Chuck Woolery Loses It: “The Muslims Are ON THE MARCH!”

Woolery’s educated guess: “Obama is a Muslim”
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1 WhatEVs  Sep 12, 2014 3:07:30pm

Chuck Wollery lost it long ago. He’s kinda nuts.

2 b_sharp  Sep 12, 2014 3:10:22pm

Idiot says what?

3 jaunte  Sep 12, 2014 3:11:42pm
I have been reluctant to say this, but I think we have a Muslim problem in the White House. So where does that leave the Democrats?

Such a wealth of fragrant nuggets.

4 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 12, 2014 3:11:57pm

So, instead of asking “who’s that nobody”, I googled:

Charles Herbert “Chuck” Woolery (born March 16, 1941) is an American game show host.

Wow, that’s a super-intellectual occupation, making Chuck obviously qualified to make analytic pronouncements like the ones above.

5 b_sharp  Sep 12, 2014 3:12:15pm

Just had an ad for a system to spread the gospel staring me in the face.

6 jaunte  Sep 12, 2014 3:12:30pm

He doesn’t seem reluctant.

7 WhatEVs  Sep 12, 2014 3:14:01pm

He’s like Donald Trump. With hair.

8 Ryan King  Sep 12, 2014 3:15:19pm

Oh, Woolery is a special kind of special.

9 WhatEVs  Sep 12, 2014 3:16:24pm

re: #4 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Wow, that’s a super-intellectual occupation, making Chuck obviously qualified to make analytic pronouncements like the ones above.

He hocks a lot of shit in Sirius these days. He’s past the expiry date for real serious work like game show hosting.

10 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 12, 2014 3:18:20pm

re: #9 WhatEVs

Woolery, Stein… they should open a Has-Been Club.

11 Charles Johnson  Sep 12, 2014 3:18:42pm
12 Chez Ko Pe  Sep 12, 2014 3:20:36pm

Dare I ask what set this off?

Before becoming a game-show geek, Chuckles was an actor with minor roles in such awesome films as the incompetent “Treasure of Jamaica Reef,” which was slapped up with gore footage a year after being unable to find a buyer and sold as “Evil in the Deep” to ride the wave of the “Jaws” craze.

13 dog philosopher  Sep 12, 2014 3:20:40pm

crocoduck

i think im gonna start using this word to describe alla these right wing “memes” that begin with an ignorant premise and build on it to arrive at a full blown misapprehension of reality, such as

“if people are descended from chimps, why are there still monkeys?”

“liberals hate the constitution because it stops them from confiscating all guns”

“liberals are against freedom because they want to restrict our right to stop abortion and ban homosexuality”

“since democrats are socialists, it means that their ultimate goal is to turn america into a stalinist dictatorship”

crocoducks, that’s what i call em

14 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 12, 2014 3:22:12pm

re: #13 dog philosopher

Well, since crocoduck has been discovered, I’m not sure it’s the best use of the word ;)

15 b_sharp  Sep 12, 2014 3:24:13pm

re: #13 dog philosopher

crocoduck

i think im gonna start using this word to describe alla these right wing “memes” that begin with an ignorant premise and build on it to arrive at a full blown misapprehension of reality, such as

“if people are descended from chimps, why are there still monkeys?”

“liberals hate the constitution because it stops them from confiscating all guns”

“liberals are against freedom because they want to restrict our right to stop abortion and ban homosexuality”

“since democrats are socialists, it means that their ultimate goal is to turn america into a stalinist dictatorship”

crocoducks, that’s what i call em

You are very wise.

16 A Mom Anon  Sep 12, 2014 3:24:54pm

Ahem. I may be a little rusty on my American History and Constitution but isn’t there something about No Religious Test for any elected office?

That being said, I do believe Muslim is just a code word for BlackityblackblackomgIcantstandithesBlack. Go ahead, read what he wrote but substitute the n-word for Muslim. Because, yeah.

17 b_sharp  Sep 12, 2014 3:25:14pm

re: #14 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Well, since crocoduck has been discovered, I’m not sure it’s the best use of the word ;)

It’s not a true crocoduck.

18 dholmes32  Sep 12, 2014 3:25:39pm

I am mortified to admit that Chuck Woolery was the first “famous” person I ever met (back around 1979), because he was on TV. Ironically, at the same time my father’s boss was Captain James Lovell (yes, that James Lovell) and I didn’t think he was famous because he wasn’t on TV. But a game show host—you can tell I was in some ways a very unserious 19 year old.

Now I find his politics appalling. The guy who replaced him on Wheel of Fortune is just as much a right wing nutjob as he is.

19 GeneJockey  Sep 12, 2014 3:26:02pm

re: #17 b_sharp

It’s not a true crocoduck.

No True Crocoduck would ever…..

20 wrenchwench  Sep 12, 2014 3:26:44pm

Not to defend this particular journalist game show host as I have no knowledge of his past writing, but I do not believe the highlighted caption tweet on its own to be an example of bigotry.

/some peter or another

21 GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 12, 2014 3:26:55pm

“We’ll be back in 2 and 2.”

22 GeneJockey  Sep 12, 2014 3:27:13pm

Dana: “You don’t really talk like a Scientist.”

Venkmann: “Yeah, most of them are pretty stiff.”

Dana: “You’re more like a game show host.”

23 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 12, 2014 3:27:35pm

re: #17 b_sharp

It’s not a true crocoduck.

Unless discovered by a scotsman?

24 GeneJockey  Sep 12, 2014 3:28:23pm

re: #13 dog philosopher

crocoduck

i think im gonna start using this word to describe alla these right wing “memes” that begin with an ignorant premise and build on it to arrive at a full blown misapprehension of reality, such as

“if people are descended from chimps, why are there still monkeys?”

“liberals hate the constitution because it stops them from confiscating all guns”

“liberals are against freedom because they want to restrict our right to stop abortion and ban homosexuality”

“since democrats are socialists, it means that their ultimate goal is to turn america into a stalinist dictatorship”

crocoducks, that’s what i call em

Why not Crockoshit? Seems more descriptive.

25 GeneJockey  Sep 12, 2014 3:28:50pm

re: #23 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Unless discovered by a scotsman?

No True Scotsman would discover a Crocoduck.

26 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 12, 2014 3:30:31pm

re: #25 GeneJockey

What about a crocoshark?

27 GeneJockey  Sep 12, 2014 3:31:26pm

re: #26 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

What about a crocoshark?

Crocosharktopus?

28 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 12, 2014 3:31:43pm

Swearycat needs to be wearing Crocs:

29 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 12, 2014 3:32:55pm

hahahaa…

30 Amory Blaine  Sep 12, 2014 3:34:43pm

Appeals panel reinstates Wisconsin’s voter ID law

A federal appeals court in Chicago Friday reinstated for now Wisconsin’s voter ID law hours after the three-judge panel heard arguments on the subject.

The move by the U.S. 7th Circuit Court of Appeals clears the way for the state to implement the law for the Nov. 4 election, though it does not stop the ongoing appeal over whether the measure is unconstitutional.

“The state of Wisconsin may, if it wishes (and if it is appropriate under rules of state law), enforce the photo ID requirement in this November’s elections,” the unsigned two-page order reads.

31 Patricia Kayden  Sep 12, 2014 3:35:39pm

Such a shame. I remember the whole family used to love his show “The Love Connection” and I used to watch “Lingo” when he hosted.

Being Rightwing is a mental disorder. Ben Carson was the other shocker for me.

32 Patricia Kayden  Sep 12, 2014 3:36:06pm

re: #30 Amory Blaine

Appeals panel reinstates Wisconsin’s voter ID law

Just seeing that on Rev Al’s show. What a shame.

33 ausador  Sep 12, 2014 3:36:14pm
34 darthstar  Sep 12, 2014 3:36:58pm

Chuck Woolery must have had a love connection with a bad turnip.

35 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 12, 2014 3:37:52pm

good freakin grief…

36 ObserverArt  Sep 12, 2014 3:38:36pm

I just spun the big wheel. Tick…tick…tick…tick…..tick.

Chuck Wollery comes up a loser. I win by laughing at him. Hahahahaha. Fool.

37 darthstar  Sep 12, 2014 3:38:56pm
38 darthstar  Sep 12, 2014 3:39:50pm

Fucking AP…and the Vikings looked good…oh well, they’ll recover. Get this fucker as far from the team as possible. If he’s not guilty, he can come back next season.

39 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 3:39:53pm

It’s hard to believe that Pat Sajak is the least ranting, crazy wingnut host in Wheel of Fortune’s history

40 GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 12, 2014 3:40:05pm

re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth

Can we remove their non-profit tax-free status now?

41 Amory Blaine  Sep 12, 2014 3:40:58pm

So digusting Mr. Woolery.

2 And 2 For You!!!

42 Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 12, 2014 3:42:36pm

It’s been a rough week for the NFL.

43 GeneJockey  Sep 12, 2014 3:43:46pm

re: #41 Amory Blaine

So digusting Mr. Woolery.

2 And 2 For You!!!

I’m reasonably certain that’s ‘shopped. QEII would give people The FingerS, being British and all.
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44 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 12, 2014 3:44:04pm

re: #42 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s been a rough week for the NFL.

Yep, Michael Sam just ruined the NFL for everyone…

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45 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 3:44:15pm

All that Chuck left out of those tweets was a reference to a meddlesome priest.

46 wrenchwench  Sep 12, 2014 3:45:09pm

re: #42 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s been a rough week life for the wives and children of NFL players.

Perspective.

47 darthstar  Sep 12, 2014 3:45:20pm
48 jaunte  Sep 12, 2014 3:45:26pm
49 GeneJockey  Sep 12, 2014 3:47:04pm

re: #45 b.d.

All that Chuck left out of those tweets was a reference to a meddlesome priest.

You know, there used to be a time when the only time you’d hear from or about washed-up game show hosts was in ‘Where Are They Now?” featurettes.

50 Amory Blaine  Sep 12, 2014 3:49:00pm

Chuck Woolery and Pat Sajak should team up and start a new game show.

51 goddamnedfrank  Sep 12, 2014 3:49:34pm

The Indonesian state political philosophy is adamantly monotheistic, officially recognizing only six religions, including Christianity. Atheists have been targeted for extreme violence, especially during the anti-communist purges of the 1960’s. Being a Christian there is a comparative cake-walk, they make up the largest of the religious minorities and have it much easier than say Hindus, another officially recognized religious minority, who are sometimes ignorantly and erroneously targeted as polytheists.

52 wrenchwench  Sep 12, 2014 3:50:01pm

re: #50 Amory Blaine

Chuck Woolery and Pat Sajak should team up and start a new game show.

The Newlyweirds

53 wrenchwench  Sep 12, 2014 3:52:02pm

re: #50 Amory Blaine

Chuck Woolery and Pat Sajak should team up and start a new game show.

The Wheel of Misfortune

54 goddamnedfrank  Sep 12, 2014 3:52:51pm

re: #51 goddamnedfrank

Reload. Meant to post my reply.

55 GeneJockey  Sep 12, 2014 3:53:27pm

re: #51 goddamnedfrank

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The Indonesian state political philosophy is adamantly monotheistic, officially recognizing only six religions, including Christianity. Atheists have been targeted for extreme violence, especially during the anti-communist purges of the 1960’s. Being a Christian there is a comparative cake-walk, they make up the largest of the religious minorities and have it much easier than say Hindus, another officially recognized religious minority, who are sometimes ignorantly and erroneously targeted as polytheists.

Growing up, I was beaten up and mistreated by supposedly peaceful Republicans.

56 nines09  Sep 12, 2014 3:53:38pm

re: #50 Amory Blaine

Chuck Woolery and Pat Sajak should team up and start a new game show.

They can call it; “On Drugs? Or Should Be?” They can play themselves and bring on a bevy of like minded high intellect devotees to the joys of self induced idiocy or drug induced idiocy. Just about the entire Tea Party and GOP could be contestants.

57 ObserverArt  Sep 12, 2014 3:54:24pm

re: #49 GeneJockey

You know, there used to be a time when the only time you’d hear from or about washed-up game show hosts was in ‘Where Are They Now?” featurettes.

And then came the Twitters.

58 Decatur Deb  Sep 12, 2014 3:55:25pm

re: #51 goddamnedfrank

Growing up my wife was forced to carry a religious identity card, beat up & mistreated by supposedly moderate Muslims in Indonesia.
The en.wikipedia.org">en.wikipedia.org”>

There was a lesson in there and CCJ missed it, 150 IQ and all.

59 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 3:56:20pm

re: #52 wrenchwench

The Newlyweirds

They could read rants and ask the contestants if:
Is this one of our tweets or a letter from the looney bin?

60 GeneJockey  Sep 12, 2014 3:57:18pm

re: #59 b.d.

They could read rants and ask the contestants if:
Is this one of our tweets or a letter from the looney bin?

Or ask contestants which ethnic or religious group their spouse would say they hate most.

61 goddamnedfrank  Sep 12, 2014 3:57:40pm

re: #55 GeneJockey

Growing up, I was beaten up and mistreated by supposedly peaceful Republicans.

The thing about Christianity is that it’s essentially founded on the idea of being persecuted. For many, many Christians, to be “like Christ” means to be targeted, being a “good Christian” is equated with being unfairly singled out and violently opposed.

So when reality doesn’t offer them this experience organically they either seek it out or invent it from whole cloth.

62 GeneJockey  Sep 12, 2014 3:58:23pm

re: #58 Decatur Deb

There was a lesson in there and CCJ missed it, 150 IQ and all.

Oh, I’m certain he got a lesson out of it. Not the right one, but still.

63 Bubblehead II  Sep 12, 2014 3:58:56pm

re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth

good freakin grief…

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The beating allegedly resulted in numerous injuries to the child, including cuts and bruises to the child’s back, buttocks, ankles, legs and scrotum, along with defensive wounds to the child’s hands. Peterson then texted the boy’s mother, saying that one wound in particular would make her “mad at me about his leg. I got kinda good wit the tail end of the switch.”

This was a beating. No way to deny it. Put his ass in jail.

64 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 3:59:01pm

re: #60 GeneJockey

Or ask contestants which ethnic or religious group their spouse would say they hate most.

I’LL TAKE TERRORIST RELIGIONS THAT ARE ON THE MARCH FOR $1,000 CHUCK

65 GeneJockey  Sep 12, 2014 4:00:43pm

re: #64 b.d.

I’LL TAKE TERRORIST RELIGIONS THAT ARE ON THE MARCH FOR $1,000 CHUCK

“I’ll take The Rapists for $100, Alex!”

“Again, that’s THERAPISTS, Mr. Connery.”

66 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Sep 12, 2014 4:00:45pm

re: #63 Bubblehead II

The beating allegedly resulted in numerous injuries to the child, including cuts and bruises to the child’s back, buttocks, ankles, legs and scrotum, along with defensive wounds to the child’s hands. Peterson then texted the boy’s mother, saying that one wound in particular would make her “mad at me about his leg. I got kinda good wit the tail end of the switch.”

This was a beating. No way to deny it. Put his ass in jail.

yeah, this was past discipline. Reading more he had a “whoopin room” with a closet full of belts and other items.

67 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 12, 2014 4:01:19pm

What the hell, Hegel?

68 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 4:02:45pm

re: #65 GeneJockey

“I’ll take The Rapists for $100, Alex!”

“Again, that’s THERAPISTS, Mr. Connery.”

That was so funny

69 mikec6666  Sep 12, 2014 4:02:54pm

Oh brother.

70 Bubblehead II  Sep 12, 2014 4:04:27pm

re: #66 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

yeah, this was past discipline. Reading more he had a “whoopin room” with a closet full of belts and other items.

In other words, he is a sadistic bastard.

71 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Sep 12, 2014 4:05:48pm

re: #70 Bubblehead II

In other words, he is a sadistic bastard.

yeah, sounds like he had a dungeon.

72 dog philosopher  Sep 12, 2014 4:05:59pm

re: #15 b_sharp

You are very wise.

heh

my father used to say that, but he didn’t mean it as a compliment

73 ausador  Sep 12, 2014 4:06:16pm
74 dog philosopher  Sep 12, 2014 4:07:08pm

re: #67 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

What the hell, Hegel?

i just kant

75 ObserverArt  Sep 12, 2014 4:08:27pm

Wow. The NFL spends gazillions to control the media and the message. And now shit’s outta control.

Goodell is now fighting more than just the players association in this one. Another week or two with this much focus on them and the owners are going to freak out. Having media of all kinds digging and grilling to this extent and who knows what’s going to come out further.

America loves to tackle big companies.

76 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 4:09:39pm

Ok, this week has been a total letdown:

Assange was going to have left the embassy.
Chuck C was going to ruin Hillary’s chances, expose numerous other scandals
El Paso was supposed to be attacked
Obama has horns but doesn’t breath fire
No stolen Libyan jets inducing terror anywhere
Mexican ISIS failing to appear
1/3 of Atlanta doesn’t have Ebola

What else?

77 Decatur Deb  Sep 12, 2014 4:09:53pm

re: #67 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

What the hell, Hegel?

Sounds like he invented the post-modernism generator pre-modernism.

google.com

78 Decatur Deb  Sep 12, 2014 4:11:04pm

re: #76 b.d.

Ok, this week has been a total letdown:

Assange was going to have left the embassy.
Chuck C was going to ruin Hillary’s chances, expose numerous other scandals
El Paso was supposed to be attacked
Obama has horns but doesn’t breath fire
No stolen Libyan jets inducing terror anywhere
Mexican ISIS failing to appear
1/3 of Atlanta doesn’t have Ebola

What else?

Steelers were going 2 for 2.

79 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 12, 2014 4:11:48pm

re: #13 dog philosopher

crocoduck

i think im gonna start using this word to describe alla these right wing “memes” that begin with an ignorant premise and build on it to arrive at a full blown misapprehension of reality, such as

“if people are descended from chimps, why are there still monkeys?”

“liberals hate the constitution because it stops them from confiscating all guns”

“liberals are against freedom because they want to restrict our right to stop abortion and ban homosexuality”

“since democrats are socialists, it means that their ultimate goal is to turn america into a stalinist dictatorship”

crocoducks, that’s what i call em

Crock o’shits, that’s what I call em.

80 Decatur Deb  Sep 12, 2014 4:12:10pm

Dogwalk. BBL

81 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 12, 2014 4:12:13pm

re: #73 ausador

Barry Wirth is a parody account.

82 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 12, 2014 4:14:25pm
83 GeneJockey  Sep 12, 2014 4:15:53pm

re: #82 Pie-onist Overlord

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Want. Want badly.

84 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 4:16:14pm

re: #82 Pie-onist Overlord

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DAMMITT!! I told you yours would look exactly like that picture but these look even better. Please tell me there is a 5# block of room temperature butter just off to the side.

Those look wonderful

85 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 12, 2014 4:16:45pm
86 darthstar  Sep 12, 2014 4:16:51pm
87 wrenchwench  Sep 12, 2014 4:16:54pm

re: #82 Pie-onist Overlord

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I need a low-carb version.

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88 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 12, 2014 4:18:21pm

re: #63 Bubblehead II

The beating allegedly resulted in numerous injuries to the child, including cuts and bruises to the child’s back, buttocks, ankles, legs and scrotum, along with defensive wounds to the child’s hands. Peterson then texted the boy’s mother, saying that one wound in particular would make her “mad at me about his leg. I got kinda good wit the tail end of the switch.”

This was a beating. No way to deny it. Put his ass in jail.

What’s really stunning about this, is that his 2-year-old son died as a result of child abuse at the hands of someone else last year.

cnn.com

89 Bubblehead II  Sep 12, 2014 4:18:33pm

re: #75 ObserverArt

Wow. The NFL spends gazillions to control the media and the message. And now shit’s outta control.

Goodell is now fighting more than just the players association in this one. Another week or two with this much focus on them and the owners are going to freak out. Having media of all kinds digging and grilling to this extent and who knows what’s going to come out further.

America loves to tackle big companies.

No, they like Dirty Laundry.

Youtube Video

90 GeneJockey  Sep 12, 2014 4:18:59pm

re: #87 wrenchwench

I need a low-carb version.

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Add a lot of butter, per b.d.’s question. Then the percentage of calories
from carbohydrates drops dramatically.
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91 Kilroy01  Sep 12, 2014 4:19:06pm

re: #85 Pie-onist Overlord

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92 wrenchwench  Sep 12, 2014 4:19:26pm
93 A Mom Anon  Sep 12, 2014 4:19:52pm

re: #82 Pie-onist Overlord

Oh. My. Goodness. NomNomNom. It’s entirely unfair that you live in Detroit and I’m in Atlanta. Damn it.

94 goddamnedfrank  Sep 12, 2014 4:20:22pm

re: #73 ausador

99.9% sure @BarryWirth is a quasi parody account, actually both parody account and an attempt to steer gullible wingnuts to his cafepress site. Kind of a dick-faced two fer.

Anyway, point being you’re dealing with a cynical d-bag, not a true believer.

95 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 12, 2014 4:20:49pm

Signing off now. See u all tomorrow night!

96 GeneJockey  Sep 12, 2014 4:21:13pm

re: #94 goddamnedfrank

99.9% sure @BarryWirth is a quasi parody account, actually both parody account and an attempt to steer gullible wingnuts to his cafepress site. Kind of a dick-faced two fer.

Anyway, point being you’re dealing with a cynical d-bag, not a true believer.

So, you’re saying it’s barry wirth his time to respond?
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97 GeneJockey  Sep 12, 2014 4:21:47pm

re: #93 A Mom Anon

Oh. My. Goodness. NomNomNom. It’s entirely unfair that you live in Detroit and I’m in Atlanta. Damn it.

My mouth is literally watering.

98 wrenchwench  Sep 12, 2014 4:21:52pm

re: #90 GeneJockey

Add a lot of butter, per b.d.’s question. Then the percentage of calories
from carbohydrates drops dramatically.
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A 5# block just might do it!

When Mr. w gets a pat of butter, he takes it from the long side. Srsly.

99 ObserverArt  Sep 12, 2014 4:21:55pm

Pie-onist keeps us all fattened up!

100 darthstar  Sep 12, 2014 4:22:15pm
101 wrenchwench  Sep 12, 2014 4:24:08pm
102 makeitstop  Sep 12, 2014 4:25:37pm

Tonight marks my first attempt at making Bolognese sauce from scratch. I don’t know how the sauce is gonna turn out, but I will admit the house smells pretty awesome right now.

103 Charles Johnson  Sep 12, 2014 4:26:31pm
104 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 4:29:46pm

Nice little new season roll out the NFL has going on right now.

105 b_sharp  Sep 12, 2014 4:34:09pm

re: #61 goddamnedfrank

The thing about Christianity is that it’s essentially founded on the idea of being persecuted. For many, many Christians, to be “like Christ” means to be targeted, being a “good Christian” is equated with being unfairly singled out and violently opposed.

So when reality doesn’t offer them this experience organically they either seek it out or invent it from whole cloth.

Muslims are the lions of the 21st.

106 Bubblehead II  Sep 12, 2014 4:35:17pm

BTW Lizards. This NFL shit has been going on for a long time. I recallall a Burt Reynolds movie, The longest yard? Where a member of the team was holding a womans/cheerlearder head under water because she wouldn’t give him a BJ. Are you surprised that they still try to cover this shit up?

107 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 4:36:52pm

The threat from Islamic State has had an important silver lining, he said. It has focused the world’s attention on the need to “ultimately snuff out this particular brand of Islamic extremism that really has no place in the 21st century.”

The man had such a way with words. I literally cringed when I heard president Obama use the word homeland the other day. I still give him high marks but what once used to be his strong point, language, is something he seems to be tripping over.

108 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 4:38:46pm

re: #107 b.d.

and “snuff out” isn’t bad but it is sloppy and pedestrian imho.

109 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 4:39:46pm

re: #106 Bubblehead II

Is that what got the fictional Burt Reynolds character kicked out of the NFL and thrown in jail?

110 TedStriker  Sep 12, 2014 4:40:23pm

re: #106 Bubblehead II

BTW Lizards. This NFL shit has been going on for a long time. I recallall a Burt Reynolds movie, The longest yard? Where a member of the team was holding a womans/cheerlearder head under water because she wouldn’t give him a BJ. Are you surprised that they still try to cover this shit up?

Umm, I think you’re thinking of another movie there, though, in the original The Longest Yard, what got Paul Crewe (Reynolds’ character) thrown in prison was smacking and throwing his sugar momma around, stealing her car (a Citroen DS that was referred to as a Maserati in the dialogue LOL) and leading the cops on a high-speed chase, then assaulting the cops who caught him in a bar after he drove the car into the bay.

Six of one, half dozen of another.

111 dholmes32  Sep 12, 2014 4:42:06pm

re: #103 Charles Johnson

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Yeah. Parents and/or guardians are allowed to do things to kids which would be considered assault and battery if done to an adult. However, if you talk about not spanking kids, OMG, people come stark staring unglued. Some of the Religious Right would come unglued because hitting kids is one of their 10 commandments. These are the same people who think James Dobson gives great childrearing advice, yet in the introduction to The Strong-Willed Child, Dobson talks approvingly of beating his dachshund, Siggie, because the little dog had curled up on top of a fuzzy toilet seat cover on a cold night.

For the record, my mother used to hit us with a metal flyswatter after she broke a blood vein in her hand from whaling on one of us. All spanking did was make me a much better liar.

112 Bubblehead II  Sep 12, 2014 4:42:23pm

re: #109 b.d.

Is that what got the fictional Burt Reynolds character kicked out of the NFL and thrown in jail?

Yes. Into a southern (state) prison.

113 Mike Lamb  Sep 12, 2014 4:42:38pm

re: #110 TedStriker

Umm, I think you’re thinking of another movie there, though, in the original The Longest Yard, what got Paul Crewe (Reynolds’ character) thrown in prison was smacking and throwing his sugar momma around, stealing her car (a Citroen that was referred to as a Maserati in the dialogue LOL) and leading the cops on a high-speed chase, then assaulting the cops who caught him in a bar after he drove the car into the bay.

Six of one, half dozen of another.

The Last Boy Scout.

114 Stanley Sea  Sep 12, 2014 4:44:02pm

So Cal drive home: brush fire at the freeway. Got up close inching by. It’s gonna be an interesting weekend.

115 Skip Intro  Sep 12, 2014 4:44:14pm

re: #104 b.d.

Nice little new season roll out the NFL has going on right now.

Anybody mention the SF 49ers yet?

116 TedStriker  Sep 12, 2014 4:45:50pm

re: #115 Skip Intro

Anybody mention the SF 49ers yet?

Yeah, hasn’t Kaepernick been dealing with some serious legal shit himself since the offseason?

117 Mike Lamb  Sep 12, 2014 4:49:29pm

re: #116 TedStriker

Yeah, hasn’t Kaepernick been dealing with some serious legal shit himself since the offseason?

I don’t think he was ever arrested, and if he was, it never went anywhere.

Ray McDonald was arrested for domestic violence about a week before the season started.

118 Jay C  Sep 12, 2014 4:50:13pm

Dear Little Green Footballs:

I am somewhat worried and confused. Chuck Woolery is telling me

Muslims are on the March, Coming to a town near U

I was considering calling my local Police Dept here in our small town in Western MA and asking them if they have seen any marching Muslims (y’know: like a column of camo-clad militiamen in Toyota pickups swathed in kaffiyehs and brandishing black flags and AK-47s) but I’m not quite sure how to properly phrase the question.

Can you help me?

Thanks.

Jay C (for Confused)

119 goddamnedfrank  Sep 12, 2014 4:50:32pm
120 Bubblehead II  Sep 12, 2014 4:51:29pm

re: #109 b.d.

Is that what got the fictional Burt Reynolds character kicked out of the NFL and thrown in jail?

Yep.

121 Skip Intro  Sep 12, 2014 4:51:47pm

re: #116 TedStriker

He’s got at least two thugs on the team, still playing. Aldon Smith and another guy whose name I forget.

Hey, it’s just business.

Oops. Smith has been suspended. MCDonald is still playing.

122 Stanley Sea  Sep 12, 2014 4:53:39pm

re: #111 dholmes32

Yeah. Parents and/or guardians are allowed to do things to kids which would be considered assault and battery if done to an adult. However, if you talk about not spanking kids, OMG, people come stark staring unglued. Some of the Religious Right would come unglued because hitting kids is one of their 10 commandments. These are the same people who think James Dobson gives great childrearing advice, yet in the introduction to The Strong-Willed Child, Dobson talks approvingly of beating his dachshund, Siggie, because the little dog had curled up on top of a fuzzy toilet seat cover on a cold night.

For the record, my mother used to hit us with a metal flyswatter after she broke a blood vein in her hand from whaling on one of us. All spanking did was make me a much better liar.

My mom had big assed rings and wooden spoons. Somehow the whack always came in the kitchen I recall. And it was always for talking back. :(

Thanks for the memories.

123 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 4:54:10pm

I would like to thank everyone here at littlegreenfootballs.com for not lending any legitimacy to the Adam Sandler version of The Longest Yard

124 wrenchwench  Sep 12, 2014 4:55:01pm

My father never hit any of his seven children nor any of his five step-children. Nothing remarkable about that, until I found out he’d been beaten regularly by his father.

It can be stopped.

125 TedStriker  Sep 12, 2014 4:56:11pm

re: #109 b.d.

Is that what got the fictional Burt Reynolds character kicked out of the NFL and thrown in jail?

re: #120 Bubblehead II

Yep.

Nope, at least not in the original (I haven’t and won’t watch the Sandler remake).

In the original, Crewe was thrown out of pro football for fixing games and gambling on them.

126 Bubblehead II  Sep 12, 2014 4:57:33pm

Deleted for stupidity .Please downding

127 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 4:59:10pm

re: #125 TedStriker

Nope, at least in the original (I haven’t and won’t watch the Sandler remake).

In the original, Crewe was thrown out of pro football for fixing games and gambling on them.

Perthe Wiki of the movie, which is never wrong and if it is the turn to : Conservapedia

Paul “Wrecking” Crewe (Burt Reynolds), a former star pro football quarterback, walks out on his wealthy girlfriend Melissa (Anitra Ford) in Palm Beach, Florida. He takes her Maserati-engined Citroen SM without permission and gets drunk. Crewe is caught and sentenced to 18 months in Citrus State Prison.

128 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 5:00:14pm

re: #127 b.d.

opps

if I kept reading

The convicts disrespect Crewe because he was dismissed from the National Football League for point shaving.

Because gambling is the worst crime ever and we can all agree upon that!!!!

//

129 A Mom Anon  Sep 12, 2014 5:00:51pm

re: #122 Stanley Sea

I don’t get why people think it’s ever ok to hit a kid. Especially in anger, but really, not ever. A swat on the behind, lightly is as far as is ok, but beyond that, no and not with an object. All it teaches is anger, fear and that violence is a way of problem solving or forcing people to do what you want.

If you have to resort to hitting, you’ve already lost whatever it was you’re trying to win. I’ve raised an incredibly difficult child. I spanked him once, when he ran into traffic, I retrieved him and he tried it a second time. He and I were in immediate danger and he didn’t grasp the severity of the situation. Beyond that, I never hit either of my kids and we somehow managed to navigate some seriously fucked up situations. Violence shouldn’t be part of family life. It has no place there.

130 ObserverArt  Sep 12, 2014 5:02:55pm

Peterson deactivated by the Vikings.

131 Skip Intro  Sep 12, 2014 5:03:28pm

Remember, the NFL is a non-profit organization.

132 goddamnedfrank  Sep 12, 2014 5:03:32pm
133 Varek Raith  Sep 12, 2014 5:04:40pm

re: #131 Skip Intro

Remember, the NFL is a non-profit organization.

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Which boggles my mind.

134 TedStriker  Sep 12, 2014 5:04:42pm

re: #127 b.d.

Perthe Wiki of the movie, which is never wrong and if it is the turn to : Conservapedia

Note that Crewe was already out of pro football by the time of the events at the beginning of the movie: he was thrown out of the NFL for points shaving, what he did at the beginning of the movie with his sugar momma and the cops was what got him thrown in prison.

135 BeachDem  Sep 12, 2014 5:05:04pm

re: #29 Backwoods_Sleuth

hahahaa…

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Yes, I just heard the news today that Marky Mark and his soulmate have called it quits. And that he is going to hire a lawyer for this round of fighting with the smarter-than-he-was-all-along (but a nasty one in her own right) Jenny.

136 Chez Ko Pe  Sep 12, 2014 5:05:08pm

Mom used to get liquored up and stew until she imagined I’d betrayed her in some fashion, then charge at me. Scrubbed my mouth out with soap once—literally ground the bar into my teeth so I spent hours digging the stuff out—but usually it was whatever was swingable and in arm’s reach.

I remember the night she struck me on the back with an unstrung toy archery bow—good solid ’70s resin—because I didn’t side with her in an argument with my father. We were working outside to get away from her endless ranting when she snuck up and nailed me across the shoulder blades. I remember it because I was fifteen and whirled around and popped her right in the mouth and left her in the dirt, shrieking and bawling and whooping and moaning through her bloody slobbering maw.

That’s when she took to killing a family pet once or twice a year and blaming it on an in-law (we lived in the sticks, near Dad’s relatives, and he and they were real pieces of work themselves). Broke a cat’s neck with her bare hands; ran over our big dumb golden lab. If she could no longer hurt me physically, by God she would strike at me in whatever manner she could.

Left home the millisecond I could and never came back, which I’m sure she saw as just another betrayal for she never did anything wrong.

137 GeneJockey  Sep 12, 2014 5:05:14pm

re: #110 TedStriker

Umm, I think you’re thinking of another movie there, though, in the original The Longest Yard, what got Paul Crewe (Reynolds’ character) thrown in prison was smacking and throwing his sugar momma around, stealing her car (a Citroen DS that was referred to as a Maserati in the dialogue LOL) and leading the cops on a high-speed chase, then assaulting the cops who caught him in a bar after he drove the car into the bay.

Six of one, half dozen of another.

It was an SM, which had a Maserati V6 engine.

138 Skip Intro  Sep 12, 2014 5:05:25pm

What’s with UpChuck’s scare quotes around Hispanics? He really is 100% Red White and Blue piece of shit.

139 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 12, 2014 5:06:19pm

re: #132 goddamnedfrank
Charles C. Johnson @ChuckCJohnson
Sure I believe that “Hispanics” will vote against Rafael Eduardo Cruz when they see his name on the ballot in 2016. Not.

GDF @goddamnedfrank
Follow
@ChuckCJohnson LOL. It’s not insulting at all to characterize hispanics as simple minded mechanical drones interested names but not policy.

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And Charles, putting “Hispanics” inside quotes is a bit over the top, but you, as a “Journalist” would know that.

RBS

140 b_sharp  Sep 12, 2014 5:07:09pm

re: #129 A Mom Anon

I don’t get why people think it’s ever ok to hit a kid. Especially in anger, but really, not ever. A swat on the behind, lightly is as far as is ok, but beyond that, no and not with an object. All it teaches is anger, fear and that violence is a way of problem solving or forcing people to do what you want.

If you have to resort to hitting, you’ve already lost whatever it was you’re trying to win. I’ve raised an incredibly difficult child. I spanked him once, when he ran into traffic, I retrieved him and he tried it a second time. He and I were in immediate danger and he didn’t grasp the severity of the situation. Beyond that, I never hit either of my kids and we somehow managed to navigate some seriously fucked up situations. Violence shouldn’t be part of family life. It has no place there.

When I was a kid, hitting was a deterrent. There was no attempt at teaching anything, it was a simple - you do something we don’t want you to do and you’ll get hit. My dad did it to my mom, my younger brother and me. My mom did it to my younger brothers and me. I did it to my younger brothers.

It worked rather poorly. That’s one reason I’m sure prison as a deterrent only, doesn’t work.

141 thedopefishlives  Sep 12, 2014 5:09:36pm

Evening Lizardim from the cold and cloudy wild north country. I’m hoping it clears off here soon - after yesterday’s solar storm, the aurora is supposed to reach as far south as Iowa, making for spectacular viewing. If we can get a clear night. How go things among the lizardfolk?

142 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 5:10:17pm

re: #132 goddamnedfrank

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Wingnuts really cant be that stupid;

The Blahs will vote for Dr. Ben Cardin because he is a blah. Wommins will vote for Sarah because she is a wommins. The Latins (who the repubs sure seem to love) will vote for Rubio or Cruz because they are Latin. (Not even going to touch on how there are light year’s worth of differences between a Cuban Latin and a continental North/South American Latin.)

143 Stanley Sea  Sep 12, 2014 5:11:07pm

re: #136 Chez Ko Pe

Dude. What you endured.

144 Jenner7  Sep 12, 2014 5:12:41pm

More about the shooting that happened in Saratoga Springs, Utah. The kid was half black, half white. His Aunt is convinced it had to do with race. She said he was afraid of police and has had problems with police before, meaning they have harassed him because he’s black. She said his Mother went to the crime scene and asked what the victim looked like and they said “a brown guy with an afro”. Unbelievable.

I went by there today, was grocery shopping, and people have set up a memorial at the Panda Express. My thoughts are with his family.

145 ausador  Sep 12, 2014 5:13:43pm

re: #108 b.d.

and “snuff out” isn’t bad but it is sloppy and pedestrian imho.

You’se gotta admit that the pentagon is pretty good at making snuff films, am I right?

/

146 wrenchwench  Sep 12, 2014 5:15:55pm

re: #136 Chez Ko Pe

{{{CKP}}}

147 A Mom Anon  Sep 12, 2014 5:17:04pm

re: #136 Chez Ko Pe

((hugs)) I am sorry you had to go through that. I’m a survivor too. I like to hope that I broke the cycle with my kids. My daughter has kids, she’s pretty patient, but I am pretty sure she has spanked, but not beyond a swat. My son has not had kids yet, he’s such a gentle soul I can’t imagine he’d ever hit anyone unless it was self defense. It’s the best we can do, to stop the violence with us. My family history is littered with abuse of all kinds, I hope my generation ended it. It’s not a legacy that should be passed down.

148 The War TARDIS  Sep 12, 2014 5:17:22pm

Libertarian Pipe Dream shot down.

(Reuters) - A long-shot effort to break California into six separate states failed to collect enough signatures to put it on the November 2016 ballot, state officials said on Friday, as the group behind the plan criticized the rejection.

The Six Californias campaign submitted more than a million signatures to the Secretary of State’s office on Friday, but only about 750,000 were counted as valid, the state elections agency said on its website.

149 wrenchwench  Sep 12, 2014 5:17:27pm

re: #140 b_sharp

{{{b_sharp}}}

for what’s on the last thread, too…

150 TedStriker  Sep 12, 2014 5:19:14pm

re: #137 GeneJockey

It was an SM, which had a Maserati V6 engine.

Could have swore it was a DS, but if it was a SM, that makes some sense.

re: #148 The War TARDIS

Libertarian Pipe Dream shot down.

I’m sure that the Galtians are already hard at work uncovering the conspiracies behind the rejection.

151 Skip Intro  Sep 12, 2014 5:19:39pm

re: #148 The War TARDIS

One more idiotic idea down the tubes.

152 The War TARDIS  Sep 12, 2014 5:19:40pm

re: #147 A Mom Anon

I try my hardest to make sure I will not end up like my dad.

re: #136 Chez Ko Pe

I can’t come up with anything to say but :(

[[CKP]]

153 Jenner7  Sep 12, 2014 5:20:18pm

re: #136 Chez Ko Pe

So sorry you had to go through that…

:(

154 goddamnedfrank  Sep 12, 2014 5:20:48pm

re: #142 b.d.

Wingnuts really cant be that stupid;

Yeah, sadly they can.

The Blahs will vote for Dr. Ben Cardin because he is a blah. Wommins will vote for Sarah because she is a wommins. The Latins (who the repubs sure seem to love) will vote for Rubio or Cruz because they are Latin. (Not even going to touch on how there are light year’s worth of differences between a Cuban Latin and a continental North/South American Latin.)

The mindset CCJ betrays here is that white conservatives vote for republicans because they are white, or at least promise to advance the interests of the white power structure. It’s a party based in large part upon identity politics, so they project that onto minorities and just assume minorities are as motivated by race as they are.

155 prairiefire  Sep 12, 2014 5:22:46pm

Boys are out of the house, whuut. It’s going to be a pretty chilly canoe trip, even for Southern Missouri.

156 gwangung  Sep 12, 2014 5:25:11pm

re: #154 goddamnedfrank

Yeah, sadly they can.

The mindset CCJ betrays here is that white conservatives vote for republicans because they are white, or at least promise to advance the interests of the white power structure. It’s a party based in large part upon identity politics, so they project that onto minorities and just assume minorities are as motivated by race as they are.

Actually, minorities DO vote for politicians that advance minorities’ interests. I mean, that’s kinda elementary.

CCJ is dumb enough to boil it down to race, not policy. It’s part of their repeated crap toward blacks, denying them the idea that blacks are voting rationally, to forward their own interests.

White conservatives do the same thing, you know…it’s just that their interests are pretty racial in and of themselves…

157 b_sharp  Sep 12, 2014 5:26:19pm

re: #149 wrenchwench

{{{b_sharp}}}

for what’s on the last thread, too…

It is what it is.
I’m hoping my grandkids will finally break the cycle completely.

158 Skip Intro  Sep 12, 2014 5:26:39pm

What global warming?

159 prairiefire  Sep 12, 2014 5:27:24pm

re: #156 gwangung

What still blows my mind is the Asian vote for Obama. A strong constituency that feels threatened by rw religious extremists.

160 Stanley Sea  Sep 12, 2014 5:28:30pm

re: #148 The War TARDIS

Libertarian Pipe Dream shot down.

Whew! Dodged a bullet there. I forget what so cal was named.

161 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Sep 12, 2014 5:29:58pm

re: #139 RealityBasedSteve

Charles C. Johnson @ChuckCJohnson
Sure I believe that “Hispanics” will vote against Rafael Eduardo Cruz when they see his name on the ballot in 2016. Not.

GDF @goddamnedfrank
Follow
@ChuckCJohnson LOL. It’s not insulting at all to characterize hispanics as simple minded mechanical drones interested names but not policy.

And Charles, putting “Hispanics” inside quotes is a bit over the top, but you, as a “Journalist” would know that.

RBS

Meh. He’s one of those idiots who think that putting quotes around a word is just a way to emphasize it. Like the butcher who advertises “meat”.

162 Bubblehead II  Sep 12, 2014 5:30:05pm

Night Lizards. Getting out of hand and the I.F. rules needs to be invoked.

BTW, please feel free to down ding my 126, even though I deleted it . I would if I was you. I let my emotions overrule common sense.

Yes, I still have some rwnj influances that I still need to purge.

163 ObserverArt  Sep 12, 2014 5:30:17pm

I’ve mentioned I was Catholic schooled. The nuns used the old classic paddle. About 4 ” wide, maybe a 1/2” thick and fitted into a nice long handle about 15” long or so.

The nuns would turn it all into a big process and the negative they put on the behavior that would lead to them to have to punish a student was part of the scare and punishment. The mess with your head application.

Add the psych job to your embarrassment with the entire school knowing about it through the “underground” line and you just wanted to die. So, by the time you got three (or whatever) not so violent whacks, you just wanted it all over so you could get to work to make everyone forget it happened and restore your cred.

I got the three whacks for pitching pennies on the one section of the girls parking lot. A bunch of the ‘guys’ got it that day. I think the nuns were really more worried that we were lingering by the girls, as we were all hitting that 12-13 range. It was very important to the nuns to have girl’s side…boy’s side.

And I’m guessing many have also had school administered punishment at one time, or knew those that did. I remember that to this day more than anything my parents ever did. I was the fourth boy, about 8 years behind my brothers and it seemed like I couldn’t get anything over on them (along with the help of the nuns) so it was best just to toe the line.

It taught me about politics too. Well, maybe not taught, but learned. Funny that.

Edit…damn…the “w” is right by the “e” for tow the line!

164 thedopefishlives  Sep 12, 2014 5:30:24pm

{{{lizards}}} All y’all have a lot of courage and strength to survive some of the stories I’ve read from you guys over the last week or two. All I ever got was some swats with a wooden spoon - which may sound severe, but I wasn’t beaten with it. As noted in the previous thread, there is a difference, and my parents always stayed pretty firmly on the safe side of the line. It’s unbelievable what some parents think is acceptable as far as the way they treat their kids, and it is a conversation that needs to be had.

165 Decatur Deb  Sep 12, 2014 5:33:44pm

re: #132 goddamnedfrank

Charles C. Johnson @ChuckCJohnson

Sure I believe that “Hispanics” will vote against Rafael Eduardo Cruz when they see his name on the ballot in 2016. Not.

Sure, I believe the TPGOP will put someone named “Cruz” on the ballot for the presidency in 2016.

166 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 12, 2014 5:33:57pm

re: #161 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

Meh. He’s one of those idiots who think that putting quotes around a word is just a way to emphasize it. Like the butcher who advertises “meat”.

I once saw a sign at a place advertising “Fresh” Fish. I’m pretty sure I’d pass on that one.

RBS

167 gwangung  Sep 12, 2014 5:36:25pm

re: #159 prairiefire

What still blows my mind is the Asian vote for Obama. A strong constituency that feels threatened by rw religious extremists.

In the early 90s, it was 50/50 Dem/Repub. They had a real chance to capture the Asian community.

I think they blew it for two reasons: 1) The Prop 180 thing in California; immigration issues are VERY important to Asian Americans, and 2) Republicans didn’t even TRY to win over the Asian vote—-apparently they felt it beneath them. And NOBODY will vote for a group who doesn’t bother to make their support feel valued.

168 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 12, 2014 5:37:40pm

re: #163 ObserverArt

I’ve mentioned I was Catholic schooled. The nuns used the old classic paddle. About 4 ” wide, maybe a 1/2” thick and fitted into a nice long handle about 15” long or so.

The nuns would turn it all into a big process and the negative they put on the behavior that would lead to them to have to punish a student was part of the scare and punishment. The mess with your head application.

Add the psych job to your embarrassment with the entire school knowing about it through the “underground” line and you just wanted to die. So, by the time you got three (or whatever) not so violent whacks, you just wanted it all over so you could get to work to make everyone forget it happened and restore you cred.

I got the three whacks for pitching pennies on the one section of the girls parking lot. A bunch of the ‘guys’ got it that day. I think the nuns were really more worried that we were lingering by the girls, as we were all hitting that 12-13 range. It was very important to the nuns to have girl’s side…boy’s side.

And I’m guessing many have also had school administered punishment at one time, or knew those that did. I remember that to this day more than anything my parents ever did. I was the fourth boy, about 8 years behind my brothers and it seemed like I couldn’t get anything over on them (along with the help of the nuns) so it was best just to tow the line.

It taught me about politics too. Well, maybe not taught, but learned. Funny that.

Our nuns made the naughty kids stand at the front of the room holding a HUGE and very heavy book in each hand, with both arms stretched out parallel to the floor. If your arms drifted down, you got a yardstick smacked between your shoulder blades.
If the infraction was really bad, you got a metal edged ruler smacked across your knuckles. We only heard about that particular threat.

169 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 12, 2014 5:38:18pm

re: #166 RealityBasedSteve

I once saw a sign at a place advertising “Fresh” Fish. I’m pretty sure I’d pass on that one.

RBS

Hey, better that than Fresh “Fish”…

170 Stanley Sea  Sep 12, 2014 5:39:45pm

re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth

Hey, better that than Fresh “Fish”…

i.e. Krab

That shit is a abomination.

171 thedopefishlives  Sep 12, 2014 5:41:09pm

re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth

Our nuns made the naughty kids stand at the front of the room holding a HUGE and very heavy book in each hand, with both arms stretched out parallel to the floor. If your arms drifted down, you got a yardstick smacked between your shoulder blades.
If the infraction was really bad, you got a metal edged ruler smacked across your knuckles. We only heard about that particular threat.

The worst we had was an Australian immigrant physics teacher (this was public school, not Catholic school, heh) who would gently smack sleeping students upside the head with a meter stick. If she was feeling generous, she would hit the desk next to them (considerably harder), instead.

172 goddamnedfrank  Sep 12, 2014 5:42:21pm

re: #156 gwangung

Actually, minorities DO vote for politicians that advance minorities’ interests. I mean, that’s kinda elementary.

Sure, but generally not at the explicit expense of other racial groups, they don’t reward scapegoating like white conservatives do.

CCJ is dumb enough to boil it down to race, not policy. It’s part of their repeated crap toward blacks, denying them the idea that blacks are voting rationally, to forward their own interests.

Right, that’s the point.

White conservatives do the same thing, you know…it’s just that their interests are pretty racial in and of themselves…

It’s that their policies are mean spirited and generally oriented around revenge, fear, and greed. The few minority politicians Republicans do manage to elect tend to hit these notes, and advance policies detrimental to most of those people who look like they do.

173 prairiefire  Sep 12, 2014 5:42:25pm

re: #164 thedopefishlives

I agree. Physical violence makes me ill. I begged my dad not to swat me at around age 3, and he never did again. Pretty Charles Dickens on the whole with my grandparents, but only mentally.

174 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 5:43:05pm

re: #166 RealityBasedSteve

Bon Appétit

Best of luck to you

unnecessaryquotes.com

175 Charles Johnson  Sep 12, 2014 5:43:21pm
176 thedopefishlives  Sep 12, 2014 5:44:58pm

re: #173 prairiefire

I agree. Physical violence makes me ill. I begged my dad not to swat me at around age 3, and he never did again. Pretty Charles Dickens on the whole with my grandparents, but only mentally.

I’ve mentioned before - I personally know some people who have suffered from physical and sexual abuse at the hands of their parents or spouses. Remember that I run in Christian circles, so not only is it unthinkable, it’s also invisible - people don’t want to think about their friends, their brothers and sisters, their sons and daughters, who are doing these heinous things. So they just ignore it and hope it’ll Jesus itself away.

177 Decatur Deb  Sep 12, 2014 5:45:21pm

re: #163 ObserverArt

I had the nuns 24/7/365 in elementary school, so I got their discipline or none at all. We got the occasional ‘ruler on the palm’ routine, but SERIOUS SHIT went to Sister Mary A’s yardstick, at a formal session on Friday night. It was all very tightly controlled, with a lot of due process. Only once in 5 years did I see a nun lose it, and remember that half of us were court-certified delinquents.

We also lived under a separate military discipline system that relied on walking off ‘gigs’ with a 1903 Springfield, one hour per gig.

It was a whole lot less rough than it sounds and most of us were damned glad to be there.

178 wrenchwench  Sep 12, 2014 5:46:41pm

re: #175 Charles Johnson

A “journalist” who can toss aside all conventions of punctuation and capitalization. Yep.

179 sagehen  Sep 12, 2014 5:46:47pm

re: #82 Pie-onist Overlord

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They look even better than a pie.

180 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 12, 2014 5:49:16pm

re: #175 Charles Johnson

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wait, I thought he said he was Batman earlier?

181 goddamnedfrank  Sep 12, 2014 5:54:29pm

GLAVEN!

182 Decatur Deb  Sep 12, 2014 5:57:16pm

re: #178 wrenchwench

A “journalist” who can toss aside all conventions of punctuation and capitalization. Yep.

He’s a Rebel.

Youtube Video

183 thedopefishlives  Sep 12, 2014 5:59:11pm

Watching the Muppets sequel with Mrs. Fish and the fishspawn. They’ve barely cleared the first musical number and both of us older fishfolk are already in stitches. How do they DO that.

184 BeachDem  Sep 12, 2014 6:01:50pm

re: #175 Charles Johnson

Look, up in the sky, it’s AWARD WINNING JOURNALIST CHUCKC…

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185 Charles Johnson  Sep 12, 2014 6:02:21pm
186 Charles Johnson  Sep 12, 2014 6:03:25pm

re: #174 b.d.

Bon Appétit

Best of luck to you

unnecessaryquotes.com

Maybe the quotes are necessary.

187 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 6:06:23pm

re: #186 Charles Johnson

Maybe the quotes are necessary.

Name your price boss

I always tell people that I can’t afford free.

188 Charles Johnson  Sep 12, 2014 6:12:04pm
189 Jenner7  Sep 12, 2014 6:12:44pm

So, apparently I’m supposed to be outraged that WH officials says we are at war is ISIL.

Meh.

190 Decatur Deb  Sep 12, 2014 6:13:54pm

In a recent year, 35% of Alexander City AL public (middle) school students received corporal punishment in lieu of suspension.

corpun.com

191 Stanley Sea  Sep 12, 2014 6:13:55pm

re: #188 Charles Johnson

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Add: He’s trying desperately to monetize his hate. The more outrageous, the better chance whack jobs will pay for more.

Craven.

192 wrenchwench  Sep 12, 2014 6:14:10pm

Later, lizards.

193 Skip Intro  Sep 12, 2014 6:15:05pm

Mother of God ……..

Sarah Palin: ‘I Owe America A Global Apology’

Yeah, that was really gross behavior you and your family got into last week.

Oh, wait. That’s not what you’re apologizing about?

Here we go.

During an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity, Palin spoke about Obama’s long-term strategy for defeating the Islamic State — a militant group formerly known as ISIS or ISIL — that he laid out in a speech Wednesday night.

“As I watched the speech last night, Sean, the thought going through my mind is, ‘I owe America a global apology. Because John McCain, through all of this, John McCain should be our president,’” Palin said.

Oh yeah, and Hitler too.

huffingtonpost.com

194 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 6:17:28pm

Even Argentina couldn’t pull this off in the Falklands with their 3,000 citizens.

195 GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 12, 2014 6:17:35pm

For all you old-school horror flick lovers… this local band in Chicago just released their new vid. :)

Video

196 ObserverArt  Sep 12, 2014 6:17:47pm

re: #193 Skip Intro

Mother of God ……..

Sarah Palin: ‘I Owe America A Global Apology’

Yeah, that was really gross behavior you and your family got into last week.

Oh, wait. That’s not what you’re apologizing about?

Here we go.

And yet, 5 plus years later, John McCain is still not President. He lost. Get the hell over it.

197 darthstar  Sep 12, 2014 6:18:17pm

Police spokeswoman Bianca Gillett said the man recognized the truck driver as Zimmerman. The man said Zimmerman then asked, “Do you know who I am?” and threatened to kill him.

Two days later, the man said he saw Zimmerman in his truck outside his workplace. He called police but declined to press charges.

198 Stanley Sea  Sep 12, 2014 6:18:21pm

re: #192 wrenchwench

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Later, lizards.

Freckles!

199 EPR-radar  Sep 12, 2014 6:18:25pm

re: #193 Skip Intro

Palin doesn’t give a crap about McCain being president, beyond the hope that the stress of the job would have given her the presidency had McCain won.

She is the perfect representativel of the GOP, since her stupidity and evil are both so essential to her character, just as it is for that shit-stain of a party.

200 Charles Johnson  Sep 12, 2014 6:20:26pm
201 Stanley Sea  Sep 12, 2014 6:20:34pm

re: #193 Skip Intro

Mother of God ……..

Sarah Palin: ‘I Owe America A Global Apology’

Yeah, that was really gross behavior you and your family got into last week.

Oh, wait. That’s not what you’re apologizing about?

Here we go.

Oh yeah, and Hitler too.

huffingtonpost.com

Such an idiot.

One aspect of the Wasilla Throwdown that I enjoyed was that SS was wearing high heel American flag tennis shoes.

Stretch hummer & drunk kids.

That’s it folks.

202 Skip Intro  Sep 12, 2014 6:21:43pm

Sarah channels herself a little Peggy Noonan here.

So when Barack Obama, like the rest of us, hear these bad guys, these terrorists, promising that they will raise the flag of Allah over our White House, for the life of me I don’t know why he does not take this serious, the threat. Because yes, it’s more than a vision,” Palin said. “They’re telling— just like Hitler did all those years ago, when a war could’ve been avoided, because Hitler, too, did not hide his intentions. Well ISIS, these guys aren’t hiding their intentions either.”

203 Skip Intro  Sep 12, 2014 6:23:45pm

re: #200 Charles Johnson

Buy them out for one year and then what? Where would they go? Who’s going to make them go?

So much stupid in one so young. It’s depressing.

204 thedopefishlives  Sep 12, 2014 6:23:48pm

re: #194 b.d.

Even Argentina couldn’t pull this off in the Falklands with their 3,000 citizens.

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Dumbass.

205 GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 12, 2014 6:24:09pm

re: #199 EPR-radar

Palin doesn’t give a crap about McCain being president, beyond the hope that the stress of the job would have given her the presidency had McCain won.

She is the perfect representativel of the GOP, since her stupidity and evil are both so essential to her character, just as it is for that shit-stain of a party.

Iron Sky has the perfect Sarah Palinesque character. It’s a pretty good movie actually… as far as B movies are concerned. It’s on Netflix. The character is EXACTLY what I imagine her to really be like.

206 ObserverArt  Sep 12, 2014 6:25:44pm

G’evening all…gonna go play drums to some guitar tracks.

Don’t let the Palins bite.

207 thecommodore  Sep 12, 2014 6:25:59pm

Looks like Chuck ate a stupid burger and turned into GOHMERT!

208 thedopefishlives  Sep 12, 2014 6:27:51pm

re: #206 ObserverArt

G’evening all…gonna go play drums to some guitar tracks.

Don’t let the Palins bite.

Biting is one thing, but Bristol’s mean right hook, that’s quite another.

209 Snarknado!  Sep 12, 2014 6:29:00pm

re: #202 Skip Intro

Sarah channels herself a little Peggy Noonan here.

So when Barack Obama, like the rest of us, hear these bad guys, these terrorists, promising that they will raise the flag of Allah over our White House, for the life of me I don’t know why he does not take this serious, the threat. Because yes, it’s more than a vision,” Palin said. “They’re telling— just like Hitler did all those years ago, when a war could’ve been avoided, because Hitler, too, did not hide his intentions. Well ISIS, these guys aren’t hiding their intentions either.”

Well, Sarah, ISIL isn’t the head of the state with the largest industrial economy in Europe, either.

210 darthstar  Sep 12, 2014 6:29:51pm

Never eat Skittles while driving.

211 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 6:32:18pm

Can we go ahead and put an ankle bracelet on all off the Palins and maybe a dedicated website that tracks their movements?

i bring this up in the best interest of the Homeland.

212 darthstar  Sep 12, 2014 6:32:43pm
213 WhatEVs  Sep 12, 2014 6:33:55pm

re: #183 thedopefishlives

Watching the Muppets sequel with Mrs. Fish and the fishspawn. They’ve barely cleared the first musical number and both of us older fishfolk are already in stitches. How do they DO that.

Both of us love animated movies. I LMAO at Despicable Me 1 and 2. We’re always eager for one to come in PPV. Good ones hit both kids and adults.

Enjoy!

214 dog philosopher  Sep 12, 2014 6:35:40pm

re: #210 darthstar

Never eat Skittles while driving.

skittle is not what i want car to do

215 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 6:36:16pm

re: #210 darthstar

Never eat Skittles while driving.

Or walking close to George Zimmerman.

216 Decatur Deb  Sep 12, 2014 6:37:18pm

re: #209 Snarknado!

Well, Sarah, ISIL isn’t the head of the state with the largest industrial economy in Europe, either.

For God’s sake don’t confuse her.

217 WhatEVs  Sep 12, 2014 6:38:58pm

re: #196 ObserverArt

And yet, 5 plus years later, John McCain is still not President. He lost. Get the hell over it.

She can’t and never will. Obama, the Democrap, the black Democrap, beat her hillbilly ass and as Sistah Sarah has shown over and over, she never forgives; never forgets. She’ll hate Obama for the rest of her miserable, hate filled life, for daring to deny her higher office.

218 WhatEVs  Sep 12, 2014 6:43:24pm

re: #202 Skip Intro

That woman is an idiot.

219 Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 12, 2014 6:43:41pm

re: #76 b.d.

Ok, this week has been a total letdown:

Assange was going to have left the embassy.
Chuck C was going to ruin Hillary’s chances, expose numerous other scandals
El Paso was supposed to be attacked
Obama has horns but doesn’t breath fire
No stolen Libyan jets inducing terror anywhere
Mexican ISIS failing to appear
1/3 of Atlanta doesn’t have Ebola

What else?

For some reason the term “Mexican ISIS” is hilarious to me.

220 Snarknado!  Sep 12, 2014 6:44:13pm

re: #217 WhatEVs

She can’t and never will. Obama, the Democrap, the black Democrap, beat her hillbilly ass and as Sistah Sarah has shown over and over, she never forgives; never forgets. She’ll hate Obama for the rest of her miserable, hate filled life, for daring to deny her higher office.

As will McCain (screwup descendent of heroes), for the same reason.

221 Eventual Carrion  Sep 12, 2014 6:44:35pm

Ha

222 thedopefishlives  Sep 12, 2014 6:46:38pm

Mrs. Fish made us some hot wings to snack on tonight. She turned the heat up to 11 on these babies. Holy smokes!

223 dog philosopher  Sep 12, 2014 6:47:33pm

skittles

i’ve been called worse

224 Eventual Carrion  Sep 12, 2014 6:54:56pm

I was using “Dueling Banjo’s”, but his soundtrack works.

225 thedopefishlives  Sep 12, 2014 6:55:36pm

re: #224 Eventual Carrion

I was using “Dueling Banjo’s”, but his soundtrack works.

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I suppose it’s better than the theme to Deliverance.

226 Decatur Deb  Sep 12, 2014 6:55:47pm

re: #224 Eventual Carrion

I was using “Dueling Banjo’s”, but his soundtrack works.

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Was thinking “Finnegan’s Wake”.

227 darthstar  Sep 12, 2014 6:57:11pm

re: #224 Eventual Carrion

I was using “Dueling Banjo’s”, but his soundtrack works.

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The Palins aren’t worthy of good country music. Pop-country crap like “Friends in Low Places” would be more appropriate.

228 Gus  Sep 12, 2014 6:59:03pm
229 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 6:59:35pm

re: #224 Eventual Carrion

I was using “Dueling Banjo’s”, but his soundtrack works.

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Nah, has to be a Ted Nugent tune in the background. #MooseCityMadman.

230 darthstar  Sep 12, 2014 7:00:57pm
231 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 7:02:37pm

So shoud I sign up for twitter? Without exposing my BruceWayneish existence to the world, you folks would be my base. Is it worth it or is the swarm of mosquitoesque twitter trolls too much?

232 WhatEVs  Sep 12, 2014 7:03:46pm

re: #231 b.d.

So shoud I sign up for twitter? Without exposing my BruceWayneish existence to the world, you folks would be my base. Is it worth it or is the swarm of mosquitoesque twitter trolls too much?

Definitely. Get a good app. I’m not a fan of twitter.com myself.

233 palomino  Sep 12, 2014 7:05:44pm

Even a half-wit game show host should know that calling Obama a Muslim today makes even less sense than usual. In his speech yesterday he just promised to get us back into Iraq (hopefully not with troops on the ground), fulfilling neocon wet dreams and insuring that lots of Muslims are about to get killed soon. In other words, he’s doing the exact opposite of what Woolery’s imaginary Muslim bogeyman president would do.

Then again, tea/douche bags have been rambling incoherently since 2007 that Obama is some sort of secret Muslim. Somehow he keeps it secret by using his given middle name Hussein.

234 dog philosopher  Sep 12, 2014 7:06:12pm

re: #231 b.d.

So shoud I sign up for twitter? Without exposing my BruceWayneish existence to the world, you folks would be my base. Is it worth it or is the swarm of mosquitoesque twitter trolls too much?

twitter start wif the same letturz as twoll

nuf sed!

235 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 7:08:51pm

re: #232 WhatEVs

Definitely. Get a good app. I’m not a fan of twitter.com myself.

Not even sure how to be on twitter without going through twitter, I have much to learn. I sure wish that that solar storm was stronger so I wouldn’t have to fret about this.

236 sagehen  Sep 12, 2014 7:09:00pm

re: #227 darthstar

The Palins aren’t worthy of good country music. Pop-country crap like “Friends in Low Places” would be more appropriate.

Myself, I’d go with “Yackety Sax.”

237 dog philosopher  Sep 12, 2014 7:09:11pm

re: #233 palomino

Even a half-wit game show host should know that calling Obama a Muslim today makes even less sense than usual. In his speech yesterday he just promised to get us back into Iraq (hopefully not with troops on the ground), fulfilling neocon wet dreams and insuring that lots of Muslims are about to get killed soon. In other words, he’s doing the exact opposite of what Woolery’s imaginary Muslim bogeyman president would do.

Then again, tea/douche bags have been rambling incoherently since 2007 that Obama is some sort of secret Muslim. Somehow he keeps it secret by using his given middle name Hussein.

aha, but i shall twick them by doing the opposite of what they expect! or maybe that’s exactly what they want me to do!?!! diabolical, i tell you!

238 Eventual Carrion  Sep 12, 2014 7:09:59pm

re: #231 b.d.

So shoud I sign up for twitter? Without exposing my BruceWayneish existence to the world, you folks would be my base. Is it worth it or is the swarm of mosquitoesque twitter trolls too much?

I signed up way back when it started and didn’t do anything with it. I signed back up about 2 weeks ago and it is not so bad so far. I pretty much just harass CCJ and like the science stuff I follow.

239 klys  Sep 12, 2014 7:10:30pm

re: #231 b.d.

So shoud I sign up for twitter? Without exposing my BruceWayneish existence to the world, you folks would be my base. Is it worth it or is the swarm of mosquitoesque twitter trolls too much?

If one doesn’t actually poke at the politics swarm, they are generally very happy to ignore you.

I interact with Lizards but only post occasional snark and never engage. I am safe from trolls.

240 Decatur Deb  Sep 12, 2014 7:11:21pm

There’s a real-live Palinista on the dead thread. Ave et valoque.

241 b_sharp  Sep 12, 2014 7:12:16pm

re: #239 klys

If one doesn’t actually poke at the politics swarm, they are generally very happy to ignore you.

I interact with Lizards but only post occasional snark and never engage. I am safe from trolls.

Some of us live to snark, and twitter is a good place to do it.

242 Eventual Carrion  Sep 12, 2014 7:12:48pm

re: #236 sagehen

Myself, I’d go with “Yackety Sax.”

With Sarah running around smacking a bald man on his head.

243 klys  Sep 12, 2014 7:14:13pm

re: #241 b_sharp

Some of us live to snark, and twitter is a good place to do it.

It’s true. I just like that in general, the trolls on twitter don’t seek one out for engagement unless one puts oneself out there.

WHY ANDROID WHY ARE YOU ACCESSING THE METHODS FOR THE PAGE BEHIND YOU……………. sob.

244 William Barnett-Lewis  Sep 12, 2014 7:14:47pm

Ok, I couldn’t find this yesterday but along with the victims of the WTC, I also mourned others while listening to Faure…

Had my family been Chilean, I’d have been dead before I was 11 years old.

245 alpuz  Sep 12, 2014 7:17:04pm

re: #231 b.d.

Only if you’re up for a good trolling mindfuck every time you open your app of choice. Otherwise, unless you’re going to go on the full-on offensive, it’s a little bit like a daily punch in the genitals for the the most part.

246 b_sharp  Sep 12, 2014 7:20:16pm

re: #243 klys

It’s true. I just like that in general, the trolls on twitter don’t seek one out for engagement unless one puts oneself out there.

WHY ANDROID WHY ARE YOU ACCESSING THE METHODS FOR THE PAGE BEHIND YOU……………. sob.

Because apps do everything they can to screw up your expectations.

They used to do it during compiling and linking. Now they wait for you to blink.

247 Stanley Sea  Sep 12, 2014 7:20:17pm

re: #231 b.d.

So shoud I sign up for twitter? Without exposing my BruceWayneish existence to the world, you folks would be my base. Is it worth it or is the swarm of mosquitoesque twitter trolls too much?

Don’t respond. Find people you like, laugh your ass off at the snark. It is not mandatory to engage.

248 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 12, 2014 7:21:00pm

Troll is busy on another dead thread…
littlegreenfootballs.com

249 Decatur Deb  Sep 12, 2014 7:21:57pm

re: #248 Backwoods_Sleuth

Troll is busy on another dead thread…
littlegreenfootballs.com

There is an LGF just like the one he is trolling, in another universe. He should go there and attack it.

250 prairiefire  Sep 12, 2014 7:22:57pm

re: #210 darthstar

Never eat Skittles while driving.

I hope you did not choke!

251 HappyWarrior  Sep 12, 2014 7:24:13pm

re: #248 Backwoods_Sleuth

Troll is busy on another dead thread…
littlegreenfootballs.com

What a lameass.

252 Decatur Deb  Sep 12, 2014 7:27:46pm

re: #251 HappyWarrior

What a lameass.

Reads like someone scared shitless by his own eager nightmares.

253 Charles Johnson  Sep 12, 2014 7:28:30pm

re: #248 Backwoods_Sleuth

Troll is busy on another dead thread…
littlegreenfootballs.com

Another previously blocked sock puppet, as usual.

254 teleskiguy  Sep 12, 2014 7:30:56pm

There are candlelight vigils underway.

255 WhatEVs  Sep 12, 2014 7:32:14pm

re: #235 b.d.

Not even sure how to be on twitter without going through twitter, I have much to learn. I sure wish that that solar storm was stronger so I wouldn’t have to fret about this.

I am always on my phone. Tweets is my fav app. I think others use tweetdeck on a computer. Let others chime in for computer use. I’m not much help there.

256 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 12, 2014 7:32:36pm

I am so envious of all the Northern Lights photos that I’m seeing on the twitterz.

257 Decatur Deb  Sep 12, 2014 7:32:45pm

re: #254 teleskiguy

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Could have been Ted Nugent’s Greatest Shits.

258 WhatEVs  Sep 12, 2014 7:33:48pm

re: #239 klys

If one doesn’t actually poke at the politics swarm, they are generally very happy to ignore you.

I interact with Lizards but only post occasional snark and never engage. I am safe from trolls.

Sometimes poking at trolls is great fun. Pointing out ignorance, logical failures and the like is a joy.

259 Decatur Deb  Sep 12, 2014 7:35:13pm

re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth

I am so envious of all the Northern Lights photos that I’m seeing on the twitterz.

Saw them once, in KY, the night I proposed to my wife. We called the tower at Godman Airfield, Ft. Knox. They thought we were UFO nuts.

260 blueraven  Sep 12, 2014 7:35:14pm

Greetings from Portland Oregon…

Daughter, Me, Son, Shadow: Cannon Beach, OR

My daughter and I flew out here from Austin to meet up with my son.
Lovely city!
Going back to TX tomorrow. :(

261 klys  Sep 12, 2014 7:35:20pm

re: #258 WhatEVs

Sometimes poking at trolls is great fun. Pointing out ignorance, logical failures and the like is a joy.

Yeah, I prefer not to, but nothing against the folks who do. Just wanted to point out that what you get back on Twitter is to some extent a function of what you put out.

262 HappyWarrior  Sep 12, 2014 7:35:49pm

re: #254 teleskiguy

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So maybe I should back off of the surprise U2 party I’ve been planning to throw Charles. :)

263 b_sharp  Sep 12, 2014 7:38:38pm

re: #262 HappyWarrior

So maybe I should back off of the surprise U2 party I’ve been planning to throw Charles. :)

Joshua Tree is the only one I’ve liked.

264 WhatEVs  Sep 12, 2014 7:38:44pm

re: #261 klys

Yeah, I prefer not to, but nothing against the folks who do. Just wanted to point out that what you get back on Twitter is to some extent a function of what you put out.

The best reason for Twitter is breaking news. Bar none.

265 Bear  Sep 12, 2014 7:41:11pm

re: #256 Backwoods_Sleuth

With luck the clouds will clear off and we may see the lights overhead tonight.

266 HappyWarrior  Sep 12, 2014 7:41:29pm

re: #263 b_sharp

Joshua Tree is the only one I’ve liked.

You know, they were always one of those bands that I guess I liked ok but never got the hype. I mean I do appreciate Bono as a humanitarian but at the same time, there are much better bands out there.

267 teleskiguy  Sep 12, 2014 7:42:01pm

re: #264 WhatEVs

The best reason for Twitter is breaking news. Bar none.

There’s also “Weird Twitter.”

268 Decatur Deb  Sep 12, 2014 7:42:06pm

re: #265 Bear

With luck the clouds will clear off and we may see the lights overhead tonight.

Seeing predictions of “as far south as Kansas.”

269 dog philosopher  Sep 12, 2014 7:42:23pm

the beer was enchanted, so we had some elvish pretzels

270 Stanley Sea  Sep 12, 2014 7:42:36pm

re: #260 blueraven

Greetings from Portland Oregon…

Daughter, Me, Son, Shadow: Cannon Beach, OR

My daughter and I flew out here from Austin to meet up with my son.
Lovely city!
Going back to TX tomorrow. :(

Is that a dog or a post?

(nice to see ya)

271 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 12, 2014 7:44:16pm

Welp, nothing but solid clouds here and rain on the way, so I guess I’ll just go to sleep.
Hope those with clear skies get to see the Lights!

272 WhatEVs  Sep 12, 2014 7:44:41pm

re: #265 Bear

With luck the clouds will clear off and we may see the lights overhead tonight.

Totally cloudy here. :-(

273 calochortus  Sep 12, 2014 7:45:53pm

re: #264 WhatEVs

The best reason for Twitter is breaking news. Bar none.

I just hang around here and get the news almost as fast.

274 blueraven  Sep 12, 2014 7:46:42pm

re: #270 Stanley Sea

Is that a dog or a post?

(nice to see ya)

That is my son’s dog, Shadow. (of course!)

275 WhatEVs  Sep 12, 2014 7:47:08pm

re: #273 calochortus

I just hang around here and get the news almost as fast.

True enough. One if the reasons I read the Pages religiously. Always good stuff there.

276 teleskiguy  Sep 12, 2014 7:48:30pm

Darren Wilson.

277 Gus  Sep 12, 2014 7:49:11pm
278 Decatur Deb  Sep 12, 2014 7:50:17pm

re: #276 teleskiguy

Darren Wilson.

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Hate to upding that, but if I chuckle, I ding. There are rules.

279 Stanley Sea  Sep 12, 2014 7:50:21pm

re: #274 blueraven

That is my son’s dog, Shadow. (of course!)

I re-read the post and was duh. Excellent photo.

280 psddluva4evah  Sep 12, 2014 7:52:30pm

African Americans have been saying all along that the legal system is rigged against victims and perpetrators when they are people of color.

Next month, when/if the grand jury doesn’t charge Darren Wilson, thanks to the actions of Ferguson PD and now the STL Prosecuting DA, maybe people will start believing us.

Ferguson tragedy becoming a farce
Dana Milbank, WashPo

…October is when a grand jury is expected to decide whether to indict the white police officer, Darren Wilson, who killed an unarmed black teenager by firing at least six bullets into him. It’s a good bet the grand jurors won’t charge him, because all signs indicate that the St. Louis County prosecutor, Robert McCulloch, doesn’t want them to…

The latest evidence that the fix is in came this week from The Post’s Kimberly Kindy and Carol Leonnig, who discovered that McCulloch’s office has declined so far to recommend any charges to the grand jury. Instead, McCulloch’s prosecutors handling the case are taking the highly unusual course of dumping all evidence on the jurors and leaving them to make sense of it.

McCulloch’s office claims that this is a way to give more authority to the grand jurors, but it looks more like a way to avoid charging Wilson at all — and to use the grand jury as cover for the outrage that will ensue. It is often said that a grand jury will indict a ham sandwich if a prosecutor asks it to. But the opposite is also true. A grand jury is less likely to deliver an indictment — even a much deserved one — if a prosecutor doesn’t ask for it…

281 teleskiguy  Sep 12, 2014 7:53:43pm

re: #278 Decatur Deb

Hate to upding that, but if I chuckle, I ding. There are rules.

@dril is my favorite Weird Twitter. I don’t follow him, I find the tweets best served just every now and again. About once a month, I’ll scroll through that feed and you’re bound to find some real freaky weird Twitter (in a totally good way)!

282 HappyWarrior  Sep 12, 2014 7:54:15pm

re: #280 psddluva4evah

African Americans have been saying all along that the legal system is rigged against victims and perpetrators when they are people of color.

Next month, when/if the grand jury doesn’t charge Darren Wilson, thanks to the actions of Ferguson PD and now the STL Prosecuting DA, maybe people will start believing us.

Ferguson tragedy becoming a farce
Dana Milbank, WashPo

It’s been a farce for a long time, Mr. Milbank.

283 goddamnedfrank  Sep 12, 2014 7:56:02pm

LOLWUT?

284 Stanley Sea  Sep 12, 2014 7:56:10pm

re: #280 psddluva4evah

African Americans have been saying all along that the legal system is rigged against victims and perpetrators when they are people of color.

Next month, when/if the grand jury doesn’t charge Darren Wilson, thanks to the actions of Ferguson PD and now the STL Prosecuting DA, maybe people will start believing us.

Ferguson tragedy becoming a farce
Dana Milbank, WashPo

P U K E

285 alpuz  Sep 12, 2014 7:57:02pm

Twitter gives me the heebies.

Klys, if you’re looking at preparing roma tomatoes for any sauce, try rubbing them down with olive oil and sprinkling some sea salt and crushed black pepper on ‘em. Smoked garlic powder, or roasted garlic chunks add a good kick too.

If you’re grilling/smoking(applewood is good for me) them, then keep an eye on ‘em until the skin starts to blacken. Then pull ‘em.

You can also broil them in a toaster oven using the same recipe.

What you do w/ them after that will just enhance the flavor.

I know it’s against some unwritten codes, but a pinch of sugar never hurts.
Forward!

286 hamptonroads  Sep 12, 2014 7:58:30pm

Huh, so not only is Chuck Woolery still in possession of his mortal coil, but he’s batshit insane too.

These are things I did not know until tonight.

287 psddluva4evah  Sep 12, 2014 7:58:49pm

re: #282 HappyWarrior

Yep. As usual, it’s the extreme examples of things that get a certain segment of the population to realized that the other side lives are NOT as rosy as they seem to think.

Case in point, the difference between seeing peaceful protestors during the Civil Rights Era and then seeing children and young people being hosed down in the street.

It’s always a “No Shhhh Sherlock” reaction from me and mine.

288 HappyWarrior  Sep 12, 2014 8:00:33pm

re: #283 goddamnedfrank

LOLWUT?

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Please tell me that’s a joke.

289 Stanley Sea  Sep 12, 2014 8:04:41pm

Ha. The snow mobiling (oh machine, you elites) group that Todd Palin is involved with and who was mentioned in the Alaska hillbilly hoedown has issued a statement

UPDATE: Iron Dog released a statement to clarify that it was not officially affiliated with the party that took place on Sept 6. “Iron Dog is much more than a race and we are dedicated to developing a positive, family-friendly and entertaining series of events. We host safety expos, conduct a statewide urban-rural student exchange and work with local charities to create positive change all across Alaska,” executive director Kevin Kastner tells E! News. “While there may have been one or two racers involved in the recent party, they do not represent the organization as a whole. It’s regrettable that a story like this has been blown completely out of proportion.” Furthermore, Chris Olds, whom bloggers claimed got swept up in the melee, does not own a home in Anchorage. Olds was, in fact, out of town on a hunting trip.

Palin damage control. Who could’ve imagined?

290 Stanley Sea  Sep 12, 2014 8:06:19pm

re: #286 hamptonroads

Have you been welcomed Hatchling?

291 Mike Lamb  Sep 12, 2014 8:07:18pm

re: #156 gwangung

Actually, minorities DO vote for politicians that advance minorities’ interests. I mean, that’s kinda elementary.

CCJ is dumb enough to boil it down to race, not policy. It’s part of their repeated crap toward blacks, denying them the idea that blacks are voting rationally, to forward their own interests.

White conservatives do the same thing, you know…it’s just that their interests are pretty racial in and of themselves…

When minorities vote in their best self-interest, they are moochers and Democrats are buying votes. When white people vote in their self-interest, it’s democracy.

292 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 12, 2014 8:07:59pm

re: #290 Stanley Sea

Have you been welcomed Hatchling?

Aren’t hatchlings responsible for keeping the “Wings and Pizza” table stocked?

RBS

293 Stanley Sea  Sep 12, 2014 8:08:30pm

re: #292 RealityBasedSteve

Aren’t hatchlings responsible for keeping the “Wings and Pizza” table stocked?

RBS

More into sweets at this point. Chocolate.

294 calochortus  Sep 12, 2014 8:08:54pm

re: #293 Stanley Sea

More into sweets at this point. Chocolate.

Dark chocolate.

295 HappyWarrior  Sep 12, 2014 8:08:54pm

re: #291 Mike Lamb

When minorities vote in their best self-interest, they are moochers and Democrats are buying votes. When white people vote in their self-interest, it’s democracy.

or white conservatives voting their “values.” Sorry but voting to demean gay people, women choosing to control their own bodies, etc doesn’t mean you have “values.” It just means you’re a prick.

296 prairiefire  Sep 12, 2014 8:11:43pm

re: #293 Stanley Sea

More into sweets at this point. Chocolate.

“Red Dust” for me.

297 goddamnedfrank  Sep 12, 2014 8:12:36pm

re: #288 HappyWarrior

Please tell me that’s a joke.

Not a very good one. That guy is is the weirdest wingnut ever and genuinely thinks the Rice scandal is overblown. He’s retweeted this:

And he didn’t retweet it as in “look at this crazy shit,” he’s a huge fan of Todd and had Todd on his horrible abortion of a Youtube show.

Youtube Video

It’s pretty much the worst thing ever.

298 calochortus  Sep 12, 2014 8:13:39pm

re: #296 prairiefire

What is Red Dust?

299 alpuz  Sep 12, 2014 8:14:27pm

re: #293 Stanley Sea

with cayenne? Or another smoked pepper? Guajillo?

300 Belafon  Sep 12, 2014 8:14:38pm

re: #297 goddamnedfrank

What did Janay do, step in front of his moving hand?

301 calochortus  Sep 12, 2014 8:15:35pm

re: #300 Belafon

What did Janay do, step in front of his moving hand?

Nah, she started it, forced him to defend himself and then knocked herself out on the railing in the elevator. I wish I were kidding.

302 palomino  Sep 12, 2014 8:15:35pm

re: #297 goddamnedfrank

Not a very good one. That guy is is the weirdest wingnut ever and genuinely thinks the Rice scandal is overblown. He’s retweeted this:

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And he didn’t retweet it as in “look at this crazy shit,” he’s a huge fan of Todd and had Todd on his horrible abortion of a Youtube show.

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How were Janay’s actions worse? Spitting and slapping by Janay are worse than a left hook thrown by a football player that knocks her unconscious?

303 HappyWarrior  Sep 12, 2014 8:15:37pm

re: #297 goddamnedfrank

Not a very good one. That guy is is the weirdest wingnut ever and genuinely thinks the Rice scandal is overblown. He’s retweeted this:

[Embedded content]

Video

It’s pretty much the worst thing ever.

Oh my. Can’t wait to hear Todd’s defense of Adrian Peterson. You know it’s coming.

304 prairiefire  Sep 12, 2014 8:15:55pm

re: #298 calochortus

What is Red Dust?

The wonderful old movie with Jean Harlow, Clark Gable & Mary Astor.

305 HappyWarrior  Sep 12, 2014 8:16:08pm

re: #300 Belafon

What did Janay do, step in front of his moving hand?

Possessed two x chromosomes, the bitch.//

306 teleskiguy  Sep 12, 2014 8:16:51pm

re: #132 goddamnedfrank

@ChuckCJohnson: Sure I believe that “Hispanics” will vote against Rafael Eduardo Cruz when they see his name on the ballot in 2016. Not.
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Hmm. I don’t see Ted Cruz getting elected President unless he throws his full-blown wingnut whack-a-loon father under the bus.

Still, I’m keeping an eye on Ted, he’s crazy like a fox in today’s GOP.

307 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Sep 12, 2014 8:18:05pm

re: #280 psddluva4evah

African Americans have been saying all along that the legal system is rigged against victims and perpetrators when they are people of color.

Next month, when/if the grand jury doesn’t charge Darren Wilson, thanks to the actions of Ferguson PD and now the STL Prosecuting DA, maybe people will start believing us.

Ferguson tragedy becoming a farce
Dana Milbank, WashPo

Note to self: don’t read the comments at WaPo ever again.

308 HappyWarrior  Sep 12, 2014 8:18:07pm

re: #306 teleskiguy

Hmm. I don’t see Ted Cruz getting elected President unless he throws his full-blown wingnut whack-a-loon father under the bus.

Still, I’m keeping an eye on Ted, he’s crazy like a fox in today’s GOP.

I would love and I mean love to see Cruz try to do that.

309 HappyWarrior  Sep 12, 2014 8:18:36pm

re: #307 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

Note to self: don’t read the comments at WaPo ever again.

I have a tough time reading comments on any story these days honestly myself. Some right wing prick is always there to whine about Obama.

310 Stanley Sea  Sep 12, 2014 8:20:00pm

re: #306 teleskiguy

Hmm. I don’t see Ted Cruz getting elected President unless he throws his full-blown wingnut whack-a-loon father under the bus.

Still, I’m keeping an eye on Ted, he’s crazy like a fox in today’s GOP.

Ted is terribly un photogenic. Among other things.

311 HappyWarrior  Sep 12, 2014 8:20:45pm

re: #310 Stanley Sea

Ted is terribly un photogenic. Among other things.

He’s also not likable. I mean if you’re a RWNJ, sure he’s likable. If you’re the rest of us OTOH.

312 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 8:22:55pm

OK, I am now Twitteized and raring to go. Already blocked my first follower who was looking for unsolicited sex without me ever having to send out a tweet or type anything, how exciting!

313 goddamnedfrank  Sep 12, 2014 8:24:25pm
314 alpuz  Sep 12, 2014 8:24:30pm

re: #309 HappyWarrior

Yep, and linking to a gatewaypundit article to back up their bullshit.

Chocolate and roasted peppers is heavenly. ‘Night, Lizards.

315 Stanley Sea  Sep 12, 2014 8:24:39pm

re: #312 b.d.

OK, I am now Twitteized and raring to go. Already blocked my first follower who was looking for unsolicited sex without me ever having to send out a tweet or type anything, how exciting!

Your handle por favor?

316 HappyWarrior  Sep 12, 2014 8:25:16pm

re: #314 alpuz

Yep, and linking to a gatewaypundit article to back up their bullshit.

Chocolate and roasted peppers is heavenly. ‘Night, Lizards.

Oh? lovely.

317 WhatEVs  Sep 12, 2014 8:26:27pm

re: #306 teleskiguy

Hmm. I don’t see Ted Cruz getting elected President unless he throws his full-blown wingnut whack-a-loon father under the bus.

Still, I’m keeping an eye on Ted, he’s crazy like a fox in today’s GOP.

I don’t see Cruz going anywhere. Rand, however, is a better liar and bullshitter. He scares me. He can come across not completely insane, but he’s equally as bad as Cruz.

318 Stanley Sea  Sep 12, 2014 8:27:21pm

re: #306 teleskiguy

Hmm. I don’t see Ted Cruz getting elected President unless he throws his full-blown wingnut whack-a-loon father under the bus.

Still, I’m keeping an eye on Ted, he’s crazy like a fox in today’s GOP.

Rev Wright times infin!!!!

319 HappyWarrior  Sep 12, 2014 8:27:27pm

re: #317 WhatEVs

I don’t see Cruz going anywhere. Rand, however, is a better liar and bullshitter. He scares me. He can come across not completely insane, but he’s equally as bad as Cruz.

Agree with that. Though I think Dem opps research should have a field day with him and his also kooky father.

320 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 12, 2014 8:27:40pm

Fare thee well into the evening Lizards. I’m going to hang it up, I’m going to go diving tomorrow, so I think I will retire for the evening.

Try to keep the barbarians outside the gates

RBS

321 WhatEVs  Sep 12, 2014 8:28:06pm

re: #312 b.d.

OK, I am now Twitteized and raring to go. Already blocked my first follower who was looking for unsolicited sex without me ever having to send out a tweet or type anything, how exciting!

@MsJoanne. Follow and I’ll follow back. #tfb

322 b.d.  Sep 12, 2014 8:28:32pm

re: #313 goddamnedfrank

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Congratulations, you are my first tweet goddamnedfrank:

:P

Thank you

323 blueraven  Sep 12, 2014 8:29:03pm

re: #293 Stanley Sea

More into sweets at this point. Chocolate.

You might like this, if you are prone to sudden intense chocolate urges (like me!) and need something RIGHT NOW!

2 minute chocolate mousse

324 goddamnedfrank  Sep 12, 2014 8:29:49pm
325 HappyWarrior  Sep 12, 2014 8:30:42pm

re: #324 goddamnedfrank

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People are so willingly gullible when it comes to bs fitting their narrative.

326 Tigger2005  Sep 12, 2014 8:30:55pm

What IS it with these game show hosts?

327 Charles Johnson  Sep 12, 2014 8:31:03pm

Glenn Greenwald is trying to sabotage the New Zealand government tonight, with help from convicted criminal Kimdotcom.

328 HappyWarrior  Sep 12, 2014 8:32:09pm

re: #326 Tigger2005

What IS it with these game show hosts?

Woolery? Sajak? Who else. Please tell me Trebek’s not a nut. I think he seems like a genuinely nice and fun guy who isn’t a kook.

329 HappyWarrior  Sep 12, 2014 8:32:34pm

re: #327 Charles Johnson

Glenn Greenwald is trying to sabotage the New Zealand government tonight, with help from convicted criminal Kimdotcom.

What did they to get the Glennster’s wrath?

330 calochortus  Sep 12, 2014 8:32:43pm

There is a disturbing amount of approval for using a switch on children on FR. There is a certain amount of pushback from people pointing out Peterson’s son is 4 years old and had blood drawn in a lot of places, but by and large they seem to favor the “spare the rod and spoil the child” philosophy. Which is frightening.

331 HappyWarrior  Sep 12, 2014 8:34:20pm

re: #330 calochortus

There is a disturbing amount of approval for using a switch on children on FR. There is a certain amount of pushback from people pointing out Peterson’s son is 4 years old and had blood drawn in a lot of places, but by and large they seem to favor the “spare the rod and spoil the child” philosophy. Which is frightening.

As I’ve said, I really do feel we’re living in two countries these days. One that is forward looking. The other who haven’t made any progression in their worldview since the Civil War if at all.

332 Gus  Sep 12, 2014 8:35:24pm
333 Tigger2005  Sep 12, 2014 8:35:32pm

Pssst, Chuck. The next time you feel reluctant to voice an opinion, trust your feelings.

334 HappyWarrior  Sep 12, 2014 8:37:16pm

re: #332 Gus

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Well that’s one reason that I admire the Jewish people. There’s a lot of funny stuff in this world. Gotta be able to laugh.

335 WhatEVs  Sep 12, 2014 8:37:39pm

re: #323 blueraven

You might like this, if you are prone to sudden intense chocolate urges (like me!) and need something RIGHT NOW!

2 minute chocolate mousse

I’m going to try that tomorrow. I’ve got cream in the list already. Yummy!

336 Stanley Sea  Sep 12, 2014 8:38:50pm

re: #323 blueraven

You might like this, if you are prone to sudden intense chocolate urges (like me!) and need something RIGHT NOW!

2 minute chocolate mousse

Saved it. How did you know chocolate mousse was my end all dessert. I was given years ago Dear Abby’s cookbooklets. She has an easy delectable recipe. Gotta find it.

Chocolate mousse is an old school dessert to die for.

337 Eventual Carrion  Sep 12, 2014 8:44:08pm

re: #296 prairiefire

“Red Dust” for me.

I was watching that movie earlier on TCM

338 Tigger2005  Sep 12, 2014 8:44:38pm

re: #328 HappyWarrior

Well, Drew Carey is a Libertarian and Ron Paul fan, I hear.

339 calochortus  Sep 12, 2014 8:45:25pm

Good night lizards. Hasta mañana.

340 Stanley Sea  Sep 12, 2014 8:48:20pm

Me too. Back to my hard to read Stephen King.

I’ve become a wimp with his stories.

See ya tomorrow!

341 WhatEVs  Sep 12, 2014 8:51:40pm

re: #338 Tigger2005

Well, Drew Carey is a Libertarian and Ron Paul fan, I hear.

And Penn Gillette is a libertarian lunatic (like crazy insane nutzo) who thinks total anarchy is a damn fine idea.

342 Eventual Carrion  Sep 12, 2014 9:07:23pm

re: #328 HappyWarrior

Woolery? Sajak? Who else. Please tell me Trebek’s not a nut. I think he seems like a genuinely nice and fun guy who isn’t a kook.

Alex Trebek was here in my small town quite a few years back. He came to guest conduct our symphony. Spoke in our little central park (about the size of a quarter city block). Seemed nice enough.

343 HappyWarrior  Sep 12, 2014 9:11:42pm

re: #342 Eventual Carrion

Alex Trebek was here in my small town quite a few years back. He came to guest conduct our symphony. Spoke in our little central park (about the size of a quarter city block). Seemed nice enough.

I always thought it was amusing that the Celeb Jeopardy skits on SNL portray him as uptight since he just seems really down to earth.

344 sagehen  Sep 12, 2014 9:15:05pm

re: #332 Gus

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Notice they didn’t even ask “believing in God”.

345 Frenchy  Sep 13, 2014 1:03:13am

I’ve heard from a “friend of a friend” etc. that Trebek is not a nice guy. I find that believable, honestly.

I don’t know anything about his politics. He comes off as intelligent and well-read, so I’d have to assume that he’s not a wingnut.

346 De Kolta Chair  Sep 13, 2014 8:08:01am

When someone says “I have been reluctant to say this, but…” it usually means they can’t say it often enough.


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