Overnight Short Film: When the Zombies Come

It turns out there’s a lot of zombie-killing weapons in an Ace hardware store
• Views: 22,429

Vimeo

Official Selection of 2013 Sundance Film Festival
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/820659490/andys-wake

Official Selection of the following: Atlanta Film Festival, Friars Club Film Festival, Florida Film Festival, Martha’s Vineyard Film Festival, BAMcinemaFest, Rooftop Films Summer Series, Independent Film Festival Boston, Stanley Film Festival, Philadelphia Film Festival, Crested Butte Film Festival

Jump to bottom

425 comments
1 klys  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:22:28pm

So the title here just coincidentally managed to match the tone of the GOP responses, right?

Cause all I got from them was the murmuring of the zombie horde, with the same old dead ideas.

2 Kragar  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:25:18pm
3 klys  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:25:40pm

re: #2 Kragar

If you thought he wasn’t under investigation before…

4 Targetpractice  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:28:00pm

re: #1 klys

So the title here just coincidentally managed to match the tone of the GOP responses, right?

Cause all I got from them was the murmuring of the zombie horde, with the same old dead ideas.

To be fair, the official GOP response was not zombie-like, if only because robots don’t qualify as alive to begin with.

5 jaunte  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:28:40pm

re: #2 Kragar

“Under Investigation by: The FBI, the House Ethics Committee, and the OCE.”
citizensforethics.org

6 Charles Johnson  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:30:35pm
7 Lidane  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:33:13pm

Smarter than the GOP responses:

8 Kragar  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:33:38pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Boehner: “Why did I have to give him a thumbs up?”

9 Kragar  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:35:23pm
10 Targetpractice  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:36:53pm

The “official” GOP rebuttal was basically the same one they’ve given every other year. I’m pretty sure it’s an ad-lib speech by now: “President Obama promised _______, but Republicans have a plan that accomplishes the same goal while shrinking government.”

11 Lidane  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:37:14pm
12 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:39:29pm

re: #11 Lidane

[Embedded content]

The fool who says that won’t evade the shark attack that follows, however big his boat is.

13 Kragar  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:39:34pm
14 Feline Fearless Leader  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:40:43pm

Good night folks. All the southern lizards stay warm and safe in the face of the rare snowfall there.

15 Kragar  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:42:32pm
16 Targetpractice  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:42:53pm

The DoJ’s already investing you and you decide that the night of the SOTU is the best time to threaten the life of a reporter.

Oh yeah, you’re a special kind of stupid.

17 jaunte  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:42:54pm

re: #13 Kragar

Deer in the headlights.
Alex Wong / Getty Images

18 blueraven  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:46:27pm

Rachel Maddow giving him hell right now.

19 Lidane  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:47:10pm

re: #15 Kragar

Keynote speaker at CPAC 2014 alongside Phil Robertson.

20 blueraven  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:48:40pm

re: #18 blueraven

[Embedded content]

Rachel Maddow giving him hell right now.

OMG because he cant answer a question, he called Rachel a cheerleader. She was pissed!

21 Lidane  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:49:59pm
22 Lidane  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:50:45pm

Heh:

23 Targetpractice  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:51:20pm

Oh, and congrats to Congresswoman Rodgers for being fortunate enough to be the wife of a Naval officer and thus not having to deal with her son’s Downs Syndrome through the private insurance market.

24 jaunte  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:51:23pm

re: #20 blueraven

He’s a fool. “Executive orders are unlawful without proper authority.”

25 Kid A  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:51:51pm
26 Joanne  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:52:57pm

re: #2 Kragar

[Embedded content]

Could not make out a word. What did Grimm say?

27 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:53:20pm

re: #18
blueraven


Yeah, politicized like this:

We’ll keep slashing that backlog so our veterans receive the benefits they’ve earned and our wounded warriors receive the health care — including the mental health care — that they need. (Applause.) We’ll keep working to help all our veterans translate their skills and leadership into jobs here at home, and we will all continue to join forces to honor and support our remarkable military families.
…
Cory is here tonight. And like the Army he loves, like the America he serves, Sergeant First Class Cory Remsburg never gives up, and he does not quit.

Oh the humanity.

28 austin_blue  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:53:50pm

Coming upstairs after posting an unfortunate word in the previous thread. And apologizing there.

And apologies to all lizards, here.

Went all dumbshit in the head, for a minute.

Yeesh.

29 Lidane  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:53:54pm
30 jaunte  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:55:56pm

re: #26 Joanne

Could not make out a word. What did Grimm say?

“you’re not a man. I could break you in half.”

Among other things. It’s at the very end.
thedailybeast.com

31 gwangung  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:56:22pm

re: #29 Lidane

[Embedded content]

Knows the words but not the music about feminism.

32 Targetpractice  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:56:22pm

re: #29 Lidane

[Embedded content]

33 Kid A  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:56:23pm

re: #28 austin_blue

You got out of control with the twink comment, but I know your heart is in the right place, no worries here.

34 Joanne  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:57:35pm

re: #21 Lidane

[Embedded content]

Best comment at TPM:

“They don’t know what it is but they don’t like it.”

You’ve just captured the fundamental value of the Republican Party today.

35 Charles Johnson  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:58:04pm

Retweeted by Jim Hoft:

36 Charles Johnson  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 8:58:54pm
37 Lidane  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:01:34pm

re: #13 Kragar

38 jaunte  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:02:45pm

Wahoo!!!

39 Lidane  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:05:32pm
40 jaunte  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:07:10pm

Oh, he was in a hurry. OK then.

41 Amory Blaine  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:07:57pm

Christie: “I can see Staten Island from my house.”

42 jaunte  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:14:28pm
43 blueraven  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:20:16pm

re: #21 Lidane

[Embedded content]

Oh a Frank Luntz focus group? The same Frank Luntz focus group Mitt Romney’s campaign got so excited about and put so much stock in? That Frank Luntz? How cute.

44 Lidane  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:21:29pm

Wheee!

45 Kragar  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:22:25pm
46 jaunte  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:24:37pm

re: #44 Lidane

Such a perfect capsule version of right wing corruption, bullying, and attempted coverup.

47 blueraven  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:25:40pm

re: #44 Lidane

Wheee!

[Embedded content]

Damn, he thinks he is “all that” and lowly reporters should show deference to him?

This is the true 1% attitude.

*spit*

48 palomino  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:29:24pm

re: #29 Lidane

[Embedded content]

Having an affair, or even sexually harassing an adult co-worker, isn’t the same as passing laws that tell women what they can and can’t do with their own bodies.

The analogy is so incongrous as to be worthless, except as proof that Rand’s piss is pure tea, unlike the other TP impostors he’s trying to get in front of.

Best strategy for beating Hillary is probably not blaming her for things her husband did…20 years ago.

And can we please stop calling 23-year old women (Monica’s age at time of affair) “young girls,” as Paul does? They’re adults, and in Monica’s case a recent college grad. Paul’s attitude smacks of the very condescension to women he claims to be rejecting.

49 jaunte  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:30:11pm


northjersey.com

50 palomino  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:34:54pm

re: #29 Lidane

[Embedded content]

Impeaching Clinton wasn’t even a good idea at the time. Rand’s dumb, but not so dumb he doesn’t know this.

Pure red meat for the aging TP/GOP base that can’t get enough old time Clinton bashing, even if it’s not the one who’s running for office.

51 Joanne  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:37:33pm

re: #44 Lidane

Wheee!

[Embedded content]

I love the “you have no professionalism” remark when he just threatened the guy. That’s TOTAL professionalism.

52 palomino  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:38:24pm

re: #40 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Oh, he was in a hurry. OK then.

Tomorrow Grimm will likely apologize profusely, maybe cry like a baby, and then blame it all on stress or something vague like that.

The reporter was so non-confrontational, it’s hard to imagine many people, other than Grimm’s staunchest supporters, defending that kind of mindless macho threat.

53 jaunte  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:39:49pm

re: #52 palomino

Tomorrow Grimm will likely apologize profusely, maybe cry like a baby, and then blame it all on stress or something vague like that.

I get the impression he isn’t smart enough for that.

54 blueraven  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:41:51pm

re: #52 palomino

Tomorrow Grimm will likely apologize profusely, maybe cry like a baby, and then blame it all on stress or something vague like that.

The reporter was so non-confrontational, it’s hard to imagine many people, other than Grimm’s staunchest supporters, defending that kind of mindless macho threat.

Maybe he is out of sorts because he lost his coke connection.
Radel resigned. //

55 palomino  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:44:00pm

re: #53 jaunte

I get the impression he isn’t smart enough for that.

Agreed, but someone who is smarter will probably have a talk with him. Then he’ll put on a little act for the cameras, and all will probably be forgotten.

56 Killgore Trout  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:47:11pm

re: #52 palomino

Tomorrow Grimm will likely apologize profusely, maybe cry like a baby, and then blame it all on stress or something vague like that.

The reporter was so non-confrontational, it’s hard to imagine many people, other than Grimm’s staunchest supporters, defending that kind of mindless macho threat.

That poor reporter looked so shaken by the alpha male display. The poor kid didn’t quite realize he was in the power position. Not quite sure if this is a career ender for Grimm but it should be. His opponent in the next election is going to have some really good material for TV ads.

57 Kragar  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:49:51pm
58 Gus  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:50:12pm
59 Gus  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:51:04pm
60 Gus  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:51:21pm
61 Killgore Trout  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:51:40pm

re: #49 jaunte

[Embedded content]


northjersey.com

I’m starting to think Christie may survive all this. The original Bridge story looked pretty bad but the pile on accusations have been way over the top. The Sandy aid story looks like it’s not going to pan out. Same with all the “alternative theories”, DKos was accusing him of disconnecting air quality sensors for some nefarious revenge plot or something. It’s become a feeding frenzy of stupid and at this point if the bridge is the only thing that ends up being true then the public might not think much after all the wild accusations.

62 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:54:03pm

re: #61 Killgore Trout

I’m starting to think Christie may survive all this. The original Bridge story looked pretty bad but the pile on accusations have been way over the top. The Sandy aid story looks like it’s not going to pan out. Same with all the “alternative theories”, DKos was accusing him of disconnecting air quality sensors for some nefarious revenge plot or something. It’s become a feeding frenzy of stupid and at this point if the bridge is the only thing that ends up being true then the public might not think much after all the wild accusations.

I could see that happening, though I’m far from convinced its the likely outcome. But we’ve seen legitimate lines of inquire get turn to crud after the conspiracists latched onto them.

63 jaunte  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:55:03pm

re: #61 Killgore Trout

If no one has anything he signed or a recorded statement, (and his close confidants don’t roll) he’ll probably stay governor, but I think that’s as far as he’ll go.

64 Killgore Trout  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:56:29pm

re: #62 Dark_Falcon

I could see that happening, though I’m far from convinced its the likely outcome. But we’ve seen legitimate lines of inquire get turn to crud after the conspiracists latched onto them.

It’s hard to tell. At first the bridge thing looked really bad but in hindsight it might have just been a meaningless press frenzy.

65 Dark_Falcon  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 9:57:21pm

I’m heading for bed, but I’ll leave with this post that which features a good analogy between the Barkut riot police opposing the Euromaidan movement and the Fighting Uruk-hai of Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings.

66 Gus  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 10:05:31pm

Former FBI agent. Yikes, you should see his associates. You can’t make these people up. They’re like out of Hollywood central casting.

67 Gus  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 10:08:32pm
68 blueraven  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 10:15:53pm

re: #58 Gus

That. is. awesome.
The end.

69 Gus  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 10:18:29pm

re: #68 blueraven

That. is. awesome.
The end.

Thanks. Yeah. It suddenly hit me. “Wait! This guy’s a THUG!”

70 Gus  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 10:21:06pm


1999

Around 2:30 A.M., there was a commotion on the dance floor. According to Williams, somebody was shouting, “He’s got a gun!” Following a crowd into the club’s garage, Williams discovered that Grimm and the husband had returned, and Grimm was holding a weapon. Grimm was “carrying on like a madman,” Williams said. “He’s screaming, ‘I’m gonna fuckin’ kill him.’ So I said to him, ‘Who are you?’ He put the gun back in his waist and said, ‘I’m a fucking F.B.I. agent, ain’t nobody gonna threaten me.’ “

71 Gus  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 10:22:16pm

Grimm left the club, but at 4 A.M., just before the club closed, he returned again, according to Williams, this time with another F.B.I. agent and a group of N.Y.P.D. officers. Grimm had told the police that he had been assaulted by the estranged husband and his friends. Williams said that Grimm took command of the scene, and refused to let the remaining patrons and employees leave. “Everybody get up against the fucking wall,” Williams recalled him saying. “The F.B.I. is in control.” Then Grimm, who apparently wanted to find the man with whom he’d had the original altercation, said something that Williams said he’ll never forget: “All the white people get out of here.”

72 Gus  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 10:26:49pm
73 blueraven  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 10:27:05pm

re: #71 Gus

Grimm left the club, but at 4 A.M., just before the club closed, he returned again, according to Williams, this time with another F.B.I. agent and a group of N.Y.P.D. officers. Grimm had told the police that he had been assaulted by the estranged husband and his friends. Williams said that Grimm took command of the scene, and refused to let the remaining patrons and employees leave. “Everybody get up against the fucking wall,” Williams recalled him saying. “The F.B.I. is in control.” Then Grimm, who apparently wanted to find the man with whom he’d had the original altercation, said something that Williams said he’ll never forget: “All the white people get out of here.”

Holy shit

74 Gus  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 10:34:08pm

re: #73 blueraven

Holy shit

FBI agent. Scary aye? And he’s not alone either. Fucking pisses me off.

75 Gus  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 10:53:04pm
76 Gus  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 10:55:39pm
77 Gus  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 11:07:37pm

78 Gus  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 11:11:29pm

79 Gus  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 11:16:42pm

80 Lidane  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 11:40:30pm

*headdesk*

81 Gus  Tue, Jan 28, 2014 11:45:30pm

Nighty night.

82 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 1:38:50am

This cold weather has my permission to just stop.
It’s -5F outside and the toilet has frozen.

ratz……..

83 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 2:00:54am

re: #82 Backwoods_Sleuth

The water inlet’s frozen? Or is there a layer of ice in the bowl? ;-)

84 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 2:05:56am

re: #83 wheat-dogghazi

The water inlet’s frozen? Or is there a layer of ice in the bowl? ;-)

water inlet…the tank won’t fill.

85 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 2:08:59am

re: #84 Backwoods_Sleuth

Got a space heater handy? Put it facing the wall behind the toilet. Close the bathroom door. Wait.

86 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 2:12:34am

re: #85 wheat-dogghazi

Got a space heater handy? Put it facing the wall behind the toilet. Close the bathroom door. Wait.

Doing that right now. Water is flowing fine in the sink, tub and to the water heater. I’ve had those dribbling since last evening when it looked like freezing was starting, and flushing the toilet regularly.
My mistake was falling asleep for three hours…

87 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 2:18:11am

re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth

Good luck! I’ve had experience with frozen pipes before in Kentucky, when I lived in old construction. Seems it never got cold enough back in the old days to worry about protecting water pipes from freezing, although one house did have heat tape wrapped around the pipes in a crawlspace.

Come to think of it, those houses weren’t well insulated, either.

88 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 2:26:49am

re: #87 wheat-dogghazi

Yep, I’ve got one of those houses.
There’s heat tape on the kitchen pipes and out in the well pumphouse. There’s that foam on most of the pipes under the floor.

During the polar vortex, one night the bathtub cold water tap froze, the next night it was the bathroom sink cold water tap, the third night it was the kitchen cold water (despite the heat tape!)
Guess the toilet decided it was its turn…

89 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 2:49:25am

re: #79 Gus

[Embedded image]

That’s hate in those eyes. Pure and simple hate.

90 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 2:57:29am
91 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 2:59:18am
92 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 3:09:00am

Steve Stockman, ever derpy:

Stockman responds to State of the Union address

WASHINGTON - Congressman Steve Stockman (R-TX 36) issued the following statement Tuesday night:

Tonight I left early after hearing how the President is further abusing his Constitutional powers. I could not bear to watch as he continued to cross the clearly-defined boundaries of the Constitutional separation of powers.

Needless to say, I am deeply disappointed in the tone and content of tonight’s address.

After five years in office Obama refuses to admit his policies have failed. He instead demands we double down on the bitter class warfare that has left Americans jobless and hopeless.

Obama’s plan for higher taxes and more spending is a blueprint for perpetual poverty. The last thing America needs is more of the Democrats’ class warfare that has left our economy a barren landscape.

Even worse, Obama has openly vowed to break his oath of office and begin enacting his own brand of law through executive decree. This is a wholesale violation of his oath of office and a disqualifying offense.

facebook.com

93 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 3:12:48am

Fuck you, Scarborough. You couldn’t live on even $10.10/hr. But you think everyone else should have to live on the crumbs from your table, you miserable, lying, cheating killer.

94 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 3:16:11am

MSNBC has become as totally unwatchable as the rest of the “news” channels.

95 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 3:28:46am

re: #92 Backwoods_Sleuth

So, Obama is creating class warfare. In what alternate universe? Alternate Obama would have a goatee, at least.

The only “hopeless and jobless” Americans are the ones in their Hoverounds, aghast that a black guy is (still) in the White House.

96 freetoken  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 3:29:16am

re: #92 Backwoods_Sleuth

Speaking of Stockman:

On Monday, U.S. Rep. Steve Stockman, R-Texas, was found after a month of unknown whereabouts. Or, as his office is trying to spin it, he merely resurfaced and was never actually missing in the first place. Stockman now claims that he simply left the country to participate in an official visit to the Middle East with the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Though the delegation’s leader, U.S. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-California, confirmed Stockman was traveling with committee, Stockman was absent for longer than his other colleagues on the trip, according to the Dallas Morning News. The unaccounted-for vacation days, however, aren’t the only weird thing about Stockman lately. Though the representative is challenging U.S. Sen. and minority whip John Cornyn in the Texas GOP primary in March, his campaign has only $32,000 in cash on hand, along with $163,000 in debt. He has also been slacking off on his day job, having missed 17 straight votes in the House since Jan. 9, according to the Austin American-Statesman. And his campaign has been dodging questions left, right and center — including those about alleged campaign finance violations. While we’re glad the congressman has safely “resurfaced,” we can’t help but long for the day when Texas politicians will make the news for strong governance and not just for strange behavior.

97 freetoken  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 3:35:24am

And now for a bit of archeology:

1,500-year-old historic church found under Lake Iznik

The church has been discovered underneath of Lake Iznik in Bursa, a province known as one of the most significant places in Turkey for christians.th is assumed to be church St. Peter’s Church, which Appears in many different sources of Christian history, although no evidence has yet been found to support that.

[…]

According to the information attained so far, the church Consists of three corridors and has the layout of a basilica. This kind of construction was generally in vogue during the Roman period and was used in the courthouse buildings. In AD 313, when Christianity was accepted as the official religion of the empire, practicing Christians started to use the basilica layout for churches as well.

The site extends from east to west and has been determined order to be a church building because there is an apse in the east corner of the building in addition to the fact that the basilica floor plans were Commonly found in churches, Hawk explained.

There’s a picture at the link, in which the lake’s water level looks to be low.

Here’s the area, I believe, at a higher water level.

You can barely make out what looks like the remains of a structure in the shallow water (follow Vakif Sk west into the water.)

98 freetoken  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 3:36:59am

fixed the link

99 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 3:42:55am

re: #96 freetoken

Speaking of Stockman:

This is the guy from Bloomfield Hills, MI, right?

“Once a homeless college dropout, Stockman served one term in Congress beginning in 1995, then returned last year and has attracted attention with flamboyant rhetoric about impeaching President Barack Obama and promoting gun rights.”

There’s more to that statement than meets the eye, I’ll bet. Even he admits he was partying hearty. But let’s review: He would have been around 30 when all this happened below; he was no kid but an adult, no doubt a spoiled, privileged white boy who couldn’t even stay in college because he was so undisciplined. What would make voters think he has changed any? No doubt he got used to lying at a very early age, and maybe the drugs he used took their toll, but if this is the kind of politician Texas wants, they can keep him down there, not put him in national office.

“From 1985 to 1986, he attended San Jacinto College but dropped out because he suffered from what he called “partying syndrome”. When he was a teenager Police officers allegedly found valium in his possession after a girlfriend allegedly hid the substance in his clothes. He was charged with possession of a controlled substance, but the charge was later dropped.[5] He was homeless for a time.[6”

en.wikipedia.org

100 freetoken  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 3:45:29am

re: #99 Justanotherhuman

Same guy.

101 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 3:47:50am

re: #99 Justanotherhuman

Let me guess. He found Jesus, has repented of all his former misdeeds, and is now an insufferable prig.

102 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 3:49:40am

re: #100 freetoken

Same guy.

Yeah, and his kind wanted to condemn Clinton (who at least got a great education and was accomplished) because Clinton may have smoked some pot? But IOKIYAR. Bunch of hypocrites that if people knew the real truth about them, or at least paid some fucking attention, couldn’t get jobs as dog catchers.

103 ObserverArt  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:12:43am

Morning all. Sorry to hear about your toilet feed tube freezing up Backwoods_Sleuth. Hopefully the break in extreme temps over the next few days will allow you to thaw out your house and catch up on your sleep.

The big news today…the weather and ‘professional thug boy Grimm.

As far as the weather. People love to bag on the term global warming when the weather turns as cold as it has. Maybe they will buy into the term climate change. After all, many of the same types of folks didn’t like Obamacare but were fine with the Affordable Care Act.

And as far as Grimm. Boy, what an active sounding last name. I guess he is going to find out just how grim it all will get, as he just opened up the eye of the media and they are going to give him the fine-tooth-comb treatment on his entire career. As Gus has found, it sounds like he has some issues and they will now be a lot larger.

104 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:20:45am

re: #103 ObserverArt

Morning all. Sorry to hear about your toilet feed tube freezing up Backwoods_Sleuth. Hopefully the break in extreme temps over the next few days will allow you to thaw out your house and catch up on your sleep.

The big news today…the weather and ‘professional thug boy Grimm.

As far as the weather. People love to bag on the term global warming when the weather turns as cold as it has. Maybe they will buy into the term climate change. After all, many of the same types of folks didn’t like Obamacare but were fine with the Affordable Care Act.

And as far as Grimm. Boy, what an active sounding last name. I guess he is going to find out just how grim it all will get, as he just opened up the eye of the media and they are going to give him the fine-tooth-comb treatment on his entire career. As Gus has found, it sounds like he has some issues and they will now be a lot larger.

#1 Rule for Politicians:

Don’t make enemies of the press.

105 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:28:03am

WTFITS
How can an impoverished person on food stamps START A BUSINESS?

106 ObserverArt  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:28:25am

re: #104 Justanotherhuman

#1 Rule for Politicians:

Don’t make enemies of the press.

Isn’t it amazing? These politicians should know that by now, but their arrogance and views of that press allow them to keep stepping in it. Some professional he is. And he was FBI? Dude is terrible at understanding people and that should be one of the biggest tools in the bag of any inspector. I wonder what his FBI job really was.

107 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:31:07am

Jesus H. Christ
Anybody can nominate anybody for the Nobel Prize. You could nominate me for the Pies Prize.

108 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:31:44am

Excellent piece here on Ukraine.

Lurching into chaos

economist.com

109 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:32:08am

I would really, really love to know what is “more stable and peaceful” in the world since Snowden’s little escapade.

110 ObserverArt  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:32:45am

re: #105 Pie-onist Overlord

WTFITS
How can an impoverished person on food stamps START A BUSINESS?

[Embedded content]

Thanks for posting another tweet from Bozo Fischer. I was going to make a comment the other day that a guy like Fischer is a great example of just the type of job creator he really is. Just look at how successful he has been with being part of a group that sits around all day taking shots at everything they hate and tweeting all the day long. That is a hell of a job. And all in the name of Christianity. Everyone should go out and do the same.

111 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:35:46am

Businesses That Even A Person On Food Stamps Can Start:

1. Snow shoveling (with a manual shovel)
2. Baby sitting
3. Dog Walking
4. Lawn mowing (with a walk-behind lawn mower)

Any more suggestions?

112 Patricia Kayden  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:38:02am

re: #111 Pie-onist Overlord

Maid?

113 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:38:50am

re: #106 ObserverArt

Isn’t it amazing? These politicians should know that by now, but their arrogance and views of that press allow them to keep stepping in it. Some professional he is. And he was FBI? Dude is terrible at understanding people and that should be one of the biggest tools in the bag of any inspector. I wonder what his FBI job really was.

He was a special agent; he started working for them as “support” in 1991 when he got out of college; he got a law degree and worked for them as a special agent for 9 yrs and then the incident in the night club happened, according to Wiki. He claims he left the FBI in 2006.

114 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:40:23am

re: #112 Patricia Kayden

Maid?

Being a servant in someone else’s house is not the same as having your own business. A cleaning service that schedules cleaners to visit customer’s homes would be an example of a small business.

115 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:41:25am
116 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:44:05am

re: #107 Pie-onist Overlord

Jesus H. Christ
Anybody can nominate anybody for the Nobel Prize. You could nominate me for the Pies Prize.

[Embedded content]

Greenwald really is such a shithead.

117 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:46:02am

Imagine, if by some horrible fluke the Nobel Committee lost its mind and Snowden did get the Peace Prize, how much more political his self-imposed exile in Russia would become?

First “Dudebro Hero”, doncha know. We’d never hear the fucking end of it.

118 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:47:21am

Pope Francis will win the Nobel Peace Prize.

119 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:49:19am

re: #111 Pie-onist Overlord

Businesses That Even A Person On Food Stamps Can Start:

1. Snow shoveling (with a manual shovel)
2. Baby sitting
3. Dog Walking
4. Lawn mowing (with a walk-behind lawn mower)

Any more suggestions?

A church.

120 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:50:29am

Go and actually read Article I Section 8, dumbass. It does not say what you think it says.

121 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:51:35am

re: #119 Feline Fearless Leader

A church.

Street performer.

122 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:51:51am

Subway performer.

123 darthstar  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:52:07am
124 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:52:08am

Knight errant.

125 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:53:22am

Pirate ship captain.

126 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:54:16am

re: #121 Pie-onist Overlord

Street performer.

Hey, I read a few years ago that the “Naked Cowboy” was a millionaire.

So, invent a schtick before you go on the street, I guess…

127 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:56:20am
128 darthstar  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 4:59:06am

“I’ll throw you off this fucking balcony.”

129 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:00:35am

Atlanta is shut down, people. No MARTA, either.

Southern-style snowstorm: Gridlock, kind neighbors

hosted.ap.org

“Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said early Wednesday that the National Guard was sending military Humvees onto Atlanta’s snarled freeway system in an attempt to move stranded school buses and get food and water to people. Georgia State Patrol troopers headed to schools where children were hunkered down early Wednesday after spending the night there, and transportation crews continued to treat roads and bring gas to motorists, Deal said.”

I’m telling you, the Deep South does not know how to deal with this stuff. At least in NC we cope better because we do get some snow.

130 darthstar  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:02:06am

This story gives me hope. Not everyone is addicted to social media after all.

131 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:03:54am
132 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:05:37am

re: #130 darthstar

This story gives me hope. Not everyone is addicted to social media after all.

[Embedded content]

This is even better!

“In September, a man was shot in a line for beer in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don after enraging a fellow beer drinker with his views about the work of Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant.”

The killer only has to serve 15 yrs? At 53, he’ll get out in plenty of time to fuel another argument.

133 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:05:39am

Three words, Alabama: FOUR WHEEL DRIVE. Don’t y’all drive F-150’s?

134 darthstar  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:08:25am

re: #133 Pie-onist Overlord

Three words, Alabama: FOUR WHEEL DRIVE. Don’t y’all drive F-150’s?

Why? The National Guard is like a socialist AAA club?

135 darthstar  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:09:05am
136 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:10:16am

re: #133 Pie-onist Overlord

Three words, Alabama: FOUR WHEEL DRIVE. Don’t y’all drive F-150’s?

Tell Bezos to get to work. If the drone network was in place they could be delivering pie and coffee to stranded motorists.

137 darthstar  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:10:22am
138 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:12:34am

Good morning Lizards. A balmy 12F in Philly this morning - as compared to Pittsburgh and points west enjoying more sub-zero weather. A dusting of snow overnight. The annoying 1/2” that is just enough to make things slick and hides the ice patches that are still here and there.

Otherwise looking like a glacially paced day ahead. Time to work on documentation and do some research for a few upcoming projects.

139 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:14:18am

re: #137 darthstar

[Embedded content]

Wishful, apocalyptic thinking. These types should never have complete control of govt; we really would have a dystopian future then.

140 darthstar  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:18:48am
141 darthstar  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:20:02am

It’ll be a slow, loud, painful retirement.

142 b.d.  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:20:22am

re: #107 Pie-onist Overlord

Jesus H. Christ
Anybody can nominate anybody for the Nobel Prize. You could nominate me for the Pies Prize.

[Embedded content]

THIS DEAL ISN’T ABOUT SNOWDEN!!!!

143 darthstar  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:21:19am
144 darthstar  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:23:26am

re: #142 b.d.

THIS DEAL ISN’T ABOUT SNOWDEN!!!!

Give the guy a break. He just lost “Person of the Year” to a Pope. Of course, the Pope will likely also get nominated and if he beats Greenwald again there will be hell to tweet.

145 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:25:52am

I think you can get the gist of this translation:

“January 22, 2014 35-year-old U.S. citizen Farmer Charles Steward was banned from entering Ukraine for demonstration in the center of Kyiv documentary “Square: people requires the overthrow of the regime.” Doing SBU regarded as incitement to Ukrainian public disorder. Night January 26 Stewart was selected exclusive projection equipment over the amount of 30 thousand dollars and credit cards are locked. At this time, Stewart went to Europe.”

Forbidden movie:

Youtube Video

146 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:26:32am

A Wikipedia search and surf led me to a list of American Book Award winners.

en.wikipedia.org

I looked through the entire list - and I have read *one* of them. And only recognized a dozen or so others. Not sure if it’s me, or if this just represents a relatively obscure or eccentric part of American literature.

147 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:27:43am

re: #141 darthstar

It’ll be a slow, loud, painful retirement.

I saw a blurp of that on CNN yesterday and remarked that I was surprised anyone cared.

148 b.d.  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:29:37am

re: #144 darthstar

Give the guy a break. He just lost “Person of the Year” to a Pope. Of course, the Pope will likely also get nominated and if he beats Greenwald again there will be hell to tweet.

But disclosing that we were monitoring chinese facilities, Mexican drug cartels and telling the world how we try and track terrorists has made the whole world one collective unicorn fart.

149 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:31:37am

re: #146 Feline Fearless Leader

A Wikipedia search and surf led me to a list of American Book Award winners.

en.wikipedia.org

I looked through the entire list - and I have read *one* of them. And only recognized a dozen or so others. Not sure if it’s me, or if this just represents a relatively obscure or eccentric part of American literature.

Very esoteric lists, but look!

1984, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, You-shan Tang, Ellen Lai-shan Yeung for Pie-Biter

150 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:36:56am

re: #133 Pie-onist Overlord

Three words, Alabama: FOUR WHEEL DRIVE. Don’t y’all drive F-150’s?

2 words for Alabama: “Stay put”.

They don’t know how to drive on this crap, and the 4-wheel drivers are the worst.

151 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:37:51am

re: #149 Justanotherhuman

Very esoteric lists, but look!

1984, Ruthanne Lum McCunn, You-shan Tang, Ellen Lai-shan Yeung for Pie-Biter

I looked up Pie-Biter. It’s a children’s book about a young Chinese immigrant in the 1800’s who makes a fortune baking PIE.

152 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:38:27am

re: #150 Decatur Deb

2 words for Alabama: “Stay put”.

They don’t know how to drive on this crap, and the 4-wheel drivers are the worst.

153 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:38:46am

re: #151 Pie-onist Overlord

I looked up Pie-Biter. It’s a children’s book about a young Chinese immigrant in the 1800’s who makes a fortune baking PIE.

You should find a copy and mail it to Bryan Fisher.
;)

154 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:39:39am

re: #153 Feline Fearless Leader

You should find a copy and mail it to Bryan Fisher.
;)

Bryan would deport that illegal’s ass and keep all Teh Pie!

155 Dr. Matt  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:44:19am

The good, the bad, the thugly

156 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:44:26am

re: #146 Feline Fearless Leader

Many ABA winners are not novels. Many of those are non-fiction or analytical works written by university professors or critics. A few I recognize by the title alone, but have not read. Maybe two I have read, but I didn’t check the list that carefully.

In other words, don’t feel bad.

157 darthstar  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:48:09am
158 darthstar  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:59:39am

When cough syrup was cough syrup.

159 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 5:59:39am

re: #156 wheat-dogghazi

Many ABA winners are not novels. Many of those are non-fiction or analytical works written by university professors or critics. A few I recognize by the title alone, but have not read. Maybe two I have read, but I didn’t check the list that carefully.

In other words, don’t feel bad.

I also looked at lists of the Pulitzer winners in Fiction, History, Biography, etc. and recognized (and have read) a lot more in those lists.

I think it might be partially that my interests run towards SF, military history, and natural history - which just possibly run against the general categories the ABA awards cover. (Which appears to be analysis of literature and an open bias towards minority and non-mainstream writers and history.)

160 lawhawk  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:03:01am

re: #128 darthstar

Ah, Rep. Grimm from Staten Island. The only GOPer in Congress from NYC.

His girlfriend was indicted on campaign finance charges - the same charges that Dinesh was charged with - bundling funds to go over the cap.

His excuse? He was extremely annoyed with the line of questions.

“I was extremely annoyed because I was doing NY1 a favor by rushing to do their interview first in lieu of several other requests. The reporter knew that I was in a hurry and was only there to comment on the State of the Union, but insisted on taking a disrespectful and cheap shot at the end of the interview, because I did not have time to speak off-topic. I verbally took the reporter to task and told him off, because I expect a certain level of professionalism and respect, especially when I go out of my way to do that reporter a favor. I doubt that I am the first member of Congress to tell off a reporter, and I am sure I won’t be the last.”

Grimm later told the New York Post that he was “annoyed” and was in a rush.

“The reporter took a cheap shot at the end and I verbally took him to task,” Grimm said. “I was angry and I had every right to be.”

He did not deny the balcony-throwing threat.

As if that excuses threatening to throw a reporter off the balcony.

He could simply have said that he had no comment on pending charges/investigation and that would have been the end of it.

Instead, he’s now the story of the night, ahead of the schizophrenic GOP response to the SOTU, or the President’s own words during the SOTU.

Rebranding.

161 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:03:11am

And, it should be noted, 2/3 of the Pulitzers every year are for journalism in various categories. Picked 2009 as a random sample and there is something there for everyone.

en.wikipedia.org

(What jumped out at me was Politifact getting one.)

162 lawhawk  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:03:50am

re: #158 darthstar

If the cannabis didn’t do the trick, the chloroform would.

Skillfully, of course.

163 darthstar  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:04:04am
164 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:06:23am

re: #162 lawhawk

If the cannabis didn’t do the trick, the chloroform would.

Skillfully, of course.

Morphia is morphine used as an anaesthetic. That stuff would take care of more than coughs, I think.

165 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:07:09am

re: #164 wheat-dogghazi

Morphia is morphine used as an anaesthetic. That stuff would take care of more than coughs, I think.

Early evolutionary form of Nyquil w/codeine.

166 lawhawk  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:08:21am

re: #120 Pie-onist Overlord

Gah, it would appear that he’s dumber than a bag of hammers, and flunked Civics 101. And that’s the least of it.

167 darthstar  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:09:58am
168 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:10:54am

re: #167 darthstar

A pseudo-hillbilly at that.

169 darthstar  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:11:27am

re: #168 Feline Fearless Leader

A pseudo-hillbilly at that.

Ayup.

170 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:12:22am

Bryan has master-slave fantasies, in addition to his gay fantasies.

171 darthstar  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:13:15am
172 darthstar  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:13:40am

re: #170 Pie-onist Overlord

Bryan has master-slave fantasies, in addition to his gay fantasies.

[Embedded content]

I’m sure those fantasies overlap.

173 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:13:41am

And my last remark on the Pulitzers before getting some work done.

en.wikipedia.org

1999 award list. Look at what the journalism awards were for and it sounds like the sort of things we talk about *still*. Undertrained police shooting recklessly, political corruption, mass shootings (in Conn. even), and foreign trade or financial crises affecting the US economy.

174 freetoken  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:15:15am

re: #103 ObserverArt

Thing is, the weather is not cold.

I’ve experienced one of the warmest winters in my lifetime so far.

The American media seems to revolve around the Eastern time zone - anything else apparently doesn’t matter.

175 darthstar  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:16:22am

176 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:16:30am

re: #174 freetoken

Thing is, the weather is not cold.

I’ve experienced one of the warmest winters in my lifetime so far.

The American media seems to revolve around the Eastern time zone - anything else apparently doesn’t matter.

News is about extremes, scandals and the grizzly or unexpected.

A warm winter is a non-started news-wise. Germany has had one of the mildest winters I can recall here in over 20 years…only a few snow flurries and generally mild temps.

177 lawhawk  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:19:49am

Heh.

The GOP’s got trouble when even Byron York can read the tea leaves:

178 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:20:56am

Maybe VB should have made an Eskimo Pie for National Pie Day.

179 freetoken  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:23:34am

re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

Yes, very warm and very dry.

See here for San Diego so far in Jan:

wrh.noaa.gov

As the Earth’s surface continues to warm it is likely that San Diego will become more like central Baja - hot and dry, and indeed this month seems that way.

180 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:24:47am

re: #177 lawhawk

Heh.

The GOP’s got trouble when even Byron York can read the tea leaves:

And in the meantime my MSNBC feed tosses out nothing-burger articles like this:
nbcnews.com

“Not much new in Obama’s speech for those at the bottom of economic ladder”

181 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:25:22am
182 lawhawk  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:25:54am

re: #174 freetoken

Thing is, the weather is not cold.

I’ve experienced one of the warmest winters in my lifetime so far.

The American media seems to revolve around the Eastern time zone - anything else apparently doesn’t matter.

And we’ve only had real cold on a handful of days.

The cold is unusual this year in that it goes much deeper into the South and Mid Atlantic than usual, but places like Alaska and California are experiencing drought and/or above normal temps, and particularly in CA, the lack of precipitation and no snowpack means drought conditions will only get worse as the year wears on.

Much of the Southwest is right back into serious drought conditions, with no sign of easing anytime soon.

183 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:26:11am
184 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:27:38am

re: #183 Pie-onist Overlord

[Embedded content]

Putin being nominated for preventing a Nobel Peace Prize laureate from going to war?

185 lawhawk  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:28:07am

re: #180 Feline Fearless Leader

Because Obamacare and expanding the EITC are chopped liver. Seems that MSNBC’s analysis is on par with the WaTimes’ Emily Miller, whose attempt at journalism includes willfully ignoring facts or logic.

186 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:29:30am

re: #184 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

Putin being nominated for preventing a Nobel Peace prize laureate from going to war?

Wants the Nobel Peace-ier Prize.

187 makeitstop  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:29:55am

‘Morning, Lizards,

I don’t know why, but my Facebook feed is strangely empty of SOTU derp this morning. The only thing I’m seeing is a mangled quote from Obama, regarding bypassing legislation to help the middle class whenever possible - they left out the ‘to help the middle class’ part to make Obama look like Teh Dictator.

If that’s the best they can come up with, Obama put more of an ass-whupping on them than I originally thought.

188 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:30:48am
189 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:30:55am

re: #187 makeitstop

I long since dumped anyone who overdoes with the politicizing on FB, there are plenty of other places to do that.

190 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:31:04am

re: #167 darthstar

[Embedded content]

Shows you who has priorities and who doesn’t.

191 RealityBasedSteve  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:32:11am

re: #164 wheat-dogghazi

Morphia is morphine used as an anaesthetic. That stuff would take care of more than coughs, I think.

When I had some minor surgery a few years ago, they gave me a codeine cough syrup, so I wouldn’t accidently cough and tear a stitch. I’m very susceptible to codeine (any opiate type drug), would take a cap-full… sleep for 4 hours, wake up, take a cap full, sleep for 4 hours….

Keith Richards would look at that bottle and say “Oh, no way dude….”.

RBS

192 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:33:36am
193 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:34:01am

re: #174 freetoken

Thing is, the weather is not cold.

I’ve experienced one of the warmest winters in my lifetime so far.

The American media seems to revolve around the Eastern time zone - anything else apparently doesn’t matter.

Partially due to 20% of the US population living in 5% of the land area.

en.wikipedia.org

With the southeastern US being the next most densely populated. And the next big media market after that is probably California. (And they’re always 3 hours behind on the news… ;) )

194 A Mom Anon  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:34:37am

re: #181 Justanotherhuman

A friend of mine’s husband left for his job yesterday afternoon at 3:30. He got to work this morning at 6. It took my husband 3 hours to get the 6 miles from work to home last night. He couldn’t get up the driveway and had to park on the sidewalk in front of the house. Crazy thing is, it’s supposed to get up to 60 by Friday afternoon.

We have no snow removal equipment down here outside of the city and a couple of rural counties up north. Because people have a fucking cow when it’s brought up that maybe some taxes ought to be raised for it. This county practically called for the removal of a politician who said we should have at least salt and trucks in reserve in case something like this happens. Folks down here aren’t big on planning much, unless of course it’s stockpiling guns for some future emergency.

195 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:37:20am

re: #194 A Mom Anon

A friend of mine’s husband left for his job yesterday afternoon at 3:30. He got to work this morning at 6. It took my husband 3 hours to get the 6 miles from work to home last night. He couldn’t get up the driveway and had to park on the sidewalk in front of the house. Crazy thing is, it’s supposed to get up to 60 by Friday afternoon.

We have no snow removal equipment down here outside of the city and a couple of rural counties up north. Because people have a fucking cow when it’s brought up that maybe some taxes ought to be raised for it. This county practically called for the removal of a politician who said we should have at least salt and trucks in reserve in case something like this happens. Folks down here aren’t big on planning much, unless of course it’s stockpiling guns for some future emergency.

Well, if this had been an extended emergency they would have had the guns available to go loot the neighbors with (or to hold off looting attempts *by* the neighbors.)
//

It is a tricky trade-off though. Paying for seldom-used equipment that you have to store and maintain against an emergency that may never come under your watch. And the associated opportunity cost of what those funds could otherwise provide.

196 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:41:17am

re: #167 darthstar

[Embedded content]

Wonder how many people saw that obvious idiot standing there and said, “Who is that idiot?”

After all, if you didn’t know it was a “reality show” and missed the xmas merchandising of it and you pay attention to more important things in life, you’re clueless.

197 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:41:17am

HURR HURR!!!11!!!

198 RealityBasedSteve  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:41:18am

re: #181 Justanotherhuman

[Embedded content]

That’s about 3 miles from our Atlanta center. According to google maps…

Drive via I-285 * 3.4 mi 6 min
Hide traffic Currently 1 h 29 min

Best wishes and hopes out the southern contingent at LGF who are suffering from the weather. Here in my part of TN it’s just colder than a republicans heart, but no inclement weather at all on the horizon.

RBS
Those of you that live in the Northern climes, you knew what you were getting into.

199 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:43:17am

I actually think the Robertsons symbolize the GOP pretty well. A bunch of
fakes who try to paint themselves off as every men. So well played GOP.

200 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:46:24am

re: #185 lawhawk

Because Obamacare and expanding the EITC are chopped liver. Seems that MSNBC’s analysis is on par with the WaTimes’ Emily Miller, whose attempt at journalism includes willfully ignoring facts or logic.

The MSNBC “First Read” article by Chuck Todd and others on the SOTU was another nothing-burger.

201 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:46:24am

Matt Barber SUCKS at limericks.

202 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:46:24am

re: #199 HappyWarrior

I actually think the Robertsons symbolize the GOP pretty well. A bunch of
fakes who try to paint themselves off as every men. So well played GOP.

They have the gut-level appeal to their core constituency: a cross between rock star, Biblical patriarch and Confederate cavalry officer.

203 Varek Raith  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:48:37am

re: #150 Decatur Deb

2 words for Alabama: “Stay put”.

They don’t know how to drive on this crap, and the 4-wheel drivers are the worst.

Yall are a bunch of noobs in the snow.
:P

204 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:49:16am

Another dispatch from the Southern Front, from Daughter2’s hotel-room bunker:

“Good Morning. Still staying at the hotel. There is a good chance the roads won’t clear today. I’m sharing a room with a nice woman that used to work for a brokerage firm I’ve worked with (the firm, not her specifically). I got the room last night so she went ahead and reserved it for tonight just in case we need it. A woman came in last night with two small boys that were sick. She couldn’t pay for a room so someone else took care of it. There has been a lot of bunk sharing as all the rooms have a pull out couch. Some people had planned to be here for business and have been great about sharing toothpaste and what not. About the best experience one could hope for under these circumstances.

Some people are going to try the roads today, but a rescue crew stopped in for coffee and said the roads are not just iced over (2 inches of ice in Odenville), but 65, 280, 459 are all parking lots. Cars that died or ran out of gas or wrecked. Lots of cars in ditches and a few in the river. There was a 12 car pile up at Clairmont, downtown I think. A lot of people slept in their cars. Local business were trying to run water out to them.

I’m going to grab some breakfast. Love you lots!!!!! D2 “

She’s a few hundred yards from her office. (This was to be the first week at a new job.) The grandkid is 10 miles away with the emergency sitter who picked him up yesterday from daycare.

205 lawhawk  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:50:06am
206 lawhawk  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:51:27am

re: #204 Decatur Deb

Wow. Stay safe down there. They’re going to have it rough until the weather warms up, which means another day or two of this hanging around.

207 ObserverArt  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:51:44am

re: #133 Pie-onist Overlord

Three words, Alabama: FOUR WHEEL DRIVE. Don’t y’all drive F-150’s?

I’d like to point out that 4-wheel drive is not the end-all in bad weather. Many times people with 4-wheel drive, especially some guys (dudes!) get a little too bold thinking that is the case and you will see them off in a ditch on the side of the road. How did they get there? Well, overconfidence for one. But with 4-wheel if you do break traction you can still slide. And then what happens? They slide into the snow along side the road, the 4-wheel hooks back up and it plows them straight into a culvert or worse.

I drive a small front wheel only but with winter tires. We do get some pretty good snows in Ohio and in all my time using dedicated winter tires on front wheel drive, I have never gotten stuck or slid off the road.

I will admit one time in a parking lot I had to try to drive through a stack of snow that was placed there by the a snow plow and there was no way to turn around in the one-way single lane out of a bank. So I took a big gulp, and tried to drive through it. I ended up high-siding the car on the mound of snow. I wasn’t going anywhere because the tires were not making good contact with anything! Luckily the dudes doing the plowing saw it happen, came back around and put a tow strap on my front cross member and pulled me off. I learned a lot about having a lowering sport suspension and how snow can freeze into a bit of a solid block when it is really cold like now.

208 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:52:57am

re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

They have the gut-level appeal to their core constituency: a cross between rock star, Biblical patriarch and Confederate cavalry officer.

Yep as I said, quite symbolic.

209 Varek Raith  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:53:12am

If you don’t have to go out, don’t.
If you have to, go slow.
Remember, all drivers are idiots.

210 lawhawk  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:53:37am
211 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:54:27am

re: #204 Decatur Deb

My daughter-in-law is in Birmingham taking care of about 12 toddlers at the preschool her mother runs, they put the kids up at their house when the parents couldn’t come to pick them up.

212 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:54:29am

re: #202 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

They have the gut-level appeal to their core constituency: a cross between rock star, Biblical patriarch and Confederate cavalry officer.

And all three share the concept of a sort of worshiped authority that should not be questioned.

213 lawhawk  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:54:35am

re: #209 Varek Raith

4-wheel drive isn’t 4-wheel braking.

All vehicles will have trouble on ice. And if you’re not sure if the road is just wet or icy, assume ice under these conditions.

214 Varek Raith  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:54:52am

Lindsey Graham Says ‘The World Is Literally About To Blow Up’
HE’S ON TO MY PLANS!!!111ty

215 lawhawk  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:55:03am
216 makeitstop  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:55:07am

Ah, my Facebook wingnuts are waking up, it seems.

Plenty of uses of the Stockman quote about EOs being unconstitutional. Maybe Stockman will attempt impeachment.

Please proceed, GOP.

217 Varek Raith  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:55:29am

re: #215 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

Yeah, funny that.

218 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:55:39am

re: #206 lawhawk

Wow. Stay safe down there. They’re going to have it rough until the weather warms up, which means another day or two of this hanging around.

Yep. It’s 16 degrees in Birmingham, 25 and dry here, directly across the storm path. If Birmingham has a snowplow, they’ve probably lost the keys.

219 lawhawk  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:55:39am

re: #214 Varek Raith

Wait, he found out about my Grazer One project? Damnit.

220 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:55:57am

re: #213 lawhawk

4-wheel drive isn’t 4-wheel braking.

All vehicles will have trouble on ice. And if you’re not sure if the road is just wet or icy, assume ice under these conditions.

And be doubly careful when you realize that the odd-looking car ahead of you on the road is actually a Zamboni.

221 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:56:58am

re: #211 Pie-onist Overlord

My daughter-in-law is in Birmingham taking care of about 12 toddlers at the preschool her mother runs, they put the kids up at their house when the parents couldn’t come to pick them up.

Cool. Do they have pie?

222 lawhawk  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:57:36am

But remember the GOP keeps saying that Obama’s against Israel:

223 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:59:15am

re: #216 makeitstop

Ah, my Facebook wingnuts are waking up, it seems.

Plenty of uses of the Stockman quote about EOs being unconstitutional. Maybe Stockman will attempt impeachment.

Please proceed, GOP.

Executive orders are unconstitutional? Impeach Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Quincy Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grant, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Cleveland again, McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, H.W Bush, Clinton, W. Bush, and Obama!

224 Varek Raith  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:59:36am

Heh, CNN anchors are rather indignant about all this.
Look, you all don’t get this kind of crap that often. Of course you all are under prepared for it.

225 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 6:59:59am

re: #207 ObserverArt

I’d like to point out that 4-wheel drive is not the end-all in bad weather. Many times people with 4-wheel drive, especially some guys (dudes!) get a little too bold thinking that is the case and you will see them off in a ditch on the side of the road. How did they get there? Well, overconfidence for one. But with 4-wheel if you do break traction you can still slide. And then what happens? They slide into the snow along side the road, the 4-wheel hooks back up and it plows them straight into a culvert or worse.

I drive a small front wheel only but with winter tires. We do get some pretty good snows in Ohio and in all my time using dedicated winter tires on front wheel drive, I have never gotten stuck or slid off the road.

I will admit one time in a parking lot I had to try to drive through a stack of snow that was placed there by the a snow plow and there was no way to turn around in the one-way single lane out of a bank. So I took a big gulp, and tried to drive through it. I ended up high-siding the car on the mound of snow. I wasn’t going anywhere because the tires were not making good contact with anything! Luckily the dudes doing the plowing saw it happen, came back around and pit a tow strap on my front cross member and pulled me off. I learned a lot about having a lowering sport suspension and how snow can freeze into a bit of a solid block when it is really cold like now.

You’re right about that latter—snow freezing into a solid block.

It’s what they’re using in Kiev and elsewhere for their barricades, filling up sacks with snow.

226 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:02:12am

I like how Obama is a despot to the Matt Barbers of the world but Vladimir Putin is a small letter d, democrat.

227 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:02:28am

re: #223 HappyWarrior

Executive orders are unconstitutional? Impeach Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Quincy Adams, Jackson, Van Buren, William Henry Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor, Fillmore, Pierce, Buchanan, Lincoln, Andrew Johnson, Grant, Garfield, Arthur, Cleveland, Benjamin Harrison, Cleveland again, McKinley, Teddy Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, FDR, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, H.W Bush, Clinton, W. Bush, and Obama!

The people who make these comments know better, they are just banking on all those rubes who flunked Civics Class to not know what an Executive order is about and who equate it with an attempt to trample the Constitution.

228 ObserverArt  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:02:29am

re: #174 freetoken

Thing is, the weather is not cold.

I’ve experienced one of the warmest winters in my lifetime so far.

The American media seems to revolve around the Eastern time zone - anything else apparently doesn’t matter.

You must be on the west coast.

You will note many of those yelling about ‘global warming’ are mired in the cold on the east coast. And for many it is colder than some of them have been alive. I know here in Ohio, it has been since the early 80s for the cold we’ve had this year.

And if you think about it, you are making a case for using climate change as you are warmer than usual, the east coast is colder than usual.

That may be a damn good reason for using climate change instead of global warming…which was the point.

229 GlutenFreeJesus  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:02:35am

re: #129 Justanotherhuman

Atlanta is shut down, people. No MARTA, either.

Southern-style snowstorm: Gridlock, kind neighbors

hosted.ap.org

“Georgia Gov. Nathan Deal said early Wednesday that the National Guard was sending military Humvees onto Atlanta’s snarled freeway system in an attempt to move stranded school buses and get food and water to people. Georgia State Patrol troopers headed to schools where children were hunkered down early Wednesday after spending the night there, and transportation crews continued to treat roads and bring gas to motorists, Deal said.”

I’m telling you, the Deep South does not know how to deal with this stuff. At least in NC we cope better because we do get some snow.

MARSHALL LAWZZZZ!!!!

230 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:02:52am

re: #226 HappyWarrior

I like how Obama is a despot to the Matt Barbers of the world but Vladimir Putin is a small letter d, democrat.

VLADIMIR PUTIN IS A REAL MAN!!!11!!! NOT LIKE THAT SISSY OBAMA!!!1!!!!

231 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:04:47am

re: #227 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

The people who make these comments know better, they are just banking on all those rubes who flunked Civics Class to not know what an Executive order is about and who equate it with an attempt to trample the Constitution.

I actually feel like Steve Stockman did flunk civics class though. But you’re right, that’s what these kind of comments are designed to provoke.

232 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:06:20am
233 ObserverArt  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:06:29am

MSNBC watchers. Remember Comcast now owns all of NBC. Expect more change to what sells. And look at Comcast’s politics. It is going to be increasingly harder to find any legitimate news services.

Welcome to the Brave New World!

234 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:07:15am

re: #216 makeitstop

Quoting Stockman? Stockman?

Ignorant and stupid is no way to go through life, son.

235 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:07:31am

re: #221 Decatur Deb

Cool. Do they have pie?

I never understand why employers don’t allow workers to go home early, collect their kids, etc—they live in the south and know it’s dangerous conditions when it snows. I never had a job in Charlotte that I wasn’t allowed off early (along with everyone who wanted to leave); they would just close the place down when we knew we were getting snow or an ice storm. And Charlotte never got snow that often, but when we did, we took it seriously.

They knew what was coming to the south. I probably would have called in sick. : )

236 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:08:14am

re: #224 Varek Raith

The Weather Channel folks (also based in ATL) not happy either.

237 Romantic Heretic  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:08:29am

re: #212 Feline Fearless Leader

And all three share the concept of a sort of worshiped authority that should not be questioned.

Easier than thinking.

238 ObserverArt  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:09:52am

re: #194 A Mom Anon

A friend of mine’s husband left for his job yesterday afternoon at 3:30. He got to work this morning at 6. It took my husband 3 hours to get the 6 miles from work to home last night. He couldn’t get up the driveway and had to park on the sidewalk in front of the house. Crazy thing is, it’s supposed to get up to 60 by Friday afternoon.

We have no snow removal equipment down here outside of the city and a couple of rural counties up north. Because people have a fucking cow when it’s brought up that maybe some taxes ought to be raised for it. This county practically called for the removal of a politician who said we should have at least salt and trucks in reserve in case something like this happens. Folks down here aren’t big on planning much, unless of course it’s stockpiling guns for some future emergency.

You know, as sad as all this is, there is some humor in you adding the bit about gunz for an emergency. Priorities you know.

239 Varek Raith  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:09:56am

re: #224 Varek Raith

Heh, CNN anchors are rather indignant about all this.
Look, you all don’t get this kind of crap that often. Of course you all are under prepared for it.

Though, they deserve the criticisms they get for not just closing schools before the storm hit.

240 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:10:03am

re: #235 Justanotherhuman

I never understand why employers don’t allow workers to go home early, collect their kids, etc—they live in the south and know it’s dangerous conditions when it snows. I never had a job in Charlotte that I wasn’t allowed off early (along with everyone who wanted to leave); they would just close the place down when we knew we were getting snow or an ice storm. And Charlotte never got snow that often, but when we did, we took it seriously.

They knew what was coming to the south. I probably would have called in sick. : )

Birmingham was predicted to be somewhat north of the icing, expected a dusting of snow. Schools tried to shorten the day, but got blind-sided.
We were predicte4d to get 2-4 inches on the Gulf side, got nothing.

241 A Mom Anon  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:10:07am

re: #195 Feline Fearless Leader

Thing is though, in the last 5 yrs, we’ve had at least 3 big storms like this one, and there have been really big ice/snow storms before that. So it’s not like this is Hawaii where it never ever snows. This isn’t a poor county either, there’s lots of wealth here, we could afford a few trucks and a place to store a few giant piles of sand/salt. So, as usual, everyone bitches about services that we don’t have because no one wants to pay for them, and it’s everyone else’s fault.

Of course this is the same place where developers build all kinds of shit on a two lane road and then everyone is shocked that traffic snarls up and then they decide the road might need to be widened a tad. I lost half my front yard to that version of planning. Eeek.

242 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:10:59am

re: #235 Justanotherhuman

I never understand why employers don’t allow workers to go home early, collect their kids, etc—they live in the south and know it’s dangerous conditions when it snows. I never had a job in Charlotte that I wasn’t allowed off early (along with everyone who wanted to leave); they would just close the place down when we knew we were getting snow or an ice storm. And Charlotte never got snow that often, but when we did, we took it seriously.

They knew what was coming to the south. I probably would have called in sick. : )

When we were expecting afternoon snow last week that was exactly what was done. Advisory to stay home if necessary, or work half-day and then head home to take care of getting your kids since many schools only did a half-day as well.

243 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:11:03am

re: #201 Pie-onist Overlord

Has the Marxist despot rounded up all the RWNJ into FEMA trailer park camps and confiscated all Bibles and gunz? /

244 Varek Raith  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:11:30am

re: #236 Bulworth

The Weather Channel folks (also based in ATL) not happy either.

Weather Channel’s Jim Cantore knees videobomber in groin on live TV (with video)

245 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:12:24am

My boss got everyone on the team remote access, just in case we might need it.

246 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:14:41am

re: #170 Pie-onist Overlord

Somebody needs to get Bryan one of those pocket-sized Constitutions.

247 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:15:16am

re: #245 Pie-onist Overlord

My boss got everyone on the team remote access, just in case we might need it.

Laptop and VPN access is standard in IT here. And pretty common in the rest of the headquarters. Number of users limited to desktop only is probably less than 20 here. And we have the execs starting to transit from laptops to tablets. A lot of people also have company-issue iPhones as well.

248 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:17:12am

re: #170 Pie-onist Overlord

I wonder how Bryan feels about states permitting abortion and teh gay marriage? ///

249 chadu  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:17:56am

re: #167 darthstar

“Republicans brought some rich preppie dressed up as a hillbilly.”

FTFY.

250 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:18:04am

re: #240 Decatur Deb

Birmingham was predicted to be somewhat north of the icing, expected a dusting of snow. Schools tried to shorten the day, but got blind-sided.
We were predicte4d to get 2-4 inches on the Gulf side, got nothing.

Hell’s bells, all I had to do was look up at the sky and saw that “snow sky” that is so familiar to me after 72 yrs. That, plus knowing that most people around here don’t really cope well with an inch and a half of snow. It doesn’t always have to be “business as usual” if people aren’t prepared for it.

251 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:18:15am

re: #246 Bulworth

Somebody needs to get Bryan one of those pocket-sized Constitutions.

And a teacher to explain it to him in terms a 7th grader can understand.

252 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:19:55am
253 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:20:21am

Dog says “Screw your storm, I got 2 daily walks in my contract.” BBIAB

254 Varek Raith  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:21:39am

The Post About Jesus That Facebook Banned
Oh but violent threats and shit against the PotUS is a-ok!

255 A Mom Anon  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:21:47am

re: #253 Decatur Deb

HA, my dog has been strangely quiet about that this morning, lol. I had to push her out the door to go to the bathroom. She hadn’t been out since last night before it got dark. She played in it all day yesterday, I guess she’s had enough.

256 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:24:22am

re: #254 Varek Raith

The Post About Jesus That Facebook Banned
Oh but violent threats and shit against the PotUS is a-ok!

That Meme Wins Teh Internets.

257 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:24:58am

re: #254 Varek Raith

The Post About Jesus That Facebook Banned
Oh but violent threats and shit against the PotUS is a-ok!

Why the fuck was that banned? I don’t understand…

FB has a lot of ‘splainin’ to do. Just glad I don’t use it because, you know, privacy.

258 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:25:14am
259 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:28:13am

What a surprise!

260 Targetpractice  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:28:26am

So I wake up this morning and find that the ice age has visited Virginia Beach, with the high temp today set at “Freeze Balls Off A Brass Monkey.” Any moment I expect a wooly mammoth to walk by the house.

261 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:30:59am

WTFITS

262 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:32:17am

re: #192 Justanotherhuman

[Embedded content]

That looks very similar to what I’m seeing here in Ostrava, and here, it’s considered a “light dusting”.

In Alabama, it’s considered “snowmaggedon”.

263 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:33:14am

re: #261 Pie-onist Overlord

WTFITS

[Embedded content]

Yeah, Atzmon is a loon.

264 Targetpractice  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:33:34am

re: #262 Dr Lizardo

That looks very similar to what I’m seeing here in Ostrava, and here, it’s considered a “light dusting”.

In Alabama, it’s considered “snowmaggedon”.

Keep in mind that, to Southerners, anything over an inch of snow is cause to horde food and supplies like you’re preparing for a major disaster.

265 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:33:35am

re: #259 Pie-onist Overlord

My surprise is overflowing.

266 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:34:33am

re: #263 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, Atzmon is a loon.

Sad little attention queen whose 15 minutes were over long ago.

267 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:35:06am

re: #262 Dr Lizardo

That looks very similar to what I’m seeing here in Ostrava, and here, it’s considered a “light dusting”.

In Alabama, it’s considered “snowmaggedon”.

And you also get some additional ecological effects that could alternately be considered “good” or “bad”. A number of animals or plants that humans consider pests are not very cold-tolerant and thus might have their numbers trimmed back in the area. On the flip-side some creatures *want* the cold, or a desirable species is the one that is not frost tolerant and is taking a beating.

268 Lidane  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:35:27am

re: #133 Pie-onist Overlord

Three words, Alabama: FOUR WHEEL DRIVE. Don’t y’all drive F-150’s?

The problem is that none of these Southern states pre-treated their roads for snow and ice. Why would they? It doesn’t snow around here all that often and when it does, everything falls apart.

269 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:36:23am

Ben Shapiro hasn’t been Derping because last night his wife had a baby girl.

I’m happy for the Shapiros and maybe now he will grow up.

270 Iwouldprefernotto  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:37:26am

re: #269 Pie-onist Overlord

Ben Shapiro hasn’t been Derping because last night his wife had a baby girl.

I’m happy for the Shapiros and maybe now he will grow up.

If only parenthood made us smarter.

271 Lidane  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:37:26am

re: #141 darthstar

It’ll be a slow, loud, painful retirement.

[Embedded content]

They’re also apparently signing a binding contract between them that retirement means retirement. None of them will be able to tour as Motley Crue without the other original members.

If only KISS had signed a contract like that back in the 90s when they claimed they were going off into the sunset.

272 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:39:06am

Uh Bryan, that’s Jimmy Kimmel. It’s a comedy show.
We know you think your vote should count MOAR because you are a Christian White Man.

273 Targetpractice  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:39:41am

re: #271 Lidane

They’re also apparently signing a binding contract between them that retirement means retirement. None of them will be able to tour as Motley Crue without the other original members.

If only KISS had signed a contract like that back in the 90s when they claimed they were going off into the sunset.

Meanwhile, the Rolling Stones will keep touring until Mick’s nothing more than a head in a jar. Keith, being an immortal, will never die until The Gathering.

274 Mattand  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:40:43am

re: #273 Targetpractice

Meanwhile, the Rolling Stones will keep touring until Mick’s nothing more than a head in a jar. Keith, being an immortal, will never die until The Gathering.

Futurama: taken too soon

275 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:40:48am
276 Lidane  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:41:01am
277 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:41:35am

re: #274 Mattand

Futurama: taken too soon

I’ve called them the “Rolling Corpses” for years now…

278 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:42:07am

re: #264 Targetpractice

Keep in mind that, to Southerners, anything over an inch of snow is cause to horde food and supplies like you’re preparing for a major disaster.

Heh. I was downtown earlier (and wouldn’t you know it I forgot one of the things I’d gone for - oh well), and cars and vehicles were moving along as usual. I take a tram to get there; it’s about 30 minutes to the downtown core from where I live. I noticed the tram was more crowded than usual, so I guess a lot of people left the car at home today.

If it gets really bad here in terms of snowfall, like a major snowstorm, then all public transit here is free for the day, which is a solid incentive to leave the car at home and take the tram or the bus.

279 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:42:21am

HURR HURR!!!1!!!

280 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:43:27am

re: #272 Pie-onist Overlord

Bryan Fischer seems to be regressing.

281 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:43:52am

re: #279 Pie-onist Overlord

Confirmed, fact, checkmate libtards!!!!1///

282 Varek Raith  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:45:57am

re: #260 Targetpractice

So I wake up this morning and find that the ice age has visited Virginia Beach, with the high temp today set at “Freeze Balls Off A Brass Monkey.” Any moment I expect a wooly mammoth to walk by the house.

Your turn!
Jerks!
XD

283 Targetpractice  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:46:41am

re: #282 Varek Raith

Your turn!
Jerks!
XD

284 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:46:47am

There is no actual evidence that the White House pays female staffers less than male staffers who perform the same work, it’s just an urban legend that has been bouncing around the wingnutosphere.

285 Varek Raith  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:47:47am

re: #283 Targetpractice

[Embedded image]

It’s nice not to be the only part of the freaking state to be suffering cold and snow.

286 Flying Squirrel Girl  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:48:05am

re: #207 ObserverArt

My brother-in-law schooled me when I moved to Colorado: Four wheel drive helps you go and helps you turn, but it does NOT help you stop.

287 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:48:25am

Most companies do not share employee payroll information. I could not find out if I am making more, less or the same as male co-workers.

288 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:48:28am

re: #107 Pie-onist Overlord

Jesus H. Christ
Anybody can nominate anybody for the Nobel Prize. You could nominate me for the Pies Prize.

[Embedded content]

Stay, Classy, Glenn.

289 Targetpractice  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:49:40am

re: #285 Varek Raith

It’s nice not to be the only part of the freaking state to be suffering cold and snow.

Hey now, we got snow last week as well. It’s just that was “I can still see my car” levels of snow. This level of snow is “Winter Wasteland.”

290 Lidane  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:49:50am

Even Don Quixote ultimately realized all his adventures were a fantasy:

291 Varek Raith  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:50:30am

re: #289 Targetpractice

Hey now, we got snow last week as well. It’s just that was “I can still see my car” levels of snow. This level of snow is “Winter Wasteland.”

How much did you get?
Got half an inch here.

292 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:50:41am

re: #260 Targetpractice

So I wake up this morning and find that the ice age has visited Virginia Beach, with the high temp today set at “Freeze Balls Off A Brass Monkey.” Any moment I expect a wooly mammoth to walk by the house.

Squirrel!

293 Targetpractice  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:51:31am

re: #291 Varek Raith

How much did you get?
Got half an inch here.

We got 10” here. Folks in NC got it worse, they got sleet and snow.

294 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:51:32am

re: #279 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR!!!1!!!

[Embedded content]

The #TGDN hastag is a sure sign that you’re dealing with a loon.

295 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:51:45am

HURR HURR!!!1!!!!

Actually not.

A quick text compare shows that no lines were directly lifted from Bush’s 2007 speech in the one Obama gave on Tuesday. There are some minor similarities between the two: Obama use a version of the word “opportunity” more than ten times in his speech, Bush used the word at least eight times. Both speeches also ended with a moving story about a wounded veteran.

296 lawhawk  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:54:07am

re: #290 Lidane

But remember, it’s the President who’s got to do backflips and negotiate and make concessions with this gang.

The GOP isn’t interested in concessions or politics. It’s scorched earth all/nothing. And if they don’t get what they want, they’ll hold the nation hostage with debt ceiling or budget holds.

297 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:54:22am

re: #289 Targetpractice

Hey now, we got snow last week as well. It’s just that was “I can still see my car” levels of snow. This level of snow is “Winter Wasteland.”

Here in Chicago we had a “Class III Killstorm”, followed by temps this week that can be classed as “‘Don’t go out late at night, it’ll kill ya!’ Cold”.

298 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:56:32am

re: #262 Dr Lizardo

That looks very similar to what I’m seeing here in Ostrava, and here, it’s considered a “light dusting”.

In Alabama, it’s considered “snowmaggedon”.

We like to call it “The War of Northern Precipitation”.

299 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:56:44am
300 lawhawk  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 7:59:39am

re: #295 Pie-onist Overlord

Wait, if he cribbed President Bush’s speech (which he didn’t, but let’s go with the paraphrasing for purposes of this intellectual exercise), why was the GOP still opposed to nearly everything contained therein? Oh wait. It’s because President Obama said it. Therefore, it must be bad.

Remember, the GOP cheered throughout the SOTU speech when Bush gave his; they sat on their hands for practically everything Obama said. So, if they were saying the same thing (or paraphrasing the same things), why was the GOP suddenly silent.

The President laid out an agenda that he wants to see done. Some of it can be done without Congress - executive orders, which are a legal way to achieve goals on items that do not require Congressional approval. It’s a perk of the Executive Branch (and many governors have the same powers, including former Gov. Palin, who now bitches about how Obama uses his power, even as GWB used it and Reagan used it - far more often at that).

Obama would prefer if Congress would act, but he knows that the GOP refuses to act - and he called them out for it. He put the onus for legislating where it belongs - on Congress. Their failures have hamstrung the government and make the economic recovery far less robust than it could have been.

301 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:04:22am

re: #284 Pie-onist Overlord

Dems and Oboma the reel racists and war on women wagers!!!111

302 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:04:32am
303 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:05:04am

re: #293 Targetpractice

We got 10” here. Folks in NC got it worse, they got sleet >and snow.

Actually, some didn’t get as much as they expected (8-10” was predicted in the eastern part of the state) and we got a bit more, about 1-1/2.

It was a very fine snow that came down slowly, and would have been considered a “mist” if it had been raining. I went to bed about 10, and there was more this am, so it might have continued past the 11 pm they said it would continue to. It’s not sticking together, either, I just checked—bummer, no snowballs. : )

304 Lidane  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:05:57am

These are the kinds of dipshits the Texas GOP sends to DC:

305 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:08:18am

re: #304 Lidane

Why won’t PBO work with congress and reach across party lines?

///

306 Targetpractice  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:08:24am

re: #303 Justanotherhuman

Actually, some didn’t get as much as they expected (8-10” was predicted in the eastern part of the state) and we got a bit more, about 1-1/2.

It was a very fine snow that came down slowly, and would have been considered a “mist” if it had been raining. I went to bed about 10, and there was more this am, so it might have continued past the 11 pm they said it would continue to. It’s not sticking together, either, I just checked—bummer, no snowballs. : )

Yeah, it’s a pretty fine snow, but there’s enough of it that the mayor was just on TV saying schools might be closed through til next week because of the difficulty of plowing all the neighborhoods enough for buses to get through.

307 Lidane  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:08:50am

A sign of the times:

308 Backwoods_Sleuth  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:08:51am
309 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:09:00am

re: #302 Backwoods_Sleuth

Terrible situation. Embarassing. Hope everyone gets home safe.

310 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:12:05am

re: #306 Targetpractice

Yeah, it’s a pretty fine snow, but there’s enough of it that the mayor was just on TV saying schools might be closed through til next week because of the difficulty of plowing all the neighborhoods enough for buses to get through.

Well, don’t know where you are, but it’s supposed to be 54 here on Fri. Tomorow will be 40, warm enough to melt any snow or ice on the roads later in the day, so kids may be off tomorrow if enough doesn’t melt today (high 35).

311 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:12:08am

re: #302 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Obama is trying to buy voters off with handouts of government cheese!!1

312 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:15:50am
313 Lidane  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:16:15am

re: #299 Pie-onist Overlord

Doesn’t that amount to a poll tax of sorts?

314 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:17:00am

re: #298 Decatur Deb

We like to call it “The War of Northern Precipitation”.

Not enough updings for that one…

315 TedStriker  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:18:50am

re: #290 Lidane

Even Don Quixote ultimately realized all his adventures were a fantasy:

[Embedded content]

This TPGOP shithead’s comments made me think of Reese’s famous words to Sarah Connor in The Terminator, except to describe the TPGOP themselves on the ACA, abortion, ad nauseum:

Listen, and understand! That Terminator is out there! It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you are dead.

316 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:19:12am

re: #299 Pie-onist Overlord

[Embedded content]

Another bent headed idea from the Lord High Denier.

317 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:19:12am

re: #313 Lidane

Doesn’t that amount to a poll tax of sorts?

Only male landowners should be allowed to vote: to them, changing that rule that was the downfall of American democracy.

318 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:20:10am

I will never believe another thing “Vice” writes about. They’re nothing but a bunch of sensationalist assholes.

vice.com

319 Targetpractice  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:20:38am

re: #315 AlexRogan

This TPGOP shithead’s comments made me think of Reese’s famous words to Sarah Connor in The Terminator, except to describe the TPGOP themselves on the ACA, abortion, ad nauseum:

Funny, I was thinking of the Terminator’s words from T2 to describe the GOTP in general:

It’s in your nature to destroy yourselves.

320 Lidane  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:22:56am

re: #302 Backwoods_Sleuth

321 TedStriker  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:23:14am

re: #299 Pie-onist Overlord

[Embedded content]

The Union is now in a state of disunion. On one side of the Great Divide, those who work for a living and pay their taxes. Most taxpayers vote Republican. On the other side, those who do not work for a living and pay little or no tax. Nearly all non-contributors vote “Democrat.” - See more at: rightwingwatch.org

Oh, bullshit, Lord Monckton; get fucked, you pretentious wanker.

322 Shiplord Kirel  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:23:42am

Oh, the irony! Kremlin stooges calling the US a godless dictatorship:

Who’s ‘godless’ now? Russia says it’s U.S.

Freepers of course are in full gallop fellow traveler mode:

“Why has our press not realized this? Putin and the Russian Churches are speaking the truth.

Promoting Homosexuality and Abortion both here and Abroad and vilifying traditional family values are signs of extreme Godlessness. “

“I largely agree. USA has become godless which is directly related to lawlessness. The very existance of YHWH defines _supreme_ rules, instrutions on how to live; disregarded by USA and the western church.”

“Even some of our Reverends are Godless. Consider Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson promoting abortion and homosexuality. “

323 Targetpractice  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:24:54am

re: #322 Shiplord Kirel

Oh, the irony! Kremlin stooges calling the US a godless dictatorship:

Who’s ‘godless’ now? Russia says it’s U.S.

Freepers of course are in full gallop fellow traveler mode:

And I invite the Freepers to move to Russia, just so long as they surrender their passports to the US embassy there one they arrive.

324 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:25:41am

re: #317 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

Only male landowners should be allowed to vote: to them, changing that rule that was the downfall of American democracy.

Another Weird Nut Daily featured column:

Obama’s purge of generals: Just like Stalin’s

The really dumb thing is the writer (Barry Farber) fails to name anyone who got “purged and or provide even anecdotal evidence of such a “purge”.

The resulting Stupid doesn’t burn, it’s just sad and lame at the same time.

325 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:25:49am
326 Lidane  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:26:09am

re: #322 Shiplord Kirel

I am constantly amused by all the RWNJ love for Putin. These people have zero self-awareness.

327 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:27:15am

re: #324 Dark_Falcon

Another Weird Nut Daily featured column:

Obama’s purge of generals: Just like Stalin’s

The really dumb thing is the writer (Barry Farber) fails to name anyone who got “purged and or provide even anecdotal evidence of such a “purge”.

The resulting Stupid doesn’t burn, it’s just sad and lame at the same time.

No, it’s dangerous.

328 ObserverArt  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:27:41am

You know what really impressed me about much of yesterday, last night and this morning? That whole reworking of the GOP to be more open, accepting and carrying a message for all of America!

/

329 Targetpractice  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:28:19am

re: #324 Dark_Falcon

Another Weird Nut Daily featured column:

Obama’s purge of generals: Just like Stalin’s

The really dumb thing is the writer (Barry Farber) fails to name anyone who got “purged and or provide even anecdotal evidence of such a “purge”.

The resulting Stupid doesn’t burn, it’s just sad and lame at the same time.

Yeah, when Stalin purged the generals from the ranks, it wasn’t by giving them a big retirement ceremony with pomp and circumstance, followed by a comfortable life with a fat pension and federal health care. No, he had a more…direct method of removing those he felt “incompetent” or “insufficiently dedicated” from the ranks.

330 Ian G.  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:28:39am

Good morning Lizards, from the bright, sunny, bitterly cold City of New York. The weekend should finally see temperatures in the 40s, virtual t-shirt weather at this point.

They say a picture is worth 1000 words. This is one my dad sent to me today.

Yes, this is NYC, not Anchorage

331 ObserverArt  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:30:51am

re: #326 Lidane

I am constantly amused by all the RWNJ love for Putin. These people have zero self-awareness.

Hey…Ronnie really did tear down that wall!

332 GlutenFreeJesus  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:32:28am

re: #302 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

I bet people in GA wish they paid taxes for plows right about now…

333 Lidane  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:32:31am
334 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:32:36am

re: #330 Ian G.

Good morning Lizards, from the bright, sunny, bitterly cold City of New York. The weekend should finally see temperatures in the 40s, virtual t-shirt weather at this point.

They say a picture is worth 1000 words. This is one my dad sent to me today.

Yes, this is NYC, not Anchorage

Well, that photo certainly has the proper seal of approval.

335 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:32:50am
336 Targetpractice  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:32:53am

To be poor in America is to look at all that snow on the ground today in the South and not think “Cool, day off,” but instead “Fuck, I’m gonna have to leave earlier to make it on time.”

337 b.d.  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:32:53am

re: #330 Ian G.

Seals in NY harbor?

338 Shiplord Kirel  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:33:10am

re: #329 Targetpractice

Yeah, when Stalin purged the generals from the ranks, it wasn’t by giving them a big retirement ceremony with pomp and circumstance, followed by a comfortable life with a fat pension and federal health care. No, he had a more…direct method of removing those he felt “incompetent” or “insufficiently dedicated” from the ranks.

One of my favorite “motivational messages,” Stalin’s note to a couple of aircraft production managers he thought were slacking on the job:

You have let down our country and our Red Army. You have the nerve not to manufacture IL-2s until now. Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats. Shenkman produces one IL-2 a day and Tretyakov builds one or two MiG-3s daily. It is a mockery of our country and the Red Army. I ask you not to try the government’s patience, and demand that you manufacture more ILs. This is my final warning. (emphasis added, perhaps redundantly)

Production tripled almost literally overnight.

339 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:33:47am

re: #331 ObserverArt

Hey…Ronnie really did tear down that wall!

There is no room for nuance in the RWNJ brain. That’s why so many RW commenters, publications, online sites, etc are dangerous. They know exactly what they’re doing and who they’re attracting.

Too many uneducated, ignorant, reactionary, racist types believe everything they see because they simply want to.

340 GlutenFreeJesus  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:33:57am

re: #326 Lidane

I am constantly amused by all the RWNJ love for Putin. These people have zero self-awareness.

Putin ain’t black. He could even be gay and they’d still worship him when it comes to comparing him to President Obama.

341 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:34:47am

re: #304 Lidane

These are the kinds of dipshits the Texas GOP sends to DC:

[Embedded content]

Randy if he was a dictator, you wouldn’t be in office tweeting this stupid shit. Stupid morons.

342 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:35:27am

re: #329 Targetpractice

Yeah, when Stalin purged the generals from the ranks, it wasn’t by giving them a big retirement ceremony with pomp and circumstance, followed by a comfortable life with a fat pension and federal health care. No, he had a more…direct method of removing those he felt “incompetent” or “insufficiently dedicated” from the ranks.

I believe Stalin’s method entailed a bullet to the back of the neck.

343 Lidane  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:35:45am

The funniest part of all this is that nobody noticed and nobody gave a fuck:

344 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:35:49am

Who would have predicted in 2007 that by 2013 GOP spokesmen would be singing the praises of a Russian President/dictator who had formerly been head of the KGB?

345 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:36:23am

re: #331 ObserverArt

Hey…Ronnie really did tear down that wall!

There’s big difference between Ronald Reagan negotiating with Gorbachev to eliminate IRBMs and reduce the forces staring each other down across Fulda Gap, and the current man-crush too many people who call them selves conservative have on Putin.

346 Ian G.  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:36:26am

re: #337 b.d.

Seals in NY harbor?

They’re actually kind of common down here during the winter. The fiancee and I took a harbor tour sponsored by Audubon last winter and we saw dozens of them hanging out on the rocks by Swineburn and Hoffman Islands (two small islands way out in the harbor past Staten Island). Seeing one all the way up the East River is rare, though. And even more rare are the freakin’ ice floes in the saline East River.

347 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:37:14am

re: #344 Feline Fearless Leader

Who would have predicted in 2007 that by 2013 GOP spokesmen would be singing the praises of a Russian President/dictator who had formerly been head of the KGB?

Ha, I certainly wouldn’t have. But to go with that, who would have thought George W. Bush would look like a voice in the Republican Party by 2013.

348 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:37:44am

re: #338 Shiplord Kirel

One of my favorite “motivational messages,” Stalin’s note to a couple of aircraft production managers he thought were slacking on the job:

You have let down our country and our Red Army. You have the nerve not to manufacture IL-2s until now. Our Red Army now needs IL-2 aircraft like the air it breathes, like the bread it eats. Shenkman produces one IL-2 a day and Tretyakov builds one or two MiG-3s daily. It is a mockery of our country and the Red Army. I ask you not to try the government’s patience, and demand that you manufacture more ILs. This is my final warning. (emphasis added, perhaps redundantly)

Production tripled almost literally overnight.

Yep; that’s one hell of a motivational message. When you read it, you’ll shit bricks!

349 darthstar  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:37:51am
350 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:39:11am

re: #343 Lidane

The funniest part of all this is that nobody noticed and nobody gave a fuck:

[Embedded content]

If a wingnut flounces to the exit and no one else notices, does he make a sound?

351 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:39:16am

Obama’s a dictator, vote for me so we can stop this tyrant with a Republican majority Congress. Huh wut?

352 Targetpractice  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:40:24am

re: #342 Dr Lizardo

I believe Stalin’s method entailed a bullet to the back of the neck.

Usually only after they’d been delivered into the tender mercies of the NKVD to “confess their crimes.”

353 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:40:51am

It’s 24 deg here but the sun is out and it’s already melting the snow on my balcony. It could mostly be gone by this afternoon, at least on the roads.

354 Bulworth  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:41:21am

re: #333 Lidane

Speaking to Fox News’s Megyn Kelly, Marc Thiessen, the lead writer on Bush’s 2007 State of the Union address

That W provided gainful employment to Marc Thiessen will surely haunt his presidential legacy.

355 Targetpractice  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:42:04am

re: #351 HappyWarrior

Obama’s a dictator, vote for me so we can stop this tyrant with a Republican majority Congress. Huh wut?

Obama’s so much of a tyrant that he’s forced to use executive orders by legislative gridlock, and has issued fewer of them in six years than most past presidents did.

356 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:42:14am

re: #352 Targetpractice

Usually only after they’d been delivered into the tender mercies of the NKVD to “confess their crimes.”

“You are in the heart of Soviet intelligence; indeed, the very nerve center. Tell me, comrade, have you formed a hypothesis as to why you find yourself here?”

Allegedly, the first thing an NKVD interrogator would ask you. He would then shut up and let you do all the talking.

357 Shiplord Kirel  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:42:30am

re: #349 darthstar

[Embedded content]

What an absolute disgrace. The guilty officers should be busted to E-1 and sent to the back side of beyond to serve out their remaining time. Since the Aleutians are actually a pretty cushy post these days, we might have to re-open Reese AFB at Lubbock to find a place sufficiently hellish and dreary for them.

358 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:42:36am

re: #355 Targetpractice

Obama’s so much of a tyrant that he’s forced to use executive orders by legislative gridlock, and has issued fewer of them in six years than most past presidents did.

Tyrant!

359 GlutenFreeJesus  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:44:35am
360 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:45:46am

WTFITS
BUT NO ABORTIONS OR BIRTH CONTROL FOR TEH SLUTS!!!1!!!!

361 Dr. Matt  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:46:50am

re: #335 Pie-onist Overlord

Ben Shapiro Maximizes Efficiency By Greeting Newborn Daughter, Sneering At President In Just One Tweet t.co
— Wonkette (@Wonkette) January 29, 2014

The little tard injecting politics into the birth of his child; I feel sorry for his newborn. I really do.

362 Targetpractice  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:48:36am

re: #360 Pie-onist Overlord

WTFITS

[Embedded content]

Fair enough, let’s also impose caps on tax credits and other benefits that married couples get for having more than a set number of kids.

363 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:48:49am

re: #357 Shiplord Kirel

What an absolute disgrace. The guilty officers should be busted to E-1 and sent to the back side of beyond to serve out their remaining time. Since the Aleutians are actually a pretty cushy post these days, we might have to re-open Reese AFB at Lubbock to find a place sufficiently hellish and dreary for them.

No, some Air Force Officers are wingnuts, as evangelicals are thick on the ground in Colorado Springs and its made an impact at the Air Force Academy. Wingnuts might actually LIKE Lubbock or at least feel at home there. If you want to punish a wingnut, you’d have establish an office, not a base but an office in San Francisco. The best way to punish a reactionary would be to force him to pass by and interact with gays and liberals.

364 Lidane  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:48:52am

That about sums it up:

365 ObserverArt  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:48:53am

re: #339 Justanotherhuman

There is no room for nuance in the RWNJ brain. That’s why so many RW commenters, publications, online sites, etc are dangerous. They know exactly what they’re doing and who they’re attracting.

Too many uneducated, ignorant, reactionary, racist types believe everything they see because they simply want to.

Yep, I think I’ve used the term around here, and it is not really original, but I call it all Confirmation TV (or substitute your favorite term…radio, internet, etc.)

That is what is so sad about all this media information delivery. No one uses it to learn about all sides of a story to grow their own info database and worldview. They use it to stay stuck in their narrow minds.

Time for some lunch and to get down to some work. Later!

366 Lidane  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:50:59am

Well that’s interesting. One of my more conservative friends naturally hated the SOTU last night, except for one bit. He actually praised Obama for the MyRA plan and was highly complimentary about it.

367 ObserverArt  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:53:20am

re: #345 Dark_Falcon

There’s big difference between Ronald Reagan negotiating with Gorbachev to eliminate IRBMs and reduce the forces staring each other down across Fulda Gap, and the current man-crush too many people who call them selves conservative have on Putin.

Dark…I know you said you think in a linear fashion. My quip was really not about Reagan. It was about the imaginary “wall” that seems to have disappeared to allow ‘nuts to think a guy like Putin is just fine to compare favorably to Obama. It is nucking futs!

: )

Now I am off…

368 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:53:59am

re: #366 Lidane

Well that’s interesting. One of my more conservative friends naturally hated the SOTU last night, except for one bit. He actually praised Obama for the MyRA plan and was highly complimentary about it.

With a few mods and some progress we can get single-payer for health and the equivalent for retirement/pension where regardless of employer the contributions go into the same account rather than ending up chasing 3-4 programs around*.

* - Of course it is unlikely to happen since it’s still too fun and profitable to play games with pension funds and distributions.

369 lawhawk  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:54:49am

re: #337 b.d.

Since the water’s cleaned up in NY harbor, we’ve gotten whales, dolphins, and seals on a rather regular basis.

That particular photo’s of the East River near the United Nations.

The Hudson River doesn’t have nearly so much ice in the main channel.

370 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:55:32am

re: #366 Lidane

Well that’s interesting. One of my more conservative friends naturally hated the SOTU last night, except for one bit. He actually praised Obama for the MyRA plan and was highly complimentary about it.

The problem is that the program will need Congress to pass legislation to bring it into being and its going to trigger some infighting when it gets there. Moreover, the budget levels for the coming fiscal year have already been set, so the president will need to propose acceptable non-defense offsets to make-up the difference.

371 Lidane  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:56:54am

So per a friend of mine who lives just outside Atlanta, the current tally is 1254 accidents, 134 injuries, 1 birth, and 1 death. People have now been stuck over 19 hours on some highways.

That’s just insane.

372 Gus  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:58:21am

re: #349 darthstar

[Embedded content]

Well, that’s going to put a damper on WWIII.

373 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:58:29am

re: #360 Pie-onist Overlord

WTFITS
BUT NO ABORTIONS OR BIRTH CONTROL FOR TEH SLUTS!!!1!!!!

[Embedded content]

Yeah such a champion for liberty you are shithead. Fuck off and go away Rand.

374 lawhawk  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 8:58:50am

re: #370 Dark_Falcon

Not necessarily. The MyRA appears to be some kind of bond program, which doesn’t necessarily require Congressional action. It could be done administratively.

myRA appears “similar to an idea Treasury officials have studied for several years, which would create something called an R-bond, allowing employees to have a certain amount of money deducted from each paycheck and directed toward a specific investment.”

The White House is supposed to release more details today, so we’ll see what those contain.

375 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:00:21am

re: #371 Lidane

So per a friend of mine who lives just outside Atlanta, the current tally is 1254 accidents, 134 injuries, 1 birth, and 1 death. People have now been stuck over 19 hours on some highways.

That’s just insane.

If that’s not an argument for better infrastructure, I sure as hell don’t know what the hell is.

376 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:00:59am

re: #371 Lidane

So per a friend of mine who lives just outside Atlanta, the current tally is 1254 accidents, 134 injuries, 1 birth, and 1 death. People have now been stuck over 19 hours on some highways.

That’s just insane.

That’s nuts; I can’t even imagine that.

I lived in the Portland, OR area for a number of years, and anything more than one or two inches of snow, and it was pretty much the end of the world. What compounds the problem in that particular area is freezing rain and black ice, which I detest profoundly. We had a freezing rain storm here last winter; I flatly refused to go outside - it’s far too dangerous. Walking on snow, you have at least some traction. Not on ice. I do have shoe-spikes which I can put on over my boots, but I still prefer to avoid it entirely.

377 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:01:09am

HURR HURRRR!!!!!!

378 b.d.  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:02:28am

re: #377 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURRRR!!!!!!

[Embedded content]

Glenny One Note.

Where the hell is Pierre and Glenn’s DailyDudeBro at anyways?

379 Decatur Deb  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:03:48am

re: #374 lawhawk

Not necessarily. The MyRA appears to be some kind of bond program, which doesn’t necessarily require Congressional action. It could be done administratively.

The White House is supposed to release more details today, so we’ll see what those contain.

For the first 5-10 years, the money should flow in, not out.

380 Ian G.  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:05:46am

re: #360 Pie-onist Overlord

WTFITS
BUT NO ABORTIONS OR BIRTH CONTROL FOR TEH SLUTS!!!1!!!!

[Embedded content]

So the “libertarian” hero proposes a soft version of China’s authoritarian one-child policy.

I can’t be the only one who thinks Rand Paul is dumber than a box of rocks.

381 Gus  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:06:44am

re: #307 Lidane

A sign of the times:

[Embedded content]

Sign of yet another stupid White House petition.

382 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:07:03am

re: #380 Ian G.

So the “libertarian” hero proposes a soft version of China’s authoritarian one-child policy.

I can’t be the only one who thinks Rand Paul is dumber than a box of rocks.

I think you’re being unfair to the box of rocks and yes anyone who thinks this clown is a “libertarian” deludes themselves greatly considering this and some of his other past proposed policies. I don’t want to hear Rand or his dipshit father lecture anyone of us on big government.

383 Gus  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:07:13am

Enforced libertarianism.

384 Gus  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:09:04am

Authoritarian-Libertarian

385 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:09:10am

If Rand had his way, most of our ancestors would have been punished. I hope that his future opponent makes note of this in Kentucky especially given that Kentucky is a poorer state.

386 Lidane  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:10:32am


Dear Fox Blonde,

STFU and sit down. I’ll also bet money that you don’t know exactly how much more your male colleagues earn than you.

Unless you’re saying you’re okay being paid less than they are.

No love,
Me

387 Targetpractice  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:11:03am

And this is why our mayor was just on TV earlier telling people to stay home if they do not have to be out.

Serious injuries reported when vehicle slams into house

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) - A vehicle has crashed into a home in Virginia Beach Wednesday morning.

The crash occurred in the 300 block of Plaza Trail Court in the Windsor Woods section of the city around 11:15 a.m. according to MPO James Cason with the Virginia Beach Police department.

Four people inside the home were injured, three of which were reportedly seriously injured.

388 Dr. Matt  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:11:16am

re: #385 HappyWarrior

If Rand had his way, most of our ancestors would have been punished. I hope that his future opponent makes note of this in Kentucky especially given that Kentucky is a poorer state.

If Rand had his way, America would be a supersized version of Somalia.

389 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:11:26am

re: #371 Lidane

So per a friend of mine who lives just outside Atlanta, the current tally is 1254 accidents, 134 injuries, 1 birth, and 1 death. People have now been stuck over 19 hours on some highways.

That’s just insane.

Well, they’d better start electing Dems statewide to prepare for climate change, eh? Republicans obviously aren’t up to the job. : )

390 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:12:00am

re: #386 Lidane

[Embedded content]


Dear Fox Blonde,

STFU and sit down. I’ll also bet money that you don’t know exactly how much more your male colleagues earn than you.

Unless you’re saying you’re okay being paid less than they are.

No love,
Me

I actually find that real sad. Yeah women don’t want equal pay. Horseshit. If the shoe were on the other foot, men would rightfully be angry about a system that denied them equal pay for equal work. The fact that the right is still going at elaborate lengths to defend denying equal pay to women in the 21st century shows you how pathetically reactionary the right is.

391 Dr. Matt  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:13:29am

Shorter Fox Blonde: Women are baby factories who should be submissive to their husbands.

392 Targetpractice  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:14:07am

re: #386 Lidane

[Embedded content]


Dear Fox Blonde,

STFU and sit down. I’ll also bet money that you don’t know exactly how much more your male colleagues earn than you.

Unless you’re saying you’re okay being paid less than they are.

No love,
Me

Surprise, surprise, Tucker Carlson arguing that women are actually getting the better deal because some businesses allow things like maternity leave.

393 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:15:06am

re: #374 lawhawk

Not necessarily. The MyRA appears to be some kind of bond program, which doesn’t necessarily require Congressional action. It could be done administratively.

The White House is supposed to release more details today, so we’ll see what those contain.

That would be acceptable if other other bond issues were curtailed as an offset. I don’t want such a program to result in more government borrowing.

394 Petero1818  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:16:08am

Interesting and reasonable write up on the GOP’s new kinder / gentler approach to bring in women voters via McMorris Rodgers.
slate.com

395 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:16:21am

re: #392 Targetpractice

Surprise, surprise, Tucker Carlson arguing that women are actually getting the better deal because >some businesses allow things like maternity leave.

Did it ever occur to that dumb fucker that not all women get pregnant or want to get pregnant. Yeah maternity leave is a nice benefit. It’s also one that fuckwads like Carlson fought against having in the first place. Most of the progress we have today in work related benefits is in spite not because of conservative reactionaries like Tucker and the people on FNC. If these people had their way, the 40 hour work week would still be a dream.

396 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:16:39am

re: #380 Ian G.

So the “libertarian” hero proposes a soft version of China’s authoritarian one-child policy.

I can’t be the only one who thinks Rand Paul is dumber than a box of rocks.

Yeah, I’ve always said it. I know I’m not the brightest bulb in the box, but hell’s bells, some people will fall for anything as long as they think it’s “attractive” in one way or another.

Rand Paul just had the right set of parents. Doesn’t make him a genius since he seems to have adopted his dad’s nutty philosophy.

397 Ian G.  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:17:53am

re: #387 Targetpractice

And this is why our mayor was just on TV earlier telling people to stay home if they do not >have to be out.

[Embedded image]

Serious injuries reported when vehicle slams into house

The snow-experienced northerner in me is shaking his head in disbelief over how little snow has snarled Georgia and Alabama, but I’m most certainly NOT acting that way over what coastal NC and the Tidewater VA got. Those were legitimate snowstorms in any part of this country.

398 HappyWarrior  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:18:02am

re: #396 Justanotherhuman

Yeah, I’ve always said it. I know I’m not the brightest bulb in the box, but hell’s bells, some people will fall for anything as long as they think it’s “attractive” in one way or another.

Rand Paul just had the right set of parents. Doesn’t make him a genius since he seems to have adopted his dad’s nutty philosophy.

No way in hell is he elected anyone if his name is Rand Paulson. He definitely piggy backed rode on his father’s name to the Senate and his father’s cult of personality.

399 Gus  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:18:19am

Fucking Rand Paul. Why?

400 Feline Fearless Leader  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:22:19am

re: #394 Petero1818

Interesting and reasonable write up on the GOP’s new kinder / gentler approach to bring in women voters via McMorris Rodgers.
slate.com

How did Ms Rodgers vote on the anti-abortion bill passed by the House the other day? Actions speak louder than words.

401 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:22:29am

re: #397 Ian G.

The snow-experienced northerner in me is shaking his head in disbelief over how little snow has snarled Georgia and Alabama, but I’m most certainly NOT acting that way over what coastal NC and the Tidewater VA got. Those were legitimate snowstorms in any part of this country.

Snow is a massive problem if you’re not used to it. Folks from Chicago or Detroit are grow up having to deal with snowy conditions and their minds adapt to deal with that reality. When you grow up in Atlanta, where snow happens less than once every five years, you’re not used to it and you don’t know how to handle it.

402 Ian G.  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:23:18am

To elaborate on the point I made about coastal NC:

intellicast.com

If I’m reading that correctly, there are isolated pockets of of NC that have more than 16 inches on the ground. Holy crap.

403 Targetpractice  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:25:09am

re: #397 Ian G.

The snow-experienced northerner in me is shaking his head in disbelief over how little snow has snarled Georgia and Alabama, but I’m most certainly NOT acting that way over what coastal NC and the Tidewater VA got. Those were legitimate snowstorms in any part of this country.

Yeah, but the morons here want to act as if they don’t need to take caution in driving. Nothing makes me shake my head more that the ones who are driving SUVs, thinking “Four-wheel drive means I don’t need to take it slow!”

404 Lidane  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:27:20am

re: #401 Dark_Falcon

Snow is a massive problem if you’re not used to it. Folks from Chicago or Detroit are grow up having to deal with snowy conditions and their minds adapt to deal with that reality. When you grow up in Atlanta, where snow happens less than once every five years, you’re not used to it and you don’t know how to handle it.

Add to that the fact that it’s not just the drivers that aren’t used to it. Governments down here aren’t either. The whole concept of pre-treating the roads for snow and ice in advance isn’t a reflexive thing.

405 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:27:27am

re: #403 Targetpractice

Yeah, but the morons here want to act as if they don’t need to take caution in driving. Nothing makes me shake my head more that the ones who are driving SUVs, thinking “Four-wheel drive means I don’t need to take it slow!”

To me, having 4-wheel-drive means I don’t have to shovel the driveway unless we get more than 6”. It DOES NOT MEAN drive like a doucheweasel.

406 Dark_Falcon  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:28:20am

BBL

407 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:29:12am

re: #399 Gus

Fucking Rand Paul. Why?

It’s really Randal Howard Paul. I know a couple of Randalls and neither one uses “Rand”. Paul only did it to connect himself to Ayn Rand and her libertarian philosophy. He thinks he’s so cute for that.

I’d like to see his transcript from Duke medical school and Baylor, too. And I’d like to know what other doctors think of him. He isn’t Board certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology (created in 1916), since he formed his own certification assn. Probably couldn’t pass the qualifications for the ABO. I worked for an ophthalmologist years ago and he was board certified; one of the best drs and eye surgeons I have ever seen.

408 Eventual Carrion  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:30:43am

re: #360 Pie-onist Overlord

WTFITS
BUT NO ABORTIONS OR BIRTH CONTROL FOR TEH SLUTS!!!1!!!!

Ah, Kinda the communist Chinese method of population control. Russia and now China giving these people ideas. You buncha communist, liberal pussy’s.

409 Targetpractice  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:32:50am

re: #404 Lidane

Add to that the fact that it’s not just the drivers that aren’t used to it. Governments down here aren’t either. The whole concept of pre-treating the roads for snow and ice in advance isn’t a reflexive thing.

VDOT is hit or miss for most storms. Sometimes they’ll be Johnny on the spot and have the streets pre-treated, other times they won’t show up until there’s already several reports of people spinning out.

410 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:33:30am
411 BeenHereAwhile  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:34:33am

re: #167 darthstar

[Embedded content]

Heh - fake hillbilly:

This was written by Charlie Daniels when he voted Democratic:

“A poor girl wants to marry, And a rich girl wants to flirt.
A rich man goes to college, And a poor man goes to work.
A drunkard wants another drink of wine, And a politician wants a vote.
I don’t want much of nothin’ at all, But I will take another toke.

‘Cos I ain’t askin’ nobody for nothin’,If I can’t get it on my own.
If you don’t like the way I’m livin’,
You just leave this long-haired country boy alone”

412 Petero1818  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:34:38am

re: #395 HappyWarrior

Did it ever occur to that dumb fucker that not all women get pregnant or want to get pregnant. Yeah maternity leave is a nice benefit. It’s also one that fuckwads like Carlson fought against having in the first place. Most of the progress we have today in work related benefits is in spite not because of conservative reactionaries like Tucker and the people on FNC. If these people had their way, the 40 hour work week would still be a dream.

According to the GOP the real victims in this world are white christian men. They are not wrong in feeling like they are getting the short end of the legilative and social policy stick. Over the last 60 years or so, no one group has seen more power and priviledge taken away from them than white Christian men in America. The difference is one of perception and perspective. For rational people, white, male Christian privelege was a historical injustice perpetuated generation after generation by force, religion, and later by legislated and social inequality, Over the last 150 years, much has been done toward leveling the playing field. More that in the thousands of years preceeding. Those changes while incomplete and insufficient have made life more challenging for white christian men (not compared to others- but compared to their past experience). Rational folks understand the job is not finished, and that White Christian Men should occupy no greater position than anyone else by birth right. These lunatics on the right will continue to push back to keep or restore some sense of that privilege. They will do so through legislation and through pushing Christian dogma on us and liekly through the use of force when they feel it is required.

413 Gus  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:36:05am

re: #407 Justanotherhuman

It’s really Randal Howard Paul. I know a couple of Randalls and neither one uses “Rand”. Paul only did it to connect himself to Ayn Rand and her libertarian philosophy. He thinks he’s so cute for that.

I’d like to see his transcript from Duke medical school and Baylor, too. And I’d like to know what other doctors think of him. He isn’t Board certified by the American Board of Ophthalmology (created in 1916), since he formed his own certification assn. Probably couldn’t pass the qualifications for the ABO. I worked for an ophthalmologist years ago and he was board certified; one of the best drs and eye surgeons I have ever seen.

I don’t have to see anything. There is no correlation between attaining a doctorate of ophthalmology and public policy expertise. I can go out tomorrow and start working on attaining said doctorate eventually become and ophthalmologist. It’s all done by rote. Read, review, recite, study and memorize. Pass the tests, know the procedures, and know how to perform the tasks attributable to one’s degree or license. It’s just like being a good carpenter or transmission mechanic.

414 Targetpractice  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:37:06am

So after getting in a reporter’s face last night and threatening to throw him off a balcony, Grimm today issues an apology and Boehner doesn’t waste time slamming the lid shut on the matter. But Peter King actually suggested that it would hurt Grimm with voters back home for “backing down.”

415 Petero1818  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:38:22am

re: #414 Targetpractice

So after getting in a reporter’s face last night and threatening to throw him off a balcony, Grimm today issues an apology and Boehner doesn’t waste time slamming the lid shut on the matter. But Peter King actually suggested that it would hurt Grimm with voters back home for “backing down.”

Peter King is never wrong./

416 Pie-onist Overlord  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:38:50am

HURR HURR!!!!! DERP DERP!!!!11 HURRRRR!!!!!

417 Dr Lizardo  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:40:49am

Morris “Morrie” Turner, the creator of the “Wee Pals” comic strip, has died at the age of 90.

hosted2.ap.org

assets.amuniversal.com

Mr. Turner was the first African-American cartoonist to be syndicated nationwide, and was a protege of Charles Schulz.

RIP.

418 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:41:54am

re: #395 HappyWarrior

Did it ever occur to that dumb fucker that not all women get pregnant or want to get pregnant. Yeah maternity leave is a nice benefit. It’s also one that fuckwads like Carlson fought against having in the first place. Most of the progress we have today in work related benefits is in spite not because of conservative reactionaries like Tucker and the people on FNC. If these people had their way, the 40 hour work week would still be a dream.

It goes against their family values-based notion that women should be at home raising kids and not working at all…

419 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:41:58am

re: #413 Gus

I don’t have to see anything. There is no correlation between attaining a doctorate of ophthalmology and public policy expertise. I can go out tomorrow and start working on attaining said doctorate eventually become and ophthalmologist. It’s all done by rote. Read, review, recite, study and memorize. Pass the tests, know the procedures, and know how to perform the tasks attributable to one’s degree or license. It’s just like being a good carpenter or transmission mechanic.

Sure, but that can’t make you a decent human being, as my employer was.

420 William Barnett-Lewis  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:44:13am

Reading at another site about the SOTU & ran into this meme and had to share it…

421 Justanotherhuman  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:45:37am

re: #411 BeenHereAwhile

Heh - fake hillbilly:

This was written by Charlie Daniels when he voted Democratic:

“A poor girl wants to marry, And a rich girl wants to flirt.
A rich man goes to college, And a poor man goes to work.
A drunkard wants another drink of wine, And a politician wants a vote.
I don’t want much of nothin’ at all, But I will take another toke.

‘Cos I ain’t askin’ nobody for nothin’,If I can’t get it on my own.
If you don’t like the way I’m livin’,
You just leave this long-haired country boy alone”

Then he got religious. He played with another group I got roped into going to see about 20 yrs ago and stood up there telling everyone about how he had been “saved”…

422 Slap  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:47:02am

re: #178 Feline Fearless Leader

Maybe VB should have made an Eskimo Pie for National Pie Day.

Maybe she couldn’t find enough Eskimos to make a proper filling? I understand they’re really hard to prepare.

(ducks)

423 A Mom Anon  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 9:47:36am

re: #404 Lidane

You can also add in that the governments in the South just won’t budget for this. Atlanta itself has 120 or so pieces of snow removal equipment. The rest of the state maybe has that much combined. Ask people to pay a bit more in revenue to pay for these things and they throw a fit. Then when stuff like this happens they have another fit because there’s no services. And the chickenshit politicians here won’t clarify that point to people either, because if they do, they get the Tea Party treatment. Morans.

424 BeenHereAwhile  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 10:38:35am

re: #397 Ian G.

The snow-experienced northerner in me is shaking his head in disbelief over how little snow has snarled Georgia and Alabama, but I’m most certainly NOT acting that way over what coastal NC and the Tidewater VA got. Those were legitimate snowstorms in any part of this country.

In January 2000, due to ice & snow, GA DOT closed down the interstates and roads thru Atlanta the Friday & Saturday before Super Bowl Sunday, which was played in Atlanta, GA.

Which made NFL Commisioner’s Party (Friday NIght), Merchandising and Corporate Party (Saturday Night) logistics difficult. In order to get around the city after the shutdown, you were required to get police escort.

The Merchandising party for 3,500 guests, was originally to be held in East Point (maybe 10 miles from downtown), which meant you had to deal with 2 different police agencies for escorts due to ‘turf issues.” [We can only escort you to our city limits, the adjacent police agency will then assume escort] WTF

No coordination between GA public safety agencies in 2000 in spite of the emergency conditions. Hope they have their act together better this time.

425 BeenHereAwhile  Wed, Jan 29, 2014 10:43:41am

re: #414 Targetpractice

So after getting in a reporter’s face last night and threatening to throw him off a balcony, Grimm today issues an apology and Boehner doesn’t waste time slamming the lid shut on the matter. But Peter King actually suggested that it would hurt Grimm with voters back home for “backing down.”

Is this the Staten Island politician who cussed out and then physically removed a foreign video crew from, his office, who attempted to tape an “ambush interview” some years ago?


This article has been archived.
Comments are closed.

Jump to top

Create a PageThis is the LGF Pages posting bookmarklet. To use it, drag this button to your browser's bookmark bar, and title it 'LGF Pages' (or whatever you like). Then browse to a site you want to post, select some text on the page to use for a quote, click the bookmarklet, and the Pages posting window will appear with the title, text, and any embedded video or audio files already filled in, ready to go.
Or... you can just click this button to open the Pages posting window right away.
Last updated: 2023-04-04 11:11 am PDT LGF User's Guide RSS Feeds

Help support Little Green Footballs!

Subscribe now for ad-free access!Register and sign in to a free LGF account before subscribing, and your ad-free access will be automatically enabled.

Donate with
PayPal Cash.app
Recent PagesClick to refresh
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ...
Cheechako
2 days ago
Views: 102 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 1
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ...
Cheechako
2 weeks ago
Views: 267 • Comments: 0 • Rating: 1