Right Wing Reactionary Defeats Even More Reactionary Right Winger in Mississippi

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There is no joy in the Tea Party tonight: Thad Cochran Wins GOP Senate Nod in Mississippi.

WASHINGTON — Just when the Tea Party showed signs of life, six-term GOP Sen. Thad Cochran found a way to stifle the insurgent conservatives.

Cochran on Tuesday night narrowly defeated rival Chris McDaniel in Mississippi’s closely watched Republican runoff by making a last-minute appeal to blacks and Democrats. The veteran senator is now the favorite to win a seventh term in November against Democrat Travis Childers, a former congressman.

(That tweet is a joke with a serious point, in case it wasn’t obvious.)

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488 comments
1 jaunte  Jun 24, 2014 8:52:08pm

Well, whose votes do you want to nullify, Senator?

2 jaunte  Jun 24, 2014 8:53:53pm
3 Rightwingconspirator  Jun 24, 2014 8:58:26pm

A big win for the not quite as bad guys.

4 Stanley Sea  Jun 24, 2014 8:58:59pm

Holy shit. Reading David corn’s timeline

5 jaunte  Jun 24, 2014 8:59:10pm
6 HappyWarrior  Jun 24, 2014 8:59:33pm

re: #5 jaunte

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Hahaha you lose Joe.

7 calochortus  Jun 24, 2014 9:00:03pm

re: #1 jaunte

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Well, whose votes do you want to nullify, Senator?

Presumably the Democrats, which is not entirely unreasonable in a Republican primary, but that’s not what the rules say in MS.

8 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 9:00:26pm

9 jaunte  Jun 24, 2014 9:00:28pm

Definitely 3 minutes of schadenfreude.

10 missliberties  Jun 24, 2014 9:00:46pm

Note that super fringey neo confederate guy did not concede.

Liberal democrats, as in blah people, rigged the election, he said angrily.

or

GOP outreach in action.

At least Thad Cochran believes in government, and bragged what government can do for Mississippi, which I consider a glimmer of sanity.

11 Egregious Philbin  Jun 24, 2014 9:00:52pm

Laughing my ass off.

All that money from the rabble down the toilet. The tea party talibornagains lose, again.

Of course Cochran is a moron, just one standard deviation less moron than McDaniel.

12 HappyWarrior  Jun 24, 2014 9:01:03pm

re: #7 calochortus

Presumably the Democrats, which is not entirely unreasonable in a Republican primary, but that’s not what the rules say in MS.

Yep open primary. If McDaniel has or had a problem with that, there was nothing stopping him as a state legislature to change that rule.

13 Charles Johnson  Jun 24, 2014 9:01:18pm
14 jaunte  Jun 24, 2014 9:01:23pm

re: #4 Stanley Sea

Holy shit. Reading David corn’s timeline

15 missliberties  Jun 24, 2014 9:02:43pm

re: #7 calochortus

Presumably the Democrats, which is not entirely unreasonable in a Republican primary, but that’s not what the rules say in MS.

There is a reason for that. Long ago the GOP left the primaries open hoping that Dixiecrats would crossover and vote Republican.

16 GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 24, 2014 9:03:19pm

re: #5 jaunte

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Wah. Wah. Waaaaaaah.

17 Zamb  Jun 24, 2014 9:03:35pm

re: #12 HappyWarrior

If McDaniel has or had a problem with that, there was nothing stopping him as a state legislature to change that rule.

Besides his irrational fear of all government action?

18 calochortus  Jun 24, 2014 9:04:32pm

re: #15 missliberties

There is a reason for that. Long ago the GOP left the primaries open hoping that Dixiecrats would crossover and vote Republican.

And then it came back to bite someone in the butt. Who could have guessed?

19 HappyWarrior  Jun 24, 2014 9:04:38pm

re: #17 Zamb

Besides his irrational fear of all government action?

Ha true I’m treating the neo-confederate scumbag as a rational, thinking human being.

20 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 9:06:10pm
21 Charles Johnson  Jun 24, 2014 9:06:14pm
22 jaunte  Jun 24, 2014 9:07:08pm

They sank his battleship.

23 klys  Jun 24, 2014 9:07:14pm

Oh man, tears of wingnut rage.

In other news, with the new fridge arriving tomorrow, tonight was spent cleaning off the exterior. (I will deal with the interior before the new one arrives tomorrow.) I give you my national park magnet collection (missing one, a few duplicates for favorite parks).

I highly recommend them all.

Edited to add: yes, I know they’re not all national parks, but everything here is administered by the National Park Service.

Edited a second time: except for the Chesapeake Bay Bridge Tunnel, but it was the right style.

24 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 9:07:38pm
25 Stanley Sea  Jun 24, 2014 9:07:47pm

re: #17 Zamb

Besides his irrational fear of all government action?

Ha

26 teleskiguy  Jun 24, 2014 9:07:58pm

re: #21 Charles Johnson

27 calochortus  Jun 24, 2014 9:08:07pm

re: #23 klys

Oh man, tears of wingnut rage.

In other news, with the new fridge arriving tomorrow, tonight was spent cleaning off the exterior. (I will deal with the interior before the new one arrives tomorrow.) I give you my national park magnet collection (missing one, a few duplicates for favorite parks).

I highly recommend them all.

You communist, you.

28 HappyWarrior  Jun 24, 2014 9:08:19pm

re: #22 jaunte

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They sank his battleship.

What world does this guy live in where Thad Cochran isn’t right wing enough? Oh that’s right. The world of the 2014 GOP where neo-confederatism is to be embraced.

29 Charles Johnson  Jun 24, 2014 9:08:56pm
30 jaunte  Jun 24, 2014 9:09:42pm

re: #28 HappyWarrior

He’s gotten a bit overexcited. 06/24/14 isn’t going to ‘live in infamy’ for anyone.

31 HappyWarrior  Jun 24, 2014 9:09:45pm

re: #24 Gus

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Aren’t these the same people who eagerly did Rush’s “Operation Chaos.” This is part of living in an open primary state you dumbasses. If you wanted only Republicans to vote in it, you could have changed the law before hand but you just didn’t anticipate that your neo-confederate fuckwad having a chance at the senate would you know be a turn-off to the sane part of Mississippi.

32 Egregious Philbin  Jun 24, 2014 9:09:59pm

re: #14 jaunte

Yeah, because ceding a sure victory to your enemy is always a winning strategy!

33 klys  Jun 24, 2014 9:10:10pm

re: #27 calochortus

You communist, you.

Lassen was mean and didn’t have the right size/style on my last trip. Hopefully we will fix that this summer.

Actually, I think I am missing Oregon Caves too. Argh.

34 jaunte  Jun 24, 2014 9:10:27pm

UNSPEAKABLE BETRAYAL. I WILL NOW SPEAK OF IT EXTENSIVELY.

35 Egregious Philbin  Jun 24, 2014 9:10:41pm

re: #31 HappyWarrior

Exactly what I have been saying all night.

And it is………..delicious.

I love the sweet irony.

36 Killgore Trout  Jun 24, 2014 9:10:46pm

Interesting real world politics article: How Thad Cochran won

37 Charles Johnson  Jun 24, 2014 9:11:45pm
38 klys  Jun 24, 2014 9:11:58pm

re: #33 klys

Lassen was mean and didn’t have the right size/style on my last trip. Hopefully we will fix that this summer.

Actually, I think I am missing Oregon Caves too. Argh.

The real tragedy is that none of them might stick to the new fridge. :(

39 jaunte  Jun 24, 2014 9:12:46pm

re: #36 Killgore Trout

“…Look at Cochran’s message on TV in the closing days of the race. It’s a Republican message circa 2004: I have tons of seniority in the Senate and that means good things for the state. Vote me out and you can kiss all of that goodbye.”

Based on the MS economy, it’s a winning message.

40 calochortus  Jun 24, 2014 9:13:41pm

re: #33 klys

Lassen was mean and didn’t have the right size/style on my last trip. Hopefully we will fix that this summer.

Actually, I think I am missing Oregon Caves too. Argh.

I get to go to Lassen twice this summer-once camping and once staying at Drakesbad. Nyah, nyah, nyah. ;)

41 blueraven  Jun 24, 2014 9:13:49pm
42 calochortus  Jun 24, 2014 9:14:13pm

re: #40 calochortus

And we’ll pick up a box or two of luscious, ripe peaches on the way home.

43 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 9:14:15pm
44 klys  Jun 24, 2014 9:15:09pm

re: #39 jaunte

Based on the MS economy, it’s a winning message.

I like the part where the fact that Democrats are vaguely realists and particularly African Americans not wanting to vote for the neo-Confederate candidate - like the Democrat candidate for Senate has any serious chance of beating a Republican candidate in Nov in MS - was surprising.

Like gee. Shocking.

45 klys  Jun 24, 2014 9:15:30pm

re: #40 calochortus

I get to go to Lassen twice this summer-once camping and once staying at Drakesbad. Nyah, nyah, nyah. ;)

Gah, Drakesbad is on the list. But not the this summer list.

46 jaunte  Jun 24, 2014 9:15:53pm
47 HappyWarrior  Jun 24, 2014 9:16:17pm

I think the crossover voters knew that Cochran or McDaniel that they would be getting a GOPer regardless so they decided to go with the one who wasn’t completely nuts. I don’t blame them. Were I a resident of Mississippi, I would have contemplated the same.

48 calochortus  Jun 24, 2014 9:16:30pm

re: #46 jaunte

That would be, um, interesting.

49 teleskiguy  Jun 24, 2014 9:16:57pm

*re-posted from downstairs*

Dude doesn’t believe in our system!

50 Decatur Deb  Jun 24, 2014 9:17:38pm

It was Cochran’s sidebar ads on Barnyard Mingle that turned the trick.

51 blueraven  Jun 24, 2014 9:17:54pm

Can McDaniel still launch a bid as a third party candidate or is it too late for that?

That would be sweet!

52 HappyWarrior  Jun 24, 2014 9:18:06pm

So what does McDaniel tell all his supporters who may not be registered R’s because they’re “conservatives, first.”

53 HappyWarrior  Jun 24, 2014 9:18:30pm

re: #51 blueraven

Can McDaniel still launch a bid as a third part candidate or is it too late for that?

That would be sweet!

I don’t see why he could not. Lieberman did that to Lamont after losing to him and ended up winning the GE.

54 dog philosopher  Jun 24, 2014 9:19:02pm

Suarez Biting Allegations Investigated by Soccer Ruling Body

rulings on teabagger biting outbreak expected later in week

55 Zamb  Jun 24, 2014 9:19:35pm

re: #53 HappyWarrior

Depends on the state. In some he would have had to register as an Independent candidate before the primary.

56 Stanley Sea  Jun 24, 2014 9:19:50pm

Does good old fashioned exit polling exist?

57 Charles Johnson  Jun 24, 2014 9:20:01pm
58 Decatur Deb  Jun 24, 2014 9:20:03pm

re: #53 HappyWarrior

I don’t see why he could not. Lieberman did that to Lamont after losing to him and ended up winning the GE.

Depends on state election laws. I’d defer to our Mississippi Lizard on that.

59 HappyWarrior  Jun 24, 2014 9:20:59pm

re: #58 Decatur Deb

Depends on state election laws. I’d defer to our Mississippi Lizard on that.

re: #55 Zamb

Depends on the state. In some he would have had to register as an Independent candidate before the primary.

Good point. Don’t know why I thought it’d be the same universally.

60 Charles Johnson  Jun 24, 2014 9:22:42pm
62 Egregious Philbin  Jun 24, 2014 9:23:43pm

re: #43 Gus

I stole that, a bunch.

Damn funny.

Sadly true

63 BeenHereAwhile  Jun 24, 2014 9:24:09pm

re: #15 missliberties

There is a reason for that. Long ago the GOP left the primaries open hoping that Dixiecrats would crossover and vote Republican.

Are there any Dixiecrats still alive?

64 HappyWarrior  Jun 24, 2014 9:24:19pm

re: #60 Charles Johnson

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Love that you’re trolling Deadbeat Dad. What a pathetic whiner. This isn’t as great as Mitt Romney going to bed certain that SCOTUS would overturn ACA but it’s still nice.

65 HappyWarrior  Jun 24, 2014 9:24:56pm

re: #63 BeenHereAwhile

Are there any Dixiecrats still alive?

Yeah not in name of course. They’re just the reason why the GOP has swept the South since ‘64.

66 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 9:25:44pm
67 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 9:27:12pm
68 BeenHereAwhile  Jun 24, 2014 9:27:47pm

re: #38 klys

The real tragedy is that none of them might stick to the new fridge. :(

Stainless eh?

69 Charles Johnson  Jun 24, 2014 9:28:14pm
70 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 9:28:18pm
71 jaunte  Jun 24, 2014 9:28:35pm

Some of us bark Quack Quack.

72 jaunte  Jun 24, 2014 9:29:09pm

re: #69 Charles Johnson

I think he left out the word out.

73 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 9:29:35pm

Crap.

74 klys  Jun 24, 2014 9:29:43pm

re: #68 BeenHereAwhile

Stainless eh?

I like my magnets collection. :(

75 Egregious Philbin  Jun 24, 2014 9:30:06pm

re: #71 jaunte

I have a friend that works for that grifter Chopra. She never takes the bait when I put up the Deepak Chopra random advise generator on facebook…

76 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 9:30:26pm
77 blueraven  Jun 24, 2014 9:33:33pm
78 teleskiguy  Jun 24, 2014 9:34:16pm

Charles,

You’re in the right to do the Twitter dance with Joe Walsh. I still use the “MT” prefix in tweets I list if anything is changed in their tweet. So, for fuck’s sake, I can kind of sympathize with this:

I’m still on your side! I think “MT” should be used more.

79 dog philosopher  Jun 24, 2014 9:34:44pm

Cochran defeats McDaniel in tight GOP Senate runoff race

i generally regard everything the gop does as ‘runoff’

80 Charles Johnson  Jun 24, 2014 9:34:52pm
81 Kid A  Jun 24, 2014 9:35:29pm

Because it’s the greatest goal ever, and Morales’ commentary never, ever gets old.
Youtube Video

82 calochortus  Jun 24, 2014 9:35:57pm

re: #74 klys

I like my magnets collection. :(

Put them on your dishwasher? Get some “magnetic receptive” paint and put a few coats on an area of your wall-you can paint over it to match the rest of the paint. (It’s not super strong, so test whether it will actually hold your magnets.) Hang up an appropriate metal panel somewhere and put them on that?

83 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 9:36:22pm

re: #61 Killgore Trout

UPDATE: Gary Oldman Answers ADL Charges Of Anti-Semitism In Playboy Interview

I read that on Jezebel. An odd apology, but more than the usual non-apology apology.

84 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 9:37:39pm
85 Charles Johnson  Jun 24, 2014 9:38:23pm

re: #78 teleskiguy

Charles,

You’re in the right to do the Twitter dance with Joe Walsh. I still use the “MT” prefix in tweets I list if anything is changed in my tweet. So, for fuck’s sake, I can kind of sympathize with this:

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I’m still on your side! I think “MT” should be used more.

The word I removed did not change the meaning of his tweet one single bit.

86 calochortus  Jun 24, 2014 9:38:51pm

JimRob and the Freepers weigh in.

Short version:
1. Steal underwear.
2. ?
3. Profit.

87 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 9:39:30pm

re: #78 teleskiguy

Charles,

You’re in the right to do the Twitter dance with Joe Walsh. I still use the “MT” prefix in tweets I list if anything is changed in my tweet. So, for fuck’s sake, I can kind of sympathize with this:

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I’m still on your side! I think “MT” should be used more.

The word “possible” doesn’t change the gist of what Walsh was saying. Twitter has so many arcane rules (MT - Modified Tweet, use a character before the @nym so your tweet will go out to followers of both accounts, etc.) it’s no wonder it hasn’t gained more popularity than it has. Well, that, and all the nut jobs pushing out fake quotes and bullshit in 140 characters.

Edit: and I see Charles made the main point while I was typing.

88 teleskiguy  Jun 24, 2014 9:39:48pm

re: #85 Charles Johnson

The word I removed did not change the meaning of his tweet one single bit.

You’re absolutely right. I still think a “MT” instead of a “RT” would have been better.

89 Charles Johnson  Jun 24, 2014 9:39:52pm

Oh, and by the way, I don’t follow Andrew Kaczynski, and have no idea what he tweeted.

90 jaunte  Jun 24, 2014 9:42:06pm
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As Sinatra said years after From Here To Eternity came out, he fully credited Wallach for playing a big part in my career.
classicmoviechat.com

91 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 9:42:40pm

re: #89 Charles Johnson

Oh, and by the way, I don’t follow Andrew Kaczynski, and have no idea what he tweeted.

I don’t follow any of the buzzfeed tweeters on general principle. I read that as Walsh meant this buzzfeedandrew has a practice of removing words from people’s tweets.

92 jonhendry  Jun 24, 2014 9:44:29pm

re: #74 klys

Get some magnetic primer paint and paint a wall. Then paint it back to the original color. Then stick your magnets to it.

93 Charles Johnson  Jun 24, 2014 9:45:03pm

re: #91 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I don’t follow any of the buzzfeed tweeters on general principle. I read that as Walsh meant this buzzfeedandrew has a practice of removing words from people’s tweets.

I hope you realize that Walsh is simply trying to deflect attention away from what he tweeted with a bullshit technicality.

94 Stanley Sea  Jun 24, 2014 9:46:16pm

Good night now!

95 teleskiguy  Jun 24, 2014 9:46:20pm

re: #91 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I read that as Walsh meant this buzzfeedandrew has a practice of removing words from people’s tweets.

A PERVERSION OF THE MURKAN LANGUAGE WHICH IS ENGLISH! ALL EXCITING INTERNET IS PROPAGANDA AND SATAN!!!11!!1!

96 jaunte  Jun 24, 2014 9:46:23pm

In any speculation about the future, “possible” should be understood.

97 jonhendry  Jun 24, 2014 9:46:42pm

re: #84 Gus

I was just thinking earlier today that I was kind of amazed that he was still alive.

Ah well, he had a good, long, active run.

98 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 9:47:10pm

re: #93 Charles Johnson

I hope you realize that Walsh is simply trying to deflect attention away from what he tweeted with a bullshit technicality.

Oh, I know that. I’m familiar with Walsh from his disgraceful term as a congressman from Illinois (and his continued embarrassing behavior). I was just commenting on the construction of his statement and how I read it.

See my comment above that I agree removing the “possible” doesn’t change the gist of his tweet.

99 calochortus  Jun 24, 2014 9:48:42pm

Good night lizards. Hasta mañana.

100 Charles Johnson  Jun 24, 2014 9:48:58pm
101 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 9:51:00pm

re: #93 Charles Johnson

I hope you realize that Walsh is simply trying to deflect attention away from what he tweeted with a bullshit technicality.

Also, I’m continuously amazed at how many people get into protracted engagements with random people on Twitter. Not that *you* are totally random, but I’d think Walsh has better things to do than fling poo at people in 140 characters.

OTOH, given that he’s on leave from his radio gig, maybe sitting around with a bottle and the Twitter machine is all he has to do.

102 Charles Johnson  Jun 24, 2014 9:52:33pm

re: #101 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Also, I’m continuously amazed at how many people get into protracted engagements with random people on Twitter. Not that *you* are totally random, but I’d think Walsh has better things to do than fling poo at people in 140 characters.

OTOH, given that he’s on leave from his radio gig, maybe sitting around with a bottle and the Twitter machine is all he has to do.

It’s not random at all.

103 jonhendry  Jun 24, 2014 9:53:12pm

re: #74 klys

I like my magnets collection. :(

Here’s a page that talks about magnetic paint. If the magnets aren’t too heavy, and you’re not using them to hold papers, etc, the magnetic paint should be fine. You may want to use a lot of coats, to maximize the amount of iron on the wall for the magnets to stick to.

kjmagnetics.com

104 teleskiguy  Jun 24, 2014 9:53:52pm

re: #101 Rev_Arthur_Belling

OTOH, given that he’s on leave from his radio gig, maybe sitting around with a bottle and the Twitter machine is all he has to do.

The Reverend Arthur Belling says a truth and teleskiguy (a non-believer) shouts out AMEN BROTHER!

Truth. So much truth.

105 Zamb  Jun 24, 2014 9:56:02pm

re: #100 Charles Johnson

Wasn’t that Wilson? Walsh goes for mocking vets with missing limbs.

106 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 9:56:24pm

re: #104 teleskiguy

The Reverend Arthur Belling says a truth and teleskiguy (a non-believer) shouts out AMEN BROTHER!

Truth. So much truth.

Hahaha. I think I mentioned before, but I’m also a non-believer (although I went to seminary and am “licensed to preach”!).

The nym is from Monty Python :)

Youtube Video

107 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 9:57:31pm

re: #105 Zamb

Wasn’t that Wilson? Walsh goes for mocking vets with missing limbs.

You lie was from Wilson, yes. was it Joe(?) Wilson. What a bunch of assholes.

108 Charles Johnson  Jun 24, 2014 10:00:02pm

re: #105 Zamb

Yes - I’m just referring to another great moment in right wing trolling.

109 Charles Johnson  Jun 24, 2014 10:01:00pm
110 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 10:01:27pm

OT, but I just discovered the other night a couple of series on YouTube that may be of interest to the culinary-inclined Lizards: Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Cookery Course and Gordon Ramsay’s Home Cooking.

Key points:
Lots of cooking tips, explanations of how to select cookware and ingredients and NO CUSSING! They’re produced for English Television (Channel 4), so there’s no drama either. Really shows a different aspect of Ramsay’s personality and lots of great recipes.

111 Zamb  Jun 24, 2014 10:01:49pm

re: #109 Charles Johnson

It’s gonna be the blacks.

112 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 10:03:03pm

re: #111 Zamb

It’s gonna be the blacks.

It’s always the blacks. Unless it’s the browns, or the gheys, or the wimmins, or the poors.

113 Egregious Philbin  Jun 24, 2014 10:04:02pm

Oh dear lord.

I posted the very funny “McDaniel demands the vote be recounted and all black voters counted as 3/5ths a vote.” on a forum.

This is the response I got:

“Someone with a twitter account name of Gus says so then it must be true?Do yo actually having any credible links that McDaniel said that?”

I can’t live in a world full of people this freaking stupid.

114 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 10:07:43pm

re: #113 Egregious Philbin

Oh dear lord.

I posted the very funny “McDaniel demands the vote be recounted and all black voters counted as 3/5ths a vote.” on a forum.

This is the response I got:

“Someone with a twitter account name of Gus says so then it must be true?Do yo actually having any credible links that McDaniel said that?”

I can’t live in a world full of people this freaking stupid.

Yes. It’s true.

Derp.

115 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 24, 2014 10:08:18pm

re: #82 calochortus

Many whiteboards and chalkboards are magnetic. Very helpful for teachers, btw.

116 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 10:08:48pm

re: #114 Gus

Yes. It’s true.

Derp.

“Someone with a twitter account name of Gus says so then it must be true?

It’s on the Internet! It must be true!

117 Charles Johnson  Jun 24, 2014 10:08:57pm

re: #113 Egregious Philbin

You’ll have to forgive them - they’re kind of sensitive tonight.

118 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 10:09:43pm

re: #117 Charles Johnson

You’ll have to forgive them - they’re kind of sensitive tonight.

Why do we have to forgive them?

119 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 10:09:59pm

re: #116 Rev_Arthur_Belling

It’s on the Internet! It must be true!

I even added this.

Bozos.

120 Killgore Trout  Jun 24, 2014 10:10:42pm

re: #110 Rev_Arthur_Belling

OT, but I just discovered the other night a couple of series on YouTube that may be of interest to the culinary-inclined Lizards: Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Cookery Course and Gordon Ramsay’s Home Cooking.

Key points:
Lots of cooking tips, explanations of how to select cookware and ingredients and NO CUSSING! They’re produced for English Television (Channel 4), so there’s no drama either. Really shows a different aspect of Ramsay’s personality and lots of great recipes.

It’s an excellent series. The UK versions of all his shows are much better that what we get here in the US. It’s also worth checking out some of the other UK cooking shows. Jamie oliver has done some good stuff and I’m a sucker for Hugh Farnsley Wittingstall (who’d never make it on American TV)

121 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 10:11:04pm

re: #119 Gus

I even added this.

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Bozos.

Imagine if Jonathan Swift had tweeted A Modest Proposal. SMH.

122 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 10:12:42pm

re: #120 Killgore Trout

It’s an excellent series. The UK versions of all his shows are much better that what we get here in the US. It’s also worth checking out some of the other UK cooking shows. Jamie oliver has done some good stuff and I’m a sucker for Hugh Farnsley Wittingstall (who’d never make it on American TV)

I haven’t heard of wittingstall. have to check him out. The US version of Kitchen Nightmares I can’t really watch. Too much B.S. conflict and commercial pimping.

123 Egregious Philbin  Jun 24, 2014 10:13:32pm

re: #117 Charles Johnson

TONIGHT?

LOL

124 darthstar  Jun 24, 2014 10:15:24pm

Now Cochran is in that awkward position of campaigning for the general on the “Yes, I begged for black votes to survive the primary, but I promise I won’t do shit for them if I’m reelected” slogan.

125 Killgore Trout  Jun 24, 2014 10:16:16pm

re: #122 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I haven’t heard of wittingstall. have to check him out. The US version of Kitchen Nightmares I can’t really watch. Too much B.S. conflict and commercial pimping.

You might be poisoned to the series but the original Uk version Kitchen Nightmares was much better. Not all the relaunches were successful, and there was a wider variety of problems. Some very skilled chefs who’ve lost their passion, some cooks completely faking it, etc. Much less scripted drama.

126 darthstar  Jun 24, 2014 10:17:15pm
127 TedStriker  Jun 24, 2014 10:17:34pm

For Charles and anyone else that likes Ben Folds, here’s another reason to like him:

Tennessean: Ben Folds makes passionate pitch to save RCA Studio A

I didn’t even know he lived here until now…good on him.

128 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 10:19:23pm

re: #125 Killgore Trout

You might be poisoned to the series but the original Uk version Kitchen Nightmares was much better. Not all the relaunches were successful, and there was a wider variety of problems. Some very skilled chefs who’ve lost their passion, some cooks completely faking it, etc. Much less scripted drama.

I actually saw the original UK versions first on Netflix. Glad I did or I’d probably have been poisoned on it. Ramsay’s US persona is more Simon Cowell, less passionate chef than his UK persona. I also liked The F Word.

The UK version of Kitchen Nightmares also featured less of the total makeover crap they have on the US version. I read yesterday that he’s wrapping up production on the US show after this season.

129 teleskiguy  Jun 24, 2014 10:21:32pm

re: #124 darthstar

Now Cochran is in that awkward position of campaigning for the general on the “Yes, I begged for black votes to survive the primary, but I promise I won’t do shit for them if I’m reelected” slogan.

Fuck.

130 klys  Jun 24, 2014 10:21:48pm

re: #82 calochortus

re: #92 jonhendry

I will keep this in mind; the door to the garage is RIGHT THERE and so also an excellent candidate (versus painting over the admittedly awful kitchen wallpaper) for something like this.

I have some vague hope that one of the exposed sides might be magnetic but won’t know until tomorrow.

You can all expect pictures of the fridge then because I am like 3 and it is a shiny new toy.

131 Killgore Trout  Jun 24, 2014 10:22:12pm

re: #122 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I haven’t heard of wittingstall. have to check him out. The US version of Kitchen Nightmares I can’t really watch. Too much B.S. conflict and commercial pimping.

Here’s a really good Jamie oliver series (you can scroll through the episodes to find areas that interest you). He’s using garden veg but you could just as easily use store bought stuff. Recipes a dead simple, very quick and rustic. Nothing too fancy.
Jamie At Home (tomatoes)
Youtube Video

132 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 10:24:46pm

re: #131 Killgore Trout

Here’s a really good Jamie oliver series (you can scroll through the episodes to find areas that interest you). He’s using garden veg but you could just as easily use store bought stuff. Recipes a dead simple, very quick and rustic. Nothing too fancy.
Jamie At Home (tomatoes)
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Yeah, I like Oliver and have seen those, but I’ll probably refresh my memory as I’m moving into a new house with a full kitchen (I have about 1/2 kitchen in this apt. now). We have a couple of good farmer’s markets here as well.

133 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 10:26:02pm

re: #130 klys

I will keep this in mind; the door to the garage is RIGHT THERE and so also an excellent candidate (versus painting over the admittedly awful kitchen wallpaper) for something like this.

I have some vague hope that one of the exposed sides might be magnetic but won’t know until tomorrow.

You can all expect pictures of the fridge then because I am like 3 and it is a shiny new toy.

Most cars are metal. just saying (ducks)

134 Shvaughn  Jun 24, 2014 10:27:39pm

re: #113 Egregious Philbin

This is the response I got:

“Someone with a twitter account name of Gus says so then it must be true?Do yo actually having any credible links that McDaniel said that?”

Obviously you can’t trust anyone with a twitter name of “Gus.”

135 jonhendry  Jun 24, 2014 10:35:12pm

re: #120 Killgore Trout

And sexy, sexy Nigella Lawson.

136 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 10:36:49pm

Mosquito!

137 Joanne  Jun 24, 2014 10:37:29pm

re: #110 Rev_Arthur_Belling

OT, but I just discovered the other night a couple of series on YouTube that may be of interest to the culinary-inclined Lizards: Gordon Ramsay’s Ultimate Cookery Course and Gordon Ramsay’s Home Cooking.

Key points:
Lots of cooking tips, explanations of how to select cookware and ingredients and NO CUSSING! They’re produced for English Television (Channel 4), so there’s no drama either. Really shows a different aspect of Ramsay’s personality and lots of great recipes.

His recipe for meatballs are the best I’ve ever made. And the curried meatballs are To. Die. For. The oxtail with fennel is delish, too. I love that Cookery series. So many good recipes.

138 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 10:38:08pm
139 Killgore Trout  Jun 24, 2014 10:39:37pm

re: #135 jonhendry

And sexy, sexy Nigella Lawson.

She annoys me for some reason, I like Rachael Khoo
Youtube Video

140 teleskiguy  Jun 24, 2014 10:40:21pm

I’m logging out, I guess. I leave, tonight, with a peculiar mindset on United States national politics. It’s funny how not much has changed geographically when it comes to voting patterns, and I’m EXPLICITLY referring to the former CSA.

OK. I’m just a ski bum. My opinion of US politics is shit.

Selah

141 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 10:43:07pm
142 GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 24, 2014 10:44:01pm

re: #125 Killgore Trout

You might be poisoned to the series but the original Uk version Kitchen Nightmares was much better. Not all the relaunches were successful, and there was a wider variety of problems. Some very skilled chefs who’ve lost their passion, some cooks completely faking it, etc. Much less scripted drama.

No way. The original UK series doesn’t have Amy’s Baking Company.

143 jonhendry  Jun 24, 2014 10:44:36pm

re: #139 Killgore Trout
If you haven’t seen it, here’s a cleverly-edited video of “Nigella talking dirty”

Video

144 Lidane  Jun 24, 2014 10:46:47pm

re: #142 GlutenFreeJesus

No way. The original UK series doesn’t have Amy’s Baking Company.

That was the single greatest episode ever. People so crazy even Gordon Ramsay couldn’t deal with them. Loved it. And they’re supposedly like that in real life, too. It wasn’t an act.

145 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 10:47:11pm

re: #143 jonhendry

If you haven’t seen it, here’s a cleverly-edited video of “Nigella talking dirty”

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Video

I think I need a shower after watching that. LOL.

146 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 10:49:05pm

Say. Remember who was always boasting about being part of the Latin Kings?

147 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 10:50:34pm

re: #144 Lidane

That was the single greatest episode ever. People so crazy even Gordon Ramsay couldn’t deal with them. Loved it. And they’re supposedly like that in real life, too. It wasn’t an act.

The thing is, the US series is heavily geared toward drama and tension. The UK series had dramatic moments, but not the “reality TV show” editing that the US series did.

I won’t comment on the Amy’s Baking owners, who *seemed* genuinely to be assholes. IMHO, FOX ruined the series, however.

148 jonhendry  Jun 24, 2014 10:52:33pm

re: #147 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Every episode of Kitchen Nightmares seems to have a bit where Gordon finds something gross and shuts the place down in the middle of a busy night.

149 GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 24, 2014 10:54:14pm

re: #144 Lidane

That was the single greatest episode ever. People so crazy even Gordon Ramsay couldn’t deal with them. Loved it. And they’re supposedly like that in real life, too. It wasn’t an act.

Right MEOW!

150 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 10:57:46pm

i have to add that the brits have much cooler names for their food: Egg and Soldiers, Bubble and Squeak, Spotted Dick, Shepherd’s Pie, etc.

151 klys  Jun 24, 2014 10:59:45pm

re: #150 Rev_Arthur_Belling

i have to add that the brits have much cooler names for their food: Egg and Soldiers, Bubble and Squeak, Spotted Dick, Shepherd’s Pie, etc.

BANGERS AND MASH.

Now I’m hungry.

152 GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 24, 2014 10:59:54pm

re: #145 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I think I need a shower after watching that. LOL.

Try Gordon talking dirty.

Youtube Video

153 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 11:02:04pm

re: #152 GlutenFreeJesus

Try Gordon talking dirty.

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Video

You’re killing me here.

154 klys  Jun 24, 2014 11:02:18pm

The secret to seafood: Old Bay.

Why yes, I did take something away from 4 years of college in MD.

155 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 11:04:44pm

re: #154 klys

The secret to seafood: Old Bay.

Why yes, I did take something away from 4 years of college in MD.

Growing up on the Gulf Coast, I would have guessed Tony Chachere’s Seasoning.

156 Blue Fielder  Jun 24, 2014 11:05:54pm

re: #150 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Spotted Dick

Video

157 klys  Jun 24, 2014 11:06:42pm

re: #155 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Growing up on the Gulf Coast, I would have guessed Tony Chachere’s Seasoning.

Nope. Old Bay. Goes on everything.

Especially curly frys. Yum.

158 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 11:07:48pm

re: #157 klys

Nope. Old Bay. Goes on everything.

Especially curly frys. Yum.

Will now have to find some Old Bay. The seafood is not so easy here in the corn fields of the Midwest, sadly.

159 klys  Jun 24, 2014 11:11:15pm

re: #158 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Will now have to find some Old Bay. The seafood is not so easy here in the corn fields of the Midwest, sadly.

I had a hell of a time recently, finding it. Ended up finding some at Whole Foods.

Don’t kill me, I trust the seafood there better than Safeway.

160 jonhendry  Jun 24, 2014 11:12:36pm

re: #150 Rev_Arthur_Belling

“toad in the hole”

161 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 11:12:41pm
162 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 11:13:55pm

70. You’re next! :D

163 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 11:14:11pm
164 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 11:14:16pm

re: #159 klys

I had a hell of a time recently, finding it. Ended up finding some at Whole Foods.

Don’t kill me, I trust the seafood there better than Safeway.

If there were a Whole Paycheck closer than 45 miles away, I’d be looking there. The local grocer has upgraded their seafood offerings, but the prices are just as ridiculous. Makes it hard to make a seafood gumbo.

My stepfather used to buy coolers full of fresh shrimp on the side of the highway for use in gumbos on the Gulf for cheap. Yum.

165 Blue Fielder  Jun 24, 2014 11:18:36pm

re: #160 jonhendry

“toad in the hole”

See previous comment.

166 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 11:23:05pm

re: #163 Gus

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Never actually liked the feel of Martins, and they seemed way overpriced to me. But everyone’s taste in guitars is different. I prefer the Telecaster to the Stratocaster or the Les Paul.

167 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 11:32:55pm
168 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 11:36:28pm
169 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 11:37:51pm

re: #168 Gus

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Pretty fancy trick for the cat to tie up the lobster claws!

170 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 11:42:14pm
171 Gus  Jun 24, 2014 11:42:31pm
172 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 24, 2014 11:44:13pm

re: #171 Gus

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Filed under “apple not falling far from tree.”

173 jonhendry  Jun 24, 2014 11:57:30pm

re: #171 Gus

That’s from last year. Messed up, but old.

174 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Jun 25, 2014 12:03:30am

re: #173 jonhendry

That’s from last year. Messed up, but old.

I was reading somewhere that he’d recently let a bunch of dogs die in a shelter.

washingtonpost.com

175 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 12:06:21am
176 jonhendry  Jun 25, 2014 12:08:59am

re: #174 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Yes, that’s the new outrage.

177 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 12:19:13am
178 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 12:52:41am
179 Lidane  Jun 25, 2014 12:52:48am
180 Romantic Heretic  Jun 25, 2014 1:26:00am

re: #136 Gus

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Mosquito!

God, I love that plane.

I found this video recently about one of its predecessors/contemporaries.

Beaufighter - Whispering Death

181 Lidane  Jun 25, 2014 3:17:53am
182 Lidane  Jun 25, 2014 3:23:25am
183 Timothy Watson  Jun 25, 2014 3:25:47am

re: #182 Lidane

Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha *deep breath* hahahahahahahahahaha:

Politico reached out to Ken Cuccinelli, president of the Senate Conservatives Fund, one of the conservative outside groups closely supporting McDaniel’s candidacy and involved in the voter integrity project. Politico asked Cuccinelli if his group would consider challenging the runoff results in court but Cuccinelli hung up.

184 Lidane  Jun 25, 2014 3:31:23am

re: #183 Timothy Watson

I hope they file a lawsuit. That would be hilarious. Their entire argument would come down to “blah people voting = FRAUD”.

Please proceed.

185 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 3:43:22am

re: #184 Lidane

I hope they file a lawsuit. That would be hilarious. Their entire argument would come down to “blah people voting = FRAUD”.

Please proceed.

Yep. From the reactions I’m reading across the RW blogosphere, the wingnuts are pissed that McDaniel’s lost, and there’s a lot of chatter of sitting out the mid-terms this November or supporting write-in candidacies.

186 Lidane  Jun 25, 2014 3:45:11am

The butthurt continues this morning:

187 geoffm33  Jun 25, 2014 4:04:57am

Please proceed.

188 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 4:14:02am

re: #187 geoffm33

The wingnuts don’t seem to understand basic math.

Let’s say McDaniel’s runs as either a write-in or a third-party independent; that splits the GOP’s vote, and that allows the Democrats to win.

It’s essentially victory by default for the Democratic Party candidate.

But by all means, wingnuts……please proceed. Such a manuever will all but ensure that the Senate remains in the hands of the Democrats.

189 aagcobb  Jun 25, 2014 4:14:41am

re: #186 Lidane

The butthurt continues this morning:

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The sweet, sweet tears of racist assholes. How dare blacks vote in a GOP primary!

190 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 4:17:20am

re: #189 aagcobb

The sweet, sweet tears of racist assholes. How dare blacks vote in a GOP primary!

Fixed that for you.

191 lawhawk  Jun 25, 2014 4:19:17am

re: #23 klys

We got to the point with magnets that the fridge couldn’t handle them all, so I bought a magnetic board, and started putting the travel related magnets on that instead.

Those magnets sure bring back memories.

192 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 25, 2014 4:28:07am
193 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 4:29:19am

Libertarian Fairtaxers are the dumbest wingnuts on Twitter. They have utterly no clue about How All The Things Work.

194 aagcobb  Jun 25, 2014 4:35:13am

What’s funny about this race is that it once again disproves the theory that running the most ideologically pure conservative is how to win and it demonstrates that the GOP really ought to be working on outreach to minority voters. Now here’s hoping that McDaniel runs as an independent allowing the Democrat to win in November.

195 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 4:38:50am

The butthurt this morning is epic

196 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 25, 2014 4:40:48am

Remember, in TP parlance “stolen” in this case means “won by a candidate I do not support”

197 aagcobb  Jun 25, 2014 4:44:41am

re: #195 Pie-onist Overlord

The butthurt this morning is epic

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I do so hope that McDaniel sues to argue that its illegal for a Republican to seek the votes of African-Americans in Mississippi.

198 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 4:47:47am

YAYYY NEW OFFICE CHAIRS!!!

199 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 4:49:37am

MOAR BUTTHURT

200 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 4:51:57am

OW MY BUTT HURTS SO BAD

201 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 4:52:30am
202 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 25, 2014 4:53:15am

re: #200 Pie-onist Overlord

OW MY BUTT HURTS SO BAD

Hey Establishment Republicans — how do you plan on winning your races when the conservatives stay home? Stop smearing the Tea Party!

How do you plan on winning general elections when the TP faction ensures that you nominate nothing but raving right-wing nutjobs?

203 lawhawk  Jun 25, 2014 4:54:47am

What’s the controversy here? That a right wing GOPer defeated another right wing GOPer? That they’re questioning the votes of the guy who won, even though he’s the incumbent?

The TP wing of the party can’t tolerate any dissent from their position, even when they’re in agreement with establishment party officials on 99% of the issues and the differences are largely on tactics. Establishment party officials are more likely to actually engage in politics - horsetrading and cutting deals that might not secure 100% of what was wanted, but at least keep government going.

The TP seeks no deals; it’s their way or shutdown. That’s what got the GOP to shut down the government last year, and that worked out so well for them. Well, to most people that was a big loss, but the TP saw that as a means to their end - even though the shutdown cost the government revenues, harmed the economy (which they continue to claim sucks because of Obama, but which also has lagged because government spending has never recovered to the same levels as before the recession and job cuts were hardest in the public sector, so while the private sector has rebounded to near where we were before the recession, the overall economy is still dragged by the fact that the GOP won on the sequester - they got the spending cuts they wanted all along by not working out a deal on spending with Democrats that would have avoided a shutdown, avoided much of the acrimony, and the hardship on most Americans who are struggling to make ends meet.

204 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2014 5:00:45am

Greetings from soggy central Ohio, where the puddles are big from all the rain over yesterday and last night. Some big enough to close roads.

So, will there be a Mississippi civil war reenactment within the state with McDaniel attacking the headquarters of Cochran and making the “south rise again?” Watch out for all that lead a flyin’!

205 Timothy Watson  Jun 25, 2014 5:01:26am

Stupid question…even if McDaniel finds someone who has no attention of voting for the GOP nominee, and never did, how, exactly, would you disqualify his vote? Primary ballots are secret in Mississippi, right?

206 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 25, 2014 5:06:00am

Arizona has a closed primary system…that is why I registered as a Republican to vote for people I have to wish to see wining the general election.

But it all backfired on me in 1986: I voted in the primary for Evan Mecham, as I saw him as the candidate least likely to gain a majority.

As it was, the Democratic vote was split by a third-party candidate and Evan Mecham went on to win with a plurality and became one of the biggest political embarrassments in a state that has seen no shortage of such things…

207 aagcobb  Jun 25, 2014 5:10:40am

re: #205 Timothy Watson

Stupid question…even if McDaniel finds someone who has no attention of voting for the GOP nominee, and never did, how, exactly, would you disqualify his vote? Primary ballots are secret in Mississippi, right?

I think their legal strategy would be, and I shit you not, that Cochran’s win should be thrown out because its illegal for him to court African-American voters because they are almost all Democrats and will probably vote for the Democratic candidate in November.

208 lawhawk  Jun 25, 2014 5:11:39am

Wait, so establishment conservatives stayed home when they could have voted for the real conservative? Wait. Wut? Guess the establishment conservatives didn’t think much of either candidate then, or that they voted by not voting for the guy you approved of.

In other words, quit crying over spilled milk.

209 Timothy Watson  Jun 25, 2014 5:12:11am

re: #207 aagcobb

I think their legal strategy would be, and I shit you not, that Cochran’s win should be thrown out because its illegal for him to court African-American voters because they are almost all Democrats and will probably vote for the Democratic candidate in November.

Ah, that’s my problem, I was thinking in actual legal strategy, and discounting the craziness of the tea-party.

210 Decatur Deb  Jun 25, 2014 5:12:26am

re: #200 Pie-onist Overlord

OW MY BUTT HURTS SO BAD

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Faced with Jim Crow or the Confederacy, some Blacks in Mississippi chose Jim Crow.

211 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 5:13:29am

GUESS WHOSE BUTT IS TEH MOAST HURT

212 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 5:16:12am
213 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 5:16:41am

Wow, not only do these people show that they’re selfish little twits who never grew up and have to fly into a rage every time they don’t get their way, they don’t know how voting actually works, either.

They were so sure the white supremacist would win.

Well, one of them did. Just not the most blatant one.

214 Decatur Deb  Jun 25, 2014 5:17:38am

re: #186 Lidane

The butthurt continues this morning:

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If it weren’t for schaden, I’d have no freude at all.

‘Morning, all.

215 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 5:20:52am
216 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 25, 2014 5:22:02am

re: #215 Pie-onist Overlord

The only reason for an open primary is so Dems can screw with elections is that you did not see the need to change it to a closed system….

217 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 5:26:44am
218 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 25, 2014 5:31:47am

re: #217 Pie-onist Overlord

Mississippi proves we have a three-party system: Democrats, ruling class Republicans, and citizen class Republicansthe Tea Party, which has still not split off from the GOP.

219 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 5:34:24am
220 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 5:35:30am

re: #217 Pie-onist Overlord

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Fischer is right up there with Sarah Palin as a leading “intellectual” of the Tea Party faction of the GOPers.

221 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 5:38:20am

Freepers are still crying.

To: Sean_Anthony

Take this win away from him by either voting for the Dem or not voting at all.

24 posted on 6/25/2014, 2:33:53 PM by Jack Hydrazine (Pubbies = national collectivists; Dems = international collectivists; We need a second party!)
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So delicious.

222 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 5:40:15am

And I must add, “I love the smell of napalm wingnut tears in the morning. Smells like……victory.”

223 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 5:43:14am

THE DOG WHISTLES BLOWING FURIOUSLY

224 TedStriker  Jun 25, 2014 5:48:17am

re: #215 Pie-onist Overlord

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Funny, coming from the sort of folks that advocated exactly what they’re accusing Democrats of doing last night with Rush’s “Operation Chaos” against HRC in 2008.

Me doth thinks the RWNJs protest too much.

225 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 25, 2014 5:49:18am

Mississippi Tea Partiers have discovered that sometimes reality sucks. Majority rule. How the fuck does that work?

226 Lidane  Jun 25, 2014 5:49:28am

re: #200 Pie-onist Overlord

Todd Starnes haz a sad over on Facebook too:

Mississippi Conservatives were swift-boated by Establishment Republicans. Thad Cochran won his primary challenge against Chris McDaniel by the slimmest of margins.

McDaniel was the victim of an incredibly offensive smear campaign. Voters were bombarded with robo-calls that insinuated McDaniel and the Tea Party were anti-Obama racists.

The Cochran campaign openly urged Democrats to cross party lines. The dirty tricks employed by those opposed to McDaniel were shameful. Simply shameful.

This fall — conservative Mississippians are faced with somewhat of a dilemma. Do they vote for the Democrat or do they vote for the Republican who acts like a Democrat?

227 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 25, 2014 5:49:52am

re: #224 TedStriker

Me doth thinks the RWNJs protest too much

Ideological purity precludes logical consistency

228 Decatur Deb  Jun 25, 2014 5:51:18am

Here’s the sweet sauce on the TPGOP dessert, 17 Million that won’t be spent in November:

“$17 million. That’s the latest tally of political spending in Mississippi’s seemingly unending Republican primary — a mind-boggling figure in a state without one media market among the nation’s top 50. Voters will finally be free of the endless parade of robocalls and attack ads on Tuesday, as voters decide the runoff election between incumbent Sen. Thad Cochran and Chris McDaniel.

“Our friends at opensecrets.org have been keeping an eye on all the last minute checks fueling the campaigns and outside groups; our Real-Time FEC tracker shows these groups have been spending the cash as quickly as they can raise it. Between the June 3 primary to Tuesday’s final showdown, super PACs and dark money outfits have spent an additional $3.2 million on independent expenditures — TV commercials, Internet ads and mailers aimed at swaying voters in the bitter election.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce is pulling out all the stops for Cochran, spending $700,000 on the runoff election and even recruiting former Green Bay Packers great Brett Favre, a Mississippi native, for a commercial. But no one has outspent the Club for Growth Action Fund. The hardline conservative group has the distinction of being the highest-spending super PAC in the race, doling out $2.4 million so far in support of McDaniel.

sunlightfoundation.com

229 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 25, 2014 5:55:18am

re: #228 Decatur Deb

$2.4 mil wasted on a losing candidate. Fools and their money are soon parted.

230 Decatur Deb  Jun 25, 2014 5:58:35am

re: #229 wheat-dogghazi

$2.4 mil wasted on a losing candidate. Fools and their money are soon parted.

Yup, and that’s just the tab for the Club for Growth.

231 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 25, 2014 6:01:41am

re: #230 Decatur Deb

Yup, and that’s just the tab for the Club for Growth.

I think they misunderstand the word “growth.” McDaniel offered a very poor ROI.

232 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 6:04:22am

PLEASE PROCEED

233 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 6:05:46am

re: #232 Pie-onist Overlord

PLEASE PROCEED

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That will practically ensure that a Democrat takes the seat. But by all means, please proceed.

234 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 6:06:11am

re:
#226

Voters were bombarded with robo-calls that insinuated McDaniel and the Tea Party were anti-Obama racists.

Insinuated?

235 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 6:08:54am

re:
#217

PURE Christian Republicans are only TRUE Citizens in US!!!1

236 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 6:11:29am

re:
#211

Confirmed. FACT.

Democrats voted. That’s illegal. /

This Y we need overturn 17th Amendment and return Senate vote to citizens by returning it to gerrymandered state legislature=True Republicanism!!1

237 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 25, 2014 6:11:42am

re: #229 wheat-dogghazi

$2.4 mil wasted on a losing candidate. Fools and their money are soon parted.

And that is the money spent…think of how much of that was solicited and donated and the amount deducted for “overhead” and “administrative costs”…

brain-boggling.

239 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 25, 2014 6:13:13am

re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

And that is the money spent…think of how much of that was solicited and donated and the amount deducted for “overhead” and “administrative costs”…

brain-boggling.

Well, someone did very well on this deal.

240 Killgore Trout  Jun 25, 2014 6:15:01am
241 Lidane  Jun 25, 2014 6:16:21am

OUTRAGE!

Wasn’t this an open primary? I don’t see how any of this is an issue. But please proceed wingnuts. Please sue over blah people voting. That will be fun.

242 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 6:16:31am

re:
#240

I was just gonna say, how will he keep a government together at all?

This should be interesting…..

243 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 6:18:15am

re:
#241

Maybe Issa can hold hearings on this ‘scandal’.

REPEAL 17th AMENDMENT NOW!!!!1 SAVE USA!!!!

244 Killgore Trout  Jun 25, 2014 6:18:23am

re: #241 Lidane

OUTRAGE!

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Wasn’t this an open primary? I don’t see how any of this is an issue. But please proceed wingnuts. Please sue over blah people voting. That will be fun.

Sort of but not really. the law is something like anyone can vote in the primary if they intend to vote in the election. It’s an unenforceable law and open to abuse.

245 Lidane  Jun 25, 2014 6:18:39am
246 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 6:18:56am

re: #241 Lidane

OUTRAGE!

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Wasn’t this an open primary? I don’t see how any of this is an issue. But please proceed wingnuts. Please sue over blah people voting. That will be fun.

Yep open primary. It’s even more pathetic with the fact that apparently McDaniel himself voted Democratic in a primary ten years ago. I think Democratic Mississippians thought either way they’d be getting a Republican so they went with the known entity.

247 Killgore Trout  Jun 25, 2014 6:19:13am

re: #242 Bulworth

re:
#240

I was just gonna say, how will he keep a government together at all?

This should be interesting…..

If the Iranians prop him up he should be fine

248 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2014 6:20:15am

re: #244 Killgore Trout

Sort of but not really. the law is something like anyone can vote in the primary if they intend to vote in the election. It’s an unenforceable law and open to abuse.

Interesting that you chose to use the word abuse.

Do you find what happened in this primary abuse of the voting regs as they are written?

249 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 6:20:39am

re: #244 Killgore Trout

Sort of but not really. the law is something like anyone can vote in the primary if they intend to vote in the election. It’s an unenforceable law and open to abuse.

I did see that but then again McDaniel’s diehards aren’t exactly lining up on Cochran’s wagon.

250 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 6:21:22am

Pretty funny that the same people who loved “Operation Chaos” are flipping their shit over crossover primary voters.

251 Lidane  Jun 25, 2014 6:21:47am

I’m trying to figure out how people voting in a primary is abuse. WTF.

Open primary = anyone can vote. How is that abusive?

252 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 6:22:55am

re: #251 Lidane

I’m trying to figure out how people voting in a primary is abuse. WTF.

Open primary = anyone can vote. How is that abusive?

Because it’s not. It’s true there is a law that says you should intend to vote for the party’s nominee if you’re voting in the primary but I suspect that’s either unconstitutional and or a relic from Mississippi’s days as a one party state.

253 Lidane  Jun 25, 2014 6:23:02am

re: #250 HappyWarrior

Pretty funny that the same people who loved “Operation Chaos” are flipping their shit over crossover primary voters.

It’s not abusive if it helps Republicans! Otherwise, FRAUD!

254 The Awkward Guy  Jun 25, 2014 6:23:20am

re: #251 Lidane

I’m trying to figure out how people voting in a primary is abuse. WTF.

Open primary = anyone can vote. How is that abusive?

Because potato.

255 The Awkward Guy  Jun 25, 2014 6:23:53am

256 Eventual Carrion  Jun 25, 2014 6:24:31am

re: #224 TedStriker

Funny, coming from the sort of folks that advocated exactly what they’re accusing Democrats of doing last night with Rush’s “Operation Chaos” against HRC in 2008.

Me doth thinks the RWNJs protest too much.

They have trouble tying their own shoes, let alone remembering what happened that many years ago.

257 Killgore Trout  Jun 25, 2014 6:26:35am

re: #248 ObserverArt

Interesting that you chose to use the word abuse.

Do you find what happened in this primary abuse of the voting regs as they are written?

Mississippi GOP Plays Games With Black Votes

In a brutal Deep South Republican primary runoff the establishment candidate’s campaign is asking black Democratic voters to break the law to fight off the Tea Party.

Read the article. It’s a poorly written and unenforceable law.

258 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 6:29:17am

re: #257 Killgore Trout

Mississippi GOP Plays Games With Black Votes

Read the article. It’s a poorly written and unenforceable law.

It’s a stupid law. Surprised it wasn’t overturned. It really reads like one of those Jim Crow era laws that existed to keep one party rule permanent.

259 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 6:30:00am
260 Lidane  Jun 25, 2014 6:30:03am

re: #246 HappyWarrior

I think Democratic Mississippians thought either way they’d be getting a Republican so they went with the known entity.

Got it in one:

261 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 6:33:26am

re:
#259

Real Donald Drump is a Real Seer.

262 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 6:35:21am

re:
#259

I guess being a regular ole conservative isn’t enough anymore. Now one has to be a Constitutional Conservative!

/

263 Lidane  Jun 25, 2014 6:35:30am

re: #257 Killgore Trout

Mississippi GOP Plays Games With Black Votes

The problem is that Mississippi has long operated as a state that functionally had an open primary. The only limitation in case of a runoff is that a voter can’t participate if he has already cast a ballot in the other party’s primary. Thus, a voter who voted in the Democratic primary on June 3 can’t participate in Tuesday’s runoff.

So basically, it’s Texas. We don’t have voter registration by party. You vote in whichever primary you want and your voter card is stamped with that party. After that, you can’t cross over to vote in the other party’s runoff.

If none of those Democratic voters took part in the Dem primary, they’re legal voters. It’s not abuse. They’re following the law as it’s been written and enforced by the state up to this point.

264 darthstar  Jun 25, 2014 6:37:29am
265 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 6:38:07am

What the hell did Cochran do piss them off anyhow? Did they find video clips of him saying something nice about Obama? Really if Thad Cochran is insufficiently conservative for you, then you may as well go out and admit you’re the American version of the BNP.

266 Dr. Matt  Jun 25, 2014 6:40:14am

re: #251 Lidane

I’m trying to figure out how people voting in a primary is abuse. WTF.

Open primary = anyone can vote. How is that abusive?

It’s “abusive” if your guy loses the race. The teabagger party thought it was amusing when so-called Democrats helped defeat Eric Cantor.

267 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 6:41:37am

re: #266 Dr. Matt

It’s “abusive” if your guy loses the race. The teabagger party thought it was amusing when so-called Democrats helped defeat Eric Cantor.

Yep, only difference is we don’t have that stupid Jim Crow era law here but pretty much the same thing that did Cantor in ended up saving Cochran. My advice to McDaniel, maybe you should have ran to be the senator of all Mississippi rather than being the TP’s errand boy.

268 Timothy Watson  Jun 25, 2014 6:43:28am

re: #265 HappyWarrior

What the hell did Cochran do piss them off anyhow? Did they find video clips of him saying something nice about Obama? Really if Thad Cochran is insufficiently conservative for you, then you may as well go out and admit you’re the American version of the BNP.

HE SUPPORTED THAT DESSERTER BOWIE BERGDAHL!1!!!!

269 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 6:44:20am

re: #268 Timothy Watson

HE SUPPORTED THAT DESSERTER BOWIE BERGDAHL!1!!!!

But was that on Wednesday or Thursday? Wednesdays, Bergdahl is a deserter who we should have abandoned to the Taliban but on Thursdays, Obama should have done anything to get him out.

270 darthstar  Jun 25, 2014 6:44:23am
271 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 6:45:15am

re: #270 darthstar

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You understand correctly.

272 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 6:45:53am

Wasn’t the TP’s big thing about how they weren’t Republicans but rather a coalition of angry Democrats, Republicans, and Independents? Way to admit that you’re just about Team GOP you hacks.

273 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 6:46:49am

Yeah, non-bi-partisan fed up with both parties, etc.

274 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 6:47:41am

re: #273 Bulworth

Yeah, non-bi-partisan fed up with both parties, etc.

“I’m not a Republican, I’m a libertarian or conservative first.” Really these dumbasses really have no shame do they?

275 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 6:48:16am

re:
#272

Coalition of true blue American less government anti-abortion constitutional conservatives of all non-bi-partisan parties!!1

276 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 6:49:15am

At least the Tea Party got rid of that heathen liberal RINO Eric Cantor. /

Winning.

277 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2014 6:53:27am

re: #272 HappyWarrior

Wasn’t the TP’s big thing about how they weren’t Republicans but rather a coalition of angry Democrats, Republicans, and Independents? Way to admit that you’re just about Team GOP you hacks.

It’s all subject to change. They may be angry Democrats when and if Hillary gets elected.

Right now they are angry independents and Republicans because Blah Barack Obama. They would never want to be seen as Democrats while “that” is going on…don’t cha know.

278 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 6:54:07am

re: #277 ObserverArt

It’s all subject to change. They may be angry Democrats when and if Hillary gets elected.

Right now they are angry independents and Republicans because Blah Barack Obama. They would never want to be seen as Democrats while “that” is going on…don’t cha know.

But of course.

279 Decatur Deb  Jun 25, 2014 6:54:20am

re: #250 HappyWarrior

Pretty funny that the same people who loved “Operation Chaos” are flipping their shit over crossover primary voters.

THAT’S DIFFERENT somehow.

280 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 6:55:44am

re:
#279

Rush was just kiddin around cantchu libruls take a joke hahahaha. /

281 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 6:56:33am

Is the Tea Party blaming George Soros yet? Obama’s Chicago ACORN thugs?

/

282 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 6:56:43am

You know, I’m not a big fan of Harry Potter in general - it’s a pastiche of various superior works - but this little sentence, used to describe the Death Eaters, might as well have been written about the Tea Partiers and the wingnuts in general:

“They were a motley collection; a mixture of the weak seeking protection, the ambitious seeking some shared glory, and the thuggish gravitating toward a leader who could show them more refined forms of cruelty.”

Explains the RWNJ’s quite nicely, and the same can be said of extremists of all stripes, be they political or religious.

And with that, BBL.

283 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2014 6:57:49am

re: #274 HappyWarrior

“I’m not a Republican, I’m a libertarian or conservative first.” Really these dumbasses really have no shame do they?

Pretty damn hard to be ashamed when they have no idea in the entire concept.

And while in that thought…is shame a word that has any meaning in 2014 America? It seems to be a lost reaction/feeling. Anymore when someone should be ashamed they usually act out with outrage and say they are misunderstood, are read the wrong way or people just don’t understand. But shame?

284 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 6:57:57am

re: #281 Bulworth

Is the Tea Party blaming George Soros yet? Obama’s Chicago ACORN thugs?

/

i’m honestly shocked ACORN hasn’t been blamed yet. Anyone remember that nut Doug Hoffman from upstate NY a few years back? Pretty rural upstate NY district, you know not exactly ACORN territory. He loses the GE and it immediately was ACORN’s fault.

285 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 6:58:33am

re: #283 ObserverArt

Pretty damn hard to be ashamed when they have no idea in the entire concept.

And while in that thought…is shame a word that has any meaning in 2014 America? It seems to be a lost reaction/feeling. Anymore when someone should be ashamed they usually act out with outrage and say they are misunderstood, are read the wrong way or people just don’t understand. But shame?

True that.

286 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 6:58:58am

re: #284 HappyWarrior

i’m honestly shocked ACORN hasn’t been blamed yet. Anyone remember that nut Doug Hoffman from upstate NY a few years back? Pretty rural upstate NY district, you know not exactly ACORN territory. He loses the GE and it immediately was ACORN’s fault.

287 aagcobb  Jun 25, 2014 7:00:19am

re: #237 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

And that is the money spent…think of how much of that was solicited and donated and the amount deducted for “overhead” and “administrative costs”…

brain-boggling.

If nothing else, I guess they achieved providing a mild stimulus to the Mississippi economy.

288 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2014 7:02:28am

re: #286 Pie-onist Overlord

Real winner in Mississippi tonight is ACORN

WELL…SOMEBODY ORGANIZED THOSE PEOPLE TO DO WHAT THEY DID!!!

And we have a pretty good idea who does that now don’t we. Those people don’t do this kind of thing on their own.

/

289 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 7:02:31am

re: #286 Pie-onist Overlord

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Well there we go. My day is made.

290 Timothy Watson  Jun 25, 2014 7:03:04am

re: #284 HappyWarrior

i’m honestly shocked ACORN hasn’t been blamed yet. Anyone remember that nut Doug Hoffman from upstate NY a few years back? Pretty rural upstate NY district, you know not exactly ACORN territory. He loses the GE and it immediately was ACORN’s fault.

I had someone whom I considered to be a friend (who is an attorney) claim that he personally witnessed dastardly union members here in Virginia going from polling place to polling place voting in multiple precincts (because Virginia is such a bastion of union membership don’t cha know).

Now, I don’t know if he was crazy enough to actually believe this or if he just an opportunistic weasel who was telling this story to a Republican convention just to win an appointment to the State Central Committee.

291 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 7:03:08am

REPEAL FUNDING FOR AN ORGANIZATION WE ALREADY DEFUNDED!

292 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 7:04:10am

re: #290 Timothy Watson

I had someone whom I considered to be a friend claim that he personally witnessed dastardly union members here in Virginia going from polling place to polling place voting in multiple precincts (because Virginia is such a bastion of union membership don’t cha know).

Now, I don’t know if he was crazy enough to actually believe this or if he just an opportunistic weasel who was telling this story to a Republican convention just to win an appointment to the State Central Committee.

Ah yes, Virginia the union state. Where even our Democrats support the right to work laws.

293 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 7:05:47am

Not a dog whistle, it’s a freaking tornado siren:

294 Killgore Trout  Jun 25, 2014 7:06:31am

ISIS Tries to Grab Its Own Air Force

In its march to Baghdad, ISIS seized the heavy weapons of a modern army. Now, the jihadists are attacking Iraq’s biggest air base - and could soon be able to attack from the sky.

295 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2014 7:07:04am

Usually wingnut tears are salty. Today they seem to be acidic.

296 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 7:07:26am

re: #293 Pie-onist Overlord

Not a dog whistle, it’s a freaking tornado siren:

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Well it is Mississippi.

297 HappyWarrior  Jun 25, 2014 7:07:56am

re: #295 ObserverArt

Usually wingnut tears are salty. Today they seem to be acidic.

I like mine with some fava beans and a nice Chianti.

298 Timothy Watson  Jun 25, 2014 7:08:05am

re: #294 Killgore Trout

ISIS Tries to Grab Its Own Air Force

As soon as they figure out how to start up one of those planes, not to mention maintaining and arming them.

299 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2014 7:10:16am

re: #298 Timothy Watson

As soon as they figure out how to start up one of those planes, not to mention maintaining and arming them.

Aww shoot man, just download the manual in pdf form from the innertubes. And change the oil…they gots plenty of oil.

300 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 25, 2014 7:11:17am

re: #298 Timothy Watson

As soon as they figure out how to start up one of those planes, not to mention maintaining and arming them.

All they need to do is to get one airborne…

301 Timothy Watson  Jun 25, 2014 7:13:06am

re: #300 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

All they need to do is to get one airborne…

What’s the old joke? The taking off and flying isn’t the hard part, it’s the landing that is. :)

302 Dr. Matt  Jun 25, 2014 7:13:26am

re: #295 ObserverArt

Usually wingnut tears are salty. Today they seem to be acidic.

Try balancing the acidity with something sweet.

303 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 25, 2014 7:13:46am
304 Killgore Trout  Jun 25, 2014 7:14:33am

re: #298 Timothy Watson

As soon as they figure out how to start up one of those planes, not to mention maintaining and arming them.

They do have quite a few Bathists purged from the old Iraqi military but it does seem unlikely they’ll just walk into the base and start flying planes and choppers out. They have done well with taking over and running oil refineries though, so I suppose anything is possible.

305 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 25, 2014 7:15:42am

re: #301 Timothy Watson

What’s the old joke? The taking off and flying isn’t the hard part, it’s the landing that is. :)

remember who we are dealing with…they have a different concept of “landing”.

306 Killgore Trout  Jun 25, 2014 7:16:02am

Air strike update: Kerry Says U.S. Air Strikes in Iraq Would Be ‘Act of Irresponsibility’

Kerry told CBS News that the U.S. military was prepared to provide assistance to Iraqi troops, but launching air strikes at this moment would constitute “a complete and total act of responsibility.”

“There’s no government, there’s no backup, there’s no military, there’s nothing there that provides the capacity for success,” Kerry said.

His remarks appeared to walk back comments made the day before, when he suggested the progress my fighters from the militant group Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS) could force U.S. action. Kerry is in Iraq this week meeting with the country’s leaders and urging them to form a more inclusive government.

307 Dr. Matt  Jun 25, 2014 7:16:49am

re: #298 Timothy Watson

As soon as they figure out how to start up one of those planes, not to mention maintaining and arming them.

And several years of basic flight training followed by flight combat training, quals, etc., etc.,

308 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 25, 2014 7:17:26am

re: #306 Killgore Trout

“There’s no government, there’s no backup, there’s no military, there’s nothing there that provides the capacity for success,” Kerry said.

I wonder how that came about…

309 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 25, 2014 7:18:57am

re: #298 Timothy Watson

As soon as they figure out how to start up one of those planes, not to mention maintaining and arming them.

No need for maintaining the planes. They will use them for 9-11 type suicide attacks.

310 Timothy Watson  Jun 25, 2014 7:19:03am

re: #307 Dr. Matt

But, but, John Travolta just hopped in that Harrier without a problem!

311 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 7:21:18am

Holy fuck, wingnuts aren’t even bothering to “Dog Whistle” this shit anymore, they just straight out let their racist freak flag fly.

312 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 25, 2014 7:21:27am

SCOTUS ruling on streaming video and copyright law:

313 Killgore Trout  Jun 25, 2014 7:21:49am

re: #309 NJDhockeyfan

No need for maintains the planes. They will use them for 9-11 type suicide attacks.

They can also use rocket launchers, missiles and whatever is laying around. I figure most of the aircraft can be flown out before the takeover anyways but there’s a ton of gear there. If nothing else they prevent the Iraqi army from using it.

314 geoffm33  Jun 25, 2014 7:21:58am

re: #310 Timothy Watson

But, but, John Travolta just hopped in that Harrier without a problem!

315 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 25, 2014 7:23:04am

Good morning Lizards from rainy western New York.

Been off the internet for 3-4 days doing the travel and tourism thing. Drove from Philly to the woods here Saturday to visit my brother and niece. Brother and I went from here to Ottawa on Sunday to play tourist (walked around Parliament, Ottawa Ribfest, Canadian War Museum, meal at excellent tapas place in Old City, and then Canadian Aviation Museum* the next morning.) From Ottawa to northern New York to drive though the town where both of us attended high school, and on to Saranac Lake to visit friends. And back here though the rain and thunderstorms yesterday.

* - Will post photos for Gus to drool over once I get them downloaded.

316 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2014 7:23:29am

re: #310 Timothy Watson

But, but, John Travolta just hopped in that Harrier without a problem!

Johnny can fly those big planes…for reals. I think he owns a Boeing 707 that he tools around in…on…uh, where is George Carlin when you need him?

317 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 25, 2014 7:24:24am
318 Timothy Watson  Jun 25, 2014 7:24:45am

re: #313 Killgore Trout

They can also use rocket launchers, missiles and whatever is laying around. I figure most of the aircraft can be flown out before the takeover anyways but there’s a ton of gear there. If nothing else they prevent the Iraqi army from using it.

If the airplanes can’t be thrown out, throw a fragmentation grenade or a thermite grenade into the cockpit, the plane’s basically scrap metal after that.

319 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 25, 2014 7:25:41am
320 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 25, 2014 7:25:57am

re: #292 HappyWarrior

Ah yes, Virginia the union state. Where even our Democrats support the right to work exploit laws.

Call these laws what they really are. That bit of truth aggros wingnuts.

321 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 7:26:43am

holy fuck

322 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 7:27:35am

re:
#321

Hey, just asking questions…./

323 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 7:30:15am

re:
#317

However, we have some debt from the primary race. I just got a bill for $4,138 in printing costs and we have a few more bills outstanding, due this week. Can you please contribute to help us repay our primary debt for this election victory?

How about you exercise some personal responsibility and pay your own damn bills and no bailout!

324 Ian G.  Jun 25, 2014 7:32:22am

re: #311 Pie-onist Overlord

Holy fuck, wingnuts aren’t even bothering to “Dog Whistle” this shit anymore, they just straight out let their racist freak flag fly.

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I like that WASP Tim Geithner is listed here. Hey, his name sounds like the blood drinkers’, and he’s a covetous international banker. He must be one of THEM.

325 Ian G.  Jun 25, 2014 7:33:50am

So, just so I’m clear, the howling coming from the teabaggers over the MS Senate primary has nothing to do with the legality of the vote, and everything to do with…..those people having a say in government. Do I have that right?

326 makeitstop  Jun 25, 2014 7:34:59am

Good morning, Lizards!

I’ve been slammed with work all week (stupid work), and haven’t been around much since the weekend.

But my wife and I drove out to the Capitol Theater in Port Chester, NY last night to see Primus.

Great show. Les Claypool is a bass ninja, and the rest of the band ain’t no slouches, either. The Capitol is a wonderful venue with probably the nicest staff I’ve run across in any rock venue anywhere, and I’ve been to a ton of ‘em.

And then the puppy woke us up at 5:00 this morning and now I’m up to my elbows in work again. Stupid work.

327 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 25, 2014 7:36:30am

re: #325 Ian G.

So, just so I’m clear, the howling coming from the teabaggers over the MS Senate primary has nothing to do with the legality of the vote, and everything to do with…..those people having a say in government. Do I have that right?

mostly it is about their candidate losing an election…just made worse by the fact that those people played a role

328 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 25, 2014 7:37:07am

Facebook looks to block ISIS clothing sales

(CNN) — T-shirts, hoodies and even toy figurines bearing the ISIS logo are being sold on online and marketed across social media.

For around $10 you can buy an ISIS shirt with the militant group’s logo and phrases printed on it like “We are all ISIS” and “Fight for Freedom, Until the Last Drop of Blood.”

ISIS right outside Baghdad Refugee: ‘Iraqis betrayed themselves’ Iraq problem ‘actually growing bigger’

A toy soldier available on rezji.com, an Indonesian site which by Tuesday could not be accessed, holds a gun in its hands and an ISIS flag with the Islamic tenet: “There is no god but God, Muhammad is the messenger of God.”

The websites are marketing the ISIS paraphernalia across social media. Facebook has been removing the pages once the media alerts them to their existence.

329 sagehen  Jun 25, 2014 7:37:42am

re: #252 HappyWarrior

Because it’s not. It’s true there is a law that says you should intend to vote for the party’s nominee if you’re voting in the primary but I suspect that’s either unconstitutional and or a relic from Mississippi’s days as a one party state.

It’s a ridiculous law.

In primaries, I always vote for a member of my party. Obviously. If my preferred candidate is not the nominee… sometimes I vote for the other party’s guy in the general. Two-thirds of voters probably do the same thing.

330 Timothy Watson  Jun 25, 2014 7:38:46am

re: #328 NJDhockeyfan

Facebook looks to block ISIS clothing sales

So, I won’t see assholes on college campuses wearing ISIS stuff like they wear Che Guevara crap?

331 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 7:38:55am

re:
#311

Pretty out of date list, too. I don’t think any of those pictured are currently holding the job or titles they’re listed with.

Also, George Soros ACORN.

332 Killgore Trout  Jun 25, 2014 7:39:24am

re: #328 NJDhockeyfan

Facebook looks to block ISIS clothing sales

Damn, I was hoping to buy some early stocking stuffers for Christmas.

333 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 7:39:26am

re: #328 NJDhockeyfan

Facebook looks to block ISIS clothing sales

Is this the future of revolutionary funding?

What next, yard sales?

334 Varek Raith  Jun 25, 2014 7:39:57am

re: #306 Killgore Trout

Good.
Maliki is a primary cause of the current situation. Nothing will change until he stops being a religious bigot.
Bombing ISIS will change little to nothing on the ground.

335 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 7:40:11am

re:
#311

And a TL full of derp….

336 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 25, 2014 7:41:37am

re: #333 Justanotherhuman

Is this the future of revolutionary funding?

What next, yard sales?

stick to traditional sources like kidnapping, extortion and drugs

337 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 7:45:11am

WOW

338 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 7:46:23am

re:
#22

If Cochran wins MS 06/24/14 becomes date that lives in infamy for conservatives. Unspeakable betrayal that will force all to choose sides.— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) June 25, 2014

—-

BETRAyeD!!1 But true conservatism not defeated, true conservatism never fails, it has only been failed!!

339 Varek Raith  Jun 25, 2014 7:46:35am

re: #337 Pie-onist Overlord

WOW

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340 makeitstop  Jun 25, 2014 7:48:23am

re: #337 Pie-onist Overlord

WOW

Does the Mississippi vote prove that black people will vote Republican if asked to do so?

No. But it does prove that teh blahs understand the concept of ‘lesser of two evils.’

341 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 25, 2014 7:48:26am

re: #338 Bulworth

re:
#22

If Cochran wins MS 06/24/14 becomes date that lives in infamy for conservatives. Unspeakable betrayal that will force all to choose sides.— Steve Deace (@SteveDeaceShow) June 25, 2014

gee, and here I thought that the point of any election was to “choose sides”.
Who knew??

342 sagehen  Jun 25, 2014 7:50:26am

re: #298 Timothy Watson

As soon as they figure out how to start up one of those planes, not to mention maintaining and arming them.

They may well have American-trained Saudi pilots in their ranks.

343 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 7:51:44am

re: #313 Killgore Trout

They can also use rocket launchers, missiles and whatever is laying around. I figure most of the aircraft can be flown out before the takeover anyways but there’s a ton of gear there. If nothing else they prevent the Iraqi army from using it.

They’ll have to take the base first, and I doubt they will be able to do that. Given ISIS’s habit of executing soldiers after they have surrendered, I don’t think the defenders are just going to give up. Further, those bases are designed to be defended and attacking them will require ISIS to cross ground stripped of all cover. Balad’s gunships will also take a heavy toll on any attacking force as it moves up.

I don’t see ISIS winning this fight.

344 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 7:52:36am

‘Baggers are sore losers.
‘Baggers are sore losers.
‘Baggers are sore losers.
‘Baggers are sore losers.
‘Baggers are sore losers.
‘Baggers are sore losers.
‘Baggers are sore losers.
‘Baggers are sore losers.
Ad infinitum.

Some people think they can spout the most vile, racist, misogynist, homophobic, reactionary bullshit and people will buy it?

They really overestimate themselves.

345 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 25, 2014 7:53:53am
346 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 25, 2014 7:54:24am

I love science so much.

347 Timothy Watson  Jun 25, 2014 7:55:32am

re: #342 sagehen

They may well have American-trained Saudi pilots in their ranks.

Every helicopter and airplane model is different (and most military helicopters and airplanes have different submodels (e.g., the F-16 has A/B, C/D, and E/F models which are further subdivided into different “blocks”)).

Just because someone might know how to fly a Boeing 747, G-V, Cessna, or a UH-1 Huey, doesn’t mean they can fly a F-16 or a Mi-35 Hind.

348 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 25, 2014 7:58:35am

re: #344 Justanotherhuman

The night Cantor lost, I had a Teahadi practically dancing in the halls of the motel. But when I tried to tell him something outside his propaganda party line you could see him needing long pauses (45 seconds once after I stopped talking and he started to reply - I´d noticed and watched that time) to process the concept that I didn’t think like he did and that anyone would think the Teahadi line wasn’t eternal perfection itself.

They just don’t get that they are a minority faction of the minority party that hangs on due to archaic election laws caused by the FF´s fear of mass rule.

349 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 25, 2014 8:00:39am

re: #347 Timothy Watson

Every helicopter and airplane model is different (and most military helicopters and airplanes have different submodels (e.g., the F-16 has A/B, C/D, and E/F models which are further subdivided into different “blocks”)).

Just because someone might know how to fly a Boeing 747, G-V, Cessna, or a UH-1 Huey, doesn’t mean they can fly a F-16 or a Mi-35 Hind.

True to a certain extent. But give the checklists & manuals for a 757 to a pilot checked out on a 747 or a C-17 and they´ll be flying faster than someone fresh from flight school.

350 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 8:01:25am

US Supreme Court rules on Aereo’s dispute with TV broadcasters, saying the streaming service violates copyright law - @SCOTUSblog
End of alert

More: mediabistro.com

351 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 8:04:44am

re: #344 Justanotherhuman

‘Baggers are sore losers.
‘Baggers are sore losers.
‘Baggers are sore losers.
‘Baggers are sore losers.
‘Baggers are sore losers.
‘Baggers are sore losers.
‘Baggers are sore losers.
‘Baggers are sore losers.
Ad infinitum.

Some people think they can spout the most vile, racist, misogynist, homophobic, reactionary bullshit and people will buy it?

They really overestimate themselves.

Well, in this case it’s not just that McDaniel lost; It’s that he lost in part because of black people. That makes some within the Tea Party unable to keep from spewing hate, because the hate and bile is so all-consuming at the moment. They see this as a defeat for “Real America” in what is supposed to be its heartland at the hands of “clients for government services”.

352 NJDhockeyfan  Jun 25, 2014 8:06:04am

re: #347 Timothy Watson

Every helicopter and airplane model is different (and most military helicopters and airplanes have different submodels (e.g., the F-16 has A/B, C/D, and E/F models which are further subdivided into different “blocks”)).

Just because someone might know how to fly a Boeing 747, G-V, Cessna, or a UH-1 Huey, doesn’t mean they can fly a F-16 or a Mi-35 Hind.

The Saudi Royal Air Force has much more than 747s.

The Royal Saudi Air Force (Arabic: القوات الجوية الملكية السعودية‎, al-quwwāt al-ᇺwwiyyah al-malakiyyah as-suʿᚽiyyah), is the aviation branch of the Saudi Arabian armed forces. The RSAF has developed from a largely defensive military force into one with an advanced offensive capability. The RSAF maintains the third largest fleet of F-15s after the USAF and the JASDF.

The backbone of the RSAF is currently the Boeing F-15 Eagle, with the Panavia Tornado also forming a major component. The Tornado and many other aircraft were delivered under the Al Yamamah contracts with British Aerospace (now BAE Systems). The RSAF ordered various weapons in the 1990s, including Sea Eagle anti-ship missiles, laser-guided bombs and gravity bombs. Al-Salam, a successor to the Al Yamamah agreement will see 72 Eurofighter Typhoons delivered by BAE.

…On 11 August 2011, The Saudi Royal Air Force received 48 Typhoons from British Royal Air Force (Taif Airbase). On 12 August 2009, UPI reported that Saudi Arabia was seeking upgrades for their E-3 fleet and aerial refuelling tanker aircraft.[7]

In October 2010, an interest for a 60 billion USD defense procurement package from the US was unveiled. It consisted of around 30 billion for 84 F-15SA fighters, upgrade of the existing F-15S to the same standard, parts and munitions as well as other 30 billion for 72 UH-60M, 36 AH-6I, 36 AH-64D, 12 MD530 helicopters and parts. The helicopter request is for the Saudi Arabian Army.[8]

353 Decatur Deb  Jun 25, 2014 8:06:16am

re: #347 Timothy Watson

Every helicopter and airplane model is different (and most military helicopters and airplanes have different submodels (e.g., the F-16 has A/B, C/D, and E/F models which are further subdivided into different “blocks”)).

There’s an F16-I, also, but probably won’t be in this fight.

354 Rightwingconspirator  Jun 25, 2014 8:07:44am

Well this is a bad start to the day. Maybe 15 feet from the entrance to the building I work in was a tiny area blocked with police tape, a few cops standing around joking…. and a corpse under a sheet at their feet. Presumably some poor homeless person that expired overnight.

Could they show maybe a tiny bit of respect?!

It’s easy to forget how hard the city is. :-(

355 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 8:08:54am

re: #353 Decatur Deb

There’s an F16-I, also, but probably won’t be in this fight.

Iraq’s F-16s have not yet been delivered and they may not be if their security cannot be assured.

356 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 8:09:22am

re:
#354

How awful.

357 Decatur Deb  Jun 25, 2014 8:09:56am

re: #355 Dark_Falcon

Iraq’s F-16s have not yet been delivered and they may not be if their security cannot be assured.

Image: f16i-5.jpg

358 Ryan King  Jun 25, 2014 8:10:32am

Looks like rebranding was a smashing success for McDaniel.

359 sagehen  Jun 25, 2014 8:11:20am

re: #354 Rightwingconspirator

Well this is a bad start to the day. Maybe 15 feet from the entrance to the building I work in was a tiny area blocked with police tape, a few cops standing around joking…. and a corpse under a sheet at their feet. Presumably some poor homeless person that expired overnight.

Could they show maybe a tiny bit of respect?!

It’s easy to forget how hard the city is. :-(

You want to see real disrespect for the dead, talk to ER staff. Bumsicles, Crispy Critters, etc…

360 lawhawk  Jun 25, 2014 8:12:40am

Damn…. Eli Wallach has passed away at 98.

What a wonderful movie legacy he leaves behind.

Youtube Video

361 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 25, 2014 8:12:57am

re: #354 Rightwingconspirator

Could they show maybe a tiny bit of respect?!

It’s easy to forget how hard the city is. :-(

Matthew 25:41-46? Sigh.

Kyrie eleison
Christe eleison
Kyrie eleison

362 sattv4u2  Jun 25, 2014 8:13:00am

re: #354 Rightwingconspirator

a few cops standing around joking…re: #359 sagehen

You want to see real disrespect for the dead, talk to ER staff. Bumsicles, Crispy Critters, etc…

Gallows humor in both instances

Not condoning it, but I can’t even fathom having to deal with that on a day to day,,,,, nay, minute to minute basis!

363 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2014 8:14:01am

re: #333 Justanotherhuman

Is this the future of revolutionary funding?

What next, yard sales?

Just gotta love the internet at times like this. The whole freakin’ world is connected good people and bad, nuts, slime, random flotsam, heroes, zeroes and all.

And folks wonder why the NSA is needed to watch over some of this stuff.

Hmmm. I wonder if Big Al Gore thought about ALL the possibilities.

364 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 25, 2014 8:14:06am

re: #359 sagehen

You want to see real disrespect for the dead, talk to ER staff. Bumsicles, Crispy Critters, etc…

Could be considered disrespect. But it’s also in the human psyche to use humor as a way to deal with situations where otherwise your mind would be continuously screaming in horror. All sorts of instinctive stuff going on regarding close proximity with corpses or mangled of your own species.

365 Rightwingconspirator  Jun 25, 2014 8:14:18am

re: #359 sagehen

Coping technique I guess.
Outside looking in? Creepy.

366 Killgore Trout  Jun 25, 2014 8:17:32am

re: #343 Dark_Falcon

They’ll have to take the base first, and I doubt they will be able to do that. Given ISIS’s habit of executing soldiers after they have surrendered, I don’t think the defenders are just going to give up. Further, those bases are designed to be defended and attacking them will require ISIS to cross ground stripped of all cover. Balad’s gunships will also take a heavy toll on any attacking force as it moves up.

I don’t see ISIS winning this fight.

From the Beast article.

Jessica Lewis—the research director for the Institute for the Study of War and a former U.S. Army intelligence officer who served in Iraq—told The Daily Beast, “It would mean that ISIS can beat the best that the Iraqi Army can muster, not just the northern units that have been ignored. It would mean strategic defeat for the Iraqi Army.”

Lewis estimates that Balad and neighboring Taji base are likely some of the next targets of the ISIS campaign. “Both of these bases are critical military sites for the Iraqi Army. Neutralizing one or both would demonstrate that ISIS can beat the Iraqi Army strategically.”

We shall see soon enough. It seems US airstrikes are off the table for the moment and I’m not sure if the Iranians can get there in time. The Iraqis on their own haven’t done so well thus far.

367 sattv4u2  Jun 25, 2014 8:20:30am

re: #366 Killgore Trout

It seems US airstrikes are off the table for the moment and I’m not sure if the Iranians can get there in time. The Iraqis on their own haven’t done so well thus fa
r.

Syrian Warplanes Strike in Western Iraq

online.wsj.com

AND

Iran Secretly Sending Drones and Supplies into Iraq

nytimes.com

368 Ryan King  Jun 25, 2014 8:20:34am

In other news, a private sector company was responsible for hard drive backup when the IRS HD’s failed, and the contract was terminated soon afterward.

The private sector is always superior to the government who can’t do anything right. Especially using the IRS to crush dissent by taking a long time to decide what tax rate to tax them at, very shoddy results at that.

They should use the private sector to crush dissent but definitely not to back up email server hard drives.

369 BeachDem  Jun 25, 2014 8:20:55am

re: #244 Killgore Trout

Sort of but not really. the law is something like anyone can vote in the primary if they intend to vote in the election. It’s an unenforceable law and open to abuse.

It isn’t abuse. It’s open primaries. We have them here in SC as well. In many instances, if you don’t vote in the Republican primary, you get no say in who’s elected as so many of the races are uncontested from the D side. For example, in yesterday’s runoff in my county, there were 7,000 Republican votes and about 700 Dems. I’m guessing many Dems voted in the R runoff to keep a complete loon, Sally Atwater (Lee’s widow) from winning her primary. And it worked—she lost by about 12 points, despite support from Club for Growth.

370 Ryan King  Jun 25, 2014 8:23:13am

The torrent of wingnut tears emanating from MS are reaching flood stage.

371 GeneJockey  Jun 25, 2014 8:24:58am

re: #244 Killgore Trout

Sort of but not really. the law is something like anyone can vote in the primary if they intend to vote in the election. It’s an unenforceable law and open to abuse.

I don’t see it as “Abuse”. I believe the Dems who voted for Cochran were essentially voting for the person they prefer to have as their Senator, given the small likelihood that a Dem would win.

372 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 8:25:29am

re: #370 Ryan King

The torrent of wingnut tears emanating from MS are reaching flood stage.

Youtube Video

373 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 8:25:58am

A description of the Tea Party from blogger PM Carpenter:

There are so many things to admire about the tea party: its fashion-setting Georgian attire, its eccentric musket-toting and hobgoblin poster artistry, its violently uncharitable Christianity, its fundamental tenet that relentless malice is a good and decent way of life. But the thing I admire most is its graciousness in losing.

The last point of course being sarc.

pmcarpenter.blogs.com

374 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 8:26:01am

re: #367 sattv4u2


It seems US airstrikes are off the table for the moment and I’m not sure if the Iranians can get there in time. The Iraqis on their own haven’t done so well thus fa
r.

Syrian Warplanes Strike in Western Iraq

online.wsj.com

AND

Iran Secretly Sending Drones and Supplies into Iraq

nytimes.com

Iran has sent .50cal rifles which are actually good weapons against ISIS, given that terror groups use of of machine gun-armed pickup trucks (often called ‘technicals’, a Somali term that has since gone global). A couple of .50cal hits to the engine will stop one of those trucks cold.

375 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 25, 2014 8:26:22am

re: #370 Ryan King

The torrent of wingnut tears emanating from MS are reaching flood stage.

Nice phrase. I have to remember that one.

376 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2014 8:27:30am

re: #340 makeitstop

No. But it does prove that teh blahs understand the concept of ‘lesser of two evils.’

It also proves the blah people understand all this primary voting and its implications way better than the dumbass TeaParty types.

That has got to get a TeaParty person’s panties all bunched up with butt-seam rage!!!

377 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 8:28:58am

re: #361 William Barnett-Lewis

Matthew 25:41-46? Sigh.

Kyrie eleison
Christe eleison
Kyrie eleison

Misspelled title by the poster aside:

Youtube Video

378 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 8:30:03am

More from PM Carpenter:

Nothing infuriates the tea-party base as the thought of humane and responsible governance, which in the diseased brew of far-right toxicity is called “corruption.”

pmcarpenter.blogs.com

379 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 25, 2014 8:30:43am

re: #374 Dark_Falcon

Iran has sent .50cal rifles which are actually good weapons against ISIS, given that terror groups use of of machine gun-armed pickup trucks (often called ‘technicals’, a Somali term that has since gone global). A couple of .50cal hits to the engine will stop one of those trucks cold.

Not to mention what a .50 cal hit on an explosive vest will do as shown by various military marksmen in Afghanistan… ;)

The .50 BMG cartridge was originally designed at the tail end of WWI as an anti-tank rifle round. Fortunately for the US Military John M. Browning designed Ma Deuce around it instead and, you might or might not be aware, gave that MG single shot capability that has been used to make it be a long range sniper rifle more than once O_o

380 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 8:31:39am

re:
#376

It also proves the blah people understand all this primary voting and its implications way better than the dumbass TeaParty types.

Heh, and understand it better than McDaniel in particular.

381 TedStriker  Jun 25, 2014 8:33:53am

re: #379 William Barnett-Lewis

Not to mention what a .50 cal hit on an explosive vest will do as shown by various military marksmen in Afghanistan… ;)

The .50 BMG cartridge was originally designed at the tail end of WWI as an anti-tank rifle round. Fortunately for the US Military John M. Browning designed Ma Deuce around it instead and, you might or might not be aware, gave that MG single shot capability that has been used to make it be a long range sniper rifle more than once O_o

Quite a feat, considering that most Ma Deuces only have the most rudimentary of iron sights.

382 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 25, 2014 8:35:05am

re: #377 Dark_Falcon

Yeah, that´s a good one. Though if I get in that mood and want rock music, I am more inclined to this:

Youtube Video

or this:

Youtube Video

383 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 8:36:46am

re: #379 William Barnett-Lewis

Not to mention what a .50 cal hit on an explosive vest will do as shown by various military marksmen in Afghanistan… ;)

The .50 BMG cartridge was originally designed at the tail end of WWI as an anti-tank rifle round. Fortunately for the US Military John M. Browning designed Ma Deuce around it instead and, you might or might not be aware, gave that MG single shot capability that has been used to make it be a long range sniper rifle more than once O_o

I’m aware. In that Browning was aided by the fact the .50 BMG round is largely a scaled-up 30-06. Winchester designed it that may as a way to swiftly get the round into service while keeping it accurate. John Browning saw the potential of such a round and designed the M2 to make use of its capabilities.

384 ObserverArt  Jun 25, 2014 8:37:15am

re: #375 William Barnett-Lewis

Nice phrase. I have to remember that one.

Just make sure to not stand in one of the puddles. Upthread I mentioned their tears today don’t seem to be salty…instead they are acidic.

Acid will eat your shoes faster than salt any day! Well, unless you are in rubber booties.

385 sattv4u2  Jun 25, 2014 8:38:24am

And here all this time I thought he was living as a farmer in Argentina!!

‘Hitler’ Accused Of Stabbing Man At Utah Event Focused On Peace, Nonviolence

sacramento.cbslocal.com

386 Timothy Watson  Jun 25, 2014 8:44:04am

re: #385 sattv4u2

And here all this time I thought he was living as a farmer in Argentina!!

‘Hitler’ Accused Of Stabbing Man At Utah Event Focused On Peace, Nonviolence

sacramento.cbslocal.com

Can we all just get along?

387 sattv4u2  Jun 25, 2014 8:45:31am

re: #386 Timothy Watson

Can we all just get along?

I’m sure it was a misunderstanding

“Hitler” was probably going to hug another camper and just forgot she had a knife in her hand!!

388 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 8:46:48am

re: #385 sattv4u2

And here all this time I thought he was living as a farmer in Argentina!!

‘Hitler’ Accused Of Stabbing Man At Utah Event Focused On Peace, Nonviolence

sacramento.cbslocal.com

The stabber was actually a woman. Not enough detail in the article to know if she’s evil or mentally ill (the real Adolf Hitler was both).

389 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jun 25, 2014 8:46:50am

re: #387 sattv4u2

I’m sure it was a misunderstanding

“Hitler” was probably going to hug another camper and just forgot she had a knife in her hand!!

sort of like boarding a plane and forgetting you have a loaded weapon in you carry-on…

390 sattv4u2  Jun 25, 2014 8:47:09am

And not to be outdone,.,,

Stabbing Victim Walks Into Queens McDonald’s With Knife In His Back

newyork.cbslocal.com

391 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2014 8:47:32am
392 sattv4u2  Jun 25, 2014 8:48:04am

re: #390 sattv4u2

And not to be outdone,.,,

Stabbing Victim Walks Into Queens McDonald’s With Knife In His Back

newyork.cbslocal.com

Me. I would have gone to an emergency room. But when you want a Big Mac, you want a Big Mac!!

393 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 25, 2014 8:48:28am

heh…

394 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 8:50:20am

re: #393 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh…

[Embedded content]

And right on cue, Lil’ Kim bangs his spoon on his high-chair.

Edited.

395 sattv4u2  Jun 25, 2014 8:53:50am

re: #388 Dark_Falcon

The stabber was actually a woman. Not enough detail in the article to know if she’s evil or mentally ill (the real Adolf Hitler was both).

Hence ,, the “was probably going to hug another camper and just forgot she had a knife in her hand!” in 388

396 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 25, 2014 8:54:34am

A federal judge in Indiana has ruled the state’s ban on gay marriage unconstitutional

U.S. District Court Judge Richard L. Young writes: “The court has never witnessed a phenomenon throughout the federal court system as is presented with this issue. In less than a year, every federal district court to consider the issue has reached the same conclusion in thoughtful and thorough opinions - laws prohibiting the celebration and recognition of same-sex marriages are unconstitutional. It is clear that the fundamental right to marry shall not be deprived to some individuals based solely on the person they choose to love. In time, Americans will look at the marriage of couples such as Plaintiffs, and refer to it simply as a marriage - not a same-sex marriage. These couples, when gender and sexual orientation are taken away, are in all respects like the family down the street. The Constitution demands that we treat them as such.”

397 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 8:55:10am

re: #393 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh…

[Embedded content]

“Yes, my minions, I have plans to destroy my foes!! Wait! What’s this?! Page 63 is missing!! How can that be? Curse you, Prince of Space!!”

398 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 8:57:42am

AP reports that judge has struck down Indiana’s ban on same-sex marriage.

bigstory.ap.org

The humasectual agenda strikes again!

399 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 8:58:12am

re: #393 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh…

[Embedded content]

“This act of not fearing any punishment from Heaven is touching off the towering hatred and wrath of the service personnel and people of the DPRK.”

This sentence is interesting, as it is a reference to the Confucian idea of the “Mandate of Heaven” and presumes the Kim dynasty to have said mandate. Odd in some ways to see a traditional concept such as that from a nation claiming to be Communist.

The fact that the Mandate of Heaven is a Chinese concept is actually not as odd, since it was commonly held until the 19th Century that Korea’s kings held the Mandate of Heaven to rule Korea, though as semi-vassals of China’s emperor.

400 b.d.  Jun 25, 2014 8:58:38am

re: #393 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh…

[Embedded content]

Love all of those medals on those officers.

401 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 8:58:52am

re:
#396

NOM’s anti-marriage “march” last week, which gathered tens of people on the Washington Mall, surely impacted this decision.

Snort.

402 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 25, 2014 8:58:55am

re: #400 b.d.

Love all of those medals on those officers.

I like the hats.

403 sattv4u2  Jun 25, 2014 8:59:46am

re: #400 b.d.

Love all of those medals on those officers.

Garnered for procuring western porn, scotch and cigars for three generations of the Men Ta Lee Ills !

404 sattv4u2  Jun 25, 2014 9:00:27am

re: #402 Backwoods_Sleuth

I like the hats.

Good for smuggling in above stated western porn, scotch and cigars

405 JustMark  Jun 25, 2014 9:01:49am

re: #398 Bulworth

AP reports that judge has struck down Indiana’s ban on same-sex marriage.

bigstory.ap.org

The humasectual agenda strikes again!

I’m so stealing that!

406 b.d.  Jun 25, 2014 9:02:57am

What harm could a little old movie do?

//

407 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 9:03:12am

re: #403 sattv4u2

Garnered for procuring western porn, scotch and cigars for three generations of the Men Ta Lee Ills !

The Norks actually do trade a bit with Cuba, so they probably don’t need to smuggle the cigars.

408 b.d.  Jun 25, 2014 9:07:13am

No hyperbole at all.

“Absolutely intolerable is the distribution of such film in the U.S. as it is the most undisguised terrorism and a war action to deprive the service personnel and people of the DPRK of their mental mainstay and bring down its social system,” the foreign ministry spokesman said.

He added: “The U.S. has gone reckless in such provocative hysteria as bribing a rogue movie maker to dare hurt the dignity of the supreme leadership of the DPRK. This act of not fearing any punishment from Heaven is touching off the towering hatred and wrath of the service personnel and people of the DPRK.”

/snip

But North Korea and its people view the film as a direct insult to their leader, the foreign ministry spokesman said. “They regard the supreme leadership as dearer than their own lives,” he said. “It is their firm determination and stamina to mercilessly destroy anyone who dares hurt or attack the supreme leadership of the country even a bit.”

bnowire.com

409 lawhawk  Jun 25, 2014 9:08:57am

There’s a bunch of layers here - not just the superficial. Congress has an interest in protecting the institution against overreach by the Executive and Courts, while the President wants to protect the Executive’s rights to act as appropriate.

410 sattv4u2  Jun 25, 2014 9:09:32am

re: #408 b.d.

“It is their firm determination and stamina to mercilessly destroy anyone who dares hurt or attack the supreme leadership of the country even a bit.”

TRANSLATION

“we’re going to rattle our swords, toss a few missiles into the sea and stick our tongues out at South Korea over the border until someone sends us some more cash”

411 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 25, 2014 9:10:09am

Explosion rocks Abuja, many feared dead

An explosion has occurred at a major shopping mall, Emab Plaza, in Wuse 2, Abuja.
A witness said the explosion ‎occurred at about 4p.m.
Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall in the highbrow area of Nigeria’s capital city, on Aminu Kano Crescent.
The explosion apparently occurred at the gate of the busy plaza.
This is the third deadly explosion in the Nigerian capital in two months. The extremist Boko Haram sect claimed responsibility for the two explosions in April and May in Nyanya, a suburb of the capital.

The link has a live blog. So far, 30 bodies reported.

412 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 25, 2014 9:10:30am

re: #399 Dark_Falcon

“This act of not fearing any punishment from Heaven is touching off the towering hatred and wrath of the service personnel and people of the DPRK.”

This sentence is interesting, as it is a reference to the Confucian idea of the “Mandate of Heaven” and presumes the Kim dynasty to have said mandate. Odd in some ways to see a traditional concept such as that from a nation claiming to be Communist.

The fact that the Mandate of Heaven is a Chinese concept is actually not as odd, since it was commonly held until the 19th Century that Korea’s kings held the Mandate of Heaven to rule Korea, though as semi-vassals of China’s emperor.

That was actually one of the arguments used by the Japanese when they conquered Korea - that the Korean monarchs had lost the mandate of heaven as evidenced by the fact that they were _allowed_ to conquer Korea… O_o

413 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 9:10:49am

re: #408 b.d.

No hyperbole at all.

/snip

bnowire.com

The Norks can’t hit LA conventionally anyhow, so my response to their bluster is: “Go ahead and fire off your dinky little Teapo-Dong missile, Lil’ Kim. Our ABM defenses destroy it well short of target, proving your impotence for the whole world to see.”

414 Ryan King  Jun 25, 2014 9:12:01am

Yes, there really is an alternate to creationism.

Everything We Have Been Taught About Our Origins Is A Lie

In June 1936 Max Hahn and his wife Emma were on a walk beside a waterfall near to London, Texas, when they noticed a rock with wood protruding from its core. They decided to take the oddity home and later cracked it open with a hammer and a chisel. What they found within shocked the archaeological and scientific community. Embedded in the rock was what appeared to be some type of ancient man made hammer.

A team of archaeologists analysed and dated it. The rock encasing the hammer was dated to more than 400 million years old. The hammer itself turned out to be more than 500 million years old. Additionally, a section of the wooden handle had begun the metamorphosis into coal. The hammer’s head, made of more than 96% iron, is far more pure than anything nature could have achieved without assistance from relatively modern smelting methods.

415 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 9:12:45am

re: #412 William Barnett-Lewis

That was actually one of the arguments used by the Japanese when they conquered Korea - that the Korean monarchs had lost the mandate of heaven as evidenced by the fact that they were _allowed_ to conquer Korea… O_o

Which is the odd thing about the Mandate of Heaven: It condemned unsuccessful revolts and coups but justified successful ones. An interesting case of philosophy closely adhering to the bottom line.

416 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jun 25, 2014 9:15:40am

re: #414 Ryan King

very trippy stuff.

417 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 9:15:58am

re: #414 Ryan King

Yes, there really is an alternate to creationism.

On one side of the field we have the Darwinists and their theory of evolution, trying to establish the extremely flawed view that we have somehow evolved into highly intelligent sentient beings from a primordial blob of gunge, miraculously brought to life by an electrical storm billions of years ago. (Perhaps one of this cults followers could explain to me when “consciousness” evolved, and provide proof - I await with baited breath!)

On the other side we have the creationists with the belief that some omnipotent invisible being who lives in the clouds, waved his magic wand about 7,000 years ago and created the earth and everything on it. Again the adherents of this equally flawed theory rely on nothing more than a book called the Bible for their “proof” of this concept. The fact that this book has been bastardised during translation numerous times during its existence, has been re-written to certain individuals personal preference on a number of occasions, and has had many complete chapters omitted, is irrelevant to its followers. All they require is “faith”. Proof and evidence is not a prerequisite!

One couldn’t get more opposing beliefs if one tried, and both camps adhere to their beliefs voraciously, and with unshakable fervour. Yet neither are based on any kind of factual or hard evidence.

The reality is that the origin of the human race is a total enigma. No one, anywhere, actually knows how old humanity is or how and where it originated. It is a complete mystery. Yet from birth one is indoctrinated into one or the other of the above factions, with no questions asked or alternative opinions allowed.

This piece seems like yet more “Third Way” baloney. Any article that uses the word “Darwinists” is bound to be full of hooey.

418 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 25, 2014 9:17:20am

Anyone here who reads Sports Illustrated and seen the mess they made of the web site?

419 Ryan King  Jun 25, 2014 9:17:32am

re: #417 Dark_Falcon

This piece seems like yet more “Third Way” baloney. Any article that uses the word “Darwinists” is bound to be full of hooey.

Yes, that, and 500 million year old hammers.

420 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 9:17:34am

re: #414 Ryan King

Yes, there really is an alternate to creationism.

I heard about all that jazz when I was about seven or eight years old - that was back in the 70’s.

It was called “Battlestar Galactica”.

421 Ryan King  Jun 25, 2014 9:17:58am

I’m not saying it’s true, but it is interesting…

422 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 9:18:05am

re:
#418

I thought it was just my outdated Explorer.

Couldn’t make any sense of it.

Wish websites would stick with the basics.

423 Ryan King  Jun 25, 2014 9:18:22am

I’m just Woo Curious

424 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 9:19:33am

re: #423 Ryan King

I’m just Woo Curious

Then you’ll love this glorious bit of 1970s woo:

Youtube Video

425 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 25, 2014 9:19:50am

And another one…

Court: Utah Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional

A federal appeals court for the first time says a state cannot prevent gay people from getting married.
A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver found that Utah’s ban on same-sex marriage violates the U.S. Constitution. The judges upheld a lower court ruling that struck down the ban in December.
They immediately put their ruling on holding so it could be appealed.

426 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 9:19:54am

And speaking of idiots getting bent out of shape, Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods is very angry about Thad Cochran winning yesterday:

Sarah Palin slammed Sen. Thad Cochran, who won his Mississippi primary last night, for possible “shenanigans” such as courting Democrat votes and his moderate policies.

“Well, you know, as for the primary, and perhaps if it’s true, some shenanigans going on there, nothing should surprise you, but that’s old-school politics where it’s a bit of the status quo and that’s got to go,” Palin said Tuesday of Cochran’s Democrat outreach on Fox News’ “Hannity,” ahead of the Republican senator being declared the primary winner over Chris McDaniel.
Sarah Palin slammed Sen. Thad Cochran, who won his Mississippi primary last night, for possible “shenanigans” such as courting Democrat votes and his moderate policies.

“Well, you know, as for the primary, and perhaps if it’s true, some shenanigans going on there, nothing should surprise you, but that’s old-school politics where it’s a bit of the status quo and that’s got to go,” Palin said Tuesday of Cochran’s Democrat outreach on Fox News’ “Hannity,” ahead of the Republican senator being declared the primary winner over Chris McDaniel.

Palin, who had endorsed McDaniel, further ripped Cochran as someone “promising bigger government.”

“It’s very rare in a Republican primary that the candidate who promises to bring home the bacon, promising bigger government, which is requiring higher taxes and more burdensome government actually pulls it off in the primary? That’s a rare thing,” Palin said. “So it’s — it will be surprising, and yet perhaps not, to find out what that cross-over of Democrat voters, how that does impact the general.”

427 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 25, 2014 9:20:58am

re: #415 Dark_Falcon

Which is the odd thing about the Mandate of Heaven: It condemned unsuccessful revolts and coups but justified successful ones. An interesting case of philosophy closely adhering to the bottom line.

China has always been extremely pragmatic. Itś not treason if you succeed.

428 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 9:21:20am

re: #420 Dr Lizardo

I heard about all that jazz when I was about seven or eight years old - that was back in the 70’s.

It was called “Battlestar Galactica”.

Was that how the original version ended or just how the new version ended?

429 makeitstop  Jun 25, 2014 9:23:19am

Is it me, or is this marionette a dead ringer for Bryan Fischer?

430 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 9:24:15am

re: #428 Dark_Falcon

Was that how the original version ended or just how the new version ended?

The original version never actually “ended” - it was cancelled before they got around to writing an ending for it.

The new BSG ending sort of fits it when the opening narrative of the original BSG, so I wasn’t all that shocked when I saw it. It dovetailed into the original BSG.

Youtube Video

431 Timothy Watson  Jun 25, 2014 9:26:30am

re: #430 Dr Lizardo

The original version never actually “ended” - it was cancelled before they got around to writing an ending for it.

The new BSG ending sort of fits it when the opening narrative of the original BSG, so I wasn’t all that shocked when I saw it. It dovetailed into the original BSG.

[Embedded content]

Damn you, don’t you know that bringing up the ending of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series will start a nerdwar?!

432 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 9:26:54am

re: #431 Timothy Watson

Damn you, don’t you know that bringing up the ending of the reimagined Battlestar Galactica series will start a nerdwar?!

LOLOL

433 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2014 9:29:46am

re: #425 Backwoods_Sleuth

And another one…

Court: Utah Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional

They were in a hurry to get that out.

They immediately put their ruling on holding so it could be appealed.

Mother Jones has the 108 page .pdf, for those with nothing else going on.

434 makeitstop  Jun 25, 2014 9:29:58am
435 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2014 9:30:38am

re: #434 makeitstop

Separated at Derp…

Which one has the wooden head?

436 sattv4u2  Jun 25, 2014 9:31:15am

re: #418 William Barnett-Lewis

Anyone here who reads Sports Illustrated and seen the mess they made of the web site?

I subscribe to (and read) the magazine but very rarely (read: NEVER) go to the site

437 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 25, 2014 9:31:34am

In memory of Eli Wallach, perhaps the second best western gun duel ever filmed. (Once Upon a Time in the West was better, but you can see the same style in each.)

Youtube Video

RBS

438 makeitstop  Jun 25, 2014 9:32:34am

re: #435 wrenchwench

Which one has the wooden head?

Both! The one on the left is smarter, though.

439 William Barnett-Lewis  Jun 25, 2014 9:35:25am

re: #436 sattv4u2

I subscribe to (and read) the magazine but very rarely (read: NEVER) go to the site

The filp for me. Haven´t bought their rag in years but read the web site fairly regularly - at least till now. Yesh, what a mess.

440 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 25, 2014 9:39:53am
441 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 9:50:02am

Attack on international flight at Peshawar airport highlights continuing risk to civilian aviation assets in Pakistan

A Pakistan International Airways (PIA) flight from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, yesterday (24 June) came under small-arms fire as it landed at Peshawar’s Bacha Khan International Airport.

Although the flight landed safely, police reported that the Boeing plane was hit by at least six bullets, with one striking an engine. A passenger was killed and two flight attendants were wounded, leading to flight suspensions overnight.

Although no group has claimed responsibility for the attack, the airport in Peshawar has been repeatedly targeted by Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants, most notably in a suicide assault in December 2012. In accordance with the TTP’s previously established target pattern, the adjoining Pakistan Air Force base has been the primary target in these attacks.

Expect North Waziristan to be subjected to a PGM attack today or tomorrow. It might be a US drone with a Hellfire or a Pakistani F-16 with a Paveway laser-guided bomb. But this sort of action by the Taliban tends to be responded to with airstrikes.

442 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 25, 2014 9:51:54am
443 Bubblehead II  Jun 25, 2014 9:52:23am

re: #425 Backwoods_Sleuth

And another one…

Court: Utah Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional

Want to read some nuclear grade derp? This brief was submitted to the 9th Circuit.

BRIEF OF DAVID A. ROBINSON ASAMICUS CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF DEFENDANTS - APPELLANTS IN SUPPORT OF REVERSAL OF DISTRICT COURT DECISION

Argument

Holding that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry is tantamount to holding that a man has a constitutional right to marry
his brother, elderly (too old to get pregnant) sister, or elderly mother.
They are “similarly situated.”

What’s next? A brief saying allowing SSM is the same as allowing someone to marry their dog/cat/whatever?

I wish I was joking, but I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if someone does it.

444 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 9:52:36am

re: #440 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Given the case law, police had some reason to think they could search phones. It’s logical for the cops to try to push the boundaries on such matters, which is why law enforcement requires judicial oversight. This case was the Supreme Court supplying such oversight.

445 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2014 9:55:09am

re: #442 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

I guess this one is not the Sand Cat, it’s some other wild kitteh.

446 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 25, 2014 9:56:23am

re: #445 wrenchwench

I guess this one is not the Sand Cat, it’s some other wild kitteh.

[Embedded content]

Looks like it might be a lynx

447 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 9:56:35am

re: #445 wrenchwench

I guess this one is not the Sand Cat, it’s some other wild kitteh.

[Embedded content]

That is a Pallas Cat. It lives in the mountains and is colored gray so it can blend in among the rocks. It’s a very stealthy kitteh.

448 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2014 9:58:00am

re: #446 Backwoods_Sleuth

re: #447 Dark_Falcon

Dark is right.

449 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2014 9:58:55am
450 Ian G.  Jun 25, 2014 10:03:23am

re: #393 Backwoods_Sleuth

Hmm. Anyone remember if the Kim family had a meltdown over “Team America: World Police?” The probably should have.

451 Ian G.  Jun 25, 2014 10:03:47am

re: #434 makeitstop

Just noticed this for the first time, but Fischer has Bachmann crazy-eyes going too.

452 Dark_Falcon  Jun 25, 2014 10:06:08am

re: #449 wrenchwench

[Embedded content]

Damn ISIS has stirred up the pot everywhere, it seems. The Sunni Islamists are feeling emboldened and setting off a terror campaign in Lebanon.

453 Ian G.  Jun 25, 2014 10:06:55am

re: #452 Dark_Falcon

Damn ISIS has stirred up the pot everywhere, it seems. The Sunni Islamists are feeling emboldened and setting off a terror campaign in Lebanon.

Yeah, I don’t know that I’d want to fuck with Hezbollah like that, but these ISIS guys are nucking futs.

454 Kragar  Jun 25, 2014 10:08:49am

What RW racism?

Supporters suggested that Democrats who voted for Cochran had committed voter fraud.

“Every Democrat who voted for Cochran yesterday while intending to vote for Childers in November broke the law. That’s fraud,” said Bryan Fischer, of the American Family Association. “If Democrats broke the law when they voted for Cochran, that’s voter fraud and this is in fact a stolen election.”

Sarah Palin suggested last week on Facebook that Democratic activists had offered “scooby snacks” to black voters to encourage them to support Cochran, and she urged McDaniel to challenge the runoff results.

455 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 10:09:05am

re:
#443

If heteros are allowed to marry, what’s next? A brother could marry a sister or his mother? //

456 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 10:10:20am

re:
#454

Scooby Snacks

WTFITS?

457 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 25, 2014 10:11:11am

re: #456 Bulworth

re:
#454

Scooby Snacks

WTFITS?

It’s a dog treat

ETA: There’s a different Urban Dictionary definition as well.

458 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 10:14:38am

re: #454 Kragar

What RW racism?

[Embedded content]

Since when is voting fraud?

Only since you vote for whoever the reactionaries don’t think you should vote for.

It’s still a “free country” last time I looked, as far as who anyone can vote for, no matter what party the candidates are.

Sore losers can’t change the rules so they accuse people of non-existent “crimes”.

459 blueraven  Jun 25, 2014 10:15:21am

re: #454 Kragar

What RW racism?

Do it! please.

The Democrat might just skate through.

460 makeitstop  Jun 25, 2014 10:16:43am

re: #456 Bulworth

re:
#454

Scooby Snacks

WTFITS?

Street term for MDMA.

Also, a cool song by Fun Lovin’ Criminals.

Youtube Video

461 Kragar  Jun 25, 2014 10:17:16am

Right Wing Watch reported that Murray went so far as to claim that Christian Americans are fleeing the U.S. for a better life in Russia, away from the “scourge” of LGBT rights.

“My mother was not intellectually an atheist; she was a Marxist, and that Marxism did not come about from rigorous study, but rather from unemployment,” Murray wrote, claiming that he was raised in “a Marxist home where the vodka did flow and America, free enterprise and God were despised.”

He went on, “Having been a part of the decline in religion and morality that has come to America, I now look at Russia where individual achievement is honored and prayer and Bible instruction are welcomed in the classrooms.”

The U.S. and Russia have changed roles, he said, with the West becoming more and more oppressive and collectivist, while Russia and former Eastern Bloc nations are the new cradles of freedom.

462 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 10:19:12am

re:
#461

The U.S. and Russia have changed roles, he said, with the West becoming more and more oppressive and collectivist, while Russia and former Eastern Bloc nations are the new cradles of freedom.

OK, seeya. Say hello to Snowden

463 Ian G.  Jun 25, 2014 10:20:36am

re: #456 Bulworth

re:
#454

Scooby Snacks

WTFITS?

Palin being Palin.

464 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 10:21:15am

re:
#454

(Palin) urged McDaniel to challenge the runoff results. But she also advised him to quit his challenge half way through.

465 Kragar  Jun 25, 2014 10:21:18am

If you’re stupid enough to think Russia is better than the USA because it is supporting bigotry, then maybe you should get the fuck out of the United States.

466 Dr Lizardo  Jun 25, 2014 10:23:16am

re: #461 Kragar

[Embedded content]

I ain’t rich, but I’ll chip in $10 to any wingnut that wants to go!!

As long as they go to Russia….and don’t come here to the Czech Republic and fuck everything up.

467 Bulworth  Jun 25, 2014 10:23:22am

re:
#454

Sarah Palin suggested last week on Facebook that Democratic activists had offered “scooby snacks” to black voters to encourage them to support Cochran

Is that in the Rebranding manual?

/

468 Ian G.  Jun 25, 2014 10:23:51am

re: #461 Kragar

Yeah, I’ll pay for the freakin’ plane ticket if they promise to go and never come back.

Also,

Russia and former Eastern Bloc nations are the new cradles of freedom.

Which “former Eastern Bloc nations” are these, kemosabe? Poland? Lithuania? Czech Republic? Yeah, see, they all hate Russia’s guts and (rightly) see Putin as an imperialist thug, not some defender of “freedom”.

Christ, this is up there will Allen West’s drivel about the “Iran-Saudi caliphate” in the pantheons of right wing ignorance.

469 makeitstop  Jun 25, 2014 10:26:19am

Random thought: How in the world would Palin know the slang usage of ‘scooby snacks?’

It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

470 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2014 10:26:46am

Ya, wingnuts should go. We need to make room for new people:

471 jaunte  Jun 25, 2014 10:26:54am

Darth Cheney And Sean Hannity Scare Up The Nuke Bogeyman

“…After watching Darth and his sidekick here, you’ll understand why Megyn Kelly was allowed to smack Cheney down last week. It was all part of the plan to put him on Hannity’s show so he could stir up the Faithful Fearful.”

472 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2014 10:27:21am

re: #470 wrenchwench

the ‘ususus’ was US flags in the original.

473 Kragar  Jun 25, 2014 10:27:37am

Their Hero: 8 Hilariously Insane Examples of Vladimir Putin Propaganda

The army of Russian Strippers is probably my favorite.

474 danarchy  Jun 25, 2014 10:34:34am

re: #458 Justanotherhuman

Since when is voting fraud?

Only since you vote for whoever the reactionaries don’t think you should vote for.

It’s still a “free country” last time I looked, as far as who anyone can vote for, no matter what party the candidates are.

Sore losers can’t change the rules so they accuse people of non-existent “crimes”.

Actually Mississippi has a law on the books that says you can only vote in a party primary if you intend to vote for that parties candidate in the actual election. It is a stupid law and completely unenforceable, but that’s what they are all screaming about.

475 geoffm33  Jun 25, 2014 10:34:44am

re: #435 wrenchwench

Which one has the wooden head?

“I know a man with a wooden leg named Smith.”

“What’s the name of his other leg?”

A little Mary Poppins humor for the day.

476 Kragar  Jun 25, 2014 10:35:58am

re: #474 danarchy

Actually Mississippi has a law on the books that says you can only vote in a party primary if you intend to vote for that parties candidate in the actual election. It is a stupid law and completely unenforceable, but that’s what they are all screaming about.

Kind of like you can buy a gun for yourself, but if you decide to sell it to some guy in the parking lot, its fine?

477 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 10:40:21am

re: #474 danarchy

Actually Mississippi has a law on the books that says you can only vote in a party primary if you intend to vote for that parties candidate in the actual election. It is a stupid law and completely unenforceable, but that’s what they are all screaming about.

Well, if it’s unenforceable, it’s of no use and no one can tell you who to vote for in Nov.

I love the impotent rage resulting from this MS primary, though. : )

478 blueraven  Jun 25, 2014 10:41:46am

re: #474 danarchy

Actually Mississippi has a law on the books that says you can only vote in a party primary if you intend to vote for that parties candidate in the actual election. It is a stupid law and completely unenforceable, but that’s what they are all screaming about.

OK for me but not for thee?

McDaniel’s campaign spokesman, Keith Plunkett, later told the Clarion-Ledger that there’s a chance the state senator and tea party challenger could have voted in the Democratic primary in 2003. But in an email to TPM on Wednesday Plunkett confirmed that McDaniel did, in fact, vote as a Democrat in 2003.

“Over a decade ago, Chris McDaniel voted in a Democratic primary in order to have a choice in local competitive elections,” Plunkett told TPM. “However, as the attacks from Democratic politicians have made clear, McDaniel’s conservative Republican record in the Senate speaks for itself.”

479 GeneJockey  Jun 25, 2014 10:44:05am

re: #474 danarchy

Actually Mississippi has a law on the books that says you can only vote in a party primary if you intend to vote for that parties candidate in the actual election. It is a stupid law and completely unenforceable, but that’s what they are all screaming about.

The other thing is, it’s not as if the Dems who voted for Cochran did it to have an easier target in November. They were likely cognizant of the fact that the winner of the GOP primary is overwhelmingly favored to win the General, so they are in fact voting for the more acceptable one.

Closed primaries in monochromatic states allow the 27% to choose not just the candidates, but also the winners of the General.

480 GeneJockey  Jun 25, 2014 10:45:33am

re: #474 danarchy

Actually Mississippi has a law on the books that says you can only vote in a party primary if you intend to vote for that parties candidate in the actual election. It is a stupid law and completely unenforceable, but that’s what they are all screaming about.

It’s as unenforceable as a ban on masturbating in private.

Mind you, the complaining about it is more like masturbating in public.

481 Lidane  Jun 25, 2014 10:47:21am

re: #474 danarchy

Actually Mississippi has a law on the books that says you can only vote in a party primary if you intend to vote for that parties candidate in the actual election. It is a stupid law and completely unenforceable, but that’s what they are all screaming about.

They wouldn’t be screaming if the “right” conservative reactionary had won.

It might be a stupidly written law, but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking the nuts care about it. They’re just mad because their guy lost.

482 Decatur Deb  Jun 25, 2014 10:53:34am

re: #460 makeitstop

Street term for MDMA.

Also, a cool song by Fun Lovin’ Criminals.

[Embedded content]

Sarah gone gangsta?

483 GeneJockey  Jun 25, 2014 10:55:14am

re: #481 Lidane

They wouldn’t be screaming if the “right” conservative reactionary had won.

It might be a stupidly written law, but let’s not fool ourselves into thinking the nuts care about it. They’re just mad because their guy lost.

True, but they’re masters of rationalizing their views as Principles. Like screaming about “States Rights!!!” but wanting a nationwide ban on SSM.

484 Zamb  Jun 25, 2014 11:00:23am

re: #414 Ryan King

Yes, there really is an alternate to creationism.

Silurians!

485 Zamb  Jun 25, 2014 11:07:30am

re: #454 Kragar

“My mother was not intellectually an atheist; she was a Marxist, and that Marxism did not come about from rigorous study, but rather from unemployment,” Murray wrote, claiming that he was raised in “a Marxist home where the vodka did flow and America, free enterprise and God were despised.”

Yea atheists and liberals are all just lazy drunks. I wonder if any of that was true. Seems to me many hardcore Christians claim they were raised in some evil godless household.

486 Eventual Carrion  Jun 25, 2014 11:31:08am

re: #425 Backwoods_Sleuth

And another one…

Court: Utah Gay Marriage Ban Unconstitutional

Bans falling like cross shaped dominoes.

487 GeneJockey  Jun 25, 2014 11:37:52am

re: #486 Eventual Carrion

Bans falling like cross shaped dominoes.

The cross-shaped dominoes are more top heavy.
///

488 Origuy  Jun 25, 2014 2:51:17pm

re: #414 Ryan King

This is an oldie.
It’s concretion, not fossilization.

The stone concretion is real, and it looks impressive to someone unfamiliar with geological processes. How could a modern artifact be stuck in Ordovician rock? The answer is that the concretion itself is not Ordovician. Minerals in solution can harden around an intrusive object dropped in a crack or simply left on the ground if the source rock (in this case, reportedly Ordovician) is chemically soluble. This is analogous to stalactites incorporating recent objects in their paths as they grow. The rapidity with which concretions and similar types of stone can form is evident in soil caliche development. “Rapid formation of limestone has been shown in coral atolls in the Pacific where World War II artifacts have been found in the matrix” (McKusick and Shinn, 1980).


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