Photo of the Day: I HAVE BECOME THE HORSE
Obama shakes hands with a man wearing a horse head mask on a street in Denver, by @jewelsamad pic.twitter.com/CooWXGXqaX
— AFP Photo Department (@AFPphoto) July 9, 2014
Obama shakes hands with a man wearing a horse head mask on a street in Denver, by @jewelsamad pic.twitter.com/CooWXGXqaX
— AFP Photo Department (@AFPphoto) July 9, 2014
1 | jaunte Jul 8, 2014 8:47:09pm |
that barack obama sure is a terrible guy. this just happened, per white house pool reporter: pic.twitter.com/yicTrLPFQa
— Oliver Willis (@owillis) July 9, 2014
3 | teleskiguy Jul 8, 2014 8:49:31pm |
Hey, I’m born bred raised live in Colorado, so…
COLORADO! RT @AFPphoto: Obama shakes hands with a man wearing a horse head mask on a street in Denver, by @jewelsamad pic.twitter.com/yzpNvRHcjb— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) July 9, 2014
4 | andres Jul 8, 2014 8:49:57pm |
I’m pretty sure that isn’t the weirdest thing Obama faced today.
Not by a long shot.
5 | Charles Johnson Jul 8, 2014 8:50:26pm |
Probably wouldn’t be a very good idea for anyone else to show up at an Obama event in a horse mask.
6 | Lidane Jul 8, 2014 8:50:56pm |
“Here's my business card”: Pres Obama greets pedestrians in downtown Denver pic.twitter.com/hUEAjKbR1Y— petesouza (@petesouza) July 9, 2014
7 | teleskiguy Jul 8, 2014 8:54:40pm |
re: #2 Charles Johnson
Secret Service guys don’t seem very amused.
re: #5 Charles Johnson
Probably wouldn’t be a very good idea for anyone else to show up at an Obama event in a horse mask.
Obama is in pretty friendly territory tonight. I’m thinking he felt safe enough to go up to some white dude on the side of the street in Denver in a horse mask and engage (which is why Secret Service are like “Fuck, 200% DEFCON7 Alert” in the picture). In the end the internet got a funny picture and life goes on.
8 | Lidane Jul 8, 2014 8:56:54pm |
Obviously, it wasn’t me meeting POTUS while wearing a horse mask. I *am* surprised that Secret Service let that person get that close.— Wil Wheaton (@wilw) July 9, 2014
9 | klys Jul 8, 2014 8:58:06pm |
re: #2 Charles Johnson
Secret Service guys don’t seem very amused.
I don’t know if I’ve ever seen a picture where they really look amused.
10 | austin_blue Jul 8, 2014 8:58:09pm |
re: #7 teleskiguy
Obama is in pretty friendly territory tonight. I’m thinking he felt safe enough to go up to some white dude in a horse mask and engage (which is why Secret Service are like “Fuck, 200% DEFCON7 Alert” in the picture). In the end the internet got a funny picture and life goes on.
Horse’s mask? That was an alien handler hooking up with his pawn!
(He’s really a lizard!)
11 | Charles Johnson Jul 8, 2014 8:59:22pm |
Oh yeah, right - we’re supposed to be watching The Intercept.
/yawn
12 | klys Jul 8, 2014 8:59:29pm |
To go with the enchilada casserole that is dinner tonight (currently cooling in the fridge before it goes into the oven, because the husband has not left the office yet and I am a kind and benevolent wife), I’m trying a new cucumber salad.
Diced cucumber, red onion, salt, lime juice, tequila, and a little bit of garlic powder and cumin. Tossed in just a tiny bit of feta. My first tastes were that it’s pretty good, I’m looking forward to trying it with the meal.
13 | Targetpractice Jul 8, 2014 8:59:50pm |
re: #11 Charles Johnson
Oh yeah, right - we’re supposed to be watching The Intercept.
/yawn
We are? Did I miss a memo?
14 | Kid A Jul 8, 2014 9:00:16pm |
OBAMA SHAKES HANDS WITH A SUPPORTER OF GLUE FACTORIES!!!
15 | jaunte Jul 8, 2014 9:01:15pm |
Horse Guy gets signed for reality tv pilot by the end of the week.
16 | Blue Fielder Jul 8, 2014 9:01:22pm |
I always knew this My Little Pony thing was going to go too far…
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17 | Charles Johnson Jul 8, 2014 9:01:54pm |
Hard not to laugh at the horse mask. But this should never be allowed to happen again. Period.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 9, 2014
18 | austin_blue Jul 8, 2014 9:02:59pm |
re: #12 klys
To go with the enchilada casserole that is dinner tonight (currently cooling in the fridge before it goes into the oven, because the husband has not left the office yet and I am a kind and benevolent wife), I’m trying a new cucumber salad.
Diced cucumber, red onion, salt, lime juice, tequila, and a little bit of garlic powder and cumin. Tossed in just a tiny bit of feta. My first tastes were that it’s pretty good, I’m looking forward to trying it with the meal.
Oh, yum. That sounds outstanding. Don’t skimp on the feta. That and unflavored yogurt are outstanding with cucumbers and red onions, (also, try a little curry).
19 | klys Jul 8, 2014 9:04:24pm |
re: #18 austin_blue
Oh, yum. That sounds outstanding. Don’t skimp on the feta. That and unflavored yogurt are outstanding with cucumbers and red onions, (also, try a little curry).
I will probably add more to mine, but not sure how much the husband wants so I figured that could be an individual thing. :)
I will have to consider maybe just a bit of yogurt next time (for some creaminess).
20 | Stanley Sea Jul 8, 2014 9:04:26pm |
re: #17 Charles Johnson
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SS is slacking. When I heard Texas today I definitely gulped.
22 | Gus Jul 8, 2014 9:05:51pm |
Clearly the Secret Service allowing a man with a horse mask greet the president is Pres. Obama's fault. INPEACH!— Gus (@Gus_802) July 9, 2014
23 | jaunte Jul 8, 2014 9:06:01pm |
Dear @SecretService Denver might be friendly. but tomorrow the black president is in Texas. Get your shit together, please. Thanks.
— BWD (@theonlyadult) July 9, 2014
24 | Stanley Sea Jul 8, 2014 9:06:14pm |
And the chick putting her business card in his front pocket? Woah.
Maybe that group was pre-screened. Ah prob not.
Half empty tonight.
25 | Charles Johnson Jul 8, 2014 9:06:17pm |
I think the Intercept released their latest bombshell, but I can’t be arsed.
26 | Gus Jul 8, 2014 9:06:25pm |
NEW: Meet the Muslim-American leaders the FBI and NSA have been spying on https://t.co/7dezi946vW— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 9, 2014
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
27 | teleskiguy Jul 8, 2014 9:07:23pm |
re: #21 jaunte
“Do you want a hit, man?”
instagram.com
OH SNAP!!! Memories of the Choom Gang zap through his mind!
28 | The War TARDIS Jul 8, 2014 9:08:07pm |
Things are going good for me right now, except I am not making enough money, and am spending to much on gas.
I am now aiming to rectify that, though the whole process or sifting through job openings, and the 10-page process of applying to things is daunting to me. Too much stimuli!!!!
But, I must try.
Also, my Dad is using his passport for the first time this month, going to Montreal. I may be needing one, but the nation I would be going to is farther out than that.
I also might be missing the part of my brain that accurately calculates risk. :P
29 | Gus Jul 8, 2014 9:08:31pm |
The spreadsheet shows 7,485 email addresses listed as monitored between 2002 and 2008. Many of the email addresses on the list appear to belong to foreigners whom the government believes are linked to Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah. Among the Americans on the list are individuals long accused of terrorist activity, including Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, who were killed in a 2011 drone strike in Yemen.
And?
30 | austin_blue Jul 8, 2014 9:08:47pm |
re: #17 Charles Johnson
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Meh, I wouldn’t be that concerned. The dude is wearing tight clothing. Nothing concealed. He doesn’t have any obvious side arms. He doesn’t have a rifle strapped to his back. The only place he could hide a bomb would be in the donkey head.
At some point you’ve got to let the POTUS get out among the electorate, Charles.
32 | klys Jul 8, 2014 9:09:22pm |
re: #29 Gus
The spreadsheet shows 7,485 email addresses listed as monitored between 2002 and 2008. Many of the email addresses on the list appear to belong to foreigners whom the government believes are linked to Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Hezbollah. Among the Americans on the list are individuals long accused of terrorist activity, including Anwar al-Awlaki and Samir Khan, who were killed in a 2011 drone strike in Yemen.
And?
Shit, you mean this stuff works?
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33 | Gus Jul 8, 2014 9:09:35pm |
Given that the government’s justifications for subjecting Gill and the other U.S. citizens to surveillance remain classified, it is impossible to know why their emails were monitored, or the extent of the surveillance
34 | jaunte Jul 8, 2014 9:10:23pm |
“Excuse me sir, we’re going to have to check the contents of your muzzle.”
36 | Gus Jul 8, 2014 9:11:29pm |
Last paragraph.
In 2003, the Al Haramain Islamic Foundation, a Saudi charity, hired Ghafoor after its U.S. assets were frozen by the Treasury Department over claims that it funded terrorist operations. The government alleged that there were “direct links” between the U.S. branch of the charity and Osama bin Laden. Al Haramain had previously been represented by some of the biggest and most prestigious American law firms, including the D.C. powerhouse Akin Gump. Ghafoor’s work with Al Haramain led him to other controversial clients, including Mohammed Jamal Khalifa, a brother-in-law of Osama bin Laden who was the subject of FBI and CIA surveillance for years, as well as the government of Sudan.
37 | EiMitch Jul 8, 2014 9:11:45pm |
re: #16 Blue Fielder
I always knew this My Little Pony thing was going to go too far…
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Hey, Politics is Magic. Just ask our House Science Committee.
38 | teleskiguy Jul 8, 2014 9:12:49pm |
re: #30 austin_blue
Meh, I wouldn’t be that concerned. The dude is wearing tight clothing. Nothing concealed. He doesn’t have any obvious side arms. He doesn’t have a rifle strapped to his back. The only place he could hide a bomb would be in the donkey head.
At some point you’ve got to let the POTUS get out among the electorate, Charles.
You said it better than me. Obama is in Denver tonight, a city that went 73.4% for Obama in 2012. He can shake the hand of a horse head if he feels safe, which tonight he did.
39 | Lidane Jul 8, 2014 9:14:26pm |
re: #26 Gus
Haven’t we been doing that since 2001? Or hell, since the first WTC bombing in 1993? WTF.
40 | jaunte Jul 8, 2014 9:14:29pm |
In Colorado, Obama had to shake hands with a horse's head. In Texas, he's going to have to sit down with a horse's ass.
— Jason Stanford (@JasStanford) July 9, 2014
41 | Gus Jul 8, 2014 9:16:51pm |
Oh look. 2010 Feds to pay $2.5 million over 'terrorist' wiretaps http://t.co/hGERyiDKqZ— Gus (@Gus_802) July 9, 2014
42 | Gus Jul 8, 2014 9:17:01pm |
Walker also awarded $20,400 each to Wendell Belew and Asim Ghafoor, two of the foundation’s Washington-based lawyers. They had their phone conversations with Al-Haramain principals monitored, the judge said.
43 | Stanley Sea Jul 8, 2014 9:17:19pm |
44 | Gus Jul 8, 2014 9:18:42pm |
Generally, government investigators are required to obtain search warrants signed by judges to eavesdrop on domestic phone calls, e-mail traffic and other electronic communications. But Bush authorized the surveillance program shortly after 9/11, allowing the National Security Agency to bypass the courts and intercept electronic communications believed connected to al-Qaida.
Bush ended the program in January 2007.
45 | jaunte Jul 8, 2014 9:18:52pm |
re: #43 Stanley Sea
Perry will get to the bottom of Obama’s plan to flood the state with Hispanic children who can’t vote.
47 | Targetpractice Jul 8, 2014 9:20:17pm |
re: #44 Gus
Generally, government investigators are required to obtain search warrants signed by judges to eavesdrop on domestic phone calls, e-mail traffic and other electronic communications. But Bush authorized the surveillance program shortly after 9/11, allowing the National Security Agency to bypass the courts and intercept electronic communications believed connected to al-Qaida.
Bush ended the program in January 2007.
That’s a lie, the program’s still going on! I know because they’ve been monitoring me!!!
48 | jaunte Jul 8, 2014 9:20:36pm |
@ZeddRebel dude only Glenn matters.
— Abenomix (@abenomixx) July 9, 2014
49 | The War TARDIS Jul 8, 2014 9:20:45pm |
re: #26 Gus
Looking through the names on Wikipedia
Nihad Awad- Has made friendly statements on Hamas, and towards Qaddafi. Qaddafi was behind 2 terror attacks against the US (Berlin Discotheque Bombing, and Pan Am 103)
Agha Saeed- Not much, but he made a remark serious enough about Palestinians to cause Hillary Clinton to refund a $50,000 donation from his organization
Hooshang Amirahmadi- This one stumps me. An Iranian-American who wants reconciliation between Iran and the US. In addition, quite a liberal fellow.
Asim Ghafoor- Lawyer for the al-Haramain Foundation, an organization banned by the UN as a terrorist group.
Faisal Gill- Worked in the American Muslim Association under Abdurahman Alamoudi, who was convicted in 2003 of smuggling in $1 million from Libya to the US. Has links to Asim Ghafoor.
I only see a problem with Amirahmadi being looked at. Saeed is a bit questionable though.
50 | Targetpractice Jul 8, 2014 9:22:36pm |
re: #48 jaunte
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Obama’s just like Bush! No doubt he restarted the program without our knowledge! I mean, why would Glenn comment on a program that was ended 7 years ago otherwise?!
51 | Charles Johnson Jul 8, 2014 9:24:48pm |
re: #30 austin_blue
Meh, I wouldn’t be that concerned. The dude is wearing tight clothing. Nothing concealed. He doesn’t have any obvious side arms. He doesn’t have a rifle strapped to his back. The only place he could hide a bomb would be in the donkey head.
At some point you’ve got to let the POTUS get out among the electorate, Charles.
Sorry, but if it were up to me those Secret Service guys would be in for serious discipline tonight.
This really is not cool, under any circumstances. Yes, it’s funny because nothing happened. But if that had been someone who intended harm to the President we wouldn’t be laughing right now.
52 | sagehen Jul 8, 2014 9:27:26pm |
Keith Olbermann is on Letterman tonight — wow did he ever get fat.
On the upside, he’s not talking politics. Mostly sports, a little bit of his personal “old man talking about his medical issues” (am I supposed to care about his pain?).
53 | Gus Jul 8, 2014 9:28:56pm |
Al-Haramain Islamic Found., Inc. v. Obama
Which is basically a holdover because Obama is president now. You can read an opinion there.
54 | Killgore Trout Jul 8, 2014 9:29:40pm |
re: #26 Gus
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Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Of the names I didn’t recognize a quick google search shows why the Feds might be interested in them. It would be a bigger scandal if these guys weren’t investigated.
55 | teleskiguy Jul 8, 2014 9:30:30pm |
re: #51 Charles Johnson
Sorry, but if it were up to me those Secret Service guys would be in for serious discipline tonight.
This really is not cool, under any circumstances. Yes, it’s funny because nothing happened. But if that had been someone who intended harm to the President we wouldn’t be laughing right now.
I must commend Secret Service for the job well done in the last six years for protecting Barack Obama. I’d argue that this US President has seen more threats to his life since Lincoln.
Fuck. That’s totally hyperbole. Presidents get threatened with death constantly. Oh well, I’ll still submit this as a comment at LGF.
56 | The War TARDIS Jul 8, 2014 9:31:14pm |
re: #54 Killgore Trout
I am not so sure about Amirahmadi
57 | austin_blue Jul 8, 2014 9:33:16pm |
re: #51 Charles Johnson
Sorry, but if it were up to me those Secret Service guys would be in for serious discipline tonight.
This really is not cool, under any circumstances. Yes, it’s funny because nothing happened. But if that had been someone who intended harm to the President we wouldn’t be laughing right now.
The Secret Service is all about threat level. Perimeter control is paramount. I guarantee that man had to remove his Democratic Donkey Head before he was admitted inside the control zone. There is a reason why it’s funny. Nothing was going to happen, or he wouldn’t have been there.
Seriously. These guys are the ultimate pros in close-quarters security. They have been ever since Reagan got popped at the Dupont Circle Hilton.
58 | Killgore Trout Jul 8, 2014 9:33:54pm |
re: #49 The War TARDIS
Hooshang Amirahmadi- This one stumps me. An Iranian-American who wants reconciliation between Iran and the US. In addition, quite a liberal fellow.
He did try to run for president of Iran. He was a very long shot but that’s the kind of thing NSA is interested in. Who’s he talking to? How much support does he have? Does he have backers? etc.
59 | Mich-again Jul 8, 2014 9:34:10pm |
I think that was John Kerry because it sure looks like the Secretariat of State.
60 | teleskiguy Jul 8, 2014 9:34:31pm |
re: #55 teleskiguy
Not only hyperbole, but extremely poorly constructed sentences that would anger any editor.
61 | Shiplord Kirel Jul 8, 2014 9:34:56pm |
There is undoubtedly a conspiracy at work here. I don’t what it is, but I am sure the wingnut blogger/radio axis will let us know.
62 | austin_blue Jul 8, 2014 9:36:14pm |
re: #59 Mich-again
I think that was John Kerry because it sure looks like the Secretariat of State.
Oh! Badda-bing! Best of the night!
You should see me right right now, with my long face for not coming up with that..
63 | Charles Johnson Jul 8, 2014 9:36:29pm |
Coming soon - Conor Friedersdorf: “Why Glenn Greenwald's New Story Proves I was Right All Along!”— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 9, 2014
64 | blueraven Jul 8, 2014 9:36:34pm |
re: #26 Gus
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When he is releasing stuff that happened back 6 - 12 years ago, he must be running out of material.
While some of those names may be questionable for targeting, this shit began right after 9/11 when paranoia ran deep. The program was ended.
And also…this happened under Bush, not Obama.
65 | J A P Jul 8, 2014 9:37:16pm |
re: #49 The War TARDIS
My own guess would be that he wasn’t a target himself but may have had contact with someone who was. Not that I know anything about security.
66 | The War TARDIS Jul 8, 2014 9:38:59pm |
re: #58 Killgore Trout
I do talk to someone in Iran regularly now.
He may well have been able to find support. Most people there do not like the Ayatollah. Not to mention, hard polling in the country shows that Iranians seem to view the American people positively.
She seemed fascinated that our Parliament, as I explained it, only works 100 days a year, but is paid $160,000+ a year.
67 | J A P Jul 8, 2014 9:41:02pm |
re: #49 The War TARDIS
I might add that I once had a professor who mentioned that the government had listened to his phone conversations. He was officially informed of this. This made him feel funny, but at the time I thought to myself, “Geez, they actually follow their own rules.” According to the paranoid far left environment in which I lived at the time that came as a surprise to me. His communications outside the U.S. were being monitored because he had contacts with some people in the Cuban government.
68 | The War TARDIS Jul 8, 2014 9:43:35pm |
re: #67 J A P
Oh, I have no doubt I am being monitored. I talk to a friend in Pakistan regularly, I am talking with someone from Iran regularly for another reason, and I tend to be harshly Anti-Saudi because of their links to terrorism.
69 | Gus Jul 8, 2014 9:44:06pm |
Mind you. During the time of this NSA surveillance of prominent Muslim leaders Snowden also thought leakers “should be shot in the balls.”— Gus (@Gus_802) July 9, 2014
70 | gwangung Jul 8, 2014 9:44:51pm |
re: #67 J A P
I might add that I once had a professor who mentioned that the government had listened to his phone conversations. He was officially informed of this. This made him feel funny, but at the time I thought to myself, “Geez, they actually follow their own rules.” According to the paranoid far left environment in which I lived at the time that came as a surprise to me. His communications outside the U.S. were being monitored because he had contacts with some people in the Cuban government.
This was pre Bush Cheney administration, right?
(I’m beginning to think that Bush was an amiable, but not very strong leader; with a competent, non-slime chief, he would have muddled through without a lot of the incompetence and sliminess that came to infest his administration)
71 | J A P Jul 8, 2014 9:45:14pm |
Is anybody here familiar with one of Greenwald’s sources, John Guandolo?
72 | The War TARDIS Jul 8, 2014 9:46:55pm |
re: #68 The War TARDIS
Of course, the poor guy is probably tracking me and my Doctor Who and Taylor Swift fanaticism, and has to read a Doctor Who fanfiction I have written but not completed yet.
73 | J A P Jul 8, 2014 9:49:34pm |
re: #68 The War TARDIS
Ah, well back in the days when I live in a paranoid far left world, everyone I knew thought they were being monitored by the government. I remember an acquaintance once said she was sure the FBI had a file on her because her little clique of feminists had been taping photocopies of vulvas on lampposts. My boyfriend at the time asked in a deadpan monotone, “Did you put any above Fourteenth Street?” She gave him a blank stare and he said, “I hate to tell you but no one even noticed.”
74 | Mich-again Jul 8, 2014 9:49:57pm |
This was my brush with getting shot by secret service agents. We hung out behind the trailer in Wyandotte MI in 1988 to snap this photo when Bush the Elder walked out. We didn’t realize until we got the pictures developed that we may have spooked the security detail. HEY GEORGE
76 | J A P Jul 8, 2014 9:52:05pm |
re: #72 The War TARDIS
Did you see “The Lives of Others?” It’s one of my favorite movies.
77 | The War TARDIS Jul 8, 2014 9:52:25pm |
re: #73 J A P
I don’t really have a huge issue with it. :)
79 | Targetpractice Jul 8, 2014 9:53:51pm |
re: #78 Gus
Seriously?
Wait, so the far-reaching, unrestrained NSA…has only monitored five Americans?
80 | Gus Jul 8, 2014 9:54:30pm |
re: #79 Targetpractice
Wait, so the far-reaching, unrestrained NSA…has only monitored five Americans?
Guess so.
81 | Lidane Jul 8, 2014 9:57:04pm |
re: #74 Mich-again
My brush with the Secret Service happened in 1992. I was a volunteer for the Clinton campaign and Bill had come to Houston to speak at a rally. I had my volunteer badge on and went for a rope fence to avoid the long line at the metal detector I’d already gone through. SS guy got right in my face until I showed the badge and was able to walk by.
82 | Mich-again Jul 8, 2014 9:57:52pm |
re: #78 Gus
I love how they used the flag from Fort McHenry for the graphic. ha
83 | austin_blue Jul 8, 2014 10:00:32pm |
re: #79 Targetpractice
Wait, so the far-reaching, unrestrained NSA…has only monitored five Americans?
Damn those farging bastiges!
It’s late, my dear Lizards, and I am off for the rack. Sweet scaly dreams.
Oh, and check out Orphan Black at your local DVD store. It’s a Canadian series, released in the US on BBC America, and it is outstanding.
84 | The War TARDIS Jul 8, 2014 10:00:59pm |
85 | sagehen Jul 8, 2014 10:03:39pm |
re: #66 The War TARDIS
I do talk to someone in Iran regularly now.
He may well have been able to find support. Most people there do not like the Ayatollah. Not to mention, hard polling in the country shows that Iranians seem to view the American people positively.
She seemed fascinated that our Parliament, as I explained it, only works 100 days a year, but is paid $160,000+ a year.
Is she equally fascinated that our “Parliament” hates our President, that the parliamentary leaders have handed down an official party loyalty pronouncement that anything the President is for they have to be against?
86 | Gus Jul 8, 2014 10:04:02pm |
87 | Lidane Jul 8, 2014 10:06:25pm |
Well, that explains the similarities to the Red Wedding:
Spoiler Alert! I wrote the script for this World Cup game.— George R.R. Martin (@GRRM) July 8, 2014
88 | sagehen Jul 8, 2014 10:07:51pm |
re: #81 Lidane
My brush with the Secret Service happened in 1992. I was a volunteer for the Clinton campaign and Bill had come to Houston to speak at a rally. I had my volunteer badge on and went for a rope fence to avoid the long line at the metal detector I’d already gone through. SS guy got right in my face until I showed the badge and was able to walk by.
Mine was in 1976 — I was working for the Ford campaign, when his cute son Steven came to the office to thank us and eat pizza with us. Very very cute son Steven, I had such a crush.
89 | The War TARDIS Jul 8, 2014 10:09:34pm |
re: #85 sagehen
Probably not, cause she doesn’t like to talk politics, which I don’t mind. I am getting the feeling that a similar situation is going on in Iran right now between Rouhani and Khamenei.
And it is definitely happening between Khamenei and Rafsanjani.
So, for them, this is likely a day ending in y.
90 | Targetpractice Jul 8, 2014 10:29:22pm |
re: #89 The War TARDIS
Been meaning to ask, seen the latest teasers for Series 8?
92 | BeachDem Jul 8, 2014 10:32:17pm |
OK—I can go to sleep now—Sarah pronounces irreparable just as I knew she would— EAR ree PEAR uh bull.
(I thought Gus was messing around with that chartreuse fringey jacket thing, but she was actually wearing it.)
I’ve avoided hearing that screech for quite some time, and had to suffer through 3 minutes and 40 seconds to get to that word, so now I need to take some Advil and try to avoid having nightmares about banshees.
93 | Lidane Jul 8, 2014 10:33:08pm |
Conservative rocker uses Hitler and Holocaust footage in strange anti-'dictator' video http://t.co/SUQBxydUxH— The Raw Story (@RawStory) July 8, 2014
94 | Targetpractice Jul 8, 2014 10:34:13pm |
re: #91 The War TARDIS
Yes I have.
So I’ve heard hints that the Master will be back and now possibly Davros. Are there any of the Doctor’s enemies who know how to stay dead?
95 | Jayleia Jul 8, 2014 10:36:37pm |
re: #94 Targetpractice
If the Doctor can’t figure out how to stay dead, and he’s smarter than his enemies, how are THEY supposed to do that?
96 | Gus Jul 8, 2014 10:41:40pm |
98 | Charles Johnson Jul 8, 2014 10:50:49pm |
Breaking: World leaders reeling in shock at news that five Americans were spied on in program that ended 6 years ago! Markets plunge!— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 9, 2014
99 | Charles Johnson Jul 8, 2014 10:51:22pm |
ARE YOU SOME KIND OF MONSTER?! FIVE PEOPLE IS TOO MANY!— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 9, 2014
100 | Charles Johnson Jul 8, 2014 10:51:59pm |
ME! THEY WERE SPYING ON MEEEE!
So, in all probability, the NSA was listening in on me, a reporter, talking to an American for a story about NSA illegally wiretapping him.— Ryan Singel (@rsingel) July 9, 2014
101 | Targetpractice Jul 8, 2014 10:54:30pm |
re: #100 Charles Johnson
ME! THEY WERE SPYING ON MEEEE!
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I really don’t know how a person can function like that, going from day to day convinced they’re the subject of government monitoring. I’m not quite sure if it’s paranoia or narcissism.
102 | Gus Jul 8, 2014 10:57:19pm |
Buffalo Springfield - For What It's Worth 1967: http://t.co/RGL1Dir0Gn— Gus (@Gus_802) July 9, 2014
103 | Charles Johnson Jul 8, 2014 10:58:17pm |
Wow. Even I didn't expect this to be such a complete nothing-burger.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 9, 2014
Greenwald on 5/26: “The last one is the one where the sky is all covered in spectacular multicoloured hues!” http://t.co/LQ9vpVhphE— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 9, 2014
104 | piratedan Jul 8, 2014 11:01:07pm |
I think I’d rather wait on a bottle of Heinz ketchup to dress up some fries rather than the anticipation of another Greenwald “reveal” that essentially shows the spying organs of the US actually spying on people that are players internationally, be they friend or foe. What’s next GG, water is wet? dogs and cats living together?
seems like his entire fucking shtick is to promote everything like it’s a goddamn summer movie blockbuster and the previews are plainly not that inspiring.
105 | BeachDem Jul 8, 2014 11:04:27pm |
re: #103 Charles Johnson
Perhaps Glenn’s ego is like a gateway drug to hallucinations of overblown importance (hence the “spectacular multicoloured hues.”)
106 | Charles Johnson Jul 8, 2014 11:09:09pm |
I'm sure Greenwald's numerous followers will be working their TAILS off (get it?) tomorrow trying to convince everyone that this is HUGE.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 9, 2014
107 | BeachDem Jul 8, 2014 11:13:39pm |
re: #102 Gus
I was leaning more toward “Haven’t Got Time for the Pain” (because melodrama never makes me weep anymore.)
108 | Targetpractice Jul 8, 2014 11:14:01pm |
re: #106 Charles Johnson
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“We finally have proof that the government spies on Americans!!!”
“So, should we now discuss limits on such programs and agree that there should be barriers?”
“Fuck that, shut down these agencies immediately! That’s the only way to be sure nobody will ever be spied on again!!!”
109 | Charles Johnson Jul 8, 2014 11:42:25pm |
@Green_Footballs Are you preemptively mocking me for the fact that a news story vindicated my fears? Strange, that impulse.— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) July 9, 2014
110 | Charles Johnson Jul 8, 2014 11:45:35pm |
Pretty much. “@conor64: @Green_Footballs Are you preemptively mocking me for the fact that a news story vindicated my fears?”— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 9, 2014
112 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 12:20:34am |
In one 2005 document, intelligence community personnel are instructed how to properly format internal memos to justify FISA surveillance. In the place where the target’s real name would go, the memo offers a fake name as a placeholder: “Mohammed [bigoted word].”
Wow. This is from the people who are supposed to be objective in their analysis.
113 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 12:32:57am |
Well, at least some good news: Senate Dems Ready To Unveil Bill Reversing Hobby Lobby Ruling
114 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 12:40:36am |
BREAKING: Several buses have been torched by fans in different parts of São Paulo - pic.twitter.com/clOVTHdPjf— World Cup 2014 (@WorldCupPosts) July 8, 2014
115 | Charles Johnson Jul 9, 2014 1:10:28am |
re: #112 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Wow. This is from the people who are supposed to be objective in their analysis.
Yes, that’s pretty ugly - in 2005, under the Bush administration. Nine years ago.
116 | Charles Johnson Jul 9, 2014 1:13:35am |
Note that even when LGF was supposed to be so “far right,” I never tolerated those kinds of bigoted slurs here, and banned people who used them.
118 | Varek Raith Jul 9, 2014 2:28:17am |
Kentucky GOP lawmaker defends coal: ‘We all agree’ Mars is the same temperature as Earth
“I won’t get into the debate about climate change,” Smith said. “But I’ll simply point out that I think in academia we all agree that the temperature on Mars is exactly as it is here. Nobody will dispute that. Yet there are no coal mines on Mars. There’s no factories on Mars that I’m aware of.”
…
The average temperature on Earth is about 57 degrees Fahrenheit, while the average temperature on Mars is about -81 degrees Fahrenheit.
And another moron;
“The dinosaurs died, and we don’t know why, but the world adjusted, and to say that this is what’s going to cause detriment to people, I just don’t think it’s out there,” said state Rep. Kevin Sinnette (D-Ashland).
Your dumb comments for the day.
Yeesh.
119 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 2:32:39am |
re: #114 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
I’m expecting more scenes like that in the coming days. Brazil has had a ton of demonstrations and controversy over the money they’ve spent on the World Cup at the expense of internal problems in the country.
All they got for it was the loss of their two best players, a trip to the semis, and a 7-1 curbstomping by the Germans. I’m expecting their media and fans to be angry for a good while.
120 | ObserverArt Jul 9, 2014 3:13:01am |
It’s morning! Good day.
So, is Greemwald now done and over? Seems the big blockbuster was a big dud.
Oh well, he did his best to draw as much publicity and bucks as he could out of the whole thing before it just withered out.
Anyone think the dudebros learned anything from it all?
I doubt it myself, they were all naive going in…
121 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 3:17:14am |
re: #120 ObserverArt
Anyone think the dudebros learned anything from it all?
They have learned the exact same lesson the Tea Party has:
The lamestream media is ignoring the TRUTH!
122 | ObserverArt Jul 9, 2014 3:24:41am |
re: #121 Lidane
They have learned the exact same lesson the Tea Party has:
The lamestream media is ignoring the TRUTH!
Yeah, there is always that.
If you don’t get the facts you want claim they are being withheld. It is the only legitimate way to maintain the paranoia.
123 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 3:41:20am |
*headdesk*
Iowa GOPer: ‘Dictator’ Obama’s ‘Impeachment’ Should Be An Option
God, this sort of rhetoric pisses me off. NO ONE in this country knows what it’s like to live under a dictator unless they defected from or fled an actual tyranny.
This horseshit pissed me off when Dubya was being compared to Hitler and it pisses me off now. There isn’t a single American POTUS that qualifies as a dictator. At all. Ever. The GOP need to STFU with that noise.
124 | Eventual Carrion Jul 9, 2014 3:56:28am |
re: #70 gwangung
This was pre
BushCheney administration, right?(I’m beginning to think that Bush was an amiable, but not very strong leader; with a competent, non-slime chief, he would have muddled through without a lot of the incompetence and sliminess that came to infest his administration)
Yeah, I always referred to him as a meat puppet. Cheney, Rummy, his dad and friends pulling his strings. Like a Ron Reagan who couldn’t remember the lines of his script.
125 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 4:21:15am |
Glad I got a good night’s sleep without knowing about the nothing-burger from Greenwald.
I’ll bet he’s sobbing into his pillow, though.
126 | wheat-dogghazi Jul 9, 2014 4:28:40am |
re: #118 Varek Raith
“The
dinosaurshumans died, and we don’t know why, but the world adjusted, and to say that this is what’s going to cause detriment topeoplecetaceans, I just don’t think it’s out there,” saidstate Rep. Kevin Sinnette (D-Ashland).cetaceans the world over.
Edited for future accuracy.
127 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 4:33:47am |
Are Reddit users up and around at 9 am? So, reporting the “news” is now akin to “making up” the news?
Tomorrow at 9 am ET, @MazMHussain and I will do a @reddit_AMA about our “Naming Names” NSA story https://t.co/7dezi946vW
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 9, 2014
128 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 4:41:54am |
SO TOTALLY TROLLING THE RACISTS
@BarackObama's version of #HowIMetYourMother pic.twitter.com/ZX9h6TV5fT #tcot #UniteBlue #LNYHBT— Graham Wellington (@TheRobertBriggs) July 9, 2014
129 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 4:49:59am |
Of course it’s not the “finale” if Glenn plays his cards right he can drag this out for years to come.
Dear Media: No, this story is not the “finale”. There are many other stories that will be reported - here & elsewhere - from the archive.— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 9, 2014
130 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jul 9, 2014 4:55:55am |
re: #124 Eventual Carrion
Yeah, I always referred to him as a meat puppet. Cheney, Rummy, his dad and friends pulling his strings. Like a Ron Reagan who couldn’t remember the lines of his script.
I even supported him on immigration reform, but his own party killed that.
131 | Bubblehead II Jul 9, 2014 4:56:18am |
Morning Lizards. 6:00 A.M. and it’s already 75 degrees out and the frigging sun hasn’t even topped the horizon.
132 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 4:58:20am |
What goes into hospitals should stay in hospitals, not broadcast to the world.
Nurse Firing Highlights Hazards of Social Media in Hospitals
Yes, this woman was insensitive and indiscreet. How long before she got enough attention that would drive her to post other photos, perhaps some with people in them? If, as she claims, she lifted the photo from a doctor’s instagram acct, shouldn’t he be fired as well?
133 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 4:59:37am |
re: #129 Pie-onist Overlord
Of course it’s not the “finale” if Glenn plays his cards right he can drag this out for years to come.
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Later, it will be revealed that “Pierre was on my back to publish something”, so this was all I had at the time.”
134 | b.d. Jul 9, 2014 5:00:57am |
re: #129 Pie-onist Overlord
Of course it’s not the “finale” if Glenn plays his cards right he can drag this out for years to come.
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Fizzling finale fails, falls flat.
135 | Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut Jul 9, 2014 5:01:10am |
re: #129 Pie-onist Overlord
According to the article, the FBI was running the show, not the NSA, too.
FBI surveillance of Muslims with alleged ties to terrorist organizations or their supporters isn’t exactly a groundbreakingly new story.
136 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 5:01:48am |
re: #131 Bubblehead II
Morning Lizards. 6:00 A.M. and it’s already 75 degrees out and the frigging sun hasn’t even topped the horizon.
76 here at 8:01 w/83% humidity; we’re supposed to have t-storms later.
137 | Decatur Deb Jul 9, 2014 5:02:19am |
re: #51 Charles Johnson
Sorry, but if it were up to me those Secret Service guys would be in for serious discipline tonight.
This really is not cool, under any circumstances. Yes, it’s funny because nothing happened. But if that had been someone who intended harm to the President we wouldn’t be laughing right now.
There are nut groups playing with toxins (definite) and bio (potentially).
138 | b.d. Jul 9, 2014 5:03:43am |
I’m sure that Glenn’s story of the NSA spying on the other 313,899,995 Americans will be so much more enthralling.
139 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 5:04:30am |
re: #128 Pie-onist Overlord
Wow. That racist idiot can’t even troll properly. Total fail.
140 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 5:06:20am |
re: #138 b.d.
I’m sure that Glenn’s story of the NSA spying on the other 313,899,995 Americans will be so much more enthralling.
Isn’t that beeping sound on my coffeemaker only supposed to be 3 beeps? Well, it’s 5. I knew something wasn’t right.
And they turned off the light in my microwave, too.
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141 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 5:10:06am |
Fucking lawsuits, how do they work?
A judge has thrown out Insane Clown Posse’s lawsuit against the FBI http://t.co/SsqghbjXS3— The AV Club (@TheAVClub) July 9, 2014
According to the Associated Press, U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland dismissed the latest lawsuit because the FBI’s report on gangs “does not recommend any particular course of action for local law enforcement to follow.” Meaning that, just because the FBI report calls the Juggalos—or anyone else—a gang, it doesn’t meant it’s necessarily trying to crack down on them.
142 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 5:11:57am |
My opponent called me the wrong kind of bigot! Eleventy!
Unhappiness over Cochran’s attacks. “How dare he accuse me of supporting the Klan. I was in the John Birch Society!” http://t.co/dwgbcDzD0m— David Frum (@davidfrum) July 9, 2014
143 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 5:13:39am |
re: #142 Lidane
My opponent called me the wrong kind of bigot! Eleventy!
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Every time I see a photo of Chris McDaniel, I think it’s Glenn Greenwald.
They are serious doppelgangers.
144 | Bubblehead II Jul 9, 2014 5:14:20am |
re: #140 Justanotherhuman
Isn’t that beeping sound on my coffeemaker only supposed to be 3 beeps? Well, it’s 5. I knew something wasn’t right.
And they turned off the light in my microwave, too.
////
In this day of Internet of Things appliances, it was probably just your run of the mill hacker screwing with your stuff.
only 1/2 //
145 | sattv4u2 Jul 9, 2014 5:14:46am |
{{yawn}}
I have to do a better job of scheduling my days
Didn’t get home from work till about 1;30 this morning,,,,,didn’t fall asleep till about 2:00
Forgot I had scheduled a company to come over this morning to remove a couple of trees from the property
They got here at 7:30
YOU do the sleep/ math
147 | b.d. Jul 9, 2014 5:16:46am |
Heh, from The Intercept’s comment section:
Hooshang Amirahmadi isn’t Muslim, as you clearly state in the article: ‘Amirahmadi, who does not self-identify as a Muslim and describes himself as an atheist.’
So why is he described as such by you in this comment, and in the article? ‘Even if the government obtained FISA warrants to monitor some or all of the five Muslim-Americans…’
Reply
So Glenn just calls him a Muslim because…..?
148 | Decatur Deb Jul 9, 2014 5:17:52am |
re: #144 Bubblehead II
In this day of Internet of Things appliances, it was probably just your run of the mill hacker screwing with your stuff.
only 1/2 //
Wife and I are at Kitchen War. Kid gave her a Keurig, and she retired our perfectly good French press.
149 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 5:18:19am |
I weep for my state. These are the kind of ignorant jackwagons the Texas GOP nominates for office:
GOP Congressional Candidate Says Obama Has Rare Mental Illness http://t.co/HZGZtGywhJ— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) July 9, 2014
Iraq War vet Larry Smith is the Republican nominee to take on Rep. Filemon Vela (D-Texas) in November. He’s also, it turns out, an armchair psychiatrist. According to Smith, Barack Obama’s handling of the child refugee crisis along the Mexican border suggests the president is suffering from Münchausen syndrome by proxy, a rare psychological condition that causes caretakers to abuse kids.
What the actual fuck? These people are deranged.
150 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 5:21:21am |
re: #145 sattv4u2
{{yawn}}
I have to do a better job of scheduling my days
Didn’t get home from work till about 1;30 this morning,,,,,didn’t fall asleep till about 2:00
Forgot I had scheduled a company to come over this morning to remove a couple of trees from the property
They got here at 7:30
YOU do the sleep/ math
You pay—always—for removing trees. Unless they’re already dead.
Five and a half hours is what I usually live by; 6 tops, unless I’m sick.
151 | Decatur Deb Jul 9, 2014 5:21:24am |
re: #149 Lidane
I weep for my state. These are the kind of ignorant jackwagons the Texas GOP nominates for office:
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What the actual fuck? These people are deranged.
Another idea donated to American awareness by Law and Order.
152 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 5:24:24am |
re: #149 Lidane
I weep for my state. These are the kind of ignorant jackwagons the Texas GOP nominates for office:
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What the actual fuck? These people are deranged.
As someone who also stayed in a Holiday Inn once, I’d say Smith is the one with the not-so-rare psychological disorder these days: ODS.
153 | sattv4u2 Jul 9, 2014 5:26:29am |
re: #150 Justanotherhuman
You pay—always—for removing trees. Unless they’re already dead.
Five and a half hours is what I usually live by; 6 tops, unless I’m sick.
After working four 12+ hour days in a row (and add on the nearly 3 hour round trip commute each day) I really needed more than 5-6 this morning
AND,,, one of the trees ( a bradford pear) is growing into a beautiful leyland cypress out front of the house. The other tree is pushing up against (and about to knock over) a portion of the stockade fence in the backyard
So both are going out of necessity
155 | Bubblehead II Jul 9, 2014 5:27:37am |
re: #148 Decatur Deb
Wife and I are at Kitchen War. Kid gave her a Keurig, and she retired our perfectly good French press.
We picked one up a couple of months ago (K cup) and like it. It hasn’t replaced our cold brew setup (nothing will). We like the different varieties teas, coffee, and hot chocolates you can get for it.
156 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 5:29:01am |
re: #148 Decatur Deb
Wife and I are at Kitchen War. Kid gave her a Keurig, and she retired our perfectly good French press.
I use both. Usually the French press at supper time, if I want a couple of cups then for a pretty much no-cal “dessert” (sweetened w/Splenda and 2% milk).
157 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 5:32:10am |
re: #153 sattv4u2
After working four 12+ hour days in a row (and add on the nearly 3 hour round trip commute each day) I really needed more than 5-6 this morning
AND,,, one of the trees ( a bradford pear) is growing into a beautiful leyland cypress out front of the house. The other tree is pushing up against (and about to knock over) a portion of the stockade fence in the backyard
So both are going out of necessity
Oh well, if it’s a Bradford pear. : )
No, really, they couldn’t be replanted elsewhere on the property? But I get your point. People sometimes forget that sometimes a small plant grows into a monstrous blighter.
158 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 5:42:04am |
re: #148 Decatur Deb
Wife and I are at Kitchen War. Kid gave her a Keurig, and she retired our perfectly good French press.
I use my Keurig for hot tea and hot chocolate because it heats up water very quickly. The French press gets pulled out for flavored coffees. The drip coffee maker comes out for regular coffee.
Thank goodness for cabinet space. Haha.
159 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 5:43:21am |
re: #147 b.d.
Heh, from The Intercept’s comment section:
So Glenn just calls him a Muslim because…..?
Because he hangs around with John Guandolo? In spite of his alleged favoring of Palestinians over Israel, GG hates everyone except himself, but he must take that side to appease the Dudebros™ because he must be the hippest guy in the room, too, the King Kong of hipsterdom.
160 | b.d. Jul 9, 2014 5:48:10am |
re: #159 Justanotherhuman
Because he hangs around with John Guandolo? In spite of his alleged favoring of Palestinians over Israel, GG hates everyone except himself, but he must take that side to appease the DudebrosTM because he must be the hippest guy in the room, too, the King Kong of hipsterdom.
I guess Glenn thought this was going to be the grand unifying finale because:
* It happened under Bush so the Dems who have been on Glenn’s ass would now naturally gravitate to him now?
* It involved Americans which would outrage all? (no matter their past associations)
I’m really at a loss as to why this would be considered the end of a fireworks show, go out like a bang finale.
This feels more like watching the series finale of Lost.
161 | sattv4u2 Jul 9, 2014 5:53:29am |
re: #157 Justanotherhuman
Oh well, if it’s a Bradford pear. : )
No, really, they couldn’t be replanted elsewhere on the property? But I get your point. People sometimes forget that sometimes a small plant grows into a monstrous blighter.
No. The pine was about 25 feet tall and where it was no way to get deep enough to get any of the roots to go with it
The bradford was,,, well ,, as you said, a bradford. We never planted that one. It just grew and as I said, right into a nice leyland cypress. The bradford is also right up against the telephone/ cable companies pedestal so no way to get the the roots of that one either
BUT,,,, we will be planting 4 trees different places around the property
162 | lawhawk Jul 9, 2014 5:56:17am |
re: #96 Gus
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For the people who are too young to remember those two, there’s always these two:
Image: John-Cho-in-Harold-Kumar-Go-to-White-Castle-john-cho-15194842-853-480.jpg
163 | lawhawk Jul 9, 2014 6:06:17am |
Greenwald touts that the NSA and FBI had wide latitude in carrying out surveillance against … wait for it… suspects, including Americans who were long believed to be working with/for terror groups.
He’s going on about how programs that ended in 2008. Collection status - terminated 02/01/2008 through 02/08/2008. In other words, the collection of data on those individuals ended under those former programs.
This is what Greenwald thinks is a blockbuster?
The FBI had CAIR under surveillance? That’s supposed to be newsy? That they even had some attorneys who worked in terrorism related cases under surveillance? Lynne Stewart conspired with her clients to send messages to Sheikh Rahman’s followers in violation of her agreements with prosecutors to not do so.
For a bureaucracy that was supposedly out of control, the program ended not with a bang, but a whimper. And all without Snowden stealing documents to “blow the whistle”.
165 | Charles Johnson Jul 9, 2014 6:06:33am |
.@conor64 @Green_Footballs Shocking: a guy who ran an anti-Muslim hate site for 8 yrs spends all night saying this story doesn't matter.— Andrew Fishman (@AndrewDFish) July 9, 2014
166 | Charles Johnson Jul 9, 2014 6:08:48am |
Amirahmadi was an Ahmadinejad lobbyist in US - of course he was a target: http://t.co/wuT9KbfepI Last para alone would warrant surveillance!— Jeremy Duns (@jeremyduns) July 9, 2014
167 | Charles Johnson Jul 9, 2014 6:09:46am |
Yup - they’re going for the cheap smear right away.
168 | lawhawk Jul 9, 2014 6:11:06am |
Current and former law enforcement officials reject that analogy, and say that the FISA process is too rigorous to permit any abuse. Still, several acknowledge that political speech is sometimes viewed as a sufficient reason to launch an investigation that can culminate in full-blown surveillance.
In other words, despite Greenwald’s claims of a lax environment and NSA doing everything to hoover up every bit of data on everyone, the agency does nothing of the sort. It’s possible that an investigation that can result in someone getting on to the surveillance dashboard, but that’s because their words and deeds are putting them on it.
Where there is an issue is that speech alone shouldn’t be the factor - there should be more (steps in furtherance of financing terror or carrying out attacks or similar). Political speech is protected speech, but when you start talking of overthrowing the government, or sending funds to terror groups or making steps to join with terror groups, then the NSA surveillance is warranted.
169 | ObserverArt Jul 9, 2014 6:11:31am |
Little Green Footballs under attack again…
Another one-time Kamikaze attack…post and die!
(Don’t know if many caught this ‘shop from last Friday morning)
170 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 6:12:08am |
re: #167 Charles Johnson
Yup - they’re going for the cheap smear right away.
They’re all chirping Mona’s favorite talking point, which she got from the Dead Louse—an actual for-reals anti-Muslim hate site.
171 | Charles Johnson Jul 9, 2014 6:14:36am |
re: #170 Pie-onist Overlord
They’re all chirping Mona’s favorite talking point, which she got from the Dead Louse—an actual for-reals anti-Muslim hate site.
The bullshit is about to get deep.
172 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 6:15:43am |
Am I the only person left on the planet with a whistling tea kettle? I do use it to make tea but also to water my inside plants. : )
Only 4 small appliances on the counter here, not counting microwave; the 5 others stay in the cupboard. I am pressed for counter space, but it’s a cozy, compact Pullman type kitchen, about 3 ft width of “free” space between cupboards, so not stressful otherwise—everything is within easy reach and I like it. Now, I’m wondering, though, where I’m going to put my dining room table and chairs in the apt downstairs. There’s a 3 BR, 2B house on the property here, but they’re not moving—that’s what we really wanted. It’s a deal for a decent house around here and I’m not moving elsewhere because I have really good landlord/landlady and I like the location, safe and clean.
First world problems once again. : )
173 | sattv4u2 Jul 9, 2014 6:17:25am |
re: #172 Justanotherhuman
Am I the only person left on the planet with a whistling tea kettle?
Nope
Mrs Satty has one sitting on one of the burners of the stove 24/7
(that stated, she usually micro-blasts her cup-o-water for her tea which she has 3-4 cups a day)
174 | Bubblehead II Jul 9, 2014 6:18:59am |
re: #163 lawhawk
Greenwald touts that the NSA and FBI had wide latitude in carrying out surveillance against … wait for it… suspects, including Americans who were long believed to be working with/for terror groups.
He’s going on about how programs that ended in 2008. Collection status - terminated 02/01/2008 through 02/08/2008. In other words, the collection of data on those individuals ended under those former programs.
This is what Greenwald thinks is a blockbuster?
The FBI had CAIR under surveillance? That’s supposed to be newsy? That they even had some attorneys who worked in terrorism related cases under surveillance? Lynne Stewart conspired with her clients to send messages to Sheikh Rahman’s followers in violation of her agreements with prosecutors to not do so.
For a bureaucracy that was supposedly out of control, the program ended not with a bang, but a whimper. And all without Snowden stealing documents to “blow the whistle”.
And lets not forget is wasn’t only the Federal alphabet soup agencies engaged in covert surveillance of Muslims. The NYPD was also engaged in some pretty hinky surveillance ops as well.
175 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 6:21:55am |
re: #163 lawhawk
Greenwald touts that the NSA and FBI had wide latitude in carrying out surveillance against … wait for it… suspects, including Americans who were long believed to be working with/for terror groups.
He’s going on about how programs that ended in 2008. Collection status - terminated 02/01/2008 through 02/08/2008. In other words, the collection of data on those individuals ended under those former programs.
This is what Greenwald thinks is a blockbuster?
The FBI had CAIR under surveillance? That’s supposed to be newsy? That they even had some attorneys who worked in terrorism related cases under surveillance? Lynne Stewart conspired with her clients to send messages to Sheikh Rahman’s followers in violation of her agreements with prosecutors to not do so.
For a bureaucracy that was supposedly out of control, the program ended not with a bang, but a whimper. And all without Snowden stealing documents to “blow the whistle”.
I think it’s odd that the left doesn’t think of Stewart as a traitor.
It’s one thing to represent the oppressed, but not only to be sympathetic to, but collude, with criminals like that is reprehensible for a member of the bar sworn to uphold the Constitution—all of it.
176 | ObserverArt Jul 9, 2014 6:24:20am |
re: #174 Bubblehead II
And lets not forget is wasn’t only the Federal alphabet soup agencies engaged in covert surveillance of Muslims. The NYPD was also engaged in some pretty hinky surveillance ops as well.
Yeah, but that was probably under the command of Rudy Giuliani. And, at the time he could do nothing wrong. If he personally grabbed a dark-skinned and bearded guy off the street and pummeled him on camera, large segments of America would have cheered.
Actually, not much has really changed has it?
/
177 | Killgore Trout Jul 9, 2014 6:25:13am |
Headline of the day from Al Jaz: Israel-Palestian-Clashes *DELETE THIS*
178 | Charles Johnson Jul 9, 2014 6:25:51am |
Dear Media: No, this story is not the “finale”. There are many other stories that will be reported - here & elsewhere - from the archive.— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 9, 2014
Maybe that’s because Glenn himself has been hyping it as the finale, ya think? https://t.co/kjZCLYZA5y— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 9, 2014
Flashback: Greenwald Hypes 'Spectacular Multicolored Fireworks' for a Finale, Will Reveal Names of NSA 'Victims' http://t.co/LQ9vpVhphE— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 9, 2014
Suddenly, the spectacular finale isn’t the finale at all. Uh huh.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 9, 2014
179 | Bubblehead II Jul 9, 2014 6:28:38am |
re: #176 ObserverArt
Yeah, but that was probably under the command of Rudy Giuliani. And, at the time he could do nothing wrong. If he personally grabbed a dark-skinned and bearded guy off the street and pummeled him on camera, large segments of America would have cheered.
Actually, not much has really changed has it?
/
They disbanded the unit after it’s activities became known.
180 | lawhawk Jul 9, 2014 6:29:30am |
I’m supposed to be impressed that Greenwald interviewed people who were previously under investigation by FBI, NSA, or other agencies (including the NYPD who carried out a wide-ranging surveillance of Muslims in the NYC metro area because they didn’t trust the feds to share intel on a timely basis via the JTTF).
What are those people going to say? That it was warranted?
181 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 6:30:17am |
182 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 6:30:21am |
The news: Magic mushrooms don’t just make you see the sound of a distant airplane ripple across your living room wall. They also calm the ego and boost your sense of optimism, according to a new study.
So how does a psychedelic mushroom actually change your brain? It sounds crazy, but shrooms’ mind-altering compound (psilocybin) helps unlock mental states that are normally only active when we sleep, inducing a state of wakeful dreaming with which many users should be more than familiar.
The more mind-blowing part, though, is not how the drug amplifies some sections of the brain, but how it mutes others. When the emotional centers of the brain light up with activity, the action in the regions responsible for higher-level thinking and our sense of self, or ego, become hushed.
The drug’s long-term effects seem far more pleasant than the terrifying, mind-bending trips that can be brought on by too high a dose.
183 | lawhawk Jul 9, 2014 6:30:39am |
.@Green_Footballs Well, the fireworks turned into a fizzle, so he's got to go back to the drawing board to find something that sizzles— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 9, 2014
184 | Decatur Deb Jul 9, 2014 6:31:25am |
re: #178 Charles Johnson
Suddenly, the spectacular finale isn’t the finale at all. Uh huh.
So what would it take to get a final finale? Could we kickstart GG’s stay at a Trappist monastery?
185 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 6:31:29am |
As if no one could ever change their opinion about anything, ever. @Green_Footballs @random__name @AndrewDFish @conor64— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) July 9, 2014
186 | Killgore Trout Jul 9, 2014 6:32:01am |
re: #175 Justanotherhuman
I think it’s odd that the left doesn’t think of Stewart as a traitor.
It’s one thing to represent the oppressed, but not only to be sympathetic to, but collude, with criminals like that is reprehensible for a member of the bar sworn to uphold the Constitution—all of it.
If you think back to the Bush era of Stewart’s case many were embracing radical ideas and heroes in response to having a Republican in the White house at a time of crisis. People did a lot of stupid things. 9-11 truth, Ward Churchill, George Galloway, Robert Fisk, volunteering as a human shield for Saddam, questioning the timing behind every terror attack, etc. A lot of people were nutty back then and they weren’t cured. They’ll be nutty again in the near future.
187 | Charles Johnson Jul 9, 2014 6:32:51am |
Here's the joint NSA/ODNI response to @ggreenwald's article. http://t.co/vaS5oFgcTe— Marc Ambinder (@marcambinder) July 9, 2014
188 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 6:33:33am |
George Takei!! (14 min -TED TALK)
Youtube Video
189 | b.d. Jul 9, 2014 6:33:53am |
Nope, no reason at all to try and find out what this guy is up to.
“Iranian policymakers will have the opportunity to make policy statements first hand. I believe Mr. Ahmadinejad’s government will accept my request [to open an office].”
190 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 6:33:56am |
re: #184 Decatur Deb
So what would it take to get a final finale? Could we kickstart GG’s stay at a Trappist monastery?
Isn’t there one in KY?
191 | Killgore Trout Jul 9, 2014 6:36:10am |
Israel - Additional video of the 5 Hamas Islamic terrorist killed while trying to strorm an Israeli village
192 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 6:36:30am |
re: #182 FemNaziBitch
“Wakeful dreaming” will get you into auto accidents. I know when I’m “day dreaming” while driving, even briefly, it’s pretty scary not to remember that I just passed the road I live on. It’s called “not paying attention” and that can be fatal.
And if you have ever experienced “night terrors” as I did in my 30s when undergoing a lot of stress, you don’t want anything to do with “magic mushrooms”. : )
193 | Targetpractice Jul 9, 2014 6:36:33am |
re: #183 lawhawk
[Embedded content]
“This is my finale! My magnum opus! I have the names of the NSA’s victims!”
“There were only 5 people. And this program ended 7 years ago.”
“I’m not done yet! There’s more to come!”
194 | ObserverArt Jul 9, 2014 6:38:11am |
re: #179 Bubblehead II
They disbanded the unit after it’s activities became known.
Understood.
My comment about nothing changing is about much of America still not trusting of anything to do with the Middle East and the Muslim religion. Look how it still spills over and gets attached to Barack Hussein Obama. You know, the secretive Muslim Kenyan that is destroying this country.
By the way, has there been any blowback with Bill de Blasio ending the program?
195 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 6:38:12am |
ZOMG WHY WON’T OBUMMER DO ANYTHING ABOUT TEH BORDER?
Obama Asks for $3.7 Billion to Aid Border
President Obama urged Congress on Tuesday to quickly provide almost $4 billion to confront a surge of young migrants from Central America crossing the border into Texas, calling it “an urgent humanitarian situation.”
But the request quickly became entangled in the fierce political debate over immigration: Republicans said they were wary of Mr. Obama’s request and could not immediately support it, given what they called his administration’s failure to secure the Mexican border after years of illegal crossings. Mr. Obama could face resistance from members of his own party as well.
WE CAN’T SUPPORT HIS IDEAS! BORDER SECURITY! DEPORT ERRYBODY!
President Obama simply cannot win with these people.
196 | sattv4u2 Jul 9, 2014 6:38:19am |
re: #186 Killgore Trout
If you think back to the Bush era of Stewart’s case many were embracing radical ideas and heroes in response to having a Republican in the White house at a time of crisis. People did a lot of stupid things. 9-11 truth, Ward Churchill, George Galloway, Robert Fisk, volunteering as a human shield for Saddam. A lot of people were nutty back then and they weren’t cured. They’ll be nutty again in the near future.
Sad how the nuts du jour always seem to rise to the top ((sorry for mixing metaphors)))
197 | Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut Jul 9, 2014 6:38:37am |
So I’ve been brushing up on my math in order to take more advanced statistics courses, and I’ve got to say, Khan academy is really cool. I highly recommend people check them out if they want to shore up a forgotten skill or learn something new.
And I now know trigonometry again. Slightly less cool than kung-fu, but overall more useful.
198 | sattv4u2 Jul 9, 2014 6:39:05am |
re: #191 Killgore Trout
Israel - Additional video of the 5 Hamas Islamic terrorist killed while trying to strorm an Israeli village
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Was just watching that
Thought in my head prior to the ‘splosions,,,,, “Buh Bye!”
199 | Charles Johnson Jul 9, 2014 6:39:36am |
.@viciousbabushka @random__name @AndrewDFish @conor64 You must have missed the memo that said only Glenn Greenwald is allowed to do that.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 9, 2014
201 | Bubblehead II Jul 9, 2014 6:40:08am |
202 | lawhawk Jul 9, 2014 6:41:17am |
re: #194 ObserverArt
You mean other than from the likes of Geller and Co? Nope.
The NYPD’s new efforts on community outreach may do more to gain intel and trust among local community leaders and folks than the surveillance and stop and frisk ever did.
Shootings are down, murders are down, and stop and frisk is down significantly. That’s despite what naysayers were claiming would have happened. Effective policing is what gets results and with a recent spike in shootings as the weather warmed, the NYPD sent more cops on the street from behind desks. Combined with compustat and other methods, they can focus on areas where there are outbreaks of shootings.
203 | b.d. Jul 9, 2014 6:42:16am |
And the biggest loser in all of this is Pierre.
Poor fella.
204 | Targetpractice Jul 9, 2014 6:42:46am |
re: #195 Lidane
ZOMG WHY WON’T OBUMMER DO ANYTHING ABOUT TEH BORDER?
Obama Asks for $3.7 Billion to Aid Border
WE CAN’T SUPPORT HIS IDEAS! BORDER SECURITY! DEPORT ERRYBODY!
President Obama simply cannot win with these people.
I wish they’d be honest and admit that their desire to see the man fail is greater than their desire to actually fix any of the nation’s problems. Because if the problems are actually addressed, then they’ve nothing to bitch about anymore.
205 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 6:43:03am |
re: #203 b.d.
And the biggest loser in all of this is Pierre.
Poor fella.
He has his money to keep him alive and kicking.
206 | b.d. Jul 9, 2014 6:43:40am |
re: #193 Targetpractice
“This is my finale! My magnum opus! I have the names of the NSA’s victims!”
“There were only 5 people. And this program ended 7 years ago.”
“I’m not done yet! There’s more to come!”
207 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 6:45:59am |
I AM SHOCKED! SHOCKED I TELL YOU! VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY VERY SHOCKED!!!!!
.@ggreenwald on @Cryptomeorg’s recent claim: http://t.co/HzAmzDlzUp— The Intercept (@the_intercept) July 9, 2014
208 | Charles Johnson Jul 9, 2014 6:46:07am |
.@jeremyduns I’m thinking of Lucy holding the football for Charlie Brown.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 9, 2014
209 | Bulworth Jul 9, 2014 6:54:13am |
re:
#195
The secret Kenyan Muslim’s request for moar money is obviously a further sign he’s trying to force are Country to accept these disease-ridden fraudulent voters. //
210 | Bulworth Jul 9, 2014 6:55:39am |
re:
#193
Yes, but they could do this! Don’t you see?!
211 | Killgore Trout Jul 9, 2014 6:57:43am |
Anyone have any info on this?
Pallywood caught on BBC
Liveleak Video
212 | Decatur Deb Jul 9, 2014 6:58:29am |
re: #190 FemNaziBitch
Isn’t there one in KY?
Yeah—Gethsemane, Thomas Merton’s old digs. Good wine and cheese.
213 | Decatur Deb Jul 9, 2014 6:59:36am |
re: #196 sattv4u2
Sad how the nuts du jour always seem to rise to the top ((sorry for mixing metaphors)))
Creme de la Cranks.
214 | Dave In Austin Jul 9, 2014 7:01:14am |
re: #149 Lidane
I don’t know if you watch the comments on the Statesman website (there is some real sad comedy there), but there is a troll that is posting this crap under every article that has “Obama” in it. I think this guy thinks that this is actually a thing. Very sad.
215 | lawhawk Jul 9, 2014 7:01:24am |
re: #211 Killgore Trout
He was in shock that Brazil got pounded by Germany? /
216 | Bulworth Jul 9, 2014 7:02:23am |
Well, good news for my feline overlord with the intestinal blockage. They operated on him yesterday and removed the hair ball and he is apparently recovering quickly from the surgery. Might pick him up tonight.
217 | Killgore Trout Jul 9, 2014 7:03:59am |
Who knew “fuck” was the same word in Hebrew?
Gaza Rocket Attack on Israeli Army Base
Youtube Video
218 | simoom Jul 9, 2014 7:04:10am |
re: #127 Justanotherhuman
Are Reddit users up and around at 9 am? So, reporting the “news” is now akin to “making up” the news?
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What was interesting about his IAmA, is that he posted it to Reddit, then immediately removed it. That made it so it was unlisted in the r/IAmA subreddit, but still could be accessed if you knew the URL. He then tweeted a link to it on his Twitter feed. This made it so that all of the initial traffic was only flowing in from his Twitter followers (and from folks who happened to be refreshing is Reddit user page). Later on the IAmA was restored to general visibility with a couple dozen questions already asked and upvoted.
219 | Killgore Trout Jul 9, 2014 7:04:38am |
re: #215 lawhawk
He was in shock that Brazil got pounded by Germany? /
Well, at least he recovered quickly.
220 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 7:04:45am |
Anti-LGBT Lobbyist Claims Gay Activists Are Coming To Put Bigots In Concentration Camps http://t.co/7ymFNAjLWp I WISH! #p2 #tcot #uniteblue— Leyla (@MiamiLib) July 9, 2014
221 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 7:06:01am |
re: #214 Dave In Austin
I don’t know if you watch the comments on the Statesman website (there is some real sad comedy there), but there is a troll that is posting this crap under every article that has “Obama” in it. I think this guy thinks that this is actually a thing. Very sad.
For the most part I try to avoid the comments sections. I don’t need to be reminded just how batshit crazy the RWNJs in this state have gotten.
222 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 7:06:27am |
And,
We now have the concept of Corrective Rape. But I guess it is just too much for the GOP-types to advocate before November.
223 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 7:07:07am |
re: #216 Bulworth
Well, good news for my feline overlord with the intestinal blockage. They operated on him yesterday and removed the hair ball and he is apparently recovering quickly from the surgery. Might pick him up tonight.
Damn Hairballs!
(((Bullworths Feline Overlord))))
224 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 7:07:09am |
re: #218 simoom
What was interesting about his IAmA, is that he posted it to Reddit, then immediately removed it. That made it so it was unlisted in the r/IAmA subreddit, but still could be accessed if you knew the URL. He then tweeted a link to it on his Twitter feed. This made it so that all of the initial traffic was only flowing in from his Twitter followers (and from folks who happened to be refreshing is Reddit user page). Later on the IAmA was restored to general visibility with a couple dozen questions already asked and upvoted.
He thinks he’s clever with this kind of shit. : )
225 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 7:07:34am |
This idiotic wingnut meme, again:
DUMBASS it was NEVER 100% your responsibility or even 0.000001% your responsibility.
How can a liberal woman's body be 100% none of my business and 100% my financial responsibility at the same time? #tcot #p2 #teaparty— Jack Dean (@JHooperDean) July 9, 2014
226 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 7:09:56am |
re: #197 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut
So I’ve been brushing up on my math in order to take more advanced statistics courses, and I’ve got to say, Khan academy is really cool. I highly recommend people check them out if they want to shore up a forgotten skill or learn something new.
And I now know trigonometry again. Slightly less cool than kung-fu, but overall more useful.
Do you really think it could help me?
227 | Bulworth Jul 9, 2014 7:10:36am |
re:
#220
But I thought the RWNJ plan was to wall themselves off in super secure protected communities where the outside world can’t infect them.
228 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 7:10:49am |
Despite the awful allergies, it might be nice today in my part of the world .
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: 07/09/2014*********************************
Pollen & Mold Summary
*********************************
Trees: Low Concentration
Weeds: Low Concentration
Grass: Moderate Concentration
Mold: High Concentration
229 | Charles Johnson Jul 9, 2014 7:11:40am |
FYI: The story abt CIA leaving Obama out of the loop on German spy ops is 100X more imp than latest NSA revelations: http://t.co/iSsMSeXRqD— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) July 9, 2014
230 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 7:12:49am |
re: #225 Pie-onist Overlord
This idiotic wingnut meme, again:
DUMBASS it was NEVER 100% your responsibility or even 0.000001% your responsibility.[Embedded content]
Let’s see if we can turn this somewhat logical.
How can other men’s sperm be 100% of my financial responsibility and none of my business?
231 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 7:14:20am |
@JHooperDean The same way other men's sperm can be. It takes two, remember?— ggt (@geegeetee) July 9, 2014
232 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 7:15:55am |
WHY WHY WHY are there always more buns in a package of hotdog buns than there are hotdogs in a package?
IT’S AN EVIL PLOT BY THE BUN BAKERS & HOTDOG MAKERS TO SLOWLY DRIVE PEOPLE INSANE.
233 | Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut Jul 9, 2014 7:16:24am |
re: #226 FemNaziBitch
Do you really think it could help me?
I don’t know what kind of a learner you are. For me, it works really well. You’d have to try it and see. The hardest part is probably figuring out where you need to begin.
234 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 7:17:04am |
re: #230 FemNaziBitch
Let’s see if we can turn this somewhat logical.
IT’S NOT YOUR FINANCIAL RESPONSIBILITY LIBTARD BECAUSE U ARE ALL UNEMPLOYED & LIVING OFF TEH WELFARES ON TEH RIGHTWING TAXPAYERS EXPENS!!!!!!
235 | NJDhockeyfan Jul 9, 2014 7:18:35am |
Good morning lizards! I haven’t been following the news lately and heard about what’s going on in Israel last night. I called my friends in Virginia who’s son lives in Tel Aviv and said he’s fine right now. His mom is definitely worried though. They just spent a week in Israel visiting him. She told me it was fantastic and very peaceful the whole time. The shit hit the fan 2 days after they left. Her son doesn’t see any chance of being called up for the reserves any time soon. His poor mom. She follows the news constantly. It’s got to be so tough knowing your son is there.
And the rockets keep coming…
NOW: sirens in tel aviv's southern suburbs, then a massive blast heard all across the city— Amir Tibon (@amirtibon) July 9, 2014
236 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 7:19:26am |
from 3effJeff’s excellent Pages comment. give credit where credit is due.
237 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 7:19:39am |
re: #233 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut
I don’t know what kind of a learner you are. For me, it works really well. You’d have to try it and see. The hardest part is probably figuring out where you need to begin.
5th grade
238 | Decatur Deb Jul 9, 2014 7:20:14am |
re: #217 Killgore Trout
Who knew “fuck” was the same word in Hebrew?
Gaza Rocket Attack on Israeli Army Base
[Embedded content]
Israeli mom: “Why are you so late getting back from base?”
Reservist son: “The whole platoon was held down. Too many fukim.”
239 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 7:20:31am |
This is pure, unmitigated horse hockey because it’s not “information”, or at least facts, it’s GG & Co’s interpretation of them. And we’re to believe that the pipsqueak Snowden is really directing the release of this obfuscated, deceiving, and false junk?
“Do you worry that the amount of information that has been released overwhelms the public? I read everything that is published and I find it overwhelming at times. When I talk to family and friends about the stories I often see their eyes glaze over”
GG:
“This is one reason I think we were right to space out the stories rather than just putting everything out there at once.
“Aside from the fact that our source, Edward Snowden, insisted that we report the stories one by one, I think this method has proven to be the best for public consumption.
“I’ve been amazed at how long the interest level in this story has been sustained, and how intense it has been all over the world, literally.”
Face it, GG, you’ve been too busy trying to line your pockets with your POS book (started, of course, before your savior, Pierre, came along), and not doing real journalism, but drive-by bullshit.
What “stories”? The ones you’re making up as you go along? Or is it just one big, old bloated-with-your ego “story”?
240 | Dave In Austin Jul 9, 2014 7:23:06am |
Wife is being tested for West Nile this morning. She has some unexplained symptoms that are indicative of the virus. If she come up positive, our redneck hillbilly tire collecting neighbor is going to be hating life….
241 | wheat-dogghazi Jul 9, 2014 7:23:43am |
re: #172 Justanotherhuman
Am I the only person left on the planet with a whistling tea kettle? I do use it to make tea but also to water my inside plants. : )
Only 4 small appliances on the counter here, not counting microwave; the 5 others stay in the cupboard. I am pressed for counter space, but it’s a cozy, compact Pullman type kitchen, about 3 ft width of “free” space between cupboards, so not stressful otherwise—everything is within easy reach and I like it. Now, I’m wondering, though, where I’m going to put my dining room table and chairs in the apt downstairs. There’s a 3 BR, 2B house on the property here, but they’re not moving—that’s what we really wanted. It’s a deal for a decent house around here and I’m not moving elsewhere because I have really good landlord/landlady and I like the location, safe and clean.
First world problems once again. : )
I have a whistling tea kettle! I guess I bought it to remind me of my childhood. My mom always used it to heat water for instant coffee or for tea. She used a percolator for coffee.
I would bet my kitchen is smaller than yours. I’m too lazy to take a tape measure to it now, but I’ve got less than 3 ft of counter space for sure. I store some stuff on top of the fridge.
Cooking equipment: two burner gas cookstove, running off bottled LP, cold water sink, fridge, microwave (on top of fridge), wok, small fry pan, couple of sauce pans, stock pot with steamer insert, rice cooker, slow cooker. The last two are outside the kitchen for space reasons. For coffee, I use a French press. For instant, I can use the hot water from the drinking water dispenser in the living room.
Despite the limitations, I’ve had up to 12 people over for dinner. My students include some excellent cooks, who are adept at dealing with limited space and equipment. I can manage OK, too.
242 | NJDhockeyfan Jul 9, 2014 7:24:32am |
BREAKING PHOTO: Rocket fired from Gaza intercept by Iron Dome moments ago over Tel Aviv. pic.twitter.com/C2FItu9v0u— Israel News Feed (@IsraelHatzolah) July 9, 2014
243 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 7:26:50am |
Is it really a federal requirement that I produce a physical original or certified copy of my birth certificate for employment? My last job, since HR was in California and I was here in Texas I just got my uncle to scan my birth certificate and save it into a PDF, which I emailed to HR. They were fine with it and never asked for a physical document any of the times I traveled to the office.
I’m being told my by new employer that they need a physical document so now I have to go spend money and time at the Vital Statistics office for no goddamn reason. Why isn’t the same scanned document good enough? Blah.
244 | Stanley Sea Jul 9, 2014 7:31:34am |
re: #243 Lidane
Is it really a federal requirement that I produce a physical original or certified copy of my birth certificate for employment? My last job, since HR was in California and I was here in Texas I just got my uncle to scan my birth certificate and save it into a PDF, which I emailed to HR.
I’m being told they need a physical document so now I have to go spend money and time at the Vital Statistics office for no goddamn reason. Why isn’t the same scanned document good enough? Blah.
Go to the last page for the requirements. If you have a passport that’s all you need.
If you have a drivers licence and a social security card, that is all you need.
If not, you need the drivers license and the birth cert.
245 | Bulworth Jul 9, 2014 7:32:11am |
re:
#225
Hurr hurr why does mah insurance premium pays for hospital stays for uther peoples??!??!?
246 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 7:34:19am |
re: #241 wheat-dogghazi
I have a whistling tea kettle! I guess I bought it to remind me of my childhood. My mom always used it to heat water for instant coffee or for tea. She used a percolator for coffee.
I would bet my kitchen is smaller than yours. I’m too lazy to take a tape measure to it now, but I’ve got less than 3 ft of counter space for sure. I store some stuff on top of the fridge.
Cooking equipment: two burner gas cookstove, running off bottled LP, cold water sink, fridge, microwave (on top of fridge), wok, small fry pan, couple of sauce pans, stock pot with steamer insert, rice cooker, slow cooker. The last two are outside the kitchen for space reasons. For coffee, I use a French press. For instant, I can use the hot water from the drinking water dispenser in the living room.
Despite the limitations, I’ve had up to 12 people over for dinner. My students include some excellent cooks, who are adept at dealing with limited space and equipment. I can manage OK, too.
Very good! My kitchen is fully equipped with a reg size fridge and stove, so you’re doing very well! I just don’t have a lot of prep room, either, so have learned to economize w/it. For me, it’s going to be a matter of getting a table about half as large and people eating in the LR, too. Although even now, that happens and I don’t mind if they don’t. My last crowd was over a dozen, too, after my son’s funeral (I had prepped everything before hand, which was a cold spread and in the fridge). It was mostly family, though. Some of his friends in Charlotte actually had to go back to work and couldn’t come up.
247 | Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut Jul 9, 2014 7:34:30am |
248 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 7:35:20am |
re: #243 Lidane
Is it really a federal requirement that I produce a physical original or certified copy of my birth certificate for employment? My last job, since HR was in California and I was here in Texas I just got my uncle to scan my birth certificate and save it into a PDF, which I emailed to HR. They were fine with it and never asked for a physical document any of the times I traveled to the office.
I’m being told my by new employer that they need a physical document so now I have to go spend money and time at the Vital Statistics office for no goddamn reason. Why isn’t the same scanned document good enough? Blah.
It’s Texas?
249 | Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 9, 2014 7:38:37am |
250 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 7:38:43am |
*sigh*
Daniel Ellsberg Billboard Locations in DC: http://t.co/CDyufY9tqM pic.twitter.com/UO5NBpzEwZ— The Intercept (@the_intercept) July 9, 2014
251 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 7:39:00am |
And in other #GOPLatinoOutreach, TX town, led by @HeidiForTexas, bans child refugees from entering municipality. http://t.co/Wng4jBpp2H— Gabe Ortíz (@TUSK81) July 9, 2014
252 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 7:39:11am |
Some people are having fun w/GG over at Reddit, asking him how much money he’s made in the last year and such other questions.
Of course, he’s not answering those. Or any others he doesn’t like. He lets his Dudebro™ cohorts blast them.
253 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 7:39:23am |
How many lives have been saved because of Snowden?
254 | Timothy Watson Jul 9, 2014 7:39:30am |
Dumbass ThinkProgress link of the day:
How This California Police Officer Escaped Charges For Shooting A 13-Year-Old Dead
Short version: WHY DIDN’T THE POLICE WALK RIGHT UP TO THE SOMEONE THEY THOUGHT WAS HOLDING AN AK-47 AND USE A TASER ON HIM!?!?!?!
255 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 7:39:33am |
re: #244 Stanley Sea
Ugh. Bureaucracy. Lucky that I have an SS card, then. I can bypass all the rest of this shit. Still not happy, but I’ll get over it.
256 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 7:42:25am |
@geegeetee ????????????— Jack Dean (@JHooperDean) July 9, 2014
*facepalm*
257 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 7:43:36am |
re: #250 Pie-onist Overlord
*sigh*
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That’s pretty infuriating in its implication that the US is the only country that ever invades another country, or starts a war. We are just imperialistic bastards, all of us, if we don’t agree with his bullshit. I’m not in favor of imperialism and never will be, but this is beyond the pale and encourages distrust, cynicism, and nihilism.
Pathetic old man in his dotage, trying to live off past glory days. Fuck him, too.
258 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 7:44:24am |
Most Dangerous Animals In The World - http://t.co/ERtfF9NLye pic.twitter.com/kEb2QdP4gF— Aries (@mariesquotes) July 9, 2014
I thought it was humans —no?
259 | Bulworth Jul 9, 2014 7:45:31am |
re:
#251
Sounds familiar—
“Article 13 of Indiana’s 1851 Constitution stated “No Negro or Mulatto shall come into, or settle in, the State, after the adoption of this Constitution.” The 1848 Constitution of Illinois led to one of the harshest Black Code systems in the nation until the Civil War. The Illinois Black Code of 1853 extended a complete prohibition against black immigration into the state.”
260 | NJDhockeyfan Jul 9, 2014 7:47:15am |
re: #249 Backwoods_Sleuth
chemtrails!!!!!!!!11111!!!!!!!!!
DRAMATIC PHOTO: Long Range Rocket fired from Gaza moments ago intercepted over Tel Aviv - CH 2 pic.twitter.com/UG5sGM6Eg4— Israel News Feed (@IsraelHatzolah) July 9, 2014
261 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 7:47:54am |
So we call them Dudenuts, or Wingbros?
“smacked of a cover-up” RT @guardian: Files on UK role in CIA rendition accidentally destroyed, says minister http://t.co/3tel2390hW— The Intercept (@the_intercept) July 9, 2014
262 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 7:48:14am |
Unbelievable: @HouseGOP will spend $3.3 mill on its Benghazi conspiracy—more than the entire Vets Committee budget. http://t.co/qsHj5OfEFX— Nancy Pelosi (@NancyPelosi) July 8, 2014
PRIORITIES!!!
263 | Bubblehead II Jul 9, 2014 7:49:13am |
Morning Dose of Takei humor.
Kids spell the darndest things. 20 more hilarious mistakes here: http://t.co/sBV2u2VxXT pic.twitter.com/wSEfE0oAAq
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) July 9, 2014
264 | piratedan Jul 9, 2014 7:49:38am |
re: #262 FemNaziBitch
brought to you by the party that believes their own hype regarding being fiscally responsible. Maybe we can put that old tired meme to rest at last.
265 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 7:50:29am |
Dear little Wingnut whiner baby: this is exactly what “liberal” women do WHEN PREMIUMS & COPAYS ARE DEDUCTED FROM THEIR PAYCHECKS.
Dear Little Liberal Whiner-Baby… #RealFeminist #tcot #teaparty @peddoc63 pic.twitter.com/Io3T4897l3— Amy Mek (@AmyMek) July 7, 2014
266 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 7:51:18am |
Actually the copay isn’t deducted from the paycheck, that has to be paid out of pocket.
267 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 7:52:34am |
re: #265 Pie-onist Overlord
These idiots don’t understand how employer provided health insurance works, do they?
268 | piratedan Jul 9, 2014 7:54:13am |
re: #267 Lidane
they have the same grasp on that subject as they do about what the Constitution actually says, the three branches of the government and general economic theory.
269 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 7:54:46am |
re: #267 Lidane
These idiots don’t understand how employer provided health insurance works, do they?
Dear #RWNJ, when u tell say “Pay for your own birth control!” THEY ALREADY ARE. #tcot #UniteBlue #SisterPatriots pic.twitter.com/nC4YL1jSuK— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) July 9, 2014
270 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 7:55:14am |
It's time to shift from bogus talking points about border security to how a moral nation should respond to kids fleeing rape & murder.— Lorena Gonzalez (@LorenaSGonzalez) July 9, 2014
271 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 7:56:14am |
re: #265 Pie-onist Overlord
Dear little Wingnut whiner baby: this is exactly what “liberal” women do WHEN PREMIUMS & COPAYS ARE DEDUCTED FROM THEIR PAYCHECKS.
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We aren’t crying. We are voting.
272 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 7:56:47am |
re: #265 Pie-onist Overlord
Dear little Wingnut whiner baby: this is exactly what “liberal” women do WHEN PREMIUMS & COPAYS ARE DEDUCTED FROM THEIR PAYCHECKS.
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Look at meeeeeeeeee! That’s what I see it as. Idiots couldn’t get a job in a pie factory, as we say in the south.
273 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 7:57:08am |
I’ve learned that insurance is a complex subject. It requires some frontal lobe development in order to understand.
:0
274 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 7:58:09am |
re: #272 Justanotherhuman
Look at meeeeeeeeee! That’s what I see it as. Idiots couldn’t get a job in a pie factory, as we say in the south.
You need SKILLS to work at my pie factory!
275 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 7:58:43am |
re: #265 Pie-onist Overlord
Dear little Wingnut whiner baby: this is exactly what “liberal” women do WHEN PREMIUMS & COPAYS ARE DEDUCTED FROM THEIR PAYCHECKS.
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That one has an interesting bio on her twitter nic.
276 | piratedan Jul 9, 2014 7:59:08am |
who knew that the GOP’s constant fucking of that chicken would eventually lead to this?
277 | Bulworth Jul 9, 2014 7:59:18am |
re:
#270
Secure THE Border!!!1
Sally Kohn tweets: Do conservatives realize these kids are being caught at the border; border is fine, immigration system broken.
Hurr hurr Obama sux! Send ‘em back home! USAUSAUSAUSA!!!!11
Moving the goalposts….
278 | wheat-dogghazi Jul 9, 2014 7:59:28am |
re: #267 Lidane
These idiots don’t understand how employer provided health insurance works, do they?
It makes you wonder if these people ever held down a job, and if they did, ever got sick. Anyone worker with half a brain knows how employer provided health insurance works. You have to pick a plan. You agree to have money deducted from your pay to cover premiums. You end up paying co-pays out of pocket.
Challenge them on this point, because if they have been employed, either they got shit benefits (or none at all), or they’re speaking out of total ignorance of how the world works.
279 | lawhawk Jul 9, 2014 7:59:50am |
The Bulls Win… The Bulls Win.
Author of How to Survive the Bulls of Pamplona is gored during the day’s running of the bulls.
280 | wheat-dogghazi Jul 9, 2014 8:00:57am |
re: #279 lawhawk
The Bulls Win… The Bulls Win.
Author of How to Survive the Bulls of Pamplona is gored during the day’s running of the bulls.
Who says bulls have no sense of humor?
281 | Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut Jul 9, 2014 8:02:12am |
re: #269 Pie-onist Overlord
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In fact, what the Hobby Lobby is going to make happen is the government to provide what the company is denying.
This is what the general ‘conservative’ mindset overlooks: People in need remain in need if you deny them that need. People who need birth control, people who need housing, food, jobs, they don’t just disappear if you don’t address their needs. One way or another, it has to get addressed.
282 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 8:03:28am |
“U.S. penalizes lenders over maternity-related mortgage discrimination” http://t.co/aAKrRHMXZQ @latimes— Re:Gender (@Re_Gender) July 9, 2014
One of my AA friends had to sign a statement verifying that her child was HER CHILD in order to get her mortgage.
Her lawyer advised she just sign it to facilitate the closing. This was 20 years ago.
283 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 8:03:48am |
284 | Bulworth Jul 9, 2014 8:04:09am |
Benghazi!!!1 Never 4ge….hurr hurr SecureTheBorder Send ‘em Back Home!! Impeach!!11 USAUSUAUSUAUAUA
285 | Targetpractice Jul 9, 2014 8:04:57am |
re: #281 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut
In fact, what the Hobby Lobby is going to make happen is the government to provide what the company is denying.
This is what the general ‘conservative’ mindset overlooks: People in need remain in need if you deny them that need. People who need birth control, people who need housing, food, jobs, they don’t just disappear if you don’t address their needs. One way or another, it has to get addressed.
Which is why, in the near future, I expect that there will be movement in the GOP to push a bill denying taxpayer dollars for birth control. Why? “Religious freedom.”
286 | wheat-dogghazi Jul 9, 2014 8:06:16am |
re: #281 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut
In fact, what the Hobby Lobby is going to make happen is the government to provide what the company is denying.
This is what the general ‘conservative’ mindset overlooks: People in need remain in need if you deny them that need. People who need birth control, people who need housing, food, jobs, they don’t just disappear if you don’t address their needs. One way or another, it has to get addressed.
They also overlook the old saw, “an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” They whine about all the money spent on social programs, without stopping to calculate what future problems those programs might prevent.
I would argue this same mindset has infected American corporate culture for decades.
287 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 8:06:41am |
re: #278 wheat-dogghazi
It makes you wonder if these people ever held down a job, and if they did, ever got sick. Anyone worker with half a brain knows how employer provided health insurance works. You have to pick a plan. You agree to have money deducted from your pay to cover premiums. You end up paying co-pays out of pocket.
Challenge them on this point, because if they have been employed, either they got shit benefits (or none at all), or they’re speaking out of total ignorance of how the world works.
HURR HURR I AM TEH JRRB CREEYATER!!!!!! IN MY BIDNESS I GIVE MY WORKERS TEH PAYS & TEH HEALTHCARES OUT OF TEH GOODNESS OF MY CHRISTIAN HEART!!!!!! THEY SHOULD ALLS BE WORKIN FOR NO PAY TEH WORTHLESS LAZY MOOCHERS THEY ARE TAKIN AWAY MY BOTTOM LINE!!!!!! I SHOULD REPLACE ‘EM ALL WITH MACHINES!!!!
288 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 8:07:05am |
re: #275 FemNaziBitch
That one has an interesting bio on her twitter nic.
Holy crap, she covers all the craziness, doesn’t she? : )
“God, Family & Country; Patriot, Sports Fitness & Vegan; Psychotherapist, Relationship Counselor & Fixer; Fight 4 Wrongfully Convicted & Animals #2A #NRA #TCOT,”
Anyone who sees this idiot for psychotherapy is treading on very thin ice.
289 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 8:07:17am |
“The fourth law of thermodynamics” - @pkedrosky pic.twitter.com/dwksecoqNj— Conrad Hackett (@conradhackett) July 9, 2014
290 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 8:08:02am |
LOLWHUT
@viciousbabushka #HobbyLobby employees agreed to 16 of 20 BC options as part of their compensation when hired. HHS(govt) interfered in that.— Nora Cole (@soxmom47) July 9, 2014
291 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 8:08:58am |
re: #288 Justanotherhuman
Holy crap, she covers all the craziness, doesn’t she? : )
“God, Family & Country; Patriot, Sports Fitness & Vegan; Psychotherapist, Relationship Counselor & Fixer; Fight 4 Wrongfully Convicted & Animals #2A #NRA #TCOT,”
Anyone who sees this idiot for psychotherapy is treading on very thin ice.
I’ve had a hard time pinning down the exact credentials necessary to use the term “Psychotherapist”. I understand Psychologist, and Psychiatrist, but Psychotherapist seems just a little snake oil-ish to me.
292 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 8:09:36am |
re: #291 FemNaziBitch
I’ve had a hard time pinning down the exact credentials necessary to use the term “Psychotherapist”. I understand Psychologist, and Psychiatrist, but Psychotherapist seems just a little snake oilish to me.
There is a space missing between “Psycho” and “Therapist”
293 | Bulworth Jul 9, 2014 8:10:45am |
re:
#290
Hurr hurr slutz pills mandate canceled employee contract employment confirmed. FACT.
294 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 8:12:26am |
re: #290 Pie-onist Overlord
LOLWHUT
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And what about the whole Stem Cell controversy.
Are they going to approve some Stem Cell treatments and not others? HIV and AIDS treatment, is it going to depend on how the patient/employee contracted the disease?
More and More I am reminded of this book (recommended by a Lizard). Money (power) and Religion (morality) are confused in the mind of so many.
295 | piratedan Jul 9, 2014 8:12:52am |
re: #290 Pie-onist Overlord
who knew that Hobby Lobby was a union shop… oh yeah, they aren’t.
296 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 8:16:32am |
Why do so many have the secular world and it’s laws confused with the non-secular (mythology) and it’s laws?
Oh, I forgot, the Powerful controlling the less Powerful.
297 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Jul 9, 2014 8:17:48am |
Morning fellow Lizards, counting down the hours until I leave for King’s Canyon for my annual camping/fishing/drinking trip.
298 | Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 9, 2014 8:18:29am |
President Obama meets up with Gov. @HickForCO and folks in Denver for some pool and a pint: http://t.co/IJqb4UwSPF pic.twitter.com/RUoep2eMLz
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 9, 2014
299 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 8:19:07am |
Eric misspelled “Treasonous thieving shitweasel”
NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has applied to extend asylum in Russia http://t.co/F4hPC8Q10p— Eric W. Dolan (@EWDolan) July 9, 2014
300 | Targetpractice Jul 9, 2014 8:20:36am |
re: #295 piratedan
who knew that Hobby Lobby was a union shop… or yeah, they aren’t.
To wingnuts, any way that your boss chooses to fuck you over is with your approval because you took the job. Even shit that wasn’t an issue when you joined, but becomes such after you’ve started working there, is with your approval because you took the job.
301 | Bulworth Jul 9, 2014 8:21:20am |
re:
#298
Hurr hurr why Obamu not at border securing are border??!??!?!?!
302 | Feline Fearless Leader Jul 9, 2014 8:23:13am |
re: #216 Bulworth
Well, good news for my feline overlord with the intestinal blockage. They operated on him yesterday and removed the hair ball and he is apparently recovering quickly from the surgery. Might pick him up tonight.
Glad to here that the Feline Overlord is recovering.
One of my Siamese once had the lethargic “sick kitty” look and I took him to a clinic on the weekend since the regular vet was closed. Turned out that he’d been outside and eaten a load of dry grass (it was winter). He didn’t immediately hack it up like they usually do - so it got into his gut, absorbed water, and expanded his gut to the point it shoved a bunch of internal organs to the side. (It was an interesting x-ray.)
No operation - the vet at the clinic gave him an enema. Which cleared him out over the next couple of hours and he was back to normal within 24 hours.
And the vet also told me the cat had asthma. (Undiagnosed by the regular vet - and I took the hacking attacks for being hairballs.) So the cat became a seasonal consumer of small amounts of prednisone.
303 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 8:23:14am |
re: #300 Targetpractice
To wingnuts, any way that your boss chooses to fuck you over is with your approval because you took the job. Even shit that wasn’t an issue when you joined, but becomes such after you’ve started working there, is with your approval because you took the job.
HURR HURR QUIT & GET ANOTHER JRRB!!!!!!
305 | Targetpractice Jul 9, 2014 8:24:43am |
re: #303 Pie-onist Overlord
HURR HURR QUIT & GET ANOTHER JRRB!!!!!!
The mating call of dipshits who’ve held the same job for 20+ years, if not already retired, but believe that getting a new job is as simple as walking in the door and asking for an application. After all, it worked when they were kids, so obviously it holds true today.
306 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 8:24:54am |
re: #299 Pie-onist Overlord
Eric misspelled “Treasonous thieving shitweasel”
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Big surprise. /
I hope he rots in Russia.
307 | wheat-dogghazi Jul 9, 2014 8:25:13am |
re: #300 Targetpractice
To wingnuts, any way that your boss chooses to fuck you over is with your approval because you took the job. Even shit that wasn’t an issue when you joined, but becomes such after you’ve started working there, is with your approval because you took the job.
Some people have never quite got over the end of feudalism. It’s like they revel at having a lord rule over every aspect of his workers’ lives.
308 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 8:25:17am |
re: #300 Targetpractice
To wingnuts, any way that your boss chooses to fuck you over is with your approval because you took the job. Even shit that wasn’t an issue when you joined, but becomes such after you’ve started working there, is with your approval because you took the job.
In The Libertarian Utopia, every man has his own Sweatshop where he sets the rules for all workers, gives them pay & benefits out of the goodness of his heart, & if they don’t like it go somewhere else.
309 | Dave In Austin Jul 9, 2014 8:26:16am |
re: #291 FemNaziBitch
Prolly like a drug and alcohol rehab counselor. They can be a dime a dozen I. E., “I’ve been sober for 6 months. I’m now recovered and an expert in mental illness and D&A recovery.” Get the picture? If you know Bill W. Like I know Bill W. You know the type.
310 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 8:26:19am |
They all believe they will get to be the Sweatshop Owner, but never the desperate, starving worker.
311 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 8:27:53am |
When white people are unemployed:
HURR HURR OBAMA TUUK ARE JRRBS!!!!!!!
When blah people are unemployed:
HURR HURR GET A JRRB U WORTHLESS LAZY MOOCHER!!!!!!!
312 | Targetpractice Jul 9, 2014 8:28:55am |
re: #310 Pie-onist Overlord
They all believe they will get to be the Sweatshop Owner, but never the desperate, starving worker.
St. Rand of the Church of Galt told them in the sacred scripture Atlas Shrugged that every exceptional person can be a captain of industry and obscenely wealthy, but liberals are holding them down. None of the faithful ever question how, if everybody is equally capable of being one of the elite, there will be anybody to do the menial jobs. Because if they did, they’d have to acknowledge that they’re not the exceptional people that Ayn talked about, they’re the very “parasites” she raged against.
313 | wrenchwench Jul 9, 2014 8:29:40am |
re: #297 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Morning fellow Lizards, counting down the hours until I leave for King’s Canyon for my annual camping/fishing/drinking trip.
Nice! My mom planned for her 60 birthday there, but there was an avalanche on the road in that wasn’t cleared yet (in June!) so we switched to Anza Borrego, where it was 102 F. I loved it. I was the only one. We switched again to the beach after a couple of days. That’s California.
It should be perfect in July. Do you always go around the same time?
314 | Feline Fearless Leader Jul 9, 2014 8:31:02am |
re: #270 FemNaziBitch
A nation doesn’t have morals any more than a corporation does.
It depends on the morals of the individual leaders and citizens of the nation in question. A leader can try to make a nation (or corporation) act like a moral individual would. And moral citizens can pressure the nation (or corporations) to act that way via the choices and actions they are legally allowed to take - voting, where they purchase things, and being activists.
315 | Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 9, 2014 8:31:17am |
Medieval Picture of the Day: Rabbit bitch-slaps cowering cleric (?) pic.twitter.com/hBzWixpEFT
— VictoriaG (@ancientnmodern) July 9, 2014
316 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 8:32:24am |
re: #309 Dave In Austin
Prolly like a drug and alcohol rehab counselor. They can be a dime a dozen I. E., “I’ve been sober for 6 months. I’m now recovered and an expert in mental illness and D&A recovery.” Get the picture? If you know Bill W. Like I know Bill W. You know the type.
Except peer counseling sometimes works very well if you have a sponsor/friend to get you over the hump, so to speak, if that person has actually been successful.
That said, it doesn’t mean they’re experts; a lot of them become dependent upon religion, but—whatever keeps them straight and healthier, I suppose.
317 | Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 9, 2014 8:32:31am |
re: #298 Backwoods_Sleuth
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MT @Mediaite: Fox Baffled by Obama Playing Pool: How Thick Is White House's 'Bubble'? http://t.co/kwDnJmB7MX pic.twitter.com/GF3HWcUcL3
— Tom Wellborn (@TLW3) July 9, 2014
318 | First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Jul 9, 2014 8:32:41am |
re: #123 Lidane
*headdesk*
Iowa GOPer: ‘Dictator’ Obama’s ‘Impeachment’ Should Be An Option
God, this sort of rhetoric pisses me off. NO ONE in this country knows what it’s like to live under a dictator unless they defected from or fled an actual tyranny.
I work with a couple of guys who each have more wingnut bumper stickers than teeth (all the Obama-is-Hitler, don’t-tread-on-me, etc bullshit you’re used to seeing), and I also have other co-workers who came from cheerful places including Russia, Bulgaria, Romania, Vietnam, Cambodia, Iran, Cuba, and El Salvador, all of whom presumably know a little something about what it’s like to live in a real dictatorship. Luckily, there’s a fairly well-observed unwritten rule against talking religion and politics at work, but I would really enjoy hearing the wingnuts explain to the rest of the office how life under the current incarnation of the US government is comparable to life under the Soviets, Castro, Pol Pot, the Mullahs, and whatever military junta-of-the-week. I’m sure it would prove very enlightening.
319 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 8:32:57am |
re: #309 Dave In Austin
Prolly like a drug and alcohol rehab counselor. They can be a dime a dozen I. E., “I’ve been sober for 6 months. I’m now recovered and an expert in mental illness and D&A recovery.” Get the picture? If you know Bill W. Like I know Bill W. You know the type.
yeah
320 | Killgore Trout Jul 9, 2014 8:33:25am |
Here’s video of the Israeli practice of “Roof Knocking” to minimize civilian casualties and the Hamas tactic of human shields to increase civilian casualties.
DF Avoids Civilians Casualties in Gaza, Hamas Increases Them
Youtube Video
321 | Feline Fearless Leader Jul 9, 2014 8:33:43am |
re: #297 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Morning fellow Lizards, counting down the hours until I leave for King’s Canyon for my annual camping/fishing/drinking trip.
Never been in there. But I looked down into it from Sequoia and it looks like a nice place.
322 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 8:33:49am |
323 | Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 9, 2014 8:34:28am |
re: #322 FemNaziBitch
What is the symbolism of the rabbit?
No idea, but rabbits show up a lot in medieval manuscripts.
324 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Jul 9, 2014 8:34:30am |
re: #313 wrenchwench
It should be perfect in July. Do you always go around the same time?
Last year we went in mid-June, had to go later this year. I had been a few times before several years ago and was bragging to my fishing buddies about the trout fishing up there and we finally arranged the first trip last year. So now it’s an annual thing. I love it up there and am so looking forward to getting away from civilization for a few days.
325 | Killgore Trout Jul 9, 2014 8:34:35am |
re: #320 Killgore Trout
Here’s video of the Israeli practice of “Roof Knocking” to minimize civilian casualties and the Hamas tactic of human shields to increase civilian casualties.
DF Avoids Civilians Casualties in Gaza, Hamas Increases Them
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That’s a lot of people.
326 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 8:34:46am |
re: #316 Justanotherhuman
Except peer counseling sometimes works very well if you have a sponsor/friend to get you over the hump, so to speak, if that person has actually been successful.
That said, it doesn’t mean they’re experts; a lot of them become dependent upon religion, but—whatever keeps them straight and healthier, I suppose.
A lot of addicts transfer their addiction to Jesus. It’s not recovery, it’s just another addiction.
Like golf, shoppping, eating and other common transfer addictions. It’s not any healthier.
327 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 8:35:36am |
The only thing I can think of regarding rabbits is uncontrolled sex and breeding.
How does that work with religious symbolism?
328 | ObserverArt Jul 9, 2014 8:36:03am |
re: #268 piratedan
they have the same grasp on that subject as they do about what the Constitution actually says, the three branches of the government and general economic theory.
It’s all Obama’s fault dontcha know!
329 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 8:36:27am |
re: #2 Charles Johnson
Secret Service guys don’t seem very amused.
Just registered this from the top.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen an amused SS agent.
330 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Jul 9, 2014 8:36:31am |
re: #321 Feline Fearless Leader
Never been in there. But I looked down into it from Sequoia and it looks like a nice place.
This time of year the Cedar grove campsites are open. Nicely shaded, in a cedar grove and close to the river. Having been there and to Yosemite I will take King’s Canyon any day.
331 | Bulworth Jul 9, 2014 8:36:33am |
re:
#302
Yeah I probably should have asked why they couldn’t flush it out. I think because they weren’t sure what it was, whether it was a growth or something.
332 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Jul 9, 2014 8:38:24am |
333 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 8:39:00am |
WHY does anyone listen to this asshole?
Fox ‘s Keith Ablow: LGBT rights will lead to ‘three humans and a dog ’ marriage http://t.co/OnxOSdSFa1— Eric W. Dolan (@EWDolan) July 9, 2014
334 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jul 9, 2014 8:39:11am |
re: #308 Pie-onist Overlord
In The Libertarian Utopia, every man has his own Sweatshop where he sets the rules for all workers, gives them pay & benefits out of the goodness of his heart, & if they don’t like it go somewhere else.
In the Calvinist utopia, we all work for the Glory of God and to keep our Souls Free of Sin, and anything that our employer pays us is a Gift from God that We Do Not Really Deserve.
335 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 8:39:54am |
re: #323 Backwoods_Sleuth
No idea, but rabbits show up a lot in medieval manuscripts.
This might explain it more clearly.
The Adventures of Medieval Bunny, Part I: The Killer Rabbit
336 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 8:40:19am |
*headdesk*
Larry Klayman claims liberal Jews are “enemies of the Jewish people,” just as bad as Adolf Hitler http://t.co/lY1a9cvEBG— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) July 9, 2014
337 | Bulworth Jul 9, 2014 8:40:29am |
Sally Kohn doing yeoman’s work trying to get wingnuts to say how, exactly, the arrival of child immigrants is a crisis of border security. Since the border patrol is catching or receiving them.
SendemBack!!!1 UAAUSUSUSUSUSUUSUUUSUSus
339 | Feline Fearless Leader Jul 9, 2014 8:41:50am |
re: #323 Backwoods_Sleuth
No idea, but rabbits show up a lot in medieval manuscripts.
Fairly common food source. Including specifically setting up areas for them to live in so that they could be harvested.
340 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 8:42:45am |
341 | Eclectic Cyborg Jul 9, 2014 8:43:08am |
re: #251 Lidane
The League City council passed a resolution on Tuesday night to ban undocumented children from entering the municipality.
League City Council Member Heidi Thiess drafted the measure, which declines to accept federal requests to operate detention or processing centers in the city. “Health and safety” concerns were cited among the reasons for the proposed ordinance.
Because a bunch of scared and hungry 6 year olds would totally start tearing up the city and spreading disease.
342 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 8:43:29am |
re: #339 Feline Fearless Leader
Fairly common food source. Including specifically setting up areas for them to live in so that they could be harvested.
Hassenpfeffer?
343 | FemNaziBitch Jul 9, 2014 8:43:55am |
re: #341 Eclectic Cyborg
Because a bunch of scared and hungry 6 year olds would totally start tearing up the city and spreading disease.
They have different germs than us
345 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jul 9, 2014 8:44:03am |
346 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 8:44:06am |
re: #341 Eclectic Cyborg
Because a bunch of scared and hungry 6 year olds would totally start tearing up the city and spreading disease.
THEY’RE COVERED IN LICE! DISEASED MONGRELS! ELEVENTY!
347 | lawhawk Jul 9, 2014 8:44:13am |
re: #330 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
I’ve now been to both Kings Canyon and Yosemite, and there’s something to be said for going in off-peak periods. Fewer crowds. Kings Canyon doesn’t get the crowds of Yosemite, even during peak periods, so I can see why that’d be a better choice.
When we visited Sequoia and Kings Canyon, the Kings Canyon road was still closed for the winter, so we couldn’t get out to the further reaches. Still pretty imposing and impressive to view.
348 | Ryan King Jul 9, 2014 8:44:22am |
Remember this?
Two Young, Gun-Wielding Mothers Appear Side-by-Side on Twitter
Fanaticism, dressed in similar symbols, but in different contexts
By wheat-dogghazi
Fox News goes for a Level 7 Flip of the Narrative:
OUTRAGEOUS
Mom Viciously Attacked Online for Photo With Flag, Gun & Bible
Yes, it’s a total orgy of victimood and Christian Conservative grievance.
349 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 8:46:22am |
re: #348 Ryan King
Yes, it’s a total orgy of victimood and Christian Conservative grievance.
Fuck ‘em. It’s about damn time that someone pointed out the similarities between the RWNJs and other extremists.
350 | Eclectic Cyborg Jul 9, 2014 8:46:46am |
The poster came with a description calling it a “generic Gate with inscription Arbeit Macht Frei, Dachau Concentration Camp, Dachau, Upper Bavaria, Bavaria, Germany Poster Print by Pa.”
This is why you have to keep a tight watch on “3rd party sellers”.
351 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 8:47:07am |
re: #326 FemNaziBitch
A lot of addicts transfer their addiction to Jesus. It’s not recovery, it’s just another addiction.
Like golf, shoppping, eating and other common transfer addictions. It’s not any healthier.
Yes, I realize that. Society doesn’t exactly encourage well-rounded individuals so that we develop into thinking, creative beings who are valuable in our own right, and the push to commercialize every aspect of our lives doesn’t do anything to help that. The push to be “popular” rather than to develop our intellect during our school years is a great shame as well because it goes right along with the commercialization aspect. We are constantly having to “sell ourselves”. Any tiny bit of eccentric behavior is seen as “having something wrong” with us.
And when you don’t measure up to the expectations of others, it really does fuck with your head.
352 | Gus Jul 9, 2014 8:47:35am |
Sad clown face.
Meet the Center for American Progress Leaders the FBI and NSA Have Not Been Spying On— jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) July 9, 2014
353 | Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 9, 2014 8:48:14am |
Much crashing noise coming from a storage area in the kitchen.
Apparently a mouse hunt is getting serious…
354 | Bulworth Jul 9, 2014 8:48:49am |
re:
#352
The Center for American Progress is obviously part of the NSA surveilance caliphate.
355 | Eclectic Cyborg Jul 9, 2014 8:49:02am |
re: #348 Ryan King
That’s exactly what I said would probably happen. From a comment I made two days ago:
Let me guess: The nut jobs are saying Hollys picture is ok because she has the right book in her hand?
356 | EmmaAnne Jul 9, 2014 8:49:23am |
re: #326 FemNaziBitch
A lot of addicts transfer their addiction to Jesus. It’s not recovery, it’s just another addiction.
I’ve got to argue with you there. We’ve got a lot of them in my family, and the God addiction may not be very healthy or fun to be around, but it is a hell of a lot healthier (and fun to be around) than the drinking.
357 | Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 9, 2014 8:50:30am |
After heavy rain— RT @NBCNewsPictures: Tight spot: Parking lot collapses in China http://t.co/NQqGwopv5u pic.twitter.com/uBsMRO6zQw
— SevereStudios (@severestudios) July 9, 2014
358 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 8:50:33am |
re: #355 Eclectic Cyborg
That’s exactly what I said would probably happen. From a comment I made two days ago:
HURR HURR SHE’S DEFENDING HERSELF AGAINST TEH MUSLINS WHICH INCLUDES TEH KENYAN IMPOSTER IN TEH WHITE HOUSE!!!!!
That said, there were a lot of sexist attacks on Holly that were just as bad as anything sent to Sandra Fluke or Amanda Marcotte.
359 | NJDhockeyfan Jul 9, 2014 8:52:03am |
Malaysian MP hails German World Cup win by praising Hitler
On Tuesday, Germany demolished the host nation Brazil in a 7-1 World Cup win that will go down in history. It was an astonishing victory for the Germans, and an epically humiliating loss for the Brazilians. For observers, it was at the very least remarkable.
After the game, Malaysian MP Bung Mokhtar Radin, a member of the dominant United Malays National Organization, decided to tweet to congratulate Germany.
He did so by congratulating Hitler.
WELL DONE..BRAVO…LONG LIVE HITLER…— Bung Moktar Radin (@MyKinabatangan) July 8, 2014
360 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Jul 9, 2014 8:53:55am |
re: #347 lawhawk
Yeah it is one heckuva view from the top. Down in the canyon is just amazing. When we went it was a full moon so at night the rocks walls were just lit up. Then there are some of the cliffs that literally jut up from one side of the river. You can’t even cross without hitting a wall in some spots. It is an awesome place from above and from down inside.
361 | Ryan King Jul 9, 2014 8:54:00am |
re: #358 Pie-onist Overlord
HURR HURR SHE’S DEFENDING HERSELF AGAINST TEH MUSLINS WHICH INCLUDES TEH KENYAN IMPOSTER IN TEH WHITE HOUSE!!!!!
That said, there were a lot of sexist attacks on Holly that were just as bad as anything sent to Sandra Fluke or Amanda Marcotte.
That is abhorrent, always is and always will be.
362 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 8:54:24am |
re: #358 Pie-onist Overlord
HURR HURR SHE’S DEFENDING HERSELF AGAINST TEH MUSLINS WHICH INCLUDES TEH KENYAN IMPOSTER IN TEH WHITE HOUSE!!!!!
That said, there were a lot of sexist attacks on Holly that were just as bad as anything sent to Sandra Fluke or Amanda Marcotte.
I’m not going to say there weren’t any liberals who did that, at least not thinking ones, but I’d bet the majority were set ups.
363 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 8:55:23am |
re: #197 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut
So I’ve been brushing up on my math in order to take more advanced statistics courses, and I’ve got to say, Khan academy is really cool. I highly recommend people check them out if they want to shore up a forgotten skill or learn something new.
And I now know trigonometry again. Slightly less cool than kung-fu, but overall more useful.
Will you have calculus?
364 | wheat-dogghazi Jul 9, 2014 8:57:30am |
re: #348 Ryan King
Fox News tagline under their photos: “Mom attacked online for conservative values.” If you stop and think, it could apply to either woman. Not that Fox News fans would stop and think about anything.
The personal attacks on Fisher and her kids are despicable, but the general disgust with her willful ignorance and cluelessness is spot-on.
I hope she enjoys her fame (or infamy), and the pushback she’s going to get if she continues with this God, guns and flag propaganda.
365 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 8:58:46am |
New Tony Perkins report on Christian persecution highlights persecution of Tony Perkins http://t.co/aSlcJYQj2C— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) July 9, 2014
366 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 8:59:47am |
re: #359 NJDhockeyfan
What is it with Malaysian politicians? Mahathir Mohammad, now this…
367 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 9:00:55am |
“@Jpequod: how he got elected ? “@MyKinabatangan 13h WELL DONE..BRAVO…LONG LIVE HITLER…”“COZ IM BETTER THEN U.— Bung Moktar Radin (@MyKinabatangan) July 9, 2014
368 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 9:03:04am |
This is a typical acct which tries to bomb HHL.
369 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 9:03:59am |
Nebraska Supreme Court to announce it will hear oral arguments in the case over the Keystone XL pipeline’s route in early September, effectively postponing any final federal decision on the controversial project until after the midterm elections - @washingtonpost
Read more on washingtonpost.com
370 | lawhawk Jul 9, 2014 9:06:01am |
re: #360 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
That’s one of the reasons I love Zion and Bryce so much - you can view the canyons from all angles, and the scenery is straight out of a Dr. Seuss book (though Arches has that up to 11ty).
As for night shots, if you’re in Yosemite, you’ve got to get nighttime Valley shots from Tunnel View. It’s absolutely spectacular, though I didn’t try to do that from the Valley floor (I’ve seen some photographers catching moonbows at Bridal Veil or Yosemite Falls)
371 | Gus Jul 9, 2014 9:06:19am |
Most Americans say the undocumented should be allowed to stay. http://t.co/tsLER9jkVw pic.twitter.com/HeyQiiDMq8— Bloomberg News (@BloombergNews) July 9, 2014
372 | Bulworth Jul 9, 2014 9:06:58am |
re:
#365
Yeah that guy is so persecuted, can’t speak anywhere anytime he wants, can’t get a job anywhere or earn income, has to live off the streets….
/
373 | RealityBasedSteve Jul 9, 2014 9:07:08am |
I had coffee with a friend last night, and we got talking about the logical implications from the Hobby Lobby decision. One that is the next logical step, since the HL Owners don’t object to ALL forms of birth control, but only to some for religious reasons. (not rooted in the science).
The Catholic Church teaches, and devout Catholics believe that ALL forms of birth control is a sin. What happens the first time that a company (not a true ‘religious organization’) that is owned by Catholics says “We can’t cover ANY form of BC, since our beliefs hold it to be a sin”.
I know that this is sitting right around the corner, getting ready to raise its ugly head.
RBS
374 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Jul 9, 2014 9:08:10am |
re: #370 lawhawk
That’s one of the reasons I love Zion and Bryce so much - you can view the canyons from all angles, and the scenery is straight out of a Dr. Seuss book (though Arches has that up to 11ty).
As for night shots, if you’re in Yosemite, you’ve got to get nighttime Valley shots from Tunnel View. It’s absolutely spectacular, though I didn’t try to do that from the Valley floor (I’ve seen some photographers catching moonbows at Bridal Veil or Yosemite Falls)
When the wife and I went to vegas to use our timeshare for a week we did the drive from Vegas to Zion and it was gorgeous. Really want to go back there and spend a few days there.
375 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 9:09:12am |
re: #348 Ryan King
Remember this?
Two Young, Gun-Wielding Mothers Appear Side-by-Side on Twitter
Fanaticism, dressed in similar symbols, but in different contexts
By wheat-dogghaziFox News goes for a Level 7 Flip of the Narrative:
OUTRAGEOUS
Mom Viciously Attacked Online for Photo With Flag, Gun & BibleYes, it’s a total orgy of victimood and Christian Conservative grievance.
How much did they pay her for her appearance so they could flog that meme?
Of course, callling every asshat who tweeted some sexist, piggish remark about her or her kids is a “liberal”.
You see what the RW is doing here?
376 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 9:09:22am |
re: #368 Justanotherhuman
This is a typical acct which tries to bomb HHL.
Has that acct sent anything to Sandra Fluke, Jessica Valenti, Imani Gandy or Amanda Marcotte? That would make it an equal opportunity asshole.
377 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 9:12:23am |
re: #373 RealityBasedSteve
It’s already a court case. SCOTUS has even ordered that the lower courts look at it again in light of the HL case:
378 | b.d. Jul 9, 2014 9:13:18am |
Brazil Fans Start Obscene Chant Toward Female President During World Cup Loss
WASHINGTON (CBSDC) - During the 7-1 loss in the World Cup semifinals against Germany, Brazil soccer fans became so outraged with the score that they began chanting “Ei, Dilma, vai tomar no cu,” which translates to: “Hey, Dilma, go f*** yourself in the a**!”
Brazilian fans are angry with President Dilma Rousseff, for allowing the government to spend more than $11 billion dollars to host the 2014 FIFA World Cup. Fans began chanting around the 40th minute of the match that became the worst defeat since Brazil’s 1950 World Cup loss to Uruguay.
379 | b_sharp Jul 9, 2014 9:15:49am |
I think Charles needs to be slapped for that bad pun.
“Neigh sayers”
Harumph
380 | wrenchwench Jul 9, 2014 9:16:13am |
re: #373 RealityBasedSteve
I had coffee with a friend last night, and we got talking about the logical implications from the Hobby Lobby decision. One that is the next logical step, since the HL Owners don’t object to ALL forms of birth control, but only to some for religious reasons. (not rooted in the science).
The Catholic Church teaches, and devout Catholics believe that ALL forms of birth control is a sin. What happens the first time that a company (not a true ‘religious organization’) that is owned by Catholics says “We can’t cover ANY form of BC, since our beliefs hold it to be a sin”.
I know that this is sitting right around the corner, getting ready to raise its ugly head.
RBS
There’s an older, bigger problem that predates the Hobby Lobby case. Catholic hospitals. My sister had an ectopic pregnancy removed in a Catholic hospital many years ago. I don’t think they can be counted on to do that sort of thing any more. A few years ago, a hospital administrator got excommunicated in Arizona for serving on an ethics committee that approved an abortion to save a woman’s life.
381 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 9:16:16am |
“@Politics_PR: Barack Obama and his grandfather, c.1965 #Uniteblue #p2 #tcot pic.twitter.com/SIk6YUWpjd” >Wow, he looks a lot like grandpa!— Anne Murata (@AnneMurata) July 9, 2014
382 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 9:18:35am |
re: #376 Pie-onist Overlord
Has that acct sent anything to Sandra Fluke, Jessica Valenti, Imani Gandy or Amanda Marcotte? That would make it an equal opportunity asshole.
Probably some 15 yr old who did tweet this (and I don’t care to spend much time at its acct).
congrats to one year of faggotry pic.twitter.com/3YCFx0C2Yl
— milk☆ (@boneslime) June 6, 2014
383 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 9:19:15am |
LOL wingnut meme fail, look at the background flag
I AM AN AMERICAN. #tcot #SecureTheBorder pic.twitter.com/6EPQKerCnd— Franci Sanders (@LadySandersfarm) July 9, 2014
384 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 9:19:41am |
Fox's Kilmeade: “It Is Almost Treason For” Obama “To Be Focusing” On Climate Change http://t.co/b0o2cKOZ7i— MAG (@irie1972) July 9, 2014
385 | Varek Raith Jul 9, 2014 9:22:05am |
386 | sagehen Jul 9, 2014 9:22:11am |
re: #365 Lidane
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Every time Slacktivist writes about Tony Perkins, he uses the full title The Liar Tony Perkins. Every couple of weeks there’s another post about what The Liar Tony Perkins has said today.
387 | lawhawk Jul 9, 2014 9:25:45am |
re: #383 Pie-onist Overlord
Heh. The Union Jack. For the United Kingdom. They probably thought it was the Stars and Bars and figured it was close enough.
388 | lawhawk Jul 9, 2014 9:27:51am |
re: #383 Pie-onist Overlord
@LadySandersfarm An American that apparently doesn't know difference between Union Jack and the US Flag— lawhawk (@lawhawk) July 9, 2014
389 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 9:28:28am |
.@SimonOstrovsky travels back to Sloviansk and visits the cell in which he was held by rebels http://t.co/1g7dfG0RmA pic.twitter.com/Kz4nYHftQ1— VICE News (@vicenews) July 9, 2014
390 | iossarian Jul 9, 2014 9:30:36am |
re: #383 Pie-onist Overlord
LOL wingnut meme fail, look at the background flag
“Is that you, Benedict Arnold?”
392 | Stanley Sea Jul 9, 2014 9:31:04am |
393 | Bulworth Jul 9, 2014 9:31:06am |
re:
#383
I guess she got if from the EDL or whatever the anti-immigrant group over there is.
394 | b.d. Jul 9, 2014 9:31:09am |
re: #387 lawhawk
Heh. The Union Jack. For the United Kingdom. They probably thought it was the Stars and Bars and figured it was close enough.
Secure our borders mate!
395 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 9:31:47am |
The candidate Mitt Romney endorsed early for Senate in Iowa has called for impeachment. Time to ask Mitt if he agrees.— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) July 9, 2014
396 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 9:32:03am |
Why do these new “volunteers” from Russia look like a bunch of degenerates?
??????? ????????? ?????? ?????? ???????? http://t.co/kATJogV4Tz pic.twitter.com/2yo5vlTb0m— ?????????? (@euromaidan) July 9, 2014
397 | lawhawk Jul 9, 2014 9:32:22am |
re: #388 lawhawk
Funny, but confusing the Union Jack with the US Flag would mean you’d get questions wrong on the citizenship test for becoming a naturalized citizen (questions can and have asked about the meaning of the 13 stripes, 50 stars, etc.)
398 | Bulworth Jul 9, 2014 9:32:48am |
So the Brits are trying to copy Are grate Flag! BAsterds!
399 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 9:33:18am |
Retweeted by GG. The short piece doesn’t give specifics: “The report clearly documents how biased training by the FBI leads to biased surveillance.” And wasn’t that during the Bush admin? And then goes on to question the Obama admin: “Nearly three years ago, the Obama administration pledged to purge bigoted training materials from federal agencies. This report clearly calls into question whether that commitment has been fulfilled and the urgent need for re-training of law enforcement officials.”
Authoritarians & some of the left are yawning at the Firstlook piece, but funny, American Muslims aren't. http://t.co/PVNaD3FXCQ
— David Mizner (@DavidMizner) July 9, 2014
Nothing—nothing—this President does will ever please everyone, esp those who criticize him the most.
Several people have tweeted this to GG who has retweeted them.
400 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 9:34:16am |
401 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 9:34:30am |
THEY’RE TOTALLY GOING TO IGNORE OUR DEMONIZING A BUNCH OF SCARED KIDS, GUYS!
Louie Gohmert says Latinos will vote Republican because they are hard workers and believe in God http://t.co/A8IeEmKbPw— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) July 9, 2014
402 | Dr Lizardo Jul 9, 2014 9:34:44am |
re: #396 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Why do these new “volunteers” from Russia look like a bunch of degenerates?
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Yeesh. Honestly, those guys look creepy.
Like sex-offender/kiddie porn aficionado level creepy.
403 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 9:36:00am |
GOP's big problem on infrastructure & immigration: Basic governing requires working w/Obama: http://t.co/dvgjYsAOZy via @paulwaldman1— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) July 9, 2014
404 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 9:36:03am |
re: #402 Dr Lizardo
Like “Hollywood Russian” creepy ;)
405 | dog philosopher Jul 9, 2014 9:36:03am |
new frontiers in dumb
Let us consider the Hallmarks of the Great Man’s Reign:
- Direct election of Senators, severing the States control of DC
- The Federal Reserve, which has debased the currency to pennies on the dollar
- The Income Tax, which is has become oppressive, incomprehensible
The country is swirling in the Toilet Bowl of Doom because of Woody Wilson.
extra credit for detecting the dates that these measures passed congress
406 | iossarian Jul 9, 2014 9:36:13am |
re: #401 Lidane
THEY’RE TOTALLY GOING TO IGNORE OUR DEMONIZING A BUNCH OF SCARED KIDS, GUYS!
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Lol. He’ll stick to his story right up to Texas going Blue in 2020.
What a dumbass.
407 | dog philosopher Jul 9, 2014 9:37:32am |
re: #401 Lidane
Louie Gohmert says Latinos will vote Republican because they are hard workers and believe in God
st ronald the imperfectly educated tried this one back in the last century
408 | RealityBasedSteve Jul 9, 2014 9:39:31am |
re: #377 Lidane
It’s already a court case. SCOTUS has even ordered that the lower courts look at it again in light of the HL case:
Thank you… I wonder if I had read about that earlier, and was subconsciously referring to that case. In any case, it’s the exact situation that I’m afraid will become pervasive. I find it interesting that they don’t fund anti-smoking and weight loss drugs either. I would imagine that any cost/benefit analysis would show that they are MORE than cost effective in preventing future larger (and long term) claims.
RBS
409 | Dr Lizardo Jul 9, 2014 9:39:53am |
re: #404 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Like “Hollywood Russian” creepy ;)
Yep….right out of central casting.
410 | Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 9, 2014 9:40:45am |
We should just re-name twitter Pieholes and get it over with. At least there would be the reference to pie.
— Deborah N. Tornello (@litbrit) July 9, 2014
411 | b.d. Jul 9, 2014 9:41:01am |
re: #399 Justanotherhuman
Retweeted by GG. The short piece doesn’t give specifics: “The report clearly documents how biased training by the FBI leads to biased surveillance.” And wasn’t that during the Bush admin? And then goes on to question the Obama admin: “Nearly three years ago, the Obama administration pledged to purge bigoted training materials from federal agencies. This report clearly calls into question whether that commitment has been fulfilled and the urgent need for re-training of law enforcement officials.”
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Nothing—nothing—this President does will ever please everyone, esp those who criticize him the most.
Several people have tweeted this to GG who has retweeted them.
Uh oh, not a sternly worded press release!!!
412 | b_sharp Jul 9, 2014 9:42:40am |
I’m a bit concerned that if GG ever visits LGF he’ll notice that we have a ‘Spy’ button.
It could put LGF on his hit list.
413 | Feline Fearless Leader Jul 9, 2014 9:42:44am |
re: #342 FemNaziBitch
Hassenpfeffer?
The coney-garth.
And the fact that some compared the rabbits’ social structures to monasteries might be one reason they get adopted into manuscript illuminations as well.
414 | The War TARDIS Jul 9, 2014 9:42:46am |
re: #399 Justanotherhuman
I have never even heard of this organization before.
415 | Bulworth Jul 9, 2014 9:43:22am |
re:
#403
GOP doesn’t care about governing, so no problem.
416 | Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 9, 2014 9:45:37am |
BREAKING: Senate confirms Julián Castro as HUD Secretary http://t.co/1JBurjuBRc - @WSJ
— Nancy Hennen (@Tweetbrk) July 9, 2014
417 | b.d. Jul 9, 2014 9:46:30am |
re: #414 The War TARDIS
I have never even heard of this organization before.
They seem to be the only website on the planet that publishes something less frequently than The Intercept.
Recent Posts
Statement on Report by Glenn Greenwald on NSA Spying
July 8, 2014Muslim Advocates Statement on Profiling
June 25, 2014Civil Rights Lawyers Condemn New NYPD Muslim Spying Revelations
May 12, 2014
418 | Feline Fearless Leader Jul 9, 2014 9:47:12am |
re: #353 Backwoods_Sleuth
Much crashing noise coming from a storage area in the kitchen.
Apparently a mouse hunt is getting serious…
When I hear that stuff it’s the tuxedo Feline Overlord expressing unhappiness with the quantity or quality of kibble in the bowl by knocking the kibble holder (tupperware), watering can (empty), and any small empty boxes being saved for recycling off the counter.
The moment I get up (or appear from another room) she jumps down since she knows she should not be on the kitchen counter. But she has also succeeded in drawing me forth to be complained to directly.
Chat Noir Feline Overlord occasionally gets bombed from above since he goes over to examine the initial object knocked off the counter - and the second and third item fall in his general vicinity. (I am careful about sharps and heavy objects being placed in that area for that reason.)
419 | ObserverArt Jul 9, 2014 9:48:20am |
re: #333 Lidane
WHY does anyone listen to this asshole?
[Fox ‘s Keith Ablow: LGBT rights will lead to ‘three humans and a dog ’ marriage rawstory.com …]
Would he be working anywhere else but FOX News doing what he is doing?
Only FOX gives misfits like this jobs because they are willing and ready to say anything. I sometimes wonder if they are just people with titles and FOX pays them to say crazy crap off a script to feed the needy FOX nutty audience.
420 | Bulworth Jul 9, 2014 9:49:54am |
re:
#412
Oh great, the next big “scoop” at the Interupt. Or the Intercept. Whatever.
421 | Feline Fearless Leader Jul 9, 2014 9:50:28am |
re: #370 lawhawk
That’s one of the reasons I love Zion and Bryce so much - you can view the canyons from all angles, and the scenery is straight out of a Dr. Seuss book (though Arches has that up to 11ty).
As for night shots, if you’re in Yosemite, you’ve got to get nighttime Valley shots from Tunnel View. It’s absolutely spectacular, though I didn’t try to do that from the Valley floor (I’ve seen some photographers catching moonbows at Bridal Veil or Yosemite Falls)
Tunnel View is pretty much the iconic shooting locale for Yosemite. There is a nice overlook on the other end as you come over the pass as well. You get a view down that end of the valley to point where it turns at Half Dome.
I think I posted two Yosemite shots last year side-by-side where one was from each view.
422 | wrenchwench Jul 9, 2014 9:50:57am |
Congratulations to @JulianCastro, who was just confirmed as the @HUDgov Secretary!! #Latism— Ben Ray Lujan (@repbenraylujan) July 9, 2014
423 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 9:51:30am |
re: #333 Lidane
WHY does anyone listen to this asshole?
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I suppose it shows that Keith Ablow wants to marry three dogs.
424 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 9:51:57am |
re: #422 wrenchwench
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Oh no! It’s almost like “Fidel Castro”! I knew Obama was a commie!/
425 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 9:53:58am |
re: #416 Backwoods_Sleuth
And Julián Castro moves one step closer to the 2016 VP slot. I’m convinced that’s the long-term Democratic plan.
Castro gave the keynote at the 2012 DNC and up until Wendy Davis gave her filibuster I think they were grooming him to run for governor. Now he’s jumped to the Cabinet just in time for the next election. By the time 2016 rolls around he’ll have the executive experience of running a city and a federal post too.
426 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 9:54:46am |
re: #414 The War TARDIS
I have never even heard of this organization before.
Probably cooked up by Dudebros™. /
427 | Feline Fearless Leader Jul 9, 2014 9:55:40am |
re: #420 Bulworth
re:
#412Oh great, the next big “scoop” at the Interupt. Or the Intercept. Whatever.
The litter box has more scoops with more interesting content than The Intercept.
428 | wrenchwench Jul 9, 2014 9:56:15am |
429 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 9:56:21am |
re: #412 b_sharp
I’m a bit concerned that if GG ever visits LGF he’ll notice that we have a ‘Spy’ button.
It could put LGF on his hit list.
What makes you think LGF isn’t already on his “hit” list?
430 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jul 9, 2014 9:56:35am |
re: #401 Lidane
THEY’RE TOTALLY GOING TO IGNORE OUR DEMONIZING A BUNCH OF SCARED KIDS, GUYS!
Louie Gohmert says Latinos will vote Republican because they are hard workers and believe in God]
There is a kernel of truth to that: the GOP could do a lot more to appeal to Latino voters, but in doing so, they would piss off their rabid base constituency.
431 | Feline Fearless Leader Jul 9, 2014 9:57:03am |
re: #429 Pie-onist Overlord
What makes you think LGF isn’t already on his “hit” list?
The native irrelevancy of Lizards? Pie discussions?
//
432 | b_sharp Jul 9, 2014 9:58:57am |
re: #429 Pie-onist Overlord
What makes you think LGF isn’t already on his “hit” list?
Do you not recognize my superior sarcasm when you see it?
433 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 10:01:30am |
re: #430 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
There is a kernel of truth to that: the GOP could do a lot more to appeal to Latino voters, but in doing so, they would piss off their rabid base constituency.
Oh sure. The GOP could do a lot to try and appeal to Latinos. Problem is, they have to also appeal to the same knuckle dragging INVADING BROWN HORDE! DISEASED MONGRELS! SHOOT OR DEPORT THEM ALL! Tea Party base. The GOP are never going to gain among Latinos as long as they have to whore themselves out to the racists to win.
434 | Kragar Jul 9, 2014 10:01:43am |
re: #432 b_sharp
Do you not recognize my superior sarcasm when you see it?
Did it get its hair cut recently, because that can throw people off?
435 | Feline Fearless Leader Jul 9, 2014 10:02:34am |
re: #427 Feline Fearless Leader
The litter box has more scoops with more interesting content than The Intercept.
If any of you Twitter folk want to use that one to needle GG, be my guest.
436 | Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 9, 2014 10:05:16am |
heh…
Are you the Stablekeeper? I am the Horsemaster. pic.twitter.com/WRCgyWXUC4
— Stay Puft (@staypuft) July 9, 2014
437 | Killgore Trout Jul 9, 2014 10:05:20am |
re: #399 Justanotherhuman
Retweeted by GG. The short piece doesn’t give specifics: “The report clearly documents how biased training by the FBI leads to biased surveillance.” And wasn’t that during the Bush admin? And then goes on to question the Obama admin: “Nearly three years ago, the Obama administration pledged to purge bigoted training materials from federal agencies. This report clearly calls into question whether that commitment has been fulfilled and the urgent need for re-training of law enforcement officials.”
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Nothing—nothing—this President does will ever please everyone, esp those who criticize him the most.
Several people have tweeted this to GG who has retweeted them.
Not surprising. I could have written that response myself.
438 | b_sharp Jul 9, 2014 10:06:59am |
re: #434 Kragar
Did it get its hair cut recently, because that can throw people off?
Well, a little off the top.
439 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jul 9, 2014 10:08:52am |
re: #433 Lidane
Oh sure. The GOP could do a lot to try and appeal to Latinos. Problem is, they have to also appeal to the same knuckle dragging … Tea Party base. The GOP are never going to gain among Latinos as long as they have to whore themselves out to the racists to win.
And they fail to understand that Latinos have a sense of community that goes beyond their front porch step: they want good schools and reliable public services, even if they cost cost money and do not support such a radical “cut all taxes and abolish government” approach.
And since they have seen locals frothing at the mouth and passing legislation against other Latinos, they have fewer reservations about appealing to the federal government.
440 | Feline Fearless Leader Jul 9, 2014 10:10:30am |
Radioactivity - and now cold/permafrost. I think they have a daikaiju buried down there now.
441 | Killgore Trout Jul 9, 2014 10:11:36am |
Live cam, I think Gaza City
ustream.tv
Sunset
442 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 10:13:24am |
Ucch I hate when people that I follow on Twitter, post Latuff cartoons.
443 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 10:14:34am |
Bringing a bunch of guns into a bank, that’s real smart wingnuts.
PROTEST THIS FRIDAY. LET'S GET THIS VIRAL. WE MUST ALL HANG TOGETHER #TCOT pic.twitter.com/AjemcADeGY— Karen Grumpy (@a_girl_irl) July 7, 2014
444 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Jul 9, 2014 10:15:40am |
re: #443 Pie-onist Overlord
What could possibly go wrong?
445 | gwangung Jul 9, 2014 10:15:44am |
re: #439 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
And they fail to understand that Latinos have a sense of community that goes beyond their front porch step: they want good schools and reliable public services, even if they cost cost money and do not support such a radical “cut all taxes and abolish government” approach.
And since they have seen locals frothing at the mouth and passing legislation against other Latinos, they have fewer reservations about appealing to the federal government.
Isn’t this also the case that many Latinos have come from countries where the government has shacked up with the rich overclass to screw the lower classes? Crony capitalism with ineffective government services?
Kinda hard to support a party that looks so similar to the crooks back home….
446 | bubba zanetti Jul 9, 2014 10:16:29am |
re: #443 Pie-onist Overlord
Bringing a bunch of guns into a bank, that’s real smart wingnuts.
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447 | Gus Jul 9, 2014 10:17:55am |
Chelsea Clinton helps raise $$ for charity via speeches, NYT political editor mocks it as “buckraking”; http://t.co/cKmRVI3U47— Eric Boehlert (@EricBoehlert) July 9, 2014
How many bucks does this guy rake? http://t.co/Q7Nci1QrWx RT @nickconfessore: Chelsea Clinton joins the family buckraking biz, at $75K a pop— Jamison Foser (@jamisonfoser) July 9, 2014
448 | Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 9, 2014 10:18:13am |
re: #443 Pie-onist Overlord
Bringing a bunch of guns into a bank, that’s real smart wingnuts.
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@a_girl_irl Make sure you wave it in the air to be safe and tell everyone to get down because everybody likes to be reminded of funk music!
— Krinkle8 (@Krinkle8) July 7, 2014
449 | BeenHereAwhile Jul 9, 2014 10:18:41am |
re: #81 Lidane
My brush with the Secret Service happened in 1992. I was a volunteer for the Clinton campaign and Bill had come to Houston to speak at a rally. I had my volunteer badge on and went for a rope fence to avoid the long line at the metal detector I’d already gone through. SS guy got right in my face until I showed the badge and was able to walk by.
My first encounter with the Secret Service was during the 1976 Carter Presidential campaign.
As Governor of Georgia, Carter had previously attended our Annual BBQ and Summer Games, so he was considered a friend of the company. And his presence was no big deal.
At the first meeting, the Secret Service agent seem uncomfortable with the idea of Carter mingling with some 3,000 music industry executives, talent, and Rock and Roll party goers (damn some of them smoke pot, and there will be food and open bars everywhere).
So we worked thru the laundry list of communication (dedicated phone lines), security (site survey, control areas where Carter will mingle, and area access badges, logistical (where what is), and medical facilities. The Secret Service did pay for enhancements they required for that event.
It was a good party (they all were). In addition to Carter, other non music industry notables were Andy Warhol, Don King, and Rusty Calley. (Calley was kept carefully separate from Carter, as Phil did not want any press photos of Calley and Carter together. Hunter S. Thompson bowed out at the last moment to our relief.
The press followed Carter around the site en-mass with camera motor drives clicking like a giant insect.
Still kicking myself for not getting a photograph of myself standing between Don King and Jimmy Carter.
(re-edit checked my time line)
450 | ObserverArt Jul 9, 2014 10:18:43am |
re: #373 RealityBasedSteve
I had coffee with a friend last night, and we got talking about the logical implications from the Hobby Lobby decision. One that is the next logical step, since the HL Owners don’t object to ALL forms of birth control, but only to some for religious reasons. (not rooted in the science).
The Catholic Church teaches, and devout Catholics believe that ALL forms of birth control is a sin. What happens the first time that a company (not a true ‘religious organization’) that is owned by Catholics says “We can’t cover ANY form of BC, since our beliefs hold it to be a sin”.
I know that this is sitting right around the corner, getting ready to raise its ugly head.
RBS
The church may say it, but many Catholic women and their male family and friends do not follow the rules of the church with regards to birth control and many other things.
Who knows, maybe all this is going to lead to a collision between dogma and reality. It is not like it is not needed.
And as we all know all too well, the churches own people have had some big problems following the dogma and doing everything right.
I always wondered as a Catholic myself, why do people say they ‘believe’ but do not follow the rules. Nothing of good for anyone in that.
451 | Kragar Jul 9, 2014 10:19:06am |
So your bright idea is to walk into a bank carrying guns? Great idea! What could possibly go wrong? @a_girl_irl #gunsense— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 9, 2014
452 | blueraven Jul 9, 2014 10:19:19am |
re: #389 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
.@SimonOstrovsky travels back to Sloviansk and visits the cell in which he was held by rebels http://t.co/1g7dfG0RmA pic.twitter.com/Kz4nYHftQ1— VICE News (@vicenews) July 9, 2014
I just watched the entire video. So sad…the old people living in bombed out buildings with no windows, no food, electricity or water.
Also many people turning on each other. Pointing fingers; You supported the separatists! No, you did!
453 | piratedan Jul 9, 2014 10:20:12am |
re: #447 Gus
when GOP folks do it, they’re called “speaking fees”, wonder how they manage their disdain when Caribou barbie has essentially been grifting the right for the last six years… oh that’s right, they let her write OpEd pieces.
455 | Kragar Jul 9, 2014 10:23:34am |
456 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Jul 9, 2014 10:23:41am |
Texas Republican candidate diagnoses the president with … ‘Münchausen syndrome by proxy’?
*facepalm*
And my parents are going to Texas, on purpose, for a vacation because my father thinks it’s the bestest place ever because of people like this.
457 | Killgore Trout Jul 9, 2014 10:23:53am |
looks like parts of Gaza city are without power
458 | bubba zanetti Jul 9, 2014 10:24:38am |
re: #451 Kragar
Is everyone’s troll radar down this morning? Check TL’s, people.
my favorite radio show is Crocodile and the Tampon, every morning on 101.3 The Turd. My favorite skit is when they killed an old man live— Karen Grumpy (@a_girl_irl) July 9, 2014
459 | Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut Jul 9, 2014 10:25:09am |
460 | Kragar Jul 9, 2014 10:25:57am |
re: #458 bubba zanetti
Is everyone’s troll radar down this morning? Check TL’s, people.
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461 | Gus Jul 9, 2014 10:26:37am |
re: #458 bubba zanetti
Is everyone’s troll radar down this morning? Check TL’s, people.
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Yeah, she’s a lefty troll and also blocked.
464 | KerFuFFler Jul 9, 2014 10:28:05am |
re: #450 ObserverArt
I always wondered as a Catholic myself, why do people say they ‘believe’ but do not follow the rules. Nothing of good for anyone in that.
My sister was engaged a long time ago to a Catholic. I asked her if they were planning of using birth control and she was like, “of course!” So then I asked what it meant for her to be planning on converting while at the same time planning to not follow church doctrine——-essentially would she consider that a true conversion? “Of course! I’d be Catholic, but I’d just be sinning.”
465 | Killgore Trout Jul 9, 2014 10:28:09am |
Funny conversation on the Gaza Cam. An American lady and a Kenyan guy talking about Boris.
466 | Kragar Jul 9, 2014 10:28:18am |
re: #459 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut
I will eventually obtain the calculus.
Its weird, but I always had a really tough time with Algebra, but when I got to trig and calculus, it all made sense and I did great.
And then I never touched either since high school.
467 | Dr Lizardo Jul 9, 2014 10:28:20am |
re: #443 Pie-onist Overlord
Bringing a bunch of guns into a bank, that’s real smart wingnuts.
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lolwut?!
The stupid, it burns.
468 | wrenchwench Jul 9, 2014 10:28:21am |
469 | Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut Jul 9, 2014 10:30:02am |
re: #466 Kragar
Its weird, but I always had a really tough time with Algebra, but when I got to trig and calculus, it all made sense and I did great.
And then I never touched either since high school.
I’m probably switching my grad school idea away from being a social worker and more towards doing a Masters in Public Health. Partially because there’s so many jobs as a social worker that are just shoveling back the tide, and partially because have you seen the public? They need some health.
Anyway, I may wind up doing epidemiology, and I’d be then using real live math all the time, trig and calc and all that whatnots.
470 | J A P Jul 9, 2014 10:32:11am |
re: #450 ObserverArt
I always wondered as a Catholic myself, why do people say they ‘believe’ but do not follow the rules. Nothing of good for anyone in that.
As an atheist, I’ve wondered the same thing.
471 | Kragar Jul 9, 2014 10:33:03am |
re: #469 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut
I’m probably switching my grad school idea away from being a social worker and more towards doing a Masters in Public Health. Partially because there’s so many jobs as a social worker that are just shoveling back the tide, and partially because have you seen the public? They need some health.
Anyway, I may wind up doing epidemiology, and I’d be then using real live math all the time, trig and calc and all that whatnots.
Back when I was doing network design and implementation, especially setting up field networks, I had to use math all the time. Nowadays, now that I’ve transitioned over to security and auditing, not so much.
472 | b_sharp Jul 9, 2014 10:33:40am |
re: #471 Kragar
Back when I was doing network design and implementation, especially setting up field networks, I had to use math all the time. Nowadays, now that I’ve transitioned over to security and auditing, not so much.
Math is evil.
473 | Bulworth Jul 9, 2014 10:36:15am |
re:
#468
Looks like Elisha Cuthbert. Terrible misuse of Ms. Cuthbert image.
474 | ObserverArt Jul 9, 2014 10:36:35am |
re: #470 J A P
As an atheist, I’ve wondered the same thing.
Just to be clear…I am not a practicing Catholic, just raised and schooled for 12 years. I loved the education. The rest I found troubling due to things like we are discussing.
475 | ObserverArt Jul 9, 2014 10:38:03am |
re: #473 Bulworth
re:
#468Looks like Elisha Cuthbert. Terrible misuse of Ms. Cuthbert image.
Wait…people on twitter are not who they depict themsleves as???
Who knew?
/
476 | Kragar Jul 9, 2014 10:38:14am |
re: #472 b_sharp
Math is evil.
Nowadays, my math consists of “We have 500,000 devices across 75 server farms. Figure out how many scanners we need to employ based on the devices homed to each site, taking bandwidth, network latency and ability to support other mission requirements”
Its not so much math as its practical knowledge of the environment.
477 | Kragar Jul 9, 2014 10:39:17am |
re: #475 ObserverArt
Wait…people on twitter are not who they depict themsleves as???
Who knew?
/
I do, in fact, totally look like this:
479 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 10:41:36am |
re: #459 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut
I’m always amazed at how with the calculus one starts more or less from nothing (derivatives (and thus also integrals) are derived from the first principles, basically) and in the end gets a sort of a mathematical analog to Hubble… That’s what I call “free lunch”.
480 | Romantic Heretic Jul 9, 2014 10:42:25am |
re: #433 Lidane
Oh sure. The GOP could do a lot to try and appeal to Latinos. Problem is, they have to also appeal to the same knuckle dragging INVADING BROWN HORDE! DISEASED MONGRELS! SHOOT OR DEPORT THEM ALL! Tea Party base. The GOP are never going to gain among Latinos as long as they have to whore themselves out to the racists to win.
They don’t have to whore themselves out. They just want to.
481 | Romantic Heretic Jul 9, 2014 10:43:37am |
re: #443 Pie-onist Overlord
Bringing a bunch of guns into a bank, that’s real smart wingnuts.
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Oh, that’s going to turn out well.
482 | Killgore Trout Jul 9, 2014 10:44:19am |
Hamas: We attempted to hit the nuclear reactor in Dimona
Channel 2 suggested that the rockets may have been the Syrian-made M-302 type rocket, which was used to target Hadera on Wednesday.
483 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 10:45:26am |
re: #482 Killgore Trout
“Because we wouldn’t be affected if anything happened, God will protect us!”
484 | Kragar Jul 9, 2014 10:46:37am |
re: #478 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut
You’re a car?
Nope, I’m a manga of a car accident waiting to happen.
485 | J A P Jul 9, 2014 10:47:10am |
re: #474 ObserverArt
I was raised without any religion and I have to say that there are some things that I just don’t get. One of them is whether or not people really, truly believe what they say they believe. When I was young and I still had friends who would sort of try to get me to believe but who were very moderate in practice, I used to tell them that they didn’t want me to believe. If I actually thought that I was going to be tortured for eternity for doing certain things, like sex outside of marriage or drinking, I sure as hell wouldn’t be doing them. I don’t even think it would be a difficult decision. It would be easy - provided I actually believed it.
486 | Archangelus Jul 9, 2014 10:47:50am |
re: #483 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
“Because we wouldn’t be affected if anything happened, God will protect us!”
Nuclear radiation, how does it work? /
487 | Killgore Trout Jul 9, 2014 10:48:06am |
re: #483 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
“Because we wouldn’t be affected if anything happened, God will protect us!”
Wind blows towards the west bank anyways. That’s the PA’s problem
488 | RealityBasedSteve Jul 9, 2014 10:49:00am |
re: #443 Pie-onist Overlord
Bringing a bunch of guns into a bank, that’s real smart wingnuts.
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Memo to self… Don’t go by my local BOA Friday… pay the 2 dollar surcharge to get money from the ATM at the gas station.
RBS
489 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 10:49:01am |
re: #486 Archangelus
Reminds me of the fundies who think that the GW won’t affect anyone, God’s promise and stuff.
490 | J A P Jul 9, 2014 10:49:08am |
re: #466 Kragar
I had a similar experience. Calculus was far easier for me than the things that came before it.
491 | Archangelus Jul 9, 2014 10:49:23am |
re: #487 Killgore Trout
Wind blows towards the west bank anyways. That’s the PA’s problem
I’m fairly certain any fallout would cover the idiots trying to hit it just as well… it’s a small small region after all..
492 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 10:50:24am |
It looks like an organized trolling effort.
Nobody will take our guns, especially those goddamned banks! Bring your weapons to a bank near you! pic.twitter.com/TJSd0EZVYR #tcot #nra #2a— dumbGOP (@dumbGOP) July 9, 2014
493 | RealityBasedSteve Jul 9, 2014 10:51:12am |
re: #476 Kragar
Nowadays, my math consists of “We have 500,000 devices across 75 server farms. Figure out how many scanners we need to employ based on the devices homed to each site, taking bandwidth, network latency and ability to support other mission requirements”
Its not so much math as its practical knowledge of the environment.
494 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 10:51:20am |
An account called DumbGOP is probably not a teabagger—they are not that self-aware. :)
495 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 10:51:28am |
re: #481 Romantic Heretic
Oh, that’s going to turn out well.
I do think they want a test case. This is how those people operate.
496 | Killgore Trout Jul 9, 2014 10:51:44am |
re: #491 Archangelus
I’m fairly certain any fallout would cover the idiots trying to hit it just as well… it’s a small small region after all..
I’m reasonably sure they don’t care.
497 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 10:51:51am |
Here’s a simple calculus problem for those who’ve found the calculus easy:
;)
498 | RealityBasedSteve Jul 9, 2014 10:52:46am |
re: #497 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Here’s a simple calculus problem for those who’ve found the calculus easy:
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;)
Dear X,
I am not your therapist. Solve your own damn problems.
499 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 10:53:19am |
re: #488 RealityBasedSteve
Memo to self… Don’t go by my local BOA Friday… pay the 2 dollar surcharge to get money from the ATM at the gas station.
RBS
Naw, buy a candy bar at the drugstore or supermarket and get cash back. At least you’ll have something to snack on and no charge. : )
500 | Archangelus Jul 9, 2014 10:54:43am |
re: #489 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Reminds me of the fundies who think that the GW won’t affect anyone, God’s promise and stuff.
I remember the last time i encountered one of the “God won’t let the world come to an end” anti-GW type… replied with a somewhat lengthy but to the point explanation on how GW wouldn’t be anywhere near the biblical “end of the world” - the globe we live in has endured much worse before humanity showed up - but just the suffering and deaths of dozens of millions around the world, quite a few of which will probably be Republicans in red US states. That last part got him to go silent and start to think.
501 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 10:54:48am |
re: #497 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Here’s a simple calculus problem for those who’ve found the calculus easy:
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;)
Don’t even come near me with anything squared. : )
502 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 10:54:59am |
re: #492 Pie-onist Overlord
I will laugh my ass off if any of the open carry idiots do this.
503 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 10:55:18am |
re: #498 RealityBasedSteve
Dear X,
I am not your therapist. Solve your own damn problems.
Now that’s a reality-based attitude ;)
504 | Archangelus Jul 9, 2014 10:56:07am |
re: #502 Lidane
I will laugh my ass off if any of the open carry idiots do this.
I’ll be watching with a big tub of popcorn…
505 | Killgore Trout Jul 9, 2014 10:56:52am |
Hamas Spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri: Human-Shield Policy Is Effecive
Youtube Video
506 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 10:57:39am |
re: #493 RealityBasedSteve
Holy shit—did you notice when that movie came out (1981) there were only 4B people on the planet? 33 yrs later there are 7.046 billion (2012)?
Exponential growth is still exponential growth, no matter how you slice it.
507 | Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 9, 2014 10:59:24am |
re: #498 RealityBasedSteve
Dear X,
I am not your therapist. Solve your own damn problems.
and I’m not gonna tell you Y.
508 | Archangelus Jul 9, 2014 10:59:36am |
OK, I know it’s been a long day and i’m super tired due to lack of sleep and whatnot, but am I really the only one who can’t quite make sense of part of the following paragraphs (taken from the start of a commentary on Israeli media in English)?
IDF and Hamas enter the second day of “Operation Protective Edge”, with both parties acting in contrasting ways: Hamas has activated thus far most of its repertoire prepared in advanced for this round of fighting, but has failed to cause casualties or major damage to Israel.
However, the IDF began the operation with moderation on its behalf, and works according to an orderly plan of attacking targets, which have become increasingly intense. The objective of the IDF is to put gradual pressure, which will continue to increase, without exhausting all the qualitative targets, within the first two-three days. The growing pressure should lead Hamas to consider at any given moment the continued profitability of the fighting.
It has come to be seen that by the end of the first day of Operation Protective Edge, Hamas, with the assistance of Islamic Jihad, tried to surprise with a heavy attack on Israeli territory. For this reason, Hamas sent a Marine squad to attack in the area of kibbutz Zikim, while in parallel volleys of missiles were fired on large areas of Israel, including Tel Aviv, the Sharon Plain and Jerusalem. The firing of rockets even arrived the northern city of Hadera.
509 | Romantic Heretic Jul 9, 2014 11:00:20am |
re: #495 Justanotherhuman
I do think they want a test case. This is how those people operate.
I’m hoping the casualty count of getting a test case isn’t too high.
510 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 11:00:26am |
re: #507 Backwoods_Sleuth
and I’m not gonna tell you Y.
And Z is dead anyway.
/doesn’t work in the US
511 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 11:01:13am |
512 | Archangelus Jul 9, 2014 11:01:31am |
re: #510 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
And Z is dead anyway.
/doesn’t work in the US
Zed is dead baby :)
513 | lawhawk Jul 9, 2014 11:01:51am |
re: #482 Killgore Trout
Hamas has attempted to hit a lot of things - people for one. Thus far, they’ve been spectacularly awful in that regard. Thankfully few Israelis (or Palestinians) have been injured from Hamas projectiles.
They’ve failed to hit targets they’ve aimed for, whether by missile, or even infiltrating Israel by sea (as the video you provided earlier shows their forces coming under fire and being killed on the beach). Hamas will claim that bit to be victory, that they were able to wade ashore, even though they were all killed.
Israel has Iron Dome and other point defense systems in place around Dimona and other key facilities. It is doubtful that they’d be able to hit the reactor, but if they did, and this presupposes that they’d be able to damage the reactor and its containment systems, then the ensuing fallout would generally take it over the Negev and into Jordan and Saudi Arabia before looping back towards Egypt and then to Gaza based on prevailing winds depending on time of year.
514 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 11:01:56am |
515 | Archangelus Jul 9, 2014 11:02:31am |
516 | wrenchwench Jul 9, 2014 11:02:58am |
518 | J A P Jul 9, 2014 11:04:06am |
re: #500 Archangelus
Excellent point. It isn’t “the end of the world” at all. It’s rising food prices, famine, various other types of suffering that I probably can’t even figure, changing coast lines, loss of property, relocation of large numbers of people, probably lots of refuges, loss of many species, but not the “end of the world.” Do the people on the far right think that that’s what people who believe climate change is real are saying? That it’s “the end of the world?”
520 | Kragar Jul 9, 2014 11:04:27am |
Daughter: “I had a scary dream last night.”
Me: “Were you being chased thru an abandoned carnival ground at night by clowns with abnormally long arms and legs who moved through shadows while distorted calliope music played?”
Daughter: “No… Thanks, I won’t be sleeping ever again.”
521 | Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 9, 2014 11:05:15am |
Think Brazil's defeat was humiliating? Australia crushed American Samoa in World Cup qualifier 31-0 in 2001
— PzFeed Top News (@PzFeed) July 9, 2014
522 | Archangelus Jul 9, 2014 11:05:20am |
re: #520 Kragar
Thanks for that, now it’s me that won’t be sleeping ever again!! /
523 | Randall Gross Jul 9, 2014 11:05:35am |
Oh Noes! They r givin r fAmbly restrooms to the transexuals!!11ty!
524 | Dr Lizardo Jul 9, 2014 11:06:01am |
re: #520 Kragar
Daughter: “I had a scary dream last night.”
Me: “Were you being chased thru an abandoned carnival ground at night by clowns with abnormally long arms and legs who moved through shadows while distorted calliope music played?”
Daughter: “No… Thanks, I won’t be sleeping ever again.”
That last line is what some Czech friends said when I showed them a J-Horror film called Noroi. Really creeped them out.
525 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 11:06:03am |
re: #521 Backwoods_Sleuth
Australia’s Archie Thompson also broke the record for most goals scored by a player in an international match by scoring 13 goals.[1]
526 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 11:06:18am |
re: #525 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
They had fun that day. /
527 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 11:06:58am |
re: #524 Dr Lizardo
So you would recommend?
528 | Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 9, 2014 11:07:35am |
President Obama on the confirmation of Julián Castro as our next Secretary of Housing and Urban Development → pic.twitter.com/KQBa0J2VFb
— The White House (@WhiteHouse) July 9, 2014
529 | Archangelus Jul 9, 2014 11:08:22am |
re: #519 jaunte
It’s just really bad writing.
Also (and probably more a case of) bad or simply no editing..
Didn’t wanna post the whole thing since the rest is bad, but was curious for an opinion other than my own since I’m what you might call biased (used to work for them)…
530 | Kragar Jul 9, 2014 11:08:53am |
re: #524 Dr Lizardo
That last line is what some Czech friends said when I showed them a J-Horror film called Noroi. Really creeped them out.
I later played this just loudly enough she could hear it in the other room.
“MOM! DAD IS PLAYING CARNIVAL MUSIC!”
531 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 11:08:57am |
532 | CuriousLurker Jul 9, 2014 11:09:27am |
Anyone who’s Jewish or has Jewish friends or family members, please be aware of this as it looks like something really ugly is bubbling up from the stinking depths of the wingnut cesspool.
If Klayman is involved in promoting antisemitic memes, then it may be a test run at attempting to mainstream this crap: littlegreenfootballs.com
Ignore it at your peril.
533 | Feline Fearless Leader Jul 9, 2014 11:10:34am |
re: #459 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut
I will eventually obtain the calculus.
I have some calculus bouncing around in my kidneys.
:(
535 | Randall Gross Jul 9, 2014 11:11:05am |
re: #530 Kragar
I later played this just loudly enough she could hear it in the other room.
[Embedded content]
“MOM! DAD IS PLAYING CARNIVAL MUSIC!”
536 | J A P Jul 9, 2014 11:11:45am |
re: #533 Feline Fearless Leader
Last night I was having some back pain and was thinking, “I hope this isn’t what I think it is.”
537 | jaunte Jul 9, 2014 11:11:47am |
538 | Dr Lizardo Jul 9, 2014 11:11:52am |
re: #527 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
So you would recommend?
Yes, I would. It’s directed by Koji Shiraishi, and while the bulk of his repertoire is mediocre, with Noroi, he nailed it.
One of the creepier J-Horror films. Not so much scary as much as it gets under your skin.
539 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 11:12:21am |
re: #521 Backwoods_Sleuth
Losing 7 -1 in a World Cup semifinal is goddamned embarrassing. I don’t care how anyone wants to parse it.
Brazil gave up four goals in six minutes and five goals in the first half. That’s just pathetic.
541 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Jul 9, 2014 11:13:22am |
542 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 11:13:30am |
re: #539 Lidane
Losing 7 -1 in a World Cup semifinal is goddamned embarrassing. I don’t care how anyone wants to parse it.
Brazil gave up four goals in six minutes and five goals in the first half. That’s just pathetic.
FALSE FLAG TO DISTRACT FROM BENGHAZI!!!!11!!!!!
543 | Timothy Watson Jul 9, 2014 11:14:03am |
re: #537 jaunte
President Obama and the horse mask person: An investigation involving data and charts
Really, WaPo? Are you doing the graphs for USA Today now?
544 | Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut Jul 9, 2014 11:14:31am |
re: #537 jaunte
That’s overlooking Washington’s encounter with Ye Masked Dragoone, where the Dragoone implored Washington to ride him into battle and Washington replied, “Neigh.”
545 | Timothy Watson Jul 9, 2014 11:15:01am |
Speaking of calculus, I’m currently taking precalculus/trigonometry (voodoo I say), to met some prerequisites for a post-baccalaureate certificate program in accounting.
546 | Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 9, 2014 11:15:10am |
How the Senate voted on Castro’s Cabinet appointment. Spoiler: all the nays were Republicans.
547 | Dr Lizardo Jul 9, 2014 11:15:39am |
re: #527 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
So you would recommend?
As a matter of fact, here it is with English subtitles.
548 | Feline Fearless Leader Jul 9, 2014 11:15:41am |
re: #536 J A P
Last night I was having some back pain and was thinking, “I hope this isn’t what I think it is.”
Been there. Luckily most of the time it’s just discomfort as they shift down the tubes and eventually go out. Not like a friend of mine whose stones are too big to effectively pass.
550 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 11:16:44am |
551 | CuriousLurker Jul 9, 2014 11:17:49am |
re: #534 lawhawk
I’d page that.
I don’t have the time—I’m running behind today—but feel free to use any all of it if you want to make a Page yourself. Here’s my pastebin with the raw HTML code of the comment if you (or someone else) wants to go for it.
Gotta run. BBL
552 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 11:17:54am |
re: #547 Dr Lizardo
Oh, wait, it’s The Curse. I’ve seen it.
553 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 11:18:15am |
Gun-fucking Meme of the Day:
Why are these people wearing camo? They are not active members of any military force: no nation’s army would allow that “STAB ME!” bare midriff.
“@NH92276: A woman's place is behind an AR15 #p2 #tcot #tlot #gunsense pic.twitter.com/WMhZN0MrZ4” and behind a Glock and a Ruger and a Colt and— TexasLibertarian (@drhodg75) July 9, 2014
554 | Stanley Sea Jul 9, 2014 11:18:28am |
re: #546 Backwoods_Sleuth
How the Senate voted on Castro’s Cabinet appointment. Spoiler: all the nays were Republicans.
McCain is such a dick.
555 | b.d. Jul 9, 2014 11:19:09am |
Someone needs a nap.
@0w1Farm If a story doesn't affect you and people like you, then it's a big yawn. WHAT ABOUT YOU????
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 9, 2014
556 | Archangelus Jul 9, 2014 11:21:50am |
re: #541 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Nearly ordered the same thing from dealextreme.com (REALLY popular for shoppers in Israel to the point that they now offer many products with instructions in English, Chinese and Hebrew)… I’m assuming that website is a competitor based on the price and free global shipping…
557 | Killgore Trout Jul 9, 2014 11:22:41am |
Al Jazz does the “disproportionate response” thing
Photos: Disproportionate civilian impacts as Gaza war escalates
Few injuries reported among Israeli civilians, while hundreds injured in Gaza and over 40 killed
558 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 11:22:48am |
re: #553 Pie-onist Overlord
Gun-fucking Meme of the Day:
Why are these people wearing camo? They are not active members of any military force: no nation’s army would allow that “STAB ME!” bare midriff.[Embedded content]
Gun porn almost always requires either (a) a belly button showing, or (b) cleavage.
Meanwhile,
President Obama: ‘We’re better off now than we were 5 years ago, despite the unyielding opposition of a few’ - live video
End of alert
559 | Gus Jul 9, 2014 11:22:51am |
560 | Dr Lizardo Jul 9, 2014 11:23:42am |
re: #552 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Oh, wait, it’s The Curse. I’ve seen it.
Are you thinking of Ju-On?
561 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 11:23:56am |
re: #558 Justanotherhuman
Gun porn almost always requires either (a) a belly button showing, or (b) cleavage.
or: (c) buttcheeks
562 | Archangelus Jul 9, 2014 11:24:14am |
re: #557 Killgore Trout
Al Jazz does the “disproportionate response” thing
Photos: Disproportionate civilian impacts as Gaza war escalates
Would they be screaming about proportionality if each of the 100+ rockets that Hamas fired had killed Israeli civilians? Methinks not…
563 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 11:24:43am |
re: #560 Dr Lizardo
No no, I remember the tin-foil hat guy.
565 | Kragar Jul 9, 2014 11:25:59am |
re: #553 Pie-onist Overlord
Reports of military sex assault up sharply
566 | Killgore Trout Jul 9, 2014 11:26:09am |
re: #562 Archangelus
Would they be screaming about proportionality if each of the 100+ rockets that Hamas fired had killed Israeli civilians? Methinks not…
..or if Israel acted like Hamas and crowded civilians where they know rockets are going to land?
567 | lawhawk Jul 9, 2014 11:26:17am |
re: #562 Archangelus
The only thing disproportionate is that Israel’s targeting is disproportionately hitting terrorists, while Hamas has thus far managed not to kill anyone via their barrages (not counting all those Palestinians killed because they’re firing from within civilian areas on purpose to maximize the body count).
568 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 11:28:30am |
569 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 11:29:31am |
So yesterday, Joni Ernst hopped on board the impeachment failboat. Today? Not so much:
Noted pig castrator Joni Ernst backtracks: Obama “obviously” not a dictator who should be impeached. #IASen http://t.co/mVjLAPRmPf— The National Memo (@NationalMemo) July 9, 2014
ZOMG RINO!
570 | Dr Lizardo Jul 9, 2014 11:29:36am |
571 | Kragar Jul 9, 2014 11:30:04am |
re: #568 Justanotherhuman
The perps need to be kicked out with bad discharges. And make it stick.
But the women all have access to guns, how could they be sexually assaulted?
///
572 | Dr Lizardo Jul 9, 2014 11:30:31am |
re: #564 lawhawk
It’s the Lara Croft syndrome.
Or the Revy Syndrome.
See also, the anime Black Lagoon.
573 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 11:30:32am |
re: #570 Dr Lizardo
The other film you’ve recommended, Marebito, I haven’t seen yet, but it’s on the list.
574 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 11:30:44am |
575 | Pie-onist Overlord Jul 9, 2014 11:31:02am |
re: #571 Kragar
But the women all have access to guns, how could they be sexually assaulted?
///
HURR HURR THEY MAKES TEH GUN-FREE ZONES & DON’T ALLOWED TEH BRAVE SOLIDERS TO HAS ALL TEH GUNS!!!!!!!
576 | Dr Lizardo Jul 9, 2014 11:31:03am |
re: #573 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
The other film you’ve recommended, Marebito, I haven’t seen yet, but it’s on the list.
That’s a good one too. Also creepy and strongly influenced by the Shaver Mysteries.
577 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 11:31:45am |
re: #571 Kragar
But the women all have access to guns, how could they be sexually assaulted?
///
The same way their male counterparts are being sexually assaulted, also.
578 | Archangelus Jul 9, 2014 11:32:25am |
OT: Thanks to people on the Internet , the success of the ridiculous Potato salad Kickstarter has exceeded its $10 project goal by more than $70,000 to date.
(For those who have no idea what i’m talking about, see this article about it: avclub.com)
Meanwhile, a friend of mine has created a mock project mixing potato salad with the game Flappy Bird to create Flappy Potato Salad. While originally an act of sarcasm (you can find the project Here), it’s actually been funded in a couple of hours…
In conclusion, the internet is a strange place indeed…
579 | Killgore Trout Jul 9, 2014 11:32:35am |
Israel’s disproportionate care for Palestinian civilians
IDF Pinpoint Strike on Weapons Storage Facility in Gaza
580 | Timothy Watson Jul 9, 2014 11:33:48am |
re: #578 Archangelus
OT: Thanks to people on the Internet , the success of the ridiculous Potato salad Kickstarter has exceeded its $10 project goal by more than $70,000 to date.
See article about it here:
avclub.comMeanwhile, a friend of mine has created a mock project mixing potato salads with the Flappy Bird game to create Flappy Potato Salad. While originally an act of sarcasm (you can find the project Linkhere, it’s actually been funded in a couple of hours…
In conclusion, the internet is a strange place indeed…
Who is contributing money to these projects and how do we go about charging a tax surcharge on them?
581 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 11:35:02am |
Wait what?
A St.-Petersburg official was caught yesterday drunken, walking on the streets without pants and mumbling about “Lugansk” (!).
582 | Archangelus Jul 9, 2014 11:35:33am |
re: #580 Timothy Watson
Who is contributing money to these projects and how do we go about charging a tax surcharge on them?
NO NEW TAXES!!!1eleventy /
583 | Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 9, 2014 11:36:36am |
re: #581 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
Wait what?
A St.-Petersburg official was caught yesterday drunken, walking on the streets without pants and mumbling about “Lugansk” (!).[Embedded image]
Everybody needs a hobby…
584 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Jul 9, 2014 11:36:42am |
585 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 11:37:11am |
re: #583 Backwoods_Sleuth
First thought: “So it has begun!”
587 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 11:38:04am |
re: #578 Archangelus
OT: Thanks to people on the Internet , the success of the ridiculous Potato salad Kickstarter has exceeded its $10 project goal by more than $70,000 to date.
(For those who have no idea what i’m talking about, see this article about it: avclub.com)Meanwhile, a friend of mine has created a mock project mixing potato salad with the game Flappy Bird to create Flappy Potato Salad. While originally an act of sarcasm (you can find the project Here), it’s actually been funded in a couple of hours…
In conclusion, the internet is a strange place indeed…
In a way, it’s almost worse than the worst drug addiction…
588 | Lidane Jul 9, 2014 11:38:40am |
Mental health break:
pic.twitter.com/FmwD4k59vI— Emergency Kittens (@EmrgencyKittens) July 9, 2014
BRB. Need moar coffee.
589 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Jul 9, 2014 11:38:50am |
re: #556 Archangelus
Not sure myself. I have seen these hoodies before then saw the price on this one and sent the link to my wife and she thought I would look great in it so it’s a done deal. Love the Assassin’s Creed games so that’s an added bonus.
590 | Timothy Watson Jul 9, 2014 11:39:18am |
592 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 11:42:14am |
re: #591 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
(it lies in wait…)
593 | Teukka Jul 9, 2014 11:44:13am |
re: #506 Justanotherhuman
Holy shit—did you notice when that movie came out (1981) there were only 4B people on the planet? 33 yrs later there are 7.046 billion (2012)?
Exponential growth is still exponential growth, no matter how you slice it.
Ayup. And a J population curve is still J population curve no matter how you slice it, which means that it ends in an extinction pulse.
594 | Stanley Sea Jul 9, 2014 11:44:47am |
#BREAKING: Investigators say a juvenile started the Cocos fire. @cbs8
— Barbara Richards (@sdbrichards) July 9, 2014
595 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 11:46:46am |
So you wake up, and what do you see?..
596 | Justanotherhuman Jul 9, 2014 11:46:48am |
Holy crap, have there ever been 2 senators who liked the camera this much yet had nothing to offer?
Live video: Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., Ted Cruz, R-Texas, speak on the US Senate floor about President Obama’s Texas trip - @NBCNews
see original on nbcnews.com
597 | Killgore Trout Jul 9, 2014 11:51:20am |
598 | Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Jul 9, 2014 11:52:49am |
re: #595 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
as soon as the alarm goes off that is what I am greeted with. If I do not move fast enough. If the meowing doesn’t work the face slapping/pawing begins.
599 | Islamo-Masonic Conspirator Jul 9, 2014 11:53:34am |
re: #598 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
These guys mean business. ;)
600 | Dr Lizardo Jul 9, 2014 11:54:51am |
re: #599 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
These guys mean business. ;)
It’s Reginald and Ronald Kray.
If the Krays were cats, of course.
601 | Kragar Jul 9, 2014 11:55:39am |
re: #600 Dr Lizardo
It’s Reginald and Ronald Kray.
If the Krays were cats, of course.
Nonsense.
Its clearly Doug and Dinsdale Piranha.
602 | Bulworth Jul 9, 2014 11:57:52am |
re:
#596
They’re mad he didn’t go to Texas soon enough. Then they’re mad he didn’t go to the right spot. Then they’re mad he didn’t bring a thousand mile wall with him.
603 | Backwoods_Sleuth Jul 9, 2014 12:00:03pm |
Please RT. Confirmed microburst Camillus and Syracuse. 65 - 75 top winds. Survey continues east. #nywx #cny pic.twitter.com/KbQCyNvWje
— NWSBinghamton (@NWSBinghamton) July 9, 2014
I’ve witnessed two microbursts. They are freaking amazing (and scary).
604 | Jolo5309 Jul 9, 2014 12:16:15pm |
re: #153 sattv4u2
After working four 12+ hour days in a row (and add on the nearly 3 hour round trip commute each day) I really needed more than 5-6 this morning
AND,,, one of the trees ( a bradford pear) is growing into a beautiful leyland cypress out front of the house. The other tree is pushing up against (and about to knock over) a portion of the stockade fence in the backyard
So both are going out of necessity
I have gotten rid of two spruce so far from my yard, both about 17 m tall, and both within 2 m of the house. The next one to go is one of the maples, it is about 35 years old and has been losing branches (large branches) whenever the wind picks up.
605 | RealityBasedSteve Jul 9, 2014 1:02:24pm |
re: #595 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator
So you wake up, and what do you see?..
[Embedded image]
They are getting ready to steal your soul.
RBS
606 | Eventual Carrion Jul 9, 2014 1:17:11pm |
re: #458 bubba zanetti
Is everyone’s troll radar down this morning? Check TL’s, people.
[Embedded content]
“She” has to assure you “she” is a girl in real life.