Washington Times Columnist: The GOP Should Campaign on Creationism

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Robert Knight, a columnist for the far right Washington Times and a “fellow” at the American Civil Rights Union (one of those right wing groups that actually promotes the exact opposite of what its name implies), advises the Republican Party that in light of recent polls showing belief in evolution declining in the GOP, the party should now start campaigning on a creationist platform.

Citing a Pew poll which shows that belief in evolution has plummeted in the GOP and is now shared by only a minority of Republicans, Knight told the American Family Association’s One News Now that “Republicans have a great opportunity” to expose the “lies that liberals have told over the years” and begin “questioning evolution more than ever.”

He also warns that a belief in evolution “leads to terrible things like socialism and communism and fascism and Nazism and the more extreme forms of liberalism in this country.”

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1 thedopefishlives  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:30:11am

I recommend the exact same thing, ironically enough. More for entertainment reasons, perhaps, but still.

2 b_sharp  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:31:02am

Please, continue.

3 Kragar  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:32:33am

4 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:35:37am

So someone from the Washington Moonie Times had this epic idea? And this brilliant, nay……sage advice will lead to a resounding GOP victory?

Please proceed.

5 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:36:00am

I’m wondering why the ACLU doesn’t sue over that name. I’ll bet there are people who have been fooled since the names are so similar.

At any rate, the wingnuts should really, really consider that strategy. : )

6 Dr. Matt  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:36:33am
The GOP Should Campaign on Creationism

Why? Are they really that desperate to campaign on something that has absolutely nothing to do with running a government?

7 darthstar  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:36:34am

The Creationist ticket. Please proceed.

8 Kragar  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:36:59am

“The truth of our faith becomes a matter of ridicule among the infidels if any Catholic, not gifted with the necessary scientific learning, presents as dogma what scientific scrutiny shows to be false.”
-Thomas Aquinas

9 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:37:10am

Yes, right wingers, we get it: EVERYTHING that’s not white, Christian and proper leads to communism/socialism/nazism.

You can stop beating the horse now.

Also, doesn’t the GOP ALREADY campaign on a creationist platform?

10 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:38:20am

re: #7 darthstar

The Creationist ticket. Please proceed.

Maybe they can get this guy Image: adnan-oktar-harun-yahya-2013.jpg to be the new National Chairman of the GOP?

Or would he be too…….Muslimy for the GOP’s tastes?

11 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:39:20am

The GOP should run on the Scopes Monkey Trial and Genesis. Film at 11.

12 Bulworth  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:39:36am

MSNBC’s Romney Joke Controversy

This is one of the top “stories” at CNN.com. Still.

I thought I had asked to be shot if things reached this level of awfulness.

13 dog philosopher  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:40:12am

“fellow”

american english has a rich vocabulary of words meaning “moron”

14 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:40:50am

re: #9 Eclectic Cyborg

Yes, right wingers, we get it: EVERYTHING that’s not white, Christian and proper leads to communism/socialism/nazism.

You can stop beating the horse now.

Also, doesn’t the GOP ALREADY campaign on a creationist platform?

Pretty much. But they still tap dance and whistle a lot to avoid being absolutely open about it since the creationist line seems to continue to hold strong ties to a whole bunch of additional issue viewpoints that *would* be damaging in an election if the party was constantly totally and completely open about it.

15 b.d.  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:42:08am

1st generation antibiotics for all republicans!

16 ObserverArt  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:42:26am

Yes, a great idea…keep ‘em all stoopid.

I guess this is part of taking their country back. Like back to the middle ages.

17 b.d.  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:43:44am

ALL THOSE DAMN ROUND EARTHERS ARE PRETTY UPPITY TOO!

18 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:43:48am

re: #2 b_sharp

Please, continue.

I’m hungry.

19 thedopefishlives  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:44:51am

re: #11 Gus

The GOP should run onfrom the Scopes Monkey Trial and Genesis. Film at 11.

FTFY

Well, in a sane world, anyway.

20 dog philosopher  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:46:05am

re: #17 b.d.

ALL THOSE DAMN ROUND EARTHERS ARE PRETTY UPPITY TOO!

why isn’t Turtles All The Way Down mentioned in the bible???

I DEMAND EQUAL TIME!!!

21 b_sharp  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:46:34am

re: #18 Gus

I’m hungry.

Nice to meatcha.

22 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:48:51am

re: #21 b_sharp

Nice to meatcha.

Could use some donkey meat.

23 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:49:07am

With all this education, Knight allows idiot ideology to rule. What a cynical bastard.

theacru.org

“Robert H. Knight, Senior Fellow and Policy Expert, has been a journalist for 15 years, including 7 as editor/writer at Los Angeles Times. He holds a B.S. in Political Science from American University, 1973 and a M.A., Political Science; 1975 American University, and a Media Fellowship, 1989-1990 Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has also held senior positions with the Heritage Foundation, Family Research Council, Concerned Women for America, Media Research Center, and Coral Ridge Ministries*. He has authored three books and hundreds of reports, papers and articles.” (my emphasis)

*Now known as “Truth in Action”.

24 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:50:39am

A burrito.

25 dog philosopher  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:51:06am

re: #9 Eclectic Cyborg

Yes, right wingers, we get it: EVERYTHING that’s not white, Christian and proper leads to communism/socialism/nazism.

You can stop beating the horse now.

Also, doesn’t the GOP ALREADY campaign on a creationist platform?

reminds me of al franken’s joke about everything in cirque de soleil being either French, Wet, or Gay

26 b.d.  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:51:39am

re: #24 Gus

A burrito.

Carne ASSada?

27 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:52:43am

re: #26 b.d.

Carne ASSada?

They’re assembling it as we type. //

28 dog philosopher  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:52:55am

Fox News This Morning

let’s have fun re-writing the dictionary!!

ObamaCare not a slam-dunk for the White House

will it now try

CLASS WARFARE???

The Obama administration has set the stage for a push that could rekindle cries of class warfare — calling for renewed long-term unemployment benefits, a minimum wage increase and a campaign against what Democrats call ‘income inequality.’

29 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:54:22am

re: #25 dog philosopher

reminds me of al franken’s joke about everything in cirque de soleil being either French, Wet, or Gay

Seriously, I think that’s the FIFTH time today I’ve seen RWs compare something different to communism/nazism.

30 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:54:42am

Lawyer for Jahi McMath’s family said she is in ‘bad shape’ after transfer to new facility - @abc7newsBayArea live video

So sorry for this tragedy, but according to CA law, she’s already dead.

31 allegro  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:54:47am

I remember being a little kid in school in Oklahoma in the late 1950s when we talked about the Scopes trial in class. We all laughed at how silly they were in the Olden Days actually believing in the bible stories of creation. Those were also the days of starting every day with the pledge of allegiance and lord’s prayer. How far we’ve come… or not.

32 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:55:13am

re: #28 dog philosopher

Damned morons.

The minimum wage has been stagnated for HOW LONG now?

Let’s see one of these people try and live on $7.25/hr and see how long they last.

33 b_sharp  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:55:14am

re: #22 Gus

Could use some donkey meat.

Buy a donkey pizza.

34 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:55:46am

re: #31 allegro

I think most schools still do the Pledge don’t they?

35 b.d.  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:56:59am

re: #33 b_sharp

Buy a donkey pizza.

The donkey meat they use in donkey pizza is hardly donkey meat at all.

36 allegro  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:57:22am

re: #34 Eclectic Cyborg

I think most schools still do the Pledge don’t they?

I dunno.

37 dog philosopher  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:58:06am

re: #29 Eclectic Cyborg

Seriously, I think that’s the FIFTH time today I’ve seen RWs compare something different to communism/nazism.

destruction of the dictionary continues apace

personally these days i just reply that republican policies will lead to rampant albigensianism and let them chew on that for a while…

38 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 11:59:28am

re: #35 b.d.

The donkey meat they use in donkey pizza is hardly donkey meat at all.

Pineapple donkey meat pizza with Ranch dressing dip. Gluten free of course.

39 lawhawk  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:00:41pm

re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg

Damned morons.

The minimum wage has been stagnated for HOW LONG now?

Let’s see one of these people try and live on $7.25/hr and see how long they last.

They see that as a feature, not a bug.

The GOP also sees this as something that doesn’t apply to them. They’re the chosen few who don’t work for minimum wage.

That’s despite the fact that many in the states they govern are at or below the poverty line and would benefit greatly from raising the minimum wage to keep pace with inflation and cost of living.

40 lawhawk  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:02:07pm

re: #37 dog philosopher

If everything is comparable to Nazism/communism, then nothing is.

You devalue the true horror of both Nazism and communism, whether its the social/economic policies that led to genocide and the gulag archipelago that destroyed the lives of millions.

41 RealityBasedSteve  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:02:49pm

re: #35 b.d.

The donkey meat they use in donkey pizza is hardly donkey meat at all.

Do they make a turkey donkey?

RBS

42 allegro  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:03:25pm

re: #39 lawhawk

They see that as a feature, not a bug.

The GOP also sees this as something that doesn’t apply to them. They’re the chosen few who don’t work for minimum wage.

That’s despite the fact that many in the states they govern are at or below the poverty line and would benefit greatly from raising the minimum wage to keep pace with inflation and cost of living.

… and buy their stuff. That’s how stupid they are that they can’t seem to make this most simple of connections.

43 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:03:56pm

I find that as I get older, pigging out on Mexican food at midnight is an increasingly terrible idea.

44 jaunte  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:04:11pm

re: #39 lawhawk

The GOP also sees this as something that doesn’t apply to them. They’re the chosen few who don’t work for minimum wage.

And they don’t seem to be able to grasp that the extra $ added to the minimum wage would be not be stashed away, but spent, improving business results in general.

45 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:05:13pm

“Fox’s @edhenryTV Asks Jay Carney if Taxpayers Will Pay to Fly Michelle Obama Home”

46 thedopefishlives  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:05:18pm

re: #37 dog philosopher

destruction of the dictionary continues apace

personally these days i just reply that republican policies will lead to rampant albigensianism and let them chew on that for a while…

I had to look that one up. Well done.

47 b.d.  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:06:08pm

re: #41 RealityBasedSteve

Do they make a turkey donkey?

RBS

You do NOT want to eat the Turdonkey.

48 allegro  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:06:21pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

I find that as I get older, pigging out on Mexican food at midnight is an increasingly terrible idea.

I find that it isn’t the food, it’s the tequila shots. But then that was true when I was 30 too so never mind.

49 Kragar  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:07:13pm

Tea party activist: White House will use AIDS to destroy Obamacare and bring on socialism

Jerome Corsi, who wrote widely criticized books about President Barack Obama’s candidacy and Secretary of State John Kerry’s military career, has been floating the conspiracy theory in a series of World Net Daily columns and in an appearance Dec. 30 on TheDoveTV.

“The Obama administration’s emphasis on enrolling the LGBT community in Obamacare strongly suggests it has an unspoken agenda of shifting to healthy citizens the extraordinary financial burden of providing services to the unique demographic, which is afflicted disproportionately by AIDS and other health issues,” Corsi wrote in a Dec. 25 column.

Corsi, who has claimed the Affordable Care Act will allow death panels to decide whether an individual deserves treatment, complained that medical costs for AIDS and HIV patients costs up to $500,000 a year - a cost that would be passed on to taxpayers.

50 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:07:33pm

re: #47 b.d.

You do >NOT want to eat the Turdonkey.

Donkeywurst™

51 kirkspencer  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:09:58pm

re: #32 Eclectic Cyborg

Damned morons.

The minimum wage has been stagnated for HOW LONG now?

Let’s see one of these people try and live on $7.25/hr and see how long they last.

It’s not just the wage that’s the problem. It’s the habit companies have of hiring a lot of part-timers so they don’t have to pay benefits.

53 The Mountain That Blogs  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:15:16pm

re: #49 Kragar

He acts like he isn’t already paying for care for the poor and uninsured under the current system. That’s cute.

54 Bulworth  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:16:15pm

re: #49 Kragar

“You’re going to spend a minimum of $30,000 to $40,000 a year just for the treatments to keep someone with HIV infection alive, and probably extending their life for 20 years is going to cost about a million dollars,” Corsi said on TheDoveTV. “Now that cost has got to be borne somewhere.”

Prolife. /

55 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:19:27pm

re: #54 Bulworth

“You’re going to spend a minimum of $30,000 to $40,000 a year just for the treatments to keep someone with HIV infection alive, and probably extending their life for 20 years is going to cost about a million dollars,” Corsi said on TheDoveTV. “Now that cost has got to be borne somewhere.”

Prolife. /

I’m sure that sounds much better in the original German.

*headdesk*

56 allegro  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:21:26pm

It’s 33.8 degrees F. In Houston. In the afternoon. Can’t think of the last time that’s happened. They turned off the water in the park last night and are going to again today at 6pm. We are not equipped to handle this. IT’S FUCKING COLD!

57 lawhawk  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:23:16pm

re: #49 Kragar

Now that’s some serious biohazard level 5 crazy. The President, who campaigned to enact health care reform and enacted the ACA (Obamacare) is now going to bankrupt it through HIV/AIDS treatments.

events.aidschicago.org

Estimated lifetime cost of treatment for one person with HIV is $379,668 (in 2010 dollars)
Estimated average annual cost for HIV treatment is $23,000 (in 2010 dollars)

58 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:24:58pm

Brrrrrrritos.

Today.

59 Dr. Matt  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:25:22pm

re: #56 allegro

It’s 33.8 degrees F. In Houston. In the afternoon. Can’t think of the last time that’s happened. They turned off the water in the park last night and are going to again today at 6pm. We are not equipped to handle this. IT’S FUCKING COLD!

It snowed in Houston about 4 years ago…..Feb 2010. I was back in town visiting when it happened.

60 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:26:50pm

re: #56 allegro

It’s 33.8 degrees F. In Houston. In the afternoon. Can’t think of the last time that’s happened. They turned off the water in the park last night and are going to again today at 6pm. We are not equipped to handle this. IT’S FUCKING COLD!

It’s been falling about a degree an hour here, and with the sun going down in another hour and a half or so, it’s going down to 5 deg tonight.

Just opened the balcony door and the wind sounds ominous—and it’s also really, really, cold, nothing frozen yet though and really not much moisture left on the ground. If we don’t get any more precip, the roads should be fine tomorrow.

61 allegro  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:27:42pm

re: #59 Dr. Matt

It snowed in Houston about 4 years ago…..Feb 2010. I was back in town visiting when it happened.

It snowed on Christmas eve in 2005. Actually stuck to the ground overnight. Yeah we remember these things. LOL

62 Jack Burton  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:28:34pm

re: #56 allegro

It’s 33.8 degrees F. In Houston. In the afternoon. Can’t think of the last time that’s happened. They turned off the water in the park last night and are going to again today at 6pm. We are not equipped to handle this. IT’S FUCKING COLD!

Cue the wingnuts saying shit like how’s that global warming coming along for you guys.

63 Lidane  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:28:55pm
“leads to terrible things like socialism and communism and fascism and Nazism and the more extreme forms of liberalism in this country.”

MORON.

FUCKING MORON.

1. These are not interchangeable ideas. It’s not like going to Subway and deciding to get ham instead of bacon on your sandwich because they’re both made of pork.

2. Fascism and Nazism are extreme RIGHT WING ideas, not left wing ones. You’d know this if you didn’t rely on David Barton and Jonah Goldberg for your information.

64 lawhawk  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:29:44pm

re: #57 lawhawk

Wanna know what would really bake his noodle? That diabetes treatment costs run to over $200 billion a year.

The American Diabetes Association (Association) released new research on March 6, 2013 estimating the total costs of diagnosed diabetes have risen to $245 billion in 2012 from $174 billion in 2007, when the cost was last examined.

This figure represents a 41 percent increase over a five year period.

The study, Economic Costs of Diabetes in the U.S. in 2012, was commissioned by the Association and addresses the increased financial burden, health resources used and lost productivity associated with diabetes in 2012. The study includes a detailed breakdown of costs along gender, racial and ethnic lines, and also includes a breakdown of costs on a state-by-state basis.

AIDS gets the religious and social conservatives in a tizzy over medical costs, but those are still a fraction of the costs of many other diseases that are far more widespread and affect a wider percentage of the population. That’s why he focuses on AIDS and the gay population. Stigmas die hard.

It’s real tough to claim to be a pro-life advocate when you’re essentially calling for ending medical care to those in need (who are quite alive today due to that same medical care).

65 Lidane  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:30:54pm

re: #53 The Mountain That Blogs

He acts like he isn’t already paying for care for the poor and uninsured under the current system. That’s cute.

I’ve seen Heritage derp lately about how Obamacare is bad because more people are signed up for Medicaid and they’re using that coverage to go to the ER when they need medical attention.

WTF.

66 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:30:59pm

By the way, I’ve been finally getting around to dealing with some of the random error conditions that lead to those dreaded endlessly spinning busy icons. For most things now, if there’s an error somewhere in the Ajax call that communicates from your browser to the server, it will simply turn off the spinner icon and continue on without hanging up.

This stuff is hard to test in some cases, but the newest jQuery has what’s called a “Promise” interface that makes it much easier and more straightforward to handle all kinds of errors.

Just thought you might like to know.

67 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:31:42pm

re: #64 lawhawk

Wanna know what would really bake his noodle? That diabetes treatment costs run to over $200 billion a year.

AIDS gets the religious and social conservatives in a tizzy over medical costs, but those are still a fraction of the costs of many other diseases that are far more widespread and affect a wider percentage of the population. That’s why he focuses on AIDS and the gay population. Stigmas die hard.

It’s real tough to claim to be a pro-life advocate when you’re essentially calling for ending medical care to those in need (who are quite alive today due to that same medical care).

With the added special topping that diabetes is increasingly becoming a ‘lifestyle’ disease.

68 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:31:56pm

Feet. Cold.

69 lawhawk  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:32:09pm

re: #66 Charles Johnson

And knowing is half the battle. /

Thanks for figuring that out.

70 dog philosopher  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:32:38pm

re: super cold weather

in california our mild winter temperatures are as normal

however, a slow freakout is in progress because here it is the 6th of january and we have seen exactly one (1) rainstorm this winter. none are predicted for the upcoming week, either…

if the rain doesn’t get started soon, be prepared for drought and firestorm stories out of the golden state this summer

71 b_sharp  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:32:55pm

re: #68 Gus

Feet. Cold.

Brain. Dead.

72 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:33:12pm

‘Kai the Hitchhiker’ pleads not guilty in beating death of Clark lawyer

nj.com

I think this says a lot…

ELIZABETH — A man who gained nationwide celebrity status on social media pleaded not guilty today to a charge of killing a 73-year-old lawyer in the victim’s home in Clark last May.

“Caleb McGillivary, 24, known as “Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker,” stood silent during his arraignment before Superior Court Judge Joseph Donohue.”

73 lawhawk  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:33:20pm

re: #68 Gus

I hear that Hoth’s new export is a mini Tauntaun for feet. Sure, it might smell bad, but they’re warm! /

74 b_sharp  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:33:52pm

Global Warming is dead. Long live Global Cooling

75 allegro  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:33:55pm

re: #60 Justanotherhuman

It’s been falling about a degree an hour here, and with the sun going down in another hour and a half or so, it’s going down to 5 deg tonight.

Just opened the balcony door and the wind sounds ominous—and it’s also really, really, cold, nothing frozen yet though and really not much moisture left on the ground. If we don’t get any more precip, the roads should be fine tomorrow.

Oh yeah, the wind. Blowing like a bygod still. And my dogs are insisting that it’s once again time to go out there to do piddle duty. :/

76 Dr. Matt  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:34:02pm

*snicker*

77 Jack Burton  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:34:08pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

I find that as I get older, pigging out on Mexican food at midnight is an increasingly terrible idea.

As someone who did this 3 out of the last 4 nights (not by choice, circumstances led to it), if you stick to rolled tacos it’s usually not too bad.

78 Lidane  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:34:32pm

re: #43 Charles Johnson

I find that as I get older, pigging out on Mexican food at midnight is an increasingly terrible idea.

It was a terrible idea when you were younger too, although all the grease in whatever you were eating probably slowed down any hangovers.

Heh.

79 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:35:05pm

re: #68 Gus

Feet. Cold.

Socks. Wool.

80 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:35:38pm

re: #79 Justanotherhuman

Socks. Wool.

Greyhound. Tampa.

81 b_sharp  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:35:41pm

Butt. Hurt.

82 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:36:22pm

Cheese. Plywood.

83 Dr. Matt  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:36:36pm

re: #80 Decatur Deb

Greyhound. Tampa.

The couches are open, the bar is stocked, and the fridge has endless condiments.

84 b_sharp  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:37:44pm

Brass. Balls.

85 Jack Burton  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:39:11pm

re: #80 Decatur Deb

Greyhound. Tampa.

Bob. Johnson… oh wait.

86 Lidane  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:39:15pm

re: #80 Decatur Deb

Greyhound. Tampa.

Greyhound now has free on-board WiFi and electrical outlets to keep things charged while you travel. It’s not a bad deal if you can put up with the cramped seating for a few hours.

87 The Mountain That Blogs  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:39:26pm

re: #65 Lidane

How dare they, really. I wonder how many of those ER visits are people sent in straight from their first appointment with a primary care doctor. Probably not that many at this point, but we see people sent in from various clinics and PMDs all the time, and I imagine more than a few people who haven’t seen a doctor in 30 years would have something that merits immediate evaluation.

88 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:39:28pm

Alas, I had a really nice pair of Land’s End thick wool socks (for years) until I finally wore holes in them and threw them out just yesterday. Making do for now with others not so great. : )

89 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:39:37pm

re: #83 Dr. Matt

The couches are open, the bar is stocked, and the fridge has endless condiments.

Don’t waste it on us, we’re only a couple hundred miles north.

90 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:40:44pm

re: #86 Lidane

Greyhound now has free on-board WiFi and electrical outlets to keep things charged while you travel. It’s not a bad deal if you can put up with the cramped seating for a few hours.

Love Greyhounds. Might still buy a FogeyPass and bomb across the country on one.

91 dog philosopher  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:41:14pm

re: #63 Lidane

MORON.

FUCKING MORON.

1. These are not interchangeable ideas. It’s not like going to Subway and deciding to get ham instead of bacon on your sandwich because they’re both made of pork.

2. Fascism and Nazism are extreme RIGHT WING ideas, not left wing ones. You’d know this if you didn’t rely on David Barton and Jonah Goldberg for your information.

they have redefined ‘communism’ as well as ‘socialism’ to mean merely ‘taxes’, via the phrase “redistribution of wealth”, even though under this definition it would be extremely difficult to find any government that ever existed in human history that couldn’t be called ‘communist’

as for ‘nazism’, of course it’s sufficient that the name of the party preserved its vestigial and non-functioning remembrance to socialism for jonah goldberg to describe food labelling as fascism…

92 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:41:18pm

Almost hate to rub it in but…

93 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:42:13pm

re: #92 Charles Johnson

Almost hate to rub it in but…

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75?

94 RealityBasedSteve  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:42:32pm

re: #57 lawhawk

Now that’s some serious biohazard level 5 crazy. The President, who campaigned to enact health care reform and enacted the ACA (Obamacare) is now going to bankrupt it through HIV/AIDS treatments.

events.aidschicago.org

Quite seriously, there is a strong wingnut contingent that believes that the ACA was intentionally flawed both in concept and execution from the initial plan for the express purpose of ruining the private healthcare insurance industry and implementing true single payer / government provided health care.

I wish I was making that up.

RBS

95 b.d.  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:42:33pm

re: #92 Charles Johnson

Almost hate to rub it in but…

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Should down ding you for that.

96 Dr. Matt  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:42:55pm

re: #92 Charles Johnson

Almost hate to rub it in but…

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Yeah, great WiFi signal…..lucky you. Mine stinks.

97 makeitstop  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:43:16pm

re: #92 Charles Johnson

Almost hate to rub it in but…

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Party at Charles’ house!

98 allegro  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:43:27pm

re: #94 RealityBasedSteve

Quite seriously, there is a strong wingnut contingent that believes that the ACA was intentionally flawed both in concept and execution from the initial plan for the express purpose of ruining the private healthcare insurance industry and implementing true single payer / government provided health care.

I wish I was making that up.

RBS

I hope it works! ;)

99 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:43:48pm

Ah. A pic. Got Adblock on. Can’t see any pics.

100 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:43:57pm

re: #93 Gus

75?

Of course that doesn’t take into account the wind chill factor.

101 Mike Lamb  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:44:01pm

re: #54 Bulworth

“You’re going to spend a minimum of $30,000 to $40,000 a year just for the treatments to keep someone with HIV infection alive, and probably extending their life for 20 years is going to cost about a million dollars,” Corsi said on TheDoveTV. “Now that cost has got to be borne somewhere.”

Prolife. /

Fucking risk pools…how do they work?

Let’s suppose that in creating a risk pool that consists, more or less, of the entire nation. Further suppose that HIV/AIDS patients can no longer be denied coverage. Assume that as a result, everyone’s insurance premium increases $1 annually (which I would guess is dramatically overstated) to account for the HIV/AIDS patients in the risk pool. Would that money being paid out by the entire risk pool be more than than the extra taxes everyone else has to pay to subsidize this fuckball’s (and other fuckballs’) tax exempt churches? This guy can fuck himself.

102 Dr. Matt  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:44:33pm

re: #99 Gus

Ah. A pic. Got Adblock on. Can’t see any pics.

You’re missing the nude selfies……

103 Mike Lamb  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:45:29pm

re: #91 dog philosopher

they have redefined ‘communism’ as well as ‘socialism’ to mean merely ‘taxes’, via the phrase “redistribution of wealth”, even though under this definition it would be extremely difficult to find any government that ever existed in human history that couldn’t be called ‘communist’

as for ‘nazism’, of course it’s sufficient that the name of the party preserved its vestigial and non-functioning remembrance to socialism for jonah goldberg to describe food labelling as fascism…

It’s actually simpler/broader than that—communism/socialism = any/all democractic policies.

104 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:47:22pm
105 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:48:25pm

re: #104 Gus

[Embedded content]

How I learned to quit worrying and love the polar vortex.

106 Dr. Matt  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:50:03pm

Polar Vortex, we have a problem.

107 jaunte  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:51:05pm

re: #104 Gus

Polar Vortex’s Chainsaw Massacre.

108 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:51:29pm

re: #107 jaunte

Polar Vortex’s Chainsaw Massacre.

I love the smell of de-icer in the morning.

109 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:51:35pm

Chicago schools closed tomorrow. Lots of districts starting late due to cold weather in VA, DC and other locations.

Probably here, too.

110 jaunte  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:51:46pm
111 makeitstop  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:55:03pm

Forget it, Jake, it’s Polar Vortex.

I’ll think about it tomorrow, because tomorrow is Polar Vortex.

112 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:55:10pm

re: #109 Justanotherhuman

Chicago schools closed tomorrow. Lots of districts starting late due to cold weather in VA, DC and other locations.

Probably here, too.

Schools in the entire region are closed tomorrow. Communities have established warming shelters. Expected low 18 degrees, high 31 degrees.

113 RealityBasedSteve  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:58:22pm

re: #112 Decatur Deb

Schools in the entire region are closed tomorrow. Communities have established warming shelters. Expected high—31 degrees.

That’s like what we had in Alaska. No thank you.

RBS

114 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 12:59:46pm

re: #113 RealityBasedSteve

That’s like what we had in Alaska. No thank you.

RBS

Uh—fixed the typesetting. That’s like 1 degree below freezing.

115 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:02:06pm

re: #114 Decatur Deb

Uh—fixed the typesetting. That’s like 1 degree below freezing.

K e r n i n g p r o b l e m s ?

116 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:04:01pm

Wow. What right wing antisemitism?

117 compound_Idaho  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:06:02pm

re: #113 RealityBasedSteve

When you rent a car at the Fairbanks airport this time of year they hand you and extension cord over the counter and remind you to unplug the core heater before you pull out you the parking space.

118 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:06:26pm

GOP: the party of Divine Truth vs the party of Lies from the Pit of hell.

That will make for a really successful campaign strategy.

119 geoffm33  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:07:27pm

File under: LOLWUT

120 jaunte  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:07:29pm

Christian Writer Calls Out Fox’s ‘Huckster’ Todd Starnes for Lying About ‘War on Christianity’

“When Starnes reports on an event, he will influence the way a lot of people think,” Noble wrote. That’s “alarming,” he said, because Starnes “consistently deceives and manipulates facts in order to exaggerate or fabricate incidences of Christian persecution.” After trudging through Starnes’ social media posts, Noble rightfully concluded that “these reports influence a great deal of people who often respond with hatred, anger, and disgust out of ignorance.”

121 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:08:23pm

re: #115 Gus

K e r n i n g p r o b l e m s ?

Two dashes turned into a minus.

122 Lidane  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:08:47pm

Fair and balanced!

123 darthstar  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:09:04pm

re: #100 Charles Johnson

Of course that doesn’t take into account the wind chill factor.

Feels like 77.

124 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:11:26pm

re: #30 Justanotherhuman

Lawyer for Jahi McMath’s family said she is in ‘bad shape’ after transfer to new facility - @abc7newsBayArea live video

She’s even MOAR DEAD than she was before.

125 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:12:14pm

re: #122 Lidane

Fair and balanced!

[Embedded content]

Someone needs to reread the story about Jesus and the Prostitute.

126 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:12:37pm

Off to cart Wife’s shrubs into the garage, then give the dog what might be his last walk for a couple days. (At least he can go into the garage and piss on her trees in comfort.)

127 darthstar  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:13:01pm

re: #124 Pie-onist Overlord

She’s even MOAR DEAD than she was before.

Youtube Video

128 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:13:08pm
129 darthstar  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:15:13pm

re: #30 Justanotherhuman

Lawyer for Jahi McMath’s family said she is in ‘bad shape’ after transfer to new facility - @abc7newsBayArea live video

So sorry for this tragedy, but according to CA law, she’s already dead.

The Terri Schiavo freaks got wind of it and are using the kid as a fundraising tool. Really does suck for everyone involved, especially the parents once they realize they have been had by a bunch of self-righteous grifters.

The girl is dead. She isn’t affected one way or another.

130 RealityBasedSteve  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:15:53pm

re: #117 compound_Idaho

When you rent a car at the Fairbanks airport this time of year they hand you and extension cord over the counter and remind you to unplug the core heater before you pull out you the parking space.

90% of the cars up there I think have a cracked or broken place in the grill because sooner or later you forget to unplug it before you back out. (Don’t ask me how I know this)

RBS

131 geoffm33  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:16:22pm


“The Administration must recognize the failure of its policies in the Middle East and change course,” they (McCain/Graham) said in the statement. “America has lost time, options, influence, and credibility over the past five years, and we cannot afford to remain disengaged any longer.”

White House press secretary Jay Carney said Monday that the likes of McCain and Graham ought to be transparent about what exactly they’re proposing.

“I’ve heard members of Congress suggest this, but if members were suggesting that there should be American troops fighting and dying in Fallujah today, they should say so,” Carney said during his daily press briefing.

“The President doesn’t believe that.”

132 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:17:01pm

NSA ADMITS TO SPYING ON CONGRESS!

Derp.

133 RealityBasedSteve  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:17:12pm

re: #126 Decatur Deb

Off to cart Wife’s shrubs into the garage, then give the dog what might be his last walk for a couple days. (At least he can go into the garage and piss on her trees in comfort.)

He’s going to think you did it just for him.

RBS

134 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:17:39pm

Oh yeah, that will get the GOP some great PR, let’s send the troops BACK to IRAQ!

What a winner of an idea.

135 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:18:26pm

Let’s make more RW heads explode…

US Marks 4 Straight Years of Slowing Health Costs

abcnews.go.com

“Even as his health care law divided the nation, President Barack Obama’s first term produced historically low growth in health costs, government experts said in a new report Monday.

“While the White House sees hard-won vindication, it’s too early to say if the four-year trend that continued through 2012 is a lasting turnaround that Obama can claim as part of his legacy.

(snip)

“Have we turned the corner in a sustainable way? That’s still an open question,” said economist Robert Reischauer, who serves as a public trustee overseeing Medicare and Social Security financing. “But I am more optimistic than I have ever been that fundamental changes are under way.” For example, even though baby boomers are joining Medicare in record numbers, that program’s costs are basically stable when measured on a per-patient basis, Reischauer noted.”

Wow, some still don’t want to give Pres Obama any credit.

136 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:19:15pm

re: #135 Justanotherhuman

The numbers don’t include ILLEGULS!!!

137 freetoken  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:19:19pm

re: #100 Charles Johnson

Of course that doesn’t take into account the wind chill factor.

I’m about to brave the elements and go out for a walk. What will I do about all the sunlight and the ocean breeze?

Persevere - that’s what I’ll do.

138 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:19:24pm

re: #126 Decatur Deb

Off to cart Wife’s shrubs into the garage, then give the dog what might be his last walk for a couple days. (At least he can go into the garage and piss on her trees in comfort.)

And kill them…

139 Lidane  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:23:55pm

re: #134 Eclectic Cyborg

Oh yeah, that will get the GOP some great PR, let’s send the troops BACK to IRAQ!

What a winner of an idea.

Especially in a midterm election year.

I actually hope the White House keeps pushing back on that. If the GOP nutters want to talk about Fallujah, let them offer a solution for how to fix it. If that means more boots on the ground, they should say so.

140 ObserverArt  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:24:44pm

re: #100 Charles Johnson

Of course that doesn’t take into account the wind chill factor.

Okay…now you are being a meanie.

///

141 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:26:21pm

re: #41 RealityBasedSteve

Do they make a turkey donkey?

RBS

Try the Tofonkey.

142 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:26:32pm

The amount of junk science that’s being spread on Twitter is astonishing. It’s almost an insult to science to even use the word.

143 allegro  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:28:29pm

re: #142 Gus

The amount of junk science that’s being spread on Twitter is astonishing. It’s almost an insult to science to even use the word.

Try malarky - better descriptor.

144 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:29:41pm

This is what it’s supposed to feel like when I get up in the morning…


6 AM
Clear

FEELS LIKE:
-7°

Even at 1 pm tomorrow, it will be very, very cold.

1 PM
Sunny
20°
FEELS LIKE:
12°

145 Kragar  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:31:06pm
146 wrenchwench  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:33:24pm

Witty mind for rent [I guess body too, I don’t know…]:


He hosts ‘Yo Is This Racist?

147 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:34:55pm

They’re using…

1. Rense
2. Hal Turner’s old website now called Turner Broadcasting
3. Natural News which is a crackpot site.
4. Unknown End-Times loons and Preppers
5. Dr. Mercola who is another crackpot.
6. Russia Today
7. Above Top Secret/Before It’s News

148 Kragar  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:35:23pm
149 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:36:16pm

re: #143 allegro

Try malarky - better descriptor.

I like the sound of “humbug” myself.

150 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:36:17pm

re: #147 Gus

They’re using…

1. Rense
2. Hal Turner’s old website now called Turner Broadcasting
3. Natural News which is a crackpot site.
4. Unknown End-Times loons and Preppers
5. Dr. Mercola who is another crackpot.
6. Russia Today
7. Above Top Secret/Before It’s News

8. Global Research
9. What Really Happened

151 Dr. Matt  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:36:35pm

Today I spilled coffee on my left leg and chicken soup on my right leg. I need a mulligan.

152 palomino  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:37:46pm

Feels like 1925 all over again. A new Scopes Trial, once a national embarrassment, seems more plausible today than at any other point in my middle aged life.

Any day now I expect a concerned parents’ group to call for teachers to be fired for saying in the classroom that creationism isn’t science. I suppose it’s already happening, we just haven’t had “the big case” that gets national attention yet.

153 Kragar  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:39:19pm

re: #151 Dr. Matt

Today I spilled coffee on my left leg and chicken soup on my right leg. I need a mulligan.

Gazpacho in the lap?

154 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:42:06pm

Mercola, who is an anti-vaxxer, thinks HIV doesn’t cause AIDs, think vaccines causes autism, think modern medicine kills more people, etc, is now spreading some bullshit he got from his rear end about GMOs causing autism.

155 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:42:38pm

re: #152 palomino

Feels like 1925 all over again. A new Scopes Trial, once a national embarrassment, seems more plausible today than at any other point in my middle aged life.

Any day now I expect a concerned parents’ group to call for teachers to be fired for saying in the classroom that creationism isn’t science. I suppose it’s already happening, we just haven’t had “the big case” that gets national attention yet.

Ohio Supreme Court upholds the firing of a creationist science teacher

rawstory.com

But wait—

“The court issued a 4-3 ruling Tuesday that agreed with an appeals court and the trial court that teacher John Freshwater had failed to comply with orders to remove religious materials from his classroom.

“The court said that was enough to spur Freshwater’s dismissal, so it didn’t even need to rule on whether the teacher impermissibly imposed his religious views in the classroom.

“We recognize that this case is driven by a far more powerful debate over the teaching of creationism and intelligent design alongside evolution,” the court noted in its decision. “(But) here, we need not decide whether Freshwater acted with a permissible or impermissible intent because we hold that he was insubordinate, and his termination can be justified on that basis alone.”

156 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:42:53pm

He’s also saying that GMOs causes Celiac’s disease which is more BS.

157 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:44:52pm

re: #151 Dr. Matt

Today I spilled coffee on my left leg and chicken soup on my right leg. I need a mulligatawny.

158 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:45:06pm

Mercola also sells a lot of “kits.”

159 Kragar  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:46:03pm

re: #158 Gus

Mercola also sells a lot of “kits.”

Snake oil.

160 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:46:24pm

re: #159 Kragar

Snake oil.

Modern version. Yep.

161 dog philosopher  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:46:43pm

re: #151 Dr. Matt

Today I spilled coffee on my left leg and chicken soup on my right leg. I need a mulligan.

don’t spill anything hot on your ‘third leg’

162 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:47:58pm

re: #148 Kragar

Without even reading this, I’m just going to assume that Corsi now believes that Hitler, currently a spry and sprightly 124 years young, is living in the White House disguised as a 52 year-old black man, who stays immortally young by means of cybernetic implants, marijuana smoked in rolled-up pages of first-edition copies of Das Kaptial, and black magic twerking rituals.

163 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:48:45pm

Apropos of nothing, I’m reminding myself this afternoon how much I love Ottorino Respighi’s Ancient Airs and Dances.

Youtube Video

164 dog philosopher  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:49:18pm

re: #159 Kragar

Snake oil.

GOP Offers “One Weird Trick” To Bring Back American Jobs

declares “intelligent people hate this!”

165 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:49:50pm

Some guy from Before it is News got blocked from LGF. Several years ago. If I remember correctly.

166 Bulworth  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:50:17pm

re: #131 geoffm33

A real true america president would go on TV and tell the Iraq terrorists that were going to kill them all then they would be very afraid and stop= US winning!!!1!11

167 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:52:01pm

VB picked a great time to be in LA.

168 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:52:06pm

re: #162 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Without even reading this, I’m just going to assume that Corsi now believes that Hitler, currently a spry and sprightly 124 years young, is living in the White House disguised as a 52 year-old black man, who stays immortally young by means of cybernetic implants, marijuana smoked in rolled-up pages of first-edition copies of Das Kaptial, and black magic twerking rituals.

You forget the Obama Time Machine. Hitler actually used this to leap from 1945 directly to 2008, so he’s really only in his early 60’s.

169 RealityBasedSteve  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:52:42pm

re: #147 Gus

They’re using…

1. Rense
2. Hal Turner’s old website now called Turner Broadcasting
3. Natural News which is a crackpot site.
4. Unknown End-Times loons and Preppers
5. Dr. Mercola who is another crackpot.
6. Russia Today
7. Above Top Secret/Before It’s News

Geeze, that’s the “All Derp, All Hostile to Reason” starting lineup Hall of Shame.

RBS

170 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:53:29pm

re: #162 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Without even reading this, I’m just going to assume that Corsi now believes that Hitler, currently a spry and sprightly 124 years young, is living in the White House disguised as a 52 year-old black man, who stays immortally young by means of cybernetic implants, marijuana smoked in rolled-up pages of first-edition copies of Das Kaptial, and black magic twerking rituals.

Sounds like a video from someone that also has “exclusive news of massive cover-up in Fukushima!!!”

171 RealityBasedSteve  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:53:33pm

re: #149 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

I like the sound of “humbug” myself.

How about “FlapDoodle”. H/T to the Amazing Randi

RBS

172 Kragar  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:53:43pm

re: #162 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Without even reading this, I’m just going to assume that Corsi now believes that Hitler, currently a spry and sprightly 124 years young, is living in the White House disguised as a 52 year-old black man, who stays immortally young by means of cybernetic implants, marijuana smoked in rolled-up pages of first-edition copies of Das Kaptial, and black magic twerking rituals.

“… Corsi claims to have found evidence that Hitler escaped to Argentina “with the help of U.S. intelligence agents that had been secretly working with the Nazis since 1943,” because that is pretty much exactly what the U.S. Government would have every logical reason to do.”

173 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:54:12pm

re: #172 Kragar

“… Corsi claims to have found evidence that Hitler escaped to Argentina “with the help of U.S. intelligence agents that had been secretly working with the Nazis since 1943,” because that is pretty much exactly what the U.S. Government would have every logical reason to do.”

Makes sense. //

174 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:55:02pm

re: #173 Gus

Makes sense. //

He’s been watching too many movies, eh?

175 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:55:09pm
176 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:56:30pm

re: #142 Gus

The amount of junk science that’s being spread on Twitter is astonishing. It’s almost an insult to science to even use the word.

Anti-GMO fear-mongering seems to be very popular lately.

177 Dr. Matt  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:57:02pm

What a brilliant line:

But “Hitler Escaped” stories are the little black dress of conspiracy theories — so basic, so simple, yet endlessly variable, and always timely.

wonkette.com

The Wonkettes really are talented writers.

178 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:58:50pm

First Black female cast member in 5 yrs.

Does anyone actually watch this anymore?

Sasheer Zamata Joins ‘Saturday Night Live’ As New Cast Member

deadline.com

It was actually funnier when they were doing buckets of cocaine.

179 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 1:59:50pm

re: #176 Charles Johnson

Anti-GMO fear-mongering seems to be very popular lately.

And Fukushima. Someone Tweeted some Youtube rant from one of their “experts.” Some Paulian, end times, prepper nut. They also had some other videos about Obama being the antichrist or something.

180 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:01:00pm

re: #167 Justanotherhuman

VB picked a great time to be in LA.

[Embedded content]

Now you know why Michigan is shaped like a mitt. //

181 GeneJockey  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:01:43pm

re: #172 Kragar

“… Corsi claims to have found evidence that Hitler escaped to Argentina “with the help of U.S. intelligence agents that had been secretly working with the Nazis since 1943,” because that is pretty much exactly what the U.S. Government would have every logical reason to do.”

So, let me see. The US Government had added debt to the tune of 50% of GDP every year for about 4 years, largely to rid the world of Hitler, only to spirit him away at the last moment to Argentina, so that he could… What, exactly?

Perhaps it was to get his help opposing Stalin and the Soviet Union, because he’d been so successful at that? And isn’t Right Wing Dogma that the USG at this point was thoroughly infiltrated with Communist spies?

Oh, wait - I’m looking for it to make sense. Never mind.

182 GeneJockey  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:03:01pm

re: #180 Gus

Now you know why Michigan is shaped like a mitt. //

You forget the UP. In total, Michigan looks like an oven mitt about to grab a stalagmite.

183 dog philosopher  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:03:35pm

re: #162 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Without even reading this, I’m just going to assume that Corsi now believes that Hitler, currently a spry and sprightly 124 years young

i always knew that hitler birth certificate was fake

185 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:06:13pm

re: #183 dog philosopher

i always knew that hitler birth certificate was fake

They kept his brain ALIVE!!

186 RealityBasedSteve  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:06:21pm

re: #181 GeneJockey

So, let me see. The US Government had added debt to the tune of 50% of GDP every year for about 4 years, largely to rid the world of Hitler, only to spirit him away at the last moment to Argentina, so that he could… What, exactly?

Perhaps it was to get his help opposing Stalin and the Soviet Union, because he’d been so successful at that? And isn’t Right Wing Dogma that the USG at this point was thoroughly infiltrated with Communist spies?

Oh, wait - I’m looking for it to make sense. Never mind.

See, there is your problem GeneJockey, as an educated and thinking person, who is accustomed to working in an evidence based world you lack the basic ability to hold a large number of mutually contradictory positions at once. What’s wrong with you?

RBS
What Do We Want?
~~~~~ Evidence Based Change!!!

When Do We Want It?
~~~~~~ After Peer Review and Replication!!!!

187 GeneJockey  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:07:54pm

Perhaps the worst aspect of the internet is that crazy people are able to find each other and reinforce their craziness, whereas before if they told someone else what they were thinking, that person would tell them it was nuts and they’d probably just shut up about it.

Thanks so fucking much, Al Gore!
///

189 Egregious Philbin  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:09:03pm

If you are a creationist, have the guts to forgoe any of that modern sciencey type of medicine when you get sick.

And if you are going to teach the particular retarded christian creation story in public school, then the state must send evolutionary scientists to speak and teach in churches (tax free churches…)

190 Joanne  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:09:53pm

re: #76 Dr. Matt

[Embedded image]

*snicker*

Dude, you better be snickering because you’re in Duluth…coz I am freezing my ass off and it ain’t funny! (grumble, bitch, bitch)
/

191 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:10:31pm

re: #178 Justanotherhuman

First Black female cast member in 5 yrs.

Does anyone actually watch this anymore?

Sasheer Zamata Joins ‘Saturday Night Live’ As New Cast Member

deadline.com

It was actually funnier when they were doing buckets of cocaine.

It was funnier when they had Scred.

Image: landofgorch-scred.jpg

192 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:10:38pm

New list:

1. Rense
2. Hal Turner’s old website now called Turner Broadcasting
3. Natural News which is a crackpot site.
4. Unknown End-Times loons and Preppers
5. Dr. Mercola who is another crackpot.
6. Russia Today
7. Above Top Secret/Before It’s News
8. Global Research
9. What Really Happened
10. Zerohedge
11. Prison Planet
12. Infowars
13. Godlike Productions
14. PressTV
15. Pravda

193 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:11:52pm

re: #150 Gus

8. Global Research
9. What Really Happened

A LinkedIn group I’m a part of actually has a guy who posted a Global Research article talking about a Paulian-type Federal Reserve conspiracy. Thankfully, it did get far as conservative Yours Truly joined forces with a sane liberal to smack the piece DERP down. Thankfully, the poster didn’t push harder once engaged.

195 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:13:02pm

re: #193 Dark_Falcon

A LinkedIn group I’m a part of actually has a guy who posted a Global Research article talking about a Paulian-type Federal Reserve conspiracy. Thankfully, it did get far as conservative Yours Truly joined forces with a sane liberal to smack the piece DERP down. Thankfully, the poster didn’t push harder once engaged.

My list keeps growing!

1. Rense
2. Hal Turner’s old website now called Turner Broadcasting
3. Natural News which is a crackpot site.
4. Unknown End-Times loons and Preppers
5. Dr. Mercola who is another crackpot.
6. Russia Today
7. Above Top Secret/Before It’s News
8. Global Research
9. What Really Happened
10. Zerohedge
11. Prison Planet
12. Infowars
13. Godlike Productions
14. PressTV
15. Pravda

196 RealityBasedSteve  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:13:42pm

re: #192 Gus

New list:

1. Rense
2. Hal Turner’s old website now called Turner Broadcasting
3. Natural News which is a crackpot site.
4. Unknown End-Times loons and Preppers
5. Dr. Mercola who is another crackpot.
6. Russia Today
7. Above Top Secret/Before It’s News
8. Global Research
9. What Really Happened
10. Zerohedge
11. Prison Planet
12. Infowars

I have to be honest, the first couple of times I saw “Before It’s News” I was convinced that it was some kind of an elaborate hoax. That there was NO freaking way people believed what was on it. And since a lot of comments are a textbook example of every bad thing in the DSM, it couldn’t be real.

Ah, for those days when I was innocent.

RBS

197 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:17:11pm

Bogus paper on Roundup saturates the Internet

A paper published in the online journal Entropy has caught a lot of reporters’ attention, since it suggests that Roundup herbicide (glyphosate) may be the root cause of a bundle of maladies “including Parkinson’s, infertility and cancer,” as reported by the Huffington Post yesterday…

198 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:18:05pm

About Entropy

Aims

Entropy (ISSN 1099-4300), an international and interdisciplinary journal of entropy and information studies, publishes reviews, regular research papers and short notes. Our aim is to encourage scientists to publish as much as possible their theoretical and experimental details. There is no restriction on the length of the papers. If there are computation and the experiment, the details must be provided so that the results can be reproduced. There are in addition three unique features…

199 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:18:59pm

re: #195 Gus

Don’t forget Information Clearing House.

200 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:20:15pm

Whether or not Roundup is as harmful as suggested Roundup is also used throughout agriculture. So it’s a bit hysterical to suggest that Roundup is only used on GMO products. It’s used on a lot of things. They only add the GMO connection for click-bait.

201 Jack Burton  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:20:30pm

re: #179 Gus

And Fukushima. Someone Tweeted some Youtube rant from one of their “experts.” Some Paulian, end times, prepper nut. They also had some other videos about Obama being the antichrist or something.

I’m really starting to get sick of the ZOMG FUKASHEEEMA WEESA GONNA DIE! TEH PACIFIC OCEAN IS DEAD!!11! crap on Facebook every… damn… day… several times a day.

202 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:20:58pm

re: #172 Kragar

“… Corsi claims to have found evidence that Hitler escaped to Argentina “with the help of U.S. intelligence agents that had been secretly working with the Nazis since 1943,” because that is pretty much exactly what the U.S. Government would have every logical reason to do.”

lolwut?!

203 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:21:15pm

re: #199 Charles Johnson

Don’t forget Information Clearing House.

1. Rense
2. Hal Turner’s old website now called Turner Broadcasting
3. Natural News which is a crackpot site.
4. Unknown End-Times loons and Preppers
5. Dr. Mercola who is another crackpot.
6. Russia Today
7. Above Top Secret/Before It’s News
8. Global Research
9. What Really Happened
10. Zerohedge
11. Prison Planet
12. Infowars
13. Godlike Productions
14. PressTV
15. Pravda
16. Information Clearing House

204 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:22:03pm

NaturalNews

NaturalNews.com (formerly Newstarget) is an anti-science conspiracy website founded by Mike “the Health Ranger” Adams. The site promotes almost every sort of medical woo known to human history, though it specializes in vaccine denialism,[1] AIDS/HIV denial,[2] quack cancer medicine[3] and conspiracy theories about modern medicine.[4] Even other quacks think it’s a quack site.[5] The site has recently broadened to include extreme environmentalism and conspiracy theorizing about Obama and gun control.

205 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:22:47pm

re: #201 Jack Burton

I’m really starting to get sick of the ZOMG FUKASHEEEMA WEESA GONNA DIE! TEH PACIFIC OCEAN IS DEAD!!11! crap on Facebook every… damn… day… several times a day.

I get that on Twitter from time to time. It’s annoying. I wind up subtweeting about the garbage I run across.

206 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:23:12pm

The Obama Conspiracy-o-Rama

Image: mojo-obama-conspiracy.png

207 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:24:09pm
208 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:25:51pm
209 jvic  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:26:20pm

There are two schools of thought among “conservatives” as to why they lose elections:

1. They don’t lose, actually. They would win every single one if not for Democrat cheating. The evil Democrats nefariously rig the polls, the vote count, and the exit polls to be consistent.

2. Republicans lose because They Aren’t Conservative Enough. There are landslides of True Conservatives out there who are too disgusted to vote. If Republicans double down on their idiotic messaging become Truly Conservative, an avalanche of True Conservative voters will head to the polls and all will be well.

Robert Knight has chosen Door #2.

210 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:26:27pm
Bombshell: Syria’s “chemical weapons” turn out to be fluoride

by TheHealthRanger
4 months ago
149,132 views

Bombshell: Syria’s “chemical weapons” turn out to be sodium fluoride, the same chemical dumped into municipal water supplies across the USA under “water fluoridation” schemes….

211 Snarknado!  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:27:20pm

re: #206 Justanotherhuman

The Obama Conspiracy-o-Rama

Image: mojo-obama-conspiracy.png

Well, I think we can verify that he’s not a lizard (although I’m sure he’d be welcome!). None of the others, though.

212 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:28:25pm
213 Joanne  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:30:48pm

re: #191 Decatur Deb

I haven’t watched SNL for probably decades but I did watch the one with Justin Timberlake and Jimmy Fallon and it was hysterical. I mean laugh out loud, hold my stomach hysterical. Only one skit sucked and another was just…weird. But other than that, it was way funny.

214 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:32:07pm

The GOP missed its chance to distance itself from the dimwits spewing conspiracy and sundry nonsense. In doing so, they initiated a race to the bottom among people spouting the most outrageous nonsense to gain attention.

215 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:32:21pm

re: #197 Gus

Bogus paper on Roundup saturates the Internet

Roundup is not something you want to use on a regular basis.

I knew about Roundup 30 years ago and always preferred weeding to using herbicides and pesticides and using plants that encouraged the birds and bees and good insects. One reason I wasn’t keen on lawns but naturalized instead.

It’s not something that I’d trust Monsanto to actually tell the truth about.

216 Kid A  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:33:53pm

re: #175 Gus

Good one!

217 GeneJockey  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:34:38pm

re: #189 Egregious Philbin

If you are a creationist, have the guts to forgoe any of that modern sciencey type of medicine when you get sick.

And if you are going to teach the particular retarded christian creation story in public school, then the state must send evolutionary scientists to speak and teach in churches (tax free churches…)

They get around the whole ‘antibiotic resistance’ thing by accepting that ‘Microevolution’ occurs, but ‘Macroevolution’ does not. I once tried to lead an otherwise smart, but dogmatic Creationist friend to see why that position made no sense. I posited a population of deer, which becomes physically separated into two populations. Then the environments they each live in change, and different traits are selected for or against.

He could accept that they might change, so that they’d look distinctly different, and thus be distinct genetically.

Then I pointed out that over time, these genetic differences might become so great that they were no longer able to interbreed.

He grasped that, but was clearly getting uncomfortable.

Then I pointed out that once they could no longer interbreed, they were different species, and were free to evolve along radically different paths.

Then the Dogma Shield slammed into place, and he said they could only evolve within ‘Kinds’.

218 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:35:38pm

So, I just watched “Elysium”. Not bad as dystopian films go.

219 dog philosopher  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:36:30pm

re: #203 Gus

1. Rense
2. Hal Turner’s old website now called Turner Broadcasting
3. Natural News which is a crackpot site.
4. Unknown End-Times loons and Preppers
5. Dr. Mercola who is another crackpot.
6. Russia Today
7. Above Top Secret/Before It’s News
8. Global Research
9. What Really Happened
10. Zerohedge
11. Prison Planet
12. Infowars
13. Godlike Productions
14. PressTV
15. Pravda
16. Information Clearing House

there ought to be a metric for tons of horseshit per cubic centimeter

thpcc

220 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:37:31pm

re: #215 Justanotherhuman

Roundup is not something you want to use on a regular basis.

I knew about Roundup 30 years ago and always preferred weeding to using herbicides and pesticides and using plants the encouraged the birds and bees and good insects. One reason I wasn’t keen on lawns but naturalized instead.

It’s not something that I’d trust Monsanto to actually tell the truth about.

AKA Glyphosate

Risks - Human

Human acute toxicity is dose related. Acute fatal toxicity has been reported in deliberate overdose.[46][51] Epidemiological studies have not found associations between long term low level exposure to glyphosate and any disease.[52][53][54]

The EPA considers glyphosate to be noncarcinogenic and relatively low in dermal and oral acute toxicity.[19] The EPA considered a “worst case” dietary risk model of an individual eating a lifetime of food derived entirely from glyphosate-sprayed fields with residues at their maximum levels. This model indicated that no adverse health effects would be expected under such conditions.[19]

Glyphosate is present in human urine samples from 18 European countries. Malta showed the highest test results with the chemical showing up in 90% of samples and the average for all countries was 43.9%. Diet was stated as the main source.[55]

The European Commission’s review of the data conducted in 2002 concluded that there was equivocal evidence of a relationship between glyphosate exposure during pregnancy and cardiovascular malformations; however, a review published in 2013 found that the evidence “fails to support a potential risk for increased cardiovascular defects as a result of glyphosate exposure during pregnancy.”[56]

221 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:38:23pm

re: #199 Charles Johnson

Don’t forget Information Clearing House.

Are they ones who give out the giant checks??

/

222 dog philosopher  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:38:30pm

re: #218 Dr Lizardo

So, I just watched “Elysium”. Not bad as dystopian films go.

qualifies as real science fiction since the space-opera quotient is fairly low

movies like this and hunger games I and II are corrupting our youth with sympathy for the non-wealthy

223 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:39:44pm

re: #222 dog philosopher

What’s wrong with sympathy for the non wealthy?

Or is my sarcasm detector malfunctioning again?

224 GeneJockey  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:40:33pm

re: #222 dog philosopher

qualifies as real science fiction since the space-opera quotient is fairly low

movies like this and hunger games I and II are corrupting our youth with sympathy for the non-wealthy

You think that’s bad, try watching the movies of the 1930s-1970s, with their depictions of evil money-grubbing businessmen and the idle rich!

225 dog philosopher  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:42:07pm

re: #223 Eclectic Cyborg

What’s wrong with sympathy for the non wealthy?

Or is my sarcasm detector malfunctioning again?

here are some of my unused sarc tags:


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226 GeneJockey  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:42:49pm

re: #225 dog philosopher

here are some of my unused sarc tags:

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Jesus, it’s like a Slasher movie in there!

227 Kragar  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:42:52pm

The upside of staying home while feeling like crap is 1) I’m getting to watch the new Inspector Morse and 2) I’m finishing up up bunch of Veteran Sergeants for my Space Marines.

228 CuriousLurker  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:43:21pm

re: #203 Gus

There’s practically nowhere left online that you can escape the effing bad crazy. It’s no longer just a matter of avoiding social media like FB & Twitter now, it’s everywhere—eBay listings, Amazon reviews, you name it. Hell, even looking for certain recipes on YouTube is likely to lead you to doomsday preppers.

The only place I’ve been lately where I haven’t encountered it is on sites where they sell camera gear, like Adorama or B&H.

I’ve probably jinxed those too now simply by mentioning them. //

I kid you not. A friend sent me a link to this guy’s eBay stuff today. Check out the bugnuts crazy rants that go with his auction items—apprently each species has its own companion rant:

The rapture!

Bible verses! Jesus & heaven is all about the righteous hate!

Remember that Jesus said, regarding the blessed residents of the Kingdom of Heaven, that they sought RIGHTEOUSNESS! Loving your neighbor is certainly a part of Christianity, but you can’t come to Christ to save the world, and then get Him to boot. It doesn’t work that way. If you come to Jesus and hate not mother, father, son, daughter, husband, wife, and even YOURSELF, you cannot enter in!

The Centers for Disease Control and Propaganda (read your Bibles)!

The creepiest part is that this guy creates his art with a chainsaw. Makes me very happy to know he lives in Alabama, far, far away from me.

229 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:44:13pm

re: #218 Dr Lizardo

So, I just watched “Elysium”. Not bad as dystopian films go.

I would have liked to have learned more about life on Elysium and both the political structure of Elysium and the damaged earth. There were only a few developed characters, everyone else was just cannon fodder or background noise.

Some good action scenes though.

230 GeneJockey  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:45:10pm

I just finished up 16 days of staying home while NOT feeling like crap. I can highly recommend it! I now know the answer to what I’d do with my life if I won the lottery - be a fulltime lazy fuckoff, rather than a part timer like I am now.

231 dog philosopher  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:46:28pm

hmmm so the Unfrozen Siberian Girlfriend was using my computer to research toilets for her new place and now lgf pages are FESTOONED with toilets

232 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:46:58pm

re: #222 dog philosopher

qualifies as real science fiction since the space-opera quotient is fairly low

movies like this and hunger games I and II are corrupting our youth with sympathy for the non-wealthy

Heh.

The idea was interesting, to be sure, but that idea - an uber-wealthy class living in luxury and comfort aboard a space station while everyone else lived on an overcrowded Earth in squalid conditions - is something I would’ve liked to have seen explored in greater detail. How did that state of affairs come about? Also, is the Earth governed from Elysium?

It’s pretty obvious to me, at least, that Elysium produced nothing; production was done on Earth. Presumably, Elysium produced food for itself.

233 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:47:26pm

re: #229 Eclectic Cyborg

I would have liked to have learned more about life on Elysium and both the political structure of Elysium and the damaged earth. There were only a few developed characters, everyone else was just cannon fodder or background noise.

Some good action scenes though.

Exactly.

234 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:49:09pm
235 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:49:22pm

re: #220 Gus

AKA Glyphosate

There’s also this:

Heavy use of herbicide Roundup linked to health dangers-U.S. study

reuters.com

“Monsanto is the developer of both Roundup herbicide and a suite of crops that are genetically altered to withstand being sprayed with the Roundup weed killer.

“These biotech crops, including corn, soybeans, canola and sugarbeets, are planted on millions of acres in the United States annually. Farmers like them because they can spray Roundup weed killer directly on the crops to kill weeds in the fields without harming the crops.

“Roundup is also popularly used on lawns, gardens and golf courses.”

I’d rather be cautious and not be around areas that are regularly sprayed with the stuff and also wash vegetables and fruits thoroughly as well.

Until long term studies are done on folks who are exposed to these chemicals on a regular basis, I’m going to maintain a very cautious approach to herbicides like Roundup.

236 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:50:04pm
237 Jack Burton  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:50:33pm

re: #229 Eclectic Cyborg

I would have liked to have learned more about life on Elysium and both the political structure of Elysium and the damaged earth. There were only a few developed characters, everyone else was just cannon fodder or background noise.

Some good action scenes though.

What killed that movie for me, other than the 140+ year old cars still working, was there was no real explanation of the political structure of Earth beyond Elysium and Planet Ghetto. I’m not sure there was meant to be one beyond that which is completely unrealistic and ruins it for me.

No explanation for how these miracle med beds were supposed to function (Nanites? Star Trek Tech? What?) or how they could/couldn’t be able to be used for everyone.

The visuals were beautiful and I enjoyed it, but walked away with almost as many questions as Prometheus. I believe I was just over thinking it though.

238 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:50:40pm

re: #227 Kragar

The upside of staying home while feeling like crap is 1) I’m getting to watch the new Inspector Morse and 2) I’m finishing up up bunch of Veteran Sergeants for my Space Marines.

New Inspector Morse? Is that on Netflix? Please say yes. : )

239 Joanne  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:50:56pm

re: #228 CuriousLurker

There’s practically nowhere left online that you can escape the effing bad crazy. It’s no longer just a matter of avoiding social media like FB & Twitter now, it’s everywhere—eBay listings, Amazon reviews, you name it. Hell, even looking for certain recipes on YouTube is likely to lead you to doomsday preppers.

The only place I’ve been lately where I haven’t encountered it is on sites where they sell camera gear, like Adorama or B&H.

I’ve probably jinxed those too now simply by mentioning them. //

I kid you now. A friend sent me a link to this guy’s eBay stuff today. Check out the bugnuts crazy rants that go with his auction items—apprently each species has its own companion rant:

The rapture!

Bible verses! Jesus & heaven is all about the hate!

The Centers for Disease Control and Propaganda (read your Bibles)!

The creepiest part is that this guy creates his art with a chainsaw. Makes me very happy to know he lives far, far away from me in Alabama.

Did you ask him if we should pack the fish/duck when we get Raptured?

240 Single-handed sailor  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:51:02pm

re: #230 GeneJockey

I just finished up 16 days of staying home while NOT feeling like crap. I can highly recommend it! I now know the answer to what I’d do with my life if I won the lottery - be a fulltime lazy fuckoff, rather than a part timer like I am now.

I do that professionally now. I’m very good at it.

241 thedopefishlives  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:51:46pm

Evening Lizardim. So I escaped the terrible cold of St. Paul and managed to make it back to the fishbowl to refrigerate in comfort with the Mrs. Fish and the fishspawn. Saw several cars pulled off the road that weren’t quite so lucky; I’m glad now that I replaced the old Fishmobile with the current Fishmobile. How go things among the lizardfolk?

242 GeneJockey  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:52:05pm

re: #236 Gus

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Hey, wow! Instant claustrophobia!

Oddly enough it never afflicts me on actual planes.

243 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:52:23pm
244 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:52:32pm

re: #237 Jack Burton

My guess on the beds is that were either extremely costly or extremely complex to produce and/or supply.

245 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:53:02pm

re: #243 Gus

So there IS an Evil Charles Johnson.

246 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:53:21pm

re: #237 Jack Burton

What killed that movie for me, other than the 140+ year old cars still working, was there was no real explanation of the political structure of Earth beyond Elysium and Planet Ghetto. I’m not sure there was meant to be one beyond that which is completely unrealistic and ruins it for me.

No explanation for how these miracle med beds were supposed to function (Nanites? Star Trek Tech? What?) or how they could/couldn’t be able to be used for everyone.

The visuals were beautiful and I enjoyed it, but walked away with almost as many questions as Prometheus. I believe I was just over thinking it though.

Prometheus wasn’t bad. The main question I had was why the Engineers had decided some 2000 years ago to wipe us out? Was mankind one of their little experiments gone wrong? Maybe just for shits and giggles?

I suppose that question would be answered in a sequel, which Prometheus is set up for.

247 thedopefishlives  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:53:23pm

re: #245 Eclectic Cyborg

So there IS an Evil Charles Johnson.

If our Charles meets their Charles, does the universe implode, or do we just get a cheesy Star Trek episode?

248 Just never mind.  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:53:40pm

re: #241 thedopefishlives

The Hoopster is still alive, and didn’t have to burn any furniture, because his power stayed on.
Hoping y’all are warm & well.

249 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:53:46pm
250 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:53:57pm

re: #245 Eclectic Cyborg

So there IS an Evil Charles Johnson.

Exactly. //

251 Jack Burton  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:54:06pm

re: #244 Eclectic Cyborg

My guess on the beds is that were either extremely costly or extremely complex to produce and/or supply.

That would be logical, however the implication in the movie was that the rich people were just self greedy assholes who kept them to themselves, based on what happened at the very end. That POV is rather cartoonishly simple or naive to me.

252 thedopefishlives  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:54:11pm

re: #248 Monarch Butterfly Heading to rest

The Hoopster is still alive, and didn’t have to burn any furniture, because his power stayed on.
Hoping y’all are warm & well.

Oh, good to hear it. :) We are warm and well here atop the hill.

253 Kragar  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:54:22pm

re: #238 Justanotherhuman

New Inspector Morse? Is that on Netflix? Please say yes. : )

Yes, called Endeavour. It covers Morse early years on the police force, set in the mid 60s. One pilot and 4 additonal shows, all on Netflix.

254 Joanne  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:54:23pm

re: #229 Eclectic Cyborg

I would have liked to have learned more about life on Elysium and both the political structure of Elysium and the damaged earth. There were only a few developed characters, everyone else was just cannon fodder or background noise.

Some good action scenes though.

I know. I was wondering how their utopia fared when the original dweller’s kids had kids, etc. Or sports parents wanting their kids to be #1. What did they do with bad kids or jerky parents? Were they expelled back to Earth?

There is no utopia.

255 GeneJockey  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:54:28pm

re: #247 thedopefishlives

If our Charles meets their Charles, does the universe implode, or do we just get a cheesy Star Trek episode?

The evil one wears more eye liner, unless you’re thinking a different episode, then the evil one has a goatee.

256 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:56:22pm

re: #253 Kragar

Yes, called Endeavour. It covers Morse early years on the police force, set in the mid 60s. One pilot and 4 additonal shows, all on Netflix.

Ah, thanks. Will find it tonight. : )

257 Jack Burton  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:57:58pm

re: #246 Dr Lizardo

Prometheus wasn’t bad. The main question I had was why the Engineers had decided some 2000 years ago to wipe us out? Was mankind one of their little experiments gone wrong? Maybe just for shits and giggles?

I suppose that question would be answered in a sequel, which Prometheus is set up for.

It’s never even factually established in the movie that they wanted or intended to “destroy” us. That’s the deduction by the crew, who seemed to not be the sharpest tools in the shed.

If that black-goo was a mutagen they used to tweak evolution of species on various planets, they could have been coming to change us, rather than wipe us out.

That might be too cerebral for Damon “Master of Ruining Sci-Fi” Lindelof though.

258 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:59:15pm

I’m wondering how those folks who got kicked off UI are heating their homes during this weather?

Damn you, Republicans.

259 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 2:59:22pm

re: #247 thedopefishlives

If our Charles meets their Charles, does the universe implode, or do we just get a cheesy Star Trek episode?

Our Charles brutally PWNs the evil Charles, who then retreats in shame and butthurt.

260 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:00:14pm

re: #257 Jack Burton

It’s never even factually established in the movie that they wanted or intended to “destroy” us. That’s the deduction by the crew, who seemed to not be the sharpest tools in the shed.

If that black-goo was a mutagen they used to tweak evolution of species on various planets, they could have been coming to change us, rather than wipe us out.

That might be too cerebral for Damon “Master of Ruining Sci-Fi” Lindelof though.

Fair enough. Certainly, the Engineer toward the end of the film who crunched up the android and killed Weyland had some passive/aggressive issues.

I suppose all will be revealed in the sequel.

261 Jack Burton  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:00:29pm

re: #247 thedopefishlives

If our Charles meets their Charles, does the universe implode, or do we just get a cheesy Star Trek episode?

Does evil Charles Johnson have a goatee or a fu manchu beard?

262 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:01:28pm
263 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:01:50pm

re: #261 Jack Burton

Does evil Charles Johnson have a goatee or a fu manchu beard?

Goatee. And on the Mirror LGF, you’d get sent to the agony booth for not knowing that.

//

264 dog philosopher  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:01:54pm

re: #247 thedopefishlives

If our Charles meets their Charles, does the universe implode, or do we just get a cheesy Star Trek episode?

which one has the goatee?

265 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:02:13pm

Speaking of butthurt.


What’s with the quotation marks and no link?

266 dog philosopher  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:03:08pm

re: #261 Jack Burton

Does evil Charles Johnson have a goatee or a fu manchu beard?

one minute and 25 seconds

darn you to heck

267 Jack Burton  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:03:35pm

re: #260 Dr Lizardo

Fair enough. Certainly, the Engineer toward the end of the film who crunched up the android and killed Weyland had some passive/aggressive issues.

I suppose all will be revealed in the sequel.

Since they refused to subtitle it, and David was speaking a reconstructed language, which we have no idea if it’s remotely correct even for humans in Eurasia 10000 years ago, no less aliens that might have contact with them, it’s possible David could have said something incorrectly that pissed the Engineer off… or something.

268 thedopefishlives  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:03:38pm

re: #259 Dark_Falcon

Our Charles brutally PWNs the evil Charles, who then retreats in shame and butthurt.

Good riddance. I was never a big fan of the goatee to begin with.

269 thedopefishlives  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:04:18pm

re: #265 Justanotherhuman

Speaking of butthurt.

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What’s with the quotation marks and no link?

It’s The Greenwald. Everything he says is fact, and HOW DARE YOU QUESTION IT.

270 GeneJockey  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:05:07pm

re: #260 Dr Lizardo

Fair enough. Certainly, the Engineer toward the end of the film who crunched up the android and killed Weyland had some passive/aggressive issues.

I suppose all will be revealed in the sequel.

Will that one recycle the plot of Alien, as well, right down to the heroine running around in her underwear?

One thing that bothered me about Prometheus which my disbelief, suspended though it had been, could not totally ignore - how did the proto-alien fetus that had been excised from The Girl Without The Dragon Tatoo In This Film grow to the size of an NBA center without anyone to feed off of? IIRC, nobody knew it was there and nobody fed it between the time it was the size of a football and the time it grabs the Engineer.

271 Single-handed sailor  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:05:21pm

re: #265 Justanotherhuman

Speaking of butthurt.

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What’s with the quotation marks and no link?

Fake quote!

272 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:06:18pm
273 GeneJockey  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:06:35pm

re: #266 dog philosopher

one minute and 25 seconds

darn you to heck

I beat BOTH of y’all by a good 5 minutes.

re: #255 GeneJockey

The evil one wears more eye liner, unless you’re thinking a different episode, then the evil one has a goatee.

274 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:06:53pm

re: #227 Kragar

The upside of staying home while feeling like crap is 1) I’m getting to watch the new Inspector Morse and 2) I’m finishing up up bunch of Veteran Sergeants for my Space Marines.

Do you mean a second season of Endeavour?

275 Jack Burton  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:07:19pm

re: #270 GeneJockey

Will that one recycle the plot of Alien, as well, right down to the heroine running around in her underwear?

One thing that bothered me about Prometheus which my disbelief, suspended though it had been, could not totally ignore - how did the proto-alien fetus that had been excised from The Girl Without The Dragon Tatoo In This Film grow to the size of an NBA center without anyone to feed off of? IIRC, nobody knew it was there and nobody fed it between the time it was the size of a football and the time it grabs the Engineer.

F*ckin Science, how does it work.

276 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:08:01pm

re: #267 Jack Burton

Since they refused to subtitle it, and David was speaking a reconstructed language, which we have no idea if it’s remotely correct even for humans in Eurasia 10000 years ago, no less aliens that might have contact with them, it’s possible David could have said something incorrectly that pissed the Engineer off… or something.

That’s true; whatever passed between David and the Engineer the audience was not privy to.

A German friend of mine had an interesting theory - that the Engineer who sacrificed himself at the beginning of the film did so in an ‘unauthorized’ manner, meaning that us humans were essentially a mistake. The other Engineers caught wind of this ‘unauthorized experiment’ and after monitoring it for a few millenia, said, “Well, screw this noise - better safe than sorry. We’ll cook something up and wipe ‘em out.”

277 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:08:36pm

re: #268 thedopefishlives

Good riddance. I was never a big fan of the goatee to begin with.

Any Morlock sidekicks of Evil Charles are another matter: Those big enough grill are killed with trollhammers and are either grilled immediately or are put into cold storage until they are grilled at a later date.

Those Morlocks that are too small to grill suffer an even worse fate: They are thrown alive into a fish tank full of Dopefish.

278 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:08:57pm

re: #270 GeneJockey

Will that one recycle the plot of Alien, as well, right down to the heroine running around in her underwear?

One thing that bothered me about Prometheus which my disbelief, suspended though it had been, could not totally ignore - how did the proto-alien fetus that had been excised from The Girl Without The Dragon Tatoo In This Film grow to the size of an NBA center without anyone to feed off of? IIRC, nobody knew it was there and nobody fed it between the time it was the size of a football and the time it grabs the Engineer.

Yeah that pushed my ‘Willing Suspension of Disbelief’ to the breaking point.

279 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:09:34pm

re: #243 Gus

Glad to see that scumbag is using his middle initial. Hopefully not too many people think it’s me.

280 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:10:17pm

Well, evidently, they phoned it in. Yellen was confirmed.

281 CuriousLurker  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:10:33pm

re: #239 Joanne

Did you ask him if we should pack the fish/duck when we get Raptured?

Nah, I’m pretty sure Muslims aren’t invited. //

282 dog philosopher  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:12:41pm

re: #279 Charles Johnson

Glad to see that scumbag is using his middle initial. Hopefully not too many people think it’s me.

better than the famous person who has the same name as me, who is spending time in the federal pen for a violent attack on a woman

283 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:13:12pm
284 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:14:09pm

re: #279 Charles Johnson

Glad to see that scumbag is using his middle initial. Hopefully not too many people think it’s me.

285 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:15:58pm

re: #257 Jack Burton

It’s never even factually established in the movie that they wanted or intended to “destroy” us. That’s the deduction by the crew, who seemed to not be the sharpest tools in the shed.

If that black-goo was a mutagen they used to tweak evolution of species on various planets, they could have been coming to change us, rather than wipe us out.

That might be too cerebral for Damon “Master of Ruining Sci-Fi” Lindelof though.

There were answers, or at least some answers, in the original script before Lindelof got his hands on it. For one, it was a true Alien prequel, before he stepped in and said “Hey, people don’t want a prequel, let’s rip all those references out,” then went at the script with the writer’s equivalent of a chainsaw.

286 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:18:34pm
287 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:19:06pm
288 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:22:40pm

re: #285 Targetpractice

There were answers, or at least some answers, in the original script before Lindelof got his hands on it. For one, it was a true Alien prequel, before he stepped in and said “Hey, people don’t want a prequel, let’s rip all those references out,” then went at the script with the writer’s equivalent of a chainsaw.

…I came in like a wrecking ball…

289 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:25:29pm

Aha. The Senate is voting on UI at 10 am tomorrow.

290 William Barnett-Lewis  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:25:33pm

School closed again tomorrow in Hayward. Air temp at bus time? -29 with wind chill of about -55. Yeah, probably a good idea.

291 thedopefishlives  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:26:10pm

re: #290 William Barnett-Lewis

School closed again tomorrow in Hayward. Air temp at bus time? -29 with wind chill of about -55. Yeah, probably a good idea.

Schools are closed out here in MN for tomorrow as well. High of -7, low of -20, I’d say I’d agree with that. Too bad I can’t get out of going to work.

292 thedopefishlives  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:27:15pm

re: #284 Gus

You forgot the goatee.

293 RealityBasedSteve  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:28:10pm

re: #261 Jack Burton

Does evil Charles Johnson have a goatee or a fu manchu beard?

I understand that the evil Charles Johnson was a famous accordion player.

RBS

294 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:28:40pm

re: #292 thedopefishlives

You forgot the goatee.

I prefer to imagine evil Charles as having a full beard and an American Flag bandana.

/

295 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:31:04pm

Pastafarian Sworn Into Office

296 darthstar  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:31:10pm
297 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:31:40pm

re: #241 thedopefishlives

Evening Lizardim. So I escaped the terrible cold of St. Paul and managed to make it back to the fishbowl to refrigerate in comfort with the Mrs. Fish and the fishspawn. Saw several cars pulled off the road that weren’t quite so lucky; I’m glad now that I replaced the old Fishmobile with the current Fishmobile. How go things among the lizardfolk?

Home with food in my belly listening to Talking Heads and the wind blowing outside. Temp is 34F and expected to start dropping rapidly soon.

298 darthstar  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:31:54pm

Really, Gus…six fucking seconds? You beat me by six fucking seconds? I hate posting from work sometimes…it’s just a distraction from the internet.

299 thedopefishlives  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:32:29pm

re: #297 Feline Fearless Leader

Home with food in my belly listening to Talking Heads and the wind blowing outside. Temp is 34F and expected to start dropping rapidly soon.

It was -11 when I left St. Paul. By the time I arrived home, it had dropped to -16. I’m not sure if that was due to time-of-day temperature dropping or if the western suburbs are naturally colder than the downtown area, or both.

300 thedopefishlives  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:32:45pm

re: #298 darthstar

Really, Gus…six fucking seconds? You beat me by six fucking seconds? I hate posting from work sometimes…it’s just a distraction from the internet.

I updinged you both because it was so close.

301 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:32:49pm

I’m thinking the intense cold tonight could put a lot of strain on some power grids. Hopefully the systems are up to the test.

302 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:33:30pm

re: #300 thedopefishlives

I updinged you both because it was so close.

That’s just bullshit! I was first! //

303 dog philosopher  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:35:42pm

re: #295 Gus

Pastafarian Sworn Into Office

colandrian heretic splitters!!!

304 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:36:48pm

This should make you feel better. And hopeful that others will be found, too. The photographer sounds like a really good person.

Man reunited with family after AP photo published

commercialappeal.com

“Martin, the AP photographer, said the episode serves as a reminder to journalists that every person they encounter has a story to tell.

“It’s really gratifying to see that a photograph can make a tangible difference in someone’s life. That’s a really amazing thing to have happened,” she said. “I’m happy and touched that the photograph could help reunite this family.”

305 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:39:41pm


Derp.

306 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:41:46pm

re: #305 Gus

[Embedded content]


Derp.

Haha, 11 Republicans voted with 45 Dems to approve Yellen.

Like I said earlier, Rand Paul really is the simpleton I always thought he is.

307 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:42:09pm

Funny.

308 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:42:58pm

re: #305 Gus

[Embedded content]


Derp.

“Damnit, I’m late for my moment of grandstanding!!!”

309 darthstar  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:43:43pm
310 dog philosopher  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:46:38pm

no comment

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: So, ladies and gentlemen, we are having a record-breaking cold snap in many parts of the country. And right on schedule the media have to come up with a way to make it sound like it’s completely unprecedented. Because they’ve got to find a way to attach this to the global warming agenda, and they have. It’s called the “polar vortex.” The dreaded polar vortex.

Do you know what the polar vortex is? Have you ever heard of it? Well, they just created it for this week. Actually, there is a piece. I’ve got a piece in the Stack that actually makes the case that all of this frigid, chilling cold is due to global warming, strange as it may sound, it says. Other wackos are saying it’s a great example of climate change, but regardless, the agenda is that we’re responsible, we’re causing it, we have to pay the price. And so any weather extreme now is said to be man-made, and therefore it fulfills the leftist agenda on this.

Now, in their attempt, the left, the media, everybody, to come up with a way to make this sound like it’s something new and completely unprecedented, they’ve come up with this phrase called the “polar vortex.” If you’ve been watching television, they’ve created a graphic, all the networks have, and it basically consists of a view of the planet if you are right above the North Pole. They put this big purple blob, or blue blob, or red blob, depending on the network you’re looking at, over the entire North Pole, and they call that the polar vortex. It actually sounds like a crappy science fiction movie to me, but anyway, that’s what they’re calling it. It makes it sound like the jet stream is being forced lower across the United States.

See, normally the polar vortex stays up there in the polar region, but something is causing it to dip down like it’s never happened before. We’ve never had arctic air blasts before. And remember, now, the key to all this is you have to understand one of the fundamental concepts of man-made global warming is ice melting at the poles. One of the ways they have always sought to convince you that the world is warming is not the climate where you live, but rather where you aren’t, where you can’t see what is really happening. So they tell you the ice is melting at the North Pole and the South Pole. And then they publish pictures, which are fraudulent pictures of poor little polar bears stranded on three square feet of ice that you are told used to be the North Pole.

That’s how fast it’s melting. The polar bears are in deep trouble. Algore participated in it. It’s an abject, total fraud. Well, obviously there is no melting of ice going on at the North Pole. If they’re gonna tell us the polar vortex is responsible for this cold, that means record cold is also happening in the North Pole, which means there isn’t any ice melting, and we know about the global warming expedition that went down to the South Pole, Antarctica, to prove that the ice is melting, and they got stuck, and then the rescuers got stuck, and then the people rescuing the rescuers got stuck, but never mind that. In none of the stories about the global warming expedition going to the South Pole needing to be rescued, not once did you see any reference to their mission.

311 Dave In Austin  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:47:15pm

re: #309 darthstar

I’m halfway thinking that there will be a longwinded Randian Derp when its his turn at the podium…..

312 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:48:47pm

re: #310 dog philosopher

Weapons-grade level derp there.

313 Mattand  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:49:13pm

re: #310 dog philosopher

Once I saw the word “Rush” had nothing to do with the Canadian rock band, I stopped reading. Hope you don’t mind. :)

314 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:49:19pm

re: #310 dog philosopher

no comment

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: So, ladies and gentlemen, we are having a record-breaking cold snap in many parts of the country. And right on schedule the media have to come up with a way to make it sound like it’s completely unprecedented. Because they’ve got to find a way to attach this to the global warming agenda, and they have. It’s called the “polar vortex.” The dreaded polar vortex.

Do you know what the polar vortex is? Have you ever heard of it? Well, they just created it for this week. Actually, there is a piece. I’ve got a piece in the Stack that actually makes the case that all of this frigid, chilling cold is due to global warming, strange as it may sound, it says. Other wackos are saying it’s a great example of climate change, but regardless, the agenda is that we’re responsible, we’re causing it, we have to pay the price. And so any weather extreme now is said to be man-made, and therefore it fulfills the leftist agenda on this.

Now, in their attempt, the left, the media, everybody, to come up with a way to make this sound like it’s something new and completely unprecedented, they’ve come up with this phrase called the “polar vortex.” If you’ve been watching television, they’ve created a graphic, all the networks have, and it basically consists of a view of the planet if you are right above the North Pole. They put this big purple blob, or blue blob, or red blob, depending on the network you’re looking at, over the entire North Pole, and they call that the polar vortex. It actually sounds like a crappy science fiction movie to me, but anyway, that’s what they’re calling it. It makes it sound like the jet stream is being forced lower across the United States.

See, normally the polar vortex stays up there in the polar region, but something is causing it to dip down like it’s never happened before. We’ve never had arctic air blasts before. And remember, now, the key to all this is you have to understand one of the fundamental concepts of man-made global warming is ice melting at the poles. One of the ways they have always sought to convince you that the world is warming is not the climate where you live, but rather where you aren’t, where you can’t see what is really happening. So they tell you the ice is melting at the North Pole and the South Pole. And then they publish pictures, which are fraudulent pictures of poor little polar bears stranded on three square feet of ice that you are told used to be the North Pole.

That’s how fast it’s melting. The polar bears are in deep trouble. Algore participated in it. It’s an abject, total fraud. Well, obviously there is no melting of ice going on at the North Pole. If they’re gonna tell us the polar vortex is responsible for this cold, that means record cold is also happening in the North Pole, which means there isn’t any ice melting, and we know about the global warming expedition that went down to the South Pole, Antarctica, to prove that the ice is melting, and they got stuck, and then the rescuers got stuck, and then the people rescuing the rescuers got stuck, but never mind that. In none of the stories about the global warming expedition going to the South Pole needing to be rescued, not once did you see any reference to their mission.

Nope.

315 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:50:49pm

re: #310 dog philosopher

no comment

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT

RUSH: So, ladies and gentlemen, we are having a record-breaking cold snap in many parts of the country. And right on schedule the media have to come up with a way to make it sound like it’s completely unprecedented. Because they’ve got to find a way to attach this to the global warming agenda, and they have. It’s called the “polar vortex.” The dreaded polar vortex.

Do you know what the polar vortex is? Have you ever heard of it? Well, they just created it for this week. Actually, there is a piece. I’ve got a piece in the Stack that actually makes the case that all of this frigid, chilling cold is due to global warming, strange as it may sound, it says. Other wackos are saying it’s a great example of climate change, but regardless, the agenda is that we’re responsible, we’re causing it, we have to pay the price. And so any weather extreme now is said to be man-made, and therefore it fulfills the leftist agenda on this.

Now, in their attempt, the left, the media, everybody, to come up with a way to make this sound like it’s something new and completely unprecedented, they’ve come up with this phrase called the “polar vortex.” If you’ve been watching television, they’ve created a graphic, all the networks have, and it basically consists of a view of the planet if you are right above the North Pole. They put this big purple blob, or blue blob, or red blob, depending on the network you’re looking at, over the entire North Pole, and they call that the polar vortex. It actually sounds like a crappy science fiction movie to me, but anyway, that’s what they’re calling it. It makes it sound like the jet stream is being forced lower across the United States.

See, normally the polar vortex stays up there in the polar region, but something is causing it to dip down like it’s never happened before. We’ve never had arctic air blasts before. And remember, now, the key to all this is you have to understand one of the fundamental concepts of man-made global warming is ice melting at the poles. One of the ways they have always sought to convince you that the world is warming is not the climate where you live, but rather where you aren’t, where you can’t see what is really happening. So they tell you the ice is melting at the North Pole and the South Pole. And then they publish pictures, which are fraudulent pictures of poor little polar bears stranded on three square feet of ice that you are told used to be the North Pole.

That’s how fast it’s melting. The polar bears are in deep trouble. Algore participated in it. It’s an abject, total fraud. Well, obviously there is no melting of ice going on at the North Pole. If they’re gonna tell us the polar vortex is responsible for this cold, that means record cold is also happening in the North Pole, which means there isn’t any ice melting, and we know about the global warming expedition that went down to the South Pole, Antarctica, to prove that the ice is melting, and they got stuck, and then the rescuers got stuck, and then the people rescuing the rescuers got stuck, but never mind that. In none of the stories about the global warming expedition going to the South Pole needing to be rescued, not once did you see any reference to their mission.

Gawd. You just harshed my mellow.

316 darthstar  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:50:55pm
317 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:51:19pm

I wonder how many nutcases we’ll see claiming the Polar Vortex is the result of HAARP or some other “government conspiracy”.

318 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:51:57pm

re: #317 Dark_Falcon

I wonder how many nutcases we’ll see claiming the Polar Vortex is the result of HAARP or some other “government conspiracy”.

FUKUSHIMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

319 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:52:28pm

re: #318 Gus

FUKUSHIMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

HAARPUSHIMA!!

320 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:52:46pm

re: #318 Gus

FUKUSHIMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That’s it, some crazy radiation from Fukushima caused the Vortex!

321 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:52:52pm
322 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:53:01pm

re: #319 Dr Lizardo

HAARPUSHIMA!!

BENGHAZISHIMA!

323 Romantic Heretic  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:53:15pm

re: #258 Justanotherhuman

I’m wondering how those folks who got kicked off UI are heating their homes during this weather?

Damn you, Republicans.

They’re supposed have jobs by now, or dead. Either works for us.

324 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:54:01pm

re: #320 Eclectic Cyborg

That’s it, some crazy radiation from Fukushima caused the Vortex!

Been thinking about making a joke about that on Twitter but I didn’t want to give them any ideas…

FUKUSHIMA RADIATION CAUSES PACIFIC WARMING LEADING TO A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER TEH PACIFIC DRAWING IN COLD AIR FROM THE ARCTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

325 GeneJockey  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:54:13pm

re: #312 Targetpractice

Weapons-grade level derp there.

The key is not whether it’s true, or makes sense. The key is that it resonates with people dumb enough to 1) believe hundreds of Scientists are all faking their date to destroy Capitalism, and 2) listen to Rush Limbaugh in the first place. All it has to do is clear the extremely low hurdle of confirmation bias among an extremely nonskeptical and utterly un-self aware population.

326 GeneJockey  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:54:48pm

re: #321 Gus

[Embedded content]

Der Fliegende Collander.

327 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:55:48pm

re: #322 Eclectic Cyborg

BENGHAZISHIMA!

HAARPUBENGHAZIISLAMOSHIMA!!!!!

328 GeneJockey  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:55:55pm

re: #324 Gus

Been thinking about making a joke about that on Twitter but I didn’t want to give them any ideas…

FUKUSHIMA RADIATION CAUSES PACIFIC WARMING LEADING TO A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER TEH PACIFIC DRAWING IN COLD AIR FROM THE ARCTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

You realize that now anyone who searches just right will be able to find this and claim it’s real.

329 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:56:50pm

re: #328 GeneJockey

You realize that now anyone who searches just right will be able to find this and claim it’s real.

What have we done???

330 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:57:22pm

Oh jeez. More BULLSHIT.

See if you can notice what I noticed in like 30 seconds.

331 darthstar  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:57:48pm
332 JustMark  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:59:22pm

re: #315 Justanotherhuman

Gawd. You just harshed my mellow.

I read that as “marshed” my mellow… need another beer, obviously!

333 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 3:59:45pm

It’s pretty obvious.

334 thedopefishlives  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 4:01:17pm

re: #331 darthstar

I have a horse on my couch. Your argument is invalid.

335 GeneJockey  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 4:02:15pm

re: #330 Gus

Oh jeez. More BULLSHIT.

See if you can notice what I noticed in like 30 seconds.

You mean that the dire nature of the headline is nowhere reflected in the text of the article, which in fact specifically refutes the idea of a debris-island the size of Texas? Or the part where it says the radiation will all have decayed before it gets here?

336 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 4:03:27pm

re: #335 GeneJockey

You mean that the dire nature of the headline is nowhere reflected in the text of the article, which in fact specifically refutes the idea of a debris-island the size of Texas? Or the part where it says the radiation will all have decayed before it gets here?

Well, that and they’re showing and mapping tsunami debris and calling it Fukushima debris.

337 Gus  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 4:04:12pm

ALL OF THE TSUNAMI DEBRIS IS RADIOACTIVE AND IT WILL IT TEH WEST COAST IN DAYS CONTAMINATING AND POISONING EVERYONE THAT COMES IN CONTACT WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

338 GeneJockey  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 4:05:23pm

re: #336 Gus

Well, that and they’re showing and mapping tsunami debris and calling it Fukushima debris.

Oh yeah. I didn’t even notice that. I guess ‘Fukushima’ is just more eyecatching than ‘Tsunami’ these days.

339 GeneJockey  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 4:07:45pm

re: #337 Gus

ALL OF THE TSUNAMI DEBRIS IS RADIOACTIVE AND IT WILL IT TEH WEST COAST IN DAYS CONTAMINATING AND POISONING EVERYONE THAT COMES IN CONTACT WITH IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Soon, someone will find a derelict freighter, apparently with nobody on board, but with piles of clothes curiously arranged…..

340 GeneJockey  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 4:10:15pm

re: #339 GeneJockey

Soon, someone will find a derelict freighter, apparently with nobody on board, but with piles of clothes curiously arranged…..

This movie, BTW, was responsible for me being unable to take the garbage out after dark for at least 4 years, back when I was a wee lad.

341 RealityBasedSteve  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 4:11:38pm

Well I just mixed up a batch of my dad’s spice rub and have a nice little sirloin tip all prepped and dry marinating. It’s going into the oven tomorrow night at 200* and an hour a pound. It rocks.

RBS

342 Shiplord Kirel  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 4:15:53pm

I rather like this suggestion and urge the Republican leadership, such as it is, to give it serious consideration. While they are at it, they should consider a name change to finally shed the legacy of the evil usurper Lincoln and the bellicose, pro-science Teddy Roosevelt. Superstition Party? Luddite Party?

343 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 4:23:55pm

re: #317 Dark_Falcon

I wonder how many nutcases we’ll see claiming the Polar Vortex is the result of HAARP or some other “government conspiracy”.

The contrails really stood out in our cold, dry sky today.

344 thedopefishlives  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 4:28:20pm

re: #343 Decatur Deb

The contrails really stood out in our cold, dry sky today.

Fire up the engines, boys. We got a meetin’ with destiny!

345 conservative_ no_ more  Mon, Jan 6, 2014 7:41:49pm

I guess the GOP leadership have just always been liars and I didn’t realize it. I promised myself today that I would only go on facebook to wish some people happy birthday, interact with a few of my real friends, then log off and avoid all the dumb posts. Vast majority of my FB is conservative because since I left Calif as a kid, every state I’ve lived in has been red. I guess that’s also why I’ve come to hate facebook and have lost so many friends. Anyway, First I could not restrain myself from leaving a comment one of the guys posts about Pres. Obama having a fake birth certificate. I asked him why would his parents leave Hawaii to travel to a foreign country just to have to fake his birth in Hawaii. Of course he never answered but instead tried to pull me into back and forth insults which I refused to let him do. He got so mad that I kept asking him to answer the question that he deleted his thread, then deleted me, then wrote a status update about me so his fellow idiots could all join in and encourage each other. He’s a baptist preacher in another country who only wants an audience of sheep and he constantly spews hatred towards gay people and posts videos of abortion on his FB. I’ve only kept him on there to comment on his posts to piss him off. Then I went back on there to see another one of my friends post an article about a pot shop in Colorado accepting EBT cards. It literally took me about 1 minute to look it up and see it was a satire piece so I posted that on her FB. These friends of mine (mostly ex-friends now) make pinocchio look like a paragon of virtue.

346 kerFuFFler  Tue, Jan 7, 2014 9:49:38am

It’s curious that these hateful jerks who deny evolution turn around and post repulsive caricatures that suggest that African-Americans closely resemble apes because of their their African origins. Disgusting and soooooo stupid! Can’t they recognize the inconsistency?


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