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1 Dark_Falcon  Apr 6, 2014 7:46:17pm

A very timely image from the Lizard Chest of Comic Lore.

2 nines09  Apr 6, 2014 7:49:27pm

Getting deeper into Marveldom. What a chest/box/sanctuary to find. I’m betting you have a ……
Scorpio izza bad guys.

3 freetoken  Apr 6, 2014 7:50:50pm

My, is that Contessa Valentina there on the left, with the extra large… brassiere?

4 nines09  Apr 6, 2014 7:53:14pm

re: #3 freetoken

My, is that Contessa Valentina there on the left, with the extra large… brassiere?

Yes and Yes and you bet. That is every 12 year old boys dream.

5 GeneJockey  Apr 6, 2014 7:53:21pm

re: #3 freetoken

My, is that Contessa Valentina there on the left, with the extra large… brassiere?

And tiny, tiny feet.

6 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 6, 2014 8:04:35pm

I wish my mom didn’t throw away all my comic books. I might have had some gems in there.

7 sagehen  Apr 6, 2014 8:10:21pm

re: #6 NJDhockeyfan

I wish my mom didn’t throw away all my comic books. I might have had some gems in there.

And your baseball cards.

8 Charles Johnson  Apr 6, 2014 8:12:42pm
9 Charles Johnson  Apr 6, 2014 8:14:07pm

And Greenwald’s cult members go, “Wow, that’s awesome considering it’s a right wing source!”

You can’t make this up.

10 Dark_Falcon  Apr 6, 2014 8:22:58pm

re: #9 Charles Johnson

And Greenwald’s cult members go, “Wow, that’s awesome considering it’s a right wing source!”

You can’t make this up.

Of course there’s the data point that that still only 24% of those polled favor giving Snowden amnesty,and the that likely voters think Greenwald’s antics are hurting national security.

The polling data is a good bit more complex than Greenwald makes out.

11 Kid A  Apr 6, 2014 8:34:27pm

A nice frame I shot of today’s Houston Open winner. He chipped this in from 50+ feet on the first playoff hole.

12 Kid A  Apr 6, 2014 8:35:11pm

And one more from the runner-up when he entered the final round with a four-shot lead (Matt Kuchar).

13 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 6, 2014 8:53:18pm

Mickey Rooney has died at age 93.
washingtonpost.com

14 Dark_Falcon  Apr 6, 2014 9:00:34pm

re: #13 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

Mickey Rooney has died at age 93.
washingtonpost.com

A good man who entertained multiple generations of Americans. May he rest in peace.

15 Shiplord Kirel  Apr 6, 2014 9:02:17pm

Mickey Rooney, show biz legend, dead at 93, report says

Mickey Rooney, a lifelong entertainer, child star and show business legend, has died, tmz.com reports. He was 93.

Rooney had been in poor health, the website said.

The Brooklyn native enjoyed nearly nine decades in the spotlight, appearing in scores of television programs, films and theater projects.

A prolific child star, Rooney played Andy Hardy in more than 20 “Hardy Boys” films.

16 Killgore Trout  Apr 6, 2014 9:13:55pm

Watching the season opener of Game of Thrones. I’m really not a fan of the fantasy genre with dragons and dwarves but the show is really exceptional. Great directing and dialogue. The writing is top notch and the character as all believable. The female characters are especially good and uniquely female in their strengths and weaknesses.
For such a well worn genre none of the characters or plot seem tired or clichéd.

17 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 6, 2014 10:00:54pm

re: #16 Killgore Trout

Watching the season opener of Game of Thrones. I’m really not a fan of the fantasy genre with dragons and dwarves but the show is really exceptional. Great directing and dialogue. The writing is top notch and the character as all believable. The female characters are especially good and uniquely female in their strengths and weaknesses.
For such a well worn genre none of the characters or plot seem tired or clichéd.

I’m a latecomer to GOT. I downloaded the Kindle version of the first book, but couldn’t get into it. tl;dr But a few days ago, I started watching Season 1 of the HBO series. My impressions are more favorable than my feelings about the book. Even though the first four eps cover events I’ve already read about, the acting and cinematography are compelling. Now that I have completed watching every NCIS episode to date, it’s time to tackle GOT.

18 darthstar  Apr 6, 2014 10:02:00pm

You go away for the weekend, and the Wampa thinks he owns the couch. (Our cleaning ladies have a sense of humor.)The Wampa takes the dogs’ spot on the couch while we’re away.

19 freetoken  Apr 6, 2014 10:05:16pm

Does anyone else listen to iTunes Radio?

I’ve not been able to get iTunes to connect to the Radio stations. It keeps telling me that the network couldn’t connect, but my internet connection is working, I can download podcasts in iTunes, etc. It’s just the Radio feature.

20 freetoken  Apr 6, 2014 10:07:22pm

re: #15 Shiplord Kirel

Wow, sorry to see him go.

He was one of the few remaining Hollywood golden era stars. Now since one of the de Havilland sisters has also passed that leaves very few from that era.

21 darthstar  Apr 6, 2014 10:12:29pm

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22 darthstar  Apr 6, 2014 10:12:53pm

re: #21 darthstar

Image: 10009296_10202392561068269_6747845226894193988_n.jpg

Yeah…that’s pretty fuckin’ mean, but hey, if it works.

23 Killgore Trout  Apr 6, 2014 10:17:24pm

re: #17 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

I’m a latecomer to GOT. I downloaded the Kindle version of the first book, but couldn’t get into it. tl;dr But a few days ago, I started watching Season 1 of the HBO series. My impressions are more favorable than my feelings about the book. Even though the first four eps cover events I’ve already read about, the acting and cinematography are compelling. Now that I have completed watching every NCIS episode to date, it’s time to tackle GOT.

Yeah, I kind of doubt I’d wade through the books but they did such a great job with the TV show that I’m a fan.

24 Killgore Trout  Apr 6, 2014 10:19:35pm

No spoilers but great dialogue from tonight’s GoT
You named your sword?
Lots of people name their swords.
Lots of ****s.

25 darthstar  Apr 6, 2014 10:22:51pm

I haven’t seen tonight’s Game of Thrones yet. But even if I read what happened, it won’t spoil it for me. It’s a fucking show. I watch it for the entertainment value and for the way the story is developed. If they kill Bran, fine…little fucker just makes everyone else drag him around all the time anyway. And so long as the scene where Bran gets offed is well made, there is no spoiler value in knowing beforehand that he dies.

26 darthstar  Apr 6, 2014 10:31:13pm
27 Single-handed sailor  Apr 6, 2014 10:52:40pm

re: #26 darthstar

Boom, headshot!

28 Kragar  Apr 6, 2014 11:10:51pm

Some where buried in a box at home, I have a bunch of “Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos” gathering dust

29 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 6, 2014 11:15:15pm

re: #28 Kragar

Some where buried in a box at home, I have a bunch of “Sgt Fury and his Howling Commandos” gathering dust

Joe Kubert artwork?

30 Kragar  Apr 6, 2014 11:17:19pm

re: #29 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

Joe Kubert artwork?

You’re thinking Sgt Rock.

Sgt Fury was Kirby and Ayers

31 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 6, 2014 11:18:56pm

re: #30 Kragar

You’re thinking Sgt Rock.

Sgt Fury was Kirby and Ayers

Ahh, right.

32 Kragar  Apr 6, 2014 11:19:31pm

Had a bunch of the early Thor “Journey into Mystery” as well.

33 Kragar  Apr 6, 2014 11:42:02pm

Fun Fact: Sgt Fury was the first modern comic where a hero was killed in action. Prior to this, it was unthinkable for a good guy to die in comics.

34 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 7, 2014 12:12:32am

re: #33 Kragar

I had a fairly large collection of DC that I eventually sold off. I have a few choice issues stored at my son’s house in the States, though. Like a lot of kids in the 1960s, I got hooked on comics, but being an only child meant I could protect them from rougher handling than what I gave them. Given that my parents were bookworms and rarely threw any books away meant I had a collection dating from 1964 to about 1971, about the time I lost interest in reading comics.

For a while, I thought I’d hang on to them forever, but realized I didn’t have the space or the means to keep them protected forever. So, I took a deep breath and sold them to various people. I made a tidy profit, for sure.

My fondness for comic books hasn’t faded, but keeping up with the last 40 years of development in the industry is almost impossible. But, it’s been great to see some of those classic characters come to life on the silver screen.

35 Kragar  Apr 7, 2014 12:40:51am

re: #34 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

I had a fairly large collection of DC that I eventually sold off. I have a few choice issues stored at my son’s house in the States, though. Like a lot of kids in the 1960s, I got hooked on comics, but being an only child meant I could protect them from rougher handling than what I gave them. Given that my parents were bookworms and rarely threw any books away meant I had a collection dating from 1964 to about 1971, about the time I lost interest in reading comics.

For a while, I thought I’d hang on to them forever, but realized I didn’t have the space or the means to keep them protected forever. So, I took a deep breath and sold them to various people. I made a tidy profit, for sure.

My fondness for comic books hasn’t faded, but keeping up with the last 40 years of development in the industry is almost impossible. But, it’s been great to see some of those classic characters come to life on the silver screen.

I was a pretty avid collector back in the 80s and it was one of the few activities my brother and I shared, with me being 9 years older than him. I handed over the collection to him when I joined the Marines. I remember when we used to hit yard sales and swap meets and find all sorts of great old stuff.

The pride of my collection was an X-Men #14 in good condition which I picked up at a yard sale for a dime because a mom was clearing out her son’s room since he was going to college and figured she could get rid of some old junk.

36 Kragar  Apr 7, 2014 12:57:09am

Now the single greatest moment ever in Thor was issue 362, and the death of Skurge the Executioner:

37 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 7, 2014 2:37:29am

re: #35 Kragar

I was a pretty avid collector back in the 80s and it was one of the few activities my brother and I shared, with me being 9 years older than him. I handed over the collection to him when I joined the Marines. I remember when we used to hit yard sales and swap meets and find all sorts of great old stuff.

The pride of my collection was an X-Men #14 in good condition which I picked up at a yard sale for a dime because a mom was clearing out her son’s room since he was going to college and figured she could get rid of some old junk.

I have often hoped to find such treasures at yard sales, but my current location precludes such activities. Ditto my dream of finding some long-unused classic automobile sitting in someone’s barn or garage.

38 FemNaziBitch  Apr 7, 2014 2:48:58am

It’s morning, I think.

I mean, it’s dark.

you know.

39 Decatur Deb  Apr 7, 2014 4:21:09am

Slate’s Bad Astronomer discusses the skydiver/meteoroid encounter, gives a positive Snopes:

slate.com

Includes a couple good images.

40 FemNaziBitch  Apr 7, 2014 4:41:11am

going to try to go back to sleep.

41 AntonSirius  Apr 7, 2014 4:47:17am

OK, fine, I’ll be that guy.

“Gee, look how faded that Nick Fury cover is. He even looks white! Hyuk-yuk-yuk.”

42 freetoken  Apr 7, 2014 5:03:02am

Speaking of Marveldom:

Captain America, McCarthyite

43 freetoken  Apr 7, 2014 5:06:33am

Since we discussed the throne earlier:

What would happen if Prince Charles was made king?

It sort of sounds like an interesting play.

44 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 7, 2014 5:18:53am

Good morning Lizards!

A fairly nice weekend in Philadelphia with no rain and temps hitting the low 60s yesterday and down into the 40s and high 30s overnight. Only supposed to hit the low 50s today and a chance of rain in the afternoon.

Spent Saturday playing board games at a game store since it was International Tabletop Gaming Day. :)

Sunday was spent doing some apartment cleaning and also a walk out and about Center City; visited a bakery, drank coffee, sat in a park watching pick-up basketball, walked along the river, took a few pictures, etc.

How’d everyone else do this weekend?*

* - I see from other comments that a lot of folk went and saw “Captain America: The Winter Soldier”.

45 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 7, 2014 5:21:43am

I wonder how much the Kochs are paying Ted Cruz to shill for them.

46 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 7, 2014 5:29:29am

re: #45 Pie-onist Overlord

I wonder how much the Kochs are paying Ted Cruz to shill for them.

Is there some reason I believe without looking it up that the term “Great American Energy Renaissance” is going to be unregulated oil and gas drilling without concerns about environmental impact? And possibly combined with eliminating pollution controls for use of coal?

47 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 7, 2014 5:31:03am

re: #46 Feline Fearless Leader

Is there some reason I believe without looking it up that the term “Great American Energy Renaissance” is going to be unregulated oil and gas drilling without concerns about environmental impact? And possibly combined with eliminating pollution controls for use of coal?

I thought the same thing.

Can’t even get to the article which is behind the paywall.

48 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 7, 2014 5:34:04am

I can tell you what the article says without even reading it:

MOAR FRACKING EVERYWHERE!!!! & NO MOAR REGULASHUNZ & YOONYUNZ!!!!!!!

49 Targetpractice  Apr 7, 2014 5:37:25am

re: #46 Feline Fearless Leader

Is there some reason I believe without looking it up that the term “Great American Energy Renaissance” is going to be unregulated oil and gas drilling without concerns about environmental impact? And possibly combined with eliminating pollution controls for use of coal?

And Keystone XL. Don’t forget that particular millstone. They refuse to entertain any “energy policy” that doesn’t include their sugar daddy’s big investment finally getting built.

50 Eventual Carrion  Apr 7, 2014 5:38:42am

WHO IS SCORPIO?

I was going to say Al Pacino, but that was Serpico.

51 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 7, 2014 5:39:25am
52 Dark_Falcon  Apr 7, 2014 5:40:10am

re: #45 Pie-onist Overlord

I wonder how much the Kochs are paying Ted Cruz to shill for them.

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Why would they need shills to make their views known when Charles Koch wrote an op-ed in that same publication on April 2nd? That op-ed is here.

53 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 7, 2014 5:40:35am

re: #50 Eventual Carrion

WHO IS SCORPIO?

I was going to say Al Pacino, but that was Serpico.

Didn’t Dirty Harry kill him? Or was that someone simply claiming to be Scorpio?

54 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 7, 2014 5:40:52am

re: #52 Dark_Falcon

Why would they need shills to make their views known when Charles Koch wrote an op-ed in that same publication on April 2nd? That op-ed is here.

Ted feels he has to earn his shill money.

55 Dark_Falcon  Apr 7, 2014 5:42:22am

re: #53 Feline Fearless Leader

Didn’t Dirty Harry kill him? Or was that someone simply claiming to be Scorpio?

Callahan killed him. .44 Magnum Jacketed Hollow Point to the chest.

56 Dark_Falcon  Apr 7, 2014 5:46:43am

re: #54 Pie-onist Overlord

Question: In his op-ed, Mr. koch uses a Thomas Jefferson quote that I’ll highlight in an excerpt. Could you kindly tell me if its real or fake? The quote is in italics.

A truly free society is based on a vision of respect for people and what they value. In a truly free society, any business that disrespects its customers will fail, and deserves to do so. The same should be true of any government that disrespects its citizens. The central belief and fatal conceit of the current administration is that you are incapable of running your own life, but those in power are capable of running it for you. This is the essence of big government and collectivism.

More than 200 years ago, Thomas Jefferson warned that this could happen. “The natural progress of things,” Jefferson wrote, “is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.” He knew that no government could possibly run citizens’ lives for the better. The more government tries to control, the greater the disaster, as shown by the current health-care debacle. Collectivists (those who stand for government control of the means of production and how people live their lives) promise heaven but deliver hell. For them, the promised end justifies the means.

Instead of encouraging free and open debate, collectivists strive to discredit and intimidate opponents. They engage in character assassination. (I should know, as the almost daily target of their attacks.) This is the approach that Arthur Schopenhauer described in the 19th century, that Saul Alinsky famously advocated in the 20th, and that so many despots have infamously practiced. Such tactics are the antithesis of what is required for a free society—and a telltale sign that the collectivists do not have good answers.

57 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 7, 2014 5:50:39am

re: #56 Dark_Falcon

Looks like an accurate quote.

Link is to Monticello site, and also has the entire letter that the one sentence was pulled out of.

monticello.org

And it appears to me that the context Jefferson is referring to is related to discussion of that Constitution (currently under construction in 1788) and that there is insufficient concern about limiting the number of terms a man may serve as POTUS. Obviously Jefferson had looked into his crystal ball and seen FDR coming.

58 Eventual Carrion  Apr 7, 2014 5:54:42am

re: #53 Feline Fearless Leader

Didn’t Dirty Harry kill him? Or was that someone simply claiming to be Scorpio?

He was a fake. He didn’t feel lucky.

59 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Apr 7, 2014 5:55:08am

re: #56 Dark_Falcon

Question: In his op-ed, Mr. koch uses a Thomas Jefferson quote that I’ll highlight in an excerpt. Could you kindly tell me if its real or fake? The quote is in italics.

Koch is using it completely out of context and distorting its meaning.

The 2d amendment which appears to me essential is the restoring the principle of necessary rotation, particularly to the Senate & Presidency: but most of all to the last. Re-eligibility makes him an officer for life, and the disastors inseparable from an elective monarchy, render it preferable, if we cannot tread back that step, that we should go forward & take refuge in an hereditary one.

Of the correction of this Article however I entertain no present hope, because I find it has scarcely excited an objection in America. And if it does not take place ere long, it assuredly never will. The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, & government to gain ground.

So two important things to note:

1. Jefferson was talking about term limits.
2. Jefferson was wrong, we did institute presidential term limits.

So Koch is quoting Jefferson out of context, and it’s a time when Jefferson was wrong. And counting on ignorance to pass this by people.

To be fair, he’s probably ignorant about it too, he probably doesn’t actually have any real knowledge or respect for Jefferson, but just uses him as a quote-mine.

60 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 7, 2014 5:58:11am

re: #59 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Koch is using it completely out of context and distorting its meaning.

So two important things to note:

1. Jefferson was talking about term limits.
2. Jefferson was wrong, we did institute presidential term limits.

So Koch is quoting Jefferson out of context, and it’s a time when Jefferson was wrong. And counting on ignorance to pass this by people.

To be fair, he’s probably ignorant about it too, he probably doesn’t actually have any real knowledge or respect for Jefferson, but just uses him as a quote-mine.

Well, we didn’t institute Presidential term limits for another 150+ years. We just benefited from Washington establishing a 2-term tradition that held up for that period.

61 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 7, 2014 5:58:17am

The Kochs don’t even realize it, but they are the despots that Jefferson was warning about.

62 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Apr 7, 2014 6:01:23am

re: #60 Feline Fearless Leader

Well, we didn’t institute Presidential term limits for another 150+ years. We just benefited from Washington establishing a 2-term tradition that held up for that period.

The fact we instituted it after 150 years is an even stronger rejoinder to Jefferson, really. And it happened after the first time anyone did violate the unwritten rule on term limits.

Jefferson was wrong about a lot of stuff. All of the founders were. It’s not their fault, but the scientific revolution had just barely gotten started, ideas of human nature were still innately moralistic, etc. etc.

63 Justanotherhuman  Apr 7, 2014 6:01:32am

re: #50 Eventual Carrion

WHO IS SCORPIO?

I was going to say Al Pacino, but that was Serpico.

It’s a nightclub in Charlotte. I went there a few times in the early 70s w/lesbian friends when it was only a gay-lesbian dance club. You wouldn’t have known it was a “gay” club unless you saw people of the same sex dancing and maybe snuggling at a table. According to its site, it now seems glitzier and more show-oriented and it’s still in the same neighborhood it always was, on Freedom Dr near Berryhill Rd. Because it’s below street level, you can’t see much in you’re whizzing by in traffic, although there is a sign.

thescorpio.com

Some of the reviews haven’t been kind.

citysearch.com

64 Lidane  Apr 7, 2014 6:03:43am

re: #61 Pie-onist Overlord

The Kochs don’t even realize it, but they are the despots that Jefferson was warning about.

Oh, they realize it. They just don’t want anyone else to notice.

65 Dark_Falcon  Apr 7, 2014 6:06:48am

re: #61 Pie-onist Overlord

The Kochs don’t even realize it, but they are the despots that Jefferson was warning about.

How do you figure that?

66 Flounder  Apr 7, 2014 6:07:38am

re: #62 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

What were they wrong about? Slavery for one, what else?

67 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 7, 2014 6:09:26am

Last night I downloaded this App, BUYCOTT, to check products made by Koch to make sure I don’t support them.

When I opened the App the first thing that I saw was BOYCOTT ISRAEL, SUPPORT PALESTINE.

Fuck that, I immediately deleted the app and now I’m boycotting BUYCOTT.

I will just have to find other, low tech ways to avoid Koch products.

Dixie cups, Vanity Fair napkins, Brawny paper towels, Angel Soft toilet paper.

Proctor & Gamble products are a competitor to Koch.

68 Dark_Falcon  Apr 7, 2014 6:15:30am

Foreign Policy prints the Photoshop we all knew on some level was coming as part of this article on the Ukraine Crisis:

Vladimir Putin Takes the Iron Throne

69 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 7, 2014 6:16:50am

re: #67 Pie-onist Overlord

Last night I downloaded this App, BUYCOTT, to check products made by Koch to make sure I don’t support them.

When I opened the App the first thing that I saw was BOYCOTT ISRAEL, SUPPORT PALESTINE.

Fuck that, I immediately deleted the app and now I’m boycotting BUYCOTT.

I will just have to find other, low tech ways to avoid Koch products.

Dixie cups, Vanity Fair napkins, Brawny paper towels, Angel Soft toilet paper.

Proctor & Gamble products are a competitor to Koch.

dKos had a diary about Koch products, with a short list.

70 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Apr 7, 2014 6:17:32am

re: #66 Flounder

What were they wrong about? Slavery for one, what else?

Seriously?

First of all, ‘they’ disagreed with each other on a lot of things.

Second of all, I’d say the idea of the states as ‘laboratories of democracy’ has been shown to be a horrible bust. Very occasionally, you get a positive thing that a state does in comparison to the federal government, but in general ‘states rights’ has meant oppression of minorities and race-to-the-bottom regulation.

Which brings the third, the fucked-up-way we appoint senators, so that the tiny population of Wyoming has as much influence in the US as the entire population of California. The ‘states’, even if one thinks they have value, were not created in anything like a rational or sensible way, but just pretty much random chunks of land.

The idea that we would not need a standing army, or that militias would continue to be useful, was also wrong.

That’s just off the top of my head.

71 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 7, 2014 6:18:18am

re: #69 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

dKos had a diary about Koch products, with a short list.

boycottkochbrothers.com

72 Flounder  Apr 7, 2014 6:19:18am

re: #70 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Sorry to bother you o great one.

73 Eventual Carrion  Apr 7, 2014 6:19:49am

re: #67 Pie-onist Overlord

[snip]

I will just have to find other, low tech ways to avoid Koch products.

Dixie cups, Vanity Fair napkins, Brawny paper towels, Angel Soft toilet paper.

Proctor & Gamble products are a competitor to Koch.

Isn’t Proctor & Gamble of the devil?

//

74 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Apr 7, 2014 6:20:22am

re: #72 Flounder

Sorry to bother you o great one.

What the hell are you talking about? Why are you saying ‘o great one’?

75 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 7, 2014 6:21:31am

re: #73 Eventual Carrion

Isn’t Proctor & Gamble of the devil?

//

ALL THE MORE REASON TO BUY FROM THEM!!!!

Cincinnati=City of the Beast

76 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 7, 2014 6:23:02am

re: #71 Pie-onist Overlord

boycottkochbrothers.com

OK. Easier than tracking down the dKos article. Since Koch enterprises have not yet penetrated the Hunan, China, market (AFAIK), I have been boycotting them for the past several years without really trying.

Oh, I do have a small frypan with Teflon coating. oops!

77 Dr Lizardo  Apr 7, 2014 6:24:35am

New Godzilla trailer here.

Youtube Video

Shut up and take my money.

78 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 7, 2014 6:31:50am

Wingnut Talking Point Du Jour:
JAY Z IS TEH RACIST!!!!!!
Wingnuts have failed to keep a running total of the number of White People that Jay Z has bought, sold, or lynched.

79 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Apr 7, 2014 6:32:09am

Fixing Rehab:

It’s a non-very-well-kept secret that AA and other rehab programs don’t work. This nifty guy, however, has used sociological approaches to review the current treatment methodologies and found the very few that does work, and has set up a system for rating centers based on how well they comply with that working model. The solution, as he says, isn’t ‘rocket science’, it starts with competent people and not hewing rigidly to an ideology.

nbcnews.com

80 Ian G.  Apr 7, 2014 6:32:40am

Morning, lizards. Woke up to a smoke smell in Brooklyn this morning, and still noticed it as I got off the subway in Manhattan, but given that life was proceeding as normal without closed subway lines or emergency vehicles everywhere, I immediately thought one thing: “Jersey. Something is burning in New Jersey.”

Yup:

silive.com

It’s crazy that a forest fire down near Atlantic City could be smelled here. Also, forest fire? We haven’t had anything close to dry weather recently. Not sure how anything could be burning.

81 Ian G.  Apr 7, 2014 6:34:44am

re: #78 Pie-onist Overlord

Wingnut Talking Point Du Jour:
JAY Z IS TEH RACIST!!!!!!
Wingnuts have failed to keep a running total of the number of White People that Jay Z has bought, sold, or lynched.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Jay-Z should be a conservative icon: someone who came from the utterly failed liberal social program that is the NYC housing projects who pulled himself up by his bootstraps to become a multi-millionaire businessman.

But the GOP is first and foremost a white nationalist party. The ideals of self-reliance and discipline and entrepreneurship are a smokescreen.

82 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 7, 2014 6:36:07am

re: #81 Ian G.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Jay-Z should be a conservative icon: someone who came from the utterly failed liberal social program that is the NYC housing projects who pulled himself up by his bootstraps to become a multi-millionaire businessman.

But the GOP is first and foremost a white nationalist party. The ideals of self-reliance and discipline and entrepreneurship are a smokescreen.

That’s obvious since they still keep taking Donald Trump semi-seriously as a potential political figure.
/

83 lawhawk  Apr 7, 2014 6:37:31am

re: #77 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, that looks good. Backstory is a wee bit different (namely that the atomic testing in the 1950s/1960s wasn’t what created the kaiju. It’s our attempts to kill what we found in the Pacific.

Other movies that look good this summer? Guardians of the Galaxy (what a bunch of a-holes). Scarjo’s Lucy looks like a real mind trip - Luc Besson’s got a most impressive visual style, and this looks to be a worthy successor to Fifth Element on that front.

Saw Winter Soldier this weekend, and I give it a hearty two thumbs up. More than your usual comic book fare. It’s a political thriller dressed up as a comic book movie. Real depth of characters, including Black Widow. Robert Redford definitely chewed up the scenery, and it was glorious. I was half expecting him to rip off a mask to reveal Red Skull, but that would have been too much. There was enough humor and playful teases to other parts of the Marvel Universe, to say nothing of pop culture (and no, there’s no spoilers to be given away here other than Sam Jackson having to leave references to his other famous movie characters along the way).

84 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 7, 2014 6:38:22am

re: #81 Ian G.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Jay-Z should be a conservative icon: someone who came from the utterly failed liberal social program that is the NYC housing projects who pulled himself up by his bootstraps to become a multi-millionaire businessman.

But the GOP is first and foremost a white nationalist party. The ideals of self-reliance and discipline and entrepreneurship are a smokescreen.

Or recognizing the same efforts by a certain president, I might add.

85 Eventual Carrion  Apr 7, 2014 6:39:00am

re: #79 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Fixing Rehab:

It’s a non-very-well-kept secret that AA and other rehab programs don’t work. This nifty guy, however, has used sociological approaches to review the current treatment methodologies and found the very few that does work, and has set up a system for rating centers based on how well they comply with that working model. The solution, as he says, isn’t ‘rocket science’, it starts with competent people and not hewing rigidly to an ideology.

nbcnews.com

From what I understand, the guy that came up with the AA program thought that alcoholism was an allergy. That kinda made me giggle since one of the prevailing treatment for allergies is to introduce the allergen frequently until the body builds up an immunity to its reaction to it.

86 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Apr 7, 2014 6:40:52am

re: #85 Eventual Carrion

From what I understand, the guy that came up with the AA program thought that alcoholism was an allergy. That kinda made me giggle since one of the prevailing treatment for allergies is to introduce the allergen frequently until the body builds up an immunity to its reaction to it.

I don’t know what he thought physically, but it’s clear from the 12 steps he mainly viewed it as a spiritual problem.

87 lawhawk  Apr 7, 2014 6:41:06am

Whoops. Wrong one.

This is the one I wanted to include.

That means that the New Mexico Supreme Court ruling will stand. We’re talking about the top New Mexico court ruling on a New Mexico law, which means they’re the ones with the final say. The photographers tried appealing to the US Supreme Court on federal grounds, claiming that they have 1st Amendment rights to, well, discriminate.

The court declined to hear it. They couldn’t get 4 justices to agree to take up the case.

So, that means that the New Mexico law stands.

88 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 7, 2014 6:43:43am

re: #87 lawhawk

Sounds like living in a town in northern New York state. You knew it was an east wind when you could smell the paper plant located across the river in Ontario. It also meant that the fluorides coming out of the smelter stacks from ALCOA and Reynolds were headed our way as well — but that was not common knowledge at the time.

89 Political Atheist  Apr 7, 2014 6:43:46am

Oh ouch. Just saw the end of a vehicle pursuit on local news. The guy running ran into a police car and knocked himself out cold. The CHP officers force the bent door open, see this slck jawed unconscious person who is absolutely motionless, eyes closed and forcibly face plant him on the pavement for cuffs. If that guy has a neck/spinal problem from the crash it probably just got a lot worse.

I get these guys are all wound up from the chase but yeesh. Get a handle on the adrenaline physiology. Understand how to act smart under a full blown adrenal rush.

90 Dr Lizardo  Apr 7, 2014 6:44:13am

re: #83 lawhawk

Yeah, that looks good. Backstory is a wee bit different (namely that the atomic testing in the 1950s/1960s wasn’t what created the kaiju. It’s our attempts to kill what we found in the Pacific.

Other movies that look good this summer? Guardians of the Galaxy (what a bunch of a-holes). Scarjo’s Lucy looks like a real mind trip - Luc Besson’s got a most impressive visual style, and this looks to be a worthy successor to Fifth Element on that front.

Saw Winter Soldier this weekend, and I give it a hearty two thumbs up. More than your usual comic book fare. It’s a political thriller dressed up as a comic book movie. Real depth of characters, including Black Widow. Robert Redford definitely chewed up the scenery, and it was glorious. I was half expecting him to rip off a mask to reveal Red Skull, but that would have been too much. There was enough humor and playful teases to other parts of the Marvel Universe, to say nothing of pop culture (and no, there’s no spoilers to be given away here other than Sam Jackson having to leave references to his other famous movie characters along the way).

I’m going to have see Winter Soldier; it’s been getting rave reviews, and I certainly enjoyed the first one as well.

I like what they did regarding the Godzilla backstory; that the various atomic tests in the 1950s in the Pacific were attempts to kill it - and obviously, not terribly successful attempts either.

Guardians of the Galaxy is on my “must-see” list as well.

91 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 7, 2014 6:45:30am
92 darthstar  Apr 7, 2014 6:46:24am

Speaking of super heroes…

Captain Puerto!

93 Lidane  Apr 7, 2014 6:47:03am

re: #84 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

Or recognizing the same efforts by a certain president, I might add.

I was just about to say this. Barack Obama is an Eisenhower Republican in all but name and a great example of someone who didn’t come from wealth and worked hard to get where he is. You won’t hear the RWNJs say any of that, though.

94 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 7, 2014 6:51:32am

re: #93 Lidane

I was just about to say this. Barack Obama is an Eisenhower Republican in all but name and a great example of someone who didn’t come from wealth and worked hard to get where he is. You won’t hear the RWNJs say any of that, though.

One difference between Obama and Ike, is that the top tax bracket in Ike’s time was 90%.

96 Targetpractice  Apr 7, 2014 6:53:58am

re: #81 Ian G.

I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Jay-Z should be a conservative icon: someone who came from the utterly failed liberal social program that is the NYC housing projects who pulled himself up by his bootstraps to become a multi-millionaire businessman.

But the GOP is first and foremost a white nationalist party. The ideals of self-reliance and discipline and entrepreneurship are a smokescreen.

Yeah, long gone are the days when the GOP was the party of the working man, the blue collar guy, and progressive civil rights. That started to change in ‘64 with Goldwater and the slow creep of “states rights,” and became effective in ‘80 with Reagan and the “Moral Majority.” These days, unless your personal wealth is at least eight figures and your income measured in stock options, then the modern GOP has no time for you. If anything, they view you as what’s wrong with America, because even the middle class eventually draws on SS and Medicare, and the GOP views both as a form of welfare until they succeed in “privatizing” them.

97 Eventual Carrion  Apr 7, 2014 6:55:09am

re: #95 Varek Raith

Fox News floats trial balloon that Mitt Romney might make third run for president

Hard to give up what you have been doing the last 10 years I guess. Not a bad gig if you can get it and make it pay off.

98 Lidane  Apr 7, 2014 6:55:55am

re: #94 Pie-onist Overlord

One difference between Obama and Ike, is that the top tax bracket in Ike’s time was 90%.

True. And if any POTUS from either party ever tried to send the tax rates back to those levels, there would be a mutiny. If Obama tried it — which he won’t — the outcry would be exponentially more insane than what he usually gets.

99 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 7, 2014 6:56:14am
100 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 7, 2014 6:56:16am

re: #97 Eventual Carrion

Hard to give up what you have been doing the last 10 years I guess. Not a bad gig if you can get it and make it pay off.

And then we get a raft of primary commercials of the interview with his wife saying that he really didn’t want to be President.

Campaign is DOA.

101 Targetpractice  Apr 7, 2014 6:57:09am

re: #95 Varek Raith

Fox News floats trial balloon that Mitt Romney might make third run for president

What’s his campaign slogan? “Third Time’s The Charm”?

102 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 7, 2014 6:57:13am

re: #93 Lidane

I was just about to say this. Barack Obama is an Eisenhower Republican in all but name and a great example of someone who didn’t come from wealth and worked hard to get where he is. You won’t hear the RWNJs say any of that, though.

If he was white and his name were more Anglo, they would maybe tolerate him as a Democrat, or at least acknowledge his success as an example of the American Dream. As it is, he is the Other, and RWNJs try to find every reason in their fevered imaginations to deny his accomplishments.

People in years hence will shake their heads in wonderment at the idiocy and hatred within Obama’s opposition.

103 darthstar  Apr 7, 2014 6:57:39am

re: #99 NJDhockeyfan

Ooh…is there a parade?

104 Lidane  Apr 7, 2014 6:58:18am

re: #95 Varek Raith

Fox News floats trial balloon that Mitt Romney might make third run for president

Romneybot 3.0, now with Windows 8!

////

105 Targetpractice  Apr 7, 2014 6:59:04am

re: #102 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

If he was white and his name were more Anglo, they would maybe tolerate him as a Democrat, or at least acknowledge his success as an example of the American Dream. As it is, he is the Other, and RWNJs try to find every reason in their fevered imaginations to deny his accomplishments.

People in years hence will shake their heads in wonderment at the idiocy and hatred within Obama’s opposition.

Hell, if he were a Republican, they’d…oh, who am I kidding? If he were a Republican, he’d have been sharing the bench with Huntsman as an also-ran.

107 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 7, 2014 6:59:58am

re: #95 Varek Raith

Even Don Quijote gave up tilting at windmills. Mitt ought to emulate him, in many ways, in fact.

108 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 7, 2014 7:00:13am

re: #104 Lidane

Romneybot 3.0, now with Windows 8!

////

A touch-based OS in an Romneybot?

O_o

109 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 7, 2014 7:00:52am

re: #103 darthstar

Ooh…is there a parade?

Ukraine is providing the jet flyover…

110 Varek Raith  Apr 7, 2014 7:00:57am

re: #104 Lidane

Romneybot 3.0, now with Windows 8!

////

RomneyBot 1.0 - Windows ME
RomneyBot 2.0 - Windows Vista

111 Lidane  Apr 7, 2014 7:02:23am

re: #108 Feline Fearless Leader

A touch-based OS in an Romneybot?

O_o

Maybe it’s part of an empathy chip installation? I don’t know. I’m just spitballing here.

Either way, Romneybot 3.0 will be as popular as Windows 8.

112 Varek Raith  Apr 7, 2014 7:02:30am

re: #109 NJDhockeyfan

Ukraine is providing the jet flyover…

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MiG 29s, I believe.

113 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 7, 2014 7:03:26am
114 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 7, 2014 7:06:34am
115 GunstarGreen  Apr 7, 2014 7:14:48am

re: #104 Lidane

Romneybot 3.0, now with Windows 8!

////

I was born in the Election Cycle, you merely adopted it!

116 Justanotherhuman  Apr 7, 2014 7:16:42am

Supreme Court declines to hear constitutional challenge to the NSA’s bulk collection of millions of Americans’ telephone records - @AP
end of alert

“Conservative lawyer Larry Klayman persuaded a federal judge in December to rule that the agency’s activities likely violate the Constitution’s ban on unreasonable searches. The justices on Monday rejected Klayman’s unusual request to bypass the traditional appeals process and hear the case immediately.

“Klayman says the case is too important to wait for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to reach a decision. The district court judge granted an injunction against the NSA, but put it on hold pending a government appeal.

“The Obama administration has defended the NSA program as a crucial tool against terrorism.”

bigstory.ap.org

117 Lidane  Apr 7, 2014 7:19:02am
118 Justanotherhuman  Apr 7, 2014 7:21:18am

Previously…

Dan Peleschuk ‏@dpeleschuk 57m

Love this: Kharkiv separatists stormed opera house, apparently thinking it was City Hall. That tells you something. echo.msk.ru …

So, you know they weren’t from the area… : )

119 Targetpractice  Apr 7, 2014 7:24:11am

re: #118 Justanotherhuman

[Embedded content]

Previously…

Dan Peleschuk ‏@dpeleschuk 57m

Love this: Kharkiv separatists stormed opera house, apparently thinking it was City Hall. That tells you something. echo.msk.ru …

So, you know they weren’t from the area… : )

Something tells me that, if you check them, most will have Russian passports on them.

120 Dark_Falcon  Apr 7, 2014 7:30:33am

re: #119 Targetpractice

Something tells me that, if you check them, most will have Russian passports on them.

No, they won’t have been that foolish. Their passports will be at a safehouse somewhere.

but if those guys really are Airborne or Naval Infantry, then taking that building back by force will be very ugly. Those units are quite good.

121 Lidane  Apr 7, 2014 7:31:22am
122 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 7, 2014 7:33:23am
123 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 7, 2014 7:33:53am
124 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 7, 2014 7:34:30am

re: #121 Lidane

Is that the American Healthcare Counterreformation Act?

125 Lidane  Apr 7, 2014 7:34:37am
126 Dark_Falcon  Apr 7, 2014 7:36:03am

re: #124 Feline Fearless Leader

Is that the American Healthcare Counterreformation Act?

Counter-Reformation would promoted by Rick Santorum.

/3 updings to however gets this one.

127 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 7, 2014 7:36:42am

Ted Cruz & entourage kneel on pads to protect their delicate kneecaps, as they “pray” for poor people to not have health insurance.

128 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 7, 2014 7:39:20am

re: #126 Dark_Falcon

Counter-Reformation would promoted by Rick Santorum.

/3 updings to however gets this one.

Opus Dei

129 Justanotherhuman  Apr 7, 2014 7:40:06am

Along with Laura Poitras…but why not GG? This has to burn. Just shows you how arbitrary these “prizes” tend to be, too. Why not someone who didn’t commit criminal acts and is facing awful charges?

Snowden to Receive Truth-Telling Prize

nytimes.com

“In describing the decision-making process, Danielle Brian, a member of the selection committee, said that the committee felt that Ms. Poitras had “been underappreciated — if not for Laura, we would not know Edward Snowden’s name.”

Well, yes, she was up to her neck in this theft, but you have to remember, Ms. Brian, that the Dudebros™ totally control this scheme.

130 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 7, 2014 7:41:33am

re: #127 Pie-onist Overlord

Many Christians do not feel it necessary to kneel. Besides, prayer is supposedly a private thing, according to some guy from Bethlehem.

131 EmmaAnne  Apr 7, 2014 7:42:31am

We saw Winter Soldier yesterday and enjoyed it a lot. Lots of Black Widow, which I was hoping for, but I was a little disappointed that they didn’t showcase what was so cool about her from The Avengers - her ability to interrogate people by getting inside their heads. She was awesome in all other respects though.

Spoiler

In some versions of the Marvel-verse she had a weaker version of the super-soldier serum. I wonder if that will turn out to be the case here. She certainly was able to recover from injuries remarkably fast and well - not that accuracy in such matters is de rigueur in action films!

I also thought the main reveal could have been a little bit more interesting.

Spoiler

The fact that SHIELD was almost entirely under the control of HYDRA made the choice to blow it up too easy, I thought. It would have been a more interesting decision if there were more of value in SHIELD to keep.

132 Decatur Deb  Apr 7, 2014 7:44:07am

re: #130 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

Many Christians do not feel it necessary to kneel. Besides, prayer is supposedly a private thing, according to some guy from Bethlehem.

Just fulfilling their gospel role—Pharisees.

133 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 7, 2014 7:44:53am

re: #112 Varek Raith

MiG 29s, I believe.

Su-27s?

134 wheat-doggha -- oo bird outside my window  Apr 7, 2014 7:45:28am

re: #132 Decatur Deb

Just fulfilling their gospel role—Pharisees.

Yeah. The hypocrisy within the RR is wide and deep.

135 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 7, 2014 7:46:29am
136 Varek Raith  Apr 7, 2014 7:56:24am

re: #133 NJDhockeyfan

Su-27s?

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Yep, could be them as well. Never realized just how similar the two are.
Well, I’d go with the the tweet says.

137 Justanotherhuman  Apr 7, 2014 7:59:00am

re: #129 Justanotherhuman

This, of course, is part of the campaign to push for a Pulitzer for Snowden and/or others.

The Ridenhour prize has a $10K award, but Moscow is expensive, and a Pulitzer would also pay $10K, plus more recognition.

138 Dark_Falcon  Apr 7, 2014 8:02:02am

re: #128 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

Opus Dei

You got it, the updings have been given.

139 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 7, 2014 8:03:29am

re: #132 Decatur Deb

Just fulfilling their gospel role—Pharisees.

No, not really. HE usually looked at them as trying to live up to the Torah but not succeeding by His standards. He then, in certain ways, set even harder standards that 99% of us Christians fail to meet. But that is what we are to live up to even when we know we’ll fail.

So while I get what you’re trying to say, I won’t besmirch the Pharisees with a comparison to the modern religious right

140 Romantic Heretic  Apr 7, 2014 8:03:40am

re: #17 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

I’m a latecomer to GOT. I downloaded the Kindle version of the first book, but couldn’t get into it. tl;dr But a few days ago, I started watching Season 1 of the HBO series. My impressions are more favorable than my feelings about the book. Even though the first four eps cover events I’ve already read about, the acting and cinematography are compelling. Now that I have completed watching every NCIS episode to date, it’s time to tackle GOT.

Don’t get attached to any characters. Martin’s characters are lucky if they die.

141 Justanotherhuman  Apr 7, 2014 8:04:07am

Still liking it in Russia, Snowden?

NATO to deny access to its headquarters to Russian diplomats except for the Russian ambassador to NATO, his deputy and 2 support staff - @Reuters
end of alert

142 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 7, 2014 8:04:19am

re: #136 Varek Raith

Yep, could be them as well. Never realized just how similar the two are.

Big difference is size and they’d need to be closer to be sure.

143 aagcobb  Apr 7, 2014 8:04:25am

re: #79 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Fixing Rehab:

It’s a non-very-well-kept secret that AA and other rehab programs don’t work. This nifty guy, however, has used sociological approaches to review the current treatment methodologies and found the very few that does work, and has set up a system for rating centers based on how well they comply with that working model. The solution, as he says, isn’t ‘rocket science’, it starts with competent people and not hewing rigidly to an ideology.

nbcnews.com

Interesting article. I forwarded the link to a woman I know whose brother has struggled with heroin addiction for years.

144 Killgore Trout  Apr 7, 2014 8:05:29am

Putin gets some new real estate
Pro-Russia activists declare eastern Ukraine independent

145 Dark_Falcon  Apr 7, 2014 8:06:58am

re: #144 Killgore Trout

Putin gets some new real estate
Pro-Russia activists declare eastern Ukraine independent

It ain’t a done deal yet, Killgore. Both sides have some heavy iron in the area.

146 Stanley Sea  Apr 7, 2014 8:08:05am

Jim @ Stonekettle Station has a great response to the arm everyone at the base screeching:

stonekettle.com

147 Decatur Deb  Apr 7, 2014 8:08:37am

re: #139 William Barnett-Lewis

No, not really. HE usually looked at them as trying to live up to the Torah but not succeeding by His standards. He then, in certain ways, set even harder standards that 99% of us Christians fail to meet. But that is what we are to live up to even when we know we’ll fail.

So while I get what you’re trying to say, I won’t besmirch the Pharisees with a comparison to the modern religious right


“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.”

Sounds like the Cruzes, Bachmanns, and the rest of the RR to me.

148 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 7, 2014 8:09:03am

re: #126 Dark_Falcon

Counter-Reformation would promoted by Rick Santorum.

/3 updings to however gets this one.

As noted, Opus Dei is the current religious arm. I only wonder when Santorum will break off and found an open Falangist party…

Thankfully Francis is very cool to them from what I’ve heard. He’d not mind an excuse to put them with the Pius X nuts.

149 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 7, 2014 8:10:00am

re: #146 Stanley Sea

Jim @ Stonekettle Station has a great response to the >arm everyone at the base screeching:

stonekettle.com

Read that. Jim is not too tolerant of people shooting their yaps off when uninformed. Though I expect he’d be kinder if the criticism he was getting was more civilly worded.

150 Dark_Falcon  Apr 7, 2014 8:14:16am

...

151 aagcobb  Apr 7, 2014 8:16:58am

SCOTUS has declined the appeal of the New Mexico wedding photographer who refused to photograph a same-sex commitment ceremony. The case had a lot of moving parts, so I wouldn’t count on this demonstrating how SCOTUS will rule once one of these cases is heard.

152 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 7, 2014 8:20:30am
153 Dark_Falcon  Apr 7, 2014 8:21:16am

re: #148 William Barnett-Lewis

As noted, Opus Dei is the current religious arm. I only wonder when Santorum will break off and found an open Falangist party…

Thankfully Francis is very cool to them from what I’ve heard. He’d not mind an excuse to put them with the Pius X nuts.

I don’t think he’s that type, nor would a Falangist have much appeal nowadays. That kind of militarism is not well regarded now.

154 Romantic Heretic  Apr 7, 2014 8:21:44am

re: #90 Dr Lizardo

I’m going to have see Winter Soldier; it’s been getting rave reviews, and I certainly enjoyed the first one as well.

I like what they did regarding the Godzilla backstory; that the various atomic tests in the 1950s in the Pacific were attempts to kill it - and obviously, not terribly successful attempts either.

Guardians of the Galaxy is on my “must-see” list as well.

This is going to be my ‘must watch’ this summer.

155 Killgore Trout  Apr 7, 2014 8:23:11am

Assad is warming up for a victory dance
Assad ‘says fighting largely over by end of year’ - former Russian PM

President Bashar al-Assad has forecast that much of the fighting in the Syrian civil war will be over by the end of the year, a former Russian prime minister was quoted on Monday as saying.

“This is what he told me: ‘This year the active phase of military action in Syria will be ended. After that we will have to shift to what we have been doing all the time - fighting terrorists’,” Itar-Tass news agency quoted Sergei Stepashin as saying.

Stepashin, an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin and former head of Russia’s FSB security service, portrayed Assad as secure, in control and in “excellent athletic shape” after a meeting in Damascus last week.

“‘Tell Vladimir Vladimirovich (Putin) that I am not Yanukovich, I’m not going anywhere’,” Stepashin quoted Assad as saying during their meeting, state-run news agency RIA reported.

156 Dr Lizardo  Apr 7, 2014 8:26:15am

re: #154 Romantic Heretic

This is going to be my ‘must watch’ this summer.

That looks interesting; Luc Besson is a good director, so I’ll have to add that to my ‘must-see’ list as well.

157 sattv4u2  Apr 7, 2014 8:26:16am

re: #144 Killgore Trout

re: #155 Killgore Trout

Yeah yeah yeah ,, but WHERE’S THE PLANE!?!?!?!
/

158 Killgore Trout  Apr 7, 2014 8:27:03am

re: #157 sattv4u2

Yeah yeah yeah ,, but WHERE’S THE PLANE!?!?!?!
/

There’s pings or something.

159 lawhawk  Apr 7, 2014 8:27:29am

re: #151 aagcobb

SCOTUS has declined the appeal of the New Mexico wedding photographer who refused to photograph a same-sex commitment ceremony. The case had a lot of moving parts, so I wouldn’t count on this demonstrating how SCOTUS will rule once one of these cases is heard.

I wouldn’t quite read it that way.

The NM case involves a state law that prohibits discrimination by the service industry (which includes wedding photographers, bakeries, etc.), and the New Mexico court is the final arbiter on state law, not the US S.Ct. The photographers tried to argue a 1st Amendment right to discriminate, and the US S.Ct. declined to hear the case. They couldn’t get even four of the Justices to agree to hear the case.

So, unless the photographers want to try another angle on permitting discrimination under the Constitution, the photographers have lost this one because they need to have a federal issue on which their rights were somehow violated.

The Klayman case (which justoneminute posted above) is a different issue, and the Court found that the shouldn’t hear it because the case needs to go through the appellate process without resorting to the Supreme Court right away. It’s a timeliness issue.

A third case of cert denial involved a ban on corporations directly funding candidates in federal elections. That ban remains in place. So, corporations do not have all the rights of an individual (a significant limitation and one that could potentially signal the outcome in Hobby Lobby).

160 wrenchwench  Apr 7, 2014 8:27:40am

re: #87 lawhawk

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That means that the New Mexico Supreme Court ruling will stand. We’re talking about the top New Mexico court ruling on a New Mexico law, which means they’re the ones with the final say. The photographers tried appealing to the US Supreme Court on federal grounds, claiming that they have 1st Amendment rights to, well, discriminate.

The court declined to hear it. They couldn’t get 4 justices to agree to take up the case.

So, that means that the New Mexico law stands.

YAY!

161 sattv4u2  Apr 7, 2014 8:28:05am

BTW

Happy National Painting Week

sherwin-williams.com

162 sattv4u2  Apr 7, 2014 8:28:21am

re: #158 Killgore Trout

There’s pings or something.

Wonder if they’ll pong back!

163 Dark_Falcon  Apr 7, 2014 8:29:42am

re: #161 sattv4u2

BTW

Happy National Painting Week

sherwin-williams.com

Cool. I’ll paint a couple minis to celebrate.

164 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 7, 2014 8:30:43am

re: #116 Justanotherhuman

Supreme Court declines to hear constitutional challenge to the NSA’s bulk collection of millions of Americans’ telephone records - @AP
end of alert

“Conservative lawyer Larry Klayman persuaded a federal judge in December to rule that the agency’s activities likely violate the Constitution’s ban on unreasonable searches. The justices on Monday rejected Klayman’s unusual request to bypass the traditional appeals process and hear the case immediately.

“Klayman says the case is too important to wait for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to reach a decision. The district court judge granted an injunction against the NSA, but put it on hold pending a government appeal.

“The Obama administration has defended the NSA program as a crucial tool against terrorism.”

bigstory.ap.org

Does Klayman have any kind of a measurable success rate on the various actions he’s brought forward? He strikes me as being about as effective as Taitz, but with a better grasp of how the legal process actually operates.

RBS

165 lawhawk  Apr 7, 2014 8:31:39am

re: #158 Killgore Trout

There’s pings or something.

One ping. One ping only. /

Seriously though, there’s a whole lot of conflicting information about the significance of the pings, and whether it’s a black box locator beacon, or any number of signals that come across on the same frequency. Figures that CNN would lead with that, even though there’s no actual proof they’re on to anything.

I hope they find it and soon, especially for the families of those who were lost in the crash. But CNN has taken this focus to epic fail proportions. Heck, they’re still pushing conspiracy and other fanciful theories about what happened in the lack of any evidence.

166 Killgore Trout  Apr 7, 2014 8:32:26am

Anon fucking with Israel again
Anonymous Attacks Hundreds of Israeli Websites

Anonymous had said in a statement on Sunday, “On April 7, 2014, we call upon our brothers and sisters to hack, deface, hijack, database leak, admin takeover, and DNS terminate the Israeli Cyberspace by any means necessary.”

Addressing the Israeli regime, Anonymous also said that “further assault on the people of Gaza, who have been flooded by your sewage, terrorized by your military apparatus, and left to die at the border while waiting for medical attention will NOT be tolerated anymore.”

167 Dark_Falcon  Apr 7, 2014 8:32:34am

BBL for real.

168 Dark_Falcon  Apr 7, 2014 8:33:09am

re: #166 Killgore Trout

Anon fucking with Israel again
Anonymous Attacks Hundreds of Israeli Websites

Israel can handle those assholes.

169 Killgore Trout  Apr 7, 2014 8:33:34am

re: #165 lawhawk

One ping. One ping only. /

Seriously though, there’s a whole lot of conflicting information about the significance of the pings, and whether it’s a black box locator beacon, or any number of signals that come across on the same frequency. Figures that CNN would lead with that, even though there’s no actual proof they’re on to anything.

I hope they find it and soon, especially for the families of those who were lost in the crash. But CNN has taken this focus to epic fail proportions. Heck, they’re still pushing conspiracy and other fanciful theories about what happened in the lack of any evidence.

I stopped paying attention a while ago. When they find the plane I’ll get caught up on what happened.

170 lawhawk  Apr 7, 2014 8:33:40am

re: #164 RealityBasedSteve

If he had better grasp of the law, he wouldn’t have tried appealing directly to the Supreme Court, and instead appealed in the standard method, from the federal district court to the circuit, and then on to the US Supreme Court. You’d want a record on which to appeal, and instead, he wasted the Court’s time in even having to address this.

171 Killgore Trout  Apr 7, 2014 8:34:29am

re: #168 Dark_Falcon

Israel can handle those assholes.

Especially if they’re giving information to Hamas, the script kiddies might get more than they bargained for.

172 lawhawk  Apr 7, 2014 8:36:27am

In which FoxNews takes a survey/poll over hard figures.

Gallup has a poll in which they try to gauge the number of uninsureds nationally. It found a modest drop in the number of uninsureds. From there, Fox makes the leap that the Obamacare numbers must be off, or inconsequential.

foxnews.com

Yeah, inconsequential. Millions more have health insurance, and Fox is trying to boost the GOP by peddling a survey/poll that isn’t nearly as accurate as a hard figure on who actually applied for and paid for insurance through the new marketplaces.

173 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 7, 2014 8:39:30am
174 FemNaziBitch  Apr 7, 2014 8:42:28am

re: #86 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

I don’t know what he thought physically, but it’s clear from the 12 steps he mainly viewed it as a spiritual problem.

Because that is all they had at the time.

I will you that the mental component of alcoholism/addiction does involve overcoming one’s one ego. Thus, the reliance on a higher power, whatever that may be.

AA does work, BTW. I am living proof.

175 b.d.  Apr 7, 2014 8:43:46am

re: #173 NJDhockeyfan
Well, they got a flag and everything.

//

176 Killgore Trout  Apr 7, 2014 8:44:12am

I’m still on the fence about Ezra Klein’s new venture but here’s a thought provoking article
How politics makes us stupid

most of the time, people are perfectly capable of being convinced by the best evidence. There’s a lot of disagreement about climate change and gun control, for instance, but almost none over whether antibiotics work, or whether the H1N1 flu is a problem, or whether heavy drinking impairs people’s ability to drive. Rather, our reasoning becomes rationalizing when we’re dealing with questions where the answers could threaten our tribe — or at least our social standing in our tribe. And in those cases, Kahan says, we’re being perfectly sensible when we fool ourselves.

177 FemNaziBitch  Apr 7, 2014 8:45:29am

bbl

178 palomino  Apr 7, 2014 8:54:48am

re: #56 Dark_Falcon

Question: In his op-ed, Mr. koch uses a Thomas Jefferson quote that I’ll highlight in an excerpt. Could you kindly tell me if its real or fake? The quote is in italics.

The entire premise of such investigations is deeply flawed.

We can’t sit around today trying to govern by parsing every word dead people said 240 years ago. It’s ultimately a dead end.

Thomas Jefferson, like most human beings, said many different things during his life that are not all consistent. Also, like many human beings, he had complex views that can’t be summarized in a single quote. AND, also like many thinking sentient beings, he changed his mind from time to time.

179 Lidane  Apr 7, 2014 8:55:35am
180 b.d.  Apr 7, 2014 8:55:42am

re: #175 b.d.

Well, they got a flag and everything.

//

Flag has already been changed since my first post.

181 GunstarGreen  Apr 7, 2014 8:56:21am

re: #172 lawhawk

In which FoxNews takes a survey/poll over hard figures.

Gallup has a poll in which they try to gauge the number of uninsureds nationally. It found a modest drop in the number of uninsureds. From there, Fox makes the leap that the Obamacare numbers must be off, or inconsequential.

foxnews.com

Yeah, inconsequential. Millions more have health insurance, and Fox is trying to boost the GOP by peddling a survey/poll that isn’t nearly as accurate as a hard figure on who actually applied for and paid for insurance through the new marketplaces.

When you make a career out of lambasting a program and swearing up and down that it will never work, with daily status updates on just how much it isn’t working, you create this kind of situation.

When all facts point to the idea that you’ve been peddling bullshit for the past year or more, you have to deny reality and substitute your own. Your job now depends on it.

182 William Barnett-Lewis  Apr 7, 2014 8:58:59am

re: #153 Dark_Falcon

I don’t think he’s that type, nor would a Falangist have much appeal nowadays. That kind of militarism is not well regarded now.

Perhaps not in your circles. I’ve seen enough of that kind to keep me worried about it.

183 palomino  Apr 7, 2014 9:00:54am

re: #179 Lidane

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Pratt and his fellow pro-gun activists often seem to have a severe case of arrested development. Life to them is still the same cop show or western they watched when they were 5 years old. Everything, everywhere is settled by a gun.

And teachers are fags if they aren’t shooting people? Pratt is a warped sick fuck.

184 GunstarGreen  Apr 7, 2014 9:05:32am

re: #183 palomino

Pratt and his fellow pro-gun activists often seem to have a severe case of arrested development. Life to them is still the same cop show or western they watched when they were 5 years old. Everything, everywhere is settled by a gun.

And teachers are fags if they aren’t shooting people? Pratt is a warped sick fuck.

Classic case of people who have never actually dealt with a situation assuming that they know better. Hiding the kids and locking the doors is “sheer terror” rather than, you know, calm and practiced execution of a known-effective strategy for protecting the kids. A real hero would be stalking the halls, locked and loaded and ready to blow away any unfortunate children who happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time COBRA strato-vipers cackling evilly down the hallway.

And of course, ye olde “only dictators want gun control” canard. I guess Pratt is okay with people owning rocket launchers and land mines, then? I mean, any gun control at all is for tyrants, right?

185 b.d.  Apr 7, 2014 9:05:41am
CBS’ 60 Minutes aired a report on Tesla and its amazing electric car. It was basically the kind of coverage that any automaker would kill to have (and must have left flummoxed General Motors executives wondering why they never got it for the plug-in Chevrolet Volt).

Just one problem: As the Associated Press reported, a CBS editor made what is being called an “audio error” in dubbing the sound of a loud traditional car engine over footage of the much quieter Tesla electric car. The Model is whisper quiet, no matter how hard you push it.

usatoday.com

186 ObserverArt  Apr 7, 2014 9:06:05am

Recycle a Republican Presidential Candidate.

Help America cut down on the space needed to store the wasted candidates of the past, by choosing from a recycled candidate like Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, or even John McCain.

Help save the Republican Party’s important resources needed to create new congressional candidates for the future. Research shows recycled presidential candidates are just as good as new and improved presidential candidates because they all offer the same features and the familiarity of an older recycled candidate works better with an aging political base.

Start your GOP Presidential Candidate Recycling Today! Send your money to Rence Priebus, Republican National Party Chairman and get to work on losing another election in 2016.

: )

187 GunstarGreen  Apr 7, 2014 9:08:07am

re: #185 b.d.

usatoday.com

Americans tend to be pretty biased towards cars that look and sound beefy, following on from our long national love affair with the automobile. The actual sound of the Tesla wouldn’t be impressive enough for a rev-shot, so.

See also: the general negativity towards CVTs, despite them being a far superior style of transmission for the general light commuter work that the VAST majority of vehicles on our roads are used for.

188 Targetpractice  Apr 7, 2014 9:11:32am
189 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 7, 2014 9:11:58am

re: #187 GunstarGreen

Americans tend to be pretty biased towards cars that look and sound beefy, following on from our long national love affair with the automobile. The actual sound of the Tesla wouldn’t be impressive enough for a rev-shot, so.

See also: the general negativity towards CVTs, despite them being a far superior style of transmission for the general light commuter work that the VAST majority of vehicles on our roads are used for.

First time I rode in a car with a CVT, my brain took a minute to figure out what was “wrong”.

RBS

190 Killgore Trout  Apr 7, 2014 9:13:16am

Putin runs Bartertown!
Gazprom says no payments from Ukraine as Monday deadline looms

191 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 7, 2014 9:14:42am
192 wrenchwench  Apr 7, 2014 9:17:10am

This photo does not exist

193 Decatur Deb  Apr 7, 2014 9:19:50am

re: #186 ObserverArt

Recycle a Republican Presidential Candidate.

Help America cut down on the space needed to store the wasted candidates of the past, by choosing from a recycled candidate like Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, or even John McCain.

Help save the Republican Party’s important resources needed to create new congressional candidates for the future. Research shows recycled presidential candidates are just as good as new and improved presidential candidates because they all offer the same features and the familiarity of an older recycled candidate works better with an aging political base.

Start your GOP Presidential Candidate Recycling Today! Send your money to Rence Priebus, Republican National Party Chairman and get to work on losing another election in 2016.

: )

Do we have to sort and bag them, or can we just leave them by the curb?

194 De Kolta Chair  Apr 7, 2014 9:20:42am

Bit o’ trivia: besides being a superb illustrator, Jim Steranko is also respected in the conjuring community as a creator of magic effects, particularly card magic, and has written and designed several books on the subject.

195 lawhawk  Apr 7, 2014 9:27:21am

re: #131 EmmaAnne

There’s a theory that Lucy is actually a backstory Marvel retcon (about how she got her abilities) at Natasha Romanoff, even if Luc Besson has nothing to do with Marvel Universe.

196 Lidane  Apr 7, 2014 9:33:57am
197 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 7, 2014 9:38:18am
198 Romantic Heretic  Apr 7, 2014 9:38:57am

re: #179 Lidane

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Yer notta hero unless you kill a bad guy with a gun.

199 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 7, 2014 9:39:31am

HURR HURR!!!!! WALMARTS & MICKEY D’S NEEDS MOAR WAGE SLAVES!!!!!!

200 wrenchwench  Apr 7, 2014 9:43:30am
201 GunstarGreen  Apr 7, 2014 9:46:50am

re: #199 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR!!!!! WALMARTS & MICKEY D’S NEEDS MOAR WAGE SLAVES!!!!!!

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What is it with this “If you don’t need it” meme?

Nobody needs college. You can survive just fine without it. It’ll be a sucky, minimum-wage existence, but you can do it. On the other flipper, who exactly plans on living the life of a serf with no post-secondary education to help elevate them out of it? Who looks at college and seriously says “Nah, I don’t need that”?

202 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 7, 2014 9:51:13am
203 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 7, 2014 9:51:33am

re: #201 GunstarGreen

What is it with this “If you don’t need it” meme?

Nobody needs college. You can survive just fine without it. It’ll be a sucky, minimum-wage existence, but you can do it. On the other flipper, who exactly plans on living the life of a serf with no post-secondary education to help elevate them out of it? Who looks at college and seriously says “Nah, I don’t need that”?

Hey he’s trying to HELP THEM AVOID STUDENT DEBT!!!! which their sucky minimum-wage jrrbs can’t even pay off the interest.

When I graduated in 1986, I had $5000 in student loans which I paid back in one year.

204 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 7, 2014 9:51:39am
205 bratwurst  Apr 7, 2014 10:02:56am
206 sagehen  Apr 7, 2014 10:04:44am

Annual NYPD/FDNY hockey game turns into huge fight:

Youtube Video

(whether it’s hockey or softball, I always cheer for the firefighters.

If a firefighter shows up at your location, it’s because you have a problem and he’s gonna solve it for you.

If a cop shows up, maybe it’s because you have a problem he’s there to solve. Maybe he’s there because he thinks you’re the problem. Or maybe he’s just there to deliver bad news. 2/3 chance his visit will fuck up your day.)

207 Kafitrar  Apr 7, 2014 10:05:00am

re: #179 Lidane

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That’s rich coming from a guy who didn’t serve in the military or law enforcement.

208 Varek Raith  Apr 7, 2014 10:08:34am

re: #196 Lidane

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Lolwhut.

209 Varek Raith  Apr 7, 2014 10:11:09am

re: #206 sagehen

Annual NYPD/FDNY hockey game turns into huge fight:

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(whether it’s hockey or softball, I always cheer for the firefighters.

If a firefighter shows up at your location, it’s because you have a problem and he’s gonna solve it for you.

If a cop shows up, maybe it’s because you have a problem he’s there to solve. Maybe he’s there because he thinks you’re the problem. Or maybe he’s just there to deliver bad news. 2/3 chance his visit will fuck up your day.)

Or the firefighter is there to set your books ablaze.
;)

210 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 7, 2014 10:12:30am
211 bratwurst  Apr 7, 2014 10:18:15am

Breitbart’s Punk Rock Conservative Ads Are Just Tired Sexist Jokes

I just think it is a case of them knowing their audience.

212 TedStriker  Apr 7, 2014 10:32:45am

re: #189 RealityBasedSteve

First time I rode in a car with a CVT, my brain took a minute to figure out what was “wrong”.

RBS

I love my CVT-equipped 2009 Altima.

213 b.d.  Apr 7, 2014 10:37:51am
214 Varek Raith  Apr 7, 2014 10:41:54am

re: #210 Pie-onist Overlord

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That’s a spayshul kind of dumb.

215 Killgore Trout  Apr 7, 2014 10:41:58am

Snowden Wins Ridenhour Prize: Prominent American Award for Truth-Telling

The Ridenhour Prize establishes that the U.S. First Amendment, journalist, and open government communities view Snowden as a truth-teller deserving recognition. Yet, as with Drake, the government seeks to imprison Snowden, or worse, considering the threats to Snowden’s life from high-level U.S. government officials.

Snowden’s recognition as a Ridenhour Prize-winner diminishes the government’s false caricature of him, and provides an opportunity to turn the public’s gaze appropriately to Snowden’s revelations. The Ridenhour Prize validates Snowden as a truth-teller in the U.S. Thanks to Snowden, we know the truth about NSA, and the public can focus its attention on finally rolling back the surveillance state.

If they’re this nutty now I can’t wait to see what happens when a Republican is in office.

216 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 7, 2014 10:45:04am

re: #214 Varek Raith

That’s a spayshul kind of dumb.

No MOAR SPAYSHUL than MikeAndy who keeps insisting THEIR ARE NOE PICHURES OF OBAMA LIKE THIS WUN!!!! of Bush hugging a soldier in seat 27B of an aircraft.

217 sattv4u2  Apr 7, 2014 10:45:33am

re: #215 Killgore Trout

While he (Snowden) has received some 25 international awards, the Ridenhour is only his second major U.S. award.

218 sattv4u2  Apr 7, 2014 10:47:12am

re: #215 Killgore Trout

re: #217 sattv4u2


While he (Snowden) has received some >25 international awards, the Ridenhour is only his second >major U.S. award.

Does he have a mantle for them ,, or is GG holding them for safe keeping so that Vlad doesn’t get hold of them !!!?!?!?

219 sattv4u2  Apr 7, 2014 10:50:12am

re: #215 Killgore Trout

Instead of calling Snowden “fugitive” or “leaker,” the U.S. media should refer to him as “winner of Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling”

Something to put on his new business cards!!!

220 b.d.  Apr 7, 2014 10:50:51am

re: #215 Killgore Trout

Snowden Wins Ridenhour Prize: <em>re: <a href=”/showc/215/10369844” class=”rep”>#215</a> Killgore Trout</em>Prominent American Award

 for Truth-Telling

If they’re this nutty now I can’t wait to see what happens when a Republican is in office.

“Prominent American Award”

Dudebroitis has taken hold of Daily Kos. Most of the diaries have tumbleweeds blowing through them since no one wants to be badgered in the comment section by the lefter than thou kos cops.

221 b.d.  Apr 7, 2014 10:51:38am

re: #218 sattv4u2

Does he have a mantle for them ,, or is GG holding them for safe keeping so that Vlad doesn’t get hold of them !!!?!?!?

The Leg Lamp of Whistleblowing Award.

222 lawhawk  Apr 7, 2014 10:52:46am

And now, the award for being the most sanctimonious prig goes to…

Ed Snowden.

The award for the greatest display of smug goes to…

Ed Snowden.

All the Snowden awards for “journalism” don’t actually reflect well, actual objective journalism. Narratives and fiction perhaps, interspersed with a bit of information Snowden stole from the NSA.

223 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 7, 2014 10:53:16am
224 Dr Lizardo  Apr 7, 2014 10:54:33am

re: #223 Backwoods_Sleuth

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WHAATT?! Wow……25 is far too young.

225 Killgore Trout  Apr 7, 2014 10:55:50am

re: #219 sattv4u2

Instead of calling Snowden “fugitive” or “leaker,” the U.S. media should refer to him as “winner of Ridenhour Prize for Truth-Telling”

Something to put on his new business cards!!!

Reframing the issue!

226 Justanotherhuman  Apr 7, 2014 10:57:39am

Finally got my “new” 2002 Saturn inspected and legal today—drove myself up to the county seat DMV on my old plate, so it was all very illegal, turned it in and replaced it w/the new one while I was in the parking lot (I keep a little tool kit in the trunk which even has jumper cables in it).

Nevertheless, since the intake manifold gasket was replaced (the source of all problems w/this car), it’s performing very well and is a fun little 4 banger manual trans now which I really like. : )

Meanwhile, here are the “10 worst cars of the 20th century”, according to this site. Your experience may vary.

auto.howstuffworks.com

I never drove a Chev Vega, but I did have a Chevy II back in the ’70s with 3 on the tree which I had to stop on occasion and get out and “adjust” the transmission linkage by hand; it would work a while and then slip again. Needless to say, I didn’t have that car very long.

227 b.d.  Apr 7, 2014 10:57:56am

!!!

228 Varek Raith  Apr 7, 2014 10:58:56am

re: #227 b.d.

!!!

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Ah, Ron.
Go stuff it.

229 b.d.  Apr 7, 2014 10:59:16am

on a totally unrelated note:

230 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 7, 2014 10:59:17am

re: #222 lawhawk

And now, the award for being the most sanctimonious prig goes to…

Ed Snowden.

The award for the greatest display of smug goes to…

Ed Snowden.

All the Snowden awards for “journalism” don’t actually reflect well, actual objective journalism. Narratives and fiction perhaps, interspersed with a bit of information Snowden stole from the NSA.

GG immediately takes custody of the awards and adds them to his collection of PRIZES FOR TEH MOAST AWESOMEIST JOURNALISMS!!!!!

231 Varek Raith  Apr 7, 2014 11:00:31am

Can I make up awards and give them to myself???

232 b.d.  Apr 7, 2014 11:00:34am

re: #230 Pie-onist Overlord

GG immediately takes custody of the awards and adds them to his collection of PRIZES FOR TEH AWESOMEIST JOURNALISMS!!!!!

If I were NSA, I would so totally put a bug in one of those awards.

//

233 b.d.  Apr 7, 2014 11:01:23am

And the 2014 Varek Raith Award in total overall awesomeness goes to……

234 Varek Raith  Apr 7, 2014 11:02:47am

re: #233 b.d.

And the 2014 Varek Raith Award in total overall awesomeness goes to……

I’d like to thank myself.

235 b.d.  Apr 7, 2014 11:03:19am

re: #233 b.d.

And the 2014 Varek Raith Award in total overall awesomeness goes to……

btw, it is a very prestigious and serious major award.

236 sattv4u2  Apr 7, 2014 11:03:51am

re: #234 Varek Raith

I’d like to thank myself.

Is that what you kids are calling it nowadays

237 Justanotherhuman  Apr 7, 2014 11:04:43am

re: #222 lawhawk

And now, the award for being the most sanctimonious prig goes to…

Ed Snowden.

The award for the greatest display of smug goes to…

Ed Snowden.

All the Snowden awards for “journalism” don’t actually reflect well, actual objective journalism. Narratives and fiction perhaps, interspersed with a bit of information Snowden stole from the NSA.

And since when was Snowden ever considered a journalist?

From his teenaged/20s rantings on ArsTechnica? I don’t even think Snowden ever called himself a “journalist”, so the “title” is being conferred on him by wishful thinkers.

238 Killgore Trout  Apr 7, 2014 11:04:59am

re: #220 b.d.

“Prominent American Award”

Dudebroitis has taken hold of Daily Kos. Most of the diaries have tumbleweeds blowing through them since no one wants to be badgered in the comment section by the lefter than thou kos cops.

The Snowden/Bradley manning crowd has always been influential over there and there will always be a strong presence in lefty internet politics. It’s just dumb but that’s why I’m happy to see sites like Vox and 358 taking a different more thoughtful approach to political discussion. There will always be generic partisan outrage on blogs and cable news because it’s easy click bait with a built in audience but there are people starting to look for new ways to think and talk about serious issues.

239 Dark_Falcon  Apr 7, 2014 11:07:54am

re: #178 palomino

The entire premise of such investigations is deeply flawed.

We can’t sit around today trying to govern by parsing every word dead people said 240 years ago. It’s ultimately a dead end.

Thomas Jefferson, like most human beings, said many different things during his life that are not all consistent. Also, like many human beings, he had complex views that can’t be summarized in a single quote. AND, also like many thinking sentient beings, he changed his mind from time to time.

My reason for asking is that Alouette has often called out wingnuts for posting fake Thomas Jefferson quotes on Twitter. So when I pulled up Charles Koch’s op-ed and found he had used a Jefferson quote, I wanted to make sure I noted that and asked if it was real. It was a way for me to make sure that had the quote been fake, I would not have gotten heat for posting the excerpt uncritically. My goal was Due Diligence, not obfuscation.

240 b.d.  Apr 7, 2014 11:08:02am

Thus, Boston -based Terrafugia announced last May it had started working on the concept of TF-X, a four-seat, plug-in hybrid electric car that can do vertical take-offs and landings.

241 aagcobb  Apr 7, 2014 11:10:06am

re: #159 lawhawk

I wouldn’t quite read it that way.

The NM case involves a state law that prohibits discrimination by the service industry (which includes wedding photographers, bakeries, etc.), and the New Mexico court is the final arbiter on state law, not the US S.Ct. The photographers tried to argue a 1st Amendment right to discriminate, and the US S.Ct. declined to hear the case. They couldn’t get even four of the Justices to agree to hear the case.

So, unless the photographers want to try another angle on permitting discrimination under the Constitution, the photographers have lost this one because they need to have a federal issue on which their rights were somehow violated.

The Klayman case (which justoneminute posted above) is a different issue, and the Court found that the shouldn’t hear it because the case needs to go through the appellate process without resorting to the Supreme Court right away. It’s a timeliness issue.

A third case of cert denial involved a ban on corporations directly funding candidates in federal elections. That ban remains in place. So, corporations do not have all the rights of an individual (a significant limitation and one that could potentially signal the outcome in Hobby Lobby).

Just remember, that SCOTUS didn’t necessarily deny cert because they agree with the lower court. They may be waiting for better facts, or to allow the issues to be further considered in the Circuit Courts.

242 sattv4u2  Apr 7, 2014 11:10:26am

re: #178 palomino

also like many thinking sentient beings, he changed his mind from time to time.

Not me,,, never !

Oh wait. Yes I have.

243 Targetpractice  Apr 7, 2014 11:11:36am

re: #240 b.d.

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Thus, Boston -based Terrafugia announced last May it had started working on the concept of TF-X, a four-seat, plug-in hybrid electric car that can do vertical take-offs and landings.

Yeah, I used to think the idea of a flying car was cool…then I remembered that I can’t go a day without hearing about a major pile-up somewhere in America. And imagined the news story when a simple crash between two flying cars turns into a tragedy when their falling debris lands on somebody’s house.

244 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 7, 2014 11:11:43am

re: #239 Dark_Falcon

My reason for asking is that Alouette has often called out wingnuts for posting fake Thomas Jefferson quotes on Twitter. So when I pulled up Charles Koch’s op-ed and found he had used a Jefferson quote, I wanted to make sure I noted that and asked if it was real. It was a way for me to make sure that had the quote been fake, I would not have gotten heat for posting the excerpt uncritically. My goal was Due Diligence, not obfuscation.

Not all Founders’ quotes are fake (stuff they never said) but almost all Founders’ quotes are used incorrectly and out of context.

245 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 7, 2014 11:12:48am

re: #242 sattv4u2


also like many thinking sentient beings, he changed his mind from time to time.

Not me!!

Oh wait. Yes I have.

There’s another favorite meme of the wingnuts, to compare something Obama said in 2007 with something he said recently BECAUSE NO ONE EVER CHANGED THERE MIND ABOUT ANYTHING EVER SO THAT MEANS HE LIED!!!!!!!!!

246 makeitstop  Apr 7, 2014 11:13:12am

re: #240 b.d.

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Thus, Boston -based Terrafugia announced last May it had started working on the concept of TF-X, a four-seat, plug-in hybrid electric car that can do vertical take-offs and landings.

One of those would be jolly fun after a few beers.
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Seriously, though. A large segment of the driving populace can’t be trusted with ground-bound cars, and they want to make flying ones available?

247 sattv4u2  Apr 7, 2014 11:15:17am

re: #245 Pie-onist Overlord

There’s another favorite meme of the wingnuts, to compare something Obama said in 2007 with something he said recently BECAUSE NO ONE EVER CHANGED THERE MIND ABOUT ANYTHING EVER SO THAT MEANS HE LIED!!!!!!!!!

If you think that’s limited to wingnuts, you really should , well,, change your mind!!

248 Dark_Falcon  Apr 7, 2014 11:15:33am

re: #246 makeitstop

One of those would be jolly fun after a few beers.
///

Seriously, though. A large segment of the driving populace can’t be trusted with ground-bound cars, and they want to make flying ones available?

That one is sufficiently computerized that it could be set up systems designed to prevent drunken operation.

249 Dark_Falcon  Apr 7, 2014 11:16:20am

re: #244 Pie-onist Overlord

Not all Founders’ quotes are fake (stuff they never said) but almost all Founders’ quotes are used incorrectly and out of context.

I understand that, which is why I was covering my bases.

250 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 7, 2014 11:17:20am

re: #249 Dark_Falcon

I understand that, which is why I was covering my bases.

I only go after the Fake Quotes, it’s not worth getting tangled up with nuances of context.

251 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 7, 2014 11:18:57am

re: #233 b.d.

And the 2014 Varek Raith Award in total overall awesomeness goes to……

Careful about that one. It has a orbital laser targeting designator built into it!

O_O

252 De Kolta Chair  Apr 7, 2014 11:19:37am

re: #213 b.d.

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She’s got the down to seeds and stems (and jailhouse grub) again blues.

253 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 7, 2014 11:21:08am

re: #246 makeitstop

One of those would be jolly fun after a few beers.
///

Seriously, though. A large segment of the driving populace can’t be trusted with ground-bound cars, and they want to make flying ones available?

Only under central remote control. And then someone would hack the network and it would rain Chevys and Fords.
/

254 Timothy Watson  Apr 7, 2014 11:24:01am

re: #227 b.d.

!!!

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WTFITS? Has the great constitutional scholar, Ron Paul, never actually read the constitution?

The Congress shall have Power To […] regulate Commerce with foreign Nations

255 sagehen  Apr 7, 2014 11:24:09am

re: #246 makeitstop

One of those would be jolly fun after a few beers.
///

Seriously, though. A large segment of the driving populace can’t be trusted with ground-bound cars, and they want to make flying ones available?

If they have to get pilots licenses, I’d be plenty happy with it. The written test is a bitch, flight training is extensive, the check-ride is exquisitely detailed, medical exams every two years, and comprehensive record-keeping (they don’t usually check your records unless there’s an incident under investigation, but if it happens and you’ve been sloppy in any way, the penalties are substantial).

A typical check-ride order — “make a 45º-bank turn to a heading of 342, altitude 5000 feet, airspeed 95. Go.” You’ve got five seconds to start the maneuver, your bank must be exact, reach the exact heading without wobbling, altitude within 20 feet without bobbing to get to it, airspeed within 2 knots…

and then the examiner pulls out your throttle and says “your engine just died. Show me what you’re going to do about it.”

256 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Apr 7, 2014 11:27:04am

re: #238 Killgore Trout

. It’s just dumb but that’s why I’m happy to see sites like Vox and 358 taking a different more thoughtful approach to political discussion.

Featuring climate change denial is not a ‘more thoughtful’ approach, no.

257 lawhawk  Apr 7, 2014 11:41:24am

re: #254 Timothy Watson

WTFITS? Has the great constitutional scholar, Ron Paul, never actually read the constitution?

He’s got an abridged version…. /

258 De Kolta Chair  Apr 7, 2014 11:41:31am

re: #229 b.d.

on a totally unrelated note:

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Re the photo: For some reason, Uncle Joe Stalin had a raging stiffy for Manhattan’s Municipal Building (designed by McKim, Mead and White) and had his minions copy it in Moscow. This might explain why his wife committed suicide.

Image: municipal.jpg

259 EPR-radar  Apr 7, 2014 11:53:45am

re: #250 Pie-onist Overlord

I only go after the Fake Quotes, it’s not worth getting tangled up with nuances of context.

Making magical talismans of quotes by the founders (whether they are real or fake) inherently validates conservatism by (implicitly) setting up the past as the ideal to strive toward.

More detailed issues of being out of context are less important, IMO, although they are omnipresent in wingnut rhetoric.

260 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Apr 7, 2014 12:04:43pm

re: #210 Pie-onist Overlord

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Also note: Not “Communist China” flags. snopes.com


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