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1 Belafon  Sun, Feb 23, 2014 8:20:28pm

I wish you had posted that yesterday. Today we had my son’s birthday party and one of the things we did was talk about snowflakes and cut some out of paper. It would have been awesome with that video.

2 RadicalModerate  Sun, Feb 23, 2014 9:06:03pm

The experiment has ended.

CNN will cancel low-rated 9 p.m. ‘Piers Morgan Live’

“CNN confirms that ‘Piers Morgan Live’ is ending,” the network said in a statement. “The date of the final program is still to be determined.”

Morgan did not respond to a request for comment, nor did his manager. He took over the 9 p.m. weeknight period for CNN in 2011, succeeding Larry King.

Morgan’s views often put him under attack. His unyielding opinions on gun control irritated many viewers, while more recentlly he was sharply criticized by transgender actviists after an awkward interview with author Janet Mock.

On Thursday night, “Piers Morgan” gathered just 364,000 total viewers, according to Nielsen. That was easily beaten by Fox News’ “The Kelly File” (1.9 million) and MSNBC’s “Rachel Maddow Show” (925,000).

Personally, for me, the problem with Morgan wasn’t his sometimes confrontational political views as much as his inability to be a skilled and engaging interviewer. Unfortunately, CNN doesn’t appear to have any top-notch interviewers or commentators in the wings who are currently capable of filling the void, unless they plan on rolling out John King again since he doesn’t have to dedicate himself to the campaign trail for another year or so.

3 Kragar  Sun, Feb 23, 2014 9:25:42pm

re: #2 RadicalModerate

Also, his inability to conceal that fact he was an utter douchebag was likely a contributing factor.

4 Lidane  Sun, Feb 23, 2014 11:17:02pm

First, Piers Morgan. Now, Alec Baldwin:

5 FemNaziBitch  Sun, Feb 23, 2014 11:28:30pm

So, you mean having a british accent doesn’t automatically make you a star in US News?

7 FemNaziBitch  Sun, Feb 23, 2014 11:44:37pm

I will now bring you the early morning .jpgdump:

8 FemNaziBitch  Sun, Feb 23, 2014 11:45:41pm

9 FemNaziBitch  Sun, Feb 23, 2014 11:48:12pm

10 FemNaziBitch  Sun, Feb 23, 2014 11:48:47pm

I’m torn between the cat and the baby bear as my favorites.

11 Lidane  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 12:00:15am
12 Amory Blaine  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 12:15:27am

13 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 12:31:43am

re: #12 Amory Blaine

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Where can I get one of these for Father’s Day?

14 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 1:00:36am

re: #8 FemNaziBitch

every sperm is sacred

15 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 1:35:13am

what an interesting person

16 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 1:38:19am

re: #15 FemNaziBitch

what an interesting person

He is very the very epitome of the values of the Tea Party base.

17 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 1:39:35am

re: #16 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

He is very the very epitome of the values of the Tea Party base.

In 1991 at a meeting of Dads Against Discrimination at an Anchorage, Alaska Denny’s restaurant, Ross was overheard saying, “If a guy can’t rape his wife…who’s he gonna rape?” and “There wouldn’t be an issue with domestic violence if women would learn to keep their mouth shut.”
Women’s Rights

18 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 2:04:09am

That is fully in line with the notion that women are chattel and that marriage is a license to commit serial rape.

19 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 2:07:51am

re: #15 FemNaziBitch

what an interesting person

Guy’s an Alaskan reactionary simpleton who wears his initials on his license plate, WAR, and proudly wages it like some imbecile robot. A total POS throwback and long-time Palin friend who worked in her campaign and on whom she relied to get votes and establish cred w/the gun totin’ militia types in AK (as though she couldn’t do it on her own). She was going to pay him back by making him Atty Gen until the public and legi said, no way. Still, it was a 35-23 vote against. Interestingly, that was only 3 mos before she quit as gov—well, I always said she was forced out. They have the goods on her but they’re not talking. They are just as responsible as McCain for foisting her on the rest of us.

20 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 2:11:40am

Woohoo!

21 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 2:23:35am
22 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 2:24:21am

re: #21 Justanotherhuman

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If Putin owned one, he’d be Vlad the Impaler!

23 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 2:26:52am
24 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 2:29:01am

They spilled their Boris upon the ground

25 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 2:40:03am

Yanuk couldn’t even flee to this abode. Instead, he’s been hiding out in nursing homes in the Crimea, from what new atty gen says.


facebook.com

23rd (Sunday) arrived in Crimea. Stayed in one of the nursing homes, deliberately ignoring the state special facilities, including - specialized presidential gosdachi that previously assumed to arrive. (translation)

26 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 3:00:30am

Meanwhile, a very different revolution in Venezuela.

Protests against Maduro unite Venezuela’s fractured opposition (+video)

csmonitor.com

The demonstrators in the video don’t seem organized to any great extent, and are younger and probably more impetuous, lacking much planning or experience in this kind of situation and probably little leadership and/or cohesion except for the commonality of grievances.

It’s hot there, and you can’t fight half naked (whether you think you’re bullet-proof or not) and without at least some of the proper or improvised gear against well armed and protected authority. This is loose and all over the place as well, more like huge demonstrations that got out of control.

Unless, and until, the opposition gets itself together as a cohesive front with a plan, this is going to be a real slaughter. Simply taking to the streets is not enough.

Another thing, also: It’s not easy finding information from sources in Venezuela itself, such as the kind of coverage we got from Ukraine. This is going to be difficult to monitor.

27 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 3:16:47am

IOW, some of you will never hold office again, or ever.


I don’t know what this draft contains yet, but it won’t be kind.

Lustration: en.for-ua.com

28 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 4:08:09am

re: #27 Justanotherhuman

IOW, some of you will never hold office again, or ever.

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I don’t know what this draft contains yet, but it won’t be kind.

Lustration: en.for-ua.com

I don’t know all the ins and outs of Czech laws, but there’s a lustration law here; the primary difference is that the ban here is a lifetime ban, if I recall correctly.

29 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 4:11:10am

Released photos of the Palace of another “regional” Yuri Ivanyushchenko.

pravda.com.ua

“The discreet charm of the bourgeoisie, the new series. Yuri Ivanyushchenko palace. This project, but almost completely embodied. Clarification: this photo was taken NOT inside, it kompyuternoy visualization of the original project, and all images are almost completed in reality.”

facebook.com

A very good account and in depth probe of corruption connected with Ivanyushchenko and others, including Yanuk and their web of companies, offshoring and other tricks of the trade.

grahamstack.wordpress.com

30 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 4:14:51am

Scroll down to second section.

kyivpost.com

Moskal says Moscow assisted with plan to violently suppress protests

“Hennady Moskal, a Batkivshchyna Party politician and former deputy interior minister, claims to have uncovered documents outlining special operations to violently suppress the EuroMaidan demonstrations. The documents alleged that Russian officials served as advisers in how to carry out the operations.

“The operations had the code name Wave and Boomerang. Their goal was to disperse the mass protests and capture the protesters’ headquarters in the House of Trade Unions on Kyiv’s Independence Square.

“The documents show that the snipers on Instytutska Street near Ukraine’s government district were special units of Interior Ministry troops, led by a colonel and soliders with a special Omega unit. According to the documents, former Interior Minister Vitaliy Zakharchenko gave the order to use weapons to the Sokil unit, the main department of combating organized crimes.

“According to the documents, the former first deputy of the Main Intelligence Directorate of Russia stayed at the Kyiv Hotel and helped with preparations, getting paid by the Security Services of Ukraine. Russian officials could not immediately be reached for comment.”

31 A Mom Anon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 4:16:49am

re: #29 Justanotherhuman

What are the chances that those assets will be seized and given back to the people of Ukraine? I’m kind of stunned that the people haven’t looted and burned all these homes/estates to the ground. It shows rational thinking and remarkable self control on the part of the people. I guess they don’t want to destroy evidence and let the world see who these creeps are.

32 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 4:22:31am

re: #31 A Mom Anon

What are the chances that those assets will be seized and given back to the people of Ukraine? I’m kind of stunned that the people haven’t looted and burned all these homes/estates to the ground. It shows rational thinking and remarkable self control on the part of the people. I guess they don’t want to destroy evidence and let the world see who these creeps are.

Exactly. Their restraint is quite admirable. No doubt many of those treasures will be archived for museums, such as the icons, faberge eggs, which is where they belong, considering the people paid for them. Hopefully the structures can be turned into something useful once their value as a sideshow has diminished.

I also read this earlier, which is very sad but which also shows the extent of the corruption and how so much was wasted by those kleptocrats.

33 sattv4u2  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 4:24:33am

re: #31 A Mom Anon

What are the chances that those assets will be seized and given back to the people of Ukraine

imho, slim. The spoils won’t be “given back to the people”. Rather, they will be divvied up by the next cast of characters that will run the country

I’m kind of stunned that the people haven’t looted and burned all these homes/estates to the ground.

100% agree,,,, but until final resolution, that may still occur

34 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 4:27:43am

Bryan Fischer haz a happy about Uganda’s horrific anti-Gay laws.

35 A Mom Anon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 4:30:48am

re: #34 Pie-onist Overlord

Bryan thinks about gay sex more than gay people do. Hmm. Wonder what that means?….

36 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 4:34:45am

HURR HURR!!!!!!

Wingnuts idolize Calvin Coolidge, ignoring that fact that he, Warren Harding & Herbert Hoover were fucking douchebags who caused the Great Depression.

37 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 4:35:45am

re: #28 Dr Lizardo

I don’t know all the ins and outs of Czech laws, but there’s a lustration law here; the primary difference is that the ban here is a lifetime ban, if I recall correctly.

Well, the one I linked was from 2010; hopefully this current one will be for permanency also; I expect we’ll see what it says soon since the reporting from Ukraine is so excellent and consistent.

I didn’t even know what “lustration” meant until I looked it up. Google has really been my friend through trying to understand what was going on in Ukraine. I’ve learned a huge pile of information in a short time. : )

38 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 4:38:11am

WTF does this even mean? No one can say to a “law abiding citizen”: “Pay the money that you owe me!”

39 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 4:41:09am

Here are a sample other things that one citizen may order a “law-abiding citizen” to do:
1. Stop at this stop sign.
2. Stop at this red light.
3. Drive at the posted speed limit.
4. Drive in this direction on the highway.
5. Enter at this door.
6. Exit at this door.
6. Pay for your purchases at this cash register.
7. Park your vehicle in these designated parking areas.

40 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 4:42:31am

re: #38 Pie-onist Overlord

WTF does this even mean? No one can say to a “law abiding citizen”: “Pay the money that you owe me!”

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Mal (from Latin malus meaning bad or wrong) doesn’t know about the Constitution?

41 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:01:41am

Good morning.

42 wheat-dogghazi  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:05:52am

re: #11 Lidane

It’s about damn time.

43 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:07:13am

I wonder if Donald Trump picked up any decorating ideas from these Ukrainian mansions or if he is going to sue them all for plagiarizing his brand.

44 wheat-dogghazi  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:10:45am

re: #39 Pie-onist Overlord

Here are a sample other things that one citizen may order a “law-abiding citizen” to do:
1. Stop at this stop sign.
2. Stop at this red light.
3. Drive at the posted speed limit.
4. Drive in this direction on the highway.
5. Enter at this door.
6. Exit at this door.
6. Pay for your purchases at this cash register.
7. Park your vehicle in these designated parking areas.

No littering. $500 fine.
No parking in front of a fire hydrant.
Please don’t kill people. Thanks for your cooperation.
Oh, and pay your taxes.

45 NJDhockeyfan  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:11:25am

Good morning lizards!

The situation in Venezuela does not look good.

46 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:13:19am

The vile secrets of Yanukovych

euromaidanpr.wordpress.com

47 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:17:26am

“That’s okay. I always doubted Medvedev’s legitimacy. “


Hey, Medvedev, your boys may have tried to flee, but are wanted by the Ukraine authorities who have issued warrants for their arrest.

48 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:22:25am

re: #47 Justanotherhuman

“That’s okay. I always doubted Medvedev’s legitimacy. “

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Hey, Medvedev, your boys may have tried to flee, but are wanted by the Ukraine authorities who have issued warrants for their arrest.

Says the puppet of Putin.
Lol.

49 wheat-dogghazi  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:22:28am

re: #47 Justanotherhuman

“That’s okay. I always doubted Medvedev’s legitimacy. “


Hey, Medvedev, your boys may have tried to flee, but are wanted by the Ukraine authorities who have issued warrants for their arrest.

Mutiny applies to military situations, or on board ships, where there is a clear chain of command. Medvedev, the sockpuppet of Putin, forgets that Ukraine is supposed to be a republic, and Yanuk was supposed to be serving the people, not the other way around.

50 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:28:26am

re: #48 Varek Raith

re: #49 wheat-dogghazi

Russia yearns to portray what happened in Ukraine as some sort of “coup” but their laments are a total bust. No one is buying their shit.

51 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:31:04am

Campaign season opening tomorrow.

52 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:32:02am

re: #50 Justanotherhuman

Russia yearns to portray what happened in Ukraine as some sort of “coup” but their laments are a total bust. No one is buying their shit.

There’s all sorts of useful idiots around that are parroting the Kremlin’s line on both the left and right of the political spectrum.

53 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:33:03am

re: #52 Dr Lizardo

There’s all sorts of useful idiots around that are parroting the Kremlin’s line on both the left and right of the political spectrum.

Well, true, that. “No one” was a bit of hyperbole on my part. : )

54 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:35:06am
55 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:38:11am

Yanuk hiding behind a bunch of women?

en.wikipedia.org

Give him up, sisters.

56 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:38:38am

Any news from Byelarus? I assume that Lukashenko is shaking in his boots and seriously cracking down and pre-emptively moniotoring or rounding up any potential opposition leaders.

57 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:40:31am

re: #45 NJDhockeyfan

Good morning lizards!

The situation in Venezuela does not look good.

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Thanks but I’d ask you to check Tweets with video from that source in the future. That one auto-played and there was no way to stop it while it was on the commercial (though it could be silenced).

58 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:41:59am

re: #55 Justanotherhuman

Yanuk hiding behind a bunch of women?

en.wikipedia.org

Give him up, sisters.

Wait…don’t think this is the one, though since it’s in eastern Ukraine.

Actually, it’s called Assumption Monastery; check out the location.

infoukes.com

59 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:45:01am
60 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:46:24am

Another “Scoop” of Bullshit Ice Cream from Dim Jim

61 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:53:06am

re: #60 Pie-onist Overlord

Another “Scoop” of Bullshit Ice Cream from Dim Jim

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Context does not exist for these people…

62 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:53:46am

Hmm. Are those Chanel pearls? Just how much did this girlfriend cost the people of Ukraine, including her “business” and “charity”?

Yanukovych secretly lived with girlfriend, Mezhyhirya explorers discover

kyivpost.com

63 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:55:52am

WTFITS

64 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:56:02am

Before the EU loans Ukraine any money, they should take serious steps to recover the assets that fled the country with Yanyukovich and his cronies.

65 Jayleia  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:57:40am

re: #35 A Mom Anon

He thinks about gay sex more than San Francisco

66 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:57:49am

re: #57 Dark_Falcon

I ended up blocking it by adding it to my AdBlock filter.

67 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:59:29am

re: #65 Jayleia

He thinks about gay sex more than San Francisco

I just heard about the law…it stops short at the death penalty, but it also includes penalties for people who fail to denounce gays.

68 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 5:59:31am

re: #66 Backwoods_Sleuth

I ended up blocking it by adding it to my AdBlock filter.

Cool. I wouldn’t normally block ABC News, though. I just wish they wouldn’t auto-play.

69 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:01:14am

‘Ethical hacking’?
Lol.

70 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:03:30am

re: #69 Varek Raith

‘Ethical hacking’?
Lol.

In general, the hacking side takes precedence over any sense of ethics.

71 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:03:38am

re: #68 Dark_Falcon

Cool. I wouldn’t normally block ABC News, though. I just wish they wouldn’t auto-play.

Can always undo the block later. I just had to shut it up for now.

72 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:07:23am

re: #63 Pie-onist Overlord

WTFITS

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Cheeez. Did you notice that Snowden is not wearing his specs in the passport photo? Vain much? Must have been about the time he was trying to get into the modeling business and failed.

re: #69 Varek Raith

‘Ethical hacking’?
Lol.

“The EC-Council, a US professional organization that offers a respected certification in ethical hacking, was itself hacked this weekend. Passport and photo ID details of more than 60,000 security professionals who have obtained or applied for the EC-Council’s Certified Ethical Hacker certification are at risk after the breach, many of whom work in sensitive political and military positions. They include members of the US military, FBI, United Nations, and National Security Agency.”

You have to know the tricks of the hacking trade.

73 wheat-dogghazi  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:10:23am

re: #72 Justanotherhuman

Methinks the ethical hackers underestimated the unethical hackers’ abilities and motivations.

74 BongCrodny  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:10:31am

Morning, all.

I don’t know whether anyone has posted this yet, but it gave me a serious case of the Monday morning giggles, so…

75 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:10:33am

re: #72 Justanotherhuman

You have to know the tricks of the hacking trade.

True.
A crime is still a crime, even if the good guys do it for good reasons.

76 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:10:43am

re: #70 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

In general, the hacking side takes precedence over any sense of ethics.

And the ethics are based solely on the personal preference of the hackers, without regard for the needs and ethics of the national or world public.

It’s such a entitled, ego-driven, and morally myopic term that ‘ethical hacking’ ought generally to be written as it is here, in dudebro font,

77 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:10:54am

re: #72 Justanotherhuman

Cheeez. Did you notice that Snowden is not wearing his specs in the passport photo? Vain much? Must have been about the time he was trying to get into the modeling business and failed.

People who wear glasses are frequently asked to remove them for ID photos, if the flash from the camera reflects off the lenses.

78 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:11:29am

re: #74 BongCrodny

Morning, all.

I don’t know whether anyone has posted this yet, but it gave me a serious case of the Monday morning giggles, so…

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79 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:12:08am

re: #74 BongCrodny

80 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:16:18am

And now The Great Glenn Greenwald demonstrates his Awesome Mind-Reading Powers!

81 William Barnett-Lewis  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:16:44am

OT, but fun: FDR before polio enjoyed shooting sports. Here’s an interesting press photo that will probably cause the wingnuts to shriek about his supposedly being our _first_ Socialist President…

Image: fdr-mosin.jpg

Probably a Westinghouse made rifle that never made it to the Czar’s army before the revolutions.

82 wheat-dogghazi  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:17:33am

re: #77 Pie-onist Overlord

People who wear glasses are frequently asked to remove them for ID photos, if the flash from the camera reflects off the glasses.

When I first came to China, my passport showed me wearing glasses. It was nine years old by that time, and my hair was less white than it is now. (Early-onset gray hair — passed down from my mother.) But I had switched to contact lenses about two years after getting the passport. When I presented myself to the immigration clerk, she spent a good 5-6 minutes looking at my face, looking at the passport, looking my face, etc., before she finally decided to let me in China.

My new passport shows me without glasses, so no problems like that now.

83 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:17:48am

re: #77 Pie-onist Overlord

People who wear glasses are frequently asked to remove them for ID photos, if the flash from the camera reflects off the glasses.

True enough. Nonetheless, I still think he’s more vain than not.

84 BongCrodny  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:18:32am

re: #60 Pie-onist Overlord

Ted Nugent Calls Obama “Mongrel” - Media Erupts… Obama Calls Blacks “Mongrel People” - Media Ignores Statement shar.es
8

Only one of the two was using the term as a slur.

Of course, Hoft being Hoft it’s impossible for him to figure that one out.

85 chadu  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:19:26am

re: #74 BongCrodny

Morning, all.

I don’t know whether anyone has posted this yet, but it gave me a serious case of the Monday morning giggles, so…

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86 chadu  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:20:39am

re: #81 William Barnett-Lewis

OT, but fun: FDR before polio enjoyed shooting sports. Here’s an interesting press photo that will probably cause the wingnuts to shriek about his supposedly being our _first_ Socialist President…

Image: fdr-mosin.jpg

Probably a Westinghouse made rifle that never made it to the Czar’s army before the revolutions.

Socialists can’t use guns?

87 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:20:45am

re: #83 Justanotherhuman

True enough. Nonetheless, I still think he’s more vain than not.

I looked at my work ID, my DL and my passport photo. I am wearing glasses in all of them.

Although I distinctly remember being asked to remove glasses for previous ID photos, because of flash reflection on lenses.

88 chadu  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:22:19am

re: #87 Pie-onist Overlord

I looked at my work ID, my DL and my passport photo. I am wearing glasses in all of them.

Although I distinctly remember being asked to remove glasses for previous ID photos, because of flash reflection on lenses.

I had to remove my glasses for my last VA driver’s license (2013), but not for my new PA one.

89 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:22:35am

No happiness until the rot is completely eliminated.

90 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:23:31am

re: #81 William Barnett-Lewis

OT, but fun: FDR before polio enjoyed shooting sports. Here’s an interesting press photo that will probably cause the wingnuts to shriek about his supposedly being our _first_ Socialist President…

Image: fdr-mosin.jpg

Probably a Westinghouse made rifle that never made it to the Czar’s army before the revolutions.

Those photos were also intended to show FDR as a man of action and strength, something we’ve seen other other people seeking office try to project. Of course, most of those people are phonies and FDR wasn’t.

Fun Fact: That model of Mosin-Nagat was designed to have its bayonet fixed while firing, with its sights designed to take into account the weight of the bayonet on the muzzle.

91 ObserverArt  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:24:17am

re: #50 Justanotherhuman

Russia yearns to portray what happened in Ukraine as some sort of “coup” but their laments are a total bust. No one is buying their shit.

Yep. I had made a comment about that Saturday. There is too much video and real-time news to blow all that out the window. Old-style Russian PR isn’t going to work any longer. Face it Vlad, times have changed and you better change with them or the next big blow up might be right there in Russia and you’ll be out too.

By the way…good morning. I’m chilled to the bone. Amazing how three or four mild days in the 40s and 50s totally change your feel for the cold. Today it is low 20 something and I feel like it is the first week of February where we were looking at below 0!!! Brrrr.

And oh, one more thing. Alec Baldwin…shut the hell up. Every time you rant you confirm what people think of you. You may not be a real bad guy, but you sure come off as one when you open your trap. Hey, here is a hint. Act better in public! You’re an actor, right? Shouldn’t be too much a problem. Have fun in L.A. I have a feeling we’ll be hearing from you again.

92 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:24:41am

The Immigration reform folks have released a swarm of spambots on Teh Twitters. Even though I agree with them, the spambots are freaking annoying.

93 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:28:10am
94 lawhawk  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:28:40am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area.

Lots of coup/uprising/revolution news this morning.

You’ve got the Ukrainians seeking out former leaders who have gone to ground to avoid capture and being held accountable for the violent crackdown against protests in Kiev. Yanukovych has been charged with mass murder, so all the braying by the Russians is an attempt to whitewash what went down. One thing to bear in mind is that the Russians have skin in the game, and they want to maintain their influence at the highest levels of the Ukrainian government - particularly because of how Russian oil gets to market in Europe. If Ukraine stands closer with the EU and Europe in general, Russia loses a chunk of influence.

So, if the Russians report something, take it with a grain of salt unless it can be confirmed by other non-Russian media sources because it likely means that it’s Russian agitprop designed to divert attention from what’s really going on.

You’ve got ongoing protests across Venezuela that has also meant bloodshed and violence. 11 dead so far, and the toll is rising. Each death is given political implications, whether it’s warranted or not - by both sides, but the size of the protests is notable precisely because the economy is in shambles and the Maduro regime has reverted to violence and intimidation to try and break the protests, which have grown because of the regime’s incompetence in improving the economic conditions.

And in Egypt, the existing regime is apparently resigning so that they can run once again for their positions and pave the way for new elections. They were swept into power by the military that deposed the Morsi government and installed people more friendly to the military. The military must be thinking that the resignations will help legitimize the government officials attempting to run for the same positions they held as a result of the military actions.

95 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:30:07am

God is meddling with the NFL draft and combine again. Got to wonder which teams he is putting bets down on in Vegas.

profootballtalk.nbcsports.com

96 William Barnett-Lewis  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:30:08am

re: #86 chadu

Socialists can’t use guns?

To be sure, this Socialist owns a few after all. But FDR was barely a Keynesian and that only from necessity. Not a Socialist at all.

97 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:33:49am

re: #96 William Barnett-Lewis

To be sure, this Socialist owns a few after all. But FDR was barely a Keynesian and that only from necessity. Not a Socialist at all.

And you have to recall that back in those days both parties had conservative, moderate, and progressive wings.

98 Decatur Deb  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:34:07am

re: #86 chadu

Socialists can’t use guns?

Ssshh…It’s a surprise.

99 William Barnett-Lewis  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:34:16am

re: #90 Dark_Falcon

Those photos were also intended to show FDR as a man of action and strength, something we’ve seen other other people seeking office try to project. Of course, most of those people are phonies and FDR wasn’t.

Apparently FDR actually shot competitively.

Fun Fact: That model of Mosin-Nagat was designed to have its bayonet fixed while firing, with its sights designed to take into account the weight of the bayonet on the muzzle.

Yep. There’s a guy that posts at Liberal Gun Club who makes a business of making modified M-N sights so that you don’t have to do that. I have a mint 1929 91/30 from the Izmash factory in izhevsk that will get one when I can afford it.

100 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:35:51am

re: #76 Dark_Falcon

And the ethics are based solely on the personal preference of the hackers, without regard for the needs and ethics of the national or world public.

It’s such a entitled, ego-driven, and morally myopic term that ‘ethical hacking’ ought generally to be written as it is here, in dudebro font,

Nope. There’s tons and tons of ethical hacking out there.

For example, ethical hackers who attempt to figure out security flaws and then inform websites, software companies, etc. of those vulnerabilities.

In addition, there’s hackers who do things like remove intrusive DRM; from a lot of perspectives of property rights, there’s absolutely no ethical problem with doing this (indeed, there’s an ethical problem with a lot of forms of DRM).

Ethical hacking is a real thing, but that doesn’t mean you get to crown yourself an ethical hacker because you’re doing it for whatever reason you happen to believe in.

101 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:36:19am

re: #86 chadu

Socialists can’t use guns?

The Mosin-Nagat rifle was used by Russia and after the revolution it remained in the service of the Red Army.

In addition to those Westinghouse rifles, Winchester also sold Russia over 100,000 Model 1895 lever-action rifles chambered in 7.62x54R. Colt supplied Russia with its M1895 ‘potato digger’ machine gun, so named because the gas-actuated lever arm below the barrel. Both of those guns were designed by John Browning.

Savage arms also produced a few thousand Lewis Guns in 7.62x54R, but it is unknown how many actually reached Russia. Enough did make it for the Wehrmacht to have captured them from Leningrad militia in 1941.

102 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:37:33am
103 lawhawk  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:38:23am

re: #102 Pie-onist Overlord

It’s hamentashen all the way down! :)

Either that or it’s a Mandelbread set.

104 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:39:37am

re: #102 Pie-onist Overlord

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It also goes great with a glass of almond milk!

105 Decatur Deb  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:41:03am

re: #102 Pie-onist Overlord

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(Spins turbo noisemaker.)

106 wheat-dogghazi  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:41:16am

re: #102 Pie-onist Overlord

One of the annual traditions at Princeton is the Hamentaschen-Latke Debate, sponsored by Hillel.

107 NJDhockeyfan  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:41:51am

The Olympics must be over.

Russia PM Questions Legitimacy of New Ukraine Leadership

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev on Monday questioned the legitimacy of Ukraine’s new leadership and said that Western countries which accept it are mistaken, in his first reaction to the transfer of power in Kiev.

Medvedev said that Russia was unable to accept the new authorities in Kiev as a partner for talks and could not negotiate with rebels “carrying Kalashnikovs”.

“Strictly speaking, there is no one for us to communicate with there today. The legitimacy of a whole number of organs of power that function there raises great doubts,” he was quoted as saying by Russian news agencies.

“Some of our foreign, Western partners think otherwise… this is some kind of aberration of perception when people call legitimate what is essentially the result of an armed mutiny,” Medvedev said.

“If you consider people who swagger around Kiev in black balaclavas carrying Kalashnikovs to be a government, then we will find it difficult to work with such a government,” he added.

108 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:42:29am

re: #106 wheat-dogghazi

One of the annual traditions at Princeton is the Hamentaschen-Latke Debate, sponsored by Hillel.

That’s a tough choice!

109 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:43:52am

re: #102 Pie-onist Overlord

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That’s a work of art. : )

110 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:44:03am

re: #100 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Sorry Obdi, its just that the term in question seems to be mostly used by whiny dudebros. I kind of prefer ‘white hat’ or in some security cases ‘red hat’ hacking to describe the cases you refer to.

But that’s just a matter of preferred terminology.

111 William Barnett-Lewis  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:44:10am

re: #101 Dark_Falcon

In addition to those Westinghouse rifles, Winchester also sold Russia over 100,000 Model 1895 lever-action rifles chambered in 7.62x54R. .

Those are the holy grail of Russian arms collectors. Probably sitting in a warehouse somewhere east of the Urals where they were stored in the 30’s after enough 91/30’s had been made or converted from earlier rifles to arm the Red Army & NKVD.

112 Decatur Deb  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:46:40am

re: #111 William Barnett-Lewis

Those are the holy grail of Russian arms collectors. Probably sitting in a warehouse somewhere east of the Urals where they were stored in the 30’s after enough 91/30’s had been made or converted from earlier rifles to arm the Red Army & NKVD.

Or beat to death on a Komsomol summer camp range.

113 wheat-dogghazi  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:46:45am

re: #108 Pie-onist Overlord

That’s a tough choice!

It makes for an interesting debate, because the margins are so narrow. ;-)

The other day, I had a sudden craving for a cheese blintz. No such things here in China.

And someone was waxing eloquent about sauerkraut and bratwurst a couple of days ago. I haz a sad.

114 Eventual Carrion  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:46:56am

re: #107 NJDhockeyfan

The Olympics must be over.

Russia PM Questions Legitimacy of New Ukraine Leadership

Readers Digest version:
“We don’t have anyone there in our back pocket to do our bidding any more. It must be an illegitimate government. Regular peasants people can be such bitches.”

115 wheat-dogghazi  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:48:46am

Michigan Rep. John Dingell retiring after 60 years in House.
washingtonpost.com

116 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:48:53am

re: #114 Eventual Carrion

Readers Digest version:
“We don’t have anyone there in our back pocket to do our bidding any more. It must be an illegitimate government. Regular peasants people can be such bitches.”

The election ads now write themselves. Just run that quote in conjunction with footage from the President’s estate. Or simply over a close-up of the one official’s painting of himself as a Roman Tribune.

117 BongCrodny  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:51:26am

re: #107 NJDhockeyfan

The Olympics must be over.

Russia PM Questions Legitimacy of New Ukraine Leadership

“Another of Yanukovych’s palaces, on land stolen from local farmers on the Black Sea”

Even if Russia had a legitimate complaint there’s no way they can successfully message that idea with pictures like this circulating.

118 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:51:45am

A belated good morning to the Lizards. Colder today (expected high of 39F), but clear and sunny. Took advantage of the warmer days on the weekend to air the apartment a bit by opening windows.

The felines are getting restless and want to go out and chase birds. Or across the street to beat up the construction workers for making too much noise. I am not sure which.

119 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:52:38am

re: #113 wheat-dogghazi

It makes for an interesting debate, because the margins are so narrow. ;-)

The other day, I had a sudden craving for a cheese blintz. No such things here in China.

And someone was waxing eloquent about sauerkraut and bratwurst a couple of days ago. I haz a sad.

Is it difficult to obtain dairy products in China? I have heard that many Chinese are lactose-intolerant and avoid dairy.

120 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:52:56am

re: #86 chadu

Socialists can’t use guns?

In RWNJ world, “socialists” = gun grabbing, Soros-loving, welfare-taking librul.

121 wheat-dogghazi  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:53:10am

re: #117 BongCrodny

“Another of Yanukovych’s palaces, on land stolen from local farmers on the Black Sea”

Even if Russia had a legitimate complaint there’s no way they can successfully message that idea with pictures like this circulating.

Cozy little seaside bungalow.

Can you imagine the commission for selling something that huge on the real estate market? One sale and you could retire.

122 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:53:43am

re: #115 wheat-dogghazi

Michigan Rep. John Dingell retiring after 60 years in House.
washingtonpost.com

Wow, talk about entrenched. Buh-bye.

123 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:53:55am

re: #112 Decatur Deb

Or beat to death on a Komsomol summer camp range.

I suspect some of them did end up that way. That or blown up when the old shells they were stored with exploded. A modest number of old guns kept by the Russians have been lost that way. Although being blown apart by exploding shells is a fitting end for a weapon of war, is it not?

124 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:55:56am

re: #122 Justanotherhuman

Wow, talk about entrenched. Buh-bye.

Also a Life Member of the NRA and for a number of years Dingell was part of that organization’s Executive Board.

125 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:56:19am
126 Decatur Deb  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:56:30am

re: #119 Pie-onist Overlord

Is it difficult to obtain dairy products in China? I have heard that many Chinese are lactose-intolerant and avoid dairy.

If you get drunk enough with a Korean, and admit you think he carries a waft of kimchi, he will tell you mi-guks reek of cheese.

127 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:57:12am

re: #122 Justanotherhuman

Wow, talk about entrenched. Buh-bye.

[Rep. John Dingell]: “I don’t want people to say I stayed too long”

The jokes just write themselve.

128 lawhawk  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:57:37am

re: #115 wheat-dogghazi

The GOP will spin this gleefully as proof that the Democrats are doomed in 2014, even though more GOPers have declared resignations from Congress than Democrats so far.

It’s a good thing that someone like Dingell is retiring; entrenched is too kind a word for someone who has been in the House for that long. That kind of longevity in Congress is not good for the local political scene, nor is it good for the nation as a whole.

Congressional entrenchment has been present for a long while. It’s a problem when Congress polls in the low double digits (20-30%), but incumbents return with a 90% or better rate. Hate Congress, but love my rep.

That’s got to change, and it means more than getting someone else’s rep to change.

129 wheat-dogghazi  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:57:38am

re: #119 Pie-onist Overlord

Is it difficult to obtain dairy products in China? I have heard that many Chinese are lactose-intolerant and avoid dairy.

Somewhat difficult; cheese has to be imported, as there are no domestic providers that produce hard cheeses. At my local supermarket, I can buy milk and yoghurt and sometimes gruyere-style cheese (like La vache qui rit). But if I want cheddar, parmesan, mozzarella, cream cheese or cottage cheese, I either have to go to the Metro hypermarket in the provincial capital (5 hours from here) or order online.,

130 William Barnett-Lewis  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:58:00am

re: #126 Decatur Deb

If you get drunk enough with a Korean, and admit you think he caries a waft of kimchi, he will tell you mi-guks reek of cheese.

In my wifes case, that might well be true. I’d stink of too much beef I fear which can be just as unsettling to some folks.

131 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 6:59:52am

Unflattering name for Occidentals by Japanese: Butter Stinkers.

132 Decatur Deb  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:01:27am

re: #131 Pie-onist Overlord

Unflattering name for Occidentals by Japanese: Butter Stinkers.

Name for a Wisconsin emo band.

133 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:02:14am

This is what should have happened after the fall of the USSR and the Ukrainian SSR. Better late then never, as they say.

134 chadu  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:04:54am

re: #102 Pie-onist Overlord

In the interest of not overusing the “all the updings” image…

135 GunstarGreen  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:06:15am

re: #86 chadu

Socialists can’t use guns?

Keep in mind that, in the context of American politics, “Socialist” is defined as “Anybody who disagrees with a right-wing individual”.

Having to deal with actual socialists would have most RWNJs soiling their pants thoroughly.

136 ericblair  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:06:58am

re: #100 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

For example, ethical hackers who attempt to figure out security flaws and then inform websites, software companies, etc. of those vulnerabilities.

Yep, it’s a popular certification for IT security folks who have to counter black hat hackers, and for security penetration testing where the target organization contracts for it (where they’re pretty careful about written agreements with the target to make sure nobody gets arrested). So it’s sort of embarrassing for them to be hacked.

137 chadu  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:07:00am

re: #132 Decatur Deb

Name for a Wisconsin emo band.

Saw them at the 9:30 Club.

138 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:07:35am

re: #134 chadu

In the interest of not overusing the “all the updings” image…

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Speaking of which, I hit 10,000 updings over the weekend…..do I get a silver platter or something?

139 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:08:30am

re: #100 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Nope. There’s tons and tons of ethical hacking out there.

For example, ethical hackers who attempt to figure out security flaws and then inform websites, software companies, etc. of those vulnerabilities.

In addition, there’s hackers who do things like remove intrusive DRM; from a lot of perspectives of property rights, there’s absolutely no ethical problem with doing this (indeed, there’s an ethical problem with a lot of forms of DRM).

Ethical hacking is a real thing, but that doesn’t mean you get to crown yourself an ethical hacker because you’re doing it for whatever reason you happen to believe in.

Hmm, I take back my criticisms then.

How ya feeling?

140 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:09:00am

re: #138 Dr. Matt

Speaking of which, I hit 10,000 updings over the weekend…..do I get a silver platter or something?

Toaster.
Talk to FG.

141 Decatur Deb  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:10:02am

re: #138 Dr. Matt

Speaking of which, I hit 10,000 updings over the weekend…..do I get a silver platter or something?

The Zionist overlords pay in Bitcoin now.

142 chadu  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:10:25am

re: #135 GunstarGreen

Keep in mind that, in the context of American politics, “Socialist” is defined as “Anybody who disagrees with a right-wing individual”.

Having to deal with actual socialists would have most RWNJs soiling their pants thoroughly.

I also love how they consistently point out that Nazis were “National Socialists.”

To quote a famed archeology professor, “Nazi, I hate those guys” — but that doesn’t mean they weren’t/aren’t scary.

QUESTION FOR THE AGES: Does it count as a Godwin if Raiders is involved?

143 chadu  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:11:51am

re: #138 Dr. Matt

Speaking of which, I hit 10,000 updings over the weekend…..do I get a silver platter or something?

You indeed have discovered the true meaning of Christmas all the updings!

Congrats!

144 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:11:53am
And the interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel people. I mean, we’re all kind of mixed up. That’s actually true for white America as well, but we just know more about it.

- Obama
Compare and contrast!

I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist raised communist educated communist nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America.

-Nugent

145 GunstarGreen  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:14:58am

re: #144 Varek Raith

The Nuge: An excellent example of my prior statement regarding RWNJs soiling their pants at the prospect of having to deal with actual socialists.

146 lawhawk  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:15:04am

re: #144 Varek Raith

Context matters. But Hoft and others will play the moral equivalence card when none is deserving.

147 chadu  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:17:44am

re: #145 GunstarGreen

The Nuge: An excellent example of my prior statement regarding RWNJs soiling their pants at the prospect of having to deal with actual socialists.

(high-hat, rimshot)

148 wheat-dogghazi  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:18:23am

re: #144 Varek Raith

I read an interesting paper last week about admixture events in human genetics, for example, when Alexander’s armies moved east toward the Indus Valley admixing their genes with the local girls, or the Mongols admixing it up with the Eastern Europeans and Chinese.

We all be mongrels.

149 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:19:18am

re: #139 Varek Raith

Hmm, I take back my criticisms then.

How ya feeling?

Still migraines, less often now, but still.

150 lawhawk  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:21:29am
151 ObserverArt  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:22:03am

re: #144 Varek Raith

Compare and contrast!

“I have obviously failed to galvanize and prod, if not shame enough Americans to be ever vigilant not to let a Chicago communist raised communist educated communist nurtured subhuman mongrel like the ACORN community organizer gangster Barack Hussein Obama to weasel his way into the top office of authority in the United States of America.”

-Nugent

Dear Teddy Nugent,

You sure have a big ego to think you carry any political weight. You’re as good at politics as you are at writing songs.

Diddley-diddley-diddley deeeeeeee! (Nugent solo!)

152 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:23:27am

re: #142 chadu

I also love how they consistently point out that Nazis were “National Socialists.”

To quote a famed archeology professor, “Nazi, I hate those guys” — but that doesn’t mean they weren’t/aren’t scary.

QUESTION FOR THE AGES: Does it count as a Godwin if Raiders is involved?

Submitted unapprovingly by me is Jonah Goldberg tilting at that particular windmill yet again. The excerpt below comes from the end of the first page/beginning of the second page of his piece, as the first page has a couple of long-ish excerpts from another writer:

Fascism and Socialism: Still Not Opposites
The Eurasian movement of Putin and his allies draws from both Nazism and Stalinism.
By Jonah Goldberg

First, let’s clear some underbrush. The idea that Communism and Nazism are opposites is more of a utilitarian idea than a core conviction for the Left. It is a rationalization that allows the Left to cut around the historical tumor of Nazism and fascism and say, That has nothing to do with us.

But the simple fact is that the hard Left has always endorsed or at least sympathized with national-socialist countries. What do you think Cuba is? It’s nationalistic and it’s socialistic. Venezuela under Chávez and now Maduro is nationalist and socialist. Nicaragua in the 1980s, etc., etc. Read a speech by any socialist dictator and swap out the word “socialize” for “nationalize”: The meaning of the sentences doesn’t change one iota. Nationalized health care is socialized medicine. Even Obama’s weak-tea socialistic rhetoric is usually dolled up in the rhetoric of nationalism, even militaristic nationalism. Let’s all be like SEAL Team Six! Let’s make this a “Sputnik Moment.”

Most of the Left in the U.S. didn’t really hate the German national-socialists until Stalin told them to. That the useful idiots thought Stalin’s command to turn on his one-time Nazi ally was rooted in deep ideological conviction just proves the depths of their idiocy.

After all, it’s not like the Left suddenly turned on Stalin when he embraced nationalism wholeheartedly and talked of fighting the Nazis as part of the “Great Patriotic War for Mother Russia.” But, hey, maybe I’m missing the deep Marxist themes in the phrase “Great Patriotic War for Mother Russia.”

153 lawhawk  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:24:06am
154 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:24:25am

Ted Nugent, one of the intellectual heavyweights of the modern GOP. But, remember, there is no difference between the left and the right.

155 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:26:17am

re: #144 Varek Raith

- Obama
Compare and contrast!

-Nugent

Ted Nugent had his chance to fight actual Communists, but instead he crapped himself.

He loves shooting feral hogs from a helicopter though, probably imagines they were Vietnamese peasants ala Full Metal Jacket.

156 Targetpractice  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:27:06am

re: #141 Decatur Deb

The Zionist overlords pay in Bitcoin now.

And they’re still late with the payments.

157 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:27:54am

re: #152 Dark_Falcon

It might be because if you scrape the veneer labeling off both places were authoritarian police states. Both used nationalistic rhetoric, were acting for the citizens, etc. etc.

Just another indication that the single axis left-right thing is simply and horribly inaccurate. It mainly hangs around since it is so very convenient for labeling the opposition.

158 wheat-dogghazi  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:27:55am

re: #152 Dark_Falcon

Reading just that excerpt made me 20% dumber. I’m gonna sue!

159 Targetpractice  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:28:56am

re: #153 lawhawk

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Now how can that be? I’ve been assured that guns are magic talismans which confer defensive properties upon their owners just by being in the same vicinity. How could a woman have her own gun turned upon her?

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160 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:29:10am

WTFITS
NY Times editorial from 27 years ago.

161 Killgore Trout  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:30:05am

re: #45 NJDhockeyfan

Good morning lizards!

The situation in Venezuela does not look good.

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I’m getting auto play video from that ABC tweet. Annoying but interesting report that I wouldn’t have otherwise watched.

162 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:31:04am

IF TEH MINIMUM WAGE WAS LOWERED TO 0.00 AND PEOPLE AGREED TO WORK FOR NO PAY, EVERYBODY COULD HAVE ALL TEH JRRBS!!!!1!!!!

163 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:32:49am

re: #152 Dark_Falcon

That is serious headdesk thiking. Granted, “right” and “left” are not absolute concepts, but rather arbitrary designations based on the seating arrangements of French Parliament, but it does not mean that that simply because one ideology embraces a particular idea that the other must reject it.

Although that pretty much forms the basis of GOP governance since 2008…

164 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:32:49am

re: #157 Feline Fearless Leader

It might be because if you scrape the veneer labeling off both places were authoritarian police states. Both used nationalistic rhetoric, were acting for the citizens, etc. etc.

Just another indication that the single axis left-right thing is simply and horribly inaccurate. It mainly hangs around since it is so very convenient for labeling the opposition.

Goldberg also misses the important fact the German National Socialism was at its core an extreme ethnocentric ideology. Hitler himself had a very wooly definition of “socialism” - in any event, the Nazi definition was not by any stretch of the imagination a Marxist definition of socialism.

Far closer to romanticist ideas such as the Völkisch movement.

165 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:33:59am

re: #155 Dark_Falcon

Ted Nugent had his chance to fight actual Communists, but instead he crapped himself.
.

Crapped himself and had sex with underage girls.

166 Targetpractice  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:34:52am

re: #160 Pie-onist Overlord

WTFITS
NY Times editorial from 27 years ago.

80s dudebro arguing that, instead of raising the minimum wage, the government should instead subsidize minimum wage workers by giving them larger tax credits or just giving them money right out.

167 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:35:24am
168 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:35:44am

re: #165 Dr. Matt

Crapped himself >and had sex with underage girls.

I once summoned up a bit of begrudging respect for Ted as a an idiosyncratic but somehow principled individualist…but he has go way off the rails since 2008. On the other hand, I am amused to see how many GOP politicians jumped on his crazy train.

169 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:36:12am

re: #164 Dr Lizardo

Goldberg also misses the important fact the German National Socialism was at its core an extreme ethnocentric ideology. Hitler himself had a very wooly definition of “socialism” - in any event, the Nazi definition was not by any stretch of the imagination a Marxist definition of socialism.

Far closer to romanticist ideas such as the Völkisch movement.

Not to mention the Nazi’s biggest enemies in Germany were the SPD and KPD. Yeah the Nazis did use socialist rhetoric but that was mainly an attempt to lure in the working class away from the SPD and KPD. If the Nazis were leftists, Hitler would have never been appointed chancellor by Hindenberg and von Papen. Fascism/Nazism are granted different from traditional European right politics in that they’re not inherently tied to the church and monarchy but the revisionism to make Nazism a left wing philosophy is as dishonest as those far leftists who claim the USSR wasn’t really leftist.

170 wheat-dogghazi  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:36:22am

re: #164 Dr Lizardo

Jonah Goldberg has to be one of the most over-rated conservative pundits of the age. That excerpt was a word-salad of arbitrary political designations and logical fallacies all rolled into one derp-i-tube.

171 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:38:21am

GUN PR0N
Her boobs are totally not real. In fact the entire picture is probably CGI.

172 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:38:37am

re: #169 HappyWarrior

Not to mention the Nazi’s biggest enemies in Germany were the SPD and KPD. Yeah the Nazis did use socialist rhetoric but that was mainly an attempt to lure in the working class away from the SPD and KPD. If the Nazis were leftists, Hitler would have never been appointed chancellor by Hindenberg and von Papen. Fascism/Nazism are granted different from traditional European right politics in that they’re not inherently tied to the church and monarchy but the revisionism to make Nazism a left wing philosophy is as dishonest as those far leftists who claim the USSR wasn’t really leftist.

I believe Goebbels himself admitted this in his role as party propagandist.

173 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:39:15am

Anyhow as a history degree grad, what fascinates me when learning about the various isms of the past centuries is how the groups differ. I.E how Mussolini’s fascism differed from Hitler and Franco’s. Or how Mao differed from Khruschev and etc. We’re intellectually lazy when we equate all Marxism and Fascism as the same thing because we find those ideologies distasteful.

174 ObserverArt  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:39:22am

re: #165 Dr. Matt

Crapped himself >and had sex with underage girls.

Isn’t it amazing that the idiots that give ol’ Nuge the time of day can just excuse away his real life achievements. A chickenshit chickenhawk pedophile that wrote stupid songs. Yeah,,,there’s a real American success story right there. Real presidential material.

175 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:40:38am

re: #172 Dr Lizardo

I believe Goebbels himself admitted this in his role as party propagandist.

Wouldn’t surprise me and yeah there were some who were truly believers in the SOCIALIST part of National Socialist like Rohm and the Stresser brothers but they were either purged or exiled very early on. A man like Krupp would have never prospered in a socialist regime.

176 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:42:03am

re: #171 Pie-onist Overlord

GUN PR0N
Her boobs are totally not real. In fact the entire picture is probably CGI.

[Embedded content]

It’s like the Swimsuit Issue but instead of for adolescent boys discovering women, it’s for gun nuts who need to see a lady with a nice rack to justify their gun fetish.

177 Targetpractice  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:43:42am

re: #171 Pie-onist Overlord

GUN PR0N
Her boobs are totally not real. In fact the entire picture is probably CGI.

[Embedded content]

Oh look, a Lara Croft wannabe.

178 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:44:09am

re: #153 lawhawk

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I’m going to have to get my evidence together before trying to rebut that study. I’ll try to get that done in the next few days.

179 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:44:18am

re: #177 Targetpractice

Oh look, a Lara Croft wannabe.

I actually thought Jill Valentine in Resident Evil III.

180 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:44:52am

re: #168 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)

I once summoned up a bit of begrudging respect for Ted as a an idiosyncratic but somehow prinicipled individualist…but he has go way off the rails since 2008. On the other hand, I am amused to see how many GOP politicians jumped on his crazy train.

I grew up in the burbs of Detroit listening to Nugent guest DJ on WRIF in the morning, paid twice to see him in concert on his New Year eve shows, and even bought a dozen of his arrows and broadheads. He was not even close to the partisan extremist he is today. He came off as a horny, pro-hunting guitarist who loved the state of Michigan, i.e., in other words, he was appealing to my demographic at the time (white teenagers). But thanks to Obama Derangement Syndrome, that all changed. I wish I never supported him back in the day.

181 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:44:56am

re: #171 Pie-onist Overlord

GUN PR0N
Her boobs are totally not real. In fact the entire picture is probably CGI.

[Embedded content]

If you live in a video game fantasy, that all makes perfect sense.

182 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:45:38am

re: #175 HappyWarrior

Wouldn’t surprise me and yeah there were some who were truly believers in the SOCIALIST part of National Socialist like Rohm and the Stresser brothers but they were either purged or exiled very early on. A man like Krupp would have never prospered in a socialist regime.

Yep….a lot the people who actually believed in the “Socialist” part of the NSDAP’s name found themselves on the wrong side of things in the Night of the Long Knives.

183 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:46:53am

re: #170 wheat-dogghazi

Jonah Goldberg has to be one of the most over-rated conservative pundits of the age. That excerpt was a word-salad of arbitrary political designations and logical fallacies all rolled into one derp-i-tube.

Then could I please get some updings for my #152, since I didn’t approve of its content and it proven a great practice dummy for you folks to kick around?

184 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:47:28am

Court denies gun rights cases

The Supreme Court refused on Monday, as it has done repeatedly in recent years, to reopen the issue of whether Second Amendment rights to have a gun extend beyond the home. The Court, without comment, denied three new petitions — two filed by the National Rifle Association. The cases were 12-1401, 13-137, and 13-390.

185 Targetpractice  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:48:48am

re: #179 HappyWarrior

I actually thought Jill Valentine in Resident Evil III.

Nah, the ponytail gives it away as Lara. Jill has more of a pageboy cut in RE3.

186 ObserverArt  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:49:13am

re: #180 Dr. Matt

I grew up in the burbs of Detroit listening to Nugent guest DJ on WRIF in the morning, paid twice to see him in concert on his New Year eve shows, and even bought a dozen of his arrows and broadheads. He was not even close to the partisan extremist he is today. He came off as a horny, pro-hunting guitarist who loved the state of Michigan, i.e., in other words, he was appealing to my demographic at the time (white teenagers). But thanks for Obama Derangement Syndrome, that all changed. I wish I never supported him back in the day.

I’ve commented here a few times that I saw him back in the early 70s around Ohio three or four times and that I want my money back. I should have seen he was a badly drawn cartoon character all along.

187 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:50:00am

re: #182 Dr Lizardo

Yep….a lot the people who actually believed in the “Socialist” part of the NSDAP’s name found themselves on the wrong side of things in the Night of the Long Knives.

Exactly. Really though the worst argument you can make though is the Socialist part of the name. East Germany along with modern North Korea and so many other communist regimes have democratic in their official title. And in Russia, there is a party called the Liberal Democratic party that is neither liberal nor democratic. Hell if you look at the famous poem by Pastor Nimholler, nearly all the groups he mentions that “they” came for are all groups affilliated with the left; communists, social democrats, and trade unionists. Here’s another thing that conservatives like Goldberg refuse to talk about though. Most of the vocal international critics of the Nazis before the Anchuluss (sp?) were on the left and while many outside observers sympathetic to the regime were on the right. I mean I just don’t see how you can see the dynamics of the Spanish Civil War and conclude that the Nazis were leftist. If you want to say that they don’t represent mainstream right of center ideology, I’ll agree but to place them on the left is a revisionist attempt by the right.

188 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:50:51am

re: #185 Targetpractice

Nah, the ponytail gives it away as Lara. Jill has more of a pageboy cut in RE3.

Ah good call. I thought her face reminded me more of Jill’s that said.

189 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:51:26am

re: #186 ObserverArt

I’ve commented here a few times that I saw him back in the early 70s around Ohio three or four times and that I want my money back. I should have seen he was a badly drawn cartoon character all along.

Everyone has their musical regrets. I once tolerated Limp Bizkit.

190 Targetpractice  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:51:30am

re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth

Court denies gun rights cases

Rather surprised that they didn’t take this one up. But then again, Heller was such an absolute mixed bag that I’m sure they’ve no real desire to revisit it right now.

191 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:53:00am

re: #153 lawhawk

For the moment, I’m more interested in this article:

The Chicago Spire May Actually Get Built After All

That big hole in the ground near Chicago’s Navy Pier may become the tallest building in the western hemisphere after all.

The Chicago Spire, a 2,000-foot-tall residential tower designed by Santiago Calatrava, broke ground in 2007, with apartments selling for between $750,000 and $40,000,000. Construction ground to a halt just one year later, due to financial problems.

The Spire went into receivership in 2010. Last year, a bankruptcy judge ruled that Shelbourne had until March 2014 to put together a reorganization plan. This week, the developers reached an agreement with property company Related. Should the U.S. Bankruptcy court approve of the new deal, construction could resume imminently.

Completing the Spire is expected to cost more than $1 billion. That means, according to the Irish Times, that the 1,200 units in the tower would have to sell for at least $2,000 a square foot to be profitable. Nearby Trump Tower (currently the city’s second tallest) took nearly a decade to sell its 486 luxury apartments at a comparable price.

Building the Spire may seem nutty, but it actually has a base of support in Chicago. Chicago is where the story of the skyscraper truly began, and many here would greatly love to see Chicago gain some ground back in that field.

192 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:54:22am

re: #187 HappyWarrior

Exactly. Really though the worst argument you can make though is the Socialist part of the name. East Germany along with modern North Korea and so many other communist regimes have democratic in their official title. And in Russia, there is a party called the Liberal Democratic party that is neither liberal nor democratic. Hell if you look at the famous poem by Pastor Nimholler, nearly all the groups he mentions that “they” came for are all groups affilliated with the left; communists, social democrats, and trade unionists. Here’s another thing that conservatives like Goldberg refuse to talk about though. Most of the vocal international critics of the Nazis before the Anchuluss (sp?) were on the left and while many outside observers sympathetic to the regime were on the right. I mean I just don’t see how you can see the dynamics of the Spanish Civil War and conclude that the Nazis were leftist. If you want to say that they don’t represent mainstream right of center ideology, I’ll agree but to place them on the left is a revisionist attempt by the right.

Certainly, no in their right mind would attempt to portray the Nazis as a mainstream right-of-center ideology; it was an extremely reactionary, ethnocentric ideology. It’s been my experience that many Europeans who consider themselves “conservatives” are monarchists. There’s quite a few of them in Germany who would love nothing more than a return of the House of Hohenzollern; nonetheless, they are a minority overall.

193 GunstarGreen  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:54:46am

re: #179 HappyWarrior

I actually thought Jill Valentine in Resident Evil III.

The big braid gives it away as Lara Croft cosplay, but the sentiment is valid either way. HAWT CHICK WIT GUNZ!!!11!1!!!1 is a pretty bog-standard trope for adolescent male power-fantasies.

Gun porn is exactly that: porn for people who love teh gunz. And it is exactly as empty as every other kind of porn.

194 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:57:21am

re: #171 Pie-onist Overlord

GUN PR0N
Her boobs are totally not real. In fact the entire picture is probably CGI.

[Embedded content]

Looks like Lara Croft.

195 ObserverArt  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:57:35am

re: #193 GunstarGreen

The big braid gives it away as Lara Croft cosplay, but the sentiment is valid either way. HAWT CHICK WIT GUNZ!!!11!1!!!1 is a pretty bog-standard trope for adolescent male power-fantasies.

Gun porn is exactly that: porn for people who love teh gunz. And it is exactly as empty as every other kind of porn.

Yessir…there are a ton of 50+ adolescents running around these days. And funny thing is some of them keep getting younger and younger…throwing tantrums like bratty two-year-olds. See Nugent, Ted…and plenty others.

196 Killgore Trout  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:58:23am

Dkos Rec list gets one right: A reality check about the Venezuela uprising

The United States has no business meddling in the internal affairs of Venezuela, but anyone who thinks the ongoing uprising in Venezuela is due to the machinations of the United States isn’t paying attention. And advocates of democracy and civil liberties should be no more accepting of corruption, repression, and brutality from left wing governments than they are accepting of them from right wing governments.

Nice to see some recovering Chavistas in the comments

197 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:58:40am

So, a video game character who, in one game, fought dinos is a gun rights hero.
Okely dokely.

198 Killgore Trout  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 7:59:58am
Thank you. (7+ / 0-)
Excusing abuses of autocratic leftist governments merely because they are leftist makes progressives look… well… non-progressive.

We should be standing up for human rights everywhere and we should be critical of all governments that abuse their powers, no matter what side of the political spectrum they supposedly are on.

Tipped and recced.

199 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:00:25am

re: #197 Varek Raith

So, a video game character who, in one game, fought dinos is a gun rights hero.
Okely dokely.

She only fought the ones that were more than 6,000 years old, therefore, yes.
//

200 wheat-dogghazi  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:00:45am

re: #183 Dark_Falcon

Then could I please get some updings for my #152, since I didn’t approve of its content and it proven a great practice dummy for you folks to kick around?

I have hereby awarded you exactly 1 upding. I would like to award Jonah Goldberg 3 x 108 downdings as punishment for making me dumber for reading his trash.

201 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:01:16am

Where is that “Hello Kitty” Confederate flag? This one is making the Twitters.

202 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:02:12am

re: #198 Killgore Trout

Indeed.

203 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:02:27am

204 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:03:09am

re: #200 wheat-dogghazi

I have hereby awarded you exactly 1 upding. I would like to award Jonah Goldberg 3 x 108 downdings as punishment for making me dumber for reading his trash.

The only people made dumber by that passage are those who believe what is written in it. So you’re just fine, WD.

205 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:03:09am

re: #203 Varek Raith

[Embedded image]

Oh win.

206 wheat-dogghazi  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:04:01am

‘Tis midnight in the Middle Kingdom. Time to greet Mr Sandman.

207 wheat-dogghazi  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:04:36am

re: #204 Dark_Falcon

The only people made dumber by that passage are those who believe what is written in it. So you’re just fine, WD.

Thanks. I’m sure I’ll recover. :D

208 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:06:06am

re: #203 Varek Raith

209 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:06:30am

MY EYES!

210 ObserverArt  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:07:05am

re: #203 Varek Raith

Hello Kitty Kittehs and Bars Flag

The ol’ south never looked so fabulous!!!

211 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:07:09am

An update from San Diego folks may have missed, since it happened late Friday:

San Diego declines to appeal Peruta, accepting CCW applications as ‘shall issue’

“Since becoming Sheriff, I have always maintained that it is the legislature’s responsibility to make the laws, and the judiciary’s responsibility to interpret them and their constitutionality. Law enforcement’s role is to uphold and enforce the law,” said San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore in a press release (pdf) late Friday.

Gore acknowledged this authority in saying, “The legislature certainly has the power to amend California’s firearm carry process, and the Ninth Circuit has the ability to bring its own motion to rehear the decision of the three member panel en banc.”

“However, while the court’s decision clearly involves a question of exceptional importance, and conflicts with decisions of other United States Courts of Appeals, the opinion provides clear guidance in the context of issuing CCWs in California,” it continued.

“I see no need for me to petition for a hearing or rehearing en banc in order to be able to carry out my duties as Sheriff of San Diego County,” he added. “As a result, I have advised the Office of County Counsel that I will not seek such a hearing.”

With this, “should the decision of the Ninth Circuit become final, the San Diego Sheriff’s Department will begin to issue CCW’s in situations where the applicant has met all other lawful qualifications and has requested a CCW for purposes of self-defense” concluded the press release.

212 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:08:28am

re: #171 Pie-onist Overlord

GUN PR0N
Her boobs are totally not real. In fact the entire picture is probably CGI.

[Embedded content]

For one thing, there’s no evidence of a bra, and real tits that large would be hanging, not sitting up that high, esp pushed together like that.

Those photos might be able to fool men, but they can’t fool women who actually have natural breasts.

NSFW.

007b.com

213 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:08:57am
214 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:11:00am

Well, there are some unemployed Ukrainian oligarchs right now.

215 lawhawk  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:13:58am

re: #208 Pie-onist Overlord

Mine eyes have seen the glory of the kitteh!

216 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:18:28am

Why I never need to buy cat toys…

The kittehs have discovered a beetle that has crawled out of the stack of firewood in the kitchen.
They are busily tormenting it…

217 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:19:38am

re: #216 Backwoods_Sleuth

Why I never need to buy cat toys…

The kittehs have discovered a beetle that has crawled out of the stack of firewood in the kitchen.
They are busily tormenting it…

SAVE IT.
NOW.
;)

218 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:20:09am

Euromaidan PR ‏@EuromaidanPR 11m

People in front of Rada demand to free political prisoners, including father and son Pavlyuchenko. Rada tv channel |PR News #Ukraine

(Note: Political prisoners to be released, including those.)


Euromaidan PR ‏@EuromaidanPR 22m

Leonid Novokhatko dismissed from the position of Minister of culture. Rada tv channel |PR News #Euromaidan #Ukraine


Euromaidan PR ‏@EuromaidanPR 26m

Maxim Eristavi ‏@MaximEristavi 35m

New Ukraine’s central bank chief Kubiv is one of the Maidan’s revolutionary commandants pic.twitter.com/ZIzcY6Erfk


And Parliament retires for the day, to return at 10 am tomorrow.


Natalia Korolevska dismissed from the position of Minister of social policy. Rada tv channel |PR News #Ukraine #Euromidan


Euromaidan PR ‏@EuromaidanPR 29m

New appointments continue.Oleg Makhnitsky appointed Prosecutor General. Rada tv channel |PR News #Ukraine #Kyiv

219 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:23:50am

re: #212 Justanotherhuman

Interestingly enough my major complaints about fakes is that they sit too perfectly and are shaped too perfectly. Breasts were never meant to be two perfectly round globes sitting on a woman’s chest.

I think natural breasts are far more attractive.

220 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:23:57am

Undisclosed tests showed low levels of MCHM in water

Still, the new results show examples of state officials telling the public they had not detected the chemical, where the same samples showed some level of the substance when tested using the lower detection limit.

The state Department of Military Affairs and Public Safety disclosed the results, and posted them online, in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from the Charleston Gazette.

221 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:27:05am

re: #219 Eclectic Cyborg

Interestingly enough my major complaints about fakes is that they sit too perfectly and are shaped too perfectly. Breasts were never meant to be two perfectly round globes sitting on a woman’s chest.

I think natural breasts are far more attractive.

Obviously, you do not design video games.

222 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:27:31am

re: #217 Varek Raith

SAVE IT.
NOW.
;)

too late.
it’s dead…

223 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:32:28am

re: #219 Eclectic Cyborg

Interestingly enough my major complaints about fakes is that they sit too perfectly and are shaped too perfectly. Breasts were never meant to be two perfectly round globes sitting on a woman’s chest.

I think natural breasts are far more attractive.

Yeah, those “grapefruit” attachments. Or wannabe soccer balls. Cheeez. Only male plastic surgeons could have invented those things.

Why, of course they did, but before they made a deal with Dow-Corning…

1940s
Japanese prostitutes have their breasts injected with substances such as paraffin, sponges and non-medical grade silicone to enlarge their breasts, believing that American servicemen favor women with large breasts.

pbs.org

224 lawhawk  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:34:00am

re: #171 Pie-onist Overlord

Besides the physics of the gravity defying decolletage, there’s also the question of the woman’s stance as she trains her firearm on a target. She might get one shot in the vicinity of the target, but any follow up shots will go wide of mark. Not in a good shooting position by any commonly accepted standard (Weaver, modified Weaver, etc.) The only thing worse would have had her doing a gansta position with the gun held sideways.

225 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:35:27am

re: #219 Eclectic Cyborg

Interestingly enough my major complaints about fakes is that they sit too perfectly and are shaped too perfectly. Breasts were never meant to be two perfectly round globes sitting on a woman’s chest.

I think natural breasts are far more attractive.

Boobies.

226 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:37:22am

re: #219 Eclectic Cyborg

Interestingly enough my major complaints about fakes is that they sit too perfectly and are shaped too perfectly. Breasts were never meant to be two perfectly round globes sitting on a woman’s chest.

I think natural breasts are far more attractive.

It is also our fixation on the breasts that leads us to ignore the aesthetic aspect of how they fit into the overall picture. I like big breasts on a woman who is built to carry them, but not simply for their own sake.

227 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:37:54am

I shouldn’t be shocked but I am that so many RW sycophants are defending Poopy Pants on MMfA.

228 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:38:51am

re: #225 Dark_Falcon

Boobies.

I prefer ethnic boobies

229 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:39:45am

“For many years, Timmie Jean Lindsey [29 yr old mother of 6 and human guinea pig] kept fairly quiet about her breast enlargement - one boyfriend never knew for example, and it was only decades later that she told many of her friends and family about it.

“Fifty years on she remains delighted with the results, though there is no stopping the passing of time, she says.

“You would think they would stay real perky, but no - they are just like a regular breasts, they begin to sag over the years. That surprised me. I figured they’d just stay where they were.”

bbc.co.uk

230 Weet  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:40:40am

231 danarchy  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:41:00am

The most incredible cover of an AC/DC song by 2 cellos you’ll see today:

Youtube Video

232 Romantic Heretic  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:42:04am

re: #17 FemNaziBitch

In 1991 at a meeting of Dads Against Discrimination at an Anchorage, Alaska Denny’s restaurant, Ross was overheard saying, “If a guy can’t rape his wife…who’s he gonna rape?” and “There wouldn’t be an issue with domestic violence if women would learn to keep their mouth shut.”
Women’s Rights

If I was within earshot his next words would be, “Why is there a knife in my eye?”

Scuambag.

233 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:43:06am

re: #232 Romantic Heretic

If I was within earshot his next words would be, “Why is there a knife in my eye?”

Scuambag.

Seriously, no one should be raping anyone. Fucking sick fucks.

234 Romantic Heretic  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:46:42am

re: #38 Pie-onist Overlord

WTF does this even mean? No one can say to a “law abiding citizen”: “Pay the money that you owe me!”

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It means, “I can do what I want when I want and fuck the government!”

235 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:47:11am

So much Russian butthurt, conveniently gathered here in one place! Tweets from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

interpretermag.com

236 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:47:33am

re: #232 Romantic Heretic

If I was within earshot his next words would be, “Why is there a knife in my eye?”

Scuambag.

No, you’re too smart to give an asshole like that a chance to play the victim. Though that was before Fox News existed and before the internet took off, so stabbing him in the eye would not have gotten national notice back then.

237 Romantic Heretic  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:50:05am

re: #72 Justanotherhuman

Cheeez. Did you notice that Snowden is not wearing his specs in the passport photo? Vain much? Must have been about the time he was trying to get into the modeling business and failed.

It’s a requirement of a passport photo. Glasses cannot be worn.

238 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:50:57am

re: #234 Romantic Heretic

It means, “I can do what I want when I want and fuck the government!”

Whoever posted that has a serious misunderstanding of the US Constitution and has no understanding of the concept of ‘ordered liberty’.

239 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:50:59am

re: #237 Romantic Heretic

It’s a requirement of a passport photo. Glasses cannot be worn.

I’m wearing glasses in my passport picture. Always have.

240 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:51:35am

re: #237 Romantic Heretic

It’s a requirement of a passport photo. Glasses cannot be worn.

Used to be. My current passport photo I’m wearing glasses.

Maybe still a requirement for Canadian passport?

241 Political Atheist  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:53:16am

Relax, It’s Not the Thought Police-Right Wing Gets The Vapors, Again

242 lawhawk  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:54:59am

re: #231 danarchy

It’s a highway to hell, with Steve Vai:

Youtube Video

243 Targetpractice  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 8:55:13am

re: #235 Dr Lizardo

So much Russian butthurt, conveniently gathered here in one place! Tweets from the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

interpretermag.com

I think Putin’s really pissed that the Olympics prevented him from getting involved until after Yanuk had already been run outta town on a rail.

244 Killgore Trout  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:00:08am

re: #243 Targetpractice

I think Putin’s really pissed that the Olympics prevented him from getting involved until after Yanuk had already been run outta town on a rail.

I don’t think there was much Putin could do since Yanuk was so unreliable. Yanuk waited too long before trying to crack down on the protests. Without a reliable partner Putin was hesitant to send financial aid or troops to help.

245 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:01:41am

re: #243 Targetpractice

Heh. There are rumors of where Yanuk may be; one of those rumors is that he’s currently holed up on a Russian naval base in Sevastopol. Also, he may be holed up in a bunker somewhere in the eastern part of Ukraine, or alternatively, in a monastery.

“Where’s Viktor?” - the Ukrainian version of “Where’s Waldo?”

246 Political Atheist  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:01:56am

re: #242 lawhawk

It’s a highway to hell, with Steve Vai:

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Thanks, smiles all around my office now. No more Monday mornin drag.

248 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:03:58am

This tweet indicates that the Party of Regions apparently had fake elections seals, thereby allowing them to steal the 2010 elections.

249 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:04:35am

re: #248 Dr Lizardo

Here’s the photo:

250 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:06:37am

It’s morning —again.

I actually slept a little.

you?

251 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:07:04am

Meanwhile in Moscow, an anti-government protest:

252 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:11:13am
253 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:12:17am

re: #251 Dr Lizardo

Meanwhile in Moscow, an anti-government protest:

[Embedded content]

Ukraine must have given them food for thought.

254 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:13:26am

History denialist wingnuts HURR HURR TEH DEMOCRATS IS TEH REAL RACISTS!!!!! swarmed all over this John Fugelsang Tweet, get pwn3d.

255 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:19:03am

re: #253 Justanotherhuman

Ukraine must have given them food for thought.

And I have little doubt that makes Putin nervous.

256 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:19:39am

I am seeing a new wingnut meme of Teh Twitters, MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY!!!!!

WTF IS THAT?

I’m guessing it’s HURR HURR KILL TEH GHEY & TEH MOHAMMEDAN!!!! BUT NOT TEH JUICE (FOR NOW) WHEN JESUS COMES BACK HE WILL SHOOT THE ONES WHO AREN’T SAVED WITH HIS AR-15

257 GunstarGreen  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:21:58am

re: #256 Pie-onist Overlord

I am seeing a new wingnut meme of Teh Twitters, MUSCULAR CHRISTIANITY!!!!!

WTF IS THAT?

I’m guessing it’s HURR HURR KILL TEH GHEY & TEH MOHAMMEDAN!!!! BUT NOT TEH JUICE (FOR NOW) WHEN JESUS COMES BACK HE WILL SHOOT THE ONES WHO AREN’T SAVED WITH HIS AR-15

< Thing I Like > + < Desirable Body Type > = Meme Of The Day Century

258 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:23:09am

re: #257 GunstarGreen

< Thing I Like > + < Desirable Body Type > = < Meme Of The Day Century >Day Century >

Does this tie in with their man-gasms for shirtless Putin?

259 GunstarGreen  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:25:39am

re: #258 Pie-onist Overlord

Yes. It matches the format perfectly.

Authoritarian Government That Actively Oppresses Teh Gayz + Big Burly Muscle Man = Meme Of The Day.

260 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:32:33am

Well, it turns out my part-time job hasn’t lasted. I can’t work nights at it due to transportation problems and that’s where all the money is made at it. So after discussion with the owners, I’m not going to be back there. Which sucks a good bit, but I wasn’t really making money at it when what I spent getting there was factored in, so the loss is a small one.

261 Gus  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:37:08am

Another day, another crisis.

262 The War TARDIS  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:37:16am

re: #255 Dr Lizardo

Look like Ukraine needs to rectify the isues with the Tartars.

Right now, the Ussian make up about 56% of the Crimea’s population.

However, the number of Russians there outright is dropping by about 6% a year, while the Muslim Ethnic Tatars are not only returning to their own homeland, they ar e having more children.

High up on the list in terms of priorities for the new Ukranian government should be hastening the repatriation of the remaining Tatars. In addition, they should be trying to get back as much of the land and property that was seized from them by Stalin as possible.

Ukraine needs to make as many steps as possible to reduce the Russian Majority in Crimea to a minority.

263 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:37:32am

Easy answer:
1. Minimum wage jrrbs don’t pay enough to survive
2. All the “economic gains” as evidence by the Stock Market are being hoarded by the 1%

264 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:38:17am

Welcome to my world.

265 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:38:57am

How wolves save rivers?
wimp.com

266 Killgore Trout  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:40:10am

Time for Congress to Act on Venezuela

From the administration’s standpoint, no doubt their goal all along was to keep a low profile so as not to play the foil for the Maduro government and otherwise overshadow the democratic opposition’s grievances. Additionally, they may have thought that at a less active U.S. approach would allow regional heavyweights such as Brazil to play the moderating role. The result has been failure: Maduro still calls the opposition lackeys of Washington, mocks U.S. diplomatic entreaties, and no other regional country has stepped up to help resolve the crisis.

There is a vacuum of leadership in Washington on Venezuela and Congress needs to fill it. It is time for a more pro-active role in U.S. policy in support of the Venezuelan people. Indeed, there is no shortage of both Democrats and Republicans in Congress who are not confused on the issue and what is important to U.S. interests.

267 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:41:01am

Here is the BBC article for the Wolves video above.

I love the sound of the howling.

268 piratedan  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:42:43am

re: #263 Pie-onist Overlord

i love the comic, as if the President hasn’t proposed Infrastructure programs (that aren’t Keystone tyvm) and they can’t even get to the floor of the House for a vote and the Sequester killing government jobs and this drawing asshat implies that the President isn’t doing anything about jobs. Hey nimrod, how about paying attention to what is actually going on in government… cripes, political cartoonists are supposed to be somewhat astute.

269 Lidane  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:42:55am

Speaking of jrrbs, the lead I got the other day just got a little bit stronger. I sent my resume and a non-cover letter to a guy about a position I was interested in that he just happened to be the hiring manger for. Today he sent me a link to the company screening questionnaire. I have to get it in to him in 72 hours and if they decide they like me, I’d hear back in a matter of days.

I’m going to work my booty off on this. It’s a good opportunity and I don’t intend to waste it. *crosses fingers*

270 Kid A  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:43:14am

Tears & cheers image I shot on assignment Saturday. First game with my 200-400 on a Nikon D3s.

271 lawhawk  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:44:18am

NOOOO!!!!!

chicagotribune.com

Harold Ramis has passed away at the age of 69. Damn… He was one of the brains behind some of the funniest movies of my youth. Just damn….

Ramis, a longtime North Shore resident, was surrounded by family when he died at 12:53 a.m. from complications of autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis, a rare disease that involves swelling of the blood vessels, his wife Erica Mann Ramis said. He was 69.

Ramis’ serious health struggles began in May 2010 with an infection that led to complications related to the autoimmune disease, his wife said. Ramis had to relearn to walk but suffered a relapse of the vaculitis in late 2011, said Laurel Ward, vice president of development at Ramis’ Ocean Pictures production company.

Ramis leaves behind a formidable body of work, with writing credits on such enduring comedies as “National Lampoon’s Animal House” (which upon its 1978 release catapulted the film career of John Belushi, with whom Ramis acted at Second City), “Stripes” (1981) and “Ghostbusters” (in which Ramis also co-starred) plus such directing efforts as “Caddyshack” (1980), “National Lampoon’s Vacation” (1983), “Groundhog Day” and “Analyze This.”

Previously he was the first head writer (and a performer) on Second City’s groundbreaking television series “Second City Television (SCTV)” (1976-79). More recently he directed episodes of NBC’s “The Office.”

272 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:45:12am

re: #266 Killgore Trout

Time for Congress to Act on Venezuela

Yep. Just what the opposition needs is the US Congress openly attempting to interfere in their favor. Plays right into the government propaganda that the protests are a foreign plot that needs to be violently stomped out.

:p
We have a bunch of screwed-up people in our government that still was to establish Pax America. You’d think the Afghanistan and Iraq debacles would make them think about it more, but they just blame Obama instead.

273 Lidane  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:48:06am

re: #271 lawhawk

NOOOO!!!!!

chicagotribune.com

Harold Ramis has passed away at the age of 69. Damn… He was one of the brains behind some of the funniest movies of my youth. Just damn….

That absolutely sucks. RIP Harold Ramis. :(

274 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:48:08am

re: #262 The War TARDIS

Look like Ukraine needs to rectify the isues with the Tartars.

Right now, the Ussian make up about 56% of the Crimea’s population.

However, the number of Russians there outright is dropping by about 6% a year, while the Muslim Ethnic Tatars are not only returning to their own homeland, they ar e having more children.

High up on the list in terms of priorities for the new Ukranian government should be hastening the repatriation of the remaining Tatars. In addition, they should be trying to get back as much of the land and property that was seized from them by Stalin as possible.

Ukraine needs to make as many steps as possible to reduce the Russian Majority in Crimea to a minority.

The ethnic Tatars should be repatriated, I agree; after all, Stalin ran them off in one his ethnic cleansing campaigns. As far as getting back the land and property seized by them, that could become a problematic issue. For example, here in the Czech Republic, there’s an ongoing issue between ethnic Germans who were expelled at the end of WWII under the Beneš Decrees (itself an act of ethnic cleansing) and the Czech government. The Czechs essentially ran the Germans off and seized their properties, and it’s been a bone of contention ever since. The Germans want either their land back, or financial compensation at market value for it, and the latter would assuredly bankrupt the Czech government in the blink of an eye.

Far better to take steps to hasten the repatriation of the Crimean Tatars; they are on the side of the Euromaidan movement and are broadly supportive of the new Kyiv government. That would minimize Russian influence in the region. That being said, the new Kyiv must honor its lease of Sevastopol to the Russians, said lease expiring in 2042. No ifs, ands or buts about it.

275 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:49:02am

re: #271 lawhawk

Wow. That’s sad to hear.

276 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:49:47am

re: #271 lawhawk

NOOOO!!!!!

chicagotribune.com

Harold Ramis has passed away at the age of 69. Damn… He was one of the brains behind some of the funniest movies of my youth. Just damn….

Ugh. Awful. Stripes was on CATV last night and watched it from the gazillionth time. He was awesome.

278 Weet  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:49:54am

Olympic medal count as % of country’s population.

279 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:50:02am

re: #271 lawhawk

NOOOO!!!!!

chicagotribune.com

Harold Ramis has passed away at the age of 69. Damn… He was one of the brains behind some of the funniest movies of my youth. Just damn….

Shit I didn’t even know he was sick. RIP Mr. Ramis.

280 Killgore Trout  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:50:15am

re: #272 Feline Fearless Leader

Yep. Just what the opposition needs is the US Congress openly attempting to interfere in their favor. Plays right into the government propaganda that the protests are a foreign plot that needs to be violently stomped out.

:p
We have a bunch of screwed-up people in our government that still was to establish Pax America. You’d think the Afghanistan and Iraq debacles would make them think about it more, but they just blame Obama instead.

It’s hard to tell what the right call is going to be here. Interference could make things worse but it’s also important to be on the right side of history. Maduro is going to fall eventually but if he’s allowed to crack down he could last a lot longer if we do nothing. Waiting for somebody else to take action probably isn’t going to accomplish much. Luckily we had the EU sort out Ukraine but they aren’t going to take care of Venezuela for us.

281 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:50:41am

re: #277 FemNaziBitch

GOP Governor: Benefits For Same-Sex Domestic Partners Are ‘Irrational And Unfair’

Yeah it’s totally unfair that same-sex domestic partners should get the same rights as you and I do governor. Someone doesn’t understand what unfair actually means.

282 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:51:22am

Youtube Video

283 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:51:53am

284 The War TARDIS  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:52:00am

We have good news in Pakistan:

Senior Taliban commander shot dead in northwest Pakistan

Senior Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan commander Asmatullah Shaheen Bhittani was shot dead on Monday along with three others by unknown gunmen in the restive North Waziristan tribal area.

He was important:

Mr. Bhittani had served as the acting TTP chief after Hakeemullah Mehsud’s death and also headed the Taliban supreme shura (council).

285 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:53:13am

re: #272 Feline Fearless Leader

Yep. Just what the opposition needs is the US Congress openly attempting to interfere in their favor. Plays right into the government propaganda that the protests are a foreign plot that needs to be violently stomped out.

:p
We have a bunch of screwed-up people in our government that still was to establish Pax America. You’d think the Afghanistan and Iraq debacles would make them think about it more, but they just blame Obama instead.

Congress would best serve by having someone say “We’re not getting involved.” then saying no more on the topic. I’m not a fan of Rand Paul, but non-intervention is something he has enough history on that he might be believable, Or perhaps not.

286 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:53:22am

re: #283 FemNaziBitch

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287 Dr. Matt  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:54:03am

Little known fact: Stripes was originally going to be a Cheech and Chong movie.

288 ObserverArt  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:54:52am

re: #251 Dr Lizardo

Meanwhile in Moscow, an anti-government protest:

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I knew it. I had a feeling this could happen to Vlad. People are just sick of it, and they see an opportunity. The Ukraine movement is on the move. Putin really has only one option, embrace change. Time for him to do a “Gorbachev” and signal it is time to really open Russia up. If he wants to really go down in history, here is his chance. He if he wants to just go down, he can be tough, but that will blow the country up.

It wouldn’t surprise me to see America grow a bit more restless too.

289 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:54:59am

re: #280 Killgore Trout

It’s hard to tell what the right call is going to be here. Interference could make things worse but it’s also important to be on the right side of history. Maduro is going to fall eventually but if he’s allowed to crack down he could last a lot longer if we do nothing. Waiting for somebody else to take action probably isn’t going to accomplish much. Luckily we had the EU sort out Ukraine but they aren’t going to take care of Venezuela for us.

Given the US intervention history in Latin and South America it would be better that someone else - - preferably a coalition of SA states do it.

In terms of a crackdown sucking for the citizens of Venezuela - very true. But starting another go-round of interference down there is just laying the ground for the next “revolution” to paint whatever comes into place as a US puppet regime.*

*- Of course they will probably do that anyways even if the US stands by and does not directly interfere.

290 lawhawk  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:55:08am

Sometimes the best action for the US to take when there’s upheaval in a foreign country where the regime in power is struggling is to do nothing. Let them sort it out.

That calculus can change if the regime engages in violent crackdowns, like in Syria, Venezuela, or Ukraine, but what kind of aid, or even statements will depend on any number of factors, including who’s involved in the protest movement, how coordinated the protesters are, etc.

Getting rid of Assad is a no-brainer, but how to do it when the rebels are comprised of Islamists, including al Qaeda affiliated groups, makes the question of assistance more difficult.

Statements of support for those opposed to the regime are the best we can hope for, absent collective action by international organizations to step in to assist (EU, AU, NATO, etc.) Also, letting other countries, like France, take the lead can help smooth over tough relations and mask how much assistance the US is actually providing (logistical, monetary support, etc.)

But going from step 1 - watching the protests erupt to step 2 - sending in US aid ignores all the steps in between, including whether doing so actually will accomplish the goal.

Heck, one has to actually identify what the goal is.

If the goal is to simply engage in regime change, you can choose options that take a certain trajectory, but which may result in more upheaval, more violence, and more carnage - but not necessarily a more stable result. Or, a more restrained response could nudge the regimes into a less violent outcome.

Ukraine right now appears to be the latter situation - Yanukovych has fled, but his whereabouts are unknown all while Ukrainians are busy reconstituting and reorganizing the government ahead of new elections. That’s a good outcome - getting rid of a bad actor with what has been so far been minimal bloodshed (we’re talking significantly less carnage than open civil war and hostilities as in Syria). So, it also depends on the mindset of the regime as to what it’s willing to do to hold on to power.

Maduro in Venezuela is trying to game the outcome in his favor, but the protests are growing in intensity.

291 Kid A  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:55:18am

re: #287 Dr. Matt

Little known fact: Stripes was originally going to be a Cheech and Chong movie.

Dave’s not here!

292 Backwoods_Sleuth  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:56:31am
293 The War TARDIS  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:57:14am

re: #284 The War TARDIS

To go up to him and his posse, and shoot them out in broad daylight requires some cajones.

Question is, who did it?

294 ObserverArt  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 9:58:45am

re: #271 lawhawk

NOOOO!!!!!

chicagotribune.com

Harold Ramis has passed away at the age of 69. Damn… He was one of the brains behind some of the funniest movies of my youth. Just damn….

Just heard that report. Sad.

295 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:00:40am

Ted Cruz is a Complete and Absolute Fool

296 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:02:02am

:)

297 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:03:13am

re: #295 FemNaziBitch

Ted Cruz is a Complete and Absolute Fool


A more nuanced view of Cruz from Politico.

298 Kragar  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:04:19am

OFFS! Get the fuck out of my country, you theocratic piece of shit.

299 Lidane  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:04:53am

re: #277 FemNaziBitch

GOP Governor: Benefits For Same-Sex Domestic Partners Are ‘Irrational And Unfair’

I can’t believe people are still bigoted against LGBT folks in 2014.

Talk about irrational.

300 Mattand  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:05:20am

re: #211 Dark_Falcon

An update from San Diego folks may have missed, since it happened late Friday:

San Diego declines to appeal Peruta, accepting CCW applications as ‘shall issue’

I really wish this country would grow the fuck up and realize how intensely fucking stupid it is to walk around strapped 24/7.

It’s 2014, not 1714. Buy a calendar and stop pretending Red Dawn is a documentary.

301 Lidane  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:05:42am

re: #297 Dark_Falcon

Ted Cruz and nuance don’t belong in the same sentence.

Calling him a complete tool is more accurate.

302 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:05:44am

re: #299 Lidane

I can’t believe people are still bigoted against LGBT folks in 2014.

Talk about irrational.

We are still debating the meaning of rape and you are surprised about this?

303 Targetpractice  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:06:01am

re: #271 lawhawk

NOOOO!!!!!

chicagotribune.com

Harold Ramis has passed away at the age of 69. Damn… He was one of the brains behind some of the funniest movies of my youth. Just damn….

Aw man, not Egon! NO!

304 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:06:07am

re: #300 Mattand

I really wish this country would grow the fuck up and realize how intensely fucking stupid it is to walk around strapped 24/7.

It’s 2014, not 1714. Buy a calendar and stop pretending Red Dawn is a documentary.

depends on where you live.

306 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:06:59am

re: #300 Mattand

I really wish this country would grow the fuck up and realize how intensely fucking stupid it is to walk around strapped 24/7.

It’s 2014, not 1714. Buy a calendar and stop pretending Red Dawn is a documentary.

Life’s too short to run around afraid. I’m in D.C quite a bit. Never feel the need to be armed.

307 Lidane  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:07:20am

re: #302 FemNaziBitch

We are still debating the meaning of rape and you are surprised about this?

OK fair point. I guess it’s because these things are self-evident to me. I just don’t understand how anyone can still debate a definition of rape or have hangups about LGBT people. It makes no sense.

308 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:07:31am

re: #305 Varek Raith

Nation of Islam’s Farrakhan calls for blacks-only courts before UFOs destroy the infidels

Lolwhut.

Alex Jones needs a lunch partner at Whacko inc.

309 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:07:54am

re: #307 Lidane

OK fair point. I guess it’s because these things are self-evident to me. I just don’t understand how anyone can still debate a definition of rape or have hangups about LGBT people. It makes no sense.

I agree

310 ObserverArt  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:08:05am

re: #299 Lidane

I can’t believe people are still bigoted against LGBT folks in 2014.

Talk about irrational.

Bigot death throws. Some people just do not understand democracy…politician or not.

311 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:08:44am

re: #307 Lidane

OK fair point. I guess it’s because these things are self-evident to me. I just don’t understand how anyone can still debate a definition of rape or have hangups about LGBT people. It makes no sense.

What amazes me is how tone deaf they are on this. I mean these people actually consider it discrimination to give LGBT couples the same rights as a straight couple. I mean even the Jim Crow proponents weren’t this tone deaf- they knew they were being bigots and were proud of it.

312 Lidane  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:09:15am

Wheee!

313 Kragar  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:09:21am
314 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:10:18am

re: #311 HappyWarrior

What amazes me is how tone deaf they are on this. I mean these people actually consider it discrimination to give LGBT couples the same rights as a straight couple. I mean even the Jim Crow proponents weren’t this tone deaf- they knew they were being bigots and were proud of it.

because it’s going to be Sodom and Gomorrah all over again. DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND!!!!

THE HORROR!

315 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:10:34am

re: #313 Kragar

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Sorry Bryan, we’re not going to copy Russia’s backass backwards laws on gays because you’re sexually repressed.

316 Killgore Trout  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:10:43am

re: #305 Varek Raith

Nation of Islam’s Farrakhan calls for blacks-only courts before UFOs destroy the infidels

Lolwhut.

It’s reprehensible that Conyers sat there listening to that crap.

317 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:11:06am

re: #271 lawhawk

Well I guess that means Ghostbusters III is off the table for good.

318 Mattand  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:11:13am

re: #304 FemNaziBitch

depends on where you live.

I’m amazed tourists from other countries still come here. Between the ever-increasing xenophobia; the chunk of Americans who think they live in Tombstone AZ, 1883; and the over-the-top security mugging they get when entering the US; you’d think they’d avoid us like the plague.

319 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:11:17am


320 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:11:31am

re: #316 Killgore Trout

It’s reprehensible that Conyers sat there listening to that crap.

It is.

321 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:12:26am
322 Lidane  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:13:02am

re: #314 FemNaziBitch

because it’s going to be Sodom and Gomorrah all over again. DON’T YOU UNDERSTAND!!!!

THE HORROR!

Wasn’t the big sin of Sodom and Gomorrah inhospitality? It’s been a while since I’ve read the text, but I’m pretty sure it had nothing to do with teh ghey.

323 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:13:14am

re: #319 Pie-onist Overlord

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He really doesn’t want to go there given the real history of religious zealotry and fascism.

324 Eclectic Cyborg  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:13:39am

re: #298 Kragar

OFFS! Get the fuck out of my country, you theocratic piece of shit.

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Does this mean he won’t be voting much?

325 Lidane  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:13:44am

re: #321 Pie-onist Overlord

Nuance!

326 Dr Lizardo  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:14:31am

re: #323 HappyWarrior

He really doesn’t want to go there given the real history of religious zealotry and fascism.

The word “falangist” springs to mind……

327 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:14:32am

Tiny zircon crystal is oldest piece of Earth ever found
4.4 billion years old.

328 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:14:34am

re: #318 Mattand

I’m amazed tourists from other countries still come here. Between the ever-increasing xenophobia; the chunk of Americans who think they live in Tombstone AZ, 1883; and the over-the-top security mugging they get when entering the US; you’d think they’d avoid us like the plague.

Yeah but remember most of those nuts are outside the major areas. You are right though. There are way too many Americans who think they live in the old West.

329 Targetpractice  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:14:44am

re: #307 Lidane

OK fair point. I guess it’s because these things are self-evident to me. I just don’t understand how anyone can still debate a definition of rape or have hangups about LGBT people. It makes no sense.

It’s the end result of the GOP happily embracing the “Moral Majority” in 1980 and never looking back.

330 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:14:52am

re: #322 Lidane

Wasn’t the big sin of Sodom and Gomorrah inhospitality? It’s been a while since I’ve read the text, but I’m pretty sure it had nothing to do with teh ghey.

SEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEX

HORROR I tell you!

331 Targetpractice  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:15:03am

re: #327 Varek Raith

Tiny zircon crystal is oldest piece of Earth ever found
4.4 billion years old.

Obviously God put it there to test our faith.

////

332 Kragar  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:15:07am

re: #327 Varek Raith

Tiny zircon crystal is oldest piece of Earth ever found
4.4 billion years old.

That is almost 6000 in creationist years

333 lawhawk  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:15:10am

re: #312 Lidane

They might be worried about their kids’ precious bodily fluids, but they’d oppose a key part of the party pack provided to the flyboys:

Survival kit contents check. In them you’ll find: one forty-five caliber automatic; two boxes of ammunition; four days’ concentrated emergency rations; one drug issue containing antibiotics, morphine, vitamin pills, pep pills, sleeping pills, tranquilizer pills; one miniature combination Russian phrase book and Bible; one hundred dollars in rubles; one hundred dollars in gold; nine packs of chewing gum; one issue of prophylactics; three lipsticks; three pair of nylon stockings. Shoot, a fella’ could have a pretty good weekend in Vegas with all that stuff.

334 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:15:10am

re: #330 FemNaziBitch

SEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEXSEX

HORROR I tell you!

Yes please.
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335 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:15:47am

re: #326 Dr Lizardo

The word “falangist” springs to mind……

I’d ask the dumb fuck to explain Lorca’s murder but the dumbass probably thinks the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War were good conservatives since Republican always equals right wing.

336 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:16:25am

re: #329 Targetpractice

It’s the end result of the GOP happily embracing the “Moral Majority” in 1980 and never looking back.

Yep and it’s why I will never respect Reagan because he gave those bastards entry into the mainstream.

337 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:16:49am

re: #322 Lidane

Wasn’t the big sin of Sodom and Gomorrah inhospitality? It’s been a while since I’ve read the text, but I’m pretty sure it had nothing to do with teh ghey.

They were cruel to the poor and homeless, and it was a quaint local custom to rape transients.

Scripture says nothing about Teh Ghey in connection with Sodom & Gomorrah.

However it is interesting that immediately after the destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah, the survivors committed acts of incest, thinking they were the only humans left on earth.

338 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:17:46am

Acting out the history of his species.

with that, I am out

have a great day!

339 Decatur Deb  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:18:36am

re: #298 Kragar

OFFS! Get the fuck out of my country, you theocratic piece of shit.

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We’re legalizing incest?

340 Kragar  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:18:43am

I’m confused.

Evangelicals keep saying homosexuals are horrifically brutal soldiers, capable of committing almost any atrocity and able to crush entire countries under their boots.

They also say allowing gays in the military will feminize the military, and the soldiers would be incapable fighting because of all the butt sex they would invariably be having 24/7 in the field.

So, which is it?

341 FemNaziBitch  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:19:14am

re: #337 Pie-onist Overlord

They were cruel to the poor and homeless, and it was a quaint local custom to rape transients.

Scripture says nothing about Teh Ghey in connection with Sodom & Gomorrah.

However it is interesting that immediately after the destruction of Sodom & Gomorrah, the survivors committed acts of incest, thinking they were the only humans left on earth.

wait, someone associated it with The Ghey

bbl

342 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:19:25am

I’m pretty sure this is a Fake Quote, because they didn’t have GUNZ in Aristotle’s time.

343 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:20:00am

re: #340 Kragar

I’m confused.

Evangelicals keep saying homosexuals are horrifically brutal soldiers, capable of committing almost any atrocity and able to crush entire countries under their boots.

They also say allowing gays in the military will feminize the military, and the soldiers would be incapable fighting because of all the butt sex they would invariably be having 24/7 in the field.

So, which is it?

Sunday, Tuesday, and Thursday it’s narrative A and Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, it’s narrative B). On Saturday, it’s some twisted combination where gay feminized soldiers will implement fascist sharia law.

344 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:20:07am

re: #341 FemNaziBitch

wait, someone associated it with The Ghey

bbl

It would be closer to actual Scripture if it were associated with raping your daughter.

345 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:20:25am

re: #342 Pie-onist Overlord

I’ve seen it also attributed to an array of founding fathers.

346 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:21:40am

re: #342 Pie-onist Overlord

I’m pretty sure this is a Fake Quote, because they didn’t have GUNZ in Aristotle’s time.

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Well that’s bs anyhow since the gun fuckers own more guns than ever in Obama’s America. But yeah I definitely think that’s a bs quote.

347 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:22:24am

YES
IF YOU DON’T LIKE YOUR JRRB GO WORK SOMEWHERE ELSE!

348 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:23:43am

re: #342 Pie-onist Overlord

I’m pretty sure this is a Fake Quote, because they didn’t have GUNZ in Aristotle’s time.

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Yeah, I think it’s bull.
Nothing on a google search on this but that image and rw citations of it.

349 Feline Fearless Leader  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:23:54am

re: #345 Varek Raith

I’ve seen it also attributed to an array of founding fathers.

If you take the eigenvector of that array it points directly to the 2nd Amendment.
//

350 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:24:52am

re: #347 Pie-onist Overlord

YES

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Astounding!
Yes, wingnuts, I can bar you from entering my home/business if you have a gun.

351 HappyWarrior  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:25:04am

re: #347 Pie-onist Overlord

YES
IF YOU DON’T LIKE YOUR JRRB GO WORK SOMEWHERE ELSE!

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Yet these are the same people who want employers to be able to fire people for being gay. Yeah…….

352 Justanotherhuman  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:27:14am

Moved.

353 Pie-onist Overlord  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:28:22am

I ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. SIGNED—EDWARD SNOWDEN

354 Varek Raith  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:29:46am

re: #353 Pie-onist Overlord

I ACCEPT THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. SIGNED—EDWARD SNOWDEN

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Gee, that’s my main source of income.
It sure as hell doesn’t pay what I bet he thinks it pays.

355 Lidane  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:29:53am

re: #340 Kragar

So, which is it?

Yes.

356 Dark_Falcon  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:33:30am

re: #342 Pie-onist Overlord

I’m pretty sure this is a Fake Quote, because they didn’t have GUNZ in Aristotle’s time.

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The thing to remember though is that in Athens in that time, except in a few cases in times of war hoplite armor was privately purchased and owned by individual citizens. Men owned service to the polis, but they had to pay for their weapons and equipment themselves. But the fact that the state did not issue, control, or own the weapons was regarded as a bulkwart against tyranny,

Just some add-on facts I thought wise to put in.

357 Ian G.  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 10:38:19am

re: #319 Pie-onist Overlord

Well, fascists have always gone after homosexuals and sent them to prison or death camps, if that’s what Matt means.

358 BeenHereAwhile  Mon, Feb 24, 2014 11:15:46am

re: #35 A Mom Anon

Bryan thinks about gay sex more than gay people do. Hmm. Wonder what that means?….

I tell people who are obsessed with sodomy and gay sex, that I am not interested in their sexual fantasies.


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