Overnight Short Film: Our Drone Future

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GoPro, DJI Phantom, After Effects, Premier, Logic

Our Drone Future explores the technology, capability, and purpose of drones, as their presence becomes an increasingly pervasive reality in the skies of tomorrow.

In the near future, cities use semi-autonomous drones for urban security. Human officers monitor drone feeds remotely, and data reports are displayed with a detailed HUD and communicated via a simulated human voice (designed to mitigate discomfort with sentient drone technology). While the drones operate independently, they are “guided” by the human monitors, who can suggest alternate mission plans and ask questions.

Specializing in predictive analysis, the security drones can retask themselves to investigate potential threats. As shown in this video, an urban security drone surveys San Francisco’s landmarks and encounters fierce civilian resistance.

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447 comments
1 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 9:25:16pm
2 chadu  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 9:33:22pm

3 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 9:34:52pm
4 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 9:40:38pm

re: #2 chadu

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Youtube Video

5 freetoken  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 9:56:19pm

We shall all be drones, one day.

6 kirkspencer  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 10:02:24pm

Someone has been playing Shadowrun.

7 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 10:04:57pm

Well, to my surprise, I can once again access Vimeo from China. It’s been blacked out for at least two years. YouTube remains verboten, though.

8 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 10:18:21pm

9 Weet  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 10:23:43pm

Everything Elon Musk does impresses me.

“Our Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles are truly made in America,” he said. “This stands in stark contrast to the United Launch Alliance’s most frequently flown vehicle, the Atlas V.”

That rocket uses a Russian engine, Musk said, and half the airframe is built abroad.

“Supply of the main engine depends on President Putin’s permission,” he said.

Billionaire Musk makes push to launch military satellites

Aside: I do wonder why he’s wearing lipstick in the photo,

10 Lidane  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 10:25:26pm

Related:

11 Gus  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 10:30:27pm

12 Aqua Obama  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 10:36:20pm

re: #9 Weet

Aside: I do wonder why he’s wearing lipstick in the photo,

Big Trouble in Little Russia

13 Single-handed sailor  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 10:37:50pm

LOL, I just found out my Davis weather station flashes “It’s raining cats and dogs” on its screen when there is a downpour. I looked at the rain rate and it was 1.83” an hour.

14 Kragar  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 10:53:42pm

re: #8 Gus

15 wheat-dogghazi  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:00:59pm

re: #8 Gus

Peter Sellers as the president from Dr. Strangelove on the other side.
“Now Dmitri …”

16 freetoken  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:27:32pm

Shostakovich never had to worry about drones:

MP3 Audio

17 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Wed, Mar 5, 2014 11:52:53pm

We have satellites that can read a car’s license plate, but they are far up in the heavens where we cannot see them, Drones are a lot more personal. And they can deliver pizzas…

18 goddamnedfrank  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 12:48:18am
KABUL, Afghanistan — An American drone strike killed five Afghan National Army soldiers and wounded eight more Thursday morning, according to Afghan officials.

The attack took place at 3:20 a.m. in the Charkh district of Logar Province, an area of intense insurgent activity.

“We believe the strike was the result of poor coordination between the people on the ground and the operators of the drone,” said Din Mohammad Darwish, a spokesman for the governor of Logar Province, which is in eastern Afghanistan, neighboring Kabul Province.

Events like this will make a full pullout all but unavoidable.

19 Kragar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 1:09:36am
20 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 1:26:54am

re: #19 Kragar

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Everyone knows that HIV is God’s punishment for gay sex, we are inviting his Holy Wrath and Smiting for this…

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21 wheat-dogghazi  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 1:52:53am

re: #20 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Putting exorcists out of business, too.

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22 freetoken  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:01:25am

MP3 Audio

23 freetoken  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:42:32am

I’m deploring the downhill slide in BBC documentaries. I guess they have to compete with the private broadcasters and even the tabloids, but they’re sliding in the “entertainment” approach to documentaries rather than the educational ones.

Though the productions have been uneven for a long time - some being much better than others - in the past couple of years I’ve noticed the need on the part of the BBC to really push that they are still valid to their taxpayers, with a great deal of patriotism (the understated British kind, not the over-the-top American kind) seeping throughout their series. It is as if they are on a mission to keep reminding their taxpayers that being British is a good thing.

Anyway, finally watched the BBC “Bible Hunters” documentary from a few weeks ago:

Youtube Video

The host/narrator makes some claims scattered throughout that just are wrong - or at best baseless. All highly technical fields of course have to be simplified to be presented to the general public, but he goes overboard in his simplistic presentation of Christianity.

24 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:44:42am

re: #23 freetoken

I have noticed a general decline in the quality of British TV since I first started watching it (in the mid 90’s) I used to be able to almost always find something interesting, but the last time I was there we had a satellite dish with hundreds of channels and it was all dreck.

25 wheat-dogghazi  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:52:40am

Another monkey wrench thrown into Ukraine’s machinery:

AP: Crimea Sets Referendum on Whether to Join Russia
washingtonpost.com

26 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 2:55:33am

re: #25 wheat-dogghazi

Another monkey wrenchthrown into Ukraine’s machinery:

All unresolved business from the rapid collapse of the USSR in 1991.

27 wheat-dogghazi  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:05:06am

re: #26 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

All unresolved business from the rapid collapse of the USSR in 1991.

But the question is, will this referendum be held while Russian boots are on Crimean soil?

28 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:12:49am

Bitcoin Indexes shitting the bed all over the place: Third cryptocurrency exchange becomes hacking victim, loses Bitcoin (ZDNet)

29 freetoken  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:17:20am

re: #28 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Bitcoins bit the dust.

30 Lidane  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:22:51am

re: #28 Rev_Arthur_Belling

re: #29 freetoken

Meanwhile, in DC:


Nice to see the focus on real money and real economic issues. :-P

31 freetoken  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:24:35am

re: #24 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I have noticed a general decline in the quality of British TV since I first started watching it (in the mid 90’s) I used to be able to almost always find something interesting, but the last time I was there we had a satellite dish with hundreds of channels and it was all dreck.

Jeff Rose, the host of that two part series on the Bible, really makes some sweeping statements that, because they are grossly over broad, become false.

It’s something I might expect from an American show - well, American TV on the whole does not run series critical of the Bible, rather, American TV is filled with Bible-believing reinforcement programming.

This gets me back to DWTS (how does everything seem to come back to DWTS?) It’s the Americanized version of the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing. SCD is slowly changing, and some of the die hard fans are decrying the Americanization of the show.

The BBC has been under attack for some time, with various parties pushing to sell it, etc. So I guess the administrators realize they have to keep their ratings up somehow, and stodgy old programs full of academic debate won’t do it. The BBC production values are still among the best anywhere and on the whole I think they produce a large amount of decent programming, but this thing with major documentaries and the path they are taking leads me to believe that the once high-water-mark academic aspirations of the BBC are gone.

32 freetoken  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:27:18am

re: #30 Lidane

Trolling from Capitol Hill - I think Teddy R. would approve.

33 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:27:57am

re: #31 freetoken

My statement is neither True nor False, it is entirely subjective. There is a time when I would have gladly paid for a BBC license, but no longer.

34 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:31:41am

re: #30 Lidane

From the look of the letter, I’d say “well played, Rep. Polis.” I disagree with him on the substance of the cryptocurrency argument, but style points for trolling Manchin.

35 Lidane  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:38:17am

Oh sure. It’s funny and I laughed. I get the humor behind it.

I guess I’m just cranky this morning. I’d be more sympathetic if he was trolling Paul Ryan for releasing a study that was supposed to show the waste and graft in anti-poverty programs but instead found that they work pretty well. Or Lindsey Graham’s idiocy linking BENGHAZI! to Putin’s actions in Crimea and Ukraine. Wasting all that energy on Bitcoin seems silly to me.

36 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:41:27am

re: #35 Lidane

Wasting all that energy on Bitcoin seems silly to me.

Considering how much energy (in computer processing) is expended in mining Bitcoin, that’s a more relevant statement than perhaps intended. :)

37 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:49:59am

re: #30 Lidane

Meanwhile, in DC:

[Embedded content]


Nice to see the focus on real money and real economic issues. :-P

No reason to ban bitcoins, nobody is forced to buy or trade in them, they are no nation’s legal tender, they only exist because enough people are idealistic and gullible to trade in them

38 Decatur Deb  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:57:33am

re: #36 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Considering how much energy (in computer processing) is expended in mining Bitcoin, that’s a more relevant statement than perhaps intended. :)

If only that cyber power could be used for the benefit of mankind—like more lolcats.

39 Decatur Deb  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 3:58:38am

re: #37 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

No reason to ban bitcoins, nobody is forced to buy or trade in them, they are no nation’s legal tender, they only exist because enough people are idealistic and gullible to trade in them

Think of it as a hidden tax on Libertarian buffoons.

40 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:35:27am

Think we’ll have any drone-related accidents that wind up killing people?

What could possibly go wrong with vehicles operated from a computer?

The same thing as vehicles operated by humans inside them, I suppose. Just a little differently.

“Damn it, the system is down again” or “DKI-23048-i has been hacked.”

Everyone thought bitcoins were safe, too. : )

41 freetoken  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:35:30am

Just one of a pile of assertions glibly offered by Jeff Rose in that BBC program: he visits the famous St. Catherine’s monastery in the Sinai, and Rose blithely and with a strait face says “Mt. Sinai”, telling his viewers this is the location of said famous site in the OT.

Now the OT stories of Moses certainly are, at least in large part, mythical fabrications to create a founder-figure for Judaism; and, it has long been understood, even by believers, that the location of “Mt. Sinai” is unknown.

An indeed, the Mormon outlet Deseret News mentioned that just yesterday:

Defending the Faith: Where is Mount Sinai?

The problem I have with Rose is not that his two-parter documentary is an attack on literalism and fundamentalist Christian views of the Bible, but that he does such a half-assed job of it.

42 freetoken  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:40:23am

CPAC starts today.

I guess we should steel ourselves for the derp onslaught.

43 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:51:13am

re: #42 freetoken

As if the derp onslaught ever stops.

It would be genuinely interesting if someone got a transcript of every speech at CPAC and did a word cloud.

44 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:53:25am
45 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:53:38am

Breakfast!

instagram.com

46 Bubblehead II  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:53:40am

No other info yet, but Fox News has a banner up that claims

US IMPOSES VISA RESTRICTIONS ON RUSSIANS, CRIMEANS IT SAYS ARE THREATENING UKRAINE SECURITY.

Nothing about this over at CNN.

47 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:56:18am
48 Decatur Deb  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:56:47am

re: #42 freetoken

CPAC starts today.

I guess we should steel ourselves for the derp onslaught.

Spring training camp for the Silly League.

49 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:57:31am

Sounds like Prop 8 in CA.

50 Dr. Matt  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:58:16am

re: #42 freetoken

I guess we should steel ourselves for the derp onslaught.

So, today will be like any other day.

51 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:58:29am

re: #42 freetoken

CPAC starts today.

I guess we should steel ourselves for the derp onslaught.

Will Palin be giving a “major speech” on Ukraine?

52 Lidane  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 4:59:29am

re: #46 Bubblehead II

53 Lidane  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:00:04am
54 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:00:12am

re: #49 Justanotherhuman

Interestingly, the #Crimea referendum on March 16 will ask whether locals want 2 “reunify” with Russia or stay in #Ukraine. Tricky bastards.

A matter of perspective, Crimea was part of Russia until 1956.

55 Dr. Matt  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:00:14am

re: #51 Justanotherhuman

Will Palin be giving a “major speech” on Ukraine?

And on mom jeans and bear wrestling techniques.

56 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:01:07am
57 Decatur Deb  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:01:09am

re: #51 Justanotherhuman

Will Palin be giving a “major speech” on Ukraine?

She should win a Major Award.

Image: unique-leg-lamp-fragile.jpg

58 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:02:11am

Delegate registration at the CPAC convention:

Image: CPAC+registration.jpg

59 andres  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:03:52am

re: #42 freetoken

CPAC starts today.

I guess we should steel ourselves for the derp onslaught.

HazMat Suit, online.

There was a time I used to admire US politics when compared to PR politics. It seemed so much gentleman.

That stopped when I started following US politics around 4 years ago.

re: #43 Rev_Arthur_Belling

As if the derp onslaught ever stops.

It would be genuinely interesting if someone got a transcript of every speech at CPAC and did a word cloud.

Wouldn’t that be a word sewer? Just kidding!

60 Dr. Matt  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:03:55am

Reid, you liking bastard!!!!!

61 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:04:22am

re: #54 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Interestingly, the #Crimea referendum on March 16 will ask whether locals want 2 “reunify” with Russia or stay in #Ukraine. Tricky bastards.

A matter of perspective, Crimea was part of Russia until 1956.

Yeah, 60 yrs ago. Who in Crimea who was there actually remember it? If they do remember, they probably will vote no.

62 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:06:21am
63 Lidane  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:07:23am
64 Flounder  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:07:40am

A sad story of heroin abuse in Bennington Vermont, a beautiful New England town.

nytimes.com

65 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:14:06am

re: #57 Decatur Deb

She should win a Major Award.

Image: unique-leg-lamp-fragile.jpg

Would you believe my ex-DIL gave my grandson one of those for xmas? Actually, the lampshade is pretty decently made—told him I want it when the base quits working.

66 AntonSirius  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:18:50am

Today’s quixotic Twitter crusade: getting a Senator to admit their hypocrisy

67 AntonSirius  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:19:13am
68 AntonSirius  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:19:31am
69 Flounder  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:19:34am

I don’t hate self checkouts as long as I know that I am going to use one. I will make sure all my purchases have bar codes. This guy, however, takes shopping to another level, with a no holds barred full contact shopping excursion! He even lost a tooth!

70 AntonSirius  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:19:44am
71 Lidane  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:19:59am

Get yer hazmat suits and hip waders ready. Here’s a list of some of the CPAC speakers and events today, according to their official schedule:

Ted Cruz
Pat Toomey
Guy Benson from Townhall
Paul Ryan
Tim Scott

Panel discussion: Does the US Congress matter anymore? Executive Orders and the Hopelessness of EVER Curtailing Federal Spending — moderated by David Keene of the Moonie Times, with Tom Coburn and George Will

Mitch McConnell
John Bolton
Chris Christie
Bobby Jindal

Andrew Breitbart Defender of the First Amendment Award Sponsored by Citizens United — presented to Mark Levin

Wayne LaPierre
Donald Trump

We are going to drown in a sea of stupid today.

72 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:20:36am

re: #64 Flounder

A sad story of heroin abuse in Bennington Vermont, a beautiful New England town.

nytimes.com

I can’t imagine someone’s life ruined by dope by the time they’re 20. I hope these people get some help and stick to it. No one can do it for them.

73 Flounder  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:22:02am

re: #72 Justanotherhuman

Heroin, takes your soul. Unfortunately for the youth, they generally don’t want to get better, until your life has been used up, and their youth is gone.

74 Lidane  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:23:56am

Not The Onion:

75 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:25:55am

re: #71 Lidane

Andrew Breitbart Defender of the First Amendment Award Sponsored by Citizens United

That may be the stupidest bit of derp on a day full of derp.

76 Decatur Deb  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:27:46am

re: #65 Justanotherhuman

Would you believe my ex-DIL gave my grandson one of those for xmas? Actually, the lampshade is pretty decently made—told him I want it when the base quits working.

Think you have to enter a contest.

77 AntonSirius  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:29:44am

re: #72 Justanotherhuman

I can’t imagine someone’s life ruined by dope by the time they’re 20. I hope these people get some help and stick to it. No one can do it for them.

It happens too often, and can happen to anyone. Jeff Allison was a first round pick of the Marlins in 2003 out of a high school in Massachusetts, and basically spent his signing bonus on heroin and Oxy.

78 Flounder  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:29:54am

A Troy, NY Pastor is giving away an AR-15 assault rifle in a free raffle at an upcoming service.

The Rev. John Koletas, pastor of Grace Baptist Church, said the service and gun raffle are aimed at “honoring hunters and gun owners who have been so viciously attacked by the antichristian socialist media and antichristian socialist politicians the last few years,”

What the fuck is wrong with people? Actually I know some of the answer, he wants attention.

79 Decatur Deb  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:30:18am

re: #64 Flounder

A sad story of heroin abuse in Bennington Vermont, a beautiful New England town.

nytimes.com

Very nice campus there, and the Hemmings auto museum. They had a version of Fuller’s Dymaxion car.

Image: dymaxion-2-blog480.jpg

80 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:32:20am

Good morning lizards!

My wife got a scam phone call yesterday on her cell phone from someone claiming they are from Microsoft and told her he was calling because she had a virus on her computer. She said she wasn’t home and he said he would call her on Saturday. The scary thing is he knew her name.

81 Decatur Deb  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:32:55am

re: #78 Flounder

A Troy, NY Pastor is giving away an AR-15 assault rifle in a >free raffle at an upcoming service.

What the fuck is wrong with people? Actually I know some of the answer, he wants attention.

Little confused on the 2nd Commandment Amendment.

82 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:34:11am

re: #80 NJDhockeyfan

Why is it scary he knew her name? Any telemarketer can know your name.

83 AntonSirius  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:35:17am

re: #80 NJDhockeyfan

Good morning lizards!

My wife got a scam phone call yesterday on her cell phone from someone claiming they are from Microsoft and told her he was calling because she had a virus on her computer. She said she wasn’t home and he said he would call her on Saturday. The scary thing is he knew her name.

The same list that had her number probably had her name. Doesn’t necessarily mean he had any other personal information.

84 Bubblehead II  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:36:25am

re: #79 Decatur Deb

Very nice campus there, and the Hemmings auto museum. They had a version of Fuller’s Dymaxion car.

Image: dymaxion-2-blog480.jpg

If you are a car buff, this will make you sick.

Olympia college ordered to crush rare car

It doesn’t take a gearhead to appreciate the 1992 Dodge Viper donated to South Puget Sound Community College. The brilliant blue car with white racing stripes on its hood was number four in the production line.

85 Flounder  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:36:42am

re: #79 Decatur Deb

It doesn’t handle well in the snow though

86 Lidane  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:37:16am

re: #80 NJDhockeyfan

Good morning lizards!

My wife got a scam phone call yesterday on her cell phone from someone claiming they are from Microsoft and told her he was calling because she had a virus on her computer. She said she wasn’t home and he said he would call her on Saturday. The scary thing is he knew her name.

That’s a known cyber scam. Microsoft even has a page about it on their website:

microsoft.com

If the phone number is still on her phone, you can report it here:

consumer.ftc.gov

87 The War TARDIS  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:39:12am

re: #49 Justanotherhuman

This thing will be rigged to hell and back.

88 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:40:42am

re: #83 AntonSirius

The same list that had her number probably had her name. Doesn’t necessarily mean he had any other personal information.

It’s a cell phone. Are there cell phone lists somewhere?

89 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:43:03am
90 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:45:37am

Well, fuck this shit.

Ukrainian armed forces in Crimea will be considered ‘occupiers’ and must leave or surrender territory, Crimean deputy prime minister says - @Reuters
end of alert

91 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:47:16am

re: #88 NJDhockeyfan

It’s a cell phone. Are there cell phone lists somewhere?

Yes.

92 The War TARDIS  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:48:00am

re: #90 Justanotherhuman

What are the Crimean Tatars, hmm? They won’t lie down and take this. They are already fed up with your shit.

93 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:50:12am

Nope, no racism here. TEH DEMOCRATZ IS TEH REAL RACISTS!!!

This idiot’s time line is full of racist wingnut Derp. It could be a “parody” account, though.

94 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 5:52:01am

re: #86 Lidane

That’s a known cyber scam. Microsoft even has a page about it on their website:

microsoft.com

If the phone number is still on her phone, you can report it here:

consumer.ftc.gov

Thanks, I just reported it. Let’s see what happens.

95 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:03:27am

I really don’t think Russia is in any position to make demands…

Russian foreign minister Lavrov says US sanctions against Russia continue to add pressure, are not constructive - @Reuters
end of alert


3m
Russian foreign minister Lavrov says, after meeting US Secretary of State Kerry, there is no agreement on Ukraine yet - Interfax via @Reuters
end of alert

96 ObserverArt  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:04:35am

re: #80 NJDhockeyfan

Good morning lizards!

My wife got a scam phone call yesterday on her cell phone from someone claiming they are from Microsoft and told her he was calling because she had a virus on her computer. She said she wasn’t home and he said he would call her on Saturday. The scary thing is he knew her name.

Meta Data!

It is a very common scam. They get some meta data on you, call you and tell you all about the computer you are on. Do a Google and you can read all about it. I got one last summer. I told them I was busy and call me back. I did a Google search, learned what they were up to and then I played along getting as much info about them as I could…then I told them I’d be contacting the Ohio Attorney General office and give them names, phone numbers, etc.

Never heard back again.

97 Decatur Deb  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:05:50am

re: #85 Flounder

It doesn’t handle well in the snow though [Embedded image]

Nah—that’s the Dyminion.

98 Decatur Deb  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:07:13am

Only 25 days left in the Obamacare signup season—off to make the most of them. BBL.

99 Bubblehead II  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:09:30am

Goodbye Safari. Hello Firefox.

100 ObserverArt  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:11:00am

Does anyone find it interesting that CPAC is on the same weekend that we turn back time?

I think they’d like to roll it back to 1950.

By the way…good morning…nice and sunny headed to 45° later. 50° over the weekend. Winter…your back is broken!

101 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:11:16am

re: #96 ObserverArt

Meta Data!

It is a very common scam. They get some meta data on you, call you and tell you all about the computer you are on. Do a Google and you can read all about it. I got one last summer. I told them I was busy and call me back. I did a Google search, learned what they were up to and then I played along getting as much info about them as I could…then I told them I’d be contacting the Ohio Attorney General office and give them names, phone numbers, etc.

Never heard back again.

I reported it to the FTC and DNC. They used a Georgia phone number and doing a search a lot of people are getting phone calls from the same number.

102 lawhawk  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:12:22am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Just outside the ring of steel that the NYPD and PAPD are setting up for the WTC complex, so we already have the ground-level components moving into place for this kind of future.

Lots of cameras, sensors, and detectors.

That’s on top of the uniformed and undercover cops that are constantly patrolling the area.

For a place like the WTC, this makes tremendous sense, given that it was successfully targeted by terrorists twice, with devastating consequences. Twice.

There’s a symbolic nature to the site that keeps drawing terrorists to attack, which is why security here is and should be higher than most anywhere else in the country.

It’s a balancing act on security, and the cameras will do well in the investigation after an attack - they aren’t necessarily going to thwart a dedicated terror cell/individual.

And local residents are pissed at the levels of security that will be put in place, requiring ID access to drive on public streets that directly ring the site to the South, and other security measures that make those that call the area home far more difficult than they ought to be.

Still, there’s something that is lost when security trumps all. And when the surveillance pushes past public spaces.

Youtube Video

103 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:12:58am

re: #100 ObserverArt

I think they’d like to roll it back to 1950.

There is actually much debate as to which century + 50 they’d like to roll it back to - 1850, 1750, 1650 …

104 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:14:28am
105 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:17:42am

re: #103 Rev_Arthur_Belling

There is actually much debate as to which century + 50 they’d like to roll it back to - 1850, 1750, 1650 …

1250.

106 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:18:17am

Nice, Ukraine just told Putin to GTFO…

107 ObserverArt  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:18:43am

re: #103 Rev_Arthur_Belling

There is actually much debate as to which century + 50 they’d like to roll it back to - 1850, 1750, 1650 …

Well, you may be correct on all that. Once you get something rolling it is pretty hard to stop.

If ‘progressives’ use the analogy of rolling a rock up a hill bit by bit, then regressive types would be the reverse of that.

So, get out of the way everyone..we all know what happens when a rock gets rolling on a hill. If we are real lucky it will take out Rand Paul, Bobby Jindal and Ted Cruz. Maybe if we are lucky…many more too.

C-impact! Squish…

108 chadu  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:21:10am

re: #55 Dr. Matt

And on mom jeans and bear wrestling techniques.

I’m unclear: if the bear is the one wearing the mom jeans, should we be scared or not?

109 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:21:13am

re: #30 Lidane

Meanwhile, in DC:

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Nice to see the focus on real money and real economic issues. :-P

Jared Polis is a Democrat so he’s your problem.

110 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:21:14am

What a fucking tool.

111 chadu  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:21:43am

re: #56 Pie-onist Overlord

Koala bears!

(Calling Gus!)

112 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:21:56am

re: #108 chadu

I’m unclear: if the bear is the one wearing the mom jeans, should we be scared or not?

Only if it shits in the woods.

113 chadu  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:22:36am

re: #58 Justanotherhuman

Delegate registration at the CPAC convention:

Image: CPAC+registration.jpg

“Mom?”

114 chadu  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:22:54am

re: #112 Dark_Falcon

Only if it shits in the woods.

I thought that was the Pope.

115 chadu  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:24:09am

re: #65 Justanotherhuman

Would you believe my ex-DIL gave my grandson one of those for xmas? Actually, the lampshade is pretty decently made—told him I want it when the base quits working.

Best Christmas gift ever.

116 jonhendry  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:24:26am

So Newsweek is back, with a piece identifying the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, as an engineer in california. That’s his real name, not a pseudonym, as many expected.

Unfortunately, the piece says he has $400 million worth of bitcoins, shows him, his modest house, his license plate, and makes it really easy to find him.

So basically he’s like a middle-class guy, suddenly with major security concerns.

117 GunstarGreen  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:24:52am

Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply.
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*GROWL* You now have 15 seconds to comply.
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You are in direct violation of penal code 1-1-3, Section 9. You now have 5 seconds to comply.
Four…
Three…
Two…
One…
I am now authorized to use physical force.

118 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:26:45am

CPAC idiots, the same morons who bitch all the time about Obama HURR HURR!!!! A DICTATOR!!!! TYRANT!!!!! WORSER THEN HITLER!!!!! all cheering that populist demagogue Ted Cruz and want to make him President by acclamation.

119 GunstarGreen  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:26:59am

re: #80 NJDhockeyfan

Good morning lizards!

My wife got a scam phone call yesterday on her cell phone from someone claiming they are from Microsoft and told her he was calling because she had a virus on her computer. She said she wasn’t home and he said he would call her on Saturday. The scary thing is he knew her name.

I got one of those about a year and a half or so back. The guy got done with his ‘you got a virus’ spiel, and I asked him if they’d checked the beta API drivers. He wibbled, repeated a thing about a virus.

“Hey buddy, let me give you some advice. The next time you try to scam someone about computer issues, make sure that you’re not calling a software engineer.”

And the line goes dead…

120 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:27:56am

re: #80 NJDhockeyfan

Good morning lizards!

My wife got a scam phone call yesterday on her cell phone from someone claiming they are from Microsoft and told her he was calling because she had a virus on her computer. She said she wasn’t home and he said he would call her on Saturday. The scary thing is he knew her name.

Seems to be widespread; a friend here in Germany had that happen to him the other week.

121 Amory Blaine  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:28:37am

Import more widgets doctors. Problem solved.

122 chadu  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:28:44am

re: #71 Lidane

Does the US Congress matter anymore?

That panel seems like a Catch-22 for any congressperson on it.

123 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:29:33am

re: #116 jonhendry

So Newsweek is back, with a piece identifying the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, as an engineer in california. That’s his real name, not a pseudonym, as many expected.

Unfortunately, the piece says he has $400 million worth of bitcoins, shows him, his modest house, his license plate, and makes it really easy to find him.

So basically he’s like a middle-class guy, suddenly with major security concerns.

And about to be the subject of major conspiracy theories, since he’s clearly of Japanese origin. Now, that might mean his family has lived in the US for a hundred years, but to the Alex Jones crowd he’ll still be “furrin”. Predicted Conspiracist Meme:

Is Bitcoin really a Cyber Pearl Harbor?!1

124 chadu  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:30:08am

re: #74 Lidane

I gotta say, Earth-TB (Tea Bags) sucks in this continuity.

125 andres  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:30:33am

re: #106 NJDhockeyfan

Nice, Ukraine just told Putin to GTFO…

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I have a hunch Putin will not heed those words.

126 chadu  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:31:27am

re: #78 Flounder

A Troy, NY Pastor is giving away an AR-15 assault rifle in a >free raffle at an upcoming service.

What the fuck is wrong with people? Actually I know some of the answer, he wants attention.

Especially because everybody knows Jebus preferred pistols.

127 Amory Blaine  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:32:07am

I’m waiting for the CIA/bitcoin sabotage conspiracy.

It was the NSA that hacked are bitcoins!!!!!

128 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:32:29am

re: #110 Pie-onist Overlord

What a fucking tool.

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What a pretentious asshole.

129 Bubblehead II  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:32:33am

re: #100 ObserverArt

Does anyone find it interesting that CPAC is on the same weekend that we turn back time?

I think they’d like to roll it back to 1950.

By the way…good morning…nice and sunny headed to 45° later. 50° over the weekend. Winter…your back is broken!

Actually, we set our clocks ahead 1 hour this Sunday.

130 andres  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:32:39am

re: #119 GunstarGreen

I got one of those about a year and a half or so back. The guy got done with his ‘you got a virus’ spiel, and I asked him if they’d checked the beta API drivers. He wibbled, repeated a thing about a virus.

“Hey buddy, let me give you some advice. The next time you try to scam someone about computer issues, make sure that you’re not calling a software engineer.”

And the line goes dead…

Ohhhh, I’m gonna need to remember that one…

131 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:33:26am

CPAC: Where conservatives go to cry about Obama and tell each other how great things would be were if they were in power.

132 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:33:30am

re: #115 chadu

Best Christmas gift ever.

Yeah, I want that lampshade. Want, want, want it. I have a brass Stiffel candlestick lamp it would look fabulous with. : )

133 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:34:08am

re: #129 Bubblehead II

Actually, we set our clocks ahead 1 hour this Sunday.

Damn it. But thanks for the reminder though as I had forgotten about that.

134 chadu  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:34:13am

re: #93 Pie-onist Overlord

Nope, no racism here. TEH DEMOCRATZ IS TEH REAL RACISTS!!!

This idiot’s time line is full of racist wingnut Derp. It could be a “parody” account, though.

They are really going for broke with the “subhuman mongrel” meme.

Methinks some of these people admired the Nazis for more than their fashion sense.

135 chadu  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:36:09am

re: #110 Pie-onist Overlord

What a fucking tool.

We need to repeal every single word of Obamacare

We need to get your ass out of Congress, T-Dog.

136 lawhawk  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:36:20am

Oh how cute. Russia Today already changed their maps to indicate their masters’ plan:

t.co

137 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:37:02am

re: #117 GunstarGreen

Please put down your weapon. You have 20 seconds to comply.
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*GROWL* You now have 15 seconds to comply.
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You are in direct violation of penal code 1-1-3, Section 9. You now have 5 seconds to comply.
Four…
Three…
Two…
One…
I am now authorized to use physical force.

ED-209

138 chadu  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:37:13am

re: #117 GunstarGreen

Aw, you think I’m Skinny!

Dangit, posted too fast: thought it was the 30 second bomb bit from ST.

Funny rejoinder, marred by COMPLEAT FAIL of reading comprehension and facts.

Curses!

139 ObserverArt  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:38:12am

re: #109 Dark_Falcon

Jared Polis is a Democrat so he’s your problem.

You know, when I see a Republican that is being an idiot…I tend to think of it as ‘our’ problem. Of course I don’t tend to see things as black and white, and one side only. Thinking like your doing is a big reason ‘we’ have the problems we do in this country.

140 lawhawk  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:38:26am

re: #110 Pie-onist Overlord

141 b.d.  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:39:20am

re: #100 ObserverArt

Does anyone find it interesting that CPAC is on the same weekend that we turn back time?

I think they’d like to roll it back to 1950.

By the way…good morning…nice and sunny headed to 45° later. 50° over the weekend. Winter…your back is broken!

Have Obama tell everyone to adjusts their clocks and the wingnuts will end up being an hour late to everything for the next 6 months.

142 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:40:32am

re: #137 Dark_Falcon

ED-209

Dark, you made some very bold and inflammatory claims about Adegbile in the last thread. You haven’t sourced them or backed them up at all. Can you please do so now?

143 chadu  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:41:03am

re: #118 Pie-onist Overlord

CPAC idiots, the same morons who bitch all the time about Obama HURR HURR!!!! A DICTATOR!!!! TYRANT!!!!! WORSER THEN HITLER!!!!! all cheering that populist demagogue Ted Cruz and want to make him President by acclamation.

Doesn’t he have to win a Twitter poll after getting a million likes on Facebook for that?

Gotta follow the 21st Century American Voting Rules and Stuff.

(But the first thing they need to do is impeach Obama via online White House petition. Priorities!)

144 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:41:24am

How much money did they spend on all those repeal attempts?

145 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:42:35am

#CPAC2014 must be trending, it’s already swarmed by spambots.

146 lawhawk  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:42:37am

re: #120 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

The name/phone number could have been from a phone directory/list.

Had someone try that with a friend. They claimed to be from Windows. No such thing. The guy who got that call asked what time it was in Washington State; when they couldn’t answer, they hung up quick.

It’s a scam to insert malware on computers, and/or open up the computer to the hacker so they can get all kinds of private data, including account numbers, ID information, etc.

Someone who isn’t particularly savvy might get sucked in.

147 jonhendry  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:43:37am

re: #123 Dark_Falcon

The main conspiracy theory will be based on Satoshi having worked on classified defense projects. Clearly that means he put a back door into Bitcoin, so it isn’t really anonymous. //

148 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:43:45am

re: #145 Pie-onist Overlord

#CPAC2014 must be trending, it’s already swarmed by spambots.

I’m sure D.C’s gay prostitutes are thrilled about CPAC just like Tampa’s were for two years ago RNC.

149 ObserverArt  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:44:07am

re: #129 Bubblehead II

Actually, we set our clocks ahead 1 hour this Sunday.

Awww hell…there goes my whole analogy!!!

We better reschedule CPAC.

Or, I can change my analogy to after CPAC is done rolling time back, we need daylight saving time Saturday into Sunday to roll time forward again.

Yeah, you have to work with what you got.

And thanks for the reminder…I should have known…spring forward, fall back!

150 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:45:06am

So is that new and hip Phyillis Schalfry addressing the CPACers this year?

151 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:45:31am

re: #144 Pie-onist Overlord

How much money did they spend on all those repeal attempts?

A lot but don’t tell them they’re not fiscal conservatives.

152 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:45:59am

And in addition to the MOAR FOLLOWERZ spambots, wingnuts are spamming this same shit over and over:

153 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:46:54am

re: #151 HappyWarrior

A lot but don’t tell them they’re not fiscal conservatives.

HURR HURR BUT TEH DEFICIT INSLAVES ALL ARE CHILLRUNZ!!!!!!!

154 lawhawk  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:47:28am

re: #152 Pie-onist Overlord

Well, just like the Bible, these folks have no problem breaking the Code when it suits them…. /only half

155 ObserverArt  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:48:14am

re: #144 Pie-onist Overlord

How much money did they spend on all those repeal attempts?

Don’t worry they pay for it all by hacking the shit out of social programs. GOP has things covered.

/

156 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:48:17am

re: #152 Pie-onist Overlord

And in addition to the MOAR FOLLOWERZ spambots, wingnuts are spamming this same shit over and over:

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I agree the tax code should be more simple but at the same time, these are people who want us to have a military that is spent on than the other top nine militarizes combined so they should shut the fuck up about how bad taxes are. They have no right to complain about taxes when they want the government to somehow maintain DoD current expenditures, deport anyone suspected of being an illegal, etc.

157 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:48:20am

CPAC and DST: The future begins tomorrow!

;P

158 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:49:21am

re: #155 ObserverArt

Don’t worry they pay for it all by hacking the shit out of social programs. GOP has things covered.

/

Yep, we’ll show how fiscally responsible we are by getting rid of vital problems and then we’ll complain even more when more people inevitably go on government assistance. It’s a load of bs and the right knows it.

159 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:49:31am

Did Twitter put a limit on the number of spambots you can block?

160 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:50:29am
161 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:51:25am

re: #156 HappyWarrior

I agree the tax code should be more simple but at the same time, these are people who want us to have a military that is spent on than the other top nine militarizes combined so they should shut the fuck up about how bad taxes are. They have no right to complain about taxes when they want the government to somehow maintain DoD current expenditures, deport anyone suspected of being an illegal, etc.

They also still harken to Grover Norquist, who insists that any attempt to close a tax loophole is tanamount to a tax increase.

162 ObserverArt  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:51:30am

I want to see Rush bounce on the CPAC stage again.

163 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:51:50am

re: #161 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

They also still harken to Grover Norquist, who insists that any attempt to close a tax loophole is tanamount to a tax increase.

Yep dumb fucks they are.

164 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:52:08am

re: #160 NJDhockeyfan

BREAKING New attack on #Yevpatoria military missile regiment has started by #russian commandoes from 76 Pskov Airborne Division -Tymchuk |PR

I Pskov at you and your ilk!!!

165 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:53:33am

Ah remember last year’s CPAC where a guy quoting Frederick Douglass was told that Frederick Douglass should have been thankful to his master. Really, if the conservative movement had any sense, they’d shutdown CPAC or at least dramatically change the invite list.

166 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:54:26am

re: #162 ObserverArt

I want to see Rush bounce on the CPAC stage again.

I’m looking forward to hearing Phyillis Schalfry who has spent a lifetime outside the home telling women that they should stay in the home.

167 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:57:52am

HURR HURR ONE WEIRD TRICK!!!!!!

168 b.d.  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:58:51am

The American pro Russia left wing is more depressing to see than the American pro Russia right wing.

DailyKos has become unreadable.

169 chadu  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 6:59:29am

O/T

Was able to watch Agents of SHIELD on demand last night, and now I am wildly theorizing about something…

Spoiler

What species GH is. Obvious choice would be classic Kree; my Plan B guess is Atlantean.

170 Amory Blaine  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:00:07am

Mythopedia

171 chadu  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:00:49am

re: #144 Pie-onist Overlord

How much money did they spend on all those repeal attempts?

Not worth discussing, because per #71, “Congress doesn’t matter anymore.”

172 chadu  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:02:56am

re: #148 HappyWarrior

I’m sure D.C’s gay prostitutes and RWNJ interns are thrilled about CPAC just like Tampa’s were for two years ago RNC they always have been*.

* Seriously, DC local news covers the “RWNJ Spring Break” angle every damn year. (But HW surely knows that.)

173 chadu  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:05:57am

re: #153 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR BUT TEH DEFICIT INSLAVES ALL ARE CHILLRUNZ!!!!!!!

As opposed to literally wage-enslaving them by bringing back US child labor.

174 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:06:33am
175 chadu  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:07:05am

re: #155 ObserverArt

Don’t worry they pay for it all by hacking the shit out of social programs. GOP has things covered.

/

To save the people from this onerous thing, we will cut all the moneys from the things that save people from other onerous things, because FREEDUMB.

176 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:10:02am

re: #148 HappyWarrior

I’m sure D.C’s gay prostitutes are thrilled about CPAC just like Tampa’s were for two years ago RNC.

Those who work hard to save America deserve the right to party hard!!!

177 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:11:42am

re: #173 chadu

As opposed to literally wage-enslaving them by bringing back US child labor.

HURR HURR ALL U LAZY MOOCHERS ON TEH WELFARES & FOOD STAMPS!!!! GET A JRRB U LAZY MOOCHERS!!!!!

U LAZY MOOCHERZ WENT & GOT U JRRBS AT WALMART & MICKEY D? U DON’T DESERVE TO BE PAID SHIT U LAZY MOOOOOCCCCHHHHEERRRRRRZZZ!!!!!

178 Backwoods_Sleuth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:14:41am

Wizard Lizard

179 lawhawk  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:17:36am

re: #169 chadu

I like the episode because we saw more character development than to date. Getting a vested interest in some of the characters, and Coulson’s coming to terms with what was done to him.

Especially liked the Bill Paxon cameo, and that he played against the type from True Lies, where he was a scammer playing a spy. Here, he was the spy/agent with the mad skills. I’d love to see him as a feature/regular on the show, particularly since we know he’s also going after the Clairvoyant (who I’m guessing isn’t a human, but some alien force/creature trying to manipulate those around them).

Also looking forward to Sif’s arrival…

180 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:17:42am

If anyone here has an extra $3m + to spend you can get a Russian TU-95MS bomber right now on eBay with FREE delivery . Do it quickly though, you have less then 6 days to bid on it!

181 chadu  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:18:48am

re: #177 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR ALL U LAZY MOOCHERS ON TEH WELFARES & FOOD STAMPS!!!! GET A JRRB U LAZY MOOCHERS!!!!!

U LAZY MOOCHERZ WENT & GOT U JRRBS AT WALMART & MICKEY D? U DON’T DESERVE TO BE PAID SHIT U LAZY MOOOOOCCCCHHHHEERRRRRRZZZ!!!!!

Categorized as: Moochers.
Moochers value = zero.

182 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:19:59am

re: #181 chadu

Categorized as: Moochers.
Moochers value = zero.

HURR HURR IF U HAV NO JRRB SKILLZ U SHUD WORK FOR FREE UNTIL U GET JRRB SKILLZ!!!!!!

OH U WORKED FOR FREE? THAT’S WHAT UR WORTH!!!!!!!

183 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:20:54am
184 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:21:37am
185 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:21:39am

Dkos rec list: The Guardian: Western Expansion Aims Helped Put Fascists And Neo-Nazis in Power in Ukraine

And I get it… Putin is kind of a dictator and Russia can be a bully and homophobic and friendly to pro-Putin oligarchs, and all that.
But there is more to the story when it comes to the conflict in Ukraine, and my perception is that the mainstream media narrative is the one that’s one-sided, incomplete, and therefore, it misinforms.

Of course, I also read alternative news media such as Democracy Now!, AlterNet, truth-out, truth-dig, and others, and for some weird reason I find their coverage more nuanced and well-rounded. But here I’m not going to reference them because (for some reason) some people tend to discount them out of hand.

So instead I’ll reference an article at The Guardian, by Seumas Milne: “The clash in Crimea is the fruit of western expansion - The external struggle to dominate Ukraine has put fascists in power and brought the country to the brink of conflict”:

186 Amory Blaine  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:22:22am

Wisconsin Senate leader fast tracks bill to allow in-session lobbyist checks

As the legislative session winds down, the state Senate’s leader is putting on the fast track a bill to rewrite campaign finance law to allow lobbyists to hand off clients’ campaign checks to lawmakers and other elected officials during the legislative session.

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R-Juneau) is promoting the bill alongside one that would address when groups running political ads must disclose their spending. Supporters say that measure would simply put existing rules in law; opponents contend it would make it easier for groups to avoid disclosure.

187 chadu  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:22:40am

re: #179 lawhawk

I like the episode because we saw more character development than to date. Getting a vested interest in some of the characters, and Coulson’s coming to terms with what was done to him.

Especially liked the Bill Paxon cameo, and that he played against the type from True Lies, where he was a scammer playing a spy. Here, he was the spy/agent with the mad skills. I’d love to see him as a feature/regular on the show, particularly since we know he’s also going after the Clairvoyant (who I’m guessing isn’t a human, but some alien force/creature trying to manipulate those around them).

Also looking forward to Sif’s arrival…

Agreed.

Paxton pretty much rocked, but the characterizaion in his very first scenes was… a little flabby? (Nitpicks, nitpicks.)

Also, re: the Clairvoyant. Part of me really wants him/it to be M.O.D.O.K.

AoS is very much in the Firefly-type build-up… enough early eps with “one cool thing enough per episode” to keep me watching the next ep until I got invested.

188 Eventual Carrion  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:25:08am

re: #144 Pie-onist Overlord

How much money did they spend on all those repeal attempts?

“Who cares when the soul of the nation is at stake!” or “Lots!”.

Depending on who you are talking to.

189 chadu  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:25:59am

re: #182 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR IF U HAV NO JRRB SKILLZ U SHUD WORK FOR FREE UNTIL U GET JRRB SKILLZ!!!!!!

OH U WORKED FOR FREE? THAT’S WHAT UR WORTH!!!!!!!

KIRK: He lied. Everything Harry tells you is a lie. Remember that. Everything Harry tells you is a lie.

MUDD: Listen to this carefully, Norman. I am lying.

NORMAN: You say you are lying, but if everything you say is a lie then you are telling the truth, but you cannot tell the truth because everything you say is a lie. You lie. You tell the truth. But you cannot for. Illogical! Illogical! Please explain.

(Smoke comes out of Norman’s head.)

NORMAN: You are human. Only humans can explain their behaviour. Please explain.

KIRK: I am not programmed to respond in that area.

(Norman goes blank.)

190 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:26:05am

Dkos has had limited interest in Ukraine but that has changed
Nuland “F-ck the EU” to Frack the Ukraine?

I guess the anti-colonial progressive instincts are kicking in.

191 wheat-dogghazi  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:26:16am

re: #116 jonhendry

So Newsweek is back, with a piece identifying the creator of Bitcoin, Satoshi Nakamoto, as an engineer in california. That’s his real name, not a pseudonym, as many expected.

Unfortunately, the piece says he has $400 million worth of bitcoins, shows him, his modest house, his license plate, and makes it really easy to find him.

So basically he’s like a middle-class guy, suddenly with major security concerns.

I just checked the Bitcoin subreddit. There are some there who just cannot believe that the inventor of Bitcoin, who wrote a paper under the name Satoshi Nakamoto, is in fact named Satoshi Nakamoto. His background sounds like something out of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

What’s more disturbing, in a way, is how the reporter managed to track him down, using public records, interviewing his associates and family members, and getting his email from a UK firm he ordered model train parts from. She’s a sharp reporter, for sure, but her success in finding him shows how even the most private person does not have 100% privacy.

I’d have used a different pen name, myself. Just sayin’.

192 b.d.  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:27:11am

re: #185 Killgore Trout

Dkos rec list: The Guardian: Western Expansion Aims Helped Put Fascists And Neo-Nazis in Power in Ukraine

That poster is a certifiable crackpot but DailyKos lets him and the folks like him stay.

DailyKos is under the impression that the front page can write serious stuff and the Rec. list stuff won’t affect their reputation. The Front Pagers and the loud obnoxious fringe are sharing one website and it is not working out well.

194 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:27:39am

re: #190 Killgore Trout

Anything about Putin or the Ukraine that’s on the front page of Dkos that you’re leaving out, Killgore? Like this, maybe?

Image: 1178ckCOMIC-putin-columnist-ukraine.png

195 wheat-dogghazi  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:27:52am

re: #187 chadu

I appreciate the neat tie-in with the Thor 2 movie.

196 Bulworth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:28:18am

re: #184 Pie-onist Overlord

No

197 Eventual Carrion  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:29:26am

re: #150 HappyWarrior

So is that new and hip Phyillis Schalfry addressing the CPACers this year?

I love it when she breaks into a Queen Latifah song. That gal got back.

198 Bulworth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:29:27am

re: #167 Pie-onist Overlord

CPAC is upon us. We may all die of LOL’s.

199 Eventual Carrion  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:30:51am

re: #152 Pie-onist Overlord

And in addition to the MOAR FOLLOWERZ spambots, wingnuts are spamming this same shit over and over:

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But less incest.

200 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:32:16am

re: #172 chadu

* Seriously, DC local news covers the “RWNJ Spring Break” angle every damn year. (But HW surely knows that.)

Yeah. I guess in a way I’m glad I’ll be in Arlington on Saturday night though the RWNJs don’t typically frequent the parts of town I head to anyhow.

201 Eventual Carrion  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:37:57am

re: #180 NJDhockeyfan

If anyone here has an extra $3m + to spend you can get a Russian TU-95MS bomber right now on eBay with FREE delivery . Do it quickly though, you have less then 6 days to bid on it!

I don’t even know what to do with the one I have in the garage. Two would be overkill.

202 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:38:54am

re: #201 Eventual Carrion

I don’t even know what to do with the one I have in the garage. Two would be overkill.

You mean you don’t have a two-bomber garage?

203 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:39:19am
204 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:39:25am

re: #190 Killgore Trout

Dkos has had limited interest in Ukraine but that has changed
Nuland “F-ck the EU” to Frack the Ukraine?

I guess the anti-colonial progressive instincts are kicking in.

Two threads that Cindy Casella (the author of that piece) recommended say all that needs to be said about her:

Open thread for night owls: What the neoconservative hangers-on want from Ukraine crisis

That one’s a hoot (heh) but this other one is truly a gem of unintentional comedy:

Greenwald’s Biting Analysis of US and Russian Media

205 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:42:25am

re: #204 Dark_Falcon

Dark, you made some very bold and inflammatory claims about Adegbile in the last thread. You haven’t sourced them or backed them up at all. Can you please do so now?

Third time I’m asking you.

206 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:44:35am

re: #204 Dark_Falcon

Two threads that Cindy Casella (the author of that piece) recommended say all that needs to be said about her:

Open thread for night owls: What the neoconservative hangers-on want from Ukraine crisis

That one’s a hoot (heh) but this other one is truly a gem of unintentional comedy:

Greenwald’s Biting Analysis of US and Russian Media

heh

207 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:44:37am
209 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:46:52am

re: #189 chadu

NORMAN: You are human. Only humans can explain their behaviour. Please explain.

Norman didn’t speak Limey.

210 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:47:58am

re: #205 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Dark, you made some very bold and inflammatory claims about Adegbile in the last thread. You haven’t sourced them or backed them up at all. Can you please do so now?

Third time I’m asking you.

Here you go:

The DOJ’s Radical Civil Rights Division

by John Fund

That’s all for now, as the not-very-useful news articles are crowding everything else out on Google right now.

211 b.d.  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:51:23am

re: #194 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Anything about Putin or the Ukraine that’s on the front page of Dkos that you’re leaving out, Killgore? Like this, maybe?

Image: 1178ckCOMIC-putin-columnist-ukraine.png

Comments like this:

Tom the Dancing Bug(0+ / 0-)


it’s funny and VERY telling how Ruben doesnt want to talk about the incredible hypocrisy of USA who has invaded Iraq, Afganistan, Lybia, Panama, etc, etc etc in the past 20 years but chooses to focus on Putin.
Enough said. TOTAL EPIC FAIL Ruben.

by petkov on Thu Mar 06, 2014 at 09:43:57 AM CST

reflect what DailyKos is now. That comment fits the tone of the place FAR more than one cartoon does.

212 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:51:36am
213 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:53:06am

re: #207 NJDhockeyfan

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I think we can safely describe the Ochakov as a FAILBOAT, don’t you agree?

214 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:54:44am

re: #210 Dark_Falcon

Here you go:

The DOJ’s Radical Civil Rights Division

by John Fund

That’s all for now, as the not-very-useful news articles are crowding everything else out on Google right now.

Wondered why the name “John Fund” rang a bell.

en.wikipedia.org

Ah. Big-time into the “voter fraud” scam. And he has a very solid set of conservative credentials.
/

215 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:55:26am

re: #213 Dark_Falcon

I think we can safely describe the Ochakov as a FAILBOAT, don’t you agree?

It’s trying to win The Russian’s Cup trophy.

216 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:55:59am
217 Weet  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:57:13am

re: #192 b.d.

That poster is a certifiable crackpot but DailyKos lets him and the folks like him stay.

DailyKos is under the impression that the front page can write serious stuff and the Rec. list stuff won’t affect their reputation. The Front Pagers and the loud obnoxious fringe are sharing one website and it is not working out well.

Yep, I agree. But there are at most about 300 of them, and I mostly ignore them. There is something really wrong with them — psychological problems, anger issues, etc. If you stay away from their diaries, you can mostly avoid them. I wonder if Kos will ever clean up the site…

218 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:57:47am
219 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:57:47am
220 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:57:49am

re: #214 Feline Fearless Leader

Wondered why the name “John Fund” rang a bell.

en.wikipedia.org

Ah. Big-time into the “voter fraud” scam. And he has a very solid set of conservative credentials.
/

Didn’t he also create an online persona of a young woman in a gun control debate?

221 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:58:48am

re: #219 Pie-onist Overlord

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Ha, I saw this Aussie video where they actually approached Lord Monckton like he was really Sasha Baron Cohen. They even asked him to do a Borat line or two and Monckton was predictably confused.

222 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 7:59:39am

re: #217 Weet

Yep, I agree. But there are at most about 300 of them, and I mostly ignore them. There is something really wrong with them — psychological problems, anger issues, etc. If you stay away from their diaries, you can mostly avoid them. I wonder if Kos will ever clean up the site…

The problem is that during a crisis the crazies tend to be even more active than most people and they clog up websites with their rants and ravings. Normal people don’t see robust debate so much as they see a cave full of barking moonbats.

223 FemNaziBitch  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:00:45am

How is it today?

224 Bubblehead II  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:03:04am

re: #213 Dark_Falcon

I think we can safely describe the Ochakov as a FAILBOAT, don’t you agree?

Not if it succeeds in blockading that inlet and trapping whatever Ukrainian Naval vessels that are in there.

225 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:04:16am

re: #224 Bubblehead II

Not if it succeeds in blockading that inlet and trapping whatever Ukrainian Naval vessels that are in there.

In Russia, nothing succeeds like FAIL

226 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:05:36am

re: #223 FemNaziBitch

How is it today?

Overcast and sort of cold*. A bit wonky today at work, but I’m off tomorrow so it sort of balances out.

* - 30F here. My brother emailed me that it was -10F where he lives this morning. And that the x-country skiing is brilliant. :)

227 Timothy Watson  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:06:59am

re: #71 Lidane

My first thought was of the HEV suit from the Half-Series, said in a robotic tone:

Warning! Derp detected!

228 Bubblehead II  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:08:14am

re: #223 FemNaziBitch

How is it today?

54f, overcast and a 60% chance of rain/thunderstorms today.

229 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:10:54am

re: #224 Bubblehead II

Not if it succeeds in blockading that inlet and trapping whatever Ukrainian Naval vessels that are in there.

In Putin’s Crimea, FAILBOAT sinks you!

230 FemNaziBitch  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:11:09am

Snowless Conditions Are Making the Iditarod Even Tougher than Usual


very cute puppy pictures from #iditorod and #iditorod2014

231 FemNaziBitch  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:12:32am
232 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:12:58am

“Young people” = 60 and under!

233 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:13:56am

re: #232 Pie-onist Overlord

“Young people” = 60 and under!

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So kids how about that Van Halen, aren’t they great?

234 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:14:50am

re: #217 Weet

Yep, I agree. But there are at most about 300 of them, and I mostly ignore them. There is something really wrong with them — psychological problems, anger issues, etc. If you stay away from their diaries, you can mostly avoid them. I wonder if Kos will ever clean up the site…

They’ve made several efforts over the years and they do clean ups when problems get embarrassing enough. But this is the internet so crackpots and zealots are unavoidable. The reason I find this stuff interesting is to see the instinctual baggage that comes along with political identities. Some people are more susceptible than others.

235 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:15:21am

Okay, so what does blocking the Donuzlav Inlet mean, strategically?

Is Russia going to seize the Ukraine’s Black Sea navy?

236 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:15:29am

re: #230 FemNaziBitch

Snowless Conditions Are Making the Iditarod Even Tougher than Usual


very cute puppy pictures from #iditorod and #iditorod2014

Stonekettle Station had an iditarod entry on Monday. And a new posting on Tuesday about the Ukraine situation. Or more accurately about the GOP reaction to the Ukraine situation. “Pickles!”

237 FemNaziBitch  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:17:17am


You knew it had to come: gendercard.

238 Bulworth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:17:27am

What I’m wondering is how this CPAC is even able to meet, what with Obama dictator having locked up and silenced all the true conservatives in Amercia. //

239 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:17:27am

re: #235 The Ghost of a Flea

Okay, so what does blocking the Donuzlav Inlet mean, strategically?

Is Russia going to seize the Ukraine’s Black Sea navy?

Allows Russia to start sending transports in without worrying about interference. And if they’re sealed in they are sitting ducks if the Russians decide to start a shooting war.

240 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:17:36am

For “entertainment” CPAC had some guy singing “folk music” about TEH WELFARE MOOCHERZ!!!!!!

241 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:18:03am

re: #230 FemNaziBitch

Snowless Conditions Are Making the Iditarod Even Tougher than Usual

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very cute puppy pictures from #iditorod and #iditorod2014

Hopefully some snow falls to make their race easier. Other wise the 2014 Iditarod might end up being the Second Biggest Alaskan FAIL of 2014.

The Biggest Alaskan FAIL of 2014 and indeed of every year since 2008, is of course Sarah Palin.

242 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:18:09am

re: #238 Bulworth

What I’m wondering is how this CPAC is even able to meet, what with Obama dictator having locked up and silenced all the true conservatives in Amercia. //

Shh. It’s really a false-flag Quisling meeting.
//

243 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:18:57am

re: #240 Pie-onist Overlord

For “entertainment” CPAC had some guy singing “folk music” about TEH WELFARE MOOCHERZ!!!!!!

Then their idea of folk music is a lot like their idea of comedy. Who the hell sings a folk song about moochers on welfare.

244 Amory Blaine  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:19:00am

James Sensenbrenner ambushed by right-wing video maker

U.S. Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Menomonee Falls, has drawn national media attention over comments he made at a town hall meeting in Ixonia about a bill he has proposed to update the Voting Rights Act.

It all started when James O’Keefe, a right-wing provocateur who has sparked controversy by releasing a number of deceptively edited videos of public officials, accused Sensenbrenner of writing a bill that will allow for discrimination against white voters.

It’s an odd accusation to toss at Sensenbrenner, an arch-conservative who represents an overwhelmingly white district. However, many conservatives have long been puzzled by the veteran congressman’s fierce advocacy for the Voting Rights Act.

245 Bulworth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:19:11am

Listening to Jean Edward Smith’s “FDR” on audio this week. FDR responds to the forming of the 1934 version of the tea party (The American Liberty League) by calling them the “I Can’t Take It Club.”

246 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:19:36am

re: #238 Bulworth

What I’m wondering is how this CPAC is even able to meet, what with Obama dictator having locked up and silenced all the true conservatives in Amercia. //

Today is Obama is an incompetent idiot day. Tomorrow is Obama is a tyrant day.

247 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:19:44am

re: #235 The Ghost of a Flea

Okay, so what does blocking the Donuzlav Inlet mean, strategically?

Is Russia going to seize the Ukraine’s Black Sea navy?

I think they’ve already seized most of it.

248 Bubblehead II  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:20:10am

re: #235 The Ghost of a Flea

Okay, so what does blocking the Donuzlav Inlet mean, strategically?

Is Russia going to seize the Ukraine’s Black Sea navy?

By blocking the inlet with that ship they have managed (maybe) to do two things. Trap the Ukrainian fleet in port while at the same time freeing up Black Sea assets that would have to be stationed at the mouth of the inlet to keep the fleet locked in for other missions.

It’s actually a pretty simple and effective plan. If it works.

249 Bulworth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:20:45am

re: #244 Amory Blaine

Obviously there must be something wrong with this Sensebrenner dude to want to ensure voting rights for racial minorities. Good job accusing him of discrimination against whites, conservatives. Please proceed….

250 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:20:54am

re: #245 Bulworth

Listening to Jean Edward Smith’s “FDR” on audio this week. FDR responds to the forming of the 1934 version of the tea party (The American Liberty League) by calling them the “I Can’t Take It Club.”

I read the H.W Brands FDR bio. Seems to me that every president from Washington to the present has dealt with some group that can’t handle the reality of the time they live in so they lash out and bitch about a time that never was.

251 Eventual Carrion  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:21:00am

re: #243 HappyWarrior

Then their idea of folk music is a lot like their idea of comedy. Who the hell sings a folk song about moochers on welfare.

Rich folk music.

252 Backwoods_Sleuth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:21:10am
253 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:21:14am

So why do only Conservatives display it in their Twitter avis?

254 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:21:23am

here’s a video report
BBC on board blockaded Ukrainian ship

255 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:21:36am

re: #244 Amory Blaine

James Sensenbrenner ambushed by right-wing video maker

Sensenbrenner is being accused of not being conservative enough? Oh and just when you thought you thought wingnuts couldn’t jump that shark, they do!

256 FemNaziBitch  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:21:56am


teehee

257 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:22:38am

re: #252 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That’s why they call it gun porn. I bet Coburn will never actually use that gun except as a prop in his re-election campaign.

258 Bulworth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:22:45am

re: #240 Pie-onist Overlord

Rebranding!!!

The welfare-moochers act never gets old….

259 FemNaziBitch  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:23:46am
260 Bulworth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:24:47am

re: #250 HappyWarrior

I have both books and both on audio. Really like the narrator for Smith’s book. He also narraroted Brand’s book on Andrew Jackson.

261 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:24:56am

re: #259 FemNaziBitch

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Yep that’s pretty much what every “celebrity” speaker at CPAC is. Some has-been trying to get their last five seconds of their fifteen mins of fame.

262 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:24:58am

re: #243 HappyWarrior

Then their idea of folk music is a lot like their idea of comedy. Who the hell sings a folk song about moochers on welfare.

Bob Roberts!

263 FemNaziBitch  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:26:12am

So, I sign a petition for Dick Durbin and then the obligatory request for money page appears.

Daily Kos is the first on the list of who I can contribute to.

264 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:26:37am

re: #260 Bulworth

I have both books and both on audio. Really like the narrator for Smith’s book. He also narraroted Brand’s book on Andrew Jackson.

I really need to get into audio books more. Need to read the Brands’ Jackson bio. I hear it’s better than the Meacham one since Brands is more of a scholar than Meacham is. I want someone who isn’t a crook to write a single volume Nixon bio. Seriously, two of the Nixon bios are by convicted cons.

265 GeneJockey  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:27:07am

re: #110 Pie-onist Overlord

What a fucking tool.

We need to repeal every single word of Obamacare

“Oh, no, George Ted. Not the livestock definite articles!”

266 FemNaziBitch  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:27:15am
267 Bulworth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:27:19am

re: #263 FemNaziBitch

I’m getting major email money spam from everybody it seems these days. And it’s not even the end of the month/quarter.

268 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:28:21am

re: #266 FemNaziBitch

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Oh no Paul. Why don’t you fuck off and look at the real reason why the free school lunch program exists you greedy fuck.

269 Bulworth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:28:43am

re: #264 HappyWarrior

The Tom Wicker book on Nixon is very good.

270 FemNaziBitch  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:28:45am
271 FemNaziBitch  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:29:30am

re: #267 Bulworth

I’m getting major email money spam from everybody it seems these days. And it’s not even the end of the month/quarter.

I just think it’s strange that a blog is listed among the congress critters on an official Democratic fundraising page.

272 Bulworth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:29:42am

re: #269 Bulworth

It’s called One Of Us.

273 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:29:45am

Paul illustrates conservative principles 101 where we can afford to spend more on defense than the other top 10 countries do combined but we can’t have school lunch programs that help poor kids. That’s American conservatism folks. Where outdated nuclear missiles are valued more than hungry children. And that’s why I will never subscribe to American conservatism. It’s a rotten philosophy that is all about fucking over the little guy so the big guy can get a little more.

274 FemNaziBitch  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:29:57am

re: #264 HappyWarrior

I really need to get into audio books more. Need to read the Brands’ Jackson bio. I hear it’s better than the Meacham one since Brands is more of a scholar than Meacham is. I want someone who isn’t a crook to write a single volume Nixon bio. Seriously, two of the Nixon bios are by convicted cons.

Audio Books are the Shit!

275 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:30:32am

re: #269 Bulworth

The Tom Wicker book on Nixon is very good.

Is it a bio or more about his administration? I’ll look for that though. I finally started All the President’s Men last night.

276 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:31:36am

re: #274 FemNaziBitch

Audio Books are the Shit!

I know but here’s the thing. I like to have background music when I read. If I had audiobooks, I couldn’t do both. Definitely would love to get an audio copy of something like Ulysses though whenever I inevitably tackle that monster of a book.

277 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:33:45am

re: #244 Amory Blaine

James Sensenbrenner ambushed by right-wing video maker

It’s a meme originated by Andrew Breitbart’s “little buddy” James O’Keefe.

The “logic” seems to be: Eric Holder and Barack Obama are left-liberal blacks who want to expand black representation in Congress at the expense of white representation. They want to update the Voting Rights Acts to make the titles in it that were deactivated by the Supreme Court active again by writing new criteria that will pass constitutional muster.

James Sensenbrenner also wants to update the Voting Rights Act and reactivate the relevant titles (those dealing with preclearance). Therefore James Sensenbrenner wants to enable Barack Obama and Eric Holder to discriminate against white voters.

The error here is the attachment of a nonexistent malice to actions of Obama and Holder.

278 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:35:14am

re: #277 Dark_Falcon

It’s a meme originated by Andrew Breitbart’s “little buddy” James O’Keefe.

The “logic” seems to be: Eric Holder and Barack Obama are left-liberal blacks who want to expand black representation in Congress at the expense of white representation. They want to update the Voting Rights Acts to make the titles in it that were deactivated by the Supreme Court active again by writing new criteria that will pass constitutional muster.

James Sensenbrenner also wants to update the Voting Rights Act and reactivate the relevant titles (those dealing with preclearance). Therefore James Sensenbrenner wants to enable Barack Obama and Eric Holder to discriminate against white voters.

The error here is the attachment of a nonexistent malice to actions of Obama and Holder.

The real error is Jimmy O’Keefe not being a pariah. I mean one would think that the ACORN stunt combined with the attempt to illegally tap Senator Landrieu’s office would make Jimmy into an embarrassment but that’s the Breitbart way I guess- reward shitty behavior.

279 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:35:35am

re: #255 HappyWarrior

Sensenbrenner is being accused of not being conservative enough? Oh and just when you thought you thought wingnuts couldn’t jump that shark, they do!

Might be the only O’Keefe video ever where the released video and the raw video match.
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280 FemNaziBitch  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:37:10am
281 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:37:27am

re: #279 Feline Fearless Leader

Might be the only O’Keefe video ever where the released video and the raw video match.
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Dude I think even O’Keefe’s wedding tape would be edited somehow. Dude should have gone to film school.

282 FemNaziBitch  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:37:57am
283 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:38:49am

re: #281 HappyWarrior

Dude I think even O’Keefe’s wedding tape would be edited somehow. Dude should have gone to film school.

Will the executive producer/director of “The O’Keefe Story” be Spike Lee or Quentin Tarantino?
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284 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:39:37am

re: #282 FemNaziBitch

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Gee is it any wonder why Hispanic immigrants find this party and ideology toxic? I mean not only is this absurdly stupid, the moron also acts like every immigrant is impoverished.

285 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:40:11am

re: #284 HappyWarrior

Gee is it any wonder why Hispanic immigrants find this party and ideology toxic? I mean not only is this absurdly stupid, the moron also acts like every immigrant is impoverished.

Only the blah and brown ones. Obviously.
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And you can probably drop the word “immigrants” from that statement.

286 Eventual Carrion  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:40:52am

re: #280 FemNaziBitch

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Yeah. i think he confused the word “stop” with “enable”

287 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:41:01am

re: #283 Feline Fearless Leader

Will the executive producer/director of “The O’Keefe Story” be Spike Lee or Quentin Tarantino?
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I’d go for Quentin. He’d have Jimmy fighting Leftist Nazi Commie Islamists with Andrew Breitbart played by Christoph Waltz in what would be another Oscar for the great Waltz.

288 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:41:38am

re: #287 HappyWarrior

I’d go for Quentin. He’d have Jimmy fighting Leftist Nazi Commie Islamists with Andrew Breitbart played by Christoph Waltz in what would be another Oscar for the great Waltz.

Samuel L Jackson as Barack Obama?

And John Travolta doing a cameo as Joseph Biden. Who do we get to play Hillary?

289 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:41:57am

re: #285 Feline Fearless Leader

Only the blah and brown ones. Obviously.
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And you can probably drop the word “immigrants” from that statement.

True that. I mean I honestly miss the days when Bush made a feeble attempt to understand the issues important to Hispanics. I mean yeah his Spanish sucked but at least he tried.

290 FemNaziBitch  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:42:09am

#gendercard on twitter has tons of feminist posts from Australia.

291 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:42:46am

re: #288 Feline Fearless Leader

Samuel L Jackson as Barack Obama?

Yep! Think Steven in Django. And you can have Harvey Keitel play Biden!

292 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:43:28am

re: #289 HappyWarrior

True that. I mean I honestly miss the days when Bush made a feeble attempt to understand the issues important to Hispanics. I mean yeah his Spanish sucked but at least he tried.

There are some GOP members who see that they can appeal to Latinos on family values issues but they are shouted down by the TP delegation.

That is the price they pay for not telling them to tone it down in 2010.

293 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:43:28am

re: #291 HappyWarrior

Yep! Think Steven in Django. And you can have Harvey Keitel play Biden!

Keitel should play Putin! :D

294 Backwoods_Sleuth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:44:33am

This CPAC picture

And Alison Lundergan Grimes’ reaction

295 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:44:34am

re: #293 Feline Fearless Leader

Keitel should play Putin! :D

Actually that works better since both Harvey and Putin are fairly short.

296 lawhawk  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:45:12am

re: #288 Feline Fearless Leader

Uma Thurman in makeup.

Pam Grier is Michelle Obama.

Michael Parks and Robert Forster also have roles TBD.

297 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:45:20am

You are fucking kidding me. I thought Kissinger was dead…maybe I dreamed it.

298 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:45:42am

re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth

This CPAC picture

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So is Mitch going to ever actually use that gun or is he just going to use it to show how “tough” and “conservative” he is? I do like Grimes retort though.

299 lawhawk  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:45:49am

re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is my… boom… what? /

300 FemNaziBitch  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:45:52am

bbl

301 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:46:41am

re: #296 lawhawk

Uma Thurman in makeup.

Pam Grier is Michelle Obama.

Michael Parks and Robert Forster also have roles TBD.

Tim Roth as David Cameron?

302 Backwoods_Sleuth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:47:09am

re: #298 HappyWarrior

So is Mitch going to ever actually use that gun or is he just going to use it to show how “tough” and “conservative” he is? I do like Grimes retort though.

Mitch gave the gun to Coburn as a “happy retirement” gift.

303 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:47:13am

Michael Madsen as John Kerry?

304 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:47:33am

re: #302 Backwoods_Sleuth

Mitch gave the gun to Coburn as a “happy retirement” gift.

So it’s a political prop. My shock./

305 Amory Blaine  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:48:44am

Paul Ryan poverty report panned by researchers cited in it

Researchers cited in U.S. House budget chairman Paul Ryan’s scholarly preface to the Republican budget say the report selectively uses data to discredit the 50-year-old War on Poverty.

“Several economists and social scientists contacted on Monday had reactions ranging from bemusement to anger at Ryan’s report, claiming that he either misunderstood or misrepresented their research,” reports Rob Garver of the Fiscal Times.

The 240-page report “The War on Poverty: 50 years later” released this week is a departure from past approaches Ryan has taken to introduce his budget proposals, which aim to balance the budget by slashing the social safety net.

“Ryan is very good at marshaling faux scholarship churned out by ideologues in the service of talking points, and at convincing reporters that he is an actual policy wonk,” writes Jonathan Chait of the Daily Intelligencer. “Unfortunately, he seems to have convinced himself and undertaken the ambitious goal of reconciling his policies with the work of real researchers. That was a bad, bad move.”

306 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:48:49am

re: #298 HappyWarrior

So is Mitch going to ever actually use that gun or is he just going to use it to show how “tough” and “conservative” he is? I do like Grimes retort though.

He’s running right because of his primary challenge. He’s going to hit every possible tribal touchstone ASAP.

See his recent comments on state’s rights and gay marriage in light of the legal decision that KY must recognize same sex marriages.

307 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:50:00am

Hmmmm.

US military to send 12 F-16 fighter jets to Poland’s Lask base for training exercise - Polish media via @Reuters
end of alert

308 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:50:45am

re: #305 Amory Blaine

Paul Ryan poverty report panned by researchers cited in it

Everyone knows RP pulls shit out of his ass. Not surprising he would tweak stats to fit his agenda.

309 lawhawk  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:50:52am

re: #305 Amory Blaine

I’m shocked that he misrepresented the research and facts and statistics needed to bolster his attempts to slash government spending.

He’s spent a bunch of time this year trying to prove that the safety net is wasteful and doesn’t achieve its goals, and yet the evidence shows the opposite.

310 Decatur Deb  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:51:11am

On a break between ACA clients. Spent the morning turning people away from health insurance assistance because they don’t have any income—sick people with nothing trying to support people with nothing. My state rejected millions in federal Medicaid expansion.

Right now I would have no trouble putting the governor and legislature on an iceberg until there is one fat cannibal standing.

311 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:51:42am

re: #301 HappyWarrior

Tim Roth as David Cameron?

John Cusack as Glenn Greenwald.

Elijah Wood as Ed Snowden.

312 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:51:44am

re: #306 The Ghost of a Flea

He’s running right because of his primary challenge. He’s going to hit every possible tribal touchstone ASAP.

See his recent comments on state’s rights and gay marriage in light of the legal decision that KY must recognize same sex marriages.

He’s running scared. God I would love it if Grimes beat him.

313 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:52:30am

re: #311 Pie-onist Overlord

John Cusack as Glenn Greenwald.

Elijah Wood as Ed Snowden.

Ha sure though I was only thinking pf prominent Quentin contributors. Don’t think Cusack and Wood have ever worked with Tarantino.

314 piratedan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:53:22am

wish I understood how these apparent truisms came to be, Dems can point to actual legislation that the R’s are proposing in actual bills brought to the floors of national and state legislatures and no one believes that it can be true and here we are at CPAC and these guys can project and say virtually any damn thing that has no basis in statements made or correlation to any actual legislation and that shit is taken as gospel

315 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:53:34am

re: #313 HappyWarrior

Ha sure though I was only thinking pf prominent Quentin contributors. Don’t think Cusack and Wood have ever worked with Tarantino.

Never mind, I’m casting the Greenwald movie.

316 gwangung  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:54:02am

re: #285 Feline Fearless Leader

Only the blah and brown ones. Obviously.
///

Even the ones with graduate degrees—-cuz you never know about them.

317 Bulworth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:54:11am

re: #275 HappyWarrior

A bio.

318 The Ghost of a Flea  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:54:45am

re: #312 HappyWarrior

He’s running scared. God I would love it if Grimes beat him.

I don’t know if Kentucky is there yet.

It’s not just the redness of the state; it’s who the money players are in-state. And my personal experience of the political and financial community here is that there’s a shit ton of sexism, which will be amplify by Grimes’s party affiliation.

319 piratedan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:55:12am

re: #315 Pie-onist Overlord

Tim Robbins as Julian Assange and Julianne Moore as Poitras

320 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:57:32am

re: #317 Bulworth

A bio.

Ah thankjs.

321 Amory Blaine  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 8:58:32am

Wisconsin’s chief export is derp.

322 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:00:24am

re: #321 Amory Blaine

Wisconsin’s chief export is derp.

I don’t understand how a state that produced Bob LaFollitate and Russ Feingold can also produce Joe McCarthy and Paul Ryan and Scott Walker.

323 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:00:43am

Interesting. Tarantino wants to control the internet. This headline is a bit misleading, also. He should be suing the person(s) who leaked it, IMHO, not Google, which isn’t in the business of censoring sites other people don’t like. C&D letters should have been sent to them all, one would think and follow up on those.

Google Refuses to Remove Links to Tarantino’s Leaked Script

torrentfreak.com

324 lawhawk  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:01:24am

re: #319 piratedan

I’d go with Frank Whaley for Greenwald.

What does freedoooom look like? What????

Is it Russian? What????

Say what again…. say what again.

Is it Russian? No.

Then why do you keep extolling Russian for freedoms? They don’t give freedom to anyone, except dudebros like you for propaganda purposes.

325 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:01:36am

re: #319 piratedan

Tim Robbins as Julian Assange and Julianne Moore as Poitras

That would be a waste of Moore’s prodigious talent. : )

326 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:02:10am

re: #322 HappyWarrior

I don’t understand how a state that produced Bob LaFollitate and Russ Feingold can also produce Joe McCarthy and Paul Ryan and Scott Walker.

Yin and yang?

327 Varek Raith  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:02:56am

re: #282 FemNaziBitch

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RW policies do that all by themselves.
Derp.

328 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:03:31am

re: #326 Justanotherhuman

Yin and yang?

I guess so. Then again we can say that about many a state. We produced Washington, Jefferson, and Madison but we also have a ton of Confederates, George Allen, and Ken Cuccinnelli.

329 lawhawk  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:06:23am

re: #325 Justanotherhuman

Patricia Arquette for Poitras.
Flock of Seagulls for David Miranda.

330 b.d.  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:09:09am

IF CRIMEA CAN VOTE TO SECEDE THAN HOW COME OUR STATES CAN’T?!?!?!??!

331 piratedan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:09:51am

re: #329 lawhawk

I dunno, I kind of think that Hank Azaria would be a good fit for Miranda but mayhap he’s getting up there in years….

332 b.d.  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:10:29am

re: #329 lawhawk

Patricia Arquette for Poitras.
Flock of Seagulls for David Miranda.

Gilbert Gottfried as Greenwald

333 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:11:09am

re: #332 b.d.

Gilbert Gottfried as Greenwald

Pee Wee Herman as Greenwald.

334 b.d.  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:14:01am

re: #333 Pie-onist Overlord

Pee Wee Herman as Greenwald.

But…but…but people like Pee Wee

335 Varek Raith  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:14:26am

re: #334 b.d.

But…but…but people like Pee Wee

I don’t.
:P

336 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:16:16am

About time…

337 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:17:41am

Christie, in begging mode, at CPAC:

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at CPAC: ‘We have to stop letting the media define who we are and what we stand for’ - live video
end of alert

338 Bulworth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:18:44am

re: #337 Justanotherhuman

Conservatives really need their own 24/7 cable network. And some AM radio talk shows might help, too. //

339 Varek Raith  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:19:14am

re: #337 Justanotherhuman

Christie, in begging mode, at CPAC:

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at CPAC: ‘We have to stop letting the media define who we are and what we stand for’ - live video
end of alert

It’s all water under the…
Wait.

340 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:19:24am

re: #336 Justanotherhuman

And to follow up…

German Chancellor Merkel says EU will move to visa bans, asset freezes if Russia does not move on political dialogue on Ukraine - @Reuters
end of alert

15m
German Chancellor Merkel says she believes the decision for referendum in Crimea, Ukraine, is illegal - @Reuters

341 Shiplord Kirel  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:19:36am

re: #9 Weet

Everything Elon Musk does impresses me.

“Our Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy launch vehicles are truly made in America,” he said. “This stands in stark contrast to the United Launch Alliance’s most frequently flown vehicle, the Atlas V.”

That rocket uses a Russian engine, Musk said, and half the airframe is built abroad.

“Supply of the main engine depends on President Putin’s permission,” he said.

Billionaire Musk makes push to launch military satellites

Aside: I do wonder why he’s wearing lipstick in the photo,

Ignore the continuous drumbeat of right-wing propaganda against Musk and the innovators at SpaceX. The military launch monopoly, ULA, needs these contracts because it has priced itself out of the commercial launch market. ULA is robbing the taxpayers blind, with charges that are 5-6 times as high as what Musk’s SpaceX charges its commercial clients. These crooks are all for free enterprise, except when they can make an obscene profit from a Congressionally sanctified monopoly and restraint of trade.
The ULA guy’s arguments are gibberish. He is really telling the Congress whores that they can share in the loot if they continue the monopoly.
SpaceX will continue to profit from its commercial and NASA contracts in any case, and will increasingly expose the legacy contractors for the crooks and profiteers they are.

342 NJDhockeyfan  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:23:35am
343 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:24:25am

You bet, Rep Van Hollen. Issa is nothing but a fascist bastard. He’d love to be dictator.

Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., on Rep. Darrell Issa, D-Calif., cutting off Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-Md., at Wednesday hearing: ‘What we saw yesterday was democracy being suspended’ - @frankthorpNBC
end of alert

344 Varek Raith  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:25:18am

re: #341 Shiplord Kirel

Ignore the continuous drumbeat of right-wing propaganda against Musk and the innovators at SpaceX. The military launch monopoly, ULA, needs these contracts because it has priced itself out of the commercial launch market. ULA is robbing the taxpayers blind, with charges that are 5-6 times as high as what Musk’s SpaceX charges its commercial clients. These crooks are all for free enterprise, except when they can make an obscene profit from a Congressionally sanctified monopoly and restraint of trade.
The ULA guy’s arguments are gibberish. He is really telling the Congress whores that they can share in the loot if they continue the monopoly.
SpaceX will continue to profit from its commercial and NASA contracts in any case, and will increasingly expose the legacy contractors for the crooks and profiteers they are.

Oh wow, two years. I’m unimpressed.

United Launch Alliance’s Gass quickly responded that the company had a two-year supply of the engines.

345 Shiplord Kirel  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:28:14am

re: #342 NJDhockeyfan

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Duck and Cover!

Youtube Video

346 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:28:33am

No doubt this 28 yr old was a figurehead, and they’ll probably find lots more “business” that was conducted this way to benefit govt insiders.

Avakov estimates Kurchenko’s business activity caused state $1 billion in losses

kyivpost.com

347 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:30:03am

re: #337 Justanotherhuman

Christie, in begging mode, at CPAC:

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at CPAC: ‘We have to stop letting the media define who we are and what we stand for’ - live video
end of alert

You guys do that all your own when you nominate people like Akin, Mourdock, Cuccinnelli, and others for high office. But waaaaaaah the media card, yawn Christie, don’t you have a teacher to belittle?

348 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:31:09am

Polish defense minister confirms 12 US F-16 jets, 300 US servicemen to arrive in Poland next week for training exercise - @Reuters

end of alert

349 Varek Raith  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:31:23am

re: #347 HappyWarrior

You guys do that all your own when you nominate people like Akin, Mourdock, Cuccinnelli, and others for high office. But waaaaaaah the media card, yawn Christie, don’t you have a teacher to belittle?

He’ll take the high ro…
Wait.

350 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:34:12am

re: #302 Backwoods_Sleuth

Mitch gave the gun to Coburn as a “happy retirement” gift.

In certain genres a “gift” like that carried some pretty dire implications for the recipient.

351 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:34:32am

Syria’s Assad says he supports Putin on Ukraine

He said Syria was committed to “President Putin’s rational, peace-loving approach that seeks to establish a global system supporting stability and fighting extremism and terrorism”.

352 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:34:35am

So, what is the probability that this Twitter account belongs to a dude?

353 Varek Raith  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:34:48am

re: #351 Killgore Trout

Syria’s Assad says he supports Putin on Ukraine

Lol.

354 William Barnett-Lewis  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:34:57am

re: #322 HappyWarrior

I don’t understand how a state that produced Bob LaFollitate and Russ Feingold can also produce Joe McCarthy and Paul Ryan and Scott Walker.

After the ACW the Fox River valley was infested by a huge influx of reverse carpet baggers. The parasites have been causing massive harm (McCarthy, Ryan, Walker, et al) to the state and nation ever since.

355 Varek Raith  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:35:09am

re: #352 Pie-onist Overlord

So, what is the probability that this Twitter account belongs to a dude?

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99.99%

356 makeitstop  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:35:56am

re: #337 Justanotherhuman

Christie, in begging mode, at CPAC:

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at CPAC: ‘We have to stop letting the media define who we are and what we stand for’ - live video
end of alert

Is he including Fox News there?

358 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:37:20am

re: #354 William Barnett-Lewis

After the ACW the Fox River valley was infested by a huge influx of reverse carpet baggers. The parasites have been causing massive harm (McCarthy, Ryan, Walker, et al) to the state and nation ever since.

Well here’s hoping you guys can get rid of at least one this year.

359 Killgore Trout  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:37:26am

Exclusive: Russia wants IMF to move ahead on reforms without U.S. - sources

Russian officials are pushing for the International Monetary Fund to move ahead with planned reforms without the United States, which could mean the loss of the U.S. veto over major decisions at the global lender, sources said.

Russian Finance Minister Anton Siluanov brought up the idea at a meeting of top finance officials from the Group of 20 nations in Sydney late last month, two G20 sources told Reuters this week.

The failure of the U.S. Congress to approve IMF funding has held up reforms agreed in 2010 that would double the Fund’s resources and give more say to emerging markets like China.

The United States is the only country that holds a controlling share of IMF votes, meaning its approval is necessary for any major decision to go forward.

Moving ahead on reforms without Washington would likely require complicated changes to the IMF’s rules. But the discussions show the level of frustration within the G20 with the Obama administration’s inability to win the needed congressional support.

360 lawhawk  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:38:25am

re: #344 Varek Raith

It’d be one thing if the ULA rockets had a significant launch capability that Space X didn’t.

But Falcon Heavy (to be launched for first time this year) and Falcon 9 are comparable to what ULA can do - especially once the Heavy gets its certifications and begins flying.

The ULA benefits from a cozy relationship that’s been developed over decades of Boeing and Lockheed separately developing rocket lines, and building them in facilities across the nation. They’ve spread out the jobs/economic benefits, so cutting their contract or opening it up to competition means that those states could lose business to a cheaper alternative.

I’m all for it, particularly since the Falcon 9 has shown itself to be reliable. But the Falcon can’t put up as much to LEO or GTO as the Delta 4 or Atlas V at the moment. That’s why the Heavy is needed.

We’re at the point where we see the so called proponents of the free market in the GOP fighting to maintain a duopoly/monopoly to save local jobs that government funds supposedly can’t or shouldn’t create because that’s something the private sector does.

361 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:38:46am

re: #356 makeitstop

Is he including Fox News there?

Ha what amuses me is how they’ll complain about the MSM one minute and then brag about how popular Fox is.

362 Skip Intro  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:39:01am

re: #297 Justanotherhuman

You are fucking kidding me. I thought Kissinger was dead…maybe I dreamed it.

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Evil never dies. Just look at Dick Cheney.

363 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:39:44am

re: #352 Pie-onist Overlord

So, what is the probability that this Twitter account belongs to a dude?

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Why doesn’t he just stick his dick into the gun barrel and leave women alone?

364 lawhawk  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:40:29am

re: #352 Pie-onist Overlord

On the Internet, all men are men, all women are men, and all kids are the FBI.

365 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:41:44am

re: #364 lawhawk

On the Internet, all men are men, all women are men, and all kids are the FBI.

And all cat pictures are the NSA.

366 Skip Intro  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:42:39am

Right Wingers have Folk Singers, too!

Youtube Video

“Obama’s in the White House now, you’d better grab your honey,

God and guns are all we need, let’s let ‘em take the money”:

367 Political Atheist  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:43:26am

re: #341 Shiplord Kirel

His point the ULA uses Russian main engines is quite timely. I’m sure those are marked up quite a bit. It just infuriates me we (Congress etc.) let us put us in a bind for man rated hardware to get to low orbit. That should never have happened. With all respect for the Air Force robot shuttle, that manned lift ability is a key national asset AFAIK.

368 Political Atheist  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:44:59am

History matters. Just ask the Tartars of Crimea. Paged.

369 Shiplord Kirel  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:45:42am

re: #363 Justanotherhuman

Why doesn’t he just stick his dick into the gun barrel and leave women alone?

The smallest widely available barrels are .17 inch in diameter, ie much too large for these doofi.

370 Bulworth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:47:40am

“Obama’s in the White House now, you’d better grab your honey,

God and guns are all we need, let’s let ‘em take the money”:

LOLwhut?

371 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:48:18am

re: #366 Skip Intro

Right Wingers have Folk Singers, too!

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“Obama’s in the White House now, you’d better grab your honey,

God and guns are all we need, let’s let ‘em take the money”:

Right wingers should never do two things Be comedians and folk singers just like left wingers should never do political talk radio and gun porn.

372 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:48:43am

re: #370 Bulworth

“Obama’s in the White House now, you’d better grab your honey,

God and guns are all we need, let’s let ‘em take the money”:

LOLwhut?

I thought they had a problem with them taking the money. SO confusing.

373 Bulworth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:48:44am

re: #361 HappyWarrior

Yeah, they’re oppressed but still really awesome and beating all teh libruls. //

374 lawhawk  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:49:13am

She’s just asking questions….

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375 Bulworth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:49:29am

re: #372 HappyWarrior

And if they have God, why do they need gunz?

376 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:49:51am

re: #373 Bulworth

Yeah, they’re oppressed but still really awesome and beating all teh libruls. //

The underdog whose owner is a billionaire Aussie media mogul and chairman was H.W’s campaign manager!

377 Bulworth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:49:55am

re: #374 lawhawk

Hey, just asking questions. //

378 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:50:21am

re: #374 lawhawk

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She’s just asking questions….

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Gee Mrs. Thomas, has your husband ever raped a woman? I’m just asking questions.//

379 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:50:21am

re: #375 Bulworth

And if they have God, why do they need gunz?

Because the NRA told them so.

380 William Barnett-Lewis  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:51:15am

re: #374 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

She’s just asking questions….

[deleted]

Proper reply is “We leave that to Clarence; it’s all he’s any good at.”

381 Backwoods_Sleuth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:51:50am
382 Bulworth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:51:54am

re: #378 HappyWarrior

It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

383 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:52:06am

US State Department calls Crimea referendum completely illegitimate, says it violates Ukrainian constitution - @Reuters

end of alert


More: Interpol says Yanukovich arrest request made by Ukrainian authorities on charges including abuse of power, murder - @Reuters

end of alert

384 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:53:16am

re: #372 HappyWarrior

I thought they had a problem with them taking the money. SO confusing.

God and guns will help them take the money back…get it?

385 Bubblehead II  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:53:24am

re: #375 Bulworth

And if they have God, why do they need gunz?

Because God helps those who help themselves (to other people money).

386 Backwoods_Sleuth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:53:54am
387 Bulworth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:55:04am

re: #386 Backwoods_Sleuth

I now expect every CPAC speaker to approach the podium with six-shooters on each hip.

388 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:55:04am

I mean this is why the right is nuts. You want to debate as we did in the Bush administration whether certain policies were effective against terrorism? FIne, I welcome that debate especially with many dead AQ leaders. But to actually say that the administration has given material support to terrorism is a pathetic statement that borders on sedition and treason. And it’s one that the organizers of this circle jerk know to be false but they do it anyhow because they know their idiotic base loves the idea of President Obama being a terrorist sympathizer. Fuck CPAC.

389 Shiplord Kirel  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:56:43am

re: #367 Political Atheist

His point the ULA uses Russian main engines is quite timely. I’m sure those are marked up quite a bit. It just infuriates me we (Congress etc.) let us put us in a bind for man rated hardware to get to low orbit. That should never have happened. With all respect for the Air Force robot shuttle, that manned lift ability is a key national asset AFAIK.

SpaceX is pressing ahead with the man rating for its Dragon vehicle and should have it within a couple of years. Dragon has already flown operationally to the Space Station and needs only the proper certification to start flying crew. Rather than a hopeless attempt to compete with this, the legacy contractors will probably call in their cronies and shills to throw as many bureaucratic and legislative roadblocks in the way as possible. Given their influence in the House of Prostitution Representatives, they can at least make it more expensive than really necessary.

390 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:56:52am

re: #381 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Hey, she’s a lefty(handed) and she actually looks like she knows what she’s doing with that thing.

391 b.d.  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 9:57:45am

Another non-biased, not crazed comment under that DailyKos cartoon:

Jared Leto(0+ / 0-)
Hey, Westerners, it’s been fifteen years since your massacre in Serbia. And, does Jared Leto knows what Ukraine is…

by anteeterovic on Thu Mar 06, 2014 at 11:27:59 AM CST

dailykos.com

Fits in just fine

392 Backwoods_Sleuth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:00:39am
393 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:00:39am

re: #391 b.d.

Another non-biased, not crazed comment under that DailyKos cartoon:

dailykos.com

Fits in just fine

That name sounds Serbian. I am not going to blame all Serbians for the crimes of Milosevic and his regime here but glass houses much?

394 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:01:05am

re: #392 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Cue Fox News claiming he’s doing this to distract people from watching the epic event that is CPAC.

395 The War TARDIS  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:02:08am

re: #391 b.d.

No, the Serbians started it, we finished it, and the Albanians meted out the punishment.

Or more simply: Serbia learned what blowback looks like. And Serbia can go screw itself.

396 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:02:15am

re: #374 lawhawk

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She’s just asking questions….

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I’ll never understand why she hasn’t been investigated for outright disloyalty to the US govt.

But then again, look who she’s married to. You can’t tell me there’s no pillow talk involved, or outright cooperative planning between those two. And a couple of other justices get away with this kind of bullshit, too.

Justices Thomas and Scalia Violate Judicial Ethics By Headlining Right Wing Fundraisers

politicususa.com

397 Backwoods_Sleuth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:02:20am
398 AntonSirius  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:02:24am

re: #168 b.d.

DailyKos has become unreadable.

2008 called; they want their epiphany back. ;)

399 Bulworth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:02:43am

re: #394 HappyWarrior

Typical Chicago-thuggery. //

400 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:02:55am

re: #210 Dark_Falcon

Here you go:

The DOJ’s Radical Civil Rights Division

by John Fund

That’s all for now, as the not-very-useful news articles are crowding everything else out on Google right now.

That article does not make the claims that you did. It is a terrible, shitty article which uses his defense of the Voting Rights Act as though it is a black mark against him, but it doesn’t actually make the claims you did.

So, again, can you tell me the source of your claims?

401 Backwoods_Sleuth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:03:30am

re: #394 HappyWarrior

Cue Fox News claiming he’s doing this to distract people from watching the epic event that is CPAC.

CPAC shuffling the panel discussion topics right now…

402 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:05:32am

re: #401 Backwoods_Sleuth

CPAC shuffling the panel discussion topics right now…

Is today “Blame Lincoln for the country’s current problems” or “We actually love Lincoln, he was one of us!”? I can never tell. I know there’s going to be a massive blowjob to their idea of Ronald Reagan though. That one is inevitable.

403 Varek Raith  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:05:39am

re: #395 The War TARDIS

No, the Serbians started it, we finished it, and the Albanians meted out the punishment.

Or more simply: Serbia learned what blowback looks like. And Serbia can go screw itself.

Enhance your calm.

404 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:06:08am

re: #399 Bulworth

Typical Chicago-thuggery. //

Yep. Al Capone interrupted conservative meetings all the time to give press conferences on Ukraine.

405 Amory Blaine  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:06:47am

The Next Ailes: Newsmax’s Chris Ruddy Preps TV Rival to Fox News

406 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:08:39am

re: #392 Backwoods_Sleuth

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whitehouse.gov

407 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:09:03am

re: #405 Amory Blaine

The Next Ailes: Newsmax’s Chris Ruddy Preps TV Rival to Fox News

What Fox isn’t anti-left pornographic enough for Mr. Ruddy? Conservatism above all else indeed.

408 ObserverArt  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:09:18am

re: #394 HappyWarrior

Cue Fox News claiming he’s doing this to distract people from watching the epic event that is CPAC.

I’m disappointed, the Pres didn’t come out with a gun.

Doesn’t he knows how to do politics?

409 darthstar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:09:52am

Fuckers

410 Varek Raith  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:10:00am

re: #408 ObserverArt

I’m disappointed, the Pres didn’t come out with a gun.

Doesn’t he knows how to do politics?

With a crossbow and lightsaber while riding a lion.

411 lawhawk  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:10:44am


Curse that Muslim Socialist Communist Foreign Usurper in the White House. Damn him. Damn him straight to hell.

412 darthstar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:10:54am

re: #410 Varek Raith

With a crossbow and lightsaber while riding a lion.

Close.

413 Weet  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:11:13am

re: #391 b.d.

Another non-biased, not crazed comment under that DailyKos cartoon:

dailykos.com

Fits in just fine

One thing about this — that person just joined the site today. But, IMO, there are worse statements under that original article you linked. I went ahead and read it, and read all of the comments. The good news is that most of the comments were against the article, and the vast majority of the ‘updings’ were against the article. There were maybe 20 or 30 people that agreed with the writer. And, some of the ‘good’ comments were very informative, intelligent, etc.

However, all in all, I agree with your points. I take long breaks from that site, and mostly read the headlines with the occasional article these days.

414 darthstar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:11:43am

re: #412 darthstar

Close.

[Embedded image]

That picture isn’t accurate. He really should be wearing mom jeans.

415 Pie-onist Overlord  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:12:00am

Spraying roses out of his groin.

416 Varek Raith  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:12:02am

re: #412 darthstar

Close.

[Embedded image]

Image: obama_riding_a_lion_by_sharpwriter-d5ftze6.jpg

:P

417 Shiplord Kirel  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:12:26am

What jumped out at me in the Whitehouse feed was how old Obama is looking. It could be lighting or makeup this time, but the same thing is evident in other recent images. It is a very tough job.

418 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:13:33am

re: #417 Shiplord Kirel

What jumped out at me in the Whitehouse feed was how old Obama is looking. It could be lighting or makeup this time, but the same thing is evident in other recent images. It is a very tough job.

It’s the additional background radiation from all the marble facing used in the nearby monuments.
//

419 Varek Raith  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:15:05am

re: #417 Shiplord Kirel

What jumped out at me in the Whitehouse feed was how old Obama is looking. It could be lighting or makeup this time, but the same thing is evident in other recent images. It is a very tough job.

Yep, the job sucks.

420 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:15:08am

re: #408 ObserverArt

I’m disappointed, the Pres didn’t come out with a gun.

Doesn’t he knows how to do politics?

Ha! Can you though imagine the reaction if Obama ever did come out with a gun? I’m glad he doesn’t engage in that juvenile crap that McConnell and Coburn were.

421 darthstar  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:15:14am

Well, Visa restrictions…there goes half of my QA team.
/

422 Backwoods_Sleuth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:15:47am

heads are ‘sploding at CPAC…

423 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:15:56am

re: #417 Shiplord Kirel

What jumped out at me in the Whitehouse feed was how old Obama is looking. It could be lighting or makeup this time, but the same thing is evident in other recent images. It is a very tough job.

I’ve noticed it too. Big reason why I’d never want the job. Now if POTUS wants to make me the next ambassador to Tahiti. Sign me up.

424 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:16:15am

re: #333 Pie-onist Overlord

Pee Wee Herman as Greenwald.

Doesn’t work. I don’t think Paul Rubens could pull off the towering entitlement and self-righteousness of Glenn Greenwald.

425 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:16:43am

Article is in English. Guy was trying for a counter-coup against the new Parliament that would be tied to Russia.

426 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:16:43am

re: #400 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

That article does not make the claims that you did. It is a terrible, shitty article which uses his defense of the Voting Rights Act as though it is a black mark against him, but it doesn’t actually make the claims you did.

So, again, can you tell me the source of your claims?

newyorker.com

Link is to a 2012 New Yorker article on the Voter Fraud Myth. Doesn’t mention John Fund much instead it mainly concentrates on one of his book co-authors, Hans von Spakovsky. (Oh look, someone who went to the Heritage Foundation in 2011.)

427 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:17:50am

re: #424 Dark_Falcon

Doesn’t work. I don’t think Paul Rubens could pull off the towering entitlement and self-righteousness of Glenn Greenwald.

How ‘bout Tom Cruise then?

428 ObserverArt  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:18:11am

re: #420 HappyWarrior

Ha! Can you though imagine the reaction if Obama ever did come out with a gun? I’m glad he doesn’t engage in that juvenile crap that McConnell and Coburn were.

Yeah…every Republican in the country upon hearing the news would duck and cover and call the police. “I dunno…looks like a black guy in a suit with a gun! Help me please…this is my worst nightmare!!!”

429 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:18:55am

re: #427 Feline Fearless Leader

How ‘bout Tom Cruise then?

That I can actually see.

430 Backwoods_Sleuth  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:19:14am
431 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:19:35am

re: #426 Feline Fearless Leader

newyorker.com

Link is to a 2012 New Yorker article on the Voter Fraud Myth. Doesn’t mention John Fund much instead it mainly concentrates on one of his book co-authors, Hans von Spakovsky. (Oh look, someone who went to the Heritage Foundation in 2011.)

Well yeah, the article is terrible, just fucking awful, but beyond that, it doesn’t make the specific inflammatory claims that DF previously advanced—specifically:

But he has continued to shout Abu-Jamal is innocent long after it has become utterly certain that Abu-Jamal is guilty. Moreover, he indulged in baseless speculation and accusation about conspiracies to frame his client, which served no purpose save to fan anti-police sentiments.

DF, can you please explain your source for these claims?

432 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:19:38am

re: #428 ObserverArt

Yeah…every Republican in the country upon hearing the news would duck and cover and call the police. “I dunno…looks like a black guy in a suit with a gun! Help me please…this is my worst nightmare!!!”

You think we hear him called a thug now because he ocassionally gets frustrated with GOP bullshit? Imagine the names if he ever posed with a gun the way their assholes do.

433 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:19:41am

re: #427 Feline Fearless Leader

How ‘bout Tom Cruise then?

Perfect. Isn’t Cruise’s high-flying career about at a standstill anyway?

434 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:20:51am

re: #430 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Well I know a lot of lefties who will be happy about that. I like Bernie but I just can’t see him as president even if he weren’t a self described socialist.

435 The War TARDIS  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:21:49am

re: #434 HappyWarrior

How far does his socialism go, by the way?

436 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:21:59am

re: #400 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

That article does not make the claims that you did. It is a terrible, shitty article which uses his defense of the Voting Rights Act as though it is a black mark against him, but it doesn’t actually make the claims you did.

So, again, can you tell me the source of your claims?

Your demand for clarification is rejected. My mind’s made up on the topic and I’m not going to explain myself further.

437 Feline Fearless Leader  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:22:42am

re: #431 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Good luck with that. I was semi-surprised he even tossed that NRO link to you.

438 Justanotherhuman  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:22:59am

Kewl astronomy photos.

Hubble witnesses an asteroid mysteriously disintegrating

spacetelescope.org

439 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:23:53am

re: #435 The War TARDIS

How far does his socialism go, by the way?

I have no idea really. Just that he self ids as one. My personal pick should he run is Marty O’Malley though of Maryland.

440 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:25:15am

re: #436 Dark_Falcon

Your demand for clarification is rejected. My mind’s made up on the topic and I’m not going to explain myself further.

I’m not demanding clarification. I’m asking you where you’re sourcing your ‘facts’ from. You’re refusing to provide that, which shows a basic contempt for me and anyone else you’re offering your argument to. I’m not sure you realize how shitty this behavior is, but it is really fucking shitty.

You make a factual claim: Back it up. This is common decency in argument 101. It has nothing to do with whether or not your mind is made up, I’m not trying to change your mind.

Now, will you do the decent and honest thing and cite a source for your claims? Alternatively, you could admit that your claims don’t have basis in fact and you just made them up or sourced them from someone who made them up.

441 gwangung  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:27:33am

re: #436 Dark_Falcon

Your demand for clarification is rejected. My mind’s made up on the topic and I’m not going to explain myself further.

God, that’s weak sauce.

Basically, you’re saying you’re just being bigoted here.

442 The War TARDIS  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:30:36am

re: #439 HappyWarrior

I think I have said on here that I wanted to see the Nationalization of Utilities, Health Insurance, Home Insurance, and the abolition of use of PMCs.

Also, much, much tighter controls on military and goverment contractors. Along with the reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act.

443 Dark_Falcon  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:32:17am

re: #440 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

I’m not demanding clarification. I’m asking you where you’re sourcing your ‘facts’ from. You’re refusing to provide that, which shows a basic contempt for me and anyone else you’re offering your argument to. I’m not sure you realize how shitty this behavior is, but it is really fucking shitty.

You make a factual claim: Back it up. This is common decency in argument 101. It has nothing to do with whether or not your mind is made up, I’m not trying to change your mind.

Now, will you do the decent and honest thing and cite a source for your claims? Alternatively, you could admit that your claims don’t have basis in fact and you just made them up or sourced them from someone who made them up.

Here’s what I’m willing to concede at the moment: Debo Adegbile was not the source of the conspiracy theories. Before I say more I’m going to reread one of my sources. I’ve been busy this morning with phone interviews and a job application and won’t have time to do the reread till later today, and maybe not till after that.

444 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:33:13am

re: #443 Dark_Falcon

Here’s what I’m willing to concede at the moment: Debo Adegbile was not the source of the conspiracy theories. Before I say more I’m going to reread one of my sources. I’ve been busy this morning with phone interviews and a job application and won’t have time to do the reread till later today, and maybe not till after that.

It’s like pulling teeth to get you to take responsibility for what you say.

445 HappyWarrior  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:36:38am

re: #442 The War TARDIS

I think I have said on here that I wanted to see the Nationalization of Utilities, Health Insurance, Home Insurance, and the abolition of use of PMCs.

Also, much, much tighter controls on military and goverment contractors. Along with the reinstatement of the Glass-Steagall Act.

Have no idea but I wager you he’s big on reinstating Glass-Steagall and the abolition of the PMCs.

446 chadu  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:53:12am

re: #237 FemNaziBitch

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You knew it had to come: gendercard.

Decent rejoinder: “I intend to play cowboys full with a flush on the flop.”

447 chadu  Thu, Mar 6, 2014 10:54:33am

re: #253 Pie-onist Overlord


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