Former VA Governor Bob McDonnell Found Guilty in Corruption Trial

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In a sweeping verdict, former Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell and his wife Maureen have been found guilty of multiple counts of conspiracy in their corruption trial.

Bob McDonnell is the first Virginia governor convicted of a felony.

A federal jury today convicted Virginia’s 71st governor and former first lady Maureen McDonnell on multiple counts in their corruption trial in U.S. District Court.

Bob McDonnell has been convicted on 11 of 13 counts.

Maureen McDonnell has been convicted on nine of 13 counts.

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486 comments
1 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 12:18:28pm

Don’t blame me, I supported Deeds.

2 Kragar  Sep 4, 2014 12:18:53pm

This could really hurt his chances in 2016

3 Targetpractice  Sep 4, 2014 12:19:04pm

So, I guess they just destroyed their own marriage for nothing.

4 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 12:19:22pm

re: #2 Kragar

This could really hurt his chances in 2016

Or it makes him a top contender…
:D

5 Franklin  Sep 4, 2014 12:19:51pm
6 Kragar  Sep 4, 2014 12:19:51pm
7 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 12:19:53pm

re: #2 Kragar

This could really hurt his chances in 2016

And pretty much ruins any chance of him being VA’s governor again.

8 Charles Johnson  Sep 4, 2014 12:20:14pm

Never mind. That’s a “parody” account.

9 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 12:20:42pm

We find the defendants incredibly guilty.

10 Varek Raith  Sep 4, 2014 12:20:47pm

re: #3 Targetpractice

So, I guess they just destroyed their own marriage for nothing.

That was one of the dumbest red herrings the defense put out there.

11 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 4, 2014 12:21:00pm

LOLWUT

12 BadExampleMan  Sep 4, 2014 12:21:05pm

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13 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 12:21:24pm

re: #10 Varek Raith

That was one of the dumbest red herrings the defense put out there.

Downright sleezy. I find bad for their daughters honestly for having such a sleaztastic father.

14 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 12:21:53pm

re: #11 Pie-onist Overlord

LOLWUT

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Yeah no such thing as a 81 year old having health issues. Derpity derp.

15 Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 4, 2014 12:22:25pm

re: #2 Kragar

This could really hurt his chances in 2016

This is all good news for John McCain.

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16 lawhawk  Sep 4, 2014 12:22:37pm
17 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 12:22:59pm

7th Circuit court decision on SSM is really great fun to read.

18 lawhawk  Sep 4, 2014 12:24:22pm

So, Gov. McDonnell’s guilty on multiple counts. His wife is likewise guilty on multiple counts. Not surprising on either.

The defense theory of the case was so insane that no one bought it, least of all the jury.

But, with that kind of thinking, McDonnell’s probably got a future as a HuffPo contributor when he gets out of prison.

19 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 12:24:59pm

re: #18 lawhawk

So, Gov. McDonnell’s guilty on multiple counts. His wife is likewise guilty on multiple counts. Not surprising on either.

The defense theory of the case was so insane that no one bought it, least of all the jury.

But, with that kind of thinking, McDonnell’s probably got a future as a HuffPo contributor when he gets out of prison.

Maybe he can be the romance columnist. After all, they gave national security to Donte Stallworth.

20 ObserverArt  Sep 4, 2014 12:25:17pm

re: #11 Pie-onist Overlord

LOLWUT

[American @PeterSalvitti

@MonicaCrowley Joan Rivers spoke out against the leadership in this country, and a few weeks later, she’s DEAD. #tcot]

What do you expect from a “Common Sense Conservative” as stated in his twit bio? Surely, not common sense.

21 Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 4, 2014 12:25:21pm

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

7th Circuit court decision on SSM is really great fun to read.

I’m sure crunchy conservative and long suffering gay marriage scold Rod Dreher is getting ready to go Galt Benedict Option any day now.

22 Varek Raith  Sep 4, 2014 12:25:24pm

re: #19 HappyWarrior

Maybe he can be the romance columnist. After all, they gave national security to Donte Stallworth.

Wait, what?

23 Targetpractice  Sep 4, 2014 12:25:54pm

The Free Republic thread is good for a few laughs. Several were sure that he was gonna skate right up until the first “guilty” verdict came, then they quickly dropped back into the bog-standard “It’s all political!!!”

24 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 12:26:07pm

By Chuck C’s logic, this conviction is giving any cop a free pass for gunning down McDonnell’s kids.

25 Bulworth  Sep 4, 2014 12:29:28pm

re:
#17

Big Sodomy is going to put us all in FEMA trailer park camps and take away are guns like Nazis!!!!!111

26 Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 4, 2014 12:29:34pm
27 Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 4, 2014 12:30:08pm

re: #26 Aunty Entity Dragon

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28 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 12:30:17pm

re: #22 Varek Raith

Wait, what?

Yep Donte Truther Anti-Vaxxer Stallworth is the Huff Po’s new national security guy.

29 Bulworth  Sep 4, 2014 12:30:34pm

re:
#26

Joan Rivers was the biggest threat facing the Obama Administration’s attempts to seize the power that it already had. //

30 klys  Sep 4, 2014 12:31:39pm

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

7th Circuit court decision on SSM is really great fun to read.

Thus far I am seeing a beautiful FUCK YOU to the think of the children crowd in the most polite terms imaginable. And the logic follows, you know, actual logic, not starting from a biased conclusion and twisting the ‘facts’ to achieve that goal.

Such a nice change from yesterday’s.

31 Bubblehead II  Sep 4, 2014 12:31:48pm

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

7th Circuit court decision on SSM is really great fun to read.

Waiting for the 8th. That is when the 9th circuit holds its hearing on SSM.

32 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 12:32:17pm

re: #29 Bulworth

re:
#26

Joan Rivers was the biggest threat facing the Obama Administration’s attempts to seize the power that it already had. //

I BET OBAMA DOESN’T SEND ANYBODY TO JOAN RIVERS FUNERAL! DOUBLE STANDARD!!

33 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 12:32:25pm

As for McDonnell, I will always remember him being the slimy bastard that had no problem with forced vaginal ultrasounds until his presidential and vice presidential ambitions got in the way of it and the condescending bullshit when me and some other students called him out on it one day when he was speaking at GMU.

34 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 4, 2014 12:32:29pm

This was posted down-stairs. It’s SO good I’ve got to get it to the active thread

re: #90 De Kolta Chair

The AP is reporting that the McDonnells have locked themselves in the jury room and having the most awkward make-up sex ever.

RBS

35 I Stand With Big Sodomy!  Sep 4, 2014 12:34:18pm

re: #14 HappyWarrior

Of all the hateful, racist, sleazy, threatening things, that a lot of important people have said about the President, it was the host of Fashion Police’s opinions, that just pushed him into a murderous rage!!!111!!

36 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 4, 2014 12:34:41pm

re: #28 HappyWarrior

Yep Donte Truther Anti-Vaxxer Stallworth is the Huff Po’s new national security guy.

Which makes exactly as much sense at second reading as it does the first time. Perhaps Captain Crunch can be their Maritime Editor?

RBS

37 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 12:35:47pm

re: #35 I Stand With Big Sodomy!

Of all the hateful, racist, sleazy, threatening things, that a lot of important people have said about the President, it was the host of Fashion Police’s opinions that just pushed him into a murderous rage!!!111!!

The tan suit must have been the last straw…

//

38 I Stand With Big Sodomy!  Sep 4, 2014 12:36:41pm

re: #36 RealityBasedSteve

I am a big ole lefty, but Huffpost is one of the most annoying political blogs on the internet.

39 EPR-radar  Sep 4, 2014 12:36:43pm

re: #30 klys

Thus far I am seeing a beautiful FUCK YOU to the think of the children crowd in the most polite terms imaginable. And the logic follows, you know, actual logic, not starting from a biased conclusion and twisting the ‘facts’ to achieve that goal.

Such a nice change from yesterday’s.

I like how this opinion bypasses the “strict scrutiny”, “intermediate scrutiny” etc. analysis, the better to focus on the farcical natural of the arguments put forth by the states.

E.g., pointing out that Indiana’s allowing elderly first cousins to marry because they can’t procreate is hardly consistent with Indiana’s argument that gay marriage can be banned because they can’t procreate.

I think cats regularly leave better legal arguments on the carpet and in the litterbox.

40 Timothy Watson  Sep 4, 2014 12:38:11pm

re: #18 lawhawk

So, Gov. McDonnell’s guilty on multiple counts. His wife is likewise guilty on multiple counts. Not surprising on either.

The defense theory of the case was so insane that no one bought it, least of all the jury.

But, with that kind of thinking, McDonnell’s probably got a future as a HuffPo contributor when he gets out of prison.

Further evidence that John Brownlee (Bob’s defense attorney and a former United States Attorney for the Western District of Virginia) is completely and utterly incompetent.

41 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 12:38:24pm

re: #38 I Stand With Big Sodomy!

I am a big ole lefty, but Huffpost is one of the most annoying political blogs on the internet.

Yeah never been that big on Arianna.

42 dog philosopher  Sep 4, 2014 12:38:42pm

are they gonna go to the big house?

43 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 12:39:05pm

re: #42 dog philosopher

are they gonna go to the big house?

I’d have to imagine so. Conspiracy is a pretty big charge.

44 klys  Sep 4, 2014 12:39:10pm

re: #39 EPR-radar

I like how this opinion bypasses the “strict scrutiny”, “intermediate scrutiny” etc. analysis, the better to focus on the farcical natural of the arguments put forth by the states.

E.g., pointing out that Indiana’s allowing elderly first cousins to marry because they can’t procreate is hardly consistent with Indiana’s argument that gay marriage can be banned because they can’t procreate.

I think cats regularly leave better legal arguments on the carpet and in the litterbox.

She really didn’t think much of their arguments. This is beautifully snarky in that legal way.

45 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 12:39:19pm
46 Jenner7  Sep 4, 2014 12:40:04pm

re: #42 dog philosopher

Fox just said sentencing will be January 6th.

47 Timothy Watson  Sep 4, 2014 12:40:32pm

An important, still unanswered question from the days of when Bob was in the House of Delegates: Have you ever violated the state’s crimes against nature law [as defined at the time, prohibited oral or anal sex]?

(Seriously, a reported ask him that after Bob argued a lesbian judge shouldn’t be reappointed to the bench since she was violating the crimes against nature statute.)

48 Kragar  Sep 4, 2014 12:41:16pm

re: #42 dog philosopher

are they gonna go to the big house?

Saw a few places the charges could land them 30 years

49 Bubblehead II  Sep 4, 2014 12:41:49pm

re: #42 dog philosopher

are they gonna go to the big house?

Well given their political connections and what not, I have a feelling they may wind up in a minimum security club fed facility.

50 BeachDem  Sep 4, 2014 12:42:35pm

Is it wrong that I’m smiling?

Next up: Big Chicken??

The Passion Of Big Chicken: The Goodhairing

esquire.com

51 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 12:42:42pm

re: #47 Timothy Watson

An important, still unanswered question from the days of when Bob was in the House of Delegates: Have you ever violated the state’s crimes against nature law [as defined at the time, prohibited oral or anal sex]?

(Seriously, a reported ask him that after Bob argued a lesbian judge shouldn’t be reappointed to the bench since she was violating the crimes against nature statute.)

I wasn’t aware of that. I always thought despite the fact he tried to distance himself form Cuccinneli’s more crazy brand that he was more closer to Cuccinneli on the ideological spectrum than he was John Warner/Tom Davis. His ties to Regent and what he wrote there were a big eye opener for me. I just don’t think the Deeds campaign addressed them effectively or more importantly explained why Creigh would be better.

52 Petero1818  Sep 4, 2014 12:42:45pm

re: #18 lawhawk

So, Gov. McDonnell’s guilty on multiple counts. His wife is likewise guilty on multiple counts. Not surprising on either.

The defense theory of the case was so insane that no one bought it, least of all the jury.

But, with that kind of thinking, McDonnell’s probably got a future as a HuffPo contributor when he gets out of prison.

Usually a defense theory that is not plausible is all the evidence of guilt that is needed. In this case, there was plenty more to go on too.

53 BeachDem  Sep 4, 2014 12:43:52pm

re: #18 lawhawk

McDonnell’s probably got a future as a HuffPo contributor when he gets out of prison.

Or Fox could set up cameras in the prison(s) and do live remotes.

54 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 12:44:34pm

re: #53 BeachDem

Or Fox could set up cameras in the prison(s) and do live remotes.

Why not. They’ve had Oliver North on before to explain why Benghazi is Obama’s Iran Contra before.

55 Kilroy01  Sep 4, 2014 12:45:53pm

re: #53 BeachDem

Or Fox could set up cameras in the prison(s) and do live remotes.

Wonder if FOX will complain about how much golf he is playing in the comfy prison he’ll be at.

56 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 12:46:37pm
57 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 12:46:38pm

re: #55 Kilroy01

Wonder if FOX will complain about how much golf he is playing in the comfy prison he’ll be at.

Nah no D after his name.

58 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 12:47:30pm

re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Well this is a guy who got some of his higher education courtesy of Pat “It’s okay to leave your elderly wife if she gets Alhemeizers” Robertson.

59 Charles Johnson  Sep 4, 2014 12:47:44pm
60 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 12:48:27pm

I was and still am disappointed at the amount McDonnell won election in the first place by. Yeah Deeds ran a shitty campaign but he was in touch with Virginia’s values, a likable enough guy, and you know not an asshole who throws his wife under the bus while acting like Mr. Family Man.

61 Bulworth  Sep 4, 2014 12:48:42pm

re:
#32

Maybe Chuck C. Johnson can investigate, um, something about this.

62 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 4, 2014 12:48:42pm

re: #59 Charles Johnson

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Because TRUTH isn’t important when you are “RIGHT”!

RBS

63 Targetpractice  Sep 4, 2014 12:48:57pm

re: #56 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Hey, a good Christian wife would have been happy to take the fall for hubby!

64 Ace-o-aces  Sep 4, 2014 12:49:46pm
65 BeachDem  Sep 4, 2014 12:49:58pm

re: #26 Aunty Entity Dragon

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Has anyone died in the past six years whose demise cannot be linked directly to Obama? WAKE UP, SHEEPLE!
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66 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 4, 2014 12:50:53pm

re: #63 Targetpractice

Hey, a good Christian wife would have been happy to take the fall for hubby!

Leviticus 12:34 “And the wife shall accept a plea bargain, so that her husband will shower alone, and not with Vinny and “Big Ike”.”

RBS

67 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 12:51:29pm

re: #64 Ace-o-aces

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I believe that’s the Right Wing Pundit 2000.

68 Varek Raith  Sep 4, 2014 12:51:45pm

re: #28 HappyWarrior

Yep Donte Truther Anti-Vaxxer Stallworth is the Huff Po’s new national security guy.

…
Oy.

69 Timothy Watson  Sep 4, 2014 12:52:16pm

re: #51 HappyWarrior

I wasn’t aware of that. I always thought despite the fact he tried to distance himself form Cuccinneli’s more crazy brand that he was more closer to Cuccinneli on the ideological spectrum than he was John Warner/Tom Davis. His ties to Regent and what he wrote there were a big eye opener for me. I just don’t think the Deeds campaign addressed them effectively or more importantly explained why Creigh would be better.

Here’s an opinion piece about that particular incident:
articles.dailypress.com

70 makeitstop  Sep 4, 2014 12:53:57pm

re: #62 RealityBasedSteve

Because TRUTH isn’t important when you are “RIGHT”!

RBS

I saw two different instances yesterday of people on Facebook posting fake info about Obama, and after getting called out on it, they both said ‘It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not.’

That’s where we are now. Winning an argument is of primary importance, facts are secondary.

71 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 12:54:26pm

re: #64 Ace-o-aces

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I believe it would be a hell of a lot easier to make a robot wingnut pundimatic than it would be to make a robot that could make good food.

72 Targetpractice  Sep 4, 2014 12:54:28pm

So McDonnell is done as a presidential or even vice-presidential candidate, at least in the short-term. Big Chris is dealing with the bridge closings and state pensions. And Goodhair may soon follow his buddy Bob.

The GOP better hope they have somebody in the hinterlands who they can present as “moderate” next year or they’re gonna end up choosing between Ted Cruz and Rand Paul.

73 Timothy Watson  Sep 4, 2014 12:55:00pm

lolwhut

74 Charles Johnson  Sep 4, 2014 12:55:13pm

Wow, McDonnell is facing up to 30 years in prison. Game over, man.

75 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 12:55:48pm

re: #73 Timothy Watson

lolwhut

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Huh. I thought Barton would have liked the Inquisition.Perhaps too Catholic and not far enough for him.

76 Targetpractice  Sep 4, 2014 12:56:07pm

re: #73 Timothy Watson

lolwhut

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This, of course, being the version of history where Christians were the victims of the Inquisition rather than the perpetrators.

77 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 12:56:13pm

re: #74 Charles Johnson

Wow, McDonnell is facing up to 30 years in prison. Game over, man.

Whoa.

78 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 12:57:23pm
79 Bulworth  Sep 4, 2014 12:57:54pm

re:
#76

Yeah that’s a great version.

The Inquisition was where the Muslims and the secular gay humanists tortured and burned faithful Christians alive, which was why the Christians fled to the U.S.

80 Targetpractice  Sep 4, 2014 12:58:19pm

Destroyed his marriage and still didn’t avoid jail time. I almost feel bad for Bob…almost.

81 lawhawk  Sep 4, 2014 12:58:58pm

re: #74 Charles Johnson

Wow, McDonnell is facing up to 30 years in prison. Game over, man.

He should have taken the plea deal.

82 Bulworth  Sep 4, 2014 12:59:14pm

re:
#75

It’s more RWNJ double-speak; the Inquisition wasn’t that bad and didn’t in fact really exist although it was a terrible time for true Christians.

83 Skip Intro  Sep 4, 2014 12:59:26pm

re: #59 Charles Johnson

I really think that photo ought to have FAKE stamped across it every time it appears here. Otherwise the wingnuts just take it as more comfirmation.

84 lawhawk  Sep 4, 2014 1:00:30pm

re: #83 Skip Intro

Or stamped with Not Wilson.

85 Targetpractice  Sep 4, 2014 1:01:16pm

re: #81 lawhawk

He should have taken/made a plea deal.

Perhaps he can appeal on the grounds that his lawyer is incompetent?

86 Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2014 1:02:22pm

re: #49 Bubblehead II

Well given their political connections and what not, I have a feelling they may wind up in a minimum security club fed facility.

The Eglin AFB Officer’s Club could use another coat of paint.

87 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 1:02:22pm

re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Luapy Nor is preety crooked too.

88 blueraven  Sep 4, 2014 1:03:14pm

re: #59 Charles Johnson

Heh…

89 Khal Wimpo  Sep 4, 2014 1:03:15pm

re: #74 Charles Johnson

Wow, McDonnell is facing up to 30 years in prison. Game over, man.

We can only hope that he gets to experience the horrific criminal justice and punishment system that he, and his like-minded wingnut compadres, have erected over the last 40 years. That he gets crammed into overcrowded prisons with mentally ill predators, with brutal guards and no hope of coming out unscarred.

Guessing that the collar on Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s shirt just got a little bit tight in the last hour or so.

90 Bulworth  Sep 4, 2014 1:04:51pm

re:
#88

Ah, someone got one of those FWD:FWD:FWD:FWD RWNJ chain emails….

91 lawhawk  Sep 4, 2014 1:04:55pm

Charles,

You got a HT for debunking the bogus Wilson injury photo over at Gawker.

92 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 4, 2014 1:04:57pm

re: #70 makeitstop

I saw two different instances yesterday of people on Facebook posting fake info about Obama, and after getting called out on it, they both said ‘It doesn’t matter if it’s true or not.’

That’s where we are now. Winning an argument is of primary importance, facts are secondary.

and the fact that they can say it with no sense of shame, discomfort, or even awareness is the pity. It’s hard to correct and educate when you are facing what I refer to as “Active Ignorance”, I don’t know, and I don’t want to.

93 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Sep 4, 2014 1:05:15pm

re: #74 Charles Johnson

Wow, McDonnell is facing up to 30 years in prison. Game over, man.

I don’t know what’s worse, the 30 years he’ll spend in a club med like prison or the total shitstorm his divorce is going to turn into after what he did to his wife in this trial.

94 Mattand  Sep 4, 2014 1:06:03pm

re: #38 I Stand With Big Sodomy!

I am a big ole lefty, but Huffpost is one of the most annoying political blogs on the internet.

Testify!

Also, someone mentioned the other day you had changed your screen name. I just saw it now. I’m still laughing.

95 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Sep 4, 2014 1:07:05pm

re: #38 I Stand With Big Sodomy!

Yeah Huff Po occasionally has something worth reading but most of the time they are just annoying as hell.

96 Mattand  Sep 4, 2014 1:09:14pm

re: #88 blueraven

Heh…

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They should read LGF more. I’m sure there’s tons more shit these guys believe that could be corrected here.

97 Bubblehead II  Sep 4, 2014 1:10:05pm

re: #93 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

I don’t know what’s worse, the 30 years he’ll spend in a club med like prison or the total shitstorm his divorce is going to turn into after what he did to his wife in this trial.

That 30 years is the max he can get. Look for 10-15 years with parole after 5-7 while chilling out in a club fed minimum security unit.

/// I really wish it was.

98 lostlakehiker  Sep 4, 2014 1:10:27pm

re: #3 Targetpractice

So, I guess they just destroyed their own marriage for nothing.

The stress of being criminals destroyed their marriage? It’s hell being entitled.

99 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Sep 4, 2014 1:11:32pm

re: #97 Bubblehead II

Yeah I know. I really think they should send him to a super max. The difference in prisons for the rich and prisons for the rest of us is another sore spot for me.

100 Ace-o-aces  Sep 4, 2014 1:12:26pm
101 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 1:13:26pm

re: #100 Ace-o-aces

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Yay revisionism.

102 lawhawk  Sep 4, 2014 1:13:35pm

re: #93 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Prison is still prison. It ain’t pretty.

He should have taken the plea deal.

103 Jenner7  Sep 4, 2014 1:14:10pm

re: #100 Ace-o-aces

um….

104 Sionainn  Sep 4, 2014 1:14:33pm

re: #30 klys

Thus far I am seeing a beautiful FUCK YOU to the think of the children crowd in the most polite terms imaginable. And the logic follows, you know, actual logic, not starting from a biased conclusion and twisting the ‘facts’ to achieve that goal.

Such a nice change from yesterday’s.

I loved the simple “Go figure.” Love the sarcasm.

105 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Sep 4, 2014 1:15:13pm

So let’s take stock of today so far:

The good:

1) DOJ is investigating the Ferguson and St Louis police.
2) Early voting restored in Ohio and voter restrictions overturned
3) SSM bans in Michigan and Indiana ruled unconstitutional
4) McDonnell convicted
5) BP found negligent over spill in the gulf
6) U.S. Airstrikes took out a bunch of ISIS leadership
7) Decision by D.C. court to undo ACA withdrawn (full court to hear the case)

The bad:

1) RIP Joan Rivers

overall a good day.

106 Targetpractice  Sep 4, 2014 1:15:21pm

re: #102 lawhawk

Prison is still prison. It ain’t pretty.

He should have taken the plea deal.

I imagine he went ahead with the trial because he was worried a plea deal would look bad politically. If he got tried and acquitted, or only Maureen did time, it would actually make him look better to his party’s base.

107 Varek Raith  Sep 4, 2014 1:15:26pm

re: #100 Ace-o-aces

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108 Bubblehead II  Sep 4, 2014 1:17:01pm

re: #99 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Yeah I know. I really think they should send him to a super max. The difference in prisons for the rich and prisons for the rest of us is another sore spot for me.

LOL! Supermax is a bit on the over kill side, but I know what you mean.

109 Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2014 1:19:02pm

re: #106 Targetpractice

I imagine he went ahead with the trial because he was worried a plea deal would look bad politically. If he got tried and acquitted, or only Maureen did time, it would actually make him look better to his party’s base.

Perhaps he’ll learn a useful trade.

110 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Sep 4, 2014 1:19:22pm

re: #102 lawhawk

Prison is still prison. It ain’t pretty.

He should have taken the plea deal.

Prison is prison but there’s a big difference in being sent to a minimum security “Camp” and doing time in Pelican Bay or San Quentin.

111 EPR-radar  Sep 4, 2014 1:19:38pm

re: #100 Ace-o-aces

You might be a confederate if you complain about a historical narrative where victims were mostly black and villains were mostly white in relation to US slavery.

112 Bulworth  Sep 4, 2014 1:19:41pm

re:
#105

Number 7 there is a BFD.

I think.

113 lawhawk  Sep 4, 2014 1:20:18pm

re: #106 Targetpractice

If he was facing a single charge or a handful of charges, that might make some sense. But there were multiple charges, and the case was pretty solid. Nothing that happened during the course of the trial improved his situation.

In fact, it made things worse. Made him even less likable to the jury.

114 Lidane  Sep 4, 2014 1:21:43pm

re: #100 Ace-o-aces

115 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Sep 4, 2014 1:21:46pm

re: #108 Bubblehead II

LOL! Supermax is a bit on the over kill side, but I know what you mean.

why is it overkill? More often than not people who commit crimes similar to this (ie fraud) wind up being sent to regular prison like what you see on Lockup but guys like McDonnell and other “High profile” rich offenders get sent to a minimum security facility where, sure, they are “in prison” but don’t have to deal with the same things you or I would most likely be subjected to.

Maybe we should start sending criminals like these to the same facilities they are only to happy to see us sent to.

116 BeachDem  Sep 4, 2014 1:21:49pm

re: #105 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

So let’s take stock of today so far:

The good:

1) DOJ is investigating the Ferguson and St Louis police.
2) Early voting restored in Ohio and voter restrictions overturned
3) SSM bans in Michigan and Indiana ruled unconstitutional
4) McDonnell convicted
5) BP found negligent over spill in the gulf
6) U.S. Airstrikes took out a bunch of ISIS leadership
7) Decision by D.C. court to undo ACA withdrawn (full court to hear the case)

The bad:

1) RIP Joan Rivers

overall a good day.

Add:

8) It seems that Big Chicken down in New Jersey hasn’t quite put that whole bridge thing behind him yet. esquire.com

117 Bulworth  Sep 4, 2014 1:22:34pm

re:
#100

Hurr hurr liberals are moral relativists who don’t believe in right and wrong!

(presumably liberal) person writes book about slavery.

Hurr hurr how comes this book says slavery and White people who supported slavery were wrong??!?!??!?!

118 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Sep 4, 2014 1:22:56pm

re: #112 Bulworth

Yeah it is.

119 Targetpractice  Sep 4, 2014 1:23:01pm

re: #113 lawhawk

If he was facing a single charge or a handful of charges, that might make some sense. But there were multiple charges, and the case was pretty solid. Nothing that happened during the course of the trial improved his situation.

In fact, it made things worse. Made him even less likable to the jury.

We’ve seen it time and again in political corruption cases, the belief among the corrupt that they’re untouchable and no attempt to bring them to justice will succeed. If you listen to the Freepers tell it, this is all just a ploy to destroy McDonnell as a future presidential candidate, that he did nothing wrong.

120 ausador  Sep 4, 2014 1:23:11pm

Posted earlier and I missed it?

121 EPR-radar  Sep 4, 2014 1:24:06pm

re: #115 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

why is it overkill? More often than not people who commit crimes similar to this (ie fraud) wind up being sent to regular prison like what you see on Lockup but guys like McDonnell and other “High profile” rich offenders get sent to a minimum security facility where, sure, they are “in prison” but don’t have to deal with the same things you or I would most likely be subjected to.

Maybe we should start sending criminals like these to the same facilities they are only to happy to see us sent to.

Agreed. In fact I’d like to see a policy that the richest and most privileged and connected prisoners are preferentially sent to the worst available prison facilities to serve their time.

That would make prison reform happen in a hurry.

122 lawhawk  Sep 4, 2014 1:25:32pm

Hoft again goes after Dorian Johnson (retweeting the following):

OMG, he had a GoFundMe. You know who also had a GFM - two of them in fact? Officer Darren Wilson, one of which was started anonymously and no one knows who was behind it, while the other was started in part by Rep. Jeff Roorda, who was fired as a police officer for inappropriate conduct before somehow getting backing to be a police chief of a different jurisdiction and later became a state representative.

He was late on the rent. So he entered in to an agreement to pay.

Again, none of this is surprising given how Ferguson operates.

123 BeachDem  Sep 4, 2014 1:25:57pm

re: #120 ausador

Charles C. Johnson, the political blogger and self-proclaimed journalist

That’s gonna leave a mark.

124 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 1:26:39pm

re: #120 ausador

Posted earlier and I missed it?

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That’s the guy who put up a, now deleted, dubious juvie record of Chuck last night, he is not exactly credible in my eyes now.

125 ausador  Sep 4, 2014 1:27:30pm

re: #120 ausador

Ahh…it is the “do not disclose this subpoena to anyone” thing that idiot Chuck took a photo of and tweeted, I remember that now.

126 ausador  Sep 4, 2014 1:30:23pm

re: #124 b.d.

That’s the guy who put up a, now deleted, dubious juvie record of Chuck last night, he is not exactly credible in my eyes now.

He did it on purpose, it was simple snark, if anyone took it as supposedly being the same Charles Johnson that is their problem. How many Charles Johnsons do you suppose there might be in this country?

127 Bubblehead II  Sep 4, 2014 1:31:57pm

re: #115 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

why is it overkill? More often than not people who commit crimes similar to this (ie fraud) wind up being sent to regular prison like what you see on Lockup but guys like McDonnell and other “High profile” rich offenders get sent to a minimum security facility where, sure, they are “in prison” but don’t have to deal with the same things you or I would most likely be subjected to.

Maybe we should start sending criminals like these to the same facilities they are only to happy to see us sent to.

Super max is for the worst of the worst. Hell, we don’t even send pedophiles to super max. Yes, McDonnell should be sent to your standard low/medium security Federal prison and if there is any justice in the world, he will. But given who and what he is/was, I am not holding my breath.

128 Kragar  Sep 4, 2014 1:39:35pm

re: #127 Bubblehead II

Super max is for the worst of the worst. Hell, we don’t even send pedophiles to super max. Yes, McDonnell should be sent to your standard low/medium security Federal prison and if there is any justice in the world, he will. But given who and what he is/was, I am not holding my breath.

He’ll be pardoned as soon as they can get a Republican back in the Governor’s office

129 Bulworth  Sep 4, 2014 1:41:10pm

re:
#122

Wait, so Hoft thinks Johnson shot Michael Brown six times with the cop’s gun?

/

130 Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2014 1:41:59pm

The Guv and his wife should benefit from modern, enlightened corrections approaches—perhaps a coed cell.

131 Bulworth  Sep 4, 2014 1:43:09pm

Thanks to truth-seekers like Jim Hoft and Chuck C. Johnson I think we’re much closer to learning who shot Michael Brown six times with that cop’s gun.

/

132 Bubblehead II  Sep 4, 2014 1:43:11pm

re: #128 Kragar

He’ll be pardoned as soon as they can get a Republican back in the Governor’s office

Nope. Federal charges. Now maybe if (snicker) a republican gets elected POTUS in 2016 he might have a chance at getting his sentence commuted to time served.

133 ausador  Sep 4, 2014 1:54:37pm

re: #122 lawhawk

Hoft again goes after Dorian Johnson (retweeting the following):

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OMG, he had a GoFundMe. You know who also had a GFM - two of them in fact? Officer Darren Wilson, one of which was started anonymously and no one knows who was behind it, while the other was started in part by Rep. Jeff Roorda, who was fired as a police officer for inappropriate conduct before somehow getting backing to be a police chief of a different jurisdiction and later became a state representative.

He was late on the rent. So he entered in to an agreement to pay.

Again, none of this is surprising given how Ferguson operates.

So Conservative TreeHouse thinks that Dorian getting a possession (eviction) order is newsworthy?

134 GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 4, 2014 1:55:47pm

re: #88 blueraven

Heh…

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Google Image Search. How does it work?!?!

135 Targetpractice  Sep 4, 2014 1:55:59pm

Now that we’ve gone through this whole trial process, I do wonder if the rumors back in the day, of the Feds holding off on announcing the charges so that McDonnell could be allowed to retire from the governor’s mansion instead of being hauled out the front door, have any truth to them.

136 klys  Sep 4, 2014 1:57:08pm

re: #126 ausador

He did it on purpose, it was simple snark, if anyone took it as supposedly being the same Charles Johnson that is their problem. How many Charles Johnsons do you suppose there might be in this country?

I guess my snark meter is broken, then. The part where it deliberately referenced the area where Upchuck went to high school and had the date of birth plausible for the age that Upchuck is was an accident then, I guess.

137 Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 4, 2014 1:57:17pm

re: #84 lawhawk

Or stamped with Not Wilson.

When is someone posting a picture of a volleyball with a black eye?
//

139 Kragar  Sep 4, 2014 2:00:57pm
140 ausador  Sep 4, 2014 2:01:50pm

Sigh… :(

Retweeted by Jim Hoft yet…

141 b_sharp  Sep 4, 2014 2:03:41pm

Seems to me it’s the Chuck C Johnsons and Gov. McDonnells who are the real leaders of the entitlement cult.

142 darthstar  Sep 4, 2014 2:04:37pm

I’ll bet I know someone who’d still vote for him.

143 b_sharp  Sep 4, 2014 2:04:50pm

re: #140 ausador

Sigh… :(

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Retweeted by Jim Hoft yet…

Any of our Muslim lizards want to send a RIP for Rivers his way?

144 Sionainn  Sep 4, 2014 2:05:35pm

re: #140 ausador

Sigh… :(

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Retweeted by Jim Hoft yet…

WTF?

145 Lidane  Sep 4, 2014 2:09:39pm

So the more I think about it, the more I might be motivated to sit down tonight and write up a Page about that moralistic scold douche who wants a Dallas Cowboys boycott because of Michael Sam joining their practice squad. I think I can work up a good rant about that.

And screw that guy for making me think about doing this. I’m not a Cowboys fan. :-P

147 Bubblehead II  Sep 4, 2014 2:12:13pm

re: #137 Feline Fearless Leader

When is someone posting a picture of a volleysoccer ball with a black eye?
//

You really need to leave willson out of this.

My bad. Wilson was a volleyball.

148 dog philosopher  Sep 4, 2014 2:13:28pm

maybe mcdonnell can work in the prison money laundry

149 GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 4, 2014 2:13:51pm

re: #147 Bubblehead II

You really need to leave willson out of this.

My name is VOIT, dumbass!

150 ObserverArt  Sep 4, 2014 2:14:22pm

re: #116 BeachDem

Add:

8) It seems that Big Chicken down in New Jersey hasn’t quite put that whole bridge thing behind him yet. esquire.com

That Esquire article is pretty good. When the cops start talking about the bridge shenanigans all the excuses for it being a traffic study go away.
I wonder what kind of bullshit Christie is going to try to cook up next? I’m pretty sure he will come up with something but anymore will just be seen for what they are. Excuses.

151 Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2014 2:14:26pm

re: #138 NJDhockeyfan

List of American state and local politicians convicted of crimes

Our Alabama governor was imprisoned for one of the crimes he didn’t commit.

152 De Kolta Chair  Sep 4, 2014 2:14:39pm

153 BeachDem  Sep 4, 2014 2:15:19pm

He seems nice:

9-year-old calls police on neighbor for racist, terroristic threats to family

…While they were waiting for officers to arrive, Poynter allegedly walked out of his home with the shotgun and began waving it around, pointing it at the father and saying, “Sooner or later, you’re gonna die. You and your family…”

He was charged with criminal trespassing, attempted arson, terroristic threatening, wanton endangerment, harassment and menacing.

In court on Wednesday, Poynter shook his head as court officials described what he’s accused of doing.

By the afternoon, he was released from jail on a $10,000 bond.

wdrb.com

154 Kragar  Sep 4, 2014 2:17:17pm
155 WhatEVs  Sep 4, 2014 2:17:18pm

re: #120 ausador

Posted earlier and I missed it?

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156 ObserverArt  Sep 4, 2014 2:18:22pm

re: #145 Lidane

So the more I think about it, the more I might be motivated to sit down tonight and write up a Page about that moralistic scold douche who wants a Dallas Cowboys boycott because of Michael Sam joining their practice squad. I think I can work up a good rant about that.

And screw that guy for making me think about doing this. I’m not a Cowboys fan. :-P

It all couldn’t have happened in a better state with a better NFL team.

And no I don’t mean the ‘boys are a good team, but they are somewhat considered America’s team, so there is a ton of people going to see this all play out.

And the state politics make this a great in-your-face story.

To advance America, I hope Sam does make the full team and gets some playing time this year while it is still a popular story.

And Lidane…I for one look forward to your page.

157 Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2014 2:21:15pm

re: #147 Bubblehead II

You really need to leave willson out of this.

Itaewon is a famous shopping area outside the main US post in Seoul. Lots of namebrand knockoffs and seconds products wind up there. The kids got some nice baseball gloves with “Woo Sung” impressed into the leather.

158 ausador  Sep 4, 2014 2:23:02pm

re: #153 BeachDem

He seems nice:

wdrb.com

Just the kind of neighbor everyone wants next door…

///

159 Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2014 2:23:38pm

re: #158 ausador

Just the kind of neighbor everyone wants next door…

///

Always know where he stands…

160 blueraven  Sep 4, 2014 2:26:33pm

re: #138 NJDhockeyfan

List of American state and local politicians convicted of crimes

re: #146 NJDhockeyfan

List of American federal politicians convicted of crimes

Do you have a point with this?
If it is this: many politicians are crooks, I think we already know that.

Doesn’t excuse Governor and Mrs McDonnell, nor does it make their conviction any less newsworthy.

161 Bulworth  Sep 4, 2014 2:28:19pm

FLOTUS has just tweeted a ‘Happy Birthday’ message to Beyonce.

Cue the wingnut outrage because reasons.

162 Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 4, 2014 2:28:28pm

re: #120 ausador

Posted earlier and I missed it?

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Chuck Johnson claims he has filed a lawsuit for defamation of character. I think he is full of bovine excrement.

163 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 2:31:28pm

Afternoon/Evening Lizardim from the sopping humid wild north country. I am confined to the indoors now that the humidity is approaching 120% - for everyone else’s safety, lest I spontaneously combust near them. How go things among the lizardfolk?

164 Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 4, 2014 2:32:14pm

re: #157 Decatur Deb

Itaewon is a famous shopping area outside the main US post in Seoul. Lots of namebrand knockoffs and seconds products wind up there. The kids got some nice baseball gloves with “Woo Sung” impressed into the leather.

Spent a couple of nights there while on pass from 2nd ID up in Tongducheon.

165 BeachDem  Sep 4, 2014 2:33:58pm

And of course the perpetual question, “What’s the matter with Kansas?” continues:

Chad Taylor filed paperwork Wednesday to pull his name off Kansas ballots for U.S. Senate. On Thursday, Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach said the Democrat’s name must remain.

The Dem Party chair did not mince words with what she thought of it:

…she sharply criticized Kobach, a Republican, for injecting himself into the ballot dispute.

“He is partisan, and mean, and he has made an unmitigated mess of our electoral system,” she said. “He ought to keep his hand out of this one.”

kansascity.com

166 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 2:34:21pm

re: #147 Bubblehead II

You really need to leave willson out of this.

Wilson can bounce back from it.

167 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Sep 4, 2014 2:35:21pm

re: #165 BeachDem

Kobach is a slimy little shit and always has been.

168 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Sep 4, 2014 2:36:45pm

re: #165 BeachDem

and he’s a birther

169 Charles Johnson  Sep 4, 2014 2:37:34pm
170 Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2014 2:37:45pm

re: #164 Aunty Entity Dragon

Spent a couple of nights there while on pass from 2nd ID up in Tongducheon.

Had a long tour with family. Wife once broke up the bus coming out of Red Cloud, where they had the list of STD hotspots and the large “Do you have your protection?” sign. The 9 yr-old popped up with:

“Mommy, do we have our protection?”

“Yes, dear, the MP up front is carrying a .45 for us.”

171 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Sep 4, 2014 2:38:42pm

re: #165 BeachDem

oh yeah, he also is a racist bigot

172 BeachDem  Sep 4, 2014 2:40:28pm

re: #167 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Kobach is a slimy little shit and always has been.

And was Romney’s (unofficial) immigration adviser…until he wasn’t.

173 Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 4, 2014 2:40:54pm

re: #170 Decatur Deb

Had a long tour with family. Wife once broke up the bus coming out of Red Cloud, where they had the list of STD hotspots and the large “Do you have your protection?” sign. The 9 yr-old popped up with:

“Mommy, do we have our protection?”

“Yes, dear, the MP up front is carrying a .45 for us.”

Awesome. :)

174 ausador  Sep 4, 2014 2:41:47pm

If only Gannett had listened to Chuck…well…nothing would be different at all, would it?

175 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 2:43:20pm

Found Upchuck’s baby picture!
(Even the cat is embarrassed.)

176 Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 4, 2014 2:45:51pm

re: #170 Decatur Deb

The thing I remembr most coming out of the 8th Army Hdqtrs in Seoul for the bus ride north on my first night in country was that it looked seriously like something out of Blade Runner. The narrow alleys with neon signs everywhere, crumbling concrete and flashy new buildings, crazy unsafe electrical wiring all over…total dystopic science fiction. I thought it looked amazing. I expected a police spinner or a replicant any moment…

177 darthstar  Sep 4, 2014 2:46:38pm

re: #169 Charles Johnson

A. Chuckie doesn’t have any grounds to stand on.
B. He’ll move on to the next faux crisis as soon as he finds one.

178 Lidane  Sep 4, 2014 2:47:34pm

LGF Irrelevance Alert:

Alleged Photo of Injured Darren Wilson Not Actually Darren Wilson

It was a commenter on the site Little Green Footballs that first debunked the hoax, discovering that the photo was actually of freestyle motocross rider Jim McNeil who died in 2011 after he suffered a crash during practice. The photo is from an earlier injury McNeil suffered in 2006.

179 De Kolta Chair  Sep 4, 2014 2:47:53pm

Award-winning journalist blames USA Today lay-offs on that evil Obama guy and mangles tenses:

Just another typical day at the orifice.

180 ausador  Sep 4, 2014 2:47:59pm

Sarcasm btw…

181 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 2:48:40pm

Official statement at the link in the tweet.

182 Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2014 2:49:11pm

re: #176 Aunty Entity Dragon

The thing I remembr most coming out of the 8th Army Hdqtrs in Seoul for the bus ride north on my first night in country was that it looked seriously like something out of Blade Runner. The narrow alleys with neon signs everywhere, crumbling concrete and flashy new buildings, crazy unsafe electrical wiring all over…total dystopic science fiction. I thought it looked amazing. I expected a police spinner or a replicant any moment…

Yes. Made that bus run every week, and always got a very strange uneasy feeling. After a few months I realized that this was the first time since infancy that I was seeing a lot of neon signs, and couldn’t read the lettering on them.

183 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 2:51:19pm
184 De Kolta Chair  Sep 4, 2014 2:52:41pm

re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth

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4) Everybody can vote.

FIFH ;-)

185 BeachDem  Sep 4, 2014 2:53:25pm

re: #169 Charles Johnson

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Hasn’t he also threatened to sue the MS writer who has called him (CCJ) a self-proclaimed journalist? I think he’s babbled about suing somebody else in Missouri who was mean to him…

186 Charles Johnson  Sep 4, 2014 2:53:55pm
187 Petero1818  Sep 4, 2014 2:55:48pm

<re: #174 ausador

If only Gannett had listened to Chuck…well…nothing would be different at all, would it?

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Reading this moron’s twitter feed reminds me of that young woman that discovers feminism or that young man who discovers the theoretical underpinnings of Socialism in their first year of college and insists on taking us all along on their journey of discovery as if s/he has uncovered a mystery that has befuddled us all for our adult life.
His Twitter feed is the most self obsessed, narcissistic display of immaturity that I have seen from anyone over the age of 19 in a long time.

188 Jenner7  Sep 4, 2014 2:56:16pm

re: #180 ausador

Is it sad to think this was real? CCJ is so ridiculous, I wouldn’t be surprised if he did.

189 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 4, 2014 2:56:36pm

Taking the relaxing bus ride back home. Been fighting a cold that has kicked my ass, but starting to feel better. I’ve lost 5 pounds, but a lot of that is water I think.

190 De Kolta Chair  Sep 4, 2014 2:59:01pm

I can easily see this headline appearing in the very near future:

Charles C. Johnson Flees to Hong Kong, Seeks Asylum in Russia

191 darthstar  Sep 4, 2014 3:01:49pm
192 BeachDem  Sep 4, 2014 3:03:01pm

re: #175 Backwoods_Sleuth

Found Upchuck’s baby picture!
(Even the cat is embarrassed.)

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Funny, I always pictured him more like this

193 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 4, 2014 3:03:25pm

SWOTT keeps showing up even though I blocked her.

Hey how about we lower CEO pay?

194 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 3:03:33pm

re: #192 BeachDem

Funny, I always pictured him more like this

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Come on, that Chucky can at least be humorous.

195 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 3:04:05pm

re: #193 Pie-onist Overlord

SWOTT keeps showing up even though I blocked her.

Hey how about we lower CEO pay?

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Too bad welfare’s not even close to being 15 a hour but please go on and show us how educmated you are.

196 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 3:04:42pm

re: #195 HappyWarrior

Too bad welfare’s not even close to being 15 a hour but please go on and show us how educmated you are.

Facts aren’t relevant to this discussion, you pinko commie shill.

197 Timothy Watson  Sep 4, 2014 3:05:51pm

re: #193 Pie-onist Overlord

SWOTT keeps showing up even though I blocked her.

Hey how about we lower CEO pay?

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Why the frak does she think people need welfare? How the frak are you supposed to survive at 15,080 a year?

198 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 4, 2014 3:06:00pm

re: #190 De Kolta Chair

I can easily see this headline appearing in the near future:

CC Johnson Flees to Hong Kong, Seeking Asylum in Russia

Good luck. Unlike Snowden he has nothing to trade. I would hope this event makes him irrelevant, but I’m afraid it will just as to his cred.

199 De Kolta Chair  Sep 4, 2014 3:06:08pm

re: #194 HappyWarrior

Come on, that Chucky can at least be humorous.

And he did snag Jennifer Tilly.

200 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 4, 2014 3:06:21pm

Zedushka lost his bottom denture. He fell asleep on the sofa & it fell out into the cracks of the sofa.

Now we’ll have to flip the sofa and slice open the bottom lining. Maybe we’ll find his denture & a bunch of pretzels & his Android S4.

201 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 3:06:36pm

re: #197 Timothy Watson

Why the frak does she think people need welfare? How the frak are you supposed to survive at 15,080 a year?

Umm… umm… umm… BENGHAZI!!!

202 Varek Raith  Sep 4, 2014 3:06:57pm

re: #200 Pie-onist Overlord

Zedushka lost his bottom denture. He fell asleep on the sofa & it fell out into the cracks of the sofa.

Now we’ll have to flip the sofa and slice open the bottom lining. Maybe we’ll find his denture & a bunch of pretzels & his Android S4.

Forgive me but, lol.
:)

203 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 4, 2014 3:07:22pm

re: #197 Timothy Watson

Why the frak does she think people need welfare? How the frak are you supposed to survive at 15,080 a year?

SWOTT thinks HURR HURR THEIR JUST LAZY MOOCHERS!!!! WHY CAN’T THEY BE LIKE ME & HANG OUT AT THE COUNTRY CLUB & MARRY A RICH GUY WHO FLIPS FORECLOSED HOUSES HURR HURR!!!!!!

204 b_sharp  Sep 4, 2014 3:07:58pm

re: #200 Pie-onist Overlord

Zedushka lost his bottom denture. He fell asleep on the sofa & it fell out into the cracks of the sofa.

Now we’ll have to flip the sofa and slice open the bottom lining. Maybe we’ll find his denture & a bunch of pretzels & his Android S4.

Staples & duct tape.

205 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 3:09:55pm

Youmightbeaconservative if you complain about poor people on welfare but have no words for corporate welfare or the defense budget.

206 Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2014 3:11:01pm

re: #204 b_sharp

Staples & duct tape.

Small child’s graspy arm. Must be dozens of them around there.

207 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 3:12:28pm

re: #197 Timothy Watson

Why the frak does she think people need welfare? How the frak are you supposed to survive at 15,080 a year?

In all honesty, I don’t think people should be allowed to subsist merely on welfare payouts. What I DO think would be fair would be to have welfare PLUS minimum wage be a decent, livable amount. That way, welfare recipients would be encouraged to find a (singular) minimum-wage or better job, but wouldn’t have to work 6 part-time jobs to make ends meet, or try to subsist on substandard income.

208 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 4, 2014 3:12:41pm

re: #204 b_sharp

Staples & duct tape.

That will help keep the dentures in

209 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 3:12:58pm

re: #198 RealityBasedSteve

Good luck. Unlike Snowden he has nothing to trade. I would hope this event makes him irrelevant, but I’m afraid it will just as to his cred.

oh, you silly man, you are sooo wrong.
Upchuck haz SCOOPS! Many MANY earthshaking SCOOPS!!11!!!
So many scoops that other journalists keep stealing them from him!

210 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 3:13:31pm

re: #207 thedopefishlives

In all honesty, I don’t think people should be allowed to subsist merely on welfare payouts. What I DO think would be fair would be to have welfare PLUS minimum wage be a decent, livable amount. That way, welfare recipients would be encouraged to find a (singular) minimum-wage or better job, but wouldn’t have to work 6 part-time jobs to make ends meet, or try to subsist on substandard income.

Yes, this.

211 ObserverArt  Sep 4, 2014 3:14:31pm

re: #187 Petero1818

<

Reading this moron’s twitter feed reminds me of that young woman that discovers feminism or that young man who discovers the theoretical underpinnings of Socialism in their first year of college and insists on taking us all along on their journey of discovery as if s/he has uncovered a mystery that has befuddled us all for our adult life.
His Twitter feed is the most self obsessed, narcissistic display of immaturity that I have seen from anyone over the age of 19 in a long time.

Pretty good summation. I had posted a comment last night that he was drunk on his own perceived importance. Adding in your thinking about how he is in discovery of how things work and wants to act like he is now an expert pretty much nails Chuck C. Johnson’s character. Plus, he has a big mouth and a twitter account.

212 b_sharp  Sep 4, 2014 3:14:50pm

re: #208 RealityBasedSteve

That will help keep the dentures in

Exactly.

213 BeachDem  Sep 4, 2014 3:17:32pm

re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh, you silly man, you are sooo wrong.
Upchuck haz SCOOPS! Many MANY earthshaking SCOOPS!!11!!!
So many scoops that other journalists keep stealing them from him!

And drama—high drama. Remember, the only way his critics can silence him is to kill him (like anyone would waste their time.)

214 Stanley Sea  Sep 4, 2014 3:17:33pm

re: #200 Pie-onist Overlord

Zedushka lost his bottom denture. He fell asleep on the sofa & it fell out into the cracks of the sofa.

Now we’ll have to flip the sofa and slice open the bottom lining. Maybe we’ll find his denture & a bunch of pretzels & his Android S4.

True love right there. :)

215 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 4, 2014 3:18:13pm

re: #208 RealityBasedSteve

That will help keep the dentures in

LOL

216 ObserverArt  Sep 4, 2014 3:18:18pm

re: #204 b_sharp

Staples & duct tape.

But we also need to figure out how to get WD40 involved in this fix too.

217 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 3:18:37pm

re: #216 ObserverArt

But we also need to figure out how to get WD40 involved in this fix too.

Does Zedushka have joint pain? NOT ANYMORE!///

218 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 4, 2014 3:18:54pm

This week’s pie: CHERRY

I know I make the same pies over and over, but that’s what we like!

219 ObserverArt  Sep 4, 2014 3:20:00pm

re: #217 thedopefishlives

Does Zedushka have joint pain? NOT ANYMORE!///

Gets that jaw bone loosened up.

220 ausador  Sep 4, 2014 3:20:05pm

re: #193 Pie-onist Overlord

SWOTT keeps showing up even though I blocked her.

Hey how about we lower CEO pay?

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But I thought they wanted less people to qualify for food stamps? Conservatives are so confusing sometimes…

///

221 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 3:22:17pm

re: #218 Pie-onist Overlord

This week’s pie: CHERRY

I know I make the same pies over and over, but that’s what we like!

“No good ever came from a piece of cherry pie.” Lorne Malvo. A position I had myself until I had a homemade one from a local bakery for my brother’s birthday last weekend.

222 darthstar  Sep 4, 2014 3:22:20pm
223 BeachDem  Sep 4, 2014 3:22:46pm

re: #211 ObserverArt

Pretty good summation. I had posted a comment last night that he was drunk on his own perceived importance. Adding in your thinking about how he is in discovery of how things work and wants to act like he is now an expert pretty much nails Chuck C. Johnson’s character. Plus, he has a big mouth and a twitter account.

Always remember and don’t ever forget

224 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 3:23:31pm

re: #222 darthstar

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Governor Markell, have you been a bad boy?
Okay, okay I’ll stop quoting Malvo now but that one wrote itself!

225 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 3:24:09pm

re: #223 BeachDem

Always remember and don’t ever forget

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In five years, he will be at the Rugrats reunion. Okay, that’s not fair, Chuckie on Rugrats was a kind soul.

226 De Kolta Chair  Sep 4, 2014 3:24:17pm

Science break time: Newly described animals do not fit into known phylum

A new kind of animal, Dendrogramma, looks like a mushroom but does not fit into either the jellyfish or comb jelly family. It resembles fossils of some very ancient fauna. Their discovery could change the way scientists currently think organisms evolved.

227 dog philosopher  Sep 4, 2014 3:24:45pm

deserves a special place in Heck

“They raise your wage to $15 and unionize you. Then they’re going to tax you, take your union dues, and raise your income in Obamacare where you’re going to be hit harder with fees and penalties. And then you’re still going to be an aggrieved schlub who’s failed at life.” -Erick Erickson

228 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 3:25:13pm

re: #226 De Kolta Chair

Newly described animals do not fit into known phylum

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A new kind of animal, Dendrogramma, looks like a mushroom but does not fit into either the jellyfish or comb jelly family. It resembles fossils of some very ancient fauna. Their discovery could change the way scientists currently think organisms evolved.

Fascinating. I always thought that if I had been a better science student, I would have gone into marine bio. The seas are a fascinating place.

229 Varek Raith  Sep 4, 2014 3:25:52pm

re: #226 De Kolta Chair

Awfully close to ‘kill it with fire’ territory.
/

230 dog philosopher  Sep 4, 2014 3:26:01pm

re: #200 Pie-onist Overlord

Zedushka lost his bottom denture. He fell asleep on the sofa & it fell out into the cracks of the sofa.

Now we’ll have to flip the sofa and slice open the bottom lining. Maybe we’ll find his denture & a bunch of pretzels & his Android S4.

make sure you don’t trip over jimmy hoffa

231 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 3:26:08pm

re: #227 dog philosopher

deserves a special place in Heck

“They raise your wage to $15 and unionize you. Then they’re going to tax you, take your union dues, and raise your income in Obamacare where you’re going to be hit harder with fees and penalties. And then you’re still going to be an aggrieved schlub who’s failed at life.” -Erick Erickson

And Erick Erickson will always be a sad choad.

232 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 3:26:17pm

wheeeeeeeeee!!!!!

233 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 3:26:56pm

re: #232 Backwoods_Sleuth

wheeeeeeeeee!!!!!

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Not surprising.

234 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 3:28:20pm

heh, Joan would laugh at this joke:

235 ObserverArt  Sep 4, 2014 3:28:21pm

re: #223 BeachDem

Always remember and don’t ever forget

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Heh. I don’t remember seeing that tweet before, might have missed it.

Look out Glenn Greenwald…Charles C Johnson is going to knock you off your lofty perch and put you out of work and begging in the streets of Brazil.

And if he takes down Glenn, no other journalist stands a chance.

CCJ gotnews.com World Journalism Domination!

236 BeachDem  Sep 4, 2014 3:28:46pm

re: #232 Backwoods_Sleuth

The Dem Chair’s comment is classic.

littlegreenfootballs.com

237 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 3:29:30pm

That to me is a sign of desperation if I ever did see one though.

238 darthstar  Sep 4, 2014 3:29:58pm

Sad about Joan Rivers…but if she were here to give her own eulogy, she’d say she died doing what she loved most - having surgery.

239 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 3:32:24pm

re: #236 BeachDem

The Dem Chair’s comment is classic.

littlegreenfootballs.com

From Jason’s report:

Republicans are fighting to keep the Democratic candidate’s name on the ballot, because Sen. Roberts would be in grave danger of losing to Independent candidate Greg Orman. The Independent has promised to caucus with the Senate’s other two Independents who caucus with the Democrats. Republicans are terrified that Orman will unite the left and center of the state, and defeat Sen. Roberts.

Roberts is in so much danger that the national Republican Party has taken over his campaign. Republicans are hitting the panic button as they could lose a Senate seat in Kansas. This is the why the fight over keeping Taylor’s name on the ballot will be heading to court.

If Taylor is off the ballot Democratic chances of keeping the Senate improve as Republicans may be denied their majority dream by a Democrat, who quit in Kansas.

hahahahaaaaa!

240 whitebeach  Sep 4, 2014 3:33:29pm

Just finished reading the 7th District opinion. When I reached the final “AFFIRMED,” I felt like standing up and cheering. If Barbara Crabb wrote it, I nominate her, despite her somewhat unfortunate name, for the next available seat at SCOTUS. The whole thing was just so, “OK, you supercilious assholes, I got your logic right here.” Judges are supposed to be pretty smart people. Why can’t more of them write like this?

241 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 3:34:00pm

re: #238 darthstar

Sad about Joan Rivers…but if she were here to give her own eulogy, she’d say she died doing what she loved most - having surgery.

*snort*

Dammit, man, put a spoiler on that. I need a new monitor.

242 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 3:34:26pm

re: #232 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is shaping up to be a repeat of the Dede Scozzafava debacle for the Republicans in New York State

243 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 3:35:29pm

re: #240 whitebeach

Just finished reading the 7th District opinion. When I reached the final “AFFIRMED,” I felt like standing up and cheering. If Barbara Crabb wrote it, I nominate her, despite her somewhat unfortunate name, for the next available seat at SCOTUS. The whole thing was just so, “OK, you supercilious assholes, I got your logic right here.” Judges are supposed to be pretty smart people. Why can’t more of them write like this?

I’ve got that opinion saved to my hard drive.
It is so good, it’s worth reading time and time again.
I’m still trying to decide on which part is my favorite.

244 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 3:35:34pm

re: #239 Backwoods_Sleuth

From Jason’s report:

hahahahaaaaa!

How’s Kentucky looking with Grimes and Mitchie? Got a pretty boring one here for the Senate though I have heard rumblings that there’s disappointment with the Comstock campaign here so we may get gain a seat here. First time I’ll ever have a Democrat representing me in the House.

245 De Kolta Chair  Sep 4, 2014 3:35:35pm

re: #235 ObserverArt

CCJ gotnews.com World Journalism Domination!

Sample headlines:

Beheaded Journalist #StevenSotloff’s Tweets Reveal Support for Syrian Terrorist Friends
RESEARCH: Original Obamacare Website Contract Had No Federal Tax Credit Consumer Functionality Language
FRAUD: Ferguson Witness Coached By The Black Panthers? UPDATED
Why You May Need an Uzi For Self Defense

Pulitzers all around boys!! //

246 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 3:36:17pm

re: #245 De Kolta Chair

Sample headlines:

Beheaded Journalist #StevenSotloff’s Tweets Reveal Support for Syrian Terrorist Friends
RESEARCH: Original Obamacare Website Contract Had No Federal Tax Credit Consumer Functionality Language
FRAUD: Ferguson Witness Coached By The Black Panthers? UPDATED
Why You May Need an Uzi For Self Defense

Pulitzers all around boys!! //

They sound nice.

247 Varek Raith  Sep 4, 2014 3:36:40pm

An uzi for self defense.
HA!

248 TedStriker  Sep 4, 2014 3:37:05pm

re: #28 HappyWarrior

Yep Donte Truther Anti-Vaxxer Stallworth is the Huff Po’s new national security guy.

As in, former NFL player Donte Stallworth?

249 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 3:37:11pm

re: #247 Varek Raith

An uzi for self defense.
HA!

Given recent events, I’m not sure that’s such a good idea.

250 darthstar  Sep 4, 2014 3:39:01pm
Conservationists studying bats in Arizona were recently confronted by a group of armed militia members who confused them for border crossers or smugglers, a local sheriff told television station KOLD.

The TV station reported on Tuesday that Santa Cruz County Sheriff Tony Estrada said the militia members were wearing camouflage and were heavily armed when they arrived on ATVs and confronted the scientists on the night of Aug. 23.

“Obviously they mistook them for smugglers or illegal entrants,” said Estrada. “They were armed. They put a spotlight on them.”

251 TedStriker  Sep 4, 2014 3:39:08pm

re: #238 darthstar

Sad about Joan Rivers…but if she were here to give her own eulogy, she’d say she died doing what she loved most - having surgery.

I think she’d LOL at that one.

252 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 3:39:09pm

re: #244 HappyWarrior

How’s Kentucky looking with Grimes and Mitchie? Got a pretty boring one here for the Senate though I have heard rumblings that there’s disappointment with the Comstock campaign here so we may get gain a seat here. First time I’ll ever have a Democrat representing me in the House.

It’s really close here. It’s all going to come down to getting out the vote.
My county is solidly Republican no matter what, no matter how useless they are. But I went into town earlier today and all of the Mitch signs (which were many) are all gone and Grimes signs are up.
I feel like I’m in an alternate reality.

253 whitebeach  Sep 4, 2014 3:41:24pm

re: #243 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’ve got that opinion saved to my hard drive.
It is so good, it’s worth reading time and time again.
I’m still trying to decide on which part is my favorite.

Might be “Go figure.”

254 De Kolta Chair  Sep 4, 2014 3:41:35pm

re: #246 HappyWarrior

They sound nice.

Agreed, and can you believe that the original Obamacare website contract had no federal tax credit consumer functionality language??? Inpeach!!!

255 Mentis Fugit  Sep 4, 2014 3:41:40pm

re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh, you silly man, you are sooo wrong.
Upchuck haz SCOOPS! Many MANY earthshaking SCOOPS!!11!!!
So many scoops that other journalists keep stealing them from him!

The only scoop - beg pardon, SCOOP - Chuck Clownshoes Johnson has had stolen from him:

256 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 4, 2014 3:43:05pm

Ah, home again. Tomorrow I get to deal with the TN Dept. of Safety. (they are the ones in the state that handle drivers license). Last week it turned out my license was suspended, which I knew nothing about (just random plate run while sitting at a stop light). Officer was nice, didn’t clasp me irons, said it was for a “Failure to satisfy ticket”, that it had been suspended for about a year. Local clerks office couldn’t find anything on their system, but it showed up on the state system.

Apparently I had a 140 dollar ticket somewhere that I didn’t pay (which isn’t like me, as a DB guy, I know that it’s all one big system). I paid that online, tomorrow AM I should have an email confirming I’m legal again. If I DO have to go to the local license office, I’m bringing a book. They are not what one would refer to as paragons of efficiency.

On the other hand, the state DL site is pretty slick, and I’m happy, since I trained some of the people who worked on it. (apparently they learned more :) )

Oh well, deal with it tomorrow.

RBS

257 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 3:44:31pm

re: #248 TedStriker

As in, former NFL player Donte Stallworth?

Yep.

258 BeachDem  Sep 4, 2014 3:44:37pm

re: #235 ObserverArt

Heh. I don’t remember seeing that tweet before, might have missed it.

Look out Glenn Greenwald…Charles C Johnson is going to knock you off your lofty perch and put you out of work and begging in the streets of Brazil.

And if he takes down Glenn, no other journalist stands a chance.

CCJ gotnews.com World Journalism Domination!

Originally saw it in this Wonkette story:

Chuck C. Johnson Is An Award-Winning Journalist

wonkette.com

For much reading enjoyment, search Wonkette for his name. And if you think the articles are funny, stick around for the comments.

259 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 3:45:01pm

re: #252 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s really close here. It’s all going to come down to getting out the vote.
My county is solidly Republican no matter what, no matter how useless they are. But I went into town earlier today and all of the Mitch signs (which were many) are all gone and Grimes signs are up.
I feel like I’m in an alternate reality.

Interesting. Hope it goes well for you as it did for me eight years ago when we got rid of George Allen.

260 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 3:45:19pm

re: #240 whitebeach

Just finished reading the 7th District opinion. When I reached the final “AFFIRMED,” I felt like standing up and cheering. If Barbara Crabb wrote it, I nominate her, despite her somewhat unfortunate name, for the next available seat at SCOTUS. The whole thing was just so, “OK, you supercilious assholes, I got your logic right here.” Judges are supposed to be pretty smart people. Why can’t more of them write like this?

It took some catching up, but I finally figured out what was going on. My Google-fu also found an Indianapolis Star article that proclaimed, “Despite gay-marriage ruling, stay remains in effect.” Alas for fish country; it sucketh.

261 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 4, 2014 3:45:42pm

re: #257 HappyWarrior
re: #248 TedStriker

As in, former NFL player Donte Stallworth?

Yep.

Yep.

And don’t think too hard about the WHY?, it will only make your head hurt and possibly cause gout.

RBS

262 WhatEVs  Sep 4, 2014 3:46:14pm

re: #238 darthstar

Sad about Joan Rivers…but if she were here to give her own eulogy, she’d say she died doing what she loved most - having surgery.

Tweeted that. Had to…it was so Joan. I’m quite blue. I’ll miss her. A lot.

263 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 4, 2014 3:46:33pm

re: #258 BeachDem

Originally saw it in this Wonkette story:

Chuck C. Johnson Is An Award-Winning Journalist

wonkette.com

For much reading enjoyment, search Wonkette for his name. And if you think the articles are funny, stick around for the comments.

Wonkette is sort of the high point of my day. It’s like having a bunch of really smart, smarky friends.

RBS

264 TedStriker  Sep 4, 2014 3:49:02pm

re: #93 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

I don’t know what’s worse, the 30 years he’ll spend in a club med like prison or the total shitstorm his divorce is going to turn into after what he did to his wife in this trial.

He pretty much threw her to the wolves to save his own skin, didn’t he?

265 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 3:49:37pm

OK, I just looked at the 7th Circuit decision again, and it wasn’t Barbara Crabbe. She was the District Court judge for the Wisconsin decision being appealed, and Richard Young was the District Court judge for the Indiana decision.

The 7th District Court justices for today’s decision apparently are Richard Posner (Chief Judge who wrote the decision and a Reagan appointee), Ann Claire Williams (Clinton appointee), and David F. Hamilton (Obama appointee).

266 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 3:49:39pm

re: #264 TedStriker

He pretty much threw her to the wolves to save his own skin, didn’t he?

Yeah nice guy.

267 Charles Johnson  Sep 4, 2014 3:49:42pm
268 Shiplord Kirel  Sep 4, 2014 3:51:21pm

re: #250 darthstar

These idiots gonna get someone hurt “@TPM: Armed border militia mistakenly confronts group of bat conservationists:

It could have been worse, but fortunately the militia happened to confront a group who could immediately recognize bat shit for what it is.

269 Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2014 3:53:26pm

re: #256 RealityBasedSteve

Ah, home again. Tomorrow I get to deal with the TN Dept. of Safety. (they are the ones in the state that handle drivers license). Last week it turned out my license was suspended, which I knew nothing about (just random plate run while sitting at a stop light). Officer was nice, didn’t clasp me irons, said it was for a “Failure to satisfy ticket”, that it had been suspended for about a year. Local clerks office couldn’t find anything on their system, but it showed up on the state system.

Apparently I had a 140 dollar ticket somewhere that I didn’t pay (which isn’t like me, as a DB guy, I know that it’s all one big system). I paid that online, tomorrow AM I should have an email confirming I’m legal again. If I DO have to go to the local license office, I’m bringing a book. They are not what one would refer to as paragons of efficiency.

On the other hand, the state DL site is pretty slick, and I’m happy, since I trained some of the people who worked on it. (apparently they learned more :) )

Oh well, deal with it tomorrow.

RBS

That’s one of our concerns about using driver’s licenses for voter ID. Our law says ‘valid’, giving the vote suppression gang an opening for fuckery.

270 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 3:54:25pm

re: #267 Charles Johnson

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Pretty sure we could make a case for damages based on the time spent refuting his inane bullshit.

271 ausador  Sep 4, 2014 3:56:49pm

re: #235 ObserverArt

CCJ gotnews.com World Journalism Domination!

Rupert Murdoch will squash him like a bug.

272 Charles Johnson  Sep 4, 2014 4:00:32pm
273 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 4:01:27pm

re: #272 Charles Johnson

Derpity derpity derpity derpity derpity derpity derpity derpity derpity derpity

274 whitebeach  Sep 4, 2014 4:07:15pm

re: #265 Backwoods_Sleuth

OK, I just looked at the 7th Circuit decision again, and it wasn’t Barbara Crabbe. She was the District Court judge for the Wisconsin decision being appealed, and Richard Young was the District Court judge for the Indiana decision.

The 7th District Court justices for today’s decision apparently are Richard Posner (Chief Judge who wrote the decision and a Reagan appointee), Ann Claire Williams (Clinton appointee), and David F. Hamilton (Obama appointee).

Thank you for the knowledge. I should have suspected it was Posner, who does have a way with words and arguments. I imagine that if Reagan ever held any of the beliefs he claimed to have, instead of my-line-my-line-blah-blah-blah-my-line, he’d be spinning about now, which would be fine with me.

275 ausador  Sep 4, 2014 4:08:47pm

re: #250 darthstar

These idiots gonna get someone hurt “@TPM: Armed border militia mistakenly confronts group of bat conservationists: ln.is “

The local news that got tweeted around yesterday said that after the researchers got back to their camp the militia showed back up on ATVs while toting shotguns and cursed at them. :(

Found it…

276 BeachDem  Sep 4, 2014 4:09:24pm

re: #270 thedopefishlives

Pretty sure we could make a case for damages based on the time spent refuting his inane bullshit.

I think that’s only fair, as he claimed irreparable harm if he didn’t get the Brown juvie records. My brain suffers harm every time I look at his smug face.

277 piratedan  Sep 4, 2014 4:09:51pm

re: #272 Charles Johnson

they were probably changing florescent light bulbs by putting chairs on desks instead of filing a maintenance ticket for replacements.

278 BeachDem  Sep 4, 2014 4:12:54pm

re: #263 RealityBasedSteve

Wonkette is sort of the high point of my day. It’s like having a bunch of really smart, smarky friends.

RBS

I laugh myself silly each time I read that Chuck C. Johnson story—particularly this line:

YES. I am standing up in my chair and Cheering 4 ChuckTM right now! Ow, it’s a swiveling chair and I fell and hit my head.

279 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 4, 2014 4:18:08pm

Dim Jim & whoever his partner is, you suck so hard.

280 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 4:18:19pm

good freaking grief…he was released in 2004.

281 Bubblehead II  Sep 4, 2014 4:21:41pm

Night Lizards. May the Deity of your choice smile down upon you and yours.

282 blueraven  Sep 4, 2014 4:22:48pm

Another Scoop!

283 darthstar  Sep 4, 2014 4:23:40pm
284 Skip Intro  Sep 4, 2014 4:25:47pm

So, do you think these remarks

were absolutely hideous and the motive behind them was despicable,” Lt. Gov. Rebecca Kleefisch (R) said.

?

Democratic National Committee Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Fla.) said Thursday that she “shouldn’t have used” charged language to describe Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) record on women’s issues.

The congresswoman ripped Walker at a Wednesday roundtable in Milwaukee for giving “women the back of his hand” by signing a bill that prevents victims of employment discrimination from seeking punitive and compensatory damages in state courts.

“What Republican tea party extremists like Scott Walker are doing is they are grabbing us by the hair and pulling us back. It is not going to happen on our watch,” she added.

huffingtonpost.com

Here’s a hint to Dems: Stop apologizing to these assholes, unless the plan is to keep the base at home in November and lose everything.

285 BeachDem  Sep 4, 2014 4:26:33pm

Just when you thought Meet the Press couldn’t get any worse, what with Chuck Todd as the host…

NBC is bringing in Luke Russert, son of the late beloved “Meet the Press” host Tim Russert, as a regular panelist on the Sunday morning show in a bid to turn around its catastrophic ratings slide, Page Six has exclusively learned.

Also joining new moderator Chuck Todd’s team will be former Republican congressman and “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough.

Honestly, our sides are already split from laughing so hard, but it would be irresponsible of us not to share this delightfully delusional assessment, per Page Six, of just why America needs even more Joe Scarborough.

We’re told the move is part of a plan to bring a right-leaning voice to the program to appeal to viewers turned off by the show’s famously left-leaning former hosts including the ousted David Gregory.

We assume the phrase “famously left-leaning” refers to David Gregory physically and not politically.

wonkette.com

286 blueraven  Sep 4, 2014 4:29:13pm

re: #272 Charles Johnson

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Oh yes, 3 guys selling a book. Saw this on Fox News special report.
There is nothing new here. These guys were told to wait by CIA guy (BOB) while he tried to get security force in place.
This is all in the Benghazi Senate report.

Of course they like to use the term “Stand Down”. They know where the money is!

287 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 4, 2014 4:29:43pm

re: #282 blueraven

Another Scoop!

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And yet he seems to function much like an adult human, getting dressed each morning, walking around, even traveling on planes. Perhaps that’s using 99% of his available brain, that’s the only kind excuse. Otherwise he’s just a flipping ….
I’m not a always an attention whore… wait, yes I am….

288 ausador  Sep 4, 2014 4:33:26pm

re: #282 blueraven

289 Kragar  Sep 4, 2014 4:33:50pm

re: #282 blueraven

Another Scoop!

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290 GeneJockey  Sep 4, 2014 4:37:20pm

re: #282 blueraven

Another Scoop!

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One should be careful listening to what friends tell you. For example, a high school classmate posted this on FB:

Joan Rivers made some negatrive comments about the “president”. Now she’s dead. Anyone else see a pattern here???

And she was serious.

291 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 4:38:03pm

re: #282 blueraven

Another Scoop!

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Chuck C’s mom really needs to take that twittering machine away from him.

292 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 4:38:59pm

re: #290 GeneJockey

One should be careful listening to what friends tell you. For example, a high school classmate posted this on FB:

And she was serious.

Did you tell her that she should be glad that she has never said anything bad about the president?

293 GeneJockey  Sep 4, 2014 4:39:14pm

re: #288 ausador

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Well, I can tell you from experience that when they turn off all those big fans along I-580 at the Altamont Pass, it gets hot in the Bay Area!

Coincidence? I think NOT!
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294 ObserverArt  Sep 4, 2014 4:39:27pm

re: #285 BeachDem

Just when you thought Meet the Press couldn’t get any worse, what with Chuck Todd as the host…

NBC is bringing in Luke Russert, son of the late beloved “Meet the Press” host Tim Russert, as a regular panelist on the Sunday morning show in a bid to turn around its catastrophic ratings slide, Page Six has exclusively learned.

Also joining new moderator Chuck Todd’s team will be former Republican congressman and “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough.

Honestly, our sides are already split from laughing so hard, but it would be irresponsible of us not to share this delightfully delusional assessment, per Page Six, of just why America needs even more Joe Scarborough.

We’re told the move is part of a plan to bring a right-leaning voice to the program to appeal to viewers turned off by the show’s famously left-leaning former hosts including the ousted David Gregory.

We assume the phrase “famously left-leaning” refers to David Gregory physically and not politically.

wonkette.com

Groan. Even with MTP sucking I would watch out of habit. But with Morning Joke Scarborough there with the watered-down Russert, and Chuck “It’s not my job” Todd I don’t think I can even watch at all. Oh well. All things must end. And MTP is coming to its end.

I give that line-up a year and they will either change the show drastically or it gets cancelled.

295 b_sharp  Sep 4, 2014 4:39:55pm

re: #291 b.d.

Chuck C’s mom really needs to take that twittering machine away from him.

And lock up the booze.

296 The War TARDIS  Sep 4, 2014 4:40:28pm

I will be off for a few days to reflect. I am sorry for the way I acted towards Iceweasel and Aye-Pod.

I do worry about Bandarbunga right now though. Alot. I worry it could turn out like Laki in 1783.

297 GeneJockey  Sep 4, 2014 4:40:56pm

re: #292 b.d.

Did you tell her that she should be glad that she has never said anything bad about the president?

I’d LOVE to, but she de-freinded me a long time ago. I only saw her post because another classmate commented on her thread.

I had a crush on her in 7th grade, but she seems to have gone around the bend and taken the bend with her.

298 ausador  Sep 4, 2014 4:41:33pm

re: #285 BeachDem

Just when you thought Meet the Press couldn’t get any worse, what with Chuck Todd as the host…

NBC is bringing in Luke Russert, son of the late beloved “Meet the Press” host Tim Russert, as a regular panelist on the Sunday morning show in a bid to turn around its catastrophic ratings slide, Page Six has exclusively learned.

Also joining new moderator Chuck Todd’s team will be former Republican congressman and “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough.

Honestly, our sides are already split from laughing so hard, but it would be irresponsible of us not to share this delightfully delusional assessment, per Page Six, of just why America needs even more Joe Scarborough.

We’re told the move is part of a plan to bring a right-leaning voice to the program to appeal to viewers turned off by the show’s famously left-leaning former hosts including the ousted David Gregory.

We assume the phrase “famously left-leaning” refers to David Gregory physically and not politically.

wonkette.com

Hey NBC look at the damned name of the show!
MEET THE PRESS
Remember when it was a show that had Journalists on that discussed their view of the popular/topical issues they were covering?

Just change the name to “The has been political second stringer that you can’t turn on your TV without seeing show” and be done with it ok? (Or “The stupid shit McCain says show”)

299 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 4, 2014 4:41:54pm

re: #297 GeneJockey

I’d LOVE to, but she de-freinded me a long time ago. I only saw her post because another classmate commented on her thread.

I had a crush on her in 7th grade, but she seems to have gone around the bend and taken the bend with her.

Yea, but you always fell for the crazy ones, didn’t you?

RBS

300 Kragar  Sep 4, 2014 4:41:55pm
301 Skip Intro  Sep 4, 2014 4:42:09pm

re: #285 BeachDem

This has to be a joke. Squint and Nepotism Russert plus Chuck Todd, who believes he has no responsibility to call out his guests for lying?

Hell, the phrase “chucktoddery” has already entered the vocabulary.

One example of “chucktoddery” from long ago, at Obama’s first WH press conference: “If Democrats pass a healthcare bill with no Republican votes, will you veto it in the interests of bipartisanship?”

302 GeneJockey  Sep 4, 2014 4:42:59pm

re: #299 RealityBasedSteve

Yea, but you always fell for the crazy ones, didn’t you?

RBS

As it turned out, yes.

303 darthstar  Sep 4, 2014 4:43:05pm

re: #298 ausador

Hey NBC look at the damned name of the show!
MEET THE PRESS
Remember when it was a show that had Journalists on that discussed their view of the popular/topical issues they were covering?

Just change the name to “The has been political second stringer that you can’t turn on your TV without seeing show” and be done with it ok? (Or “The stupid shit McCain says show”)

All MTP needs now is Ronan Farrow and Abby Huntsman.

304 klys  Sep 4, 2014 4:43:38pm

re: #296 The War TARDIS

I will be off for a few days to reflect. I am sorry for the way I acted towards Iceweasel and Aye-Pod.

I do worry about Bandarbunga right now though. Alot. I worry it could turn out like Laki in 1783.

Bardarbunga really isn’t worth worrying about at the moment. It’s going to do its thing regardless, it’s not going to affect your life for quite some time to come if ever, and technology as a whole has improved massively since 1783 and as such the impact would be significantly less drastic for the majority of the world.

Worry about the stuff closer to home that you can make a difference in.

305 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 4:43:38pm

re: #302 GeneJockey

As it turned out, yes.

The allure of the crazy is strong. DON’T DO IT.

306 ObserverArt  Sep 4, 2014 4:44:30pm

re: #303 darthstar

All MTP needs now is Ronan Farrow and Abby Huntsman.

And it will happen. Going for a younger crowd you can bet on it.

307 BeachDem  Sep 4, 2014 4:46:49pm

Another day, another CCJ lawsuit-in-the-works, another way that CCJ doesn’t understand what libel is.

308 Skip Intro  Sep 4, 2014 4:47:35pm

re: #290 GeneJockey

One should be careful listening to what friends tell you. For example, a high school classmate posted this on FB:

And she was serious.

Of course she was serious. There’s still at least one lunatic who goes by the name of Butterdezillion who knows she has absolute proof that

1) Obama had Loretta Fuddy assasinated to keep her from talking about his illegal birth certificate.

or

2) Obama had Loretta Fuddy kidnapped to keep her from talking about his illegal birth certificate.

It depends on the day and the time for butter to choose one over the other. One thing is certain: Obama caused Fuddy’s plane to crash. That’s a True Fact.

309 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 4:47:35pm

re: #307 BeachDem

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Another day, another CCJ lawsuit-in-the-works, another way that CCJ doesn’t understand what libel is.

Hey UpChuck, can you say “tone-deaf”?

310 GeneJockey  Sep 4, 2014 4:47:46pm

re: #305 thedopefishlives

The allure of the crazy is strong. DON’T DO IT.

Luckily, none of the girls I dated were ‘throw all your stuff on the lawn and set fire to it’ level crazy.

311 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 4:48:57pm

re: #310 GeneJockey

Luckily, none of the girls I dated were ‘throw all your stuff on the lawn and set fire to it’ level crazy.

Only other girl I dated besides Mrs. Fish was a psych major in college. When our relationship went south, she got a diagnosis of bipolar disorder from a psychiatrist, then accused me of causing it. Needless to say, when she tried to FB friend me a while back, I said no thanks.

312 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 4, 2014 4:50:39pm

re: #310 GeneJockey

Luckily, none of the girls I dated were ‘throw all your stuff on the lawn and set fire to it’ level crazy.

Geeze, there were times I was happy that was ONLY how crazy they were.

RBS

313 darthstar  Sep 4, 2014 4:50:40pm

re: #307 BeachDem

Attention whore doesn’t like attention he’s getting?

314 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 4:50:51pm

re: #296 The War TARDIS

I will be off for a few days to reflect. I am sorry for the way I acted towards Iceweasel and Aye-Pod.

I do worry about Bandarbunga right now though. Alot. I worry it could turn out like Laki in 1783.

Why do you worry about stuff like that? Good grief, no matter your sincerely held concerns about every possible disastrous situation anywhere in the world, Iceland is most likely somewhat more advanced and can actually deal with it better now than in 1783.
Yes, you need to take a few days to reflect.
Find some joy in life instead of worst case scenarios.

315 WhatEVs  Sep 4, 2014 4:51:04pm

re: #290 GeneJockey

One should be careful listening to what friends tell you. For example, a high school classmate posted this on FB:

And she was serious.

Someone tweeted that earlier. It was a total WUT?? moment.

316 BeachDem  Sep 4, 2014 4:51:20pm

re: #301 Skip Intro

This has to be a joke. Squint and Nepotism Russert plus Chuck Todd, who believes he has no responsibility to call out his guests for lying?

Hell, the phrase “chucktoddery” has already entered the vocabulary.

One example of “chucktoddery” from long ago, at Obama’s first WH press conference: “If Democrats pass a healthcare bill with no Republican votes, will you veto it in the interests of bipartisanship?”

Well, the original source was Page 6, so there’s always a possibility that it’s pure bullshit. But it sounds like something NBC would think was a fine idea.

317 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 4:51:24pm

re: #285 BeachDem

Just when you thought Meet the Press couldn’t get any worse, what with Chuck Todd as the host…

NBC is bringing in Luke Russert, son of the late beloved “Meet the Press” host Tim Russert, as a regular panelist on the Sunday morning show in a bid to turn around its catastrophic ratings slide, Page Six has exclusively learned.

Also joining new moderator Chuck Todd’s team will be former Republican congressman and “Morning Joe” host Joe Scarborough.

Honestly, our sides are already split from laughing so hard, but it would be irresponsible of us not to share this delightfully delusional assessment, per Page Six, of just why America needs even more Joe Scarborough.

We’re told the move is part of a plan to bring a right-leaning voice to the program to appeal to viewers turned off by the show’s famously left-leaning former hosts including the ousted David Gregory.

We assume the phrase “famously left-leaning” refers to David Gregory physically and not politically.

wonkette.com

Because that is what Meet The Press was missing, privileged class insiders and right wing, talking point spewing hacks.

318 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 4:52:10pm

re: #307 BeachDem

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Another day, another CCJ lawsuit-in-the-works, another way that CCJ doesn’t understand what libel is.

Doesn’t one have to prove harm?

319 GeneJockey  Sep 4, 2014 4:52:25pm

re: #311 thedopefishlives

Only other girl I dated besides Mrs. Fish was a psych major in college. When our relationship went south, she got a diagnosis of bipolar disorder from a psychiatrist, then accused me of causing it. Needless to say, when she tried to FB friend me a while back, I said no thanks.

That’s funny. The Psych major I dated in college who later got a diagnosis of bipolar is Mrs. Jockey. Okay, MILD bipolar, but still.

She’s always been so good at coping that it wasn’t till she was 52 that it was diagnosed, and, happily, treated.

320 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 4:53:01pm

re: #311 thedopefishlives

Only other girl I dated besides Mrs. Fish was a psych major in college. When our relationship went south, she got a diagnosis of bipolar disorder from a psychiatrist, then accused me of causing it. Needless to say, when she tried to FB friend me a while back, I said no thanks.

wise man, you are.
No matter what Mrs Fish says.

321 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 4:53:54pm

re: #300 Kragar

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That water is still really there, I saw David Copperfield do something similar back around Y2K.

322 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 4:53:57pm

re: #320 Backwoods_Sleuth

wise man, you are.
No matter what Mrs Fish says.

Wise, yes. Intelligent, well, that depends on if I left the toilet seat up or not.

323 ObserverArt  Sep 4, 2014 4:54:51pm

NBC.

Meet the Press

Comcast.

Ch-ch-changes

Off to watch the kick-off of the NFL at a buddies house. I leave you with Chuck C. Johnson. Don’t go easy on him!

324 b_sharp  Sep 4, 2014 4:54:55pm

re: #296 The War TARDIS

I will be off for a few days to reflect. I am sorry for the way I acted towards Iceweasel and Aye-Pod.

I do worry about Bandarbunga right now though. Alot. I worry it could turn out like Laki in 1783.

Pay attention to the following words.

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,

The courage to change the things I can,

And the wisdom to know the difference.”

325 WhatEVs  Sep 4, 2014 4:55:17pm

re: #307 BeachDem

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Another day, another CCJ lawsuit-in-the-works, another way that CCJ doesn’t understand what libel is.

326 De Kolta Chair  Sep 4, 2014 4:55:36pm

No sports page, so here’s something kinda kool: Martina Hingis and Flavia Pennetta will be battling it out with Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina for the US Open women’s doubles championship on Saturday.

This will be Hingis’ first appearance in an Open doubles final since 1998.

327 GeneJockey  Sep 4, 2014 4:55:37pm

re: #322 thedopefishlives

Wise, yes. Intelligent, well, that depends on if I left the toilet seat up or not.

Geez, dude - a married man who leaves the seat up? Even I question your intelligence.

328 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 4:56:16pm

re: #322 thedopefishlives

Wise, yes. Intelligent, well, that depends on if I left the toilet seat up or not.

To be honest, I initially typed “smart man” and then wisely changed it to “wise man” before hitting Post.

329 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 4:56:39pm

re: #319 GeneJockey

That’s funny. The Psych major I dated in college who later got a diagnosis of bipolar is Mrs. Jockey. Okay, MILD bipolar, but still.

She’s always been so good at coping that it wasn’t till she was 52 that it was diagnosed, and, happily, treated.

Yeah, ex-girlfriend did not cope well with it at all. I did find out later that after she had a major mental breakdown, she apparently straightened things out and is doing pretty well right now.

330 b_sharp  Sep 4, 2014 4:56:40pm

re: #327 GeneJockey

Geez, dude - a married man who leaves the seat up? Even I question your intelligence.

Crap, I don’t even leave the lid up.

331 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 4:57:27pm

re: #327 GeneJockey

Geez, dude - a married man who leaves the seat up? Even I question your intelligence.

Gotta go with the rule of house owned by dogs who see the toilet as a water bowl, and cats who think it’s a fishing hole… seat up.

332 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 4:57:43pm

re: #327 GeneJockey

Geez, dude - a married man who leaves the seat up? Even >I question your intelligence.

What’s funny is that she neither notices nor cares if I do. I’m pretty good about not doing that, though. Usually it’s things like taking the last piece of brownie or eating the last of Mom’s cookies.

333 Kragar  Sep 4, 2014 4:58:21pm
334 GeneJockey  Sep 4, 2014 4:59:47pm

re: #324 b_sharp

My experience with anxiety - my own and that of those closest to me - is that often one is anxious for no specific reason, and the human mind, which always wants causes and categories, seeks until it finds something to pin the anxiety on.

Similarly, if I find myself getting angry with the wife and/or kids about petty shit that generally doesn’t bother me, I know it means I’m anxious or upset about something else.

335 WhatEVs  Sep 4, 2014 5:00:49pm

re: #327 GeneJockey

re: #330 b_sharp

Real men don’t. Could you guys PLEASE talk with my “it goes both up and down” husband?

336 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Sep 4, 2014 5:00:55pm

re: #297 GeneJockey

[S]he seems to have gone around the bend and taken the bend with her.

This describes what seems like 95 percent of my 1965 high school class, when they are not playing moran games on Facebook. I’m not sure I can handle the 50th reunion next year.

337 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 5:00:57pm

Football! Glorious NFL real season football!

Dear God in heaven thank you!

338 BeachDem  Sep 4, 2014 5:01:38pm

OK, one more and then I’m leaving to watch some tennis.

Apparently he does have a little bit of Greenwald in him. FOR A PROFIT.

339 Mike Lamb  Sep 4, 2014 5:02:20pm

re: #257 HappyWarrior

Yep.

As in the guy that spent a minimal amount of time in jail after killing someone while driving drunk.

340 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 5:02:23pm

re: #337 b.d.

Football! Glorious NFL real season football!

Dear God in heaven thank you!

Not sure if I want to root for or against the Pack. On the one hand, Seahawks, reigning Super Bowl champs, would be good to see them lose. But on the other hand… PACKERS.

341 b_sharp  Sep 4, 2014 5:03:11pm

re: #334 GeneJockey

My experience with anxiety - my own and that of those closest to me - is that often one is anxious for no specific reason, and the human mind, which always wants causes and categories, seeks until it finds something to pin the anxiety on.

Similarly, if I find myself getting angry with the wife and/or kids about petty shit that generally doesn’t bother me, I know it means I’m anxious or upset about something else.

I’m familiar with that as well. However, the mind can be taught to move past the initial anxiety. It takes a lot of work and some guidance but it can be done. I’ve done it, although it has taken a combination of years and meds.

342 WhatEVs  Sep 4, 2014 5:04:20pm

re: #338 BeachDem

OK, one more and then I’m leaving to watch some tennis.

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Enjoy the tennis.

343 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 5:04:44pm

re: #338 BeachDem

OK, one more and then I’m leaving to watch some tennis.

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Apparently he does have a little bit of Greenwald in him. FOR A PROFIT.

Chuck C. really needs a billionaire benefactor and maybe some patsy stooge that does something stupid so Chuck can soak a career out of him.

344 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 5:04:49pm

re: #338 BeachDem

OK, one more and then I’m leaving to watch some tennis.

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345 WhatEVs  Sep 4, 2014 5:05:12pm

re: #340 thedopefishlives

Not sure if I want to root for or against the Pack. On the one hand, Seahawks, reigning Super Bowl champs, would be good to see them lose. But on the other hand… PACKERS.

I’m from Chicago. Can I assist in that decision? :-)

346 ausador  Sep 4, 2014 5:05:23pm

Look out, another “bombshell” incoming…

347 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 4, 2014 5:06:09pm
348 WhatEVs  Sep 4, 2014 5:06:22pm

re: #346 ausador

Look out another “bombshell” incoming…

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No, no…BOMBSHELL!!11!!

349 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 5:07:08pm

re: #340 thedopefishlives

Not sure if I want to root for or against the Pack. On the one hand, Seahawks, reigning Super Bowl champs, would be good to see them lose. But on the other hand… PACKERS.

Seeing Pete Carroll lose would be worth the tradeoff of having a Packer or Packer fan not feel miserable for a day.

350 b_sharp  Sep 4, 2014 5:08:09pm

re: #342 WhatEVs

Enjoy the tennis.

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A lot of research is done despite not making money. Curiosity is a bigger driver of research than money.

A lot of essential research would not be done without government funding for the reason it can’t immediately (or ever) make money.

351 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 4, 2014 5:08:54pm

re: #346 ausador
Charles C. Johnson @ChuckCJohnson
Follow
I’m going to publish something that changes everything on #MichaelBrown

Look out another “bombshell” incoming…

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Once I get done making up the narrative, finding unsupported suppositions to base it on, and get my ‘some guy told me’ sourcing all lined up. ////

RBS

352 gwangung  Sep 4, 2014 5:09:00pm

re: #349 b.d.

Seeing Pete Carroll lose would be worth the tradeoff of having a Packer or Packer fan not feel miserable for a day.

Being in Seattle, I’m afraid I have a somewhat different viewpoint….

353 GeneJockey  Sep 4, 2014 5:09:45pm

re: #350 b_sharp

A lot of research is done despite not making money. Curiosity is a bigger driver of research than money.

A lot of essential research would be done without government funding for the reason it can’t immediately (or ever) make money.

Did you leave out a ‘not’ in the last sentence?

354 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 5:09:58pm

re: #339 Mike Lamb

As in the guy that spent a minimal amount of time in jail after killing someone while driving drunk.

Yes.

355 andres  Sep 4, 2014 5:10:19pm

re: #351 RealityBasedSteve

Charles C. Johnson @ChuckCJohnson
Follow
I’m going to publish something that changes everything on #MichaelBrown

Once I get done making up the narrative, finding unsupported suppositions to base it on, and get my ‘some guy told me’ sourcing all lined up. ////

RBS

The hardest part is paying someone enough to confirm whatever narrative he invented.

356 b_sharp  Sep 4, 2014 5:10:31pm

re: #353 GeneJockey

Did you leave out a ‘not’ in the last sentence?

I did indeed.

I fixed it.

357 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 5:11:18pm

re: #347 Pie-onist Overlord

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Shouldn’t someone in the rarefied “you didn’t build that” class invest some money any start a chain of roboburgers? I mean, not having to deal with mooching class employees should be reward enough.

358 WhatEVs  Sep 4, 2014 5:11:37pm

re: #350 b_sharp

A lot of research is done despite not making money. Curiosity is a bigger driver of research than money.

A lot of essential research would be done without government funding for the reason it can’t immediately (or ever) make money.

I’m assuming you meant NOT done without government funding. Not just research but R&D, which is now done at a fraction of what used to be done; research that helps put us ahead in the world.

And research should never exclusively be Some Guy Said, which is Chuck’s sole MO.

359 Stanley Sea  Sep 4, 2014 5:12:55pm

re: #338 BeachDem

OK, one more and then I’m leaving to watch some tennis.

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Apparently he does have a little bit of Greenwald in him. FOR A PROFIT.

He’s stuck in St. Louis?

360 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 5:13:00pm

re: #352 gwangung

Being in Seattle, I’m afraid I have a somewhat different viewpoint….

Looks like it is a drop dead gorgeous day there.

361 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 4, 2014 5:13:52pm

re: #355 andres

The hardest part is paying someone enough to confirm whatever narrative he invented.

CCJohnsons Business Plan….

1. Create Wild-assed narrative
2. Tweet it
3. ?????
4. Roll naked in piles of money

RBS

362 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 5:14:54pm

re: #346 ausador

Look out another “bombshell” incoming…

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Didn’t he say that once before and it turned out to be a big nothingburger? I await his super awesome investigative journalism with bated breath.

363 Kragar  Sep 4, 2014 5:14:57pm
364 Dark_Falcon  Sep 4, 2014 5:16:26pm

re: #24 b.d.

By Chuck C’s logic, this conviction is giving any cop a free pass for gunning down McDonnell’s kids.

No, that’s not true because Bob McDonnell’s children are daughters and they’re white. Chucky’s argument only applies to black people because [n-word (plural)].

365 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 5:16:38pm

re: #349 b.d.

Seeing Pete Carroll lose would be worth the tradeoff of having a Packer or Packer fan not feel miserable for a day.

And honestly, I’m not really a Packer hater. I’m a Colts fan and my beef is with those fecking Patriots. The Packers are a very polarizing figure here in the wild north country, especially here in the Twin Cities so close to the border with cheese country. The Vikings/Packers rivalry is very real in any office building in town.

366 BeachDem  Sep 4, 2014 5:16:51pm

re: #346 ausador

Look out, another “bombshell” incoming…

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He must have found out something about Mike Brown’s brother’s girlfriend’s sister-in-law’s hairdresser.

(Tennis still in warmup)

367 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 5:17:40pm

re: #365 thedopefishlives

And honestly, I’m not really a Packer hater. I’m a Colts fan and my beef is with those fecking Patriots. The Packers are a very polarizing figure here in the wild north country, especially here in the Twin Cities so close to the border with cheese country. The Vikings/Packers rivalry is very real in any office building in town.

Can’t stand the Pats. I have a respect for the Pack though.I don’t like Carroll but I do like what he’s done with that team.

368 De Kolta Chair  Sep 4, 2014 5:18:08pm

re: #366 BeachDem

He must have found out something about Mike Brown’s brother’s girlfriend’s sister-in-law’s hairdresser.

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(Tennis still in warmup)

LOL Outta be a good match, possibly a great one. Go Fed!!!

369 Dark_Falcon  Sep 4, 2014 5:18:27pm

re: #340 thedopefishlives

Not sure if I want to root for or against the Pack. On the one hand, Seahawks, reigning Super Bowl champs, would be good to see them lose. But on the other hand… PACKERS.

I want the Seahawks to win so that the Packers lose. A worse record for Green Bay gives the Bears a better shot at winning the NFC North.

370 Stanley Sea  Sep 4, 2014 5:18:38pm

Anderson Cooper has an hour long retro on Joan Rivers. Lot’s of old stuff.

Good.

371 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 5:18:51pm

re: #369 Dark_Falcon

I want the Seahawks to win so that the Packers lose. A worse record for Green Bay gives the Bears a better shot at winning the NFC North.

Chicago Chipmunks, maybe.

372 Stanley Sea  Sep 4, 2014 5:19:08pm

re: #362 thedopefishlives

Didn’t he say that once before and it turned out to be a big nothingburger? I await his super awesome investigative journalism with bated breath.

9PM Sunday before Labor Day.

373 klys  Sep 4, 2014 5:20:18pm
374 ausador  Sep 4, 2014 5:20:25pm

re: #359 Stanley Sea

He’s stuck in St. Louis?

Judge hasn’t ruled on the records case yet, also he has a subpoena to appear in front of the Lauderdale County Mississippi grand jury on Sept. 22.

375 BeachDem  Sep 4, 2014 5:21:53pm

re: #374 ausador

Judge hasn’t ruled on the records case yet, also he has a subpoena to appear in front of the Lauderdale County Mississippi grand jury on Sept. 22.

And I’m guessing SMOTI’s couch is pretty comfy.

376 Kragar  Sep 4, 2014 5:22:04pm

Nothing quite like the thrill of your wife not telling you she went to the market and realizing your rent check is going to bounce because of it.

Time for an advance against the credit card. I just can’t catch a fucking break lately.

377 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 5:23:54pm

re: #373 klys

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GOVERNMENT WEATHER MANIPULATION VIA ATMOSPHERE FRYING HAARP

378 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 5:24:09pm

re: #376 Kragar

Nothing quite like the thrill of your wife no telling you she went to the market and realizing your rent check is going to bounce because of it.

Time for an advance against the credit card. I just can’t catch a fucking break lately.

Honestly, I use my credit card for most day-to-day purchases and then pay it off in full every paycheck. That way, if something really bad happens, I can either pay it in cash/check, or put it also on the credit card, and simply not pay the full balance until I have the required funds on hand. That being said, I’m sorry to hear that and I hope everything balances out.

379 EPR-radar  Sep 4, 2014 5:24:35pm

re: #282 blueraven

Another Scoop!

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CCJ is exploring new levels of stupidity here. Even CA republicans, an infamously stupid and intransigent group of people, don’t go so far as to deny the drought.

380 Rightwingconspirator  Sep 4, 2014 5:24:36pm

re: #376 Kragar

Oh ouch. Hate it when that sort of thing happens.

381 Dark_Falcon  Sep 4, 2014 5:25:35pm

re: #366 BeachDem

He must have found out something about Mike Brown’s brother’s girlfriend’s sister-in-law’s hairdresser.

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(Tennis still in warmup)

All of Chuck C. Johnson’s “scoops” regarding Michael Brown are simply attempts to make Brown look bad enough that bigoted white people can point to “Brown’s bad character” when they assert “The thug deserved to get shot dead!”

Note: In this case, ‘thug’ is often but not always a substitute for the n-word. As the n-word cannot be said most places on the Internet, ‘thug’ is deployed as an alternative. The actual thug in the matter was actually Darin Wilson, because shooting a man in the back is the act of a thug.

382 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 5:25:57pm

re: #376 Kragar

Sorry Kragar, that sucks.

383 Kragar  Sep 4, 2014 5:30:12pm

re: #380 Rightwingconspirator

Oh ouch. Hate it when that sort of thing happens.

Thought we had everything paid before she left. Going over the accounts, I see a bill I paid online like a week ago didn’t debit against my account till this morning, so we had like $60 bucks less than I thought we did before she left. I was checking something else when I saw that we had gone under the amount I wrote the rent check for.

On the bright side, I’ve got everything paid for, including the car registration and the BS smog check which came due, and was able to cover the rent.

The bad news is I had to use the fucking credit card again and I’m broke till the 15th

384 EPR-radar  Sep 4, 2014 5:30:48pm

re: #346 ausador

Look out, another “bombshell” incoming…

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CCJ must have just taken an operative dose of MoviPrep.

385 Kragar  Sep 4, 2014 5:31:32pm
386 Varek Raith  Sep 4, 2014 5:31:40pm

re: #383 Kragar

Thought we had everything paid before she left. Going over the accounts, I see a bill I paid online like a week ago didn’t debit against my account till this morning, so we had like $60 bucks less than I thought we did before she left. I was checking something else when I saw that we had gone under the amount I wrote the rent check for.

On the bright side, I’ve got everything paid for, including the car registration and the BS smog check which came due, and was able to cover the rent.

The bad news is I had to use the fucking credit card again and I’m broke till the 15th

I freaking hate when they do that.

387 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 5:32:10pm

re: #383 Kragar

I hate it when they don’t debit bills right away. I’ve been burned multiple times by that. Argle bargle.

388 b_sharp  Sep 4, 2014 5:33:10pm

re: #383 Kragar

Thought we had everything paid before she left. Going over the accounts, I see a bill I paid online like a week ago didn’t debit against my account till this morning, so we had like $60 bucks less than I thought we did before she left. I was checking something else when I saw that we had gone under the amount I wrote the rent check for.

On the bright side, I’ve got everything paid for, including the car registration and the BS smog check which came due, and was able to cover the rent.

The bad news is I had to use the fucking credit card again and I’m broke till the 15th

I just had an auto withdrawal bounce because I was 13 cents overdrawn.

389 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 4, 2014 5:34:50pm

Krager, shoot me an email, check my profile, if you want to.

RBS

390 Rightwingconspirator  Sep 4, 2014 5:35:24pm

re: #388 b_sharp

Effing bank. So much of that is about encouraging errors like that to make money of the fees. Like a transfer fee to move money from overdraft/savings account to real checking account. It’s costs about as much as an email to actually do…. But costs $15. maybe $25.

Grrr.

391 ausador  Sep 4, 2014 5:35:52pm

Canadian version shown…

392 Kragar  Sep 4, 2014 5:35:57pm

re: #387 thedopefishlives

I hate it when they don’t debit bills right away. I’ve been burned multiple times by that. Argle bargle.

Its all fucking automated, Why the fuck do they have to fucking wait?

And don’t start on “convenience fees”. Yeah, charge me extra because I’m paying online because you won’t accept a direct bill pay from my bank and you’re sticking it to your customers by marking up a transaction which costs you almost nothing.

393 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 5:37:16pm

re: #392 Kragar

Its all fucking automated, Why the fuck do they have to fucking wait?

And don’t start on “convenience fees”. Yeah, charge me extra because I’m paying online because you won’t accept a direct bill pay from my bank and you’re sticking it to your customers by marking up a transaction which costs you almost nothing.

Oh, yeah, that last one burns me the most. The Minnesota DMV is the worst at that; they offer an online license plate renewal service that costs FREAKING FIVE BUCKS as an “online service fee”. This is ON TOP OF a “tech surcharge” that I don’t even know what that goes to. What the hell, Minnesota?

394 Kragar  Sep 4, 2014 5:38:10pm

re: #389 RealityBasedSteve

Krager, shoot me an email, check my profile, if you want to.

RBS

Just did, but I’ll be leaving in about the next 10 minutes

395 EPR-radar  Sep 4, 2014 5:41:46pm

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

7th Circuit court decision on SSM is really great fun to read.

Indeed it is. So many juicy nuggets of legal fail dissected by the judges.

For example, Indiana will apparently recognize as legal a first-cousin marriage from states where these are legal (e.g., TN), but will not recognize SSM from states where that is legal.

Indiana has not tried to explain to us the logic of recognizing marriages of fertile first cousins (prohibited in Indiana) that happen to be contracted in states that permit such marriages, but of refusing, by virtue of the 1997 amendment, to recognize same-sex marriages (also prohibited in Indiana) contracted in states that permit them. This suggests animus against same-sex marriage, as is further suggested by the state’s inability to make a plausible argument for its refusal to recognize same-sex marriage.

396 Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2014 5:41:51pm

re: #325 WhatEVs

Sue Baby Sue! @ChuckCJohnson #MomSomeoneSaidSomethingMeanAboutMe #Waaaaaaa

Boy’s gonna be named “Sue”.

Youtube Video

397 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 5:44:50pm

re: #395 EPR-radar

Indeed it is. So many juicy nuggets of legal fail dissected by the judges.

For example, Indiana will apparently recognize as legal a first-cousin marriage from states where these are legal (e.g., TN), but will not recognize SSM from states where that is legal.

Indeed, it’s great to see the bigotry behind SSM bans called out by judges.

398 Stanley Sea  Sep 4, 2014 5:45:31pm

re: #387 thedopefishlives

I hate it when they don’t debit bills right away. I’ve been burned multiple times by that. Argle bargle.

Shell Station my #1 offender. I finally learned.

399 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 4, 2014 5:46:04pm

re: #396 Decatur Deb

Boy’s gonna be named “Sue”.

[Embedded content]

When we were in school, there was always that ONE KID that would say “I’m TELLING!!!” if anybody did anything when the teacher was gone. Now CCJ is all grown up, and instead of “I’m TELLING”, it’s now “I’m SUING”.

RBS

400 b_sharp  Sep 4, 2014 5:46:19pm

re: #390 Rightwingconspirator

Effing bank. So much of that is about encouraging errors like that to make money of the fees. Like a transfer fee to move money from overdraft/savings account to real checking account. It’s costs about as much as an email to actually do…. But costs $15. maybe $25.

Grrr.

That 13 cents will cost me 45 dollars.

401 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 5:50:07pm

re: #399 RealityBasedSteve

When we were in school, there was always that ONE KID that would say “I’m TELLING!!!” if anybody did anything when the teacher was gone. Now CCJ is all grown up, and instead of “I’m TELLING”, it’s now “I’m SUING”.

RBS

A variation of Eddie Haskell.

402 Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2014 5:50:12pm

re: #400 b_sharp

That 13 cents will cost me 45 dollars.

Have you tried tithing and asking the lord for a blessing?

403 teleskiguy  Sep 4, 2014 5:50:14pm

Hey, did y’all see what National Review “editor-at-large” Jonah “Liberals are Fascists” Goldberg tweeted about The Huffington Post’s new hire Donté Stallworth?

404 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 5:51:31pm

re: #403 teleskiguy

Hey, did y’all see what National Review “editor-at-large” Jonah “Liberals are Fascists” Goldberg tweeted about The Huffington Post’s new hire Donté Stallworth?

[Embedded content]

In fairness to Stallworth, he actually did handle the DWI death better than most people I have seen. OTOH, no idea what Huff Post was thinking hiring him. And I’d be saying that if he wasn’t a truther.

405 b_sharp  Sep 4, 2014 5:52:23pm

re: #402 Decatur Deb

Have you tried tithing and asking the lord for a blessing?

That seems to have missed my mind.

406 Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2014 5:52:44pm

re: #404 HappyWarrior

In fairness to Stallworth, he actually did handle the DWI death better than most people I have seen. OTOH, no idea what Huff Post was thinking hiring him. And I’d be saying that if he wasn’t a birther.

It’s not like they hired him as a chauffeur.

407 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 5:54:02pm

re: #406 Decatur Deb

It’s not like they hired him as a chauffeur.

Ha still don’t know why they hired a football player with a psych degree to be a national security guy tho. Maybe I’m just bitter because I can’t find a job that fits my qualification set.

408 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 4, 2014 5:54:44pm

re: #357 b.d.

Shouldn’t someone in the rarefied “you didn’t build that” class invest some money any start a chain of roboburgers? I mean, not having to deal with mooching class employees should be reward enough.

That’s what “Momentum Machines” has been hoping. No biters yet. Maybe because they take one look at the lease agreement (what, you thought these things would be for sale? No freaking way.) and they’re like HOLY FUCK, THIS IS LIKE TEN TIMES WHAT A MINIMUM WAGE HUMAN BEING COSTS.

409 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 4, 2014 5:54:59pm

re: #401 HappyWarrior

A variation of Eddie Haskell.

He always was an obsequious little sycophant (Eddie Haskell), but I can see CCJ being the exact same way. “That’s a great set of sweat pants you’re wearing there Mr. Hoff” and “I think that LGF is just so rude to people, it’s not right”.

Thank you for nailing it down for me.

RBS

410 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 5:55:43pm

re: #409 RealityBasedSteve

He always was an obsequious little sycophant (Eddie Haskell), but I can see CCJ being the exact same way. “That’s a great set of sweat pants you’re wearing there Mr. Hoff” and “I think that LGF is just so rude to people, it’s not right”.

Thank you for nailing it down for me.

RBS

Heh show was way before my time but my Dad used the metaphor a lot.

411 ausador  Sep 4, 2014 5:56:11pm
412 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 5:56:11pm
413 dog philosopher  Sep 4, 2014 5:56:53pm

re: #392 Kragar

Why the fuck do they have to fucking wait?

if they let a debit lay around in limbo, they can legally account the money during that time as part of one of their investments and collect interest on it

414 Shiplord Kirel  Sep 4, 2014 5:56:55pm

You can fake a lot of stuff these days, but a large scale drought isn’t one of them.

415 Dark_Falcon  Sep 4, 2014 5:57:43pm

re: #412 b.d.

One must wonder what his new employers have been huffing.

BBIAB

416 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 5:57:57pm

re: #412 b.d.

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I thought I read somewhere that he supposedly “gave up” the Twooferism subsequent to that Tweet. Anyone know if this is really the case? And even if it’s true, he’s full of all sorts of other stupid that is nearly as bad.

417 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 5:58:43pm

re: #412 b.d.
Now that I’m getting on the sideboob payroll, things change.

418 Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2014 5:58:50pm

re: #414 Shiplord Kirel

You can fake a lot of stuff these days, but a large scale drought isn’t one of them.

No, but you could convince 27% of people that Obama is turning the Great Plains back to an inland sea.

419 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 5:59:15pm

re: #417 b.d.

Now that I’m getting on the sideboob payroll, things change.

[Embedded content]

Wait, what? Boobies?

420 WhatEVs  Sep 4, 2014 5:59:54pm

re: #403 teleskiguy

Hey, did y’all see what National Review “editor-at-large” Jonah “Liberals are Fascists” Goldberg tweeted about The Huffington Post’s new hire Donté Stallworth?

[Embedded content]

421 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 4, 2014 6:00:04pm

Erick YOU have failed at life.

422 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 6:00:23pm

re: #420 WhatEVs

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Yeah like the whole magazine that employs him. *rimshot*

423 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 6:01:09pm

re: #421 Pie-onist Overlord

Erick YOU have failed at life.

[Embedded content]

Yeah I guess they can’t all be successes like you Erick who spend their days on Twitter whining about people wanting to get paid better. FUcking right wing shithead.

424 jaunte  Sep 4, 2014 6:01:14pm

re: #421 Pie-onist Overlord

If you’re a 30-something making minimum wage and blocking traffic to demand a $15 minimum wage you have more courage in your little finger than Erick Ericson will ever accumulate.

425 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 6:01:27pm

re: #419 thedopefishlives

Wait, what? Boobies?

Huffington Post gave him a job writing about politics:

“Donte has a quick mind, an insatiable curiosity and a passion for politics — the necessary qualities of a great journalist,” said Ryan Grim, the Huffington Post’s Washington bureau chief, in a prepared statement on the hire.

washingtonpost.com

426 dog philosopher  Sep 4, 2014 6:01:53pm

erick and his zero sum universe

life is just a game and a war of all against all

427 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 6:02:06pm

re: #421 Pie-onist Overlord

Erick YOU have failed at life.

[Embedded content]

Erick, son of Erick, we can’t all be lazy fatasses like you and get paid to do jack shit. Some of us actually work for a living and, unfortunately, some people don’t get paid enough to do what they do, largely thank to douchecanoes like you. For the rest, I maintain that you should die in a fire.

428 dog philosopher  Sep 4, 2014 6:02:18pm

“the best things in life are fees”

429 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 6:02:48pm

re: #425 b.d.

Huffington Post gave him a job writing about politics:

washingtonpost.com

Shit if I only knew it was that easy.

430 teleskiguy  Sep 4, 2014 6:03:23pm

re: #421 Pie-onist Overlord

Erick YOU have failed at life.

@EWErickson: If you’re a 30-something making minimum wage and blocking traffic to demand a $15 minimum wage you have failed at life.

He’s failed at his faith, his life, among other things. How some people can have so much hate in their hearts and justify that hate with their faith is beyond me.

431 ausador  Sep 4, 2014 6:03:29pm

re: #417 b.d.

Now that I’m getting on the sideboob payroll, things change.

Donte’ Stallworth ✔ @DonteStallworth
Just to be clear, I no longer feel the way I did in that tweet 5 years ago.
11:23 AM - 4 Sep 2014

How about his views on AGW and vaccines? Have those changed too? Hmm…?

432 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 6:03:46pm

re: #421 Pie-onist Overlord

Erick YOU have failed at life.

[Embedded content]

Erick makes his living by being a troll, he is one to talk. Erick is more likely to be replaced by a machine than any of those employees.

433 Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2014 6:03:47pm

re: #429 HappyWarrior

Shit if I only knew it was that easy.

Fuck, we write about politics, and I haven’t even got the stinking toaster.

434 b_sharp  Sep 4, 2014 6:03:50pm

re: #426 dog philosopher

erick and his zero sum universe

life is just a game and a war of all against all

And ethics is just a word without meaning.

435 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 6:04:12pm

re: #433 Decatur Deb

Fuck, we write about politics, and I haven’t even got the stinking toaster.

No kidding.

436 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 6:04:31pm

re: #430 teleskiguy

He’s failed at his faith, his life, among other things. How some people can have so much hate in their hearts and justify that hate with their faith is beyond me.

I keep coming back to that meme I linked a couple of days ago.

Did I fucking stutter?!

437 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 6:04:58pm

re: #436 thedopefishlives

I keep coming back to that meme I linked a couple of days ago.

Did I fucking stutter?!

I love that one.

438 b_sharp  Sep 4, 2014 6:05:11pm

re: #435 HappyWarrior

No kidding.

I don’t want a stinking toaster.

439 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 6:05:40pm

Notice anything unusual in that Washington Post article?

That scouting report will doubtless please Stallworth, who is transitioning from a decade-long NFL career that included stints with the New Orleans Saints, the Philadelphia Eagles, the New England Patriots and Washington’s own professional football squad.

440 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 6:05:53pm

re: #438 b_sharp

I don’t want a stinking toaster.

Charles, we need to talk about upping our Zionist checks.

441 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 6:06:00pm

re: #438 b_sharp

I don’t want a stinking toaster.

How about a waffle iron?

442 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 6:06:41pm

re: #439 b.d.

Notice anything unusual in that Washington Post article?

Stallworth managed to play with four of the teams I can’t stand in the NFL. Pretty impressive career feat.

443 Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2014 6:07:15pm

re: #438 b_sharp

I don’t want a stinking toaster.

One Liederkranz panini and it’s yours for life.

444 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 4, 2014 6:07:45pm

re: #441 HappyWarrior

How about a waffle iron?

Regular, or Belgian? Does it have the panni plate inserts too?

RBS

445 teleskiguy  Sep 4, 2014 6:08:04pm

I hear there’s an affinity for kittehs at LGF.

I like this one.

446 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 6:08:32pm

re: #442 HappyWarrior

Stallworth managed to play with four of the teams I can’t stand in the NFL. Pretty impressive career feat.

One of those teams didn’t get their team name mentioned. It will be interesting to see the creative writing that goes on this year on publications with that policy.

447 teleskiguy  Sep 4, 2014 6:09:52pm
448 Gus  Sep 4, 2014 6:10:01pm
449 thedopefishlives  Sep 4, 2014 6:10:42pm

re: #448 Gus

[Embedded content]

One good thing about HuffPo’s decision to hire this wackadoodle? A nonstop stream of derp for our endless entertainment.

450 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 6:10:57pm

re: #446 b.d.

One of those teams didn’t get their team name mentioned. It will be interesting to see the creative writing that goes on this year on publications with that policy.

Heh I saw that. There was a story in the WaPo not that long ago about retired ref Mike Carey and how he would ask not to ref their games and in the interview he would not refer to them as the Redskins. And yes they are one of the four teams on that list I brought up even if my team only plays them once four years. Sick of Snyder defending the racist name and the jerky fans who blindly insist it’s not racist.

451 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 4, 2014 6:11:11pm

re: #439 b.d.

Notice anything unusual in that Washington Post article?

heh…Redskins

452 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 4, 2014 6:11:14pm
453 Stanley Sea  Sep 4, 2014 6:12:13pm

re: #410 HappyWarrior

Heh show was way before my time but my Dad used the metaphor a lot.

Leave it to Beaver never gets old. Catch up young man.

454 Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2014 6:12:15pm

re: #449 thedopefishlives

One good thing about HuffPo’s decision to hire this wackadoodle? A nonstop stream of derp for our endless entertainment.

It’s going to get old fast.

455 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 6:12:21pm

re: #452 Pie-onist Overlord

[Embedded content]

Oh baby!!!!!!

456 Gus  Sep 4, 2014 6:13:13pm
457 ausador  Sep 4, 2014 6:13:40pm

GotNews is very thoughtful on the cutting edge issues of the day.

ANALYSIS: Jennifer Lawrence Nudes, Dick Pics, and Internet Freedom

What Should Be The Punishment For Jennifer Lawrence Photo Leak? Should There Even Be One?

Still no new “bombshell” article on #Ferguson yet…

458 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 6:13:48pm

re: #453 Stanley Sea

Leave it to Beaver never gets old. Catch up young man.

Oh not saying it’s outdated just that it was on before me.

459 teleskiguy  Sep 4, 2014 6:13:58pm

Gus is clutch a lot of the times. He’s retweeting all of Donté Stollworth’s kooky crazy conspiracy tweets. Many of them have only one retweet, Gus’s!

460 Stanley Sea  Sep 4, 2014 6:14:14pm

re: #421 Pie-onist Overlord

Erick YOU have failed at life.

[Embedded content]

Hateful pig. Those are PEOPLE.

461 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 6:15:04pm

re: #460 Stanley Sea

Hateful pig. Those are PEOPLE.

Frankly, that’s the difference between a liberal and conservative right now. A liberal sees a minimum wage worker and sees a person. Conservative sees something to look down upon because the person isn’t successful.

462 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 6:15:39pm

re: #459 teleskiguy

Gus is clutch a lot of the times. He’s retweeting all of Donté Stollworth’s kooky crazy conspiracy tweets. Many of them have only one retweet, Gus’s!

He is the man.

463 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 4, 2014 6:16:11pm

re: #452 Pie-onist Overlord

[Embedded content]

You added little crust flowers. Nice.

RBS

464 EPR-radar  Sep 4, 2014 6:17:21pm

re: #456 Gus

This new HuffPost person is reaching levels of stupidity that are usually reserved for RWNJs.

The CDC is not the same thing as the FDC, so capture of the FDC by big pharma (a reasonable concern) is nothing like capture of the CDC by big pharma (froot loopy derp).

465 BongCrodny  Sep 4, 2014 6:17:47pm

re: #456 Gus

[Embedded content]

Stallworth sounds like he had a few too many concussions in his career.

466 jaunte  Sep 4, 2014 6:17:59pm

“Reciting ‘So help me God’ in the reenlistment and commissioning oaths is a statutory requirement under Title 10 USC 502,” Air Force spokeswoman Rose Richeson said Thursday. AFI 36-2606 “is consistent with the language mandated in 10 USC 502. Paragraph 5.6 [and] was changed in October 2013 to reflect the aforementioned statutory requirement and airmen are no longer authorized to omit the words ‘So help me God.’ “

The Air Force said it cannot change its AFI to make “so help me God” optional unless Congress changes the statute mandating it.

Miller pointed out that Article VI of the Constitution prohibits requiring religious tests to hold an office or public trust.

I wonder whose bright idea that was.

467 Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2014 6:18:05pm

re: #461 HappyWarrior

Frankly, that’s the difference between a liberal and conservative right now. A liberal sees a minimum wage worker and sees a person. Conservative sees something to look down upon because the person isn’t successful.

But the ultimate trick, Grasshopper, is to see a bigoted right-wing prick and still see ‘people’.

468 b_sharp  Sep 4, 2014 6:18:32pm

re: #445 teleskiguy

I hear there’s an affinity for kittehs at LGF.

I like this one.

[Embedded content]

Nice cat.

469 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 6:19:53pm

re: #467 Decatur Deb

But the ultimate trick, Grasshopper, is to see a bigoted right-wing prick and still see ‘people’.

Yeah it’s hard for me to but you know I do make the effort. They’re terribly wrong and bigoted but I would never want to deny them something like benefits if they were entitled to them or disaster relief if their area was devastated by a hurricane or tornado.

470 EPR-radar  Sep 4, 2014 6:19:55pm

re: #461 HappyWarrior

Frankly, that’s the difference between a liberal and conservative right now. A liberal sees a minimum wage worker and sees a person. Conservative sees something to look down upon because the person isn’t successful.

US conservatives really are getting close to embracing Orwell’s model: “a boot stamping on a human face —- forever” as a goal.

471 b.d.  Sep 4, 2014 6:20:42pm

POS is a POS

472 jaunte  Sep 4, 2014 6:21:20pm

Continental Army enlisted men’s oath, 1775:

“I _____ swear (or affirm as the case may be) to be true to the United States of America, and to serve them honestly and faithfully against all their enemies opposers whatsoever; and to observe and obey the orders of the Continental Congress, and the orders of the Generals and officers set over me by them.”
history.army.mil

473 Gus  Sep 4, 2014 6:21:20pm
474 HappyWarrior  Sep 4, 2014 6:21:21pm

re: #471 b.d.

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Creepy asshole.

475 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Sep 4, 2014 6:22:30pm

re: #389 RealityBasedSteve

Yeah, I’ve been through this. You don’t know me but I am here.

476 EPR-radar  Sep 4, 2014 6:22:51pm

re: #471 b.d.

I still like the MoviPrep idea I proposed above for what this bombshell might be. The timing’s about right if CCJ took the first dose when he first promised the great revelation.

477 Decatur Deb  Sep 4, 2014 6:23:08pm

re: #471 b.d.

[Embedded content]

I SUE YOU !!!1

478 austin_blue  Sep 4, 2014 6:28:28pm

re: #228 HappyWarrior

Fascinating. I always thought that if I had been a better science student, I would have gone into marine bio. The seas are a fascinating place.

And with ecological niches that haven’t changed in billions of years, hence these deep dwellers.

479 teleskiguy  Sep 4, 2014 6:29:04pm

Yes.

[ Disclaimer: @ProfJeffJarvis is a parody account. ]

480 stpaulbear  Sep 4, 2014 6:32:36pm

re: #471 b.d.

He’s trying to set it up that he got info from a hacked account when he just makes shit up. His idea of multi-tasking is to be lazy and dishonest at the same time.

481 Gus  Sep 4, 2014 6:33:30pm
482 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 4, 2014 6:37:21pm

re: #481 Gus

[Embedded content]

WTF_Over! I just checked out his twitter feed. About 8 kinds of hate in a spray can there.

HOW can people live being so angry?

RBS

483 Gus  Sep 4, 2014 6:38:48pm
484 rhuarc  Sep 4, 2014 6:40:02pm

re: #481 Gus

I really should create a new Twitter account so I can tweet at the lunatics and morons. Some days I think it would be fun to do so.

485 TedStriker  Sep 4, 2014 6:53:31pm

re: #481 Gus

What.The.Ever.Living.Fuck?!?

486 Jay C  Sep 4, 2014 7:34:11pm

re: #256 RealityBasedSteve

I paid that online, tomorrow AM I should have an email confirming I’m legal again.

Hang on to that email: best advice re paying tickets/fines I ever had was from the guy hauling my car away from in front of my apt. building in NYC: Always/only pay online and keep the printout. It would have saved me an unwanted trip (two, really) to the ass end of Brooklyn to bail my car out. Well, that or $950 cash, which was kind of a problem late on a Sunday night. Dunno if they’re any more efficient in TN than NY, but online confirmation is a magic document here…..


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