1 | Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:13:25am |
That Indian place that shows up at the start (well, there’s two, but the one on the right) is goddamn awesome.
2 | Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:15:56am |
Debate between Lewis Black and Rick Perry desperately needed.
3 | HappyWarrior Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:17:07am |
re: #2 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut
Debate between Lewis Black and Rick Perry desperately needed.
I’d pay to see that live. Lew’s a smart guy. Perry less so.
4 | Kragar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:17:51am |
re: #2 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut
Debate between Lewis Black and Rick Perry desperately needed.
Oh good lord, it would be like a rap battle between Run DMC and Elmer Fudd.
5 | Justanotherhuman Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:17:57am |
Love it! Just wish I’d had enough money to stay there in 1981. I’d still be discovering stuff. : )
6 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:18:56am |
Long live Lewis Black.
7 | Dr. Matt Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:20:52am |
I predict that some teatard is going to come up with a pathetic and embarrassingly weak video retort….that will be innately and proudly racist.
8 | Kragar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:22:10am |
re: #7 Dr. Matt
I predict that some teatard is going to come up with a pathetic and embarrassingly weak video retort….that will be innately and proudly racist.
Oh, that is a given.
10 | sffilk Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:23:51am |
Very good commentary. Rick Perry needs to shut up, but he won’t.
Unfortunately.
11 | darthstar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:23:59am |
Love the line about Jerry Brown knowing the difference between a burp and a fart.
12 | erik_t Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:24:48am |
re: #10 sffilk
Very good commentary. Rick Perry needs to shut up, but he won’t.
Unfortunately.
I’d prefer he keep talking, actually.
13 | darthstar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:25:03am |
re: #10 sffilk
Very good commentary. Rick Perry needs to shut up, but he won’t.
Unfortunately.
Unfortunate for Texas. My guess is the success of the ACA will have an effect on the migration of Texas businesses to other states.
15 | makeitstop Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:27:48am |
Down goes Perry! Down goes Perry! Down goes Perry!
Lewis Black is awesome.
16 | lawhawk Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:28:14am |
re: #13 darthstar
Sadly, Texas would actually benefit from the ACA more than most states since they have a higher percentage of uninsureds compared to say… NY or MA.
They see this as a feature, not a bug.
17 | Charles Johnson Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:28:15am |
Are we absolutely sure that David Sirota isn’t an undercover right winger, trying to discredit the left?
Because he’s at it again. Another piece for Salon that reads like a parody of idiotic far left/libertarian BS.
18 | darthstar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:28:34am |
Proof That #LizCheney Is Mentally Unfit For High Office In One Tweet Or Less: #GOP #GOPFail #Wyoming #p2 pic.twitter.com/3OEC4oGQq3— Eric Wolfson (@ericwolfson) July 18, 2013
20 | darthstar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:29:59am |
re: #16 lawhawk
Sadly, Texas would actually benefit from the ACA more than most states since they have a higher percentage of uninsureds compared to say… NY or MA.
They see this as a feature, not a bug.
Would benefit, but won’t under Perry. He’d rather see the third most populous state in the nation sink into financial ruin than support the President.
21 | Vicious Babushka Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:30:06am |
re: #17 Charles Johnson
Are we absolutely sure that David Sirota isn’t an undercover right winger, trying to discredit the left?
Because he’s at it again. Another piece for Salon that reads like a parody of idiotic far left/libertarian BS.
Did you see this huge load of horse shit?
22 | Gus Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:30:29am |
re: #17 Charles Johnson
Are we absolutely sure that David Sirota isn’t an undercover right winger, trying to discredit the left?
Because he’s at it again. Another piece for Salon that reads like a parody of idiotic far left/libertarian BS.
In short, Obama actually LOVES the ideology of stand your ground - as long as its backed by his U.S. cruise missiles http://t.co/ybd8BdyaPk— David Sirota (@davidsirota) July 18, 2013
23 | Charles Johnson Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:31:26am |
24 | Charles Johnson Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:31:49am |
These folks are the Teabaggers of the left.
25 | darthstar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:31:59am |
Oh, these little fuckers are cute.
Red pandas having some fun. pic.twitter.com/TWMfe2D6XD— Cute Emergency (@CuteEmergency) July 18, 2013
27 | Decatur Deb Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:32:32am |
re: #23 Charles Johnson
I just can’t even.
Well, he’s stuck in a hard place and Greenmold eats a bit of his liver every day.
28 | Gus Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:33:37am |
29 | Vicious Babushka Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:33:47am |
EXCEPT FOR ALL YOU WOMEN WITH LIFE-THREATENING PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS, YOU CAN ALL DIE!!11!!
I'm proud to have signed HB2 today and ensure Texas' ongoing commitment to protect life. Thank you to all who #Stand4Life!— Rick Perry (@GovernorPerry) July 18, 2013
30 | jaunte Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:33:54am |
Nice work doing PR for the state, Perry.
Next up for the Gubnor’s position, Greg Abbott, who will double down on Perry’s zero-sum politics.
31 | Kragar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:34:00am |
re: #21 Vicious Babushka
Did you see this huge load of horse shit?
On the plus side, I do like the idea of him tide to a rock and having his liver eaten out by vultures, but then I’ve always loved the classics.
32 | Higgs Boson's Mate Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:34:08am |
Hell, I’ve lived in Texas - South Texas. South of Corpus, south of just about everywhere but Mexico. Nothing wrong with Texas if you don’t mind the heat, or the humidity, or the bugs, or the hurricanes, or the racist throwbacks. Texas is just great if you don’t mind being blown to bits because their safety regulations are a joke. Looking back it’s hard for me to understand why, when I was finally able to leave Texas, I took the first goddamned airplane I could get out that pisshole even though the flight made seven stops between Corpus Christi and Los Angeles.
33 | Vicious Babushka Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:34:14am |
re: #27 Decatur Deb
Well, he’s stuck in a hard place and
GreenmoldPutin eats a bit of his liver every day.
ftfy
34 | geoffm33 Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:34:34am |
re: #28 Gus
Can you color code the Circle of Derp so we can see what color the moonbat font should be?
35 | Vicious Babushka Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:36:31am |
DERP
Good example of how many liberals grotesquely justify the extrajudicial execution of a 16-year-old American child: http://t.co/9y7InJ9XuM— David Sirota (@davidsirota) July 18, 2013
36 | Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:37:48am |
What’d Perry say about NYC, anyway?
37 | Decatur Deb Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:37:51am |
re: #24 Charles Johnson
These folks are the Teabaggers of the left.
There aren’t many Salon comments, but the rubes aren’t buying it.
38 | Justanotherhuman Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:38:15am |
re: #21 Vicious Babushka
Did you see this huge load of horse shit?
Oh, fer chrissakes. Next someone will compare him to St. Christopher.
Christopher was beheaded, BTW.
39 | Justanotherhuman Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:39:05am |
re: #33 Vicious Babushka
With fava beans and a nice chianti, I hope.
40 | Vicious Babushka Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:39:21am |
It just gives me so much satisfaction to put Glenn Greenwald and David Sirota on the same Twitter list as Bryan Fischer and Jim Hoft.
41 | Kragar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:39:25am |
re: #36 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut
What’d Perry say about NYC, anyway?
Rick Perry jabs at New York in effort to lure businesses
As he’s embarked on a trip through the northeast this week to convince employers to move to Texas, Perry is front and center in a series of ads that accuse New York of over-regulating and over-burdening businesses, take digs at New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s policies, and mention New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) in an unflattering context.
“If you’re tired of the same old recipe of over-taxation, over-regulation and frivolous ligation, get out before you go broke. Texas is calling,” Perry declares in the ads.
Bloomberg’s proposed large soda ban is featured one spot. And in a another, Perry accuses “bureaucrats” of “telling you whether you can even drink a Big Gulp.”
42 | Vicious Babushka Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:40:14am |
re: #38 Justanotherhuman
Oh, fer chrissakes. Next someone will compare him to St. Christopher.
Christopher was beheaded, BTW.
Someone can compare him to William Wallace. Or Joan of Arc.
43 | Gus Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:40:54am |
44 | Internet Tough Guy Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:42:05am |
45 | wrenchwench Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:42:06am |
46 | Kragar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:42:50am |
48 | Decatur Deb Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:43:52am |
“Libertarian Left”. Is that like Ron Paul with more dope and less tithing?
49 | Vicious Babushka Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:46:07am |
I want to put Pamela Geller and David Sirota in a room together and watch them Derp each other to death.
THE WINGNUT/MOONBAT CAGE MATCH HUNGER GAMES!!11
50 | darthstar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:46:35am |
Greenwald to write Snowden book. Also, why do you guys keep making it about Snowden?— Jeff Fecke (@jkfecke) July 18, 2013
51 | Decatur Deb Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:46:38am |
re: #46 Kragar
WTF is this horseshit?
He was “trained as a soldier”. Fucker couldn’t get through AIT. Delusional.
52 | Gus Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:47:45am |
.@Gus_802 Lots of poor women of colour living under US military threat saying the same thing. Shall we write them off as libertarian wackos?— Settler Colonial(TM) (@SettlerColonial) July 18, 2013
53 | GeneJockey Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:48:18am |
re: #49 Vicious Babushka
I want to put Pamela Geller and David Sirota in a room together and watch them Derp each other to death.
THE WINGNUT/MOONBAT CAGE MATCH HUNGER GAMES!!11
I dunno. I think Geller would clean his clock.
I read Sirota’s tweets, and I think, “What the fuck? What a maroon!”
I read Gellers and I think, “Holy Mother of God! That woman’s INSANE!!”
54 | Vicious Babushka Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:49:49am |
re: #53 GeneJockey
I dunno. I think Geller would clean his clock.
I read Sirota’s tweets, and I think, “What the fuck? What a maroon!”
I read Gellers and I think, “Holy Mother of God! That woman’s INSANE!!”
How about Pamela takes on Sirota and Glenn Greenwald both at once?
55 | geoffm33 Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:50:21am |
56 | erik_t Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:50:49am |
re: #44 Internet Tough Guy
I imagine hiding you like Anne Frank.
Stopped reading right there.
That’s, like, creepy Rule-34-shit right there.
57 | GeneJockey Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:51:51am |
re: #54 Vicious Babushka
How about Pamela takes on Sirota and Glenn Greenwald both at once?
I’d still take Geller, and give you 3:1.
58 | Vicious Babushka Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:54:38am |
The final results of the LGF POLL: WHAT IS EDWARD SNOWDEN.
1. Heroic Whistle-Blower 9/7.14%
2. Traitor 16/13.1%
3. Liar 1/0.8%
4. Fuck-up 2/1.6%
5. Dumbass 12/9.8%
6. Attention Queen 6/4.9%
7. A Combination of 3-4-5-6. 76/62.3%
60 | Vicious Babushka Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:56:25am |
In which Sirota continues to compare drone strikes to Trayvon murder: http://t.co/7KrfAbwN8b— Bob Cesca (@bobcesca_go) July 18, 2013
61 | FemNaziBitch Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:57:04am |
To Avoid Looking Like a Criminal, Don’t Commit a Crime
click at your own risk—Ann Coulter.
62 | erik_t Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:58:01am |
re: #61 FemNaziBitch
To Avoid Looking Like a Criminal, Don’t Commit a Crime
click at your own risk—Ann Coulter.
So walking down the street in a hooded sweatshirt is a crime, or hooded sweatshirts don’t look criminal?
Someone find Geraldo. Into the cage with them.
63 | FemNaziBitch Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:59:10am |
re: #62 erik_t
So walking down the street in a hooded sweatshirt is a crime, or hooded sweatshirts don’t look criminal?
Someone find Geraldo. Into the cage with them.
No, I think she means, don’t be black.
64 | Gus Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:59:13am |
65 | b.d. Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:59:13am |
66 | Lidane Thu, Jul 18, 2013 11:59:26am |
Sorry for the OT, but this happened:
Report: City of Detroit may file for bankruptcy tomorrow: http://t.co/fzkDTvZPeF— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) July 18, 2013
67 | Vicious Babushka Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:00:17pm |
68 | Charles Johnson Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:00:36pm |
re: #66 Lidane
That should be good for some epic racist comment threads on the right wing blogs.
69 | Eclectic Cyborg Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:04:21pm |
re: #68 Charles Johnson
That should be good for some epic racist comment threads on the right wing blogs.
Which is funny, because it was the loss of American based manufacturing and white flight to the suburbs that majorly shafted Detroit.
70 | FemNaziBitch Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:04:29pm |
71 | GeneJockey Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:04:47pm |
re: #68 Charles Johnson
That should be good for some epic racist comment threads on the right wing blogs.
One of my favorites is that racial profiling is fine, because if young black men don’t want to be profiled they should stop all those other young black men from being criminals. Kinda like how the moderate Muslims are responsible for stopping the extremists.
Responded to the wrong story. This one will allow them to roll blacks’ inability to run a city government with years of Liberal policy, and they might even roll all the Muslims in Dearborn into it - one Wingnut I know who lives in MI seems to squeeze that into every rant.
72 | Eclectic Cyborg Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:05:12pm |
73 | FemNaziBitch Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:06:02pm |
re: #71 GeneJockey
One of my favorites is that racial profiling is fine, because if young black men don’t want to be profiled they should stop all those other young black men from being criminals. Kinda like how the moderate Muslims are responsible for stopping the extremists.
Totally ignoring that it is “young men” of all flavors that we are failing. It is OUR issue, not THEIR issue.
74 | Kragar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:07:03pm |
Women’s health advocates horrified as Perry signs ‘draconian’ abortion bill into law
Texas Gov. Rick Perry (R) signed a sweeping set of abortion restrictions into law Thursday morning, drawing a wave of revulsion, shock and horror from women’s health and civil liberties advocates across the nation.
Chants of “Shame!” could be heard echoing through the Texas Capitol as Perry signed the bill, according to CNN. It seemed the protesters, locked out of Thursday’s signing ceremony, could do nothing more than shout after weeks of an intense Democratic mobilization unlike anything seen in Texas for decades.
Despite their efforts, and temporary success in blocking the bill’s passage during the first special session, Republicans simply ignored the crowds and outmaneuvered the small minority of Democrats after Perry called the legislature back.
As of today, abortions are now banned in Texas after 20 weeks of pregnancy and all but five of the abortion providers in the state officially face closure by 2014 if the law is upheld in court.
Texas, where the only thing that is regulated are the women.
75 | Gus Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:07:17pm |
Coming up next from David Sirota, “How Obama Drones and Stand Your Ground Created Djokhar Tsarnaev.” A Salon exclusive.— Gus (@Gus_802) July 18, 2013
76 | Bubblehead II Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:07:24pm |
Here we go again.
Siblings visiting Puget Sound may have exposed residents to measles.
SEATTLE — Public health officials have confirmed two people infected with measles have been visiting Washington from out of state and may have exposed the public to the virus before learning they were contagious.
Officials believe the siblings, an adult and a child, were infected outside of Washington. These cases are reportedly unrelated to the child who had measles while at Sea-Tac airport in early July.
The antivaxers are going to be the cause of a serious outbreak of an easily preventable disease one of these days.
77 | Dr Lizardo Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:07:35pm |
re: #53 GeneJockey
I dunno. I think Geller would clean his clock.
I read Sirota’s tweets, and I think, “What the fuck? What a maroon!”
I read Gellers and I think, “Holy Mother of God! That woman’s INSANE!!”
Geller has a pathological obsession with Muslims, to the point that it’s basically a monomania. Over time, she’ll become increasingly unhinged - yes, she’s hasn’t arrived at her ultimate destination - so I’d say Geller would win, just for sheer insanity.
The only person who could beat her is whoever it is that runs that “BareNakedIslam” blog.
78 | Vicious Babushka Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:08:00pm |
re: #68 Charles Johnson
That should be good for some epic racist comment threads on the right wing blogs.
They’re going to Tweet that picture of Hiroshima all lit up at night, from the sky, compared to one abandoned building in Detroit.
Oh and let’s not forget all TEH SHARIA here in Dearborn!
79 | Kragar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:08:13pm |
re: #76 Bubblehead II
Here we go again.
Siblings visiting Puget Sound may have exposed residents to measles.
SEATTLE — Public health officials have confirmed two people infected with measles have been visiting Washington from out of state and may have exposed the public to the virus before learning they were contagious.
Officials believe the siblings, an adult and a child, were infected outside of Washington. These cases are reportedly unrelated to the child who had measles while at Sea-Tac airport in early July.
The antivaxers are going to be the cause of a serious outbreak of an easily preventable disease one of these days.
They already are.
80 | FemNaziBitch Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:08:29pm |
re: #74 Kragar
Women’s health advocates horrified as Perry signs ‘draconian’ abortion bill into law
Texas, where the only thing that is regulated are the women.
On the road to the Supreme Court. …
81 | jaunte Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:08:47pm |
re: #52 Gus
Not sure how David Sirota’s writing is helping “poor women of colour living under US military threat.”
82 | Sol Berdinowitz Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:08:59pm |
re: #76 Bubblehead II
The antivaxers are going to be the cause of a serious outbreak of an easily preventable disease one of these days.
but autism!
/
83 | FemNaziBitch Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:09:31pm |
re: #76 Bubblehead II
Here we go again.
Siblings visiting Puget Sound may have exposed residents to measles.
SEATTLE — Public health officials have confirmed two people infected with measles have been visiting Washington from out of state and may have exposed the public to the virus before learning they were contagious.
Officials believe the siblings, an adult and a child, were infected outside of Washington. These cases are reportedly unrelated to the child who had measles while at Sea-Tac airport in early July.
The antivaxers are going to be the cause of a serious outbreak of an easily preventable disease one of these days.
Jenny McCarthy is on the View now.
84 | Dr Lizardo Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:10:11pm |
re: #76 Bubblehead II
Here we go again.
The antivaxers are going to be the cause of a serious outbreak of an easily preventable disease one of these days.
Most likely.
85 | darthstar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:10:18pm |
“Accordingly, the House now seeks leave to withdraw as a party defendant.” #marriageequality #ssm http://t.co/FuhT2f2Pit— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 18, 2013
86 | Lidane Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:10:25pm |
re: #74 Kragar
Texas, where the only thing that is regulated are the women.
And where tampons are more of a threat to the Texas Legislature than guns.
87 | Lidane Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:11:20pm |
re: #85 darthstar
The Twitter meltdowns over that should be fun. Heh.
88 | Kragar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:11:27pm |
re: #86 Lidane
And where tampons are more of a threat to the Texas Legislature than guns.
They attract bears…
/
89 | darthstar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:11:56pm |
The GOP is such a tease…really, as if the prospect of Rand Paul running for President isn’t tittilating enough.
With Marco Rubio on the skids, it could be Pete Kings moment http://t.co/bTAqquYQtf— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 18, 2013
90 | Kragar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:11:56pm |
91 | GeneJockey Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:12:18pm |
re: #78 Vicious Babushka
They’re going to Tweet that picture of Hiroshima all lit up at night, from the sky, compared to one abandoned building in Detroit.
Oh and let’s not forget all TEH SHARIA here in Dearborn!
Yeah, I hear they serve Halal food in the schools! HORRORS!
92 | lawhawk Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:12:31pm |
re: #61 FemNaziBitch
So ya
Thought ya
Might like to
Go to the show.
To feel that warm thrill of confusion,
That space cadet glow.
I’ve got some bad news for you sunshine,
Pink isn’t well, he stayed back at the hotel
And they sent us along as a surrogate band
We’re gonna find out where you folks really stand.
Are there any queers in the theater tonight?
Get them up against the wall!
There’s one in the spotlight, he don’t look right to me,
Get him up against the wall!
That one looks Jewish!
And that one’s a coon!
Who let all of this riff-raff into the room?
There’s one smoking a joint,
And another with spots!
If I had my way,
I’d have all of you shot!
/which one’s Pink?
94 | Lidane Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:13:24pm |
re: #89 darthstar
The GOP is such a tease…really, as if the prospect of Rand Paul running for President isn’t tittilating enough.
[Embedded content]
The universe doesn’t love me enough to give me a 2016 GOP field with Pete King, Rand Paul, and some of these other dipshits all running for POTUS.
95 | Vicious Babushka Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:13:54pm |
Burping contests … the new Christian way to avoid unwanted teen pregnancies - Really! #RWNJ #UniteBlue http://t.co/wHFkK1onTW— Vicki ObamaMama (@OnlyMiOpinion) July 18, 2013
96 | Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:13:55pm |
re: #92 lawhawk
Ted Nugent apparently.
//
97 | Kragar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:14:05pm |
These demons weren’t hiding behind bushes, they were out in the street; they were in the streets possessing the people who were demanding the right to murder babies.
I hope this is sinking in to our audience of the severity of the Satanic attack that the church is under right now. Make now mistake about what is happening; this is raw Satanic sewage coming up out of Hell. The sewer pipes of Hell have broken open and this is raw hate against Jesus Christ, against God, against the Bible, against righteous men and women, against life, against anything that is good and decent.
This is the face of the Obamanista revolution and this is only the beginning. This is only the beginning of what these people have planned.
If the restraints are ever taken off these people, they’re going to kill us. There is going to be mass slaughter of Christians; that’s what these people desire.
98 | GeneJockey Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:14:24pm |
re: #76 Bubblehead II
The antivaxers are going to be the cause of a serious outbreak of an easily preventable disease one of these days.
They’ve been freeloading on herd immunity for years now, but now it’s going from that to being disease vectors for the rest of the population.
99 | lawhawk Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:14:44pm |
re: #89 darthstar
If the GOP mainstream thinks that Christie is a RINO with no chance at the WH, why does King have any better shot. After all, King was critical of his fellow GOPers for screwing Sandy victims sideways with a pitchfork.
I think there’s so little real news out of DC that they’re taking any rumor and turning it into a hypothetical run just to see what people think. (answer - not much).
100 | Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:14:59pm |
101 | Kragar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:15:18pm |
102 | Kragar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:15:53pm |
re: #100 Feline Fearless Leader
I hear that Vigo the Carpathian is going to run for governor.
/
Personally, I hate it when the demons go around hiding in bushes.
103 | GeneJockey Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:16:09pm |
re: #100 Feline Fearless Leader
I hear that Vigo the Carpathian is going to run for governor.
/
“Why am I drippings with goo?”
104 | FemNaziBitch Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:16:41pm |
re: #95 Vicious Babushka
[Embedded content]
ahahahahahahahahhhhhhhaaaaaa——deep breathe ——-ahahahahahahahah
ROTFLAMO, slapping the floor with my palms!!!
105 | Vicious Babushka Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:17:05pm |
re: #97 Kragar
Well see, that’s what happens when the water-treatment and recycling infrastructure is privatized and unregulated.
106 | Lidane Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:17:11pm |
107 | erik_t Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:17:25pm |
re: #97 Kragar
I can’t take someone seriously once they straight-facedly invoke the idea of hell, or Stan, or demons or whatever actually seriously doing a real thing in our real observable factual world.
I just can’t.
108 | FemNaziBitch Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:17:42pm |
109 | Vicious Babushka Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:18:35pm |
re: #108 FemNaziBitch
Yes, we need to increase our spending on infrastructure.
This is a good example.
:0
Instead of improving the waste-treatment facilities they will just hire an exorcist.
110 | piratedan Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:18:40pm |
re: #108 FemNaziBitch
Yes, we need to increase our spending on infrastructure.
This is a good example.
:0
well damn, so much for the Ghostbuster III spoilers….. ///
111 | GeneJockey Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:18:55pm |
re: #107 erik_t
I can’t take someone seriously once they straight-facedly invoke the idea of hell, or Stan, or demons or whatever actually seriously doing a real thing in our real observable factual world.
I just can’t.
Well, I agree about hell, and demons, but I’m pretty sure Stan Lee exists. I keep seeing him in movies, Hitchcocking.
//
112 | Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:20:03pm |
re: #110 piratedan
well damn, so much for the Ghostbuster III spoilers….. ///
I thought GB III was Trump’s hair being possessed and trying to take over the Eastern Seaboard.
113 | Lidane Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:20:28pm |
re: #107 erik_t
I can’t take someone seriously once they straight-facedly invoke the idea of hell, or Stan, or demons or whatever actually seriously doing a real thing in our real observable factual world.
I just can’t.
Same here. Once someone starts talking about Satan or the devil or Hell (or, alternatively, God, angels, and Heaven) as literal, I can’t understand them anymore. It all makes zero sense to me.
114 | Bulworth Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:20:46pm |
re: #97 Kragar
This guy sounds slightly unhinged. Just a little.
115 | GeneJockey Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:20:57pm |
re: #112 Feline Fearless Leader
I thought GB III was Trump’s hair being possessed and trying to take over the Eastern Seaboard.
Eastern Seaboard? Hell, it tried to take over the whole country!
116 | Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:21:01pm |
re: #109 Vicious Babushka
Instead of improving the waste-treatment facilities they will just hire an exorcist.
Ah yes. That has proven so very effective in preventing cholera outbreaks.
//
117 | FemNaziBitch Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:21:42pm |
re: #109 Vicious Babushka
Instead of improving the waste-treatment facilities they will just hire an exorcist.
This is another good reason for Public Education.
118 | Bubblehead II Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:21:58pm |
119 | GeneJockey Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:22:18pm |
re: #113 Lidane
Same here. Once someone starts talking about Satan or the devil or Hell (or, alternatively, God, angels, and Heaven) as literal, I can’t understand them anymore. It all makes zero sense to me.
That’s my niece’s Facebook feed. At least it was till she started selling makeup to make extra cash.
120 | Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:22:36pm |
re: #115 GeneJockey
Eastern Seaboard? Hell, it tried to take over the whole country!
It opted to start small. Take over City F. Then go from there to Prefecture F. And from there to all of Japan, with the world to follow. Subtle take-over plans will be attempted until one succeeds.
;)
121 | FemNaziBitch Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:22:52pm |
re: #113 Lidane
Same here. Once someone starts talking about Satan or the devil or Hell (or, alternatively, God, angels, and Heaven) as literal, I can’t understand them anymore. It all makes zero sense to me.
The vocabulary can be useful when talking on the metaphysical level, but few are able to process on that level.
The idea that such things are actually real is beyond me.
122 | Dr Lizardo Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:24:10pm |
re: #92 lawhawk
So ya
Thought ya
Might like to
Go to the show.
To feel that warm thrill of confusion,
That space cadet glow.
I’ve got some bad news for you sunshine,
Pink isn’t well, he stayed back at the hotel
And they sent us along as a surrogate band
We’re gonna find out where you folks really stand.Are there any queers in the theater tonight?
Get them up against the wall!
There’s one in the spotlight, he don’t look right to me,
Get him up against the wall!
That one looks Jewish!
And that one’s a coon!
Who let all of this riff-raff into the room?
There’s one smoking a joint,
And another with spots!
If I had my way,
I’d have all of you shot!/which one’s Pink?
I think a better song for Ann would be “Waiting For The Worms”.
123 | Ian G. Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:24:59pm |
124 | Vicious Babushka Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:25:19pm |
125 | Gus Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:25:29pm |
Holder’s amazing anti-drone war speech (just kidding…) (http://t.co/1Btzo0kZ9f Excellent article/analysis— Tim Wise (@timjacobwise) July 18, 2013
126 | erik_t Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:25:39pm |
re: #113 Lidane
Same here. Once someone starts talking about Satan or the devil or Hell (or, alternatively, God, angels, and Heaven) as literal, I can’t understand them anymore. It all makes zero sense to me.
I could always handle the God-the-clockmaker thing. No evidence, but if you want to conceptualize creation/big bang/whatever in those terms, I’m in no place to disagree.
But holy cow, I hope a universe-wide all-knowing all-seeing everything-deity has better things to do than help Spoiled Running Back #38 score that game-clinching touchdown in the big high school rivalry game.
127 | Decatur Deb Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:25:57pm |
re: #113 Lidane
Same here. Once someone starts talking about Satan or the devil or Hell (or, alternatively, God, angels, and Heaven) as literal, I can’t understand them anymore. It all makes zero sense to me.
re: #107 erik_t
I can’t take someone seriously once they straight-facedly invoke the idea of hell, or Stan, or demons or whatever actually seriously doing a real thing in our real observable factual world.
I just can’t.
Let me help you: These people operate the throttle on the Texas death penalty machine.
128 | Lidane Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:26:45pm |
re: #127 Decatur Deb
Let me help you: These people operate the throttle on the Texas death penalty machine.
They also write the laws making it almost impossible to appeal a murder conviction here in Texas.
129 | wrenchwench Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:27:31pm |
re: #125 Gus
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There’s a guy I followed for one reason and unfollowed for three or four reasons.
130 | Sol Berdinowitz Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:28:22pm |
re: #127 Decatur Deb
Let me help you: These people operate the throttle on the Texas death penalty machine.
And have a stranglehold on the Texas Board of Education…
131 | FemNaziBitch Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:28:52pm |
So, I just got around to watching the video at the top.
EXCELLENT!
132 | Gus Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:29:07pm |
@dkronin @SherrieGG “Same region as a terrorist camp” = an entire Muslim country = bigotry— David Sirota (@davidsirota) July 18, 2013
Reducto ad…
133 | Gus Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:29:23pm |
re: #129 wrenchwench
There’s a guy I followed for one reason and unfollowed for three or four reasons.
Same here.
135 | Internet Tough Guy Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:30:24pm |
re: #132 Gus
Well, as we all know, it’s blacks that are the real racists….
136 | GeneJockey Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:30:29pm |
re: #126 erik_t
I could always handle the God-the-clockmaker thing. No evidence, but if you want to conceptualize creation/big bang/whatever in those terms, I’m in no place to disagree.
But holy cow, I hope a universe-wide all-knowing all-seeing everything-deity has better things to do than help Spoiled Running Back #38 score that game-clinching touchdown in the big high school rivalry game.
Not only that, but helping Spoiled Running Back #38 score that game-clinching touchdown also requires Him to hurt other members of his flock. It’s like praying to get a job - “God, could you please make all those other folks lose out to me?”
I read my niece’s stuff on Facebook, where she talks about how God is so fantastic even though he’s making her day more challenging, and I want to say, “Or maybe shit just happens.”
138 | Lidane Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:32:43pm |
Herpty derpty durr:
Report: Gunman outside White House says he was only going to fire a couple shots: http://t.co/tbJwV6UTGl— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) July 18, 2013
139 | GeneJockey Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:33:45pm |
140 | FemNaziBitch Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:33:46pm |
re: #136 GeneJockey
Not only that, but helping Spoiled Running Back #38 score that game-clinching touchdown also requires Him to hurt other members of his flock. It’s like praying to get a job - “God, could you please make all those other folks lose out to me?”
I read my niece’s stuff on Facebook, where she talks about how God is so fantastic even though he’s making her day more challenging, and I want to say, “Or maybe shit just happens.”
141 | Kragar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:33:53pm |
re: #126 erik_t
I could always handle the God-the-clockmaker thing. No evidence, but if you want to conceptualize creation/big bang/whatever in those terms, I’m in no place to disagree.
But holy cow, I hope a universe-wide all-knowing all-seeing everything-deity has better things to do than help Spoiled Running Back #38 score that game-clinching touchdown in the big high school rivalry game.
I have a problem with people who say God is omnipotent but who say there is no way God could have created the universe over billions of years, using observable scientific phenomenon, and use folklore from one tiny corner of the globe as an excuse to ignore all evidence which they disagree with.
142 | FemNaziBitch Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:34:52pm |
re: #138 Lidane
Herpty derpty durr:
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and for that you get a lifetime in the psych prison.
143 | FemNaziBitch Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:35:59pm |
re: #141 Kragar
I have a problem with people who say God is omnipotent but who say there is no way God could have created the universe over billions of years, using observable scientific phenomenon, and use folklore from one tiny corner of the globe as an excuse to ignore all evidence which they disagree with.
They see any questioning as a challenge to their belief. And somehow, they need to interpret that as an affront to G-d himself. I think it’s an insecurity thing.
144 | Kragar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:37:25pm |
re: #143 FemNaziBitch
They see any questioning as a challenge to their belief. And somehow, they need to interpret that as an affront to G-d himself. I think it’s an insecurity thing.
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
- Thomas Aquinas
145 | Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:38:20pm |
re: #136 GeneJockey
Not only that, but helping Spoiled Running Back #38 score that game-clinching touchdown also requires Him to hurt other members of his flock. It’s like praying to get a job - “God, could you please make all those other folks lose out to me?”
I read my niece’s stuff on Facebook, where she talks about how God is so fantastic even though he’s making her day more challenging, and I want to say, “Or maybe shit just happens.”
There was a nice riff on that in an old Jack L Chalker SF book “And the Devil Will Drag You Under”. Parallel realities story and in one of the worlds a main character incarnates as a vampire. He meets another vampire* who tells him that he (the character) had become undead because when he got a serious injury in a big football game half the crowd was wishing he would pull through, and half were wishing he would die. Since magic worked there he came out half and half.
* - The vampire he met had been the mayor of New York. ;)
146 | lawhawk Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:40:03pm |
Testing the Definition of Insanity: The GOP and Obamacare http://t.co/9Ffsb1QmPo— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 18, 2013
147 | Gus Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:43:11pm |
Shorter David Sirota: reductio ad absurdum, false equivalencies, moral equivalencies, co-opting of POC issues, straw men, and, drones.— Gus (@Gus_802) July 18, 2013
148 | Gus Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:43:23pm |
.@Gus_802 Critique of Sirota: Strawman, Genetic Fallacy, hyperventilation, erasure of foriegn PoC, partisanshp, grotesque mockery of drones.— Settler Colonial(TM) (@SettlerColonial) July 18, 2013
149 | b.d. Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:44:35pm |
re: #138 Lidane
What kind of country are we living in where a citizen in good standing can’t even let off a few rounds on the White House lawn?
//
150 | Ian G. Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:44:44pm |
I see that this Rick Perry thing has created a backlash against Texas, which I think is unfair. As a lifelong New Yorker, I have to say, I really enjoyed my time working in San Antonio, and I have on my short list of vacations a trip to Big Bend National Park and a visit to Austin (for both the music scene and the college football scene).
I just wish the state would stop electing people with good hair but without the intellectual capacity to count to three to be governor. That’s all.
151 | darthstar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:44:51pm |
re: #138 Lidane
Herpty derpty durr:
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My grandfather was arrested for carrying a loaded rifle into the White House (true story). My dad was about 5 or 6 years old at the time, and they went to take a tour. My grandfather’s truck didn’t lock, and because he was afraid someone would steal his gun, he carried it with him into the White House (this was back in 1940). He was summarily arrested, and according to my father, he sat on grandpa’s lap in court and testified about his daddy not wanting his gun stolen. Grandpa got his gun back and charges dropped.
Still, he was one paranoid guy, my grandpa. Wrote a book about different radiation types and how they were dangerous. I used to have a copy (it was about 40-50 pages, pocket sized, hard cover). It had his pencil edits for future versions he never wrote. One that I can recall from memory was something along the following striking original and bolding penciled edit:
Gamma rays can kill you. If someone points a gamma ray device at you, shoot that
man with a load of buckshotSON OF A BITCH.
Yeah, he was a character. Was a devout athiest who used to let Jehovah’s Witnesses into his house so he could scream at them about how fucking stupid they were. We’d come back from church to see two ten speeds in front of the house and hear shouting.
152 | Sol Berdinowitz Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:45:12pm |
re: #135 Internet Tough Guy
Well, as we all know, it’s blacks that are the real racists….
And Shirley Sherrod proved that the NAACP is a racist organization.
/
153 | darthstar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:45:44pm |
re: #152 Sol Berdinowitz
And Shirley Sherrod proved that the NAACP is a racist organization.
/
Breitbart’s still dead, right?
154 | Kragar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:46:03pm |
re: #150 Ian G.
I see that this Rick Perry thing has created a backlash against Texas, which I think is unfair. As a lifelong New Yorker, I have to say, I really enjoyed my time working in San Antonio, and I have on my short list of vacations a trip to Big Bend National Park and a visit to Austin (for both the music scene and the college football scene).
I just wish the state would stop electing people with good hair but without the intellectual capacity to count to three to be governor. That’s all.
My mother was born and raised in Texas. There is a reason she’s never gone back.
155 | Sol Berdinowitz Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:46:18pm |
156 | Ian G. Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:47:03pm |
re: #151 darthstar
Was a devout athiest who used to let Jehovah’s Witnesses into his house so he could scream at them about how fucking stupid they were. We’d come back from church to see two ten speeds in front of the house and hear shouting.
I’m trying hard not to burst out laughing. I’m a pretty hardcore atheist, but I’d never act like that to religious folks, even those like the Mormons or Jehovah’s Witnesses who ring my doorbell.
157 | darthstar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:47:36pm |
Severe flooding hits San Juan, PR. Pics, vids & Vines from the @WeatherChannel's @IrishEagle http://t.co/yyaWlNluZj pic.twitter.com/KJioMpbIcT— RebelMouse (@RebelMouse) July 18, 2013
158 | darthstar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:48:44pm |
re: #156 Ian G.
I’m trying hard not to burst out laughing. I’m a pretty hardcore atheist, but I’d never act like that to religious folks, even those like the Mormons or Jehovah’s Witnesses who ring my doorbell.
He had emphysema and was very angry with the world. It was one of his few forms of entertainment. After they left he’d be all smiles.
159 | Bulworth Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:49:26pm |
“Baseball season resumes tonight. Which reminds me of how baseball’s radar guns are just like Obama’s drones.”
160 | EPR-radar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:49:45pm |
re: #126 erik_t
I could always handle the God-the-clockmaker thing. No evidence, but if you want to conceptualize creation/big bang/whatever in those terms, I’m in no place to disagree.
But holy cow, I hope a universe-wide all-knowing all-seeing everything-deity has better things to do than help Spoiled Running Back #38 score that game-clinching touchdown in the big high school rivalry game.
Mark Twain hit this point hard in his War Prayer.
…
You have heard your servant’s prayer — the uttered part of it. I am commissioned of God to put into words the other part of it — that part which the pastor — and also you in your hearts — fervently prayed silently. And ignorantly and unthinkingly? God grant that it was so! You heard these words: ‘Grant us the victory, O Lord our God!’ That is sufficient. the *whole* of the uttered prayer is compact into those pregnant words. Elaborations were not necessary. When you have prayed for victory you have prayed for many unmentioned results which follow victory—*must* follow it, cannot help but follow it. Upon the listening spirit of God fell also the unspoken part of the prayer. He commandeth me to put it into words. Listen!
O Lord our Father, our young patriots, idols of our hearts, go forth to battle — be Thou near them! With them — in spirit — we also go forth from the sweet peace of our beloved firesides to smite the foe. O Lord our God, help us to tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it — for our sakes who adore Thee, Lord, blast their hopes, blight their lives, protract their bitter pilgrimage, make heavy their steps, water their way with their tears, stain the white snow with the blood of their wounded feet! We ask it, in the spirit of love, of Him Who is the Source of Love, and Who is the ever-faithful refuge and friend of all that are sore beset and seek His aid with humble and contrite hearts. Amen.
…
161 | b.d. Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:54:07pm |
Bitish Open - 3 shots behind the leader Zach Johnson is 19-year-old Jordan Spieth & Tiger Woods.
164 | FemNaziBitch Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:56:08pm |
re: #144 Kragar
“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
- Thomas Aquinas
That deserves a graphic.
165 | Gus Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:57:16pm |
pic.twitter.com/59Bzs1JKBi— Emergency Kittens (@EmrgencyKittens) July 18, 2013
166 | Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:57:22pm |
167 | Kragar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:58:20pm |
168 | Bulworth Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:59:09pm |
Wingnuts continue efforts to have Zimmerman awarded sainthood and martyrdom status.
169 | Mike Lamb Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:59:14pm |
170 | Eclectic Cyborg Thu, Jul 18, 2013 12:59:19pm |
It’s interesting to me.
If you consider a masterpiece. A creative work that serves as the absolute high point of an artists ability, they are usually crafted painstakingly over a long period of time and continually refined before they reach completion.
Taking that into consideration, I think that a God who wanted to create an entire universe and took a long time doing it, painstakingly crafting each little piece and detail, is more plausible to me than a being who just snapped his fingers and made it happen in six days.
171 | darthstar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 1:01:16pm |
59-40, Gina McCarthy is confirmed as EPA chief.— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) July 18, 2013
172 | Lidane Thu, Jul 18, 2013 1:01:18pm |
OUTRAGE!
Senate confirms Gina McCarthy as head of EPA: http://t.co/poSv94DCu5— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) July 18, 2013
173 | Kragar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 1:01:58pm |
re: #170 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s interesting to me.
If you consider a masterpiece. A creative work that serves as the absolute high point of an artists ability, they are usually crafted painstakingly over a long period of time and continually refined before they reach completion.
Taking that into consideration, I think that a God who wanted to create an entire universe and took a long time doing it, painstakingly crafting each little piece and detail, is more plausible to me than a being who just snapped his fingers and made it happen in six days.
For a guy who used to like putting in personal appearances all the time, he certainly has turned into a recluse.
174 | GeneJockey Thu, Jul 18, 2013 1:02:06pm |
re: #170 Eclectic Cyborg
It’s interesting to me.
If you consider a masterpiece. A creative work that serves as the absolute high point of an artists ability, they are usually crafted painstakingly over a long period of time and continually refined before they reach completion.
Taking that into consideration, I think that a God who wanted to create an entire universe and took a long time doing it, painstakingly crafting each little piece and detail, is more plausible to me than a being who just snapped his fingers and made it happen in six days.
And then has to keep going back to tweak it, after throwing up His hands and drowning almost all of it at least once.
175 | FemNaziBitch Thu, Jul 18, 2013 1:02:42pm |
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
Q92, art. 1, Reply Obj. 1
nah, I think I”ll leave Thomas Acquinas alone.
176 | darthstar Thu, Jul 18, 2013 1:02:44pm |
re: #172 Lidane
OUTRAGE!
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It’s amazing what you can get done when you allow a cloture vote.
177 | Feline Fearless Leader Thu, Jul 18, 2013 1:03:20pm |
re: #174 GeneJockey
And then has to keep going back to tweak it, after throwing up His hands and drowning almost all of it at least once.
That was an accident. He dropped part of it into the sink while doing the dishes. (It’s hard keeping Andromeda clean since comet dust keeping accumulating on it.)
/
178 | Gus Thu, Jul 18, 2013 1:06:06pm |
.@Gus_802 Enjoy your #AmericanPrivilege. Be sure to Amerisplain to us foreigners how race has nothing to do with drones and Obama is a hero.— Settler Colonial(TM) (@SettlerColonial) July 18, 2013
Derp.
179 | GeneJockey Thu, Jul 18, 2013 1:06:14pm |
re: #175 FemNaziBitch
As regards the individual nature, woman is defective and misbegotten, for the active power of the male seed tends to the production of a perfect likeness in the masculine sex; while the production of a woman comes from defect in the active power.
nah, I think I”ll leave Thomas Acquinas alone.
What was he, nuts? I mean, look at women - they’re beautiful!
Men? Not so much. Funny looking, more like. Especially with all the hair and the outdoor plumbing. Yeesh.
180 | Decatur Deb Thu, Jul 18, 2013 1:06:56pm |
re: #164 FemNaziBitch
That deserves a graphic.
Cafe Press doesn’t carry one. If you want to work up a hoodie, I’ll get my wife a couple for when she teaches classes.
181 | geoffm33 Thu, Jul 18, 2013 1:09:34pm |
re: #159 Bulworth
“Baseball season resumes tonight. Which reminds me of how baseball’s radar guns are just like Obama’s drones.”
“Baseball season doesn’t start up until tomorrow. Which reminds me of how the Obama sequester ended White House tours for little kids.”
182 | FemNaziBitch Thu, Jul 18, 2013 1:09:50pm |
re: #180 Decatur Deb
Cafe Press doesn’t carry one. If you want to work up a hoodie, I’ll get my wife a couple for when she teaches classes.
You are awesome, but I’ve decided not to promote St Thomas.
I’ll be on the lookout for a similar quote tho. NO worries.
183 | FemNaziBitch Thu, Jul 18, 2013 1:11:03pm |
re: #179 GeneJockey
What was he, nuts? I mean, look at women - they’re beautiful!
Men? Not so much. Funny looking, more like. Especially with all the hair and the outdoor plumbing. Yeesh.
Could only be spoken by one who has never carried a pregnancy, given birth or been the primary caregiver of infants and small children.
Passive is not what I would describe it as.
184 | Decatur Deb Thu, Jul 18, 2013 1:15:34pm |
re: #182 FemNaziBitch
You are awesome, but I’ve decided not to promote St Thomas.
I’ll be on the lookout for a similar quote tho. NO worries.
Perhaps a more recent Catholic thinker:
“Women think with their whole bodies and they see things as a whole more than men do.”
Dorothy Day
185 | GunstarGreen Thu, Jul 18, 2013 2:05:56pm |
re: #97 Kragar
How do adults listen to horseshit of this magnitude and not laugh themselves sick?
It’s often said, “think of how stupid the average American is, now bear in mind that half of them are worse than that”. And I try not to think about it, but every so often something like this comes along and forces me to face that fact. People take this guy seriously. There are adult humans, with all the same rights and privileges and responsibilities as I have, that actually believe this man as telling the literal truth, rather than seeing him as a sad clown going through a pathetic routine.
About…. oh, ten years or so ago I went on a trip with my good childhood friend to Utah; we were going out to spend two weeks with his dad’s side of the family. I hadn’t been warned beforehand, but these folks were hardcore baptists. We went to one of their church services, in this tiny little one-room roadside church, with a congregation consisting of his dad’s family near and extended, a couple of neighbor families, and his grandfather as the preacher.
They had a section of their service where we read some random part of the bible, I forget which, and then had a big ‘share what I think this passage means’ session. By the end of it, when I’d said my piece, I got a lot of approving nods and people commenting on how insightful it was.
I didn’t have the heart to tell them that I was an atheist that had been bullshitting them for the past 15 minutes.
186 | urbanmeemaw Thu, Jul 18, 2013 2:33:24pm |
re: #37 Decatur Deb
Upding for having the fortitude to wade through Salon comments. While I’ve read some thoughtful, insightful posts, it’s usually an episode of Turbo Charged Troll Time. Actually, I’m having difficulty with most Salon articles anymore. I mostly scroll quickly.
187 | urbanmeemaw Thu, Jul 18, 2013 2:34:38pm |
re: #38 Justanotherhuman
Wasn’t Christopher also “de-sainted”?
189 | Kaadred Thu, Jul 18, 2013 7:43:49pm |
re: #182 FemNaziBitch
You are awesome, but I’ve decided not to promote St Thomas.
I’ll be on the lookout for a similar quote tho. NO worries.
Here’s a similar quote I came across some time ago:
“Never trust a man who reads only one book.”
― Arturo Pérez-Reverte, Purity of Blood
I haven’t read the book, but the review made it sound interesting.
Link