Ah, so many good memories.

I’m going to have to put together a Christmas MST3k page over the next couple days

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If you don’t listen to SiriusXM’s Outlaw Country in the mornings, you’re missing out on one of the most lovely and irreverent DJs out there.

Thank u and good night. pic.twitter.com/UD7ww9IXe5

— Elizabeth Cook (@Elizabeth_Cook) December 20, 2013

1st the pasta was homophobic.then homophobic chicken sandwichs. now the duck whistle.but wheres th products for the man who hates foreigners

— TORMNIABLY PIACKEELS (@Tormny_Pickeals) December 19, 2013

re: #3 Charles Johnson

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42.

re: #3 Charles Johnson

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Is that from the Infocom game?

re: #8 BongCrodny

Is that from the Infocom game?

Indeed it is. I wore that on my guitar strap for years, on many tours all over the world.

re: #7 sagehen

42.

What is 6 multiplied by 9?

it is, in base13.

Recommended: The Blind Boys of Alabama singing “Go Tell It On The Mountain” accompanied by Stephen Colbert.
Not yet up on the net, but it will be soon.

The “Porch Shooter” will stand trial for 2nd Degree Murder.

npr.org

A case that put race relations in the spotlight once again — the shooting death of a 19-year-old African-American girl from Detroit on the porch of a white man’s home in suburban Dearborn Heights — will be going to court.

The Detroit News writes that:

“Theodore Wafer, the 54-year-old homeowner, charged with fatally shooting 19-year-old Detroit teen Renisha McBride last month as she stood on his front porch, has been bound over for trial in the case.”
As we wrote last month, “the case has raised racial tensions in Detroit, where a nearly two-week delay in charging Wafer had brought protests. It has also echoed some of the elements of the Trayvon Martin case, in which an unarmed black teenager was shot and killed by a white man in Florida.”

re: #2 Kragar

I’m going to have to put together a Christmas MST3k page over the next couple days

“Santa’s tendrils reach far and wide. There’s no escaping the KLAUS organization!”

Hearing some wingnuts say the Robertsons should just call it quits and take the show to another network. Except I doubt they could do that, or at least not under the “Duck Dynasty” trademark. And I doubt A&E would be so stupid as to have given the family sole possession of any merchandizing rights.

re: #14 Targetpractice

Hearing some wingnuts say the Robertsons should just call it quits and take the show to another network. Except I doubt they could do that, or at least not under the “Duck Dynasty” trademark. And I doubt A&E would be so stupid as to have given the family sole possession of any merchandizing rights.

Maybe Logo or BET will take ‘em.

re: #15 Mattand

Maybe Logo or BET will take ‘em.

Or they could just slink off back to the Outdoor Channel, which is where they started the whole “grizzled redneck yahoo” schtick.

re: #16 Targetpractice

Or they could just slink off back to the Outdoor Channel, which is where they started the whole “grizzled redneck yahoo” schtick.

New show idea: “Out of their Element”.
Grizzled rednecks encounter the 21st century, can’t deal with it, retreat.

Speaking of wingnut brain farts, the other one that keeps getting repeated is how “Gays don’t watch Duck Dynasty!!!” One, there’s no data to support that contention, as I doubt even A&E’s been desperate enough to run the numbers. But even if they have, it still ignores the reality of the situation: Duck Dynasty is not the only show on A&E. And any lost viewership is lost ad revenue, which means A&E was left with either suspending Phil and attracting wingnut ire or let him spew whatever he liked and piss off everybody who’s not a BIble-thumping moron.

re: #12 William Barnett-Lewis

The “Porch Shooter” will stand trial for 2nd Degree Murder.

npr.org

And Mr. Wafer is not going to walk on the charge, either. The fact that he shot a young woman who was no threat to him through a locked screen door is going to be too much for a Michigan jury to ignore. I predict he goes down for Manslaughter at the very least.

And on that note, Good Night.

That’s a mighty clean bathroom, compared to most I’ve ever seen.

I notice his feet are overly pronated. Those shoes, shiny as they may be, are not what he needs.

Cleanliness is no substitute for proper body mechanics.

re: #19 Dark_Falcon

And Mr. Wafer is not going to walk on the charge, either. The fact that he shot a young woman who was no threat to him through a locked screen door is going to be too much for a Michigan jury to ignore. I predict he goes down for Manslaughter at the very least.

And on that note, Good Night.

I shall pray that you are correct, sir. Good night to you and to the rest.

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This one is for Megyn Kelly, et alia. In Hawaii, Santa is apparently Asian.

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I love when bigots say that homophobia is a “made-up word.” Every word is a made-up word, dumb-ass.

— Sherman Alexie (@Sherman_Alexie) December 20, 2013

I put on my waders and gas mask and made a run into the fever swamp to check on the goings on there.
Five of the first ten stories currently listed on Free Republic are about Duck Dynasty, including this gem: Money, Fame, Hollywood and Antichrist vs. Christianity with Duck Dynasty

re: #25 bratwurst

I love when bigots say that homophobia is a “made-up word.” Every word is a made-up word, dumb-ass.

Wrong! The only real ones are the ones that appear in the King James Bible, handed down from the time of the Patriarchs to the present day, selah.

re: #26 Shiplord Kirel

I put on my waders and gas mask and made a run into the fever swamp to check on the goings on there.
Five of the first ten stories currently listed on Free Republic are about Duck Dynasty, including this gem: Money, Fame, Hollywood and Antichrist vs. Christianity with Duck Dynasty

They banned me for asking this: If we are all made in God’s image, then how can homosexuality be wrong?

So much for “free speach”.

Oh, I see. Because “every state does it,” it makes it right for the US to do it.

— jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) December 20, 2013

re: #29 Charles Johnson

what an incredibly naive sentiment.

wouldn’t it be nice if everyone just inherently knew what was right and behaved accordingly, naturally we’d all assume the brocode was the one to follow, right Jeremy?

he’s gonna be waiting a long time for a unicorn, think he’d be happy with a pony instead?

re: #29 Charles Johnson

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re: #25 bratwurst

I love when bigots say that homophobia is a “made-up word.” Every word is a made-up word, dumb-ass.

A perfectly cromulent point, sir

“Feminazi” and “Ecofascist” are also made-up words…

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re: #14 Targetpractice

Hearing some wingnuts say the Robertsons should just call it quits and take the show to another network. Except I doubt they could do that, or at least not under the “Duck Dynasty” trademark. And I doubt A&E would be so stupid as to have given the family sole possession of any merchandizing rights.

Glen Beck has made them an offer to come over to “The Blaze Network”. Yea, that’s gonna happen….

RBS

re: #35 RealityBasedSteve

Oh I would laugh, laugh, laugh. As the dynasty swirled down the potty…

Ugandan parliament passes draconian anti-gay bill: activists

google.com

American evangelicals have had no small hand in these developments, prominent among them Lou Engle and the dominionist movement.

rightwingwatch.org

NO YOU DUMBASS.
Fucked Up Die Nasty is toast. A&E will find another show for that slot.

Robertson clan: “We cannot imagine the show going forward without our patriarch at the helm.” A&E is toast.

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) December 20, 2013

WTFITS

If his horrible, no good, very bad law needs to be altered, Obama must ask Congress to do it. We are not Zimbabwe.

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) December 20, 2013

Obama took an oath to uphold the law. He violated his oath of office last night, which is an impeachable offense.

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) December 20, 2013

In our system of government, the president CANNOT change or ignore laws he doesn't like, even if it's his own law.

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) December 20, 2013

For Obama, the law is whatever he says it is. We are no longer a nation of laws but are being ruled by a petty tyrant.

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) December 20, 2013

re: #38 Pie-onist Overlord

NO YOU DUMBASS.
Fucked Up Die Nasty is toast. A&E will find another show for that slot.

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Yeah because A&E never had shitty reality programming before Duck Dynasty. Pretty sad that a guy like Robertson is what passes for a conservative hero these days.

#philrobertson #tcot A&E #DuckDynasty #UniteBlue #teaparty #gop #GOPDontCare #LibCrib #bigots #racist #scum pic.twitter.com/98bKtE2h7q

— x DAVID x (@zomdavidbie) December 19, 2013

re: #37 Justanotherhuman

Ugandan parliament passes draconian anti-gay bill: activists

google.com

American evangelicals have had no small hand in these developments, prominent among them Lou Engle and the dominionist movement.

rightwingwatch.org

Homophobia is such a terrible thing. I have little doubt that if guys like this thought they could get away with such legislation here, they’d do it. It all leaves me with disgust at these fundamentalist pricks who care more about punishing people because of who they’re attracted to more so than actually helping people. It would be fucking nice if evangelicals stopped caring so damn much about homosexuality and started caring more about genuine charity.

re: #39 Pie-onist Overlord

WTFITS

If his horrible, no good, very bad law needs to be altered, Obama must ask Congress to do it. We are not Zimbabwe.

But he would love if we were Uganda…

Vertigo
Day 5
The Spinning Continues!!

{sigh}

re: #43 Sol Berdinowitz

But he would love if we were Uganda…

I think Russia would be more to his desire. Either way, gotta love the mindset of a man who thinks Obama is a terrible tyrant but supports legislation that tells consenting adults how they can and cannot have sex because of how he interprets a two thousand year old book.

re: #39 Pie-onist Overlord

What has got Bryan’s underwear in knots this time?

If we did a Kickstarter to get Bryan a one-way ticket to Uganda do you think he’d take us up on the offer?
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re: #46 wheat-dogghazi

What has got Bryan’s underwear in knots this time?

bloomberg.com

re: #45 HappyWarrior

I think Russia would be more to his desire. Either way, gotta love the mindset of a man who thinks Obama is a terrible tyrant but supports legislation that tells consenting adults how they can and cannot have sex because of how he interprets a two thousand year old book.

Well see, here is the difference between Teh Juice and Christians like Bryan. We have the Hebrew Scriptures but we also have an oral tradition of how to interpret the scriptures, kind of a “User’s Manual.”

There is a healthy ancient tradition of questioning, analyzing and re-interpreting according to the needs of each generation.

See here for example.

re: #49 Pie-onist Overlord

Well see, here is the difference between Teh Juice and Christians like Bryan. We have the Hebrew Scriptures but we also have an oral tradition of how to interpret the scriptures, kind of a “User’s Manual.”

There is a healthy ancient tradition of questioning, analyzing and re-interpreting according to the needs of each generation.

See here for example.

He wouldn’t go for the “questioning” part. He just wants total obedience based upon *his* sole interpretation of the document(s). That’s his source of authority and he appears to be focused on the authority and not the philosophy. And that appears to be the problem with a lot of these religious nuts - it’s a path to getting and keeping authority, not a position for teaching and living the philosophy behind the religion.

re: #49 Pie-onist Overlord

Well see, here is the difference between Teh Juice and Christians like Bryan. We have the Hebrew Scriptures but we also have an oral tradition of how to interpret the scriptures, kind of a “User’s Manual.”

There is a healthy ancient tradition of questioning, analyzing and re-interpreting according to the needs of each generation.

See here for example.

I think that much nuance is too much for a tool like Fischer. Anyhow, I’m glad Fischer’s a big minority in the US when it comes to his religion but at the same time, it scares me that American evangelicals are using their weight in places like Uganda to force their bigotry over there too.

re: #50 Feline Fearless Leader

He wouldn’t go for the “questioning” part. He just wants total obedience based upon *his* sole interpretation of the document(s). That’s his source of authority and he appears to be focused on the authority and not the philosophy. And that appears to be the problem with a lot of these religious nuts - it’s a path to getting and keeping authority, not a position for teaching and living the philosophy behind the religion.

You know, I have never seen one Bryan Fischer tweet where he talks about being good to your fellow man. Just cheap whines about Obama, “Big Gay”, etc. I don’t know how this guy ever got to be chaplain of a senate because he just seems to be a miserable, miserable human being who can’t stand 99% of us anyohw.

Hillel’s Golden Rule, is basically DON’T BE A DICK TO OTHER PEOPLE.

If your idea of religion means being a dick to other people UR DOIN IT WRONG.

HURR HURR

President Obama is now a law unto himself. That is the very definition of a tyrant.

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) December 20, 2013

Obama knows the GOP won't do anything, because to force Obama to obey the law would only hurt the American people.

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) December 20, 2013

For Obama, the presidency is like one big giant game of Sim City. We're not real people, just pixilated avatars.

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) December 20, 2013

re: #48 sattv4u2

So, he’s calling Obama a tyrant because more people will get coverage under ACA than were expected. Like this is a bad thing.

re: #52 HappyWarrior

You know, I have never seen one Bryan Fischer tweet where he talks about being good to your fellow man. Just cheap whines about Obama, “Big Gay”, etc. I don’t know how this guy ever got to be chaplain of a senate because he just seems to be a miserable, miserable human being who can’t stand 99% of us anyohw.

Well said.

re: #54 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR

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He needs to quit drinking bleach.

re: #54 Pie-onist Overlord

Another great name for a band: The Pixilated Pixelated Avatars.

re: #55 wheat-dogghazi

I think he’s doing the “tyrant” bit NOT because more people will (or can) get covered, but because the President is changing parts of established law w/o consulting or going to congress

re: #48 sattv4u2

bloomberg.com

I’m sure Bryan knows that there are laws and that there are then regulations to implement said laws. One of these can be changed pretty much on a whim. I’m just spitballing here, but I’m just going to guess that we’re talking about regs here…I’m sure Bryan has checked into it…or not.

Well, now I know my Paint abilities are worse than my actual abilities to properly “flute” the edge of a pie shell. :p

re: #56 HappyWarrior

He needs to quit drinking bleach.

But that’s the only way he’ll get as white on the inside as he is on the outside!
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I like this one.

re: #62 Pie-onist Overlord

I like this one.
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The general concept I was aiming for was the removed slice to be the “V” for something like “V B Pies” on the pie with the “In Crust We Trust” motto being along the edge of the pan. And I guess if you want to be fancy you can have the frowning doll face from your older avatar lightly looming in the background over the pie.

Ouch. Blackberry took a $4.4B quarterly loss. Huge write-off due to (unsold) device inventory.

Oh hell yes, MST3K!

“MST3K” and “Beavis and Butt-Head” were incredibly influential in developing this 1990s teenage nerd’s taste in film and music. I learned so much about what doesn’t make a good film from MST3K. And my inner rock snob developed from discovering a whole slew of seminal bands that weren’t on the radio, but were appearing in videos on B&B: Sonic Youth, the Clash, Built to Spill, Pavement, etc.

It also helped that both shows left me in tears of laughter much of the time.

re: #64 Feline Fearless Leader

Ouch. Blackberry took a $4.4B quarterly loss. Huge write-off due to (unsold) device inventory.

I’m not really surprised. I only know one blackberry owner at this point.

re: #38 Pie-onist Overlord

NO YOU DUMBASS.
Fucked Up Die Nasty is toast. A&E will find another show for that slot.

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A&E could always go back to the way it was and show serious documentaries and highbrow films. Yeah, right.

re: #66 HappyWarrior

I’m not really surprised. I only know one blackberry owner at this point.

Article indicates that it appears now that they will partner with Foxconn (Taiwan electronics company) and concentrate on “emerging” markets like Indonesia. So it looks like Blackberry will abandon North America (and presumably Europe as well.) I somehow doubt that will work out in the long term.

re: #67 Ian G.

A&E could always go back to the way it was and show serious documentaries and highbrow films. Yeah, right.

And the Military Channel, History Channel, MTV, etc. etc. go back to showing programs based on their names as well?
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re: #67 Ian G.

A&E could always go back to the way it was and show serious documentaries and highbrow films. Yeah, right.

Right after VH1 returns to actual music and the history channel actually focuses on history. Sorry rambling but damn shame what these networks have devolved to. I mean the frigging “Learning Channel” is what gave us Honey Boo Boo. I am not a snob but damn it, I do not like “reality TV.”

re: #54 Pie-onist Overlord

I don’t understand how someone goes through life with no apparent emotions aside from hate for other people. It can’t be good for one’s mental or physical health, or one’s soul.

re: #69 Feline Fearless Leader

And the Military Channel, History Channel, MTV, etc. etc. go back to showing programs based on their names as well?
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Damn it dude. Great minds though. In fairness to the Military Channel, they have had some decent programming lately. There’s this show Nazi Hunters that’s pretty fascinating and it reminds you know that Nazis did Nazi stuff not you know try to get more people insured for health care or fought for marriage rights for homosexuals.

re: #72 HappyWarrior

Damn it dude. Great minds though. In fairness to the Military Channel, they have had some decent programming lately. There’s this show Nazi Hunters that’s pretty fascinating and it reminds you know that Nazis did Nazi stuff not you know try to get more people insured for health care or fought for marriage rights for homosexuals.

Then again you look at their listings and see Nazi UFO and “Search for Jesus” stuff.

re: #73 Feline Fearless Leader

Then again you look at their listings and see Nazi UFO and “Search for Jesus” stuff.

Agh yeah. And Crime TV now Investigation Discovery is just variations of the same old murder story but with a silly name for a show. Southern Fried Homicide, Wives With Knives, all real show titles!

Best programming for my money is on HBO, FX,, AMC, and Showtime. I really enjoyed Masters of Sex this past season. Neat new show and HBO has a new one with McConnaghey and Harrelson that looks fascinating.

re: #66 HappyWarrior

I’m not really surprised. I only know one blackberry owner at this point.

My boss has a blackberry. Of course, he also prefers to keep documents in binders piled high to the sky rather than on computers because that’s how they did it in the IDF in the 70s when he was an officer there. :-P

Has anyone informed Sarah Palin that “patriarch” has nothing to do with patriotism?

re: #77 Dr. Matt

Has anyone informed Sarah Palin that “patriarch” has nothing to do with patriotism?

Are you seriously telling me that she equated the two terms? That’s so Palin.

re: #64 Feline Fearless Leader

Ouch. Blackberry took a $4.4B quarterly loss. Huge write-off due to (unsold) device inventory.

They make it up in volume.

re: #64 Feline Fearless Leader

Ouch. Blackberry took a $4.4B quarterly loss. Huge write-off due to (unsold) device inventory.

Get Sarah Palin to buy them.

re: #78 HappyWarrior

Are you seriously telling me that she equated the two terms? That’s so Palin.

No. But I suspect otherwise. Call it an educated hunch.

Harry Reid was checked out at hospital when he complained of not feeling well.

He’s good, though, but won’t work today.

re: #80 Justanotherhuman

Get Sarah Palin to buy them.

Hey Sarah, we will give you $1,000,000 to go out and scream that BlackBerry is being repressed for their conservative values and is being hounded by liberal oppression. That should take care of the unsold inventory.

re: #83 b.d.

Hey Sarah, we will give you $1,000,000 to go out and scream that BlackBerry is being repressed for their conservative values and is being hounded by liberal oppression. That should take care of the unsold inventory.

Don’t tell her it’s a Canadian company though.

re: #84 Feline Fearless Leader

Don’t tell her it’s a Canadian company though.

Yes, tell her it’s a company founded by real Americans to do real American stuff.

re: #81 Dr. Matt

No. But I suspect otherwise. Call it an educated hunch.

Ah then. Wouldn’t shock me either way since she proves dumb as a box of rocks when ti comes to analysis.

Anyone see this picture? The Duck Dynasty guys are about as redneck as Palin the governor.

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re: #87 Aqua Obama

Anyone see this picture? The Duck Dynasty guys are about as redneck as Palin the governor.

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So when did they start doing the ZZTop impersonation act?

re: #88 Pie-onist Overlord

So when did they start doing the ZZTop impersonation act?

When A&E gave them their contract.

Towercam is beautiful blue…

re: #88 Pie-onist Overlord

So when did they start doing the ZZTop impersonation act?

Dude has his polo shirt out.

I’m a loner, Dottie. A rebel.

re: #87 Aqua Obama

Anyone see this picture? The Duck Dynasty guys are about as redneck as Palin the governor.

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Heh, reminds me of reading a feature on Duane Allman and seeing he and his brother’s high school graduation photo and my own father’s graduation photo. The Robertson’s image is an invented one. “Reality TV” is the biggest misnomer out there.

Huckster frauds posing as imbeciles to appeal to imbeciles?

Unpossible!

Uganda, WTF is it with Uganda?

re: #93 b.d.

Is that kind of like how Country music fans are the only real group that buys CDs more than digital?

Cable guys know that the tea party crowd probably buys more stupid merchandise than any other demographic.

re: #78 HappyWarrior

Are you seriously telling me that she equated the two terms? That’s so Palin.

I think you just coined a new meme.

So, how is it this morning?

re: #94 FemNaziBitch

Repressive regimes must repress.

And we’re supposed to be thankful that they didn’t impose death sentences on people convicted of being homosexual? Instead, repeat “offenders” get life in prison.

Spreading any kind of LBGT materials is criminalized.

With all the problems in Uganda, this is what the regime focuses on.

re: #96 FemNaziBitch

I think you just coined a new meme.

Ha, I actually combined something Tina Fey did on a Palin SNL skit with what a friend said to me yesterday after I was frantically looking for my phone that I ahd been in my back pocket the whole time.

Nice. My son was interviewed by an Israeli magazine for an article on Teh Juice of Alabama.

I’m looking for an English translation, meanwhile his photo is on page 3.

Not being a Twitter user, can someone tell me if there is a count kept on someone’s account as to how many tweets they’ve twitted?

I’d like to know how many Bryan Fischer has cranked out. I want to use it as a measure of his insanity. Thanks!

re: #101 ObserverArt

Not being a Twitter user, can someone tell me if there is a count kept on someone’s account as to how many tweets they’ve twitted?

I’d like to know how many Bryan Fischer has cranked out. I want to use it as a measure of his insanity. Thanks!

19,096 Tweets.

re: #97 FemNaziBitch

So, how is it this morning?

Work, whiny cats, prepping for relatives turning up on Xmas eve. So seeing if I can get a restaurant reservation for that evening to cut down on the cooking requirements. (Christmas dinner will be an interesting challenge since my niece is picky and my brother is a vegetarian.)

I think this business with Uganda is why I didn’t like the Kony 2012 stuff. Certainly Kony is an awful man and the documentary was right on about that but the documentary also painted the Ugandan government as some force of good. Like Femnazi, I am totally disgusted that anyone from our country helped on this legislation. It seems that this is what our fundie zealots do now that they know they’re losing at home. It really though does leave you grateful that people in the past for gay rights here but at the same time reminds you on how far the world as a whole needs to come on this and many issues.

re: #98 lawhawk

Repressive regimes must repress.

And we’re supposed to be thankful that they didn’t impose death sentences on people convicted of being homosexual? Instead, repeat “offenders” get life in prison.

Spreading any kind of LBGT materials is criminalized.

With all the problems in Uganda, this is what the regime focuses on.

Scapegoat selection. Something to point to when government or economy goes wrong and also something to plant on and convict political opponents of when necessary.

re: #106 Feline Fearless Leader

Scapegoat selection. Something to point to when government or economy goes wrong and also something to plant on and convict political opponents of when necessary.

Yep scapegoating, oldest trick in the book of a government that knows it has problems.

India isn’t really blazing a wonderful path either.

re: #108 Aqua Obama

India isn’t really blazing a wonderful path either.

India, Russia, Uganda, and so many others. But this was one thing I was praising Obama and his administration for. They’ve fought homophobia both at home and abroad and considering the last administration actually tried to pass a federal ban on gay marriage, that’s huge progress.

re: #58 sattv4u2

I think he’s doing the “tyrant” bit NOT because more people will (or can) get covered, but because the President is changing parts of established law w/o consulting or going to congress

There’s a difference between changing a law and changing regulations (an executive branch function) regarding the law. If Fischer is aware of the distinction, I am positive he is ignoring it for whip up his base of knuckledraggers.

re: #100 Pie-onist Overlord

Nice. My son was interviewed by an Israeli magazine for an article on Teh Juice of Alabama.

I’m looking for an English translation, meanwhile his photo is on page 3.

How cool. Once you find a translation from Alabamian to English I would love to read the article.

:P

re: #100 Pie-onist Overlord

Nice. My son was interviewed by an Israeli magazine for an article on Teh Juice of Alabama.

I’m looking for an English translation, meanwhile his photo is on page 3.

He’ll fit in—got that Duck Dynasty beard going.

re: #109 HappyWarrior

India, Russia, Uganda, and so many others. But this was one thing I was praising Obama and his administration for. They’ve fought homophobia both at home and abroad and considering the last administration actually tried to pass a federal ban on gay marriage, that’s huge progress.

And it will probably be what his administration will really be remembered for.

re: #112 Decatur Deb

He’ll fit in—got that Duck Dynasty beard going.

That should be a plus when I shop my Pie Show as a replacement.

re: #113 Aqua Obama

And it will probably be what his administration will really be remembered for.

Yes, I think that’s his finest legacy right here when you compare him to his predecessors like Reagan who actually had people in the Press Corps laughing about AIDS being the gay disease, Clinton who signed DOMA, and Bush II who pushed FMA. I just hope his successors don’t reverse the process. That alone was a huge reason to prefer Obama over Romney who I have no doubt would have caved into the anti-gay bigots that dominate his party.

Fox News host Geraldo Rivera defended Alec Baldwin’s use of an anti-gay epithet against a photographer, claiming that calling somebody a “cocksucking faggot” isn’t actually a homophobic slur.

re: #116 FemNaziBitch

How is it anything but a slur? I like Alec Baldwin honestly but what he said was a homophobic slur and to claim it wasn’t is just dishonest. Then again, this is the guy who thinks wearing a hoodie makes you a thug.

re: #115 HappyWarrior

Yes, I think that’s his finest legacy right here when you compare him to his predecessors like Reagan who actually had people in the Press Corps laughing about AIDS being the gay disease, Clinton who signed DOMA, and Bush II who pushed FMA. I just hope his successors don’t reverse the process. That alone was a huge reason to prefer Obama over Romney who I have no doubt would have caved into the anti-gay bigots that dominate his party.

That alone is reason to prefer Hillary over Whoever.

re: #118 Decatur Deb

That alone is reason to prefer Hillary over Whoever.

Yep, it’s why I am going to scoff at Christie being called a moderate when the only thing he’s really moderate about is not being a total dick about being anti-gay. But a half dick is still a dick.

Writing Spain off as countries for women to emigrate to…

Spain to present new restrictive abortion law

hosted.ap.org

“Peoples Party” my ass. Rajoy is a rightwing crook who should be in jail. And the unemployment rate has risen under his admin.

npr.org

re: #120 Justanotherhuman

Writing Spain off as countries for women to emigrate to…

Spain to present new restrictive abortion law

hosted.ap.org

“Peoples Party” my ass. Rajoy is a rightwing crook who should be in jail. And the unemployment rate has risen under his admin.

npr.org

Spain has employment problems so of course the PM’s solution is to go after abortion rights. Sigh, seems this kind of foolishness isn’t limited to our shores.

re: #120 Justanotherhuman

Writing Spain off as countries for women to emigrate to…

Spain to present new restrictive abortion law

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“Peoples Party” my ass. Rajoy is a rightwing crook who should be in jail. And the unemployment rate has risen under his admin.

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I have never seen Spain as anything but a vacation destination.

Economic growth in 3rd quarter revised up to 4.1%.

MARXISM! ZIMBABWEIMAR! OBUMMER HATES MURKA!!!!!

re: #119 HappyWarrior

Yep, it’s why I am going to scoff at Christie being called a moderate when the only thing he’s really moderate about is not being a total dick about being anti-gay. But a half dick is still a dick.

A limp dick.

US economy grew 4.1% last quarter

re: #39 Pie-onist Overlord

WTFITS

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For Obama, the law is whatever he says it is. We are no longer a nation of laws but are being ruled by a petty tyrant.
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) December 20, 2013

Hey Bryan, why don’t you take one of Bush’s signing statements, suck it up your nose and blow it out your ass.

I created Adam and Eve, not Adam and some stupid asshole making artificial duck sounds.

— God (@TheTweetOfGod) December 20, 2013

re: #123 Ian G.

Economic growth in 3rd quarter revised up to 4.1%.

MARXISM! ZIMBABWEIMAR! OBUMMER HATES MURKA!!!!!

It’s “WEIMARZIMBABWE” since it almost rhymes with “BENGHAZI”.
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re: #124 AlexRogan

A limp dick.

But he promises that there will be more traffic studies!
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Dogwalk—BBL

I was asked.. When do poor people create jobs? Here's the answer.. #UniteBlue #LibCrib #P2 #CTL pic.twitter.com/vA6JHOK1Lb

— Ivan Roberson (@Ivanroberson) December 10, 2013

re: #124 AlexRogan

A limp dick.

Win.

re: #107 HappyWarrior

Yep scapegoating, oldest trick in the book of a government that knows it has problems.

Five Reasons Humanity Desperately Wants Monsters to be Real.

You know that place between sleep and awake —commonly known as Never Never Land?

Well, often, ideas pop into my consciousness when I am in that state and I actually remember some of them.

Last night I had the most amazing insight into the obvious.

God made Adam with a penis and testicles and sperm. He did this after making the birds and the bees and the trees.

And, some would have us believe that Eve/LIllith whomever, with a uterus and ovaries and eggs was an afterthought?

re: #133 Romantic Heretic

Five Reasons Humanity Desperately Wants Monsters to be Real.

Great piece!

ZOMGWTFITS

All you need to know: while Big Gay was calling for his scalp, Phil was praying for a woman with cancer. http://t.co/h4jjpsLmk1

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) December 20, 2013

But was Phil spending his money to send this woman to clinics with topnotch oncology treatment?

re: #136 Pie-onist Overlord

ZOMGWTFITS

All you need to know: while Big Gay was calling for his scalp, Phil was praying for a woman with cancer.

Calling a person out for homophobic/racist statements = calling for that person’s scalp

Got it.

re: #138 Sol Berdinowitz

Calling a person out for homophobic/racist statements = calling for that person’s scalp

Got it.

Yep. Some first-class projection there. Their whining reveals an awful lot more about their mindset then they probably want to reveal.

re: #135 HappyWarrior

Great piece!

I bookmarked it as one of my favourite web pages. I go to it all the time because it is such a sage piece of work.

Comedians can say things the rest of us can’t, which is why people in power hate them so much.

re: #136 Pie-onist Overlord

ZOMGWTFITS

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The lack of self-awareness this pathetic fucker has is amazing. Yes, Bryan, “big gay” is calling for his scalp. Yet your pals in Uganda want to treat gays like murderers and your pals in Russia want to shove them in ovens but you can’t handle Phil Robertson being called a bigot? God dude, you’re a pathetic piece of shit.

re: #134 FemNaziBitch

You know that place between sleep and awake —commonly known as Never Never Land?

Well, often, ideas pop into my consciousness when I am in that state and I actually remember some of them.

Last night I had the most amazing insight into the obvious.

God made Adam with a penis and testicles and sperm. He did this after making the birds and the bees and the trees.

And, some would have us believe that Eve/LIllith whomever, with a uterus and ovaries and eggs was an afterthought?

I was in that state the other day and had a fantastic insight into the human condition. And then one of the cats jumped on my chest to remind me that I needed to get up and feed them…
;)

re: #140 Romantic Heretic

I bookmarked it as one of my favourite web pages. I go to it all the time because it is such a sage piece of work.

Comedians can say things the rest of us can’t, which is why people in power hate them so much.

I thought it was just a fascinating look on how we use hate to justify our treatment of the “other” whether that person is gay, a different or no religion, different ethnic background, etc. When my kid brother was young, I always told him that the only real monsters were other people and that article confirms that.

re: #140 Romantic Heretic

I bookmarked it as one of my favourite web pages. I go to it all the time because it is such a sage piece of work.

Comedians can say things the rest of us can’t, which is why people in power hate them so much.

And that is why Limbaugh hides behind “it’s satire!” whenever he steps far enough over the line to get called on it.

re: #144 Feline Fearless Leader

And that is why Limbaugh hides behind “it’s satire!” whenever he steps far enough over the line to get called on it.

I’m just an entertainer who every GOP politician is petrified of offending!

re: #134 FemNaziBitch

You know that place between sleep and awake —commonly known as Never Never Land?

Well, often, ideas pop into my consciousness when I am in that state and I actually remember some of them.

Last night I had the most amazing insight into the obvious.

God made Adam with a penis and testicles and sperm. He did this after making the birds and the bees and the trees.

And, some would have us believe that Eve/LIllith whomever, with a uterus and ovaries and eggs was an afterthought?

Actually, depending on which of the TWO creation stories in Genesis, one has a time line something like this. (the one in Genesis 2:4-25)

1. God Makes Adam.
2. God decides it’s not good for Adam to be alone
3. God creates all the other animals and brings them to Adam to name them. (because you really want somebody who has no experience creating your taxonomy for you.)
4. God then creates Eve (he uses Adams rib in this story, in the version in Genesis 1, they are created at the same time and before the animals)

So, the infinitely powerful and all knowing God creates man, then creates all the animals, and THEN decides that a woman might be a good idea?

Just a nice set of factoids to have in the hip pocket for my “Bible is Literal” associates.

RBS

re: #131 Pie-onist Overlord

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The smartest person in the supermarket I frequent, and who knows this fact personally, is the checkout clerk who gets SNAP him or herself. And lots of them do around here, even as they work at minimum wage. It’s not part of the “lake effect economy” as I like to call it.

Those clerks never complain about SNAP, WIC, or any of it. You’re just another customer.

However, go down the road about 10 mi to the next one of this chain, and they seldom get SNAP customers. They’re lake dwellers from Charlotte or who work there, for the most part, and I never understood how that store can stay open because they don’t do nearly the volume of the first one near me—plus, they compete w/WalMart and another store that is not too far away (when you look at the cars and SUVs in the WM parking lot, you know these aren’t all poor people shopping there).

Incidentally, the turnover of food in the first one is high as well, so it tends to be fresher.

re: #143 HappyWarrior

I thought it was just a fascinating look on how we use hate to justify our treatment of the “other” whether that person is gay, a different or no religion, different ethnic background, etc. When my kid brother was young, I always told him that the only real monsters were other people and that article confirms that.

And this is sort of key to my referring to myself as a “hopeful atheist”* since if we are our own monsters than there is some hope of us eventually learning to tame and deal with it. If there is some sort of omnipotent force paying attention to what is going on and just allowing it to happen than I am essentially nothing better than a lab rat.

* - I do note that this ignores a whole spectrum of possible outcomes along the deist scale.

Weasel Zippers, a touch of class

re: #146 RealityBasedSteve

Just a nice set of factoids to have in the hip pocket for my “Bible is Literal” associates.

RBS

The Bible is literally true and the Fossil Record is a batch of lies from the Pit of Hell…

The addiction analogy struck me.

Well, it’s not an analogy, it’s real. The reward system in the brain is activated by hate and anger. It’s part of the fight or flight response.

Dealt with that a bit in my own life and it’s exhausting. It will kill a person if left unchecked.

It’s killing this country.

re: #136 Pie-onist Overlord

ZOMGWTFITS

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I heard someone from Big Gay interviewed on TV last night. They thought A&E shouldn’t censor these backward fucks. Just let them be the bigots they really are in front of the camera. That’s what people are watching them for anyway…to hear something that hints at “I’m not as bad as that asshole” for them.

In the beginning, God created…

Bertha Butt?

I had some programs open doing some work on my portfolio and saw some folks doing some VB Pie logos. Here’s my ‘quick’ contribution. A late birfday gift for the overlord of the pies!

re: #154 ObserverArt

I had some programs open doing some work on my portfolio and saw some folks doing some VB Pie logos. Here’s my ‘quick’ contribution. A late birfday gift for the lord of the pies!

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I love it!

re: #116 FemNaziBitch

Fox News host Geraldo Rivera defended Alec Baldwin’s use of an anti-gay epithet against a photographer, claiming that calling somebody a “cocksucking faggot” isn’t actually a homophobic slur.

Rivera should stop being a wetback spic. That’s not a racist slur is it?

re: #151 FemNaziBitch

The addiction analogy struck me.

Well, it’s not an analogy, it’s real. The reward system in the brain is activated by hate and anger. It’s part of the fight or flight response.

Dealt with that a bit in my own life and it’s exhausting. It will kill a person if left unchecked.

It’s killing this country.

That part resonated for me as well. I was an anger addict for years, and it nearly killed me.

re: #56 HappyWarrior

He needs to quit start drinking bleach.

A man can dream, can’t he?

re: #156 Eventual Carrion

Rivera should stop being a wetback spic. That’s not a racist slur is it?

kinda redundant, seems like you have to throw in some other insult to go with either “wetback” or “spic”; you know, something like uppity, ignorant, lamestream….

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re: #158 GeneJockey

A man can dream, can’t he?

I’d settle for self-awareness juice to help him realize that gay activists criticizing Phil Robertson is tame to him and his fellow anti-gay bigots calling homosexuals, beasists.

re: #159 piratedan

kinda redundant, seems like you have to throw in some other insult to go with either “wetback” or “spic”; you know, something like uppity, ignorant, lamestream….

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“Lazy” though that one actually works for Geraldo given that any reporter with any real sense would have realized that everyone from the elderly to little kids wears hoodies now.

re: #161 HappyWarrior

“Lazy” though that one actually works for Geraldo given that any reporter with any real sense would have realized that everyone from the elderly to little kids wears hoodies now.

How many pics can one find of Geraldo wearing a hoodie?

re: #162 FemNaziBitch

How many pics can one find of Geraldo wearing a hoodie?

Geraldo has never been a black kid in a white neighborhood.

re: #162 FemNaziBitch

How many pics can one find of Geraldo wearing a hoodie?

Ha, true, I recall several.

Getting an abortion after being raped is criminal evidence tampering.
In January, Republican state Rep. Cathrynn Brown of New Mexico caused an uproar with a bill to make obtaining an abortion in cases of rape or incest felony evidence tampering punishable by up to three years in prison.

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re: #159 piratedan

kinda redundant, seems like you have to throw in some other insult to go with either “wetback” or “spic”; you know, something like uppity, ignorant, lamestream….

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You could refer to him as a “spic kike whorterny” since he’s of Puerto Rican (Father), Jewish (Mother) decent and is (was) a lawyer.

RBS
Who REALLY doesn’t want to offend members of the Bar on this board.

re: #165 FemNaziBitch

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Yes, punish rape victims. Great idea, Rep. Brown. What a terrible person this legislator is.

Thinking of writing a universe where the Prime Directive is “mess with the developing aliens species for the lulz.”

— John Scalzi (@scalzi) December 20, 2013

re: #168 FemNaziBitch

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For example, in the Pilot, they could find the most tasty animals that there are to eat, and then tell the natives “Thou Shalt NOT Eat the Tasty Ones”.

RBS

WTFITS

Amazing anyone wonders why Snowden doesn't feel safe in a USA whose POTUS has a “kill list” and has waged a brutal war on whistleblowers.

— David Sirota (@davidsirota) December 20, 2013

re: #170 Pie-onist Overlord

WTFITS

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Each POTUS has a group of whackos who have decided he is the head of some secret cabal who carries-out hits on perceived enemies.

You think the whackos would see the pattern …

re: #141 HappyWarrior

The lack of self-awareness this pathetic fucker has is amazing. Yes, Bryan, “big gay” is calling for his scalp. Yet your pals in Uganda want to treat gays like murderers and your pals in Russia want to shove them in ovens but you can’t handle Phil Robertson being called a bigot? God dude, you’re a pathetic piece of shit.

Nah man, it’s cool, Phil “piece of shit” Robertson was ‘praying’ for someone at the time.

Because that’s a real noble thing to do, saying a few somewhat nice words for someone. Begging your invisible skydad to do the sorts of things that we COULD be doing with modern medicine if, you know, you weren’t holding them back by bitching about stem cell research. That makes it all better.

That’s why Snowden ran to Russia, which has never in its history ever had a “kill list” or waged war on dissidents…
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Actually as we all know, Snowden ran to Russia because he thought it would only be a three-hour layover and then he’d be getting on a plane to Iceland.

re: #146 RealityBasedSteve

Actually, depending on which of the TWO creation stories in Genesis, one has a time line something like this. (the one in Genesis 2:4-25)

1. God Makes Adam.
2. God decides it’s not good for Adam to be alone
3. God creates all the other animals and brings them to Adam to name them. (because you really want somebody who has no experience creating your taxonomy for you.)
4. God then creates Eve (he uses Adams rib in this story, in the version in Genesis 1, they are created at the same time and before the animals)

So, the infinitely powerful and all knowing God creates man, then creates all the animals, and THEN decides that a woman might be a good idea?

Just a nice set of factoids to have in the hip pocket for my “Bible is Literal” associates.

RBS

I think the first male who connected birth and where he came from, a woman’s vagina, invented the story of “Adam and Eve”.

From my feminist perspective, men have creation envy and have since that discovery—thus, male-centered religion was born, and since males can use brawn and force, being bigger and stronger than women, they could enforce it, not just over women, but over entire populations. It’s no surprise to me that “entertainment” like cage fighting, the promotion of war, including in gaming, etc. is so popular these days.

The more we develop our brains, the more we know, the more we progress. After all, you can live without brawn—but you can’t live without brain. If Sisyphus had a brain, we wouldn’t have that myth, Camus notwithstanding.

We have it all wrong, of course. Men should strive to be more like women, not the opposite, which is pushed on us.

re: #172 GunstarGreen

Nah man, it’s cool, Phil “piece of shit” Robertson was ‘praying’ for someone at the time.

Because that’s a real noble thing to do, saying a few somewhat nice words for someone. Begging your invisible skydad to do the sorts of things that we COULD be doing with modern medicine if, you know, you weren’t holding them back by bitching about stem cell research. That makes it all better.

I liked a story that Nucky Thompson in Boardwalk Empire played by Steve Buscemi had. Guy is drowning at sea. HE’s thrown a life preserver He declines it saying God will save him and eventually drowns. He gets to Heaven and asks God why didn’t he save him? God responds “I threw you a life preserver, had those people want to save you, what more did you want.” That’s what I always think about people who see prayer as the only solution.

re: #170 Pie-onist Overlord

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sure Dave has a list of people that Obama has rubbed out, meanwhile Darrell Issa has another set of subpeonas he has to serve about Benghazi and the ACA….

big claims for a guy with nary a shred of proof.

re: #175 Justanotherhuman

I think we should strive for better understanding of each other and appreciation of the idea that none of us is whole.

I don’t think men should be more like women, per se. I think they should be themselves and not look to the man box for their identity.

It’s the man box, not the man, which is the problem.

re: #171 FemNaziBitch

Each POTUS has a group of whackos who have decided he is the head of some secret cabal who carries-out hits on perceived enemies.

You think the whackos would see the pattern …

OH.MY.GOD. I see the pattern! I finally figured it out!

ALL the Presidents have been the heads of some secret cabals that caries out hits on their enemies!!!

HURR HURR

Some of the most vicious critics of Snowden are hyperpartisan Democrats who hate him because he exposed crimes of a Democratic president.

— David Sirota (@davidsirota) December 20, 2013

David Sirota is sounding like all the wingnuts at TGDN and LNYHBT.

“Sir, do you have a minute to talk about our lord and savior, Cthulhu?” pic.twitter.com/AGtUjw9OpS

— Distractify (@Distractify) December 18, 2013

re: #181 Pie-onist Overlord

David Sirota is sounding like all the wingnuts at TGDN and LNYHBT.

Emoprogs tend to sound that way when it comes to Obama and any Democrat who dares to live in the world outside of Progressive Fantasy Land.

re: #173 Pie-onist Overlord

That’s why Snowden ran to Russia, which has never in its history ever had a “kill list” or waged war on dissidents…
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How I would love see Snowden’s trial go….

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A couple of great lines in there…..

RBS

What’s with the green font?

Did I miss something?

The black people who Phil Robertson knew were warred upon. If they valued their lives, and the lives of their families, the last thing they would have done was voiced a complaint about “white people” to a man like Robertson. Ignorance is no great sin and one can forgive the good natured white person for not knowing how all that cannibal sausage was truly made. But having been presented with a set of facts, Robertson’s response is to cite “welfare” and “entitlement” as the true culprits.

The belief that black people were at their best when they were being hunted down like dogs for the sin of insisting on citizenship is a persistent strain of thought in this country. What it ultimately reflects is inability to cope with America that is at least rhetorically committed to equality. One can quickly see the line from this kind of thinking, to a rejection of the civil rights movement of our age:

Start with homosexual behavior and just morph out from there. Bestiality, sleeping around with this woman and that woman and that woman and those men,” he says. Then he paraphrases Corinthians: “Don’t be deceived. Neither the adulterers, the idolaters, the male prostitutes, the homosexual offenders, the greedy, the drunkards, the slanderers, the swindlers—they won’t inherit the kingdom of God. Don’t deceive yourself. It’s not right

This is not just ignorance, it is a willful retreat into myth. And we must have the intellectual courage and moral strength to follow the myth through. If swindlers, goat-fuckers and gay men are really all the same—disinherited from the kingdom of God—why not treat them the same? How does one argue that a man who is disfavored by the Discerner of All Things, should not be shamed, should not jeered, should not be stoned, should not be lynched in the street?

Further retreat into the inanity of loving the sinner, but hating the sin—a standard which would clean The Wise Helmsman, himself—will not do. Actual history shows that humans are not so discriminating. Black people were once thought to be sinners. We were rewarded with a species of love that bore an odd resemblance to hate. One need not be oversensitive to be concerned about Phil Robertson’s thoughts on gay sex. One simply need be a student of American history.

m.theatlantic.com

re: #185 FemNaziBitch

What’s with the green font?

Did I miss something?

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re: #183 HappyWarrior

Emoprogs tend to sound that way when it comes to Obama and any Democrat who dares to live in the world outside of Progressive Fantasy Land.

Yeah. “WHY DIDN’T OBUMMER JUST PASS SINGLE-PAYER HEALTHCARE?????”. Uh, because of this thing called Congress, which is rigged in favor of districts that elect hyperpartisan wingnuts who think the President is worse than Pol Pot. He got what he could. Maybe in 20 years when all the teabaggers are in the grave or the nursing home, we can get single-payer. For now, just be glad we got something.

re: #171 FemNaziBitch

Each POTUS has a group of whackos who have decided he is the head of some secret cabal who carries-out hits on perceived enemies.

You think the whackos would see the pattern …

Is it the SAME secret cabal for all the presidents, or are there multiple cabals for different presidents. Do the cabals have any type of interlocking directorates, or are they truly separate and independent entities. And how do we know that there ISN’T a super secret cabal controlling the secret cabals they WANT you to not know about????

I’m going to go and draw fractals on the white board till my head stops spinning.

RBS

3. Blaming Gay People For Natural Disasters

In the perennial tradition of blaming everything bad that happens on gay people, we learned in 2013 that gay rights caused everything from tornadoes to forest fires and floods… including Noah’s Flood. After Minnesota legalized same-sex marriage, one radio talk show host even confidently predicted that the state would face economic and weather-related punishment.

Self-proclaimed prophet Cindy Jacobs, who linked the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell to freak bird deaths, feared that the Supreme Court marriage rulings would lead to divine wrath in the form of natural disasters:

- See more at: rightwingwatch.org

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re: #187 Pie-onist Overlord

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ah!

WAY TO PROJECT, WINGNUTS.

TWEET of DAY TRIBUTE to #Dems RT: @arenka OBAMA SO LOVED THE POOR THAT HE CREATED… pic.twitter.com/jKyVWA5Tcu #Ccot #tcot #TGDN #p2 #UniteBlue

— Marble (@Marble300) February 25, 2013

re: #178 FemNaziBitch

I think we should strive for better understanding of each other and appreciation of the idea that none of us is whole.

I don’t think men should be more like women, per se. I think they should be themselves and not look to the man box for their identity.

It’s the man box, not the man, which is the problem.

But the majority do look to the “man box” because it’s the predominant culture. If that weren’t the case, women’s sports would get as much attention, for instance, as male sports. Women would manage businesses differently, not simply like the male-dominated business schools taught them. The same in law, medicine, or any other profession. But women do not dominant in any of those, and haven’t even achieved much parity.

Being a woman is not just about “keeping the peace” but being a whole person, and we are thwarted every single day of our lives in trying to do so.

Experiences may vary.

re: #180 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR

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Jesus. Lemme see if I can ‘splain it to you:

Snowden stole secret information about our foreign intelligence gathering in such volume that he could not possibly have vetted it to see what should and should not be released, EVEN IF he were qualified to judge it, which he’s not.

He then fled to NOT ONE, BUT TWO of our largest potential adversaries, making it highly likely that they now have everything he stole.

Now he is trying to blackmail the USG into giving him a pardon by threatening to divulge things that would do EVEN MORE harm to America - a country that he claims to love but which he is threatening to harm for his own convenience and comfort.

This is pretty much exactly the opposite of a patriot, to sacrifice his country for himself.

re: #190 FemNaziBitch

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Number 2 is the most scary to me. I think the anti-gay bigots know they’re going to lose here but they have a chance to continue the anti-gay culture that exists in Eastern Europe, Africa, and other places by throwing their influence and money there. Truly scary.

re: #194 GeneJockey

Jesus. Lemme see if I can ‘splain it to you:

Snowden stole secret information about our foreign intelligence gathering in such volume that he could not possibly have vetted it to see what should and should not be released, EVEN IF he were qualified to judge it, which he’s not.

He then fled to NOT ONE, BUT TWO of our largest potential adversaries, making it highly likely that they now have everything he stole.

Now he is trying to blackmail the USG into giving him a pardon by threatening to divulge things that would do EVEN MORE harm to America - a country that he claims to love but which he is threatening to harm for his own convenience and comfort.

This is pretty much exactly the opposite of a patriot, to sacrifice his country for himself.

But he’s just like Nelson Mandela.

re: #196 HappyWarrior

But he’s just like Nelson Mandela.

AND ROSA PARKS AND MARTIN LUTHER KING AND ALL THE FOUNDING FATHERS TIMES A ZILLION!!!!!!!

It was nice of the President to admit Obamacare is a hardship. But if he really means that, he should join Republicans who want to REPEAL IT

— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) December 20, 2013

And if President Obama can exempt people from taxes, he shouldn't stop with just this one.

— Senator Rand Paul (@SenRandPaul) December 20, 2013

re: #198 Pie-onist Overlord

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You keep on saying that Rand yet your governor disagrees. How about this. How about you give up your government health care and leave the Senate forever and maybe the president will consider giving into your party of cowardly dicks.

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“And all those folks who now have affordable health insurance who never could get it before, especially those who signed up via Kynect, can go fuck themselves.”

re: #186 gwangung

Amen. Again, I’m shocked at how a lot of the uproar over Robertson seems to be about his weird and idiotic comments on gays. To me, his denial of Jim Crow is far more reprehensible. Maybe that’s why the Fischer/Palin/Breitbart axis is whining about him being persecuted by gays, and totally silent on the question of his white supremacism. Best not to bring that one up.

re: #201 GeneJockey

“And all those folks who now have affordable health insurance who never could get it before, especially those who signed up via Kynect, can go fuck themselves.”

Rand just wants the poor insurance companies to being able to deny people coverage because of pre-existing conditions. It’s not far that they can’t be dicks anymore. Seriously, this motherfucker needs to get it through his tiny little brain that President Obama is not going to sign a repeal of a legislation that he lost the House and almost the Senate over. And Rand if it weren’t for ACA and the stupid irrational hatred of it, you’d just be Ron Paul’s son and not a Senator so you should be grateful to ACA. You owe your political existence to it.

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I don’t understand teahadist politics.

“Down with the government! Vote me for government!”

I say, if Luap Nor’s spawn wants to downsize the government, we start with him.

re: #202 Ian G.

Amen. Again, I’m shocked at how a lot of the uproar over Robertson seems to be about his weird and idiotic comments on gays. To me, his denial of Jim Crow is far more reprehensible. Maybe that’s why the Fischer/Palin/Breitbart axis is whining about him being persecuted by gays, and totally silent on the question of his white supremacism. Best not to bring that one up.

When I read those remarks, about the blacks working in the field all happy and singing, I remember the scene in Blazing Saddles, “Back when you was slaves, you used to sing like birds!”

re: #202 Ian G.

Amen. Again, I’m shocked at how a lot of the uproar over Robertson seems to be about his weird and idiotic comments on gays. To me, his denial of Jim Crow is far more reprehensible. Maybe that’s why the Fischer/Palin/Breitbart axis is whining about him being persecuted by gays, and totally silent on the question of his white supremacism. Best not to bring that one up.

I think it’s because they probably share that denial or they believe Jim Crow was liberals!

re: #200 HappyWarrior

re: #201 GeneJockey

I honestly don’t think Rand Paul sees himself as representing Kentucky. I think he thinks he’s on a mission from god (his god being a certain emigre Russian writer who despised anyone who believed in god) to lead a revolution. Thus, his constituents are the knuckleheads who spend every hour of every day arguing for the gold standard all over the intertubes and not, say, an hourly worker at the Georgetown Toyota facility.

re: #202 Ian G.

Amen. Again, I’m shocked at how a lot of the uproar over Robertson seems to be about his weird and idiotic comments on gays. To me, his denial of Jim Crow is far more reprehensible. Maybe that’s why the Fischer/Palin/Breitbart axis is whining about him being persecuted by gays, and totally silent on the question of his white supremacism. Best not to bring that one up.

Breitbart picked up Phil quote about people of other religions. Ben Shapiro has nothing to say. See you when we both get to Hell, Ben!

I so, DON’T UNDERSTAND THIS.

re: #205 GeneJockey

When I read those remarks, about the blacks working in the field all happy and singing, I remember the scene in Blazing Saddles, “Back when you was slaves, you used to sing like birds!”

Apparently that actor was real uncomfortable saying the racial slurs to Cleveon Little and the other African-Americans in the cast. Leo DiCaprio said similar things about his character in Django Unchained. But yeah, this denial of pre-Civil Rights life is stupid. I watched a documentary on the integration of college sports and a lot of the black Alabamans interviewed were saying they cheered like crazy when an integrated USC squad beat Alabama’s all white squad. Civil Rights allowed African-Americans to actually be treated as human beings in the South. I don’t buy Robertson’s excuse that he’s just a product of his upbringing. My father isn’t much older and I know the one time he used a racial slur in front of my grandfather, my grandfather told him never to use that word again. My grandfather was born in 1913.

Andre Agassi was right. Image is everything.

Would Duck Dynasty be a thing unless the participants decided to grow ZZ Top-esque facial hair? I doubt it.

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In keeping with the war on Christians (////), in other news, the Supreme Court of Canada today struck down a series of laws that made it impossible for prostitutes to ply their trade. In short, prostitution itself is not really illegal in Canada, however, keeping a brothel, living on the avails of prostitution, and communicating in public for purposes of prostitution is.

Basically the Supreme Court stated that such laws made it difficult for prostitutes to work in their chosen field, forced them underground, and put them in danger from STDs and at the hands of those who wish to hurt them. It also robs the government of tax revenues (though they did not cite that reason in the decision). It is worth noting that the action was brought by current and former sex trade workers seeking a safer workplace for themselves and their colleagues.

I can only imagine what Bryan Fischer might think….I smell a boycott of Canada coming.

re: #198 Pie-onist Overlord

.@SenRandPaul Keep acting as though the pre-ACA health insurance scheme was better. It wasn't, and you and rest of GOP know it. 1/2

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) December 20, 2013

.@SenRandPaul That's why until Obama co-opted ind. mandate to get GOP votes, the GOP and Heritage were pushing ind. mandate as solution

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) December 20, 2013

re: #211 lawhawk

Andre Agassi was right. Image is everything.

Would Duck Dynasty be a thing unless the participants decided to grow ZZ Top-esque facial hair? I doubt it.

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They’re preppies! Not that there’s anything wrong with that but yes image is everything. I actually grew a thick beard and I showed up to a club meeting without it and the people who only knew me with it were shocked.

re: #212 Petero1818

In keeping with the war on Christians (////), in other news, the Supreme Court of Canada today struck down a series of laws that made it impossible for prostitutes to ply their trade. In short, prostitution itself is not really illegal in Canada, however, keeping a brothel, living on the avails of prostitution, and communicating in public for purposes of prostitution is.

Basically the Supreme Court stated that such laws made it difficult for prostitutes to work in their chosen field, forced them underground, and put them in danger from STDs and at the hands of those who wish to hurt them. It also robs the government of tax revenues (though they did not cite that reason in the decision). It is worth noting that the action was brought by current and former sex trade workers seeking a safer workplace for themselves and their colleagues.

I can only imagine what Bryan Fischer might think….I smell a boycott of Canada coming.

We’re the party of FREEDOM and LIBERTY and LESS REGULATION, which is why it’s very important that we crack down on the oldest business in business.

re: #210 HappyWarrior

Apparently that actor was real uncomfortable saying the racial slurs to Cleveon Little and the other African-Americans in the cast. Leo DiCaprio said similar things about his character in Django Unchained. But yeah, this denial of pre-Civil Rights life is stupid. I watched a documentary on the integration of college sports and a lot of the black Alabamans interviewed were saying they cheered like crazy when an integrated USC squad beat Alabama’s all white squad. Civil Rights allowed African-Americans to actually be treated as human beings in the South. I don’t buy Robertson’s excuse that he’s just a product of his upbringing. My father isn’t much older and I know the one time he used a racial slur in front of my grandfather, my grandfather told him never to use that word again. My grandfather was born in 1913.

And yet the wingnuts insist HURR HURR TEH LIBRULZ IS TEH REAL RACISTS AND TEH GOP WAS ALWAYS FOR TEH BLACK PEOPLE!!!!!11!!!

re: #183 HappyWarrior

Emoprogs tend to sound that way when it comes to Obama and any Democrat who dares to live in the world outside of Progressive Fantasy Land.

It’s the same thing as with wingnuts: Purity Uber Alles. Whereas for all his rhetoric, Barack Obama has in his career almost entirely stayed within the limits of what is politically possible. As with all purists, it sticks in an emoprog’s craw sideways to hear the man he/she built up in her/his mind strike a bargain or or adopt a program rolled out under George W. Bush.

Also worthy of note is that the emoprog’s dismay at Obama’s adoption of Bush Administration security programs is in part driven by projection: Many such people projected their own beliefs onto Obama in 2008, in some ways encouraged by his campaign*. Thus they take it as betrayal what Obama reveals himself as not sharing the same animus against George W. Bush that they feel.

*: Presidential campaigns normally encourage this to a degree, and I do not fault Obama’s campaign for it.

re: #214 HappyWarrior

They’re preppies! Not that there’s anything wrong with that but yes image is everything. I actually grew a thick beard and I showed up to a club meeting without it and the people who only knew me with it were shocked.

My oldest son SHAVED HIS BEARD OFF in order to look different.

Rand Paul, Michelle Bachman and the other Whackos are all, on a MISSION FROM GOD.

without sunglasses, a 1/2 a pack of cigarettes and a former cop car.

or a penguin giving the mandate.

re: #189 RealityBasedSteve

Is it the SAME secret cabal for all the presidents, or are there multiple cabals for different presidents. Do the cabals have any type of interlocking directorates, or are they truly separate and independent entities. And how do we know that there ISN’T a super secret cabal controlling the secret cabals they WANT you to not know about????

I’m going to go and draw fractals on the white board till my head stops spinning.

RBS

Actually it’s the same President. They just switch him into a new body every 4 or 8 years.

re: #190 FemNaziBitch

3. Blaming Gay People For Natural Disasters

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Sacrificing a virgin or two can clear that all up.

re: #217 Dark_Falcon

It’s the same thing as with wingnuts: Purity Uber Alles. Whereas for all his rhetoric, Barack Obama has in his career almost entirely stayed within the limits of what is politically possible. As with all purists, it sticks in an emoprog’s craw sideways to hear the man he/she built up in her/his mind strike a bargain or or adopt a program rolled out under George W. Bush.

Unfortunately, one of the two parties is almost completely controlled by the whacko true believers.

Fortunately, only one of the two parties is almost completely controlled by the whacko true believers.

re: #210 HappyWarrior

Apparently that actor was real uncomfortable saying the racial slurs to Cleveon Little and the other African-Americans in the cast. Leo DiCaprio said similar things about his character in Django Unchained.

Makes me wonder what Ralph Fiennes went through getting into character as a Nazi psychopath, especially since he really, really disappeared into that role.

re: #221 Eventual Carrion

Sacrificing a virgin or two can clear that all up.

great way to control the population count.

remove fertile females from the pool.

re: #220 Feline Fearless Leader

Actually it’s the same President. They just switch him into a new body every 4 or 8 years.

ah, the David Icke’s school of thought… Hey, wait a minute… you’re ALL Lizards!!!!

RBS

The gay lobby's worst nightmare: 100 million Christians motivated by Phil's example to tell the truth, let the chips fall.

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) December 20, 2013

re: #223 Ian G.

Makes me wonder what Ralph Fiennes went through getting into character as a Nazi psychopath, especially since he really, really disappeared into that role.

Yeah that was honestly scary. Fiennes plays villains really really good. I’d love to know what his methodology is.

re: #226 Pie-onist Overlord

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Bryan’s worst nightmare; his wife finds his gay porn stash.

re: #227 HappyWarrior

Imagine Bryan Fischer? /i’ll be here all week.

Think about it.

Traits common to both:
1) prey upon those with fear;
2) hate leads to suffering;
3) talk of purity of thought and that you’re doing what’s right for the good of a chosen few.
4) etc.

re: #226 Pie-onist Overlord

That sounds like something that would backfire massively on him if it happened. I believe that a vast majority of Christians don’t really care about the subject and have a very “live and let live, it’s none of my business” viewpoint on the matter.

re: #228 HappyWarrior

Bryan’s worst nightmare; his wife finds his gay porn stash.

Nah his wife totally knows about it and she lets him alone so that he’ll leave her alone.

Bryan’s worst nightmare: Anonymous hacks his computer and spams his gay porn stash all over Teh Internets.

re: #222 erik_t

Unfortunately, one of the two parties is almost completely controlled by the whacko true believers.

Fortunately, only one of the two parties is almost completely controlled by the whacko true believers.

Actually, I feel that Republicans passing the budget deal and Obama appointing a number left-liberal people heralds a small balance shift. It’s my contention that in 2014 the wingnuts will wield moderately less power than they’ve had recently, while the moonbats will have some attention paid to them. They still won’t hold the reigns, but Obama is likely to at least gesture in their direction.

re: #230 Feline Fearless Leader

That sounds like something that would backfire massively on him if it happened. I believe that a vast majority of Christians don’t really care about the subject and have a very “live and let live, it’s none of my business” viewpoint on the matter.

Or they have a loved one who is gay.

re: #226 Pie-onist Overlord

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100 Million Duck Dynasty Christians pissed and ranting?!!?!

The world hasn’t seen that kind of outrage since they quit making Twinkies

Al Franken destroys Professor in Arbitration Senate hearing

We really need more like him.

re: #235 Eclectic Cyborg

Al Franken destroys Professor in Arbitration Senate hearing

We really need more like him.

Franken’s been a pleasant surprise. I confess I didn’t think much of it when he ran for Senate but he’s taken his job seriously. Unlike some people *cough Ted Cruz*

re: #218 Pie-onist Overlord

My oldest son SHAVED HIS BEARD OFF in order to look different.

I thought Phil overdid it with the “we wuz real, real poor” bullshit, too. In the 1950’s there were a couple of recessions, which I remember. Many people back then knew what “poor” really meant. If his parents chose to live in the country and away from society, that was a choice, just as having 7 kids was.

Really poor kids didn’t get a chance to get a Master’s degree…or even go to a 4 yr school, at least not in the mid-’60s.

I think Phil just just used a momentary blip in his family finances as more fodder for the Robertson family mythology.

HURR HURR

Why is Obama reviving the awful Stop Online Piracy Act that threatens to criminalize free speech? http://t.co/MhsIFRWG22

— David Sirota (@davidsirota) December 20, 2013

re: #227 HappyWarrior

Yeah that was honestly scary. Fiennes plays villains really really good. I’d love to know what his methodology is.

A film that Fiennes is in that is worth taking a look at is _Sunshine_ from 1999. He actually plays three roles in it.

en.wikipedia.org

Wait, so downloading pirated software is “Free Speech”? I just can’t even…

re: #231 Pie-onist Overlord

Nah his wife totally knows about it and she lets him alone so that he’ll leave her alone.

Bryan’s worst nightmare: Anonymous hacks his computer and spams his gay porn stash all over Teh Internets.

Heh yeah you’re right. Seriously, he’s going to be amazed when this dies down and your average Christian isn’t going to give two shtis about some millionaire losing his spot on a silly reality show.I love how people like Fischer sceram HEALTH CARE ISN’T A RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but yet they think Phil is somehow entitled to his show and he can say whatever the fuck he wants on it without repercussions. I also love to Bryan that gay people criticizing this old bigot is “calling for his head” but actual violence towards gays doesn’t bother him at all.

re: #236 HappyWarrior

Franken’s been a pleasant surprise. I confess I didn’t think much of it when he ran for Senate but he’s taken his job seriously. Unlike some people *cough Ted Cruz*

I was a little leery of the concept, Minnesota’s propensity for electing oddballs being well-established, but by all accounts he really was changed and driven by his close friendship with the late Sen. Wellstone. Seems as though he’s done a fine job carrying on the latter’s crusade.

To think they almost ended up with Lizard People instead…

Bryan has watched this over and over and over and over again.

Here's something that'll turn your stomach. You've been warned. http://t.co/0nfUnUYBbb

— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) December 20, 2013

It’s so bad, all I can think of is “another Paul Walker”.

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Meanwhile, in California, some tech-libertarian has a dumb idea:

Tim Draper Wants To Split California Into Pieces And Turn Silicon Valley Into Its Own State

TechCrunch has learned about noted technology investor Tim Draper’s plan to split California into six separate states, including a Northern California slice appropriately named “Silicon Valley.”

re: #239 Feline Fearless Leader

A film that Fiennes is in that is worth taking a look at is _Sunshine_ from 1999. He actually plays three roles in it.

en.wikipedia.org

Looks good. I’ll have ot look for that on Netflix or Amazon Prime.

re: #148 Feline Fearless Leader

And this is sort of key to my referring to myself as a “hopeful atheist”* since if we are our own monsters than there is some hope of us eventually learning to tame and deal with it. If there is some sort of omnipotent force paying attention to what is going on and just allowing it to happen than I am essentially nothing better than a lab rat.

* - I do note that this ignores a whole spectrum of possible outcomes along the deist scale.

Sartre is famous for saying hell is other people; he forgot to notice that so is salvation.

re: #243 Pie-onist Overlord

Bryan has watched this over and over and over and over again.

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Haha, can I get a couple of those for xmas? I promise I’ll just look. : )

re: #243 Pie-onist Overlord

Heh, have him try this one on for size.

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Isn’t this lovely?

13 If a man takes a wife and, after sleeping with her, dislikes her 14 and slanders her and gives her a bad name, saying, “I married this woman, but when I approached her, I did not find proof of her virginity,” 15 then the young woman’s father and mother shall bring to the town elders at the gate proof that she was a virgin. 16 Her father will say to the elders, “I gave my daughter in marriage to this man, but he dislikes her. 17 Now he has slandered her and said, ‘I did not find your daughter to be a virgin.’ But here is the proof of my daughter’s virginity.” Then her parents shall display the cloth before the elders of the town, 18 and the elders shall take the man and punish him. 19 They shall fine him a hundred shekels[a] of silver and give them to the young woman’s father, because this man has given an Israelite virgin a bad name. She shall continue to be his wife; he must not divorce her as long as he lives.

re: #245 The War TARDIS

Meanwhile, in California, some tech-libertarian has a dumb idea:

Tim Draper Wants To Split California Into Pieces And Turn Silicon Valley Into Its Own State

There have been dystopian novels written on that theme. Heinlein comes to mind.

re: #251 FemNaziBitch

These Libertarians need to sit down and STFU.