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1 Charles Johnson  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 8:14:51pm

Wow
Such tone
Many notes
Very articulation

2 Usually refered to as anyways  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 8:17:19pm

He’s a pleasant plucker.

3 Kragar  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 8:27:22pm

re: #2 Usually refered to as anyways

He’s a pleasant plucker.

And not the pleasant plucker’s son

4 Gus  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 8:27:32pm
5 jaunte  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 8:43:15pm

In a weekend statement, China’s Commerce Ministry said the move “went against the principles of fair trade” as it sought to curb purchases of Chinese technology and export of satellites and parts to China.

Reports find China still largest source of hacking and cyber attacks

Akamai’s State of the Internet report, which comes out every quarter, states that China is the source of 41 percent of all of the cyber attacks in the world in the fourth quarter of 2012 — that’s more than the rest of the top ten combined. Verizon’s 2013 Data Breach Investigations Report report is also out, which found that 30 percent of the confirmed hacking attempts it tracked originated in China.

6 darthstar  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 8:43:31pm

If you want to knowo what traffic looks like during a big 49er game in Northern California, looky here. From Alpine Meadows to Half Moon Bay.

7 William Barnett-Lewis  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 8:49:11pm

re: #6 darthstar

If you want to knowo what traffic looks like during a big 49er game in Northern California, looky here. From Alpine Meadows to Half Moon Bay.

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An average of just better than 60 mph? I’m guessing this is not an interstate or the like where that’s normal?

8 Amory Blaine  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 8:50:21pm

I love Andy McKee. The first time I saw his Drifting video my jaw must have hit the floor.

9 Lidane  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 8:53:37pm

re: #4 Gus

10 Gus  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 9:38:12pm
11 Gus  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 9:51:02pm
12 wheat-dogghazi  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 10:00:02pm

re: #11 Gus

This does not surprise me.

13 sagehen  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 10:01:42pm

NOT A SPOILER, but…

Tonight’s “Sherlock” — TV guide and the PBS site both list it as 2 hours; it’s not. It’s just under 90 minutes, and then a “making of” featurette with producers and cast.

14 Lancelot Link  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 10:06:41pm

re: #11 Gus

Does that mean he’s trading in his Trans Am?

15 Gus  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 10:10:13pm
16 Gus  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 10:14:30pm

re: #14 Lancelot Link

Does that mean he’s trading in his Trans Am?

That’s the rumor! //

17 Gus  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 10:32:03pm
18 Lidane  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 10:34:03pm

re: #13 sagehen

NOT A SPOILER, but…

Tonight’s “Sherlock” — TV guide and the PBS site both list it as 2 hours; it’s not. It’s just under 90 minutes, and then a “making of” featurette with producers and cast.

So it’s twice as awesome then? Score! :D

I’m going to watch it tomorrow. I’ve got it taped, but after two football games and watching the third episode of Series 2 for Sherlock, I’m done with TV for the day.

19 Gus  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 10:36:59pm

brazil 2012: sunbathing on radioactive beaches

Youtube Video

20 Gus  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 10:58:39pm
21 Gus  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 11:10:04pm
22 Gus  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 11:22:36pm

Good night.

23 Kragar  Sun, Jan 19, 2014 11:47:26pm
24 freetoken  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 12:19:44am

MP3 Audio

25 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 12:47:43am

re: #23 Kragar

I saw the Chris Christie bridge scandal at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park years ago before anyone had ever heard of it.

Anyone with an objective eye for politics saw a scandal like this coming ages ago: Christie as Poster Child for the GOP establishment vs a passel of Tea Party presidential candidates…pretty clear who is going to gain the ascendancy given the dynamics of of the modern Republican Party.

This is the MBF’s Evil Twin at work here: there are people both right and left doing what they can to take CC out of the running for 2016

26 Kragar  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 2:00:45am
27 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 2:45:51am

re: #26 Kragar

Bryan Fischer :
Firing squad is the most humane form of execution. The criminal is dead before his nervous system can register pain.

Bryan, the Bible makes it clear that stoning is the preferred approach, and as you and your followers are without sin, you get to cast the first one.

28 wheat-dogghazi  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 2:51:27am

re: #27 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

How does he know the body doesn’t experience pain before death? Wouldn’t it depend on how good marksmen the executioner(s) were? Or he suggesting they just aim for the head?

Fischer is a sadist, I swear. The way his mind works …

29 Teukka  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 3:30:12am

re: #28 wheat-dogghazi

How does he know the body doesn’t experience pain before death? Wouldn’t it depend on how good marksmen the executioner(s) were? Or he suggesting they just aim for the head?

Fischer is a sadist, I swear. The way his mind works …

Well, there is this BBC documentary named “How to kill a human being”:

Youtube Video

The most humane method is not firing squad, but something entirely different. And for further enlightenment, look at some death penalty proponents reaction to the most humane method of execution. Very enlightening indeed.

30 Kragar  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 3:48:28am

Beware the Necron. Flaky, delicious Necron.

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31 Kragar  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 3:50:17am
32 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 3:54:22am

re: #31 Kragar

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Yes, making Putin a bare-chested gay icon is the jost just deserts that guy could get out of this deal.

I gave up any interest in Olympics after the political debacles of 1980 and 1984, as well as the political spectacle of 2008 Beijing.

I wish the athletes all the best, but I hope that the organizers of Sochi really get a bloody nose out of this.

33 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 4:03:17am

Totally agree w/what the Prez said on the previous thread.

Meanwhile, protests continue in Kiev, with a reported 100 hospitalized, both police and demonstrators. Of course, it’s in Ukrainian and Russian. I have to keep translating tweets to figure out exactly what’s being said. Foreign leaders are putting pressure on the Ukrainian govt to loosen up their draconian laws and measures against free speech.

Things seem to have calmed down; speeches going on, and it’s almost 2 pm in Kiev, with smoke wafting in the background.

Youtube Video

A graphic of what the new laws restricting protests have as punishments:

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34 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 4:05:30am

Point is, the President did not come out and say that DRUGS IS EEVIL AND MUST BE ERADICATED AT ALL COSTS, which, to some, is the same as advocating their use.

35 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 4:20:55am

re: #34 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

Point is, the President did not come out and say that DRUGS IS EEVIL AND MUST BE ERADICATED AT ALL COSTS, which, to some, is the same as advocating their use.

He said pot smoking was a “bad habit” and it really can be, just like cigs or alcohol. But it’s a “live and learn” world, and some never learn. I really don’t think we know the long term effects of pot on the body and brain, but I expect we will find out, just as we have other substances. I can tell you, though, that I know people who smoke pot every day who you’d think were my age but are actually 20 yrs younger.

36 sattv4u2  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 4:29:27am

re: #35 Justanotherhuman

that I know people who smoke pot every day who you’d think were my age but are actually 20 yrs younger.

Smokers (cigs) and drinkers also

(although, in all three cases a lot of it is genetic and has nothing to do with the “habit” du jour)

37 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 4:53:23am

re: #36 sattv4u2

that I know people who smoke pot every day who you’d think were my age but are actually 20 yrs younger.

Smokers (cigs) and drinkers also

(although, in all three cases a lot of it is genetic and has nothing to do with the “habit” du jour)

A lot of it also has to do with changes in hormone production and poor diet as well, from what I’ve read. We don’t know the extent of it on the reproductive system, for instance, and how it might affect offspring in people who may have suffered chromosome damage because not enough study has been done. Just as we can detect gross deformities in fetuses now, we will be able to blueprint people’s genes totally in the future. I refuse to think pot is totally harmless; people don’t think food is harmless, either, and look at our obesity rate.

Weed may be “natural” but so are a lot of plant-based toxic substances. You wouldn’t want to smoke foxglove, for instance.

38 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 4:54:40am
39 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 4:55:00am
40 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 4:55:41am

Wingnuts are Derping that MLK owned a bunch of guns, which totally would have saved him from a hidden sniper.//

41 sattv4u2  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 5:02:42am

re: #37 Justanotherhuman

I’m pretty ambivalent about it (pot)

I tried it when I was young ,,,,,, feh!!
However, I’ve always stated that it should be treated the EXACT way alcohol is
No selling to minors
No lit joints/ pipes while driving (similar to the open container laws)
No smoking in public (again, similar to the open container laws)

I don’t however, know how LE would determine if someone was over the “legal” limit wrt driving (as in the breathalyzer measurement coupled with the field sobriety test)

42 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 5:14:26am

RWNJ rantings are just fucking tiresome. Who thinks that shit is correct except for the true believers?

43 darthstar  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 5:17:42am

re: #7 William Barnett-Lewis

An average of just better than 60 mph? I’m guessing this is not an interstate or the like where that’s normal?

Had cruise control at 74 most of the way. Usually have about 45-60 minutes more on a good day. Four major bottlenecks on the route were all clear.

44 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 5:19:25am
45 sattv4u2  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 5:20:23am

re: #43 darthstar

Had cruise control at 74 most of the way

Scofflaw!!!

/

46 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 5:21:24am

re: #41 sattv4u2

I’m pretty ambivalent about it (pot)

I tried it when I was young ,,,,,, feh!!
However, I’ve always stated that it should be treated the EXACT way alcohol is
No selling to minors
No lit joints/ pipes while driving (similar to the open container laws)
No smoking in public (again, similar to the open container laws)

I don’t however, know how LE would determine if someone was over the “legal” limit wrt driving (as in the breathalyzer measurement coupled with the field sobriety test)

Well, people do develop some sense over time and if you pay attention to what your body tells you, you’re better off. Like carrying around a 40 lb gut can give you back trouble and wreck your vertebra, among other ailments.

47 darthstar  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 5:25:29am

re: #45 sattv4u2

Had cruise control at 74 most of the way

Scofflaw!!!

/

They don’t pull you over unless you’re going over 80 usually. 74 keeps me inconspicuous. Obviously, coming down the mountain was slower and the coastal leg was too, but averaging 60 is always my goal on any trip. A mile a minute, that’s all I ask.

48 sattv4u2  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 5:33:34am

re: #47 darthstar

They don’t pull you over unless you’re going over 80 usually. 74 keeps me inconspicuous. Obviously, coming down the mountain was slower and the coastal leg was too, but averaging 60 is always my goal on any trip. A mile a minute, that’s all I ask.

Yeah. My basic rule on long(er) trips,,,,,,, no more than 6-8 MPH over the limit and NEVER be the fastest vehicle around (will go as fast as the rest ,,, but never the lead dog)

I love the stretch on Route 85 through NC with the posted speed of 70 mph!!

49 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 5:33:42am

World’s 85 richest have same wealth as 3.5 billion poorest

nbcnews.com

Below that story is this one, truly a first world phenomenon.

Companies woo the weed crowd with artful, edgy ads

50 sattv4u2  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 5:36:44am

re: #49 Justanotherhuman

Companies woo the weed crowd with artful, edgy ads

Companies (welll,, smart ones at least) have had those ads ‘in the can” for a long time now. I’m sure they were updating them on a regular basis (as the barriers of “edgyness” expanded) But the basic premise/ group target remaimed the same

51 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 5:38:45am

‘Morning, all. It’s a bright sunny Robert E. Lee/Martin Luther King Day in Alabama.

(Don’t really know why we celebrate the civil rights leader’s father.)

media.alabama.gov

52 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 5:42:25am

re: #37 Justanotherhuman

Weed may be “natural” but so are a lot of plant-based toxic substances. You wouldn’t want to smoke foxglove, for instance.

No normal person would wanna smoke tobacco, but many do…

53 sattv4u2  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 5:43:31am

re: #51 Decatur Deb

heh
With everything going on with me at work and home, I totally forgot it’s MLK Day

Here I am, sitting at work wondering where my co-workers are!!
THEY’RE HOME!!

(I just hope the person that’s supposed to relieve me at 10 a.m. remembers HE’S no supposed to be home today!!)

UPSIDE,,,,, if he DOES come in, it’s going to be low 60’s today

Sounds like GOLF to me !!!

(NOTHER upside,,, even if he DOESN”T come in and I have to stay,,,, I’ll rack up 12 hours of overtime on top of 8 hours of holiday pay!!!)

54 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 5:44:05am

You know those wingnuts who are saying MLK was a Republican?

Well here is what they thought of him back in the day.

55 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 5:50:26am

re: #54 Pie-onist Overlord

You know those wingnuts who are saying MLK was a Republican?

Well here is what they thought of him back in the day.

This is from the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture (“The on-line edition of the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture is a joint project of the Tennessee Historical Society and the University of Tennessee Press.”)

“The folk school’s involvement in the southern labor and Civil Rights movements earned it both accolades and enmity. Even as Eleanor Roosevelt, Reinhold Niebuhr, educators, ministers, union leaders, philanthropists, and reform groups voiced their support, staff members endured a barrage of threats and denunciations from industrialists, politicians, self-styled patriotic groups, and journalists for unfriendly newspapers. As Highlander became more prominent in the struggle for racial justice, outraged southern white segregationists launched a sustained assault against what they described as a “Communist training school.” Although faculty members defended the school’s ideology and pedagogy eloquently and often persuasively in the face of such attacks, their understandable, but loose institutional practices made them vulnerable in the 1950s. Following a headline-grabbing investigation by state legislators, a police raid, and two dramatic trials, the state of Tennessee revoked Highlander’s charter and confiscated its property in 1962.” (my emphasis)

tennesseeencyclopedia.net

56 darthstar  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 5:51:59am
“I will learn things from this,” Chris Christie told me last Friday, a little more than a week after he gave the News Conference to End All News Conferences, and a few days after the cable channels covered his annual address to the legislature in Trenton as if it were Nixon waving from the helicopter. “I know I will. I don’t know exactly what it is yet that I’ll learn from it. But when I get the whole story and really try to understand what’s going on here, I know I’m going to learn things.”

link: news.yahoo.com

There’s so much fail in this Christie puff piece I don’t know where to begin.

But Bai’s last line is the best in American journalsim.
“Chris Christie vows he’ll learn something. And then the rest of us will learn something about whether he’s a great politician, or just a fairly good one.”

57 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 5:56:20am

re: #51 Decatur Deb

‘Morning, all. It’s a bright sunny Robert E. Lee/Martin Luther King Day in Alabama.

(Don’t really know why we celebrate the civil rights leader’s father.)

media.alabama.gov

Yeah, here in VA it was only in 2000 that state leaders realized that celebrating the birthdays of two Confederate generals (Lee and Jackson) on the same day as the celebration of the life of a martyred civil rights leaders was a bit tone-deaf. But giving up the veneration of men who are famous for fighting in a war whose purpose was to retain the institution of slavery was totally unthinkable, so we “compromised” by moving Lee-Jackson Day to the Friday before Martin Luther King Day.

Don’t know why anybody thinks the South is backwards and unable to let go of the past.///

58 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 5:57:20am

re: #57 Targetpractice

Yeah, here in VA it was only in 2000 that state leaders realized that celebrating the birthdays of two Confederate generals (Lee and Jackson) on the same day as the celebration of the life of a martyred civil rights leaders was a bit tone-deaf. But giving up the veneration of men who are famous for fighting in a war whose purpose was to retain the institution of slavery was totally unthinkable, so we “compromised” by moving Lee-Jackson Day to the Friday before Martin Luther King Day.

Don’t know why anybody thinks the South is backwards and unable to let go of the past.///

59 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 5:58:59am

re: #56 darthstar

link: news.yahoo.com

There’s so much fail in this Christie puff piece I don’t know where to begin.

But Bai’s last line is the best in American journalsim.
“Chris Christie vows he’ll learn something. And then the rest of us will learn something about >whether he’s a great politician, or just a fairly good one.”

Yeah, imagine my surprise that the whitewashing has begun. Despite a week and weekend where the rabbit hole only kept getting deeper, despite his 111 “I’m Sorry I Got Duped” presser, the apologists are already trying to argue that Christie is gonna get past it all and come out better for it.

60 Ian G.  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:00:12am

Good morning, everyone. I’m hoping on this fine MLK day (the last of the mild temperatures we’ll see in the NYC area for a whole), this country can resist freaking out over a large African-American man yelling a lot in front of an attractive Caucasian woman. I’m definitely of the opinion that Richard Sherman’s “interview” with Erin Andrews was an act designed to get inside the 49ers heads (they will meet up again twice next year, of course) and to cultivate a WWE villain image. If you saw his later interviews, he was much more calm and collected.

61 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:01:56am

re: #55 Justanotherhuman

This is from the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture (“The on-line edition of the Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture is a joint project of the Tennessee Historical Society and the University of Tennessee Press.”)

“The folk school’s involvement in the southern labor and Civil Rights movements earned it both accolades and enmity. Even as Eleanor Roosevelt, Reinhold Niebuhr, educators, ministers, union leaders, philanthropists, and reform groups voiced their support, staff members endured a barrage of threats and denunciations from industrialists, politicians, self-styled patriotic groups, and journalists for unfriendly newspapers. As Highlander became more prominent in the struggle for racial justice, outraged southern white segregationists launched a sustained assault against what they described as a “Communist training school.” Although faculty members defended the school’s ideology and pedagogy eloquently and often persuasively in the face of such attacks, their understandable, but loose institutional practices made them vulnerable in the 1950s. Following a headline-grabbing investigation by state legislators, a police raid, and two dramatic trials, the state of Tennessee revoked Highlander’s charter and confiscated its property in 1962.” (my emphasis)

tennesseeencyclopedia.net

But the good guys are still winning the culture war. Bonaroo is ten miles down the road.

62 BongCrodny  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:02:31am

re: #56 darthstar

link: news.yahoo.com

There’s so much fail in this Christie puff piece I don’t know where to begin.

But Bai’s last line is the best in American journalsim.
“Chris Christie vows he’ll learn something. And then the rest of us will learn something about >whether he’s a great politician, or just a fairly good one.”

Politico - New York Times’s Matt Bai to Yahoo News

Forgive me if I’m completely off base on this one, but in what universe would going from the New York Times to Yahoo News be considered sort of upward career progression?

63 darthstar  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:12:34am

Cat on a happy boat

64 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:14:38am

Last night I watched Life Of Pi. I will never watch another shipwreck movie again.

Although it probably would have kicked ass in 3D.

65 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:15:45am

re: #56 darthstar

link: news.yahoo.com

There’s so much fail in this Christie puff piece I don’t know where to begin.

But Bai’s last line is the best in American journalsim.
“Chris Christie vows he’ll learn something. And then the rest of us will learn something about >whether he’s a great politician, or just a fairly good one.”

Saw a bumper sticker on Saturday:
Don’t Act Stupid. We have politicians for that.

66 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:15:52am

Please tell me that starved tiger in the movie was CGI.

67 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:17:22am

re: #59 Targetpractice

Yeah, imagine my surprise that the whitewashing has begun. Despite a week and weekend where the rabbit hole only kept getting deeper, despite his 111 “I’m Sorry I Got Duped” presser, the apologists are already trying to argue that Christie is gonna get past it all and come out better for it.

That sounds like good news for John McCain. And the Romney campaign will obviously benefit from that when the next set of polls come out and show them the lead they will never relinquish.
///

68 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:22:10am

Good morning Lizards!

Around 40F here today and overcast. Standard northeast non-storm winter weather.

Feline Overlords got to watch construction work the whole weekend. The site across the street worked both days as they raised their crane a couple of stories higher. Lots of noise and hammering while they did that. 10 floors of concrete and steel beams in place, probably 4-5 to go. And they have facing on most of the first 7 floors already.

69 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:24:49am

Teren-6 - gas, which is used against the protesters [in Kiev]. I imagine this is some type of irritant? Maybe a tear gas?

70 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:28:17am

Got an automated phone call last night from my electric co-op that the power will be turned off “sometime” today for “maintenance”.
The heads up was nice, but it would have been much nicer if there was a narrower timeframe than “sometime”.
So, I sit and wait for darkness and silence to descend upon the homestead.

At least it’s not freezing weather today…

71 ObserverArt  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:30:45am

Speaking of the Christie imbroglio, I noticed lately all the Republicans they can manage to get to say something about him all start out about he is standing up and getting out there to confront it. And then they pause and the next word is “but.”

Got to watch those buts…they aren’t positive in a positive statement. And when but is followed by something like “his career as a politician could be over” it leaves the impression the defender isn’t all that positive.

72 darthstar  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:39:21am
73 darthstar  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:41:11am
74 darthstar  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:43:23am
75 Major Tom  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:44:44am

It’s not that some of the people who dislike President Obama do so because they dislike the idea of a black president, no it’s more that Obama “is a racist, intolerant, crap weasel punk liar…” I’m pretty sure this story is going to make All the rounds… (newyorker.com) With the moderators saying this, I can only imagine the hate about to be spewed today. therightscoop.com Moderation

76 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:46:23am

re: #73 darthstar

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Or, alternatively, Edward Snowden, Libertarian Asshole.

Like that better. : )

77 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:46:54am

re: #76 Justanotherhuman

Or, alternatively, Edward Snowden, Libertarian Asshole.

Like that better. : )

Edward Snowden, Granny-starver.

78 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:48:48am

re: #77 Pie-onist Overlord

Edward Snowden, Granny-starver.

Like that, too, but he probably doesn’t give a shit if anyone starves. As long as Edward Snowden doesn’t.

79 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:55:31am

What do you want to bet he’s going to ask the Feds for some help?

Ohio Gov. Kasich issues statewide energy emergency declaration after blast of arctic air depleted heating supplies - @WKYC

80 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:57:14am

must save this for future use…

81 Weet  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:11:14am
82 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:16:35am

re: #80 Backwoods_Sleuth

must save this for future use…

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Roger Ebert has been reincarnated!! He’ll be reviewing upcoming releases soon.

83 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:19:31am

Wingnuts Tweeting this shit:

84 Gus  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:24:09am

Uh oh. MLK. I can hear Sirota typing from here.

85 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:25:32am

re: #84 Gus

Uh oh. MLK. I can hear Sirota typing from here.

GLENN GREENWALD & ED SNOWDEN ARE TEH MLK & TEH ROSA PARKS OF OUR TIMES BUT EVEN MOAR HEROIC HEROES!!!1!!!!!!!

86 Gus  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:26:33am

re: #85 Pie-onist Overlord

GLENN GREENWALD & ED SNOWDEN ARE TEH MLK & TEH ROSA PARKS OF OUR TIMES BUT EVEN MOAR HEROIC HEROES!!!1!!!!!!!

Good rough draft. :D

87 Political Atheist  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:37:39am

re: #81 Weet

Brilliant.

88 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:42:21am

re: #58 Pie-onist Overlord

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Question: Why is Florida in gray on that electoral map?

89 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:45:12am

re: #76 Justanotherhuman

Or, alternatively, Edward Snowden, Libertarian Asshole.

Like that better. : )

Edward Snowden, Teabagger. Because that turd of a comment he dropped sounds just like the idiotic tweets spouted by Tea Party members.

90 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:45:42am

re: #88 Dark_Falcon

Question: Why is Florida in gray on that electoral map?

Could be based on a screen grab before the election was called in FL.

91 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:48:34am

Back later…..off to see “The Wolf Of Wall Street”.

92 Lidane  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:50:06am
93 jaunte  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:51:31am

re: #92 Lidane

“Even so, Obama also thinks that folks who talk as if legalization will make everything a happy hippie dreamworld with organic farms and Peter Max posters everywhere just might have some unrealistic expectations:

“Having said all that, those who argue that legalizing marijuana is a panacea and it solves all these social problems I think are probably overstating the case. There is a lot of hair on that policy. And the experiment that’s going to be taking place in Colorado and Washington is going to be, I think, a challenge.”

This is clearly a man who has at some time in his life been cornered by someone at a street fair and harangued about the wonders of industrial hemp.”

94 Gus  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:53:55am

re: #93 jaunte

This is clearly a man who has at some time in his life been cornered by someone at a street fair and harangued about the wonders of industrial hemp.”

Hey man. It’s like 1969 man. Peter Max? :D

95 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:54:48am

re: #69 Justanotherhuman

Google Translate version of the manufacturer’s page.

96 jaunte  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:55:15am

re: #94 Gus

Y’know, our founding fathers grew hemp, man.

97 Gus  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:55:26am

Yeah man. People are sitting around smoking weed listening to Yes and Grateful Dead.

98 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:55:28am

Youtube Video

99 Gus  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:55:37am

re: #96 jaunte

Y’know, our founding fathers grew hemp, man.

True.

100 Romantic Heretic  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:55:47am

re: #26 Kragar

Bryan Fischer @BryanJFischer
Firing squad is the most humane form of execution. The criminal is dead before his nervous system can register pain.

Why don’t you try it out and let us know, Bryan? Nothing like first hand experience.

101 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:57:17am

re: #97 Gus

Yeah man. People are sitting around smoking weed listening to Yes and Grateful Dead.

I sit around listening to Yes and Deep Purple without smoking weed. Guess I am some sort of ancient mutant then.
//

102 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:58:26am

re: #100 Romantic Heretic

Why don’t you try it out and let us know, Bryan? Nothing like first hand experience.

Right. And firing squads generally had the officer go over after the event and make sure. Along with a pistol shot to the head if needed.

103 Romantic Heretic  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:58:39am

re: #33 Justanotherhuman

Totally agree w/what the Prez said on the previous thread.

Meanwhile, protests continue in Kiev, with a reported 100 hospitalized, both police and demonstrators. Of course, it’s in Ukrainian and Russian. I have to keep translating tweets to figure out exactly what’s being said. Foreign leaders are putting pressure on the Ukrainian govt to loosen up their draconian laws and measures against free speech.

Things seem to have calmed down; speeches going on, and it’s almost 2 pm in Kiev, with smoke wafting in the background.

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First thought on seeing that graphic? The Alien and Sedition Act refuses to die.

104 Gus  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:58:39am

re: #101 Feline Fearless Leader

I sit around listening to Yes and Deep Purple without smoking weed. Guess I am some sort of ancient mutant then.
//

Hot Tuna man. Maybe some Airplane. Wo, man.

105 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:59:16am

I just made an appt for a colonoscopy because my doctor has been nagging me about it for like 6 years. Just routine.

GAH. Should I order those gummi bears?

106 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:00:36am

If u really want to honor MLK, Bryan, why don’t u keep ur pie hole shut all day?

107 jaunte  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:00:39am
108 Lidane  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:00:48am

re: #96 jaunte

Y’know, our founding fathers grew hemp, man.

109 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:01:53am

re: #96 jaunte

Y’know, our founding fathers grew hemp, man.

HURR HURR BUT IT WAS ONLY TO MAKE HANGMAN’S ROPE!!!1!!!!

110 Gus  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:03:07am

It appears that legalizing weed in Colorado has caused a lot of people who don’t smoke to get dumber.

111 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:03:34am

re: #110 Gus

It appears that legalizing weed in Colorado has caused a lot of people who don’t smoke to get dumber.

GATEWAY DRUG!!11ty

112 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:04:10am

re: #106 Pie-onist Overlord

If u really want to honor MLK, Bryan, why don’t u keep ur pie hole shut all day?

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Do you think perhaps Bryan got upset whenever Bush used 9/11 to push this initiative or that? Gravely invoked that if we for moment stopped and asked if an idea was a good one, “the terrorists win”?

113 Gus  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:06:24am
114 Mattand  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:08:25am

From TPM:

‘Morning Joe’ Hosts Eviscerate Hoboken Mayor For Sandy Claims (VIDEO)

Remind me again how MSNBC is no different than Fox.

115 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:08:27am
116 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:09:21am

HURR HURR!!!1!!!

117 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:10:29am

David Sirota is using all the same graphics that wingnuts love.

118 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:15:48am

re: #109 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR BUT IT WAS ONLY TO MAKE HANGMAN’S ROPE!!!1!!!!

Actually, most hemp rope was used for ships. And ships needed lots of rope to handle sails and rigging, as well as operate various pulleys and move cannon into place.

Maybe the answer is to use hemp rope to keel-haul Bryan Fischer. He surely deserves it.

119 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:17:30am

re: #118 Dark_Falcon

Actually, most hemp rope was used for ships. And ships needed lots of rope to handle sails and rigging, as well as operate various pulleys and move cannon into place.

Maybe the answer is to use hemp rope to keel-haul Bryan Fischer. He surely deserves it.

I’d be happier if his Sky Daddy spanked him, took away his Internet privileges, and sent him to bed without any supper. Seems like a more appropriate way to handle someone acting like a spoiled child.

120 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:20:28am

re: #119 Feline Fearless Leader

I’d be happier if his Sky Daddy spanked him, took away his Internet privileges, and sent him to bed without any supper. Seems like a more appropriate way to handle someone acting like a spoiled child.

Yes indeed.

121 122 Year Old Obama  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:23:40am

Birthday today. 27 now.

122 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:24:48am

re: #117 Pie-onist Overlord

David Sirota is using all the same graphics that wingnuts love.

I actually quite like that picture of Obama. It’s a very intimate, humanizing image. I can totally imagine myself hanging out with the guy in the photo.

123 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:26:18am

Here’s a crazy idea for MLK day:

How about we get rid of all the political bullshit and just celebrate the fact that we are all human and share the same love, hurt, pleasure and pain as we go through this life together and fully acknowledge the fact that deep down, we’re really not that different from one another.

124 Gus  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:31:29am
125 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:33:01am

Wingnuts are all piling on Wendy Davis for being a slutty slut who abandoned her man!

Why is it OK for Newt Gingrich?

126 Lidane  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:33:30am

re: #125 Pie-onist Overlord

Wingnuts are all piling on Wendy Davis for being a slutty slut who abandoned her man!

Why is it OK for Newt Gingrich?

Because he’s a man. And a Republican.

127 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:33:52am

re: #125 Pie-onist Overlord

Wingnuts are all piling on Wendy Davis for being a slutty slut who abandoned her man!

Why is it OK for Newt Gingrich?

Because he’s a white conservative male.

128 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:34:14am

re: #126 Lidane

22 seconds. :P

129 calochortus  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:34:49am

re: #123 Eclectic Cyborg

Here’s a crazy idea for MLK day:

How about we get rid of all the political bullshit and just celebrate the fact that we are all human and share the same love, hurt, pleasure and pain as we go through this life together and fully acknowledge the fact that deep down, we’re really not that different from one another.

That’s so crazy it just might work! Oh wait, no it won’t…unfortunately.

130 Ryan King  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:35:41am

Wendy Davis really got to them. Hell hath no fury like a wingnut madded.

Every time I see them type/say Abortion Barbie I know it’s a cry for help.

131 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:36:03am

re: #129 calochortus

That’s so crazy it just might work! Oh wait, no it won’t…unfortunately.

What can I say? I’m an idealist.

132 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:37:31am

re: #125 Pie-onist Overlord

Wingnuts are all piling on Wendy Davis for being a slutty slut who abandoned her man!

Why is it OK for Newt Gingrich?

Because its an election year and Texas is a very important state, especially for Republicans.

133 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:37:35am

re: #124 Gus

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I think that anyone who has documented multiple death threats as MLK did is justified in carrying a weapon in self defense. How many suburban homeowners does that apply to?

134 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:38:05am

re: #126 Lidane

Because he’s a man. And a Republican.

and he only did because is so passionate about his country tis of thee…

135 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:38:47am

re: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

I think that anyone who has documented multiple death threats as MLK did is justified in carrying a weapon in self defense. How many suburban homeowners does that apply to?

All of them. Because Obama something something BenghaZi!

136 Lidane  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:39:41am

re: #132 Dark_Falcon

Because its an election year and Texas is a very important state, especially for Republicans.

Fuck that. They’d say it about her even if this wasn’t an election year.

The RWNJs are just a bunch of misogynist assholes who are threatened by a strong woman.

137 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:40:31am

well, the power company “maintenance” was nothing more than about the five seconds it took for them to replace the old meter with a smart meter. They could have just said that on the automated call so that I wouldn’t have been bracing myself for the end times. :D


So…wondering if I should wrap the thing in tinfoil. I also noticed that my clear blue sky is littered with chemtrails today…/////////

138 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:44:30am

re: #123 Eclectic Cyborg

Many were increasingly of the opinion that they’d all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.

And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything.

Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, the Earth was unexpectedly demolished to make way for a new hyperspace bypass, and so the idea was lost, seemingly for ever.

Douglas Addams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

139 Political Atheist  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:45:04am

re: #123 Eclectic Cyborg

Here’s a crazy idea for MLK day:

How about we get rid of all the political bullshit and just celebrate the fact that we are all human and share the same love, hurt, pleasure and pain as we go through this life together and fully acknowledge the fact that deep down, we’re really not that different from one another.

I was thinking along those lines this morning. So I Paged this.

140 Ryan King  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:45:34am

For all the absurdity of douchesplaining the bad behavior of Richard Sherman, not looking forward to the racist bullshit that will come of it.

141 Political Atheist  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:47:19am

re: #66 Pie-onist Overlord

Please tell me that starved tiger in the movie was CGI.

Yes it was all CG for the starvation. Some footage was real tiger, where there was an incident where he lost his way in a green screen studio pool and was at risk of drowning. People risked themselves to get him out safe.

143 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:52:06am

re: #142 Varek Raith

Fox Host On Proposed Anti-Bullying Law: Teasing, Social Exclusion, Intimidation “Are Almost A Rite Of Passage”

Idiots.

Ohhhh, I wish I could make this guy suffer through the abuse I did. On second thought, no I don’t, I don’t wish that on anybody.

But I will say this: What I went through was NOT a rite of of passage. It was a hell that nearly killed me.

144 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:52:55am

re: #140 Ryan King

For all the absurdity of douchesplaining the bad behavior of Richard Sherman, not looking forward to the racist bullshit that will come of it.

So a black man DERPs it up in a interview and for that he should get shot? Seriously, Brian Blackwell has a screw loose somewhere.

145 PhillyPretzel  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:53:27am

re: #142 Varek Raith

Those “people” should read Jodee Blanco’s “Please Stop Laughing at Me.” amazon.com

146 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:54:26am

re: #142 Varek Raith

Fox Host On Proposed Anti-Bullying Law: Teasing, Social Exclusion, Intimidation “Are Almost A Rite Of Passage”

Idiots.

And of course the next time some 14 year-old opens fire, they’ll ask “BUT WHAT ABOUT THE VIOLENT VIDYA GAMES!??!!”

147 Lidane  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:56:07am

re: #142 Varek Raith

Fox Host On Proposed Anti-Bullying Law: Teasing, Social Exclusion, Intimidation “Are Almost A Rite Of Passage”

It really pisses them off that they can’t just run roughshod over everyone that’s not like them.

148 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:56:24am

re: #144 Dark_Falcon

So a black man DERPs it up in a interview and for that he should get shot? Seriously, Brian Blackwell has a screw loose somewhere.

I wouldn’t even call it a derp.
Just plain old American Football Trash Talk.

149 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:57:35am

re: #142 Varek Raith

Fox Host On Proposed Anti-Bullying Law: Teasing, Social Exclusion, Intimidation “Are Almost A Rite Of Passage”

Idiots.

I doubt Fox Blonde Anna Kooiman really experienced much in the way of bullying. I didn’t get picked on nearly as bad as Dragonfire, but it was bad at times and it was by no means a ‘rite of passage’.

150 Ryan King  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:58:44am

re: #144 Dark_Falcon

So a black man DERPs it up in a interview and for that he should get shot? Seriously, Brian Blackwell has a screw loose somewhere.

Every racist has a screw or two loose. But it will only be the beginning of using Richard Sherman to inflame race. Happens every time a black man speaks, whether or not he was speaking truth or speaking idiocy.

151 Mattand  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:59:41am

re: #132 Dark_Falcon

Because its an election year and Texas is a very important state, especially for Republicans.

No, it’s because the self-proclaimed Party of Family Values are a bunch of frigging hypocrites when it comes to the personal lives of their own flock.

152 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:00:03am

re: #142 Varek Raith

Fox Host On Proposed Anti-Bullying Law: Teasing, Social Exclusion, Intimidation “Are Almost A Rite Of Passage”

Idiots.

I was bullied throughout middle school. It only stopped when I chose to attend a different high school than the bullies.

It would have SUCKED if I didn’t have that option.

153 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:00:24am

re: #142 Varek Raith

Fox Host On Proposed Anti-Bullying Law: Teasing, Social Exclusion, Intimidation “Are Almost A Rite Of Passage”

Idiots.

Yet they can’t figure out why otherwise intelligent, well-adjusted kids would tote a gun to school to “even the score.”

154 Mattand  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:01:01am

re: #142 Varek Raith

Fox Host On Proposed Anti-Bullying Law: Teasing, Social Exclusion, Intimidation “Are Almost A Rite Of Passage”

Idiots.

You know who says this shit? People who weren’t bullied.

155 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:01:24am

re: #154 Mattand

You know who says this shit? People who weren’t bullied bullies.

156 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:01:31am

re: #152 Pie-onist Overlord

I was bullied throughout middle school. It only stopped when I chose to attend a different high school than the bullies.

It would have SUCKED if I didn’t have that option.

I was in the exact same position. The other high school meant an additional 6 miles of travel twice daily but it was worth it in the end.

157 Mattand  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:02:34am

re: #155 Pie-onist Overlord

Good point.

158 122 Year Old Obama  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:05:10am

re: #152 Pie-onist Overlord

I was bullied throughout middle school. It only stopped when I chose to attend a different high school than the bullies.

It would have SUCKED if I didn’t have that option.

I didn’t. It SUUUUUUCKED. :(

159 Lidane  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:05:20am

re: #154 Mattand

You know who says this shit? People who weren’t bullied were bullies.

FTFY

They’re trying to justify being bullies and assholes in school. That’s all.

160 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:05:26am

Also, the adults DID NOT GIVE A FUCK. They told me “When they laugh at you LAUGH WITH THEM.”

161 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:07:30am

re: #153 Targetpractice

Yet they can’t figure out why otherwise intelligent, well-adjusted kids would tote a gun to school to “even the score.”

Some at Fox understand on some levels, but to speak about such reasons would be a breech of what I’m going to call the Rule of Rejection (RoR). The RoR states that because “the Left is out to Socialize and Ruin America”, no ideas seen as coming from “the Left” may be accepted. All such ideas must be rejected, even if the result is cognitive dissonance and non-action. The RoR further holds that compromise is capitulation to Evil because the Left is seen as evil. Fox News upholds the Rule of Rejection in order to maintain its viewership among angry people on the right.

162 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:07:55am

re: #160 Pie-onist Overlord

All I got from anyone (including Vice Principals) was empty promises with ZERO action to back it up. My parents actually withdrew me from school for the final two weeks of Grade 8.

163 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:08:04am
164 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:08:58am

I was lucky.
By the sixth grade I was 6 feet tall.
Bullies avoided me.

165 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:09:51am
166 Varek Raith  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:10:15am

re: #163 Pie-onist Overlord

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The hell does that even mean???

167 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:11:07am

re: #166 Varek Raith

The hell does that even mean???

It means Julian needs to stay out of the drinks cabinet!!!

168 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:11:41am
169 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:11:48am

re: #166 Varek Raith

The hell does that even mean???

It means that Julian Assange shouldn’t tweet when he’s high.

170 Mattand  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:14:24am

re: #160 Pie-onist Overlord

Also, the adults DID NOT GIVE A FUCK. They told me “When they laugh at you LAUGH WITH THEM.”

I have some mutual acquaintances who played on the soccer team with one of my tormentors.

Whenever they’ve mentioned his name in the past, I point out what a douche he was to me. That’s when the chorus of “Get the fuck over it” comes crashing down.

My usual response is to tell them to fuck off. I don’t obsess over this person, but literally the only memories I have of this guy is him making my life miserable. I’m not going to wallpaper over that shit and go “Oh, those wacky school days!”

What’s scary is that the one conversation I’ve had with the kids of one of this group, they’re all like “Eh, bullying is no big deal. I wish the school would just ignore it.”

Just like their old man. Joy.

171 b_sharp  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:14:26am

re: #152 Pie-onist Overlord

I was bullied throughout middle school. It only stopped when I chose to attend a different high school than the bullies.

It would have SUCKED if I didn’t have that option.

I did exactly the same thing.

Went from the richest, whitest, drugiest high school to the poorest. The way I was treated in the two schools couldn’t have been more different.

172 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:17:05am

WTFITS I just can’t even

173 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:18:19am

re: #172 Pie-onist Overlord

WTFITS I just can’t even

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PETA, embarrassing the Tidewater Area since 1996.

174 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:18:38am
175 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:19:57am

re: #174 Pie-onist Overlord

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Eldridge Meat Cleaver

176 Lidane  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:21:35am

re: #172 Pie-onist Overlord

WTFITS I just can’t even

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It’s PETA.

As usual, instead of making rational, thought out arguments about the conditions of factory farms and the benefits of a more plant-focused diet, they go for shock value and being sanctimonious pricks.

177 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:22:27am

re: #176 Lidane

It’s PETA.

As usual, instead of making rational, thought out arguments about the benefits of a more plant-focused diet, they go for shock value and being sanctimonious pricks.

I wasn’t sure what to have for dinner tonight but thinking of PETA it’s CHILI DOGS.

178 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:23:10am

I wonder if PETA is really seekritly funded by the meat-packing industry to make vegetarians look like fucking idiots.

179 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:23:15am

re: #176 Lidane

It’s PETA.

As usual, instead of making rational, thought out arguments about the conditions of factory farms and the benefits of a more plant-focused diet, they go for shock value and being sanctimonious pricks.

This is an organization which once ran a campaign arguing that beer was better for people than milk.

180 Decatur Deb  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:23:20am

re: #175 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

Eldridge Meat Cleaver

Steakly Carmichael

181 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:24:28am

FreeRepublic has 7 (count ‘em) Twitter accounts to spam TEH DERP to #lnyhbt

182 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:25:23am

re: #179 Targetpractice

This is an organization which once ran a campaign arguing that beer was better for people than milk.

This is the organization which ran a campaign comparing eating chicken to the Holocaust.

I don’t know if they had any success with their campaign comparing going to the circus with slavery.

183 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:28:38am

I don’t remember government offices being open on Dec. 25.

184 Lidane  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:30:28am

re: #163 Pie-onist Overlord

PPE = Philosophy, Politics, and Economics. It’s a degree from Oxford. Both Aussie PM Tony Abbot and UK PM David Cameron have that degree, along with a bunch of other people.

Assange is basically saying that folks with the PPE degree are some sort of shadowy Oxford clique and that few from Cambridge are allowed in, since Cambridge doesn’t offer a PPE from what I can tell.

185 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:32:05am

re: #166 Varek Raith

The hell does that even mean???

PPE is an Oxford degree program “Philosophy, Politics and Economics”.
Much dudebro derision is thrown at PPE degree holders.

186 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:34:36am

re: #178 Pie-onist Overlord

I wonder if PETA is really seekritly funded by the meat-packing industry to make vegetarians look like fucking idiots.

There is something about America in general that we are overly obsessed with our orifices and whatever goes into and comes out of them, be it related to procreation, nutrition or just general expulsion of bodily fluids.

People often react in bizarre, extreme and irrational ways to each other when discussing the topics.

187 BeenHereAwhile  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:34:42am

re: #60 Ian G.

Good morning, everyone. I’m hoping on this fine MLK day (the last of the mild temperatures we’ll see in the NYC area for a whole), this country can resist freaking out over a large African-American man yelling a lot in front of an attractive Caucasian woman. I’m definitely of the opinion that Richard Sherman’s “interview” with Erin Andrews was an act designed to get inside the 49ers heads (they will meet up again twice next year, of course) and to cultivate a WWE villain image. If you saw his later interviews, he was much more calm and collected.

It’s all an act.

Sherman missed being valedictorian of his high school by .1 academic point.

He is a graduate of Stanford, and considered one of the smartest NFL defensive players of today.

188 Stanley Sea  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:37:09am

re: #121 122 Year Old Obama

Birthday today. 27 now.

Happy B-Day!

189 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:37:35am

There are always a couple in the crowd…

Harper heckled during address to Israeli parliament

ctvnews.ca

“Prime Minister Stephen Harper was heckled during his historic address to the Israeli parliament on Monday.

“While speaking of a new form of anti-Semitism that has emerged in recent years, two Arabic-speaking members of parliament shouted over Harper, before they both walked out.

“But Harper’s reception in Israel’s parliament was largely a warm one. The prime minister twice received a standing ovation and called Israel and Canada “the greatest of friends and the most natural of allies.”

190 Ian G.  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:38:28am

re: #187 BeenHereAwhile

It’s all an act.

Sherman missed being valedictorian of his high school by .1 academic point.

He is a graduate of Stanford, and considered one of the smartest NFL defensive players of today.

I know. And he started working on his masters’ degree while still at Stanford.

My only question is, was it an act designed to make himself into a larger-than-life comic book villain and become a more famous/popular player, or an act to have the 49ers having nightmares all winter about him, and with him in their heads when they meet up next year? Both?

191 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:38:38am
192 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:40:10am
193 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:40:50am

re: #191 Pie-onist Overlord

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And I make my crust with butter. : )

194 Ian G.  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:40:52am

re: #183 Pie-onist Overlord

I don’t remember government offices being open on Dec. 25.

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Yeah, this.

Also, IF Jesus really existed, and IF the Bible is accurate in its description of him, then his birthday is almost certainly not December 25th. Go on Bryan, find the place in the Gospels where it says Jesus was born on 12/25. It’s probably right next to where he condemns gays.

195 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:41:16am

re: #192 Pie-onist Overlord

Wingnut pile-on in 3..2..1..

196 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:42:11am

re: #176 Lidane

It’s PETA.

As usual, instead of making rational, thought out arguments about the conditions of factory farms and the benefits of a more plant-focused diet, they go for shock value and being sanctimonious pricks.

They want attention, not results. In that way, PETA’s moonbats are like Tea Party wingnuts.

197 Ryan King  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:42:31am

Sherman’s crime is running off at the mouth. I’m sure he was jacked up after making a great play on an adversary with a long running feud, no doubt hopped up by his professional ‘trash talking.’ But that’s all it is, trash talking.

If anybody thinks it’s OK to say crazy shit like that, are you OK with the school and high school coaches teaching your kids to act like that?

198 Charles Johnson  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:43:08am

Good grief. These people are just totally delusional. They actually think this is a real argument.

199 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:44:04am

re: #195 Eclectic Cyborg

Wingnut pile-on in 3..2..1..

Likely led by the man Duckworth beat to get her seat, professional Disgrace-to-Illinois Joe Walsh.

200 gwangung  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:45:04am

re: #197 Ryan King

Sherman’s crime is running off at the mouth. I’m sure he was jacked up after making a great play on an adversary with a long running feud, no doubt hopped up by his professional ‘trash talking.’ But that’s all it is, trash talking.

If anybody thinks it’s OK to say crazy shit like that, are you OK with the school and high school coaches teaching your kids to act like that?

I also think Sherman got popped in the face mask by Crabtree shortly before. Not professional (whatever that is), but understandable.

201 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:45:21am

re: #198 Charles Johnson

Goog grief. These people are just totally delusional. They actually think this is a real argument.

[Embedded content]

Omidyar should just STFU about doing anything but selling junk on eBay.

202 danarchy  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:45:26am

re: #190 Ian G.

I know. And he started working on his masters’ degree while still at Stanford.

My only question is, was it an act designed to make himself into a larger-than-life comic book villain and become a more famous/popular player, or an act to have the 49ers having nightmares all winter about him, and with him in their heads when they meet up next year? Both?

I don’t buy it was an act. Even smart people say stupid things especially when you are that amped up. I am willing to bet if that interview had happened 10 minutes later it would have been very different. The idea he was going for some long term psychological game seems like an awful stretch.

203 Lidane  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:45:35am

This is amazing.

204 b_sharp  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:45:36am

While the US is moving toward a progressive drug policy by legalizing pot, in Canada Harper is doing his best to move us all the way up back to Bush era US.

A friend of mine is married to a woman who has to take medical weed to deal with pain. Harper is about to make it impossible for her to get the necessary strain legally.

cjme.com

Fucking prick Harper, and his bullshit artist cronies from the CPC, need to be booted out of office.

205 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:46:10am

re: #198 Charles Johnson

Goog grief. These people are just totally delusional. They actually think this is a real argument.

[Embedded content]

206 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:47:28am
207 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:47:30am

Listening to MSNBC on Sirius. One of the ads is Glenn Beck shilling for a car donation company and lamenting the fact that government has cut back on programs that help people in need. Irony much?

208 BeenHereAwhile  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:49:20am

re: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

I think that anyone who has documented multiple death threats as MLK did is justified in carrying a weapon in self defense. How many suburban homeowners does that apply to?

The crazed woman who stabbed the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King in the chest with a letter opener in a Harlem department store in 1958 summoned such force that it pieced his sternum and the honed point stopped just a fraction of an inch from his aorta.[…]

thedailybeast.com

209 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:49:21am

re: #204 b_sharp

I think you’re getting too worked up and calling extraordinary to what is really more likely just a fairly normal governmental power grab.

210 gwangung  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:50:06am

Just to remember…

dailykos.com

Because at this point in our amnesiac national existence, my question pretty much reflects the national civic religion view of what Dr. King accomplished. He gave this great speech. Or some people say, “he marched.” ….

My father told me with a sort of cold fury, “Dr. King ended the terror of living in the south.”

Please let this sink in and and take my word and the word of my late father on this. If you are a white person who has always lived in the U.S. and never under a brutal dictatorship, you probably don’t know what my father was talking about.

But this is what the great Dr. Martin Luther King accomplished. Not that he marched, nor that he gave speeches.

He ended the terror of living as a black person, especially in the south.

211 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:50:08am

re: #208 BeenHereAwhile

The crazed woman who stabbed the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King in the chest with a letter opener in a Harlem department store in 1958 summoned such force that it pieced his sternum and the honed point stopped just a fraction of an inch from his aorta.[…]

thedailybeast.com

Gosh, I forgot that there had been an actual attack on him in addition to all the threats.

212 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:51:41am
213 Romantic Heretic  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:52:34am

re: #160 Pie-onist Overlord

Also, the adults DID NOT GIVE A FUCK. They told me “When they laugh at you LAUGH WITH THEM.”

God, I hated that!

214 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:52:56am

re: #203 Lidane

This is amazing.

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Sort of a fail since they didn’t puff up her lips and, lower her blouse and lift her cleavage up to her neck.

215 Ryan King  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:53:05am

re: #200 gwangung

I also think Sherman got popped in the face mask by Crabtree shortly before. Not professional (whatever that is), but understandable.

I think that was afterward… and Sherman was in his face trash talking. They’re both doing it.

The point is trash talking is now becoming OK and is the new ‘boys will be boys.’ I’ve watched trash talk between fans for years and it’s pretty much the main reason I don’t spend too much time on sports.

216 b_sharp  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:53:39am

re: #209 Dark_Falcon

I think you’re getting too worked up and calling extraordinary to what is really more likely just a fairly normal governmental power grab.

I really don’t give a fuck whether it’s normal or not, it’s an idiotic Harperesque piece of bullshit legislation.

His government is anti-science, anti-education, anti-rational thinking.

217 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:53:52am

I can’t speak for everyone, but the abuse I suffered nearly 20 years ago left emotional scars that remain with me to this day.

218 ObserverArt  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:55:27am

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Wow
Such tone
Many notes
Very articulation

Overlooked this initial post by Charle

Heehee…don’t hit me Charles.

219 gwangung  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:57:02am

re: #215 Ryan King

I think that was afterward… and Sherman was in his face trash talking. They’re both doing it.

The point is trash talking is now becoming OK and is the new ‘boys will be boys.’ I’ve watched trash talk between fans for years and it’s pretty much the main reason I don’t spend too much time on sports.

Well, that face mask occurred after the game, after Sherman tried to offer to shake his hand, before the Andrews interview. Might be some trash talking there, but I might yell too after getting popped in the face mask.

And I think you’re DECADES too late on the trash talking regrets….

220 PhillyPretzel  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:57:53am

re: #217 Eclectic Cyborg

Same here. It still bothers me all these years later.

221 Romantic Heretic  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:00:09am

re: #217 Eclectic Cyborg

I can’t speak for everyone, but the abuse I suffered nearly 20 years ago left emotional scars that remain with me to this day.

Moi aussi. It’s why I’m so agoraphobic, and why most of my interaction is on the Net.

But even there the bullies can get at you sometimes.

222 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:01:37am
223 Lidane  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:03:38am


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224 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:05:03am

re: #207 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

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225 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:06:40am

WTFITS I just can’t even

226 Ryan King  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:07:59am

re: #219 gwangung

OK, so you’re a Seahawks fan. I get it.

Trash talk used to be frowned upon or dismissed, but it appears that we want WWE/NFL now. Let’s teach that stuff in school because it’s part of the game.

I’ll not be watching that shit.

227 Lidane  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:09:48am
228 Targetpractice  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:11:02am

re: #227 Lidane

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229 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:11:55am
230 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:12:42am

re: #223 Lidane

[Embedded content]


On the contrary. I DO want people to smoke weed before going anywhere the nuke codes. It might mellow them out and get them more focused on making a Taco Bell run instead of launching anything.

More anti-military fear-mongering. Filed under “DERP from the left wing” and dismissed accordingly.

231 BeenHereAwhile  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:12:53am

re: #190 Ian G.

I know. And he started working on his masters’ degree while still at Stanford.

My only question is, was it an act designed to make himself into a larger-than-life comic book villain and become a more famous/popular player, or an act to have the 49ers having nightmares all winter about him, and with him in their heads when they meet up next year? Both?

That his relationship with then Stanford Head Coach Jim Harbaugh was contentious might have come into play. But, I dunno.

232 gwangung  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:16:01am

re: #226 Ryan King

OK, so you’re a Seahawks fan. I get it.

Trash talk used to be frowned upon or dismissed, but it appears that we want WWE/NFL now. Let’s teach that stuff in school because it’s part of the game.

I’ll not be watching that shit.

Again, I think you’re decades late on this complaint. And it’s been adopted for a long time and been praised for a long time.

And, honestly, this was kind of mild, particularly given the physical provocation that occurred immediately before this. I’m really kinda surprised that this was noteworthy.

233 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:16:08am

re: #176 Lidane

It’s PETA.

As usual, instead of making rational, thought out arguments about the conditions of factory farms and the benefits of a more plant-focused diet, they go for shock value and being sanctimonious pricks.

The other way requires too much work and creativity.
//

234 gwangung  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:17:34am

re: #231 BeenHereAwhile

That his relationship with then Stanford Head Coach Jim Harbaugh was contentious might have come into play. But, I dunno.

No, I think it’s been his relationship with Crabtree. A long term thing, exacerbated by a pop to the face mask.

235 Lidane  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:18:02am

Oh, hey. Look at that. Reince Priebus is still flogging the BENGHAZI and Repeal Obummercare! derp on his Twitter timeline.

How’s that GOP rebranding working out again?

236 Lidane  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:21:24am

re: #234 gwangung

No, I think it’s been his relationship with Crabtree. A long term thing, exacerbated by a pop to the face mask.

Yeah, this. Two guys who have a history of feuding, a football game that decides who goes to the Super Bowl, etc. Emotions were on high to begin with and they end up getting into each other’s space the whole game. I’m not shocked the guy who won got heated on TV.

Does that make it right? Not really, no. But it’s not as shocking as people are making it out to be.

237 Ryan King  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:24:16am

re: #232 gwangung

Again, I think you’re decades late on this complaint. And it’s been adopted for a long time and been praised for a long time.

And, honestly, this was kind of mild, particularly given the physical provocation that occurred immediately before this. I’m really kinda surprised that this was noteworthy.

The ‘incident’ didn’t cause the event, which is newsworthy because ‘DON”T YOU TALK ABOUT HIM. I’M TEH BEST.’ Really, it was totally over the top.

Sherman has history with Crabtree and Harbaugh. But that doesn’t mean trash talk is OK. Because it’s happened for decades does not make it OK, just like ignoring concussions because/ happened for decades.

238 BeenHereAwhile  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:26:06am

re: #234 gwangung

No, I think it’s been his relationship with Crabtree. A long term thing, exacerbated by a pop to the face mask.

I was doing a gig; missed the game and post game highjinks, so you’re probably correct.

239 Ryan King  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:28:39am

Yeah, I’m sure Sherman ran up to him and got in his face to merely just shake hands. Riiight.

Really, it’s not that big a deal. Therefore it’s not that big a deal when people say he’s being a trash talking douche.

So everybody calm down because I AM THE GREATEST. DON’T YOU TALK ABOUT ME.

240 Mattand  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 11:08:44am

re: #217 Eclectic Cyborg

I can’t speak for everyone, but the abuse I suffered nearly 20 years ago left emotional scars that remain with me to this day.

re: #220 PhillyPretzel

Same here. It still bothers me all these years later.

I hear you. Whenever I see TV shows or movies that feature bullies, I can feel my blood pressure go up.

It’s one of the reasons I do not like our current NJ governor. The fact that he openly abuses people, and my fellow Jerseyites rewarded him with the Governor’s chair, just makes me want to chew glass.

241 b_sharp  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 11:10:24am

re: #227 Lidane

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Wasn’t there a study recently that dispelled the myth that poor people use drugs more than wealthy people?

242 klys  Mon, Jan 20, 2014 11:15:39am

re: #239 Ryan King

Yeah, I’m sure Sherman ran up to him and got in his face to merely just shake hands. Riiight.

Really, it’s not that big a deal. Therefore it’s not that big a deal when people say he’s being a trash talking douche.

So everybody calm down because I AM THE GREATEST. DON’T YOU TALK ABOUT ME.

I saw just a bit of the game but I did see the replay of the facemask shove - and Sherman’s tap on Crabtree’s ass right before it.

Watching the ‘sportsmanship’ on display, it really detracted from being able to say wow, what a great play. Just my opinion, formed based on what I saw when I watched the last 8 minutes of the game.


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