Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks Doubles Down: Democrats ‘Waging a War on Whites’

What Republican racism?
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Remember Alabama Congressman Mo Brooks, who is a Republican, and his statement earlier today that Obama and the Democrats are “waging war on white people?”

Well, he’s not backing down from this right wing race-baiting meme (and he’s far from the first right winger to say something like this). In fact, after spewing this insanity to right wing radio host Laura Ingraham this morning, he gave an interview to al.com and expanded on his brilliant, if totally non-original, “reverse racism” concept: Rep. Mo Brooks: Democrats ‘Dividing America by Race’ in ‘Waging a War on Whites’.

WASHINGTON - U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks accused blacks and Hispanics in the Democratic Party today of waging a “war on whites” by invoking race to split the nation.

“In effect, what the Democrats are doing with their dividing America by race is they are waging a war on whites and I find that repugnant,” Brooks, R-Huntsville, said this afternoon in an interview with al.com.

“We should not be dividing anybody based on national heritage or race. Rather, we should be bringing us all together. That’s what the melting pot ideal of America is all about. A person’s skin pigmentation is something acquired at birth that has absolutely nothing to do with the merits of the person of how one should vote.”

Obviously, Rep. Brooks has heard from some of his constituents, telling him not to back down. He’s got a winning platform there.

This is the Republican Party in 2014. Alabama, you got the weight on your shoulders.

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463 comments
1 Kragar  Aug 4, 2014 6:47:53pm

The #waronwhites hashtag has been pretty funny today

2 Justanotherhuman  Aug 4, 2014 6:48:06pm

I’m waging a war on myself?

3 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 6:50:22pm

HURR HURR TEH DEMOCRATS IS TEH RACISTS!!!!!!!

4 Kragar  Aug 4, 2014 6:50:35pm

So Mo is just coming out and saying the GOP is a whites only party?

Well, at least he’s honest.

5 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 6:50:56pm

Stay classy TCOT

6 Kragar  Aug 4, 2014 6:51:33pm

re: #3 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR TEH DEMOCRATS IS TEH RACISTS!!!!!!!

7 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 6:54:53pm
8 ObserverArt  Aug 4, 2014 6:55:48pm

Gee…why does it seem like everyone is picking on the poor downtrodden Republican Party?

Every day they can identify who is persecuting them. One day the Dems are faking GOP impeachment talks, the next day they are waging war on white folk. They have a war on women and they support a president that has a war on the constitution.

This fall should be the GOP Pity Party Elections.

Come out and Vote for Our Sorry Asses.

9 Justanotherhuman  Aug 4, 2014 6:57:11pm

re: #8 ObserverArt

They don’t even have Benghazi! anymore, poor things.

10 ObserverArt  Aug 4, 2014 6:58:27pm

re: #5 Pie-onist Overlord

Stay classy TCOT

[I wish a fiery car crash on every liberal.I feel mean tonight.#tcot.
You think I’m bad?If they had their way conservatives wouldn’t exist.]

Oh, I’d settle for them changing because of enlightenment.

But damn, they seem to like that bloodshed.

11 nines09  Aug 4, 2014 6:58:42pm

Dear Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks (R). Oh shut the fuck up.

12 Kragar  Aug 4, 2014 7:06:53pm
13 BongCrodny  Aug 4, 2014 7:09:30pm

re: #5 Pie-onist Overlord

Stay classy TCOT

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So he wants a fiery car crash for every liberal, and we’re the ones that want them dead?

SMH.

14 EPR-radar  Aug 4, 2014 7:09:34pm

White supremacy in the US is actually decreasing a bit these days.

Many in the GOP, including Representative Brooks, have a big problem with this trend and really do want to reverse it.

15 Belafon  Aug 4, 2014 7:09:42pm

re: #5 Pie-onist Overlord

If we had our way, conservatives would cease to exist because they would achieve self-awareness.

16 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 7:13:48pm

re: #13 BongCrodny

So he wants a fiery car crash for every liberal, and we’re the ones that want them dead?

SMH.

I thought maybe it’s a parody account and he wants to give every liberal a free GM car.

17 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 7:14:11pm

Speaking of new cars, my daughter and son-in-law just bought their first new car. :)

18 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 4, 2014 7:15:32pm

re: #5 Pie-onist Overlord

Stay classy TCOT

If they had their way conservatives wouldn’t exist.

Oh no! This Stan knows about FEMA camp! We really need to tighten up on opsec before the Big Day.

19 Charles Johnson  Aug 4, 2014 7:17:15pm

I’ve now blocked about a dozen of them.

20 Charles Johnson  Aug 4, 2014 7:18:09pm

And of course, we have a Cumia fan right here at LGF, too.

21 ComradeDread  Aug 4, 2014 7:18:32pm

re: #18 Shiplord Kirel

Wait, I thought the FEMA camps were to re-educate them and force them to get gay married?

22 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 4, 2014 7:19:24pm

re: #21 ComradeDread

Wait, I thought the FEMA camps were to re-educate them and force them to get gay married?

That’s just the cover story.

23 ComradeDread  Aug 4, 2014 7:22:26pm

If there is a war on white men, it must be a passive aggressive one.

Like a waitress letting my food sit just a little longer so it’s only mildly hot. Or my favorite football team deciding to win, but blow the spread. Or a pilot who doesn’t wish me a nice day when I’m leaving the plane.

Or this guy is just full of shit and no decent human being should support this racist nonsense, but we all know they will because there are ironically more than a few unreconstructed neo-confederates in the GOP.

24 Charles Johnson  Aug 4, 2014 7:23:17pm
25 Charles Johnson  Aug 4, 2014 7:25:48pm
26 Charles Johnson  Aug 4, 2014 7:28:03pm
28 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 4, 2014 7:31:14pm

That’s freaking awful. He’s worse than Bieber.

29 Justanotherhuman  Aug 4, 2014 7:32:20pm

Later, lizards!

30 TedStriker  Aug 4, 2014 7:32:49pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

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31 Charles Johnson  Aug 4, 2014 7:34:51pm
32 Lidane  Aug 4, 2014 7:35:36pm

During an interview with al.com on Monday afternoon, Brooks defended and elaborated on his comment.

“In effect, what the Democrats are doing with their dividing America by race is they are waging a war on whites and I find that repugnant,” he told al.com.

“They’re attacking, by the Democrats’ opening soliciting votes of people based on skin color, they in turn are attacking whites based on skin color and that’s wrong. Nobody should be attacked based on skin color,” he continued.

Brooks then accused Democrats of injecting race into every issue they can, not just immigration issues.

“The Democrats do it on a regular basis and you can see it in the campaign appeals that they make based on skin color. I don’t know of a single Republican who has made an appeal for votes based on skin color. I don’t know of one,” he said. “The Democrats routinely make appeals based on race and they get away with it. It’s repugnant to ever make an appeal based on race.”

33 Amory Blaine  Aug 4, 2014 7:35:40pm

re: #7 jaunte

I squirt Mio in my sodastream water.

34 bratwurst  Aug 4, 2014 7:36:29pm
35 Amory Blaine  Aug 4, 2014 7:37:56pm
36 Kragar  Aug 4, 2014 7:38:10pm
37 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 7:39:09pm

re: #36 Kragar

King: “You’re very good at English.”

38 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 4, 2014 7:40:52pm
39 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 7:42:12pm
40 OhNoZombies!  Aug 4, 2014 7:44:34pm

All whites should be beaten to soft peaks, then baked a top a delicious lemony pie.
Er wait… What are we talking about?

41 Kragar  Aug 4, 2014 7:45:53pm
42 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 7:46:00pm

re: #36 Kragar

“Profiles in Courage.”

43 Lidane  Aug 4, 2014 7:47:57pm

re: #41 Kragar

Wow. Really?

44 teleskiguy  Aug 4, 2014 7:48:19pm

Bears repeating.

Listen, strange women lyin’ in ponds distributin’ swords is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

Come see the violence inherent in the system!

45 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 7:50:22pm

Shapiro:

“The Radical Evil Of The Palestinian Arab Population”
“The Palestinian Arab population is rotten to the core.”
“Treating collective problems as problems of individuals is a vacuous panacea.”

46 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 4, 2014 7:50:43pm
47 CuriousLurker  Aug 4, 2014 7:50:46pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

Poor, poor oppressed white people. *looks around room at white people*

I don’t know you guys manage to make it through the day with so many obstacles to success in your path, and a system that’s tilted in favor of people of color.

I mean only 43 of our 44 Presidents have been white. WTF is up with that? And look at all those U.S. Senators—hardly a white face in sight! Ditto for the House of Representatives and all the Mayors of the 50 states.

Shoot, even the Supreme Court! Only seven of the nine are white like God intended, and out of those seven I believe at least three are Jews, so I’m pretty sure they don’t really count… //

SCOTUS 2010

48 Kragar  Aug 4, 2014 7:51:04pm

re: #43 Lidane

Wow. Really?

Looking for a transcript

49 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 4, 2014 7:57:27pm

re: #48 Kragar

Looking for a transcript

This might be the clip:

50 allegro  Aug 4, 2014 8:00:26pm

re: #49 Backwoods_Sleuth

This might be the clip:

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I can’t see a pic of Shapiro now without thinking Children of the Corn. That’s Gus’s fault isn’t it.

51 Kragar  Aug 4, 2014 8:01:15pm

re: #49 Backwoods_Sleuth

This might be the clip:

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I’ve never actually heard him speak before.

Good lord.

52 Kragar  Aug 4, 2014 8:05:21pm

Please note, he’s just quoting Freepers, not saying it himself

53 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 4, 2014 8:07:32pm

Looks like I am being White persecuted, or prosecuted or something. Got this email today from some determined sounding if not well informed collectors. It did not include my name or real address. Note that they are an “incorporation” rather than a corporation and they have generously provided a Miranda warning, for an alleged civil case. For their part, they will be compelled to seek representation from their own in-house attorney. I wonder why they have not done this BEFORE they sent out the supposed legal notice? Needless to say, I don’t have any payday loans, delinquent or otherwise, and the courts in Texas wouldn’t give a rat’s ass if I did.

Case File No: *******

LOAN/DEBT INFORMATION

DUE AMOUNT : - $***.**

Loan Company/LENDER : - ACS INCORPORATION.

We are here by to inform you that you are going to be legally prosecuted in the Court House within couple of days. Your SSN is put on hold by US Government, so before something goes wrong we would like to notify you about this matter.

It seems apparent that you have chosen to ignore all our efforts to contact you in order to resolve your debt with Payday Services. At this point you have made your intentions clear and leave us no choice but to protect our interest in this matter.

UNITED LEGAL INVESTIGATION BUREAU HAS STATED 3 SERIOUS ALLEGATIONS AGAINST YOU AND THEY ARE:

(1) VIOLATION OF FEDERAL BANKING REGULATION

(2) COLLATERAL CHECK FRAUD

(3) THEFT BY DECEPTION

Now, if you are under any state probation or payroll we need you to inform your superior or manager what you have done in the past and what would be the consequences once the case has been downloaded and executed in your name.

If we do not hear from you within 48 hours of the date on this letter, we will be compelled to seek legal representation from our in-house attorney. We reserve the right to commence litigation for intent to commit wire fraud under the pretense of refusing to repay a debt committed to, by use of the internet. In addition we reserve the right to seek recovery for the balance due, as well as legal fees and any court cost incurred.

WE HAVE ALL THE RIGHTS RESERVED TO INFORM TO FTC & YOUR EMPLOYER AND BANK ABOUT THIS FRAUD.

And once you found guilty into the court house than you have to bear a law suit amount of $4206.00 which is excluding loan amount, attorney’s fees, and the interest charges. You have the right to hire an attorney. If you don’t have one or if you can’t afford then one shall be appointed to you.

We believe that this was not your intent and that these steps are unnecessary. IF YOU WANT TO RESOLVE THIS MATTER THAN IMMEDIATELY CONTACT US THROUGH AN EMAIL BETWEEN WORKING HOUR from 09:30 AM to 06:00 PM (EST)

54 TedStriker  Aug 4, 2014 8:09:21pm

re: #53 Shiplord Kirel

Looks like I am being White persecuted, or prosecuted or something. Got this email today from some determined sounding if not well informed collectors. It did not include my name or real address. Note that they are an “incorporation” rather than a corporation and they have generously provided a Miranda warning, for an alleged civil case. For their part, they will be compelled to seek representation from their own in-house attorney. I wonder why they have not done this BEFORE they sent out the supposed legal notice? Needless to say, I don’t have any payday loans, delinquent or otherwise, and the courts in Texas wouldn’t give a rat’s ass if I did.

Sounds like a variant of the standard Nigerian scams to me.

55 Amory Blaine  Aug 4, 2014 8:10:08pm

re: #53 Shiplord Kirel

Delete. Do Not reply. Looks like a scam. Too amateurish. Bad grammer.
Here by?

56 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 8:10:10pm

re: #53 Shiplord Kirel

legally prosecuted in the Court House
Oh My!

57 BeachDem  Aug 4, 2014 8:10:14pm

re: #45 jaunte

Shapiro:

vacuous panacea wouldn’t even make a good band name. Ben Shapiro is a vast wasteland of derp. I think this applies:

“what you’ve just said is one of the most insanely idiotic things I have ever heard. At no point in your rambling, incoherent response were you even close to anything that could be considered a rational thought. Everyone in this room is now dumber for having listened to it. I award you no points, and may God have mercy on your soul.”

58 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 4, 2014 8:10:57pm

re: #56 jaunte

legally prosecuted in the Court House
Oh My!

Yeah, I’d hate to be illegally prosecuted

59 Amory Blaine  Aug 4, 2014 8:11:16pm
“We are here by to inform you”

All your base are belong to us!!!

60 teleskiguy  Aug 4, 2014 8:11:17pm

Gonna be sad when he sheds the persona for his next gig.

61 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 4, 2014 8:12:36pm

re: #54 TedStriker

Sounds like a variant of the standard Nigerian scams to me.

Yeah, a recipient should never click on one of these or respond in any way, no matter how much fun it might be to tell them to fuck off.

62 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 8:14:26pm

Jonathan Capehart:

Ron Fournier spoke an objective truth yesterday on Fox News Sunday. “The fastest growing bloc in this country thinks the Republican Party hates them,” the National Journal writer said to Michael Needham, chief executive of Heritage Action for America. “This party, your party, cannot be the party of the future beyond November, if you’re seen as the party of white people.” Fournier didn’t break any new ground with that statement. The ballyhooed and then ignored GOP autopsy said pretty much the same thing. If the Republican Party doesn’t broaden its reach to people of color, Hispanics in particular, it is doomed as a national party.
washingtonpost.com

63 BeachDem  Aug 4, 2014 8:14:41pm

re: #53 Shiplord Kirel

They probably should have had a native English speaker help them with their wording.

Hmm—and all I’ve gotten lately is emails from James Comey at the FBI telling me about all the money waiting for me in offshore accounts.

64 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 4, 2014 8:15:25pm
65 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 8:18:05pm
66 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 8:21:48pm
67 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 4, 2014 8:22:35pm
68 Charles Johnson  Aug 4, 2014 8:24:21pm
69 Kragar  Aug 4, 2014 8:24:40pm
70 Ryan King  Aug 4, 2014 8:25:17pm

If this keeps up, the white folk will have it almost as bad as the black folk. Within our children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s children’s lifetimes.

71 Charles Johnson  Aug 4, 2014 8:26:18pm

Yes, that’s really him.

72 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 4, 2014 8:28:10pm

re: #68 Charles Johnson

That’s just sad.

73 OhNoZombies!  Aug 4, 2014 8:29:07pm

re: #65 jaunte

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What was needed here, was a Tim Russert moment where she whips out a transcript of his own derp, and makes him explain line by line.
He probably would have tried to have her arrested though.

74 bratwurst  Aug 4, 2014 8:29:51pm

re: #71 Charles Johnson

Yes, that’s really him.

I am sure he will soon be comparing Cumia to Lenny Bruce, George Carlin and Frank Zappa…I mean, heaven knows THEY cavorted with “white nationalists”.

I mean, hate speech is a TYPE of free speech, right?

///

And by the way…is that REALLY funny? “Hurr hurr…he said TITS!”

75 CuriousLurker  Aug 4, 2014 8:30:23pm

re: #71 Charles Johnson

Yes, that’s really him.

Okay, stop the effing world, I want to get off. Between this, Shapiro, and celticdragon’s latest Page I just… enough already.

Nite, lizards.

76 TedStriker  Aug 4, 2014 8:30:47pm

re: #71 Charles Johnson

Yes, that’s really him.

I was wondering about that myself, until I checked his list of following/followers.

WTF is wrong with you, KT?!?

77 jaunte  Aug 4, 2014 8:31:22pm

Look at all that encrustation.

78 Charles Johnson  Aug 4, 2014 8:32:44pm

I guess Killgore’s making a choice.

79 teleskiguy  Aug 4, 2014 8:33:46pm

re: #65 jaunte

Did you hear that asshole heckler at the end yell “Go home!”?

The GOP has lost Latino voters for maybe a generation or two.

80 TedStriker  Aug 4, 2014 8:36:49pm

re: #78 Charles Johnson

I guess Killgore’s making a choice.

It sounds to me that you just made a choice of your own because your last straw just got broke all to hell.

81 Kragar  Aug 4, 2014 8:40:06pm

EXCLUSIVE!

82 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 4, 2014 8:43:41pm

re: #13 BongCrodny

So he wants a fiery car crash for every liberal, and we’re the ones that want them dead?

SMH.

Projecting like a movie camera at the cineplex.

83 Charles Johnson  Aug 4, 2014 8:44:15pm

No surprise, really. I just wonder if he’ll have the guts to make it official, or if it’s going to be passive aggressive to the end.

84 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 4, 2014 8:45:34pm

re: #68 Charles Johnson

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Whaa….?

85 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 4, 2014 8:47:10pm

re: #75 CuriousLurker

re: #75 CuriousLurker

Okay, stop the effing world, I want to get off. Between this, Shapiro, and celticdragon’s latest Page I just… enough already.

Nite, lizards.

:(

Sorry about that. Ihave been accused more then once of putting too much depressing news out in my own home…

86 TedStriker  Aug 4, 2014 8:47:25pm

re: #83 Charles Johnson

No surprise, really. I just wonder if he’ll have the guts to make it official, or if it’s going to be passive aggressive to the end.

My money’s on “passive-aggressive”, since KT hasn’t posted anything here in five days.

It’s certainly shaping up to be the strangest flounce I think I’ve ever seen here.

87 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 4, 2014 8:47:32pm

re: #83 Charles Johnson

No surprise, really. I just wonder if he’ll have to guts to make it official, or if it’s going to be passive aggressive to the end.

What…no flounce?

88 Ryan King  Aug 4, 2014 8:47:43pm

But he’s funny.

89 TedStriker  Aug 4, 2014 8:51:22pm

re: #88 Ryan King

But he’s funny.

And up there with Bruce, Carlin, Pryor, Zappa, and Howard Stern.

That was KT’s defense of Cumia a week or so ago, wasn’t it?

90 CuriousLurker  Aug 4, 2014 8:51:23pm

re: #85 Aunty Entity Dragon

:(

Sorry about that. Ihave been accused more then once of putting too much depressing news out in my own home…

It’s not your fault the world’s gone crazy. I’ve just reached my 24-hour limit is all.

91 Mattand  Aug 4, 2014 8:53:52pm

re: #87 Aunty Entity Dragon

What…no flounce?

I’ll draw him out by saying something positive about Rachel Maddow.

92 GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 4, 2014 8:53:55pm

re: #78 Charles Johnson

I guess Killgore’s making a choice.

First time for everything, apparently.

93 bratwurst  Aug 4, 2014 8:56:18pm

re: #81 Kragar

EXCLUSIVE!

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The only cable news exclamation more meaningless at this point that “EXCLUSIVE!” is “BREAKING NEWS!”. Among the many annoying things that CNN does is follow up a standard length commercial break with a “BREAKING NEWS!” sounder/graphic, only to go back to the same story being discussed before the break!

94 Charles Johnson  Aug 4, 2014 8:58:07pm

Ugh.

95 Kragar  Aug 4, 2014 9:01:53pm

re: #93 bratwurst

The only cable news exclamation more meaningless at this point that “EXCLUSIVE!” is “BREAKING NEWS!”. Among the many annoying things that CNN does is follow up a standard length commercial break with a “BREAKING NEWS!” sounder/graphic, only to go back to the same story being discussed before the break!

Maybe breaking news is what they’re doing, not what they’re covering.

96 bratwurst  Aug 4, 2014 9:04:11pm

re: #87 Aunty Entity Dragon

What…no flounce?

I would be willing to wager he’ll be back some morning soon with war porn or tut tutting for people he doesn’t consider concerned enough with violence in Chicago without any mention of the fact the guy he proclaimed to have listened to “every day for a very long time” has no problem hanging with white nationalists.

97 Aunty Entity Dragon  Aug 4, 2014 9:05:58pm

Tired and having back pain. I’m out for tonight.

For everybody:

I had to think awhile on whether to post that story from Ynet. One sick, hateful general does not have to represent a country.

When I read comment after comment ethusiastically endorsing his views or digressing into Arabs having sex with goats (yeah, they went there…) and then I read about Geberal Giora Eiland’s prestigious positions writing policy papers for think tanks etc…well…

Gen. Eiland has the ear of important people here and in Israel…and he is openly advocating mass murder and starvation.

An awful lot of people seem to think there is nothing wrong with this at all. That is why I posted it.

He needs to be cut off from the Israeli military, and disavowed by civilized people everywhere. He is a disgrace to the uniform, and a menace to his own country’s founding principles. People of good will need to know what he said, and they need to know now.

I am sorry as hell that I ever read what he wrote. I am sorrier still he ever wrote it in the first place.

Good night, lizards. Not the best day.

98 ausador  Aug 4, 2014 9:20:50pm

re: #97 Aunty Entity Dragon

Liked your comment that you left there.

It could also be said that they are kicking the legs out from under the people over here that support Israel. I mean how is anybody supposed to defend shit like that, and why would they even want to try to in the first place?

99 teleskiguy  Aug 4, 2014 9:43:33pm

I turned my mother and father on to Umphrey’s McGee about four years ago now, and they’ve been in attendance at their Red Rocks shows the last 3 summers. It’s fun to run around at the Umphrey’s Red Rocks show lot saying to people “My parents are here too!” and seeing the look on the young’uns faces! :D

Anyhoo, my mom sent this out on Facebook after the show (I don’t know where she found it). Since I rarely Facebook I just saw it this evening. I laughed so hard!

Tighten up that headband! The solo is about to peak!!!

100 Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 4, 2014 9:46:41pm

re: #49 Backwoods_Sleuth

This might be the clip:

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Shapiro just pisses me off. Besides being smug an arrogant he bothers me. You know that thing where people are disturbed by the things that almost human but not quite in proper proportion or style (like the Michael Myers mask in Halloween)? That’s the vibe I get from Shapiro, he’s acts like some kind of android or replicant or something.

101 darthstar  Aug 4, 2014 10:28:45pm

re: #99 teleskiguy

Your mom has been buying (and eating) the special $10 chocolates for sale in the parking lot…good for her!

102 BadExampleMan  Aug 4, 2014 10:34:39pm

re: #100 Eclectic Cyborg

Shapiro just pisses me off. Besides being smug an arrogant he bothers me. You know that thing where people are disturbed by the things that almost human but not quite in proper proportion or style (like the Michael Myers mask in Halloween)? That’s the vibe I get from Shapiro, he’s acts like some kind of android or replicant or something.

The Uncanny Valley.

103 Kragar  Aug 4, 2014 11:23:31pm
104 Varek Raith  Aug 5, 2014 12:02:21am

Good early morning.
I’m up because a, no joke, unmarked, light less helicopter is flying around.

105 teleskiguy  Aug 5, 2014 12:02:52am

re: #101 darthstar

I, for one, am glad that you, darthstar, saw the comment number ninety-nine (99). Your Twitter has 99 in it, so it is now a conspiracy. I want answers*!!!

*to what? fer fucks sake i dunno gimme the mote ///////

106 freetoken  Aug 5, 2014 12:28:31am

re: #104 Varek Raith

Eh? You’ve gone over to the Black Helicopter crowd?

107 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 12:34:51am

re: #103 Kragar

But he forgot that dweeby helmet Obama wore. Meanwhile, Putin was photographed riding a bear.

I think I first saw this here: Those who have no idea what it really means to be a man or a patriot are the ones who cling to superficial symbols of manhood and patriotism: flag lapel pins, guns, macho poses, etc.

108 freetoken  Aug 5, 2014 12:38:55am

My response when some old white guy starts to rant about being a victim of a “War on Whites”:

MP3 Audio

109 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 12:41:12am

It is easy to get a bunch of pathetic losers to feel sorry about themselves, and of course, they want to be reassured that it is not their fault or the fault of the idiots they have elected to office.

110 Single-handed sailor  Aug 5, 2014 12:58:22am

Spacex launch 2 minutes

space.com

111 Varek Raith  Aug 5, 2014 1:06:07am

3.8km/s

112 Varek Raith  Aug 5, 2014 1:13:19am

re: #106 freetoken

Eh? You’ve gone over to the Black Helicopter crowd?

That sucker was loud and low.

113 Frenchy  Aug 5, 2014 1:42:17am

re: #65 jaunte

So faced with real live people who would be affected by their hateful policies, Paul runs away and King backpedals, lies through his teeth, shifts blame to Obama, etc.

Par for the course, assholes.

114 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 3:08:20am

re: #113 Frenchy

So faced with real live people who would be affected by their hateful policies, Paul runs away and King backpedals, lies through his teeth, shifts blame to Obama, etc.

Par for the course, assholes.

These guys are used to preaching to the choir and lecturing to their base…they panic when they are faced with educated, critical voices.

115 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 5, 2014 4:18:39am

re: #68 Charles Johnson

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Where is the Killgore of yesteryear, the one that didn’t cheer racist speech?

116 Romantic Heretic  Aug 5, 2014 4:21:31am

I will say yet again that Ben Shapiro has a face that just yells, “Punch me!”

117 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 4:41:31am

House Deportation Vote Won’t Hurt GOP

A House vote on Friday to speed the deportation of illegal migrant children probably won’t hurt the GOP in the midterm elections, The New York Times reported.

“Hispanic voters may be flexing their growing political muscles in presidential elections, but they have far less sway over the composition of the House or the Senate, particularly in 2014,” Nate Cohn of the Times wrote.

All the more reason for them to act now:

The composition of the House is also beyond the influence of Hispanic voters. Hispanics are a negligible force in Republican-controlled districts while Republicans have long given up on districts where they do hold sway, the Times reported.

As a result of how congressional district lines are drawn by state legislatures, “half of all eligible Hispanics live in just 65 of the nation’s 435 congressional districts. Most of these districts are noncompetitive,” Cohn wrote.

The bottom line is that, “The country’s growing Hispanic population has little influence on congressional Republicans,” Cohn concluded.

118 Dr. Matt  Aug 5, 2014 5:11:49am
119 Frenchy  Aug 5, 2014 5:13:41am

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120 Mattand  Aug 5, 2014 5:28:07am

re: #104 Varek Raith

Good early morning.
I’m up because a, no joke, unmarked, light less helicopter is flying around.

re: #106 freetoken

Eh? You’ve gone over to the Black Helicopter crowd?

I live a few hundred yards from the NJ Turnpike (insert “What exit?” joke here). There’s enough houses and trees, as well as 40 foot cement barrier, to make it barely noticeable.

I was awakened one night at about 3 or 3:30 to a helicopter methodically buzzing overhead. It was just low enough that it got my attention. Looking out the window, the copter was using its fairly powerful searchlight to try to track something or someone down.

It seemed to be hewing fairly close to the Turnpike, but would stray from that path every so often to basically flood the surrounding housing developments with a blanket of light.

I can only guess at the candlepower of this thing; it was lighting up the neighborhood like a mini sun. At one point, it hit our yard and essentially transformed it into high noon. I’m fairly sure the pilot could see me staring up at him.

My curiosity was peaked at this point. This was extremely out-of-the-ordinary for around here. I turned on KYW 1060, the 24-hour news station, to see if there was some clue as to why the copter was hanging out here.

Eventually, the traffic report came and mentioned that the NJ Turnpike was closed from Exit 1 to Exit 4. I’m roughly 5 miles from Exit 4. Exit 1 is the beginning of the Turnpike as you leave Delaware.

For you non-Jerseyites, that’s almost 40 miles of one of the nation’s busiest highways, shut down in both directions. What was stunning was there was no explanation; none. Just “Hey, you know that world-famous roadway that sees tons of traffic even at 3AM? It’s off-limits. No biggie.”

The next morning, I could not find any reference to the closure in the news at all. The lack of any sort of news item was weird. I figured if there was some major accident, the local press would be in Full Metal “If it bleeds, it leads” mode.

To this day, part of me thinks there was some sort of Jack Bauer-style DHS terrorism operation that went down. Either that, or it was the world’s most expensive lost key search ever.

121 Dr Lizardo  Aug 5, 2014 5:35:57am

re: #120 Mattand

I was reading the news here in the Czech Republic, and a young 21-year-old woman was blasted off the face of the Earth by a drunken schmuck in a BMW around 5 AM this morning in Prague. Plowed right into her while she was waiting at a bus stop, continued on for about 100 feet or so - and then abandoned his car and ran off like a little bitch.

Needless to say, the cops are looking for him, and there’s a description of him on the news.

According to the media, this unfortunately seems to be part of a growing trend - people plow someone over and then run like hell. It’s happened several times over the last few months in Prague; a couple of suspects are still out there, and the cops are certainly trying to track them down. In this case, it shouldn’t be too hard, as he abandoned the vehicle, so the cops have his registration certificate, etc. The cops say they’ve been to his residence, a swanky apartment in the center, but they haven’t found him yet.

Either that, or Death Race 2000 has become an unofficial national sport.

122 Dr. Matt  Aug 5, 2014 5:38:16am
123 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 5, 2014 5:40:39am

re: #121 Dr Lizardo

In an alternate timeline of 1975, oil crisis has caused mass panic and both the Republican and Democratic parties have collapsed into a single “Bipartisan Party” and the “United Provinces of America”, is formed and run by an authoritarian, totalitarian dictatorship, headed by a fictional “Mr. President” (Sandy McCallum), who is named president for life.

Hmm.

124 Dr Lizardo  Aug 5, 2014 5:43:39am

re: #121 Dr Lizardo

I should add, a couple of passers-by who witnessed the incident tried to stop him as he ran off, but he fought them off and high-tailed it out of there. They both positively identified the suspect, because he left a photo ID in the BMW he abandoned.

125 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 5, 2014 5:43:51am

So today I’ve been reading about the Grim Reaper paradox and it seems to show, much more convincingly than, say, Zeno’s paradoxes, that time and space probably must be discrete rather than continuous.

126 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 5:45:01am

Here’s something you don’t see every day, a Liberal Fake Meme

127 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 5, 2014 5:46:55am
128 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 5:52:00am

re: #126 Pie-onist Overlord

Here’s something you don’t see every day, a Liberal Fake Meme

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But it is solid proof that liberals can only lie and defame America because they hate everything we stand for.

129 Dr. Matt  Aug 5, 2014 5:53:58am

re: #128 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

But it is solid proof that liberals can only lie and defame America because they hate everything we stand for.

And they/we hate white people.

130 Mattand  Aug 5, 2014 6:01:03am

re: #121 Dr Lizardo

There was a similar tragedy in Philly recently. Some lowlifes carjacked a woman, and at one point ran up on on a sidewalk, killing 3 little kids and severely injuring their mom.

I can’t even begin to imagine the anguish that family must be feeling.

131 Lidane  Aug 5, 2014 6:10:13am

Mah surprise, etc. —

Exclusive: ‘Pro-Troop’ Charity Pays Off Tea Party Cronies Instead

Move America Forward calls itself the nation’s “largest grassroots pro-troop organization,” and has recruited a bevy of Republican luminaries, including former Presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush and former Vice President Dick Cheney, to support its efforts.

Yet an examination of its fundraising appeals, tax records and other documents shows that Move America Forward has repeatedly misled donors and inflated its charitable accomplishments, while funneling millions of dollars in revenue to the men behind the group and their political consulting firms.

Patriotism!

132 Targetpractice  Aug 5, 2014 6:11:41am

re: #131 Lidane

Mah surprise, etc. —

Exclusive: ‘Pro-Troop’ Charity Pays Off Tea Party Cronies Instead

Patriotism!

One of the groups whose newsletter I signed up to back during my brief Tea Party freakout. Still get emails from them and there’s not much difference between them and the shit you watch on Fox News.

133 Frenchy  Aug 5, 2014 6:14:33am

re: #131 Lidane

I’m pretty sure it’s because liberals.

134 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 5, 2014 6:15:41am

dammit

KABUL, Afghanistan - As many as 12 Western soldiers — including several Americans — were shot at a military academy near Afghanistan’s capital in an attack resulting in multiple deaths, officials said.
U.S. officials told NBC News that most, if not all, of the victims were American. They said a man wearing an Afghan army uniform opened fire at the Camp Qargha training facility, which is based on the design of the United States Military Academy at West Point.

135 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 5, 2014 6:18:12am

re: #123 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Hmm.

See, Jimmy Carter did do something to save America.
//

136 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 5, 2014 6:19:31am

re: #127 Backwoods_Sleuth

Did the war start partially due to Anne stating, “Let them drink merlot.”?
/

137 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 6:20:23am

I re: #131 Lidane

Mah surprise, etc. —

Exclusive: ‘Pro-Troop’ Charity Pays Off Tea Party Cronies Instead

Patriotism!

Grifters gotta grift.

138 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 6:22:19am

Janie Johnson has set up a command post at the country club, and she is issuing recruits tennis raquets, and while they are waiting for the equipment, handing out little drinkies with umbrellas.

139 Rightwingconspirator  Aug 5, 2014 6:24:16am

Yesterday I wrote about how with singers and a camera there are these awkward moments. Well someone observed the same of guitar players.

140 Bulworth  Aug 5, 2014 6:25:31am

From the NYT—

TOLEDO, Ohio — It took a serendipitous slug of toxins and the loss of drinking water for a half-million residents to bring home what scientists and government officials in this part of the country have been saying for years: Lake Erie is in trouble, and getting worse by the year.

Flooded by tides of phosphorus washed from fertilized farms, cattle feedlots and leaky septic systems, the most intensely developed of the Great Lakes is increasingly being choked each summer by thick mats of algae, much of it poisonous. What plagues Toledo and, experts say, potentially all 11 million lakeside residents, is increasingly a serious problem across the United States.

Nonsense. Too much gov regulations. If people just drilled thare own wells and we didnt redistribute water wealth no problem no problem. //

nytimes.com

141 Dr Lizardo  Aug 5, 2014 6:30:25am

re: #139 Rightwingconspirator

I’ve always been partial to the “musical grimace” expression.

Or this one, which says, “Imma f**k you up with my guitar powers!”

Steve Harris of Iron Maiden

142 Timothy Watson  Aug 5, 2014 6:34:11am
143 Timothy Watson  Aug 5, 2014 6:34:47am

Oh, for anyone who hadn’t heard about this:

144 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 5, 2014 6:35:16am

re: #142 Timothy Watson

Is there a point at which the GOP candidate doesn’t even get on the ballot if this gets dragged on long enough?

145 Lidane  Aug 5, 2014 6:37:12am

re: #144 Feline Fearless Leader

Is there a point at which the GOP candidate doesn’t even get on the ballot if this gets dragged on long enough?

No idea, but that would be amazing if it happened. At that point, the GOP would end up conceding a safe Senate seat for no reason at all.

146 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 5, 2014 6:37:59am

re: #140 Bulworth

If ppl are that blind and stubborn about their immediate environment, there’s no hope reaching them about something like the global warming.

147 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 5, 2014 6:38:32am

re: #140 Bulworth

From the NYT—

Nonsense. Too much gov regulations. If people just drilled thare own wells and we didnt redistribute water wealth no problem no problem. //

nytimes.com

I’m sure some nut will suggest setting fire to the Cuyahoga in order to clear the algae out near Cleveland.
/

148 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 5, 2014 6:41:00am

re: #145 Lidane

No idea, but that would be amazing if it happened. At that point, the GOP would end up conceding a safe Senate seat for no reason at all.

I am pretty sure that the GOP state party has certified their primary winner at this point and that McDaniel is challenging that. Presumably a judge on the challenge case would have to issue a stay on the candidate going on the ballot. Though if he doesn’t I do not see what precludes delaying tactics making the case moot.

149 GunstarGreen  Aug 5, 2014 6:42:59am

re: #145 Lidane

No idea, but that would be amazing if it happened. At that point, the GOP would end up conceding a safe Senate seat for no reason at all.

Remember the Proteus?

These monsters eat their wounded!

150 makeitstop  Aug 5, 2014 6:43:23am

‘Guitar face’ is not the sole province of men, either! Witness the awesomeness of Este Haim’s ‘bass face.’

151 Bulworth  Aug 5, 2014 6:52:03am

re:
#142

Award-winning journalist and not-a-blogger Charles C. Johnson should file a lawsuit against…somebody.

//

152 iossarian  Aug 5, 2014 6:52:15am

Este Haim done kilt the thread.

153 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 5, 2014 6:53:15am
154 RealityBasedSteve  Aug 5, 2014 6:55:01am

Beauty and the Bass… Didn’t realize there were that many good female bass players.. guitarworld.com

RBS

155 RealityBasedSteve  Aug 5, 2014 6:56:19am

re: #151 Bulworth

re:
#142

Award-winning journalist and not-a-blogger Charles C. Johnson should file a lawsuit against…somebody.

//

Where is his jungle encrusted compound? They promised him a jungle encrusted compound. (with monkeys)

RBS

156 Frenchy  Aug 5, 2014 6:56:53am

re: #142 Timothy Watson

Then again, like most Tea Party grifters, McDaniel quite obviously doesn’t care about accomplishing anything constructive in the political world to begin with so I suppose this all makes sense to him.

Pretty much.

157 Dr Lizardo  Aug 5, 2014 6:58:52am

re: #154 RealityBasedSteve

You bet there are.

Ritsuko Taneda of Shonen Knife

158 makeitstop  Aug 5, 2014 7:07:14am

re: #154 RealityBasedSteve

Beauty and the Bass… Didn’t realize there were that many good female bass players.. guitarworld.com

RBS

It’s nice to see that Quatro and Kim Gordon got on that list.

Kim’s my personal fave. I crushed like mad on her for a while.

159 makeitstop  Aug 5, 2014 7:25:04am

Now Ritsuko has kilt the thread.

160 iossarian  Aug 5, 2014 7:27:09am

re: #159 makeitstop

Now Ritsuko has kilt the thread.

Maybe this could be tried as an antidote to the roiling stew of right-wing blog comment craziness - stealth posting of female bass player photos with short bio information.

161 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 5, 2014 7:29:31am
162 Frenchy  Aug 5, 2014 7:31:14am

re: #161 Backwoods_Sleuth

lol wut

163 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 5, 2014 7:32:06am

re: #162 Frenchy

lol wut

hatchling making a bad first impression, I suppose

164 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 7:34:26am

re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth

hatchling making a bad first impression, I suppose

I refuse to discuss Gaza. Under any circumstances. I acknowledge what is going on but I have lost any hope of a humane and peaceful resolution.

165 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 5, 2014 7:34:48am

Who pooped in the old thread?//

166 andres  Aug 5, 2014 7:35:36am

re: #160 iossarian

Maybe this could be tried as an antidote to the roiling stew of right-wing blog comment craziness - stealth posting of female bass player photos with short bio information.

I’m not the greatest music critic, but I like Sick Puppies as a band, and this is their bassist:

Youtube Video

167 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 5, 2014 7:35:37am

re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I refuse to discuss Gaza. Under any circumstances. I acknowledge what is going on but I have lost any hope of a humane and peaceful resolution.

What would be an inhumane and violent solution then?

168 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 7:36:21am

re: #167 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

What would be an inhumane and violent solution then?

It would resemble what has been happening for the past two decades, about the time I gave up any hope of it being resolved.

169 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 5, 2014 7:36:48am

re: #167 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

What would be an inhumane and violent solution then?

Move all the current residents to Arizona.
/

170 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 5, 2014 7:37:06am

re: #168 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It would resemble what has been happening for the past two decades, about the time I gave up any hope of it being resolved.

What has been happening was not close to any kind of a solution.

171 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 7:38:21am

re: #170 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

What has been happening was not close to any kind of a solution.

Exactly. Too many people on both sides who have no interest in a peaceful resolution. Anyways, you got me discussing it again, you rascal you, now stop it!

172 blueraven  Aug 5, 2014 7:38:33am

re: #112 Varek Raith

That sucker was loud and low.

Treetop Flyer?

Youtube Video

173 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 7:40:07am

Glenn Greenwald is complaining about the Western Wall.

174 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 7:42:15am

re: #173 Pie-onist Overlord

Glenn Greenwald is complaining about the Western Wall.

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religions are not compelled to be gender neutral and non discriminatory. Just our US Constitution.

Unless you have deeply held religious beliefs that say otherwise…

175 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 5, 2014 7:43:34am

re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Exactly.

That means you haven’t answered the question:

What would be an inhumane and violent solution then?

176 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 7:43:48am

re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

religions are not compelled to be gender neutral and non discriminatory. Just our US Constitution.

Unless you have deeply held religious beliefs that say otherwise…

It’s in Israel, of course he’s going to complain about it.

177 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 7:45:21am

re: #175 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

That means you haven’t answered the question:

I won’t go there, but it would involve covering the ground in salt when it is all over…

178 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 7:46:45am

WTFITS
Did the Hair Ball pay for an op-ed in the LVS?

179 Lidane  Aug 5, 2014 7:46:46am
180 Lidane  Aug 5, 2014 7:47:36am

re: #178 Pie-onist Overlord

Pro Tip for the Las Vegas Sun — April Fool’s Day isn’t until next year. Also, The Onion is way better at parody than you.

181 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 5, 2014 7:47:41am

re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

religions are not compelled to be gender neutral and non discriminatory. Just our US Constitution.

Unless you have deeply held religious beliefs that say otherwise…

I always wonder about the folks who “demand” that Catholics accept female priests, etc.

182 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 5, 2014 7:48:09am

re: #177 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I won’t go there, but it would involve covering the ground in salt when it is all over…

On which side?

183 Dr. Matt  Aug 5, 2014 7:48:19am

re: #179 Lidane

Responsible gun owner:

Virginia Man Shoots Into Neighbor’s Home While ‘Practicing Trigger Pulls’

Darwin wins again,

184 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 7:48:33am

re: #182 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

On which side?

I won’t go there!!!

185 Eventual Carrion  Aug 5, 2014 7:48:49am

re: #172 blueraven

Treetop Flyer?

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Video

Always loved that song in all his arrangements of it.

186 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 5, 2014 7:48:50am

re: #184 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I won’t go there!!!

Why?

187 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 7:50:40am

re: #186 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Why?

‘cause I don’t wanna get thrown off the site…

But really. I have given up discussing Gaza and the Middle East in General.

188 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 5, 2014 7:51:44am

re: #187 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

‘cause I don’t wanna get thrown off the site…

So you do support a genocide of one of the sides?

189 Rocky-in-Connecticut  Aug 5, 2014 7:51:51am

the reason why these cretins keep doubling down is because their constituents also in large part share their paleo-con views and there is little to no risk politically for them. And they believe it too.

190 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 7:52:23am

re: #188 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

So you do support a genocide of one of the sides?

So how about them Cubs?

191 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 5, 2014 7:53:22am

re: #190 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

So how about them Cubs?

No negative answer means “yes”?

192 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 5, 2014 7:54:22am

re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth

dammit

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193 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 7:55:05am

re: #191 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

No negative answer means “yes”?

Stop it.

There are forces both within and outside of both parties that have no interest in seeing the conflict resolved.

There are parties on both sides who see God on their side and feel justified in inhumane responses.

Until that changes, there will be no resolution and I see no point in discussing it.

Now back to sports…

194 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 7:56:04am

TEH MOAST INSANE CRAZY PERSON ON TEH TWITTERS:

195 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 7:56:04am

re: #173 Pie-onist Overlord

Glenn Greenwald is complaining about the Western Wall.

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He’s attacking Israel through their religiously based women’s rights while he defends Palestine despite their equally atavistic religiously based women’s rights?

196 Lidane  Aug 5, 2014 7:56:54am

re: #181 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

I always wonder about the folks who “demand” that Catholics accept female priests, etc.

I found it much easier to just walk away from Catholicism than to ask them to change anything. It was far less stressful.

197 andres  Aug 5, 2014 7:57:15am

re: #160 iossarian

Then there’s Gabriela from the duo Rodrigo y Gabriela:

Youtube Video

198 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 7:57:34am

re: #183 Dr. Matt

Darwin wins again,

Only if he killed himself or shot himself in the balls before he replicates.

199 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 7:58:02am
200 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Aug 5, 2014 7:58:11am

re: #193 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Then don’t say anything about it in the first place, if you’re not going to say anything about it. Don’t imply there is a solution that you see but you’re not going to say it. That’s just pointless.

201 Frenchy  Aug 5, 2014 7:58:50am

re: #178 Pie-onist Overlord

Could someone please explain to Mr. Dunn how impeaching a President, removing him from office, then replacing him actually works?

202 Targetpractice  Aug 5, 2014 7:59:33am

re: #196 Lidane

I found it much easier to just walk away from Catholicism than to ask them to change anything. It was far less stressful.

I gave up organized religion for Lent. Decided I didn’t like the idea of needing an intermediary between me and whatever deity I choose to have faith in, should I choose to have faith in one. If I decide to worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it will be in my own way, colanders be damned!

203 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 8:02:04am

re: #202 Targetpractice

I gave up organized religion for Lent. Decided I didn’t like the idea of needing an intermediary between me and whatever deity I choose to have faith in, should I choose to have faith in one. If I decide to worship the Flying Spaghetti Monster, it will be in my own way, colanders be damned!

My ex took up Nichiren Buddhism at one point, which I could at least appreciate for the fact that there was no clergy or hierarchy.

And although there is little about Buddhism that I disagree with, it never had any great appeal to me,

204 Frenchy  Aug 5, 2014 8:02:21am

re: #199 Pie-onist Overlord

To be such a busy and important man, GG sure does seem to spend a lot of time defending his honor and good name to random people on Twitter.

205 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 8:03:06am

re: #201 Frenchy

Could someone please explain to Mr. Dunn how impeaching a President, removing him from office, then replacing him actually works?

No, because he does not want to hear about it.

206 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 8:03:34am

Sure is nice being LGF’s token fool.

207 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 8:04:01am

re: #201 Frenchy

Could someone please explain to Mr. Dunn how impeaching a President, removing him from office, then replacing him actually works?

Maybe explain it to Mr. Trump since he’s the one who paid for the puff piece.

208 Targetpractice  Aug 5, 2014 8:04:18am

re: #206 b_sharp

Sure is nice being LGF’s token fool.

Well, the benefits package is nothing to brag about, but the free sodas are cool.

Oh wait, you weren’t talking about me.

//

209 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Aug 5, 2014 8:05:07am

re: #208 Targetpractice

Well, the benefits package is nothing to brag about, but the free sodas are cool.

Oh wait, you weren’t talking about me.

//

That ain’t soda.

210 Lidane  Aug 5, 2014 8:05:10am

Party of Low Taxes:

Michele Bachmann Proposes 100% Tax On Money Sent Home By Immigrants To Stop ‘War That Is Being Waged Against Us’

In a conference call with the anti-immigrant group Numbers USA last week, Rep. Michele Bachmann called illegal immigration a “war against the American people” and suggested that the U.S. levy a 100 percent tax on money that immigrants send back to Mexico, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala in order to put pressure on those countries’ governments.

211 b.d.  Aug 5, 2014 8:06:57am

Glenn’s new windmill to tilt at is gender inequality in religion?

Good luck with all of that Glenn, let us know when you’ve straightened the world out on that one.

212 andres  Aug 5, 2014 8:06:59am

re: #207 Pie-onist Overlord

Maybe explain it to Mr. Trump since he’s the one who paid for the puff piece.

That’s a letter to the editor. It’s possible the thing in Trump’s head wrote it and signed it with its name.

213 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 5, 2014 8:07:29am

re: #209 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

That ain’t soda.

It’s people?

214 Targetpractice  Aug 5, 2014 8:07:38am

re: #210 Lidane

Party of Low Taxes:

Michele Bachmann Proposes 100% Tax On Money Sent Home By Immigrants To Stop ‘War That Is Being Waged Against Us’

This from the party that declares that we need a tax holiday so the billions in profits kept overseas by US corporations can be “repatriated” out of the asinine belief that will go anywhere but into investor/stock holder pockets?

215 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 8:08:00am

re: #212 andres

That’s a letter to the editor. It’s possible the thing in Trump wrote it and signed it with its name.

He’s always having imaginary conversations with his sock puppets on Twitter so it’s possible.

216 Targetpractice  Aug 5, 2014 8:08:05am

re: #213 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

It’s people?

Yep, Soylent Soda. The taste varies from person to person.

//

217 Dr. Matt  Aug 5, 2014 8:08:08am

re: #201 Frenchy

Could someone please explain to Mr. Dunn how impeaching a President, removing him from office, then replacing him actually works?

Trump is in the presidential line of succession right below that poor dude that picks up used porta-potties at concert festivals.

218 andres  Aug 5, 2014 8:09:15am

re: #215 Pie-onist Overlord

He’s always having imaginary conversations with his sock puppets on Twitter so it’s possible.

Ouch.

I edited the post shortly after. Forgot to indicate what thing I was referring to.

219 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 5, 2014 8:09:33am
220 Lancelot Link  Aug 5, 2014 8:09:55am

re: #210 Lidane

Let me guess - Bachmann has no plans to tax money sent to Switzerland or the Cayman Islands.

221 Timothy Watson  Aug 5, 2014 8:11:30am

re: #204 Frenchy

To be such a busy and important man, GG sure does seem to spend a lot of time defending his honor and good name to random people on Twitter.

To be fair that GG, that particular nutbar has 43,000+ followers.

222 Frenchy  Aug 5, 2014 8:11:49am

re: #210 Lidane

Oh dear God. Michele, promise me you’ll never stop pandering to the very worst our country has to offer.

223 Lidane  Aug 5, 2014 8:12:36am

re: #220 Lancelot Link

Let me guess - Bachmann has no plans to tax money sent to Switzerland or the Cayman Islands.

LOL no. That would affect money being sent overseas by white people.

224 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 5, 2014 8:13:20am

re: #219 NJDhockeyfan

Jimmy, Jimmy. *sigh*

225 Targetpractice  Aug 5, 2014 8:14:11am

re: #222 Frenchy

Oh dear God. Michele, promise me you’ll never stop pandering to the very worst our country has to offer.

It’s almost heartbreaking that she’ll be gone from the House after January. Thankfully, there’s plenty of nutty goodness in the current crop of Republicans to keep her legacy going.

226 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 5, 2014 8:14:21am

Hamas could be a political actor… if it did not have calls for genocide in its freaking official documents.

227 Fairly Sure I'm Still Obdicut  Aug 5, 2014 8:16:38am

100% of these illegal immigrant kids coming across the border has a scary skeleton inside them. Also lots of blood.

Democrats love skeletons and blood.

228 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Aug 5, 2014 8:17:41am

re: #227 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

One could take this even farther./

229 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 8:17:53am

re: #227 Fairly Sure I’m Still Obdicut

100% of these illegal immigrant kids coming across the border has a scary skeleton inside them. Also lots of blood.

Democrats love skeletons and blood.

and billions of microbes and viruses, any one of which could be a virulent, highly contagious strain of Ebola

/

230 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 8:18:52am

re: #225 Targetpractice

It’s almost heartbreaking that she’ll be gone from the House after January. Thankfully, there’s plenty of nutty goodness in the current crop of Republicans to keep her legacy going.

I will never eat another nut.

231 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 8:20:26am

re: #230 b_sharp

I will never eat another nut.

I think her concerns about Obama using immigrant children for medical research was her crowning moment to date…

233 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 8:22:02am

re: #232 Dr. Matt

#waronwhites Remember the, Whites! NEVER FORGET!

Well, shouldn’t that twibbon be, you know, WHITE?

234 Dr. Matt  Aug 5, 2014 8:23:24am

re: #233 Pie-onist Overlord

Well, shouldn’t that twibbon be, you know, WHITE?

Ha! I was trying to stick with the B E N G H A Z I themed twibbon

235 Lidane  Aug 5, 2014 8:23:44am

Please proceed:

Conservative Activist Proposes Third Party With Sarah Palin As Its Leader

Once the party launches and it is obvious to voters that it will be a viable party, I predict many more voters will pile on. The new party will do to the GOP what the GOP did to the Whig Party 150 years ago: it will replace the GOP as the main party contesting the Democrat Party. We would also need a stable of respected national conservative leaders such as Sarah Palin and others to lead the charge on such an effort. A well-funded marketing plan would be needed with a heavy emphasis on using the social media. Such an effort may take years but even the process of building a viable Third Party may be beneficial. It will send a strong message to the Republican Party that if it continues its liberal drift, it will be replaced. Perhaps even the mere existence of such an effort will possibly save the GOP.

236 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 5, 2014 8:25:34am

re: #226 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Hamas could be a political actor… if it did not have calls for genocide in its freaking official documents.

Jimmy Carter and friends

237 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 5, 2014 8:27:01am

re: #235 Lidane

Unleash the She Wolf Party! All ahead Grift Factor 10!

And don’t mention to Sarah that the initial beloved candidates of the GOP in the late 1850s never really got anywhere. It took a compromise candidate in Lincoln to get into high national office.

238 freetoken  Aug 5, 2014 8:27:43am

re: #235 Lidane

He’s a local wingnut:

steve-baldwin.com

I think I even met him years ago.

239 Timothy Watson  Aug 5, 2014 8:28:37am

Ray Charles, leader of the War on White Keys:
Youtube Video

(21 seconds in since I can’t embed it at that point I don’t think with LGF’s built-in YouTube thing.)

240 Lidane  Aug 5, 2014 8:28:59am

re: #232 Dr. Matt

#waronwhites Remember the, Whites! NEVER FORGET!

Especially the poor, oppressed white guys in Mississippi:

Cuccinelli Lists GOP Senators Who Funded ‘Race-Baiting Tactics’ In MS (VIDEO)

This is the funniest shit ever. The RWNJs are tearing the GOP apart because one raving lunatic asked a bunch of blah voters to help him defeat another raving lunatic.

I need more popcorn.

241 Dr. Matt  Aug 5, 2014 8:31:13am

Palin will never, ever run for any office again; there isn’t enough money in it for her. She has discovered that she can fleece societies’ lowest common denominators to finance her bus tours, TV shows, and now her own channel.

242 NJDhockeyfan  Aug 5, 2014 8:32:35am

Mmmmmmm….bacon…

243 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 8:34:29am

But if a Muslim wanted to pray in the mall, this “Girl With Gun” would go all 2nd Amendment!

244 makeitstop  Aug 5, 2014 8:35:53am
245 freetoken  Aug 5, 2014 8:37:20am

re: #240 Lidane

I can’t even keep all the actors in that brouhaha straight in my mind. I really don’t know how one is supposed to be really different than the other.

It’s all the same party of hate in my eyes.

246 Targetpractice  Aug 5, 2014 8:38:54am

re: #242 NJDhockeyfan

Mmmmmmm….bacon…

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Swear to God, if bacon turns out to be the solution to commercialized nuclear fusion, I’m gonna assume the universe is just fucking with us.

247 wrenchwench  Aug 5, 2014 8:39:14am

re: #154 RealityBasedSteve

Beauty and the Bass… Didn’t realize there were that many good female bass players.. guitarworld.com

RBS

I’m 53 minutes into this:

Youtube Video

It made me late for work. : )

248 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 8:39:51am

re: #247 wrenchwench

I’m 53 minutes into this:

[Embedded content]

Video

It made me late for work. : )

The boss is gonna kill you.

249 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 8:40:23am

MOAST HORRIBLE WINGNUT ON TWITTER SO FAR TODAY

250 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 8:41:41am

re: #249 Pie-onist Overlord

MOAST HORRIBLE WINGNUT ON TWITTER SO FAR TODAY

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The War on Whites is already a reality for her.

251 Charles Johnson  Aug 5, 2014 8:42:46am

Meanwhile KT continues retweeting Anthony Cumia this morning.

252 Charles Johnson  Aug 5, 2014 8:43:46am

I fully expect Killgore to end up at the stalker blog.

253 wrenchwench  Aug 5, 2014 8:44:38am

re: #248 b_sharp

The boss is gonna kill you.

She’s making me fetch coffee atm.

254 Dr Lizardo  Aug 5, 2014 8:44:44am

re: #250 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

The War on Whites is already a reality for her.

That whole “War on Whites” BS has been floating around Stormfront for the last several years, along with the whole “White Genocide” meme.

Someone needs to call out the GOP on this, and simply straight-up say they’re endorsing White Nationalism/White Separatism each and every time they open their pieholes.

255 Targetpractice  Aug 5, 2014 8:44:53am

re: #252 Charles Johnson

I fully expect Killgore to end up at the stalker blog.

That should be quite the experience, considering how many still hold a grudge against him.

256 Stanley Sea  Aug 5, 2014 8:45:31am

re: #251 Charles Johnson

Meanwhile KT continues retweeting Anthony Cumia this morning.

What a bizarre last stand.

257 Skip Intro  Aug 5, 2014 8:46:07am

re: #244 makeitstop

She’s fucking insane.

Evil is what she is.

“When are we going to get serious and really deport and deport right on the border?” Bachmann asked.

“Mexico, El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, those countries are laughing at us because they’re making money with their corrupt governments in conjunction with these international criminal cartels, they’re all making money and kickbacks,” she said. “What I believe we should do is have a 100 percent tax on remittances, the money that illegal aliens send back to these countries.”

“What we have to recognize is this truly is a war against the American people,” she added.

rightwingwatch.org

258 Lidane  Aug 5, 2014 8:46:33am

re: #256 Stanley Sea

What a bizarre last stand.

Seriously. You’d think OWS would have done it, but a racist douche on the radio? Really? That’s the hill to die on?

259 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 8:46:36am

I remember when Kilgore used to post about his frog pond, and many interesting gardening tips.

260 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 8:47:36am

re: #258 Lidane

Seriously. You’d think OWS would have done it, but a racist douche on the radio? Really? That’s the hill to die on?

I never expected Ludwig to go down in fat-shaming flames.

261 Romantic Heretic  Aug 5, 2014 8:47:54am

re: #246 Targetpractice

Swear to God, if bacon turns out to be the solution to commercialized nuclear fusion, I’m gonna assume the universe is just fucking with us.

What? You didn’t know that?

I’ve known for years. //

262 freetoken  Aug 5, 2014 8:48:09am

re: #249 Pie-onist Overlord

She served as National Committeewoman from Indiana for the Republican National Committee and is featured in the Mo Rocca film, Electoral Dysfunction. At the White House, Dee Dee worked as an aide to President George W. Bush.

263 William Barnett-Lewis  Aug 5, 2014 8:48:19am

re: #252 Charles Johnson

I fully expect Killgore to end up at the stalker blog.

I’ve been expecting it for a long while now. It’s been a very prolonged flounce since we wouldn’t go along with people at Occupy being hurt for daring to protest.

264 Targetpractice  Aug 5, 2014 8:49:12am

re: #258 Lidane

Seriously. You’d think OWS would have done it, but a racist douche on the radio? Really? That’s the hill to die on?

He’s been building up to it. Even before OWS, he was getting worked up over the whole “Stop making people feel bad for what they say!” bit. Apparently his hypocrisy has gotten too much for him.

265 Franklin Brewsevelt  Aug 5, 2014 8:49:22am

re: #241 Dr. Matt

Palin will never, ever run for any office again; there isn’t enough money in it for her. She has discovered that she can fleece societies’ lowest common denominators to finance her bus tours, TV shows, and now her own channel.

Palin fears the day the (R)’s win the presidency/control of House. The more she can paint the base as the underdog/repressed/whatever, the more cash in her pocket.

266 freetoken  Aug 5, 2014 8:49:47am

re: #263 William Barnett-Lewis

Which is a strange thing, as Occupy was about as relevant to the world as, well, the brand of spray-tan used on DWTS.

267 blueraven  Aug 5, 2014 8:49:57am

re: #251 Charles Johnson

Meanwhile KT continues retweeting Anthony Cumia this morning.

Twitter allows him to go full on wingnut. Something he was loath to do here.

268 William Barnett-Lewis  Aug 5, 2014 8:50:49am

re: #266 freetoken

Which is a strange thing, as Occupy was about as relevant to the world as, well, the brand of spray-tan used on DWTS.

I know this & you know this but KT? I used to snark for him to look for the red under his bed as he feared Occupy that much.

269 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 8:51:01am

OMG it teh #WarOnChristians!!!!!!
Would you let Muslims pray in the mall?

270 Charles Johnson  Aug 5, 2014 8:51:41am

re: #255 Targetpractice

That should be quite the experience, considering how many still hold a grudge against him.

They’ll forget all about that instantly.

271 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 8:52:25am

re: #269 Pie-onist Overlord

OMG it teh #WarOnChristians!!!!!!
Would you let Muslims pray in the mall?

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Exactly. Imagine FOX#s reaction to a group of Muslims pulling out their prayer rugs…

272 makeitstop  Aug 5, 2014 8:52:41am

re: #252 Charles Johnson

I fully expect Killgore to end up at the stalker blog.

It was really only a matter of time. He’s been in full-on antagonist mode here for a while now.

273 Dr Lizardo  Aug 5, 2014 8:52:46am

re: #266 freetoken

Which is a strange thing, as Occupy was about as relevant to the world as, well, the brand of spray-tan used on DWTS.

There were a lot of folks out there who looked at Occupy as more like this:

Youtube Video

than a bunch of protesters sitting around a drum circle.

BTW, that scene in The Dark Knight Rises is absolute brilliant, and kudos to Tom Hardy’s performance. That’s the Bane I wanted to see.

274 William Barnett-Lewis  Aug 5, 2014 8:52:57am

re: #269 Pie-onist Overlord

OMG it teh #WarOnChristians!!!!!!
Would you let Muslims pray in the mall?

[Embedded content]

If they can tell you’re praying, Jesus say’s you’re doing it wrong. Matthew 6:6 for example.

275 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 8:53:42am

re: #269 Pie-onist Overlord

OMG it teh #WarOnChristians!!!!!!
Would you let Muslims pray in the mall?

[Embedded content]

But the US is a Christian country, dontcha know, despite being formed under Enlightenment ideals.

276 Bulworth  Aug 5, 2014 8:53:53am

re:
#269

Let me guess, baby Todd is complaining that someone was stopped from street preaching/praying out loud because the person was obnoxious and disturbing others.

277 Mattand  Aug 5, 2014 8:54:39am

re: #252 Charles Johnson

I fully expect Killgore to end up at the stalker blog.

Yeah, if there was a group that would be fans a racist shock jock asswipe who hangs out on a white separatist radio show, it’d be them.

278 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 8:54:53am

re: #274 William Barnett-Lewis

If they can tell you’re praying, Jesus say’s you’re doing it wrong. Matthew 6:6 for example.

Apparently they were making a bigger and bigger thing of it and another customer complained

They formed a small circle and as they had done many times before, they bowed their heads to petition the Almighty.

279 freetoken  Aug 5, 2014 8:56:45am

re: #278 Pie-onist Overlord

You’d think the Almighty would receive petitions via WiFi today, not the much slower propagating acoustic waves.

280 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 8:57:24am
281 freetoken  Aug 5, 2014 8:57:57am

Perhaps the Almighty is one of those analog-only freaks that fill up audiophile salons?

282 makeitstop  Aug 5, 2014 8:59:56am
283 Mattand  Aug 5, 2014 9:00:52am

re: #251 Charles Johnson

Meanwhile KT continues retweeting Anthony Cumia this morning.

This demonstrates my general dislike of so-called political incorrectness. Much of the time, it’s white people (usually men) generally pissed off that they can no longer make racial slurs without getting pushback.

To be honest, though, promoting a racist asshat like Cucina is starting to shed more light on his general “Trayvon Martin probably had it coming” stance.

284 Mattand  Aug 5, 2014 9:01:42am

re: #279 freetoken

You’d think the Almighty would receive petitions via WiFi today, not the much slower propagating acoustic waves.

Probably hasn’t upgraded his router from B/G to N yet.

285 Dr. Matt  Aug 5, 2014 9:02:30am

What’s the back-story with KT? Is he a huge Cumia fan? Suffering from butthurt?

286 Timothy Watson  Aug 5, 2014 9:03:17am

re: #278 Pie-onist Overlord

Apparently they were making a bigger and bigger thing of it and another customer complained

The Fox News story was written by Todd Starnes, so I wouldn’t accept anything he wrote as fact.

287 Mattand  Aug 5, 2014 9:03:58am

re: #273 Dr Lizardo

There were a lot of folks out there who looked at Occupy as more like this:

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Video

than a bunch of protesters sitting around a drum circle.

BTW, that scene in The Dark Knight Rises is absolute brilliant, and kudos to Tom Hardy’s performance. That’s the Bane I wanted to see.

Props to Tom Hardy for wearing the mask for 95% of the film. Most actors would insist it come flying off every 8 seconds.

288 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 9:04:46am

I just can’t even.

289 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 5, 2014 9:04:51am

re: #235 Lidane

Please proceed:

Conservative Activist Proposes Third Party With Sarah Palin As Its Leader

We should be so lucky.

290 wrenchwench  Aug 5, 2014 9:05:04am

A pie crosses the twitter feed:

291 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 9:05:57am

re: #289 Shiplord Kirel

We should be so lucky.

Splitting the wingnut vote might guarantee a Dem victory.

292 calochortus  Aug 5, 2014 9:06:58am

re: #235 Lidane

Please proceed:

Conservative Activist Proposes Third Party With Sarah Palin As Its Leader

“Once the party launches and it is obvious to voters that it will be a viable party…”

[bolding mine]

I think we have discovered the flaw.

293 Mattand  Aug 5, 2014 9:07:21am

re: #288 Pie-onist Overlord

I just can’t even.

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I can’t either, although admittedly part of it is at Wolf Blizter actually calling someone out on a bullshit statement.

Even Wolf has to draw the line at anti-Semitic urban legends.

294 andres  Aug 5, 2014 9:08:52am

re: #292 calochortus

[bolding mine]

I think we have discovered the flaw.

In his defense, he never specified if it included all the voters, or just the voters he wants to count.

295 wrenchwench  Aug 5, 2014 9:09:00am
296 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 5, 2014 9:10:48am

re: #285 Dr. Matt

What’s the back-story with KT? Is a huge Cumia fan? Suffering from butthurt?

I don’t think you’ll get a simple explanation. If you go back and peruse his commentary history you’ll see quite a bit of complexity.

At one point I thought most of his commentary flowed from wanting order over chaos and dispute - thus the amount of time he seriously spent attacking both the Tea Party *and* the OWS protests.

He also used to comment a lot about frogs, gardening, and the progress on getting a nice greenhouse built adjacent to his abode. Wrote about his neighbors a bit as well.

In more recent times he took up the mantle of resident contrarian crank and was granted a lot of toleration due to his previous history of worthwhile contribution to the community.

Whether some, or all, of this is the “real” Killgore is unclear. He was fully capable of writing from the viewpoint of an illusionary persona, so the claim that some of his posts were simply “performance art” has some legitimacy in my eyes. However, that is also essentially a form of trolling still since the goal is garnering reaction rather than furthering discussion.

297 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 9:11:26am

re: #295 wrenchwench

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Run Rand, run!

Lunch is like a box of brown people, you never know what question you may have to answer.

298 Dr. Matt  Aug 5, 2014 9:11:58am

re: #269 Pie-onist Overlord

OMG it teh #WarOnChristians!!!!!!
Would you let Muslims pray in the mall?

“The mall manager verified that prayer is not allowed at the mall because this is private property,” she said.

So, Todd now hates free markets and capitalism?

299 Mattand  Aug 5, 2014 9:13:10am

re: #295 wrenchwench

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L. Effing. O. L.

This coward is considered a leading contender for the GOTP POTUS nom.

If you needed any proof of what a horrible pit of human vileness the GOTP has become, here ya go.

In tiny GIF files, for quick downloads!

300 Dr Lizardo  Aug 5, 2014 9:13:27am

re: #289 Shiplord Kirel

We should be so lucky.

DO IT!

Come on, wingnuts!! Go for it!!!

301 wrenchwench  Aug 5, 2014 9:13:53am

re: #297 b_sharp

Run Rand, run!

Lunch is like a box of brown people, you never know what question you may have to answer.

More info at Wonkette. More video of the woman’s interaction with King.

302 Dr. Matt  Aug 5, 2014 9:14:49am

re: #296 Feline Fearless Leader

Ah. Thank you for the thoughtful response and backstory. I’ve only been here < 2 years and KT always perplexed me because sometimes he acted left of center and others he acted right of center.

303 wrenchwench  Aug 5, 2014 9:16:20am

Aaaand ‘Ran Paul’ has a twitter.

304 Skip Intro  Aug 5, 2014 9:16:40am

re: #223 Lidane

LOL no. That would affect money being sent overseas by white people.

If cancer didn’t affect rich white people, the GOP would be against funding research on that (or maybe they already are. I need to check).

305 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 9:17:37am

re: #291 b_sharp

Splitting the wingnut vote might guarantee a Dem victory.

It would purify the party, and it needs a good purging of liberal elements and attitudes…

306 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 9:18:29am

re: #301 wrenchwench

More info at Wonkette. More video of the woman’s interaction with King.

If they boot out all of the dreamers it will be a brain drain for the US.

307 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 5, 2014 9:18:31am

re: #235 Lidane

Please proceed:

Conservative Activist Proposes Third Party With Sarah Palin As Its Leader

Given her recreational preferences, I don’t guess she could call it the Bull Moose party. Besides, if she did, Teddy Roosevelt would rise from the grave, saddle up the nearest elephant, and charge off to Alaska to set her straight.

Present day GOPers like to think they have some real badasses on their side, moose-shootin’ Sarah and those millionaire duck pluckers, for example. TR was the real thing though. During the 1912 campaign he was shot in the chest just as he was to start a speech in Milwaukee. His steel eyeglass case and the thick manuscript of the speech slowed the bullet but it lodged in the wall of Teddy’s chest anyway. The would-be assassin was hustled off to jail and TR delivered the speech anyway.

308 Mattand  Aug 5, 2014 9:19:26am

re: #303 wrenchwench

Aaaand ‘Ran Paul’ has a twitter.

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309 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 9:20:09am

re: #302 Dr. Matt

Ah. Thanks you for the thoughtful response and backstory. I’ve only been here < 2 years and KT always perplexed me because sometimes he acted left of center and others he acted right of center.

I never had a direct confrontation with him but always wondered about his rather haphazard approach.

310 wrenchwench  Aug 5, 2014 9:20:19am

CNN says he didn’t run.

For her part, Andiola told the media that she was in Iowa for work and saw that King was holding the fundraiser, with a guest appearance by Sen. Rand Paul (who was escorted away during the confrontation for an interview.)

311 Mattand  Aug 5, 2014 9:21:11am

re: #310 wrenchwench

CNN says he didn’t run.

Uh-huh…

312 Targetpractice  Aug 5, 2014 9:22:19am

re: #310 wrenchwench

CNN says he didn’t run.

He didn’t run, he just suddenly needed to give an interview. Yeah, that’s the ticket…

313 OhNoZombies!  Aug 5, 2014 9:22:39am

re: #310 wrenchwench

He didn’t run, he just walked away really, really fast…

314 Timothy Watson  Aug 5, 2014 9:23:16am

re: #310 wrenchwench

CNN says he didn’t run.

God, CNN is such a lousy excuse for a news network. Paul jumps up and pretty much runs over somebody fleeing the scene.

315 calochortus  Aug 5, 2014 9:24:02am

re: #310 wrenchwench

CNN says he didn’t run.

I see CNN’s video doesn’t include the part where Paul suddenly felt the need to give an interview.

316 Stanley Sea  Aug 5, 2014 9:24:04am

re: #283 Mattand

This demonstrates my general dislike of so-called political incorrectness. Much of the time, it’s white people (usually men) generally pissed off that they can no longer make racial slurs without getting pushback.

To be honest, though, promoting a racist asshat like Cucina is starting to shed more light on his general “Trayvon Martin probably had it coming” stance.

Bingo.

317 wrenchwench  Aug 5, 2014 9:24:25am

National Journal says in the headline that he bolted, but

With a head nod from aide Sergio Gor, Paul wiped his mouth and departed while still visibly chewing, leaving behind his half-eaten hamburger. (Paul did grab his beverage on the way out.)

The awkward scene was a visual reminder of the political tightrope Paul is trying to walk as he woos the tea-party base of the GOP, raising money for a conservative firebrand like King, at the same time he pitches an inclusionary message of a Republican Party that he says must expand its appeal to win future national elections.

“Instead of actually staying there and talking to us about it, he just decided to run away,” Andiola said in an interview Monday night.

Gor said in an email, “Senator Paul had a media avail after the event and that’s where we had to be. CNN, Buzzfeed, Wall Street Journal and several local outlets attended the media avail.”

The fast exit may have been for the best politically. One minute into a video, which was posted online Monday, King cuts Andiola off and grabs her hand. “Stop a minute,” King tells her. “You’re very good at English. You know what I’m saying.”

[…]

318 Mattand  Aug 5, 2014 9:24:59am

Rand Paul: Giving a new fresh twist on the phrase “Run For the Border.”

319 sagehen  Aug 5, 2014 9:25:17am

re: #195 b_sharp

He’s attacking Israel through their religiously based women’s rights while he defends Palestine despite their equally atavistic religiously based women’s rights?

“Equally”!?!?

320 Dr. Matt  Aug 5, 2014 9:25:18am

Ugh. I just watched the video of the DREAMer and King. Steve King was such a fucking prick to that young lady. Anyone that votes for that caveman should be ashamed.

321 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 9:25:47am

re: #310 wrenchwench

CNN says he didn’t run.

Them brown peoples sure are bad-uns.

Rep King: “And I decided early in the conversation that I was not going to walk away,” he told reporters. “They’re here demanding that we change the laws…Why would you want to bring lawlessness to the United States of America? And that’s the question they cannot answer. Why would we want to turn America into a third world country?

322 Targetpractice  Aug 5, 2014 9:27:30am

re: #321 b_sharp

Them brown peoples sure are bad-uns.

Turn it into one? Has Congressman King been to Detroit and see what the tax policies his party has been pushing for decades has done to that once vibrant and powerful city? That’s not a fluke, that’s a fucking prophecy of where this country is headed. And yet he has the nerve to suggest that the people wanting to come here are what’s dragging this country down? FUCK’EM!

323 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 9:27:44am

re: #319 sagehen

“Equally”!?!?

Note the words ‘atavistic’ and ‘religiously’

324 calochortus  Aug 5, 2014 9:28:04am

re: #321 b_sharp

Them brown peoples sure are bad-uns.

Rep King: “And I decided early in the conversation that I was not going to walk away,” he told reporters. “They’re here demanding that we change the laws…Why would you want to bring lawlessness to the United States of America? And that’s the question they cannot answer. Why would we want to turn America into a third world country?

At least he should be working on an answer to that last question himself since the GOP seems to be going in that direction without any help from immigrants.

325 wrenchwench  Aug 5, 2014 9:28:07am

You can follow Erika and give her lots of retweets and stuff.

326 Stanley Sea  Aug 5, 2014 9:28:14am

re: #310 wrenchwench

CNN says he didn’t run.

In mid bite. Yeah.

327 Eventual Carrion  Aug 5, 2014 9:29:29am

re: #321 b_sharp

Them brown peoples sure are bad-uns.

Why would we want to turn America into a third world country?

Because that is where all the factories with jobs are being sent? We might as well get in on the action.

328 wrenchwench  Aug 5, 2014 9:29:34am

re: #326 Stanley Sea

In mid bite. Yeah.

He may have had a signal from an aide, but I suspect the signal was more urgent than ‘interview coming up’.

329 RealityBasedSteve  Aug 5, 2014 9:29:48am

re: #290 wrenchwench

A pie crosses the twitter feed:
A Lodge fan made an apple pie in his #castiron #Dutchoven using a 300-yr-old recipe! (Recipe: coquinaria.nl …)
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I use my dutch oven to bake bread. Get it super hot, put the bread dough in, cover it for about 2/3 the cooking time to hold in the moisture, then top off for the last third to set and brown the crust. Yummy.

RBS

330 Stanley Sea  Aug 5, 2014 9:30:13am

re: #328 wrenchwench

He may have had a signal from an aide, but I suspect the signal was more urgent than ‘interview coming up’.

Run Rand, RUN!

He looked like he almost choked.

331 Targetpractice  Aug 5, 2014 9:34:11am

The “interview” excuse sounds like something his campaign put together after the video went public but before CNN came a callin’. As in they called his office after the video went live and got told “Oh no, he was just needed for an interview.” One which he apparently forgot, so he damn near chocked on his burger in his rush out the door.

332 Dr. Matt  Aug 5, 2014 9:34:20am

re: #328 wrenchwench

He may have had a signal from an aide, but I suspect the signal was more urgent than ‘interview coming up’.

Yeah, the fat white guy in the green signaled to Rand with a head nod: ‘Let’s Get the Fuck Out of Here!’

333 iossarian  Aug 5, 2014 9:36:41am

re: #331 Targetpractice

The “interview” excuse sounds like something his campaign put together after the video went public but before CNN came a callin’. As in they called his office after the video went live and got told “Oh no, he was just needed for an interview.” One which he apparently forgot, so he damn near chocked on his burger in his rush out the door.

Actual reporter: “Who was the interview with?” -> verifies that interview took place

CNN: “Oh, OK then.” -> Looks at pictures of cats on internet

334 wrenchwench  Aug 5, 2014 9:39:13am

re: #332 Dr. Matt

Yeah, the fat white guy in the green signaled to Rand with a head nod: ‘Let’s Get the Fuck Out of Here!’

The more I see of the video of King, the more I think Rand made the right choice. Or somebody made the right choice for him. Any politician standing near King being that much of an asshole is going to get some on them.

335 Mike Lamb  Aug 5, 2014 9:39:32am

re: #269 Pie-onist Overlord

OMG it teh #WarOnChristians!!!!!!
Would you let Muslims pray in the mall?

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Private enterprise—-how the fuck does it work?

336 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 9:39:44am

Rand Paul’s new campaign song: “If ever I want you, all I gotta do is DREAM”

337 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 5, 2014 9:39:47am

Once a voice of sanity and moderation, RW radio host Charlie Jones of Texas Overnight has really been howling at the Moon lately. The other night, he castigated the Obama administration, ICE, and the CDC for “allowing” two Americans with ebola to be brought to this country for treatment.
His late night callers bayed their support in unison, some quavering in fear at an imminent epidemic that will somehow kills thousands, if not millions, of Americans even though only 1100 cases have been reported in west Africa in 4 months.
Not one person pointed out that there is no legal mechanism for the government to deny re-entry to a citizen. A citizen can be arrested or quarantined upon entry, but they cannot be deported or denied entry. It just wasn’t the CDC’s call, let alone Obama’s. One caller thought the CDC, a federal agency, was a “left-wing NGO.”

338 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 9:40:43am

re: #335 Mike Lamb

Private enterprise—-how the fuck does it work?

Our Supreme Court has already determined that “sincerely held religious beliefs” trump the law of the land, why should they not trump some mall’s code of conduct?

339 BeenHereAwhile  Aug 5, 2014 9:41:25am

re: #154 RealityBasedSteve

Beauty and the Bass… Didn’t realize there were that many good female bass players.. guitarworld.com

RBS

Tina Weymouth

340 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 9:41:50am

re: #335 Mike Lamb

Private enterprise—-how the fuck does it work?

HURR HURR TEH CHRISTIANS CAN’T PRAYS AT TEH MALL BUT THEY HAS TO BAKE CAKE FOR TEH GHEY!!!!!

341 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 9:45:30am

re: #301 wrenchwench

More info at Wonkette. More video of the woman’s interaction with King.

His aid didn’t react to the time, he reacted to Paul almost choking on his sandwich. If it was for an interview the aid would have checked the time and made some indication to Paul that an interview was coming up.

Although it may be that Rand Paul did get up to attend an interview at that time, the body language of the two men tell a different story. (As far as body language can expose emotions)

342 calochortus  Aug 5, 2014 9:46:42am

re: #337 Shiplord Kirel

I was really surprised at the number of people at FR who didn’t want the doctor and nurse with ebola allowed into the US. They didn’t feel they (the sick people) would be “abandoned” by the US because they knew the risk they were running and chose to work in Africa anyway.
Not a majority, but enough to kind of shock me.

343 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 9:48:38am

re: #342 calochortus

I was really surprised at the number of people at FR who didn’t want the doctor and nurse with ebola allowed into the US. They didn’t feel they would be “abandoned” by the US because they knew the risk they were running and chose to work in Africa anyway.
Not a majority, but enough to kind of shock me.

Because they are clueless idiots who are reacting in a knee-jerk fashion to an “African” disease.

344 wrenchwench  Aug 5, 2014 9:48:48am

‘That would be a nice video op for you’. That’s how King turned down the opportunity to tear up Erika’s DACA card.

345 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 9:49:06am

re: #342 calochortus

I was really surprised at the number of people at FR who didn’t want the doctor and nurse with ebola allowed into the US. They didn’t feel they would be “abandoned” by the US because they knew the risk they were running and chose to work in Africa anyway.
Not a majority, but enough to kind of shock me.

FR shocks you?
Just imagine the worst thing a human can say, double it and you have what will be said at FR.

346 RealityBasedSteve  Aug 5, 2014 9:49:06am

re: #317 wrenchwench

National Journal says in the headline that he bolted, but
The fast exit may have been for the best politically. One minute into a video, which was posted online Monday, King cuts Andiola off and grabs her hand. “Stop a minute,” King tells her. “You’re very good at English. You know what I’m saying.”
Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com

On the other hand, he didn’t mention her cantaloupe like calves.

RBS

347 William Barnett-Lewis  Aug 5, 2014 9:49:11am

re: #339 BeenHereAwhile

Tina Weymouth

Suzi Quatro

348 ObserverArt  Aug 5, 2014 9:49:27am

Hey all. Been rather busy and need to get back to it. I just got a bit caught up in this thread for lunchtime reading and I am now bummed.

I feel bad about the turbulence that appears to be going on within the membership and sincerely hope it doesn’t hurt Charles and the overall activity on the site. I really feel for Charles.

I hope some people are not at the point of spending more time trying to determine what tears us apart rather than what joins us together. No good in that.

And that video of King and Paul should be shown everywhere in the media. I know one thing, no matter what is said to President Obama he handles it in a dignified way. Just contrast the new video to Obama with Joe the Plumber or how he handles those that disagree when he is speaking. Class people…what does it really mean?

349 calochortus  Aug 5, 2014 9:50:11am

re: #343 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Because they are clueless idiots who are reacting in a knee-jerk fashion to an “African” disease.

Yes, but usually they want the government to save Christians in foreign lands and all.
It must be the pits to live in a world that is as scary as the conservative’s world.

350 makeitstop  Aug 5, 2014 9:50:26am

re: #296 Feline Fearless Leader

In more recent times he took up the mantle of resident contrarian crank…

That often seems to be the last stop for Lizards who get ready to bail - I cite Walter and Albusteve as examples from my time here.

I guess we can add KT to that list now.

351 wrenchwench  Aug 5, 2014 9:51:36am

re: #346 RealityBasedSteve

On the other hand, he didn’t mention her cantaloupe like calves.

RBS

He said she didn’t have those because only drug smugglers do. Watch the vid. It’s bad.

352 calochortus  Aug 5, 2014 9:52:02am

re: #345 b_sharp

FR shocks you?
Just imagine the worst thing a human can say, double it and you have what will be said at FR.

Yes, it does occasionally. Once in a while I am surprised by a voice of reason, and there’s a lot of mindless derp, but I am sometimes kind of shocked by the lack of empathy and naked fear that is exposed there.

353 RealityBasedSteve  Aug 5, 2014 9:52:58am

re: #338 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Our Supreme Court has already determined that “sincerely held religious beliefs” trump the law of the land, why should they not trump some mall’s code of conduct?

What if it’s against the mall’s religious beliefs to have other religious beliefs expressed in it.

RBS

354 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 9:53:29am

re: #346 RealityBasedSteve

On the other hand, he didn’t mention her cantaloupe like calves.

RBS

He was surprised her command of the American language was good enough to say cantaloupe like an American.

355 wrenchwench  Aug 5, 2014 9:53:59am

Follow-up interview with Steve King.

Youtube Video

He uses the phrase ‘rule-of-law’ to avoid having to realize the human consequences of his actions and words.

356 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 9:55:15am

re: #350 makeitstop

That often seems to be the last stop for Lizards who get ready to bail - I cite Walter and Albusteve as examples from my time here.

I guess we can add KT to that list now.

Albusteve was destined to bail, Walter was an equal opportunity grouch.

357 wrenchwench  Aug 5, 2014 9:55:24am

re: #354 b_sharp

He was surprised her command of the American language was good enough to say cantaloupe like an American.

Towards the end you can hear him start to say ‘oligarch’ and switch to ‘king’. He never realized that these people are at least as smart as he is (and much nicer).

358 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 5, 2014 9:55:27am

I recently ran across a wingnut who was outraged, outraged I say, because he had heard that Obama is allowing non-citizens to join the US armed forces. He apparently thought this was something new and Obama-like and was obviously unaware that every other president back to G. Washington himself has done the same.
The enlistment of non-citizens has always been US policy and is a significant part of US military tradition. More than half of Custer’s men at Little Bighorn were foreign born and about 20% were still not citizens. The Irish-born soldier was such a fixture in John Ford westerns for a very good reason, there were many, many such immigrant soldiers in real life.

359 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 9:56:43am

re: #347 William Barnett-Lewis

Suzi Quatro

Tal Wilkenfeld

360 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 9:57:16am

re: #358 Shiplord Kirel

I recently ran across a wingnut who was outraged, outraged I say, because he had heard that Obama is allowing non-citizens to join the US armed forces. He apparently thought this was something new and Obama-like and was obviously unaware that every other president back to G. Washington himself has done the same.
The enlistment of non-citizens has always been US policy and is a significant part of US military tradition. More than half of Custer’s men at Little Bighorn were foreign born and about 20% were still not citizens. The Irish-born soldier was such a fixture in John Ford westerns for a very good reason, there were many, many such immigrant soldiers in real life.

Ask him if he ever heard of Marquis De Lafayette

361 Timothy Watson  Aug 5, 2014 9:58:24am

re: #358 Shiplord Kirel

I recently ran across a wingnut who was outraged, outraged I say, because he had heard that Obama is allowing non-citizens to join the US armed forces. He apparently thought this was something new and Obama-like and was obviously unaware that every other president back to G. Washington himself has done the same.
The enlistment of non-citizens has always been US policy and is a significant part of US military tradition. More than half of Custer’s men at Little Bighorn were foreign born and about 20% were still not citizens. The Irish-born soldier was such a fixture in John Ford westerns for a very good reason, there were many, many such immigrant soldiers in real life.

Wow, all kinds of stupid. I guess he’s never heard of the Irish Brigade?

362 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 9:58:25am

re: #357 wrenchwench

Towards the end you can hear him start to say ‘oligarch’ and switch to ‘king’. He never realized that these people are at least as smart as he is (and much nicer).

The sign of a racist/bigot - assume everybody from the ‘other’ group is inferior to everyone in the ingroup.

363 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 9:59:14am

re: #358 Shiplord Kirel

I recently ran across a wingnut who was outraged, outraged I say, because he had heard that Obama is allowing non-citizens to join the US armed forces. He apparently thought this was something new and Obama-like and was obviously unaware that every other president back to G. Washington himself has done the same.
The enlistment of non-citizens has always been US policy and is a significant part of US military tradition. More than half of Custer’s men at Little Bighorn were foreign born and about 20% were still not citizens. The Irish-born soldier was such a fixture in John Ford westerns for a very good reason, there were many, many such immigrant soldiers in real life.

The US military has always accepted Canadian volunteers.

364 wrenchwench  Aug 5, 2014 10:01:24am

re: #362 b_sharp

The sign of a racist/bigot - assume everybody from the ‘other’ group is inferior to everyone in the ingroup.

King must be infected to the bone. All ‘rule-of-law’ and no heart. He does not know that crossing the border without permission is a misdemeanor and does not turn the crosser into some kind of threat to his precious rule-of-law.

365 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 5, 2014 10:02:36am

One of the soldiers I served with in Vietnam had been born in the Ukraine and had actually served in the Soviet Air Force.

366 RealityBasedSteve  Aug 5, 2014 10:02:51am

There was a Chicana named Andiola,
Who spoke truth to powerful A-holes.
She is having a DREAM,
and not causing a scene.
King and Rand are just full of crapola.

367 Bulworth  Aug 5, 2014 10:03:18am

re:;
#358

IMPEACH!!!!1

368 RealityBasedSteve  Aug 5, 2014 10:04:20am

re: #363 b_sharp

The US military has always accepted Canadian volunteers.

Best man at my first wedding was an Army buddy, dual US / Canadian citizenship, had served first in the Canadian Army, got out, joined the US army. That was some 25 years ago or so.

369 Bulworth  Aug 5, 2014 10:05:29am

re:
#364

I don’t think he much cares about the law either.

370 Timothy Watson  Aug 5, 2014 10:05:36am

re: #363 b_sharp

The US military has always accepted Canadian volunteers.

Several of whom were awarded the Medal of Honor. Peter C. Lemon received the Medal of Honor during the Vietnam War.

371 klys  Aug 5, 2014 10:05:41am

re: #366 RealityBasedSteve

There was a Chicana named Andiola,
Who spoke truth to powerful A-holes.
She is having a DREAM,
and not causing a scene.
King and Rand are just full of crapola.

I approve of this daily limerick trend. Please continue.

372 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 10:06:55am

re: #361 Timothy Watson

Wow, all kinds of stupid. I guess he’s never heard of the Irish Brigade?

They fought for the wrong side.

373 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 10:09:05am

re: #371 klys

I approve of this daily limerick trend. Please continue.

Our very own Isaac Asimov.

374 Kragar  Aug 5, 2014 10:11:44am

Can’t say I ever heard of him, so I looked him up. He’s a current Fox News contributor and he’s helping the Redskins defend their racist team name.

Yeah, great guy.

375 Lidane  Aug 5, 2014 10:12:20am

*sigh*

Tom DeLay: ‘Liberal Jews’ Should Oppose ‘Marxist,’ Anti-Israel Obama

WHY won’t this douchecanoe go away? STFU DeLay.

376 Bulworth  Aug 5, 2014 10:13:57am

re:
#375

I’d almost forgotten about him….

377 Lidane  Aug 5, 2014 10:14:00am

Gotta love that Christian compassion:

Bryan Fischer Suggests Treating Muslims Like KKK Members

“It’s a cancer, it’s a toxin and yet here it is infiltrating our culture and you can’t criticize it,” Fischer said of Islam.

Then, Fischer made an appeal to liberals: “I would say to my friends on the left, whatever you think we ought to do to the KKK, that’s what we ought to do to Islam…. If you think we shouldn’t give building permits to the KKK to build some kind of convention center where they can have their conferences and their rallies, then fine, let’s not issue building permits for mosques for exactly the same reason.”

378 klys  Aug 5, 2014 10:15:13am

re: #377 Lidane

Gotta love that Christian compassion:

Bryan Fischer Suggests Treating Muslims Like KKK Members

I’m pretty sure Bryan has no friends on the left.

379 blueraven  Aug 5, 2014 10:15:35am

re: #373 b_sharp

Our very own Isaac Asimov.

Much better than Rand Paul!

There once was a woman from Kentucky
who thought in politics she’d be lucky
So she flew to LA
for a Hollywood bash
She came home in a flash with buckets of cash

So lame!

380 Bulworth  Aug 5, 2014 10:16:11am

re:
#377

Like you can’t criticize Islam just like Fischer is doing right this minute. You just can’t do it. They won’t let you. You can’t criticize Islam like Bryan Fischer is doing right now. You can’t call it a ‘cancer’ or a ‘toxin’. You can’t say anything like that about Islam, anywhere in this country anymore. //

381 makeitstop  Aug 5, 2014 10:16:52am

re: #377 Lidane

Gotta love that Christian compassion:

Bryan Fischer Suggests Treating Muslims Like KKK Members

If you think we shouldn’t give building permits to the KKK to build some kind of convention center where they can have their conferences and their rallies

When the fuck did that ever happen?

I’m tellin’ ya, this latest round of unrestrained derp and defending racists is really starting to wear me down.

382 Bulworth  Aug 5, 2014 10:17:32am

re:
#377

WTFITS?

[wingnut]“I would say to my friends on the left, [wingnut]

383 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 10:17:49am

BTW, I’m not an expert at body language, in fact just the opposite. I turned to watching people closely as self defence because I got tired of being hurt because I fucked up reading people’s emotions and said the wrong thing.

384 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Aug 5, 2014 10:17:57am

re: #378 klys

I’m pretty sure Bryan has no friends on the left.

SOUND OFF!!!

385 calochortus  Aug 5, 2014 10:18:19am

re: #377 Lidane

“It’s a cancer, it’s a toxin and yet here it is infiltrating our culture and you can’t criticize it,” Fischer said of Islam.

So calling it a cancer and a toxin isn’t criticism? There is a lack of internal consistency in that sentence.

386 wrenchwench  Aug 5, 2014 10:18:57am

re: #366 RealityBasedSteve

There was a woman named Erika
Who was brought to America.
Rand Paul retreated
Steve King mistreated
this dreamer who drove their hysterica.

OK, I had to make up a word, but it’s a good one.

387 klys  Aug 5, 2014 10:19:08am

re: #384 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

SOUND OFF!!!

I may be getting older but that still predates my time.

388 RealityBasedSteve  Aug 5, 2014 10:20:31am

re: #386 wrenchwench

There was a woman named Erika
Who was brought to America.
Rand Paul retreated
Steve King mistreated
this dreamer who drove their hysterica.

OK, I had to make up a word, but it’s a good one.

That’s permitted. :)

389 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 10:20:45am

re: #375 Lidane

*sigh*

Tom DeLay: ‘Liberal Jews’ Should Oppose ‘Marxist,’ Anti-Israel Obama

WHY won’t this douchecanoe go away? STFU DeLay.

The wingnuts sure love their labels.

(Yes, I still do irony)

390 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 5, 2014 10:21:11am

re: #379 blueraven

Much better than Rand Paul!

There once was a woman from Kentucky
who thought in politics she’d be lucky
So she flew to LA
for a Hollywood bash
She came home in a flash with buckets of cash

So lame!

That’s what happens when an idiot tries to cross a limerick with Dr Seuss, then tries to read it out loud in a dramatic fashion.

391 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 10:21:42am

re: #379 blueraven

Much better than Rand Paul!

There once was a woman from Kentucky
who thought in politics she’d be lucky
So she flew to LA
for a Hollywood bash
She came home in a flash with buckets of cash

So lame!

That ain’t a limerick.

392 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 5, 2014 10:25:58am

Sheesh! Only 7 of the 464 Medal of Honor recipients from World War II are still alive (262 of the medals were awarded posthumously).

393 blueraven  Aug 5, 2014 10:26:54am

re: #391 b_sharp

That ain’t a limerick.

No, it is pure Derp.

394 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 5, 2014 10:27:18am

There’s a rally this evening at Lytle Park in Cincinnati, and then another one is planned for tomorrow at Fountain Square downtown.

395 Kragar  Aug 5, 2014 10:27:42am

There once was an asshole named Rand
who thought running for office was grand
But once he was elected
he failed as expected
which left him a joke ‘cross the land.

396 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 10:28:39am

re: #395 Kragar

There once was an asshole named Rand
who thought running for office was grand
But once he was elected
he failed as expected
which left him a joke ‘cross the land.

The cadence is perfect.

397 Kragar  Aug 5, 2014 10:30:25am

re: #396 b_sharp

The cadence is perfect.

Rand Paul is a joke
A ridiculous failure
Can’t wait till he’s gone

/haiku

398 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 5, 2014 10:32:40am

“Call Rand Paul at[no phone numbers allowed] for a dreamy time.”

— bathroom stall graffiti

399 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 10:34:13am

re: #398 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Call Rand Paul at[no phone numbers allowed] for a dreamy time.”

— bathroom stall graffiti

Funny that it’s in the men’s can.

400 Eventual Carrion  Aug 5, 2014 10:34:57am

re: #397 Kragar

Rand Paul is a joke
A ridiculous failure
Can’t wait till he’s gone

/haiku

Ku says hi right back at ya.

401 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 5, 2014 10:35:18am

re: #358 Shiplord Kirel

I recently ran across a wingnut who was outraged, outraged I say, because he had heard that Obama is allowing non-citizens to join the US armed forces. He apparently thought this was something new and Obama-like and was obviously unaware that every other president back to G. Washington himself has done the same.
The enlistment of non-citizens has always been US policy and is a significant part of US military tradition. More than half of Custer’s men at Little Bighorn were foreign born and about 20% were still not citizens. The Irish-born soldier was such a fixture in John Ford westerns for a very good reason, there were many, many such immigrant soldiers in real life.

Though Victor McLaglen, who played many of those Irish NCO roles in a number of John Ford westerns, was actually an Englishman born in Kent.

402 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 5, 2014 10:37:29am
403 Varek Raith  Aug 5, 2014 10:38:50am

re: #402 Backwoods_Sleuth

Cleveland Brown: I must say, I do feel a strange satisfaction watchin’ the black ball topple all those self-righteous white pins.
Joe Swanson: Can’t blame them for being self-righteous. The black ball’s in their neighborhood uninvited.
Cleveland Brown: The black ball’s done nothin’ wrong.
Joe Swanson: If the black ball’s innocent, it has nothin’ to fear.

404 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 5, 2014 10:39:38am

re: #402 Backwoods_Sleuth

Going to ask next why everyone bitches about snow falling in the winter?
//

405 Kragar  Aug 5, 2014 10:41:45am
406 ObserverArt  Aug 5, 2014 10:41:54am

re: #394 Backwoods_Sleuth

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There’s a rally this evening at Lytle Park in Cincinnati, and then another one is planned for tomorrow at Fountain Square downtown.

Hmm. I’ll have to check local news and see if there is anything similar planned here in Columbus at the State House. I know that it is being argued at the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati. But, maybe a demonstration will be held for the Ohio elected officials just to keep them on their toes.

By the way, have you seen the commercials supporting gay marriage in Ohio? They have the two elder gentlemen that have been together for over 50 years. Both from the Cleveland area and respected leaders in the arts community.

Here is a link to a Columbus Dispatch web story with a video of the commercial and story about them…

Dispatch - First gay-marriage ad airing in Ohio since ‘04

And the video…

Youtube Video

407 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 5, 2014 10:43:51am
408 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 10:44:42am

Crap, are my eyes ever bloodshot today.
The worst part is I didn’t drink any alcohol yesterday to deserve the bloodshot eyes today.

409 Varek Raith  Aug 5, 2014 10:45:17am

re: #408 b_sharp

Crap, are my eyes ever bloodshot today.
The worst part is I didn’t drink any alcohol yesterday to deserve the bloodshot eyes today.

Too much libety.

410 Lidane  Aug 5, 2014 10:46:03am

Wow. The religious derp is flowing today:

Religious Right Group Warns ‘Nebuchadnezzar’ Obama Is Persecuting Christians With LGBT Rights Push

What will be the impact as our religious liberty is further stripped away? And even more importantly, what will be our response? As greater discrimination and even persecution comes, may you and I not bow to Nebuchadnezzar, but stand for what is faithful and true. Do I hear an Amen?

411 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 5, 2014 10:46:10am

re: #408 b_sharp

Crap, are my eyes ever bloodshot today.
The worst part is I didn’t drink any alcohol yesterday to deserve the bloodshot eyes today.

Allergies? Some of the nasty fall stuff is starting to put pollen out.

(Ragweeds!! We hates it!)

412 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 10:46:28am

re: #407 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

I see the #WarOnWhites is going well.

Damn, I just realized I’m a WASP male. I’m in deep shit now.

413 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 10:47:24am

re: #409 Varek Raith

Too much libety.

Must be, cause I’m not a tranny - three or four speed.

414 CuriousLurker  Aug 5, 2014 10:47:30am

OT Drive-by - Okay, this drawing by an 11-year-old Israeli kid just brought me to tears (don’t read the comments, they’ll ruin it):

How a sixth grader from Sderot draws the war

415 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 5, 2014 10:47:32am

re: #408 b_sharp

Crap, are my eyes ever bloodshot today.
The worst part is I didn’t drink any alcohol yesterday to deserve the bloodshot eyes today.

The War on Whites is truly hell on earth…

//

416 Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 5, 2014 10:47:51am

re: #412 b_sharp

I see the #WarOnWhites is going well.

Damn, I just realized I’m a WASP male. I’m in deep shit now.

417 makeitstop  Aug 5, 2014 10:47:53am

Another reason to respect the hell out of the San Antonio Spurs organization:

Spurs name Becky Hammon as assistant coach

The first female coach in NBA history. Good on ya, Spurs.

418 Lidane  Aug 5, 2014 10:48:09am

re: #412 b_sharp

I see the #WarOnWhites is going well.

They can ban Mom jeans on men, mayo, and Dockers, but the second someone goes after NASCAR, Slim Jims and Skoal, the shit will hit the fan.

419 Varek Raith  Aug 5, 2014 10:48:45am

Funny, I’m not feeling oppressed…

420 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 10:48:55am

re: #410 Lidane

Wow. The religious derp is flowing today:

Religious Right Group Warns ‘Nebuchadnezzar’ Obama Is Persecuting Christians With LGBT Rights Push

Their right to persecute others is god given.
No two men can take that away.

421 Eventual Carrion  Aug 5, 2014 10:49:22am

re: #409 Varek Raith

Too much libety.

So much he woke up with a tranny.

422 calochortus  Aug 5, 2014 10:49:42am

re: #419 Varek Raith

Funny, I’m not feeling oppressed…

You’re in denial. Wake up! WAKE UP!!!11!!1

423 blueraven  Aug 5, 2014 10:49:59am

Now KT retweets Eli Lake

How Ironic from a self described free speech absolutist.

(even though he seems to misunderstand what that means)

424 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 10:50:00am
425 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 10:50:15am

re: #411 Feline Fearless Leader

Allergies? Some of the nasty fall stuff is starting to put pollen out.

(Ragweeds!! We hates it!)

I have no allergies. I was just tested for the second time last fall. I’m getting bugger all for sleep lately, too much pain.

426 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 5, 2014 10:50:44am

re: #410 Lidane

Wow. The religious derp is flowing today:

Religious Right Group Warns ‘Nebuchadnezzar’ Obama Is Persecuting Christians With LGBT Rights Push

Obama should be flattered. I’ve been compared to Ahab, but never to an all-out Biblical bad-ass like Nebuchadnezzar. How cool is that?

427 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 10:51:18am

re: #417 makeitstop

Another reason to respect the hell out of the San Antonio Spurs organization:

Spurs name Becky Hammon as assistant coach

The first female coach in NBA history. Good on ya, Spurs.

She can see the mens nekid now. Hehe

428 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 10:52:02am

re: #419 Varek Raith

Funny, I’m not feeling oppressed…

That’s because your irony is set on delicate.

429 makeitstop  Aug 5, 2014 10:52:33am

re: #405 Kragar

[Embedded content]

Saw it on Facebook earlier

430 calochortus  Aug 5, 2014 10:52:36am

re: #427 b_sharp

She can see the mens nekid now. Hehe

Possibly not quite as interesting as the men imagine it is.

431 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 10:53:51am

re: #430 calochortus

Possibly not quite as interesting as the men imagine it is.

Shhh. She has a tape measure in her purse.
(Is that sexist enough?)

432 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 10:54:30am

re: #430 calochortus

Possibly not quite as interesting as the men imagine it is.

Don’t forget, men are of two minds.

433 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 5, 2014 10:55:28am

re: #432 b_sharp

Don’t forget, men are of two minds.

Two heads anyway, and they are often thinking with the wrong one.

434 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 10:56:33am

re: #433 Shiplord Kirel

Two heads anyway, and they are often thinking with the wrong one.

That was my point. I’m not surprised you didn’t see it.

435 wrenchwench  Aug 5, 2014 10:58:37am

re: #425 b_sharp

I have no allergies. I was just tested for the second time last fall. I’m getting bugger all for sleep lately, to much pain.

That sucks. Pain sucks, and too little sleep can make everything suck.

Aren’t there any good drugs to fix it all?

436 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 5, 2014 10:59:38am

Walked through the lunch room to get a cup of tea. CNN (Wolf Blitzer) on the TV there and it looks like Hamas doubled-down on their blood libel remark.

I’m also shocked, shocked, that gambling is going on in Atlantic City.

437 calochortus  Aug 5, 2014 11:01:27am

re: #436 Feline Fearless Leader

Walked through the lunch room to get a cup of tea. CNN (Wolf Blitzer) on the TV there and it looks like Hamas doubled-down on their blood libel remark.

I’m also shocked, shocked, that gambling is going on in Atlantic City.

Actually there’s apparently not all that much gambling going on there any more, hence the problems for both the casinos and the city.

Edit: But of course, Hamas is getting stupider and stupider.

438 Lidane  Aug 5, 2014 11:02:36am

re: #436 Feline Fearless Leader

Walked through the lunch room to get a cup of tea. CNN (Wolf Blitzer) on the TV there and it looks like Hamas doubled-down on their blood libel remark.

I’m also shocked, shocked, that gambling is going on in Atlantic City.

My employer has enough sense to keep the TV in the lunch room on HGTV and with the sound off. At this hour, it’s nothing but home improvement shows.

439 Kragar  Aug 5, 2014 11:02:37am
440 Lidane  Aug 5, 2014 11:03:36am

re: #439 Kragar

Has El Rushbo claimed a medical exemption for his pilonidal cysts yet?

441 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 5, 2014 11:03:40am

re: #434 b_sharp

That was my point. I’m not surprised you didn’t see it.

I wouldn’t describe them both as “minds” exactly though.

442 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 11:03:47am

re: #435 wrenchwench

That sucks. Pain sucks, and too little sleep can make everything suck.

Aren’t there any good drugs to fix it all?

I wish.
I take a handful of Advil at night but it only lasts for a few hours.

443 CuriousLurker  Aug 5, 2014 11:04:29am

re: #423 blueraven

I checked out his Twitter feed this morning and noticed he’s posting a lot of crappy stuff, including people that have been banned from LGF. I guess he was missing them since , y’know, all us lizards are traitors to free speech (he has since taken the blog down, but you can still see him admit to it here after I called him out).

Masks are dropping every time I turn around lately.

444 Feline Fearless Leader  Aug 5, 2014 11:05:09am

re: #438 Lidane

My employer has enough sense to keep the TV in the lunch room on HGTV and with the sound off. At this hour, it’s nothing but home improvement shows.

Ours is a set of internal messages until 11am or so - and then it goes to CNN until 5pm. Not sure who chose CNN, but at least it’s not FOX.

Occasionally it is set to other channels for special events - like the World Cup games. If I’m in there for work on the weekends while the network is down it’s set to ESPN or something semi-entertaining.

445 darthstar  Aug 5, 2014 11:05:33am
446 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 11:06:26am

re: #443 CuriousLurker

I checked out his Twitter feed this morning and noticed he’s posting a lot of crappy stuff, including people that have been banned from LGF. I guess he was missing them since , y’know, all us lizards are traitors to free speech (he has since taken the blog down, but you can still see him admit to it here after I called him out).

Masks are dropping every time I turn around lately.

Under my mask I’m really Torquemada.

447 wrenchwench  Aug 5, 2014 11:07:14am

re: #442 b_sharp

I wish.
I take a handful of Advil at night but it only lasts for a few hours.

That’s my favorite drug. Can you take another handful* and go back to sleep?

*Not actually more than 4, I hope.

448 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 11:07:56am

re: #445 darthstar

[Embedded content]

Confusion & Stagnation.

449 freetoken  Aug 5, 2014 11:08:45am

re: #446 b_sharp

Under my mask I’m really Torquemada.

Under my mask I’m… wait… there’s another mask…

It’s masks all the way down….

450 Kragar  Aug 5, 2014 11:09:31am
451 Shiplord Kirel  Aug 5, 2014 11:09:43am

re: #439 Kragar

[Embedded content]

Darth received five deferments. Fortunately for him, he turned 26 in 1967 and was no longer eligible for the draft. He was also arrested twice for DWI.

452 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 5, 2014 11:09:45am
453 wrenchwench  Aug 5, 2014 11:09:54am

Here’s the co-DREAMer from the King confrontation, Cesar Vargas.

454 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 11:10:23am

re: #447 wrenchwench

That’s my favorite drug. Can you take another handful* and go back to sleep?

*Not actually more than 4, I hope.

I take 3 400mgs shortly before I go to bed and watch videos until I feel the pain lessening. I wake up about 4 hours later. I would be awake for an hour or so before the pain killers kicked in then too sleepy to wake up 2 hours later.

455 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 11:11:01am

re: #449 freetoken

Under my mask I’m… wait… there’s another mask…

It’s masks all the way down….

Tell me when it gets to one of the Mutant Ninja Turtles.

456 ausador  Aug 5, 2014 11:29:46am

re: #391 b_sharp

That ain’t a limerick.

Perfect example of Vogon poetry.

457 makeitstop  Aug 5, 2014 11:38:31am

re: #440 Lidane

Has El Rushbo claimed a medical exemption for his pilonidal cysts yet?

I heard that Nuge is in Stage One of his patented draft-dodging process.

458 makeitstop  Aug 5, 2014 11:39:54am

re: #443 CuriousLurker

I checked out his Twitter feed this morning and noticed he’s posting a lot of crappy stuff, including people that have been banned from LGF. I guess he was missing them since , y’know, all us lizards are traitors to free speech (he has since taken the blog down, but you can still see him admit to it here after I called him out).

Masks are dropping every time I turn around lately.

Time to stop turning around, maybe? ;)

459 CuriousLurker  Aug 5, 2014 11:41:24am

re: #458 makeitstop

Time to stop turning around, maybe? ;)

Just wait till y’all find out who I really am… //

460 b_sharp  Aug 5, 2014 11:47:21am

re: #459 CuriousLurker

Just wait till y’all find out who I really am… //

Oh oh.

461 Eventual Carrion  Aug 5, 2014 11:51:25am

re: #459 CuriousLurker

Just wait till y’all find out who I really am… //

Keyser Söze?

462 RealityBasedSteve  Aug 5, 2014 12:16:06pm

re: #421 Eventual Carrion

So much he woke up with a tranny.

Youtube Video

463 RealityBasedSteve  Aug 5, 2014 12:17:22pm

re: #459 CuriousLurker

Just wait till y’all find out who I really am… //

Is this like the classic old Mission Impossibles…. you pull your mask off to dramatic music, and reveal that you’re actually KT?

RBS


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