Jump to bottom

102 comments
1 Arrrr, matey!  Sun, Sep 15, 2013 2:46:48pm

Oy vey.

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?

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?

[Embedded content]

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
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


Seriously?

12 Charles Johnson  Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:14:04pm
13 wrenchwench  Sun, Sep 15, 2013 3:17:18pm

re: #11 Gus

[Embedded content]


Seriously?

Send him #7.

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?

[Embedded content]

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.

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 test psychiatric 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.

28 b.d.  Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:15:31pm

Has Obama made it quit raining in Colorado yet?

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

re: #30 b_sharp

Do the bad guys finally win?

Strange things are afoot.

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

abc.net.au

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

I was baking all day.

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

I was baking all day.

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
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

I was baking all day.

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
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 War

Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) recalled being defeated by a young and relatively unknown Putin

nydailynews.com

49 darthstar  Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:51:54pm

re: #46 Vicious Babushka

I want to see a picture of the pie.

Image: 20130914_220907.jpg

50 Kragar  Sun, Sep 15, 2013 4:52:27pm


“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

re: #49 darthstar

Image: 20130914_220907.jpg

Good job.

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.

Four Hundred Year Old Challah

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
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
62 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:04:03pm

re: #59 jaunte

Link does not work. :(

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?

64 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:04:33pm

re: #61 jaunte

That one worked. That is beautiful.

65 lawhawk  Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:04:57pm

From the archives - New York City at the beginning of the last century:

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.

Four Hundred Year Old Challah

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.

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.

72 FemNaziBitch  Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:10:18pm

re: #50 Kragar

So worth a frame.

73 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:14:04pm

re: #72 FemNaziBitch

So worth a frame.

The South made a big mistake when they pissed off Sherman.

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

epicurious.com

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.

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

news.yahoo.com

79 Justanotherhuman  Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:23:37pm

re: #77 darthstar

This will get GG’s panties in a twist.

[Embedded content]

This photo makes me want to slap all of them. Image: snowden-31.jpg

80 FemNaziBitch  Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:24:47pm

I’ll leave you with this.

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.

Barrett Brown Is Not on Trial for Journalism but for Abetting Hacking and Threatening Law-Enforcement - Wired State

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

epicurious.com

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.

88 Eclectic Cyborg  Sun, Sep 15, 2013 5:33:35pm

re: #84 Romantic Heretic

Love the cover.

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.

[Embedded content]

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.

[Embedded content]

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.

Barrett Brown Is Not on Trial for Journalism but for Abetting Hacking and Threatening Law-Enforcement - Wired State

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

[Embedded content]


“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.


This article has been archived.
Comments are closed.

Jump to top

Create a PageThis is the LGF Pages posting bookmarklet. To use it, drag this button to your browser's bookmark bar, and title it 'LGF Pages' (or whatever you like). Then browse to a site you want to post, select some text on the page to use for a quote, click the bookmarklet, and the Pages posting window will appear with the title, text, and any embedded video or audio files already filled in, ready to go.
Or... you can just click this button to open the Pages posting window right away.
Last updated: 2023-04-04 11:11 am PDT
LGF User's Guide RSS Feeds

Help support Little Green Footballs!

Subscribe now for ad-free access!Register and sign in to a free LGF account before subscribing, and your ad-free access will be automatically enabled.

Donate with
PayPal
Cash.app
Recent PagesClick to refresh
Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ...
Cheechako
4 hours ago
Views: 30 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 0
A Closer Look at the Eastman State Bar DecisionTaking a few minutes away from work things to read through the Eastman decision. As I'm sure many of you know, Eastman was my law school con law professor. I knew him pretty well because I was also running in ...
KGxvi
7 hours ago
Views: 85 • Comments: 1 • Rating: 1