Midweek Weird: Tom Waits, “Satisfied”

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I’ve heard some people say they don’t like Tom Waits, but I just can’t understand that. How can you not like someone this weird, and this insanely talented?

When I’m gone
When I’m gone

Roll my vertebrae out like dice
Let my skull be a home for the mice
Let me bleach like the bones on a beach
I’ll be hard like a pit from a peach
Now the ground has a branch
Now the hound has a ranch
The old tressel’s just junk
The Edsel’s on blocks
The old said so won’t talk
I’m a blimp that’s straining, cut ‘er ties
I’m a moth in training, flutter by
Huh…

When I’m gone
When I’m gone

I said I will have satisfaction
I will be satisfied
I said I will be satisfied
When I’m believing: satisfaction
When I’m grieving: satisfaction
When I’m shaking: satisfaction
When I’m praying: satisfaction
When I’m staying: satisfaction
When I’m carousing
When I’m a thousand

I said I will have satisfaction
I will be satisfied
Before I’m gone
Before I’m gone
I will have satisfaction
I will be satisfied
I will have satisfaction
I will be satisfied

Now Mr. Jagger and Mr. Richards
I will scratch where I’ve been itching
Now Mr. Jagger and Mr. Richards
I will scratch where I’ve been itching

Before I’m gone
Before I’m gone
Before I’m gone
Before I’m gone

Let me go back into the barrel
Let the bullet go back into the barrel
Let the bullet go back into the barrel
Let the bullet go back into the barrel
Before I’m gone
Before I’m gone

I said I will have satisfaction
Let the bullet go back into the barrel
Let the bullet go back into the barrel
Take a left off the straight and the narrow
Let the bullet go back into the barrel
Before I’m gone
Before I’m gone

Jump to bottom

573 comments
1 austin_blue  Jun 25, 2014 5:46:03pm

How to get a voice like that of Mr. Waits:

Two packs a day of Camel Straights;

Drink WAY too much whiskey; and

Scrub throat w/ Brillo Pads on rising and retiring.

But, gods, I love his style.

2 CuriousLurker  Jun 25, 2014 5:51:30pm

Gonna leave this here so others will see it when they arrive:

Not gonna hold my breath waiting for apologies/retractions from all the wingnuts who smeared him.

3 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 5:56:25pm

re: #2 CuriousLurker

Gonna leave this here so others will see it when they arrive:

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Not gonna hold my breath waiting for apologies/retractions from all the wingnuts who smeared him.

I feel very sorry for him and how he must have suffered.

He was a POW and not really stable enough to have been in the service. All the signs were there, but were ignored, including a previous discharge from the Coast Guard after only weeks. Why wasn’t that taken into consideration before he was allowed into the Army?

Those who dragged him through the mud should be condemned.

4 lawhawk  Jun 25, 2014 5:58:08pm

re: #2 CuriousLurker

Headline and body of text don’t exactly match. He was apparently cleared of wrongdoing for the 5 years in captivity, but he might still face charges for AWOL/desertion, and other charges relating to how/when he was captured in the first place. The Army hasn’t begun questioning him on that, so I’d argue that the investigative phase is first starting for him on the key issue of what happened leading to his capture.

I’m going to let the Army complete its investigation before drawing conclusions one way or another - unlike the right wing that wanted to treat him as a hero right up until the moment his release was secured by the prisoner exchange agreed to by the President. That’s when he went from hero that the President ignored to a villain that the President should never have made a deal for - especially for those who he released in the exchange.

5 austin_blue  Jun 25, 2014 6:01:50pm

re: #3 Justanotherhuman

I feel very sorry for him and how he must have suffered.

He was a POW and not really stable enough to have been in the service. All the signs were there, but were ignored, including a previous discharge from the Coast Guard after only weeks. Why wasn’t that taken into consideration before he was allowed into the Army?

Those who dragged him through the mud should be condemned.

Because at the time, the Army needed warm bodies, regardless of background. He was not the first who took a walk outside the wire to get away from the tension of a fire base. He was just the one who didn’t get his head shot off and ended up in hell for five freakin’ years. Poor kid.

6 allegro  Jun 25, 2014 6:02:43pm

re: #2 CuriousLurker

Gonna leave this here so others will see it when they arrive:

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Not gonna hold my breath waiting for apologies/retractions from all the wingnuts who smeared him.

Is it being pedantic to wonder about that wording? It says he was cleared of misconduct “during captivity”. What about before captivity, the whole awol thing?

7 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 6:03:20pm

re: #2 CuriousLurker

Gonna leave this here so others will see it when they arrive:

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Not gonna hold my breath waiting for apologies/retractions from all the wingnuts who smeared him.

Like lawhawk, I’m gonna hold off on any football spiking until after the investigation is completed. Even if they clear him of the accusations of collaboration, he may still be brought up on the charge of desertion. Then again, considering how much bad shit has been unearthed in trying to get to the bottom of this, they may very well clear him of desertion, but give him a less than honorable discharge and get him out of the Army as quickly as possible.

8 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2014 6:04:38pm

re: #4 lawhawk

Actually, that’s exactly what the story and headline say - “during captivity.”

So that Fox News-James Rosen story was a completely fraudulent smear job. Imagine my surprise.

9 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 6:06:20pm

Over on the sidebar, Frank Says:

“It would be easier to pay off the national debt overnight than to neutralize the long-range effects of OUR NATIONAL STUPIDITY.”

10 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 6:06:47pm

I don’t expect any apologies from the wingnuts on this, just a lot of sneering about how the Army didn’t court-martial Bergdahl for desertion and collaboration because the White House didn’t want the bad press. Doesn’t matter if the investigation comes up clean, they’ll go forward declaring that “the fix is in!” and that there’s a cover-up.

11 lawhawk  Jun 25, 2014 6:06:57pm

So, the latest federal agency/institution the GOP wants to disband is the Export/Import Bank. It’s relatively obscure for most purposes, but the GOP thinks that this is a winning issue.

I’m not so sure, because like most things the GOP has done, they ignore the actual consequences of their actions.

The stock market is watching this, and they’re showing that this will have implications - not only for the small businesses that rely upon the EIB, but the big guys like Boeing and GE. You know - the job creators that the GOP claims they’re all for supporting:

The bank helps facilitate foreign companies efforts to buy U.S. goods. But some members of Congress, like House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling, believe that it’s crony capitalism, a “sweetheart deal” for politically connected corporations.

Hensarling, a top Republican, is backed by new House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, who said on Sunday he wouldn’t support a renewal of the bank’s charter. Steve Scalise, incoming House Majority Whip, is also against renewing the bank’s charter, which expires in September.

Ex-Majority Leader Eric Cantor supported the bank and helped raise its loan limits to $140 billion from $100 billion.

Most Democrats support the Ex-Im Bank. Maxine Waters of California said the bank helps create jobs. President Obama wants to reauthorize the bank for another five years and expand its lending limit from $140 billion to $160 billion.

The bank started 80 years ago in response to the Great Depression and helps exporters by guaranteeing loans to buyers overseas and providing credit insurance.

The bank helped Boeing sell its 787 Dreamliners to India, Poland and Ethiopia, and General Electric (NYSE:GE) sell its trains to Pakistan. Caterpillar (NYSE:CAT) also relies on the bank to sell its heavy equipment overseas.

The criticism is that the bank provides sweetheart deals to businesses that don’t need it, but that’s undermined by the fact that the open market banks aren’t providing loans for these kinds of transactions, and so it falls to the EIB to provide them. And for the most part, the bank has broken even or made money in the past.

12 wrenchwench  Jun 25, 2014 6:07:43pm

Later, lizards.

13 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 6:09:57pm

re: #11 lawhawk

So, the latest federal agency/institution the GOP wants to disband is the Export/Import Bank. It’s relatively obscure for most purposes, but the GOP thinks that this is a winning issue.

I’m not so sure, because like most things the GOP has done, they ignore the actual consequences of their actions.

The stock market is watching this, and they’re showing that this will have implications - not only for the small businesses that rely upon the EIB, but the big guys like Boeing and GE. You know - the job creators that the GOP claims they’re all for supporting:

The criticism is that the bank provides sweetheart deals to businesses that don’t need it, but that’s undermined by the fact that the open market banks aren’t providing loans for these kinds of transactions, and so it falls to the EIB to provide them. And for the most part, the bank has broken even or made money in the past.

It’s about dismantling the government, one piece at a time. It sells to their base because they can claim it an example of “government corruption” and claim that the “free market” will simply step in and do the same job as well or better.

14 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 6:10:06pm

15 thedopefishlives  Jun 25, 2014 6:10:31pm

re: #14 Gus

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Gus, you’re the bee’s knees, you know that?

16 CuriousLurker  Jun 25, 2014 6:10:31pm

re: #4 lawhawk

I’m not sure what you mean about the headline & body text not matching. The headline at both The Wire “Army Clears Bergdahl of Any Misconduct During Captivity” and at the WSJ “No Evidence of Misconduct by Bergdahl While Captive, Army Says” referred only to his captivity.

I didn’t assert he was cleared of any wrongdoing period. How could I when they clearly aren’t finished with the investigation? There were many on the right who implied and/or outright accused him of having gone over to the other side during his captivity though—I’m simply saying he has been cleared of that, and he has according to both articles.

17 lawhawk  Jun 25, 2014 6:10:43pm

re: #8 Charles Johnson

Should have clarified - I saw this floating around earlier today, and some of the tweets/headlines dropped the bit about captivity. And, if you read it quick, you could drop that bit too.

18 CuriousLurker  Jun 25, 2014 6:11:56pm

re: #6 allegro

Is it being pedantic to wonder about that wording? It says he was cleared of misconduct “during captivity”. What about before captivity, the whole awol thing?

See my #16 in response to lawhawk.

19 lawhawk  Jun 25, 2014 6:12:09pm

re: #16 CuriousLurker

Not questioning what you wrote, and I just clarified that I had seen some others asserting he was cleared. One phase of the investigation was completed, but there’s a whole lot more to be done.

20 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2014 6:12:56pm

re: #14 Gus

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Aaaahhh!

21 Justanotherhuman  Jun 25, 2014 6:13:05pm

Later, Lizards!

22 CuriousLurker  Jun 25, 2014 6:13:08pm

re: #7 Targetpractice

Like lawhawk, I’m gonna hold off on any football spiking until after the investigation is completed. Even if they clear him of the accusations of collaboration, he may still be brought up on the charge of desertion. Then again, considering how much bad shit has been unearthed in trying to get to the bottom of this, they may very well clear him of desertion, but give him a less than honorable discharge and get him out of the Army as quickly as possible.

Why are you guys reading things into my comment that weren’t there? Please see my #16 in response to lawhawk.

23 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 6:15:37pm

re: #22 CuriousLurker

Why are you guys reading things into my comment that weren’t there? Please see my #16 in response to lawhawk.

I’ll point out that I didn’t think he’d been cleared entirely, I did read the article clearly. I said I’m not gonna get overly excited about this story because even if he’s cleared on some of the accusations, the Army still could find reason to charge him with desertion. Last thing I want is to look like a fool because I crowed over this to wingnuts, only for story reading “Bergdahl To Be Charged With Desertion” to be thrown back in my face.

24 The War TARDIS  Jun 25, 2014 6:16:14pm

Noticing a raving lunatic on one of the threads about Bergdahl being vindicated.

25 Varek Raith  Jun 25, 2014 6:22:14pm

Ok…
Heard very loud cracking in the backyard.

26 CuriousLurker  Jun 25, 2014 6:23:14pm

re: #23 Targetpractice

I’ll point out that I didn’t think he’d been cleared entirely, I did read the article clearly. I said I’m not gonna get overly excited about this story because even if he’s cleared on some of the accusations, the Army still could find reason to charge him with desertion. Last thing I want is to look like a fool because I crowed over this to wingnuts, only for story reading “Bergdahl To Be Charged With Desertion” to be thrown back in my face.

To be honest I don’t give a hairy rat’s ass if the wingnuts might think I was “crowing” simply because I commented that Bergdhal being cleared of any wrongdoing while held captive means he deserves an apology for that particular smear.

He’s an American soldier and he was accused, at least in part, of something he was NOT guilty of. He could’ve been my younger brother, my son, etc. I get that you guys may not agree with me on that, but I’ll stand by it regardless.

27 Rightwingconspirator  Jun 25, 2014 6:24:14pm

re: #23 Targetpractice

It’s an important step in my view. One fact/step at a time.

28 Rightwingconspirator  Jun 25, 2014 6:26:36pm

re: #26 CuriousLurker

I’m with you, we have our own conclusions fully independent of the partisans screeching. Poor guy is accused of all kinds of things. It’s important to recognize each vindication given the sheer volume of bullshit around this poor guy.

29 CuriousLurker  Jun 25, 2014 6:29:00pm

re: #28 Rightwingconspirator

I’m with you, we have our own conclusions fully independent of the partisans screeching. Poor guy is accused of all kinds of things. It’s important to recognize each vindication given the sheer volume of bullshit around this poor guy.

Thank you for getting it.

My #26 has been edited for typos & clarity, so anyone else reading please refresh (if you want).

I’m out. Later.

30 lawhawk  Jun 25, 2014 6:35:27pm

Well, looks like Darth’s got a reason to cheer again - Tim Lincecum threw another no hitter tonight; the second in two years.

31 thedopefishlives  Jun 25, 2014 6:36:33pm

re: #25 Varek Raith

Ok…
Heard very loud cracking in the backyard.

Woopsy. I’ll turn it off now.

32 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 6:36:52pm

re: #11 lawhawk

So, the latest federal agency/institution the GOP wants to disband is the Export/Import Bank. It’s relatively obscure for most purposes, but the GOP thinks that this is a winning issue.

I’m not so sure, because like most things the GOP has done, they ignore the actual consequences of their actions.

The stock market is watching this, and they’re showing that this will have implications - not only for the small businesses that rely upon the EIB, but the big guys like Boeing and GE. You know - the job creators that the GOP claims they’re all for supporting:

The criticism is that the bank provides sweetheart deals to businesses that don’t need it, but that’s undermined by the fact that the open market banks aren’t providing loans for these kinds of transactions, and so it falls to the EIB to provide them. And for the most part, the bank has broken even or made money in the past.

The Koch spambots are all Z0MG WE’RE ALL GONNA DIE UNLESS I/E BANK IS DESTROYED!!!!!!

If the Kochs are against this, there has to be some good reasons to support it.

33 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2014 6:39:48pm
34 thedopefishlives  Jun 25, 2014 6:40:27pm

re: #33 Charles Johnson

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We don’t call them “feline overlords” for nothing, after all.

35 Killgore Trout  Jun 25, 2014 6:42:13pm

re: #2 CuriousLurker

Gonna leave this here so others will see it when they arrive:

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Not gonna hold my breath waiting for apologies/retractions from all the wingnuts who smeared him.

More info here
Pentagon clarifies what could happen to Bowe Bergdahl if he went AWOL

Sergeant Bergdahl may be classified as captured, absent without leave (AWOL), or a deserter. “They are all mutually exclusive,” said a senior Army official, who briefed Pentagon reporters Wednesday on condition of anonymity.

While it is possible for a US soldier to be AWOL and also to be held against his will, “In a legal context, you’re going to be one or the other,” the official added.

It is a legal distinction with big implications for Bergdahl. If he is found to be AWOL or a deserter, for example, he may be forced to forfeit some $200,000 in accrued pay during his captivity.

36 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 6:52:46pm

re: #26 CuriousLurker

To be honest I don’t give a hairy rat’s ass if the wingnuts might think I was “crowing” simply because I commented that Bergdhal being cleared of any wrongdoing while held captive means he deserves an apology for that particular smear.

He’s an American soldier and he was accused, at least in part, of something he was NOT guilty of. He could’ve been my younger brother, my son, etc. I get that you guys may not agree with me on that, but I’ll stand by it regardless.

And what do I say when a wingnut suggests that Bergdahl being cleared of being a collaborator is not the same as being cleared of intent to do so? His buddies say he went to join the Taliban, this doesn’t disprove that, it just says that when he found them, they decided he made a better prisoner than a buddy.

37 Lidane  Jun 25, 2014 6:54:07pm

re: #15 thedopefishlives

Gus, you’re the bee’s knees, you know that?

38 Rightwingconspirator  Jun 25, 2014 6:55:32pm

re: #36 Targetpractice

And what do I say when a wingnut suggests that Bergdahl being cleared of being a collaborator is not the same as being cleared of intent to do so? His buddies say he went to join the Taliban, this doesn’t disprove that, it just says that when he found them, they decided he made a better prisoner than a buddy.

His buddies speak with forked tongues. If we want to pretend we owe wingnuts (who by definition won’t listen to reason anyway) an explanation at all… Wait and see what the rest of the investigation concludes.

39 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2014 6:59:34pm

re: #36 Targetpractice

And what do I say when a wingnut suggests that Bergdahl being cleared of being a collaborator is not the same as being cleared of intent to do so? His buddies say he went to join the Taliban, this doesn’t disprove that, it just says that when he found them, they decided he made a better prisoner than a buddy.

But it does completely destroy that Fox News-James Rosen story, which claimed outright that Bergdahl collaborated with the Taliban. If there was any truth at all to that claim, the Army would definitely not be exonerating Bergdahl of it. But they did.

He still has to account for leaving his post, no doubt about that. But Fox News pushed a story that was completely fucking false.

40 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2014 7:01:17pm

Meanwhile…

41 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 7:02:41pm

re: #39 Charles Johnson

But it does completely destroy that Fox News-James Rosen story, which claimed outright that Bergdahl collaborated with the Taliban. If there was any truth at all to that claim, the Army would definitely not be exonerating Bergdahl of it. But they did.

He still has to account for leaving his post, no doubt about that. But Fox News pushed a story that was completely fucking false.

Don’t misunderstand me here, I’m not trying to downplay the significance of this report, I’m just trying to push for caution due to the danger of assuming too much.

42 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 7:03:03pm

43 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2014 7:05:32pm

re: #42 Gus

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WHERE?!

44 Killgore Trout  Jun 25, 2014 7:06:15pm

re: #41 Targetpractice

Don’t misunderstand me here, I’m not trying to downplay the significance of this report, I’m just trying to push for caution due to the danger of assuming too much.

The Wire article was very poorly written and was open to a lot of misinterpretation.

45 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2014 7:06:42pm

re: #41 Targetpractice

Don’t misunderstand me here, I’m not trying to downplay the significance of this report, I’m just trying to push for caution due to the danger of assuming too much.

Caution is my middle name.

46 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2014 7:08:46pm

Oh wait, that would make me “Charles C. Johnson,” and that will never do.

Let’s say “careful forethought to avoid harm or risk” is my middle name. I know that’s kinda long, but hey.

47 blueraven  Jun 25, 2014 7:09:06pm

re: #41 Targetpractice

Don’t misunderstand me here, I’m not trying to downplay the significance of this report, I’m just trying to push for caution due to the danger of assuming too much.

I don’t see anyone here assuming too much, but that Fox article was awful and the reports on the network that followed were even worse.

I did note they dropped coverage on it fairly quickly. They probably knew it was BS from the beginning.

48 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 7:11:06pm

49 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2014 7:11:09pm

re: #47 blueraven

I don’t see anyone here assuming too much, but that Fox article was awful and the reports on the network that followed were even worse.

I did note they dropped coverage on it fairly quickly. They probably knew it was BS from the beginning.

It utterly vanished within two days. And that’s not like Fox; if there’s even a tiny shred of truth to a story they’ll milk it for months.

Yes, they definitely knew it was bullshit.

50 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 7:12:01pm

re: #49 Charles Johnson

It utterly vanished within a day. And that’s not like Fox; if there’s even a tiny shred of truth to a story they’ll milk it for months.

Yes, they definitely knew it was bullshit.

I noticed that the whole Bergdahl business came and went within a week. Even the GOP seems to believe there’s nothing much to gain by obsessing over this.

51 thedopefishlives  Jun 25, 2014 7:12:14pm

re: #48 Gus

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Pardon me for interrupting, but I got a bingo.

52 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2014 7:12:23pm

Fox probably knew the story was bullshit from the very beginning.

53 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 7:14:14pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

Fox probably knew the story was bullshit from the very beginning.

You say that as if it’s something new or different.

54 Killgore Trout  Jun 25, 2014 7:15:13pm

Libyan human rights activist gunned down

Human rights activist Salwa Bugaighis has been shot dead by unknown assailants at her home in the restive east Libyan city of Benghazi.

‘Unknown hooded men wearing military uniforms attacked Mrs Bugaighis in her home and opened fire on her,’ said a security official, who did not wish to be named.

She was shot several times late on Wednesday and taken to hospital in critical condition, where she died shortly afterwards, a spokesman for the Benghazi medical centre said.

He husband, who was in the family home at the time of the attack, has since been reported as missing, according to a family member.

55 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 7:16:30pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

Fox probably knew the story was bullshit from the very beginning.

Imagine Mona with her very own TV network.

56 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 25, 2014 7:16:53pm
57 klys  Jun 25, 2014 7:18:30pm

I am completely amazed by the amount of space in the new freezer.

It’s shocking.

58 CuriousLurker  Jun 25, 2014 7:18:50pm

re: #36 Targetpractice

And what do I say when a wingnut suggests that Bergdahl being cleared of being a collaborator is not the same as being cleared of intent to do so? His buddies say he went to join the Taliban, this doesn’t disprove that, it just says that when he found them, they decided he made a better prisoner than a buddy.

I don’t know what you would or should say, I only know what I would say: “When you have FACTS—sworn statements, not gossip/hearsay—proving beyond a reasonable doubt that he left voluntarily with the intent to join the Taliban, then I’ll condemn him for that, but not one fucking second before.

He’s an American soldier who was in a combat zone, therefore he deserves at least as much ‘innocent until proven guilty’ leeway as we afford our garden variety pimps, drug dealers, gangsters, rapists, pedophiles, etc.”

Oh, and about his so called “buddies”? There were several military bases in my hometown, so I dealt with a LOT of military people during the course of my many years as a taxi driver. I assure you that they’re just as prone to gossip, backbiting, spite, envy, bigotry and all the other human shortcomings as the rest of us. IOW, I’m not taking their word for something that could cost another soldier his freedom until the Army tells me their stories have been verified.

I’m not going to budge on this no matter what anyone here says or what any wingnut may think or say.

59 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 7:23:42pm

re: #58 CuriousLurker

I don’t know what you would or should say, I only know what I would say: “When you have FACTS—sworn statements, not gossip/hearsay—proving beyond a reasonable doubt that he left voluntarily with the intent to join the Taliban, then I’ll condemn him for that, but not one fucking second before.

He’s an American soldier who was in a combat zone, therefore he deserves at least as much ‘innocent until proven guilty’ leeway as we afford our garden variety pimps, drug dealers, gangsters, rapists, pedophiles, etc.”

Oh, and about his so called “buddies”? There were several military bases in my hometown, so I dealt with a LOT of military people during the course of my many years as a taxi driver. I assure you that they’re just as prone to gossip, backbiting, spite, envy, bigotry and all the other human shortcomings as the rest of us. IOW, I’m not taking their word for something that could cost another soldier his freedom until the Army tells me their stories have been verified.

I’m not going to budge on this no matter what anyone here says or what any wingnut may think or say.

Yes, I argued all of that to wingnuts during the week that this first came to light and I’ve no desire to argue it out again. I’ll wait for the results of the investigation before I kick that particular hornet’s nest again. If you feel you wanna spike the football now, then get hell for it when the Army charges him for desertion, more power to you.

60 teleskiguy  Jun 25, 2014 7:28:47pm
61 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 7:29:01pm

re: #51 thedopefishlives

Pardon me for interrupting, but I got a bingo.

That last one was caffeine.

62 blueraven  Jun 25, 2014 7:29:46pm

re: #59 Targetpractice

Yes, I argued all of that to wingnuts during the week that this first came to light and I’ve no desire to argue it out again. I’ll wait for the results of the investigation before I kick that particular hornet’s nest again. If you feel you wanna spike the football now, then get hell for it when the Army charges him for desertion, more power to you.

Dude. Who is spiking a football? WTF?

63 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 7:32:42pm

re: #62 blueraven

Dude. Who is spiking a football? WTF?

re: #2 CuriousLurker

Gonna leave this here so others will see it when they arrive:

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Not gonna hold my breath waiting for apologies/retractions from all the wingnuts who smeared him.

64 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Jun 25, 2014 7:34:04pm

re: #59 Targetpractice

I’ve got a grand nephew who is 24, Army for life. He told me that he and “all his buddies on base” think they should have left Bergdahl behind. I’ve now got a cohort of relatives not speaking to me because I, in shock, really, blew up told them that I hold in contempt anyone who would leave a POW behind. I attacked their son, you know.

65 klys  Jun 25, 2014 7:34:23pm

re: #63 Targetpractice

For what it’s worth, given that there was a story carried by a major news organization that alleged he’d cooperated with the Taliban post-capture, that is most definitely now a smear that was spread around by wingnuts.

None of whom will ever acknowledge it.

66 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 7:35:53pm

re: #65 klys

For what it’s worth, given that there was a story carried by a major news organization that alleged he’d cooperated with the Taliban post-capture, that is most definitely now a smear that was spread around by wingnuts.

None of whom will ever acknowledge it.

True, but as I said, just because he’s been cleared on collaboration does not mean he’s been cleared of intent to do so.

67 teleskiguy  Jun 25, 2014 7:37:01pm

Shit man, I look out the window and it’s freaking raining frogs.

68 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2014 7:40:41pm
69 CuriousLurker  Jun 25, 2014 7:43:56pm

re: #59 Targetpractice

Yes, I argued all of that to wingnuts during the week that this first came to light and I’ve no desire to argue it out again. I’ll wait for the results of the investigation before I kick that particular hornet’s nest again. If you feel you wanna spike the football now, then get hell for it when the Army charges him for desertion, more power to you.

Try reading the article Killgore posted in his #35, it was quite good and very clear on the matters being totally separate:

Sergeant Bergdahl may be classified as captured, absent without leave (AWOL), or a deserter. “They are all mutually exclusive,” said a senior Army official, who briefed Pentagon reporters Wednesday on condition of anonymity. […]

The focus of the reintegration debriefings has been on the time he has been held in captivity - not the time leading up to his capture, says another senior Army official, who also briefed Pentagon reporters on condition of anonymity.

Bergdahl is not suspected of colluding with the enemy or acting against the Uniform Code of Military Justice while he was in captivity, one senior Army official said. It is the time leading up to his capture that will be the focus of an Army investigation. […]

If, however, Bergdahl makes a “spontaneous” confession during his reintegration treatment, this could potentially be used against him, the official adds. In that case, the reintegration would stop, and Bergdahl would be advised of his rights.

He has not yet made any admissions that could be used against him, one of the senior Army officials said. […]

I don’t know what you think I’m spiking the football on. He was cleared of ONE of the things he was publicly accused of without evidence. I think he & his family deserve an apology for that. It’s a free country and you don’t have to agree with me, but I suspect that if it was close friend or family member you’d feel quite differently.

I’m willing to give Bergdhal the benefit of the doubt the same way I would for a loved one. I can’t be any clearer than that, so I’m going to call it a night now.

70 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 7:45:36pm

PIGGLET

71 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 7:46:18pm

You ever find yourself in an argument where, after it’s over, you realize you both agreed but the devil was in the details?

72 blueraven  Jun 25, 2014 7:47:17pm

re: #70 Gus

PIGGLET

ROSEBUD

73 teleskiguy  Jun 25, 2014 7:52:19pm
74 klys  Jun 25, 2014 7:55:24pm

The sides of the new fridge are magnetic. THE PARKS COLLECTION LIVES ON.

75 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 7:57:25pm

re: #57 klys

I am completely amazed by the amount of space in the new freezer.

It’s shocking.

No, what will really shock you is how quickly all that space fills up.

76 klys  Jun 25, 2014 7:59:02pm

re: #75 Targetpractice

No, what will really shock you is how quickly all that space fills up.

Hahahaha, I know, right?

I am looking into bins because I do a lot of cooking + vacuum sealing and having a way to keep things together would be useful. Currently they just all got thrown in. BUT. WHOLE SECTIONS ARE CURRENTLY UNUSED.

(The previous fridge was a top freezer. A very small top freezer.)

77 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 8:00:39pm

re: #76 klys

Hahahaha, I know, right?

I am looking into bins because I do a lot of cooking + vacuum sealing and having a way to keep things together would be useful. Currently they just all got thrown in. BUT. WHOLE SECTIONS ARE CURRENTLY UNUSED.

(The previous fridge was a top freezer. A very small top freezer.)

Speaking of freezers, I really need to take a day and clear out the freezer. Pretty sure there’s stuff in there from up to a year ago that needs to go.

78 klys  Jun 25, 2014 8:01:39pm

re: #77 Targetpractice

Speaking of freezers, I really need to take a day and clear out the freezer. Pretty sure there’s stuff in there from up to a year ago that needs to go.

For obvious reasons both the fridge and the freezer got cleaned out today.

Well, mostly.

79 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 8:02:46pm

BERGDAHL

80 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 8:03:06pm

re: #78 klys

For obvious reasons both the fridge and the freezer got cleaned out today.

Well, mostly.

“What is that?”

“I don’t know, but I think it just moved.”

“Moved? I wouldn’t be surprised if it can speak by now!”

81 klys  Jun 25, 2014 8:04:09pm

re: #80 Targetpractice

“What is that?”

“I don’t know, but I think it just moved.”

“Moved? I wouldn’t be surprised if it can speak by now!”

The new one sparkles. And is well lit. AND I CAN SEE WHAT’S IN THERE EASILY.

It turns out we had 3 containers of feta cheese crumbles. I know what I don’t need to buy next week.

82 Bubblehead II  Jun 25, 2014 8:05:19pm

Night Lizards. I came, I saw and yes, I hunted. Meager was the rewards.

See you in the mourning ///

83 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 8:07:10pm

re: #81 klys

The new one sparkles. And is well lit. AND I CAN SEE WHAT’S IN THERE EASILY.

It turns out we had 3 containers of feta cheese crumbles. I know what I don’t need to buy next week.

See, this is how uncivilized I am, I’ve never tried feta cheese. The most adventurous I’ve gotten with cheese is pepper jack.

84 teleskiguy  Jun 25, 2014 8:07:15pm

John Boehner is a SHITSTAIN for going forward with a lawsuit against the President.

85 klys  Jun 25, 2014 8:07:55pm

re: #83 Targetpractice

See, this is how uncivilized I am, I’ve never tried feta cheese. The most adventurous I’ve gotten with cheese is pepper jack.

I never tried it until grad school. And now it goes on EVERYTHING.

But even at the rate I go through it, 3 containers is excessive.

86 Blue Fielder  Jun 25, 2014 8:08:36pm

re: #70 Gus
PIGLETT PIG PIGLETT PIG PIGLETT PIG
PIGLETT

87 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 8:12:56pm

re: #85 klys

I never tried it until grad school. And now it goes on EVERYTHING.

But even at the rate I go through it, 3 containers is excessive.

It just always gets me, whenever a food thread breaks out here, that I have to be one of the most white bread lizards here. People talking about various foreign meats, cheeses, and veggies…and yet, I’m happy with just a good ol’ American cheeseburger and some home fries.

88 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 8:13:23pm
89 Romantic Heretic  Jun 25, 2014 8:16:09pm

re: #56 Pie-onist Overlord

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They have more sense than to come here.

Also, in my vampire stories, vampires are very, very careful to make sure humans don’t know about them. A lot of them were around for The Holocaust, the genocide of the Armenians, The Trail of Tears and many other horrors. They know that humans won’t have a lot of mercy for the undead.

90 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2014 8:16:41pm
91 PhillyPretzel  Jun 25, 2014 8:17:01pm

I am sorry I have not been in here this evening but amazon just announced that season four of Downton Abbey in now available on instant streaming. Now everyone else will know where I am. Thank you Charles for your suggestions of amazon. It is very good. :)

92 Stanley Sea  Jun 25, 2014 8:18:26pm
93 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 8:18:54pm

re: #90 Charles Johnson

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Nothing would please me more than see wingnuts wake up the morning after Election Day to realize they didn’t win a Senate majority.

94 SpaceJesus  Jun 25, 2014 8:19:46pm

Freep’s plan for the upcoming elections: vote Democrat

To: Jack Hydrazine

“The next hit the GOP-e needs to take is for everyone to vote Dem in November.”

This is actually the best strategy to reclaiming our country. It ENDS the GOP forever. I’ve stated for years that the GOP is nothing but a bodyguard for the Democrats. To wipe out the Democrats, you’ve got to remove their protection racket. If the Democrats had complete control, maybe they’ll attempt to totally enslave us and then perhaps we can get this over with in OUR lifetimes. We owe it to our children to fight this battle rather than hope that a fake conservative party will. Screw the GOP. It’s up to us to do the heavy lifting. I’m convinced of the strength of we the people versus our present overlords. Bring it on.

45 posted on 6/24/2014, 10:14:38 PM by Uncle Sham

95 teleskiguy  Jun 25, 2014 8:19:59pm

re: #90 Charles Johnson

I hope you’re right. The last thing the Republic needs is more reactionary religious fundamentalists wielding power.

96 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 8:21:33pm

re: #94 SpaceJesus

Freep’s plan for the upcoming elections: vote Democrat

97 Romantic Heretic  Jun 25, 2014 8:22:39pm

re: #80 Targetpractice

“What is that?”

“I don’t know, but I think it just moved.”

“Moved? I wouldn’t be surprised if it can speak by now!”

“Are these mushrooms any good?”

“That isn’t mushrooms. It’s cheese.”

98 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2014 8:23:23pm
99 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 8:23:39pm
100 teleskiguy  Jun 25, 2014 8:23:52pm

Man, I really hope this guy doesn’t get elected to the Colorado State House. What a fucking caveman!

101 jaunte  Jun 25, 2014 8:26:10pm

re: #98 Charles Johnson

Bad Green Lantern fan fiction.

102 teleskiguy  Jun 25, 2014 8:26:47pm

re: #98 Charles Johnson

Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!!!

103 teleskiguy  Jun 25, 2014 8:30:15pm
104 jaunte  Jun 25, 2014 8:31:35pm

re: #95 teleskiguy

I hope you’re right. The last thing the Republic needs is more reactionary religious fundamentalists wielding power.

105 jaunte  Jun 25, 2014 8:31:58pm

Gohmertdoz test.

106 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 8:35:46pm

I don’t hold any illusions that Democrats will take back the House in the near future, but holding onto the Senate seems totally plausible. And, if so, that would put a serious crimp in any of the GOP’s plans for the next two years.

107 jaunte  Jun 25, 2014 8:36:26pm

108 teleskiguy  Jun 25, 2014 8:37:09pm

GOHMERT!!! AAAAAAAHHH!

109 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 8:37:19pm

110 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 8:41:24pm

111 teleskiguy  Jun 25, 2014 8:41:51pm

This is all klys’s fault, what with the floating Gohmert head photoshop.

OY!

112 Charles Johnson  Jun 25, 2014 8:42:41pm

113 jaunte  Jun 25, 2014 8:43:41pm

Looks like a moldy candy that got lost under the fridge.

114 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 8:44:01pm

Gohmert!

115 jaunte  Jun 25, 2014 8:44:25pm

re: #110 Gus

The Gohmert toenails are cracking me up.

116 jaunte  Jun 25, 2014 8:47:34pm

117 teleskiguy  Jun 25, 2014 9:07:01pm
118 teleskiguy  Jun 25, 2014 9:18:30pm

re: #117 teleskiguy

I remember the 2004 election when Rove used anti-gay sentiment to get people to the polls. It worked very well in Colorado. We passed a Constitutional Amendment banning gay marriage.

That was 10 years ago, and these days federal judges are ruling that our passed-by-voters constitutional law is unconstitutional.

I think that’s funny.

119 simoom  Jun 25, 2014 9:18:37pm

re: #52 Charles Johnson

Fox probably knew the story was bullshit from the very beginning.

Didn’t Gen. Mattis tell Rosen, right from the start, that during the course of the investigation they’d already heard Clarridge’s claims and dismissed them as lacking any actual evidence to support them?

120 simoom  Jun 25, 2014 9:25:01pm

re: #119 simoom

tbo.com

Mattis, who took command of Centcom a little more than a year after Bergdahl’s disappearance, told the Tribune that Clarridge’s reports “were simply one bit of information coming in. You do your normal due diligence. We found nothing to support it.”

foxnews.com

Mattis was also adamant that no one at CENTCOM or within the broader U.S. military or intelligence community — despite intensive investigation of such allegations — ever learned of anything to suggest Bergdahl had evolved into an active collaborator with the Haqqani network or the Taliban. “We were always looking for actionable intelligence,” Mattis said. “It wasn’t just the IC [intelligence community]. We had tactical units that were involved in the fight. We had SIGINT. Any collaborators who were on the other side and who came over to our side. We kept an eye on this. … There was never any evidence of collaboration.”

…

The New York Times, in its 2011 profile of Clarridge, described his agents’ dispatches as “an amalgam of fact, rumor, analysis and uncorroborated reports.”

121 teleskiguy  Jun 25, 2014 9:25:57pm

re: #67 teleskiguy

LOOK AT THE HEATHEN IN BLACK TUGGING AT HER NETHER REGION IN A PUBLIC PLACE. EVIL! THE LAST BOOK IN TEH BIBBLE IS CUMING TO PASS!!!11!11!

122 BeachDem  Jun 25, 2014 9:33:33pm

Twin sons of different mothers? (Even their respective onlookers have the same reactions to their bullshit)

123 teleskiguy  Jun 25, 2014 9:36:45pm

re: #122 BeachDem

Twin sons of different mothers? (Even their respective onlookers have the same reactions to their bullshit)

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Hello hatchling!

I think there’s some genetics involved. I mean, you know what I mean? You can just look at a guy and say to yourself with authority and self-rightousness “This guy’s a fuckin’ asshole.”

I don’t know, man. I look at a picture of Glenn Greenwald and Chris McDaniel side by side, that’s what I feel. Assholes.

124 teleskiguy  Jun 25, 2014 9:40:00pm

I always thought it stood for American Standard Testing Measurement. Silly me.

125 BeachDem  Jun 25, 2014 9:40:30pm

re: #123 teleskiguy

Hello hatchling!

I think there’s some genetics involved. I mean, you know what I mean? You can just look at a guy and say to yourself with authority and self-rightousness “This guy’s a fuckin’ asshole.”

I don’t know, man. I look at a picture of Glenn Greenwald and Chris McDaniel side by side, that’s what I feel. Assholes.

Hey, what can I say—you NAILED them. And Poitras and whoever the hell is listening to McDaniel both look like they’re about to crap their pants.

126 darthstar  Jun 25, 2014 9:45:17pm

re: #124 teleskiguy

I always thought it stood for American Standard Testing Measurement. Silly me.

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Now you have to test those skis and bindings all over. Poor you!

127 darthstar  Jun 25, 2014 9:47:20pm

re: #117 teleskiguy

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Colorado, Utah, Indiana…hell of a way to end Pride month.

128 The War TARDIS  Jun 25, 2014 9:49:38pm

So, apparently there was some drama in Colorado Springs, I am 1 degree of separation from the guy on the Left.

129 darthstar  Jun 25, 2014 9:49:52pm

re: #125 BeachDem

Hey, what can I say—you NAILED them. And Poitras and whoever the hell is listening to McDaniel both look like they’re about to crap their pants.

Welcome to LGF. GG is one of those attention whores who, if you ignore them long enough, will do something really stupid to remind you to pay attention to them. That’s what I like about Greenwald. His unquenched passion for attention. I hope some day it lands him in jail.

130 darthstar  Jun 25, 2014 9:50:52pm

re: #128 The War TARDIS

So, apparently there was some drama in Colorado Springs, I am 1 degree of separation from the guy on the Left.

Did you give him that tattoo?

131 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 9:51:22pm
132 The War TARDIS  Jun 25, 2014 9:53:45pm

re: #130 darthstar

No. :P

I did look up the verse though. I think it is John 10:17

English Standard Translation:

For this reason the Father loves me, because I lay down my life that I may take it up again.

I should note that more time I have been Muslim, the more time my reasons for converting get reinforced. Two weeks ago, I realized how screwed up Original Sin is.

133 The War TARDIS  Jun 25, 2014 9:54:02pm

re: #131 Gus

The hell did you do that for?!!?!?

134 Lidane  Jun 25, 2014 9:55:56pm

The inmates over at Free Republic are pissed about McDaniel losing. The butthurt is glorious:

“I’m for more people voting, not less people voting,” Paul told reporters Wednesday.

Every single day Rand Paul says something that confirms that he is either insane, a complete idiot, or a turncoat.

Perhaps all three.
—

Looks like Senator Paul is fitting in to the Washington establishment nicely.

I’ll never send another dime to the GOP ever again. They can go ask their new Democrat voters they discovered in Mississippi for money.
—

This “victory” will go down as one of the biggest political mistakes ever made……Haley Barbour will go down in infamy over this manure.
—

I’m for less people voting.

You must be a net tax payer in order to vote.
—

Everybody votes in Venezuela too.

Not working out too well for them either.
—

Run against Thad as an independent. Anywhere the GOPe plays like this…scorch the earth. If they learn a lesson great, if not a new party will be rising.
—

This has angered me like nothing I can remember. They ruined one of their upcoming leaders. It’s one thing to beat someone, CEW, but it’s another to have your own party paint you as a KKK wizard in waiting.

The NYT just used that to blast McDaniel as a racist. What the GOP’E did was beyond unethical; it was treacherous.
—

The right should be actively working to disenfranchise the parasite class and be up front about it.
These degenerate scumbags are voting for communists anyway and are as much the enemy as the marxist crooks they elect.

No need to try to curry favor with the free stuff army, eff them.

Class warfare needs to be a two way street.
—

If McDaniel does not run as a write-in candidate, I’m considering volunteering my services to Childers driving bus loads of rat voters
to the polls in November.
—

At this point Cochran is unelectable. Remember when the GOP was telling all the tea party candidates to “step aside” because they said something politically incorrect?

Well What Cochran did here was completely beyond the pale. He and his cronies betrayed everything the Republicans were supposed to stand for in order to cheat and encourage voter fraud to keep out an up and coming, intelligent, loyal conservative candidate who fought a fair and honest fight.

The only way to even begin to repair the damage is for the entire GOP senate caucus to ask Cochran to step aside. Absent that, then there is no saving the party.

At this point I despise the entire GOP and all that they stand for. They certainly don’t reflect my values anymore. They have crossed the Stix and have entered into Hell.

Let them burn!
—

Remember Mississippi is a war cry.
—

It is time to make the label “Republican” a scarlett letter and force those who wish to be branded such pay a heavy price. May they all burn in Hell.

Even if this is what they really are wanting for their communist masters continued empowerment, so be it. Only by extinguishing the GOP will this nation ever be able to rid itself of the democrats. Anyone calling himself/herself a “Republican” should know that by doing so, they will be crushed at election time. This will force those who are truly conservative to leave the party and help build a better opposition party sooner. Screw the GOP.

135 darthstar  Jun 25, 2014 9:56:14pm

re: #132 The War TARDIS

No. :P

I did look up the verse though. I think it is John 10:17

English Standard Translation:

I should note that more time I have been Muslim, the more time my reasons for converting get reinforced. Two weeks ago, I realized how screwed up Original Sin is.

Yeah…I still haven’t forgiven myself for that whole original sin thing.

136 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 9:58:48pm

re: #134 Lidane

The inmates over at Free Republic are pissed about McDaniel losing. The butthurt is glorious:

137 The War TARDIS  Jun 25, 2014 9:59:51pm

re: #135 darthstar

I am also coming to the conclusion that the job I have now is making me go mad. So, tomorrow, I go to City Governments with a resume.

138 Gus  Jun 25, 2014 10:00:19pm

139 BeachDem  Jun 25, 2014 10:01:01pm

re: #134 Lidane

Well, I’ll give them one thing—they’re certainly over-the-top melodramatic. So there’s that.

140 The War TARDIS  Jun 25, 2014 10:02:15pm

re: #138 Gus

Seriously, I am not sleeping tonight.

141 teleskiguy  Jun 25, 2014 10:02:38pm

I just got retweeted by a hawt pro skier gal.

*skittle farts*

142 teleskiguy  Jun 25, 2014 10:03:14pm

re: #126 darthstar

Now you have to test those skis and bindings all over. Poor you!

This made me laugh so hard I nearly spit!

143 Lidane  Jun 25, 2014 10:03:21pm

re: #139 BeachDem

Well, I’ll give them one thing—they’re certainly over-the-top melodramatic. So there’s that.

Those aren’t even the most melodramatic ones. Once people started pulling out Bible verses and talking about how AMERICA IZ DOOMED WITHOUT THE LORD I tuned it out. I tried to just stick to comments that were more political than religious.

144 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 10:03:43pm

re: #139 BeachDem

Well, I’ll give them one thing—they’re certainly over-the-top melodramatic. So there’s that.

No shit, what a bunch of drama queens. About half of them will end up pulling the lever for a Republican in November and the other half will just do a write-in for the “RINOs” and vote a straight ticket for the rest. I don’t know who it is they think they’re fooling.

145 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 25, 2014 10:08:42pm

re: #2 CuriousLurker

Gonna leave this here so others will see it when they arrive:

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Not gonna hold my breath waiting for apologies/retractions from all the wingnuts who smeared him.

Thanks. That takes care of John Schindler’s insinuation that Bergdahl was a buddy of the Taliban.

146 BeachDem  Jun 25, 2014 10:09:39pm

re: #143 Lidane

Those aren’t even the most melodramatic ones. Once people started pulling out Bible verses and talking about how AMERICA IZ DOOMED WITHOUT THE LORD I tuned it out. I tried to just stick to comments that were more political than religious.

I particularly liked the one about driving Childers voters to the polls in November. What a great idea! That will really show those Republicans. He should definitely do it! I’ll even chip in for gas.

147 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 10:16:14pm

Nothing but a bunch of petulant children, stamping their feet in a tantrum and threatening to vote for Democrats, as if that will accomplish their goal. Then again, there was the Freeper with the twisted logic that if Democrats gain the majority, it will somehow lead to their downfall because the public will turn on them.

148 Amory Blaine  Jun 25, 2014 10:19:39pm

re: #99 Gus

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Never forget…..the guacamole.

149 Amory Blaine  Jun 25, 2014 10:20:51pm

re: #147 Targetpractice

They ran a bunch of fake democrats here in WI during the recall to try to trick voters. I would not be surprised if this is the norm going forward.

150 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 10:27:10pm

re: #149 Amory Blaine

They ran a bunch of fake democrats here in WI during the recall to try to trick voters. I would not be surprised if this is the norm going forward.

Despite their bitching to the contrary, they love the idea of crossover voting during primaries in the hopes of screwing over Democrats. I think we all remember quite well “Operation Chaos” and that fat bastard’s belief that nominating Hillary would virtually give the election to Republicans.

151 Amory Blaine  Jun 25, 2014 10:27:44pm

Are lost IRS e-mails “unbelievable”? Not really

During a hearing held yesterday by the House Oversight Committee, Committee Chairman Darrel Issa said that it was “unbelievable” that the IRS had lost the e-mails of former IRS official Lois Lerner. While Congressman Issa is not generally ignorant on tech issues, he’s clearly not familiar with just how believable such a screw-up is.

The IRS claims that many of Lerner’s e-mails were lost when the hard drive on her desktop computer crashed in 2011. In a Monday night hearing, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told Issa and the Oversight Committee that there was no way to recover these e-mails. “If you have a magical way for me to do that,” he told Issa, “I’d be happy to hear about it.”

The IRS is not the only federal agency to lose e-mails over the past few years. In fact, despite efforts at many agencies to standardize and improve e-mail by moving to services like Google Apps for Government and Microsoft Office 365 Government, many agencies still run their e-mail like it’s 1999. It’s not just a technology issue—it’s an IT policy issue, a staffing issue, and a cultural issue within government, one that the federal government shares with many private corporations.

152 Targetpractice  Jun 25, 2014 10:36:34pm

re: #151 Amory Blaine

Are lost IRS e-mails “unbelievable”? Not really

It helps to remember that Issa found the sudden disappearance of 22 million White House emails totally believable, to the point that he was incredulous that nobody accepted the excuse that they’d been “lost” due to changing the email system from Lotus Notes. And he responded to the news that 40 to 50 White House employees had been provided with secret email addresses, ones that Congress was not privy to, with indifference and laughed off the suggestion of subpoenaing them by suggesting it was a waste of money to do so.

153 teleskiguy  Jun 25, 2014 10:58:22pm

“What incident? Which incident? I don’t know what incident you’re talking about.”

-Uruguay captain Daniel Lugano, when asked about the Suarez bite allegations.

154 BeachDem  Jun 25, 2014 10:59:10pm

re: #149 Amory Blaine

They ran a bunch of fake democrats here in WI during the recall to try to trick voters. I would not be surprised if this is the norm going forward.

You want to talk about shenanigans. In 2010 in South Carolina, while everyone was going on about the shenanigans of Alvin Green, the attention should have been on Ben Frasier, who won the Democratic nomination to run against Tim Scott for the House (which put that loathsome creature in his position to take DeMint’s Senate seat.)

en.wikipedia.org

I analyzed precinct-by-precinct results on that primary and there is NO way Frasier won it.

155 Lidane  Jun 25, 2014 11:02:54pm

re: #153 teleskiguy

“What incident? Which incident? I don’t know what incident you’re talking about.”

-Uruguay captain Daniel Lugano, when asked about the Suarez bite allegations.

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Uruguay plays Colombia on Saturday. They need Suarez for the game, so expect his team to say anything they have to say to keep him around.

He’s been suspended before. I wouldn’t be shocked if it happens again. It would serve him right.

156 teleskiguy  Jun 25, 2014 11:06:02pm

re: #155 Lidane

Uruguay plays Colombia on Saturday. They need Suarez for the game, so expect his team to say anything they have to say to keep him around.

He’s been suspended before. I wouldn’t be shocked if it happens again. It would serve him right.

He’s demonstrated a pattern of violence. I hope FIFA suspends him.

157 Lidane  Jun 25, 2014 11:10:28pm

re: #156 teleskiguy

He’s demonstrated a pattern of violence. I hope FIFA suspends him.

Oh, I agree. He doesn’t deserve to keep playing in the World Cup. They should send him packing.

158 piratedan  Jun 25, 2014 11:25:03pm

what I don’t understand about the Tea Party is the collective cognitive dissonance about damn near everything. In 2010 they told us elections have consequences and they were for damn sure right as they attempted to dismantle damn near everything that the Dems had accomplished in pulling the nation (and the collective Western economies) back from the brink of disaster. Was it perfect, no, but considering the pants wetting that was taking place on Wall Street and in the chamber of Commerce chapters here and everywhere, all things considered the financial community should have been grateful.

What did we get? We watched them use the Tea Party as a shiv against the Dems from allowing too much reform to save them from themselves. In doing so, watched them do their collective damndest to crater our global economic standing again and again for the better part of four fucking years. When they could finally be distracted to do something other than the pointless attempts to repeal the only real cost effective health care reform that this country has seen in the last 50 years; they somehow got the notion that because the government is mandating health coverage that this somehow equals watching the insurance companies cancel your coverage once you show a need to use it, a true moment in wtf were you people thinking.

So, finally the big corporate money had decided that perhaps these whackjobs don’t understand the first fucking thing about how the world works financially when they watch these guys threaten to crash and burn first the government and then guess who’s next on the list? Somehow, it’s as if the TP had no fucking idea on how the political process worked and how it was funded and who was bleeping funding it. Et Tu, Karl Rove?

Now the TP folks who informed us that elections have consequences are finding out that yes, indeed they do and while they may be a more effective “populist” front than OWS ever was, a game plan of “burn that fucker down and lets keep the preachers in charge” doesn’t exactly resonate with everyone exactly how they intended.

I’d tell these folks to go fuck themselves, but frankly I’m afraid of them procreating and making more of their ilk. Wish like hell that some of these dipshits had paid better attention in 8th grade civics and read anything more challenging than the menu at McDonalds.

159 J A P  Jun 25, 2014 11:29:19pm

re: #147 Targetpractice

Interestingly, that sounds like the logic I’ve heard from the far left years ago.

160 Blue Fielder  Jun 25, 2014 11:42:25pm

ACHTUNG! ALLES LOOKENSPEEPERS!

re: #158 piratedan

“Strategic forgettery”. Look it up and drink deep of the knowledge.

Also, another reminder that THERE IS NO TEA PARTY. It’s the same group of stars-and-bars sisterfuckers, unvarnished revanchist redneckbeards, low-brained bigots, and corporate cocksleeves that made up the “compassionate conservatism” of George Dumbfuck Bush, the 24/7 hatefest of moralless grifting scumfucker and serial adulterer Newton Goddamn Leroy Motherfucking Gingrich, the “kinder, gentler” assfucking of America of George H.W. Barfo Bush, the “we can’t say n***er anymore” “Reagan Revolution” of the 80s, and on and on, all the way back to the days of the Great Southern Treason and before.

The only thing that changed is that their corporate paymasters bought them secondhand outfits discarded by actors from Colonial Williamsburg, told them to hang Lipton’s third-finest from their hats, and swear that no, they’d never heard of George W. Bush or Dick Cheney or Karl Rove, who they are is a mystery to us, all history began when That Goddamned Negro took office, you know, and anything before is clearly the fault of Bill Clinton’s Penis and islamohomofeminazilibrulatheism, dontchaknow.

161 teleskiguy  Jun 25, 2014 11:51:46pm

re: #160 Blue Fielder

Certainly the [offensive racial epithet] in the White House for the past six years has inflamed the crazies among us.

Me? I see a lot of business as usual. Then again, I’m in a mountain valley in Colorado.

162 RadicalModerate  Jun 26, 2014 1:38:56am

Ann Coulter turning the derp up to 11 now,

America’s favorite national pastime: Hating soccer

I’ve held off on writing about soccer for a decade — or about the length of the average soccer game — so as not to offend anyone. But enough is enough. Any growing interest in soccer can only be a sign of the nation’s moral decay.

Of course there’s more than a dash of racist flavoring…

If more “Americans” are watching soccer today, it’s only because of the demographic switch effected by Teddy Kennedy’s 1965 immigration law. I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer. One can only hope that, in addition to learning English, these new Americans will drop their soccer fetish with time.

Of course it is probably lost to her that her biggest fans in Europe also happen to be hardcore soccer fans as well.

163 Lidane  Jun 26, 2014 2:02:06am

re: #162 RadicalModerate

I promise you: No American whose great-grandfather was born here is watching soccer.

And I can promise Ann Coulter that she’s full of shit. As usual.

My family’s been in what is now Texas since the American colonies were still part of England. I’m watching the World Cup. There are tons of people who have deep roots in this country that watch soccer. Hell, some of them even play it.

I guess that racist harpy wrote her column early. You’d think she’d be focused on Thad Cochran. Guess she’s saving that pile of fail for her next screed.

164 Archangelus  Jun 26, 2014 3:35:25am

re: #153 teleskiguy

“What incident? Which incident? I don’t know what incident you’re talking about.”

-Uruguay captain Daniel Lugano, when asked about the Suarez bite allegations.

[Embedded content]

Suarez

165 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 26, 2014 3:51:26am

Are there any lizards living in Wyoming, especially near Lander? I have an urgent request if so.

166 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 3:58:36am

re: #132 The War TARDIS

I know you’re probably in bed now, but if you were a woman, you might have always known that “original sin” is a big fat lie. In fact, whether you believe in the Lilith and/or Eve versions of the Adam myth, at some point you would say WTF and realize what a set up against women all religion really is.

167 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Jun 26, 2014 3:58:40am

re: #165 wheat-dogghazi

Are there any lizards living in Wyoming, especially near Lander? I have an urgent request if so.

Least populous US state.

168 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 26, 2014 4:04:42am

re: #167 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Least populous US state.

I know. I used to live there.

You could buy postcards that said: Wyoming, where men are men and sheep are nerrrvouusss!

Usually those were next to the jackalope postcards.

169 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 26, 2014 4:07:16am

re: #166 Justanotherhuman

I know you’re probably in bed now, but if you were a woman, you might have always known that “original sin” is a big fat lie. In fact, whether you believe in the Lilith and/or Eve versions of the Adam myth, at some point you would say WTF and realize what a set up against women all religion really is.

Original sin is not a Biblical concept, either. It was cooked up by St. Augustine and adopted wholeheartedly by people like Calvin centuries later.

170 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 4:16:04am

re: #167 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Least populous US state.

The Cheneys won’t let anyone else in? : )

More like 1/2 is public land and the rest of the liveable land is already taken by ranchers, miners and drillers? Plus, awful weather and isolation, too?

Only Alaska receives more Federal aid than Wyoming. Famous for diploma mills. seattletimes.com A new 2006 law was supposed to clean that up.

171 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 4:18:22am

When party crashing gets serious…

172 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 4:20:55am

re: #169 wheat-dogghazi

Original sin is not a Biblical concept, either. It was cooked up by St. Augustine and adopted wholeheartedly by people like Calvin centuries later.

The concept may not have had a name like original sin before Augustine, but the idea is always present that women are the inferior of men. When you believe that, it’s easy to believe anything else about us.

173 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 26, 2014 4:30:00am
174 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 4:33:40am

UN: Strong chance an El Nino weather event will reappear before end of 2014 and shake up climate patterns worldwide - @AP
Read more on abcnews.go.com

“The El Nino, a flow of unusually warm surface waters from the Pacific Ocean toward and along the western coast of South America, changes rain and temperature patterns around the world and usually raises global temperatures.

“An update Thursday from the Geneva-based World Meteorological Organization puts the odds of El Nino at 60 percent between June and August, rising to 75-80 percent between October and December. It said the expected warming would come on top of the effects of man-made global warming.

“El Nino leads to extreme events and has a pronounced warming effect,” said WMO Secretary-General Michel Jarraud. “It is too early to assess the precise impact on global temperatures in 2014, but we expect the long-term warming trend to continue as a result of rising greenhouse gas concentrations.” More

175 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 4:41:35am

very cool…

176 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 4:43:05am

GG hasn’t tweeted since the 24th.

Would a celebration be premature?

177 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 26, 2014 4:44:27am

re: #176 Justanotherhuman

GG hasn’t tweeted since the 24th.

Would a celebration be premature?

Yes.

178 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 4:51:41am

re: #177 Pie-onist Overlord

Yes.

In fact, there hasn’t been any news of him in 2 days if you google his name. At all.

If he weren’t such a fame whore, it wouldn’t be unusual. So, just askin’. : )

179 darthstar  Jun 26, 2014 4:55:52am

re: #178 Justanotherhuman

In fact, there hasn’t been any news of him in 2 days if you google his name. At all.

If he weren’t such a fame whore, it wouldn’t be unusual. So, just askin’. : )

Want to fuck with him? Tell him he was just a blogger until Edward Snowden made him famous, and after Snowden fades he’ll just be a blogger again.

180 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 26, 2014 4:56:51am

re: #178 Justanotherhuman

In fact, there hasn’t been any news of him in 2 days if you google his name. At all.

If he weren’t such a fame whore, it wouldn’t be unusual. So, just askin’. : )

Maybe Obama’s seekrit operatives got him and now he’s at Gitmo.

181 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 4:57:57am

Rare rainbow clouds over London.

itv.com

Rainbow Clouds

182 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 5:00:15am

re: #180 Pie-onist Overlord

Maybe Obama’s seekrit operatives got him and now he’s at Gitmo.

I can imagine the dudebrosphere exploding if that happened. ; )

183 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 26, 2014 5:03:57am

re: #182 Justanotherhuman

I can imagine the dudebrosphere exploding if that happened. ; )

They’d be too scared, knowing they might be next.

184 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 5:10:20am

and in protest news:

Protesting Thai reader of Orwell’s 1984 dragged off by police in Bangkok

A Thai reporter who witnessed the lone man reading Orwell’s classic said he was taken away by half a dozen plainclothes police. The reporter said the man held the book up as officers approached.
When questioned, the man said he was reading the book for “liberty, equality and fraternity” - the slogan of the French Revolution. The man was also playing the French national anthem on his smartphone.

185 BongCrodny  Jun 26, 2014 5:12:44am

re: #153 teleskiguy

“What incident? Which incident? I don’t know what incident you’re talking about.”

-Uruguay captain Daniel Lugano, when asked about the Suarez bite allegations.

[Embedded content]

Mike Tyson sympathizes.

186 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 5:14:31am

Going to be some travel delays for today’s USA-Germany match.

187 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 5:19:47am

And, right on cue, GG’s Twitter timeline becomes active again.

188 Timothy Watson  Jun 26, 2014 5:20:55am

re: #187 Justanotherhuman

And, right on cue, GG’s Twitter timeline becomes active again.

You didn’t knock on wood, did you?

189 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 5:21:22am
190 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 5:22:54am

Is GG throwing over the Trotskyites?

191 Romantic Heretic  Jun 26, 2014 5:23:51am

re: #169 wheat-dogghazi

Original sin is not a Biblical concept, either. It was cooked up by St. Augustine and adopted wholeheartedly by people like Calvin centuries later.

Well, it’s a lot easier to keep people in line if they are scared shitless for their immortal souls. It’s also handy for making monsters out of other people.

We have washed our souls clean! Those people will corrupt us once again! We must destroy them!

192 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 5:30:00am

Will we ever hear, “I’m retiring from public life to spend more time with my family” from GG?

It can’t come too soon.

193 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 5:35:41am

I hope she can just get on with her life now.

Sudanese Christian woman freed again after being detained on accusations of forging travel documents - @AP
End of alert

194 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 5:40:44am

Doesn’t look promising:

195 Timothy Watson  Jun 26, 2014 5:44:49am

re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth

Doesn’t look promising:

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GLOBAL COOLING!!!1!

196 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 26, 2014 5:48:42am

Since we had some overly large watches posted earlier… here’s one that keeps showing up on ads for me…. Why do they even think I want this????

2 Watches, Thermometer, Compass, $19.95

Yea… I don’t think so…

RBS

197 Dr Lizardo  Jun 26, 2014 5:48:51am

re: #193 Justanotherhuman

I hope she can just get on with her life now.

Sudanese Christian woman freed again after being detained on accusations of forging travel documents - @AP
End of alert

I hope not only that, but that some numbnuts bureaucrat doesn’t come up with something new and creative as a reason to detain her. She should get the hell out of Sudan ASAP.

198 Dr Lizardo  Jun 26, 2014 5:50:58am

re: #196 RealityBasedSteve

Since we had some overly large watches posted earlier… here’s one that keeps showing up on ads for me…. Why do they even think I want this????

2 Watches, Thermometer, Compass, $19.95

Yea… I don’t think so…

RBS

Eech.

Only one large watch I want.

199 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 26, 2014 5:53:28am

re: #198 Dr Lizardo

Eech.

Only one large watch I want.

[Embedded image]

Morning Doc. I bet that’s more than 19.95

RBS

200 Timothy Watson  Jun 26, 2014 5:54:25am

re: #196 RealityBasedSteve

Since we had some overly large watches posted earlier… here’s one that keeps showing up on ads for me…. Why do they even think I want this????

2 Watches, Thermometer, Compass, $19.95

Yea… I don’t think so…

RBS

How very steampunk…

201 Decatur Deb  Jun 26, 2014 5:55:10am

Watches are so XX Cent.

202 Dr Lizardo  Jun 26, 2014 5:55:23am

re: #199 RealityBasedSteve

Morning Doc. I bet that’s more than 19.95

RBS

Morning.

Yep, a good deal more than $19.95. Panerai usually runs in the thousands.

203 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 26, 2014 5:55:51am

re: #196 RealityBasedSteve

Since we had some overly large watches posted earlier… here’s one that keeps showing up on ads for me…. Why do they even think I want this????

2 Watches, Thermometer, Compass, $19.95

Yea… I don’t think so…

RBS

Guaranteed to be made in China. Guaranteed to stop working within 6 months or none of your money back.

Though the Chinese-made watch I bought 3 years ago is still working on the same battery and keeps perfect time. Only problem is the lettering on the timer dial is coming off and the adjustment knob tends to unscrew if I am not careful setting the date. Cost me $40.

204 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 5:56:59am

re: #197 Dr Lizardo

I hope not only that, but that some numbnuts bureaucrat doesn’t come up with something new and creative as a reason to detain her. She should get the hell out of Sudan ASAP.

I think she is trying. May be coming to the US.

205 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 6:01:30am

And how is your day?

Mine is overcast and humid. Not as bad as NOLA, the difference in latitude makes the sun seem kinder.

you?

206 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 6:03:03am

re: #191 Romantic Heretic

Well, it’s a lot easier to keep people in line if they are scared shitless for their immortal souls. It’s also handy for making monsters out of other people.

We have washed our souls clean! Those people will corrupt us once again! We must destroy them!

QFT

207 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 6:04:08am

re: #201 Decatur Deb

Watches are so XX Cent.

I never liked wearing one and haven’t for years. Hate anything on my wrists, never wore bracelets, either, and despise anyone grabbing me by the wrist or holding me by the wrist. For some reason, that sets me up into defense mode. : )

208 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 6:05:31am

another picture of the flooding on the way to today’s US-Germany match.

209 Dr Lizardo  Jun 26, 2014 6:07:08am

re: #208 Backwoods_Sleuth

another picture of the flooding on the way to today’s US-Germany match.

[Embedded content]

Bully! (in the Teddy Roosevelt sense, of course)

210 Flounder  Jun 26, 2014 6:08:49am

re: #198 Dr Lizardo

Looks nice, but I can’t tell the time on those :)

211 Dr Lizardo  Jun 26, 2014 6:09:15am

re: #210 Flounder

Looks nice, but I can’t tell the time on those :)

:D

“What are those stick thingies for?”

212 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 6:10:06am

Interestingly enough, a cab driver in NOLA told us that “Fast Talking Bobby is on his way out”

heh

213 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 6:10:46am

Have a crock pot of pinto beans cooking, with a large Vidalia onion, minced garlic, a generous sprinking of red pepper flakes, salt and black pepper. The onion just about melts down while cooking. Will serve with ginger-coconut rice and a nice mesclun salad for supper. Probably will have enough beans left over for a ground turkey chili in a couple of days.

214 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 6:11:03am

re: #207 Justanotherhuman

I never liked wearing one and haven’t for years. Hate anything on my wrists, never wore bracelets, either, and despise anyone grabbing me by the wrist or holding me by the wrist. For some reason, that sets me up into defense mode. : )

I don’t like anything on my wrists either. Drives me crazy.

215 darthstar  Jun 26, 2014 6:11:25am

Interactive map with 984 ways the US can advance today

nytimes.com

216 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 6:13:27am

re: #215 darthstar

Interactive map with 984 ways the US can advance today

nytimes.com

Oh, damn. It’s a crummy chart for soccer.

Thought it was about improving the country. : )

217 Decatur Deb  Jun 26, 2014 6:16:10am

re: #207 Justanotherhuman

I never liked wearing one and haven’t for years. Hate anything on my wrists, never wore bracelets, either, and despise anyone grabbing me by the wrist or holding me by the wrist. For some reason, that sets me up into defense mode. : )

Don’t care about watches or clocks, just want to know the time every once in a while. There’s always an app for that in the environment.

218 Timothy Watson  Jun 26, 2014 6:16:12am

re: #215 darthstar

Interactive map with 984 ways the US can advance today

nytimes.com

Methinks you soccer fans need to come up with a better system…

*ducks*

219 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 6:18:53am

good freaking grief…

The Ottawa County Sheriff’s Department says the shell came from a historic artillery canon fired at the gun show.
The gun range owner says the weapon was fired safely by professionals at a downward projection.
“It was not on a level plane, but on a downward trend, pointed downhill in the bottom of a valley,” said Mike Friend, Owner of Fast Machine Gun Shoot. “For that thing to rise and go far northwest of the range, it’s just unheard of.”
Both he and the homeowner describe it as an absurd occurrence.
“It’s a freak accident because as far as the safety end of everything, we drill every one of our shooters before it ever begins,” Friend said. “We have 30-45 minute drill.”
“It was definitely a freakish accident that happened,” Kelley said.
The weapon owner has agreed to pay for all damages to the Kelley home.

220 Flounder  Jun 26, 2014 6:20:21am

I always get the willies driving behind flat bed trucks, here is why:

A driver was decapitated while trying to flee police in Brooklyn — when his car slammed into the back of a flatbed truck Tuesday, sources said.

221 Flounder  Jun 26, 2014 6:21:16am

re: #219 Backwoods_Sleuth

Sure it wasn’t Myth Busters!?

222 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 6:26:31am
223 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 6:31:54am

re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Bob knows they make enough profit on their cheap products.

224 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 26, 2014 6:33:14am
225 Decatur Deb  Jun 26, 2014 6:33:28am

re: #219 Backwoods_Sleuth

good freaking grief…

[Embedded content]

“Freak accident”, an accident involving freaks.

226 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 6:34:13am

re: #225 Decatur Deb

“Freak accident”, an accident involving freaks.

“fired safely by professionals…”

227 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 6:34:45am

Meet the Groups Fighting Against Limits on Restraining School Kids

Republicans say it is a matter of states’ rights.

228 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 6:35:59am

and MOHR rain!

229 Decatur Deb  Jun 26, 2014 6:36:11am

re: #226 Backwoods_Sleuth

“fired safely by professionals…”

Who don’t know how to spell ‘cannon’.

230 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 6:36:56am

re: #229 Decatur Deb

Who don’t know how to spell ‘cannon’.

“canon” — it’s a religious thing, after all…

231 lawhawk  Jun 26, 2014 6:37:50am

re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth

“canon” — it’s a religious thing, after all…

Especially if you’re a Nikon acolyte.

232 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 6:38:18am
233 Decatur Deb  Jun 26, 2014 6:38:24am

re: #230 Backwoods_Sleuth

“canon” — it’s a religious thing, after all…

Historic Canon:

Image: 7989407965_6d8239f585_z.jpg

234 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 6:38:57am

Why this hasn’t been more of a scandal, I don’t understand. Well, I do.

235 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 6:41:21am

re: #214 FemNaziBitch

I don’t like anything on my wrists either. Drives me crazy.

I can’t say I’ve had any negative experiences with anyone restraining me by the wrists. I’ve always hated it. Even tight cuffs on blouses make me nuts.

Used to make me wonder about past life experiences.

236 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 6:44:12am

Search the 935 Iraq War false statements

Key false statements

237 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 6:44:53am

re: #227 FemNaziBitch

Meet the Groups Fighting Against Limits on Restraining School Kids

Republicans say it is a matter of states’ rights.

The same ones would bring back the rack and the iron maiden. You bet.

238 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 6:46:17am

re: #233 Decatur Deb

Historic Canon:

Image: 7989407965_6d8239f585_z.jpg

I’ve got one of these:
Nikkormat Argus

239 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 6:50:45am

re: #235 FemNaziBitch

I can’t say I’ve had any negative experiences with anyone restraining me by the wrists. I’ve always hated it. Even tight cuffs on blouses make me nuts.

Used to make me wonder about past life experiences.

Makes me wonder about early life experiences, before memories set in. I have a baby photo of me sitting up and I’m holding one wrist with the other hand. It was a studio portrait so it could have just been staged.

240 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 6:51:03am

hey, ggt!

241 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 6:51:50am
242 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 6:51:57am

re: #240 Backwoods_Sleuth

hey, ggt!

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I WAAAANNNNNTTTTT ONE!

(or two)

243 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 6:52:14am

re: #242 FemNaziBitch

I WAAAANNNNNTTTTT ONE!

(or two)

:D

244 Killgore Trout  Jun 26, 2014 6:52:22am

Zionist plot!
Israel tells U.S. Kurdish independence is “foregone conclusion”

Israel told the United States on Thursday Kurdish independence in northern Iraq was a “foregone conclusion” and Israeli experts predicted the Jewish state would be quick to recognise a Kurdish state, should it emerge.

Israel has maintained discreet military, intelligence and business ties with the Kurds since the 1960s, seeing in the minority ethnic group a buffer against shared Arab adversaries.

245 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 6:53:45am

WTF is up with Boner’s lawsuit against Obama?

Less than 2 years left in this administration. Can they find something else on which to waste resources?

I dunno, like condoms.

:0

246 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 6:54:48am
247 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 6:55:11am

Look at the ears!!!!

248 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 6:55:28am
249 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 6:56:37am

And if it happens again, kick the bum out.

More: FIFA also bans Uruguay’s Luis Suarez for 4 months from all soccer-related activity; also fined 100,000 Swiss Francs - @TeleFootball
End of alert

250 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 7:00:39am
251 danarchy  Jun 26, 2014 7:05:53am

re: #229 Decatur Deb

Who don’t know how to spell ‘cannon’.

To be fair, it was the reporter who can’t spell. I doubt the Sheriff or the owner wrote out a statement for the press.

252 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 26, 2014 7:08:32am

I’m not a big watch person…. it’s just a tool for me. My 99% of the time watch is a Timex Expedition analog, no Date/Time, nothing but 3 hands and an indiglo dial. First one lasted 3 years, this one is on it’s second band (nylon), the waterproof leather one finally broke after 2 years. I never take it off, swimming / showers / sleep. For ‘fancy’ occasions I have a nice thin dark dress watch.

I also wear my watch on my left arm (right handed) and on the INSIDE of my wrist.

RBS

253 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 7:11:44am

Today at the Supreme Court:

254 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 7:14:38am

re: #253 Backwoods_Sleuth

255 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 26, 2014 7:14:46am

Dumbest Man On Teh Internets “BOMBSHELL” Du Jour
DUH! People move. Their names stay on the registry in their former states. In order to get your name taken off the registry in previous state you have to show up in person or submit a certified letter.

256 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 26, 2014 7:16:11am

My kids are still listed on the registry as residing at my address even though they all moved away more than 10 years ago. I can’t get them taken off the registry.

257 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 7:16:50am

hmmm…

258 Dr. Matt  Jun 26, 2014 7:17:34am

re: #255 Pie-onist Overlord

Dumbest Man On Teh Internets “BOMBSHELL” Du Jour
DUH! People move. Their names stay on the registry in their former states. In order to get your name taken off the registry in previous state you have to show up in person or submit a certified letter.

I tried to comment, but I have been blocked by the dipshit pundit. He’s such a derp, that it isn’t even a badge of honor.

259 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 7:17:51am

re: #251 danarchy

To be fair, it was the reporter who can’t spell. I doubt the Sheriff or the owner wrote out a statement for the press.

But no doubt firing a cannon is in the 2nd Amendment crowd’s canon.

260 Dr. Matt  Jun 26, 2014 7:21:20am

Another “freak accident”….because, ya know, they were just “playing”

13-year-old WA boy kills 14-year-old friend while playfully pointing rifles at one another

261 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 26, 2014 7:22:23am

I lived in KY for many years, then moved to southern Indiana (the sunny side of Louisville). Election laws for expats allow us to vote in federal elections by absentee ballot in the state of our last residence before expatriation. So, I’ve been voting in Indiana since I came to China.

I’m quite sure my name is on the rolls in both states. My US driver’s license now has a Kentucky address, so if i wanted to, I suppose could really mess with the system — if I happened to be in KY on election day.

262 lawhawk  Jun 26, 2014 7:23:49am

re: #253 Backwoods_Sleuth

The ruling was unanimous (though Scalia, Roberts, Alito, and Thomas concurred on different grounds). Basically, the President is entitled to make intra-session recess appointments, but a 3-day recess is an insufficiently long recess period for which the President can take advantage of the recess appointment right.

I agree that a 1-hour or 1 day recess is insufficiently long for a recess appointment, but Congress has regularly tried limiting the right of the President to make recess appointments even though they have the Constitutional right to do so. And they’ll schedule sessions that try to keep the President from doing just that, even though no actual business is conducted.

263 Eventual Carrion  Jun 26, 2014 7:24:41am

re: #255 Pie-onist Overlord

Dumbest Man On Teh Internets “BOMBSHELL” Du Jour
DUH! People move. Their names stay on the registry in their former states. In order to get your name taken off the registry in previous state you have to show up in person or submit a certified letter.

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Many dead people are still on the rolls years after their death.

264 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 7:25:05am

Impeach!

Scalia accuses the majority of “judicial adventurism” is his bench statement, in making up presumptive standards about how long of a recess is too short.
by krussell 10:17 AM
Comment
- See more at: live.scotusblog.com

More: Supreme Court says President Obama exceeded his authority when he invoked the Constitution’s provision on recess appointments to fill slots on the NLRB in 2012 - @AP
End of alert

265 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 7:28:56am

This is the provision of the Constitution the President would use to
force a recess so that s/he could make a recess appointment: “[The President] may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper.”
by tgoldstein 10:27 AM
Comment

To answer a common question, the Chief Justice automatically becomes the most senior Justice on the Court when he takes the bench. So although he has not been on the Court as long as Breyer, we could still hear from him today for sure.
by Amy Howe 10:27 AM
Comment

Although the President can adjourn the Congress if the two houses of Congress cannot agree when to adjourn, I’m not aware of that power ever being exercised, so it’s untested.
by tgoldstein 10:26 AM
Comment
- See more at: live.scotusblog.com

266 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 7:30:19am

VOCABULARY WORD OF THE DAY:

puce

PRONUNCIATION:
(pyoos)

MEANING:
noun: A dark red or brownish purple color.
adjective: Of this color.

ETYMOLOGY:
From French puce (flea), from Latin pulex (flea). Earliest documented use: 1778. Other terms coined after the flea are flea market, a direct translation of French marché aux puces and ukulele (from Hawaiian, literally leaping flea, perhaps from the rapid motion of the fingers in playing it).

USAGE:
“An increasingly puce Mr Farage complained about Britain’s loss of sovereignty.”
The Third Man; The Economist (London, UK); Mar 29, 2014.

267 Decatur Deb  Jun 26, 2014 7:30:31am

re: #238 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’ve got one of these:
Nikkormat Argus

Nikon’s marriage with the Argus C3? Miscegenation!!

268 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 7:30:50am

well crap

269 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 7:31:11am
270 Romantic Heretic  Jun 26, 2014 7:31:22am

re: #235 FemNaziBitch

I can’t say I’ve had any negative experiences with anyone restraining me by the wrists. I’ve always hated it. Even tight cuffs on blouses make me nuts.

Used to make me wonder about past life experiences.

I have the same problem with ties. No matter how loose I feel like I’m choking.

And being such a snarly individualist I can’t help but imagine them as a metaphor for slave collars.

271 Flounder  Jun 26, 2014 7:32:09am

Time for a tasteless joke:
I knew this neighborhood was classy enough for me when I saw there is a “Pregnant Only” parking spot in front of the Liquor store.

272 Bulworth  Jun 26, 2014 7:32:19am

re:
#255

So this whole ‘registered to vote’ and ‘voting’ thing really seems to bother these folks.

273 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 7:32:39am

re: #268 Backwoods_Sleuth

well crap

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I suppose sometimes the First Amendment can be messy.

274 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 7:32:45am

re: #263 Eventual Carrion

Many dead people are still on the rolls years after their death.

Ohio has requested my Dad’s death certificate. I sent it once already.

It irritates me. If all his creditors, the IRS, Social Security and Veteran’s Administration knew he passed within days with out me lifting a finger.

275 Targetpractice  Jun 26, 2014 7:33:07am

re: #269 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Figures that they’d drag that one out as long as possible.

276 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 7:35:09am

re: #270 Romantic Heretic

I have the same problem with ties. No matter how loose I feel like I’m choking.

And being such a snarly individualist I can’t help but imagine them as a metaphor for slave collars.

Yeah, I’ve never understood ties. I understand, in the past before buttons and such were cheap enough for most people to purchase a tie was an effective closure. But it seems very much like a noose to me.

I don’t like tight collars either. Or haram pants with those ankle cuffs.

277 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 7:35:57am

re: #275 Targetpractice

Figures that they’d drag that one out as long as possible.

Scalia is looking for an excuse to rule in HL’s favor, no doubt.

278 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 7:36:07am
279 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 7:37:13am

I’m simply doomed:

Station: Chicago Area (Melrose Park), IL
Joseph G. Leija, MD FAAAAI
Station Head(s): Joseph G. Leija, MD FAAAAI
Date of Pollen and Mold Count: 06/26/2014

*********************************
Pollen & Mold Summary
*********************************
Trees: Low Concentration
Weeds: Moderate Concentration
Grass: Moderate Concentration
Mold: High Concentration

280 Self Respecting Woman Voter Against the GOP  Jun 26, 2014 7:37:17am

re: #156 teleskiguy

He’s demonstrated a pattern of violence. I hope FIFA suspends him.

They should ban him for life.

281 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 7:38:09am
282 GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 26, 2014 7:38:24am

re: #255 Pie-onist Overlord

Dumbest Man On Teh Internets “BOMBSHELL” Du Jour
DUH! People move. Their names stay on the registry in their former states. In order to get your name taken off the registry in previous state you have to show up in person or submit a certified letter.

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How does the world work? I still live in mom’s basement!

Someone should check his name on voter registrations. I bet he’s on more than one. Assuming he doesn’t still live with mommy.

283 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 7:38:33am

Finally started reading Caravans, by James Michener.

Easy enough read. Seems a little simplified.

284 Targetpractice  Jun 26, 2014 7:39:43am

re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Same reason that various locals have permitted guns to be carried absolutely everywhere…except in the legislature.

285 GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 26, 2014 7:39:57am

re: #280 Sionainn

They should ban him for life.

Ban thugs like him for life, and enlist all the faking-penalty guys on Broadway.

286 Self Respecting Woman Voter Against the GOP  Jun 26, 2014 7:40:31am

re: #260 Dr. Matt

Another “freak accident”….because, ya know, they were just “playing”

13-year-old WA boy kills 14-year-old friend while playfully pointing rifles at one another

Why would they be carrying rifles around that were not loaded? Ugh. Even though I never handled a gun until I was an adult, my dad hunted sometimes and we always knew to assume that a weapon was loaded and that you NEVER pointed it at someone.

287 sattv4u2  Jun 26, 2014 7:42:12am

re: #280 Sionainn

They should ban him for life.

4 months

(total of 9 matches)

288 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 7:42:24am

re: #286 Sionainn

Why would they be carrying rifles around that were not loaded? Ugh. Even though I never handled a gun until I was an adult, my dad hunted sometimes and we always knew to assume that a weapon was loaded and that you NEVER pointed it at someone.

I think that one good thing about the draft is that every eligible young man learned proper handling of firearms. It was drilled into them.

No one does that these days.

289 Romantic Heretic  Jun 26, 2014 7:42:35am

re: #272 Bulworth

re:
#255

So this whole ‘registered to vote’ and ‘voting’ thing really seems to bother these folks.

People like him are to a person authoritarians. They’d have an anchor wrapped around the neck of voting and dump it in the ocean if they’re ever given the power to do so.

They believe the only reason a person dissents from their beliefs is stupidity or evil. Both of which exclude the right to vote.

Pot, meet kettle.

290 Targetpractice  Jun 26, 2014 7:42:47am

re: #286 Sionainn

Why would they be carrying rifles around that were not loaded? Ugh. Even though I never handled a gun until I was an adult, my dad hunted sometimes and we always knew to assume that a weapon was loaded and that you NEVER pointed it at someone.

That was drilled into my head before I touched the gun for the first time, don’t point a gun at another person, even in jest. Even if it’s not loaded, don’t point it at another person. Because he might think it is, and then you’re in a whole world of trouble.

This isn’t exactly what I thought when all those “gun rights” folks told me that the key to cutting down on gun accidents was teaching kids to “respect” guns.

291 Self Respecting Woman Voter Against the GOP  Jun 26, 2014 7:42:50am

re: #268 Backwoods_Sleuth

well crap

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WTF? Now I need to read the decision.

292 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 7:44:39am

re: #291 Sionainn

WTF? Now I need to read the decision.

opinion (PDF)

293 Self Respecting Woman Voter Against the GOP  Jun 26, 2014 7:44:41am

re: #287 sattv4u2

4 months

(total of 9 matches)

This is the third time he’s done it. He should be done with professional soccer.

294 sattv4u2  Jun 26, 2014 7:45:45am

re: #293 Sionainn

This is the third time he’s done it. He should be done with professional soccer.

Here’s FIFA’s official statement in full:

fifa.com

295 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 7:47:14am

PM Modi climbs to 4th place among world leaders’ Twitter ranks as India lumbers into Age of Twiplomacy

2nd VOCABULARY WORD OF THE DAY:

Twiplomacy
Definition - What does Twiplomacy mean?

Twiplomacy refers to the use of Twitter and other social media sites by government agencies and officials to engage with the public, disperse information and even leverage global influence. The term emerged from an August 2012 report from Geneva based public relations firm Burson-Marsteller, which studied world leaders on Twitter and attempted to illustrate how social media is closing the gap between these leaders and the public they serve.

296 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 26, 2014 7:49:03am

re: #295 FemNaziBitch

PM Modi climbs to 4th place among world leaders’ Twitter ranks as India lumbers into Age of Twiplomacy

2nd VOCABULARY WORD OF THE DAY:

If the leaders of China took to Sina Weibo (China’s homebrewed version of Twitter), no one would believe a word they said.

297 Timothy Watson  Jun 26, 2014 7:49:10am

re: #295 FemNaziBitch

PM Modi climbs to 4th place among world leaders’ Twitter ranks as India lumbers into Age of Twiplomacy

2nd VOCABULARY WORD OF THE DAY:

Not to confused with twerplomacy, what Glenn Greenwald and his dudebros engage in.

298 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 7:50:05am

Afghanistan has the largest heroin production.

Way too much money involved in the War on Drugs.

299 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 26, 2014 7:50:18am

re: #297 Timothy Watson

Not to confused with twerplomacy, what GG and his dudebros engage in.

Or twerklomacy, which is Miley Cyrus’ version.

300 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 7:50:58am

World Drug Report 2014

link to site.

301 Self Respecting Woman Voter Against the GOP  Jun 26, 2014 7:52:38am

re: #292 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Stupid fuckers.

302 blueraven  Jun 26, 2014 7:52:54am

re: #268 Backwoods_Sleuth

My understanding is they struck down the 35 ft buffer zone because it included public walkways.

This does not mean (I don’t think) that some buffers can be established. Just not an arbitrary number of feet, that would include public space.

It was a unanimous decision.

303 danarchy  Jun 26, 2014 7:53:04am

re: #291 Sionainn

WTF? Now I need to read the decision.

I think the gist of it is that buffer zones are OK, but the massachusetts buffer zone of 35’ was excessive.

304 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 7:53:53am

re: #303 danarchy

I think the gist of it is that buffer zones are OK, but the massachusetts buffer zone of 35’ was excessive.

Because the Pregnancy Counselors need to be close enough to shout in the woman’s ear?

305 blueraven  Jun 26, 2014 7:53:54am
306 Self Respecting Woman Voter Against the GOP  Jun 26, 2014 7:54:50am

re: #294 sattv4u2

Here’s FIFA’s official statement in full:

fifa.com

Wusses. He’s supposed to be a professional. He’s clearly not, so he should be banned.

307 Decatur Deb  Jun 26, 2014 7:56:57am

re: #305 blueraven

SCOTUS signals that states can pass laws ensuring access to clinics but cannot more broadly ban speech on public streets and sidewalks.

Waiting for that to be applied to the “First Amendment Zones” established by GWB and continued under Obama.

308 Self Respecting Woman Voter Against the GOP  Jun 26, 2014 7:57:16am

re: #303 danarchy

I think the gist of it is that buffer zones are OK, but the massachusetts buffer zone of 35’ was excessive.

I had a friend who was an escort. The protestors would allow their little toddlers to play and sit right near and sometimes in the driveway entrance. It was dangerous.

These assholes should not have a right to harass women seeking medical treatment. There absolutely should be a limit to free speech if this is what it boils down to. Yeah, I’m pissed.

309 blueraven  Jun 26, 2014 7:57:28am

re: #303 danarchy

I think the gist of it is that buffer zones are OK, but the massachusetts buffer zone of 35’ was excessive.

I don’t think that is correct. It is about the public space, not the distance per se.

310 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 26, 2014 7:59:02am

Eleanor McCullen think she has a constitutional right to get all up in the face of any woman approaching a healthcare facility.

Apparently, SCOTUS thinks she has.

What about the right of any woman approaching a healthcare facility TO NOT HAVE HER FACE ALL GOT UP IN?

311 Killgore Trout  Jun 26, 2014 8:00:44am

Zionist-Western agenda to implement Biden project

An Islamic Fadhila Party leading member Suzan al-Saad warned of she described “Zionist agendas” trying to divide Iraq ranks, return of sectarianism and implementation of Biden Project to divide the country.

Ex-term Parliamentary MP of Basra, she added that the Zionists and the West are trying to make Iraq return to the killing on identity’s period in order to implement Biden Project to divide Iraq into small entities.

heh

312 Self Respecting Woman Voter Against the GOP  Jun 26, 2014 8:01:56am

re: #310 Pie-onist Overlord

Eleanor McCullen think she has a constitutional right to get all up in the face of any woman approaching a healthcare facility.

Apparently, SCOTUS thinks she has.

What about the right of any woman approaching a healthcare facility TO NOT HAVE HER FACE ALL GOT UP IN?

Truth. I’m so angry right now. I’ve got to get off the computer before I smash things.

313 BeachDem  Jun 26, 2014 8:02:27am

re: #268 Backwoods_Sleuth

well crap

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That’s distressing. Those protesters can be really aggressive.

314 sattv4u2  Jun 26, 2014 8:04:08am

re: #311 Killgore Trout

Biden Project

Funny. He doesn’t look Jewish Zionist
/

315 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 8:08:57am

How truly awful!

316 bratwurst  Jun 26, 2014 8:11:07am
317 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 26, 2014 8:11:44am
318 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 8:11:49am

Am I the only Lizard not interested in the World Cup?

319 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Jun 26, 2014 8:13:02am

re: #114 Gus

Gohmert!

Tohmert!

320 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Jun 26, 2014 8:13:34am

re: #318 FemNaziBitch

Am I the only Lizard not interested in the World Cup?

No. Except the bitey guy. That was sort of interesting.

321 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 26, 2014 8:13:50am

GOALMERT!!!!!

RBS

322 Decatur Deb  Jun 26, 2014 8:14:32am

re: #318 FemNaziBitch

Am I the only Lizard not interested in the World Cup?

Having trouble expressing disinterest without seeming interested.

323 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 8:15:05am

re: #322 Decatur Deb

Having trouble expressing disinterest without seeming interested.

is that a statement or a question?

324 Bubblehead II  Jun 26, 2014 8:15:23am

re: #318 FemNaziBitch

Am I the only Lizard not interested in the World Cup?

Nope. Hell, I thought the U.S. had already been eliminated after their last loss. Tells you right there how close I am following it.

325 Decatur Deb  Jun 26, 2014 8:15:42am

re: #323 FemNaziBitch

is that a statement or a question?

Who cares?

326 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 8:16:07am

re: #318 FemNaziBitch

Am I the only Lizard not interested in the World Cup?

327 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 26, 2014 8:17:01am

re: #326 Backwoods_Sleuth

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And it’s well known that Jesus was a goalie.

328 Targetpractice  Jun 26, 2014 8:17:40am

re: #327 Feline Fearless Leader

And it’s well known that Jesus was a goalie.

“Jesus saves, he shoots, he scores!”

329 Bulworth  Jun 26, 2014 8:18:07am

No, not interested in the soccer thing Cup. Except now with a smattering of RWNJ claiming its the end of Western Civilization, I’m inclined to think more highly of it.

330 blueraven  Jun 26, 2014 8:19:38am

re: #324 Bubblehead II

Nope. Hell, I thought the U.S. had already been eliminated after their last loss. Tells you right there how close I am following it.

I don’t think they have lost one, have they?

Won over Ghana
Tied with Brasil
ooops I have been told the tie was with Portugal

331 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 8:19:50am

re: #327 Feline Fearless Leader

And it’s well known that Jesus was a goalie.

I thought he was the scorekeeper?

332 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 8:20:14am

re: #331 FemNaziBitch

I thought he was the scorekeeper?

That would be his dad…

333 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 8:20:30am

re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth

That would be his dad…

ah!

334 Decatur Deb  Jun 26, 2014 8:20:33am

Off to get a chainsaw chain. BBL

335 danarchy  Jun 26, 2014 8:21:15am

re: #324 Bubblehead II

Nope. Hell, I thought the U.S. had already been eliminated after their last loss. Tells you right there how close I am following it.

Especially since the US hasn’t lost yet, they have a win and a draw ;)

336 danarchy  Jun 26, 2014 8:21:52am

re: #330 blueraven

I don’t think they have lost one, have they?

Won over Ghana
Tied with Brasil

Portugal

337 bratwurst  Jun 26, 2014 8:22:30am

re: #330 blueraven

I don’t think they have lost one, have they?

Won over Ghana
Tied with Brasil

The tie was with Portugal. The last match of the group stage starts in 40 minutes vs Germany. A win or a tie puts us through to the final 16. We can still make it with a loss, but would need some help from the Ghana/Portugal match also going on at the same time (basically a draw there or a Portugal win would do the trick).

338 Bulworth  Jun 26, 2014 8:23:10am

Brazil, Portugal, one of those Asian countries.

/

339 geoffm33  Jun 26, 2014 8:24:10am

re: #328 Targetpractice

“Jesus saves, he shoots, he scores!”

340 blueraven  Jun 26, 2014 8:25:52am

re: #336 danarchy

Portugal

Shows how close I am following!

341 Bubblehead II  Jun 26, 2014 8:27:09am

re: #330 blueraven

I don’t think they have lost one, have they?

Won over Ghana
Tied with Brasil

There you go I’ve haven’t a clue.

342 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 8:27:50am

bbl

343 blueraven  Jun 26, 2014 8:28:58am

re: #341 Bubblehead II

There you go I’ve haven’t a clue.

haha…me neither!

344 wrenchwench  Jun 26, 2014 8:33:05am

re: #310 Pie-onist Overlord

Eleanor McCullen think she has a constitutional right to get all up in the face of any woman approaching a healthcare facility.

Apparently, SCOTUS thinks she has.

What about the right of any woman approaching a healthcare facility TO NOT HAVE HER FACE ALL GOT UP IN?

345 Bubblehead II  Jun 26, 2014 8:42:24am

BBBwwwaaahahaha. The Idaho GOP is self destructing.

Curiouser and curiouser: Idaho GOP loses lone staffer, phones unanswered

The lone remaining paid staffer at the Idaho Republican Party is gone, apparently leaving the party office unmanned Thursday as the party continues to battle over whether Barry Peterson is party chairman.

346 Killgore Trout  Jun 26, 2014 8:42:56am

Update on yesterday’s work accident…
Saudi bombers planned attack on Hezbollah restaurant

A Saudi suicide bomber and his partner had planned to carry out an attack against a popular Hezbollah-affiliated restaurant in Beirut’s southern suburbs, a security source told The Daily Star Thursday.

The dead bomber and his partner were members of the radical group the Islamic State of Iraq and Greater Syria (ISIS), while a Syrian man who helped the pair plan the attack was a member of Liwa al-Tawheed, an armed Al-Qaeda offshoot group in Syria, the source said.
…
The would-be Saudi bomber, Abdul-Rahman al-Shnifi, who suffered severe burns after his partner blew himself up to evade arrest during a raid on his hotel room, told interrogators that the pair planned to carry out a double suicide attack outside As-Saha restaurant.

347 GlutenFreeJesus  Jun 26, 2014 8:43:10am

re: #345 Bubblehead II

BBBwwwaaahahaha. The Idaho GOP is self destructing.

Curiouser and curiouser: Idaho GOP loses lone staffer, phones unanswered

The lone remaining paid staffer at the Idaho Republican Party is gone, apparently leaving the party office unmanned Thursday as the party continues to battle over whether Barry Peterson is party chairman.

Well, there go their 4 electoral votes!

348 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 26, 2014 8:43:50am

re: #338 Bulworth

Brazil, Portugal, one of those Asian countries.

/

Near Australia, somewhere.

349 lawhawk  Jun 26, 2014 8:44:27am

re: #345 Bubblehead II

They haven’t been the same since Larry Craig went toe-tapping…

350 Targetpractice  Jun 26, 2014 8:45:10am

re: #345 Bubblehead II

BBBwwwaaahahaha. The Idaho GOP is self destructing.

Curiouser and curiouser: Idaho GOP loses lone staffer, phones unanswered

The lone remaining paid staffer at the Idaho Republican Party is gone, apparently leaving the party office unmanned Thursday as the party continues to battle over whether Barry Peterson is party chairman.

Is it just me or does it seem like the GOP, convinced they’re headed for a big victory in November no matter what they say or do, are self-destructing through in-fighting?

351 lawhawk  Jun 26, 2014 8:48:50am

Meanwhile, we’re supposed to be outraged over this?

Congressional investigators say they uncovered emails Wednesday showing that a former Internal Revenue Service official at the heart of the tea party investigation sought an audit involving a Republican senator in 2012.

The emails show former IRS official Lois Lerner mistakenly received an invitation to an event that was meant to go to Sen. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa.

The event organizer apparently offered to pay for Grassley’s wife to attend the event. In an email to another IRS official, Lerner suggests referring the matter for an audit, saying it might be inappropriate for the group to pay for his wife.

“Perhaps we should refer to exam?” Lerner wrote.

It was unclear from the emails whether Lerner was suggesting that Grassley or the group be audited — or both.

The other IRS official, Matthew Giuliano, waved her off, saying an audit would be premature because Grassley hadn’t even accepted the invitation.

“It would be Grassley who would need to report the income,” Giuliano said.

The name of the event organizer was blacked out on copies of the emails released by the House Ways and Means Committee because they were considered confidential taxpayer information. Grassley and his wife signed waivers allowing their names to be released.

In a statement, Grassley’s office said the senator did not attend the event, and did not receive any invitation intended for Lerner.

So, Lerner inquires whether an audit would be needed into the activities of Grassley, the outside group, or both because of income reporting requirements, and gets waived off by Legal counsel for the IRS’s Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division Matthew Giuliano. IOW, it’s a nothing burger. The IRS is supposed to check to make sure that everyone reports the appropriate income, and Lerner was looking at this and was told by Giuliano the audit wasn’t necessary or warranted - because the event had yet to take place.

That isn’t targeting, it’s the IRS doing its job.

The GOP, of course, sees hidden conspiracies in everything the IRS does. They hate the fact it exists, so they’ll find any reason, no matter how strained, to create scandals where none exist.

352 Bubblehead II  Jun 26, 2014 8:50:06am

re: #350 Targetpractice

Is it just me or does it seem like the GOP, convinced they’re headed for a big victory in November no matter what they say or do, are self-destructing through in-fighting?

Oh, they are self destructing. The TPers will not be happy until they purge all the RINO’s from the Party. The “Establishment” Republicans are slowly starting to push back at them and when it comes to all out war, the Party will implode in the most spectacular way.

353 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 8:52:55am

The big earth moving machines are being employed to keep road construction workers on the job on my street.

I swear the whole block is shaking. My desk is shaking.

354 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 26, 2014 8:54:06am

re: #353 FemNaziBitch

The big earth moving machines are being employed to keep road construction workers on the job on my street.

I swear the whole block is shaking. My desk is shaking.

Dig we must.
— (in)famous Con Edison signage

355 lawhawk  Jun 26, 2014 8:54:10am
356 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 8:54:35am

re: #350 Targetpractice

Is it just me or does it seem like the GOP, convinced they’re headed for a big victory in November no matter what they say or do, are self-destructing through in-fighting?

Well, they didn’t learn when Dicky Morris and Karl Rove got it wrong last time. They preach to the choir, causes a bit of inbreeding of thought.

357 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 8:55:56am

re: #344 wrenchwench

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While I don’t necessarily condone the sentiment, I like the thought process.

358 Timothy Watson  Jun 26, 2014 8:56:06am

re: #345 Bubblehead II

BBBwwwaaahahaha. The Idaho GOP is self destructing.

Curiouser and curiouser: Idaho GOP loses lone staffer, phones unanswered

The lone remaining paid staffer at the Idaho Republican Party is gone, apparently leaving the party office unmanned Thursday as the party continues to battle over whether Barry Peterson is party chairman.

Man, that’s some hilarious stuff right there.

359 wrenchwench  Jun 26, 2014 8:56:51am
360 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 8:56:55am

re: #343 blueraven

haha…me neither!

I hear someone around here has a cluebat.

361 sattv4u2  Jun 26, 2014 8:57:07am

re: #339 geoffm33

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I had the bumper sticker “back in the day”

362 Bulworth  Jun 26, 2014 8:57:26am

WHY HASNT DICTATOR OBAMA HAD SUPREME COURT LOCKED IN FEMA CAMPS WITH ALL WINGNUTS YET?????

363 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 8:57:46am

re: #349 lawhawk

They haven’t been the same since Larry Craig went toe-tapping…

Yes, because all forms of sex are vice and must be strictly denied in order to get in to heaven.

Unless Penis Pills are needed to make babies.

364 wrenchwench  Jun 26, 2014 8:58:14am

Not my rep., but a Representative from New Mexico:

365 Targetpractice  Jun 26, 2014 8:58:21am

re: #352 Bubblehead II

Oh, they are self destructing. The TPers will not be happy until they purge all the RINO’s from the Party. The “Establishment” Republicans are slowly starting to push back at them and when it comes to all out war, the Party will implode in the most spectacular way.

Indeed, it seems as though the TPers didn’t learn from their mistakes in the last two electoral cycles and have decided that they’re destined for huge wins in November, no matter who they run. The “establishment,” by contrast, realizes that they’ve lost very winnable seats two times running because of TPers on the ticket are now pushing back, if only to retain the gains they’ve made and achieve new ones.

366 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 8:58:55am

re: #355 lawhawk

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Definitely a way to get votes.

367 blueraven  Jun 26, 2014 8:59:13am

re: #351 lawhawk

Meanwhile, we’re supposed to be outraged over this?

So, Lerner inquires whether an audit would be needed into the activities of Grassley, the outside group, or both because of income reporting requirements, and gets waived off by Legal counsel for the IRS’s Tax Exempt and Government Entities Division Matthew Giuliano. IOW, it’s a nothing burger. The IRS is supposed to check to make sure that everyone reports the appropriate income, and Lerner was looking at this and was told by Giuliano the audit wasn’t necessary or warranted - because the event had yet to take place.

That isn’t targeting, it’s the IRS doing its job.

The GOP, of course, sees hidden conspiracies in everything the IRS does. They hate the fact it exists, so they’ll find any reason, no matter how strained, to create scandals where none exist.

even the very conservative Powerline blog isn’t buying this one.

JOHN adds: I don’t think Lerner meant to have Grassley investigated, but rather the nonprofit organization that issued the speaking invitation. It is helpful to see the emails. This is the one Lois Lerner sent after mistakenly receiving the invitation that was directed to Senator Grassley

Maybe this is an instance of Lerner being trigger-happy when it comes to going after conservative c3s and c4s. We can’t judge that without knowing more about the organization. But we know that the group issued the same invitation to Lerner that it did to Grassley, so there is no obvious basis, that I can see, for making such an assumption.

So I think Lerner is getting something of a bad rap on this one. I don’t see any indication that she wanted to throw a Republican senator in jail, and in the absence of more information, I don’t see any evidence that she wanted to persecute a conservative organization, either. The exchange does indicate that Lerner doesn’t know much about the law that she is charged with administering.

Presumably the organization that issued the invitation to Grassley will be able to identify itself, and maybe it will step forward with a narrative of persecution at the hands of the IRS. For now, though, my judgment is that this email thread may show an over-zealousness on Lois Lerner’s part, and a surprising lack of knowledge of the law that she administered. But I don’t think she was going after Charles Grassley, and so far, at least, I don’t see evidence that this was an instance of anti-conservative bias.

368 wrenchwench  Jun 26, 2014 8:59:16am
369 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 8:59:29am

re: #354 wheat-dogghazi

Dig we must.
— (in)famous Con Edison signage

I think it’s more a matter of boys with jackhammers.

370 lawhawk  Jun 26, 2014 8:59:55am

Todd Akin is back in the news (it is throw-back Thursday, after all, though I’m not sure throwing back to the Stone Age is what was intended).

371 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 9:00:30am

re: #368 wrenchwench

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ABL is absolutely on my list of favorites!

372 Bulworth  Jun 26, 2014 9:00:36am

re:
#367

POWERLINE is bunch of RINOS!!!??!111

373 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 9:01:20am

re: #370 lawhawk

Todd Akin is back in the news (it is throw-back Thursday, after all, though I’m not sure throwing back to the Stone Age is what was intended).

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I’d say Fuck Todd Akin, but I really wouldn’t come with in 20 feet of him for any reason.

374 Lidane  Jun 26, 2014 9:01:32am

Here we go. USA vs Germany.

*fingers crossed*

375 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 26, 2014 9:01:45am

re: #345 Bubblehead II

BBBwwwaaahahaha. The Idaho GOP is self destructing.

Curiouser and curiouser: Idaho GOP loses lone staffer, phones unanswered

The lone remaining paid staffer at the Idaho Republican Party is gone, apparently leaving the party office unmanned Thursday as the party continues to battle over whether Barry Peterson is party chairman.

sounds like a local community theater group.

RBS

376 lawhawk  Jun 26, 2014 9:02:45am

re: #367 blueraven

That’s the thing about the whole IRS kerfuffle. There’s lots of innuendo from the right wing about wrongdoing, and the IRS IG report indicated that the IRS used some inappropriate terms in selecting groups for audits, but the IG report also found that the terms hit across the political spectrum.

IOW, the IRS without having the funds to examine all applicants for nonprofit status, found a way to check - but the IG later found the methodology needed to be fixed.

Checks and balances within the agency - not an agency out of control - and certainly not a scandal that involves the President, which is what some GOPers are hoping for.

377 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 9:02:56am

I’m getting emails requesting money to Beat-Boehner.

It just seems like bad wording to me.

378 BeachDem  Jun 26, 2014 9:03:07am

Well, this could get interesting. Looks like Thomas Ravenel (former Treasurer, convicted cocaine distributor, current TV reality star) is going to launch an independent campaign against Lindsey Graham. It’s been rumored for several months, but this was in today’s paper.

myrtlebeachonline.com

He’s quite the sleaze—but if comments at IMDB are any indicator, there are those that find him “charming.”

imdb.com

379 wrenchwench  Jun 26, 2014 9:03:28am

re: #371 FemNaziBitch

ABL is absolutely on my list of favorites!

She’s on fire today.

380 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 9:03:31am

re: #376 lawhawk

That’s the thing about the whole IRS kerfuffle. There’s lots of innuendo from the right wing about wrongdoing, and the IRS IG report indicated that the IRS used some inappropriate terms in selecting groups for audits, but the IG report also found that the terms hit across the political spectrum.

IOW, the IRS without having the funds to examine all applicants for nonprofit status, found a way to check - but the IG later found the methodology needed to be fixed.

Checks and balances within the agency - not an agency out of control - and certainly not a scandal that involves the President, which is what some GOPers are hoping for.

Beating a non-scandal with a dead Boehner?

381 wrenchwench  Jun 26, 2014 9:05:27am

It should be ‘free rein’, not ‘free reign’, but whatever.

382 sattv4u2  Jun 26, 2014 9:05:36am

re: #374 Lidane

Here we go. USA vs Germany.

*fingers crossed*

keep an eye on the Ghana/ Portugal match too

a nil/ nil or even 1-1 draw is good for the USA also

383 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 26, 2014 9:06:43am

re: #353 FemNaziBitch

The big earth moving machines are being employed to keep road construction workers on the job on my street.

I swear the whole block is shaking. My desk is shaking.

My mind was aching…
And we were making it….

Cue the AC/DC Construction Crew….

Youtube Video

RBS

384 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 9:06:49am

GOP RAPE PERVERT HALL OF SHAME

never heard of this website before.

385 Dr. Matt  Jun 26, 2014 9:07:06am

re: #370 lawhawk

Todd Akin is back in the news (it is throw-back Thursday, after all, though I’m not sure throwing back to the Stone Age is what was intended).

Please proceed, Todd.

386 FemNaziBitch  Jun 26, 2014 9:08:29am

bbl

387 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 26, 2014 9:08:37am

re: #370 lawhawk

Todd Akin is back in the news (it is throw-back Thursday, after all, though I’m not sure throwing back to the Stone Age is what was intended).

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If we want to go pre-paleolithic, had Todd Killcanon (sp?) chimed in yet?

rbs

388 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 26, 2014 9:09:17am

re: #386 FemNaziBitch

bbl

I think she’s going to go dismember a road crew.

RBS

389 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 9:09:48am

Compare:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., Supreme Court recess appointments decision: ‘Since President Obama took office, Senate Republicans have done everything possible to deny qualified nominees from receiving a fair up-or-down vote. President Obama did the right thing when he made these appointments on behalf of American workers’ - @NBCNews
End of alert

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., says Supreme Court ruling in recess appointments ‘represents a clear rebuke to the President’s brazen power grab’ - @edatpost
End of alert

390 Dr. Matt  Jun 26, 2014 9:10:14am

My entire floor is very quiet and very empty.

391 Ian G.  Jun 26, 2014 9:10:33am

C’mon USA. I plan on going out for craft beers this evening with the Fiancee. I want to enjoy a nice German beer (Kolsch, Schwarzbier, doesn’t matter) in celebrating an ass-kicking handed to Germany.

Also, Ghana’s squad seems to be in off-field meltdown mode. Hopefully that translates into an on-field loss to Portugal.

392 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 9:11:13am

re: #378 BeachDem

Well, this could get interesting. Looks like Thomas Ravenel (former Treasurer, convicted cocaine distributor, current TV reality star) is going to launch an independent campaign against Lindsey Graham. It’s been rumored for several months, but this was in today’s paper.

myrtlebeachonline.com

He’s quite the sleaze—but if comments at IMDB are any indicator, there are those that find him “charming.”

imdb.com

You forgot “rich entitled white man”.

393 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 26, 2014 9:13:04am

I am so pissed about this Detroit water cutoff. WE HAVE THE MOST FRESH WATER IN THE ENTIRE WORLD FOR CHRIST FUCKING SAKE.

394 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 9:14:49am

re: #393 Pie-onist Overlord

I am so pissed about this Detroit water cutoff. WE HAVE THE MOST FRESH WATER IN THE ENTIRE WORLD FOR CHRIST FUCKING SAKE.

Looks like someone on yer page haz no sympathy.

395 BeachDem  Jun 26, 2014 9:15:33am

re: #392 Justanotherhuman

You forgot “rich entitled white man”.

It was implied ;-)

396 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 9:16:02am
397 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 9:17:52am

Today would be a great day for some brogressive manarchist “civil libertarian” to remind you that, “both parties are the same.”

398 wrenchwench  Jun 26, 2014 9:17:59am

re: #394 Backwoods_Sleuth

Looks like someone on yer page haz no sympathy.

Passive aggressive concern is not an adequate substitute?

/

399 wrenchwench  Jun 26, 2014 9:19:49am

re: #397 Gus

Today would be a great day for some brogressive manarchist “civil libertarian” to remind you that, “both parties are the same.”

If it hasn’t happened already, it will. If it has, it will again.

400 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 9:22:37am

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh on Supreme Court abortion clinic buffer zone decision: ‘I am extremely disappointed in the Supreme Court ruling today to overturn the buffer zone around health care facilities that provide abortion care. This law was passed with the support of law enforcement who wanted a strong mechanism for ensuring public safety and protecting the safety of health center patients and staff’ - via @NBCNews
End of alert

401 Timothy Watson  Jun 26, 2014 9:24:55am

re: #400 Justanotherhuman

Boston Mayor Marty Walsh on Supreme Court abortion clinic buffer zone decision: ‘I am extremely disappointed in the Supreme Court ruling today to overturn the buffer zone around health care facilities that provide abortion care. This law was passed with the support of law enforcement who wanted a strong mechanism for ensuring public safety and protecting the safety of health center patients and staff’ - via @NBCNews
End of alert

Does this mean that laws that prohibit electioneering within x feet of the door of a polling place are also unconstitutional?

402 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 9:25:26am

You would know about this, wouldn’t you, GG?

403 Targetpractice  Jun 26, 2014 9:26:52am

re: #401 Timothy Watson

Does this mean that laws that prohibit electioneering within x feet of the door of a polling place are also unconstitutional?

Oh, they haven’t challenged those…yet. But it does mean that the USSC has no sense of irony, considering the buffer zone outside the Court is way beyond 35 feet.

404 Zamb  Jun 26, 2014 9:27:18am

re: #401 Timothy Watson

Only if it’s for Jesus.

405 wrenchwench  Jun 26, 2014 9:27:44am

re: #401 Timothy Watson

Does this mean that laws that prohibit electioneering within x feet of the door of a polling place are also unconstitutional?

406 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 9:28:23am

re: #402 Justanotherhuman

You would know about this, wouldn’t you, GG?

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Hahahahaha!

407 Timothy Watson  Jun 26, 2014 9:28:56am

re: #405 wrenchwench

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Curses, here I thought I had an original idea. :(

408 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 9:30:05am

Hate to tell you I told you so Sirota and Greenwald stans but I told you so. Checkmate! :D

409 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 9:30:39am

re: #401 Timothy Watson

Does this mean that laws that prohibit electioneering within x feet of the door of a polling place are also unconstitutional?

No bright line has ever been established at the Federal level.

It’s all up to the States, even laws that permit you (or not) to carrying a firearm into a polling place. There are still even sale of alcohol prohibitions on election day in some states.

410 Lidane  Jun 26, 2014 9:31:55am

re: #382 sattv4u2

keep an eye on the Ghana/ Portugal match too

a nil/ nil or even 1-1 draw is good for the USA also

Portugal 1 - Ghana 0. The US and Germany are still 0-0.

411 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 26, 2014 9:32:39am

No score yet in the USA-Germany match

412 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 9:32:59am

I get to enjoy the circular clusterfucking irony with Pando now.

413 Lidane  Jun 26, 2014 9:36:27am

Perspective, Glenn haz it /////// :

414 wrenchwench  Jun 26, 2014 9:37:37am
415 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 9:39:02am

Oh good, they won’t get anything done now.

House Majority Whip-Elect Rep. Steve Scalise, R-La., to announce that Rep. Patrick McHenry. R-NC, will be Chief Deputy Whip of the House GOP Conference - @NBCNews
Read more on nbcnews.com

At least he’s never done anything for NC. I’m in his district, so I should know.

416 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 9:41:58am

In a cage match between The Intercept and Pando I chose to encourage the both of them. :D

417 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 9:42:48am

re: #416 Gus

In a cage match between The Intercept and Pando I chose to encourage the both of them. :D

And biting is allowed.

418 Eventual Carrion  Jun 26, 2014 9:42:50am

re: #326 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Don’t let Judas play goalie. He can be bought off.

419 Lidane  Jun 26, 2014 9:43:46am

Of course, my 413 is sarcasm. Beck is a raving lunatic.

420 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 9:46:28am

Well, does mean workers might get fucked even more?

NLRB on Supreme Court recess appointments decision: ‘We are analyzing the impact that the Court’s decision has on Board cases in which the January 2012 recess appointees participated’ - @johngramlich
End of alert

421 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 9:46:40am
422 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 9:46:58am

POPCORN TIME!

423 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 9:47:27am

“…weird Greenwald mob…”

Do tell.

424 Lidane  Jun 26, 2014 9:48:39am

GOHMERT!

425 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 9:48:56am

re: #421 Gus

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And shills his book in that tweet.

No more so than Glenn Fucking Greenwald, though.

This is getting good. A battle of the libertarians?

426 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 9:49:08am
427 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 9:49:30am

re: #425 Justanotherhuman

And shills his book in that tweet.

No more so than Glenn Fucking Greenwald, though.

This is getting good. A battle of the libertarians?

Dudebro fight!

428 lawhawk  Jun 26, 2014 9:50:22am

re: #416 Gus

liquidtelevision.com

Good fight. Good night…

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429 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 9:50:30am

Could he be talking about Greenwald? :D :D :D

430 Bulworth  Jun 26, 2014 9:51:39am

re:
#424

Louie Gohmert is <s>demands Obama stop</s> ‘luring’ lice and scabies-ridden

I know, that isn’t very nice of me.

431 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 9:53:12am

re: #426 Gus

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“Too political…straying from ‘core mission’ covering tech.

Meaning, you weren’t libertarian/capitalist enough for us.

432 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 9:54:03am

re: #431 Justanotherhuman

“Too political…straying from ‘core mission’ covering tech.

Meaning, you weren’t libertarian/capitalist enough for us.

It’s very confusing. Yes.

433 wrenchwench  Jun 26, 2014 9:54:36am

re: #424 Lidane

GOHMERT!

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Gohmert visited a place where children were sleeping on a concrete floor, and his complaint is OBAMA!!!!!!!!1!, not dire needs for housing the kids.

434 b.d.  Jun 26, 2014 9:55:31am

Dudebro v. Dudebro!

435 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 26, 2014 9:55:55am

re: #409 Justanotherhuman

No bright line has ever been established at the Federal level.

It’s all up to the States, even laws that permit you (or not) to carrying a firearm into a polling place. There are still even sale of alcohol prohibitions on election day in some states.

Which is a pity, because if ever there was a time a good strong drink is often needed is when voting.

RBS

436 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 9:56:14am
437 Lidane  Jun 26, 2014 9:57:37am
438 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 26, 2014 9:59:12am

re: #318 FemNaziBitch

Am I the only Lizard not interested in the World Cup?

No.

439 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 9:59:14am

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo gives all state employees an extra-long lunch for US World Cup match - @NYGovCuomo
see original on governor.ny.gov

440 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 26, 2014 9:59:59am

re: #332 Backwoods_Sleuth

That would be his dad…

How convenient then that he’s his own dad ;)

441 Kragar  Jun 26, 2014 10:00:15am

re: #438 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

No.

Ditto

442 Targetpractice  Jun 26, 2014 10:00:38am

Whole thing gives me a headache to figure out. If the US/GER match ends in a tie, how well would Portugal have to do to knock the US out?

443 Dr. Matt  Jun 26, 2014 10:00:50am

Here are the World Cup RWNJ scenarios:

If USA loses: “It’s Obama’s fault.”

If USA wins and Obama comments about the win: “He’s trying to make the win about himself.”

If USA wins and Obama doesn’t comment about the win: “Obama hates America.”

444 Lidane  Jun 26, 2014 10:01:04am
445 Timothy Watson  Jun 26, 2014 10:02:06am

re: #443 Dr. Matt

Here are the World Cup RWNJ scenarios:

If USA loses: “It’s Obama’s fault.”

If USA wins and Obama comments about the win: “He’s trying to make the win about himself.”

If USA wins and Obama doesn’t comment about the win: “Obama hates America.”

Much simpler than the breakdown of whether the U.S. advances or not. :)

446 Bulworth  Jun 26, 2014 10:02:11am

re:
#443

Sounds about right. Also, too, Why does OBamas have time to watch immigrant soccer and not BENGHAZI????!1

447 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 10:02:23am

Off the top of my head now I might side with Paul Carr here.

448 Bulworth  Jun 26, 2014 10:03:40am

re:
#442

Q: If the US/GER match ends in a tie, how well would Portugal have to do to knock the US out?

A: Yes

/

449 Lidane  Jun 26, 2014 10:03:51am

re: #442 Targetpractice

Whole thing gives me a headache to figure out. If the US/GER match ends in a tie, how well would Portugal have to do to knock the US out?

450 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 10:04:05am

re: #447 Gus

Off the top of my head now I might side with Paul Carr here.

Just remember that both Carr and Greenwald worked for The Guardian at one time.

Just sayin’. : )

451 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 10:04:36am

re: #450 Justanotherhuman

Just remember that both Carr and Greenwald worked for The Guardian at one time.

Just sayin’. : )

Yeah. That’s why I said, “might.” Decisions, decisions.

452 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 10:05:20am

re: #450 Justanotherhuman

Just remember that both Carr and Greenwald worked for The Guardian at one time.

Just sayin’. : )

Technically however Carr is within his rights.

453 Targetpractice  Jun 26, 2014 10:05:49am

re: #449 Lidane

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Gah, what sorta Byzantine crap is this? Whatever happened to “You lose, you’re out”?

454 Bulworth  Jun 26, 2014 10:06:45am

re:
#453

They need a BCS ranking system.

455 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 10:06:46am

re: #451 Gus

Yeah. That’s why I said, “might.” Decisions, decisions.

Yes, so far I might agree.

Don’t know that much yet about Carr to put him on the same level of sleaze as Greenwald. So, will just follow for now and see just how far it goes.

456 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 10:07:23am
457 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 26, 2014 10:07:29am

re: #442 Targetpractice

Whole thing gives me a headache to figure out. If the US/GER match ends in a tie, how well would Portugal have to do to knock the US out?

If US/GER tie than Portugal cannot knock the US out.

458 Lidane  Jun 26, 2014 10:07:30am

re: #453 Targetpractice

Gah, what sorta Byzantine crap is this?

The math needed for the US to advance. Haha.

Whatever happened to “You lose, you’re out”?

That’s the next stage of the World Cup. :)

459 sattv4u2  Jun 26, 2014 10:07:53am

re: #442 Targetpractice

Whole thing gives me a headache to figure out. If the US/GER match ends in a tie, how well would Portugal have to do to knock the US out?

They can’t

A win OR tie and the US is in no matter what Portugal/ Ghana do

460 Dr. Matt  Jun 26, 2014 10:08:15am

461 Targetpractice  Jun 26, 2014 10:08:29am

I picked the wrong week to quit drinkin’.

462 sattv4u2  Jun 26, 2014 10:08:43am

US can also advance even if they lose ,as long as Portugal wins and not by more than 3 goals

463 Kragar  Jun 26, 2014 10:09:53am
464 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 10:10:13am

Aha!

Germany brings on joint-highest scoring player in World Cup history Miroslav Klose to replace Lukas Podolski - @ESPNFC
End of alert

Place yer bets.

465 sattv4u2  Jun 26, 2014 10:10:17am

Forget the pretty color charts

Read here

washingtonpost.com

466 b.d.  Jun 26, 2014 10:10:28am

re: #456 Gus

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Card and Pando are not free to hire and fire who they wish, those were the last two dudebros not on Pierre’s payroll

467 Bulworth  Jun 26, 2014 10:10:29am

re:
#463

Is this the ‘I’ll get government off your backs’ GOP?

/

468 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 26, 2014 10:10:48am

Soccer threads are more irritating than rotating pics. Discuss. //

469 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 10:11:09am

re: #466 b.d.

Card and Pando are not free to hire and fire who they wish, those were the last two dudebros not on Pierre’s payroll

The Intercept is already cartoonish enough.

470 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 10:11:40am

re: #468 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Soccer threads are more irritating than rotating pics. Discuss. //

Que es soccer?

471 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 26, 2014 10:12:10am

re: #470 Gus

Que es soccer?

Keine Ahnung.

472 Targetpractice  Jun 26, 2014 10:12:49am

Only taking interest in the World Cup for lack of anything interesting in the news.

473 Lidane  Jun 26, 2014 10:12:59am

SHIT. Germany scored.

474 b.d.  Jun 26, 2014 10:13:06am

re: #469 Justanotherhuman

The Intercept is already cartoonish enough.

I’d love to see Rall and Greenwald work together just like how I’d love to see a great white shark and a grizzly bear together in a small shallow pool.

475 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 10:14:46am

There’s an annoying person attempting to lecture VB about Detroit’s problems, over on her page about Detroit’s water being cut off.
just, wow…

476 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 26, 2014 10:15:39am

re: #474 b.d.

I’d love to see Rall and Greenwald work together just like how I’d love to see a great white shark and a grizzly bear together in a small shallow pool.

If Greenwald is the grizzly, Rall is more of a trout than a great white.

477 Bulworth  Jun 26, 2014 10:15:43am

Nooooooooooooooooo

478 sattv4u2  Jun 26, 2014 10:16:01am

re: #473 Lidane

SHIT. Germany scored.

Bad, but not terrible

Ghana just did too which is very good news for the US

479 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 26, 2014 10:16:23am

re: #475 Backwoods_Sleuth

There’s an annoying person attempting to lecture VB about Detroit’s problems, over on her page about Detroit’s water being cut off.
just, wow…

Kind of making my point about how wingnuts jubilate when poor blahs are suffering.

480 sattv4u2  Jun 26, 2014 10:17:00am

re: #473 Lidane

re: #478 sattv4u2

Bad, but not terrible

Ghana just did too which is very good news for the US

A loss to Germany combined with a Portugal-Ghana draw (United States finishes second in the group, plays the first-place team from Group H on Tuesday at 4 p.m. in Salvador).

481 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 10:17:05am

re: #479 Pie-onist Overlord

Kind of making my point about how wingnuts jubilate when poor blahs are suffering.

He is doing a damned fine job of that, too. What a poopyhead.

482 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 10:18:14am
483 lawhawk  Jun 26, 2014 10:21:01am
484 Dr. Matt  Jun 26, 2014 10:21:04am

re: #475 Backwoods_Sleuth

There’s an annoying person attempting to lecture VB about Detroit’s problems, over on her page about Detroit’s water being cut off.
just, wow…

“Annoying” is an understatement. Here is an excerpt from the asshole:

I lived the dream. Detroit is my city. And I have forgotten more about it than you or the author of this post has ever known. And I still know more than you do.

485 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 10:21:08am

Throwing out gossip, unconfirmed “facts” and innuendos. No doubt Bruce Schneier is somewhat dissatisfied with what Pierre is paying him for his services and making assumptions about Gen Alexander pimping US security secrets. This is bordering on pure libel without a foundation. I’m not defending Alexander, but this is a smear to suggest that Alexander is selling US secrets to the highest bidder. Look at this letter from Grayson:

486 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 10:21:39am
487 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 26, 2014 10:21:40am

488 Targetpractice  Jun 26, 2014 10:21:42am

re: #483 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

The fellow from the Ministry of Silly Walks is on vacation.

489 Kragar  Jun 26, 2014 10:22:14am

If you can get black voters to support a candidate by promising them free stuff, Beck said, then you have to paint their opponent as a racist by saying “well, at least Thad Cochran isn’t trying to drink to blood of African Americans and is quite honestly making matzah balls out of the little Christian children over here too.”

“It’s the Protocols of the Elders of Zion,” Beck said. “That’s really what we’re turning into. What a surprise, ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion,’ oh, that’s right, that was a Marxist-Communist thing. I forgot all about that. How interesting it is that history always repeats itself”:

Nutball says what? I quite honestly have no idea what Beck was trying to point out with his argle bargle.

490 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 10:22:55am

re: #484 Dr. Matt

“Annoying” is an understatement. Here is an excerpt from the asshole:

yep, when he said he’d forgotten more about Detroit than VB ever knew, that was pretty much throwing down the gauntlet of derp.

491 Targetpractice  Jun 26, 2014 10:23:17am

re: #489 Kragar

[Embedded content]

Nutball says what? I quite honestly have no idea what Beck was trying to point out with his argle bargle.

This is usually the part where I joke about I want whatever he’s smoking, but this time, I think I’ll pass. Obviously got into some bad shit.

492 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 10:24:10am

re: #491 Targetpractice

This is usually the part where I joke about I want whatever he’s smoking, but this time, I think I’ll pass. Obviously got into some bad shit.

He might be back on the coke.

493 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 26, 2014 10:24:15am

re: #489 Kragar

What a surprise, ‘Protocols of the Elders of Zion,’ oh, that’s right, that was a Marxist-Communist thing.

What exactly was a “Marxist-Communist thing”?

494 klys  Jun 26, 2014 10:24:20am

re: #490 Backwoods_Sleuth

yep, when he said he’d forgotten more about Detroit than VB ever knew, that was pretty much throwing down the gauntlet of derp.

I refuse to engage with someone who is clearly only interested in jerking off to their intellect and superiority on someone else’s page.

495 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 10:24:27am

really, can you see what’s in this photo? Took me a really long time.

496 The Awkward Guy  Jun 26, 2014 10:25:05am

re: #487 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Could give new meaning to the term ‘rotating title’.

497 Bulworth  Jun 26, 2014 10:25:32am

re:
#489

Campaigns and elections.

How the fck do they work?

498 Zamb  Jun 26, 2014 10:25:32am

re: #489 Kragar

If you can get black voters to support a candidate by promising them free stuff, Beck said, then you have to paint their opponent as a racist by saying “well, at least Thad Cochran isn’t trying to drink to blood of African Americans and is quite honestly making matzah balls out of the little Christian children over here too.”

Because disaster relief funds are “free stuff.” The sooner this kind of purist anti-government insanity is scrubbed from our politics the better.

499 Targetpractice  Jun 26, 2014 10:25:54am

re: #495 Backwoods_Sleuth

really, can you see what’s in this photo? Took me a really long time.

[Embedded content]

Took me a couple seconds, then I noticed the little bit at the bottom and immediately knew what to look for.

500 Kragar  Jun 26, 2014 10:26:31am

re: #493 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

What exactly was a “Marxist-Communist thing”?

Apparently propaganda written by Russians serving the Czar in the 1890s is Marxist.

Who knew?

501 klys  Jun 26, 2014 10:26:56am

re: #499 Targetpractice

Took me a couple seconds, then I noticed the little bit at the bottom and immediately knew what to look for.

Even knowing what to look for it was still tricky to pick out.

502 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 10:27:25am

re: #499 Targetpractice

Took me a couple seconds, then I noticed the little bit at the bottom and immediately knew what to look for.

me, too, but I was looking up in the trees because I sure didn’t see where it really was right away…

503 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 10:28:02am

re: #495 Backwoods_Sleuth

really, can you see what’s in this photo? Took me a really long time.

[Embedded content]

Is it in the trees ahead?

504 Bulworth  Jun 26, 2014 10:28:41am

So when teabaggers win elections its Democracy.

When teabaggers lose elections its because the opponent appealed to non-teabaggers to vote for him/her.

505 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 26, 2014 10:29:13am

re: #500 Kragar

Apparently propaganda written by Russians serving the Czar in the 1890s is Marxist.

Who knew?

Well, simply stating the facts, namely that it was a conservative, right-wing, anti-liberal and anti-evolution piece of antisemitic propaganda would not have been quite as effective, now would it?

506 b.d.  Jun 26, 2014 10:29:20am

So Greenwald has time to get into a Twitter war with Pando but has to cancel and doesn’t have time to tape anything for the Marxists because of a family emergency?

507 Bubblehead II  Jun 26, 2014 10:31:46am

re: #495 Backwoods_Sleuth

really, can you see what’s in this photo? Took me a really long time.

[Embedded content]

Had to open the larger picture to find it even with the provided clue.

508 Bulworth  Jun 26, 2014 10:32:18am

George Will had a David Brooks like column today about Cochran and Mississippi where he kind of conceded that the teabaggers can be a little inpolite at times but that down deep they’re just concerned Americans concerned about too much spending and too much government and the voters let the teabaggers and candidate McDaniel down. Even Mississippians apparently are just like all other free stuff loving Americans who don’t properly value austerity.

509 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 10:33:36am

re: #507 Bubblehead II

Had to open the larger picture to find it even with the provided clue.

It blends into the scenery much too well.

510 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Jun 26, 2014 10:35:29am

re: #493 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

What exactly was a “Marxist-Communist thing”?

My recollection is that the Protocols were a Tsarist thing. I’m not remembering that the Tsar was a Marxist.

511 b.d.  Jun 26, 2014 10:35:43am

UH OH! First they get an office and next thing you know they’ll be wanting you to actually show up there. Be very afraid!

Pierre Omidyar’s First Look Media snags 58K sf in Silicon Alley

therealdeal.com

First Look Media, a technology-driven, independent journalism site launched by eBay co-founder Pierre Omidyar last year, inked a lease for three floors, taking 58,206 square feet at 114 Fifth Avenue, off Union Square, sources told The Real Deal.

512 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 26, 2014 10:36:03am

re: #510 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

Maybe a crypto-Marxist. Those reptiloids are sneaky like that.

513 Bulworth  Jun 26, 2014 10:36:30am

re:
#510

The Marxists overthrew the Tsarists, which means the Marxists were exactly like the Tsarists.

//

514 Kragar  Jun 26, 2014 10:36:31am

Well, I see the supreme court fucked up again

Don’t believe portrayals to the contrary - from anti-choice activists and the news media - that these kinds of protestors outside abortion clinics are not grandmas praying, or kindly “counselors” who just want to talk reasonably to women. These people wait outside clinics to shame and to harass; they are there to scare.

Despite the horrifying experiences of women across the country trying to obtain abortions, the US supreme court ruled unanimously on Thursday that a Massachusetts law providing a 35-foot buffer zone outside of clinics is unconstitutional, and violates protesters’ first amendment right to engage in “personal, caring, consensual conversations” with women seeking abortions.

Personal, caring and consensual?

What about the right of these women not to be harassed while seeking medical attention?

515 Lidane  Jun 26, 2014 10:37:29am
516 Zamb  Jun 26, 2014 10:38:10am

re: #510 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

All past Russians were marxists/communists/leninists/stalinists/socialist/democrats.

517 Lidane  Jun 26, 2014 10:39:10am

Portugal 2 - Ghana 1. That’s good news for us.

Come on USA! Hang on just a bit longer.

518 sattv4u2  Jun 26, 2014 10:39:10am

Portugal Scores

VERY good news for the US

519 Bulworth  Jun 26, 2014 10:39:15am

re:
#515

Well, you have to admit it’s mighty suspicious that Obama was in all this trouble with freeing the POW and the missing IRS emails and then, out of nowhere, this so-called World Cup shows up.

//

520 b.d.  Jun 26, 2014 10:39:18am

Portugal 2
Ghana 1

521 Targetpractice  Jun 26, 2014 10:40:24am

re: #515 Lidane

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Okay, I’ve had enough, bring on the meteors!

522 Zamb  Jun 26, 2014 10:40:30am

re: #514 Kragar

And as the case in my hometown the Planned Parenthood clinic doesn’t even provide abortion, but it doesn’t stop the nuts from standing outside screaming at anyone who looks to walk in.

523 sattv4u2  Jun 26, 2014 10:40:33am

re: #517 Lidane

Doesn’t really matter how many Germany scores. As long as Portugal wins and DOESN’T score another

524 b.d.  Jun 26, 2014 10:40:33am
525 klys  Jun 26, 2014 10:41:01am

re: #514 Kragar

Well, I see the supreme court fucked up again

[Embedded content]

What about the right of these women not to be harassed while seeking medical attention?

Trumped by the anti-choice’s folks’ right to free speech on public sidewalks.

Apparently.

I would like all the justices to have to serve as escorts for a month or two, to understand what they did, but that would honestly be more punishment to the women escorted by Scalia et al.

526 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 10:41:21am

re: #515 Lidane

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PROOF!!11!!!

527 sattv4u2  Jun 26, 2014 10:42:10am

re: #517 Lidane

if the United States loses, it really will hope that Portugal defeats Ghana. The United States has a five-goal edge over Portugal in goal differential, which is the tiebreaker that will come into play and will be nearly impossible for Portugal to overcome.

528 Bulworth  Jun 26, 2014 10:42:53am

re:
#526

why is Obummer watching Sports on TV when he should be out looking for the missing IRS emails?!?!??!!1

529 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 10:43:23am

re: #526 Backwoods_Sleuth

PROOF!!11!!!

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530 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 10:43:28am
531 sattv4u2  Jun 26, 2014 10:43:31am

re: #524 b.d.

[Embedded content]

More like the Ghana goalie did

Hell,,, I could have scored on his miscue!

532 Timothy Watson  Jun 26, 2014 10:43:47am

re: #526 Backwoods_Sleuth

PROOF!!11!!!

[Embedded content]

Why is the picture letterboxed?

533 Bubblehead II  Jun 26, 2014 10:44:31am

re: #521 Targetpractice

Okay, I’ve had enough, bring on the meteors!

534 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 10:44:38am

re: #532 Timothy Watson

Why is the picture letterboxed?

I dunno.
probably a sekrit…

535 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 26, 2014 10:45:37am

re: #533 Bubblehead II

Always an upding for PBF.

536 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 10:47:28am
537 wrenchwench  Jun 26, 2014 10:47:59am

re: #514 Kragar

What about the right of these women not to be harassed while seeking medical attention?

That’s located about 100 feet below the right of Supreme Court Justices not to be ‘counseled’ when they go to work.

538 lawhawk  Jun 26, 2014 10:48:03am

So, the S.Ct. rules that the buffer zone around an abortion clinic is unconstitutional restriction on free speech. How long before the Court is forced to reexamine its own rule on where/how protestors can protest in the Court’s vicinity. The Court seems to recognize that protesters have rights to protest, but those seeking access to the Court (or to a clinic) also have rights to have that access protected. Now, the Court shredded the buffer zone for clinics, but the rationale opens up the door for protesters to sue that they have the right to protest up to the door at the Court. Because free speech (note that the Court will try mightly to distinguish the cases, even though there’s no real difference).

It was a poorly thought out decision given that no one’s right to speech was abridged by setting up a buffer zone; it protected the rights/access of those seeking abortions to the clinics, and those opponents could protest to their heart’s content on the other side of the line. But that wasn’t good enough for the protesters, who argued that they were somehow deprived of their right to confront people seeking abortions, or the providers themselves.

It’s only a matter of time before the inevitable SYG case involving an abortion provider and protester. Because it will happen.

539 sattv4u2  Jun 26, 2014 10:53:13am

Congrats to the US team

On to the round of 16

540 Flying Squirrel Girl  Jun 26, 2014 10:54:12am

re: #489 Kragar

This pisses me off to no end. Offering tax breaks for the wealthy in exchange for their vote is offering them FREE STUFF.

541 Kragar  Jun 26, 2014 10:54:15am

re: #522 Zamb

And as the case in my hometown the Planned Parenthood clinic doesn’t even provide abortion, but it doesn’t stop the nuts from standing outside screaming at anyone who looks to walk in.

I had to run a sick kid thru a gauntlet of those whackjobs because they were blocking all access to a clinic since 1 doctor there provided abortions.

Fucking bastards need to be beaten back with firehoses and rocksalt munitions

542 Bulworth  Jun 26, 2014 10:54:54am

re:
#540

Oh, no, that’s completely different because REASONS. //

543 klys  Jun 26, 2014 10:55:17am

The whining of the ignored superiority complex in the pages is …amusing to watch from afar?

544 Kragar  Jun 26, 2014 10:56:07am

A message to my work laptop,

When I set you up to automatically update and leave for the evening, I expect you to run the fucking updates, not be sitting there in the morning waiting for me to tell you to run them.

545 Lidane  Jun 26, 2014 10:57:22am
546 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 26, 2014 10:58:04am

New Comments button is broken. :(

547 Feline Fearless Leader  Jun 26, 2014 10:58:46am

DROOOOONZ, eh?

548 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 10:58:46am

re: #541 Kragar

I had to run a sick kid thru a gauntlet of those whackjobs because they were blocking all access to a clinic since 1 doctor there provided abortions.

Fucking bastards need to be beaten back with firehoses and rocksalt munitions

I’m afraid if anyone touched me, I’d be arrested for assault in defending myself.

Of course, I’m too old for it myself, but I’d escort any woman who wanted to go to PP, a family planning clinic of any sort or even an abortion clinic.

549 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 10:59:19am
550 RealityBasedSteve  Jun 26, 2014 10:59:43am

re: #544 Kragar

A message to my work laptop,

When I set you up to automatically update and leave for the evening, I expect you to run the fucking updates, not be sitting there in the morning waiting for me to tell you to run them.

Sounds like it’s as efficient as your new assistant.

RBS

551 Lidane  Jun 26, 2014 10:59:51am
552 Dr. Matt  Jun 26, 2014 11:00:13am

Keith Ablow has to be the stupidest asshole to ever walk into a Fox studio.

553 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 26, 2014 11:00:47am

DRONE BEES

554 Kragar  Jun 26, 2014 11:01:08am

re: #548 Justanotherhuman

I’m afraid if anyone touched me, I’d be arrested for assault in defending myself.

Of course, I’m too old for it myself, but I’d escort any woman who wanted to go to PP, a family planning clinic of any sort or even an abortion clinic.

I’d have no problem escorting or driving women in need of help to a clinic.

Unfortunately, anti-choicers have poisoned the well there by offering escorts, then taking the women to one of their shaming misinformation centers instead of a real doctor.

555 Zamb  Jun 26, 2014 11:01:08am

re: #551 Lidane

I doubt anyone at Fox wants a bunch of Mexicans to advance.

556 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 26, 2014 11:01:55am
test
557 Pie-onist Overlord  Jun 26, 2014 11:02:35am

*FLIPS DESK*

558 Kragar  Jun 26, 2014 11:02:59am

re: #550 RealityBasedSteve

Sounds like it’s as efficient as your new assistant.

RBS

“You have new updates ready to install! Do you want to install them?”

“Yes, thats why I gave you 15 fucking hours to do it. Now I have to reboot to clear you out of the way so I can do my regular fucking job.”

559 Zamb  Jun 26, 2014 11:03:32am

re: #557 Pie-onist Overlord

I bet they let the WH photographer in on all high stress classified meetings.

560 Bulworth  Jun 26, 2014 11:04:20am

re:
#557

I forgot there was supposed to be pictures of a president to account for every hour of the day.

561 Ed E. Lishus  Jun 26, 2014 11:05:08am

re: #557 Pie-onist Overlord

It’s like dadaist performance art at this point with these people.

562 wheat-dogghazi  Jun 26, 2014 11:05:08am

Self-appointed expert re: Detroit’s water situation has been here since May and posted 14 comments so far. Karma already -39. Not bad for a beginner, 2.8:1 ratio

563 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 11:05:45am

re: #557 Pie-onist Overlord

*FLIPS DESK*

[Embedded content]

Oh boy.

564 Timothy Watson  Jun 26, 2014 11:05:53am

re: #557 Pie-onist Overlord

*FLIPS DESK*

[Embedded content]

Any pictures of Bush hiding in his spider hole during 9/11?

…*crickets*

565 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jun 26, 2014 11:06:51am

re: #564 Timothy Watson

Any pictures of Bush hiding in his spider hole during 9/11?

…*crickets*

With his pet goat.

566 Ian G.  Jun 26, 2014 11:06:53am

Aaand the US moves on. Wingnut tears everywhere!

But seriously, the World Cup is a strange beast indeed if I’m giddy over a 1-0 loss after wanting to break things on Sunday because of a 2-2 draw.

567 jaunte  Jun 26, 2014 11:07:07am

re: #557 Pie-onist Overlord

If Daddy is not on guard at all hours, she feels insecure.

568 Gus  Jun 26, 2014 11:07:43am
569 Backwoods_Sleuth  Jun 26, 2014 11:07:45am

yes, he does!

570 Justanotherhuman  Jun 26, 2014 11:08:29am

re: #554 Kragar

I’d have no problem escorting or driving women in need of help to a clinic.

Unfortunately, anti-choicers have poisoned the well there by offering escorts, then taking the women to one of their shaming misinformation centers instead of a real doctor.

Yes, and there is one of those “pregnancy care” centers (where they pressure women to give up their babies for adoption) 1/4 of a mile from my apt. I don’t know if it’s ever used by anyone, but they have a lot of meetings (as the public spaces are full of cars when that happens), and evidently get money from somewhere since it’s a house that’s been fixed up and is taken care of pretty well. I do think they have access to the high schools in this county, although if I were a HS parent that would upset me as meddling in the affairs of minors without their parents’ consent and I would fight their presence.

571 Kragar  Jun 26, 2014 11:08:52am

OOOO! Something to actually get excited about!

THANATAR SIEGE-AUTOMATA

572 Ian G.  Jun 26, 2014 11:09:16am

re: #567 jaunte

If Daddy is not on guard at all hours, she feels insecure.

Yeah, that’s the wingnut mindset. Torture the durka durkas to make me feel better! Dick Cheney will protect me by bombing everywhere! I keep 20 AR-15s in my house to protect against rampaging minorities!!!!!1111

I kinda feel bad for them. Life must suck when you’re terrified of the world around you.

573 Eventual Carrion  Jun 26, 2014 12:38:54pm

re: #389 Justanotherhuman

Compare:

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., Supreme Court recess appointments decision: ‘Since President Obama took office, Senate Republicans have done everything possible to deny qualified nominees from receiving a fair up-or-down vote. President Obama did the right thing when he made these appointments on behalf of American workers’ - @NBCNews
End of alert

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., says Supreme Court ruling in recess appointments ‘represents a clear rebuke to the President’s brazen power grab’ - @edatpost
End of alert

Good thing republican presidents never used the recess appointment. That might make these people look like fucking hypocrites or something.


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