Dave Brat’s Batshit Wingnut Twitter Feed

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This guy just defeated Eric Cantor. Here we see the Bad Crazy.

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1 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Jun 10, 2014 6:58:30pm
“dreamers” break into homes and steal. They also rob banks. What’s the difference? None, they didn’t earn it.

That’s some fine unhinged racism you’ve got there, Dave.

2 Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 10, 2014 7:00:13pm

I’d love to make it a law that there must be at LEAST one debate in any House or Senate campaign.

3 Charles Johnson  Jun 10, 2014 7:00:18pm
4 b.d.  Jun 10, 2014 7:01:58pm

*shudder*

Steve Stockman is leaving Congress, this guy can take his seat.

5 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 7:02:22pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

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Well she’s kind of right. Smart GOP challengers know to wear their bigotry on their sleeves as a badge of honor because the base eats that shit for breakfast. And fuck Dave Brat very much for his attack on DREAMers.

6 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 10, 2014 7:02:51pm

If you drill down into the timelines of these Tweets THEIR IS MOAR BAD CRAZY.

7 Roshianihon  Jun 10, 2014 7:03:29pm

So, Politico just posted an article which talked about Brat was rated as a “hot” professor. I click on the link, assuming that it’s about his fiery rhetoric during his time at university, right?

No, it’s literally about the fact that his students find him sexy. Really. Smh.

That, and apparently he is a good professor. Well, I guess that’s perfectly believable. My favorite professor at university who I still keep in touch with studied in the Soviet Union and was a full-fledged Communist. If my guy can have crazy political beliefs, then I guess Brat can do. Of course, being a representative is another matter entirely.

8 Gus  Jun 10, 2014 7:03:42pm
9 Gus  Jun 10, 2014 7:03:57pm
10 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 10, 2014 7:04:13pm
11 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Jun 10, 2014 7:04:44pm

re: #7 Roshianihon

I adore many of my professors but god I don’t want them near levers of power, thankfully, they don’t want to be near them neither.

12 Gus  Jun 10, 2014 7:04:51pm
13 b.d.  Jun 10, 2014 7:05:06pm

re: #7 Roshianihon

So, Politico just posted an article which talked about Brat was rated as a “hot” professor. I click on the link, assuming that it’s about his fiery rhetoric during his time at university, right?

No, it’s literally about the fact that his students find him sexy. Really. Smh.

That, and apparently he is a good professor. Well, I guess that’s perfectly believable. My favorite professor at university who I still keep in touch with studied in the Soviet Union and was a full-fledged Communist. If my guy can have crazy political beliefs, then I guess Brat can do. Of course, being a representative is another matter entirely.

Dick Armey was an economics professor before becoming a congressman too.

14 Gus  Jun 10, 2014 7:05:27pm
15 Charles Johnson  Jun 10, 2014 7:05:37pm

I have a really bad feeling about this.

16 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 7:05:54pm

re: #14 Gus

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Gee, Dave, I’ve never heard that before.

17 Blue Fielder  Jun 10, 2014 7:06:22pm

re: #9 Gus

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A has-been endorses a never-was. Oh frabjous day.

18 thedopefishlives  Jun 10, 2014 7:06:31pm

Things are only going to get more derptacular from here, as the Republicans suddenly start seeing magical “internal polls” that show derping harder will result in better electability. And perhaps some of them will win their primaries. When they get to the general election, though, I will be very interested to see the (lack of) results.

19 jaunte  Jun 10, 2014 7:06:59pm

re: #12 Gus

Unlike Eric Cantor, I fully oppose amnesty for illegal immigrants.

So we’re going to magically, without costing anything and causing deficit to rise, round them all up and deport them.

20 lawhawk  Jun 10, 2014 7:07:11pm

Well, we wont be short on insane comments, a bat-crap crazy twitter feed now that Stockman is leaving Congress. We’ll still have Gohmert, and what looks like a real promising Brat, who will push the crazy to 11ty with so much abandon that he’ll make heads spin, even among TP crazies.

21 Gus  Jun 10, 2014 7:07:12pm

22 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 10, 2014 7:07:29pm

WHO CAN HEAR THE DOG WHISTLES?

23 b.d.  Jun 10, 2014 7:07:44pm

Tonight Chuck Todd looks like a man who spent years sucking an ass that he thought would his key to inside info for years to come.

24 Gus  Jun 10, 2014 7:07:54pm
25 thedopefishlives  Jun 10, 2014 7:08:52pm

re: #24 Gus

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Notice that the Teahaddists are never for anything; they are always against everything. Anti-amnesty, anti-abortion, anti-Obama. The only thing they stand for is DERP!!!1!11ONE

26 lawhawk  Jun 10, 2014 7:09:16pm

Fargo, never change…

27 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 10, 2014 7:09:55pm
28 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 7:10:03pm

re: #26 lawhawk

Fargo, never change…

Don’t spoil, don’t spoil.

29 Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 10, 2014 7:10:08pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

I have a really bad feeling about this.

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering

30 Gus  Jun 10, 2014 7:10:25pm

Background

Brat attended Hope College and received a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration. He also has a Masters in Divinity from Princeton Theological Seminary, and a Doctorate of Philosophy in economics from The American University.

After working for Arthur Andersen and as a consultant for the World Bank, he became a professor at Randolph Macon College in 1996.

Brat’s is currently working on a book titled “Ethics as Leading Economic Indicator? What went Wrong? Notes on the Judeo-Christian Tradition and Human Reason.” His published works include “God and Advanced Mammon - Can Theological Types Handle Usury and Capitalism?” and “An Analysis of the Moral Foundations in Ayn Rand.”

en.wikipedia.org

31 Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 10, 2014 7:10:33pm

re: #25 thedopefishlives

Notice that the Teahaddists are never for anything; they are always against everything. Anti-amnesty, anti-abortion, anti-Obama. The only thing they stand for is DERP!!!1!11ONE

They’re just following the taking points like good little parrots.

32 Dark_Falcon  Jun 10, 2014 7:11:41pm

re: #29 Eclectic Cyborg

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering

I actually disagree with Yoda a bit there: For politicians and political parties, anger is at times needed and useful, provided it is properly controlled and directed.

33 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 10, 2014 7:12:08pm
34 Justanotherhuman  Jun 10, 2014 7:12:17pm

re: #22 Pie-onist Overlord

WHO CAN HEAR THE DOG WHISTLES?

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Haha, it’s an “Elders of Zion” plot, doncha know.

Plant that one little “connection” and he’s done his job. Good grief.

35 kirkspencer  Jun 10, 2014 7:12:21pm

So if I’m reading this right, the GOP is about to make Hispanic voters as reliably Democratic as African-American voters.

Of course, I also think they truly believe they can keep anyone with too much melanin out of the voting booth.

36 EPR-radar  Jun 10, 2014 7:12:38pm

re: #32 Dark_Falcon

I actually disagree with Yoda a bit there: For politicians and political parties, anger is at times needed and useful, provided it is properly controlled and directed.

Can we at least get an admission that the GOP is massively over-doing with respect to the outrage?

37 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 10, 2014 7:12:59pm

Got home early tonight. Had a nutbar Teahadi (Taliban beard included) nearly dancing in the halls about Cantor losing. Full blown states rights with a seriously distorted view of history (Washington was a Whig! Lincoln was not just forcing the Independent Nations to stay in the Union, he was creating the Unions that would hurt industry!) and the constitution. I extracted myself from the profoundly weird conversation as soon as I could.

But I did wish I could have been wearing my Liberal Gun Club blaze orange hunting hat while debating the constitution with him ;)

38 Gus  Jun 10, 2014 7:13:31pm
39 aagcobb  Jun 10, 2014 7:14:10pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

I have a really bad feeling about this.

I can’t feel bad because Cantor brought this on himself. Plus this is a process which has to be played out. The GOP had to complete the process of imploding into a Black Hole of hate before sanity can be restored to American politics.

40 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 10, 2014 7:15:07pm
41 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 10, 2014 7:15:45pm
42 nines09  Jun 10, 2014 7:16:04pm

Brats got a plan. BURN THE WITCHES!!!!! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAA!!!!!

43 bratwurst  Jun 10, 2014 7:16:25pm
44 kirkspencer  Jun 10, 2014 7:16:44pm

re: #40 Pie-onist Overlord

And still the law is equally balanced, that neither the rich nor the poor shall be allowed to sleep beneath bridges.

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45 calochortus  Jun 10, 2014 7:16:45pm

re: #41 Pie-onist Overlord

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That would be short. There aren’t any moral foundations.

46 Blue Fielder  Jun 10, 2014 7:17:28pm
47 Justanotherhuman  Jun 10, 2014 7:18:11pm

re: #41 Pie-onist Overlord

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What’s so moral about being a selfish racist anti-Semite?

48 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 10, 2014 7:18:33pm

Ben you stupid fucking tool. Your turn will come.

49 Ian G.  Jun 10, 2014 7:20:05pm

re: #30 Gus

Brat’s is currently working on a book titled “Ethics as Leading Economic Indicator? What went Wrong? Notes on the Judeo-Christian Tradition and Human Reason.” His published works include “God and Advanced Mammon - Can Theological Types Handle Usury and Capitalism?” and “An Analysis of the Moral Foundations in Ayn Rand.”

en.wikipedia.org

This is the kind of pseudo-academic gibberish that is usually mocked by the right when it comes out of the sociology department at Berkeley, but I guess it’s OK this time since he’s a batshit winger.

And that term “Judeo-Christian” again…..Martin Luther would laugh out loud at anyone using such a term with a straight face. And then he’d accuse the Jews of drinking blood and would urge the rabble to burn the Jewish ghetto.

50 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 7:20:20pm

re: #43 bratwurst

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Oh what a wit!

51 Ian G.  Jun 10, 2014 7:21:27pm

re: #33 Pie-onist Overlord

He could have just tweeted, “look at these two conspiratorial Jews undermining America!”. That’s the message I got from that tweet, at least.

52 darthstar  Jun 10, 2014 7:22:06pm
53 Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2014 7:22:20pm

re: #48 Pie-onist Overlord

Ben you stupid fucking tool. Your turn will come.

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Yes Ben, the party will come together over its mutual hatred of non-whites. Just as it has time after time after time…

54 Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2014 7:23:11pm

re: #52 darthstar

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“So Eric, I gotta ask, what’s it like to know that you just spent years undermining your boss only for him to keep his job and you to lose yours?”

55 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 7:24:40pm

re: #52 darthstar

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“Eric, you’re in for a nasty surprise when you find out on Tuesday that you’re only slightly more popular with the nuts that nominate your party’s candidates than I am.”

56 Gus  Jun 10, 2014 7:24:40pm

God and Advanced Mammon-Can Theological Types Handle Usury and Capitalism?
Academic journal article By Brat, David

Article excerpt

This essay looks at the economic and theological intersections of definitions of usury in the economic system of capitalism. It challenges seminarians and the church to examine their roles in addressing the problem of usury.

The concept of usury is charged and loaded with many potential interpretations. As a seminary graduate and as a practicing economist, I find the concept so loaded with possible interpretations and misinterpretations that it is difficult to begin a project with so wide a scope. I have my own view on usury. It roughly follows both orthodox positions in theology and economics, and that alone may be of interest to some. How can that be? I consider myself to be a faidy orthodox Calvinist (in theory, not practice) and I am also a fan of Adam Smith and the market system he so eloquendy elaborated over 200 years ago.’ I am a political conservative, but reader, do not lose faith immediately if you consider yourself more progressive or enlightened. In Kantian fashion, I intend to relay the basics of faith and economic doctrine within the bounds of reason alone, at least with respect to usury. Now, while I realize that even reason itself is out of fashion in many philosophy departments across the nation, I have to believe that most of my seminary colleagues, pastors, and students have not fallen so far astray. I assume that we are not post-human. I am assuming that reason is with us, and that we share quite a common moral language when all is said and done. With those preliminary remarks as guideposts, let us get to usury.

The definition of usury has varied and changed drastically over time and across regions. An entire essay could be spent on these distinctions, and many of these distinctions are covered by other authors in this issue of Interpretation. Even in the biblical texts, crucial distinctions are made between those in the fold (brothers and sisters) and outsiders. In addition, usury can be simply charging interest, or it can be charging too high an interest, or it can be even broader in scope. I do not drink these are the distinctions that ultimately matter at present Most business people and citizens do not know the term “usury.” So why is the religious community continually fascinated by such a topic? The answer, I think, is that it ultimatdy involves muth larger questions, assumptions, and perhaps allegiances. The answer to usury is likely a good proxy for the answer to where one stands on capitalism. And there, my friends, we have a good story, because that is the story of our day. Capitalism is the major organizing force in modern life, whether we like it or not It is here to stay. If the sodologists ever grasp this basic fact, their enterprise will be much more fruitfuL We set alarm dodcs to follow the schedule of the market Children leave their families to follow the job market We often weigh our social worth by looking to market wages, salaries, and consumption patterns. We spend much more time on market activity than God activity. Thus, Calvinism.

I will make one more preliminary remark so as to try to keep my readers’ attention for the remainder of this piece. How about ttiis claim? Capitalist markets and their expansion in China and India have provided more for the common good, more “social welfare,” than any other policy in the past ten years. In fact, you can add up all of the welfare gains from public policy in the United States and abroad, and they will not approach the level of human gains just described. Incomes in China and India have risen from $500 a year per person to over $5,000 a year per person over the past twenty years or so. This is due to market capitalism. Over two billion people now have food to eat and some rrvinimal goods to go along. So, as a seminary student concerned with human welfare, I naturally wanted to learn about these free markets. In the aggregate, free markets work. But when it comes to particular issues like usury, a lot of theological types want to revert to systems of planning and control. …

57 Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2014 7:26:24pm

A tour of Eric Cantor’s greatest hits wouldn’t be complete without recalling how he torpedoed a major budget deal in 2011, thus putting on track to the sequester and eventually the rise of jackasses like Cruz, by whining that it didn’t “cut enough” to suit TPer tastes.

58 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 10, 2014 7:27:04pm

re: #51 Ian G.

He could have just tweeted, “look at these two conspiratorial Jews undermining America!”. That’s the message I got from that tweet, at least.

Yup.

59 Ian G.  Jun 10, 2014 7:27:16pm

re: #33 Pie-onist Overlord

Actually, there are multiple other levels on which this tweet makes my brain hurt.

So, Mr. free market fetishist, are you suggesting that Mark Zuckerberg hire a bunch of dumbshit unemployed creationists to do programming for Facebook when the free market dictates that highly skilled immigrant engineers get the job? What would Ayn Rand (PBUH) say to that?

60 Kragar  Jun 10, 2014 7:29:11pm
61 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 10, 2014 7:29:24pm
62 Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2014 7:31:04pm

So tell us Eric, all that work you and the rest of the shysters put into gerrymandering the fuck out of the electoral map to ensure plenty of “safe” districts, was it worth it? Did you think at the time that the Faustian deal you’d struck to make it happen would one day come back to haunt you?

63 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 10, 2014 7:31:27pm

re: #59 Ian G.

Actually, there are multiple other levels on which this tweet makes my brain hurt.

So, Mr. free market fetishist, are you suggesting that Mark Zuckerberg hire a bunch of dumbshit unemployed creationists to do programming for Facebook when the free market dictates that highly skilled immigrant engineers get the job? What would Ayn Rand (PBUH) say to that?

Hiring H1B skilled engineers was never about a shortage of Americans who could do the job, it was about paying them less.

I lived through the outsourcing craze of the ‘00’s. It sucked.

64 CuriousLurker  Jun 10, 2014 7:31:37pm

re: #30 Gus

Notes on the Judeo-Christian Tradition and Human Reason.

These days when I hear wingnuts say “Judeo-Christian” it reminds me of when racists say “I have black friends”, as if it’s a little amulet they wear around their necks to ward off charges of bigotry.

Speaking of black friends, here’s Herman Cain (and an incumbent Nevada congressman) pallin’ around with the Vegas Oathkeepers the back in 2012, just in case it ever comes up.

65 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 10, 2014 7:32:29pm
66 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 10, 2014 7:34:03pm

re: #64 CuriousLurker

These days when I hear wingnuts say “Judeo-Christian” it reminds me of when racists say “I have black friends”, as if it’s a little amulet they wear around their necks to ward off charges of bigotry.

Speaking of black friends, here’s Herman Cain (and an incumbent Nevada congressman) pallin’ around with the Vegas Oathkeepers the back in 2012, just in case it ever comes up.

“Judeo-Christian” is a mythical beast, like the Unicorn & Sasquatch.

Jews have more in common with Muslims than with Christians.

67 thedopefishlives  Jun 10, 2014 7:35:23pm

re: #65 Pie-onist Overlord

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I’m going to disagree with that. I’m not convinced that Teahaddists are entirely for old and stupid white people. I think the young and stupid are called by the siren song of the derp; it’s “edgy” and “cool” to be anti-Obama.

68 Justanotherhuman  Jun 10, 2014 7:35:32pm

You’ll never have lunch in this town again.

House Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s appearance at National Association of Manufacturers breakfast cancelled after primary loss - via @NBCNews
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69 The Ghost of a Flea  Jun 10, 2014 7:36:47pm

re: #56 Gus

God and Advanced Mammon-Can Theological Types Handle Usury and Capitalism?
Academic journal article By Brat, David

Slightly more academic take on prosperity gospel.

Jesus says “give away your possessions, care about other people” and “usury sucks”—but if you have the secret decoder ring, the Christian God’s actually okay with it.

Economically elect equals spiritually elect equals morally just. That’s not scary and un-democratic, no.

70 OhNoZombies!  Jun 10, 2014 7:37:00pm

I’m thinking:
Essays on faith, morality, and usury,
Photos of Cantor and Zuckerberg,
Meetings with Soros…
How many ways can a bigot say Jews! without actually saying it?

71 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 7:37:11pm

re: #67 thedopefishlives

I’m going to disagree with that. I’m not convinced that Teahaddists are entirely for old and stupid white people. I think the young and stupid are called by the siren song of the derp; it’s “edgy” and “cool” to be anti-Obama.

There are some of those but they’re not really TP.

72 GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 10, 2014 7:37:50pm

re: #67 thedopefishlives

I’m going to disagree with that. I’m not convinced that Teahaddists are entirely for old and stupid white people. I think the young and stupid are called by the siren song of the derp; it’s “edgy” and “cool” to be anti-Obama.

Ron Paul.

73 Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2014 7:37:58pm

If any “moderate” Republican pundits still held out hope that their party would solve their immigration reform problems before 2016, tonight just nuked that idea from orbit. It remains to be seen whether their presidential hopes were caught in the blast as well.

74 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 7:38:02pm

re: #70 OhNoZombies!

I’m thinking:
Essays on faith, morality, and usury,
Photos of Cantor and Zuckerberg,
Meetings with Soros…
How many ways can a bigot say Jews! without actually saying it?

Replace the Sheriff is a clang with the Congressman is another clang.

75 dog philosopher  Jun 10, 2014 7:38:03pm

Dave is focused on the issues that are affecting Virginian’s

apparently, hating on mexicans

76 Ian G.  Jun 10, 2014 7:38:06pm

re: #70 OhNoZombies!

I’m thinking:
Essays on faith, morality, and usury,
Photos of Cantor and Zuckerberg,
Meetings with Soros…
How many ways can a bigot say Jews! without actually saying it?

Hey he’s not an anti-Semite, some of his best friends are Jews, America is founded on Judeo-Christian principles!

77 sagehen  Jun 10, 2014 7:39:18pm

re: #29 Eclectic Cyborg

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering

“I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing….only I will remain”

78 dog philosopher  Jun 10, 2014 7:39:43pm

re: #69 The Ghost of a Flea

Slightly more academic take on prosperity gospel.

Jesus says “give away your possessions, care about other people” and “usury sucks”—but if you have the secret decoder ring, the Christian God’s actually okay with it.

Economically elect equals spiritually elect equals morally just. That’s not scary and un-democratic, no.

remember, jesus may be, like, um, god and stuff, but he’s not really good at expressing himself so don’t listen to him, and let me tell you what he really means

79 Justanotherhuman  Jun 10, 2014 7:39:52pm

re: #56 Gus

God and Advanced Mammon-Can Theological Types Handle Usury and Capitalism?
Academic journal article By Brat, David

Oh yawn. Get to the fucking point, Brat. Or is there one?

80 Ian G.  Jun 10, 2014 7:40:06pm

Actually, why am I annoyed by this? It’s not like Brat just knocked off Lincoln Chaffee or Jim Jeffords. Cantor was an asshole of the highest order. I’m glad he’s been sent packing. And honestly, Brat is probably a gift in the long term, as he’ll just convince more and more Latinos to go permanently to the Dems.

81 Kragar  Jun 10, 2014 7:40:39pm

re: #76 Ian G.

Hey he’s not an anti-Semite, some of his best friends are Jews, America is founded on Judeo-Christian principles!

It is our duty as Christian nation to support Israel so it can be destroyed in accordance with Biblical Prophecy.
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82 The War TARDIS  Jun 10, 2014 7:40:46pm

When a terrorist sympathizer thinks your party is going of the rails, you know you have a problem.

83 dog philosopher  Jun 10, 2014 7:41:30pm

dear wingnut members of congress,

APPARENTLY YOU AREN’T STUPID ENOUGH YET!

good luck with that and all,

84 weave  Jun 10, 2014 7:41:44pm

Even if he’s more of a nut than Cantor, he’s still going to be a little-power freshman. It’s not like he’s going to be Speaker of the House if he wins. So it can’t be all that bad, right?

85 Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2014 7:41:48pm

re: #82 The War TARDIS

When a terrorist sympathizer thinks your party is going of the rails, you know you have a problem.

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Where you go now as a party, Pete? I can think of a few places, none of them very pleasant.

86 Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2014 7:42:09pm

re: #84 weave

Even if he’s more of a nut than Cantor, he’s still going to be a little-power freshman. It’s not like he’s going to be Speaker of the House if he wins. So it can’t be all that bad, right?

Two words: Ted Cruz.

87 Petero1818  Jun 10, 2014 7:44:31pm

Ditching the only Jewish GOP member of Congress and firmly opposing amnesty. Tea party found a way to alienate both Jews and Latinos at once. Since they had done a pretty good job of ensuring very little support from African Americans up to this point it seems they have hit the trifecta. Latinos & Blacks & Jews Oh My.

88 dog philosopher  Jun 10, 2014 7:46:14pm

Francisco Franco Elected Majority Leader

boehner hails “moderate” who will appeal to “ordinary republicans”

89 thedopefishlives  Jun 10, 2014 7:46:28pm

re: #83 dog philosopher

dear wingnut members of congress,

APPARENTLY YOU AREN’T STUPID ENOUGH YET!

good luck with that and all,

DerpOn, apply directly to the forehead. DerpOn, apply directly to the forehead. DerpOn, apply directly to the forehead.

90 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 7:47:22pm

re: #80 Ian G.

Actually, why am I annoyed by this? It’s not like Brat just knocked off Lincoln Chaffee or Jim Jeffords. Cantor was an asshole of the highest order. I’m glad he’s been sent packing. And honestly, Brat is probably a gift in the long term, as he’ll just convince more and more Latinos to go permanently to the Dems.

I think it’s probably even the most liberal among us do want their to be a sane GOP or at least something of a sane opposition to Obama. I won’t lie. I’m gleeful that Cantors done and gone but that’s in part because I am amused to see him beaten by something he helped create- your Frankenstein’s monster moment and the fact that it guarantees that he’ll probably never ever get elected statewide here in Virginia. But another part of me just sees this defeat as another chapter in the very long tome of “How to go apeshit over a black Democratic president.”

91 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 7:47:49pm

re: #88 dog philosopher

Francisco Franco Elected Majority Leader

boehner hails “moderate” who will appeal to “ordinary republicans”

He speaks Spanish so you know he’ll help with the Hispanic voters.

92 Kragar  Jun 10, 2014 7:47:50pm

I wonder if the Tea party even realizes how many other elections around the country this guy is going to cost them

93 Gus  Jun 10, 2014 7:47:52pm

Twitter getting really derpy now.

94 Dark_Falcon  Jun 10, 2014 7:48:03pm

re: #74 HappyWarrior

Replace the Sheriff is a clang with the Congressman is another clang.

Bonus if the speech is delivered in Authentic Objectivist Gibberish.

95 aagcobb  Jun 10, 2014 7:48:30pm

re: #87 Petero1818

Ditching the only Jewish GOP member of Congress and firmly opposing amnesty. Tea party found a way to alienate both Jews and Latinos at once. Since they had done a pretty good job of ensuring very little support from African Americans up to this point it seems they have hit the trifecta. Latinos & Blacks & Jews Oh My.

Don’t forget another group that gave Obama an even bigger margin of their votes than Hispanics did. Single women. All the GOP is proposing to them is to increase their health insurance premiums, restrict their access to contraceptives, deny them equal pay, and make them carry rapists’ babies to term. Oh, and in 2016 they get to vote for a woman for President for the first time ever.

96 Lidane  Jun 10, 2014 7:48:36pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

97 thedopefishlives  Jun 10, 2014 7:48:37pm

re: #93 Gus

Twitter getting really derpy now.

“Getting”? Have you been reading all the tweets you guys post?///

98 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 7:50:15pm

re: #95 aagcobb

Don’t forget another group that gave Obama an even bigger margin of their votes than Hispanics did. Single women. All the GOP is proposing to them is to increase their health insurance premiums, restrict their access to contraceptives, deny them equal pay, and make them carry rapists’ babies to term. Oh, and in 2016 they get to vote for a woman for President for the first time ever.

To which the GOP response will be “We have to limit suffrage to married women.”

99 lawhawk  Jun 10, 2014 7:52:16pm
100 Lidane  Jun 10, 2014 7:52:20pm

LOL:

101 Gus  Jun 10, 2014 7:54:06pm

re: #97 thedopefishlives

“Getting”? Have you been reading all the tweets you guys post?///

Just a lot of people with their head up their ass about Brat and politics in general. Some of them are still tossing around that freak Mike Dickinson’s name around. Totally un-serious people. Sometimes I think they’d vote for a shoe if it had a (D) after its name.

102 CuriousLurker  Jun 10, 2014 7:54:17pm

re: #66 Pie-onist Overlord

“Judeo-Christian” is a mythical beast, like the Unicorn & Sasquatch.

Jews have more in common with Muslims than with Christians.

Yeah, the more I read of that book on antisemitism, the more I think to myself, “Judeo-Christian? Umm… NO.”

I’m reading it slowly, so I’ve only gotten past the Babylonians and destruction of the First Temple, the initial diaspora, the Elephantine Jews in Egypt, the Persians, the Greeks, and the Jews of Alexandria. I’m just getting to the Romans, Jesus (a.s.) and post-Jesus destruction of the Second Temple by the Romans. You guy’s history so sooooo freaking long & complicated. Sheesh.

But, yeah, back on point, I’m not sensing any special strong bond with Christians anywhere yet—not culturally or theologically.

103 Dark_Falcon  Jun 10, 2014 7:54:37pm

Since we’re talking immigration:

Senate Democrats double funding for child migrants

Senate Democrats moved Tuesday to double the available funding for the care and resettlement of child migrants on the Southwest border — a $1 billion increase that comes at the expense of President Barack Obama’s prized education initiatives.

The action by the Senate Appropriations Committee is the strongest response yet by Congress to the growing humanitarian crisis in the Rio Grande Valley. But it also captures the conflicts between the president and his own party — each subject to strict spending caps adopted last December.

SNIP

All these forces were at play Tuesday in shaping the underlying bill: a nearly $156.8 billion measure funding the departments of Education, Labor and Health and Human Services for the new fiscal year that begins Oct. 1.

It is the largest of the annual domestic spending bills and a task greatly complicated this spring by the unprecedented flood of young Central American migrants who have been crossing the U.S. border unaccompanied by their parents or any adult relatives.

Obama’s March budget provided no increased funding to deal with this problem — a decision that helped him have the room under the budget caps for his education priorities. But after repeated prodding by Appropriations Chairwoman Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), the White House acknowledged May 30 that it could need as much as $2.28 billion in 2015, a $1.4 billion increase over what it requested just months ago.

The Senate bill seeks to fill that hole in two steps. The first is to provide $1.94 billion for the refugee office within HHS that bears the heaviest responsibility for the young migrants, labeled Unaccompanied Alien Children or UAC in Washington’s shorthand. Second, the bill gives HHS greater authority to transfer money from other accounts if the number of UAC cases more than doubles to 140,000 in 2015.

The paragraph I cut out is an analysis paragraph that does not contribute as much as what I excerpted and it might have made it look like I was trolling with this post. I’m not; I’m trying to contribute relevantly.

Dark_Falcon is not pulling a Killgore here, people. ;)

104 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 7:54:50pm

re: #99 lawhawk

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The media in this country keeps on doing its best to make me flip out inrage.

105 Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2014 7:55:25pm

re: #100 Lidane

LOL:

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Anybody needs me, I’ll be in the corner, laughing myself to death.

106 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 10, 2014 7:55:56pm

Just got home, and wow! I’ll just repeat a comment I made the other day about the Tea Partiers:

I remember a workshop I went to where there was a panel about politics, during the nascent stages of the Tea Party growth. One of the panelists was Dana Loesch. This was prior to her rise to national prominence.

I don’t think I’ve ever been in a room with a more hateful, yet committed, individual. She said in no uncertain terms that the TP groups were not going to “go along to get along” with the traditional GOP types. If pols didn’t hew to the TP line, they would be primaried. Period. As I’ve watched over the last few years, her statements have come to fruition.

There’s no way for the GOP to tamp down these folks. They’re rabid, focused and not willing to compromise.

At one point, I’m sure the traditional GOP types thought they could harness that hate for their own hateful ends, but now I think they generally regard the TP types with fear. The party is held hostage by these spiteful assholes.

As for Brat’s calvinistic capitalism, I’d like to find Milton Friedman’s grave so I can piss on that evil fucker for spawning shitheels like this “economist.”

107 Gus  Jun 10, 2014 7:56:12pm

Voting Ballot

[ ] Dave Bart (R)
[x] Shoe (D)

108 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 7:56:55pm

re: #107 Gus

Voting Ballot

[ ] Dave Bart (R)
[x] Shoe (D)

The Shoe understands economic reality better. Vote Shoe.

109 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 10, 2014 7:57:03pm

re: #107 Gus

Voting Ballot

[ ] Dave Bart (R)
[x] Shoe (D)

Voting for the one that you know has a soul?

110 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 10, 2014 7:57:28pm
111 Gus  Jun 10, 2014 7:57:29pm

re: #109 Feline Fearless Leader

Voting for the one that you know has a soul?

Mike Dickinson has a soul? Seriously.

112 darthstar  Jun 10, 2014 7:57:47pm

Group singing a 13th century Icelandic hymn in a German train station.

Youtube Video

Nice acoustics.

113 Decatur Deb  Jun 10, 2014 7:58:04pm

re: #109 Feline Fearless Leader

Voting for the one that you know has a soul?

Shoe has no chance, he’s tongue-tied.

114 ObserverArt  Jun 10, 2014 7:58:57pm

I didn’t comment much today, but just reading the threads from this morning on I think it is safe to say…what a day!

And it goes so well with the whole damn month so far. Ever since the Bergdahl story broke stuff has been flat out strange.

Whew…time to get some mental rest.

115 OhNoZombies!  Jun 10, 2014 7:59:24pm

re: #107 Gus

Voting Ballot

[ ] Dave Bart (R)
[x] Shoe (D)

If those are my choices, I’m gonna have to go with the Shoe.

116 Amory Blaine  Jun 10, 2014 7:59:26pm

re: #99 lawhawk

Wow Time magazine. Sounds like something in The Onion.

117 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 10, 2014 8:00:11pm

re: #113 Decatur Deb

Shoe has no chance, he’s tongue-tied.

But he might have boot straps!

118 CuriousLurker  Jun 10, 2014 8:01:33pm

re: #107 Gus

P.S. Oopsie—link added to my #64 now.

119 lawhawk  Jun 10, 2014 8:02:46pm

re: #100 Lidane

120 Decatur Deb  Jun 10, 2014 8:02:51pm

re: #117 Feline Fearless Leader

But he might have boot straps!

So Cantor knows what it’s like to be shanked.

121 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 8:04:44pm

I wonder why Dave Brat isn’t proud of being far right.

122 lawhawk  Jun 10, 2014 8:04:51pm

re: #115 OhNoZombies!

I’d go with Inanimate Carbon Rod. In Rod we trust.

Youtube Video

123 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 8:05:21pm

re: #122 lawhawk

I’d go with Inanimate Carbon Rod. In Rod we trust.

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Video

That Rod got me a discount on my tab at trivia one night, Vote Rod.

124 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 8:06:12pm

I really think we will see a world where someone like Steve “Cantaloupe Legs” King gets deemed not conservative enough for the island and gets beat.

125 Ian G.  Jun 10, 2014 8:07:49pm

re: #106 Rev_Arthur_Belling

As for Brat’s calvinistic capitalism, I’d like to find Milton Friedman’s grave so I can piss on that evil fucker for spawning shitheels like this “economist.”

Eh, I wouldn’t blame Friedman for Brat. Loons like Brat have been a constant feature of American politics since the beginning. They just get to dress up their paranoid lunacy in more “respectable” terms by superficially borrowing from people like Friedman.

Friedman, for instance, saw the value of monetary policy in easing recessions. His prescription for the 2008 collapse likely would have been exactly what Bernanke did. Meanwhile, the “mainstream” right position these days is to abolish monetary policy entirely and go back to using seashells for tender.

126 Aqua Obama  Jun 10, 2014 8:07:53pm

Bahahahaha

AHAHAHA

So Cantor lost?

hahahahahaHAHAHA

127 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 10, 2014 8:09:05pm

re: #79 Justanotherhuman

Oh yawn. Get to the fucking point, Brat. Or is there one?

I actually thought Killgore Trout of these parts could have summed up Brat’s thesis in that academic paper: Some say yes, some say no. We will see. Interesting.

128 teleskiguy  Jun 10, 2014 8:10:02pm

At this point I have to ask this question: When will Dark_Falcon leave the Republican Party???

129 Dark_Falcon  Jun 10, 2014 8:10:35pm

re: #125 Ian G.

Eh, I wouldn’t blame Friedman for Brat. Loons like Brat have been a constant feature of American politics since the beginning. They just get to dress up their paranoid lunacy in more “respectable” terms by superficially borrowing from people like Friedman.

Friedman, for instance, saw the value of monetary policy in easing recessions. His prescription for the 2008 collapse likely would have been exactly what Bernanke did. Meanwhile, the “mainstream” right position these days is to abolish monetary policy entirely and go back to using seashells for tender.

Exactly. It’s important to remember that Dave Brat seems to know of FRIEDMAN!!1, instead of the real Milton Friedman.

130 CuriousLurker  Jun 10, 2014 8:10:59pm

re: #102 CuriousLurker

I’m re-watching the HBO Rome series on Amazon Prime, so it’s kinda cool to be simultaneously watching & reading about roughly the same era, but from two drastically different viewpoints.

And on that note I think I’m gonna go make a cup of coffee, crawl in bed with the kittehs, watch the next episode, and then read more about Jewish Jesus (a.s.)

131 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 8:11:24pm

I’m not a Friedman but Friedman from what I know of him wasn’t telling people to ignore actual data at the expense of theory like Von Mises which is who nuts like Brat draw their real inspiration from.

132 Belafon  Jun 10, 2014 8:11:34pm

re: #128 teleskiguy

Pretty much when the party goes to him and says “We’ve made sure you’ll never be rich.”

133 Dark_Falcon  Jun 10, 2014 8:12:29pm

re: #128 teleskiguy

No time soon, boyo. We’ve got a good candidate for governor in Illinois, and Pat Quinn badly needs to get defeated.

134 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 8:12:30pm

re: #130 CuriousLurker

I’m re-watching the HBO Rome series on Amazon Prime, so it’s kinda cool to be simultaneously watching & reading about roughly the same era, but from two drastically different viewpoints.

And on that note I think I’m gonna go make a cup of coffee, crawl in bed with the kittehs, watch the next episode, and then read about Jewish Jesus.

I saw that HBO Prime has the whole of Eastbound and Down for free. Know what I’m going to be doing during layovers! But I do want to check out Rome. I really want to learn more about the Empire.

135 Belafon  Jun 10, 2014 8:13:34pm

re: #27 Pie-onist Overlord

So, Brat, how much do you charge your kids for dinner each night? Or for sleeping in your house? If you aren’t charging a fair market value, then you really don’t believe in capitalism.

136 Single-handed sailor  Jun 10, 2014 8:14:22pm

It’s humorous to watch the TEA Party defeat the TEA Party Representative most likely to become the next Speaker of the House.

137 weave  Jun 10, 2014 8:14:36pm

re: #86 Targetpractice

Two words: Ted Cruz.

Point taken :(

138 Lidane  Jun 10, 2014 8:14:43pm
139 darthstar  Jun 10, 2014 8:14:44pm
140 Ace-o-aces  Jun 10, 2014 8:14:57pm

A 20 year-old Simpson’s reference? Oh, Jonah, you so hip and relevant.

141 teleskiguy  Jun 10, 2014 8:15:29pm

re: #133 Dark_Falcon

No time soon, boyo. We’ve got a good candidate for governor in Illinois, and Pat Quinn badly needs to get defeated.

Out of curiosity, what’s the Republican candidate for Illinois governor’s best policy proposal, in your estimation?

142 Lidane  Jun 10, 2014 8:15:42pm

re: #136 Single-handed sailor

It’s humorous to watch the TEA Party defeat the TEA Party Representative most likely to become the next Speaker of the House.

Ted Cruz is already Speaker of the House! And Senate Majority Leader!

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143 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 8:16:49pm

re: #138 Lidane

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Yeah a white only party will go just great, Mark. Really though, I’m sure your ancestors are rolling over in their graves seeing you, a Jewish man tell a party to embrace white male nationalism.

144 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 8:17:21pm

re: #140 Ace-o-aces

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A 20 year-old Simpson’s reference? Oh, Jonah, you so hip and relevant.

As Ralph Wiggum one time said, that is so 1991.

145 Ian G.  Jun 10, 2014 8:17:27pm

re: #138 Lidane

See, here’s the problem, Mark. In the world we live in, in which your side lost in 1865, you can’t win elections on nothing but white Christian men. You must reach out to “genitalia” (charming) and ethnic groups. By dismissing them as less than worthy of this delusions vision of America you have, you guarantee electoral defeat.

146 Dark_Falcon  Jun 10, 2014 8:17:29pm

re: #140 Ace-o-aces

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A 20 year-old Simpson’s reference? Oh, Jonah, you so hip and relevant.

Give Goldberg a pass on that one. Many people hear at LGF have cracked that same joke over the years. Let’s not mock him if we in the process mock ourselves.

147 Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2014 8:17:50pm

re: #130 CuriousLurker

I’m re-watching the HBO Rome series on Amazon Prime, so it’s kinda cool to be simultaneously watching & reading about roughly the same era, but from two drastically different viewpoints.

And on that note I think I’m gonna go make a cup of coffee, crawl in bed with the kittehs, watch the next episode, and then read more about Jewish Jesus (a.s.)

Meanwhile, I’m watching the political equivalent of the Senate steps on the Ides of March happening in Richmond. Right now, the wingnut pundits are taking turns stabbing Eric Cantor.

148 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 8:17:53pm

Really though great job VA-07 voters. You nominated a guy who is a puppet of talk show hosts.

149 palomino  Jun 10, 2014 8:18:02pm

re: #103 Dark_Falcon

Since we’re talking immigration:

Senate Democrats double funding for child migrants

SNIP

The paragraph I cut out is an analysis paragraph that does not contribute as much as what I excerpted and it might have made it look like I was trolling with this post. I’m not; I’m trying to contribute relevantly.

Dark_Falcon is not pulling a Killgore here, people. ;)

OK, but when you post a long hunk of text without any explanation or opinion of your own, you’re in the KT/NJD territory. (I assume you know this, as you put in the disclaimer about not pulling a KT.)

What’s your opinion of the article? How do you feel about extra money for child migrants? The doubling of funds is something Obama opposed at first, but then supported after Dem senators brought it to him. What’s YOUR analysis?

150 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 10, 2014 8:18:36pm

re: #131 HappyWarrior

I’m not a Friedman but Friedman from what I know of him wasn’t telling people to ignore actual data at the expense of theory like Von Mises which is who nuts like Brat draw their real inspiration from.

Friedman also came up with the myth that the sole responsibility of the executive officers in a corporation was to increase shareholder value.

From wiki:
Friedman was an economic adviser to Republican U.S. President Ronald Reagan. His political philosophy extolled the virtues of a free market economic system with minimal intervention. He once stated that his role in eliminating U.S. conscription was his proudest accomplishment, and his support for school choice led him to found The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice. In his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom, Friedman advocated policies such as a volunteer military, freely floating exchange rates, abolition of medical licenses, a negative income tax, and education vouchers.[10] His ideas concerning monetary policy, taxation, privatization and deregulation

He is a decidedly mixed bag, but he also was very influential in the “Chicago School” of economists, and an adviser to Reagan, so, no, he spawned shitheels like Brat.

151 Lidane  Jun 10, 2014 8:18:44pm
152 Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2014 8:18:58pm

re: #138 Lidane

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Because that’s the way forward for the GOP: The party of white guys fighting for the rights of white guys.

153 aagcobb  Jun 10, 2014 8:19:07pm

re: #147 Targetpractice

Meanwhile, I’m watching the political equivalent of the Senate steps on the Ides of March happening in Richmond. Right now, the wingnut pundits are taking turns stabbing Eric Cantor.

Et tu, Ann? Et tu, Laura?

154 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 8:19:16pm

re: #150 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Friedman also came up with the myth that the sole responsibility of the executive officers in a corporation was to increase shareholder value.

From wiki:
Friedman was an economic adviser to Republican U.S. President Ronald Reagan. His political philosophy extolled the virtues of a free market economic system with minimal intervention. He once stated that his role in eliminating U.S. conscription was his proudest accomplishment, and his support for school choice led him to found The Friedman Foundation for Educational Choice. In his 1962 book Capitalism and Freedom, Friedman advocated policies such as a volunteer military, freely floating exchange rates, abolition of medical licenses, a negative income tax, and education vouchers.[10] His ideas concerning monetary policy, taxation, privatization and deregulation

He is a decidedly mixed bag, but he also was very influential in the “Chicago School” of economists, and an adviser to Reagan, so, no, he spawned shitheels like Brat.

Yeah not a fan of his as I said.

155 Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2014 8:19:26pm

re: #148 HappyWarrior

Really though great job VA-07 voters. You nominated a guy who is a puppet of talk show hosts.

I thought Cantor lost?

156 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 8:19:36pm

I honestly wasn’t even aware that the TP hated Cantor that much.

157 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 8:20:13pm

re: #155 Targetpractice

I thought Cantor lost?

No, the guy who is a puppet of fat guys in colonial garb lost. But still updinging.

158 Ian G.  Jun 10, 2014 8:20:32pm

Todd Starnes has some thoughts on Brat

He’s basically lifting Bill the Butcher’s rhetoric about the Irish in “Gangs of New York”. Yeah, this is going to go over swell in El Paso and East LA.

159 teleskiguy  Jun 10, 2014 8:20:45pm

re: #138 Lidane

“Stop trying to get darker-skinned people’s votes. Stop trying to get women’s votes.”

Man, am I ever so glad to not live in Denver where I voluntarily listened to a lot of this talk radio sludge on the AM dial on the commute. Back up in the mountains, there’s Radio Free Minturn.

160 Interesting Times  Jun 10, 2014 8:21:46pm

re: #149 palomino

What’s your opinion of the article? How do you feel about extra money for child migrants? The doubling of funds is something Obama opposed at first, but then supported after Dem senators brought it to him. What’s YOUR analysis?

Plus, isn’t the overall funding limitation a result of all that sequestration crap, 100% brought-on by GOPers?

161 Dark_Falcon  Jun 10, 2014 8:22:21pm

re: #149 palomino

OK, but when you post a long hunk of text without any explanation or opinion of your own, you’re in the KT/NJD territory. (I assume you know this, as you put in the disclaimer about not pulling a KT.)

What’s your opinion of the article? How do you feel about extra money for child migrants? The doubling of funds is something Obama opposed at first, but then supported after Dem senators brought it to him. What’s YOUR analysis?

Could you give yours first, please? I’m a little reluctant to engage in analysis on immigration right now, given how keen some folks seem to be to downding me currently. So I’d like a safe baseline I work from so I don’t get yelled at.

162 dog philosopher  Jun 10, 2014 8:22:49pm

at this point i’m beginning to feel almost sorry for cantor

almost

this is a person who at this moment basically has no friends

163 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 10, 2014 8:23:04pm

re: #133 Dark_Falcon

No time soon, boyo. We’ve got a good candidate for governor in Illinois, and Pat Quinn badly needs to get defeated.

Fuck the Illinois GOP gubernatorial candidate. I’m no fan of Quinn, but your candidate sounds like just about every other damned white-collar Republican politician. He’s a mini-Mitt Romney.

Key points from Rauner’s political campaign include creating Right-to-Work zones, getting rid of the Quinn-Madigan income and corporate tax hikes, reforming the pension system, and creating a more competitive educational system.[28][29][30]

He’s anti-worker, anti-retiree, anti-union, and peddles the bullshit GOP line about “competitive” educational systems, which means stealing from public schools to give to charters.

164 goddamnedfrank  Jun 10, 2014 8:23:26pm

re: #141 teleskiguy

Out of curiosity, what’s the Republican candidate for Illinois governor’s best policy proposal, in your estimation?

He won’t say where he stands on gay marriage. No, really, he’s been asked repeatedly and he keeps refusing to answer.

Of course the reason is obvious, his party is chock full of utter fucking trash and he needs their votes to win, but on the other hand it’s a northern liberal state and he needs every semi moderate vote he can possibly scam. Also a lot of the big money donors up there are socially liberal.

So he’s in a bind, can’t say either way without alienating people he needs to win. He thinks he can triangulate middle through sheer stubborn silence.

And that’s what leadership looks like in the modern GOP, just a cynical attempt to avoid dealing with fundamental issues of basic rights and equality under the law.

165 Decatur Deb  Jun 10, 2014 8:23:41pm

re: #162 dog philosopher

at this point i’m beginning to feel almost sorry for cantor

almost

this is a person who at this moment basically has no friends

He’s in Washington. Should have bought a dog.

166 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 8:23:53pm

re: #158 Ian G.

Todd Starnes has some thoughts on Brat

He’s basically lifting Bill the Butcher’s rhetoric about the Irish in “Gangs of New York”. Yeah, this is going to go over swell in El Paso and East LA.

Not even El Paso and East LA. Virginia is home to an increasing Hispanic population. My own niece (though her mom is from Maryland) is half Hispanic. The shitheels really think they can sound like this on immigration and not expect any real backlash but that tells you why they oppose the DREAM Act because they know that Hispanic immigrants and their children aren’t going to forget the hate that they’ve directed towards them. The pathetic bigotry. Really, I’m a proud uncle of a little girl whose mother is an immigrant and is doing all she can do to get naturalized.

167 palomino  Jun 10, 2014 8:24:53pm

re: #133 Dark_Falcon

No time soon, boyo. We’ve got a good candidate for governor in Illinois, and Pat Quinn badly needs to get defeated.

You’re missing the forest for the trees. As always.

Try thinking big picture.

168 Aqua Obama  Jun 10, 2014 8:24:55pm

brb, reading An Analysis of the Moral Foundations in Ayn Rand by David Brat

169 aagcobb  Jun 10, 2014 8:25:59pm

re: #138 Lidane

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Its OK, Hannity said its just Mark’s sense of humor; the free pass for racist, homophobic and misogynistic remarks.

170 Decatur Deb  Jun 10, 2014 8:26:01pm

re: #168 Aqua Obama

brb, reading An Analysis of the Moral Foundations in Ayn Rand

Moral foundations? Ayn Rand? I think that means she wore a modest girdle.

171 goddamnedfrank  Jun 10, 2014 8:27:49pm

This year we have a candidate for governor who hasn’t actually been caught raping chickens, so I’m sticking with the party … I like our odds.

172 dog philosopher  Jun 10, 2014 8:28:08pm

re: #168 Aqua Obama

brb, reading An Analysis of the Moral Foundations in Ayn Rand by David Brat

must be a very short essay

173 dog philosopher  Jun 10, 2014 8:29:27pm

re: #165 Decatur Deb

He’s in Washington. Should have bought a dog.

also, what happens to the small coterie of fellow pricks who were with him in his effort to unseat the boehner?

must be chaos there

174 teleskiguy  Jun 10, 2014 8:29:27pm

re: #163 Rev_Arthur_Belling

re: #164 goddamnedfrank

Thanks. DF is silent at the moment. But you fine folks stepped in and gave me the juicy stuff.

The Colorado Primary for governors hasn’t happened yet. The Republican side is already hilarious. Mike Kopp has radio ads saying his opponent Tom Tancredo is pro-drugs and the ad cites all sorts of horrible rare drug statistics nonsense and that Kopp is sooo much more anti-drug than Tancredo.

Fuck, man. This politics season is already turning out to be a goddamn humdinger.

175 philosophus invidius  Jun 10, 2014 8:30:58pm

re: #125 Ian G.

Eh, I wouldn’t blame Friedman for Brat. Loons like Brat have been a constant feature of American politics since the beginning. They just get to dress up their paranoid lunacy in more “respectable” terms by superficially borrowing from people like Friedman.

Friedman, for instance, saw the value of monetary policy in easing recessions. His prescription for the 2008 collapse likely would have been exactly what Bernanke did. Meanwhile, the “mainstream” right position these days is to abolish monetary policy entirely and go back to using seashells for tender.

This is from a year ago, but apropos the “Brat” claiming to be a Milton Friedman expert:

I’m going to make this very simple. Milton Friedman supported quantitative easing, and we know he supported quantitative easing, because he told us he supported quantitative easing. Are you listening, Rand Paul? …
Friedman explicitly called on the Bank of Japan to try quantitative easing (QE) back when it first got stuck in its own liquidity trap 15 years ago. But Paul did what any ideologue does when confronted by contrary evidence — he ignored it

Rand Paul Loves Milton Friedman, but Milton Friedman Would Have Hated Rand Paul

176 Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2014 8:31:13pm

re: #174 teleskiguy

Thanks. DF is silent at the moment. But you fine folks stepped in and gave me the juicy stuff.

The Colorado Primary for governors hasn’t happened yet. The Republican side is already hilarious. Mike Kopp has radio ads saying his opponent Tom Tancredo is pro-drugs and the ad cites all sorts of horrible rare drug statistics nonsense and that Kopp is sooo much more anti-drug than Tancredo.

Fuck, man. This politics season is already turning out to be a goddamn humdinger.

I can only imagine the way things look like at the Old Republicans Club right about now. They had grand plans for this November, expanding their House majority, taking the Senate, and no doubt expanding their majorities at the state and local levels. Now? Now it’s looking like 2010 all over again: They’ll make out good, but a lot of sure wins are turning into nightmares.

177 aagcobb  Jun 10, 2014 8:32:02pm

re: #162 dog philosopher

at this point i’m beginning to feel almost sorry for cantor

almost

this is a person who at this moment basically has no friends

Matt Brooks, Executive Director of the GOP Jewish Committee, is “numb. speechless. sad” at Cantor’s loss. Perhaps its time he realized hes not wanted in the GOP’s little white christian man club.

178 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 8:32:27pm

All this talk about GOP governors just makes me sigh another sigh of relief knowing that none of the Republicans that ran for governor, lt governor, and AG got elected. Even the one who tried to weasel out like Frank talks about with the Illinois GOP guy lost because he was rightfully stuck with being associated with Cuccinneli and Jackson. E.W Jackson by the way is still out there. He didn’t get his choice of Senate candidate. Not that it matters since Mark Warner is beating any Republican taht runs against him.

179 Aqua Obama  Jun 10, 2014 8:33:52pm

re: #174 teleskiguy

Mike Kopp has radio ads saying his opponent Tom Tancredo is pro-drugs and the ad cites all sorts of horrible rare drug statistics nonsense and that Kopp is sooo much more anti-drug than Tancredo.

Fuck, man. This politics season is already turning out to be a goddamn humdinger.

I dunno man, have you seen his portrait?

Image: tancredo.jpg

180 darthstar  Jun 10, 2014 8:34:30pm
181 palomino  Jun 10, 2014 8:34:33pm

re: #161 Dark_Falcon

Could you give yours first, please? I’m a little reluctant to engage in analysis on immigration right now, given how keen some folks seem to be to downding me currently. So I’d like a safe baseline I work from so I don’t get yelled at.

Then why did you post the article in the first place? If you’re afraid to discuss immigration, why post articles about immigration?

My analysis is that Obama did what he felt was right under changing circumstances. In a perfect world, he would have had more for domestic education and not increased the money for child migrants. But the situation has become even messier and more chaotic in the southwest, so after consulting with Congress, he agreed to shift a billion from one priority to another (formerly lesser) priority. This is a small change brought on by reality, not some sort of huge political shift.

182 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 8:34:46pm

So am I hearing right that Tancredo is being told he’s not nuts enough in what may be his only sensible policy view?

183 teleskiguy  Jun 10, 2014 8:34:51pm

One can hope that these Tea Party loons get quoted accurately á la Todd Akin and recent LGF superstar Todd Mourdock, and they don’t get elected.

184 teleskiguy  Jun 10, 2014 8:35:28pm

re: #179 Aqua Obama

I dunno man, have you seen his portrait?

Image: tancredo.jpg

Dude is TOTALLY stoned maaan! Look at his eyes!

185 Aqua Obama  Jun 10, 2014 8:35:55pm

In other news, why is eBay taunting me that I lost an auction at the last second

186 darthstar  Jun 10, 2014 8:36:31pm

re: #184 teleskiguy

Dude is TOTALLY stoned maaan! Look at his eyes!

Tancredo is B-A-K-D, Baked!

187 Lidane  Jun 10, 2014 8:36:44pm

Freepers are reacting as you’d expect:

YES!!!

Victory is sweet. This truly was as major upset. Outspent something like 8 to 1. Bye bye Cantor, and any hope of an amnesty putszch before 2016

This has the GOPe’s pro amnesty goons soiling their drawers.

Someone invite Eric out for a spot of Tea!

Message to the Republican Party …. If you push amnesty your party will cease to exist…..

I was sitting here trying to remember how long it has been since I have heard any kind of good political news… I can’t even remember!

Probably Gore giving up his challenge to Bush…

But then Bush was Gore light.

Yes, this is for real. Not enough of Eric’s illegal alien friends turned out to vote for him today. He forgot — they only vote Democrat.

I’m praying that the GOPe realizes that this is a battle cry that the people of America are not going to be invaded by another country and sit by twiddling their thumbs.

If they are smart they will realize that if they bring in D Senators who will invite this illegal invasion, they will literally be inviting war to these shores. If they choose to be King George in response to the Tea Party then they better think long and hard over what that really means. We’ve traveled the King George v Tea Party road once before…

I think we need to cordially but firmly communicate to the GOPe that saving the country is what we all need to pull together to do now - not rub each other’s noses in the dirt. Too much is at stake for one side to gloat and one side to sulk. We HAVE to unite against the enemies waging war on this nation. All the treason by this current regime needs to be clearly and firmly set in front of the faces of the GOPe so they can see what is at stake. That is what we are fighting for, and we all need to never forget it.

Tea party should get to pick the majority leader.

188 darthstar  Jun 10, 2014 8:37:15pm

re: #185 Aqua Obama

In other news, why is eBay taunting me that I lost an auction at the last second

So you’ll try again…and again…and again…

189 Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2014 8:37:44pm

re: #187 Lidane

Freepers are reacting as you’d expect:

I’d say I was shocked, but I’d be lying.

190 Aqua Obama  Jun 10, 2014 8:37:47pm

Because you demanded it, a bust of Ayn Rand

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191 teleskiguy  Jun 10, 2014 8:38:10pm

re: #180 darthstar

Thank you darthstar for some hard numbers! 29,000 primary voters in a congressional district that - according to the 2010 census - has a population of 757,917.

192 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 8:38:39pm

re: #187 Lidane

Freepers are reacting as you’d expect:

I really want to see FR the day we elect a Hispanic president. I think they may hate Latinos more than they do African Americans.

193 Dark_Falcon  Jun 10, 2014 8:42:25pm

re: #181 palomino

Then why did you post the article in the first place? If you’re afraid to discuss immigration, why post articles about immigration?

My analysis is that Obama did what he felt was right under changing circumstances. In a perfect world, he would have had more for domestic education and not increased the money for child migrants. But the situation has become even messier and more chaotic in the southwest, so after consulting with Congress, he agreed to shift a billion from one priority to another (formerly lesser) priority. This is a small change brought on by reality, not some sort of huge political shift.

I agree with your read. I posted the article because I’d come across it reading the election results and it seemed to be germane to some of what was being talked about. I was hoping to share some useful information and pick up a couple of updings.

I didn’t want to offer my own analysis because I was afraid that I’d come across as gloating over conflict between Democrats and be mocked and downdinged accordingly.

194 darthstar  Jun 10, 2014 8:42:57pm
195 Lidane  Jun 10, 2014 8:43:53pm

re: #192 HappyWarrior

I really want to see FR the day we elect a Hispanic president. I think they may hate Latinos more than they do African Americans.

I want to see FR if Hillary Clinton runs and wins. All of the rage and tears would be hilarious. It would put their freakouts over 2012 to shame.

196 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 8:44:20pm

re: #195 Lidane

I want to see FR if Hillary Clinton runs and wins. All of the rage and tears would be hilarious. It would put their freakouts over 2012 to shame.

Hillary in 2016? Julian Castro in 2024?
Derp me.

197 J A P  Jun 10, 2014 8:44:53pm

I just got in and haven’t yet had time to read all the comments, so pardon me if I repeat what others have said.

I just looked to see who was running against Eric Cantor and found:

On Monday, Jack Trammell was a little-known employee of Randolph-Macon College newly minted as the sacrificial-lamb Democratic candidate certain to be trounced by House Majority Leader Eric Cantor in the heavily Republican 7th District. (Source: Washington Post)

In the era of the Tea Party Republicans it seems that nothing should be assumed.

Now, eyes will be turning towards Jack, I imagine.

198 Ian G.  Jun 10, 2014 8:45:05pm

re: #192 HappyWarrior

I really want to see FR the day we elect a Hispanic president. I think they may hate Latinos more than they do African Americans.

Part of me wants to see Hillary Clinton pick one of the Castro brothers (Joaquin or Julio) to be a running mate just because of the Pavlovian reaction the GOP will inevitably have to it. The blind seething hatred will be something all the Karl Roves in the world won’t be able to contain, and it could make Latinos as solid a voting block for the Dems as African-Americans. Hell, it could even turn Texas purple.

Do it, Hillary.

199 dog philosopher  Jun 10, 2014 8:45:36pm

how much closer are we tonight because of this win to the breakup and eventual death of the republican party?

200 kirkspencer  Jun 10, 2014 8:45:44pm

re: #176 Targetpractice

I can only imagine the way things look like at the Old Republicans Club right about now. They had grand plans for this November, expanding their House majority, taking the Senate, and no doubt expanding their majorities at the state and local levels. Now? Now it’s looking like 2010 all over again: They’ll make out good, but a lot of sure wins are turning into nightmares.

Six months ago I was pretty sure the Republicans would have a narrow majority in the senate and a larger house majority.

Now? I want some polls, darnit, because the impression I’ve got is that the Dems keep the senate and the Republicans will keep the house but with a narrower majority.

And on that last, one of the funniest (though unlikely) mental images I’ve got is of the TP and non-TP republicans splitting the vote for speaker, giving it to the minority party’s vote. (Always remember that Boehner got 220 votes for speaker of the 113th while Pelosi got 192.)

201 Ian G.  Jun 10, 2014 8:45:54pm

re: #194 darthstar

On what planet is Cantor a “moderate”, NY Times?

He’s Robespierre and just got guillotined by his own revolution.

202 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 8:46:38pm

re: #198 Ian G.

Part of me wants to see Hillary Clinton pick one of the Castro brothers (Joaquin or Julio) to be a running mate just because of the Pavlovian reaction the GOP will inevitably have to it. The blind seething hatred will be something all the Karl Roves in the world won’t be able to contain, and it could make Latinos as solid a voting block for the Dems as African-Americans. Hell, it could even turn Texas purple.

Do it, Hillary.

It really wouldn’t be that far fetched to pick Julian. A mayor’s never been tabbed as a running mate before but he is mayor and has been longer of a city with more people residing in it than Sarah Palin’s Alaska.

203 teleskiguy  Jun 10, 2014 8:47:52pm

re: #201 Ian G.

On what planet is Cantor a “moderate”, NY Times?

He’s Robespierre and just got guillotined by his own revolution.

You have to admit, it is kind of nice that Cantor just “lost his job” rather than “got decapitated by his political adversaries”. We’ve come a long way.

204 missliberties  Jun 10, 2014 8:48:21pm

re: #29 Eclectic Cyborg

Fear is the path to the dark side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to suffering

Reality check!

205 dog philosopher  Jun 10, 2014 8:48:35pm

re: #198 Ian G.

Part of me wants to see Hillary Clinton pick one of the Castro brothers (Joaquin or Julio) to be a running mate just because of the Pavlovian reaction the GOP will inevitably have to it. The blind seething hatred will be something all the Karl Roves in the world won’t be able to contain, and it could make Latinos as solid a voting block for the Dems as African-Americans. Hell, it could even turn Texas purple.

Do it, Hillary.

all you have to do to turn texas purple would be to squeeze its balls hard enough

206 Lidane  Jun 10, 2014 8:48:37pm
207 dog philosopher  Jun 10, 2014 8:49:19pm

re: #197 J A P

I just got in and haven’t yet had time to read all the comments, so pardon me if I repeat what others have said.

I just looked to see who was running against Eric Cantor and found:

In the era of the Tea Party Republicans it seems that nothing should be assumed.

Now, eyes will be turning towards Jack, I imagine.

el link no va

208 kirkspencer  Jun 10, 2014 8:49:40pm

re: #199 dog philosopher

how much closer are we tonight because of this win to the breakup and eventual death of the republican party?

At least eight years to the critical event; a breakup and rebirth, phoenix-like, just as both Democratic and Republican parties did in the past.

Setting the poetic stuff aside, the real breaker will be after the 2020 census when new districts are formed.

209 Lidane  Jun 10, 2014 8:50:07pm

re: #198 Ian G.

Part of me wants to see Hillary Clinton pick one of the Castro brothers (Joaquin or Julio) to be a running mate just because of the Pavlovian reaction the GOP will inevitably have to it.

My guess is that it would be Joaquin. It would explain his being nominated for HUD when he’s a wildly successful mayor here.

210 Single-handed sailor  Jun 10, 2014 8:50:33pm

re: #205 dog philosopher

all you have to do to turn texas purple would be to squeeze its balls hard enough

I tried to, but the truck was moving too fast. //

211 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 8:50:45pm

Lost in tonight’s confusion is the fact that the anti-Redskins ad aired. Just saw it on Youtube and it is great.
Youtube Video

212 Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2014 8:51:16pm

re: #200 kirkspencer

Six months ago I was pretty sure the Republicans would have a narrow majority in the senate and a larger house majority.

Now? I want some polls, darnit, because the impression I’ve got is that the Dems keep the senate and the Republicans will keep the house but with a narrower majority.

And on that last, one of the funniest (though unlikely) mental images I’ve got is of the TP and non-TP republicans splitting the vote for speaker, giving it to the minority party’s vote. (Always remember that Boehner got 220 votes for speaker of the 113th while Pelosi got 192.)

I wonder if John of Orange right now is cursing himself for not getting that agreement to let him keep the speaker’s gavel if he agreed to create a Benghazi special committee in writing.

213 darthstar  Jun 10, 2014 8:55:56pm

Trammell couldn’t win class treasurer…look at his fucking site.

trammellforcongress.com

And note the title of the page (not his header, the title in the browser tab). “Page Title Here”

214 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 8:55:58pm

re: #209 Lidane

My guess is that it would be Joaquin. It would explain his being nominated for HUD when he’s a wildly successful mayor here.

I thought Julian was the mayor and Joaquin in the House. Hadn’t heard about the HUD nomination tho. I was real impressed with his convention speech in any case much like I was Obama’s 10 years ago. The man’s got a future.

215 BongCrodny  Jun 10, 2014 8:56:28pm

Nutballs at the Twitchy Twitter feed want Trey Gowdy as the next Majority Leader.

I foresee the day when Eric Cantor is going to be remembered as a model of bipartisanship.

Lord help us.

216 Lidane  Jun 10, 2014 8:57:12pm

If nothing else, these results are a sign that immigration reform won’t happen. The House will move further right so they don’t get primaried by even more batshit teabaggers.

I can’t wait to see the 2016 GOP presidential primaries turn into a referendum on immigration. That should be a hoot.

217 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 8:57:56pm

re: #215 BongCrodny

Nutballs at the Twitchy Twitter feed want Trey Gowdy as the next Majority Leader.

I foresee the day when Eric Cantor is going to be remembered as a model of bipartisanship.

Lord help us.

Yeah some Chris Matthews wannabe in the future is going to fake reminiscence about Cantor and Obama similar to how Matthews does with Tip O’Neill and Ronald Reagan.

218 J A P  Jun 10, 2014 8:58:04pm

re: #70 OhNoZombies!

He hasn’t said anything about international cosmopolitans, has he?

219 Lidane  Jun 10, 2014 8:58:06pm

re: #214 HappyWarrior

I thought Julian was the mayor and Joaquin in the House. Hadn’t heard about the HUD nomination tho. I was real impressed with his convention speech in any case much like I was Obama’s 10 years ago. The man’s got a future.

You’re right. I got it backwards. Trying to type and listen to whatever the boyfriend is telling me about the TV show he’s watching is distracting.

220 Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2014 8:59:59pm

re: #216 Lidane

If nothing else, these results are a sign that immigration reform won’t happen. The House will move further right so they don’t get primaried by even more batshit teabaggers.

I can’t wait to see the 2016 GOP presidential primaries turn into a referendum on immigration. That should be a hoot.

You can practically hear the “moderate” Republican pundits engaging in primal screaming. Whatever fantasy they had of seeing immigration reform done before 2016, allowing the GOP to go into the presidential election with that monkey off their backs, just went up in flames. Now we’re going into the next election watching as the candidates squabble over who’ll be the first to propose turning the US/Mexico border into an electrified moat with minefields and snipers to catch any who make it across.

221 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 9:00:16pm

re: #219 Lidane

You’re right. I got it backwards. Trying to type and listen to whatever the boyfriend is telling me about the TV show he’s watching is distracting.

All good. Crazy twins and their ability to convince us that one is the other.in any case, if Julian or his brother ever get nominated for high office, I totally expect the shitheads to do the same thing they did with their surname that has been done with Obama’s. Because you know their last name is Castro ergo they’re responsible for Fidel Castro’s policies and sympathetic towards them.

222 OhNoZombies!  Jun 10, 2014 9:02:03pm

re: #218 J A P

He hasn’t said anything about international cosmopolitans, has he?

Heh, not sure…maybe.
If not, give him time. I’m sure it’s coming.

223 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 9:02:22pm

Really even if the establishment gets their hope and nominates someone like Bush or Christie for president. That guy is going to be a shell of his former self and reduced to pandering like Mitt and McCain before him did to the worst elements of the party. We’ll see yet another nod to the nutcases in the VP pick. I don’t see Cruz getting nominated but I can easily see him being picked for VP as a nod to that element of the base that begged for Palin and Ryan. And then when that ticket fails, Cruz will become a RINO just like Ryan has.

224 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 9:03:23pm

First majority leader I’m hearing by the way to lose a primary since 1899. So, yeah this is a big deal.

225 Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2014 9:04:54pm

re: #223 HappyWarrior

Really even if the establishment gets their hope and nominates someone like Bush or Christie for president. That guy is going to be a shell of his former self and reduced to pandering like Mitt and McCain before him did to the worst elements of the party. We’ll see yet another nod to the nutcases in the VP pick. I don’t see Cruz getting nominated but I can easily see him being picked for VP as a nod to that element of the base that begged for Palin and Ryan. And then when that ticket fails, Cruz will become a RINO just like Ryan has.

Christie’s right out, that albatross around his neck labeled “Port Authority” is gonna sink him. And I’m not sure Jeb’s even decided if he really wants to run, despite the establishment looking to him now as their only hope. It could very well be Cruz winning the nomination, which wouldn’t stop him from being dubbed a “RINO” upon getting his ass shellacked in the general election.

226 Lidane  Jun 10, 2014 9:05:07pm
227 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 9:06:59pm

re: #225 Targetpractice

Christie’s right out, that albatross around his neck labeled “Port Authority” is gonna sink him. And I’m not sure Jeb’s even decided if he really wants to run, despite the establishment looking to him now as their only hope. It could very well be Cruz winning the nomination, which wouldn’t stop him from being dubbed a “RINO” upon getting his ass shellacked in the general election.

I tend to agree. Primaries are going to be fun to watch in any case. It’s no wonder why the GOP cut the debates down because they know that those things show the nasty hatred that makes up the GOP base.

228 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 9:08:11pm

re: #226 Lidane

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He’s going to need health insurance too. I expect him to either go into lobbying or try to get a gig on Fox because the Fox Home for Defeated Right Wing Douchenozzles is always hiring.

229 Kid A  Jun 10, 2014 9:08:14pm
230 Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2014 9:08:42pm

re: #227 HappyWarrior

I tend to agree. Primaries are going to be fun to watch in any case. It’s no wonder why the GOP cut the debates down because they know that those things show the nasty hatred that makes up the GOP base.

Personally believe they cut down the number of debates because they know that the “establishment” pick pretty much sinks himself trying to running to the right of the true nutters. McCain and Romney did more damage to themselves trying out-nut the nutters in their respective years than the President ever did to them.

231 dog philosopher  Jun 10, 2014 9:10:15pm

re: #225 Targetpractice

Christie’s right out, that albatross around his neck labeled “Port Authority” is gonna sink him. And I’m not sure Jeb’s even decided if he really wants to run, despite the establishment looking to him now as their only hope. It could very well be Cruz winning the nomination, which wouldn’t stop him from being dubbed a “RINO” upon getting his ass shellacked in the general election.

as i recall we already have a standing bet where my position is that the gop leadership will never allow a bagger like cruz or paul to be nominated

my prediction is that if the nominee isn’t jeb, it will be somebody who tastes like jeb

or, better for the gop, somebody who tastes like christie but without the joisey

232 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 9:12:10pm

re: #230 Targetpractice

Personally believe they cut down the number of debates because they know that the “establishment” pick pretty much sinks himself trying to running to the right of the true nutters. McCain and Romney did more damage to themselves trying out-nut the nutters in their respective years than the President ever did to them.

That’s true. Less debates. Less footage of “moderates” outwingnutting the wingnut i.e. Romney on immigration over Newt and Perry.

233 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 9:13:49pm

I’m really hoping should a Dem win in 2016 that by 2020, the country doesn’t have a short term memory and give the GOP another shot because of Democratic fatigue. 2020 is an important year not merely because of it being a presidential and Congressional election year but also the Census and state legislatures. .

234 Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2014 9:14:04pm

re: #231 dog philosopher

as i recall we already have a standing bet where my position is that the gop leadership will never allow a bagger like cruz or paul to be nominated

my prediction is that if the nominee isn’t jeb, it will be somebody who tastes like jeb

or, better for the gop, somebody who tastes like christie but without the joisey

I’m pretty convinced by this point that the leadership is kaput. While the debates hurt McCain and Romney, they also pretty much made it impossible for the loons to get elected anywhere but the South. Less air time means less chance for on-air gaffes, less time for them to air shit that isn’t scripted, and less time for the establishment guy to come off as the “lesser of all evils.”

235 Petero1818  Jun 10, 2014 9:14:06pm

re: #192 HappyWarrior

I really want to see FR the day we elect a Hispanic president. I think they may hate Latinos more than they do African Americans.

Deep down even though they hate African Americans they know that it was their ancestors that brought their ancestors over in chains. They hold themselves responsible for it. They view Latino’s as an invasion and worthy of a war as you can tell from the comments. Its as if they didn’t know that roughly 20% of the US was Mexico before it wasn’t.

236 darthstar  Jun 10, 2014 9:16:51pm
237 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 9:17:08pm

re: #235 Petero1818

Deep down even though they hate African Americans they know that it was their ancestors that brought their ancestors over in chains. They hold themselves responsible for it. They view Latino’s as an invasion and worthy of a war as you can tell from the comments. Its as if they didn’t know that roughly 20% of the US was Mexico before it wasn’t.

I really think many of them don’t know that. These are the kind pf people who get hostile whenever they hear Spanish spoken. I think that’s an interesting point about the AA community. But yeah they do see Latinos as this “invading force” even though as you point out, around 20% of the US’s landmass was once Mexico and I think even more once belonged to Spain given that the Louisiana Purchase that was gotten from Napoleon was originally Spanish.

238 Dark_Falcon  Jun 10, 2014 9:18:09pm

Time to lighten things up with a more positive story:

Happy birthday Sasha! As the youngest Obama celebrates her 13th birthday, her transition from cute kid to trendsetting teen

Sasha Obama celebrates her 13th birthday today, meaning that there is now officially one more teenager in the White House.

In the last six years the middle schooler has blossomed before America’s eyes, turning from adorable seven-year-old into a sartorially and socially sharp adolescent.

Indeed, her eye for fashion has clearly evolved - Sasha is regularly seen in original looks from affordable stores such as Urban Outfitters and J.Crew.

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239 goddamnedfrank  Jun 10, 2014 9:18:52pm

re: #223 HappyWarrior

I don’t see Cruz getting nominated but I can easily see him being picked for VP as a nod to that element of the base that begged for Palin and Ryan. And then when that ticket fails, Cruz will become a RINO just like Ryan has.

I don’t see Cruz playing second fiddle to anybody, or any likely candidate trusting him enough to put him in that position. Cruz’s favorability rating is low and his unfavorability rating is relatively high. On top of everything else he also has one of the top five most punchable faces in history.

240 darthstar  Jun 10, 2014 9:19:44pm
241 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 9:20:13pm

re: #239 goddamnedfrank

I don’t see Cruz playing second fiddle to anybody, or any likely candidate trusting him enough to put him in that position. Cruz’s favorability rating is low and his unfavorability rating is relatively high. On top of everything else he also has one of the top five most punchable faces in history.

You’re right about his personality. Heh good point about punchable faces. He really does have that kind of face that screams asshole. I know we’re taught not to judge books by their cover but that book’s cover gives away the whole plot.

242 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 9:21:30pm

re: #240 darthstar

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I guess Sessions will be the establishment’s guy. It will be interesting to see who the TP chooses considering many of them wanted the defeated Allan West to replace Boehner which would be absurd and yes I know that SotH doesn’t have to be a sitting member.

243 sagehen  Jun 10, 2014 9:23:35pm

re: #214 HappyWarrior

I thought Julian was the mayor and Joaquin in the House. Hadn’t heard about the HUD nomination tho. I was real impressed with his convention speech in any case much like I was Obama’s 10 years ago. The man’s got a future.

One of the few times we don’t get called racist for saying “who the hell knows, I can’t tell them apart.”

244 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 9:24:14pm

re: #243 sagehen

One of the few times we don’t get called racist for saying “who the hell knows, I can’t tell them apart.”

Well, they are identical twins.

245 dog philosopher  Jun 10, 2014 9:24:15pm

re: #235 Petero1818

Its as if they didn’t know that roughly 20% of the US was Mexico before it wasn’t.

i’m pretty sure this fact would come as a startling and difficult to believe revelation to a large percentage of americans

even more so that we took it by force

246 Kid A  Jun 10, 2014 9:24:18pm
247 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 9:25:36pm

re: #246 Kid A

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Reagan signed amnesty. And that “Reagan coalition” she speaks of has been dead for some time anyhow. It’s as dead as the New Deal coalition was when Reagan ran.

248 goddamnedfrank  Jun 10, 2014 9:26:46pm

re: #234 Targetpractice

While the debates hurt McCain and Romney, they also pretty much made it impossible for the loons to get elected anywhere but the South. Less air time means less chance for on-air gaffes, less time for them to air shit that isn’t scripted, and less time for the establishment guy to come off as the “lesser of all evils.”

That’s my take. It was interesting in 2012 to watch the GOP collective zeitgeist as reflected in the polling manically flitting from one flavor of the week to the next. It was weird how damned near ever single asshole had their time at the top, Cain, Gingrich, Perry, Santorum, they all had their turn. Before things even got real in 2011 Donald Trump was polling at the top.

The Republican Hive Brain was clearly desperate to stave off the inevitable choice of Romney for as long as possible. This was partly because Romney the individual was such a gigantic d-bag that even Dark_Falcon was talking shit about him at one point, and partly because of the endemic tea party christian revanchist spiritual pressure to not pick an establishment candidate in general.

249 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 9:27:28pm

I did like that andecote about the man telling the woman to stop speaking Spanish on her phone because she was in Merica. Her response about speaking Navajo and that maybe he should go back to England if he wants to heard English heard was priceless. Honestly, maybe it’s just the bleeding heart or curious in me but I like hearing foreign languages spoken in my country. I only speak conversational English but really I just like that we have so many people of diverse backgrounds.

250 psddluva4evah  Jun 10, 2014 9:28:36pm

It’s ironic that Cantor slayed by the same forces he aided and abetted in the House. The beast he birth and created and nurtured turn back and bit him…HARD!

If Cantor ain’t pure enough, then who is?

251 teleskiguy  Jun 10, 2014 9:30:54pm

Eric Cantor, House Majority Leader, last Republican Jew in the House, defeated by a Tea Party Calvinist.

I gotta wonder…

252 goddamnedfrank  Jun 10, 2014 9:31:17pm

re: #249 HappyWarrior

I did like that andecote about the man telling the woman to stop speaking Spanish on her phone because she was in Merica.

I had a dickhead tea party coworker say something like that once. My response was that we were in Santa Fucking Barbara, that Spanish was being spoken here before there even was a Constitution of the United States.

253 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 9:32:35pm

re: #252 goddamnedfrank

I had a dickhead tea party coworker say something like that once. My response was that we were in Santa Fucking Barbara, that Spanish was being spoken here before there even was a Constitution of the United States.

Good response but yeah it’s so stupid especially when you’re in a place like SB where Spanish has been spoken for generations.

254 Kid A  Jun 10, 2014 9:32:51pm
255 OhNoZombies!  Jun 10, 2014 9:37:15pm

re: #249 HappyWarrior

I did like that andecote about the man telling the woman to stop speaking Spanish on her phone because she was in Merica. Her response about speaking Navajo and that maybe he should go back to England if he wants to heard English heard was priceless. Honestly, maybe it’s just the bleeding heart or curious in me but I like hearing foreign languages spoken in my country. I only speak conversational English but really I just like that we have so many people of diverse backgrounds.

Me too.
Until very recently, there wasn’t much diversity in my part of OH. Cleveland is pretty close, so sometimes the hubby and I pack up the kids and take a trip to a particular market just to people watch. So much culture and diversity. It’s awesome.

256 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 9:40:28pm

re: #255 OhNoZombies!

Me too.
Until very recently, there wasn’t much diversity in my part of OH. Cleveland is pretty close, so sometimes the hubby and I pack up the kids and take a trip to a particular market just to people watch. So much culture and diversity. It’s awesome.

It’s just neat and on a purely foodie level, I do like trying the new foods. Pho for lunch today! But it’s cool too because it’s America in action. My own family came to this country from Ireland, Germany, and Eastern Europe while my niece’s mother came to America with her family. Anyone who gets upset hearing a language that isn’t English is really just being closed-minded and frankly being the anti-thesis of what an American is all about.

257 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 9:41:01pm

re: #254 Kid A

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Friends don’t let friends derp and vote.

258 Dark_Falcon  Jun 10, 2014 9:42:22pm

It’s time for me to sign off for the night, but before I do let me leave you with this foolishly taken picture to mock:

Jessa Duggar, the 21-year-old star of TLC’s 19 Kids and Counting, has sparked a social media storm after she was snapped posing boldly with a pink-trimmed high-capacity semi-automatic assault rifle.

The photo was posted on Facebook by Jessa’s boyfriend, 19-year-old Ben Seewald; a staunch Christian conservative who is highly vocal about his support for guns and his commendation of abortion.

‘My AWESOME girlfriend. #DontmesswithJessa’, reads the caption.

The mockery practically writes itself. The full article is here, for anyone who wants to read it.

259 Lidane  Jun 10, 2014 9:44:37pm
260 dog philosopher  Jun 10, 2014 9:48:22pm

re: #254 Kid A

derp-on-derp violence

freepers and wingnuts are ecstatic tonite because they imagine that dynamiting the republican congressional leadership into pieces will be good for republicans

they should think harder

261 dog philosopher  Jun 10, 2014 9:50:33pm

WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report) — In a development that few had thought possible, Republicans in the Seventh District of Virginia on Tuesday night found an even bigger tool than Rep. Eric Cantor to represent them in the United States Congress.

Apparently deciding that Cantor was insufficiently heartless to represent their district, Republicans turned out to the polls to elect David Brat, a man whose political views “border on sociopathy,” according to exit-poll responses from voters who supported him.

During his concession speech, Rep. Cantor reflected on the mistakes that might have led to his defeat: “Should I have cut more school-lunch programs for poor children? Perhaps. Should I have cast more votes to screw over disaster victims? Definitely. Should I have not said the thing about treating children of immigrants like human beings? Man, do I wish I could take that one back. Hindsight is twenty-twenty, but at the end of the day I was just too damn empathic for this district.”

But Rep. Cantor was gracious in defeat, offering words of congratulation to the victorious Mr. Brat. “The people of the Seventh District have spoken,” he said. “The time has come to pass the torch to a new generation of asshats.”

When asked about the defeat of his longtime colleague in the House, Speaker John Boehner said, “I will give a formal statement as soon as I can stop laughing.”

262 goddamnedfrank  Jun 10, 2014 9:50:55pm

re: #258 Dark_Falcon

It’s time for me to sign off for the night, but before I do let me leave you with this foolishly taken picture to mock:

The mockery practically writes itself. The full article is here, for anyone who wants to read it.

That’s a .22lr pretend AR. Basicaly a trainer / adult toy. You can tell by the mag follower tracing a sharper curve than the mag itself. This is because .22lr is rimmed which biases the back of each round down more than the taper on the .223 case does.

263 Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2014 9:52:41pm

re: #260 dog philosopher

freepers and wingnuts are ecstatic tonite because they imagine that dynamiting the republican congressional leadership into pieces will be good for republicans

they should think harder

These are people who fantasize about another Civil War where they come out on top and reform America into “What The Founders Intended” (as they interpret it, of course). Think of this not as a political upheaval, think of it like a mafia hit job. Eric Cantor tried to play the Tea Party for suckers and now he sleeps with the fishes.

264 psddluva4evah  Jun 10, 2014 9:53:25pm

I’m not as much a Weigel fan as some are, but he’s right about this I think…

@daveweigel This steak house factoid will define this race nytimes.com

From the article Weigel tweeted, this really does kinda sum up why Cantor’s defeat really is like David slaying Goliath…

…One measure of the extraordinary defeat could be seen in the candidate’s finances. Since the beginning of last year, Mr. Cantor’s campaign had spent about $168,637 at steakhouses compared with the $200,000 his challenger, David Brat, had spent on his entire campaign…

265 HappyWarrior  Jun 10, 2014 9:55:26pm

re: #264 psddluva4evah

I’m not as much a Weigel fan as some are, but he’s right about this I think…

From the article Weigel tweeted, this really does kinda sum up why Cantor’s defeat really is like David slaying Goliath…

Well he can have all the steaks he wants now that he’s unemployed now and on a nice pension plan.

266 dog philosopher  Jun 10, 2014 9:55:59pm

re: #263 Targetpractice

<blockquoteThink of this not as a political upheaval, think of it like a mafia hit job. Eric Cantor tried to play the Tea Party for suckers and now he sleeps with the fishes.

actually i think of it as random childish violence

baby no like what daddy did, hit daddy on the head with a hammer and laugh

267 goddamnedfrank  Jun 10, 2014 9:57:53pm

re: #264 psddluva4evah

I’m not as much a Weigel fan as some are, but he’s right about this I think…

From the article Weigel tweeted, this really does kinda sum up why Cantor’s defeat really is like David slaying Goliath…

It’s just a measure of how unpopular he became with the GOP base. The horribly bigoted, racist, revanchist, pig ignorant, goddawful rotting-at-the-soul GOP base.

268 Targetpractice  Jun 10, 2014 9:59:27pm

re: #264 psddluva4evah

I’m not as much a Weigel fan as some are, but he’s right about this I think…

From the article Weigel tweeted, this really does kinda sum up why Cantor’s defeat really is like David slaying Goliath…

Personally think that is what will send tremors through the establishment tomorrow, not that Cantor lost, but he lost to a guy who spent a tiny fraction of what he did. That even millions of dollars will not save their asses if the base wants them gone badly enough.

269 Gus  Jun 10, 2014 9:59:51pm

“Was immigration an issue? Yes. Was it the deciding factor to the tune of 11%? Not no, hell no. It’s a fairy tale,” Virginia Democratic strategist Dave “Mudcat” Saunders said. “People talk. And they talk about Eric Cantor. ‘Where is he?’ His constituent services suck. He was never in the district. And when he was in the district and he went out, he had a [security] entourage with him. He was out gallivanting all over the country being a big deal and this is a lesson.”

time.com

270 goddamnedfrank  Jun 10, 2014 10:00:17pm

Anyway the asshole is going to become a lobbyist and make millions more than he ever did as a Congressman.

271 psddluva4evah  Jun 10, 2014 10:02:30pm

re: #269 Gus

I was just reading this same thing.

272 Gus  Jun 10, 2014 10:03:42pm

re: #271 psddluva4evah

I was just reading this same thing.

Yep. I know from where! :D

273 Gus  Jun 10, 2014 10:05:03pm

re: #271 psddluva4evah

I was just reading this same thing.

Also would makes a lot of sense. He was just a lousy rep. All about me.

274 Gus  Jun 10, 2014 10:09:29pm

John Oliver - European far right

Youtube Video

275 sagehen  Jun 10, 2014 10:16:47pm

re: #252 goddamnedfrank

I had a dickhead tea party coworker say something like that once. My response was that we were in Santa Fucking Barbara, that Spanish was being spoken here before there even was a Constitution of the United States.

Hell, Spanish has been spoken there since before there was a settlement at Jamestown. That Mission is older than anything on the East Coast.

276 Mattand  Jun 10, 2014 10:30:20pm

Just heard about Cantor getting tea bagged in the primary. Wow.

I should hope this will disabuse any alleged moderate Republicans of the notion that they can pretend there’s nothing wrong with the party.

277 nsmith25  Jun 10, 2014 10:45:24pm

FFS, look at this:

Watching TV and this commercial pops up from a group called Protect the Harvest. They claim Americas Food supply and our Freedoms are under attack. Say that sport hunting, fishing, and even owning a pet are freedoms that are all at risk, due to “extremist animal rights groups.”

Protect The Harvest

Damn, Obama is going to take away guns, ban Sport Fishing, and shoot your dog.
//

278 nsmith25  Jun 10, 2014 10:46:43pm

And with that, I’m out for the night. Gotta sleep the derp off.

279 psddluva4evah  Jun 10, 2014 11:32:04pm

I think Booman’s take is just right here: boomantribune.com

This sentence being the most interesting aspect of this defeat that seems even people in the MSM haven’t even realized yet.

The national Republican Party just lost their only remaining Jewish member because he wasn’t racist enough.

Think about that for a moment.

280 Dr Lizardo  Jun 10, 2014 11:41:52pm

re: #208 kirkspencer

At least eight years to the critical event; a breakup and rebirth, phoenix-like, just as both Democratic and Republican parties did in the past.

Setting the poetic stuff aside, the real breaker will be after the 2020 census when new districts are formed.

The 2020 Census will be the tolling of the bell for the GOP. At that point, I can see the white nationalist wing of the party splitting off and either attempting to form their own party or maybe even going so far as to retreat from politics altogether.

281 Dr Lizardo  Jun 10, 2014 11:45:33pm

re: #220 Targetpractice

You can practically hear the “moderate” Republican pundits engaging in primal screaming. Whatever fantasy they had of seeing immigration reform done before 2016, allowing the GOP to go into the presidential election with that monkey off their backs, just went up in flames. Now we’re going into the next election watching as the candidates squabble over who’ll be the first to propose turning the US/Mexico border into an electrified moat with minefields and snipers to catch any who make it across.

Nah…..they won’t go that far. They’ll propose this instead.

The wingnuts dream come true

282 Gus  Jun 10, 2014 11:53:55pm
283 Single-handed sailor  Jun 10, 2014 11:58:57pm

It’s a shame Eric Cantor wasn’t a true scottsman. The TEA Party threw away their former darling, and the second most powerful person in the House of Representatives (and possibly the future Speakership), to gain a freshman Congressman who will be lucky to get a backseat on some minor committee. I think they are too clever by half.

284 Lidane  Jun 11, 2014 12:00:34am

re: #282 Gus

285 dog philosopher  Jun 11, 2014 12:00:47am

oh snake oil salesman, thou art sick
the all too visible shark
that you raised as a pet
that flails blindly in the aisles
has found out the heart
of thine own corrupt machine
and has climbed on top of it
to chomp you to death

286 Gus  Jun 11, 2014 12:02:11am

My top Tweet.

287 Dr Lizardo  Jun 11, 2014 12:02:54am

Heads up, Lizards in Europe looking for a taxi.

Uber Protests Poised to Block Roads From London to Madrid: Cars

More than 30,000 taxi and limo drivers from London to Milan plan to cause traffic snarls in tourist centers and shopping districts. They are asking regulators to apply tougher rules on San Francisco-based Uber, whose software allows customers to order a ride from drivers who don’t need licenses that can cost 200,000 euros ($270,000) apiece.

While similar demonstrations this year have led to smashed windshields and traffic chaos in Paris, a united front in Europe highlights the challenges for Uber’s expansion plan after a funding round that values the company at $17 billion, almost five times the figure in an earlier round. Out of some 128 cities it serves, only 20 are in Europe, including Manchester, Lyon and Zurich.

More than 3,000 Parisian drivers are planning to block the Charles de Gaulle and Orly airports as well as the A1 highway that circles the French capital starting at 6 a.m. local time, according to the FNAT taxi association in France.

businessweek.com

288 Gus  Jun 11, 2014 12:03:03am

And this is cool.

289 dog philosopher  Jun 11, 2014 12:04:34am

re: #283 Single-handed sailor

It’s a shame Eric Cantor wasn’t a true scottsman. The TEA Party threw away their former darling, and the second most powerful person in the House of Representatives (and possibly the future Speakership), to gain a freshman Congressman who will be lucky to get a backseat on some minor committee. I think they are too clever by half.

they’re so happy and are celebrating, while their party, that gives them the only power they have, is by this act become a headless body flailing around spasmodically, spurting blood

290 RadicalModerate  Jun 11, 2014 12:04:48am

re: #139 darthstar

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Time to show my age here.

When I first heard the name of Brat’s opponent, I thought that the founder of Commodore International (best known for the C64) might have come out of retirement.

Then I remembered that he passed away in 2012.

291 Dr Lizardo  Jun 11, 2014 12:08:09am

re: #289 dog philosopher

they’re so happy and are celebrating, while their party, that gives them the only power they have, is by this act become a headless body flailing around spasmodically, spurting blood

Radicals are notoriously short-sighted.

292 Gus  Jun 11, 2014 12:12:45am
293 Gus  Jun 11, 2014 12:13:34am

We really are the champions.

294 Gus  Jun 11, 2014 12:46:30am

Ringo Starr - It Don’t Come Easy

Youtube Video

295 Dr Lizardo  Jun 11, 2014 12:58:28am

So, a little local news from my part of the world.

Some background first. In this region there a lot of ubýtovna, which are more-or-less classified as hostels and typically used to house the indigent, ex-criminals, or the homeless. They were, until quite recently, run by large private companies such as RPG Property. However, starting in about 2012, people started complaining because these hostels weren’t being properly maintained and they had become a haven for crime. So, Ostrava and its surrounding municipalities have decided to start buying these hostels and have the city run them instead, as the private companies doing so were neglecting the properties and failing to provide adequate security.

I lived in one for awhile, before I moved into the apartment I’m in now. The one I lived in I affectionately dubbed “Bedbug Heaven”. It was cheap, but it was a dump, and from rumors I’m hearing, it’s next on the city’s hit list. Police calls for domestic violence or assorted criminality were daily occurences; indeed, one fool damn near burned the place down back in late 2012. It was crawling not only with bedbugs, but tweakers. Needless to say, I’m happy I’m not there, and from what I’ve seen, that place was paradise compared to a lot of these hostels.

Here’s the article, translated into English:

Havířov city council members suggested that the district should invest 42 million crowns (appx. $2.1 million dollars) into the purchase of the Merkur Hostel. City Hall would thus like to deal with the problem hostel, which is run by a private company

The hostel is run in two high-rise buildings that once served as the miners’ hostel and hotel. The third building is used as an office building. In the other two buildings are restaurants, shops and printer. There is also a playground and a car park.

“We get the whole area, with the owner’s agreeing to installments over five years. The money that we have, we can get back through the sale of the commercial properties, which are now restaurants, shops and printer. According to the technical condition of the three tower blocks, we will decide how to handle this. I suppose they could be renovated to serve for social housing with small apartments for young people or the elderly or perhaps a nursing home”, said Mayor Zdeněk Osmanczyk last Thursday afternoon.

RPG, the current owner, originally wanted an amount exceeding 80 million ($4 million dollars). During negotiations, they reduced that amount by half. The Assembly will debate the proposal on Monday, June 23. “I expect the debate. However, I will certainly agree that 42 million for the whole area is a lot. I believe that to the people residing in the area, we can bring peace of mind and provide a sense of security,” added the Mayor.

Welcome to Hell. We’ve been expecting you.

moravskoslezsky.denik.cz

296 Gus  Jun 11, 2014 1:08:05am
297 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 1:12:00am
298 Gus  Jun 11, 2014 1:13:21am

Amy Winehouse - Rehab

Youtube Video

299 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 1:25:52am
I don’t think we’re ever going to live in a world where we’re not going to have troubled, confused, isolated young men. But we shouldn’t live in a world where men like that have very easy access to semi-automatic handguns.

Paged

300 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 1:39:50am

301 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 1:46:22am

302 urbanmeemaw  Jun 11, 2014 1:49:58am

re: #23 b.d.

Tonight Chuck Todd looks like a man who spent years sucking an ass that he thought would his key to inside info for years to come.

Chuck is still waiting for votes from Southwestern Ohio to come in because Karl Rove told him to.

303 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 2:00:12am
304 Dr Lizardo  Jun 11, 2014 2:10:48am

re: #301 FemNaziBitch

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One of my favorites in that vein is “The Monsters Are Due On Maple Street” from the old Twilight Zone.

Youtube Video

Rod Serling was the man. Eloquently stated and a masterful commentary on human nature.

The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices - to be found only in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill…and suspicion can destroy…and a thoughtless frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all of its own - for the children…and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is…that these things cannot be confined…to the Twilight Zone.

305 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 2:17:53am
306 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 2:19:16am
307 Lidane  Jun 11, 2014 2:25:55am
308 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 2:40:00am

I can’t get over that his last name is Brat.

Is it short for Bratwurst?

309 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 2:40:58am

bbl

310 KerFuFFler  Jun 11, 2014 3:13:57am

re: #307 Lidane
Your comment reminded me of one I saw in the previous thread:

So, really, a libertarian christianist.
How does that work, again?

I think a lot of people misconstrue Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” of the market as the intervention of God picking winners and losers in the economy. Thus, for mere mortals and politicians to tinker with regulating the economy is to oppose God’s will!

311 Dr. Matt  Jun 11, 2014 3:14:43am

The GOP establishment embraced the teabaggers. The GOP establishment refused to keep them in check and they refused to rebuke their inflammatory and vile language. Well……here you go. Enjoy.

312 Dr Lizardo  Jun 11, 2014 3:20:13am

re: #311 Dr. Matt

The GOP establishment embraced the teabaggers. The GOP establishment refused to keep them in check and they refused to read rebuke their inflammatory and vile language. Well……here you go. Enjoy.

The GOP leadership likely viewed the TP’ers as “useful idiots” - a hoi polloi they could exploit for reliable votes.

Now the hoi polloi have turned on them. The GOP leaders kept mum while the Teahadis hurled the most vile invective and incendiary rhetoric; in some cases, they even joined in the fray.

They grabbed that tiger’s tail - and now that tiger is devouring them.

You reap what you sow, GOP.

313 Dr. Matt  Jun 11, 2014 3:24:32am

re: #312 Dr Lizardo

Bingo. Well said and precise. Frankenstein’s monster lives another day to terrorize the villages.

314 Dr Lizardo  Jun 11, 2014 3:33:29am

re: #313 Dr. Matt

Bingo. Well said and precise. Frankenstein’s monster lives another day to terrorize the villages.

It’s certainly not the first time in history that a leadership group has sought to exploit the power of a discontented rabble, only to have that rabble turn on them in a heartbeat once they’d attained power. There’s several examples, most notably in Germany in the early 1930s and of course, the French Revolution.

I often wonder whether people actually pay attention to the lessons of history and simply fail to draw the proper conclusions (i.e., “That’s a bad idea”) or whether they sincerely believe that the same bitter fate won’t happen to them (i.e., “It’ll be totally different this time!”)

In any event, lock up your doors and shutter the windows because Dr. Frankenstein’s monster is coming to town, and he’s feeling his oats.

315 Lidane  Jun 11, 2014 3:51:08am
316 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 3:57:28am

re: #303 FemNaziBitch

The Life of a Leftie

Haha, I just poured my coffee with my left hand into a cup I held with my right hand. I’ve learned to use my right hand for many chores, including shifting gears in my car. But learning to play the guitar was a challenge and besides, I had no talent.

Meanwhile, how can a politician get away with saying something like this unless his ignorant fans believe it, too? In the meantime, GMU boasts 2 Nobel winners, James Buchanan and Walter E Williams, both rank libertarians, so it’s not surprising Brat teaches and thrives there. So libertarian philosophy gets wide expression at this upstart university, est in 1957 as a branch of UV and becoming an independent public school in 1972.

“…”dreamers” break into homes and steal. They also rob banks. What’s the difference? None, they didn’t earn it.”

How many of Brat’s voters have themselves, or have a relative with, some kind of criminal record? And have they ever thought about how much is stolen from them as workers and consumers to satisfy the greed of those they approve of?

317 Dark_Falcon  Jun 11, 2014 4:17:49am

re: #277 nsmith25

FFS, look at this:[Embedded image]

Watching TV and this commercial pops up from a group called Protect the Harvest. They claim Americas Food supply and our Freedoms are under attack. Say that sport hunting, fishing, and even owning a pet are freedoms that are all at risk, due to “extremist animal rights groups.”

Protect The Harvest

Damn, Obama is going to take away guns, ban Sport Fishing, and shoot your dog.
//

Given that the Obamas own two dogs it would seem unlikely that the president is a friend of “extremist animal rights groups.” His administration has surely given no signs of being influenced by such people…

Ah, but I just remembered that the people targeted by an ad such as that are immune to facts and logic.

318 Dark_Falcon  Jun 11, 2014 4:20:16am

re: #313 Dr. Matt

Bingo. Well said and precise. Frankenstein’s monster lives another day to terrorize the villages.

Actually, as Mary Shelly wrote it it was the irrational panic of the villagers that convinced them the monster meant them harm. He didn’t go after them until they’d attacked him first.

319 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 4:28:33am

re: #201 Ian G.

On what planet is Cantor a “moderate”, NY Times?

He’s Robespierre and just got guillotined by his own revolution.

So stealing that and Tweeting it.

320 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 4:34:15am

re: #317 Dark_Falcon

Given that the Obamas own two dogs it would seem unlikely that the president is a friend of “extremist animal rights groups.” His administration has surely given no signs of being influenced by such people…

Ah, but I just remembered that the people targeted by an ad such as that are immune to facts and logic.

Could these be some of the same people?

Empty shelves at only grocery store in Akron angers residents; farming town becomes ‘food desert’

thedenverchannel.com

Actually, it’s the “free market” which is at fault here; they can’t blame the President for it.

321 Dr. Matt  Jun 11, 2014 4:34:27am

re: #201 Ian G.

On what planet is Cantor a “moderate”, NY Times?

He’s Robespierre and just got guillotined by his own revolution.

But remember, in today’s batshit crazy conservative movement, all it takes is one moment of sanity to be labeled a “RINO” or a “moderate”.

322 A Mom Anon  Jun 11, 2014 4:39:04am

re: #314 Dr Lizardo

I’m surrounded by these fools, but lately they’ve been kind of quiet. Which kinda freaks me out. I’m not sure if that means they’re crying in their beer or stocking up on ammo. Or both. ((((shudder)))) Mr Wingnut next door hasn’t posted ANYTHING political on his Facebook page since I (and his Mom, snicker)corrected some dumb old viral email he posted about Starbucks hating The Troops. Last thing that went up was a pic of the new pool they put in. Heh. I take small victories, maybe he’ll actually look up some info about crap before running off at the face about it.

Nah, who am I kidding? Who needs facts when you have your own personal arsenal?

323 Dr. Matt  Jun 11, 2014 4:39:36am

If she doesn’t act like a partisan extremist, she better prepare for an onslaught of vile smears and rhetoric from the right:

324 Dark_Falcon  Jun 11, 2014 4:40:19am

re: #320 Justanotherhuman

Could these be some of the same people?

Empty shelves at only grocery store in Akron angers residents; farming town becomes ‘food desert’

thedenverchannel.com

Actually, it’s the “free market” which is at fault here; they can’t blame the President for it.

It’s not the free market, not really; It’s more the legal system. The grocery store is in legal limbo due to battles between its current owner and the person he bought it from. Monies are not available for purchase of food stocks for sale while the legal disputes continue. And they might go on for months or years yet.

325 Dark_Falcon  Jun 11, 2014 4:42:51am

re: #323 Dr. Matt

If she doesn’t act like a partisan extremist, she better prepare for an onslaught of vile smears and rhetoric from the right:

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She won’t, as that’s not the Bush style. Her father may have talked tough as president, be he’s never been one to treat people badly in person and both Goerge W. Bush and his daughters regard Barack Obama fairly well as a person.

326 Dr Lizardo  Jun 11, 2014 4:46:58am

re: #325 Dark_Falcon

She won’t, as that’s not the Bush style. Her father may have talked tough as president, be he’s never been one to treat people badly in person and both Goerge W. Bush and his daughters regard Barack Obama fairly well as a person.

I agree; that’s not the Bush style. In any event, I can well imagine the wingnuts will raise their usual shrieks about RINO and all that nonsense.

Hell, a good-sized segment of the wingnuts consider George W. Bush to be a RINO.

327 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 4:50:31am

re: #324 Dark_Falcon

It’s not the free market, not really; It’s more the legal system. The grocery store is in legal limbo due to battles between its current owner and the person he bought it from. Monies are not available for purchase of food stocks for sale while the legal disputes continue. And they might go on for months or years yet.

The legal system? One party sues another in a civil matter. It’s done all the time.

The new owner filed for bankruptcy in 2012 (also done all the time) and is suing the old owners (reason not specified but probably some contract dispute).

The only govt involvement is that which the current and former owners have themselves instigated in the courts, so yeah, it’s still “free market” failure. After all, the govt doesn’t, or didn’t, run that business, but it’s been asked for help via the courts.

328 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 11, 2014 4:50:52am

re: #145 Ian G.

See, here’s the problem, Mark. In the world we live in, in which your side lost in 1865, you can’t win elections on nothing but white Christian men. You must reach out to “genitalia” (charming) and ethnic groups. By dismissing them as less than worthy of this delusions vision of America you have, you guarantee electoral defeat.

It wins primaries. Which is fine as long as it is such an overwhelmingly GOP base district that the minorities and Jenny Talias are not going to alter the outcome.

329 Dr. Matt  Jun 11, 2014 4:54:22am

re: #325 Dark_Falcon

She won’t, as that’s not the Bush style. Her father may have talked tough as president, be he’s never been one to treat people badly in person and both Goerge W. Bush and his daughters regard Barack Obama fairly well as a person.

Bullshit. Nice attempt to rewrite history. Fucking laughable on its face. Fucking deluded.

330 KerFuFFler  Jun 11, 2014 4:55:26am

re: #56 Gus

What respectable journal would publish such BS? Aside from the questionable “content” the writing is also rife with typos. Seriously, sure even respectable journals have the occasional typo, but this excerpt abounds with them.

331 Dr. Matt  Jun 11, 2014 4:59:36am

The deluded have forgotten the dubyah’s sidekicks were Dick and Karl and never once reigned in their partisan extremist. Sorry. …”that’s not bush’s style” fails every smell test.

332 Flounder  Jun 11, 2014 5:00:10am

littlegreenfootballs.com

re: #161 Charles Johnson

Some people I really feel sorry for in the Vegas terror attack: the family of Joseph Wilcox, the guy with a CCW permit who thought he should confront Jerad Miller because he was one of the good guys with a gun.

Don’t feel sorry for them, as their kinsman died trying to save others from a murderous psychopath. Even though he did not stop the scumbag, he died doing the right thing for the right reason. Such a person should be mourned, but instead of being pitied they should be honored. Joseph Wilcox died as one of the best kinds of men and his family should be proud of him.

Dark, I couldn’t agree with you more, with you have a CCW or a food cart, in that situation it is honorable to do the right thing.

333 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 5:02:22am
334 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 5:04:05am

And look what I found in Glenn Greenwald’s timeline:

335 Dark_Falcon  Jun 11, 2014 5:05:22am

re: #329 Dr. Matt

Note the use of the phrase ‘in person’. Campaign tactics are a different matter entirely.

336 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 5:05:31am

re: #333 Pie-onist Overlord

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Shorter GG: Don’t attack my fellow glibertarians.

337 Dark_Falcon  Jun 11, 2014 5:06:15am

re: #332 Flounder

littlegreenfootballs.com

Dark, I couldn’t agree with you more, with you have a CCW or a food cart, in that situation it is honorable to do the right thing.

Thank you for that.

BBL

338 sagehen  Jun 11, 2014 5:07:10am

re: #331 Dr. Matt

The deluded have forgotten the dubyah’s sidekicks were Dick and Karl and never once reigned in their partisan extremist. Sorry. …”that’s not bush’s style” fails every smell test.

whaaa??

The Bush style is to outsource the nastiness, never to do it themselves in person. Then when “somebody” starts doing robocalls or whisper campaigns about Ann Richards being a lesbian, or that John McCain fathered a black child with a prostitute, Bush widens his eyes and “omigosh I have no idea who could have done such a thing, it certainly wasn’t me….”

339 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 5:07:30am

Thanks Glenn & Justin for bringing this to our attention, but you’re still douchewads:
davebratforcongress.com

Some excerpts:

2nd Amendment
I will oppose any efforts to undermine or limit the Constitutional right to bear arms.

I am a strong supporter of gun rights. The right to keep and bear arms is a fundamental right enshrined in the constitution for a reason - it provides the people with the ultimate guarantee of sovereignty. I will oppose any back door attempts to confiscate guns or create a national gun registry. All too frequently the knee jerk reaction to tragedies by the media and chattering class is to move to restrict our rights. In Congress, I will be a steady and firm supporter of our 2nd amendment rights at all times - not just when it is convenient. Our founding documents make it clear that our inalienable rights come from God and that the job of the government is to ensure and protect those God given rights. I intend to keep it that way.

Individual Freedoms
The federal government’s abuse of our freedoms has spun out of control. Whether it is the NSA violating our 4th Amendment Rights by collecting phone records, the IRS violating our 1st Amendment rights by targeting conservative organizations, or President Obama violating our 5th Amendment rights with the indefinite detention of American citizens, our freedoms have been under attack and they must be restored.

National Security/Foreign Policy
Ronald Reagan said it best: “Peace through strength.” A strong military is essential to the success of our nation. We must secure our borders, support the Armed Forces, both at home and abroad, and maintain a strong national defense in order to secure our country’s future. In addition, I support a full investigation into the Benghazi attacks.

Federal Reserve
I support a full audit of the Federal Reserve System.

Uphold Human Life
Human life is sacred, as proclaimed by our founding documents, and I will always support laws that protect life. Our fundamental rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness precede the existence of government and come from God, the Author of Nature. These core constitutional rights have been usurped by the Judicial and Executive Branches and must be returned to the people and their representatives.

340 darthstar  Jun 11, 2014 5:10:25am
341 KerFuFFler  Jun 11, 2014 5:19:33am
“We spend much more time on market activity than God activity. Thus, Calvinism.” Dave Brat

I think I’m missing an ‘ergo’.

342 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 11, 2014 5:27:01am

re: #258 Dark_Falcon

Do I see traces of pink on the gun? A girl’s semi-auto rifle.

343 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 5:31:44am

Article at Breitbart about the impact of Cantor’s defeat on TEH JUICE.

Only 5 comments so far, but already some anti-Semites are swarming.

344 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 5:39:13am

I can see GG defending a 19th century philospher who thought that
moralities existed according to rank and that some moralities are more suitable for subordinate roles (i.e, workers and the lower classes) and others are possessed by the betters of the lower class and the real “masters” of theirs, and anyone else’s, fate).

Nietzsche did not believe there were “universal” morals. From what I’ve read of him, he considered himself an elite although he was as flawed as any other human being on the planet. He thought morality was for the lower classes and that the elite should follow whatever they themselves deemed as “good”.

345 darthstar  Jun 11, 2014 5:40:28am
346 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 11, 2014 5:40:39am

re: #344 Justanotherhuman

Wasn’t he the one who longed for an übermensch?

347 darthstar  Jun 11, 2014 5:42:19am

re: #258 Dark_Falcon

It’s time for me to sign off for the night, but before I do let me leave you with this foolishly taken picture to mock:

The mockery practically writes itself. The full article is here, for anyone who wants to read it.

I don’t think they meant to write ‘commendation’…rather ‘condemnation’

348 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 5:46:05am

re: #346 wheat-dogghazi

Wasn’t he the one who longed for an übermensch?

Yes, the Dionysian ideal of an “overman”, or “superman” who possesses the “will to power”.

349 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 11, 2014 5:46:45am

re: #339 Pie-onist Overlord

the indefinite detention of American citizens

What case is this about?

350 Timothy Watson  Jun 11, 2014 5:47:31am

re: #342 wheat-dogghazi

Do I see traces of pink on the gun? A girl’s semi-auto rifle.

A sissy gun, and not because of the pink on it: It’s a .22 LR. Who pays the price for an AR-15 .22 LR when you can get a Marlin for at least half the price?

351 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 5:49:28am

re: #338 sagehen

whaaa??

The Bush style is to outsource the nastiness, never to do it themselves in person. Then when “somebody” starts doing robocalls or whisper campaigns about Ann Richards being a lesbian, or that John McCain fathered a black child with a prostitute, Bush widens his eyes and “omigosh I have no idea who could have done such a thing, it certainly wasn’t me….”

I believe that is why Dole and H.W Bush got into that whole spat where Dole told H.W to “stop lying about my record.”

352 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 5:49:46am

re: #347 darthstar

I don’t think they meant to write ‘commendation’…rather ‘condemnation’

Her brother…

John David Duggar, Gun Nut

More whacked out BS from the overpopulated Duggar household.

353 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 5:50:04am

re: #343 Pie-onist Overlord

Article at Breitbart about the impact of Cantor’s defeat on TEH JUICE.

Only 5 comments so far, but already some anti-Semites are swarming.

But but I thought the real anti-semites were lefties. Oh wait.

354 Timothy Watson  Jun 11, 2014 5:50:09am

re: #349 Rev_Arthur_Belling

What case is this about?

The only American that was being detained indefinitely (that I’m aware of) was Yaser Esam Hamdi, who was released in 2004.

355 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 11, 2014 5:51:29am

re: #354 Timothy Watson

The only American that was being detained indefinitely (that I’m aware of) was Yaser Esam Hamdi, who was released in 2004.

That was my thought exactly. Brat is a whackjob.

356 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 11, 2014 5:51:35am

It’s 8:45 pm here and there is another round of some sort of musical competition going on right now on campus. The singers are so far uniformly awful, the backup bands are only so-so, and the audio system is so frakkin’ loud that I can hear it all clearly despite being nearly 300 m away as the crow flies.

It’s been going on since 7:30 pm. My head hurts. It’s like listening to someone scratch a blackboard with their nails while stepping on a cat’s tail, over and over again.

357 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 5:52:01am

re: #355 Rev_Arthur_Belling

That was my thought exactly. Brat is a whackjob.

Well it comes with the job description.

358 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 5:53:23am

Seems to me that Brat is everything RWers claim about “lefty college professors” a radical who seeks to indoctrinate. Somehow, I suspect he’s the kind of guy who grades you down if you don’t worship Free Market Ayn Rand Jesus bastard child.

359 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 11, 2014 5:56:56am

Put on my headphones and listening to real music, before I go nuts.

360 Romantic Heretic  Jun 11, 2014 6:01:55am

re: #236 darthstar

The only problem with that thought is it was the GOP base that elected Brat.

361 darthstar  Jun 11, 2014 6:04:05am
362 A Mom Anon  Jun 11, 2014 6:04:19am

re: #352 Justanotherhuman

My surprise, let me show you it. These kids were “raised” and I use that term loosely, by Quiverfull maniacs who became somewhat legit because TLC gave them a TV show. A show that should be called “Oops My Uterus Fell Out, Can You Find It For Me Honey?”

Stop making stupid, loopy and mean people famous America, for the love of GOD.

363 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 6:04:21am

re: #360 Romantic Heretic

The only problem with that thought is it was the GOP base that elected Brat.

Yep and honestly the few Dems in Va-07 can’t be blamed for their insane Republican neighbors thinking Cantor wasn’t wingnutty enough.

364 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 11, 2014 6:04:37am

re: #359 wheat-dogghazi

Put on my headphones and listening to real music, before I go nuts.

Feeeelwings! Nothin’ more than Feeelwings!

365 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 6:04:50am

re: #361 darthstar

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The good life. He’s so oppressed though.

366 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 6:05:15am

re: #362 A Mom Anon

My surprise, let me show you it. These kids were “raised” and I use that term loosely, by Quiverfull maniacs who became somewhat legit because TLC gave them a TV show. A show that should be called “Oops My Uterus Fell Out, Can You Find It For Me Honey?”

Stop making stupid, loopy and mean people famous America, for the love of GOD.

Yes!

367 lawhawk  Jun 11, 2014 6:05:49am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. While the media elites and politicos try to figure out the meaning of the batcrap insane Brat winning over the just slightly less insane Cantor in Va-07, things are going south in Iraq in a hurry.

368 darthstar  Jun 11, 2014 6:07:05am

re: #365 HappyWarrior

The good life. He’s so oppressed though.

The good news is that he’ll take that money and the US will be able to charge him with tax evasion as well as stealing classified information.

369 Timothy Watson  Jun 11, 2014 6:08:09am

re: #367 lawhawk

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. While the media elites and politicos try to figure out the meaning of the batcrap insane Brat winning over the just slightly less insane Cantor in Va-07, things are going south in Iraq in a hurry.

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McCain will be around shortly to call for another invasion of Iraq.

370 kirkspencer  Jun 11, 2014 6:08:48am

re: #342 wheat-dogghazi

Do I see traces of pink on the gun? A girl’s semi-auto rifle.

and

re: #350 Timothy Watson

A sissy gun, and not because of the pink on it: It’s a .22 LR. Who pays the price for an AR-15 .22 LR when you can get a Marlin for at least half the price?

It’s a minor thing, I know, but would you please not use gender or (implied) sexuality as code for weak and failure?

371 Dr Lizardo  Jun 11, 2014 6:09:22am

re: #367 lawhawk

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. While the media elites and politicos try to figure out the meaning of the batcrap insane Brat winning over the just slightly less insane Cantor in Va-07, things are going south in Iraq in a hurry.

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Sadaam Hussein’s hometown.

372 lawhawk  Jun 11, 2014 6:12:33am

And this happened yesterday.

Guy drives car, and it bursts into flames following an accident near the GWB. Driver vanishes and is later apprehended and given summonses for leaving the scene of an accident.

Ordinarily this doesn’t warrant much of a comment, but the kind of car does.

The car that became a crispy critter? A 2008 Lamborghini Murcielago, which was valued at $200,000 or more before it became flame roasted.

373 darthstar  Jun 11, 2014 6:13:29am
374 lawhawk  Jun 11, 2014 6:14:13am

re: #371 Dr Lizardo

Sadaam Hussein’s hometown.

Yup, the same areas that became a hell for US troops and the focus of the US-led surge, are the same problems now giving the Iraqi government fits as their “military” and “police forces” evaporate ahead of ISIS (not the Archer kind) gains.

375 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 6:14:33am

re: #369 Timothy Watson

McCain will be around shortly to call for another invasion of Iraq.

Him and his lackeys Graham and Ayoette.

376 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 6:15:14am

re: #368 darthstar

The good news is that he’ll take that money and the US will be able to charge him with tax evasion as well as stealing classified information.

Ah, yeah, same thing that ended up doing in Capone.

377 lawhawk  Jun 11, 2014 6:16:14am

re: #373 darthstar

378 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 6:16:48am

re: #349 Rev_Arthur_Belling

What case is this about?

My guess is Justina Pelletier. She has become something of a wingnut cause célèbre.

379 Romantic Heretic  Jun 11, 2014 6:16:58am

re: #255 OhNoZombies!

Me too.
Until very recently, there wasn’t much diversity in my part of OH. Cleveland is pretty close, so sometimes the hubby and I pack up the kids and take a trip to a particular market just to people watch. So much culture and diversity. It’s awesome.

Come to Toronto some day. We’ve have all kinds of diversity. Chinese, Vietnamese, Greeks and Portuguese. That’s just off the top of my head.

It really is awesome.

380 A Mom Anon  Jun 11, 2014 6:17:06am

re: #372 lawhawk

Who leaves a 200K car behind? My money is on he was impaired in some form, drunk or high. But that’s a hell of a thing, damn.

A friend of The Husband had a similar thing happen in his wife’s Corvette last year. She kept complaining she was smelling something burning and he told her she was imagining things. She bugged him enough that he finally took it for a test run. It caught on fire (while going over 90 MPH, just because he could I guess), the whole damned thing burnt up. Luckily no one was hurt, but I somehow think he’ll believe his wife when she tells him she thinks something is wrong in the future.

381 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 6:18:32am

I bet Cantor thought he’d use the TP to become Speaker one day. His own arrogance is why he lost. Spends so much time kissing TP ass nationally that he neglects the nutcases in his own backyard. Somewhere John Boehner is darkly amused by this news.

382 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 6:18:34am

BWAHAHAA!

383 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 6:19:38am

re: #382 Pie-onist Overlord

BWAHAHAA!

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I know, Todd, you would prefer a Stars and Bars.

384 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 11, 2014 6:22:11am

re: #370 kirkspencer

I was wondering if Jessa was posing with the gun because it had pink on it so she liked it, or if her BF suggested it, because it had pink on it and he thought it suitable for a girl.

Notwithstanding the question why anyone would make a pink-trimmed gun.

As for its suitability as a weapon (less bang for the buck, as it were), I defer to others more knowledgeable.

Are the Duggar kids home schooled?

385 Dr Lizardo  Jun 11, 2014 6:23:53am

re: #374 lawhawk

Yup, the same areas that became a hell for US troops and the focus of the US-led surge, are the same problems now giving the Iraqi government fits as their “military” and “police forces” evaporate ahead of ISIS (not the Archer kind) gains.

Yeah, the Iraqi Army and police forces have proven themselves to be about as effective of a military/defense force as Cub Scout Troop #229 from Dover, Delaware.

386 darthstar  Jun 11, 2014 6:24:54am

So some asshole is making the rounds on Fox News as the Democratic candidate…and he’s not.

387 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 11, 2014 6:25:50am

Perusing the contents of one of my zip drives. Found a pile of photos downloaded off my old Digital Olympus camera.

Three from a visit to the Allegheny Portage Railway.

Looking up Incline #6

Blooming laurel

If interested in more information:
en.wikipedia.org

388 darthstar  Jun 11, 2014 6:26:42am
389 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 11, 2014 6:27:10am

Screeching sounds have apparently ended. It’s safe to take off my headphones.

Phew!

390 darthstar  Jun 11, 2014 6:28:26am
391 Timothy Watson  Jun 11, 2014 6:28:36am

re: #389 wheat-dogghazi

Screeching sounds have apparently ended. It’s safe to take off my headphones.

Phew!

It’s a trap!

392 sagehen  Jun 11, 2014 6:30:27am

re: #354 Timothy Watson

The only American that was being detained indefinitely (that I’m aware of) was Yaser Esam Hamdi, who was released in 2004.

Jose Padilla was held 3 or 4 years before he was even charged , in conditions so hideous it drove him insane.

393 darthstar  Jun 11, 2014 6:30:40am
394 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 11, 2014 6:30:55am

re: #391 Timothy Watson

395 Dr Lizardo  Jun 11, 2014 6:31:02am

re: #390 darthstar

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LOLOL

Shorter Brat; “Policy? WTF is that?”

396 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 6:31:26am

re: #388 darthstar

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Gotcha question. No asking our stupid candidates about policy.

397 darthstar  Jun 11, 2014 6:31:31am
398 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 6:33:47am

re: #384 wheat-dogghazi

I was wondering if Jessa was posing with the gun because it had pink on it so she liked it, or if her BF suggested it, because it had pink on it and he thought it suitable for a girl.

Notwithstanding the question why anyone would make a pink-trimmed gun.

As for its suitability as a weapon (less bang for the buck, as it were), I defer to others more knowledgeable.

Are the Duggar kids home schooled?

Yes, and thoroughly indoctrinated.

399 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 11, 2014 6:33:53am

re: #395 Dr Lizardo

LOLOL

Shorter Brat; “Policy? WTF is that?”

Tea Party candidates have a noted aversion to discussing policy on national, non-Fox TV, because to do so would establish they have no policy other than “whatever it is, I’m against it.”*

*{Apologies to G. Marx}

400 sagehen  Jun 11, 2014 6:35:12am

re: #382 Pie-onist Overlord

BWAHAHAA!

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Not only that, Todd… Israel lets IDF commandos march in the Pride Parade. (I can only hope they’re wearing shorts, boots, berets, oil, glitter, and nothing else….)

401 Dr Lizardo  Jun 11, 2014 6:35:17am

re: #399 wheat-dogghazi

Tea Party candidates have a noted aversion to discussing policy on national, non-Fox TV, because to do so would establish they have no policy other than “whatever it is, I’m against it.”*

*{Apologies to G. Marx}

Pretty much. And what policy they do discuss on FNC (typically) is little more than a word salad of buzzwords and dog-whistles.

402 b.d.  Jun 11, 2014 6:36:13am

re: #397 darthstar

The shine has worn off of that turd that is Frank Luntz.

He started that sound bite messaging bs and it got loose, and came back and bit his party in the ass.

403 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 11, 2014 6:36:33am

re: #398 Justanotherhuman

Yes, and thoroughly indoctrinated.

A warmer and softer version of the Phelps family cult, but just as dangerous in its own way.

As I’ve said before, it’s just a matter of time before one of the younger Duggars wises up and flees the craziness, or commits some indiscretion that soils their super-clean personae.

404 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 6:37:34am

re: #403 wheat-dogghazi

A warmer and softer version of the Phelps family cult, but just as dangerous in its own way.

As I’ve said before, it’s just a matetr of time before one of the younger Duggars wises up and flees the craziness, or commits some indiscretion that soils their super-clean personae.

Well, there are 19 of them who could go off the rails any time. Give the younger ones time, though. : )

405 lawhawk  Jun 11, 2014 6:38:01am

re: #382 Pie-onist Overlord

That’s all part of Pride week in Israel too. Lots of awesomesauce there.

I’ll have to rummage around and find a shot of one of the coolest looking buildings along the Tel Aviv waterfront near to the Embassy, which would be perfect for Pride Week (switching to Google Maps)

406 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 6:38:03am

re: #403 wheat-dogghazi

A warmer and softer version of the Phelps family cult, but just as dangerous in its own way.

As I’ve said before, it’s just a matetr of time before one of the younger Duggars wises up and flees the craziness, or commits some indiscretion that soils their super-clean personae.

You gotta think the odds alone would favor that. Phelps clan has fewer kids and has had some defections.

407 darthstar  Jun 11, 2014 6:38:23am

Vladimir Putin giving the GOP talking points to help them win the women’s vote.

408 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 11, 2014 6:38:51am

Good morning lizards!

Happening in San Marino…Poopgate.

San Marino mayor caught tossing bag of dog poo in neighbor’s yard

The mayor of San Marino was caught on surveillance video tossing a small bag of dog poop into a neighbor’s frontyard, and the homeowner is refusing to accept his apology.

Resident Philip Lao said he discovered the small bag outside his home Saturday evening before going on a walk with his wife.

After returning, he viewed footage from his home surveillance cameras to find out who dumped the bag near his frontyard. To his surprise, Lao recognized the culprit as Dennis Kneier, mayor of the wealthy San Gabriel Valley community.

“We have not been able to sleep at night for a while because of this,” Lao said.

Kneier appears in the surveillance video holding a briefcase in his left hand and a small bag in his right as he walks in the 1400 block of Charlton Road.

A woman, who was later identified as Kneier’s wife, Liz, was walking a few steps ahead of him and appears to say something to him, then points toward Lao’s walkway moments before he tosses the bag.

409 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 6:40:37am

Did anyone tell Starnes that the Israelis were letting teh gay serve openly and proudly long before we did and it didn’t ruin their military? Starnes is doing nothing but confirming how evangelical psychos like him really feel about Israel. It’s a tool that they use to hide being called Anti-Semitic for only supporting hte Israelis because of the Rapture fantasies not because you know Israel is a stable democracy and strong ally.

410 Charles Johnson  Jun 11, 2014 6:40:50am
411 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 6:41:48am

re: #407 darthstar

Vladimir Putin giving the GOP talking points to help them win the women’s vote.

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I’d suggest to Putin that he has a career in GOP politics should he ever retire from Russia but the wingnuts may think he has a Spanish accent and flip out.

412 darthstar  Jun 11, 2014 6:41:50am
413 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 6:42:20am

re: #408 NJDhockeyfan

Good morning lizards!

Happening in San Marino…Poopgate.

San Marino mayor caught tossing bag of dog poo in neighbor’s yard

Typical hypocritical, racist white people who probably don’t appreciate Asians.

San Marino’s Kneiers win family values award

articles.pasadenasun.com

“San Marino City Councilman Dennis Kneier and his wife, Liz Kneier, received the 2012 Pasadena Family Values Award on Sept. 11. The award was presented at a San Marino Public Library ceremony by the Pasadena area congregations of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

“The Kneiers have been active in organizations ranging from the San Marino Schools Foundation and the city’s Centennial Committee to the South Pasadena/San Marino YMCA.”

414 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 11, 2014 6:42:26am

re: #406 HappyWarrior

You gotta think the odds alone would favor that. Phelps clan has fewer kids and has had some defections.

There’s a website started by former Quiverfull women. Some left as teens, others after they were married into horrible circumstances. I’ve read some of their stories — a lot of psychological. emotional and physical abuse by men (fathers, brothers, BFs, husbands) of the womenfolk.

415 Bulworth  Jun 11, 2014 6:43:10am

re:
#334
Pie-onist Overlord

Tea Party candidate GOP majority leader is losing to explicitly mentions NSA spying as a signature issue:

Ah, yes, of course. //

416 darthstar  Jun 11, 2014 6:43:21am

re: #410 Charles Johnson

One of those two is a vindictive little bitch who will say anything for money. The other is Ann Coulter.

417 darthstar  Jun 11, 2014 6:44:42am

re: #411 HappyWarrior

I’d suggest to Putin that he has a career in GOP politics should he ever retire from Russia but the wingnuts may think he has a Spanish accent and flip out.

Putin just needs to renounce his Canadian citizenship and he’ll be GOP front-runner for 2016.

418 Killgore Trout  Jun 11, 2014 6:44:51am
419 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 6:44:53am

Gotta love Cantor though. We don’t have enough money to help our citizenry out he’s more than willing to use the taxpayer dime to live the good life. We’re going to be paying this turd’s pension too.

420 A Mom Anon  Jun 11, 2014 6:45:44am

re: #408 NJDhockeyfan

I’m laughing. Only because the guy really says they can’t sleep at night because they found a bag of dog poop in their yard. REALLY? If that was the only thing keeping me awake at night, I’d pop open a cold one and kick back. Yeah I know it’s not cool, I hate people who don’t clean up after their dogs, but FFS is this really NEWS? If they’re assholes, and corrupt or whatever, then that might be worth a look.

421 darthstar  Jun 11, 2014 6:46:14am
422 darthstar  Jun 11, 2014 6:47:23am

re: #420 A Mom Anon

I’m laughing. Only because the guy really says they can’t sleep at night because they found a bag of dog poop in their yard. REALLY? If that was the only thing keeping me awake at night, I’d pop open a cold one and kick back. Yeah I know it’s not cool, I hate people who don’t clean up after their dogs, but FFS is this really NEWS?

I have a bad habit of flinging my dogs’ poop over the fence into the vacant lot behind me. I want to buy that lot, and I know when I do, I’m going to hate myself.

423 Bulworth  Jun 11, 2014 6:47:39am

I believe the first step to solving our nation’s healthcare problem is to repeal #Obamacare #tcot #tlot #lnyhbt
— Dave Brat VA 7th (@DaveBratVA7th) April 10, 2014

I wonder what he thinks the “nation’s healthcare problem” is?

Too much Goverment!11

424 b.d.  Jun 11, 2014 6:48:34am

re: #410 Charles Johnson

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Greenwald should have kept his yap shut on this one, he’s slowly giving away his cover.

425 darthstar  Jun 11, 2014 6:49:01am
426 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 6:49:27am

re: #425 darthstar

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Yeah…….

427 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 6:50:07am

re: #420 A Mom Anon

I’m laughing. Only because the guy really says they can’t sleep at night because they found a bag of dog poop in their yard. REALLY? If that was the only thing keeping me awake at night, I’d pop open a cold one and kick back. Yeah I know it’s not cool, I hate people who don’t clean up after their dogs, but FFS is this really NEWS?

I once threw a bag of dog poop into my neighbor’s yard. I don’t own a dog. The poop was from THEIR dog.

428 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 11, 2014 6:50:42am

Oh my, the terrorists who took over Mosul yesterday hit the jackpot…

429 darthstar  Jun 11, 2014 6:51:40am

re: #428 NJDhockeyfan

Oh my, the terrorists who took over Mosul yesterday hit the jackpot…

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It’s all in Bitcoin.

430 darthstar  Jun 11, 2014 6:52:44am
431 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 11, 2014 6:53:15am
432 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 6:54:13am

re: #424 b.d.

Greenwald should have kept his yap shut on this one, he’s slowly giving away his cover.

Oh, I think GG’s cover was blown a long time ago.

433 Bulworth  Jun 11, 2014 6:54:15am

Actual headline on the front page of the NYT this morning:

Sunni Militants Drive Iraqi Army From Big City

“Big City”

A little surprised they didn’t go with:

Bad People Chase Good People Out Of Big City

434 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 6:54:18am

Oh G-D please no.

435 A Mom Anon  Jun 11, 2014 6:54:41am

re: #422 darthstar

Either that or you’ll have some nicely composted poo out there, eventually. Just don’t plant any food out there for awhile if you buy the place, lol. There is actually a dog poo composter you can buy to bury in your yard. It works on the same principle as a septic tank, there’s enzymes you put in there periodically to move the composting process along. I haven’t tried it, I tried for awhile to get the county to try one at one of the dog parks around here, but people are lazy, I doubt they’d use it.

436 b.d.  Jun 11, 2014 6:55:20am

ERIC CANTOR LOST HIS SEAT BECAUSE OF THE INFORMATION THAT SNOWDEN PROVIDED!

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

John F. Kennedy

437 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 6:56:03am

re: #434 Pie-onist Overlord

Oh G-D please no.

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I think I have as much elected experience as Ben does.

438 Killgore Trout  Jun 11, 2014 6:56:22am

re: #428 NJDhockeyfan

Oh my, the terrorists who took over Mosul yesterday hit the jackpot…

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wow. I’m guessing that money is never going to be recovered.

439 b.d.  Jun 11, 2014 6:56:32am

re: #434 Pie-onist Overlord

Oh G-D please no.

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Because who could bring both parties together, compromise and get a deal done like Ben Shapiro?

440 Romantic Heretic  Jun 11, 2014 6:57:49am

re: #310 KerFuFFler

Your comment reminded me of one I saw in the previous thread:

I think a lot of people misconstrue Adam Smith’s “invisible hand” of the market as the intervention of God picking winners and losers in the economy. Thus, for mere mortals and politicians to tinker with regulating the economy is to oppose God’s will!

It’s a standard human behaviour. People choose belief systems not to become better people, to increase their understanding of the world but to offer excuses for their behaviour and solidify their thoughts into concrete.

441 Timothy Watson  Jun 11, 2014 6:57:50am

re: #428 NJDhockeyfan

Oh my, the terrorists who took over Mosul yesterday hit the jackpot…

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It’s in Iraqi dinars, whose value in the exchange market is probably about to completely crash.

442 Killgore Trout  Jun 11, 2014 6:57:59am

re: #431 NJDhockeyfan

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I find it hard to imagine they could take Baghdad but I never would have guessed they’d get this far.

443 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 11, 2014 6:59:17am
444 Bulworth  Jun 11, 2014 7:00:25am
Was revulsion over NSA spying, Holder’s failure too prosecute TBTJail banks key to Va 7th voters rejecting
@EricCantor

Yeah, I think that was it. smh

445 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 11, 2014 7:00:51am

re: #442 Killgore Trout

I find it hard to imagine they could take Baghdad but I never would have guessed they’d get this far.

They have the Iraq army on the run. I wouldn’t be surprised if they reached Baghdad by this weekend the way they are moving.

447 De Kolta Chair  Jun 11, 2014 7:00:54am

re: #372 lawhawk

And this happened yesterday.

Guy drives car, and it bursts into flames following an accident near the GWB. Driver vanishes and is later apprehended and given summonses for leaving the scene of an accident.

I hate when that happens on my way to a Port Authority board meeting.

448 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 7:01:12am

Translation: “I don’t have an answer that won’t make me look like a heartless douchewad”

449 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 7:03:35am
450 ObserverArt  Jun 11, 2014 7:03:41am

Morning all.

So, anyone think the Dems might be happy with Cantor getting dumped in his district? I’m thinking they might have some pick up of moderate Republicans come this fall. I can not believe Brat represents all Republicans. I may be wrong, but I always have felt Virginia was more a moderate Republican state.

Upthread, I saw someone mention the Democratic challenger to Brat had a really weak website (darthstar?). It is my understanding they got him into the race just this past weekend…on Sunday I believe. So I imagine the site was slapped together just to have one. I look for all of that to change, because I do believe the Dems have a small chance in the November race. They will have a lot of work to do obviously, but I am thinking not everyone in Virginia is going to be liking Brat a whole lot. And it is still early…real early.

Can you imagine the amount of Democratic people that will be heading Trammel’s way to start turning him into a political candidate. His life just changed big time. Hopefully he is really into it.

Brat is riding a wave now, but there will be damage as this goes on. A small indicator is the mention of him not wanting to discuss policy with Chuckles Todd. That’s what happens when you have one card in your deck.
If we are lucky we will have some media go after this guy and get him all bent out of shape so that people see him as not ready for prime time.

That is not to say Trammel is either, but to me Brat is not a shoe in. I know the district is pretty solid Republican, but what type of Republicans? Are they Tea Party types or Eric Cantor haters. I get the feeling there was more hatred for Cantor.

Regarding Iraq. When will McCain call for us to go back in and then just take the country over and make it a US Territory? You want Democracy in the Middle East…well there you go.

Strange times…hopefully we can at least get through this rest of the week with no more mass shootings.

451 Bulworth  Jun 11, 2014 7:04:17am

re:
#448
Pie-onist Overlord

I thought No MINWage for lazy moochers was the orthodox wingnut answer for this.

452 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 7:04:41am
453 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 7:06:04am

Barry seems nice.//

454 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 7:12:18am

re: #450 ObserverArt

Morning all.

So, anyone think the Dems might be happy with Cantor getting dumped in his district? I’m thinking they might have some pick up of moderate Republicans come this fall. I can not believe Brat represents all Republicans. I may be wrong, but I always have felt Virginia was more a moderate Republican state.

Upthread, I saw someone mention the Democratic challenger to Brat had a really weak website (darthstar?). It is my understanding they got him into the race just this past weekend…on Sunday I believe. So I imagine the site was slapped together just to have one. I look for all of that to change, because I do believe the Dems have a small chance in the November race. They will have a lot of work to do obviously, but I am thinking not everyone in Virginia is going to be liking Brat a whole lot. And it is still early…real early.

Can you imagine the amount of Democratic people that will be heading Trammel’s way to start turning him into a political candidate. His life just changed big time. Hopefully he is really into it.

Brat is riding a wave now, but there will be damage as this goes on. A small indicator is the mention of him not wanting to discuss policy with Chuckles Todd. That’s what happens when you have one card in your deck.
If we are lucky we will have some media go after this guy and get him all bent out of shape so that people see him as not ready for prime time.

That is not to say Trammel is either, but to me Brat is not a shoe in. I know the district is pretty solid Republican, but what type of Republicans? Are they Tea Party types or Eric Cantor haters. I get the feeling there was more hatred for Cantor.

Regarding Iraq. When will McCain call for us to go back in and then just take the country over and make it a US Territory? You want Democracy in the Middle East…well there you go.

Strange times…hopefully we can at least get through this rest of the week with no more mass shootings.

Virginia is becoming a state harder to define. Recently despite a very unlikable top of the ticket, we elected Democrats for governor, lt governor, and AG. And this is a state that has gone to Obama twice and has two Democratic senators including one who will short of a scandal be easily re-elected. Brat’s only responsibility should he be elected will be to Va-07 anyhow. And as for Trammel, I agree with the accessment that his site was disorganized and such but I imagine this is a guy who probably filed the bare minimum filing fee to run and just wanted to run so someone would run against Cantor. Cantor’s gone unchallenged in the past. This is a very Republican district. In fact, it may be the most GOP friendly district in the state(too lazy to check)/

455 ObserverArt  Jun 11, 2014 7:12:44am

re: #448 Pie-onist Overlord

Translation: “I don’t have an answer that won’t make me look like a heartless douchewad”

Dave Brat, asked by Chuck Todd whether there should be a minimum wage at all, says: “I don’t have a well-crafted response on that”

I can see the media circling already getting into shark mode and ready to start chomping on some Brat(s)!

Let’s see, a Tea Party professor having to stand up to questioning from others and not asking the questions. This could get bloody.

456 sagehen  Jun 11, 2014 7:13:16am

re: #445 NJDhockeyfan

They have the Iraq army on the run. I wouldn’t be surprised if they reached Baghdad by this weekend the way they are moving.

Would that be the Army we supposedly trained?

And are the insurgents made up of the Baathist former army professionals that we fired?

457 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 7:13:37am

re: #449 Pie-onist Overlord

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Basically, he doesn’t want to answer the questions because he knows he’ll rightfully be pointed out as the whackjob he is. He was all proud to point out his positions on the Twitter as your original post shows, I guess it’s different now since he actually has to be held accountable for what he believes and wants for the country.

458 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 11, 2014 7:16:54am

We go from Politics With Rocks In It to Roads With Rocks Beside It. :)

South highway cut on Sideling Hill

Close up - Sedimentary Rocks rule!

459 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 11, 2014 7:20:17am

re: #458 Feline Fearless Leader

Quite a bit of uplifting there.

460 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 7:20:18am

What’s with the stories saying Brat’s college students found him “hot.” He’s certainly not an ugly guy physically but “hot.” I guess combining Ayn Rand with Jesus is hot to some people.

461 Bulworth  Jun 11, 2014 7:20:49am

Hegel testifying on Bergdahl prisoner swap…

So, what’s up with the Benghazi!! supercommittee?

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462 Timothy Watson  Jun 11, 2014 7:21:20am

re: #460 HappyWarrior

What’s with the stories saying Brat’s college students found him “hot.” He’s certainly not an ugly guy physically but “hot.” I guess combining Ayn Rand with Jesus is hot to some people.

It’s a pretty relative characterization when you’re dealing with college professors.

463 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 11, 2014 7:21:24am
464 De Kolta Chair  Jun 11, 2014 7:21:46am

re: #453 Pie-onist Overlord

Barry seems nice.//

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Barry thinks the extra chair at the seder is for playing musical chairs after dessert. (He’s not very bright, you see.)

465 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 7:22:45am

buzzfeed.com
This is probably the worst thing about Cantor’s loss. And it’s why I have such contempt for the GOP base too. Anyone who even talks about immigration reform even if merely paying lip-service as Cantor did can expect to be primaried or forced to compromise any principles ala Graham.

466 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 7:23:14am

re: #462 Timothy Watson

It’s a pretty relative characterization when you’re dealing with college professors.

Heh true..

467 Bulworth  Jun 11, 2014 7:23:17am

re:
#463
Backwoods_Sleuth

Yup.

Hope Doorframe is getting him some mushy softee wet food.

468 Testy Toad T  Jun 11, 2014 7:24:27am

Great job, GOP. Good effort.

469 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 11, 2014 7:24:36am

re: #467 Bulworth

re:
#463
Backwoods_Sleuth

Yup.

Hope Doorframe is getting him some mushy softee wet food.

Doorframe adores the gushie fuds. But I’ll take some crunchy stuff out to him today.

470 makeitstop  Jun 11, 2014 7:25:00am

re: #457 HappyWarrior

Basically, he doesn’t want to answer the questions because he knows he’ll rightfully be pointed out as the whackjob he is. He was all proud to point out his positions on the Twitter as your original post shows, I guess it’s different now since he actually has to be held accountable for what he believes and wants for the country.

Welcome to the bigs, Professor. Now…answer the question.

471 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 11, 2014 7:26:08am

re: #442 Killgore Trout

I find it hard to imagine they could take Baghdad but I never would have guessed they’d get this far.

472 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 11, 2014 7:26:34am

re: #459 wheat-dogghazi

Quite a bit of uplifting there.

Lots of folding and squashing done in the eastern US in geological time.

en.wikipedia.org

473 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 7:27:33am

re: #470 makeitstop

Welcome to the bigs, Professor. Now…answer the question.

I mean it dumbfounds me. The guy is an economics professor.

474 Bulworth  Jun 11, 2014 7:28:29am

re:
#473
HappyWarrior

Hey cumon man, nobody said I’d WIN this thing and have to talk and stuff!

475 Decatur Deb  Jun 11, 2014 7:29:22am

re: #458 Feline Fearless Leader

We go from Politics With Rocks In It to Roads With Rocks Beside It. :)

South highway cut on Sideling Hill

[Embedded image]Close up - Sedimentary Rocks rule!

Gravity was different in 3000 BC !!1!

476 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 7:29:54am

re: #470 makeitstop

Welcome to the bigs, Professor. Now…answer the question.

He’s still in the authoritarian, “I’m the professor, I ask the questions” mode.

477 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 7:29:58am

Yes Bryan, these are in countries where there is an OFFICIAL STATE CHURCH.

478 Bubblehead II  Jun 11, 2014 7:30:56am

Well Teddy has removed one of the hurdles in his bid for potus.

It’s official: Ted Cruz a citizen of the U.S. - and the U.S. only

f you remember, the Texas Republican was born in Canada to an American mother and a Cuban father. As such, he was a dual citizen — an American because of his mother, and Canadian because the country, like America, grants automatic citizenship to anyone born there.

479 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 11, 2014 7:31:10am

re: #472 Feline Fearless Leader

Lots of folding and squashing done in the eastern US in geological time.

en.wikipedia.org

I like showing people the mountains of northern Wisconsin. Once as tall as the Alps (at least that’s what I was taught) now after some fairly serious geological time there’s not much left but some of the oldest exposed granite known.

480 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 11, 2014 7:31:54am

re: #475 Decatur Deb

Gravity was different in 3000 BC !!1!

Ding. If you have any understanding of geology and see stuff like this the ideas of a 6000 year-old Earth and/or geological features being caused by a giant (and relatively rapid) flood becomes highly laughable.

481 Testy Toad T  Jun 11, 2014 7:32:04am

re: #477 Pie-onist Overlord

SODOMY-BASED!!!!

I usually don’t feel too sorry for these cretins, but it’s painfully obvious that Bryan Fischer desperately craves some good old-fashioned anal lovin’, and there’s nothing wrong with that. I wish he were honest with himself and his family. He’s going to give himself a Breitbartdeath if he’s not careful.

482 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 7:32:51am

re: #481 Testy Toad T

SODOMY-BASED!!!!

I usually don’t feel too sorry for these cretins, but it’s painfully obvious that Bryan Fischer desperately craves some good old-fashioned anal lovin’, and there’s nothing wrong with that. I wish he were honest with himself and his family. He’s going to give himself a Breitbartdeath if he’s not careful.

I’m honestly surprised he hasn’t already. The guy’s obsession with SODOMY just screams out sexually repressed.

483 Bulworth  Jun 11, 2014 7:32:59am

re:
#477

Which countries are these?

484 Testy Toad T  Jun 11, 2014 7:33:02am

re: #480 Feline Fearless Leader

Ding. If you have any understanding of geology and see stuff like this the ideas of a 6000 year-old Earth and/or geological features being caused by a giant (and relatively rapid) flood becomes highly laughable.

But but but God made it to confuse us and see who really believes in Him or whatever!

485 sagehen  Jun 11, 2014 7:33:47am

re: #483 Bulworth

re:
#477

Which countries are these?

Denmark.

If I’m not mistaken, they don’t have a First Amendment there.

486 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 11, 2014 7:34:01am

re: #484 Testy Toad T

But but but God made it to confuse us and see who really believes in Him or whatever!

Along with creating malaria so that the mosquitoes could have some fun.

487 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 7:34:07am

re: #483 Bulworth

re:
#477

Which countries are these?

A lot of Scandinavian countries believe it or not.

488 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 11, 2014 7:34:28am

Oh, dear. Fighting amongst themselves already.
And I had no idea there was a rampant illegal immigrataion problem in VA-7 that is personally affecting the voters there.

489 Bulworth  Jun 11, 2014 7:35:51am

Oh well then, given the relatively low levels of support Chritianity enjoys in these countries, performing these marriages might do them some good.

490 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 7:36:21am

re: #482 HappyWarrior

I’m honestly surprised he hasn’t already. The guy’s obsession with SODOMY just screams out sexually repressed.

SODOMY according to Scripture, was cruelty to the poor and helpless. Raping homeless men was just part of that ideology.

491 makeitstop  Jun 11, 2014 7:37:02am
sodomy-based wedding ceremonies

Fischer’s mind is a dark, damp, frightening place.

492 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 7:38:23am

re: #488 Backwoods_Sleuth

Oh, dear. Fighting amongst themselves already.
And I had no idea there was a rampant illegal immigrataion problem in VA-7 that is personally affecting the voters there.

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It’s got a very small percentage of immigrants. Not buying that at all. What I do buy is enough lower wage voters in that district feared that.

493 Decatur Deb  Jun 11, 2014 7:38:32am

re: #487 HappyWarrior

A lot of Scandinavian countries believe it or not.

Cujus regio, ejus derp.

494 Bulworth  Jun 11, 2014 7:38:34am

re:
#491

Wonder what Bryan thinks non “sodomy-based wedding ceremonies” are based on?

495 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 11, 2014 7:38:58am

In Nevada this morning.

HENDERSON, Nev. - Police are investigating an officer-involved shooting near Horizon Ridge Parkway and Gibson Road.
Police responded to calls of shots fired at approximately 4:30 a.m. A Henderson Police spokesperson says when officers arrived, they encountered a suspect who opened fire on them. The police shot and killed the male suspect.
One officer was shot during the exchange. That officer was taken to Sunrise Hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.

Officers shoot, kill suspect in Henderson

496 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 7:39:08am

re: #490 Pie-onist Overlord

SODOMY according to Scripture, was cruelty to the poor and helpless. Raping homeless men was just part of that ideology.

Yeah, I know. I was talking more about his obsession about the consensual sexual activities of others being the mark of a deeply sexually repressed man.

498 Decatur Deb  Jun 11, 2014 7:39:51am

re: #494 Bulworth

re:
#491

Wonder what Bryan thinks non “sodomy-based wedding ceremonies” are based on?

Pre-nups.

499 Bulworth  Jun 11, 2014 7:40:48am

re:
#497

Museum of the Earth? What sort of heathen-worship, secular humanist place is this?

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500 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 7:41:27am

GOHMERT!!!

501 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 7:42:30am

I’ve noticed in Virginia and else where that fears about “illegal aliens” are at their highest in places where the person is less likely to meet or encounter one. It’s the same with Muslims. And indeed, I’ve met had and known people who were Muslim or illegal aliens here in Northern Virginia for years. One of the things that makes the GOP so repulsive to me is how they use the fear of the other to scare their base. And indeed Brat used fear of illegals against Cantor.

502 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 7:43:23am

Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., will run for the position of House Majority Whip, according to 2 sources with knowledge of his plans - @nationaljournal
Read more on nationaljournal.com

He’s chairman of the conservative House Republican Study Committee.

Terrific. They want to get even less done.

503 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 7:43:51am

re: #502 Justanotherhuman

Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., will run for the position of House Majority Whip, according to 2 sources with knowledge of his plans - @nationaljournal
Read more on nationaljournal.com

He’s chairman of the conservative House Republican Study Committee.

Terrific. They want to get even less done.

He’s also the guy who bought the Onion’s Abortion complex story.

504 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 7:44:35am

re: #503 HappyWarrior

He’s also the guy who bought the Onion’s Abortion complex story.

Worst of the worst: A Louisiana Know Nothing.

505 Bulworth  Jun 11, 2014 7:44:39am

GOHMERT!! is just preaching the truth in love and if non-Christians and Christians who support governmentrunhealthcare and voted for Obama don’t accept that they’re going to H E double hockey sticks then GOHMERT!! can’t help them.

506 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 7:45:13am

Gohmert says non-Christians are going to hell? See you there, Louie. First drink’s on me.

507 lawhawk  Jun 11, 2014 7:45:46am

re: #458 Feline Fearless Leader

We go from Politics With Rocks In It to Roads With Rocks Beside It. :)

South highway cut on Sideling Hill

[Embedded image]Close up - Sedimentary Rocks rule!

Gneiss!

508 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 7:46:32am

re: #503 HappyWarrior

He’s also the guy who bought the Onion’s Abortion complex story.

Also, no surprise as to who his industry top contributors are.

opensecrets.org

509 Decatur Deb  Jun 11, 2014 7:48:16am

re: #506 HappyWarrior

Gohmert says non-Christians are going to hell? See you there, Louie. First drink’s on me.

That needs TPGOP House hearings. C’mon, Issa.

510 ObserverArt  Jun 11, 2014 7:49:17am

re: #457 HappyWarrior

Basically, he doesn’t want to answer the questions because he knows he’ll rightfully be pointed out as the whackjob he is. He was all proud to point out his positions on the Twitter as your original post shows, I guess it’s different now since he actually has to be held accountable for what he believes and wants for the country.

I hope he starts to come unglued. It would be a nice lesson for the country. Ever since we got Palin involved there have been too many not-ready-for-prime-time players. It seems we have this ‘anyone but a politician’ thing going on in this country and it is pure fantasy.

I know it is easy for people to say “all politicians suck” and the like, but they are needed and there are good politicians. I look at them like salesman. Everyone hates salesmen, but you have no company sales if you don’t have good salesman. And how many times is the top salesman in a company absolutely hated…but needed?

511 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 7:55:38am

re: #510 ObserverArt

I hope he starts to come unglued. It would be a nice lesson for the country. Ever since we got Palin involved there have been too many not-ready-for-prime-time players. It seems we have this ‘anyone but a politician’ thing going on in this country and it is pure fantasy.

I know it is easy for people to say “all politicians suck” and the like, but they are needed and there are good politicians. I look at them like salesman. Everyone hates salesmen, but you have no company sales if you don’t have good salesman. And how many times is the top salesman in a company absolutely hated…but needed?

Yep. Really, it’s easy to reject “career politicians” but at the same time, I do want people who understand not merely how government works but how to work within a legislative body. We keep on seeing guys whose whole big thing is how much they disdain Washington. Okay, that too is fine but how about working on making it better rather than continuing the culture of bullshit.

512 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 7:55:47am
513 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 7:57:23am

re: #512 Pie-onist Overlord

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They sound nice.

514 Testy Toad T  Jun 11, 2014 7:59:19am

re: #510 ObserverArt

I know it is easy for people to say “all politicians suck” and the like, but they are needed and there are good politicians. I look at them like salesman. Everyone hates salesmen, but you have no company sales if you don’t have good salesman. And how many times is the top salesman in a company absolutely hated…but needed?

In the modern era, you almost have to be a lawyer to be a functional legislator. This is unfortunate, and it probably wasn’t always true. Our system, as laid out in the constitution, isn’t really designed to govern a place this large and complex and interconnected.

I’ve often wondered if it might be useful to divorce the actual functioning of governance/legislation from the decision-making. What if there was some sort of bi/non-partisan legal team from each district, and we were only electing the top-thinker/CEO position in charge of setting the direction of each team? Would this allow for a broader and more representative, yet still hopefully functional, population in Congress?

It’ll never happen and it’ll probably never work, but it’s nice to dream about. Without losing the actual legal competence, I want more engineers and doctors and chemists and teachers and biologists and weathermen and…

515 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 11, 2014 8:00:33am
516 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 11, 2014 8:00:35am

re: #514 Testy Toad T

It’ll never happen and it’ll probably never work, but it’s nice to dream about. Without losing the actual legal competence, I want more engineers and doctors and chemists and teachers and biologists and weathermen and…

Only climate science and evolution deniers will be accepted!!!

517 ObserverArt  Jun 11, 2014 8:01:02am

re: #488 Backwoods_Sleuth

Oh, dear. Fighting amongst themselves already.
And I had no idea there was a rampant illegal immigrataion problem in VA-7 that is personally affecting the voters there.

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Quick!!! Man the gates the Mongols are a comin’!

Save the treasury!!! They can have the women and children…

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518 lawhawk  Jun 11, 2014 8:02:23am

Cruz control rolls on…

519 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 11, 2014 8:02:40am

re: #517 ObserverArt

Quick!!! Man the gates the Mongols are a comin’!

Save the treasury!!! They can have the women and children…

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Audit the Treasury! And only save the moral, God-fearing women and children!!!

520 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 8:04:00am

re: #515 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Of Course. The more the Rs can keep people ignorant, etc…

521 ObserverArt  Jun 11, 2014 8:04:06am

re: #491 makeitstop

Fischer’s mind is a dark, damp, frightening place.

Do you know how this very description of yours hits at some of his innermost fears. What else is dark, damp and frightening to someone like Bryan Fischer? The dude probably hates a lot of “icky” body parts. You just described his worst nightmare.

522 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 8:05:10am

re: #515 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Was this one of those needed 60 type deals? Oh wait, it’s cloture so yeah 60.

523 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 8:05:36am

Haha, the vultures are circling over Cantor’s dead body…

Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, is considering seeking Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s leadership position - @nationaljournal
Read more on nationaljournal.com

524 S'latch  Jun 11, 2014 8:05:49am

David Brat’s win is troubling because Virginia’s 7th District is solid Republican territory. Cantor won his 2012 general election by 17 points. Mitt Romney won it by 15 points.

Randolph-Macon College Professor Jack Trammell is the Democrat who secured his party’s nomination in the district. I hope he wins, but it seems unlikely.

It is more likely that David Brat will appeal to Virginia’s 7th District and they will elect him. The Republican Party will be pushed further to the right.

525 KerFuFFler  Jun 11, 2014 8:05:52am

re: #497 Feline Fearless Leader

Hey, are you in Ithaca? That’s in my neck of the woods!

526 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 8:07:01am

re: #523 Justanotherhuman

Haha, the vultures are circling over Cantor’s dead body…

Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, is considering seeking Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s leadership position - @nationaljournal
Read more on nationaljournal.com

Vultures eating another vulture.

527 ObserverArt  Jun 11, 2014 8:07:05am

re: #504 Justanotherhuman

Worst of the worst: A Louisiana Know Nothing.

Perfect for the job…in nutter world.

We don’t want no damn smarty pants, they make us look bad ‘n’ stuff.

528 Dr Lizardo  Jun 11, 2014 8:07:11am

re: #523 Justanotherhuman

Haha, the vultures are circling over Cantor’s dead body…

Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas, is considering seeking Majority Leader Eric Cantor’s leadership position - @nationaljournal
Read more on nationaljournal.com

WarriorsWingnuts……come out to play-ay!

529 b.d.  Jun 11, 2014 8:09:37am
Everybody Hates Eric Cantor: A Roundup

nymag.com

One conservative recently told me that Cantor’s staff were the “biggest bunch of a**holes on the Hill.”

530 b.d.  Jun 11, 2014 8:10:46am

Is there already on of those Hilter in the bunker movie YouTube overdubs of Cantor losing last night?

531 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 11, 2014 8:11:03am

re: #529 b.d.

One conservative recently told me that Cantor’s staff were the “biggest bunch of a**holes on the Hill.”

Wait until they meet the Brat Pack

532 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 11, 2014 8:11:54am

re: #525 KerFuFFler

Hey, are you in Ithaca? That’s in my neck of the woods!

Nope. I’m in Philly. But I travel up through that way repeatedly over the years since my brother lives south of Rochester. So I’ve done long weekend “vacations” in the Finger Lakes, Mohawk Valley, etc. and taken pictures.

The ones I posted there are probably 8-9 years old. Two cameras ago and I still lived near Pittsburgh at the time.

533 makeitstop  Jun 11, 2014 8:12:11am

Man, my Facebook wingnuts are in high dudgeon over Todd’s minimum wage question and Brat’s dodge.

Lots of Obummer doesn’t answer questions from anybody!11ty! going on this morning. I’m having fun tweaking them all up.

534 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 8:12:40am

re: #529 b.d.

nymag.com

Well people tend not to like opportunistic dicks and that’s exactly what Cantor is.

535 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 11, 2014 8:12:46am
536 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 8:13:42am

re: #535 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

No wonder he lost: Eric Cantor Criticizes Limbaugh’s Obama-Hitler comparisons

That was five years ago.

537 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 11, 2014 8:15:01am

The westerners deserve a road cut photo as well. ;)

Morrison Formation - a wee bit of tilt

538 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 8:15:53am

re: #533 makeitstop

Man, my Facebook wingnuts are in high dudgeon over Todd’s minimum wage question and Brat’s dodge.

Lots of Obummer doesn’t answer questions from anybody!11ty! going on this morning. I’m having fun tweaking them all up.

Note to Brat fans, “He did it too” is how five years old argue and rationalize their actions.

539 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 11, 2014 8:15:58am

Indiana GOP candidate: ‘No one has the guts’ to let poor people ‘wither and die’

John Johnston, who is challenging Democratic state Rep. Chuck Moseley for the 10th District seat, said during a social media discussion on poverty that “no one has the guts to just let them wither and die.”
The Valparaiso resident told The Post-Tribune on Tuesday that his comments were simply hyperbole, and he told the paper no thoughtful society would allow people to go hungry.
“I was not trying to hurt anybody’s feelings,” Johnston said. “I saw the opportunity to say something. I think a lot of the poor have no way out, and there’s no motivation to improve your position. It’s like training a child, either you enable them or force them out at some point.”

540 piratedan  Jun 11, 2014 8:16:12am

re: #528 Dr Lizardo

I’d like to take them out to the sand….. and bury them there…. but I’m guessing that these guys see the Democratic voters as the embodiment of the Grammercy Riffs….

541 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 8:16:58am

re: #539 Backwoods_Sleuth

Indiana GOP candidate: ‘No one has the guts’ to let poor people ‘wither and die’

And no one has the guts to give you a good left hook to the jaw, asshole.

542 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 8:18:17am

No one has the courage to call out the GOP for the fascist fuckwads they are. Let poor people die. Let the hungry go hungry but let’s get up in arms because gay people are marrying! Yay! Small government conservatism!

543 De Kolta Chair  Jun 11, 2014 8:18:28am

Here’s a new theory: a few minutes ago, a caller to NYC npr station WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show insisted that Cantor lost because Virginia liburals voted for Brat in the GOP primary, ousting Cantor and nominating a Teabagger who hasn’t a chance of winning the general election.

I guess she didn’t know that it’s a safe Republican district.

544 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 8:19:53am
545 makeitstop  Jun 11, 2014 8:20:01am

re: #538 HappyWarrior

Note to Brat fans, “He did it too” is how five years old argue and rationalize their actions.

One of them actually brought up Teleprompter just now.

Fucking Teleprompter. Sticking with the classics, I guess.

546 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 8:20:24am

re: #543 De Kolta Chair

Here’s a new theory: a few minutes ago, a caller to NYC npr station WNYC’s Brian Lehrer Show insisted that Cantor lost because Virginia liburals voted for Brat in the GOP primary, ousting Cantor and nominating a Teabagger who hasn’t a chance to win.

I guess she didn’t know that it’s a safe Republican district.

If it was that easy, it would happen more often. Now let me make it clear, I do know people in that district who voted for Brat to pee in so to speak but that wasn’t why Cantor lost.

547 lawhawk  Jun 11, 2014 8:20:51am

re: #539 Backwoods_Sleuth

How very Roman (and un Christian, at that):

Youtube Video

548 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 8:21:05am

re: #545 makeitstop

One of them actually brought up Teleprompter just now.

Fucking Teleprompter. Sticking with the classics, I guess.

Teleprompter jokes? Gee even the national GOP knows that’s staler than Eric Cantor’s career.

549 Ian G.  Jun 11, 2014 8:21:22am

re: #471 NJDhockeyfan

Wait, am I reading that tweet right? The Islamic radicals have captured Tikrit? That ain’t very far from Baghdad.

How much longer can Iran stay on the sidelines with a radical Sunni insurgency on its doorstep?

I’m wondering if the lid was finally blown off the pot, 1914-style, and we’re about to see a full-scale Sunni-Shi’a war erupt in the Middle East. Iran and its proxies vs. Saudi Arabia and Egypt and their proxies.

Israel, Kurdistan, Turkey, Lebanon….buckle up. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.

550 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 11, 2014 8:22:29am

heh…

551 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 11, 2014 8:22:42am

OK. A trivia question for the lizards, especially the geologist ones.

What’s the relationship between these two photos? (Beyond the fact I took both of them, of course.)

Morrison Formation - a wee bit of tilt

BW of a Gray stone row house

552 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 8:22:55am

re: #549 Ian G.

Wait, am I reading that tweet right? The Islamic radicals have captured Tikrit? That ain’t very far from Baghdad.

How much longer can Iran stay on the sidelines with a radical Sunni insurgency on its doorstep?

I’m wondering if the lid was finally blown off the pot, 1914-style, and we’re about to see a full-scale Sunni-Shi’a war erupt in the Middle East. Iran and its proxies vs. Saudi Arabia and Egypt and their proxies.

Israel, Kurdistan, Turkey, Lebanon….buckle up. It’s going to be a bumpy ride.

It’s already started.

Suicide bomber blows himself up in tent in Baghdad’s Sadr City Shia district, killing 21 - @BBCNews
Read more on bbc.com

553 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 11, 2014 8:23:33am
554 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 8:23:45am

re: #550 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh…

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The same pollster reported that the Titanic could never be sunk by an iceberg.

555 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 8:24:34am

re: #551 Feline Fearless Leader

OK. A trivia question for the lizards, especially the geologist ones.

What’s the relationship between these two photos? (Beyond the fact I took both of them, of course.)

Morrison Formation - a wee bit of tilt

[Embedded image]BW of a Gray stone row house

Is the same stone material in photo one used in the building in photo two?

556 Flying Squirrel Girl  Jun 11, 2014 8:25:02am

re: #528 Dr Lizardo

I’ve heard this before but only recently saw the movie and “got it!”

557 Dr Lizardo  Jun 11, 2014 8:25:21am

re: #553 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The Turks ain’t gonna like that. Not one damned bit.

558 Skip Intro  Jun 11, 2014 8:25:49am

Yoo-Hoo! Louie has something to say.

Louie Gohmert tells Congress the ‘good news’ that non-Christians are ‘going to Hell’

rawstory.com

Nice party you have there, DF.

559 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 8:26:21am

re: #558 Skip Intro

Yoo-Hoo! Louie has something to say.

Louie Gohmert tells Congress the ‘good news’ that non-Christians are ‘going to Hell’

rawstory.com

Nice party you have there, DF.

Does this mean Louie will be the tour guide for when some of us get there?

560 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 11, 2014 8:26:43am

re: #555 HappyWarrior

Is the same stone material in photo one used in the building in photo two?

No. It’s more related to what the Morrison Formation is famous for.

561 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 8:27:09am

re: #560 Feline Fearless Leader

No. It’s more related to what the Morrison Formation is famous for.

Well shit, you got me. That was my only guess.

562 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 11, 2014 8:27:19am

oh, good freaking grief.

Oklahoma Tea Party Candidate Calls For Homosexuals To Be Stoned To Death!

Meet Scott Esk, Tea Party candidate for Oklahoma State House District 91. Esk, on his political website, believes that our rights come from God, and not from government, and is a big proponent of state rights. And he offers the usual Tea Party Republican platform, being 100% pro-gun, pro-family, pro-life and desiring lower taxes.

And he quotes from Romans and Leviticus on FB to justify stoning teh gheys.

563 Dr Lizardo  Jun 11, 2014 8:28:02am

re: #562 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh, good freaking grief.

Oklahoma Tea Party Candidate Calls For Homosexuals To Be Stoned To Death!

And he quotes from Romans on FB to justify stoning teh gheys.

Tell me again how different these people are from the fucking Taliban?

564 Skip Intro  Jun 11, 2014 8:28:25am

re: #559 HappyWarrior

Does this mean Louie will be the tour guide for when some of us get there?

I’ve always heard Christians say “Have you heard the Good News?”, but I never realized this is what they meant.

565 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 8:28:31am

re: #562 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh, good freaking grief.

Oklahoma Tea Party Candidate Calls For Homosexuals To Be Stoned To Death!

And he quotes from Romans on FB to justify stoning teh gheys.

Again nice party they got there,

566 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 8:29:16am

re: #563 Dr Lizardo

Tell me again how different these people are from the fucking Taliban?

I never saw Mullah Omar wear a tie,.

567 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 11, 2014 8:29:40am

re: #562 Backwoods_Sleuth

There’s more!
From the same link:

If the above revelations aren’t enough reason to despise Scott Eck, here’s another one… In a post on his Facebook page made on November 26th, 2013, Esk described the time he called 911 because he saw a large group of Hispanics gathered outside of a shopping mall. No crime was being committed, except that Esk merely believed that many of them were illegal aliens because, you know, they are Hispanic and all.

568 Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 11, 2014 8:30:01am

re: #539 Backwoods_Sleuth

I think a lot of the poor have no way out, and there’s no motivation to improve your position.

Well now gee, maybe we need to look at just why this is?

569 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 8:30:18am

Holy shit.

Bergdahl’s writings reveal a fragile young man

washingtonpost.com

I don’t think “fragile” begins to describe what kind of conflict Bergdahl was in.

570 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 8:30:57am

Frankly though this shit really should put any MBF about both parties being just as bad aside forever. Yeah, we’ve got GOP candidates out there saying that the poor should be allowed to die and another who wants to stone gay people to death. This is some evil shit that you see out of some of the worst regimes in history but Obama is Hitler! because Heallth Care Reform you know is a recipe for a second Holocaust but this kind of rhetoric is just great and not Nazi like at all.

571 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 8:31:56am

re: #567 Backwoods_Sleuth

There’s more!
From the same link:

You know, the anti-Hispanic bs used to merely upset me but now I take it damn personally since people like Esk see members of my family as being ILLEGAL ALIENS.

572 ObserverArt  Jun 11, 2014 8:32:14am

re: #539 Backwoods_Sleuth

Indiana GOP candidate: ‘No one has the guts’ to let poor people ‘wither and die’

Ah ha. Someone finally admitted what I’ve been saying about the Republican party for some time. I do not mean all Republicans, but I swear deep down there is this very thinking in the party. What else could they hope for if they keep cutting aid, support, minimum wages, jobs and all that?

I give this idiot credit for admitting it. The ugly truth.

573 Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 11, 2014 8:32:40am

re: #554 HappyWarrior

The same pollster reported that the Titanic could never be sunk by an iceberg.

This ship ain’t gonna sink, God told me so!

574 bratwurst  Jun 11, 2014 8:32:45am

re: #570 HappyWarrior

Frankly though this shit really should put any MBF about both parties being just as bad aside forever.

BUT WHAT ABOUT DENNIS KUCINICH?!?! AND ROBERT BYRD WAS IN TEH KLAN!!!

575 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 8:34:07am

I just feel ill knowing that there are people out there like this. I know this kind of fucked up madness is not uniquely American but damn I’d be lying if I don’t feel a bit discouraged about some of our fellow Americans every day.

576 Dr Lizardo  Jun 11, 2014 8:34:23am

re: #572 ObserverArt

Ah ha. Someone finally admitted what I’ve been saying about the Republican party for some time. I do not mean all Republicans, but I swear deep down there is this very thinking in the party. What else could they hope for if they keep cutting aid, support, minimum wages, jobs and all that?

I give this idiot credit for admitting it. The ugly truth.

And yet again, the Dead Kennedys prove they saw the future, in all of its horror.

Efficiency and progress is ours once more
Now that we have the Neutron bomb
It’s nice and quick and clean and gets things done
Away with excess enemy
But no less value to property
No sense in war but perfect sense at home:

The sun beams down on a brand new day
No more welfare tax to pay
Unsightly slums gone up in flashing light
Jobless millions whisked away
At last we have more room to play
All systems go to kill the poor tonight

Gonna
Kill kill kill kill Kill the poor:Tonight

Behold the sparkle of champagne
The crime rate’s gone
Feel free again
O’ life’s a dream with you, Miss Lily White
Jane Fonda on the screen today
Convinced the liberals it’s okay
So let’s get dressed and dance away the night

While they:
Kill kill kill kill Kill the poor:Tonight

Youtube Video

577 BroncD  Jun 11, 2014 8:34:38am

I don’t think those IQ tests are going to go the way they wanted.

578 bratwurst  Jun 11, 2014 8:36:40am
579 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Jun 11, 2014 8:38:49am

re: #569 Justanotherhuman

In a file dated a few days later, repetitions of the phrase “velcro or zipper/velcro or zipper/velcro or zipper,” cover nearly two pages.

That’s pretty nuts. It really sounds like he never should have been inducted, but we were in that time period where the military was lowering its standard hugely.

580 Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 11, 2014 8:39:27am

re: #563 Dr Lizardo

Tell me again how different these people are from the fucking Taliban?

They use the right book.

/

581 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 8:39:42am
The family told News 13 they didn’t feel safe in Iraq. They were told they’d find a better life in the United States. Now bruised in more ways than one, Jaber and her family said they no longer feel safe here, like someone is watching them. And they hope police can catch the man responsible.

From Randall’s Page. Upding where credit is due.

582 Ian G.  Jun 11, 2014 8:40:15am

re: #557 Dr Lizardo

The Turks ain’t gonna like that. Not one damned bit.

Here we go. It’s August, 1914 in the Middle East.

583 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Jun 11, 2014 8:41:15am

re: #538 HappyWarrior

Note to Brat fans, “He did it too” is how five years old argue and rationalize their actions.

The “tu quoque” fallacy was invented by 5-year-old Roman children sometime in the first century BC. True fact.

584 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 8:42:42am

re: #583 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

The “tu quoque” fallacy was invented by 5-year-old Roman children sometime in the first century BC. True fact.

NO, I think it goes back further than that!

585 calochortus  Jun 11, 2014 8:43:29am

re: #551 Feline Fearless Leader

OK. A trivia question for the lizards, especially the geologist ones.

What’s the relationship between these two photos? (Beyond the fact I took both of them, of course.)

Morrison Formation - a wee bit of tilt

[Embedded image]BW of a Gray stone row house

Dinosaurs. I did have to enlarge the brownstone photo to read the top of the historical marker.

586 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 8:43:36am

re: #584 FemNaziBitch

NO, I think it goes back further than that!

Cave kids.

587 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 8:44:18am
When is America going to wake up and realize these cowards who are shooting up schools and theaters etc ONLY attack gun free zones like shooting fish in a barrel. Wake up folks !

Yes, from my fb.

588 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 11, 2014 8:48:33am

re: #585 calochortus

Dinosaurs. I did have to enlarge the brownstone photo to read the top of the historical marker.

Pretty much.

House was the former home of Edward Drinker Cope.
en.wikipedia.org

US history of paleontology and dinosaur fossils owe him a great debt. But also was hurt due to a massive competition between him and another scientist during the latter half of the 1800s. Cope’s competitor Marsh is the one who put the wrong head on an aptosaurus skeleton and coined it brontosaurus.
en.wikipedia.org

And the Morrison Formation became quite famous in the 1870-1880s as the source location of dinosaur bone yards that provided the initial finds of a lot of the “classic” North American dinosaurs.
en.wikipedia.org

589 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 8:53:59am
590 calochortus  Jun 11, 2014 8:54:14am

re: #588 Feline Fearless Leader

And if I recall correctly Cope and Marsh, while finding a bunch of fossils, manage to pretty much ruin each other and set back American paleontology for some time. Nuts.

591 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 8:55:02am

re: #586 HappyWarrior

Cave kids.

Yes, they grunted and pointed at the other kid.

592 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 8:57:18am

re: #589 FemNaziBitch

Duck Dynasty Has Written A Bible. It Will Be Here By Christmas.

Really eager to push that 15 mins of fame huh.

593 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 11, 2014 8:58:11am

re: #589 FemNaziBitch

Duck Dynasty Has Written A Bible. It Will Be Here By Christmas.

It will probably sell enough copies to turn a profit for the publisher and that is the ultimate arbiter of any decision these fellows make.

594 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 11, 2014 8:58:22am

re: #592 HappyWarrior

Really eager to push that 15 mins of fame huh.

Grifters gotta grift.

595 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 11, 2014 9:02:03am

re: #589 FemNaziBitch

Duck Dynasty Has Written A Bible. It Will Be Here By Christmas.

I hope all of the illustrations feature ducks, especially the ones about witches.

596 Skip Intro  Jun 11, 2014 9:02:08am

ABC News contributor and Brat cheerleader says

“And maybe, for getting Sgt. Bergdahl out of captivity, instead of sending five Taliban MVPs over there, he could have just traded one Eric Cantor”—Laura Ingraham

Nice party you have there, DF.

597 Gus  Jun 11, 2014 9:02:18am

After some consideration…

Dave Brat’s Batshit Wingnut Mainstream Republican Twitter Feed

598 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 9:02:20am

re: #579 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

That’s pretty nuts. It really sounds like he never should have been inducted, but we were in that time period where the military was lowering its standard hugely.

Also…

“On June 27, he sent an e-mail to his friends titled “Who is John Galt?,” a reference to the hero of Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged,” about individualism in a dystopian America.

“I will serve no bandit, nor lair, for i know John Galt, and understand . . .” Bergdahl wrote. “This life is too short to serve those who compromise value, and its ethics. i am done compromising.”

“Three days later, Bergdahl walked off his post.”

599 Skip Intro  Jun 11, 2014 9:03:19am

re: #589 FemNaziBitch

It will sell out at every Cracker Barrel in America within days.

600 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:03:56am

re: #596 Skip Intro

ABC News contributor and Brat cheerleader says

“And maybe, for getting Sgt. Bergdahl out of captivity, instead of sending five Taliban MVPs over there, he could have just traded one Eric Cantor”—Laura Ingraham

Nice party you have there, DF.

I wonder what it will take for him to finally realize how shitty his party is. i think he’s been blinded in a way of living in a state where the GOP isn’t totally off their nut.

601 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 9:04:53am

I enjoyed this interchange

602 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 9:05:11am

I wonder how wingnuts who are all HURR HURR!!!! CUT TAXES!!!! BALANCE THE BUDGET!!!! SUPPORT ARE MILITARIE!!!!! think they are going to do that.

603 Dr Lizardo  Jun 11, 2014 9:05:21am

re: #598 Justanotherhuman

Also…

“On June 27, he sent an e-mail to his friends titled “Who is John Galt?,” a reference to the hero of Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged,” about individualism in a dystopian America.

“I will serve no bandit, nor lair, for i know John Galt, and understand . . .” Bergdahl wrote. “This life is too short to serve those who compromise value, and its ethics. i am done compromising.”

“Three days later, Bergdahl walked off his post.”

All I can say is if Bergdahl suddenly decided he wanted to “Go Galt”, he sure picked the worst place on God’s green earth to do it. Afghanistan is the last place that comes to mind when “going Galt” comes up.

I’m thinking the open lands of Wyoming, or perhaps in the Jesenik Mountains, maybe the Carpathians or some remote hinterland of China, with waterfalls and forests.

604 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 9:06:21am
605 Skip Intro  Jun 11, 2014 9:06:52am

re: #600 HappyWarrior

You also have to realize she’s “jokingly” suggesting sending a Jew into captivity.

As I keep saying, nice party you have there, DF. And great choice on raising the standard of discourse, ABC News.

606 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:08:46am

re: #605 Skip Intro

You also have to realize she’s “jokingly” suggesting sending a Jew into captivity.

As I keep saying, nice party you have there, DF. And great choice on raising the standard of discourse, ABC News.

Oh no doubt about that. Really, she’s just another pathetic Coulter wannabe who is the face of a party that thinks waterboarding is funny and that it would be a wit to give Eric Cantor to the Taliban.

607 Gus  Jun 11, 2014 9:08:53am
608 Gus  Jun 11, 2014 9:09:33am

Alternate…

Dave Brat’s Batshit Wingnut Moderate Republican Twitter Feed

609 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:10:25am

Dave Brat may actually be a moderate compared to Stone the Gays guy. Stone the gays guy also says he favors lower taxes. Wouldn’t we need taxes to fund his pathetic fantasy?

610 Gus  Jun 11, 2014 9:11:03am

re: #609 HappyWarrior

Dave Brat may actually be a moderate compared to Stone the Gays guy. Stone the gays guy also says he favors lower taxes. Wouldn’t we need taxes to fund his pathetic fantasy?

Stoning gays. Could be worse! AMIRITE?

611 Dr Lizardo  Jun 11, 2014 9:11:29am

re: #607 Gus

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[Palpatine] YES, WINGNUTS….YOUR HATE MAKES YOU STRONG. GIVE IN TO YOUR ANGER AND YOUR JOURNEY TO THE DARK SIDE SHALL BE COMPLETE! [/Palpatine]

*smh*

612 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:11:58am

re: #610 Gus

Stoning gays. Could be worse! AMIRITE?

Yeah, we could have easier to afford health care because that’s what Hitler would want not the whole stoning people because we hate what they are kind of thing.

613 Skip Intro  Jun 11, 2014 9:12:52am

re: #609 HappyWarrior

Dave Brat may actually be a moderate compared to Stone the Gays guy. Stone the gays guy also says he favors lower taxes. Wouldn’t we need taxes to fund his pathetic fantasy?

The way the TP is going, in two years he’ll be desperately trying to fend off an attack from his right. He is, after all, an “intellectual”, and we all know what the GOPTP thinks of them.

614 Ian G.  Jun 11, 2014 9:13:27am

re: #609 HappyWarrior

Check this out: Brat actually acknowledges climate change!

I mean, he doesn’t think we should do anything about it, because it will only fuck over those brown-skinned people half a world away who had little or nothing to do with creating the problem, but never mind. Just acknowledging that it’s real is a step up for this rancid party of lunatics.

615 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 9:14:01am

re: #609 HappyWarrior

Dave Brat may actually be a moderate compared to Stone the Gays guy. Stone the gays guy also says he favors lower taxes. Wouldn’t we need taxes to fund his pathetic fantasy?

Wingnuts have a “solution” for the “lower taxes” dilemma: TAX TEH POORS!!!!!!

That’s what “Fair Tax” really means. It’s a consumption tax. Yeah that will really push the economy. Off a fucking cliff.

616 Gus  Jun 11, 2014 9:14:16am
617 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:14:43am

re: #614 Ian G.

Check this out: Brat actually acknowledges climate change!

I mean, he doesn’t think we should do anything about it, because it will only fuck over those brown-skinned people half a world away who had little or nothing to do with creating the problem, but never mind. Just acknowledging that it’s real is a step up for this rancid party of lunatics.

Sheesh.

618 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:16:02am

re: #613 Skip Intro

The way the TP is going, in two years he’ll be desperately trying to fend off an attack from his right. He is, after all, an “intellectual”, and we all know what the GOPTP thinks of them.

Hell look at Marco Rubio. Four years ago he was the sweetheart of the TP. He makes the mistake of actually trying to sound like a human being on immigration and his star has been falling ever since. Brat will make a similar mistake and the cycle will go on until the GOP base as we know it dies out or actually wants an open fascist for their nominee.

619 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:16:24am

re: #615 Pie-onist Overlord

Wingnuts have a “solution” for the “lower taxes” dilemma: TAX TEH POORS!!!!!!

That’s what “Fair Tax” really means. It’s a consumption tax. Yeah that will really push the economy. Off a fucking cliff.

Yep neo-feudal crap.

620 makeitstop  Jun 11, 2014 9:17:31am

re: #613 Skip Intro

The way the TP is going, in two years he’ll be desperately trying to fend off an attack from his right. He is, after all, an “intellectual”, and we all know what the GOPTP thinks of them.

I’ve posted along those lines all morning on FB. RWNJs really really hate when you say that eventually no one will be pure enough to pass their purity test.

Although I did note that advocating stoning gays might buy you a little time. Heh.

621 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 9:17:45am

My job depends on people buying cars. It would be really stupid of me to vote for dumbshits who think that fewer people should have the means to buy a new car.

622 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 11, 2014 9:19:44am

re: #621 Pie-onist Overlord

My job depends on people buying cars. It would be really stupid of me to vote for dumbshits who think that fewer people should have the means to buy a new car.

There is the famous anecdote of the GM executive showing off the new automated production line to the UAW boss and bragging “I don’t see a single union member in there!”.

To which the UAW boss replied, “Or a single customer!”

623 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:20:01am

I am amused how Brat says that Socrates learned Plato on a rock. Yeah Dave bring up how education was done thousands of years ago and ignore that Socrates wasn’t your typical Athenian.

624 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 9:20:17am

Worth watching again: (20 ish minutes)
Youtube Video

625 Skip Intro  Jun 11, 2014 9:21:00am

re: #618 HappyWarrior

Hell look at Marco Rubio. Four years ago he was the sweetheart of the TP. He makes the mistake of actually trying to sound like a human being on immigration and his star has been falling ever since. Brat will make a similar mistake and the cycle will go on until the GOP base as we know it dies out or actually wants an open fascist for their nominee.

After reading the Mother Jones article on Brat, the GOPTP may just have found theirs.

I’ve been saying that all the far right lacks to unify all of the splinter wingnut groups together is a charismatic leader.

Ted Cruz wanted to be that guy but couldn’t pull it off. Brat may be the Real Deal.

Not good at all.

626 Ian G.  Jun 11, 2014 9:22:27am

re: #618 HappyWarrior

Hell look at Marco Rubio. Four years ago he was the sweetheart of the TP. He makes the mistake of actually trying to sound like a human being on immigration and his star has been falling ever since. Brat will make a similar mistake and the cycle will go on until the GOP base as we know it dies out or actually wants an open fascist for their nominee.

I’m beginning to think we’ll eventually have a Congressman who advocates for a Calvinist theocracy, complete with burnings at the stake, just because it doesn’t seem that it’s possible for the GOP to lurch too far to the right.

627 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 9:23:14am

GG will have a real sad over this one. Not one mention of the NSA, Snowden or him.

RTDNA announces 2014 National Murrow Awards
Winners to be honored October 6 in NYC

rtdna.org

628 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 9:23:47am

re: #593 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It will probably sell enough copies to turn a profit for the publisher and that is the ultimate arbiter of any decision these fellows make.

Yeah, the “by Christmas” is a dead give-away.

629 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:24:04am

re: #626 Ian G.

I’m beginning to think we’ll eventually have a Congressman who advocates for a Calvinist theocracy, complete with burnings at the stake, just because it doesn’t seem that it’s possible for the GOP to lurch too far to the right.

We might well have that. That we’re actually seeing GOP candidates say that they don’t care if poor people starve to death or the stoning of gays, is advocacy for burning at the stake really a bridge too far?

630 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 11, 2014 9:24:04am

re: #626 Ian G.

I’m beginning to think we’ll eventually have a Congressman who advocates for a Calvinist theocracy, complete with burnings at the stake, just because it doesn’t seem that it’s possible for the GOP to lurch too far to the right.

He will advocate it in such a way that he can walk it back and say it was “hyperbole” or “metaphor” but we will all know what he wants to see.

631 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:24:26am

re: #630 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

He will advocate it in such a way that he can walk it back and say it was “hyperbole” or “metaphor” but we will all know what he wants to see.

Gee, libtard I was just using satire.

632 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 9:25:41am

re: #629 HappyWarrior

We might well have that. That we’re actually seeing GOP candidates say that they don’t care if poor people starve to death or the stoning of gays, is advocacy for burning at the stake really a bridge too far?

I thoroughly believe a woman will be stoned or burned at the stake before we get thru this.

633 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 9:26:22am
634 Skip Intro  Jun 11, 2014 9:26:40am

re: #632 FemNaziBitch

I thoroughly believe a woman will be stoned or burned at the stake before we get thru this.

It would poll well with the GOP base, including the women.

635 Dr Lizardo  Jun 11, 2014 9:27:53am

re: #634 Skip Intro

It would poll well with the GOP base, including the women.

Make it a “particicution” and it’ll be the biggest hit ever!

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636 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 11, 2014 9:29:25am

re: #590 calochortus

And if I recall correctly Cope and Marsh, while finding a bunch of fossils, manage to pretty much ruin each other and set back American paleontology for some time. Nuts.

They were pretty much a mixed blessing.

637 blueraven  Jun 11, 2014 9:29:47am

Anyone watching the House Armed Services committee testimony on the US/Taliban prisoner swap today? I think Hagel is doing very well. Aaaand, for the most part, it has been fairly respectful.

638 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 11, 2014 9:30:50am
639 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 9:32:14am

re: #637 blueraven

Anyone watching the House Armed Services committee testimony on the US/Taliban prisoner swap today? I think Hagel is doing very well. Aaaand, for the most part, it has been fairly respectful.

No, I’ve been staying away from C-SPAN, it depresses me too much.

640 gwangung  Jun 11, 2014 9:32:31am

re: #623 HappyWarrior

I am amused how Brat says that Socrates learned Plato on a rock. Yeah Dave bring up how education was done thousands of years ago and ignore that Socrates wasn’t your typical Athenian.

This is a labor intensive process, at that. Does he really think labor intensive processes are cheap?

641 Eventual Carrion  Jun 11, 2014 9:32:50am

re: #438 Killgore Trout

wow. I’m guessing that money is never going to be recovered.

Was probably still on the original pallets we sent it over on.

642 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 9:32:55am

Anyone know a good source to explain the phenom when Hate unites people —or how we unite around a common object/person of hatred.

643 Skip Intro  Jun 11, 2014 9:33:24am

Brat’s “competition”.

trammellforcongress.com

Too bad the Dems don’t have someone in charge of watching over local elections and making sure there are candidates in place and up to speed to try and counter the wingnuttery.

In CA district 4 there was a wingnut TPer incumbent, and regular GOPer, and *SURPRISE*, no Democrat at all.

You’re doing one hell of a job, Debbie.

644 wrenchwench  Jun 11, 2014 9:33:27am

re: #637 blueraven

Anyone watching the House Armed Services committee testimony on the US/Taliban prisoner swap today? I think Hagel is doing very well. Aaaand, for the most part, it has been fairly respectful.

645 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:33:31am

re: #640 gwangung

This is a labor intensive process, at that. Does he really think labor intensive processes are cheap?

Guy can’t even bother to give an answer on how he feels on minimum wage and he’s an economist.

646 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 9:33:37am

re: #623 HappyWarrior

I am amused how Brat says that Socrates learned Plato on a rock. Yeah Dave bring up how education was done thousands of years ago and ignore that Socrates wasn’t your typical Athenian.

And only the few and the male got that education.

647 Dr Lizardo  Jun 11, 2014 9:33:45am

re: #642 FemNaziBitch

Anyone know a good source to explain the phenom when Hate unites people —or how we unite around a common object/person of hatred.

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich explains it pretty well.

648 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:34:17am

re: #646 FemNaziBitch

And only the few and the male got that education.

Yep.

649 Justanotherhuman  Jun 11, 2014 9:34:31am

Does this tell you how much GG loves his Randian cohort, Brat?

Also, people keep linking a video featuring Brat (5x!) which doesn’t play and gives the message, “This video is private”. Allegedly, “Dave Brat, Republican candidate for Congress in the 7th District, addresses the Mechanicsville TEA Party” and ” attacks AT&T, US Chamber, Business Roundtable”.

650 Skip Intro  Jun 11, 2014 9:34:56am

re: #646 FemNaziBitch

And only the few and the male got that education.

I wonder what Socrates’ science lab looked like?

651 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:35:52am

re: #643 Skip Intro

Brat’s “competition”.

trammellforcongress.com

To bad the Dems don’t have someone in charge of watching over local elections and making sure there are candidates in place and up to speed to try and counter the wingnuttery.

In CA district 4 there was a wingnut TPer incumbent, and regular GOPer, and *SURPRISE*, no Democrat at all.

You’re doing one hell of a job, Debbie.

In Debbie’s defense. We re-elect Congressional incumbents at an alarmingly high rate even with the mass disapproval of Congress. Not to say we shouldn’t try to recruit solid candidates through out but I doubt the DCCC and DNC foresaw Cantor being beaten. His own guys had him up by 31.

652 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 9:36:05am

re: #647 Dr Lizardo

The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich explains it pretty well.

I’m looking for a psych explanation.

653 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:37:09am

re: #649 Justanotherhuman

Does this tell you how much GG loves his Randian cohort, Brat?

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Also, people keep linking a video featuring Brat (5x!) which doesn’t play and gives the message, “This video is private”. Allegedly, “Dave Brat, Republican candidate for Congress in the 7th District, addresses the Mechanicsville TEA Party” and ” attacks AT&T, US Chamber, Business Roundtable”.

Too bad that Brat will probably be just as crooked as Cantor was. This happens all the time. Guy rides in on a white horse and becomes worse than what was tehre before. This will happen to someone like Brat who doesn’t bother educating himself about politics.

654 GeneJockey  Jun 11, 2014 9:37:33am

re: #650 Skip Intro

I wonder what Socrates’ science lab looked like?

Well, if you stick to teaching Randian economics, Creation Biology, and YEC Cosmology, you don’t really need research facilities, do you? After all, data only confuses things.
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655 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:37:37am

re: #652 FemNaziBitch

I’m looking for a psych explanation.

Maybe not totally what you’re looking for but possibly the Stanford Prison experiment?

656 Kragar  Jun 11, 2014 9:37:59am

Another commenter asked, “So just to be clear, you think we should execute homosexuals (presumably by stoning)?”

“I think we would be totally in the right to do it,” Esk said. “That goes against some parts of libertarianism, I realize, and I’m largely libertarian, but ignoring as a nation things that are worthy of death is very remiss.”

Esk, who boasted of his “computer skills” and “good physical shape” to other Ron Paul supporters, said he became active in politics because he was tired of “collectivists stealing our freedoms constantly!!!”

“I believe that rights come from God - not from government - and that it should be limited, its taxes and spending should be low, its regulations few, and its protection of our liberties constant,” said Eck, who also calls for jury trials in divorce cases.

Esk told other Facebook commenters that, “if it helps any,” he believed such laws should be instituted locally, and not at the federal level.

657 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 11, 2014 9:39:09am
658 Kragar  Jun 11, 2014 9:39:53am
659 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 9:40:14am
660 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 9:40:26am

re: #645 HappyWarrior

Guy can’t even bother to give an answer on how he feels on minimum wage and he’s an economist.

He has an answer. He’s just self-aware enough to realize that it will make him sound like a total heartless dickwad.

661 Skip Intro  Jun 11, 2014 9:41:02am

re: #651 HappyWarrior

My point is there was no Dem candidate in VA07. There is now a placeholder candidate with a website that makes Free Republic look cutting edge.

There was no Dem candidate it CA04. John Connors somehow forgot to do what was necessary to get on the ballot.

Things like this make me despair over the abilities of Debbie Wasserman-Schultz.

662 Dr Lizardo  Jun 11, 2014 9:42:38am

re: #656 Kragar

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Mullah Eck is a lunatic. In a sane country, he’d be told by his party to sit down and shut the fuck up, and that party would utterly disavow him.

663 wrenchwench  Jun 11, 2014 9:43:23am

re: #651 HappyWarrior

In Debbie’s defense. We re-elect Congressional incumbents at an alarmingly high rate even with the mass disapproval of Congress. Not to say we shouldn’t try to recruit solid candidates through out but I doubt the DCCC and DNC foresaw Cantor being beaten. His own guys had him up by 31.

Another piece of evidence showing their disconnect from reality. And maybe a consequence of an anti-science attitude.

664 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 11, 2014 9:44:26am

re: #654 GeneJockey

Well, if you stick to teaching Randian economics, Creation Biology, and YEC Cosmology, you don’t really need research facilities, do you? After all, data only confuses things.
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Just two books.

665 GeneJockey  Jun 11, 2014 9:44:49am

re: #656 Kragar

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re: #658 Kragar

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That’s a standard Creationist tactic - conflating understanding of biological origins with philosophical worldview, and telling the folks who know that Evolution is real that their ‘random chance, survival of the fittest worldview’ doesn’t allow them to call bad things bad.

Complete shit, of course.

666 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 9:45:11am

There is some kind of weird Tweetdeck glitch that is causing people to retweet a bunch of code by “Andrew Girdwood”

Not embedding it here in case it’s some kind of malware.

667 GeneJockey  Jun 11, 2014 9:45:24am

re: #664 Feline Fearless Leader

Just two books.

I thought Rand dribbled out a series of bad novels?

668 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 9:46:13am
669 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 9:47:05am

re: #667 GeneJockey

I thought Rand dribbled out a series of bad novels?

No, she wrote quite a bit of non-fiction as well.

670 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 11, 2014 9:48:16am

re: #667 GeneJockey

I thought Rand dribbled out a series of bad novels?

You could probably get most of it out of either _The Fountainhead_ or _Atlas Shrugs_. The latter is more of the reference than the former though since the whole “go Galt” thing sources from there.

671 GeneJockey  Jun 11, 2014 9:48:20am

re: #669 FemNaziBitch

No, she wrote quite a bit of non-fiction as well.

Ah. I’d managed to avoid her books all my life, and see no reason to stop now!

672 Skip Intro  Jun 11, 2014 9:48:20am

673 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 9:48:30am

re: #664 Feline Fearless Leader

Just two books.

674 GeneJockey  Jun 11, 2014 9:49:09am

re: #673 Pie-onist Overlord

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John Rogers, though, not Paul Krugman. Krugman was quoting Rogers.

675 Gus  Jun 11, 2014 9:49:53am

re: #666 Pie-onist Overlord

There is some kind of weird Tweetdeck glitch that is causing people to retweet a bunch of code by “Andrew Girdwood”

Not embedding it here in case it’s some kind of malware.

Tweetdeck has been hacked. I just revoked access just in case.

676 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 9:50:04am

re: #674 GeneJockey

John Rogers, though, not Paul Krugman. Krugman was quoting Rogers.

GRRR Fake Quote.

677 Gus  Jun 11, 2014 9:50:42am

Republicans have lost their freaking minds. They’re disgusting. Never seen anything like this before. I might have to reassess my “far-right” mussing from last night.

678 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 9:50:50am
679 Kragar  Jun 11, 2014 9:50:53am

re: #671 GeneJockey

Ah. I’d managed to avoid her books all my life, and see no reason to stop now!

Youtube Video

680 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:51:22am

re: #663 wrenchwench

Another piece of evidence showing their disconnect from reality. And maybe a consequence of an anti-science attitude.

No doubt. I guess my point is that it’s hard to know which candidates vulnerable when we keep on returning these guys at a high rate. I really had no idea that Cantor was vulnerable. Hell didn’t even know he had a TP opponent since I thought he was in their good graces.

682 GeneJockey  Jun 11, 2014 9:51:43am

re: #676 Pie-onist Overlord

GRRR Fake Quote.

Well, to be fair, Krugman DID say it! But he was quoting. Still pretty sure Abe Lincoln never said that thing about quotes on the internet, even quoting anyone else.
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683 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 9:52:28am
684 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:52:33am

That said, I do agree with the need to recruit able candidates.

685 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 11, 2014 9:52:53am

LOLWUT

686 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:53:02am

re: #683 FemNaziBitch

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Add students to another group that the GOP does everything it can to alienate.

687 GeneJockey  Jun 11, 2014 9:53:27am

re: #677 Gus

Republicans have lost their freaking minds. They’re disgusting. Never seen anything like this before. I might have to reassess my “far-right” mussing from last night.

What was your first clue?

688 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:53:32am

re: #685 Pie-onist Overlord

LOLWUT

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Yeah that’s why Hitler was so popular in the 50’s in the US.

689 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 9:53:54am

re: #671 GeneJockey

Ah. I’d managed to avoid her books all my life, and see no reason to stop now!

I liked Anthem and We The Living.

690 GeneJockey  Jun 11, 2014 9:53:54am

re: #685 Pie-onist Overlord

LOLWUT

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Hitler was a Christian, and a Capitalist.

691 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:54:34am

re: #690 GeneJockey

Hitler was a Christian, and a Capitalist.

And he despised Jews who he linked to Marxism.

692 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 9:54:42am

re: #670 Feline Fearless Leader

You could probably get most of it out of either _The Fountainhead_ or _Atlas Shrugs_. The latter is more of the reference than the former though since the whole “go Galt” thing sources from there.

Yeah the cultural references from Atlas might be useful.

I tend to read everything — just to gain perspective.

Her non-fiction is tedious, IMHO.

693 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:55:18am

re: #671 GeneJockey

Ah. I’d managed to avoid her books all my life, and see no reason to stop now!

I had to read the Fountainhead in 11th grade philosophy. It’s basically a novel dedicated to the virtues of selfishness.

694 wrenchwench  Jun 11, 2014 9:55:41am

re: #680 HappyWarrior

No doubt. I guess my point is that it’s hard to know which candidates vulnerable when we keep on returning these guys at a high rate. I really had no idea that Cantor was vulnerable. Hell didn’t even know he had a TP opponent since I thought he was in their good graces.

There has been a series of nobodies running against Steve Pearce, a tea Party person himself, but somebody decided he was vulnerable this time around and the Democrat is a credible former county official. I don’t know which came first, a credible candidate, or the decision Pearce is vulnerable.

695 Kragar  Jun 11, 2014 9:55:41am

re: #692 FemNaziBitch

Yeah the cultural references from Atlas might be useful.

I tend to read everything — just to gain perspective.

Her non-fiction is tedious, IMHO.

I took the short cut and just played Bioshock

696 RadicalModerate  Jun 11, 2014 9:56:20am

re: #677 Gus

Republicans have lost their freaking minds. They’re disgusting. Never seen anything like this before. I might have to reassess my “far-right” mussing from last night.

The craziest of the crazies have been emboldened even further than before. And we have seen very recently what that encouragement brings, with the events of Las Vegas and Cumming, GA.

697 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:57:22am

buzzfeed.com
Keep on talking like that Rand and you will find your own Dave Brat in your own backyard. Pretty damn foolish of Rand to completely dismiss immigration. This is the same state party that had its senator call a young man a “macaca”.

698 GeneJockey  Jun 11, 2014 9:57:45am

re: #693 HappyWarrior

I had to read the Fountainhead in 11th grade philosophy. It’s basically a novel dedicated to the virtues of selfishness.

Yeah, now THERE’S a book for alienated teenagers - one that says that there are only a few really important people in the world, and everyone else just takes from them. No wonder so many Randians remind me of teenagers.

699 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:57:57am

re: #694 wrenchwench

There has been a series of nobodies running against Steve Pearce, a tea Party person himself, but somebody decided he was vulnerable this time around and the Democrat is a credible former county official. I don’t know which came first, a credible candidate, or the decision Pearce is vulnerable.

Well, that’s good news. We finally have a competitive race here due to Frank Wolf finally retiring.

700 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 9:59:21am

re: #693 HappyWarrior

I had to read the Fountainhead in 11th grade philosophy. It’s basically a novel dedicated to the virtues of selfishness.

Which is, of course, the name of one of her non-fiction books. Which I read when I was beginning recovery.

I actually had a therapist give me permission to be selfish. LOL

Which brings us back to the marriage of economics and morals in our society. It is OK to be selfish if it means taking care of yourself first. It is not ok to be selfish if it means being miserly and ignoring the suffering of others.

I always equated altruism with co-dependence when I was reading Rand. I got more of a psych lesson from it than an economic lesson.

Then, I was thinking in terms of addiction, not hunger.

701 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 9:59:22am

re: #698 GeneJockey

Yeah, now THERE’S a book for alienated teenagers - one that says that there are only a few really important people in the world, and everyone else just takes from them. No wonder so many Randians remind me of teenagers.

I guess I was atypical. I read that book for the class and then watched her interview with Phil Donahue and felt “Hey, it’s my Nana’s evil twin.”(My Nana was the most gentle woman I’ve ever met who despite having 20+ grand and great grandchildren had the gift of making them all feel uniquely loved).

702 bratwurst  Jun 11, 2014 10:00:07am
703 wrenchwench  Jun 11, 2014 10:00:41am
704 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 10:02:04am

Rand’s message sounds great until you remember “Oh yeah, there are other people I have to share this planet with.”

705 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 10:02:55am

re: #702 bratwurst

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This was Lindsay Graham’s path to victory. He really played up the benghazi fauxrage and it turned into votes for the useless bastard.

706 Skip Intro  Jun 11, 2014 10:03:27am

re: #704 HappyWarrior

Rand’s message sounds great until you remember “Oh yeah, there are other people I have to share this planet with.”

Not according to Dave Brat.

707 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 10:03:59am

re: #706 Skip Intro

Not according to Dave Brat.

Well he has never experienced a day of actual self-realization in his life.

708 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 11, 2014 10:04:54am

re: #703 wrenchwench

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709 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 10:04:56am

I wonder if Mr. Anti Government Brat will eagerly take the Congressional benefits and run. I still remember reading about a TP nutjob who was elected who not only asked about the health care benefits package but wanted it immediately before he was even swore in.

710 RadicalModerate  Jun 11, 2014 10:05:50am

re: #685 Pie-onist Overlord

LOLWUT

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Yeah, which party is it again who has members with direct ties to kinism, neo-Confederacy, and in some cases, neo-Nazisim?

711 Gus  Jun 11, 2014 10:05:59am
712 Gus  Jun 11, 2014 10:06:11am

Moderate.

713 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 10:06:14am

re: #655 HappyWarrior

Maybe not totally what you’re looking for but possibly the Stanford Prison experiment?

No, I remember at least one short story in which a village actively keeps a “object” of hate (usually a person they can abuse). Their “religion” or whatever demands it. As long as they do this, they prosper. …

It seems a meme tho, I had a boss that I always thought kept herself as the object of hate as a tactic to unite the employees. The business worked very well under that system.

If I observe a repeated meme, someone else has probably already studied it to death.

:)

714 GeneJockey  Jun 11, 2014 10:06:17am

re: #706 Skip Intro

Not according to Dave Brat.

Well, when you’re one of The Elect, you needn’t worry about The Damned.

715 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 10:07:48am

re: #713 FemNaziBitch

No, I remember at least one short story in which a village actively keeps a “object” of hate (usually a person they can abuse). Their “religion” or whatever demands it. As long as they do this, they prosper. …

It seems a meme tho, I had a boss that I always thought kept herself as the object of hate as a tactic to unite the employees. The business worked very well under that system.

If I observe a repeated meme, someone else has probably already studied it to death.

:)

Hmmm short story, could you be talking about Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.”

716 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 11, 2014 10:08:37am

re: #704 HappyWarrior

Rand’s message sounds great until you remember “Oh yeah, there are other people I have to share this planet with.”

If we develop the technology to hatch out fully formed adults whom we can fit with an education chip and send out to realize their potential as individuals on their own, then Rand’s philosophy starts to make sense.

717 Gus  Jun 11, 2014 10:09:14am

Cantor stepping down as majority leader in July.

718 lawhawk  Jun 11, 2014 10:09:36am

re: #683 FemNaziBitch

There’s a GOPer in the House who has a plan that might be workable, except that Obama might actually sign it, which means the GOP can’t afford to move it forward.

Obama could adopt the GOP plan proffered by Rep. Tom Petri (R-WI), and the GOP would suddenly turn and savage the plan.

They’ll not only turn on the plan, but claim it is unworkable, fiscally irresponsible, takes power away from private businesses to fleece students, and is unconstitutional.

It’s what they did with the ACA, and it’s what they’d do here too. The Warren plan could have helped, but the GOP didn’t want any part of it. The Senate Democrats could adopt the House GOP plan, and it’d be a no-go precisely because the GOP doesn’t want to give the Administration anything resembling a victory. That’s how petty and vindictive the GOP is - and that includes Cantor and Boehner in the House.

Speaking of Cantor, his twitter feed has gone quiet. Guess cat got his tongue. /

719 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 10:10:12am

re: #715 HappyWarrior

Hmmm short story, could you be talking about Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery.”

No, it was a sci-fi story, in the same vein.

720 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 11, 2014 10:10:14am

re: #713 FemNaziBitch

No, I remember at least one short story in which a village actively keeps a “object” of hate (usually a person they can abuse). Their “religion” or whatever demands it. As long as they do this, they prosper. …

It seems a meme tho, I had a boss that I always thought kept herself as the object of hate as a tactic to unite the employees. The business worked very well under that system.

If I observe a repeated meme, someone else has probably already studied it to death.

:)

en.wikipedia.org

OK, that’s not a rabbit hole I feel like going down today.

722 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 10:10:44am

re: #719 FemNaziBitch

No, it was a sci-fi story, in the same vein.

Ah okay. No idea honest, I don’t read much sci-fi.

723 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 10:11:09am

re: #721 Varek Raith


Creationist asks ‘hard question’: ‘If evolution is true, is rape wrong?’

The fuck…

Gee asshole, if creationism is true, is genocide in the name of religion, okay?

724 Eventual Carrion  Jun 11, 2014 10:11:22am

re: #491 makeitstop

Fischer’s mind is a dark, damp, frightening place.

But grows the best mushrooms in the shit that has backed up there.

725 calochortus  Jun 11, 2014 10:11:44am

re: #650 Skip Intro

I wonder what Socrates’ science lab looked like?

A rock?

726 GeneJockey  Jun 11, 2014 10:11:47am

re: #713 FemNaziBitch

If I observe a repeated meme, someone else has probably already studied it to death.

:)

I call this the ‘Parking in San Francisco Phenomenon’, and it applies in many places:


If it were really a parking spot, there’d already be someone parked in it.

Looking for ways to target cancer or infectious disease, I felt that way a lot!

727 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 11, 2014 10:12:29am

re: #721 Varek Raith


Creationist asks ‘hard question’: ‘If evolution is true, is rape wrong?’

The fuck…

Remember. those who reject Evolution often seem to have no problem embracing Social Darwinism.

728 Gus  Jun 11, 2014 10:13:30am

Hope they pick Louie Gohmert. I can dream baby! Pete Sessions would work too. :D

729 blueraven  Jun 11, 2014 10:13:43am

Whoa…from Bergdahl’s writings, sent to his friend.

On June 27, he sent an e-mail to his friends titled “Who is John Galt?,” a reference to the hero of Ayn Rand’s novel “Atlas Shrugged,” about individualism in a dystopian America.

“I will serve no bandit, nor lair, for i know John Galt, and understand . . .” Bergdahl wrote. “This life is too short to serve those who compromise value, and its ethics. i am done compromising.”

Three days later, Bergdahl walked off his post.

He had been released from the coast guard in 2006 for psychological reasons. This young man should have never been allowed into the army.

730 Gus  Jun 11, 2014 10:14:31am
731 Varek Raith  Jun 11, 2014 10:14:33am

re: #728 Gus

Hope they pick Louie Gohmert. I can dream baby! Pete Sessions would work too. :D

Louie Gohmert tells Congress the ‘good news’ that non-Christians are ‘going to Hell’

732 GeneJockey  Jun 11, 2014 10:14:58am

Completely OT, but my Dad turns 96 today. NINETY SIX!!!

733 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 10:15:07am

re: #726 GeneJockey

I call this the ‘Parking in San Francisco Phenomenon’, and it applies in many places:

Looking for ways to target cancer or infectious disease, I felt that way a lot!

well, It’s true, at least in my world. There have been so many minds, better than mine, observing the world for some time now.

734 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 10:15:48am
735 HappyWarrior  Jun 11, 2014 10:19:04am

re: #732 GeneJockey

Completely OT, but my Dad turns 96 today. NINETY SIX!!!

Happy b-day to your dad. My grandfather would have been 101 on this coming Sunday. Left us way too soon thirty five years ago.

736 GeneJockey  Jun 11, 2014 10:20:12am

re: #733 FemNaziBitch

well, It’s true, at least in my world. There have been so many minds, better than mine, observing the world for some time now.

The thing is, it’s not always a question of better or worse. Sometimes it’s a question of same or different.

My old boss used to come up with novel shit by changing fields every couple years. He’d bring an un-trained perspective to it, and so could see things that folks in the field couldn’t*. After a few years, his thinking became just like theirs and he couldn’t come up with anything new again. That and he was such an asshole he’d piss everyone off.

So, perhaps if you read the literature with a different perspective, you’ll see what others are missing?

*Mind you, later on he brought a crazy perspective, and could see things NOBODY else could.

737 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 10:20:45am

re: #721 Varek Raith


Creationist asks ‘hard question’: ‘If evolution is true, is rape wrong?’

The fuck…

Sad little people looking for any reason to put their dick somewhere. Fathering children is proof of fitness —the more children the more likely one’s DNA will survive.

738 Eventual Carrion  Jun 11, 2014 10:21:08am

re: #517 ObserverArt

Quick!!! Man the gates the Mongols are a comin’!

Save the treasury!!! They can have the women and children…

///

That is kinda funny because I checked the population ethnicity of VA and the fastest growing population since the 1990 census are Asians. Both white and black have dropped in their percentage of the population, but Asians have doubled. There was no separate category for Hispanic population, guess they were clumped under “Other Race”. And even the whole “Other Race” category had less of a population percentage than the Asians.

739 Rightwingconspirator  Jun 11, 2014 10:22:33am

re: #681 Feline Fearless Leader

Stone them? That’s legal in Colorado now right?
//

740 FemNaziBitch  Jun 11, 2014 10:40:10am
741 Eventual Carrion  Jun 11, 2014 10:45:18am

re: #656 Kragar

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Cool, so my town that is designated as a distressed municipality can locally decide to tax all the churches property, spending, and income. That should bring us out of distressed status fast, let’s do it.

742 Teukka  Jun 11, 2014 10:47:11am

re: #485 sagehen

Denmark.

If I’m not mistaken, they don’t have a First Amendment there.

re: #487 HappyWarrior

A lot of Scandinavian countries believe it or not.

*Cough*

The protestant church in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Finland are no longer state churches, and have not been so for around 20 years (depends on country, but it was in the early 90’s the church and the state parted ways in Scandinavia).

743 ObserverArt  Jun 11, 2014 11:40:39am

re: #643 Skip Intro

Brat’s “competition”.

trammellforcongress.com

To bad the Dems don’t have someone in charge of watching over local elections and making sure there are candidates in place and up to speed to try and counter the wingnuttery.

In CA district 4 there was a wingnut TPer incumbent, and regular GOPer, and *SURPRISE*, no Democrat at all.

You’re doing one hell of a job, Debbie.

Skip…see my #450. Trammell was only in the race as of Sunday. Yeah, he has some work to do. Let’s give him some time and see where this goes.

744 BlackPearl  Jun 12, 2014 10:56:03am

re: #713 FemNaziBitch

The ones who walk away from Omelas


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