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1 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:00:18am

The media know that the US public has an obsession with superficial gestures that arises from a total lack of understanding or interest in the deeper issues.

They are just doing their job, which is attracting viewers so they can sell advertising time more profitably.

2 Aunty Entity Dragon  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:02:09am

The outrageous outrages are propagating from the right wing faster than the actuaries and computers on Wall Street can tabulate them…

Somebody really ought to generate a derivative or credit default swap based on the daily frequency of fake scandals.

3 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:05:15am

We are a nation of imbeciles. Sigh.

4 klys  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:06:27am

re: #2 Aunty Entity Dragon

The outrageous outrages are propagating from the right wing faster than the actuaries and computers on Wall Street can tabulate them…

Somebody really ought to generate a derivative or credit default swap based on the daily frequency of fake scandals.

The only problem I see with this is they’d take it as incentive to generate even more. Because nothing is more sacred than money.

5 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:10:04am

re: #3 Rev_Arthur_Belling

We are a nation of imbeciles. Sigh.

I prefer to think of us as a nation WITH imbeciles.

6 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:11:13am

You could have made money shorting Benghazi after Lara Logan’s 60 Minutes piece.

7 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:11:14am

re: #5 GeneJockey

I prefer to think of us as a nation WITH too many imbeciles.

FTFY

8 Dr. Matt  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:11:52am

Stating that 47% of Americans are moochers…..perfectly fine.

Taking a selfie during a celebratory Memorial….OUTRAGEOUS!

9 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:20:25am

Evidently all the lizards must be at lunch.

10 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:20:58am

re: #5 GeneJockey

I prefer to think of us as a nation WITH imbeciles.

My personal view is that we are reaping the consequences of all the cuts to educatio that started under Reagan in the 80’s: we have a general public and electorate that is unaware how science works, how economics works, how to interpret statistics, how government works, what has happened in American history and piifully unaware of the rest of the world, its religions and history.

11 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:21:01am

Soma comes in TV form as well as Tablets.

12 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:21:29am

re: #11 FemNaziBitch

Soma comes in TV form as well as Tablets.

All hail Hypnotoad!

13 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:23:22am

At least Pres Obama didn’t grope any women.

Image: Merkel-Bush-Massage.jpg

14 Targetpractice  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:25:33am

Bread and circuses.

16 Dr. Matt  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:26:41am

The only question I have: Was John Shimkus born an asshole or did he evolve into one?

17 klys  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:27:41am

Adorama, you tempt me so.

I think my inlaws will be getting this photo on metal for Christmas.

I want one too, but it probably needs to wait until we’re back from the holidays.

18 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:27:42am

re: #15 FemNaziBitch

Heh, this is getting fun now.

First amendment ftw!

19 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:29:06am

re: #10 Sol Berdinowitz

My personal view is that we are reaping the consequences of all the cuts to educatio that started under Reagan in the 80’s: we have a general public and electorate that is unaware how science works, how economics works, how to interpret statistics, how government works, what has happened in American history and piifully unaware of the rest of the world, its religions and history.

I’m not sure that the cuts to education are at fault. MY personal view is that it goes back to Nixon and Agnew and the Southern Strategy. Consider that under Kennedy, we talked about having an Administration staffed by “The Best And The Brightest”, and by the end of that decade the Vice President was talking about ‘an effete corps of intellectual snobs’. The Southern Strategy is all about resentment, and for the ignorant boobs whose ancestors were duped into fighting a war so rich men could own black people, there’s nothing that stirs up as much resentment as someone who knows more than they do.

So, the GOP set about devaluing expertise, education, knowledge and critical thought. In the end, they managed to devalue reality itself.

20 Targetpractice  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:30:01am

re: #15 FemNaziBitch

Hindus join Satanists demanding equal placement on Oklahoma capitol grounds

When do the Discordians get a statue?

21 Lidane  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:30:33am

I have upset a dudebro over on Mashable’s FB page by calling Snowden a coward.

yeah a coward…
That is the dumbest thing anyone has written…
He sacrificed his entire life to wake the WORLD up to what the US Government is doing… and you call him a “coward”..
Think about it… Really!!

This amuses me.

22 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:30:34am

re: #20 Targetpractice

When do the Discordians get a statue?

The Unitarians demand a giant question mark.

23 Charles Johnson  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:30:40am

re: #16 Dr. Matt

The only question I have: Was John Shimkus born an asshole or did he evolve into one?

Republican Rep. Shimkus: Global Warming Is No Problem, the Bible Tells Me So

24 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:30:56am

WHAT?

25 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:31:13am

We should start a movement to put up a Cthulu statue.

/

26 jaunte  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:31:15am

re: #17 klys

What size do they make the metal prints?

27 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:31:44am

re: #20 Targetpractice

When do the Discordians get a statue?

I’m waiting for the Church of the Kracken.

28 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:32:31am

re: #15 FemNaziBitch

Hindus join Satanists demanding equal placement on Oklahoma capitol grounds

You see? Hinduism = Satanism!!! This must be stopped in the name of Decency!!!!!

/

29 Whack-A-Mole  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:32:33am

re: #20 Targetpractice

Now they just need a Jedi monument!

30 Targetpractice  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:32:33am

re: #23 Charles Johnson

Republican Rep. Shimkus: Global Warming Is No Problem, the Bible Tells Me So

Don’t you love how they both believe in a grand plan held by an almighty deity that cannot be altered by the work of man, but also that that deity granted them free will and thus the ability to choose how to live their lives?

31 klys  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:32:59am

re: #26 jaunte

What size do they make the metal prints?

I was pleasantly surprised to find that 7” by 30” was an option; I’ll only lose a little bit from the top because that doesn’t quite fit the proportion of the photo, but I can preserve most of it. They also do 12” by 36”, but that doesn’t work for this photo at all.

It’s not listed anywhere on their size listing though; I didn’t find it until I had it uploaded and was looking. It’s only $50 for the size I’m getting, which seems incredibly reasonable.

32 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:33:12am

re: #24 FemNaziBitch

WHAT?

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Yeah, Bryan Fischer was on that like white on rice. He said it’s too bad OUR Supreme Court wouldn’t let stand a law passed by OUR elected representatives.

Mind you, he wet his pants with dismay when the SCOTUS did exactly that with the ACA.

33 jaunte  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:33:32am

re: #31 klys

Thanks, that’s a good gift suggestion.

34 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:33:39am

re: #27 FemNaziBitch

I’m waiting for the Church of the Kracken.

“Have a Kraken good time!”

35 erik_t  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:33:55am

On the one hand, I sort of want to see some polling on how many Americans are in any way offended or hurt that Obama shook the hand of Castro (aside from the 27%ers, which are a given). My guess/hope is very, very few.

On the other hand, I would shake my head with grief and collapse into a whisky bottle if someone dared think that “Are you okay with the President shaking hands with another country’s president?” is a survey-worthy question.

Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.

36 Decatur Deb  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:34:03am

re: #27 FemNaziBitch

I’m waiting for the Church of the Kracken.

The Jaguar Priests demand a pyramid with lots of steps. And they were here first.

37 klys  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:34:16am

re: #33 jaunte

Thanks, that’s a good gift suggestion.

Yeah, their turnaround is still such that you can get it in time for Christmas. :) They’re saying 4 days for in lab, and then I’m paying a little extra for shipping since we’re doing Christmas in NC early.

38 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:35:05am

Stone Circles! The Druids demand Stone Circles!

39 Dr. Matt  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:35:08am

re: #23 Charles Johnson

Republican Rep. Shimkus: Global Warming Is No Problem, the Bible Tells Me So

Ugh. Reading that headline makes my head hurt. But, as discussed previously on LGF, this viewpoint is real and prevalent among fundies. As far back as the early 90s, when I was in the Navy, I heard fundie sailors openly discuss that global warming is a hoax because God wouldn’t let mankind destroy the earth. True [and painful] story.

40 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:35:23am

HURR HURR CUTS MOAR SOCIAL SAFETY SET!!!!! MAKE TEH POORS PAY TEH NATIONAL DEBT!!!!!!!

41 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:35:50am

re: #32 GeneJockey

Yeah, Bryan Fischer was on that like white on rice. He said it’s too bad OUR Supreme Court wouldn’t let stand a law passed by OUR elected representatives.

Mind you, he wet his pants with dismay when the SCOTUS did exactly that with the ACA.

NO, actually, I was being snarky.

My first thought when reading that tweet was: “pictures of what?”

42 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:36:07am

re: #19 GeneJockey

I’m not sure that the cuts to education are at fault. MY personal view is that it goes back to Nixon and Agnew and the Southern Strategy. Consider that under Kennedy, we talked about having an Administration staffed by “The Best And The Brightest”, and by the end of that decade the Vice President was talking about ‘an effete corps of intellectual snobs’. The Southern Strategy is all about resentment, and for the ignorant boobs whose ancestors were duped into fighting a war so rich men could own black people, there’s nothing that stirs up as much resentment as someone who knows more than they do.

So, the GOP set about devaluing expertise, education, knowledge and critical thought. In the end, they managed to devalue reality itself.

They came to value ideological purity over any sort of intellectual skills, candidates like Sarah Palin, Rick Perry and, Michelle Bachmann are living proof of that.

The Tea Party has taken the Litmus test of ideological purity and turned it into an acid bath

43 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:36:49am

re: #39 Dr. Matt

Ugh. Reading that headline makes my head hurt. But, as discussed previously on LGF, this viewpoint is real and prevalent among fundies. As far back as the early 90s, when I was in the Navy, I heard fundie sailors openly discuss that global warming is a hoax because God wouldn’t let mankind destroy the earth. True [and painful] story.

The crazy thing is, NOBODY is saying AGW will “destroy the Earth”. Did these fundie sailors think mankind might destroy itself with, say, a global thermonuclear war?

44 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:37:09am

re: #42 Sol Berdinowitz

The Tea Party has taken the Litmus test of ideological purity and turned it into an acid bath

Love this.

45 Dr. Matt  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:37:23am

re: #30 Targetpractice

Don’t you love how they both believe in a grand plan held by an almighty deity that cannot be altered by the work of man…..

So, God won’t let man destroy the earth, but He’ll let man fly airplanes into buildings…..m’kay.

46 Targetpractice  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:37:31am

re: #40 Lord of the Pies

HURR HURR CUTS MOAR SOCIAL SAFETY SET!!!!! MAKE TEH POORS PAY TEH NATIONAL DEBT!!!!!!!

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Son of Paul, we don’t have a deficit problem. What we have is a weak economy problem, when you lily-livered bastards keep blaming on the deficit rather than on your Quixotic quest to achieve the ideological goal of killing our social safety net.

47 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:37:34am

OUT OF THE BLUE:

I wonder if insurance policies cover hymen repair surgery —and what the Whackos think of it.

48 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:37:54am

HEY RAND PAUL

49 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:37:55am

re: #34 GeneJockey

“Have a Kraken good time!”

When you pull the string on the Christmas cracker a tentacle comes out and wraps itself around a nearby throat.

50 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:38:00am

re: #20 Targetpractice

When do the Discordians get a statue?

When do secular Winter Solsticians get some recognition? Soon. I love this humanist version.

kickstarter.com

51 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:38:01am

re: #43 GeneJockey

The crazy thing is, NOBODY is saying AGW will “destroy the Earth”. Did these fundie sailors think mankind might destroy itself with, say, a global thermonuclear war?

AGW will most certainly destroy mankind …

52 erik_t  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:38:34am

re: #40 Lord of the Pies

@SenRandPaul
Sequester cuts weren’t enough to fix deficit problem & I oppose undoing this modest spending restraint.

Uh, buddy, I think I know what you’re trying to say here, but what you actually said is “This didn’t work, so I think we should keep doing it”.

F for ffort.

53 Targetpractice  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:38:43am

re: #45 Dr. Matt

So, God won’t let man destroy the earth, but He’ll let man fly airplanes into buildings…..m’kay.

I’ve noticed that when God gets invoked in such a manner, it just continues to reinforce the argument that their God is an amoral psychopath.

54 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:38:54am

re: #51 FemNaziBitch

AGW will most certainly destroy mankind …

As George Carlin once put it, “The planet ain’t going anywhere. We are.”

55 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:39:29am
56 jaunte  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:39:34am

re: #40 Lord of the Pies

HURR HURR CUTS MOAR SOCIAL SAFETY SET!!!!! MAKE TEH POORS PAY TEH NATIONAL DEBT!!!!!!!

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Maybe cutting defense spending in Kentucky would start the ball rolling.

57 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:39:50am

re: #42 Sol Berdinowitz

They came to value ideological purity over any sort of intellectual skills, candidates like Sarah Palin, Rick Perry and, Michelle Bachmann are living proof of that.

The Tea Party has taken the Litmus test of ideological purity and turned it into an acid bath

Yes, and Palin is the High Priestess of proud, resentful ignorance.

The thing that constantly floors me is that she’s so inarticulate that she has to fight her way out of her own sentences, so that in the end they’re nothing but a garbled mishmash of buzzwords, but her True Believers hear genius.

Maybe this is what “Speaking In Tongues” is all about.
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58 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:39:57am

re: #54 Dr Lizardo

As George Carlin once put it, “The planet ain’t going anywhere. We are.”

Yep, heard it in person from the man himself.

59 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:40:55am

re: #51 FemNaziBitch

AGW will most certainly destroy mankind …

My fear is that it will lead to political and economic strife that will lead us to do to each other what we actually avoided for nearly forty years during the Cold War: turn on each other with weapons of mass destruction on a mass scale.

60 RealityBasedSteve  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:43:13am

re: #31 klys

I was pleasantly surprised to find that 7” by 30” was an option; I’ll only lose a little bit from the top because that doesn’t quite fit the proportion of the photo, but I can preserve most of it. They also do 12” by 36”, but that doesn’t work for this photo at all.

It’s not listed anywhere on their size listing though; I didn’t find it until I had it uploaded and was looking. It’s only $50 for the size I’m getting, which seems incredibly reasonable.

Where on the Adorama site do you find their lab services? It’s bad enough that you sent me there and I found that they have a really nice multi-piece filter pack for strobist photography I want now.

RBS

61 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:44:05am

re: #51 FemNaziBitch

AGW will most certainly destroy mankind …

You know, I’ve heard some Cosnervatives who weren’t obviously crazy say that we need to consider whether or not it might be a GOOD thing.

I pointed out that for thousands of years, mankind has built its croplands and cities in places that had dependable weather and sea levels. Make those unpredictable, and where do we grow crops? Where do we live? What do we eat?

62 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:44:23am
63 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:44:26am

re: #59 Sol Berdinowitz

My fear is that it will lead to political and economic strife that will lead us to do to each other what we actually avoided for nearly forty years during the Cold War: turn on each other with weapons of mass destruction on a mass scale.

Many, many sci-fi plots are based on this premise.

64 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:44:45am

re: #61 GeneJockey

I pointed out that for thousands of years, mankind has built its croplands and cities in places that had dependable weather and sea levels. Make those unpredictable, and where do we grow crops? Where do we live? What do we eat?

SOYLENT GREEN!!!

65 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:45:21am

poor guys

66 Dr. Matt  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:45:46am

re: #61 GeneJockey

What do we eat?

Seeds they bought on Glenn Beck’s website.

67 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:45:54am

This early-20th-century bullshit “motivational speaker” is gaining a bunch of fans on Teh Twitters.

They were passing off his utter crap as “Abraham Lincoln quotes”

Having corrected these Fake Quotes I now feel somewhat responsible for having helped create this Boetcker cult.

*FACEPALM*

68 Decatur Deb  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:45:58am

re: #38 GeneJockey

Stone Circles! The Druids demand Stone Circles!

They’ll have to settle for a foamhenge—budget constraints.

Image: DavidatFoamhenge.jpg

enchantedcastlestudios.com

69 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:46:46am

re: #58 FemNaziBitch

Yep, heard it in person from the man himself.

Lucky you.

Perhaps one of the reasons I’m looking forward to the new Godzilla film is because thematically, it harkens back to the 1954 Japanese original. The idea of the Big G as a destructive force, not the friend of weird seven-year old kids named Ken wearing bizarre shorts. Mother Nature’s revenge, wrath of God, whatever you want to call it. Things like that make for great disaster films.

70 RealityBasedSteve  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:46:48am

re: #57 GeneJockey

Yes, and Palin is the High Priestess of proud, resentful ignorance.

The thing that constantly floors me is that she’s so inarticulate that she has to fight her way out of her own sentences, so that in the end they’re nothing but a garbled mishmash of buzzwords, but her True Believers hear genius.

Maybe this is what “Speaking In Tongues” is all about.
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I refer to my bolded text as “Active Ignorance” as in “I don’t know, I don’t want to be bothered to learn, and I’m so secure in my position that I don’t have to even acknowledge the possibility of being wrong.” Incredibly common among people who have never “considered” their views and beliefs, but were simply given them to follow.

RBS

71 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:47:28am

Shipbreaker is the first in a series by an author whose name I’ll never be able to spell or pronounce.

A modern sci-fi dystopia of the near future.

72 Decatur Deb  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:47:31am

re: #62 FemNaziBitch

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Also tells you who many of the ‘independents’ are—embarrassed Republicans.

73 RealityBasedSteve  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:48:07am

re: #68 Decatur Deb

They’ll have to settle for a foamhenge—budget constraints.

Image: DavidatFoamhenge.jpg

enchantedcastlestudios.com

And remember 12’ is FEET, not INCHES!!!

RBS
Who has to go burst into flames now.

74 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:48:14am
75 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:49:22am

I think I’m glad Snowden lost. The GG gloating if he won would be unbearable.

76 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:50:26am

WTF?

77 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:50:31am

re: #68 Decatur Deb

They’ll have to settle for a foamhenge—budget constraints.

Image: DavidatFoamhenge.jpg

enchantedcastlestudios.com

“I do not, for one, think that the problem was that the band was down. I think that the problem may have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf. Alright? That tended to understate the hugeness of the object.”

78 Dr. Matt  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:50:43am

re: #73 RealityBasedSteve

And remember 12’ is FEET, not INCHES!!!

RBS
Who has to go burst into flames now.

“I think that the problem may have been, that there was a Stonehenge monument on the stage that was in danger of being crushed by a dwarf.”

79 klys  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:50:56am

re: #60 RealityBasedSteve

Where on the Adorama site do you find their lab services? It’s bad enough that you sent me there and I found that they have a really nice multi-piece filter pack for strobist photography I want now.

RBS

They have a separate site for photos, adoramapix.com.

80 Dr. Matt  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:51:11am

re: #77 GeneJockey

Jerk

81 RealityBasedSteve  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:53:49am

re: #79 klys

They have a separate site for photos, adoramapix.com.

Thanks.

RBS

82 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:53:55am
83 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:54:05am

re: #80 Dr. Matt

Jerk

12 seconds, bitch!

84 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:54:59am
85 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:55:09am

re: #79 klys

They have a separate site for photos, adoramapix.com.

Whenever I see that name, my brain says it as ‘Adaroma’.

86 jaunte  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:55:21am

re: #83 GeneJockey

Here we see the oppression inherent in standard time conventions.

87 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:55:32am

re: #82 FemNaziBitch

#SarahPalinChristmanSongs
I Shot the Little Drummer Boy, but I did not Shoot the Deputy

Don we now our camouflage apparel…

88 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:56:27am

re: #84 FemNaziBitch

I see some shitty Islamophobia.

89 dog philosopher  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:56:37am

toxic fumes fire warning for concord and east bay

which is where i am

90 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:56:58am

re: #86 jaunte

Here we see the oppression inherent in standard time conventions.

You realize that when Standard Time was instituted, there were many who saw it as an offense against God.

91 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:57:27am

re: #89 dog philosopher

toxic fumes fire warning for concord and east bay

which is where i am

Yikes. Stay safe.

92 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:57:28am

HURR HURR CALLING ALL TEH WHITE PEOPLE!!!!!

93 Targetpractice  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:58:42am

re: #84 FemNaziBitch

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That reminds me, for Rastafarianism, can they put up a statue of Bob Marley?

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94 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:58:55am

re: #92 Lord of the Pies

HURR HURR CALLING ALL TEH WHITE PEOPLE!!!!!

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Weren’t all of them at Rand Paul’s African-American Outreach meeting?

95 RealityBasedSteve  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 11:59:01am

I don’t tweet, but I’ll add this to the collection (besides it’s too long)

Good King Wenceslas looked out
on the feast of Stephen,
when the snow lay round about,
deep and crisp and even.
Brightly shone the moon that night,
though the frost was cruel,
when a poor man came in sight,
Taking fuel produced by people with productive jobs who work hard to support the takers in society

RBS

96 Decatur Deb  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:00:18pm

re: #84 FemNaziBitch

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Have that as a t-shirt. (Kids’ Christmas gift.)

97 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:00:54pm

re: #88 Lord of the Pies

I see some shitty Islamophobia.

YEAH, I don’t get that.

98 Decatur Deb  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:00:56pm

re: #93 Targetpractice

That reminds me, for Rastafarianism, can they put up a statue of Bob Marley?

//

Eternal flame.

99 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:01:36pm

re: #98 Decatur Deb

Eternal flame.

for the never empty bowl?

100 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:02:56pm

re: #93 Targetpractice

That reminds me, for Rastafarianism, can they put up a statue of Bob Marley?

//

Actually, I think Haile Selassie would be more appropriate for the Rastas.

101 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:03:15pm

re: #97 FemNaziBitch

YEAH, I don’t get that.

Because whoever made that up didn’t bother to learn even as much shit about Islam as all of the other religions that were spoofed.

102 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:04:05pm

re: #97 FemNaziBitch

YEAH, I don’t get that.

Yeah, more appropriate to see “If shit happens, it’s because God’s testing you.”

103 Targetpractice  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:06:20pm

re: #100 Dr Lizardo

Actually, I think Haile Selassie would be more appropriate for the Rastas.

I know, but I wanted to go for the humorous angle. So it was either Bob or a giant cannabis leaf.

104 Kragar  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:07:44pm
105 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:07:47pm

re: #102 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, more appropriate to see “If shit happens, it’s because God’s testing you.”

I remember seeing “Shit happens according to the Will of Allah”.

106 Targetpractice  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:08:31pm

re: #104 Kragar

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“TIME’s irrelevant, but they’re big stupid heads if they don’t name my cash cow as Person of the Year!”

107 Kragar  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:09:51pm

re: #106 Targetpractice

Predictably, Greenwald pitched a sour-grapes tantrum about it, protesting via Twitter and telling TPM’s Tom Kludt:

“It’s a meaningless award from a meaningless magazine, designed to achieve the impossible: to make TIME relevant and interesting for a few fleeting moments.”

108 Gus  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:09:56pm

Handshake Day +1.

John McCain declares war.

109 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:10:03pm

re: #105 Sol Berdinowitz

I remember seeing “Shit happens according to the Will of Allah”.

Basically.

110 Amory Blaine  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:11:28pm

If I see Obama eating a Cubano today I’ll know he’s trolling.

111 Decatur Deb  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:12:29pm

re: #110 Amory Blaine

If I see Obama eating a Cubano today I’ll know he’s trolling.

He’s been trolling since he pulled out the birth certificate.

112 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:12:41pm
113 Targetpractice  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:13:25pm

GOP decides it’s that time of the year again for their Ebenezer Scrooge impersonation:

114 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:13:32pm

re: #101 Lord of the Pies

Because whoever made that up didn’t bother to learn even as much shit about Islam as all of the other religions that were spoofed.

I’m wondering if it’s really old. Perhaps distrubuted after 9/11, when a lot of us (me anyway) were in a bad place regarding Islam.

115 Gus  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:15:57pm

OMG Cuba is going to destroy the USA!! Kind of funny that we have GITMO there.

116 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:16:47pm

re: #69 Dr Lizardo

Lucky you.

Perhaps one of the reasons I’m looking forward to the new Godzilla film is because thematically, it harkens back to the 1954 Japanese original. The idea of the Big G as a destructive force, not the friend of weird seven-year old kids named Ken wearing bizarre shorts. Mother Nature’s revenge, wrath of God, whatever you want to call it. Things like that make for great disaster films.

And since it’s due to atomics that Godzilla came out it will be America, and therefore… Obama’s fault!
/// ;)

117 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:17:02pm
118 Targetpractice  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:17:53pm

re: #117 FemNaziBitch

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Well, Ted certainly did help in the burning of $24 billion.

119 Kragar  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:18:52pm

re: #117 FemNaziBitch

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“Blaze Man of the Year” Does that mean we can call him a flamer?

120 dog philosopher  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:19:05pm

hey how about that frank the pope guy anyway huh?

a real regular guy if you ask me yannowaddeyemean

121 Gus  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:19:13pm
122 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:19:47pm

I just read some of the replies to the religion jpg and decided to block the tweeter.

123 dog philosopher  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:19:55pm

re: #119 Kragar

“Blaze Man of the Year” Does that mean we can call him a flamer?

let’s get him out to burning man and see what happens then

124 Political Atheist  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:20:33pm

GOP civil war? What GOP civil war?

Speaking with reporters at the Capitol on Wednesday, the Ohio Republican mocked the powerful conservative forces that he said were staking out opposition to the deal even before its full details were public.
Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com

125 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:21:25pm

re: #121 Gus

WTF? Seriously?

Reducing compley issues to things Americans can relate to and understand: teenage sexual practices.

126 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:22:39pm
127 Charles Johnson  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:23:59pm

re: #121 Gus

WTF? Seriously?

Oh for Pete’s sake.

That’s another pundit whose appeal I’ve never understood.

128 Kragar  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:25:00pm
129 FemNaziBitch  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:25:23pm

re: #122 FemNaziBitch

I just read some of the replies to the religion jpg and decided to block the tweeter.

I need a nap, can’t believe I didn’t read that jpg or register the entiretly before I posted it.

definitely a sign of fatigue.

bbl

130 Gus  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:26:31pm

re: #127 Charles Johnson

Oh for Pete’s sake.

That’s another pundit whose appeal I’ve never understood.

Rationalizations for said Tweet from fan club in 3, 2, 1…

131 Decatur Deb  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:26:51pm

re: #126 Lord of the Pies

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How can you validate that someone actually wrote ‘their’ tweet? That’s pretty far gone for a sentient employed blogger.

132 dog philosopher  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:27:55pm

re: #127 Charles Johnson

Oh for Pete’s sake.

That’s another pundit whose appeal I’ve never understood.

fuck pundits

133 Dr. Matt  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:28:16pm

re: #127 Charles Johnson

Oh for Pete’s sake.

That’s another pundit whose appeal I’ve never understood.

He’s so edgy though…..he even as the hipster glasses and everything.

134 Gus  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:28:52pm

re: #133 Dr. Matt

He’s so edgy though…..he even as the hipster glasses and everything.

[Scratches beard and furrows eyebrows.]

135 Gus  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:30:54pm

Clickbait.

136 Dr. Matt  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:31:16pm

Twitchybait

137 Targetpractice  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:32:44pm

The whole “fees/taxes” bit that the wingnuts are twisting themselves into pretzels over is pretty hilarious when they spent most of last year mindlessly regurgitating the Romney campaign line that he’d never raised taxes while he was governor of MA but always produced a balanced budget, ignoring that A) the state’s constitution requires a balanced budget and B) he paid for all his new spending with new/higher fees.

138 Decatur Deb  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:33:02pm

re: #135 Gus

Clickbait.

re: #136 Dr. Matt

Twitchybait

Too high a price if your job includes being taken seriously.

139 William Barnett-Lewis  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:34:59pm

re: #21 Lidane

I have upset a dudebro over on Mashable’s FB page by calling Snowden a coward.

This amuses me.

I PO’d one on NPR today in the POTY article by saying I was glad that they chose someone doing some good in the world rather than a Russian agent.

140 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:35:32pm

re: #116 Feline Fearless Leader

And since it’s due to atomics that Godzilla came out it will be America, and therefore… Obama’s fault!
/// ;)

I don’t think this time it’s necessarily atomic.

When I watched the trailer, I noticed that there a couple of scenes where characters appear in what seems to be either a nuclear plant, or perhaps some kind of research facility. In particular, there are two scenes with Juliette Binoche, one of which she’s wearing a respirator with mask, but not what I’d expect in a nuclear facility, and another with her and Bryan Cranston, where she seems to be being shut in to some kind of isolation or quarantine chamber. There’s also a scene with Ken Watanabe wearing what looks to be like some kind of biohazard suit. Perhaps some kind of bioengineering gone wrong?

Youtube Video

141 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:35:38pm

re: #128 Kragar

Hindus Join Satanists Demanding Equal Placement on Oklahoma Capitol Grounds

And what will Fundamentalists take away from this news?

HINDUISM = SATANISM, of course

142 blueraven  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:37:36pm

re: #130 Gus

Rationalizations for said Tweet from fan club in 3, 2, 1…

Never been a big fan, but didn’t expect this either.
Disappointed

143 Kragar  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:38:18pm

re: #141 Sol Berdinowitz

And what will FUndamentalists take away from this news?

HINDUISM = SATANISM, of course

Next thing you know, the Catholics will want one.
/

144 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:38:35pm

re: #113 Targetpractice

GOP decides it’s that time of the year again for their Ebenezer Scrooge impersonation:

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Merry Fucking Christmas, deadbeats!

145 Decatur Deb  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:40:21pm

re: #143 Kragar

Next thing you know, the Catholics will want one.
/

Only fair since the ‘official’ 10 Commandments monument almost certainly does not follow the Catholic text.

146 Lidane  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:42:39pm
147 Kragar  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:42:57pm

Ah Death Korps, you so crazy…

Image: 994660_581694981879669_1238601146_n.jpg

148 Shiplord Kirel  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:44:43pm

re: #128 Kragar

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Hah! Other faiths deliver only symbols, but I am authorized to tell you that the acolytes of Lord Cthulhu (sauce be upon him) will similarly request authorization for a placement of their own. Rather than a statue or a tablet or other useless gesture, this will be a grand kiosk dispensing large portions of Cthulhu’s famous Mid-America Fresh Sausage (made with secret herbs, sauces, and hallucinogens as well as meat products donated by earlier visitors). Absolutely no charge. Available in 3 delicious flavors: Dakota Lean, Kansas Mild, or Fundamentalist Fatty.

149 Kragar  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:45:52pm

re: #146 Lidane

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God… you magnificent bastard, I READ YOUR BOOK!

150 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:47:26pm

re: #148 Shiplord Kirel

Hah! Other faiths deliver only symbols, but I am authorized to tell you that the acolytes of Lord Cthulhu (sauce be upon him) will similarly request authorization for a placement of their own. Rather than a statue or a tablet or other useless gesture, this will be a grand kiosk dispensing large portions of Cthulhu’s famous Mid-America Fresh Sausage (made with secret herbs, sauces, and hallucinogens as well as meat products donated by earlier visitors). Absolutely no charge. Available in 3 delicious flavors: Dakota Lean, Kansas Mild, or Fundamentalist Fatty.

“It’s priest. Have a little priest!”

“Is it any good?”

“Sir, it’s too good, at least!
“Then again they don’t commit sins of the flesh,
“So it’s pretty fresh!”

151 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:48:16pm

re: #149 Kragar

God… you magnificent bastard, I READ YOUR BOOK!

You made me snicker out lout with that one. Kudos!

152 Kragar  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:50:26pm

re: #150 GeneJockey

“It’s priest. Have a little priest!”

“Is it any good?”

“Sir, it’s too good, at least!
“Then again they don’t commit sins of the flesh,
“So it’s pretty fresh!”

“It doesn’t taste quite right. How did you cook it?”
“I boiled it.”
“You Idiot! That was a Friar!”

153 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:51:31pm

re: #152 Kragar

“It doesn’t taste quite right. How did you cook it?”
“I boiled it.”
“You Idiot! That was a Friar!”

Have a side of chip monks!

154 Targetpractice  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:52:28pm

re: #152 Kragar

“It doesn’t taste quite right. How did you cook it?”
“I boiled it.”
“You Idiot! That was a Friar!”

re: #153 Sol Berdinowitz

Have a side of chip monks!

Youtube Video

155 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:54:33pm

re: #152 Kragar

“It doesn’t taste quite right. How did you cook it?”
“I boiled it.”
“You Idiot! That was a Friar!”

“The Great Leslie was seen escaping with a small friar!”

“Leslie escaped with a chicken?”

156 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:55:07pm

re: #127 Charles Johnson

Um, no. Just no.

157 Romantic Heretic  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:58:11pm

re: #54 Dr Lizardo

As George Carlin once put it, “The planet ain’t going anywhere. We are.”

Michael Crichton:

No, you don’t understand. The planet is not in danger. We are in danger. We don’t have the power to destroy life on this planet. We don’t have the power to save it either. We might have the power to save ourselves.

I’m more and more inclined these days to believe, where the last sentence in that quote is concerned, that we might have the power but don’t have the smarts

158 Kilroy01  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:59:04pm

re: #155 GeneJockey

“The Great Leslie was seen escaping with a small friar!”

“Leslie escaped with a chicken?”

That is fowl treatment of The Great Race

159 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:59:32pm

re: #148 Shiplord Kirel

Hah! Other faiths deliver only symbols, but I am authorized to tell you that the acolytes of Lord Cthulhu (sauce be upon him) will similarly request authorization for a placement of their own. Rather than a statue or a tablet or other useless gesture, this will be a grand kiosk dispensing large portions of Cthulhu’s famous Mid-America Fresh Sausage (made with secret herbs, sauces, and hallucinogens as well as meat products donated by earlier visitors). Absolutely no charge. Available in 3 delicious flavors: Dakota Lean, Kansas Mild, or Fundamentalist Fatty.

The Church of the Subgenius is the only church that comes with a triple-your-money-back salvation guarantee. If you send your $35 to “Bob” and STILL end up in Hell when you die, “Bob” will personally meet you there with a check for $105 and will sell you a signed copy of his book, “How To Enjoy Hell On $5 A Day,” which is a bargain at only $99.95.

160 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 12:59:49pm

re: #158 Kilroy01

That is fowl treatment of The Great Race

“Throw more brandy!”

161 dog philosopher  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:03:22pm

re: #158 Kilroy01

That is fowl treatment of The Great Race

this kind of journalizm will shirley win the pullet surprise

162 dog philosopher  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:05:56pm

FEMA HATES THIS

ads i am getting where the ad strategy of this small time vendor relies on irrational hatred of the federal emergency management agency and its eebil fascist practice of stocking up on emergency food supplies and other diabolical emergency management preparations

163 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:08:17pm

re: #162 dog philosopher

FEMA HATES THIS

ads i am getting where the ad strategy of this small time vendor relies on irrational hatred of the federal emergency management agency and its eebil fascist practice of stocking up on emergency food supplies and other diabolical emergency management preparations

I ignore all (BLANK) HATES Him/Her/This ads

164 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:09:27pm

re: #163 Eclectic Cyborg

I ignore all (BLANK) HATES Him/Her/This ads

What, you don’t want to try the One Weird Trick, Discovered By A Local Mom?

165 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:09:59pm

re: #163 Eclectic Cyborg

I ignore all (BLANK) HATES Him/Her/This ads

Especially if it is a GOD HATES (blank)

166 Kilroy01  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:10:21pm

re: #161 dog philosopher

this kind of journalizm will shirley win the pullet surprise

Now don’t get cocky, but keep strutting your stuff. One day you’ll be able to feather your bed with that kind of talent.

167 dog philosopher  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:11:11pm

re: #164 GeneJockey

What, you don’t want to try the One Weird Trick, Discovered By A Local Mom?

if i eat it, will i NEVER DIET AGAIN?

168 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:11:27pm

re: #166 Kilroy01

Now don’t get cocky, but keep strutting your stuff. One day you’ll be able to feather your bed with that kind of talent.

That’s right, keep egging him on.

169 Kragar  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:11:40pm

re: #164 GeneJockey

What, you don’t want to try the One Weird Trick, Discovered By A Local Mom?

Or anything that says “Miracle food/cure”

I was getting ads saying click here to learn about this miracle food, and the picture was a blue dragon sea slug.

This picture actually…

Image: tumblr_m79w1wHKVN1qdnv8to1_500.gif

170 Aunty Entity Dragon  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:12:05pm

re: #159 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

The Church of the Subgenius is the only church that comes with a triple-your-money-back salvation guarantee. If you send your $35 to “Bob” and STILL end up in Hell when you die, “Bob” will personally meet you there with a check for $105 and will sell you a signed copy of his book, “How To Enjoy Hell On $5 A Day,” which is a bargain at only $99.95.

You also get lessons from Reverend Susie the Floozy…

171 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:12:10pm

Oh, and for those Lizards who haven’t seen it, here’s an older teaser trailer for “Godzilla” posted a couple of months ago.

metacafe.com

Voiceover by J. Robert Oppenheimer.

172 RealityBasedSteve  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:12:39pm

re: #119 Kragar

“Blaze Man of the Year” Does that mean we can call him a flamer?

I see what you did there….

RBS

173 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:13:32pm

re: #167 dog philosopher

if i eat it, will i NEVER DIET AGAIN?

Or it will cause A Shocking Rise In Free Testosterone, like in This Video Google Banned with the picture of the young woman with improbably large boobs, or in one I’ve seen recently, buttocks that were improbably perky for their improbable size.

174 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:14:45pm

I find some of the pictures on the SEARCH ARREST RECORDS ads to be hilarious.

175 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:15:57pm

re: #174 Eclectic Cyborg

I find some of the pictures on the SEARCH ARREST RECORDS ads to be hilarious.

Like the guy in orange, with the little piggy eyes and the walrus moustache?

176 RealityBasedSteve  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:15:58pm

re: #132 dog philosopher

fuck pundits

I’d love to have a job as a pundit. Apparently there are no requirements for education, experience or certifications. You can say what ever you think at the moment, get gigs on TV and Radio, have a blog. I keep looking for the matchbook with the phone number to call for “Acme Correspondence School of Punditry”.

RBS

177 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:16:18pm

re: #173 GeneJockey

Or it will cause A Shocking Rise In Free Testosterone, like in This Video Google Banned with the picture of the young woman with improbably large boobs, or in one I’ve seen recently, buttocks that were improbably perky for their improbable size.

I hate how those ads for “male enhancement” always feature dumb bogus quotes from women who are supposedly so much happier with their man now that he’s “enhanced”.

Because that’s TOTALLY how real women are.

178 Kragar  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:16:49pm

re: #174 Eclectic Cyborg

I find some of the pictures on the SEARCH ARREST RECORDS ads to be hilarious.

“Meet Hot Singles” in your area, and I look at the pictures and say “pornstar, car model, pornstar, pornstar, stock photo”

179 Gus  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:19:33pm
180 RealityBasedSteve  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:19:38pm

re: #178 Kragar

“Meet Hot Singles” in your area, and I look at the pictures and say “pornstar, car model, pornstar, pornstar, stock photo”

Mine all weigh 250+ pounds, have 3 teeth left and a 55 gallon drum of lube in the background. :(

RBS

181 Gus  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:20:05pm

That’s almost as bad as how the FBI manufactures terrorists for photo-op cases.

182 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:20:16pm

re: #178 Kragar

“Meet Hot Singles” in your area, and I look at the pictures and say “pornstar, car model, pornstar, pornstar, stock photo”

The same would probably apply to most of the profiles ON those sites being advertised.

183 Uncle Obdicut  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:22:45pm

re: #179 Gus

See, I find this infinitely more disturbing and morally unethical than “Fast for Furious”, but I think the only reason it’s going to get talked about much at all is because it has to do with ATF.

184 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:25:06pm

re: #176 RealityBasedSteve

I’d love to have a job as a pundit. Apparently there are no requirements for education, experience or certifications. You can say what ever you think at the moment, get gigs on TV and Radio, have a blog. I keep looking for the matchbook with the phone number to call for “Acme Correspondence School of Punditry”.

RBS

Nice work if you can get it.

185 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:26:18pm

re: #184 GeneJockey

Nice work if you can get it.

1. Become a wingnut, campaign for House/Senate/Governor
2. Say stupid things/make a big ass of yourself
3. Lose spectacularly
4. Land gig on Fox News
5. PROFIT!

186 klys  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:26:54pm

re: #185 Eclectic Cyborg

1. Become a wingnut, campaign for House/Senate/Governor
2. Say stupid things/make a big ass of yourself
3. Lose spectacularly
4. Land gig on Fox News
5. PROFIT!

The only problem is it involves selling your soul first.

Either that or all self-respect.

187 geoffm33  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:27:36pm


Wow. Just Wow.

Learn more about The Tutu Project.

188 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:27:59pm

re: #180 RealityBasedSteve

Mine all weigh 250+ pounds, have 3 teeth left and a 55 gallon drum of lube in the background. :(

RBS

Where the fuck do you live, that ‘Local Singles’ look like that?
//

189 wrenchwench  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:28:33pm

Seems to be time for another photo of the niece.

190 dog philosopher  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:28:52pm

heh

so one of my buddies here tells me he was googling eMobile and it turned up some youtube music video

???

a performance of ‘la donna e mobile’

191 klys  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:30:34pm

re: #189 wrenchwench

Seems to be time for another photo of the niece.

I like them at that age as long as they belong to someone else and I can just enjoy pictures and the occasional 5 minute interaction.

192 RealityBasedSteve  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:30:40pm

re: #186 klys

The only problem is it involves selling your soul first.

Either that or all self-respect.

Well, I don’t know about my soul. RIght now it’s kind of tied up in escrow regarding this 3 cornered sale / lease back /sub-divide / rent to own scheme I entered into because of a hot blonde I knew in the day. Nobody is quite sure what it’s status is, looks like it may have also been bundled in (at least part of it) to form part of a “Salvation Backed Securities” instrument. (Yea, mine was definitely sub-prime)

RBS

193 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:30:59pm

re: #169 Kragar

Or anything that says “Miracle food/cure”

I was getting ads saying click here to learn about this miracle food, and the picture was a blue dragon sea slug.

This picture actually…

Image: tumblr_m79w1wHKVN1qdnv8to1_500.gif

So? Did you try eating one?

194 RealityBasedSteve  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:31:09pm

re: #188 GeneJockey

Where the fuck do you live, that ‘Local Singles’ look like that?
//

Tennessee.

RBS

195 dog philosopher  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:31:13pm

re: #189 wrenchwench

Seems to be time for another photo of the niece.

a veritable pavlova!

196 wrenchwench  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:32:25pm

re: #191 klys

I like them at that age as long as they belong to someone else and I can just enjoy pictures and the occasional 5 minute interaction.

No 5 min. interaction for me. :( She’s in Bogota. I did just send her a pair of Navajo moccasins. We’ll see if they show up in a photo!

197 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:32:26pm

re: #194 RealityBasedSteve

Tennessee.

RBS

Sympathies.

198 klys  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:32:43pm

re: #192 RealityBasedSteve

Well, I don’t know about my soul. RIght now it’s kind of tied up in escrow regarding this 3 cornered sale / lease back /sub-divide / rent to own scheme I entered into because of a hot blonde I knew in the day. Nobody is quite sure what it’s status is, looks like it may have also been bundled in (at least part of it) to form part of a “Salvation Backed Securities” instrument. (Yea, mine was definitely sub-prime)

RBS

Well then, you can still get in on it! Just sacrifice any self-respect you have and begin shilling for shit!

//

199 RealityBasedSteve  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:33:39pm

re: #197 GeneJockey

Sympathies.

On the good side however, the courts have finally ruled that after the divorce, you are still cousins.

RBS

200 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:34:28pm

re: #191 klys

I like them at that age as long as they belong to someone else and I can just enjoy pictures and the occasional 5 minute interaction.

My wife is looking forward to grandchildren, since you can hand them back when they cry/scream/barf/poop. But the boys show little sign of taking any steps to get married, or for that matter, laid.

201 klys  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:35:22pm

re: #200 GeneJockey

My wife is looking forward to grandchildren, since you can hand them back when they cry/scream/barf/poop. But the boys show little sign of taking any steps to get married, or for that matter, laid.

My mother has mostly abandoned hope that I will provide grandchildren. Thankfully.

Unfortunately, I’m the only one of the three of us to even date so far, so…

202 wrenchwench  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:36:12pm


1.) This Laptop Cord

I want this laptop cord more than I have ever wanted anything. Please. I also want the power strip with the orange on/off button and the white label on the other cord pictured (the one not connected to the laptop). I would be ok with just a bunch of electrical cords in general, but I would really love these specific ones that are located behind my mother’s desk next to the air-conditioner (whose cord I also want).

RTWT.

203 dog philosopher  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:38:09pm

re: #200 GeneJockey

cry/scream/barf/poop

the exciting sequel to eat/pray/love

204 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:39:07pm

re: #203 dog philosopher

the exciting sequel to eat/pray/love

starring Adam Sandler and Kevin James?

205 Sol Berdinowitz  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:39:27pm

re: #180 RealityBasedSteve

Mine all weigh 250+ pounds, have 3 teeth left and a 55 gallon drum of lube in the background. :(

RBS

If she has more teeth than kids, then she’s a keeper!

206 BeenHereAwhile  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:39:50pm

re: #38 GeneJockey

Stone Circles! The Druids demand Stone Circles!

The Georgia Guidestones, “American Stonehenge,” is a granite monument in Elbert County, Georgia, USA. A message clearly conveying a set of ten guidelines is inscribed on the structure in eight modern languages, and a shorter message is inscribed at the top of the structure in four ancient languages’ scripts: Babylonian, Classical Greek, Sanskrit and Egyptian hieroglyphs.

There is no public record of who commissioned this structure.

en.wikipedia.org

207 Varek Raith  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:44:01pm

re: #121 Gus

WTF? Seriously?

Why can’t I get paid to be a dipshit???

208 ObserverArt  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:44:39pm

re: #25 Eclectic Cyborg

We should start a movement to put up a Cthulu statue.

/

I pray to the gods of Rock’n’Roll. I want Rock’n’Roll Christmas displays on every street corner with local bands in the display rockin’!

It is my first amendment rights!!! Plus, it gets the tunes out.

209 freetoken  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:45:38pm

re: #121 Gus

WTF? Seriously?

So what do you have against anal and oral sex????

210 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:45:47pm

re: #203 dog philosopher

the exciting sequel to eat/pray/love

Or a description of a really, really unsuccessful first date.

211 dog philosopher  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:47:10pm

re: #210 GeneJockey

Or a description of a really, really unsuccessful first date.

or a really fun first trip to that cool new after hours bar in that weird section of town

212 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:50:52pm

re: #201 klys

My mother has mostly abandoned hope that I will provide grandchildren. Thankfully.

Unfortunately, I’m the only one of the three of us to even date so far, so…

Sounds like my nieces and nephews, sadly.

Of my parent’s 9 grandchildren, 4 are very likely to remain childless, based on age and/or lack of dating. 3 more are currently young men in their 20s, of whom 2 are On The Spectrum, which doesn’t mean they won’t date and/or find a wife, but it complicates it.

The remaining 2 have 2 of their own kids each, plus 1 of them has adopted 4 Ethiopian boys. Like my sister who’s thrice-divorced, she seems to be trying to bring us up to the national average!

213 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:54:19pm

re: #201 klys

My mother has mostly abandoned hope that I will provide grandchildren. Thankfully.

Unfortunately, I’m the only one of the three of us to even date so far, so…

I am 32 and my brother will be 30 in a couple of months. I’m married, he’s dating. Neither of us have kids yet. I suspect one of us will but I’m really not sure who it will be.

214 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:55:24pm

re: #213 Eclectic Cyborg

I am 32 and my brother will be 30 in a couple of months. I’m married, he’s dating. Neither of us have kids yet. I suspect one of us will but I’m really not sure who it will be.

Someone has to take one for the team.
////

215 Varek Raith  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:55:49pm

Just watched Shimkus’s tantrum.
What an ass.

216 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:57:19pm

re: #214 GeneJockey

Someone has to take one for the team.
////

my wife and I want kids but there are fertility issues.

218 ObserverArt  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:58:41pm

Sorry…late to the thread with #208.

I was on a chat session with the techs at Comodo fighting to get a stupid logo into a store site I’ve been working on. The last tech did a decent job and found the problem I’ve been fighting for three days!!!

And all it was was three letter! Yes, three letters in the code for three days. And it was Comodo’s fault, they had an automatic code generator that put out the bad code and no other support person that was working with me in emails caught it.

Also, the entire site is PHP. They wanted me to put one section of code in the “header” and another bit in the “body”…if anyone knows code, there is no header and body in PHP code as in classic HTML.

I admit, I am new to it all, and don’t know it all. I always call myself a rank amateur. Certainly no Charles as far as his bang-up coding of this site. But, when I know more than a tech working as a tech supporter and he says “try it” I am left wondering WTF?

Since PHP and XHTML are being used together in many new sites and is the future, you would think a company like Comodo selling Site Security Licenses would be up on it?

Another day, another lesson…more hours that I can’t charge the client.

Sigh. Okay, I’m done bitching. Time to read to catch up with the Lizards.

219 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 1:59:03pm

re: #209 freetoken

So what do you have against anal and oral sex????

I figured everyone was upset about the promise ring. /shrug

220 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:00:08pm

re: #217 Varek Raith

GOP holds ‘factual’ climate hearing and decides half of scientists are global warming deniers

Proving once more why only 4% of scientists identify as Republican.

221 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:01:10pm

re: #216 Eclectic Cyborg

my wife and I want kids but there are fertility issues.

Sorry to hear that, but good luck!

222 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:01:42pm

re: #220 Eclectic Cyborg

Proving once more why only 4% of scientists identify as Republican.

Yeah, but 52% of them think AGW is a hoax!
///

223 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:03:27pm

re: #221 GeneJockey

Sorry to hear that, but good luck!

thank you. New job has better insurance so we’re cautiously optimistic we might be able to make something happen within the next couple of years.

224 Gus  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:03:28pm

Matt will get a free pass because it was directed at a Republican. Other way around and Twitter would be ablaze. Facts baby. Matt is an ass let alone referring to GIRLS. Fuck that shit.

225 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:03:42pm

re: #202 wrenchwench

[Embedded content]


1.) This Laptop Cord

RTWT.

Sounds like my cats…

226 Dr. Matt  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:05:41pm

The Caveman Michigan Senate approves initiative to make abortion insurance separate on a 27-11 vote.

227 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:06:05pm

re: #225 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sounds like my cats…

They’re just trying to reclaim toys that you have taken from them for nefarious plans at communication. Back to work supplying treats and pets!

228 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:06:43pm

Apropos our conversation above, about ads with strange pics? One of the popups that I get for not subscribing (Shame On Me!) just showed what looked like an old, homeless guy, with the headline “Grocery Stores Fear Him!

I thought, “Too bloody right! When guys like him come into a store, most folks head for the checkout, or figure they didn’t really need anything!”

229 wrenchwench  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:08:00pm

re: #225 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sounds like my cats…

Pre-walking babies and cats have much in common. Cats are a lot cheaper, though.

230 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:10:34pm

re: #229 wrenchwench

Pre-walking babies and cats have much in common. Cats are a lot cheaper, though.

And they poop in a box.

231 Eclectic Cyborg  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:11:22pm

I like cats because they’re low maintenance.

232 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:11:48pm

re: #230 GeneJockey

And they poop in a box.

And you are generally not subject to arrest if you leave them a pile of food and go somewhere for a few days. (Though they might also be unhappy with you.)

233 blueraven  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:12:26pm

re: #224 Gus

Matt will get a free pass because it was directed at a Republican. Other way around and Twitter would be ablaze. Facts baby. Matt is an ass let alone referring to GIRLS. Fuck that shit.

I don’t think he gets a free pass.
If it doesn’t get as much play as some, it is because this is rather out of character. At least from what I know about him.
I also see a good deal of push-back.

I deliberately did not click on his link bait.

234 Gus  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:12:27pm

re: #231 Eclectic Cyborg

I like cats because they’re low maintenance.

And they sometimes bury their food even when there’s nothing there to bury it with. //

235 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:12:28pm

re: #232 Feline Fearless Leader

And you are generally not subject to arrest if you leave them a pile of food and go somewhere for a few days. (Though they might also be unhappy with you.)

And that’s when they think outside the box, if you catch my drift.

236 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:13:07pm

re: #231 Eclectic Cyborg

I like cats because they’re low maintenance.

Not when I’m trying to work at the computer…then they both turn into furry Greenwalds with their “look at me! Look At Me! PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!”

237 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:14:12pm

re: #229 wrenchwench

Pre-walking babies and cats have much in common. Cats are a lot cheaper, though.

Yeah, but babies love you back.

Nothing like I hearing more than “I love you Maw-Maw” with a little kiss on the cheek.

Cats are cute, though. : )

238 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:14:12pm

re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth

Not when I’m trying to work at the computer…then they both turn into furry Greenwalds with their “look at me! Look At Me! PAY ATTENTION TO MEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!”

You just compared Feline Overlords to that poseur Greenwald?!? You are SO doomed!

239 wrenchwench  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:16:43pm

re: #237 Justanotherhuman

Yeah, but babies love you back.

Nothing like I hearing more than “I love you Maw-Maw” with a little kiss on the cheek.

Cats are cute, though. : )

I certainly won’t imply that cat love is anything like baby love, but our cats are pretty affectionate.

I never wanted kids, but I wouldn’t mind grandchildren!

240 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:16:45pm

re: #238 Feline Fearless Leader

You just compared Feline Overlords to that poseur Greenwald?!? You are SO doomed!

Why, yes, I am….

241 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:24:09pm

re: #228 GeneJockey

I thought, “Too bloody right! When guys like him come into a store, most folks head for the checkout, or figure they didn’t really need anything!”

One million years ago, I worked at a place that offered various printing and binding services, some of which were DIY (think Kinkos, but this wasn’t Kinkos).

There was a very old guy known only as “Harold” who called himself a “preacher”, and often came in to photocopy his latest sermons. Harold’s primary trait was that he obviously didn’t believe in any sort of personal hygiene.

Trying to breathe in the vicinity of Harold was an act of strength as well as technique. The air around him was hot, dense, and greasy. It was like trying to inhale an entire bus. You had to resort to taking a big breath before you got within his area of effect, and hoping the oxygen would be enough to keep you from blacking out until you could once again retreat to a safe distance. In the cold months, he was very slightly less malodorous, but he compensated for it by having an eternally runny nose. He would frequently drip watery snot onto the plate glass of the copy machines.

Harold unknowingly became a force for good in the world one day when a particularly belligerent customer had decided that she was not going to be satisfied with anything under any circumstances, and because of that she was going to make all of her copies for free, whether we liked it or not. Well it just so happened that immediately after she started her enormous copy job, Harold lumbered in and chose the copier right next to Mean-ass Mildred. He loaded up his materials and pressed “START”. After a couple of minutes, Harold’s essence began to assert itself, as it always did. Soon enough, Grumpy Gladys came over to complain about Harold’s aroma. Much to my delight, the manager refused to ask Harold to leave, because he was a paying customer after all. Grumpy Gladys’ copy job finished several long minutes later, and she left without saying another word. I bet she still has scar tissue in her airway.

242 ObserverArt  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 2:25:00pm

re: #73 RealityBasedSteve

And remember 12’ is FEET, not INCHES!!!

RBS
Who has to go burst into flames now.

Are you a drummer too?

243 RealityBasedSteve  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 3:53:19pm

re: #242 ObserverArt

Are you a drummer too?

My rhythm is so bad I clap on 1 and 3 and don’t even know why that’s a bad thing. Sometimes I’m on 1 and 4. (even if there are only 3 beats). I have, as a musician friend of mine once described it, Republican Rhythm.

RBS

244 GeneJockey  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 4:03:51pm

re: #243 RealityBasedSteve

My rhythm is so bad I clap on 1 and 3 and don’t even know why that’s a bad thing. Sometimes I’m on 1 and 4. (even if there are only 3 beats). I have, as a musician friend of mine once described it, Republican Rhythm.

RBS

So, like counting off Waltz steps in 4/4?

1…2…3…4…1…2…3…4…1…2…3…4…1…2…3…4…1…2…3…4…1…2…3…4…

245 ObserverArt  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 4:52:21pm

re: #243 RealityBasedSteve

My rhythm is so bad I clap on 1 and 3 and don’t even know why that’s a bad thing. Sometimes I’m on 1 and 4. (even if there are only 3 beats). I have, as a musician friend of mine once described it, Republican Rhythm.

RBS

RBSteve,

Was the 12” not 12’ foot a reference to This is Spinal Tap by any chance…or was I out to lunch connecting it? If so, I was thinking if you have to go burst into flames you may have been or are one of their drummers.

Youtube Video

246 ibob  Wed, Dec 11, 2013 7:41:00pm

re: #216 Eclectic Cyborg

my wife and I want kids but there are fertility issues.

Been there. Done that. It’s difficult, especially when it seems like everyone gets pregnant without even trying. Don’t give up. It took years, but we finally got 2 daughters.

247 yoshicastmaster  Thu, Dec 12, 2013 7:56:41am

Speaking of ridiculous media: the race-baiting Drudge Report is getting the expected response from its audience today with the headline “American Hustle: Slavery.”

Check out the comments on the linked article here: discussions.latimes.com

248 BusyMonster  Thu, Dec 12, 2013 8:54:02am

re: #35 erik_t

On the one hand, I sort of want to see some polling on how many Americans are in any way offended or hurt that Obama shook the hand of Castro (aside from the 27%ers, which are a given). My guess/hope is very, very few.

You know, pulling out reams of photos of Reagan and the Bushtards shaking hands with all kinds of vile people, and Bush kissing the cheek of one of his Ay-rab buddies, and then forcibly gluing those pictures to the eyelids of all these butthurt fucksticks, would probably be a good start. It would be better, though, if we made sure they were printed on sheets of aluminum about 7000 feet fucking high, so that those people could literally not ignore what was in front of them.


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