Rand Paul’s Neo-Confederate Co-Author Praised Lincoln’s Assassin

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The only really surprising thing about this story is that it was broken by wingnut website The Washington Free Beacon: Rand Paul Staffer Has History of Neo-Confederate Sympathies.

Ron and Rand Paul: two branches of the same poisoned tree, allies to neo-Confederates, racists and white supremacists.

A close aide to Sen. Rand Paul (R., Ky.) who co-wrote the senator’s 2011 book spent years working as a pro-secessionist radio pundit and neo-Confederate activist, raising questions about whether Paul will be able to transcend the same fringe-figure associations that dogged his father’s political career.

Paul hired Jack Hunter, 39, to help write his book The Tea Party Goes to Washington during his 2010 Senate run. Hunter joined Paul’s office as his social media director in August 2012.

From 1999 to 2012, Hunter was a South Carolina radio shock jock known as the “Southern Avenger.” He has weighed in on issues such as racial pride and Hispanic immigration, and stated his support for the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.

During public appearances, Hunter often wore a mask on which was printed a Confederate flag.

Prior to his radio career, while in his 20s, Hunter was a chairman in the League of the South, which “advocates the secession and subsequent independence of the Southern States from this forced union and the formation of a Southern republic.”

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UPDATE at 7/9/13 10:58:46 am

Jack Hunter has also been a frequent contributor to The Daily Caller and a regular guest on Fox News.

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486 comments
1 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:47:49am

I want to hear how this guy gets rationalized away, relativized and made
out to be just a Good Old Boy Havin’ a Bit of Good-Natured Fun before they start screaming about reverse racism and how Democrats were all slavery supporters…

2 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:48:18am

Hey, who hasn’t joined a racist, secessionist group at some point in their lives, right?
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3 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:48:30am

What’s his excuse for this one, he didn’t know what he was signing?

4 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:49:53am

re: #3 Targetpractice

He has no idea who co-writes his books or who works in his offices. /

5 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:49:59am

I don’t remember “Southern Avenger” hanging out at alt.war.civil.usa back in the ‘90’s, when Robert Stacy McCain was the 3rd most obnoxious troll on that Usenet forum.

6 dragonath  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:50:02am

How Jack sees himself:

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How we see Jack:

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7 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:51:01am
…In one 2004 commentary, Hunter said Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth’s heart was “in the right place.”

“Although Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth’s heart was in the right place, the Southern Avenger does regret that Lincoln’s murder automatically turned him into a martyr,” he said in 2004.

He later wrote that he “raise[s] a personal toast every May 10 to celebrate John Wilkes Booth’s birthday.”

He also compared Lincoln to Saddam Hussein and suggested that the 16th president would have had a romantic relationship with Adolf Hitler if the two met.

Many of Hunter’s monologues touched on racial issues, and his contention that white people are subject to a “racial double standard.”

“Black Americans are encouraged to celebrate their racial identity by appealing to their shared experience of injustice and African roots,” wrote Hunter. “Hispanics indulge in an even more nationalistic form of racial identity by flying Mexican flags, listening to a foreign music that both black and white Americans have never even heard of and turning everywhere they settle into northern outposts of their Mexican homeland.”

“Not only are whites not afforded the same right to celebrate their own cultural identity - but anything that is considered ‘too white’ is immediately suspect,” Hunter continued. “The term ‘diversity’ has become nothing more than a code word for ‘not white,’ and it’s a shame that just because we have fair skin, we are always denied fair treatment.”

What a swell guy. Luap Nor must be very proud of his son’s choice of friends.

8 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:51:44am

If MLK was alive today he’d have listened to the Southern Avenger and joined League of The South!

9 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:52:09am
10 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:52:30am

Either you die a hero or derp long enough to become the villain.
/

11 dragonath  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:52:32am

But hey, he’s suing the NSA so he’s all about FREEDOM /////

12 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:52:42am

The League of the South? The fucking League of the South? What an asshole.

That’s Robert Stacy McCain’s outfit.

13 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:52:49am

League of the South was formed by Frederick Douglass, Abe Lincoln and MLK!!!

14 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:53:01am

What exactly would he be avenging for the South, pray tell?

15 dragonath  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:53:33am

Wait, the League of the South doesn’t have anything to do with baseball?

16 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:53:43am
17 Charles Johnson  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:55:31am

Here’s why the Washington Free Beacon went after this story:

In one 2008 monologue, Hunter said the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II was the moral equivalent of the Sept. 11 attacks.

“I can say unequivocally that I find the terrorism committed on Sept. 11, 2001 and the terrorism committed in early August of 1945 both deplorable on the same grounds,” said Hunter. “[T]he harsh uncomfortable reality is that, in terms of scale and slaughter, the most colossal terrorist attack in the history of this planet was committed by the same country that often claims to be the greatest nation on it.”

In another 2008 commentary, Hunter accused neoconservatives of pushing America into wars on behalf of Israel.

“Whether for Israel or oil, or both, a permanent U.S. foothold in the Middle East has been the primary neoconservative goal since day one and certainly since long before 9/11,” he said.

18 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:56:15am

re: #17 Charles Johnson

Haven’t people been pushing Rand as a somehow acceptable, toned-down, libertarian-lite phenom who could get the GOP nod?

19 bratwurst  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:56:23am
20 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:56:43am

re: #17 Charles Johnson

So the guy is an all around complete fucking idiot. And he’s Rand Paul’s aide.

That explains a lot.

21 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:57:26am

re: #18 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut

Haven’t people been pushing Rand as a somehow acceptable, toned-down, libertarian-lite phenom who could get the GOP nod?

I’m beginning to think the GOP nod is just an old person going to sleep.

22 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:58:29am

re: #17 Charles Johnson

Here’s why the Washington Free Beacon went after this story:

This will be a troubling dilemma for the manarchists that stand with Rand since they’re basically on the same level WRT Israel.

23 lawhawk  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:58:47am

The nut doesn’t fall far from the tree. Ron Paul’s son is following in dad’s footsteps, complete with all the associations with unsavory extremists and racists.

And like his dad, Rand’s going to claim ignorance of his background, even though it doesn’t take much to find out what this guy was in to. It’s a bit tougher to claim that he wasn’t in control of writing the book that he co-authored with Hunter, though he might try that route anyways.

The Pauls have made it their habit to swim with the extremists and the fringe. This is more of the same.

24 Charles Johnson  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 10:59:01am

Jack Hunter has also been a frequent contributor to The Daily Caller and a regular guest on Fox News.

25 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:00:18am

re: #23 lawhawk

The nut doesn’t fall far from the tree. Ron Paul’s son is following in dad’s footsteps, complete with all the associations with unsavory extremists and racists.

And like his dad, Rand’s going to claim ignorance of his background, even though it doesn’t take much to find out what this guy was in to. It’s a bit tougher to claim that he wasn’t in control of writing the book that he co-authored with Hunter, though he might try that route anyways.

The Pauls have made it their habit to swim with the extremists and the fringe. This is more of the same.

26 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:01:30am

Christ, I live in the south and I don’t know anyone personally who belongs to anything close to what this assclown does.

RP, RIP. You’ve proved yourself a blatant racist by the company you not only keep, but pay.

27 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:02:35am

re: #17 Charles Johnson

In one 2008 monologue, Hunter said the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II was the moral equivalent of the Sept. 11 attacks.

Hunter is a libtard PLANT!

28 lawhawk  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:02:44am
29 Varek Raith  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:02:54am

Yikes.

30 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:03:06am
31 Blue Point  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:03:09am

Imagine that. In the Party of Lincoln. Golly.

32 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:04:28am

BUT ORIGINAL KKK WERE DEMOCRATZ!!11 FREDERICK DOUGLASS WAZ A REPUBLICAN!!!1!!!!!!

33 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:05:20am
34 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:05:28am
35 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:05:34am

re: #32 Vicious Babushka

BUT ORIGINAL KKK WERE DEMOCRATZ!!11 FREDERICK DOUGLASS WAZ A REPUBLICAN!!!1!!!!!!

MLK WAS A REPUBLICAN!!!

36 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:06:17am

re: #33 Gus

Heritage—home and sponsors of noted “race realists”.

37 wrenchwench  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:07:04am

Stupidest question ever, being asked over and over. ‘Did Rand know?!?!?’

Of course he knew. And the implication that there is some way he didn’t know just paints Rand as the idiot he is.

38 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:07:06am

Lincoln As Hitler - Taki’s Magazine

39 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:07:44am

Taki’s Magazine - Contributors

40 Interesting Times  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:07:46am

re: #36 Bulworth

Heritage—home and sponsors of noted “race realists”.

Didn’t some Heritage herp-derper also author a study saying Hispanics had lower IQs by virtue of genetics?

41 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:08:10am

re: #40 Interesting Times

Yeah, that’s what I was thinking of.

42 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:08:13am
43 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:08:26am

Anyone who claims Hiroshima and Nagasaki were civilian targets has no clue as to the history of WWII. They were already slated for conventional bombardment due to their key roles in the defense of the southern islands in preparation for the planned invasion of Japan. Both were industrial cities which were supplying the war effort and housed military commands which were key to Japan’s defense of the islands.

44 Dr. Matt  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:08:28am

Just think if Lincoln wasn’t assassinated at such an early age, we probably wouldn’t be having so many vampire problems today.

45 Interesting Times  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:08:40am

re: #37 wrenchwench

Stupidest question ever, being asked over and over. ‘Did Rand know?!?!?’

Of course he knew. And the implication that there is some way he didn’t know just paints Rand as the idiot he is.

Is Rand Paul:

a) Stupid
b) Evil
c) Racist
d) All of the above

46 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:08:51am

re: #42 Vicious Babushka

hey tucker, you think its weird that this writer we hired keeps changing all the references to ‘the war of northern aggression’?”
“NOPE”

Keep a northern-aggression tongue in your head!

47 Varek Raith  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:09:32am

Ah, fuck it.
Everyone, thing and whatever that has ever, and will ever, exist is Hitler.

48 kirkspencer  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:09:39am

re: #37 wrenchwench

Stupidest question ever, being asked over and over. ‘Did Rand know?!?!?’

Of course he knew. And the implication that there is some way he didn’t know just paints Rand as the idiot he is.

He’s just following the footsteps of his daddy, who didn’t know what somebody was writing in the newsletter that had his name on it.

49 Dr. Matt  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:10:37am

re: #47 Varek Raith

Ah, fuck it.
Everyone, thing and whatever that has ever, and will ever, exist is Hitler.

Even LolCats?

50 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:10:40am

Did Rand know?

How do you think the guy got the job in the first place?

51 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:11:26am

re: #49 Dr. Matt

Even LolCats?

Yes.

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52 brennant  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:11:32am

re: #49 Dr. Matt

Cats that look like Hitler

53 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:11:40am
54 Dr. Matt  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:12:51am

re: #51 Kragar

re: #52 brennant

Oh for Hitler f*cking sake.

55 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:13:10am

re: #53 Vicious Babushka

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They have difficulty with the idea of things changing over time, don’t they?

56 brennant  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:13:24am

re: #54 Dr. Matt

Didn’t you know that everything is on the interwebs? EVERYTHING.

57 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:14:03am

re: #55 Kragar

They have difficulty with the idea of things changing over time, don’t they?

That whole “Southern Strategy” thing just never happened in their alternative history universe.

58 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:14:19am

Whither the Alternative Right? by Jack Hunter - Stormfront

Today, and in any era, the cultural and constitutional wings of the Alternative Right would gain far more by hunting where the ducks are than trying to invent a brand new bird.

Links to a dead link at: The National Policy Institute is a white nationalist think tank based in Whitefish, Montana. It presents itself as the right’s answer to the Southern Poverty Law Center.

59 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:14:32am
60 Lawrence Schmerel  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:15:08am

It’s a minor setback for the the Big Successful Rebranding going on.

61 Dr. Matt  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:15:45am

Interesting……

62 jaunte  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:15:59am

re: #53 Vicious Babushka

They just can’t quit that mind-bogglingly dumb argument.

63 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:16:04am

re: #53 Vicious Babushka

And those 18 Dems were from Rhode Island, Maine, Michigan, Oregon, Ohio, California, Vermont, Massachusetts and New Jersey, all notable areas of Jim Crow laws and anti-black violence and lynching. //

64 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:16:40am

Scott Wheeler: Obama Targeted The Tea Party Like A Military Insurgency

Wheeler claimed that the administration’s reaction to the Tea Party was a “textbook” example of how governments respond to a “revolutionary force,” saying Obama “dehumanized them, he attacked them, his administration mocked and ridiculed them, they encouraged the press to mock and ridicule the Tea Party protestors, they suggested they were dangerous.”

“This is striking,” Wheeler declared. “No president has ever, in the history of this country, in the history of the republic, ever done such a thing, not even during the Civil War”:

oh the huge manatee

65 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:16:58am

re: #62 jaunte

They just can’t quit that mind-bogglingly dumb argument.

Oh, and the whole MLK WAZ A REPUBLICAN!!11!! bullshit.

66 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:17:24am

re: #58 Gus

Rebranding!

67 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:17:38am

re: #61 Dr. Matt

Per NBC News, Zimmerman’s defense team won’t introduce fact that Martin had marijuana in his system on the night of the confrontation.

Interesting……

Because we allknow how aggressive marijuana makes us…ever seen a group of Dead Heads fighting over the last bag of Cheetos at a concert?

68 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:18:22am

re: #64 Kragar

Scott Wheeler: Obama Targeted The Tea Party Like A Military Insurgency

oh the huge manatee

Call me when the Tea Partiers are being drug into the street and shot. Or being thrown into camps “for public safety.”

69 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:18:28am

re: #64 Kragar

And he imprisoned them all in FEMA death panel camps. //

70 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:19:42am

Happy anniversary Barrett! May you have many more.

71 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:19:51am

Never before in US politics has a politician vilified his opposition or suggested it would be dangerous to see their policies enacted!
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72 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:20:58am
73 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:21:55am

re: #64 Kragar

I actually don’t recall the admin doing any of those things to the Costumed People, but like the wingnut swamp from which it sprung, the teabag parties had this strange belief that they can say all kinds of things about Democrats/liberals and not have anyone say anything harsh (true) about them.

74 Dr. Matt  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:22:05am

re: #67 Sol Berdinowitz

Because we allknow how aggressive marijuana makesus…ever seen those Dead Heads fighting over the last bag of Cheetos?

76 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:22:53am

Tea Party: “We’re not racist. Stop picking on us.”

77 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:23:52am

re: #75 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

This one?

Bigger.

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78 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:23:57am

re: #76 Justanotherhuman

SECOND AMENDMENT SOLUTIONS!!!

Hey, why are you implying we’re violent!?!!11?

79 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:25:04am

“We’re not racists. We just think the GOP should ignore minorities and only pander to the white vote.”

80 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:25:23am

re: #40 Interesting Times

Didn’t some Heritage herp-derper also author a study saying Hispanics had lower IQs by virtue of genetics?

Jason Richwine

81 klys  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:26:36am

re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth

Jason Richwine

And it was a crappy-ass thesis too.

82 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:26:46am
83 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:28:13am

re: #82 Vicious Babushka

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I’m not aware of tampons that go that far up.

84 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:28:26am

re: #82 Vicious Babushka

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My guess is someone who would never need either item.

85 dragonath  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:28:36am

So… Rand Paul for 2016?

86 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:29:03am

ANOTHER PILE OF DERPSHIT.

87 The Ghost of a Flea  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:30:59am

Inherent in “state’s rights” is that whatever issue the state is allowed to decide isn’t a individual right or inherently a civil liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. Contrary to what my Paul-deranged friends think, a civil liberty issue devolved for the state to resolve is not a step forward for personal freedom, but a step back.

This has always been why state’s rights is invoked. Slavery, Jim Crow, gay marriage, abortion. It’s about a local political system being granted the power to give—and take (and more often, they take)—individual civil liberties away by fiat.

And to nail to the foreheads of the Pauls…this is their stance on everything. They’re not libertarian, they’re anti-federalist. So no fucking surprise that they end up surrounded and in close affiliation with other individuals and organizations that are really excited about exploiting the state/federal divide to actively discriminate.

88 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:31:24am
89 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:31:51am

re: #86 Vicious Babushka

ANOTHER PILE OF DERPSHIT.

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Actually, it does. Its called Article 1, section 8.

90 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:33:24am

“I’m no racist—I’m a libertarian.” charlestoncitypaper.com

91 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:33:27am

My Texas legislature, y’all.

92 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:35:06am

re: #74 Dr. Matt

Those poor innocent Doritos smashed to crumbs…if only they’d had a gun…

//

93 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:35:15am

re: #91 Lidane

My Texas legislature, y’all.

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Have you filed for asylum with any other states yet?

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94 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:36:46am

re: #82 Vicious Babushka

He haz a BEARD!!!! Mooslim!!!

95 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:36:51am

re: #93 Targetpractice

Have you filed for asylum with any other states yet?

//

It’s crossed my mind. Heh.

96 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:37:58am

re: #89 Kragar

Actually, it does. Its called Article 1, section 8.

ZOMG THIS PRUVZ TAHT TEH IRS IZ UNCONSTITIONAL!!!

97 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:39:48am

re: #86 Vicious Babushka


General Welfare Clause Article I, section 8 in the Constitution they so love but never actually read…much like their Bibles…

98 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:40:55am

re: #85 dragonath

So… Rand Paul for 2016?

Oh yes. Pleeez.

99 AntonSirius  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:40:55am

re: #86 Vicious Babushka

ANOTHER PILE OF DERPSHIT.

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“What will be the consequence, if we are not able to avail ourselves of the resource in question in its full extent? A nation cannot long exist without revenues. Destitute of this essential support, it must resign its independence, and sink into the degraded condition of a province. This is an extremity to which no Government will of choice accede. Revenue, therefore, must be had at all events.”

- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 12

100 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:42:55am
101 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:44:26am

re: #100 Lidane

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Its like Christmas in July!

102 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:44:59am

re: #24 Charles Johnson

Jack Hunter has also been a frequent contributor to The Daily Caller and a regular guest on Fox News.

“Comedic genius”.

103 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:45:02am
104 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:45:50am

re: #102 Decatur Deb

“Comedic genius”.

Of the Wiley Coyote super genius variety.

105 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:46:10am
106 BigPapa  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:48:01am

Former judge admits flaws in secret court

WASHINGTON (AP) — A former federal judge who served on a secret court overseeing the National Security Agency’s secret surveillance programs said Tuesday the panel is independent but flawed because only the government’s side is represented effectively in its deliberations.

“Anyone who has been a judge will tell you a judge needs to hear both sides of a case,” said James Robertson, a former federal district judge based in Washington who served on the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act court for three years between 2002 and 2005. Robertson’s appearance furnished a rare glimpse into the secretive operations of the federal oversight panel directed by President Barack Obama to scrutinize government spying.

Interesting.

107 blueraven  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:48:12am

re: #61 Dr. Matt

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Interesting……

Perhaps that would open up the question of what Zimmerman was on that night as well.

108 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:48:33am

TPM nailed it:

It’s weird how often the folks with a “passion for freedom” end up being involved in neo-Confederate and white supremacist politics.

109 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:51:00am

Hello all!

you?

110 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:52:18am
111 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:52:34am

re: #99 AntonSirius

“What will be the consequence, if we are not able to avail ourselves of the resource in question in its full extent? A nation cannot long exist without revenues. Destitute of this essential support, it must resign its independence, and sink into the degraded condition of a province. This is an extremity to which no Government will of choice accede. Revenue, therefore, must be had at all events.”

- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 12

Alexander Hamilton is, I think, my 2nd fav Founding Father. Geo Washington being the first.

112 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:55:11am

re: #91 Lidane

My Texas legislature, y’all.

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I love her!

113 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:55:14am

re: #105 Vicious Babushka

Rand Paul is in favor of a fetus seceding from the uterus and declaring itself a sovereign nation.

But he supports a person’s right to refuse them service

114 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:56:26am

re: #82 Vicious Babushka

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Perhaps he should compare the two.

115 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:57:08am

This sums it up nicely:


116 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:57:24am

The WSJ has decided its time to cater to the “evil” demographic

Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Homeless Shelter Volunteers Are The Real Cause Of Homelessness

According to a hedge fund manager writing in the Wall Street Journal, homelessness isn’t caused by deep-seated inequities in society, but rather by people like his teenage son who volunteer at homeless shelters.

Andy Kessler, who founded the billion-dollar Palo Alto investment firm Velocity Capital Management, penned an op-ed Monday in which he mocked young people for volunteering, arguing that they were delusional for thinking their efforts would make a difference. Instead, Kessler contended, they should try to make as much money as possible and trust that economic growth will help the world more than volunteering.

To illustrate his argument, Kessler points to his 16-year-old son, who has been volunteering at a homeless shelter. Though his son wants to do good, Kessler writes that it’s volunteers like him who are keeping homeless people on the streets “because someone is feeding, clothing and, in effect, bathing them.” The answer, instead, is old-fashioned trickle-down economics:

My 16-year-old son volunteers with an organization that feeds the homeless and fills kits with personal-hygiene supplies for them. It’s a worthwhile project, and I tell him so—but he doesn’t like it when our conversation on the way to his minimum-wage job turns to why these homeless folks aren’t also working. Perhaps, I suggest, because someone is feeding, clothing and, in effect, bathing them? […]

Given the massive wealth created in the U.S. economy over the past 30-plus years, it’s understandable that the mantra of the guilty generation is sustainability and recycling. But obsessing over carbon footprints and LEED certifications and free-range strawberries and charging for plastic bags will not help the world nearly as much as good old-fashioned economic growth. Gen-G will wise up to the reality that the way to improve lives is to get to work. If Woodstockers figured this out, so will they—as soon as they get over their guilt.

117 jaunte  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:57:40am

Rep Laubenberg’s status as a tool is being exposed today in the Texas lege.

118 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:58:37am

re: #116 Kragar

Please don’t feed the hedge-fund managers.

119 efuseakay  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:59:10am

re: #19 bratwurst

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No. In addition to Ron Paul.

120 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 11:59:21am

re: #116 Kragar


Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Homeless Shelter Volunteers Are The Real Cause Of Homelessness

And here I thought that most of the homeless shelter volunteers were local church groups and addiction recovery groups reaching out to other addicts to try and help. Who knew?

121 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:00:10pm

re: #120 Lidane

And here I thought that most of the homeless shelter volunteers were local church groups and addiction recovery groups reaching out to other addicts to try and help. Who knew?

I was under the impression that these “trickle down” dipshits loved the idea of charity if it was only done by churches and private organizations who felt their money being used meant they could control the lives of the people they were helping.

122 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:00:28pm

re: #118 Bulworth

Please don’t feed the hedge-fund managers.

When you want to talk about parasitic leaches, hedge fund managers come pretty damn near close to the top.

123 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:01:23pm

re: #121 Targetpractice

Yeah, turns out they don’t much like voluntary assistance either.

124 lawhawk  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:01:51pm

re: #116 Kragar

And these people over here are those who know, but don’t care.

And those over there?

Those are the people who don’t know, and don’t care. /KFM

125 Mattand  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:02:20pm

re: #116 Kragar

The WSJ has decided its time to cater to the “evil” demographic

Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Homeless Shelter Volunteers Are The Real Cause Of Homelessness

“Son, not only do I think you’re a fucking moron for helping the poors, I’m going to humiliate you via an editorial in one of the world’s most widely read newspapers.”

Wow. Father of the Year.

126 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:02:35pm

re: #124 lawhawk

And these people over here are those who know, but don’t care.

And those over there?

Those are the people who don’t know, and don’t care. /KFM

SEND HIM TO DETROIT!

127 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:03:23pm

re: #116 Kragar

Dim Jim better get with it. This WSJ writer is gunning for an Accuracy In Media award! //

128 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:04:00pm

re: #121 Targetpractice

I was under the impression that these “trickle down” dipshits loved the idea of charity if it was only done by churches and private organizations who felt their money being used meant they could control the lives of the people they were helping.

Pfft. That RINO Reagan was the one who came up with that garbage.

REAL conservatives know that Fuck The Poor, I Got Mine is how it works.

129 klys  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:04:01pm

re: #125 Mattand

“Son, not only do I think you’re a fucking moron for helping the poors, I’m going to humiliate you via an editorial in one of the world’s most widely read newspapers.”

Wow. Father of the Year.

At least the kid seems to have enough brains to want to help people and to apparently think his father is an idiot but not want to tell him so (given that the conversation with my parents gets uncomfortable when I want to express a different opinion except don’t want to deal with the fallout from doing so).

130 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:04:36pm

re: #116 Kragar

The WSJ has decided its time to cater to the “evil” demographic

Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Homeless Shelter Volunteers Are The Real Cause Of Homelessness

Yes, we all know the saying about give a man a fish and he can live for a day, teach a man to fish and he can live for a lifetime.

Just like those folks on Lake Victoria in Africa…

131 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:04:55pm

My Pandora feed knows me so well, it just started playing this:

Youtube Video

132 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:05:23pm

re: #116 Kragar

The WSJ has decided its time to cater to the “evil” demographic

Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Homeless Shelter Volunteers Are The Real Cause Of Homelessness

What a … what a … I can’t think of a word to describe this thing …

133 Mattand  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:05:28pm

re: #130 Sol Berdinowitz

Yes, we all know the saying about give a man a fish and he can live for a day, teach a man to fish and he can live for a lifetime.

Just like those folks on Lake Victoria in Africa…

Problem is conservative and Republicans try to make sure the fisherman is living in a desert.

134 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:06:05pm

Because what the hell do doctors know about what their patients might need?

135 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:06:08pm

re: #132 Vicious Babushka

What a … what a … I can’t think of a word to describe this thing …

I thought evil was a pretty good fit.

136 Weet  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:06:40pm

I have to admit, I enjoyed Alan Dershowitz calling Greenwald a criminal. (Of course, Dershowitz also made a case for ‘torture warrants’, so there’s that.)

“Well, it doesn’t border on criminality - it’s right in the heartland of criminality. The statute itself, does punish the publication of classified material, if you know that it’s classified,” explained the guest. “Greenwald - in my view - clearly has committed a felony.”

Continuing his assessment of the reporter, Dershowitz held little back:
“Greenwald’s a total phony. He is anti-American, he loves tyrannical regimes, and he did this because he hates America. This had nothing to do with publicizing information.”
On Greenwald
The Case for Torture Warrants

137 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:06:55pm

re: #37 wrenchwench

Stupidest question ever, being asked over and over. ‘Did Rand know?!?!?’

Of course he knew. And the implication that there is some way he didn’t know just paints Rand as the idiot he is.

I’ve found that many on the GOP side nowadays are kinda—I don’t know the word. Naive? Especially about things like this—racist jokes and all. I hear “It’s just a joke.” —they don’t seem to understand that how hurtful words can be and don’t actually believe anyone would say such things in malice.

Willful ignorance?

138 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:07:01pm

If anyone in Texas wants to move to CA, I’ll do what I can to help.

139 Mattand  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:07:31pm

re: #132 Vicious Babushka

What a … what a … I can’t think of a word to describe this thing …

LOL, I can think of few:

Horrible.

Non-empathetic.

Jerk.

Jackass.

Monster.

Douchebag.

Conservative.

Republican.

Pick any one you want!

140 dragonath  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:08:36pm

re: #99 AntonSirius

- Alexander Hamilton, Federalist 12

Lots of historical precedent for that as well. There’s numerous examples in the Roman, Byzantine, and even Ottoman empires where some petty principality or magnate would withhold revenue from the government they claimed to represent.

Anti-federalism goes back a long way, and the result is either total breakdown of authority, or feudalism.

141 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:09:27pm

re: #116 Kragar

The WSJ has decided its time to cater to the “evil” demographic

Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Homeless Shelter Volunteers Are The Real Cause Of Homelessness

And who owns the WSJ?

142 Mattand  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:09:41pm

re: #137 FemNaziBitch

I’ve found that many on the GOP side nowadays are kinda—I don’t know the word. Naive? Especially about things like this—racist jokes and all. I hear “It’s just a joke.” —they don’t seem to understand that how hurtful words can be and don’t actually believe anyone would say such things in malice.

Willful ignorance?

Eh, I’d go with racist. I had a friend over the weekend tell me he’s now avoiding a movie theater because too many black people go there. This is the guy I’ve mentioned before who is independent but listens to conservative radio and despises Obama.

Still trying to figure out how to do deal with this one…

143 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:09:44pm

re: #139 Mattand

LOL, I can think of few:

Horrible.

Non-empathetic.

Jerk.

Jackass.

Monster.

Douchebag.

Conservative.

Republican.

Pick any one you want!

DOOFUS OF THE DECADE!!

144 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:12:06pm

re: #142 Mattand

Eh, I’d go with racist. I had a friend over the weekend tell me he’s now avoiding a movie theater because too many black people go there. This is the guy I’ve mentioned before who is independent but listens to conservative radio and despises Obama.

Still trying to figure out how to do deal with this one…

A lot of fear. People see a group of people of another ethnic group and figure they don’t belong. Perhaps they should be looking at themselves and not the “others.”

145 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:12:56pm
146 Eventual Carrion  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:13:16pm

re: #53 Vicious Babushka

signed by a republican no doubt?!!! RT @LeviathanLeap 18 of the 19 Senators who filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 were Democrats.
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 9, 2013

Yes, one of the most vocal southern Democrats against was Strom Thurmond. What ever happened to him afterward (and most of the other “Democrats”)?

147 dragonath  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:14:18pm

re: #145 NJDhockeyfan

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It’s like the X-Men mutant born without a brain

148 wrenchwench  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:14:46pm

re: #137 FemNaziBitch

I’ve found that many on the GOP side nowadays are kinda—I don’t know the word. Naive? Especially about things like this—racist jokes and all. I hear “It’s just a joke.” —they don’t seem to understand that how hurtful words can be and don’t actually believe anyone would say such things in malice.

Willful ignorance?

Willful, yes. Ignorance, no.

The libertarians have taken over the Republican Party, and racism is an integral part of the libertarian movement.

Libertarians realized that racism won’t fly in a national campaign, so they try not to be public about being racist, and when it comes up, they try to claim it doesn’t matter. They know it is hurtful, but those hurt by it don’t matter to them, so the hurt doesn’t matter.

Hunter didn’t slip by despite his racist past. That was a key part of his resume. They trust people who think the way Hunter thinks, because that’s how they think.

149 Mattand  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:16:29pm

re: #145 NJDhockeyfan

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Oy. The Republican Minority Outreach, ladies and gentlemen.

Sometimes I just wish conservatives would announce they’re starting Civil War 2 and fucking get on with it.

150 blueraven  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:16:44pm

re: #138 Kragar

If anyone in Texas wants to move to CA, I’ll do what I can to help.

Could you stop all those people in California from moving here to TX?

huffingtonpost.com

151 BigPapa  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:18:36pm

re: #134 Lidane

Because what the hell do doctors know about what their patients might need?

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Wait… I thought Obamacare destroyed the ability for doctors to be doctors making doctorious decisions?

152 wrenchwench  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:18:48pm

re: #142 Mattand

Eh, I’d go with racist. I had a friend over the weekend tell me he’s now avoiding a movie theater because too many black people go there. This is the guy I’ve mentioned before who is independent but listens to conservative radio and despises Obama.

Still trying to figure out how to do deal with this one…

I know what Andrew Ti would say.

‘Ex’ friend.

153 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:19:23pm

re: #116 Kragar

The WSJ has decided its time to cater to the “evil” demographic

Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Homeless Shelter Volunteers Are The Real Cause Of Homelessness

And the WSJ article is behind a paywall!

154 chadu  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:20:42pm

re: #116 Kragar

The WSJ has decided its time to cater to the “evil” demographic

Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Homeless Shelter Volunteers Are The Real Cause Of Homelessness

What a douchecanoe.

155 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:21:24pm

I’ve made up my mind. I’m boycotting the Ender’s Game movie this fall. As much as I enjoyed it when I read it in junior high, I can’t support Orson Scott Card in any way, shape, or form now.

156 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:21:25pm

re: #154 chadu

What a douchecanoe.

More like a doucheaircraftcarrier.

157 Charles Johnson  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:21:36pm

re: #148 wrenchwench

Willful, yes. Ignorance, no.

The libertarians have taken over the Republican Party, and racism is an integral part of the libertarian movement.

Libertarians realized that racism won’t fly in a national campaign, so they try not to be public about being racist, and when it comes up, they try to claim it doesn’t matter. They know it is hurtful, but those hurt by it don’t matter to them, so the hurt doesn’t matter.

Hunter didn’t slip by despite his racist past. That was a key part of his resume. They trust people who think the way Hunter thinks, because that’s how they think.

I agree totally - there’s nothing naive going on here. This kind of mindset is an integral part of the right wing and the Republican Party. Obviously, not every conservative is a racist, and I’m not saying that, but it’s simply undeniable that this is a very significant element of the GOP and the right in general.

158 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:21:59pm

Pity - one of the most cutting forms of ridicule.

159 Mattand  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:22:21pm

re: #120 Lidane

And here I thought that most of the homeless shelter volunteers were local church groups and addiction recovery groups reaching out to other addicts to try and help. Who knew?

We had a local church group try to help out a group of homeless from Camden a few years back. The church group’s rationale was the pastor’s son overcome drug problems, so the son was just as qualified as any so-called expert.

Ended with one person stabbing another, and the whole encampment winding up back on the streets.

160 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:22:26pm

re: #153 Vicious Babushka

You can have the privilege of reading it after you’ve WORKED and become a MAKERPRODUCER! //

161 twisty  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:23:29pm

re: #116 Kragar

The WSJ has decided its time to cater to the “evil” demographic

Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Homeless Shelter Volunteers Are The Real Cause Of Homelessness

Bleh. But major kudos to the son for apparently not absorbing the mindset of the father and standing his ground.

162 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:23:52pm

Oh dear.

Full comment:

He wants to justify his stubborn shame legacy of surrender to Ayatollahs and communists. When attacked by invaders native women show their vaginas. Happened in the Roman empire, with aborigenees and with the East Berlin women to the Soviet Army (a disgusting portrayal of it in that wwii movie with GIs taking Italy over).

The surrender is preceded by these despair sex offers. It’s to naught. Gay men invariably get beheaded.

Now with gay rights the government is in a test phase of the nation’s total pu$$y surrender to government thugs, with people resisting denounced out of shame.

It really is the beginning of the end or the end of the beginning.

Your Freeper link.

163 Mattand  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:24:12pm

re: #157 Charles Johnson

I agree totally - there’s nothing naive going on here. This kind of mindset is an integral part of the right wing and the Republican Party. Obviously, not every conservative is a racist, and I’m not saying that, but it’s simply undeniable that this is a very significant element of the GOP and the right in general.

The willingness to shrug their shoulders and play No True Scotsman is what kills me.

164 jaunte  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:26:02pm

re: #162 Gus

165 Charles Johnson  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:26:33pm
166 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:27:06pm

re: #164 jaunte

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In Canada, Regina rhymes with vagina.

167 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:27:21pm

re: #163 Mattand

The willingness to shrug their shoulders and play No True Scotsman is what kills me.

“Not every conservative is a racist!”
“What about these prominent racists that conservatives pal around with?”
“They’re not conservatives!!!”

168 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:27:32pm

re: #165 Charles Johnson

Still a masterpiece after all these years.

169 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:29:11pm
170 klys  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:29:21pm

Still no sign of the squirt bottle.

I gave in and dealt with the spots of cat vomit by pouring water on them and then mopping up with paper towels. Have added a squirt bottle to the shopping list, but I am quite convinced I’ll find the old one the instant a new one is bought.

171 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:29:50pm

Put the poor into boxcars and let them “hobo” it. What could go wrong?

Isn’t that the real plan?

172 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:30:30pm

re: #169 darthstar

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Wait, being supportive of immigrants has caused him to be unpopular with Republicans? Surely you jest!

173 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:31:55pm

Radio host: Persecution against anti-LGBT Christians has begun

Christian radio host Matt Barber said Monday the Supreme Court’s recent decisions in favor of marriage equality have paved the way for societal discrimination against Christians.

“It’s already starting to happen,” Barber told co-host Mat Staver. “By laying the groundwork now for the widespread recognition of so-called same sex marriage as a fundamental constitutional right, something that is absurd on its face, the court has now opened the floodgates for prosecution to occur.”

Forecasting a future where the high court would mandate that all 50 states recognize same sex partnerships, Barber — vice president of Liberty Counsel Action, a conservative legal group that supported the Defense of Marriage Act — said that would put Christians in an untenable position by having to choose whether to “render unto God what is God’s or render unto Caesar what is God’s.”

“Make no question about it: the institution of natural marriage was designed by, and is owned by, the creator of the universe, God,” Barber said. “And we will not render unto Caesar what does not belong to Caesar.”

Please cite your evidence for natural marriage without quoting a religious text.

174 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:32:30pm

re: #162 Gus

Oh dear.

[Embedded content]

Full comment:

Your Freeper link.

WHAT?

THE

FUCK?

175 wrenchwench  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:32:53pm
anonymous asked: One of my Republican coworkers got personally offended when I mentioned that a lot of people in the South became Republicans after the Democratic party publicly distanced itself from racism several decades ago. He doesn’t think that there are tons of racists in the Republican party. Is he just heavily in denial?

Or he’s a liar or an idiot. Didn’t you already say he’s a Republican?

176 AntonSirius  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:34:55pm

re: #155 Kragar

I’ve made up my mind. I’m boycotting the Ender’s Game movie this fall. As much as I enjoyed it when I read it in junior high, I can’t support Orson Scott Card in any way, shape, or form now.

I can sympathize with that decision. I have zero expectations for the movie anyway.

177 Weet  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:35:05pm

re: #134 Lidane

Because what the hell do doctors know about what their patients might need?

‘House tables Rep Anchia’s amendment to give physicians greater freedom to make medical decisions when interpreting HB2’.

Anchia is my Rep. He’s great.

178 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:36:04pm

re: #173 Kragar

“It’s already starting to happen,” Barber told co-host Mat Staver.

Yup, pastors being carted off to prison. Good, faithful Xchians being fired. Anti-SSM Amercians purged from voter rolls. Horrible stuff. //

179 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:37:43pm

re: #176 AntonSirius

I can sympathize with that decision. I have zero expectations for the movie anyway.

I saw somewhere they changed Mazer Rackham into a half-Maori character played by Ben Kingsley with stupid looking tattoos on his face.

Yeah, I’ll find a better place for my entertainment bucks to go this fall.

180 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:39:02pm

re: #173 Kragar

“Make no question about it: the institution of natural marriage was designed by, and is owned by, the creator of the universe, God,” Barber said. “And we will not render unto Caesar what does not belong to Caesar.”

OK, great, fine, whatevs.

181 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:39:21pm

64 arrested at ‘Moral Monday’ abortion access protest in North Carolina

“It amazes me that they claim they don’t want government intervening in health care issues, yet they want to tell women what to do with their bodies,” Bothwell said.

182 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:39:25pm

re: #173 Kragar

Radio host: Persecution against anti-LGBT Christians has begun

Please cite your evidence for natural marriage without quoting a religious text.

Well, if some preacher tells his congregation that The Bible requires them to go out and murder the shit out of random gay people then yeah, I think a preacher who says that should be arrested.

183 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:39:30pm

re: #178 Bulworth

Yup, pastors being carted off to prison. Good, faithful Xchians being fired. Anti-SSM Amercians purged from voter rolls. Horrible stuff. //

“Why can’t you just accept that you’re sinners who are destined to burn eternally? Why do you keep oppressing us for just telling you the truth?”

184 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:40:22pm

re: #180 Bulworth

OK, great, fine, whatevs.

I asked Crom, and he’s totally cool with gay marriage.

185 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:41:11pm

re: #183 Kragar

“Why can’t you just accept that you’re sinners who are destined to burn eternally? Why do you keep oppressing by us for just telling you the truth?”

I’ve fully accepted it. I’ve even chosen my oven.

Anatomical Gift Associaton

186 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:41:18pm

re: #179 Kragar

I saw somewhere they changed Mazer Rackham into a half-Maori character played by Ben Kingsley with stupid looking tattoos on his face.

Yeah, I’ll find a better place for my entertainment bucks to go this fall.

I’ll wait til it comes out on DVD.

187 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:41:55pm

Mob of Juice attack IDF soldier in Jerusalem.

I’m like WTF, WTFF.

188 brennant  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:42:06pm

re: #184 Kragar

Also: The lamentation of the women.

189 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:43:04pm

Sister Act: Gov. Perry’s Little-Known Sister is a Lobbyist for Lucrative Doctor-Owned Hospitals

Women’s Health My Ass

190 Mattand  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:43:20pm

re: #155 Kragar

I’ve made up my mind. I’m boycotting the Ender’s Game movie this fall. As much as I enjoyed it when I read it in junior high, I can’t support Orson Scott Card in any way, shape, or form now.

We took our nephew to see Despicable Me 2 over the weekend. The interminable parade of coming attractions finished with Ender’s Game.

Or, as they say on the Intertubez: WTF?

191 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:43:23pm
192 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:43:51pm

re: #182 Vicious Babushka

Well, if some preacher tells his congregation that The Bible requires them to go out and murder the shit out of random gay people then yeah, I think a preacher who says that should be arrested.

Yunno, quoting anti-gay teachings the Bible in a moral or historical sense is not hate speech, but the leap from there to advocating violence against gays is a very fine one…and you know that someone is going to make a marty of himself just to “prove” that the government is out to persecute Christians.

193 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:43:59pm

re: #188 brennant

Also: The lamentation of the women.

That was the teachings of the eastern sword masters, not Crom. Its a common misconception.

194 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:45:02pm

re: #166 Gus

In Canada, Regina rhymes with vagina.

And we are quite bored of hearing about it.

Sometimes a band comes in and says “Hello Regina, the place that rhymes with fun”

195 lawhawk  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:45:18pm

re: #188 brennant

And musicals highlighting the lamentation of the women, and the struggle to understand the riddle of steel.

Youtube Video

196 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:46:13pm

WTF is this shit?

Gagnon: Homosexuality Is A Declaration That ‘Your Maleness Is Only Half In-Tact’

During the discussion, Gagnon declared that God had designed men and women to compliment one another and to join together to form a whole, so when men or women have sex with people of the same gender as themselves, they are implicitly declaring to the world “that their own sex is only half in-tact.”

“You unite sexually with the one you perceive to be your sexual counterpart, your sexual other half,” Gagnon stated. “If you’re a man and unite sexually with another male, you’re basically making a statement that you believe your maleness is only half in-tact, needing to be supplemented by a sexual union with another man in order to make you a whole male”:

SCIENCE!
/

197 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:46:18pm

I’m done with Ender’s Game. The Audio books were very well done, but I didn’t finish the series. It got old and seemed contrived.

No interest in the movie.

Finished Neal Stephensen’s Cryptnomicron. T’was EXCELLENT.

Listening to this right now. It’s well written and I totally enjoying it.

198 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:46:24pm

re: #194 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

And we are quite bored of hearing about it.

Sometimes a band comes in and says “Hello Regina, the place that rhymes with fun”

America, Canada’s shorts. //

199 AlexRogan  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:46:25pm

re: #116 Kragar

The WSJ has decided its time to cater to the “evil” demographic

Wall Street Journal Op-Ed: Homeless Shelter Volunteers Are The Real Cause Of Homelessness

“Son, you’re just enabling these poor souls to a life of dependency on handouts. All they really need is bootstraps!”

/what a fucking douchebag…at least his son seems to have his head on straight

200 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:46:50pm

re: #196 Kragar

WTF is this shit?

Gagnon: Homosexuality Is A Declaration That ‘Your Maleness Is Only Half In-Tact’

SCIENCE!
/

Derp.

201 The Ghost of a Flea  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:46:55pm

re: #179 Kragar

I saw somewhere they changed Mazer Rackham into a half-Maori character played by Ben Kingsley with stupid looking tattoos on his face.

Yeah, I’ll find a better place for my entertainment bucks to go this fall.

He was a half-Maori in the book.

I re-read it not long ago. Not as good when you’re an adult. The stuff about violence and bullying teaching “lessons” that make a good general come across as a bit cack-handed.

202 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:47:00pm

re: #198 Gus

America, Canada’s shorts. //

FLorida, America’s penis. //

203 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:47:54pm

re: #201 The Ghost of a Flea

He was a half-Maori in the book.

I re-read it not long ago. Not as good when you’re an adult. The stuff about violence and bullying teaching “lessons” that make a good general come across as a bit cack-handed.

I just remember him being Jewish in the book. Its been close to 25 years since I read it.

204 Dr. Matt  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:48:28pm

re: #202 Vicious Babushka

FLorida, America’s penis. //

Texas, America’s asshole.

205 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:48:36pm
206 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:48:50pm

re: #196 Kragar

So a man/woman can’t be a whole man/woman without a woman/man?

Dude’s been reading too many trashy romance novels.

207 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:49:00pm

re: #204 Dr. Matt

Texas, American’s asshole.

Wouldn’t that make Louisiana the taint?

208 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:49:17pm

re: #196 Kragar

WTF is this shit?

Gagnon: Homosexuality Is A Declaration That ‘Your Maleness Is Only Half In-Tact’

SCIENCE!
/

In-tact? Is that a pun I don’t get?

209 Charles Johnson  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:49:24pm
210 Charles Johnson  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:49:57pm

That was George W. Bush’s most-hated food. I see what he did there.

211 Dr. Matt  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:49:58pm
212 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:50:20pm

re: #166 Gus

In Canada, Regina rhymes with vagina.

In Germany, Regina rhymes with “Weena”

not zo much fun…

213 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:50:21pm

re: #209 Charles Johnson

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BROCCOLI-GATE! NO ONE LIKES BROCCOLI!

214 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:50:45pm

re: #209 Charles Johnson

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Hey, that’s mine too!

215 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:51:22pm

re: #202 Vicious Babushka

FLorida, America’s penis. //

Hey, America, where are your balls?

216 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:51:22pm

re: #214 Targetpractice

Hey, that’s mine too!

Fuck, you’re in on it too.
/

217 Interesting Times  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:51:27pm

re: #210 Charles Johnson

That was George W. Bush’s most-hated food. I see what he did there.

During the ACA case, Scalia also waxed derpetic about the gov forcing people to eat it.

218 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:51:31pm

re: #210 Charles Johnson

That was George W. Bush’s most-hated food. I see what he did there.

He only says he likes it so he can diss Bush.

220 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:51:50pm

Gee isn’t Rand Paul swell. Seriously.

221 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:51:55pm

re: #210 Charles Johnson

That was George W. Bush’s most-hated food. I see what he did there.

George H.W. Bush…not the lesser bush.

222 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:52:14pm

re: #216 Kragar

Fuck, you’re in on it too.
/

Damnit, did I say that out loud?

223 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:52:19pm

re: #210 Charles Johnson

That was George W. Bush’s most-hated food. I see what he did there.

H.W actually heh.

224 geoffm33  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:52:36pm

re: #215 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Hey, America, where are your balls?

Somewhere in the pan handle?

225 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:52:45pm

re: #221 darthstar

George H.W. Bush…not the lesser bush.

Damn it dude! Presidential factoids are my nerdy ass’s territory. You’re best at the quick wit.

226 Dr. Matt  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:52:50pm

re: #209 Charles Johnson

I had broccoli for lunch (with chicken). Good stuff.

227 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:53:06pm
228 lawhawk  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:53:18pm

re: #210 Charles Johnson

Wasn’t that Bush Sr’s most hated food? Not W’s.

Youtube Video

229 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:53:25pm

Broccoli’s good but spinach is probably my favorite green. Also love to cabbage.

230 Weet  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:53:55pm

re: #210 Charles Johnson

That was George W. Bush’s most-hated food. I see what he did there.

H.W., I believe, is the one that hated broccoli.

W hated pretzels, obviously.

231 Charles Johnson  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:53:56pm

Yeah, I meant H.W. Sheesh, tough room.

232 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:54:00pm

re: #226 Dr. Matt

I had broccoli for lunch (with chicken). Good stuff.

Any sort of sauce?

233 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:54:37pm

re: #231 Charles Johnson

Yeah, I meant H.W. Sheesh, tough room.

It’s the house you built!

:0

234 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:54:41pm

You know what’s also green, Islam.

235 lawhawk  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:55:00pm

re: #231 Charles Johnson

We fact check your ass. /some things never change

236 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:55:12pm

re: #231 Charles Johnson

Yeah, I meant H.W. Sheesh, tough room.

Also: broccoli scotus

237 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:55:52pm

re: #235 lawhawk

We fact check your ass. /some things never change

We’ve been trained too well.

238 BigPapa  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:56:03pm

re: #210 Charles Johnson

That was George W. Bush’s most-hated food. I see what he did there.

You know this means he hates Bush and therefore America and is Kenyan communomuslim.

They’ve been waiting for this proof for some time.

239 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:56:10pm

re: #221 darthstar

George H.W. Bush…not the lesser bush.

Isn’t a lesser bush called scrub?

240 Dr. Matt  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:56:11pm

re: #232 Targetpractice

Any sort of sauce?

Mushroom gravy….made from scratch of course.

241 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:56:28pm

re: #226 Dr. Matt

I had broccoli for lunch (with chicken). Good stuff.

I picked some broccoli last night…along with some kale, chard, artichokes, beets, strawberries, artichokes, etc…bounteous day at my U-Pick club at the organic farm. Everything you see (including two full-sized basil plants) for $20. Got some tokyo turnips in my lunch bag today. Love those things.

242 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:56:28pm

re: #240 Dr. Matt

Mushroom gravy….made from scratch of course.

Oooh, good stuff.

243 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:56:50pm

re: #231 Charles Johnson

Yeah, I meant H.W. Sheesh, tough room.

You should be here when we’ve been drinking.

244 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:57:17pm

re: #243 darthstar

You should be here when we’ve been drinking.

Didn’t we run the last guy off the stage?

245 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:57:18pm
246 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:57:21pm

re: #241 darthstar

I picked some broccoli last night…along with some kale, chard, artichokes, beets, strawberries, artichokes, etc…bounteous day at my U-Pick club at the organic farm. Everything you see (including two full-sized basil plants) for $20. Got some tokyo turnips in my lunch bag today. Love those things.

Forgot photo:
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247 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:58:52pm

re: #246 darthstar

Forgot photo:
Image: 1052466_10151727698738024_1218487160_o.jpg

You have an exhaust fan in your bedroom?

248 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:58:52pm

re: #219 FemNaziBitch

Rick Scott Proves His Incompetence Yet Again, Accidentally Bans All Computers in Florida

????

Dumbasses.

Many years ago, our CO got the specifications on how to totally secure a computer system and gave our platoon orders to make our entire battalion compliant. We tried to point out these specs didn’t relate to our environment at all, but he wasn’t having any of that, he ordered us to proceed. So we did, starting with his PC first.

We gave him a brand new box with a base windows install, secured OS, with no NIC, no floppy or CD drives, and a removable hard drive with instructions he would need to secure the drive in the unit’s safe whenever he left his machine unattended, as per the orders he had just handed down to us.

We didn’t have to secure any other PCs after that.

249 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:59:00pm

re: #246 darthstar

Forgot photo:
Image: 1052466_10151727698738024_1218487160_o.jpg

Jaysus. Thought that was a garden at first.

251 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 12:59:33pm

re: #246 darthstar

Forgot photo:
Image: 1052466_10151727698738024_1218487160_o.jpg

The dog looks mildly distressed at the lack of carnivore fare.
;)

252 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:00:17pm

re: #189 FemNaziBitch

Sister Act: Gov. Perry’s Little-Known Sister is a Lobbyist for Lucrative Doctor-Owned Hospitals

Women’s Health My Ass

Yep. And she would directly profit due to the “ambulatory surgical center” requirements in the bills being debated now.

Mah surprise, let me show you it.

253 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:00:37pm

re: #251 Feline Fearless Leader

The dog looks mildly distressed at the lack of carnivore fare.
;)

Always with the vegetables! Always with the vegetables! You think for once you could try bringing home some meat!?

254 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:01:14pm

re: #249 Gus

Jaysus. Thought that was a garden at first.

Actually didn’t pick everything they had on the list of available veg…hot days last week caused a huge crop. Everything was ready. Twenty bucks a week (less if you feel you didn’t take $20 worth - honor system). Usually I take about half as much, but they had so much popping out of the ground that I went ahead and filled up my bags.

255 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:01:34pm

I guess though going back to the original post, this is why I chuckle at people who support Rand Paul and his father thinking they’re revolutionary. These two are textbook reactionaries.

256 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:02:00pm

re: #247 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

You have an exhaust fan in your bedroom?

Heh…no, but I probably should. I don’t mind farting myself awake in the morning, but the missus doesn’t care for me to wake her that way.

257 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:02:25pm

re: #162 Gus

Oh dear.

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Full comment:

Your Freeper link.

I’m still reeling over this one. Are they equating rape during war as “women” submitting to the conquering force?

All I can think of now when it comes to rape as a tool of war is the book talk I went to for Eve Ensler’s Body of the World.

She writes of her experience in the Congo and the creation of the City of Joy.

I won’t write what she described. It’s even too horrible for me.

258 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:02:46pm

re: #251 Feline Fearless Leader

The dog looks mildly distressed at the lack of carnivore fare.
;)

He’s watching the front door for his mom.

259 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:03:27pm

re: #258 darthstar

He’s watching the front door for his mom.

He wants to tell on you.

260 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:03:44pm

re: #255 HappyWarrior

I guess though going back to the original post, this is why I chuckle at people who support Rand Paul and his father thinking they’re revolutionary. These two are textbook reactionaries.

Most people I know who are Paulians are Republicans in denial.

261 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:05:06pm
262 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:05:10pm

re: #260 Targetpractice

Most people I know who are Paulians are Republicans in denial.

Many of the ones I know are naive college aged kids who hear Rand and dad talk about “freedom” and ignore the past that they’re racist as fucked and their economic policies are closer to what we had when child labor was still legal and accepted.

263 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:05:32pm

re: #253 Gus

Always with the vegetables! Always with the vegetables! You think for once you could try bringing home some meat!?

Our dogs love veggies. Since we don’t have a compost pile we save the cuttings and feed them with the dog’s dinner. Why waste the stuff when I have 3 4-legged composters!

They sit in the kitchen watching and waiting to clean-up the inevitable dropped leaf or stem.

264 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:06:09pm

re: #262 HappyWarrior

Many of the ones I know are naive college aged kids who hear Rand and dad talk about “freedom” and ignore the past that they’re racist as fucked and their economic policies are closer to what we had when child labor was still legal and accepted.

The want freedom for business not individuals.

265 Ace-o-aces  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:06:13pm

re: #116 Kragar

but he doesn’t like it when our conversation on the way to his minimum-wage job turns to why these homeless folks aren’t also working. Perhaps, I suggest, because someone is feeding, clothing and, in effect, bathing them?

I suggest this guy try to get a job after not bathing for a week.

266 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:07:28pm

re: #262 HappyWarrior

Many of the ones I know are naive college aged kids who hear Rand and dad talk about “freedom” and ignore the past that they’re racist as fucked and their economic policies are closer to what we had when child labor was still legal and accepted.

Most college kids I know who like the Pauls do so because they think it’ll mean legal weed.

267 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:07:50pm

re: #266 Targetpractice

Most college kids I know who like the Pauls do so because they think it’ll mean legal weed.

Yeah, idiots.

268 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:08:46pm

re: #264 FemNaziBitch

The want freedom for business not individuals.

Yeah they do but your average idiot doesn’t realize that. He just hears Rand or Ron speaking platitudes about “freedom” and ignores the fact that Rand is on record of saying he would have opposed the Civil Rights Act of 1964.

269 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:09:26pm

Because of course they are.

270 dragonath  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:10:13pm

Huh, the only political people I came across in school were College Republicans arguing that the expulsion of American Indians in Mississippi was a good idea.

271 Ian G.  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:10:18pm

re: #86 Vicious Babushka

Not for nothing, but I wish these wingnut twitter assholes would stop using eagles as their avatars, since it was the hate-murrica hippies who got DDT banned and allowed for the Bald Eagle to recover in such numbers that I saw one soaring over the New Jersey Meadowlands last winter.

272 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:10:46pm

re: #269 Lidane

Because of course they are.

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From the people who brought you waterboarding humor.

273 efuseakay  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:11:46pm

re: #204 Dr. Matt

Texas, America’s asshole vestigial tail.

You need to go back to anatomy class!

274 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:12:06pm

re: #272 HappyWarrior

From the people who brought you waterboarding humor.

Sean Hannity could not be reached for comment.

275 jaunte  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:12:11pm

Tx lege now trying to decide whether July 2 = July 3

276 jaunte  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:12:35pm

re: #275 jaunte

Tx lege now trying to decide whether July 2 = July 3

277 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:12:42pm

re: #253 Gus

Always with the vegetables! Always with the vegetables! You think for once you could try bringing home some meat!?

And I bring you home chipmunks and small bits of animal and you never cook them up for me! Talk about a lack of respect!
;)

278 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:12:42pm

re: #275 jaunte

Tx lege now trying to decide whether July 2 = July 3

*facepalm*

279 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:13:08pm

re: #275 jaunte

Tx lege now trying to decide whether July 2 = July 3

Shorter TX Lege:

Calendars are HARD, y’all!

280 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:13:26pm

re: #270 dragonath

Huh, the only political people I came across in school were College Republicans arguing that the expulsion of American Indians in Mississippi was a good idea.

Of course, they were nothing more than, as my grandmother called them, savages.

281 Ian G.  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:13:31pm

re: #125 Mattand

“Son, not only do I think you’re a fucking moron for helping the poors, I’m going to humiliate you via an editorial in one of the world’s most widely read newspapers.”

Wow. Father of the Year.

Maybe we’ll be lucky and his son will become a radical marxist who will lead the charge to ban hedge funds altogether.

282 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:13:49pm

Last defense witness in Z case is making defense questioning a train wreck. O’Mara doesn’t seem to know his left from his right, showing a crappy map to witness on phone. Cheeez. So confusing it’s hard to follow. Jury will need the transcript if they’re to make any sense at all of it.

283 jaunte  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:14:10pm

Damn the rules, there’s control to be had.

284 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:14:53pm

re: #282 Justanotherhuman

Last defense witness in Z case is making defense questioning a train wreck. O’Mara doesn’t seem to know his left from his right, showing a crappy map to witness on phone. Cheeez. So confusing it’s hard to follow. Jury will need the transcript if they’re to make any sense at all of it.

Indeed, reminds me of the Skype testimony last week. Yegods.

285 dragonath  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:14:58pm

Boehner Considering Bill To Delay Obamacare’s Individual Mandate For A Year

What, did people think delaying the implementation for businesses would shut Republicans up?

286 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:15:01pm

Oh noes. My Twitters has become infested with all sorts of brocolli-vegetables tweets.

287 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:15:43pm

re: #285 dragonath

Boehner Considering Bill To Delay Obamacare’s Individual Mandate For A Year

What, did people think delaying the implementation for businesses would shut Republicans up?

It didn’t shut them up for 10 seconds.

288 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:15:54pm

re: #282 Justanotherhuman

Make that “video link”. Otherwise, she couldn’t see shit, which I don’t think she did anyway.

289 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:16:10pm
290 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:16:38pm

re: #269 Lidane

Because of course they are.

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Because, you know how lazy they are —they’d rather have someone else do the work of feeding them.

/

291 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:16:49pm

re: #288 Justanotherhuman

Make that “video link”. Otherwise, she couldn’t see shit, which I don’t think she did anyway.

Seems the whole purpose of her testimony was to argue that the truck was parked in a different spot.

292 jaunte  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:16:56pm
293 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:17:26pm

re: #292 jaunte

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Oligarchs in black robes!!!

294 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:17:54pm

re: #286 Bulworth

Oh noes. My Twitters has become infested with all sorts of brocolli-vegetables tweets.

Bah. Now I want to cook. And my sore ankle has me hobbled enough I don’t want to expend extra standing time in the kitchen to do so. (Plus I got all this fresh dill, cilantro, and basil to use.)

295 aagcobb  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:18:38pm

re: #285 dragonath

Boehner Considering Bill To Delay Obamacare’s Individual Mandate For A Year

What, did people think delaying the implementation for businesses would shut Republicans up?

I don’t think he’ll file it, because a bill delaying Obamacare a year implies it shouldn’t be repealed entirely.

296 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:19:18pm

re: #291 Targetpractice

Seems the whole purpose of her testimony was to argue that the truck was parked in a different spot.

Wut? So a defense witness is there to argue that Zimmerman’s truck was not where the rest of the case essentially said it was? Sounds like a simple attempt to confuse everything for the jury as much as possible in order to increase possible doubt.

297 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:19:37pm

re: #294 Feline Fearless Leader

Chop it all up with some broccoli and make cream of broccoli soup.

298 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:19:54pm

re: #289 Gus

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Broccoli is not mentioned in the Bible…

299 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:20:03pm

re: #296 Feline Fearless Leader

Wut? So a defense witness is there to argue that Zimmerman’s truck was not where the rest of the case essentially said it was? Sounds like a simple attempt to confuse everything for the jury as much as possible in order to increase possible doubt.

I’ve no clue. It was rather muddled due to her not being in person.

300 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:20:25pm

re: #296 Feline Fearless Leader

Wut? So a defense witness is there to argue that Zimmerman’s truck was not where the rest of the case essentially said it was? Sounds like a simple attempt to confuse everything for the jury as much as possible in order to increase possible doubt.

And where was Chewbacca?

301 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:21:18pm

re: #300 Sol Berdinowitz

Maybe she also knows where Snowden is…

302 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:21:24pm

Nevermind, seems consensus is more towards her worth to the defense being that she was a black woman who is a friend of Zimmerman’s who identified his voice on the call.

303 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:21:49pm

re: #285 dragonath

Boehner Considering Bill To Delay Obamacare’s Individual Mandate For A Year

What, did people think delaying the implementation for businesses would shut Republicans up?

Goddamn Boehner get over it, your side lost this battle. Sheesh. Fucking Republicans. The challenges to ACa’s constitutionality were one thing but now that it’s been a year since SCOTUS affirmed that, it’s time to move the fuck on and stop acting like a bunch of sore losers.

304 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:21:56pm

best version of broccoli soup is with chick peas

305 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:22:39pm

re: #302 Targetpractice

If the jury has any sense, it will throw out all those “voice identifications” and not consider them at all. Only voice analysis could have done a good job.

306 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:22:44pm

Which industries are funding the fight against Obamacare?

307 AlexRogan  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:23:12pm

re: #300 Sol Berdinowitz

And where was Chewbacca?

He was on Endor with a bunch of Ewoks, though he was from Kashyyyk.

/

308 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:23:14pm

re: #304 FemNaziBitch

best version of broccoli soup is with chick peas

That looks good.

309 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:23:15pm

re: #303 HappyWarrior

Goddamn Boehner get over it, your side lost this battle. Sheesh. Fucking Republicans. The challenges to ACa’s constitutionality were one thing but now that it’s been a year since SCOTUS affirmed that, it’s time to move the fuck on and stop acting like a bunch of sore losers.

You know that’s not going to happen. These are people who are still trying to kill Medicare and Social Security decades after they became the law of the land.

310 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:24:10pm

re: #305 Justanotherhuman

If the jury has any sense, it will throw out all those “voice identifications” and not consider them at all. Only voice analysis could have done a good job.

They likely will be any way.

311 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:24:16pm

I had pitched one of my original story ideas to the guys I was working on the movie with. They like the idea so much they’re going to devote an entire production call to discuss the idea this weekend. They did say it would be after our current project if we did go ahead with it, but they’re very interested in it.

312 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:24:34pm

re: #309 Targetpractice

You know that’s not going to happen. These are people who are still trying to kill Medicare and Social Security decades after they became the law of the land.

True that.

313 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:24:58pm

re: #309 Targetpractice

You know that’s not going to happen. These are people who are still trying to kill Medicare and Social Security decades after they became the law of the land.

Roe v Wade was 1973…

314 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:25:30pm

re: #285 dragonath

Boehner Considering Bill To Delay Obamacare’s Individual Mandate For A Year

What, did people think delaying the implementation for businesses would shut Republicans up?

There’s a veto for that.

315 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:26:10pm

re: #297 Justanotherhuman

Chop it all up with some broccoli and make cream of broccoli soup.

I might start harvesting and freezing the cilantro and basil for later use. (Chopped and entombed in ice cubes that are then put in freezer bags to prevent sublimation.) The dill plant needs more sun, but I should get enough off of it to make some dill sauce to go with some salmon burgers. Plus I have blooms and might save seeds for later use.

Soup is a good idea. Might be time for a batch of black bean sausage potato. And I can do a lot of that prep sitting down if I work it out right.

316 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:26:33pm

re: #306 FemNaziBitch

Which industries are funding the fight against Obamacare?

The ones bankrolling the GOP.

317 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:26:49pm

re: #313 Sol Berdinowitz

Roe v Wade was 1973…

They didn’t start trying to repeal it until Reagan, the Promise Keepers, and the Xian Coalition became part of the American political landscape. Since then, it’s been nothing but all abortion, all the time.

318 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:27:02pm

I learned in the Crytonomicron that there were u-tubes in the original computers.

trivia I did not know.

319 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:27:06pm

re: #314 darthstar

There’s a veto for that.

Yep and a senate to block it. I don’t even know why Boehner tries even with this crap. He knows the senate won’t pass it and he knows even if the senate did pass it, Obama’s not going to veto it. He’s just playing a stupid passive aggressive game to satisfy his base and caucus so he doesn’t lose the speakership is on my only real guess to why he’s doing this.

320 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:27:20pm

re: #311 Kragar

I had pitched one of my original story ideas to the guys I was working on the movie with. They like the idea so much they’re going to devote an entire production call to discuss the idea this weekend. They did say it would be after our current project if we did go ahead with it, but they’re very interested in it.

Have the aliens decided that ground human horn is a valuable and tasty food spice?
;D

321 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:28:01pm

re: #317 darthstar

They didn’t start trying to repeal it until Reagan, the Promise Keepers, and the Xian Coalition became part of the American political landscape. Since then, it’s been nothing but all abortion, all the time.

I believe President Ford was pro choice. We have Reagan to thank for bringing in those obsessed with overturning Roe.

322 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:28:18pm

It all starts with broccoli, but it’s just a short slippery slope to brussels sprouts.

323 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:28:55pm

re: #320 Feline Fearless Leader

Have the aliens decided that ground human horn is a valuable and tasty food spice?
;D

Nope, its a retelling of the story of Percival and Lancelot set in a modern setting similar to Hellboy or Constantine.

324 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:29:00pm
325 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:29:09pm

So where are these “gay zones”? The shopping must be awesome there.

326 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:30:06pm

re: #322 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

It all starts with broccoli, but it’s just a short slippery slope to brussels sprouts.

I can honestly say I’ve never had a Brussels sprout.

327 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:30:22pm
The National Federation of Independent Business, a small-business lobby that opposes the Affordable Care Act, quietly cashed an $850,000 check from a health insurance industry lobby two years ago, National Journal reported on Tuesday. Advocacy groups can legally move their money in secret, but reporter Chris Frates found an expense by the insurers’ group, America’s Health Insurance Plans, on 2011 tax records that neatly matched a donation to the NFIB the same year.

ah!

328 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:30:43pm

re: #322 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

It all starts with broccoli, but it’s just a short slippery slope to brussels sprouts.

There are several acres of brussels sprouts near my home. When harvest time comes, I can buy a full stalk of them for about $2.50. Stick it outside in a pot of water, and break off 10 or 12 florets for dinner every couple of days for a few weeks.

329 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:30:50pm

re: #322 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

It all starts with broccoli, but it’s just a short slippery slope to brussels sprouts.

I much prefer Brussel Sprouts to Broccoli

flash fried with garlic —-ummmmmmm!

330 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:30:56pm

re: #325 Lidane

So where are these “gay zones”? The shopping must be awesome there.

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And they’re reminding us again why in time they’ll be viewed by a majority of the public the same way we view people today who held up signs against integration.

331 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:31:33pm

re: #326 Lidane

I can honestly say I’ve never had a Brussels sprout.

Blanche them in water for five minutes, cut in half, and toss them in a hot pan with chopped bacon. You can thank me later.

332 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:31:39pm

re: #325 Lidane

So where are these “gay zones”? The shopping must be awesome there.

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“Gay zones”? Is that where all the men look fabulous?

333 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:31:48pm

Brussells Sprouts actually get a bum rap. Now Lima beans. Those are yucky. I like veggies but lima beans are awful.

334 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:31:53pm

re: #322 Walking Spanish Down the Hall

Never! Brussels sprouts will never pass these lips again. Every cruciferous except BS.

335 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:32:01pm

re: #326 Lidane

I can honestly say I’ve never had a Brussels sprout.

They all taste the same, all of the cabbages taste the same, horrible.

336 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:32:08pm

Broccoli is green people! You know what color represents Islam? Hmm? GREEN!

337 geoffm33  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:32:26pm

re: #297 Justanotherhuman

Chop it all up with some broccoli and make cream of broccoli soup.

Choppin Brocolli!

Youtube Video

338 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:32:36pm

re: #336 Gus

Broccoli is green people! You know what color represents Islam? Hmm? GREEN!

And Soylent Green is… people!

339 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:32:48pm

re: #329 FemNaziBitch

I much prefer Brussel Sprouts to Broccoli

flash fried with garlic —-ummmmmmm!

OMG I’m surrounded.

Run away!, Run away!!

340 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:33:02pm

re: #338 Feline Fearless Leader

And Soylent Green is… people!

“To Serve Man”…it’s a cookbook!

341 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:33:08pm

Something funny about the religious right talking about freedom though when their whole problem with gay marriage is gays having the freedom to marry and enjoy equal benefits under the law as straight couples. Thanks for the laugh guys. Next you’ll tell us that African Americans were oppressing whites in Jim Crow and that Apartheid was done by blacks against whites.

342 jaunte  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:33:09pm

re: #325 Lidane

Religious Right activist says America is now divided into “free zones” and dystopian “gay zones”

We call them “cities.”

343 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:33:12pm

re: #336 Gus

Broccoli is green people! You know what color represents Islam? Hmm? GREEN!

Broccoli is green, people. Don’t go all Charlton Heston on my vegetables.

344 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:33:15pm

re: #333 HappyWarrior

Hmm. Lima beans are ambrosia…

Just goes to show, there’s no accounting for taste.

345 Kragar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:33:25pm

re: #325 Lidane

So where are these “gay zones”? The shopping must be awesome there.

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AVENGE ME!
/

346 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:33:29pm

re: #338 Feline Fearless Leader

And Soylent Green is… people!

Therefore… Broccoli is death panels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

347 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:34:02pm

re: #333 HappyWarrior

Brussells Sprouts actually get a bum rap. Now Lima beans. Those are yucky. I like veggies but lima beans are awful.

Lima beans are vile. So are butter beans. Bleah.

348 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:34:12pm

re: #346 Gus

Therefore… Broccoli is death panels!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And the circle is complete.

349 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:34:40pm
350 kirkspencer  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:35:03pm

re: #347 Lidane

Lima beans are vile. So are butter beans. Bleah.

It depends on how they’re used. I dislike both, most times. But in some soups they’re exactly what’s needed.

351 Interesting Times  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:35:14pm

re: #349 Lidane

I see what he did there #perrySlam

352 The Mountain That Blogs  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:36:11pm

re: #319 HappyWarrior

Yep and a senate to block it. I don’t even know why Boehner tries even with this crap. He knows the senate won’t pass it and he knows even if the senate did pass it, Obama’s not going to veto it. He’s just playing a stupid passive aggressive game to satisfy his base and caucus so he doesn’t lose the speakership is on my only real guess to why he’s doing this.

I just wonder how this will conflict with the vote to repeal the ACA in its entirety that I’m sure he will be bringing up soon. It’s been like, two weeks.

353 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:36:37pm

re: #325 Lidane

Cummins claims that the Supreme Court has created a divide in America similar to the Korean DMZ and the Berlin Wall, called “the Rainbow Curtain.”

Um….I can’t even…

354 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:37:11pm

*sigh*

In Texas, “gun control” usally means “steady aim”. Not in this case:

355 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:37:54pm

re: #354 Lidane

*sigh*

In Texas, “gun control” usally means “steady aim”. Not in this case:

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Obviously he was standing his ground.

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356 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:38:58pm
357 makeitstop  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:38:59pm

re: #210 Charles Johnson

That was George W. Bush’s most-hated food. I see what he did there.

I thought that was Poppy Bush?

I do not like broccoli and I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid and my mother made me eat it. And I’m President of the United States and I’m not going to eat any more broccoli. Now look, this is the last statement I’m going to have on broccoli. There are truckloads of broccoli at this very minute descending on Washington. My family is divided. For the broccoli vote out there: Barbara loves broccoli. She has tried to make me eat it. She eats it all the time herself. So she can go out and meet the caravan of broccoli that’s coming in.

(Late to the party. Apologies if this has been corrected already.)

358 Ian G.  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:39:11pm

re: #325 Lidane

So where are these “gay zones”? The shopping must be awesome there.

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Well, I’m guessing New York is one of the “gay zones”, and yes, the shopping is awesome here.

I guess this is more evidence that wingnuts think New York is some sort of John Carpenter dystopian nightmare. While wingnut delusions about climate change, economics, foreign policy, and the like frighten/depress me, I have to laugh about what they think New York is like. It means fewer of them will ever relocate here.

edit: OK, read the whole rant. This guy needs help. Seriously. Straightjacket and lithium, stat.

359 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:39:30pm

re: #333 HappyWarrior

Brussells Sprouts actually get a bum rap. Now Lima beans. Those are yucky. I like veggies but lima beans are awful.

Okra

*spit*

360 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:40:14pm

Image: e9aa_soylent_green_crackers.jpg

361 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:40:35pm

re: #325 Lidane

And it gets worse. Much worse.

“Like a surreal scene from Red Dawn, America woke up on June 26 to a divided nation, with 95 million of its citizens in 13 states held hostage to judicial legislation, trapped behind the Rainbow Curtain,” Cummins writes. “What’s ahead for those in the gay zones who refuse to comply with Kennedy’s dictates—re-education camps for homophobic racists? Will Big Sis employ foreign troops invading through our unsecured borders to enforce the transition into this brave new world?”

He hopes that the new “refugees” will “flee with their families into neighboring free zones,” asking, “Where are Patrick Swayze and his pack of Wolverines when we need them?”

362 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:41:37pm

bbl

363 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:41:51pm

re: #361 Bulworth

That really gave me indigestion.

364 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:41:59pm
365 Targetpractice  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:41:59pm

re: #361 Bulworth

And it gets worse. Much worse.

They do know that Red Dawn ended with all but two of the kids being killed, right?

366 wrenchwench  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:43:29pm

re: #364 darthstar

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I’d prefer a non-random strategy, and Weigel’s on my list….

367 kirkspencer  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:43:31pm

re: #359 FemNaziBitch

Okra

*spit*

Now I’m just going to have to disagree, there, unless you’re talking boiled or stewed okra. But fried okra and gumbos (use okra as the thickening agent) are good stuff.

368 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:44:49pm
369 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:46:25pm

re: #365 Targetpractice

They have dreams of martyrdom. Or Amercia being saved. Or something.

370 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:47:11pm

re: #368 darthstar

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That made me pause.

371 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:47:13pm

re: #367 kirkspencer

Now I’m just going to have to disagree, there, unless you’re talking boiled or stewed okra. But fried okra and gumbos (use okra as the thickening agent) are good stuff.

EXACTLY.

Fried okra can be godly if done right and gumbo isn’t gumbo without okra. Boiled or stewed okra, OTOH, is the kind of food you serve to an enemy. It’s horrible.

372 Walking Spanish Down the Hall  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:47:52pm

re: #371 Lidane

EXACTLY.

Fried okra can be godly if done right and gumbo isn’t gumbo without okra. Boiled or stewed okra, OTOH, is the kind of food you serve to an enemy. It’s horrible.

Weapons of mass indigestion.

373 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:47:53pm

re: #368 darthstar

I’m still stuck on this whole “respected journalist” thing. When did that happen?

374 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:47:54pm
375 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:47:56pm

re: #370 Gus

That made me pause.

My only problem with Sargent’s article is that he calls Todd a “respected beltway insider”…

376 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:48:40pm

re: #375 darthstar

My only problem with Sargent’s article is that he calls Todd a “respected beltway insider”…

That’s what made me pause.

377 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:49:15pm

re: #373 Lidane

I’m still stuck on this whole “respected journalist” thing. When did that happen?

I caught that as well.

378 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:49:37pm
379 AlexRogan  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:49:39pm

re: #359 FemNaziBitch

Okra

*spit*

Only good breaded and fried.

You can keep the pickled shit…

380 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:50:53pm
381 kirkspencer  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:51:02pm

re: #371 Lidane

EXACTLY.

Fried okra can be godly if done right and gumbo isn’t gumbo without okra. Boiled or stewed okra, OTOH, is the kind of food you serve to an enemy. It’s horrible.

Enemies, or children. When your parents grow too much (along with the zucchini) and can’t give away any more, then decide good fried okra is too much work.

Stewed okra and tomatoes is a dish that lurks behind the doors to my nightmares.

382 BigPapa  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:51:15pm

BROCCOLIGATE!

383 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:52:43pm

re: #381 kirkspencer

Enemies, or children. When your parents grow too much (along with the zucchini) and can’t give away any more, then decide good fried okra is too much work.

Stewed okra and tomatoes is a dish that lurks behind the doors to my nightmares.

Cue okra elemental to sic on next group of adventurers who annoy a witch who also happens to cook.

“What happened Ray?”
“It slimed me.”

384 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:53:12pm
385 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:54:33pm
386 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:55:12pm

re: #385 Gus

Shouldn’t that be “Broccolighazi!”

387 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:57:12pm

Hahahaha…nice…

388 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:57:31pm
389 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:58:14pm

re: #381 kirkspencer

Enemies, or children.

There’s a difference?

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When your parents grow too much (along with the zucchini) and can’t give away any more, then decide good fried okra is too much work.

Stewed okra and tomatoes is a dish that lurks behind the doors to my nightmares.

I tried stewed okra and tomatoes ONCE. That was more than enough. I can’t imagine having to eat that more often. Ugh.

My most hated veggies as a kid were beets and cauliflower. Beets because they had a nasty texture and cauliflower because it doesn’t taste like anything.

390 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 1:59:16pm

re: #389 Lidane

There’s a difference?

///////////

I tried stewed okra and tomatoes ONCE. That was more than enough. I can’t imagine having to eat that more often. Ugh.

My most hated veggies as a kid were beets and cauliflower. Beets because they had a nasty texture and cauliflower because it doesn’t taste like anything.

Cauliflower, sauteed with garlic, rolled into pasta with freshly shaved Parmesan cheese!!!!!

391 kirkspencer  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:00:55pm

re: #383 Feline Fearless Leader

Cue okra elemental to sic on next group of adventurers who annoy a witch who also happens to cook.

“What happened Ray?”
“It slimed me.”

heh.

In fairness, as I learned to cook I learned more uses for okra (and other nightmares of my past). For example, okra is also known as bhindi - and despite it being cooked okra and tomatoes I /like/ bhindi marsala. (hint - fried, not stewed.)

392 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:01:37pm

re: #387 NJDhockeyfan

Hahahaha…nice…

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Heh…I took a screen shot as it’s an image and not text on the site:
Image: venezula.png

393 geoffm33  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:07:35pm

re: #392 darthstar

re: #387 NJDhockeyfan

I think all it is is displaying whatever image URL you pass it in the parameter ?text=

See this here

site2.littlegreenfootballs.com

394 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:08:26pm

re: #387 NJDhockeyfan

Hahahaha…nice…

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If you look at the url on the Venezuelan paper you’ll see it’s a simple XSS attack. Not even a complex hack.

I just changed the image in the URL and put a baptist church sign modification on it…Easy-peasy.

395 geoffm33  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:09:09pm

re: #394 darthstar

Yep

Edit: Yep, and you explained it much better than I did.

396 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:09:28pm
397 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:10:15pm

re: #395 geoffm33

Yep

At some point, they’ll get a developer to stop it. Until then, fun screenshots!

398 goddamnedfrank  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:13:55pm

Whoa …

Brazilian police have made an arrest in a grisly incident during a soccer match, in which a referee’s leveling of a red card penalty set off a clash with a player that resulted in the player’s death and ended with the official being brutally killed.

…

Authorities say that after referee Octavio da Silva, 20, told player Josenir dos Santos, whose age is being reported as either 30 or 31, that he had been tossed out of a game, the two began an argument that resulted in Silva stabbing Santos on the field.

The blog FOX Soccer describes what police say happened next:
“After witnessing the attack, fans invaded the field to attack the referee, who was stoned to death and quartered. Local news media are also reporting that the spectators decapitated Silva and stuck his head on a stake in the middle of the field.”

399 bratwurst  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:14:46pm
400 geoffm33  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:15:12pm

re: #397 darthstar

At some point, they’ll get a developer to stop it. Until then, fun screenshots!

El Nacional - Yo Dawg

401 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:15:24pm

This thread must reach 400 comments or the terrorists win.

402 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:16:50pm
403 efuseakay  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:17:57pm

Make broccoli illegal. It’s a gateway vegetable.

404 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:18:55pm
405 Shiplord Kirel  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:19:31pm

re: #398 goddamnedfrank

Whoa …

Yikes! And people think Texas Tech fans are nasty.

406 Dave In Austin  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:19:43pm

Stupidity coming to you live from Texas!!

Youtube Video

407 jaunte  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:20:13pm

Incredible stupidity on display in the Texas lege.

408 jaunte  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:22:12pm
409 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:22:13pm

re: #407 jaunte

Confirmed. FACT. //

410 efuseakay  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:24:30pm

re: #402 Lidane

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ROP!

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411 efuseakay  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:26:02pm

re: #402 Lidane

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I can’t wait to see how much crazier Perry’s replacement is going to be.

412 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:26:18pm

re: #399 bratwurst

Let the bastard eat all the grease and sugar he wants to. We know what that leads to.

413 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:26:34pm
414 efuseakay  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:28:24pm

re: #398 goddamnedfrank

Whoa …

Summer Olympics, here we come!

415 jaunte  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:28:28pm
416 Bulworth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:28:40pm

I’m not saying Maryland is the greatest state ever in these United States of America, but today at least and for the next little while, I won’t have to worry about my state’s elected reps playing pin the tail on the ALEC-legislation board and trying to ram down my throat anti-abortion, anti-voting, anti-gay, anti-atheistic bills in special super special secret sessions.

417 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:28:51pm

re: #411 efuseakay

I can’t wait to see how much crazier Perry’s replacement is going to be.

If there is any justice in the world, he will be replaced by Wendy Davis or Julian Castro or someone who isn’t completely batshit.

It’s a long time between now and then. I’m not holding my breath.

418 GeneJockey  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:29:16pm

re: #412 Justanotherhuman

Let the bastard eat all the grease and sugar he wants to. We know what that leads to.

Yeah, but when?

419 Ming  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:30:02pm

re: #4 Bulworth

He has no idea who co-writes his books or who works in his offices. /

Much like his father had no idea who co-wrote, and made lots of money from, his racist newsletters.

420 wrenchwench  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:31:40pm

re: #399 bratwurst

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Nopales! A uniquely American vegetable.

421 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:31:57pm

re: #415 jaunte

So to recap, the Texas GOP:

—wants to outlaw abortion and close women’s clinics
—wants to outlaw birth control
—wants to outlaw all mention of abortion
—wants the only sex ed that’s taught to either be at home or abstinence only in schools

Small government! Freedom! Individual liberty!

The next conservative who tries to tell me that the GOP are a reasonable party gets laughed at.

422 jaunte  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:32:00pm

Keepin’ em dumb and manageable.

423 GeneJockey  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:32:49pm

One time I made Brussels Sprouts for my wife, who had horrible childhood memories of them, overcooked and bitter. I blanched them for 4’30”, then tossed them in hot olive oil with chopped garlic, then sprinkled with freshly grated Parmesan and a little black pepper.

She said they were almost edible, but that if I never, ever cooked them again for the rest of our lives, that would be fine with her.

424 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:33:25pm

re: #418 GeneJockey

Soon.

425 GeneJockey  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:33:53pm

re: #420 wrenchwench

Nopales! A uniquely American vegetable.

SOUNDS MESSICAN!!! THAT AIN’T NO ‘MURRICAN VEGETABLE!

426 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:34:19pm
427 efuseakay  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:35:27pm

re: #417 Lidane

If there is any justice in the world, he will be replaced by Wendy Davis or Julian Castro or someone who isn’t completely batshit.

It’s a long time between now and then. I’m not holding my breath.

It’s Texas we’re talking about. Can Austin secede from the State?

428 Stoatly  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:36:08pm

re: #331 darthstar

Blanche them in water for five minutes, cut in half, and toss them in a hot pan with chopped bacon. You can thank me later.

Fixed

429 wrenchwench  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:36:35pm

re: #425 GeneJockey

SOUNDS MESSICAN!!! THAT AIN’T NO ‘MURRICAN VEGETABLE!

It actually appears in the New Mexico state seal, because the New Mexico seal borrows an image from the Mexican national flag, which has an eagle holding a snake perched on a Prickly Pear cactus.

OMG! You’re right! It’s Mexican!!!!!

430 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:36:36pm

re: #426 Gus

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I don’t know. What kind of former press secretary whines about something said five years ago and a president liking a veggie.

431 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:36:39pm

re: #426 Gus

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And he is a mustard snob! We real Americans eat French’s mustard and Heinz ketchup!!!

432 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:37:26pm
433 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:37:36pm

re: #427 efuseakay

It’s Texas we’re talking about. Can Austin secede from the State?

God I wish. Or at least let us ask for asylum in other, more reasonable states.

434 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:39:01pm
435 Kid A  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:39:35pm

O-o

436 jaunte  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:39:55pm
437 GeneJockey  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:40:10pm

re: #429 wrenchwench

It actually appears in the New Mexico state seal, because the New Mexico seal borrows an image from the Mexican national flag, which has an eagle holding a snake perched on a Prickly Pear cactus.

OMG! You’re right! It’s Mexican!!!!!

My brother and his family tell me people are always asking whether they need a passport, when told they live in New Mexico. I’ll have to ask my other brother, who lives in Hawaii, if he encounters the same thing.

438 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:40:33pm

re: #426 Gus

Dear Ari,

Image: umadbrah.jpg

Signed,
Barack Obama

439 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:40:41pm
440 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:41:10pm

re: #435 Kid Hail Satan

O-o

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Ah the ten hottest conservative supermen in radio, imagine using that as a pickup line with the ladies. “Hey, baby, I was one of the ten hottest conservative supermen in radio. I hope you won’t be my krypton.”

441 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:41:54pm
442 GeneJockey  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:41:55pm

re: #424 Justanotherhuman

Soon.

A man can dream.

443 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:42:06pm
444 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:42:26pm

re: #438 Lidane

Dear Ari,

Image: umadbrah.jpg

Signed,
Barack Obama

445 Kid A  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:43:11pm
446 efuseakay  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:43:20pm

re: #432 Vicious Babushka

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The Waltons don’t have the balls to ever be on Undercover Boss.

447 GeneJockey  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:43:29pm

re: #440 HappyWarrior

Ah the ten hottest conservative supermen in radio, imagine using that as a pickup line with the ladies. “Hey, baby, I was one of the ten hottest conservative supermen in radio. I hope you won’t be my krypton.”

“No, no, Lois!” said Superman, his strength rapidly ebbing, “I said wanted you to come to my crib tonight!”

448 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:44:22pm

re: #447 GeneJockey

“No, no, Lois!” said Superman, his strength rapidly ebbing, “I said wanted you to come to my crib tonight!”

win and honestly what’s the fun in being one of the “hottest” men on a medium in which people can only hear you. It’s like winning sexiest voice for a silent film star.

449 GeneJockey  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:44:32pm

re: #444 Gus

Succotash. Now there is a childhood staple I’ve never once been tempted to make as an adult.

450 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:44:32pm

re: #445 Kid Hail Satan

Rand Paul is in favor of a fetus seceding from the uterus and declaring itself a sovereign nation

But he supports an individual’s right not to serve it once it is born…

451 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:45:08pm

re: #449 GeneJockey

Succotash. Now there is a childhood staple I’ve never once been tempted to make as an adult.

Did you suffer from it?

452 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:45:10pm
453 Charles Johnson  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:46:05pm

You’re about to see four posts all appear at about the same time, as if by magic.

The LGF User’s Guide, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born.

454 GeneJockey  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:46:15pm

re: #451 Sol Berdinowitz

Did you suffer from it?

Frequently. Corn and lima beans both have their, shall we say, digestive effects.

455 efuseakay  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:47:15pm

re: #433 Lidane

God I wish. Or at least let us ask for asylum in other, more reasonable states.

Austin: Sorry all you nutters in the rest of the state. We’re closed.

456 GeneJockey  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:47:46pm

re: #451 Sol Berdinowitz

Did you suffer from it?

BTW, I think the word is, “THuffer”. At least, that’s what Thylvethter told me.

457 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:47:55pm

re: #435 Kid Hail Satan

Honorable? Only in your dreams, Fischer.

458 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:47:56pm
459 jaunte  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:48:25pm
460 Lidane  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:48:26pm

Conservative women SERIOUSLY need to raise their standards if they think these men are attractive:

PolitiChicks Picks: The Hottest Conservative Supermen in America

461 GeneJockey  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:48:37pm

re: #448 HappyWarrior

win and honestly what’s the fun in being one of the “hottest” men on a medium in which people can only hear you. It’s like winning sexiest voice for a silent film star.

“Kid, you’ve got a face for Radio!”

462 bratwurst  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:50:37pm

re: #460 Lidane

Conservative women SERIOUSLY need to raise their standards if they think these men are attractive:

PolitiChicks Picks: The Hottest Conservative Supermen in America

Any list of “hot” men that includes Jonah Goldberg and Rush Limbaugh is…um…not good.

463 Sol Berdinowitz  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:51:30pm

re: #459 jaunte

You know what #Sexed would do for the TX lege? Teach them that women don’t magically know when they’re pregnant.

Yes, but other women notice it right away…

464 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:51:31pm

re: #460 Lidane

Jesushcherist, not Joe not the Plumber, too?

465 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:51:37pm

re: #460 Lidane

Conservative women SERIOUSLY need to raise their standards if they think these men are attractive:

PolitiChicks Picks: The Hottest Conservative Supermen in America

I was honestly surprised that Rush was omitted since Joseph Farah and Jonah Goldberg made the cut. I see my eyes playing tricks on me again.

466 HappyWarrior  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:52:06pm

re: #462 bratwurst

Any list of “hot” men that includes Jonah Goldberg and Rush Limbaugh is…um…not good.

Oh I missed Rush on there. Joseph “Stalin Stache” Farah is on there too though.

468 AlexRogan  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:54:55pm

re: #401 Bulworth

This thread must reach 400 comments or the terrorists win.

I thought the thread couldn’t go under 50 mph or it would explode…

469 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:56:04pm

Nicely done, Charles…and they posted in order…as if by magic.

470 darthstar  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:56:27pm
471 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:57:52pm

re: #467 Varek Raith

But no evidence of sabotage. Jesus, some of those people didn’t know what hit them after a few seconds, I would think.

472 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 2:57:57pm

re: #402 Lidane

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Great!

473 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 3:01:42pm

re: #460 Lidane

Conservative women SERIOUSLY need to raise their standards if they think these men are attractive:

PolitiChicks Picks: The Hottest Conservative Supermen in America

Robert Spencer.

474 wrenchwench  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 3:04:35pm

re: #473 Decatur Deb

Robert Spencer.

That’s when my jaw hit the floor. He doesn’t meet any of their supposed criteria. Are these women not allowed access to TV, movies, or real life?

475 Charles Johnson  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 3:09:29pm

re: #474 wrenchwench

That’s when my jaw hit the floor. He doesn’t meet any of their supposed criteria. Are these women not allowed access to TV, movies, or real life?

#1. Intelligence. These guys are brilliant.

#2. Courage. They aren’t afraid to stand up to challenges, speak the truth and fight for our country.

#3: Passion (See above)

#4: Sense of humor. Self-deprecating gets you extra points.

#5: Looks. This can be either conventionally handsome or someone who simply exudes sexiness.

That’s Robert Spencer, all right. Just exuding sexiness all over the place.

476 Decatur Deb  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 3:11:54pm

re: #474 wrenchwench

That’s when my jaw hit the floor. He doesn’t meet any of their supposed criteria. Are these women not allowed access to TV, movies, or real life?

Great work on the Guide.

477 Gus  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 3:12:04pm

re: #460 Lidane

Conservative women SERIOUSLY need to raise their standards if they think these men are attractive:

PolitiChicks Picks: The Hottest Conservative Supermen in America

Gah.

478 jaunte  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 3:14:11pm

re: #460 Lidane

Conservative women SERIOUSLY need to raise their standards if they think these men are attractive:

PolitiChicks Picks: The Hottest Conservative Supermen in America

Greg Gutfeld? Hah!

479 Ming  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 3:19:52pm

re: #91 Lidane

My Texas legislature, y’all.
Texas Lawmaker: Anti-Abortion Men Were Taught ‘How To Potty’ By Women
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Wow, that’s some level of political discourse in Texas.

480 piratedan  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 3:39:35pm

re: #375 darthstar

My only problem with Sargent’s article is that he calls Todd a “respected beltway insider”…

well Chuckles has been accused of having taken up residence inside of Mitch McConnell’s pants, since that’s where his POV appears to be centered on, so perhaps that’s what he’s been alluding to….//

481 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 3:45:01pm

re: #359 FemNaziBitch

Okra

*spit*

pickled okra is delish…

482 Ming  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 3:58:45pm

re: #128 Lidane

Pfft. That RINO Reagan was the one who came up with that garbage.

REAL conservatives know that Fuck The Poor, I Got Mine is how it works.

Yep, Republicans have come a long way since George H. W. Bush’s “thousand points of light.” It’s now a “thousand naive, clueless, economically illiterate, motivated by guilt” points of light, who accomplish absolutely nothing for the people they’re trying to help.

483 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 4:15:23pm

I love broccoli. This year I’m growing a variety that is punk-spikey:

Veronica Broccoli

484 Ming  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 4:41:16pm

re: #205 Gus

[Embedded content]
Weird. Americans still blame George W. Bush for what George W. Bush did.

Yes, the crash of September 15, 2008 was quite an achievement.

485 Ming  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 5:33:12pm

re: #384 darthstar

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Who’s on top in the end doesn’t matter. Who initiated contact determines self defense.

Zimmerman was told repeatedly by the 911 operator, on tape, NOT TO FOLLOW Trayvon Martin. And Zimmerman followed, and followed, and followed. “Initiated contact”??? This was an engraved invitation.

486 Weet  Tue, Jul 9, 2013 6:01:23pm

re: #455 efuseakay

Austin: Sorry all you nutters in the rest of the state. We’re closed.

Arrrggghhh! Dallas, Bexar, El Paso, Harris, and almost all of the border counties are also blue. (That meme about Austin drives me crazy.)


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