Russian MP Who Tweeted Racist Image of Obamas Lights Sochi Torch, US Right Wing Applauds

Another festival of overt racism in the right wing blogosphere
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The Russian woman picked to light the Olympic torch in Sochi was former figure skater (and current MP for Vladimir Putin’s United Russia Party) Irina Rodnina, who posted a doctored racist picture of the Obamas last year, and refused to apologize for it.

The passive aggression isn’t exactly hidden there, Vlad.

Over here in the US, meanwhile, Rodnina is the new hero of the right wing blogosphere, as much for the racist tweet as for the implied insult to the Obamas. The commenters at sites like Breitbart.com and GatewayPundit are simultaneously:

  • whining about being falsely accused of racism,
  • complaining that there's nothing racist about the picture Rodnina tweeted, and
  • posting disgusting racist comments and pictures of their own, by the thousands.

Here’s a small sample of the far right hatefest currently going on at the aforementioned highly popular conservative blogs, for posterity’s sake. First, from Breitbart:

I love that she didn’t apologize.

[…]

The obvious comparisons is blatant the Supreme Ruler along with his Queen
Chubacca of the baboons both have strong facial features of primates the
Supreme Ruler when drunk looks even more so.

[…]

“WHAT NO WATERMELLON”

[…]

now the democrats are now reaching for anything that seems racist but they have failed because it is a russian who has done that now.

[…]

Nothing racist about that picture. The banana does not make it racist. Would the critics like it better if they had used a watermelon instead?

[…]

There is nothing that can be said or shown regarding Obama that isn’t called racist. That simply means that he and his followers are racist themselves and has nothing to do with anything or anyone else.

[…]

I am torn of which babe I like the most, this one or the Russian reporter babe that gave Obama the finger while on the air.

[…]

HHAHAHHAHAHAHA that picture is hilarious….

[…]

wash nana down with a forty, bomba

[…]

Now, why would depicting the Obamas as monkeys necessarily have to be racist? It might just mean that they are idiots… Just like Jesse Jackass and Al Sharptongue… everything has to be racism.

[…]

This could be offensive to monkeys.

[…]

I think it looks more like she is indicating he likes sucking on c**k.

[…]

I admit I laughed, I guess that makes me racist. Even if you made them white, with the expressions on their face they do look like monkeys.

[…]

Very funny photo. I see no racism at all, now if it would have been a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken, maybe, just maybe.

[…]

I fail to see a problem. He is what he is. But watermellon or fried chicken would have worked too.

And from Jim Hoft’s hate hole, here’s a screenshot of the festivities (click to enlarge):

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216 comments
1 Kragar  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:04:33pm

“Its them durn liberals saying everything is racist again” hurr de hurr

2 bratwurst  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:05:26pm

They are proud of being xenophobic (re: the Coke commercial) and anti-science (re: their steadfast attachment to creationism). Why are they not proud of their racism as well?

3 Charles Johnson  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:08:08pm

re: #2 bratwurst

They are proud of being xenophobic (re: the Coke commercial) and anti-science (re: their steadfast attachment to creationism). Why are they not proud of their racism as well?

More than a few of them are.

4 nines09  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:09:13pm

Yep. Right Wing Heroes only need to hate Obama or his wife or children. Matters not that they are thugs or would like to see America fall. Words fail me. Scum.

5 TedStriker  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:11:39pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

More than a few of them are.

Like that OK restaurant owner:
littlegreenfootballs.com

6 Kragar  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:12:45pm
7 Kragar  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:14:25pm

I guess they need to take joy in their bigotry, because they’re losing everywhere else.

8 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:15:05pm

re: #6 Kragar

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Bigoted tyrants gonna tyrannize.

9 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:19:17pm

re: #7 Kragar

I guess they need to take joy in their bigotry, because they’re losing everywhere else.

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Assuming the filing has to wait till Monday, What’s the over/under on how long it takes till the first bill is filed in a state legislature aimed at nullifying AG Holder’s order?

10 Kragar  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:22:04pm

re: #9 Dark_Falcon

Assuming the filing has to wait till Monday, What’s the over/under on how long it takes till the first bill is filed in a state legislature aimed at nullifying AG Holder’s order?

What time does the first court open on the East Coast?

11 Lidane  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:23:37pm

re: #2 bratwurst

They are proud of being xenophobic (re: the Coke commercial) and anti-science (re: their steadfast attachment to creationism). Why are they not proud of their racism as well?

Oh, they’re proud of it. They just don’t like anyone calling them on it.

12 Lidane  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:24:42pm

re: #9 Dark_Falcon

Assuming the filing has to wait till Monday, What’s the over/under on how long it takes till the first bill is filed in a state legislature aimed at nullifying AG Holder’s order?

Please. The only competition is which nutbar AG will be the first one to file.

Greg Abbott will make it his top priority here in Texas, I’m sure.

13 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:25:14pm

“nullification.” hmm, where have I heard that word before?

14 Shiplord Kirel  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:27:19pm

Stalin looks up from hell and shakes his head, “I was born 75 years too soon!”

15 freetoken  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:27:47pm

The hate-right is probably not done yet in coming out from hiding. There is some blowback being generated and some politicians seem to be getting uncomfortable hanging with certain crowds.

This whole movement in our society really can only end one way - ugliness. Fortunately a majority of Americans will, even if only out of formality, reject the hate-right in the end, I suppose. I wonder how much it will take for some of the GOP in) not quite totally-red states (NC, AZ) to have their own “sister Soulja” moment.

16 GlutenFreeJesus  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:29:10pm

Screw all those idiots. None of them have ever left their backwoods little towns. And none of them could ever survive a week in Russia.

On a more urgent note. Y’all better download Flappy Bird before the programmer removes it tomorrow!

everythingicafe.com

17 BongCrodny  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:29:33pm
Nothing racist about that picture. The banana does not make it racist. Would the critics like it better if they had used a watermelon instead?

*****

HHAHAHHAHAHAHA that picture is hilarious….

They give lie to their own bullshit. If it’s not racist, then how is it “hilarious”? There’s no context otherwise.

18 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:29:35pm

re: #12 Lidane

Please. The only competition is which nutbar AG will be the first one to file.

Greg Abbott will make it his top priority here in Texas, I’m sure.

No, Abbot will give not-too-loud support to a legislator’s proposal. Filing suit against Holder’s action would just give Wendy Davis a fundraising campaign and he’s not going to give her more of those than he has to.

19 Lidane  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:30:07pm

re: #13 Rev_Arthur_Belling

“nullification.” hmm, where have I heard that word before?

When Andrew Jackson threatened to hang anyone who shed blood in order to nullify laws from the nearest tree for treason.

20 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:31:06pm

re: #19 Lidane

When Andrew Jackson threatened to hang anyone who shed blood in order to nullify laws from the nearest tree for treason.

Yep.

21 Lidane  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:31:26pm

re: #18 Dark_Falcon

No, Abbot will give not-too-loud support to a legislator’s proposal. Filing suit against Holder’s action would just give Wendy Davis a fundraising campaign and he’s not going to give her more of those than he has to.

Please. Abbott has filed dozens of suits against the Obama administration. He considers it a point of pride. He’ll file and he’ll use it as his own fundraising tool with the jabbering wingnuts in this state, since he could argue he’s protecting marriage.

22 Shiplord Kirel  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:35:06pm

One version of Jackson’s response to nullifiers:

“If one drop of blood be shed there in defiance of the laws of the United States, I will hang the first man of them I can put my hand on from the first tree I can reach.”

He meant it too. Whatever else you can say about Jackson, he was not given to idle threats.

23 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:36:58pm

re: #22 Shiplord Kirel

One version of Jackson’s response to nullifiers:

“If one drop of blood be shed there in defiance of the laws of the United States, I will hang the first man of them I can put my hand on from the first tree I can reach.”

He meant it too. Whatever else you can say about Jackson, he was not given to idle threats.

Andrew Jackson’s only regret about the Nullification Crisis was that ultimately did not hang Sen. John C. Calhoun.

24 Charles Johnson  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:40:36pm
25 TedStriker  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:43:51pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

Of course she is…

*headdesk*

26 William Barnett-Lewis  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:45:23pm

re: #23 Dark_Falcon

Andrew Jackson’s only regret about the Nullification Crisis was that ultimately did >not hang Sen. John C. Calhoun.

I’ve often felt that was the second worst mistake of his administration. The greatest was the trail of tears. The third was causing the Panic of 1837 by his unwise economic policies (paying off the debt in an unsustainable way, killing the national bank, etc).

27 Ace-o-aces  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:45:29pm

But remember, Democrats are the real racists because *somethingsometing*…dixicrats…*somethingsometing*…KKK…*somethingsometing*…civil war

(the civil was is usually about “states rights” except for purposes of calling liberals racist, when it becomes about slavery again).

28 Kragar  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:48:54pm
29 kirkspencer  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:50:10pm

re: #26 William Barnett-Lewis

I’ve often felt that was the second worst mistake of his administration. The greatest was the trail of tears. The third was causing the Panic of 1837 by his unwise economic policies (paying off the debt in an unsustainable way, killing the national bank, etc).

The more I dig into it, the less I condemn him for the trail of tears. The situation was a multifaceted problem and any solution was going to have blood and tears down the road. I think there are some better choices he could have made, but there are a lot of worse ones as well.

Worth pointing out on that is the fact to a certain extent his actions were forced by ‘citizens’ of the state of Georgia who were taking that gold-bearing land no matter what any yankee might tell them. (There are several reasons he held low opinions of Georgians, and that was one of them.)

30 goddamnedfrank  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:50:12pm

re: #9 Dark_Falcon

Assuming the filing has to wait till Monday, What’s the over/under on how long it takes till the first bill is filed in a state legislature aimed at nullifying AG Holder’s order?

There’s nothing to nullify. Holder is only saying the Feds will honor the spousal testimonial and marital confidences privileges in federal prosecutions. He’s also extending to married gays and lesbians the existing marital privileges in federal bankruptcy court and visitation rights in federal prisons.

His ruling is strictly limited to federal powers. He’s done nothing that could possibly be interpreted as infringing on any State’s rights or prerogatives.

31 The War TARDIS  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:52:05pm

HI, I’m his best friend, and I am at his computer. How big of a fan of Doctor Who is. I know he likes him but how much?

I took over his computer.

32 Kragar  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:52:51pm
Mary Helen Sears, vice chair of the Michigan Republican Party’s 1st District, wrote a post last year on the Schoolcraft County GOP website claiming that homosexuals prey on children, arguing that “Satan uses homosexuality to attack the living space of the Holy Spirit.” She also said that Republicans “as a party should be purging this perversion and send them to a party with a much bigger tent.”

Sears is currently running for a seat on the Republican National Committee recently vacated by Terri Lynn Land who resigned her seat, saying she wanted to focus on her U.S. Senate campaign.

In her post on the Schoolcraft County GOP website, Sears wrote that Communist college professors were guilty of indoctrinating young people and claimed that Charles Darwin’s evolutionary theory “gave rise to Hitler’s Third Reich, Mussolini’s Italy and Stalin’s Russia.”

“If the GOP continues down this trend and stand for perversions and the daily social fad,” Sears wrote “The GOP will be truly dead and Satan will have had his day,” .

33 Lidane  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:53:35pm

re: #28 Kragar

Rebranding!

34 Kragar  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:54:48pm

re: #33 Lidane

Rebranding!

I guess saying they’re not the big tent party any more is rebranding.

35 Lidane  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:55:17pm

re: #30 goddamnedfrank

His ruling is strictly limited to federal powers. He’s done nothing that could possibly be interpreted as infringing on any State’s rights or prerogatives.

We all know that it won’t stop the nutbars from screaming about ZOMG IMPERIAL PREZNIT and about the “desecration” of marriage.

36 goddamnedfrank  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 1:59:03pm

re: #35 Lidane

We all know that it won’t stop the nutbars from screaming about ZOMG IMPERIAL PREZNIT and about the “desecration” of marriage.

Sure, but if Hollingsworth v. Perry didn’t have standing then there’s no conceivable way to attack Holder on this. He’s just addressing potential future 14th Amendment challenges that would almost certainly win.

37 goddamnedfrank  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:01:26pm

re: #36 goddamnedfrank

Sure, but if Hollingsworth v. Perry didn’t have standing then there’s no conceivable way to attack Holder on this. He’s just addressing potential future 14th Amendment challenges that would almost certainly win.

Keep in mind this was already decided months ago with regards to federal income and inheritance taxes. The only surprising thing is that they didn’t implement the other policies at that time.

38 Kragar  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:01:49pm
39 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:07:41pm

re: #36 goddamnedfrank

Sure, but if Hollingsworth v. Perry didn’t have standing then there’s no conceivable way to attack Holder on this. He’s just addressing potential future 14th Amendment challenges that would almost certainly win.

The point of the bill would not be to actually stop what Holder is doing, since you’re right that it couldn’t and wouldn’t. The point would be that the politicians in question would claim to be “standing up to Big Gay” and “defending morality”. It’s just an exercise in hateful PR.

40 The War TARDIS  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:13:04pm

Best Friend took over the computer. We made me an account at a Muslim Matrimonial site.

I’m now having a crisis of identity over my height.

41 b_sharp  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:17:00pm

re: #40 The War TARDIS

Best Friend took over the computer. We made me an account at a Muslim Matrimonial site.

I’m now having a crisis of identity over my height.

What’s wrong with your height?

42 HappyWarrior  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:17:12pm

re: #28 Kragar

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Ladies and gentlemen, the Republican Party in 2014. Somewhere Gerald Ford is thinking why the hell did I ever join this party.

43 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:17:40pm

BBL

44 HappyWarrior  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:19:21pm

re: #24 Charles Johnson

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I’m starting to think they’ll embrace anyone who shares their hatred of Obama. I’m honestly shocked that more of them haven’t openly embraced Putin.

45 The War TARDIS  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:19:43pm

re: #41 b_sharp

I had to scroll down a ways to find mine.

I realized how over average being 6’5” is.

46 b_sharp  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:20:49pm

re: #45 The War TARDIS

I had to scroll down a ways to find mine.

I realized how over average being 6’5” is.

So?

What’s the problem?

47 HappyWarrior  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:21:45pm

re: #45 The War TARDIS

I had to scroll down a ways to find mine.

I realized how over average being 6’5” is.

Could be worse, you could be 5’5. I’ll tell you this much while I don’t mind being 6 even, I wouldn’t mind being 6’5. At least my feet would match my height.

48 klys  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:22:36pm

Back at sea level.

Oh oxygen, you’re so nice…

49 The War TARDIS  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:22:43pm

re: #46 b_sharp

It’s not so much a problem, as just being reminded how far out of average I am.

50 b_sharp  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:32:11pm

re: #47 HappyWarrior

Could be worse, you could be 5’5. I’ll tell you this much while I don’t mind being 6 even, I wouldn’t mind being 6’5. At least my feet would match my height.

I was 6’, I’m now down to 5’11-1/2”
Aging does weird shit to your body.

51 b_sharp  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:33:46pm

re: #49 The War TARDIS

It’s not so much a problem, as just being reminded how far out of average I am.

Wrong way to think of it.

Your height has far less to do with who you are than how you treat people.
Treat people well, and all your ‘non-averageness’ will be completely irrelevant.

52 HappyWarrior  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:36:10pm

re: #51 b_sharp

Wrong way to think of it.

Your height has far less to do with who you are than how you treat people.
Treat people well, and all your ‘non-averageness’ will be completely irrelevant.

An excellent point.

53 Kragar  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:37:01pm
54 klys  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:37:46pm

re: #51 b_sharp

Wrong way to think of it.

Your height has far less to do with who you are than how you treat people.
Treat people well, and all your ‘non-averageness’ will be completely irrelevant.

Things I paid absolutely zero attention to when falling in love with my husband: how tall he was. What he looked like.

Things I paid attention to: how he treated people. How he treated me. What he’d done with his life. Things he liked to do. Was he capable of being silly? Did I like spending time with him?

55 The War TARDIS  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:37:56pm

re: #51 b_sharp

I also think I am having a weird thing. My mind has been going in oddball directions recently.

56 jaunte  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:39:56pm

re: #53 Kragar

Winter Graft Party, 2014.

57 Dr Lizardo  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:40:57pm

re: #53 Kragar

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For $50,000,000,000 we probably could’ve had the Winter Games on Mars.

58 freetoken  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:41:09pm

Atlantic writer Noah Berlatsky tries to be too cute:

The Intelligent Design Theory That Inspired Darwin

He gets taken to task in the comments.

Yet it shows once again how long time high end publications like the Atlantic are trying hard to come up with grabbing little headlines even if they are misleading.

59 bratwurst  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:41:44pm

re: #57 Dr Lizardo

For $50,000,000,000 we probably could’ve had the Winter Games on Mars.

Certainly a lot more wintry than Sochi!

60 HappyWarrior  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:42:32pm

re: #57 Dr Lizardo

For $50,000,000,000 we probably could’ve had the Winter Games on Mars.

The Martians are probably more gay friendly than Vlad is too.

61 The War TARDIS  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:42:46pm

re: #57 Dr Lizardo

Speaking of planets, I really wish New Horizons and Dawn would go faster.

62 bratwurst  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:43:15pm

re: #58 freetoken

Atlantic writer Noah Berlatsky tries to be too cute:

The Intelligent Design Theory That Inspired Darwin

He gets taken to task in the comments.

Yet it shows once again how long time high end publications like the Atlantic are trying hard to come up with grabbing little headlines even if they are misleading.

My reward for subscribing to The Atlantic was them selling my personal information to third party magazine subscription services who try to sell me renewals at a remarkably inflated rate over the phone. NEVER EVER AGAIN.

63 HappyWarrior  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:44:24pm

I find it honestly sad that we’re still arguing evolution’s legitimacy as a theory. My 12 year old brother- very scientific minded watched the whole debate between Ham and Nye and he was just awe struck in how poorly Ham argues- you weren’t there seemed to be the crux of Ham’s point every time something came up that took place over an extended period of time. As I said the otehr day, when Pat Robertson thinks you looked like a religious zealot, god have mercy.

64 b_sharp  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:50:24pm

re: #55 The War TARDIS

I also think I am having a weird thing. My mind has been going in oddball directions recently.

Time to take up meditation to train your mind to focus.

65 A Mom Anon  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:54:49pm

re: #64 b_sharp

Yoga too. I swear it worked wonders with my son who has Aspergers. He doesn’t do it much now, but he remembers the breathing and some other things he learned in classes and he still uses it.

66 b_sharp  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 2:58:03pm

re: #65 A Mom Anon

Yoga too. I swear it worked wonders with my son who has Aspergers. He doesn’t do it much now, but he remembers the breathing and some other things he learned in classes and he still uses it.

I still use it on occasion.

67 lawhawk  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:01:31pm

re: #53 Kragar

Priorities.

Sports versus science.

No contest, even though it takes a whole lot of science and tech to make the gear and safety equipment.

68 HappyWarrior  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:01:39pm

re: #65 A Mom Anon

Yoga too. I swear it worked wonders with my son who has Aspergers. He doesn’t do it much now, but he remembers the breathing and some other things he learned in classes and he still uses it.

Never done Yoga before but my recumbent’s been a lifesaver. Music is always good too. I think some of my social anxiety was weight related. Never would have realized it at the time but I feel more comfortable around people since I’ve lost weight especially prospective romantic interests.

69 Romantic Heretic  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:02:19pm

re: #29 kirkspencer

The more I dig into it, the less I condemn him for the trail of tears. The situation was a multifaceted problem and any solution was going to have blood and tears down the road. I think there are some better choices he could have made, but there are a lot of worse ones as well.

Worth pointing out on that is the fact to a certain extent his actions were forced by ‘citizens’ of the state of Georgia who were taking that gold-bearing land no matter what any yankee might tell them. (There are several reasons he held low opinions of Georgians, and that was one of them.)

All I want in this creation,
is a pretty little wife and a big plantation.
Way up north,
in the Cherokee Nation.

Popular song in Georgia before The Trail of Tears

70 Romantic Heretic  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:04:13pm

re: #49 The War TARDIS

It’s not so much a problem, as just being reminded how far out of average I am.

Good for you.

71 jamesfirecat  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:04:35pm

re: #53 Kragar

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Graft is a helluva drug!

72 The War TARDIS  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:05:17pm

re: #23 Dark_Falcon

Part of me thinks that that course of action would be reasonable.

The rest of me says that is barking insane.

73 Romantic Heretic  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:06:06pm

re: #50 b_sharp

I was 6’, I’m now down to 5’11-1/2”
Aging does weird shit to your body.

Same here. Was 183 cm (6 ft). Now 180 and a bit.

I have no doubt the fact that my posture could have been better over the years didn’t help.

74 freetoken  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:07:49pm

Just because it is a slow Saturday:

How to improve your love life with hi-tech sex toys

What do you get when you combine a robotic arm, an Oculus Rift headset and a tube (for want of a better word)? A fully immersive sex simulator called the VR Tenga. First demonstrated in November at a conference in Japan, the VR Tenga finally makes it possible to receive a “robot handjob”, which adds a new dimension to the idea of robots taking over our jobs.

[…]

If there’s anything missing from sex, it’s the ability to stare at ourselves during the act. Enter Sex with Glass, a Google Glass app that promises to solve this dire problem. With both partners wearing Google Glass, the app creates a shared livestream, allowing you to experience the other person’s perspective.

So much for mirrored ceilings.

75 freetoken  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:08:10pm

H. sapiens is so doomed.

76 Romantic Heretic  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:10:20pm

re: #60 HappyWarrior

The Martians are probably more gay friendly than Vlad is too.

Considering they have seven sexes the Martians have major problems even conceiving of homophobia.

Oh wait. I’m thinking of Venus.

Martians reproduce by budding. So they have an even harder time than the Venusians.

(Whoever gets the obscure SF references without Googling wins the internet. ;) )

Edited because I quoted the wrong post.

77 abolitionist  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:12:02pm

re: #76 Romantic Heretic

Considering they have seven sexes the Martians have major problems even conceiving of homophobia.

Oh wait. I’m thinking of Venus.

Martians reproduce by budding. So they have an even harder time than the Venusians.

(Whoever gets the obscure SF references without Googling wins the internet. ;) )

My guess: Stranger In a Strange Land

78 wrenchwench  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:12:05pm
79 freetoken  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:13:17pm

Fundamentalism comes in all flavors:

Plea to take TV serial on Buddha off the air

Buddha, a serial being telecast on Zee TV, hurts Buddhists’ sentiments and it should immediately be taken off the air, says a petition in the Bombay High Court.

[…]

Petitioners Samta Sainik Dal and Bharat Leni Sanvardhan Samiti said: “They [the producers] have wrongly represented facts. There are many false things which have been depicted. They have not referred to the right religious books on Buddhism.”

[…]

Nothing scares religious authorities more than unapproved texts.

80 Romantic Heretic  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:13:54pm

re: #77 abolitionist

My guess: Stranger In a Strange Land

‘Fraid not. Sorry.

81 Dr Lizardo  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:14:15pm

re: #78 wrenchwench

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I remember reading something similar to that a few years ago. Heh.

82 wrenchwench  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:15:20pm

Wasn’t Stanley looking for things to do in Savannah?

83 Romantic Heretic  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:16:37pm

re: #79 freetoken

Fundamentalism comes in all flavors:

Plea to take TV serial on Buddha off the air

Nothing scares religious authorities more than unapproved texts.

Buddha would be looking an these two and going, “WTF? Didn’t you listen to what I said about putting yourself beyond petty emotions? You’re coming back as rats next time.”

84 wrenchwench  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:18:13pm

re: #81 Dr Lizardo

I remember reading something similar to that a few years ago. Heh.

Me too, but now it’s on Twitter!

The Wizard of Oz used to be an annual event. It was on TV once a year, I think in September. That was the only time you could watch it. No VCRs, no CDs, no art house theaters showing it, no Netflix. Just one time a year, and all your friends watched it the same night.

85 Dr Lizardo  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:18:18pm

re: #83 Romantic Heretic

Buddha would be looking an these two and going, “WTF? Didn’t you listen to what I said about putting yourself beyond petty emotions? You’re coming back as rats next time.”

86 Bubblehead II  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:18:57pm

re: #76 Romantic Heretic

Considering they have seven sexes the Martians have major problems even conceiving of homophobia.

Oh wait. I’m thinking of Venus.

Martians reproduce by budding. So they have an even harder time than the Venusians.

(Whoever gets the obscure SF references without Googling wins the internet. ;) )

Edited because I quoted the wrong post.

Red Planet and Between Planets by Robert A. Heinlein?

87 Dr Lizardo  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:19:16pm

re: #84 wrenchwench

Me too, but now it’s on Twitter!

The Wizard of Oz used to be an annual event. It was on TV once a year, I think in September. That was the only time you could watch it. No VCRs, no CDs, no art house theaters showing it, no Netflix. Just one time a year, and all your friends watched it the same night.

Yep…..I remember that from the 1970s, before VCR’s became commonplace.

88 TedStriker  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:21:19pm

re: #84 wrenchwench

Me too, but now it’s on Twitter!

The Wizard of Oz used to be an annual event. It was on TV once a year, I think in September. That was the only time you could watch it. No VCRs, no CDs, no art house theaters showing it, no Netflix. Just one time a year, and all your friends watched it the same night.

I think The Wizard of Oz usually aired right around Easter, for some reason.

Edit: Actually, we’re both right; quoth the Wiki:

Although the film was first telecast in 1956, it was not rebroadcast until 1959. The 1959 to 1962 telecasts occurred later in the year, between Thanksgiving and Christmas. However, beginning in the 1963-64 season the showings would occur in the early months of the year. The movie did not air in 1963.

89 Kragar  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:24:47pm

90 Dr Lizardo  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:26:14pm

re: #89 Kragar

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One billion updings.

91 Kragar  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:29:21pm

re: #90 Dr Lizardo

One billion updings.

Rowsdower Rowsdower bibbity bobbity Bobsdower

92 thedopefishlives  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:31:09pm

Evening again.

93 Dr Lizardo  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:32:09pm

Ice storm/winter storm warning in effect for Multnomah, Linn, Marion, Clackamas, Clatsop, Hood River and a bunch of other counties up in Oregon.

I really detest ice storms. Snowstorms are fine; no problem there, but I despise ice.

94 wrenchwench  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:33:17pm

re: #88 TedStriker

I think The Wizard of Oz usually aired right around Easter, for some reason.

Edit: Actually, we’re both right; quoth the Wiki:

1963 SUCKED.

95 NJDhockeyfan  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:35:30pm
96 Killgore Trout  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:36:37pm

re: #93 Dr Lizardo

Ice storm/winter storm warning in effect for Multnomah, Linn, Marion, Clackamas, Clatsop, Hood River and a bunch of other counties up in Oregon.

I really detest ice storms. Snowstorms are fine; no problem there, but I despise ice.

Ice pellets started falling about 30 minutes ago. Not too heavy yet but this could make a big mess.

97 wrenchwench  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:37:46pm

re: #93 Dr Lizardo

Ice storm/winter storm warning in effect for Multnomah, Linn, Marion, Clackamas, Clatsop, Hood River and a bunch of other counties up in Oregon.

I really detest ice storms. Snowstorms are fine; no problem there, but I despise ice.

Is there ice in Drain? Is the weather exciting in Boring? Are they staying dry in Curtain? Are they warm in Woodburn?

98 Killgore Trout  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:38:20pm

re: #97 wrenchwench

Is there ice in Drain? Is the weather exciting in Boring? Are they staying dry in Curtain? Are they warm in Woodburn?

Reports from Beaverton are NSFW.

99 Dr Lizardo  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:38:32pm

re: #96 Killgore Trout

Ice pellets started falling about 30 minutes ago. Not too heavy yet but this could make a big mess.

Oh yeah….freezing rain makes commuting an absolute nightmare up in the PDX area.

100 thedopefishlives  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:38:41pm

re: #96 Killgore Trout

Ice pellets started falling about 30 minutes ago. Not too heavy yet but this could make a big mess.

Ice storms are the absolute worst. That doesn’t usually stop me from driving on it to prove my prowess, though.

101 Killgore Trout  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:41:39pm

Snowden Used Low-Cost Tool to Best N.S.A.

Using “web crawler” software designed to search, index and back up a website, Mr. Snowden “scraped data out of our systems” while he went about his day job, according to a senior intelligence official. “We do not believe this was an individual sitting at a machine and downloading this much material in sequence,” the official said. The process, he added, was “quite automated.”

102 wrenchwench  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:43:06pm

re: #98 Killgore Trout

Reports from Beaverton are NSFW.

This was a new one to me. Idiotville.

103 Killgore Trout  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:44:41pm

re: #100 thedopefishlives

Ice storms are the absolute worst. That doesn’t usually stop me from driving on it to prove my prowess, though.

I worry about the other people on the road. here in Portland we aren’t used to snow. About half of the people on the road are driving very slowly and cautiously, the other half are zooming around because they imagine themselves immune to the laws of physics or something.

104 freetoken  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:46:48pm

re: #103 Killgore Trout

… because they imagine themselves immune to the laws of physics or something.

Perhaps they’ve watched too many shows on SyFy?

105 Killgore Trout  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:47:14pm

re: #102 wrenchwench

This was a new one to me. Idiotville.

It’s worth a visit for the gift shop
evolution-control.com

106 thedopefishlives  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:48:45pm

re: #103 Killgore Trout

I worry about the other people on the road. here in Portland we aren’t used to snow. About half of the people on the road are driving very slowly and cautiously, the other half are zooming around because they imagine themselves immune to the laws of physics or something.

Oh, that’s always what I worry about when driving in severe weather, too. I know my driving skills and my car are both solid; but other people, well, “oy vey” only just begins to cover it. It doesn’t get any better just because we live with snow for 6 months out of the year.

107 freetoken  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 3:54:32pm

And now, some papyri news:

New fragments of poems by Sappho, questions of provenance

Those of you who follow news in classical studies are already well aware of this story: two previously unknown fragments of poems by Sappho have been recently discovered and are being published in a German journal for papyrology by Oxford University scholar Dr. Dirk Obbink.

[…]

Those of us who saw the draft noted that no provenance was given for the newly-discovered fragments, just that they come from a private collector in London.

The lack of provenance is troubling for issues of authentication, but also in terms of the papyrus fragments’ status as ancient artifacts, objects of material culture.

It is important that Dr. Obbink, the editors at the Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, and even the private collector consider publicizing the source of the fragments to clear up any questions regarding the illict trade in antiquities and archaeological looting.

Dr. Obbink’s final publication should include the archaeological provenance for the fragments, if this can be determined. Any questions regarding ownership and export permits should be clarified as well.

Many Greek papyri come from Oxyrhynchus, in Egypt. Given the continued political turmoil there, looting has spiked in the past three years. The publication of these newly-discovered fragments has a troubling, yet circumstantial, timing.

Contextual information regarding the origins of these fragments could only shed more light on the poems themselves and the culture in which they were enjoyed in the centuries after Sappho’s composition of them.

[…]

Sappho, still in the news after 2700 years.

108 wrenchwench  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:00:26pm

re: #105 Killgore Trout

It’s worth a visit for the gift shop
evolution-control.com(San%20Francisco%20to%20Ohio%20move)/Portland/slides/P5085825.html

link borked

109 wrenchwench  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:10:39pm
110 PhillyPretzel  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:12:27pm

re: #109 wrenchwench

The person who made that sign knows how bad a loaded diaper can smell.

111 Lidane  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:13:06pm

re: #95 NJDhockeyfan

How is that guy still in office? WTF Toronto?

112 Stanley Sea  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:13:25pm

re: #110 PhillyPretzel

The person who made that sign knows how bad a loaded diaper can smell.

arms length!

113 wrenchwench  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:14:23pm

re: #110 PhillyPretzel

The person who made that sign knows how bad a loaded diaper can smell.

I hope there’s a changing table in the men’s room.

114 wrenchwench  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:18:43pm


An excerpt from the linked article:

[…]

Those who find either the language or the tone of her conversation with Pyatt disturbing know nothing about diplomacy. For starters, the fecklessness of the EU when confronted with Russia’s bad behavior, whether in Ukraine or elsewhere, is a matter of ugly record. Moreover, if one F-bomb is too much for you, be glad you were never on the receiving end of a tirade from Nuland’s predecessor, Richard Holbrooke.

And as to those who are shocked, just shocked, by the U.S. attempt to manipulate Ukraine’s opposition, this is exactly what diplomats at higher levels try to do: All the foreign ambassadors in Washington worth their pensions have salty, Machiavellian conversations with their superiors and colleagues about how to shape votes of the U.S. Congress. If you’re an American, be glad that pros such as Nuland are on the job, and hope that your other diplomats aren’t sitting around munching cucumber sandwiches in between demarches.

That said, here is one scandal that this intercepted call does point to, however: Were Nuland and Pyatt speaking, as they should have been, on the kind of encrypted phone designed for such discussions? If not, that’s a major diplo-no-no. If they were, and some foreign power still managed to crack the code, then Uncle Sam needs to invest in some new phones ASAP.

[…]

115 The War TARDIS  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:22:53pm

re: #114 wrenchwench

In regards to the last paragraph, I have to imagine that Snowden leaked those codes.

He really, really needs to be charged.

116 Eventual Carrion  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:23:26pm

re: #113 wrenchwench

I hope there’s a changing table in the men’s room.

A lot of places have gotten pretty good at supplying one in men’s rooms.

117 PhillyPretzel  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:23:58pm

re: #114 wrenchwench

I wonder how many loaded diapers we can send to Sochi? /half

118 wrenchwench  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:25:00pm

re: #115 The War TARDIS

In regards to the last paragraph, I have to imagine that Snowden leaked those codes.

He really, really needs to be charged.

If it was just a matter of codes, they would have been changed before Snowden left Hong Kong.

119 wrenchwench  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:26:40pm

re: #116 Eventual Carrion

A lot of places have gotten pretty good at supplying one in men’s rooms.

More ungendered restrooms would be nice too. There are lots of parents who don’t want to send their seven and under kids alone, but feel funny (or the kid does) going as two genders into one bathroom.

120 freetoken  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:28:30pm

Here, watch “the jet stream”, be mesmerized:

atmos.washington.edu

121 NJDhockeyfan  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:29:50pm

Oh brother, the NBC screw ups continue…

122 Lidane  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:33:08pm

So my best friend fell for this Daily Currant story. I am amused:


I had to tell her to read it instead of just skimming the headline. This should’ve been a giveaway:

“Sure there were stab wounds and bruises all over the body,” admits the lead investigator on the case, “But who knows what caused them. Maybe he tripped and fell on a set of knives. Right now we’re ruling this an accidental death.”

123 The War TARDIS  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:36:14pm

I just found out about this story:

Bestiality one step closer to being a crime in Alabama

Bestiality is one step closer to being illegal in Alabama after the Alabama Senate today passed a bill to criminalize sexual contact with animals.

I have so many jokes about this, but I’ll let someone else start.

124 Targetpractice  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:37:28pm

re: #123 The War TARDIS

I just found out about this story:

Bestiality one step closer to being a crime in Alabama

I have so many jokes about this, but I’ll let someone else start.

“Baaah” means “Nooo.”

//

125 thedopefishlives  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:40:59pm

re: #123 The War TARDIS

I just found out about this story:

Bestiality one step closer to being a crime in Alabama

I have so many jokes about this, but I’ll let someone else start.

Guess that means the Mrs. Fish and I won’t be moving to Alabama any time soon. Rawr.

126 PhillyPretzel  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:41:35pm

re: #124 Targetpractice

Cat saying to child, “Don’t touch my tail. You are not my type.”

127 Decatur Deb  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:42:42pm

re: #107 freetoken

And now, some papyri news:

New fragments of poems by Sappho, questions of provenance

Sappho, still in the news after 2700 years.

Hot girl-on-girl short-long-longs.

128 freetoken  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:43:48pm

I see that the Polywell people are still at it:

We Have to Try

I wonder if small-scale fusion reactors will ever be made. I also wonder if its one of those things that don’t get the attention it deserves because it can seem sort of fringe-y. OTOH, it also suffers because Big Institution is vested into multi-billion dollar fusion projects and they really have no time for an approach that might be done for three less zeros in their budget (and thus fewer workers and thus less political support.)

129 Varek Raith  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:46:31pm

re: #128 freetoken

I see that the Polywell people are still at it:

We Have to Try

I wonder if small-scale fusion reactors will ever be made. I also wonder if its one of those things that don’t get the attention it deserves because it can seem sort of fringe-y. OTOH, it also suffers because Big Institution is vested into multi-billion dollar fusion projects and they really have no time for an approach that might be done for three less zeros in their budget (and thus fewer workers and thus less political support.)

Best bet is this.
en.wikipedia.org

130 Stanley Sea  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:47:52pm

I laughed my ass off with the Sochi fails but now I want a good Olympics and a good broadcast.

131 freetoken  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:48:09pm

re: #129 Varek Raith

Best bet is this.
en.wikipedia.org

Best bet… for a 50-year funded career.

132 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:48:11pm

Y’all are going to be soooo disapointed. Not.

133 wrenchwench  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:50:32pm

re: #132 Justanotherhuman

Y’all are going to be soooo disapointed. Not.

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134 Killgore Trout  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:51:21pm

re: #114 wrenchwench

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An excerpt from the linked article:

Good article but I’m still wondering about the core differences between the EU and US on Ukraine policy. Eu passed some silly non-binding thingy last week but that’s more than we’ve done and it’s just about all the UN will ever do. What do we want that the EU doesn’t? My best guess is Obama wants to “lead from behind” again and leave the EU and Nato to square off against the Russians. I can see how the EU would resist a proposal like this, the Russians seem serious and I suspect they would be more willing to engage in direct conflict than either the US or NATO. The US has been an unreliable ally lately.
In the end, if we’re going to pin our hopes on the UN I seriously doubt we’ll see much progress in Ukraine.

135 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:51:35pm

Slingshots have become the weapons of choice in overseas protests, it seems.

136 jhrhv  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:53:30pm

Those comments and photos brought to you by the people that tell us they are the grownups that should be taken seriously.

137 Killgore Trout  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:53:37pm

Freezing rain still falling. The snow has hardened enough that you can stand on it without sinking.

138 thedopefishlives  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:53:53pm

re: #135 Justanotherhuman

Slingshots have become the weapons of choice in overseas protests, it seems.

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Cheap, easy to make, and powerful if you can make one with a stiff enough elastic.

139 Varek Raith  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:54:21pm

re: #131 freetoken

Best bet… for a 50-year funded career.

Your cynicism is showing.
Progress can’t be made unless we try.
:P

140 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:54:39pm

These guys will insist they are not racists, they just take delight in enraging liberals. They are stuck in some sort sort of state of adolescent arrested development.

And Putin will insist he is no homophobe, he is just against gays corrupting innocent youths.

141 Decatur Deb  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:54:50pm

re: #134 Killgore Trout

Good article but I’m still wondering about the core differences between the EU and US on Ukraine policy. Eu passed some silly non-binding thingy last week but that’s more than we’ve done and it’s just about all the UN will ever do. What do we want that the EU doesn’t? My best guess is Obama wants to “lead from behind” again and leave the EU and Nato to square off against the Russians. I can see how the EU would resist a proposal like this, the Russians seem serious and I suspect they would be more willing to engage in direct conflict than either the US or NATO. The US has been an unreliable ally lately.
In the end, if we’re going to pin our hopes on the UN I seriously doubt we’ll see much progress in Ukraine.

If you’re in a bar and you hear two yahoos break beer bottles and go for each other and you don’t know which (if any) isn’t an asshole, then behind is the place from which to lead.

And go find a better bar.

142 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:55:53pm

re: #138 thedopefishlives

Cheap, easy to make, and powerful if you can make one with a stiff enough elastic.

Sometimes the best weapons are the simplest.

143 Jocko's Rocket Ship  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:58:05pm

RWNJ jingoism is trumped by racism. The U-S-A chants will have to wait.

The Russian MP does score a two-fer with racism and nationalism, that’s going to raise her score with the Russian judge. Too bad she could land the triple-putz by working in homophobia.

144 Killgore Trout  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:59:44pm

Ukraine needs the West to act swiftly

Thus, European Union Commissioner Stefan Fule stated that “if we are serious about helping this part of Europe to transform, the association agreement is only the first step,” admitting in effect that only the EU’s “most powerful instrument”, membership, will help in the long-term.

EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton added that Europe and the U.S. are “developing a plan — a Ukrainian Plan”, whose numbers “won’t be small”, to provide urgently needed short-term funding to Ukraine’s battered economy. And U.S Secretary of State John Kerry stressed that “nowhere is the fight for a democratic, European future more important today than in Ukraine”. Taken together, the three statements may signal a major shift in Western policy vis-a-vis Ukraine.

This also illustrates why the EU isn’t excited about helping Ukraine. They need a bailout and it won’t be cheap. Also, Ukraine is a political and economic basket case. Loaded with corruption, waste, a recent history of political instability and oppression. EU is already saddled with problem countries like Greece, Spain and Italy and probably aren’t excited about adopting another problemed child.

145 Decatur Deb  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 4:59:59pm

re: #142 Justanotherhuman

Sometimes the best weapons are the simplest.

Never take a slingshot to a catapult fight.

news.kievukraine.info

146 Killgore Trout  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:00:47pm

re: #141 Decatur Deb

And go find a better bar.

We gutted our space program, we’re stuck here.

147 Lidane  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:01:06pm

Dear NBC,

It’s Day 3 of the Olympics and your coverage still sucks. In an age of Twitter, Facebook and worldwide social media the results aren’t a surprise by the time you get around to your evening broadcasts.

Stop trying to create and milk the drama. Just show the highlights and STFU.

Signed,
Me

148 freetoken  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:01:07pm

re: #139 Varek Raith

Your cynicism is showing.
Progress can’t be made unless we try.
:P

Point is, for the price of ITER:

1) next generation fission plants could have been demonstrate;
2) a better and safer life cycle management of nuclear waste could be furthered;
3) small scale thorium fission demonstration plants could have been had;
4) many experimental small scale (e.g., “Polywell”) fusion experiments could have been conducted and prototypes engineered.


That’s what we should have tried.

149 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:01:31pm

re: #135 Justanotherhuman

Slingshots have become the weapons of choice in overseas protests, it seems.

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When you are using a slingshot to fire things at police while wearing a mask you are no longer a protestor, you are a rioter.

150 Varek Raith  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:03:01pm

re: #148 freetoken

Point is, for the price of ITER:

1) next generation fission plants could have been demonstrate;
2) a better and safer life cycle management of nuclear waste could be furthered;
3) small scale thorium fission demonstration plants could have been had;
4) many experimental small scale (e.g., “Polywell”) fusion experiments could have been conducted and prototypes engineered.

That’s what we should have tried.

We could’ve funded all of that too.

151 Decatur Deb  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:03:38pm

re: #149 Dark_Falcon

When you are using a slingshot to fire things at police while wearing a mask you are no longer a protestor, you are a >Quiet Rioter.

152 Lidane  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:04:59pm

re: #151 Decatur Deb

Personally, I liked Slade better.

153 Pie-onist Overlord  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:05:30pm

Remember this idiot?

154 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:06:22pm

re: #145 Decatur Deb

Never take a slingshot to a catapult fight.

news.kievukraine.info

They had a medieval trebuchet when they needed a sci-fi Trebuchet.

155 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:07:18pm

re: #153 Pie-onist Overlord

Remember this idiot?

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Well, at least he’s not a Neo-Confederate.

156 Decatur Deb  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:07:54pm

re: #153 Pie-onist Overlord

Remember this idiot?

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This idiot? That’s a movement—the Threepers.

157 Decatur Deb  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:09:24pm

re: #154 Dark_Falcon

They had a medieval trebuchet when they needed a sci-fi Trebuchet.

Link? (Didn’t get a trebuchet, but a trooper of some type.)

158 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:09:29pm

re: #149 Dark_Falcon

When you are using a slingshot to fire things at police while wearing a mask you are no longer a protestor, you are a >rioter.

Hmm. No, you’re avoiding the scrutiny of the CCTVs and preserving your identity for another day.

159 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:10:54pm

re: #153 Pie-onist Overlord

Remember this idiot?

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Those people will never learn the difference between possessive and plural. : )

160 Lidane  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:11:53pm

re: #155 Dark_Falcon

Well, at least he’s not a Neo-Confederate.

He’s still a jabbering wingnut dumbass.

161 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:12:49pm

re: #157 Decatur Deb

Link? (Didn’t get a trebuchet, but a trooper of some type.)

It’s a 50-ton battlemech called a Trebuchet.

162 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:14:09pm

re: #158 Justanotherhuman

Hmm. No, you’re avoiding the scrutiny of the CCTVs and preserving your identity for another day.

In my mind it is the act of firing things at police, not the wearing of a mask, that makes one a rioter.

163 Decatur Deb  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:14:27pm

re: #159 Justanotherhuman

Those people will never learn the difference between possessive and plural. : )

Grammar is Tyranny !!1!


(Though, to be fair, a disgruntled hippy math professor did say: “Mathmatics is the fascism of the intellect.”)

164 Decatur Deb  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:16:47pm

re: #161 Dark_Falcon

It’s a 50-ton battlemech called a Trebuchet.

Seems to be an inch or so high. Must be very dense armor.

165 Varek Raith  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:19:46pm

re: #164 Decatur Deb

Seems to be an inch or so high. Must be very dense armor.

Neutronium.
/

166 jaunte  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:20:42pm

re: #153 Pie-onist Overlord

They don’t seem to have heard of drones, or any aircraft, for that matter.

167 Pie-onist Overlord  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:21:44pm

re: #166 jaunte

They don’t seem to have heard of drones, or any aircraft, for that matter.

HURR HURRRR!!!!! ALL DEMOCRATZ IS TEH SAME AS THEY WAS 150 YEARS AGO!!!!! DEMOCRATZ IS ALL TEH RACISTS!!!!!!!

168 Dark_Falcon  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:21:59pm

re: #164 Decatur Deb

Seems to be an inch or so high. Must be very dense armor.

It seems someone has decided to use literalism to badger me.

169 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:22:03pm

re: #162 Dark_Falcon

In my mind it is the act of firing things at police, not the wearing of a mask, that makes one a rioter.

So you think it’s perfectly all right for govt censorship to shut down the internet to avoid people talking about corruption and other matters?

Turkish police fire tear gas to break up Internet protest

reuters.com

(Reuters) - Police fired water cannon and teargas to disperse hundreds of people protesting in central Istanbul on Saturday against new controls on the Internet approved by parliament this week.

“The new powers, once approved by the president, will let authorities block web pages within hours, in what the opposition has said is part of a government bid to stifle discussion of a corruption scandal.

(snip)

“The corruption scandal erupted on December 17 with the arrest of businessmen close to Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan and three ministers’ sons, and has grown into one of the biggest threats to his 11-year rule.”

170 Decatur Deb  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:22:25pm

re: #168 Dark_Falcon

It seems someone has decided to use literalism to badger me.

Ferreted that out, did you?

171 jaunte  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:22:31pm

re: #168 Dark_Falcon

Badgers hate neutronium.

172 Varek Raith  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:23:48pm

re: #171 jaunte

Badgers hate neutronium.

Can’t blame em, it’s heavy shit.

173 Pie-onist Overlord  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:25:12pm
174 jaunte  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:25:32pm

re: #167 Pie-onist Overlord

It’s odd, every time I’ve seen one of your Twitter exchanges with the people broadcasting a ‘hunters in revolution’ fantasy or ‘democrats were the kkk’ they just double down on ignoring reality.

175 The War TARDIS  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:26:39pm

Computer is having a kink.

When I play on Skyrim (and only Skyrim), it will have this error pop up after a bit. about how Driver 311.06 had an issue, and restarted.

Video card is a NVIDEA GeForce GTX 660.

176 Justanotherhuman  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:27:01pm

re: #171 jaunte

Badgers hate neutronium.

But badgers are beloved, well, in England anyway.

Badger cull: Are we silly to be so sentimental?

bbc.co.uk

177 jaunte  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:27:14pm

You can’t make me eat that reality spinach!!!

178 Pie-onist Overlord  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:27:17pm

re: #174 jaunte

It’s odd, every time I’ve seen one of your Twitter exchanges with the people broadcasting a ‘hunters in revolution’ fantasy or ‘democrats were the kkk’ they just double down on ignoring reality.

The ones who have responded to my open question “If Obama is just like Hitler, please explain why you are still on Twitter & not in a death camp” are TEH MOAST SPECIAL.

179 jaunte  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:27:45pm

re: #178 Pie-onist Overlord

“It’s a PROCESS!!!!”

180 Decatur Deb  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:29:50pm

re: #176 Justanotherhuman

But badgers are beloved, well, in England anyway.

Badger cull: Are we silly to be so sentimental?

bbc.co.uk

The Bobcats:
Muskrat Ramble

Youtube Video

181 Varek Raith  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:29:58pm

re: #179 jaunte

“It’s a PROCESS!!!!”

Obama’s had five years.
He sucks at this whole ‘tyrant’ thing.

182 wrenchwench  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:31:31pm

Now there’s an idea.


I’d do it with William Least Heat Moon’s Blue Highways.

183 Decatur Deb  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:33:49pm

re: #182 wrenchwench

Now there’s an idea.

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I’d do it with William Least Heat Moon’s Blue Highways.

Kenneth Rexroth’s Autobiography in the Form of a Novel

184 theheat  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:33:52pm

re: #159 Justanotherhuman

It’s their language. Once they evolved beyond grunting and pointing, then came Random caps and plural apostrophes. The reading world was dealt the final blow when those same people found out about Comic Sans, and later the FWD button in Outlook Express.

185 The War TARDIS  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:34:27pm

re: #148 freetoken

If we could spend less on military bloat in the US, we could also fund all of these.

186 wrenchwench  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:35:00pm


That’s near the Four Corners, and not much else.

187 Pie-onist Overlord  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:36:14pm

HURR HURRR!!!! WHY U CALLS ME TEH RACIST!!!! DEMOCRATZ IS TEH RACIST!!!! I WOULD VOTE FOR ALLEN WEST, HERMAN CAIN & BEN CARSON!!!!! WOULD YOU???? NOES!!! THEN U R TEH RACIST!!!!!

188 Gus  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:37:01pm

re: #173 Pie-onist Overlord

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Isn’t that a Roman soldier in his avi? Didn’t the Romans hold slaves? Didn’t our founding fathers own slaves? They like to talk about Southern Democrats that owned slaves but completely ignore the fact that the Founding Fathers were also slave owners.

189 Pie-onist Overlord  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:38:13pm

Allen West is a war criminal, Herman Cain is a psycho, and Ben Carson is a brain surgeon who sucks at politics.

Voting for Ben Carson for President would be like making Mozart your money manager.

190 wrenchwench  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:38:22pm

re: #183 Decatur Deb

Kenneth Rexroth’s Autobiography in the Form of a Novel

Now revised and expanded.

191 Stanley Sea  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:39:01pm

re: #132 Justanotherhuman

Y’all are going to be soooo disapointed. Not.

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YES.

192 Pie-onist Overlord  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:39:24pm

WTFITS I just can’t even

193 The War TARDIS  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:39:36pm

Any computer wonks here?

194 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:40:10pm

re: #188 Gus

Isn’t that a Roman soldier in his avi? Didn’t the Romans hold slaves? Didn’t our founding fathers own slaves? They like to talk about Southern Democrats that owned slaves but completely ignore the fact that the Founding Fathers were also slave owners.

A Trojan…one who was not allowed into battle without his male soul mate at his side…god, how we loves us some selective history!

195 wrenchwench  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:41:48pm

re: #107 freetoken

And now, some papyri news:

New fragments of poems by Sappho, questions of provenance

Sappho, still in the news after 2700 years.

Dis goes wit dat.


Dose Greeks!

196 Gus  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:41:52pm

Slaveholders:

Charles Carroll - Maryland
Samuel Chase - Maryland
Benjamin Franklin - Pennsylvania
Button Gwinnett - Georgia
John Hancock - Massachusetts
Patrick Henry - Virginia
John Jay - New York
Thomas Jefferson - Virginia
Richard Henry Lee - Virginia
James Madison - Virginia
Charles Pinckney - South Carolina
Benjamin Rush - Pennsylvania
Edward Rutledge - South Carolina
George Washington - Virginia

197 Skip Intro  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:42:15pm

re: #193 The War TARDIS

Any computer wonks here?

Go to the Nvidia site and get the newest drivers.

198 Decatur Deb  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:44:28pm

re: #190 wrenchwench

Now revised and expanded.

We get into camp after
Dark, high on an open ridge
Looking out over five thousand
Feet of mountains and mile
Beyond mile of valley and sea.
In the star-filled dark we cook
Our macaroni and eat
By lantern light. Stars cluster
Around our table like fireflies.
Late at night the horses stumble
Around the camp and I awake.
I lie on my elbow watching
Your beautiful sleeping face
Like a jewel in the moonlight.
If you are lucky and the
Nations let you, you will live
Far into the twenty-first
Century. I pick up the glass
And watch the Great Nebula
Of Andromeda swim like
A phosphorescent amoeba
Slowly around the Pole. Far
Away in distant cities
Fat-hearted men are planning
To murder you while you sleep.

(Bad cut and paste corrected.)

199 Lidane  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:46:42pm

re: #181 Varek Raith

Obama’s had five years.
He sucks at this whole ‘tyrant’ thing.

He also sucks at the whole Socialist thing if the markets are anything to go by.

Worst. Marxist. EVAR.

200 palomino  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:47:06pm

re: #196 Gus

Slaveholders:

Charles Carroll - Maryland
Samuel Chase - Maryland
Benjamin Franklin - Pennsylvania
Button Gwinnett - Georgia
John Hancock - Massachusetts
Patrick Henry - Virginia
John Jay - New York
Thomas Jefferson - Virginia
Richard Henry Lee - Virginia
James Madison - Virginia
Charles Pinckney - South Carolina
Benjamin Rush - Pennsylvania
Edward Rutledge - South Carolina
George Washington - Virginia

The important thing to remember is that all slaveholders were Democrats. The Democratic Party didn’t exist at the time these founders had slaves, but that’s beside the point.

201 Gus  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:48:07pm

202 Stanley Sea  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:48:55pm

re: #192 Pie-onist Overlord

WTFITS I just can’t even

[Embedded content]

Well that just sucks.

And shows what were dealing with crystal clearly.

203 Charles Johnson  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:53:30pm

LGF used to have a bad reputation for offensive commenters until I cleaned house, but it never got close to the outright racism going on at right wing sites today.

204 Pie-onist Overlord  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:53:40pm
205 palomino  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:54:41pm

re: #201 Gus

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Looks like the same list. Nothing’s changed in 240 years. Those people are all still Democrats, even though most died before there was a modern Democratic Pary.

Nothing ever changes in America. If northerners had slaves 240 years ago, they’re just as guilty of perpetuating slavery as southerners. And if Democrats were the southern rural party 150 years ago, well that hasn’t changed at all either.

206 wrenchwench  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 5:54:58pm
207 Gus  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 6:04:26pm

re: #204 Pie-onist Overlord

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This one should piss them off.

208 Romantic Heretic  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 6:18:19pm

re: #86 Bubblehead II

Red Planet and Between Planets by Robert A. Heinlein?

Nope.

209 Varek Raith  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 6:22:06pm

re: #195 wrenchwench

Dis goes wit dat.

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Dose Greeks!

Priceless.

210 Decatur Deb  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 6:27:27pm

re: #209 Varek Raith

Priceless.

Nah, what’s a Grecian urn?

211 BeenHereAwhile  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 7:44:15pm

re: #76 Romantic Heretic

Considering they have seven sexes the Martians have major problems even conceiving of homophobia.

Oh wait. I’m thinking of Venus.

Martians reproduce by budding. So they have an even harder time than the Venusians.

(Whoever gets the obscure SF references without Googling wins the internet. ;) )

Edited because I quoted the wrong post.

“Double Star” Robert Heinlein

212 Mentis Fugit  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 8:41:22pm

re: #210 Decatur Deb

Nah, what’s a Grecian urn?

“What’s a Greek earn?”
“It’s a vase made by Greeks for carrying liquids.”
“I didn’t expect that answer.”
“Neither did quite a few smart Alec listeners.”
The Goons break the fourth wall

213 Romantic Heretic  Sat, Feb 8, 2014 9:08:18pm

re: #211 BeenHereAwhile

“Double Star” Robert Heinlein

Nope.

The Venus reference is to William Tenn’s The Seven Sexes.

Mars is H. G. Well’s War of The Worlds.

214 Flavia  Sun, Feb 9, 2014 12:00:56am

re: #17 BongCrodny

They give lie to their own bullshit. If it’s not racist, then how is it “hilarious”? There’s no context otherwise.

And if there’s “nothing racist” about the banana, how did he know to instantly suggest the substitution of a watermelon…?

215 Roger S  Sun, Feb 9, 2014 7:16:01am

re: #8 Dark_Falcon

Nice!

216 Roger S  Mon, Feb 10, 2014 2:13:21am

re: #79 freetoken

They should try to get the story right though. Probably saying the Buddha is an avatar of Krishna/Vishnu to satisfy those who cannot handle the supreme personality of the Godhead, or something.


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