Trouble in Greenwaldia: The Intercept’s “Senior Policy Analyst” Abruptly Quits

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Marcy Wheeler (who runs the blog “Emptywheel”) was one of the first hires at Glenn Greenwald’s billionaire-funded media outlet, and today she’s announcing that she’s the first one to bail out: Announcement | Emptywheel.

This is just a quick announcement that I have ended my affiliation with First Look/The Intercept. My departure was voluntary and amicable.

To anticipate questions some may ask, my departure from The Intercept doesn’t relate to anything I wrote or didn’t write about Ukraine. It did not relate to the downtime The Intercept just took (and seems to be coming out of). The reasons for my departure predate both of those things, to January.

I’ll have more to say-not about The Intercept, per se, but about things I’ve learned about my own journalism over the last 7 months, as the Edward Snowden story played out and the Intercept discussed hiring me-at some later point, after some reflection.

Things here will remain the same.

We will, however, be doing a fundraising campaign next week (or you can beat the rush by donating today!). Until such time as a billionaire wants to support the work we do here, we will rely on readers to pay the bills.

Uh oh. Things are not serene in Glenn Greenwald’s kingdom.

UPDATE at 5/16/14 11:19:33 am

Wheeler is still listed on The Intercept’s About page.

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391 comments
1 Pie-onist Overlord  May 16, 2014 11:17:22am

HURR HURR SEND TEH MONEYS!!!!!!

2 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 11:18:34am

And they never will be serene with GG in charge.

I wonder if he’s still getting paid by Omidyar while he’s out on the hustings raking it in? There’s still the movie to make, too.

When will Omidyar yank his couch change?

3 b.d.  May 16, 2014 11:18:47am

An undiverse crowd becomes even less diverse.

4 bubba zanetti  May 16, 2014 11:19:11am
6 Kragar  May 16, 2014 11:23:10am
7 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 11:25:35am

Funeral home: Jeb Magruder, who said he heard President Nixon order Watergate burglary, has died; he was 79 - @AP
Read more on bigstory.ap.org

8 Testy Toad T  May 16, 2014 11:26:23am
I’ll have more to say-not about The Intercept, per se, but about things I’ve learned about my own journalism over the last 7 months, as the Edward Snowden story played out and the Intercept discussed hiring me

We’re going to need a bigger boat popcorn microwave.

9 lawhawk  May 16, 2014 11:27:01am

LMAO that they’re already getting departures. Amicable or otherwise, it doesn’t reflect well on what the expectations were.

But the more curious bit has to do with “It did not relate to the downtime The Intercept just took (and seems to be coming out of). “

This is a new outfit that’s trying to get its name out there, and they had a most curious way of getting name recognition - namely by disappearing for weeks at a time.

Was it a walk along the Appalachian trail, or did all work stop as Greenwald had to finish the book for deadline and everyone was involved in copy editing/proofing?

It’s one of the great unexplained mysteries, along with how anyone can take any of these folks seriously.

10 The Ghost of a Flea  May 16, 2014 11:27:02am

Clearly, the drone strike has blasted the other 29,999,876 patriots out of spacetime.

This is what happens when you elect a Time Lord.

11 Feline Fearless Leader  May 16, 2014 11:27:23am

No need at The Intercept for a Senior Policy Analyst when the sole policy is to say or do whatever is necessary to inflate GG’s career.

12 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  May 16, 2014 11:28:53am

Well, now Twitter tells me that I should be ashamed of mocking OAS because black people don’t feel safe and white privilege or something. Liberal orthodoxy is really tiresome.

13 jaunte  May 16, 2014 11:29:04am

re: #11 Feline Fearless Leader

Turns out the “Future of Journalism” is PR.

14 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 11:30:52am

re: #13 jaunte

Turns out the “Future of Journalism” is PR.

GG is just a snake oil salesman in the old tradition.

15 jaunte  May 16, 2014 11:31:54am

re: #12 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

I don’t think Black Twitter agrees.

16 Skip Intro  May 16, 2014 11:32:52am

I’m confused. Who am I supposed to donate to? To emptywheel?

Why on earth would I do that?

17 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 16, 2014 11:34:07am

Yunno, if I had been in charge of publicity for OAS, I woulda done the following:

1) Pick up a truckoad of Cliven Bundy’s cattle

2) turn them loose on the National Mall

3) Call on True Patriots (TM) to come to Washington to prevent the government from rounding them up

Woulda guaranteed a heckuva turnout and lotsa coverage…

/

18 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 11:34:43am

This is an Australian interview (Skype?)

Journalist Glenn Greenwald says there is zero evidence supporting claims Edward Snowden jeopardised lives

mobile.abc.net.au

I think most would probably disagree with that blanket assessment.

19 Pie-onist Overlord  May 16, 2014 11:36:15am

Glenn Greenwald opens his mouth.
Shit comes out.

You can’t explain that!

20 jaunte  May 16, 2014 11:36:26am

re: #18 Justanotherhuman

Journalist Glenn Greenwald says there is zero evidence supporting claims Edward Snowden jeopardised lives

“As far as we can tell…”

21 jaunte  May 16, 2014 11:37:10am
22 wrenchwench  May 16, 2014 11:37:45am
23 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 16, 2014 11:38:00am
24 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 11:39:02am

re: #16 Skip Intro

I’m confused. Who am I supposed to donate to? To emptywheel?

Why on earth would I do that?

I mentioned this earlier when some names I recognized started being hired over there, and unless all those folks were free lancers that were hired, those who had a MSM or solid job and left it for something GG seems to have abandoned, are going to be sorely disappointed when the paychecks dry up and/or they have nothing to do but “toe the GG line”.

25 wrenchwench  May 16, 2014 11:42:16am
26 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 11:43:55am

Are heads starting to roll over at Veterans Affairs?

Robert Petzel, under secretary for health in the Department of Veterans Affairs, resigns; ‘we must do more to improve timely access to’ veterans care, Secreatary Shinseki says - @edatpost
see original on twitter.com

27 Targetpractice  May 16, 2014 11:46:40am

re: #26 Justanotherhuman

Are heads starting to roll over at Veterans Affairs?

Robert Petzel, under secretary for health in the Department of Veterans Affairs, resigns; ‘we must do more to improve timely access to’ veterans care, Secreatary Shinseki says - @edatpost
see original on twitter.com

I actually feel somewhat bad for Shinseki, if only because his military career was utterly destroyed in the lead-up to the wars whose veterans now are being let down by the VA. The halfwits who sold us those two wars never thought to actually put money towards taking care of the broken wrecks that would come out the other end.

28 piratedan  May 16, 2014 11:48:30am

re: #26 Justanotherhuman

I know that the administration wants this to work better, the backlog of claims with two major military engagements ending and the conversion to a computerized access system (yes, my understanding was that the VA was still using paper) coupled with the R’s starving the government beast has made their job even more difficult but dammit, this has totally sucked for a great many vets already in the system and those entering it.

29 Targetpractice  May 16, 2014 11:51:38am

But then again, that really is the GOP for you, happy to care for you until you become a drain on the system. They love you when you’re in the womb, they love you when you’re fighting their wars of choice, they love you when you’re making millions annually, but any other time they couldn’t give a fuck less about you.

30 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 11:52:19am

So exactly when did Marcy Wheeler quit, I wonder?

Did Cook know she was when he posted this on the 13th?

The Intercept Is Hiring

firstlook.org

Her job isn’t listed, but her leaving could have been in process then.

31 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  May 16, 2014 11:58:47am

re: #27 Targetpractice

I actually feel somewhat bad for Shinseki, if only because his military career was utterly destroyed in the lead-up to the wars whose veterans now are being let down by the VA. The halfwits who sold us those two wars never thought to actually put money towards taking care of the broken wrecks that would come out the other end.

It also to do with the high survival rate: it’s cheaper to pay off the family of a a dead GI than to maintain a disabled living one.

32 Lidane  May 16, 2014 12:00:42pm
33 Kragar  May 16, 2014 12:01:00pm
34 Targetpractice  May 16, 2014 12:01:34pm

re: #31 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It also to do with the high survival rate: it’s cheaper to pay off the family of a a dead GI than to maintain a disabled living one.

Not to mention that the advance of technology has allowed doctors to diagnose brain injuries that previously would have been written off as psychological in nature. A lot of GIs are getting the help they need, but as a trade-off that help is expensive because brain injuries tend to be more complicated than simply setting a leg or sewing up a bullet wound.

35 Targetpractice  May 16, 2014 12:02:17pm

re: #33 Kragar

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Are they seriously trying to sell pictures from 2007 as being from today?

36 Killgore Trout  May 16, 2014 12:02:56pm

National Journal: Why We’re Changing Our Comments Policy

For every smart argument, there’s a round of ad hominem attacks—not just fierce partisan feuding, but the worst kind of abusive, racist, and sexist name-calling imaginable.

The debate isn’t joined. It’s cheapened, it’s debased, and, as National Journal’s Brian Resnick has written, research suggests that the experience leaves readers feeling more polarized and less willing to listen to opposing views.
….
So, today we’ll join the growing number of sites that are choosing to forgo public comments on most stories.

37 Testy Toad T  May 16, 2014 12:03:04pm

re: #35 Targetpractice

Are they seriously trying to sell pictures from 2007 as being from today?

The Pontiac Aztek was a dead giveaway.

38 Kragar  May 16, 2014 12:03:04pm

re: #35 Targetpractice

Are they seriously trying to sell pictures from 2007 as being from today?

At least one guy is. His other pic was from last August

39 Targetpractice  May 16, 2014 12:05:04pm

re: #32 Lidane

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Honestly think it’s about time to consider doing away with the filibuster. I don’t care that it would mean a Republican majority next year would be able to pass bills more easily. That’s what we have a Democrat in the White House for. Meanwhile the Senate majority that we’ve had for nearly a decade now has gone to waste because Republicans care more about their party’s future than they do the country.

40 Targetpractice  May 16, 2014 12:06:14pm

re: #37 Testy Toad T

The Pontiac Aztek was a dead giveaway.

I thought those things were a myth. You know, the kinda scary picture you kept around to tell your kids “This is what we’ll buy to take you to school in if you don’t behave!”

41 Testy Toad T  May 16, 2014 12:06:55pm

re: #39 Targetpractice

I’d consider requiring 60 votes for passage, maybe. There’s no fucking excuse for a minority being able to keep any and all legislation from even coming to a vote.

42 b.d.  May 16, 2014 12:07:29pm

Here is my hunch;

The Intercept involves a bunch of dudebros tweeting back and forth really cool awesome b.s. ideas to each other every single day without anything ever, ya know, actually getting written.

Wheeler maybe tired of twitter planning sessions and actually wanted to go to work, that probably didn’t set well?

43 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 12:07:44pm
44 Targetpractice  May 16, 2014 12:08:49pm

re: #41 Testy Toad T

I’d consider requiring 60 votes for passage, maybe. There’s no fucking excuse for a minority being able to keep any and all legislation from even coming to a vote.

Way I see it, a simple majority should be enough for any bill. Elections should have consequences, yet we’ve seen none out of the Senate because Republicans have abused the filibuster to the point that if it were a child, they’d be up on charges.

45 piratedan  May 16, 2014 12:08:56pm

re: #39 Targetpractice

I’m not so sure they care about their party’s future, it seems like they’re much more concerned with securing their position on the Conservative griftstravaganza than giving a shit about the GOP and governing the country. A bunch of self-serving high end grifters who pander to their own self-destructive elements, politicians of the Id.

46 Pie-onist Overlord  May 16, 2014 12:09:40pm

re: #33 Kragar

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Don’t waste your time with a troll account.

47 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 16, 2014 12:10:10pm

re: #34 Targetpractice

Not to mention that the advance of technology has allowed doctors to diagnose brain injuries that previously would have been written off as psychological in nature. A lot of GIs are getting the help they need, but as a trade-off that help is expensive because brain injuries tend to be more complicated than simply setting a leg or sewing up a bullet wound.

Along that same line, emergency field and followup medical treatment have advanced so much that more soldiers are surviving traumatic injuries that would have been fatal in the past.

48 jaunte  May 16, 2014 12:10:34pm
Terry Trussell, Operation American Spring’s chief of staff, told “Patriot Nation” host Mark Hoffmann last week that organizers are “expecting the unexpected,” including a drone strike. He noted, though, that a drone strike could reflect negatively on the administration: “When the government destroys the capital just to get rid of us, I think it’s going to work to their discredit.”
rightwingwatch.org
49 jaunte  May 16, 2014 12:11:05pm

Wheels within wheels, man.

50 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 12:12:01pm
51 Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2014 12:12:11pm

re: #48 jaunte

Whatever he’s smoking, that’s some pretty potent stuff. Damn.

52 wrenchwench  May 16, 2014 12:12:31pm

re: #49 jaunte

Wheels within wheels, man.

So, only the center-most one is empty?

53 b.d.  May 16, 2014 12:16:00pm
Sen. Dan Patrick once sought mental health treatment, took antidepressants

Dan Patrick is a slimy a-hole of the #1 magnitude but David Dewhurst is just as big a pos as he is, if not more. Really low blow. It is a shame they both can’t lose.

wfaa.com

54 Killgore Trout  May 16, 2014 12:17:21pm

No, Internet, Harvard is NOT Requiring a ‘White Privilege’ Seminar

Despite numerous reports that Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government planned to institute an orientation seminar on white “power and privilege” for its incoming students, a school spokesperson says the school has absolutely no intention of requiring or even offering such a program.

55 b.d.  May 16, 2014 12:17:44pm

re: #53 b.d.
wffa,com claims thye got these docs. long ago from another failed candidate and that Dewhurst had NOTHING to do with this story showing up now,

56 Slap  May 16, 2014 12:17:57pm

OAS? Hah.

You can’t hold a candle to a group of united, independent women.

Image: 1101-march-for-womens-lives_full_600.jpg

Fact is, you’re hideously outnumbered and on the wrong side of history.

(A personal side note: my wife and her best friend attended this. I was home watching the coverage on CNN, and the ever-delightful (///////) Karen Hughes was comparing this crowd of amazing women to terrorists. Because abortion. I will forever resist any efforts to paint that asshole as anything other than evil.)

57 jaunte  May 16, 2014 12:17:58pm

People waved Confederate and Klan flags way back in 2010, therefore they’re probably liberals by now./

58 Decatur Deb  May 16, 2014 12:19:37pm

Moving up a thread:

The RWNJ blog radio feed at the ustream site expects the leader, LTC Riley, in 10 minutes or so. Forget who posted the url here first.

ustream.tv

59 lawhawk  May 16, 2014 12:19:40pm

So, Fredrick Dicker (who retweeted this, and that’s how I got the tweet) is no fan of Gov. Cuomo and he’s a gun enthusiast from the way he lays into Cuomo about the SAFE Act in the state. Remington firearms has been threatening to move out of the state, and Dicker’s trying to make it about the SAFE Act, but the reality is that Remington was looking for a corporate handout.

They got one. $38 million from Alabama. So they’re moving.

60 FemNaziBitch  May 16, 2014 12:21:19pm

bbl

61 neilk  May 16, 2014 12:22:06pm
Until such time as a billionaire wants to support the work we do here

I take this to mean that she left because a certain billionaire doesn’t want to support the work she does there?

62 Lidane  May 16, 2014 12:22:14pm

Speaking of being stuck in a time loop:

DADT got repealed in 2010. I’m not seeing the military jumping at legalizing bestiality anytime soon.

63 Decatur Deb  May 16, 2014 12:24:43pm

re: #62 Lidane

Speaking of being stuck in a time loop:

Conservative pundit says the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell will cause soldiers to have sex with wild boars and goats

DADT got repealed in 2010. I’m not seeing the military jumping at legalizing bestiality anytime soon.

If there’s any soldier that will have sex with a wild boar, that’s the guy you want on your fireteam.

64 Varek Raith  May 16, 2014 12:26:20pm

re: #62 Lidane

Speaking of being stuck in a time loop:

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DADT got repealed in 2010. I’m not seeing the military jumping at legalizing bestiality anytime soon.

WTF is with them and bestiality?!?!

65 Pie-onist Overlord  May 16, 2014 12:27:02pm

re: #64 Varek Raith

WTF is with them and bestiality?!?!

They fuck pigs.

66 EPR-radar  May 16, 2014 12:27:52pm

re: #64 Varek Raith

WTF is with them and bestiality?!?!

Projection? What surprises me is that these idiot RWNJs are women. Usually it takes self-loathing gay male closet cases to reach the most psychotic depths of homophobia.

67 Decatur Deb  May 16, 2014 12:29:16pm

re: #64 Varek Raith

WTF is with them and bestiality?!?!

Spring is in the air.

68 NJDhockeyfan  May 16, 2014 12:29:53pm
69 RealityBasedSteve  May 16, 2014 12:30:06pm

re: #40 Targetpractice
re: #37 Testy Toad T

The Pontiac Aztek was a dead giveaway.

I thought those things were a myth. You know, the kinda scary picture you kept around to tell your kids “This is what we’ll buy to take you to school in if you don’t behave!”

Pontiac Aztek, the Keyser Söze of automobiles.

RBS

70 darthstar  May 16, 2014 12:33:03pm

She forgot to add “Obama’s evil policy and Glenn Greenwald is awesome” to her stories.

71 darthstar  May 16, 2014 12:33:07pm
72 Lidane  May 16, 2014 12:33:50pm
73 William Barnett-Lewis  May 16, 2014 12:33:50pm

re: #59 lawhawk

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So, Fredrick Dicker (who retweeted this, and that’s how I got the tweet) is no fan of Gov. Cuomo and he’s a gun enthusiast from the way he lays into Cuomo about the SAFE Act in the state. Remington firearms has been threatening to move out of the state, and Dicker’s trying to make it about the SAFE Act, but the reality is that Remington was looking for a corporate handout.

They got one. $38 million from Alabama. So they’re moving.

RemLin has gone to garbage since the got bought out - I wouldn’t buy a new Remington, Marlin or anything else made by a company under Freedom Group. They’re milking these names for everything they’re worth and QC is non-existent. Remington especially screwed up the introduction of a new highly anticipated pistol for the CCW market this spring shipping weapons that either didn’t work or could fire out of battery.

Now, I personally think the SAFE act is a bad joke that doesn’t do anything that will make anyone one bit safer. That said, the moving of the Remington jobs to Alabama is all about money and will probably see the quality drop even further down the hole.

74 darthstar  May 16, 2014 12:34:16pm
75 darthstar  May 16, 2014 12:37:11pm
76 freetoken  May 16, 2014 12:38:25pm

re: #36 Killgore Trout

I’m surprised National Journal even stays in business. There are so many choices in news/comments outlets that I wonder how many sites/publications say viable.

77 TedStriker  May 16, 2014 12:39:48pm

re: #27 Targetpractice

I actually feel somewhat bad for Shinseki, if only because his military career was utterly destroyed in the lead-up to the wars whose veterans now are being let down by the VA. The halfwits who sold us those two wars never thought to actually put money towards taking care of the broken wrecks that would come out the other end.

re: #31 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It also to do with the high survival rate: it’s cheaper to pay off the family of a a dead GI than to maintain a disabled living one.

I hate to be cynical, but I wonder if that little fact entered into the Bush administration’s calculus when body armor and uparmored vehicles were delayed.

78 Slap  May 16, 2014 12:40:45pm

re: #77 TedStriker

I’d go further and name Cheney and Rumsfeld on that.

79 Targetpractice  May 16, 2014 12:40:46pm

re: #77 TedStriker

I hate to be cynical, but I wonder if that little fact entered into the Bush administration’s calculus when body armor and uparmored vehicles was delayed.

I would not be surprised if the low body count in the early days of the campaign convinced them that the danger to the troops was minimal and spending money on armor was unnecessary.

80 EPR-radar  May 16, 2014 12:40:46pm

re: #77 TedStriker

I hate to be cynical, but I wonder if that little fact entered into the Bush administration’s calculus when body armor and uparmored vehicles was delayed.

This would certainly be in character for “fiscal conservatives”.

81 lawhawk  May 16, 2014 12:41:17pm

re: #73 William Barnett-Lewis

I can’t speak to the quality, but the company has been consolidating and moving different product lines around. The Illion NY plant took in a product line formerly built in Maine starting in 2011 (and NYS gave them tax breaks for the couple of years). The company is simply moving from state to state grabbing all the tax breaks it can.

82 dog philosopher  May 16, 2014 12:42:47pm

Republicans Reduced To Complaining That Socialized Medicine Should Work Better

One writer at Ebony Magazine writes about her experience trying to find a doctor covered by her new insurance under Obamacare. She still likes the Affordable Care Act but now wants the government to do something to reverse the basic economic truth that doctors aren’t going to take all these new Medicaid patients just as experts warned before the law was passed.

how dare the heritage foundation originated plan not do a better plan of supporting medicaid!

Republicans put heat on Obama over VA scandal

and the most socialized medical system in american history! how come it doesn’t work better??!?

WHO IS KEEPING THE GOVERNMENT FROM DOING A BETTER JOB WITH OUR SOCIALIZED MEDICAL PROGRAMS?!?!

oh

it’s republicans…

83 lawhawk  May 16, 2014 12:43:14pm

re: #75 darthstar

Flag Code? Not supposed to wear the flag (section 8, clause d).

84 freetoken  May 16, 2014 12:43:16pm

re: #74 darthstar

Vox is another venture about which I wonder why it exists. Unlike really serious outlets there are not references, backgrounders, etc. But unlike the usual internet drive-by spots there are no comments, forums, etc. to draw in the internet addicts.

It does have fancy web-magic, so it’s got that going for it.

85 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 16, 2014 12:43:32pm

Megyn Kelly probably begs to differ:

86 Testy Toad T  May 16, 2014 12:44:39pm

re: #76 freetoken

I’m surprised National Journal even stays in business. There are so many choices in news/comments outlets that I wonder how many sites/publications say viable.

I assume money just pours in from Koch-like wealthy backers, run as loss-leaders to keep the crowds of serfs as large as possible.

87 freetoken  May 16, 2014 12:46:12pm

Looney conspiracy theorists will never be the same:

US ionospheric research facility to close

The world’s most advanced ionospheric research facility has in its lifetime faced allegations of being a ‘military death beam’, a weapon of weather control and even a top-secret mind-control project. Now, the US government’s High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is threatened with closure.

[…]

88 dog philosopher  May 16, 2014 12:46:27pm

DIABOLICAL OBAMACARE PLOT SUCCEEDS BWAHAHAHA!!!

Conservative Commentators Tricked Into Criticizing Failures Of Heritage Foundation/Romney Originated Medical Insurance Plan To Provide Affordable Coverage For All

“this evil plot that has led us into the nightmare of acting like we care that ordinary people aren’t getting the medical care they deserve!! i want to find out who set this trap for us and go say bad things about them on fox news!”

89 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 12:46:27pm

Jury convicts 2 men accused of starting Los Angeles County wildfire in January - @CBSLA
Read more on cbslocal.com

90 Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2014 12:50:17pm

re: #85 Backwoods_Sleuth

Megyn Kelly probably begs to differ:

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Huey Freeman was right!

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Contains strong language NSFW.

91 Targetpractice  May 16, 2014 12:52:11pm

re: #88 dog philosopher

DIABOLICAL OBAMACARE PLOT SUCCEEDS BWAHAHAHA!!!

Conservative Commentators Tricked Into Criticizing Failures Of Heritage Foundation/Romney Originated Medical Insurance Plan To Provide Affordable Coverage For All

“this evil plot that has led us into the nightmare of acting like we care that ordinary people aren’t getting the medical care they deserve!! i want to find out who set this trap for us and go say bad things about them on fox news!”

Thing is, what do they think happens if Obamacare fails to work?

Go back to the old status quo? No, the damage to the insurance companies will have already been done.

Adopt the GOP alternative? What alternative?

Really, their worst fears are probably right, if Obamacare fails, then it will have been because you can’t expect a for-profit system to provide universal health care. It costs money to take care of sick people and there’s gonna end up being way more sick people in the years to come than there will be healthy ones paying in.

92 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 12:53:43pm

Well it’s made its way to the US now.

Florida Health Department confirms 3 cases of mosquito-borne chikungunya fever in state - @WPLGLocal10
Read more on local10.com

cdc.gov

93 dog philosopher  May 16, 2014 12:53:51pm

re: #91 Targetpractice

Thing is, what do they think happens if Obamacare fails to work?

all the wingnuts i know personally tell me that obamacare was designed to fail and therefore lead to the institution of canadian style single payer

works for me!

94 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 12:54:55pm

More stories like this to come, I would think.

3 Gainesville, Fla., Veterans Affairs employees placed on leave after allegations of secret waiting list -@jaxdotcom
Read more on jacksonville.com

95 Targetpractice  May 16, 2014 12:55:26pm

re: #93 dog philosopher

all the wingnuts i know personally tell me that obamacare was designed to fail and therefore lead to the institution of canadian style single payer

works for me!

Same here, I’d have no problem with Canadian style or really most any style of universal health care. Just the reality that most of our trade partners don’t have their companies lugging the weight around of providing health care for their workers should send people’s heads spinning.

96 b_sharp  May 16, 2014 12:57:07pm

re: #93 dog philosopher

all the wingnuts i know personally tell me that obamacare was designed to fail and therefore lead to the institution of canadian style single payer

works for me!

Works for me too.

97 Minor_L  May 16, 2014 12:59:17pm

re: #48 jaunte

The narcissism is breathtaking.

98 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 12:59:37pm

Stalkers getting frisky again on Twitter. These are some extremely needy people.

99 Targetpractice  May 16, 2014 1:00:21pm

re: #98 Charles Johnson

Stalkers getting frisky again on Twitter. These are some extremely needy people.

“Look at me, daddy! LOOK AT ME!”

100 freetoken  May 16, 2014 1:00:31pm

60 years ago tomorrow:

AP WAS THERE: Original 1954 Brown v. Board story

Wonder how many stories on “judicial overreach” and “tyrants in black robes” will surface.

101 dog philosopher  May 16, 2014 1:00:54pm

re: #98 Charles Johnson

Stalkers getting frisky again on Twitter. These are some extremely needy people.

frisky twitter stalkers

sounds like a tasty snack!

102 Targetpractice  May 16, 2014 1:01:48pm

re: #101 dog philosopher

frisky twitter stalkers

sounds like a tasty snack!

Or the name of a garage band.

103 Lidane  May 16, 2014 1:02:29pm
104 dog philosopher  May 16, 2014 1:03:56pm

re: #48 jaunte

He noted, though, that a drone strike could reflect negatively on the administration

who can compete with brain power of that magnitude?

105 freetoken  May 16, 2014 1:04:36pm

re: #103 Lidane

Lots of magic words there:

Scribd Document

106 Targetpractice  May 16, 2014 1:05:12pm

re: #103 Lidane

[Embedded content]

My eyes started crossing before I finished the first page.

107 makeitstop  May 16, 2014 1:06:15pm

re: #103 Lidane

[Embedded content]

New ideas: ZERO.

They had to call some big confab to reiterate everything they’ve been trying to do for years now?

What, did they forget or something?

108 Targetpractice  May 16, 2014 1:07:33pm

re: #107 makeitstop

New ideas: ZERO.

They had to call some big confab to reiterate everything they’ve been trying to do for years now?

What, did they forget or something?

My favorite is they want a balanced budget, but they also want deeper permanent tax cuts and higher defense spending.

This is insane troll logic.

109 Lidane  May 16, 2014 1:10:11pm

re: #108 Targetpractice

My favorite is they want a balanced budget, but they also want deeper permanent tax cuts and higher defense spending.

This is insane troll logic.

No, it’s fiscal conservatism writ large.

Somehow the free market will fix everything because wibbly wobbly timey wimey hand waving. We can cut taxes, mandate a balanced budget and spend a shitload more on defense. Magic!

110 ObserverArt  May 16, 2014 1:10:25pm

re: #14 Justanotherhuman

GG is just a snake oil salesman in the old tradition.

I don’t know…at least some of those patent medicines gave you a pretty good buzz.

All GG can sell is BS and it just stinks.

111 Killgore Trout  May 16, 2014 1:11:37pm

re: #76 freetoken

I’m surprised National Journal even stays in business. There are so many choices in news/comments outlets that I wonder how many sites/publications say viable.

They’ve been around a long time. I guess they’re running on name recognition. It’s actually a decent site but I rarely visit.

112 Minor_L  May 16, 2014 1:11:42pm

re: #108 Targetpractice

I suppose that defense spending will just magically pay for itself, just like Iraq.

113 Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2014 1:12:06pm

re: #107 makeitstop

New ideas: ZERO.

They had to call some big confab to reiterate everything they’ve been trying to do for years now?

What, did they forget or something?

In this scene, the rest of sane America (portrayed by Darth Vader) finally reaches the end of their patience with Movement Conservatism (portrayed by Admiral Ozzel).

Youtube Video

114 Targetpractice  May 16, 2014 1:12:16pm

re: #109 Lidane

No, it’s fiscal conservatism writ large.

Somehow the free market will fix everything because wibbly wobbly timey wimey hand waving. We can cut taxes, mandate a balanced budget and spend a shitload more on defense. Magic!

Yep, Reagan proved deficits don’t matter! And Dubya did too! Of course, they did it by running the national debt by trillions, but hey, it worked…right?

115 bubba zanetti  May 16, 2014 1:18:34pm

re: #103 Lidane

The title has “Modernize” in it? Lulz.

116 Amory Blaine  May 16, 2014 1:18:42pm

Heh. Comment from the Moonie Times.

walsall • 2 hours ago
On their website they warned that Obama would unleash drones on the masses. Allegedly the president was going to fire missiles into the crowd—-but the “patriots” were ready to face that!

But rain! Dear lawd—-no one told them there would be RAIN!
RETREAT! RETREAT!
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117 blueraven  May 16, 2014 1:19:41pm

punks

Harassing the police at the whitehouse.
ustream.tv

118 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 1:23:11pm

Haha, just saw a Guy Fawkes mask.

Anonymous is there?

119 HappyWarrior  May 16, 2014 1:23:17pm

re: #108 Targetpractice

My favorite is they want a balanced budget, but they also want deeper permanent tax cuts and higher defense spending.

This is insane troll logic.

That’s why anyone with even a basic understanding of economics should see the GOP’s claims of fiscal responsibility to be laughable at best.

120 HappyWarrior  May 16, 2014 1:24:24pm

re: #103 Lidane

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Attendees agreed on a nine-page document outlining the “constitutional conservative” principles for which they believe the Republican Party needs to stand, including lower taxes, a stronger military and opposition to abortion and same-sex marriage.
In otherwords, they want the same thing they’ve been wanting for the past 30 years. Is it any wonder that they can’t attract anyone under 30?

121 dog philosopher  May 16, 2014 1:24:47pm

re: #119 HappyWarrior

That’s why anyone with even a basic understanding of economics should see the GOP’s claims of fiscal responsibility to be laughable at best.

it’s almost like it’s something you could call

Voodoo Economics

or something like that…

122 Eventual Carrion  May 16, 2014 1:25:03pm

re: #117 blueraven

punks

Harassing the police at the whitehouse.
ustream.tv

Maybe pepper spray is called for

123 HappyWarrior  May 16, 2014 1:25:39pm

re: #121 dog philosopher

it’s almost like it’s something you could call

Voodoo Economics

or something like that…

Yeah you don’t say. Really, I knew that the Ryan Budget was a load of bs when Ryan didn’t even want to touch the defense budget. You can’t call yourself a deficit hawk and actually want to increase the military budget.

124 blueraven  May 16, 2014 1:28:01pm

re: #122 Eventual Carrion

Maybe pepper spray is called for

That is only appropriate for peacefully protesting young students. /

125 HappyWarrior  May 16, 2014 1:29:28pm

The more conservatives want this to be a culture war, the more they’re going to alienate people. To that, I say please proceed, please tell America that is becoming more and more accepting of gay people that denying gay people equality under the eyes of the law is a priority issue but not helping out the less well off get better health care.

126 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 1:29:30pm

This guy is doing an internet show and talking to people on the phone.

facebook.com

Cheeeeesh. And cheesy.

127 Targetpractice  May 16, 2014 1:29:56pm

re: #123 HappyWarrior

Yeah you don’t say. Really, I knew that the Ryan Budget was a load of bs when Ryan didn’t even want to touch the defense budget. You can’t call yourself a deficit hawk and actually want to increase the military budget.

I knew it was BS when I saw that the entire tax code section of it consisted of proposals for tax cuts and that was it. The rest of it, the meat and potatoes of how he intended to fund this whole joke of a budget, had a big label on it that said “This Space Left Intentionally Blank,” with the equally BS excuse that it’d be filled in after the budget was signed.

128 makeitstop  May 16, 2014 1:31:27pm

The live stream sounds like they just closed the bar and tossed the drunks out into the street. Inchoate rage at its finest.

129 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 1:32:05pm

Let’s have an inquiry into this! — Darrell Issa

Official: Libya closes Benghazi airport due to clashes in city - @Reuters
End of alert

130 ObserverArt  May 16, 2014 1:32:19pm

Oh god no…Greenwald on Alex Wagner. I liked Alex Wagner. Might be time to reconsider. And she is fawning over his book. Uggh.

131 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 1:32:25pm

Just got told if I didn’t love Operation American Spring I should go live in some other country.

These seem like nice people.

132 HappyWarrior  May 16, 2014 1:32:30pm

re: #127 Targetpractice

I knew it was BS when I saw that the entire tax code section of it consisted of proposals for tax cuts and that was it. The rest of it, the meat and potatoes of how he intended to fund this whole joke of a budget, had a big label on it that said “This Space Left Intentionally Blank,” with the equally BS excuse that it’d be filled in after the budget was signed.

And yet that “budget” got him the Vice Presidential nomination. I was honestly amazed to find out how unaccomplished Ryan is as a legislator. For all the talk about how he was a “wonk”, he proved to be more of a wank than wonk.

133 HappyWarrior  May 16, 2014 1:33:16pm

re: #131 Charles Johnson

Just got told if I didn’t love Operation American Spring I should go live in some other country.

These seem like nice people.

And reasonable too. Idiots.

134 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 1:33:59pm

re: #131 Charles Johnson

Just got told if I didn’t love Operation American Spring I should go live in some other country.

These seem like nice people.

Shouldn’t that have been, “If you don’t like this country, leave?” : )

135 Rightwingconspirator  May 16, 2014 1:35:55pm

DEA Exceeds Authority In Hemp Seed Seizure-Kentucky State Program
Updated Page, I was slow to get my opinion/overview paragraph in there.

136 CuriousLurker  May 16, 2014 1:37:16pm

Random comments:

Video feed guy was talking to self-identified Libertarian who was carrying on about the Illuminati, UN, papists, etc.

Crazy old lady that’s supposedly been demonstrating at WH for 30+ years carrying sign that says “Disarm IsraHell” and something about Israel’s nukes.

Article author says when he was on-site a guy referred to him as the “liberal Jew media”.

MSM is complicit because they (supposedly) don’t report on it

Psycho screaming something about Obama and “don’t shoot,” at cops.

Tomorrow there’ll be more people. Next weekend, bikers! Yay!

Why didn’t people bring tents??

Now one guy thinks Bush was in on it somehow.

One lady earlier asked how she should answer when people ask why they want to overthrow a “freely elected government”. *crickets* The guy quickly changed the subject.

These people are completely unhinged. They really do believe that huge numbers of Americans agree with them, or they would if they knew “the truth”. They don’t realize everyone else has moved on and wants no part of their racist, bigoted bullshit, especially the younger generation.

Sociologists, psychiatrists, behaviorists, etc. must be having a field day with all this lunacy.

Uh-oh. Patriot in cammies down! Someone must’ve spiked his water…

This shit is unreal. O_o

137 wrenchwench  May 16, 2014 1:38:24pm

re: #136 CuriousLurker

138 b.d.  May 16, 2014 1:39:24pm

Why the hell not?

139 wrenchwench  May 16, 2014 1:40:20pm

re: #131 Charles Johnson

Just got told if I didn’t love Operation American Spring I should go live in some other country.

These seem like nice people.

Yeah, leave it to the folks wearing the American flag wrapped in plastic. Now that’s loooooove!

140 b.d.  May 16, 2014 1:42:15pm

re: #131 Charles Johnson

Just got told if I didn’t love Operation American Spring I should go live in some other country.

These seem like nice people.

hahaha.

Let me see if I get this straight.

Hate a duly elected president and demand his abdication……or else is patriotic but not liking the patriots means you have to leave the country?

141 Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2014 1:42:43pm

re: #136 CuriousLurker

These people are completely unhinged. They really do believe that huge numbers of Americans agree with them, or they would if they knew “the truth”. They don’t realize everyone else has moved on and wants no part of their racist, bigoted bullshit, especially the younger generation.

That’s just it. Last night in a thread downstairs, I was talking about the Shaver Mysteries. Originating in a manuscript by a Richard S. Shaver, a man who was most likely a paranoid schizophrenic, it attracted a lot of readers to Amazing Stories in the mid to late 1940s.

Even worse? The very large number of people who wrote in to Amazing Stories claiming they’d experienced just what Mr. Shaver had written about. Tens of thousands of letters came in, confirming that what Mr. Shaver had written was “true”.

There’s a lot of people out there who are not only profoundly disturbed, but feel that they - and they alone - possess “the truth”.

142 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 1:44:19pm
143 CuriousLurker  May 16, 2014 1:44:41pm

Mark Connors: Please don’t feel bad if you couldn’t make it to DC. I understand, you couldn’t get off work, don’t have the money, etc. All while he’s going on about eating his Reeses peanut butter cups.

Right. Because rescuing your country from tyranny through revolution and restoring the Constitution isn’t as important as paying your bills and being at work on time. That’s what the founding father said, right? “The revolution can wait until my paid vacation time comes up,” right??

I can’t take it anymore. Turning off the feed now.

144 Mentis Fugit  May 16, 2014 1:46:04pm

Spring has sprung
The grass is riz
I wonder where the patriots iz

145 sagehen  May 16, 2014 1:46:44pm

So TNC today offered up a preview of the cover story he’s got in next month’s issue:

Why Reparations Make Sense

Wisely, he’s disabled comments for this post. I’m trying to find anywhere else people are discussing, just on the basis of the title and teeny excerpt. BUT OMG am I looking forward to the explosions when it’s released,

146 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 1:48:20pm
147 urbanmeemaw  May 16, 2014 1:48:53pm

re: #99 Targetpractice

Your post reminds me to ask whatever happened to David Shrillrota? I’ve not seen any foul or pestilent vapors from his twitter feed in awhile.

148 wrenchwench  May 16, 2014 1:48:55pm

America haters are over here.

But they’re Putin lovers, and so are the RWNJs, so maybe the RWNJs should go to another country.

149 ObserverArt  May 16, 2014 1:49:17pm

Well, it has been confirmed by the mighty Greenwald and Alex Wagner that Snowden is not a narcissist. Greenwald states that anyone that refuses all the big media interviews Greenwald was asked to setup and also wants to stay in the background is not a narcissist.

And the fun statement…”only narcissists knows a narcissist” with Wagner saying “It must take one to know one.”

So, there are a lot of narcissists here at LGF.

Yeah, I’m looking at you…and you…and me!

150 wrenchwench  May 16, 2014 1:50:12pm

re: #147 urbanmeemaw

Your post reminds me to ask whatever happened to David Shrillrota? I’ve not seen any foul or pestilent vapors from his twitter feed in awhile.

I saw a tweet saying Sirota had reviewed Greenwald’s book. That may have taken a lot out of him.

151 Patricia Kayden  May 16, 2014 1:53:47pm

re: #62 Lidane

Why just wild boars and goats? That’s kind of selective, no?

152 Skip Intro  May 16, 2014 1:54:19pm

Just to beat a dead horse,

Photos: Operation American Spring Misses Projected Attendance By About 9,999,850

Photos at site.

dcist.com

153 freetoken  May 16, 2014 1:55:14pm

It’s a chilly 96F here now - I think we’re starting a cooling trend.

154 b_sharp  May 16, 2014 1:56:25pm

Ok, which of you killed Twitter?

155 freetoken  May 16, 2014 1:57:01pm

re: #152 Skip Intro

Ah yes, the “Obama Epic Fail” sign.

Little does that sign holder realize that “Obama Epic Fail” is an anagram for “Amiable Oaf Pic”.

156 Lidane  May 16, 2014 1:57:36pm
157 HappyWarrior  May 16, 2014 1:58:27pm

re: #143 CuriousLurker

Mark Connors: Please don’t feel bad if you couldn’t make it to DC. I understand, you couldn’t get off work, don’t have the money, etc. All while he’s going on about eating his Reeses peanut butter cups.

Right. Because rescuing your country from tyranny through revolution and restoring the Constitution isn’t as important as paying your bills and being at work on time. That’s what the founding father said, right? “The revolution can wait until my paid vacation time comes up,” right??

I can’t take it anymore. Turning off the feed now.

It’s a known fact that John Adams missed the signing of the Declaration of Independence because he had to coach John Quincy’s Little League team. Not knocking people with familial obligations so it’s clear but I am knocking the idea of the country being in peril in their eyes but yet somehow low attendance can be excused by them having jobs. If the country was that in danger, they would be willing to risk their jobs or like the founders did, their very lives but this is just an armchair patriot moment.

158 Skip Intro  May 16, 2014 1:59:30pm

re: #155 freetoken

I’m curious if that guy with his hand on his girfriend’s butt in the second picture got lucky.

159 Pie-onist Overlord  May 16, 2014 2:02:00pm
160 HappyWarrior  May 16, 2014 2:03:03pm

re: #159 Pie-onist Overlord

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What, no Marines raising the flag over Mt. Surabachi?

161 EPR-radar  May 16, 2014 2:03:52pm

re: #141 Dr Lizardo

That’s just it. Last night in a thread downstairs, I was talking about the Shaver Mysteries. Originating in a manuscript by a Richard S. Shaver, a man who was most likely a paranoid schizophrenic, it attracted a lot of readers to Amazing Stories in the mid to late 1940s.

Even worse? The very large number of people who wrote in to Amazing Stories claiming they’d experienced just what Mr. Shaver had written about. Tens of thousands of letters came in, confirming that what Mr. Shaver had written was “true”.

There’s a lot of people out there who are not only profoundly disturbed, but feel that they - and they alone - possess “the truth”.

Wankers couldn’t even make up their own fables. They had to latch onto a story provided by someone else.

Enough people like that in the population and the concept of democracy becomes untenable.

162 Pie-onist Overlord  May 16, 2014 2:05:02pm

This patriot website is hilarious:
patriotsforamerica.ning.com

163 ObserverArt  May 16, 2014 2:06:15pm

I’ve caught some comments around the ‘net that many of the OAS sites have ringer posting to make all of them paranoid about going to DC. They have been spreading rumors of drones, spies among them, cameras being used by participants to record images so they can be arrested later, etc.

Maybe that is what happened to all those big numbers. They just got skeerd! A good Patriot lives to fight big gov another day!

164 EPR-radar  May 16, 2014 2:07:05pm

re: #119 HappyWarrior

That’s why anyone with even a basic understanding of economics should see the GOP’s claims of fiscal responsibility to be laughable at best.

Underpants gnome budgeting:

1) Raise defense spending and cut taxes

2) ???

3) Balanced budget!!

166 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 2:08:01pm
167 EPR-radar  May 16, 2014 2:08:21pm

re: #159 Pie-onist Overlord

Where’s El Rushbo in the sky with Diamonds?

168 Amory Blaine  May 16, 2014 2:09:04pm

I see a conspiracy developing.

AMERICAN SPRING IS LEFTIST OWS!!!

169 Pie-onist Overlord  May 16, 2014 2:09:17pm

re: #167 EPR-radar

Where’s El Rushbo in the sky with Diamonds?

Ronzilla squashed him.

170 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 2:09:28pm

The usual illiterates…

171 freetoken  May 16, 2014 2:09:30pm

In the end, we’ll kill off all the large fauna:

Mountain Bull, legendary Kenyan elephant, found dead

172 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 2:10:25pm
173 EPR-radar  May 16, 2014 2:11:43pm

re: #170 Justanotherhuman

Two bone-headed errors in seven words. Move over Einstein, here comes teahadi super-genius.

174 CuriousLurker  May 16, 2014 2:12:23pm

re: #162 Pie-onist Overlord

This patriot website is hilarious:
patriotsforamerica.ning.com

According to some wingnut that called into that loon Connors’ show, the new website going forward will be oas2014.com

I wonder if they’re already doing the circular firing squad thing… there was some bitching on the radio show about TP groups & such. Aside from their hatred for liberals & the black man in the WHITE House, they don’t seem to be able to organize their ideas into anything even remotely resembling rational thought.

175 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 2:13:07pm

re: #173 EPR-radar

Two bone-headed errors in seven words. Move over Einstein, here comes teahadi super-genius.

It’s the costume that counts!

176 Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2014 2:13:21pm

re: #170 Justanotherhuman

The usual illiterates…

[Embedded image]

Illiterate cosplayers. Just what America needs.

*headdesk*

177 Rev_Arthur_Belling  May 16, 2014 2:13:27pm

re: #147 urbanmeemaw

Your post reminds me to ask whatever happened to David Shrillrota? I’ve not seen any foul or pestilent vapors from his twitter feed in awhile.

Sirota recently wrote something titled “Journalism needs more Snowdens.” I’m not linking to it. Someone posted it on FB, and we got in a debate about whether Snowden was “brave” or not.

He must be angling for a job at the Intercept.

178 EPR-radar  May 16, 2014 2:13:27pm

re: #172 Charles Johnson

No patriots were harmed in the course of this exercise.

This is because no patriots participated in this exercise.

179 HappyWarrior  May 16, 2014 2:14:23pm

re: #170 Justanotherhuman

The usual illiterates…

[Embedded image]

I come from strong Irish dissent myself.

180 HappyWarrior  May 16, 2014 2:15:47pm

re: #174 CuriousLurker

According to some wingnut that called into that loon Connors’ show, the new website going forward will be oas2014.com

I wonder if they’re already doing the circular firing squad thing… there was some bitching on the radio show about TP groups & such. Aside from their hatred for liberals & the black man in the WHITE House, they don’t seem to be able to organize their ideas into anything even remotely resembling rational thought.

The only things that really unify them are a hatred of Obama/the GOP establishment, low taxes, and small government! Maybe if they spent more time on ideas rather than playing dress up………………

181 EPR-radar  May 16, 2014 2:15:57pm

re: #177 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Sirota recently wrote something titled “Journalism needs more Snowdens.” I’m not linking to it. Someone posted it on FB, and we got in a debate about whether Snowden was “brave” or not.

He must be angling for a job at the Intercept.

There’s a vacancy there for anyone who understands that the only requirement for “Senior Policy Analyst” at the Intercept is to discern what GG’s position is on any given day and parrot it mindlessly and enthusiastically, like an energizer bunny plugged into 208 VAC.

182 piratedan  May 16, 2014 2:16:00pm

re: #157 HappyWarrior

It’s mostly because there isn’t any real outrage, they’re just pawns who’ve let their emotions and latent bigotry be tapped by the professional victim outrage crew over at Faux and AM Talk radio… Can any of them honestly point to any set of policies that this administration has passed down that make their lives a disaster and unbearable that have required them to swallow their pride or that are blatantly unfair to them or their families?

This president inherited a shitpotful of crapola from the previous office holder and so far, almost all of the shit that people can be upset about can be directly attributed to that asshole and if people are still hurting post that debacle it isn’t because this administration hasn’t tried to make things better but rather the fact that the people that they supposedly want to run the country have done such a pisspoor job and they STILL keep electing them to screw with the guy who’s trying to unfuck all the damage done before.

183 b.d.  May 16, 2014 2:16:24pm

re: #166 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

They might not know that she has left?

//

184 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 2:16:43pm
185 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 2:17:28pm

Had to stay home to protect it.

186 HappyWarrior  May 16, 2014 2:18:09pm

re: #182 piratedan

It’s mostly because there isn’t any real outrage, they’re just pawns who’ve let their emotions and latent bigotry be tapped by the professional victim outrage crew over at Faux and AM Talk radio… Can any of them honestly point to any set of policies that this administration has passed down that make their lives a disaster and unbearable that have required them to swallow their pride or that are blatantly unfair to them or their families?

This president inherited a shitpotful of crapola from the previous office holder and so far, almost all of the shit that people can be upset about can be directly attributed to that asshole and if people are still hurting post that debacle it isn’t because this administration hasn’t tried to make things better but rather the fact that the people that they supposedly want to run the country have done such a pisspoor job and they STILL keep electing them to screw with the guy who’s trying to unfuck all the damage done before.

Pretty much. I love how they try to blame all their problems onto Obama but none on to the GOP House that cares more about kangaroo courts for Benghazi and the IRS and trying to repeal ACA while its signer still sits in office than trying policies that will actually benefit the average American. I actually do feel sorry for these people in some way since these people are pawns.

187 freetoken  May 16, 2014 2:18:40pm

Little to nothing on the various hate-right big volume websites today about the patriots re-taking America.

Perhaps something will show up tomorrow.

The right-wing outlets, rather, are putting out campaign material, pushing Ben Carson as a candidate, Allen West saying God might have something else planned for him, and the latest DJ re-mix of the cut BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!! BENGHAZI! VA!!

188 EPR-radar  May 16, 2014 2:20:11pm

re: #182 piratedan

Very true.

Outrage over a ****** in the White House just isn’t enough to spark a real mass movement in the US, much to the dismay of the confederates and Stormfront crowd.

189 dog philosopher  May 16, 2014 2:24:26pm

re: #182 piratedan

unfuck

i like it

let’s have more unfucking!

190 HappyWarrior  May 16, 2014 2:26:04pm

Obama gets blamed for shit that happened in the Bush years but the second Obama points out that or the mistakes made by the Bush administration he gets accused of “blaming Bush.” Pretty rich coming from people who still use Jimmy Carter as a boogeyman some three decades after he last lived in the WH.

191 CuriousLurker  May 16, 2014 2:35:08pm

re: #180 HappyWarrior

The only things that really unify them are a hatred of Obama/the GOP establishment, low taxes, and small government! Maybe if they spent more time on ideas rather than playing dress up………………

What get me is their inability to grasp how our system works, the very one they supposed love so much and are trying to save. We had two free & fair elections in which Obama won the presidency—NO ONE disputed that—yet because they don’t like him, they ant to overthrow the government.

That’s how they do things in 3rd world dictatorships: revolution/coup followed by some assholes refusing to share power for some decades, then another revolution/coup. Lather, rinse, repeat.

The more I watch them the more I think this is some Libertarian crap since they seem to have been in bed with the racists for a good long while, they think everything’s a conspiracy, and they apparently think massive deregulation, an almost non-existent central government, and roving bands of armed militias maintaining law & order constitute some sort of effing utopia.

Uh-huh. If I wanted to live in Somalia or Afghanistan, I’d move there.

192 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 2:35:29pm

The disembodied head of Snowjob…

Named after Henri Nannen, famous German journalist who founded Der Stern.

“In the 1930s he started working as a journalist. Being large, well-built and fair haired, he corresponded to the racial ideals of the time in Germany. This made him the speaker of the Olympic Oath during the 1936 event in Berlin. During the war he served in SS-Standarte Kurt Eggers, a propaganda unit in Italy”

en.wikipedia.org

193 missliberties  May 16, 2014 2:35:36pm

Thank God Greenwald is writing a hack piece, er I meant to say book, because the sales will be in the $thousands.

194 makeitstop  May 16, 2014 2:37:31pm

re: #162 Pie-onist Overlord

This patriot website is hilarious:
patriotsforamerica.ning.com

Yet another horrible patriotic song on that site.

All the good songwriters appear to be liberals. Conservatives can’t write a damn verse without referring to the Big Book of Cliches.

195 CuriousLurker  May 16, 2014 2:39:43pm

re: #192 Justanotherhuman

Okay, that jumbotron just downright creepy. Reminds me of that old Apple Superbowl commercial—very Orwellian:

Youtube Video

196 Patricia Kayden  May 16, 2014 2:42:50pm

re: #170 Justanotherhuman

I make spelling mistakes from time to time but you would think that another “Patriotic” American would tell them to correct their signs. It’s like they all can’t spell.

197 Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2014 2:42:52pm

re: #195 CuriousLurker

Okay, that jumbotron just downright creepy. Reminds me of that old Apple Superbowl commercial—very Orwellian:

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Reminds me of Zardoz.

Youtube Video

198 Targetpractice  May 16, 2014 2:44:27pm

re: #195 CuriousLurker

Okay, that jumbotron just downright creepy. Reminds me of that old Apple Superbowl commercial—very Orwellian:

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I was thinking more “I am the Great and Powerful OZ!”

199 Patricia Kayden  May 16, 2014 2:44:29pm

re: #180 HappyWarrior

I don’t believe they have a deep hatred for the GOP establishment. If so, why didn’t the Tea Party spring up during Bush’s 8 years?

200 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 2:44:41pm

I know the Mighty G is all over the tube today but I just can’t even.

201 ObserverArt  May 16, 2014 2:54:32pm

re: #200 Charles Johnson

I know the Mighty G is all over the tube today but I just can’t even.

I had the Alex Wagner show on, and up he popped. So, I went with it to see what he would say. Dude is slick and knows what side his bread is buttered.

GG Gameplan: Play Snowden up as some kind of a hero unseen in the modern world and watch all the younger crowd fawn over how Snowden and Greenwald as a team are going to save their Facebook postings and cell phones conversations from your prying eyes. How can you not like a better world?

And then sell books.

Alex said the book is absolutely riveting and reads like a super spy novel with lots of drama.

Yeah, it was stomach churning. I really did think Alex had a bit more critical thinking and maybe would ask at least one question to probe Greenwald. I don’t know why I thought that. I guess I hope for better. Better isn’t available.

202 Jay in Oregon  May 16, 2014 2:54:34pm

re: #157 HappyWarrior

Not knocking people with familial obligations so it’s clear but I am knocking the idea of the country being in peril in their eyes but yet somehow low attendance can be excused by them having jobs. If the country was that in danger, they would be willing to risk their jobs or like the founders did, their very lives but this is just an armchair patriot moment.

Thomas Jefferson said something about “We mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor” when they renounced their ties to England.

These OAS clowns aren’t fit to hold their codpieces.

203 urbanmeemaw  May 16, 2014 2:59:13pm

re: #150 wrenchwench

I can imagine. He probably combed ancient tomes from the Great Sycophants of HIstory to glean the most ass-kissy hyperbolic words to use in his review, including the Babylonian version of the phrase, “Glenn! Glenn! Over here, Glenn! Look at MEEEEEEE!”

204 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 2:59:38pm
205 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 3:00:35pm

I must have been retweeted by some high-trafic wingnut source. Maybe Twitchy. Because all of a sudden I’ve got all these loons ranting at me in my mentions.

206 EPR-radar  May 16, 2014 3:01:34pm

OT, but too funny to pass up.

Apparently there is a level of crazy in Idaho that was not captured in the recent Idaho GOP primary governor debate, where several different knuckle draggers competed for the fickle affection of the GOP base.

Meet Pro-Life Richardson, an independent running for ID governor.

prolifeidaho.com

207 urbanmeemaw  May 16, 2014 3:04:52pm

re: #177 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Sirota recently wrote something titled “Journalism needs more Snowdens.” I’m not linking to it. Someone posted it on FB, and we got in a debate about whether Snowden was “brave” or not.

He must be angling for a job at the Intercept.

Thank Greenwald I missed that. (Not trying to go “Godwin” here, but you know who else has a name that starts with “G”? Just sayin’.)

208 Stanley Sea  May 16, 2014 3:05:40pm

re: #206 EPR-radar

OT, but too funny to pass up.

Apparently there is a level of crazy in Idaho that was not captured in the recent Idaho GOP primary governor debate, where several different knuckle draggers competed for the fickle affection of the GOP base.

Meet Pro-Life Richardson, an independent running for ID governor.

prolifeidaho.com

Oh boy, er I mean Mr. Pro-Life.

209 Varek Raith  May 16, 2014 3:08:01pm

re: #206 EPR-radar

OT, but too funny to pass up.

Apparently there is a level of crazy in Idaho that was not captured in the recent Idaho GOP primary governor debate, where several different knuckle draggers competed for the fickle affection of the GOP base.

Meet Pro-Life Richardson, an independent running for ID governor.

prolifeidaho.com

Hello, I’m Mr. Chemtrail.

210 Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2014 3:08:53pm

re: #205 Charles Johnson

I must have been retweeted by some high-trafic wingnut source. Maybe Twitchy. Because all of a sudden I’ve got all these loons ranting at me in my mentions.

That little Tweet of mine from downstairs has made the rounds. Thanks for RT’ing it, by the way. :) It’s been favorited quite a few times as well.

211 prairiefire  May 16, 2014 3:10:02pm

Happy Friday, Lizards!

212 dog philosopher  May 16, 2014 3:10:02pm

re: #205 Charles Johnson

I must have been retweeted by some high-trafic wingnut source. Maybe Twitchy. Because all of a sudden I’ve got all these loons ranting at me in my mentions.

sounds like somma that #hashtag activism that real amuricans hate so much

213 urbanmeemaw  May 16, 2014 3:10:20pm

re: #195 CuriousLurker

Okay, that jumbotron just downright creepy. Reminds me of that old Apple Superbowl commercial—very Orwellian:

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The whole Snowald Circus is creepy, as is the fawning media’s drooling. I feel like I’m witnessing scenes from a surrealistic Bizarro Dudebro universe.

214 CuriousLurker  May 16, 2014 3:10:22pm

re: #165 Pie-onist Overlord

I can’t tell if this is parody.

The crowds in a lot of the photos are too young & diverse. If you actually click through on the images you’ll see that a bunch of the ones on pages 3-4 are from OWS (also here and here). There’s even one of an EDL demonstration in Birmingham. It’s either a parody, or they’re so stupid & desperate for photos of crowds that they’ll steal them from anywhere.

215 wrenchwench  May 16, 2014 3:11:14pm

re: #206 EPR-radar

OT, but too funny to pass up.

Apparently there is a level of crazy in Idaho that was not captured in the recent Idaho GOP primary governor debate, where several different knuckle draggers competed for the fickle affection of the GOP base.

Meet Pro-Life Richardson, an independent running for ID governor.

prolifeidaho.com

And his Party:

You cannot find a better party if you are a Christian patriot and if you dislike the selfish attitude inherent in other parties. The IAP is more like a Christian brotherhood than a political party.

Along the lines of the Muslim Brotherhood, I suppose.

216 BongCrodny  May 16, 2014 3:11:41pm

I guess two guys were responsible for today’s Operation American Spring turnout: The Unskewed Polls guy, and Raymond from “Rain Man.”

217 CuriousLurker  May 16, 2014 3:12:31pm

re: #213 urbanmeemaw

The whole Snowald Circus is creepy, as is the fawning media’s drooling. I feel like I’m witnessing scenes from a surrealistic Bizarro Dudebro universe.

QFT

218 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 3:14:02pm
219 wrenchwench  May 16, 2014 3:14:38pm

re: #210 Dr Lizardo

That little Tweet of mine from downstairs has made the rounds. Thanks for RT’ing it, by the way. :) It’s been favorited quite a few times as well.

Link? Am I following your Twitter account? You can link it in your profile, you know.

220 Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2014 3:15:43pm

re: #219 wrenchwench

Link? Am I following your Twitter account? You can link it in your profile, you know.

I’ll have to do that.

Here’s my Tweet from earlier.

221 wrenchwench  May 16, 2014 3:16:00pm

re: #218 Charles Johnson

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Jill wanted to jump on the Snowden docs, I heard somewhere.

222 dog philosopher  May 16, 2014 3:16:33pm

#unfucking

223 wrenchwench  May 16, 2014 3:18:50pm

re: #220 Dr Lizardo

You haz new follower.

224 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 3:19:43pm
225 TedStriker  May 16, 2014 3:19:45pm

re: #222 dog philosopher

#unfucking

What is fucked cannot be unfucked…

///

226 Killgore Trout  May 16, 2014 3:20:25pm

Epic correction to a flawed article
Mapping Kidnappings in Nigeria (Updated)

227 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 3:22:08pm

GG is going to rake in the bucks in Europe, if this is any indication.

4. Amsterdam, Tuesday May 20. 20:00-21:30
Stadsschouwburg Amsterdam - Rabozaal
Leidseplein 26
1017 PT Amsterdam
May 20, 2014 20:00 - 21:30
ssba.nl
shop.ticketscript.com
Tickets range from € 18,27 to € 26,27

He has 3 other stops in Europe, Germany I think, also, can’t remember the other 2 I saw earlier in the week, or at least that’s the plan.

“Journalist Glenn Greenwald broke the biggest news of 2013: in The Guardian he reported on the surveillance by the American National Security Agency brought to light by Edward Snowden’s leaked documents. His stories triggered a fierce debate about national security, the amount of big data governments gathers on citizens without their knowledge or consent and the concomitant privacy issues. He was one of the journalists at The Guardian and The Washington Post who were awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service last month.

“Greenwald’s new book No Place to Hide is appearing in the Dutch translation this week as De afluisterstaat, and in collaboration with Lebowski Publishers the John Adams Institute is hosting an evening with this controversial media figure. In his book, Greenwald, who now lives in Brazil, reveals fresh information on the NSA’s practices and recounts his experiences reporting on Snowden’s documents. Join us for an exciting evening on the nature of news and the insatiable machinery of surveillance in America with the man whom tv-commentator Bill Moyers described as ‘the most important voice to have entered the political discourse in years’.”

ssba.nl

So, GG is a journalist with the WAPO now? And wasn’t that an opinion blog he did for The Guardian which he allegedly left on 10/31/13?

I suppose being associated with a MSM outlet makes a blogger a “journalist” now? Maybe I’m splitting hairs, but bias is not what a real journalist should practice. Greenwald’s writing smacks more of polemics.

I’ll never call this bullshit artist a Journalist.

228 wrenchwench  May 16, 2014 3:22:44pm

re: #224 Charles Johnson

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He called him ‘subservient’? Oh jeez…

229 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 3:23:53pm
230 lawhawk  May 16, 2014 3:25:47pm

Greenwald keeps thinking that the US is the world’s greatest threat, all while Russia is actually stifling free speech, engaging in political retaliations against those who speak against the regime, and engage in oppressive spycraft on domestic populations, all without the kind of oversight present with the US.

This doesn’t mean that the US is perfect, or even right, but the choice of targets, and a slavish devotion to undermining US national security once again raises questions about Greenwald’s end game and who benefits - and it isn’t American citizens.

231 CuriousLurker  May 16, 2014 3:27:10pm

re: #229 Charles Johnson

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No surprise there since I heard this on the live stream earlier.

232 Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2014 3:27:13pm

LOLOL

233 Rev_Arthur_Belling  May 16, 2014 3:31:31pm

re: #227 Justanotherhuman

in collaboration with Lebowski Publishers

The Dude circle is complete.

234 wrenchwench  May 16, 2014 3:34:55pm

re: #230 lawhawk

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Greenwald keeps thinking that the US is the world’s greatest threat, all while Russia is actually stifling free speech, engaging in political retaliations against those who speak against the regime, and engage in oppressive spycraft on domestic populations, all without the kind of oversight present with the US.

This doesn’t mean that the US is perfect, or even right, but the choice of targets, and a slavish devotion to undermining US national security once again raises questions about Greenwald’s end game and who benefits - and it isn’t American citizens.

I read that as ‘Slav-ish’. Maybe because you spoke of Russia in the previous paragraph. Works in this context, I think.

235 Decatur Deb  May 16, 2014 3:36:53pm

Free Republic seems not to have an active thread on American Sproing.

236 Pie-onist Overlord  May 16, 2014 3:42:04pm

re: #214 CuriousLurker

The crowds in a lot of the photos are too young & diverse. If you actually click through on the images you’ll see that a bunch of the ones on pages 3-4 are from OWS (also here and here). There’s even one of an EDL demonstration in Birmingham. It’s either a parody, or they’re so stupid & desperate for photos of crowds that they’ll steal them from anywhere.

I could see right away that all of these photos were from other events and not OAS, of which they had no photos except for the rows of empty chairs.

That’s what made me think that this is either a parody site, or swarmed by LIBRULS for teh lulz.

237 dog philosopher  May 16, 2014 3:42:26pm

my call for more #hashpipe passivism has gained wide acceptance i see

um what were we talking about?

238 ObserverArt  May 16, 2014 3:42:30pm

re: #234 wrenchwench

I read that as ‘Slav-ish’. Maybe because you spoke of Russia in the previous paragraph. Works in this context, I think.

The root of a word!

FreeDictionary Online. Slave: Middle English sclave, from Old French esclave, from Medieval Latin sclāvus, from Sclāvus, Slav (from the widespread enslavement of captured Slavs in the early Middle Ages); see Slav.]

As said before…I have a Slovak background. My Grandfather on my fathers side came to America in 1900, so my father was first generation being born in 1907. My one brother and I always need to point out to people that the word ‘slave’ doesn’t automatically mean Africans brought to America. Sure there were probably other enslaved peoples all through time. But since much of our language is from European words, we slavs were the ‘first’ slaves.

It actually stuns a lot of white folk to know that.

239 lawhawk  May 16, 2014 3:43:06pm

re: #234 wrenchwench

You’d be correct to note that very deliberate choice of words.

240 dog philosopher  May 16, 2014 3:43:36pm

re: #235 Decatur Deb

Free Republic seems not to have an active thread on American Sproing.

they had a couple of desultory postings about the enormous and underwhelming lack of excitement earlier

241 Decatur Deb  May 16, 2014 3:44:33pm

re: #240 dog philosopher

they had a couple of desultory postings about the enormous and underwhelming lack of excitement earlier

Yup. Heavy on the ‘false flag’ theory.

242 Pie-onist Overlord  May 16, 2014 3:46:18pm

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243 Lidane  May 16, 2014 3:47:32pm

re: #235 Decatur Deb

Free Republic seems not to have an active thread on American Sproing.

The one I saw earlier was a mix of FALSE FLAG! and Sorry I’m too busy working to support all the Obamabot freeloaders to people saying they hadn’t heard about the event at all until this week.

One of them actually said that they heard the organizer on Savage’s radio show and he sounded like the librul stereotype of a Tea Partier (i.e., an ignorant yokel) so that convinced this brave Freeper it was a Democrat plan to humiliate the teabaggers. Only a handful of Freepers pointed out that OAS was calling for a coup so that’s probably why most people stayed away.

244 wrenchwench  May 16, 2014 3:47:54pm

re: #238 ObserverArt

The root of a word!

FreeDictionary Online. Slave: Middle English sclave, from Old French esclave, from Medieval Latin sclāvus, from Sclāvus, Slav (from the widespread enslavement of captured Slavs in the early Middle Ages); see Slav.]

As said before…I have a Slovak background. My Grandfather on my fathers side came to America in 1900, so my father was first generation being born in 1907. My one brother and I always need to point out to people that the word ‘slave’ doesn’t automatically mean Africans brought to America. Sure there were probably other enslaved peoples all through time. But since much of our language is from European words, we slavs were the ‘first’ slaves.

It actually stuns a lot of white folk to know that.

My maternal grandmother was born in Slovenia Yugoslavia the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

245 Rightwingconspirator  May 16, 2014 3:49:01pm

Friday Evening Movie Trailer Moment. Christopher Nolans Interstellar has a heck of a cast and a beautiful look. Out in November, so we have lots to look forward too after Godzilla.

246 Pie-onist Overlord  May 16, 2014 3:49:04pm

There is no mention of American Spring at tcot, except for LIBRULZ gloating.

Everybody that was spamming it previously is now silent.

247 Targetpractice  May 16, 2014 3:49:52pm

re: #246 Pie-onist Overlord

There is no mention of American Spring at tcot, except for LIBRULZ gloating.

Everybody that was spamming it previously is now silent.

“Maybe if we don’t talk about it, everybody will have forgotten about it by tomorrow…”

248 Rev_Arthur_Belling  May 16, 2014 3:51:21pm

re: #247 Targetpractice

“Maybe if we don’t talk about it, everybody will have forgotten about it by tomorrow…”

I hope Rachel Maddow Show doesn’t forget it, and they have some video available Monday. I will have a big bowl of schadencorn popped.

249 dog philosopher  May 16, 2014 3:53:48pm

re: #238 ObserverArt

The root of a word!

FreeDictionary Online. Slave: Middle English sclave, from Old French esclave, from Medieval Latin sclāvus, from Sclāvus, Slav (from the widespread enslavement of captured Slavs in the early Middle Ages); see Slav.]

As said before…I have a Slovak background. My Grandfather on my fathers side came to America in 1900, so my father was first generation being born in 1907. My one brother and I always need to point out to people that the word ‘slave’ doesn’t automatically mean Africans brought to America. Sure there were probably other enslaved peoples all through time. But since much of our language is from European words, we slavs were the ‘first’ slaves.

It actually stuns a lot of white folk to know that.

slave, continued…

the italian word is ‘schiavo’, pronounced ‘skee-ah-voh’. the common italian informal goodbye, ‘ciao’, is actually a corruption of this same word, from the renaissance era practice of rather gallantly saying to your buddy or girlfriend “i am your slave!”

en.wikipedia.org

250 Pie-onist Overlord  May 16, 2014 3:54:32pm

Listening to Pamela for one hour can make you run screaming to Boko Haram, begging to be kidnapped.

251 ObserverArt  May 16, 2014 3:56:32pm

re: #244 wrenchwench

My maternal grandmother was born in Slovenia Yugoslavia the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Oh, I understand that. One of the bad parts of the area peoples. A people that were stepped on and moved about all through history. And look at what is going on now…still being stepped on, moved about, disregarded as ‘trash’ etc. It’s all very sad.

One of their problems throughout history…they were right in the major pathways of all the conquering peoples either moving into position to take on Rome, or in the path when leaving Rome to head east to take on the infidels in the Mid East. I guess there was always time to stop by and take on some slav(e)s to help the cause.

252 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 3:59:21pm

This is an amazing, intelligent woman, making a great point that many women have been trying to get across for years.

Why I posed naked and natural

I posed nude to raise questions about the depiction of women and challenge the association between the female body and sex

theguardian.com

“An image of a naked female body is nothing but controversial, as I well know. The (more delicately named) “female nude” can provoke a range of reactions, going as far as embarrassment, shame and even sin. In modern society a naked woman is associated with one thing alone: sex.

“This single-minded way of looking at nudity isn’t healthy - certainly not for women. The cause is simple. In the public domain, nudity is more often than not depicted in an overtly sexualised manner. It is, therefore, no surprise if men come to view women as sex objects, and it runs the risk that women start to see themselves in the same light.

“My portrait, painted by Anthony Connolly and currently on show at the Mall Galleries as part of the annual exhibition of the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, hopes to raise questions about the depiction of women and to challenge the blinkered association between the body and sex; to show that the female figure is something that a woman walks around with every moment in her life - that it is not, therefore, purely sexual.” More

253 CuriousLurker  May 16, 2014 4:01:01pm

Funny hashtag: #AmericanSpringexcuses

254 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 4:02:02pm
255 ObserverArt  May 16, 2014 4:04:40pm

re: #254 Charles Johnson

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Got a live one there Charles. Be sure to keep the line from going slack they tend to spit out the hook and run off when they realize they are caught!

And with that…time to tune the guitar for the Friday night session! Later.

256 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 4:05:18pm
257 dog philosopher  May 16, 2014 4:06:07pm

re: #256 Charles Johnson

Flocks of enraged wingnuts getting all up in my timeline. Happy Hour must be over in DC.

in teabag land it’s always Unhappy Hour

258 Rev_Arthur_Belling  May 16, 2014 4:06:18pm

re: #250 Pie-onist Overlord

Listening to Pamela for one hour can make you run screaming to Boko Haram, begging to be kidnapped.

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You know, now that I think about it, I have never actually “heard” Pam Gellar. IIRC, she’s from Lawnguyland. I’ve known people with accents from there. I have no need to hear her hate in that (or really any) accent.

(shudder)

259 Decatur Deb  May 16, 2014 4:06:57pm

re: #256 Charles Johnson

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Fresh hatemail!! Tipjar time.

260 Skip Intro  May 16, 2014 4:07:04pm

re: #235 Decatur Deb

Free Republic seems not to have an active thread on American Sproing.

“Real ‘muricans have to work. That’s why libturd events have so many people at them.” is the way I read it.

261 Rev_Arthur_Belling  May 16, 2014 4:07:23pm

re: #256 Charles Johnson

Flocks of enraged wingnuts getting all up in my timeline. Happy Hour must be over in DC.

Or the all-you-can-eat buffet senior citizen special at Golden Corral is over.

262 Decatur Deb  May 16, 2014 4:08:26pm

re: #260 Skip Intro

“Real ‘muricans have to work. That’s why libturd events have so many people at them.” is the way I read it.

Libtards are smart enough to hold their Fear/Sanity Rally on Saturday.

263 Lidane  May 16, 2014 4:08:49pm

re: #260 Skip Intro

“Real ‘muricans have to work. That’s why libturd events have so many people at them.” is the way I read it.

Pretty much, yeah. WE HAVE JRRBZ U LIBTARDZ was a common theme among the Freepers today.

Supposedly this OAS nonsense is supposed to go on all weekend. What will they all say when there end up being more bloggers and media than actual protesters over the weekend?

264 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 4:10:00pm
265 Decatur Deb  May 16, 2014 4:11:48pm

re: #263 Lidane

Pretty much, yeah. WE HAVE JRRBZ U LIBTARDZ was a common theme among the Freepers today.

Supposedly this OAS nonsense is supposed to go on all weekend. What will they all say when there end up being more bloggers and media than actual protesters over the weekend?

For the truly committed, it’s supposed to turn into a campout until they get their putsch. The last guy will hold out in a refrigerator box at the Tidal Pool like the last Japanese soldier in the South Pacific.

266 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 4:12:24pm
267 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 4:15:18pm

Warning—never buy your pet food from China. And what a horrible headline. To me, pets are “people”, too. They’re family members, aren’t they? More so than the fucking corporations that import this shit, companies that think it’s OK to poison animals and have no respect for them.

Why pet food isn’t people food

washingtonpost.com

“The Food and Drug Administration released an update Friday on those jerky treats imported from China that appear to be killing and sickening pets, and the news is disturbing in more ways than one.

“The total number of illnesses now includes “5,600 dogs, 24 cats and three people” (emphasis mine), according to an FDA bulletin issued late Friday afterno0n. There is no word on how humans-or felines for that matter-came to consume chicken, duck and sweet potato treats intended for canines.

“As my colleague, Brady Dennis, wrote in March, the FDA is still stumped after seven years of study by what in the treats might be killing dogs. The agency put out a call in October for more information from vets and pet-owners and received more than 1,800 new reports of gastrointestinal, liver, kidney and urinary disease. More than 1,000 dogs have died.” More

268 calochortus  May 16, 2014 4:16:04pm

re: #243 Lidane

The one I saw earlier was a mix of FALSE FLAG! and Sorry I’m too busy working to support all the Obamabot freeloaders to people saying they hadn’t heard about the event at all until this week.

One of them actually said that they heard the organizer on Savage’s radio show and he sounded like the librul stereotype of a Tea Partier (i.e., an ignorant yokel) so that convinced this brave Freeper it was a Democrat plan to humiliate the teabaggers. Only a handful of Freepers pointed out that OAS was calling for a coup so that’s probably why most people stayed away.

And a remarkably inept false flag operation it was. Shouldn’t everyone have heard about it? There should have been some effort at logistics to manage the millions of attendees and some attention from the despised MSM (possibly combined with something to keep people from actually attending.)
If a false flag is hoisted without observation, did it make a sound? (or something. The analogy is imperfect.)

269 Decatur Deb  May 16, 2014 4:17:27pm

re: #268 calochortus

And a remarkably inept false flag operation it was. Shouldn’t everyone have heard about it? There should have been some effort at logistics to manage the millions of attendees and some attention from the despised MSM (possibly combined with something to keep people from actually attending.)
If a false flag is hoisted without observation, did it make a sound? (or something. The analogy is imperfect.)

Would you buy “FUBAHR Flag”?

270 Skip Intro  May 16, 2014 4:18:23pm

re: #263 Lidane

Pretty much, yeah. WE HAVE JRRBZ U LIBTARDZ was a common theme among the Freepers today.

Supposedly this OAS nonsense is supposed to go on all weekend. What will they all say when there end up being more bloggers and media than actual protesters over the weekend?

Knowing how large and influential the Freeper intelligence apparatus is, I’m surprised they didn’t think to give the organizers a heads-up.

271 calochortus  May 16, 2014 4:20:22pm

re: #269 Decatur Deb

Would you buy “FUBAHR Flag”?

Is it on sale, half off?

272 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 4:20:54pm

Sure enough, the esteemed Gateway Pundit is uncharacteristically silent on Operation American Spring.

273 jaunte  May 16, 2014 4:21:13pm

re: #263 Lidane

We have weekend jrrbs too, all y’all Libtards!

274 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 4:23:27pm
275 Skip Intro  May 16, 2014 4:24:49pm

Ah, I was wondering where the Freeper representatives were today.

276 Decatur Deb  May 16, 2014 4:24:59pm

OAS Radio call-in: confirmed eyewitness report of hundreds of armored vehicles en route to Virginia by rail.

277 Mattand  May 16, 2014 4:25:43pm

Did anyone notice the commenter at Marcy Wheeler’s site complaining about “Charles Johnson type nutzoids”?

Maybe some of that sweet, sweet pernicious Sony money Glenn is making off of Snowden can fund the place.

278 jaunte  May 16, 2014 4:25:44pm

Best excuse yet.

279 Mattand  May 16, 2014 4:26:30pm

re: #272 Charles Johnson

Sure enough, the esteemed Gateway Pundit is uncharacteristically silent on Operation American Spring.

The crayon Jim uses to update his blog broke.

280 jaunte  May 16, 2014 4:26:38pm
281 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 4:27:45pm

A real weakness in Twitter is this situation I’m in right now - I started posting corrections about that RT a few minutes after the first tweet, but it currently has more than 500 RTs and it seems like absolutely nobody is checking to see if I already corrected it before yelling at me about it.

Oh well, it’s a lesson, I guess.

282 Stanley Sea  May 16, 2014 4:28:47pm

Well Shypixel’s photo of the mall was the best I’ve seen.

283 Decatur Deb  May 16, 2014 4:29:19pm

re: #276 Decatur Deb

OAS Radio call-in: confirmed eyewitness report of hundreds of armored vehicles en route to Virginia by rail.

Can’t tell if the Radio jock (Mark) is humoring him or buying-in.

284 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 4:29:26pm

re: #268 calochortus

And a remarkably inept false flag operation it was. Shouldn’t everyone have heard about it? There should have been some effort at logistics to manage the millions of attendees and some attention from the despised MSM (possibly combined with something to keep people from actually attending.)
If a false flag is hoisted without observation, did it make a sound? (or something. The analogy is imperfect.)

Well, to be fair, these are the same ones who were still putting up billboards for the 2012 election, and didn’t “discover” the internet and blogging until recently.

They had absolutely no idea of what they’re doing, much less knowing that “viral” doesn’t mean a disease.

But I imagine nobody but a few whacked out nutjobs would even think about overthrowing the govt and pulling off a “coup” like these idiots think they could do.

They all need a huge dose of anti-hate therapy.

285 Stanley Sea  May 16, 2014 4:29:31pm

re: #282 Stanley Sea

Well Shypixel’s photo of the mall was the best I’ve seen.

Worth a repeat.

286 wrenchwench  May 16, 2014 4:29:40pm

re: #281 Charles Johnson

A real weakness in Twitter is this situation I’m in right now - I started posting corrections about that RT a few minutes after the first tweet, but it currently has more than 500 RTs and it seems like absolutely nobody is checking to see if I already corrected it before yelling at me about it.

Oh well, it’s a lesson, I guess.

Always check with your Pionist Overlord before retweeting an image or a Founding Father quotation.

287 jaunte  May 16, 2014 4:31:14pm
288 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 4:31:23pm

re: #286 wrenchwench

Always check with your Pionist Overlord before retweeting an image or a Founding Father quotation.

I posted the RT from my iPhone, where it’s difficult to do the same kind of image search. Should have waited until I got home.

289 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 4:31:48pm

re: #275 Skip Intro

Ah, I was wondering where the Freeper representatives were today.

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That is truly sad.

290 wrenchwench  May 16, 2014 4:32:25pm

I believe the woman on the left is doing a loud wolf-whistle.

291 Decatur Deb  May 16, 2014 4:33:16pm

re: #290 wrenchwench

I believe the woman on the left is doing a loud wolf-whistle.

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Shouldn’t he be in a bunker in an undisclosed location?

292 Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2014 4:34:36pm

re: #275 Skip Intro

Ah, I was wondering where the Freeper representatives were today.

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I’ve never been very good at guessing a person’s age from photo, but I’d say those two have to be in the 40’s, like myself - I’m 44.

Good Lord almighty, if that’s the case, I’m feeling pretty good about myself. I’m practically Jack LaLanne next to those two.

293 Bulworth  May 16, 2014 4:36:08pm

re: #290 wrenchwench

I believe the woman on the left is doing a loud wolf-whistle.

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What about the FOUR dead Americans in Benghazi??!!!1!!

294 Rev_Arthur_Belling  May 16, 2014 4:36:28pm

re: #290 wrenchwench

I believe the woman on the left is doing a loud wolf-whistle.

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It’s interesting that someone posted in a previous thread that the president had no scheduled public events today. He and Uncle Joe look like they’re enjoying themselves. You didn’t really see that kind of spirit in the Bush years.

295 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 4:37:22pm

re: #292 Dr Lizardo

I’ve never been very good at guessing a person’s age from photo, but I’d say those two have to be in the 40’s, like myself - I’m 44.

Good Lord almighty, if that’s the case, I’m feeling pretty good about myself. I’m practically Jack LaLanne next to those two.

It appears that both of them have eaten their way into disability. That is real self-hate.

296 calochortus  May 16, 2014 4:38:57pm

re: #284 Justanotherhuman

Well, to be fair, these are the same ones who were still putting up billboards for the 2012 election, and didn’t “discover” the internet and blogging until recently.

They had absolutely no idea of what they’re doing, much less knowing that “viral” doesn’t mean a disease.

But I imagine nobody but a few whacked out nutjobs would even think about overthrowing the govt and pulling off a “coup” like these idiots think they could do.

They all need a huge dose of anti-hate therapy.

Yes, they do.

I don’t expect someone who “assumes” (he had a list of totally unreasonable assumptions on his website) that a few million people will show up to overthrow the government to be bright, but if I were devious and planning to embarrass someone with a false flag operation, I’d like to think I’d have it together enough to make it look like an actual event had been planned. Dozens hundreds of porta-potties would make it look like something really big had been planned and failed, thus making wingnuts look foolish.
I would imagine a tiny minority of people have ever heard of OAS, so as a false flag operation it is a fail. Since we Libs are diabolically clever, it just doesn’t seem to work.

297 Stanley Sea  May 16, 2014 4:39:42pm

re: #294 Rev_Arthur_Belling

It’s interesting that someone posted in a previous thread that the president had no scheduled public events today. He and Uncle Joe look like they’re enjoying themselves. You didn’t really see that kind of spirit in the Bush years.

Of course you didn’t. Cheney has no heart.

298 wrenchwench  May 16, 2014 4:42:04pm

re: #291 Decatur Deb

Shouldn’t he be in a bunker in an undisclosed location?

I know Nixon was when the hippie anti-war freaks filled the Mall.

299 Stanley Sea  May 16, 2014 4:45:11pm

erk erk erk (whatever the sound of the emergency broadcast system)

I’m under a smoke advisory. All the smoke and I mean all of it is in the valley I live. Smells like fire & there’s ash floating in the sky.

erk erk erk

300 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 4:45:16pm

Finally managed to delete that tweet. Now the usual psychos will accuse me of trying to hide it.

301 Skip Intro  May 16, 2014 4:45:53pm

How empty our Fridays would be without the weekly reinterpretation of Peggy Noonan by the lifetime winner of the Write Like Peggy Noonan award.

“I think now of suits, cheap suits, worn by Hussein, and suits, expensive ones, worn by men who filled them in like, well, like men. These were times when men would carry themselves with pride, with their shoulders back, when men held doors and wore bowties with panache and verve. America has come to admire such memory. I saw Richard Roberts, son of much maligned Oral, once, in a fast food restaurant, one like Papa John’s, one where workers on minimum wage learned the America that Ronald Reagan gave back its shape like a tailor taking in and letting out an Armani. Richard Roberts blessed this restaurant and people smiled and were gay and the restaurant prospered that day. He said—and I’ll never forget how I tingled when he said it—“I serve a first class God, I need to look first class, to wear a first-class suit.”

Ahem. And. Ahem.

Reagan, too, gave America the business. He understood being first class. A dazzling man with perfect hair and pitch, he gave America its new look, a new suit, if you will (see what I did there?) And the suit fit us well, through one Bush, through another (We put on running shorts when Clinton ran around)—oh, how the suit wore. The seat, the elbows not worn—not worn at all.

But what kind of suit do we wear now? It is too big for us. Like this country is too big for this president. He is dwarfed by it. The shoulders sag, the waist baggy, and the inseam—ah, the inseam (what memories)—hangs, its girth, our girth, lost in excess material.

Nothing sexual, dear friends, but one asks (I know my good friends Maureen Dowd and David Brooks ask) where is the package?

I remember Reagan, telling Gorbachev to tear down a wall; I remember Bush the younger, landing on a plane, holding himself proudly. I have not seen this president do that.

Yes, America. I, like you, want men who have that package, want men who aren’t afraid to show—how best to say this—some bulge, whether in a flight—or first class—suit. I yearn for it. I beat my breasts, I touch my breasts, I fondle my breasts over and over, yearning for it … for that bulge to appear. I want Reagan’s suit. I. want. it.”—P.Noonan

Barry Freidman

302 Kragar  May 16, 2014 4:46:03pm

re: #299 Stanley Sea

erk erk erk (whatever the sound of the emergency broadcast system)

I’m under a smoke advisory. All the smoke and I mean all of it is in the valley I live. Smells like fire & there’s ash floating in the sky.

erk erk erk

Yeah, its been messing with me all day

303 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 4:46:15pm
304 Charles Johnson  May 16, 2014 4:46:38pm
305 Stanley Sea  May 16, 2014 4:46:39pm

re: #300 Charles Johnson

I missed it. Sorry you had to deal with the freaks. Happy Friday!

306 Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2014 4:49:19pm

re: #295 Justanotherhuman

It appears that both of them have eaten their way into disability. That is real self-hate.

Yep. Not lon ago, I encountered an American lass teaching English here; she was 21. She asked me how old I was, and when I told her I was 44, she was shocked - she said, “My God, my dad’s 43 and he’s twice the size you are! How do you stay so slim? A lot of guys back home (Tennessee in her case) are really fat by the time in their late 30s or mid 30s.”

I just said it’s because I walk a lot, at least an hour a day, and I just really don’t eat that much. I have a sedentary job, so there’s no need for me to eat a good deal.

307 b.d.  May 16, 2014 4:49:22pm

Shouldn’t there be a twitter hash tag looking for our, presumably, kidnapped 30 million American Spring patriots?

308 Decatur Deb  May 16, 2014 4:50:31pm

Off to evening dogwalk. Taking my my reflectorized mylar anti-FLIR poncho just in case.

309 Stanley Sea  May 16, 2014 4:50:41pm

re: #301 Skip Intro

And to think, he was paid US$ for that shit.

310 b.d.  May 16, 2014 4:51:06pm

I noticed that Wheeler is now off of The Intercept’s staff webpage

311 BongCrodny  May 16, 2014 4:51:38pm

re: #278 jaunte

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Best excuse yet.

Right…

There are *only* 13,500,000 returned results on Google for Operation American Spring.

And that’s with quotation marks.

312 Pie-onist Overlord  May 16, 2014 4:52:15pm

re: #286 wrenchwench

Always check with your Pionist Overlord before retweeting an image or a Founding Father quotation.

I also retweeted that bogus photo but I was able to recall the RT.

313 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 4:52:35pm

re: #306 Dr Lizardo

Yep. Not lon ago, I encountered an American lass teaching English here; she was 21. She asked me how old I was, and when I told her I was 44, she was shocked - she said, “My God, my dad’s 43 and he s twice the size you are! How do you stay so slim? A lot of guys back home (Tennessee in her case) are really fat by the time in their late 30s or mid 30s.”

I just said it’s because I walk a lot, at least an hour a day, and I just really don’t eat that much. I have a sedentary job, so there’s no need for me to eat a good deal.

And I’m sure you eat real food, not entire buckets of chicken. : )

314 otoc  May 16, 2014 4:52:38pm

re: #307 b.d.

Shouldn’t there be a twitter hash tag looking for our, presumably, kidnapped 30 million American Spring patriots?

lol, it does look rather empty there. OAS was making comments about Obama turning the cameras off according to RIght Wing Watch to hide the massive crowds.
earthcam.com

I guess that was to hide the drone attacks…

315 Rev_Arthur_Belling  May 16, 2014 4:55:00pm

re: #303 Charles Johnson

You have to wonder at this point what the heck is going on at The Intercept.

Bingo! I’d like for them to at least post something once a day explaining why they’re not posting anything.

316 Killgore Trout  May 16, 2014 4:56:59pm

China, Russia on verge of gas deal

China plans to sign a multi-billion-dollar deal to buy Russian gas during a visit by President Vladimir Putin next week, despite pressure from the United States to avoid undermining sanctions on Moscow over the Ukraine crisis.

317 Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2014 4:58:45pm

re: #313 Justanotherhuman

And I’m sure you eat real food, not entire buckets of chicken. : )

I do confess I eat processed food from time to time; I like pizzas and I have a mild addiction to kebabs. But the pizza or the kebab is once-a-week sort of thing; usually in the morning, I’ll have an egg and a yogurt for breakfast, toast, orange juice and of course, coffee. Then I’m good until the afternoon; maybe pasta, or Chinese stir-fry, or chicken and rice with curry sauce. Fish as well when the mood strikes me. Sometimes I go a little crazy and make myself burritos, mostly when they have tortillas on sale down at the supermarket.

I love cheese and I eat that once a day.

But as I said, I walk for an hour a day, unless it’s winter. If it’s over a five-mile round trip, then I’ll take a tram or the bus, or if it’s something across town. Sometimes I’ll go for a walk in the forest, and when the weather’s really nice, I’ll go for a walk in the mountains.

I’ve been out of the US for so long now that I guess it’s hard for to me imagine what everyday life is like back stateside.

318 Skip Intro  May 16, 2014 4:59:04pm

Oh dear. The worst lawyer in the world just got a slap down today (not that she realizes it).

Just one tiny part of the judge’s decision:

“Plaintiff’s “request under 28 USC 1002 for examination of the original (wet ink) SS-5 of Harry Bounel in light of evidence of forgery
and fraud in other IDs” will be denied. In the first instance, the United States Code does not contain a 28 U.S.C. § 1002.”

319 calochortus  May 16, 2014 5:01:22pm

re: #318 Skip Intro

Oh dear. The worst lawyer in the world just got a slap down today (not that she realizes it).

Just one tiny part of the judge’s decision:

That gets all the updings.

Now I have to go make dinner. BBL

320 Amory Blaine  May 16, 2014 5:02:24pm

re: #282 Stanley Sea

Well Shypixel’s photo of the mall was the best I’ve seen.

I second this. ^^

321 BongCrodny  May 16, 2014 5:04:42pm

Okay, stole this from the Facebook “Operation American Spring” page:

322 Amory Blaine  May 16, 2014 5:05:04pm

This fun game is on sale for $7.50

The Stanley Parable

323 Stanley Sea  May 16, 2014 5:05:11pm

re: #317 Dr Lizardo

I do confess I eat processed food from time to time; I like pizzas and I have a mild addiction to kebabs. But the pizza or the kebab is once-a-week sort of thing; usually in the morning, I’ll have an egg and a yogurt for breakfast, toast, orange juice and of course, coffee. Then I’m good until the afternoon; maybe pasta, or Chinese stir-fry, or chicken and rice with curry sauce. Fish as well when the mood strikes me. Sometimes I go a little crazy and make myself burritos, mostly when they have tortillas on sale down at the supermarket.

I love cheese and I eat that once a day.

But as I said, I walk for an hour a day, unless it’s winter. If it’s over a five-mile round trip, then I’ll take a tram or the bus, or if it’s something across town. Sometimes I’ll go for a walk in the forest, and when the weather’s really nice, I’ll go for a walk in the mountains.

I’ve been out of the US for so long now that I guess it’s hard for to me imagine what everyday life is like back stateside.

I’ve been fruiting and vegging for awhile now, and I definitely feel the pinch in the budget. I go from store to store to get the best price per lb. Sure, I could go to Whole Foods or Trader Joe’s to get it all in one place, but it’s criminal how some stores overcharge for bananas compared to the one down the road.

It’s expensive and it’s tedious to eat healthy. Therefore, lazy KFC lives are becoming the norm.

324 Rev_Arthur_Belling  May 16, 2014 5:06:54pm

re: #323 Stanley Sea

It’s expensive and it’s tedious to eat healthy. Therefore, lazy KFC lives are becoming the norm.

Overall, eating healthy is less expensive, but it consumes a lot of time, which is a more precious commodity than money.

325 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 5:08:29pm

re: #317 Dr Lizardo

I do confess I eat processed food from time to time; I like pizzas and I have a mild addiction to kebabs. But the pizza or the kebab is once-a-week sort of thing; usually in the morning, I’ll have an egg and a yogurt for breakfast, toast, orange juice and of course, coffee. Then I’m good until the afternoon; maybe pasta, or Chinese stir-fry, or chicken and rice with curry sauce. Fish as well when the mood strikes me. Sometimes I go a little crazy and make myself burritos, mostly when they have tortillas on sale down at the supermarket.

I love cheese and I eat that once a day.

But as I said, I walk for an hour a day, unless it’s winter. If it’s over a five-mile round trip, then I’ll take a tram or the bus, or if it’s something across town. Sometimes I’ll go for a walk in the forest, and when the weather’s really nice, I’ll go for a walk in the mountains.

I’ve been out of the US for so long now that I guess it’s hard for to me imagine what everyday life is like back stateside.

I walked like that all through my 40s and slacked off in my 50s (lived in Charlotte, so there were sidewalks). I’d like to walk now with The Munchkin for company, but this is sort of rural, so there are no sidewalks and no real places to walk, unless you want to drive down (!) to the elementary school and walk their running track.

Sometimes, we go down into a little glade below the apts, walk it, and hike up a small hill and around a house on the property when the weather permits. I’d have to drive 30 miles to find a mall to walk.

326 wheat-dogghazi  May 16, 2014 5:08:52pm

re: #306 Dr Lizardo

Yep. Not lon ago, I encountered an American lass teaching English here; she was 21. She asked me how old I was, and when I told her I was 44, she was shocked - she said, “My God, my dad’s 43 and he’s twice the size you are! How do you stay so slim? A lot of guys back home (Tennessee in her case) are really fat by the time in their late 30s or mid 30s.”

I just said it’s because I walk a lot, at least an hour a day, and I just really don’t eat that much. I have a sedentary job, so there’s no need for me to eat a good deal.

I’ve lived out of the States long enough now that the ample size of most Americans stuns me. We had some American college students visiting us earlier this week, from the Midwest. Out of 14 of them, four were slender and two looked athletic. The other eight were overweight — or just very well fed. They took the freshman 15, saw it, and doubled it.

So I’m not surprised when such folks hit their 40s and then have a serious weight problem. Once you get in a certain eating habit, it’s hard to change, even when said habits are ultimately bad for you.

327 Skip Intro  May 16, 2014 5:11:49pm

More pics on the Big March today, although I think some of the posters may be trolls.

patriotsforamerica.ning.com

328 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 5:13:57pm

re: #324 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Overall, eating healthy is less expensive, but it consumes a lot of time, which is a more precious commodity than money.

Yeah, but how much time does it take to grab an apple, banana or orange? Yeah, you have to peel the banana and orange, but WTF? I don’t buy a wide variety of fruits, except berries when they’re on sale, but those 3 are always in the apt. Same goes for fresh veggies that we use a lot—broccoli, celery, mesclun, green pepper, mushrooms, tomatoes, which I use a lot. Not a whole lot of variety, but I eat what I like and don’t waste them.

I mean, why eat what you’re not particularly fond of, like brussels sprouts? : )

329 Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2014 5:14:43pm

re: #323 Stanley Sea

re: #324 Rev_Arthur_Belling

re: #325 Justanotherhuman

re: #326 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

One of the things I enjoy is chopped red pepper, chopped green pepper, a diced tomato, chopped cucumber, diced red onion, feta cheese, mixed together and served with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Especially when it’s hot outside.

Yeah, I guess a lot of people back in the US are in such shape because food that’s not good for you is less expensive than food that is good for you. That and combined in many cases with a lack of exercise or physical activity can sure pack on the pounds.

Bike riding in Berlin helped me get super-fit in no time. I was biking all over that city. My antique is almost ready to go; I just need a new front brake pad from Germany, but it’s all fixed up now. So I can bike around here, which should be interesting. I’ll need to get a helmet.

What do Czechs call bicycle riders?

Organ donors.

330 Stanley Sea  May 16, 2014 5:15:26pm

re: #321 BongCrodny

Okay, stole this from the Facebook “Operation American Spring” page:

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sad sad sad

331 b.d.  May 16, 2014 5:17:25pm

INFORMATION WANTS TO BE FREE!!!!!1!!

Anonymous #PayPal14 Campaign Spreads Pirated Copy of Glenn Greenwald’s Book on Snowden

ibtimes.co.uk

332 Pie-onist Overlord  May 16, 2014 5:21:04pm

re: #327 Skip Intro

More pics on the Big March today, although I think some of the posters may be trolls.

patriotsforamerica.ning.com

Most of those pics are from other events.

333 b.d.  May 16, 2014 5:22:06pm

ibtimes.co.uk

“As Greenwald gets a book tour, the PayPal14 get sentencing hearings. He is traveling the world to promote his book about Snowden’s NSA leaks, and the 14 are struggling to raise more than $80,000 in court-ordered restitution for eBay/PayPal, companies ultimately overseen by Greenwald’s billionaire backer, Pierre Omidyar.”

LAY OFF OF GLENN’S 1%er!!1!!

334 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 5:22:12pm

re: #329 Dr Lizardo

One of the things I enjoy is chopped red pepper, chopped green pepper, a diced tomato, chopped cucumber, diced red onion, feta cheese, mixed together and served with olive oil and balsamic vinegar. Especially when it’s hot outside.

Yeah, I guess a lot of people back in the US are in such shape because food that’s not good for you is less expensive than food that is good for you. That and combined in many cases with a lack of exercise or physical activity can sure pack on the pounds.

Bike riding in Berlin helped me get super-fit in no time. I was biking all over that city. My antique is almost ready to go; I just need a new front brake pad from Germany, but it’s all fixed up now. So I can bike around here, which should be interesting. I’ll need to get a helmet.

What do Czechs call bicycle riders?

Organ donors.

Oh my! I’d get killed around here on a bike, too.

I like feta on my salads, but I prefer blue cheese—I’m pretty addicted to it, so have to use it sparingly since it’s about $9 a pound and I haven’t found any in the supermarket that isn’t crumbled already. I get an “organic” blend of baby spinach and spring greens in a clam shell that is $2.99 (5 oz), but it is enough for 4 salads, to which I add various veggies I have on hand and have one of those for one meal every day. Gotta have my greens every single day.

335 RealityBasedSteve  May 16, 2014 5:23:19pm

re: #318 Skip Intro

Oh dear. The worst lawyer in the world just got a slap down today (not that she realizes it).
“Plaintiff’s “request under 28 USC 1002 for examination of the original (wet ink) SS-5 of Harry Bounel in light of evidence of forgery
and fraud in other IDs” will be denied. In the first instance, the United States Code does not contain a 28 U.S.C. § 1002.”
Just one tiny part of the judge’s decision:

OMG… I guess that’s the “polite” way of saying “WTF????!!! The thing that you are talking about isn’t a thing!!!”

She’s the kind of lawyer that makes Lionel Hutz look like F. Lee Bailey. If Orly was representing you in traffic court you’d probably end up getting life without parole (if you were lucky).

RBS

336 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 5:23:56pm

re: #335 RealityBasedSteve

OMG… I guess that’s the “polite” way of saying “WTF????!!! The thing that you are talking about isn’t a thing!!!”

She’s the kind of lawyer that makes Lionel Hutz look like F. Lee Bailey. If Orly was representing you in traffic court you’d probably end up getting life without parole (if you were lucky).

RBS

Was that Oily Taitz? : )

337 wheat-dogghazi  May 16, 2014 5:23:57pm

re: #329 Dr Lizardo

There’s a few other factors to consider, too.

American restaurant portions are too big. Isn’t a Whopper worth about 2,000 Calories just on its own?

Americans focus more on meat and starches than on vegetables.

American beef has more fat content than beef sold elsewhere.

Sugar and/or corn syrup is in practically everything processed, and Americans seem to eat a lot of processed foods.

And, while not strictly an American habit, people tend to eat according to the clock, and not according to their feeling hungry. So, someone who has a ginormous breakfast probably had enough Calories to last until dinnertime, but he or she still has a ginormous lunch because hey! it’s 12:00!

338 Stanley Sea  May 16, 2014 5:24:01pm

K, I gotta go into the poison air to get fresh veggies.

Thanks Obama.

339 Rightwingconspirator  May 16, 2014 5:24:39pm

re: #300 Charles Johnson

Well it’s just echoes in Moms basement anyway.

340 Skip Intro  May 16, 2014 5:25:30pm

re: #332 Pie-onist Overlord

Most of those pics are from other events.

At least now we know who’s going to stick around until the job’s done.

341 Skip Intro  May 16, 2014 5:26:51pm

re: #335 RealityBasedSteve

OMG… I guess that’s the “polite” way of saying “WTF????!!! The thing that you are talking about isn’t a thing!!!”

She’s the kind of lawyer that makes Lionel Hutz look like F. Lee Bailey. If Orly was representing you in traffic court you’d probably end up getting life without parole (if you were lucky).

RBS

Lucky for her she’s a shoo-in for CA AG next month, so she won’t have to be doin’ any more lawyerin’.

342 Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2014 5:28:57pm

re: #337 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

There’s a few other factors to consider, too.

American restaurant portions are too big. Isn’t a Whopper worth about 2,000 Calories just on its own?

Americans focus more on meat and starches than on vegetables.

American beef has more fat content than beef sold elsewhere.

Sugar and/or corn syrup is in practically everything processed, and Americans seem to eat a lot of processed foods.

And, while not strictly an American habit, people tend to eat according to the clock, and not according to their feeling hungry. So, someone who has a ginormous breakfast probably had enough Calories to last until dinnertime, but he or she still has a ginormous lunch because hey! it’s 12:00!

All quite true; my ex-wife commented that a hamburger at an American McDonalds was twice the size of it’s counterpart in Prague. And yes, corn syrup is used extensively in food products in the US; it’s uncommon here in the EU. For instance, Coca-Cola, RC, or Pepsi here is made with actual sugar.

I only eat when I’m hungry. And I got myself into the habit of not eating past 5:00 pm, though occasionally, if I go see a movie or something, yeah, I’ll get a small popcorn and a Coke. But that’s once in a blue moon. Godzilla opens here on Monday at my local theater, and that’s the first movie I’ll have been to in quite awhile.

343 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 5:32:00pm

re: #337 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

Experts will tell people not to skip breakfast, since you’ve already “fasted” probably for close to 12 hours anyway. The worst I’ve heard of was people getting a honey bun and a Coke from the 7-11 on the way to work.

344 dog philosopher  May 16, 2014 5:32:41pm

no comment

345 EPR-radar  May 16, 2014 5:34:02pm

re: #344 dog philosopher

Um. No. There are innumerable ways to criticize Ann Coulter without the transphobic splash damage.

346 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 16, 2014 5:34:44pm

re: #200 Charles Johnson

I know the Mighty G is all over the tube today but I just can’t even.

I was too busy doing actual journalism stuff this afternoon to be bothered.
If I had actually had spare time, I would have been cleaning catboxes or something equally interesting.

347 Dr Lizardo  May 16, 2014 5:35:06pm

And good night, Lizards.

348 RealityBasedSteve  May 16, 2014 5:35:23pm

re: #344 dog philosopher

no comment

Damm you to HELL, now that is burned into my brain…. My innocence is shattered.

RBS
Ok, perhaps my innocence was already a bit cracked, and it’s not ALL your fault.

349 The Ghost of a Flea  May 16, 2014 5:37:29pm

re: #337 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

There’s a few other factors to consider, too.

American restaurant portions are too big. Isn’t a Whopper worth about 2,000 Calories just on its own?

Americans focus more on meat and starches than on vegetables.

American beef has more fat content than beef sold elsewhere.

Sugar and/or corn syrup is in practically everything processed, and Americans seem to eat a lot of processed foods.

And, while not strictly an American habit, people tend to eat according to the clock, and not according to their feeling hungry. So, someone who has a ginormous breakfast probably had enough Calories to last until dinnertime, but he or she still has a ginormous lunch because hey! it’s 12:00!

There’s a great book about this called Salt, Sugar, Fat.

Basically, a more saleable product is one with the former three added in abundance, regardless of what the product is supposed to be.

It’s a neuropsych/conditioning nightmare. Your body says “this is very good”…because your brain’s perception of food is still oriented around foraging and indeterminate periods of scarcity.

350 wheat-dogghazi  May 16, 2014 5:39:29pm

re: #342 Dr Lizardo

People here often ask me if I miss Western food, and I have to say that, really, I don’t. My city has only one Western fast food outlet (KFC) and a smattering of overpriced “Western-style” restaurants. I seldom eat at them, because Chinese food has such variety that I could never get bored eating it. And I’ve always preferred rice to potatoes, anyway.

But, I miss bread, real bread. The Chinese bakeries here all seem to consider “bread” as another form of “cake,” so the breads are too sweet and invariably are only made with white flour. There’s a hypermarket that sells European-style breads, but it’s 20-30 minutes away by bus and I’m not that desperate.

American snacks like potato chips, Oreos, Chips Ahoy, etc., are available in the supermarkets, but the prices are relatively high and the packages are really small. So, even if I buy them, I can’t pig out on a package of Oreos when each package contains only 12 cookies. Two, maybe three cookies and I’m done.

351 Rightwingconspirator  May 16, 2014 5:42:13pm

re: #344 dog philosopher

Oh no. There are so many ways to diss that woman. And then they go there. Yeesh. No slam on you Dog.

352 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 5:43:13pm

re: #350 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

People here often ask me if I miss Western food, and I have to say that, really, I don’t. My city has only one Western fast food outlet (KFC) and a smattering of overpriced “Western-style” restaurants. I seldom eat at them, because Chinese food has such variety that I could never get bored eating it. And I’ve always preferred rice to potatoes, anyway.

But, I miss bread, real bread. The Chinese bakeries here all seem to consider “bread” as another form of “cake,” so the breads are too sweet and invariably are only made with white flour. There’s a hypermarket that sells European-style breads, but it’s 20-30 minutes away by bus and I’m not that desperate.

American snacks like potato chips, Oreos, Chips Ahoy, etc., are available in the supermarkets, but the prices are relatively high and the packages are really small. So, even if I buy them, I can’t pig out on a package of Oreos when each package contains only 12 cookies. Two, maybe three cookies and I’m done.

You’re probably lucky and will dodge the bullet on this if you stay there very long and keep eating that way.

Diabetes fact sheet which predicts that 1 in 3 Americans will be diabetic by 2050 if present trends continue.

353 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 5:46:33pm

In Kansas, people, in Kansas.

First lady Michelle Obama gets standing ovation after speech at high school in Topeka, Kan. - @JennaHanchard
End of alert

354 otoc  May 16, 2014 5:47:48pm

re: #337 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

Your take on the Whopper is too high. Not that I’m disagreeing with your points in general.
Link

When I hit my late 50s, I dropped 50 lbs, getting back to my highschool weight. Then again, I make 2-3 meals from when I eat out at restaurants, make beef an item 1-2 days a week, fill up on veggies, and work out. Those last two made the biggest difference because of the effect on metabolism.

355 wrenchwench  May 16, 2014 5:48:38pm

The story is from a year ago.

A tough tortoise who survived Nazi attacks and blazing bonfire was feared to have finally met his match in this year’s snow - until he made a miraculous recovery.

But it’s just an excuse to post this.

Youtube Video

Later, lizards.

Oh, wait. Bonus track:

Youtube Video

356 wheat-dogghazi  May 16, 2014 5:50:25pm

re: #349 The Ghost of a Flea

There’s a great book about this called Salt, Sugar, Fat.

Basically, a more saleable product is one with the former three added in abundance, regardless of what the product is supposed to be.

It’s a neuropsych/conditioning nightmare. Your body says “this is very good”…because your brain’s perception of food is still oriented around foraging and indeterminate periods of scarcity.

I remember reading something about that, but the exact source is lost to memory. From what I remember, our physiology is “wired” to seek out a certain amount of nutrients, and when we get enough of them, our body says, “OK. Take a rest. You had enough to eat for now.” But processed foods short-circuit this feedback mechanism by delivering an abundance of everything in a very tasty way, so we keep eating even when we’ve ingested more than enough. Plus, we don’t really need to work our asses off now to get enough to eat, so there’s no compensating exercise to work off the extra Calories.

It also seems to be a distinctly American habit to stuff our faces while watching TV. My Chinese friends also eat while watching TV, but the fare is stuff like fruit, sunflower seeds and peanuts.

357 wrenchwench  May 16, 2014 5:53:15pm

Can’t leave yet, I had to hear that second one again. Been years.

OK, logging out.

358 wheat-dogghazi  May 16, 2014 5:59:46pm

re: #354 otoc

Your take on the Whopper is too high. Not that I’m disagreeing with your points in general.
Link

When I hit my late 50s, I dropped 50 lbs, getting back to my highschool weight. Then again, I make 2-3 meals from when I eat out at restaurants, make beef an item 1-2 days a week, fill up on veggies, and work out. Those last two made the biggest difference because of the effect on metabolism.

Thanks for the correction. I was picking misremembered numbers from thin air. Still, a Whopper by itself is enough for lunch. No need to tack on the extra Calories from an order of fries and a Coke.

I was a skinny guy until about 40, then I got middle age spread, which I am still trying to lose. I’m on the way. When I left the USA in summer 2008, I weighed 80 kg (175 cm, so I wasn’t too fat for my height, but still …) Now I’m around 75 kg, and my waist is 35. I feel much better, too.

As for the diabetes stats, my family’s major health issue is not diabetes, but high blood pressure. Both my parents suffered from it, and it’s what got them in the end. My BP is well within the normal range for a guy my age, and I intend to keep it there. Heart attacks and strokes really don’t have much appeal for me.

359 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 6:00:08pm

Oh, gawd, GG is on both Chris Hayes and Anderson Cooper (who tweeted it) tonight and, of course, this, from fellow libertarian and narcissist JR, who tweeted, ” Thanks Kevin! Not that the publisher is bothering to retweet it….”

360 Rightwingconspirator  May 16, 2014 6:02:51pm

re: #359 Justanotherhuman

Oh, gawd, GG is on both Chris Hayes and Anderson Cooper (who tweeted it) tonight and, of course, this, from fellow libertarian and narcissist JR, who tweeted, ” Thanks Kevin! Not that the publisher is bothering to retweet it….”

[Embedded content]

I like Anderson Cooper. But between this and the dementia/racism/bad billionaire theater from Don Sterling I’m getting a lot lees likely to tune in. I had already taken CNN out of my favorites on the remote.

361 Rev_Arthur_Belling  May 16, 2014 6:04:08pm

re: #359 Justanotherhuman

Oh, gawd, GG is on both Chris Hayes and Anderson Cooper (who tweeted it) tonight and, of course, this, from fellow libertarian and narcissist JR, who tweeted, ” Thanks Kevin! Not that the publisher is bothering to retweet it….”

[Embedded content]

I mentioned the other day that I was not looking forward to the GG book whoring tour this week. Looks like my nightmare scenario was real beyond even my expectations.

362 FemNaziBitch  May 16, 2014 6:08:22pm

How is it now?

363 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 6:09:52pm

re: #361 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I mentioned the other day that I was not looking forward to the GG book whoring tour this week. Looks like my nightmare scenario was real beyond even my expectations.

Yes, the very “complicit”, “fawning” “loyalist” media GG eviscerates in his book is now licking his balls.

ETA: Or did he just mean the print press? Gotta get some face time, I suppose…

364 freetoken  May 16, 2014 6:11:20pm

Another record day around here:

RECORD REPORT

SXUS76 KSGX 162338
RERSGX

RECORD EVENT REPORT...FINAL
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SAN DIEGO CA
435 PM PDT FRI MAY 16 2014

...HIGHEST MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE RECORDS BROKEN OR TIED ON MAY 16 2014 ...

LOCATION NEW RECORD OLD RECORD PERIOD OF RECORD

SAN DIEGO 92 TIED 92 IN 1956 1875
NEWPORT BEACH 86 80 IN 1956 1921
VISTA 95 94 IN 1967 1957
CHULA VISTA 90 86 IN 1956 1918
EL CAJON 98 96 IN 2008 1979


...HIGHEST MINIMUM TEMPERATURE RECORDS BROKEN OR TIED ON MAY 16 2014 ...

LOCATION NEW RECORD OLD RECORD PERIOD OF RECORD

SANTA ANA 69 65 IN 1997 1906
NEWPORT BEACH 64 TIED 64 IN 1997 1921
SAN DIEGO 69 66 IN 1996 1914
CHULA VISTA 67 65 IN 1992 1918
ELSINORE 64 62 IN 1993 1897
RIVERSIDE 66 TIED 66 IN 2004 1893
ESCONDIDO 62 TIED 62 IN 1997 1900
ALPINE 65 TIED 65 IN 1970 1952


365 FemNaziBitch  May 16, 2014 6:11:39pm

Update on family member in another state’s motorcycle accident: total brain bruise, fractured skull, is breathing own, wait 5 days for prognosis.

366 FemNaziBitch  May 16, 2014 6:12:20pm

re: #364 freetoken

and I thought it was going to be a sports post.

367 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 6:13:02pm

re: #365 FemNaziBitch

Update on family member in another state’s motorcycle accident: total brain bruise, fractured skull, is breathing own, wait 5 days for prognosis.

So sorry to hear that. Damn.

368 Snarknado!  May 16, 2014 6:14:02pm

re: #350 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

Baking bread is not difficult, if your craving gets a bit stronger.

369 FemNaziBitch  May 16, 2014 6:17:50pm

TRIGGER WARNING

“There are some crimes so horrible that the defendant doesn’t deserve a second chance,” she said.

What is the last rung of hell?

370 SteveMcGazi  May 16, 2014 6:19:49pm

re: #364 freetoken

I did an interesting thing by getting Philadelphia’s record highs and lows for each day of the year. A fascination thing I found was that since the year 2000, Philadelphia has 66 record highs but only 4 record lows. I think you would normally expect it to be even.

371 CuriousLurker  May 16, 2014 6:19:56pm

Drive-by: Oh, for crying out loud—I was behind on reading my Google alerts and it seems the latest horrible thing we (American Muslims) have done is supposedly refuse to “excommunicate” Boko Haram.

1.) There is no such concept in Islam. There are no Eucharist-like sacraments to exclude someone from, nor is there any universally accepted authority in Islamic law—i.e. there’s not an Islamic “pope” who has the authority to declare takfir, which is the closest thing we have to “excommunicating” someone.

Excommunication: Islam

Excommunication as it exists in Christian faiths does not exist in Islam. The nearest approximation is takfir, a declaration that an individual or group is kafir (or kuffar in plural), a non-believer. This does not prevent an individual from taking part in any Islamic rite or ritual, and since the matter of whether a person is kafir is a rather subjective matter, a declaration of takfir is generally considered null and void if the target refutes it or if the Islamic community in which he or she lives refuses to accept it. […]

2.) The requirements for declaring someone a kafir are pretty stiff, and something that serious sure as hell couldn’t and wouldn’t be done from overseas, FFS. Even if it could, how would it carry any weight? Have you guys seen that psycho Abubakar Shekau? Does anyone really think he’d give a hairy rat’s ass if some American Muslims declared him a kafir?

3.) This seems to be yet anther cheap trick by the the usual suspects in the Islamophobia industry to try to prove that there really aren’t any moderate Muslims. Just giving you some context in case you run across it.

Have a good night, everyone.

372 b.d.  May 16, 2014 6:20:15pm

re: #365 FemNaziBitch

Update on family member in another state’s motorcycle accident: total brain bruise, fractured skull, is breathing own, wait 5 days for prognosis.

Thanks for the update and hope he is at a good hospital. He’ll be in my thoughts,

373 b_sharp  May 16, 2014 6:22:15pm

re: #365 FemNaziBitch

Update on family member in another state’s motorcycle accident: total brain bruise, fractured skull, is breathing own, wait 5 days for prognosis.

I’m so sorry.
My thoughts are with you.

374 FemNaziBitch  May 16, 2014 6:23:02pm
The 34-year-old from Texas accused of enrolling as a high school sophomore even fooled a man who said he was her boyfriend into thinking she was an innocent teenager, the man said.

why?

375 Justanotherhuman  May 16, 2014 6:23:40pm

re: #369 FemNaziBitch

What is the last rung of hell?

Wish I had not clicked on that. You need to add a warning.

376 FemNaziBitch  May 16, 2014 6:24:24pm

Thanks everyone for the good wishes. Just have to wait and see, nothing I can do if I go down there except be in the way.

377 FemNaziBitch  May 16, 2014 6:24:44pm

re: #375 Justanotherhuman

Wish I had not clicked on that. You need to add a warning.

sorry, I thought the little I posted was enough. I’ll update.

378 NJDhockeyfan  May 16, 2014 6:25:29pm

re: #359 Justanotherhuman

Oh, gawd, GG is on both Chris Hayes and Anderson Cooper (who tweeted it) tonight and, of course, this, from fellow libertarian and narcissist JR, who tweeted, ” Thanks Kevin! Not that the publisher is bothering to retweet it….”

[Embedded content]

379 CuriousLurker  May 16, 2014 6:28:00pm

re: #376 FemNaziBitch

Thanks everyone for the good wishes. Just have to wait and see, nothing I can do if I go down there except be in the way.

Here’s hoping for a full & speedy recovery.

380 Dark_Falcon  May 16, 2014 6:30:37pm

re: #19 Pie-onist Overlord

Glenn Greenwald opens his mouth.
Shit comes out.

You can’t explain that!

Sure I can: Glenn Greenwald is an asshole and shit comes out of assholes.

381 Dark_Falcon  May 16, 2014 6:36:17pm

re: #369 FemNaziBitch

TRIGGER WARNING

What is the last rung of hell?

Cocytus, the Ninth Circle of Hell. Reserved for those guilty of treachery, which is compounded fraud. This man’s crime qualifies as treachery in my eyes.

382 FemNaziBitch  May 16, 2014 6:44:07pm

Youtube Video

Separation of Church and State —bad relationship video

383 Stanley Sea  May 16, 2014 6:48:20pm

Some new drug on the tv commercial……call your Dr. if your breasts start producing milk.

o.O

384 wheat-dogghazi  May 16, 2014 6:48:29pm

re: #368 Snarknado!

Baking bread is not difficult, if your craving gets a bit stronger.

I know how, but i don’t have an oven in my apartment. My daughter sent me yeast, so I’m going to try making bread in my slow cooker. Its high setting might just work.

385 dog philosopher  May 16, 2014 6:48:33pm

386 wheat-dogghazi  May 16, 2014 6:55:54pm

re: #374 FemNaziBitch

There was an NCIS episode with a similar character — a girl, well, young woman, 27 who looked like a HS student. She had pretended to be abandoned/orphaned, entered the foster care system, and each time she was about to graduate HS, would run away to repeat the “scam” again. The character had some kind of psychological need to relive her lost adolescence, or something.

I wonder if the scriptwriters pulled the idea from real iife events.

387 FemNaziBitch  May 16, 2014 7:09:40pm

Illinois Lizards, please re-tweet

SANE nurse is a Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner. This is the professional who is trained to collect evidence from a rape survivor for the rape kit. Every hospital should have a SANE NURSE on staff or on-call 24/7/7. Yet we don’t because the training isn’t available. This should be a no brainer, RN’s are waiting for training to become available.

Rapists don’t rape once. If they get away with it the first time, they continue. When a survivor is brave enough to submit for a rape kit a trained person should be available to collect the evidence. It is only the law.

388 calochortus  May 16, 2014 7:29:26pm

re: #384 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window

I know how, but i don’t have an oven in my apartment. My daughter sent me yeast, so I’m going to try making bread in my slow cooker. Its high setting might just work.

Maybe use a covered cast iron pot on the stove?

389 EPR-radar  May 16, 2014 8:01:01pm

re: #370 SteveMcGazi

I did an interesting thing by getting Philadelphia’s record highs and lows for each day of the year. A fascination thing I found was that since the year 2000, Philadelphia has 66 record highs but only 4 record lows. I think you would normally expect it to be even.

Unless, of course, climate change is making things warmer. Which may be your point.

390 sagehen  May 16, 2014 8:15:51pm

re: #385 dog philosopher

[Embedded image]

Was this the last image on a camera found clutched in the cold dead hand of someone whose face had been eaten off?

391 Rocky-in-Connecticut  May 17, 2014 5:33:41am

With the new $$$ Sony deal, could it be that some in Greeny’s camp are starting to get the feeling they’ve been taken for a ride? That their personal knee-jerk agenda has been exploited in some manner?

Nahhh.. couldn’t be.


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