Everyone likes their belly rubbed.

Precious! And all that cuteness makes me happy that I’m a pesca-vegetarian.

That’s an entirely different type of rub than I put on pigs.

RBS

This is almost cute enough to make me stop eating bacon. I swear the little piggy is smiling. :-).

Millennials: 0 fucks given about privacy
Study: U.K. Teens Fleeing ‘Dead and Buried’ Facebook

Răzvan Nicolescu, this week commented on the team’s findings around European attitudes towards privacy on social media platforms.

“The questionnaires we applied this summer in our Italian fieldsite showed that around 40 percent of respondents who were on Facebook had never changed their privacy settings, which means their profiles were public,” Nicolescu said in a post on the project’s official blog.

“At the same time, more than 80 percent responded they were not concerned or did not care if an individual or an organization would use their personal data available on the platform.”

Nicolescu called the percentage of Italian social media users who had a seemingly blasé attitude towards their privacy “much higher than I expected.” What’s more, the researcher described the Italian indifference to privacy as “relatively high when compared to similar data collected from other fieldsites in the project”

Millenials are going to be an interesting bunch. It looks like concepts such as privacy and going to be the new equivalent of “get off my lawn”.

Studies show the American War on Drugs is a racist, counter-productive supplement to white capitalist prison economies—and will therefore continue.
Criminal Justice and Criminal Investigation, Keystone College

Can I just listen to Beyonce in peace?
African American Studies, Howard University

New Jersey’s rivers are really, really freakin’ polluted. Here are some easy ways to fix them that no one will use.
Environmental Science, Brown University

re: #5 Killgore Trout

Maybe they undertand the obvious that older people don’t: If you do it in public, it’s not private. And typing on the internet is the same as talking in a restaurant or a store.

I can’t handle so much cuteness overdose!!

So, now where are we going to send the Robertsons?

CHINA ABOLISHES REEDUCATION LABOR CAMPS

re: #5 Killgore Trout

I’ll be writing a page soon.

Oh, and their will be a treat for you.

Same-sex marriage being legalized in all 50 states may result in millions of Americans having to mind their own f*cking business.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) December 28, 2013

re: #11 William of Orange

Literally.

/Going to walk myself out.

Idea: A&E should make a show where peroxide blondes pretend they're not peroxide blondes and make arts and crafts and hate gays and blacks.— Barracks O'Bama (@P0TUS) December 28, 2013

A & E listened to the dollars and decided you can't take morals to your grave. #DickDynasty— Barracks O'Bama (@P0TUS) December 28, 2013

And this is a good one!

BREAKING: #tcot teabags still don't get the difference between Phil's First Amendment rights and the right of normal people to disagree.

— Barracks O'Bama (@P0TUS) December 28, 2013

Indian culture is undergoing some very disturbing trends:

India Gang Rape Victim Was Attacked Twice

A young woman was kidnapped and raped by two gangs in India - a year after a fatal rape shook the nation.

Police have arrested 10 people and charged six of them with raping the a 21-year-old victim in southern India.

India is over a billion people now, and I always get a feeling that we get only the tiniest sliver of news from that mass of human population.

re: #11 William of Orange

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My over / under on 50 state legalization of SSM is 2018. Probably via a combination of factors, but I suspect that it will boil down to “Full Faith and Credit Clause”.

RBS

re: #10 The War TARDIS

I’ll be writing a page soon.

Oh, and their will be a treat for you.

I love treats!

re: #15 RealityBasedSteve

My over / under on 50 state legalization of SSM is 2018. Probably via a combination of factors, but I suspect that it will boil down to “Full Faith and Credit Clause”.

RBS

How badly you want to bet Bryan Fischer wishes that WASN’T in his beloved Constitution?

re: #14 freetoken

Indian culture is undergoing some very disturbing trends:

Or is it more a case of, it was always this bad (or worse) and the only difference is, now we know about at least some of it?

/social media has its uses

re: #18 Interesting Times

I think it is more shining a light on this.

re: #15 RealityBasedSteve

My over / under on 50 state legalization of SSM is 2018. Probably via a combination of factors, but I suspect that it will boil down to “Full Faith and Credit Clause”.

RBS

I agree won’t even take 10 more years. They can have their stupid reality show. People on the right side of history will have reality.

re: #14 freetoken

Indian culture is undergoing some very disturbing trends:

India Gang Rape Victim Was Attacked Twice

India is over a billion people now, and I always get a feeling that we get only the tiniest sliver of news from that mass of human population.

I get a weekly email digest from International School Review. Following the arrest of that Indian diplomat in NYC recently, the Indian government is talking about reprisals toward Americans living in India, including teachers.

From the email digest:

The Indian government claims the manner in which the arrest was carried out is inhumane and barbaric. In response, they have revoked all diplomatic privileges for American Embassy personnel and removed protective barriers protecting the U.S. embassy. The Indian government says it will now examine what the American Embassy pays its Indian help and how much domestic help is paid by U.S. government diplomats. It was also announced that India plans to review the salaries, bank accounts and tax status of all American teachers working in International Schools throughout the country

re: #21 wheat-dogghazi

At least half the world is almost completely ignored by American media and the “news”-consuming American public.

War on Christmas Christians, Sports edition:

NO. 20 SDSU ROUTS ST. KATHERINE COLLEGE 118-35

[…]

St. Katherine College, a tiny orthodox Christian school in northern San Diego County, is playing its inaugural season of hoops. In their only other games against Division I teams, the Firebirds lost 107-36 at Weber State and 88-39 to Utah Valley.

[…]

re: #15 RealityBasedSteve

My over / under on 50 state legalization of SSM is 2018. Probably via a combination of factors, but I suspect that it will boil down to “Full Faith and Credit Clause”.

RBS

It’ll be quicker. Every State that has passed an amendment to their Constitution instituting discrimination against a single group (Texas!) has a dead meat argument against a judicial overturn. Heads will ‘splode in The Lone Star State.

And at the end of the day it will affect the gaspers…in no way whatsoever.

Which is and has always been the point.

@andrewjlockley Drones is “direct”; modern-day is everything hidden about radiation, chemo, vaccines, chemtrails; people ARE dying quicker.

— Dr Simon R R Atkins (@DrSimonAtkins) December 26, 2013

re: #22 freetoken

At least half the world is almost completely ignored by American media and the “news”-consuming American public.

Americans are an insular lot, who honestly believe that everyone in the world lives (or should live) the same way they do. They only pay attention, however briefly, to foreign news items when they involve a major natural disaster or a war.

Yep. Just as I figured. “Results for from:DrSimonAtkins vaccines” http://t.co/rZUjyHXfMI

— Gus (@Gus_802) December 28, 2013

re: #26 wheat-dogghazi

Americans are an insular lot, who honestly believe that everyone in the world lives (or should live) the same way they do.

We are the Chosen of God (or, at least The Chosen Mark II), so yes, the rest of the world ought to live like us.

They would too, if they just weren’t so sinful.

re: #25 Gus

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Chemtrails?

Oh, my stars and garters.

If you want to establish yourself as a charter member of the lunatic fringe, just state that chemtrails are accepted science.

re: #29 austin_blue

Well, if you are an Indigo Child then you know that the chemtrails in the end can’t hurt you.

re: #29 austin_blue

Chemtrails?

Oh, my stars and garters.

If you want to establish yourself as a charter member of the lunatic fringe, just state that chemtrails are accepted science.

Book themes:

Climate Scam
Curing the Cancer
Earth Aliens
Our Destiny
Big Brother Surveillance
Life-Force Health
Cosmic Changes
The Energy of God

re: #30 freetoken

Well, if you are an Indigo Child then you know that the chemtrails in the end can’t hurt you.

“If Jesus saw what was being said in His name by TV preachers, he wouldn’t be able to stop throwing up.”

What is Skyaia (r)?

Skyaia (r) is described as books and pamphlets describing the energetic interconnectedness of science, climate, cosmic change, mathematics, advanced technology, natural health, alternative medicine, and spirituality, based upon the field of electromagnetics, with the purpose for individuals to achieve a higher awareness.

re: #25 Gus

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Duck says what?

re: #34 Varek Raith

Duck says what?

Another weirdo.

re: #33 Gus

What is Skyaia (r)?

Skyaia (r) is described as books and pamphlets describing the energetic interconnectedness of science, climate, cosmic change, mathematics, advanced technology, natural health, alternative medicine, and spirituality, based upon the field of electromagnetics, with the purpose for individuals to achieve a higher awareness.

Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com

In other words, a giant crock of shit.

But a money making giant crock of shit for early adopters.

Capitalism rocks! A sucker born every day, and two to take him!

re: #36 austin_blue

What is Skyaia (r)?

Skyaia (r) is described as books and pamphlets describing the energetic interconnectedness of science, climate, cosmic change, mathematics, advanced technology, natural health, alternative medicine, and spirituality, based upon the field of electromagnetics, with the purpose for individuals to achieve a higher awareness.

Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com

In other words, a giant crock of shit.

But a money making giant crock of shit for early adopters.

Capitalism rocks! A sucker born every day, and two to take him!

…

When we empower ourselves with knowledge, we avoid those wishing to take our life savings in return for multiple body radiations, we re-learn how to take care of our bodies (and our minds and our spirits) in the proper way(s), we choose the ‘right’ path in not living in fear and instead producing love energy and aligning with medical / scientific people that know how to help, and we talk with survivors out there that have experienced fantastic survival and cure rates, then and only then cancer is not the death sentence that we are made out to believe.

re: #33 Gus

Whut.

D.Sc. A.M. in Planetary Electromagnetics: IBAM, Kolkata, India
Ph.D. in Biometeoelectromagnetics; Energy Medicine: CCNH, USA
iMBA in Macro-Economics: Helsinki School of Economics, Finland
M.Sc. in Oceanography (coursework only): University of East Anglia, UK
B.Sc. in Atmospheric Sciences: Cornell University, USA

Speaking of India. Do they hand out PhDs for anything over there?

Just hit a little Karma milestone. Thanks, all.

And it’s after midnight in The Little Blue Pimple of Texas and I am going to read a bit of the new Terry Pratchett opus (In hard copy! Not released in the States yet! I love my wife.) in my warm bed.

Sweet reptilian dreams to all. Visit with you on the ‘morrow.

re: #39 Gus

Biometeoelectromagnetics

Say that five times fast.

re: #41 austin_blue

Just hit a little Karma milestone. Thanks, all.

And it’s after midnight in The Little Blue Pimple of Texas and I am going to read a bit of the new Terry Pratchett opus (In hard copy! Not released in the States yet! I love my wife.) in my warm bed.

Sweet reptilian dreams to all. Visit with you on the ‘morrow.

Your toaster is in the mail.
Talk to FG if you have any questions.
:)

Yes. You can turn down chemo therapy. In some cases it does no good and only accelerates the death process. However, reading motivational quotes, eating raw food, squinting your eyes and humming, “olmmmmm” will not get rid of your cancer.

Only at the South Pole: Icebreaker also stuck — in ice — heading for stranded ship
Derp.

It never ceases to amaze me how some believe in chemo, don't see chemtrails, think Fukushima is just banana radiation and vote for more war.

— Dr Simon R R Atkins (@DrSimonAtkins) September 16, 2013

Not many people think Fukushima meltdowns were as mundane as BED.
Except, maybe, tepco.

For human-induced climate change, know & talk about HAARP, EMP weaponry and other electromagnetic military tools that change the atmosphere.

— Dr Simon R R Atkins (@DrSimonAtkins) June 4, 2012

re: #48 Gus

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Lol. This guy is gold.

re: #49 Varek Raith

Lol. This guy is gold.

I’m a gold digger. //

re: #43 Varek Raith

Naughty! It will go out tomorrow!
Hope you had lovely holidays?

re: #48 Gus

Fuck this guy. There are real people with potentially treatable illnesses who believe in this shit and wind up with tremendous needless suffering when their “treatments” don’t work.

re: #51 Dancing along the light of day

Naughty! It will go out tomorrow!
Hope you had lovely holidays?

Indeed.
You?

re: #49 Varek Raith

Lol. This guy is gold.

Fool’s gold.

re: #33 Gus

What is Skyaia (r)?

Skyaia (r) is described as books and pamphlets describing the energetic interconnectedness of science, climate, cosmic change, mathematics, advanced technology, natural health, alternative medicine, and spirituality, based upon the field of electromagnetics, with the purpose for individuals to achieve a higher awareness.

That, as James Randi might say, is industrial grade Woo-Woo. If he simply believed it himself I wouldn’t have any real problem with his delusions. It’s the fact that he has people who listen to him, people who have real illnesses that could be treated with success, but due to his garbage they don’t get the treatment until it’s too late, at best.

It’s the same as religious who don’t get medical treatment for their children when they are ill, but believe in the power of prayer. Pray all you want, but get the kid to a doctor. You have the right to refuse treatment. Your children don’t have the ability to make any kind of informed consent. ARRRGH>>>

RBS

re: #53 Varek Raith

Outstanding! I’m in Austin, Tx. with family. ‘Tis cold here!

What is causing the current abnormal weather around the world?

Solar cycle changes (max in 2013) (42%, 368 Votes)

A force outside the solar system influencing the Sun and/or Earth (37%, 320 Votes)

Earth’s magnetic field weakening or reversing (24%, 208 Votes)

“Black Op” weather manipulation projects (e.g. HAARP, geo-engineering, nano-reflectors, etc.) (22%, 193 Votes)

Earth axis shift (Chandler Wobble, etc.) (14%, 123 Votes)

Technology disrupting Earth’s natural rhythm (i.e. drilling, nuclear tests, electromagnetic-influencing cell towers, etc.) (11%, 95 Votes)

Anthopogenic climate change (9%, 79 Votes)

Don’t know / other reasons (7%, 61 Votes)

Earth’s core (internal spin) slowing down (5%, 40 Votes)

re: #34 Varek Raith

Duck says what?

Nothing. One of the Robertsons shot it.

/

Fox News Boston had him as a meteorite expert. After that Russian meteor event.

Of course they call him DOCTOR. He has a “doctorate” in “Planetary Electromagnetics” from The Indian Board of Alternative Medicines.

Quackery. And it appears to be going mainstream considering the idiots that run news departments these days.

Doctor of Medicine in Electro Homeopathy - M.D.(E.H.) Course

Burp.

Duration: 1 Year.
Total Fees: US $750 / Rs. 36750. Full fees should be sent with the form.

re: #59 Gus

Quackery. And it appears to be going mainstream considering the idiots that run news departments these days.

The unwillingness of so many media outlets to be transparent on the so-called authority of their “experts” is I suppose the direct result of “expertise” having little to do with knowledge and objectivity (as the modern world used to embrace) and everything to do with getting eyes-on-product.

Another one:

Doctor of Oriental Medicine (O.M.D.) Course

Eligibility / Pre-Requisite
Bachelor’s degree in any discipline (15 Years of Education).

*For practitioners and research workers who are practicing for the last 5 years, the minimum basic qualification is exempted.

Duration
1.5 Years (Semester System)
The course comprises of two semesters of nine months each.

Doctorate my ass. LOL This is hilarious.

re: #61 freetoken

The unwillingness of so many media outlets to be transparent on the so-called authority of their “experts” is I suppose the direct result of “expertise” having little to do with knowledge and objectivity (as the modern world used to embrace) and everything to do with getting eyes-on-product.

Pretty freaking sad.

Bachelor of Alternative Medical System - B.A.M.S.(A.M.)

Eligibility / Pre-Requisite: Twelfth Grade / Intermediate / Standard XIIth / A Level or Equivalent.

Duration: 2 Years.

Huh?

Kinesiology

Gem-Tele-Colour Therapy

re: #64 Gus

Pretty freaking sad.

This is what our highly enriched society has become - everything is there to entertain us, as we’re now so bored with life.

There’s a lot of escapism out there, and the fundamentalist creationists by no means have a corner on the market of magical thinking.

Total Fees: US $650

Who boy.

re: #65 Gus

>Bachelor of Alternative Medical System - B.A.M.S.(A.M.)

Huh?

Well, who would you rather trust for your cancer treatments: a bloke who passed his A levels and got a two-year certificate, or one who went through four years of college plus several years of med school, interning and residency?

I am now a Doctor of Who.

re: #68 freetoken

This is what our highly enriched society has become - everything is there to entertain us, as we’re now so bored with life.

There’s a lot of escapism out there, and the fundamentalist creationists by no means have a corner on the market of magical thinking.

So basically I can go to India and after 3 years and about $1500 I can come back with a BA in Aroma Fart Therapy and a PhD in Electro Shock Homeopathy and get on Fox News and be called a doctor?

re: #72 Varek Raith

I am now a Doctor of Who.

With a degree from the University of Whoville?

re: #61 freetoken

The unwillingness of so many media outlets to be transparent on the so-called authority of their “experts” is I suppose the direct result of “expertise” having little to do with knowledge and objectivity (as the modern world used to embrace) and everything to do with getting eyes-on-product.

Quacks get hostile if questioned closely, but leave off the quacks and the media outlet loses those who distrust mainstream medicine. Most media outlets want as big an audience as possible.

re: #73 Gus

So basically I can go to India and after 3 years and about $1500 I can come back with a BA in Aroma Fart Therapy and a PhD in Electro Shock Homeopathy and get on Fox News and be called a doctor?

Why 3 years when you could do it in 3 months?

re: #73 Gus

So basically I can go to India and after 3 years and about $1500 I can come back with a BA in Aroma Fart Therapy and a PhD in Electro Shock Homeopathy and get on Fox News and be called a doctor?

Yes. And you can hold seminars at alt-health conferences around the world, charge ridiculous sums of money for BS products and advice, and live a comfortable life … at least until some government catches up with you for fraud.

quackwatch.com

re: #77 wheat-dogghazi

Yes. And you can hold seminars at alt-health conferences around the world, charge ridiculous sums of money for BS products and advice, and live a comfortable life … at least until some government catches up with you for fraud.

Hmm. Tempting. //

re: #78 Gus

A useful site but also, I think, at times a little bit sloppy or overly restricted in their analyses. The problem is some articles gets outdated quickly and need to be brought up to date.

HEAL! I SAID, I SAYS, HEAL!

Here’s there, building.

re: #60 Gus

Doctor of Medicine in Electro Homeopathy - M.D.(E.H.) Course

Burp.

>Duration: 1 Year.
Total Fees: US $750 / Rs. 36750. Full fees should be sent with the form.

Gus, You got the full address? I can add it to my file along with my Certificate as an Ordained Minister in the Universal Light Church.

RBS

Oh brother.

ISO 9001:2008 Certification:
Indian Board of Alternative Medicines has been conferred with the ISO 9001:2008 Certificate of Registration for Providing Alternative Medicine, Holistic Medicine and Allied Health Sciences Courses Through Regular and Distance Education.

ISO 9001:2008 Certification
Affiliated to:

University for Peace (Created by United Nations General Assembly)

International Association of Educators for World Peace (Consultative Status with United Nations ECOSOC, UNICEF and UNESCO)

Youtube Video

UN is well known for harboring scam artists and promoting quackery from time to time. Stupid 70s.

re: #84 Gus

Oh brother.

Question… since I’m not familiar with ISO certification. Isn’t it more a process / documentation type verification, not one that actually confirms that a particular product produced by that company is any good. For example, could I have an ISO certified facility producing some magic colored crystals that if you put them in your ears will draw out your negative ions.

Educate me por favor.

RBS

re: #87 RealityBasedSteve

Question… since I’m not familiar with ISO certification. Isn’t it more a process / documentation type verification, not one that actually confirms that a particular product produced by that company is any good. For example, could I have an ISO certified facility producing some magic colored crystals that if you put them in your ears will draw out your negative ions.

Educate me por favor.

RBS

I’m guessing they just pasted that ISO standard up there. I think it’s some weird management standard.

Good Night, All.

re: #72 Varek Raith

I am now a Doctor of Who.

Doctor who?

//

What Is The Biggest Rock?

Youtube Video

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Delicious Pie And The Value Of Patience

Youtube Video

My favorite bicycle is as big as a smart car!

This is a picture I took at Mammoth Cave National Park when I was doing a solo tour around Kentucky a couple of years ago. It made me chuckle.

Bike is a Gold Rush Replica (GRR) made by a company in California called Easy Racers.

RBS

Good. Night.

seriously posting with a smartphone on a blog really sucks c

re: #96 HoosierHoops

seriously posting with a smartphone on a blog really sucks c

yepper. I’m not even crazy about doing it on my tablet… seems like a long thread really bogs down my Nexus. Well, I’m outta here, gotta get my beauty coma. (‘cuz sleep just isn’t enough to do it)

RBS

By my reckoning, we are on day 4:

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This one goes out to the inventors of Holy Innocents’ Day

MP3 Audio

MP3 Audio

LBJ ordering pants. Made too tight.

Youtube Video

Discussing nuts and bunghole issues. Hilarious!

re: #101 Justanotherhuman

“…. (belch) ….”

It’s the end of the year, and now we have our obligatory best of lists. Today, The 13 best viral videos of 2013

nypost.com

If you are like me and live under a rock, you probably haven’t seen half (or all) of theses vids. I blame work blocking Vevo and Youtube and a lotta other shite.

re: #27 Gus

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When the dust settles, asshole ‘doctors’ like this will have done more real harm than a covey of bearded duckphrophets.

So what’s the attraction for these unhealthy looking bigots?

‘Duck Dynasty’ verdict analysis: Why A&E backed down

insidetv.ew.com

“But what probably helped turn the tide in the Robertsons’ favor was that the debate wasn’t as clear-cut as the network and many in the media initially assumed. Robertson and his supporters argued that his anti-gay statements were an extension of his passion for the Bible. Once that frame gained a foothold — that this fight is about religion, and the freedom to endorse biblical teachings — A&E was stuck in the awkward position of appearing to advocate against both its own star and orthodox Christianity (ironic, considering A&E Networks garnered such goodwill from Christians for taking a chance on its The Bible mini-series on History this year).”

Which means to me that bigotry, even—hell, especially—when inspired by the bible, is approved and perfectly fine.

Not in my view. I saw this many, many years ago as a small child and I knew it was as wrong then as it is now, and as wrong as it has been over my lifetime.

It’s getting uglier in Sudan.

South Sudan: ‘White Army’ militia marches to fight

bigstory.ap.org

re: #105 Justanotherhuman

So what’s the attraction for these unhealthy looking bigots?

‘Duck Dynasty’ verdict analysis: Why A&E backed down

insidetv.ew.com

“But what probably helped turn the tide in the Robertsons’ favor was that the debate wasn’t as clear-cut as the network and many in the media initially assumed. Robertson and his supporters argued that his anti-gay statements were an extension of his passion for the Bible. Once that frame gained a foothold — that this fight is about religion, and the freedom to endorse biblical teachings — A&E was stuck in the awkward position of appearing to advocate against both its own star and orthodox Christianity (ironic, considering A&E Networks garnered such goodwill from Christians for taking a chance on its The Bible mini-series on History this year).”

Which means to me that bigotry, even—hell, especially—when inspired by the bible, is approved and perfectly fine.

Not in my view. I saw this many, many years ago as a small child and I knew it was as wrong then as it is now, and as wrong as it has been over my lifetime.

Spot on.

I might be wading into this mess at the annual family Christmas gathering later today. I’m sure there’s going to be at least one person complaining about how Robertson’s 1st Amendments were trampled by A&E.

But, yeah, at the end-of-the-day, this is A&E signaling they’re fine with being associated with homophobic religious lunatics. Money trumps endorsing bigotry, I guess.

re: #106 Justanotherhuman

Just like in so many war-torn areas, some folks just can’t seem to catch a break. I cannot imagine what it must be like to live in constant fear of random death being visited upon my community. Yes, we have mass-shootings, random acts of violence, etc., but the vast majority of the U.S. is a relatively peaceful place.

Edit: Not to say that there aren’t some communities here where that fear does exist.

This is so nerdy it almost hurts. pic.twitter.com/R9oiGzgPfY

— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) December 28, 2013

Mornin’

I guess, when all is said and done, I'm pretty impressed that 200,000 Duck Dynasty fans could sign their own names.

— kathy roberts (@wrobertswriter) December 28, 2013

Alabama lawmaker will introduce bill defending ‘Duck Dynasty’s’ Phil Robertson

re: #25 Gus

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Me thinks this “Dr.” should be on Duck Dynasty - he’s certainly quack enough.

re: #107 Mattand

Spot on.

But, yeah, at the end-of-the-day, this is A&E signaling they’re fine with being associated with homophobic religious lunatics. Money trumps endorsing bigotry, I guess.

One again - A&E has a history of this now. They own the History channel which, in between the Aliens and Nazi shows, run Bible programs.

This is Disney and Hearst at their finest as corporations - making money off of the rubes.

re: #112 Varek Raith

Alabama lawmaker will introduce bill defending ‘Duck Dynasty’s’ Phil Robertson

Isn’t that what’s wrong with so much of politics today? Ignoramuses like this, who don’t know what “free speech” is, getting elected by those as ignorant, or more ignorant, than they are?

If Robertson actually wasn’t making money from rednecks for A&E, he’d be shit-canned. The “free market” isn’t the bible and isn’t religious.

Ahhh, ‘murica. RT@justinjm1: Newtown story next to ad for gun range in my newspaper pic.twitter.com/BHkrTdwN7t

— Justin Wolfers (@JustinWolfers) December 28, 2013

re: #115 Justanotherhuman

Isn’t that what’s wrong with so much of politics today? Ignoramuses like this, who don’t know what “free speech” is, getting elected by those as ignorant, or more ignorant, than they are?

If Robertson actually wasn’t making money from rednecks for A&E, he’d be shit-canned. The “free market” isn’t the bible and isn’t religious.

Just part of the Right Wing “War on Reality”.
/

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Words of wisdom.
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Coincidence or cause for skepticism?

Pressure on the NSA PRISM grows, and suddenly we have reports of an Al Qaeda comeback.

Don't feel bad about not reaching your 2013 goals. Earth spent the year travelling 585 million miles and ended up in the same fucking place.

— Rob DenBleyker (@RobDenBleyker) December 28, 2013

little piggies are cute.

you?

re: #121 FemNaziBitch

little piggies are cute.

you?

I’ll stick with kitties.

re: #121 FemNaziBitch

little piggies are cute.

you?

It’s not right to play with your food.

So, everything is fine in the world today because the top duck is back in the pond. Got it.

Has anyone suggested Phil Robertson run for any kind of political office yet? It has to happen at some point. After all, the man speaks for maybe 10% of the nation. At the least he will be on the Tea speaker circuit, maybe a fly-in to Iowa or New Hampshire will be scheduled.

Surely a video sitting with the Queen of the Tea, Sarah Palin, is in order. Ducks of a feather gots to stick together!

re: #124 ObserverArt

So, everything is fine in the world today because the top duck is back in the pond. Got it.

Has anyone suggested Phil Robertson run for any kind of political office yet? It has to happen at some point. After all, the man speaks for maybe 10% of the nation. At the least he will be on the Tea speaker circuit, maybe a fly-in to Iowa or New Hampshire will be scheduled.

Surely a video sitting with the Queen of the Tea, Sarah Palin, is in order. Ducks of a feather gots to stick together!

Should be plenty of tape of him opening his yap and of various GOP “leaders” defending him by the fall of 2014 for pro-Democratic Party commercials.

re: #124 ObserverArt

He’ll be at CPAC, Values Voters Summit, and a host of fund raisers…until he remembers that he enjoys just pretending to be a lazy hick and goes back to preparing for his reality show.

re: #124 ObserverArt

So, everything is fine in the world today because the top duck is back in the pond. Got it.

Has anyone suggested Phil Robertson run for any kind of political office yet? It has to happen at some point. After all, the man speaks for maybe 10% of the nation. At the least he will be on the Tea speaker circuit, maybe a fly-in to Iowa or New Hampshire will be scheduled.

Surely a video sitting with the Queen of the Tea, Sarah Palin, is in order. Ducks of a feather gots to stick together!

Your post goaded me into thinking this:

How cute: RW gloats about winners and losers in A&E Bigot affair with same intellectual frailty deeming it a Free Speech issue. Consistent!

— Ryan King (@BigPapa1849) December 28, 2013

Sometimes I feel useless but then I remember I breathe out carbon dioxide for plants.

— Louis C.K. (@Louis_CK_Comedy) November 6, 2013

Republican mascot version 2. Out with Joe the Plumber; in with Phil Robertson.

The RW is flipping this A$E flap into a cudgel to bead on GLAAD, replete with insinuations that they’re the bullies.

A sick intellectually vapid assertion.

re: #129 Gus

INORIGHT?

Watched 'Diners, Drive-ins and Dives' last night and it got me to wondering…does @GuyFieri know how to use a fork?

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) December 28, 2013

@BigPapa1849 Thanks @Gus_802

— Ryan King (@BigPapa1849) December 28, 2013

Robertson/Palin 2016!

//

I can see a hunting swap between Phil and Teddy Nugent. A wild boar shoot in Texas followed by a duck hunt in Louisiana.

Only problem might be Ted will want to use an AR-15 style rifle on the ducks. It might work though if Gov. Jindal grants him a special permit to go full auto on them ducks.

And thanks Darthstar for the reminder of those great Republican Rebranding get-togethers like CPAC and Value Voters Summit. Perfect for Phil to get up on that soapbox and preach the hate and take the country back from the other 90%!

• Sarah Palin
• Joe the Plumber
• Ted Nugent
• Phil Robertson

re: #136 Gus

• Sarah Palin
• Joe the Plumber
• Ted Nugent
• Phil Robertson

Accumulating a list of the next GOP POTUS’ SC appointments?
//

re: #136 Gus

Winners of Style Over Substance Awards, the SOS.

Long loved by Limbaugh.

re: #136 Gus

• Sarah Palin
• Joe the Plumber
• Ted Nugent
• Phil Robertson

The Real ‘Merican Party.

• Sarah Palin
• Joe the Plumber
• Ted Nugent
• Phil Robertson
• Rush Limbaugh
• Glenn Beck

Donald Trump

Heavens to Murgatroyd!

GOP Superstars

re: #143 Ryan King

GOP Superstars

Next GOP WH cabinet.

re: #144 Gus

Next GOP WH cabinet.

Its Got Electrolytes. Its what plants bigots crave.

re: #145 Ryan King

Its Got Electrolytes. Its what plants bigots crave.

GOHMERT! Or something.

George Zimmerman

re: #116 darthstar

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Really though, the hunting and gun store had no control over what story their ad ran next to, and the hunter depicted in the ad is entirely non-problematic with his bolt-action rifle.

re: #142 Gus

Heavens to Murgatroyd!

Calm down, Snagglepuss.

re: #148 Dark_Falcon

Really though, the hunting and gun store had no control over what story their ad ran next to, and the hunter depicted in the ad is entirely non-problematic with his bolt-action rifle.

It’s a publisher’s decision where to place an ad, and an editor’s on where to place a story. Just unfortunate placement. No need to defend the ad itself.

Santa’s white…and his elves are quite disciplined.

Wow. @Rogozin: Life ??????????? ????? ?????? ?? ???? ? ????? ?????!) pic.twitter.com/rW09d1tuGl ht @tellmemo

— Jeffrey Lewis (@ArmsControlWonk) December 28, 2013

Victoria Jackson

Well I’ve never seen no plants grow out of no toilets.

Hey that’s good. You sure you ain’t The Smartest Guy In The World?

Man Smoking E-Cigarette Must Be Futuristic Bounty Hunter http://t.co/I7BffcMyRz #OurAnnualYear

— The Onion (@TheOnion) December 28, 2013

• Sarah Palin
• Joe the Plumber
• Ted Nugent
• Phil Robertson
• Rush Limbaugh
• Glenn Beck
• Donald Trump
• George Zimmerman
• Victoria Jackson
• Rafael Cruz

Michelle Bachmann

Rafael Cruz Regurgitates “Historian” David Barton http://t.co/kvOU94khFP

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 28, 2013

re: #151 darthstar

Santa’s white…and his elves are quite disciplined.

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SS-27 Topol-M ICBM in its TEL. It’s loaded with either 3-4 500KT warheads or a single 3MT ‘city-buster’. It’s mobile to give it better survivability via dispersal.

• Sarah Palin
• Joe the Plumber
• Ted Nugent
• Phil Robertson
• Rush Limbaugh
• Glenn Beck
• Donald Trump
• George Zimmerman
• Victoria Jackson
• Rafael Cruz
• Tony Perkins
• Michele Bachmann
• Louie Gohmert
• John Bolton
• Gary Bauer
• Erick Erickson
• Pamela Geller
• David Barton
• Phylis Schlafly
• Sean Hannity
• Larry Klayman
• Orly Taitz

re: #150 darthstar

It’s a publisher’s decision where to place an ad, and an editor’s on where to place a story. Just unfortunate placement. No need to defend the ad itself.

The things is that the ad is defensible and the sentiment of those tweets struck me as anti-gun.

re: #159 Gus

What’s “A list of people to avoid like the plague”?

AdSense you suck: toe nail fungus ad is a major fail.

re: #162 Ryan King

I agree it is a disgusting ad. Please also keep in mind that you can get a subscription and avoid the ads altogether.

• Sarah Palin
• Joe the Plumber
• Ted Nugent
• Phil Robertson
• Rush Limbaugh
• Glenn Beck
• Donald Trump
• George Zimmerman
• Victoria Jackson
• Rafael Cruz
• Tony Perkins
• Michele Bachmann
• Louie Gohmert
• John Bolton
• Gary Bauer
• Erick Erickson
• Pamela Geller
• David Barton
• Phylis Schlafly
• Sean Hannity
• Larry Klayman
• Orly Taitz
• Edward Snowden
• Matt Drudge
• Glenn Greenwald
• Alex Jones
• Ron Paul

re: #164 Gus

• Sarah Palin
• Joe the Plumber
• Ted Nugent
• Phil Robertson
• Rush Limbaugh
• Glenn Beck
• Donald Trump
• George Zimmerman
• Victoria Jackson
• Rafael Cruz
• Tony Perkins
• Michele Bachmann
• Louie Gohmert
• John Bolton
• Gary Bauer
• Erick Erickson
• Pamela Geller
• David Barton
• Phylis Schlafly
• Sean Hannity
• Larry Klayman
• Orly Taitz
• Edward Snowden
• Matt Drudge
• Glenn Greenwald
• Alex Jones
• Ron Paul

Is it time for the end of the year lists?

Can we go back to Festivus?

re: #94 RealityBasedSteve

>My favorite bicycle is as big as a smart car!

This is a picture I took at Mammoth Cave National Park when I was doing a solo tour around Kentucky a couple of years ago. It made me chuckle.

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Bike is a Gold Rush Replica (GRR) made by a company in California called Easy Racers.

RBS

Yours looks more comfortable. Except maybe in a snow storm.

We should totally do this.
Youtube Video

re: #151 darthstar

Santa’s white…and his elves are quite disciplined.

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In Soviet Russia Army gifts Santa!
;)

HAARP!

MRAPs
Forbes
FEMA Camps
Death Panels
DHS
TSA
NSA

Magnets

Tides

BENGHAZI!!

re: #134 Gus

Robertson/Palin 2016!

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You know there are probably more than a few RWNJs who consider that a “Dream Ticket”.

I wish I was joking.

re: #167 Varek Raith

We should totally do this.
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How about we get all the people on Gus’ list to take on that liquid oxygen challenge. They are all so smart and some of them really like things that go boom. What possibly could be the downside?

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re: #173 FemNaziBitch

BENGHAZI!!

Benjamin G. Hazi

re: #176 Gus

Benjamin G. Hazi

Yeah, him, it’s his fault!

:0

re: #163 PhillyPretzel

I agree it is a disgusting ad. Please also keep in mind that you can get a subscription and avoid the ads altogether.

I have a subscription… unless my wife canceled it. (looks around menacingly)

re: #175 ObserverArt

How about we get all the people on Gus’ list to take on that liquid oxygen challenge. They are all so smart and some of them really like things that go boom. What possibly could be the downside?

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It’d be like an all Republican edition of Jackass.

Not an unusual occurrence in India, I’m afraid.

Fire on express train in India kills at least 26

dailynews.com

I must confess, back in the day I could never understand why so many young people liked to backpack around to India to seek “enlightenment”. Maybe because I wasn’t into “spiritualism”, I suppose. Besides, I’d had enough poverty; no one wants to revisit that.

re: #27 Gus

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Here are his ‘qualifications’

D.Sc. Alternative Medicines in Planetary Electromagnetics: IBAM, Kolkata, India.
Ph.D. in Biometeoelectromagnetics; Energy Medicine: CCNH, USA

iMBA in Macro-Economics: Helsinki School of Economics, Finland
M.Sc. in Oceanography (coursework only): University of East Anglia, UK
B.Sc. in Atmospheric Sciences: Cornell University, USA

re: #178 Ryan King

I have a subscription… unless my wife canceled it. (looks around menacingly)

On the list for 2014!!!

re: #179 Eclectic Cyborg

It’d be like an all Republican edition of Jackass.

That’s a nice play on political icons too…instead of a Democratic Donkey, you have your Republican Jackass.

I like it.

@Stranahan @EWErickson Only in your mind mind. Pretty telling you make GLAAD the bullies but not the bigot.

— Ryan King (@BigPapa1849) December 28, 2013

Stranahan calling out the dogs by retweeting me.

What does 46s mean?

re: #181 b_sharp

Here are his ‘qualifications’

“PhD” in Alternative Medicines in Planetary Electromagnetics!

I wonder if he paid with a money order or a bank transfer.

$650

re: #181 b_sharp

Here are his ‘qualifications’

$10 says he never set foot in at least two of those schools.

Wasn’t there some guy awhile back who tried to claim he was “Harvard educated” simply because he was part of some program that occasionally held classes in a Harvard building?

Weather warfare!

bbl

Poop Diet Cancer Cure™

re: #164 Gus

• Sarah Palin
• Joe the Plumber
• Ted Nugent
• Phil Robertson
• Rush Limbaugh
• Glenn Beck
• Donald Trump
• George Zimmerman
• Victoria Jackson
• Rafael Cruz
• Tony Perkins
• Michele Bachmann
• Louie Gohmert
• John Bolton
• Gary Bauer
• Erick Erickson
• Pamela Geller
• David Barton
• Phylis Schlafly
• Sean Hannity
• Larry Klayman
• Orly Taitz
• Edward Snowden
• Matt Drudge
• Glenn Greenwald
• Alex Jones
• Ron Paul

EXPERTS!! Yah!!

WW forgot to tell you, I got my friend to get her kid’s bikes from a local bike shop rather than Walmart. Gave her the small business is America speech.

:-)

re: #185 Gus

“PhD” in Alternative Medicines in Planetary Electromagnetics!

I wonder if he paid with a money order or a bank transfer.

$650

Sorry for repeating what you already discovered, but you know me, always late to the party and obsessed with answering stale comments.

re: #184 Ryan King

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Stranahan calling out the dogs by retweeting me.

What does 46s mean?

46 seconds.

re: #192 b_sharp

Sorry for repeating what you already discovered, but you know me, always late to the party and obsessed with answering stale comments.

It was fun. Fake “doctor” is fake. Seriously though. Pisses me off the way people so easily get called DOCTOR. Whatever. We’re surrounded by grifters and scam artists.

re: #194 Gus

It was fun. Fake “doctor” is fake. Seriously though. Pisses me off the way people so easily get called DOCTOR. Whatever. We’re surrounded by grifters and scam artists.

I just purchased earned my doctorate in Goofology.

I should now be addressed as Dr. B_Sharp

I feel like I’ve been through a sort of bloodless version of this in the last week or so, just tweaked a little differently, except this is between Muslims and Christians.

Hundreds seek to flee Central African Republic on emergency flights

reuters.com

(Reuters) - Hundreds of people tried to flee inter-religious violence in Central African Republic on Saturday aboard emergency flights to neighboring Chad, while nearby countries appealed for help to rescue their citizens from the mounting humanitarian crisis.

“Tit-for-tat violence between Muslim Seleka rebels, who seized power in March, and Christian self-defense militias have killed more than 1,000 people this month in the riverside capital Bangui and displaced hundreds of thousands more.”

Just another reason I have no use for religion.

In any case. I only call MDs, doctor.

re: #195 b_sharp

I just purchased earned my doctorate in Goofology.

I should now be addressed as Dr. B_Sharp

Don’t you mean Derpology?

Also, do you sing Barbershop?

/

re: #197 Gus

In any case. I only call MDs, doctor.

I thought Dr was pronounced “durrr”.

re: #198 Eclectic Cyborg

Don’t you mean Derpology?

Also, do you sing Barbershop?

/

I didn’t complete my Derp thesis so I settled for a degree in Goof.

re: #180 Justanotherhuman

Not an unusual occurrence in India, I’m afraid.

Fire on express train in India kills at least 26

dailynews.com

I must confess, back in the day I could never understand why so many young people liked to backpack around to India to seek “enlightenment”. Maybe because I wasn’t into “spiritualism”, I suppose. Besides, I’d had enough poverty; no one wants to revisit that.

1) The Beatles went to India and made it a Place to Go. (Unlike legions of their followers, they took what they found there seriously — or at least Harrison did.)

2) The boomers grew up in unprecedented material comfort (and they could find work easily too). They never had to worry about being without food, clothing and shelter, even if they “turned their back on materialism,” so they learned the wrong lesson — sure, money won’t buy happiness, but you can’t ignore “things” if you don’t have that minimum.

Basically… pic.twitter.com/AIin1RKQlf

— vooda (@vooda1) December 28, 2013

re: #150 darthstar

It’s a publisher’s decision where to place an ad, and an editor’s on where to place a story. Just unfortunate placement. No need to defend the ad itself.

Actually, the ad department places the ads, often depending on preferred section and even page (back page, full-color, for instance) requested by the advertiser. The publisher (depending on the size of the paper) doesn’t have any interaction with the actual daily content of the paper), mainly because there’s NFW a publisher is going to be at the office until a late night deadline.

A page designer places the copy, and, depending on the system, doesn’t actually see the ad that’s going to go in that spot. Now, somebody looking over final page proofs (assuming they still have someone who does that), should have noticed the unfortunate juxtaposition.

Time to go pick up the new recliner my wife bought me.

Later.

re: #204 b_sharp

Time to go pick up the new recliner my wife bought me.

Later.

An arduous journey of hundreds of miles through desolate wilderness.

Happy 81st Birthday Nichelle Nichols! @RealNichelle #LiveLongandProsper pic.twitter.com/ya5Hq0eDTI

— VintageBlackGlamour (@VintageBlkGlam) December 28, 2013

Image: File:Nichelle_Nichols_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg

re: #201 Snarknado!

1) The Beatles went to India and made it a Place to Go. (Unlike legions of their followers, they took what they found there seriously — or at least Harrison did.)

2) The boomers grew up in unprecedented material comfort (and they could find work easily too). They never had to worry about being without food, clothing and shelter, even if they “turned their back on materialism,” so they learned the wrong lesson — sure, money won’t buy happiness, but you can’t ignore “things” if you don’t have that minimum.

The Beatles did it because they could and the interest was a result of their earlier experimentation with drugs and “expanding” their consciousness.

No one has to leave their own country to discover their goodness or the “meaning of life”. Introspection can be performed anywhere. The trick is, you really have to work at developing understanding—it’s not something that can simply be absorbed by adopting another’s philosophy.

re: #207 Varek Raith

Image: File:Nichelle_Nichols_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg

Link no work

The real racists are the ones on the left!!!!

A very unfortunate story from New Jersey…

A prominent New Jersey doctor well known for taking in foster kids was rocked by an unthinkable horror — when one of his adopted children ­allegedly stabbed another to death in their home.
“Rest peacefully, angel,” Dr. Robert Gallo wrote on his Facebook page with a picture of his daughter Teia, 20.
Her foster brother, Travis Gallo, 17, allegedly stabbed her repeatedly with a kitchen knife at around 5:30 p.m. Thursday in front of two other siblings at their Washington Township home, sources said.

Both the children were African-American. Why does this matter, because before my morning shower I was following an evolution thread over at FR and happen to hit this tread regarding the story. What follows are some actual posts, and only one person has commented that there “seem to be some racist things here”. You were warned.

I draw from this story more conclusions about race than about adoption.
I’m no anthropologist, nor am I a behaviorist (though I wanted to be both at one point) but I’m beginning to think there’s something about the Negro race that contributes to excessive emotionalism and impulsivity. The Negro race is one that evolved in response to a climate that’s hot almost all year long. Under those circumstances, excessive movement is undesirable. Yet at times, energetic movement is necessary, even life-saving. The nervous and endorcine systems of Negroes could have evolved to the point where sudden and forceful stimuli were required to move the individual from a necessary lethargy in order to take quick, decisive action where it’s needed. The conclusions are obvious.

and if that’s not bad enough, somebody else cuts to the bone…

Can take ‘em out of the jungle, but cant take the jungle out of them…..

Between this and the daily spew that comes from the likes of various RW pundits, as vile if only more subtle (in some cases), I do have a very real fear for our political process.

RBS

re: #209 Stanley Sea

Link no work

Yeah, you have to right-click>open on the link.

re: #202 Stanley Sea

@vooda1 Baloney. Someone expressing disagreement with someone else's life choices does not make them an asshole. Stop being so hostile.

— Kurt Akemann (@Dark_Falcon7) December 28, 2013

re: #208 Justanotherhuman

The Beatles did it because they could and the interest was a result of their earlier experimentation with drugs and “expanding” their consciousness.

No one has to leave their own country to discover their goodness or the “meaning of life”. Introspection can be performed anywhere. The trick is, you really have to work at developing understanding—it’s not something that can simply be absorbed by adopting another’s philosophy.

What they should do is go to India on a “sabbatical” and either a) work in some apparel sweat shop or b) live as one of the lower castes of India.

re: #212 Dark_Falcon

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Or, you know, you could just mind your own business.
;)

re: #208 Justanotherhuman

Ravi Shankar. Worth the trips. :)

re: #212 Dark_Falcon

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Did you read #1?

It’s not a lifestyle, it’s who they are.

GEEZE DARK.

re: #214 Varek Raith

Or, you know, you could just mind your own business.
;)

But since my need for attention makes that impossible…

re: #212 Dark_Falcon

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You freaking walked right into that one.

Right into it.

re: #217 Dark_Falcon

But since my need for attention makes that impossible…

in that case, you need to be more trolly.
Say something like the Beatles are overrated or pumpkin pie > apple pie or Greedo shot first.
That kind of thing.

re: #216 Stanley Sea

Did you read #1?

It’s not a lifestyle, it’s who they are.

GEEZE DARK.

‘That lifestyle’ could be any of a great number of things, Stanley. Not all of them fundamental to a person’s identity.

re: #191 Stanley Sea

WW forgot to tell you, I got my friend to get her kid’s bikes from a local bike shop rather than Walmart. Gave her the small business is America speech.

:-)

There’s a huge difference in the quality of the bikes, too. We call the ones from WalMart ‘bicycle shaped objects’.

Meh.

re: #208 Justanotherhuman

The Beatles did it because they could and the interest was a result of their earlier experimentation with drugs and “expanding” their consciousness.

No one has to leave their own country to discover their goodness or the “meaning of life”. Introspection can be performed anywhere. The trick is, you really have to work at developing understanding—it’s not something that can simply be absorbed by adopting another’s philosophy.

Well, no. You’re describing the 99%, yes — the ones I referenced in my email. And it’s not my philosophy either, but Indian religion is fundamentally different from what we have here. If you’re going to adopt it, you save a few thousand years of development by going to the source. (It’s much more than discovering your own goodness or the “meaning of life.”K)

re: #219 Varek Raith

in that case, you need to be more trolly.
Say something like the Beatles are overrated or pumpkin pie > apple pie or Greedo shot first.
That kind of thing.

Well, I like key lime pie and Han Solo shot first. George Lucas just did want to explain why Han did such a thing and why the deadliness of an armed Rodian was such that Han was justified in shooting first.

re: #202 Stanley Sea

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That tweeter followed me, but I didn’t follow back ‘cause I don’t know who it is. Is he or she OK? (vooda1)

re: #212 Dark_Falcon

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There are few things more hostile than expressing disagreement with another person’s choices, especially if unbidden, and even more especially if it is a stranger.

re: #210 RealityBasedSteve

The real racists are the ones on the left!!!!

A very unfortunate story from New Jersey…

…

I draw from this story more conclusions about race than about adoption.
I’m no anthropologist, nor am I a behaviorist (though I wanted to be both at one point) but I’m beginning to think there’s something about the Negro race that contributes to excessive emotionalism and impulsivity. The Negro race is one that evolved in response to a climate that’s hot almost all year long. Under those circumstances, excessive movement is undesirable. Yet at times, energetic movement is necessary, even life-saving. The nervous and endorcine systems of Negroes could have evolved to the point where sudden and forceful stimuli were required to move the individual from a necessary lethargy in order to take quick, decisive action where it’s needed. The conclusions are obvious

…

Conclusion: not only are you not an anthropologist, you haven’t a clue about geography. Or history.

Idiots….

What does that make Pope Francis then?

re: #223 Snarknado!

Well, no. You’re describing the 99%, yes — the ones I referenced in my email. And it’s not my philosophy either, but Indian religion is fundamentally different from what we have here. If you’re going to adopt it, you save a few thousand years of development by going to the source. (It’s much more than discovering your own goodness or the “meaning of life.”K)

I don’t want to adopt a religion, esp one that postulates reincarnation. One life is plenty.

ETA: And what email?

re: #226 wrenchwench

There are few things more hostile than expressing disagreement with another person’s choices, especially if unbidden, and even more especially if it is a stranger.

How do you get all that from that sign? It doesn’t sketch out a scenario nearly that well.

Heck, as written it could refer to the hearing ‘I don’t agree with that lifestyle.’ from someone sitting at a nearby table at a restaurant.

Small And Cute pic.twitter.com/PuPb1aB758

— Animal Planet (@MeetAnimals) December 28, 2013

re: #228 Gus

What does that make Pope Francis then?

A good and decent man in a Fallen world.

re: #225 wrenchwench

That tweeter followed me, but I didn’t follow back ‘cause I don’t know who it is. Is he or she OK? (vooda1)

Yep, followed for a long time. I don’t recall all their issues, but I haven’t deleted them.

re: #231 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Ask him for a car insurance quote.

re: #230 Dark_Falcon

How do you get all that from that sign? It doesn’t sketch out a scenario nearly that well.

Heck, as written it could refer to the hearing ‘I don’t agree with that lifestyle.’ from someone sitting at a nearby table at a restaurant.

Even if it is an overheard remark, it makes the speaker sound like an asshole to me, because ‘agreeing’ with another person’s lifestyle is often as relevant as ‘agreeing’ with another person’s race or religion. It’s nobody’s business, and someone who feels compelled to express their disapproval of another human, especially if that human has no impact on the disapprover’s life, is an asshole. It’s a little stronger of a term than I would post, unless I knew of maddening specifics, I would say jerk.

re: #229 Justanotherhuman

ETA: And what email?

POSTING!

(Sorry, I was answering email while reading and posting here. I’m too old to multitask.)

re: #235 wrenchwench

Even if it is an overheard remark, it makes the speaker sound like an asshole to me, because ‘agreeing’ with another person’s lifestyle is often as relevant as ‘agreeing’ with another person’s race or religion. It’s nobody’s business, and someone who feels compelled to express their disapproval of another human, especially if that human has no impact on the disapprover’s life, is an asshole. It’s a little stronger of a term than I would post, unless I knew of maddening specifics, I would say jerk.

I’m sorry, but I just don’t agree, in large part because if I were to consider all such moralizers jerks I’d have to consider too many people to be jerks.

re: #232 Dark_Falcon

A good and decent man in a Fallen world.

My opinion: A typical upholder of the patriarchy. Nicer to the poor than the last one, slightly better adjusted priorities, but overall, typical.

re: #212 Dark_Falcon

Someone expressing disagreement with someone else’s life choices does not make them an asshole.

if someone expresses those opinions on mass media, they should be prepared to deal with the consequence of mass disagreement.

This is what Google looked like 15 years ago pic.twitter.com/4mpRYrY8F1

— Historical Pics (@HistoricalPics) December 28, 2013

re: #237 Dark_Falcon

I’m sorry, but I just don’t agree, in large part because if I were to consider all such moralizers jerks I’d have to consider too many people to be jerks.

Mostly I ignore them, but a whole lot of people ARE jerks. I’ve cut off contact with family members for being jerks. It’s one way to make life better.

Moralizing about other people’s lives is a destructive thing to do. It leads to things like the Duck dude.

Was this before or after that little earthquake today?

Turkey’s Erdogan rejects calls to resign
Prime minister says he will not step down, as protests continue against a widening corruption scandal.

aljazeera.com

“Twenty-four people, including the sons of two former government ministers and the head of the state-owned financial institution, Halkbank, have been arrested on bribery charges.

“Media reports say the corruption probe is over alleged illicit money transfers to Iran and bribery for construction projects.

“Reporting from Istanbul, Al Jazeera’s Omar Al Saleh said the corruption scandal may deepen since some reports have suggested that another wave of investigations will implicate 40 more people, including some government officials.”

re: #239 Sol Berdinowitz

if someone expresses those opinions on mass media, they should be prepared to deal with the consequence of mass disagreement.

That I can agree with.

Perhaps the problem is my reading additional subtexts into the sign Stanley retweeted, subtexts the poster did not intend.

re: #241 wrenchwench

Mostly I ignore them, but a whole lot of people ARE jerks. I’ve cut off contact with family members for being jerks. It’s one way to make life better.

Moralizing about other people’s lives is a destructive thing to do. It leads to things like the Duck dude.

Speaking of moralizing over other people’s lives being destructive, example number one is the pope. As long as the Catholic church maintains it’s patriarchal, backwards, heartless, discriminatory, asshole position on women’s rights to control their own fertility, I will be opposed to it, because it is a force of death to women.

re: #244 wrenchwench

Speaking of moralizing over other people’s lives being destructive, example number one is the pope. As long as the Catholic church maintains it’s patriarchal, backwards, heartless, discriminatory, asshole position on women’s rights to control their own fertility, I will be opposed to it, because it is a force of death to women.

To say nothing of the planet.

re: #245 Snarknado!

To say nothing of the planet.

Which means I can just say, ‘it is a force of death’. Sounds pretty radical.

Glenn Greenwald: I'm the only moral person in journalism, the rest of you suck http://t.co/6Mt2VEl5Rs

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 28, 2013

re: #244 wrenchwench

Speaking of moralizing over other people’s lives being destructive, example number one is the pope. As long as the Catholic church maintains it’s patriarchal, backwards, heartless, discriminatory, asshole position on women’s rights to control their own fertility, I will be opposed to it, because it is a force of death to women.

You need to understand that he doesn’t see abortion in terms of control. for him it is about “the right to life from conception until natural death”.

I respectfully ask how you answer that point when it is raised. I am not saying I hold that belief, but most of the pope’s defenders do.

re: #242 Justanotherhuman

Was this before or after that little earthquake today?

Turkey’s Erdogan rejects calls to resign
Prime minister says he will not step down, as protests continue against a widening corruption scandal.

aljazeera.com

“Twenty-four people, including the sons of two former government ministers and the head of the state-owned financial institution, Halkbank, have been arrested on bribery charges.

“Media reports say the corruption probe is over alleged illicit money transfers to Iran and bribery for construction projects.

“Reporting from Istanbul, Al Jazeera’s Omar Al Saleh said the corruption scandal may deepen since some reports have suggested that another wave of investigations will implicate 40 more people, including some government officials.”

Some more details here: Turkey And Iran Accused Of Oil-For-Cash Sanctions Scheme

re: #222 Gus

Meh.

.heM

re: #247 Charles Johnson

Glenn Greenwald: I’m the only moral person in journalism, the rest of you suck

Well there you go. He finally admits his ego is bigger than life itself!

Is Brazil big enough for him? He might need somewhere more in the limelight.

re: #247 Charles Johnson

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The Ego has landed.

Now there folks, that is an asshole.