Jeff Bezos Buys Washington Post, Breitbart’s Ben Shapiro Sees the Hidden Hand of Obama

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Breitbart propagandist Ben Shapiro has uncovered another BOMBSHELL BREAKING STORY today — the conspiracy between President Obama and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos to oppress him: OBAMA VISITED AMAZON 6 DAYS BEFORE FOUNDER BOUGHT WAPO!

While conservatives and liberals consider the political leanings of Washington Post buyer and Amazon founder Jeff Bezos in an attempt to divine how his politics will affect those of the historic institution, the truth appears to be far simpler: the Post is now Bezos’ latest political tool in a crony capitalist effort to work with the Obama administration. How else to explain President Obama puzzling decision last week to roll out his corporate tax plan at an amazon.com fulfillment center?

[…]

The sale of the Post was supposed to be top-secret, with staffers asked not to tweet about it for ten minutes. But it’s more than possible that the Obama administration had some advance notice about the sale, and that Obama appeared at the Amazon warehouse as a sign of good faith to Bezos prior to the move.

MORE THAN POSSIBLE! That sounds dire. Thank Jeebus we have true patriots like Ben Shapiro to keep us abreast of these diabolical plots.

Meanwhile, here’s something that makes a lot more sense than Shapiro’s hate-addled ramblings: the Taiwanese Animators version of the Bezos-Washington Post story.

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355 comments
1 erik_t  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:01:15pm

Does Ben Shaprio wear caterpillars over his eyes? It’s more than possible!

2 b.d.  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:02:07pm

Obama told Bezos to buy The Washington Post so as to silence Glenn Greenwald somehow.

Details to follow……

3 ContraryLemming  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:03:24pm

Was there supposed to be an animation there? ‘Cause that was just a SoundCloud of some dude’s persecution complex. I think you got the embed code wrong.

4 Targetpractice  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:04:55pm

Good God, these are people who still quote Wall Street Journal editorials with reverence, long after it became obvious to anybody with two functioning brain cells that it’s become the sounding board for Rupert Murdoch’s opinions on how best to fuck the poor.

5 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:05:58pm

What was the position of the Stars and the Planets? 6 is the beginning of the BAD NUMBER series. There has to be a connection … .

/!

6 erik_t  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:06:43pm

Obama (and probably Soros) encouraged Bezos to buy WaPo.
Bezos owns Amazon.
Therefore Amazon kinda owns WaPo.
WaPo is a newspaper.
Newspapers are failing.
Woot! is a subsidiary of Amazon.
Therefore WaPo kind of owns Woot!.
Therefore Woot! is failing.
Woot! is located in Texas.
Therefore Obama (and Soros) are trying to hurt Texas.
Texas is represented in Congress, most illustriously I might add, by a certain Louie Gohmert.

GOHMERRRRRRT!

7 Dr. Matt  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:07:08pm


Seriously….what am I missing?

8 Lidane  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:07:14pm

As usual, Shapiro is an idiot. Bezos has been saying for ages that print is dying and that no one will pay for information online. It’s more than possible that he bought the WaPo as an experiment in new media.

Honestly, I’d love to see him revamp WaPo. Send the dregs and idiots from the op-ed page (Rubin, Milibank, Cohen, Krauthammer) to go work the line at an Amazon Fulfillment Center and redo the entire paper from the ground up. Kill the physical version of WaPo and make it relevant online.

9 Charles Johnson  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:12:00pm

re: #3 ContraryLemming

Was there supposed to be an animation there? ‘Cause that was just a SoundCloud of some dude’s persecution complex. I think you got the embed code wrong.

No problem here - it’s a YouTube video. Just checked in Chrome and Firefox to make sure, no SoundCloud players showing up. Anyone else having this problem?

10 Kragar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:12:31pm

re: #6 erik_t

It’s like a carousel. You put the quarter in, you get on the horse, it goes up and down, and around. Circular, circle. Feel it.

11 OhNoZombies!  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:12:57pm

re: #6 erik_t

Obama (and probably Soros) encouraged Bezos to buy WaPo.
Bezos owns Amazon.
Therefore Amazon kinda owns WaPo.
WaPo is a newspaper.
Newspapers are failing.
Woot! is a subsidiary of Amazon.
Therefore WaPo kind of owns Woot!.
Therefore Woot! is failing.
Woot! is located in Texas.
Therefore Obama (and Soros) are trying to hurt Texas.
Texas is represented in Congress, most illustriously I might add, by a certain Louie Gohmert.

GOHMERRRRRRT!

I, I have aspirin…and Dramamine.
:-)

12 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:15:38pm

re: #11 OhNoZombies!

I, I have aspirin…and Dramamine.
:-)

With my new Aeropress, I feel like I have something that should be illegal.

13 Dr. Matt  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:15:44pm

re: #9 Charles Johnson

Works fine for me on Chrome.

14 Targetpractice  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:16:06pm

re: #8 Lidane

As usual, Shapiro is an idiot. Bezos has been saying for ages that print is dying and that no one will pay for information online. It’s more than possible that he bought the WaPo as an experiment in new media.

Honestly, I’d love to see him revamp WaPo. Send the dregs and idiots from the op-ed page (Rubin, Milibank, Cohen, Krauthammer) to go work the line at an Amazon Fulfillment Center and redo the entire paper from the ground up. Kill the physical version of WaPo and make it relevant online.

Tablet computers, smartphones, and ebooks are becoming ubiquitous in a fashion and with a speed not seen since TV became major form of media during the past century. We look back today and snicker about the predictions that TV would be a passing fad, a cultural wasteland, and that people would still tune into radio as they had done in decades past. In 20 years, we’ll probably be snickering at those who say that people will always want the feel and smell of paper and won’t accept electronic books and newspapers.

15 Kragar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:16:18pm

The guys who run the production team just said they’re going to get me some Speech to Text software so I’ll be able to get more material out to the team when I’m working from home.

16 Political Atheist  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:16:20pm

Is this just more outrage for the sake of hits/ratings and retweets?
Maybe. This is pretty tame as political contributions goes.
Bezos, Jeff contributions

17 Kragar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:17:49pm

Fischer Asserts That CIA Director John Brennan Is A Muslim

On his radio broadcast this afternoon, Fischer cited another totally untrustworthy story claiming that President Obama would be meeting with high-ranking Muslim Brotherhood officials, which then prompted him to boldly declare that “John Brennan is a Muslim … He’s a devout Muslim, he’s a die-hard Muslim, he believes what Muslims believe” despite having literally no evidence to support that claim whatsoever.

Well, of course he is Bryan, bless your heart.

18 ContraryLemming  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:18:14pm

…and now it’s been fixed. Thanks.

19 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:18:20pm

I think the attention on Jeff is to lessen the attention on the Koch Bros. With all the media buying and selling lately … .

20 Bulworth  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:19:00pm

Obviously Jeff Bezos in a Friend of Hamas, as is Obummer. //

21 No Country For Old Haters  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:19:51pm

re: #17 Kragar

Fischer Asserts That CIA Director John Brennan Is A Muslim

Well, of course he is Bryan, bless your heart.

If Bryan stopped lying, his radio show would be dead air.

22 Bulworth  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:19:57pm

re: #17 Kragar

And so what if he’s a Muslim? Freedom of Religion. How does it f0cking work?

23 Charles Johnson  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:20:07pm

re: #20 Bulworth

Obviously Jeff Bezos in a Friend of Hamas, as is Obummer. //

Of course! That’s the missing link, the cheese that ties the conspiracy cheeseburger together.

24 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:22:17pm

re: #21 JeffFX

If Bryan stopped lying, his radio show would be dead air.

I gather, Brian accepts Visa, Mastercard, American Express and PayPal.

25 Kragar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:22:57pm

The problem with conspiracies is once you buy off on one, you have to start buying into the others to support the one you’re invested in.

26 Charles Johnson  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:23:18pm

It really is a heinous plot. Obama, the radical communist Muslim, allied with Bezos, the cut-throat capitalist billionaire. Why, you almost wouldn’t believe it if it weren’t Ben Shapiro telling you.

27 Bulworth  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:23:50pm

I’m just waiting for GG or Sirota’s byline to start showing up on these Breitbart exposes. SPECIAL to BREITBART.COM!!1

28 Bulworth  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:25:42pm

So Bezo is a “crony capitalist”. What are the Koch brothers? I guess this is like fake and real Muricans. There are fake, “crony” capitalists who support Democrats and there are “real” capitalists who create conservative think tanks and spread the wingnut-welfare around. //

29 erik_t  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:28:21pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

It really is a heinous plot. Obama, the radical communist Muslim, allied with Bezos, the cut-throat capitalist billionaire. Why, you almost wouldn’t believe it if it weren’t Ben Shapiro telling you.

No no no, Obama is out only to help the corporate fatcats. Why, Paul Ryan just explained this to me. It’s the Republicans who care about Joe the Plumber everyman.

Your talking points: please straighten them.

30 AlexRogan  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:28:42pm

re: #6 erik_t

Obama (and probably Soros) encouraged Bezos to buy WaPo.
Bezos owns Amazon.
Therefore Amazon kinda owns WaPo.
WaPo is a newspaper.
Newspapers are failing.
Woot! is a subsidiary of Amazon.
Therefore WaPo kind of owns Woot!.
Therefore Woot! is failing.
Woot! is located in Texas.
Therefore Obama (and Soros) are trying to hurt Texas.
Texas is represented in Congress, most illustriously I might add, by a certain Louie Gohmert.

GOHMERRRRRRT!

It’s newsprint and Kindles all the way down.

31 wrenchwench  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:29:41pm

The Breitbrat wrote:

The sale of the Post was supposed to be top-secret, with staffers asked not to tweet about it for ten minutes.

I don’t care if there is a reasonable interpretation of that sentence. It still should not have been written.

32 Charles Johnson  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:31:12pm

re: #31 wrenchwench

The Breitbrat wrote:

I don’t care if there is a reasonable interpretation of that sentence. It still should not have been written.

Top-secret for ten minutes!

33 Kragar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:32:07pm

re: #32 Charles Johnson

Top-secret for ten minutes!

In a row?

34 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:32:29pm
35 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:33:43pm

The 7 Craziest Obamacare Conspiracy Theories

The Claim: In late July, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), citing a study by the Chamber of Commerce, asserted that three-quarters of all small businesses have said they’re going to fire workers or cut hours. Rubio said this is due to the provision in the law that requires businesses with 50 or more full-time employees to offer affordable health coverage or face a penalty.

The Reality: The Chamber study involved 1,300 small business executives, but PolitiFact did some digging and found out that the Chamber did not actually survey the entire group on whether they’d fire employees because of the law. Only 17 percent of survey members said they would be impacted by the law’s so-called employer mandate. Out of that 17 percent of small businessmen and women, the study purportedly found that 75 percent of them said they would cut hours or replace workers, but Politico found that even that number was fudged by lumping survey questions together. Math shows that out of all small business execs in the study, only 5 to 9 percent actually said they would cut back hours or replace full-time workers in response to the health care law.

36 Kragar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:34:15pm

re: #34 NJDhockeyfan

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Thanks Obama.
/

38 Charles Johnson  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:37:10pm
39 Bulworth  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:37:52pm

GG tweet just now about Brazilian Senators wearing Snowden masks at a hearing in Brazil.

So…there are Snowden masks.

Why are you making this all about Snowden???!!?!11

40 Kragar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:38:10pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

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Found it.

41 b.d.  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:38:12pm

re: #31 wrenchwench

The Breitbrat wrote:

I don’t care if there is a reasonable interpretation of that sentence. It still should not have been written.

I seem to recall that there was a top secret 9 minute media gag order that went to effect when Arch Duke Ferdinand was shot.
//

42 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:38:47pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

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I see it!!!!

43 OhNoZombies!  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:39:27pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

Hey, a…never mind.

44 Bulworth  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:39:31pm

re: #41 b.d.

And it was violated. Why do you think WWI started anyway? All about the gag-order. //

45 Romantic Heretic  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:41:10pm

re: #4 Targetpractice

Good God, these are people who still quote Wall Street Journal editorials with reverence, long after it became obvious to anybody with two functioning brain cells that it’s become the sounding board for Rupert Murdoch’s opinions on how best to fuck the poor.

Those ‘lucky duckies!’

46 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:43:39pm

But, if what Bezos said is true, and he won’t be involved in the day to day operations of WAPO (and I assume editorial content), are we to believe him if digitizing the paper is how it winds up? Or, maybe he is just a rich guy who needs a diversion, because print media is still taking a beating, and ad revenues are falling everywhere. And ad revenues are where it’s at, even online. So I’d be interested in Bezos’s input on this and where he thinks the paper will wind up.

Media Disruption Continues: New York Times Reports 2 Years Of Declining Print And Digital Ad Revenues siliconvalleywatcher.com

47 engineer cat  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:44:00pm

i refuse to read anything ben shapiro writes until he does his homework and cleans up his room

48 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:44:06pm

re: #34 NJDhockeyfan

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WTF?

49 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:46:11pm

re: #48 Justanotherhuman

WTF?

NYC politics are not boring this year.

50 Ian G.  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:46:23pm

Man, this is idiotic even by Shapiro’s abysmal standards. He needs to go back to what he’s best at: ranting about the sex lives of people he’s never met.

51 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:47:07pm

re: #37 FemNaziBitch

Fox News contributor Erick Erickson: Wendy Davis is ‘Abortion Barbie’

WAAAHH!!! ERICK IS TEH VICTIM!!!!11!!!

52 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:47:14pm

re: #38 Charles Johnson

Haha, should I tell? : )

53 erik_t  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:48:22pm

re: #51 Vicious Babushka

@EWErickson

Uh-oh. Media Matters has ordered their trolls out from under the bridge and into my timeline for calling Wendy Davis “Abortion Barbie”.

What, and the space under your bridge is getting crowded?

Scoot over and share.

54 Bulworth  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:49:04pm

cnn.com

So, criminal charges against a Libyan militia leader have been filed in regards to the Benghazi attack.

What about the Talking Points and who gave the Order to Stand Down???!!

55 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:49:33pm

Glenn Greenwald retweeted:

56 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:50:11pm

I wonder how much Glenn is selling the Snowden faces for, and if Snowden is getting a cut.

57 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:50:49pm
58 Bulworth  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:50:53pm

re: #55 Vicious Babushka

Glenn Greenwald retweeted:

Exciting stuff. //

59 jaunte  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:50:54pm

re: #55 Vicious Babushka

It’s a Sad-Guy Fawkes mask.

60 Carlos Danger  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:51:42pm

Berkeley Breathed (Bloom County) said one of the reasons he quit newspapers was that the Washington Post comic editors kept censoring his work. He couldn’t say the words “gay, “damn”, and the paper freaked when he drew a character in a head scarf.

Bezos can be my friend if he blows that up. Really- there’s no reason why comics have to be more conservative than they were during High Reaganism.

61 b.d.  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:52:32pm

re: #55 Vicious Babushka

Glenn Greenwald retweeted:

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Jeez, wonder where they got those?

Do you think Glenn will put a page with one of those cut out masks in his new book?

62 Carlos Danger  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:52:40pm

re: #59 jaunte

It’s a Sad-Guy Fawkes mask.

The leader of Anonymeh

63 Kragar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:52:41pm

re: #55 Vicious Babushka

Glenn Greenwald retweeted:

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Well, knowing a bunch of kids who live in another country are holding black and white paper cutouts certainly has changed my opinion on the whole matter.

64 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:53:10pm

OK, then, the Libertarian “fun” candidate.

abclocal.go.com

“The long-shot Libertarian candidate, who has a previous conviction for promoting prostitution, has made news by claiming to have gotten call girls for Spitzer before a prostitution scandal forced him from office. But the claims have never been proven.

“As alleged, Kristin Davis sold dangerous and highly-addictive prescription pills to a known drug dealer on repeated occasions in exchange for cash,” Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said. “Prescription drug abuse is the fastest-growing drug problem in this country, resulting in more overdose deaths than heroin and cocaine combined, and this Office has a zero tolerance policy towards anyone who helps to spread this plague at any level.”

65 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:53:36pm

re: #55 Vicious Babushka

they all look so thrilled to be there…

66 Kragar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:54:41pm

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

they all look so thrilled to be there…

“We got paid to stay here an hour, so we stay here one hour and not a minute longer.”

67 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:54:54pm

Does he mean PBO’s Amazon appearance that barely got any coverage and most people didn’t know about? 6 days ago? I’m pretty sure this deal was in the works for months now and PBO just “works it” with just this one obscure appearance at some Amazon facility?

68 Bulworth  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:55:30pm

re: #63 Kragar

Ur deluded OBMABOT!!!

//

69 b.d.  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:56:52pm

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

they all look so thrilled to be there…

They couldn’t even staple a popsicle stick on the bottom of the masks like even the lamest of paper mask wielding yaloos do?

70 Bulworth  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:57:07pm

re: #67 Gus

PBO was plotting the Amazon - WashPost takeover and Amazon storehouse appearance during the Benghazi attacks, which he orchestrated with Friends of Hamas.//

71 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:57:21pm

re: #67 Gus

Does he mean PBO’s Amazon appearance that barely got any coverage and most people didn’t know about? 6 days ago? I’m pretty sure this deal was in the works for months now and PBO just “works it” with just this one obscure appearance at some Amazon facility?

Because Obama is magic, you know…

72 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:58:03pm

re: #69 b.d.

They couldn’t even staple a popsicle stick on the bottom of the masks like even the lamest of paper mask wielding yaloos do?

or punch a couple holes in the sides and tie them on their faces with strings…

73 okonkolo  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 1:58:25pm

A far more plausible explanation of the WaPo purchase by Bezos:
The Accidental Click

74 Carlos Danger  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:00:01pm

re: #67 Gus

When did you stop believing in magic, Gus?

75 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:00:10pm

re: #16 Political Atheist

Is this just more outrage for the sake of hits/ratings and retweets?
Maybe. This is pretty tame as political contributions goes.
Bezos, Jeff contributions

Most of the money went to amazoncomPAC, Maria Cantwell and Patty Murray. Didn’t see anything for specific candidates outside those 2 WA state candidates.

76 darthstar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:01:37pm

I get Ben Shapiro and Todd Kincannon mixed up. Which one lives with his mother and which one just discovered sex?

77 Charles Johnson  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:01:40pm

Twitter’s completely down right now.

78 geoffm33  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:02:11pm

re: #73 okonkolo

A far more plausible explanation of the WaPo purchase by Bezos:
The Accidental Click

I lol’d

79 darthstar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:02:17pm

re: #77 Charles Johnson

That explains it.

80 Charles Johnson  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:03:23pm

Hmm. Could be just my ISP.

81 Carlos Danger  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:03:40pm

re: #77 Charles Johnson

Twitter’s completely down right now.

Does this mean the end times are upon us?

82 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:03:45pm

re: #77 Charles Johnson

Twitter’s completely down right now.

derp overload will do that…

83 Targetpractice  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:04:01pm

re: #77 Charles Johnson

Twitter’s completely down right now.

Oh my God, work might actually get done!!

///

84 darthstar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:04:30pm

re: #80 Charles Johnson

Hmm. Could be just my ISP.

Is your ISP tunneling through my office?

85 Charles Johnson  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:05:01pm

Nope, it’s happening from the LGF server too.

Odd, though — downforeveryoneorjustme.com says it’s up.

86 b.d.  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:05:21pm

re: #77 Charles Johnson

Twitter’s completely down right now.

Another attempt by Obama to shut Glenn Greenwald up!!1!

87 Carlos Danger  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:06:27pm

re: #86 b.d.

HAARP strikes again!

88 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:06:49pm

re: #77 Charles Johnson

Twitter’s completely down right now.

drones!!!!!111!!!!

89 wrenchwench  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:07:14pm

re: #85 Charles Johnson

Nope, it’s happening from the LGF server too.

Odd, though — downforeveryoneorjustme.com says it’s up.

The Tweets in my feed are aging (the time is updating), but no new ones are loading. Most recent one is now 10 minutes old.

90 Bulworth  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:08:11pm

My Twitters works….

91 Charles Johnson  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:09:33pm

re: #90 Bulworth

My Twitters works….

Are you on the east coast?

92 Political Atheist  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:09:43pm

re: #85 Charles Johnson

Nope, it’s happening from the LGF server too.

Odd, though — downforeveryoneorjustme.com says it’s up.

Seen this chart? Just starting the down indication
downrightnow.com

93 Dr. Matt  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:10:28pm

re: #91 Charles Johnson

My Twitters works too…and yes, I’m on the east coast.

94 Bulworth  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:14:03pm

re: #91 Charles Johnson

Yes

95 wrenchwench  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:14:55pm

re: #92 Political Atheist

Seen this chart? Just starting the down indication
downrightnow.com

Catch 22: they get their reports from Twitter.

Twitter may be experiencing issues right now. It’s a key indicator of service trouble, so our status information might be temporarily incomplete.

96 Charles Johnson  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:16:08pm

Yeah, there’s some kind of network problem that seems to be regional right now.

If you’re in an area where Twitter’s down, it’s also messing with the LGF Javascript a little bit. Some of the automatic functions aren’t automatic.

97 freetoken  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:16:34pm

Ok… the Kath Graham spinning in her grave got a laugh from me.

Much better than the bratfrats.

98 engineer cat  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:17:26pm

re: #77 Charles Johnson

Twitter’s completely down right now.

i told them that running a scrum shop and making the engineers do all the QA would distract attention from code quality

99 engineer cat  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:18:01pm

re: #90 Bulworth

My Twitters works….

TMI

100 freetoken  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:18:07pm

Also loved the dancing girl in the bikini. Can anyone say “Page 3”?

101 freetoken  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:19:08pm

Twitter works quite fine for me, not that I find I use it much.

102 Political Atheist  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:19:53pm

re: #95 wrenchwench

I think they have that and user reports from the button on their page.

103 freetoken  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:19:55pm

BTW, NOAA has up the briefing slides for the State of the Climate Report 2012, released today:

www1.ncdc.noaa.gov

104 engineer cat  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:20:40pm

re: #96 Charles Johnson

Yeah, there’s some kind of network problem that seems to be regional right now.

If you’re in an area where Twitter’s down, it’s also messing with the LGF Javascript a little bit. Some of the automatic functions aren’t automatic.

do you pull javascript libraries from a hosting site ‘live’, or do you download them to your local?

105 Charles Johnson  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:21:36pm

Bam, it has returned.

106 Political Atheist  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:21:42pm

Mine is back in service

107 Backwoods_Sleuth  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:22:38pm
108 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:24:04pm

submitted for your approval

109 Carlos Danger  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:25:11pm

Whatever Bezos does with the Post, it’ll probably be better than the tongue bath Sam Zell received from Tribune papers when he bought them.

110 Bulworth  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:25:36pm

re: #108 FemNaziBitch

That and name your daughter Moon Unit.

111 Charles Johnson  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:25:58pm

re: #104 engineer cat

do you pull javascript libraries from a hosting site ‘live’, or do you download them to your local?

jQuery is loaded from the Google content delivery network (CDN), and the Twitter widgets library is loaded from Twitter’s network. This is actually the first time I’ve seen widgets.js unable to load.

112 Lidane  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:26:01pm

Laser-like focus, etc. —

113 Carlos Danger  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:26:35pm

Anyone ever notice that the entire Breitbart team could make a pretty good set of Garbage Pail Kids?

114 wrenchwench  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:26:37pm

re: #108 FemNaziBitch

submitted for your approval

Approved!

Here’s a compatible tweet:

115 wrenchwench  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:27:06pm

Except we all know that ‘alright’ is not a word….

116 Bulworth  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:28:32pm

re: #103 freetoken

BTW, NOAA has up the briefing slides for the State of the Climate Report 2012, released today:

www1.ncdc.noaa.gov

Skewed!! False Flag!!!

117 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:29:10pm

re: #114 wrenchwench

Approved!

Here’s a compatible tweet:

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I’m out of time for now, I’m on the roster for volunteer work at the local DV and Rape Crisis Center.

gotta go soon.

118 No Country For Old Haters  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:30:06pm

re: #115 wrenchwench

Some say that, others disagree.
merriam-webster.com

119 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:30:45pm

There are two new designs up at the Bumper Magnet Only Store.

I quit doing t-shirts.

120 wrenchwench  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:31:01pm

re: #117 FemNaziBitch

I’m out of time for now, I’m on the roster for volunteer work at the local DV and Rape Crisis Center.

gotta go soon.

Good for you!

Have some brownie points:

……………………………………………………………………….

121 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:31:57pm

re: #120 wrenchwench

Good for you!

Have some brownie points:

……………………………………………………………………….

Not looking for brownie points. Just want to take action instead of only making bumber stickers and ranting on the internet.

122 Charles Johnson  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:32:09pm
123 wrenchwench  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:32:22pm

re: #118 JeffFX

Some say that, others disagree.
merriam-webster.com

OK, since Gertrude Stein used it, I’ll give in. It’s a word.

124 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:34:29pm

Baba!!! You have to read this one.

125 engineer cat  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:34:32pm

re: #118 JeffFX

Some say that, others disagree.
merriam-webster.com

i sez it’s a word, dammit

126 wrenchwench  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:35:23pm

re: #122 Charles Johnson

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That thing is great, right down to its $6.99 Fred Meyer price tag.

127 Lidane  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:36:41pm

re: #116 Bulworth

Speaking of false flags:

128 Ace-o-aces  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:36:43pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

It really is a heinous plot. Obama, the radical communist Muslim, allied with Bezos, the cut-throat capitalist billionaire. Why, you almost wouldn’t believe it if it weren’t Ben Shapiro telling you.

I fully expect Ben to start ranting about the lizard-people any day now.

129 engineer cat  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:36:49pm

re: #111 Charles Johnson

jQuery is loaded from the Google content delivery network (CDN), and the Twitter widgets library is loaded from Twitter’s network. This is actually the first time I’ve seen widgets.js unable to load.

i’m still getting used to the idea of coding using libraries that are resident on other people’s servers

ultimately it seems to me that somebody’s cat could step on a keyboard halfway around the world and bring down the entire intertubes

130 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:37:44pm

re: #129 engineer cat

i’m still getting used to the idea of coding using libraries that are resident on other people’s servers

ultimately it seems to me that somebody’s cat could step on a keyboard halfway around the world and bring down the entire intertubes

I think you have that wrong.

:)

131 darthstar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:37:55pm

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132 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:40:02pm

WRONG BRYAN.
We can haz boths. Except for you, you hateful bag o’derp. Come out of the closet already you bitter, angry old queen.

133 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:40:47pm

re: #132 Vicious Babushka

WRONG BRYAN.
We can haz boths. Except for you, you hateful bag o’derp.

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That is wrong in so many ways, even I can’t wrap my head around the twists and turns.

I’d argue that homosexuality and religious liberty are not opposed.

134 Lidane  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:41:52pm

So apparently, Steve King might run for POTUS in 2016. There is only one possible course of action here:

135 darthstar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:43:11pm


In a subsequent statement, Pittenger added:

If we shut down the government, as some advocate, Obamacare remains in full force. Most of Obamacare is in the law as mandatory spending, which continues during a shutdown. What would not continue would be pay for our brave soldiers, treatment for our veterans, and funding for critical services for our seniors. Voting for this sort of collateral damage is irresponsible and a misguided effort to fight Obamacare.

But I’ll sponsor more repeal votes in the meantime…

136 Lidane  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:43:34pm

re: #132 Vicious Babushka

Calling Fischer a caveman would be generous.

137 darthstar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:43:51pm
138 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:44:21pm

re: #134 Lidane

So apparently, Steve King might run for POTUS in 2016. There is only one possible course of action here:

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Charo is still shakin!

139 engineer cat  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:44:24pm

re: #136 Lidane

Calling Fischer a caveman would be generous.

og object!

140 darthstar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:45:38pm
141 thedopefishlives  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:46:31pm

Afternoon Lizardim from the tornado-laden wild north country. Or at least, there’s a watch out on the metro area. Needless to say, if a dopefish lands in your yard, DO NOT PICK IT UP. Said dopefish will attempt to eat you. Simply nudge the dopefish into a shovel and return to the nearest body of water. It will then proceed to resume its normal “swim, swim, hungry” routine.

For today’s Facebook derp from the wingnut side, I give you this: DERRRRRRRP

142 darthstar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:47:31pm
143 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:48:17pm

Russia seeking Snowden’s help on data security

144 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:48:59pm

re: #143 Gus

Russia seeking Snowden’s help on data security

seeking or requiring?

145 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:49:06pm
146 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:49:28pm

re: #144 FemNaziBitch

seeking or requiring?

The upper house of Russia’s parliament will invite ex-National Security Agency (NSA) contractor Edward Snowden to participate in a probe of how the privacy of Russian citizens is being violated by big Internet companies who, according to Mr. Snowden, allow the personal data of users of Facebook, Yahoo, Google, and other big global Internet companies to be accessed by a “third party.”

147 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:49:28pm

These are fabulous and fascinating photos of Mars: nytimes.com

148 wrenchwench  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:49:57pm

re: #143 Gus

Russia seeking Snowden’s help on data security

Putin seeks Lance Armstrong’s advice on winning the Tour de France.

149 FemNaziBitch  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:50:10pm

bbl

150 erik_t  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:52:08pm

re: #141 thedopefishlives

Afternoon Lizardim from the tornado-laden wild north country. Or at least, there’s a watch out on the metro area. Needless to say, if a dopefish lands in your yard, DO NOT PICK IT UP. Said dopefish will attempt to eat you. Simply nudge the dopefish into a shovel and return to the nearest body of water. It will then proceed to resume its normal “swim, swim, hungry” routine.

Good thing y’all have 10,000-odd lakes.

151 thedopefishlives  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:53:29pm

re: #150 erik_t

Good thing y’all have 10,000-odd lakes.

My odds are pretty good, all things considered.

152 wrenchwench  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:53:52pm

re: #150 erik_t

Good thing y’all have 10,000-odd lakes.

Yeah, around here that dopefish would be spending a lot of time in the shovel.

153 Mattand  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:56:28pm

re: #141 thedopefishlives

Afternoon Lizardim from the tornado-laden wild north country. Or at least, there’s a watch out on the metro area. Needless to say, if a dopefish lands in your yard, DO NOT PICK IT UP. Said dopefish will attempt to eat you. Simply nudge the dopefish into a shovel and return to the nearest body of water. It will then proceed to resume its normal “swim, swim, hungry” routine.

For today’s Facebook derp from the wingnut side, I give you this: DERRRRRRRP

Look for Dopefish-nado: The Dopening later this fall on SyFy.

155 Lidane  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:57:07pm

Oh geez. I won’t link to it here, but I just saw a link to a video where Obama is compared to Ariel Castro.

What the fuck. No, really. What the actual fuck.

156 AlexRogan  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:57:55pm

re: #154 Kragar

Republican Super PAC encourages people to slap Hillary Clinton with crude online game

Today’s GOP: Misogyny, we haz it.

157 Timothy Watson  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:58:36pm

So, a successful entrepreneur whose business employs over 88,000 people (and added 32,000 just last year) is being attacked by the far right?

158 Ace-o-aces  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:59:28pm
Oh geez. I won’t link to it here, but I just saw a link to a video where Obama is compared to Ariel Castro.

What the fuck. No, really. What the actual fuck.

But, but, racism is gone…Ted Nuget sez so!

159 Mattand  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:59:33pm

re: #157 Timothy Watson

So, a successful entrepreneur whose business employs over 88,000 people (and added 32,000 just last year) is being attacked by the far right?

Some job creators are more equal than others.

160 Dr Lizardo  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 2:59:37pm

re: #156 Carlos Dangler

Today’s GOP: Misogyny, we haz it.

REBRANDING!!

161 Kragar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:00:44pm

re: #157 Timothy Watson

So, a successful entrepreneur whose business employs over 88,000 people (and added 32,000 just last year) is being attacked by the far right?

His employees are happy, productive and being taken care of, so according to GOP logic, he’s doing it wrong.

162 thedopefishlives  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:01:27pm

re: #161 Kragar

His employees are happy, productive and being taken care of, so according to GOP logic, he’s doing it wrong.

The only good employee is a brutally repressed employee.

163 Ace-o-aces  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:01:49pm

re: #157 Timothy Watson

So, a successful entrepreneur whose business employs over 88,000 people (and added 32,000 just last year) is being attacked by the far right?

These are the same people who call George Soros (a self-made billionaire who spent millions of dollars the 1980’s to fight communism) a socialist.

164 Lidane  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:03:06pm

re: #158 Ace-o-aces

But, but, racism is gone…Ted Nuget sez so!

Apparently it’s alive and well at Pajamas Media. It’s a PJTV link.

165 Balfour Rage  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:05:30pm

According to the Houston Chronicle, Wendy Davis will probably run for Governor. Good for her, and I will enthusiastically support her. Go Wendy!

166 Balfour Rage  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:06:07pm

Planet Wingnut news…

167 Kragar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:07:39pm

re: #166 Balfour Rage

Planet Wingnut news…

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Remember, to Bryan, religious liberty means the freedom to force everyone to be Christians.

So, I choose Gay.

168 Balfour Rage  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:08:06pm

re: #167 Kragar

I “choose” gay, too.

169 EPR-radar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:08:36pm

re: #166 Balfour Rage

Dear Mr. Fischer:

America must choose between a rational society and political/religious fundamentalism. We can’t have both.

170 AlexRogan  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:10:20pm

re: #160 Dr Lizardo

REBRANDING!!

Thing is, they’re not even trying to avoid being a bunch of unoriginal bastards here:

The game was originally created by Marie Poe and published at the now-defunct website SlapHillary.com in 2000. Her husband, Richard Poe, attempted to explain the game by comparing Clinton’s campaign for the U.S. Senate to the Soviet Union.

“With each slap, we sense that we are drawing nearer to a Siberian prison cell. But our anxiety only makes the slap more thrilling,” he wrote on his blog, claiming journalists were conspiring to help Clinton win the New York Senate seat. “This sort of manipulation has left many Americans feeling like Soviet citizens back in the days of Pravda and Izvestia. Buffeted by propaganda, we feel helpless and alone. We watch our friends and neighbors with guarded eyes, wondering which of them might share our opinion of Hillary. But we are afraid to ask.”

A prime example of how all “conservatives” have is the past, either real or imagined.

171 engineer cat  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:12:18pm

re: #163 Ace-o-aces

These are the same people who call George Soros (a self-made billionaire who spent millions of dollars the 1980’s to fight communism) a socialist.

dictionary definition of ‘socialism’: any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods

wingnut definition of ‘socialism’: i hate you

172 Lidane  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:13:55pm

re: #157 Timothy Watson

So, a successful entrepreneur whose business employs over 88,000 people (and added 32,000 just last year) is being attacked by the far right?

He’s the wrong kind of successful. He not only gives money to Democrats, but he’s on record as being pro-gay marriage and has donated millions to support it.

173 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:14:09pm
174 darthstar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:15:30pm

Cat trolling

Image: 1320091427_cat_trolling.gif

175 wrenchwench  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:15:53pm

I just made an appointment for my cats’ annual vet visit, for the eighth day of the eighth month, at 8 AM.

888 must be the number of the cute little beasties.

176 No Country For Old Haters  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:16:30pm

re: #166 Balfour Rage

Planet Wingnut news…

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177 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:17:50pm
178 No Country For Old Haters  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:20:33pm

Bryan’s profile pic always brings the phrase “grinning imbecile” to my mind.

179 Balfour Rage  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:21:32pm

Oh, SHUT THE FUCK UP.

180 engineer cat  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:23:41pm

re: #179 Balfour Rage

Oh, SHUT THGE FUCK UP.

Prudence @dennygirltwo

“@PhxKen: OBAMA ABANDONED AMERICANS UNDER FIRE AND WATCH THEM DIE!! OBANDONED BY A COWARD!!!!

i’m sorry - did you say ‘ronald reagan abandoned marines in lebanon to a position everybody said was indefensible and then cut and ran when they were massacred’?

181 Timothy Watson  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:24:30pm

re: #163 Ace-o-aces

Yeah, that reminds of when Vaclav Havel died a couple years ago and the conservatives were celebrating his life. They apparently weren’t aware (or didn’t care) that Havel had talked about how helpful Soros had been to his movement and Havel had served on the board of one of Soros’s organizations.

182 Targetpractice  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:26:29pm

re: #179 Balfour Rage

Oh, SHUT THE FUCK UP.

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Tell that to the 220 Marines In Beirut!

183 freetoken  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:27:46pm

re: #173 Gus

I wish some of the entrenched Democratic operatives would stop pushing Hillary Clinton for 2016.

NBC, CBS, CNN… they can do whatever they want. They are businesses whose sole purpose for existence is to generate income for their owners. Frankly they’d probably make more money running entertainment programs against any “debates” because they could sell advertisements.

MM does a good job tracking wingnuttia, but they definitely have a horse in this race, as evidenced by that letter.

I hope others in the Democratic Party can think bigger than pushing someone just because they’ve been around for decades and everybody knows the name. I fear the DP will become what the GOP has, a close knit clan of power players who keep a tracking list of who is “next” on the list of faces.

184 Balfour Rage  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:28:26pm

re: #182 Targetpractice

Tell that to the 220 Marines In Beirut!

241 American service people to be exact.

185 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:28:37pm

GO FUCK YOURSELF

186 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:28:43pm
187 Targetpractice  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:30:46pm

re: #184 Balfour Rage

241 American service people to be exact.

Yep. 241 service people die in Beirut and the Cult of Reagan glosses over it. Nearly 3000 people die on US soil and Bush’s apologists say there’s no way he could have seen it coming. But 4 Americans die in Benghazi and you’d swear Obama shot them himself!

188 engineer cat  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:31:08pm

re: #180 engineer cat

ignatz kat haz tweetz her

189 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:32:09pm

GO FUCK YOURSELF SIDEWAYS

190 Balfour Rage  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:32:13pm

My response:

191 No Country For Old Haters  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:32:59pm

re: #179 Balfour Rage


#IDontKnowWhyIRespondToTheseIdiots
#TrollingMyself

192 No Country For Old Haters  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:33:39pm

re: #190 Balfour Rage

My response:

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Your’s is better than mine.

193 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:33:44pm
194 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:33:52pm

re: #190 Balfour Rage

Prudence never responds, she just blocks.

195 Balfour Rage  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:34:25pm

re: #192 JeffFX

Your’s is better than mine.

Nah, you did fine yourself.

196 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:34:59pm
197 blueraven  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:35:30pm

re: #189 Vicious Babushka

GO FUCK YOURSELF SIDEWAYS

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If she had been called “Baby Mill” Barbie you might have a point there Eric.

198 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:37:02pm

Gawt damn that’s awesome.

199 engineer cat  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:38:18pm

PhxKen

faux ken? fucks ken? ???

200 Balfour Rage  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:41:22pm

re: #194 Vicious Babushka

201 wrenchwench  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:41:29pm

re: #183 freetoken

I wish some of the entrenched Democratic operatives would stop pushing Hillary Clinton for 2016.

NBC, CBS, CNN… they can do whatever they want. They are businesses whose sole purpose for existence is to generate income for their owners. Frankly they’d probably make more money running entertainment programs against any “debates” because they could sell advertisements.

MM does a good job tracking wingnuttia, but they definitely have a horse in this race, as evidenced by that letter.

I hope others in the Democratic Party can think bigger than pushing someone just because they’ve been around for decades and everybody knows the name. I fear the DP will become what the GOP has, a close knit clan of power players who keep a tracking list of who is “next” on the list of faces.

The first billion dollars in a presidential race are spent so that ‘everybody knows the name’. That is a biggie in Hillary’s favor.

I think both parties have always done what you describe in your last paragraph. And since it was Hillary’s turn in 2008, it’s her turn even more in 2016, if she wants it.

If you want someone else, you better know who by next week, and start the campaign yesterday (and keep me informed, I might join it).

202 wrenchwench  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:42:40pm

re: #199 engineer cat

PhxKen

faux ken? fucks ken? ???

Phoenix.

203 freetoken  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:45:31pm

Understand this about Eric Erickson: he makes his money by distorting the truth so that those whose ears are desperate for comfort will come to him.


Only a week ago Erickson wrote this:

[…]

I don’t know a Christian who is anti-science. Christians haven’t suddenly declared science anti-God, but the left has declared God and Christians anti-science. I don’t know a church that has declared allegiance to a political party or a single nation. But I know the left parodies evangelicals that way. […]

This from the guy who is in open denial that a substantial number of his followers are YECs.

204 Charles Johnson  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:47:10pm
205 Charles Johnson  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:48:42pm

re: #204 Charles Johnson

That’s right. In that strip Donald Duck casually murders Goofy.

206 freetoken  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:48:49pm

Erickson’s attack on Rachel Evans goes along with his attack on Wendy Davis.

He just doesn’t like it when women show him up.

207 freetoken  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:51:38pm

Only a week earlier on Redstate is this entry by a writer supporting creationism and lamenting Darwinism:

Fox News Pundits Deride Creationists As Unfit For Public Office

208 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:52:11pm

Inez Derping the RWNJ revisionist shit.

Inez Feltscher contributed to this article. Ms. Feltscher is a second-year student at the University of Virginia School of Law, and previously worked in the K-12 education reform movement, advocating for school choice. You can contact her on Twitter at @inezfeltscher.

Utterly sickening. I read as much as I could but now I have to throw up.

209 Charles Johnson  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:52:21pm

re: #196 Gus

Incredible. George was a rarely gifted piano player and great singer.

210 Decatur Deb  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:54:20pm

re: #208 Vicious Babushka

Inez Derping the RWNJ revisionist shit.

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Only a matter of time before she discovers our links to Attila the Hun.

211 No Country For Old Haters  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:54:37pm

re: #208 Vicious Babushka

212 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:57:19pm
213 wrenchwench  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:57:59pm

re: #208 Vicious Babushka

Inez Derping the RWNJ revisionist shit.

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I hope she lives long enough to regret her contribution to that racist bullshit.

214 Decatur Deb  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:58:22pm

Most Important Election of Our Time, pt XXXVII

Our city had its special election today. There were two bubbles on the ink-in ballot.

“Should the city allow package liquor sales on Sunday? Yes. No.”

215 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:58:41pm

re: #209 Charles Johnson

Incredible. George was a rarely gifted piano player and great singer.

An immense talent.

216 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 3:59:24pm
217 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:00:26pm
218 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:00:57pm
219 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:01:03pm
220 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:02:14pm
221 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:02:32pm
222 No Country For Old Haters  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:02:47pm

re: #220 Vicious Babushka

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She really has no idea that she lives in wingnut alternate-reality.

223 William Barnett-Lewis  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:02:49pm

For those historical revisionist asshats you all are fighting out there, from
The Writer’s Almanac writersalmanac.publicradio.org today:

It was on this day in 1965 that Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act that ended the long era of voter discrimination in many Southern states. Johnson had been delaying legislation on voting rights, because he thought it was too soon for it to succeed. But after a group of civil rights marchers were attacked in Selma, Alabama, he gave a speech on TV, in which he said: “I speak tonight for the dignity of man and the destiny of democracy. The command of the Constitution is plain. There is no moral issue. It is wrong to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote … it is all of us who must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome.”

That was the first time the president of the United States had ever used the phrase, “We shall overcome.” Martin Luther King Jr. was watching the address on TV that night, and he later said that when he heard Lyndon Johnson say the words “we shall overcome,” he burst into tears. The president signed the legislation a few months later, on this day in 1965.

Emphasis added.

224 Interesting Times  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:03:09pm

re: #220 Vicious Babushka

Tell her the only citations she’s familiar with are of the traffic-violation variety.

225 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:04:41pm
226 Skip Intro  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:06:25pm

re: #60 Carlos Danger

Berkeley Breathed (Bloom County) said one of the reasons he quit newspapers was that the Washington Post comic editors kept censoring his work. He couldn’t say the words “gay, “damn”, and the paper freaked when he drew a character in a head scarf.

Bezos can be my friend if he blows that up. Really- there’s no reason why comics have to be more conservative than they were during High Reaganism.

Maybe he can do something about all of the comics by dead/retired artists being recycled on the comics page every single day. Just maybe there are other people out there who deserve a shot.

227 William Barnett-Lewis  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:09:14pm

re: #226 Skip Intro

Maybe he can do something about all of the comics by dead/retired artists being recycled on the comics page every single day. Just maybe there are other people out there who deserve a shot.

Let me see Questionable Content or Schlock Mercenary on the comic page or convince Bill Watterson to come back and I’ll buy his newspaper for as long as they run ;)

228 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:10:06pm
229 Lidane  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:14:09pm
230 thedopefishlives  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:15:23pm

re: #227 William Barnett-Lewis

Let me see Questionable Content or Schlock Mercenary on the comic page or convince Bill Watterson to come back and I’ll buy his newspaper for as long as they run ;)

If he can convince Bill Watterson to come back, I think he would be promoted to the new Emperor of Earth.

231 freetoken  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:17:35pm

re: #229 Lidane

Still trying to be relevant:

Romney warns against govt shutdown

232 freetoken  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:19:44pm

Speaking as an expert:

Romney to N.H. Republicans: Pick someone who can win

233 darthstar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:20:37pm

re: #231 freetoken

Still trying to be relevant:

Romney warns against govt shutdown

Wealthy insulated man says what?

234 freetoken  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:22:12pm

I wonder if I signed up for a RedState account and started a diary on human evolution and discussed the errors of literal creationism, how long would I last?

235 Lidane  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:22:57pm

re: #234 freetoken

I wonder if I signed up for a RedState account and started a diary on human evolution and discussed the errors of literal creationism, how long would I last?

About five minutes longer than you’d last at Free Republic.

236 darthstar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:22:58pm
237 Varek Raith  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:25:07pm

re: #205 Charles Johnson

That’s right. In that strip Donald Duck casually murders Goofy.

Not without justification.
Youtube Video

238 wrenchwench  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:25:18pm

re: #228 Gus

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Same guys (with a few more) a couple of decades earlier.


Youtube Video

239 freetoken  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:25:36pm

Politico opinion writer asks:

Will Jeff Bezos be good for journalism?

My take - After hitting bottom with the likes of Murdoch, and Breitbart, the only way for journalism is up.

240 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:26:00pm
241 No Country For Old Haters  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:26:37pm

re: #234 freetoken

I wonder if I signed up for a RedState account and started a diary on human evolution and discussed the errors of literal creationism, how long would I last?

I think it would be cool if you did, and reported back on the outcome.

242 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:32:18pm

LATimes even. They have the obit for Mick Farren.

243 Ace-o-aces  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:33:59pm

re: #205 Charles Johnson

That’s right. In that strip Donald Duck casually murders Goofy.

If there’s one thing of learned, it’s that ducks are a$$holes.

244 jvic  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:44:30pm

1. It’s possible that Bezos’s purchase is public-spirited. It’s also possible that he thinks he brings things to the business that traditional publishers don’t. It’s also possible that he views WaPo as a tool for lobbying Congress on behalf of Amazon.

For example, Amazon has flipflopped on the issue of an Internet sales tax by individual states. Rumor has it that Amazon has patented the necessary software. Having used the Internet tax moratorium to grow huge, Amazon now may be trying to block that path to potential future competitors.

2. Gosh, it sure is odd that Shapiro, Ace Reporter, doesn’t delve into this aspect of the situation. ////////

245 GeneJockey  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:48:34pm

re: #225 Vicious Babushka

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The question Inez needs to ask herself is whether she wants to learn and write about actual history - i.e. shit that actually happened - or does she simply want to quotemine and cherrypick history for nuggets that will seem to support her team.

You can be propagandist, or a historian, but you have to choose.

246 GeneJockey  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:51:23pm

BTW, I know I’m late the party on Shapiro’s nonsense, but I wanted to add that, from my own experience, business deals that involve mere tens of millions of dollars take MONTHS, even YEARS. Anybody who doesn’t know this and purports to write about a business deal is a clueless charlatan, or in Ben’s case also a fucking moron.

247 alpuz  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:52:40pm

re: #245 GeneJockey

For some reason I get the feeling Inez has already made that choice. I do wonder what her motivation is though.

248 GeneJockey  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:54:08pm

And while I’m at it, if I read one more time some stupid poster on a watch forum say he likes vintage watches but wants one > 40mm, I will fucking EXPLODE!!!! Our fathers and grandfathers didn’t need to wear WALL CLOCKS ON THEIR WRISTS to feel like men. That’s cause they weren’t pussies!

/ off topic rant. (Had to say it here, they’d have tossed me off the watch forum.)

249 GeneJockey  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:56:27pm

re: #247 alpuz

For some reason I get the feeling Inez has already made that choice. I do wonder what her motivation is though.

Sadly, I don’t think she’s made it consciously. I’m sure she believe what she’s done is how you do historical research, much in the same way that Creation Scientists think rifling through 160 years of biological research looking for things you can twist is how Science is done.

250 alpuz  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:57:05pm

For wrenchwench from a nearby Craigslist posting:

‘Slight seat damage where my dog took a bite out of it.’

Image: DogBitesPug.jpg

251 erik_t  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:57:44pm

re: #248 GeneJockey

(grabs ruler)

40mm? Really? Jumpin’ jackalope. I am right at 30mm as the good Lord intended.

252 GeneJockey  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:57:57pm

re: #250 alpuz

For wrenchwench from a nearby Craigslist posting:

‘Slight seat damage where my dog took a bite out of it.’

Image: DogBitesPug.jpg

Cripes, if I had to push those tires, I’d be surly, too!

253 wrenchwench  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:59:04pm

re: #250 alpuz

For wrenchwench from a nearby Craigslist posting:

‘Slight seat damage where my dog took a bite out of it.’

Image: DogBitesPug.jpg

Dogs love those seats and grips. Keep it up, pooches!

254 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:59:17pm

re: #245 GeneJockey

The question Inez needs to ask herself is whether she wants to learn and write about actual history - i.e. shit that actually happened - or does she simply want to quotemine and cherrypick history for nuggets that will seem to support her team.

You can be propagandist, or a historian, but you have to choose.

Sadly, I don’t think she knows the difference. She is surrounded by “mentors” who are instructing her in how to use the Cherry-Picking technique to support an already-decided conclusion.

255 wrenchwench  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 4:59:29pm

re: #252 GeneJockey

Cripes, if I had to push those tires, I’d be surly, too!

Unless you were on snow or sand dunes!

256 alpuz  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:00:29pm

re: #252 GeneJockey

Heh, it’s a lumbering task on pavement. I do it often. Works pretty OK on the snow though. That’s what it’s built for.

257 Shiplord Kirel  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:01:43pm

A beak from teh Stoopid:

Space station will be visible from here again tonight.

FRM:HQ-spotthestation@mail.nasa.gov
SUBJ:SpotTheStation
MSG:Time: Tue Aug 06 9:33 PM, Visible: 6 min, Max Height: 49 degrees, Appears: WSW, Disappears: NE

This should be visible from, say, Colorado Springs a minute or so later and 9 degrees lower. You should be able to see it from a big part of the southern and central Midwest as well.

258 GeneJockey  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:01:49pm

re: #251 erik_t

(grabs ruler)

40mm? Really? Jumpin’ jackalope. I am right at 30mm as the good Lord intended.

Really. The standard military issue watch from WWII was right at 30mm. I’ve seen a few posts where somebody buys a military wristwatch, because, honestly, a WWII watch is fucking cool, and then finds out how SMALL it is, and thinks it looks funny on his wrist.

I’m pretty sure the guys who went out and simultaneously kicked Nazi and Japanese Imperial ass felt unmanly wearing them.

259 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:02:06pm
260 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:05:35pm

Wow that was some serious projection.

261 piratedan  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:07:08pm

re: #260 Vicious Babushka

love how she acts as if nothing of note happened between 1860 and 1960. All social issues were static and unchanged.

I can picture her sitting at her screen with her fingers in her ears going “LALALALALALA I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

262 erik_t  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:09:41pm

re: #258 GeneJockey

Really. The standard military issue watch from WWII was right at 30mm. I’ve seen a few posts where somebody buys a military wristwatch, because, honestly, a WWII watch is fucking cool, and then finds out how SMALL it is, and thinks it looks funny on his wrist.

I’m pretty sure the guys who went out and simultaneously kicked Nazi and Japanese Imperial ass felt unmanly wearing them.

All of my outdoorsy/adventure/indestructible stuff is right at 30mm.

I don’t even understand. Would not an oversize watch face make the attached wrist appear small and feminine?

263 lawhawk  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:11:29pm

re: #244 jvic

It comes down to nexus. If Amazon has warehouses in state, the company has nexus. They’re pushing to build warehouses since it fits into their same day shipping, which enables them to do things like groceries and other perishables, as well as impulse buys.

Same day opens a whole new world of hurt on big box stores, including Walmart, Target, and electronics chains.

But until they settled on that strategy, putting warehouses into a state meant that the company would have to collect and remit sales tax from those states that impose them (the other way is via affiliate nexus or Amazon laws designed to secure tax collections for online purchases via companies like Amazon that claim not to have a physical presence in the state and leave collection of tax up to the purchaser in the state who more likely than not ignores the use tax collection requirements).

Amazon worked out deals with NJ and a couple other states to do collection in exchange for warehouses and jobs in the states (some offer tax incentives for new jobs created, so they benefit from those credits/incentives too).

264 wrenchwench  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:11:38pm

re: #261 piratedan

I can picture her sitting at her screen with her fingers in her ears going “LOLOLOLOLOLOL I CAN’T HEAR YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!”

FTFY.

265 Eclectic Cyborg  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:18:28pm

Holy shit.

Two young children in Pennsylvania were banned from talking about fracking for the rest of their lives under a gag order imposed under a settlement reached by their parents with a leading oil and gas company.

The sweeping gag order was imposed under a $750,000 settlement between the Hallowich family and Range Resources Corp, a leading oil and gas driller. It provoked outrage on Monday among environmental campaigners and free speech advocates.

The settlement, reached in 2011 but unsealed only last week, barred the Hallowichs’ son and daughter, who were then aged 10 and seven, from ever discussing fracking or the Marcellus Shale, a leading producer in America’s shale gas boom.

The Hallowich family had earlier accused oil and gas companies of destroying their 10-acre farm in Mount Pleasant, Pennsylvania and putting their children’s health in danger. Their property was adjacent to major industrial operations: four gas wells, gas compressor stations, and a waste water pond, which the Hallowich family said contaminated their water supply and caused burning eyes, sore throats and headaches.

Gag orders - on adults - are typical in settlements reached between oil and gas operators and residents in the heart of shale gas boom in Pennsylvania. But the company lawyer’s insistence on extending the lifetime gag order to the Hallowichs’ children gave even the judge pause, according to the court documents.

The family gag order was a condition of the settlement. The couple told the court they agreed because they wanted to move to a new home away from the gas fields, and to raise their children in a safer environment. “We need to get the children out of there for their health and safety,” the children’s mother, Stephanie Hallowich, told the court.

What the hell are we doing to ourselves???

266 lawhawk  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:19:03pm

NYC architecture break:

NYSE from Federal Hall:


Inside Federal Hall:


And a hidden gem on Gold Street:

267 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:22:30pm

Fuck this shit, I’m making some cinnamon raisin bread.

268 Mattand  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:22:44pm

re: #265 Eclectic Cyborg

Holy shit.

What the hell are we doing to ourselves???

There is no way this would ever stand up to a 1st Amendment challenge. Absolutely none.

269 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:23:32pm

Inez Derp spreading like a virus.

270 Stanley Sea  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:23:38pm

re: #265 Eclectic Cyborg

Holy shit.

What the hell are we doing to ourselves???

Succumbing to greed.

This isn’t going to end well.

271 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:24:41pm
272 GeneJockey  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:25:54pm

re: #256 alpuz

Heh, it’s a lumbering task on pavement. I do it often. Works pretty OK on the snow though. That’s what it’s built for.

I figgered. I much prefer a dry road!

2 years ago my son wanted a bike for getting around. I repurposed my old commuter, got a new chain, replace the cables and housings, new commuter tires. He rode it once.

Fast forward to yesterday. He took the bike out to go to the digital arts studio where he’s learning digital animation.

Did he put air in the tires? No, he did not. THAT is what it must be like pushing those things on pavement.

273 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:27:15pm

re: #269 Vicious Babushka

Inez Derp spreading like a virus.

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Oh my head.

274 Dave In Austin  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:27:27pm

Be sure to turn the sound on

275 wrenchwench  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:27:31pm

A long and important meeting at the entrance to a parking garage?


Some Egyptians are not so happy with McCain.




that concludes this edition of ‘egyptian news via twitter’…

276 freetoken  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:28:41pm

re: #265 Eclectic Cyborg

Holy shit.

What the hell are we doing to ourselves???

MP3 Audio

277 wrenchwench  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:28:59pm

re: #269 Vicious Babushka

Inez Derp spreading like a virus.

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It’s like a….groundswell….

278 engineer cat  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:30:51pm

i did finally get inez to cough up a respectable definition of communism, but as to how it relates to anything the obama administration has done, her reply is that she is bored now

279 Kragar  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:31:06pm

re: #277 wrenchwench

It’s like a….groundswell….

Or a wave…

Youtube Video

280 alpuz  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:31:18pm

re: #269 Vicious Babushka

Inez Derp spreading like a virus.

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That there looks like tea patriot ‘outreach.’

281 wrenchwench  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:32:40pm

re: #272 GeneJockey

I figgered. I much prefer a dry road!

2 years ago my son wanted a bike for getting around. I repurposed my old commuter, got a new chain, replace the cables and housings, new commuter tires. He rode it once.

Fast forward to yesterday. He took the bike out to go to the digital arts studio where he’s learning digital animation.

Did he put air in the tires? No, he did not. THAT is what it must be like pushing those things on pavement.

Try this:

Strip off all the cables

and the deraillers

and the brakes

do a little spot-weld on the freewheel so it won’t

chop the drops off the handlebars, leaving just enough room for one hand on each side of the stem

Now you have a young person’s bike.

Just needs ridiculous colors added.

282 GeneJockey  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:33:50pm

re: #262 erik_t

All of my outdoorsy/adventure/indestructible stuff is right at 30mm.

I don’t even understand. Would not an oversize watch face make the attached wrist appear small and feminine?

Ya think?

By contrast, this is a man’s watch from 1952.

283 NJDhockeyfan  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:34:12pm
284 jvic  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:35:01pm

re: #270 Stanley Sea

Succumbing to greed.

This isn’t going to end well.

Indeed. Competition-driven economic growth is often unpleasant for many, but it can be argued and I’m willing to believe that within limits the advantages outweigh the deficiencies.

However, when the economically powerful enlist the government to act against the economically disadvantaged be they consumers or competitors, they are begging for the public to get fed up and shut the whole circus down.

We might be closer to that than the wise guys think. Unfortunately, it’s in the nature of a wise guy to grab what he can and leave the negative consequences for someone else to deal with.

285 alpuz  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:35:57pm

re: #272 GeneJockey

Fatties might even be worse. I’ve learned to just go slow.

The kicker is when you pump ‘em up too much. I hit a frozen snowbank and bounced about 2-3 feet in the air. Bouncy.

286 GeneJockey  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:37:17pm

re: #281 wrenchwench

Try this:

Strip off all the cables

and the deraillers

and the brakes

do a little spot-weld on the freewheel so it won’t

chop the drops off the handlebars, leaving just enough room for one hand on each side of the stem

Now you have a young person’s bike.

Just needs ridiculous colors added.

My son is NOT a hipster doofus!
//

I have seen a couple of exactly those bikes with two idiots young men riding them. They looked stupid. Then again, I’m an old fart.

287 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:39:51pm

re: #282 GeneJockey

That Invicta is a freaking obscenity.

And Feltscher is still an ignorant shill.

288 erik_t  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:40:34pm

Dang, I hope dopefish put his head fin down. Minny’s getting hammered.

289 GeneJockey  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:40:45pm

re: #285 alpuz

Fatties might even be worse. I’ve learned to just go slow.

The kicker is when you pump ‘em up too much. I hit a frozen snowbank and bounced about 2-3 feet in the air. Bouncy.

I will no longer feel bad about riding 700 x 25’s. You must sound like an SUV on pavement!

290 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:42:36pm

Completely ignoring that the founding fathers were slave owners ergo pro slavery. Whatever.

291 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:43:10pm

Photo: Protesters outside Ted Nugent show in New Haven, CT, angered by his comments on Trayvon Martin - Instagram’s eliezerleecruz

36 mins ago from instagram.com by editor

instagram.com

292 alpuz  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:43:25pm

re: #289 GeneJockey

Little kids dig it. I ride by a local summer camp/daycare about 3-5 times a week. For about 6 seconds I’m a freakin’ superhero.

293 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:43:44pm

Oh please G-D don’t let her be a Juice. Nur dos darf ich nuch.

294 BongCrodny  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:44:28pm

re: #276 freetoken

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When I lived down in Virginia, my cousin and would occasionally get together for breakfast at Silver Diner.

Silver Diner, for those Lizards without one nearby, is a diner chain with a 50’s theme, complete with a jukebox and jukebox stations at each table.

I would drive him absolutely nuts because I would play “Sixteen Tons” every time we went there.

295 wrenchwench  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:44:40pm

There were extra kittehs last night, so instead of kittehs tonight, I leave you with John Lewis.



Later, lizards.

296 PhillyPretzel  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:46:07pm

OT: I usually do not have any problems with amazon orders. Today was one of those very rare cases where I ordered Pepcid AC and got Pepcid Complete. I just got off from a chat with Marie who was very nice and went ahead to help me with a return label and is starting my refund on said item. Now all I have to do is get said package to UPS in Center City Philly tomorrow and then everything should be okay.

297 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:49:27pm

She ends with:

Obviously, modern liberals are not slave owners, and some of the most odious aspects of the antebellum slavery defenders’ philosophy have been rejected across the political spectrum today. However, intellectual heritage remains important.

These were the underlying principles of President Obama’s campaign during the 2012 election from which conservatives recoiled in horror, particularly the “Life of Julia” message that depicted an American woman entirely dependent on government and Democratic programs. Through each stage of life the “benign” hand of government swoops in and protects the citizen from the dangers of the free market and liberty itself, taking upon itself the burden of everything from his self-defense to his choice of environmentally-friendly light bulbs.

The cradle-to-grave entitlement society of government interference, regulation and control is a departure from the principles of a free society. The left’s vision of “freedom” is based on different doctrines than those that animated the Founding Fathers, doctrines more beholden to John C. Calhoun’s pro-slavery political science than Thomas Jefferson’s philosophy of liberty.

Thomas Jefferson “owned” approximately 200 slaves.

298 Amory Blaine  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:52:12pm

Finally, Thousands of Old Rape-Evidence Kits Are to Be Tested

Thousands of evidence kits collected from rape victims that have sat untested for years in Texas can now be analyzed, thanks to an $11 million budget appropriation earmarked for the Texas Department of Public Safety.

The line-item financing disbursement was passed as part of the state’s biennial budget during the regular 83rd legislative session. It follows the 2011 approval of related legislation filed by Senator Wendy Davis, Democrat of Fort Worth.

….

299 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:52:21pm

You must STOP whatever you are doing and READ THIS NOW and LOL:

300 GeneJockey  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:54:30pm

re: #287 Justanotherhuman

That Invicta is a freaking obscenity.

There are worse.

And Feltscher is still an ignorant shill.

Yup.

301 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:55:16pm

Coming up next. Slavery is socialist because it houses, feeds, and provides work for people. Derp.

302 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:56:12pm

Slaveocrat “X” had some socialist ideas therefore people with socialist ideas are like slave holders and people that want to ban incandescent light bulbs.

303 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:57:01pm

[Flips desk.]

304 Interesting Times  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:57:29pm

re: #300 GeneJockey

There are worse.

If I’m going to wear a watch that size, it had better contain a 1-TB ssd, HD video recorder, plus a nail clipper, screwdriver, pair of scissors, and a file.

305 GeneJockey  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 5:59:35pm

re: #304 Interesting Times

If I’m going to wear a watch that size, it had better contain a 1-TB ssd, HD video recorder, plus a nail clipper, screwdriver, pair of scissors, and a file.

Nope. Just a standard automatic movement small enough to fit in this watch.

306 austin_blue  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:00:03pm

re: #209 Charles Johnson

Incredible. George was a rarely gifted piano player and great singer.

Charles;

Just got here. Please allow my to express my deepest sympathy and condolences on the death of your dear friend and mentor.

We are all mortal, we all know days like this are coming, and they always suck like an F5 tornado.

Be at peace, my friend.

307 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:01:56pm

You know who else had socialist ideas?

308 austin_blue  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:02:47pm

re: #293 Vicious Babushka

Oh please G-D don’t let her be a Juice. Nur dos darf ich nuch.

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Maybe she’s Mewish?

309 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:03:57pm

re: #308 austin_blue

Maybe she’s Mewish?

Druish, has to be Druish.

310 engineer cat  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:04:17pm

re: #297 Gus

She ends with:

Thomas Jefferson “owned” approximately 200 slaves.

basically, she concludes that helping people is like slavery because slave owners took care of their property/slaves.

to be truly free, she concludes, you must be left at the mercy of the holy sainted free market, which apparently is described somewhere between deuteronomy and 2nd kings

tell her to be truly free herself, then, clearly she should cut herself off from any further assistance from her parents, and in addition pay them back ASAP for all of the financial assistance they have tendered her in the course of her life

it’s what ayn rand would do, isn’t it?

311 Interesting Times  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:05:05pm

re: #293 Vicious Babushka

Oh please G-D don’t let her be a Juice. Nur dos darf ich nuch.

Perhaps she’s a fox-friendly “atheist” along the lines of S.E. Cupp (she seems to be imitating her look as well)

312 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:05:10pm
313 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:05:54pm

re: #307 Gus

You know who else had socialist ideas?

Jesus, Hitler, and, Eisenhower. Ergo _______________ .

314 GeneJockey  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:06:07pm

re: #312 Gus

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So she’s a Jewish SippE Cupp?

315 Internet Tough Guy  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:06:12pm

re: #293 Vicious Babushka

Well, considering her readiness to sell out any group she happens to be a member, I would put money on Muslim Arab.

316 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:06:35pm

OH SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY

317 Internet Tough Guy  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:07:57pm

Oh well. Can’t win them all.

318 elizajane  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:08:33pm

re: #265 Eclectic Cyborg

Holy shit.

What the hell are we doing to ourselves???

1) I think I know these people. They adopted a kid from my older children’s orphanage.
2) surely there is no legal way to impose a lifetime gag order on a 7-year-old? Our legal system cannot really be that f***ed up. I get why the parents had to agree to this deal but I hope that when those kids turn 18 they find a way to speak out plenty about what happened to their family.

319 alpuz  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:09:48pm

re: #312 Gus

We can get anyone? What the hell does that mean? Especially considering the context.

320 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:10:59pm

re: #312 Gus

Not everyone is as easy as you are, Inez.

321 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:11:20pm

re: #319 alpuz

We can get anyone? What the hell does that mean? Especially considering the context.

Because all teh Jews are liberal and vote for Democrats! Or something.

322 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:12:05pm

re: #319 alpuz

We can get anyone? What the hell does that mean? Especially considering the context.

She is always using herself as a perfect example of everything. For example: “If I lived on minimum wage so can anyone!”

323 GeneJockey  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:12:34pm

re: #310 engineer cat

basically, she concludes that helping people is like slavery because slave owners took care of their property/slaves.

to be truly free, she concludes, you must be left at the mercy of the holy sainted free market, which apparently is described somewhere between deuteronomy and 2nd kings

tell her to be truly free herself, then, clearly she should cut herself off from any further assistance from her parents, and in addition pay them back ASAP for all of the financial assistance they have tendered her in the course of her life

it’s what ayn rand would do, isn’t it?

You know what this reminds me of? “Liberal Fascism’, where you simply redefine everything so it allows you to accuse Liberals of whatever you want. You know, like “Hitler was a vegetarian. Many vegetarians are liberal, therefore liberals are just like Hitler.”

It’s intellectual dishonesty, but more importantly, it’s classic Bullshit - it doesn’t matter to the bullshitter whether or not it’s true, as long as it works. And since RW ‘Think’ Tanks exist to provide comfort in the face of the cognitive dissonance inherent in modern Conservatism, this little puddle of drool is effective.

324 alpuz  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:13:14pm

Eesh. It’s a fuckin’ cult.

325 Internet Tough Guy  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:14:54pm

re: #324 alpuz

One seeking access to the world’s largest nuclear arsenal.

326 Charles Johnson  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:15:17pm
327 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:15:49pm

re: #323 GeneJockey

You know what this reminds me of? “Liberal Fascism’, where you simply redefine everything so it allows you to accuse Liberals of whatever you want. You know, like “Hitler was a vegetarian. Many vegetarians are liberal, therefore liberals are just like Hitler.”

It’s intellectual dishonesty, but more importantly, it’s classic Bullshit - it doesn’t matter to the bullshitter whether or not it’s true, as long as it works. And since RW ‘Think’ Tanks exist to provide comfort in the face of the cognitive dissonance inherent in modern Conservatism, this little puddle of drool is effective.

I think drone warfare is effective therefore I’m a right-wing Republican! See. Simple.

328 GeneJockey  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:16:33pm

re: #326 Charles Johnson

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BUT…MOOOZLIM!!!11!!1!

I hear the sound of a thousand ‘No True Scotsman’ fallacies, warming up in the wings.

329 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:18:11pm

re: #326 Charles Johnson

Listening to it now. : )

330 GeneJockey  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:18:29pm

re: #293 Vicious Babushka

Oh please G-D don’t let her be a Juice. Nur dos darf ich nuch.

Consistently amazed by how many liberals assume I’m Christian. Because everyone fits in your box for what conservatives must be like. LOL

It’s not that, Inez. It’s that we thought better of Teh Juice.

331 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:18:43pm

re: #326 Charles Johnson

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Did she get to the part about how Stormfront has a soft spot for the Palestinians and how David Duke hates teh Juice?

332 Charles Johnson  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:20:02pm

re: #331 Gus

Lots of coverage of the antisemitism.

333 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:21:46pm

re: #332 Charles Johnson

Lots of coverage of the antisemitism.

That would make more sense in that certain sphere of the far-right. Sites like Stormfront being just one example. David Duke’s notoriety with PressTV. Etc.

334 GeneJockey  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:21:56pm

The other thing that really rankles about her ‘Liberalism = intellectual descendant of slavery’ nonsense is that the South seceded because they didn’t want Government interfering with their property rights, i.e. their ‘right’ to buy and sell human beings, and to steal their labor. They are the intellectual ancestors of the propertarian Right of today.

335 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:22:44pm

No doubt a mish mash of things. A little of this, a little of that.

336 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:23:41pm

Hmm. Almost similar to the PA shooter from last night.

‘Government conspiracies’

The programme discovered that Tamerlan Tsarnaev possessed articles which argued that both 9/11 and the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing were government conspiracies.

Another in his possession was about “the rape of our gun rights”.

Reading material he had about white supremacy commented that “Hitler had a point”.

Tamerlan Tsarnaev also had literature which explored what motivated mass killings and noted how the perpetrators murdered and maimed calmly.

There was also material about US drones killing civilians, and about the plight of those still imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay.

337 Charles Johnson  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:23:45pm

For example:

Image: ZZ7E3A972B.jpg

338 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:25:05pm

re: #335 Gus

No doubt a mish mash of things. A little of this, a little of that.

Yeah, just look at her FB page: facebook.com

339 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:26:26pm

re: #338 Justanotherhuman

Yeah, just look at her FB page: facebook.com

I meant the Tsarnaevs but yeah that’s weird.

340 Vicious Babushka  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:26:32pm

re: #338 Justanotherhuman

Yeah, just look at her FB page: facebook.com

That banner pic is like a wingnut “Blurred Lines”

341 AlexRogan  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:28:04pm

re: #309 Vicious Babushka

Druish, has to be Druish.

Funny…she doesn’t look Druish.

///

342 GeneJockey  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:28:08pm

re: #338 Justanotherhuman

Yeah, just look at her FB page: facebook.com

She reminds me of the “Oh, honey…” episode of How I Met Your Mother. I see her tweets, and I just feel sorry for her - “Oh, honey…”

343 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:28:53pm

re: #308 austin_blue

Maybe she’s Mewish?

The cats expressed immediate horror at having staff that stupid, stiff-necked, and obtuse. They’d need way too much interaction to get understanding of orders across.

344 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:29:20pm

It’s always about TEH JUICE! with the fringe. Commonality with conspiracy theorists.

345 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:30:38pm

You got your communist anti-Semites and your free-market anti-Semites.

346 Justanotherhuman  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:30:45pm

re: #339 Gus

I meant the Tsarnaevs but yeah that’s weird.

Maybe they bought that “real American” bullshit expounded by the hate groups.

347 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:32:29pm

re: #346 Justanotherhuman

Maybe they bought that “real American” bullshit expounded by the hate groups.

One of the reasons I heard was that his brother couldn’t become a citizen so he sort of went bonkers after that.

348 Interesting Times  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:33:28pm

re: #344 Gus

It’s always about TEH JUICE! with the fringe. Commonality with conspiracy theorists.

Remember this stunt?

…the same coalition of right-wing activists have mounted an effort to replace Straus with someone more inclined to do their bidding:

A group of conservative groups is trying to capitalize on that frustration, issuing a letter Nov. 4 calling for a new Speaker. The signatories include representatives from a lot of major conservative groups, including Texans for Fiscal Responsibility, Texas Right to Life, Americans for Prosperity, the Texas Eagle Forum, [Vision America,] Liberty Institute, former Republican Party of Texas Chairman Cathie Adams, and former Republican Party of Texas vice-chairman David Barton. Of particular concern to grass roots conservatives is the fate of bills requiring showing photo ID prior to voting and bills that limit property taxes.

349 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:36:04pm

Maybe not…

Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s citizenship application was pending

WASHINGTON — Despite reports that Tamerlan Tsarnaev harbored resentment over the U.S. denying his citizenship application, the application was still pending at the time of the Boston Marathon bombings, a law enforcement source said Sunday…

Pretty conclusive evidence though that Tamerlan Tsarnaev was a major asshole.

350 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:36:54pm
351 BongCrodny  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:38:46pm

...

352 austin_blue  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:41:31pm

re: #316 Vicious Babushka

OH SHUT THE FUCK UP ALREADY

[Embedded content]

Alert the press!

“Austin_blue calls Erick Erickson, who doesn’t have a tenth of the mental horsepower that Harvard Law graduate and State Senator Wendy Davis has, Right Wing Nut Job Ken.”

353 Gus  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:44:15pm

re: #351 BongCrodny

Indeed! //

354 austin_blue  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 6:44:52pm

re: #348 Interesting Times

Remember this stunt?

Well, yeah, as a Red Sea pedestrian, he can’t be as properly Conservative as a Jeebus Cultist. Duh. It’s inconceivable!

355 BongCrodny  Tue, Aug 6, 2013 7:24:42pm

re: #353 Gus

Indeed! //

Ha! Copied and pasted from one of your cites, but all I got was a blank post, even though it showed up in preview.

Still, it’s better than my usual drivel.


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