Sunday Night Acoustic: Andy McKee, ‘The Reason’
Guitar World’s Acoustic Nation catches up with acoustic guitarist Andy McKee backstage at Yoshi’s in San Francisco. Here’s a one-take performance of Andy’s “The Reason.”
More at acousticnation.com
Guitar World’s Acoustic Nation catches up with acoustic guitarist Andy McKee backstage at Yoshi’s in San Francisco. Here’s a one-take performance of Andy’s “The Reason.”
More at acousticnation.com
1 | Charles Johnson Sun, Jan 19, 2014 8:14:51pm |
Wow
Such tone
Many notes
Very articulation
3 | Kragar Sun, Jan 19, 2014 8:27:22pm |
4 | Gus Sun, Jan 19, 2014 8:27:32pm |
#Shermanghazi 1/19 Never forget. Murica. pic.twitter.com/2CXICdwx3X— Gus (@Gus_802) January 20, 2014
5 | jaunte Sun, Jan 19, 2014 8:43:15pm |
China decries U.S. spending bill - Yahoo News http://t.co/XAKEEvDjNz
— Rick Cooley (@rcooley123) January 20, 2014
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 |
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.
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
Richard Sherman suddenly possessed by Clubber Lang in that post game interview.— Cliff Bleszinski (@therealcliffyb) January 20, 2014
10 | Gus Sun, Jan 19, 2014 9:38:12pm |
To the @Mariners and their fans, we tip our caps to you as Lou Seal goes in #FeastMode - and scene. pic.twitter.com/JniJk6E1yH— San Francisco Giants (@SFGiants) January 20, 2014
11 | Gus Sun, Jan 19, 2014 9:51:02pm |
PHOTO: I'm a 'Vette guy!— VP to GM CEO Mary Barra at the Detroit Auto Show. pic.twitter.com/b1hY7ojec7— Office of VP Biden (@VP) January 16, 2014
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 |
15 | Gus Sun, Jan 19, 2014 10:10:13pm |
Snopes: Fukushima Emergency: Image shows radioactive water seeping into the ocean from the Fukushima nuclear plant.” http://t.co/cj3wjNmeCX— Gus (@Gus_802) January 20, 2014
Derp. This is a NOAA Map of Japanese Tsunami Wave Height. pic.twitter.com/whvUJlrc09— Gus (@Gus_802) January 20, 2014
16 | Gus Sun, Jan 19, 2014 10:14:30pm |
17 | Gus Sun, Jan 19, 2014 10:32:03pm |
Black sand can contain Thorium. http://t.co/tvyOZu9EyV— Gus (@Gus_802) January 20, 2014
“Thorium is a naturally occurring radioactive chemical element with the symbol Th and atomic number 90.” http://t.co/zv1sJipXhe— Gus (@Gus_802) January 20, 2014
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
20 | Gus Sun, Jan 19, 2014 10:58:39pm |
Radioactivity is in the Air for You and Me - bionerd 23 @ EHSM - v4: http://t.co/qlXr3ujblM via @youtube— Gus (@Gus_802) January 20, 2014
21 | Gus Sun, Jan 19, 2014 11:10:04pm |
chernobyl 2013: inside the reactors 5+6, part 2: the pit of doom and the…: http://t.co/JsLT0LEYRC via @youtube— Gus (@Gus_802) January 20, 2014
23 | Kragar Sun, Jan 19, 2014 11:47:26pm |
I saw the Chris Christie bridge scandal at the Stone Pony in Asbury Park years ago before anyone had ever heard of it.— Frank Conniff (@FrankConniff) January 20, 2014
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 |
Where the hell do you get this insane nonsense? @BryanJFischer— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 20, 2014
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”:
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.
31 | Kragar Mon, Jan 20, 2014 3:50:17am |
Mary Matalin shrugs off Russian anti-LGBT laws: ‘All of my gay friends’ say Putin is hot | The Raw Story http://t.co/oZA2nHiRKJ— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 20, 2014
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.
A graphic of what the new laws restricting protests have as punishments:
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 |
#MLKFacts Martin Luther King, Jr. was a Democrat http://t.co/MZ7sc0rKEC #UniteBlue #lnyhbt #tcot #teaparty #LibCrib #ConnectTheLeft— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 20, 2014
39 | Pie-onist Overlord Mon, Jan 20, 2014 4:55:00am |
#MLKFacts Martin Luther King, Jr. was a supporter of Organized Labor. http://t.co/CZW19BoJtW #LivingWage #UniteBlue #lnyhbt #tcot— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 20, 2014
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 |
#MLKFacts Martin Luther King, Jr. promoted non-violence & rejected use of guns for self defense. http://t.co/brhIvFeW4J #UniteBlue #lnyhbt— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 20, 2014
45 | sattv4u2 Mon, Jan 20, 2014 5:20:23am |
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
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.)
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?
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?
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)
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.)
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.///
Solid South RT @ToConservatives: A graphic every American should look at and really think about. #lnyhbt #tcot pic.twitter.com/TTW4T2B64t— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 20, 2014
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)
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?
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?
?????-6 - ???, ??????? ?????????? ?????? ???????????. #?????????? #?????????? #euromaidan pic.twitter.com/pgmqDqwPNT— Peter Shuklinov (@PeterShuklinov) January 20, 2014
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 |
@redsteeze @ktumulty Please. She's a white Republican. You can't transpose your Obama hate onto just ANYONE when it suits you. Grow up.— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 20, 2014
73 | darthstar Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:41:11am |
Edward Snowden, Progressive Hero: http://t.co/iJBBniCVz0 pic.twitter.com/mkI2JnASfs— TheObamaDiary.com (@TheObamaDiary) January 20, 2014
74 | darthstar Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:43:23am |
@Only4RM @ZekeJMiller She's just stoked she gets to be Governor soon.— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 20, 2014
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…
— Animal Planet (@MeetAnimals) January 20, 2014
81 | Weet Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:11:14am |
“I haven't chuckled this much in years” — Mitt Romney pic.twitter.com/IVR8ZIf24b
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) January 19, 2014
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:
#UncomfortableFact for #LibCrib #UniteBlue #p2 #MomsDemand: #MLK was a REPUBLICAN who had #CCW permit denied by anti-#RKBA progs. #NRA #2A— Nick Chuckles (@NickChuckles) January 20, 2014
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
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 |
Obama Says Accurate, Boring Things About Weed, Daily Caller Hears Call For Dictatorship http://t.co/oTnX4bwBUW pic.twitter.com/boQkOcCTCD— R.Saddler (@Politics_PR) January 20, 2014
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
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 |
99 | Gus Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:55:37am |
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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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?
Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel: Sebelius uses MLK B-day to hack and flack for OCare. http://t.co/e6rP885U7F— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) January 20, 2014
107 | jaunte Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:00:39am |
Good one, Todd RT @toddstarnes I wonder if there was a Choom Room at Mrs. Obama's birthday bash? #smokemifyougotem
— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) January 20, 2014
108 | Lidane Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:00:48am |
re: #96 jaunte
Y’know, our founding fathers grew hemp, man.
I wonder if there was a Choom Room at Mrs. Obama's birthday bash? #smokemifyougotem— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) January 20, 2014
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 |
.@RightWingWatch @toddstarnes Democrats smoking weed while Republicans are snorting cocaine.— Gus (@Gus_802) January 20, 2014
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 |
I'm gonna http://t.co/XJ9MmZhgLu this to be sure. pic.twitter.com/O5vV49odd0— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) January 20, 2014
116 | Pie-onist Overlord Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:09:21am |
HURR HURR!!!1!!!
“It’s important for it to go forward” - Obama this week on marijuana legalization, reversing old position http://t.co/bxOLB50vf1— David Sirota (@davidsirota) January 20, 2014
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.
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 |
Check out #NRANews Commentators Ep. 36 “Martin Luther King Jr.” Featuring @MrColionNoir at http://t.co/Pkn5Ku8kwP pic.twitter.com/Cq22mpEbb9— NRA News (@NRANews) January 20, 2014
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.
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.
142 | Varek Raith Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:50:46am |
143 | Eclectic Cyborg Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:52:06am |
re: #142 Varek Raith
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
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
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
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
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
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 |
155 | Pie-onist Overlord Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:01:24am |
re: #154 Mattand
You know who says this shit? People who were
n’t bulliedbullies.
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.
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 bulliedwere 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 |
@wikileaks I genuinely don't know what this means, Julian, but the Ecuadorian Ambassador needs to keep you away from the drinks cabinet!— Owen Jones (@OwenJones84) January 20, 2014
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 |
MLK Day: The day where Republicans say nice things about a black man. And then wink at the Fox News camera. #justkidding— Justin Rosario (@FilthyLbrlScum) January 20, 2014
166 | Varek Raith Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:10:15am |
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 |
Fuck PETA. Not linking to their tweets but I'm sure you can guess what they've done.— Danielle (@DCPlod) January 20, 2014
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
What's it like 4 animals who R used 4 FOOD, CLOTHING, EXPERIMENTATION & ENTERTAINMENT? WATCH: http://t.co/XbR7qfiGnI pic.twitter.com/lrTwzvlR8V— PETA (@peta) January 20, 2014
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 |
#PetaMeals Chicken a la Dr. King— A$AP Feminist (@FeministaJones) January 20, 2014
#PetaMeals Booker T-Bone Steak— A$AP Feminist (@FeministaJones) January 20, 2014
#PETAMEALS (I Have A) Bream— Danielle (@DCPlod) January 20, 2014
#PetaMeals Rosa Pork— A$AP Feminist (@FeministaJones) January 20, 2014
175 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:19:57am |
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 |
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.
If we can have a national holiday to celebrate the birth of Martin Luther King, we can have one for the birth of Christ.— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) January 20, 2014
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 |
189 | Justanotherhuman Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:37:35am |
There are always a couple in the crowd…
Harper heckled during address to Israeli parliament
“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 |
#PetaMeals I Have A Cream Pie— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 20, 2014
192 | Pie-onist Overlord Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:40:10am |
Without Martin Luther King, my life story would never have happened http://t.co/9X6n87pr84— Tammy Duckworth (@Tammy4Congress) January 20, 2014
193 | Justanotherhuman Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:40:50am |
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.
Spies work in secret, they don't go to the press. Snowden is a whistleblower.— Pierre Omidyar (@pierre) January 20, 2014
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.
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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.
Singer gets a major Photoshop makeover in music video http://t.co/gNA1AZA1So— Jezebel (@Jezebel) January 20, 2014
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.
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.
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@pierre So meeting with Chinese and Russian intelligence personnel is “going to the press”? Get real. #FAIL #tcot #uniteblue
— Kurt Akemann (@Dark_Falcon7) January 20, 2014
206 | Pie-onist Overlord Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:47:28am |
New Tailgaters: Why players like Richard Sherman can't win: #Seahawks pic.twitter.com/aMf3rDsQGN— Rob Tornoe (@RobTornoe) January 20, 2014
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.[…]
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…
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.[…]
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 |
“let's compare our cause to slavery!” (c) every white person with a cause, ever— Jake Chillinawl (@blunted215) January 20, 2014
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 |
“I have a dream that one day Conservatives will claim me as their own after calling me a communist my whole life.” -MLK Jr.
— Grand Old Parody (@GrandOldParody1) January 20, 2014
223 | Lidane Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:03:38am |
“You Don't Want People Smoking Pot and Handling Nuclear Weapons” http://t.co/ohtrbNA2Ry— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) January 20, 2014
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.
224 | Justanotherhuman Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:05:03am |
re: #207 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
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Are you sure he wasn’t doing this again?
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225 | Pie-onist Overlord Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:06:40am |
WTFITS I just can’t even
MLK was a victim of unnecessary, wrongful state surveillance, so reporting on that today is entirely appropriate. @vinceinthebay @kgosztola— Ron Brynaert (@ronbryn) January 20, 2014
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 |
Fox News host: Solution to high minority arrest rate is for them to smoke less pot http://t.co/1hI646eYD6— Eric W. Dolan (@EWDolan) January 20, 2014
229 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:11:55am |
If you told me a Stanford grad was going to terrify and outrage large parts of America, I'd have put my money on Condoleezza Rice
— Bruce Arthur (@bruce_arthur) January 20, 2014
230 | Dark_Falcon Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:12:42am |
re: #223 Lidane
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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.
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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.