Luca Stricagnoli Plays the Theme From Braveheart, on 4 Instruments

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Yes, another music video, but I promise you’ll like this one too. Luca Stricagnoli pulls off something pretty amazing here, playing two harmonicas, a baritone guitar, and a recorder (the video description calls it a flute) for a terrific solo version of the theme from the movie “Braveheart,” composed by James Horner.

Theme from the “Braveheart” movie’s original soundtrack , composed by J.Horner, arranged and performed by Luca Stricagnoli on a baritone guitar made by Davide Serracini, two harmonicas and a flute.

Luca Stricagnoli (guitarist): https://it-it.facebook.com/lucastrica…
Davide Serracini (luthier): http://www.serracini.it/wordpress/
Pietro Nobile (recording): http://www.pietronobile.com
Video by http://www.pazart.it

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160 comments
1 Charles Johnson  Jun 8, 2014 5:40:03pm

Lots of bad news today. Music like this can help overcome it.

2 Aqua Obama  Jun 8, 2014 5:47:55pm

Wikipedia’s new Media Viewer function sucks on browsers, it takes three steps to do what was easily accessible before and it’s half hidden in a superfluous design interface.

Is there like, a school where bad web designers go to

3 sattv4u2  Jun 8, 2014 5:48:39pm

Luca Stricagnoli Brasi sleeps with the fishes

4 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 8, 2014 5:51:48pm

Listening to Dire Straits this evening myself.

Youtube Video

5 Lidane  Jun 8, 2014 5:54:07pm
6 Kragar  Jun 8, 2014 5:56:08pm

Saw Edge of Tomorrow yesterday, pretty good sci-fi flick

7 Charles Johnson  Jun 8, 2014 5:58:14pm
8 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 8, 2014 6:01:21pm

Frank says:

Playing guitar with this band is like trying to grow watermelon in Easter hay.

9 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 6:02:30pm

10 sattv4u2  Jun 8, 2014 6:02:56pm

re: #9 Gus

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DINSDALE

Youtube Video

11 Charles Johnson  Jun 8, 2014 6:03:15pm

re: #9 Gus

Grumpyzilla.

12 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 6:04:20pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

Grumpyzilla.

Mothra doesn’t stand a chance. Cats.

13 Decatur Deb  Jun 8, 2014 6:06:29pm

Flute confusion. Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson plays a ‘transverse flute’. To the Italians, the straight ‘recorder’ is a ‘sweet’ flute, a ‘flauto dolce’.

14 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 8, 2014 6:07:03pm

Has anyone else noticed wingnuts with CHRISTIAN in their Twitter profile has so much hates for Teh Poors.

15 b.d.  Jun 8, 2014 6:07:04pm

re: #5 Lidane

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I expected those rabbits to end up like Lady and the Tramp, nature is a little bit rougher than Disney.

16 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 6:07:14pm

17 Stanley Sea  Jun 8, 2014 6:11:52pm

re: #14 Pie-onist Overlord

Has anyone else noticed wingnuts with CHRISTIAN in their Twitter profile has so much hates for Teh Poors.

They think Christian covers their hateful greedy mean asses.

18 The Artist Formerly Known as Irenicum  Jun 8, 2014 6:12:43pm

Currently listening to the best folk music station in America: WUMB out of Boston. That always helps my mental health.

19 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 6:13:55pm

20 Stanley Sea  Jun 8, 2014 6:14:55pm

New Yorker Bergdahls Family Getting Death Threats

TEABAG WIN

21 Shiplord Kirel  Jun 8, 2014 6:17:23pm

Any ID on the Vegas shooters yet? I’m wanting to find out if they’re the same couple who were plotting to kidnap and torture cops a few years ago.

22 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 6:20:18pm

re: #21 Shiplord Kirel

Any ID on the Vegas shooters yet? I’m wanting to find out if they’re the same couple who were plotting to kidnap and torture cops a few years ago.

Nothing yet.

23 sattv4u2  Jun 8, 2014 6:21:19pm

re: #21 Shiplord Kirel

Any ID on the Vegas shooters yet? I’m wanting to find out if they’re the same couple who were plotting to kidnap and torture cops a few years ago.

“They’re dead, Jim”
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24 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 6:23:02pm

25 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 8, 2014 6:23:47pm

re: #24 Gus

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GrumpyCAT scan?

26 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 6:24:00pm

[Sound of woman screaming.]

27 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 6:24:43pm

re: #25 Feline Fearless Leader

GrumpyCAT scan?

Grumpy is attacking NYC because she hates are freedoms.

28 sattv4u2  Jun 8, 2014 6:25:17pm

re: #26 Gus

[Sound of woman screaming.]

You really have to stop looking in to your neighbors bathroom window!!!

29 Lidane  Jun 8, 2014 6:25:44pm
30 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 6:28:00pm

re: #28 sattv4u2

You really have to stop looking in to your neighbors bathroom window!!!

[Yodeling.]

31 sattv4u2  Jun 8, 2014 6:29:01pm

re: #30 Gus

[Yodeling.]

Well, put your yodel back in your pants and get back to your own house!!

32 thedopefishlives  Jun 8, 2014 6:33:38pm

Evening again, Lizardim.

33 thedopefishlives  Jun 8, 2014 6:37:15pm

Hmm. I arrived, the thread dies. Again. I must not use this power for evil.

34 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 8, 2014 6:43:46pm

I’m here…. just chilling out

RBS

35 sattv4u2  Jun 8, 2014 6:44:15pm

and on that note, the long quiet drive home beckons

36 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 8, 2014 6:45:13pm

Last set. Thistles were blooming in the waste ground along the railway.

37 Dark_Falcon  Jun 8, 2014 6:45:28pm

re: #24 Gus

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Grumpy Cat as a kaiju.

38 Dark_Falcon  Jun 8, 2014 6:48:16pm

Just heard the last passage and immediately thought of the last individually spoken lines of Braveheart:

“You men who bled with Wallace, now bleed with me!”

39 Lidane  Jun 8, 2014 6:48:18pm
40 thedopefishlives  Jun 8, 2014 6:53:33pm

re: #39 Lidane

Is it sad that this would not surprise me in the slightest?

41 Charles Johnson  Jun 8, 2014 6:57:32pm
42 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 8, 2014 7:03:43pm
43 Dark_Falcon  Jun 8, 2014 7:16:43pm

re: #39 Lidane

This was relegated to the side-column, but its actually more important than that headline:

Official: Karachi Airport Attacked By Gunmen

KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — Gunmen disguised as police guards attacked a terminal at Pakistan’s busiest airport Sunday with machine guns and a rocket launcher during a five-hour siege that killed 13 people as explosions echoed into the night, officials said.

A separate suicide bombing in the country’s southwest killed 23 Shiite pilgrims returning from Iran, authorities said.

No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack on the Jinnah International Airport in Karachi, named after the founder of Pakistan, nor the suicide bombing in Baluchistan province. However, the attacks come as government-led peace talks with the local Taliban faction and other militants have floundered in recent weeks.

The airport attack began late Sunday and continued on into the dawn hours of Monday in Karachi, a sprawling port city on Pakistan’s southern coast, although officials said all the passengers had been evacuated. During the course of the attack, heavy gunfire and multiple explosions could be heard coming from the terminal, used for VIP flights and cargo, as militants and security forces battled for control. A major fire rose from the airport, illuminating the night sky in an orange glow as the silhouettes of jets could be seen.

The deadly operation was carried out by 10 militants, said the Chief Minister of Sindh province, Qaim Ali Shah.

“They were well trained. Their plan was very well thought out,” he told reporters. He said they intended to destroy some of the aircraft and buildings but were not able to.

44 Charles Johnson  Jun 8, 2014 7:17:57pm

Retweeted by the Mighty Greenwald, apparently because it’s such a laff riot…

45 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 7:18:07pm

BEES

46 Charles Johnson  Jun 8, 2014 7:18:39pm

re: #42 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That rabbit simply does not care.

47 thedopefishlives  Jun 8, 2014 7:19:22pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

That rabbit simply does not care.

“I’m sorry, Kitteh, but I am all out of fucks to give today. Try again tomorrow.”

48 Killgore Trout  Jun 8, 2014 7:20:37pm

Trojan Horse update: ‘Trojan Horse’: Ofsted to publish reports on Birmingham schools

The inquiry into 21 schools is expected to say six schools will be placed in special measures, and that five of them did not protect pupils from extremism.

The prime minister is asking for snap Ofsted inspections of schools.

A parallel investigation has criticised the trust at the centre of the claims.

The leaked draft report by the Education Funding Agency (EFA), said the Park View Educational Trust ran schools that had “taken the Islamic focus too far”.

It also found girls and boys had been segregated in some classes.

49 BeenHereAwhile  Jun 8, 2014 7:22:05pm

re: #18 The Artist Formerly Known as Irenicum

Currently listening to the best folk music station in America: WUMB out of Boston. That always helps my mental health.

And for Blues and Jazz, WGLT, Illinois State University, Normal IL.

wglt.org

50 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 8, 2014 7:22:17pm

re: #17 Stanley Sea

They think Christian covers their hateful greedy mean asses.

51 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 7:23:10pm

re: #44 Charles Johnson

Retweeted by the Mighty Greenwald, apparently because it’s such a laff riot…

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He’s so weird. Anyway, must RT this now! :D

52 Killgore Trout  Jun 8, 2014 7:23:11pm

Libertarian extremism!

Tesla boss Elon Musk hints at technology giveaway

Tesla boss Elon Musk has given the strongest hint yet that the firm is considering “freeing” its patents to help speed up electric car development.

When asked by the BBC’s Theo Leggett if he was considering giving technology away, Mr Musk said “you’re on the right track”.

Mr Musk said he hoped to break down technological barriers to help speed up electric car adoption.

53 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 7:23:59pm

OK, this is weird. Was using Firefox. Line kept dropping. Finally switched over to Chrome. Line stopped dropping. Coincidence?

54 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 8, 2014 7:24:57pm

I started watching “Philomena.” What a powerful movie.

Spoiler

I got to the part where she finds out that her son, who was taken away from her to be adopted, was raised by rich Republicans & became a big shot in the GHWB admin. But then he died.

55 Amory Blaine  Jun 8, 2014 7:26:21pm

re: #41 Charles Johnson

+1

56 Dark_Falcon  Jun 8, 2014 7:26:38pm

re: #52 Killgore Trout

‘Freeing’ patents is not libertarian and its quite firmly anti-Objectivist, the latter being true because it is an act of altruism (which Ayn Rand despised).

57 Amory Blaine  Jun 8, 2014 7:28:45pm

re: #39 Lidane

What nasty people.

58 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 8, 2014 7:30:04pm

Alright, Janie is blocked & muted. Teh Derp finally got on my last nerve.

59 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 8, 2014 7:30:35pm

But THEYRE IS STILL SO MUCH DERP OUT THEIR!!!!!!

60 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 8, 2014 7:31:00pm

re: #56 Dark_Falcon

‘Freeing’ patents is not libertarian and its quite firmly anti-Objectivist, the latter being true because it is an act of altruism (which Ayn Rand despised).

Not pure altruism as he’s working on the presumption that he’ll sell more cars as well. That being said, it’s still an utterly ebil concept to Libertarians/Objectivists who would argue that you have to extract maximum value from all forms of your capital.

The idea of freeing the patents would fit Adam Smith’s moral & economic theory quite well, however.

61 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Jun 8, 2014 7:31:32pm

re: #13 Decatur Deb

Flute confusion. Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson plays a ‘transverse flute’. To the Italians, the straight ‘recorder’ is a ‘sweet’ flute, a ‘flauto dolce’.

A recorder is also known as a “fipple flute” in English. (A marvelous word, IMHO. Fipple fipple fipple.)

62 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 7:32:03pm

Stunning really how people are not familiar or even able to empathize with our history. From where we came. The wars we fought. The enemies we faced. In these cases it’s primarily the naivete of the Cold War and the reason for spy agencies. What the Soviet Union was really like. How many people that were killed under Stalin and Mao. Then you have the ignorance of what Nazi Germany was like…

63 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 8, 2014 7:34:21pm
64 Killgore Trout  Jun 8, 2014 7:38:37pm

re: #60 William Barnett-Lewis

Not pure altruism as he’s working on the presumption that he’ll sell more cars as well. That being said, it’s still an utterly ebil concept to Libertarians/Objectivists who would argue that you have to extract maximum value from all forms of your capital.

The idea of freeing the patents would fit Adam Smith’s moral & economic theory quite well, however.

That’s my thought too. He’d also like to have all the electric car infrastructure designed to work with his cars. By letting others build with his technology he’s setting the industry standards.

65 jaunte  Jun 8, 2014 7:41:48pm

re: #52 Killgore Trout

If he can work with Ford to develop an electric F-150, I think the country will be sold on electric vehicles.

66 Killgore Trout  Jun 8, 2014 7:44:02pm

re: #65 jaunte

If he can work with Ford to develop an electric F-150, I think the country will be sold on electric vehicles.

It would be great. I live on a residential street but still there’s car and truck noise. Think of how quiet it would be. Silent garbage trucks!

67 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 7:45:30pm
68 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 7:45:39pm

Murica.

69 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 7:47:27pm

“They died for your freedoms!”

“Except for you, you, you, you, you, and, you.”

70 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 8, 2014 7:48:30pm

Night Critters… I’ve had a long busy day, and looks like a long week ahead, so I’m going to go turn on my electrically heated rock and curl up on it till morning.

RBS

71 jaunte  Jun 8, 2014 7:49:47pm
72 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 7:53:05pm
73 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 7:53:38pm

74 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 7:55:26pm
75 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 7:56:55pm
76 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 7:58:05pm
77 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 8:02:46pm

78 Charles Johnson  Jun 8, 2014 8:05:56pm

Crackpots still trying to post over here. That’s the third troll so far.

79 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 8:12:28pm
80 teleskiguy  Jun 8, 2014 8:16:26pm

There is a cosmic reason for all the bad news today.

81 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 8:19:45pm

re: #62 Gus

Stunning really how people are not familiar or even able to empathize with our history. From where we came. The wars we fought. The enemies we faced. In these cases it’s primarily the naivete of the Cold War and the reason for spy agencies. What the Soviet Union was really like. How many people that were killed under Stalin and Mao. Then you have the ignorance of what Nazi Germany was like…

82 teleskiguy  Jun 8, 2014 8:30:17pm
83 jaunte  Jun 8, 2014 8:33:56pm

509th Bomb Wing B2s arrive at RAF Fairford

84 jaunte  Jun 8, 2014 8:37:19pm

85 teleskiguy  Jun 8, 2014 8:37:31pm
86 Lidane  Jun 8, 2014 8:40:30pm

Just finished the finale for Cosmos. Absolutely fantastic ending. Loved it. They basically used it as a call to arms for more scientific curiosity and discovery because, as Sagan famously put it, we live on a tiny pale blue dot in the universe.

87 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 8, 2014 8:48:12pm

Evening lizards!

Friday was both my daughters 12th birthday so we took them and one of their friends to the U.S. Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, AL. As I told you one of my daughters changed her dream of being a teacher and now wants to be an engineer. (She’s also a huge Homer Hickam fan) When we walked into the rocket center she suddenly got excited and said “Look, it’s Wernher von Braun!” and pointed to a bust of him right by the desk where we were buying tickets. Who else knows of any 12 year old who knows who Wernher von Braun is?

I didn’t know what to expect when bringing three 12 year old girls to a NASA museum instead of 6 Flags. It was great. They liked looking at the rockets, riding the G Force ride (they did that 6 times), they really enjoyed the IMAX movie about the Hubble. My one daughter said to me “Wouldn’t it be cool if Homer was here today?” Later she found out he actually lives there in Huntsville.

We went to the Nashville Zoo yesterday but they didn’t show nearly the excitement they did in Huntsville at the rocket center. Next year she wants to go to Space Camp and I think her friend wants to go too.

88 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 8:48:30pm
89 Romantic Heretic  Jun 8, 2014 8:49:52pm

re: #86 Lidane

That commie Tyson lies! The world was created by God. (Not the Muslim God either, the Christian one) The Earth is the centre of the universe and everything orbits around it. America is the centre of the Earth and everything orbits around that.

It says so in The Bible.

Therefore the Earth will last as long as God is pleased with America.

Which won’t be much longer if people like Obama and Tyson continue to spread Satan’s word.

90 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 8:51:20pm
91 Lidane  Jun 8, 2014 8:55:01pm
92 jaunte  Jun 8, 2014 8:55:17pm
Oliver told police that he and a friend were walking back to their car when they were surrounded by several men. He said he feared he was going to get punched, so he pulled out his gun and fired twice at two men, who then stopped coming at him.

Hollis was standing about 50 yards from the gunman when the bullet struck her in the head.
thedenverchannel.com

93 teleskiguy  Jun 8, 2014 8:56:11pm

re: #89 Romantic Heretic

That commie Tyson lies! The world was created by God. (Not the Muslim God either, the Christian one) The Earth is the centre of the universe and everything orbits around it. America is the centre of the Earth and everything orbits around that.

It says so in The Bible.

Therefore the Earth will last as long as God is pleased with America.

Which won’t be much longer if people like Obama and Tyson continue to spread Satan’s word.

I’ve commented a number of times here at LGF and elsewhere the one thing that truly scares me about life in this country, and that’s the militant rabid atavistic anti-science vibe I get from millions of my fellow countrymen. That scares me pretty much more than anything at this point.

94 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 8:56:23pm
95 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 8:59:27pm
96 teleskiguy  Jun 8, 2014 9:03:25pm
97 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 9:04:51pm

Tired of this shit.

98 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 8, 2014 9:04:51pm

I’m getting tired of seeing stories about police being shot at. My uncles were cops and back then there was some respect given to the police force. Now it seems like open season.

These two cops are lucky to be alive after getting shot on Friday…

Two Chicago Police Officers Shot After Traffic Stop

99 teleskiguy  Jun 8, 2014 9:09:30pm

re: #98 NJDhockeyfan

I’m getting tired of seeing stories about police being shot at. My uncles were cops and back then there was some respect given to the police force. Now it seems like open season.

These two cops are lucky to be alive after getting shot on Friday…

Two Chicago Police Officers Shot After Traffic Stop

I know, right? Something eerie about all this. Maybe I’m reading in to it too much on account of mass media and such, but still.

Last month a guy wounded a young Colorado State Patrol officer on the side of the highway just a few miles from my house.

Colorado trooper shot on I-70; suspect dead

100 Lidane  Jun 8, 2014 9:11:38pm
101 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 9:12:00pm
102 teleskiguy  Jun 8, 2014 9:14:05pm

How about some music?

Youtube Video

103 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 8, 2014 9:16:42pm

re: #99 teleskiguy

I know, right? Something eerie about all this. Maybe I’m reading in to it too much on account of mass media and such, but still.

Last month a guy wounded a young Colorado State Patrol officer on the side of the highway just a few miles from my house.

Colorado trooper shot on I-70; suspect dead

This hit close to home. My wife went to school with this guy and his mom lives right down the road from our old house.

Feds charge gang members with Quick murder

CHARLOTTESVILLE The kidnapping and homicide of reserve Waynesboro police officer Kevin W. Quick was part of a months-long crime spree committed by a local organization of a national street gang, according to a federal indictment unsealed Friday.

The indictments charge four members of the gang with killing Quick after he left his mother’s home in Afton on Jan. 31. The four held him against his will as they drove to various banks to withdraw money from his accounts, the indictment alleges.

They then shot him to death to keep their crime concealed and left his body in a wooded area of Goochland County near the border with Louisa County, the indictment states.

104 Killgore Trout  Jun 8, 2014 9:16:50pm

re: #98 NJDhockeyfan

I’m getting tired of seeing stories about police being shot at. My uncles were cops and back then there was some respect given to the police force. Now it seems like open season.

These two cops are lucky to be alive after getting shot on Friday…

Two Chicago Police Officers Shot After Traffic Stop

It was a bad weekend in Chicago. Earlier this afternoon there were about 30 shooting victims. Maybe 40 by tomorrow morning

105 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 9:17:02pm
106 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 8, 2014 9:18:48pm

re: #104 Killgore Trout

It was a bad weekend in Chicago. Earlier this afternoon there were about 30 shooting victims. Maybe 40 by tomorrow morning

Jesus Christ, that many? It’s getting worse every day out there.

107 teleskiguy  Jun 8, 2014 9:19:46pm

re: #103 NJDhockeyfan

There’s some evil fucks out there.

108 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 8, 2014 9:21:46pm

re: #104 Killgore Trout

It was a bad weekend in Chicago. Earlier this afternoon there were about 30 shooting victims. Maybe 40 by tomorrow morning

I had the police scanner on and just switched it to Chicago. There is a shooting right now.

109 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 9:23:06pm
110 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 9:24:43pm
111 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 9:25:10pm

The shooters then stripped the officers of their weapons and ammunition and badges, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation. They then covered the officers with something that featured the Gadsden flag, a yellow banner with a coiled snake above the words, “Don’t tread on Me.”

112 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 9:25:15pm

WTF

113 teleskiguy  Jun 8, 2014 9:26:09pm

re: #109 Gus

OK, this made me laugh. Gave me a nice genuine guffaw. ‘Cause it’s so true.

114 teleskiguy  Jun 8, 2014 9:27:02pm

re: #111 Gus

The shooters then stripped the officers of their weapons and ammunition and badges, according to a law enforcement official with knowledge of the investigation. They then covered the officers with something that featured the Gadsden flag, a yellow banner with a coiled snake above the words, “Don’t tread on Me.”

No fucking way. I hope this shit doesn’t embolden the nutters out there, hard to tell these days.

115 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 9:27:31pm

Just in.

116 simoom  Jun 8, 2014 9:28:00pm

This got me curious:

It’s apparently referencing James Rosen on O’Reilly from a couple day’s back:

Youtube Video

O’Reilly: “How would you define sergeant Bergdahl?”

Rosen: “Probably, in some respects, as a kind of modern day Lee Harvey Oswald. A confused figure. A kind of inept figure by many accounts, but I stand by my reporting. …”

…

Rosen: “… There’s a lot still to be discovered, and presumably, at some point, there will be a full, proper Article 32 investigation.”

O’Reilly: “OK, but you’re presuming that in an administration, that if it turns out that he’s a real bad guy it’s really going to be curtains for President Obama. … Right now the President’s whole legacy is riding on this story. That’s how important it is. His whole administration is riding on it. If it turns out that this guy collaborator, Rosen, you know what’s going to happen. His administration is done. That’s how big this story is.”

I snipped out Rosen rehashing his “Dewey” Clarridge story.

117 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 9:28:34pm

The shooters were a married couple thought to be in their late 20s who were new to the Las Vegas Valley, according to a law enforcement official close to the investigation. Police are looking into their links to the white supremacy movement and found swastika symbols during their initial investigation.

118 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 9:29:11pm

Details are sketchy but Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department sources close to the investigation say the shooters shouted that “this is the start of a revolution” before opening fire on the officers, and draped their bodies with cloth showing a Revolutionary War-era flag. Investigators have also found paraphernalia associated with white supremacists.

119 teleskiguy  Jun 8, 2014 9:31:32pm
120 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 9:32:47pm
121 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 8, 2014 9:34:22pm

Update in Karachi…

Fresh gunfire at Karachi airport, security operation resumes

KARACHI: Pakistan’s security forces said Monday they have relaunched a military operation at Karachi airport as gunfire resumed several hours after they announced the end of a militant siege that left 24 dead. “We have relaunched the operation and called in additional troops,” said Sibtain Rizvi, spokesman for the Rangers paramilitary force, adding that one police officer had been injured in the firing.

An AFP reporter at the scene said gunshots could be heard inside the airport and that rangers and elite commandos were rushing inside.
The initial assault at the Jinnah International Airport began late Sunday and raged until dawn, when the military said that all 10 militants had been killed.

Equipped with suicide vests, grenades and rocket launchers, they had battled security forces in one of the most brazen attacks in years in Pakistan’s biggest city.

Among the 14 victims were security personnel and four airport workers.

122 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 9:38:47pm
123 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 9:40:16pm
124 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 9:40:43pm
125 goddamnedfrank  Jun 8, 2014 9:43:11pm

It’s telling how Republicans often accuse people who disagree with them on tax and minimum wage policy with being poor and working minimum wage jobs. It offers another layer of confirmation that conservatives can’t really conceive of any motive not rooted in abject selfism, and fundamentally lack empathy. Also, it betrays an intrinsic classism to think calling someone poor is an insult.

126 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 9:49:16pm

Still right wing. Congrats RWNJs.

127 teleskiguy  Jun 8, 2014 9:49:37pm

re: #125 goddamnedfrank

It offers another layer of confirmation that conservatives can’t really conceive of any motive not rooted in abject selfism, and fundamentally lack empathy.

This is instructive.

128 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 9:56:08pm
129 teleskiguy  Jun 8, 2014 9:56:22pm

Fanatics by Minutemen ( 1981 )

Youtube Video

130 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 9:56:31pm

Las Vegas attack was right-wing terrorism.

131 Lidane  Jun 8, 2014 10:02:58pm

re: #130 Gus

Las Vegas attack was right-wing terrorism.

FALSE FLAG! LONE WOLVES! ELEVENTY!

132 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 10:04:27pm

Holy shit. Terrorists.

133 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 8, 2014 10:08:43pm

re: #132 Gus

Holy shit. Terrorists.

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Police searching downtown apartment possibly connected to cop killers

Las Vegas, NV (KTNV) — Las Vegas police are currently serving a search warrant at an apartment on Bruce Street near Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas.

Other media outlets are reporting that the search could be related to this morning’s shooting of two police officers in the eastern part of the valley.

A woman who lives near the apartment that is being searched told Action News that the apartment was occupied by the couple who is accused of shooting two Las Vegas police officers on Sunday morning.

According to the neighbor, the couple would often talk about killing police officers and were very anti-government.

The neighbor also told Action News that the man would often dress up as the “Joker” and “Slender Man” and the woman would dress up as “Harley Quinn.”

The “Joker” is a comic book super villain who was portrayed as a criminal mastermind. He was the arch enemy of Batman. James Holmes, the man who shot and killed 12 people at a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, dressed up as the Joker during the mass murder.

“Slender Man” has most recently been associated with the stabbing of a 12-year-old girl by her 12-year-old friends. The girls allegedly stabbed the girl because they wanted to meet the fictional character made popular by the website creepypasta.com.

“Harley Quinn” is also a fictional character in the “Batman” comic book series. She is the girlfriend of the “Joker.”

Several apartments have been evacuated and Bruce Street is currently closed from Charleston to Fremont.

134 Ryan King  Jun 8, 2014 10:13:58pm

Gadsden Flag. Check.

135 Lidane  Jun 8, 2014 10:19:14pm

Checked over at Freeper land. There is one thread on the front page about the Las Vegas shooters quoting the article linked by Gus in #110. Five comments and they’re all waving the FALSE FLAG OP card because it sounds “too convenient” and someone in the story is named Koch.

Idiots. Total fucking idiots.

136 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 10:21:10pm

re: #135 Lidane

Checked over at Freeper land. There is one thread on the front page about the Las Vegas shooters quoting the article linked by Gus in #110. Five comments and they’re all waving the FALSE FLAG OP card because it sounds “too convenient” and someone in the story is named Koch.

Idiots. Total fucking idiots.

Right. False flag. Nope. This is right wing terrorism. Classic RW terrorism.

137 Ryan King  Jun 8, 2014 10:23:28pm

Awaiting the tsunami of denial and flipping this to somehow blame the media for attacking conservatism.

138 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 10:27:17pm

139 Lidane  Jun 8, 2014 10:30:04pm

re: #137 Ryan King

Awaiting the tsunami of denial and flipping this to somehow blame the media for attacking conservatism.

Chicago violence! No true Tea Party member! False flag op! Too convenient! Librulz with gunz!

140 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 10:30:43pm

141 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 10:31:09pm

Always on the ball.

142 Lidane  Jun 8, 2014 10:35:54pm

Man, the nuts are ginned up about Cosmos. I tweeted something positive about the finale and got some herpty derp in response. Blocked and muted.

143 Single-handed sailor  Jun 8, 2014 10:42:33pm

Las Vegas Review-Journal

The man told Monroe he had been kicked off Cliven Bundy’s ranch 80 miles northeast of Las Vegas while people from throughout the U.S. gathered there in protest of a Bureau of Land Management roundup of Bundy’s cattle.

Hmmmm.

144 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 10:46:51pm

re: #143 Single-handed sailor

Las Vegas Review-Journal

Hmmmm.

Oh shit. More proof.

145 freetoken  Jun 8, 2014 10:52:58pm

re: #142 Lidane

Man, the nuts are ginned up about Cosmos. I tweeted something positive about the finale and got some herpty derp in response. Blocked and muted.

mediamatters.org

146 Gus  Jun 8, 2014 10:59:03pm
147 sauceruney  Jun 8, 2014 11:12:03pm

re: #144 Gus

The comments at that article are telling. The right is in complete denial.

148 Ding-an-sich Wannabe  Jun 8, 2014 11:26:34pm

The same people who have been spitting on Bergdahl before he could even make his case were raving mad about the DHS report that correctly predicted that some veterans may flock to rightwing extremism, which presents danger because of their combat skills.

The same report stated:

that while DHS “has no specific information that domestic rightwing terrorists are currently planning acts of violence…rightwing extremists may be gaining new recruits by playing on their fears about several emergent issues.”
[…]
The “emergent issues,” the DHS report states, include both “the election of the first African American president” and “a prolonged economic downturn—including real estate foreclosures, unemployment, and an inability to obtain credit,” which DHS says “present unique drivers for rightwing radicalization and recruitment.”
“A recent example of the potential violence associated with a rise in rightwing extremism may be found in the shooting deaths of three police officers in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on 4 April 2009,” the report states. “The alleged gunman’s reaction reportedly was influenced by his racist ideology and belief in antigovernment conspiracy theories related to gun confiscations, citizen detention camps, and a Jewish-controlled ‘one world government.’”

I wonder if all the scum that agitated against the report should be thought of as willing accomplices…

149 gwangung  Jun 8, 2014 11:29:48pm

re: #125 goddamnedfrank

It’s telling how Republicans often accuse people who disagree with them on tax and minimum wage policy with being poor and working minimum wage jobs. It offers another layer of confirmation that conservatives can’t really conceive of any motive not rooted in abject selfism, and fundamentally lack empathy. Also, it betrays an intrinsic classism to think calling someone poor is an insult.

If you think about it, this sort of attack on the poor is profoundly anti capitalistic.

Remember, only one out of every five new business survives after five years. Why? Not because the owners have a bad idea, or they didn’t work. The number one reason why businesses fail is…under capitalization and lack of investment.

More businesses would prosper if they had the needed capital and investment. More individuals would prosper and succeed if they had the needed capital and investment.

150 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 8, 2014 11:46:50pm
151 freetoken  Jun 9, 2014 1:00:42am

One of my favorite Peanuts tunes - “愛 の かけはし”:

MP3 Audio

152 Romantic Heretic  Jun 9, 2014 1:56:17am

re: #106 NJDhockeyfan

Jesus Christ, that many? It’s getting worse every day out there.

Despair will do that to people.

153 EdDantes  Jun 9, 2014 2:23:15am

re: #152 Romantic Here

Go placidly amid the noise and waste
And remember what comfort there may be in owning a piece thereof
Avoid quiet and passive persons, unless you are in need of sleep
Rotate your tires
Speak glowingly of those greater than yourself
And heed well their advice, even though they be turkeys
Know what to kiss, and when
Consider that two wrongs never make a right, but that three do
Wherever possible, put people on hold
Be comforted that in the face of all aridity and disillusionment
And despite the changing fortunes of time
There is always a big future in computer maintenance

You are a fluke of the universe
You have no right to be here
And whether you can hear it or not
The universe is laughing behind your back

Remember The Pueblo
Strive at all times to bend, fold, spindle, and mutilate
Know yourself
If you need help, call the FBI
Exercise caution in your daily affairs
Especially with those persons closest to you -
That lemon on your left, for instance
Be assured that a walk through the ocean of most souls
Would scarcely get your feet wet
Fall not in love therefore. It will stick to your face
Gracefully surrender the things of youth: birds, clean air, tuna, Taiwan
And let not the sands of time get in your lunch
Hire people with hooks
For a good time, call 606-4311. Ask for Ken
Take heart in the bedeepening gloom
That your dog is finally getting enough cheese
And reflect that whatever fortune may be your lot
It could only be worse in Milwaukee

You are a fluke of the universe
You have no right to be here
And whether you can hear it or not
The universe is laughing behind your back

Therefore, make peace with your god
Whatever you perceive him to be - hairy thunderer, or cosmic muffin
With all its hopes, dreams, promises, and urban renewal
The world continues to deteriorate
Give up!

154 EdDantes  Jun 9, 2014 2:29:57am

re: #153 EdDantes

Charles! Up this early/late?

155 Dr Lizardo  Jun 9, 2014 2:33:53am

re: #147 sauceruney

The comments at that article are telling. The right is in complete denial.

Yeah, whenever a rampage killer turns out to be a RW’er, the right goes into automatic denial mode.

156 Lidane  Jun 9, 2014 2:45:01am

re: #155 Dr Lizardo

Yeah, whenever a rampage killer turns out to be a RW’er, the right goes into automatic denial mode.

Or they change the subject. Chicago’s murder rate is a popular diversion these days.

157 freetoken  Jun 9, 2014 2:46:51am

Speaking of diversions, I think I’ve lost interest in Continuum, the Canadian sci-fi show that started out strong but now seems totally lost in an infinite regression of plot twists and badly stereotyped dialogue.

158 Lidane  Jun 9, 2014 2:49:57am

re: #157 freetoken

Speaking of diversions, I think I’ve lost interest in Continuum, the Canadian sci-fi show that started out strong but now seems totally lost in an infinite regression of plot twists and badly stereotyped dialogue.

I tried watching that show since the boyfriend seems to watch anything and everything on SyFy and I hated it. The only show that irritates me more is Lost Girl. God, that show is awful.

159 CuriousLurker  Jun 9, 2014 2:52:00am

re: #156 Lidane

Well, POTUS is from there and lots of Latinos & blah people live there. Everyone knows how they are. //

160 Dr Lizardo  Jun 9, 2014 3:00:30am

re: #156 Lidane

Or they change the subject. Chicago’s murder rate is a popular diversion these days.

Yep. Obviously, it makes them deeply uncomfortable. I know quite a few Muslims that do similar mental gymnastics whenever some loon blows himself up or perpetrates some other manner of atrocity.

Yes, it’s extraordinarily disconcerting to say the least, but trying to dismiss extremism isn’t going to make the problem go away.


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