2 | A Mom Anon Sun, Sep 15, 2013 2:48:32pm |
I saw that the other night, too funny. But seriously, wtf were they even doing there? Or were they even REALLY there at all? I kinda picture them on the same sort of stage the Daily Show has, where the “on location” reporters are actually standing in front of a green screen a few feet away from Jon’s desk.
Honestly there should be some sort of civics test before you run for office, it might weed out some of the nitwits.
3 | Charles Johnson Sun, Sep 15, 2013 2:52:40pm |
One of Greenwald’s cohorts gloats that he and GG caused Larry Summers to withdraw by hurting Obama.
Could it be any more obvious?
Thanks Snowden! RT @Goldfarb Source: “perfect storm” including Syria & NSA—that ruptured Obama's relations with left & further hurt Summers— Trevor Timm (@trevortimm) September 15, 2013
4 | Iwouldprefernotto Sun, Sep 15, 2013 2:56:34pm |
re: #3 Charles Johnson
One of Greenwald’s cohorts gloats that he and GG caused Larry Summers to withdraw by hurting Obama.
Could it be any more obvious?
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Only one problem, I think the left hates Summers…
5 | wrenchwench Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:00:09pm |
re: #4 Iwouldprefernotto
Only one problem, I think the left hates Summers…
I’m starting to think that Greenwald and his dudebros are politically dyslexic. They’re finding it increasingly difficult to discern who is left, right, in between, or way out on the fringes. They just look for agreement from any quarter.
6 | Iwouldprefernotto Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:01:02pm |
re: #5 wrenchwench
I’m starting to think that Greenwald and his dudebros are politically dyslexic. They’re finding it increasingly difficult to discern who is left, right, in between, or way out on the fringes. They just look for agreement from any quarter.
They make the same mistake that Conservatives do, they assume Obama is a liberal.
7 | wrenchwench Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:02:36pm |
An important Twitter lesson: Don't say stupid shit on Twitter.— Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) September 15, 2013
8 | Lidane Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:02:45pm |
re: #4 Iwouldprefernotto
Only one problem, I think the left hates Summers…
Yeah. I’m trying to figure out when the left ever liked Larry Summers in the first place.
9 | gwangung Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:04:20pm |
re: #5 wrenchwench
I’m starting to think that Greenwald and his dudebros are politically dyslexic. They’re finding it increasingly difficult to discern who is left, right, in between, or way out on the fringes. They just look for agreement from any quarter.
Greenwald and his minions have no clue about politics, period.
After all, it takes some sort of sensitivity on how humans act in general.
10 | Lidane Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:05:07pm |
re: #9 gwangung
After all, it takes some sort of sensitivity on how humans act in general.
In other words, it takes not being a libertarian.
11 | Gus Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:09:09pm |
Thanks Snowden! RT @Goldfarb Source: “perfect storm” including Syria & NSA—that ruptured Obama's relations with left & further hurt Summers— Trevor Timm (@trevortimm) September 15, 2013
Seriously?
12 | Charles Johnson Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:14:04pm |
Here Ella Fitzgerald adored by Dizzy Gillespie, 1947: #Gottlieb pic.twitter.com/H8ixWaTFVY— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) September 15, 2013
13 | wrenchwench Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:17:18pm |
14 | Lancelot Link Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:19:14pm |
re: #11 Gus
Trevor Timm should get back to defending his good buddies Weev and Barrett Brown.
15 | Justanotherhuman Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:26:47pm |
re: #3 Charles Johnson
One of Greenwald’s cohorts gloats that he and GG caused Larry Summers to withdraw by hurting Obama.
Could it be any more obvious?
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GG has been gloating and character assassinating all day.
Of course he doesn’t have anything intelligent to say, or he would.
16 | Iwouldprefernotto Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:29:38pm |
re: #15 Justanotherhuman
GG has been gloating and character assassinating all day.
Of course he doesn’t have anything intelligent to say, or he would.
Yes, GG Voyager left the solar system because of you. (Perhaps I should sign up for twitter).
17 | Justanotherhuman Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:34:46pm |
This is just awful; let’s hope the death toll doesn’t climb and people can be located.
#COFlood: 17,494 homes damaged, 1,502 homes destroyed, 11,700 ppl evacuated, 1,253 ppl unaccounted for, 26 shelters, says @COEmergency— 9NEWS Denver (@9NEWS) September 15, 2013
18 | Kragar Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:38:42pm |
Any delegation including Bob Odenkirk and David Cross has to be awesome.
19 | makeitstop Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:43:04pm |
re: #2 A Mom Anon
Honestly there should be some sort of
civics testpsychiatric examination before you run for office, it might weed out some of the nitwits.
FTFY.
20 | ProTARDISLiberal Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:46:26pm |
re: #17 Justanotherhuman
This is going to require a shitton of federal aid.
Not only that, but this disaster make the Black Forest Fire, one of the worst disasters in Colorado before this last week, look small time in comparison.
This could rival the Big Thompson Flood, and may be the Worst Disaster in Colorado History. And we still aren’t done yet.
21 | Eclectic Cyborg Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:48:30pm |
re: #20 ProTARDISLiberal
I wonder if the GOP will have the balls to try and block/scale back/obstruct the aid package?
22 | ProTARDISLiberal Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:51:06pm |
re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg
Yes. Colorado is a state that has “betrayed” them. Went from deep red in 2004 to deep blue in 2012.
Yes, the recalls worked. However, the turnouts for it were 20-30%. I expect that we get one of these back in either 2014 or 2016.
Also, a serious effort must be made to oust the Secretary of State.
23 | Kragar Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:51:18pm |
re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder if the GOP will have the balls to try and block/scale back/obstruct the aid package?
“It should go without saying an aid package to Colorado can only happen if we defund Obamacare.”
///
24 | blueraven Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:53:43pm |
re: #21 Eclectic Cyborg
I wonder if the GOP will have the balls to try and block/scale back/obstruct the aid package?
Ha, that doesn’t take cohones. That is their SOP. The opposite is true. Will they have the balls to go against the TP loons and do the right thing?
25 | blueraven Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:00:20pm |
Jeez, if I hear one more pundit scream…It is not really about Syria, but what about Iran!!!??? What about N. Korea!!! I think I will scream.
These people act like there has to be a cookie cutter approach to every problem. Iran is not Syria. Syria is not Iraq. Libya is not Syria and Syria is not N Korea!
26 | A Mom Anon Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:07:12pm |
re: #25 blueraven
That’s because they do not bother to take a little time to learn about what the hell they’re talking about. If they actually read something they’d have to tell the truth about things and we can’t have that now can we?
27 | Justanotherhuman Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:09:50pm |
I was introduced to David Oistrakh’s genius only a few years before his death in 1974. This is a fabulous duet with Sviatoslav Richter of Beethoven’s Violin Sonata op.12 № 3. Soviet era classical music at its finest. Violin Sonata op.12 № 3, a live performance in Moscow, 1970. Youtube Video
Oistrakh is said to have had use of 7 Stradivarius violins owned by the SU during his career.
29 | Kragar Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:15:59pm |
Well, I’ve completed the rough draft of my story. Now comes the expansion and fleshing it out.
30 | b_sharp Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:18:19pm |
re: #29 Kragar
Well, I’ve completed the rough draft of my story. Now comes the expansion and fleshing it out.
Do the bad guys finally win?
31 | nines09 Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:23:35pm |
I knew they went to Egypt, but that’s the first I saw that and I’m stupider for it. “Hello. We’re here to walk your dogs.” Voice in background……”NO.”
32 | Kragar Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:27:50pm |
33 | Eclectic Cyborg Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:34:21pm |
I personally like stories where the bad guy wins. More realistic. After all, the good guys don’t always come out ahead in the end.
34 | Justanotherhuman Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:36:57pm |
Mexico, getting the effects of 2 storms, suffers, too.
Hurricane Ingrid, tropical storm Manuel combine to kill 20 in Mexico
35 | Arrrr, matey! Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:37:09pm |
“Greetings Stan, I stole a nuclear sub.”
“…I’ll call you right back.”
36 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:38:06pm |
The pecan sticky rolls are still in the oven. If you are good, you will each get one!
37 | Kragar Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:38:22pm |
re: #33 Eclectic Cyborg
I personally like stories where the bad guy wins. More realistic. After all, the good guys don’t always come out ahead in the end.
Its the first part of a 3 part story. The good guys don’t realize how bad off they are yet.
38 | Justanotherhuman Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:40:03pm |
re: #36 Vicious Babushka
The pecan sticky rolls are still in the oven. If you are good, you will each get one!
Could I have some of that fabulous challah instead? : )
39 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:40:09pm |
pic.twitter.com/gh7X1Ye2Yp— Cute Emergency (@CuteEmergency) September 15, 2013
40 | FemNaziBitch Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:44:48pm |
Just when I think I can’t be pissed-off any more.
also paged.
Disclaimer. I got thru part 3 and couldn’t read anymore.
I have no race prejudices nor caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. All I care to know is that a man is a human being, and that is enough for me; he can’t be any worse.-Mark Twain
41 | FemNaziBitch Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:45:35pm |
It turned cold in my part of the world today. Allergies are better.
you?
42 | darthstar Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:46:38pm |
re: #36 Vicious Babushka
The pecan sticky rolls are still in the oven. If you are good, you will each get one!
Made a peach pie last night…it was pretty fuckin’ awesome. Had that with a ling cod we bought off one of the boats in the harbor…tough little bastard wasn’t dead when I got it home…but as I’d been making pie I had a rolling pin handy.
13lb ling cod: Image: 1185185_10151875754093024_1390732104_n.jpg
43 | darthstar Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:47:12pm |
re: #42 darthstar
Made a peach pie last night…it was pretty fuckin’ awesome. Had that with a ling cod we bought off one of the boats in the harbor…tough little bastard wasn’t dead when I got it home…but as I’d been making pie I had a rolling pin handy.
13lb ling cod: Image: 1185185_10151875754093024_1390732104_n.jpg
Oh, and when I opened him up, there was a 1lb fish in his belly…so I guess it was just a 12 lb ling cod.
44 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:47:22pm |
Sarah Silverman gets all offended by “ageist” jokes.
Hey Sarah: You’re Gonna Die Soon
Youtube Video
45 | PhillyPretzel Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:48:02pm |
re: #41 FemNaziBitch
A little bit better. wunderground.com
46 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:48:07pm |
re: #42 darthstar
Made a peach pie last night…it was pretty fuckin’ awesome. Had that with a ling cod we bought off one of the boats in the harbor…tough little bastard wasn’t dead when I got it home…but as I’d been making pie I had a rolling pin handy.
13lb ling cod: Image: 1185185_10151875754093024_1390732104_n.jpg
I want to see a picture of the pie.
47 | Justanotherhuman Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:49:13pm |
re: #40 FemNaziBitch
Just when I think I can’t be pissed-off any more.
also paged.
Disclaimer. I got thru part 3 and couldn’t read anymore.
That really should be a prosecutable offense everywhere. What are those people thinking, that they can just pawn off children they don’t want w/strangers? That one pissed me off no end, too. And county family services should be beefed up—many are overwhelmed.
48 | b.d. Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:51:30pm |
Vladimir Putin once arm-wrestled U.S. politician to settle argument about who won Cold WarRep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) recalled being defeated by a young and relatively unknown Putin
49 | darthstar Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:51:54pm |
50 | Kragar Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:52:27pm |
Secession movement alive and well. Five counties in Maryland have had it with liberalism. http://t.co/lkUEv7Guoy— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) September 15, 2013
“You people of the South don’t know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don’t know what you’re talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it… Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.”
- William Tecumseh Sherman
51 | Lidane Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:54:19pm |
re: #50 Kragar
If Fischer and the rest of these idiots want to secede, they are more than welcome to sell everything they own and self-deport to whatever country will have them.
Maybe they should consider Russia. You know, since it’s a bastion of freedom and all.
52 | FemNaziBitch Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:55:10pm |
re: #47 Justanotherhuman
That really should be a prosecutable offense everywhere. What are those people thinking, that they can just pawn off children they don’t want w/strangers? That one pissed me off no end, too. And county family services should be beefed up—many are overwhelmed.
All I can think of is: Comprehensive Sex Education and Cost-free Contraception.
53 | jaunte Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:57:00pm |
re: #50 Kragar
“Still, secession will not be easy, for a variety of reasons, including that many of these remote, rural regions rely on money generated in their state’s more commercial and populated cities. And secession leaders would need state and federal approval, which seems unlikely considering the last time a region broke off was 1863, when 50 western Virginia counties split to form West Virginia.”
Moochers.
54 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:57:54pm |
55 | jhrhv Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:58:53pm |
re: #36 Vicious Babushka
I made your Challah recipe. Big hit with the family. Thanks for posting it.
56 | darthstar Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:00:44pm |
re: #54 Vicious Babushka
Good job.
My wife wanted me to make a crumble, but I figured it was time to see if I could still roll out a decent crust…I did.
57 | Lidane Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:01:13pm |
re: #53 jaunte
Moochers.Real Americans.
FTFY
Also, fuck these people sideways. They want it both ways. They want to have all the freedoms of the Constitution and of living in America but they want none of the accountability.
Let them sell all their shit and self-deport to whoever will take them. Pfft.
58 | Charles Johnson Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:01:42pm |
Lake Misurina, Italy pic.twitter.com/wxQxfU2M59— National Geographic (@NatGeopix) September 16, 2013
59 | jaunte Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:02:45pm |
re: #58 Charles Johnson
Sunny day: Image: File:Lago_di_misurina.jpg
60 | Lidane Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:03:44pm |
I am going cross-eyed staring at job postings all day. Blargh.
OK. BBL. I’m going to do something non-job search related for a while.
61 | jaunte Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:03:55pm |
Try that again:
Image: 800px-Lago_di_misurina.jpg
63 | Justanotherhuman Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:04:24pm |
OK, so I’ll be making challah tomorrow. It’s a pretty easy bread to make, considering it comes out so beautifully. : )
Sesame or poppy seeds? One of both?
65 | lawhawk Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:04:57pm |
From the archives - New York City at the beginning of the last century:
The West Side Cowboy - http://t.co/YKzAXrhEKj— lawhawk (@lawhawk) September 15, 2013
66 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:06:31pm |
re: #55 jhrhv
I made your Challah recipe. Big hit with the family. Thanks for posting it.
Nice work with the round braid!
67 | jhrhv Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:07:00pm |
re: #63 Justanotherhuman
Some like sesame some like poppy. Though I can’t really recall seeing a poppy challah before. Bagels yes challah not so much.
68 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:07:08pm |
69 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:08:29pm |
You can each have a roll when they cool off.
What you want it now? You’ll burn your mouth!
70 | jhrhv Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:09:02pm |
re: #66 Vicious Babushka
The saffron really changes the flavor compared to what I’m used to. After a couple of tastes I was hooked. The best part was the kids. They tried it and weren’t too sure then kept coming back. Had to tell them not to fill up on the bread that the dinner was still to come. :D
71 | darthstar Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:10:15pm |
Fuck John McCain.
@SenJohnMcCain Think how empty you'll feel after President Obama's out of office and you won't have him to cheer against. .@JeffreyGoldberg— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) September 16, 2013
73 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:14:04pm |
74 | Justanotherhuman Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:16:47pm |
re: #67 jhrhv
Some like sesame some like poppy. Though I can’t really recall seeing a poppy challah before. Bagels yes challah not so much.
Check this out: Another recipe w/saffron, and one w/raisins, too.
Chernowitzer Challah
75 | FemNaziBitch Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:17:18pm |
Not being up on the current rules … .
In a bibliography, when referencing a magazine article does one underline or use quotation marks or nothing?
76 | FemNaziBitch Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:17:40pm |
re: #73 Vicious Babushka
The South made a big mistake when they pissed off Sherman.
I think I”ll name my next cat Sherman.
77 | darthstar Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:18:53pm |
This will get GG’s panties in a twist.
'Did WikiLeaks Sell Out Snowden To The Russians?' http://t.co/5Lr7TzP3ZB— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) September 16, 2013
78 | Justanotherhuman Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:20:37pm |
Snowden could have never stayed in China. And this isn’t just coincidental, I don’t think. What did China find out from him?
China airs confession by detained blogger amid online rumor crackdown
79 | Justanotherhuman Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:23:37pm |
re: #77 darthstar
This will get GG’s panties in a twist.
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This photo makes me want to slap all of them. Image: snowden-31.jpg
80 | FemNaziBitch Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:24:47pm |
Have chores to do… .
81 | Kragar Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:25:04pm |
re: #73 Vicious Babushka
The South made a big mistake when they pissed off Sherman.
Yup.
“My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
- William Tecumseh Sherman
The relationship between Grant and Sherman is fascinating.
82 | Charles Johnson Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:25:18pm |
A long, long post about Barrett Brown that gets some stuff wrong, but lots right. This person is apparently a friend of Lee Stranahan and maybe Robert Stacy McCain, hard to tell.
There’s an error here:
Brown wrote only 6 blog posts for Vanity Fair in 2009-2010 at a time when blogging was being encouraged by major magazines and there was more access to it even for oddballs. One of these blog posts is a hatchet piece about Charles Johnson of Little Green Footballs, whom he ordered a hacker to harass and to have Johnson’s website taken down after the two had a falling out — for a time, Brown posted some blogs on LGF, where, like Daily Kos, pretty much anyone can get their own blog. As anyone can see from this post, it is rambling, hateful and incoherent and would likely not have made it to Vanity Fair if it weren’t for that major magazine’s desire to be cool and hate on the right wing at the time.
The article Barrett Brown wrote about me for Vanity Fair was no hatchet piece - it was actually a fair article, written around the time of my “Parting Ways with the Right” post and the NYT profile - but he used it to push his Project PM thing when it was just starting.
83 | Decatur Deb Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:25:19pm |
re: #65 lawhawk
From the archives - New York City at the beginning of the last century:
The West Side Cowboy
For one ungodly hour in 1964, I was a West Side Cowboy. Girlfriend was a rider, wanted to canter around Central Park. We rented some academy nags on 79th, a few blocks west of CPW. So the first time I was on a fullgrown horse I was in city traffic on the way to the bridle path, watching taxicabs fly past my stirrups. Fortunately the horse knew the drill.
84 | Romantic Heretic Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:26:38pm |
re: #29 Kragar
Well, I’ve completed the rough draft of my story. Now comes the expansion and fleshing it out.
I just put an ebook available for preorder on Smashwords.
I’m not above tooting my own horn.
85 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:28:30pm |
re: #74 Justanotherhuman
Check this out: Another recipe w/saffron, and one w/raisins, too.
Chernowitzer Challah
Maggie Glezer. That is from her book “A Blessing of Bread.”
86 | Vicious Babushka Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:30:08pm |
re: #75 FemNaziBitch
Not being up on the current rules … .
In a bibliography, when referencing a magazine article does one underline or use quotation marks or nothing?
Magazine article is in quotes, the magazine name is in italic.
87 | Decatur Deb Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:32:41pm |
re: #75 FemNaziBitch
Not being up on the current rules … .
In a bibliography, when referencing a magazine article does one underline or use quotation marks or nothing?
If it’s academic, different disciplines sometimes follow their own rules, like American Anthropological Association.
89 | Romantic Heretic Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:35:56pm |
re: #50 Kragar
I’ve been playing Bioshock Infinite (which is a lot of fun) and every time I see Bryan Fischer these days I see Zachary Comstock instead. Both of them are racist, theocratic fanatics.
Only difference is I can strangle Comstock. Wouldn’t do that to Fischer although he richly deserves it.
90 | b.d. Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:42:51pm |
re: #77 darthstar
This will get GG’s panties in a twist.
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It is getting clearer by the second that WikiLeaks is a offshoot of Russian intelligence. My only question is whether Glenn is in on the deal or being played as a chump?
91 | Romantic Heretic Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:42:59pm |
re: #88 Eclectic Cyborg
My wife won a contest for a professional artist to do a cover for a book. She passed the opportunity on to me.
The artist, Suzan Butler, was a joy to work with. When I decided to go with a gender neutral pen name (because the sexism in the romance/erotica field is intense) she changed the cover without any quibbles.
I’m hoping it brings me in some decent sales.
92 | Iwouldprefernotto Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:45:40pm |
re: #90 b.d.
It is getting clearer by the second that WikiLeaks is a offshoot of Russian intelligence. My only question is whether Glenn is in on the deal or being played as a chump?
He’s being played. This is the only thing good about the entire episode. He’s a true believer and will never, ever admit he’s done anything wrong.
93 | wheat-dogghazi Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:48:14pm |
re: #52 FemNaziBitch
All I can think of is: Comprehensive Sex Education and Cost-free Contraception.
Trouble is, 70% of those re-homed kids are international adoptions.
International adoptees are especially susceptible to being re-homed. At least 70 percent of the children offered on the Yahoo bulletin board, Adopting-from-Disruption, were advertised as foreign-born.
It is very time-consuming to adopt a kid from abroad. Normally, the process takes months and there are many forms and visitations to take care of, IF the orphanage or adoption agency is obeying the law. Abuse of the system, and of the kids, (ostensibly) prompted Russia to stop adoptions to the USA. China has also become stricter. The girl featured in the story is from Liberia. Maybe her adoptive parents didn’t have the whole story. It does not excuse their giving her up, especially to trash like the Easons. It was their responsibility as parents to vet the Easons at least as carefully as Liberia vetted them. Children are not puppies or kittens to just give away to strangers.
94 | b.d. Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:50:19pm |
re: #77 darthstar
This will get GG’s panties in a twist.
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btw, that is a great article by The Houston Chronicle. Odd choice for that article placement?
95 | wheat-dogghazi Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:59:44pm |
re: #65 lawhawk
From the archives - New York City at the beginning of the last century:
These “cowboys” rode in front of trains, warning people to get off the West Side tracks.
96 | catfitz56 Sun, Sep 15, 2013 6:04:15pm |
re: #82 Charles Johnson
A long, long post about Barrett Brown that gets some stuff wrong, but lots right. This person is apparently a friend of Lee Stranahan and maybe Robert Stacy McCain, hard to tell.
There’s an error here:
The article Barrett Brown wrote about me for Vanity Fair was no hatchet piece - it was actually a fair article, written around the time of my “Parting Ways with the Right” post and the NYT profile - but he used it to push his Project PM thing when it was just starting.
If there are things wrong, by all means, post in the comments on my blog. I’m trying to compile the material from a variety of sources as well as my own experience and it’s not easy.
And, um, no, Charles, I’m not a “friend” of Robert McCain. I have nothing to do with him. In fact in my long post I explain that I find some of his statements violent and extreme and don’t care for him. But he did get the story of Barrett Brown right and provided some helpful reporting. No one deserves to have servers crashed regardless of whether you like their speech or not.
That piece Brown did on you for Vanity Fair struck me as nasty — and maybe you have developed a very high threshold for nastiness and it doesn’t seem like much.
I’m also no “friend” of Lee Stranahan — I merely follow him on Twitter and like some but not all of what he does (his racing off to prove that the Syrian opposition isn’t moderate right now strikes me as tendentious.)
I’ve debated him strenuously in the past on issues like his story on Shirley Sherrod which I think he just got wrong totally. But I do think that he got the story of Anonymous in Steubenville right, and he was viciously attacked by Anonymous — as you have been, and as I have been. And that’s wrong.
But go ahead, Charles, just keep up that rampant sectarianism and suspicion of everyone whom you haven’t personally vetted and who doesn’t line up perfectly on your ideological platform — whatever exactly that is these days. You should know better what my views are as I’ve retweeted or favourited things you’ve said for weeks. Whatever.
The blogosphere is a nasty place but perhaps we can agree that the methods that Barrett Brown and Anonymous use on people are not “journalism” but crime.
97 | Feline Fearless Leader Sun, Sep 15, 2013 6:35:36pm |
re: #76 FemNaziBitch
I think I”ll name my next cat Sherman.
My two Siamese were named Sherman and Thomas after the two ACW generals. Sherman was the one I used for an avatar for a while. (Currently using one of the “new” cats.)
98 | PhillyPretzel Sun, Sep 15, 2013 6:55:49pm |
re: #75 FemNaziBitch
I am sorry it took me a while to look it up. One underlines the magazine name and the quotes frame the title of the article. That is for MLA style. If you need more information try Rules for Writers by Diana Hacker.
99 | Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut Sun, Sep 15, 2013 7:22:48pm |
re: #96 catfitz56
If you have nothing to do with someone, then don’t reference them for support in your argument.
100 | jamesfirecat Sun, Sep 15, 2013 7:32:00pm |
re: #50 Kragar
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“You people of the South don’t know what you are doing. This country will be drenched in blood, and God only knows how it will end. It is all folly, madness, a crime against civilization! You people speak so lightly of war; you don’t know what you’re talking about. War is a terrible thing! You mistake, too, the people of the North. They are a peaceable people but an earnest people, and they will fight, too. They are not going to let this country be destroyed without a mighty effort to save it… Besides, where are your men and appliances of war to contend against them? The North can make a steam engine, locomotive, or railway car; hardly a yard of cloth or pair of shoes can you make. You are rushing into war with one of the most powerful, ingeniously mechanical, and determined people on Earth — right at your doors. You are bound to fail. Only in your spirit and determination are you prepared for war. In all else you are totally unprepared, with a bad cause to start with. At first you will make headway, but as your limited resources begin to fail, shut out from the markets of Europe as you will be, your cause will begin to wane. If your people will but stop and think, they must see in the end that you will surely fail.”- William Tecumseh Sherman
From the artical
Strzelczyk said the biggest concerns are increasing taxes, and the Democrat-controlled legislature gerrymander voting district so that the state’s big metropolitan areas have the most representation and tighter gun laws enacted this year, which he calls “the last straw.”
I repeate…
and the Democrat-controlled legislature gerrymander voting district so that the state’s big metropolitan areas have the most representation
What a horrible world we live in where the areas with the most people in them get to make the rules in a democracy!
101 | catfitz56 Sun, Sep 15, 2013 8:22:54pm |
re: #99 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut
Sorry, I’m not sectarian and I don’t need to stay in a rigid ideological box.
If someone has a good idea and does a good job — as McCain has done reporting on Barrett Brown and as Stranahan has done on Anonymous in Steubenville — I’m going to cite it and appreciate it.
102 | catfitz56 Sun, Sep 15, 2013 8:24:49pm |
re: #96 catfitz56
Update — Correction — the piece in Vanity Fair was nasty about Charles *Krauthammer*. Brown was nasty about Charles *Johnson* *on the chatlog* which has mysteriously disappeared from Pastebin despite being around for years.
Obviously, the relationship between Brown and Johnson was fun while it lasted.