1 darthstar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:46:42pm

My favorite part - watching the four network heads standing in front of the dais waiting for their moment of glory.

2 Archangelus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:48:15pm

This should be interesting. Here’s hoping there’s plenty to get TP/RWNJ heads all enraged and head-explodey…

3 Amory Blaine  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:48:26pm

Then there’s this guy.

GOP Rep. compares fighting Obamacare to fighting 9/11 attackers

Rep. John Culberson of Texas essentially compared the fight against Obamacare to the tackling of 9/11 attackers by passengers on flight United 93. ” I said, like 9/11, ‘Let’s roll!’ ” Culberson shouted as he and his colleagues clamored for a vote. “Let’s roll!” was of course the famous rallying cry uttered by United 93 passenger Todd Beamer.

4 darthstar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:48:40pm
5 Bulworth  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:49:18pm

re: #2 Archangelus

Shouldn’t take much.

6 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:49:19pm

re: #4 darthstar

[Embedded content]

Horsemen of the Derpocalypse?

7 Amory Blaine  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:49:26pm

Todd’s probably playing Candy Crush. Meh why should he give a shit it ain’t his job.

8 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:49:59pm

re: #2 Archangelus

This should be interesting. Here’s hoping there’s plenty to get TP/RWNJ heads all enraged and head-explodey…

That’s simple enough: “I will not negotiate with Congress.” They’ve been going nuts since Friday about how Obama “Will negotiate with Iran, but not with Boehner!”

9 b.d.  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:50:21pm

Chuck Todd, what an embarrassment. He only covers the horse race and not the story.

10 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:50:26pm

re: #4 darthstar

[Embedded content]

Guy on left texting guy on right: “WTF is this guy doing?”

Guy in the middle: “My underwear are really riding up today.”

11 You_Stole_Fizzy-Lifting_Drinks  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:51:20pm

I wish a shoe thrown from off camera blasted Chunk Toad in his goddamn face.

12 darthstar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:51:40pm

re: #4 darthstar

And Chuck Todd really is tweeting. This just came out.

13 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:51:54pm

Suddenly, they began an A Capella version of “Its not unusual”

14 Archangelus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:52:30pm

re: #8 Targetpractice

That’s simple enough: “I will not negotiate with Congress.” They’ve been going nuts since Friday about how Obama “Will negotiate with Iran, but not with Boehner!”

Yup. Teh Truth, it hurtz…

15 b.d.  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:52:30pm

Who is the stiff on the right ?

(edited - orignally said left)

16 You_Stole_Fizzy-Lifting_Drinks  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:52:46pm

re: #12 darthstar

He just made that shit up. Just because they believe something will happen doesn’t mean that it is reportable news, especially when it comes to something a republican says.

17 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:53:31pm

re: #12 darthstar

And Chuck Todd really is tweeting. This just came out.

[Embedded content]

Yeah, and I might win the lottery tomorrow, despite not buying a ticket.

This, folks, is what desperation looks like.

18 Bulworth  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:53:33pm

re: #12 darthstar

Um, no.

19 Archangelus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:53:59pm

Is it just me, or does the dude on the right seem as though he’s filling in a crossword puzzle??

20 Amory Blaine  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:54:06pm

Todd looks like a comedian. 2 drink minimum.

21 Amory Blaine  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:54:33pm

re: #19 Archangelus

Is it just me, or does the dude on the right seem as though he’s filling in a crossword puzzle??

Whats a 4 letter word for Douche?

22 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:54:38pm

re: #17 Targetpractice

Yeah, and I might win the lottery tomorrow, despite not buying a ticket.

This, folks, is what desperation looks like.

Buying a ticket only increases your odds incrementally.
//

23 You_Stole_Fizzy-Lifting_Drinks  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:54:42pm

re: #14 Archangelus

Well, seeing as how Iran is sounding much more rational and reasonable than the Republican caucus, I can understand why Obama would be much more receptive to the Iranian president. Hell, at least he has the backing of the clerics in Iran…

24 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:54:52pm

re: #21 Amory Blaine

Whats a 4 letter word for Douche?

Cruz?

25 Archangelus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:55:28pm

re: #20 Amory Blaine

Was just thinking that. Keep expecting him to say “Thank you folks, all be here all week!” once it ends…

26 Amory Blaine  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:55:59pm

re: #24 GeneJockey

Cruz?

Yes. I would have also accepted Todd.

27 Charles Johnson  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:56:39pm

Now they’re all playing with iPhones.

Why are they standing in front of the camera anyway?

28 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:56:49pm

So Chuck, in exchange for a year delay on the mandate and requiring Congress to get on the exchanges, what are Democrats getting?

Oh, they’re getting stuck with the sequester anyway.

Well shit, that don’t sound like much of a “compromise.”

29 darthstar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:57:12pm

re: #24 GeneJockey

Cruz?

Rand also works.

30 Archangelus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:57:24pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

Why are they standing in front of the camera anyway?

The exact same thought shared by every person watching right now across the globe…

31 b.d.  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:57:30pm

re: #12 darthstar

And Chuck Todd really is tweeting. This just came out.

[Embedded content]

House GOPers think they might get 8-12 Dems to vote for this version of Gov’t funding bill with indv mandate delay and treat all Cong same

Unless one of those votes is from Obama, who cares?

32 Carlos Danger  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:57:34pm

So this is what the end of functional government looks like…

33 darthstar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:57:38pm

re: #26 Amory Blaine

Yes. I would have also accepted Todd.

John (of orange) too.

34 Archangelus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:57:40pm

re: #29 darthstar

Rand also works.

Doh, beat me to it… :)

35 b.d.  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:58:14pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

Now they’re all playing with iPhones.

Why are they standing in front of the camera anyway?

They’re waiting to give their live intro when it’s time.

36 Archangelus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:58:50pm

K, the dude on the left looks EXACTLY like a friend of mine did while seriously drunk and trying to dial his ex GF…

37 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:58:59pm

if i was president i would start right out with “lissen up, bitchez’

38 darthstar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:59:17pm

BTW, I flipped on MSNBC to hear what Chuck was saying, and they had Ed Shultz on talking to Martin Bashir, with Todd on the split screen in side view. Maybe they’re recording his stuff now because they can’t trust him to talk live.

39 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:59:24pm

What I wouldn’t give for somebody in the back of the room to scream “HEY! DOWN IN FRONT!”

40 Lidane  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:59:33pm

re: #21 Amory Blaine

Whats a 4 letter word for Douche?

Todd
Wolf
Rand
Paul
Cruz
John
Eric
King

41 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:59:40pm

re: #37 dog philosopher

if i was president i would start right out with “lissen up, bitchez’

“What we got here is a failure to communicate…”

42 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 1:59:47pm

Hmmmm. It must be humid in the office today. The glass of water I just got seems scarcely below tepid, yet it’s covered in condensation. Stupid ‘Value Engineering.”

43 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:00:06pm

re: #41 Kragar

“What we got here is a failure to communicate…”

“What is your major malfunction, numbnuts?!”

44 makeitstop  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:00:51pm

Here we go…

I second the recommendation for the Full Truman statement.

45 Charles Johnson  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:00:58pm

Obama should come out and just ignore the shutdown. Talk about the finale of Breaking Bad, and his feelings on Jesse Pinkman’s escape.

46 Amory Blaine  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:01:16pm

The news has a shutdown clock chyron. How fucking lame.

47 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:01:38pm

Hey, Jackasses. Sit down and STFU.

48 Archangelus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:02:04pm

re: #37 dog philosopher

if i was president i would start right out with “lissen up, bitchez’

I’d start right out by channeling Red Forman from That 70s Show at congress: “OK, pay close attention, dumbasses!”…

49 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:02:05pm

re: #41 Kragar

“What we got here is a failure to communicate…”

“When Life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make Life take the lemons BACK!”

50 Archangelus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:02:24pm

Showtime…

51 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:02:49pm

re: #49 GeneJockey

“When Life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade. Make Life take the lemons BACK!”

Okay, I realize it’s not in the same vein as the other two quotes, but it really makes me laugh.

52 The Ghost of a Flea  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:04:01pm

re: #45 Charles Johnson

Obama should come out and just ignore the shutdown. Talk about the finale of Breaking Bad, and his feelings on Jesse Pinkman’s escape.

My fellow Americans,

I just can’t hate any situation where a bunch of Nazis die.

53 Archangelus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:04:33pm

“NASA will shut down almost entirely”… why encourage the TPers?? /

54 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:05:32pm

eieieieieie

Never a dull moment.

55 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:05:53pm

FUCK YOU BRYAN

56 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:05:54pm

re: #54 FemNaziBitch

eieieieieie

Never a dull moment.

That’s EIEIO.

57 darthstar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:06:41pm

re: #55 Vicious Babushka

The post office is self-funded. What a derpwad.

58 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:06:55pm

FUCK YOU TOO ERICK

59 GlutenFreeJesus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:06:55pm

When is the President going to stop using generalities when referring to the GOP? Use their words and actions and be as detailed as possible so the damn public has no doubt as to who is to blame for this fucking mess.

When the Grifters On Parade come out to lambast and call the President all sorts of names, broadcast video of these idiots saying exactly what they have said. Stop playing softball with these neanderthals.

60 You_Stole_Fizzy-Lifting_Drinks  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:07:35pm

re: #45 Charles Johnson

Obama should come out and just ignore the shutdown. Talk about the finale of Breaking Bad, and his feelings on Jesse Pinkman’s escape.

We need to encourage investment in American entrepreneurs such as Walter White, who crafted an oscillating machine gun out of a garage door opener, and put it to use by wiping out a white supremacist group. Since Congress is playing games with our full faith and credit, we may never see things such as that.

61 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:07:37pm

FUCK YOU SIDEWAYS PRUDENCE

62 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:07:43pm

re: #58 Vicious Babushka

I really want to lash out at that evil, ignorant, small-minded, worthless bunch of cells.

63 Archangelus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:07:49pm

“ACA happening no matter what happens - you can’t shut it down” - cue exploding heads in 3…2…1..

64 darthstar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:07:50pm

Gotta love lag time. Just read this tweet as President Obama spoke the words:

65 Bulworth  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:08:53pm

re: #61 Vicious Babushka

U used teleprompter so yu unvalidated!!!!

66 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:09:14pm

DUMBASS

67 sattv4u2  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:09:25pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

Now they’re all playing with iPhones.

Why are they standing in front of the camera anyway?

Behind the scenes in TV land

Cameras / audio have to get balanced. video and audio levels need to be set. IFB’s have to be checked to make sure the reporter can hear the director back in the studio

68 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:09:37pm

Shit, do VA disability checks get delayed as well?

69 Bulworth  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:09:58pm

re: #58 Vicious Babushka

NASA shutting down still Dems fault. ///

70 You_Stole_Fizzy-Lifting_Drinks  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:10:56pm

re: #61 Vicious Babushka

FUCK YOU SIDEWAYS PRUDENCE

[Embedded content]

Dear prudence, go fuck yourself:

dailykos.com

71 Vicious Babushka  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:11:07pm

DUMBASS

72 Charles Johnson  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:11:28pm

re: #68 Kragar

Shit, do VA disability checks get delayed as well?

I think so.

73 Lidane  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:11:32pm
74 Ian G.  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:12:03pm

re: #66 Vicious Babushka

Strange, ain’t it, that the modern GOP considers Republicans like Lincoln to be tyrants, and that you can’t get a good conservative rally going without the Confederate battle flag making an appearance.

Oh, you mean “conservative news” is full of shit?

75 Lidane  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:12:19pm

BOOM! POTUS just called all their demands ransom.

76 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:12:23pm

re: #71 Vicious Babushka

He is a marvelous example why the South needs to be colonized.

77 Charles Johnson  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:12:28pm
78 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:12:46pm

re: #72 Charles Johnson

I think so.

Fuck. That seriously screw me.

79 Bulworth  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:13:03pm

re: #71 Vicious Babushka

Another troubled heart who apparently missed the welfare debate two decades ago.

80 GlutenFreeJesus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:13:10pm

re: #73 Lidane

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This is exactly what I’m talking about. The President needs to NAME NAMES and call them out. Directly.

81 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:13:15pm

re: #78 Kragar

Can we help?

82 Lidane  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:13:35pm
83 darthstar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:13:37pm

I like that he’s speaking in a calm voice. Nice counter to Boehner’s hysterics.

See? Both sides don’t actually say stupid shit.

84 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:14:06pm

re: #59 GlutenFreeJesus

When is the President going to stop using generalities when referring to the GOP? Use their words and actions and be as detailed as possible so the damn public has no doubt as to who is to blame for this fucking mess.

When the Grifters On Parade come out to lambast and call the President all sorts of names, broadcast video of these idiots saying exactly what they have said. Stop playing softball with these neanderthals.

obama is always one to wear a restrained and tasteful brooks brothers suit to a mudfight

85 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:15:35pm

re: #81 ProTARDISLiberal

Can we help?

It just means I lose $500 dollars out of my monthly budget till they settle this shit, which means I’ll have to use the credit card to pay bills and for food, then get stuck with the interest when they checks finally come in.

Mother fuckers.

86 Bulworth  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:15:41pm

re: #82 Lidane

Love this

87 sattv4u2  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:15:48pm

re: #68 Kragar

Shit, do VA disability checks get delayed as well?

#41
usatoday.com

88 GlutenFreeJesus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:16:19pm

re: #84 dog philosopher

obama is always one to wear a restrained and tasteful brooks brothers suit to a mudfight

Look at where it’s gotten us. Enough is enough. He can still be calm and collected in his delivery. But he’s got to be very specific with who is doing what.

89 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:16:19pm

re: #82 Lidane

Now all the need to do is explain to people who Harry Reid is

i thought it was from the bible: “and they shall speak with a voice like unto a hairy reed whispering in the wilderness; and none shall hearken unto it”

90 darthstar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:16:56pm
91 erik_t  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:17:11pm

re: #85 Kragar

It just means I lose $500 dollars out of my monthly budget till they settle this shit, which means I’ll have to use the credit card to pay bills and for food, then get stuck with the interest when they checks finally come in.

Mother fuckers.

Sorry, man. Bryan Fischer doesn’t think your food is critical.

92 darthstar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:17:28pm
93 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:17:42pm

re: #87 sattv4u2

#41
usatoday.com

So I might get paid tonight, but next month is iffy.

Better than nothing I guess.

94 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:18:08pm

re: #93 Kragar

So I might get paid tonight, but next month is iffy.

Better than nothing I guess.

Buy ramen.

///

95 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:19:16pm

re: #85 Kragar

It just means I lose $500 dollars out of my monthly budget till they settle this shit, which means I’ll have to use the credit card to pay bills and for food, then get stuck with the interest when they checks finally come in.

Mother fuckers.

according to the teabaggers you’re just a gummint bureaucrat

96 psddluva4evah  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:19:29pm

I posted this pic on my twitter page when Obama called Boehner to tell him he wasn’t negotiating, and now I’ma post it one more ‘gin…please excuse the strong language!

97 You_Stole_Fizzy-Lifting_Drinks  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:19:31pm

re: #85 Kragar

I’m in a similar boat as you, but that money is my sole source of income until I start a new job next month. Thankfully, the VA has the money to pay our benefits until late October, so we’re still in the clear.

98 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:19:31pm

re: #56 GeneJockey

That’s EIEIO.

No, my friend and former co-worker is an american born of mexican descent. She has the best ei-ei-ei ever.

It all kinda runs together.

more like I-yi-yyi-yyyiiiiiiiii!

99 GlutenFreeJesus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:20:17pm

re: #87 sattv4u2

#41
usatoday.com

Heh. 31. Damn all their principles!

100 sattv4u2  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:20:24pm

re: #93 Kragar

So I might get paid tonight, but next month is iffy.

Better than nothing I guess.

If you also get SS and/ or unemployment those won’t be affected

(#’s 34 and 37)

101 darthstar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:20:26pm
102 Lidane  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:20:33pm

Because that worked so well the last 40+ goddamn times:


What’s the definition of insanity again?

103 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:21:04pm

re: #100 sattv4u2

If you also get SS and/ or unemployment those won’t be affected

(#’s 34 and 37)

Because those folks are sooooooooooooo much more important than the people who made physical sacrifices for our country.

Fucking priorities, what are they?

104 Lidane  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:21:08pm

re: #96 psddluva4evah

Greatest picutre ever. And so perfect. POTUS isn’t giving them an inch. It’s great.

105 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:21:25pm

re: #85 Kragar

It just means I lose $500 dollars out of my monthly budget till they settle this shit, which means I’ll have to use the credit card to pay bills and for food, then get stuck with the interest when they checks finally come in.

Mother fuckers.

One way Wall Street profits?

106 sattv4u2  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:21:34pm

re: #99 GlutenFreeJesus

Heh. 31. Damn all their principles!

54 and 57 are my favorites!

107 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:21:48pm

re: #102 Lidane

Because that worked so well the last 40+ goddamn times:

[Embedded content]


What’s the definition of insanity again?

Listening to Erick, son of Erick.

108 Bulworth  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:22:05pm

re: #102 Lidane

Please proceed….

109 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:22:20pm

bbl

110 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:22:58pm

re: #102 Lidane

Because that worked so well the last 40+ goddamn times:

[Embedded content]


What’s the definition of insanity again?

If at first you don’t succeed, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try, try again.

111 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:23:15pm

re: #94 klys

Buy ramen.

///

or if you’re a wall st republican, buy up ramen futures

112 darthstar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:23:42pm
113 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:23:42pm

re: #102 Lidane

Because that worked so well the last 40+ goddamn times:

[Embedded content]


What’s the definition of insanity again?

And it’ll still get stripped out and the CR sent back to the House. And before you say “The Senate will filibuster it,” think about that for a long second, Erick. How do you blame Reid for the failure to end the shutdown when your own fucking party filibusters the CR?

114 erik_t  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:23:45pm

I wonder what the House would do if they did, somehow, by some sort of magical wand, repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Stick their feet up? Whittle a hot-dog-campfire-stick? Just go home?

Do they even allege to have any other policy or platform or legislative agenda?

115 A Man for all Seasons  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:23:54pm

re: #78 Kragar

Fuck. That seriously screw me.

Thats messed up bro..Don’t worry..The Gov’t won’t be shut down for very long. Now I noticed the President’s list of bad things was 2 million Fedworkers that won’t get a paycheck. I doubt folks in the private sector really care. I recall the shut-down under Clinton. Most Fed workers I knew including me knew it was a short term deal. We all planned fishing trips and vacations for a week or so. I think everybody got paid.. I left the Gov’t with several years of sick leave.
Other than that..This whole deal sucks because of the GOP.

116 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:24:16pm

I hope Republicans look at what happened to their Ideological friends in the MB and Jamaat-i-Islami earlier this year when they tried to disrupt a country (Egypt and Bangladesh).

117 jaunte  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:24:31pm
“J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government employees, said he expects the number [of government employees to be furloughed] will be 800,000 to 1 million, out of 2.1 million federal employees.”
usatoday.com
118 piratedan  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:24:57pm

or as the French say…. The Fuck, she has not been given….

I am glad to see the President holding his ground, I am saddened that the R’s feel the need to fuck over working people yet again in order to act out their emotional tantrum…. the media that enables this behavior, go diaf.

119 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:25:47pm

re: #117 jaunte

800,000 to 1 million people who will spend however long this shutdown goes sitting on what money they have. I’m sure the small business owners are thrilled by the idea that, starting tomorrow until the GOP gives in, they can expect to see their sales drop.

120 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:25:50pm

re: #115 A Man for all Seasons

With all due respect, because the GOP of today is just like the GOP of the 90s (i.e., sane), right? And so after a week or so they’re going to wake up and end the shutdown?

Forgive me for my lack of optimism.

121 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:26:24pm

re: #118 piratedan

or as the French say…. The Fuck, she has not been given….

I am glad to see the President holding his ground, I am saddened that the R’s feel the need to fuck over working people yet again in order to act out their emotional tantrum…. the media that enables this behavior, go diaf.

Zeese fuckinge overr of ze working class - she eez ze feature, not ze bug, yes?

122 nines09  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:26:27pm

Dear US House of Representatives. If any of you esteemed political hyenas were to be choking on a bone I would surely walk as far as I had to to get you medical attention.

123 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:26:38pm

I’m so fucking tired of this fucking shit.

Youtube Video

124 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:27:22pm

re: #122 Zombie Mutt

Dear US House of Representatives. If any of you esteemed political hyenas were to be choking on a bone I would surely walk as far as I had to to get you medical attention.

Wouldn’t piss on them if they were on fire.

125 jaunte  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:27:30pm

Tea partiers will party like it’s 1929.

126 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:28:29pm

re: #125 jaunte

Tea partiers will party like it’s 1929.

Youtube Video

127 wrenchwench  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:29:05pm

re: #116 ProTARDISLiberal

I hope Republicans look at what happened to their Ideological friends in the MB and Jamaat-i-Islami earlier this year when they tried to disrupt a country (Egypt and Bangladesh).

My Republican rep doesn’t even look at what he’s doing to people in his own district. Can’t expect him to have a perspective on reality of any sort, let alone an international sort.

128 piratedan  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:29:17pm

re: #121 GeneJockey

Zeese fuckinge overr of ze working class - she eez ze feature, not ze bug, yes?

ze beauty of ze carnage, it is magnifique, nes pas? The true artist strives for maintaining le balance of le crisis fatigue and a dash of insolent denounement, tres bien?

129 Lidane  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:29:18pm


These motherfuckers are delusional. I’ll bet money they think everything’s going to be over quickly because the Dems will cave and they’ll come out as heroes.

Once more with feeling: Fuck the GOP sideways. These people are deranged.

130 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:29:41pm

re: #120 klys

With all due respect, because the GOP of today is just like the GOP of the 90s (i.e., sane), right? And so after a week or so they’re going to wake up and end the shutdown?

Forgive me for my lack of optimism.

The GOP of the 90s was not sane. It was less insane than the one we’ve got now.

131 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:30:10pm

re: #122 Zombie Mutt

Dear US House of Representatives. If any of you esteemed political hyenas were to be choking on a bone I would surely walk as far as I had to to get you medical attention.

perhaps the senate should respond by sending back a bill stripping congresspersons and their families of gummint health insurance and requiring children of congressional members to obtain health insurance w/out parental help

132 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:30:18pm

re: #130 EPR-radar

The GOP of the 90s was not sane. It was less insane than the one we’ve got now.

I was operating on a by-comparison basis.

133 erik_t  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:30:36pm

re: #130 EPR-radar

The GOP of the 90s was not sane. It was less insane than the one we’ve got now.

The only Contract with America that interests me with this version of the GOP is a fucking restraining order.

134 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:30:39pm

No shit Sherlock. You’re just now figuring that out?

135 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:31:13pm

re: #134 Kragar

One of the few times I actually hope B. Fischer is right.

136 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:31:31pm

re: #133 erik_t

The only Contract with America that interests me with this version of the GOP is a fucking restraining order.

Heh. I remember that. We used to call it the “Contract on America”.

137 Bulworth  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:31:46pm

re: #134 Kragar

Please proceed…..

138 Sol Berdinowitz  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:31:51pm

re: #134 Kragar

Surrender caucus in high gear. Peter King says 2/3 of House GOPers ready to cave. Means last week’s vote was a show vote.

as was every single other vote to repeal ACA

139 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:32:06pm

re: #134 Kragar

Means last week’s vote was a show vote

bryan u r teh sloooowwww

140 GlutenFreeJesus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:32:18pm

re: #106 sattv4u2

54 and 57 are my favorites!

Get rid of 57 and see them suddenly have a change of heart.

141 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:32:38pm

re: #129 Lidane

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These motherfuckers are delusional. I’ll bet money they think everything’s going to be over quickly because the Dems will cave and they’ll come out as heroes.

Once more with feeling: Fuck the GOP sideways. These people are deranged.

No doubt Boehner’s in there with every meeting of the caucus, assuring them that if they just hold out a little longer, Obama will give up something just to work out a deal. “Be patient, it’s worked before.”

142 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:32:56pm

re: #130 EPR-radar

The GOP of the 90s was not sane. It was less insane than the one we’ve got now.

They were able to learn from their failures, and once Clinton was reelected, with a lot of help from their intransigence, they became more willing to work with him and compromise a bit.

That, and impeach him of shading the truth in a perjury trap in a frivolous lawsuit.

143 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:33:33pm


Because its worked so well the other 42 times.

144 darthstar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:34:25pm

re: #129 Lidane

I don’t see the wisdom in pissing off a base that regularly demonstrates that it is not very well balanced, and also has an obsession with owning lots of guns.

145 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:34:35pm

re: #143 Kragar

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Because its worked so well the other 42 times.

Yeah, after all, why do you care what happens, Bryan? Your little flock of useful idiots will still send you checks while cursing the evils of Obama.

146 Bulworth  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:34:49pm

re: #143 Kragar

Wait, we’re back to “defund” now? Wish they’d make up their minds. Defund, delay, defund. All useless anyway. Please proceed…

147 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:36:13pm

re: #146 Bulworth

Wait, we’re back to “defund” now? Wish they’d make up their minds. Defund, delay, defund. All useless anyway. Please proceed…

doesn’t the oath of office make you promise to “defund and project the constitution of the united snakes”?

148 Lidane  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:36:33pm

re: #144 darthstar

I don’t see the wisdom in pissing off a base that regularly demonstrates that it is not very well balanced, and also has an obsession with owning lots of guns.

The economic well-being of the country should be a big enough motivator. If it’s not, they need to GTFO.

149 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:36:44pm

Rumors were going around earlier that Boehner really just wants to roll this into the debt ceiling business, then pass a single bill that will address both, in the hopes of getting a single less painful vote instead of capitulating now and then being under even more pressure to push us into a default to appease the unruly children.

The man really does not want to have to be the one to take them aside and tell them that that unicorn he’s been promising since ‘10 isn’t going to happen.

150 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:36:51pm

re: #142 GeneJockey

They were able to learn from their failures, and once Clinton was reelected, with a lot of help from their intransigence, they became more willing to work with him and compromise a bit.

That, and impeach him of shading the truth in a perjury trap in a frivolous lawsuit.

I think the GOP House will end up impeaching Obama, even if he doesn’t blow off the debt ceiling via the 14th amendment.

The screaming id of the teahadi base demands impeachment.

151 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:37:12pm

The co-host of What the Fuck is Wrong with You has been seething today.

152 Lidane  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:37:45pm

re: #149 Targetpractice

The man really does not want to have to be the one to take them aside and tell them that that unicorn he’s been promising since ‘10 isn’t going to happen.

Tough shit. That’s what being Speaker means.

If he can’t handle that, he should resign.

153 brennant  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:39:03pm

Listening to this fool on the Senate floor proves to me once again that they just want to burn this whole thing down.

154 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:40:28pm

The Fischer/Greenwald Convergence

155 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:41:00pm

re: #154 Kragar

The Fischer/Greenwald Convergence

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National security isn’t an essential function.

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156 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:41:27pm

re: #153 brennant

Listening to this fool on the Senate floor proves to me once again that they just want to burn this whole thing down.

This seems appropriate here.

157 Varek Raith  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:41:33pm

Youtube Video

158 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:44:37pm

Comedy: Rick Santorum telling the GOP how to win elections

The former senator said he’s found that work in the entertainment industry isn’t wholly different from his life in politics.

“It’s about communicating a message. It’s about telling a story,” Santorum said of his role at EchoLight. “One of the reasons the GOP has done so terrible is because we’re not really good at telling stories. We’re good at charts and bar graphs but we’re not good at telling a story.”

Just as he believes Republicans have failed at conveying their story, he said conservatives have been equally poor at ensuring that their world views are heard in Hollywood — “or anywhere else.” Rather than beating moviegoers over the head with values-based messages, Santorum said that it’s entirely possible to make good films that invoke emotion and deal with important themes.

Instead of preaching sermons in movies, story lines can convey positivity in a more viable way, he argued, saying liberals have done it successfully for years. Conservatives must “tell stories about the truth, about values and virtues.”

159 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:45:17pm

Pres Obama meets w/Cabinet this afternoon.

twitter.yfrog.com

160 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:46:13pm

re: #150 EPR-radar

I think the GOP House will end up impeaching Obama, even if he doesn’t blow off the debt ceiling via the 14th amendment.

The screaming id of the teahadi base demands impeachment.

I wouldn’t be a bit surprised. The thing that stops them is actual grounds. What they have now are a series of buzzwords - Benghazigate, IRSgate, NSAgate, etc. - with no actual accusation of wrongdoing, let alone any evidence of it. Hence the lament of one GOP Rep. recently, that he’d talked to lawyers about impeachment, and they told him he’d have to have actual EVIDENCE and all.

161 psddluva4evah  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:46:19pm

Well damn! When you’ve lost Trent Lott…..

Trent Lott on Ted Cruz: “Cut His Legs Out From Under Him”

162 makeitstop  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:46:46pm

Boehner doubles down.

In a move that would make a government shutdown all but inevitable, House Republicans intend to pass yet another bill Monday night to undermine Obamacare, just hours before a midnight deadline to keep the government open.

Their new strategy is to attach a one-year delay of Obamacare’s individual mandate and a provision denying subsidies under the law to members of Congress and staff, commonly known as the Vitter amendment. Numerous Republican lawmakers expressed some doubt in the afternoon that the plan had the votes.

163 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:47:24pm

re: #158 Kragar

Comedy: Rick Santorum telling the GOP how to win elections

Maybe instead they should ask Sarah Palin how to govern.

Or read a book.

164 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:48:45pm

re: #154 Kragar

The Fischer/Greenwald Convergence

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It’s okay, Bryan. Mainly they’re spying on those scary Moozlims.

165 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:48:46pm

Rubio Reportedly Gets Earful About Shutdown On Flight To D.C.

Sen. Marco Rubio probably wished he was a face in the crowd rather than the face of Florida Republicans in Congress when he boarded his flight Monday morning from Miami to Washington D.C.

Passenger after passenger recognized Rubio and gave him an earful about the looming federal government shutdown being precipitated by Congress, a source on the flight tells us.

Except Rubio sought to downplay the issue and sympathize with constituents.

At one point, a flight attendant asked him if the partial government shutdown would, in fact, begin at midnight.

Rubio responded by calling the likely impasse “not really a shutdown, more of a slowdown — but not a good way to do business.”

166 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:49:49pm

Asking Santorum how to win an election is like getting marital advice from Gingrich or Limbaugh.

167 ProTARDISLiberal  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:50:06pm

re: #151 ProTARDISLiberal

Unfortantely, someone else said he was waiting for it, because that meant we would leave the Middle East. However, she quickly got rid of that notion.

However, I told him to buy a fucking clue, and I expect a tweet-fight from him. I want it with this pampered little libertarian video game reviewer. Not that there is anything bad with that, but when you are that ignorant about the world around you, you needed to be nailed with a Clue by 4.

168 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:52:50pm

re: #158 Kragar

Ed Schultz is running a segment right now showing the best stories being told by GOPer’s LOL.

169 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:52:59pm

re: #164 GeneJockey

It’s okay, Bryan. Mainly they’re spying on those scary Moozlims.

Right now I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some very active surveillance going on regarding extreme right-wing groups.

170 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:54:19pm

re: #162 makeitstop

Boehner doubles down.

He better hope that it has the votes, else he’s fucked.

171 ContraryLemming  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:55:58pm

I really try to shy away from contacting my elected representatives without good cause. I know that there are enough screaming morons, even in a reliably Blue district like mine.

However, in the last three days, I’ve sent messages to Sens. DiFi and Boxer to tell them they’re doing a good job & stay the course, and then also to my local congresscritter. I just hope that this doesn’t result in my being added to some unbreakable ElectionContributionSpam list.

But I figure it’s worth it, just to offset the baying from the right, that has been whipped up by the Fox News & talk radio wingnuts. If you haven’t taken time to *at least* send an email to your elected reps, on this issue, then really folks… that’s pretty lame.

172 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:56:14pm

re: #169 klys

Right now I wouldn’t be surprised if there was some very active surveillance going on regarding extreme right-wing groups.

Oooo, 14 karma to go to 10,000 as of the time of this posting.

Probably the only bright spot in my day today. Fuck you Pythagoras and modulus math.

173 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:56:16pm

Image: eTfmhrh.png

174 psddluva4evah  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 2:59:09pm

re: #165 Kragar

I read the original article on Miami Herald I think. I LMBAO. Rubio, unsurprisingly, punked completely out when confronted by actual constituents. Then once in the safety of his DC bubble basically call said constituents liars.

My reaction

175 psddluva4evah  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:00:55pm

And they’ve lost Erickson:

Erick Erickson ‏@EWErickson5m
At this point, the House should just go on and pass a clean CR. They’ve already embarrassed themselves and done requisite head pats.

176 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:01:55pm

re: #172 klys

Oooo, 14 karma to go to 10,000 as of the time of this posting.

Probably the only bright spot in my day today. Fuck you Pythagoras and modulus math.

I just checked my Karma, and it said 10,983. I find this HIGHLY unlikely, since I’ve only been here since October. That’s like 1000/month.

177 calochortus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:03:57pm

re: #176 GeneJockey

But you’re good, very good!

178 piratedan  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:05:08pm

re: #176 GeneJockey

I just checked my Karma, and it said 10,983. I find this HIGHLY unlikely, since I’ve only been here since October. That’s like 1000/month.

is there a prize at 10,000 or do you move onto supercommenter level where you have to battle Bryan Fischer and Prudence in a twitter universe death match of being able to match facts fast enough to counter their derp?

179 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:05:51pm

re: #178 piratedan

is there a prize at 10,000 or do you move onto supercommenter level where you have to battle Bryan Fischer and Prudence in a twitter universe death match of being able to match facts fast enough to counter their derp?

Fuck, if that’s the case I’d like some downdings please.

180 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:06:14pm

re: #178 piratedan

is there a prize at 10,000 or do you move onto supercommenter level where you have to battle Bryan Fischer and Prudence in a twitter universe death match of being able to match facts fast enough to counter their derp?

that would be more like Dogma points

181 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:06:37pm

I think that’s the level at which we start getting those Zionist checks? Still waiting for my first one.
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182 calochortus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:06:38pm

re: #179 klys

Fuck, if that’s the case I’d like some downdings please.

Nope, I’m moving you closer, ever closer to your responsibilities.

183 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:07:28pm

re: #180 dog philosopher

that would be more like Dogma points

Would you buy a used Karma from this man?

184 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:07:44pm

generally speaking, if your Dogma is higher than your Karma, you should consult your physician

185 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:07:53pm

re: #182 calochortus

Nope, I’m moving you closer, ever closer to your responsibilities.

If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve.

186 psddluva4evah  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:08:07pm

ok, it’s just getting ridiculous and it’s nothing to laugh over, but I just can’t help smirking over this if true!

@DanaBashCNN
CNN has learned: House GOP moderates who want a clean spending bill working to stage a revolt on the House floor. More on @CNNSitRoom soon

187 Dr. Matt  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:09:10pm

re: #179 klys

You’re welcome, Mr. 10K :)

188 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:09:11pm

Klys, I think I put you over the top.

Now I’ll teach you the secret handshake. Here, you’ll need to hold this bar of soap…..

189 Sol Berdinowitz  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:09:19pm

Revolt? I thouth that was the Tea Party’s bailiwick!

190 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:09:29pm

re: #186 psddluva4evah

GOP moderates who want a clean spending bill working to stage a revolt

inching ever closer to gop splitsville

191 darthstar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:09:30pm
192 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:09:55pm

Of course, if our stealth downdinger continues, it could allllllllllllllllll change.

Hi there derbigdog!

193 Dr. Matt  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:10:42pm

re: #192 klys

Of course, if our stealth downdinger continues, it could allllllllllllllllll change.

Hi there derbigdog!

You’re still at 10K ;)

194 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:11:27pm

re: #191 darthstar

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In-fucking-credible. What a joke the GOP has become, and why hasn’t ‘GOPerdammerung’ caught on yet?

195 makeitstop  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:11:29pm

re: #186 psddluva4evah

ok, it’s just getting ridiculous and it’s nothing to laugh over, but I just can’t help smirking over this if true!

@DanaBashCNN
CNN has learned: House GOP moderates who want a clean spending bill working to stage a revolt on the House floor. More on @CNNSitRoom soon

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Wow. I’d do a happy dance right here in my office if that happened.

Quite a tell, though - that the moderates have to ‘revolt’ against the crazies. No better explanation of where the GOP is right now.

196 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:11:30pm

re: #193 Dr. Matt

You’re still at 10K

I’m probably safe. They seem to have a distinct dislike for VB’s twitter posts.

197 Archangelus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:12:17pm

re: #185 GeneJockey

If nominated, I will not run. If elected, I will not serve.

In that case, may we have your permission to clone you a few hundred times and use those clones to replace all TP/GOPers in Congress? Think of the good to the nation!!!

198 makeitstop  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:13:00pm

I’m only in the mid-7K range of karma.

Must…comment…harder.

199 Dr. Matt  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:13:34pm

re: #196 klys

I’m probably safe. They seem to have a distinct dislike for VB’s twitter posts.

The twitter twingnut children are quite riled up today. I have received more foaming wingnut rants today than I have all month. Full moon?

200 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:13:56pm

re: #199 Dr. Matt

The twitter twingnut children are quite riled up today. I have received more foaming wingnut rants today than I have all month. Full moon?

Obamacare starts tomorrow?

201 Archangelus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:14:03pm

re: #198 makeitstop

I’m only in the mid-7K range of karma.

Must…comment…harder.

I’ve been registered here since 2007 and still haven’t hit 1.5K. You’re doing fine…

202 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:14:50pm

re: #195 makeitstop

Wow. I’d do a happy dance right here in my office if that happened.

Quite a tell, though - that the moderates have to ‘revolt’ against the crazies. No better explanation of where the GOP is right now.

imagine - a violent uprising of revolutionary moderateness

the Beige Revolution

203 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:14:52pm

re: #197 Archangelus

In that case, may we have your permission to clone you a few hundred times and use those clones to replace all TP/GOPers in Congress? Think of the good to the nation!!!

“If there were two of you,

“Or God forbid, a few of you,

“Too much is what it would beeee!”

204 CuriousLurker  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:15:09pm

For those who don’t use the spy:

Incoming - A sleeper has awoken and is busy dispensing down-dings.

derbigdog

Karma: 12
Registered since: Dec 4, 2008 at 5:32 pm
(Logged in)

No. of comments posted: 35
No. of links posted: 0
Recent comments

205 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:15:10pm

I’m out to subvert XOR encryption today. Watch out NSA, I’m coming for youuuuuuuuuuu….

(Really, what the number means is I talk a lot.)

206 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:15:23pm

re: #198 makeitstop

I’m only in the mid-7K range of karma.

Must…comment…harder.

That’s actually 7K comments, 18K karma.

207 calochortus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:15:27pm

Good heavens! I just looked and I’m at 10,010.
Quick-I need to know the secret handshake too.

208 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:16:06pm

Pete King: Latest House GOP Plan ‘Is Going Nowhere’

Rep. Pete King (R-NY) told National Review Online that moderate Republicans would revolt against House leadership’s latest ploy to derail Obamacare in exchange for funding the government.

King said he had 25 House Republicans who would oppose the latest plan, which would delay Obamacare’s individual mandate for a year and eliminate subsidies for Congress members and staff. If that’s true and House Democrats united against the plan, it likely wouldn’t have the votes to pass.

“This is going nowhere,” he told NRO. “If Obamacare is as bad as we say it’s going to be, then we should pick up a lot of seats in the next election and we should win the presidency in 2016. This idea of going through the side door to take something you lost through the front door — to me it’s wrong.”

209 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:16:46pm

re: #208 Kragar

Pete King: Latest House GOP Plan ‘Is Going Nowhere’

The reality of being a Republican in the northeast sets in…

210 Varek Raith  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:16:48pm

What a bunch of clowns they are.

211 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:17:13pm

re: #208 Kragar

Guess who actually picked up the phone when the call from the Chamber of Commerce came in.

212 piratedan  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:17:34pm

tbh, I don’t even know how to check my karma….. I must be somewhere in the middle of a reincarnation…..

213 makeitstop  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:17:40pm

re: #206 EPR-radar

That’s actually 7K comments, 18K karma.

Oh.

In that case, where’s my Zionist check?

214 jaunte  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:17:43pm
215 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:17:50pm

For those who missed it…

Baking Bad.

Image: tumblr_mtslqeVGQB1qzoglfo1_500.jpg

216 Dr. Matt  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:18:05pm

Dear derbigdog,

Let me be the first to welcome you back and to invite you to eat a bag of dicks.

Sincerely,
The acting LGF welcoming committee vice chair.

217 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:18:11pm

re: #209 klys

The reality of being a Republican in the northeast sets in…

What was that quote from some Teabagger Rep. about the meeting? Something about ‘It was unanimous”?

218 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:18:39pm

re: #217 GeneJockey

What was that quote from some Teabagger Rep. about the meeting? Something about ‘It was unanimous”?

I’m going to guess that was discussing the pizza order.

219 calochortus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:18:43pm

re: #209 klys

Someone on FR was complaining earlier about Republicans from the northeast. I wondered what would be preferable-Democrats from the northeastern states? It’s not like they are going to drum the northeastern states out of the country.

220 CuriousLurker  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:18:51pm

re: #212 piratedan

tbh, I don’t even know how to check my karma….. I must be somewhere in the middle of a reincarnation…..

Just click on your profile pic.

221 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:19:49pm

re: #219 calochortus

Someone on FR was complaining earlier about Republicans from the northeast. I wondered what would be preferable-Democrats from the northeastern states? It’s not like they are going to drum the northeastern states out of the country.

That’s what they think secession is - kicking the other 40 states out of the USA.

222 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:19:52pm

re: #217 GeneJockey

What was that quote from some Teabagger Rep. about the meeting? Something about ‘It was unanimous”?

Only the votes that agree with me count. All contrary votes are invalid/fradulent etc.

223 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:20:16pm

My old man is at odds with himself. He’s a civil servant, working for the Coast Guard on their helicopters, but learned last week that he’s classified as non-essential in the event of a shutdown. So he badly wants to avoid a shutdown so that he doesn’t miss work. But, he also doesn’t want to see Republicans give in and pass a “clean” CR, because he’s been convinced by the FNC crowd that it’s the “Worst Thing Evah!”

Oy vey.

224 piratedan  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:20:42pm

re: #220 CuriousLurker

Just click on your profile pic.

TY…. low on karma, but high on hit points….

225 Dr. Matt  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:20:44pm

The wingnuts are not taking this news well….at all….

226 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:20:58pm

re: #223 Targetpractice

My old man is at odds with himself. He’s a civil servant, working for the Coast Guard on their helicopters, but learned last week that he’s classified as non-essential in the event of a shutdown. So he badly wants to avoid a shutdown so that he doesn’t miss work. But, he also doesn’t want to see Republicans give in and pass a “clean” CR, because he’s been convinced by the FNC crowd that it’s the “Worst Thing Evah!”

Oy vey.

I don’t discuss politics or religion with my parents.

We’re all much happier that way.

My sisters, on the other hand, have been handly subverted by yours truly.

227 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:21:21pm

re: #218 klys

I’m going to guess that was discussing the pizza order.

I dunno. If there are New York and Illinois Reps, they’ll never agree on thin-and-foldable vs deep-dish.

(The answer, of course, is thin-and-foldable).

228 celticdragon  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:21:42pm

re: #72 Charles Johnson

I think so.

Regular SS disability checks are being delayed? Did I understand that correctly?

229 jaunte  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:21:58pm

Erick Erickson is at odds with himself, too.

230 thedopefishlives  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:22:05pm

Evening Lizardim from the beautiful wild north country. How go things in the war on derp?

231 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:22:38pm

re: #230 thedopefishlives

Evening Lizardim from the beautiful wild north country. How go things in the war on derp?

The GOP are working towards another Pyrrhic victory.

232 CuriousLurker  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:22:44pm

re: #224 piratedan

TY…. low on karma, but high on hit points….

YW. Your positive karma:comments ratio is 2:1, so you’re not doing too bad.

233 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:23:36pm

re: #225 Dr. Matt

The wingnuts are not taking this news well….at all….

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Oooo, quelle surprise.

234 makeitstop  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:24:33pm

re: #230 thedopefishlives

Evening Lizardim from the beautiful wild north country. How go things in the war on derp?

It looks like the knives are about to come out in the House.

I’m really starting to think that the Derp Party may split from the GOP and become a reality.

235 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:24:34pm

re: #231 Targetpractice

The GOP are working towards another Pyrrhic victory.

“We are the Judean People’s Front Crack Suicide Squad!…”

236 jaunte  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:25:34pm
237 thedopefishlives  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:25:38pm

re: #231 Targetpractice

The GOP are working towards another Pyrrhic victory.

Yeah, I’ve been watching the coming firestorm with great interest. I wish them all the luck in the world - when this trebuchet lets go, their trajectory is aimed squarely at their own camp.

238 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:26:29pm

re: #236 jaunte

This would be so very entertaining if it comes to pass. The wingnut tears would be delicious.

239 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:26:37pm

re: #237 thedopefishlives

Yeah, I’ve been watching the coming firestorm with great interest. I wish them all the luck in the world - when this trebuchet lets go, their trajectory is aimed squarely at their own camp.

Building a trebuchet is probably beyond their engineering capabilities. I’m thinking this is more like a primitive slingshot stretched well beyond its breaking point.

(Dude, trebuchets are fucking hard to build. Stupid engineering class projects. There’s a reason I’m not an engineer.)

240 thedopefishlives  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:26:48pm

re: #234 makeitstop

It looks like the knives are about to come out in the House.

I’m really starting to think that the Derp Party may split from the GOP and become a reality.

Oh, that would be ideal. Maybe we’d get a halfway sane and rational GOP that would be a proper balance to the Democrats and offer legitimate ideas for governing.

///BAHAHAHAHAHA

241 jaunte  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:26:52pm
242 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:27:04pm

re: #236 jaunte

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25 Republicans voting together with Democrats? Yeah, it’s clear at this point, Boehner’s lost. He needs to give in, void the damned “Hastert Rule” and just put this whole kabuki theater to an end.

243 piratedan  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:27:22pm

re: #232 CuriousLurker

YW. Your positive karma:comments ratio is 2:1, so you’re not doing too bad.

ty…. half of the time I’m simply snarking and venting because there’s only so many times you can roll your eyes at the ongoing fail parade that is the GOP but it’s just nice to know that you’re not alone out there, a big reason for lurking here (and sometimes posting and sometimes failing here too, but I almost always learn something).

244 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:27:26pm

re: #239 klys

Building a trebuchet is probably beyond their engineering capabilities. I’m thinking this is more like a primitive slingshot stretched well beyond its breaking point.

(Dude, trebuchets are fucking hard to build. Stupid engineering class projects. There’s a reason I’m not an engineer.)

A Wile E. Coyote slingshot, hopefully.

245 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:27:34pm

re: #237 thedopefishlives

Yeah, I’ve been watching the coming firestorm with great interest. I wish them all the luck in the world - when this trebuchet lets go, their trajectory is aimed squarely at their own camp.

Like Wile E. Coyote’s. They need to stop ordering online from Acme.com.

246 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:27:58pm

re: #244 EPR-radar

A Wile E. Coyote slingshot, hopefully.

I figured that aim is another one of those sophisticated concepts.

247 thedopefishlives  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:28:13pm

re: #245 GeneJockey

Like Wile E. Coyote’s. They need to stop ordering online from Acme.com.

As noted above, it’s not like they could build it themselves.

248 CuriousLurker  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:28:21pm

re: #236 jaunte

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re: #238 EPR-radar

This would be so very entertaining if it comes to pass. The wingnut tears would be delicious.

LOL, they’d be beside themselves with fury. It would be wonderful.

249 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:28:43pm

re: #246 klys

I figured that aim is another one of those sophisticated concepts.

Forget aiming. The GOP first needs to work out how not to get a face full of boulder when stretching the sling shot.

250 b.d.  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:28:57pm

re: #236 jaunte

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The republicans are revolting!

Yep, they stink on ice.

251 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:29:01pm

So now we watch as Boehner tries to figure out some way to spin a total cave-in as a symbolic “victory” and convince the unruly children that they’ll have better luck with the debt ceiling.

252 celticdragon  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:29:10pm

re: #239 klys

Building a trebuchet is probably beyond their engineering capabilities. I’m thinking this is more like a primitive slingshot stretched well beyond its breaking point.

(Dude, trebuchets are fucking hard to build. Stupid engineering class projects. There’s a reason I’m not an engineer.)

But they are certainly helpful if you are running a Warhammer Fantasy Brettonian army…

253 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:29:35pm
254 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:29:38pm

re: #249 EPR-radar

Forget aiming. The GOP first needs to work out how not to get a face full of boulder when stretching the sling shot.

You think they’re using boulders? I was thinking it was more flaming piles of poo.

And given that they opted for the mesh pocket, it’s not going to stop flinging back into their faces.

255 psddluva4evah  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:29:52pm

Wow, so a minority of the majority is holding the majority hostage!!!! Boehner really is incompetent.

‏@BenjySarlin 40s
One of the best inside reporters on GOP @ByronYork attributes shutdown to just 30 tea party Republicans washingtonexaminer.com …

256 celticdragon  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:30:06pm

I missed some of the early parts of the POTUS’s statements.

Does anybody know if SS disability checks are delayed??

257 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:30:12pm

re: #252 celticdragon

But they are certainly helpful if you are running a Warhammer Fantasy Brettonian army…

Brettonians? I thought better of you.
///

258 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:30:41pm

re: #251 Targetpractice

So now we watch as Boehner tries to figure out some way to spin a total cave-in as a symbolic “victory” and convince the unruly children that they’ll have better luck with the debt ceiling.

The GOP big money heavy hitters in the background will not be idle if the debt ceiling is taken hostage.

259 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:30:55pm

re: #256 celticdragon

I missed some of the early parts of the POTUS’s statements.

Does anybody know if SS disability checks are delayed??

He said Social Security checks will go out. Whether that encompasses disability checks is a question I can’t answer.

260 celticdragon  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:31:21pm

re: #255 psddluva4evah

Wow, so a minority of the majority is holding the majority hostage!!!! Boehner really is incompetent.

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Weakest Speaker of the House since the Civil War, easily. I am seeing more and more comparisons to the 1840’s and 1850’s for dysfunction…and we know how that worked out…

261 thedopefishlives  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:31:37pm

re: #258 EPR-radar

The GOP big money heavy hitters in the background will not be idle if the debt ceiling is taken hostage.

I noted with interest the LGF Page about Wall Street begging the Teabaggers to “put the debt ceiling gun down”. All but the most brain-dead derp-lovers are realizing just how bad this is.

262 celticdragon  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:32:18pm

re: #257 Kragar

Brettonians? I thought better of you.
///

Well, I haven’t even built and painted them yet since I am still finishing my Chaos fantasy army.

263 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:32:28pm

re: #239 klys

Building a trebuchet is probably beyond their engineering capabilities. I’m thinking this is more like a primitive slingshot stretched well beyond its breaking point.

(Dude, trebuchets are fucking hard to build. Stupid engineering class projects. There’s a reason I’m not an engineer.)

There was an EXCELLENT show on PBS sometime back, where they tried to duplicate historical engineering feats. One show was about ‘War Wolf’, Edward I’s most feared trebuchet. They weren’t sure how they were going to keep the thing from tearing itself apart, till they modeled it and found that letting it roll back and forth just a little gave it much better range. The demolished a rapidly built faux-medieval wall.

AND they used Simon Stanley shooting a warbow to determine the range at which they could safely work. Watching him draw and shoot that thing was incredibly cool, especially knowing just how heavy a piece of Yew that thick would draw!

264 darthstar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:32:42pm

Dear god. Al Sharpton has that tea party idiot from Texas (the gap toothed one who posed in his pajamas with a stripper).

265 Snarknado!  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:33:06pm

re: #256 celticdragon

I missed some of the early parts of the POTUS’s statements.

Does anybody know if SS disability checks are delayed??

According to this page, new claims could be delayed but checks will continue to go out.

Fingers crossed…

266 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:33:12pm

re: #263 GeneJockey

There was an EXCELLENT show on PBS sometime back, where they tried to duplicate historical engineering feats. One show was about ‘War Wolf’, Edward I’s most feared trebuchet. They weren’t sure how they were going to keep the thing from tearing itself apart, till they modeled it and found that letting it roll back and forth just a little gave it much better range. The demolished a rapidly built faux-medieval wall.

AND they used Simon Stanley shooting a warbow to determine the range at which they could safely work. Watching him draw and shoot that thing was incredibly cool, especially knowing just how heavy a piece of Yew that thick would draw!

That reminds me, how likely would it be that a fellow Lizard could wheedle archery lessons out of you?

/totally shameless

267 makeitstop  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:33:41pm

re: #251 Targetpractice

So now we watch as Boehner tries to figure out some way to spin a total cave-in as a symbolic “victory” and convince the unruly children that they’ll have better luck with the debt ceiling.

I’m thinking that as bad as they looked on this one, they’re gonna look even worse on the debt ceiling.

And, yeah, Big Money will keep the overall level of fuckery down somewhat.

268 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:33:44pm

re: #264 darthstar

Dear god. Al Sharpton has that tea party idiot from Texas (the gap toothed one who posed in his pajamas with a stripper).

Glad you clarified. Tea Party idiot from Texas doesn’t really narrow the field down.

269 psddluva4evah  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:33:59pm
@JohnJHarwood 3m
True @ByronYork: Most likely final outcome: Clean CR passes w/majority of GOP, lots of Dems; big majority passage. ow.ly
270 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:34:07pm

re: #264 darthstar

Dear god. Al Sharpton has that tea party idiot from Texas (the gap toothed one who posed in his pajamas with a stripper).

I had to turn off the tv…

271 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:34:42pm

re: #262 celticdragon

Well, I haven’t even built and painted them yet since I am still finishing my Chaos fantasy army.

In a display of moderation, I’ve chosen to stick solely to 40k, and not cross over the Fantasy.

272 thedopefishlives  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:34:44pm

re: #270 Backwoods_Sleuth

I had to turn off the tv…

I’m not even watching this particular brand of political theater. If I’m going to watch crappy afternoon/evening television, it’s going to be GOOD crappy afternoon/evening television.

273 urbanmeemaw  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:34:59pm

re: #186 psddluva4evah

There are actually “House GOP Moderates”? What does the GOP consider “Moderate”?

274 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:35:14pm

I have found the logic to how to switch messages when you have an encrypted version of one of two messages XORed with a key (and you don’t know which) that you want to switch for the encrypted version of the other messages!

Now I just have to write it up in formal fucking proof logic.

275 darthstar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:35:56pm

Great video of Great Whites feeding on a dead whale. Think of it as a metaphor for the GOP and the Tea Party.

276 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:36:22pm

re: #266 klys

That reminds me, how likely would it be that a fellow Lizard could wheedle archery lessons out of you?

/totally shameless

I’d have to remember how to shoot, myself*. Haven’t drawn a bow in a couple years.

*Not “shoot myself”, that would be easy.

277 kirkspencer  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:36:27pm

re: #227 GeneJockey

I dunno. If there are New York and Illinois Reps, they’ll never agree on thin-and-foldable vs deep-dish.

(The answer, of course, is thin-and-foldable).

It depends on the question.

Deep dish is a casserole, not a pizza. That noted, I’d rather have the casserole.

278 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:36:32pm

re: #264 darthstar

Dear god. Al Sharpton has that tea party idiot from Texas (the gap toothed one who posed in his pajamas with a stripper).

He’s tearing him apart too LOL.

279 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:36:34pm

re: #273 urbanmeemaw

There are actually “House GOP Moderates”? What does the GOP consider “Moderate”?

Someone who knows when to fold’em.

280 Gus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:36:45pm
281 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:36:49pm

re: #273 urbanmeemaw

There are actually “House GOP Moderates”? What does the GOP consider “Moderate”?

The members of the GOP caucus who don’t routinely bay at the moon and piddle on fire hydrants, I suppose.

282 piratedan  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:37:05pm

re: #274 klys

I have found the logic to how to switch messages when you have an encrypted version of one of two messages XORed with a key (and you don’t know which) that you want to switch for the encrypted version of the other messages!

Now I just have to write it up in formal fucking proof logic.

you’re not allowed to use the Spousal/Maternal Proof Theory?

“because I said so”

////

283 celticdragon  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:37:07pm

re: #271 Kragar

In a display of moderation, I’ve chosen to stick solely to 40k, and not cross over the Fantasy.

My son has an Ogre kingdoms army that ate my Skaven alive.

284 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:37:53pm

re: #253 Kragar

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Erik, you ignorant slut.

Could it be possible that this is a country of over 325M people, and most corporations employ only a fraction of their workforce here in the US and the rest in other countries, therefore ensuring that the US govt might, after all, turn out to be the largest employer?

285 darthstar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:38:36pm

re: #278 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

He’s tearing him apart too LOL.

The guy is an idiot…and he knows he’s toast…his eyes are searching the air for a sensible answer, and he has none.

286 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:38:49pm

re: #283 celticdragon

My son has an Ogre kingdoms army that ate my Skaven alive.

If I had to pick one, I’d probably run Vampire Counts, just for the undead.

287 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:39:56pm

re: #285 darthstar

The guy is an idiot…and he knows he’s toast…his eyes are searching the air for a sensible answer, and he has none.

Love how Al just threw it in his face that he’s fucking over his constituents.

288 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:40:52pm

re: #254 klys

You think they’re using boulders? I was thinking it was more flaming piles of poo.

And given that they opted for the mesh pocket, it’s not going to stop flinging back into their faces.

The boulders I had in mind weren’t the payload of the slingshot. They are the anchor that lets loose at an inopportune time for Mr. Coyote.

289 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:41:11pm

re: #285 darthstar

The guy is an idiot…and he knows he’s toast…his eyes are searching the air for a sensible answer, and he has none.

Tonight in the Right Wing Twitterverse - “See [gap-toothed Texas Teabagger] totally DESTROY Al Sharpton!!!”

290 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:41:18pm

re: #273 urbanmeemaw

There are actually “House GOP Moderates”? What does the GOP consider “Moderate”?

willing to consider that phlogiston theory might have some flaws

291 darthstar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:43:10pm

re: #287 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Love how Al just threw it in his face that he’s fucking over his constituents.

Well, he did say the furloughs amounted to a paid vacation for federal workers. He really is stupid.

292 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:43:40pm

re: #274 klys

I have found the logic to how to switch messages when you have an encrypted version of one of two messages XORed with a key (and you don’t know which) that you want to switch for the encrypted version of the other messages!

Now I just have to write it up in formal fucking proof logic.

Suffering builds character.

293 b.d.  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:43:40pm

re: #264 darthstar

Dear god. Al Sharpton has that tea party idiot from Texas (the gap toothed one who posed in his pajamas with a stripper).

That guy is a Farenthold which, in Texas means you win elections automatically with that last name, Yarborough also works that way here.

I think he is a grandson of the great Sissy Farenthold who should go and kick his butt or make him change his name.

294 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:44:00pm

re: #290 dog philosopher

willing to consider that phlogiston theory might have some flaws

Understands that ‘If A, then B; if B, then C’ implies ‘If A then C’, but not that ‘If A, then B’ does NOT imply ‘If B, then A’.

295 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:45:06pm

re: #294 GeneJockey

Understands that ‘If A, then B; if B, then C’ implies ‘If A then C’, but not that ‘If A, then B’ does NOT imply ‘If B, then A’.

Logic is rejected. It is of teh debbil.

296 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:45:08pm

re: #261 thedopefishlives

I noted with interest the LGF Page about Wall Street begging the Teabaggers to “put the debt ceiling gun down”. All but the most brain-dead derp-lovers are realizing just how bad this is.

When Wall Street speaks……

297 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:46:02pm

re: #295 EPR-radar

Logic is rejected. It is of teh debbil.

“Logic! LOGIC!! I’m sick to death of Logic!” - Spock’s Mommy.

298 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:46:13pm

re: #294 GeneJockey

Understands that ‘If A, then B; if B, then C’ implies ‘If A then C’, but not that ‘If A, then B’ does NOT imply ‘If B, then A’.

I should downding you for that.

299 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:46:22pm

re: #291 darthstar

Well, he did say the furloughs amounted to a paid vacation for federal workers. He really is stupid.

“Paid vacation”? He does know what “furlough” means, right?

300 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:47:13pm

re: #299 Targetpractice

“Paid vacation”? He does know what “furlough” means, right?

Well, I mean, he gets paid for doing no work, so why wouldn’t all other federal employees?

301 Gus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:47:34pm
302 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:47:41pm

re: #266 klys

That reminds me, how likely would it be that a fellow Lizard could wheedle archery lessons out of you?

/totally shameless

But seriously, if you’re really interested, PM me, assuming this place has PMs.*

*Not PMS. Not sure a forum can HAVE PMS.

303 thedopefishlives  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:48:04pm

re: #301 Gus

Erick, son of Erick, the voice of the GOP.

No wonder nobody’s paying attention.

304 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:48:52pm

re: #298 klys

I should downding you for that.

No worries, I’m Over 9000!

305 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:49:14pm

re: #302 GeneJockey

But seriously, if you’re really interested, PM me, assuming this place has PMs.*

*Not PMS. Not sure a forum can HAVE PMS.

I don’t think it does, but I am interested. My e-mail is sylkai at that big Google e-mail provider.

306 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:51:36pm

re: #301 Gus

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He’s not saying give it up so much as he’s saying “Either keep the shutdown going until Democrats give in or capitulate now.”

307 erik_t  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:53:12pm

re: #306 Targetpractice

He’s not saying give it up so much as he’s saying “Either keep the shutdown going until Democrats give in or capitulate now.”

A dangerously rational position from Son of Erick.

If you know you’re going to lose the argument, don’t put three slugs into your midfoot while doing so.

308 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:53:24pm

re: #306 Targetpractice

He’s not saying give it up so much as he’s saying “Either keep the shutdown going until Democrats give in or capitulate now.”

Agreed. EE is trying to stiffen the spines of the House GOP for a death or glory charge.

309 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:54:54pm

re: #308 EPR-radar

Agreed. EE is trying to stiffen the spines of the House GOP for a death or glory charge.

He could not have been more opaque, then.

310 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:56:12pm

re: #309 GeneJockey

He could not have been more opaque, then.

I interpreted this very literally at first, and it was like duh, because the human body is opaque to visible light (and ultraviolet and …)

311 darthstar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:56:17pm


I hope President Obama simply said, “Sucks to be you.”

312 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:56:22pm

re: #308 EPR-radar

Agreed. EE is trying to stiffen the spines of the House GOP for a death or glory charge.

“Forward the Light Brigade, charge for the guns!”

313 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:56:31pm

according to the we-won-teh-2010-election logic of the teabaggers, the takeover of the house by the democrats in 2006 should have resulted in nancy pelosi shutting down the government until all troops were removed from iraq and afghanistan

it are only lojjikal!!

314 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:56:34pm

re: #309 GeneJockey

He could not have been more opaque, then.

I refuse to try to understand tweets. The post on RedState on this point is clear enough.

315 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:57:33pm

re: #311 darthstar

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I hope President Obama simply said, “Sucks to be you.”

“You assholes done fucking around?

316 darthstar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:57:36pm

re: #311 darthstar

[Embedded content]


I hope President Obama simply said, “Sucks to be you.”

Of course, this won’t end until Boehner hears it directly from President Koch’s lips.

317 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:58:45pm

re: #311 darthstar

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I hope President Obama simply said, “Sucks to be you.”

Boehner: “Can you get me off the hook, Mr. President? For old time’s sake?”
Obama: “Can’t do it, Johnny.”

318 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 3:58:46pm

re: #311 darthstar

President Obama just spoke to @SpeakerBoehner. Their first conversation since

promised to make him ambassador to the Orange Free State after he is deposed by teabaggers?

319 wrenchwench  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:02:41pm
320 thedopefishlives  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:03:08pm

re: #319 wrenchwench

Did you try reinstalling Windows?

321 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:03:16pm

re: #314 EPR-radar

I refuse to try to understand tweets. The post on RedState on this point is clear enough.

Ah, now see, I’m only willing to expose myself 140 characters at a time. Dropping in on Freeperville is like trying to crowd surf the zombie hordes.

322 piratedan  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:03:40pm

re: #317 Targetpractice

I always thought it would be Clemenza….

323 wrenchwench  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:04:44pm
324 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:05:36pm

re: #321 GeneJockey

funny you should mention Zombies, there’s this electro/Industrial band called “Santa Hates You” that has a video for their song called “Scum” that basically features right wingers as zombies that the two band members go after.

325 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:06:21pm

re: #321 GeneJockey

Ah, now see, I’m only willing to expose myself 140 characters at a time. Dropping in on Freeperville is like trying to crowd surf the zombie hordes.

RedState is somewhat like a moderated version of FreeRepublic. No idea is too far to the right, of course, but they do moderate well enough to keep the worst manifestations of RW bigotry at bay.

326 Bulworth  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:06:55pm

re: #289 GeneJockey

thats it, were done for now. ///

327 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:07:27pm

re: #320 thedopefishlives

Did you try reinstalling Windows?

Back in 1997, I worked at a startup where we were trying to develop an assay for drug resistance in HIV, working from patient plasma. We needed to have a working version of the test to get our second tranche of financing. For every week in the lab we had to spend a week at the computer analyzing, with a cobbled together procedure involving Word, Excel, and Cricket Graph. The latter kept crashing the computers, so for the month before the presentation to the Scientific Advisory Board, the most frequently heard sound was:

“Aw, SHIT!” *BONG!*

EDIT - working on Macs.

328 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:07:42pm

Ooooooo, I wonder if we get a bonus letter from francis today or if he was just delayed.

329 Amory Blaine  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:07:54pm

The technologically inevitable is near.

Youtube Video

330 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:09:08pm
331 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:09:21pm

re: #328 klys

Ooooooo, I wonder if we get a bonus letter from francis today or if he was just delayed.

I find I can bear this suspense with great fortitude.

332 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:09:43pm

re: #327 GeneJockey

Back in 1997, I worked at a startup where we were trying to develop an assay for drug resistance in HIV, working from patient plasma. We needed to have a working version of the test to get our second tranche of financing. For every week in the lab we had to spend a week at the computer analyzing, with a cobbled together procedure involving Word, Excel, and Cricket Graph. The latter kept crashing the computers, so for the month before the presentation to the Scientific Advisory Board, the most frequently heard sound was:

“Aw, SHIT!” *BONG!*

For all of my Ph.D. work, figures were produced using KaleidaGraph, imported into Powerpoint, and then turned into Office drawing objects.

And then with the introduction of the .pptx, the ungrouping and turning into objects resulted in fun points where bits of the drawing would randomly appear and disappear as you zoomed in or out or attempted to print.

I kept my Macbook running Office 2003 (and therefore never went past OSX 10.5 or whatever) precisely to avoid this bug.

333 thedopefishlives  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:09:52pm

re: #327 GeneJockey

Back in 1997, I worked at a startup where we were trying to develop an assay for drug resistance in HIV, working from patient plasma. We needed to have a working version of the test to get our second tranche of financing. For every week in the lab we had to spend a week at the computer analyzing, with a cobbled together procedure involving Word, Excel, and Cricket Graph. The latter kept crashing the computers, so for the month before the presentation to the Scientific Advisory Board, the most frequently heard sound was:

“Aw, SHIT!” *BONG!*

I once built a Windows ME box, just to see what all the fuss was about.

Yeah, that didn’t last long.

334 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:10:23pm

re: #329 Amory Blaine

The technologically inevitable is near.

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Interesting.

I’d say the future is pretty much here. Hatsune Miku.

Vocaloid superstar.

Youtube Video

335 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:10:34pm

re: #330 Justanotherhuman

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It’s a question of whether or not Boehner wants to just end this all now or go down looking like an idiot for going forward with a vote that members of his own party have publicly said is doomed to failure.

336 thedopefishlives  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:10:52pm

re: #335 Targetpractice

It’s a question of whether or not Boehner wants to just end this all now or go down looking like an idiot for going forward with a vote that members of his own party have publicly said is doomed to failure.

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

337 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:10:58pm

Couldn’t happen to a (not)nicer bunch of idiots.

338 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:12:26pm

re: #336 thedopefishlives

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

Thing about that is that it weakens the party’s debt ceiling position if they have moderates actually stand up and say that they’re not willing to let the party destroy itself over something it’s never going to attain.

339 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:13:08pm

Per some of the other comments, I was able to check my “karma.” I admit to not commenting so much, but you people are so quick to say what I would have said! Even so, for 8 comments, 37 karma is nice. Thanks.

340 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:13:30pm

re: #336 thedopefishlives

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

You know, that only works if you win. If you get blowed up, you sound like an idiot in the history books.

341 brennant  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:13:44pm

re: #338 Targetpractice

Thing about that is that it weakens the party’s debt ceiling position if they have moderates actually stand up and say that they’re not willing to let the party destroy itself over something it’s never going to attain.

With Rep. King, I wonder if the cracks are really starting to show.

342 thedopefishlives  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:13:52pm

re: #340 GeneJockey

You know, that only works if you win. If you get blowed up, you sound like an idiot in the history books.

It sounds like something that should be in a list of famous last words.

343 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:14:14pm

re: #338 Targetpractice

Thing about that is that it weakens the party’s debt ceiling position if they have moderates actually stand up and say that they’re not willing to let the party destroy itself over something it’s never going to attain.

Christ, I hope so.

344 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:14:19pm

re: #339 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Per some of the other comments, I was able to check my “karma.” I admit to not commenting so much, but you people are so quick to say what I would have said! Even so, for 8 comments, 37 karma is nice. Thanks.

Clearly we don’t mind repetition. See: at least half of my posts.

We like different viewpoints even if the end conclusion is similar.

345 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:14:30pm

re: #340 GeneJockey

You know, that only works if you win. If you get blowed up, you sound like an idiot in the history books.

Yes indeed. May the GOP perform a political re-enactment of Napoleon’s retreat from Moscow for the next few decades.

346 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:14:51pm

re: #336 thedopefishlives

Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!

It is appropriate that this comes from a fish.

347 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:15:00pm

re: #341 brennant

With Rep. King, I wonder if the cracks are really starting to show.

Would not surprise me. Why throw yourself on your sword for jackasses who can be as crazy as they like because their districts are “safe”?

348 thedopefishlives  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:15:11pm

re: #346 klys

It is appropriate that this comes from a fish.

Swim, swim, HUNGRY… *kaboom!*

349 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:15:43pm

re: #342 thedopefishlives

It sounds like something that should be in a list of famous last words.

“Hold my beer…”

“Watch this…”

“I seen this done oncet…”

“What’s the worst that could happen?”

“Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”

“Luigi! Bring-a my brown pants!”

350 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:16:23pm

re: #348 thedopefishlives

Swim, swim, HUNGRY… *kaboom!*

All my logical faculties are going to wrestling with this problem set.

I’m trying not to think too hard about the fact that this is the first of 9, and I have two exams to pass too.

So this is about the level of comment I can generate.

351 thedopefishlives  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:16:35pm

re: #349 GeneJockey

“Hold my beer…”

“Watch this…”

“I seen this done oncet…”

“What’s the worst that could happen?”

“Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”

“Luigi! Bring-a my brown pants!”

Away Team to Enterprise, it’s all quiet here.

352 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:16:35pm

re: #349 GeneJockey

“Hold my beer…”

“Watch this…”

“I seen this done oncet…”

“What’s the worst that could happen?”

“Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”

“Luigi! Bring-a my brown pants!”

“Is it supposed to sound like that?”

353 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:17:13pm

re: #349 GeneJockey

“Hold my beer…”

“Watch this…”

“I seen this done oncet…”

“What’s the worst that could happen?”

“Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”

“Luigi! Bring-a my brown pants!”

“Trust me, I know what I’m doing.”

354 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:17:58pm

re: #352 Targetpractice

“Is it supposed to sound like that?”

“It’s quiet. It’s…TOO quiet.”

“There’s an almost superhumanly strong and invulnerable psychotic killer loose in the woods. Let’s split up.”

355 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:18:04pm

re: #349 GeneJockey

“Hold my beer…”

“Watch this…”

“I seen this done oncet…”

“What’s the worst that could happen?”

“Damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead!”

“Luigi! Bring-a my brown pants!”

“I saw this in a movie once.”

356 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:18:10pm

re: #347 Targetpractice

Would not surprise me. Why throw yourself on your sword for jackasses who can be as crazy as they like because their districts are “safe”?

The funny thing about a gerrymander is that the whole point is to give your party a large number of districts that lean your way, and a small number of districts that are overwhelmingly in favor of the other party.

It would please me greatly if the insanity of the GOP were to move the voter preferences nationwide enough to put some/all of those gerrymandered GOP House districts back into play in 2014.

Yet another reason the Dems need to fight as best they can in every state and district.

357 thedopefishlives  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:18:24pm

re: #350 klys

All my logical faculties are going to wrestling with this problem set.

I’m trying not to think too hard about the fact that this is the first of 9, and I have two exams to pass too.

So this is about the level of comment I can generate.

I’m brain-dead after an exhausting few weeks of little sleep for a variety of reasons. I’m hoping to go crash here in a little while and recover myself.

358 thedopefishlives  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:19:26pm

re: #355 Eclectic Cyborg

“I saw this in a movie once.”

“I’ve done this a million times, of COURSE I know what I’m doing.”

359 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:19:38pm

On another blog, I noted this morning that there are a (relatively) not-insignificant number of pundits who are calling out the tea partiers on this strategy, specifically Roger Simon at Politico. I suspect the worm has turned on this whole charade. The question is, how do they back out now. If they cave on the shutdown, how do they then try to hold the debt ceiling hostage?

As mentioned above, clearly the Chamber of Commerce and Wall Street types are making some phone calls (Erick bin Erick tweeting that they should cave?!).

We live in interesting times, unfortunately.

360 psddluva4evah  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:19:52pm

And revolt fails!

361 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:20:07pm

re: #354 GeneJockey

“There’s an almost superhumanly strong and invulnerable psychotic killer loose in the woods. Let’s split up.”

OR

“Yay! We managed to escape from the psychotic killer. Now, instead of actually calling police or going for help, let’s go back and rescue our friends the killer is still holding hostage.”

362 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:20:48pm

re: #357 thedopefishlives

I’m brain-dead after an exhausting few weeks of little sleep for a variety of reasons. I’m hoping to go crash here in a little while and recover myself.

Those reasons don’t involve little fishies, do they?

In all seriousness, best wishes.

363 Cardio (formerly JRCMYP)  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:21:17pm

re: #45 Charles Johnson

Obama should come out and just ignore the shutdown. Talk about the finale of Breaking Bad, and his feelings on Jesse Pinkman’s escape.

Argh. Spoiler!

364 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:21:32pm

re: #360 psddluva4evah

And revolt fails!

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It’s kind of like a modern Alamo type situation, a small number of sane people vs an army of crazies.

365 thedopefishlives  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:22:00pm

re: #362 klys

Those reasons don’t involve little fishies, do they?

In all seriousness, best wishes.

Some of them do. Some of them involve just plain stress. I need a real vacation, but I’m too workaholic to take one.

366 Bulworth  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:22:06pm

I haz a sad: no moderates left in GOP.

367 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:22:44pm

re: #365 thedopefishlives

Some of them do. Some of them involve just plain stress. I need a real vacation, but I’m too workaholic to take one.

I would say bad fish, but the ongoing joke here is that I have no fucking clue how to relax, so…

368 thedopefishlives  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:23:15pm

re: #367 klys

I would say bad fish, but the ongoing joke here is that I have no fucking clue how to relax, so…

If it makes you feel any better, my job and my relaxation take mostly the same form. I write programs in my spare time, for fun.

369 psddluva4evah  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:23:17pm
370 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:23:43pm

re: #369 psddluva4evah

Ted Cruz needs to be in that collage.

371 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:24:37pm

I don’t usually post political stuff on facebook but I am *this close* to posting a rant because of how much this situation pisses me off.

372 Amory Blaine  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:25:55pm

I went to a psychologist today. Meet and greet. I found it odd he didn’t know what an agnostic was.

373 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:25:57pm

re: #371 Eclectic Cyborg

I don’t usually post political stuff on facebook but I am *this close* to posting a rant because of how much this situation pisses me off.

Go for it. It is a valuable public service to push back against right wing swill.

374 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:26:37pm

re: #368 thedopefishlives

If it makes you feel any better, my job and my relaxation take mostly the same form. I write programs in my spare time, for fun.

I could see that.

On the other hand, I do not write proofs for fun. I just wanna write programs, dammit.

375 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:26:53pm

so the revolt of the moderates didn’t succeed?

376 Gus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:27:34pm

30 minutes later…

Moderate GOP revolt in the works?

377 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:27:49pm

re: #369 psddluva4evah

I recently saw the movie Lincoln. It was disorienting, seeing a depiction of Republicans that were actually good for something.

378 wrenchwench  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:28:14pm

re: #372 Amory Blaine

I went to a psychologist today. Meet and greet. I found it odd he didn’t know what an agnostic was.

Might want to meet and greet another few….

379 thedopefishlives  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:28:22pm

re: #374 klys

I could see that.

On the other hand, I do not write proofs for fun. I just wanna write programs, dammit.

It says something that I haven’t even managed to dredge up the interest to touch my favorite side project in a month.

380 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:28:28pm

re: #372 Amory Blaine

I found it odd he didn’t know what an agnostic was.

Wait what?

381 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:28:29pm

re: #374 klys

I could see that.

On the other hand, I do not write proofs for fun. I just wanna write programs, dammit.

while you stand a good chance of being asked to come up with these algorithmic solutions you’ve been studying in a software engineer job interview, i can virtually guarantee you you will never be asked to do a proof

382 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:29:12pm

re: #381 dog philosopher

while you stand a good chance of being asked to come up with these algorithmic solutions you’ve been studying in a software engineer job interview, i can virtually guarantee you you will never be asked to do a proof

I know. That makes this class even more frustrating.

But it’s required for algorithms.

383 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:29:25pm

re: #372 Amory Blaine

I went to a psychologist today. Meet and greet. I found it odd he didn’t know what an agnostic was.

somebody with a college degree never heard of the word ‘agnostic’?

384 wrenchwench  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:30:30pm

re: #379 thedopefishlives

It says something that I haven’t even managed to dredge up the interest to touch my favorite side project in a month.

Go sleep with the fishies….

I did very nearly nothing yesterday. It helped a lot. (Overcoming a virus here.)

385 Bulworth  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:30:44pm

re: #376 Gus

Would have been 3 but Obama was mean. ////

386 thedopefishlives  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:31:43pm

re: #384 wrenchwench

Go sleep with the fishies….

I did very nearly nothing yesterday. It helped a lot. (Overcoming a virus here.)

Yeah. I’m definitely going early to bed tonight instead of going to sparring like I should.

387 thedopefishlives  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:33:33pm

re: #382 klys

I know. That makes this class even more frustrating.

But it’s required for algorithms.

Some of the academic background of programming feels a little bit arcane and useless. Nevertheless, I’ve managed to find good uses for much of the theoretical background classwork. No proofs, though.

388 Amory Blaine  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:33:40pm

re: #378 wrenchwench

Might want to meet and greet another few….

Yeah I was facepalming (in my mind).

389 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:33:51pm

re: #372 Amory Blaine

I went to a psychologist today. Meet and greet. I found it odd he didn’t know what an agnostic was.

Never heard the word, or asked you do define it?

I find that ‘agnostic’ and ‘atheist’ overlap by a lot. I used to call myself agnostic, but I later realized that if you believe there is no god or gods, even if you accept that you might be wrong, ‘atheist’ is a good description. I also realized I used ‘agnostic’ to avoid seeming too hardassed.

390 wrenchwench  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:34:18pm

re: #386 thedopefishlives

Yeah. I’m definitely going early to bed tonight instead of going to sparring like I should.

Imma be my dad for a minute…

Wanna go to bed? Go get your pajamas on. Wanna stay up? Go get your pajamas on.

391 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:35:32pm

re: #390 wrenchwench

Imma be my dad for a minute…

I am SO GOOD at this concept.

“Ugh, tomorrow is going to suck. I have so much shit I need to get done. I know, I’ll stay up late playing stupid little video games so I’m EVEN MORE EXHAUSTED TOMORROW but hey, I will have gotten 3 hours of not-caring in.”

392 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:36:16pm

re: #388 Amory Blaine

Yeah I was facepalming (in my mind).

“Yeah, thanks. I think we’re done here.”

393 psddluva4evah  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:36:24pm

Really Boehner…really! This is not the comment of a serious person. Boehner was probably already 3 sheets to the wind at this point.

394 Amory Blaine  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:36:56pm

He didn’t know what it was. He asked me what my faith was and I said I was agnostic, usually I call myself an athiest and call it a day but I figured this guy should know what it was. I had to explain it and he then moved on to more questions.

395 Danack  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:37:29pm

re: #175 psddluva4evah

And they’ve lost Erickson:

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I’m guessing that Mr Erickson has received a phone call from one of the people or organisations that pays his wages and speaking fees, explaining that shutting down the government isn’t in their, or his, interest.

I guess other GOP operatives will be receiving similar phone calls this evening, and by sometime tomorrow the majority of the GOP will proceed to vote for either a CR or an actual budget.

396 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:37:47pm

re: #387 thedopefishlives

Some of the academic background of programming feels a little bit arcane and useless. Nevertheless, I’ve managed to find good uses for much of the theoretical background classwork. No proofs, though.

I’m not sure what it says that the only one I have figured out so far (but can’t write in proper proof form, because fuck that shit) is the one with direct application to computer science (e.g., why reusing keys for XOR encryption is bad).

397 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:37:59pm

re: #393 psddluva4evah

Really Boehner…really! This is not the comment of a serious person. Boehner was probably already 3 sheets to the wind at this point.

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Namely his if he doesn’t succeed in killing it.

398 wrenchwench  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:38:05pm

re: #391 klys

I am SO GOOD at this concept.

“Ugh, tomorrow is going to suck. I have so much shit I need to get done. I know, I’ll stay up late playing stupid little video games so I’m EVEN MORE EXHAUSTED TOMORROW but hey, I will have gotten 3 hours of not-caring in.”

I forget what famous person said this:

We’ll start with the procrastination, so at least that will get done.

399 Bulworth  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:38:13pm

re: #393 psddluva4evah

And we’ve seen how much today’s GOP cares about jobs. //

400 Amory Blaine  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:39:25pm

Laser jobs or something.

401 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:39:26pm

re: #394 Amory Blaine

He didn’t know what it was. He asked me what my faith was and I said I was agnostic, usually I call myself an athiest and call it a day but I figured this guy should know what it was. I had to explain it and he then moved on to more questions.

In fairness to the therapist, it is not unreasonable to ask someone for clarification when they say they are agnostic. The dictionary definition may or may not be applicable.

402 Targetpractice  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:40:02pm

Well Pete, your count of how many Republicans would “revolt” was only off by 19. Easy mistake to make.

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403 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:40:02pm

re: #394 Amory Blaine

That’s kind of … weird. Maybe you should have went with pastafarian.

404 wrenchwench  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:40:28pm

re: #394 Amory Blaine

He didn’t know what it was. He asked me what my faith was and I said I was agnostic, usually I call myself an athiest and call it a day but I figured this guy should know what it was. I had to explain it and he then moved on to more questions.

Unless there was some great highlight in another area, this man may not be the one. You need to see him as smarter than you having some wisdom in some way.

405 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:40:57pm

re: #391 klys

I am SO GOOD at this concept.

“Ugh, tomorrow is going to suck. I have so much shit I need to get done. I know, I’ll stay up late playing stupid little video games so I’m EVEN MORE EXHAUSTED TOMORROW but hey, I will have gotten 3 hours of not-caring in.”

In my family we call say, “I’m going to get up early, study for the test…”, based on our college experience (my wife and I met Freshman year. During orientation, actually. Still took 13 years to get married. Long story. Boring. Kinda personal.). Many was the time one or the other of us would be staring at a book, unable to convert the words into sentences and paragraphs in our minds.

We’d say to ourselves, “I’m too tired to study. But tomorrow, I’m going to get up early, eat a good breakfast, do my laundry, study for the test…”

We always failed to do that. It became a running joke, which has been running for 38 years, now.

406 Amory Blaine  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:41:14pm

Yeah he’s just there to prescribe my meds. I won’t see him again for 3 months.

407 calochortus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:41:36pm

I’m happy to report that we got our rates for healthcare insurance for next year and while it has gone up (Surprise! Oh. Not really.) The percentage increase is the lowest in several years despite having moved into an older age category.

Our options, should we wish to move to a different plan are mind-numbing. I think we’ll stay where we are…

408 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:41:45pm

re: #396 klys

I’m not sure what it says that the only one I have figured out so far (but can’t write in proper proof form, because fuck that shit) is the one with direct application to computer science (e.g., why reusing keys for XOR encryption is bad).

It could be much, much worse. Imagine an academic course in Computer Science that uses Knuth’s The Art of Computer Programming as the text…

409 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:42:03pm

Boehner To Resign, Accept Ambassadorship To Orange Free State

chocolate eclair brought in as speaker, expected to demonstrate backbone to stand up to baggers

410 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:42:11pm

re: #408 EPR-radar

It could be much, much worse. Imagine an academic course in Computer Science that uses Knuth’s The Art of Computer Programming as the text…

I’m going go to sob into my drink now, if you don’t mind.

411 Amory Blaine  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:42:47pm

Them little baby chocolate eclairs are of the devil.

412 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:42:50pm

re: #404 wrenchwench

I have had several therapists in recent years, and honestly, the interview process is a PITA. One seems okay, but too docile, another seems okay, but too prescriptive. It’s almost like dating, in some weird way. “Could this one be the one?” Hard to describe, but damn I wish it was easier to find someone that would “click.”

413 goddamnedfrank  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:43:52pm

re: #393 psddluva4evah

Really Boehner…really! This is not the comment of a serious person. Boehner was probably already 3 sheets to the wind at this point.

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Right, the thing that needs to have it’s implementation delayed for a year is costing jobs …

414 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:44:15pm

re: #406 Amory Blaine

Yeah he’s just there to prescribe my meds. I won’t see him again for 3 months.

Hope it’s a psychAITRist. PsychOLOGists can’t prescribe. You’d be in for disappointment!

415 Amory Blaine  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:44:56pm

We should require a background check on garage door openers.

416 thedopefishlives  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:44:59pm

re: #408 EPR-radar

It could be much, much worse. Imagine an academic course in Computer Science that uses Knuth’s The Art of Computer Programming as the text…

Oh. Oh God. I … I’m sorry. I didn’t know.

417 Decatur Deb  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:45:08pm

re: #372 Amory Blaine

I went to a psychologist today. Meet and greet. I found it odd he didn’t know what an agnostic was.

He’s just fukn’ wit ya.

418 calochortus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:45:22pm

re: #405 GeneJockey

In my family we call say, “I’m going to get up early, study for the test…”, based on our college experience (my wife and I met Freshman year. During orientation, actually. Still took 13 years to get married. Long story. Boring. Kinda personal.). Many was the time one or the other of us would be staring at a book, unable to convert the words into sentences and paragraphs in our minds.

We’d say to ourselves, “I’m too tired to study. But tomorrow, I’m going to get up early, eat a good breakfast, do my laundry, study for the test…”

We always failed to do that. It became a running joke, which has been running for 38 years, now.

Actually, my freshman year I figured out that the best way for me to study for a test was to go to bed at 10:00 pm and get up at about 4:00 am (assuming an 8 or 9 a.m. class) and do my studying bright and early. Not a night person.

419 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:45:47pm

re: #416 thedopefishlives

Oh. Oh God. I … I’m sorry. I didn’t know.

This is a thought experiment on my part.

420 Amory Blaine  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:46:16pm

He also had a box on his desk clearly labelled “Placebo”.

421 Stanley Sea  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:47:03pm

re: #275 darthstar

Great video of Great Whites feeding on a dead whale. Think of it as a metaphor for the GOP and the Tea Party.

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Ha ha the Seagulls. They’re everywhere.

422 thedopefishlives  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:48:28pm

re: #419 EPR-radar

This is a thought experiment on my part.

That you could even think such a thing is still cause for pity.

423 wrenchwench  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:48:54pm

re: #412 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I have had several therapists in recent years, and honestly, the interview process is a PITA. One seems okay, but too docile, another seems okay, but too prescriptive. It’s almost like dating, in some weird way. “Could this one be the one?” Hard to describe, but damn I wish it was easier to find someone that would “click.”

You are in a better position to advise Amory, then.

424 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:49:33pm

re: #418 calochortus

Actually, my freshman year I figured out that the best way for me to study for a test was to go to bed at 10:00 pm and get up at about 4:00 am (assuming an 8 or 9 a.m. class) and do my studying bright and early. Not a night person.

One of my roommates (a morning person) would miss the 8:30am class we had together because she would get up at 4am and then get distracted doing a homework problem.

My opinion was that if it took me 3 alarms to get out the fucking door and make it, she was on her own, because I couldn’t be relied upon to remember anything that early.

425 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:49:54pm

re: #418 calochortus

Actually, my freshman year I figured out that the best way for me to study for a test was to go to bed at 10:00 pm and get up at about 4:00 am (assuming an 8 or 9 a.m. class) and do my studying bright and early. Not a night person.

i did all my studying for computer science in cafes

if i tried to study at home, i did the dishes and cleaned everything in the apartment, anything to keep from studying

if i tried to study in the library, i fell asleep

in a cafe, the music, hot and cold running coffee drinks, and toothsome young maidens coming in to the cafe kept me alert and made studying more entertaining

426 piratedan  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:50:00pm

well Boehner is certainly right about one thing, Obamacare is most assuredly causing people to lose their jobs, after all, the GOP is kicking millions of people out of work because of it.

427 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:50:01pm

re: #420 Amory Blaine

He also had a box on his desk clearly labelled “Placebo”.

That’s where all the insurance paperwork goes, right?

428 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:50:02pm

re: #418 calochortus

Actually, my freshman year I figured out that the best way for me to study for a test was to go to bed at 10:00 pm and get up at about 4:00 am (assuming an 8 or 9 a.m. class) and do my studying bright and early. Not a night person.

Sophomore year, I fell behind in my reading for a History course. I ended up with 6x 300 page books to read, and a week to do it in. I stayed up each night till 5 AM, got up at 7:50 for my 8:00 classes, ate breakfast then went to my 10:40, and took a nap after lunch. It worked out really well for 4 days. The 5th day, I couldn’t get up for the 8:00 and slept through till lunch.

Still Aced the course.

429 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:50:36pm

re: #425 dog philosopher

i did all my studying for computer science in cafes

if i tried to study at home, i did the dishes and cleaned everything in the apartment, anything to keep from studying

if i tried to study in the library, i fell asleep

in a cafe, the music, hot and cold running coffee drinks, and toothsome young maidens coming in to the cafe kept me alert and made studying more entertaining

Best study sessions were for advanced instrumental analysis in chemistry, at the microbrewery. Ahhh, those were the days….

430 goddamnedfrank  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:50:54pm

All politics is local, LOL!

GOP is such dogshit. Republicans are dogshit. The conservative ones are holding the country hostage, the moderates are useless. Functionally what exactly is the difference between them and a gang like MS13, overt criminality? MS13 wishes it could do the kind of damage about to be inflicted by the House GOP.

431 calochortus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:52:00pm

re: #424 klys

One of my roommates (a morning person) would miss the 8:30am class we had together because she would get up at 4am and then get distracted doing a homework problem.

My opinion was that if it took me 3 alarms to get out the fucking door and make it, she was on her own, because I couldn’t be relied upon to remember anything that early.

The ever-popular ‘so much time that you end up being late’. I have that happen from time to time. Of course, these days I’m not such a dedicate morning person as I used to be.

432 jaunte  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:52:51pm
433 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:53:54pm

re: #412 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I have had several therapists in recent years, and honestly, the interview process is a PITA. One seems okay, but too docile, another seems okay, but too prescriptive. It’s almost like dating, in some weird way. “Could this one be the one?” Hard to describe, but damn I wish it was easier to find someone that would “click.”

A couple years ago, I needed a therapist. This was the second time. The first, I found someone I could manipulate, so I had a jaundiced eye on therapy.

This time, however, I found someone who cut me no slack. One session, I was whinging on about something or other, and she looks at me and mock-pouts and says, “Awwwww! Poor Dougie!” It was exactly what I needed.

434 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:54:15pm

re: #425 dog philosopher

one frenchman to another sitting next to me in a cafe where i was studying:

“q’est que tu pense sur cette déesse la?”

that woke me up!

435 wrenchwench  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:55:57pm


HAHA

436 goddamnedfrank  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:56:02pm

re: #432 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Needs to be a breathalyzer interlock on the House and Senate voting machines, all failures published.

437 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:56:04pm

re: #431 calochortus

The ever-popular ‘so much time that you end up being late’. I have that happen from time to time. Of course, these days I’m not such a dedicate morning person as I used to be.

To be fair, she has ADHD. Distraction was not an uncommon issue.

I love her dearly, but there is a reason I was the responsible one of the pair.

438 austin_blue  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:56:07pm

Perspectives:

nytimes.com

and

nytimes.com

Oh, and I continue to wonder how the R’s can manage to fit 50 lbs. of crazy in a ten-pound bag.

439 122 Year Old Obama  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:56:20pm

Times like that, I wish I drank.

440 wrenchwench  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:58:40pm

fwancis is pissing me off.

441 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:59:14pm

re: #440 wrenchwench

fwancis is pissing me off.

Well, at least he was honest about the whole “presence of Democrats means we must restrict voting rights” bit.

//

442 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:59:27pm

re: #440 wrenchwench

fwancis is pissing me off.

I stopped assuming good faith on the part of that one a long time ago.

443 wrenchwench  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 4:59:40pm

I accidentally updinged him. Maybe it’s time for a break….

444 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:00:29pm

re: #181 GeneJockey

I think that’s the level at which we start getting those Zionist checks? Still waiting for my first one.
//

Sorry, those are gonna be stopped by the shutdown.

445 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:01:02pm

re: #424 klys

One of my roommates (a morning person) would miss the 8:30am class we had together because she would get up at 4am and then get distracted doing a homework problem.

My opinion was that if it took me 3 alarms to get out the fucking door and make it, she was on her own, because I couldn’t be relied upon to remember anything that early.

I had a roommate Freshman year who drove me batty. I’m by no means a morning person, but I hate the alarm SO MUCH that, even though I put it across the room so I couldn’t just turn it off in my sleep, I would often wake up at the ‘click’, before the buzz, and other times I woke up already halfway across the room to turn it off.

Not this guy.

*BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ*

Stirring in the top bunk.

*ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ*

Legs swing over the side.

*ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ*

Finally, he hops down and strolls leisurely to the clock to turn it off.

Bastard.

446 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:02:05pm

re: #342 thedopefishlives

It sounds like something that should be in a list of famous last words.

But it wasn’t. Adm. Farragut won the battle of Mobile Bay after saying that.

447 Stanley Sea  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:03:06pm

re: #446 Dark_Falcon

But it wasn’t. Adm. Farragut won the battle of Mobile Bay after saying that.

So you were nowhere near the train wreck today?

448 SpaceJesus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:03:14pm

“The damn bill is too big, it’s not readable but I know what’s in it and doesn’t work even though it hasn’t started yet!”

-republicans

449 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:03:42pm

re: #445 GeneJockey

I had a roommate Freshman year who drove me batty. I’m by no means a morning person, but I hate the alarm SO MUCH that, even though I put it across the room so I couldn’t just turn it off in my sleep, I would often wake up at the ‘click’, before the buzz, and other times I woke up already halfway across the room to turn it off.

Not this guy.

*BZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ*

Stirring in the top bunk.

*ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ*

Legs swing over the side.

*ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ*

Finally, he hops down and strolls leisurely to the clock to turn it off.

Bastard.

There’s a reason the alarm is on my side of the bed.

450 jaunte  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:04:01pm

re: #448 SpaceJesus

“The damn bill is too big, it’s not readable but I know what’s in it and doesn’t work even though it hasn’t started yet!”

TRAINWRECK!

451 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:05:21pm

re: #425 dog philosopher

i did all my studying for computer science in cafes

if i tried to study at home, i did the dishes and cleaned everything in the apartment, anything to keep from studying

if i tried to study in the library, i fell asleep

in a cafe, the music, hot and cold running coffee drinks, and toothsome young maidens coming in to the cafe kept me alert and made studying more entertaining

Interesting; if I studied shortly before a test, I’d invariably fail it. However, if I made sure not to study 48 hours before a test, I’d pass the test high marks - I just relied on my memory. For some reason, studying prior to taking a test seems to mess it up.

452 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:05:27pm

re: #440 wrenchwench

fwancis is pissing me off.

Just ignore the Letter Troll. His letters have all the impact of a vote to defund Obamacare.

453 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:06:26pm

re: #452 Dark_Falcon

Just ignore the Letter Troll. He’s letters have all the impact of a vote to defund Obamacare.

The House GOP really is trying to shoot the hostage(s) here, however.

454 Lidane  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:06:30pm

re: #209 klys

The reality of being a Republican in the northeast everywhere outside the white evangelical South sets in…

FTFY

455 Stanley Sea  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:06:46pm

re: #450 jaunte

TRAINWRECK!

Shoved down our throats!

456 Bulworth  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:07:53pm

Can’t stop watching my stupid Twitter feed, even though I already know nothing will happen tonight or anytime soon.

457 Kragar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:07:54pm

“When in deadly danger,
when beset by doubt,
run around circles,
wave your arms and shout.”
- parody of the litany of command
GOP operations plan

458 wrenchwench  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:07:56pm

re: #452 Dark_Falcon

Just ignore the Letter Troll. His letters have all the impact of a vote to defund Obamacare.

But I can have a back-and-forth with francis, which I cannot with Ted Cruz.

It is a waste of energy, though.

459 SpaceJesus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:08:16pm

How do the congressional staffers for these republicans get paid now?

460 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:08:23pm

Peter King just fired a broadside at Ted Cruz on CNN.

461 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:09:09pm

re: #458 wrenchwench

But I can have a back-and-forth with francis, which I cannot with Ted Cruz.

It is a waste of energy, though.

It’s not worth it. All it does is waste your time.

462 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:09:31pm

re: #459 SpaceJesus

How do the congressional staffers for these republicans get paid now?

They don’t, not until the CR passes.

463 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:09:36pm

re: #451 Dr Lizardo

Interesting; if I studied shortly before a test, I’d invariably fail it. However, if I made sure not to study 48 hours before a test, I’d pass the test high marks - I just relied on my memory. For some reason, studying prior to taking a test seems to mess it up.

what worked for me was taking notes in class. somehow the act of writing things down fixed it in my memory. then i would just go over my notes and compare them to the text

but i was also doing the homework problems and writing pseudocode in the cafe, and everybody knows that the best way to learn something is to bang your head against it for a while…

464 jaunte  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:09:46pm
465 dog philosopher  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:10:16pm

what is this ‘francis’ that everybody keeps a talkin about?

466 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:10:30pm

re: #449 klys

There’s a reason the alarm is on my side of the bed.

My wife can fall asleep leaning up against a post, and fall BACK to sleep even more easily. During labor with our first son, she fell asleep between contractions - seriously, she’d be snoring and then her snores would be replaced by groans, then switch seamlessly back to snores as it faded (to be fair, this was 30 hours into it).

She used to use the snooze button. The alarm would go off. I’d wake up. She’d wake up enough to hit the snooze button, but be snoring again within seconds of hitting the pillow. I’d be awake, and with luck, I’d almost get back to sleep when the alarm went off again.

She’d wake up enough to hit the snooze button, but be snoring again within seconds of hitting the pillow. This would continue for most of an hour.

Eventually, I overcame my inherent confrontation avoidance to ask her to please, PLEASE stop using the snooze button!

Mind you, now the male Greyhound usually wakes her up before the alarm.

467 Lidane  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:11:09pm

re: #462 Dark_Falcon

They don’t, not until the CR passes.

So the House GOP was prepared to screw over their own staffers so they could tilt at the Obamacare windmill a few more times?

Morons.

468 EPR-radar  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:11:11pm

re: #465 dog philosopher

what is this ‘francis’ that everybody keeps a talkin about?

Chew toy in the pages. Into sharing incoherent letters to President Obama with LGF.

469 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:11:31pm

re: #463 dog philosopher

what worked for me was taking notes in class. somehow the act of writing things down fixed it in my memory. then i would just go over my notes and compare them to the text

but i was also doing the homework problems and writing pseudocode in the cafe, and everybody knows that the best way to learn something is to bang your head against it for a while…

For me, it was just reading. I remember a lot of what I read, especially if I enjoy it.

Even now, though it’s been 20 years since I first read it, I can still remember about 50% of “The Call of Cthulhu” verbatim.

470 jaunte  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:11:55pm

re: #465 dog philosopher

He’s our own Lazlo Toth.

471 wrenchwench  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:12:22pm

re: #465 dog philosopher

what is this ‘francis’ that everybody keeps a talkin about?

This.

472 calochortus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:12:34pm

re: #466 GeneJockey

30 hours into labor? Be glad she was sleeping between contractions rather than cursing you for being involved in the reproductive adventure.

473 Stanley Sea  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:12:54pm

Only 6 GOP revolted. Looking at who it is, there’s not a more clear sign that complete idiots are bought and paid for and then heed their master’s bidding.

Six Republicans voted against the rule with Democrats: Rep. Michele Bachmann (MN), Rep. Paul Broun (GA), Rep. Charlie Dent, Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX), Rep. Pete King (NY), Rep. Steve King (IA).

474 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:12:56pm

re: #464 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Much as that sentence appears to have gotten out of control.

475 SpaceJesus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:13:04pm

re: #462 Dark_Falcon

“Hey everybody, sorry you can’t pay your rent this month, but please continue to work for me and show up to the office and work for no pay. thanks”

476 wrenchwench  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:13:49pm

re: #461 Dark_Falcon

It’s not worth it. All it does is waste your time.

I think I’m getting to him, now. Maybe he’ll go away.

477 jaunte  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:14:12pm

re: #459 SpaceJesus

How do the congressional staffers for these republicans get paid now?

They’re going to have to borrow 20k or so from their parents.

478 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:15:25pm

re: #472 calochortus

30 hours into labor? Be glad she was sleeping between contractions rather than cursing you for being involved in the reproductive adventure.

Oddly enough, she never reached that stage. Probably because she had the birthing center doctor who sent her home after monitoring for 6 or so hours, saying, “Go home and enjoy the early stages of labor!” There was already someone to hate.

479 calochortus  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:21:41pm

re: #478 GeneJockey

Oddly enough, she never reached that stage. Probably because she had the birthing center doctor who sent her home after monitoring for 6 or so hours, saying, “Go home and enjoy the early stages of labor!” There was already someone to hate.

LOL. My first was something around 14 hours and the second was 2 hours. We were lucky I didn’t have him in the car.

480 BongCrodny  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:24:37pm

re: #327 GeneJockey

“Aw, SHIT!” *BONG!*

What the hell did I do now?

481 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:27:23pm

Moved…

482 Carlos Danger  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:30:37pm

re: #473 Stanley Sea

Only 6 GOP revolted. Looking at who it is, there’s not a more clear sign that complete idiots are bought and paid for and then heed their master’s bidding.

Six Republicans voted against the rule with Democrats: Rep. Michele Bachmann (MN), Rep. Paul Broun (GA), Rep. Charlie Dent, Rep. Louie Gohmert (TX), Rep. Pete King (NY), Rep. Steve King (IA).

Only 2 of those are for real, Dent and King - Dent is considered a “moderate”, for what that’s worth, but he actually showed some gumption for once. King represents an area with an actual urban population.

I think King (IA), Gohmert, Bachmann and Broun voted against the bill because they didn’t think it went far enough.

483 GeneJockey  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:32:49pm

re: #482 Carlos Danger

Only 2 of those are for real, Dent and King - Dent is considered a “moderate”, for what that’s worth, but he actually showed some gumption for once. King represents an area with an actual urban population.

I think King (IA), Gohmert, Bachmann and Broun voted against the bill because they didn’t think it went far enough.

Yeah, but remember, the Right considers ALL opposition to Obamacare to be in favor of repeal-and-let ‘em die, ignoring that 1/4 of the opposition want Single Payer instead, so maybe we should use GOP math and call them moderates?

484 ObserverArt  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:39:13pm

re: #399 Bulworth

And we’ve seen how much today’s GOP cares about jobs. //

Yeah, it is a real disappointment that the Dems outright blocked all 40+ jobs bills that Boehner and his boys have created. And then the Dems go all crazy now and say the Republicans are at fault for this impending government shutdown and it is hurting the jobs.

The nerve!

///

485 compound_Idaho  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 5:55:05pm

re: #463 dog philosopher

what worked for me was taking notes in class. somehow the act of writing things down fixed it in my memory. then i would just go over my notes and compare them to the text

but i was also doing the homework problems and writing pseudocode in the cafe, and everybody knows that the best way to learn something is to bang your head against it for a while…

It took me a while to learn that taking copious notes in class was a distraction for me. I did better if I watched and listened. I would take a few quick notes if I was having trouble following. It mostly served as a reminder to revisit the topic in the text on my own or get some help.

486 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 7:11:05pm

re: #479 calochortus

LOL. My first was something around 14 hours and the second was 2 hours. We were lucky I didn’t have him in the car.

My mom’s third was 40 minutes.

We live

487 klys  Mon, Sep 30, 2013 8:32:08pm

re: #486 klys

My mom’s third was 40 minutes.

We live

Well crap, I forgot about HTML tag symbols.

We’re less than 5 minutes from the hospital and my sister was nearly born in the car.


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