Saturday Acoustic: Antoine Dufour, “The Drive Within”

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An insanely intricate piece by Antoine Dufour takes the two-handed tapping style to its outer limits. Amazing.

Finally! You guys have been patient! A song called «The Drive Within», from my Convergences album. Probably one of my hardest ones to play. Played on the new Beauregard signature guitar. Thanks for watching!

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Tuning: EbBbDEbBbF

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315 comments
1 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 14, 2014 1:15:50pm
2 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 14, 2014 1:17:37pm
3 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 14, 2014 1:18:11pm
4 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 1:18:33pm

re: #1 NJDhockeyfan

aww

5 Charles Johnson  Jun 14, 2014 1:22:43pm
6 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 14, 2014 1:22:51pm
7 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 1:25:17pm

What to watch today - The Wolf of Wall Street, the new X-Men or Machete Kills?

8 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 14, 2014 1:25:54pm

re: #1 NJDhockeyfan

Excellent. New wallpaper time!

9 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 14, 2014 1:27:21pm

re: #7 Ding-an-sich Wannabe

What to watch today - Wolf of Wall Street, the new X-Men or Machete Kills?

X-men. I’ve heard good things about it, even if it’s nowhere near as good as the comics were back in the early 80’s when I read that story for the first of many times.

10 Targetpractice  Jun 14, 2014 1:27:49pm

re: #7 Ding-an-sich Wannabe

What to watch today - The Wolf of Wall Street, the new X-Men or Machete Kills?

New X-Men.

11 Targetpractice  Jun 14, 2014 1:29:38pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

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Predictably, they’re comparing it now to the 18 minutes of missing tape from Watergate. Because apparently, in the 200+ years of American history, the only scandal of note where documents went “missing” was Watergate.

12 Lidane  Jun 14, 2014 1:33:31pm

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

Absolutely scathing. He’s also right. I agree with every single word.

13 Stanley Sea  Jun 14, 2014 1:34:16pm
Rumsfeld, he had his own little extra-constitutional intelligence outfit staffed with his simpering cronies who he paid to blow smoke up his pinched grey ass until his colon resembled beef jerky and he sure didn’t have much use for us - after all, we were just the military he had.

stonekettle.com

14 Charles Johnson  Jun 14, 2014 1:35:27pm
15 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 14, 2014 1:36:07pm

re: #12 Lidane

Absolutely scathing. He’s also right. I agree with every single word.

Love how he nailed Mitt’s chickenhawk ass to the wall.

16 Stanley Sea  Jun 14, 2014 1:36:50pm
17 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 1:36:56pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

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I’d take it as a compliment.

18 Charles Johnson  Jun 14, 2014 1:37:17pm

re: #17 Ding-an-sich Wannabe

I’d take it as a compliment.

I do!

19 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 14, 2014 1:38:41pm

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

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But by the time we figured out we’d been ass-raped by Colin Powell, we were shoulder deep in Iraq, Baghdad was burning, Iraq’s army had thrown down their weapons and taken off their uniforms and had melted into the population, Saddam had vanished and his sons were dead, and the President of the United States had already declared victory from the deck of an American aircraft carrier.

The Iraqi Army has precedent for doing that, apparently.

20 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 14, 2014 1:41:47pm
21 freetoken  Jun 14, 2014 1:44:38pm

Time again for nekkid buttocks, in this case not climbing a building but riding some bikes:

Image: naked-bike-ride.jpg

World Naked Bike Ride Is Exactly What It Sounds Like (And It’s Awesome)

22 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 1:44:40pm

re: #20 NJDhockeyfan

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Smart schnitzel!

23 Targetpractice  Jun 14, 2014 1:45:15pm

re: #16 Stanley Sea

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Nothing has driven me up the wall more in the last 72 hours than listening to wingnuts simper and whine about how we weren’t prepared to clean up Maliki’s mess and how the President is “losing what we won!” Seriously, fuck you, wingnuts. What’s with this “we” business all of a sudden? Millions of your fellow Americans said the war was a mistake and you questioned their patriotism. Now you want them to feel as though they have a stake in your little “white man’s burden” expedition? Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

24 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 1:45:43pm

re: #21 freetoken

No.

25 Lidane  Jun 14, 2014 1:46:07pm

re: #19 Backwoods_Sleuth

What’s the goal? What’s the objective? Is it to end terrorism? Is it to enforce peace at the muzzle of a gun? Is it it to make defense contractors rich? Is it for jobs? Or is it for magic flying bunnies who shoot rainbows and cheap gasoline out of their little assholes to the sound of Yankee Doodle Dandy?

Or, or, is it just because you hate Barack Obama?

Sums it up nicely, IMO.

26 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 1:47:29pm

Youtube Video

27 Charles Johnson  Jun 14, 2014 1:52:12pm

It’s almost cute how conservatives seem to expect everyone to jump on the Daily Outrage Train with them, and act all offended and pissed off when you don’t.

28 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 14, 2014 1:52:21pm
29 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 14, 2014 1:53:16pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

It’s almost cute how conservatives seem to expect everyone to jump on the Daily Outrage Train with them, and act all offended and pissed off when you don’t.

Lizard conundrum

30 Lidane  Jun 14, 2014 1:54:29pm

re: #23 Targetpractice

Nothing has driven me up the wall more in the last 72 hours than listening to wingnuts simper and whine about how we weren’t prepared to clean up Maliki’s mess and how the President is “losing what we won!” Seriously, fuck you, wingnuts. What’s with this “we” business all of a sudden? Millions of your fellow Americans said the war was a mistake and you questioned their patriotism. Now you want them to feel as though they have a stake in your little “white man’s burden” expedition? Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

OMG no kidding. The same flag-waving, yellow car magnet having, only-traitors-criticize-POTUS-in-war, WHY DO YOU HATE AMERICA YOU TERRORIST SYMPATHIZER rah rah Iraq War cheerleaders are now wanting us to go back because we’re supposedly “losing” whatever the fuck it was that Bush “won”.

Really? Fuck off. Anyone with more than two functional brain cells to rub together could have told you — and DID tell you — that Iraq was a highly sectarian country. It was and is a majority Shiite country that was run by Saddam’s minority Sunni party and that the Baathists weren’t going to give up power easily. Overthrowing him without a fucking plan in place was going to lead to a power vacuum and to the kind of chaos we’re seeing now, but noooo. We had to go to war because Saddam and 9/11 and solving Dubya’s Daddy issues.

Fuck these chickenhawks sideways. They want another Iraq war? Let them fight it, and let them send their kids and use their money to pay for it.

31 Stanley Sea  Jun 14, 2014 1:56:46pm

re: #23 Targetpractice

Nothing has driven me up the wall more in the last 72 hours than listening to wingnuts simper and whine about how we weren’t prepared to clean up Maliki’s mess and how the President is “losing what we won!” Seriously, fuck you, wingnuts. What’s with this “we” business all of a sudden? Millions of your fellow Americans said the war was a mistake and you questioned their patriotism. Now you want them to feel as though they have a stake in your little “white man’s burden” expedition? Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

DITTO.

And, we are not just noticing the predicted sectarian violence (oh that just rolls off the tongue) going down in Iraq.

We’ve been noticing it for years, the right wing though, swept it under the rug because they did not want to admit failure. Until a democratic president.

So typically craven of them.

32 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 14, 2014 1:56:53pm
33 TedStriker  Jun 14, 2014 1:57:42pm

re: #13 Stanley Sea

stonekettle.com

Right on and solid!

Now, I await KT’s scathing critique of Mr. Wright’s writing style once again, rather than actually addressing what was brought up. ///

34 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 14, 2014 1:59:02pm

re: #32 NJDhockeyfan

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Makes me think of old Peter Gabriel videos.

35 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 14, 2014 2:00:26pm

Hmmm. I am torn between indignant outrage and giddy anticipation.

Puts the attitude across better using something smugger.

36 thedopefishlives  Jun 14, 2014 2:00:33pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

It’s almost cute how conservatives seem to expect everyone to jump on the Daily Outrage Train with them, and act all offended and pissed off when you don’t.

Some of us have better things to do than be in a constant state of outrageous outrage. I prefer to live a normal life and not let the outside world dictate my emotions.

37 Nines All The Times  Jun 14, 2014 2:06:41pm

re: #28 NJDhockeyfan

They usually do that right before they launch into a full run at you as thoughts of “Land Locked Salmon” race through their heads. Bye bye baby….

38 Targetpractice  Jun 14, 2014 2:06:51pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

It’s almost cute how conservatives seem to expect everyone to jump on the Daily Outrage Train with them, and act all offended and pissed off when you don’t.

I tend to just tweak their tails by pointing out that they didn’t have much problem with these “outrages” when Bush was in the White House. That leads to whining about how he’s “not in office” anymore and thus nothing he did matters anymore.

39 bratwurst  Jun 14, 2014 2:08:49pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

It’s almost cute how conservatives seem to expect everyone to jump on the Daily Outrage Train with them, and act all offended and pissed off when you don’t.

It’s is all part of their constant quest to identify a scandal on left that is “worse than Watergate”. For example:

40 Lidane  Jun 14, 2014 2:09:00pm

Watching the World Cup today. It’s cute how the American sports media is trying to pretend that the US team will be a contender when they’re in the same group as Germany and Portugal. ROFL.

There’s even a whole half-hour TV special about the team between matches today. I am amused.

41 Lidane  Jun 14, 2014 2:11:05pm

re: #39 bratwurst

Funny. Neither gap is as large as the one between her ears. =P

42 Targetpractice  Jun 14, 2014 2:11:53pm

re: #39 bratwurst

It’s is all part of their constant quest to identify a scandal on left that is “worse than Watergate”. For example:

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It’s cute how they have to keep comparing any scandal under a Democrat to the worst Republican scandals in history. Or how they keep bringing up Watergate, while avoiding Iran-Contra, which actually involved far worse abuses of the law.

43 wrenchwench  Jun 14, 2014 2:12:50pm
44 CuriousLurker  Jun 14, 2014 2:13:35pm

Just came by to drop this off in case anyone needs some cuteness therapy.

45 sagehen  Jun 14, 2014 2:15:06pm

re: #44 CuriousLurker

Just came by to drop this off in case anyone needs some cuteness therapy.

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Does this mean Obama is now the Great White Father?

46 bratwurst  Jun 14, 2014 2:15:07pm

re: #40 Lidane

Watching the World Cup today. It’s cute how the American sports media is trying to pretend that the US team will be a contender when they’re in the same group as Germany and Portugal. ROFL.

There’s even a whole half-hour TV special about the team between matches today. I am amused.

Well it is all a matter of trying to generate TV ratings which is good for each and every fan of the sport in this country, regardless of how you feel about Team USA.

Of course, there are those in the media who don’t know/care about the sport blasting coach Jürgen Klinsmann for daring to concede the US is not ready to contend…see:

Jurgen Klinsmann not setting a good tone for US Soccer

or

Michael Wilbon tells U.S. soccer coach Juergen Klinsmann to ‘get out of America’

47 Stanley Sea  Jun 14, 2014 2:15:10pm

re: #42 Targetpractice

It’s cute how they have to keep comparing any scandal under a Democrat to the worst Republican scandals in history. Or how they keep bringing up Watergate, while avoiding Iran-Contra, which actually involved far worse abuses of the law.

Sister Sarah was busy killing baby animals during Watergate.

48 CuriousLurker  Jun 14, 2014 2:15:45pm

re: #43 wrenchwench

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O_O

49 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 2:16:10pm

re: #44 CuriousLurker

Compare it to this creepy old man:

50 jaunte  Jun 14, 2014 2:16:19pm

re: #5 Charles Johnson

Louise “F*** the Greeks” Mensch depressed about tribalism.

51 Stanley Sea  Jun 14, 2014 2:16:30pm

re: #43 wrenchwench

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Deathwish.

52 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 2:19:38pm

re: #43 wrenchwench

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[Cleveland’s voice:] No no no no no nooo!

53 Single-handed sailor  Jun 14, 2014 2:21:23pm

Uh huh,

Dec 15, 2009 - Computer technicians have recovered about 22 million Bush administration e-mails that the Bush White House had said were missing, two …

54 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 2:22:28pm

55 Targetpractice  Jun 14, 2014 2:22:51pm

re: #53 Single-handed sailor

Uh huh,

See, you and I will look at that and say “They did it too,” but a wingnut will look at it and declare “See, there’s no way that they could have ‘lost’ emails!!!”

56 Single-handed sailor  Jun 14, 2014 2:24:35pm

re: #55 Targetpractice

See, you and I will look at that and say “They did it too,” but a wingnut will look at it and declare “See, there’s no way that they could have ‘lost’ emails!!!”

Not to mention the secret Bush Administration e-mail accounts and servers.

57 Nines All The Times  Jun 14, 2014 2:24:47pm

re: #40 Lidane

Watching the World Cup today. It’s cute how the American sports media is trying to pretend that the US team will be a contender when they’re in the same group as Germany and Portugal. ROFL.

There’s even a whole half-hour TV special about the team between matches today. I am amused.

The actual aficionados who know the DL appreciate the continued making it TO the World Cup. As long as no one is crippled, and the refs don’t blatantly jingle the money in their shorts….Well. The rest of the audience will be asking all the usual questions. Like; What’s offsides? What is an offside trap? Why is the ref ignoring the linesman? What is a play on advantage? And the most important one; That really must be a Magic Sponge!
I do assume that FIFA in it’s elegant corruption has already figured out how to have Brazil win. Riots and things like that, ya know.

58 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 2:25:19pm
59 Lidane  Jun 14, 2014 2:25:48pm

re: #46 bratwurst

Well it is all a matter of trying to generate TV ratings which is good for each and every fan of the sport in this country, regardless of how you feel about Team USA.

Oh sure. I get that. The World Cup is massive and here in the States it barely registers on the radar. I’d love to see more interest in it and in sports like soccer. And it makes sense to push fans for Team USA. If more people follow the team then they’d be inclined to watch.

Of course, there are those in the media who don’t know/care about the sport blasting coach Jürgen Klinsmann for daring to concede the US is not ready to contend…see:

Jurgen Klinsmann not setting a good tone for US Soccer

or

Michael Wilbon tells U.S. soccer coach Juergen Klinsmann to ‘get out of America’

They’re idiots. Klinsmann is being honest and he’s speaking from experience. The US team isn’t ready to contend for the Cup. He’s setting realistic expectations for people so they don’t have a cow when the US fails to get out of their group.

There’s not going to be a Miracle on Ice and people need to accept that. It doesn’t mean that the US has a bad team. They just don’t have a strong enough team and they’ve also got the bad luck of being in the Group of Death. That’s just the way it is.

60 danarchy  Jun 14, 2014 2:29:14pm

re: #55 Targetpractice

See, you and I will look at that and say “They did it too,” but a wingnut will look at it and declare “See, there’s no way that they could have ‘lost’ emails!!!”

As an IT consultant I have to tell you the thought that the IRS can lose email is a little disturbing considering the rules for compliance for most financial institutions. If I ever told one of my clients that sorry we had a crash and lost 2 years of email I would lose that client so fast it would make your head spin. That shit should be on redundant hard drives, archived( since it is a government entity probably something easy like mimecast or global relay would be out so they would need an internal solution like mimosa) and also backed up nightly with traditional backups that can be taken off site and stored.

Any scandal here is that apparently the IRS’ IT infrastructure blows.

61 Targetpractice  Jun 14, 2014 2:29:35pm

re: #56 Single-handed sailor

Not to mention the secret Bush Administration e-mail accounts and servers.

Yeah, we know that Republicans never have email go missing or unreleased.

62 andres  Jun 14, 2014 2:29:36pm

re: #9 William Barnett-Lewis

X-men. I’ve heard good things about it, even if it’s nowhere near as good as the comics were back in the early 80’s when I read that story for the first of many times.

I don’t know about the comics way back in the 80’s, but I know this is almost as good as First Class. First Class had the element of surprise, while the new one has the element of wwwhhhiiippplllaaasssshhh. :P

63 Stanley Sea  Jun 14, 2014 2:31:21pm

re: #56 Single-handed sailor

Not to mention the secret Bush Administration e-mail accounts and servers.

Shit, Sister Sarah had her own missing email scandal while part time Gov of Alaska!

64 Killgore Trout  Jun 14, 2014 2:31:51pm

re: #53 Single-handed sailor

Uh huh,

Yup. The “missing email” thing usually doesn’t pan out as an excuse. It’s not necessarily a sign of something malicious but how bad does a computer have to crash to make it unrecoverable?

65 Lidane  Jun 14, 2014 2:31:55pm
66 Targetpractice  Jun 14, 2014 2:32:47pm

re: #60 danarchy

As an IT consultant I have to tell you the thought that the IRS can lose email is a little disturbing considering the rules for compliance for most financial institutions. If I ever told one of my clients that sorry we had a crash and lost 2 years of email I would lose that client so fast it would make your head spin. That shit should be on redundant hard drives, archived( since it is a government entity probably something easy like mimecast or global relay would be out so they would need an internal solution like mimosa) and also backed up nightly with traditional backups that can be taken off site and stored.

Any scandal here is that apparently the IRS’ IT infrastructure blows.

I remember this being something of a major bone of contention back when the ACA website went online, the screams about how there was no way that the government’s computers could be so pitifully set up that you couldn’t just build a website without it falling apart. But then a lot of those who worked in the government’s IT departments pointed out that most of their systems are A) years or decades old and B) rarely upgraded beyond what it takes to keep them from crashing all at once.

67 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 14, 2014 2:33:33pm

re: #64 Killgore Trout

Yup. The “missing email” thing usually doesn’t pan out as an excuse. It’s not necessarily a sign of something malicious but how bad does a computer have to crash to make it unrecoverable?

For something like a PC/laptop it varies. Once you move up to servers it depends on how the memory is configured, backed up, and how quickly someone noticed something is wrong.

68 freetoken  Jun 14, 2014 2:33:59pm

re: #65 Lidane

It’s getting a bit of coverage in the online media, but not as much as perhaps some would like. I think there is a topic-fatigue that has set in.

69 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 14, 2014 2:35:12pm

re: #66 Targetpractice

I remember this being something of a major bone of contention back when the ACA website went online, the screams about how there was no way that the government’s computers could be so pitifully set up that you couldn’t just build a website without it falling apart. But then a lot of those who worked in the government’s IT departments pointed out that most of their systems are A) years or decades old and B) rarely upgraded beyond what it takes to keep them from crashing all at once.

Not to mention that the ACA thing had to interface with multiple other systems for information. That is a professional IT niche unto itself since you would be working with multiple platforms, methods of communication, and the protocols each system wants to exchange data in.

70 Killgore Trout  Jun 14, 2014 2:35:25pm

washingtonpost.com

The IRS said technicians went to great lengths trying to recover data from Lerner’s computer in 2011. In emails provided by the IRS, technicians said they sent the computer to a forensic lab run by the agency’s criminal investigations unit. But to no avail.

She must have dropped it in an MRI machine or something.

71 freetoken  Jun 14, 2014 2:37:57pm

Maybe the ghost of Vince Foster scrambled the little magnetic particles on the disk?

72 BongCrodny  Jun 14, 2014 2:38:35pm

re: #23 Targetpractice

Nothing has driven me up the wall more in the last 72 hours than listening to wingnuts simper and whine about how we weren’t prepared to clean up Maliki’s mess and how the President is “losing what we won!” Seriously, fuck you, wingnuts. What’s with this “we” business all of a sudden? Millions of your fellow Americans said the war was a mistake and you questioned their patriotism. Now you want them to feel as though they have a stake in your little “white man’s burden” expedition? Fuck you and the horse you rode in on.

If my house burns down the minute I pop off to the 7-11 for smokes, I don’t think I should be crowing about how solid the foundation was.

73 wrenchwench  Jun 14, 2014 2:39:05pm

re: #71 freetoken

Maybe the ghost of Vince Foster scrambled the little magnetic particles on the disk?

Ghost of Rose Mary Woods.

74 Killgore Trout  Jun 14, 2014 2:39:29pm
The IRS was able to generate 24,000 Lerner emails from the 2009 to 2011 because Lerner had copied in other IRS employees. The agency said it pieced together the emails from the computers of 82 other IRS employees.

But an untold number are gone. Camp’s office said the missing emails are mainly ones to and from people outside the IRS, “such as the White House, Treasury, Department of Justice, FEC, or Democrat offices.”

Then surely the emails will exist on other agency’s computers unless there was a rash of mysterious accidents.

75 Charles Johnson  Jun 14, 2014 2:39:36pm

re: #67 Feline Fearless Leader

For something like a PC/laptop it varies. Once you move up to servers it depends on how the memory is configured, backed up, and how quickly someone noticed something is wrong.

The lost emails were reportedly on Lois Lerner’s personal laptop computer, not on a government server.

Yeah, it’s disconcerting that this could happen, but on the other hand it does, all the time. I’m not ready to start yelling cover-up just yet, though; the reports say they have all her intra-agency emails, this missing stuff is reportedly emails to other agencies or people. And they did turn over something like 72,000 emails.

76 Charles Johnson  Jun 14, 2014 2:40:34pm

IRS Lost Lois Lerner’s Emails in Tea Party Probe

Overall, the IRS said it is producing a total of 67,000 emails to and from Lerner, covering the period from 2009 to 2013.

77 Charles Johnson  Jun 14, 2014 2:41:27pm

One necessary ingredient for any fake outrage is a mistake or screw-up that can be pictured as sinister intent.

78 Targetpractice  Jun 14, 2014 2:41:31pm

re: #74 Killgore Trout

Then surely the emails will exist on other agency’s computers unless there was a rash of mysterious accidents.

Does it have a list of the agencies? Or is it going to make a blanket accusation and say they should just turn over any emails from Lerner under threat of…what?

79 wrenchwench  Jun 14, 2014 2:42:47pm

She’s tweeted too many of them already. Yeesh.

P.S. No beheadings.

80 danarchy  Jun 14, 2014 2:43:02pm

re: #66 Targetpractice

I remember this being something of a major bone of contention back when the ACA website went online, the screams about how there was no way that the government’s computers could be so pitifully set up that you couldn’t just build a website without it falling apart. But then a lot of those who worked in the government’s IT departments pointed out that most of their systems are A) years or decades old and B) rarely upgraded beyond what it takes to keep them from crashing all at once.

The ACA thing is a bit of a different beast though. Literally the number one sin for IT is data loss. A lot of things can be forgiven in the IT world, downtime, inconvenience, but there is no reason to lose data. Certainly not 2 years worth. I have some clients who are ok with losing a days worth of data in case of a catastrophic failure or disaster(fire,flood etc.) but more than that is pretty unforgivable.

81 b.d.  Jun 14, 2014 2:43:25pm

One year ago today I created an account at this website. I would like to thank Charles and all of the people here for being so welcoming and making this a truly fun, educating and overall great place.

82 sattv4u2  Jun 14, 2014 2:43:44pm

re: #64 Killgore Trout

Yup. The “missing email” thing usually doesn’t pan out as an excuse. It’s not necessarily a sign of something malicious but how bad does a computer have to crash to make it unrecoverable?

Accidents happen

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83 goddamnedfrank  Jun 14, 2014 2:44:06pm

re: #74 Killgore Trout

Then surely the emails will exist on other agency’s computers unless there was a rash of mysterious accidents.

Congress has almost certainly been given all the emails and the Republicans are simply using the crash as reason to think there might have been others sent. The investigation is a pathetic joke.

84 Killgore Trout  Jun 14, 2014 2:44:34pm
“such as the White House, Treasury, Department of Justice, FEC, or Democrat offices.”

I think congress has jurisdiction to get emails from all those government agencies with the possible exception of “Democrat offices”.

85 sattv4u2  Jun 14, 2014 2:45:03pm

re: #81 b.d.

One year ago today I created an account at this website. I would like to thank Charles and all of the people here for being so welcoming and making this a truly fun, educating and overall great place.

So your warranty is now up! Any screw ups, you pay full price !!!

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86 wrenchwench  Jun 14, 2014 2:45:08pm

re: #81 b.d.

One year ago today I created an account at this website. I would like to thank Charles and all of the people here for being so welcoming and making this a truly fun, educating and overall great place.

No longer a hatchling. You will soon be receiving an email outlining your duties.

/

87 Killgore Trout  Jun 14, 2014 2:45:25pm

re: #82 sattv4u2

lol

88 Targetpractice  Jun 14, 2014 2:45:50pm

re: #83 goddamnedfrank

Congress has almost certainly been given all the emails and the Republicans are simply using the crash as reason to think there might have been others sent. The investigation is a pathetic joke.

It’s become a fishing expedition at this point. They have no evidence that Lerner was receiving orders from anyone higher than her office, but they want to throw out the blanket accusation that those higher than her have “something to hide” unless they voluntarily turn over any emails from her they have. And even if they do, Republicans will declare that there’s more that’s not being released and thus reason to believe a cover-up.

89 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 14, 2014 2:45:56pm

re: #79 wrenchwench

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She’s tweeted too many of them already. Yeesh.

P.S. No beheadings.

I saw those earlier. Totally barbaric.

90 freetoken  Jun 14, 2014 2:46:03pm

re: #73 wrenchwench

Ghost of Rosemary Woods.

Some right wing wannabe’s like Roger Kimball are already posting articles comparing this to Nixon and the tapes.

91 Targetpractice  Jun 14, 2014 2:46:34pm

re: #84 Killgore Trout

I think congress has jurisdiction to get emails from all those government agencies with the possible exception of “Democrat offices”.

Jurisdiction, perhaps, but likely not cause. Without evidence that those emails exist, all they have is suspicion.

92 b.d.  Jun 14, 2014 2:47:23pm

re: #85 sattv4u2

re: #86 wrenchwench

Ha! It figures, introductory phase over, now pony up and get to work.

93 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 14, 2014 2:48:22pm
94 Charles Johnson  Jun 14, 2014 2:50:50pm
95 Stanley Sea  Jun 14, 2014 2:52:31pm

re: #88 Targetpractice

It’s become a fishing expedition at this point. They have no evidence that Lerner was receiving orders from anyone higher than her office, but they want to throw out the blanket accusation that those higher than her have “something to hide” unless they voluntarily turn over any emails from her they have. And even if they do, Republicans will declare that there’s more that’s not being released and thus reason to believe a cover-up.

Issa needs something to do. Certainly not anything for his district of Vista, CA.

96 The Ghost of a Flea  Jun 14, 2014 2:54:54pm

re: #92 b.d.

Ha! It figures, introductory phase over, now pony up and get to work.

You will receive your first suitcase full of panda meat at the end of the month, along with handwritten instructions.

97 Stanley Sea  Jun 14, 2014 2:55:35pm

Def watching Italia V. England.

98 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 14, 2014 2:56:01pm
99 wrenchwench  Jun 14, 2014 2:56:42pm

re: #96 The Ghost of a Flea

You will receive your first suitcase full of panda meat at the end of the month, along with handwritten instructions.

re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Scary convergence.

100 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 2:57:18pm

re: #97 Stanley Sea

Def watching Italia V. England.

Def not watching any of this.

101 sattv4u2  Jun 14, 2014 2:57:27pm

re: #97 Stanley Sea

Def watching Italia V. England.

Yup

Balotelli (Italys big star) generally plays extremely well in International matches

Rooney (Englands big star),,, not so much

102 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 14, 2014 2:59:37pm

re: #99 wrenchwench

Scary convergence.

Fate works in weird ways sometimes…

103 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 14, 2014 2:59:45pm

re: #74 Killgore Trout

Then surely the emails will exist on other agency’s computers unless there was a rash of mysterious accidents.

An IRS commissioner testified all her emails were archived. Wouldn’t that mean they are stored on more than one computer? I’m not a complete computer geek so I’m asking.

104 Lidane  Jun 14, 2014 2:59:57pm
105 darthstar  Jun 14, 2014 3:00:02pm

re: #97 Stanley Sea

Def watching Italia V. England.

Where are the fucking vuvuzelas?

106 Targetpractice  Jun 14, 2014 3:00:04pm

Honestly, how can anyone believe that it’s possible for the government to lose millions of emails? It’s obvious that nobody could really believe that…

But Scott Stanzel, a former deputy press secretary in the Bush White House, said the group “has consistently tried to create a spooky conspiracy out of standard IT issues.”

Nevermind.

107 Lidane  Jun 14, 2014 3:00:45pm

re: #97 Stanley Sea

Def watching Italia V. England.

And they’re off! I’m expecting a good match.

108 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 14, 2014 3:01:16pm

re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I’m not sure why, but that pic REALLY creeps me out. Not “Oh, that’s creepy” creepy, more like “Goosebumps and Involuntary Shudder” creepy. Weird. As far as I know, I’ve never been held prisoner, especially by pandas.

RBS

109 sattv4u2  Jun 14, 2014 3:01:34pm

re: #105 darthstar

Where are the fucking vuvuzelas?

I think you have to be a gynecologist to have full access to them

Or is that an Ear/Nose/Throat doctor!?!?!?

110 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 3:02:02pm

re: #104 Lidane

Ryan?

111 lgffan  Jun 14, 2014 3:02:35pm

Charles. Great taste in music. Just great.

112 Decatur Deb  Jun 14, 2014 3:02:57pm

re: #103 NJDhockeyfan

An IRS commissioner testified all her emails were archived. Wouldn’t that mean they are stored on more than one computer? I’m not a complete computer geek so I’m asking.

There are only so many electrons in the Intertubes.

113 b.d.  Jun 14, 2014 3:02:58pm

re: #107 Lidane

And they’re off! I’m expecting a good match.

The only way to that city is via river or by air and they’ll only play at night due to the jungle weather. Unreal.

114 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 14, 2014 3:03:04pm

re: #105 darthstar

Where are the fucking vuvuzelas?

That was my question yesterday!!!! Apparently they are banned. I’m starting the #VuvuelasGulagDefenseNetwork

RBS

115 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 3:03:07pm

re: #110 Ding-an-sich Wannabe

Oh. Brats.

116 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 3:04:08pm

Brat is a Christianist, right?

117 kirkspencer  Jun 14, 2014 3:04:12pm

re: #91 Targetpractice

Jurisdiction, perhaps, but likely not cause. Without evidence that those emails exist, all they have is suspicion.

They don’t need cause.

No, seriously. If you are using a federal computer and Congress wants to see what’s on it, they get to do so. There are a few exceptions but they don’t apply here.

118 Decatur Deb  Jun 14, 2014 3:05:15pm

re: #116 Ding-an-sich Wannabe

Brat is a Christianist, right?

That certainly, supposedly a Catholic. Really trying to grasp a Catholic who reveres St. Ayn.

119 freetoken  Jun 14, 2014 3:06:18pm

re: #104 Lidane

It looks like his table is full of fluff-books, the type one sees on bookshelves of big stores (well, used to, now on Amazon):

Image: 20140613mmashland-rm-college24_605.jpg

I assume they are there for the students. Pretty light reading for someone who has a Ph.D., I think.

Then again, what we know of who funded his employment at that college, maybe those are what he thinks as good economic texts.

120 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 3:06:35pm

re: #118 Decatur Deb

That certainly, supposedly a Catholic. Really trying to grasp a Catholic who reveres St. Ayn.

Or any theist, for that matter.

121 danarchy  Jun 14, 2014 3:08:00pm

re: #103 NJDhockeyfan

An IRS commissioner testified all her emails were archived. Wouldn’t that mean they are stored on more than one computer? I’m not a complete computer geek so I’m asking.

Hard to say without knowing what systems they are using. If it was a situation where they have a Microsoft Exchange server and the user created an archive in the outlook client it actually pulls that mail of the server and stores it in an archive on the users machine. However, there should still be a server wide archive and backups specifically so a user can’t do that sort of thing and screw themselves.

122 Amory Blaine  Jun 14, 2014 3:09:03pm

Maybe the admin is just trolling RWNJ. Let them get all lathery in their outrage and then, oops here are the emails, sorry about that.

123 Decatur Deb  Jun 14, 2014 3:10:17pm

re: #120 Ding-an-sich Wannabe

Or any theist, for that matter.

Maybe an Aztec jaguar priest.

Image: aztecs40.gif

124 Amory Blaine  Jun 14, 2014 3:10:20pm

re: #104 Lidane

Satan?

125 Lidane  Jun 14, 2014 3:12:47pm
126 sattv4u2  Jun 14, 2014 3:12:48pm

re: #122 Amory Blaine

Maybe the admin is just trolling RWNJ. Let them get all lathery in their outrage and then, oops here are the emails, sorry about that.

Yeah ,, no

Problem is, this is the federal gov’t, not some college frat house prank
Someone with the ability/ authority to “hide” the e-mails for awhile for the purpose of “just trolling RWNJ”) should be tossed out of gov’t service tout suite!

127 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 3:12:56pm

re: #123 Decatur Deb

Maybe an Aztec jaguar priest.

Image: aztecs40.gif

Close. If only they cut out the dollar signs on the skin during the sacrifice…

128 Amory Blaine  Jun 14, 2014 3:14:13pm

re: #126 sattv4u2

Yeah I’m sure they aren’t playing games.

129 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 3:21:48pm

An attempt to burn a mosque in Simferopol was caught on camera:

Youtube Video

Stability!

Earlier in Simferopol:

Unknown individuals painted swastikas and the phrase “Death to the Jews” on a synagogue in the Crimea region of southern Ukraine.

jpost.com

130 jaunte  Jun 14, 2014 3:24:20pm

oce.house.gov

“In February 2013, Representative Steve Stockman accepted contributions to his congressional campaign committee, Friends of Congressman Steve Stockman, from two employees of his congressional office. Representative Stockman’s congressional campaign committee subsequently filed Federal Election Commission (“FEC”) reports identifying the contributions made by his congressional employees as having been made by family members of the employees.”

131 Decatur Deb  Jun 14, 2014 3:25:55pm

re: #126 sattv4u2

Yeah ,, no

Problem is, this is the federal gov’t, not some college frat house prank
Someone with the ability/ authority to “hide” the e-mails for awhile for the purpose of “just trolling RWNJ”) should be tossed out of gov’t service tout suite!

About 4 million Feds and military, and perhaps as many contractor personnel produce maybe 100 million emails per day, including lolcats. Archiving all of it was required, but got damn little emphasis 10 years ago. You would expect department heads to get special attention, but since the requirements are so all-inclusive, she might not. The needles are probably tucked carefully in a staggeringly large stack of needles.

132 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 14, 2014 3:27:16pm

Hey Gang,

I am now offically certified as an Open Water Diver, and can dive (with a partner) down as deep as 60 feet. Here’s a dramatic recreation of me diving.

Reality Based Steve (Artists Conception)

This is the first step, as I view it, I now have a ‘license to learn’. I’m planning on slowly building my skillset and comfort level. I am going to start working on my Advanced Open Water, that will really help me build up my skillset and get better.

Problem diving here right now, as opposed to, oh… Florida is that our visibility is something like 10 feet right now due to the rains.

RBS

133 freetoken  Jun 14, 2014 3:27:34pm

re: #129 Ding-an-sich Wannabe

Makes me all the more perturbed when I consider what else is happening in the resurgence of open populist nationalism and identity movements in Europe.

And now that we have widely published “mainstream” conservatives like George Will in this country getting in bed with Paleo Pat, saying that the “fringe” parties in Europe are doing Europe a good thing by bringing back nationalism and rejecting the EU, I think it is all the more important for us to fight back against the resurgence of the backward right.

134 Killgore Trout  Jun 14, 2014 3:28:01pm

re: #117 kirkspencer

They don’t need cause.

No, seriously. If you are using a federal computer and Congress wants to see what’s on it, they get to do so. There are a few exceptions but they don’t apply here.

Yeah, they have a legal right to see her emails. I don’t think it makes a difference if they’re on an IRS computer or a white House computer.

135 Dr Lizardo  Jun 14, 2014 3:29:44pm

re: #132 RealityBasedSteve

Hey Gang,

I am now offically certified as an Open Water Diver, and can dive (with a partner) down as deep as 60 feet. Here’s a dramatic recreation of me diving.

Reality Based Steve (Artists Conception)

This is the first step, as I view it, I now have a ‘license to learn’. I’m planning on slowly building my skillset and comfort level. I am going to start working on my Advanced Open Water, that will really help me build up my skillset and get better.

Problem diving here right now, as opposed to, oh… Florida is that our visibility is something like 10 feet right now due to the rains.

RBS

Congratulations! Soon, I trust you shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many-columned Y’ha-nthlei, and in that lair of the Deep Ones you shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever.

136 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 3:30:27pm

re: #133 freetoken

Some - perhaps lots - of it is sponsored by Putin, who feeds the useful idiots and fellow travelers on all sides of the political spectrum.

137 Killgore Trout  Jun 14, 2014 3:32:31pm

Amid kidnapping, Abbas must take steps to prevent his political downfall

If it turns out the students were abducted for ransom in the form of concessions from Israel, it will be applauded by the Palestinian public, and Abbas will find it hard to express displeasure. Hamas and Islamic Jihad have made clear they expect a reward in exchange for the abductees’ release.

If all this weren’t enough, Palestinian complaints about the PA’s security coordination with Israel — coordination the Muqata recently declared “sacred,” will only increase. This will be used by Hamas, Islamic Jihad and the Palestinian public to goad Abbas.

If the three teens are released with PA assistance and no quid pro quo, it will be seen in the West Bank as a cozying up to Israel, even a betrayal of the Palestinian prisoners and detainees. The fact that Abbas has not yet conveyed a clear message, instead sending aides and associates to address the media, points to the trap he’s in.

138 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 14, 2014 3:32:40pm

re: #105 darthstar

Where are the fucking vuvuzelas?

That’s South Africa. Brazil doesn’t do that.

139 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 14, 2014 3:32:57pm

re: #135 Dr Lizardo

Congratulations! Soon, I trust you shall swim out to that brooding reef in the sea and dive down through black abysses to Cyclopean and many-columned Y’ha-nthlei, and in that lair of the Deep Ones you shall dwell amidst wonder and glory for ever.

maybe, some day. But I want to go to Florida first.

RBS

140 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 14, 2014 3:36:07pm

GOOOOAAAAALLLLL!

Italy up 1-nil

141 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 14, 2014 3:36:46pm

re: #139 RealityBasedSteve

maybe, some day. But I want to go to Florida first.

RBS

That, and “Release the RealityBasedSteve!” doesn’t quite have the right ring to it.
;)

142 Lidane  Jun 14, 2014 3:37:19pm

1-1 bitches. England just tied it.

143 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 14, 2014 3:37:22pm

And England ties it up! 1-1.

144 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 14, 2014 3:39:17pm

By the way, the sound from the lunch room at work when Brazil scored the own goal on Thursday is really hard to describe. It was a sort of dumfounded and essentially embarrassed silence.

145 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 3:41:05pm

Release the reality-based Kraken!

146 Dark_Falcon  Jun 14, 2014 3:41:30pm

re: #93 NJDhockeyfan

Iraqi official confirms rumour that #ISIS militants flew captured Blackhawk chopper over #Mosul.

That’s a fake story. Here’s the truth, with the relevant paragraph bolded:

Department of Defense: Iraqi insurgents faking claims

The Islamic insurgents sweeping across Iraq have faked some of their claims of capturing American-made weapons from Iraq’s military, the Pentagon said today — though it also acknowledged the fighters have captured some vehicles and other equipment.

Defense officials told reporters that some of the claims made on social media by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria used years-old photos, including of weapons the U.S. never even sold to Iraq.

“There has been quite a lot of ISIS propaganda,” said Defense Department spokesman Col. Steve Warren. “Many of the photos are complete fabrications.”

For example, ISIS posted one photo that showed what it said was a captured MH-60 Black Hawk helicopter, the familiar workhorse of the U.S. Army and Navy. But as a defense official explained to reporters, not only did the U.S. not sell such aircraft to Baghdad, the picture itself had been taken years before and evidently just cut and pasted onto the Twitter around.

147 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 14, 2014 3:43:47pm

re: #146 Dark_Falcon

That’s a fake story. Here’s the truth, with the relevant paragraph bolded:

Department of Defense: Iraqi insurgents faking claims

But who believes anything the US government says?
//

148 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 3:44:03pm

Wow, I didn’t know about this Google feature!

149 jaunte  Jun 14, 2014 3:45:33pm

150 freetoken  Jun 14, 2014 3:45:54pm

re: #148 Ding-an-sich Wannabe

Yeah, Google does math, and makes pretty pictures. I knew about it… and forgot about… more than once. It’s one of those things that if you don’t use it you will forget it.

151 freetoken  Jun 14, 2014 3:46:34pm

He’s at it again:

Tony Blair says we must hit Iraq extremists hard - and refuses to accept blame for crisis

152 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 3:47:43pm

…

153 Lidane  Jun 14, 2014 3:47:58pm
154 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 3:48:59pm

re: #152 Ding-an-sich Wannabe

OK, LGF doesn’t deal with this type of link…

155 Dark_Falcon  Jun 14, 2014 3:51:26pm

re: #149 jaunte

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If any bikers try to storm the jail where said inactivated Marine is being held, i hope that jail’s guards blow them away.

But I hope this is just more bluster, because an attack on a Mexican jail by a group of wingnut bikers would be a serious international incident.

156 danarchy  Jun 14, 2014 3:52:24pm

re: #148 Ding-an-sich Wannabe

Wow, I didn’t know about this Google feature!

This made me wonder if wolframalpha.com was still alive and kicking.

It is, how do math teachers make sure anyone actually does their homework when you can get step by step solutions so easily.:

wolframalpha.com

157 jaunte  Jun 14, 2014 3:53:43pm

re: #155 Dark_Falcon

I doubt they get over the border.

158 BeenHereAwhile  Jun 14, 2014 3:54:11pm

re: #132 RealityBasedSteve

Hey Gang,

I am now offically certified as an Open Water Diver, and can dive (with a partner) down as deep as 60 feet. Here’s a dramatic recreation of me diving.

Reality Based Steve (Artists Conception)

This is the first step, as I view it, I now have a ‘license to learn’. I’m planning on slowly building my skillset and comfort level. I am going to start working on my Advanced Open Water, that will really help me build up my skillset and get better.

Problem diving here right now, as opposed to, oh… Florida is that our visibility is something like 10 feet right now due to the rains.

RBS

If it’s any consolation, on occasion in the Florida bays and along the Gulf coastline, visibility can be that limited.

Breathe easy.

159 allegro  Jun 14, 2014 3:54:16pm

re: #155 Dark_Falcon

If any bikers try to storm the jail where said inactivated Marine is being held, i hope that jail’s guards blow them away.

But I hope this is just more bluster, because an attack on a Mexican jail by a group of wingnut bikers would be a serious international incident.

Not likely. It would just be more dumbass Americans in a Mexican jail.

160 Dark_Falcon  Jun 14, 2014 3:55:38pm

re: #153 Lidane

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161 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 3:55:53pm

162 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 14, 2014 3:56:31pm

re: #160 Dark_Falcon

You don’t know that LOLGOP is a parody account?

163 Dr Lizardo  Jun 14, 2014 3:56:59pm

re: #155 Dark_Falcon

If any bikers try to storm the jail where said inactivated Marine is being held, i hope that jail’s guards blow them away.

But I hope this is just more bluster, because an attack on a Mexican jail by a group of wingnut bikers would be a serious international incident.

From what I read elsewhere, I think the plan is simply to ride to the US/Mexico border and stage some kind of protest demonstration.

I have a hard time imagining that anyone would be so utterly stupid as to attempt to storm a jail. Like you said, it would be a serious international incident, and that quite frankly is an understatement.

164 Dark_Falcon  Jun 14, 2014 3:57:29pm

re: #159 allegro

Not likely. It would just be more dumbass Americans in a Mexican jail.

No, it wouldn’t. Mexico would scream bloody murder about the incident, as Mexico has a understandable bee in its sombrero about “Yankee interventionism”.

165 darthstar  Jun 14, 2014 3:59:51pm

re: #148 Ding-an-sich Wannabe

Wow, I didn’t know about this Google feature!

You made a virtual egg crate.

166 jaunte  Jun 14, 2014 4:00:46pm

Apparently Alex Jones persuaded some idiots to stalk Bergdahl and they were detained by MPs.

167 Decatur Deb  Jun 14, 2014 4:01:35pm

re: #158 BeenHereAwhile

If it’s any consolation, on occasion in the Florida bays and along the Gulf coastline, visibility can be that limited.

Breathe easy.

In North Florida there are also some very neat springs set up as dive centers. This one pours an unbelievable river of fresh water from cave about 70 ft. down. It has a population of small blind fresh water flounder. The rising current in places feels like a hurricane and sounds like a freight train.

vortexspring.com

168 jaunte  Jun 14, 2014 4:01:36pm
“Infowars reporters were the only media to get inside the Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio, Texas where Bowe Bergdahl, the U.S. Army sergeant who spent five years as a captive in Afghanistan before being traded for five high-profile Taliban leaders, was being transported to early Friday morning.
After five hours of watching the hospital entrances for Bergdahl’s arrival, SSG Joe Biggs and Josh Owens were detained in a basement underneath the hospital for over an hour and threatened by military police without ever being clearly told the reason why.”
169 Dark_Falcon  Jun 14, 2014 4:01:57pm

re: #163 Dr Lizardo

From what I read elsewhere, I think the plan is simply to ride to the US/Mexico border and stage some kind of protest demonstration.

I have a hard time imagining that anyone would be so utterly stupid as to attempt to storm a jail. Like you said, it would be a serious international incident, and that quite frankly is an understatement.

If they stay on the US side of the border there will be no problem with the demonstration itself. But I hope the Border Patrol and the Mexican government make sure the word gets out to any would-be illegal immigrants to stay the Hell away from where ever these guys are going to be. Because I don’t want to see someone who’s just looking for work get beat up or killed by a group of wingnut rage-boys.

170 freetoken  Jun 14, 2014 4:04:41pm

re: #169 Dark_Falcon

If they stay on the US side of the border there will be no problem with the demonstration itself.

Except that it is an exceptionally busy and crowded place, and any rally there will be a major headache. The blowback against the bikers might be worth it to see, though.

There are some large parking lots near the border, but most of them are private and I doubt the owners want the bikers to rally there and cost them money.

171 b.d.  Jun 14, 2014 4:05:23pm

re: #166 jaunte

The guy used his military ID to get on base, he could get in some serious s*it for pulling this. Good.

Notice the tyrannical government let him keep recording and keep his recording.

172 Decatur Deb  Jun 14, 2014 4:06:25pm

re: #168 jaunte

After five hours of watching the hospital entrances for Bergdahl’s arrival, SSG Joe Biggs and Josh Owens were detained in a basement underneath the hospital for over an hour and threatened by military police without ever being clearly told the reason why.”

Here’s a hint—it rhymes with “Messpassing on a military reservation”.

173 Dark_Falcon  Jun 14, 2014 4:06:40pm

re: #168 jaunte

If one or both of those assholes really is a veteran then they ought to have any non-medical veterans benefits they receive suspended for having snuck into a military hospital on behalf of an insane fuck like Alex Jones. And if Infowars knew and gave any aid to their plans to break the law, I’d advise the Bergdahl family to sue both the “reporters”, Infowars, and Jones himself under the civil lawsuit sections of the RICO Act.

174 sattv4u2  Jun 14, 2014 4:08:10pm

re: #172 Decatur Deb

Here’s a hint—it rhymes with “Messpassing on a military reservation”.

Fesspassing???
((named after The Addams Familys’ Uncle Fester!!))

175 jaunte  Jun 14, 2014 4:08:42pm

re: #174 sattv4u2

Fesspassing among the Parkerized.

176 jaunte  Jun 14, 2014 4:08:58pm
177 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 14, 2014 4:09:12pm

re: #132 RealityBasedSteve

Given that depth limit, it’s compressed air scuba? Going to go exotic eventually? Heliox or trimix? I’ve never done anything more than snorkeling so I’m a bit green eyed either way ;)

178 Lidane  Jun 14, 2014 4:09:13pm

re: #166 jaunte

Memo to Alex Jones: a couple of mental midgets with military IDs that you conned into stalking a POW =/= reporters.

They deserve whatever they get for stalking Bergdahl. And WTF did you think was going to happen? They were going to be let into his hospital room no questions asked and be allowed to film him?

179 b.d.  Jun 14, 2014 4:09:21pm

re: #172 Decatur Deb

Here’s a hint—it rhymes with “Messpassing on a military reservation”.

Watching the film the security guy said something along the lines of “you should have used a media id to get on base rather than your military id”

180 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 14, 2014 4:11:01pm

OK, I just watched this one: Antoine Dufour Paroxysm, guitar/harp

Youtube Video

There are many more harp/guitar videos by others.

181 BongCrodny  Jun 14, 2014 4:11:31pm

re: #176 jaunte

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No doubt second prize is *two* calls.

182 Charles Johnson  Jun 14, 2014 4:13:04pm
183 Lidane  Jun 14, 2014 4:13:33pm
184 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 14, 2014 4:14:15pm

re: #181 BongCrodny

No doubt second prize is *two* calls.

Ya beat me to it. I was fixing some food.

RBS

185 Lidane  Jun 14, 2014 4:18:19pm
186 b.d.  Jun 14, 2014 4:20:21pm
187 Justanotherhuman  Jun 14, 2014 4:20:36pm

re: #179 b.d.

Watching the film the security guy said something along the lines of “you should have used a media id to get on base rather than your military id”

So, it appears that we can listen to the tape? Hope someone is getting this for the record, in case they try to edit the damn thing. ETA: Oh wait, it was a video? Were they going to hire James O’Keefe to cut and paste?

Using a military ID to get on the base and not a press pass doesn’t get you an interview with anyone. It gets them an interview with you.

What is it with these types, anyway, yelling about “abuse” or “rights being violated” or some other ridiculous BS charge against someone who tells them they can’t get their way every time they think they should get it, esp when they use subterfuge?

188 jaunte  Jun 14, 2014 4:23:03pm

re: #187 Justanotherhuman

What is it with these types, anyway

Chemtrail poisoning.

189 Lidane  Jun 14, 2014 4:25:15pm
190 Dark_Falcon  Jun 14, 2014 4:28:10pm

California declares whooping cough epidemic

California is being hit hard with a whooping cough epidemic, according to the state’s public health department, with 800 cases reported in the past two weeks alone.

The agency says that there were 3,458 whooping cough cases reported between January 1 and June 10, well ahead of the number of cases reported for all of 2013.

This is a problem of “epidemic proportions,” the department said. And the number of actual cases may be even higher, because past studies have shown that for every case of whooping cough that is reported, there are 10 more that are not officially counted.

Whooping cough, known to doctors as pertussis, is a highly contagious respiratory infection that is caused by a bacterium known as Bordetella pertussis.

The popular name for the disease comes from the whooping sound an infected person makes when gasping for breath after a coughing fit.

The bacteria spreads through coughing and sneezing. One person can infect up to 15 people nearby, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Typically symptoms appear an average of seven to 10 days after exposure.

Thanks, anti-vaxxers, you bunch of baby-killing choads!

191 darthstar  Jun 14, 2014 4:29:30pm

Just because nobody else is telling this addled old fuck to shut up and eat his boiled prunes.

192 Ryan King  Jun 14, 2014 4:32:03pm

re: #191 darthstar

I heard him doing his best AM Radio WIngnut impression on AM radio a few days ago.

F’ing disgusting.

193 Justanotherhuman  Jun 14, 2014 4:32:41pm

The plight of children being sent to the US from Central America has been reported all day on various network news sites. Many, some as young as 4, are sent here by way of coyotes who sometimes abandon them. A figure of 60-80K has been cited for the number of minors who will be sent to the US this way during 2014. Conditions are reported to be miserable in the Texas refugee centers to which they are sent.

Report: White House plans to move as many as 1,000 undocumented immigrant minors from facilities in Texas to Baltimore, Md., and Richmond, Va. - @BuzzFeed
Read more on buzzfeed.com

194 Lidane  Jun 14, 2014 4:35:52pm

re: #193 Justanotherhuman

195 Charles Johnson  Jun 14, 2014 4:37:46pm

By the way, I fixed the likely cause of that weird thing reported earlier where someone’s username was showing up incorrectly.

196 Justanotherhuman  Jun 14, 2014 4:40:06pm

re: #194 Lidane

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That’s such bullshit. One report I heard on MSNBC this morning talked about kids reporting that gangs in El Salvador and Guatemala were coming into the schools there threatening kids w/harm if they didn’t join. The political situation isn’t really good, esp in El Salvador, and parents are desperate and frightened for their kids. Some in their teens are finding work here and sending money back home to have siblings sent, and some have already been sent back to their country of origin by the INS.

197 wrenchwench  Jun 14, 2014 4:40:07pm

re: #169 Dark_Falcon

If they stay on the US side of the border there will be no problem with the demonstration itself. But I hope the Border Patrol and the Mexican government make sure the word gets out to any would-be illegal immigrants to stay the Hell away from where ever these guys are going to be. Because I don’t want to see someone who’s just looking for work get beat up or killed by a group of wingnut rage-boys.

“Would-be illegal immigrants” in Mexico are often known as “citizens”. Sometimes they are visitors in Mexico from farther south.

If they really were trying to cross the border illegally, I don’t think “wingnut rage-boys” would have much opportunity or ability to harm them. You think the bikers would form a rip-crew?

198 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 4:41:36pm

Heh.

199 Romantic Heretic  Jun 14, 2014 4:42:42pm

re: #118 Decatur Deb

That certainly, supposedly a Catholic. Really trying to grasp a Catholic who reveres St. Ayn.

Not all that surprising. Both Catholicism and Objectivism are theologies. Catholicism can be twisted to support the most horrific acts, and has been repeatedly throughout history. Objectivism was designed to support horrific acts.

200 Charles Johnson  Jun 14, 2014 4:44:31pm
201 bubba zanetti  Jun 14, 2014 4:45:59pm

re: #200 Charles Johnson

By that logic, if we abolished the Tea Party the IRS wouldn’t have to screen as many fake 501c3s.

202 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 4:46:56pm

re: #199 Romantic Heretic

Not all that surprising. Both Catholicism and Objectivism are theologies. Catholicism can be twisted to support the most horrific acts, and has been repeatedly throughout history. Objectivism was designed to support horrific acts.

Rand was an atheist and so is Objectivism.

203 Charles Johnson  Jun 14, 2014 4:47:00pm
204 BeenHereAwhile  Jun 14, 2014 4:47:06pm

re: #177 William Barnett-Lewis

Given that depth limit, it’s compressed air scuba? Going to go exotic eventually? Heliox or trimix? I’ve never done anything more than snorkeling so I’m a bit green eyed either way ;)

IMHO most recreational SCUBA shouldn’t go below 80 ft.

Yea, one can go deeper, but how physically fit are you? Decompression can become an issue, even using dive computers. Everyone, especially as one gets older, doesn’t react the same way to multiple dives to 80+ feet.

There isn’t much more you can (safely) see below 80 feet. Well there is, but when was the last time you drove your automobile 30 MPH past the speed limit.

Are you using rental equipment? Has your own equipment really been checked out for deep diving.

If you’re on a tourist dive boat, and you and your buddy are the only ones you know, make friends with another party, so they will notice if the boat starts to leave without you and your buddy back on board.

Really want to see natural reef beauty? Do a night dive.

If you’re going to do recreational SCUBA, especially in the Caribbean, or Central America, join DAN.

205 GeneJockey  Jun 14, 2014 4:47:11pm

re: #167 Decatur Deb

In North Florida there are also some very neat springs set up as dive centers. This one pours an unbelievable river of fresh water from cave about 70 ft. down. It has a population of small blind fresh water flounder. The rising current in places feels like a hurricane and sounds like a freight train.

vortexspring.com

Cave diving combines two of my biggest fears - claustrophobia and drowning. Chuck in a fiery airplane crash and you’ve collected the set!

206 Charles Johnson  Jun 14, 2014 4:47:58pm

I seem to be having a lot of success trolling the right wing loon contingent today.

207 urbanmeemaw  Jun 14, 2014 4:48:09pm

re: #171 b.d.

The guy used his military ID to get on base, he could get in some serious s*it for pulling this. Good.

Notice the tyrannical government let him keep recording and keep his recording.

OMG! Their right to harass and stalk a prisoner just released from an Afghan jail has been compromised! They can’t haz freedumz!

209 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 4:49:24pm

Oh…kay…

210 wrenchwench  Jun 14, 2014 4:49:38pm
211 Decatur Deb  Jun 14, 2014 4:51:58pm

re: #199 Romantic Heretic

Not all that surprising. Both Catholicism and Objectivism are theologies. Catholicism can be twisted to support the most horrific acts, and has been repeatedly throughout history. Objectivism was designed to support horrific acts.

But their horrors go in different directions. The inquisitors sought to bind individuals into communal orthodoxy. The Randians seek to destroy the community to unleash the individual.

212 Charles Johnson  Jun 14, 2014 4:53:37pm
213 b.d.  Jun 14, 2014 4:54:32pm
Obama is asked to halt rail strike

cnn.com

“I have requested federal intervention from the President to immediately mediate the ongoing dispute between SEPTA and the Engineers and Electricians Unions,” Gov. Tom Corbett (R)

IT’S OBAMA’S FAULT THERE IS A RAIL STRIKE!! HE SHOULD DO WHAT RONNIE DID!!

214 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 14, 2014 4:55:10pm

re: #202 Ding-an-sich Wannabe

Rand was an atheist and so is Objectivism.

It’s as faith based as any belief in god. Just because the magical thinking is about a human does not make it any less magical thinking. I’ll stay honest in my religion and go to church tomorrow as even if mythological Jesus was still better than Ayn.

215 Justanotherhuman  Jun 14, 2014 4:55:47pm

re: #213 b.d.

cnn.com

IT’S OBAMA’S FAULT THERE IS A RAIL STRIKE!! HE SHOULD DO WHAT RONNIE DID!!

President Obama intervenes in Philadelphia transit strike, establishes board to investigate contract dispute - @AP
End of alert

216 BeenHereAwhile  Jun 14, 2014 4:56:47pm

re: #205 GeneJockey

Cave diving combines two of my biggest fears - claustrophobia and drowning. Chuck in a fiery airplane crash and you’ve collected the set!

I’ve done some vertical cave spring diving in Central Florida. It’s OK, but would rather be in open water.

SCUBA DUBBA horizontally thru a cave under water?

Homie don’t play that game.

217 Decatur Deb  Jun 14, 2014 4:56:50pm

re: #205 GeneJockey

Cave diving combines two of my biggest fears - claustrophobia and drowning. Chuck in a fiery airplane crash and you’ve collected the set!

That dive site doesn’t let you intro the cave without specific certification and equipment. (It’s very difficult for them to hold against the current.) Open water divers go to the mouth of it, which is oriented upwards. The water flow is so great that a tethered rope is needed to provide a handhold. The rush drops rapidly as the spring opens upwards.

218 Charles Johnson  Jun 14, 2014 4:57:07pm

Meanwhile, Chuck Johnson seems to be stuck two days ago. Maybe he’s having a Groundhog Day event.

219 Ryan King  Jun 14, 2014 4:57:21pm

Have you Crushed any Dissent today? If not, you should.

220 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 4:58:26pm

re: #214 William Barnett-Lewis

Good, but that doesn’t address the point of incompatibility of Randianism with any form of theism and thus the incoherence of the Christianist cult of Rand.

221 Justanotherhuman  Jun 14, 2014 4:58:29pm

re: #219 Ryan King

Have you Crushed any Dissent today? If not, you should.

What do you think we are, CADs?

222 Charles Johnson  Jun 14, 2014 4:58:45pm

re: #219 Ryan King

Have you Crushed any Dissent today? If not, you should.

I’m trying to quit.

223 b.d.  Jun 14, 2014 5:00:08pm

re: #215 Justanotherhuman

President Obama intervenes in Philadelphia transit strike, establishes board to investigate contract dispute - @AP
End of alert

HOW DARE HE! INPEACH!!

224 Decatur Deb  Jun 14, 2014 5:00:32pm

re: #222 Charles Johnson

I’m trying to quit.

Could try a patch, or eCrush.

225 Dark_Falcon  Jun 14, 2014 5:02:15pm

re: #193 Justanotherhuman

The plight of children being sent to the US from Central America has been reported all day on various network news sites. Many, some as young as 4, are sent here by way of coyotes who sometimes abandon them. A figure of 60-80K has been cited for the number of minors who will be sent to the US this way during 2014. Conditions are reported to be miserable in the Texas refugee centers to which they are sent.

Report: White House plans to move as many as 1,000 undocumented immigrant minors from facilities in Texas to Baltimore, Md., and Richmond, Va. - @BuzzFeed
Read more on buzzfeed.com

re: #193 Justanotherhuman

The plight of children being sent to the US from Central America has been reported all day on various network news sites. Many, some as young as 4, are sent here by way of coyotes who sometimes abandon them. A figure of 60-80K has been cited for the number of minors who will be sent to the US this way during 2014. Conditions are reported to be miserable in the Texas refugee centers to which they are sent.

Report: White House plans to move as many as 1,000 undocumented immigrant minors from facilities in Texas to Baltimore, Md., and Richmond, Va. - @BuzzFeed
Read more on buzzfeed.com

Richmond? Oh my, that should get Dave Brat steamed. Which worries me, since I fear Brat having a Todd Akin moment.

226 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 14, 2014 5:02:49pm

re: #220 Ding-an-sich Wannabe

Good, but that doesn’t address the point of incompatibility of Randianism with any form of theism and thus the incoherence of the Christianist cult of Rand.

Oh, i agree. I was simply commenting that Rands creed is as faith based as any other religion. Of course it’s incompatible with Christianity since they’re even more ebil to her than Marxists :D For someone to claim to be a Christian and to follow Rand is to be someone who has no clue what either taught.

227 Romantic Heretic  Jun 14, 2014 5:03:20pm

re: #202 Ding-an-sich Wannabe

Rand was an atheist and so is Objectivism.

But both are worshipped, literally, by its followers. Plus Objectivism is a matter of faith unsupported by rational observation of the world.

228 wrenchwench  Jun 14, 2014 5:03:32pm

re: #225 Dark_Falcon

Richmond? Oh my, that should get Dave Brat steamed. Which worries me, since I fear Brat having a Todd Akin moment.

You’re afraid he might embarrass the Party?

Hahahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhahahahahahhaa!

229 Charles Johnson  Jun 14, 2014 5:03:39pm
230 Decatur Deb  Jun 14, 2014 5:04:03pm

re: #225 Dark_Falcon

Richmond? Oh my, that should get Dave Brat steamed. Which worries me, since I fear Brat having a Todd Akin moment.

He will, sooner or later.

231 Skip Intro  Jun 14, 2014 5:04:27pm

re: #33 TedStriker

Right on and solid!

Now, I await KT’s scathing critique of Mr. Wright’s writing style once again, rather than actually addressing what was brought up. ///

Strap John McCain into the cockpit of an A-4 Skyhawk and let him fly air cover.

If he gets himself shot down and taken prisoner again, well, you know what? Fuck him, leave him to the enemy because frankly his hate and bile and raging insanity have done more damage to this country than Bowe Bergdahl ever did.

Jim hit himself a 1000 yard grand slam with that one. I’d give him another 500 yards if he had included that puke-faced war monger Lindsey Graham strapped in on Angry Grampy’s lap.

232 BeenHereAwhile  Jun 14, 2014 5:04:40pm

re: #217 Decatur Deb

That dive site doesn’t let you intro the cave without specific certification and equipment. (It’s very difficult for them to hold against the current.) Open water divers go to the mouth of it, which is oriented upwards. The water flow is so great that a tethered rope is needed to provide a handhold. The rush drops rapidly as the spring opens upwards.

That sounds like it would have been a fun one to do.

233 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 14, 2014 5:06:43pm

re: #225 Dark_Falcon

Richmond? Oh my, that should get Dave Brat steamed. Which worries me, since I fear Brat having a Todd Akin moment.

DF, i fully intend to light a candle to The Lady that he does have multiple such moments and goes down in flames. He’s likely to be more dangerous in office than Cantor ever was. Cantor was only out for power but Brat is a True Believer straight out of Hoffer’s book.

234 Dark_Falcon  Jun 14, 2014 5:07:58pm

re: #231 Skip Intro

Strap John McCain into the cockpit of an A-4 Skyhawk and let him fly air cover.

If he gets himself shot down and taken prisoner again, well, you know what? Fuck him, leave him to the enemy because frankly his hate and bile and raging insanity have done more damage to this country than Bowe Bergdahl ever did.

Jim hit himself a 1000 yard grand slam with that one. I’d give him another 500 yards if he had included that puke-faced war monger Lindsey Graham strapped in on Angry Grampy’s lap.

Graham’s already been to Iraq and in his reservist persona, too, not as a senator.

Lindsey Graham and John McCain are many things, but they are not chickenhawks. They’ve paid their dues and have earned the right to say what they want on Iraq.

235 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 14, 2014 5:08:09pm

re: #231 Skip Intro

Strap John McCain into the cockpit of an A-4 Skyhawk and let him fly air cover.

If he gets himself shot down and taken prisoner again, well, you know what? Fuck him, leave him to the enemy because frankly his hate and bile and raging insanity have done more damage to this country than Bowe Bergdahl ever did.

Jim hit himself a 1000 yard grand slam with that one. I’d give him another 500 yards if he had included that puke-faced war monger Lindsey Graham strapped in on Angry Grampy’s lap.

Put them both in a two seater F-18 & forget to fully fuel it up …

236 b.d.  Jun 14, 2014 5:08:13pm

I am still confused as to why trying to find out if blatant political advocacy organizations masquerading as civic groups to dodge paying taxes is a bad idea?

237 Lidane  Jun 14, 2014 5:08:56pm

re: #225 Dark_Falcon

Richmond? Oh my, that should get Dave Brat steamed. Which worries me, since I fear Brat having a Todd Akin moment.

The current GOP is nothing but Todd Akin moments. Take a look at the Texas GOP platform sometime. Or at the douchecanoe openly calling for stoning gays. Or Inhofe saying he’d blab classified secrets because Obama.

238 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 14, 2014 5:09:37pm

re: #226 William Barnett-Lewis

Oh, i agree. I was simply commenting that Rands creed is as faith based as any other religion. Of course it’s incompatible with Christianity since they’re even more ebil to her than Marxists :D For someone to claim to be a Christian and to follow Rand is to be someone who has no clue what either taught.

I’m just as baffled by “The Brats” claim that he’s Catholic, and his apparent abiding love of Calvinism. Those are two theological systems that are pretty much mutually exclusive. Of course, when you thrown in Objectivism, and you’re believing a whole mess-O-incompatible before breakfast.

RBS

239 Dark_Falcon  Jun 14, 2014 5:09:41pm

re: #233 William Barnett-Lewis

DF, i fully intend to light a candle to The Lady that he does have multiple such moments and goes down in flames. He’s likely to be more dangerous in office than Cantor ever was. Cantor was only out for power but Brat is a True Believer straight out of Hoffer’s book.

Why don’t you just donate to Jack Trammell instead? He’s the guy Brat will be facing in the general election, after all.

240 Decatur Deb  Jun 14, 2014 5:10:02pm

re: #232 BeenHereAwhile

That sounds like it would have been a fun one to do.

Yeah. We have another that is only opened once a year as a fundraiser for the Sheriffs rescue team. That’s a known killer, only for certified guys. I just went for the monster BBQ. Entire hog in a thing half the size of an 18-wheeler.

241 Ryan King  Jun 14, 2014 5:10:21pm

The new Wingnut Obsession: blame Obama for not continuing Bush’s statecraft that cost a bunch of life and a few trillion, predicted ad nauseum years ago.

But the icing on the cake is wingnuts taking credit for predicting the obvious, that the country would fall into chaos along well known religious/political faultlines.

Funny how they didn’t really think of that before the invasion.

242 Lidane  Jun 14, 2014 5:10:43pm

re: #239 Dark_Falcon

Why don’t you just donate to Jack Trammell instead? He’s the guy Brat will be facing in the general election, after all.

Cantor’s district went with a more conservative candidate and you think the Democrats have a chance? LOL.

243 Decatur Deb  Jun 14, 2014 5:10:58pm

re: #238 RealityBasedSteve

I’m just as baffled by “The Brats” claim that he’s Catholic, and his apparent abiding love of Calvinism. Those are two theological systems that are pretty much mutually exclusive. Of course, when you thrown in Objectivism, and you’re believing a whole mess-O-incompatible before breakfast.

RBS

Yes. He’s going to be interesting to pick over.

244 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 14, 2014 5:13:25pm

re: #238 RealityBasedSteve

I’m just as baffled by “The Brats” claim that he’s Catholic, and his apparent abiding love of Calvinism. Those are two theological systems that are pretty much mutually exclusive. Of course, when you thrown in Objectivism, and you’re believing a whole mess-O-incompatible before breakfast.

RBS

His whole world view is utterly a mess - all three of those faiths are mutually exclusive. That’s why he’s got to be a True Believer - if he actually critically considered his stated philosophies, his world would fall apart in less time than it would take to say an Ave Maria.

245 Charles Johnson  Jun 14, 2014 5:13:33pm
246 Decatur Deb  Jun 14, 2014 5:13:58pm

re: #242 Lidane

Cantor’s district went with a more conservative candidate and you think the Democrats have a chance? LOL.

Dark wants us to spend our money. Trammell still has some chance, if Brat turns into a pigfucker or something. It’s worth some effort to make the TPGOP defend a seat that was super-secure last week.

247 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 14, 2014 5:14:56pm

re: #239 Dark_Falcon

Why don’t you just donate to Jack Trammell instead? He’s the guy Brat will be facing in the general election, after all.

Already have. :) Not that I have much so I figure asking for a little supernatural help can’t hurt even if I’m not especially Marian… ;)

248 Dark_Falcon  Jun 14, 2014 5:15:10pm

re: #242 Lidane

Cantor’s district went with a more conservative candidate and you think the Democrats have a chance? LOL.

Given that the Dems asked their voters there to vote for Brat? Maybe.

And heck, maybe I’m just old-fashioned but if you tell me my party has a decent candidate running in an election I’m going to try to help him/her win instead of hoping the other party’s guy acts like a doofus after he gets elected.

249 Skip Intro  Jun 14, 2014 5:15:43pm

re: #234 Dark_Falcon

Graham’s already been to Iraq and in his reservist persona, too, not as a senator.

Lindsey Graham and John McCain are many things, but they are not chickenhawks. They’ve paid their dues and have earned the right to say what they want on Iraq.

So your cool with a new Iraq war because the GOP Senators who want it aren’t “chickenhawks”?

Just one question. Who’s going to pay for it, since we still haven’t paid for the last one?

I realize that there are still people to starve, Social Security to gut, and Medicare to cut, but will that be enough?

250 GeneJockey  Jun 14, 2014 5:15:59pm

re: #234 Dark_Falcon

Graham’s already been to Iraq and in his reservist persona, too, not as a senator.

Lindsey Graham and John McCain are many things, but they are not chickenhawks. They’ve paid their dues and have earned the right to say what they want on Iraq.

And by being born here, I have earned the right to say they’re both completely full of shit, right up to the eyebrows.

251 Zamb  Jun 14, 2014 5:16:45pm

re: #203 Charles Johnson

Nothing says freedom like outlawing an entire political faction.

252 Bulworth  Jun 14, 2014 5:16:46pm

Reading the Hillary book..

She doesn’t mention BENGHazi until PAge34!!!!1

253 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 5:17:09pm

re: #245 Charles Johnson

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Today on Russia-1 channel: “Obama’s Judeo-Masonic connection exposed!”/

254 Kragar  Jun 14, 2014 5:17:13pm

re: #248 Dark_Falcon

Given that the Dems asked their voters there to vote for Brat? Maybe.

And heck, maybe I’m just old-fashioned but if you tell me my party has a decent candidate running in an election I’m going to try to help him/her win instead of hoping the other party’s guy acts like a doofus after he gets elected.

NYT Debunks Theory That Dem Voters Cost Cantor His Primary

255 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 14, 2014 5:17:26pm

re: #245 Charles Johnson

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Obama flashing gang signs. once a chicago thug, always a chicago thug////

Betting something like that shows up, unfortunately

RBS

256 Bulworth  Jun 14, 2014 5:18:20pm

re: #251 Zamb

Nothing says freedom like outlawing an entire political faction.

That’s because they love America so much and love Freedom. //

257 Dark_Falcon  Jun 14, 2014 5:19:03pm

re: #247 William Barnett-Lewis

BTW, this one’s for you.

258 Bulworth  Jun 14, 2014 5:20:02pm

Am really liking the little box around the post# in the quotes. Cool cool.

259 Dark_Falcon  Jun 14, 2014 5:21:12pm

re: #254 Kragar

NYT Debunks Theory That Dem Voters Cost Cantor His Primary

Forgive me, I wasn’t trying to peddle that discredited idea. I was trying to say that not all the people who voted for Brat in the primary will support him in the general election. It seems I failed to insert nuance where it was required.

260 wrenchwench  Jun 14, 2014 5:21:58pm

re: #258 Bulworth

Am really liking the little box around the post# in the quotes. Cool cool.

I didn’t like it at first, but now I like it a lot.

I think the same pattern fits every single change that’s ever taken place here.

261 Kragar  Jun 14, 2014 5:22:25pm

re: #203 Charles Johnson

Oh boy.

262 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 14, 2014 5:22:35pm

re: #257 Dark_Falcon

BTW, this one’s for you.

It’s kinda cute. He’s so straight-laced it’s nice to see him have a nice relationship.

He’s the only reason we have any shot at the present - those idiots pretending to coach over there aren’t helping any… :(

263 Decatur Deb  Jun 14, 2014 5:23:02pm

Dogwalk. BBL

264 Kragar  Jun 14, 2014 5:23:10pm

re: #259 Dark_Falcon

Forgive me, I wasn’t trying to peddle that discredited idea. I was trying to say that not all the people who voted for Brat in the primary will support him in the general election. It seems I failed to insert nuance where it was required.

Eh, I’m jumping in part way, just wanted to make sure this tidbit was in there just in case

265 b.d.  Jun 14, 2014 5:23:24pm

More trouble in the Dudebroverse?

266 goddamnedfrank  Jun 14, 2014 5:24:20pm

re: #234 Dark_Falcon

Graham’s already been to Iraq and in his reservist persona, too, not as a senator.

Lindsey Graham and John McCain are many things, but they are not chickenhawks. They’ve paid their dues and have earned the right to say what they want on Iraq.

Nobody called them chickenhawks, so this is kind of a non-sequiter. What McCain and Graham are, military experience notwithstanding, are two bigoted idiotic bloodthirsty old fuckwits eager to get more Americans killed just so we don’t “lose” a war we had no business ever getting involved in.

It might be one thing if Maliki’s government was at all worth fighting for, but it’s just another endemically corrupt kakistocracy that is adamantly opposed to reform.

267 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 14, 2014 5:26:03pm

re: #225 Dark_Falcon

Richmond? Oh my, that should get Dave Brat steamed. Which worries me, since I fear Brat having a Todd Akin moment.

Brat having a Todd Akin moment is inevitable and should happen any time now.

268 GeneJockey  Jun 14, 2014 5:27:06pm

re: #259 Dark_Falcon

Forgive me, I wasn’t trying to peddle that discredited idea. I was trying to say that not all the people who voted for Brat in the primary will support him in the general election. It seems I failed to insert nuance where it was required.

And not all the people who voted against him will oppose him. In fact I’d bet most Cantor voters will go for Brat.

BTW, was “Brat steamed” above intentional? If so, well played, sir!

269 Justanotherhuman  Jun 14, 2014 5:27:30pm

re: #265 b.d.

More trouble in the Dudebroverse?

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They’re so cute when they squabble.

270 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 5:27:34pm

re: #265 b.d.

Heh, I had no idea Barr was rah-rah-pro-Israel.

271 Kragar  Jun 14, 2014 5:27:51pm

re: #265 b.d.

More trouble in the Dudebroverse?

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I remember the day Barr screamed at me when I corrected her on some bit of Roman history on Twitter. She’s a nutter.

272 TedStriker  Jun 14, 2014 5:27:55pm

re: #234 Dark_Falcon

Graham’s already been to Iraq and in his reservist persona, too, not as a senator.

Lindsey Graham and John McCain are many things, but they are not chickenhawks. They’ve paid their dues and have earned the right to say what they want on Iraq.

Bullshit.

273 Justanotherhuman  Jun 14, 2014 5:28:18pm

re: #268 GeneJockey

And not all the people who voted against him will oppose him. In fact I’d bet most Cantor voters will go for Brat.

BTW, was “Brat must be steamed” above intentional? If so, well played, sir!

We prefer our Brats fried. : )

274 Dark_Falcon  Jun 14, 2014 5:30:08pm

re: #268 GeneJockey

And not all the people who voted against him will oppose him. In fact I’d bet most Cantor voters will go for Brat.

BTW, was “Brat must be steamed” above intentional? If so, well played, sir!

No, it wasn’t intentional. That wouldn’t have occurred to me, since my family strongly prefers to grill bratwursts. ;)

275 goddamnedfrank  Jun 14, 2014 5:30:27pm

re: #248 Dark_Falcon

And heck, maybe I’m just old-fashioned but if you tell me my party has a decent candidate running in an election I’m going to try to help him/her win instead of hoping the other party’s guy acts like a doofus after he gets elected.

“Your party” now primarily consists of and is run by hate filled racist bigoted myopic greed bags. If you looked at politics in a capacity beyond the simplistic lifetime gang membership model the GOP wouldn’t be your party any longer.

276 GeneJockey  Jun 14, 2014 5:31:09pm

re: #273 Justanotherhuman

We prefer our Brats fried. : )

Here on the Left Coast we like our Brats grilled, like every other fucking thing.

Meat? Grill it.

Fish? Grill it.

Chicken? Grill it.

Vegetables? Grill ‘em.

Corn Meal Mush Polenta? Grill it.

About the only thing I haven’t seen anyone attempt to grill is mashed potatoes.

277 Justanotherhuman  Jun 14, 2014 5:31:47pm

re: #271 Kragar

I remember the day Barr screamed at me when I corrected her on some bit of Roman history on Twitter. She’s a nutter.

It’s what happens when your career is on the skids and you spent your retirement money on Tom Arnold and cocaine.

huffingtonpost.com

278 b.d.  Jun 14, 2014 5:32:09pm

re: #271 Kragar

I remember the day Barr screamed at me when I corrected her on some bit of Roman history on Twitter. She’s a nutter.

I vaguely remember that? Didn’t she cite something Alexander the Great did and claim the Romans did it or something then go apesh*t on everyone who corrected her or something like that?

279 CuriousLurker  Jun 14, 2014 5:32:11pm

I see things have calmed down a bit since earlier.

I was going through the day’s Google alerts and ran across the poll below on an Islamic site. With only 75 respondents at the time I took the screenshot it’s obviously a very small sample, and being what it is it can’t exactly be considered scientific, nonetheless I thought you might find the results interesting.

Iraq Poll

280 Justanotherhuman  Jun 14, 2014 5:32:28pm

re: #276 GeneJockey

Here on the Left Coast we like our Brats grilled, like every other fucking thing.

Meat? Grill it.

Fish? Grill it.

Chicken? Grill it.

Vegetables? Grill ‘em.

Corn Meal Mush Polenta? Grill it.

About the only thing I haven’t seen anyone attempt to grill is mashed potatoes.

That will probably happen. : )

281 Skip Intro  Jun 14, 2014 5:33:00pm

The disloyal opposition protests the Obama commencement speech in Anaheim today.

flic.kr

Yes, the bleached blonde in turquoise is defeated CA AG candidate Orly Taitz, with her people.

282 GeneJockey  Jun 14, 2014 5:33:15pm

re: #280 Justanotherhuman

That will probably happen. : )

If you can fry ice cream, you can grill mashed potatoes.

283 Charles Johnson  Jun 14, 2014 5:33:16pm
284 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 14, 2014 5:34:34pm

re: #276 GeneJockey

Here on the Left Coast we like our Brats grilled, like every other fucking thing.

Meat? Grill it.

Fish? Grill it.

Chicken? Grill it.

Vegetables? Grill ‘em.

Corn Meal Mush Polenta? Grill it.

About the only thing I haven’t seen anyone attempt to grill is mashed potatoes.

Potato pancakes can be grilled. It’s … interesting … but it can be done ;)

285 CuriousLurker  Jun 14, 2014 5:35:55pm

re: #282 GeneJockey

If you can fry ice cream, you can grill mashed potatoes.

Dammit, see what you did? Now I want mashed potatoes.

286 goddamnedfrank  Jun 14, 2014 5:38:13pm

Is the GOP really going to go into 2016 selling more short sighted foreign interventionism, war in Iraq and Iran, endless Afghanistan?

I can’t wait to see the primary debates on this, as all the candidates take turns violently thrusting their their chicken fried crispy bits of wisdom into America’s war weary ear holes.

287 Dark_Falcon  Jun 14, 2014 5:38:24pm

re: #285 CuriousLurker

Dammit, see what you did? Now I want mashed potatoes.

Well, I know you don’t want them with bacon bits, because Muslim, but did you want butter or sour cream?

/ :D

288 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 14, 2014 5:39:37pm

re: #287 Dark_Falcon

Well, I know you don’t want them with bacon bits, because Muslim, but did you want butter or sour cream?

/ :D

Don’t forget a bit chives and shredded cheddar.

289 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 14, 2014 5:40:12pm

re: #287 Dark_Falcon

Well, I know you don’t want them with bacon bits, because Muslim, but did you want butter or sour cream?

/ :D

Since when did Butter and Sour Cream become mutually exclusive?

RBS

290 wrenchwench  Jun 14, 2014 5:40:18pm

re: #285 CuriousLurker

Dammit, see what you did? Now I want mashed potatoes.

They say mashed cauliflower is a low-glycemic substitute, but I don’t like cauliflower very much. Recently, though, I’ve been getting purple and orange cauliflower to eat raw. It’s very mild-flavored, so I don’t mind the taste. Can’t get both colors on one head, though.

291 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 5:40:34pm

re: #282 GeneJockey

If you can fry ice cream, you can grill mashed potatoes.

292 b.d.  Jun 14, 2014 5:41:44pm

re: #291 Ding-an-sich Wannabe

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That dog looks like Putin

293 darthstar  Jun 14, 2014 5:42:09pm

Okay…I didn’t that asshole made the following comment in the last few days. I’m starting to think Sarah Palin was the smarter half of that team.

294 CuriousLurker  Jun 14, 2014 5:42:39pm

re: #287 Dark_Falcon

Well, I know you don’t want them with bacon bits, because Muslim, but did you want butter or sour cream?

/ :D

Both—and Cheddar cheese. We have halal beef bacon, but I don’t have any at the moment. ;-(

295 CuriousLurker  Jun 14, 2014 5:43:11pm

re: #289 RealityBasedSteve

Since when did Butter and Sour Cream become mutually exclusive?

RBS

Hey, congrats on the diving thing.

296 darthstar  Jun 14, 2014 5:43:14pm

re: #293 darthstar

Okay…I didn’t that asshole made the following comment in the last few days. I’m starting to think Sarah Palin was the smarter half of that team.

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The complete idiot part, not the part where he was being a complete idiot.

297 b.d.  Jun 14, 2014 5:43:53pm

Not as much as this dog but still…

298 GeneJockey  Jun 14, 2014 5:44:41pm

Sour cream? Bacon bits? Chives? Cheese? What are you, animals?

Mashed potatoes need only milk, butter, salt, and pepper. Gravy if you have it - but REAL gravy, not some shit from a can or envelope.

Unless you’re eating mashed potatoes that came from a box. They you can do any damned thing you want. You’ll need to.

299 CuriousLurker  Jun 14, 2014 5:44:48pm

re: #290 wrenchwench

They say mashed cauliflower is a low-glycemic substitute, but I don’t like cauliflower very much. Recently, though, I’ve been getting purple and orange cauliflower to eat raw. It’s very mild-flavored, so I don’t mind the taste. Can’t get both colors on one head, though.

I don’t mind cauliflower. It tastes kinda like corn to me, but lordy does it stink up the house. I won’t eat any raw veggie except pickles. *shudder*

300 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 14, 2014 5:44:53pm

re: #294 CuriousLurker

Both—and Cheddar cheese. We have halal beef bacon, but I don’t have any at the moment. ;-(

Beef bacon makes exquisite hash. Dice it up with potatoes and a small onion, fry it up then when about half done crack two eggs in & scramble them into the hash. When done, serve with your favorite breakfast bread. Pure yum.

301 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 14, 2014 5:45:39pm

re: #297 b.d.

302 CuriousLurker  Jun 14, 2014 5:46:07pm

re: #300 William Barnett-Lewis

Beef bacon makes exquisite hash. Dice it up with potatoes and a small onion, fry it up then when about half done crack two eggs in & scramble them into the hash. When done, serve with your favorite breakfast bread. Pure yum.

Mmmmm, sounds good!

303 GeneJockey  Jun 14, 2014 5:46:33pm

re: #300 William Barnett-Lewis

Beef bacon makes exquisite hash. Dice it up with potatoes and a small onion, fry it up then when about half done crack two eggs in & scramble them into the hash. When done, serve with your favorite breakfast bread. Pure yum.

I saw Duck Bacon last night at the store. I showed it to the older boy - “Hey, look! Duck Bacon!”

He replied, “Rabbit Bacon!”

304 BeenHereAwhile  Jun 14, 2014 5:46:54pm

re: #240 Decatur Deb

Yeah. We have another that is only opened once a year as a fundraiser for the Sheriffs rescue team. That’s a known killer, only for certified guys. I just went for the monster BBQ. Entire hog in a thing half the size of an 18-wheeler.

Let my PADI & YMCA certs expire 14 years ago, after working a couple of years of dive “incident” investigations for underwriters, and besides I’d had 35 years of recreational SCUBA DUBA.

As you may well know, unless you do it a lot, and are in excellent physical shape, 60 ft should be your (safe) max for weekend warriors.

If you pull your reserve air, and there ain’t no air there. It can get complicated.

305 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 14, 2014 5:50:23pm

re: #300 William Barnett-Lewis

Beef bacon makes exquisite hash. Dice it up with potatoes and a small onion, fry it up then when about half done crack two eggs in & scramble them into the hash. When done, serve with your favorite breakfast bread. Pure yum.

I was with ya up to the “scramble the egg”, everybody knows the ONLY proper egg to place on top the hash is a poached egg. You can use hash beside any kind of egg, but can only be topped with poached.

To do otherwise is to risk offending the old ones.

RBS

306 GeneJockey  Jun 14, 2014 5:54:00pm

re: #305 RealityBasedSteve

I was with ya up to the “scramble the egg”, everybody knows the ONLY proper egg to place on top the hash is a poached egg. You can use hash beside any kind of egg, but can only be topped with poached.

To do otherwise is to risk offending the old ones.

RBS

Poached eggs make me think of Mom - she used to do them in a pan, without those little inserts. Perfect every time - white completely cooked, but still soft and pillowy, yolk all runny.

Whenever I try to do that, I end up with a cooked yolk and a pan of dilute Egg Drop Soup.

307 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 14, 2014 5:55:04pm

re: #305 RealityBasedSteve

Alas, I have never successfully poached an egg. I have made a major mess on a few occasions where I have tried it but I always end up with something that makes a soft boiled egg look good by comparison O_o

308 TedStriker  Jun 14, 2014 5:55:29pm

re: #300 William Barnett-Lewis

Beef bacon makes exquisite hash. Dice it up with potatoes and a small onion, fry it up then when about half done crack two eggs in & scramble them into the hash. When done, serve with your favorite breakfast bread. Pure yum.

Well, if it’s brisket, it’s really just un-corned beef, right?

309 GeneJockey  Jun 14, 2014 5:56:32pm

re: #307 William Barnett-Lewis

Alas, I have never successfully poached an egg. I have made a major mess on a few occasions where I have tried it but I always end up with something that makes a soft boiled egg look good by comparison O_o

Now I want soft boiled eggs.

310 Justanotherhuman  Jun 14, 2014 5:56:56pm

re: #306 GeneJockey

Poached eggs make me think of Mom - she used to do them in a pan, without those little inserts. Perfect every time - white completely cooked, but still soft and pillowy, yolk all runny.

Whenever I try to do that, I end up with a cooked yolk and a pan of dilute Egg Drop Soup.

I’m your mom. Medium heat. Spoon water over egg as needed. Or buy the poached egg insert. Mine turn out great in a small cast iron pan. I usually eat it on a piece of whole wheat toast.

311 CuriousLurker  Jun 14, 2014 6:01:54pm

Gah, you people always end up making me hungry. I think I feel… wait for it… OUTRAGED! *shakes fist*

Gonna go see what I can scrounge up. Laters. ;-)

312 Decatur Deb  Jun 14, 2014 6:32:55pm

re: #306 GeneJockey

Poached eggs make me think of Mom - she used to do them in a pan, without those little inserts. Perfect every time - white completely cooked, but still soft and pillowy, yolk all runny.

Whenever I try to do that, I end up with a cooked yolk and a pan of dilute Egg Drop Soup.

Mason jar lid rings in the pan. Old school.

313 GeneJockey  Jun 14, 2014 6:49:09pm

re: #312 Decatur Deb

Mason jar lid rings in the pan. Old school.

Mom didn’t need ‘em.

314 Dark_Falcon  Jun 14, 2014 7:00:01pm

re: #303 GeneJockey

I saw Duck Bacon last night at the store. I showed it to the older boy - “Hey, look! Duck Bacon!”

He replied, “Rabbit Bacon!”

Oh yeah? Well I say it’s Duck Bacon and I say “Fire!”.

:D

315 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 15, 2014 6:45:07am

re: #195 Charles Johnson

Late to a dead thread, but thanks for the fix.


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