2 | piratedan Fri, Jul 26, 2013 12:28:04pm |
I’d say that Rep King is akin to a rusty hoe, toolishly speaking :-) //
3 | Lidane Fri, Jul 26, 2013 12:32:43pm |
SCIENCE!
Creationist explains how logging into your computer debunks the theory of evolution http://t.co/yqGEW3pxWM— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) July 26, 2013
4 | OhNoZombies! Fri, Jul 26, 2013 12:33:17pm |
Just because of the headline…SMH
Dominique Strauss-Kahn. Aka ‘Big Pimpin’.
I wonder if he wears a big hat and platforms?
5 | Shiplord Kirel Fri, Jul 26, 2013 12:34:47pm |
I have not evaluated large marijuana shipments in person, but iirc, the stuff has a pretty low density. Wouldn’t 75 pounds of marijuana make a bale about the size of a La-Z-Boy recliner (to use an analogy RWNJs can relate to)? If so, wouldn’t low-light video of massively loaded weed-carriers be all over the media?
6 | Kragar Fri, Jul 26, 2013 12:35:02pm |
GOP Congressman Defends Holder On Reinstating Voting Rights Act In Texas
Since Attorney General Eric Holder’s announcement Thursday that the Department of Justice would “ask a federal court in Texas to subject the State of Texas to a preclearance regime similar to the one required by Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act,” the reaction from Texas Republicans has been furious. But Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI), who sponsored the 2006 Voting Rights Act re-authorization, backed the move as legally proper.
…
Sensenbrenner told The Hill on Thursday that these critics were misrepresenting the facts. “The [Justice] department’s actions are consistent with the Voting Rights Act,” he said, noting that Voting Rights Act still allows challenges to changes that would suppress minority voters.
“Increased litigation will be one of the major consequences of the court’s decision as courts will have to litigate more allegations of voter discrimination under Section 2 and whether jurisdictions should be ‘bailed-in’ to preclearance coverage,” he added.
7 | Kragar Fri, Jul 26, 2013 12:36:29pm |
re: #3 Lidane
SCIENCE!
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Space flight, chemical engineering, and atomic energy are also clearly impossible.
8 | Carlos Danger Fri, Jul 26, 2013 12:37:28pm |
Steve “Stedenko” King
9 | sattv4u2 Fri, Jul 26, 2013 12:42:13pm |
re: #8 Carlos Danger
Steve “Stedenko” KIng
The back end/ tail fins reminds me of decades ago working in my friends auto body shop
He acquired a Caddy El Dorado that was all smashed up in the rear.
We basically eliminated the back of the car, from behind the drivers seat/ door and made the rear a flat bed similar to an El Camino
We named it an El Dorino!
10 | erik_t Fri, Jul 26, 2013 12:42:48pm |
re: #7 Kragar
Space flight, chemical engineering, and atomic energy are also clearly impossible.
Also too, tides.
11 | Kragar Fri, Jul 26, 2013 12:43:18pm |
Whenever something is hard to figure out, the best course of action is always just to say “Fuck it; an invisible man in the sky must want it that way.”
12 | Shiplord Kirel Fri, Jul 26, 2013 12:43:19pm |
Last year, some clever entrepreneur was caught growing marijuana in the alley less than a block from my house. A two acre patch of the stuff was discovered on a ranch just a few miles away. Excuse my ignorance of the dope business (again), but do gangsters really bother to smuggle the stuff over the border on any sizable scale? Cocaine, heroin, hand grenades, and C4 would make sense, but the economics of smuggling weed just don’t seem to add up.
13 | Kragar Fri, Jul 26, 2013 12:43:40pm |
14 | sattv4u2 Fri, Jul 26, 2013 12:47:01pm |
re: #13 Kragar
You can’t explain that.
Hell
I’ve been trying to explain this one since I was a kid!!
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15 | Justanotherhuman Fri, Jul 26, 2013 12:47:46pm |
OK, anyone who wants to read transcripts (unofficial) of the Bradley Manning trial, can do so here:
Transcripts from Bradley Manning’s Trial pressfreedomfoundation.org
(Preface)
The US military has refused to release transcripts of Bradley Manning’s trial. In addition, they’ve denied press passes to 270 out of the 350 media organizations that applied. Without public transcripts or a press pass, it’s virtually impossible for media organizations to accurately cover the trial and for the public to know what the government is doing in its name.
In response, Freedom of the Press Foundation has crowd-sourced funding to place a professional stenographer in the media room covering the trial. We will post full transcripts shortly after each day’s proceedings end. The morning session with be posted by 7 pm the same evening. The afternoon session will be posted by 9 am the next morning. The transcripts will be released under an Attribution 3.0 Unported Creative Commons license.
Depending on how long the trial lasts, transcriptions will cost between $60,000-120,000, so please help support this project by going here to donate.
16 | Obama's Twitter Legions Fri, Jul 26, 2013 12:49:10pm |
“The same way I’m complimenting Steve King when I call him a tool”
That’s have I been saying all this time. Thank you, Stephen!
17 | klys Fri, Jul 26, 2013 12:50:26pm |
re: #16 wrenchwench
That’s have I been saying all this time. Thank you, Stephen!
Yes, but you like tools.
18 | sattv4u2 Fri, Jul 26, 2013 12:50:54pm |
re: #16 wrenchwench
That’s have I been saying all this time. Thank you, Stephen!
Thank him?
You should sue him for stealing your line!!!
19 | Decatur Deb Fri, Jul 26, 2013 12:54:07pm |
re: #15 Justanotherhuman
OK, anyone who wants to read transcripts (unofficial) of the Bradley Manning trial, can do so here:
Transcripts from Bradley Manning’s Trial pressfreedomfoundation.org
(Preface)
The US military has refused to release transcripts of Bradley Manning’s trial. In addition, they’ve denied press passes to 270 out of the 350 media organizations that applied. Without public transcripts or a press pass, it’s virtually impossible for media organizations to accurately cover the trial and for the public to know what the government is doing in its name.In response, Freedom of the Press Foundation has crowd-sourced funding to place a professional stenographer in the media room covering the trial. We will post full transcripts shortly after each day’s proceedings end. The morning session with be posted by 7 pm the same evening. The afternoon session will be posted by 9 am the next morning. The transcripts will be released under an Attribution 3.0 Unported Creative Commons license.
Depending on how long the trial lasts, transcriptions will cost between $60,000-120,000, so please help support this project by going here to donate.
It would be useful to examine the differences in the civil and military justice systems. The military exists to assure good order and successful execution of the unit’s mission. Justice is expressly a secondary means to that. If you want to be a gangsta, the DoD is a bad place to start.
20 | Christopher's Bitchins Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:02:38pm |
re: #12 Shiplord Kirel
In California, I’m fairly certain the vast majority of the medical marijuana consumed in state is grown right here in state. In the “Emerald Triangle” in Northern California it is the number one cash crop and biggest industry by far.
21 | Charles Johnson Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:03:14pm |
pic.twitter.com/qz7OEtaoA8— emilio porompompero (@PoromEmilio) July 26, 2013
22 | Kragar Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:03:31pm |
Russian Neo-Nazi ‘Occupy’ Group Tortures LGBT Youths
A Russian neo-Nazi group calling itself “Occupy-Pedofilyay” has taken to luring LGBT teens with personal ads, then kidnapping and torturing them before making their victims “come out” to friends and family on camera, human rights groups claimed this week.
23 | engineer cat Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:04:23pm |
mi nuevo nombre sera ‘ignaciogato el peligroso’
24 | Charles Johnson Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:06:22pm |
pic.twitter.com/VT7Y9aisPY— emilio porompompero (@PoromEmilio) July 26, 2013
25 | Charles Johnson Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:08:40pm |
Nature overtaking the Great Wall of China pic.twitter.com/jpKwqFS94w— Abandoned (@AbandonedPics) July 26, 2013
26 | Charles Johnson Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:09:47pm |
#space selfie #FTW. via @ArmedwScience, @AstroMarshburn: http://t.co/h0h7CLL63l pic.twitter.com/DRuGuqZvO3— The White House OSTP (@whitehouseostp) July 25, 2013
27 | calochortus Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:12:58pm |
re: #12 Shiplord Kirel
Last year, some clever entrepreneur was caught growing marijuana in the alley less than a block from my house. A two acre patch of the stuff was discovered on a ranch just a few miles away. Excuse my ignorance of the dope business (again), but do gangsters really bother to smuggle the stuff over the border on any sizable scale? Cocaine, heroin, hand grenades, and C4 would make sense, but the economics of smuggling weed just don’t seem to add up.
This is a couple years old, but would seem to indicate a lot of marijuana is still being imported from Mexico.
28 | makeitstop Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:14:39pm |
re: #27 calochortus
This is a couple years old, but would seem to indicate a lot of marijuana is still being imported from Mexico.
Practically everybody I know grows their own at this point. And some of it is so good, I’d wager that the people growing it couldn’t afford it if they had to buy it.
29 | freetoken Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:16:13pm |
WND Total-Lack-Of-Self-Awareness headline of the day:
“The fairy tale is true. Evil exists. God exists.”
A story in which we read:
[…]
What makes “The Conjuring” intriguing is that is isn’t just a haunted house ghost story. In fact, throughout the film, the Warren characters reveal most “hauntings” are nothing more than hoaxes, old pipes, drafts or creaky wood.
Furthermore, they insist, “ghosts,” if such things exist, don’t possess “the power” to do many of the things to which they are credited. Instead, they insist, the whole “ghost” line is a lie. A lie told by demons. And the demons are real.
“Demonic spirits don’t possess things,“ the Warrens explain, “they possess people. It wanted to get inside of you.”
I have to admit, I was impressed. It makes it sound like the Warrens know what they’re talking about.
[…]
Ghosts don’t exist… they’re really demons.
30 | Kragar Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:17:14pm |
re: #29 freetoken
WND Total-Lack-Of-Self-Awareness headline of the day:
A story in which we read:
Ghosts don’t exist… they’re really demons.
Did they miss the part where the thing is a movie?
31 | allegro Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:19:19pm |
re: #30 Kragar
Did they miss the part where the thing is a movie?
They haven’t yet figured out that the Flintstones was a cartoon.
32 | Lidane Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:20:20pm |
Wait, RNC comms director was asked about lack of GOP female pres contenders and said, “This isn’t a beauty contest”?? http://t.co/2RulLRRsB5— Irin Carmon (@irincarmon) July 26, 2013
33 | Kragar Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:20:37pm |
San Diego Democratic Chair: ‘It’s Either Recall Or Resign’ For Filner
Following Filner’s announcement that he will be checking into rehab for two weeks while continuing to be briefed on city activities twice a day, Francine Busby told Fox News Channel’s Shep Smith that she doesn’t think San Diegans will support the decision.
“Well, you know, the ball’s in the mayor’s court because in San Diego it’s either recall or resign. I mean, there’s no other way for the mayor to step down,” Busby said. “It looks like he made the decision to try to rehabilitate himself. I don’t think the people in san diego want a mayor who is in rehab while this story continues to unfold. Charges have been filed and I think they’d rather wipe the slate clean and get a fresh start.”
Man, trust the Democrats to all fall in line and back their own guy when a scandal comes up…
34 | engineer cat Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:20:56pm |
re: #12 Shiplord Kirel
Last year, some clever entrepreneur was caught growing marijuana in the alley less than a block from my house. A two acre patch of the stuff was discovered on a ranch just a few miles away. Excuse my ignorance of the dope business (again), but do gangsters really bother to smuggle the stuff over the border on any sizable scale? Cocaine, heroin, hand grenades, and C4 would make sense, but the economics of smuggling weed just don’t seem to add up.
even before marijuana growing became the biggest cash crop in california in the 80s, most americans smoked colombian weed. mexican weed has always been crummy “shake”
it seems much more likely to me that we are smuggling that good california bud into mexico than the other way around
35 | Kragar Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:26:29pm |
The Fischer-King convergence:
King: Attacks On Me Are A Sign That Civilization Will Not Survive
As part of this on-going effort, he showed up on Bryan Fischer’s radio program today where he vowed that he will never apologize “for telling the American people the truth” as he asserted that there is no need to him to apologize because everything he said was based on facts.
King defended himself by saying he had made this same point several times in the past, but is only being attacked for it now by people who “have an amnesty agenda that they want to drive through the House of Representatives,” adding that any civilization in which government leaders would attack and marginalize someone like him for speaking the truth “will not be able to sustain itself in the long run”:
36 | calochortus Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:26:35pm |
re: #28 makeitstop
Practically everybody I know grows their own at this point. And some of it is so good, I’d wager that the people growing it couldn’t afford it if they had to buy it.
I’m the last person to ask about actual experience with drugs. When you get beyond a couple glasses of wine (for fun) or a couple ibuprofen (for pain relief) I really don’t enjoy them.
38 | Justanotherhuman Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:28:25pm |
re: #19 Decatur Deb
I understand that. It was just informational, not meant as a statement.
39 | Kragar Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:29:08pm |
re: #36 calochortus
I’m the last person to ask about actual experience with drugs. When you get beyond a couple glasses of wine (for fun) or a couple ibuprofen (for pain relief) I really don’t enjoy them.
I’ve been around enough to know its infinitely more fun to mess with stoners than to be a stoner.
40 | calochortus Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:29:58pm |
re: #39 Kragar
I’ve been around enough to know its infinitely more fun to mess with stoners than to be a stoner.
You’re a cruel person, but I like your style. ;-)
41 | GeneJockey Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:30:52pm |
re: #39 Kragar
I’ve been around enough to know its infinitely more fun to mess with stoners than to be a stoner.
Whoa, dude! That’s harsh!
//
42 | Kragar Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:34:21pm |
re: #40 calochortus
You’re a cruel person, but I like your style. ;-)
The classics are always best.
Use the remote from the other room to turn the volume up and down on the TV.
Stare over their shoulders when you talk to them.
Use random words in a sentence and see how they abrorigate to them.
43 | Lidane Fri, Jul 26, 2013 1:43:01pm |
My boss sent a mountain of paperwork to me earlier. It ended up salvaging my weekend.
I am a happy woman.
44 | Mattand Fri, Jul 26, 2013 2:25:38pm |
re: #36 calochortus
I’m the last person to ask about actual experience with drugs. When you get beyond a couple glasses of wine (for fun) or a couple ibuprofen (for pain relief) I really don’t enjoy them.
Literally the only drug I’ve ever done is alcohol. And I still catch shit from people for never having done anything else.
Having said that, pot should be legal.
45 | Backwoods_Sleuth Fri, Jul 26, 2013 2:42:43pm |
re: #15 Justanotherhuman
OK, anyone who wants to read transcripts (unofficial) of the Bradley Manning trial, can do so here:
Transcripts from Bradley Manning’s Trial pressfreedomfoundation.org
(Preface)
The US military has refused to release transcripts of Bradley Manning’s trial. In addition, they’ve denied press passes to 270 out of the 350 media organizations that applied. Without public transcripts or a press pass, it’s virtually impossible for media organizations to accurately cover the trial and for the public to know what the government is doing in its name.In response, Freedom of the Press Foundation has crowd-sourced funding to place a professional stenographer in the media room covering the trial. We will post full transcripts shortly after each day’s proceedings end. The morning session with be posted by 7 pm the same evening. The afternoon session will be posted by 9 am the next morning. The transcripts will be released under an Attribution 3.0 Unported Creative Commons license.
Depending on how long the trial lasts, transcriptions will cost between $60,000-120,000, so please help support this project by going here to donate.
That would be Ellsberg’s organization. Greenwald is on the Board of Directors. Nice little fundraiser they got going there.
46 | BeenHereAwhile Fri, Jul 26, 2013 3:20:38pm |
re: #5 Shiplord Kirel
I have not evaluated large marijuana shipments in person, but iirc, the stuff has a pretty low density. Wouldn’t 75 pounds of marijuana make a bale about the size of a La-Z-Boy recliner (to use an analogy RWNJs can relate to)? If so, wouldn’t low-light video of massively loaded weed-carriers be all over the media?
In one case, as part of criminal defense discovery, I was escorted by DEA agents to a secret storage warehouse in Miami-Dade County, which contained 10 or so semi-trailers full of bales of marijuana.
The bales of marijuana were compressed to a density comparable to hay bales. Which makes sense so to decrease the amount of space occupied by marijuana in transit.
A subsequent client was found guilty of importing several loads of 100,000 lbs of marijuana before he was arrested. He was sentenced under 848 (b), not RICO.