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1 abolitionist  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 3:35:39pm

“We’re going inside the D ring”

I’m sure that takes some extra careful math.

2 darthstar  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 3:40:03pm

No shit.

3 darthstar  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 3:41:13pm

WTF?

4 Dr Lizardo  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 3:42:20pm

re: #3 darthstar

WTF?

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Taking propaganda to heights so ridiculous, Stalin would have the writers of it shot forthwith.

5 goddamnedfrank  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 3:54:36pm

re: #3 darthstar

WTF?

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Do the math man, that’s 12 Voltrons worth of lions. While we were busy giving gays civil rights the Ruskies were teaching feral cats how to form gestalt robot militias. We’re so fucked.

6 palmerskiss  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 3:58:02pm

re: #5 goddamnedfrank

Do the math man, that’s 12 Voltrons worth of lions. While we were busy giving gays civil rights the Ruskies were teaching feral cats how to form gestalt robot militias. We’re so fucked.

here, have a towel,

7 freetoken  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 3:58:41pm

So, I’m wondering how Noah got all the different versions (European, African, Asian) of human lactase persistence mutations on the ark….

Genetic Data Suggests Convergent Evolution for Milk Digestion

An international team of scientists led by Alessia Ranciaro and Sarah Tishkoff of the University of Pennsylvania has investigated the genetic origins of lactose tolerance in geographically diverse populations of Africans in Kenya, Tanzania, and Sudan. The scientists collected blood samples from pastoralists, agro-pastoralists, agriculturalists, and hunter-gatherers, who also took a lactose test by fasting overnight, having their blood sugar measured, drinking a sweet beverage containing a high level of lactose, and then having their blood sugar tested at set intervals. The research team found that the geographic patterns in which a genetic variant for milk digestion were present often correlated with historic human migrations and the spread of domestic cattle, camels, and sheep. “Our results are showing different mutations arising in different places that are under selection and rising to high frequencies and then reintroduced by migration to new areas and new populations,” Tishkoff told Science Daily. She suspects that there are other genetic variants for the digestion of milk that have not yet been discovered, and that commensal bacteria in the gut could also help adult humans digest milk.

See:

Genetic Origins of Lactase Persistence and the Spread of Pastoralism in Africa

In humans, the ability to digest lactose, the sugar in milk, declines after weaning because of decreasing levels of the enzyme lactase-phlorizin hydrolase, encoded by LCT. However, some individuals maintain high enzyme amounts and are able to digest lactose into adulthood (i.e., they have the lactase-persistence [LP] trait). It is thought that selection has played a major role in maintaining this genetically determined phenotypic trait in different human populations that practice pastoralism. To identify variants associated with the LP trait and to study its evolutionary history in Africa, we sequenced MCM6 introns 9 and 13 and 𢏂 kb of the LCT promoter region in 819 individuals from 63 African populations and in 154 non-Africans from nine populations. We also genotyped four microsatellites in an 𢏁98 kb region in a subset of 252 individuals to reconstruct the origin and spread of LP-associated variants in Africa. Additionally, we examined the association between LP and genetic variability at candidate regulatory regions in 513 individuals from eastern Africa. Our analyses confirmed the association between the LP trait and three common variants in intron 13 (C-14010, G-13907, and G-13915). Furthermore, we identified two additional LP-associated SNPs in intron 13 and the promoter region (G-12962 and T-956, respectively). Using neutrality tests based on the allele frequency spectrum and long-range linkage disequilibrium, we detected strong signatures of recent positive selection in eastern African populations and the Fulani from central Africa. In addition, haplotype analysis supported an eastern African origin of the C-14010 LP-associated mutation in southern Africa.

8 ericblair  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 3:58:45pm

re: #3 darthstar

WTF?

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I dunno, “kosmataya posmoga” (shaggy help) seems to be from a joke site.

9 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:08:42pm

I need help to keep the family off my back! My wife just texted me….the iPad won’t turn on. Any ideas?

10 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:15:05pm

re: #5 goddamnedfrank

Do the math man, that’s 12 Voltrons worth of lions. While we were busy giving gays civil rights the Ruskies were teaching feral cats how to form gestalt robot militias. We’re so fucked.

Stop worrying so much, Frank, we’ve already got the answer to hand. Voltrons have relatively poor radar, so we can counter them by restarting F-22 production and accelerating F-35 production. Granted we’ll have to dismantle some social programs to find the money, but Voltrons are enough of a threat that Grover Norquist will allow a 1% increase in taxes make up some of the costs.

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11 Mattand  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:17:41pm

Obama Confidante’s ‘Screaming Siren’: Dems Could Face Another 2010

I’m really not sure how I feel about these kinds of stories. Part of me thinks it’s a bit of Chicken Little and a bit of typical pundit bloviating.

Part of me wants to believe Americans aren’t stupid enough to give more control of the government to the GOP, after all of the damage they’ve been causing since Scary Black Man took over the White House*.

Part of me also knows these are basically the same people who looked at Gore vs Bush and said “Sure, Gore was VP during one of the biggest economic booms in our country’s history.

“But we’re mad at Clinton for being a horn dog, so let’s vote in the rich wannabe cowboy who’s barely worked a day in his life. What could possibly go wrong?”

Honestly, if people vote to give Republicans majorities in both the House and Senate in October, there’s just no hope for this country.

And that rests solely on the American voting public having the collective long term memory of a fucking house fly.

*Yes, the modern GOP is driven in part by barely concealed racism. Deal with it.

12 goddamnedfrank  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:21:23pm

re: #9 NJDhockeyfan

I need help to keep the family off my back! My wife just texted me….the iPad won’t turn on. Any ideas?

Have her do a hard reset: Hold sleep and home buttons down for several seconds. If that doesn’t work the battery is probably totally drained and needs to be recharged. If charging the battery doesn’t fix things it needs to go back to the apple store for diagnosis.

13 freetoken  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:21:58pm

re: #11 Mattand

I suppose some will look on such stories by calling them “prophets” - that is, warning of doom unless there is repentance, in which case the bad things won’t happen.

Then again, maybe its all about prophets for profit.

14 darthstar  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:23:08pm
15 Killgore Trout  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:24:35pm

re: #11 Mattand

The historical trend is that the party out of the White House eventually takes over congress. Republicans probably would have taken over long ago if they hadn’t been Tea Partying and running nutty candidates. No, it’s not the end of the world.

16 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:24:45pm

re: #14 darthstar

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I call that gap-toothed fellow “Bubba-ski”.

17 TedStriker  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:25:18pm

Testing…

18 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:25:22pm

re: #15 Killgore Trout

The historical trend is that the party out of the White House eventually takes over congress. Republicans probably would have taken over long ago if they hadn’t been Tea Partying and running nutty candidates. No, it’s not the end of the world.

Quite Concur. Thank you, Killgore.

19 TedStriker  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:29:09pm

re: #3 darthstar

WTF?

Lenin and Stalin would be proud.

20 TedStriker  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:31:08pm

Whatever you did downstairs, Charles, seems to have cleared up my LGF issues here at work. What did you have to do and is it going to impact any features that Lizards have come to depend on, such as Twitter embeds?

21 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:32:30pm

re: #12 goddamnedfrank

Have her do a hard reset: Hold sleep and home buttons down for several seconds. If that doesn’t work the battery is probably totally drained and needs to be recharged. If charging the battery doesn’t fix things it needs to go back to the apple store for diagnosis.

Seconded. Also, make sure it hasn’t been left somewhere that caused it to go above or below the acceptable operating temperatures. I have an older 5th gen iPod Nano that’s super temperamental when it comes to cold weather and will refuse to do anything all at until you warm it up.

22 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:33:36pm

re: #19 TedStriker

Lenin and Stalin would be proud.

No, I concur with Dr Lizardo: Stalin would have had the propagandist who wrote that shot. Its so stupid it makes Russia look bad.

23 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:33:47pm

re: #20 TedStriker

No - I just changed the way Twitter’s widgets.js file gets loaded. Do you see this embedded tweet, or does it appear as a standard blockquote?

24 freetoken  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:34:08pm

So far not a good year for loquats. Between the drought and people cutting down trees, I’m going to go hungry this spring.

25 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:35:19pm

Cross-Country ‘Cannonball Run’ Race Promoted By Sovereign Citizen Runs Out of Gas

Farah described what he learned about Wilson and his beliefs from the call:

Wilson claimed he can’t be sued because he’s not running the race on public roads in the United States, he’s running the race on public roads in America.

The United States only exists in the District of Columbia, and everything else is “America,” so the rest of the country isn’t covered by statutory regulations affecting “The United States.”

He can’t be sued or held liable for anything non-violent because he refuses to acknowledge the existence of anyone that would sue him. He also claims he can’t get tickets, and doesn’t pay any taxes. This, presumably, is also why he thinks it’s okay to violate Brock Yates’s Copyright on the term “Cannonball.

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Now, at some point most of us decided to become adults and join the human race …

26 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:35:46pm

Dave Chappelle’s infamous PopCopy promotional video, uncensored.

MP4 Video

27 NJDhockeyfan  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:36:18pm

re: #12 goddamnedfrank

Have her do a hard reset: Hold sleep and home buttons down for several seconds. If that doesn’t work the battery is probably totally drained and needs to be recharged. If charging the battery doesn’t fix things it needs to go back to the apple store for diagnosis.

Thanks! The battery is charged up. It just won’t come on. I’ll have her try that.

28 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:38:34pm

Science is soooo much kewler than fantasy!

It just requires math.

29 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:39:04pm

re: #23 Charles Johnson

as a tweet

30 TedStriker  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:39:49pm

re: #23 Charles Johnson

No - I just changed the way Twitter’s widgets.js file gets loaded. Do you see this embedded tweet, or does it appear as a standard blockquote?

I see it as a standard blockquote here at work, but, since they block Twitter, it’s usually what I see for Twitter embeds when I surf LGF at the office.

To the other Lizards: how’s everyone else seeing it?

31 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:40:16pm

re: #30 TedStriker

Hangin’ In there.

32 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:42:15pm

re: #30 TedStriker

There you go then. That’s definitely what the problem is — your work’s filtering system is blocking the Twitter Javascript from loading. Cracking down on Twitter use, it looks like.

33 thedopefishlives  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:43:03pm

Evening Lizardim.

34 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:46:08pm

re: #30 TedStriker

I see it as a standard blockquote here at work, but, since they block Twitter, it’s usually what I see when I surf LGF at the office.

To the other Lizards: how’s everyone else seeing it?

Like this:

35 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:46:54pm

For the FNDT, because it cannot be overplayed:
Youtube Video

36 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:47:17pm

Biden heading to Europe amid Ukraine tensions

bigstory.ap.org

WASHINGTON (AP) — The White House says Vice President Joe Biden will travel next week to Poland and Lithuania amid tensions in nearby Ukraine.

(snip)

“Biden will depart on Monday. That’s the day after a planned vote in Crimea about whether to split off from Ukraine and possibly join Russia. The U.S. says the vote shouldn’t take place.

“Biden will meet with Poland’s president and prime minister, plus the presidents of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. The White House says the leaders plan to discuss ways to support Ukraine’s sovereignty. They’ll also discuss the defense commitments that NATO allies have to one another.”

37 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:48:02pm

re: #25 FemNaziBitch

Cross-Country ‘Cannonball Run’ Race Promoted By Sovereign Citizen Runs Out of Gas

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Now, at some point most of us decided to become adults and join the human race …

The only possible graphic in response to Mr. Wilson:

38 TedStriker  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:48:28pm

re: #32 Charles Johnson

There you go then. That’s definitely what the problem is — your work’s filtering system is blocking the Twitter Javascript from loading. Cracking down on Twitter use, it looks like.

Maybe a “better”, more inclusive Barracuda filter list as of late, because Twitter’s been blocked here at work for a long time.

C’est la vie…by the way, Charles, thanks.

39 Dark_Falcon  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:50:03pm

BBL

40 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:50:30pm

South Park » Douchebag Emo Kids

MP4 Video

41 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:52:02pm

re: #38 TedStriker

The widgets.js file loads from a different subdomain - platform . twitter . com; they probably just got around to adding that to the blacklist.

42 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:52:05pm

re: #37 Dark_Falcon

The only possible graphic in response to Mr. Wilson:

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43 TedStriker  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:54:16pm

re: #41 Charles Johnson

The widgets.js file loads from a different subdomain - platform . twitter . com; they probably just got around to adding that to the blacklist.

Probably.

44 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:54:53pm

Emos are plants?

MP4 Video

45 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:54:56pm

re: #21 CuriousLurker

re: #27 NJDhockeyfan

Thanks! The battery is charged up. It just won’t come on. I’ll have her try that.

Also see iOS: Not responding or does not turn on (Last Modified: Jan 27, 2014)

FWIW, last night the iPad Mini my boss gave me for Xmas suddenly started freaking out when I tried to watch The Rachel Maddow Show using Chrome. It started to load the page, then suddenly rebooted itself, got past the Apple logo, got stuck on the spinner for several minutes, then flashed a BSOD (I didn’t even know Apple devices had one), and rebooted again. It went on & on like that in a loop no matter how many times I did the hard reset Frank mentioned.

I ended up having to restore it to its factory settings using iTunes, which was a PITA because it meant I had to reinstall all my apps and redo all my settings & other customizations (I’m still not done).

Right before I tried to watch Maddow I’d noticed there were app updates and I hit “Update All” without really paying attention, so it’s possible the problem could’ve been related to the iOS update (which I didn’t realize was going to happen till I also checked my iPod Touch).

46 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:55:54pm

re: #30 TedStriker

I see it as a standard blockquote here at work, but since they block Twitter, it’s usually what I see when I surf LGF at the office.

To the other Lizards: how’s everyone else seeing it?

I’m seeing it as normal, with the photo & all formatting.

47 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:56:33pm

Interesting that employers in the US are using the same blacklist filtering as employers in China (if wheat-dogg’s problems are also fixed, which I’ll bet they are).

48 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:57:02pm

Yes, important.

49 Lidane  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 4:58:07pm


Could the right wing please make up their fucking minds? Either Obama is a weak, milquetoast mom jeans wearing laughingstock and coward that Putin is walking all over or he’s an evil, petty tyrant who forcibly silences his critics with IRS audits and drones and is running a criminal administration. HE CAN’T BE BOTH.

50 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:00:33pm

re: #48 Justanotherhuman

But given that Putin has called the Soviet breakup the “greatest tragedy of the 20th century,”

This is so strange.

I think even Putin could think of at one other event more tragic.

51 Kragar  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:00:53pm
52 darthstar  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:00:55pm

Someone’s going to jail.

MtGox continued trading for at least two weeks despite knowing that it did not hold enough bitcoins to return every customer their money, according to a deposition from the CEO of the embattled bitcoin exchange.

53 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:01:48pm

re: #49 Lidane

You are talking about wingnuts, right?

54 TedStriker  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:02:18pm

re: #47 Charles Johnson

Interesting that employers in the US are using the same blacklist filtering as employers in China (if wheat-dogg’s problems are also fixed, which I’ll bet they are).

Nothing new, of course…who do you think sold the Chinese much of the network equipment for the Great Firewall, before homegrown companies such as Huawei started gaining experience and design wins?

55 palmerskiss  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:02:44pm

re: #50 FemNaziBitch

This is so strange.

I think even Putin could think of at one other event more tragic.

obviously, the day the original ‘wiggles’ broke up….


Link

56 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:02:47pm

re: #51 Kragar

His hair. WTF?

I can’t get past the hair —did he say something?

57 Justanotherhuman  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:03:02pm

re: #51 Kragar

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There are just some people whose mouths you want to staple shut.

58 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:04:27pm

re: #25 FemNaziBitch

Cross-Country ‘Cannonball Run’ Race Promoted By Sovereign Citizen Runs Out of Gas

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Now, at some point most of us decided to become adults and join the human race …

What… you mean that my declaring myself the prime minister of the sovereign nation of Realitystan and making my own set of diplomatic license plates and drivers license at home doesn’t work?

There are a fair number of sovereign citizens movement here in Tenn, it’s easy to make fun of them, but they are really a scary group when pushed.

RBS

59 palmerskiss  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:06:37pm

re: #58 RealityBasedSteve

What… you mean that my declaring myself the prime minister of the sovereign nation of Realitystan

only if michelle bachman gets president of its break-a-way isthmus ‘alternate realitystan’

60 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:06:46pm

re: #58 RealityBasedSteve

What… you mean that my declaring myself the prime minister of the sovereign nation of Realitystan and making my own set of diplomatic license plates and drivers license at home doesn’t work?

There are a fair number of sovereign citizens movement here in Tenn, it’s easy to make fun of them, but they are really a scary group when pushed.

RBS

The idea of a ‘cannonball run’ is so junior high boy fantasy world —it would be comical if not true.

61 palmerskiss  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:07:45pm

re: #60 FemNaziBitch

The idea of a ‘cannonball run’ is so junior high boy fantasy world —it would be comical if not true.

which of course means Phyllis Schafly sent in her $90

62 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:07:49pm

What I ended up doing to fix that problem by the way, is this:

if (typeof twttr != 'undefined') {
	twttr.widgets.load();
}

The code just checks to make sure the global twttr object has been created before trying to call the twttr.widgets.load() method to render embedded tweets. If no twttr object exists it just skips the call and the tweet displays as a plain text blockquote.

63 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:07:53pm

re: #60 FemNaziBitch

The idea of a ‘cannonball run’ is so junior high boy fantasy world —it would be comical if not true.

Kinda like Ferris Bueller’s Day Off —but sadder.

64 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:08:34pm

re: #59 palmerskiss

only if michelle bachman gets president of its break-a-way isthmus ‘alternate realitystan’

We have always been at war with the isthmus of alt. realitystan //

RBS

65 Bear  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:09:02pm

Guess it is not the Wabash Cannonball.//

66 TedStriker  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:09:26pm

re: #25 FemNaziBitch

Cross-Country ‘Cannonball Run’ Race Promoted By Sovereign Citizen Runs Out of Gas

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Now, at some point most of us decided to become adults and join the human race …

This was gold:

Farah concluded, in his conversation with Wilson, that “I thought maybe you were stupid, but you’re actually just insane.”

When Joseph Farah thinks that you’re crazier than a shithouse rat, that’s really saying something.

67 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:11:37pm

re: #49 Lidane

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Could the right wing please make up their fucking minds? Either Obama is a weak, milquetoast mom jeans wearing laughingstock and coward that Putin is walking all over or he’s an evil, petty tyrant who forcibly silences his critics with IRS audits and drones and is running a criminal administration. HE CAN’T BE BOTH.

Last Sunday the Village Voice published an amusing article about the right-wing’s “Obama is weak” meme (emphasis added):

Rightbloggers Find the Real Issue in Ukraine: Obama’s a Sissy

We’ve had about a week of Crisis in the Crimea, as crypto-Russian troops patrol the streets of Sevastopol, Kiev digs in, and Obama and the EU try a strategy of diplomatic “de-escalation.” There’s some disagreement among observers as to how this will play out.

Among rightbloggers, though, while there is some diversity of opinion as to how big a badass Vladimir Putin is, there is great consensus on the conclusion that Russia is in Ukraine because Obama is a sissy.

At this writing Putin remains intransigent and Obama plans to meet with the Ukraine interim prime minister on Wednesday.

This may go on awhile, so let us stipulate that despite all the argh-blargh over the issue, almost no one on either side has proposed that the U.S. invade the Crimea or even threaten. Yet conservatives suggest that Obama’s failure to do something butch is the reason for the crisis. […]

blogs.villagevoice.com

68 kirkspencer  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:12:24pm

re: #15 Killgore Trout

The historical trend is that the party out of the White House eventually takes over congress. Republicans probably would have taken over long ago if they hadn’t been Tea Partying and running nutty candidates. No, it’s not the end of the world.

No, sorry, this is false. Look at the actual numbers and no such trend exists.

eta: though it is conventional wisdom.

69 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:17:37pm

BeeBee Meerkittehs!

70 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:19:05pm

I really don’t want a meerkittie.

I wouldn’t mind a tree roo tho.

71 thedopefishlives  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:19:49pm

re: #70 FemNaziBitch

I really don’t want a meerkittie.

I wouldn’t mind a tree roo tho.

I wouldn’t want a meerkitteh, but they are cute.

72 palmerskiss  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:20:01pm

re: #69 FemNaziBitch

BeeBee Meerkittehs!

all i want is a hampah full o’ pugs

Link

73 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:20:09pm

re: #66 TedStriker

This was gold:

When Joseph Farah thinks that you’re crazier than a shithouse rat, that’s really saying something.

Different Farah—I’m sure Joseph would’ve loved Wilson:

This included Matt Farah, senior editor over at the auto-racing website The Smoking Tire, […]

74 Charles Johnson  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:20:38pm

Don’t need Bill O’Reilly’s ‘expert’ to analyze that body language.

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LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM - MARCH 14: US Secretary of State John Kerry (C) meets with the Russian foreign minister Sergey Lavrov (L) at the US Ambassadors Residence for talks on the current political situation in the Ukraine, on March 14, 2014 in London, England. Mr Kerry will meet with his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov to discuss the Ukrainian crisis situation ahead of a disputed referendum in Crimea on Sunday. (Photo by Sean Dempsey - WPA Pool/Getty Images)

75 dog philosopher  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:21:10pm

The historical trend is that the party out of the White House eventually takes over congress

the historical trend is that the party in the white house usually, but not always, loses congressional seats in off-year elections, especially in the sixth year of a presidency

actually, i’m waiting to see the day when the True Conservative Republican Party (wall st) runs a presidential candidate that the True Conservative Republican Party (wingnut) absolutely can’t stomach

so then they nominate their own True Conservative Republican Presidential candidate, and the republican party becomes really and truly split and never wins another election, and i get a magic pony that writes perfect C++

76 dog philosopher  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:22:02pm

re: #69 FemNaziBitch

BeeBee Meerkittehs!

meerpuddies!

77 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:22:10pm

re: #72 palmerskiss

all i want is a hampah full o’ pugs

Link

GSD Puppies!

78 TedStriker  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:22:38pm

re: #73 CuriousLurker

Different Farah—I’m sure Joseph would’ve loved Wilson:

*facepalm*

That’ll teach me to skim over a story like that…

79 palmerskiss  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:23:29pm

re: #77 FemNaziBitch

GSD Puppies!

i’m in love…………………… puppy breath rocks

80 thedopefishlives  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:23:31pm

On the topic of cute animals, I saw my first bunneh of the spring this morning. It was crossing the road. I had the passing thought that stew would be delicious for dinner. Hippity hoppity, Easter’s on its way…

81 palmerskiss  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:24:54pm

re: #80 thedopefishlives

On the topic of cute animals, I saw my first bunneh of the spring this morning. It was crossing the road. I had the passing thought that stew would be delicious for dinner. Hippity hoppity, Easter’s on its way…

we have bunnies all year on humarock - i feel sorry for them in the snow and cold, but they always seem to make it :)

82 thedopefishlives  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:25:33pm

re: #81 palmerskiss

we have bunnies all year on hummarock - i feel sorry for them in the snow and cold, but they always seem to make it :)

Oh, I’m sure they’re out there. It’s just that I haven’t seen any of them up until now. Probably easier for them to burrow through the snow than to try to run along on top of it.

83 palmerskiss  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:26:29pm

re: #82 thedopefishlives

Oh, I’m sure they’re out there. It’s just that I haven’t seen any of them up until now. Probably easier for them to burrow through the snow than to try to run along on top of it.

i see a future business - knitted bunnyboots

84 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:26:47pm

re: #78 TedStriker

*facepalm*

That’ll teach me to skim over a story like that…

Heh, we all do it from time to time. Joseph is always the first person I think of when I hear the name Farah (usually immediately followed by the exiled former Shah’s last wife).

85 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:27:00pm

re: #83 palmerskiss

i see a future business - knitted bunnyboots

Snowshoes come standard with the average bunny package.

86 palmerskiss  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:27:48pm

re: #85 FemNaziBitch

Snowshoes come standard with the average bunny package.

but argyle bunnyboots~!

Link

87 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:29:08pm

re: #79 palmerskiss

i’m in love…………………… puppy breath rocks

Gah! *grabs throat, makes gagging noises*

One of my half-sisters used to say the same thing. She’d pick up puppies and hold their mouths right up to her nose.

88 dog philosopher  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:29:24pm

re: #83 palmerskiss

i see a future business - knitted bunnyboots

i had a friend who was a seamstress and she made some costumes for her pets rats

who promptly ate them

“thank you mommie - dat was dewicious!!”

89 palmerskiss  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:29:53pm

re: #87 CuriousLurker

Gah! *grabs throat, makes gagging noises*

One of my half-sisters used to say the same thing. She’d pick up puppies and hold their mouths right up to her nose.

i stand by that assertion! just like heaven…..

90 dog philosopher  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:30:01pm

seamstress

is a male seamstress a seamster?

91 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:30:21pm

re: #90 dog philosopher

seamstress

is a male seamstress a seamster?

tailor

92 thedopefishlives  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:31:07pm

re: #85 FemNaziBitch

Snowshoes come standard with the average bunny package.

Sorry, should’ve slipped my sarc tags in there.

93 palmerskiss  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:32:07pm

dreams happily of bunnyboots and puppy breath….

94 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:32:32pm

re: #93 palmerskiss

dreams happily of bunnyboots and puppy breath….

I like puppy fur

95 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:32:42pm

and puppy tummys

96 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:32:48pm

and feet/paws

97 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:33:06pm

re: #85 FemNaziBitch

Snowshoes come standard with the average bunny package.

I thought the average bunny package was ears / tail / pushup bra and 6 inch heels?

RBS

98 palmerskiss  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:33:27pm

re: #96 FemNaziBitch

and feet/paws

my pug has a foot fetish or something - she has to stick her feet to me at all times - it’s the strangest thing

99 palmerskiss  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:33:47pm

re: #97 RealityBasedSteve

I thought the average bunny package was ears / tail / pushup bra and 6 inch heels?

RBS

if you are roger rabbit

100 dog philosopher  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:33:52pm

re: #97 RealityBasedSteve

I thought the average bunny package was ears / tail / pushup bra and 6 inch heels?

RBS

there are some other things in the standard bunny package as well but ahem

101 FemNaziBitch  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:34:06pm

re: #98 palmerskiss

my pug has a foot fetish or something - she has to stick her feet to me at all times - its the strangest thing

is she still young?

maybe trying to nurse?

102 palmerskiss  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:34:38pm

re: #101 FemNaziBitch

is she still young?

maybe trying to nurse?

she is an old lady - 11 this march

103 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:34:45pm

re: #80 thedopefishlives

On the topic of cute animals, I saw my first bunneh of the spring this morning. It was crossing the road. I had the passing thought that stew would be delicious for dinner. Hippity hoppity, Easter’s on its way…

That reminds me of one of my all-time favorite Easter Bunny cartoons, heh:

104 Kragar  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:35:05pm
105 TedStriker  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:36:30pm

re: #49 Lidane

Could the right wing please make up their fucking minds? Either Obama is a weak, milquetoast mom jeans wearing laughingstock and coward that Putin is walking all over or he’s an evil, petty tyrant who forcibly silences his critics with IRS audits and drones and is running a criminal administration. HE CAN’T BE BOTH.

It’s the same sort of bullshit dichotomy the Code Pink/ANSWER types tried to push about George W. Bush during his two terms, that, somehow, W was an evil mastermind who pulled the US into two wars in order to enrich himself and his oil industry/Halliburton/KBR buddies AND that he was a mental midget that couldn’t tie his own shoelaces without Darth Cheney’s help.

Nowadays, I don’t look back favorably on W’s presidency, even though I voted for him in 2004, but that sort of shit is fucking illogical and ridiculous.

106 palmerskiss  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:37:11pm

re: #101 FemNaziBitch

is she still young?

maybe trying to nurse?

she is also blind - has been since she was 6, however this preceded that, i’m not going to discount the blindness is continuing it..

107 PT Barnum  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:37:29pm

re: #105 TedStriker

It’s the same sort of bullshit dichotomy the Code Pink/ANSWER types tried to push about George W. Bush during his two terms, that, somehow, W was an evil mastermind who pulled the US into two wars in order to enrich himself and his oil industry/Halliburton/KBR buddies >AND that he was a mental midget that couldn’t tie his own shoelaces without Darth Cheney’s help.

Nowadays, I don’t look back favorably on W’s presidency, even though I voted for him in 2004, but that sort of shit is fucking illogical and ridiculous.

Cognative dissonance isn’t a bug with fanatics it’s a feature.

108 thedopefishlives  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:37:32pm

re: #103 CuriousLurker

That reminds me of one of my all-time favorite Easter Bunny cartoons, heh:

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As a World of Warcraft player, this one is always good for a chuckle.

109 TedStriker  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:39:10pm

re: #107 PT Barnum

Cognative dissonance isn’t a bug with fanatics it’s a feature.

No shit…

110 PT Barnum  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:40:44pm

I never thought George was all that bright, just easily manipulated by Dick and the rest of his team into making stupid decisions.

111 RealityBasedSteve  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:45:38pm

I am really tired this evening. I don’t know who at Microsoft thinks that it’s a good idea to put almost 1000 pages of content into a class designed to be taught in 5 days. (an Intro to T-SQL 2012). I spent most of the week not ‘editing’ as I taught it, I was taking a chainsaw to whole sections at a whack. My students agreed with me, it was WAY too much stuff, they were brain-dead by Wednesday.

RBS

112 Mattand  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:46:38pm

re: #15 Killgore Trout

The historical trend is that the party out of the White House eventually takes over congress. Republicans probably would have taken over long ago if they hadn’t been Tea Partying and running nutty candidates. No, it’s not the end of the world.

True. However, I’d like to see the historical trend reversed this time.

It may not be the end of the world, but the nitwits who run the GOP have demonstrated they’re willing to fuck over the country because SCARY BLACK MAN IN WHITE HOUSE.

Call me crazy, but people who govern like that shouldn’t be allowed to drive the agenda.

113 dog philosopher  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 5:49:20pm

re: #112 Mattand

True. However, I’d like to see the historical trend reversed this time.

It may not be the end of the world, but the nitwits who run the GOP have demonstrated they’re willing to fuck over the country because SCARY BLACK MAN IN WHITE HOUSE.

Call me crazy, but people who govern like that shouldn’t be allowed to drive the agenda.

ok - you kwazy!

114 sagehen  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 7:38:56pm

re: #49 Lidane

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Could the right wing please make up their fucking minds? Either Obama is a weak, milquetoast mom jeans wearing laughingstock and coward that Putin is walking all over or he’s an evil, petty tyrant who forcibly silences his critics with IRS audits and drones and is running a criminal administration. HE CAN’T BE BOTH.

um… this Nixon they want to turn Obama into? Would that be the Nixon who brought us EPA, OSHA, Affirmative Action, Title IX, Titlx X, took over an unpopular Asian land war started six years before he took office and ended said war in his second term, put universal health care in front of Congress, supported and was supported by unions….

Is that the Nixon they want to compare him to? ‘Cause, um… maybe they have a point?

115 sagehen  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 7:44:15pm

re: #84 CuriousLurker

Heh, we all do it from time to time. Joseph is always the first person I think of when I hear the name Farah (usually immediately followed by the exiled former Shah’s last wife).

I’m a Philistine of a certain age. I hear “Farah” and think “Fawcett” (followed by, ‘aren’t there two r’s?’)

116 CuriousLurker  Fri, Mar 14, 2014 8:14:22pm

re: #115 sagehen

I’m a Philistine of a certain age. I hear “Farah” and think “Fawcett” (followed by, ‘aren’t there two r’s?’)

In Farrah Fawcett, yeah, but not in the original Arabic name as it’s not a rolling “r” sound.

BTW, thanks for the suggestion about The Americans series a few weeks back. I watched all the episodes the weekend after you mentioned it. I’m looking forward to the next season.


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