His Quest to Unseal Michael Brown’s Juvenile Records Thwarted, Chuck C. Johnson Goes Psycho

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Chuck C. Johnson menacingly brandishing a firearm

As we noted a couple of hours ago, wingnut blogger Chuck C. Johnson (who is NOT ME) has now been thoroughly thwarted in his weaselly attempt to get the juvenile records of Michael Brown unsealed.

And it’s driven him around the bend (a short drive). He’s raging about this “unprecedented move:”

Of course, there’s nothing “unprecedented” about this at all; juvenile records are sealed specifically to prevent the kind of character assassination Johnson was attempting.

So Johnson then moved on to the last refuge of the incompetent wingnut: the conspiracy theory.

A “public official” told him. Right. I try not to use these kinds of abbreviations, but excuse me while I LMAO.

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623 comments
1 Targetpractice  Sep 9, 2014 6:13:30pm

The last refuge of the hate monger: conspiracy theories.

Chucky can’t admit he was wrong, that will shame in him in the eyes of the racist fuckwits who follow him. So instead he’ll blame the black AG and the DoJ for his failure to convince a judge that he’s got a right to smear the memory of a black teen.

2 b.d.  Sep 9, 2014 6:13:56pm

If Chuck C can find another free Twitter lawyer then you are so going to be the next name on his list of people to sue.

3 lawhawk  Sep 9, 2014 6:15:07pm

Unprecedented? Courts routinely issue denials for these records every day. They grant them too.

In this case, CCJ’s petition was written not as a legal brief, but as a diatribe that wouldn’t pass muster for a 1L.

The court properly disposed of the requests, so he now seeks the refuge of scoundrels and crackpots everywhere - the conspiracy theory. That it was the Obama Administration out to block justice.

Right.

Step away from the bong, Mad Dog 20/20, and the keyboard CCJ, and get a grip.

The only ones peddling conspiracies are the people convincing themselves that Wilson had an orbital fracture, that Brown knew kung-fu and murdered someone as a juvenile without identifying who the victim could have been in that case.

You’d think that the crackpot journalist/researcher would have been able to find out from his so-called sources who exactly was murdered by Brown and work back from there.

But no. There isn’t anyone.

It’s all just character assassination and poisoning the well of potential jurors who might hear a case against Officer Wilson.

And we have to spend still more time debunking this crap.

4 Skip Intro  Sep 9, 2014 6:15:33pm

And all this has what, exactly, to do with an unarmed Michael Brown being shot at least a half dozen times?

5 thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2014 6:15:34pm

re: #1 Targetpractice

The last refuge of the hate monger: conspiracy theories.

Chucky can’t admit he was wrong, that will shame in him in the eyes of the racist fuckwits who follow him. So instead he’ll blame the black AG and the DoJ for his failure to convince a judge that he’s got a right to smear the memory of a black teen.

People wonder why conspiracy theorists exist. This right here is why. They simply refuse to believe they are wrong, so they go off the f——ing deep end in order to avoid dealing with the cognitive dissonance.

6 Dr. Matt  Sep 9, 2014 6:17:00pm

Okay fess up lizards, which one of you is actually Charles C Johnson? The dude has to be a parody.

7 Targetpractice  Sep 9, 2014 6:18:09pm

re: #4 Skip Intro

And all this has what, exactly, to do with an unarmed Michael Brown being shot at least a half dozen times?

It’s about character assassination in preparation for the trial, tainting the jury pool in such a fashion that there will be no choice but to seek a change of venue to a whiter community. Even if Chucky had managed to get a hold of Brown’s juvenile records, odds are they’d be inadmissible in court except as character evidence. And the defense would only introduce it at the risk of opening Wilson to similar attacks.

8 Skip Intro  Sep 9, 2014 6:18:42pm
A “public official” told him.

That “public official” could be a server in the courthouse cafe.

9 Skip Intro  Sep 9, 2014 6:20:12pm

re: #6 Dr. Matt

Okay fess up lizards, which one of you is actually Charles C Johnson? The dude has to be a parody.

I’ve been thinking that myself. It could be an Andy Kaufman act.

10 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 9, 2014 6:20:16pm

Would the real Charles J Johnson please stand up….

11 thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2014 6:21:06pm

re: #6 Dr. Matt

Okay fess up lizards, which one of you is actually Charles C Johnson? The dude has to be a parody.

Poe’s Law brought to life.

12 thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2014 6:21:32pm

re: #8 Skip Intro

That “public official” could be a server in the courthouse cafe.

I said upstairs, we all know who his anonymous sources are: The voices in his head.

13 nines09  Sep 9, 2014 6:21:45pm

re: #4 Skip Intro

And all this has what, exactly, to do with an unarmed Michael Brown being shot at least a half dozen times?

Grifting and character assassination is popular in some circles and Chucky CJ was hoping to make a stain for himself and climb that sticky ladder of slime, maybe to a desk or spot on Fox?

14 TedStriker  Sep 9, 2014 6:23:46pm

Man, I called this…

re: #27 TedStriker

Records suppressed at the behest of President Obama and AG Holder, of course.

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15 Belafon  Sep 9, 2014 6:23:53pm

What Chuck means by “unprecedented” is that no one has ever told him no before, not even his mommy.

16 Skip Intro  Sep 9, 2014 6:24:17pm

re: #13 nines09

It still amazes me how all the media attention is on the dead Michael Brown and not on the mysterious, where the hell is he officer Wilson.

I haven’t seen a blind media stampede like this since just before the second Iraq war.

17 Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2014 6:24:35pm
18 Dr. Matt  Sep 9, 2014 6:24:59pm

re: #9 Skip Intro

I’ve been thinking that myself. It could be an Andy Kaufman act.

I’m still convinced that Victoria Jackson is a Andy Kaufman act.

19 thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2014 6:25:06pm

re: #15 Belafon

What Chuck means by “unprecedented” is that no one has ever told him no before, not even his mommy.

Considering he still lives in her basement, you might not be that far off. I was going to say that women probably tell him no all the time, but the first fact makes it highly unlikely that he even knows any women.

20 jaunte  Sep 9, 2014 6:26:23pm
ala ak bar

Spanish wing
Alaska
Browning Automatic Riffler

21 nines09  Sep 9, 2014 6:27:22pm

re: #16 Skip Intro

It still amazes me how all the media attention is on the dead Michael Brown and not on the mysterious, where the hell is he officer Wilson.

I haven’t seen a blind media stampede like this since just before the second Iraq war.

Makes you wonder just what would have went down if there wasn’t a public outcry, doesn’t it? One more dead thug, or hero cop guns down raging lunatic. The news services are not doing their job. Haven’t for years. That’s why choads like Chucky CJ get to spew venom and lies. No cost. Makes me nuts.

22 jaunte  Sep 9, 2014 6:29:40pm
23 BongCrodny  Sep 9, 2014 6:30:06pm

re: #9 Skip Intro

I’ve been thinking that myself. It could be an Andy Kaufman act.

The guy wrote a biography of Calvin Coolidge.

If it’s an act, that’s some deep fucking cover, man.

24 Belafon  Sep 9, 2014 6:30:25pm

re: #22 jaunte

LOL

25 Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2014 6:34:54pm
26 lawhawk  Sep 9, 2014 6:36:27pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

To paraphrase Kentucky Fried Movie:

27 Jenner7  Sep 9, 2014 6:37:02pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

Excellent question…

28 Kid A  Sep 9, 2014 6:38:31pm

re: #26 lawhawk

To paraphrase Kentucky Fried Movie:

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Oh my god, I just laughed out loud so hard, my computer looked at me funny.

29 b.d.  Sep 9, 2014 6:39:22pm

If this world was fair then this would be the least retweeted tweet ever:

30 Kragar  Sep 9, 2014 6:39:24pm
31 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 9, 2014 6:39:27pm

re: #26 lawhawk

To paraphrase Kentucky Fried Movie:

TAKE HIM TO DETROIT!!!!

32 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 9, 2014 6:39:51pm

re: #17 Charles Johnson

No. Klaatu nik barata.

33 Kid A  Sep 9, 2014 6:39:52pm

Dear Megyn Kelly,

No one cares what Ward Churchill thinks, trust me.

34 William Barnett-Lewis  Sep 9, 2014 6:40:50pm

re: #30 Kragar

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More like: A public official = I pulled it out of my rectum…

35 b.d.  Sep 9, 2014 6:40:58pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

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Tell the media that Darren Wilson has Michael Brown’s juvie records.

36 Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2014 6:41:00pm
37 thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2014 6:42:29pm

re: #36 Charles Johnson

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Did they forget that we’ve already had hearings and investigations ad nauseam? We don’t need this any more than we need the 5,417th attempt to repeal Obamacare. This isn’t what we’re paying you douchecanoes for!

38 HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2014 6:45:16pm

re: #33 Kid A

Dear Megyn Kelly,

No one cares what Ward Churchill thinks, trust me.

I had forgotten about him.

39 lawhawk  Sep 9, 2014 6:45:40pm

re: #36 Charles Johnson

They’ve got about 10 days of work in DC between now and Election Day. Ponder that for a moment. They’re going to spend how much time on Benghazi, which Issa has already investigated up the ying-yang with no finding of fault on the Administration, so Boehner decided to send in Gowdy to try again.

This is Congress. Bread and circuses for the people. It’s a witch hunt and the only outcome is that the GOP running this clown show get reelected on the belief that they’ll do something to stop Obama, even if it means making stuff up. The investigations are red-meat for the rank and file. Because they can’t deliver on any of the other promises like repealing ACA or shutting down the government again (not that they wouldn’t mind trying again).

The ACA is turning out to be a whole lot more successful than anyone planned, to the point where some states are considering expanding Medicaid b/c they don’t want to be seen as standing in the way of giving health insurance coverage to millions.

But that’s what the GOP has done all this time - trying to thwart access to health insurance. It’s sickening.

40 Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2014 6:45:41pm

re: #22 jaunte

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To be quite serious, the cure for this particular fever is to force the Republican leaders of the LOSer homeland to own them or destroy them. As they grow more overt under a Hilary Clinton administration, the opportunity will present itself. For now, they still don’t have the numbers or organizational skill of AmWay.

41 Gus  Sep 9, 2014 6:46:35pm

Hope he doesn’t go Ginger Jihad™ on us.

42 Kragar  Sep 9, 2014 6:46:57pm
43 HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2014 6:47:37pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

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You ain’t kidding.

44 Petero1818  Sep 9, 2014 6:48:22pm

re: #42 Kragar

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If I could upding more than once I would.

45 lawhawk  Sep 9, 2014 6:49:13pm

re: #34 William Barnett-Lewis

Rectum? Darn near killed him..

And yes, I’ll be here all evening. Tip your waitress. ////

46 ipsos  Sep 9, 2014 6:49:22pm

re: #44 Petero1818

What’s upding?

Not much, what’s up with you?

47 Gus  Sep 9, 2014 6:50:35pm

48 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 9, 2014 6:50:37pm

re: #42 Kragar

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It would be more accurate if you put eyeballs & hair around another body part.

49 Jenner7  Sep 9, 2014 6:51:08pm

re: #39 lawhawk

They are going to completely ignore ISIS, while attacking Obama over his decision tomorrow. Wasn’t it Republicans freaking out over ISIS and being a direct threat to the United States? Now they’re like, “meh”. Until something happens, then it’s deflection time.

This is treasonous.

Just my opinion.

50 thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2014 6:51:10pm

re: #39 lawhawk

They’ve got about 10 days of work in DC between now and Election Day. Ponder that for a moment. They’re going to spend how much time on Benghazi, which Issa has already investigated up the ying-yang with no finding of fault on the Administration, so Boehner decided to send in Gowdy to try again.

This is Congress. Bread and circuses for the people. It’s a witch hunt and the only outcome is that the GOP running this clown show get reelected on the belief that they’ll do something to stop Obama, even if it means making stuff up. The investigations are red-meat for the rank and file. Because they can’t deliver on any of the other promises like repealing ACA or shutting down the government again (not that they wouldn’t mind trying again).

The ACA is turning out to be a whole lot more successful than anyone planned, to the point where some states are considering expanding Medicaid b/c they don’t want to be seen as standing in the way of giving health insurance coverage to millions.

But that’s what the GOP has done all this time - trying to thwart access to health insurance. It’s sickening.

Up here in the wild north country, all the Teahadists and other GOP nutjobs are running on a strenuous anti-Obamacare platform. I told Mrs. Fish, I bet that comes back to bite them in the ass come November. The ACA was fairly well received here and MNCare was, if I recall correctly, one of the better implementations of the health care exchange.

51 Kragar  Sep 9, 2014 6:52:49pm

re: #48 Pie-onist Overlord

It would be more accurate if you put eyeballs & hair around another body part.

52 goddamnedfrank  Sep 9, 2014 6:55:01pm

The misogynist cock-bags trolling #WhyIStayed are just the worst.

53 Petero1818  Sep 9, 2014 6:57:11pm

This is a real quote from gotNews CCJ’s website:

In an unprecedented move by Judge Ellen Levy Siewak, the denial confirms that white deceased juveniles may have their records released but black deceased juveniles may not.

54 lawhawk  Sep 9, 2014 6:57:47pm

Rather depressing actually:

It’s the power of incumbency and apathy mixed into one hot mess. So, while everyone seem to think this Congress sucks more than every other Congress before it, they still send back the same Congress members who have led us to this point in the first place.

Because it’s not their representative that’s the problem. It’s everyone else’s representatives.

Political parties don’t bother sending up credible opponents in primaries so they run unopposed. The opposition party doesn’t bother to put up credible candidates in the general elections so they maintain the status quo. But everyone bitches at the Congress.

It starts with the local parties and the local candidates. And voting. That above all else.

/rant off

55 Stanley Sea  Sep 9, 2014 6:58:21pm

re: #3 lawhawk

You’d think that the crackpot journalist/researcher would have been able to find out from his so-called sources who exactly was murdered by Brown and work back from there.

But no. There isn’t anyone.

It’s all just character assassination and poisoning the well of potential jurors who might hear a case against Officer Wilson.

And we have to spend still more time debunking this crap.

Ding fucking ding.

56 WhatEVs  Sep 9, 2014 6:59:20pm

Whaddaya mean the GOP isn’t hard at work? Look what they did today.

The House voted Tuesday to formally condemn President Obama for releasing five Taliban warriors earlier this year in an exchange for Army Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, with nearly two dozen Democrats joining Republicans in declaring the president broke the law by not giving Congress a heads-up.

washingtontimes.com

57 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Sep 9, 2014 7:00:17pm

re: #42 Kragar

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Well, that certainly beats a picture of CCJ’s rectum.

58 thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2014 7:00:17pm

re: #56 WhatEVs

Whaddaya mean the GOP isn’t hard at work? Look what they did today.

washingtontimes.com

What law did he break, specifically? Name it. Own your shitpile, Republicans.

59 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 9, 2014 7:00:20pm

re: #53 Petero1818
In an unprecedented move by Judge Ellen Levy Siewak, the denial confirms that white deceased juveniles may have their records released but black deceased juveniles may not

This is a real quote from gotNews CCJ’s website:

Excuse me, I have to go load the C-130 up with flaming desks. I’ve got a run to make. Next Stop…. GotNews. GPS loaded, Bic Lighter checked, cargo hatch open.

RBS

60 Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2014 7:00:38pm

re: #56 WhatEVs

Whaddaya mean the GOP isn’t hard at work? Look what they did today.

washingtontimes.com

Tomorrow’s condemnation: Stripes with plaid.

61 HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2014 7:00:56pm

re: #56 WhatEVs

Whaddaya mean the GOP isn’t hard at work? Look what they did today.

washingtontimes.com

Pathetic.

62 Unabogie  Sep 9, 2014 7:02:43pm

Who’s that dude in the photo up top? He looks like a psycho thug!

63 lawhawk  Sep 9, 2014 7:03:28pm

Proving my point:

Gov. Cuomo will likely win the primary for NY in a landslide against Fordham Law prof Zephyr Teachout (still the most awesome name I’ve come across in years). But look at the turnout. It’s beyond pitiful. No one cares.

Everyone figured that Cuomo would win handily so they didn’t bother to show up.

We need a vigorous primary system - challenging candidates on their positions. Cuomo may be better than Teachout, but we never saw them debate. We know what Cuomo has done (including trying to get the courts to invalidate her placement on the ballot, which he was unsuccessful in doing). It is supposed to result in new ideas and life blood into the parties, but instead it turns into a fundraiser for the general election (which will pit Cuomo against Westchester County Exec Rob Astorino who really shouldn’t be in any office above dog catcher). /okay, now I’m done with the political aside/rant.

64 HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2014 7:06:25pm

re: #63 lawhawk

Proving my point:

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Gov. Cuomo will likely win the primary for NY in a landslide against Fordham Law prof Zephyr Teachout (still the most awesome name I’ve come across in years). But look at the turnout. It’s beyond pitiful. No one cares.

Everyone figured that Cuomo would win handily so they didn’t bother to show up.

We need a vigorous primary system - challenging candidates on their positions. Cuomo may be better than Teachout, but we never saw them debate. We know what Cuomo has done (including trying to get the courts to invalidate her placement on the ballot, which he was unsuccessful in doing). It is supposed to result in new ideas and life blood into the parties, but instead it turns into a fundraiser for the general election (which will pit Cuomo against Westchester County Exec Rob Astorino who really shouldn’t be in any office above dog catcher). /okay, now I’m done with the political aside/rant.

Yep.

65 Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2014 7:07:33pm
66 thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2014 7:08:29pm

re: #65 Charles Johnson

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Oh, so you speak buzzword too? How’s that synergy coming along?

67 Stanley Sea  Sep 9, 2014 7:10:22pm

re: #65 Charles Johnson

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I bet 1 zillion dollars they are prototyping the leftie model. That’s the snark that hit their dev team.

68 teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2014 7:10:53pm

re: #65 Charles Johnson

re: #66 thedopefishlives

Oh, so you speak buzzword too? How’s that synergy coming along?

The Apple Watch will nextify the collective unworkspace, vastly increasing thinkfluence to mobile power users.

69 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 9, 2014 7:11:37pm

re: #66 thedopefishlives

Oh, so you speak buzzword too? How’s that synergy coming along?

I appreciate the holistic mindshare that occurs in this time-space.

RBS

70 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 9, 2014 7:11:50pm

re: #68 teleskiguy

The Apple Watch will nextify the collective unworkspace, vastly increasing thinkfluence to mobile power users.

And people wonder why learning English as a Second Language is so hard …

71 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 9, 2014 7:13:03pm

re: #70 wheat-dogghazi

And people wonder why learning English as a Second Language is so hard …

When I joined the Army, I took the Defense Language Aptitude Battery exam. They said I could learn English as my second language.

RBS

72 Belafon  Sep 9, 2014 7:13:54pm

This was pretty good:

73 Shazam  Sep 9, 2014 7:13:55pm

The watch might be cool when it IS a phone and 1TB music player, instead of having to be paired with one.

I’m reading their pages on it at the Apple site, but I still don’t know what it does. Literally all i’m seeing is “it tells time really really well.”

74 Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2014 7:14:14pm

re: #65 Charles Johnson

Wouldn’t give you a quarter for your paradigms.

75 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 9, 2014 7:16:23pm

One of my former students works in import-export now. She was totally confounded by a word her email interlocutors were using: distis.
it wasn’t in her dictionary, and searching the Internet wasn’t any help, so she appealed to me for assistance. At first, I was also confounded, until after dogged Googling I found the answer: disti = distributor.

Sometimes as a native speaker and teacher I feel like I’m the ESL student.

76 Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2014 7:16:33pm
77 thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2014 7:17:01pm

re: #76 Charles Johnson

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He besmirches himself just fine.

78 Shazam  Sep 9, 2014 7:17:09pm

re: #76 Charles Johnson

He does the job so well himself. They’re taking the spotlight away.

79 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 9, 2014 7:17:18pm

re: #74 Decatur Deb

Wouldn’t give you a quarter for your paradigms.

I got four nickels.

80 teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2014 7:17:41pm

re: #76 Charles Johnson

Dumbass. He should have asked @verified.

81 thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2014 7:18:12pm

re: #78 Shazam

He does the job so well himself. They’re taking the spotlight away.

You need to un-colocate yourself from my mental space. We are having too much synergy.

82 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sep 9, 2014 7:18:15pm

re: #47 Gus

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I had that in the last thread! :)

83 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sep 9, 2014 7:19:08pm

And yes, I skipped ahead in this thread to post, because you people are way too fast!

84 teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2014 7:21:25pm

re: #81 thedopefishlives

You need to un-colocate yourself from my mental space. We are having too much synergy.

Don’t be stingy with your sharing economy investments, wouldn’t want you to to stop using the freemium model of synergetic optics.

85 Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2014 7:21:56pm
86 jaunte  Sep 9, 2014 7:22:43pm

Besmirched, baffled and bewildered.

87 thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2014 7:22:59pm

Good night, gentle lizardfolk. Sleep tight. Don’t let the derp-bugs bite - I’ve heard it’s infectious (but have heard there’s an inoculation, something called intelligence).

88 teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2014 7:23:26pm

re: #85 Charles Johnson

Come see the violence inherent in the system!

89 Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2014 7:23:29pm

re: #86 jaunte

Besmirched, baffled and bewildered.

“Don’t smirch me, bro.”

90 urbanmeemaw  Sep 9, 2014 7:24:07pm

re: #6 Dr. Matt

Okay fess up lizards, which one of you is actually Charles C Johnson? The dude has to be a parody.

I think he’s a Griftwald sock puppet.

91 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2014 7:24:30pm

Ginger and besmirched is no way to go through life, Upchuck…

92 Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 9, 2014 7:25:23pm

Hey Charles, I wonder why Chucky C hasn’t gone after your juvenile records yet?

Surely he deems you worthy of a good smearing.

93 Shazam  Sep 9, 2014 7:25:56pm

re: #92 Eclectic Cyborg

They didn’t keep those kinds of records in the middle ages.

94 Romantic Heretic  Sep 9, 2014 7:27:14pm

re: #68 teleskiguy

Ow!

95 nsmith25  Sep 9, 2014 7:29:29pm

BEES!DOH!!!

96 teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2014 7:29:36pm

My favorite tweet about the Apple Watch.

97 Stanley Sea  Sep 9, 2014 7:30:54pm

Adios till tomorrow.

98 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sep 9, 2014 7:31:06pm

re: #96 teleskiguy

I don’t really get the watch thing. I don’t wear a watch, so it has no appeal to me. I have an iPhone, but I’m actually thinking of trading it for a dumb phone.

Watches make my wrist break out in hives. Do they do that to anyone else?

99 Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2014 7:32:08pm

re: #98 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I don’t really get the watch thing. I don’t wear a watch, so it has no appeal to me. I have an iPhone, but I’m actually thinking of trading it for a dumb phone.

Watches make my wrist break out in hives. Do they do that to anyone else?

Is this another BEE thing?

100 nsmith25  Sep 9, 2014 7:33:04pm

re: #99 Decatur Deb

Is this another BEE thing?

BEEsmirching….

101 teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2014 7:33:25pm

BEES

102 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sep 9, 2014 7:33:29pm

re: #99 Decatur Deb

Is this another BEE thing?

Nope, just my watch allergy :)

103 teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2014 7:34:41pm

Hey Charles, too bad you tuned out of Twitter for the Apple show today. Weapons-grade snark!

104 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Sep 9, 2014 7:36:33pm

re: #98 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I don’t really get the watch thing. I don’t wear a watch, so it has no appeal to me. I have an iPhone, but I’m actually thinking of trading it for a dumb phone.

Watches make my wrist break out in hives. Do they do that to anyone else?

Not me. Does it depend on the type of band?

105 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sep 9, 2014 7:37:36pm

re: #104 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

Not me. Does it depend on the type of band?

Nope. Had it happen with leather and metal. Just a really weird thing, I guess.

106 jaunte  Sep 9, 2014 7:38:15pm

re: #98 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Since there’s usually a clock handy at home, in the car, or at work, I have no place I really need a watch.

107 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2014 7:38:47pm

Upchuck did have opinions about the iWatch:

108 Shazam  Sep 9, 2014 7:38:59pm

re: #106 jaunte

Ah, but do you have a neat little device that can text and check the weather??

109 Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2014 7:39:05pm
110 jaunte  Sep 9, 2014 7:39:13pm

re: #101 teleskiguy

BEES

Beepartisan!

111 jaunte  Sep 9, 2014 7:40:25pm

re: #108 Shazam

Phone?

112 Shazam  Sep 9, 2014 7:40:58pm

re: #111 jaunte

Pfffffft. Does your phone check your heart-rate and accidentally send it to your boss???

113 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2014 7:42:06pm
114 WhatEVs  Sep 9, 2014 7:43:00pm

re: #107 Backwoods_Sleuth

115 stpaulbear  Sep 9, 2014 7:43:57pm

re: #98 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I love my dumb phone. It’s great for ordering take-out on the way home from work or letting people know if I’m going to be late for a meeting. It was also great for keeping in touch with my sisters when my dad was dying. Costs me about $5.00 a month (I pre-pay for blocks of time), and it mostly just leaves me alone. If I want to waste hours on the internet, I have to come home.

Edit: on the other hand (literally), I have to wear a watch to remind me what day of the week it is.

116 Shazam  Sep 9, 2014 7:44:01pm

If I had an iPhone I’d put a chain on it and call it my Apple Pocket Watch.

117 b.d.  Sep 9, 2014 7:44:20pm
118 goddamnedfrank  Sep 9, 2014 7:44:24pm

As far as the Apple Watch tethering need goes, will it work with iPod Touch and iPad? It’s the same OS. I don’t want an iPhone, I like my cheap as hell Pay As You Go plan. I pay the same for an entire year of service as an iPhone user pays per month.

119 Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2014 7:44:47pm
120 goddamnedfrank  Sep 9, 2014 7:45:32pm

re: #109 Charles Johnson

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Racism and misogyny. Lots and lots of misogyny.

121 Skip Intro  Sep 9, 2014 7:47:19pm

re: #92 Eclectic Cyborg

Hey Charles, I wonder why Chucky C hasn’t gone after your juvenile records yet?

Surely he deems you worthy of a good smearing.

Especially since juvie records of white guys are always released (per Charles C. Johnson).

122 Bear  Sep 9, 2014 7:47:32pm

Back in time when luminous dial/hands were in vogue, I had a wrist watch that would drive a geiger counter bonkers.

123 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sep 9, 2014 7:48:24pm

re: #122 Bear

Back in time when luminous dial/hands were in vogue, I had a wrist watch that would drive a geiger counter bonkers.

That was actually a thing:

en.wikipedia.org

124 Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2014 7:48:27pm

Wife got me a fairlydumbphone when we changed plans. I’m ticked because my handset minijack doesn’t fit.

Image: retro_phone_handset_1.jpg

125 whitebeach  Sep 9, 2014 7:48:38pm

Correction, Charles: “around the bend” is not “a short drive” for CCJ. It’s a tap-in putt that’s already been conceded.

126 teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2014 7:49:56pm

I have an iPhone 4S. I’m very happy with it. I’m even happier that I got on a family share plan with my provider years ago, before they cut-off unlimited data. I was grandfathered in and still enjoy unlimited data. My phone bill is hilariously cheap, too. I don’t think I could afford $100+ a month for a smart phone.

127 Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2014 7:51:06pm
128 Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2014 7:52:13pm

re: #122 Bear

Back in time when luminous dial/hands were in vogue, I had a wrist watch that would drive a geiger counter bonkers.

Radium-based luminous dials were in vogue in the Warsaw Pact long after we got rid of them. A nuke warrant officer and I had to track down all the hot ‘trophy’ vehicles that found their way back after Desert Storm.

129 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 9, 2014 7:56:18pm

re: #128 Decatur Deb

Radium-based luminous dials were in vogue in the Warsaw Pact long after we got rid of them. A nuke warrant officer and i had to track down all the hot ‘trophy’ vehicles that found their way back after Desert Storm.

I used to have one when I was a kid. Someone gave me his old Timex(?). I forget the brand. Anyway it was too big for me — adult sized watch for an 8-year-old wrist — so it spent most of its time in a drawer. Probably a good thing for a radium dialed watch.

130 Skip Intro  Sep 9, 2014 8:01:09pm

I don’t know which annoys me more, what I pay Directv per month for 300+ channels of pure crap or what I pay Verizon per month for wireless service.

Probably Directv, because at least when I travel and stay at places with “high speed internet”, that is around .5 Mbps, I can use the phone as an access point so I’m able to actually do something.

131 nsmith25  Sep 9, 2014 8:02:08pm

I haven’t gotten a chance to watch the Ferguson city council meeting feed tonight. The community was given a chance to speak and speakers have been going for hours. I’ve read some posts from twitter and some of those tweets are powerful.

132 Bear  Sep 9, 2014 8:03:10pm

Some NCOs in the infantry were issued those type of watches as were, I suspect, officers.

133 Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2014 8:03:19pm

re: #129 wheat-dogghazi

I used to have one when I was a kid. Someone gave me his old Timex(?). I forget the brand. Anyway it was too big for me — adult sized watch for an 8-year-old wrist — so it spent most of its time in a drawer. Probably a good thing for a radium dialed watch.

Still got a WWII aerial camera lens whose glass is measurably hot, and a vial of tritium on my vehicle first aid kit to find it at night. Of course things like fire alarms and anti-static brushes have a nice polonium ion generator. Ionizing radiation is our friend.

134 Mattand  Sep 9, 2014 8:03:44pm

re: #107 Backwoods_Sleuth

Upchuck did have opinions about the iWatch:

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A guy insulting people as ancient for wearing watches claims he’s being “besmirched”.

There is really something wrong with this guy.

135 WhatEVs  Sep 9, 2014 8:04:33pm

re: #134 Mattand

A guy insulting people as ancient for wearing watches claims he’s being “besmirched”.

There is really something wrong with this guy.

Oh yeah.

136 TedStriker  Sep 9, 2014 8:05:01pm

re: #134 Mattand

A guy insulting people as ancient for wearing watches claims he’s being “besmirched”.

There is really something wrong with this guy.

re: #135 WhatEVs

Oh yeah.

Definitely a few fries short of a Happy Meal.

137 Skip Intro  Sep 9, 2014 8:06:21pm

re: #134 Mattand

A guy insulting people as ancient for wearing watches claims he’s being “besmirched”.

There is really something wrong with this guy.

Apple should have made a gun with a watch in it for the NRA set.

138 nsmith25  Sep 9, 2014 8:07:09pm

Bullshit Anyone?

139 Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2014 8:09:07pm

re: #134 Mattand

A guy insulting people as ancient for wearing watches claims he’s being “besmirched”.

There is really something wrong with this guy.

If you accept his claimed IQ and documented top-tier education, setting it against his demonstrated uselessness, there is a whole lot to be explained.

140 nsmith25  Sep 9, 2014 8:10:07pm

re: #138 nsmith25

Bullshit Anyone?

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141 Jocko's Rocket Ship  Sep 9, 2014 8:13:15pm

re: #72 Belafon

This was pretty good:

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I thought it was cute and really well done. But, non-ironically, the youtube commentors mostly think differently. Go ahead people, read the comments on a video that makes the point that racism is not dead. Or I’ll break it down for you: “what do you mean there’s still racism…’[racist statement].’”

142 jonhendry  Sep 9, 2014 8:13:56pm

re: #8 Skip Intro

That “public official” could be a server in the courthouse cafe.

That “public official” could be Louie Gohmert, or Steve Stockman, or a similar idiot.

143 jonhendry  Sep 9, 2014 8:16:34pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

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[Media not interested in finding Wilson]

I’m guessing the cops have informed them that it would be bad for their health.

144 BlueSpotinAL  Sep 9, 2014 8:19:30pm

re: #33 Kid A

Dear Megyn Kelly,

No one cares what Ward Churchill thinks, trust me.

First question she should have asked: ” Why are you in the news again?”

145 WhatEVs  Sep 9, 2014 8:21:01pm

Funny, funny stuff.

146 Jocko's Rocket Ship  Sep 9, 2014 8:22:30pm

re: #142 jonhendry
Yeah, “public officials” have already questioned Holders role in some vague way. Standard bullshit prop statement from a fuckwad. But this is likely a start to hearing a higher source had heard that Holder personally blocked the release. The Wingnut racket is not hard, you don’t need a 150+ IQ.

147 jonhendry  Sep 9, 2014 8:22:44pm

re: #98 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I don’t really get the watch thing. I don’t wear a watch, so it has no appeal to me. I have an iPhone, but I’m actually thinking of trading it for a dumb phone.

Watches make my wrist break out in hives. Do they do that to anyone else?

Does the same to me. Plus I often end up scratching them by walking too close to a wall.

148 jonhendry  Sep 9, 2014 8:23:28pm

re: #107 Backwoods_Sleuth

Upchuck did have opinions about the iWatch:

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When Chuck needs to know the time, he just asks his Mom.

149 Kid A  Sep 9, 2014 8:23:50pm

Flipping channels and Boyz N the Hood is on. I forgot how awesome Larry Fishburne is in this.

150 dholmes32  Sep 9, 2014 8:23:50pm

I’d put off getting my Saturn Ion fixed in the recall, and today it bit me in the butt. As in, my car’s ignition would not turn off, not for love or money. I could pull the key out of the ignition and the car would still run. You can imagine the WTF moment when I realized I was going to have to go to a Plan B to get the car turned off.

That said, I love this modern era. I was able to use my phone to call my brother to let him know I was on the way over with a messed up car, then find out how to get the car stopped (remove the fuel pump fuse) and where the fuse box was (along with my very exact complaint was that it wasn’t in an obvious place). Mission accomplished—the car is now parked in front of my mother’s house and I am now driving the GMC Jimmy.

I have no idea what the turnaround time is on getting the parts for that ignition recall, but I guess I will find out.

151 stpaulbear  Sep 9, 2014 8:25:35pm

re: #143 jonhendry

[Media not interested in finding Wilson]

I’m guessing the cops have informed them that it would be bad for their health.

It must be awful to have to hide away from public view like that, although it beats being…you know…shot to death.

I hope the cops guarding him check in at the beginning of each shift by saying ‘Here for duty, you stupid fucking moron’.

152 jaunte  Sep 9, 2014 8:26:23pm

re: #134 Mattand

A guy insulting people as ancient for wearing watches claims he’s being “besmirched”.

E’s a fusty nut with no kernel, a scullion, a rampallion, an embossed carbuncle; in short, he is not for all markets.

153 b_sharp  Sep 9, 2014 8:26:32pm

re: #150 dholmes32

I’d put off getting my Saturn Ion fixed in the recall, and today it bit me in the butt. As in, my car’s ignition would not turn off, not for love or money. I could pull the key out of the ignition and the car would still run. You can imagine the WTF moment when I realized I was going to have to go to a Plan B to get the car turned off.

That said, I love this modern era. I was able to use my phone to call my brother to let him know I was on the way over with a messed up car, then find out how to get the car stopped (remove the fuel pump fuse) and where the fuse box was (along with my very exact complaint was that it wasn’t in an obvious place). Mission accomplished—the car is now parked in front of my mother’s house and I am now driving the GMC Jimmy.re: #132 Bear

Some NCOs in the infantry were issued those type of watches as were, I suspect, officers.

I have no idea what the turnaround time is on getting the parts for that ignition recall, but I guess I will find out.

I once yanked the coil wire out to stop a car.
Wasn’t really the best idea.

154 jonhendry  Sep 9, 2014 8:30:20pm

re: #151 stpaulbear

It must be awful to have to hide away from public view like that, although it beats being…you know…shot to death.

I hope the cops guarding him check in at the beginning of each shift by saying ‘Here for duty, you stupid fucking moron’.

He’s probably in Branson. Seems like a safe place if you’re afraid of African-Americans.

155 WhatEVs  Sep 9, 2014 8:30:47pm
156 jonhendry  Sep 9, 2014 8:30:54pm

re: #150 dholmes32

GM will love you for not having the reverse problem, where a car’s ignition shuts off while driving.

157 b_sharp  Sep 9, 2014 8:30:55pm

Using a tablet to post sucks.

158 WhatEVs  Sep 9, 2014 8:33:55pm

re: #157 b_sharp

Using a tablet to post sucks.

You get used to it. I’m almost always on my (beloved!!) iPhone.

159 jonhendry  Sep 9, 2014 8:35:36pm

re: #144 BlueSpotinAL

First question she should have asked: ” Why are you in the news again?”

I think *she* is why he’s in the news again. She seems to be doing a series of interviews that dig up long-dead horses to beat once again.

At the end of July she had Bill Ayers on.

I look forward to October when she’ll have Teddy Kennedy on and grill him about Chappaquiddick.

//

160 b_sharp  Sep 9, 2014 8:36:14pm

re: #158 WhatEVs

You get used to it. I’m almost always on my (beloved!!) iPhone.

I mostly use my laptop or desktop.

161 teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2014 8:37:43pm

re: #159 jonhendry

I look forward to October when she’ll have Teddy Kennedy on and grill him about Chappaquiddick.

Uh, Teddy’s dead.

I think you’re being snarky, I hope you’re being snarky.

:)

162 jonhendry  Sep 9, 2014 8:40:17pm

re: #161 teleskiguy

Either snarky, or prophetic.

163 teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2014 8:42:47pm

re: #162 jonhendry

Either snarky, or prophetic.

Kind of like when FDR’s corpse was running for a fifth term for President.

164 dholmes32  Sep 9, 2014 8:44:00pm

re: #156 jonhendry

GM will love you for not having the reverse problem, where a car’s ignition shuts off while driving.

I just checked, my car is under three recalls. One for the ignition switch replacement (the part GM didn’t want to spend another $0.57 on), one to replace the ignition lock cylinder and ignition key and one for an electric power steering assist. I just thought it was the ignition switch.

165 jonhendry  Sep 9, 2014 8:55:14pm

re: #163 teleskiguy

Kind of like when FDR’s corpse was running for a fifth term for President.

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Or, in real life, the “cadaver synod” of 897, when a Pope had his dead predecessor exhumed and put on trial.

166 teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2014 8:57:57pm

re: #165 jonhendry

Or, in real life, the “cadaver synod” of 897, when a Pope had his dead predecessor exhumed and put on trial.

Yikes! The dark ages were something else.

167 sagehen  Sep 9, 2014 9:15:25pm

SONS OF ANARCHY s.7 premiere

Click to Reveal

Gemma is pure evil. If only she knew what she’s set in motion… the result will be the absolute opposite of everything she was trying for.

OMG is this season going to be tragedy. In the literary sense… that somebody’s immutable characteristic causes them to take actions that IF ONLY THEY’D KNOWN IT WAS ALL AVOIDABLE, but it’s inevitable. The slow motion train wreck has begun.

Hamlet has turned into MacBeth.

168 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 9, 2014 9:17:03pm

So, I learned a new English idiom: marry the ketchup. Having never done food service jobs, aside from working concessions at college football games, I’d never heard it before.

169 allegro  Sep 9, 2014 9:32:38pm

re: #168 wheat-dogghazi

So, I learned a new English idiom: marry the ketchup. Having never done food service jobs, aside from working concessions at college football games, I’d never heard it before.

Back when I was waiting tables in college, circa 1971, it was called “consolidate the ketchup.” That may be a statement on the relative literacy of the US population between then and now, but… naw.

170 sagehen  Sep 9, 2014 9:35:18pm

GOPer Doubles Down On Excessive Black Voting Complaint: I Prefer ‘Educated Voters’
talkingpointsmemo.com

The Georgia state senator who ranted about excessive black voting and vowed to fight a move to expand early voting in DeKalb County defended his remarks on Facebook, saying that he would rather have more educated voters than an increase in the total number of voters.

“I do agree with Galloway and I never claimed to be nonpartisan,” Millar wrote. “I would prefer more educated voters than a greater increase in the number of voters. If you don’t believe this is an efort [sic] to maximize Democratic votes pure and simple, then you are not a realist. This is a partisan stunt and I hope it can be stopped. Furthermore I don’t control where people are allowed to vote but am glad Brookhaven has been added for the last week.”

That rebranding is going well…

171 WhatEVs  Sep 9, 2014 9:47:14pm

re: #170 sagehen

GOPer Doubles Down On Excessive Black Voting Complaint: I Prefer ‘Educated Voters’
talkingpointsmemo.com

That rebranding is going well…

I don’t think he really wants more educated voters. This would fall into the Be Careful What You Ask For - You Might Just Get It category.

172 teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2014 10:04:44pm

re: #116 Shazam

If I had an iPhone I’d put a chain on it and call it my Apple Pocket Watch.

173 Gus  Sep 9, 2014 10:09:30pm
174 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 9, 2014 10:16:42pm

re: #173 Gus

Question is, will anyone remember Michael Moore?

175 Jenner7  Sep 9, 2014 10:17:17pm

re: #173 Gus

Sounds like a right winger. Wow.

176 Gus  Sep 9, 2014 10:20:00pm

re: #175 Jenner7

Sounds like a right winger. Wow.

177 Gus  Sep 9, 2014 10:23:37pm

What a douche.

178 sagehen  Sep 9, 2014 10:33:52pm

re: #173 Gus

Kinda like… all we remember about JFK is he was the first Catholic president.

179 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 9, 2014 10:34:58pm

re: #178 sagehen

Kinda like… all we remember about JFK is he was the first Catholic president.

And FDR was the first president in a wheelchair

180 teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2014 10:36:42pm

Hey now, there’s only one white dude who was President and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

hint: It’s William Howard Taft

181 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 9, 2014 10:38:21pm

re: #180 teleskiguy

Hey now, there’s only one white dude who was President and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court.

hint: It’s William Howard Taft

Taft sat on the Supreme Court.

182 WhatEVs  Sep 9, 2014 10:49:30pm

re: #181 wheat-dogghazi

Taft sat on the Supreme Court.

I’d love to see Obama nominated to the SCOTUS. Right wing heads would be esplodin’ like popcorn in the micro.

183 teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2014 10:51:38pm

re: #181 wheat-dogghazi

Taft sat on the Supreme Court.

He was the 10th Chief Justice. Nominated by Warren G. Harding.

184 freetoken  Sep 9, 2014 10:52:11pm

re: #173 Gus

100 years from now almost all of us will be forgotten.

No one living at that time will have known us, and thus we will be in the dustbin of history.

So just being known 100 years from now will be quite an accomplishment

185 freetoken  Sep 9, 2014 10:59:28pm

Ok, here’s an exercise for you - name someone, anyone, who was living on this continent 300 years ago, in 1714.

Just don’t make up a name by adding a given name to a common surname. Give me a two sentence bio on a real person from 1714, without googling it.

186 Gus  Sep 9, 2014 11:00:07pm

re: #184 freetoken

100 years from now almost all of us will be forgotten.

No one living at that time will have known us, and thus we will be in the dustbin of history.

So just being known 100 years from now will be quite an accomplishment

100 years from now they will study how this country was still populated by a lot of ignorant racist twats.

187 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 9, 2014 11:06:15pm

re: #185 freetoken

Ok, here’s an exercise for you - name someone, anyone, who was living on this continent 300 years ago, in 1714.

Just don’t make up a name by adding a given name to a common surname. Give me a two sentence bio on a real person from 1714, without googling it.

Hm. Cotton Mather. Sojourner Truth. My gggggfather Uriah.

188 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 9, 2014 11:09:00pm

Oh. Forgot the bios. I’m hazy on the dates, so I don’t know if I hit the 1714 sweet spot with the first two.

Cotton Mather, Massachusetts Bay Colony. Puritan leader, writer, preacher.

Sojourner Truth. Former slave, poet. Lived in New York. Long Island, maybe??

Uriah lived in southern New Jersey in what was then known as the West Jersey colony, part of Penn’s colony. Don’t know much about him. Probably was a farmer or fisherman of some description.

189 teleskiguy  Sep 9, 2014 11:09:13pm
190 Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2014 11:09:48pm

re: #186 Gus

100 years from now they will study how this country was still populated by a lot of ignorant racist twats.

100 years from now this country will still be populated by a lot of ignorant racist twats. The Civil Rights Act was enacted in 1964. The Voting Rights Act was enacted in 1965. We’re fifty fucking years on from then and look how much progress we haven’t made.

191 freetoken  Sep 9, 2014 11:12:22pm

re: #188 wheat-dogghazi

Cotton Mather - yes. Sojourner Truth - she was later, but I had to google her for dates.

Still, you’re doing better than most people will do.

192 Gus  Sep 9, 2014 11:13:01pm
193 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 9, 2014 11:17:49pm

re: #191 freetoken

Cotton Mather - yes. Sojourner Truth - she was later, but I had to google her for dates.

Still, you’re doing better than most people will do.

Colonial American history is one of my fave subjects.

194 sagehen  Sep 9, 2014 11:40:23pm

re: #185 freetoken

Ok, here’s an exercise for you - name someone, anyone, who was living on this continent 300 years ago, in 1714.

Just don’t make up a name by adding a given name to a common surname. Give me a two sentence bio on a real person from 1714, without googling it.

Peter Stuyvescent.

Benjamin Franklin’s Father.

Whoever founded Harvard.

195 sagehen  Sep 9, 2014 11:41:31pm

Was Daniel Webster a real person?

196 sagehen  Sep 9, 2014 11:44:31pm

Roger Smith!!!

He’s the guy who found Massachussetts religion unbearable, so he started Rhode Island.

197 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 9, 2014 11:45:11pm

re: #196 sagehen

Roger Smith!!!

He’s the guy who found Massachussetts religion unbearable, so he started Rhode Island.

Do you mean Roger Williams?

198 sagehen  Sep 9, 2014 11:47:11pm

um… maybe I do.

199 Shiplord Kirel  Sep 9, 2014 11:50:48pm

re: #194 sagehen

Peter Stuyvescent.

Benjamin Franklin’s Father.

Whoever founded Harvard.

Ben Franklin himself was here in 1714 (born in 1707 iirc, maybe ‘06)

200 sagehen  Sep 9, 2014 11:52:45pm

And now I googled and found that I spelled Peter Stuyvesant’s name wrong, and he died in 1672. And John Harvard died in 1638.

But Benjamin Franklin was alive and on this continent in 1714 (he was 8 years old, but give me this one).

201 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 9, 2014 11:53:31pm

re: #200 sagehen

Williams died 1683 or so.

202 sagehen  Sep 9, 2014 11:54:05pm

I’m doing poorly on this quiz. Please give me easier questions.

203 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 9, 2014 11:56:58pm

Here’s tidbit about Roger Williams, who wasn’t too popular with the Puritans in Massachusetts.

Finally, in October 1635, the General Court tried Williams and convicted him of sedition and heresy. The Court declared that he was spreading “diverse, new, and dangerous opinions”.[9] He was then ordered to be banished. The execution of the order was delayed because Williams was ill and winter was approaching, so he was allowed to stay temporarily, provided he ceased his agitation. When he failed to do so, in January 1636 the sheriff came, only to discover that Williams had slipped away three days earlier during a blizzard. He walked through the deep snow of a hard winter the 105 miles from Salem to the head of Narragansett Bay where the local Wampanoags offered him shelter, and took him to the winter camp of their chief sachem, Massasoit, where Williams lived three and a half months until spring arrived.

en.wikipedia.org

So, Roger skipped town and got sanctuary from his Native American buddies. I like the way he rolled.

204 BadExampleMan  Sep 10, 2014 12:10:11am

re: #18 Dr. Matt

I’m still convinced that Victoria Jackson is a Andy Kaufman act.

You know what would be really cool, is if it turns out that Victoria Jackson is Andy Kaufman.

205 goddamnedfrank  Sep 10, 2014 12:53:49am

Dude has been trolling #WhyIStayed all evening, like it’s his job.

206 Amory Blaine  Sep 10, 2014 1:00:08am

I see the appeal of a smartwatch but not with a phone per se. I still have to take the phone out of my pocket which has no appeal to me. I could see it working well with a “bluetooth” style earphone. Wrist vibrates, glance down at the watch, see who it is, press their face and talk/text. Yes I realize the web connection happens through the phone but that’s for the engineering dept.
Also I abhor the cyborg look of the earset, would need to be smaller.

207 BlackPearl  Sep 10, 2014 1:00:24am

William Penn, Quaker. Founded Pennsylvania. (I cheated and googled and he died in 1718.)

Which would then probably also allow my g-g-g-(many)-mother, a Huguenot refugee who bought land from him and founded Paradise, PA.

208 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 1:11:56am

re: #205 goddamnedfrank

Dude has been trolling #WhyIStayed all evening, like it’s his job.

It is apparent that he doesn’t believe that there is such a thing as emotional/mental abuse, only physical abuse counts at all with him.

209 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 1:18:38am
210 Frenchy  Sep 10, 2014 1:34:09am

re: #209 ausador

I believe that you are talking to a guy who was thrilled to give his “viewing public” (which presumably consists of himself and possibly his mom) 2 1/2 hours of Todd Kincannon’s valuable time on his joke of a YouTube broadcast. I hope you don’t expect to make any headway.

211 goddamnedfrank  Sep 10, 2014 1:36:11am

re: #209 ausador

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That guy is a real piece of work, a total weirdo tenther state’s rights conservative cock-neck lawyer. For a hobby he runs a service called Balanced Scales Legal Services (donotlink.com) where he hangs out at his local county courthouse three days a week and provides free representation to people who’ve been served with Protection from Abuse cases, aka restraining orders. He’s there to make sure people accused by their partners of manipulative, verbal & emotional and physical abuse get a lawyer to represent them at the hearing no charge.

Which on the surface seems like maybe not the worst thing ever, except he clearly has an agenda to legitimize all forms of abuse except the physical. Because being the most atrocious kind of smarmy fuck-faced human being imaginable, the kind that perpetuates the law profession’s bad reputation, he thinks verbal, emotional abuse and manipulation are perfectly valid interpersonal communication strategies.

212 goddamnedfrank  Sep 10, 2014 1:50:28am

Also, he’s a gay man who’s against the courts striking down gay marriage bans, because of some dedication to the principal of hyper literal interpretation of text and the intent of all those old sniveling bigots in Congress and the various State legislatures who wrote the laws. The only way to change the law is a pedantic adherence to the political process. If you disagree with him you’re a fascist, while he un-ironically argues in favor of tyranny of the majority against himself and those like him.

Another thing he’s against, the 1964 Civil Rights Act, because of course he is.

Weirdest.motherfucker.imaginable.

213 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 10, 2014 1:59:30am

re: #212 goddamnedfrank

Makes me wonder if has a partner or an SO, if he’s so hardline. If he does, I feel sorry for the partner/SO.

214 goddamnedfrank  Sep 10, 2014 2:55:51am

re: #213 wheat-dogghazi

Makes me wonder if has a partner or an SO, if he’s so hardline. If he does, I feel sorry for the partner/SO.

Most gay men are gay because they like dudes. I think Josh might be that one in a million that just hates women.

215 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 2:58:32am

re: #214 goddamnedfrank

Most gay men are gay because they like dudes. I think Josh might be that one in a million that just hates women.

Gay but MRA?

216 goddamnedfrank  Sep 10, 2014 3:08:28am

re: #215 ausador

Gay but MRA?

Yep.

217 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 3:21:30am

Status of the endless war on Derp…

Inspirational!

218 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 3:24:57am
219 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 3:47:40am

Scary stuff about Putins use of state controlled media to invent any reality he chooses to show the Russian public.

220 Amory Blaine  Sep 10, 2014 3:50:18am

My niece is off to college. When she was about 14 I gave her a portable hard drive with all of the Simpson episodes ripped to it and she loved it. I required her to paint a Simpsons scene on the HDD casing if she wanted to keep it and she did. Well the HDD took a shit recently and I got wind she’s lonely in her new dorm setting. So I got her a USB stick and put the episodes on there for her. Putting together a box with a bunch of stuff for her.

Any suggestions what to get the WOW, nerdy type woman fresh off to college?

221 Dark_Falcon  Sep 10, 2014 4:15:40am

re: #214 goddamnedfrank

Most gay men are gay because they like dudes. I think Josh might be that one in a million that just hates women.

No offense, but I think that sort of misogynist is more common than 1 in a million. More like one in 500.

222 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 4:26:32am

Seriously, NBC can go suck a dick…

The edited version of the MTP interview with President Obama that aired on Sunday chopped entire portions of Obama’s responses out. The transcript now up on the MTP page is of only the portions that were aired after editing. Three of the four times that Obama said Syria before Chuck Todd’s “you haven’t said Syria” question have been removed…

nbcnews.com

Now the wingnuts are saying “you claimed Obama had said Syria four times and he only said it once, lying libtard!” To see the full interview video or transcript you have to search for the “full interview” instead of the MTP transcript now.

nbcnews.com

223 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 4:28:32am

re: #221 Dark_Falcon

No offense, but I think that sort of misogynist is more common than 1 in a million. More like one in 500.

The misogyny maybe, but not the “I’m so misogynist I prefer sex with men over sex with women” thing that GDF is alluding to.

224 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 4:36:19am

Well I saw this on Accuweather and I’m like all FUCK FUCK FUCK

Downed trees and power lines could become a common sight later in the day as these storms blast through. Many people could be without power for an extended period of time.
These storms will have the ability to ruin daytime plans [NO SHIT]. Any outdoor activities that are scheduled may need to be put on hold or completed another day.

225 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 4:37:29am

The storms are in Chicago now, supposed to hit Detroit later this afternoon.

What’s it like in Chicago right now? Falcon? Femnazi?

226 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 10, 2014 4:43:06am

re: #220 Amory Blaine

My niece is off to college. When she was about 14 I gave her a portable hard drive with all of the Simpson episodes ripped to it and she loved it. I required her to paint a Simpsons scene on the HDD casing if she wanted to keep it and she did. Well the HDD took a shit recently and I got wind she’s lonely in her new dorm setting. So I got her a USB stick and put the episodes on there for her. Putting together a box with a bunch of stuff for her.

Any suggestions what to get the WOW, nerdy type woman fresh off to college?

Advice. Get out of the dorm room. Join a club or something, and meet people.

Then, if she’s already equipped with a tablet or laptop, suggest she download Evernote for keeping notes and stuff organized across her machines. She’ll want a digital camera, even if her cellphone has one. Get her an Amazon giftcard so she can download ebooks, or better yet, buy her a Kindle to go with the giftcard. A digital picture frame for her desk. Slippers. Cozy bathrobe. A small Thermos for carrying around coffee to morning classes.

That’s a start.

What college is she going to?

227 Dark_Falcon  Sep 10, 2014 4:50:13am

re: #225 Pie-onist Overlord

The storms are in Chicago now, supposed to hit Detroit later this afternoon.

What’s it like in Chicago right now? Falcon? Femnazi?

It’s currently raining where I am. I had a brief power outage about an hour ago, but it lasted less than 3 minutes.

228 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 4:55:57am

Reminds me of the South African “sign language interpreter” for some reason…

Youtube Video

229 BongCrodny  Sep 10, 2014 4:59:15am

Big day today.

Flying to Atlantic City today for a *small* family reunion, where the clan is gathering to see my niece compete in the in the Miss America pageant this Sunday night.

And my 84-year-old mom is making the trip as well!

I know there are some folks that say the Miss America pageant is long past its expiration date, but looking through the Facebook posts, my niece is having the time of her life — a small-town kid made to feel special for a couple weeks.

She really does fit the definition of “good kid,” and she’s got her head on straight (far more than I did when I was her age — or, um, even now!).

And she’s following in her big sister’s footsteps and is going to be a nurse.

So maybe we ask the Lizards to think good thoughts; it’s my understanding that if she finishes in the top 5, her education will be paid for, which is no small thing these days.

230 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 10, 2014 5:00:29am

231 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 5:02:20am

re: #230 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

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All the horizontal lines are straight lines. (Used a ruler)

232 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 10, 2014 5:02:47am

re: #229 BongCrodny

So, which state are we rootin’ for here?

233 Amory Blaine  Sep 10, 2014 5:03:04am

re: #226 wheat-dogghazi

Gardner-Webb University

Arrgh I was going to get her one of these but I put it back. I’ll see if I can get a nice one local. I also got her a sack of carbon as she inherited my sisters “keen” sense of smell. Some cat shadow peelers for the wall, some super glue and an inflatable neck pillow so far. A digipic frame sounds like a great idea. I’ll load it with pics before I send it. I do have a $50 Amazon card I got awhile back I could throw in there. Thanks for the ideas!!

234 Ryan King  Sep 10, 2014 5:03:50am

re: #230 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Wow, that’s cool.

235 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 10, 2014 5:04:09am

re: #231 Pie-onist Overlord

All the horizontal lines are straight lines. (Used a ruler)

It’s the best form of this illusion I’ve seen.

236 Amory Blaine  Sep 10, 2014 5:07:19am

re: #224 Pie-onist Overlord

Its raining in Milwaukee but not real hard or anything.

237 Amory Blaine  Sep 10, 2014 5:08:28am

re: #230 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Can you make it spin around? I’m warming up my volcano.

238 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 5:08:34am

If the power cuts again I will be SO PISSED.

239 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 5:09:07am

re: #185 freetoken

Ok, here’s an exercise for you - name someone, anyone, who was living on this continent 300 years ago, in 1714.

Off by seventy-six years, but my ancestor, Dr. Hans Kierstede, who arrived on these shores in 1638, was the first surgeon at New Amsterdam.

240 BongCrodny  Sep 10, 2014 5:12:43am

re: #232 wheat-dogghazi

So, which state are we rootin’ for here?

The one waaaay up north and to the east. :-)

241 Amory Blaine  Sep 10, 2014 5:13:01am

re: #238 Pie-onist Overlord

How many days was it?

242 Bubblehead II  Sep 10, 2014 5:13:38am

re: #238 Pie-onist Overlord

If the power cuts again I will be SO PISSED.

Get a UPS. A small one will keep you up and running for about 10 minutes or so depending on the load.

243 BongCrodny  Sep 10, 2014 5:16:20am

re: #233 Amory Blaine

Gardner-Webb University

Arrgh I was going to get her one of these but I put it back. I’ll see if I can get a nice one local. I also got her a sack of carbon for her as she inherited my sisters “keen” sense of smell. Some cat shadow peelers for the wall, some super glue and an inflatable neck pillow so far. A digipic frame sounds like a great idea. I’ll load it with pics before I send it. I do have a $50 Amazon card I got awhile back I could throw in there. Thanks for the ideas!!

Once she gets a bit settled in, there might be a few on campus social groups that might help cure the lonelies — I’d imagine almost any college must have a WOW group (or if not that in specific, maybe just a computer club).

The care package you describe above is *always* welccome.

Is she any great distance from home? Maybe an online subscription to the hometown newspaper might be appreciated.

244 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 5:18:03am

re: #241 Amory Blaine

How many days was it?

3 days. :(

245 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 5:18:38am

re: #228 ausador

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Reminds me of the South African “sign language interpreter” for some reason…

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At first I read that as Columbia University.

246 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 5:19:34am

re: #242 Bubblehead II

Get a UPS. A small one will keep you up and running for about 10 minutes or so depending on the load.

I have a UPS in my office for the computer, but not for the Internet connection which is in another room. It stays on long enough to save files and do an orderly shutdown.

247 Bubblehead II  Sep 10, 2014 5:21:05am

re: #244 Pie-onist Overlord

3 days. :(

Well so much for the UPS idea.

248 Amory Blaine  Sep 10, 2014 5:21:10am

re: #243 BongCrodny

She’s about 100 miles from home so not too far, she already has been home for a weekend. That’s my thought too, there has to be a WOW group on campus. She was telling me they bring in animals from the pound for the students to pet at the dorm.

249 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 5:24:03am

When the fetid gets feted.

250 Decatur Deb  Sep 10, 2014 5:26:15am

re: #249 De Kolta Chair

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When the fetid gets feted.

Book had only 51 Amazon reviews, most A+++++by RW hacks.

251 Dr. Matt  Sep 10, 2014 5:30:04am

re: #249 De Kolta Chair

Ginger, dudebro glasses and beard, class A douche. I’m telling you, he’s a parody.

252 BongCrodny  Sep 10, 2014 5:30:59am

re: #250 Decatur Deb

Book had only 51 Amazon reviews, most A+++++by RW hacks.

Also read that Encounter Books — Johnson’s publisher — is a non-profit publisher that publishes conservative-leaning books, so “wingnut welfare” would appear to be a pretty apt description.

253 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 10, 2014 5:31:02am

re: #238 Pie-onist Overlord

If the power cuts again I will be SO PISSED.

FWIW, MrBWS called last night and they are being held there at least through tonight, even though there are less than 10,000 outages left to do.
Looks like DTE is taking this storm seriously.

254 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 5:31:57am

Ted Cruz is on a quest to to turn public opinion against their own best interests, as usual. :(

In a statement to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Cruz declared: “This amendment here today, if adopted, would repeal the free speech protections of the First Amendment… . This amendment, if adopted, would give Congress absolute authority to regulate the political speech of every single American, with no limitations whatsoever.”

Similarly, in an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Cruz said, the amendment “gives Congress power to regulate—and ban—speech by everybody.” In remarks at the Family Research Council, Cruz declared: “What it [the proposed amendment] says is that politicians in Washington have unlimited constitutional authority to muzzle each and every one of you if you’re saying things that government finds inconvenient.”

255 BongCrodny  Sep 10, 2014 5:34:47am

256 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 5:36:30am

Bigger version at WaPo…
knowmore.washingtonpost.com

257 Ryan King  Sep 10, 2014 5:37:25am

re: #250 Decatur Deb

Book had only 51 Amazon reviews, most A+++++by RW hacks.

Editorial Reviews
Review
“Why Coolidge Matters could not appear at a better time. In it, Charles Johnson shatters the myth that Calvin Coolidge was a president of little influence and brings to life a man of deep convictions, courage, and incredible talent for clearly communicating economic struggles in moral terms. In our era of economic malaise, we should learn from the president whose tax cuts helped ignite one of America’s greatest economic booms. Anyone interested in the cause of free markets and liberty would do well to read this book.”

—U.S. Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX)

“This is a very energetic and engaging amplification of the strong points of Coolidge’s presidency and administrative techniques. It is a welcome addition to the growing literature on whether Coolidge was, as Charles Johnson claims, an underrated and commendable leader, and not, as majority historical opinion has long held, a simplistic and dangerously detached president. It is a lively and imaginative case presented by a very promising young historian and commentator.”

—Conrad Black, author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full, and the recently published A Matter of Principle.

It turns out that our Cal wasn’t as silent as we thought. Coolidge’s life speaks volumes about the sad state of contemporary politics, and may offer a map for the way out. Charles Johnson’s smart and entertaining book about our witty, wise, and humane 30th president is a must-read for anyone who cares about the history of the presidency, or its future.

—Tucker Carlson, co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Daily Caller

In a time when we suffer from the follies of a celebrity president, Charles Johnson’s short sparkling account of Calvin Coolidge, the citizen president who valued experience over theory and individual accountability rather than social salvation, is a welcome occasion.

—Fred Siegel, scholar in residence at St. Francis College and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute

To preserve our freedom, we must recover both our principles and our past. Calvin Coolidge is a figure from the past who possessed profound knowledge of our principles and the eloquence to explain them. Charles Johnson—precocious, energetic, and knowledgeable himself—brings real ability to the work of recovering Coolidge, and so he helps us to better know our country and ourselves.

—Larry P. Arnn, president of Hillsdale College and author of The Founders’ Key

“Johnson’s book is essential reading for those interested in presidential leadership. He shines the spotlight on one of America’s most successful, yet unappreciated, chief executives. Knowing full well the proper use of executive power, Silent Cal had a steady hand on the ship of state. Johnson makes the case that Coolidge should enter the pantheon of America’s great Presidents.”

—John Yoo, law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and visiting scholar at the American Enterprise Institute.

“Charles Johnson’s Why Coolidge Matters is a timely, riveting profile of one of America’s most unsung presidents. We all have much to learn from Calvin Coolidge’s adherence to thrift; devotion to his Christian faith; emphasis on character and civic virtue; and demonstrated commitment to public service and first principles. Myths on both the Left and Right abound about “Silent Cal.” Johnson’s vibrant scholarship clears the air and sheds new light on a commander-in-chief who modeled long-forgotten, but desperately needed, leadership traits of restraint, discipline, and prudence. As the conservative movement ponders its future, Why Coolidge Matters provides a compelling reason to look to its forgotten past for inspiration.”

—Michelle Malkin, author, blogger, and syndicated columnist
About the Author
Charles C. Johnson is an independent writer. His work has appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The L.A. Times, City Journal, The New Criterion, Reason, Tablet Magazine, and The Claremont Review of Books, and he has been the recipient of both the Robert L. Bartley Fellowship and Eric Breindel Award at the WSJ, the Robert Novak Award at the Philips Foundation, and the Publius Fellowship at the Claremont Institute. He lives in the San Gabriel Valley with his fiancée and is presently writing a political biography of Barack Obama.

258 Bubblehead II  Sep 10, 2014 5:38:04am

re: #246 Pie-onist Overlord

I have a UPS in my office for the computer, but not for the Internet connection which is in another room. It stays on long enough to save files and do an orderly shutdown.

Since everything but the Wife’s laptop is in my computer room I can stay up and online for about 23 minutes before having to shut down. If I put the modem on its own UPS we could probably go wireless on the laptops for a couple of hours. (yes, I love me some LGF).

259 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 5:38:32am

re: #253 Backwoods_Sleuth

FWI, MrBWS called last night and they are being held there at least through tonight, even though there are less than 10,000 outages left to do.
Looks like DTE is taking this storm seriously.

Bless Mr. BWS for his hard work. What pie is your favorite?

260 Dr. Matt  Sep 10, 2014 5:38:47am

*Snort*

261 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 5:40:01am

re: #258 Bubblehead II

Since everything but the Wife’s laptop is in my computer room I can stay up and online for about 23 minutes before having to shut down. If I put the modem on its own UPS we could probably go wireless on the laptops for a couple of hours. (yes, I love me some LGF).

I was able to get LGF on my phone using the charger in the car, but it was weird sitting outside in the car wearing my pajamas.

262 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 5:41:13am

I think I’ll make a Key Lime pie this week.

I don’t care too much for trying new pie recipes, I like the old favorites.

263 BongCrodny  Sep 10, 2014 5:42:25am

re: #261 Pie-onist Overlord

I was able to get LGF on my phone using the charger in the car, but it was weird sitting outside in the car wearing my pajamas.

Why was the car wearing your pajamas?

Sorry…guess I’m feeling a little “grouch-y” today!

264 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 10, 2014 5:43:27am

re: #259 Pie-onist Overlord

Bless Mr. BWS for his hard work. What pie is your favorite?

peach, please.

265 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 5:43:37am

re: #1 Targetpractice

The last refuge of the hate monger: conspiracy theories.

And the first refuge of the gullible.

266 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 10, 2014 5:44:00am

re: #240 BongCrodny

The one waaaay up north and to the east. :-)

Wait, wait … Is it Maine?

267 Bubblehead II  Sep 10, 2014 5:44:27am

re: #261 Pie-onist Overlord

I was able to get LGF on my phone using the charger in the car, but it was weird sitting outside in the car wearing my pajamas.

Now that’s what I call being a hard core Lizard.

268 Ryan King  Sep 10, 2014 5:44:35am

This is sheer joy:

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
“Sacrifice of the Fittest”
By Chris Naronon May 30, 2013
Format: Kindle Edition
Charles C. Johnson’s first book is best described as a home run on the first pitch. Charles is a brilliant young man who has the potential to be to his generation what William F. Buckley Jr. was to his, or at last what Alex P. Keaton was to mine. But seriously, his blogging during his undergraduate years at Claremont McKenna parallel Buckley’s God and Man at Yale and his aggressive intellect positions him to be the man who stands athwart history yelling stop! It’s only fitting that he’s chosen Calvin Coolidge as his subject because “standing athwart” is what Coolidge was all about.

269 Flounder  Sep 10, 2014 5:45:43am

Scrambled eggs and grilled onions for breffist. Made it in the microwave, anyone have some hotsauce?!

270 b.d.  Sep 10, 2014 5:47:25am

Chuck C Johnson, the Award WInning Journalist, retweets this tweet from a fake twitter account.

Nothing gets by that 150+ IQ laden Einstein.

271 WhatEVs  Sep 10, 2014 5:47:43am

re: #257 Ryan King

—Conrad Black, author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full, and the recently published A Matter of Principle.

Really?

272 WhatEVs  Sep 10, 2014 5:48:52am

re: #260 Dr. Matt

Oh, I wish I had more updings for that.

273 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 5:49:55am

re: #263 BongCrodny

Why was the car wearing your pajamas?

Sorry…guess I’m feeling a little “grouch-y” today!

I know I should lose weight. It’s so hard. All that pie.

274 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 5:50:58am

re: #252 BongCrodny

Also read that Encounter Books — Johnson’s publisher — is a non-profit publisher that publishes conservative-leaning books, so “wingnut welfare” would appear to be a pretty apt description.

I imagine the Heritage Foundation has warehouses filled with rotting books by hack neocons that they’ve bought in bulk for a song to make sales look impressive.

275 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 5:51:31am

re: #268 Ryan King

Fake review which he probably wrote himself, hmm…that name is missing something…

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
“Sacrifice of the Fittest”
By Chris Narconon May 30, 2013
Format: Kindle Edition

Seems a little better without the missing letter in the “name” google that and you’ll get this…

276 BongCrodny  Sep 10, 2014 5:52:58am

re: #266 wheat-dogghazi

Wait, wait … Is it Maine?

Yep.

Something my sister told me that I thought was awfully interesting: my niece is going to do a comedy monologue for the talent portion of the show. I have no idea how it will go over — she always struck me as kind of a quiet kid — but since none of the other contestants are doing anything like that, it has some terrific potential to break through the “clutter”, so to speak.

The pageant is on NBC this Sunday night, for anyone so inclined to tune in. :-)

277 Bubblehead II  Sep 10, 2014 5:53:03am

Digiorno’s screws the social media pooch.

In an attempt to latch onto a popular trending hashtag, the social media community manager for DiGiorno Pizza’s official Twitter account posted a tweet on Monday evening which read “#WhyIStayed You had pizza.”

Read more: digitaltrends.com

278 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 5:53:20am

re: #275 ausador

Fake review which he probably wrote himself, hmm…that name is missing something…

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
“Sacrifice of the Fittest”
By Chris Narconon May 30, 2013
Format: Kindle Edition

Seems a little better without the missing letter in the “name” google that and you’ll get this…

Isn’t Narconon is the name of a Scientology scam?

thefix.com

279 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 5:54:55am

re: #278 De Kolta Chair

Isn’t Narconon the name of a Scientology scam?

Yep. :(

280 BongCrodny  Sep 10, 2014 5:56:08am

re: #257 Ryan King

—Conrad Black, author of Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom, Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full, and the recently published A Matter of Principle.

re: #271 WhatEVs

Really?

Ha! I guess calling it “A Matter of Conviction” would have been a bit ironic.

281 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 5:56:45am

re: #279 ausador

Yep. :(

Added link. ;)

282 Ryan King  Sep 10, 2014 6:01:16am

Chris Naronon is a Facebook bud of Chucks, probably grew up together.

Level 7.8 on Wingnut Scale according to FB posts.

283 Decatur Deb  Sep 10, 2014 6:01:17am

re: #274 De Kolta Chair

I imagine the Heritage Foundation has warehouses filled with rotting books by hack neocons that they’ve bought in bulk for a song to make sales look impressive.

CPAC stocking-stuffers.

284 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 10, 2014 6:02:52am

re: #276 BongCrodny

Yep.

Something my sister told me that I thought was awfully interesting: my niece is going to do a comedy monologue for the talent portion of the show. I have no idea how it will go over — she always struck me as kind of a quiet kid — but since none of the other contestants are doing anything like that, it has some terrific potential to break through the “clutter”, so to speak.

The pageant is on NBC this Sunday night, for anyone so inclined to tune in. :-)

There was a contestant who did a comedy routine last year, as I remember. It went over pretty well.

285 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 10, 2014 6:05:11am

re: #282 Ryan King

Chris Naronon is a Facebook bud of Chucks, probably grew up together.

Level 7.8 on Wingnut Scale according to FB posts.

I see Naronon and think Harkonnen. I think I’ve watched Dune a few too many times.

286 Patricia Kayden  Sep 10, 2014 6:07:35am

re: #173 Gus

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He’ll be remembered for a record stock market, lessening the deficit, for passing healthcare reform, for ending two wars (Iraq and Afghanistan), for killing Osama Bin Laden, for saving the car industry, for diversifying the judiciary, etc.

Michael Moore is an idiot. I notice that President Obama has detractors on the Left who are just as nasty as his detractors on the Right, which is a shame.

287 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 6:08:47am

re: #282 Ryan King

Chris Naronon is a Facebook bud of Chucks, probably grew up together.

Level 7.8 on Wingnut Scale according to FB posts.

I can’t find any such person with a Facebook account, I looked before realizing the “last name” was probably actually Narconon with the c removed.

288 Patricia Kayden  Sep 10, 2014 6:10:05am

re: #222 ausador

Seriously, NBC can go suck a dick…

The edited version of the MTP interview with President Obama that aired on Sunday chopped entire portions of Obama’s responses out. The transcript now up on the MTP page is of only the portions that were aired after editing. Three of the four times that Obama said Syria before Chuck Todd’s “you haven’t said Syria” question have been removed…

nbcnews.com

Now the wingnuts are saying “you claimed Obama had said Syria four times and he only said it once, lying libtard!” To see the full interview video or transcript you have to search for the “full interview” instead of the MTP transcript now.

nbcnews.com

NBC should be contacted and asked why they are presenting only a portion of the interview.

289 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 6:10:17am

re: #287 ausador

I can’t find any such person with a Facebook account, I looked before realizing the “last name” was probably actually Narconon with the c removed.

Might be a misprint of Narcosis.

290 BongCrodny  Sep 10, 2014 6:13:17am

re: #287 ausador

I can’t find any such person with a Facebook account, I looked before realizing the “last name” was probably actually Narconon with the c removed.

Is it Naronon/Narconon?

The review I read at Amazon was by a guy named Chris Naron; a quick Google search reveals a website run by a Chris Naron called “RightNation,” so maybe it’s a little wingnut-on-wingnut reviewing action.

291 lawhawk  Sep 10, 2014 6:14:33am

re: #285 wheat-dogghazi

I see Naronon and think Harkonnen. I think I’ve watched Dune a few too many times.

Convene the Landsraad!

292 WhatEVs  Sep 10, 2014 6:14:39am

re: #288 Patricia Kayden

NBC should be contacted and asked why they are presenting only a portion of the interview.

No need. Must protect their valuable asset from looking like the moron he is at all costs.

If only they could have altered the actual interview. Mwah! Perfection.

293 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 6:14:47am

re: #286 Patricia Kayden

Michael Moore is an idiot. I notice that President Obama has detractors on the Left who are just as nasty as his detractors on the Right, which is a shame.

Even more than Moore’s often blatant misinformation, selective editing, and self-aggrandizement, I can’t stand his simpering narration. Hire a professional voice over actor, dude!

294 lawhawk  Sep 10, 2014 6:15:14am

re: #288 Patricia Kayden

They have a narrative and they’re sticking to it?

295 BongCrodny  Sep 10, 2014 6:15:21am

Ha! A Facebook search for “Chris Naron” shows Charles C. Johnson as one of his friends!

296 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 6:17:41am

re: #290 BongCrodny

Is it Naronon/Narconon?

The review I read at Amazon was by a guy named Chris Naron; a quick Google search reveals a website run by a Chris Naron called “RightNation,” so maybe it’s a little wingnut-on-wingnut reviewing action.

The cut and paste Ryan King did at post #268 reads…

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
“Sacrifice of the Fittest”
By Chris Naronon May 30, 2013

I didn’t look to see what it says at Amazon.

297 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 10, 2014 6:19:12am

re: #296 ausador

The cut and paste Ryan King did at post #268 reads…

I didn’t look to see what it says at Amazon.

There’s a space missing between the last n in his name and the word “on.”

298 Ryan King  Sep 10, 2014 6:22:50am

re: #287 ausador

I can’t find any such person with a Facebook account, I looked before realizing the “last name” was probably actually Narconon with the c removed.

Oh Wow, this is weird:

I found Christopher Naron as a FB Buddy of CCJ.

299 Ryan King  Sep 10, 2014 6:26:05am

I’m lost.

300 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 6:27:14am

re: #298 Ryan King

Oh Wow, this is weird:

I found Christopher Naron as a FB Buddy of CCJ.

Naron’s favorite movies: Rocky, Death Wish, Heartbreak Ridge, and Dumb and Dumber.

He’s the Anti-Ebert!

301 Ryan King  Sep 10, 2014 6:29:25am

It’s like I transposed something into a CopyC/V then I made my own mental transposition after it. Weird.

I’m going back to bed.

302 Decatur Deb  Sep 10, 2014 6:30:03am

re: #298 Ryan King

Oh Wow, this is weird:

I found Christopher Naron as a FB Buddy of CCJ.

Naron is out of Claremont, Johnson’s old school/town. For someone who’s into character assassination, CCJ is damn sloppy. He’s left extensive mail headers and such in easy Googling reach.

303 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 10, 2014 6:30:28am

Here’s the Amazon thing before being corrected by me:

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
“Sacrifice of the Fittest”
By Chris Naronon May 30, 2013

And after editing:

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
“Sacrifice of the Fittest”
By Chris Naron on May 30, 2013

304 darthstar  Sep 10, 2014 6:30:31am
305 Amory Blaine  Sep 10, 2014 6:30:32am

Wisconsin’s black children remain trapped in poverty, study says

The state ranks last in the country in the overall well-being of African-American children based on an index of 12 measures that gauge a child’s success from birth to adulthood, according to a new report being released Wednesday by the Wisconsin Council on Children & Families.

The measures, while not new, are bleak:

■ Four out of every five African-American children in Wisconsin live in poor households, compared with roughly two out of three Latino children and three out of 10 white children.

■ Seven out of 10 African-American children live in single-parent families, compared with fewer than four of 10 Latino children and roughly two of 10 white children.

■ Fewer than one in 10 in eighth grade are proficient in math, compared with almost one in five for Latino children and a bit less than one in two for white children.

306 lawhawk  Sep 10, 2014 6:30:34am

re: #299 Ryan King

But now I’m found.

307 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 10, 2014 6:31:42am

heh…

308 Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 10, 2014 6:33:03am

re: #185 freetoken

Ok, here’s an exercise for you - name someone, anyone, who was living on this continent 300 years ago, in 1714.

Just don’t make up a name by adding a given name to a common surname. Give me a two sentence bio on a real person from 1714, without googling it.

Benjamin Franklin.

309 Ryan King  Sep 10, 2014 6:34:06am

re: #268 Ryan King

I am absolutely baffled how the extra ‘on’ got put in Chris Naronon when I copy/pasted this post. Makes no sense.

310 Decatur Deb  Sep 10, 2014 6:35:14am

re: #309 Ryan King

I am absolutely baffled how the extra ‘on’ got put in Chris Naronon when I copy/pasted this post. Makes no sense.

Is it part of the Date/Time Group that follows the name?

311 iossarian  Sep 10, 2014 6:36:23am

re: #309 Ryan King

I am absolutely baffled how the extra ‘on’ got put in Chris Naronon when I copy/pasted this post. Makes no sense.

Hiccuping hamsters in your laptop?

312 darthstar  Sep 10, 2014 6:36:31am

re: #309 Ryan King

I am absolutely baffled how the extra ‘on’ got put in Chris Naronon when I copy/pasted this post. Makes no sense.

Who is this Narononon and why should I be concerned about some guy named Naronononon?

313 BongCrodny  Sep 10, 2014 6:36:34am

re: #298 Ryan King

Oh Wow, this is weird:

I found Christopher Naron as a FB Buddy of CCJ.

Wonder how many of the other “reviewers” are also CCJ’s pals?

For example, one of the five-star (*cough*) reviews is from Ryan P. Williams. If you click on Mr. Williams’ name it shows that he’s from Claremont, California, home of Claremont McKenna College, which just happens to be the alma mater of…

…aw, you guessed it.

314 Amory Blaine  Sep 10, 2014 6:39:34am

re: #305 Amory Blaine

Wisconsin’s black children remain trapped in poverty, study says

And if you want to see why, look at the steaming pile of racist shit in the comment section. Yeah, it’s a fucking cesspool of ignorance here.

315 Decatur Deb  Sep 10, 2014 6:40:19am

re: #313 BongCrodny

Wonder how many of the other “reviewers” are also CCJ’s pals?

For example, one of the five-star (*cough*) reviews is from Ryan P. Williams. If you click on Mr. Williams’ name it shows that he’s from Claremont, California, home of Claremont McKenna College, which just happens to be the alma mater of…

…aw, you guessed it.

The Claremont Colleges must be very proud.

316 Ryan King  Sep 10, 2014 6:40:38am

re: #310 Decatur Deb

I dunno. But retracing my steps…. I merely copy/pasted the first paragraph of his review and the header. Now the header shows Naron.

Then somebody said ‘Naronon/Narconon’ and it stuck in mah brwainz for a few minutes.

Just plain weird. Extra letters getting inserted into a copy/paste is something I’ve never heard of before.

317 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 10, 2014 6:40:53am

re: #309 Ryan King

I am absolutely baffled how the extra ‘on’ got put in Chris Naronon when I copy/pasted this post. Makes no sense.

See my re: #303 wheat-dogghazi

It’s not an extra “on”. Somehow a space got lost when you copy-pasted.

318 Ryan King  Sep 10, 2014 6:41:12am

re: #312 darthstar

Who is this Narononon and why should I be concerned about some guy named Naronononon?

STOP IT. STOP IT NOWOW.

319 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 10, 2014 6:41:57am
320 Decatur Deb  Sep 10, 2014 6:43:07am

re: #316 Ryan King

re: #317 wheat-dogghazi

Yeah—it’s not worth backtracking, but I’m thinking it’s part of “on 4 July 1776” format for the review header.

321 Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 10, 2014 6:43:11am

re: #261 Pie-onist Overlord

I was able to get LGF on my phone using the charger in the car, but it was weird sitting outside in the car wearing my pajamas.

Does the husband look upon you sneaking out to the car to read LGF like you look upon him sneaking out to the garage to smoke?

;P

322 darthstar  Sep 10, 2014 6:43:31am

Jon Stewart on ISIS:

What the fuck is wrong with these guys? You just storm into a country like Iraq, uninvited, and destroy the place in the name of implementing your favorite system of governance? These people aren’t just terrorists. They’re plagiarists!

Read more at wonkette.com

323 Ryan King  Sep 10, 2014 6:44:23am

re: #317 wheat-dogghazi
I figured it out:

It says ‘Naron’ in text but when I copy it adds an extra ‘on’ in the name.

5 of 7 people found the following review helpful
“Sacrifice of the Fittest”
By Chris Naronon May 30, 2013
Format: Kindle Edition
Charles C. Johnson’s first book is best described as a home run on the first pitch. Charles is a brilliant young man who has the potential to be to his generation what William F. Buckley Jr. was to his, or at last what Alex P. Keaton was to mine. But seriously, his blogging during his undergraduate years at Claremont McKenna parallel Buckley’s God and Man at Yale and his aggressive intellect positions him to be the man who stands athwart history yelling stop! It’s only fitting that he’s chosen Calvin Coolidge as his subject because “standing athwart” is what Coolidge was all about.

324 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 6:44:47am

re: #321 Feline Fearless Leader

Does the husband look upon you sneaking out to the car to read LGF like you look upon him sneaking out to the garage to smoke?

;P

He went to his car to charge his phone battery so it’s not sneaking.

325 darthstar  Sep 10, 2014 6:44:47am

re: #318 Ryan King

STOP IT. STOP IT NOWOW.

I could go onon.

326 Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 10, 2014 6:45:27am

re: #286 Patricia Kayden

He’ll be remembered for a record stock market, lessening the deficit, for passing healthcare reform, for ending two wars (Iraq and Afghanistan), for killing Osama Bin Laden, for saving the car industry, for diversifying the judiciary, etc.

Michael Moore is an idiot. I notice that President Obama has detractors on the Left who are just as nasty as his detractors on the Right, which is a shame.

Including the 10% or so who dislike Obamacare because it didn’t go far enough.

327 darthstar  Sep 10, 2014 6:45:33am

re: #324 Pie-onist Overlord

He went to his car to charge his phone battery so it’s not sneaking.

My neighbors frown on me walking around outside naked.

328 Ryan King  Sep 10, 2014 6:46:14am

I thought that was it. All that single malt and mezcal catching up to me.

But I realized that all that single malt and mezcal is catching up to me. Probably too much of the seks as well.

329 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 6:46:43am

UNLESS THERE BLAHS OR LIBRULS1!!!!! THEN WE WILL SHOOT THEM!!!!!!

330 darthstar  Sep 10, 2014 6:47:00am
331 Amory Blaine  Sep 10, 2014 6:48:20am

re: #327 darthstar

Prudes.

332 Decatur Deb  Sep 10, 2014 6:48:21am

re: #329 Pie-onist Overlord

UNLESS THERE BLAHS OR LIBRULS1!!!!! THEN WE WILL SHOOT THEM!!!!!!

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I will NOT obey orders to transmute lead into gold.

333 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 10, 2014 6:48:40am

re: #318 Ryan King

STOP IT. STOP IT NOWOW.

needs more reverb…

334 Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 10, 2014 6:49:30am

re: #333 Backwoods_Sleuth

needs more reverb…

Some cowbell wouldn’t hurt either.

335 BongCrodny  Sep 10, 2014 6:52:28am

re: #330 darthstar

[Embedded content]

I don’t know whether to upding you or burn your house down.

336 Ryan King  Sep 10, 2014 6:52:53am

re: #325 darthstar

I could go onon.

I go to Onionon now. Got hooked on the green onions but started hitting the Maui Sweet onions really hard, showing up to work with onions on my breath.

337 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 6:53:15am

Members of the Jewish Brigade Local Defense, India, 1939

338 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 6:55:21am

Damn you Bobby Jindal…

339 NJDhockeyfan  Sep 10, 2014 6:56:04am
340 Ryan King  Sep 10, 2014 6:56:45am

re: #323 Ryan King

I figured it out:

It says ‘Naron’ in text but when I copy it adds an extra ‘on’ in the name.

Or I should say, it removes the space between ‘Naron’ and ‘on’

341 Ryan King  Sep 10, 2014 7:01:28am

I’m done withitit nowow

342 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 10, 2014 7:01:55am

re: #340 Ryan King

Or I should say, it removes the space between ‘Naron’ and ‘on’

I’ve noticed when I copy stuff from Word into some web pages (like WordPress edit window), some of the spaces get stripped out. It’s really annoying, because then I have to go through and manually add them back in.

343 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 7:05:24am

Gloria in excelsis Derp

344 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 7:06:39am

Still too high, but 1 in 3 in favor of ground troops isn’t exactly a mandate…

It turns out the WSJ poll also finds that 40 percent say “action” should be “limited to air strikes only” and another 15 percent say we shouldn’t act at all — a total of 55 percent. Meanwhile, all of 34 percent support air strikes and sending in combat troops — perhaps higher than one might expect, but still only one in three Americans.

345 lawhawk  Sep 10, 2014 7:09:33am

Teachout won more counties than she had any business doing, especially since she’s to the left of Cuomo and upstate is generally more conservative than Cuomo.

Some of this might be blowback for the SAFE Act that Cuomo got rammed through the legislature. But it also shows the antipathy of voters in NY. It seems that everyone’s resigned to a Cuomo reelection, so few turned out. Cuomo got enough turnout in NYC to get reelected comfortably by a 62-34 margin. Of course, pundits and the GOP will look at the county splits and see that Cuomo is vulnerable.

When turnout was sparse - a few hundred people voting in each county upstate, I don’t think you can take anything away from the outcome other than people simply didn’t care enough to vote. And that leaves us with the mess we’re in - whether its localities that don’t reflect their constituencies or are pushing policies that are out of step with public sentiment as expressed in polling.

GOTV faces an uphill battle against apathy, and that’s not a good sign for anyone.

346 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 7:11:01am

re: #343 De Kolta Chair

MONO STEREO

Lol, almost forgot those old amplifiers existed…

347 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 7:12:33am

“Tiny Bubbles” WTF
Was there ever a lamer song EVER? Who liked that shit?

348 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 10, 2014 7:15:49am

re: #347 Pie-onist Overlord

“Tiny Bubbles” WTF
Was there ever a lamer song EVER? Who liked that shit?

A Don Ho classic. My parents had that album.

349 NJDhockeyfan  Sep 10, 2014 7:23:14am

re: #347 Pie-onist Overlord

“Tiny Bubbles” WTF
Was there ever a lamer song EVER? Who liked that shit?

Youtube Video

350 Dr. Matt  Sep 10, 2014 7:24:16am

re: #347 Pie-onist Overlord

“Tiny Bubbles” WTF
Was there ever a lamer song EVER? Who liked that shit?

Who Let the Dogs Out?

351 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 7:25:24am

re: #349 NJDhockeyfan

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Video

I asked was there a lamer song. That was lame, but not a song.

352 BongCrodny  Sep 10, 2014 7:25:27am

re: #345 lawhawk

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Teachout won more counties than she had any business doing, especially since she’s to the left of Cuomo and upstate is generally more conservative than Cuomo.

Some of this might be blowback for the SAFE Act that Cuomo got rammed through the legislature. But it also shows the antipathy of voters in NY. It seems that everyone’s resigned to a Cuomo reelection, so few turned out. Cuomo got enough turnout in NYC to get reelected comfortably by a 62-34 margin. Of course, pundits and the GOP will look at the county splits and see that Cuomo is vulnerable.

When turnout was sparse - a few hundred people voting in each county upstate, I don’t think you can take anything away from the outcome other than people simply didn’t care enough to vote. And that leaves us with the mess we’re in - whether its localities that don’t reflect their constituencies or are pushing policies that are out of step with public sentiment as expressed in polling.

GOTV faces an uphill battle against apathy, and that’s not a good sign for anyone.

re: #345 lawhawk

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Teachout won more counties than she had any business doing, especially since she’s to the left of Cuomo and upstate is generally more conservative than Cuomo.

Some of this might be blowback for the SAFE Act that Cuomo got rammed through the legislature. But it also shows the antipathy of voters in NY. It seems that everyone’s resigned to a Cuomo reelection, so few turned out. Cuomo got enough turnout in NYC to get reelected comfortably by a 62-34 margin. Of course, pundits and the GOP will look at the county splits and see that Cuomo is vulnerable.

When turnout was sparse - a few hundred people voting in each county upstate, I don’t think you can take anything away from the outcome other than people simply didn’t care enough to vote. And that leaves us with the mess we’re in - whether its localities that don’t reflect their constituencies or are pushing policies that are out of step with public sentiment as expressed in polling.

GOTV faces an uphill battle against apathy, and that’s not a good sign for anyone.

I was reading somewhere that Cuomo had “eyes on the prize” — the Democratic nomination for President, although they didn’t make clear whether he was looking at 2016 or post-Hillary.

The article also suggested that any vote total below 70% would hurt him very much, given Teachout’s underfunded campaign — 62% suggests a fairly big “anti-Cuomo” vote.

A lot of what I’ve read indicates Cuomo is very much “Republican-lite,” and more than a few people have called him a DINO. If that’s the case, that’s no great loss if it hurts his national ambitions.

353 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 10, 2014 7:25:48am

re: #350 Dr. Matt

Who Let the Dogs Out?

Sugar Sugar, by The Archies

354 Jenner7  Sep 10, 2014 7:26:26am

re: #339 NJDhockeyfan

Can I just make a special request in the magic lamp? Can we get like Netanyahu, or like Putin in for 48 hours, you know, head of the United States? —Fox Host Kimberly Guilfoyle

355 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 10, 2014 7:29:03am

re: #354 Jenner7

Can I just make a special request in the magic lamp? Can we get like Netanyahu, or like Putin in for 48 hours, you know, head of the United States? —Fox Host Kimberly Guilfoyle

Like, you know, dream on, Kimberly. You’re stuck with a duly elected president for like, two more, you know, years.

356 Dr. Matt  Sep 10, 2014 7:30:52am

re: #353 wheat-dogghazi

Sugar Sugar, by The Archies

I’ve always hated Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmas Time”. I can’t change the channel quick enough when I hear that come on.

Youtube Video

357 lawhawk  Sep 10, 2014 7:32:35am

GRRRRR…

WaPo updates their article about ISIS versus ISIL versus Islamic State, all because of the need to hear the word Syria, and yet they’ve ignored that the State Department has had ISIL on the terror watch list since 2004.

Seriously.

This is nearly as bad as the Chuck Todd MTP clip job. Let’s just ignore everything happening years ago (or the current statement of who’s a terror group according to the State Department), and demand that we hear the word Syria?

These journalists simply cannot be taken seriously.

358 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 7:32:54am

re: #345 lawhawk

Good points, lawhawk. I think the main thing Cuomo wanted out of the primary was to shore up his support in the western half of the state, which he obviously did. Dems and independents in the east will vote for him in the general election anyway.

I’m happily surprised that Wu did so well.

359 Dave In Austin  Sep 10, 2014 7:34:09am

re: #350 Dr. Matt

Who Let the Dogs Out?

I will forever think of Mitt Romney when ever I see or here this…

360 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 10, 2014 7:34:14am

re: #356 Dr. Matt

I’ve always hated Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmas Time”. I can’t change the channel quick enough when I hear that come on.

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Several of McCartney’s Wings-era tunes are simply abysmal. Like “Let ‘em In”

361 lawhawk  Sep 10, 2014 7:35:03am

re: #352 BongCrodny

He and Christie seem to be in orbit of each other - DINO/RINO acolytes that seem to be more interested in personal aggrandizement than a political platform that people actually want. Both ignore infrastructure and both see the Port Authority as a personal piggy bank.

Both also rely on tolls and fees to raise revenues since they can’t raise taxes.

But hopefully both will see their national ambitions crushed in toto.

362 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 7:36:11am

re: #356 Dr. Matt

I’ve always hated Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmas Time”. I can’t change the channel quick enough when I hear that come on.

[Embedded content]

omg THAT IS HORRIBLE

There are so many HORRIBLE HORRIBLE Christmas songs. WHY DO THEY HATE CHRISTMAS. THAT IS WAR ON CHRISTMAS.

363 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 7:36:30am

re: #347 Pie-onist Overlord

“Tiny Bubbles” WTF

My sisters and I sang it together all the time, accompanied by dad on the uke. Good times.

Was there ever a lamer song EVER?

“Seasons In The Sun”

364 NJDhockeyfan  Sep 10, 2014 7:37:10am
365 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 10, 2014 7:38:34am

re: #364 NJDhockeyfan

Well, that explains a lot.

366 Amory Blaine  Sep 10, 2014 7:38:53am

It’s too early for Christmas!!

367 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 7:41:02am

So Megyn Kelly had Ward Churchill on last night and was rehashing the Bill Ayers/WeatherUnderground bomb production.

I tasked myself: “Why dredge this stuff up—It is so last decade?” My usual response: “It’s an election year or will be an election year.”

Then I saw this Post

Please give credit where credit is due.

368 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 7:41:50am

re: #353 wheat-dogghazi

Sugar Sugar, by The Archies

Bob Marley & The Wailers’ cover
Youtube Video

369 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 7:42:30am

re: #362 Pie-onist Overlord

omg THAT IS HORRIBLE

There are so many HORRIBLE HORRIBLE Christmas songs. WHY DO THEY HATE CHRISTMAS. THAT IS WAR ON CHRISTMAS.

The only one I still care to listen to is actually a video. The one of Bing Crosby and David Bowie singing “Little Drummer Boy.”

I think it is just the blend of the two voices I find so enjoyable.

370 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 7:43:40am

re: #349 NJDhockeyfan

[Embedded content]

Tip Toe Through the Tulips by Tiny Tim
Youtube Video

371 Amory Blaine  Sep 10, 2014 7:43:42am

re: #305 Amory Blaine

Leopold Lichtenstein - Today at 8:47 AM - Report Abuse
40
The black liberals and their rap snap crack no-pop pograms have destroyed this city and they are to blame and they know it .. The reason for crime is baby mommas and baby daddys with multiple children from different mommas and no family structure. 18 year olds living with their 35 year old grandma. Keep breeding so you can get that snap card, free heat, phone, rent on the backs of taxpayers and see what happens when the money runs out. They are their own worst enemy.

EyesOnMilwaukee - Today at 9:02 AM - Report Abuse
10
“18 year olds living with their 35 year old grandma”

What the government needs to do is create some kind of population control agency like China. Any time a woman becomes a grandma before the age of 40 it should be a big red flag in a computer system some where and the government swoops in on the family and deploys solutions ranging from tying tubes to chemical castration in more serious cases.

372 lawhawk  Sep 10, 2014 7:45:19am

re: #369 FemNaziBitch

I was just going to post that the only tolerable Christmas song is their duet of Little Drummer Boy. That’s it.

373 Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2014 7:45:34am

re: #371 Amory Blaine

Leopold Lichtenstein - Today at 8:47 AM - Report Abuse
40
The black liberals and their rap snap crack no-pop pograms have destroyed this city and they are to blame and they know it .. The reason for crime is baby mommas and baby daddys with multiple children from different mommas and no family structure. 18 year olds living with their 35 year old grandma. Keep breeding so you can get that snap card, free heat, phone, rent on the backs of taxpayers and see what happens when the money runs out. They are their own worst enemy.

EyesOnMilwaukee - Today at 9:02 AM - Report Abuse
10
“18 year olds living with their 35 year old grandma”

What the government needs to do is create some kind of population control agency like China. Any time a woman becomes a grandma before the age of 40 it should be a big red flag in a computer system some where and the government swoops in on the family and deploys solutions ranging from tying tubes to chemical castration in more serious cases.

I can only presume those two missives sound better in the original German.

374 Eventual Carrion  Sep 10, 2014 7:48:13am

re: #371 Amory Blaine

Would really cut down the population in the white trash trailer parks of the south.

375 Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 10, 2014 7:50:38am

re: #356 Dr. Matt

I’ve always hated Paul McCartney’s “Wonderful Christmas Time”. I can’t change the channel quick enough when I hear that come on.

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If Christmas songs were worth a crap they’d play them all year long, wouldn’t they? With few exceptions, they’re schmaltzy hagiographies of a Christmas that doesn’t exist for many of us.

376 Romantic Heretic  Sep 10, 2014 7:52:15am

re: #375 Higgs Boson’s Mate

If Christmas songs were worth a crap they’d play them all year long, wouldn’t they? With few exceptions, they’re schmaltzy hagiographies of a Christmas that doesn’t exist for many of us.

The only Christmas song I really like.

Youtube Video

377 Eventual Carrion  Sep 10, 2014 7:52:50am

re: #375 Higgs Boson’s Mate

If Christmas songs were worth a crap they’d play them all year long, wouldn’t they? With few exceptions, they’re schmaltzy hagiographies of a Christmas that doesn’t exist for many of us.

The Kinks “Father Christmas” tells it like it is.

378 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 7:52:59am

Well Fox certainly tried to stick up for BP, but it didn’t do any good in a court of law…

Youtube Video

379 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 7:55:36am

From the Organization for which I volunteer.

“Out of the over 1,400 individuals who came through our doors last year over 400 of them were children? That our prevention education program presented 1700 programs in our area schools, or that we received over 4,000 calls on our 24 hour hotlines from people needing assistance with a domestic violence or sexual assault situation?”

All of this with masters level professionals who make less than first year catholic school teachers—and a revolving door of volunteers.

Also realize that when the shelter is full, we have to turn women away (refer them to a shelter outside the county). This means that the need is greater than the resources we can muster.

We are no different than the rest of the country.

Please consider supporting the DV shelter in your community, financially or by volunteering. You can also bug your Congress Critters to support and expand VAWA.

380 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Sep 10, 2014 7:56:21am

re: #362 Pie-onist Overlord

omg THAT IS HORRIBLE

There are so many HORRIBLE HORRIBLE Christmas songs. WHY DO THEY HATE CHRISTMAS. THAT IS WAR ON CHRISTMAS.

I grew up in a family that was only nominally Christian, but was absolutely obsessed with Christmas and all things attendant thereto. I am comfortable asserting that there is no music on the face of the earth more horrible than Christmas music, most especially the stuff made in the 20th century. It’s the most gaudy, embarassingly White Person noise you’ll ever hear.

Youtube Video

Ghastly.

381 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 10, 2014 7:56:44am

re: #371 Amory Blaine

China’s birth control laws are draconian, up to and including forced abortions. Eyes on Milwaukee must be one heartless SOB to even suggest America have a similar system — although I assume from his POV it would only apply to non-white folks, and not his kinda people.

382 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 7:56:47am

re: #371 Amory Blaine

What the government needs to do is create some kind of population control agency like China.

So, totalitarian government for thee, but not for me?

383 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 7:57:29am

re: #378 ausador

Of course, Fox never mentions the eleven workers who died that day.

384 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 7:58:19am

Last night was one of those nights my back demanded I sleep on the floor. I woke-up to find a Brat Puppy in a Blanket next to me.

awwwww Brat Puppy!!!!!

How are you this morning?

385 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 7:59:31am

Bad Christmas songs? For me the list starts with Grandma Got Ran Over By a Reindeer. Such a stupid and pointless song.

386 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 8:02:10am

re: #380 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

I grew up in a family that was only nominally Christian, but was absolutely obsessed with Christmas and all things attendant thereto. I am comfortable asserting that there is no music on the face of the earth more horrible than Christmas music, most especially the stuff made in the 20th century. It’s the most gaudy, embarassingly White Person noise you’ll ever hear.

Ghastly.

387 Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 10, 2014 8:04:01am

re: #384 FemNaziBitch

Last night was one of those nights my back demanded I sleep on the floor. I woke-up to find a Brat Puppy in a Blanket next to me.

awwwww Brat Puppy!!!!!

How are you this morning?

Headache, allergies, work. Not enough coffee.

Cats were being sociable and hanging out this morning peaceably rather than trying to rearrange the furniture at least.

388 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 8:04:12am

I think “Jingle Bells” sung “scat-Jazz style” is the WORST. CHRISTMAS. SONG. EVER. It edges the Barking Dogs Jingle Bells by a hair.

389 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:05:53am

I never liked Jingle Bell Rock. The AV Club’s Hatesong feature had an interview with a guy who agreed with me on that.

390 NJDhockeyfan  Sep 10, 2014 8:06:27am

re: #370 FemNaziBitch

Tip Toe Through the Tulips by Tiny Tim
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391 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 10, 2014 8:07:04am

re: #386 Pie-onist Overlord

Baby Boomers directly or indirectly have been responsible for stalling cultural development, at least in pop culture. Consider how many recent movies are based on comic books, cartoons, TV shows and stories from the boomer generation.

392 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 8:07:12am

I’ve been noticing how the extreme’s attempt to appear closer to the center as elections come closer.

With the NFL’s announcement, everyone is running to get on the ratings bandwagon. I posted this because it is a good article. Not because I respect the venue.

I did a search for “Domestic Violence” on this website and found the lastest article were on the Rice situation. Then the search seemed to pull anything with “violence” in as the topic.

393 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 8:07:54am

re: #390 NJDhockeyfan

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Ok, ANYTHING by David Hasselhoff.

394 Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 10, 2014 8:07:55am

re: #380 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

I grew up in a family that was only nominally Christian, but was absolutely obsessed with Christmas and all things attendant thereto. I am comfortable asserting that there is no music on the face of the earth more horrible than Christmas music, most especially the stuff made in the 20th century. It’s the most gaudy, embarassingly White Person noise you’ll ever hear.

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Ghastly.

My non-Christian Taoist-Buddhist sister-in-law *loved* Christmas music.

I think my brother is indifferent to it since he only plays NPR on the radio and doesn’t watch TV. And his public exposure to it is less than mine due to differences in employment and place of residence.

I LOATHE it, especially since the point at which shopping and public places become saturated with it earlier and earlier each year. So I get a massive exposure to it every year. (As said earlier The Kinks “Father Christmas” is probably the only redeeming factor.)

395 Danny  Sep 10, 2014 8:08:03am

re: #380 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

I love Nat King Cole’s The Magic of Christmas.

396 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 8:08:53am

re: #389 HappyWarrior

I never liked Jingle Bell Rock. The AV Club’s Hatesong feature had an interview with a guy who agreed with me on that.

I also like the group “So this is Christmas” video with Boy George. Again, I think it’s the harmony of the voices.

397 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 8:08:59am

16 year old denied drivers license because “he” wont take off make-up to appear male files lawsuit. Bill O’Reilly weighs in on the case…

Video

398 NJDhockeyfan  Sep 10, 2014 8:09:18am

re: #376 Romantic Heretic

The only Christmas song I really like.

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The Eagles have a great Christmas song.

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399 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 8:09:28am

re: #395 Danny

I love Nat King Cole’s The Magic of Christmas.

Ok, Nat King Cole get’s a pass… . because he is Nat King Cole.

:0

400 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 8:09:54am

NOPE

401 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 8:09:59am

re: #387 Feline Fearless Leader

Headache, allergies, work. Not enough coffee.

Cats were being sociable and hanging out this morning peaceably rather than trying to rearrange the furniture at least.

I feel your pain.

(((FFL)))

402 Eventual Carrion  Sep 10, 2014 8:10:12am

re: #381 wheat-dogghazi

China’s birth control laws are draconian, up to and including forced abortions. Eyes on Milwaukee must be one heartless SOB to even suggest America have a similar system — although I assume from his POV it would only apply to non-white folks, and not his kinda people.

Of course, passive genocide.

403 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 8:10:38am

re: #400 Pie-onist Overlord

NOPE

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Public Hangings should be common place —they are a deterrant

404 b.d.  Sep 10, 2014 8:10:55am

re: #399 FemNaziBitch

Ok, Nat King Cole get’s a pass… . because he is Nat King Cole.

:0

Nat King Cole can dress like a cowboy and play the banjo with Stubby Kaye and get a pass. The man gets an eternal pass.

405 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:11:06am

re: #396 FemNaziBitch

I also like the group “So this is Christmas” video with Boy George. Again, I think it’s the harmony of the voices.

Never saw that. I like the Lennon version though. I see a lot of people hate on it because of the “War is over” message but shit shouldn’t that be what we all hope for? I like the old standards with guys like Sinatra and Perry Como myself though.

406 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 8:11:29am

re: #404 b.d.

Nat King Cole can dress like a cowboy and play the banjo with Stubby Kaye and get a pass. The man gets an eternal pass.

agreed

407 Charles Johnson  Sep 10, 2014 8:11:45am
408 Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 10, 2014 8:12:00am

re: #403 FemNaziBitch

Public Hangings should be common place —they are a deterrant

In Victorian England they (hangings) were an entertainment.

The Clint Eastwood movie “Hang ‘Em High” also does the execution as spectacle thing.

409 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:12:51am

re: #407 Charles Johnson

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Steven Smith is a fake but I wonder if Chucky knows that.

410 lawhawk  Sep 10, 2014 8:12:51am

re: #398 NJDhockeyfan

Greg Lake’s got a pretty good song as well (formerly of ELP and King Crimson), which actually is a protest against the rampant commercialism at that:

Youtube Video

411 Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 10, 2014 8:13:13am

re: #404 b.d.

Nat King Cole can dress like a cowboy and play the banjo with Stubby Kaye and get a pass. The man gets an eternal pass.

Upding for the Cat Ballou reference.

412 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:13:18am

re: #408 Feline Fearless Leader

In Victorian England they (hangings) were an entertainment.

The Clint Eastwood movie “Hang ‘Em High” also does the execution as spectacle thing.

End of Braveheart, a movie that got a lot wrong did get the public spectacle part about executions right.

413 b.d.  Sep 10, 2014 8:13:22am

re: #400 Pie-onist Overlord

NOPE

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Public executions have been a public spectacle since they were invented and never were a deterrent, they were a festive occasion. It is a recent development among a few societies not to have them and I think is a trend towards the better .

414 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 8:13:23am

re: #372 lawhawk

I was just going to post that the only tolerable Christmas song is their duet of Little Drummer Boy. That’s it.

GMTA!!

415 Lancelot Link  Sep 10, 2014 8:14:47am

re: #380 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

I am comfortable asserting that there is no music on the face of the earth more horrible than Christmas music, most especially the stuff made in the 20th century. It’s the most gaudy, embarassingly White Person noise you’ll ever hear.

Youtube Video

416 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 8:15:22am

re: #227 Dark_Falcon

It’s currently raining where I am. I had a brief power outage about an hour ago, but it lasted less than 3 minutes.

Yeah, raining, humid. It’s supposed to get down to 48 degrees tonite.

Why such a precise temperature?

You’d have to ask the Meteor-illogical Fairies.

417 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 10, 2014 8:15:23am

The courting of the Ukrainian neo-Nazis by certain Ukrainian democrats continues. Today there was the first convention of a new party, “Narodnyj Front”, headed by the Premier Yatsenyuk and the ex-acting President Turchinov (as well as a host of other ex-Batkyvshchina politicians). They represent moderate nationalist-democratic, more or less pro-Western forces. The problem was that one of the delegates, who also spoke at the convention, was the open neo-Nazi Andrey Biletsky, commander of the Azov battalion. It’s one thing that there exists a fighting battalion basically consisting of various far-right types, white supremacists and neo-Nazis. At least they’re made useful that way, I guess. It’s a very different thing when they’re getting a free pass into high-level politics.

418 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:15:23am

re: #413 b.d.

Public executions have been a public spectacle since they were invented and never were a deterrent, they were a festive occasion. It is a recent development among a few societies not to have them and I think is a trend towards the better .

I have to confess when I would see documentaries about serial killers like Bundy being executed and seeing the crowds gather outside the prison to celebrate the execution. It just left a terrible feeling in me. Not that Bundy wasn’t a monster but I think it’s sick for people to celebrate a death like that.I mean don’t get me wrong, I understand the emotions especially if a monster like Bundy had taken one of your loved ones but there’s something disturbing to me about people who actually celebrate deaths.

419 Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 10, 2014 8:16:26am

re: #391 wheat-dogghazi

Baby Boomers directly or indirectly have been responsible for stalling cultural development, at least in pop culture. Consider how many recent movies are based on comic books, cartoons, TV shows and stories from the boomer generation.

That the Boomers are proportionately the largest uniquely identified demographic in the last hundred years or so might have something to with their influence on pop culture. Pop culture is generally transitory and generally pretty crappy. It might have been different without the influence of the Boomer generation but, I doubt that it would have been much better.

420 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 8:16:34am

re: #408 Feline Fearless Leader

In Victorian England they (hangings) were an entertainment.

The Clint Eastwood movie “Hang ‘Em High” also does the execution as spectacle thing.

Once you start you can’t stop. The rabble will become restless.

Have to find felons or make them on a regular basis.

421 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 8:17:20am

re: #418 HappyWarrior

I have to confess when I would see documentaries about serial killers like Bundy being executed and seeing the crowds gather outside the prison to celebrate the execution. It just left a terrible feeling in me. Not that Bundy wasn’t a monster but I think it’s sick for people to celebrate a death like that.I mean don’t get me wrong, I understand the emotions especially if a monster like Bundy had taken one of your loved ones but there’s something disturbing to me about people who actually celebrate deaths.

Righteous Vengeance is an intoxicant.

422 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:17:44am

Lynchings were public spectacle too. Postcards made of the photographs taken. Agh. Makes me queasy just thinking about it.

423 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:18:31am

re: #421 FemNaziBitch

Righteous Vengeance is an intoxicant.

That’s a home run of a phrase to describe the mentality but yep.

424 Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 10, 2014 8:19:51am

re: #423 HappyWarrior

That’s a home run of a phrase to describe the mentality but yep.

Sounds like a name for a Christian Band. The Intoxication of Righteous Vengeance.

425 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 10, 2014 8:20:14am

re: #419 Higgs Boson’s Mate

That the Boomers are proportionately the largest uniquely identified demographic in the last hundred years or so might have something to with their influence on pop culture. Pop culture is generally transitory and generally pretty crappy. It might have been different without the influence of the Boomer generation but, I doubt that it would have been much better.

Don’t get me wrong. I’m thrilled to see my favorite comic book heroes on the silver screen, but dismayed that Hollywood and certain bands from the ’70s through the ’90s can’t let go of the past. It’s time to move on, people.

426 b.d.  Sep 10, 2014 8:22:12am

re: #420 FemNaziBitch

Once you start you can’t stop. The rabble will become restless.

Have to find felons or make them on a regular basis.

THE RUNNING MAN SHOULD BE A REAL SHOW

427 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:23:13am

re: #424 Feline Fearless Leader

Sounds like a name for a Christian Band. The Intoxication of Righteous Vengeance.

Heh it does.

428 ObserverArt  Sep 10, 2014 8:24:49am

re: #225 Pie-onist Overlord

The storms are in Chicago now, supposed to hit Detroit later this afternoon.

What’s it like in Chicago right now? Falcon? Femnazi?

Good morning all!

Pie-onist…just looking at the maps as Columbus is in line for these storms, but we are on the lower end edge and might not be hit too hard.

It appears you are about an hour out from them getting to you. Right now they don’t look to be too bad, but the heat of the day may have an influence on that.

As soon as I heard Detroit was in the way of high winds and maybe outages I thought of you. Seems that area from Chicago to Detroit has been hit hard and more often than usual this whole summer.

Hang in there! Thinking of you…

429 Lidane  Sep 10, 2014 8:25:20am

Responsible gun owner standing his ground:

MPD: Teenager throws disc golf into yard, owner responds with gunshot

A 43-year-old Midland man was arrested Tuesday morning after a standoff stemming from a confrontation with a disc golf player, according to the city’s spokeswoman.

Buddy Myers is facing a charge of aggravated assault with a deadly weapon after he pulled out a gun and fired a shot at a 19-year-old who had thrown a disc golf into Myers’ backyard, according to spokeswoman Sara Higgins.
The investigation revealed that the teen had inadvertently thrown a disc into Myers’ backyard while playing at Windlands Park. He went to the house, but no one answered the front door. When the disc golf player peered over the back fence, Myers exited his house and backyard and shot a pistol in the direction of the teen, who was in his back alley, Higgins said.

430 Dave In Austin  Sep 10, 2014 8:25:44am

Speaking of executions, there’s this floating around.

Poor Billy, my prospecting partner is so deeply entrenched in the Derp.

431 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:26:19am

re: #429 Lidane

Responsible gun owner standing his ground:

MPD: Teenager throws disc golf into yard, owner responds with gunshot

Fucker.

432 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 8:29:42am

433 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 8:30:10am

re: #423 HappyWarrior

That’s a home run of a phrase to describe the mentality but yep.

Thanks, I was thinking of making a graphic of it.

434 Dave In Austin  Sep 10, 2014 8:30:51am

re: #429 Lidane

And the standard repy for me is now:

“This is Texas, and this suprized you how??”

435 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:30:59am

re: #432 FemNaziBitch

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Party O Dicks. That should be the GOP’s band name.

436 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 10, 2014 8:31:37am


Dunno, looks like an upstanding white citizen to me.
//need I?

437 b_sharp  Sep 10, 2014 8:31:44am

re: #403 FemNaziBitch

Public Hangings should be common place —they are a deterrant

Execution is a pretty ineffectual deterrent. In fact deterrents are pretty ineffectual in general.

438 b.d.  Sep 10, 2014 8:32:48am

re: #436 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

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Dunno, looks like an upstanding white citizen to me.
//need I?

NOT GUILTY!!

439 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 8:32:54am

Shooting heroin got me addicted to needles.

440 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 10, 2014 8:33:55am

re: #438 b.d.

NOT GUILTY!!

Good, then we’re all agreed!
//

441 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 10, 2014 8:34:37am

re: #439 De Kolta Chair

Where do you find these things? Singing priests and addicts.

442 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:35:20am

re: #436 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

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Dunno, looks like an upstanding white citizen to me.
//need I?

Who is that?

443 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 8:36:26am

re: #441 wheat-dogghazi

Where do you find these things? Singing priests and addicts.

The interntz is full of this kwaziness!

444 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 10, 2014 8:38:25am

re: #442 HappyWarrior

The guy from the news item above.

445 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 8:38:49am

446 wrenchwench  Sep 10, 2014 8:39:08am
447 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:39:13am

re: #444 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

The guy from the news item above.

Ah ok thanks.

448 stpaulbear  Sep 10, 2014 8:40:13am

re: #353 wheat-dogghazi

Sugar Sugar, by The Archies

Don Kirshner had proposed Sugar Sugar to the Monkees as their next hit when he had total control of their music. At that same meeting, Mike Nesmith put his fist through a wall and the band demanded that they get control of the music that went out under their own name. The Monkees were already pissed off that their second album went out without them even knowing about it until it was in the stores, and the liner notes by Kirshner thanked practically everyone involved in the recording except the band for their input in making The Monkees a success.

When The Monkees finally succeeded in getting Kirshner fired, he created The Archies as the next step in his hit-making machine. It had the benefit (to him) of cartoon characters as band members who couldn’t disagree with his control of the music and production. Kirshner did go on to prove that he was a hit-making machine even though the songs sucked.

449 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 8:40:27am

Speaking of VAWA

Today marks the 20th Anniversary of the passage of the Violence Against Women Act! ‪#‎ThankYouVAWA‬ for helping decrease the rate of ‪#𠃭omesticviolence‬ since 1994! ‪#‎HappyBirthdayVAWA‬

450 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 8:40:37am

Jerbs!!!!

451 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:41:05am

re: #445 FemNaziBitch

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FNC through people like Hannity, BillO, and the other hacks have fed them this image of what an American liberal is and it’s not even close to reality. Propaganda works. Fox is proof of that it can and will work in democratic societies.

452 Ace-o-aces  Sep 10, 2014 8:41:20am

re: #407 Charles Johnson

453 b.d.  Sep 10, 2014 8:43:58am

re: #450 De Kolta Chair

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Jerbs!!!!

Hire more people?

454 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 8:44:16am

re: #446 wrenchwench

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Make it so, pardner.

455 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:44:29am

Did anyone see what our VP had to say about Rice by the way? Saw this on a friend’s facebook timeline. I don’t care what people say about Biden. Yeah he’ll put his foot in his mouth sometimes but he’s at his heart a great man and a true leader and I wish he wasn’t going to be 73 on inauguration day in 2017 because I would very much to see him president.
jezebel.com
It’s never, never, never the woman’s fault. No man has a right to raise a hand to a woman. No means no. […] The one regret I have is we call it domestic violence as if it’s a domesticated cat. It is the most vicious form of violence there is, because not only the physical scars are left, the psychological scars that are left. This whole culture for so long has put the onus on the woman. What were you wearing? What did you say? What did you do to provoke? That is never the appropriate question.

456 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 8:44:51am

Having fun with this dipshit:

457 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 10, 2014 8:45:11am

waitwut

458 Ryan King  Sep 10, 2014 8:45:12am

re: #450 De Kolta Chair

Too much traffic. Yeah, right.

459 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 8:45:38am

re: #446 wrenchwench

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Who is officially the Sexiest Man on the Planet!

Sean Connery took a fall.

460 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:45:45am

re: #449 FemNaziBitch

Speaking of VAWA

Its author Biden had some great words on the whole Rice thing yesterday. I love Biden. The moral compass this man has compared with his immediate predecessor is breath taking.

461 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:46:11am

re: #457 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

waitwut

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Rep. Steve Smith isn’t a real guy. It’s a satirical account.

462 lawhawk  Sep 10, 2014 8:46:17am

re: #453 b.d.

Hire more people?

Who’s paying? Who’s bankrolling his smear mongering campaigns?

Want to investigate something - how about that….

463 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 8:46:35am

re: #455 HappyWarrior

Did anyone see what our VP had to say about Rice by the way? Saw this on a friend’s facebook timeline. I don’t care what people say about Biden. Yeah he’ll put his foot in his mouth sometimes but he’s at his heart a great man and a true leader and I wish he wasn’t going to be 73 on inauguration day in 2017 because I would very much to see him president.
jezebel.com
It’s never, never, never the woman’s fault. No man has a right to raise a hand to a woman. No means no. […] The one regret I have is we call it domestic violence as if it’s a domesticated cat. It is the most vicious form of violence there is, because not only the physical scars are left, the psychological scars that are left. This whole culture for so long has put the onus on the woman. What were you wearing? What did you say? What did you do to provoke? That is never the appropriate question.

Biden probably knows first hand. IIRC, his father was an alcoholic. The two often go hand-in-hand.

464 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:47:13am

re: #459 FemNaziBitch

Who is officially the Sexiest Man on the Planet!

Sean Connery took a fall.

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Connery had some very stupid words on the subject I seem to recall. I’ll never be a Trekkie but damn I like Pat Stewart, a class act all the way and he’s got a good sense of humor about himself too.

465 stpaulbear  Sep 10, 2014 8:47:29am

re: #347 Pie-onist Overlord

I got this story third-hand but still love it: A family visiting Hawaii went to a Don Ho concert. He showed up late, drunk, and beligerent. He was having trouble getting through songs, so he opened the show up to requests. Of course, the first request was ‘Play Tiny Bubbles!’, whereupon he growled out ‘I HATE TINY BUBBLES!!’ and went on an extended rant about said hatred and the stupidity of his audience. It was a great story as told by my coworker, and I HATE TINY BUBBLES! became an office quote for a long time afterwards.

466 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 8:48:24am

re: #456 Pie-onist Overlord

Having fun with this dipshit:

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Ask it to name an era when there weren’t taxes in some form or another. The era of the dinosaurs doesn’t count.

467 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 8:48:37am

HURR HURR TEH ROADS WOOD JUST BUILT THEMSELFS!!!!!!

468 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:48:38am

re: #463 FemNaziBitch

Biden probably knows first hand. IIRC, his father was an alcoholic. The two often go hand-in-hand.

And he himself chose not to drink. You could be right about that. Had never heard that about Joe’s father but it’s possible. Either way, those are great words from him and why I continue to admire him. I am really glad Obama has him as part of his team.

469 lawhawk  Sep 10, 2014 8:48:46am

re: #456 Pie-onist Overlord

Taxes have been collected by rulers pretty much as long as there have been rulers.

That’s how they raised armies, built defenses, and kept their holdings in check.

Own a farm? You paid over a portion of your crops to the local lords.
Were a merchant? You paid over a portion of what you made.

Didn’t have enough to cover what was owed? Into debtors prisons you went. Became indentured servants. Or worse.

Yeah, one has to wonder what color the sky was in this person’s universe.

470 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 8:48:58am
471 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 10, 2014 8:48:59am

re: #461 HappyWarrior

Well, that’s silly.

472 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 8:49:55am

re: #465 stpaulbear

I got this story third-hand but still love it: A family visiting Hawaii went to a Don Ho concert. He showed up late, drunk, and beligerent. He was having trouble getting through songs, so he opened the show up to requests. Of course, the first request was ‘Play Tiny Bubbles!’, whereupon he growled out ‘I HATE TINY BUBBLES!!’ and went on an extended rant about said hatred and the stupidity of his audience. It was a great story as told by my coworker, and I HATE TINY BUBBLES! became an office quote for a long time afterwards.

Luckily Bruddah Iz is the new voice of Hawaii!
Youtube Video

473 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:50:03am

re: #467 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR TEH ROADS WOOD JUST BUILT THEMSELFS!!!!!!

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And who would maintain those roads? Really, libertarians are so clueless. They again I will say it want to live in reality built by what they loathe. I’d find them more laudable if they conceded that they’d be making us regress as a civilization if we did what they wanted but they continue to delude themselves.

474 b.d.  Sep 10, 2014 8:50:13am

re: #462 lawhawk

Who’s paying? Who’s bankrolling his smear mongering campaigns?

Want to investigate something - how about that….

Considering the guy isn’t even to shell out any cash for a notary I doubt that he has any employees at all. He can’t count the Geek Squad from his Best Buy warranty as employees.

475 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 10, 2014 8:50:14am

re: #470 Pie-onist Overlord

Somalia!

Oh, wait, you said civilization…

476 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:50:49am

re: #471 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Well, that’s silly.

Twitter is full of silly but yeah I made the mistake of thinking that Steven Smith was a real Congressman too.

477 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 8:51:07am

re: #469 lawhawk

Taxes have been collected by rulers pretty much as long as there have been rulers.

That’s how they raised armies, built defenses, and kept their holdings in check.

Own a farm? You paid over a portion of your crops to the local lords.
Were a merchant? You paid over a portion of what you made.

Didn’t have enough to cover what was owed? Into debtors prisons you went. Became indentured servants. Or worse.

Yeah, one has to wonder what color the sky was in this person’s universe.

IIRC, there is a difference between taxes and tribute —at least in the modern sense.

One is give a part of what is yours, the other is getting to keep part of what is the kings.

478 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:52:24am

I like taxes, with them I buy civilization.
Oliver Wendell Holmes.

479 Eventual Carrion  Sep 10, 2014 8:53:00am

re: #429 Lidane

Responsible gun owner standing his ground:

MPD: Teenager throws disc golf into yard, owner responds with gunshot

Hey you kids, get off my BANG! lawn.

480 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 8:53:08am

The face of Righteous Vengeance.

481 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 10, 2014 8:53:24am

re: #476 HappyWarrior

At least those idiotic fake news sites almost always indicate that they’re satire. No such thing in this case.

482 b.d.  Sep 10, 2014 8:53:53am

re: #470 Pie-onist Overlord

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BAHRAIN!! NOW, ALL THAT WE WOULD HAVE TO DO IS PRIVATIZE THE US NATURAL RESOURCES

483 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 8:54:04am

re: #470 Pie-onist Overlord

Babylonian cuneiform tablet impressed with cylinder seal: tax receipt, ca. 1634 B.C. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC)

484 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:54:34am

I mean if you want to debate the amount of taxes, sure that’s a reasonable debate but these people want the debate about whether taxation should exist at all. And quite frankly that’s why they cant’ be reasoned with. They’ve convinced themselves that societies can be run with no taxes. We’ve gone from “No new taxes” to “No taxes at all.” It is in that sense that the so called conservatives are actually the radicals and the “tax and spend liberals” are actually the conservative.

485 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:55:03am

re: #481 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

At least those idiotic fake news sites almost always indicate that they’re satire. No such thing in this case.

Yeah I agree, it’s like that one satirical site that isn’t the Onion, freeport news or whatever.

486 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 10, 2014 8:56:18am

re: #480 FemNaziBitch

The face of Righteous Vengeance.

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The two girls, 50 years later.

487 ObserverArt  Sep 10, 2014 8:56:22am

I see everyone talking about Christmas songs. My favorite Christmas music was whenever I would catch Bryan Setzer and The Brain Setzer Orchestra do a song at Christmas time on a TV show.

Usually I would catch them on the Today Show or maybe another NBC show. I think they were always doing their Christmas Extravaganza in New York, so NBC would always get him.

I haven’t seen that in a couple years though. I miss ‘em. They always had a good time and they could rock-out any song.

488 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 8:57:01am

For Real???

489 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 8:57:24am

I got bored of these dumbshits when they all started barking HURR HURR STATIST COLLECTIVIST

Blocked em all. They can go live in the Gulch with their Solar panels & Wind turbines that the Kochs won’t allow them to have.

490 Eventual Carrion  Sep 10, 2014 8:58:34am

re: #432 FemNaziBitch

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They need to set new rules for Viagra then also.

1. You have to be married.
2. Your wife must be pre-menopause (procreation only).
3. Your wife must sign for you to receive it (no more taking it to pork a prostitute behind her back you fucking slut).

491 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 8:59:01am

HURR HURR IF THEIR WAS NO BIG GUBMIT & REGULASHUNS WE’D HAVE ARE UTOPIA!!!!!!

492 Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2014 8:59:44am

So in English lessons today, one of my students mentioned he’d been to folk-dancing lessons not far from here. He asked, “Do you have folk-dancing in the US?” to which I answered, “Of course we do” and showed him this:

Youtube Video

which, if you watch the moves, comes from this:

Youtube Video

American folk-dancing FTW!!

493 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 8:59:56am

re: #489 Pie-onist Overlord

I got bored of these dumbshits when they all started barking HURR HURR STATIST COLLECTIVIST

Blocked em all. They can go live in the Gulch with their Solar panels & Wind turbines that the Kochs won’t allow them to have.

When they call you that, you know you’ve won. I still remember my first real discussion with Ron Paul fanboys and being told I was a sheep because I said that you had no way of knowing what the Founders would think and do now in 21st century America. They didn’t want to hear anything that didn’t say Luap Nor wasn’t the chosen one. Paul supporters are the worst. It’s a cult of personality.

494 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 9:00:06am

re: #490 Eventual Carrion

They need to set new rules for Viagra then also.

1. You have to be married.
2. Your wife must be pre-menopause (procreation only).
3. Your wife must sign for you to receive it (no more taking it to pork a prostitute behind her back you fucking slut).

so, on my fb right now!!!

495 Skip Intro  Sep 10, 2014 9:00:40am

re: #446 wrenchwench

It depresses me to see how some people can just pull it off, no matter what it is, with no apparent effort.

496 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 9:00:50am

re: #493 HappyWarrior

When they call you that, you know you’ve won. I still remember my first real discussion with Ron Paul fanboys and being told I was a sheep because I said that you had no way of knowing what the Founders would think and do now in 21st century America. They didn’t want to hear anything that didn’t say Luap Nor wasn’t the chosen one. Paul supporters are the worst. It’s a cult of personality.

As soon as the STATIST COLLECTIVIST buzzwords come out, meet my block button.

497 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 9:01:31am
498 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 9:02:21am

re: #496 Pie-onist Overlord

As soon as the STATIST COLLECTIVIST buzzwords come out, meet my block button.

Good rule.

499 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 9:02:43am

Also they looked at my profile and they’re all HURR HURR UR IN DETROIT, LOOK AT WHAT LIBRULS & PROGRESSIVES DONE TO UR CITY!!!!!

Because talking points are so much easier to memorize than actual economic history.

500 ObserverArt  Sep 10, 2014 9:04:40am

re: #480 FemNaziBitch

The face of Righteous Vengeance.

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You know, every time I see that image it pisses me off. I have never understood how people can be so full of themselves to be that cruel to another human. And many times those same people call themselves good Christians. Then I would always wonder what the hell they were teaching in those churches. Then I found out that is exactly what they were teaching by not putting a stop to it and more or less condoning it.

501 Ace-o-aces  Sep 10, 2014 9:05:02am

re: #467 Pie-onist Overlord

502 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 9:06:24am
This brings us to the idea you have that women shouldn’t have equal pay because it will make it more difficult for them to find husbands. What you’re doing is attempting to limit my choices, and I don’t appreciate that. Let’s get one thing straight here. When I’m thinking about what kind of career I want to have, it’s a lot like shopping for a bra. I want to find something that fits me and appeals to me, and I’m not thinking about pleasing a man. Anyone who wants to be my partner in life is going to have to truly respect me, appreciate me for who I am, and honor the choices I make.

My sHERO!

503 lawhawk  Sep 10, 2014 9:06:36am

re: #497 FemNaziBitch

504 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 9:06:40am

re: #501 Ace-o-aces

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Who would build them, who would maintain them. We bitch about the state of the roads now. Can’t imagine how much worse it would be if we made that sort of thing a for profit thing.

505 wrenchwench  Sep 10, 2014 9:07:15am

re: #495 Skip Intro

It depresses me to see how some people can just pull it off, no matter what it is, with no apparent effort.

He ain’t really pulling it off. The boots are wrong, the hat brim is too narrow, the shirt color is questionable, the pants are too clean. Wouldn’t fly even in Santa Fe.

But he is the sexiest man alive, so I guess he’s pulling it off anyway.

506 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 9:07:29am

re: #503 lawhawk

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American conservatism in a nutshell. Cry something is a huge huge threat and then cut the resources to fix the problem. See, Benghazi and consulate and embassy security funds.

507 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 9:07:56am

re: #504 HappyWarrior

Who would build them, who would maintain them. We bitch about the state of the roads now. Can’t imagine how much worse it would be if we made that sort of thing a for profit thing.

HURR HURR FREE MARKETS WOULD STEP IN BUT THEY CAN’T BECAUSE GUBMIT REGULASHUNZ!!!!!!

Srsly that’s all the “answer” I get over and over.

508 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 9:12:04am

Look at Teh Stupids on parade:

509 stpaulbear  Sep 10, 2014 9:12:28am

re: #505 wrenchwench

He ain’t really pulling it off. The boots are wrong, the hat brim is too narrow, the shirt color is questionable, the pants are too clean. Wouldn’t fly even in Santa Fe.

But he is the sexiest man alive, so I guess he’s pulling it off anyway.

He played ‘George’ in the Guthrie’s version of ‘Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf’ a while back. He didn’t quite pull that off. Not quite enough self-loathing. It’s hard to top Liz and Dick in those roles.

510 Ace-o-aces  Sep 10, 2014 9:13:49am

The derp is strong with this one.

511 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 9:15:48am

Posted on a libertarian site. I don’t think they got the joke nor the point.

512 wrenchwench  Sep 10, 2014 9:16:22am

So I walk to work this morning (the most exercise I’ve gotten in a week), grab a coffee, come around the corner to the shop and the first people I see are my landlord and the best plumber in town. He’s out there with a snake and a beautiful blond assistant. My neighbor has had problems, and their sewer joins mine at some point under the building (it used to be one store, got divided into two decades ago). Mine seems fine, but now I can’t use it. :-(

513 nsmith25  Sep 10, 2014 9:17:05am
514 Ace-o-aces  Sep 10, 2014 9:17:38am
515 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 9:18:53am
Anonymous was—not always, but far too often—a woman

PAGES

516 lawhawk  Sep 10, 2014 9:19:08am

re: #510 Ace-o-aces

Gah.. interstate commerce. How does it work.

Every state sets its own lane widths? Overpass heights? Weight restrictions? Safety requirements?

How exactly is that efficient? It isn’t. The derp is indeed strong with that one.

re: #508 Pie-onist Overlord

State and local governments that impose their own taxes and fees to support the programs. Oy. What logic this one has.

517 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 9:19:14am

re: #508 Pie-onist Overlord

Look at Teh Stupids on parade:

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I guess someone never of the federal highway system that played a big part in why going from New York to California isn’t the weeks long trek like it used to be.

518 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 9:19:48am

Again they want to live in the modern world but they don’t want to pay for it. It’s simple as that.

519 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 9:20:24am

LIBERTARIAN TALKING POINT #256

WHEN A STATIST MENTION ROADS JUST MOCK THEM & SAY TEH ROADS BUILD THEMSELFS!!!!!!

520 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 9:21:56am

re: #503 lawhawk

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because American’s are the ones dying —yet.

GOP has made it very clear they see a definite moral boundary between US and THEM.

521 wrenchwench  Sep 10, 2014 9:22:12am

re: #509 stpaulbear

He played ‘George’ in the Guthrie’s version of ‘Who’s Afraid Of Virginia Woolf’ a while back. He didn’t quite pull that off. Not quite enough self-loathing.

I can understand the sexiest man alive having trouble achieving ‘self-loathing’.

522 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 10, 2014 9:22:43am

re: #517 HappyWarrior

I guess someone never of the federal highway system that played a big part in why going from New York to California isn’t the weeks long trek like it used to be.

Guess they haven’t read Sinclair Lewis’ 1919 novel “Free Air”. Free market roads!!!

523 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 10, 2014 9:24:14am

re: #508 Pie-onist Overlord

Look at Teh Stupids on parade:

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“Where does money come from?” - “Why, from the wallet, of course.”

524 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 9:24:30am

It’s just stupid. I get it. They don’t like taxes but throwing a fit akin to a child who doesn’t want to eat his veggies isn’t policy.

525 Skip Intro  Sep 10, 2014 9:24:55am

re: #505 wrenchwench

He ain’t really pulling it off. The boots are wrong, the hat brim is too narrow, the shirt color is questionable, the pants are too clean. Wouldn’t fly even in Santa Fe.

But he is the sexiest man alive, so I guess he’s pulling it off anyway.

That’s my point. It doesn’t matter if everything is all wrong. He can still pull it off.

526 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 9:25:38am

The irony though is during their favorite time of American history, the Gilded Age, the government was propping up business through tariffs. But of course, they want to believe that all was good and the big bad feds never got involved until the New Deal or TR.

527 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 9:26:11am
528 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 9:27:40am

re: #526 HappyWarrior

The irony though is during their favorite time of American history, the Gilded Age, the government was propping up business through tariffs. But of course, they want to believe that all was good and the big bad feds never got involved until the New Deal or TR.

The railroads were built by the railroad barons with huge government land grants.

Government also provided the military protection of the railroad workers (primarily Chinese slave labor) from attacks by Native Americans whose land they were building on.

529 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 9:28:12am

re: #527 FemNaziBitch

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Stay classy fuckwads and maybe if you had your head somewhere other than obsessing about guns, you’d know that Obama has done something about ISIL.

530 Skip Intro  Sep 10, 2014 9:28:37am

re: #516 lawhawk

Gah.. interstate commerce. How does it work.

Every state sets its own lane widths? Overpass heights? Weight restrictions? Safety requirements?

How exactly is that efficient? It isn’t. The derp is indeed strong with that one.

State and local governments that impose their own taxes and fees to support the programs. Oy. What logic this one has.

Libertarianism sounds fine, until you spend a couple of seconds thinking about how it all would work.

531 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 9:28:38am

re: #528 Pie-onist Overlord

The railroads were built by the railroad barons with huge government land grants.

Government also provided the military protection of the railroad workers (primarily Chinese slave labor) from attacks by Native Americans whose land they were building on.

Yep but those are facts. They’re not needed for them.

532 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 9:29:20am

re: #530 Skip Intro

Libertarianism sounds fine, until you spend a couple of seconds thinking about how it all would work.

Yeah it sounds great on paper and I think that’s why many young people easily embrace it but then you think about the actual logistics and you realize that this is a fantasy.

533 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 10, 2014 9:29:33am
534 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 9:30:05am

My favorite Libertarian cartoon.

535 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 9:30:16am

re: #458 Ryan King

Too much traffic. Yeah, right.

I think he means too much oncoming traffic.

536 BlueSpotinAL  Sep 10, 2014 9:32:44am

re: #518 HappyWarrior

Again they want to live in the modern world but they don’t want to pay for it. It’s simple as that.

Takers!

537 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 9:33:40am
538 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 9:34:10am

re: #528 Pie-onist Overlord

The railroads were built by the railroad barons with huge government land grants.

Government also provided the military protection of the railroad workers (primarily Chinese slave labor) from attacks by Native Americans whose land they were building on.

You know everything!

539 ObserverArt  Sep 10, 2014 9:34:10am

re: #513 nsmith25

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Good ol’ Ohio AG Mike DeWine(r) refuses to release the video of the shooting.

AG calls releasing Walmart shooting video ‘playing with dynamite’

“I think that it is playing with dynamite, frankly, to release that tape at this point,” DeWine told the Dayton Daily News. “And I think the dynamite simply is that it blows up and you can’t get a fair trial. That’s what we worry about.”

I think he is scared of the outrage and he is worried about the police not getting a fair shake. He doesn’t seem to care about the family.

This is what a GOP law and order type is all about these days.

540 Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 10, 2014 9:35:12am

re: #6 Dr. Matt

Okay fess up lizards, which one of you is actually Charles C Johnson? The dude has to be a parody.

I am Groot.

541 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 9:35:33am

re: #536 BlueSpotinAL

Takers!

And oldie but goodie.

542 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 9:38:04am

re: #541 De Kolta Chair

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And oldie but goodie.

Some shit you can’t make up.

543 Skip Intro  Sep 10, 2014 9:41:11am

This one got the wingnuts all hot and bothered recently:

Obama To Resign January 1st Amid New Benghazi Revelations

544 Rightwingconspirator  Sep 10, 2014 9:44:45am

re: #539 ObserverArt

I think he is worried the police lied, and the video will lay that fact bare.

545 Eventual Carrion  Sep 10, 2014 9:45:32am

re: #537 Pie-onist Overlord

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North American natives were communistic. Everything went for the common good.

546 ObserverArt  Sep 10, 2014 9:45:35am

re: #544 Rightwingconspirator

I think he is worried the police lied, and the video will lay that fact bare.

Yes, that too. It all comes down to protecting the police.

547 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 9:47:35am

re: #545 Eventual Carrion

North American natives were communistic. Everything went for the common good.

548 Lidane  Sep 10, 2014 9:48:37am

GOHMERT!

Louie Gohmert Reminds America ‘It’s Not Just Foreign People That Have Dreams’

“People here need to understand, it’s not just foreign people that have dreams,” Gohmert said. “They say, ‘Oh, they’re the DREAMers.’ We’ve got children of our own that have dreams that will never be realized.”

Gohmert went on to compare the thousands of Central American children who have come to the southern border of the U.S. after fleeing drug-related violence in their home countries to North Korean defectors, who he said make a “good neighbor” by comparison.

549 Rightwingconspirator  Sep 10, 2014 9:53:33am

re: #546 ObserverArt

Yes, that too. It all comes down to protecting the police.

I have been lurking PINAC and it’s a daily hit parade of police misbehavior, often in direct contradiction of court orders.

PINAC

September 10th, 2014

Washington D.C. Cop Bullies Videographer from Recording Arrest Despite Official Departmental Policy (Updated)

Video

Two years ago, the Metropolitan Police Department, which is the official name of the Washington D.C. police department, issued guidelines to officers, instructing them not to harass or intimidate citizens from recording, which was a result of a lawsuit filed by longtime PINAC reader Jerome Vorus.

550 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 9:53:43am

re: #548 Lidane

GOHMERT!

Louie Gohmert Reminds America ‘It’s Not Just Foreign People That Have Dreams’

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Acronyms how do they work?

551 FemNaziBitch  Sep 10, 2014 9:56:40am

ahhhh, grilled cheese for lunch.

Haven’t had one of those for a long time.

It was good.

Now, the puppies agree it is nap-time.

have a great day all.

552 Dr Lizardo  Sep 10, 2014 9:58:34am

re: #548 Lidane

GOHMERT!

Louie Gohmert Reminds America ‘It’s Not Just Foreign People That Have Dreams’

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Whenever I think of GOHMERT!! I think of this, except Gohmert isn’t as funny.

Youtube Video

553 Romantic Heretic  Sep 10, 2014 9:59:14am

re: #407 Charles Johnson

If Rep. Steve Smith ever endorses me I’ll know I’m doing something wrong.

Or worse than wrong.

554 Gus  Sep 10, 2014 10:01:02am

“House GOP to hash out ISIS response on Thursday…”

555 Romantic Heretic  Sep 10, 2014 10:02:28am

re: #421 FemNaziBitch

Righteous Vengeance is an intoxicant.

I just call them crackheads.

556 Gus  Sep 10, 2014 10:02:56am

Never mind.

557 Kragar  Sep 10, 2014 10:08:19am

In the past, an airman could opt for an alternative phrase and omit the words “so help me God,” but the US Air Force changed its policy in October 2013.

The other branches of the American military do not require the reference to God and make the phrase optional.

“This is the only branch to my knowledge that’s actually requiring everyone in all instances to use the religious language,” Miller said.

The requirement violates the US Constitution, which bars religious tests to hold office or other positions, Miller said of the case, which was first reported by the Air Force Times.

558 Lidane  Sep 10, 2014 10:09:57am

House GOP Sets Out On New Quixotic Quest To Mess With Obamacare

Cassidy’s bill would allow insurers to keep selling non-Obamacare-compliant plans to employers through 2019, which would largely affect small employers with 50 or fewer employees. The Obama administration has already given the same option to those in the individual market through 2016, after the outcry over the “keep your health plan” controversy last fall.

But the House GOP’s latest bill would significantly broaden that so-called “fix” and extend it through the end of the decade. The small-business market that would be affected accounts for at a minimum 17 percent of the covered workers in the United States, or roughly 26 million people. That market is a major focus of Obamacare, remade under its insurance reforms and targeted by the insurance exchanges that opened last year.

559 Kragar  Sep 10, 2014 10:10:21am

Had to test something, my copied tweets weren’t showing up for some reason. Had to reload the page

560 Lidane  Sep 10, 2014 10:10:49am

re: #557 Kragar

On a related note:

Bryan Fischer Call For Atheists To Be Banned From Serving In The Armed Forces

561 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 10:11:35am

re: #557 Kragar

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That’s messed up. And of course you know that twits like Fischer and the others have no problem with this because they think the armed forces need to be their personal religious military.

562 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 10:12:40am

re: #560 Lidane

On a related note:

Bryan Fischer Call For Atheists To Be Banned From Serving In The Armed Forces

Yeah right on fucking cue. Hey asshole, my cousin’s husband served this country honorably and got wounded doing it and he’s an Atheist. Who the fuck are you? Oh right, the pathetic shithead that thinks saving people “feminizes” the CMOH. Go fuck yourself and move to Saudi Arabia with your attitude.

564 klys  Sep 10, 2014 10:14:10am

….yeah, nope.

565 Kragar  Sep 10, 2014 10:14:17am

So we have a veteran who obviously loves serving his country and is good enough at his job that he qualifies for re-enlistment, being told he doesn’t have the proper religious beliefs to stay in the USAF.

The USAF is seriously fucked up.

566 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 10:14:50am

re: #539 ObserverArt

Good ol’ Ohio AG Mike DeWine(r) refuses to release the video of the shooting.

AG calls releasing Walmart shooting video ‘playing with dynamite’

I think he is scared of the outrage and he is worried about the police not getting a fair shake. He doesn’t seem to care about the family.

This is what a GOP law and order type is all about these days.

They showed the video to the witness, the one who called in the report of the man with a gun to police. BEFORE HE HAS TESTIFIED TO THE GRAND JURY!!!

I guess they needed to give him a chance to rehearse what he was going to say in light of what is on the tape. The fucking bastards!

567 sagehen  Sep 10, 2014 10:14:58am

re: #497 FemNaziBitch

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So the Gates Foundation is putting up more than Congress would?

568 WhatEVs  Sep 10, 2014 10:15:53am

re: #371 Amory Blaine

One could be equally nasty and apply this to much of the redneck nation *cough* Phil Robertson *cough* who marry at 15 or 16 and have kids they often cannot afford at the same pace. I mean, really, not everyone gets their own duck callin’ show on Arts & Entertainment.

569 skylarkingtomfoolery  Sep 10, 2014 10:16:58am

re: #547 Pie-onist Overlord

The great North American Native American civilizations (Maya and Aztec) did pay taxes. Irish tribes and less organized Native American groups payed “tribute.”

570 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 10:18:52am

re: #569 skylarkingtomfoolery

The great North American Native American civilizations (Maya and Aztec) did pay taxes. Irish tribes and less organized Native American groups payed “tribute.”

The Maya & Aztec collected taxes and conquered tribes who didn’t pay on time had to contribute human sacrifices.

571 Franklin  Sep 10, 2014 10:24:25am

Lawhawk/New Yorkers:

Friend of mine is on 95S in CT driving right now heading to Huntington Station on Long Island. Whats the best way to avoid traffic?

572 allegro  Sep 10, 2014 10:26:17am

re: #571 Franklin

Lawhawk/New Yorkers:

Friend of mine is on 95S in CT driving right now heading to Huntington Station on Long Island. Whats the best way to avoid traffic?

Fly.

573 Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 10, 2014 10:27:18am

re: #517 HappyWarrior

I guess someone never of the federal highway system that played a big part in why going from New York to California isn’t the weeks long trek like it used to be.

We can just go back to privately held railroads* and their monopolistic freight rates.

* - And, of course, ignore what the state and national governments had to do with getting the canals and railroads built using public funds for the common good.

574 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 10:27:20am

So far no Libertarian has come up with a civilization that did not collect taxes except for *cough* “collectivist” societies.

575 Lidane  Sep 10, 2014 10:27:43am

I’m just asking questions, u libtards!

Michael Savage: Obama Is Wiping Out Americans Through Diseases Carried By Migrant Kids

576 lawhawk  Sep 10, 2014 10:28:57am

re: #571 Franklin

Best to check Google maps or use Waze if they’ve got a smartphone so they can get up to the moment updates on traffic.

But best route is most direct - take 95S to I695S and take the Throgs Neck, run down the Clearview to the LIE (which usually backs up only to about Exit 31/32 normally, and stay on the LIE until you switch over to the Northern State further out on the island (past Route 135) until you get out to Route 110N to Huntington Station.

577 HappyWarrior  Sep 10, 2014 10:29:04am

re: #575 Lidane

I’m just asking questions, u libtards!

Michael Savage: Obama Is Wiping Out Americans Through Diseases Carried By Migrant Kids

Same shit, different year.

578 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 10:29:16am

re: #563 Lidane

This will end well:

Emboldened by Chipotle invasion, open carry activists start harassing Texas cops on duty

“Members of a pro-gun, anti-police group were arrested over the weekend in Texas after officers said the activists interfered with a traffic stop.”

I seriously wish the media would stop calling these nuts “activists.”

579 lawhawk  Sep 10, 2014 10:29:35am

re: #572 allegro

I was going to suggest apparation or a Tardis, but not everyone has those skills/devices on call.

580 Kragar  Sep 10, 2014 10:29:57am

re: #574 Pie-onist Overlord

So far no Libertarian has come up with a civilization that did not collect taxes except for *cough* “collectivist” societies.

“If we just embraced Voluntaryism, everything would be just fine and we would all get along!”

“My buddies and I think its easier just to raid your community and steal your food rather than working in the fields.”

“That would never happen under a Voluntary system!”

581 Franklin  Sep 10, 2014 10:30:55am

re: #576 lawhawk

Thanks!

582 makeitstop  Sep 10, 2014 10:31:18am

re: #571 Franklin

Lawhawk/New Yorkers:

Friend of mine is on 95S in CT driving right now heading to Huntington Station on Long Island. Whats the best way to avoid traffic?

There really is none.

But once he gets past the congestion points in CT and the immediate area around NYC, he should be pretty okay on the Northern State Parkway.

Throgg’s Neck Bridge/Cross Island Parkway/Northern State. The time of day should help him a bit, but not much.

583 klys  Sep 10, 2014 10:31:18am

re: #579 lawhawk

I was going to suggest apparation or a Tardis, but not everyone has those skills/devices on call.

I am tempted to do this pattern at some point.

584 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 10:31:32am

re: #574 Pie-onist Overlord

So far no Libertarian has come up with a civilization that did not collect taxes except for *cough* “collectivist” societies.

I wore one of them out for you at least, the one with all the five and six part replies. Not worth talking with the other one, I’m done arguing with children for today. :)

585 Lidane  Sep 10, 2014 10:32:19am

re: #517 HappyWarrior

I guess someone never of the federal highway system that played a big part in why going from New York to California isn’t the weeks long trek like it used to be.

The federal highway system wuz a statist plot by that evil collectivist pinko Eisenhower! Gubmint tyranny! Land grabs! Eleventy!

586 makeitstop  Sep 10, 2014 10:33:14am

re: #582 makeitstop

There really is none.

But once he gets past the congestion points in CT and the immediate area around NYC, he should be pretty okay on the Northern State Parkway.

Throgg’s Neck Bridge/Cross Island Parkway/Northern State. The time of day should help him a bit, but not much.

Oops. As Lawhawk said, Clearview to LIE to NSP. Need moar coffee, BRB.

587 wrenchwench  Sep 10, 2014 10:33:15am

re: #564 klys

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….yeah, nope.

Fascism begins in the home. Patriarchy.

588 Franklin  Sep 10, 2014 10:34:11am

re: #582 makeitstop

Thanks!

I am on Google maps confirming what you and lawhawk are suggesting and texting with them and they are on iPhones, with Google maps. There is a disconnect :)

589 wrenchwench  Sep 10, 2014 10:35:50am

re: #539 ObserverArt

Good ol’ Ohio AG Mike DeWine(r) refuses to release the video of the shooting.

AG calls releasing Walmart shooting video ‘playing with dynamite’

I think he is scared of the outrage and he is worried about the police not getting a fair shake. He doesn’t seem to care about the family.

This is what a GOP law and order type is all about these days.

It’s a shame he doesn’t think of shooting unarmed black people as ‘playing with dynamite’

590 klys  Sep 10, 2014 10:37:06am

re: #587 wrenchwench

Fascism begins in the home. Patriarchy.

The utterly depressing thing is that I don’t see how the court can avoid ruling for this in the wake of Hobby Lobby.

I’m over 26 now so it wouldn’t matter to me anyway but I was also fortunate in that grad school provided a …semi-reasonable health plan that I could pay for. My sisters, however, are still on my parents’ health insurance - one works mostly seasonal jobs that don’t come with health care, and the other is finishing up college.

My parents wouldn’t do this, I believe, but it’s so easy to see “there but for the grace of God” in this situation.

591 sagehen  Sep 10, 2014 10:37:37am

re: #571 Franklin

Lawhawk/New Yorkers:

Friend of mine is on 95S in CT driving right now heading to Huntington Station on Long Island. Whats the best way to avoid traffic?

Stop somewhere for lunch, forget about going to Long Island.

592 ausador  Sep 10, 2014 10:38:30am

re: #578 De Kolta Chair

“Members of a pro-gun, anti-police group were arrested over the weekend in Texas after officers said the activists interfered with a traffic stop.”

I seriously wish the media would stop calling these nuts “activists.”

Quite a lot of those “Cop-Stop” folks are hardcore Libertarian types, the no government flavor, not the minimal government ones. :(

593 b.d.  Sep 10, 2014 10:41:15am

re: #585 Lidane

The federal highway system wuz a statist plot by that evil collectivist pinko Eisenhower! Gubmint tyranny! Land grabs! Eleventy!

The Interstate Highway system is there in case they have to deploy the military anywhere in the US to quash rebellion!! The Interstate Highways are as wide as they are so a cargo/troop transport plane can land on them!1! That’s why 1 mile out of every 5 has to be straight!!

The Interstate Highway system is there in case they have to deploy the military anywhere in the US to quash rebellion!! The Interstate Highways are as wide as they are so a cargo/troop transport plane can land on them!1!That’s why 1 mile out of every 5 has to be straight!!

fhwa.dot.gov

594 Franklin  Sep 10, 2014 10:43:24am

re: #591 sagehen

Yeah, they are heading down for a wake, then back tonight. I don’t envy them.

595 wrenchwench  Sep 10, 2014 10:44:18am

re: #590 klys

The utterly depressing thing is that I don’t see how the court can avoid ruling for this in the wake of Hobby Lobby.

I’m over 26 now so it wouldn’t matter to me anyway but I was also fortunate in that grad school provided a …semi-reasonable health plan that I could pay for. My sisters, however, are still on my parents’ health insurance - one works mostly seasonal jobs that don’t come with health care, and the other is finishing up college.

My parents wouldn’t do this, I believe, but it’s so easy to see “there but for the grace of God” in this situation.

We need something like a ‘women’s liberation movement’. Hmmm….

I thought we’d been there and done that, but the t-shirt no longer fits.

596 Skip Intro  Sep 10, 2014 10:44:24am

It never ends.

597 wrenchwench  Sep 10, 2014 10:45:59am
598 allegro  Sep 10, 2014 10:47:24am

re: #596 Skip Intro

It never ends.

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Hack all of Trump’s bankruptcy records. That would keep them busy for months.

599 Kragar  Sep 10, 2014 10:47:58am
600 Lidane  Sep 10, 2014 10:49:16am

re: #598 allegro

Hack all of Trump’s bankruptcy records. That would keep them busy for months.

Or his income taxes. Hah.

601 lawhawk  Sep 10, 2014 10:49:32am

re: #596 Skip Intro

602 Ace-o-aces  Sep 10, 2014 10:50:42am

re: #600 Lidane

Or his income taxes. Hah.

I’d say we could “hack” his hair, but it’s probably filled with malware.

603 Kragar  Sep 10, 2014 10:53:40am
604 ObserverArt  Sep 10, 2014 10:54:59am

Pie-onist,

Looks like Detroit is now in the thick of the storms. On the maps they don’t look too bad. How is it up there?

605 b.d.  Sep 10, 2014 10:55:39am

re: #603 Kragar

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Ben Carson is the Chuck C Johnson of neurosurgeons

606 wrenchwench  Sep 10, 2014 10:56:18am

re: #602 Ace-o-aces

I’d say we could “hack” his hair, but it’s probably filled with malware.

Malwear. New word just for him.

607 BeachDem  Sep 10, 2014 10:58:04am

re: #539 ObserverArt

Good ol’ Ohio AG Mike DeWine(r) refuses to release the video of the shooting.

AG calls releasing Walmart shooting video ‘playing with dynamite’

I think he is scared of the outrage and he is worried about the police not getting a fair shake. He doesn’t seem to care about the family.

This is what a GOP law and order type is all about these days.

And, according to the Guardian article, little Mikey had no problem showing the video to the “ex-non-Marine.”

(Guess he wants to make sure that doofus has his story in accordance with the police version of events.)

608 Gus  Sep 10, 2014 10:59:10am
609 Gus  Sep 10, 2014 10:59:25am

Libertarians. How do they work?

610 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 10, 2014 11:00:37am

re: #604 ObserverArt

Pie-onist,

Looks like Detroit is now in the thick of the storms. On the maps they don’t look too bad. How is it up there?

We had some heavy downpours. I called home & the power is still on.

Now I’m worried about freeway flooding.

611 BeachDem  Sep 10, 2014 11:03:50am

re: #578 De Kolta Chair

“Members of a pro-gun, anti-police group were arrested over the weekend in Texas after officers said the activists interfered with a traffic stop.”

I seriously wish the media would stop calling these nuts “activists.”

Yeah—these two don’t look all that active./

612 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 11:05:21am

613 BeenHereAwhile  Sep 10, 2014 11:05:22am

re: #376 Romantic Heretic

The only Christmas song I really like.

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My vote goes to:

“Merry Christmas Baby”

Charles Brown

Youtube Video

614 Gus  Sep 10, 2014 11:06:33am

re: #612 De Kolta Chair

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Libertarianism: freedom to deny other people their freedom.

615 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 11:11:08am

616 BeenHereAwhile  Sep 10, 2014 11:13:48am

re: #420 FemNaziBitch

Once you start you can’t stop. The rabble will become restless.

Have to find felons or make them on a regular basis.

The 10th Victim

imdb.com

617 Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 10, 2014 11:17:17am

re: #614 Gus

Libertarianism: freedom to deny other people their freedom.

So, reading Orwell’s Animal Farm would be dead out for them? Or would it be okay because libertarians are incapable of cognitive dissonance?

618 WhatEVs  Sep 10, 2014 11:19:29am

re: #503 lawhawk

RE: Ebola

Northwestern University’s statistics folks estimated 100,000 cases. We’re only an airplane ride away from worldwide disaster.

The GOP and Fox, et al, spend so much time scaring the shit out of people over completely bullshit, when a real threat occurs, Meh…

619 De Kolta Chair  Sep 10, 2014 11:21:07am

620 Slap  Sep 10, 2014 11:22:00am

re: #616 BeenHereAwhile

Anyone mentioning Sheckley’s work ALWAYS can get an upding from me!

621 Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 10, 2014 11:24:30am

re: #209 ausador

He actually replied to me in a jackassy kind of way.

622 Slap  Sep 10, 2014 11:41:09am

Re: Christmas music….

I’m no fan of the schlocky, obvious Ray Conniff-type of presentation and style — but there has been some superb holiday/Christmas music made in recent years:

“Christmas” by Bruce Cockburn
“A Barenaked Christmas” by Barenaked Ladies
Jethro Tull’s Christmas Album (includes Ring Out Solstice Bells)
“‘Tis the Season for Los Straitjackets” by Los Straitjackets
Several Motown and Stax collections (not recent years, but still lovely)
“Snowfall”, the Tony Bennett Christmas Album
“A Manhattan Transfer Christmas”
“The Spirit of Christmas” by Ray Charles
“A Very Jazzy Christmas”
“Christmas is Almost Here” by Carly Simon
All of the aforementioned Brian Setzer Orchestra holiday stuff

….and my current fav, “Jingle All the Way” by Bela Fleck and the Flecktones.

(Yes, I do like Christmas music done with artistic integrity. It really does exist, you just need to be motivated to sift through the mind-numbing pile of dreck that passes for Christmas music.)

623 Amory Blaine  Sep 10, 2014 2:30:57pm

re: #597 wrenchwench

What a cute little hoops dancer!!


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