Sarah Palin’s Word Scramble of the Day: WaPo a “Bunch of Wusses”

“I challenge you to lift a finger”
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The half-governor is ranting about impeachment again, and today she demands that the Washington Post get on board the Impeachment Express, just like they did in the good old days with Richard Nixon, or risk being “a bunch of wusses.”

Of course, if Palin had been around when Nixon was President, she would have been totally on his side, denouncing the “lamestream media” for persecuting this hero of conservatism. But let’s just gloss over that inconvenient appetizer, and get right to the word salad main course.

The list of Obama abuses and impeachable offenses is long. I challenge you to lift a finger and help protect democracy, allow justice for all, and ensure domestic tranquility by doing your job reporting current corrupt events fairly. If not, you prove yourselves incompetent and in bed with Obama, not caring one iota about media integrity.

Those running the Washington Post’s show now, compared to those during the Nixon era, are too afraid of being uninvited to the permanent political class’ cocktail parties and petty gossip fests, making you all a bunch of wusses. I challenge you to get to work.

- Sarah Palin

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266 comments
1 Varek Raith  Jul 27, 2014 3:44:47pm
I challenge you to lift a finger and help protect democracy,

Challenge accepted, nutter.

1, 2, 3, 4 I declare a thumb war.

2 Kragar  Jul 27, 2014 3:45:16pm

I challenge Caribou Barbie, or any Teabagger, to name one crime for which the President can be impeached.

3 SteelPH  Jul 27, 2014 3:45:33pm
I challenge you to lift a finger and help protect democracy,

*holds up index finger*
There, I lifted a finger. Happy now? :P

4 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 27, 2014 3:45:46pm

re: #2 Kragar

I challenge Caribou Barbie, or any Teabagger, to name one crime for which the President can be impeached.

ALL OF THEM!!!!!!

5 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 27, 2014 3:46:22pm

WHUT

6 Charles Johnson  Jul 27, 2014 3:47:05pm

re: #3 Tor

*holds up index finger*
There, I lifted a finger. Happy now? :P

I’m lifting a slightly different finger.

7 Floral Giraffe  Jul 27, 2014 3:47:30pm

re: #6 Charles Johnson

The “happy middle finger”?

8 Targetpractice  Jul 27, 2014 3:51:12pm

Lift a finger? Alright, here…

My work is done.

9 Kragar  Jul 27, 2014 3:51:31pm

re: #3 Tor

*holds up index finger*
There, I lifted a finger. Happy now? :P

Youtube Video

10 Ryan King  Jul 27, 2014 3:51:51pm

Wingnut Spice speaking so Presidential-y again.

11 jaunte  Jul 27, 2014 3:52:50pm

“I challenge you to get to work.”
—Quitter

12 Ryan King  Jul 27, 2014 3:54:04pm

She called out Mr Rothchild himself.

13 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 27, 2014 3:55:45pm

re: #12 Ryan King

She called out Mr Rothchild himself.

The Mr. Rothschild. The main one!

14 thedopefishlives  Jul 27, 2014 3:55:54pm

re: #12 Ryan King

She called out Mr Rothchild himself.

Oh no! I’m quaking in my baby seal patent leather boots!

15 Charles Johnson  Jul 27, 2014 3:56:52pm
16 Ryan King  Jul 27, 2014 3:57:36pm

re: #13 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

The Mr. Rothschild. The main one!

There is only one.

There is only One.

17 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 3:57:55pm

Paid drunk Sister Sarah says what?

alan.com

18 William Barnett-Lewis  Jul 27, 2014 3:59:08pm

“Drunk? Stupid? Or Drunk _AND_ Stupid? Republican’s Talk; You Decide.”

The real Faux News Motto…

19 Kragar  Jul 27, 2014 3:59:25pm

re: #11 jaunte

“I challenge you to get to work.”
—Quitter

20 klys  Jul 27, 2014 3:59:44pm

I was depressed to see the poll about how a third of Americans (including half the polled Republicans) think the President should be impeached.

Nobody said anything about why he should be impeached, just that he should be.

Overall I think I was much happier ignoring the world while on vacation.

21 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 4:02:06pm

G A H

22 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 27, 2014 4:03:12pm

re: #16 Ryan King

“Mr. Rothschild, tear down … something!”

23 Charles Johnson  Jul 27, 2014 4:06:41pm
24 Tigger2  Jul 27, 2014 4:08:07pm

I challenge you to lift a finger and help protect democracy

Challenge accepted, But I wonder just how do you organize a boat lift of Republicans to Somalia.

25 jaunte  Jul 27, 2014 4:10:22pm
26 Varek Raith  Jul 27, 2014 4:10:31pm

Wonder if GG will block me.
:)

27 thedopefishlives  Jul 27, 2014 4:12:33pm

re: #26 Varek Raith

Wonder if GG will block me.
:)

Are you a brain-dead zombie? No? Then yes, he’ll block you.

28 Killgore Trout  Jul 27, 2014 4:12:39pm

re: #25 jaunte

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Second Turkish Gaza flotilla will have military escort, group says
What a terrible idea. I’m pretty sure the Turks aren’t this stupid.

29 Decatur Deb  Jul 27, 2014 4:13:21pm

re: #25 jaunte

Ah good, another Gaza Flotilla, because the MidEast is now just people competing to come up with the shittiest idea ever.

With the best brains of the two sides working at this night and day for decades, we might have expected a new shitty idea.

30 thedopefishlives  Jul 27, 2014 4:13:54pm

re: #25 jaunte

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I wonder if the Giant Duck of Peace has been recovered from its adventures in China. It appears to be needed.

31 Decatur Deb  Jul 27, 2014 4:15:15pm

re: #30 thedopefishlives

I wonder if the Giant Duck of Peace has been recovered from its adventures in China. It appears to be needed.

AWOL

hamptonroads.com

32 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 4:15:24pm

re: #29 Decatur Deb

With the best brains of the two sides working at this night and day for decades, we might have expected a new shitty idea.

I will bail this blog if people here cheer death like before.

33 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 4:16:45pm

It was disgusting, horrific, and despicable. Charles is still paying for it.

34 Varek Raith  Jul 27, 2014 4:16:55pm

Twitter; I have no idea what I’m doing.
;)

35 Decatur Deb  Jul 27, 2014 4:17:02pm

re: #32 Stanley Sea

I will bail this blog if people here cheer death like before.

Times and people have changed.

36 thedopefishlives  Jul 27, 2014 4:17:57pm

re: #32 Stanley Sea

re: #33 Stanley Sea

The tone is already different from what it was in 2006. I note that Israel’s invasion of Gaza was not met with the reception one would’ve gotten from that crowd.

37 Lidane  Jul 27, 2014 4:18:54pm

re: #2 Kragar

I challenge Caribou Barbie, or any Teabagger, to name one crime for which the President can be impeached.

Being President While Black, obviously. It’s called the White House for a reason.

Why do you hate America?

38 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 4:19:56pm

re: #35 Decatur Deb

Times and people have changed.

I hope.

39 klys  Jul 27, 2014 4:20:04pm

re: #32 Stanley Sea

I will bail this blog if people here cheer death like before.

I have so many new cat photos to deploy as needed.

We went to the cat show at Key West.

40 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 4:21:54pm

It brings back memories that in part have influenced how I feel now. Ugly.

Thanks friends.

41 thedopefishlives  Jul 27, 2014 4:22:33pm

re: #40 Stanley Sea

It brings back memories that in part have influenced how I feel now. Ugly.

Thanks friends.

Relax. We’ll behave. Well, as much as lizardoids ever behave.

42 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 4:23:36pm

re: #41 thedopefishlives

Relax. We’ll behave. Well, as much as lizardoids ever behave.

Thanks. Inhale, exhale.

43 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 27, 2014 4:23:42pm
44 RealityBasedSteve  Jul 27, 2014 4:23:43pm

Considering that Palins educational background is a degree in Communications with an emphasis in Journalism, I have to believe that this is intentionally done in ‘plain folky style’ since that is what her base eats up.

And yes, I’ll raise a finger or maybe even 2 to save our democracy, by doing whatever I can to educate, to help fund candidates whose beliefs I support, and to try and stop the growing stain that is the tea-party. Last, but not least, I’ll always vote against the growing madness that the GOP has become.

I’m afraid that isn’t quite what you had in mind however.

RBS

45 Varek Raith  Jul 27, 2014 4:23:44pm

re: #41 thedopefishlives

Relax. We’ll behave. Well, as much as lizardoids ever behave.

Speak for yourself.
:P

46 thedopefishlives  Jul 27, 2014 4:23:58pm

re: #45 Varek Raith

Speak for yourself.
:P

Some of us more than others, clearly. *cough*

47 klys  Jul 27, 2014 4:24:35pm
48 RealityBasedSteve  Jul 27, 2014 4:25:08pm

re: #39 klys

I have so many new cat photos to deploy as needed.

We went to the cat show at Key West.

I wish I was in the Keys. Diving in quarries with 15 foot visibility and looking at bluegills isn’t quite the same thing.

RBS

49 klys  Jul 27, 2014 4:25:36pm

re: #48 RealityBasedSteve

I wish I was in the Keys. Diving in quarries with 15 foot visibility and looking at bluegills isn’t quite the same thing.

RBS

It turns out the Keys in the summer is are fucking hot.

Who knew?

50 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 4:26:09pm

re: #47 klys

What about Key West?

I had many fun lobster seasons there.

51 RealityBasedSteve  Jul 27, 2014 4:26:56pm

re: #49 klys

It turns out the Keys in the summer is fucking hot.

Who knew?

But it’s a dry heat….

Oh wait, no, it isn’t… it’s freaking 80% relative humidity.

RBS

52 klys  Jul 27, 2014 4:27:26pm

re: #50 Stanley Sea

What about Key West?

I had many fun lobster seasons there.

Key West was phenomenal. I discovered a place that serves fantastic kale Caesar salads. We ate there three nights in a row. Also, the Rum Bar has its own bar cat, Matilda.

But it was also fucking hot.

53 jaunte  Jul 27, 2014 4:27:52pm

re: #48 RealityBasedSteve

I wish I was in the Keys. Diving in quarries with 15 foot visibility and looking at bluegills isn’t quite the same thing.

RBS

On the positive side, not as many jellyfish and loose firecoral in the quarries.

54 klys  Jul 27, 2014 4:28:45pm

re: #53 jaunte

On the positive side, not as many jellyfish and loose firecoral in the quarries.

The cure for a jellyfish sting is a bucket of rum, right?

That’s what we did the last time I got stung…

55 Varek Raith  Jul 27, 2014 4:29:35pm

re: #54 klys

The cure for a jellyfish sting is a bucket of rum, right?

That’s what we did the last time I got stung…

I’d have just stayed out of the water.
/smartass

56 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 4:30:00pm

re: #52 klys

Key West was phenomenal. I discovered a place that serves fantastic kale Caesar salads. We ate there three nights in a row. Also, the Rum Bar has its own bar cat, Matilda.

But it was also fucking hot.

Grew up & lived there till 1996. It’s beyond amazing how you tolerated it when there. Once you leave and go back? Naaahh

57 RealityBasedSteve  Jul 27, 2014 4:30:15pm

re: #53 jaunte

On the positive side, not as many jellyfish and loose firecoral in the quarries.

True. and Lionfish haven’t invaded the area (yet).

RBS

58 RealityBasedSteve  Jul 27, 2014 4:31:18pm

re: #54 klys

The cure for a jellyfish sting is a bucket of rum, right?

That’s what we did the last time I got stung…

In the Keys, I think a Bucket-O-Rum is the official cure for Everything. (Including too many Buckets-O-Rum the night before).

RBS

59 Decatur Deb  Jul 27, 2014 4:32:19pm

re: #53 jaunte

On the positive side, not as many jellyfish and loose firecoral in the quarries.

Other problems:

Image: filming_black_lagoon.jpg

60 Ryan King  Jul 27, 2014 4:32:40pm

re: #41 thedopefishlives

Relax. We’ll behave. Well, as much as lizardoids ever behave.

Fuck that Imma outta control!

(throws plastic glass of white zinfandel out window)

61 thedopefishlives  Jul 27, 2014 4:33:01pm

re: #60 Ryan King

Fuck that Imma outta control!

(throws plastic glass of white zinfandel out window)

*flips desk, lights on fire*

62 NJDhockeyfan  Jul 27, 2014 4:34:28pm

Evening lizards. I have the house all to myself this weekend and I’m spending the day doing much needed house cleaning while listening to Pandora.

I heard this song a little while ago and thought I’d share…it’s fantastic…

Youtube Video

63 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 27, 2014 4:34:32pm
64 klys  Jul 27, 2014 4:35:02pm

re: #58 RealityBasedSteve

In the Keys, I think a Bucket-O-Rum is the official cure for Everything. (Including too many Buckets-O-Rum the night before).

RBS

This is our puppet, Sad Kitteh, and the bucket of rum.

Sad Kitteh travels with us and may start a restaurant/bar review series.

65 thedopefishlives  Jul 27, 2014 4:35:43pm

re: #64 klys

[Embedded image]This is our puppet, Sad Kitteh, and the bucket of rum.

Sad Kitteh travels with us and may start a restaurant/bar review series.

After drinking one of those, I think it’d be a little hard to review anything.

66 Single-handed sailor  Jul 27, 2014 4:36:04pm

re: #54 klys

The cure for a jellyfish sting is a bucket of rum, right?

That’s what we did the last time I got stung…

I recommend the Pusser’s Painkiller

67 klys  Jul 27, 2014 4:36:14pm

re: #65 thedopefishlives

After drinking one of those, I think it’d be a little hard to review anything.

We split it.

Me and the husband, not me and the puppet. In case that needs clarification.

68 thedopefishlives  Jul 27, 2014 4:36:52pm

re: #67 klys

We split it.

Me and the husband, not me and the puppet. In case that needs clarification.

Hell, after drinking half of one of those, I’m pretty sure I’d be a drooling wreck on the floor. But I’m a lightweight.

69 klys  Jul 27, 2014 4:37:11pm

re: #66 Single-handed sailor

I recommend the Pusser’s Painkiller

That sounds fantastic and I would be all over that if I weren’t watching how much pineapple juice I drink (mouth tingles aren’t something to ignore…).

70 klys  Jul 27, 2014 4:37:33pm

re: #68 thedopefishlives

Hell, after drinking half of one of those, I’m pretty sure I’d be a drooling wreck on the floor. But I’m a lightweight.

…I plead the fifth.

71 Varek Raith  Jul 27, 2014 4:38:10pm

re: #70 klys

…I plead the fifth.

The puppet dragged you home, right?
/

72 klys  Jul 27, 2014 4:38:33pm

re: #71 Varek Raith

The puppet dragged you home, right?
/

Where home is defined as the next bar, right?
//

73 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 4:39:20pm

re: #64 klys

This is our puppet, Sad Kitteh, and the bucket of rum.

Sad Kitteh travels with us and may start a restaurant/bar review series.

On a trip back to Florida, my (exie)husband and I stumbled upon this one bar. The live band was really good, they were called Out of Hand. The lead guitarist didn’t have a hand and he just ripped. Oh geeze, Key West.

74 NJDhockeyfan  Jul 27, 2014 4:41:51pm

Johnny A - Stimulation

Youtube Video

75 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 4:42:08pm

holy shit, they’re on you tube

Youtube Video

76 klys  Jul 27, 2014 4:42:45pm

re: #73 Stanley Sea

On a trip back to Florida, my (exie)husband and I stumbled upon this one bar. The live band was really good, they were called Out of Hand. The lead guitarist didn’t have a hand and he just ripped. Oh geeze, Key West.

There is now a phenomenal kosher food spot. Oh man. The best hummus I have ever had. Mam’s Best Food, I think.

Oh this food.

77 Charles Johnson  Jul 27, 2014 4:44:46pm

Unfollowing quite a few people today on Twitter for ranting about “genocide” and “apartheid” and comparing Israel to Nazi Germany. Getting really fucking sick of this stuff.

78 Rightwingconspirator  Jul 27, 2014 4:48:33pm

From todays post work for a website…
Fire!

79 CuriousLurker  Jul 27, 2014 4:48:41pm

re: #39 klys

I have so many new cat photos to deploy as needed.

We went to the cat show at Key West.

Welcome home! Glad to have you back. ;-)

re: #40 Stanley Sea

It brings back memories that in part have influenced how I feel now. Ugly.

Thanks friends.

{{{Sea}}} I think most of the remaining members see the Palestinians as real people now, equally as human as the Israelis and not so different from us in many ways (Hamas excluded; terrorists are human too and I won’t cheer their deaths either, but their murderous ways mean get no sympathy from me).

It wasn’t just cheering death either. It was making fun of people dying, like Rachel Corrie, who I see mostly as a tragically idealistic young woman who made a series of very bad choices—choices which in a saner world shouldn’t have cost her life. Or making jokes about the Gaza rooster, drones, whatever. There’s nothing funny about innocent people suffering & dying, regardless of who was/is at fault for putting them in harm’s way.

80 Killgore Trout  Jul 27, 2014 4:49:41pm

re: #78 Rightwingconspirator

From todays post work for a website…
Fire!
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Fire!

81 thedopefishlives  Jul 27, 2014 4:50:29pm

re: #77 Charles Johnson

Unfollowing quite a few people today on Twitter for ranting about “genocide” and “apartheid” and comparing Israel to Nazi Germany. Getting really fucking sick of this stuff.

Comparing Israel to Nazi Germany? Wow, that’s so rich in irony they could start a freaking bank.

82 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 27, 2014 4:51:58pm

re: #77 Charles Johnson

Unfollowing quite a few people today on Twitter for ranting about “genocide” and “apartheid” and comparing Israel to Nazi Germany. Getting really fucking sick of this stuff.

There is this little graphic they think is OH SO CLEVER of the Star of David on the Israel flag being peeled back to display…

So sick of this fucking shit.

83 CuriousLurker  Jul 27, 2014 4:55:36pm

re: #78 Rightwingconspirator

From todays post work for a website…
Fire!
[Embedded image]

Youtube Video

84 RealityBasedSteve  Jul 27, 2014 5:00:48pm

re: #78 Rightwingconspirator

From todays post work for a website…
Fire!
[Embedded image]

DESK!!!!

85 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 5:01:11pm

re: #79 CuriousLurker

Welcome home! Glad to have you back. ;-)

{{{Sea}}} I think most of the remaining members see the Palestinians as real people now, equally as human as the Israelis and not so different from us in many ways (Hamas excluded; terrorists are human too and I won’t cheer their deaths either, but their murderous ways mean get no sympathy from me).

It wasn’t just cheering death either. It was making fun of people dying, like Rachel Corrie, who I see mostly as a tragically idealistic young woman who made a series of very bad choices—choices which in a saner world shouldn’t have cost her life. Or making jokes about the Gaza rooster, drones, whatever. There’s nothing funny about innocent people suffering & dying, regardless of who was/is at fault for putting them in harm’s way.

I saw this this morning. Did not want to incite the MWW so held back.

She did not vote. She did nothing but be born in a fucked up place.

86 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 5:02:23pm

Probably faked.

87 CuriousLurker  Jul 27, 2014 5:04:51pm

re: #85 Stanley Sea

She did not vote. She did nothing but be born in a fucked up place.

Yeah, that’s the saddest part, the kids (all the kids). It has to be terrifying for them. It’s not fair that they can’t enjoy their childhood in peace, feeling safe.

88 CuriousLurker  Jul 27, 2014 5:08:27pm

re: #86 Stanley Sea

Probably faked.

Don’t. When it starts getting to you just go do something to distract yourself and be thankful that you don’t have family on either side over there to worry about (at least I assume you don’t).

Here, put on your boogie shoes—they’ll make you feel better, I promise. ;-)

Youtube Video

89 jamesfirecat  Jul 27, 2014 5:09:14pm

re: #39 klys

I have so many new cat photos to deploy as needed.

We went to the cat show at Key West.

I’ve been to a cat show in Key West many many many years ago as a Boy Scout.

Coset, has no tail! (It makes sense if by some astounding coincidence you saw the same guy I did)

90 thedopefishlives  Jul 27, 2014 5:10:27pm

re: #86 Stanley Sea

Probably faked.

I think what’s depressing is that I pretty much feel conditioned into distrusting the image. Not trying to start a flame war, but just the sheer volume of actual fakery makes me automatically twitch when I see anything like this.

91 NJDhockeyfan  Jul 27, 2014 5:11:29pm

This Lebanese journalist sounds like a nice lady…
//

92 CuriousLurker  Jul 27, 2014 5:12:52pm

re: #71 Varek Raith

LOL, your new profile pic is wonderfully creepy!

93 b.d.  Jul 27, 2014 5:14:24pm

re: #91 NJDhockeyfan

This Lebanese journalist sounds like a nice lady…
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Nothing could go wrong with that.

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94 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 27, 2014 5:16:45pm

Allegedly (!) the state of “Novorossiya” right now:
Compare with July 25:

95 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 27, 2014 5:18:01pm

re: #94 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

fixed

96 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 27, 2014 5:20:36pm

re: #92 CuriousLurker

LOL, your new profile pic is wonderfully creepy!

That would fit better, him being SpaceLenin and all:

97 blueraven  Jul 27, 2014 5:21:09pm

re: #91 NJDhockeyfan

This Lebanese journalist sounds like a nice lady…
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I don’t know what she is, but she is no “journalist”.

98 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 27, 2014 5:24:01pm

The situations in Ukraine and Israel are not really comparable, but I’ve seen quite a lot of Ukrainians online showing support to Israel. This is just an observation, not any kind of judgment, pro or con.

99 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 5:24:14pm

re: #97 blueraven

I don’t know what she is, but she is no “journalist”.

hate pollution in the thread.

100 CuriousLurker  Jul 27, 2014 5:24:56pm

re: #90 thedopefishlives

I think what’s depressing is that I pretty much feel conditioned into distrusting the image. Not trying to start a flame war, but just the sheer volume of actual fakery makes me automatically twitch when I see anything like this.

There’s no doubt that there is serious death & destruction going on, so I’m not sure why they’d need to fake anything this time around.

This was from 7/23, almost 5 days ago now. I’m sure the number of targets hit is much greater now and the death toll in Gaza stood at 1000+ last I heard:

Since the start of Operation Protective Edge on July 8, the IDF has attacked 3,000 Gazan terrorist targets, having hit 1,715 since the beginning of the ground offensive on Thursday night, according to the army’s figures. The Palestinian death toll rose to 616, including nearly 100 children and many other civilians, Gaza health officials said.

jpost.com

Remember this? Yes, I’m stalking you. //

101 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 27, 2014 5:25:00pm

re: #98 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Depicted above is an action in Dnepropetrovsk in support of Israel.

102 Varek Raith  Jul 27, 2014 5:25:57pm

re: #92 CuriousLurker

LOL, your new profile pic is wonderfully creepy!

Can’t go wrong with unstable vampires.

103 CuriousLurker  Jul 27, 2014 5:26:53pm

re: #97 blueraven

I don’t know what she is, but she is no “journalist”.

The term “journalist” has pretty much lost all meaning nowadays.

104 Varek Raith  Jul 27, 2014 5:27:42pm

re: #96 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

That would fit better, him being SpaceLenin and all:

[Embedded image]

Saved.

105 CuriousLurker  Jul 27, 2014 5:29:32pm

My son’s on the phone—gotta run for now.

106 jaunte  Jul 27, 2014 5:30:28pm

re: #97 blueraven

I don’t know what she is, but she is no “journalist”.

Newsreader. Shallow thinker.

107 NJDhockeyfan  Jul 27, 2014 5:32:46pm

I met a guy last week who was in WWII in the Pacific and also served in the Korean War. I think the girl I was training and myself spent about 2 hours over there talking with him. He was a very upbeat positive man who loved to talk about some of the things he was a part of while in the service. His granddaughter talked him into writing about it so he’s started writing in a notebook. He’s filled it about halfway and said he hasn’t finished up with the Pacific yet.

108 Charles Johnson  Jul 27, 2014 5:38:44pm

Look who else is pushing that Lebanese journalist’s crazy tweets.

Lebanese Journo: ‘Iran Should Send Its Nuclear Weapons to Hamas to Use Against Israel’ | Twitchy

The way the far right is inciting hatred against Arabs is every bit as ugly as the way the far left is inciting hatred against Jews.

109 Ryan King  Jul 27, 2014 5:40:14pm

re: #108 Charles Johnson

The way the far right is inciting hatred against Arabs is every bit as ugly as the way the far left is inciting hatred against Jews.

It’s as if they need each other.

110 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 27, 2014 5:42:32pm

Happy Eid!

111 Rightwingconspirator  Jul 27, 2014 5:43:24pm

re: #108 Charles Johnson

All it takes to completely lose my sympathy is to be a broad brush hater. The second I see that, (just me) moving on no further interest. OTOH I’d engage a sensible advocate of almost any cause on the board. Advocating nukes there is to advocate genocide.

112 ObserverArt  Jul 27, 2014 5:44:37pm

re: #17 Stanley Sea

Paid drunk Sister Sarah says what?

alan.com

I saw that video the other day. I swear it sounded like one of those Bad Lip-Reading episodes. In fact it was funnier than bad lip-reading, because it was real Palin all the way.

113 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 5:51:37pm

Tried to start a page, but every thing I said seemed to require a link backup, and I just don’t have the patience.

Israel must always be supported - it’s right to remain as it is, a separate country in the ME.

(2 state solution 67 lines imo)

Many of the people who believe the above are sorrowed by a war carried out by a strong established army against terrorists embedded in the civilian population of a locked in area.

I feel the trouble Alouette does when the Unite Blue people turn vehemently against Israel. Note that these people usually will stick up for the weaker, and they see the Palestinians of Gaza as the weaker.

Much education needs to happen. I think peer to peer via twitter is a good way to start.

If the Unite Blue’s of the Twit could read both sides as I have at LGF, change is possible.

114 Killgore Trout  Jul 27, 2014 5:53:03pm

About the big viral story that Israelis admitted Hamas wasn’t involved in the kidnapping of Israeli teens: Not true
Israeli Official at Heart of Twit Fit Still Blames Hamas for June Kidnappings

Over the weekend it appeared that an Israeli official conceded something very valuable to Hamas. A BBC reporter in Israel tweeted out comments from the spokesman for Israel’s national police who allegedly said Hamas was not behind the kidnapping and murder last month of three Israeli teens on the West Bank, an incident that was the spark for the current war in Gaza.
….
The twittersphere exploded with I-told-you-so’s from pro-Palestinian activists, who claimed Israel had manipulated events surrounding the killing of the teens to prepare for and justify its assault on Gaza, which has since killed more than 1,000 Palestinians.

But when reached by The Daily Beast on Sunday, Rosenfeld said that he had told Donnison what the Israeli government had been saying all along. “The kidnapping and murder of the teens was carried out by Hamas terrorists from the Hebron area,” he told The Daily Beast. “The security organizations are continuing to search for the murderers.”

115 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 5:53:45pm

re: #114 Killgore Trout

About the big viral story that Israelis admitted Hamas wasn’t involved in the kidnapping of Israeli teens: Not true
Israeli Official at Heart of Twit Fit Still Blames Hamas for June Kidnappings

stop it

116 b_sharp  Jul 27, 2014 5:55:07pm

re: #40 Stanley Sea

It brings back memories that in part have influenced how I feel now. Ugly.

Thanks friends.

The loudest voices for the IDF taking control of the vessels at that time are no longer here.

117 makeitstop  Jul 27, 2014 5:55:40pm

re: #115 Stanley Sea

stop it

Seconded. Just stop already.

118 paleotectonics  Jul 27, 2014 5:55:42pm

re: #19 Kragar

Where in the bloody hell is his other hand I don’t want to know…

119 Killgore Trout  Jul 27, 2014 5:56:39pm

re: #115 Stanley Sea

stop it

The story was very widely circulated and it was false. I see no need why it shouldn’t be known the story was fake.

120 b_sharp  Jul 27, 2014 5:58:27pm

re: #79 CuriousLurker

Welcome home! Glad to have you back. ;-)

{{{Sea}}} I think most of the remaining members see the Palestinians as real people now, equally as human as the Israelis and not so different from us in many ways (Hamas excluded; terrorists are human too and I won’t cheer their deaths either, but their murderous ways mean get no sympathy from me).

It wasn’t just cheering death either. It was making fun of people dying, like Rachel Corrie, who I see mostly as a tragically idealistic young woman who made a series of very bad choices—choices which in a saner world shouldn’t have cost her life. Or making jokes about the Gaza rooster, drones, whatever. There’s nothing funny about innocent people suffering & dying, regardless of who was/is at fault for putting them in harm’s way.

Some of us were pushing for that back then and even produced photos showing the injured IDF member was being treated well by the people on the boat.

121 NJDhockeyfan  Jul 27, 2014 5:59:08pm

Heh

…North Korea felt the clip “seriously compromises Kim’s dignity and authority” and asked China to stop the spread of the video, which is quickly going viral, but that “Beijing was unable to oblige.”

Here is the video…

Youtube Video

122 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 27, 2014 6:01:24pm

KT’s otherwise trollish ways aside, I found that bit of info useful.

123 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 27, 2014 6:02:23pm
124 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 6:05:46pm

re: #119 Killgore Trout

The story was very widely circulated and it was false. I see no need why it shouldn’t be known the story was fake.

You link proved nothing of the sort. Find them, name them. Until that just propaganda.

They found quickly the dudes who fed Muhammad Abu Khdeir gasoline.

Pick you battles.

125 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 27, 2014 6:08:38pm

re: #124 Stanley Sea

You link proved nothing of the sort. Find them, name them. Until that just propaganda.

They found quickly the dudes who fed Muhammad Abu Khdeir gasoline.

Pick you battles.

It’s not about who did it or whether Israel’s official stance is correct. It’s about what Israel did or did not officially admit.

126 Killgore Trout  Jul 27, 2014 6:09:40pm

re: #124 Stanley Sea

You link proved nothing of the sort. Find them, name them. Until that just propaganda.

They found quickly the dudes who fed Muhammad Abu Khdeir gasoline.

Pick you battles.

The person quoted by the journalist didn’t say what the reporter reported. Fake story.

127 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 6:09:55pm

re: #125 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

It’s not about who did it or whether Israel’s official is correct. It’s about what Israel did or did not officially admit.

So much pr. So little respect for life.

128 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 27, 2014 6:10:49pm

re: #126 Killgore Trout

The person quoted by the journalist didn’t say what the reporter reported. Fake story.

Strictly speaking, we don’t know it. It’s a pure he said-she said.

129 Decatur Deb  Jul 27, 2014 6:11:33pm

re: #123 Pie-onist Overlord

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Will there be big balloons? Failing Broadway chorus lines?

130 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 27, 2014 6:13:59pm

re: #126 Killgore Trout

The person quoted by the journalist didn’t say what the reporter reported. Fake story.

Moreover, fake implies a lie on the journalist’s part, rather than a simple misunderstanding, which is what may have happened if the Israeli official indeed did not make such a claim to the journalist (which, again, is not proven one way or another).

131 Varek Raith  Jul 27, 2014 6:16:43pm
132 NJDhockeyfan  Jul 27, 2014 6:17:37pm
133 b.d.  Jul 27, 2014 6:17:52pm

re: #121 NJDhockeyfan

Heh

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Here is the video…

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Kim Jung Un getting no respect, good. I so hope that that regime crumbles, few on this planet are more deserving.

134 William Barnett-Lewis  Jul 27, 2014 6:18:09pm

re: #114 Killgore Trout

Please do not feed the Troll. Thank you.

135 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 27, 2014 6:18:26pm

re: #132 NJDhockeyfan

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Frog Santa!
The Abominable Snowfrog!

136 goddamnedfrank  Jul 27, 2014 6:18:35pm

re: #119 Killgore Trout

The story was very widely circulated and it was false. I see no need why it shouldn’t be known the story was fake.

Your certainty is amazing. You have literally no idea if the story was fake or not, this is purely an article of faith on your part.

137 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 6:19:33pm

re: #131 Varek Raith

uh

138 Varek Raith  Jul 27, 2014 6:20:26pm

re: #137 Stanley Sea

uh

Youtube Video

139 Decatur Deb  Jul 27, 2014 6:21:44pm

re: #136 goddamnedfrank

Your certainty is amazing. You have literally no idea if the story was fake or not, this is purely an article of faith on your part.

I am left with the uneasy suspicion that someone in the Middle East may be lying.

140 goddamnedfrank  Jul 27, 2014 6:22:17pm

re: #128 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Strictly speaking, we don’t know it. It’s a pure he said-she said.

PCM DA recorders are cheap. I have one I got years ago to do my graduate thesis interviews. It’s weird that more reporters don’t insist on using them for all on the record sources.

141 SteelPH  Jul 27, 2014 6:22:24pm

re: #139 Decatur Deb

I am left with the uneasy suspicion that someone in the Middle East may be lying.

142 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 6:24:20pm
143 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 27, 2014 6:25:00pm

re: #140 goddamnedfrank

Maybe they were talking on the phone…

144 Killgore Trout  Jul 27, 2014 6:30:00pm

re: #136 goddamnedfrank

Your certainty is amazing. You have literally no idea if the story was fake or not, this is purely an article of faith on your part.

You could go full nihilist, we can never be sure. Maybe they’re having a romantic relationship and made pillow talk. But it’s not hard to sort out. The dude blamed Hamas, then confessed to a reporter that Hamas was not to blame and now switches his story back to blaming Hamas when his confession to a reporter gets reported? Occam’s Razor: The reporter misreported the story.

145 Decatur Deb  Jul 27, 2014 6:30:16pm

re: #143 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Maybe they were talking on the phone…

Then the NSA’s yer man…

146 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Jul 27, 2014 6:36:15pm

More importantly, I don’t think Israel has shown any evidence that they were Hamas.

147 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 27, 2014 6:36:51pm

re: #144 Killgore Trout

You could go full nihilist, we can never be sure. Maybe they’re having a romantic relationship and made pillow talk. But it’s not hard to sort out. The dude blamed Hamas, then confessed to a reporter that Hamas was not to blame and now switches his story back to blaming Hamas when his confession to a reporter gets reported? Occam’s Razor: The reporter misreported the story.

Actually it’s not about whether it was done by Hamas, but whether the kidnappers got orders from the Hamas leadership. Acc. to the reporter, Rosenfeld still claimed that the kidnappers were affiliated with Hamas.

So a reporter might have intentionally misreported the story. Or the Israeli official told too much and backtracked, because he got himself into hot water. Or he got unintentionally misinterpreted by the reporter. See, you don’t know which version is right (or even more probable), so you create your own reality, where the story is “fake”.

149 CuriousLurker  Jul 27, 2014 6:37:47pm

See? If people here can’t talk about the I-P conflict respectfully, calmly, and rationally then how can we expect the actual people involved over there to do so? So much for all the talk about the Enlightment, reason, humanitarianism, etc. It all gets tossed out the window really quickly.

And before anyone starts whining that I’m trying to stifle discussion, I’m not telling anyone NOT to talk, I’m just disappointed that it always ends up with provocation, followed by taking the bait, then mudslinging & resentment.

In other news, someone retweeted this a couple of minutes ago:

Um, NO. It’s awful but it’s not a “crime against humanity”, FFS. *headdesk*

150 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 27, 2014 6:40:05pm

Got some climate deniers with this Tweet:

151 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 27, 2014 6:40:34pm

Not even going to reply to them, just block & mute. They are stupider than fairtaxers.

152 klys  Jul 27, 2014 6:41:21pm

re: #149 CuriousLurker

A “crime against elephantry” just doesn’t have the same ring.

153 sagehen  Jul 27, 2014 6:42:32pm

re: #110 Pie-onist Overlord

Happy Eid!

What does one eat for Eid?

(I only celebrate other people’s holidays if there’s something sugary, something deep-fried, or something to drink)

154 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 27, 2014 6:44:04pm

re: #152 klys

A “crime against elephantry” just doesn’t have the same ring.

I think what is meant is not humanity in the sense of humans, but rather

2 The quality of being humane; benevolence:

155 Decatur Deb  Jul 27, 2014 6:44:53pm

re: #153 sagehen

What does one eat for Eid?

(I only celebrate other people’s holidays if there’s something sugary, something deep-fried, or something to drink)

Eidscream

156 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Jul 27, 2014 6:44:59pm

re: #149 CuriousLurker

I’d go for “Shooting an elephant: A shitty thing that shitbirds do because they’re fucks and they suck.”

157 klys  Jul 27, 2014 6:45:26pm

re: #154 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

I think what is meant is not humanity in the sense of humans, but rather

Yes, but it was more fun to play on the literal meaning. :)

You could also make the argument that humans do lose something when species go extinct and biodiversity is lessened and therefore steps that bring us closer to that are a crime against humanity but that’s getting a little bit of a stretch.

158 CuriousLurker  Jul 27, 2014 6:45:41pm

re: #110 Pie-onist Overlord

Happy Eid!

Thanks!

Can we forward JihadJew’s tweet with the Macy’s pic to Pamela as an Eid gift?

159 Charles Johnson  Jul 27, 2014 6:45:50pm
160 William Barnett-Lewis  Jul 27, 2014 6:45:51pm

re: #149 CuriousLurker

Sigh. All we have is a picture of a dead elephant. We don’t have any context whatsoever. There are ecologically & economically valid reasons, still, to hunt an elephant in some parts of Africa, unpopular as that is in some quarters.

161 CuriousLurker  Jul 27, 2014 6:47:52pm

re: #154 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

I think what is meant is not humanity in the sense of humans, but rather

Yeah, I figured that what he probably meant, but it sounded so… O_o

162 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 27, 2014 6:47:54pm

It’s to to Retweet the Anti-Pam graphic

163 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 27, 2014 6:48:07pm

re: #153 sagehen

What does one eat for Eid?

(I only celebrate other people’s holidays if there’s something sugary, something deep-fried, or something to drink)

PIE!

164 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 27, 2014 6:48:30pm

re: #160 William Barnett-Lewis

Sigh. All we have is a picture of a dead elephant. We don’t have any context whatsoever. There are ecologically & economically valid reasons, still, to hunt an elephant in some parts of Africa, unpopular as that is in some quarters.

Theoretically, yes, but the presence of 2 gloating humans on the photo makes me doubt that this was such a case,

165 Decatur Deb  Jul 27, 2014 6:49:51pm

re: #163 Pie-onist Overlord

PIE!

Bet it involves dates.

166 klys  Jul 27, 2014 6:51:59pm

re: #163 Pie-onist Overlord

PIE!

I’m curious: is there a holiday that doesn’t call for pie?

167 b_sharp  Jul 27, 2014 6:52:05pm

re: #149 CuriousLurker

See? If people here can’t talk about the I-P conflict respectfully, calmly, and rationally then how can we expect the actual people involved over there to do so? So much for all the talk about the Enlightment, reason, humanitarianism, etc. It all gets tossed out the window really quickly.

And before anyone starts whining that I’m trying to stifle discussion, I’m not telling anyone NOT to talk, I’m just disappointed that it always ends up with provocation, followed by taking the bait, then mudslinging & resentment.

In other news, someone retweeted this a couple of minutes ago:

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Um, NO. It’s awful but it’s not a “crime against humanity”, FFS. *headdesk*

The point being made was not that it’s a crime against humans but against the ethical base we are increasingly considering desirable for humans to take applied to the way we treat other life on Earth. Progressive ideals are about inclusiveness, not just for humans, but for life in general. That inclusiveness is the humanity the poster was trying to point out.

168 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 6:52:18pm

re: #153 sagehen

What does one eat for Eid?

(I only celebrate other people’s holidays if there’s something sugary, something deep-fried, or something to drink)

re: #163 Pie-onist Overlord

PIE!

I’m thinking a whole hell of a lot.

Looking for a menu.

169 Varek Raith  Jul 27, 2014 6:52:36pm
170 Decatur Deb  Jul 27, 2014 6:53:00pm

Date-pecan pie:

myrecipes.com

171 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 27, 2014 6:53:07pm

re: #166 klys

I’m curious: is there a holiday that doesn’t call for pie?

Yom Kippur.

172 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 27, 2014 6:53:20pm

re: #169 Varek Raith

CNN Poll: Romney tops Obama but loses to Clinton

Uh…err…ok?

Glorious news for John McCain.

173 Decatur Deb  Jul 27, 2014 6:53:29pm

re: #171 Pie-onist Overlord

Yom Kippur.

Humble pie.

174 klys  Jul 27, 2014 6:53:42pm

re: #173 Decatur Deb

Humble pie.

Ok, I LOLed.

175 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 27, 2014 6:53:57pm

re: #173 Decatur Deb

Humble pie.

You win the Pie.

176 lawhawk  Jul 27, 2014 6:54:32pm

re: #166 klys

I’m curious: is there a holiday that doesn’t call for pie?

Tisha B’av and Yom Kippur; though there are pies for the break the fast.

177 b_sharp  Jul 27, 2014 6:54:45pm

re: #150 Pie-onist Overlord

Got some climate deniers with this Tweet:

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Of course, they are everywhere. Ignorance of science has become an art form, specifically performance art when done by artists like Monckton, Morano, Ball, Spencer, Lomborg, etc.

178 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 27, 2014 6:54:47pm

And of course if Romney were the Pres, the poll would have been reversed.

179 b_sharp  Jul 27, 2014 6:55:04pm

re: #154 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

I think what is meant is not humanity in the sense of humans, but rather

Exactly.

180 CuriousLurker  Jul 27, 2014 6:55:27pm

re: #167 b_sharp

The point being made was not that it’s a crime against humans but against the ethical base we are increasingly considering desirable for humans to take applied to the way we treat other life on Earth. Progressive ideals are about inclusiveness, not just for humans, but for life in general. That inclusiveness is the humanity the poster was trying to point out.

re: #161 CuriousLurker

Yeah, I figured that what he probably meant, but it sounded so… O_o

181 NJDhockeyfan  Jul 27, 2014 6:56:35pm
182 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 27, 2014 6:57:09pm

re: #179 b_sharp

Interestingly, the legal term “crime against humanity” can be translated into Russian both ways (and mostly the “virtue” is meant). I don’t actually know which meaning of the term is the original one.

183 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 6:58:14pm

re: #165 Decatur Deb

Bet it involves dates.

There’s a resort to the east of here, it’s been sold. But hopefully the’ve maintained.

lacasadelzorro.com

Stay in a private casita, with it’s private pool. Very nice.

But the restaurant was fantastic, excellent chef. Best dish I ever had was a curry with medjool dates, bananas, yellow rice, and hell if I can recall the protein. It was fab.

184 klys  Jul 27, 2014 6:58:17pm

Have some whiny children wanting their wet food and everyone can cheer up.

Youtube Video

185 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 6:59:13pm

re: #171 Pie-onist Overlord

Yom Kippur.

Why?

186 PhillyPretzel  Jul 27, 2014 7:00:16pm

re: #185 Stanley Sea

Yom Kippur=Day of Atonement

187 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 27, 2014 7:00:34pm

re: #185 Stanley Sea

Why?

Fast day.

188 PhillyPretzel  Jul 27, 2014 7:02:11pm

But one has to say some of those break the fast meals are darned good. :)

189 b_sharp  Jul 27, 2014 7:02:21pm

re: #180 CuriousLurker

Not to me.

I’m a sucker for the underdog in pretty much all cases. Animals other than humans are underdogs, and when they are not killed for food, or to reduce illness in a herd, and especially when endangered I tend to view their deaths as an example of everything that can be construed as evil in humans.

Adults killing for the rush of killing shows a sociopathic tendency IMHO.

190 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 7:02:41pm

re: #187 Pie-onist Overlord

Fast day.

Ah. No pie.

thanks

191 Charles Johnson  Jul 27, 2014 7:02:57pm
192 NJDhockeyfan  Jul 27, 2014 7:03:09pm

re: #173 Decatur Deb

Humble pie.

Youtube Video

193 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 7:04:34pm

hmmm. craving sweets.

194 b_sharp  Jul 27, 2014 7:06:02pm

re: #193 Stanley Sea

hmmm. craving sweets.

Nobody here by that name.

195 Ryan King  Jul 27, 2014 7:06:11pm

You’re all a bunch of wusses.

196 Decatur Deb  Jul 27, 2014 7:07:02pm

re: #193 Stanley Sea

hmmm. craving sweets.

This place is run by my best friend’s daughter, in the foothills of the Alps. If I ever go there again, I’m not coming back.

casadellebanane.it

197 klys  Jul 27, 2014 7:07:02pm

re: #193 Stanley Sea

hmmm. craving sweets.

Some rum?

198 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 27, 2014 7:08:00pm

Consensus opinion: we’re all a bunch of craving sweets.

199 b_sharp  Jul 27, 2014 7:09:06pm

re: #188 PhillyPretzel

But one has to say some of those break the fast meals are darned good. :)

I find that if I don’t break the fast carefully I get hypoglycemic in a hurry. Sugar is a big no. no.

200 PhillyPretzel  Jul 27, 2014 7:10:08pm

re: #199 b_sharp

I can understand that.

201 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 7:11:52pm

re: #196 Decatur Deb

This place is run by my best friend’s daughter, in the foothills of the Alps. If I ever go there again, I’m not coming back.

casadellebanane.it

I think you need to book the one-way ASAP. The House of Bananas looks like heaven.

Why wait Deb. Grandkids need to learn Italian.

202 lawhawk  Jul 27, 2014 7:12:48pm

Drudge pushing the xenophobia once again. Pittsburgh seeing foreign influx, reaching a “tipping point” the headline reads.

That Pittsburgh has a fraction of the foreign influx of other big cities around the nation is actually the surprising bit. And the numbers they’re talking about are all legal immigrants to boot:

Pittsburgh and surrounding communities have reached a “tipping point” and need to plan for a rapidly rising and diverse foreign population, immigration experts tell the Tribune-Review.

“The changes we’re seeing today, which we’ve been seeing for years now and are building, are not merely anecdotal. We’ve reached the tipping point,” said Barbara Murock, manager of the Allegheny County Department of Human Services’ Immigrants and Internationals Initiative.

Murock said that means social welfare agencies, public service nonprofits and religious groups should expand literacy training, career counseling and health care programs for foreign families.

A county Human Services report in December found that about 58,000 people born overseas reside lawfully in the county, representing less than 5 percent of the population.

Although that’s less than a third of the national average, the numbers here escalated in the past decade or so, the report shows.

Nearly half of the immigrants arrived here since 2000, paced by an influx of 6,059 war refugees and religious dissidents from 27 nations seeking sanctuary. One in 14 Pittsburgh residents was born in another country.

More are coming.

Every two to three weeks, employees from the nonprofit Northern Area Multiservice Center in Sharpsburg drive to Pittsburgh International Airport to retrieve dozens of refugees.

“These aren’t undocumented immigrants,” said resettlement program director Kheir Mugwaneza, who is from Rwanda. “They’re all legal, documented immigrants.”

More than half of these newcomers since 2005 are Nepali families forced into refugee camps when booted from the landlocked Asian nation of Bhutan. They have settled in an arc stretching from Carrick to Mt. Oliver, with the epicenter in the Prospect Park section of Whitehall.

Drudge spins a story about legal immigrants and those who are seeking refuge in the US under legitimate programs and purposes, to say nothing of the fact that we’re talking about a fraction of the overall population of Pittsburgh which happens to be even more homogenous than the average population in the nation (far fewer foreign-born than other places around the nation), and you’ve got Drudge’s dishonest agenda and skullduggery at work.

203 PhillyPretzel  Jul 27, 2014 7:13:55pm

I am hearing the rumbles of thunder. The National Weather Service is showing a
severe thunderstorm headed this way. Good Night to my fellow Lizards. weather.gov

204 NJDhockeyfan  Jul 27, 2014 7:14:21pm
205 Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 27, 2014 7:16:43pm

re: #202 lawhawk

Given the ethnic mixture of Pittsburgh’s past I find this almost amusing.

The Cathedral of Learning on the Pitt campus has classrooms decorated in the cultural manner of the various groups who have settled in Pittsburgh. There are a *lot* of them.

nationalityrooms.pitt.edu

206 Charles Johnson  Jul 27, 2014 7:16:57pm

re: #202 lawhawk

Wow. We don’t have just one Father Coughlin these days, we have a whole blogosphere full of them.

207 Decatur Deb  Jul 27, 2014 7:18:00pm

re: #201 Stanley Sea

I think you need to book the one-way ASAP. The House of Bananas looks like heaven.

Why wait Deb. Grandkids need to learn Italian.

I put a buck into the Florida lottery every time I cross the line.

208 CuriousLurker  Jul 27, 2014 7:18:49pm

Regardless of whether or not you’re a believer, I think we can all agree that we came from the same essence, be it clay/Adam, some other tradition’s “creation of man” story, or stardust.

بنى آدم اعضای یک پیکرند
که در آفرینش ز یک گوهرند
چو عضوى به درد آورد روزگار
دگر عضوها را نماند قرار
تو کز محنت دیگران بی غمی
نشاید که نامت نهند آدمی

All Adam’s race are members of one frame;
Since all, at first, from the same essence came.
When by hard fortune one limb is oppressed,
The other members lose their wonted rest:
If thou feel’st not for others’ misery,
A son of Adam is no name for thee.
—Sa’adi of Shiraz

With that, I’m outta here.

Later, lizards.

209 Swift2991  Jul 27, 2014 7:20:49pm
210 b.d.  Jul 27, 2014 7:22:32pm

re: #206 Charles Johnson

Wow. We don’t have just one Father Coughlin these days, we have a whole blogosphere full of them.

Father Coughlin was a Lib!!

211 lawhawk  Jul 27, 2014 7:22:55pm

re: #206 Charles Johnson

They got a quote from a local official who sees the immigrant population increase from 5%, and thinks we should have more services directed at the community and Drudge turns this into a full blown xenophobic call to arms.

It’s nuts.

But this is the hate that Drudge is fueling day in and day out.

212 Lidane  Jul 27, 2014 7:25:09pm

re: #206 Charles Johnson

Wow. We don’t have just one Father Coughlin these days, we have a whole blogosphere full of them.

We have an entire political party full of them. It’s what happens when you spend 40+ years whoring your party out to the xenophobes, bigots, and religious nut jobs.

213 Pie-onist Overlord  Jul 27, 2014 7:27:37pm
214 Lidane  Jul 27, 2014 7:27:41pm

re: #210 b.d.

Father Coughlin was a Lib!!

He was fine with FDR until Da Jooz. Or something.

Didn’t Coughlin babble about a silver standard and nationalizing the Fed? He wouldn’t be far off from Ron Paul’s batshit rants, I think.

215 Gus  Jul 27, 2014 7:29:07pm
216 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 7:30:20pm

All they need is Facebook, la la la la la, All they need is Facebook.

217 SteelPH  Jul 27, 2014 7:30:43pm

re: #202 lawhawk

One wonders what they think whenever AnthroCon comes about.
//
*ducks*

218 klys  Jul 27, 2014 7:31:01pm

re: #215 Gus

Derp.

And clowns everywhere rejoice.

219 Decatur Deb  Jul 27, 2014 7:32:04pm
220 freetoken  Jul 27, 2014 7:32:33pm

re: #215 Gus

Camouflage and deceitful mimicry are common among the fauna.

It’s one of those things in evolution that keeps turning up.

221 klys  Jul 27, 2014 7:32:56pm

re: #220 freetoken

Camouflage and deceitful mimicry are common among the fauna.

It’s one of those things in evolution that keeps turning up.

Oh yay, you’re back!

You probably came back while I was off vacationing. But yay!

222 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Jul 27, 2014 7:33:45pm

re: #220 freetoken

And the flora.

223 goddamnedfrank  Jul 27, 2014 7:34:40pm

re: #215 Gus

Derp.

These people worry about the privacy invasion aspects of facial recognition while traveling everywhere with smart phones that are basically active RFID transponders and posting every random thought onto Twitter.

224 Romantic Heretic  Jul 27, 2014 7:34:56pm

re: #109 Ryan King

It’s as if they need each other.

5 Reasons Humanity Desperately Wants Monsters to Be Real

Read more: cracked.com

225 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 7:35:35pm

re: #223 goddamnedfrank

These people worry about the privacy invasion aspects of facial recognition while traveling everywhere with smart phones that are basically active RFID transponders and posting every random thought onto Twitter.

They are never going to give up their connectivity. Therefore their fear is STUPID.

226 goddamnedfrank  Jul 27, 2014 7:37:04pm

Just gonna link to my thoughts on the DC district court handgun carry ruling, ‘cuz I think that thread could use some more pushback.

227 NJDhockeyfan  Jul 27, 2014 7:43:22pm

Feel good story of the day…

Parents mourn daughter’s death by living out her dreams

NIAGARA FALLS, N.Y. — Along a busy road in Chico, Calif., there’s a memorial to a young college student. She was killed while riding her bike by an alleged drunk driver. Kristina Chesterman was just 21-years-old. She was going to be a nurse, but she had a lot of other dreams that no one really knew about, until a few months ago, when her mom and dad went to clean out her old apartment.

“I opened up a drawer and I found just this make-up bag,” says her mom Sandra.

Sandra says there was no make-up. Instead, in that zippered compartment, she found a single sheet of notebook paper: Kristina’s bucket list.

“I mean what kid writes a bucket list? There’s not many,” says Sandra.

Kristina probably wrote it in high school.

We asked if she would read some of the list.

“She wanted to tour Niagara Falls. Save someone’s life, which she did that, many times over,” she says. “By donating her organs, she saved lives. This next one makes me laugh. She wanted to break up a fight between two guys over her, which I think is so cute. And I don’t know that it ever happened, but it should have.”

When Sandra and her husband David found the list, they say they knew exactly what they had to do.

“Because she didn’t get to do this, we wanted to complete it for her,” says David.

A few weeks ago they crossed Niagara Falls off their daughter’s bucket list. They’ve taken flying lessons and run through a field of poppies.

But here’s the best part: Sandra and David aren’t the only ones going through Kristina’s list right now. After posting it on Facebook, thousands of people, most of them total strangers, started doing it too.

228 Kid A  Jul 27, 2014 7:44:40pm

For the dim-witted half-governor:

229 The War TARDIS  Jul 27, 2014 7:48:36pm

Seeing a lot more Doctor Who fans getting concerned about the direction with Capaldi. I have decided, after thinking, I will look at the leaked scripts.

Apparently, Capaldi and Moffat are butting heads over direction of the show. Capaldi wants to go back to classic Who ideas. Very dry, not much emotion, meaner Doctor, that stuff.

That would be a disaster for ratings.

If it comes down to Moffat and Capaldi, I’ll choose Moffat. He has his flaws, but he is a skilled writer, and one of the 3-5 people responsible for Doctor Who’s breakthrough in the US. And, most importantly, one of his episodes dragged me out of my depression last year.

230 NJDhockeyfan  Jul 27, 2014 7:49:51pm
231 The War TARDIS  Jul 27, 2014 7:51:43pm

Whoever said yesterday that they were getting tired of movies being Grim and dark, it looks like it will happen to Doctor Who as well.

If Capaldi is going to be pushy, I expect him to be out either at Christmas, or the end of Series 9.

232 jaunte  Jul 27, 2014 7:52:24pm

re: #215 Gus

Derp.

The newest Google glass accessory.

233 Kid A  Jul 27, 2014 7:54:31pm

234 Charles Johnson  Jul 27, 2014 7:57:47pm

re: #226 goddamnedfrank

Just gonna link to my thoughts on the DC district court handgun carry ruling, ‘cuz I think that thread could use some more pushback.

Yes.

235 NJDhockeyfan  Jul 27, 2014 7:59:37pm

Damn, this is getting scary

236 Decatur Deb  Jul 27, 2014 8:00:38pm

re: #201 Stanley Sea

I think you need to book the one-way ASAP. The House of Bananas looks like heaven.

Why wait Deb. Grandkids need to learn Italian.

This threadlet sent me through her restaurant’s facebook page—found Laura is posting great quotes.

(sign)

Non abbiamo il wi fi.
Parlate tra di voi !!

“We don’t have the wi fi.
Talk among yourselves !!”

237 jaunte  Jul 27, 2014 8:02:23pm

238 Gus  Jul 27, 2014 8:04:08pm

re: #237 jaunte

[Embedded image]

Who is that? //

239 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 8:04:24pm

re: #236 Decatur Deb

tik tik tik in your brain.

do it

240 jaunte  Jul 27, 2014 8:04:38pm

re: #238 Gus

Some dude. Or bro.

241 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Jul 27, 2014 8:05:14pm

re: #235 NJDhockeyfan

Madagascar has already closed its port.

242 Eventual Carrion  Jul 27, 2014 8:05:22pm

re: #238 Gus

Who is that? //

I don’t know. Something is messing with my face recognition.

243 Charles Johnson  Jul 27, 2014 8:06:58pm
244 Lidane  Jul 27, 2014 8:08:48pm

Want more word salad from Sarah? Now you can haz:

245 calochortus  Jul 27, 2014 8:08:53pm

re: #183 Stanley Sea

There’s a resort to the east of here, it’s been sold. But hopefully the’ve maintained.

lacasadelzorro.com

Stay in a private casita, with it’s private pool. Very nice.

But the restaurant was fantastic, excellent chef. Best dish I ever had was a curry with medjool dates, bananas, yellow rice, and hell if I can recall the protein. It was fab.

One of the best dinners I’ve had in the relatively recent past was there. Partly the food, partly the wine, and partly the company. My only complaint was there wasn’t a lot on the menu you could eat if you wanted to be environmentally and humanely responsible (swordfish, Chilean seabass, veal, etc.)

246 Gus  Jul 27, 2014 8:09:22pm
247 Stanley Sea  Jul 27, 2014 8:13:22pm

Sunday night, I retreat early to prepare for the grind.

Good night to everyone.

248 Romantic Heretic  Jul 27, 2014 8:13:50pm

re: #208 CuriousLurker

My favourite version of this idea.

Youtube Video

249 NJDhockeyfan  Jul 27, 2014 8:16:39pm

re: #241 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

Madagascar has already closed its port.

i read a report that the doctor did everything he was supposed to do to prevent catching the disease. They are saying it might be airborne now.

250 RealityBasedSteve  Jul 27, 2014 8:20:26pm

Well Lizards,

I’ll wish you well for the evening, and sum it up with what I told somebody today.

How to get along with other people in the world

1. Don’t think the universe revolves around you.
2. Try to do a good job on everything you undertake
3. Don’t be a dick.

RBS

251 RealityBasedSteve  Jul 27, 2014 8:21:10pm

re: #249 NJDhockeyfan

i read a report that the doctor did everything he was supposed to do to prevent catching the disease. They are saying it might be airborne now.

If so, that is a very bad thing. Like Biblical Bad possibly.

RBS

252 klys  Jul 27, 2014 8:21:11pm

re: #249 NJDhockeyfan

i read a report that the doctor did everything he was supposed to do to prevent catching the disease. They are saying it might be airborne now.

Health care professionals are at higher risk because ebola spreads through bodily fluids. Although the doctor may have done everything he was supposed to do, that is not the same as a guarantee that he would not catch it. There are no guarantees.

253 Killgore Trout  Jul 27, 2014 8:23:10pm

re: #249 NJDhockeyfan

i read a report that the doctor did everything he was supposed to do to prevent catching the disease. They are saying it might be airborne now.

It’s spooky as fuck. Since this version kills slower it has a better chance at spreading. The death toll could be huge.

254 NJDhockeyfan  Jul 27, 2014 8:27:25pm

re: #253 Killgore Trout

It’s spooky as fuck. Since this version kills slower it has a better chance at spreading. The death toll could be huge.

Considering how easy it is to travel we are just one plane ride away from having an epidemic here in the US. Suddenly having a job at the airport is not looking attractive.

255 NJDhockeyfan  Jul 27, 2014 8:31:15pm

Hey AP…it’s Liberia.

256 klys  Jul 27, 2014 8:32:06pm

re: #249 NJDhockeyfan

i read a report that the doctor did everything he was supposed to do to prevent catching the disease. They are saying it might be airborne now.

Ok, I’m going to be obnoxious. Source on who is saying it might be airborne? Google is finding me nothing with any kind of scientific basis at all, excepting references to a study on Reston ebola (for which there is evidence of airborne transmission) which is decidedly not what is being dealt with here (which is believed to be of the Zaire ebolavirus lineage).

257 BongCrodny  Jul 27, 2014 8:34:01pm

re: #244 Lidane

Want more word salad from Sarah? Now you can haz:

[Embedded content]

“…Michael Greer, former Chief Technology Officer of The Onion…”

Hmm.

258 NJDhockeyfan  Jul 27, 2014 8:39:18pm

re: #256 klys

Ok, I’m going to be obnoxious. Source on who is saying it might be airborne? Google is finding me nothing with any kind of scientific basis at all, excepting references to a study on Reston ebola (for which there is evidence of airborne transmission) which is decidedly not what is being dealt with here (which is believed to be of the Zaire ebolavirus lineage).

I’ve been looking for that story again but haven’t found it yet. I Xed it off earlier and cant find it. They didn’t say it was airborne but suggested there is a possiblity considering that the doctor got infected even though he was fully covered when he was seeing patients. I’ll keep looking for the story. I want to re-read it.

259 klys  Jul 27, 2014 8:43:07pm

re: #258 NJDhockeyfan

I’ve been looking for that story again but haven’t found it yet. I Xed it off earlier and cant find it. They didn’t say it was airborne but suggested there is a possiblity considering that the doctor got infected even though he was fully covered when he was seeing patients. I’ll keep looking for the story. I want to re-read it.

I will offer this advice when reading any kind of story referencing any kind of scientific *anything* (or really, most things in general): they’re probably wrong, and/or missing most of the modifiers that scientists actually put on there because they are important, not because we feel like using words for the hell of it. The modifiers actually indicate what we know and can speak to, versus what is unknown and speculation.

Journalists generally fail at distinguishing between the two, mix them together, and report speculation as fact.

260 klys  Jul 27, 2014 8:46:02pm

re: #258 NJDhockeyfan

I’ve been looking for that story again but haven’t found it yet. I Xed it off earlier and cant find it. They didn’t say it was airborne but suggested there is a possiblity considering that the doctor got infected even though he was fully covered when he was seeing patients. I’ll keep looking for the story. I want to re-read it.

Also, useful feature when trying to find an article you closed earlier: your browser is probably recording your history (unless you have that turned off) and has a record of the article’s website stored.

I frequently use this to recover my browsing sessions, actually. :)

261 NJDhockeyfan  Jul 27, 2014 8:57:05pm

re: #260 klys

Also, useful feature when trying to find an article you closed earlier: your browser is probably recording your history (unless you have that turned off) and has a record of the article’s website stored.

I frequently use this to recover my browsing sessions, actually. :)

I’m still looking.

Imagine living with your spouse and decide to flying home. A week later your spouse is in the hospital with Ebola. That is what happened with the American doctor. The family is ok, they didn’t catch it. But if they did catch it before they left they could spread it before being quarantined. That is the scary part.

262 sagehen  Jul 27, 2014 9:33:59pm

re: #229 The War TARDIS

If it comes down to Moffat and Capaldi, I’ll choose Moffat. He has his flaws, but he is a skilled writer, and one of the 3-5 people responsible for Doctor Who’s breakthrough in the US. And, most importantly, one of his episodes dragged me out of my depression last year.

Which one?

263 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Jul 28, 2014 3:07:37am

...

264 CuriousLurker  Jul 28, 2014 7:13:26am

re: #248 Romantic Heretic

My favourite version of this idea.

[Embedded content]

Very nice, thanks. ;-)

265 Ace-o-aces  Jul 28, 2014 9:20:42am

re: #97 blueraven

I don’t know what she is, but she is no “journalist”.

Wow, it’s like Pam Gellar’s Arab counterpart.

266 Ace-o-aces  Jul 28, 2014 9:26:36am

re: #169 Varek Raith

CNN Poll: Romney tops Obama but loses to Clinton

Uh…err…ok?

Good lord, the election is more than two years away. Do we HAVE to deal with this bullshit now?


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