Texas State GOP Rep. Sanford Says Pro-Choice Demonstrators Are Chanting “Hail Satan”

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Meanwhile, Texas State Republican Rep. Scott Sanford says pro-choice demonstrators at the State legislature are chanting “Hail Satan,” and forming human pentagrams. Yes, really.

UPDATE at 7/3/13 9:55:01 am

You may notice that Sanford’s tweets no longer show up as embedded tweets — that’s because he deleted them. (But we still have the text.)

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1 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:33:04pm

I await the evidence…I imagine I’ll be here for awhile, so could somebody grab me a Snickers?

2 efuseakay  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:33:59pm

Caught on video, eh? Then let’s see it.

3 jamesfirecat  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:34:28pm

I prefer Cthulhu myself, or maybe one of those obscure D&D gods who are so evil you get a feat for agreeing to serve them….

4 Mattand  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:34:33pm

re: #1 Targetpractice

I await the evidence…I imagine I’ll be here for awhile, so could somebody grab me a Snickers?

re: #2 efuseakay

Caught on video, eh? Then let’s see it.

Glenn Beck will show it on Monday, for reals this time.

5 klys  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:34:37pm

I think that the heat is short-circuiting my tolerance for the stupidity of people right now.

6 Gus  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:35:18pm

Jesus Christ.

7 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:35:46pm

Is he sure they weren’t chanting “Hail Satin”?

8 dragonath  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:36:08pm

The imagination is an amazing thing, isn’t it?

9 Gus  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:36:55pm

Christian Brotherhood.

10 jaunte  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:37:02pm

Trolling the superstitious.

11 Mattand  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:37:30pm

re: #7 Targetpractice

Is he sure they weren’t chanting “Hail Satin”?

I think it was actually “Boo-urns”.

12 Gus  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:37:32pm

Texas is like a Middle East country.

13 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:38:00pm

Is there some sort of competition going on that I’m unaware of? Are Republican run states competing to see who can elect the most batshit crazy legislators into office and have them taken seriously?

14 Gus  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:38:02pm

Image: scott.png

15 Gus  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:39:15pm

Republicans = Freaks

16 Gus  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:39:30pm
17 BroncD  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:39:51pm

Caught on video by James O’Keefe, I assume.

18 dragonath  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:39:57pm

re: #14 Gus

Image: scott.png

Oh my GOD look at that EVIL & DEMONICALLY RED

tie

19 KettleKat  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:40:38pm

This guy is either really cynical or *really* sick.

20 jaunte  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:41:36pm

There’s a hell of lot of twitchy indignation on the #texascapitol twitter feed:
twitter.com

21 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:41:57pm

Well, I’ve heard and heard of people chanting such things as a way to mock obnoxiously loud and hostile street preachers, and even if this happened that’s all it is here.

Scott, they aren’t praising Satan; They’re telling you to fuck off!

22 Gus  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:42:15pm

Pro-life but hey let’s drop 2,000 pound JDAMs in down town Baghdad over some made up shit about something or another like WMDs. Let’s execute people with poison after we’ve caged them for years. Whatever. Praise God.

23 dragonath  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:42:50pm

I can’t believe there’s a critical mass of people that will elect ultra morons like this.

24 engineer cat  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:43:05pm

just wait till the priestesses of ba’al begin to intone the curses that will make your wife kiss chickens at midnight and force republican politicians to speak only the truth

on that day will you rue your mockery

25 Shiplord Kirel  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:43:10pm

I can’t believe this kind of insanity is actually happening in public life in the twenty-first century. I’ve been watching public discourse and politics for over 50 years. Nothing in my experience even comes close to what we have seen recently from the GOP and its lunatic mainstream.

26 Lidane  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:44:01pm

Once more, with feeling. This is the modern American right wing, especially here in Texas:

instagram.com

27 Gus  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:44:07pm

There is no hell. There is no heaven. You die your brain dies. It all ends. You’re like a plant. Dems the facts.

28 dragonath  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:44:34pm

What’s more, these Satanists are also atheists!!!

29 Gus  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:45:50pm

You don’t have super powers. Your consciousness is like your bones. Like your liver, heart, kidneys. Stop pretending you’re some kind of super being.

30 dragonath  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:45:52pm

re: #26 Lidane

Once more, with feeling. This is the modern American right wing, especially here in Texas:

instagram.com

Does he regret it too?

31 Lidane  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:45:52pm

re: #27 Gus

There is no hell. There is no heaven. You die your brain dies. It all ends. You’re like a plant. Dems the facts.

Yep. Which is why I’m seriously contemplating one of those eco tree urns when I die. Having my body preserved and buried after I’m gone seems ridiculous.

32 Lidane  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:46:56pm

re: #30 dragonath

Does he regret it too?

Frankly, I think he should sue that doctor for malpractice. Or incompetence.

It was just supposed to be a prostate exam.

33 ProTARDISLiberal  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:47:36pm

I’m noticing from a retweet from Gus that the MB is trying to drive Egypt into hell.

34 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:47:46pm

re: #27 Gus

You’re free to believe that, Gus, but I don’t agree.

35 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:48:03pm

re: #31 Lidane

Yep. Which is why I’m seriously contemplating one of those eco tree urns when I die. Having my body preserved and buried after I’m gone seems ridiculous.

I’ve left instructions that, should I meet my demise in 2 or less pieces, I wish to be buried in a pine box in a hole in the ground. No preservatives, no putting makeup on me to give some semblance of life. Just dump me in the box, drop it in the hole, cover it up, and go on with life. Only stipulation to all this is I require “Another One Bites The Dust” played at least once during the funeral.

36 Shiplord Kirel  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:48:26pm

Back in the 60s, seriously stoned hippies and radical agitators might have said something this crazy in a political context, but none of them ever got close to holding public office.
If Scott had said this back in the 50s, his colleagues would have sat there in stunned amazement for a couple of minutes, then hustled him out the door for a serious heart to heart discussion. This would be followed in a couple of days by a terse announcement that the offender was suffering from job related fatigue and would be taking some time off to rest.

37 jaunte  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:48:44pm

acahnman.blogspot.com

There’s a video in the link above, and I just can’t make out what any of the group is chanting, but one girl comes up to the camera and says “Hail Satan.”
(She looked real serious, too.)

38 dragonath  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:50:01pm

re: #34 Dark_Falcon

You’re free to believe that, Gus, but I don’t agree.

Yeah, okay, what you can do is not vote in people who shove religion down everybody’s neck.

39 engineer cat  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:50:22pm

already, stuffed in a bedbug’s eye, anointed with the blood of a blind red heifer, and hidden in the hour of your great grandmother’s seventh birthday, is the spell that will reveal governor perry as a fool’s fool at the 2012 debates

40 Gus  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:50:54pm

re: #34 Dark_Falcon

You’re free to believe that, Gus, but I don’t agree.

Yeah, I know. Life is harsh but life comes with the great off switch.

41 jaunte  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:51:06pm

re: #39 engineer cat

What was the third thing again?

42 dragonath  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:52:47pm

re: #40 Gus

Yeah, I know. Life is harsh but life comes with the great off switch.

I think some people’s switches are kind of stuck in that funny middle position where everything shorts and flickers.

43 sagehen  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:52:47pm

re: #31 Lidane

Yep. Which is why I’m seriously contemplating one of those eco tree urns when I die. Having my body preserved and buried after I’m gone seems ridiculous.

Or you could just have a Jewish burial… no embalming, plain wooden box, within a time frame suitable for desert nomads.

44 Interesting Times  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:52:51pm

re: #37 jaunte

Can’t watch the video (at home with lousy bandwidth plan). What’s the context? Any signs of editing?

45 dragonath  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:54:09pm

re: #43 sagehen

Or you could just have a Jewish burial… no embalming, plain wooden box, within a time frame suitable for desert nomads.

I think the best thing to do is erect a funerary statue which is unspeakably obscene

46 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:55:05pm

re: #38 dragonath

Well, I don’t vote for such people, actually. Those sorts of people tend not to get nominated where I live, so I don’t face that issue.

Except of course for Joel Pollack, who enables such people. But he wasn’t doing that when I voted for him in 2010, his post-election pivot being quite a shock to me.

47 jaunte  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:55:36pm

re: #44 Interesting Times

Looks like one of the pro-lifers was taking a video of the group singing Amazing Grace; you can hear people chanting and whistling, trying to be louder than the singers, but no audible detail. A young woman (maybe student age) walks up into camera view, sarcastically says “Hail Satan” and sticks her tongue out.

48 Gus  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:56:45pm

Yeah, fuck it. Who cares about climate change. You get to live happily ever after if you fund your church and follow the rules from some fake book written 2,000 years ago by a bunch of goat herders. Morsi said as much today.

49 CarleeCork  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:57:00pm

One hundred years ago this guy would have been in a nut house.

50 Gus  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:57:20pm

It’s a wonderful life. Yeah, right. Wait till you get cancer.

51 jaunte  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:57:54pm

Watch: Abortion supporters harass pro-life activists with chants of
“The Easter Bunny Will Never Bring You a Chocolate Egg!”

52 Lidane  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:58:16pm

re: #43 sagehen

Or you could just have a Jewish burial… no embalming, plain wooden box, within a time frame suitable for desert nomads.

True, but I’d feel skeevy having a Jewish burial as an atheist. It seems like it would be disrespectful.

I like my idea better. Cremate me and turn my ashes into plant food for a tree. It’s that whole cycle of life.

53 Gus  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:59:18pm

re: #52 Lidane

True, but I’d feel skeevy having a Jewish burial as an atheist. It seems like it would be disrespectful.

I like my idea better. Cremate me and turn my ashes into plant food for a tree. It’s that whole cycle of life.

Throw me in a dumpster. I won’t care. :D

54 jaunte  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:59:39pm

re: #53 Gus

Throw me in a dumpster. I won’t care. :D

That’s not even you!

55 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 8:59:55pm

re: #49 CarleeCork

One hundred years ago this guy would have been in a nut house.

Yeah, but so would I and likely PLL as well. I’m glad treatment and diagnostics have advanced since then.

56 Gus  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:00:23pm
57 jaunte  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:00:40pm


Do not collect $200

58 dragonath  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:01:10pm

re: #46 Dark_Falcon

Well, I don’t vote for such people, actually. Those sorts of people tend not to get nominated where I live, so I don’t face that issue.

Not a reason not to care, and you do face the issue. Your last Republican candidate for governor in Illinois, Bob Brady.

Abortion

Bill Brady self-identifies as pro-life. He supports a ban on all abortions, including in cases of rape and incest. He makes an exception and allows abortion when a mother’s life is at risk.[19][20][21] He has also backed legislation allowing pharmacists refuse to dispense emergency contraception.[22]

Same-sex marriage

A week after winning the Republican primary, Brady introduced a proposed state constitutional amendment on February 10, 2010[23] defining marriage as between “one man and one woman”.[24][25][26][27] The proposed constitutional amendment would also deny validity and recognition to any “uniting of persons of the same sex in a civil union, domestic partnership, or other similar same sex relationship.”[27] Although Brady was originally the main sponsor of the amendment, its chief sponsor is now Illinois State Senator John O. Jones, who became co-sponsor with Brady the week following its submission.[28] Brady has stated that he is “concerned that activist judges could overturn our current law protecting this institution”.[18] Brady has also stated his opposition to civil unions for gay couples on more than one occasion.[29]

Education

Brady supports replacing the Illinois State Board of Education with a smaller agency that receives half of the current $80 million funding, or $40 million.[10][11]
Brady believes that intelligent design, which he has described as “in other words, teaching the Bible”, should be taught in public schools, saying that “we should teach the Bible in our schools. One of the basic, fundamental voids we have in our school system is bringing God into the system.” In a follow-up interview, he explained: “I certainly believe that local school boards should have the opportunity to teach kids about the Bible, just as they ought to be able to teach them about the Qur’an.” He added: “I believe in school prayer. I think that local school boards should be able to dictate that they start the day with prayer.”[12][13]

Please, don’t feign ignorance.

59 Kragar  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:01:27pm

OFFS!

60 jaunte  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:02:05pm

All we need here in Texas is an injection of more religious war fervor.

61 Interesting Times  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:02:09pm

re: #57 jaunte

Even Twitchy admits it was nothing more than trolling. So Twitchy is more sane and connected to reality than Texas State GOP Rep Sanford o_O

62 Gus  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:02:38pm
63 Interesting Times  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:03:14pm

re: #58 dragonath

but it’s like, so totally worth it if he supports concealed carry!!!1!ty #derp

64 jaunte  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:03:56pm

We need a bagpiper with flames shooting out of his pipes.

65 Gus  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:04:07pm
66 Gus  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:04:17pm

Dork.

67 dragonath  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:04:38pm

But… his hair… is PERFECT!

68 Interesting Times  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:04:53pm

re: #60 jaunte

All we need here in Texas is an injection of more religious war fervor.

#LesserKnownFrackingFluidIngredients

69 Lidane  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:05:08pm

re: #53 Gus

Throw me in a dumpster. I won’t care. :D

Youtube Video

70 engineer cat  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:05:24pm

Texas Moron Virus Identified

researchers too annoyed by victims to bother with finding a cure

Disease Responds To Reading Books; Discovery May Lead To Legalization Of Literacy

or maybe not

Headline Writer Prosecuted For Violating Ban On Correct Use Of Semicolon

71 dragonath  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:05:26pm

God also created him with perfect teeth. True story.

72 jaunte  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:05:48pm

re: #65 Gus

He looks “Gattaca clean.”

73 ProTARDISLiberal  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:05:49pm

re: #65 Gus

I think he is an android or robot of some sort. He’s diving straight into the Uncanny Valley.

74 Gus  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:06:37pm
75 bratwurst  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:06:51pm

re: #46 Dark_Falcon

Well, I don’t vote for such people, actually.

So this confirms you will definitely not be voting for Bill Brady next year should he be nominated by the state GOP for Governor yet again. He is a young earth creationist who has made clear he won’t stand in the way of “intelligent design” etc. being taught in public schools.

76 Shiplord Kirel  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:07:46pm

I keep wondering what my great uncle, Sam Rayburn, would make of all this. As “Mr. Democrat” for over 30 years, he would probably be laughing his ass off.
I last saw him when I was eight years old. I am looking forward to a reunion if such a thing is possible (though not too soon).

“So, son, I hear you went over to the Republicans.”
“Yes, sir, I learned better though.”
“Took you long enough. 40 years was it?”
“Yes, sir, ‘fraid so, but I tried to make amends.”
“That you did. Better late than never. Your fool cousins and that wicked brother of yours never did figure it out.”
“No, sir.”
“Good enough. Now, what do you say we do some fishing?”
“They have fishing here?”
“Of course, it’d be Hell without it.”

77 jaunte  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:08:25pm

SATAN!

78 jaunte  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:08:46pm
79 engineer cat  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:09:11pm

re: #48 Gus

Yeah, fuck it. Who cares about climate change. You get to live happily ever after if you fund your church and follow the rules from some fake book written 2,000 years ago by a bunch of goat herders. Morsi said as much today.

in my part of town, fake books need to have the chord changes notated

80 EmmaAnne  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:09:15pm

re: #37 jaunte

acahnman.blogspot.com

There’s a video in the link above, and I just can’t make out what any of the group is chanting, but one girl comes up to the camera and says “Hail Satan.”
(She looked real serious, too.)

That was hilarious. When she stuck out her tongue and said Auugh! :-)

81 Interesting Times  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:11:05pm

Actually, maybe this is the better way to troll the “religious”:

82 Gus  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:12:00pm
83 klys  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:12:23pm

Maybe there is a God: there’s only one 100+ day in the forecast for the next 10 now.

Hallelujah!

///

84 jaunte  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:13:39pm

Responsive government.

85 sagehen  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:17:46pm

re: #52 Lidane

True, but I’d feel skeevy having a Jewish burial as an atheist. It seems like it would be disrespectful.

I like my idea better. Cremate me and turn my ashes into plant food for a tree. It’s that whole cycle of life.

How about a Tibetan funeral? I don’t think you have to be an actual… whatever faith Tibetans are. They stake out your body on a cliff, as vulture food. Returns your constituent parts to the ecosystem much faster than biodegrading and having the roots rip your skeleton apart.

86 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:20:26pm

re: #75 bratwurst

So this confirms you will definitely not be voting for Bill Brady next year should he be nominated by the state GOP for Governor yet again. He is a young earth creationist who has made clear he won’t stand in the way of “intelligent design” etc. being taught in public schools.

Correct. If Brady were to be nominated again I’ll cast no ballot for governor.

Good night all.

87 ProTARDISLiberal  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:22:09pm

OT, but this thought needs to be let to be free.

When I live in Florida when I was very young (To age 7). I had two friends that lived down the street. They were sisters named Tegan and Nyssa.

About a year ago, I realized there might be something to this.

88 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:22:26pm

Could be seeing a subset of Texas winding itself up for a (very well-armed) witchcraft panic.

89 dragonath  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:23:48pm

re: #87 ProTARDISLiberal

OT, but this thought needs to be let to be free.

When I live in Florida when I was very young (To age 7). I had two friends that lived down the street. They were sisters named Tegan and Nyssa.

About a year ago, I realized there might be something to this.

I’m so confused.

90 Amory Blaine  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:24:42pm

The whole idea of “divine justice” allows some real skeevy fuckers to get away with real heinous shit. I.E. “He is a bad man who is getting away with bad crimes, but God will judge him.” Bullshit. Justice is now or never.

91 Gus  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:25:04pm
92 Shiplord Kirel  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:25:56pm

re: #88 Decatur Deb

Could be seeing a subset of Texas winding itself up for a (very well-armed) witchcraft panic.

I think that’s a real possibility. People in saner parts of the world would not believe how prevalent these supernaturalist delusions are here in Texas.

93 sagehen  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:27:00pm

re: #87 ProTARDISLiberal

OT, but this thought needs to be let to be free.

When I live in Florida when I was very young (To age 7). I had two friends that lived down the street. They were sisters named Tegan and Nyssa.

About a year ago, I realized there might be something to this.

It took you until now to realize you had alien time-traveling friends?

(I had a college classmate named Brook Trout. At the 10-year reunion, he was accompanied by a small child whose nametag read “Rainbow.”)

94 Amory Blaine  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:29:15pm

I just saw Garbage a couple of months ago. They ended their tour here in Milwaukee where some of the band members are from.

95 Kragar  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:30:53pm

Egypt’s army ‘ready to die’ to protect against ‘any terrorist, radical or fool’

Egypt’s high command said on Wednesday the army was ready to die to defend Egypt’s people against terrorists and fools, in a response to Islamist President Mohamed Mursi that was headlined “The Final Hours”.

The post on the official Facebook page of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), headed by armed forces chief General Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, said: “We swear to God that we will sacrifice even our blood for Egypt and its people, to defend them against any terrorist, radical or fool.”

Issued three hours after Mursi appeared on television to reject an ultimatum from Sisi that he share power with his opponents or face a military solution by 10:00 a.m. EDT (1500 GMT), a military source said the statement made clear that the armed forces would not abandon their demands.

96 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:31:24pm

Think we all know how this works at this point, that these laws are about short and long term. Short term, their goal is to effectively ban abortion within state borders by making it impossible for them to operate. Long term is about getting one of these cockamamie laws before SCOTUS in the hopes that the new conservative majority will finally help them undo RvW and make abortion once again a “states rights” issue. Or, in their wildest of dreams, allowing the federal government to pass a national abortion ban.

97 Gus  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:31:40pm
98 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:33:05pm

re: #95 Kragar

Egypt’s army ‘ready to die’ to protect against ‘any terrorist, radical or fool’

It’s going to a long, bloody day tomorrow. But I don’t imagine for a second that the Army will be cowed into allowing Morsi to effectively install himself as another Mubarak.

99 dragonath  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:33:09pm

re: #97 Gus

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Must disappoint the elders in places like Iran and Egypt that their plan hasn’t really worked out the way they envisioned.

100 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:33:33pm

re: #92 Shiplord Kirel

I think that’s a real possibility. People in saner parts of the world would not believe how prevalent these supernaturalist delusions are here in Texas.

If it happens, you don’t want to be odd-man-out in a small isolated community.

101 ProTARDISLiberal  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:35:38pm

re: #93 sagehen

I first saw Doctor Who in 2009 as a rerun. (The Impossible Planet/Satan Pit two parter)

I slowly got pulled in during college, buying Seasons 1 & 2 during that time.

At the same time, I watched this guy’s reviews of bad classic serials of the series. This was the first inkling that those friends from long ago had a father that was a Whovian.

As time went one, I caught and saw more and more episodes. Then, in the last year, Season 7 fully captured me.

102 Amory Blaine  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:35:58pm

The Dark One is upon us!!!!

103 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:37:34pm

re: #102 Amory Blaine

The Dark One is upon us!!!!

I’ve been here for hours now.

//

104 jaunte  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:38:09pm

re: #102 Amory Blaine

105 Amory Blaine  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:38:38pm

I’d love to see some democrats in power hang Ayn Rand’s abortion views like an anchor on these Texas republicans.

106 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:39:02pm

re: #102 Amory Blaine

The Dark One is upon us!!!!

That’s a lot funnier in Austin than in Texarkana.

107 Amory Blaine  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:39:38pm

Which is it are they singing Kumbaya or summoning Beelzebub?!

108 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:40:07pm

re: #105 Amory Blaine

I’d love to see some democrats in power hang Ayn Rand’s abortion views like an anchor on these Texas republicans.

Hell, I’d like them to hang virtually any of Rand’s religious views on them. That’s one of the greatest amusements of hearing religious folks play up how much they worship at the altar of Rand.

109 jaunte  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:43:43pm
110 dragonath  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:44:11pm

Wonder how many people in Sanford’s district believe in the Curse of Ham.

111 BongCrodny  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:46:02pm

From the Dallas Morning News, April 25, 2012:

Scott Sanford Endorsement

Both Republicans vying to succeed Ken Paxton in Collin County’s Texas House District 70 are political novices. Both are McKinney residents with backgrounds in business and the ministry, and both would be reliably conservative votes in Austin.

Either would have an extremely steep learning curve in Austin, though Scott Sanford, 48, strikes us as a bit better prepared and informed than Bracy Wilson, 37, on certain policy questions.

Okay, let me see if I’ve got this right: In the 2012 election, Scott Sanford was considered the smart one.

I feel sooooo much better knowing that.

112 Amory Blaine  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:46:42pm

What’s important is that the lie of “hail satan” is out in the wild. Truth does not matter.

113 freetoken  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:48:21pm

re: #110 dragonath

Wonder how many people in Sanford’s district believe in the Curse of Ham.

I find ham usually too salty, and sometimes too fatty.

114 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:49:08pm

re: #112 Amory Blaine

What’s important is that the lie of “hail satan” is out in the wild. Truth does not matter.

These people deal in Higher Truths, and if you corner them, they will insist that it is the work and doings of Satan himself.

115 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:49:32pm

re: #112 Amory Blaine

What’s important is that the lie of “hail satan” is out in the wild. Truth does not matter.

What’s important is that this shit has been going on since last week, when the GOP got shown up during their attempt to sneak the bill in under the wire. See also characterization of protestors as “terrorists,” suggestions that Democrats organized the outburst in the gallery, and so forth.

116 Amory Blaine  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:50:11pm

I’d sell my soul for just one orange that wasn’t tasteless and dry as fuck!!!

117 Amory Blaine  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:51:17pm

re: #115 Targetpractice

I was only speaking to keeping the frenzy going.

118 freetoken  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:51:28pm

The New Yorker takes down the head IDiot’s latest book:

DOUBTING “DARWIN’S DOUBT”

[…]

Scientific readers will likely find that “Darwin’s Doubt” has an inspired-by-true-events feel: a few elements are recognizable, but the story makes no sense to anyone who was there. […]

The book’s best, most honest moments come in the concluding chapter, in which Meyer travels to see the famous Burgess Shale in person. His son goes ahead on the trail but then suddenly freezes, stricken with vertigo after peering down the mountainside. Meyer likens his son’s paralysis to modernity’s despair at materialism, its shock at the prospect that the universe is utterly indifferent. Meyer writes frankly, saying that his quest is to give people back their sense of meaning and purpose. Here, at last, Meyer is not pretending to be a scientist.

119 SpaceJesus  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:52:08pm

I just texted a friend of mine who is out there protesting. Negative on the “hail satan” chant but she wants to know if she should start doing it now

120 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:53:16pm

re: #119 SpaceJesus

I just texted a friend of mine who is out there protesting. Negative on the “hail satan” chant but she wants to know if she should start doing it now

Prob’ly not.

121 Amory Blaine  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:54:00pm

re: #119 SpaceJesus

She sounds like a keeper. :)

122 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:55:32pm

If they are going to chant something, then it should be “Natas Liah”

123 jaunte  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 9:58:35pm

Youtube Video

124 HoosierHoops  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:01:07pm

Forgive me Father, For I have sinned..
I said I’d never do Facebook but after many years of pressure from my family I relented 3 days ago..Ok you Facebook people..What is up?
So I want to keep contact with family and a few friends.. That is all..
Did I know how many contacts over the years every fricking body on Facebook planet has? Everybody knows everybody, and if they don’t they will soon. So now I get friend requests of one of my kids friends grandma who knew the family when we grew up..All of a sudden there are friends of friends and old family friends that I forgot about but apparently Facebook didn’t..And the requests pour in from Gawd knows who..
but here is the real issue..
How the fuck do you say no to a friend request from a friends grandmother who lives on Facebook? ( Is every senior citizen in America live on FB? ) How the fuck can you reject a friend of a distant cousin? LOL
It’s stupid funny..
I now have to sit down and adjust all my privacy settings in Facebook..
For a limited time I am accepting all friend requests just to stop the dinging bell from Outlook in the background.. My luck by Saturday I will have accepted Pam Geller as friend and never realize it.
Forgive me Father for I have sinned…

125 efuseakay  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:02:06pm

BEETLEJUICE! BEETLEJUICE! BEETLEJUICE!

126 Lidane  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:02:20pm
127 Lidane  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:03:47pm
128 dragonath  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:04:04pm

I was kind of expecting this guy’s district to be in the sticks but it stretches from Denton to McKinney, which is just outside Dallas/Ft. Worth.

129 dragonath  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:04:55pm

Also elected with 100% of the vote.

130 engineer cat  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:05:08pm

o.t. this has been bothering me - what do you think?

i make a little coin on the side selling software. usually my customers pay through the paypal, altho occasionally some stodgy companies ask for invoices and issue me a paper check

so the other week i get an email that looks to be a legitimate contact from a major 3rd party retailer, saying one of their customers wants to buy my product through them - which would make sense, since their website lists hundreds of commercial s.w. products. hey, maybe i can get my product listed there too!

so here’s the thing: the registration form he sends me asks for my company bank account number & routing number

i sent him back all the company registration and product information, but i couldn’t get myself to send along my bank account information, no matter how legit his inquiry looks. i just wrote that they wouldn’t need it since they could just buy my product the normal way through paypal or send me a check

he didn’t reply - i don’t know if i evaded a scam or suspicioned myself out of a sale…

131 Amory Blaine  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:05:23pm

re: #129 dragonath

Wow. That’s not creepy at all.

132 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:06:36pm

re: #130 engineer cat

o.t. this has been bothering me - what do you think?

i make a little coin on the side selling software. usually my customers pay through the paypal, altho occasionally some stodgy companies ask for invoices and issue me a paper check

so the other week i get an email that looks to be a legitimate contact from a major 3rd party retailer, saying one of their customers wants to buy my product through them - which would make sense, since their website lists hundreds of commercial s.w. products. hey, maybe i can get my product listed there too!

so here’s the thing: the registration form he sends me asks for my company bank account number & routing number

i sent him back all the company registration and product information, but i couldn’t get myself to send along my bank account information, no matter how legit his inquiry looks. i just wrote that they wouldn’t need it since they could just buy my product the normal way through paypal or send me a check

he didn’t reply - i don’t know if i evaded a scam or suspicioned myself out of a sale…

What part of Nigeria was the ex-Prime Minister from?

133 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:06:58pm

re: #124 HoosierHoops

I limit my FB contacts to people I know from real life (TM) with whom I wish to remain in real-life contact.

Some people find it hard to ignore a request and even hard to delete a contact. I have learned to become a heartless bastard and do it. I simly came to see my FB page as Galt’s Gulch and I only let Makers onto it…

134 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:08:22pm

re: #126 Lidane

[Embedded content]

Obviously their testimony just doesn’t matter.

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135 Dancing along the light of day  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:08:23pm

re: #124 HoosierHoops

Hiya Hoopster!

136 jaunte  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:09:04pm

Sylvester Turner: “Does pro-life stop when a child is born, and we no longer fight for the quality of their existence?”

137 Single-handed sailor  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:09:15pm

re: #124 HoosierHoops

The Six Degrees of Pam Geller…

138 Dancing along the light of day  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:09:19pm

re: #130 engineer cat

Avoided a scam is my bet!

139 engineer cat  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:11:06pm

re: #132 Decatur Deb

What part of Nigeria was the ex-Prime Minister from?

actually it looked quite legit and i even called the number in the email and talked to the guy, who sounded exactly like he should have sounded

140 Amory Blaine  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:11:16pm

All Hail Koch!!!

Scott Walker among signers of Koch-backed ‘No Climate Tax Pledge’

You’ve no doubt heard about Grover Norquist’s “Taxpayer Protection Pledge.” Well, there’s a new pledge in town, and several Wisconsin conservatives have signed on.

This pledge is called the “No Climate Tax Pledge,” but it might as well be called the “Koch Brothers Protection Pledge,” since it was devised by a group co-founded and backed by the billionaire brothers whose companies, according to the EPA, emitted over 24 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2011.

Signers of the pledge, now numbering 411, promise to “oppose any legislation relating to climate change that includes a net increase in government revenue” — in other words, no legislation on climate change without an equivalent amount of tax cuts. They include one U.S. senator from Wisconsin, three House members, four members of the state Senate, and four members of the Assembly — as well as Gov. Scott Walker and Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch.

141 Lidane  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:11:43pm

This is an older cover of Texas Observer magazine, but it’s amazingly relevant now:

facebook.com

142 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:12:11pm

re: #139 engineer cat

actually it looked quite legit and i even called the number in the email and talked to the guy, who sounded exactly like he should have sounded

Create a new account to deal with him.

143 Dancing along the light of day  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:12:46pm

re: #142 Decatur Deb

WINNAH!

144 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:13:51pm

re: #139 engineer cat

actually it looked quite legit and i even called the number in the email and talked to the guy, who sounded exactly like he should have sounded

It is common practice in Europe, I send an invoice with account and bank number, they transfer the money.

(I am still waiting for the six million dollars from the account of the dead Nigerian Finance minister, though…)

145 blueraven  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:13:52pm

re: #139 engineer cat

actually it looked quite legit and i even called the number in the email and talked to the guy, who sounded exactly like he should have sounded

If you write checks, your acct and routing number are on each one, so it is out there already.

146 Amory Blaine  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:14:54pm

re: #141 Lidane

Yeehaw!!!

147 Dancing along the light of day  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:15:00pm

re: #124 HoosierHoops

Ring me?

148 Varek Raith  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:16:06pm

I see no provided ‘proof’ of such an event.
Typical of RWNJs.
Hail Satan?
Pentagrams?
Fool, please.

149 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:17:00pm

re: #148 Varek Raith

I see no provided ‘proof’ of such an event.
Typical of RWNJs.
Hail Satan?
Pentagrams?
Fool, please.

I was just curious to see what a “human pentagram” looked like. Need some ideas for the next family reunion.

//

150 Varek Raith  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:17:01pm

Also, Gus likes Garbage?
Cool beans.

151 engineer cat  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:17:36pm

re: #142 Decatur Deb

Create a new account to deal with him.

sounds like a plan!

anyway, i called the company headquarters and left a v.mail asking for confirmation of company policy

152 Lidane  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:17:53pm

re: #136 jaunte

Sylvester Turner: “Does pro-life stop when a child is born, and we no longer fight for the quality of their existence?”

Republican answer: “You betcha!”

Consider the fact that these GOP assholes want to ban all abortions, and ban birth control. Then, once a child is born, they’d ALSO cut early child education, Head Start, school lunch programs for needy kids, WIC and Medicaid.

Basically, they want to force women to have babies then have the right to get pissed when a woman can’t afford to raise that child.

153 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:20:58pm

re: #152 Lidane

Republican answer: “You betcha!”

Consider the fact that these GOP assholes want to ban all abortions, and ban birth control. Then, once a child is born, they’d ALSO cut early child education, Head Start, school lunch programs for needy kids, WIC and Medicaid.

Basically, they want to force women to have babies then have the right to get pissed when a woman can’t afford to raise that child.

They then want to make sure those kids are basically slaves the rest of their lives by abolishing the minimum wage, banning unions, abolishing most worker safety and rights laws, and giving businesses every incentive to treat workers as disposable.

154 engineer cat  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:24:51pm

re: #145 blueraven

re: #144 Sol Berdinowitz

It is common practice in Europe, I send an invoice with account and bank number, they transfer the money.

(I am still waiting for the six million dollars from the account of the dead Nigerian Finance minister, though…)

aha - that’s what i wanted to find out!

thx!

155 HoosierHoops  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:25:24pm

re: #139 engineer cat

actually it looked quite legit and i even called the number in the email and talked to the guy, who sounded exactly like he should have sounded

Honest to God about 10 or 12 years ago I got one of those emails from Africa or somewhere..after a good laugh I thought this was the ultimate prank call across the globe. ( I loved doing that shit as a kid.. I was terrible )
So I called the number..Got a guy on the other end and asked him so many questions and I had the money ready to send.. Very professional and straight up..And then…
Hold on..Hold on..What one sec.. Jim you got that? Yea we do..I think..Hold on..
Can you hold? You got it?
We got it sir..Great..Hold on..
Hi..You there? Ok..Hi This is special agent so and so from the FBI and we finally have you located.. You there? Hello?

156 darthstar  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:27:38pm
157 darthstar  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:28:14pm
158 HoosierHoops  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:28:43pm

night all

159 teleskiguy  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:28:53pm

I hate to be a troll on the internet, but this dork fundamentalist politician in Texas asked for it with his “Satan” talk.

160 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:29:19pm

re: #149 Targetpractice

I was just curious to see what a “human pentagram” looked like. Need some ideas for the next family reunion.

//

Human pentagram. Note satanic music.

Youtube Video

161 Amory Blaine  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:31:00pm

I’m only happy when it’s complicated.

162 Dancing along the light of day  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:33:00pm

Just because!
Youtube Video

163 darthstar  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:34:03pm

re: #159 teleskiguy

Fetal blood with a twist of lemon is better…just sayin’.

164 Amory Blaine  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:34:46pm

A gift basket of coat hangers to the Texas GOP would be a nice gesture.

Youtube Video

165 Lidane  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:42:37pm

Stand With Texas Women:

Chairman Cook calls for a vote on HB2 with no notification to the state reps present. The motion passes: 8 for, 3 against, 2 not present. Over 1,000 people remaining at the capitol wanting to testify.

166 Lidane  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:48:15pm

So to recap, today the Texas GOP:

—Told the anti-choice zealots that sign up kiosks to register to speak opened at 11am

—Told the pro-choice side that those same kiosks would open at 1:30pm

—Silenced nearly 1,000 people who still had not had their chance to give their testimony

—Refused to consider any amendments to the House version of SB5 over the objections of Democratic members of the committee

—Called a committee vote on the bill with no notice to any of the state reps in attendance

Ain’t democracy grand? God, I despise the Texas GOP.

167 Kragar  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:52:14pm

Rep. Stockman: Texas ‘Last Bastion’ of Liberty

Adams threw Stockman a hardball, asking the Texas congressman whether Texas has become the “headquarters of liberty for America.” The congressman responded that this is indeed the case and that his state “is becoming the last bastion” of freedom in the country.

He added that New Hampshire was once such a state, until freedom-hating people from Massachusetts moved there and ruined it: “New Hampshire used to be that way but it seemed like everybody from Massachusetts moved there and they loved the freedom in New Hampshire and they immediately voted in people who hated freedom.”

168 efuseakay  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:52:15pm

re: #153 Targetpractice

They then want to make sure those kids are basically slaves the rest of their lives by abolishing the minimum wage, banning unions, abolishing most worker safety and rights laws, and giving businesses every incentive to treat workers as disposable.

The uneducated and needy are easy targets for the ministries. All they see are potential soldiers for God.

169 Amory Blaine  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:54:51pm

re: #166 Lidane

Good thing we got em on the ropes!!////

170 Amory Blaine  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:58:04pm

Seriously it has been depressing here in Wisconsin as well. I just don’t see them being beat for a very long time here.

171 Kragar  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 10:58:12pm

You know, I’m starting to get the impression that we might not be able to trust these GOP guys.
///

172 Political Atheist  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 11:02:34pm

re: #162 Dancing along the light of day

And just because I had to get out today..
littlegreenfootballs.com

173 Lidane  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 11:03:24pm

re: #169 Amory Blaine

Good thing we got em on the ropes!!////

The one bright spot is that I’ve seen people I know — even people who vote Republican — suddenly having their eyes opened to what the GOP is really like here in Texas. They watched all the dirty tricks during the filibuster. They saw the way the Republicans tried to usurp democracy and change the time stamps. They’ve seen the hateful comments and nastiness that the Republicans have thrown at the peaceful protesters, and they’re not happy.

If anything good comes out of this disaster, I hope that more and more people realize the fanatics we are dealing with in this state, and that they try to vote them out, or at least move this state closer to purple, if not blue.

174 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 11:08:52pm

re: #173 Lidane

The one bright spot is that I’ve seen people I know — even people who vote Republican — suddenly having their eyes opened to what the GOP is really like here in Texas. They watched all the dirty tricks during the filibuster. They saw the way the Republicans tried to usurp democracy and change the time stamps. They’ve seen the hateful comments and nastiness that the Republicans have thrown at the peaceful protesters, and they’re not happy.

If anything good comes out of this disaster, I hope that more and more people realize the fanatics we are dealing with in this state, and that they try to vote them out, or at least move this state closer to purple, if not blue.

Honestly? I’ll just be happy if it makes them more likely to push for more moderate candidates or stay home to avoid giving the crazies their votes any longer.

175 Amory Blaine  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 11:09:22pm

As time passes, I think the true believers will forgive them. When Walker was elected, he said not one peep about abolishing public unions. Well he did it, pissed off even a lot of conservatives, but in the end, they agree with it. Even the tactics used. By and large of course. I’m sure there is some republican somewhere still angry with Walker. Hello? Are you out there?

176 darthstar  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 11:10:20pm

re: #173 Lidane

OMG YOU’RE A BUNCH OF SATAN WORSHIPPING FETUS EATERS!!!!!111ty! (First time to one hundred eleventy! But alas, like other first times…it will go down the memory hole.)

177 Amory Blaine  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 11:11:36pm

I only eat them with fresh plum sauce. Accompanied by a lovely dandelion and nettle tea. For new beginnings.

178 darthstar  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 11:13:17pm

re: #177 Amory Blaine

I only eat them with fresh plum sauce. Accompanied by a lovely dandelion and nettle tea. For new beginnings.

Sea salt and EVOO is good for a minimalist approach.

179 Amory Blaine  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 11:15:21pm

re: #178 darthstar

Ah yes let the subtlety shine through. Good call.

180 Political Atheist  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 11:16:25pm

re: #175 Amory Blaine

They will split or fall away. History dust.

181 darthstar  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 11:17:53pm

re: #179 Amory Blaine

Ah yes let the subtlety shine through. Good call.

I like to dip in holy water. Adds a touch of irony to the flavor.


Dear trolls and fundamentalist rageaholics,

Seriously, we’re just fucking with you. Nobody here eats any fetal tissue that wasn’t asking for it in the first place. You stupid pricks.

182 The Great Eye  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 11:32:23pm

re: #82 Gus

Pretty sure “Sex Is Not The Enemy” is the proper Garbage song for the stuff going down in Texas (And sadly other states.)

183 freetoken  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 11:33:41pm

From Jerry Goldsmith’s Grammy winning score for The Omen, here by special demand of Rep. Sanford, we present “Ave Satani”:

MP3 Audio

184 Single-handed sailor  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 11:33:43pm

The girls in Texas will just have to learn about the Loophole.

185 klys  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 11:37:30pm

I made the mistake of reading some comments at CNN.

Why do I do this to myself?

186 Kragar  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 11:37:35pm

re: #182 The Great Eye

Pretty sure “Sex Is Not The Enemy” is the proper Garbage song for the stuff going down in Texas (And sadly other states.)

Nope. This is:

Youtube Video

187 freetoken  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 11:38:27pm

We are a very religious, and that means very superstitious, society.

That’s why national level political figures genuflect before the alter of various religious beliefs, even if they themselves have little or no interest in religious activities.

188 Dancing along the light of day  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 11:40:23pm

LOL!

Frank says:

Get yer ass out there and register to VOTE!

189 klys  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 11:45:06pm

How to lose a job in 10 minutes:

A film banned as pornography in China was accidentally shown on a large LED screen in a public square in Jilin province, Chinese media report.

Xin Jin Ping Mei (known in English as The Forbidden Legend: Sex and Chopsticks) was reportedly played to a surprised public for about 10 minutes.

A technician had been watching the film on his computer without realising it was connected to the LED screen.

He was meant to have been repairing the screen, reports said.

190 freetoken  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 11:53:51pm

In MSNBC’s article GOP rebranding? Right-wingers have ideas of their own they use another image of GOHMERT! that while not as hair-raising as the standard one still has its merits, as Louie imitates a puffer fish:

Image: louie-gohmert-e1365030802901.jpg

191 Romantic Heretic  Tue, Jul 2, 2013 11:55:08pm

re: #110 dragonath

Wonder how many people in Sanford’s district believe in the Curse of Ham.

Enough to get him elected, apparently.

192 freetoken  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 12:00:12am

The party of “liberty”?


Fort Wayne rally calls for traditional marriage protection

Liz Brown, Allen County Republican Party precinct chair, said to the crowd that the right to marry isn’t explicitly stated in the U.S. Constitution. She also evoked the Declaration of Independence, saying that government derives its power from the consent of the governed.

Strict Constructionism, indeed.

193 The Great Eye  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 12:04:52am

re: #186 Kragar

I did specify Garbage song, that song is clearly the right answer if we’re not picking just one band.

194 freetoken  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 12:07:56am

For all of you thinking that the women of Texas will rise up and overpower the patriarchal theocracy, remember this: At the time of the Suffragettes, in the US, there were a non-trivial portion of women who did not believe in the cause.

It took 50 years from the time the first state gave women the vote until it was national via a ratified Constitutional amendment.

195 Kragar  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 12:40:30am

re: #194 freetoken

Women and Blacks Voting … in the 18th Century

Only four of the original 13 states prohibited blacks from voting, and only five prohibited women from voting. Up until 1820, freed black men in Massachusetts, Vermont, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York, and Maine had the same voting rights as whites.

New Jersey’s constitution not only did not bar women from participating in elections, in 1790 it specifically allowed women to vote. But when you increase the number of eligible voters, you sadly also increase the amount of voter fraud. And no, it wasn’t the women and blacks getting carried away and ruining the esteemed process for whitey: As soon as women and black men could vote, white guys started showing up at the polls dressed in drag and black face so they could cast their vote twice.

Seeing this problem caused solely by white men dressing up in costumes, the legislature did the only logical thing: In 1807, they repealed the vote for both women and blacks. White guys nationwide chuckled at the irony, then presumably went back to their old voter fraud practice of switching mustaches and hats while doing funny accents.

196 freetoken  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 12:53:53am

This theocon rage we’re seeing over abortion is, I propose, part of a general froth that has started to overflow due to the USSC rulings on Prop 8 and DOMA.

Hard religious conservatives are now using the “M” word - martyrdom. They really think that they are going into some horrible persecution. E.g.:

This will force a major adjustment in conservative Christian stance toward America. We’ve fooled ourselves for decades into believing that Christian America was derailed recently and by a small elite. It’s tough medicine to realize that principles inimical to traditional Christian morals are now deeply embedded in our laws, institutions and culture. The only America that actually exists is one in which “marriage” includes same-sex couples and women have a Constitutional right to kill their babies. To be faithful, Christian witness must be witness against America. [emph. in original]

God has his winnowing fork in his hand, and he’s ready to use it. There’s likely to be a lot of chaff, blown away like mist. But there will be a harvest. We’re being sent into an oven, but Jesus will crush the grain of the harvest so that, baked in the fire of the Spirit, it will become bread for the life of the world.

Teh Ghey has finally sent them over the edge.

197 Kragar  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 12:57:37am

re: #196 freetoken

This theocon rage we’re seeing over abortion is, I propose, part of a general froth that has started to overflow due to the USSC rulings on Prop 8 and DOMA.

Hard religious conservatives are now using the “M” word - martyrdom. They really think that they are going into some horrible persecution. E.g.:

Teh Ghey has finally sent them over the edge.

I’m still trying to figure out how other people being able to engage in voluntary behavior they don’t approve of equals oppression.

198 freetoken  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 12:58:38am

re: #197 Kragar

I’m still trying to figure out how other people being able to engage in voluntary behavior they don’t approve of equals oppression.

Because shut up.

199 freetoken  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 1:32:46am

MP3 Audio

200 freetoken  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 1:41:18am

For your morning meditation, as you ponder “God has his winnowing fork in his hand” and it dawns on you that you’ve got no clue as to what a “winnowing fork” is, but that it sounds impressive:

MP3 Audio

201 HAL2010  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 1:56:47am

Thoughts?

littlegreenfootballs.com

202 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 2:58:39am

re: #201 HAL2010

Thoughts?

littlegreenfootballs.com

How to decide, though? Spoiled by choice.

Especially since the GOP tends to memetically transfer its idiocy. So even though Romney was only sneakily alluding to the birther shit, just because he was being subtle doesn’t mean he wasn’t saying something horrifically stupid when he played with that.

I like the idea, I just wish we had a narrower field.

203 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 3:06:58am

re: #196 freetoken

This theocon rage we’re seeing over abortion is, I propose, part of a general froth that has started to overflow due to the USSC rulings on Prop 8 and DOMA.

Hard religious conservatives are now using the “M” word - martyrdom. They really think that they are going into some horrible persecution. E.g.:

Teh Ghey has finally sent them over the edge.

Recall what Judge Ruth Ginsburg was saying about Roe v Wade: it was too easy and sweeping a victory: people quickly came to take it for granted.

We can thank Texas, I guess, for reminding us that we have to get out and fight to maintain these rights against a very active counter-movement.

204 BongCrodny  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 3:47:41am

re: #196 freetoken

This theocon rage we’re seeing over abortion is, I propose, part of a general froth that has started to overflow due to the USSC rulings on Prop 8 and DOMA.

Hard religious conservatives are now using the “M” word - martyrdom. They really think that they are going into some horrible persecution. E.g.:

Teh Ghey has finally sent them over the edge.

God has his winnowing fork in his hand, and he’s ready to use it. There’s likely to be a lot of chaff, blown away like mist. But there will be a harvest. We’re being sent into an oven, but Jesus will crush the grain of the harvest so that, baked in the fire of the Spirit, it will become bread for the life of the world.

It’s been a long time since my parochial school/Sunday School lessons.

Which part of the Bible was “Jesus, please kill my enemies” in?

205 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 4:24:21am

re: #130 engineer cat

o.t. this has been bothering me - what do you think?

i make a little coin on the side selling software. usually my customers pay through the paypal, altho occasionally some stodgy companies ask for invoices and issue me a paper check

so the other week i get an email that looks to be a legitimate contact from a major 3rd party retailer, saying one of their customers wants to buy my product through them - which would make sense, since their website lists hundreds of commercial s.w. products. hey, maybe i can get my product listed there too!

so here’s the thing: the registration form he sends me asks for my company bank account number & routing number

i sent him back all the company registration and product information, but i couldn’t get myself to send along my bank account information, no matter how legit his inquiry looks. i just wrote that they wouldn’t need it since they could just buy my product the normal way through paypal or send me a check

he didn’t reply - i don’t know if i evaded a scam or suspicioned myself out of a sale…

Do they have a phone number? Maybe you should talk to an actual human.

206 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 4:29:16am

DERP

207 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 4:30:02am

DERPTY DERP

208 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 4:31:34am

DERPTY DERPTY DEEDLY DERPTY DOO!

209 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 4:48:07am

One of my uncles actually did join the Church of Satan. He gave a shitload of money to that scamster Anton La Vay, even bought the Satanic Evangelist a house in San Francisco with the address 666.

But Satan did not save him when he got indicted for snorting cocaine and abusing teenage “altar virgins.”

The reason that I did not get an inheritance from my grandmother is that this asshole spent it all on Satan and then on his legal defense to stay out of jail.

210 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 4:49:15am

re: #209 Vicious Babushka

But Satan did not save him when he got indicted for snorting cocaine and abusing teenage “altar virgins.”

Just goes to show you how much America respects religious freedom //

211 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 4:52:50am

My mother tried to hide this all from me. 20 years ago we did not have Teh Internets. When my son lived in San Francisco he told people “my uncle is [name of Satanist]” and couldn’t understand the snorts and the horse laughs.

Someone took him aside and explained to the yokel from Detroit that Uncle Satan had a reputation in Frisco.

212 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:01:17am

So the Guardian is reporting this:

Morsi offered a series of concessions in a four-hour meeting with General Abdul Fatah al-Sisi on Tuesday, a Muslim Brotherhood source told the Guardian’s David Hearst.

All the concession were rejected, the source said. David writes:

With the caveat that this is information which can not be cross-checked with the other parties to the discussion, my understanding is that President Morsi offered the following political concessions:

The formation of a national government representing all parties
The formation of a neutral committee to change the constitution
A call on the constitutional council to speed up the law on parliamentary elections.
A new attorney general (he has already gone)
Obliques hints that if a plan was put to him to hold a referendum on his presidency, he would agree to it.

This package was rejected.

Maybe it’s just fallout from the Snowden thing, but I’m having a hard time taking the Guardian seriously, and even more so since the source is from the Muslim Brotherhood.

213 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:15:18am

DERP
TRIAL BY TWITTER

214 Targetpractice  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:19:52am

re: #213 Vicious Babushka

DERP
TRIAL BY TWITTER

[Embedded content]

Because why have a justice system anymore? The media presents the “facts,” and we as an international jury of Tweeters decide guilt or innocence by majority vote. What a brave new world!

/////

215 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:20:54am

re: #214 Targetpractice

Because why have a justice system anymore? The media presents the “facts,” and we as an international jury of Tweeters decide guilt or innocence by majority vote. What a brave new world!

/////

Impeach Obama?
RETWEET!
Give a little girl a lung transplant?
RETWEET!

216 Targetpractice  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:25:33am

The sad thing is, as bad as things are now, I have little doubt it’s only going to get worse. The more people we seem to add to the Internet, the lower the overall IQ seems to drop. People say shit online they’d never say in person, whether out of fear or just social decorum.

217 Major Tom  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:27:56am

It could be “Inhale Bacon”

218 Wile E. Wonka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:29:31am

re: #204 BongCrodny

It’s been a long time since my parochial school/Sunday School lessons.

Which part of the Bible was “Jesus, please kill my enemies” in?

Psalms.
/

219 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:33:15am

So, what do we have? One person—ONE, COUNT ‘EM!—walks past somebody taking a video and says, sarcastically “Hail Satan” and Teh Twitter frenzy is that ALL LIBRULZ EVERYWHERE are chanting ‘HAIL SATAN” in unison.

If everyone did that all at once, and at the same time shed a drop of Canadian blood, maybe Satan would appear and begin 1000 years of Darkness?

220 lawhawk  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:34:56am

re: #212 dragonath

When the Egyptian military wants you gone, you’re gone. I’m not sure what Morsi did to raise the ire of the military leaders, but they’re clearly not willing to give Morsi any slack at all - or to save his presidency. They want a caretaker government and new elections, and that’s what they’re going to expect/demand.

The NYT is reporting that even ElBaraedi, who had previously criticized the military’s rule in the runup to the elections that brought Morsi to power, is now siding with the military. I’m not particularly surprised by the shifting allegiances and that the economic situation has led all but Brotherhood supporters to demand the ouster, but the military’s ire seems to be running particularly deep.

There’s more going on behind the scenes than is being made public. Morsi must have done something to really piss off the generals that they’re now intervening on behalf of the opposition.

221 lawhawk  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:35:47am

re: #219 Vicious Babushka

Puny humans, Satan is weak and a false god when compared to me. /Zod

222 Major Tom  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:36:46am

” I’m not sure what Morsi did to raise the ire of the military leaders..”

I think they see the massive protests and the writing on the wall. Better to be populist then a target.

223 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:39:07am

re: #220 lawhawk

There’s more going on behind the scenes than is being made public. Morsi must have done something to really piss off the generals that they’re now intervening on behalf of the opposition.

The Irish Times has an article on this:

Army concern about the way President Mohamed Morsi was governing Egypt reached tipping point when the head of state attended a rally packed with hardline fellow Islamists calling for holy war in Syria, military sources have said.

At the June 15th rally, Sunni Muslim clerics used the word “infidels” to denounce both the Shias fighting to protect Syrian president Bashar al-Assad and the non-Islamists that oppose Mr Morsi at home.

Mr Morsi himself called for foreign intervention in Syria against Mr Assad, leading to a veiled rebuke from the army, which issued an apparently bland but sharp-edged statement the next day stressing that its only role was guarding Egypt’s borders.

“The armed forces were very alarmed by the Syrian conference at a time the state was going through a major political crisis,” said one officer, whose comments reflected remarks made privately by other army staff. He was speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not permitted to talk to the media.

224 lawhawk  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:41:25am

re: #215 Vicious Babushka

Oh, and about that girl who needed lung transplants.

She’s now had two sets of lungs transplanted - the first transplant failed and she had a second set transplanted just days later. That meant that at least two people died so she could have a functioning set of lungs (and at least one other person on the UNOS list could have died while waiting for a set of lungs that was bumped down on the priority list because there’s a perpetual shortage for organs requiring the priority lists in the first place).

Then, there’s reports she’s had complications stemming from the surgeries, including the need for further surgery to repair her diaphragm.

I wish her well and hope she makes the most of her second and third chances, but all of the hype and ire focused on HHS and the Administration is completely missing the point. Without sufficient donors, people are going to die waiting for organs. If not this girl, then someone’s father, grandfather, wife, son, daughter, cousin, or friend, etc.

It’s the organ shortage that people should be looking to resolve, not gaming the priority list because Twitter said so. /rant off

225 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:43:30am

re: #224 lawhawk

Oh, and about that girl who needed lung transplants.

She’s now had two sets of lungs transplanted - the first transplant failed and she had a second set transplanted just days later. That meant that at least two people died so she could have a functioning set of lungs (and at least one other person on the UNOS list could have died while waiting for a set of lungs that was bumped down on the priority list because there’s a perpetual shortage for organs requiring the priority lists in the first place).

The whole RETWEET TO GIVE LITTLE SARA A LUNG1!!!! campaign was so creepy, it was The Hunger Games in real life.

226 lawhawk  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:43:38am

re: #222 Major Tom

The military is one of the few respected institutions in Egypt, and they’ve always wielded power behind the scenes.

You’re right that they’d rather be on the winning side, but they are the ones to help pick winners and losers.

The problem is that they’re more than willing to shred their constitution and laws to do so.

227 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:44:00am

re: #221 lawhawk

What happened with the gunk oozing in the streets yesterday?

228 lawhawk  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:46:02am

re: #227 Backwoods_Sleuth

Not sure. I’m guessing it got resolved (probably hazmat came out and cleared it away).

Either that, or the MIB came in and cleaned up /waving neuralyzer

229 Wile E. Wonka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:49:45am

re: #227 Backwoods_Sleuth

What happened with the gunk oozing in the streets yesterday?

Water main break, damaging an electrical conduit and releasing coolant from the conduit, apparently.
myfoxny.com

230 Targetpractice  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:50:19am

This is getting sort of sad. The State in the Zimmerman trial is looking seriously desperate now.

231 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:50:34am

re: #226 lawhawk

I don’t feel too good about the new constitution being cast aside, but Morsi’s heavy handed actions towards the judiciary and his apparent religious extremism isn’t helping matters at all.

The Muslim Brotherhood vigilantism and brownshirt tactics sure didn’t help either.

232 kirkspencer  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:54:19am

re: #130 engineer cat

o.t. this has been bothering me - what do you think?

i make a little coin on the side selling software. usually my customers pay through the paypal, altho occasionally some stodgy companies ask for invoices and issue me a paper check

so the other week i get an email that looks to be a legitimate contact from a major 3rd party retailer, saying one of their customers wants to buy my product through them - which would make sense, since their website lists hundreds of commercial s.w. products. hey, maybe i can get my product listed there too!

so here’s the thing: the registration form he sends me asks for my company bank account number & routing number

i sent him back all the company registration and product information, but i couldn’t get myself to send along my bank account information, no matter how legit his inquiry looks. i just wrote that they wouldn’t need it since they could just buy my product the normal way through paypal or send me a check

he didn’t reply - i don’t know if i evaded a scam or suspicioned myself out of a sale…

You should ask. The legit reason for account number and routing number is electronic deposit.

Actually what you should do is talk to an attorney who specializes in business contracts. Yes, it’s going to cost you a few hundred dollars. But if you’re not using an attorney to review it then you’re the half-armed person at a battle of wits. There may be lots of innocuous appearing phrases that rob you blind when stacked together.

Trust me, if it’s a contract have an attorney review it.

233 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:54:44am

re: #226 lawhawk

The military is one of the few respected institutions in Egypt, and they’ve always wielded power behind the scenes.

You’re right that they’d rather be on the winning side, but they are the ones to help pick winners and losers.

The problem is that they’re more than willing to shred their constitution and laws to do so.

There will be another constitution where that one came from.

234 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 5:57:52am

re: #233 Decatur Deb

Papyrus?

235 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:00:34am

re: #234 dragonath

Papyrus?

Well, it’s not like it’s carved in stone.

Image: IvoryLabelOfDen-BritishMuseum-August19-08.jpg

236 lawhawk  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:01:03am

re: #234 dragonath

Laser scribing on the side of a building.

Seems that the protesters have decided to go big with their messages to Morsi, and have taken to using lasers to “paint” the messages on the walls of buildings in Tahrir Square - one saying Game Over in English, and other messages in Arabic.

I’m fully expecting someone to go ahead and use “Morsi: All Your Base Are Belong to Us”.

237 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:01:53am

Morning Lizardim. What’s new in the world since I left last night? Egypt? Snowden? I see how derpy things are getting in Texasistan. I am almost ashamed to call myself a Christian at this point, these people are ridiculous.

238 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:03:40am

re: #237 thedopefishlives

Morning Lizardim. What’s new in the world since I left last night? Egypt? Snowden? I see how derpy things are getting in Texasistan. I am almost ashamed to call myself a Christian at this point, these people are ridiculous.

Hell, sometimes I’m ashamed to call myself a human.

239 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:03:58am

re: #227 Backwoods_Sleuth

What happened with the gunk oozing in the streets yesterday?

Vigo was defeated and dispelled back into the painting.
/

240 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:06:52am

re: #237 thedopefishlives

Morning Lizardim. What’s new in the world since I left last night? Egypt? Snowden? I see how derpy things are getting in Texasistan. I am almost ashamed to call myself a Christian at this point, these people are ridiculous.

There’s one problem with our whole evening naughtrage—It looks like some silly little twit did yell “Hail Satan” for the cameras. That’s why popular demonstration is a two-edged sword. It takes real discipline and planning to be effective (something we lefties have been a bit ‘uneven’ about). We want the Freedom Marches, not the Days of Rage.

Kids today—don’t even know how to throw a good melee.

241 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:08:03am

Al Jazeera:

Breaking | Egyptian president’s spokesman says it is better for Morsi to die in defence of democracy

Yeah, it’s gonna be a great day ///

242 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:08:05am

re: #240 Decatur Deb

There’s one problem with our whole evening naughtrage—It looks like some silly little twit did yell “Hail Satan” for the cameras. That’s why popular demonstration is a two-edged sword. It takes real discipline and planning to be effective (something we lefties have been a bit ‘uneven’ about). We want the Freedom Marches, not the Days of Rage.

Kids today—don’t even know how to throw a good melee.

Yea, but if they play the crowd’s chanting backwards it will sound like an Ozzy Osbourne song.

243 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:09:57am

re: #240 Decatur Deb

There’s one problem with our whole evening naughtrage—It looks like some silly little twit did yell “Hail Satan” for the cameras. That’s why popular demonstration is a two-edged sword. It takes real discipline and planning to be effective (something we lefties have been a bit ‘uneven’ about). We want the Freedom Marches, not the Days of Rage.

Kids today—don’t even know how to throw a good melee.

One person. Whoop-de-frickin’-doo. My goodness, if Christians had an aneurysm like this every time one solitary person let loose with a “Hail Satan” for the lulz, there wouldn’t be any of us left.

244 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:10:56am

Morsi’s allies are playing for time:

CAIRO (Reuters) - A hardline Egyptian Islamist movement allied to President Mohamed Mursi called on its supporters to remain peaceful on Wednesday and said more time was needed to mediate an end to the country’s political crisis.

The Gamaa Islamiya, which waged an armed insurrection in the 1990s but renounced violence more than a decade ago, said any transfer of power must happen via constitutional means, but more time was needed to reach an agreement.

245 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:13:07am

re: #243 thedopefishlives

One person. Whoop-de-frickin’-doo. My goodness, if Christians had an aneurysm like this every time one solitary person let loose with a “Hail Satan” for the lulz, there wouldn’t be any of us left.

One person. Ten thousand newsclips, blog posts, church assemblies, DVDs, editorials. There’s a reason for organizers and marshalls.

246 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:13:20am

My unfortunate take on the Egypt situation is two-fold:
1. The MB looks like they think they can “win” a confrontation with the military. That will probably end in bloodshed and possibly a lot more instability down the line.

2. I have my doubts the Egyptian citizenry is going to have patience with any government in the future that does not start to deliver visible social and economic improvement quickly. And I am not sure that any government can given Egypt’s resources and population demographics. So what we might be seeing is just the next iteration of a cycle of mass protests bringing governments down after a year or so in office. And I am not sure the military will view that as a bad thing since constant turnover like that will keep them essentially in control.

247 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:14:44am

TEH DUMBEST WOMAN ON TEH TWITTERS DERPS AGAIN

248 Wile E. Wonka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:15:21am

re: #237 thedopefishlives

Morning Lizardim. What’s new in the world since I left last night? Egypt? Snowden? I see how derpy things are getting in Texasistan. I am almost ashamed to call myself a Christian at this point, these people are ridiculous.

That’s how they getcha: take a message that good people use to encourage themselves to care for their fellows better, and pervert it into a mechanism of division and exclusion in just such a way, and with enough authoritarian conviction, as to make the good people feel like they’re the ones doing it wrong.

I always say, the only time in the whole damn story that Jesus ever yelled at anyone was when he saw businesses exploiting people’s faith for profit.

249 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:15:24am

re: #245 Decatur Deb

One person. Ten thousand newsclips, blog posts, church assemblies, DVDs, editorials. There’s a reason for organizers and marshalls.

Oh, I know. Bad publicity, etc., etc. It’s just that I get annoyed when Christians play the victim card. They’ve gotten to be so professional at it, really, ever since Roe v. Wade destroyed their dreams of theocracy. Ever since then, it’s been “Christians are the oppressed majority, woe is us, pass friendly legislation because Jesus.” And I get sick of it.

250 Major Tom  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:15:24am

re: #247 Vicious Babushka

seen this a dozen times in the last week on FB from my conservative contacts

251 Joanne  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:16:43am

re: #124 HoosierHoops

I accept almost no requests. If I don’t personally know someone, I do not accept it. If I don’t especially want to accept a request, I simply don’t.

And this is the crux of why I use Facebook less often than I file my taxes.

252 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:18:03am

re: #248 Wile E. Wonka

I always say, the only time in the whole damn story that Jesus ever yelled at anyone was when he saw businesses exploiting people’s faith for profit.

You pretty much nailed it on the head. I’ve linked this picture several times, but it bears repeating because it is somewhat germane to the discussion of Jesus and modern Churchianity: Image: tumblr_m1gcz1UFv31qzz78po1_500.jpg

253 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:18:10am

re: #249 thedopefishlives

Oh, I know. Bad publicity, etc., etc. It’s just that I get annoyed when Christians play the victim card. They’ve gotten to be so professional at it, really, ever since Roe v. Wade destroyed their dreams of theocracy. Ever since then, it’s been “Christians are the oppressed majority, woe is us, pass friendly legislation because Jesus.” And I get sick of it.

Publicity is the entirety of a street demonstration. The notion of trying to drown out people singing a hymn that 3/4 of the population knows and loves is profoundly stupid. Time to fall back and get their shit together.

254 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:18:53am

re: #250 Major Tom

seen this a dozen times in the last week on FB from my conservative contacts

Wingnuts have this annoying meme of comparing Spending on Apples A to Budget Cuts of Oranges B as if these two things both showed up as line items on the same budget.

Like OBAMAZ VACAYSHUNS BUT NO WHITE HOUSE TOURS!!11!!

They don’t know how these things work, but they just want feed their Obama hate frenzy.

255 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:20:30am

re: #246 Feline Fearless Leader

The Egyptian military has a massive stake in the Egyptian state economy.

The shame about Morsi is that he did have the wiles and backbone to stand down the military for a while, but he was too bound to the MB agenda to act as an effective leader.

256 efuseakay  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:24:12am

re: #246 Feline Fearless Leader

My unfortunate take on the Egypt situation is two-fold:
1. The MB looks like they think they can “win” a confrontation with the military. That will probably end in bloodshed and possibly a lot more instability down the line.

2. I have my doubts the Egyptian citizenry is going to have patience with any government in the future that does not start to deliver visible social and economic improvement quickly. And I am not sure that any government can given Egypt’s resources and population demographics. So what we might be seeing is just the next iteration of a cycle of mass protests bringing governments down after a year or so in office. And I am not sure the military will view that as a bad thing since constant turnover like that will keep them essentially in control.

Me thinks when the MB loses this fight and they start using AQ tactics, most of Egypt will end up missing Mubarak.

257 lawhawk  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:25:14am

re: #254 Vicious Babushka

How many WH tours would there have been if House GOPers hadn’t carried out 37 votes on repealing Obamacare (knowing full well that it wouldn’t ever get enacted while Democrats control the WH and Senate)? /half joking

All that nonsense ignores how the federal budget works, how the sequester operates, and what kind of freedom agencies have to mitigate the effects (the moment that the sequester began affecting flights, Congress moved to act to give the FAA the ability to shift money around to keep the flights moving).

The longer the sequester operates, the more effects will become pronounced - especially at areas where the public interacts with the agency.For instance, NPS has fewer sessions, closes areas earlier, conducts fewer presentations, hires fewer summer workers, does fewer repairs to maintain assets, etc.

But as you say, anything and everything is used to attack the Administration, no matter how obstructionist the GOP is.

Same deal with the student loan rate hike. GOPers are claiming that the Democrats are blocking and obstructionist when they just passed their version of student loan relief. Never mind that the Senate and WH have versions, and that it would require conferencing to resolve differences.

And when the Administration extends the deadline for the employer mandate, the GOP response is to demand repeal of the entirety of the PPACA, not fixing those parts that actually do need to be fixed.

Obstructionism - it’s the O in GOP. The Government Obstructionist Party.

258 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:26:49am

I think Lawhawk put off feeding the Feline Overlord in order to enter comments for a little too long…

259 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:30:42am

DERP

260 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:32:42am

From Haaretz:

4:12 P.M. Promising to stand firm against any pressure brought by the army on president Morsi to step down, Muslim Brotherhood vows to ‘stand in front of tanks,’ according to spokesman Gehad El-Haddad. “The only plan any ppl hv in the face of an attempted coup is to stand in front of the tanks. Just like we did in #Jan25 Rev,” El-Haddad posted on Twitter, referring to the 2011 revolt that toppled president Mubarak.

261 Targetpractice  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:34:37am

You’d think that the budget process is something any kid who’s taken a civics class should know. The president has virtually no influence over the budget, besides the submission of a budget proposal that indicates cuts he wishes to make and spending he wishes to create/increase, and whether or not he signs the budget Congress passes. He has no vote in Congress, he has no position on any of the committees involved in writing the budget, and until somebody finds a way to make the line item veto constitutional, he has no option to address spending in the final budget he does not agree with other than to simply veto the entire budget.

Yet still, day in and day out, he’s blamed for spending Congress passes and cuts that they impose.

262 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:35:12am

EARTH TO GLENN:
Snowden’s “Free Speech Rights” do not include stealing and releasing classified documents any more than Pamela’s “Free Speech Rights” include entering a foreign country to incite hate against a specific population.

263 Mattand  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:36:17am

Morning all.

Hail Satan.

264 ProTARDISLiberal  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:36:21am

re: #246 Feline Fearless Leader

Relieving population pressure is one way to alleviate that problem. But that will require massive out-migration.

265 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:38:02am

re: #264 ProTARDISLiberal

Relieving population pressure is one way to alleviate that problem. But that will require massive out-migration.

Time to colonize Mars

266 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:38:13am

re: #263 Mattand

Morning all.

Hail Satan.

Great. Now I am compelled to pack a spaz. And I’m at work, too./

267 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:38:57am

Wanna see a big crowd?

live.reuters.com

268 simoom  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:39:36am

Was this more an issue of landing than overflight?

npr.org

However it’s still unclear whether European countries did block the plane and, if so, why. French, Spanish and Portuguese officials all said Wednesday the plane was allowed to cross their territory.

…

Spain’s foreign ministry said in a statement Wednesday that the country on Tuesday authorized Morales’ plane to fly within its airspace and to make a refueling stop in the Canary Islands, and gave the authorization again on Wednesday morning after Bolivian authorities repeated the request.

…

The Portuguese Foreign Ministry said in a written statement Wednesday that Portugal had granted permission for the plane to fly through Portuguese air space but declined Bolivia’s request for a refueling stop in Lisbon due to unspecified technical reasons.

…

In Vienna, an official said that Morales’ aircraft asked controllers at Vienna airport to land because there was “no clear indication” that the plane had enough fuel to continue on its journey. The official, who demanded anonymity because he was not authorized to go public with the information, said Austrian authorities could not comment on whether the plane was denied overflights by other countries.

Maybe what was actually going on here was a number of EU countries desperately didn’t want even the slightest risk of Snowden disembarking into their countries and requesting asylum?

269 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:42:18am

TRIAL BY TWITTER FAIL

270 ProTARDISLiberal  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:42:49am

re: #265 dragonath

Let’s anticipate the next round of immigration, and come up with a solution to the immigration crisis.

We need a major immigration reform protest.

271 Bulworth  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:43:16am

I was wondering what the Hail Satan was on the Twitters. Shoulda known it was teh Derp.

272 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:48:00am

Good morning lizards

273 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:48:40am

DERP
Now Teh Twitterz is saying “Hail Satan” DROWNED OUT THE VOICES of Teh Poor Oppressed Christianz.

274 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:50:50am

DERP
Erick Erickson retweeted:

275 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:50:56am

re: #273 Vicious Babushka

DERP
Now Teh Twitterz is saying “Hail Satan” DROWNED OUT THE VOICES of Teh Poor Oppressed Christianz.

Oh, for Satan’s sake.

276 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:50:56am

re: #273 Vicious Babushka

DERP
Now Teh Twitterz is saying “Hail Satan” DROWNED OUT THE VOICES of Teh Poor Oppressed Christianz.

Might have been a totally different impression if the pro-choice group had joined in. WWMLKD?

277 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:51:15am

re: #264 ProTARDISLiberal

Relieving population pressure is one way to alleviate that problem. But that will require massive out-migration.

Is there anywhere that is allowing massive human population migration right now?

278 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:51:35am

Perry’s gonna have to hold a prayer service to sanctify the Texas capitol, huh?

279 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:51:59am

DERP

280 ProTARDISLiberal  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:52:43am

re: #277 Feline Fearless Leader

The US still takes a large number of immigrants per year. We need fewer H-1 Visas, and more traditional immigration.

281 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:53:00am

One little “Hail Satan” can drown out a whole bunch of Jesus singers.
THIS PRUVEZ SATAN IS MOAR POWERFUL THEN JESUS!!11!!!!

282 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:53:09am

re: #277 Feline Fearless Leader

Is there anywhere that is allowing massive human population migration right now?

I hear Pluto is nice this time of year.

283 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:54:39am

re: #279 Vicious Babushka

It’s not Derp if it’s on film. It’s bullshit exploitation of a gift opportunity. Last night’s loss goes beyond a court-reversible state law.

284 lawhawk  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:54:54am

Hook ‘em Horns or Satan’s Horns…

285 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:55:02am

re: #282 thedopefishlives

I hear Pluto is nice this time of year.

The seasons last longer too, since it takes a cool 250 of our Terran years for Pluto to revolve around the sun.

286 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:55:21am

re: #280 ProTARDISLiberal

The US still takes a large number of immigrants per year. We need fewer H-1 Visas, and more traditional immigration.

Define “traditional”. For many cultures that is defined as showing up, killing the men, looting the town, and taking the women as concubines. Settling permanently optional.

287 kirkspencer  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:55:33am

re: #281 Vicious Babushka

One little “Hail Satan” can drown out a whole bunch of Jesus singers.
THIS PRUVEZ SATAN IS MOAR POWERFUL THEN JESUS!!11!!!!

Of course. Because the recording they’ve got has the mic up against the person saying it and pointing away from the singers.

Physics. It’s another one of those liberally biased things..

288 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:56:10am

re: #285 dragonath

The seasons last longer too, since it takes a cool 250 of our Terran years for Pluto to revolve around the sun.

On Pluto a four-year term is essentially President-For-Life.
//

289 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:56:51am

The chanting going on at Tahrir Square is pretty hypnotic…

290 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:56:51am

re: #288 Feline Fearless Leader

On Pluto a four-year term is essentially President-For-Life.
//

But the baseball season goes on much too long.

291 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:57:28am

DERP
THIS PRUVEZ THAT ROMNEY WON TEH ELEKSHUN WITH TEH MOAST RED SPACES!!11!! WHY ISN’T HE TEH PRESIDENT NOW!!!!111

292 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:57:32am

re: #290 Decatur Deb

But the baseball season goes on much too long.

But mid-summer ice hockey makes more sense on Pluto.

293 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:59:10am

re: #292 Feline Fearless Leader

But mid-summer ice hockey makes more sense on Pluto.

There’s a rink in Montgomery, AL. Seems like an affront to nature.

294 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 6:59:26am

re: #291 Vicious Babushka

An election map from 2000? Let us never accuse conservatives again of living 10 years in the past.

295 geoffm33  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:00:27am

re: #291 Vicious Babushka

DERP
THIS PRUVEZ THAT ROMNEY WON TEH ELEKSHUN WITH TEH MOAST RED SPACES!!11!! WHY ISN’T HE TEH PRESIDENT NOW!!!!111

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Please proceed, nutjobs.

296 Major Tom  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:00:52am

It’s kinda threatening isn’t it… “We’re coming fer ya.”

297 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:01:56am

re: #296 Major Tom

It’s kinda threatening isn’t it… “We’re coming fer ya.”

WITH ALL ARE GUNZ!!1111

298 Targetpractice  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:02:06am

re: #296 Major Tom

It’s kinda threatening isn’t it… “We’re coming fer ya.”

“They’re coming to get you, Barbara. They’re coming to get you.”

299 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:02:29am

re: #296 Major Tom

It’s kinda threatening isn’t it… “We’re coming fer ya.”

Millions of motorized wheelchairs are rolling…

300 A Mom Anon  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:02:38am

re: #291 Vicious Babushka

So what the fuck does this little shit plan to slay me with? His stunning and rapier like wit?

I’m so over these assholes I could scream. And I really want to throttle that dumb kid and her “Hail Satan” messing around. Is it at all possible that the people organizing these protests could maybe use social media to give people some guidelines? Like for example, when the hymns start just sing along, maybe a bit louder? Or if a camera is pointed at you, saying something like “It’s a beautiful day, isn’t it?”. We have all this technology, let’s use it for fuck’s sake.

301 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:03:55am

re: #297 Vicious Babushka

WITH ALL ARE GUNZ!!1111

Don’t minimize it—you have family here. (It’s my day to stoke healthy paranoia.)

302 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:04:06am

DUMBEST TWEET OF TEH DAY (SO FAR)

303 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:05:22am

Whose “best friend” is Snowden? I am sure that Glenn Greenwald told Snowden that they were BFF’s but he didn’t really mean it.

304 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:05:29am

re: #302 Vicious Babushka

Using a relationship metaphor isn’t so smart when taking about Snowden

305 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:06:07am
306 geoffm33  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:07:32am

re: #302 Vicious Babushka

If I found out my wife was keeping the meta data about the phone calls into and out of the house in a secure location. And couldn’t access those records without going through congress approved measures to safeguard my privacy…..

307 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:08:01am

How many people were actually saying “Hail Satan”?

308 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:08:54am

Ynet:

Israel agrees to Egypt troop movements in Sinai
IDF states Egypt moved forces into border area near Gaza Strip with Israeli authorization; move estimated to contain possible unrest in light of recent mass protests across Egypt

309 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:08:58am

DERP

310 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:09:16am

re: #307 Vicious Babushka

How many people were actually saying “Hail Satan”?

At least one more than was smart and useful. Do you want to teach subtlety to the RWNJs?

311 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:09:37am

re: #293 Decatur Deb

There’s a rink in Montgomery, AL. Seems like an affront to nature.

I used to go ice skating in summer when I lived in northern VA. I had better rink access there than I did living in western PA.

312 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:11:09am

re: #311 Feline Fearless Leader

I used to go ice skating in summer when I lived in northern VA. I had better rink access there than I did living in western PA.

Step-dad was an industrial league player from McKees Rocks. We had an outdoor rink there.

313 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:11:48am

re: #302 Vicious Babushka

DUMBEST TWEET OF TEH DAY (SO FAR)

I’d be mad at the person who told me, because how the hell do they know?

314 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:12:54am

heh…

315 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:13:09am

If anyone was wondering what those Helicopters in Egypt were doing yesterday

Youtube Video

316 Ian G.  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:13:53am

Mornin’ Lizards

So, pondering 150 years since Gettysburg, I recall visiting the site 3 years ago. One thing that makes me realize how much progress we’ve made as a country (despite resistance from the GOP) is that the two states with the largest monuments on the Confederate side, Virginia and North Carolina, both voted for a black man for president in 2008.

Also, you see far, far more American flags planted by monuments on the Union side (particularly the 20th Maine markers) than you see Confederate flags on the other side. Again, despite the loud, obnoxious voices of a few, it appears most Americans who visit Gettysburg know who was in the right in that war.

317 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:13:54am
318 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:14:20am

re: #312 Decatur Deb

Step-dad was an industrial league player from McKees Rocks. We had an outdoor rink there.

Only place I recall outdoor rinks from was living in northeastern NY state. And I see some around where my brother lives in western NY state. Though there are also plenty of covered rinks in that area for the various hockey leagues to use. (My niece played on a team that took part in a NY state league and also a league that was a mix of NY and Ontario teams at the same time.)

319 Targetpractice  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:15:03am

re: #317 NJDhockeyfan

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But to arrest or reinforce?

320 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:15:09am
321 A Mom Anon  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:15:13am

re: #307 Vicious Babushka

I could only find the one young woman being a smartass. I’d also like to know about the human pentagram one of the morons mentioned. Meanwhile, a Christian group was encouraging members to circle the Capitol building 7 times while chanting prayers. As a former pagan practitioner, I had to laugh my ass off. That is SO pagan in essence it’s hilarious. Circles and prayers and chanting are a big part of many ceremonies.

322 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:15:44am

re: #315 dragonath

If anyone was wondering what those Helicopters in Egypt were doing yesterday

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That is a lot of people. Wow.

323 Ian G.  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:16:15am

I dunno, Josh Satin has been off to a helluva start for the Mets this season: .390 batting average, and a .510 OBP, and he got the rally started the other night that led to the come-from-behind win over Arizona.

I think people should recognize his feats by chanting “Hail Satin!”

/

324 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:16:47am

re: #321 A Mom Anon

I could only find the one young woman being a smartass. I’d also like to know about the human pentagram one of the morons mentioned. Meanwhile, a Christian group was encouraging members to circle the Capitol building 7 times while chanting prayers. As a former pagan practitioner, I had to laugh my ass off. That is SO pagan in essence it’s hilarious. Circles and prayers and chanting are a big part of many ceremonies.

Someone should post them some film of pilgrims at Mecca.

325 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:16:54am

re: #321 A Mom Anon

I could only find the one young woman being a smartass. I’d also like to know about the human pentagram one of the morons mentioned. Meanwhile, a Christian group was encouraging members to circle the Capitol building 7 times while chanting prayers. As a former pagan practitioner, I had to laugh my ass off. That is SO pagan in essence it’s hilarious. Circles and prayers and chanting are a big part of many ceremonies.

Thinking Jericho. A couple good trumpeters and they could bring the statehouse down.

326 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:17:51am

re: #321 A Mom Anon

I could only find the one young woman being a smartass. I’d also like to know about the human pentagram one of the morons mentioned. Meanwhile, a Christian group was encouraging members to circle the Capitol building 7 times while chanting prayers. As a former pagan practitioner, I had to laugh my ass off. That is SO pagan in essence it’s hilarious. Circles and prayers and chanting are a big part of many ceremonies.

In a Jewish wedding ceremony, the bride circles the groom 7 times. So all these demonstrators will be GAY MARRIED TO A BUILDING IN A JUICE CEREMONY!!11

327 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:18:35am

re: #326 Vicious Babushka

In a Jewish wedding ceremony, the bride circles the groom 7 times. So all these demonstrators will be GAY MARRIED TO A BUILDING IN A JUICE CEREMONY!!11

Do his pants fall down?

328 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:19:19am

re: #325 Decatur Deb

Thinking Jericho. A couple good trumpeters and they could bring the statehouse down.

To be fair, if they actually managed to pull that off, it might not be a bad thing.

329 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:19:41am

re: #321 A Mom Anon

Where did they get the number 7 from anyway? Reminds me of those dumbasses who do home exorcisms.

330 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:20:44am

re: #329 dragonath

Where did they get the number 7 from anyway? Reminds me of those dumbasses who do home exorcisms.

7 is a big Biblical number.

331 Ian G.  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:20:52am

re: #329 dragonath

Where did they get the number 7 from anyway? Reminds me of those dumbasses who do home exorcisms.

The Book of Revelation? Crazy John of Patmos constantly uses the number in his ravings.

332 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:21:20am

re: #329 dragonath

Where did they get the number 7 from anyway? Reminds me of those dumbasses who do home exorcisms.

3,7, 12, 40. All big juju numbers in the western world. Different in American Indian and oriental culture.

333 Killgore Trout  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:23:16am

re: #317 NJDhockeyfan

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deadline is coming up in a few minutes.

334 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:26:18am

What is Hamas up to?

335 Wile E. Wonka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:27:27am

re: #329 dragonath

Where did they get the number 7 from anyway? Reminds me of those dumbasses who do home exorcisms.

They’re all secretly Pixies fans.
/

Youtube Video

336 Killgore Trout  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:28:52am

re: #334 NJDhockeyfan

What is Hamas up to?

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Interesting. They might be just about the only armed force that might be loyal to Morsi.

337 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:30:23am

re: #336 Killgore Trout

Well maybe. From the Times of Israel:

Egypt’s Republican Guards are in control of the state television offices, not regular army units as was reported elsewhere, the Guardian’s Patrick Kingsley says.

Although an elite unit of the Egyptian army, the Republican Guards are nominally under the control of President Morsi and are responsible for, among other things, securing government locations in Cairo, meaning that the television station is likely not under army control after all.

338 Wile E. Wonka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:31:05am

re: #302 Vicious Babushka

My first reaction? “Depends on whether it’s true. I mean, is he saying my spouse is cheating on me when all he knows is that she could cheat on me if she decided to?”

Second reaction — “If he takes it to the press, I’m gonna be pissed!”

339 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:32:20am
340 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:34:23am


Now what?

341 Romantic Heretic  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:34:59am

re: #197 Kragar

I’m still trying to figure out how other people being able to engage in voluntary behavior they don’t approve of equals oppression.

Because it is a sign that they are no longer the dominant power in America and by extension in the world.

They used to be able to tell everybody what they could and could not do. Plus they had the force to back those orders up.

Now that isn’t the case and they hate that fact. They will do anything to get it back, and I do mean anything. There will be another Alfred P. Murrah incident before too much longer.

342 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:37:20am

WOW…what a picture.

343 darthstar  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:37:24am

re: #340 NJDhockeyfan

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Now what?

Now we wait…some more. It’s not like they have TNT packed around the building and they’re going to blow it sky high at the stroke of high noon.

344 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:38:37am

re: #343 darthstar

Now we wait…some more. It’s not like they have TNT packed around the building and they’re going to blow it sky high at the stroke of high noon.

The military is supposed to make a statement. I’m curious to see what they have to say.

345 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:39:37am

re: #342 NJDhockeyfan

WOW…what a picture.

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Awesome but it’s from 2010.

346 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:40:13am

AJE:

347 darthstar  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:41:21am

Wouldn’t it be funny if Snowden brought down the google?

348 Interesting Times  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:41:24am

If it’s a legitimate president, the Egyptian army has a way to shut that whole thing down.

349 darthstar  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:42:04am

re: #346 dragonath

AJE:

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So much for a peaceful coup.

350 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:42:35am
351 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:45:22am

When 10 million people are out on the streets, u dun screwed up.

352 ProTARDISLiberal  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:50:34am

re: #351 dragonath

No kidding. Still, you have admire the Egyptians.

353 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:52:15am
354 lawhawk  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:53:12am

re: #332 Decatur Deb

Aw craps. /yo 11

355 lawhawk  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:53:55am

re: #347 darthstar

Bing! /

356 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:55:53am

We have a deadthread analyst:

littlegreenfootballs.com

357 Weet  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:57:48am

I watched the entire proceeding in Austin yesterday. I had friends there but they didn’t get to speak. A few notes:

The House State Affairs Committee mostly had the witnesses speak in rotation, one FOR the bill, then one AGAINST, even there were many more people signed up to speak AGAINST the bill. For the first few hours, the committee ‘accidentally’ let more people speak FOR the bill.

The Texas Hospital Association sent their representative to oppose the bill due to Section 2 of House Bill 2, which requires the physician to have admitting privileges at a hospital within 30 miles. There should be an ‘alternative agreement’ clause, but the bill does not have that. This part of the bill will probably result in an injunction in the courts.

There were many intelligent statements made by the Pro-Choice individuals. As for those supporting the bill, it was a mixture of religious fanatics, women crying with stories of regretting their abortion (and some claiming they were ‘forced’ to have an abortion), and some unstable and somewhat scary men. Lots of dumbasses.

Here’s a good chart of the current abortion laws in each state.
State by state abortion law chart

There are so many facts, but I’ll close with this one. Plastic Surgery kills 50 times more people than abortion (there were 12 deaths nationwide in 2008 from abortion, which was higher than most years.) Yet Texas does not require Plastic Surgery to be performed in an ambulatory surgical center, but this bill requires it for abortions. “We’re only making medicine safer for women.”

All of Lt. Gov Dewhurst’s tweets in recent weeks have been anti-abortion. You may have seen this one before, but it’s important, as it is his admittance that he wants to close clinics. The other Republicans continuously lie and say that this is not the objective.

358 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 7:58:00am

This explains a lot…

Stephanie Gilley ‏@StephieGilley4m
If you don’t agree that American Culture perpetuates male worship then why does every high school have a huge football stadium?

359 ProTARDISLiberal  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:00:07am

Broadcast of Military announcement in 1 minute (1500 GMT)

360 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:00:55am

re: #354 lawhawk

Aw craps. /yo 11

Had to Google it. My youth was spent in prayer and meditation.

361 lawhawk  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:03:58am

NBC News is reporting that the Army has seized the television headquarters.

362 sagehen  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:04:53am

re: #351 dragonath

When 10 million people are out on the streets, u dun screwed up.

14 million, which is about 15% of the population. On Chris Hayes last night, he was saying this is the largest demonstration in human history. I wanted to argue, but… I couldn’t think of anything. Even the anti-Iraq-war demos, you’d have to combine a bunch of countries’ worth to get that big a number.

363 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:05:06am

re: #361 lawhawk

NBC News is reporting that the Army has seized the television headquarters.

They have all the radio stations too.

364 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:06:01am

re: #363 NJDhockeyfan

They have all the radio stations too.

So the Egyptian Army is now the Outer Limits.

365 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:06:30am
366 palomino  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:06:36am

re: #291 Vicious Babushka

DERP
THIS PRUVEZ THAT ROMNEY WON TEH ELEKSHUN WITH TEH MOAST RED SPACES!!11!! WHY ISN’T HE TEH PRESIDENT NOW!!!!111

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That’s the 2000 electoral map. Of all the dumbass things a Republican crybaby could post regarding presidential elections, this makes the least sense.

And you’re absolutely right. Even supposedly serious pundits (George Will among others) have made the argument that the size of the territory won is an important factor in assessing presidential election results. As silly as that sounds, when cows and cornfields are given the franchise, he’ll be right.

367 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:07:35am

re: #366 palomino

That’s the 2000 electoral map. Of all the dumbass things a Republican crybaby could post regarding presidential elections, this makes the least sense.

And you’re absolutely right. Even supposedly serious pundits (George Will among others) have made the argument that the size of the territory won is an important factor in assessing presidential election results. As silly as that sounds, when cows and cornfields are given the franchise, he’ll be right.

I’m sure George would support a property ownership requirement for the franchise if it was brought up.

368 EmmaAnne  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:08:56am

re: #300 A Mom Anon

I’m so over these assholes I could scream. And I really want to throttle that dumb kid and her “Hail Satan” messing around. Is it at all possible that the people organizing these protests could maybe use social media to give people some guidelines? Like for example, when the hymns start just sing along, maybe a bit louder? Or if a camera is pointed at you, saying something like “It’s a beautiful day, isn’t it?”. We have all this technology, let’s use it for fuck’s sake.

I would take issue with the idea that she did anything wrong or we should be all abashed about it. She was pulling their legs, it was funny and they freaked out on cue. I say we point and laugh.

369 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:10:45am

re: #368 EmmaAnne

I would take issue with the idea that she did anything wrong or we should be all abashed about it. She was pulling their legs, it was funny and they freaked out on cue. I say we point and laugh.

Depends on your goal: yukks or progessive laws.

370 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:10:59am

GAH. TEH FAKE QUOTE WILL NOT DIE.

371 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:13:18am

re: #369 Decatur Deb

It was a pretty stupid gesture, IMHO. The RWNJs doing legislation have absolutely no sense of humor and neither do those who are rooting to ban all abortion. So, yeah, as humor it falls pretty damned flat.

372 Gus  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:14:06am

It appears that Rep. Scott Sanford has deleted those Tweets.

373 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:14:50am

re: #371 Justanotherhuman

It was a pretty stupid gesture, IMHO. The RWNJs doing legislation have absolutely no sense of humor and neither do those who are rooting to ban all abortion. So, yeah, as humor it falls pretty damned flat.

But sort of intersting that if the same woman had gotten access to speak in the hearing anything she said would have been totally ignored as compared to the freakout that has taken place.

374 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:15:43am

…And the crowd goes nuts!

In Tahrir of course.

375 EmmaAnne  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:18:15am

re: #369 Decatur Deb

Depends on your goal: yukks or progessive laws.

The law is happening no matter how well we behave. All we can do is bring attention and hopefully change attitudes. I think most people will realize it was a joke and laugh at the freakout. But in any case there isn’t any controlling every individual.

376 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:19:38am

re: #375 EmmaAnne

The law is happening no matter how well we behave. All we can do is bring attention and hopefully change attitudes. I think most people will realize it was a joke and laugh at the freakout. But in any case there isn’t any controlling every individual.

Much as they would like to control every individual. Especially women and minorities.

377 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:19:54am

JUSTIN BEIBER NEW PRESIDENT BY ACCLAMATION

15 MILLION BELIEBERS CAN’T BE WRONG

378 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:20:23am

re: #373 Feline Fearless Leader

But sort of intersting that if the same woman had gotten access to speak in the hearing anything she said would have been totally ignored as compared to the freakout that has taken place.

Loud demonstration hit its peak last week. Yesterday the fix was in. The pro-life forces would have been more useful if they had spent the day registering voters and assuring any needed ID.

379 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:20:59am
380 GunstarGreen  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:21:26am

re: #310 Decatur Deb

At least one more than was smart and useful. Do you want to teach subtlety to the RWNJs?

Actually, yes.

I’d much rather be dealing with people that understand nuance and subtlety, than trying desperately to control random single persons because the other side cannot be trusted to function on the level of well-adjusted adult humans.

I’m fucking tired of this nation’s political discourse being dumbed down to the lowest common denominator, that being some inbred moron in Toadsuck, Alabama.

381 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:22:17am

re: #375 EmmaAnne

The law is happening no matter how well we behave. All we can do is bring attention and hopefully change attitudes. I think most people will realize it was a joke and laugh at the freakout. But in any case there isn’t any controlling every individual.

There is an art to mounting an effective demonstration. Texas pro-choice hasn’t learned it.

382 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:22:45am

FREEDOM!!!1 TEH RIGHT TO TWEET FAKE QUOTES WITHOUT FEAR OR BEING MADE FUN UV BYE LIBRULZ WHO THINKZ THEY IZ SMARTER THEN USS!!11

383 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:23:15am

re: #380 GunstarGreen

Actually, yes.

I’d much rather be dealing with people that understand nuance and subtlety, than trying desperately to control random single persons because the other side cannot be trusted to function on the level of well-adjusted adult humans.

I’m fucking tired of this nation’s political discourse being dumbed down to the lowest common denominator, that being some inbred moron in Toadsuck, Alabama.

The inbred moron’s vote has exactly the same value as yours, if we’re lucky.

384 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:24:09am

re: #382 Vicious Babushka

FREEDOM!!!1 TEH RIGHT TO TWEET FAKE QUOTES WITHOUT FEAR OR BEING MADE FUN UV BYE LIBRULZ WHO THINKZ THEY IZ SMARTER THEN USS!!11

Doesn’t that translate to “‘lying for Jesus’ is OK with us”?

385 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:24:47am

DERP
THIS HAS TO DO WITH FAKE QUOTES WHAT EXACTLY?

386 celticdragon  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:25:03am

re: #3 jamesfirecat

I prefer Cthulhu myself, or maybe one of those obscure D&D gods who are so evil you get a feat for agreeing to serve them….

All hail Khorne! Blood for the Blood God! Skulls for the Skull Throne!

387 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:25:31am

re: #385 Vicious Babushka

DERP
THIS HAS TO DO WITH FAKE QUOTES WHAT EXACTLY?

They have activated their deflector shields.

388 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:25:55am

re: #385 Vicious Babushka

Well, the good news is apparently there’s only one Islamic extremist out there raping and murdering.

389 darthstar  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:26:02am
390 GunstarGreen  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:26:40am

re: #383 Decatur Deb

The inbred moron’s vote has exactly the same value as yours, if we’re lucky.

It is the year 2013 and this nation is still being significantly influenced by people that believe in ghosts, zombies, and magical skydads — and want to base our laws on millenia-old fairy tales about such nonsense. That is a problem.

391 darthstar  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:27:13am

re: #385 Vicious Babushka

DERP
THIS HAS TO DO WITH FAKE QUOTES WHAT EXACTLY?

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I blame the Designated Hitter rule in the AL.

392 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:27:46am

re: #391 darthstar

I blame the Designated Hitter rule in the AL.

You don’t blame OBAMA?//

393 Gus  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:28:01am
394 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:28:10am
395 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:28:38am

re: #390 GunstarGreen

It is the year 2013 and this nation is still being significantly influenced by people that believe in ghosts, zombies, and magical skydads — and want to base our laws on millenia-old fairy tales about such nonsense. That is a problem.

Yes—and it will still be a problem in 3013. Only the pantheon will change. Better if we learn to work around it.

396 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:28:39am

re: #392 Vicious Babushka

You don’t blame OBAMA?//

Obama is simply a symptom of the greater issue of our diseased National Pastime.

397 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:29:11am

Chesty has been imagining slaying a LIBRUL for a long time.

398 celticdragon  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:29:27am

re: #25 Shiplord Kirel

I can’t believe this kind of insanity is actually happening in public life in the twenty-first century. I’ve been watching public discourse and politics for over 50 years. Nothing in my experience even comes close to what we have seen recently from the GOP and its lunatic mainstream.

I cannot think of any modern analogue where a great power has actually declined in terms of public education and the ability to engage in critical thinking. We really are seeing the destruction of America through sheer lack of education. This literally the dumbing down of America…although populist paranoia has been with us for quite some time.

399 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:29:41am

re: #390 GunstarGreen

It is the year 2013 and this nation is still being significantly influenced by people that believe in ghosts, zombies, and magical skydads — and want to base our laws on millenia-old fairy tales about such nonsense. That is a problem.

It’s simply our inner ape wanting to scream at the lightning and pound the ground with sticks to hide the inner fear. Get used to it.

400 darthstar  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:29:47am
401 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:31:27am
402 Gus  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:32:14am

You ever notice how Christians are always saying “I’m a Christian” every 15 seconds?

403 stabby  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:32:32am

re: #394 Vicious Babushka

derpity derpity derp!

If you’re left of Torquemada, you hate Jews, QED!

404 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:33:28am
405 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:34:11am

re: #402 Gus

You ever notice how Christians are always saying “I’m a Christian” every 15 seconds?

It’s an insecurity thing. They desperately want to believe that they have special favor with God.

406 b.d.  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:34:41am

re: #402 Gus

You ever notice how Christians are always saying “I’m a Christian” every 15 seconds?

Them and vegetarians have a lot in common on that.

Could you imagine how much a christian vegetarian would yammer on, thank God there is no such thing.

407 Weet  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:35:07am

re: #29 Gus

You don’t have super powers. Your consciousness is like your bones. Like your liver, heart, kidneys. Stop pretending you’re some kind of super being.

Here we disagree. I propose that consciousness exists outside of physical reality, comes before physical reality. And I think science will prove this. Physicists have their hand on the doorknob.

I realize that I cannot prove this. Science makes new discoveries every day.

408 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:36:07am

re: #406 b.d.

Them and vegetarians have a lot in common on that.

Could you imagine how much a christian vegetarian would yammer on, thank God there is no such thing.

Trappists. Fortunately they accept a rule of silence.

409 geoffm33  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:36:23am

re: #370 Vicious Babushka

LOL, FREE PHONES!!!!!!

410 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:38:42am

re: #393 Gus

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411 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:38:53am

re: #407 Weet

Here we disagree. I propose that consciousness exists outside of physical reality, comes before physical reality. And I think science will prove this. Physicists have their hand on the doorknob.

I realize that I cannot prove this. Science makes new discoveries every day.

That sounds sort of animist in basis.

412 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:38:53am

re: #402 Gus

You ever notice how Christians are always saying “I’m a Christian” every 15 seconds?

My parents, who are annoyingly devout Catholics, have friends who have no clue what religion they are because they’re not obnoxious about it.

413 stabby  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:39:02am

Remember the old commercial “Froot loops are part of this balanced breakfast”?

I’m having curried rice and lentils, a smoothy and sardines, cheese on crackers

414 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:39:32am

re: #410 NJDhockeyfan

Only way to be sure is ask Wolf Blitzer and assume the opposite of what he answers.
//

415 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:39:48am

re: #407 Weet

Here we disagree. I propose that consciousness exists outside of physical reality, comes before physical reality. And I think science will prove this. Physicists have their hand on the doorknob.

I realize that I cannot prove this. Science makes new discoveries every day.

What you just said is kind of incoherent. Physicists investigate physical reality. When you talk about magic, that’s not something physicists are into.

416 Weet  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:40:08am

re: #43 sagehen

Or you could just have a Jewish burial… no embalming, plain wooden box, within a time frame suitable for desert nomads.

There’s a place here in Texas outside Huntsville where you can be buried like that, even without the box. That’s where I’m going. Nice fields and trees. Free (but they like donations).

417 Political Atheist  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:40:29am

re: #1 Targetpractice

I await the evidence…I imagine I’ll be here for awhile, so could somebody grab me a Snickers?

Maybe an overnight kit… Oh wait it’s already morning. :-)

418 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:40:58am

re: #413 stabby

Remember the old commercial “Froot loops are part of this balanced breakfast”?

I’m having curried rice and lentils, a smoothy and sardines, cheese on crackers

Said breakfast being pretty balanced still if you left out the Froot Loops and drank the milk with it separately.

Is it a sardine smoothy? Or eating them on the crackers with the cheese?

419 BongCrodny  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:41:11am

re: #290 Decatur Deb

But the baseball season goes on much too long.

It’s that way here, too.

420 Gus  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:41:21am

re: #405 thedopefishlives

It’s an insecurity thing. They desperately want to believe that they have special favor with God.

Some kind of symbol of authority perhaps.

421 darthstar  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:41:28am

re: #401 Vicious Babushka

Has Derp Prudence blocked you yet?

422 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:42:09am

re: #416 Weet

There’s a place here in Texas outside Huntsville where you can be buried like that, even without the box. That’s where I’m going. Nice fields and trees. Free (but they like donations).

I plug these guys in Florida every once in a while. Seem to be part of a small network:

glendalenaturepreserve.org

423 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:42:59am

re: #420 Gus

Some kind of symbol of authority perhaps.

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: These kind of people’s slogan is, “I’m right and you’re wrong because Jesus.”

424 Gus  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:44:08am


Prophet profit!

425 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:44:21am

re: #420 Gus

Some kind of symbol of authority perhaps.

With a bunch of the Protestant faiths isn’t “I’m a Christian” = “I have a personal relationship with Jesus”?

Short religious discussion with some of my friends last Saturday. One, who had attended my mother’s memorial service at a UU fellowship said that he liked the place since when he walked in he immediately saw the “Tree of Life” over on the wall. (He’s a modern pagan of some sort - I’ve never pried.)

426 stabby  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:44:35am

re: #418 Feline Fearless Leader

On the crackers (big rice cakes) with onion sliced so thin that it’s transparent.

427 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:46:05am

re: #402 Gus

That’s a real symptom of doubt.

428 sagehen  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:46:08am

re: #407 Weet

Here we disagree. I propose that consciousness exists outside of physical reality, comes before physical reality. And I think science will prove this. Physicists have their hand on the doorknob.

I realize that I cannot prove this. Science makes new discoveries every day.

The animating human life force, a series of electrical impulses along nerves and chemical reactions within cells, is unique to each individual and can be documented through EEGs. Whether this energy matrix remains coherent and sentient after leaving the body at death… is a matter of faith. Personally, I think it does for a time, if it doesn’t degrade too drastically while one’s body languishes on life support after the brain stops working…

429 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:46:54am

re: #421 darthstar

Has Derp Prudence blocked you yet?

Totally.

430 Weet  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:46:55am

re: #84 jaunte

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Responsive government.

Actually the chair announced that there were over 2,000 signed up, so I am not sure where these numbers come from. Perhaps by 11pm, many left.

431 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:47:03am
432 William Barnett-Lewis  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:47:31am

re: #412 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

My parents, who are annoyingly devout Catholics, have friends who have no clue what religion they are because they’re not obnoxious about it.

As it should be. I need to be better at that.

433 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:47:42am

Chesty is going on and on and on about FREEDUMB. So much butthurt over a Fake Quote.

434 Romantic Heretic  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:49:33am

re: #382 Vicious Babushka

FREEDOM!!!1 TEH RIGHT TO TWEET FAKE QUOTES WITHOUT FEAR OR BEING MADE FUN UV BYE LIBRULZ WHO THINKZ THEY IZ SMARTER THEN USS!!11

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So, lying in support of your cause is okay, Mr. Puller?

Furthermore, naming your Twitter account after a famous U.S. Marine general demonstrates exactly what a weak ego you have. But I’ve found that to be the case with most RWNJs. It’s why they attach themselves to a Great Cause™. If they didn’t belong to such a thing they think they’d be nothing. As Erich Fromme pointed out, it’s an escape from freedom.

435 Gus  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:50:08am
436 Gus  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:50:37am

Reprisals.

437 stabby  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:51:22am

re: #431 NJDhockeyfan

Thank god.

438 Gus  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:51:45am


Not that it will go anywhere.

439 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:52:19am

Snowden’s Russia:

Police detain Russian mayor who left Putin’s party

440 Interesting Times  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:52:20am

re: #435 Gus

Same-sex marriage bad! Money laundering to avoid abuse payouts good!

441 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:52:50am

re: #438 Gus

Not that it will go anywhere.

What GOP war on women?
///

442 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:53:01am

re: #435 Gus

[Embedded content]Catholic Church Stops Supporting Museum For Offering To Host Same-Sex Weddings

Looks like two institutions that have lost track of their core mission.

443 stabby  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:53:01am

re: #435 Gus

I bet that so many people will donate to that museum in response that losing the Catholic church will be the best thing that ever happened to it.

444 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:53:13am
445 Interesting Times  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:53:31am

re: #438 Gus

I’ll make Rubio a deal: his bill will be seriously considered if he can go without water for 13 hours :P

446 Gus  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:53:41am

It’s all right there in front of us now. Egypt, the Middle East, Texas, North Carolina… Religion has NO place in governing. NONE!

447 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:54:43am

re: #444 NJDhockeyfan

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Glorious Basterd Troll.

448 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:55:35am

Fuck yes, I need this!

gothamist.com

Hipster heat map.

449 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:56:14am

re: #446 Gus

It’s all right there in front of us now. Egypt, the Middle East, Texas, North Carolina… Religion has NO place in governing. NONE!

Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it.

450 Gus  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:56:27am

re: #448 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

Fuck yes, I need this!

gothamist.com

Hipster heat map.

Ethical Hipster

451 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:56:54am

SAME RWNJ TACTIC THAT HATINGBREITBART USED ON CHARLES

452 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:57:05am

re: #449 thedopefishlives

Those who do not learn history are doomed to repeat it eighth grade.

453 Gus  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:57:06am
454 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:59:15am

*FACE PALM*

455 Archangelus  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:59:22am

Local Israeli news are quoting Morsi advisors stating that “a coup has begun, blood will be spilled”..

456 Gus  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 8:59:56am
457 b.d.  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:00:03am

re: #438 Gus

Poor Rubio. He p*ssed off the teabaggers with his immigration bill so now it is time for some worthless appeasement stunt.

458 piratedan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:00:40am

got to hand it to these guys, you want to show the other side in a bad light, playing the Satan card is a sure fire way to win converts to your cause. Who knew there were so many Satanic worshipers hidden in the small towns and big cities of Texas. Now that this new issue has been exposed that Texas Churches are obviously unable to handle the important task of keeping Texas in the column for Christ; I expect Rick Perry to bring those churches under state control in order to ensure that they meet the State of Texas’ rigorous theological standards and announce that there will be one true Church of the State of Texas.

459 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:01:51am

re: #455 Archangelus

Local Israeli news are quoting Morsi advisors stating that “a coup has begun, blood will be spilled”…

460 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:02:37am
461 b.d.  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:02:46am

re: #456 Gus

I was going to ask the importance of such a hearsay tweet until I looked to see who it was from.

462 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:03:28am

WOW TEH BUTTHURT JUST GOES ON AND ON

463 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:03:46am

re: #460 NJDhockeyfan

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“So, Sisi, you up to anything special today?”

464 Archangelus  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:03:47am

Should I even bother pointing out that the Egyptian development is all anyone here (and i think that by ‘here’ I can basically refer to everyone in the middle east, not just Israel at this time) is paying attention to right now? Folks are following this more closely than a World Cup championship, and that’s saying something in this soccer/non-US-football obsessed country..

465 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:04:28am

re: #455 Archangelus

Local Israeli news are quoting Morsi advisors stating that “a coup has begun, blood will be spilled”…

What Would Menhit Do?

466 Archangelus  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:05:09am

re: #463 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

“So, Sisi, you up to anything special today?”

“Oh not much, dude. Getting some stuff done, watering the plants, shopping, kicking out the current administration and so on…”

467 Weet  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:05:26am

re: #128 dragonath

I was kind of expecting this guy’s district to be in the sticks but it stretches from Denton to McKinney, which is just outside Dallas/Ft. Worth.

That IS the sticks around here. It’s ~172,000 people, about 7% the size of Dallas County. It’s 67.4% white. Plano/Collin County is heavily Republican.
Link

468 Gus  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:05:39am
469 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:06:03am
470 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:06:47am
471 Gus  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:07:38am
472 stabby  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:07:41am

re: #462 Vicious Babushka

And the only thing that stands between us and murdering child molesters is FAKE QUOTES BY THOMAS JEFFERSON BUNNY!

By the way I googled thomas jefferson bunny… there’s plenty of hits, its like a new form of rule 34

Image: kitty_hamilton_on_bunny_jefferson__s_politics_by_voidstone-d56up29.png

473 twisty  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:07:47am

re: #357 Weet

Late on this, but wow, I hadn’t seen the map before. That puts nearly all women in West Texas 5-6+ hours from the nearest clinic in NM unless I’m mistaken. At least two days off from work, a hell of a lot of gas/bus money, care for any dependents… pretty sick.

I bet they would just love to do the same thing to polling places in strategic parts of the country.

474 lawhawk  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:08:52am


Time to consult the Magic 8 ball…

475 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:09:22am

re: #471 Gus

Bolivian plane schedules new stopover.

476 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:09:43am

re: #472 stabby

And the only thing that stands between us and murdering child molesters is FAKE QUOTES BY THOMAS JEFFERSON BUNNY!

By the way I googled thomas jefferson bunny… there’s plenty of hits, its like a new form of rule 34

Image: kitty_hamilton_on_bunny_jefferson__s_politics_by_voidstone-d56up29.png

I like Tomcat Jefferson.

477 Gus  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:09:53am

re: #475 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

Bolivian plane schedules new stopover.

Where’s the outrage? //

478 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:10:43am
479 Sionainn  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:11:23am

re: #470 Vicious Babushka

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It’s like you are having a completely different conversation than the other person….if it’s a person.

480 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:12:32am
481 stabby  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:12:40am

re: #476 Vicious Babushka

Yeah but with the bunny it makes sense to say “Here’s Thomas Jefferson with a pancake on his head, your argument is invalid!”

Image: pancake_bunny_starry_night.jpg

482 Bulworth  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:13:11am

CNN MSNBC still showing Zimmerman trial. CNN has a little picture-in-picture showing crowds in Cairo.

483 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:14:11am

re: #474 lawhawk

Well, they’re earthbound, so there’s that. No trips to the moon on goassamer wings or anything even close.

484 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:16:50am

re: #482 Bulworth

CNN MSNBC still showing Zimmerman trial. CNN has a little picture-in-picture showing crowds in Cairo.

Pretty pathetic. I remember when important historical events were covered live as they were happening.

485 Bulworth  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:17:25am

re: #484 NJDhockeyfan

CNN is now on the Egypt situation

486 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:17:59am
487 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:18:00am

re: #485 Bulworth

CNN is now on the Egypt situation

Ah, good. More inaccurate reporting for us to mock and humiliate.

488 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:18:19am

re: #485 Bulworth

CNN is now on the Egypt situation

Must be lunch time in the court room.

489 Archangelus  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:18:24am

re: #484 NJDhockeyfan

Pretty pathetic. I remember when important historical events were covered live as they were happening.

Today that role has been effectively usurped by the allmighty Interwebs. I must say I find it surprising, and distressing, that it’s almost as if they’re not bothering to fight back anymore…

490 GunstarGreen  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:18:25am

re: #442 Decatur Deb

Looks like two institutions that have lost track of their core mission.

It’s kind of cute, in its own twisted way. An institution of kid touchers withdrawing their support from another institution that believes consenting adults should be able to do whatever the hell they want without the government discriminating against them for it.

The catholic church believes that homosexuality is only okay when it’s a priest forcing himself on an altar boy. Consent is evil.

491 twisty  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:19:55am

re: #480 Vicious Babushka

I wonder when “I will pray for you” surpassed “bless your heart” for the title of Most Popular ‘Fuck You’ Substitute?

492 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:22:37am

re: #491 twisty

I wonder when “I will pray for you” surpassed “bless your heart” for the title of Most Popular ‘Fuck You’ Substitute?

RWNJ’s spend most of their time fantasizing about how they would TOTALLY WIN a confrontation with a detested LIBRUL and then when they get a live one it’s FAIL FAIL FAIL.

493 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:22:47am

Damn, look all all these maniacs on twitter blaming events in Egypt on Obama.

Obviously Obama controls EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, ALL THE TIME with his secret Muslim Decoder Ring.

494 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:23:29am

re: #485 Bulworth

CNN is now on the Egypt situation

MSNBC now, as well

495 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:24:05am

re: #494 Backwoods_Sleuth

MSNBC now, as well

Ah, so the revolution coup will be televised?

496 Bulworth  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:24:41am

re: #493 dragonath

Obama’s supporting the MB. Obama is the MB. Obama is undermining Morsi/MB…

Why doesn’t Obama LEAD??!!!

//

497 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:25:19am

Crowd in Tahrir is cheering like crazy again.

498 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:25:39am

re: #496 Bulworth

Obama’s supporting the MB. Obama is the MB. Obama is undermining Morsi/MB…

Why doesn’t Obama LEAD??!!!

//

Because Obama is secretly a Bug. They thrive on chaos you know!
//

499 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:26:51am

re: #492 Vicious Babushka

RWNJ’s spend most of their time fantasizing about how they would TOTALLY WIN a confrontation with a detested LIBRUL and then when they get a live one it’s FAIL FAIL FAIL.

It’s kinda like conspiracy nuts. They get so hyped up about converting people to their cause, then when they meet a sane and rational person and try to discuss anything with them, they just fall apart.

500 piratedan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:27:26am

re: #496 Bulworth

Obama’s supporting the MB. Obama is the MB. Obama is undermining Morsi/MB…

Why doesn’t Obama LEAD??!!!

//

guess it goes back to those whole “following the law” meme that the President has, i.e. Morsi was elected, If the people are unhappy, they should wait until there’s another election (granted that is a huge leap assuming the MB would ever ALLOW another election). At least the guy in the WH is trying to be consistent.

501 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:27:44am
502 Bubblehead II  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:27:49am

re: #480 Vicious Babushka

Image: Ill-pray-for-you.jpg

503 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:28:25am


Uh…

504 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:28:37am
505 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:28:52am

These people are so damn incoherent

506 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:29:46am

re: #503 dragonath

Uh…

Heh. Even the intra-Arab squabbling and rivalry is the fault of Israel. Of course.

507 b.d.  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:30:12am

re: #504 NJDhockeyfan

guest of the army…

Well isn’t that nice of them

508 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:30:45am

re: #499 thedopefishlives

It’s kinda like conspiracy nuts. They get so hyped up about converting people to their cause, then when they meet a sane and rational person and try to discuss anything with them, they just fall apart.

I’m kind of surprised he didn’t try to ask me a “question” about BENGHAZI!!11!!

509 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:31:03am

re: #507 b.d.

Well isn’t that nice of them

Great officer’s club in Thebes.

510 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:31:51am

re: #506 Feline Fearless Leader

Heh. Even the intra-Arab squabbling and rivalry is the fault of Israel. Of course.

And Obama, Sekret Kenyan Muslojew

511 abolitionist  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:32:43am

re: #510 dragonath

And Obama, Sekret Kenyan Muslojew

You left out commie. /

512 Gus  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:33:20am

re: #503 dragonath

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Uh…

TEH JUICE!

513 lawhawk  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:39:11am
514 jayjaybear  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:43:30am
515 gwangung  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:44:19am

re: #500 piratedan

guess it goes back to those whole “following the law” meme that the President has, i.e. Morsi was elected, If the people are unhappy, they should wait until there’s another election (granted that is a huge leap assuming the MB would ever ALLOW another election). At least the guy in the WH is trying to be consistent.

Guys, international diplomacy makes ROCKET SCIENCE look like kindergarten exercises….

516 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:45:38am

re: #514 jayjaybear

>>>>>>>JAYJAYGRAY<<<<<<<BLOCK!!11!!!!!

517 Sionainn  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:46:32am

re: #493 dragonath

Damn, look all all these maniacs on twitter blaming events in Egypt on Obama.

Obviously Obama controls EVERYTHING, EVERYWHERE, ALL THE TIME with his secret Muslim Decoder Ring.

Don’t forget his mad hypnotism skills, too.

518 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:46:49am

trololo

Syria says Mursi must realise Egyptians don’t want him

BEIRUT, July 3 (Reuters) - The Syrian government, fighting to crush a two-year-old uprising against President Bashar al-Assad that started with peaceful calls for reform, said on Wednesday Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi should step down for the sake of his country.

Relishing the possible downfall of one of Assad’s most vocal critics, Syrian television carried live coverage of the huge street demonstrations in Egypt demanding Mursi’s departure.

519 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:47:56am


Image: cTyQEpw.gif

520 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:47:58am

Leave Mohammed Morsi alone! Image: 3hg20f148uam0m1h.jpg

521 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:48:23am

re: #518 dragonath

trololo

Sure that story is not from the Onion?

522 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:49:04am

re: #521 NJDhockeyfan

Reuters…

523 ProTARDISLiberal  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:49:25am

The coup is televised.

524 wrenchwench  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:49:48am

re: #503 dragonath

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Uh…

That tweeter links to rense dot com, among others. I’d block it and forget it.

525 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:50:17am

...

526 SidewaysQuark  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:50:56am

re: #519 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

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Bill Ayers is responsible for the Arab Spring? Put a fork in the right wing, they’re done.

527 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:51:17am

re: #518 dragonath

al-Assad has the nerve to say that? I just don’t understand ME politics at all, I guess.

528 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:51:33am
529 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:51:43am

re: #526 SidewaysQuark

Bill Ayers is responsible for the Arab Spring? Put a fork in the right wing, they’re done.

Andi Silver is a Doofus, but she is way behind Prudence as Teh Derp Goddess.

530 Charles Johnson  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:51:55am
531 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:51:58am

re: #526 SidewaysQuark

Bill Ayers is responsible for the Arab Spring? Put a fork in the right wing, they’re done.

Bill Ayers, the same guy who said Obama should be tried for war crimes?

532 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:52:59am

re: #526 SidewaysQuark

Bill Ayers is responsible for the Arab Spring? Put a fork in the right wing, they’re done.

They’re so far past “done” that Gordon Ramsey is yelling at them, but that isn’t going to stop them any time soon.

533 NJDhockeyfan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:53:39am
534 Sionainn  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:54:01am

re: #530 Charles Johnson

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Hunh. I’m an ebil librul, and I’ve never been in an abortion clinic. ;-)

535 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:54:55am

re: #534 Sionainn

Hunh. I’m an ebil librul, and I’ve never been in an abortion clinic. ;-)

Me neither.

536 SidewaysQuark  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:55:04am

re: #530 Charles Johnson

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Contrary to what they’ll have you believe, the Gosnell horror in Philly was a dream come true for the anti-abortion activists. It’s the rightwing utopia of what abortion will look like if their dream of lack of access to safe and sanitary medical procedures comes true.

537 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:55:35am
538 GunstarGreen  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:56:21am

re: #530 Charles Johnson

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That wasn’t the smell of the clinic, it was the smell of your upper lip.

539 wrenchwench  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:56:23am

re: #530 Charles Johnson

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@prolifeadair

Pro-life & Catholic, former abortion clinic worker & recovering feminist. Loves Latin mass & Gregorian chant . If I’m not choking, there’s not enough incense.

More incense, stat!

541 piratedan  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:57:07am

re: #530 Charles Johnson

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whereas Compton and the project housing of Baltimore are as refreshing as the morning after a summer shower, full of hope and the promise of possibilities

542 b.d.  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:57:26am

re: #523 ProTARDISLiberal

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The coup is televised.

ZOMG Obama shut down their airports too?

543 Weet  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:57:32am

re: #411 Feline Fearless Leader

That sounds sort of animist in basis.

Animism has some of the same characteristics, as do Taoism and Buddism. But my difference is that I think it’s science that will prove it, and it won’t have any hocus pocus associated with it. Very small particles, etc. If you’ve studied higher math or physics, it’s not a reach to consider a multi-universe scenario.

544 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:57:47am

MOM, DAD, DON’T TOUCH IT! IT’S EVIL!

545 A Mom Anon  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:57:50am

re: #530 Charles Johnson

What? I just. Wait a minute. What the hell is she doing sniffing abortion clinics? Second, I’ve been in a clinic in my life, there was no smell beyond the smell you find anyplace, like at the mall or in a store or any other public building. She’s insane and making shit up.

These freaks have built up an imaginary world where nothing they say they’ve experienced exists. In the real world it’s called being a lying sack of crap.

546 wrenchwench  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:58:19am

re: #541 piratedan

whereas Compton and the project housing of Baltimore are as refreshing as the morning after a summer shower, full of hope and the promise of possibilities

Not to mention several former altar boys who suffer PTSD when they smell incense.

547 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:59:07am

re: #545 A Mom Anon

These freaks have built up an imaginary world where nothing they say they’ve experienced exists. In the real world it’s called being a lying sack of crap.

Saying things “smell” differently has a dark history, as far as propaganda goes.

548 GunstarGreen  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:59:14am

re: #545 A Mom Anon

What? I just. Wait a minute. What the hell is she doing sniffing abortion clinics? Second, I’ve been in a clinic in my life, there was no smell beyond the smell you find anyplace, like at the mall or in a store or any other public building. She’s insane and making shit up.

These freaks have built up an imaginary world where nothing they say they’ve experienced exists. In the real world it’s called being a lying sack of crap.

The twit(er) self-describes as a “recovering feminist”. What the actual fuck does that even mean?

549 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:59:38am

re: #540 NJDhockeyfan

Ted Nugent thinking about running for president

Please proceed.

550 b.d.  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 9:59:53am

re: #545 A Mom Anon

These freaks have built up an imaginary world where nothing they say they’ve experienced exists. In the real world it’s called being a lying sack of crap.

It has the smell of Satan and BBQ flavored Lays potato chips.

551 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:00:07am

re: #550 b.d.

It has the smell of Satan and BBQ flavored Lays potato chips.

Smells like victory.

552 calochortus  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:00:18am

re: #548 GunstarGreen

The twit(er) self-describes as a “recovering feminist”. What the actual fuck does that even mean?

She used to consider herself a full human being, but changed her mind?

553 A Mom Anon  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:00:42am

re: #547 dragonath

Elaborate on that if you can, please.

554 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:00:46am

re: #548 GunstarGreen

It means she’s had a couple of lesbian affairs, no doubt.

555 SidewaysQuark  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:03:46am

re: #552 calochortus

The twit(er) self-describes as a “recovering feminist”. What the actual fuck does that even mean?

She used to consider herself a full human being, but changed her mind?

The worst mistake feminists ever made, in my opinion, was choosing the word “feminism” - it seems to imply to some that males don’t benefit just as much from the ideas of equality of genders, when nothing could be further from the truth.

556 blueraven  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:04:45am

re: #530 Charles Johnson

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worse than TX prison death row. //

557 Iwouldprefernotto  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:05:00am

re: #540 NJDhockeyfan

Ted Nugent thinking about running for president

Question. Will the secret service have to protect Ted Nugent—from Ted Nugent?

558 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:05:48am

re: #555 SidewaysQuark

The worst mistake feminists ever made, in my opinion, was choosing the word “feminism” - it seems to imply to some that males don’t benefit just as much from the ideas of equality of genders, when nothing could be further from the truth.

One thousand times, this. I have no problem with gender equality, but I do have a problem with women who think they’re better than men. We can both be equally bad, thank you very much.

559 SidewaysQuark  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:06:47am

re: #558 thedopefishlives

One thousand times, this. I have no problem with gender equality, but I do have a problem with women who think they’re better than men. We can both be equally bad, thank you very much.

Well, my point is, except for a tiny handful of extremists, most “feminists” don’t think they’re better than men, though the word makes it easier for detractors to paint them as so.

560 Major Tom  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:06:51am

re: #557 Iwouldprefernotto

Couldn’t be true… He’s either dead or in Jail by now… Obama was, after all, re-elected.

561 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:06:53am

re: #555 SidewaysQuark

Smart men (I used to know a few) understand that already.

562 thedopefishlives  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:07:23am

re: #559 SidewaysQuark

Well, my point is, except for a tiny handful of extremists, most “feminists” don’t think they’re better than men, though the word makes it easier for detractors to paint them as so.

No, I realize what you’re saying. I agree with it. I was just expanding on the end of that point where there are some who actually do.

563 SidewaysQuark  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:07:24am

re: #561 Justanotherhuman

Smart men (I used to know a few) understand that already.

Of course they do. Too many men (and women) aren’t so smart, though.

564 b.d.  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:07:53am

re: #557 Iwouldprefernotto

Question. Will the secret service have to protect Ted Nugent—from Ted Nugent?

I could see Ted riding in open aired limo, in downtown Dallas, with him pointing an AR-15 at the crowd.

565 wrenchwench  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:08:18am

re: #548 GunstarGreen

The twit(er) self-describes as a “recovering feminist”. What the actual fuck does that even mean?

From a link on her profile:

CATHERINE ADAIR

Pro-Life Speaker, Former Planned Parenthood Employee

Catherine Adair worked for Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts at the largest abortion clinic in New England. There she witnessed thousands of abortions, doing everything from making appointments to assisting in the procedure rooms. After seeing the aftermath of a second-trimester abortion, she was forever changed. Her personal experience with abortion at age 19 and time working at Planned Parenthood changed her from a prochoice feminist to a prolife activist.

566 Kragar  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:08:25am

Tucker Carlson has reached a new level of utter and complete DERP:

Tucker Carlson: The black market is a ‘far more efficient system’ for health care

“For people who just want to be covered against catastrophic illness and don’t want to pay for other people’s hair transplants or sex changes, they’re out of luck,” he said while guest hosting Sean Hannity’s Fox News show. “I keep hearing Democrats saying, the implementation of Obamacare at the end of the year is going to be a disaster — I can’t even use the profanities — a disaster.”

“This is the easiest way to bring back a cash economy into health care,” the National Review’s John Fund agreed. “Because a lot of people will drop insurance, a lot of people will be thrown off insurance by their employers. I think you’re going to see a black market develop, where people will go to the doc and say, ‘Look, right up front, I’m only paying cash so let’s negotiate.’”

“Which would be a far more efficient system, by the way,” Carlson declared.

567 dragonath  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:08:31am

re: #553 A Mom Anon

Elaborate on that if you can, please.

During the 30s, it was a article of faith among the Nazis that Jews smelled different. And there’s the (very old) racist trope that claims that “blacks smell different”.

568 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:09:43am

re: #565 wrenchwench

From a link on her profile:

Has anyone checked with PP to verify that she did in fact work there?

I mean, it’s not like RWNJ’s don’t have a history of making shit up or anything.

569 brennant  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:09:43am

re: #566 Kragar

Dogs and cats, living together… MASS HYSTERIA!

570 wrenchwench  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:09:47am

re: #563 SidewaysQuark

Of course they do. Too many men (and women) aren’t so smart, though.

If there are men who aren’t smart enough to not be threatened by the word ‘feminism’, I don’t think the feminists should be blamed for that.

571 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:11:17am
572 A Mom Anon  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:11:27am

re: #567 dragonath

OK, that’s what I thought you meant. I’m just not sure if that’s where this dipshit was going. I thought she was aiming more for the smell of “evil”(lightning flashes..mwhahahaha) like sulfur and brimstone. Either way she’s an awful person.

573 SidewaysQuark  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:11:44am

re: #570 wrenchwench

If there are men who aren’t smart enough to not be threatened by the word ‘feminism’, I don’t think the feminists should be blamed for that.

I agree, the horse has left the barn, already.

574 A Mom Anon  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:13:01am

re: #573 SidewaysQuark

What word would work any better that wouldn’t set the morons off on a spree of drool and fear anyway?

575 wrenchwench  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:14:11am

re: #568 Vicious Babushka

Has anyone checked with PP to verify that she did in fact work there?

I mean, it’s not like RWNJ’s have a history of making shit up or anything.

If she ‘witnessed the aftermath of a second trimester abortion’, it was her own (implied to have occurred when she was 19), because they don’t do those at PP clinics.

I have no problem calling her a liar just based on the ‘smell’ tweet.

576 Vicious Babushka  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:14:17am

MOAR GUNZ!!11!!

577 b.d.  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:14:23am

re: #573 SidewaysQuark

I agree, the horse has left the barn, already.

Time to bring back calling it Women’s Lib.

You first though.

578 Sionainn  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:16:31am

re: #568 Vicious Babushka

Has anyone checked with PP to verify that she did in fact work there?

I mean, it’s not like RWNJ’s don’t have a history of making shit up or anything.

I was wondering if she did indeed assist in any procedures.

579 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:17:56am

re: #577 b.d.

A feminist would never call it that. Back in the day, it was always Liberation, nothing less. Still is—nothing less.

580 kirkspencer  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:20:01am

re: #566 Kragar

Tucker Carlson has reached a new level of utter and complete DERP:

Tucker Carlson: The black market is a ‘far more efficient system’ for health care

Right. “I only have cash, let’s negotiate.” Which tells me he hasn’t experienced it at all.

You’re in the emergency room for, oh, say a broken leg. “Hey, doc, before you see me we have to negotiate.” Will you know you have to negotiate with at least five parties? (That’s how many bills I got, me and my ‘I don’t have insurance I have to pay cash” experience.) Will you know that your rate is HIGHER than that of most insurance companies? (I saw the comparison rate chart at both the hospital and at two doctor offices. Which matches what various reporters have found out.)

It’s not just derp. It’s the stupidity of someone who thinks the world should be as he would make it, not as it is.

581 A Mom Anon  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:20:01am

re: #578 Sionainn

Don’t you have to be a nurse or PA or something like that to assist in any sort of proceedure? Her description of herself made it sound more like she was a receptionist or did intake info/clerk type work. See, now I want to call MA and find out if she worked there,lol. A google search only brings up anti-choice links and her own writing and stuff.

582 b.d.  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:20:19am
BRUSSELS — Belgian King Albert has unexpectedly announced that he will address the nation Wednesday evening, a speech that comes amid rumors he will step down in the near future.

Link

Got a job opening for you Snowden Morsi.

583 SidewaysQuark  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:20:59am

re: #577 b.d.

Time to bring back calling it Women’s Lib.

You first though.

Personally, I think “gender equality” has a nicer ring to it. But whatever you like…

584 chadu  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:21:34am

re: #567 dragonath

During the 30s, it was a article of faith among the Nazis that Jews smelled different. And there’s the (very old) racist trope that claims that “blacks smell different”.

All people smell different. Mostly because what they eat.

Haven’t you ever gone to another person’s house and it smelled different?

My paternal grandparents’ place smelled different than my maternal grandparents’ place, mostly because the former cooked a lot of ham, beef, and garlic, while the latter cooked more chicken, pasta, and onion.

No big whoop.

585 wrenchwench  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:23:52am

re: #578 Sionainn

I was wondering if she did indeed assist in any procedures.

She claimed ‘assisted in the procedure rooms’. Doesn’t say she assisted ‘with’, ‘in’, or ‘during’ procedures. Maybe she mopped the floors and took out the trash.

586 calochortus  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:26:08am

re: #580 kirkspencer

Right. “I only have cash, let’s negotiate.” Which tells me he hasn’t experienced it at all.

You’re in the emergency room for, oh, say a broken leg. “Hey, doc, before you see me we have to negotiate.” Will you know you have to negotiate with at least five parties? (That’s how many bills I got, me and my ‘I don’t have insurance I have to pay cash” experience.) Will you know that your rate is HIGHER than that of most insurance companies? (I saw the comparison rate chart at both the hospital and at two doctor offices. Which matches what various reporters have found out.)

It’s not just derp. It’s the stupidity of someone who thinks the world should be as he would make it, not as it is.

QFT. Been there, done that. If it is a non-emergent thing you can sometimes knock something off for cash, but it’s not like you can go price-shopping on that arthroscopic surgery or whatever since you’ve got hospitals or surgi-centers and a doctor or two who only have privileges in certain places. And many communities wouldn’t have a lot of different facilities competing with each other.

These folks need some actual experience in this.

587 Sionainn  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:32:14am

re: #581 A Mom Anon

Don’t you have to be a nurse or PA or something like that to assist in any sort of proceedure? Her description of herself made it sound more like she was a receptionist or did intake info/clerk type work. See, now I want to call MA and find out if she worked there,lol. A google search only brings up anti-choice links and her own writing and stuff.

That was my thinking…and I tried the same thing. If you call, please post here and let me know what the requirements are.

588 Weet  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:45:02am

re: #473 twisty

Late on this, but wow, I hadn’t seen the map before. That puts nearly all women in West Texas 5-6+ hours from the nearest clinic in NM unless I’m mistaken. At least two days off from work, a hell of a lot of gas/bus money, care for any dependents… pretty sick.

I bet they would just love to do the same thing to polling places in strategic parts of the country.

Yes. And since they are messing with ‘access’, that too will be a point for the courts to look at. It’s why Turner kept saying the bill is unconstitutional.

589 Weet  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:51:27am

re: #415 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

What you just said is kind of incoherent. Physicists investigate physical reality. When you talk about magic, that’s not something physicists are into.

I’m not talking about magic.
littlegreenfootballs.com

590 Tigger2  Wed, Jul 3, 2013 10:53:09am

re: #530 Charles Johnson

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It reminds me of the Republican Party the way it is now.


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