“Josie” Story of Brown Shooting Lifted From Fake Facebook Page - See Updated Timeline Below

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Ace-o-aces
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I posted this in the comments on another thread, but I think it needs repeating. The anonymous caller “Josie”, who supposedly gave Officer Wilson’s version of the story was very obviously just repeating a Facebook post. A Facebook post that even breitbart.com admits is a Hoax. Compare for yourself.

Here is the Facebook post:
breitbart.com

my friends and family have been afraid to put out what really happened due to the severe threats.but here is the truth of what happened. as much as i can tell you at this point.

they were walking in the middle of the street. i pulled my vehicle up, rolled my window down and told them to get out of the street. they refused an yelled back cussing - saying they were already almost where they are going.

i pulled further up and over. i was watching them and at that point i got the call in that there was a strong arm robbery. the description they gave was the same as the two and they had something in their hand that looked like it could be the cigars.

i backed my car up and tried to get out of my car, but they slammed my door shut to prevent me from getting out. i started to get out again and stood up, but michael came and started to shove me back in to the car. he started punching me in the face and at that point i grabbed for my gun

michael grabbed for the gun. he got the gun entirely turned against his hip. the gun goes off after it is shoved. michael took off and got to be about 35 ft away

my first protocol is to pursue, so i yell “freeze” , michael and his friend turn around. michael taunts and yells saying “what are you gonna do about it” stuff like that. And next he started bumrushing me. he just started coming at me at full speed so i started shooting. he kept coming. i definitely think the toxicology report will show that he was not right and under the influence of something

this is my account of what happened (at least, what I can openly share at this point). much of what you will hear on Tv and radio is very inaccurate. i will be deactivating my page shortly so please copy this to share the truth. i appreciate your support - especially from my police family

Here is Josie’s account:
eaglerising.com

“He pulled up ahead of them. And then he got a call-in that there was a strong-arm robbery. And, they gave a description. And, he’s looking at them and they got something in their hands and it looks like it could be what, you know those cigars or whatever. So he goes in reverse back to them. Tries to get out of his car. They slam his door shut violently. I think he said Michael did. And, then he opened the car again. He tried to get out. He stands up.

And then Michael just bum-rushes him and shoves him back into his car. Punches him in the face and them Darren grabs for his gun. Michael grabbed for the gun. At one point he got the gun entirely turned against his hip. And he shoves it away. And the gun goes off.

Well, then Michael takes off and gets to be about 35 feet away. And, Darren’s first protocol is to pursue. So, he stands up and yells, “Freeze!” Michael and his friend turn around. And Michael taunts him… And then all the sudden he just started bumrushing him. He just started coming at him full speed. And, so he just started shooting. And, he just kept coming. And, so he really thinks he was on something.”

UPDATE at 8/23/14 3:30:03 pm by Charles Johnson

Another interesting bit of very suspicious Facebook action was noted a few days ago by LGF contributor Gus; on August 15th, the day “Josie” called the Dana Loesch show, this was posted on Facebook, early in the morning (it has since been deleted):

Update (Thanks to BeachDem)

8/15 Jill Meadows posts a story on Josie Meadows’ facebook page at 7:29 am
8/15 Josie goes on Dana’s show to spew
8/17 the fake Darren Wilson post goes up

So Josie was just recounting a different Facebook post than I originally thought. Still means that the media is treating Josie’s (at best) third hand account of the shooting as equal to actual witnesses.

And notice Jill Meadows never says where she got her info. Just a cryptic “I believe in my heart for it to be factually true because I know someone very well who was there.”

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432 comments
1 Charles Johnson  Aug 23, 2014 2:07:58pm

Great catch! Promoted.

2 Targetpractice  Aug 23, 2014 2:09:54pm

Well, obviously “Josie” wrote the Facebook page in Wilson’s place, that’s why she repeated it to Dana in exactly the same words.

3 Stanley Sea  Aug 23, 2014 2:10:15pm

Infuriating.

4 Kragar  Aug 23, 2014 2:11:09pm

Got hit with this today

5 thedopefishlives  Aug 23, 2014 2:11:14pm

Confirmation bias seems to be a major issue in the Information Age. People want to believe things so badly, and now that it’s so easy to find evidence that supports your worldview, critical thinking goes out the window.

6 Kid A  Aug 23, 2014 2:12:32pm
7 Kid A  Aug 23, 2014 2:13:20pm

10,000+ followers, Charles. Congrats, fine sir.

8 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 2:17:45pm

More bad optics for right-wing media! //

9 Ace-o-aces  Aug 23, 2014 2:23:18pm

re: #3 Stanley Sea

Infuriating.

Especially when I saw CNN list “Josie” as an alternative “witness” right next to real, actual witnesses. Because an anonymous caller giving a second hand account of a fake Facebook posting is just as good for them as people where were actually there!

10 GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 23, 2014 2:25:19pm

Wouldn’t it be nice to find out who the actual caller was…

11 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 2:27:12pm

re: #10 GlutenFreeJesus

Wouldn’t it be nice to find out who the actual caller was…

Chris Loesch with a helium tank. //

12 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 2:28:19pm

Was the Sunday the facebook post went up 8/10 or 8/17? If 8/10, then yeah, “Josie” either wrote it or memorized it.

13 Skip Intro  Aug 23, 2014 2:28:41pm

I don’t care what Breitfart says, I want to know what experts like Jim Hoft and Chuckles Johnson say. They’re the only ones with the gravitas to matter.

14 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 2:29:06pm

re: #8 Gus

Gus—were those Josie facebook pages you posted last week real or shopped?

15 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 2:30:17pm

re: #14 BeachDem

Gus—were those Josie facebook pages you posted last week real or shopped?

I just found ‘em with a search. Remember the weird costume dress avi?

16 KingKenrod  Aug 23, 2014 2:30:36pm

re: #12 BeachDem

Was the Sunday the facebook post went up 8/10 or 8/17? If 8/10, then yeah, “Josie” either wrote it or memorized it.

The original Facebook post appears unavailable. But the google cache version from Aug 17 shows it was posted “5 hrs” ago, so earlier on Aug 17. The “Josie” interview was on Aug 15.

So did the fake Facebook “Darren Wilson” copy the “Josie” interview instead of the other way round? And Breitbart got the “Sunday” wrong?

17 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 2:31:45pm

re: #15 Gus

I just found ‘em with a search. Remember the weird costume dress avi?

Yes, it was burned into my memory.

18 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 2:32:59pm

Screenshot of Cached “Josie Meadows” Facebook

19 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 2:33:32pm

re: #16 KingKenrod

The original Facebook post appears unavailable. But the google cache version from Aug 17 shows it was posted “5 hrs” ago, so earlier on Aug 17. The “Josie” interview was on Aug 15.

So did the fake Facebook “Darren Wilson” copy the “Josie” interview instead of the other way round? And Breitbart got the “Sunday” wrong?

That’s why I was questioning whether Josie copied the fakebook account or vice versa.

20 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 2:34:35pm

“Josie” morphed into “Jill” and now, “This content is currently unavailable.”

21 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 2:39:36pm

re: #18 Gus

Screenshot of Cached “Josie Meadows” Facebook

The page lists its owner as a Dana Loesch and Rush Limbaugh fan. Based on that and the picture, my guess would be its owned by a wingnut male trying to pass as female. “There are no women on the Internet” Rule is cited in support.

BBL

22 Stanley Sea  Aug 23, 2014 2:41:31pm

re: #21 Dark_Falcon

The page lists its owner as a Dana Loesch and Rush Limbaugh fan. Based on that and the picture, my guess would be its owned by a wingnut male trying to pass as female. “There are no women on the Internet” Rule is cited in support.

BBL

Chris Loesch. Betcha.

23 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 2:42:53pm

re: #20 Gus

“Josie” morphed into “Jill” and now, “This content is currently unavailable.”

Cached Jill Meadows 8/15 7:26 am facebook post

webcache.googleusercontent.com

24 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 2:43:13pm

re: #22 Stanley Sea

Chris Loesch. Betcha.

Darren Wilson’s wife?

25 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 2:44:32pm

re: #23 BeachDem

Cached Jill Meadows 8/15 7:26 am facebook post

webcache.googleusercontent.com

There’s that post. That was the first one I saw in the uncached page for “Josie Meadows.”

26 Stanley Sea  Aug 23, 2014 2:45:29pm

re: #24 Gus

Darren Wilson’s wife?

I think it’s a hatemonger hoping to make a buck.

27 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 2:46:27pm

I like how these “witnesses” are also deleting their Facebook posts. Nothing to see here. //

28 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 2:46:43pm

re: #25 Gus

There’s that post. That was the first one I saw in the uncached page for “Josie Meadows.”

From what I read it was on Josie Meadows’ facebook page, but posted as Jill Meadows.

What time of day is Dana’s show on?

29 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 2:47:08pm

re: #28 BeachDem

From what I read it was on Josie Meadows’ facebook page, but posted as Jill Meadows.

Yeah. It’s confusing.

30 Ace-o-aces  Aug 23, 2014 2:48:07pm

re: #27 Gus

I like how these “witnesses” are also deleting their Facebook posts. Nothing to see here. //

Makes it hard to figure out which came first, the Facebook post of the radio call in.

31 bubba zanetti  Aug 23, 2014 2:49:55pm
32 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 2:51:19pm

Alleged Friend Of Officer Darren Wilson Offers His Side
Posted on August 15 2014 in Radio

A woman claiming to be a friend of the officer involved in the shooting of Ferguson’s Mike Brown called into my program offering Darren Wilson’s side of the story. Video via my show’s flagship station, KFTK in St. Louis…

Same date as shown in the Facebook page: re: #23 BeachDem

33 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 2:51:36pm

re: #21 Dark_Falcon

Here’s the pic on a costume shop website (second row, middle)

spirithalloween.com

34 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 2:52:52pm

Posted on Facebook around 7:30 AM… then calls Dana Loesch later that day.

35 Frenchy  Aug 23, 2014 2:53:01pm

Whether the fake Facebook post was copied from the radio call or vice versa, I think we can all rest easy knowing that this source seems totally legit. Case closed.

36 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 2:53:04pm

Later deletes Facebook page.

37 GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 23, 2014 2:53:48pm

re: #32 Gus

Alleged Friend Of Officer Darren Wilson Offers His Side
Posted on August 15 2014 in Radio

Same date as shown in the Facebook page:

Offers his side, but the “he” is Josie? I refuse to watch the vid.

38 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 2:56:01pm

re: #37 GlutenFreeJesus

Offers his side, but the “he” is Josie? I refuse to watch the vid.

I think the “his side” refers to Darren Wilson’s side, not the friend.

39 Targetpractice  Aug 23, 2014 2:56:47pm

The eyewitnesses who say Brown surrendered and was gunned down have come forward, given their names to the press, and been interviewed. The “witnesses” who say Brown was a hopped-up lunatic are anonymous and always “friends” of Wilson.

40 Charles Johnson  Aug 23, 2014 2:59:10pm

re: #34 Gus

Posted on Facebook around 7:30 AM… then calls Dana Loesch later that day.

This whole story just absolutely stinks. There’s fakery all through it.

41 wrenchwench  Aug 23, 2014 2:59:39pm

re: #39 Targetpractice

The eyewitnesses who say Brown surrendered and was gunned down have come forward, given their names to the press, and been interviewed. The “witnesses” who say Brown was a hopped-up lunatic are anonymous and always “friends” of Wilson.

And they are the ones who are ‘afraid’. Shit.

42 ObserverArt  Aug 23, 2014 3:01:30pm

re: #41 wrenchwench

And they are the ones who are ‘afraid’. Shit.

I guess they are scared all “those” people from Ferguson were going to be coming looking for them. After all, look what that robber druggie did to that cop!!!

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43 Targetpractice  Aug 23, 2014 3:02:18pm

re: #41 wrenchwench

And they are the ones who are ‘afraid’. Shit.

Oh yeah, that’s all I’ve heard for days now from wingnuts. How “afraid” Wilson is, how “scared” his friends are of being found out, and how “fearful” his supporters are of being seen spreading his praises in public.

Meanwhile, the people actually protesting peacefully in Brown’s name are getting hit with tear gas, rubber bullets, being arrested for “unlawful assembly,” or watching reporters get roughed up before being released without charge.

44 Kragar  Aug 23, 2014 3:03:47pm

In fear of what? Getting called racist scum?

45 BongCrodny  Aug 23, 2014 3:03:51pm

Good catch.

Out of curiosity, would a police officer even be allowed to post “his version” of events on Facebook?

Putting aside the fact that the Ferguson PD seems to be made up of a bunch of cretins, I would think that disseminating information like that while there’s an ongoing investigation would be highly frowned upon.

46 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 3:06:00pm

re: #42 ObserverArt

I guess they are scared all “those” people from Ferguson were going to be coming looking for them. After all, look what that robber druggie did to that cop!!!

///+///

And always remember and don’t ever forget, it’s all Obama’s fault!!!!

Steve Hewkin, who lets 20 properties as low-income housing, blames the government for dumping poor people in the city. “You end up renting to the least worst,” he said. “Obama has destroyed the economy. The jobs are gone. The American dream is gone. These people have no hope and he put them here.”

Hewkin, who said he assumes he’s on a government watch list because he’s a “white Christian gun-owner that believes in liberty”, says he doesn’t regard people who move from outside the city into low-income housing as even being part of Ferguson. “That over there isn’t even our city. People in Ferguson don’t even know they’re there. Listen to those people talk, they’re haters,” he said.

rawstory.com

47 Maddies Mom  Aug 23, 2014 3:06:06pm

Jackie Robinson West beats Nevada 7-5 for U.S. Little League Champs. Finally something to make this Chicagoan feel better. Woot Woot!

48 Targetpractice  Aug 23, 2014 3:06:10pm

re: #44 Kragar

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In fear of what? Getting called racist scum?

Certainly not fear of cops, since every picture I’ve seen of them gathered in public has shown white cops standing around as if guarding the protestors rather than looking for a reason to start firing tear gas.

49 Maddies Mom  Aug 23, 2014 3:07:30pm

The city is throwing them a ticker-tape parade Wednesday. So proud of them

50 ObserverArt  Aug 23, 2014 3:10:50pm

re: #44 Kragar

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In fear of what? Getting called racist scum?

I think they just ran out of characters to finish that sentence.

It probably was to be:

‘We will not hide. We will no longer live in fear of having to hide our outright bigotry and hatred for those shiftless, welfare cheating, jobless, no-good blah people in Ferguson. We are out loud, and proud just like the gays. And we support the FPD in shooting that dangerous thug.

51 becominginvisible  Aug 23, 2014 3:12:48pm

re: #24 Gus

I listened to a short bit of the audio a few days back and with all the um um um in the woman’s speech I just assumed it is the current wife/girlfriend. She sounded as if she was trying to get the words in the right order and had to think about what she was saying. Not like someone repeating what had been heard. Wilson and whoever helped him scrub his info off the Internet went through scenarios trying to set up what could be, in their minds, plausible. I would have thought they would have set up several fake facebook pages, just to have a way to contact others in the circle without seeming any more than what they think of as a profile of someone that uses FB infrequently. I’m so glad I haven’t become cynical about Wilson and his motives. Well any more than I was from the start. If he has facial injuries it must be because someone at the department slammed his face into a wall for being an idiot.

52 GeneJockey  Aug 23, 2014 3:14:25pm

re: #44 Kragar

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In fear of what? Getting called racist scum?

They’re afraid of what they’ve always been afraid of - Loss of privilege. Blah People. Progress. The 20th Century. Sherman’s Army.

53 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 3:18:06pm

Looking at all the dates/cached posts, I think the headline has it backwards, and the fake Wilson facebook page was lifted from the Josie transcript:

7/15 Jill Meadows posts a story on Josie Meadows’ facebook page at 7:29 am
7/15 Josie goes on Dana’s show to spew
7/17 the fake Darren Wilson post goes up

54 GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 23, 2014 3:18:19pm

re: #38 BeachDem

I think the “his side” refers to Darren Wilson’s side, not the friend.

Me. Duh. lol

55 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 3:18:55pm

re: #54 GlutenFreeJesus

Me. Duh. lol

Don’t worry. I sort of stalled there for a second myself.

56 becominginvisible  Aug 23, 2014 3:20:16pm

re: #46 BeachDem

I saw that quote on Guardian UK article. Along with a former mayor claiming it isn’t about race it’s about poverty. And blacks only want to be around blacks so there isn’t anything his white carcass can do to help. Link

57 GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 23, 2014 3:20:32pm

Waiting for another swarm of enraged RWMS (Right Wing MainStream) racism when President Obama invites the Jackie Robinson team to the White House.

58 GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 23, 2014 3:21:01pm

re: #55 Gus

Don’t worry. I sort of stalled there for a second myself.

Yeah the title makes in sense. lol

59 stpaulbear  Aug 23, 2014 3:21:12pm

re: #13 Skip Intro

I don’t care what Breitfart says, I want to know what experts like Jim Hoft and Chuckles Johnson say. They’re the only ones with the gravitas to matter.

Chuckles says you should send him money so he can buy a gun (because he’s getting so many death threats).

60 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 3:22:45pm

re: #56 becominginvisible

I saw that quote on Guardian UK article. Along with a former mayor claiming it isn’t about race it’s about poverty. And blacks only want to be around blacks so there isn’t anything his white carcass can do to help. Link

Yeah, the Raw Story article was actually the Guardian story—I was just being lazy. And you’re right, the former mayor’s quote was quite revealing:

“Sure we’re segregated. Most cities are. People want to be with people that look like them, think like them, talk like them. It’s human nature. It doesn’t mean it’s bad,”

61 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 3:24:40pm

Deleted due to Weasel Zipper link.

62 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 3:24:52pm
63 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 3:26:24pm

re: #61 Gus

Deleted due to Weasel Zipper link.

Oops. I’ll see if I can find it elsewhere.

64 GeneJockey  Aug 23, 2014 3:26:28pm

re: #60 BeachDem

Yeah, the Raw Story article was actually the Guardian story—I was just being lazy. And you’re right, the former mayor’s quote was quite revealing:

“Sure we’re segregated. Most cities are. People want to be with people that look like them, think like them, talk like them. It’s human nature. It doesn’t mean it’s bad,”

“And people want to hire people who look like them, think like them, talk like them. It’s human nature. It doesn’t mean it’s bad,”

“And people want to go to a pool, eat at a lunch counter, go to school, drink from water fountains, go to a hospital with people who look like them, think like them, talk like them. It’s human nature. It doesn’t mean it’s bad,”

65 Ace-o-aces  Aug 23, 2014 3:29:11pm

re: #53 BeachDem

Looking at all the dates/cached posts, I think the headline has it backwards, and the fake Wilson facebook page was lifted from the Josie transcript:

7/15 Jill Meadows posts a story on Josie Meadows’ facebook page at 7:29 am
7/15 Josie goes on Dana’s show to spew
7/17 the fake Darren Wilson post goes up

So Josie was just recounting a different Facebook post than I originally thought. Still means that the media is treating Josie’s (at best) third hand account of the shooting as equal to actual witnesses.

And notice Jill Meadows never says where she got her info. Just a cryptic “I believe in my heart for it to be factually true because I know someone very well who was there.”

66 wrenchwench  Aug 23, 2014 3:31:18pm
67 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 3:31:45pm

That deleted story at Gizmodo…

SWAT Team Called Over Umbrella With Samurai Sword Handle

He lived to tell the tale because he’s white.

68 Stanley Sea  Aug 23, 2014 3:32:37pm

re: #66 wrenchwench

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Fucking racists.

I filed a report.

69 Charles Johnson  Aug 23, 2014 3:33:39pm

re: #65 Ace-o-aces

So Josie was just recounting a different Facebook post than I originally thought. Still means that the media is treating Josie’s (at best) third hand account of the shooting as equal to actual witnesses.

And notice Jill Meadows never says where she got her info. Just a cryptic “I believe in my heart for it to be factually true because I know someone very well who was there.”

You can update your post by clicking the pencil icon at bottom right.

70 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 3:35:02pm

Note. There was a Samurai sword attack at Georgia Tech in 2010.

71 wrenchwench  Aug 23, 2014 3:35:47pm

‘whitejacob88’ has ‘upgraded’ his ‘shop.

Click to Reveal

Flag the media, as well as blocking that white supremacist piece of shit.

72 Charles Johnson  Aug 23, 2014 3:36:38pm

re: #66 wrenchwench

Whoa. That is one evil piece of shit.

@whitejacob88

88 = ‘HH’ = ‘Heil Hitler’

73 Charles Johnson  Aug 23, 2014 3:38:09pm

I updated the article with that Facebook post by “Jill Meadows.”

74 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 3:38:19pm

Sorry but if you’re going to walk around with an umbrella that looks like a Samurai sword months after a Samurai sword attack you’re looking for trouble. Nothing to see here.

75 makeitstop  Aug 23, 2014 3:38:30pm

That sucks.

Dragging kids into shit. Fucking cowards.

76 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 3:38:35pm

re: #65 Ace-o-aces

So Josie was just recounting a different Facebook post than I originally thought. Still means that the media is treating Josie’s (at best) third hand account of the shooting as equal to actual witnesses.

And notice Jill Meadows never says where she got her info. Just a cryptic “I believe in my heart for it to be factually true because I know someone very well who was there.”

Oh, I think “Josie/Jill” is full o’ shit. I was just pointing out that the fake Darren Wilson facebook post came after the Josie/Jill post and radio interview.

77 wrenchwench  Aug 23, 2014 3:39:32pm

re: #72 Charles Johnson

Whoa. That is one evil piece of shit.

@whitejacob88

88 = ‘HH’ = ‘Heil Hitler’

More on his TL. Fairly new account. Here’s his first:

(Sorry, Gus.)

78 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 3:40:16pm

re: #77 wrenchwench

More on his TL. Fairly new account. Here’s his first:

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(Sorry, Gus.)

Some idiot.

79 Lidane  Aug 23, 2014 3:41:49pm

So the bullshit “Josie” narrative the RWNJs have been running with all week to prove that Michael Brown charged like a bull and bumrushed the cop, etc. turns out to be a fairy tale.

My surprise, etc.

The RW fuckers promoting this story are evil. Full stop. They knew they were promoting bullshit to taint any potential jury pool. Michael Brown won’t get justice because of shit like this.

80 TedStriker  Aug 23, 2014 3:46:20pm

re: #46 BeachDem

And always remember and don’t ever forget, it’s all Obama’s fault!!!!

Steve Hewkin, who lets 20 properties as low-income housing, blames the government for dumping poor people in the city. “You end up renting to the least worst,” he said. “Obama has destroyed the economy. The jobs are gone. The American dream is gone. These people have no hope and he put them here.”

Hewkin, who said he assumes he’s on a government watch list because he’s a “white Christian gun-owner that believes in liberty”, says he doesn’t regard people who move from outside the city into low-income housing as even being part of Ferguson. “That over there isn’t even our city. People in Ferguson don’t even know they’re there. Listen to those people talk, they’re haters,” he said.

rawstory.com

The true face of modern American “conservatism”, as evidenced by the TPGOP and many “libertarian” orgs these days.

To all of those hanging on to the TPGOP (such as Dark), who tell themselves and others they aren’t racists, bigots, or anti-gov kooks, you’re as much a part of the problem, because you’re either willfully blind and ignorant or you just don’t fucking care because, without the racists, the bigots and the kooks, you’re at a numerical disadvantage.

Let’s face it, you RAH RAH GO TEAM folks in the TPGOP: You either repudiate these fucks and toss them out of your party or you fucking own them.

81 becominginvisible  Aug 23, 2014 3:46:27pm

re: #60 BeachDem

As annoyed as I was at the people interviewed I was really pleased that it’s the way they talk to media outside the US. Although it’s pretty much what outside the US already knows it gets bounced back to the US as what we are telling the rest of the world.
(I think I need to stop trying to figure out my new smart phone for today. It’s early but cats do agility training too! Link heads up the music is bit loud)

82 Charles Johnson  Aug 23, 2014 3:46:41pm

re: #65 Ace-o-aces

Note - to get that “Updated at” timestamp and dividing line, just put the word “Update:” on its own line and it will be automatically converted to the divider and timestamp.

83 becominginvisible  Aug 23, 2014 3:56:07pm

re: #61 Gus

Wait what are the guys on the right pointing their weapons at? And 2 of them are wearing shorts. How professional.

84 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 4:04:12pm

re: #83 becominginvisible

Wait what are the guys on the right pointing their weapons at? And 2 of them are wearing shorts. How professional.

Apparently he met the description of a suspect in the college. Don’t really have the complete story yet. I guess this means next times there’s an armed suspect in a school in the future cops can only stop the suspect and the suspect only and if they stop someone who isn’t the suspect they get fired or something, something.

85 jaunte  Aug 23, 2014 4:06:51pm

re: #71 wrenchwench

‘whitejacob88’ has ‘upgraded’ his ‘shop.

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Flag the media, as well as blocking that white supremacist piece of shit.

Twitter’s reporting ‘feature’ is less than useless.

86 wrenchwench  Aug 23, 2014 4:06:53pm
87 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 4:07:11pm

Here.

SAN MARCOS, Calif. - There were terrifying moments for people on the campus of Cal State San Marcos on Wednesday morning as the university was stormed by law enforcement and temporarily placed on lockdown for more than 30 minutes after reports of a suspicious person armed with a gun on campus.

So it was people who called this in thinking they saw a guy with a gun. Guess next time don’t call the cops. Or something.

88 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 4:08:13pm

Not the cops fault. The civies called him in as a man with gun. BBL. This cop stuff is getting a little to weird.

89 Charles Johnson  Aug 23, 2014 4:13:13pm

The US Copyright office weighs in:

Regulators: No One Can Copyright Animal Selfies, Not Even Monkeys

The monkey selfie is officially in the public domain.

90 becominginvisible  Aug 23, 2014 4:13:16pm

re: #87 Gus

Wow. The guy they cuffed said they were very professional (despite my thoughts on the dress code) and did the right thing. But the umbrella looks like an umbrella to me.

91 Stanley Sea  Aug 23, 2014 4:13:19pm

re: #86 wrenchwench

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lady bug lady bug FLY AWAY!!

92 Stanley Sea  Aug 23, 2014 4:14:11pm

re: #87 Gus

Here.

SAN MARCOS, Calif. - There were terrifying moments for people on the campus of Cal State San Marcos on Wednesday morning as the university was stormed by law enforcement and temporarily placed on lockdown for more than 30 minutes after reports of a suspicious person armed with a gun on campus.

So it was people who called this in thinking they saw a guy with a gun. Guess next time don’t call the cops. Or something.

Ah yeah, remember this. Umbrella man was identified and questioned.

There’s a lot of paranoia.

93 De Kolta Chair  Aug 23, 2014 4:14:12pm

Self-redacted for a cringe-worthy typo.

94 Charles Johnson  Aug 23, 2014 4:15:44pm
95 Stanley Sea  Aug 23, 2014 4:17:54pm

re: #94 Charles Johnson

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This has been two full weeks of hate. So hard to deal with.

96 teleskiguy  Aug 23, 2014 4:18:57pm

re: #94 Charles Johnson

The Darren Wilson supporter seems nice.

97 Bubblehead II  Aug 23, 2014 4:19:07pm

Evening Lizards.

98 Stanley Sea  Aug 23, 2014 4:19:57pm
99 Targetpractice  Aug 23, 2014 4:20:27pm

re: #98 Stanley Sea

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“Crazy Cat Lady Starter Pack.”

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100 Skip Intro  Aug 23, 2014 4:20:54pm

re: #95 Stanley Sea

There’s been hundreds of years of hate. It’s just that it usually doesn’t ooze out into the open like it has the last couple of years, backed by a significant portion of one of the two dominant political parties.

101 Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2014 4:21:27pm

re: #90 becominginvisible

Wow. The guy they cuffed said they were very professional (despite my thoughts on the dress code) and did the right thing. But the umbrella looks like an umbrella to me.

Or a sword concealed in an umbrella. Fukn’ hipsters.

102 teleskiguy  Aug 23, 2014 4:21:34pm
103 danarchy  Aug 23, 2014 4:23:30pm

re: #87 Gus

Here.

SAN MARCOS, Calif. - There were terrifying moments for people on the campus of Cal State San Marcos on Wednesday morning as the university was stormed by law enforcement and temporarily placed on lockdown for more than 30 minutes after reports of a suspicious person armed with a gun on campus.

So it was people who called this in thinking they saw a guy with a gun. Guess next time don’t call the cops. Or something.

Once in college we were doing a play that required a couple of rifles as props. The ROTC was nice enough to let us borrow a couple of their training rifles. They look and feel l like real rifles but don’t actually shoot. Me and a friend went to the rotc building to pick them up and bring them over to the theater building across campus.

One of the campus cops rolled up on us and asked very politely, hey guys, what’s with the rifles. We explained and he was like cool carry on. I can’t even imagine doing something like that now without calling campus police ahead of time and getting it cleared. Different times.

104 De Kolta Chair  Aug 23, 2014 4:23:54pm

re: #102 teleskiguy

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THE Hugo Gernsback, publisher of Amazing Stories Magazine?

105 teleskiguy  Aug 23, 2014 4:24:41pm

re: #104 De Kolta Chair

THE Hugo Gernsback, publisher of Amazing Stories Magazine?

Yup!

106 Teukka  Aug 23, 2014 4:24:54pm

re: #71 wrenchwench

Ditto, reported.

107 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 4:29:56pm

Before I read all 106 comments, I hope Dana Loesch, one of the most evil people I’ve ever met, gets called out on this shit. Sadly, I think she won’t.

Now back to the thread.

108 De Kolta Chair  Aug 23, 2014 4:30:23pm

re: #105 teleskiguy

Yup!

Groovy. Any relation to this guy?

109 Kilroy01  Aug 23, 2014 4:32:34pm

re: #108 De Kolta Chair
Now in a new portable size…

110 Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2014 4:33:09pm

re: #105 teleskiguy

Yup!

Is the Hugo award named for him?

111 wrenchwench  Aug 23, 2014 4:33:11pm

I’ve missed a lot of good frogs of the day.

112 TedStriker  Aug 23, 2014 4:39:03pm

re: #110 Decatur Deb

Is the Hugo award named for him?

Indeed it is:

The Hugo Awards are a set of awards given annually for the best science fiction or fantasy works and achievements of the previous year. The awards are named after Hugo Gernsback, the founder of the pioneering science fiction magazine Amazing Stories, and were officially named the Science Fiction Achievement Awards until 1992. Organized and overseen by the World Science Fiction Society, the awards are given each year at the annual World Science Fiction Convention as the central focus of the event. They were first given in 1953, at the 11th World Science Fiction Convention, and have been awarded every year since 1955. Over the years that the award has been given, the categories presented have changed; currently Hugo Awards are given in more than a dozen categories, and include both written and dramatic works of various types.

113 jaunte  Aug 23, 2014 4:39:22pm

re: #102 teleskiguy

Google glass is really half of a Gernsback glasses.

114 De Kolta Chair  Aug 23, 2014 4:39:44pm

re: #109 Kilroy01

How Jim Hoft sees himself:

115 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 4:39:47pm

re: #73 Charles Johnson

I just figured you’d be hearing endlessly from Dim Jim, (champion of darlin’ Dana,) if there was anything even slightly amiss!

116 Targetpractice  Aug 23, 2014 4:41:56pm

I do so ever love the argument that if somebody lives on the other side of St. Louis from Ferguson, they still qualify as “locals” and thus there are no “outside agitators.”

117 wrenchwench  Aug 23, 2014 4:42:56pm

This guy is an Egyptian blogger:

118 teleskiguy  Aug 23, 2014 4:43:39pm

Pro skier Tanner Hall is in Ferguson tonight.

119 TedStriker  Aug 23, 2014 4:44:26pm

Here’s something way cool for those of us who like Star Wars and the NFL:

Every NFL Team’s Football Helmet Reimagined With a ‘Star Wars’ Theme

120 Stanley Sea  Aug 23, 2014 4:46:43pm
121 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 4:46:46pm

re: #117 wrenchwench

This guy is an Egyptian blogger:

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The McDonalds sign stuck out first thing to me lol.

122 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 4:48:47pm

re: #120 Stanley Sea

This president has been mostly awesome at photo ops. No “Mission Accomplished” screw ups.

123 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 4:50:23pm

And just because we all need a good laugh, ladies and gents, TBogg:

Sarah Palin does ice bucket challenge, makes noise more horrifying than her speaking voice

Trend chasing community access TV hostess Sarah Palin heard about this here ALS Ice Bucket Challenge which is raising money for some disease or something or whatever -she doesn’t care,- and she decided to fill time with it on her rogue TV network with her being all cutesy and ‘g’-droppin’ again.

rawstory.com

124 teleskiguy  Aug 23, 2014 4:51:00pm

re: #118 teleskiguy

I gave Tanner Hall a Pro-Call-Out last winter. One of our ski boot fitters fits boots for a slew of pro freestyle skiers, including Tanner. Well, he came into the shop and I pounced!

“You’re Tanner Hall and I can’t believe you’re pro man, I’m so much better than you!”

Tanner shook my hand and said “It’s good to see you man!”

I got 500 Gnar points right there! The easiest Gnar points are the Fart Bags. Be the first to spot a one-piece suit whilst skiing, 50 points.

For more information on the game of Gnar, there is a full-length documentary on the subject.

Vimeo

125 Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2014 4:54:47pm

re: #112 TedStriker

Indeed it is:

Here’s a short (couple pages) story by a Hugo nominee of that era. Read it around ‘58:

The Liberation of Earth
William Tenn

This, then, is the story of our liberation. Suck air and grab clusters. Heigh-ho, here is the tale. August was the month, a Tuesday in August. These words are meaningless now, so far have we progressed; but many things known and discussed by our primitive ancestors, our unliberated, unreconstructed forefathers, are devoid of sense to our free minds. Still the tale must be told, with all of its incredible place-names and vanished points of reference.

Why must it be told? Have any of you a better thing to do? We have had water and weeds and lie in a valley of gusts, So rest, relax and listen. And suck air, suck air.

On a Tuesday in August, the ship appeared in the sky over France in a part of the world then known as Europe. Five miles long the ship was, and word has come down to us that it looked like an enormous silver cigar.

Pdf here:
google.com

126 Bubblehead II  Aug 23, 2014 4:55:25pm
127 GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 23, 2014 4:57:35pm

Dashboard cameras. How do they work?

Youtube Video

128 Stanley Sea  Aug 23, 2014 4:57:36pm

re: #123 BeachDem

And just because we all need a good laugh, ladies and gents, TBogg:

Sarah Palin does ice bucket challenge, makes noise more horrifying than her speaking voice

Trend chasing community access TV hostess Sarah Palin heard about this here ALS Ice Bucket Challenge which is raising money for some disease or something or whatever -she doesn’t care,- and she decided to fill time with it on her rogue TV network with her being all cutesy and ‘g’-droppin’ again.

rawstory.com

Stupid idiot. Copies Sir Pat.

129 Skip Intro  Aug 23, 2014 5:03:14pm

*JOKE*Gallup Poll: 71% of Tea Party Members Believe Ebola is President Obama’s Birthplace *JOKE*

130 ausador  Aug 23, 2014 5:11:27pm

re: #127 GlutenFreeJesus

Nope, nothing wrong here…

As soon as Prosecutors saw this video, they dismissed all of the charges against Jeter. Interesting to note, an investigation by Bloomfield PD’s scandal plagued internal affairs division had found no wrongdoing by officers.

131 De Kolta Chair  Aug 23, 2014 5:12:18pm

Some Doctors get no respect.

132 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 5:13:26pm

re: #131 De Kolta Chair

Some Doctors get no respect.

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EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!

133 De Kolta Chair  Aug 23, 2014 5:15:05pm

re: #132 Dark_Falcon

EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINATE!

134 Charles Johnson  Aug 23, 2014 5:15:36pm

Binge-watched the first season of Rectify on Netflix, now watching season 2 on Time Warner On Demand.

Unbelievably great series.

135 sagehen  Aug 23, 2014 5:17:43pm

re: #134 Charles Johnson

Binge-watched the first season of Rectify on Netflix, now watching season 2 on Time Warner On Demand.

Unbelievably great series.

So… do you have an opinion yet about whether or not he actually did it?

136 Stanley Sea  Aug 23, 2014 5:18:33pm

re: #127 GlutenFreeJesus

Dashboard cameras. How do they work?

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Stop trying to grab my gun! I bet that’s SOP for every police stop. Damn.

137 Stanley Sea  Aug 23, 2014 5:20:40pm

re: #134 Charles Johnson

Binge-watched the first season of Rectify on Netflix, now watching season 2 on Time Warner On Demand.

Unbelievably great series.

Dude. I haven’t watched the last 2. Because I’m super nervous and need some clean space/time to ingest. J. Smith Cameron who plays Janet, Daniel’s mother follows me on twitter. I gasped.

It is a fantastic show.

138 sagehen  Aug 23, 2014 5:21:11pm

I just started a Doctor Who spoiler thread…

littlegreenfootballs.com

139 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 5:21:53pm

re: #133 De Kolta Chair

OMG. I haven’t seen a Cannon mention in years!

140 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 5:21:58pm

re: #123 BeachDem

That story seriously bothers me at one point (offending portion bolded):

She then double dog dares Hillary Clinton, whom she hates with a frozen tundra iciness, to take the challenge, and also John McCain, presumably because he is old and the shock to his system will probably kill him and then he’ll never be able to finally confess that picking Sarah Palin as his running mate was worst fucking decision anyone has ever made in the history of mankind, and “please forgive me and have mercy upon my soul.”

No. John. We won’t. Stop asking.

Then someone -one of her meth kids probably — hits Sarah with some ice water and she screeches horrifically in a way that will make your testicles retract even if you don’t have them.

Making methaphedemine jokes about Sarah Palin’s children is NOT COOL. Calling someone a drug addict just because of whose child they are is ugly and wrong.

I also dispute that John McCain wouldn’t survive the Ice Bucket Challenge. He’s a pretty tough fellow, he’d do just fine. But he’d have to have someone else pour the bucket due to the injuries he sustained in service to the USA.

141 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 5:23:59pm

re: #140 Dark_Falcon

That story seriously bothers me at one point (offending portion bolded):

Making methaphedemine jokes about Sarah Palin’s children is NOT COOL. Calling someone a drug addict just because of whose child they are is ugly and wrong.

I also dispute that John McCain wouldn’t survive the Ice Bucket Challenge. He’s a pretty tough fellow, he’d do just fine. But he’d have to have someone else pour the bucket due to the injuries he sustained in service to the USA.

Your concern is duly noted.

142 Charles Johnson  Aug 23, 2014 5:24:06pm

re: #135 sagehen

Not really. It’s still pretty murky, but he’s one of the best characters I’ve seen recently.

143 darthstar  Aug 23, 2014 5:24:18pm

Seriously fucked up sequence of photos.

144 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 5:25:22pm

re: #143 darthstar

Seriously fucked up sequence of photos.

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Another Hamas rocket cache bites the dust.

145 Aqua Obama  Aug 23, 2014 5:25:52pm

So this is what it takes to get a police officer fired?

Trooper who arrested NFL’s Sam Montgomery fired

146 OhNoZombies!  Aug 23, 2014 5:27:03pm

I’m at the Browns Rams preseason game.
It’s hard for me to get excited, cause Browns.
I know!
Beer!..
(Sorry if I jacked the thread)

147 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 5:27:43pm

re: #146 OhNoZombies!

I’m at the Browns Rams preseason game.
It’s hard for me to get excited, cause Browns preseason.
I know!
Beer!..
(Sorry if I jacked the thread)

FTFY

148 teleskiguy  Aug 23, 2014 5:29:45pm

re: #127 GlutenFreeJesus

Just tweeted this.

149 darthstar  Aug 23, 2014 5:30:33pm

Someone call security.

Youtube Video

150 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 5:32:11pm

GIVE JOSIE A BREAK, SHE HAS A BROKEN ORBITAL EYE SOCKET!!!

What an incredible post, thank you Ace-of-aces, great job.

The GOP disinformation machine is incredibly fine tuned, shame they don’t use their talents towards the common good which would make this country better.

151 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 5:33:06pm

re: #146 OhNoZombies!

I’m at the Browns Rams preseason game.
It’s hard for me to get excited, cause Browns.
I know!
Beer!..
(Sorry if I jacked the thread)

This Texan thanks you and apologizes for you having to put up with Johnny Football. It won’t be long before he is flipping off the Dog Pound.

152 Stanley Sea  Aug 23, 2014 5:34:25pm

re: #140 Dark_Falcon

That story seriously bothers me at one point (offending portion bolded):

Making methaphedemine jokes about Sarah Palin’s children is NOT COOL. Calling someone a drug addict just because of whose child they are is ugly and wrong.

I also dispute that John McCain wouldn’t survive the Ice Bucket Challenge. He’s a pretty tough fellow, he’d do just fine. But he’d have to have someone else pour the bucket due to the injuries he sustained in service to the USA.

It was rude but….

First of all she’s not running for anything, so those courtesies don’t apply.

Second, you spew hate, you get hate in return. Ask Ann Coulter.

153 Stanley Sea  Aug 23, 2014 5:35:22pm

re: #146 OhNoZombies!

I’m at the Browns Rams preseason game.
It’s hard for me to get excited, cause Browns.
I know!
Beer!..
(Sorry if I jacked the thread)

JOE HADEN!!!

154 OhNoZombies!  Aug 23, 2014 5:35:32pm

re: #147 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Hey, this Browns fan just can’t pretend anymore…
Stadium is nice though!

155 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 5:35:57pm

re: #133 De Kolta Chair

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William Conrad as Cannon is a classic. I really never knew that William Conrad was the Marshall Matt Dillon in the radio version of Gunsmoke until I got Sirius Radio and started listening to radio calssics.

156 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 5:36:54pm

re: #145 Aqua Obama

So this is what it takes to get a police officer fired?

Trooper who arrested NFL’s Sam Montgomery fired

Well, according to the article the officer (his last name is Salter) in that case had violated the rules before in the same fashion:

The agency said Salter was disciplined previously for unprofessional conduct and making inappropriate comments.

”These violations demonstrate behavior that is inconsistent” with agency standards, the department said.

Salter comes across as the sort of bully who can’t be a responsible policeman. But in his case, he was being recorded and those recordings proved his bad conduct.

The lesson seems clear to me.

157 ObserverArt  Aug 23, 2014 5:38:03pm

Go Browns.

I like the white jersey with the dark pants tonight.

(Watchin’ in Columbus - lifelong, thick’n’thinner.)

158 darthstar  Aug 23, 2014 5:38:14pm

re: #146 OhNoZombies!

I’m at the Browns Rams preseason game.
It’s hard for me to get excited, cause Browns.
I know!
Beer!..
(Sorry if I jacked the thread)

You’re in Chicago? Cool!

159 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 5:38:35pm

re: #152 Stanley Sea

It was rude but….

First of all she’s not running for anything, so those courtesies don’t apply.

Second, you spew hate, you get hate in return. Ask Ann Coulter.

The courtesies are due to her children, not to her. And they have not themselves spewed hate and should not be insulted for their mother’s misdeeds.

160 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 5:38:58pm

If Josie really existed she would be on every wingnut show on the planet, have her own radio show by now, be mentioned as a possible republican candidate and be putting out a book by Labor Day.

161 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 5:39:17pm

re: #158 darthstar

You’re in Chicago? Cool!

And just what did THAT crack mean?

162 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Aug 23, 2014 5:39:22pm

re: #104 De Kolta Chair

THE Hugo Gernsback, publisher of Amazing Stories Magazine?

And eponym of the Hugo award. The very same.

163 KiTA  Aug 23, 2014 5:39:36pm

re: #148 teleskiguy

Its not good enough for them to just have vest and dash cams. They have to be uno disable able and the video has to be stored someplace the police do not have access to.

Otherwise, even if Wilson had a dash and vest can, it would have been disabled and of not, the video would have gone missing. I have no doubt about this — these cops are that corrupt.

164 alpuz  Aug 23, 2014 5:39:36pm

re: #47 Maddies Mom

As an ex-little league coach, it was a thing of beauty. Join the parade.

165 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 5:40:14pm

re: #159 Dark_Falcon

The courtesies are due to her children, not to her. And they have not themselves spewed hate and should not be insulted for their mother’s misdeeds.

Doesn’t her daughter also spew hate?

Edit: the one who was on Dancing With The Stars. I don’t know about the others.

166 darthstar  Aug 23, 2014 5:40:40pm

re: #159 Dark_Falcon

The Palin kids would blow themselves up if they tried cooking meth. Of course they’re not making it. Besides, they all are learning to grift from the master.

167 OhNoZombies!  Aug 23, 2014 5:41:12pm

re: #158 darthstar

Cleveland.

168 darthstar  Aug 23, 2014 5:41:35pm

re: #161 Dark_Falcon

And just what did THAT crack mean?

I get those midwest teams all mixed up. But I like the orange stripes on their helmets.

169 GeneJockey  Aug 23, 2014 5:41:38pm

re: #155 b.d.

William Conrad as Cannon is a classic. I really never knew that William Conrad was the Marshall Matt Dillon in the radio version of Gunsmoke until I got Sirius Radio and started listening to radio calssics.

Not to mention the narrator on “Rocky and Bullwinkle”.

170 ObserverArt  Aug 23, 2014 5:42:00pm

re: #159 Dark_Falcon

The courtesies are due to her children, not to her. And they have not themselves spewed hate and should not be insulted for their mother’s misdeeds.

I’m not going to excuse the behavior I agree with you. But, she is good at using her kids though. And Bristol has joined in the hate, though she is an adult now. If there is money to be made, I doubt Sarah considers they are kids, at that point they are earners.

So, in a way, she invites the bad behavior by her own. Again, no excuse, but Sarah blurs the lines.

171 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 5:42:04pm

re: #168 darthstar

I get those midwest teams all mixed up. But I like the orange stripes on their helmets.

They all look the same /////

172 darthstar  Aug 23, 2014 5:42:05pm

re: #167 OhNoZombies!

Cleveland.

Just fuckin’ with you. I’m a Viking fan. I get mocked by children in the street.

173 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 5:42:54pm

re: #169 GeneJockey

Not to mention the narrator on “Rocky and Bullwinkle”.

I did not know that!

174 ausador  Aug 23, 2014 5:43:07pm

Wave at the people here from Crooks and Liars folks…

crooksandliars.com

175 sagehen  Aug 23, 2014 5:43:11pm

re: #140 Dark_Falcon

Did anybody actually challenge her, or did she just decide to jump in ‘cause all the Kool Kids are doin’ it?

176 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 5:43:35pm

re: #168 darthstar

I get those midwest teams all mixed up. But I like the orange stripes on their helmets.

We’re good then. But if you root for the Vikings you’ll see the Rams again, since they meet the Rams during the regular season.

177 stpaulbear  Aug 23, 2014 5:44:18pm

re: #172 darthstar

Just fuckin’ with you. I’m a Viking fan. I get mocked by children in the street.

As well you should. I’m glad we didn’t win the stadium wars.

178 Stanley Sea  Aug 23, 2014 5:44:26pm

re: #175 sagehen

Did anybody actually challenge her, or did she just decide to jump in ‘cause all the Kool Kids are doin’ it?

Ha ha, good question.

179 OhNoZombies!  Aug 23, 2014 5:44:58pm

re: #161 Dark_Falcon

And just what did THAT crack mean?

Why would that be considered a crack?

180 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 5:45:02pm

re: #169 GeneJockey

Not to mention the narrator on “Rocky and Bullwinkle”.

Listening to Radio Classics on Sirius XM it is obvious that William Conrad never left the studio, he is on an awful lot of old radio shows. He was a great Matt Dillon even though I know what he looks like it still doesn’t connect.

181 teleskiguy  Aug 23, 2014 5:45:10pm

re: #172 darthstar

Just fuckin’ with you. I’m a Viking fan. I get mocked by children in the street.

Since football is on people’s minds, I’d like to again put out there my statement where I officially boycott the NFL.

littlegreenfootballs.com

182 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 5:45:33pm

re: #165 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I’d say Bristol spouted some DERP, but I don’t really think she’s a hater. But I’m pretty reluctant to apply that label to Americans, so I might be wrong.

183 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 5:46:18pm

re: #179 OhNoZombies!

Why would that be considered a crack?

I thought it was some sort of wisecrack aimed at the Bears.

184 sagehen  Aug 23, 2014 5:46:43pm

re: #145 Aqua Obama

So this is what it takes to get a police officer fired?

Trooper who arrested NFL’s Sam Montgomery fired

NFL players are spayshul, donchaknow. Dallas PD also fired that guy who caught a player running a red light, and then kept him in the hospital parking lot, at gunpoint, for so long he didn’t get to say goodbye to his dying mother-in-law. Even after a nurse came out and told the cop it was for real, and please let him come in, and he was begging please just write me the ticket…

185 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 5:47:54pm

re: #140 Dark_Falcon

That story seriously bothers me at one point (offending portion bolded):

Making methaphedemine jokes about Sarah Palin’s children is NOT COOL. Calling someone a drug addict just because of whose child they are is ugly and wrong.

I also dispute that John McCain wouldn’t survive the Ice Bucket Challenge. He’s a pretty tough fellow, he’d do just fine. But he’d have to have someone else pour the bucket due to the injuries he sustained in service to the USA.

I challenge Sarah Palin to do the Ice Bucket Challenge outdoors in Wasilla, Alaska on either Christmas or New Year’s, her choice.

186 Stanley Sea  Aug 23, 2014 5:48:18pm

re: #178 Stanley Sea

Ha ha, good question.

It was probably one of her kids.

187 wrenchwench  Aug 23, 2014 5:48:51pm

Youtube Video

Later, lizards.

188 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 5:49:41pm

re: #140 Dark_Falcon

I also dispute that John McCain wouldn’t survive the Ice Bucket Challenge. He’s a pretty tough fellow, he’d do just fine. But he’d have to have someone else pour the bucket due to the injuries he sustained in service to the USA.

McCain is 80+

189 alpuz  Aug 23, 2014 5:50:50pm

re: #172 darthstar

They know, Darth. They, know.

190 Aqua Obama  Aug 23, 2014 5:51:36pm

Is this Thelonious Monk’s car

Image: orlwNPK.jpg

191 Kid A  Aug 23, 2014 5:51:56pm
192 ausador  Aug 23, 2014 5:53:01pm

re: #190 Aqua Obama

Is this Thelonious Monk’s car

Image: orlwNPK.jpg

Needs more chrome bits… ///

193 ausador  Aug 23, 2014 5:53:18pm
194 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 5:54:13pm

re: #190 Aqua Obama

Is this Thelonious Monk’s car

Image: orlwNPK.jpg

Awesome, Texas plates, I’m surprised they had a self service island back then? He must have been pulled over once for having a burnt out headlight.

195 GeneJockey  Aug 23, 2014 5:55:19pm

re: #193 ausador

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It’s not missing. It’s in the water. Lots of people forget that there’s more to climate than air temps.

196 ObserverArt  Aug 23, 2014 5:56:26pm

re: #192 ausador

Needs more chrome bits… ///

Looks like he bought the whole JC Whitney catalog.

197 alpuz  Aug 23, 2014 5:56:41pm

re: #140 Dark_Falcon

I was under the impression that word-salad Sarah was uncool. Has that changed?

Why should I, or anyone respect one single thing she’s done? She’s a grifter. Am I now suppose to give respect to grifters? How about con-men & thugs?

198 Kid A  Aug 23, 2014 5:56:58pm

The thing with wingnuts is that they’re not just ignorant, they are proud to be ignorant. It’s a badge of honor with them, and it’s really sad.

199 teleskiguy  Aug 23, 2014 5:57:14pm

Just got off the phone with my mom. She called asking if I was watching the Bronco game. I told her just about everything I said in this comment. An exchange:

Me: It’s just organized violence.

Mom: You’re absolutely right.

Me: Which is worse? A spousal abuser or a cannabis smoker? Roger Goodell thinks cannabis is worse.

Mom: You’re right. You’re right about that.

Me: Let’s turn all these young men into hamburger for our enjoyment! And let’s let the NFL get away with horrible labor practices!

Mom: Gotta love America.

200 GeneJockey  Aug 23, 2014 5:58:56pm

re: #173 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I did not know that!

I heard an interview with him once where he talked about it. When he started, he read the line, and Jay Ward said, “Faster!”

So he read it again. And Jay Ward said, “Faster!”

This happened several times, which is probably why you don’t realize it’s William Conrad.

201 lawhawk  Aug 23, 2014 5:59:04pm

Nice post here. It’s amazing how easily these stories fall apart once the slightest bit of light is shed on them.

And yet there are people who think that Ferguson PD or the STL County Police aren’t racial discriminating against blacks in their vehicle stops. That’s even as the MO AG report categorically and unequivocably states as much - based on the racial makeup of the community, blacks are being stopped far more often than whites when figuring for the makeup. It’s not just that there are more blacks so there should be more black stops. It’s that there’s a disproportionate number of stops.

202 GeneJockey  Aug 23, 2014 5:59:49pm

re: #196 ObserverArt

Looks like he bought the whole JC Whitney catalog.

Even the checkerboard duct tape for hiding dents and rust?

203 teleskiguy  Aug 23, 2014 6:01:15pm

re: #198 Kid A

The thing with wingnuts is that they’re not just ignorant, they are proud to be ignorant. It’s a badge of honor with them, and it’s really sad.

I attribute that to organized religion, especially the more fundamentalist aspects of Protestantism. The “Moral Majority” that came to prominence during the Reagan years have done real and lasting damage to the body politic, of which proud ignorance among the true believers is but one symptom.

204 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 6:01:18pm

re: #199 teleskiguy

You should watch the Cowboys game that I’m watching.

There’s absolutely nothing organized about it and the only violence I’ve seen is a kicker connecting with the ball resulting in a 6-3 score in the 3rd quarter.

205 ausador  Aug 23, 2014 6:02:22pm

re: #195 GeneJockey

It’s not missing. It’s in the water. Lots of people forget that there’s more to climate than air temps.

Yes, the study the article is about is just saying that this time it is the Atlantic ocean absorbing the majority of the heat. Previous pauses were explained primarily by Pacific Ocean temperature increases but that wasn’t seen this time.

206 teleskiguy  Aug 23, 2014 6:03:50pm

re: #204 b.d.

You should watch the Cowboys game that I’m watching.

There’s absolutely nothing organized about it and the only violence I’ve seen is a kicker connecting with the ball resulting in a 6-3 score in the 3rd quarter.

I’ve kept my promise and haven’t watched a single play since the preseason started. I’ve heard a lot about excessive penalties and how the game is turning into a flag-football game.

Good. I hope the NFL get so boring no one watches it anymore and goes out of business.

Hey, I can dream, can’t I?

207 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 6:05:34pm

re: #206 teleskiguy

I’ve kept my promise and haven’t watched a single play since the preseason started. I’ve heard a lot about excessive penalties and how the game is turning into a flag-football game.

Good. I hope the NFL get so boring no one watches it anymore and goes out of business.

Hey, I can dream, can’t I?

Football will never be more boring than baseball and they’re still doing just fine. Jerry Jones is doing his best to make your dream come true though, his team is really hard to watch.

208 Skip Intro  Aug 23, 2014 6:06:15pm

re: #166 darthstar

The Palin kids would blow themselves up if they tried cooking meth. Of course they’re not making it. Besides, they all are learning to grift from the master.

Not all of them. Willow actually got a real job. But Bristol is a chip off the old blockhead, angry and mean.

209 Kid A  Aug 23, 2014 6:07:30pm

re: #208 Skip Intro

Not all of them. Willow actually got a real job. But Bristol is a chip off the old blockhead, angry and mean.

Didn’t her son go into the military? Can’t remember his name. Levi, perhaps?

210 Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2014 6:08:00pm

re: #195 GeneJockey

It’s not missing. It’s in the water. Lots of people forget that there’s more to climate than air temps.

There’s a shitload of it here in Baja Alabama tonight.

211 Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2014 6:09:11pm

re: #209 Kid A

Didn’t her son go into the military? Can’t remember his name. Levi, perhaps?

Track. Levi is her grandbaby daddy. (I have a Field Guide to the Loons.)

212 Skip Intro  Aug 23, 2014 6:10:56pm

re: #209 Kid A

Didn’t her son go into the military? Can’t remember his name. Levi, perhaps?

Yeah, there was something about him too, but since I don’t see his face or his tweets every other day he gets a pass from me.

213 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 6:11:10pm

re: #197 alpuz

I was under the impression that word-salad Sarah was uncool. Has that changed?

Why should I, or anyone respect one single thing she’s done? She’s a grifter. Am I now suppose to give respect to grifters? How about con-men & thugs?

Calling someone a drug addict just because his or her mother is a grifter is wrong in my eyes.

214 Stephen T.  Aug 23, 2014 6:11:54pm

re: #181 teleskiguy

I suppose you could say I, too, boycott the NFL. I’ve never understood how anyone can get any enjoyment out of watching a sport instead of playing a sport, but I’ve learned to live with being an oddball when it comes to televised sports coverage.

215 Skip Intro  Aug 23, 2014 6:12:08pm

re: #211 Decatur Deb

Track. Levi is her grandbaby daddy. (I have a Field Guide to the Loons.)

I keep my Breeding Habits of the Palins nearby for reference.

216 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 6:12:39pm

re: #211 Decatur Deb

Track. Levi is her grandbaby daddy. (I have a Field Guide to the Loons.)

Levi also did a Playgirl spread thus classying up the family tree even further,

217 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 6:12:56pm

re: #211 Decatur Deb

Track. Levi is her grandbaby daddy. (I have a Field Guide to the Loons.)

She has two grandchildren, one of whom Track fathered. Levi Johnson is the asshole who knocked up her eldest daughter.

What you might have read recently is that Bristol Palin is suing Johnson for unpaid child support.

218 TedStriker  Aug 23, 2014 6:13:45pm

re: #217 Dark_Falcon

She has two grandchildren, one of whom Track fathered. Levi Johnson is the asshole who knocked up her eldest daughter.

What you might have read recently is that Bristol Palin is suing Johnson for unpaid child support.

Classy, Levi…

219 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 6:15:02pm

re: #216 b.d.

Levi also did a Playgirl spread thus classying up the family tree even further,

He also named his second child Breeze Beretta Johnson. Beretta being a reference to the Italian gun making firm of the same name, more specifically he was referencing the Model 92 pistol, which is issued by the US military as the M9.

220 Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2014 6:15:41pm

re: #217 Dark_Falcon

She has two grandchildren, one of whom Track fathered. Levi Johnson is the asshole who knocked up her eldest daughter.

What you might have read recently is that Bristol Palin is suing Johnson for unpaid child support.

Track seems innocent of the whole mess. Dumping on kids is useless, but check the old traffic re drugs.

221 ObserverArt  Aug 23, 2014 6:16:22pm

re: #211 Decatur Deb

Track. Levi is her grandbaby daddy. (I have a Field Guide to the Loons.)

Do you have the proper approved Duck Dynasty® Duck Call™ that is specific for calling out a Palin loon?

222 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 6:16:35pm

re: #219 Dark_Falcon

He also named his second child Breeze Beretta Johnson. Beretta being a reference to the Italian gun making firm of the same name, more specifically he was referencing the Model 92 pistol, which is issued by the US military as the M9.

Beretta is such a prettier name than Mossberg

223 Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2014 6:17:29pm

re: #221 ObserverArt

Do you have the proper approved Duck Dynasty(r) Duck CallTM that is specific for calling out a Palin loon?

Nah. Used the turkey call once, but it got ugly.

224 Decatur Deb  Aug 23, 2014 6:18:14pm

re: #222 b.d.

Beretta is such a prettier name than Mossberg

Or J.C. Higgins, for a girl.

225 alpuz  Aug 23, 2014 6:19:16pm

re: #213 Dark_Falcon

OK. So do you also hold the grifter to similar standards?

226 Amory Blaine  Aug 23, 2014 6:20:15pm

Walker says he was unaware of $700,000 donation from mining company
Channeling Shultz

Gov. Scott Walker said Saturday he played no role in soliciting cash from a mining company for the Wisconsin Club for Growth during the 2011 and 2012 recall elections, adding that no one should be surprised that the pro-business governor backed legislation helpful to the firm.

Asked if he was aware that Gogebic Taconite secretly donated $700,000 to Wisconsin Club for Growth — a pro-business advocacy group directed by the governor’s campaign adviser — Walker said, “Not to my knowledge.”

When asked if the previously undisclosed funds and subsequent legislation were part of some pay-to-play scheme, Walker said, “That’s a ridiculous argument.”

227 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 6:21:34pm

re: #226 Amory Blaine

Walker says he was unaware of $700,000 donation from mining company
Channeling Shultz

Walker is a piece of fucking work. Corrupt as can be and just hand-waving all over the place.

228 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Aug 23, 2014 6:21:49pm

re: #214 Stephen T.

I suppose you could say I, too, boycott the NFL. I’ve never understood how anyone can get any enjoyment out of watching a sport instead of playing a sport, but I’ve learned to live with being an oddball when it comes to televised sports coverage.

me2— If I don’t own it, play on it, or coach it, it is NOT “my” team. Ugh

229 Skip Intro  Aug 23, 2014 6:22:36pm

re: #221 ObserverArt

Do you have the proper approved Duck Dynasty(r) Duck CallTM that is specific for calling out a Palin loon?

You don’t need a duck call for that. Just rattle some spare change in a can.

230 sagehen  Aug 23, 2014 6:22:49pm

re: #217 Dark_Falcon

She has two grandchildren, one of whom Track fathered. Levi Johnson is the asshole who knocked up her eldest daughter.

What you might have read recently is that Bristol Palin is suing Johnson for unpaid child support.

Bristol’s income is well into the six figures, Levi’s is near poverty line. Why the hell is he the one who should be paying child support?

231 teleskiguy  Aug 23, 2014 6:23:35pm
232 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 6:24:03pm

re: #221 ObserverArt

Do you have the proper approved Duck Dynasty(r) Duck Call Commander Duck CallTM that is specific for calling out a Palin loon?

Slight correction for accuracy. The Duck Commander duck call predates the TV show by a good number of years.

233 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 6:25:50pm

re: #230 sagehen

Bristol’s income is well into the six figures, Levi’s is near poverty line. Why the hell is he the one who should be paying child support?

Her income was in the six figures a few years ago. But she hasn’t done much since and she never bothered to take up a trade like her sister Willow (who is a hair stylist).

234 Lidane  Aug 23, 2014 6:26:23pm
235 William Barnett-Lewis  Aug 23, 2014 6:26:56pm

re: #226 Amory Blaine

So Scooter, you’re either terminally stupid or a criminal. Which is it?

236 jaunte  Aug 23, 2014 6:28:54pm
237 stpaulbear  Aug 23, 2014 6:29:37pm

re: #234 Lidane

I’m really glad to see that - for so many reasons.

238 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 6:29:49pm

re: #236 jaunte

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WTF?

239 alpuz  Aug 23, 2014 6:30:22pm

re: #235 William Barnett-Lewis

both

240 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 6:31:29pm

re: #239 alpuz

both

I was going for the “both” vote too.

241 OhNoZombies!  Aug 23, 2014 6:31:44pm

re: #236 jaunte

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They’re desperate as hell!!!
Hahahah

242 jaunte  Aug 23, 2014 6:32:04pm

re: #241 OhNoZombies!

Last man standing?

243 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 6:33:18pm

re: #236 jaunte

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Chris is either hacked or whacked:

244 ObserverArt  Aug 23, 2014 6:33:29pm

re: #232 Dark_Falcon

Slight correction for accuracy. The Duck Commander duck call predates the TV show by a good number of years.

Humor Dark. Humor. Sometimes you get to stretch the truth to make a funny.

See, Sarah was all in on Duck Dynasty in that big ‘free speech’ blow up over Phil the Duck Pastor testifyin’ at church.

I doubt much if Sarah knows about the real duck calls. She’s only an expert at hunting caribou. /

245 OhNoZombies!  Aug 23, 2014 6:33:35pm

re: #242 jaunte

Has to be.

246 stpaulbear  Aug 23, 2014 6:34:13pm

re: #235 William Barnett-Lewis

So Scooter, you’re either terminally stupid or a criminal. Which is it?

All of them, Katie.

247 Skip Intro  Aug 23, 2014 6:35:03pm

re: #236 jaunte

My money’s on the Morning Squint. He’s tanned, rested, and ready, and that unfortunate body in the office business is such old news.

248 jaunte  Aug 23, 2014 6:35:39pm

re: #247 Skip Intro

I see reverse mortgages in his future.

249 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 6:36:59pm

re: #243 b.d.

Chris is either hacked or whacked:

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Politics is a helluva drug.

250 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 6:37:32pm

re: #244 ObserverArt

Humor Dark. Humor. Sometimes you get to stretch the truth to make a funny.

See, Sarah was all in on Duck Dynasty in that big ‘free speech’ blow up over Phil the Duck Pastor testifyin’ at church.

I doubt much if Sarah knows about the real duck calls. She’s only an expert at hunting caribou. /

Oh, I knew what you meant. But I have a veritable mania for accuracy.

251 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 6:37:58pm

re: #249 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Politics is a helluva drug.

As long as he doesn’t send everybody a picture of his pecker then it’s cool.

252 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 6:39:06pm

re: #250 Dark_Falcon

Oh, i knew what you meant. But I have a veritable mania for accuracy.

oh bullshit.

253 Sionainn  Aug 23, 2014 6:41:43pm

re: #148 teleskiguy

Just tweeted this.

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Wow! Just shared this.

254 stpaulbear  Aug 23, 2014 6:43:00pm

re: #226 Amory Blaine

Walker says he was unaware of $700,000 donation from mining company
Channeling Shultz

Sure he didn’t know anything about it.

Gov. Scott Walker prodded outside groups and individuals to funnel millions of dollars into Wisconsin Club for Growth — a pro-Walker group directed by his campaign adviser — during the recall elections in 2011 and 2012, according to court documents unsealed for a short time Friday afternoon.

The documents form much of the basis for prosecutors’ theory that Walker’s campaign and conservative groups illegally cooperated to help him and other Republicans. Walker and the groups deny they broke any laws, noting two judges have sided with them.

Among the funds that flowed into the Wisconsin Club for Growth was $700,000 from a company trying to build a massive open-pit iron mine in northern Wisconsin. Soon after the 2012 recall and general elections, Walker and Republicans eased environmental regulations, helping the firm.

255 Skip Intro  Aug 23, 2014 6:45:51pm

re: #254 stpaulbear

Among the funds that flowed into the Wisconsin Club for Growth was $700,000 from a company trying to build a massive open-pit iron mine in northern Wisconsin. Soon after the 2012 recall and general elections, Walker and Republicans eased environmental regulations, helping the firm.

Buying a politician still provides the best return on investment in the US, and it’s legal.

256 TedStriker  Aug 23, 2014 6:47:58pm

re: #255 Skip Intro

Buying a politician still provides the best return on investment in the US.

But, don’t ever accuse Walker or his ilk of ‘quid pro quo’, nosireebob…

257 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 6:48:02pm

JUST LIKE BUSH’S 3rd TERM!!

258 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 6:49:29pm

re: #257 b.d.

JUST LIKE BUSH’S 3rd TERM!!

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But DRONEZ!!!11!

259 Skip Intro  Aug 23, 2014 6:50:17pm

re: #256 TedStriker

But, don’t ever accuse Walker or his ilk or ‘quid pro quo’, nosireebob…

Not unless you can get a pic of Walker receiving a huge bag of money labeled BRIBE. That’s the bar the Supreme Court has set.

260 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 6:53:13pm

Having one of their own murder James Foley appears to have seriously angered the British:

SAS high-tech hunt for the killers of James Foley: ‘Significant force’ of UK elite troops on ground in Iraq

And as for the scumbag the Brits are calling “Johnny Jihad”, my own words would be to quote Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) of Ocean’s Eleven: “Congratulations, you’re a dead man.”

261 alpuz  Aug 23, 2014 6:53:20pm

re: #254 stpaulbear

Yeah, and that’s coming from the MJS. They’ve covered his ass since day one.
The editorial board endorsed him in both elections. This is after his stint in Milwaukee County.

Journal communications also owns the right wing radio that pumps coordinated bullshit throughout the area. Just google Charlie Sykes, or Vickie Mckenna.

This then gets picked up by local am radio across the state.

Wanna listen to a Brewer game? How about the Badgers? Welp, you’ll find the RWNJ’s before and after these broadcasts spilling their spiel.

Welcome to Wisconsin.

262 teleskiguy  Aug 23, 2014 6:53:35pm

The album “Days” by the band Real Estate has helped ease my mind with all the hatred I see when I get on a computer. Very chill, cerebral, not-at-all overwhelming, no sharp edges. I dig.

263 freetoken  Aug 23, 2014 6:53:56pm

re: #193 ausador

This story is more of a non-story. The rather poor handling by many media outlets of knowing what is “warming”, that yearly fluctuations are to be expected, that the surface temperature changes are not monotonic, that measuring the climate is more than measuring the surface temperature 1 meter above ground level… and so on …

The complexity of the issues around climate change, like so many contemporary science stories, are not neatly bottled into the headline-only depth of media, including HuffPo.

264 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 6:57:07pm

re: #260 Dark_Falcon

Having one of their own murder James Foley appears to have seriously angered the British:

SAS high-tech hunt for the killers of James Foley: ‘Significant force’ of UK elite troops on ground in Iraq

And as for the scumbag the Brits are calling “Johnny Jihad”, my own words would be to quote Terry Benedict (Andy Garcia) of Ocean’s Eleven: “Congratulations, you’re a dead man.”

Are they sure he’s British? Just because he has a London accent (per NPR) doesn’t mean he was a citizen.

265 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 6:59:35pm

re: #159 Dark_Falcon

The courtesies are due to her children, not to her. And they have not themselves spewed hate and should not be insulted for their mother’s misdeeds.

Oh please—Bristol Palin has had so many nasty things to say about so many people—spare me the Palin pity party.

266 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 6:59:50pm

re: #264 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Are they sure he’s British? Just because he has a London accent (per NPR) doesn’t mean he was a citizen.

TMZ, of all sites, seem to claim they know who he is:

tmz.com

British Rapper Suspected
In Journalist Beheading
8/23/2014 12:52 AM PDT BY TMZ STAFF

One of the men suspected of beheading American journalist James Foley was once an aspiring rapper.

Abdel-Majed Abdel Bary — a 24-year old who reportedly left home last year to fight in Syria’s civil war — used to go by the name L. Jinny … and even had some of his music played on BBC Radio.

Bary tweeted a picture of himself holding a severed head earlier this month … and the Telegraph says he’s a suspect in Foley’s execution.

According to reports … former ISIS hostages have given him the nickname “John the Beatle” — because of his British accent.

Read more: tmz.com

267 sagehen  Aug 23, 2014 7:00:14pm

re: #264 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I’m sure they have a database of British passports used to go to that region, British Muslims whose parents/siblings/neighbors have reported them as going there, etc.

If he’s one of theirs (and not just someone who learned English from a teacher with that accent), they’ll figure out who he is.

268 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 7:01:49pm

re: #267 sagehen

re: #266 b.d.

I heard on NPR that they were zeroing in on the guy. I’m not saying he’s not a useless fuck, but was just wondering his citizenship status. And thanks for the additional info.

269 Kragar  Aug 23, 2014 7:02:07pm

Had to take a Dr Who break

270 teleskiguy  Aug 23, 2014 7:02:15pm

Because of course.

271 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 7:03:04pm

re: #270 teleskiguy

Desk, Fire, you know the drill.

272 alpuz  Aug 23, 2014 7:03:06pm
Walker and Republicans eased environmental regulations, helping the firm.

They didn’t ‘ease’ regs. The freakin’ mining company wrote the bill. Then the WisGoP state assembly(ALEC) passed it.

Eased…. what a load.

273 ObserverArt  Aug 23, 2014 7:03:08pm

re: #250 Dark_Falcon

Oh, I knew what you meant. But I have a veritable mania for accuracy.

I see you are making a funny too.

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274 Kragar  Aug 23, 2014 7:03:19pm

The small city of Jennings, Mo., had a police department so troubled, and with so much tension between white officers and black residents, that the city council finally decided to disband it. Everyone in the Jennings police department was fired. New officers were brought in to create a credible department from scratch.

That was three years ago. One of the officers who worked in that department, and lost his job along with everyone else, was a young man named Darren Wilson.

Some of the Jennings officers reapplied for their jobs, but Wilson got a job in the police department in the nearby city of Ferguson.

275 Varek Raith  Aug 23, 2014 7:06:11pm

I’m utterly shocked it was a fake.
And that the media fell for it completely.
Shocked, I tells ya!

276 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 7:07:09pm

re: #275 Varek Raith

I’m utterly shocked it was a fake.
And that the media fell for it completely.
Shocked, I tells ya!

You have to be fair and balanced even if the facts aren’t.

//

277 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 7:07:17pm
278 teleskiguy  Aug 23, 2014 7:09:00pm

re: #274 Kragar

There’s been something rotten going on in the St. Louis part of the world for a long time. It’s tragic that it took the death of 18-year-old Michael Brown to expose this shit. And I have this sinking feeling that shit’s not going to change much over the rest of this decade.

I talked with my father about this stuff a few nights ago. I brought up racism, and he said “It’ll take 2 or 3 generations from now to smooth things over. My dad said it would take 10 generations after World War II to see any kind of eradication of racism. I think it’ll happen sooner, but we’ve got a long ways to go.”

I’m not quoting my pops verbatim, but that’s pretty much what he said.

279 Varek Raith  Aug 23, 2014 7:09:08pm

re: #276 b.d.

You have to be fair and balanced even if the facts aren’t.

//

Then allow me to tell you about the only conspiracy theory I like.
Roswell.
There, I said it.
:P

280 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 7:09:30pm

re: #275 Varek Raith

I’m utterly shocked it was a fake.
And that the media fell for it completely.
Shocked, I tells ya!

There is gambling in this establishment?

281 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 7:09:45pm

Giuliani, who was in the store by herself, was confronted by a sales clerk and a store security guard, who called police.

Sources said she allegedly stole five items, worth about $100.

During the wait for cops to arrive, store officials established the suspect’s identity, and apparently had a change of heart and declined to press charges. But by then it was too late, and the daughter of the man who built a reputation for being tough on crime was carted out in handcuffs.

282 Bubblehead II  Aug 23, 2014 7:10:21pm

Night Lizards, As always. May the the Deity smile down upon yoo.

283 stpaulbear  Aug 23, 2014 7:10:39pm

re: #270 teleskiguy

Because of course.

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It saves their SO from having to buy an ‘I’m with stupid —->’ t shirt.

284 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 7:11:25pm
285 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 7:11:33pm

re: #280 Rev_Arthur_Belling

There is gambling in this establishment?

Your winnings, sir.

286 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 7:11:49pm

Link?

287 TedStriker  Aug 23, 2014 7:12:33pm

re: #274 Kragar

E-gads…

288 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 7:12:45pm

re: #285 Dark_Falcon

Your winnings, sir.

That movie hangs together so well, even so many years later.

289 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 7:13:09pm

re: #286 b.d.

Link?

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I thought that was a bot?

290 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 7:13:27pm

re: #277 Gus

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The cops would have been totally justified in gunning down Giuliani’s unarmed child in the street.

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291 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 7:13:31pm

re: #286 b.d.

Link?

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freerepublic.com

292 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 7:13:55pm

re: #288 Rev_Arthur_Belling

That movie hangs together so well, even so many years later.

A true classic.

293 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 7:14:19pm

re: #289 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I thought that was a bot?

I think it is a “best of” twitter feed?

Tweets are curated from over 15 years of forum archives from FreeRepublic: The Premier Conservative Site on the Net.

294 TedStriker  Aug 23, 2014 7:14:53pm

re: #284 Gus

At one point tonight, Michael Brown protesters chanted “hands up, don’t shoot!” Darren Wilson supporters responded: “Shoot! Shoot! Shoot!”
— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) August 24, 2014

Seriously, RBS should start a Kickstarter for his pre-treated balsa wood desk, because there’s certainly a need to be filled here.

295 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 7:15:08pm

re: #293 b.d.

I think it is a “best of” twitter feed?

I think they’re using the word “premiere” wrong.

296 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 7:15:16pm

re: #291 Gus

freerepublic.com

That’s really not quite the link I was looking for.

;p

297 Skip Intro  Aug 23, 2014 7:15:36pm

re: #281 Gus

If my math is correct, that’s around twice the amount Mike Brown stole. That should have been worth a dozen rounds, easy.

298 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 7:16:22pm

re: #297 Skip Intro

If my math is correct, that’s around twice the amount Mike Brown stole. That should have been worth a dozen rounds, easy.

Line her up!!

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299 De Kolta Chair  Aug 23, 2014 7:17:19pm

re: #292 Dark_Falcon

A true classic.

The Rifftrax crew had fun with it.


Youtube Video

300 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 7:18:26pm

re: #293 b.d.

I think it is a “best of” twitter feed?

I don’t think a bot could make this stuff up.

301 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 7:19:26pm

re: #300 b.d.

I don’t think a bot could make this stuff up.

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But a bot could pull random shit from the sewer of FR comments.

302 TedStriker  Aug 23, 2014 7:19:32pm

re: #281 Gus

Giuliani, who was in the store by herself, was confronted by a sales clerk and a store security guard, who called police.

Sources said she allegedly stole five items, worth about $100.

During the wait for cops to arrive, store officials established the suspect’s identity, and apparently had a change of heart and declined to press charges. But by then it was too late, and the daughter of the man who built a reputation for being tough on crime was carted out in handcuffs.

Sounds like the store employees only put 2+2 together after the cops got called, but it was too late to call the cops off.

Good…she shouldn’t get a pass for this, no matter whose loins she issued from.

303 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 7:20:05pm
304 Varek Raith  Aug 23, 2014 7:20:05pm

Mike, join Kevin in hell.

Will do.

305 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 7:20:24pm

re: #301 Rev_Arthur_Belling

But a bot could pull random shit from the sewer of FR comments.

I hope it is a bot, a normal human would go stark raving mad reading all of those comments.

306 Skip Intro  Aug 23, 2014 7:20:58pm

re: #302 TedStriker

Sounds like the store employees only put 2+2 together after the cops got called, but it was too late to call the cops off.

Good…she shouldn’t get a pass for this, no matter whose loins she issued from.

Oh she’ll get a pass, and an apology, and probably the stuff she stole as well.

307 sagehen  Aug 23, 2014 7:20:59pm

re: #277 Gus

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That’s got to be worth at least as much as a pack of Swisher Sweets. Perhaps she should be gunned down in the street and left there for four hours.

308 TedStriker  Aug 23, 2014 7:21:01pm

re: #305 b.d.

I hope it is a bot, a normal human would go stark raving mad reading all of those comments.

Maybe that’s why the bot has the job now…

///

309 TedStriker  Aug 23, 2014 7:22:19pm

re: #306 Skip Intro

Oh she’ll get a pass, and an apology, and probably the stuff she stole as well.

Yeah, who am I kidding?

I’m sure the store management has already heard from Rudy at this point.

310 Skip Intro  Aug 23, 2014 7:25:11pm

re: #309 TedStriker

Yeah, who am I kidding?

I’m sure the store management has already head from Rudy at this point.

Yes, because as Chief Justice Roberts has stated, high or low, we’re all the same under the law.

311 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 7:26:03pm

No, what should have happened was that Michael Brown should have been punished appropriately for stealing those mini-cigars:

I think he should have spent his Christmas break from college doing community service and he should have been made to pay the store owner $50 for having stolen from him. Once those things had been attended to, I’d have expunged Brown’s record if he kept out of trouble for 2-3 years.

That is how things should have gone.

312 teleskiguy  Aug 23, 2014 7:26:33pm

The gal that got all stabby stabby in “Psycho”

Schwing!

313 TedStriker  Aug 23, 2014 7:27:06pm

re: #307 sagehen

That’s got to be worth at least as much as a pack of Swisher Sweets. Perhaps she should be gunned down in the street and left there for four hours.

Will never happen, of course; in cases like this, being white is almost like having their own permanent bulletproof vest.

Of course, guns will have never been drawn in the first place.

314 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 7:27:20pm

BTW, @whitejacob88 has been suspended.

315 Varek Raith  Aug 23, 2014 7:27:57pm

re: #314 Gus

BTW, @whitejacob88 has been suspended.

Can’t possibly imagine why.
/

316 De Kolta Chair  Aug 23, 2014 7:28:08pm

re: #304 Varek Raith

Mike, join Kevin in hell.

Will do.

I read an interview with Mike Nelson several years ago where he said that the first thing he looks at on the interwebs in the morning is the Washington Times, followed by Drudge. Still, I think he’s very funny.

317 stpaulbear  Aug 23, 2014 7:28:40pm

re: #311 Dark_Falcon

That is how things should have gone.

But they didn’t go anything like that. Michael Brown is dead.

318 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 7:28:53pm

re: #311 Dark_Falcon

No, what should have happened was that Michael Brown should have been punished appropriately for stealing those mini-cigars:

I think he should have spent his Christmas break from college doing community service and he should have been made to pay the store owner $50 for having stolen from him. Once those things had been attended to, I’d have expunged Brown’s record if he kept out of trouble for 2-3 years.

That is how things should have gone.

Excuse me, but shouldn’t he have been tried and convicted before being dealt your punishment? (Aren’t you the stickler for precision?)

319 TedStriker  Aug 23, 2014 7:30:23pm

re: #311 Dark_Falcon

No, what should have happened was that Michael Brown should have been punished appropriately for stealing those mini-cigars:

I think he should have spent his Christmas break from college doing community service and he should have been made to pay the store owner $50 for having stolen from him. Once those things had been attended to, I’d have expunged Brown’s record if he kept out of trouble for 2-3 years.

That is how things should have gone.

Well, it’s a moot point, of course, thanks to a hothead cop who decided to be Judge Dredd for real and a police culture in this country that not only protects cops like him, it fosters bigotry and militarism towards the citizens they’re supposed to serve.

320 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 7:31:21pm

re: #319 TedStriker

Well, it’s a moot point, of course, thanks to a hothead cop who decided to be Judge Dredd for real and a areawide police culture that not only protects cops like him, it fosters bigotry and militarism towards the citizens they’re supposed to serve.

The ultimate moot point. :/

321 prairiefire  Aug 23, 2014 7:31:34pm

re: #280 Rev_Arthur_Belling

There is gambling in this establishment?

What are we going to do when folks don’t know our mid 20th century cultural bon mots?

322 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 7:32:07pm

re: #321 prairiefire

What are we going to do when folks don’t know our mid 20th century cultural bon mots?

Tell them to get off the lawn, obviously ;)

323 Sherlock Hound  Aug 23, 2014 7:32:49pm

re: #260 Dark_Falcon

I think more of Japanese anime’s Fist of the North Star, as Kenshiro delivers his famous line, “omae wa mo shindeiru“—“You’re already dead.”

324 TedStriker  Aug 23, 2014 7:33:46pm

re: #323 Sherlock Hound

I think more of Japanese anime’s Fist of the North Star, as Kenshiro delivers his famous line, “omae wa mo shindeiru“—“You’re already dead.”

Well, aren’t we all?

325 stpaulbear  Aug 23, 2014 7:36:01pm

re: #303 Gus

Those Wilson supporters should have signs that say ‘WE ARE YOUR ANGER’.

326 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 7:36:05pm

re: #318 BeachDem

Excuse me, but shouldn’t he have been tried and convicted before being dealt your punishment? (Aren’t you the stickler for precision?)

Yes, but I was assuming he’d plead guilty. The tape is pretty conclusive proof he stole from that store.

It does not, however, justify him getting shot. I’ll leave the last word on that point to Mark Steyn. I know he’s sometimes a jerk, but he’s dead on here:

Which brings us back to the death of Michael Brown. Let’s assume for the sake of argument that everything the police say about this incident is correct. In that case, whether or not the fatal shooting of Mr Brown is a crime, it’s certainly a mistake. When an unarmed shoplifter* in T-shirt and shorts with a five-buck cigar box in one hand has to be shot dead, you’re doing it wrong.

(Italics in original.)

327 ObserverArt  Aug 23, 2014 7:36:42pm

re: #312 teleskiguy

The gal that got all stabby stabby in “Psycho”

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Schwing!

Love the color in that old film.

Some photos are timeless.

328 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 7:38:00pm

I don’t know if I’ll ever get used to seeing Henry Rollins as a host for a History Channel Show, I know that is the channel of Ancient Aliens but still…

Everything I know about history I learnt from Henry Rollins!!

//

329 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 7:38:27pm

re: #319 TedStriker

Well, it’s a moot point, of course, thanks to a hothead cop who decided to be Judge Dredd for real and a police culture in this country that not only protects cops like him, it fosters bigotry and militarism towards the citizens they’re supposed to serve.

Except that if you put up your hands and surrendered, Judge Dredd wouldn’t shoot you unless you had committed a capital crime. And even in Mega City One, stealing a box of cigars is not a capital crime.

330 De Kolta Chair  Aug 23, 2014 7:39:28pm

re: #323 Sherlock Hound

I think more of Japanese anime’s Fist of the North Star, as Kenshiro delivers his famous line, “omae wa mo shindeiru“—“You’re already dead.”

For some godforsaken reason, I have a dvd of the American live action “so awful it’s hilariously awful” version of Fist of the North Star. I call it my retirement fund. Mark my words, someday it’s gonna be worth millions. Millions!!!!

331 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 7:40:14pm

re: #326 Dark_Falcon

Yes, but I was assuming he’d plead guilty. The tape is pretty conclusive proof he stole from that store.

It does not, however, justify him getting shot. I’ll leave the last word on that point to Mark Steyn. I know he’s sometimes a jerk, but he’s dead on here:

(Italics in original.)

Could have plead “No Contest.” just saying.

And also, fuck Mark Steyn.

332 Charles Johnson  Aug 23, 2014 7:41:00pm
333 teleskiguy  Aug 23, 2014 7:41:16pm
334 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 7:41:53pm
335 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 7:42:12pm

re: #332 Charles Johnson

All my desks, All my flips. All my fire.

336 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 7:42:16pm

re: #332 Charles Johnson

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Jorts?

337 jaunte  Aug 23, 2014 7:42:41pm

re: #332 Charles Johnson

Breaking new ground in sockpuppetry.

338 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 7:44:10pm

I totally support the officer who would have gunned down Rudy Giuliani’s daughter

339 Charles Johnson  Aug 23, 2014 7:44:20pm
340 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 7:44:36pm

re: #331 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Could have plead “No Contest.” just saying.

And also, fuck Mark Steyn.

I’m not a fan of his any more, but this time he says something that needs to be said perfectly.

341 jaunte  Aug 23, 2014 7:45:09pm

re: #338 b.d.

We Are All Officer Trigerhapi

342 Charles Johnson  Aug 23, 2014 7:45:16pm
343 stpaulbear  Aug 23, 2014 7:45:44pm

re: #337 jaunte

Breaking new ground in sockpuppetry.

It’s a selfie!

344 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 7:46:06pm

re: #342 Charles Johnson

Tonight I could fill up a dozen posts at LGF with hideously racist comments from right wing blogs without even trying.

How about we don’t and just walk on by.

345 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 7:46:06pm

re: #341 jaunte

We Are All Officer Trigerhapi

ALL THOSE ITALIANS ARE MAFIA THUGS ANYWAYS

346 De Kolta Chair  Aug 23, 2014 7:47:32pm

re: #334 Gus

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Because nothing says freedom quite like warning people that you’ll shoot them for disagreeing with you.

347 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 7:47:58pm

re: #340 Dark_Falcon

I’m not a fan of his any more, but this time he says something that needs to be said perfectly.

This is a significant difference between us. I don’t cut slack for all his bullshit because he said one thing right. It’s why I don’t support Ron or Rand or any of the other GOP assholes.

348 Charles Johnson  Aug 23, 2014 7:48:23pm
349 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 7:48:45pm
350 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 7:50:58pm

re: #348 Charles Johnson

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Wait?! The guys with the F-16s and the tanks aren’t coming over to my side?

351 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 7:52:16pm

re: #326 Dark_Falcon

Yes, but I was assuming he’d plead guilty. The tape is pretty conclusive proof he stole from that store.

It does not, however, justify him getting shot. I’ll leave the last word on that point to Mark Steyn. I know he’s sometimes a jerk, but he’s dead on here:

(Italics in original.)

Well, right there Mark Steyn goes off course with his Let’s assume for the sake of argument that everything the police say about this incident is correct.

Hey, Mark Steyn, let’s not, ok?

I’ll give Charles P. Pierce the last word, thank you very much:

A police officer shot Michael Brown to death. And they left his body in the street. For four hours.

(One of Charles P. Pierce’s very best—

The Body In the Street

esquire.com

352 jaunte  Aug 23, 2014 7:54:03pm

…While much of the ensuing feedback was supportive, the post attracted enough of a barrage of anger that it became the subject of local media coverage. Facebook pundits vented racist conspiracy theories, accused Engelbreit of ignoring the plight of law enforcement, and challenged her to “please draw a card that also shows stealing and intimidating store clerks.” In a follow-up Facebook post (inexplicably removed and deemed “offensive” by the social media platform), Engelbreit responded to critics, standing by the print as a statement on the “ugly, hard truth of racial profiling,” adding:

“…I also thought about disabling the comments today and just let those that wanted to buy the print do so. But then I thought, Well, I posted it—I should see this through to the bitter end. However, today, if anyone uses words like “thug” or “animal” or any other derogatory words to describe their fellow human beings, their comment will be deleted. That’s not free speech, that’s hate speech, and you can go pedal your hatred and bigotry on someone else’s Facebook page.”

353 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 7:54:35pm

re: #331 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Could have plead “No Contest.” just saying.

And also, fuck Mark Steyn.

Not with Rich Lowry’s dick, thanks just the same.

354 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 7:55:28pm

re: #332 Charles Johnson

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Would that be considered a selfie?

355 Skip Intro  Aug 23, 2014 7:56:24pm

re: #354 BeachDem

Would that be considered a selfie?

I’d call it a dummy myself.

356 stpaulbear  Aug 23, 2014 7:56:32pm

re: #334 Gus

They have the nerve to use the phrase ‘Don’t Tread On Me’ as a rallying cry but then have the gall to tell Blacks to ‘tread lightly’. These guys are f*cking assholes.

357 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 7:57:17pm

re: #343 stpaulbear

It’s a selfie!

I have to start reading faster.

358 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 7:58:20pm

re: #356 stpaulbear

They have the nerve to use the phrase ‘Don’t Tread On Me’ as a rallying cry but then have the gall to tell Blacks to ‘tread lightly’. These guys are f*cking assholes.

Ha. Good point.

359 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Aug 23, 2014 7:59:26pm

re: #358 Gus

Ha. Good point.

“Theses guys are fucking assholes”

Yeah, we already knew that.

360 Skip Intro  Aug 23, 2014 8:00:55pm

re: #332 Charles Johnson

It could just be me, but something about the picture just doesn’t look right. Anyone know Award Winning Journalist Chuckles Johnson’s email? I’d like him to take a look.

361 sagehen  Aug 23, 2014 8:01:06pm

re: #356 stpaulbear

They have the nerve to use the phrase ‘Don’t Tread On Me’ as a rallying cry but then have the gall to tell Blacks to ‘tread lightly’. These guys are f*cking assholes.

Tread lightly, you say?

Youtube Video

362 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 23, 2014 8:05:41pm

Dim Jim is trying to get a USPS employee fired.

363 Targetpractice  Aug 23, 2014 8:05:58pm

re: #326 Dark_Falcon

Yes, but I was assuming he’d plead guilty. The tape is pretty conclusive proof he stole from that store.

It does not, however, justify him getting shot. I’ll leave the last word on that point to Mark Steyn. I know he’s sometimes a jerk, but he’s dead on here:

(Italics in original.)

And what is it we’re supposed to “assume” is correct? That the police had no reason to believe Brown had done anything illegal when stopped? Or that Wilson had no idea about the robbery when he ran into Brown? Or that he recognized the cigars Brown had and deduced he was the robber?

They can’t all be correct.

364 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 8:07:05pm

Pro-Lifers:

Policing: Kill
Foreign Policy: Kill
Capital Crimes: Kill
Healthcare: Kill
Environment: Kill

365 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 8:07:17pm

re: #362 Pie-onist Overlord

Dim Jim is trying to get a USPS employee fired.

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This is Jim’s big moment, the story is happening in his back yard.

366 GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 23, 2014 8:07:22pm

re: #144 Dark_Falcon

Another Hamas rocket cache bites the dust.

Nope. Look closer. re: #350 b.d.

Wait?! The guys with the F-16s and the tanks aren’t coming over to my side?

Just the tear gas and Bearcats from MO.

367 Kragar  Aug 23, 2014 8:07:58pm
368 Targetpractice  Aug 23, 2014 8:08:46pm

Well, I’ve seen the new Doctor Who, I’m content. So I’m off for the night. BBL

369 Maddies Mom  Aug 23, 2014 8:09:33pm

re: #185 b.d.

I challenge Sarah Palin to do the Ice Bucket Challenge outdoors in Wasilla, Alaska on either Christmas or New Year’s, her choice.

Silly, that’s when she’s at Casa Duh Palin in Arizona, dont’cha knoooooooow

370 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 23, 2014 8:10:21pm

Dim Jim’s fans are going postal at this postal employee who dissed their hero

371 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 8:10:33pm

re: #363 Targetpractice

And what is it we’re supposed to “assume” is correct? That the police had no reason to believe Brown had done anything illegal when stopped? Or that Wilson had no idea about the robbery when he ran into Brown? Or that he recognized the cigars Brown had and deduced he was the robber?

They can’t all be correct.

Frankly, I’d wager Steyn agrees with you on that. But he wrote what he wrote to make the point that there is nothing having to do with the theft that could possible make Wilson shooting Brown dead OK. What Steyn is saying is that Wilson screwed up, and no amount details about Michael Brown can camouflage that fact.

372 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 8:10:37pm

Dead Kennedys - Kill the Poor

Youtube Video

373 Kragar  Aug 23, 2014 8:11:17pm
374 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 8:12:32pm

re: #369 Maddies Mom

Silly, that’s when she’s at Casa Duh Palin in Arizona, dont’cha knoooooooow

Speaking of the Ice Bucket Challenge…

375 stpaulbear  Aug 23, 2014 8:13:09pm

re: #373 Kragar

I am so glad I’m not on twitter. I don’t know how you do it.

376 Skip Intro  Aug 23, 2014 8:14:32pm

re: #362 Pie-onist Overlord

Dim Jim is trying to get a USPS employee fired.

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That doesn’t look like he’s “playing dead” to me. What it looks like is that he got knocked to the ground.

377 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 8:14:35pm

Would John Wayne shoot an unarmed man?

378 Maddies Mom  Aug 23, 2014 8:15:11pm

re: #230 sagehen

Bristol’s income is well into the six figures, Levi’s is near poverty line. Why the hell is he the one who should be paying child support?

Tell it sister. The grift doesn’t fall far from the grizzly, also too…

379 Maddies Mom  Aug 23, 2014 8:16:29pm

re: #244 ObserverArt

Humor Dark. Humor. Sometimes you get to stretch the truth to make a funny.

See, Sarah was all in on Duck Dynasty in that big ‘free speech’ blow up over Phil the Duck Pastor testifyin’ at church.

I doubt much if Sarah knows about the real duck calls. She’s only an expert at hunting caribou. /

And shooting wolves from helicopters.

380 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 8:17:02pm

re: #377 b.d.

Would John Wayne shoot an unarmed man?

Nope.

381 teleskiguy  Aug 23, 2014 8:17:31pm

re: #372 Gus

I sang a lyric to Holiday In Cambodia in the weed store today. The owner lady made this face like *OMG*

Well you’ll work harder with a gun in your back for a bowl of rice a day

She said, “That’s so sad, it’s true, though.”

382 Maddies Mom  Aug 23, 2014 8:18:17pm

re: #265 BeachDem

Oh please—Bristol Palin has had so many nasty things to say about so many people—spare me the Palin pity party.

Isn’t worse that a evangelical NJ has to ghost write her evilness?

383 jonhendry  Aug 23, 2014 8:20:40pm

re: #140 Dark_Falcon
I also dispute that John McCain wouldn’t survive the Ice Bucket Challenge. He’s a pretty tough fellow, he’d do just fine. But he’d have to have someone else pour the bucket due to the injuries he sustained in service to the USA.

And then wingnuts would be all “SEE? EVEN McCAIN IS OKAY WITH BEING WATERBOARDED! YUK YUK YUK!”

384 Kragar  Aug 23, 2014 8:21:07pm

re: #375 stpaulbear

I am so glad I’m not on twitter. I don’t know how you do it.

Easy.

Dio is my co-pilot

Youtube Video

385 Kragar  Aug 23, 2014 8:23:26pm

Youtube Video

386 Skip Intro  Aug 23, 2014 8:23:40pm

re: #370 Pie-onist Overlord

Dim Jim’s fans are going postal at this postal employee who dissed their hero

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So is there any evidence of that other than DimJim saying so? Is that picture it?

387 Kragar  Aug 23, 2014 8:26:56pm

Youtube Video

388 Ace-o-aces  Aug 23, 2014 8:27:39pm

A bit late, but let me just apologize for messing up on the original post. I didn’t check the timeline before posting, and that was sloppy research on my part.

389 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 8:28:14pm

Wow. 12461 Tweets for one article. Think this is a record.

390 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 8:28:43pm

re: #386 Skip Intro

So is there any evidence of that other than DimJim saying so? Is that picture it?

It’s a white guy saying stuff with a unexplained, out of context picture of an African-American, what more do you want?!

391 Dark_Falcon  Aug 23, 2014 8:29:07pm

re: #388 Ace-o-aces

A bit late, but let me just apologize for messing up on the original post. I didn’t check the timeline before posting, and that was sloppy research on my part.

You did a great job in finding it, so you’re good.

392 Jenner7  Aug 23, 2014 8:30:39pm
393 Stanley Sea  Aug 23, 2014 8:31:32pm

re: #388 Ace-o-aces

A bit late, but let me just apologize for messing up on the original post. I didn’t check the timeline before posting, and that was sloppy research on my part.

You started the conver. Props.

394 stpaulbear  Aug 23, 2014 8:34:55pm

re: #392 Jenner7

That lady mis-spelled ‘White” at the bottom of her sign.

395 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 8:38:14pm

I are Cliven Bundy Darren Wilson.

396 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 8:42:09pm

re: #395 Gus

I are Cliven Bundy Darren Wilson.

GRAB THAT FLAG OUT OF THE FIRE SO I CAN WAVE IT!!

397 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 23, 2014 8:43:36pm

re: #386 Skip Intro

So is there any evidence of that other than DimJim saying so? Is that picture it?

Just SMOTI saying so.

398 Pie-onist Overlord  Aug 23, 2014 8:45:04pm

Ucch I found my timeline full of some asshole tweeting pictures of Detroit abandoned houses HURR HURR LIBRULS DID THIS!!!!

I just blocked the idiot, no point in having a conversation.

399 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 8:45:32pm
400 stpaulbear  Aug 23, 2014 8:53:55pm

re: #397 Pie-onist Overlord

Just SMOTI saying so.

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He’s really feeling his oats after getting the eye injury lie so well established. Really fat chance that this kind of smear will work against a union postal employee. Maybe Hoft can convince all of his readers to boycott the USPS.

401 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 8:54:23pm

re: #398 Pie-onist Overlord

Ucch I found my timeline full of some asshole tweeting pictures of Detroit abandoned houses HURR HURR LIBRULS DID THIS!!!!

I just blocked the idiot, no point in having a conversation.

Yes Detroit is a ghost town , that is why the seats at the Tigers, Red WIngs and Lions games are all empty or why Detroit rates stories like: “Metro Detroit ranks No. 9 in millionaires”
michiganradio.org

Dumbasses. Any update on your dishwasher situation?

402 ausador  Aug 23, 2014 8:57:12pm
403 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 8:58:24pm

Now I know how Shakespeare and Hemingway must have felt like:

404 Skip Intro  Aug 23, 2014 8:59:25pm

re: #400 stpaulbear

He’s really feeling his oats after getting the eye injury lie so well established. Really fat chance that this kind of smear will work against a union postal employee. Maybe Hoft can convince all of his readers to boycott the USPS.

He does have pics of the guy holding up his hands then lying down, so obviously he should be fired immediately for mocking the Superior Race.

OF course, DimJim’s commentators would like to a lot more to him than that.

405 jaunte  Aug 23, 2014 9:00:14pm

re: #403 b.d.

Now date night!

Creepiest tweet of the day.

406 Skip Intro  Aug 23, 2014 9:00:47pm

re: #403 b.d.

I wonder which will be the lucky hand tonight?

407 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 9:04:30pm

re: #403 b.d.

Now I know how Shakespeare and Hemingway must have felt like:

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408 Stanley Sea  Aug 23, 2014 9:05:09pm

re: #403 b.d.

Now I know how Shakespeare and Hemingway must have felt like:

[Embedded content]

He’s fuckin what, 25? Date night already? Lame ass.

409 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 9:07:06pm
410 Mentis Fugit  Aug 23, 2014 9:07:16pm

Ferguson PD training video.
Youtube Video

411 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 9:08:33pm

re: #371 Dark_Falcon

Frankly, I’d wager Steyn agrees with you on that. But he wrote what he wrote to make the point that there is nothing having to do with the theft that could possible make Wilson shooting Brown dead OK. What Steyn is saying is that Wilson screwed up, and no amount details about Michael Brown can camouflage that fact.

But, in typical passive/aggressive form, he has to present it as “let’s assume everything the police say is correct.” So he’s accepting every bad characterization of Brown—
punched Wilson
went for his gun
slammed the car door
was “bumrushing him like a bull when shot”

And then he says, “whether or not the fatal shooting of Mr Brown is a crime, it’s certainly a mistake.” Wow, isn’t that big of him, to call it a “mistake.”

Nope—a mistake is when you accidentally leave your sunglasses on the counter, not when you pump 6 bullets into an unarmed kid.

412 Stanley Sea  Aug 23, 2014 9:10:21pm

Ah well, I went to great restaurant tonight, had most excellent risotto. Live 2 person acoustic entertainment.

Gotta stop self harshing my buzz.

413 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 9:10:57pm

re: #407 Gus

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Please contribute to my Psychiatric Help 5¢ GOFUNDME page

414 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 9:11:22pm

re: #382 Maddies Mom

Isn’t worse that a evangelical NJ has to ghost write her evilness?

Well yes, there’s the whole Nancy French bullshit, but I didn’t want to get all meta. //

415 GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 23, 2014 9:12:41pm
416 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 9:15:28pm

re: #388 Ace-o-aces

A bit late, but let me just apologize for messing up on the original post. I didn’t check the timeline before posting, and that was sloppy research on my part.

It’s a great post—I just know how the ghouls will come after Charles if there’s a single discrepancy and didn’t want to give them any nitpicky crap to try to discredit the main story.

417 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 9:16:44pm

re: #415 GlutenFreeJesus

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EW

Chuck C Johnson’s Date Night:
Don’t Shoot, Hands Up!

418 Lancelot Link  Aug 23, 2014 9:18:14pm

re: #403 b.d.

Date night!

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It would be irresponsible not to.

419 GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 23, 2014 9:18:14pm

re: #417 b.d.

EW

Chuck C Johnson’s Date Night:
Don’t Shoot, Hands Up!

Fixed.

420 jaunte  Aug 23, 2014 9:19:10pm

re: #418 Lancelot Link

Aack!

421 BeachDem  Aug 23, 2014 9:19:40pm

re: #403 b.d.

Now I know how Shakespeare and Hemingway must have felt like:

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I’ll bet the MIL will be glad to be rid of him for a few hours.

422 Stanley Sea  Aug 23, 2014 9:20:15pm

re: #418 Lancelot Link

Date night!
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Is it irresponsible to speculate? It would be irresponsible not to.

Pity that fool

423 teleskiguy  Aug 23, 2014 9:22:48pm

This got retweeted by Kelly Carlin. :-D

424 Gus  Aug 23, 2014 9:22:55pm

re: #418 Lancelot Link

Date night!
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Is it irresponsible to speculate? It would be irresponsible not to.

425 GlutenFreeJesus  Aug 23, 2014 9:24:36pm

re: #420 jaunte

Aack!

426 teleskiguy  Aug 23, 2014 9:25:33pm

re: #423 teleskiguy

@Mantralotus started following me a couple of days after Mike Brown got murdered. She’s been sharing LGF articles on her Facebook, and has been the closest most honest conduit I have in St. Louis.

427 TedStriker  Aug 23, 2014 9:28:57pm

re: #424 Gus

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What a couple of boobs…and I don’t mean the ones under Taitz’s blouse.

///

428 b.d.  Aug 23, 2014 9:29:46pm

re: #418 Lancelot Link

Date night?

429 ausador  Aug 23, 2014 9:34:51pm

Hurr Durr Golf! Barry be in trouble now cause moochelle be angry and she packin…

I just…arrgh…I can’t.

430 [deleted]  Aug 25, 2014 1:44:51pm
431 wrenchwench  Aug 25, 2014 1:50:51pm

re: #430 nhthinker

Welcome, hatchling.

432 Charles Johnson  Aug 25, 2014 2:01:05pm

After a look at this one’s Twitter timeline… no. He’ll be much happier at a right wing site with the racists.


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