Tech Note: LGF Now Allows Signing in on Multiple Devices Simultaneously

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Lots of people have asked for this feature, so I’m happy to announce that the LGF Blog Engine now allows signing in from multiple devices simultaneously. Previously, signing in on one device would automatically kick you out if you were signed in on another.

To test, I’m currently logged in on three different computers, two smartphones and a tablet, and everything is working swimmingly. Now that we have a responsive design that adapts to small screen sizes, this feature comes in very handy.

So there you go; it required some fairly complex refactoring of the basic sign-in infrastructure to do it, with a lot of attention paid to security, of course. Enjoy your brand new multi-sign-in capabilities!

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242 comments
1 Decatur Deb  May 24, 2014 1:38:34pm

just the thing for multiple personalities!!

2 klys  May 24, 2014 1:38:38pm

Thanks, Charles! I will definitely make use of this. :)

3 Rev_Arthur_Belling  May 24, 2014 1:42:14pm

W00t!

In a somewhat related note, I am sometimes perturbed by all the external calls to various ad-serving/social media networks during a page load. This is not just an LGF thing. It’s big media sites as well, and other blogs that I read. Everyone is pulling in so much extra stuff from outside sources that it bogs down the page loads tremendously. And it’s not just ads. I notice that Twitter will drag a page load down at times.

/mini-rant

4 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 1:43:36pm

Muchas Gracias!

5 thedopefishlives  May 24, 2014 1:45:00pm

Thank you, Charles. This is a feature that I would’ve asked for if I’d thought of it.

6 jaunte  May 24, 2014 1:47:04pm

nbcbayarea.com

7 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 1:50:44pm

and…..I’m logged in on 2 devices.

Just fabulous!

8 sauceruney  May 24, 2014 1:52:35pm

Thank you. Between my phone, work, laptop, and tablet. I was almost always not logged in on the device I was using.

9 wrenchwench  May 24, 2014 1:53:12pm

Immona hafta get me a multiple device!

10 TedStriker  May 24, 2014 1:57:42pm

Seems to be working well here.

11 nines09  May 24, 2014 1:58:57pm

The day of never logging out has come. Thank you Charles.

12 Charles Johnson  May 24, 2014 2:00:25pm

Here’s something I just realized - when you see someone log out in LGF Spy, that no longer means they’re entirely logged out. They just signed out on one device and could still be signed in on another.

They’ll still show up with the “Show Users” feature, though, as long as they’re signed in on something.

13 PhillyPretzel  May 24, 2014 2:01:30pm

I am logged into both my MacBook Pro and my iPhone. Let’s see if this works.

14 PhillyPretzel  May 24, 2014 2:02:24pm

Well my iPhone just updated. This is great. Thanks Charles.

15 Ding-an-sich Wannabe  May 24, 2014 2:07:15pm

Reine has just posted her cool stained glass photos, don’t miss’em!

16 TedStriker  May 24, 2014 2:08:24pm

re: #15 Sergey Romanov

Reine has just posted her cool stained glass photos, don’t miss’em!

Now, if we can just get SFZ back…

17 Ding-an-sich Wannabe  May 24, 2014 2:09:01pm

re: #16 TedStriker

Where’s she btw?

18 PhillyPretzel  May 24, 2014 2:09:09pm

re: #16 TedStriker

That would be wonderful.

19 Rightwingconspirator  May 24, 2014 2:12:41pm

Great feature.

20 NJDhockeyfan  May 24, 2014 2:25:35pm
21 SteveMcGazi  May 24, 2014 2:29:49pm

Wasn’t there supposed to be an OAS rally today with hundreds of thousands of people?

22 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 24, 2014 2:30:33pm

re: #20 NJDhockeyfan

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insulin.
lots of it.
STAT!

23 Targetpractice  May 24, 2014 2:32:38pm

re: #21 SteveMcGazi

Wasn’t there supposed to be an OAS rally today with hundreds of thousands of people?

I’m pretty sure there was. Do we now live in a post-Obama USA? Have they begun the jailing of traitors on Capital Hill?

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24 TedStriker  May 24, 2014 2:34:49pm

re: #17 Sergey Romanov

Where’s she btw?

Dunno…she’s been gone for the most part since shortly after the ‘12 elections, though she’s popped in a few times briefly since then. IIRC, part of it was personal stuff in meat space, but part of it was was burnout and some long-standing issues with a couple of Lizards.

25 Ding-an-sich Wannabe  May 24, 2014 2:39:28pm

re: #24 TedStriker

With Destro, I suppose?

26 TedStriker  May 24, 2014 2:42:53pm

re: #25 Sergey Romanov

With Destro, I suppose?

Mostly, though IIRC there were a couple of others that loved to butt heads with her.

27 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 2:46:01pm

Wait wait. I’m seeing on twitter they have 3 more bodies at the apt building.

28 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 24, 2014 2:47:47pm
29 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 2:55:58pm

O/T but holy hell. BBQ this eve. cancelled. Sick kids. Anyone want to come over for the huge pack of Hebrew Nationals and authentic neon Chicago relish?

Damn, wasted $$.

30 Lidane  May 24, 2014 2:56:11pm

Because the VA scandal is worth celebrating, apparently:

31 NJDhockeyfan  May 24, 2014 2:56:25pm
32 Rightwingconspirator  May 24, 2014 2:57:56pm

I’m kinda tired. Drove 2.5 hours yesterday to get 47 miles to Mt Baldy. Got out with perfect timing to get the meteor shower. Had my usual spot all planned out. Heh except the road to it was closed. Okay plan B found another good spot at altitude to photograph the sky a bit south of Polaris.

No meteors. I mean nothin. 10pm to 1 am. They all look like this. One after another. Ah well maybe next time.
Meteor Not

But I did get these today at the ice house trail. Spring is always nice up there.

Squirrel lounge

Spring Flowers In The Sun

33 RealityBasedSteve  May 24, 2014 3:09:14pm

re: #29 Stanley Sea

O/T but holy hell. BBQ this eve. cancelled. Sick kids. Anyone want to come over for the huge pack of Hebrew Nationals and authentic neon Chicago relish?

Damn, wasted $$.

Where You At?

RBS

34 Rightwingconspirator  May 24, 2014 3:11:09pm

re: #29 Stanley Sea

Hey it will keep. Good stuff there, love Nathans too.

35 freetoken  May 24, 2014 3:13:01pm

Neat.

Now, if I could only get LGF hamsters to fix my toilet valve…

36 Skip Intro  May 24, 2014 3:14:09pm

re: #30 Lidane

Ben Carson Calls Veterans Affairs Scandal A ‘Gift From God’

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Then your God is as big of an asshole as you are, Ben.

37 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 3:19:30pm

re: #33 RealityBasedSteve

Where You At?

RBS

North San Diego. I also have potato salad for 10.

I tried a hot dog last night because of course, I had to. I will only be able to manage another later. 10 left.

waah.

38 wrenchwench  May 24, 2014 3:21:03pm
39 Rev_Arthur_Belling  May 24, 2014 3:21:14pm

re: #37 Stanley Sea

You have neighbors? Might be a good neighborly thing to spread the deliciousness around.

40 allegro  May 24, 2014 3:21:22pm

Now I’m craving a hot dog and tater salad. In Houston, faaaaar far away from Stanley Sea’s house.

41 Decatur Deb  May 24, 2014 3:21:58pm

re: #29 Stanley Sea

O/T but holy hell. BBQ this eve. cancelled. Sick kids. Anyone want to come over for the huge pack of Hebrew Nationals and authentic neon Chicago relish?

Damn, wasted $$.

Doing ribs right now, with Hebrew Nationals for backup. Just took the grandkid and the dog for a walk—put the leash on the wrong one.

42 RealityBasedSteve  May 24, 2014 3:22:30pm

re: #37 Stanley Sea

North San Diego. I also have potato salad for 10.

I tried a hot dog last night because of course, I had to. I will only be able to manage another later. 10 left.

waah.

I’ve got some cousins in San Diego. Maybe you know them? They live by the ocean, or up in the hills or someplace. You’ve probably met them.

RBS

43 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 3:24:52pm

I’ll look for the neighbs. But its rather quiet here today.

Oh, lol, I don’t know if ya’ll recall my posting about the old school Darryl Issa car alarm that kept going off a few weeks ago, but it did again yesterday morning. Me, the ultimate nosy neighbor walks out on patio to see my next door neighbor going to her truck. It’s YOU? Yeah, her husband installed it recently. They are paranoids. Toyota, maybe 2009 truck? Please. Paranoids.

44 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 3:27:42pm

keyt.com

Alleged Gunman’s Apartment Now A Crime Scene

45 Skip Intro  May 24, 2014 3:27:48pm

Weird coincidence about the Isla Vista murders.

Four killed in Isla Vista

By Joshua Molina and Scott Hadly - Santa Barbara News-Press

February 25, 2001

The 18-year-old UCSB student who allegedly slammed his 1991 Saab into five pedestrians, killing four, shouted “I am the Angel of Death” moments after the Isla Vista collision, according to several eyewitnesses.

Authorities arrested David Edward Attias Friday night after he allegedly sped through a stop sign, sideswiped nine parked vehicles on Sabado Tarde Road, and then hit the pedestrians.

Witnesses said he accelerated to speeds in excess of 60 mph as he raced down the street packed with weekend revelers.

“I heard him punch the gas right about mid-block there,” Daniel Conway, a 20-year-old UCSB sophomore, said Saturday.

He was also the son of a director, and is now free.

murderpedia.org

46 A Mom Anon  May 24, 2014 3:27:55pm

re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth

Holy shit. I knew about MRAs but this is like that on steroids. I had no idea this subculture of such horrible resentment existed. I feel sick.

We seriously need mental health parity and an influx of therapists and other professionals in this country, like yesterday. Holy shit.

47 A Mom Anon  May 24, 2014 3:30:39pm

re: #44 Stanley Sea

A 100 page manifesto? Holy shit. I really hope law enforcement starts looking at these online groups too. This whole thing gets more horrifying by the hour. Dear God.

48 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 3:30:58pm

re: #46 A Mom Anon

Holy shit. I knew about MRAs but this is like that on steroids. I had no idea this subculture of such horrible resentment existed. I feel sick.

We seriously need mental health parity and an influx of therapists and other professionals in this country, like yesterday. Holy shit.

And everyone needs to determine if someone at risk HAS A GUN.

49 Killgore Trout  May 24, 2014 3:32:28pm

Obama to Detail a Broader Foreign Policy Agenda

Sketching familiar arguments but on a broader canvas, Mr. Obama will emphasize his determination to chart a middle course between isolationism and military intervention. The United States, he said, should be at the fulcrum of efforts to curb aggression by Russia and China, though not at the price of “fighting in eight or nine proxy wars.”
….
Mr. Obama, however, will emphasize Syria’s growing status as a haven for terrorist groups, some of which are linked to Al Qaeda, officials said. That could open the door to greater American support for the rebels, including heavier weapons, though no decisions have been made.

The president’s speech will kick off an intense, administration-wide effort to counter critics who say the United States is lurching from crisis to crisis, without a grand plan for dealing with a treacherous world.

50 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 3:32:56pm

re: #45 Skip Intro

Weird coincidence about the Isla Vista murders.

He was also the son of a director, and is now free.

murderpedia.org

UCSB is a great school, but does have a huge party rep. When my friend’s kids choose a school you always go uh, when that’s their choice. So much harder to graduate.

51 A Mom Anon  May 24, 2014 3:34:31pm

re: #48 Stanley Sea

The Husband has a friend in FL who is just going through one shitty thing after another right now. And he drinks, and he owns a couple guns. Another friend went over there the other day and forced him to give up his guns and ammo after he found him sitting in his apt, drunk with two loaded firearms sitting next to him.

The thing is, while life has shit on the guy to be sure, a lot of it has to do with his own crappy choices. And his guy friends won’t tell him that, they just keep saying how unlucky he is. His wife left him for someone else and took him to the cleaners, but that’s the only side we’ve heard. But seriously, at least the dude had a friend concerned enough to intervene, which is something. I hope he gets help.

52 Skip Intro  May 24, 2014 3:35:17pm

re: #50 Stanley Sea

UCSB is a great school, but does have a huge party rep. When my friend’s kids choose a school you always go uh, when that’s their choice. So much harder to graduate.

I went to UCSB, but I never lived in Isla Vista. I never liked even being in Isla Vista, but that’s where the Kinkos and the pinball machines were.

53 Ding-an-sich Wannabe  May 24, 2014 3:36:29pm

re: #49 Killgore Trout

Mr. Obama, however, will emphasize Syria’s growing status as a haven for terrorist groups, some of which are linked to Al Qaeda, officials said. That could open the door to greater American support for the rebels, including heavier weapons, though no decisions have been made.

Aren’t these Al Qaeda-linked terrorists supposed to be exactly a part of these very rebels?

54 wrenchwench  May 24, 2014 3:38:11pm

re: #50 Stanley Sea

UCSB is a great school, but does have a huge party rep. When my friend’s kids choose a school you always go uh, when that’s their choice. So much harder to graduate.

One of my sisters went to UCSB. Didn’t graduate. Finished her degree decades later, after already making more money than any of the rest of the sibs.

55 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 3:40:01pm

re: #51 A Mom Anon

The Husband has a friend in FL who is just going through one shitty thing after another right now. And he drinks, and he owns a couple guns. Another friend went over there the other day and forced him to give up his guns and ammo after he found him sitting in his apt, drunk with two loaded firearms sitting next to him.

The thing is, while life has shit on the guy to be sure, a lot of it has to do with his own crappy choices. And his guy friends won’t tell him that, they just keep saying how unlucky he is. His wife left him for someone else and took him to the cleaners, but that’s the only side we’ve heard. But seriously, at least the dude had a friend concerned enough to intervene, which is something. I hope he gets help.

Very good move. Someone with guns, at risk, right in front of us. It really is up to the people close to do something. If they can.

56 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 24, 2014 3:40:19pm

re: #46 A Mom Anon

Holy shit. I knew about MRAs but this is like that on steroids. I had no idea this subculture of such horrible resentment existed. I feel sick.

We seriously need mental health parity and an influx of therapists and other professionals in this country, like yesterday. Holy shit.

What astonishes me is that people like this can’t even begin to see that the problem is totally within themselves.
This particular young guy was pissed that “hot blonde sorority” sorority guys girls wouldn’t give him the time of day because “he was a nice guy”.
He probably never ever looked beyond that tiny subset of women for someone but, still, it was their fault not his.

very sad.

edited to fix a really bad typo…jeesh.

57 allegro  May 24, 2014 3:41:12pm

re: #46 A Mom Anon

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58 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 3:42:10pm
59 EPR-radar  May 24, 2014 3:42:33pm

re: #46 A Mom Anon

Holy shit. I knew about MRAs but this is like that on steroids. I had no idea this subculture of such horrible resentment existed. I feel sick.

We seriously need mental health parity and an influx of therapists and other professionals in this country, like yesterday. Holy shit.

This MRA shit is definitely evil. A specific individual acting out like this may or may not be clinically insane. Evil and clinical insanity should not be equated to each other.

61 Dr Lizardo  May 24, 2014 3:46:09pm

re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth

What astonishes me is that people like this can’t even begin to see that the problem is totally within themselves.
This particular young guy was pissed that “hot blonde sorority” sorority guys wouldn’t give him the time of day because “he was a nice guy”.
He probably never ever looked beyond that tiny subset of women for someone but, still, it was their fault not his.

very sad.

Introspection isn’t a well-known trait in most 20-something guys - I recall myself at that age, and I wasn’t the most introspective sort. That comes later.

In any event, this little entitled prick probably never even had the thought cross his mind, “Maybe the reasons the ladies don’t give me the time of day is……because of me.”

To me, it seems like he figured women should be throwing themselves at him.

62 A Mom Anon  May 24, 2014 3:46:31pm

re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sigh. I know. I have always told my son that if he wants advice about young women his age, THE LAST people he could be asking for advice is other guys his age (unless they’ve been in a good long term relationship, which is rare). He’s never had a girlfriend or even a casual fling with a girl, but he’s not a resentful asshole about it either. I think he gets that he’s got to work on some stuff first, and be a more independent person first (get the job, the car, some social experience via work and stuff…) before that will fall into place for him. He does keep going after the unattainable girls, just like he tried to be part of the alpha social group in high school. Meanwhile he didn’t see really wonderful young women who really wanted to at least be friends with him. He’s learning from his mistakes though, a key difference between him and this guy and his online “community”. I’d like to think The Husband and I have a little to do with his level headedness.

We really have work to do in this culture, god help us.

63 A Mom Anon  May 24, 2014 3:47:25pm

re: #57 allegro

I’ll shoot an email your way in a minute, THANK YOU!

64 Rightwingconspirator  May 24, 2014 3:48:44pm

re: #45 Skip Intro

Affluenza. What a concept.
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65 wrenchwench  May 24, 2014 3:50:52pm

re: #62 A Mom Anon

I’d like to think The Husband and I have a little to do with his level headedness.

Modelling a relationship in which two people work things out through thick and thin could be the most valuable thing you have done for him.

66 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 3:51:09pm

re: #60 Sergey Romanov

How to Do Men’s Rights Rightly

Ya know, just the need for a “men’s rights” anything stinks of victimization. Nothing more.

67 A Mom Anon  May 24, 2014 3:52:49pm

re: #59 EPR-radar

I agree to a point, but you have to have something pretty wrong to do this sort of thing. So maybe it’s not clinical- as in a diagnosable mental disorder, but something is wrong and help is needed, even if only on a temporary basis. But this dude had a manifesto and videos and lots of planning going on too, I guess more will come out with time.

Mental health needs aren’t just for those with chronic conditions, I am a proponent of seeking help whether you have a disorder or not, you don’t have to be diagnosed with anything to need help.

68 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 24, 2014 3:53:39pm

re: #62 A Mom Anon

Sigh. I know. I have always told my son that if he wants advice about young women his age, THE LAST people he could be asking for advice is other guys his age (unless they’ve been in a good long term relationship, which is rare).

This particular guy was also looking for advice and support from the PUA (Pick Up Artists) guys.
Yeah, that’ll work…

//

69 Skip Intro  May 24, 2014 3:54:26pm

re: #64 Rightwingconspirator

Affluenza. What a concept.
///

Attias’ defense team, Jack Earley and Nancy Haydt, said they, as well as the entire Attias family, were pleased.

“We’re grateful to the jury,” Earley said. “David will probably spend the rest of his life in a mental institution, and that’s an appropriate place for this to end. … “

Uh, no, not quite. Ten years and out for this guy.

70 EPR-radar  May 24, 2014 3:54:31pm

re: #66 Stanley Sea

Ya know, just the need for a “men’s rights” anything stinks of victimization. Nothing more.

I skimmed the linked article, and there are some legitimate issues for men’s advocacy. E.g., men with breast cancer apparently are not eligible for certain kinds of government support because the law does not recognize this possibility.

I think things go off the rails when “rights” language is brought into play.

71 Rev_Arthur_Belling  May 24, 2014 3:54:35pm

I’m sorta glad we didn’t have MRA’s and the Web when I was growing up. I was not the most popular kid, and those types of assholes might have fueled a rage that was entirely misplaced. I never “got” a cheerleader or was popular with “the lay-deez,” but that was my private little thing to work through. I never had an inkling that I should blame other people because they didn’t want to go out with me.

72 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 24, 2014 3:56:00pm
73 EPR-radar  May 24, 2014 3:56:50pm

re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth

This particular guy was also looking for advice and support from the PUA (Pick Up Artists) guys.
Yeah, that’ll work…

//

He was apparently 5’9” and 135 lbs. and seeking relationship advice on a bodybuilding forum. Another bad move, although not in the same league as swimming in the MRA/PUA sewer.

74 Skip Intro  May 24, 2014 3:56:50pm

re: #21 SteveMcGazi

Wasn’t there supposed to be an OAS rally today with hundreds of thousands of people?

The paranoia runs deep with this crew.

75 Rev_Arthur_Belling  May 24, 2014 3:56:59pm

Also, every time I see PUA, I have to Google it. Hell, MRA took me a couple of years to grok. FSM, I’m getting old.

76 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 3:57:12pm

re: #72 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Beautiful.

77 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 24, 2014 3:58:28pm

re: #73 EPR-radar

He was apparently 5’9” and 135 lbs. and seeking relationship advice on a bodybuilding forum. Another bad move, although not in the same league as swimming in the MRA/PUA sewer.

yeah, I saw that. Also very weird.

78 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 24, 2014 4:00:17pm

re: #74 Skip Intro

The paranoia runs deep with this crew.

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How are they all able to be tweeting from FEMA camps??!!??

79 Rightwingconspirator  May 24, 2014 4:00:19pm

re: #74 Skip Intro

LOLWHUT

Comprehension. They don’t have it. “Infiltrators” do not see things your way.

80 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 24, 2014 4:01:09pm

A moment of keeping it real…

81 Ding-an-sich Wannabe  May 24, 2014 4:01:29pm

re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth

This particular guy was also looking for advice and support from the PUA (Pick Up Artists) guys.
Yeah, that’ll work…

//

I think it’s the opposite - he was hanging around with the anti-PUA folks… puahate

82 EPR-radar  May 24, 2014 4:01:46pm

re: #61 Dr Lizardo

Introspection isn’t a well-known trait in most 20-something guys - I recall myself at that age, and I wasn’t the most introspective sort. That comes later.

In any event, this little entitled prick probably never even had the thought cross his mind, “Maybe the reasons the ladies don’t give me the time of day is……because of me.”

To me, it seems like he figured women should be throwing themselves at him.

My understating is that a NiceGuy (™) follows certain rules with the expectation that doing this chore will deterministically lead to relationship success, as if women (or anyone really) are nothing more than machines that will respond favorably if these rules are followed.

Repellant.

83 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 24, 2014 4:02:04pm

re: #81 Sergey Romanov

I think it’s the opposite - he was hanging around with the anti-PUA folks… puahate

ahh…you’re correct.

84 A Mom Anon  May 24, 2014 4:02:29pm

re: #70 EPR-radar

Most of the MRA stuff is directed at custody and divorce issues, it’s a seething cauldron of resentment, if you look at this stuff in any detail. Which sadly, I had foisted on me several years ago. There are some legit MR issues, like the healthcare ones and there can be unfairness in the divorce/custody process. But a healthy guy figures out how to deal and stand up for himself, not collapse into an angry pile of resentful goo. The big majority of MRA “activists” are really frightening people who loathe women, sometimes even their own daughters.

I used to have a political blog under another internet nom de plume, I ended up taking it down because an MRA guy and his buddies decided they hated me and I had to go. The final straw was when one of them sent me a satellite photo of my son’s school. I was dumb enough to go to the ring leader’s blog and leave a comment and he tracked me down to the general area where I live and it went nuts from there.

85 wrenchwench  May 24, 2014 4:03:22pm

re: #60 Sergey Romanov

How to Do Men’s Rights Rightly

That’s a very very good article.

86 Skip Intro  May 24, 2014 4:03:24pm

re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth

How are they all able to be tweeting from FEMA camps??!!??

I don’t understand why he thinks he’s being infiltrated by Social Security.

87 Rightwingconspirator  May 24, 2014 4:04:28pm

re: #84 A Mom Anon

I used to have a political blog under another internet nom de plume, I ended up taking it down because an MRA guy and his buddies decided they hated me and I had to go. The final straw was when one of them sent me a satellite photo of my son’s school. I was dumb enough to go to the ring leader’s blog and leave a comment and he tracked me down to the general area where I live and it went nuts from there.

Whoa, that’s really frightening.

88 Dr Lizardo  May 24, 2014 4:04:35pm

re: #71 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I’m sorta glad we didn’t have MRA’s and the Web when I was growing up. I was not the most popular kid, and those types of assholes might have fueled a rage that was entirely misplaced. I never “got” a cheerleader or was popular with “the lay-deez,” but that was my private little thing to work through. I never had an inkling that I should blame other people because they didn’t want to go out with me.

I was never part of the ‘popular’ set. But I had one thing that I discovered a lot of young women respected: Intelligence.

And I found out at 17 that a lot of guys are surprisingly intimidated by an attractive woman. I discovered this when I ended up with two tickets to Iron Maiden, but no car - the friend I was going to go with backed out. So, I did what any self-respecting Iron Maiden fan would do, namely, seek out a ride; in this case, the most beautiful girl in high school - who had a car.

I knew she liked heavy metal and hard rock, so I asked. Naturally, she said yes, and not long after, we started dating, much to the delightful butthurt of every other guy at school.

Turned out she was entirely single - and everyone had assumed “She’s gotta be datin’ someone!”

Heh.

89 EPR-radar  May 24, 2014 4:04:47pm

re: #86 Skip Intro

I don’t understand why he thinks he’s being infiltrated by Social Security.

Probably because Social Security send checks to his home address.

90 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 24, 2014 4:04:54pm

re: #86 Skip Intro

I don’t understand why he thinks he’s being infiltrated by Social Security.

there’s the problem.

91 freetoken  May 24, 2014 4:05:14pm

So, this fine afternoon I decide to see how the racists, national, online are doing and they’ve taken that Williamson piece now over 1000 comments and definitely heading in the WND/Stormfront direction.

As expected.

How obvious can it be? That is, what site like NRO really are all about, regarding their target customers?

But Williamson will still be denial, because of Je$u$ or something other intangible.

92 Floral Giraffe  May 24, 2014 4:06:19pm

re: #37 Stanley Sea

Freeze them! They keep! The potato salad, not so much….

93 Targetpractice  May 24, 2014 4:06:27pm

re: #91 freetoken

So, this fine afternoon I decide to see how the racists, national, online are doing and they’ve taken that Williamson piece now over 1000 comments and definitely heading in the WND/Stormfront direction.

As expected.

How obvious can it be? That is, what site like NRO really are all about, regarding their target customers?

But Williamson will still be denial, because of Je$u$ or something other intangible.

Hey now, I’ve been assured on good authority that NRO has reasonable folks frequenting it, there’s no racists there, and any accusations of racism are just liberal lies.

///

94 EPR-radar  May 24, 2014 4:07:53pm

re: #93 Targetpractice

Hey now, I’ve been assured on good authority that NRO has reasonable folks frequenting it, there’s no racists there, and any accusations of racism are just liberal lies.

///

That worked better back in the days when WFB was there to put the ‘crypto-’ into crypto-racist.

95 Decatur Deb  May 24, 2014 4:08:03pm

Glad Floral Giraffe is on. We need to discuss last night’s failure in Camelopardalis.

Meteor Shower over North America a Dud

ndtv.com

96 Rightwingconspirator  May 24, 2014 4:08:31pm

re: #95 Decatur Deb

Glad Floral Giraffe is on. We need to discuss last night’s failure in Camelopardalis.

Meteor Shower over North America a Dud

ndtv.com

I’m in.

97 Ding-an-sich Wannabe  May 24, 2014 4:09:10pm

A bit about his granddad:

George, born in Hale, Cheshire, was noted for his work in Africa and for his pictures of the death camps at Bergen-Belsen at the end of the Second World War.

A bit about himself:

He lists The Matrix, Hannibal Rising and Schindler’s List as his favourite films.

mirror.co.uk

98 EPR-radar  May 24, 2014 4:09:38pm

re: #95 Decatur Deb

Glad Floral Giraffe is on. We need to discuss last night’s failure in Camelopardalis.

Meteor Shower over North America a Dud

ndtv.com

I’m old enough that I remember the Comet Kohoutek dud.

99 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 4:10:33pm

re: #92 Floral Giraffe

Freeze them! They keep! The potato salad, not so much….

Take a drive baby!

100 ObserverArt  May 24, 2014 4:11:10pm

If anyone remembers, there have been some comments about some of the Operation American Spring web sites, pages, etc. I had made mention that I had heard about some people messing with the sites to throw a wrench into the whole comical mess.

Apparently they have been busy with the Facebook pages. Check it out.

Operation Big Fat Fail - Now with Moar Goat

: )

101 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 4:13:12pm

re: #97 Sergey Romanov

A bit about his granddad:

A bit about himself:

mirror.co.uk

His grandfather was an amazing person.

102 Decatur Deb  May 24, 2014 4:13:34pm

re: #98 EPR-radar

I’m old enough that I remember the Comet Kohoutek dud.

Oh Yeah. The beginning of Wife’s contempt for astronomy. Fortunately we got to see PanSTARRS on her birthday.

103 wrenchwench  May 24, 2014 4:14:01pm

re: #91 freetoken

So, this fine afternoon I decide to see how the racists, national, online are doing and they’ve taken that Williamson piece now over 1000 comments and definitely heading in the WND/Stormfront direction.

As expected.

How obvious can it be? That is, what site like NRO really are all about, regarding their target customers?

But Williamson will still be denial, because of Je$u$ or something other intangible.

When I saw that Williamson had written about TNC’s article, I knew for sure there was something on the internet that I was NOT going to read.

His articles are like Yahoo comments. I can’t imagine what his comments are like, and I don’t want to try.

104 Floral Giraffe  May 24, 2014 4:14:06pm

re: #95 Decatur Deb

Glad Floral Giraffe is on. We need to discuss last night’s failure in Camelopardalis.

Meteor Shower over North America a Dud

ndtv.com

Giggles. We’re doing our fog season here, I didn’t even try to watch it!
This is usually good, here….
timeanddate.com

105 Decatur Deb  May 24, 2014 4:14:30pm

Ribs is callin’. BBL

106 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 4:14:47pm

re: #97 Sergey Romanov

A bit about his granddad:

A bit about himself:

mirror.co.uk

And Rodger found himself being lauded as a “hero” of the forum for a disturbing fantasy he posted last year. He wrote: “If you could release a virus that would kill every single man on Earth, except for yourself because you would have the antidote, would you do it?

“You will be the only man left, with all the females. You would be able to have your pick of any beautiful woman, as well as having dealt vengeance on the men who took them from you. Imagine how satisfying that would be?”

whoa

107 Dr Lizardo  May 24, 2014 4:15:23pm

re: #100 ObserverArt

Loved this one.

108 Rightwingconspirator  May 24, 2014 4:15:44pm

re: #104 Floral Giraffe

We sax exactly as many as you did. Zeeroe.

109 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 24, 2014 4:16:05pm

BTW, today is 11th wedding anniversary day in the backwoods.
We first celebrated with a noon-time nap after wasting sleep hours over the meteor shower debacle.
Now installing generator and wind turbine (was briefly interrupted by a wasp attack).
Pizza noshing during breaks.
Life is good.

110 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 4:16:33pm

re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth

BTW, today is 11th wedding anniversary day in the backwoods.
We first celebrated with a noon-time nap after wasting sleep hours over the meteor shower debacle.
Now installing generator and wind turbine (was briefly interrupted by a wasp attack).
Pizza noshing during breaks.
Life is good.

Cheers!

111 freetoken  May 24, 2014 4:17:11pm

re: #103 wrenchwench

His articles are like Yahoo comments. I can’t imagine what his comments are like, and I don’t want to try.

It was an amazingly mild piece, in which Williamson sort of apologized for having to agree with TNC on some points, but in the end he spun it around to being more NRO-esque and accusing TNC of moral theatre.

And that is all it took for the NRO crowd to run with it.

112 RealityBasedSteve  May 24, 2014 4:19:25pm

re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth

BTW, today is 11th wedding anniversary day in the backwoods.
We first celebrated with a noon-time nap after wasting sleep hours over the meteor shower debacle.
Now installing generator and wind turbine (was briefly interrupted by a wasp attack).
Pizza noshing during breaks.
Life is good.

Wasp attacks are NEVER good, but other than that, sounds like you had a good day.

Congrats.

RBS

113 Mentis Fugit  May 24, 2014 4:21:41pm

Try as I might, whenever I see “MRA” or “PUA” I can only think of one word that begins with “A”.

114 A Mom Anon  May 24, 2014 4:21:42pm

re: #106 Stanley Sea

The men who took them from you? Oh. Good. God. So they basically hate everyone then? This is making me sad. And scaring the hell out of me too.

115 Skip Intro  May 24, 2014 4:22:17pm

re: #107 Dr Lizardo

Loved this one.

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This one worked for me.

116 wrenchwench  May 24, 2014 4:22:39pm

re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth

BTW, today is 11th wedding anniversary day in the backwoods.
We first celebrated with a noon-time nap after wasting sleep hours over the meteor shower debacle.
Now installing generator and wind turbine (was briefly interrupted by a wasp attack).
Pizza noshing during breaks.
Life is good.

Congrats!!!!

117 CuriousLurker  May 24, 2014 4:24:10pm

re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth

Happy Anniversary! May you have many more.

118 Skip Intro  May 24, 2014 4:26:04pm

119 jaunte  May 24, 2014 4:27:37pm

David W. Blight
“The First Decoration Day”

“…Following the solemn dedication the crowd dispersed into the infield and did what many of us do on Memorial Day: they enjoyed picnics, listened to speeches, and watched soldiers drill. Among the full brigade of Union infantry participating was the famous 54th Massachusetts and the 34th and 104th U.S. Colored Troops, who performed a special double-columned march around the gravesite. The war was over, and Decoration Day had been founded by African Americans in a ritual of remembrance and consecration. The war, they had boldly announced, had been all about the triumph of their emancipation over a slaveholders’ republic, and not about state rights, defense of home, nor merely soldiers’ valor and sacrifice.”

120 Ding-an-sich Wannabe  May 24, 2014 4:31:49pm

Different folks, different probs ;)

Youtube Video

121 Amory Blaine  May 24, 2014 4:33:24pm

122 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 24, 2014 4:35:26pm

FWIW, it will be 20 years in the backwoods come November this year, but today is the 11th anniversary of when we both said, WTH, why not get that damned piece of paper.
Because, ya know, there are serious benefits.
And hopefully, soon, everyone will have that choice/option.

123 Skip Intro  May 24, 2014 4:35:28pm

re: #121 Amory Blaine

124 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 24, 2014 4:36:52pm

re: #119 jaunte

David W. Blight
“The First Decoration Day”

Oh my, I remember being a kid in the 1950s making those paper flowers for Decoration Day.
Someday, I may just restart that tradition here locally.

125 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  May 24, 2014 4:36:53pm

I forget that the Police Gazette wasn’t satire.

126 freetoken  May 24, 2014 4:37:47pm

Religious wars continue unabated by modernity:

OFFICIALS: BUNGLED EXPLOSION KILLS 3 IN NIGERIA

A bungled bomb killed three people, including a suicide bomber, in Nigeria’s Jos city Saturday night, a police official said, four days after twin car bombs blamed on Islamic extremists killed at least 130 people in the central city.

[…]

I missed the news story on that last part.

Nigeria is a large country, larger than many people may realize. So 130 people isn’t a big fraction of the population, but that is still a large daily death toll for a civil war.

127 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  May 24, 2014 4:39:32pm

Frankly, I’d be more interested in why the Agriculture Department was putting cancer in the milk, than how.

128 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 24, 2014 4:41:03pm

re: #127 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Frankly, I’d be more interested in why the Agriculture Department was putting cancer in the milk, than how.

I want to know why, when I look at the ingredients list on a jug of milk it doesn’t just say “milk”.
I can’t find milk that doesn’t also have salt and sugar listed as well.

129 Ding-an-sich Wannabe  May 24, 2014 4:41:14pm

re: #127 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Frankly, I’d be more interested in why the Agriculture Department was putting cancer in the milk, than how.

That’s because you’re of the sheeple. Everybody else knows the reason why.

130 Amory Blaine  May 24, 2014 4:42:20pm

re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s kind of my story. I proposed early in our relationship 9 years later we still weren’t married. Then her friend developed breast cancer in both breasts (she’s alive and thriving) and it kind of hit me hard. I floated her a 30 day window to keep it on the down low (it got out anyways). We’re at 11 years married now. In a fucked up way the broken health system inspired me to get married.

131 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 4:42:41pm
132 RealityBasedSteve  May 24, 2014 4:44:06pm

re: #129 Sergey Romanov

That’s because you’re of the sheeple. Everybody else knows the reason why.

I’ve had Sheeple milk cheese. It’s really good.

RBS

133 freetoken  May 24, 2014 4:45:12pm

re: #131 Stanley Sea

I notice that some of the self-declared “conservatives” on the net have zeroed in on the killer, claiming he was Jewish, his mother was Arab, and so forth. All sorts of enlightened thinking and such.

134 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 24, 2014 4:45:49pm

re: #130 Amory Blaine

That’s kind of my story. I proposed early in our relationship 9 years later we still weren’t married. Then her friend developed breast cancer in both breasts (she’s alive and thriving) and it kind of hit me hard. I floated her a 30 day window to keep it on the down low (it got out anyways). We’re at 11 years married now. In a fucked up way the broken health system inspired me to get married.

It was healthcare that got us married as well (along with a substantial amount of property that I own that would have left MrBWS out in the cold should I have died first).

135 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 4:46:01pm

re: #133 freetoken

I notice that some of the self-declared “conservatives” on the net have zeroed in on the killer, claiming he was Jewish, his mother was Arab, and so forth. All sorts of enlightened thinking and such.

REALLY? omg

136 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 24, 2014 4:46:45pm

re: #133 freetoken

I notice that some of the self-declared “conservatives” on the net have zeroed in on the killer, claiming he was Jewish, his mother was Arab, and so forth. All sorts of enlightened thinking and such.

Not the “right” kind of white…
//

137 Dr Lizardo  May 24, 2014 4:46:46pm

re: #133 freetoken

I notice that some of the self-declared “conservatives” on the net have zeroed in on the killer, claiming he was Jewish, his mother was Arab, and so forth. All sorts of enlightened thinking and such.

For some people, the Enlightenment just sort of passed them by; one of those things that happens to others.

138 Gus  May 24, 2014 4:47:02pm

Watched the video of that monster. What a self-entitled arrogant little prick.

139 wrenchwench  May 24, 2014 4:47:06pm

re: #131 Stanley Sea

I don’t know whether this is his son.

140 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 4:48:21pm

re: #139 wrenchwench

[Embedded content]

20 1st graders didn’t do shit. This won’t either.

so sad.

141 ObserverArt  May 24, 2014 4:49:20pm

Goats!

Hamsters and Goats. Someone was having some big fun. And as a photoshopper I completely understand. Just too funny.

(See link in #100…I’ve just dipped in a bit more and it’s rather fun. Love that OAS III Photos page.)

142 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 24, 2014 4:50:37pm

re: #141 ObserverArt

Goats!

Hamsters and Goats. Someone was having some big fun. And as a photoshopper I completely understand. Just too funny.

(See link in #100…I’ve just dipped in a bit more and it’s rather fun. Love that OAS III Photos page.)

The hamsters are great! I saw them earlier.

143 Lidane  May 24, 2014 4:51:38pm

re: #107 Dr Lizardo

“That’s what I love about these Tea Party types, man. I get dumber, they stay the same.”

Heh.

144 Amory Blaine  May 24, 2014 4:53:38pm

145 Dr Lizardo  May 24, 2014 4:53:41pm

re: #138 Gus

Watched the video of that monster. What a self-entitled arrogant little prick.

That certainly struck me the most; overweening, egotistical little prick.

146 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 4:55:06pm

re: #145 Dr Lizardo

That certainly struck me the most; overweening, egotistical little prick.

Neiman Marcus baby!

147 Ding-an-sich Wannabe  May 24, 2014 4:55:31pm

Wassup with all the goatery?

148 prairiefire  May 24, 2014 4:56:30pm

re: #32 Rightwingconspirator

Thanks for trying!

149 Amory Blaine  May 24, 2014 4:57:15pm

re: #147 Sergey Romanov

Youtube Video

150 Skip Intro  May 24, 2014 4:57:38pm

re: #140 Stanley Sea

20 1st graders didn’t do shit. This won’t either.

so sad.

It will do one thing. Gun sales will boom again next week.

151 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 4:58:31pm

Getting a little philosophical here, but we seen to be in another 80’s greed fest. The fucking kardashians, the number of times (many) I see a celeb holding a 30k birken bag? I sagely predict trouble ahead.

152 A Mom Anon  May 24, 2014 4:59:17pm

re: #145 Dr Lizardo

What is so hard to understand about this one thing:

If you hate women it’s really hard to hide that and the vast majority of us will run, be creeped out by and avoid you at all costs. We’re not stupid, most of us have a little radar that goes off when we’re around a guy who doesn’t see us as human. I’m not saying there aren’t asshole women out there, heaven knows there are, but it’s not everyone and there are a ton of great people out there, of both genders. They just may not be of supermodel looks, and so what? MOST people are not stunningly beautiful by today’s impossible standards. This isn’t rocket science.

153 RealityBasedSteve  May 24, 2014 5:02:12pm

re: #147 Sergey Romanov

Wassup with all the goatery?

It’s the anniversary of the great California goat rush.

Goat west, young man, goat west.

RBS

154 Amory Blaine  May 24, 2014 5:02:47pm

NOW YOU CAN BUY A $250,000 NAIL POLISH

Taxes are too high!!!

155 Skip Intro  May 24, 2014 5:03:26pm

Did someone mention goats?

156 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 5:03:49pm

Horrible human.

157 PhillyPretzel  May 24, 2014 5:03:51pm

Watching Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe in Some Like it Hot.

158 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 5:04:56pm

re: #155 Skip Intro

Did someone mention goats?

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Love the weed.

159 Eventual Carrion  May 24, 2014 5:05:46pm

re: #98 EPR-radar

I’m old enough that I remember the Comet Kohoutek dud.

I bought Nike’s for the event. Big mistake.

160 Gus  May 24, 2014 5:06:50pm

3 more bodies.

161 RealityBasedSteve  May 24, 2014 5:06:51pm

re: #155 Skip Intro

Did someone mention goats?

[Embedded image]

Weed… It makes you think sheep are goats. Just say Naaay. EDIT: Looking at the image again, I really messed this one up… I’m going to blame it on too many wings for dinner

RBS

162 Feline Fearless Leader  May 24, 2014 5:09:15pm

re: #157 PhillyPretzel

Watching Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe in Some Like it Hot.

The Moody Blues are telling me that Timothy Leary is dead.

Been playing progressive rock albums on YouTube while reading or playing solo games. The cats are (unhappily) exiled from the room during the latter since they jump on the table and steal counters or knock over stacks of cards.

163 Dr Lizardo  May 24, 2014 5:09:20pm

re: #157 PhillyPretzel

Watching Jack Lemmon, Tony Curtis and Marilyn Monroe in Some Like it Hot.

Heh. I showed a friend of mine Scarface (the 1983 Brian DePalma version) for the first time.

Result: Mind blown.

164 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 24, 2014 5:09:25pm

re: #160 Gus

3 more bodies.

Apparently, at the apartment complex where the kid lived.

165 Gus  May 24, 2014 5:09:39pm

re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth

Apparently, the apartment complex where the kid lived.

Yep.

166 Rightwingconspirator  May 24, 2014 5:10:00pm

re: #148 prairiefire

Plenty of pluses-D_L got herself an intervalometer, we both got some moonless sky experience (thank goodness for exposure calculators), stayed in a nice cabin. Had a couple late drinks, woke up for a good breakfast then hike. Good times by any measure.

167 Feline Fearless Leader  May 24, 2014 5:10:51pm

Jim Wright at Stonekettle Station has commented on the VA scandal.

stonekettle.com

Pretty much a solid look at the fact that the real scandal is long-standing and multi-administration in scope.

168 RealityBasedSteve  May 24, 2014 5:12:05pm

I think I’m going to watch “On The Waterfront” tonight. It’s the 50 year anniversary of it, and NPR had a great interview with Eva Marie Saint today.

RBS

169 Lidane  May 24, 2014 5:12:39pm

re: #167 Feline Fearless Leader

Pretty much a solid look at the fact that the real scandal is long-standing and multi-administration in scope.

THE VA SCANDAL IS A GIFT FROM GOD BECAUSE OBAMA!

/Ben Carson

170 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 24, 2014 5:13:07pm

re: #166 Rightwingconspirator

Plenty of pluses-D_L got herself an intervalometer, we both got some moonless sky experience (thank goodness for exposure calculators), stayed in a nice cabin. Had a couple late drinks, woke up for a good breakfast then hike. Good times by any measure.

yep. I was disappointed about the lack of spectacular meteors, but the sky was totally brilliant, and I always love it when conditions are that clear.
So many stars.

171 Feline Fearless Leader  May 24, 2014 5:13:44pm

re: #170 Backwoods_Sleuth

yep. I was disappointed about the lack of spectacular meteors, but the sky was totally brilliant, and I always love it when conditions are that clear.
So many stars.

Doge Star. So shiny!

172 Skip Intro  May 24, 2014 5:13:48pm

re: #161 RealityBasedSteve

Weed… It makes you think sheep are goats. Just say Naaay. EDIT: Looking at the image again, I really messed this one up… I’m going to blame it on too many wings for dinner

RBS

You know, I just assumed they’d be goats because it’s a goat page. You just can’t trust your brain not to fool you.

173 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 5:14:37pm

re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth

Apparently, at the apartment complex where the kid lived.

This news feed is brutal. Attorney for the parents calls Elliott, THIS CHILD.

He was not a child.

174 prairiefire  May 24, 2014 5:14:55pm

re: #166 Rightwingconspirator

Plenty of pluses-D_L got herself an intervalometer, we both got some moonless sky experience (thank goodness for exposure calculators), stayed in a nice cabin. Had a couple late drinks, woke up for a good breakfast then hike. Good times by any measure.

That sounds way more wonderful for you two than a meteorite shower photo for me! Sympathy/ off.

175 ObserverArt  May 24, 2014 5:15:11pm

re: #147 Sergey Romanov

Wassup with all the goatery?

Apparently a group of hacker types (with maybe some government connections, but independent, just messing around) went into the original Operation American Spring web sites a few weeks ago before the whole “protest and take back our country by ousting Obama, Reid, Boehner, Cantor and others” thing was planned for last Friday May 16th.

If you haven’t followed, it was a huge dud. No one showed up. They had claimed “millions” would rally and stay until there was change” and some figures said maybe 300 people. Fail.

The guys started getting into the comments and spreading little things like the NSA had already figured out who many were and there would be facial recognition videos in place and they would be arrested as soon as they came to Washington DC. Also, there would be a battery of drones to watch their every step and zap them from the air. All kinds of rumors from other “nuts” vising the pages and interested in OAS. The idea being they could mess the whole thing up by playing crazy theories and getting the nuts even nuttier to where everyone just freaks out.

And they went from there, creating havoc. Now they claim to have taken over the Facebook page…and started Operation number 3, since this past weekend had been joked about being number 2.

And for reasons I am not familiar with…the new theme is OAS III is being run by goats. Moar Goats! And there you have it…the internet in all its comedic glory.

176 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 24, 2014 5:15:27pm

re: #171 Feline Fearless Leader

Doge Star. So shiny!

Sirius (Doge) is amazing when you see it pulsating.
Totally freaky!

177 wrenchwench  May 24, 2014 5:15:30pm

Killer wanted to kill his half brother and step mother too. Jealous. Link to live stream.

178 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 5:16:36pm

They are reading (edit PARTS OF) his manifesto.

He bought a glock semi auto after researching accuracy.

179 ObserverArt  May 24, 2014 5:16:43pm

re: #161 RealityBasedSteve

Weed… It makes you think sheep are goats. Just say Naaay. EDIT: Looking at the image again, I really messed this one up… I’m going to blame it on too many wings for dinner

RBS

Animal farm! Sheep, goats and chickens. But the chickens just got eated!

: )

180 Lidane  May 24, 2014 5:17:35pm

re: #177 wrenchwench

Killer wanted to kill his half brother and step mother too. Jealous. Link to live stream.

So basically, an entitled misogynist douchebag with a gun and a chip on his shoulder bigger than Manhattan.

Lovely.

181 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 5:18:02pm

Now, now, script reader anchor - do not involve the plot of Hunger Games into this.

182 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 5:18:40pm

re: #178 Stanley Sea

They are reading (edit PARTS OF) his manifesto.

He bought a glock semi auto after researching accuracy.

Named the gun shop.

183 jaunte  May 24, 2014 5:19:16pm
184 RealityBasedSteve  May 24, 2014 5:19:22pm

re: #170 Backwoods_Sleuth

yep. I was disappointed about the lack of spectacular meteors, but the sky was totally brilliant, and I always love it when conditions are that clear.
So many stars.

Well, all I can say is that Clarksville will experience a total solar eclipse on 21 AUG 2017, and you all are invited to “Casa De Reality” to enjoy it. (of course, since I only have 2 bed rooms, and I’m not sharing mine, you’ll have to sleep on the floor).

RBS

185 Gus  May 24, 2014 5:21:20pm

My first act of preparation was the purchase my first handgun. I did this quickly and hastily, at a local gun shop called Goleta Gun and Supply. I had already done some research on handguns, and I decided to purchase the Glock 34 semiautomatic pistol, an efficient and highly accurate weapon. I signed all of the papers and was told that my pickup day was in mid-December. That fell in nicely, because that was when I was planning on staying in Santa Barbara till. After I picked up the handgun, I brought it back to my room and felt a new sense of power. I was now armed.

Who’s the alpha male now, bitches?

I thought to myself, regarding all of the girls who’ve looked down on me in the past.
I quickly admired my new weapon before locking it up in my safe and preparing to go back to my hometown for the winter break

186 Varek Raith  May 24, 2014 5:22:17pm

Jesus this guy was a hateful douche.

187 CuriousLurker  May 24, 2014 5:22:17pm

re: #133 freetoken

I notice that some of the self-declared “conservatives” on the net have zeroed in on the killer, claiming he was Jewish, his mother was Arab, and so forth. All sorts of enlightened thinking and such.

I know they’d really love to have a Muslim/Arab involved somehow, but it’s bullshit (not that it would matter even if it wasn’t—the killer was obviously a head case, regardless of his origins).

If these assholes would spend 10 minutes Googling, they’d find out that Peter Rodger’s wife, Soumaya Akaaboune, is a Moroccan-born French actress who came to the US 15 years ago, where she met & married Rodger (Elliot Rodger was 22-years-old, therefore clearly not her son). She does have a son with Rodger, but he’s only 6-years-old.

Her bio is available on the Les Vraies Housewives website, which anyone with half a brain can easily find & translate.

188 Skip Intro  May 24, 2014 5:22:35pm

re: #185 Gus

Glock 34s will be sold out across the country by Tuesday.

189 Gus  May 24, 2014 5:22:36pm

Scribd Document

190 Charles Johnson  May 24, 2014 5:22:42pm

He was a legal gun owner.

191 Rightwingconspirator  May 24, 2014 5:22:43pm

re: #182 Stanley Sea

For all that we really must keep those guns out of the wrong hands, I do worry about what some of these obsessed and intelligent killers would do instead. Not meaning to take away from the need to do gun control much better in any way.

Guy like that seems to revel in the planning.

192 Charles Johnson  May 24, 2014 5:24:05pm

He called himself “the good guy” in his manifesto. He was a “good guy” with a legal gun.

193 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 5:24:21pm

re: #191 Rightwingconspirator

For all that we really must keep those guns out of the wrong hands, I do worry about what some of these obsessed and intelligent killers would do instead. Not meaning to take away from the need to do gun control much better in any way.

Guy like that seems to revel in the planning.

Bad guy/good guy argument.

Something is just not working.

194 jaunte  May 24, 2014 5:24:43pm

re: #190 Charles Johnson

He was a legal gun owner.

He even kept it securely locked in a safe until it was time to slaughter people.

195 Skip Intro  May 24, 2014 5:25:10pm

re: #190 Charles Johnson

He was a legal gun owner.

A responsible, legal gun owner, right up until he wasn’t. Just like so many of these murdering assholes.

The only question I have is how long will it be before the NRA rolls out their trademarked “The only thing stopping a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun”?

196 Lidane  May 24, 2014 5:25:23pm

re: #191 Rightwingconspirator

He met all the current legal requirements for gun ownership. Bought his gun fair and square.

Under the law, his hands were the right hands for a gun. Oops.

197 RealityBasedSteve  May 24, 2014 5:25:32pm

re: #187 CuriousLurker

I know they’d really love to have a Muslim/Arab involved somehow, but it’s bullshit (not that it would matter even if it wasn’t—the killer was obviously a head case, regardless of his origins).

If these assholes would spend 10 minutes Googling, they’d find out that Peter Rodger’s wife, Soumaya Akaaboune, is a Moroccan-born French actress who came to the US 15 years ago, where she met & married Rodger (Elliot Rodger was 22-years-old, therefore clearly not her son). She does have a son with Rodger, but he’s only 6-years-old.

Her bio is available on the Les Vraies Housewives website, which anyone with half a brain can easily find & translate.

Well there’s your problem CL… you are making a totally unwarranted assumption about the cerebral hardware of the RWNJs. If they had half a brain they wouldn’t BE RWNJs.

RBS

198 Skip Intro  May 24, 2014 5:25:43pm

re: #194 jaunte

He even kept it securely locked in a safe until it was time to slaughter people.

Responsible, like I said.

199 Gus  May 24, 2014 5:27:10pm

During this Spring of 2013, I began to seriously think about planning the Day of Retribution. My next step towards planning for it was to buy my second handgun, a Sig Sauer P226. It is of a much higher quality than the Glock, and a lot more efficient. In turn, it was also a lot more expensive. My Glock 34 was around $700 dollars, whereas my new Sig Sauer P226 was $1100.

200 wrenchwench  May 24, 2014 5:27:31pm

re: #189 Gus

Now you’ve done it.

I don’t have to rtwt, do I?

201 ObserverArt  May 24, 2014 5:27:35pm

re: #190 Charles Johnson

He was a legal gun owner.

And saw himself as one of the good guys.

A nice guy.

Oh, those very fine lines from legal gun owner practicing his rights to flipping out and having the ways and means to go on a killers rampage. Thus making him a criminal. Damn definitions change so fast.

202 freetoken  May 24, 2014 5:28:23pm

re: #187 CuriousLurker

…which anyone with half a brain can easily find & translate.

That’s asking a lot for some of these people.

203 Lidane  May 24, 2014 5:28:46pm

re: #198 Skip Intro

Responsible, like I said.

Let’s review:

—Carefully researched the gun he wanted
—Went to a legal gun shop, filled out all the paperwork. Got cleared to buy.
—Purchased a gun safe where he kept said gun until he needed it.

By that standard, he was a legal, law-abiding, responsible gun owner.

204 Gus  May 24, 2014 5:29:16pm

re: #200 wrenchwench

Now you’ve done it.

I don’t have to rtwt, do I?

I Tweeted a link.

205 Skip Intro  May 24, 2014 5:30:17pm

re: #203 Lidane

So which gun did he use, because that’s the one all the gun nuts are going to be buying next week. I thought it was the Glock, but maybe not.

206 CuriousLurker  May 24, 2014 5:30:22pm

re: #197 RealityBasedSteve

Well there’s your problem CL… you are making a totally unwarranted assumption about the cerebral hardware of the RWNJs. If they had half a brain they wouldn’t BE RWNJs.

RBS

LOL, true that. Hell, even if they found the info they’d prolly swear it was some sort of Obama-Hollywood-Islamist-leftist conspiracy to hide the truth.

207 Gus  May 24, 2014 5:31:07pm
208 Varek Raith  May 24, 2014 5:31:12pm

re: #206 CuriousLurker

LOL, true that. Hell, even if the found the info they’d prolly swear it was some sort of Obama-Hollywood-Islamist-leftist conspiracy to hide the truth.

32 WARSHIPS

209 Rightwingconspirator  May 24, 2014 5:31:27pm

re: #190 Charles Johnson

re: #196 Lidane

He met all the current legal requirements for gun ownership. Bought his gun fair and square.

Under the law, his hands were the right hands for a gun. Oops.

Maybe… The reports that he was under the care of multiple professionals for mental health issues clouds the issue. Technicality? Perhaps but that’s part of the problem.

DROS form

Is purchaser a danger/threat to self or others pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 8100, or a person who has been admitted to a mental health facility as a danger to self or
others pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code sections 5150 through 5152 within the past 5 years?

Has purchaser ever been adjudicated by a court to be a danger to others, found not guilty by reason of insanity, found incompetent to stand trial, or placed under a conservatorship, pursuant to Welfare and Institutions Code section 8103?

210 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 5:32:22pm
211 Gus  May 24, 2014 5:32:56pm

That feed went down?

212 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 5:33:03pm

re: #207 Gus

are you reading the full manifesto?

213 Rightwingconspirator  May 24, 2014 5:33:21pm

re: #203 Lidane

Let’s review:

—Carefully researched the gun he wanted
—Went to a legal gun shop, filled out all the paperwork. Got cleared to buy.
—Purchased a gun safe where he kept said gun until he needed it.

By that standard, he was a legal, law-abiding, responsible gun owner.

Did he lie on the form?

214 Gus  May 24, 2014 5:33:34pm

re: #212 Stanley Sea

are you reading the full manifesto?

No. Just searching.

215 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 5:34:23pm

re: #211 Gus

That feed went down?

They went to the national news. which was weather.

I don’t know.

216 klys  May 24, 2014 5:35:04pm

re: #209 Rightwingconspirator

Maybe… The reports that he was under the care of multiple professionals for mental health issues clouds the issue. Technicality? Perhaps but that’s part of the problem.

DROS form

You do realize that you can be seen by professionals for mental health issues without being deemed a danger to yourself or others? Also, we don’t know when he was being treated versus when he purchased the guns, and I’m curious what framework exists to actually provide that information to someone, because as far as I know, there’s no national database tracking those who seek mental health treatment - which I personally think is as it should be, because for fuck’s sake, it’s already stigmatized enough.

217 prairiefire  May 24, 2014 5:35:29pm

Too much cloud cover for any sightings here. My husband was taking my daughter to the airport at 4:30AM, so he was up. The girl has a band trip to Disney World.

218 Killgore Trout  May 24, 2014 5:35:29pm

Elliot Rodger’s Written Manifesto Is 141 Pages Long and Absolutely Terrifying (doc at link)

I began to have fantasies of becoming very powerful and stopping everyone from having sex. I wanted to take their sex away from them, just like they took it away from me. I saw sex as an evil and barbaric act, all because I was unable to have it. This was the major turning point. My anger made me stronger inside. This was when I formed my ideas that sex should be outlawed. It is the only way to make the world a fair and just place. If I can’t have it, I will destroy it. That’s the conclusion I came to, right then and there.

I don’t know if he had a diagnosable mental disorder but it sounds like he was on his way to being a serial killer.

219 Stanley Sea  May 24, 2014 5:35:34pm

Still pissed that family’s atty called him THIS CHILD.

Feed back.

220 Gus  May 24, 2014 5:36:01pm
221 Rightwingconspirator  May 24, 2014 5:36:02pm

re: #193 Stanley Sea

Bad guy/good guy argument.

Something is just not working.

Numerous things, and it’s important to keep that understood. We can improve gun control and the link between treatment and disclosure of serious mental health problems for sensitive/dangerous responsibilities.

222 Lidane  May 24, 2014 5:36:18pm

re: #213 Rightwingconspirator

Did he lie on the form?

Does it matter? As soon as you start talking about mental health background checks for guns the usual yahoos start screaming like stuck pigs.

He bought his gun legally. In fact, he bought TWO guns legally.

223 prairiefire  May 24, 2014 5:36:29pm

re: #219 Stanley Sea

Very pissed. That’s the sound of money talking through high powered lawyers.

224 Rightwingconspirator  May 24, 2014 5:37:21pm

re: #216 klys

You do realize that you can be seen by professionals for mental health issues without being deemed a danger to yourself or others? Also, we don’t know when he was being treated versus when he purchased the guns, and I’m curious what framework exists to actually provide that information to someone, because as far as I know, there’s no national database tracking those who seek mental health treatment - which I personally think is as it should be, because for fuck’s sake, it’s already stigmatized enough.

I do, I do. Hence I said “Maybe.” And see my 221 for my genuine feelings on that matter.

225 Dark_Falcon  May 24, 2014 5:37:43pm

re: #218 Killgore Trout

Elliot Rodger’s Written Manifesto Is 141 Pages Long and Absolutely Terrifying (doc at link)

I don’t know if he had a diagnosable mental disorder but it sounds like he was on his way to being a serial killer.

He’s an active shooter, Killgore. He didn’t go out and start killing one woman at a time to release his hate (as a serial killer might), instead he decided to release all his rage in an act of suicidal violence.

226 Backwoods_Sleuth  May 24, 2014 5:38:04pm

re: #205 Skip Intro

So which gun did he use, because that’s the one all the gun nuts are going to be buying next week. I thought it was the Glock, but maybe not.

hey, it wasn’t an assault rifle…

//

227 Rightwingconspirator  May 24, 2014 5:38:04pm

re: #222 Lidane

If he lied that’s not legally.

228 CuriousLurker  May 24, 2014 5:38:32pm

re: #218 Killgore Trout

Elliot Rodger’s Written Manifesto Is 141 Pages Long and Absolutely Terrifying (doc at link)

I don’t know if he had a diagnosable mental disorder but it sounds like he was on his way to being a serial killer.

Gus is way ahead of you: #189

229 RealityBasedSteve  May 24, 2014 5:38:33pm

re: #218 Killgore Trout

Elliot Rodger’s Written Manifesto Is 141 Pages Long and Absolutely Terrifying (doc at link)

I don’t know if he had a diagnosable mental disorder but it sounds like he was on his way to being a serial killer.

Zardoz: The Penis is evil! The Penis shoots Seeds, and makes new Life to poison the Earth with a plague of men, as once it was. But the Gun shoots Death and purifies the Earth of the filth of Brutals. Go forth, and kill! Zardoz has spoken.

230 Killgore Trout  May 24, 2014 5:40:02pm

re: #225 Dark_Falcon

He’s an active shooter, Killgore. He didn’t go out and start killing one woman at a time to release his hate (as a serial killer might), instead he decided to release all his rage in an act of suicidal violence.

Read the Manifesto. He talks about luring people into his apartment and killing them. Bunch of other stuff too.

231 Rightwingconspirator  May 24, 2014 5:41:35pm

I’m as upset at this as you guys. Forgive the repetition. Fuck the NRA for standing in the way of good regulations like universal registration.

We can improve gun control and the link between treatment and disclosure of serious mental health problems for sensitive/dangerous responsibilities.

232 Lidane  May 24, 2014 5:41:52pm

re: #227 Rightwingconspirator

If he lied that’s not legally.

Without an actual mental health screening as part of the background check, how do you know if he’s lying or not?

Just having Xanax or Valium or whatever isn’t a sign that you’re a danger to anyone. He could have said yes on all the forms and it wouldn’t have disqualified him. You’re trying to find a way out and to say that he wasn’t supposed to have a gun when he went through all of the current legal hoops and bought two guns.

233 Dark_Falcon  May 24, 2014 5:42:33pm

re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth

hey, it wasn’t an assault rifle…

//

Most of the time it isn’t. Semi-auto rifles are rarely used to commit crimes, and handguns are far more common as crime guns.

234 ObserverArt  May 24, 2014 5:42:56pm

Well, I see we are in agreement with the whole nice guy and a guns rights practitioner.

What to do. Well, maybe each one of these events inch everyone closer to the point where if it keeps up, everyone will have known someone killed in a spree/mass shooting or something. Numbers. And if the numbers do go out of whack enough something will be done. One way or the other.

If I were a big gun supporter, I think it is time to start dealing on something. This country has swung wildly before. We had prohibition. It did not go well.

Guns owners may not like what could happen if there isn’t at least some talking about these issues. Could it go from what we have now to something completely the other way due to emotion? I have no idea, but it might be better to mitigate than to let it swing too far the other way and risk real drastic laws. And then the country really going nuts.

235 Lidane  May 24, 2014 5:43:27pm

re: #233 Dark_Falcon

handguns are far more common as crime guns

Being small and easy to conceal helps with that.

236 Rightwingconspirator  May 24, 2014 5:46:00pm

re: #232 Lidane

You say that like I’m on record opposing stronger measures on mental health and guns. I’m not.

Separate assertions are separate. Legally bought the guns? Maybe, maybe not.

The ability to evade the regulations is another point, and yes that should not be so easy. Changing disclosure rules for certain mental illnesses may just have to go with firearm purchase. Fine. Remember I could have been walking on that street same as anyone else, and I don’t carry a gun. And if I did I’m not shooting in a crowd.

237 Cheechako  May 24, 2014 5:47:07pm

re: #222 Lidane

Does it matter? As soon as you start talking about mental health background checks for guns the usual yahoos start screaming like stuck pigs.

He bought his gun legally. In fact, he bought TWO guns legally.

That’s the main problem. A person has to self-certifiy that they have do not have mental issues/problem in order to purchase a firearm. Any attempt to create a national data base of anyone who has sought mental health assistance would run a-fowl of all the gun rights nuts not to mention the problems with HIPPA.

238 Justanotherhuman  May 24, 2014 6:10:36pm

re: #154 Amory Blaine

NOW YOU CAN BUY A $250,000 NAIL POLISH

Taxes are too high!!!

re: #219 Stanley Sea

Still pissed that family’s atty called him THIS CHILD.

Feed back.

Isn’t that a sign of the times, though? Even 31 yr old Edward Snowden is often referred to as a “kid”, even though he has been legally seen as an adult for 13 yrs.

“Childhood” is being extended further and further each generation, it seems. That can’t be a good thing for people having adult bodies, engaging in adult behaviors, having their own children, and not keeping their emotional development concurrent with their biological age.

239 ObserverArt  May 24, 2014 6:37:37pm

re: #238 Justanotherhuman

Isn’t that a sign of the times, though? Even 31 yr old Edward Snowden is often referred to as a “kid”, even though he has been legally seen as an adult for 13 yrs.

“Childhood” is being extended further and further each generation, it seems. That can’t be a good thing for people having adult bodies, engaging in adult behaviors, having their own children, and not keeping their emotional development concurrent with their biological age.

What is that about ‘kids’ not leaving home or coming back to it at 30? Maybe you are right, they are extending and a whole generation or so has allowed it to occur. Some strange stuff going on it the whole dynamic of family and community.

240 CuriousLurker  May 24, 2014 8:07:56pm

Works!

241 William of Orange  May 25, 2014 3:35:52am

So glad you took this step! It was at times annoying to constantly log in. Once I logged in with my Phone, the inlog session on the PC was over. Now I can switch between the Phone, PC and the tablet I just acquired.

242 darthstar  May 25, 2014 5:46:35pm

Oh, fuck yeah, Charles…thank you. This has bothered me for some time. Thanks for the upgrade.


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