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1 b.d.  Apr 18, 2014 12:50:23pm

*snort*

2 Kragar  Apr 18, 2014 12:51:24pm

Youtube Video

3 sauceruney  Apr 18, 2014 12:51:47pm

That one is going to be hard to walk back.

4 Gus  Apr 18, 2014 12:53:31pm

Hilarious.

5 b.d.  Apr 18, 2014 12:53:42pm

re: #3 sauceruney

That one is going to be hard to walk back.

Rule #1, don’t piss of the crazy people.

6 darthstar  Apr 18, 2014 12:56:19pm

re: #5 b.d.

Rule #1, don’t piss of the crazy people.

Rule #1 - don’t be one of the crazy people.
Rule #2 - don’t piss off the crazy people.

7 Targetpractice  Apr 18, 2014 12:56:57pm

Timm: “You’d have to be crazy to believe that Snowden is a Russian agent.”

Snowden Supporters: “NO COOL, DUDE!”

8 Targetpractice  Apr 18, 2014 12:58:09pm

re: #5 b.d.

Rule #1, don’t piss of the crazy people.

I thought Rule #1 was “Cardio”?

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9 b.d.  Apr 18, 2014 12:58:37pm

Hey Trevor! What’s your view on fluoride and HAARP?

10 Kragar  Apr 18, 2014 12:59:52pm
11 Decatur Deb  Apr 18, 2014 1:00:20pm

Rule # something: Never let the rubes hear you say ‘rube’.

12 Minor_L  Apr 18, 2014 1:01:25pm

Total own goal. I love it.

13 Kragar  Apr 18, 2014 1:01:33pm

re: #11 Decatur Deb

Rule # something: Never let the rubes hear you say ‘rube’.

Youtube Video

14 lawhawk  Apr 18, 2014 1:03:26pm

re: #8 Targetpractice

I thought Rule #1 was “Cardio”?

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Different chapter of the rulebook. Zombie rules are under Z. Conspiracy rules are under C. ///

15 simoom  Apr 18, 2014 1:03:29pm

I like how Timm is mocking even the idea that the question was pre-vetted as the equivalent of 9-11 Trutherism. It was a prerecorded video message played during a show known to be tightly scripted, prefaced by the hostess and Putin playing up Snowden’s celebrity, and serious people actually think they played it blindly on air? The ‘Snowden’ op-ed would have been far more interesting if he’d explained who contacted him about doing the video, what exactly was asked of him, when and under what circumstances it was recorded, who recorded it, who then submitted it to RT, etc.

nytimes.com

One of the program’s hostesses then said: “We have an unexpected, I would even say sensational, video message. We received it from a man who created a true information revolution by exposing the surveillance of tens of millions of people around the world.”

And there he was: the fugitive former National Security Agency contractor Edward J. Snowden.

In a stunningly bold poke at the White House, the Kremlin arranged for Mr. Snowden, who is wanted on espionage charges, to ask Mr. Putin about Russia’s surveillance practices. Told there was a question from Mr. Snowden, Mr. Putin responded slyly, saying, “Well, how could we do without this?”

…

In his recorded appearance, Mr. Snowden said that he had seen “little discussion of Russia’s own involvement in the policies of mass surveillance.”

16 lawhawk  Apr 18, 2014 1:03:55pm

re: #10 Kragar

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Ding!

17 b.d.  Apr 18, 2014 1:03:59pm

Trevor, should Snowden fear Chemtrails?

18 Minor_L  Apr 18, 2014 1:08:04pm

re: #15 simoom

So, is Timm lying, or just totally clueless but insulting people nonetheless?

19 b_sharp  Apr 18, 2014 1:08:48pm

It would be nice if these conspiracy theorists used the tiniest bit of physics/chemistry/logic, … oh hell, just a smidgen of reality, to evidence their nonsensical ideas.

‘Fire doesn’t melt steel’ just doesn’t cut it.

20 simoom  Apr 18, 2014 1:11:26pm

re: #15 simoom

Snowden’s FSB/Kremlin-connected lawyer:

theaustralian.com.au

Mr Snowden spoke against a dark background giving no clue to his location, wearing a dark suit jacket and grey shirt, looking unshaven with his hair plastered down.

His Russian lawyer, Anatoly Kucherena, told the RIA Novosti news agency that Mr Snowden had recorded and submitted the video in advance.

“He found out there would be a direct line with the Russian president and recorded a question,” Mr Kucherena said.

First the camera cut dramatically to a co-host who introduced Mr Snowden as 𠇊 person who carried out a real information revolution”.

21 Kragar  Apr 18, 2014 1:14:19pm

re: #16 lawhawk

Ding!

He blocked me after that one.

22 Decatur Deb  Apr 18, 2014 1:14:30pm

re: #20 simoom

Snowden’s FSB/Kremilin-connected lawyer:

theaustralian.com.au

After 500 years of Romanovs and a century of Bolsheviks, the Russians probably know when they’re being bullshitted.

23 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 1:15:47pm

re: #19 b_sharp

It would be nice if these conspiracy theorists used the tiniest bit of physics/chemistry/logic, … oh hell, just a smidgen of reality, to evidence their nonsensical ideas.

‘Fire doesn’t melt steel’ just doesn’t cut it.

But if they did, they wouldn’t be conspiracy theorists.

I always say, treat every conspiracy theory as if it were a scientific hypothesis. Hypotheses make predictions which are testable/observable.

So, if ‘Fire Doesn’t Melt Steel’, What the hell was Tywin Lannister doing with Ice in the opening scene of this season’s GoT? (for example)

24 lawhawk  Apr 18, 2014 1:16:46pm

re: #23 GeneJockey

It’s Valyrian steel. Totally different. /

25 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 1:17:34pm

re: #24 lawhawk

It’s Valyrian steel. Totally different. /

Oh. My bad, then.
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26 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 18, 2014 1:18:07pm

re: #24 lawhawk

It’s Valyrian steel. Totally different. /

Rearden metal!!!!

27 Decatur Deb  Apr 18, 2014 1:18:17pm

re: #24 lawhawk

It’s Valyrian steel. Totally different. /

Truthers know the Riddle of Steel.

28 Kragar  Apr 18, 2014 1:20:13pm

re: #27 Decatur Deb

Truthers know the Riddle of Steel.

Youtube Video

29 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 18, 2014 1:20:21pm

re: #18 Minor_L

So, is Timm lying, or just totally clueless but insulting people nonetheless?

Yes.

30 jaunte  Apr 18, 2014 1:21:29pm

re: #18 Minor_L

So, is Timm lying, or just totally clueless but insulting people nonetheless?

He has a story he wants to make true, so he’ll insult anyone who doesn’t believe it.

31 jaunte  Apr 18, 2014 1:25:02pm


32 Decatur Deb  Apr 18, 2014 1:25:09pm

re: #28 Kragar

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Brilliant!!

33 austin_blue  Apr 18, 2014 1:28:04pm

Afternoon, folks! She Who Must Be Obeyed and I got back to the States last night after two weeks in the UK. BA’s non-stop from Austin to Heathrow is using a 787 and that airplane is just amazing. Austin -> London in 8 1/2 hours. Fast jet. Quiet, comfortable, and great service compared to any US carrier. If I never see Newark again, it’ll be too soon. Great trip.

As for Snowden, I wonder how the poor geopolitical naif found his first winter in the Rodinya? Being the tool of a wannabe neo-Tsar can’t be the life he was expecting. I’d feel sorry for the schlub, but he made his choices and now gets to waste away in Pootystania.

So suffer, you little fool.

34 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 18, 2014 1:32:45pm
35 b.d.  Apr 18, 2014 1:33:38pm

Shocked!!

As RT reported previously, Aboutalebi, 56, previously served as Iran’s ambassador to three countries and the European Union, but is perhaps most infamously known in the US for his alleged role within a group, Muslim Students Following the Imam’s Line, that occupied the US Embassy in Tehran in 1979 and held dozens of Americans hostage.

36 Stanley Sea  Apr 18, 2014 1:34:35pm

Another climber’s detail of the Everest icefall avalanche:

peakfreaks8000.blogspot.com

37 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Apr 18, 2014 1:37:40pm

re: #34 NJDhockeyfan

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When there are people on both sides who want to see chaos, there is no hope of restoring order

38 abolitionist  Apr 18, 2014 1:40:02pm

re: #34 NJDhockeyfan

“Wanted” begs for a bit of clarification.

39 jaunte  Apr 18, 2014 1:41:51pm

re: #35 b.d.

18 days ago, most of the commenters at Breitbart were guaranteeing each other Obama would welcome Aboutalebi to New York.

40 sattv4u2  Apr 18, 2014 1:41:54pm

LOSE
Sitting at the gate at Logan airport in Boston, they post a DELAYED sign for my flight
LOSE LOSE
,,, umm, we only have a 30 minute window to catch our connecting flight!!
LOSE LOSE LOSE
,,,Go to the counter, lady says “oh yeah,, there’s NO way you’re making that connection

WIN!!!

Got on a later flight ,, DIRECT,,,,, in BUSINESS CLASS,, and it gets in to Atlanta an HOUR before my original flight would have

(((small lose,,, have to hang around here for another 2 hours before boarding)))

41 b.d.  Apr 18, 2014 1:44:02pm

re: #39 jaunte

18 days ago, most of the commenters at Breitbart were guaranteeing each other Obama would welcome Aboutalebi to New York.

Down the memory hole this will go…

43 kirkspencer  Apr 18, 2014 1:46:35pm

re: #38 abolitionist

“Wanted” begs for a bit of clarification.

My Russian is weak, but it looks like they are labeling people who speak Ukranian as suspicious individuals.

44 abolitionist  Apr 18, 2014 1:48:18pm

re: #43 kirkspencer

Thanks.

45 NJDhockeyfan  Apr 18, 2014 1:48:22pm

re: #43 kirkspencer

My Russian is weak, but it looks like they are labeling people who speak Ukranian as suspicious individuals.

They started with the mayor. Who knows what will happen with everyone else.

46 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 1:49:13pm

re: #41 b.d.

Down the memory hole this will go…

Or worse - they’ll take credit for ‘forcing’ Obama to do it.

47 Iwouldprefernotto  Apr 18, 2014 1:51:26pm

Gender-bending cave insects found in Brazil

Proof that evolution is real or god has a twisted sense of humor.

48 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 18, 2014 1:52:15pm

HURR HURR!!!!

49 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2014 1:53:13pm

oh good grief, as if my congresscritter wasn’t just a Rand Paul asskisser and Libertarian, now I learn he’s a 9/11 truther…

arrrrrrrrrrrgggggggggggg

50 jaunte  Apr 18, 2014 1:53:37pm

Look for…
The Moron Label…

51 Killgore Trout  Apr 18, 2014 1:57:14pm

Al Gore may have invented the internet but Clinton discovered that wingnuts can use it.

READ: The Clinton Administration’s Internal Memo on the “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy”

“[E]vidence exists that Republican staffers surf the internet, interacting with extremists in order to exchange the ideas and information.” The administration even had a name for the process: “The Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce.”

52 Killgore Trout  Apr 18, 2014 1:58:46pm

The Clinton White House Really Hated Don Imus
I don’t know about the “hate” part but the memo’s pretty damn funny. Imus probably got a big kick out of it.

53 sattv4u2  Apr 18, 2014 2:00:34pm

re: #52 Killgore Trout

The Clinton White House Really Hated Don Imus
I don’t know about the “hate” part but the memo’s pretty damn funny. Imus probably got a big kick out of it.

Absolutely. He delights in needling and getting seeing the OUTRAGE that ensues.

54 Killgore Trout  Apr 18, 2014 2:03:02pm

re: #53 sattv4u2

Absolutely. He delights in needling and getting seeing the OUTRAGE that ensues.

I really like the letter but I doubt a White House could send that reply today. Too bad, I think it’s hilarious.

55 blueraven  Apr 18, 2014 2:04:45pm

re: #54 Killgore Trout

I really like the letter but I doubt a White House could send that reply today. Too bad, I think it’s hilarious.

They never sent it then either.

Note…it was killed in the parking lot and never reached the west wing.

56 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 2:05:57pm

re: #53 sattv4u2

Absolutely. He delights in needling and getting seeing the OUTRAGE that ensues.

Isn’t that the definition of a troll?

57 sattv4u2  Apr 18, 2014 2:07:53pm

re: #56 GeneJockey

Isn’t that the definition of a troll?

Well. Since Imus has been doing this since he stopped spinning records and went to talk decades ago, EONS before the internet, perhaps they should rename trolling > Imusing

58 Killgore Trout  Apr 18, 2014 2:08:35pm

presidential email auctioned for $60,667

The laptop computer that Bill Clinton used in 1998 to send the first-ever US presidential email has sold for $60,667 in an online auction, the Boston auction house that handled the transaction said Thursday.

Probably had the RAM of a potato but that’s not a bad looking computer for the era.

59 sattv4u2  Apr 18, 2014 2:09:22pm

re: #56 GeneJockey

And BTW ,,, Imus has been “Imusing” every inch of the political spectrum for just as many decades

60 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 2:11:00pm

re: #58 Killgore Trout

presidential email auctioned for $60,667

Probably had the RAM of a potato but that’s not a bad looking computer for the era.

Jesus, where’s the pull-rope and kickstand on that thing? Do they still make the vacuum tubes for it?
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61 sattv4u2  Apr 18, 2014 2:11:23pm

re: #58 Killgore Trout

presidential email auctioned for $60,667

Probably had the RAM of a potato but that’s not a bad looking computer for the era.

OMG I had use of one of those for a guy I worked for at the same timeframe

62 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 2:11:27pm

re: #59 sattv4u2

And BTW ,,, Imus has been “Imusing” every inch of the political spectrum

An Equal Opportunity Annoyer, you might say.

63 abolitionist  Apr 18, 2014 2:12:30pm

re: #60 GeneJockey

Jesus, where’s the pull-rope and kickstand on that thing? Do they still make the vacuum tubes for it?
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For the screen backlighting? Not so much these days.

64 Kragar  Apr 18, 2014 2:13:19pm

Sometimes, its just too easy

65 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 2:13:39pm

re: #57 sattv4u2

Well. Since Imus has been doing this since he stopped spinning records and went to talk decades ago, EONS before the internet, perhaps they should rename trolling > Imusing

Trolling rolls off the tongue, and the pronunciation is obvious, whereas one might look at ‘Imusing’ and wonder if it’s pronounced ‘EYE-muss-ing’ or ‘i-MYOOZ-ing’.

67 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 2:16:00pm

re: #63 abolitionist

For the screen backlighting? Not so much these days.

No, instead of integrated circuits. It’s a joke, you see.

69 Stanley Sea  Apr 18, 2014 2:17:26pm
70 sattv4u2  Apr 18, 2014 2:18:02pm

re: #62 GeneJockey

An Equal Opportunity Annoyer, you might say.

Now that I’m thinking about it, there was a famous video going around at that time (Clintons presidency) of Imus skewering Bill at the correspondents dinner. Bill looked VERY unamused siting there in his tux as imus was at the podium !!!!

71 Killgore Trout  Apr 18, 2014 2:18:15pm

re: #61 sattv4u2

OMG I had use of one of those for a guy I worked for at the same timeframe

It was probably a pretty expensive machine at the time.

72 sattv4u2  Apr 18, 2014 2:19:09pm

re: #71 Killgore Trout

It was probably a pretty expensive machine at the time.

Oh hell yeah.

73 sattv4u2  Apr 18, 2014 2:20:05pm

And on that note, the short quiet walk to our new gate beckons

74 Targetpractice  Apr 18, 2014 2:23:49pm

re: #64 Kragar

Sometimes, its just too easy

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“Molon Labe,” the battle cry of men who lay dead as their enemies walked over their corpses and claimed their weapons. The lesson of history is always forgotten, that while the Spartans held out well while they controlled the way the enemy engaged the, as soon as the enemy had them surrounded, they were stomped flat.

75 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 18, 2014 2:27:05pm

And the Fleecing Of The Rubes proceeds apace:

76 HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2014 2:27:53pm

OT but finally caught Fargo. Looks like I have a new show to watch. Only really familiar with Thornton of the actors shown but I do like shows that rely more on storytelling than star power anyhow.

77 Targetpractice  Apr 18, 2014 2:28:00pm

re: #75 Pie-onist Overlord

And the Fleecing Of The Rubes proceeds apace:

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Yes, buy a t-shirt today that will hold absolutely no significance even a year from now. Put it right next to your “BENGHAZI!!!” t-shirt.

78 HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2014 2:29:15pm

re: #77 Targetpractice

Yes, buy a t-shirt today that will hold absolutely no significance even a year from now. Put it right next to your “BENGHAZI!!!” t-shirt.

Right next to their “Mission Accomplished” and “Where’s the Birth Certificate?” tees.

79 Kragar  Apr 18, 2014 2:29:20pm

re: #74 Targetpractice

“Molon Labe,” the battle cry of men who lay dead as their enemies walked over their corpses and claimed their weapons. The lesson of history is always forgotten, that while the Spartans held out well while they controlled the way the enemy engaged the, as soon as the enemy had them surrounded, they were stomped flat.

“Come and take it!”

“Ok, we’ll send in a SWAT team to arrest you because you’re not paying for taxes and you threatened an IRS agent with an AR-15.”

“EXCESSIVE FORCE!”

80 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2014 2:30:24pm

Speaking of my lunatic congresscritter Thomas Massie, this happened in his home county on Tuesday:

Resolution supporting Second Amendment passed

Judge-Executive Todd Ruckel said he felt the county needed to show support for the Second Amendment.
“I felt it was something we needed to do,” Ruckel said.
The resolution says the government of Lewis County affirms support for the Constitution, particularly the Second Amendment, and no ordinances will be passed within Lewis County that restrict ownership of firearms, ammunition or components of firearms.
The resolution comes months after the creation of a Lewis County branch of the Friends of the National Rifle Association was created, according to Ruckel.
The group is dedicated to supporting education on firearm safety to youth.
“We raise money to help support the education to the youth,” Ruckel, who is a member of the group, said. “It provides for education on safety and property firearm usages.”
Ruckel said he believes the Lewis County group was created around December.

(My emphasis in the blockquote)
I would say “just shoot me now”, but someone might just take that literally.
Small government, my Aunt Fanny…

81 Charles Johnson  Apr 18, 2014 2:30:36pm
82 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 2:32:51pm

re: #75 Pie-onist Overlord

And the Fleecing Of The Rubes proceeds apace:

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I saw that as ‘Stove Pipet Ees’.

83 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 18, 2014 2:34:19pm

Yeah, George Washington & THE PATRIOTS totally sailed across the ocean, sailed up the Thames and randomly shot every person they saw.

Or maybe he just randomly shot British sympathizers in the colonies?

No and No, moron lubes.

84 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 2:34:27pm

re: #79 Kragar

“Come and take it!”

“Ok, we’ll send in a SWAT team to arrest you because you’re not paying for taxes and you threatened an IRS agent with an AR-15.”

“EXCESSIVE FORCE!”

“Throw down your projectile weapon!”

“You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead hands!”

“Your offer is acceptable.”

85 Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 18, 2014 2:35:44pm

re: #83 Pie-onist Overlord

Yeah, George Washington & THE PATRIOTS totally sailed across the ocean, sailed up the Thames and randomly shot every person they saw.

Or maybe he just randomly shot British sympathizers in the colonies?

No and No, moron lubes.

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There was already a Second Amendment? Washington had a Tardis?

86 The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 18, 2014 2:36:10pm

re: #74 Targetpractice

“Molon Labe,” the battle cry of men who lay dead as their enemies walked over their corpses and claimed their weapons. The lesson of history is always forgotten, that while the Spartans held out well while they controlled the way the enemy engaged the, as soon as the enemy had them surrounded, they were stomped flat.

Something, something, maybe slave-owning, gender-segragated, pederast war-fetishists are the best people to quote when invoking one’s freedoms.

Also, laconic wit requires brevity…and wits…which seem to completely absent in current wingnuts.

87 jaunte  Apr 18, 2014 2:36:36pm

Time Lord President.

88 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 2:36:39pm

re: #83 Pie-onist Overlord

Yeah, George Washington & THE PATRIOTS totally sailed across the ocean, sailed up the Thames and randomly shot every person they saw.

Or maybe he just randomly shot British sympathizers in the colonies?

No and No, moron lubes.

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More to the point, Washington et al rebelled because they were not allowed representation in the legislative body that passed the laws they were forced to live under. The Moron Lobby cannot make such a claim.

89 Kragar  Apr 18, 2014 2:37:29pm

For the twits…

90 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 2:37:32pm

re: #86 The Ghost of a Flea

Something, something, maybe slave-owning, gender-segragated, pederast war-fetishists are the best people to quote when invoking one’s freedoms.

Also, laconic wit requires brevity…and wits…which seem to completely absent in current wingnuts.

Not Laconic Wit - Lackwit.

91 Targetpractice  Apr 18, 2014 2:38:11pm

re: #83 Pie-onist Overlord

Yeah, George Washington & THE PATRIOTS totally sailed across the ocean, sailed up the Thames and randomly shot every person they saw.

Or maybe he just randomly shot British sympathizers in the colonies?

No and No, moron lubes.

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Just as Washington raised a militia larger than the army he’d commanded during the Revolutionary War to put down insurrectionists during the Whiskey Rebellion.

92 jaunte  Apr 18, 2014 2:39:16pm

Abbott: Armed school employees OK under Texas law

93 Kragar  Apr 18, 2014 2:39:28pm
94 HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2014 2:40:35pm

re: #88 GeneJockey

More to the point, Washington et al rebelled because they were not allowed representation in the legislative body that passed the laws they were forced to live under. The Moron Lobby cannot make such a claim.

Exactly. I remember the Tea Party’s big still was and still is to liken themselves to the colonists. Well, dumnuts, you have representation, Washington and those guys didn’t have anyone to speak for them in London, and that was their problem with the Stamp Act and like minded legislation in the first place. It wasn’t OMG TAXES, it was “We want a say in the British parliament because we see ourselves as British subjects.” The British government refused to do that and we know the rest.

95 Romantic Heretic  Apr 18, 2014 2:41:26pm

re: #79 Kragar

“Come and take it!”

“Ok, we’ll send in a SWAT team to arrest you because you’re not paying for taxes and you threatened an IRS agent with an AR-15.”

“EXCESSIVE FORCE!”

“If you want see excessive force there’s a major Air Force base nearby. They would love some close ground support practice.”

Youtube Video

96 Kragar  Apr 18, 2014 2:41:48pm

re: #94 HappyWarrior

Exactly. I remember the Tea Party’s big still was and still is to liken themselves to the colonists. Well, dumnuts, you have representation, Washington and those guys didn’t have anyone to speak for them in London, and that was their problem with the Stamp Act and like minded legislation in the first place. It wasn’t OMG TAXES, it was “We want a say in the British parliament because we see ourselves as British subjects.” The British government refused to do that and we know the rest.

97 dog philosopher  Apr 18, 2014 2:41:49pm

Woman sues over rejected ‘8THEIST’ license plate

??? people who believe that god is the number eight??

98 HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2014 2:42:02pm

You really want to piss them off. Point out that the Constituion was written to strengthen the federal government’s power and that many people didn’t think the Bill of Rights was necessary. They understand the motives and ideals of hte Founders as well as they do policy.

99 HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2014 2:42:40pm

re: #96 Kragar

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Even Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry supported the government’s response during the Whiskey Rebellion.

100 Kragar  Apr 18, 2014 2:44:12pm

re: #97 dog philosopher

Woman sues over rejected ‘8THEIST’ license plate

??? people who believe that god is the number eight??

The unholy Octed of the Chaos Powers

101 Timothy Watson  Apr 18, 2014 2:45:15pm

re: #88 GeneJockey

More to the point, Washington et al rebelled because they were not allowed representation in the legislative body that passed the laws they were forced to live under. The Moron Lobby cannot make such a claim.

Don’t forget about the massive infanticide of babies born with birthmarks, defects, etc.

But RWNJs don’t care about fetuses/babies after they’re born.

102 dog philosopher  Apr 18, 2014 2:46:07pm

re: #98 HappyWarrior

You really want to piss them off. Point out that the Constituion was written to strengthen the federal government’s power and that many people didn’t think the Bill of Rights was necessary. They understand the motives and ideals of hte Founders as well as they do policy.

if more of them really knew about the articles of confederation and the motivations behind establishing a strong central government under the current constitution, they might be calling themselves ‘anti-federalists’ rather than ugly bags of mostly tea

103 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 2:46:45pm

re: #96 Kragar

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What I’ve heard from the wingnuts is that they aren’t REALLY represented because ‘The Cities’ have so many more representatives. For some reason this, and the map of counties won by each side in Presidential elections seem to resonate with them. Acreage is more important than PEOPLE.

The thing is, a lot of those counties have almost nobody living there. The big empty states are ALREADY overrepresented, because of the Senate, At Large Representatives, and the Electoral College.

104 jaunte  Apr 18, 2014 2:46:52pm

re: #95 Romantic Heretic

Google cache:
Dave Hodges’ “The Common Sense Show”
Can M-16′s Defeat F-16′s In the Coming Civil War?

Fan fiction disguised as an editorial about how guerrilla fighters will win the future civil war.

105 jaunte  Apr 18, 2014 2:47:44pm

Plural’s

106 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 2:48:38pm

re: #104 jaunte

Google cache:
Dave Hodges’ “The Common Sense Show”
Can M-16′s Defeat F-16′s In the Coming Civil War?

Fan fiction disguised as an editorial about how guerrilla fighters will win the future civil war.

Maybe they’ll find a bunch of ancient fighter jets hidden someplace and be able to figure out how to fly them just from reading the manuals, and be able to defeat John Travolta the Air Force.

107 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 2:49:28pm

re: #104 jaunte

Google cache:
Dave Hodges’ “The Common Sense Show”
Can M-16′s Defeat F-16′s In the Coming Civil War?

Fan fiction disguised as an editorial about how guerrilla fighters will win the future civil war.

Or, WULVEREEENZ!!!

108 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 2:49:50pm

re: #105 jaunte

Plural’s

Plural is? Or belonging to plural?

109 jaunte  Apr 18, 2014 2:51:21pm

re: #108 GeneJockey

M-16’s, F-16’s. Crazy rightwingers never seem to get the plural form right.

110 jaunte  Apr 18, 2014 2:51:30pm

re: #106 GeneJockey

You can’t fight fair December 28, 2013 at 11:09 am
What I am going to say truly sickens me, but this has to be part of the fight. ANY DHS member that shoots at any American needs to have his/her family executed. This is their vulnerable spot, and they need to KNOW with 100% certainty that if they pull the trigger, they might as well be shooting their own family.

These are probably the same people complaining about Harry Reid calling them domestic terrorists.

111 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 18, 2014 2:51:31pm

DUMBASS KOCH SHILLS DON’T EVEN KNOW IT’S HEADED STRAIGHT TO CHINA.

112 Kragar  Apr 18, 2014 2:51:35pm

re: #104 jaunte

Google cache:
Dave Hodges’ “The Common Sense Show”
Can M-16′s Defeat F-16′s In the Coming Civil War?

Fan fiction disguised as an editorial about how guerrilla fighters will win the future civil war.

Guerrilla fighters only win if they can establish enough popular support to make the other side back down, build a conventional army of their own, or convince other nations to come in on their behalf.

So in other words, they’re gonna die.

113 sauceruney  Apr 18, 2014 2:52:37pm

re: #75 Pie-onist Overlord

I dare them to wear that to an airport or public event.

114 thedopefishlives  Apr 18, 2014 2:53:05pm

Evening Lizardim. This Twitter war made me chuckle - the saying over on the JREF goes “scratch a Truther, find a Holocaust denier”, but here, it’s more like, “scratch a dudebro, find a Truther”. Things that make you go hmm. How go things among the lizardfolk on this cool and cloudy night?

115 HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2014 2:53:40pm

re: #103 GeneJockey

What I’ve heard from the wingnuts is that they aren’t REALLY represented because ‘The Cities’ have so many more representatives. For some reason this, and the map of counties won by each side in Presidential elections seem to resonate with them. Acreage is more important than PEOPLE.

The thing is, a lot of those counties have almost nobody living there. The big empty states are ALREADY overrepresented, because of the Senate, At Large Representatives, and the Electoral College.

You know, I hate doing this but I’d just like to point out how your average Democratic member of Congress represents a Congressional district much more representative of America as a whole than your average Republican one. The right’s base is aging and declining. And I guess that’s the real source of their anger. They want to live in to use food terms an America with only burger joints instead of an America with burger joints and kabab houses.

116 HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2014 2:54:34pm

re: #112 Kragar

Guerrilla fighters only win if they can establish enough popular support to make the other side back down, build a conventional army of their own, or convince other nations to come in on their behalf.

So in other words, they’re gonna die.

They’re not willing to die. Sure they talk a big game on Twitter but when push comes to shove, they won’t want to miss the latest episode of Duck Dynasty.

117 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 18, 2014 2:54:45pm

Christians Try to Convert Jews With Video of Jesus as Holocaust Victim

And then there is the PETA “Holocaust Of The Chickens” campaign.

118 jaunte  Apr 18, 2014 2:56:48pm

re: #117 Pie-onist Overlord

Jay Michelson, a blogger at the Jewish Daily Forward, called the video “most tasteless YouTube video ever.”

That’s saying something.

119 HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2014 2:58:03pm

re: #117 Pie-onist Overlord

Christians Try to Convert Jews With Video of Jesus as Holocaust Victim

And then there is the PETA “Holocaust Of The Chickens” campaign.

Yeah that will resonate real well with the people who can actually remember having family members perish in the Holocaust.

120 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 3:01:15pm

re: #110 jaunte

These are probably the same people complaining about Harry Reid calling them domestic terrorists.

For a minute I was all, “Wait, did I write that?”

Yeah. That’s terrorism.

121 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 18, 2014 3:02:00pm

re: #97 dog philosopher

Woman sues over rejected ‘8THEIST’ license plate

??? people who believe that god is the number eight??

Bad mojo to say that number in certain places on the Disc.

122 Kragar  Apr 18, 2014 3:03:30pm

Sometimes, I feel sorry for my brother, because he doesn’t really get to enjoy movies anymore. He gets stuck watching everything because its his job, and he has to watch some real crap.

Then I remember the other part of his job is interviewing porn stars.

So screw him.

123 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 18, 2014 3:03:39pm

re: #114 thedopefishlives

Evening Lizardim. This Twitter war made me chuckle - the saying over on the JREF goes “scratch a Truther, find a Holocaust denier”, but here, it’s more like, “scratch a dudebro, find a Truther”. Things that make you go hmm. How go things among the lizardfolk on this cool and cloudy night?

I had a great day. Played golf on a nice course with some good friends, didn’t shoot my best, but had more than enough good shots to have a lot of fun, and even my worst were still playable.

Think I’m going to roast up some wings for my din-din, toss them with some sauce and just graze myself into a coma.

To boot, got a local guy that’s going to cut my little lawn each week for just 15 bucks, so that’s just time in the bank for me.

Life is extra good with hot-sauce.

RBS

124 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 3:04:07pm

re: #116 HappyWarrior

They’re not willing to die. Sure they talk a big game on Twitter but when push comes to shove, they won’t want to miss the latest episode of Duck Dynasty.

They don’t want to DIE, but they may want to KILL, though likely that’s more limited than you’d think.

125 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 18, 2014 3:04:22pm

LOL Wingnut meme FAIL

126 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 3:05:26pm

re: #122 Kragar

Sometimes, I feel sorry for my brother, because he doesn’t really get to enjoy movies anymore. He gets stuck watching everything because its his job, and he has to watch some real crap.

Then I remember the other part of his job is interviewing porn stars.

So screw him.

He must be that guy whose face is all blurred out in the videos.

Not that I’ve ever watched anything like that, of course!

127 Shiplord Kirel  Apr 18, 2014 3:06:19pm

re: #75 Pie-onist Overlord

And the Fleecing Of The Rubes proceeds apace:

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They mean “domesticated terrorist,” one tamed, driven, and otherwise exploited by goober media, gun and ammo manufacturers, demonic politicians, demagogue preachers, and the rest of the usual suspects who represent the real leadership of the right wing these days.

128 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 3:07:06pm

re: #125 Pie-onist Overlord

LOL Wingnut meme FAIL

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We produce, we pay fucking taxes, we own and care for the fucking land. Bundy sends his cattle there to eat our grass and drink our water and grow fat on our resources, and he doesn’t want to pay for it.

Who’s the moocher again?

129 The Ghost of a Flea  Apr 18, 2014 3:07:21pm

re: #112 Kragar

Guerrilla fighters only win if they can establish enough popular support to make the other side back down, build a conventional army of their own, or convince other nations to come in on their behalf.

So in other words, they’re gonna die.

These guys are going to do “guerilla warfare” versus local cops, park rangers, postmen, and that guy three houses down; their idea of “government” is anybody that doesn’t stuff they don’t like, or has authority over them.

All of that community preparedness and readiness stuff has a sinister edge when you consider how much they talk about fifth columnists and all the various kinds of people who aren’t Real Americans. What they’re imagining is a micro-state where they have the monopoly of violence, which doesn’t pair well with all their talk about who doesn’t deserve rights.

130 thedopefishlives  Apr 18, 2014 3:08:21pm

re: #123 RealityBasedSteve

Life is extra good with hot-sauce.

RBS

There is no trouble in this life that cannot be made insignificant with sufficient application of hot sauce. Although that might also have to do with the significant quantities of alcohol consumed therewith.///

131 Pie-onist Overlord  Apr 18, 2014 3:08:37pm

re: #128 GeneJockey

We produce, we pay fucking taxes, we own and care for the fucking land. Bundy sends his cattle there to eat our grass and drink our water and grow fat on our resources, and he doesn’t want to pay for it.

Who’s the moocher again?

“Producers” know how to spell.

132 Justanotherhuman  Apr 18, 2014 3:10:13pm

These people are just all pathetic.

133 EPR-radar  Apr 18, 2014 3:10:46pm

re: #51 Killgore Trout

Al Gore may have invented the internet but Clinton discovered that wingnuts can use it.

READ: The Clinton Administration’s Internal Memo on the “Vast Right-Wing Conspiracy”

There’s some substance in the linked article.

The Communication Stream of Conspiracy Commerce refers to the mode of communication employed by the right wing to convey their fringe stories into legitimate subjects of coverage by the mainstream media. This is how the stream works. Well funded right wing think tanks and individuals underwrite conservative newsletters and newspapers such as the Western Journalism Center, the American Spectator and the Pittsburgh Tribune Review. Next, the stories are re-printed on the internet where they are bounced all over the world. From the internet, the stories are bounced into the mainstream media through one of two ways: 1) The story will be picked up by the British tabloids and covered as a major story, from which the American right-of-center mainstream media (i.e. the Wall Street Journal, Washington Times and New York Post) will then pick the story up; or 2) The story will be bounced directly from the internet to the right-of-center mainstream American media. After the mainstream right-of-center media covers the story, Congressional committees will look into the story. After Congress looks into the story, the story now has the legitimacy to be covered by the remainder of the American mainstream press as a “real” story.

134 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 3:11:08pm

re: #131 Pie-onist Overlord

“Producers” know how to spell.

I’d guess “theives” rhymes with “knives”.

135 Kragar  Apr 18, 2014 3:13:17pm
136 thedopefishlives  Apr 18, 2014 3:13:17pm

re: #131 Pie-onist Overlord

“Producers” know how to spell.

Best line from a wingnut that I’ve read all week: Some idjit who accused the JREF’ers of being NWO shills because our writing is always spelled correctly and grammatically correct. Yeah, it’s all those years of government training better known as “school”.

137 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 3:13:51pm

re: #109 jaunte

M-16’s, F-16’s. Crazy rightwingers never seem to get the plural form right.

BEWARE THE COMING APOSTROPHE! IT’S A COMBINATION OF THE APOCALYPSE AND A CATASTROPHE

138 Kragar  Apr 18, 2014 3:15:16pm
139 Feline Fearless Leader  Apr 18, 2014 3:16:13pm

re: #131 Pie-onist Overlord

“Producers” know how to spell.

“Springtime for Bundy and Nevadastan”?

;P

140 HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2014 3:16:36pm

You know what, enough of the fucking moocher crap. Tired of wingnuts whose base is in the poorer parts of the country accusing the left of mooching off of them. I don’t mind paying taxes to help them out but I do truly resent their construct that only they are productive.

141 HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2014 3:16:56pm

re: #139 Feline Fearless Leader

“Springtime for Bundy and Nevadastan”?

;P

Sean Hannity can play Roger De Bris.

142 Justanotherhuman  Apr 18, 2014 3:17:57pm

Did some figuring this evening after I bought gas. I’ve spent $60 on gas since I bought the “new” Saturn, and put 600 miles on it, that was 17.8 gal of gas. Comes out to 33.7 mi per gal, average. Gas has been running about $3.36/gal here and going up lately. Being conscientious about gas, the cost, how much I use, etc has always been a “thing” with me. So, I’m very please with that 33.7 mpg.

Woohoo!

143 thedopefishlives  Apr 18, 2014 3:19:34pm

re: #142 Justanotherhuman

Did some figuring this evening after I bought gas. I’ve spent $60 on gas since I bought the “new” Saturn, and put 600 miles on it, that was 17.8 gal of gas. Comes out to 33.7 mi per gal, average. Gas has been running about $3.36/gal here and going up lately. Being conscientious about gas, the cost, how much I use, etc has always been a “thing” with me. So, I’m very please with that 33.7 mpg.

Woohoo!

33.7 is very much not bad. I finally managed to turn a tank over 33 mpg in my Chevy during the brief 2 weeks of spring before the cold returned. I’m anticipating even better results during high spring, before summer draws the attention of the air conditioner. I recorded a single trip to work that the computer guesstimated at 40.0 mpg.

144 HappyWarrior  Apr 18, 2014 3:20:00pm

Thing I’ll never get about wingnuts is they proclaim to love our troops but yet they hate the federal government with a fighting passion. Other thing is and this is something I know from working in the Feds HR but a lot of federal employees are veterans. So those “lazy federal employees” that so many wingnuts rage at, yeah chances are that man or woman once served his or her country in uniform once.

145 GeneJockey  Apr 18, 2014 3:20:43pm

re: #142 Justanotherhuman

Did some figuring this evening after I bought gas. I’ve spent $60 on gas since I bought the “new” Saturn, and put 600 miles on it, that was 17.8 gal of gas. Comes out to 33.7 mi per gal, average. Gas has been running about $3.36/gal here and going up lately. Being conscientious about gas, the cost, how much I use, etc has always been a “thing” with me. So, I’m very please with that 33.7 mpg.

Woohoo!

I’ve been driving a Subaru Outback since 2002. Lately I’m looking to get something not quite so old and Station Wagonny. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that something like a new(ish) Mustang/Camaro/Challenger with a 300 hp V6 gets slightly better gas mileage than the 4-cylinder Outback.

Technology is cool.

146 Dr Lizardo  Apr 18, 2014 3:21:15pm

re: #142 Justanotherhuman

Did some figuring this evening after I bought gas. I’ve spent $60 on gas since I bought the “new” Saturn, and put 600 miles on it, that was 17.8 gal of gas. Comes out to 33.7 mi per gal, average. Gas has been running about $3.36/gal here and going up lately. Being conscientious about gas, the cost, how much I use, etc has always been a “thing” with me. So, I’m very please with that 33.7 mpg.

Woohoo!

Saturn’s are good cars if you’re looking for MPG. I sold them for awhile in 2000/2001 before I came over here to Europe. I liked them.

147 thedopefishlives  Apr 18, 2014 3:22:07pm

re: #145 GeneJockey

I’ve been driving a Subaru Outback since 2002. Lately I’m looking to get something not quite so old and Station Wagonny. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that something like a new(ish) Mustang/Camaro/Challenger with a 300 hp V6 gets slightly better gas mileage than the 4-cylinder Outback.

Technology is cool.

Most of the advancements have been in transmission technology, but gasoline direct injection is also a new and powerful thing.

148 wrenchwench  Apr 18, 2014 3:22:07pm

When Twitter says

View more in conversation →

it’s a lie. There is never ‘more’.

149 Justanotherhuman  Apr 18, 2014 3:24:19pm

re: #146 Dr Lizardo

Saturn’s are good cars if you’re looking for MPG. I sold them for awhile in 2000/2001 before I came over here to Europe. I liked them.

It’s my second one, and it’s a 2002. My first was a ‘97 with a double overhead cam and really tricked out, but I got over 300K on it and replaced it w/the single overhead cam 2002. I wanted a Saturn replacement, and got this one for $700 (since I had to fix the intake manifold gasket ($225 by my mechanic). So, for $925, I got a terrific car, and it cost $700 less than blue book private sale value. Woot!

ETA: This car only has 140K on it, so I figure it’s good for another 140K. : )

150 kirkspencer  Apr 18, 2014 3:24:45pm

re: #146 Dr Lizardo

Saturn’s are were good cars if you’re looking for MPG. I sold them for awhile in 2000/2001 before I came over here to Europe. I liked them.

(defunct in 2010)

The problem is that the ones on the road are getting older and further from being ‘standard’ for replacement parts for repairs.

151 Dr Lizardo  Apr 18, 2014 3:32:11pm

re: #149 Justanotherhuman

re: #150 kirkspencer

The worst car I ever owned? 1987 Jaguar XJ6. Absolute nightmare. I sold it off after I’d had it less than one year.

One I liked was a 1968 Mustang that I bought as pretty much scrap and rebuilt from the wheels up. Sweet car, and lots of folks loved it.

And my beloved 1964 Volvo P544, which I bought for $200 at a scrapyard when the young lady who’d inherited it from her grandma decided it was “ugly” and she was going to scrap it. I drove it home that very afternoon. :)

152 Gus  Apr 18, 2014 3:34:10pm
153 Justanotherhuman  Apr 18, 2014 3:37:00pm

re: #150 kirkspencer

(defunct in 2010)

The problem is that the ones on the road are getting older and further from being ‘standard’ for replacement parts for repairs.

Yeah, GM had a good thing going with the Saturn. Unfortunately for them, it was a good thing for the buyer. : )

It’s still the best little basic car I’ve ever driven, mechanically; the ‘97 still had the original clutch in it. But I only drive 5 spds. : )

154 Justanotherhuman  Apr 18, 2014 3:41:39pm

It’s becoming close to deadly to eat out. The noodle restaurant had a fire truck go through it in Monterey Park yesterday.

4 hurt after truck crashes in to Longview McDonald’s patio

katu.com

155 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 18, 2014 3:42:44pm

re: #147 thedopefishlives

Most of the advancements have been in transmission technology, but gasoline direct injection is also a new and powerful thing.

Probably one of the best improvements in Auto Technology is electronic fuel injection with monitoring. To be able to actually provide the exact amount of fuel the engine needs, and adjust up or down based on the exhaust stream on a milli-second basis is so huge.

Back when I used to be involved with Bracket Drag Racing (where Consistency is VERY IMPORTANT), I always wanted to try building a car with a really strong small block married to the Holly aftermarket fuel injection system. I think it would have been a winning combo, but I just got burned out on the cheaters.

RBS

156 kirkspencer  Apr 18, 2014 3:45:48pm

re: #153 Justanotherhuman

Yeah, GM had a good thing going with the Saturn. Unfortunately for them, it was a good thing for the buyer. : )

It’s still the best little basic car I’ve ever driven, mechanically; the ‘97 still had the original clutch in it. But I only drive 5 spds. : )

Had a 93 SL1, have a ‘03 Vue. I’d still have the former if the timing chain hadn’t broken suddenly and, well, when the lowest mileage I could get for a replacement engine was over 100,000 (and they wanted 5,000 for it), I said g’bye.

157 Gus  Apr 18, 2014 3:46:43pm
158 b_sharp  Apr 18, 2014 3:47:37pm

re: #155 RealityBasedSteve

Probably one of the best improvements in Auto Technology is electronic fuel injection with monitoring. To be able to actually provide the exact amount of fuel the engine needs, and adjust up or down based on the exhaust stream on a milli-second basis is so huge.

Back when I used to be involved with Bracket Drag Racing (where Consistency is VERY IMPORTANT), I always wanted to try building a car with a really strong small block married to the Holly aftermarket fuel injection system. I think it would have been a winning combo, but I just got burned out on the cheaters.

RBS

Built 3 street-strip Chev SBs in the ’70s based on Holley & Quadrajet carbs. I would have loved EFI and a modern turbo/supercharger.

Modern engines are incredible compared to what we had back then.

159 Shiplord Kirel  Apr 18, 2014 3:48:13pm

re: #151 Dr Lizardo

The worst car I ever owned? 1987 Jaguar XJ6. Absolute nightmare. I sold it off after I’d had it less than one year.

One I liked was a 1968 Mustang that I bought as pretty much scrap and rebuilt from the wheels up. Sweet car, and lots of folks loved it.

And my beloved 1964 Volvo P544, which I bought for $200 at a scrapyard when the young lady who’d inherited it from her grandma decided it was “ugly” and she was going to scrap it. I drove it home that very afternoon. :)

I’ve been driving my robber-baron car (1968 RR Silver Shadow) more now now that I live in the country. It’s great on the back roads and the notorious Lubbock vandal drivers are hundreds of miles away. Gas mileage is pretty decent if you can avoid stop and go driving. I like to roll the windows down and play ZZ-TOP at nearly full volume.
A Lubbockite would think nothing of dropping 70 grand for a tricked out crewcab pickup but I would be a nutcase for spending 1/5 that amount on a 46 year old Rolls-Royce that will be worth more than I paid for it when I leave it to my daughter (especially if that day is as far down the road as I hope).

160 Varek Raith  Apr 18, 2014 3:48:17pm

re: #157 Gus

What the what???

161 Justanotherhuman  Apr 18, 2014 3:50:30pm

re: #156 kirkspencer

Had a 93 SL1, have a ‘03 Vue. I’d still have the former if the timing chain hadn’t broken suddenly and, well, when the lowest mileage I could get for a replacement engine was over 100,000 (and they wanted 5,000 for it), I said g’bye.

Yeah, I hear you. $5K for an engine isn’t what the entire car is worth, esp w/that kind of mileage on it. I probably won’t put more than 10K miles a year on this car, so I expect it will last me a pretty good while if nothing goes terribly wrong. I should be able to get after market small parts for at least another 5-10 yrs, don’t you think? I still see a lot of Saturns around, although some people are starting to get rid of them. Will just have to wait and see.

162 Gus  Apr 18, 2014 3:52:14pm

re: #160 Varek Raith

What the what???

Ayep.

163 steve_davis  Apr 18, 2014 3:52:59pm

re: #31 jaunte

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Twitter. Forcing people to take a succinct paragraph-sized point and turn it into 8 fucking tweets, since 2006.

164 RealityBasedSteve  Apr 18, 2014 3:54:47pm

I was doing 500 miles a week just to and from work, but now that they have an express bus service, I’ve cut that down to about 100. Add in that once or twice a month now I’m able to teach my classes from home, and I’m happy.

RBS

165 kirkspencer  Apr 18, 2014 3:54:55pm

re: #161 Justanotherhuman

Hence my reply at #150.

166 Gus  Apr 18, 2014 3:55:15pm

“If you speak Russian, you can watch the whole exchange here. Or just watch it for the pure bile that translates into any language.”

Youtube Video

167 kirkspencer  Apr 18, 2014 3:55:48pm

re: #163 steve_davis

Twitter. Forcing people to take a succinct paragraph-sized point and turn it into 8 fucking tweets, since 2006.

chicken and egg: twitter and soundbite journalism.

168 Gus  Apr 18, 2014 3:57:01pm

Damn, what a fucking asshole.

169 Dr Lizardo  Apr 18, 2014 3:59:37pm

re: #159 Shiplord Kirel

I’ve been driving my robber-baron car (1968 RR Silver Shadow) more now now that I live in the country. It’s great on the back roads and the notorious Lubbock vandal drivers are hundreds of miles away. Gas mileage is pretty decent if you can avoid stop and go driving. I like to roll the windows down and play ZZ-TOP at nearly full volume.
A Lubbockite would think nothing of dropping 70 grand for a tricked out crewcab pickup but I would be a nutcase for spending 1/5 that amount on a 46 year old Rolls-Royce that will be worth more than I paid for it when I leave it to my daughter (especially if that day is as far down the road as I hope).

That’s a sweet ride. Rolls Royce has always been one of my favorites.

170 Varek Raith  Apr 18, 2014 4:00:36pm

re: #159 Shiplord Kirel

I’ve been driving my robber-baron car (1968 RR Silver Shadow) more now now that I live in the country. It’s great on the back roads and the notorious Lubbock vandal drivers are hundreds of miles away. Gas mileage is pretty decent if you can avoid stop and go driving. I like to roll the windows down and play ZZ-TOP at nearly full volume.
A Lubbockite would think nothing of dropping 70 grand for a tricked out crewcab pickup but I would be a nutcase for spending 1/5 that amount on a 46 year old Rolls-Royce that will be worth more than I paid for it when I leave it to my daughter (especially if that day is as far down the road as I hope).

So, can I borrow your car???

171 Gus  Apr 18, 2014 4:06:33pm
172 Decatur Deb  Apr 18, 2014 4:06:42pm

re: #161 Justanotherhuman

Yeah, I hear you. $5K for an engine isn’t what the entire car is worth, esp w/that kind of mileage on it. I probably won’t put more than 10K miles a year on this car, so I expect it will last me a pretty good while if nothing goes terribly wrong. I should be able to get after market small parts for at least another 5-10 yrs, don’t you think? I still see a lot of Saturns around, although some people are starting to get rid of them. Will just have to wait and see.

Buy a wreck and put it in a shed. (Once had an MG Midget in the drive and 2 on blocks in the back yard.)

173 Decatur Deb  Apr 18, 2014 4:07:29pm

re: #159 Shiplord Kirel

I’ve been driving my robber-baron car (1968 RR Silver Shadow) more now now that I live in the country. It’s great on the back roads and the notorious Lubbock vandal drivers are hundreds of miles away. Gas mileage is pretty decent if you can avoid stop and go driving. I like to roll the windows down and play ZZ-TOP at nearly full volume.
A Lubbockite would think nothing of dropping 70 grand for a tricked out crewcab pickup but I would be a nutcase for spending 1/5 that amount on a 46 year old Rolls-Royce that will be worth more than I paid for it when I leave it to my daughter (especially if that day is as far down the road as I hope).

Is the clock still the loudest thing in the cabin?

174 steve_davis  Apr 18, 2014 4:11:00pm

re: #122 Kragar

Sometimes, I feel sorry for my brother, because he doesn’t really get to enjoy movies anymore. He gets stuck watching everything because its his job, and he has to watch some real crap.

Then I remember the other part of his job is interviewing porn stars.

So screw him.

I wound up having a lovely conversation with a porn star in a thread on another site, and she was just a far more decent, thoughtful person than ninety-percent of the people I encounter on Politico. Porn stars just would be, I think, some of the least judgemental people in the world. Very refreshing. I understand why Jesus preferred hanging out with them over the alcohol-free Pharasaic parties where the evening’s entertainment was probably a first-century version of Twister.

175 Shiplord Kirel  Apr 18, 2014 4:27:52pm

re: #169 Dr Lizardo

That’s a sweet ride. Rolls Royce has always been one of my favorites.

Besides the usual stuff, it has some unexpected qualities. Though quite heavy, it is actually fairly compact dimensionally and has a large glass area with all corners readily visible. It is therefore very easy to park. It also rides well on rough roads, and handles extremely well for a large 1960s car, though the lack of steering “feel” is a little disconcerting. Contrary to many expectations, It is a very strong and robust car and not fragile at all. This characteristic is a big part of Rolls-Royce tradition and heritage, and goes back to things like TE Lawrence’s use of Silver Ghost scout cars in the desert during World War I.
The famous leather upholstery is a selling point for a lot of people, but I actually don’t much like being surrounded by dead cow, and have thought about replacing it with some kind of fabric if it ever wears out.
I really can’t stand the various media paeans to “hand selected Connolly hides and Royal Wilton carpeting, ” as though these alone are significant factors in making the car worth what it costs. Both Connolly and Wilton are major suppliers, of course, and have goods at all quality levels. Just having their name attached is nothing special in and of itself, though specific RR components are of very high quality. That just isn’t where the money is: It would still be a very expensive, high quality car if it had Walmart carpeting and burlap upholstery. I do like the burled walnut woodwork, which looks as good as it did when it left the factory and seems likely to stay that way for the next hundred years or so.

176 Shiplord Kirel  Apr 18, 2014 4:28:46pm

re: #173 Decatur Deb

Is the clock still the loudest thing in the cabin?

Not when ZZ_Top is on.

177 Romantic Heretic  Apr 18, 2014 4:34:38pm

re: #104 jaunte

Google cache:
Dave Hodges’ “The Common Sense Show”
Can M-16′s Defeat F-16′s In the Coming Civil War?

Fan fiction disguised as an editorial about how guerrilla fighters will win the future civil war.

I had to stop right here.

When the American people engage in a guerrilla war in the upcoming years, the people have less than a 40% chance of success.

They have a much smaller chance than that.

Guerrilla wars succeed when they are against an occupying power. See Afghanistan (both USSR and US), Vietnam and Iraq. The guerrillas only have to wait out the occupiers. Sooner or later the occupiers decide it’s just not worth wealth and blood to stay there and they leave.

The people in the country suffer tremendously. In a guerrilla war the populace will suffer ten to fifty casualties for every casualty inflicted on the occupiers.

There are only three cases, that I know of, where a guerrilla war succeeded against the local government since the end of WWII: China, Cuba and Nicaragua. You’ll note that in each case the local government was an exceptionally inept one. In every other case guerrilla war failed against the local government. Because let’s face it, the local government has nowhere to run. So they work a lot harder to stay in power.

I also note this idiot assumes that every member of the US military and every citizen of the US will come in this war on his side. Talk about dreaming in Technicolor™.

Also, why is my country, Canada, counted among the enemy of his cause? Does he think we’re fucking commies or something?

Holy crap. I think my brain hurts after reading that.

178 Bulworth  Apr 19, 2014 4:36:17am

RonPaulWins

All the LOLs

179 De Kolta Chair  Apr 20, 2014 11:15:32am

re: #52 Killgore Trout

The Clinton White House Really Hated Don Imus
I don’t know about the “hate” part but the memo’s pretty damn funny. Imus probably got a big kick out of it.

The only times I ever listened to Imus was when Levon Helm was on.

180 De Kolta Chair  Apr 20, 2014 11:18:15am

re: #171 Gus

Oh look a UFO!
Let me get my worst quality camera.

“And I really must remember to point it at the ground while running most of the time, which I never, ever do when I’m filming anything else, excepting Bigfoot.”


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