringing it to their attention, it was like, Hey, no biggie. So I just left.), AmericaBlog and many other lefty sites I used to peruse. Leftists used to be about facts and reality, not hysterical bullshit.

They have all been Hamsher’d. They are nothing but hysterical bullshit purists who have no fucking idea how government works (and should work!), but have ideals which they think should govern governance.

There is a vast difference between what is ideal and what is achievable. There seems to be an extreme lack of realism in far too many people and their ability to understand the difference between reality and EVERYONE GETS A PONY THAT FARTS RAINBOWS. Reality is completely absent.

I, like you apparently, follow sanity, wherever that road may go.

293 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:51:11am

re: #276 jayjaybear

It’s just one issue, and it hits a seam of liberal dissatisfaction with Obama perfectly.

It’s kind of nice to have an issue I can say many, if not most, ‘liberals’ are wrong on. It was getting spooky for awhile there.

294 wrenchwench  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:51:14am

re: #282 Bulworth

So when I’m on the Twitters I see that some tweets will have in the message someone’s Twitter account name with a period in front of it, like .@thissite. What is the period used for when referencing a Twitter account?

If you start a Tweet with an address WITHOUT the period (or sometimes a quotation mark, or another character) it will only go to that person’s timeline and followers of yours who also follow that account. With the period, it goes to all of your followers.

295 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:52:44am

re: #292 Joanne

It’s nice that Imani is with us.

296 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:53:47am

re: #283 Gus

They’re addressing the Tweet to that person.

That’s not technically correct.

If you have @MsJoanne alone (no period) at the start of a tweet, it is direct to that person (me). Putting a character (usually a period) in front of the Twitter name puts it in the public timeline.

297 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:56:58am
298 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:58:09am

re: #276 jayjaybear

yeah, I have all but stopped reading DKos, at least until sanity breaks out once more. It really has become ridiculous around there. On facebook I pointed out to a friend just how fucked up Snowden’s story has become and that he’s basically committed espionage by handing info over to the Chinese and suddenly he, and other commenters, were struck with sanity.

299 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:59:14am

re: #292 Joanne

Yeah, I used to follow Crooks&Liars. Haven’t gone there in ages.

I broke up with some of my fellow lefty blogs during the 2008 primaries, either because they were all in on HRC or I just got a little tired of the outrageous outrages.

And its just much easier both to comment here and to follow the various discussions. Many blogs just aren’t set up well to do that.

300 Eventual Carrion  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 9:59:39am

re: #194 wheat-dogghazi

I just had a mental image of Bob Newhart accidentally calling a terrorist.

” … What do you mean you’ll blow up my house? I was just calling to get an estimate on getting rid of rats!”

He did the best “one side of phone call” comedy.

301 Gus  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:00:13am

re: #296 Joanne

That’s not technically correct.

If you have @MsJoanne alone (no period) at the start of a tweet, it is direct to that person (me). Putting a character (usually a period) in front of the Twitter name puts it in the public timeline.

Ah, so I see. I really don’t use it. I also try to avoid those massive squabbles on Twitter with a bazillion Tweeps.

302 darthstar  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:00:20am
303 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:00:28am

re: #281 Mattand

I met hubby on Crooks and Liars. He still goes there (god only knows why) and is always called a troll because he is an exceptionally intelligent, well read realist. It’s quite sad, really.

304 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:00:52am

re: #295 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

ABL is pretty cool. Used to follow her over at Balloon Juice as a commenter and then as a contributor.

305 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:01:59am

re: #287 piratedan

once again, the point of courtship was to let the fellow demonstrate that he could be trusted to respect a lady’s wishes even in a “compromising” situation…with the rise of “hookup culture” came the commensurate rise in “date rape culture”

306 Gus  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:02:08am

re: #302 darthstar

307 darthstar  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:02:13am
308 Gus  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:02:26am
309 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:03:20am

re: #305 Sol Berdinowitz

once again, the point of courtship was to let the fellow demonstrate that he could be trusted to respect a lady’s wishes even in a “compromising” situation…with the rise of “hookup culture” came the commensurate rise in “date rape culture”

Uhm, that’s an…interesting take on courtship.

I don’t think it is accurate in any way, but definitely…interesting.

310 darthstar  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:05:04am

More good times ahead for Murdoch & Co.

311 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:06:28am

Bill Ayers: Try Obama for War Crimes

312 Gus  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:07:13am

re: #311 NJDhockeyfan

Bill Ayers: Try Obama for War Crimes

Ha! What a douche.

313 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:08:50am

re: #311 NJDhockeyfan

That’ll confuse the fuck out of quite a few people.

314 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:09:00am

re: #309 Joanne

Uhm, that’s an…interesting take on courtship.

I don’t think it is accurate in any way, but definitely…interesting.

I should say “one aspect of courtship”…there were many others that had little to do with protecting women.

I am not advocating a return to chaperones and curfiews, but if you are going to put yourself into a compromising position with a person, you should take the effort to get to know them more than superficially at a bar or party…

315 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:09:38am
316 darthstar  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:23:12am

Gilligan says what?

317 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:26:31am

Parody account?

BECAUSE OF THIS:

318 Mattand  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:28:40am

re: #303 Joanne

I met hubby on Crooks and Liars. He still goes there (god only knows why) and is always called a troll because he is an exceptionally intelligent, well read realist. It’s quite sad, really.

LOL, I can’t tell you how many times I was called a government stooge for not believing 9/11 horseshit.

319 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:30:42am

re: #317 Vicious Babushka

Parody account?

Don’t think so…

320 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:30:51am

re: #318 Mattand

LOL, I can’t tell you how many times I was called a government stooge for not believing 9/11 horseshit.

Yes, god forbid you have a brain and use it. :-)

321 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:31:53am

re: #319 Backwoods_Sleuth

Don’t think so…

To which, Rev. Price tweeted:

322 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:32:15am

re: #319 Backwoods_Sleuth

Don’t think so…

I thought that was a parody account too! 0_o

323 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:32:54am

She’s in the 1%

324 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:34:06am

re: #323 Vicious Babushka

She’s in the 1%

Her entire timeline is a laugh riot of derp…

325 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:37:14am

plenty of jobs that have sundays off, just not many in the food, retail or service industries, which are about the only sectory in the USA that are growing…

326 Dr. Matt  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:38:19am

re: #324 Backwoods_Sleuth

Her entire timeline is a laugh riot of derp…

That’s a parody account…..right?

327 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:38:31am

re: #319 Backwoods_Sleuth

Oh dear gawd, they’re related

328 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:39:26am

re: #326 Dr. Matt

That’s a parody account…..right?

don’t think so…

329 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:39:44am

re: #327 Bulworth

Oh dear gawd, they’re related

looks like…which explains much.

330 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:40:07am

re: #306 Gus

fainting and clutching….

331 Eventual Carrion  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:40:38am

re: #323 Vicious Babushka

She’s in the 1%

Wonder if her reverand granddad works Sundays

332 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:40:52am

re: #319 Backwoods_Sleuth

Whew. Now the wingnut freedom agenda can procede…

333 Dr. Matt  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:41:06am

re: #325 Sol Berdinowitz

plenty of jobs that have sundays off, just not many in the food, retail or service industries, which are about the only sectory in the USA that are growing…

~30 year ago it was very rare to businesses open on Sundays. But, RW Capitalism greed trumped RW fundamental “morals”.

334 wrenchwench  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:41:51am
335 darthstar  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:42:10am

Glenn’s in over his head.

336 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:42:25am

OK, maybe it isn’t them:

337 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:42:25am
That was fun! Pictured target range as Obama’s face lol.
#tcot
#ccot
#tgdn
— Sarah Price (@SarahPriceNRA)

Prolife! Good morals!

338 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:42:57am
339 piratedan  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:44:08am

re: #305 Sol Berdinowitz

not disagreeing with you Sol, the hookup culture has demonstrated that yes, there are some definitive drawbacks to the dating culture as it exists today, but just because you courted someone doesn’t mean that men haven’t been raping women since the introduction of the apple. Men and women have been going at each other like rabid bandicoots for centuries, what is changing is that in our culture the lines determining those gender roles is getting blurred faster than we can draw those lines in the sand. So what I’m trying to sayi is that booze and drugs end up blurring lines in some cases making it easier for those inclined to take advantage ( for either sex) as well as in some cases for mutual bad judgement to hold sway. Still, that being said, I feel that my gender has a long way to go yet.

340 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:44:24am
341 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:45:14am

salon.com
Filed under why the GOP will never get the Millennial vote. Note to the GOP. We don’t find abortion funny. We find it a difficult decision for a woman that should be her decision since it’s her body.

342 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:45:40am

re: #336 Backwoods_Sleuth

OK, maybe it isn’t them:

But never mind, THEIR IZ MOAR DERP!

343 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:45:47am

re: #340 Vicious Babushka

or they could be born with hairy palms…

344 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:46:12am

re: #341 HappyWarrior

I thought all abortion was murder, according to anti-abortionists.

345 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:46:36am

re: #334 wrenchwench

and look how far America has gone downhill since…

346 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:46:42am

re: #342 Vicious Babushka

But never mind, THEIR IZ MOAR DERP!

And if you’re free to be a conservative, thank a constitutional lawyer. See, we can all play this game. God conservatives are stupid.

347 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:46:55am

NOT from the DailyCurrant:

348 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:47:01am

re: #342 Vicious Babushka

severely conservtive

349 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:47:37am

re: #347 Vicious Babushka

Did Douglass know Ron/Rand Paul?

350 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:47:45am

re: #344 Bulworth

I thought all abortion was murder, according to anti-abortionists.

This is their “rebranding” I guess. They really think pro-choice millenials view abortion as ha-ha that’s so funny. Morons the whole bloody lot of them but I ain’t complaining because they seem to want to do everything possible to make my generation as adverse to their brand as African American voters are.

351 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:48:54am

The last GOP POTUS to be progressive and pro-Civil Rights was Eisenhower.

352 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:49:34am

re: #349 Bulworth

Did Douglass know Ron/Rand Paul?

It’s a stupid tactic since Ann wants us to take the GOP as the party of equality and process while she posts the words of a man who died 120 years ago and did not witness the party running away from civil rights. If Douglass saw what the GOP has become, he’d be horrified. And franky Ann Coulter talking to anyone about equality is funny given what a nasty bigot she is.

353 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:50:29am

re: #339 piratedan

Human sexual interaction is much too complex a subject to sum up in one post. And altogether too easy to take a phrase out of context and blow it up as condoning or trivializing rape.

But a lot of what we called “courtship” was about allowing interaction between the sexes while still protecting women from rape, whether for their own dignity or to protect their value as family “property”.

I am in favor of sexual freedom over repression and segregation of sexes, but freedom also means responsibility - on the part of both sexes.

354 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:50:40am

re: #347 Vicious Babushka

Ann wants to claim the idea of “progress”? I thought the central idea of today’s teabaggery was to go back in time?

355 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:51:25am
356 wrenchwench  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:51:37am


It’s bad.

[…]

In the interim, another servicewoman, Staff Sgt. Jennifer Robinson, had come forward to accuse Capt. Herrera of sexual assault. In her case, the incident had occurred in his bedroom, where she voluntarily accompanied him. The court-martial acquitted him of that charge on the ground that she had consented. (Sgt. Robinson, who has since been promoted to technical sergeant, revealed her identity in a March interview with the Air Force Times.)

It’s fair to say that Capt. Herrera seems to have a tendency toward sexual recklessness. Perhaps that makes him unsuitable to serve as an officer in the U.S. Air Force. But his accusers acted recklessly too. The presumption that reckless men are criminals while reckless women are victims makes a mockery of any notion that the sexes are equal.

[…]

357 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:51:57am

re: #354 Bulworth

Ann wants to claim the idea of “progress”? I thought the central idea of today’s teabaggery was to go back in time?

Or her herself who pins for the good old days of HUAC and McCarthy accusing everyone of being a communist subversive. Yep equality and progress.

358 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:52:23am

Because look at all the slavery that the GOP is trying to abolish today! Like

PAYING TAXEZ!!11 WHICH IS JUST LIKE SLAVERY!!!11111

359 darthstar  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:52:34am

re: #321 Backwoods_Sleuth

To which, Rev. Price tweeted:

360 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:52:44am

re: #355 Vicious Babushka

Um, no. Just anti-expansion of slavery. But thanks for playing, Ann. Better luck next time.

361 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:52:51am

re: #352 HappyWarrior

It’s a stupid tactic since Ann wants us to take the GOP as the party of equality and process while she posts the words of a man who died 120 years ago and did not witness the party running away from civil rights. If Douglass saw what the GOP has become, he’d be horrified. And franky Ann Coulter talking to anyone about equality is funny given what a nasty bigot she is.

It is all part of an internal party debate.

Nobody outside the GOP buys that line of bullshit, but the argument is whether or not to embrace blacks and other minorities.

The implied argument here is that blacks are incapable of acting in their own interests, they are too beholden to the party of “free stuff”, so there is no point in trying to appeal to them at all in the first place.

362 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:53:04am

re: #355 Vicious Babushka

Remind me Ann which party decided to go after Strom Thurmond and George Wallace supporters for votes. Hint it wasn’t the Democrats and no one forgets that unless they’re a Republican waving a Rebel flag.

363 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:54:02am

heh…my youngest sister just observed that ultrasounds are an invasion of fetal privacy…

364 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:54:08am

re: #355 Vicious Babushka

There are some neoconfederates in her own party who would disagree with her…

365 wrenchwench  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:54:20am

re: #355 Vicious Babushka


It’s been so totally forgotten that many members of that Party would go back and unfound it if they could.

366 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:55:46am

re: #355 Vicious Babushka

Ann has failed to observe that the GOP is no longer our great-great-grandfather’s GOP…or even our parents’ GOP.

367 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:56:37am

It’s fitting that today’s GOP spokespeople have to go back to 1860 for inspiration.

368 EPR-radar  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 10:58:47am

re: #367 Bulworth

It’s fitting that today’s GOP spokespeople have to go back to 1860 for inspiration.

As long as they manage to forget what that communist Lincoln had to say on the subject of the relative contributions of labor and capital…

369 Kragar  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:00:03am

If my manager actually worked in this office, I’d be bitch slapping him right now.

370 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:00:44am
371 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:01:05am

Um, the teabag, less-government, dontreadonme House of Reps is now debating the End Abortion Now bill, according to my Twitters. Hilarity ensues…

372 Kragar  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:04:00am

re: #371 Bulworth

Um, the teabag, less-government, dontreadonme House of Reps is now debating the End Abortion Now bill, according to my Twitters. Hilarity ensues…

If they really wanted to end abortions, they would make sure women had the healthcare and control of their lives so they wouldn’t need to get them, rather than trying to make them illegal.

373 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:06:53am

OK, I know it’s Fox, but…

Immigration Activists Mob Kansas Secretary of State’s Home

Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach is calling for a criminal investigation after a huge mob of illegal alien supporters surrounded his private home Saturday and held a rally on his front porch.

…

The secretary of state is a staunch supporter of the Second Amendment - and he said the incident at his home is an example of why Americans should bear arms. “If we had been in the home and not been armed, I would have felt very afraid - because it took the police 15 minutes to show up,” he said. “It’s important we recognize there’s a reason we have the Second Amendment. There are situations like this where you have a mob and you do need to be able to protect yourself.”

374 Kragar  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:07:24am

Rep. Blackburn On Abortion Bill: ‘Science Is On Our Side

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) defended legislation Tuesday that would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy, saying that “science is on our side and public opinion is on our side.”

The legislation is slated to be voted on Tuesday and is expected to pass the GOP-controlled House, but fail in the Senate.

“We are incredibly concerned about the well-being, safety, the health of these women. The life of women. And these babies. That is why we are doing this,” Blackburn said in an interview with Craig Melvin on MSNBC. “The trial of Kermit Gosnell, the information that has subsequently come from other state, public opinion said something needs to be done about this. So you know, Craig, this is one of those issues where science is on our side and public opinion is on our side.”

No and no.

375 Lidane  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:08:28am

re: #374 Kragar

Rep. Blackburn On Abortion Bill: ‘Science Is On Our Side

No and no.

376 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:08:51am

re: #374 Kragar

Rep. Blackburn On Abortion Bill: ‘Science Is On Our Side

No and no.

NOW they like science???
Oh, wait…it’s not Science…

377 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:10:37am

re: #376 Backwoods_Sleuth

NOW they like science???
Oh, wait…it’s not Science…

Science is fine when selectively applied to support their point of view.

Everything else is “lies from the pit of hell”.

378 Kragar  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:10:52am

re: #376 Backwoods_Sleuth

NOW they like science???
Oh, wait…it’s not Science…

From the people who brought you intelligent design and anti-vaxxers…

379 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:11:02am

re: #365 wrenchwench

It’s been so totally forgotten that many members of that Party would go back and unfound it if they could.

I totally stole that (and tweeted it). Good job!!

380 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:11:25am

re: #374 Kragar

Also, too: less government. Get the government off our backs. Don’t let government come between critical doctor-patient relationship.

381 Joanne  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:12:10am

re: #367 Bulworth

It’s fitting that today’s GOP spokespeople have to go back to 1860 for inspiration.

Tweeted that! (I’d copy it but I’m on my phone.)

382 Bulworth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:12:14am

re: #373 Backwoods_Sleuth

HUGE MOB!!!

383 Kragar  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:12:45am

re: #380 Bulworth

Also, too: less government. Get the government off our backs. Don’t let government come between critical doctor-patient relationship.

The ones who are currently worried that the government is spying on them.

384 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:13:04am

re: #382 Bulworth

HUGE MOB!!!

Were they wearing mortarboards and graduation gowns?

385 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:14:35am

Does Pamela realize that Orthodox Jewish men also do not shake hands with women?

386 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:14:38am

Here’s one of the women just selected for the astronaut candidate program:

Christina Hammock, a member of the NOAA team

387 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:15:08am

re: #385 Vicious Babushka

Does Pamela realize that Orthodox Jewish men also do not shake hands with women?

details…petty details…

388 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:19:16am

ROFLMAO

Youtube Video

389 Lidane  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:22:57am
390 Mattand  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 11:37:05am

re: #389 Lidane

On behalf of sane men everywhere: sorry about James Taranto, ladies.

391 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 12:26:23pm

re: #389 Lidane

On behalf of men everywhere, I apologize for Mr. Taranto. Seriously dude calling out sexual assaults isn’t a war on men. Hell if anything enabling men do get away with that kind of crap is worse for men than just dismissing this as a war on men. Why because it gives the wrong impression that men don’t give a shit about violence against women. Maybe Mr. Taranto doesn’t but this man does.

392 jayjaybear  Tue, Jun 18, 2013 1:28:34pm

The thing about Blackburn and this abortion bill is that it’s not even HER BILL! She just replaced Trent Franks (the latest victim of foot-in-mouth disease), who was in the news last week for going down the very clearly marked as dangerous for Republicans path of “Rape rarely results in pregnancy”, aka “Women’s bodies have ways of shutting that down”.


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