Tea Party Mounts Massive Effort to Support Crazy Neo-Confederate in Mississippi

“Do I look fringe to you?”
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Here’s a good lengthy article at the Washington Post on the Tea Party’s all-out push in Mississippi to get out the vote for racist, homophobic neo-Confederate candidate Chris McDaniel: In Mississippi, Jenny Beth Martin and Tea Party Patriots Try to Prove Their Worth.

I think this is my favorite part of the article:

“This is about character, honor and integrity that used to be a hallmark of the country,” says Robert Edward Kenney, a man in a wheelchair with a big white beard and a confederate-flag-inspired bandana. “The way we are being portrayed is like we’re domestic terrorists with baby’s veins and guts hanging out of our teeth. They say we are fringe — do I look fringe to you?”

Unfortunately, he’s right. There’s nothing “fringe” at all about people who flaunt the Confederate flag in today’s Republican Party.

Also see
Dems Ain’t Happy Either

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387 comments
1 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 23, 2014 11:52:17am

They have moved the the GOP platform so close to the fringe that it grows hard to distinguish between the two

2 Aqua Obama  Jun 23, 2014 11:54:32am

As fucked as we think we are, at least we don’t have senators claiming that ebola is a doctor’s conspiracy when people are dying left and right from it.

3 Bulworth  Jun 23, 2014 11:56:42am

The Tea Party: Fighting really, really hard to replace one pretty far-right wing Senator with a younger, more rabidly right wing Senator.

4 Amory Blaine  Jun 23, 2014 12:03:12pm

Teabaggers have to go door to door in Mississippi for votes?!?! What’s this world coming to?

5 Lidane  Jun 23, 2014 12:03:16pm

re: #3 Bulworth

The Tea Party: Fighting really, really hard to replace one pretty far-right wing Senator with a younger, more rabidly right wing Senator.

That’s what kills me. They’re acting like Thad Cochran is some sort of flaming pinko commie librul. He’s just as conservative as the next GOP stooge. He’s just not crazy enough for the base, so McDaniel. WTF.

6 jaunte  Jun 23, 2014 12:04:00pm
“Before Martin was the president of the Tea Party Patriots, she was a software manager who quit her job to get fertility treatments and give birth to twins. The temp agency of her husband, Lee Martin, went belly-up, leaving the couple with a debt of more than $500,000 to the IRS. They filed for bankruptcy around the time of the Wall Street bailout.

“I was very frustrated by the TARP bill, because nobody bailed us out, and we weren’t looking for a bailout,” Martin says in a coffee shop outside of Jackson. It’s a message she uses often, saying that no one bailed out her husband’s company when it failed. As for being bailed out themselves, Martin has had to publicly contend with the fact that she and her husband filed for bankruptcy, a bailout of its own sort. Less well known is the fact that her husband accepted unemployment for a time, something else she has explained.”

Bailouts for me, but not for thee.

7 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2014 12:04:15pm

Meanwhile, things got really weird on Twitter last night for John Schindler. He apparently pulled an Anthony Weiner.

Ugh.

8 Decatur Deb  Jun 23, 2014 12:04:21pm

re: #3 Bulworth

The Tea Party: Fighting really, really hard to replace one pretty far-right wing Senator with a younger, more rabidly right wing Senator.

Good news is the Tea Party Patriots org alone is on record as spending 800K on the primaries. Assume that required a proportional response from Cochran’s establishment side. That’s a ton of money blown in a TPGOP ‘safe’ state.

Please proceed.

9 BeenHereAwhile  Jun 23, 2014 12:05:33pm

The runoff primary between McDaniel and incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran is an election that’s going to be interesting to watch.

10 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 12:06:35pm

re: #7 Charles Johnson

It was really him he who did that?

11 Bulworth  Jun 23, 2014 12:11:37pm

re:
#6

Unemployment insurance, too.

12 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2014 12:11:48pm

re: #10 wrenchwench

It was really him he who did that?

It looks like it.

His blog post: 20committee.com

But it’s been edited. The original is still in Google’s cache.

webcache.googleusercontent.com

13 Flying Squirrel Girl  Jun 23, 2014 12:12:21pm

re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

This morning on the way to work I heard someone on NPR discussing the TX GOP platform. He said they were going from being known as the part of small government to the party of no tolerance.

14 Amory Blaine  Jun 23, 2014 12:12:47pm

What’s a good Mississippi AM station that will capture the essence of the local flavor?

15 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2014 12:13:11pm

I’ll never understand why some guys do things like this. If Schindler really did it, he needs to come clean right away and sincerely apologize, or it will get worse.

16 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 23, 2014 12:14:36pm

re: #15 Charles Johnson

I’ll never understand why some guys do things like this. If Schindler really did it, he needs to come clean right away and sincerely apologize, or it will get worse.

IT TEH DEMON DJINN AL KA-HAL

17 Decatur Deb  Jun 23, 2014 12:15:11pm

re: #14 Amory Blaine

What’s a good Mississippi AM station that will capture the essence of the local flavor?

WKKK, 1861 on your dial.

18 Kragar  Jun 23, 2014 12:18:03pm

“The South will rise again” because “Death to America” was already taken.
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19 EPR-radar  Jun 23, 2014 12:18:49pm

re: #18 Kragar

“The South will rise again” because “Death to America” was already taken.
///

“The South will rise again” effectively is “Death to America”.

20 Kragar  Jun 23, 2014 12:19:09pm

re: #19 EPR-radar

“The South will rise again” effectively is “Death to America”.

Yup

21 Lidane  Jun 23, 2014 12:26:18pm

re: #7 Charles Johnson

I’m so sorry I missed it.

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22 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 12:29:06pm

‘They say we are fringe — do I look fringe to you?”

Unfortunately, no. At least, not in the south.

23 CriticalDragon1177  Jun 23, 2014 12:37:11pm

Charles Johnson,

I wonder if these people have any idea how bad they make themselves look. The Tea Party isn’t exactly a friend of America if they support this. They’re undermining the country. They have no business calling themselves “patriots!” This is un American!

24 Bulworth  Jun 23, 2014 12:38:39pm

re:
#8

Indeed, proceed away!

25 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Jun 23, 2014 12:39:00pm

re: #7 Charles Johnson

Meanwhile, things got really weird on Twitter last night for John Schindler. He apparently pulled an Anthony Weiner.

Ugh.

“Pulled a Weiner”

Yes, I am permanently twelve.

26 darthstar  Jun 23, 2014 12:46:37pm

I don’t know what’s funnier - the Tea Party trotting out “poll watchers” to intimidate black people so they won’t vote for Cochran, or the fact that Cochran is asking African Americans to vote for him to help him survive the run-off. “We’ll get back to suppressin’ y’all’s right to vote in November, but right now, ah need ya’s help.”

27 Varek Raith  Jun 23, 2014 12:48:44pm

re: #25 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

“Pulled a Weiner”

Yes, I am permanently twelve.

Heh heh heh you said ‘pulled’.

28 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 12:49:09pm

“Jenny Beth Martin” - from bankrupt house cleaner to well-paid fringe bomb thrower.

Who Are the Tea Party Patriots?

truth-out.org

“The year before her incorporation of Tea Party Patriots in Georgia in 2009, Jenny Beth Martin and her husband, Lee, declared bankruptcy. They claimed debts of more than $1.4 million resulting from a failed “temp” agency that supplied thousands of Spanish-speaking immigrant workers to local food production businesses, including Coca-Cola.

“Lee was not allowed to discharge the payroll taxes he had withheld from his employees and diverted from the taxing authorities, and the Martins continued to owe $510,000 to the federal government and $172,000 to the state of Georgia. They lost their five-bedroom home in Woodstock, matching Lincoln Navigators, and club membership, and Jenny Beth had to go to work as a house cleaner.

(snip)

“Although Jenny Beth Martin is listed as the Chief Financial Officer of TPP, its day-to-day finances are overseen by Lee Martin, who serves as the financial gatekeeper and de facto human resources manager. He is assisted by Jenny Beth’s cousin, who formerly worked as Lee’s operations coordinator at the failed temp agency and is now Jenny’s “right-hand man.” Lee says, “if people want to get paid, the bill goes through me for administrative purposes.” More

29 Bulworth  Jun 23, 2014 12:51:12pm

re:
#28

Grifters gonna grift

30 darthstar  Jun 23, 2014 12:51:42pm
31 J A P  Jun 23, 2014 12:51:45pm
All this on the heels of a report in The Washington Post that national tea party groups were raking in money without doling much out to candidates themselves.

Of course.

32 dog philosopher  Jun 23, 2014 12:51:53pm

The victim’s allegation that Clinton smeared her following her rape is based on a May 1975 court affidavit written by Clinton on behalf of Thomas Alfred Taylor, one of the two alleged attackers, whom Clinton agreed to defend after being asked by the prosecutor. Taylor had specifically requested a female attorney.

“I have been informed that the complainant is emotionally unstable with a tendency to seek out older men and engage in fantasizing,” Clinton, then named Hillary D. Rodham, wrote in the affidavit. “I have also been informed that she has in the past made false accusations about persons, claiming they had attacked her body. Also that she exhibits an unusual stubbornness and temper when she does not get her way.”

Clinton also wrote that a child psychologist told her that children in early adolescence “tend to exaggerate or romanticize sexual experiences,” especially when they come from “disorganized families, such as the complainant.”

The victim vigorously denied Clinton’s accusations and said there has never been any explanation of what Clinton was referring to in that affidavit. She claims she never accused anyone of attacking her before her rape.

“I’ve never said that about anyone. I don’t know why she said that. I have never made false allegations. I know she was lying,” she said. “I definitely didn’t see older men. I don’t know why Hillary put that in there and it makes me plumb mad.”

if hillary wants to be president, she better deal with this, effectively, and but quick

The victim’s second main grievance with Clinton stems from the newly revealed audio recordings, which were taped in a series of interviews of Clinton with Arkansas reporter Roy Reed, who was researching an article on the Clintons that was ultimately never published. The Free Beacon found the tapes archived at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, amidst thousands of pieces of Clinton history that are being periodically released for public consumption.

On the tapes, Clinton, who speaks in a Southern drawl, appears to acknowledge that she was aware of her client’s guilt, brags about successfully getting the only piece of physical evidence thrown out of court, and laughs about it all whimsically.

“He took a lie detector test. I had him take a polygraph, which he passed, which forever destroyed my faith in polygraphs,” Clinton says on the recording, failing to hold back some chuckles.

She then describes how she discovered that investigators had cut out and lost a section of the suspect’s underwear that they said contained the victim’s blood. Clinton brought the remaining underwear segment to a Nobel Prize-winning blood expert in Brooklyn, NY, she explained, in order to convince him to lend his heavyweight reputation and influence to her defense case.

“And so the, sort of the story through the grapevine was, if you get him interested in the case, then you know you had the foremost expert in the world willing to testify so that it came out the way you wanted it to come out,” Clinton said.

Clinton told the judge that the famous expert was willing to testify. Instead of the original charge of first-degree rape, the prosecutors let Taylor plead to a lesser charge: unlawful fondling of a child. According to the Free Beacon, Taylor was sentenced to one year behind bars, with two months reduced for time served. The second attacker was never charged.

i’m pretty sure this rape victim will be handed a prominent prime time slot at the republican national convention in 2016

33 darthstar  Jun 23, 2014 12:53:30pm
34 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2014 12:55:16pm
35 Bulworth  Jun 23, 2014 12:56:44pm

re:
#31

My surprise face. Let me show you it.

36 Bulworth  Jun 23, 2014 12:57:40pm

re:
#32

Benghazi! Never forgednnnddzzzzzz. HEY LOOK OVER THERE—NEW SCANDAL!111

37 alpuz  Jun 23, 2014 12:58:17pm

re: #17 Decatur Deb

Gah. I almost googled that. Nicely played.

38 piratedan  Jun 23, 2014 12:58:31pm

once GG has finally grifted enough from the Code Pink and the Brodudes, maybe he can finally amble off the stage into his secure gated Brazilian compound with his significant other and stay the fuck out the rest of our lives, living in his own self satisfied smugness.

39 jaunte  Jun 23, 2014 12:59:02pm

re: #34 Charles Johnson

Funny seeing GG talk about ‘moral self-righteousness.’

40 piratedan  Jun 23, 2014 1:01:15pm

re: #39 jaunte

there’s no topic outside of the epicness that is the narcissistic sociopathy of GG

41 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2014 1:02:04pm
42 J A P  Jun 23, 2014 1:03:07pm

re: #38 piratedan

Nah, people like that just move on to a new con.

43 b.d.  Jun 23, 2014 1:03:43pm

re: #34 Charles Johnson

The stasi like, oppressive US Government didn’t try to Gitmo Glenn as he was walking into the MSNBC studio?

44 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 1:10:18pm

re: #38 piratedan

once GG has finally grifted enough from the Code Pink and the Brodudes, maybe he can finally amble off the stage into his secure gated Brazilian compound with his significant other and stay the fuck out the rest of our lives, living in his own self satisfied smugness.

So, what you’re asking is, “Will GG ever reach Peak Asshole?”

Although it’s possible, it doesn’t seem likely. There appear to be untold depths to his assholery, which have yet to be plumbed. Indeed, it may be a renewable resource.

45 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2014 1:14:57pm

The Schindler thing is about to get a lot worse.

46 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 1:15:40pm

I think I’ll write a book called No Place to Hide Glenn Greenwald.

47 piratedan  Jun 23, 2014 1:19:13pm

re: #44 GeneJockey

well I am a bad person, because I wish that there was a way for him to be exposed for the crap that he’s pulled. I have no issue with someone believing that the US is bad or even evil. There’s been plenty of ammunition found on that account based on the revelations of the past participants of former administrations.

What I have issue with, is his apparent belief that THIS administration is the penultimate purveyor of all of those misdeeds in crystalline form. I can acknowledge that the US has behaved badly in the past, both recent and distant, what I can’t seem to find is any evidence that THIS administration is just as rotten/dirty/misguided as the ones preceding it.

48 RandomMonster  Jun 23, 2014 1:20:25pm

Dollars to donuts says that the white-bearded guy in the wheelchair with the bandana is on government assistance of some kind.

49 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2014 1:21:27pm
50 alpuz  Jun 23, 2014 1:24:07pm

re: #49 Charles Johnson

Where’s the bell? i don’t need that thing sneaking up on me.

51 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 1:27:42pm

re: #49 Charles Johnson

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The idea that any of those positions is ‘optimal’ is based on a very limited definition of ‘optimal’. And even under that definition, they’ll need a power meter to tune it.

52 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 1:27:57pm

And it needs a bell.

53 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 1:28:07pm

re: #49 Charles Johnson

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Well, THAT’S different.

54 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Jun 23, 2014 1:29:09pm

re: #49 Charles Johnson

I’m going to go ahead and assume that costs only slightly less than an aircraft carrier.

55 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 23, 2014 1:29:46pm

re: #45 Charles Johnson

The Schindler thing is about to get a lot worse.

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Don’t know that HuffPo will pay enough…

56 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 23, 2014 1:30:08pm

re: #49 Charles Johnson

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My back aches just looking at that thing…

57 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2014 1:30:31pm

re: #52 wrenchwench

And it needs a bell.

And a basket.

58 J A P  Jun 23, 2014 1:30:55pm

re: #45 Charles Johnson

Is Ann Boobus real?

59 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 1:31:02pm

re: #52 wrenchwench

And it needs a bell.

To be legal in New Mexico, a bicycle needs a bell or a horn. I am the only one who knows this. Even the cops’ bikes are not in compliance. Laws like this, written only to be flouted by the innocently ignorant, are causing the breakdown of our society and can be pointed to as the lead cause of New Mexico’s poor showing in nearly every standard measured by the NFSLTIG.

60 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 23, 2014 1:32:12pm

Ronan Farrow is even more of a juvenile douche than Ben Shapiro.

61 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 1:32:46pm

I suspect it works like a sail in a crosswind. Just going from the round pipes on my Ritchey or Battaglin to the larger, shaped cross sections of the Plastic Fantastic Bianchi, I notice a BIG change in crosswind behavior, with the Bianchi being much harder to manage.

62 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2014 1:33:29pm

re: #58 J A P

Is Ann Boobus real?

Who knows?

63 Lidane  Jun 23, 2014 1:33:34pm

This Mexico - Croatia match is giving me agita. Come on, El Tri! Score already!

64 Jack Burton  Jun 23, 2014 1:34:18pm

re: #59 wrenchwench

Laws like this, written only to be flouted by the innocently ignorant, are causing the breakdown of our society and can be pointed to as the lead cause of New Mexico’s poor showing in nearly every standard measured by the NFSLTIG.

If he doesn’t put a horn on his bike, none of us will put horns on our bikes. It’ll be anarchy!

/

65 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2014 1:34:35pm

And here we go. NSFW, folks.

gawker.com

66 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 1:35:50pm

re: #47 piratedan

well I am a bad person, because I wish that there was a way for him to be exposed for the crap that he’s pulled. I have no issue with someone believing that the US is bad or even evil. There’s been plenty of ammunition found on that account based on the revelations of the past participants of former administrations.

What I have issue with, is his apparent belief that THIS administration is the penultimate purveyor of all of those misdeeds in crystalline form. I can acknowledge that the US has behaved badly in the past, both recent and distant, what I can’t seem to find is any evidence that THIS administration is just as rotten/dirty/misguided as the ones preceding it.

I guess I’d cynically ask “Exposed to whom?”, because it seems like nobody who thinks he’s hot shit is likely to believe it, or care it he is.

67 alpuz  Jun 23, 2014 1:36:01pm

re: #59 wrenchwench

I was lazily crossing one of the local rivers with my Pugs, when the young lady coming up behind me hit her bell.

It was a walk/bike bridge, and I nearly lept into the river. :)

68 Aqua Obama  Jun 23, 2014 1:36:34pm

re: #65 Charles Johnson

And here we go. NSFW, folks.

gawker.com

Image: P7gAVQN.gif

69 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 1:36:44pm

re: #64 Jack Burton

If he doesn’t put a horn on his bike, none of us will put horns on our bikes. It’ll be anarchy!

/

It’s already got horns - Cowhorn handlebars.
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70 Stanley Sea  Jun 23, 2014 1:38:32pm

:(

71 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 1:39:37pm

re: #45 Charles Johnson

The Schindler thing is about to get a lot worse.

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What’s the matter with guys who want to send photos of their dick out on the internet to complete strangers?

72 Stanley Sea  Jun 23, 2014 1:40:31pm

re: #71 Justanotherhuman

What’s the matter with guys who want to send photos of their dick out on the internet to complete strangers?

They’re in love.

73 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 1:40:41pm

re: #60 Pie-onist Overlord

Ronan Farrow is even more of a juvenile douche than Ben Shapiro.

His voice reminded me of some other dweeb, but I decided it would be too depressing to do the research to figure out which one. Maybe Conn Carroll.

74 Stanley Sea  Jun 23, 2014 1:40:58pm

harsh sarcasm.

75 Decatur Deb  Jun 23, 2014 1:41:12pm

re: #59 wrenchwench

To be legal in New Mexico, a bicycle needs a bell or a horn. I am the only one who knows this. Even the cops’ bikes are not in compliance. Laws like this, written only to be flouted by the innocently ignorant, are causing the breakdown of our society and can be pointed to as the lead cause of New Mexico’s poor showing in nearly every standard measured by the NFSLTIG.

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76 goddamnedfrank  Jun 23, 2014 1:41:29pm

re: #45 Charles Johnson

The Schindler thing is about to get a lot worse.

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Here’s the Gawker article.

The thing is, it shows an email, that is to him, from this other woman. Plausibly how anybody gets that from his Twitter feed.

Seems like his accounts may well have been hacked.

77 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 1:41:38pm

re: #67 alpuz

I was lazily crossing one of the local rivers with my Pugs, when the young lady coming up behind me hit her bell.

It was a walk/bike bridge, and I nearly lept into the river. :)

Often when I’m walking I wish I had a mirror like I do on my bike.

78 Rightwingconspirator  Jun 23, 2014 1:42:12pm

re: #52 wrenchwench

re: #49 Charles Johnson

Did you two see this?
A New Bike Lane That Could Save Lives and Make Cycling More Popular

79 Decatur Deb  Jun 23, 2014 1:42:42pm

re: #68 Aqua Obama

Image: P7gAVQN.gif

Schindler’s Lust

80 J A P  Jun 23, 2014 1:43:00pm

re: #71 Justanotherhuman

From the smiley face in the reply, I don’t think they’re complete strangers.

81 Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2014 1:45:54pm

re: #71 Justanotherhuman

What’s the matter with guys who want to send photos of their dick out on the internet to complete strangers?

That’s certainly a phenomenon I don’t understand, but maybe I’m just a grumpy old man (well, a grumpy 44-year old man).

82 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 1:46:51pm

re: #76 goddamnedfrank

Here’s the Gawker article.

The thing is, it shows an email, that is to him, from this other woman. Plausibly how anybody gets that from his Twitter feed.

Seems like his accounts may well have been hacked.

This guy?

83 Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2014 1:49:26pm

re: #75 Decatur Deb

Related articles:
Solar Powered Self-Propelled Chicken Coop
inhabitat.com

Ergonomically-Correct Toilet
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Wow. So the toilet in my apartment isn’t ergonomically correct.

But on the bright side, I could flush Jimmy Hoffa.

Pretty much what my old-school loo likes like.

84 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 1:49:37pm

re: #78 Rightwingconspirator

Did you two see this?
A New Bike Lane That Could Save Lives and Make Cycling More Popular

People who try to re-engineer streets for the purpose of luring more people into cycling are in the process of killing cyclists. This includes in Portland, OR, where that guy is from.

All we need is a wide right lane and educated cyclists following the same rules as everyone else..

85 teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2014 1:51:21pm
86 Lidane  Jun 23, 2014 1:51:27pm

re: #65 Charles Johnson

And here we go. NSFW, folks.

gawker.com

Best comment so far:

it needs to be a rule that every dick pic needs to include something to provide scale: beer can, #2 pencil, GI Joe, whatever.

I may not understand the allure of texting nudes to someone but at least make it worthwhile. Giving a sense of scale is a good start. Hahaha.

87 sagehen  Jun 23, 2014 1:53:13pm

I sense a market in 3/4 scale beer cans for the purpose of such photos…

88 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 23, 2014 1:53:14pm

re: #78 Rightwingconspirator

Did you two see this?
A New Bike Lane That Could Save Lives and Make Cycling More Popular

Those corner islands would need to be built to withstand being run over by semi-trailers of delivery trucks. Buses and other long vehicles too.

89 Rightwingconspirator  Jun 23, 2014 1:53:58pm

re: #84 wrenchwench

People who try to re-engineer streets for the purpose of luring more people into cycling are in the process of killing cyclists. This includes in Portland, OR, where that guy is from.

All we need is a wide right lane and educated cyclists following the same rules as everyone else..

Hm. well that’s LA theses days.

90 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 1:54:06pm

re: #86 Lidane

Best comment so far:

I may not understand the allure of texting nudes to someone but at least make it worthwhile. Giving a sense of scale is a good start. Hahaha.

I rather preferred the one that said, “My vagina just went drier than the Sahara.”

91 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 1:56:41pm

re: #88 William Barnett-Lewis

Those corner islands would need to be built to withstand being run over by semi-trailers of delivery trucks. Buses and other long vehicles too.

No prob.

“Professional engineers will look at this, and they’re all very skeptical,” he says. “That’s great. I love their skepticism.” The biggest consideration is accounting for large trucks that need to turn. We’re talking delivery and tucks with trailers. These automobiles require very large turning radiuses. While it makes truck driver’s life easier, it also means smaller vehicles can take that turn at very fast speeds. “This design requires you to have a much tighter corner radius,” says Falbo. “These large truck operators, they are professional drivers they can actually make tighter turns than these standards normally say they would. The real answer is that I think you’re going to have to be a little stricter on your trucks in any number of ways.”

OK, maybe prob.

92 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 1:56:46pm

re: #67 alpuz

I was lazily crossing one of the local rivers with my Pugs, when the young lady coming up behind me hit her bell.

It was a walk/bike bridge, and I nearly lept into the river. :)

You must be one of the few MUP users who can even hear them, based on my experiences bike commuting. I determined it was safer to go play in traffic with the cars than deal with some of the idiots on the MUP*.

* To be fair, I don’t really remember the majority who were polite, and kept to their side of the path, and made room for me to pass.

93 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 23, 2014 1:59:02pm

re: #91 wrenchwench

No prob.

OK, maybe prob.

¨”These large truck operators, they are professional drivers they can actually make tighter turns than these standards normally say they would.¨

That boy knows as much about Commercial Driving as a GOP Senator does about climatology, though that may be a bit unfair to the senator.

94 Bulworth  Jun 23, 2014 2:01:09pm

re:
#85

Is this supposed to be a bad thing?

95 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 2:01:14pm

re: #83 Dr Lizardo

Wow. So the toilet in my apartment isn’t ergonomically correct.

But on the bright side, I could flush Jimmy Hoffa.

Pretty much what my old-school loo likes like.

On the other hand, ever had to use the can in a 20 yr old trailer? You almost think you’re sitting on the floor, and you actually can draw your legs up to your belly. And I’m short. : )

96 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 2:01:47pm

re: #93 William Barnett-Lewis

¨”These large truck operators, they are professional drivers they can actually make tighter turns than these standards normally say they would.¨

That boy knows as much about Commercial Driving as a GOP Senator does about climatology, though that may be a bit unfair to the senator.

And who knows what he might know about operating a bicycle.

Falbo proposes a waiting area, just past the crosswalk where cyclists can stop. Cars will stop behind the crosswalk, bikes will halt ahead of it, and pedestrians are free to cross the street uninterrupted. This has the added benefit of making cyclists more visible to turning cars, and it’s a safe space for cyclists to wait while wanting to turn left. Instead of merging into the flow of traffic, riders can to a two-step left turn, and wait for a signal to turn.

He’s proposing that cyclists behave like pedestrians in order to make his design work.

97 ObserverArt  Jun 23, 2014 2:02:27pm

Ha. Taking a break from stripping wood and flipped on Ed and he is going after Jindal talk and other threatening stuff.

Right on topic.

98 goddamnedfrank  Jun 23, 2014 2:02:31pm

re: #76 goddamnedfrank

Nevermind. I see that the email is ostensibly from Schindler, and Gawker didn’t want to broadcast his email address. I don’t see how that email gets out unless the other woman released it, but that’s not difficult to see happening. Still could’ve been faked or sent from a hacked account but it’s equally probable that he may have fallen victim to a long term honeypot - which doesn’t happen without him being a colossal idiot.

99 teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2014 2:02:36pm

re: #94 Bulworth

Hmm. Maybe a sarc tag is in order.

100 b.d.  Jun 23, 2014 2:02:42pm

Some people show their dick on Twitter, some people are a dick on Twitter.

101 klys  Jun 23, 2014 2:03:35pm

re: #100 b.d.

Some people show their dick on Twitter, some people are a dick on Twitter.

And some people do both! Although there are certainly people in the latter category who I desperately hope never fall into the former.

102 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 2:03:56pm

re: #97 ObserverArt

Ha. Taking a break from stripping wood and flipped on Ed and he is going after Jindal talk and other threatening stuff.

Right on topic.

Sorry, we’ve moved on to dicks and bikes.

103 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 2:04:11pm

re: #96 wrenchwench

And who knows what he might know about operating a bicycle.

He’s proposing that cyclists behave like pedestrians in order to make his design work.

This. Bicycles are VEHICLES, not pedestrians. We turn from the appropriate VEHICLE lane, or we walk the bike. Thinking of bikes as pedestrians leads to parents telling their kids to ride FACING traffic, and they get killed.

104 bratwurst  Jun 23, 2014 2:04:34pm

Cue National Review OUTRAGE!

105 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 2:05:10pm

re: #100 b.d.

Some people show their dick on Twitter, some people are a dick on Twitter.

And some people show that they’re a dick on Twitter.

106 dog philosopher  Jun 23, 2014 2:05:27pm

weiner’s bulging tightie whities were tasteful by comparison

107 Bulworth  Jun 23, 2014 2:05:45pm

re:
#104

Thanks, Obama!

108 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 2:06:25pm

re: #102 wrenchwench

Sorry, we’ve moved on to dicks and bikes.

I can honestly say that after thousands of miles, the latter has never caused any problems with the former.
///

109 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 23, 2014 2:07:15pm

re: #104 bratwurst

Cue National Review OUTRAGE!

[Embedded content]

Out-freaking-standing!

110 ObserverArt  Jun 23, 2014 2:07:55pm

re: #102 wrenchwench

Sorry, we’ve moved on to dicks and bikes.

Well, Jindal is a dick.

Is it time for this again?

Everyone is MAD about Alfred E. Jindal. Don’t you worry!

111 Dr. Matt  Jun 23, 2014 2:08:44pm

re: #100 b.d.

Some people show their dick on Twitter, some people are a dick on Twitter.

And in some cases they do both at the same time.

112 CuriousLurker  Jun 23, 2014 2:10:11pm

Drive-by: Annnnd there goes his career down the toilet. Ugh. I don’t know which is worse, Twitter or human stupidity.

Navy College Professor Placed on Leave Over Photo

113 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 2:10:24pm

re: #103 GeneJockey

This. Bicycles are VEHICLES, not pedestrians. We turn from the appropriate VEHICLE lane, or we walk the bike. Thinking of bikes as pedestrians leads to parents telling their kids to ride FACING traffic, and they get killed.

The most difficult part of being in the bicycle industry for me is fending off the nuts who really don’t give a shit about those of us who are dedicated cyclists, but hate cars so much they want to drag everyone out of their car and force them to use bikes. They are doing it wrong.

There is a prominent person in the industry who reacted to a minor suggestion about a video (which he sent out to the public for reactions) with a scathing email about my lack of effort in making more cyclists. What an ass.

I see myself as someone who serves people who are cyclists. It’s not my job to make more.

114 goddamnedfrank  Jun 23, 2014 2:11:12pm

re: #96 wrenchwench

He’s proposing that cyclists behave like pedestrians in order to make his design work.

That’s what gets people killed.

In my opinion lane splitting is fine if you keep your head on straight. So is sliding head and planting yourself in front of the stopped car in the lane you’re occupying (right / slow, or left turn.) But what fucks cyclists up is when drivers aren’t encouraged to treat them like legal traffic when they’re in the road. I don’t need an entire lane to myself most of the time, but when I signal left and glance to clear that’s not an indication for some asshole to gas it and try to get past me.

The last thing cyclists need is more confusion in the mind of the average intellect behind the wheel.

115 b_sharp  Jun 23, 2014 2:11:20pm

re: #84 wrenchwench

People who try to re-engineer streets for the purpose of luring more people into cycling are in the process of killing cyclists. This includes in Portland, OR, where that guy is from.

All we need is a wide right lane and educated cyclists following the same rules as everyone else..

What’s with the cyclists riding down the centre of the driving lane? Is that what they’re supposed to do?

116 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 2:12:02pm

re: #75 Decatur Deb

Ergonomically-Correct Toilet
inhabitat.com

I call bullshit:

You sit, legs bent at a nearly 90 degree angle, feet on the floor whilst doing your business. Unfortunately for your bowels, this is pretty much the worst way to encourage efficient, um, movement.

Yeah? Try doing it standing up, or lying down.

Sitting is so close to squatting that the only real difference is how much your knees hurt when you stand up again.

117 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 2:13:42pm

re: #115 b_sharp

What’s with the cyclists riding down the centre of the driving lane? Is that what they’re supposed to do?

In certain circumstances, yes. Lane position should be used to signal your intentions as best as possible (along with hand signalling).

118 b_sharp  Jun 23, 2014 2:15:02pm

re: #117 wrenchwench

In certain circumstances, yes. Lane position should be used to signal your intentions as best as possible (along with hand signalling).

But I’ve seen them ride down the middle of the lane for blocks, with cars building up behind them.

Isn’t there a handbook or something?

119 Dr. Matt  Jun 23, 2014 2:15:19pm

Gawker labeled John Schindler as a “conservative pundit”. Isn’t this the same guy that hammered away at GG? I never sensed he was conservative…he made too much sense.

120 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 2:16:16pm

re: #115 b_sharp

What’s with the cyclists riding down the centre of the driving lane? Is that what they’re supposed to do?

That depends. CA Law states that we are to ride as close as practicable to the right edge of the TRAFFIC LANE, not the ROAD, unless there’s a rideable shoulder bike lane, unless you’re going the same speed as traffic, which is quite doable in the city.

Sometimes we ‘take the lane’, because we are intentionally preventing the driver from trying to pass, because WE know it’s not safe for them to do so. Other times, we’re going near enough to, or over the speed limit (say, on a descent) that we’re not impeding traffic AND we need the full width of the lane for cornering.

121 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 2:17:02pm

re: #118 b_sharp

But I’ve seen them ride down the middle of the lane for blocks, with cars building up behind them.

Isn’t there a handbook or something?

If there’s a handbook for cars, there’s one for bikes. The same one. People driving bikes often do it wrong. On the other hand, making a car slow down is not illegal in most circumstances, while holding up traffic often is.

122 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 23, 2014 2:17:44pm

re: #120 GeneJockey

and other times we are being righteous pricks who want to impose our leftist cycle fascism on the entire world and make the rest of us feel guilty for not wanting to show up to work all sweaty.

/

123 b.d.  Jun 23, 2014 2:18:06pm

How to win friends and influence people:

Shep Smith and Glenn Greenwald got into a bit of a chilly conversation on Monday. The chat was polite but contentious the entire way through, but perhaps the bristliest moment came when Smith asked Greenwald if he ever worried that his reporting had led to anyone’s death. Greenwald, naturally, took issue with this, and pointed out that Fox News has often been accused of leading to peoples’ demise.

“Careful,” Smith rumbled.

huffingtonpost.com

124 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 2:18:53pm

re: #119 Dr. Matt

Gawker labeled John Schindler as a “conservative pundit”. Isn’t this the same guy that hammered away at GG? I never sensed he was conservative…he made too much sense.

Sometimes people make sense in one area and not in others. See his blogroll.

125 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 2:19:07pm

The other thing? Doors.

You ride past a line of cars, you need a 3 foot buffer to avoid getting doored. If moving over enough for cars to pass puts you in the door zone, you’re endangering yourself for the convenience of others. Fuck that noise.

126 goddamnedfrank  Jun 23, 2014 2:19:22pm

re: #115 b_sharp

What’s with the cyclists riding down the centre of the driving lane? Is that what they’re supposed to do?

It is if they’re trying to move over to an upcoming left turn lane, or intent to make a left turn at the next intersection. Considering how little deference drivers give to cyclist’s signals it’s often wise to physically occupy the lane you will need way in advance of needing it.

127 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 2:19:59pm

re: #122 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

and other times we are being righteous pricks who want to impose our leftist cycle fascism on the entire world and make the rest of us feel guilty for not wanting to show up to work all sweaty.

/

Yep. Every pursuit has its assholes.

128 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 23, 2014 2:20:03pm

This Schindler thing kinda gives new meaning to his “tip meet iceberg” tweet…

129 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 2:21:33pm

re: #128 Backwoods_Sleuth

This Schindler thing kinda gives new meaning to his “tip meet iceberg” tweet…

Still not gonna look.

130 Dr. Matt  Jun 23, 2014 2:21:42pm

Court releases Obama administration memo justifying drone attacks on U.S. citizens

And now the far left and far right can join forces to RAGE - IN -UNI SON

131 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 2:22:51pm

re: #130 Dr. Matt

Court releases Obama administration memo justifying drone attacks on U.S. citizens

And now the far left and far right can join forces to R A G E I N U N I SO N

You know, that’s almost impossible to read.

132 b_sharp  Jun 23, 2014 2:23:57pm

re: #120 GeneJockey

That depends. CA Law states that we are to ride as close as practicable to the right edge of the TRAFFIC LANE, not the ROAD, unless there’s a rideable shoulder bike lane, unless you’re going the same speed as traffic, which is quite doable in the city.

Sometimes we ‘take the lane’, because we are intentionally preventing the driver from trying to pass, because WE know it’s not safe for them to do so. Other times, we’re going near enough to, or over the speed limit (say, on a descent) that we’re not impeding traffic AND we need the full width of the lane for cornering.

Ok, there’s a point I was unsure of. It’s the driving lane not the road.

There is no way a cyclist here can keep up with traffic except during rush hour when traffic slows down a bit. No hills here.

So I can assume then that people riding down the centre simply are ignorant of safe practices unless there are extenuating circumstances.

That will perhaps tone down my frustration somewhat.

133 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 2:24:27pm

There’s something very strange about the Schindler thing.

In 2012, Currahee88 was a guy. Married.

glocktalk.com

134 klys  Jun 23, 2014 2:24:59pm

re: #132 b_sharp

Ok, there’s a point I was unsure of. It’s the driving lane not the road.

There is no way a cyclist here can keep up with traffic except during rush hour when traffic slows down a bit. No hills here.

So I can assume then that people riding down the centre simply are ignorant of safe practices unless there are extenuating circumstances.

That will perhaps tone down my frustration somewhat.

My experience tends to be that most people in charge of a vehicle - car or bike - have no real idea what they’re doing.

The car just camouflages it better.

135 Dr. Matt  Jun 23, 2014 2:27:47pm

re: #124 wrenchwench

Sometimes people make sense in one area and not in others. See his blogroll.

Ugh. I did and it led me to this: Who started that story about Iraq, WMDs, and Al Qaeda? That’s right, Bill Clinton.

136 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 2:29:11pm

re: #135 Dr. Matt

Ugh. I did and it led me to this: Who started that story about Iraq, WMDs, and Al Qaeda? That’s right, Bill Clinton.

Yeah, there’s another one.

137 goddamnedfrank  Jun 23, 2014 2:32:30pm

re: #125 GeneJockey

The other thing? Doors.

You ride past a line of cars, you need a 3 foot buffer to avoid getting doored. If moving over enough for cars to pass puts you in the door zone, you’re endangering yourself for the convenience of others. Fuck that noise.

Once, something like fifteen years ago I had someone try to door me on purpose. Totally empty street early in the morning on my way to work, no traffic, made eye contact through his rear view mirror, and something just seemed wrong. So I swerved out just as he threw the door out trying to catch me and cleared it by inches.

Also when I was in college there was a series of police reports in the local paper about some asshole with an umbrella walking on the Burke-Gillman who would clothesline or attempt to clothesline cyclists on the trail. Don’t know if they ever caught that asshole.

Some people are just fucking mean, news at eleven.

138 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 2:34:25pm

re: #132 b_sharp

Ok, there’s a point I was unsure of. It’s the driving lane not the road.

There is no way a cyclist here can keep up with traffic except during rush hour when traffic slows down a bit. No hills here.

So I can assume then that people riding down the centre simply are ignorant of safe practices unless there are extenuating circumstances.

That will perhaps tone down my frustration somewhat.

When you’re on a bike you can see things drivers don’t, like broken glass or other debris in the gutter pan. And cars rarely worry about getting doored, because they’re big and people watch out for them.

Where I ride depends on the road, the conditions, and traffic.

If it’s in town, I ride in the traffic lane, along the right edge, leaving a buffer as I pass parked cars.

If there’s a long stretch with no parked cars, I may move further right.

If it’s on a country road with no shoulder, I ride close to the edge of the road - group riding really helped me learn how to hold a line.

If I’m going 90% or more of the speed limit, and the road is full of blind corners I stick with the center of the lane, till I come to a wider and/or straighter part where I can be passed safely.

if there’s a wide, clean bike lane, I’ll ride there.

139 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 2:38:00pm

re: #137 goddamnedfrank

Once, something like fifteen years ago I had someone try to door me on purpose. Totally empty street early in the morning on my way to work, no traffic, made eye contact through his rear view mirror, and something just seemed wrong. So I swerved out just as he threw the door out trying to catch me and cleared it by inches.

Also when I was in college there was a series of police reports in the local paper about some asshole with an umbrella walking on the Burke-Gillman who would clothesline or attempt to clothesline cyclists on the trail. Don’t know if they ever caught that asshole.

Some people are just fucking mean, news at eleven.

Cripes! Those are definitely worse than the impromptu demonstrations of the Doppler Effect -

“gggeeETT OOOFFFFF THE ROOoadddd!”

140 goddamnedfrank  Jun 23, 2014 2:38:34pm

On the other hand for a while we had this one weird body building muscle dude riding around Seattle on a road bike with a broad sword strapped to his back.

He called himself Conan.

He had a head on, on the University Bridge, with one of our mechanics at the bike shop I used to work at. He came into the shop and tried to shake the guy down for money right there at the service counter, wearing the sword and everything. People went to every department and were like “Conan’s here, go up to Service and act casual!”

We finally asked him to leave.

141 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 2:38:43pm

re: #133 Justanotherhuman

There’s something very strange about the Schindler thing.

In 2012, Currahee88 was a guy. Married.

glocktalk.com

I suppose there could be more than one user of that nic. But starting there, I wandered and found this.

142 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 23, 2014 2:39:13pm
143 De Kolta Chair  Jun 23, 2014 2:40:41pm

re: #58 J A P

Is Ann Boobus real?

Supposedly (cuz you never know who’s really out there on the intertubes), she’s most proud of being “a Christain, Patriot,Creole,Rebel who plays RUSH on my guitar.”

medium.com

144 goddamnedfrank  Jun 23, 2014 2:42:04pm

If cars can park there then I’m going to ride as if they are parked there, even if there are none. That’s because swerving in and out around parked cars catches drivers more by surprise than if you just ride in a straight line.

145 A Mom Anon  Jun 23, 2014 2:42:19pm

re: #137 goddamnedfrank

I used to live in Gainesville, FL and biked everywhere since I couldn’t afford a car. It was a great place to ride. One day though, some redneck asshat and his buddy decided to take a BB rifle and hunt cyclists. I still have a BB in my leg from that asshole. Another guy wasn’t so lucky, they shot him in the chest, one went into his lung, the other lodged in a rib. I don’t know if they caught the guy, there were a bunch of cyclists shot at that morning, we were the only two they hit. I ended up with a 1200 dollar hospital bill I couldn’t pay because of those fuckheads. Nothing like starting out a ride to work with being shot and limping down the road bleeding (this was before cell phones kiddies) trying to get to work.

146 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2014 2:44:54pm

Interesting - the @currahee88 account has been deleted.

147 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 2:45:13pm

re: #145 A Mom Anon

I used to live in Gainesville, FL and biked everywhere since I couldn’t afford a car. It was a great place to ride. One day though, some redneck asshat and his buddy decided to take a BB rifle and hunt cyclists. I still have a BB in my leg from that asshole. Another guy wasn’t so lucky, they shot him in the chest, one went into his lung, the other lodged in a rib. I don’t know if they caught the guy, there were a bunch of cyclists shot at that morning, we were the only two they hit. I ended up with a 1200 dollar hospital bill I couldn’t pay because of those fuckheads. Nothing like starting out a ride to work with being shot and limping down the road bleeding (this was before cell phones kiddies) trying to get to work.

Florida is, IIRC, the most dangerous state for cyclists. Probably a combination of all the old drivers and the ‘Florida Man’ phenomenon. But, Jesus, that’s about the most egregious I’ve read short of actually intentionally running people down.

What the fuck is wrong with (some) people?

148 BeenHereAwhile  Jun 23, 2014 2:46:02pm

re: #135 Dr. Matt

Ugh. I did and it led me to this: Who started that story about Iraq, WMDs, and Al Qaeda? That’s right, Bill Clinton.

That’s Tom Nichols.

Sorry to hear about Schindler, I follow Schindler and Nichols on twitter.

Don’t always agree with them.

And their Statler and Waldorf confirmation bias could be tiresome.

But still learned from their knowledge and experience.

149 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 2:46:09pm

re: #145 A Mom Anon

I dug a bb out of a cat once.

People.

150 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2014 2:46:28pm

Navy College Professor Placed on Leave Over Photo

A U.S. Naval War College professor accused in a complaint of taking a racy photo that was then posted online has been placed on leave.

A text message conversation with a photo of a penis from May and with the Newport, Rhode Island, college’s professor John Schindler’s name atop it was circulated on Twitter early Monday. It’s unclear who posted it.

A blogger sent a complaint to the War College’s administration. The college’s president has ordered an investigation.

151 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 2:47:07pm

re: #144 goddamnedfrank

If cars can park there then I’m going to ride as if they are parked there, even if there are none. That’s because swerving in and out around parked cars catches drivers more by surprise than if you just ride in a straight line.

If I showed you the streets I mean, you’d understand. There’s JUST BARELY enough room for two cars to pass when there are cars parked on each side, and there aren’t many cars parked there, though it’s legal to do so. Residential streets.

152 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 2:48:44pm
153 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 2:49:11pm

re: #141 wrenchwench

I suppose there could be more than one user of that nic. But starting there, I wandered and found this.

These 2 seem to retweet each other and “Archer” appears to be a Nazi type. See #82.

T3H_ARCH3R: RT @Currahee88: LOL! “@mtwirth: @20committee While you were sleeping, you also missed new anti-NSA mass protests in Germany: t.co… - 2014-02-28 18:07:11.0
Read more at twicsy.com

Since “Currahee88” deleted twitter, can’t tell how many times it might have happened.

154 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 2:54:09pm

re: #153 Justanotherhuman

These 2 seem to retweet each other and “Archer” appears to be a Nazi type. See #82.

T3H_ARCH3R: RT @Currahee88: LOL! “@mtwirth: @20committee While you were sleeping, you also missed new anti-NSA mass protests in Germany: t.co… - 2014-02-28 18:07:11.0
Read more at twicsy.com

Since “Currahee88” deleted twitter, can’t tell how many times it might have happened.

‘88’ is often used by white supremacists. But I don’t see a connection, don’t have time to look for one.

155 GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 23, 2014 2:55:36pm

I bet that “currahee” character never even served. Much less, in the Airborne.

156 Lidane  Jun 23, 2014 2:56:37pm

It took Mexico a while to wake up, but they got a 3-1 win. Woohoo!

The next game is going to suck, though. They’re playing the Netherlands. Eek!

157 jonhendry  Jun 23, 2014 3:04:21pm

re: #153 Justanotherhuman

I think he’s more of a 4Chan troll type.

158 jaunte  Jun 23, 2014 3:05:24pm
A U.S. Naval War College professor accused in a complaint of taking a racy* photo that was then posted online has been placed on leave.

*In some stories racy actually means sad.

159 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 3:05:56pm

re: #157 jonhendry

I think he’s more of a 4Chan troll type.

You mean, this guy?

Image: -eS9UO-k_400x400.jpeg

160 jonhendry  Jun 23, 2014 3:07:13pm

re: #159 Justanotherhuman

Yep. He follows “swastikakitten” and someone with swastikas in their twitter handle, but their tweets are more troll-y than Nazi. I think they’re just being gratuitously offensive, 4chan-style. The twitter user with swastikas in his handle posts a lot of goatse-type images.

161 Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2014 3:09:49pm

re: #159 Justanotherhuman

You mean, this guy?

Image: -eS9UO-k_400x400.jpeg

That photo screams “Douche!”

162 Stanley Sea  Jun 23, 2014 3:10:02pm
163 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 23, 2014 3:11:51pm
164 EPR-radar  Jun 23, 2014 3:16:19pm

re: #161 Dr Lizardo

That photo screams “Douche!”

What is that thing on his chin?

165 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 3:16:36pm

re: #161 Dr Lizardo

That photo screams “Douche!”

I have to maintain the possibility it is politely calling out “customer!”

166 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2014 3:16:43pm

Thing is, I don’t think there’s much doubt at this point that John really did this. The question is whether it was a setup.

I think he’s making a big mistake by not getting out in front of this and telling his side of the story even if it makes him look bad. The silence is worse.

167 blueraven  Jun 23, 2014 3:17:07pm

Was Schindler the one pushing that James Rosen/Fox “intel” story on Bergdahl?

168 Lidane  Jun 23, 2014 3:17:21pm

WTF:

169 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2014 3:17:30pm

re: #167 blueraven

Was Schindler the one pushing that James Rosen/Fox “intel” story on Bergdahl?

Yes.

170 Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2014 3:19:15pm

re: #164 EPR-radar

What is that thing on his chin?

He’s probably trying to rock a Scott Ian, but clearly failing miserably at it.

Scott Ian of Anthrax

171 J A P  Jun 23, 2014 3:19:29pm

I’m feeling really a little thick here, but why are we supposed to care that some guy may have posted a photo of his penis? He’s not even an elected official.

According to the Gawker article:

He “was involved in some sort of flirty, lurid exchange of emails and texts with a Twitter user named @currahee88,” a longtime Twitter follower of the professor’s says.

I get he’s married, which would kind of make him a jerk, but why is everybody interested? As far as I understand, the exchange was consensual.

By the way, if people who are not women trying to meet men are unaware, phallic selfies are extremely commonplace. I get more than I’d like to acknowledge publicly, but it should be noted that this isn’t unusual behavior.

172 Lidane  Jun 23, 2014 3:19:59pm

ASSHOLE:

173 blueraven  Jun 23, 2014 3:20:47pm

re: #169 Charles Johnson

Yes.

Ah thanks. Ok then. Now at least I can relate him to something.
I have no clue about him…innocent until proven guilty I guess.

I will give him the benefit of the doubt as I did with Weiner. Got burned on that one!

174 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 3:20:48pm

re: #169 Charles Johnson

Yes.

So, I guess it’s just a another story of a seemingly smart guy who went stupid on the internet?

175 darthstar  Jun 23, 2014 3:21:24pm
176 Stanley Sea  Jun 23, 2014 3:22:23pm

re: #164 EPR-radar

What is that thing on his chin?

We call that woot.

177 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 3:23:10pm

re: #171 J A P

I’m feeling really a little thick here, but why are we supposed to care that some guy may have posted a photo of his penis? He’s not even an elected official.

It’s of interest here because it is possible this guy was targeted for criticizing Greenwald and Snowden, which would put some others here in line for similar targeting, although arguable only if they do something dumb. And some here (see ‘Charles’) are always being targeted anyway, for other reasons as well as the same one.

178 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2014 3:23:42pm

re: #171 J A P

The story they’re putting out is that Schindler continued harassing this woman even after she asked him to stop.

179 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 3:25:07pm

Magnitude 8.0 earthquake hits near Little Sitkin Island, Alaska - @USGS
Read more on usgs.gov

Amchitka, Alaska, reports a Tsunami of 0.6 feet; depth of earthquake will limit the extent of the danger, @NWSAnchorage says

180 jonhendry  Jun 23, 2014 3:25:22pm

re: #178 Charles Johnson

“The story they’re putting out is that Schindler continued harassing this woman even after she asked him to stop.”

Who may not have been a woman… If not, did Schindler know? Was he being catfished?

181 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 23, 2014 3:28:19pm

Having some fun with yet another wingnut Z0MG OBUMMA IS JUST LIKE HITLER ELEVENTY!!!!!!!

182 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 23, 2014 3:30:12pm
183 Killgore Trout  Jun 23, 2014 3:30:17pm

re: #171 J A P

I’m feeling really a little thick here, but why are we supposed to care that some guy may have posted a photo of his penis? He’s not even an elected official.

According to the Gawker article:

I get he’s married, which would kind of make him a jerk, but why is everybody interested? As far as I understand, the exchange was consensual.

By the way, if people who are not women trying to meet men are unaware, phallic selfies are extremely commonplace. I get more than I’d like to acknowledge publicly, but it should be noted that this isn’t unusual behavior.

He teaches at the Naval War College so that’s probably the only issue and that’s between himself and his employer. The rest is all internet drama. I don’t are what consenting adults do on the internet or what the terms of his marriage might be or if he’s gay. I like his foreign policy writing and don’t care about much else.

184 jaunte  Jun 23, 2014 3:31:07pm

re: #182 Pie-onist Overlord

No carrier groups, though.

185 Kid A  Jun 23, 2014 3:32:21pm

re: #182 Pie-onist Overlord

186 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 23, 2014 3:33:13pm

re: #182 Pie-onist Overlord

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So did the Poles. And the French. And the Dutch. And the Danish. Etc.

187 blueraven  Jun 23, 2014 3:36:04pm

re: #183 Killgore Trout

He teaches at the Naval War College so that’s probably the only issue and that’s between himself and his employer. The rest is all internet drama. I don’t are what consenting adults do on the internet or what the terms of his marriage might be or if he’s gay. I like his foreign policy writing and don’t care about much else.

When you put yourself out there with a high profile twitter account (as I understand it, a pretty contentious one) a blog, Facebook etc…you should expect the “internet drama”

Live by the sword…

188 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 3:37:32pm

re: #186 William Barnett-Lewis

So did the Poles. And the French. And the Dutch. And the Danish. Etc.

Also tanks and airplanes and ships and artillery and fortifications.

189 dog philosopher  Jun 23, 2014 3:38:55pm

FBI: 168 kids rescued, 281 pimps nabbed in sex-trafficking crackdown

pimp nab

pimp nab pimp nab pimp nab

190 Kid A  Jun 23, 2014 3:39:00pm
191 jaunte  Jun 23, 2014 3:39:54pm

re: #181 Pie-onist Overlord

That proverbial frog is taking a long long time to boil.

192 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 3:40:08pm
193 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 23, 2014 3:43:36pm

re: #188 GeneJockey

Also tanks and airplanes and ships and artillery and fortifications.

I´m reminded of a post I read earlier today…

Here is a story the father of a friend of mine told me:

10 june 1940 : As a french officer in a cavalry recon unit he was asked to go on patrol near the border of belgium as enemy troops moves had been reported.

Riding through woods he and his unit finally reach a hill where they think they will have a good point of view. And an excellent one they had! They started to count the panzers they could see but it was too much and when they decided to get back they were already surrounded and had no way back.

194 b.d.  Jun 23, 2014 3:44:09pm

Dear Abby;

How do I keep from having pictures of my penis leaked to the general populace?

Signed;

An Idiot

195 wrenchwench  Jun 23, 2014 3:44:22pm

re: #192 Justanotherhuman

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Mr. w spent a year on Adak. Still has nightmares once in a while.

196 Lidane  Jun 23, 2014 3:44:45pm

So the jabbering gun fuckers realized that maybe going through the Fifth Ward with their guns on display was a bad idea:

197 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 3:45:26pm

re: #195 wrenchwench

Mr. w spent a year on Adak. Still has nightmares once in a while.

Don’t tell him about this one, then.

No word yet on whether there’s enough tsunami strength to make it to the west coast of the mainland.

198 Killgore Trout  Jun 23, 2014 3:46:06pm

re: #187 blueraven

When you put yourself out there with a high profile twitter account (as I understand it, a pretty contentious one) a blog, Facebook etc…you should expect the “internet drama”

Live by the sword…

Yes, it’s to be expected. The same people who will freak out about slut shaming will pile on a guy for his sexuality if it suits their political/social agenda. So it goes. From what I can tell there are a lot of unkowns in this situation. Personally I don’t care if he took a pic of his cock, none of my business.

199 gwangung  Jun 23, 2014 3:47:23pm

re: #198 Killgore Trout

Yes, it’s to be expected. The same people who will freak out about slut shaming will pile on a guy for his sexuality if it suits their political/social agenda. So it goes. From what I can tell there are a lot of unkowns in this situation. Personally I don’t care if he took a pic of his cock, none of my business.

Kinda important if he was invited or not, though.

200 jaunte  Jun 23, 2014 3:49:55pm

re: #194 b.d.

Dear Abby;

How do I keep from having pictures of my penis leaked to the general populace?

Signed;

An Idiot

Dear Abby;

Someone (who I think is a friendly woman) who I met on the internet but have never seen, has asked me to send her(?) a picture of my penis. Is this a good idea?

Signed;

Newbie

201 blueraven  Jun 23, 2014 3:50:06pm

re: #198 Killgore Trout

Yes, it’s to be expected. The same people who will freak out about slut shaming will pile on a guy for his sexuality if it suits their political/social agenda. So it goes. From what I can tell there are a lot of unkowns in this situation. Personally I don’t care if he took a pic of his cock, none of my business.

I don’t care either. But I wasn’t the one who received it.
Maybe something in there too about the dangers of being so self-righteous.

202 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 3:50:28pm

re: #193 William Barnett-Lewis

I´m reminded of a post I read earlier today…

That’d give you a shitzkrieg!

203 J A P  Jun 23, 2014 3:51:08pm

re: #177 wrenchwench

re: #178 Charles Johnson

Thanks to both of you for answering.

Personally, if I were an editor at ABC news, I think I’d wait for confirmation before repeating the story. It’s all a little too foggy right now. Has the woman who was harassed even come forward to say she was harassed?

I, for one, currently don’t have an opinion one way or another.

204 Amory Blaine  Jun 23, 2014 3:51:31pm

Shorewood resident charged with 13 felonies over alleged multiple voting

Robert Monroe, a 50-year-old Shorewood health insurance executive, was charged Friday with 13 felonies related to his voting a dozen times in five elections between 2011 and 2012 using his own name as well as that of his son and his girlfriend’s son.

“During 2011 and 2012, the defendant, Robert Monroe, became especially focused upon political issues and causes, including especially the recall elections,” the complaint asserts in its introduction.

wispolitics.com reported the investigation into Monroe’s multiple voting last week after Milwaukee County Judge J.D. Watts ordered the records related to a secret John Doe investigation be made public after the investigation was closed.

According to those records, Monroe was considered by investigators to be the most prolific multiple voter in memory. He was a supporter of Gov. Scott Walker and state Sen. Alberta Darling, both Republicans, and allegedly cast five ballots in the June 2012 election in which Walker survived a recall challenge.

According to the John Doe records, Monroe claimed to have a form of temporary amnesia and did not recall the election day events when confronted by investigators.

205 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 3:52:57pm

re: #204 Amory Blaine

Shorewood resident charged with 13 felonies over alleged multiple voting

According to the John Doe records, Monroe claimed to have a form of temporary amnesia and did not recall the election day events when confronted by investigators.

Scamnesia?

206 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 3:53:18pm

re: #204 Amory Blaine

Shorewood resident charged with 13 felonies over alleged multiple voting

Note to self: Remember “temporary amnesia” defense when caught voting more than one time.

207 Lidane  Jun 23, 2014 3:53:25pm

re: #204 Amory Blaine

Shorewood resident charged with 13 felonies over alleged multiple voting

Amazing how Republicans constantly whine and cry about voter fraud only to get caught doing it.

Project much?

208 Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 23, 2014 3:55:02pm

I posted a page on the Mississippi race earlier.

209 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 3:55:10pm

re: #207 Lidane

Amazing how Republicans constantly whine and cry about voter fraud only to get caught doing it.

Project much?

We have to do it! How else can we overcome all those illegal aliens and dead people we all know voted, even though we haven’t been able to prove it!

210 dog philosopher  Jun 23, 2014 3:56:01pm

According to the John Doe records, Monroe claimed to have a form of temporary amnesia and did not recall the election day events when confronted by investigators

appropriate since it was a recall election, after all…

211 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 3:56:22pm

re: #210 dog philosopher

According to the John Doe records, Monroe claimed to have a form of temporary amnesia and did not recall the election day events when confronted by investigators

appropriate since it was a recall election, after all…

Oy.

212 Eclectic Cyborg  Jun 23, 2014 3:56:34pm

re: #204 Amory Blaine

Shorewood resident charged with 13 felonies over alleged multiple voting

Temporary amnesia huh?

Yeah, ok then.

213 Amory Blaine  Jun 23, 2014 3:56:35pm

re: #207 Lidane

Amazing how Republicans constantly whine and cry about voter fraud only to get caught doing it.

Project much?

He deserves a vote for every property he owns!!! Freedum!!!11!!!!

214 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 23, 2014 4:00:45pm
215 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 23, 2014 4:02:43pm

These wingnuts are so lame they’re not even any fun.

216 goddamnedfrank  Jun 23, 2014 4:02:54pm

re: #199 gwangung

Kinda important if he was invited or not, though.

Also speaks to his maturity level, though he’s not running for office or anything.

Still, this is why all my cock pics are sent via Owl post. Also, because they’re magical.

217 Killgore Trout  Jun 23, 2014 4:03:27pm

re: #199 gwangung

Kinda important if he was invited or not, though.

Maybe, but all we have now is rumors from the suspected leaker. I’m not going to pass judgement on him or start demanding apologies and explanations. What he does with his dick isn’t my business.

218 Amory Blaine  Jun 23, 2014 4:06:02pm

After crosschecking software detected multiple votes under his sons name, they used the location of his cell phone and DNA on the absentee ballots as evidence.

219 jonhendry  Jun 23, 2014 4:06:45pm

FYI, “currahee” is the nickname of an infantry regiment, the one featured in Band of Brothers, so it wouldn’t be *that* unlikely for two people to coincidentally use the same currahee88 username.

220 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 4:07:13pm

Tsunami Warning Center downgrades status of Aleutian Islands, Alaska, to a tsunami advisory - @NWS_PTWC
Read more on noaa.gov

221 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 4:07:42pm

That sucker was 7 mi down…imagine if it had been a shallow one. Yikes.

222 KiTA  Jun 23, 2014 4:09:00pm

re: #2 Aqua Obama

As fucked as we think we are, at least we don’t have senators claiming that ebola is a doctor’s conspiracy when people are dying left and right from it.

The US equivalent are the Anti-Vaxxers.

223 jonhendry  Jun 23, 2014 4:10:57pm

re: #222 KiTA

Or the “HIV doesn’t cause AIDS” people.

224 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2014 4:12:00pm
225 Recreational Birth Control User  Jun 23, 2014 4:12:25pm

re: #182 Pie-onist Overlord

Wait, I’m confused. Are they not in death camps yet because they have guns or because camps take time?…and a boiling frog and a proverb ….

226 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 23, 2014 4:14:17pm

re: #217 Killgore Trout

Maybe, but all we have now is rumors from the suspected leaker. I’m not going to pass judgement on him or start demanding apologies and explanations. What he does with his dick isn’t my business.

True. This, however, is relevant:

My views are much more right wing and I am much more religious than I ever let on,

(Side note: what is it with ultrareligious right-wingers not acting conservatively?)

227 Recreational Birth Control User  Jun 23, 2014 4:15:48pm

re: #204 Amory Blaine

According to those records, Monroe was considered by investigators to be the most prolific multiple voter in memory. He was a supporter of Gov. Scott Walker and state Sen. Alberta Darling, both Republicans, and allegedly cast five ballots in the June 2012 election in which Walker survived a recall challenge.

According to the John Doe records, Monroe claimed to have a form of temporary amnesia and did not recall the election day events when confronted by investigators.

Must have been a Democrat and part of ACORN11!!!!!1!!!!11

228 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2014 4:17:38pm

re: #226 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Yeah, that’s a disturbing comment - but the woman he was writing to is apparently a right winger, so he may have been just trying to impress her.

This whole thing is so sleazy I think I’m going to stop discussing it now.

229 Killgore Trout  Jun 23, 2014 4:19:50pm

re: #226 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

True. This, however, is relevant:

(Side note: what is it with ultrareligious right-wingers not acting conservatively?)

They are sexual beings just like anyone else. I’m not going to start judging Christians and conservatives for their sexuality. Oddly the Anarchists, progressives and libertarians are the prudish puritans in this scenario because they think it advances their political agenda of protecting Greenwald. The outrage has nothing to do with sexuality, it’s just internet gossip to cost a political enemy their job.

230 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 23, 2014 4:20:40pm

re: #228 Charles Johnson

I called him an asshole during the Bergdahl brouhaha, seems like that was correct.

231 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 23, 2014 4:21:35pm

re: #229 Killgore Trout

They are sexual beings just like anyone else. I’m not going to start judging Christians and conservatives for their sexuality.

How about, for their hypocrisy?

232 Lidane  Jun 23, 2014 4:22:10pm
233 J A P  Jun 23, 2014 4:23:26pm

re: #217 Killgore Trout

I have a suspicion that so many people latch onto sexual scandals because it’s possible to have an opinion without doing any work. For instance, based on my own experience as a possessor of genitals and my lifetime’s worth of experience dealing with other people who have genitals, I have can have an opinion about this guy based on one Gawker article. To have an opinion on his position regarding national security, I’d have to do a whole lot of reading about things and spend some time thinking about them. It could be tedious.

So, I think I’ll keep the rest of my opinions on penis pictures to myself.

234 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 23, 2014 4:23:45pm

LOLWUT

235 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 23, 2014 4:25:24pm

re: #233 J A P

That can be in general, but this guy has discredited himself some time ago with his Bergdahl nonsense.

236 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 23, 2014 4:26:10pm

re: #234 Pie-onist Overlord

Crazy eyes.

237 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 23, 2014 4:26:43pm

re: #231 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

How about, for their hypocrisy?

That´s not something we should be concerned about.

238 Killgore Trout  Jun 23, 2014 4:27:35pm

re: #233 J A P

I have a suspicion that so many people latch onto sexual scandals because it’s possible to have an opinion without doing any work. For instance, based on my own experience as a possessor of genitals and my lifetime’s worth of experience dealing with other people who have genitals, I have can have an opinion about this guy based on one Gawker article. To have an opinion on his position regarding national security, I’d have to do a whole lot of reading about things and spend some time thinking about them. It could be tedious.

So, I think I’ll keep the rest of my opinions on penis pictures to myself.

good points. I think it’s just the puritan mentality. There’s something in human nature that we all love to single out the heretic who gets caught for what we do. Sex, drugs, booze, impure thoughts, whatever. Everybody loves to watch the village witch burn, it’s builds community.

239 dog philosopher  Jun 23, 2014 4:27:35pm

re: #234 Pie-onist Overlord

it is unfair to compare the two at the end of Hitler’s rule. Instead I compare their rise to power

both… both…

um…

240 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 23, 2014 4:27:52pm

re: #234 Pie-onist Overlord

LOLWUT

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Shows how little history that … person… knows.

241 EPR-radar  Jun 23, 2014 4:28:33pm

re: #234 Pie-onist Overlord

“Their rise to power”. Indeed. Let’s take a quick look at how the Nazis rose to power.

Key ingredients include:

1) A charismatic leader

2) A paranoid, resentful and easily riled base

Wingnuts shouldn’t throw rocks in this particular glass house.

242 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 23, 2014 4:29:54pm

re: #236 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Crazy eyes.

That’s some Michele Bachmann eyeball action going on.

243 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 23, 2014 4:30:15pm

Fascism is palingenetic ultranationalism.
There is only one “mainstream” political group in the US that comes close to this.

244 Lidane  Jun 23, 2014 4:32:12pm

What could possibly go wrong?

245 klys  Jun 23, 2014 4:35:31pm

re: #243 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Fascism is palingenetic ultranationalism.
There is only one “mainstream” political group in the US that comes close to this.

I like what you did there.

246 Lidane  Jun 23, 2014 4:35:41pm
247 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 23, 2014 4:36:17pm

re: #245 klys

I like what you did there.

I didn’t. “Palingenetic” is a thing :)

248 klys  Jun 23, 2014 4:36:36pm

re: #247 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

I didn’t. “Palingenetic” is a thing :)

I know, I’m just easily amused.

249 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 23, 2014 4:39:30pm

It’s a puppy! Or something fluffy…
Anyway, this picture is a couple of counties away from me.

250 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 4:39:49pm

They’re fighting amongst each other now over the penis pics.

The “weakest link”?

251 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 23, 2014 4:40:45pm

re: #247 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

I didn’t. “Palingenetic” is a thing :)

I can see this is about to lead me on a wiki walk :D wonder where Eco´s ¨Ur-Fascism¨ fits in? BBL, time to go learn something.

252 goddamnedfrank  Jun 23, 2014 4:41:10pm
After years of documenting migration in Mexico, Spanish-born photographer Encarni Pindado began a new project that handed the equipment — disposable Kodak cameras — to the migrants themselves and people who interact with them along the way.

253 Killgore Trout  Jun 23, 2014 4:46:55pm

Gary Oldman Goes Off on PC ‘Crap,’ Liberal Double Standards in Hollywood

Is it just me or does the guy who plays Littlefinger on GoT look a lot like young Gary Oldman?
google.com

254 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 4:49:22pm

re: #253 Killgore Trout

Gary Oldman Goes Off on PC ‘Crap,’ Liberal Double Standards in Hollywood

Is it just me or does the guy who plays Littlefinger on GoT look a lot like young Gary Oldman?
google.com

No, it’s just you.

255 Green Alien  Jun 23, 2014 4:49:45pm

That Jenny Beth is a real prize. Pays herself over $400,000 and pretends that she is for the people. Really? Anyone who sends her $$ is a SUCKER!

256 Lidane  Jun 23, 2014 4:50:29pm
257 EPR-radar  Jun 23, 2014 4:50:59pm

re: #252 goddamnedfrank

Where are the calves the size of cantaloupes?

258 Killgore Trout  Jun 23, 2014 4:52:25pm

re: #256 Lidane

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Another good point. If the genders were reversed this would be viewed differently.

259 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 23, 2014 4:52:49pm

re: #255 Green Alien

That Jenny Beth is a real prize. Pays herself over $400,000 and pretends that she is for the people. Really? Anyone who sends her $$ is a SUCKER!

But the wingnuts go apeshit over Michelle Obama riding in Air Force One.

260 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 23, 2014 4:56:05pm

my eyes…MY EYES!!!!!!!!!

261 Killgore Trout  Jun 23, 2014 4:57:22pm

Rand getting some crossover appeal
Crossfire’s Van Jones Is ‘Loving’ This Rand Paul Guy Right Now

This guy is talking common sense, thank goodness, especially about Iraq,” Jones said, before showing a clip of Paul saying he would not be willing to send his son to fight in that country. “Well, hallelujah! Rand Paul says he wouldn’t send his kids to die in Iraq. I’ve got two boys, neither would I.”

On top of that, Jones agreed with Paul that the whole mess in Iraq is Dick Cheney’s fault. And even better, Paul recently said “he wants to build a stronger American democracy right here by, among other things, restoring voting rights for some former prisoners.”

“I love this!” Jones exclaimed. “You stop trying to fix every other country and get more Americans a real stake in this country. I am loving this guy.”

262 sagehen  Jun 23, 2014 4:57:43pm

re: #218 Amory Blaine

After crosschecking software detected multiple votes under his sons name, they used the location of his cell phone and DNA on the absentee ballots as evidence.

so ID wouldn’t have prevented this?

263 simoom  Jun 23, 2014 4:57:46pm

re: #150 Charles Johnson

I just started following this whole thing, and I don’t have any issue believing it all could be true, perhaps even exactly as it’s being presented, BUT it’s worth mentioning just how worthless a lot of this screenshot evidence is. Modern web browsers have made faking these kinds of screenshots, something that used to require some effort, trivially easy:

groovypost.com

264 goddamnedfrank  Jun 23, 2014 4:57:50pm

re: #258 Killgore Trout

Another good point. If the genders were reversed this would be viewed differently.

Women though generally don’t send close up pics of their vaginas to people. They might send a selfie of their entire body, clothed or not, but the genital super close up, like the lone spree killer, is almost always a male phenomenon.

265 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 23, 2014 4:59:07pm

re: #258 Killgore Trout

His undoing is his own doing. Meh.

266 jonhendry  Jun 23, 2014 5:00:21pm

re: #264 goddamnedfrank

Women though generally don’t send close up pics of their vaginas to people. They might send a selfie of their entire body, clothed or not, but the genital super close up, like the lone spree killer, is almost always a male phenomenon.

Well, there was that photo with the model airliner that was tweeted out on an airline’s official twitter account…

267 Killgore Trout  Jun 23, 2014 5:00:49pm

re: #264 goddamnedfrank

Women though generally don’t send close up pics of their vaginas to people. They might send a selfie of their entire body, clothed or not, but the genital super close up, like the lone spree killer, is almost always a male phenomenon.

You should try r/gonewild

268 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 23, 2014 5:00:58pm
269 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 23, 2014 5:01:14pm

If you don’t want your sex video ending up on the internet, you don’t do a sex video. If you don’t want your dick pic ending up on the internet, you don’t snap a dick pic. Questions?

270 Killgore Trout  Jun 23, 2014 5:01:15pm

re: #267 Killgore Trout

You should try r/gonewild

NSFW if you have to google it.

271 EPR-radar  Jun 23, 2014 5:02:16pm

re: #260 Backwoods_Sleuth

So there are things Chris Christie should not do in public in order to protect the delicate sensibilities of fat-shamers?

Respectfully, fuck that noise.

272 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 23, 2014 5:02:43pm

re: #266 jonhendry

Well, there was that photo with the model airliner that was tweeted out on an airline’s official twitter account…

On another blog I visit, one time in the middle of the night when the moderaters were usually asleep, a known and very persistent troll registered under a new name and used a photo of a vagina as her avatar.

273 jonhendry  Jun 23, 2014 5:03:44pm

re: #263 simoom

It’s certainly trivial to make a fake iphone chat with someone. Just set an accomplice’s contact info to have the target’s name, and have a chat. The “evidence” screenshot just shows Schinder’s name at the top, but doesn’t show the phone # or email that is being communicated with.

Of course, since Schindler doesn’t seem to be denying it, even with so much at stake, it’s probably legit.

274 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 23, 2014 5:04:02pm

re: #271 EPR-radar

So there are things Chris Christie should not do in public in order to protect the delicate sensibilities of fat-shamers?

Respectfully, fuck that noise.

I thought the photographer could have done better. Much better.

275 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 23, 2014 5:04:43pm

re: #251 William Barnett-Lewis

I can see this is about to lead me on a wiki walk :D wonder where Eco´s ¨Ur-Fascism¨ fits in? BBL, time to go learn something.

Interesting stuff. Really relates to the Italian model that is driving the Teahadi. Thanks for your comment!

276 Recreational Birth Control User  Jun 23, 2014 5:05:34pm

re: #226 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

And what is it with these right wing Christians being so, so sneaky?

277 A Mom Anon  Jun 23, 2014 5:08:14pm

re: #274 Backwoods_Sleuth

He honestly looks like he’s lost some weight, which is a good thing for him and his family. Didn’t he have a gastric bypass at some point not long ago?

278 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 23, 2014 5:10:18pm

re: #52 wrenchwench

And it needs a bell.

But it needs to be a Titanium, and Carbon Fiber bell. And not just any carbon fiber, but virgin carbon fiber from free-range virgin carbons.

RBS

279 simoom  Jun 23, 2014 5:11:34pm

re: #273 jonhendry

You don’t even need an actual iPhone. There are plenty of web based iPhone screenshot generators, where you just fill in a template to create the conversation, and some even allow uploading photos. Again, I don’t have any issue believing the charges, it’s just most screenshot evidence these days is pretty worthless.

280 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 5:12:16pm

Zankel Hall only holds 599 people. GG isn’t exactly packing ‘em in.

Wallace Yawn will introduce him.

281 thedopefishlives  Jun 23, 2014 5:14:02pm

Evening Lizardim from the warm and clear (for now) wild north country. How go things among the lizardfolk?

282 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 23, 2014 5:14:40pm

re: #61 GeneJockey

I suspect it works like a sail in a crosswind. Just going from the round pipes on my Ritchey or Battaglin to the larger, shaped cross sections of the Plastic Fantastic Bianchi, I notice a BIG change in crosswind behavior, with the Bianchi being much harder to manage.

Try long wheel base recumbent with a full fairing and full saddlebags in a good crosswind.

Yea, the load is a bit ragged….

283 jaunte  Jun 23, 2014 5:14:43pm

re: #280 Justanotherhuman

Maybe he’ll talk about journalists getting jailed in Egypt.
….
No, what was I thinking.

284 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 23, 2014 5:15:20pm

re: #277 A Mom Anon

He honestly looks like he’s lost some weight, which is a good thing for him and his family. Didn’t he have a gastric bypass at some point not long ago?

Yes, and he has indeed lost a lot of weight.

285 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 23, 2014 5:16:39pm

All of a sudden my cell phone is being attacked by telemarketers. Even though my number has been on the Do Not Call list for years. They don’t give a shit.

Android lets me block these numbers, but they are a pain in the ass.

286 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 23, 2014 5:16:55pm

re: #84 wrenchwench

People who try to re-engineer streets for the purpose of luring more people into cycling are in the process of killing cyclists. This includes in Portland, OR, where that guy is from.

All we need is a wide right lane and educated cyclists following the same rules as everyone else..

I get the feeling that you’re a disciple of John Forrester (Vehicular Cycling). Not that I disagree…. I always get asked, in amazement, You ride on roads???

RBS

287 jaunte  Jun 23, 2014 5:18:22pm
288 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 23, 2014 5:19:07pm

re: #87 sagehen

I sense a market in 3/4 scale beer cans for the purpose of such photos…

I remember a gag “Fishing Ruler” that was about 2/3rd scale.

Old gag, Why are women so bad at judging distances….. (holding fingers 5 inches apart), “because for years they’ve been told that is 8 inches.

ta-Ding.

RBS

289 thedopefishlives  Jun 23, 2014 5:19:40pm

re: #288 RealityBasedSteve

I remember a gag “Fishing Ruler” that was about 2/3rd scale.

Old gag, Why are women so bad at judging distances….. (holding fingers 5 inches apart), “because for years they’ve been told that is 8 inches.

ta-Ding.

RBS

*WHACK!*

290 Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2014 5:20:25pm

Umberto Eco’s “Eternal Fascism”.

291 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 23, 2014 5:23:11pm

re: #289 thedopefishlives

*WHACK!*

Geeze… I usually get that from Varek Raith, are you filling in?

RBS

292 thedopefishlives  Jun 23, 2014 5:23:59pm

re: #291 RealityBasedSteve

Geeze… I usually get that from Varek Raith, are you filling in?

RBS

I took over from Mandy when she got canned for being a douchecanoe. I’m just never around enough to hand out all the well-deserved whacks.

293 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 5:26:00pm

re: #282 RealityBasedSteve

Try long wheel base recumbent with a full fairing and full saddlebags in a good crosswind.

Yea, the load is a bit ragged….

I’d be concerned that the center of force from the crosswind would be significantly in front of the center of gravity, so that the whole thing would swing in a crosswind, not just blow off course. I’ve found that on a normal bike get more stability in crosswinds when I transfer weight forward, putting it more on the pedals and bar and less on the saddle.

294 jonhendry  Jun 23, 2014 5:27:26pm

re: #280 Justanotherhuman

Zankel Hall only holds 599 people. GG isn’t exactly packing ‘em in.

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Wallace Yawn will introduce him.

Surely *tonight* the special forces will swoop in, put a bag over Greenwald’s head, and spirit him off to Gitmo.

Right? Right?

////

295 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 23, 2014 5:27:52pm

re: #286 RealityBasedSteve

I get the feeling that you’re a disciple of John Forrester (Vehicular Cycling). Not that I disagree…. I always get asked, in amazement, You ride on roads???

RBS

Bicycles are vehicles and have the same rights & responsibilities as cars, motorcycles and the rest. As long as both parts are remembered they are welcome to share the road. I just wish that when we lived in Madison we didn´t have even more road ragers on bicycles than in cars… O_o

For real. I started concealed carrying after one nearly broke my wife’s car window while trying to assault her for some imagined offense.

296 dog philosopher  Jun 23, 2014 5:28:10pm

President Obama is lining up ISIS targets in Iraq and may launch an attack on the militant Islamic militia that is threatening Baghdad even if he does not get an agreement with the Iraqi regime, Secretary of State John Kerry said today.

all political questions end up sooner or later rotated 180 degrees

297 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 23, 2014 5:28:42pm

re: #290 Dr Lizardo

Umberto Eco’s “Eternal Fascism”.

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Great essay. It should be required reading in high school.

298 b.d.  Jun 23, 2014 5:28:49pm

Hahahahahaha:

Why Edward Snowden deserves a fair and open trial

Russian President Vladimir Putin said a year ago, before offering Snowden refuge when he fled the United States, that governments have to act responsibly to monitor, discover and prevent terrorist threats and other challenges to national security. That remains an unchanging verity of the world we live in. US President Barack Obama and his top national security officials are rightly cognizant of it too.

rt.com

299 jonhendry  Jun 23, 2014 5:29:08pm

re: #87 sagehen

I sense a market in 3/4 scale beer cans for the purpose of such photos…

Nah, use dollhouse furniture.

300 thedopefishlives  Jun 23, 2014 5:30:28pm

re: #298 b.d.

Hahahahahaha:

rt.com

Excuse me while I laugh until I cry.

301 b.d.  Jun 23, 2014 5:30:35pm

re: #298 b.d.

Hahahahahaha:

rt.com

Looks like someone’s usefulness may have run out.

As far as we know, he is willing to face an open trial and one would assume that the best option for everyone would be for his lawyers to negotiate with the US government conditions for a fair trial.

302 Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2014 5:32:15pm

re: #297 William Barnett-Lewis

Great essay. It should be required reading in high school.

If I had to debate a Tea Party candidate, I’d just read the 14 points Eco notes that are common to all Fascist movements (Ur-Fascism), look at my wingnut opponent, say, “Yep. That’s you all day, friend-o” then drop the mic and walk away.

303 thedopefishlives  Jun 23, 2014 5:32:34pm

re: #301 b.d.

Looks like someone’s usefulness may have run out.

He’s already stated several times that he doesn’t want to go to trial. He only wants to come back to the US if he’ll be left alone.

304 teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2014 5:33:51pm

Aieee!

305 thedopefishlives  Jun 23, 2014 5:34:31pm

re: #304 teleskiguy

Aieee!

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Dammit, Obama.

306 teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2014 5:34:53pm

re: #305 thedopefishlives

Dammit, Obama.

I know, right?!?

307 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 23, 2014 5:35:50pm

re: #293 GeneJockey

I’d be concerned that the center of force from the crosswind would be significantly in front of the center of gravity, so that the whole thing would swing in a crosswind, not just blow off course. I’ve found that on a normal bike get more stability in crosswinds when I transfer weight forward, putting it more on the pedals and bar and less on the saddle.

Trying to visualize a rider on that thing… I think that the “seat tube” pretty much would be in line, maybe very slightly behind the riders leg at extension, but when the leg comes up, that is a lot of area. I ‘think’ (guesstimate) that with a rider on it, and that’s a really extreme seating position, would move the cg pretty well forward. I know that it’s a P.O.C. (concept not crap), but not for me. I’m going to follow the link, I’m just curious how the hell it steers. (and if you want to get the center of pressure back, hell, we’ll just throw a solid disk on the back. :)

It is different.

RBS

308 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 5:38:10pm

re: #303 thedopefishlives

He’s already stated several times that he doesn’t want to go to trial. He only wants to come back to the US if he’ll be left alone.

What’s that saying? Wish in one hand and shit in the other and see which one fills up the fastest?

So tired of these privileged dudebros thinking they are just so special and literally don’t have to pay for anything they do criminally. In fact, they make money from it constantly.

And we may never know the extent of the damage he has done to the intelligence infrastructure of this country, or that of others.

309 teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2014 5:38:20pm
310 jonhendry  Jun 23, 2014 5:39:37pm

re: #309 teleskiguy

Ah, the ultrasonic remote control. You could also change channels by jingling some keys.

311 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 5:39:39pm

re: #309 teleskiguy

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It’s why it was called a “clicker”. : )

312 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 5:39:40pm

re: #309 teleskiguy

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Hence “The Clicker”, long after they stopped making them with audible switches.

313 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 23, 2014 5:39:57pm

re: #294 jonhendry

Surely *tonight* the special forces will swoop in, put a bag over Greenwald’s head, and spirit him off to Gitmo.

Right? Right?

////

maybe he’s already been ‘taken’, and what we have now is a government agent who is a master of disguise, pretending he’s Greenwald. They did it all the time in Mission Impossible. hey, it would be irresponsible not to speculate.

RBS

314 Lidane  Jun 23, 2014 5:40:06pm

OUTRAGE!

315 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 5:40:08pm

re: #311 Justanotherhuman

It’s why it was called a “clicker”. : )

re: #312 GeneJockey

Hence “The Clicker”, long after they stopped making them with audible switches.

Man! Missed it by 1 second!

316 teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2014 5:41:06pm

“The Clicker.” Sounds like some cheesy horror movie. *snark*

317 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 5:41:46pm

re: #315 GeneJockey

Man! Missed it by 1 second!

Teehee! The 4 yr old calls it the ‘mote.

318 Rightwingconspirator  Jun 23, 2014 5:41:59pm

Now we got voice operated TV controls. Too lazy to pick up the remote?! LOL

319 teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2014 5:42:33pm

Also, 8% of Americans online use Twitter, so…

320 Dr Lizardo  Jun 23, 2014 5:42:53pm

re: #311 Justanotherhuman

It’s why it was called a “clicker”. : )

My father always referred to the remote as a “clicker”. :)

And with that, good night, Lizards.

321 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 23, 2014 5:42:57pm

re: #303 thedopefishlives

He’s already stated several times that he doesn’t want to go to trial. He only wants to come back to the US if he’ll be left alone.

Yea….

“Gee honey, I know I slept with your old college roommate when we went to your class reunion, but why don’t you let me back in the house and we’ll just pretend that this never happened. Ok?”

Let me know how that works….

RBS

322 b.d.  Jun 23, 2014 5:44:18pm

re: #313 RealityBasedSteve

maybe he’s already been ‘taken’, and what we have now is a government agent who is a master of disguise, pretending he’s Greenwald. They did it all the time in Mission Impossible. hey, it would be irresponsible not to speculate.

RBS

GREENWALD IS TOTALLY EITHER CIA, FBI OR NSA, OTHERWISE HE WOULD HAVE RELEASED ALL OF THE DOCUMENTS! I ALSO THINK THAT HIS SILENCING OF HIS WRITERS IS PART OF THE PLOT

323 Rightwingconspirator  Jun 23, 2014 5:44:52pm

LA Times-Drones in L.A.: South Bay man flies aircraft to monitor police

324 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 23, 2014 5:45:32pm

re: #322 b.d.

GREENWALD IS TOTALLY EITHER CIA, FBI OR NSA, OTHERWISE HE WOULD HAVE RELEASED ALL OF THE DOCUMENTS! I ALSO THINK THAT HIS SILENCING OF HIS WRITERS IS PART OF THE PLOT

And how do I get a job being a non-writer at his non-news site? I’m guessing they have to be on salary, they can’t be being paid by the line.

RBS

325 GeneJockey  Jun 23, 2014 5:46:23pm

re: #307 RealityBasedSteve

Trying to visualize a rider on that thing… I think that the “seat tube” pretty much would be in line, maybe very slightly behind the riders leg at extension, but when the leg comes up, that is a lot of area. I ‘think’ (guesstimate) that with a rider on it, and that’s a really extreme seating position, would move the cg pretty well forward. I know that it’s a P.O.C. (concept not crap), but not for me. I’m going to follow the link, I’m just curious how the hell it steers. (and if you want to get the center of pressure back, hell, we’ll just throw a solid disk on the back. :)

It is different.

RBS

Actually, I meant the ‘bent. Rider all the way back by the rear wheel, fairing to catch the wind…

I figure riding position on the concept bike would be standard road bike position, based on the location of the saddle and the brifters. But the cross section of the frame and the wheels would make it very prone to crosswinds. I had a bike with Mavic CXP30s, a high-section rim, when I later replaced them with Velocity Aeroheads, the bike got a lot less vulnerable.

The steering, yeah - the fork looks to pivot from a lot farther back than a normal bike. That would make the angle as it is turned VERY different.

326 lawhawk  Jun 23, 2014 5:47:30pm

Golly gee…. this is absolute bs from the usual suspect:

The IRS and Congress have been notified that the IRS was examining all nonprofits seeking 501(c)(4) status and giving closer scrutiny to some that appeared politically involved. That cut across the political spectrum - not just Tea Party groups. All groups.

Issa purposefully sought answers to a specific question - were Tea Party groups investigated for close scrutiny. The IRS responded yes.

The IRS IG also indicated that liberal groups were given closer scrutiny too. And the reason that there was a cheat sheet for closer scrutiny is because the IRS doesn’t have the means to investigate every single group seeking nonprofit status because Congress doesn’t want to fund the IRS to administer the law they enacted.

So the IRS has to figure out ways to administer the law in a way that tries to be nonpartisan and impartial.

But to claim that the IRS targeted Tea Party groups alone is patently false.

The dishonesty of trying to claim otherwise is staggering, but typical for Hoft.

327 b.d.  Jun 23, 2014 5:54:56pm

re: #303 thedopefishlives

He’s already stated several times that he doesn’t want to go to trial. He only wants to come back to the US if he’ll be left alone.

Looks like someone else may be negotiating with the US on Eddie’s behalf, that piece of paper has to be renewed soon.

328 teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2014 5:55:23pm

The power of one gigantic charge of static electricity.

329 dog philosopher  Jun 23, 2014 5:55:41pm

re: #326 lawhawk

patently false

S.O.P.

330 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 23, 2014 5:56:49pm

re: #325 GeneJockey

Actually, I meant the ‘bent. Rider all the way back by the rear wheel, fairing to catch the wind…

I figure riding position on the concept bike would be standard road bike position, based on the location of the saddle and the brifters. But the cross section of the frame and the wheels would make it very prone to crosswinds. I had a bike with Mavic CXP30s, a high-section rim, when I later replaced them with Velocity Aeroheads, the bike got a lot less vulnerable.

The steering, yeah - the fork looks to pivot from a lot farther back than a normal bike. That would make the angle as it is turned VERY different.

Oh, that I can tell you exactly. You sort of ‘tack’ into the wind a bit. Worst case is when something suddenly breaks the wind, (a windbreak, not break wind), then it wants to dart back over.

The faring is mounted on soft mounts I built down at the fork and also at the top of the handlebar area. It really doesn’t have much room to get leverage.

It’s actually incredibly stable. I’ve been up over 40 going down a hill many times, (unloaded), solid as a rock. (and it really holds the speed on the flats). Above that speed I start getting a bit nervous…. The biggest problem is climbing. You’re not in a biometrically most efficient position, and there is no standing to get some extra umph up over the top. I just gear down and spin. I can keep it stable going uphill to about 4 MPH, after that it wants to start to wobble a bit, but if I’m going that slow, I may just as well think about pushing it.

RBS

331 austin_blue  Jun 23, 2014 5:58:40pm

re: #328 teleskiguy

The power of one gigantic charge of static electricity.

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Trees hold lots of water. If it is all brought to a boil instantly…

332 Targetpractice  Jun 23, 2014 5:58:44pm

re: #326 lawhawk

Golly gee…. this is absolute bs from the usual suspect:

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The IRS and Congress have been notified that the IRS was examining all nonprofits seeking 501(c)(4) status and giving closer scrutiny to some that appeared politically involved. That cut across the political spectrum - not just Tea Party groups. All groups.

Issa purposefully sought answers to a specific question - were Tea Party groups investigated for close scrutiny. The IRS responded yes.

The IRS IG also indicated that liberal groups were given closer scrutiny too. And the reason that there was a cheat sheet for closer scrutiny is because the IRS doesn’t have the means to investigate every single group seeking nonprofit status because Congress doesn’t want to fund the IRS to administer the law they enacted.

So the IRS has to figure out ways to administer the law in a way that tries to be nonpartisan and impartial.

But to claim that the IRS targeted Tea Party groups alone is patently false.

The dishonesty of trying to claim otherwise is staggering, but typical for Hoft.

Even if it were true that TP groups were exclusively subjected to increased scrutiny, there’s not been a single confirmed example of a group whose application was denied during the period in question. And they were free to operate as a political group even while their application was under review, which totally neuters the assertion that their civil rights were violated. So I’ve no idea what the “crime” alleged is.

333 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2014 5:59:05pm
334 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2014 6:00:26pm
335 Amory Blaine  Jun 23, 2014 6:01:32pm

HOLY HYPERBOLE BATMAN!!Z!

336 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 23, 2014 6:03:47pm

re: #333 Charles Johnson

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I missed the whole thing, but I remember the NPR coverage of the hearings, (think it was last week), with one of the committee members grilling John Koskinen again and again with “Can you categorically and unequivocally state that Lerner did not intentionally break her computer and cause it to crash”.

It must really hurt to be that much a tool.

RBS

337 Varek Raith  Jun 23, 2014 6:05:09pm

re: #328 teleskiguy

The power of one gigantic charge of static electricity.

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Tree asploded!

338 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 23, 2014 6:06:00pm

That’s what happens when Zeus is unhappy.

RBS

339 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 6:10:40pm

That hearing is such bullshit. A waste of time and money.

340 goddamnedfrank  Jun 23, 2014 6:11:28pm

re: #336 RealityBasedSteve

I missed the whole thing, but I remember the NPR coverage of the hearings, (think it was last week), with one of the committee members grilling John Koskinen again and again with “Can you categorically and unequivocally state that Lerner did not intentionally break her computer and cause it to crash”.

Russel’s Teapot.

341 dog philosopher  Jun 23, 2014 6:11:54pm

The deadly Ebola virus outbreak in West Africa has hit “unprecedented” proportions, according to relief workers on the ground.

“The epidemic is out of control,” Dr. Bart Janssens, director of operations for Doctors Without Borders, said in statement.

There have been 567 cases and 350 deaths since the epidemic began in March, according to the latest World Health Organization figures.

Ebola virus outbreaks are usually confined to remote areas, making it easier to contain. But this outbreak is different; patients have been identified in 60 locations in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia.

Officials believe the wide footprint of this outbreak is partly because of the close proximity between the jungle where the virus was first identified and cities such as Conakry. The capital in Guinea has a population of 2 million and an international airport.

People are traveling without realizing they’re carrying the deadly virus. It can take between two and 21 days for someone to feel sick after they’ve been exposed.

Ebola is a violent killer. The symptoms, at first, mimic the flu: headache, fever, tiredness. What comes next sounds like something out of a horror movie: significant diarrhea and vomiting, while the virus shuts off the blood’s ability to clot.

As a result, patients often suffer internal and external hemorrhaging. Many die in an average of 10 days.

“We have reached our limits,” Janssens said.

342 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 23, 2014 6:12:16pm

HURR HURR!!!!! U LIBTARD!!!!
I don’t know if this is a “parody” account but its website is Alex Jones crazypants.

343 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 6:12:22pm

Yada, yada, yada.

Bullying know-nothings. Republican clowns.

344 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 6:16:38pm

Photo: Streets in Huntington Park, Calif., closed due to Mexico fans celebrating after World Cup win - @ABC7
see original on twitter.com

345 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 6:19:07pm

re: #340 goddamnedfrank

Russel’s Teapot.

If that was Jason Chaffetz (Idiot-UT), he just did the same thing and used the same language.

346 dog philosopher  Jun 23, 2014 6:27:22pm

Italy cops solve 105-year-old NYPD detective’s murder

wow, there was an nypd detective that was 105 years…

oh

347 Justanotherhuman  Jun 23, 2014 6:29:54pm

Later, Lizards, the rack beckons. : )

348 teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2014 6:31:12pm
349 sagehen  Jun 23, 2014 6:31:17pm

24

Spoiler

So the main crisis has been solved, and there’s still 3-1/2 hours to go. Are they really going to spend that on a subplot??

350 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2014 6:31:47pm
351 jonhendry  Jun 23, 2014 6:33:42pm

OT: I hate moving. Movers will be here Friday. I can’t quite get motivated to pack. Arrgh.

352 dog philosopher  Jun 23, 2014 6:34:47pm

re: #351 jonhendry

OT: I hate moving. Movers will be here Friday. I can’t quite get motivated to pack. Arrgh.

when do the shakers get there?

353 Belafon  Jun 23, 2014 6:36:59pm

re: #351 jonhendry

If you don’t want it enough to pack it, then get rid of it.

354 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 23, 2014 6:37:49pm

I Googled “Samuel Igra” total homophobic whackjob who was Scott Lively’s inspiration.

355 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 23, 2014 6:38:27pm

re: #350 Charles Johnson
WHOA!!! WOWWWEEEE! MUST SEE!1 RT @gatewaypundit: MUST SEE VIDEO>>> IRS Chief: “I Can’t Remember” Who Told Me Lois Lerner’s Emails Were Lost

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Reading Jim Hoft is like watching Jerry Springer. No matter how bad you think things are going for you, some people just have the ability to make you feel pretty darn good about yourself. Thanks Jim and Jerry for making my bad days much better. (see he is good for something)

RBS

356 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 23, 2014 6:41:38pm

re: #353 Belafon

If you don’t want it enough to pack it, then get rid of it.

If you haven’t played with it, wore it, or used it in a year, donate it to goodwill.

RBS

357 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2014 6:42:30pm
358 jonhendry  Jun 23, 2014 6:42:59pm

re: #353 Belafon

That would be work also. I am doing some of that, though. I expect I’ll be purging a lot on Thursday.

359 dog philosopher  Jun 23, 2014 6:43:11pm

CBS News/New York Times Poll. June 20-22, 2014. N=1,009 adults nationwide. Margin of error ± 3.

“Do you think the result of the war with Iraq was worth the loss of American lives and other costs of attacking Iraq, or not?”

all: worth it 18% not 75%
republicans: worth it 27% not 63%
democrats: worth it 14% not 79%
independants: worth it 16% not 79%

“Do you think the U.S. should have removed all U.S. troops from Iraq in 2011, or should the U.S. have left some troops there?”

all: shoulda removed all 50% shoulda left some 42%
republicans: shoulda removed all 29% shoulda left some 65%
democrats: shoulda removed all 62% shoulda left some 31%
independants: shoulda removed all 54% shoulda left some 38%

“Do you think the United States has a responsibility to do something about the violence in Iraq in which militants have taken control of some areas of the country, or doesn’t the United States have this responsibility?”

all: does have 42% doesn have 50%
republicans: does have 52% doesn have 42%
democrats: does have 43% doesn have 51%
independants: does have 37% doesn have 55%

“Do you think Barack Obama should be doing more to address the violence in Iraq, should be doing less to address the violence in Iraq, or is he doing the right amount?”

all: more 29% less 22% right amount 41%
republicans: more 53% less 21% right amount 19%
democrats: more 13% less 19% right amount 63%
independants: more 29% less 25% right amount 37%

FISH

360 Charles Johnson  Jun 23, 2014 6:45:47pm
361 Belafon  Jun 23, 2014 6:46:49pm

re: #358 jonhendry

I almost wich I could move just so I would have a way to get my wife to get rid of some of her stuff. She’s a microhoarder: She doesn’t collect like lots of one thing just because, but she just won’t get rid of things.

362 jonhendry  Jun 23, 2014 6:47:10pm

re: #354 Pie-onist Overlord

She got some serious Crazy Eyes.

363 jonhendry  Jun 23, 2014 6:48:19pm

re: #356 RealityBasedSteve

If you haven’t played with it, wore it, or used it in a year, donate it to goodwill.

RBS

I’ll be doing some of that. I’d rather not, since Goodwill often pays workers under minimum wage, but there aren’t many good/convenient alternatives.

364 goddamnedfrank  Jun 23, 2014 6:48:44pm

re: #360 Charles Johnson

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It doesn’t exactly beat so much as it goes “crickle-crackle.”

365 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 23, 2014 6:49:47pm

LOLWUT

366 thedopefishlives  Jun 23, 2014 6:51:10pm

re: #360 Charles Johnson

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HERP-DERP… HERP-DERP… HERP-DERP… HERP-DERP…

367 compound_Idaho  Jun 23, 2014 6:54:24pm

re: #363 jonhendry

Just call them interns and pay them $0.00/hr.

368 The War TARDIS  Jun 23, 2014 6:54:45pm

re: #304 teleskiguy

AGAIN!?!?

Denver, turn off the Tornado Magnet.

369 b.d.  Jun 23, 2014 6:56:17pm

re: #365 Pie-onist Overlord

LOLWUT

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What, prey-tell, is ACORN’s new name?

370 Bear  Jun 23, 2014 6:57:28pm

re: #363 jonhendry

Try Salvation Army. I think they do the best to help.

371 JustMark  Jun 23, 2014 6:59:26pm

re: #363 jonhendry

Try AMVETS

372 jonhendry  Jun 23, 2014 6:59:37pm

BTW, instead of using cardboard boxes, I’m using plastic bins from a service called BungoBox. 32 large bins, 3 extra-large bins, two wheeled carts that the large bins stack on top of, and two plastic wardrobe boxes, for two weeks, for ~$100. They drop them off at your origin location and pick them up at your destination.

No folding and taping!

373 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 23, 2014 7:03:27pm

re: #372 jonhendry

BTW, instead of using cardboard boxes, I’m using plastic bins from a service called BungoBox. 32 large bins, 3 extra-large bins, two wheeled carts that the large bins stack on top of, and two plastic wardrobe boxes, for two weeks, for ~$100. They drop them off at your origin location and pick them up at your destination.

No folding and taping!

That’s a good deal. You would easily spend that for boxes. I’ll have to check it out…

RBS

374 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 23, 2014 7:04:39pm

re: #362 jonhendry

She got some serious Crazy Eyes.

As a friend of mine would say… “You wouldn’t ride a horse with eyes like that”

RBS

375 jonhendry  Jun 23, 2014 7:05:37pm

re: #373 RealityBasedSteve

The only catch is having to unload the bins at the destination so they can be returned.

There are other businesses that offer similar services.

376 danarchy  Jun 23, 2014 7:05:58pm

re: #372 jonhendry

BTW, instead of using cardboard boxes, I’m using plastic bins from a service called BungoBox. 32 large bins, 3 extra-large bins, two wheeled carts that the large bins stack on top of, and two plastic wardrobe boxes, for two weeks, for ~$100. They drop them off at your origin location and pick them up at your destination.

No folding and taping!

Sounds like what most office movers use. I always wondered why home movers didn’t seem use them.

377 teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2014 7:07:32pm

HURR HURR OBUMMER ATE DOG!!!!

378 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 23, 2014 7:08:31pm

re: #376 danarchy

Sounds like what most office movers use. I always wondered why home movers didn’t seem use them.

when we moved our offices down the block, that’s what the movers used. They were sort of like the big crates that produce comes in, an overlapping set of fingers at the top. Stacked nicely one on another, could put 4 or more on a mover’s dolly and move them easy. Really impressed me.

RBS

379 J A P  Jun 23, 2014 7:10:50pm

re: #363 jonhendry

I stopped giving things to Goodwill Industries a few years ago when they started to go “upscale.” Now, I usually give things to people whose churches give items directly to people.

380 teleskiguy  Jun 23, 2014 7:11:10pm

Jonah Goldberg has to be one of the smuggest assholes IRL.

I read his book Liberal Fascism and fuck man! Talk about painting with broad strokes. Absolute gutter pseudo history designed to engender hatred in others who don’t think similarly. Sounds like another book I’ve heard of, what was that one? Oh yeah, Mein Kampf (which is quoted liberally in Liberal Fascism, including the Nazi Party Platform in the Appendix).

This Pillsbury Doughboy is a leading “intellectual” on the right.

*heavy edits made over the course of a few minutes*

381 danarchy  Jun 23, 2014 7:13:47pm

re: #378 RealityBasedSteve

when we moved our offices down the block, that’s what the movers used. They were sort of like the big crates that produce comes in, an overlapping set of fingers at the top. Stacked nicely one on another, could put 4 or more on a mover’s dolly and move them easy. Really impressed me.

RBS

I do IT consulting and probably do an office move every month or 2. That’s what they all seem to use, most of them have special crates and packaging for servers and desktops now too. Those guys are scary efficient, one company I worked with a couple of months ago moved a 150 person office in about 6 hours.

382 lostlakehiker  Jun 23, 2014 7:18:15pm

re: #286 RealityBasedSteve

I get the feeling that you’re a disciple of John Forrester (Vehicular Cycling). Not that I disagree…. I always get asked, in amazement, You ride on roads???

RBS

I’ve ridden thousands of miles on roads. It’s reasonably safe. When you weigh the risk of getting turned into road stew by a truck against the risks inherent in being a couch potato, I like my odds. People have generally been nice, even solicitous. There’s a few who—-well, the guys who drove off the road, off the shoulder, and onto the grass so they could pass me on the right whilst I was slogging along on the shoulder—-they took more of a chance with their own lives than with mine, so I can’t put it down to malice.

Put it down to kids being kids.

Now this maybe even ties in with what I was gonna say about politics: it is playing with fire to vote for someone who has no elfin business holding office, on the theory that if you do, you can be sure that your side will win. No you can’t be sure. Not if he/she stands any chance of losing against the other alternative from the other side. There’s the off chance that your guy may snatch defeat from victory. People do that. They put their foot in it, they email a photo of their junk to a teenager, whatever. Or their health fails. Or there’s a landslide in the other direction and they get buried.

Many a slip there is twixt cup and lip. Don’t play with fire. Let the other side nominate the tolerably bad candidate rather than take any chance at all that the disaster-should-he-win, wins.

383 SteveMcGazi  Jun 23, 2014 7:23:36pm

re: #49 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

I’ve been reading about bike safety, bells, but you guys are missing the biggest problem with that bicycle: NO PEDALS!

384 simoom  Jun 23, 2014 7:37:21pm

re: #256 Lidane

Sheesh — their outright glee and gloating is pretty loathsome:

She’s also RT’ing a nasty parody account that’s repurposed the old, now deleted, account’s avatar image and name. [edit: the parody account has now been deleted too]

Appelbaum, who published some of the most sensitive Snowden sources/methods leaks is joining in the gloating too.

This Death and Taxes blog post nicely sums up how these folks are generally rationalizing their behavior:

“Generally speaking, I am incredibly against the idea of publicizing someone’s nude pics on the internet without their consent. I think it’s an incredibly shitty thing to do to someone, regardless of whether or not I agree with them politically. However, I will make a gleeful exception in this one case for someone who clearly is not too fond of privacy himself. I will make an exception for a person who argued against privacy for me and my fellow American citizens. Because in this case, it’s just straight-up karma. I mean, I’m hardly going to argue for the privacy of someone who wouldn’t argue for mine.”

The author then of course proceeded to post the alleged phone screen shot.

385 jonhendry  Jun 23, 2014 7:50:01pm

re: #376 danarchy

That’s exactly what they are. The guy I used says he mostly markets to businesses and moving companies, and any residential business is gravy. The concept is pretty new in the consumer/residential space, so a lot of people don’t know about the option.

I’d seen them years ago, used for office moves, but they’re way too expensive to buy. What’s new is the short term rentals, delivery/pickup of boxes, and online ordering, which makes it really easy.

386 Khal Wimpo  Jun 24, 2014 2:24:36pm

re: #166 Charles Johnson

More than the junkshot, the text where he basically says that he doesn’t really love his wife, he just married her for her money, so’s he can have vacation homes all over the world?

That’s some sad, pathetic shit right there.

Not that I begrudge marrying for money. Hey, if that’s your trip, go for it, and have fun hanging out with the likes of V. Stiviano. I always thought that you could borrow it easier. But holding yourself out as some kind of Internet Tough Guy & All-Round Superspy, when in reality, you’re a gigolo with a Ph.D.?

…and the divorce papers are filed in 3, 2, 1 …

387 lostlakehiker  Jun 25, 2014 7:36:15am

re: #103 GeneJockey

This. Bicycles are VEHICLES, not pedestrians. We turn from the appropriate VEHICLE lane, or we walk the bike. Thinking of bikes as pedestrians leads to parents telling their kids to ride FACING traffic, and they get killed.

On top of everything else, there’s the business of closing speeds. A bicycle going with traffic, even at just 10mph, encounters cars at a 20 mph less closing velocity than a bicycle going the other way. If the speed limit is 40, that’s a difference between a closing speed of 30 and a closing speed of 50.

That’s huge.


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