Donte Stallworth on Climate Change and Vaccines

The strange views of Huffington Post’s new national security analyst
Gus
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Climate Change

Vaccines

UPDATE at 9/5/14 6:46:57 pm by Gus


Some responses.

UPDATE at 9/5/14 7:13:12 pm by Gus


For additional reference, here are some of his 9/11 truther Tweets. He has now allegedly reversed his position on 9/11. Will he renounce his view on vaccines and climate change denial?

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221 comments
1 Eigth Immortal  Sep 4, 2014 7:12:51pm

I suppose it goes without saying that Oliver Wendell Holmes lived before vaccines became common. I also suppose that’s really not the point here, but after reading all that I need something I can onto. I think I got dumber. Argh, I applied for a writing job with HuffPo earlier this year.

2 Eigth Immortal  Sep 4, 2014 8:01:31pm

By the way, Gus didn’t include an example here, but Stallworth is also a HAARPS nut. As in , HAARPS caused 3/11.

I was in northern Japan on 3/11. If you click the link on my username you’ll see my story written on my personal blog. In other words, I take that HAARPS shit very, very personally.

3 lostlakehiker  Sep 4, 2014 8:19:52pm

Justice Holmes was saying that the health of the public overrides considerations of personal liberty. And then he was going a step further and saying that that included something like hereditary health.

A bridge too far. But he was right about compulsory vaccination itself. It was perfectly fitting and reasonable that the public in general be inoculated against smallpox. And they didn’t then have the understanding of chain reactions and epidemics to really confidently know that you could manage just fine with a few percent not vaccinated, especially once almost everyone was immune because of either having had the disease or because of having been vaccinated.

But suppose smallpox were somehow to escape the little bottles into which it has been driven, and a slew of cases began popping up in the US. We’d have to have mass inoculations again. This mortal enemy of all humanity doesn’t deserve any breaks at all and we should not give it any. Take no chances would have to be the watchword.

4 Gus  Sep 4, 2014 10:05:41pm
5 Bulworth  Sep 5, 2014 5:40:40am

So a vaccine truther is also a climate change truther.

Here’s my surprise face…

6 Slap  Sep 5, 2014 9:13:28am

Convicted felon says what?

7 Dark_Falcon  Sep 6, 2014 9:13:57am

re: #4 Gus

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8 FemNaziBitch  Sep 6, 2014 9:18:17am

30’S in Miami —I’d say that is not normal.

9 FemNaziBitch  Sep 6, 2014 9:18:47am

10 Franklin  Sep 6, 2014 9:21:03am

Internet has been won for today. Come back tomorrow.

11 Dark_Falcon  Sep 6, 2014 9:21:17am

re: #3 lostlakehiker

Quite Concur. The problem with any sort of pandemic requiring mass vaccination is that nowadays any such vaccination campaign will encounter resistance and refusal. And in many parts of the world (the US included) that resistance is going to have a violent component.

Now, overcoming violent anti-vaxxers could be done in a smart and savvy fashion if there were time, but in a pandemic situation those needing to end the resistance will be time-poor. So negotiation and compromise will be abjured in favor of heavy-handed solutions that make for a higher body count than if there hand been time to talk.

The Lesson: The time to make sure that most people understand the reality of vaccines is now. Don’t let anti-vaxxers gain strength today, because the price of that strength will be measures in corpses in the future.

12 Dr. Matt  Sep 6, 2014 9:21:57am

He’s just asking questions©

13 HappyWarrior  Sep 6, 2014 9:22:52am

What the hell were they thinking hiring him? And I think I saw Charles say it downstairs and I agree whole heartily with him that the anti-vax movement is one of the most dangerous movements. Cracked had one of its photoplasteis today about technological improvements and it showed the mortality decrease in certain diseases since vaccines. I also as a highly functioning autistic resent autism being used as a tool to attack the validity of vaccines.

14 Dr. Matt  Sep 6, 2014 9:25:00am

Seems like an appropriate thread to have a meaningful and thoughtful discussion on the link between vaccines and autism.

Please read this howdovaccinescauseautism.com to reveal the truth.

15 HappyWarrior  Sep 6, 2014 9:28:00am

re: #14 Dr. Matt

Seems like an appropriate thread to have a meaningful and thoughtful discussion on the link between vaccines and autism.

Please read this howdovaccinescauseautism.com to reveal the truth.

Hahaha love it.

16 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 9:29:08am

re: #14 Dr. Matt

That one will never get old.
:D

17 Charles Johnson  Sep 6, 2014 9:29:48am
18 b_sharp  Sep 6, 2014 9:30:53am

In response to his concerns with live viruses does he not know how vaccines work?

19 HappyWarrior  Sep 6, 2014 9:31:32am

re: #17 Charles Johnson

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I don’t even know the word.

20 Charles Johnson  Sep 6, 2014 9:31:33am

re: #18 b_sharp

In response to his concerns with live viruses does he not know how vaccines work?

Obviously he doesn’t…

21 allegro  Sep 6, 2014 9:31:57am

re: #18 b_sharp

In response to his concerns with live viruses does he not know how vaccines work?

You ask too much. Way too much. He don’t need no facts.

22 thedopefishlives  Sep 6, 2014 9:33:37am

re: #18 b_sharp

In response to his concerns with live viruses does he not know how vaccines work?

Most people don’t. And this, in my estimation, is a large part of the problem.

23 HappyWarrior  Sep 6, 2014 9:34:21am

re: #22 thedopefishlives

Most people don’t. And this, in my estimation, is a large part of the problem.

I agree.

24 ObserverArt  Sep 6, 2014 9:34:27am

re: #6 Slap

Convicted felon says what?

Exactly. DWI manslaughter while he was with the Cleveland Browns. And, he claimed he saw the guy he hit and flashed his lights, but hit him anyway. While speeding too. I always thought that sounded a little odd.

Now the world get his to hear more questionable craziness from a questionable person.

Just great. Fuck Scahill and Greenwald.

25 b_sharp  Sep 6, 2014 9:36:27am

Driving on the highway right now and the chemtrails are just hanging in the sky. I’m worried my mind will be mush by the end of the day.

26 HappyWarrior  Sep 6, 2014 9:36:51am

Conspiracy theories exist for people who don’t want to deal with what reality has given them.

27 A Mom Anon  Sep 6, 2014 9:37:28am

re: #13 HappyWarrior

I could rant for days about this shit. What these scared stupid people don’t seem to understand is that if it weren’t for the rest of us being vaccinated their precious little Tiffany or Duncan wouldn’t have any immunity to anything. The little outbreaks we’re seeing in isolated areas would be a picnic with rainbow ponies compared to what would happen if vaccines were banned.

I blame Oprah and Jenny McCarthy in large part for this latest wave of bullshit. Oprah for giving the nitwit McCarthy a platform to sell her fucking book and making her some sort of Mom Spokesmodel for the anti-vaccine movement. I knew the second I read that book she was full of shit, it’s too bad a lot of other people didn’t too. She used her son’s autism(which, wonder of wonders wasn’t really autism, but a seizure disorder that halted his development. Once that was under control he caught up and was magically “cured”) to re-launch her career and make money off putting her name on false cures. I loathe her and she’s never really had a consequence for the damage she’s caused.

I’m afraid this movement of stupid has already taken hold. It would be nice if Our Idiot Media wouldn’t give these people the time of day. So thanks Arianna, for this buffoon and Andrew Breitbart, and the other stinking turds you’ve left behind on your way to the bank, thanks SOOO much. (((grrr)))

28 HappyWarrior  Sep 6, 2014 9:39:55am

re: #27 A Mom Anon

I could rant for days about this shit. What these scared stupid people don’t seem to understand is that if it weren’t for the rest of us being vaccinated their precious little Tiffany or Duncan wouldn’t have any immunity to anything. The little outbreaks we’re seeing in isolated areas would be a picnic with rainbow ponies compared to what would happen if vaccines were banned.

I blame Oprah and Jenny McCarthy in large part for this latest wave of bullshit. Oprah for giving the nitwit McCarthy a platform to sell her fucking book and making her some sort of Mom Spokesmodel for the anti-vaccine movement. I knew the second I read that book she was full of shit, it’s too bad a lot of other people didn’t too. She used her son’s autism(which, wonder of wonders wasn’t really autism, but a seizure disorder that halted his development. Once that was under control he caught up and was magically “cured”) to re-launch her career and make money off putting her name on false cures. I loathe her and she’s never really had a consequence for the damage she’s caused.

I’m afraid this movement of stupid has already taken hold. It would be nice if Our Idiot Media wouldn’t give these people the time of day. So thanks Arianna, for this buffoon and Andrew Breitbart, and the other stinking turds you’ve left behind on your way to the bank, thanks SOOO much. (((grrr)))

Precisely, this times a million. I mean I’m so sick of this crap.

29 GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 6, 2014 9:43:26am

re: #19 HappyWarrior

I don’t even know the word.

I do. Murder.

30 HappyWarrior  Sep 6, 2014 9:44:21am

re: #29 GlutenFreeJesus

I do. Murder.

Yep sure is and when the hell are they going to charge the bastard. Not sure what’s been more horrible the prosecutor’s office or the police.

31 GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 6, 2014 9:45:40am

re: #27 A Mom Anon

McCarthy was one of Charlie Harper’s flings in Two and a Half Men. Need any more be said?

32 GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 6, 2014 9:46:01am

re: #30 HappyWarrior

Yep sure is and when the hell are they going to charge the bastard. Not sure what’s been more horrible the prosecutor’s office or the police.

Same shit. Different name.

33 HappyWarrior  Sep 6, 2014 9:46:37am

re: #32 GlutenFreeJesus

Same shit. Different name.

Yep.

34 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 9:57:46am
35 HappyWarrior  Sep 6, 2014 9:58:44am

re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Nice to see NRO has a high standard for journalism.

36 HappyWarrior  Sep 6, 2014 9:59:19am

Ten ways you can be a right wing schmuck and not feel guilty about it.

37 Ryan King  Sep 6, 2014 10:01:57am
38 Emoprog Refugee  Sep 6, 2014 10:03:29am

I didn’t think I had any respect at all for Greenwald, but that tweet lauding an anti-vaccer climate denier as “always smart,” and praising his hire actually managed to deepen my disgust of him. I didn’t think that was possible.
As for HuffPo, I’ve never expected much from it since AOL bought it. I feel bad for any legit journalists still associated with HuffPo. Stallworth’s hire puts them on par with Weekly World News, esteemed publishers of the Bat Boy story.

39 A Mom Anon  Sep 6, 2014 10:04:03am

re: #31 GlutenFreeJesus

Her book about her son’s autism would have actually been good IF she had stuck to one topic- the effects of having a child with a disability on her marriage to her boy’s father. The vast majority of marriages don’t survive that, hers included. That part was pretty spot on and very true. The rest was nauseating. My MIL gave me that book and I swear I must have thrown it at the wall a half a dozen times or more before I managed to finish. I threw it away rather than pass it on to anyone else or donate it to the library.

She’s now married to Donnie Wahlburg, Mark’s brother. She’s all about Jenny, if it brings her attention, she’s there. Just. Yuck.

40 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 10:06:14am

hahahaha…

EXCLUSIVE: Benny Johnson, the BuzzFeed “viral politics editor” who was fired for plagiarism in July, will start Monday as National Review’s social media director, a new position. Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, tells us: “Benny made a terrible mistake. But he has owned up to it and learned from it. He’s a talented journalist, with obviously a lot to contribute. He knows he’s joining a storied institution at NR, and we look forward to his helping us carry on our mission across all platforms.”

Even a few years ago, “BuzzFeed Benny” might have been locked out of the journalistic academy forever. But two factors combined to give @BennyJohnson a surprisingly quick shot at redemption, using a pillar of conservative media as his onramp: 1) a youthful digital fluency — “I love you internet :),” he tweeted during the online firestorm over his clumsy copying; and 2) the Iowa native’s red-state instincts, which had contributed to longtime mockery of him online.

His new charge: giving NR maximum reach across social media and digital. Benny will remain in D.C., and will start by giving advice and running NR’s Twitter and Facebook accounts. Over time, he’ll do more creative work of his own. Benny is quite savvy about the digital ecosystem, and has a real shot at notably moving the needle for NR.

41 FemNaziBitch  Sep 6, 2014 10:09:11am

re: #19 HappyWarrior

I don’t even know the word.

herd compliance

42 FemNaziBitch  Sep 6, 2014 10:10:11am

re: #39 A Mom Anon

Her book about her son’s autism would have actually been good IF she had stuck to one topic- the effects of having a child with a disability on her marriage to her boy’s father. The vast majority of marriages don’t survive that, hers included. That part was pretty spot on and very true. The rest was nauseating. My MIL gave me that book and I swear I must have thrown it at the wall a half a dozen times or more before I managed to finish. I threw it away rather than pass it on to anyone else or donate it to the library.

She’s now married to Donnie Wahlburg, Mark’s brother. She’s all about Jenny, if it brings her attention, she’s there. Just. Yuck.

Yeah, she has been living and just married him in my neck of the woods. The locals have not been impressed.

43 b.d.  Sep 6, 2014 10:12:24am

Being a wingnut or a dudebro means never having to say you’re sorry.

44 b.d.  Sep 6, 2014 10:13:50am

Because you always start at the top when learning new careers.

45 A Mom Anon  Sep 6, 2014 10:18:03am

re: #44 b.d.

I wonder what he’s being paid. Because I think I could do better than he will for a bit less. (psst, Arianna, call me…)

46 Ryan King  Sep 6, 2014 10:18:39am

Stallworth, Ben Johnson, Chuck C Johnson…

oh boy

47 b.d.  Sep 6, 2014 10:20:03am

re: #45 A Mom Anon

I wonder what he’s being paid. Because I think I could do better than he will for a bit less. (psst, Arianna, call me…)

You need a click bait generating crackpot thing to believe in, hate democrats or be a 1%er.

48 Ryan King  Sep 6, 2014 10:23:02am

AFP twitterage is rampant today. Mute AFP, but keep seeing retweets of variations of AFPxxx.

Like this works.

49 b.d.  Sep 6, 2014 10:23:09am

re: #47 b.d.

You need a click bait generating crackpot thing to believe in, hate democrats or be a 1%er.

Retweeting a Russia Today tweet is also good for scoring points for the “pure thought progressive” cred that you’ll be needing.

50 Charles Johnson  Sep 6, 2014 10:24:42am
51 Frenchy  Sep 6, 2014 10:25:32am

Have I woken up in the Twilight Zone? I just assumed this was a different person with the name Donte Stallworth, but this is actually the former NFL wide receiver? The one who pled guilty to felony vehicular manslaughter while DUI? And he is now a “national security analyst” even though he has no experience as a journalist, nor any expertise in this area whatsoever as far as I’m aware?

52 thedopefishlives  Sep 6, 2014 10:25:54am

re: #50 Charles Johnson

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What could POSSIBLY go wrong?!

53 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 10:26:11am

re: #51 Frenchy

Have I woken up in the Twilight Zone? I just assumed this was a different person with the name Donte Stallworth, but this is actually the former NFL wide receiver? The one who pled guilty to felony vehicular manslaughter while DUI? And he is now a “national security analyst” even though he has no experience as a journalist, nor any expertise in this area whatsoever as far as I’m aware?

welcome to the land of opportunity!!!
//

54 b.d.  Sep 6, 2014 10:26:31am

re: #49 b.d.

Retweeting a Russia Today tweet is also good for scoring points for the “pure thought progressive” cred that you’ll be needing.

Donte retweeted a tweet by this Russia Today person (not this particular tweet that I can tell)

55 b.d.  Sep 6, 2014 10:27:20am

re: #54 b.d.

Donte

56 Charles Johnson  Sep 6, 2014 10:32:18am
57 Ryan King  Sep 6, 2014 10:38:36am

Nothing more pathetic than obsessed people telling you you’re obsessed.

It’s a sickness. Get.Help.

58 b.d.  Sep 6, 2014 10:38:51am

re: #56 Charles Johnson

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Everything is forgivable if you are a young white male conservative.

59 CriticalDragon1177  Sep 6, 2014 10:39:17am

Gus,

Donte Stalworth is not making the Huffington post look good. At least he’s not as bad as Jim Hoft! That’s not saying much through.

60 goddamnedfrank  Sep 6, 2014 10:41:54am

re: #44 b.d.

Because you always start at the top when learning new careers.

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Does this guy have any discernible national security experience or education? What in the hell qualifies him for this post beyond pre-existing fame and connections?

I’m not saying a retired sports icon can’t become a writer, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a fantastic author and essay writer, but he wasn’t given a prestigious journalism assignment before proving himself capable.

61 Decatur Deb  Sep 6, 2014 10:42:22am

Here’s your damn minimum-wage world.

Woman dies napping between jobs

mercurynews.com

62 FemNaziBitch  Sep 6, 2014 10:51:20am

re: #58 b.d.

Everything is forgivable if you are a young white male conservative.

Just ask Newt.

63 FemNaziBitch  Sep 6, 2014 10:52:55am

This white cop is accused of raping 8 black woman after being investigated for manslaughter —bail lowered from $5M to $500K.

It’s OK, because he played football.

64 Ryan King  Sep 6, 2014 10:53:36am

re: #58 b.d.

Everything is forgivable if you are a young white male conservative.

Racist!

// <—- Do I even need to?

65 WhatEVs  Sep 6, 2014 10:54:52am

re: #60 goddamnedfrank

Does this guy have any discernible national security experience or education? What in the hell qualifies him for this post beyond pre-existing fame and connections?

Clicks, my good man. Clicks qualify anyone for everything.

66 Ryan King  Sep 6, 2014 10:55:27am
67 FemNaziBitch  Sep 6, 2014 10:56:56am

68 Ryan King  Sep 6, 2014 10:58:00am

I wonder what Benny Johnson’s resume and interview were like.

Rich Lowery ‘So Ben, I see here worked here, went to school here… did you plagiarize this resume?’

Ben Johnson ‘Uh….’

Rich Lowery ‘Ha! Just kidding bro! Just don’t get caught here and we’re all good. Wanna go to Ruth’s Chris for lunch?’

69 ausador  Sep 6, 2014 10:58:16am

Gohmert!!!

Fox News Insider:
Gohmert: Intel Agents Were ‘Scared’ Into Keeping Quiet on Benghazi

He recalled a House briefing several months after the attack in which an intelligence official said there was no one injured in Benghazi that was hospitalized at Walter Reed near D.C.

Gohmert said he had personally visited Walter Reed to see someone who was injured in the attack and ended up calling out the official. He believes that official was “fed false information” and believes that many intelligence officers have been forced to keep quiet about what happened.

So they were cleverly hiding him at Walter Reed where no one would ever think to look for wounded U.S. personnel? Uhh…Ok? How does “guy in hospital when I was told there wasn’t” lead to “intelligence officers forced to keep quiet?”

Meanwhile back in the real world…

Fox’s New Benghazi Special Airs Old News

What Fox failed to mention was that the CIA officers and contractors present in Libya during the attacks were previously interviewed by Congress in private testimony before a House intelligence subcommittee. This testimony destroyed the myths that anyone had been ordered to “stand down” and that a speedier response would have saved more lives.

A December 2013 Associated Press report on this testimony cited Rep. Lynn Westmoreland (R-GA), “who heads a House intelligence subcommittee that interviewed the employees,” to explain that the CIA personnel were fully aware there would be no air support:

He explained that the lack of air support was clear to all CIA employees working in Libya because of a 2011 CIA memorandum sent to employees after NATO forces ended their mission in support of the Libyan revolution.

[…]

One contractor testified that he shouted repeatedly over the agency’s radio system to his CIA security boss that they should request combat aircraft. But the security chief explained to lawmakers that he ignored his subordinate’s demands because he said he knew that no combat aircraft were available for such a mission, Westmoreland said.

The testimony revealed that there was a delay in the CIA response team departing to the aid of those under attack at the diplomatic facility in an attempt to round up additional support for them from a local Libyan militia, and that “[s]ome CIA security contractors disagreed with their bosses and wanted to move more quickly.” Westmoreland told AP that “he believes this disagreement was the source of allegations that the CIA ordered security personnel to ‘stand down’ and not help the people inside the diplomatic mission.”

In other words Fox’s “groundbreaking new revelations about Benghazi” are just more recycled faux outrage over events that were already well known and previously investigated.

70 FemNaziBitch  Sep 6, 2014 10:58:18am

bbl

71 Targetpractice  Sep 6, 2014 10:59:40am

re: #69 ausador

In other words Fox’s “groundbreaking new revelations about Benghazi” are just more recycled faux outrage over events that were already well known and previously investigated.

Yeah, “groundbreaking new revelations” just in time to A) sell a book, B) get people talking about Benghazi again in time for the select committee’s first public hearing and C) get people hating the President again in time for the mid-term elections.

72 FemNaziBitch  Sep 6, 2014 10:59:55am

re: #69 ausador

So they were cleverly hiding him at Walter Reed where no one would ever think to look for wounded U.S. personnel? Uhh…Ok? How does “guy in hospital when I was told there wasn’t” lead to “intelligence officers forced to keep quiet?”

THis made me laugh, because, I thought that was part of the Intelligence Officer’s job description “to keep quiet”.

secrkits and such.

73 FemNaziBitch  Sep 6, 2014 11:00:05am

bbl fur real

74 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 6, 2014 11:04:22am

I am trying to understand the mentality of anti-vax parents.

We attended a baby swimming course with a mother who could not bring herself to immerse her baby’s head underwater to get it used to the sensation.

A total lack of self confidence and fear of doing anything to her baby that seemed to “hurt” it, despite the obvious benefits.

And the pseudo science then preys on these people by offering them some justification.

75 austin_blue  Sep 6, 2014 11:05:09am

OT:

Hello, all.

Saw this and two thoughts hit me:

1) How very sad.

2) How extraordinarily random.

cnn.com

76 Dr Lizardo  Sep 6, 2014 11:05:33am

Sanity break time, with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry as Jeeves and Wooster.

Youtube Video

This is perhaps one of my all-time favorite series.

77 ObserverArt  Sep 6, 2014 11:05:48am

re: #67 FemNaziBitch

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It always comes down to that one word doesn’t it?

Shit.

78 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 11:06:30am

re: #76 Dr Lizardo

Sanity break time, with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry as Jeeves and Wooster.

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This is perhaps one of my all-time favorite series.

I loved that program.

79 Ryan King  Sep 6, 2014 11:06:51am

AFP - Americans Fucked Perpetually

80 Charles Johnson  Sep 6, 2014 11:08:20am
81 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 11:09:08am

re: #80 Charles Johnson

82 Charles Johnson  Sep 6, 2014 11:09:37am

re: #57 Ryan King

Nothing more pathetic than obsessed people telling you you’re obsessed.

It’s a sickness. Get.Help.

It’s supposed to rob you of the will to live. “OH NOEZ MAYBE I REALLY AM OBSESSED!! I QUIT!!!!!”

83 Dr Lizardo  Sep 6, 2014 11:09:54am

re: #78 Backwoods_Sleuth

I loved that program.

Laurie and Fry are absolutely brilliant, and it had a strong supporting cast. One of the funnier recurring characters was Roderick Spode - a parody of Sir Oswald Mosely, the infamous British fascist - played to pompous perfection by John Turner.

84 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 11:13:11am

re: #83 Dr Lizardo

They were both brilliant in Blackadder, as well.

86 Stanley Sea  Sep 6, 2014 11:14:16am

re: #75 austin_blue

OT:

Hello, all.

Saw this and two thoughts hit me:

1) How very sad.

2) How extraordinarily random.

cnn.com

‘Tis. Her fiance was with her. So horrible horrible horrible.

87 Gus  Sep 6, 2014 11:14:45am

Crickets.

88 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 11:20:51am

dear god…we don’t stand a chance…

facebook.com

ANTS!!!

89 Charles Johnson  Sep 6, 2014 11:27:47am

Check this out:

Read the article. He does not say A SINGLE WORD about “who was behind the 9/11 attacks.”

90 Charles Johnson  Sep 6, 2014 11:32:35am

I see why Glenn Greenwald is so supportive of Stallworth. He hangs out with Russia Today, and he’s just as slippery and disingenuous about answering direct questions about his views.

91 Gus  Sep 6, 2014 11:33:26am

re: #89 Charles Johnson

Check this out:

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Read the article. He does not say A SINGLE WORD about “who was behind the 9/11 attacks.”

Wonk? Are they serious? A wonk?

92 Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 6, 2014 11:33:42am

It’s like the right wing “journalist” circle of life:

You plagiarize or say/do something clearly racist or inappropriate, get called on it by the public and media, then either get fired or resign, then give some time for things to cool off and then immediately you line up a job at ANOTHER right wing outlet. Lather, derp, repeat.

There absolutely was a time when plagiarism was a sin that would basically blacklist you from the profession, just ask Stephen Glass.

But these right wing sites don’t care. No morals, no ethics, no integrity, Just a seemingly endless supply of gullible fools eager as ever to get their hate on and a wheelbarrow full of money to go with it.

93 Dr Lizardo  Sep 6, 2014 11:36:01am

re: #84 Backwoods_Sleuth

They were both brilliant in Blackadder, as well.

They play perfectly off each other. One of the best acting duos ever.

94 Gus  Sep 6, 2014 11:39:41am

And yes. He says nothing about “who was behind the 9/11 attacks” in that Mother Jones article. Remember, MoJo works with Greenwald’s “freedom of the press” foundation.

95 Charles Johnson  Sep 6, 2014 11:41:28am
96 Gus  Sep 6, 2014 11:42:00am
97 Gus  Sep 6, 2014 11:43:11am

Unbelievable.

98 Charles Johnson  Sep 6, 2014 11:43:19am

Instead of sending the password reset email with the reset code through the LGF mail server, it now uses a special Gmail account to send it. This should allow the email to pass through every ISP’s spam filters.

99 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 11:44:33am

re: #98 Charles Johnson

Instead of sending the password reset email with the reset code through the LGF mail server, it now uses a special Gmail account to send it. This should allow the email to pass through every ISP’s spam filters.

good to know. I would have automatically assumed a gmail message would be phishing.

100 Charles Johnson  Sep 6, 2014 11:45:57am

re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth

good to know. I would have automatically assumed a gmail message would be phishing.

Well, you’ll only get this email if you specifically request it with our “Forgotten password?” form.

101 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 11:46:46am

re: #100 Charles Johnson

Well, you’ll only get this email if you specifically request it with our “Forgotten password?” form.

yes, but still good to know of the change.

102 Charles Johnson  Sep 6, 2014 11:48:48am
103 WhatEVs  Sep 6, 2014 11:49:52am

re: #75 austin_blue

OT:

Hello, all.

Saw this and two thoughts hit me:

1) How very sad.

2) How extraordinarily random.

cnn.com

Same thing happened in Chicago a number of years ago when a pane of glass fell from the…shoot, the red high-rise (smack downtown across the street from DePaul, CNI building, maybe?) Killed a woman right next to her 5 year old kid.

104 Eventual Carrion  Sep 6, 2014 11:50:49am

Science must have been very mean to Donte in his youth. They have not been on speaking terms since then I would guess.

105 Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 6, 2014 11:51:40am

106 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 11:52:39am

re: #103 WhatEVs

Same thing happened in Chicago a number of years ago when a pane of glass fell from the…shoot, the red high-rise (smack downtown across the street from DePaul, CNI building, maybe?) Killed a woman right next to her 5 year old kid.

CNA building at South Wabash and Jackson in 1999.
Infamous for falling sheets of ice as well.

107 Mike Lamb  Sep 6, 2014 11:52:45am

The truly fucked up part about Stallworth’s felony manslaughter conviction was that he only had to go to jail for 30 days. Fucking Florida.

108 A Mom Anon  Sep 6, 2014 11:58:19am

re: #107 Mike Lamb

If he hadn’t been a professional athlete that might not have been the case. Our justice system is skewed big time. You got money and fame? You can buy your freedom. If not, well, sucks to be you then.

109 Stanley Sea  Sep 6, 2014 11:58:30am
110 Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 6, 2014 11:58:45am

Thank You. Thank You. Thank You. Thank you.

Wanted to say say thank you for the wonderful Jim Hoft piece. I did not know that he was a gang member. Now I do.

Thanks.

off to Fish and chips with my son.

thanks once again.

111 CuriousLurker  Sep 6, 2014 11:59:26am

Added emphasis mine:

Donte Stallworth, the former NFL player hired to a fellowship at the Huffington Post, says that journalists Jeremy Scahill and Glenn Greenwald “catapulted” his interest in national security reporting. “I befriended Glenn, and we’ve been pretty close for a year now and same thing with Jeremy Scahill.” Last year, Stallworth, whose playing career spanned 11 years with teams such as the New Orleans Saints and the Cleveland Browns, last year co-hosted the Miami premiere of Scahill’s film “Dirty Wars.” […]

As for Stallworth’s experience in writing stories, he cited two pieces that he’d done for the lefty website Think Progress — one on Michael Sam and NFL “distractions” and another on Robert Griffin III. According to Stallworth, that’s the extent of his published archive. […]

washingtonpost.com

*smh*

112 Eventual Carrion  Sep 6, 2014 11:59:40am

re: #18 b_sharp

In response to his concerns with live viruses does he not know how vaccines work?

No, but the beautiful skin of milk maidens sure appreciated it.

113 ObserverArt  Sep 6, 2014 12:02:05pm

re: #107 Mike Lamb

The truly fucked up part about Stallworth’s felony manslaughter conviction was that he only had to go to jail for 30 days. Fucking Florida.

If I remember, I think they let him slide due to the guy he hit not being in a crosswalk. I guess that is weighed a lot in Florida.

What always got me is he saw the guy in time to hit his lights to flash, he could have been on his brakes to whoa up too. That he admitted it and was found drunk at .12 and with a fairly high THC reading in his blood, you’d think in a law and order state that would be extra tough. Yet, id didn’t seem to matter.

114 A Mom Anon  Sep 6, 2014 12:04:54pm

re: #109 Stanley Sea

Christables is funny. But FFS it’s so sad that churches feel the need to become that huge. It’s all about the money with those places, anything else is secondary, if it’s important at all.

I live in an area where there are both large churches and small everywhere. You can’t go more than a mile without driving past one. I’d say almost half of the small churches have food pantries and other community services. The big churches? They offer schools that are in no sense of the word free or open to the public. No community outreach, and big buildings in use only on Sundays. Big difference.

115 Stanley Sea  Sep 6, 2014 12:06:52pm

re: #114 A Mom Anon

If you are putting communion in a single serve package, it’s all about business full stop.

Sure some mega-church owns the christables business.

116 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 12:07:48pm

re: #114 A Mom Anon

Christables is funny. But FFS it’s so sad that churches feel the need to become that huge. It’s all about the money with those places, anything else is secondary, if it’s important at all.

I live in an area where there are both large churches and small everywhere. You can’t go more than a mile without driving past one. I’d say almost half of the small churches have food pantries and other community services. The big churches? They offer schools that are in no sense of the word free or open to the public. No community outreach, and big buildings in use only on Sundays. Big difference.

My cynical guess would be that one of the hierarchy in that church owns the “Christables” company.

117 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 12:08:11pm

re: #115 Stanley Sea

If you are putting communion in a single serve package, it’s all about business full stop.

Sure some mega-church owns the christables business.

oh jinx!

118 WhatEVs  Sep 6, 2014 12:10:17pm

re: #115 Stanley Sea

If you are putting communion in a single serve package, it’s all about business full stop.

Sure some mega-church owns the christables business.

I initially thought it was for health reasons. I mean I wouldn’t want to drink out of a cup 10,000 of my fellow humans drank from (shudder…GROSS).

119 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 12:10:44pm

Christables!

lifeway.com

120 Decatur Deb  Sep 6, 2014 12:12:12pm

re: #109 Stanley Sea

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There is more than one design for that system. That’s not quite the configuration used at Church of the Highlands in Birmingham.

121 Decatur Deb  Sep 6, 2014 12:13:39pm

re: #118 WhatEVs

I initially thought it was for health reasons. I mean I wouldn’t want to drink out of a cup 10,000 of my fellow humans drank from (shudder…GROSS).

Our RC folklore was that the western church went from both species to ‘host only’ during the medieval plagues. Eastern churches didn’t.

122 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 12:15:03pm

From the LifeWay product page:

Unique, Ergonomic Cup Design:

Easier to hold, position, and open for all from young to old
Flat side of cup allows for better grip and control of cup during seal removal
Large bread compartment allows for easy removal
Our cup is 100% recyclable

Packaging Integrity:

True single sealing process eliminates heat and press stress issues
Secure seal design virtually eliminates leakage and spillage
One year shelf-life, no refrigeration needed
Unused cups can be returned to storage for the next service

123 Decatur Deb  Sep 6, 2014 12:16:42pm

re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth

From the Lifeway product page:

When altar boys get minimum wage, robots will serve communion.

124 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 12:16:53pm

Only $19.99 for a box of 80!
Ships in 1-2 business days!!!!

125 WhatEVs  Sep 6, 2014 12:17:08pm

re: #121 Decatur Deb

Our RC folklore was that the western church went from both species to ‘host only’ during the medieval plagues. Eastern churches didn’t.

I don’t know what that means. (Sorry, I was raised Jewish and have limited knowledge of Christian rituals.)

126 klys  Sep 6, 2014 12:17:28pm

re: #125 WhatEVs

I don’t know what that means. (Sorry, I was raised Jewish and have limited knowledge of Christian rituals.)

No cup, just the bread.

127 KerFuFFler  Sep 6, 2014 12:17:55pm

re: #76 Dr Lizardo

Sanity break time, with Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry as Jeeves and Wooster.

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Video

This is perhaps one of my all-time favorite series.

It’s one of my favorites too! I love the episode with the cow creamer and that despicable fascist, Spode.

128 ObserverArt  Sep 6, 2014 12:18:30pm

I had a job to design the label for Reverend Leroy Jenkins’ Holy Hill Cathedral in Delaware Ohio “Miracle Water” 1 gallon jug! I’ll never forget that. Just after college graduation.

Ol’ Leroy was always running into issues with the state of Ohio and City of Delaware for codes violations around the cathedral. Too many loons packed into the service, wiring that was below a drunken do-it-yourselfer, etc.

They finally got him for his “Miracle Water” though. It was found by the EPA to contain too high of concentrations of coliform bacteria and they shut that down which was good portion of his churchifying. He needed that “Miracle Water” to help facilitate the miracle healing.

129 Mattand  Sep 6, 2014 12:19:11pm

Regarding the original topic: Exhibit A as to why I don’t read Huff Po. A wretched hive of alt med and conspiracy theory.

130 WhatEVs  Sep 6, 2014 12:19:26pm

re: #126 klys

No cup, just the bread.

Thanks!

I could have sworn I’d seen both when I went to a Roman Catholic First Communion thing in the 90s. Maybe I’m misremembering.

131 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 12:19:38pm

re: #128 ObserverArt

I had a job to design the label for Reverend Leroy Jenkins’ Holy Hill Cathedral in Delaware Ohio “Miracle Water” 1 gallon jug! I’ll never forget that. Just after college graduation.

Ol’ Leroy was always running into issues with the state of Ohio and City of Delaware for codes violations around the cathedral. Too many loons packed into the service, wiring that was below a drunken do-it-yourselfer, etc.

They finally got him for his “Miracle Water” though. It was found by the EPA to contain too high of concentrations of coliform bacteria and they shut that down which was good portion of his churchifying. He needed that “Miracle Water” to help facilitate the miracle healing.

Could have been worse…he could have been bottling up that Louisiana amoeba brain eating water…

132 klys  Sep 6, 2014 12:20:09pm

re: #130 WhatEVs

Thanks!

I could have sworn I’d seen both when I went to a Roman Catholic First Communion thing in the 90s. Maybe I’m misremembering.

I believe they’ve gone back to both; DD may have just been referring to during the Middle Ages when plague was an issue.

133 CuriousLurker  Sep 6, 2014 12:20:19pm

Gah, my desktop computer is down, my Macbook Pro’s touchpad & mouse aren’t working, the new replacement desktop machine my boss ordered for me won’t arrive till next Friday, and the inexpensive Dell laptop that I ordered yesterday—and for which I paid extra for “guaranteed” delivery today—is still stuck in the fulfillment process at Amazon, so now I have to rely solely on my iPad & an ancient, dusty IBM ThinkPad running WinXP. Everything takes me 10x longer than usual.

Oh, and did I mention that FedEx screwed up the two other non-tech deliveries I was supposed to receive today? This whole week has been…

And it looks like the agita is going to continue into next week, so I guess I’ll mostly be in lurk mode for the next week or two, because once I finally DO get the new machines, I’ll have to configure a bunch of crap and then catch up with work projects. Grrrrrr. Now please excuse me while I go sit in the corner and throw myself a pity party.

#FirstWorldProblems

134 Eventual Carrion  Sep 6, 2014 12:20:30pm

re: #109 Stanley Sea

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They forgot the cheese.

135 klys  Sep 6, 2014 12:21:07pm

re: #133 CuriousLurker

I turn into a royal bitch when I have a malfunctioning computer.

{{CL}}

136 WhatEVs  Sep 6, 2014 12:21:53pm

re: #135 klys

I turn into a royal bitch when I have a malfunctioning computer.

{{CL}}

Ditto. (In the {{hugs}} too!)

137 Decatur Deb  Sep 6, 2014 12:22:43pm

re: #125 WhatEVs

I don’t know what that means. (Sorry, I was raised Jewish and have limited knowledge of Christian rituals.)

Trans: The ‘Roman’ and other Catholic rite churches in Europe celebrated communion as bread and wine until the plagues ravaged the west. Then they stopped sharing wine from a single large cup, and distibuted only the bread. Don’t know in detail what the eastern (Greek rite) churches did, but they seem always to have distributed bread and wine, sometimes by dipping. Since Vatican II reforms, Roman churches have distributed both species—bread and wine.

138 De Kolta Chair  Sep 6, 2014 12:23:11pm

Donte’s Infernal.

139 Mattand  Sep 6, 2014 12:24:57pm

re: #128 ObserverArt

I had a job to design the label for Reverend Leroy Jenkins’ Holy Hill Cathedral in Delaware Ohio “Miracle Water” 1 gallon jug! I’ll never forget that. Just after college graduation.

Ol’ Leroy was always running into issues with the state of Ohio and City of Delaware for codes violations around the cathedral. Too many loons packed into the service, wiring that was below a drunken do-it-yourselfer, etc.

They finally got him for his “Miracle Water” though. It was found by the EPA to contain too high of concentrations of coliform bacteria and they shut that down which was good portion of his churchifying. He needed that “Miracle Water” to help facilitate the miracle healing.

I did some cartoons for a medical book about therapeutic massage. I didn’t know what that was going in, but the dialog of some of the characters seemed a bit off.

I looked up the author on Google and was horrified by what I saw. Among other things, this woman practiced aligning chakras and ear candling. What was really depressing was that she was (and still possibly is) writing for a major medical publisher.

At this point, I was already committed, so I held my nose and finished the commission. I did turn down another project for this woman a few months later.

Freaking ethics…

140 danarchy  Sep 6, 2014 12:26:34pm

re: #128 ObserverArt

Ol’ Leroy was always running into issues with the state of Ohio and City of Delaware for codes violations around the cathedral.

Also running into rooms full of Dragon eggs…

Youtube Video

141 ausador  Sep 6, 2014 12:26:55pm

CDC Statistics Show What Happens When You Don’t Vaccinate

“We have schools in California where the percent of children who exercise the personal belief exemption is well above 50%,” Dr. Gil Chavez, deputy director of the California Department of Public Health’s Center for Infectious Diseases, told the LAT.

Just a small increase, nothing to worry about… ///

When herd immunity completely disappears these people are in for quite a shock. :(

142 Mattand  Sep 6, 2014 12:27:23pm

re: #139 Mattand

To save you some research time, ear candling is the practice of sticking a candle in your ear, so you can draw out the toxins in your body.

I really, really wish I was making that up.

143 Lidane  Sep 6, 2014 12:28:28pm
144 CuriousLurker  Sep 6, 2014 12:28:48pm

re: #133 CuriousLurker

P.S. By the way, it’s entirely possible that I may inadvertently down-ding a comment I agree with because it’s hard to tap the little +/- chiclets on the iPad mini.

Also, if I just up-ding you instead of responding with a comment like I normally would, I t’s because I frigging HATE typing large amounts of text with the onscreen keyboard. Ditto Twitter—I know it’s only 140 characters, but ugh.

145 William Barnett-Lewis  Sep 6, 2014 12:30:05pm

re: #109 Stanley Sea

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What? The? Fuck? Is there any independent confirmation that this isn’t a photoshop? Not even the Baptists with their little plastic shot glasses of grape juice are this bad.

146 Eventual Carrion  Sep 6, 2014 12:30:37pm

re: #142 Mattand

To save you some research time, ear candling is the practice of sticking a candle in your ear, so you can draw out the toxins in your body.

I really, really wish I was making that up.

Really? And I’ve been doing it for fun all this time.

147 Decatur Deb  Sep 6, 2014 12:30:58pm

re: #145 William Barnett-Lewis

What? The? Fuck? Is there any independent confirmation that this isn’t a photoshop? Not even the Baptists with their little plastic shot glasses of grape juice are this bad.

Pull up your cassock, Binky, it’s real.

148 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 12:32:42pm

re: #145 William Barnett-Lewis

What? The? Fuck? Is there any independent confirmation that this isn’t a photoshop? Not even the Baptists with their little plastic shot glasses of grape juice are this bad.

It’s a real thing…

littlegreenfootballs.com

149 Mattand  Sep 6, 2014 12:32:56pm

re: #144 CuriousLurker

P.S. By the way, it’s entirely possible that I may inadvertently down-ding a comment I agree with because it’s hard to tap the little +/- chicklets on the iPad mini.

Also, if I just up-ding you instead of responding with a comment like I normally would, I t’s because I frigging HATE typing large amounts of text with the onscreen keyboard. Ditto Twitter—I know it’s only 140 characters, but ugh.

I hear ya. I touch type about 50 words a minute (accuracy optional) on a physical keyboard. It’s taken me a couple of years to get used to the iPad keyboard.

I basically had to retrain myself to type with two index fingers, and sort of go “Use the Force, Luke” with the QWERTY layout. Seems to have worked okay.

As far as your replacement desktop: look on the bright side. If it’s a Mac, you should be able to use the new OS without too much hassle.

150 WhatEVs  Sep 6, 2014 12:33:29pm

re: #139 Mattand

Freaking ethics…

Bad for eating. Good for mental health.

Unless you’re a sociopath.

151 William Barnett-Lewis  Sep 6, 2014 12:33:57pm

re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth

From the LifeWay product page:

Ok, now I am depressed. I will be all the more glad for our gilded common cup tomorrow morning. It’s a meal among friends, among community, not a fast food restaurant…

152 Mattand  Sep 6, 2014 12:34:23pm

re: #150 WhatEVs

Bad for eating. Good for mental health.

Unless you’re a sociopath.

Suddenly, Jim Hoft wonders why everyone is looking his way.

153 WhatEVs  Sep 6, 2014 12:35:04pm

re: #144 CuriousLurker

If you downding by mistake, just upding twice.

I’m almost always on my iPhone. I do that more times than not.

154 ObserverArt  Sep 6, 2014 12:35:36pm

re: #123 Decatur Deb

When altar boys get minimum wage, robots will serve communion.

That may be…but they can’t be the commentator.

And they couldn’t just speed up a whole Catholic mass like I once did.

I skipped ahead missing the second reading (Epistle) to The Liturgy thus sparing the folks the priest going on after his Gospel Reading and sermon for the day. Dropped about 10-15 minutes in the process, everyone had communion, had the final prayers and then right out the door. Good Catholics always appreciate a quick mass. Oh, the priest had an extra few words after communion in his final offering to touch on a few things he wasn’t able to mention earlier.

I tried to get out fast too…but I had to change out of my robe with the alter boys and that’s when the priest caught up with me and read me the riot act! But, I didn’t lose the gig. I was a fairly good at the job. Did it for like a year or more for the morning school mass. Never made that mistake again either.

What do you expect out of a kid in front of the whole school and a bunch of parents in a huge, formal Catholic church first thing in the morning? Ahhh. 6th grade too…halfway through.

155 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 12:36:44pm

re: #151 William Barnett-Lewis

Ok, now I am depressed. I will be all the more glad for our gilded common cup tomorrow morning. It’s a meal among friends, among community, not a fast food restaurant…

They do look too much like a pack of fast food dipping sauce.
oh! There could be a baptism angle somewhere there…

156 William Barnett-Lewis  Sep 6, 2014 12:37:01pm

re: #137 Decatur Deb

Trans: The ‘Roman’ and other Catholic rite churches in Europe celebrated communion as bread and wine until the plagues ravaged the west. Then they stopped sharing wine from a single large cup, and distibuted only the bread. Don’t know in detail what the eastern (Greek rite) churches did, but they seem always to have distributed bread and wine, sometimes by dipping. Since Vatican II reforms, Roman churches have distributed both species—bread and wine.

This. Episcopalians have been pushing communion in both kinds since Cranmer in 1549 but have also always allowed that taking just one form or the other is theologically efficacious.

Just don’t get into the arguments about transubstantiation or not… ;)

157 Eventual Carrion  Sep 6, 2014 12:37:13pm

re: #145 William Barnett-Lewis

What? The? Fuck? Is there any independent confirmation that this isn’t a photoshop? Not even the Baptists with their little plastic shot glasses of grape juice are this bad.

The Lutheran church my wife goes to does the plastic shot glass thing too. Wine for adults and grape juice for kids. I prefer Mezcal, but then I am an atheist.

158 ausador  Sep 6, 2014 12:38:03pm

re: #151 William Barnett-Lewis

Ok, now I am depressed. I will be all the more glad for our gilded common cup tomorrow morning. It’s a meal among friends, among community, not a fast food restaurant…

Priest: Blessed be this plastic in the name of the Father…

159 Decatur Deb  Sep 6, 2014 12:38:12pm

re: #151 William Barnett-Lewis

Ok, now I am depressed. I will be all the more glad for our gilded common cup tomorrow morning. It’s a meal among friends, among community, not a fast food restaurant…

Looks perfect for an in-flight Mass.

160 Skip Intro  Sep 6, 2014 12:38:45pm

re: #141 ausador

CDC Statistics Show What Happens When You Don’t Vaccinate

Just a small increase, nothing to worry about… ///

When herd immunity completely disappears these people are in for quite a shock. :(

It will be blamed on God’s anger at the gays.

161 William Barnett-Lewis  Sep 6, 2014 12:41:24pm

re: #159 Decatur Deb

Looks perfect for an in-flight Mass.

I suppose that’s one way to consider the Viaticum…

162 CuriousLurker  Sep 6, 2014 12:41:55pm

re: #149 Mattand

As far as your replacement desktop: look on the bright side. If it’s a Mac, you should be able to use the new OS without too much hassle.

Nope, it’s another Win7 machine as the vast majority of the software I have is for Windows (not to mention that I often have to help our clients with stuff, and most of them are also on Windows). My boss does the whole virtualization thing, running Windows on her MBP, but I don’t like doing that—prefer to stay in one OS or the other so I don’t get confused with my keyboard shortcuts.

The new Dell laptop I ordered has Win8.1—not really looking forward to that, but I figure I need to know it because, well just because (clients and testing websites and all that).

163 Decatur Deb  Sep 6, 2014 12:43:24pm

re: #161 William Barnett-Lewis

I suppose that’s one way to consider the Viaticum…

I just packed an MRE every time I went TDY. If I came home with the MRE, that was a good TDY.

164 Charles Johnson  Sep 6, 2014 12:45:25pm
165 Mattand  Sep 6, 2014 12:45:55pm

re: #162 CuriousLurker

I played around with the Win 8 beta on my MBP. I didn’t have a problem with it, but I get why everyone is freaking out. It is a huge sea change in how people work with Windows.

IIRC, hitting the Windows key or Control-D will dump you immediately into the Desktop. Hopefully, that’ll ease some pain.

166 b.d.  Sep 6, 2014 12:47:36pm

Markos linked to Charles’ Jim Hoft making fun of Michelle Obama post today.

dailykos.com

And not a peep about it in the comments, I like this trend.

167 De Kolta Chair  Sep 6, 2014 12:47:37pm

From Cracked:

168 William Barnett-Lewis  Sep 6, 2014 12:47:44pm

All I know is that I have my great-Aunt’s chicken & rice in mushroom soup dish cooking in the oven and that’s far more appealing to me (even with being made with condensed soup) than that packet of pretend bread and juice could ever be. Comfort food, yum.

Art (my priest) probably know about it but I’ll share that picture with him just in case.

169 Targetpractice  Sep 6, 2014 12:50:44pm

re: #167 De Kolta Chair

From Cracked:
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Yeah, but that was before wealthy nutbars and homeopathic “doctors” came to us to reveal the truth of these vaccines. Now we must shun them for the danger they pose, because colloidal silver will protect our children!

170 Dr. Matt  Sep 6, 2014 12:50:58pm
171 Decatur Deb  Sep 6, 2014 12:52:33pm

re: #164 Charles Johnson

Some monkeys find a big rectangular thing, then some astronauts also find it.

Despite resistance from the enemy and his own leaders, a pilot who was good, really sharp, barreled his baby in so low he completed his mission.

172 Charles Johnson  Sep 6, 2014 12:53:41pm
173 Skip Intro  Sep 6, 2014 12:58:38pm

I’m surprised Donte didn’t get put on the Kim Kardashian desk to hone his skills. Perhaps at HuffPo the Kardashian beat carries more weight than security analysis.

174 ausador  Sep 6, 2014 1:01:42pm
175 Eventual Carrion  Sep 6, 2014 1:02:13pm

The shaking when the shock wave got to the camera position is cool.

176 klys  Sep 6, 2014 1:07:54pm

re: #175 Eventual Carrion

The shaking when the shock wave got to the camera position is cool.

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That is an amazing video.

177 Snarknado!  Sep 6, 2014 1:10:56pm

re: #137 Decatur Deb

Trans: The ‘Roman’ and other Catholic rite churches in Europe celebrated communion as bread and wine until the plagues ravaged the west. Then they stopped sharing wine from a single large cup, and distibuted only the bread. Don’t know in detail what the eastern (Greek rite) churches did, but they seem always to have distributed bread and wine, sometimes by dipping. Since Vatican II reforms, Roman churches have distributed both species—bread and wine.

Actually, the middle ages didn’t know from contagion. They went the “in one kind” route because of the risk of spilling the wine — blood of Christ! — (and often still do, for the same reason). The eastern churches dip the bread into the wine and distribute it that way for the same reason.

178 Decatur Deb  Sep 6, 2014 1:12:53pm

re: #177 Snarknado!

Actually, the middle ages didn’t know from contagion. They went the “in one kind” route because of the risk of spilling the wine — blood of Christ! — (and often still do, for the same reason). The eastern churches dip the bread into the wine and distribute it that way for the same reason.

In the first comment i noted that was ‘folklore’. Intinction is used in some RC parishes, sipping in others.

179 ausador  Sep 6, 2014 1:12:56pm

re: #172 Charles Johnson

The wingnut meme is that the President “refuses to declare war on ISIS” I have also seen “the State Department refuses to declare war on ISIS!”

As per the Constitution only Congress has the authority to declare war, not the President and certainly not the State Department.

Besides which a formal “Declaration of War” is a legal construct that applies solely to sovereign nations. Declaring war on a terrorist organization like ISIS/ISIL is legal nonsense and utterly meaningless.

180 ObserverArt  Sep 6, 2014 1:17:20pm

re: #179 ausador

The wingnut meme is that the President “refuses to declare war on ISIS” I have also seen “the State Department refuses to declare war on ISIS!”

As per the Constitution only Congress has the authority to declare war, not the President and certainly not the State Department.

Besides which a formal “Declaration of War” is a legal construct that applies solely to sovereign nations. Declaring war on a terrorist organization like ISIS/ISIL is legal nonsense and utterly meaningless.

But, but, but…RWNJs are into legal nonsense and meaninglessness.

And so are the Republican and TeaPartyers in congress.

181 Kragar  Sep 6, 2014 1:17:49pm

Funny. It appears as if Obama is content to simply massacre ISIS leadership and authorize strikes against them without declaring all out war and engaging in rampant jingoism,

Obviously, this is why he should be impeached.
///

182 Targetpractice  Sep 6, 2014 1:18:34pm

re: #179 ausador

The wingnut meme is that the President “refuses to declare war on ISIS” I have also seen “the State Department refuses to declare war on ISIS!”

As per the Constitution only Congress has the authority to declare war, not the President and certainly not the State Department.

Besides which a formal “Declaration of War” is a legal construct that applies solely to sovereign nations. Declaring war on a terrorist organization like ISIS/ISIL is legal nonsense and utterly meaningless.

Indeed, the “Global War on Terrorism” was anything but, it was a patchwork series of laws put in place to allow military mobilization and deployment overseas, but it was not a formal declaration of war. There hasn’t been one since WWII.

183 CuriousLurker  Sep 6, 2014 1:20:25pm

re: #172 Charles Johnson

I’ll tell you what, I’m still (slowly) working my way through that book on the history of antisemitism and it’s really been quite the eye-opener. Not only because the scapegoating is so similar to what’s being used against Muslims nowadays, but also seeing how far back the roots of some of today’s attitudes reach.

Last night I was reading about Martin Luther and the Protestant Reformation. In documentaries—at least the ones I’ve watched—both Luther & the Reformation are shown in a mostly positive light. Weird, because Luther turned into a raging antisemite in his later years, something I was only very vaguely aware of (and I’m pretty sure I learned that here). Also, his whole attitude even before he turned to antisemitism was one of saving or “improving” the Jews, which immediately reminded me of Ann Coulter saying Jews needed to be “perfected”. SSDD

184 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 1:23:13pm

good freakin’ grief…

There’s also a slam about FLOTUS being transgender in that conversation.

185 Kragar  Sep 6, 2014 1:23:45pm
186 Snarknado!  Sep 6, 2014 1:27:22pm

re: #184 Backwoods_Sleuth

There’s also a slam about FLOTUS being transgender in that conversation.

Female to male? Or do they have an explanation of where the two daughters came from? (I did not click on your video….)

187 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 1:28:27pm

re: #186 Snarknado!

Female to male? Or do they have an explanation of where the two daughters came from? (I did not click on your video….)

I didn’t click on the video either.

188 ausador  Sep 6, 2014 1:34:51pm

re: #186 Snarknado!

Female to male? Or do they have an explanation of where the two daughters came from? (I did not click on your video….)

Kenya!

/

189 TedStriker  Sep 6, 2014 1:36:35pm

re: #186 Snarknado!

Female to male? Or do they have an explanation of where the two daughters came from? (I did not click on your video….)

Crisis actors!!!11ty

190 Bear  Sep 6, 2014 1:36:37pm

re: #186 Snarknado!

Stork

191 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 1:37:49pm

re: #190 Bear

Stork

Cabbage

192 Franklin  Sep 6, 2014 1:42:22pm
193 ausador  Sep 6, 2014 1:49:39pm

How very true…well except for the 270 quazillion* articles written and news segments broadcast about Benghazi in the last two years of course.

*Number not verified. /

194 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 1:50:17pm
195 ausador  Sep 6, 2014 1:57:16pm

GMO that isn’t designed for eating…

196 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 6, 2014 1:57:51pm

re: #109 Stanley Sea

[Embedded content]

Last Supperables?

197 De Kolta Chair  Sep 6, 2014 2:05:35pm

Cute alien is marooned on earth, creates short-lived flying bicycle fad.

198 Kragar  Sep 6, 2014 2:09:54pm
199 stpaulbear  Sep 6, 2014 2:10:24pm

re: #197 De Kolta Chair

Little Alex has an adventure that ends poorly. Rehabilitation proves problematic.

200 Belafon  Sep 6, 2014 2:10:51pm

re: #193 ausador

I’m pretty sure they will always be at war with Eastasia.

201 BongCrodny  Sep 6, 2014 2:16:45pm

Derpe’

202 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Sep 6, 2014 2:18:10pm

re: #199 stpaulbear

Little Alex has an adventure that ends poorly. Rehabilitation proves problematic.

A Nazi agent burns his hand while searching for a box that will melt his head.

203 Belafon  Sep 6, 2014 2:20:24pm

re: #202 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

A Nazi agent burns his hand while searching for a box that will melt his head.

While searching for a way to defeat her father, a woman discovers she has a twin brother.

204 Kragar  Sep 6, 2014 2:22:08pm
205 Targetpractice  Sep 6, 2014 2:23:03pm

re: #204 Kragar

[Embedded content]

A starship crew goes to find God.

206 ausador  Sep 6, 2014 2:24:02pm

Had to be a wingnut, it fits with their twisted “sense of humor.”

When they stopped in front of a hallway mural to snap pictures, a school sentry, or security guard, who is white, inserted himself. Brandon and his family are black.

“Wait, wait, wait, hold on,” Brandiss Pearson recalls the sentry saying. Then the sentry turned Brandon to face the wall and lifted Brandon’s hands above his head on the wall, as if to be frisked, she said.

“And he starts laughing and says, ‘Now take the picture, he’s in the right position,’ ” Pearson recalled.

The “right position” for a young black male, you mean?

207 Kragar  Sep 6, 2014 2:26:06pm
208 dholmes32  Sep 6, 2014 2:27:12pm

re: #147 Decatur Deb

Here’s the 6 for $3.99 pack from Lifeway (the Southern Baptist Convention’s bookstore chain):

lifeway.com

Lifeway also has a bulk 80 for $19.99 set.

If you’re not a fan of Chiclet-style bread, you can get a more traditional cup and wafer from Christianbook.

christianbook.com

I also came across a trademark for prefilled communion cups and wafers, but I can’t find it now DARN.

Somehow this just doesn’t strike me as what Jesus intended when he said, “Do this in remembrance of me.”

209 Targetpractice  Sep 6, 2014 2:27:52pm

re: #207 Kragar

[Embedded content]

Big shark kills a lot of people then gets blowed up.

210 BongCrodny  Sep 6, 2014 2:29:07pm

re: #207 Kragar

[Embedded content]

Whenever Brad Pitt shows up, people die horribly.

211 ausador  Sep 6, 2014 2:30:56pm

re: #208 dholmes32

Yes, but can you buy them pre-blessed as “Communion-To-Go™” ?

212 Targetpractice  Sep 6, 2014 2:31:41pm

re: #210 BongCrodny

Whenever Brad Pitt shows up, people die horribly.

Matthew McConaughey fights dragons while shirtless.

213 Lidane  Sep 6, 2014 2:38:19pm

re: #207 Kragar

Old lady talks to Bill Paxton on a boat, dreams of the time she was Kate Winslet.

214 dholmes32  Sep 6, 2014 2:38:49pm

re: #211 ausador

Yes, but can you buy them pre-blessed as “Communion-To-GoTM” ?

No I think you’ve got to bless ‘em.

I found the discussion on Reddit. They had several names for this, uh, packaging:

Christables(TM) from Oscar Mayer

Jeez-its

Peel-And-Eat Jesus

N.B. Absolutely NO offense is meant here. I’m absolutely gobsmacked that the central ritual of the Christian faith has been packaged up in a box for $20.

215 BongCrodny  Sep 6, 2014 2:40:33pm

re: #213 Lidane

Old lady talks to Bill Paxton on a boat, dreams of the time she was Kate Winslet.

Leonardo Dicaprio and his crew fall asleep a lot.

216 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 6, 2014 2:47:41pm

re: #215 BongCrodny

Leonardo Dicaprio and his crew fall asleep a lot.

217 De Kolta Chair  Sep 6, 2014 2:50:18pm

re: #205 Targetpractice

A starship crew goes to find God.

Preceded by fart jokes around a campfire.

218 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 6, 2014 2:51:14pm

What IF I said that I had come up with a 100% effective vaccine against what “THEY” are putting into the Chemtrails? (100% sterile saline should do the trick). Would it be THAT wrong to put it out there, just to watch heads explode from cognitive dissonance? After all, the Chemtrails are bad and evil, but so are vaccines, so what to do?

I’m bored.

RBS

219 Stanley Sea  Sep 6, 2014 2:52:32pm

re: #214 dholmes32

No I think you’ve got to bless ‘em.

I found the discussion on Reddit. They had several names for this, uh, packaging:

N.B. Absolutely NO offense is meant here. I’m absolutely gobsmacked that the central ritual of the Christian faith has been packaged up in a box for $20.

Jeez-its

lol

220 BadExampleMan  Sep 6, 2014 9:31:21pm

…meh, dead thread.

221 lostlakehiker  Sep 7, 2014 9:06:55pm

re: #179 ausador

What makes a nation-state? On paper, I suppose it’s recognition by the UN or by other nation-states. But then, is the Republic of China-Taiwan a nation-state?

Another standard might be that there’s a community of people, a territory controlled by that community, a system of taxation and law, and its own armed forces. By that standard, the Confederate States of America was for a time a nation-state, and the Union was at war with it.

ISIS has territory, laws, a flag, revenue, and an army. If things were to ramp up, and the president were then to ask for a declaration of war, the Congress should not laugh the request to scorn.


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