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1 stpaulbear  Sep 13, 2014 11:56:23am

I blame Obama.

2 GeneJockey  Sep 13, 2014 12:01:26pm

re: #1 stpaulbear

I blame Obama.

Hey, who doesn’t?

3 Charles Johnson  Sep 13, 2014 12:05:08pm
4 bratwurst  Sep 13, 2014 12:08:42pm
5 darthstar  Sep 13, 2014 12:14:54pm
6 EPR-radar  Sep 13, 2014 12:15:12pm

re: #4 bratwurst

The soundtrack for the Palin Brawl simply must be Yakety Sax. The internet should provide this in due course, if video ever comes out.

7 teleskiguy  Sep 13, 2014 12:15:44pm

Well, a conservative media outlet has said something about #PalinBrawl.

Chant it with me! WE. WANT. THE VIDEO. WE. WANT. THE VIDEO.

8 dustin91  Sep 13, 2014 12:22:09pm

I’ll just bring it back to the video itself… I’m a huge BF5 fan, and only recently came across the website a few weeks ago. Love the commentary, and even better with some Ben thrown in!

And now back to our regularly scheduled – and appropriate – Pail bashing. ; )

9 wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2014 12:22:56pm

re: #8 dustin91

Welcome, hatchling.

10 De Kolta Chair  Sep 13, 2014 12:24:29pm

Ironically it’s in mono.

11 bratwurst  Sep 13, 2014 12:28:47pm

As you read the following headline, know you shall soon be seeing it happen on video if you desire:

Rabid bat attacks, bites Oregon man jamming on guitar

12 wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2014 12:34:36pm

re: #11 bratwurst

As you read the following headline, know you shall soon be seeing it happen on video if you desire:

Rabid bat attacks, bites Oregon man jamming on guitar

Recommended viewing! (Bubblehead posted it earlier.)

Two weeks ago I had bats flying across my path as I was going home. Next time it happens I will probably cover my neck without thinking about it.

13 b_sharp  Sep 13, 2014 12:37:20pm

re: #11 bratwurst

As you read the following headline, know you shall soon be seeing it happen on video if you desire:

Rabid bat attacks, bites Oregon man jamming on guitar

Some music critics.

14 Charles Johnson  Sep 13, 2014 12:37:55pm

re: #11 bratwurst

As you read the following headline, know you shall soon be seeing it happen on video if you desire:

Rabid bat attacks, bites Oregon man jamming on guitar

Everybody’s a critic.

15 De Kolta Chair  Sep 13, 2014 12:38:33pm

re: #11 bratwurst

Rabid bat attacks, bites Oregon man jamming on guitar

“This thing came out of nowhere,” Derrick Skou said. “I was thinking it was a good day until then.”

The bat would say Skou was the one who came out of nowhere onto in his territory. Well, make that former territory, since they killed it.

16 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 13, 2014 12:39:28pm
17 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 13, 2014 12:46:41pm
18 darthstar  Sep 13, 2014 12:46:55pm

re: #14 Charles Johnson

Everybody’s a critic.

Stand your chord.

19 Snarknado!  Sep 13, 2014 12:52:05pm

Greetings on this sunny Saturday in California. I had to turn my firewall off (briefly) on the main computer, so I’m running a boot scan now. At this rate, it looks like it’ll finish sometime tomorrow.

How is your day going?

20 De Kolta Chair  Sep 13, 2014 12:58:05pm

re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The transformation hasn’t effected Donald Trump at all.

21 Charles Johnson  Sep 13, 2014 1:05:27pm
22 De Kolta Chair  Sep 13, 2014 1:07:40pm

On the front page of today’s Wall Street Journal, below the fold: Resurgent U.S. Dollar Fuels Rally — Longest Winning Streak in 17 Years Helps Drive Demand for U.S. Stocks, Bonds

On Fox News: crickets?

23 A Mom Anon  Sep 13, 2014 1:08:56pm

re: #22 De Kolta Chair

I blame Obama. Worst Socialist/Marxist/Maoist/Dictator EVAR.

24 De Kolta Chair  Sep 13, 2014 1:16:50pm

re: #23 A Mom Anon

25 wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2014 1:19:59pm

Mmmm, cole slaw with jalapeños in it.

Where’s my beverage…

26 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 13, 2014 1:21:55pm

Just for the cuteness’ sake.

Youtube Video

27 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 1:25:49pm

re: #25 wrenchwench

Mmmm, cole slaw with jalapeños in it.

Where’s my beverage…

That sounds yummy.

28 wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2014 1:31:21pm

re: #27 Stanley Sea

That sounds yummy.

It’s gone!

All that remains is the afterburn.

29 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 1:32:27pm

Portobellos - not black cheese

30 De Kolta Chair  Sep 13, 2014 1:35:28pm

More double entendres than you can shake a pepperoni stick at — Ruth Wallis singing “Pizza Every Night”
Youtube Video

Mangia!

31 Charles Johnson  Sep 13, 2014 1:37:23pm
32 dholmes32  Sep 13, 2014 1:44:44pm

A friend of mine saw a George Takei meme this week featuring a crocheted Death Star and asked me to crochet her one. It’s nearly done. I’m taking a break to think about how I want to stitch on lighter yarn indicating panels.

Crocheted Death Star

This is probably the first pattern I’ve followed to the letter because I’d never crocheted a sphere before.

33 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 13, 2014 1:46:37pm

re: #32 dholmes32

Can you crochet Chewbacca?/

Seriously, looks cool.

34 Belafon  Sep 13, 2014 1:50:46pm

re: #29 Stanley Sea

“Stack your burger with veggies.” Or you could just go to In-N-Out.

35 De Kolta Chair  Sep 13, 2014 1:50:59pm

re: #32 dholmes32

That’s very impressive and very cool!

Chewbacca is seriously into origami. Most people don’t know that.

36 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 13, 2014 1:55:43pm

A very blasphemous cartoon.

Click to Reveal

37 A Mom Anon  Sep 13, 2014 2:00:45pm

re: #36 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

I laughed. “I’m telling Mom”…((snort))

38 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 2:01:50pm

re: #36 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

A very blasphemous cartoon.

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There is no blasphemy. None.

(anyone see Black Jesus yet?)

39 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 13, 2014 2:03:31pm

re: #38 Stanley Sea

There is no blasphemy. None.

(anyone see Black Jesus yet?)

Now imagine what would have happened to the author 400 … nay, in some places 100 years ago.

40 bratwurst  Sep 13, 2014 2:18:57pm

Wow, who could have guessed that an old man who has CLEARLY lost the plot has also lost whatever professional ethics he once had?

George Will Promoted “Key Issue” Of Lobbying Group Two Weeks After Keynoting Its Conference

41 wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2014 2:24:27pm
42 ausador  Sep 13, 2014 2:34:35pm

hahahahahahahaha…*gasp*…hahahahahahahaha…

43 Jenner7  Sep 13, 2014 2:34:56pm

I liked his songs in the movie Over The Hedge. Funny movie.

Video

44 Jenner7  Sep 13, 2014 2:35:43pm

re: #42 ausador

I can’t stop staring. lololol

45 GeneJockey  Sep 13, 2014 2:36:13pm

re: #42 ausador

hahahahahahahaha…*gasp*…hahahahahahahaha…

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The bow on the sausage cozy is a nice touch.

46 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 2:36:26pm

re: #42 ausador

hahahahahahahaha...*gasp*…hahahahahahahaha…

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47 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 2:39:41pm
48 GeneJockey  Sep 13, 2014 2:41:17pm

When watching my then-teenage sons play Soulcalibur N*, I wondered just how much coding time went into getting boobs to bounce and joggle convincingly. We may still be stuck on the wrong side of the Uncanny Valley with respect to faces, but boobs we have figured out.

*Some generation >2

49 GeneJockey  Sep 13, 2014 2:42:46pm

re: #47 Stanley Sea

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Wait - he’s a CIA operative AND a secret Muslim AND a Communist AND a homosexual?

51 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 2:48:30pm

re: #50 ausador

Almost perfect, Sarah needs “red, white, and blue platform sneakers” though. lol

Can’t read the artist’s name. Link?

52 Snarknado!  Sep 13, 2014 2:54:00pm

re: #42 ausador

We need more exposure of the manly chest, though.

(Boot scan at 90%, I may get to sleep tonight after all.)

53 wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2014 2:54:22pm

Oh dear, oh my….

Goes with this famous photo.

54 ausador  Sep 13, 2014 2:54:54pm

re: #51 Stanley Sea

Stole it from a tweet, now I can’t find it again… :(

55 stpaulbear  Sep 13, 2014 2:56:07pm

re: #47 Stanley Sea

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COMMUNITY CIA OPERATIVE ACTIVIST!!!

56 ausador  Sep 13, 2014 2:56:35pm

Maybe something like these?…
(H/T Wonkette)

57 darthstar  Sep 13, 2014 2:58:41pm

re: #53 wrenchwench

Oh dear, oh my….

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Goes with this famous photo.

I’ll say…well done, Columbia.

58 darthstar  Sep 13, 2014 2:59:29pm

That’s just a little natural shadowing…when you look at the outfits up close (ctrl-+), it’s not at all suggestive.

59 wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2014 3:00:39pm

re: #58 darthstar

That’s just a little natural shadowing…when you look at the outfits up close (ctrl-+), it’s not at all suggestive.

And of course there’s a heavy-duty chamois padding the area…

60 GeneJockey  Sep 13, 2014 3:04:43pm

Huh, flesh-colored through the crotch area. Not suggestive at all.

61 GeneJockey  Sep 13, 2014 3:06:27pm

Hey, I should get me one of them outfits! They say “San Mateo” on them!

62 De Kolta Chair  Sep 13, 2014 3:06:59pm

re: #38 Stanley Sea

(anyone see Black Jesus yet?)

Not since ‘68.

63 GeneJockey  Sep 13, 2014 3:08:09pm

It’s SATURDAY, and the frikkin’ neighbor’s contractor is working.

LOUDLY.

Right now it’s the concrete saw, which is better than the jackhammer, but they’ll probably get it going in a moment. If my wood chipper were in working order, I’d give them a Stereo War they’d never forget!

64 wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2014 3:09:27pm

re: #61 GeneJockey

Hey, I should get me one of them outfits! They say “San Mateo” on them!

He’s giving you the side-eye.

65 GeneJockey  Sep 13, 2014 3:10:02pm

re: #64 wrenchwench

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He’s giving you the side-eye.

At least it’s not side BOOB.

66 ausador  Sep 13, 2014 3:12:38pm

Poor guy has Huntington’s disease… (video at link)

Family’s outrage at cops who violently arrested a father of two for ‘appearing intoxicated while taking care of his kids’…but actually has a TERMINAL ILLNESS that makes him look that way.

Cops roughed him up pretty good, for what? For “appearing intoxicated” while supervising his kids on a walk to the store and a park. :(

67 wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2014 3:12:44pm

re: #65 GeneJockey

At least it’s not side BOOB.

She’s giving you the heavenly eye-roll.

68 Bubblehead II  Sep 13, 2014 3:13:49pm

Good interview. In my opinion a must watch.

69 GeneJockey  Sep 13, 2014 3:15:51pm

re: #67 wrenchwench

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She’s giving you the heavenly eye-roll.

There’s a Chinese place we go that has heavenly EGG rolls. Is it anything like that?
//

BTW, the St. Elizabeth Seton shrine is in Emmitsburg, MD, which I will forever think of as “Where teenagers from the Gettysburg Area used to go to get drunk”.

70 teleskiguy  Sep 13, 2014 3:18:21pm

Count your blessings and/or feel lucky. This guy has had it fucking rough.

I hope he wins his lawsuit.

71 GeneJockey  Sep 13, 2014 3:19:48pm

re: #68 Bubblehead II

Good interview. In my opinion a must watch.

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I was a bit surprised at all the folks who thought Gillibrand had some kind of responsibility to out the particular Senators who made the remarkably sexist comments.

Am I wrong to think she might be allowed to choose not to sour relationships with people she has to work with?

72 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 13, 2014 3:27:07pm

VB would like this tweet so much:

73 Bubblehead II  Sep 13, 2014 3:27:18pm

re: #71 GeneJockey

I was a bit surprised at all the folks who thought Gillibrand had some kind of responsibility to out the particular Senators who made the remarkably sexist comments.

Am I wrong to think she might be allowed to choose not to sour relationships with people she has to work with?

Nope the choice is hers.

74 Targetpractice  Sep 13, 2014 3:32:32pm
75 GeneJockey  Sep 13, 2014 3:35:26pm

re: #72 Backwoods_Sleuth

VB would like this tweet so much:

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I only wish I could read it.

76 ausador  Sep 13, 2014 3:41:30pm

They are just trying to distract us from how ISIS committed the beheadings at Benghazi!

77 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 13, 2014 3:43:05pm

re: #75 GeneJockey

I only wish I could read it.

I had to enlarge it.

78 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 3:45:58pm

re: #77 Backwoods_Sleuth

I had to enlarge it.

And did the hate live up to the teaser?

79 darthstar  Sep 13, 2014 3:47:34pm

STOP WITH THE SEXUAL INNUENDO!

80 ausador  Sep 13, 2014 3:49:36pm

re: #75 GeneJockey

I only wish I could read it.

81 wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2014 3:50:03pm

re: #74 Targetpractice

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82 darthstar  Sep 13, 2014 3:52:02pm

re: #80 ausador

I fucking hate pivot tables…and Excel.

83 De Kolta Chair  Sep 13, 2014 3:53:43pm

re: #76 ausador

They are just trying to distract us from how ISIS committed the beheadings at Benghazi!

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I’m too panicky to make up my mind about who I should be most afraid of.

Hence this frosty mug of refreshing Samuel Adams, or as I like to call it WorryAway®. Aaahhh, works every time!

84 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 3:54:55pm

re: #80 ausador

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OH. Absolutely the opposite of what I supposed. Bravo.

85 Charles Johnson  Sep 13, 2014 4:02:23pm
87 De Kolta Chair  Sep 13, 2014 4:03:15pm

re: #82 darthstar

I fucking hate pivot tables…and Excel.

I recently took a four week refresher course in Excel and now hate it even more than ever.

88 Bubblehead II  Sep 13, 2014 4:06:47pm

Well that didn’t take Bryan very long. Asshole.

89 teleskiguy  Sep 13, 2014 4:06:50pm

I can already hear Bryan Fischer howl.

90 De Kolta Chair  Sep 13, 2014 4:08:36pm

Woke up on the sidewalk fronting the barber shop or across the street at the ATM?

91 Bubblehead II  Sep 13, 2014 4:09:05pm

re: #89 teleskiguy

I can already hear Bryan Fischer howl.

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Ask and thou shall receive.

92 teleskiguy  Sep 13, 2014 4:11:09pm

re: #91 Bubblehead II

Ask and thou shall receive.

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Right on time. Good grief.

93 Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 13, 2014 4:12:10pm

re: #91 Bubblehead II

He forgot the “I arf you not”.

94 teleskiguy  Sep 13, 2014 4:13:34pm

re: #89 teleskiguy

It should be noted that the high school in Colorado Springs that crowned a transgender female Homecoming Princess is in the same district as Focus On The Family. Evangelicals in that area are being driven up a wall.

95 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 4:17:07pm

re: #94 teleskiguy

It should be noted that the high school in Colorado Springs that crowned a transgender female Homecoming Princess is in the same district as Focus On The Family. Evangelicals in that area are being driven up a wall.

Their kids are rebelling. I arf you not.

96 wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2014 4:17:41pm
97 Bubblehead II  Sep 13, 2014 4:20:38pm

re: #92 teleskiguy

Right on time. Good grief.

Bryan as a rule is predictable. Surprised he hasn’t blocked me yet.

Oh, look. A troll.

98 wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2014 4:20:45pm

Video only at the link, except for this caption:

Islam expert labels them ‘known Muslim Brotherhood’ members after they oppose his visit.

99 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 4:26:03pm

OK, just added tweetdeck to create a Florida Fucking Football feed.

Problem I see is my regular feed scrolls at lightning speed. At least with regular twitter you had a chance to catch up. Dizzy.

100 A Mom Anon  Sep 13, 2014 4:27:08pm

re: #98 wrenchwench

This country has lost it’s collective fucking mind. If it’s not the cops being stupid, it’s paranoid hateful fools trying to incite hatred.

I wonder sometimes if we had really dealt with our history, the slavery, the extermination of the American Indians and all the rest of it if things would be different on any level now.

And the current GOP “leadership” needs a collective kick in the nuts for allowing the bullshit they’ve allowed to gain a foothold. Congratulations for getting neighbors to hate each other, to distrust each other and then making it easier for them to hoard guns. Nice work, assholes.

I’m having a hard time forgiving this shit anymore. If these assholes would focus on making life better for the largest number of people possible we could all be doing much better. I’m so sick of it.

101 Bubblehead II  Sep 13, 2014 4:27:28pm
102 wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2014 4:29:35pm

re: #101 Bubblehead II

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I peeked at his TL. Waste of time. Most of his replies consist of ‘fuck you’.

103 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 4:30:43pm

GO GATORS!

104 Varek Raith  Sep 13, 2014 4:32:51pm

Strategically, WTF is ISIL thinking?!?!
Fuckwits.

105 wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2014 4:34:04pm

re: #100 A Mom Anon

I wonder sometimes if we had really dealt with our history, the slavery, the extermination of the American Indians and all the rest of it if things would be different on any level now.

That’s what Ta Nehisi Coates’s article on reparations was about, pretty much. Some people were so freaked out by the title alone, they wouldn’t read it.

106 De Kolta Chair  Sep 13, 2014 4:34:08pm

Mommy’s taking me to Dairy Queen! Yee-haw!!!

107 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 4:35:33pm

re: #106 De Kolta Chair

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Mommy’s taking me to Dairy Queen! Yee-haw!!!

Thank you. That was a good omen.

108 bratwurst  Sep 13, 2014 4:38:11pm

re: #105 wrenchwench

Some people were so freaked out by the title alone, they wouldn’t read it.

And that is not even to mention those here and elsewhere to merely pretended to have read it.

109 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 4:39:21pm

My brain cannot handle tweetdeck. Way way too much info.

Signed,
Older person

110 Bubblehead II  Sep 13, 2014 4:40:44pm

re: #102 wrenchwench

I peeked at his TL. Waste of time. Most of his replies consist of ‘fuck you’.

I know. Such a good Christian fellow he his.

///

111 ausador  Sep 13, 2014 4:41:12pm

re: #91 Bubblehead II

Ask and thou shall receive.

Bryan Fischer @BryanJFischer

A boy with 100% male DNA is crowned homecoming princess at a Colorado high school. fxn.ws

Fox knew trouble when they saw it…

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112 A Mom Anon  Sep 13, 2014 4:41:58pm

re: #109 Stanley Sea

I can barely deal with facebook and texting, lol. Twitter would cause some sort of sensory overload. Yes I am mildly old, and no I am not at all worried about it.

Now pull up your pants, put away those smarty pants phones and those Tweety birds and get off my lawn you youngsters!

113 b_sharp  Sep 13, 2014 4:43:27pm

re: #109 Stanley Sea

My brain cannot handle tweetdeck. Way way too much info.

Signed,
Older person

You ain’t old.

114 De Kolta Chair  Sep 13, 2014 4:43:38pm

re: #107 Stanley Sea

Thank you. That was a good omen.

Another good omen is that it’s the Kentucky Wildcats. //

115 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 4:46:12pm

We have a Wildcat Lizard. He’s probably paying attention.

116 Dark_Falcon  Sep 13, 2014 4:49:00pm

re: #74 Targetpractice

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That’s confirmed and CNN is covering the story live. I don’t know if these fucks think they can intimidate the Brits into not helping the US, but if that’s the goal I think they’ve got another thing coming.

117 Bubblehead II  Sep 13, 2014 4:50:24pm

re: #111 ausador

Fox knew trouble when they saw it…

Fox has closed comments on their main site for awhile now. Fox and Friends on the other hand still allow the wing nuts to vent if iirc.

118 Bubblehead II  Sep 13, 2014 4:56:25pm

119 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 4:57:50pm

re: #118 Bubblehead II

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The Jews should listen is what we call a tell.

120 Dark_Falcon  Sep 13, 2014 5:00:05pm

re: #119 Stanley Sea

The Jews should listen is what we call a tell.

Yeah, it means that the person who says it is playing with Nazi cards.

121 Bubblehead II  Sep 13, 2014 5:00:27pm

re: #119 Stanley Sea

The Jews should listen is what we call a tell.

Ayep.

122 De Kolta Chair  Sep 13, 2014 5:01:33pm

re: #118 Bubblehead II

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Matthew 5:17-18

17 Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfill.

18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass from the law, till all be fulfilled.

But hey, that was just the founder of their religion, aka The Son of God, talking.

123 BeenHereAwhile  Sep 13, 2014 5:02:39pm

re: #104 Varek Raith

Strategically, WTF is ISIL thinking?!?!
Fuckwits.

ISIL wants western boots on the ground in Syria and Iraq, so they can further demonstrate their agenda of being the only true “defenders of the faith.”

The Pro War Pundits are doing exactly what ISIL wants them to do.

124 ausador  Sep 13, 2014 5:03:01pm

re: #109 Stanley Sea

My brain cannot handle tweetdeck. Way way too much info.

Signed,
Older person

I just created a second regular twitter account as a “news feed” It currently follows 97 media sources and journalists. No posts, no followers, no favorites, just a quiet little egg in their followers list.

125 Charles Johnson  Sep 13, 2014 5:05:04pm
126 Charles Johnson  Sep 13, 2014 5:06:45pm

re: #99 Stanley Sea

OK, just added tweetdeck to create a Florida Fucking Football feed.

Problem I see is my regular feed scrolls at lightning speed. At least with regular twitter you had a chance to catch up. Dizzy.

Go to Settings->General and uncheck “Stream tweets in realtime.” That helps.

127 Charles Johnson  Sep 13, 2014 5:09:01pm
128 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 5:09:29pm

re: #126 Charles Johnson

Go to Settings->General and uncheck “Stream tweets in realtime.” That helps.

Muchas gracias. I’m trying.

129 Dark_Falcon  Sep 13, 2014 5:09:32pm

re: #123 BeenHereAwhile

ISIL wants western boots on the ground in Syria and Iraq, so they can further demonstrate their agenda of being the only true “defenders of the faith.”

The Pro War Pundits are doing exactly what ISIL wants them to do.

If that’s what they want and they get it then they will soon after be very, VERY, sorry. Because they aren’t up to fighting on the level of the US or UK, not at all. Even they just end up fighting some of our support or security troops, we will crush them!

130 Dark_Falcon  Sep 13, 2014 5:09:59pm

I’ll be back later with more.

131 Aye Pod  Sep 13, 2014 5:10:23pm

Evening folks - just a quick hello from Scotland. We’re kinda busy, as we all have something important to do this week, science willing… :)

Youtube Video

132 De Kolta Chair  Sep 13, 2014 5:11:01pm

Oh I get it — desert island because he’s from a state with deserts. Oh television, you’re so fecking lame.

133 Charles Johnson  Sep 13, 2014 5:11:53pm

Think any of the wingnuts will get the “Andrew’s looking up” reference?

134 Aye Pod  Sep 13, 2014 5:14:28pm

re: #133 Charles Johnson

I expect their reaction will be severe brainstrain followed by popped monocle syndrome.

135 wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2014 5:16:11pm
136 Snarknado!  Sep 13, 2014 5:16:12pm

re: #132 De Kolta Chair

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Oh I get it — desert island because he’s from a state with deserts. Oh television, you’re so fecking lame.

Actually, Flake did a survival expedition on his own a while back. On a desert(ed) island. And then he did it again with his sons.

137 GeneJockey  Sep 13, 2014 5:16:46pm

re: #118 Bubblehead II

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Christiansplaining?

138 De Kolta Chair  Sep 13, 2014 5:19:38pm

re: #131 Aye Pod

Evening folks - just a quick hello from Scotland. We’re kinda busy, as we all have something important to do this week, science willing… :)

That calls for a wee dram of Glasgow’s own Dick Gaughan…

Youtube Video

139 Bubblehead II  Sep 13, 2014 5:22:20pm

re: #137 GeneJockey

Christiansplaining?

I don’t know. I am just about done with this idiot.

140 KiTA  Sep 13, 2014 5:22:20pm

re: #129 Dark_Falcon

If that’s what they want and they get it then they will soon after be very, VERY, sorry. Because they aren’t up to fighting on the level of the US or UK, not at all. Even they just end up fighting some of our support or security troops, we will >crush them!

So your saying it’ll be … A slam dunk?

141 GeneJockey  Sep 13, 2014 5:24:07pm

re: #140 KiTA

So your saying it’ll be … A slam dunk?

Or a cakewalk.

142 Bubblehead II  Sep 13, 2014 5:25:17pm

re: #140 KiTA

So your saying it’ll be … A slam dunk?

Gee. I wonder where we heard that before?

/// X10 to the 5th.

BTW, anything going on that I might need to know about? DM me on my twitter feed if there is. Thx

143 wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2014 5:28:06pm

re: #139 Bubblehead II

I don’t know. I am just about done with this idiot.

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Are you looking at ‘Tweets and Replies’? That’s where it would show up. I see it.

144 goddamnedfrank  Sep 13, 2014 5:28:40pm

re: #132 De Kolta Chair

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Oh I get it — desert island because he’s from a state with deserts. Oh television, you’re so fecking lame.

Flake’s son is facing some 20 or so felony charges for the deaths of that many dogs which were in his care at a boarding facility. Failure to provide adequate shelter, they apparently all died of heat stroke in a shed.

Another of Flake’s sons is a creepy weirdo racist bigot, who posted all kinds of horrible shit online, and used the name ni**erkiller on a social gaming forum.

Seems like a nice family.

145 Snarknado!  Sep 13, 2014 5:33:05pm

re: #144 goddamnedfrank

Flake’s son is facing some 20 or so felony charges for the deaths of that many dogs which were in his care at a boarding facility. Failure to provide adequate shelter, they apparently all died of heat stroke in a shed.

Another of Flake’s sons is a creepy weirdo racist bigot, who posted all kinds of horrible shit online, and used the name ni**erkiller on a social gaming forum.

Seems like a nice family.

While Flake has appeared on NPR just to show what a basically nice, moderate guy he is.

146 Bubblehead II  Sep 13, 2014 5:38:05pm

Do I keep him on the line or just throw him back?

147 ausador  Sep 13, 2014 5:38:59pm
148 ausador  Sep 13, 2014 5:42:28pm
149 wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2014 5:42:33pm

re: #146 Bubblehead II

Do I keep him on the line or just throw him back?

I blocked him on sight.

150 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 5:45:00pm

re: #146 Bubblehead II

Do I keep him on the line or just throw him back?

Back. He’s got some sort of poison in him.

151 Rightwingconspirator  Sep 13, 2014 5:46:01pm

Any interesting dinners consumed or planned this Saturday night? Since we are in from the 103 F heatwave laying low…We are going all coastal tonight. Bacon wrapped seared scallops for appetizers then white wine/butter/garlic sauteed shrimp. Made a fresh ranch dressing and picked up a baguette and some wines.

152 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 5:47:33pm

re: #148 ausador

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Later found to be a water bottle, but the photo is done.

0-0 still. They have not beaten us since the 80’s.

Oh and DARTH, Tebow is sitting next to Brent Musburger RIGHT NOW.

153 De Kolta Chair  Sep 13, 2014 5:47:46pm

Goodnight, LGFers. You made a stressful day a helluva a lot easier. Have yourself a little love pill…

Youtube Video

154 Aye Pod  Sep 13, 2014 5:49:17pm

yesscotland.net

Commenting on a new ICM poll for the Sunday Telegraph which puts Yes at 54 per cent and No at 46 per cent - and an Opinium poll for the Observer which puts Yes at 47 per cent and No at 53 per cent - Blair Jenkins, chief executive of Yes Scotland, said: ‘The new ICM poll gives Yes a record eight-point lead, which is hugely encouraging. Meanwhile, Opinium puts Yes behind, but just by six points.

On the streets, everyone I know or speak to is reporting anecdotally that YES seems to have it by a huge margin. A lot of people are voting in this referendum - I think it’s 97.5% of the population that have registered to vote in it - which is phenomenal - and this includes a lot of people who have never voted before (having hitherto felt disenfranchised by the westminster system) and are not being tracked by the opinion polls. Be prepared for a big surprise.

Like everyone else I know I have succumbed to hope and of course, if we don’t get the YES vote this time I’ll be absolutely gutted. But I think we will, despite having the entire UK press and political establishment against us.

155 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 5:49:21pm

re: #151 Rightwingconspirator

Any interesting dinners consumed or planned this Saturday night? Since we are in from the 103 F heatwave laying low…We are going all coastal tonight. Bacon wrapped seared scallops for appetizers then white wine/butter/garlic sauteed shrimp. Made a fresh ranch dressing and picked up a baguette and some wines.

Sounds so yum. Nothing beyond basic planned here tonight. 104 here.

156 Bubblehead II  Sep 13, 2014 5:50:00pm

re: #149 wrenchwench

I blocked him on sight.

I probably should have. but I am a sucker for easy targets.. But I noticed he keeps his time line clear of those who disagree with him.

157 stpaulbear  Sep 13, 2014 5:51:28pm

re: #148 ausador

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I watched a guy piss on the tire of my car from inside of a gas station one afternoon. I bought a 20 oz. bottle of diet coke then drove to the parking lot across the street where he’d walked, rolled my window down, squeezed the bottle and shot about half the coke onto his shirt. Luckily, nothing got into my way while I high-tailed it out of the parking lot. It was a stupid thing to do and I’m very lucky that I didn’t get held up in traffic or it would have been ugly for me.

A couple years later I had a going-away party when I was laid off of a job. One of my co-workers said to the whole group that the coke incident was the story that he was going to remember me most for. He thought it was the funniest story ever.

158 wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2014 5:51:40pm

re: #156 Bubblehead II

I probably should have. but I am a sucker for easy targets.. But I noticed he keeps his time line clear of those who disagree with him.

It’s not like I never waste time typing to idiots. Bad habit, sometimes.

159 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 5:51:44pm

re: #154 Aye Pod

yesscotland.net

On the streets, everyone I know or speak to is reporting anecdotally that YES seems to have it by a huge margin. A lot of people are voting in this referendum - I think it’s 97.5% of the population that have registered to vote in it - which is phenomenal - and this includes a lot of people who have never voted before (having hitherto felt disenfranchised by the westminster system) and are not being tracked by the opinion polls. Be prepared for a big surprise.

Like everyone else I know I have succumbed to hope and of course, if we don’t get the YES vote this time I’ll be absolutely gutted. But I think we will, despite having the entire UK press and political establishment against us.

Hey & love!

I know someone who is visiting your beautiful country right now. They are getting a political awakening along with tourist stops I bet.

160 Rightwingconspirator  Sep 13, 2014 5:52:00pm

re: #154 Aye Pod

Hello Jimmah!

Well then cautious congratulations. Do you expect Scotland to join the EU at some point ? Or is that thought a bad idea?

161 ausador  Sep 13, 2014 5:52:01pm

California’s chances for significant rain in the near future are looking pretty bad…

162 William Barnett-Lewis  Sep 13, 2014 5:52:59pm

re: #151 Rightwingconspirator

Any interesting dinners consumed or planned this Saturday night? Since we are in from the 103 F heatwave laying low…We are going all coastal tonight. Bacon wrapped seared scallops for appetizers then white wine/butter/garlic sauteed shrimp. Made a fresh ranch dressing and picked up a baguette and some wines.

Just got up for the night at 7:00 PM local time and had a baloney sandwich for supper. Probably beans & hot dogs in the middle of the night … Interesting enough for you? LOL!

163 Aye Pod  Sep 13, 2014 5:53:09pm

re: #159 Stanley Sea

Hey & love!

I know someone who is visiting your beautiful country right now. They are getting a political awakening along with tourist stops I bet.

Definitely! The place is fizzing :)

164 De Kolta Chair  Sep 13, 2014 5:54:15pm

Shite, did I say Glasgow’s own Dick Gaughan earlier? He was born there, but grew up in and around Edinburgh.

165 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Sep 13, 2014 5:55:33pm

re: #147 ausador

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It’s on the tip of my tongue, but I just can’t come up with it no matter how hard I try. It’s driving me bananas.

166 Charles Johnson  Sep 13, 2014 5:56:04pm
167 jaunte  Sep 13, 2014 5:56:40pm

re: #165 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

It’s on the tip of my tongue, but I just can’t come up with it no matter how hard I try. It’s driving me bananas.

Just remember there’s a ray of comfort in every slippery problem.

168 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 5:57:38pm

re: #161 ausador

California’s chances for significant rain in the near future are looking pretty bad…

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Wipes brow. (no actually my AC is reaching the beyond budget amount)

169 Targetpractice  Sep 13, 2014 5:57:51pm

re: #166 Charles Johnson

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You know, that’s a pretty funny question coming from the crowd that partied when Ted Kennedy passed on.

170 The War TARDIS  Sep 13, 2014 6:00:26pm

Doctor Who!

171 wrenchwench  Sep 13, 2014 6:05:47pm

Later, lizards.

172 Aye Pod  Sep 13, 2014 6:05:55pm

re: #160 Rightwingconspirator

Hello Jimmah!

Well then cautious congratulations. Do you expect Scotland to join the EU at some point ? Or is that thought a bad idea?

Thanks!

I think in Scotland we’re just not so obsessed with the whole issue of EU membership as they are in England. Of course the NO or ‘Better Together’ campaign and their supporters will tell us that an Independent Scotland in the EU would violate the laws of physics, but we are not idiots or babies, and know that new countries do not get spurned to death by the outside world just for going through a democratic process and daring to exist. We’re really more concerned with making sure we never get another right wing government imposed upon us against our voting wishes ever again. Or if we ever do, it’ll be because we actually voted for it ourselves,which (although undesirable and also pretty unlikely for the forseeable future) would at least be fair.

173 Charles Johnson  Sep 13, 2014 6:08:00pm
174 WhatEVs  Sep 13, 2014 6:08:18pm

re: #56 ausador

Maybe something like these?…
(H/T Wonkette)

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Palin Shoes

Likely more like this.

175 Charles Johnson  Sep 13, 2014 6:09:55pm
176 Bear  Sep 13, 2014 6:11:17pm

Interesting picture of I-15 between Las Vegas and ST George.
latimes.com

177 compound_Idaho  Sep 13, 2014 6:11:17pm

re: #57 darthstar

I know several elite riders. Wrong place. Wrong time.

178 BeenHereAwhile  Sep 13, 2014 6:11:27pm

re: #129 Dark_Falcon

If that’s what they want and they get it then they will soon after be very, VERY, sorry. Because they aren’t up to fighting on the level of the US or UK, not at all. Even they just end up fighting some of our support or security troops, we will crush them!

@abumuqawama: Partnering with Saudi Arabia to defeat Islamism is a little like partnering with America to defeat capitalism.

179 WhatEVs  Sep 13, 2014 6:11:55pm

re: #148 ausador

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Maybe they’re Russian cosmonauts.

180 The War TARDIS  Sep 13, 2014 6:11:58pm

This episode is awesome, but I will be paranoid the rest of the night.

181 Charles Johnson  Sep 13, 2014 6:13:02pm
182 Aye Pod  Sep 13, 2014 6:16:09pm

re: #180 The War TARDIS

This episode is awesome, but I will be paranoid the rest of the night.

Here’s something to calm you down, pal :)

Youtube Video

Edit: That’s Malcolm Tucker (Peter Capaldi AKA the new Doc) from ‘The Thick Of It’. Highly recommended.

183 Aye Pod  Sep 13, 2014 6:18:45pm

Ok, think I’m done for the night - catch you all later :)

Youtube Video

184 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Sep 13, 2014 6:20:20pm

re: #173 Charles Johnson

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They’ll never get an indictment as long as McColloch is in charge of the grand jury. I don’t know why Nixon doesn’t appoint a special prosecutor.

185 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 6:23:09pm

re: #174 WhatEVs

Palin Shoes

Likely more like this.

BETCHA

186 Bubblehead II  Sep 13, 2014 6:23:27pm

Lizard. Good Night.

187 dholmes32  Sep 13, 2014 6:28:47pm

re: #98 wrenchwench

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Video only at the link, except for this caption:

I’m so embarrassed I live here. I watched the video and Channel 12 very clearly labeled this a smear of the local Muslim leaders more than once. One of the beliefs this Guandolo has is that the current director of the CIA, John Brennan, is a secret Muslim. Why? Because Brennan’s never denied it. *rolls eyes*

The New Times has an article which explains what’s going on, in a snarktastic way. (Not quite Yr Wonkette, but getting there.)

blogs.phoenixnewtimes.com

188 WhatEVs  Sep 13, 2014 6:29:37pm

re: #185 Stanley Sea

I’ve seen JLo wearing platform sneakers just like that but they were Converse All Stars colored (black and white-ish). Looked just like that.

189 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 6:34:24pm

I’m definitely staying up.

190 BeenHereAwhile  Sep 13, 2014 6:34:27pm

re: #184 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi

They’ll never get an indictment as long as McColloch is in charge of the grand jury. I don’t know why Nixon doesn’t appoint a special prosecutor.

Meanwhile the FBI 302s generated in Ferguson are being forwarded to the US Attorney.

Sometimes in a situation like this, the state wants the Feds to come in, take over the criminal investigation and cut the state out of being responsible for any subsequent political fallout.

Ain’t nothing like a federal indictment to complicate your life.

191 WhatEVs  Sep 13, 2014 6:37:17pm

re: #189 Stanley Sea

I’m definitely staying up.

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Oh man. The potential excites!

192 jaunte  Sep 13, 2014 6:39:44pm

Fact or Lie Messiah sounds like a Fox game show pitch.

193 sagehen  Sep 13, 2014 6:41:14pm

re: #170 The War TARDIS

Doctor Who!

The costume department has been very good to Clara this year. I want her entire wardrobe for this ep, last week, and the one before that.

194 ausador  Sep 13, 2014 6:47:00pm

re: #192 jaunte

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Fact or Lie Messiah sounds like a Fox game show pitch.

Not to mention that all along it has been the Right wingers calling him that, I have never heard or read of one liberal calling Obama the “messiah.”

Just another strawman they invented so that they can “mock” (they think) us about calling him that when we never have. The whole thing was beyond tiresome after the first six months, now it is just inane and boring.

195 Charles Johnson  Sep 13, 2014 6:50:22pm
196 b_sharp  Sep 13, 2014 6:55:37pm

re: #195 Charles Johnson

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What exactly does that mean?

197 WhatEVs  Sep 13, 2014 6:58:44pm

re: #196 b_sharp

What exactly does that mean?

All libtards support Muslims!!

(Ergo all liberals are ISIL.)

198 WhatEVs  Sep 13, 2014 6:59:56pm

The TV guide shows SNL is a rerun from 2013. :-(

199 b_sharp  Sep 13, 2014 7:05:06pm

re: #197 WhatEVs

All libtards support Muslims!!

(Ergo all liberals are ISIL.)

Wow, that’s quite the non sequitur.

200 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 13, 2014 7:06:32pm

re: #72 Backwoods_Sleuth

VB would like this tweet so much:

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I would like it better if I could read it. :(

201 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 13, 2014 7:08:29pm

Thanksre: #80 ausador

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Thanks.

202 jaunte  Sep 13, 2014 7:08:38pm

re: #199 b_sharp

Libtards can never debate my Non Sequitur

203 ausador  Sep 13, 2014 7:12:43pm

Cuuute…

204 Charles Johnson  Sep 13, 2014 7:12:51pm

re: #196 b_sharp

What exactly does that mean?

Who knows?

205 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 13, 2014 7:13:12pm

I wonder why “Obama had Breitbart murdered” never took hold.

206 b_sharp  Sep 13, 2014 7:15:12pm

re: #205 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

I wonder why “Obama had Breitbart murdered” never took hold.

They couldn’t tie it to the ACA.

207 WhatEVs  Sep 13, 2014 7:23:46pm

re: #199 b_sharp

Wow, that’s quite the non sequitur.

I didn’t write it. I just looked at it with my wingnut decoder ring. Precious told me what it said. :-D

208 CuriousLurker  Sep 13, 2014 7:28:31pm

Okay, so my new laptop arrived Tuesday afternoon and it took me a couple of days to install stuff & figure out Windows 8.1. The new desktop machine arrived around lunchtime Friday, so I’ve been working on reinstalling & reconfiguring all my apps on that one too.

I’m not 100% back to normal yet, but I decided to surf around for a while since my internet access has been pretty limited since last week. Ugh, I’d forgotten how much stupid was out there. First, on Amazon:

So I tweet that and jaunte’s reply makes me LOL:

Then a couple of minutes later this derp flies across my timeline, RT-ed by someone I unfollowed a while back but forgot to remove from my “liberals” list:

Apparently, Jews, like Palestinians, don’t really exist. I guess they both just invented themselves so they could fight with each other //

I can’t take it. Seriously. I’m gonna go watch videos and try again tomorrow.

209 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 13, 2014 7:28:52pm

I had to fix that “Miminum Wage” meme and send it back into the Twitsream

210 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 13, 2014 7:31:26pm

re: #208 CuriousLurker

Glad to see you back. As I’m mulling over what laptop to buy, may I ask for yours’ specs?

211 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 13, 2014 7:33:03pm

LOLWHUT

212 ausador  Sep 13, 2014 7:34:41pm

re: #204 Charles Johnson

Who knows?

It means that because we don’t howl for an all out war against “Islam” that we support Islamic terrorists. The meme is that because we believe that atheists, Christians, Jews, Muslims, and people of all other faiths can co-exist we are blindly enabling the terrorists.

They want a holy war but they have no idea what they are asking for, one does not declare unconditional war on 1.6 billion fellow human beings. Who would be our allies? Who else would support our “Christianist” based insanity?

We would of course bankrupt ourselves completely while turning practically the entire world against us. We would lose, but don’t bother them with the facts, the “America, fuck yeah!” crowd doesn’t deal in those. :(

213 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 7:35:15pm

re: #198 WhatEVs

The TV guide shows SNL is a rerun from 2013. :-(

WHA?

214 Belafon  Sep 13, 2014 7:35:38pm

re: #211 Pie-onist Overlord

Zero understanding of economics.

215 Charles Johnson  Sep 13, 2014 7:35:40pm
216 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 13, 2014 7:35:51pm

I don’t even get what that guy is trying to say.

217 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 13, 2014 7:37:07pm

re: #188 WhatEVs

I’ve seen JLo wearing platform sneakers just like that but they were Converse All Stars colored (black and white-ish). Looked just like that.

Converse has a feature where you can build a totally customized set of Chuck Taylors. I just did a fully flag themed pair. 75 bucks a pop. Great way to kill some time.

RBS

218 Dark_Falcon  Sep 13, 2014 7:37:20pm

re: #140 KiTA

So your saying it’ll be … A slam dunk?

No, just that ISIS will lose the fight.

219 goddamnedfrank  Sep 13, 2014 7:38:10pm

re: #210 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Sort of a non-responsive aside: I think we’re approaching a heat-limited plateau on laptop performance. It’s hard to imagine current designs being able to sustain much greater peak performance without either serious improvements in computing efficiency or by making laptops with much more involved cooling infrastructure.

Point being, whatever you get now I doubt will probably compare unfavorably to near future models.

220 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 7:38:54pm

re: #211 Pie-onist Overlord

LOLWHUT

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He’s a hermit horder with internet.

221 calochortus  Sep 13, 2014 7:39:05pm

re: #214 Belafon

Zero understanding of economics.

But if those minimum wage workers understood economics, now then we’d solve the problem of low wages! Or something.

222 Dark_Falcon  Sep 13, 2014 7:39:35pm

re: #216 Pie-onist Overlord

I don’t even get what that guy is trying to say.

It’s the usual “end the Fed!” malarkey, with the odd touch of the use of a silver coin instead of a gold coin. Maybe he’s a William Jennings Bryan fan. ;)

223 Bear  Sep 13, 2014 7:39:54pm

re: #208 CuriousLurker

The ad about powdered butter reminded me of when margarine was first sold as a butter substitute and could not be sold colored to look like real butter. The margarine packaged had a small pouch of yellow die that you would have to mix into the white margarine. What a mess mixing the coloring by hand.

224 William Barnett-Lewis  Sep 13, 2014 7:40:15pm

re: #211 Pie-onist Overlord

LOLWHUT

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The ignorance of specie money. It’s only real because it’s metal? Sorry dude but there isn’t enough precious metal in the world to run any modern economy (much less the whole world’s) unless you want to let the President start minting those 1 Trillion dollar face value Platinum coins with moon rock in the center.

The other thing is that it’s a short step from ignorance about inflation to blaming it all on “international” bankers < spit >

225 Targetpractice  Sep 13, 2014 7:40:29pm

re: #218 Dark_Falcon

No, just that ISIS will lose the fight.

We heard that about Al-Qaeda. In fact, we’ve heard that about virtually every enemy the US has faced post-WWII.

226 goddamnedfrank  Sep 13, 2014 7:42:01pm

re: #219 goddamnedfrank

I’m thinking of getting a cooling pad for some involved graphics applications and gaming at home on my new Macbook Pro. The quad core processor and NVIDIA card can put out an alarming number of BTUs when running full bore. It never shuts down, but that thin strip of aluminum above the keyboard can get almost uncomfortable to touch.

227 William Barnett-Lewis  Sep 13, 2014 7:42:09pm

re: #222 Dark_Falcon

It’s the usual “end the Fed!” malarkey, with the odd touch of the use of a silver coin instead of a gold coin. Maybe he’s a William Jennings Bryan fan. ;)

The farmers liked silver because there is much more of it. Still not enough to run a modern economy but enough that it would grow the economy of 1900 far beyond what gold could as was proven by the economics of WWI.

228 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 7:42:31pm

re: #215 Charles Johnson

They have Fjordman & Velams Blang (typing from memory, no spell check)
as the ones you tossed off. oooooooooooh

229 Belafon  Sep 13, 2014 7:43:01pm

re: #225 Targetpractice

Don’t want to agree with DF too much, but, other than O’kieff (or however you spell it), we’re not nearly as worried about al Qaeda as we used to be. Has something to do with killing a lot of their leaders.

230 goddamnedfrank  Sep 13, 2014 7:43:04pm

re: #219 goddamnedfrank

Edit: Unfavorably.

231 William Barnett-Lewis  Sep 13, 2014 7:44:10pm

re: #223 Bear

The ad about powdered butter reminded me of when margarine was first sold as a butter substitute and could not be sold colored to look like real butter. The margarine packaged had a small pouch of yellow die that you would have to mix into the white margarine. What a mess mixing the coloring by hand.

My great uncle was a chemist at the U-West Virginia and was responsible for inventing yellow coloring that could be put into the “oleo” when it was made. Wisconsin wasn’t too happy about him - doubly ironic since he grew up here on the family farm

232 calochortus  Sep 13, 2014 7:44:22pm

re: #224 William Barnett-Lewis

The ignorance of specie money. It’s only real because it’s metal? Sorry dude but there isn’t enough precious metal in the world to run any modern economy (much less the whole world’s) unless you want to let the President start minting those 1 Trillion dollar face value Platinum coins with moon rock in the center.

The other thing is that it’s a short step from ignorance about inflation to blaming it all on “international” bankers < spit >

It’s hearsay on my part, but I have read that there is a direct correlation between how long countries took to pull out of the Great Depression, and how stuck they were on the gold standard.

Even so, I know more than one person who just can’t grasp the concept that paper money is a perfectly sound medium of exchange in any stable country and metal backed coinage restricts economic growth.

233 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 13, 2014 7:44:35pm

re: #228 Stanley Sea

They have Fjordman & Velams Blang (typing from memory, no spell check)
as the ones you tossed off. oooooooooooh

That was most inexcusable.

234 Targetpractice  Sep 13, 2014 7:44:59pm

re: #229 Belafon

Don’t want to agree with DF too much, but, other than O’kieff (or however you spell it), we’re not nearly as worried about al Qaeda as we used to be. Has something to do with killing a lot of their leaders.

Yet it remains, despite the killing of various leaders and an ungodly number of “#2 leaders.” It’s the medical equivalent of trying to cut out cancer. Unless you successfully get ever single last cell, you risk it returning and spreading.

235 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 13, 2014 7:45:38pm

re: #229 Belafon

Don’t want to agree with DF too much, but, other than O’kieff

Nobody calls him a chicken!

236 Charles Johnson  Sep 13, 2014 7:45:52pm
237 CuriousLurker  Sep 13, 2014 7:46:28pm

re: #210 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Glad to see you back. As I’m mulling over what laptop to buy, may I ask for yours’ specs?

It was just an inexpensive one ($250) for backup purposes since my MBP is also unusable right now—a very basic Dell, minimal specs: 15.6-inches, a Celeron dual core processor, 4GB of RAM, 500GB hard drive, no optical drive, and no cat5 or bluetooth connection (only wi-fi), and no USB 3.0 ports. Oh, and a bunch of software I don’t need or want, so I had to get rid of a bunch of stuff.

That said, it performs okay for doing basic webdev stuff (Photoshop, Dreamweaver, etc.), but I wouldn’t try to do a complex InDesign layout, process video, render 3D, or run games with intense graphics on it. It beats the hell outta trying to do stuff on an iPad or an ancient ThinkPad though. ;-)

Edited to add link: Dell Inspiron i3531-1200BK 15.6-Inch Laptop

238 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 7:46:36pm

re: #233 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

That was most inexcusable.

wha? really bad?

I’m watching Florida Football.’

239 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 13, 2014 7:47:02pm

re: #224 William Barnett-Lewis

The ignorance of specie money. It’s only real because it’s metal? Sorry dude but there isn’t enough precious metal in the world to run any modern economy (much less the whole world’s) unless you want to let the President start minting those 1 Trillion dollar face value Platinum coins with moon rock in the center.

The other thing is that it’s a short step from ignorance about inflation to blaming it all on “international” bankers < spit >

This guy is too fucking stupid to chew his own food:

240 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 13, 2014 7:48:25pm

Here’s another idiot who worships the corporate deities.

241 Targetpractice  Sep 13, 2014 7:48:38pm

re: #239 Pie-onist Overlord

This guy is too fucking stupid to chew his own food:

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Uh yes, they do in fact need force. Unless you think that the various rivers burning, acid rain, and medical waste showing up on shorelines was stopped through the power of the “free market.”

242 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 13, 2014 7:49:27pm

re: #238 Stanley Sea

wha? really bad?

I’m watching Florida Football.’

Hell hath no fury like a fascist spurned.

243 Belafon  Sep 13, 2014 7:51:26pm

re: #240 Pie-onist Overlord

244 Dark_Falcon  Sep 13, 2014 7:51:38pm

re: #239 Pie-onist Overlord

This guy is too fucking stupid to chew his own food:

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Great, a “Sovereign Citizen”. Don’t waste your time with one of those, Alouette. They are case-hardened against all rational argument.

245 William Barnett-Lewis  Sep 13, 2014 7:51:46pm

re: #232 calochortus

It’s hearsay on my part, but I have read that there is a direct correlation between how long countries took to pull out of the Great Depression, and how stuck they were on the gold standard.

Even so, I know more than one person who just can’t grasp the concept that paper money is a perfectly sound medium of exchange in any stable country and metal backed coinage restricts economic growth.

This book explains it well. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World smile.amazon.com

Let’s simply say I’ve very grateful that the German’s refused to go off of the Gold standard and starved their economy as a result…

That’s gone into in more depth in The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy smile.amazon.com

246 CuriousLurker  Sep 13, 2014 7:52:10pm

re: #210 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Glad to see you back. As I’m mulling over what laptop to buy, may I ask for yours’ specs?

Oops. Sorry, forgot to add the link:
Dell Inspiron i3531-1200BK 15.6-Inch Laptop

247 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 13, 2014 7:53:44pm

re: #246 CuriousLurker

Thanks :)

248 ausador  Sep 13, 2014 7:54:52pm

re: #216 Pie-onist Overlord

I don’t even get what that guy is trying to say.

249 calochortus  Sep 13, 2014 7:54:55pm

re: #245 William Barnett-Lewis

Oh great. More books to go on the reading list. I’ll have to live to be 100. ;)

250 Targetpractice  Sep 13, 2014 7:54:56pm

re: #243 Belafon

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Yeah, anybody who thinks that a person’s pay is based upon the actual value they add to a company is high on their own supply of derp. Virtually every bit of the rise in production and value since 1981 has gone to the people at the top of the food chain. Wages have remained stagnant or even dropped over the past 30+ years.

251 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 13, 2014 7:55:45pm

re: #244 Dark_Falcon

Great, a “Sovereign Citizen”. Don’t waste your time with one of those, Alouette. They are case-hardened against all rational argument.

I blocked it

252 Dark_Falcon  Sep 13, 2014 7:55:48pm

re: #234 Targetpractice

Yet it remains, despite the killing of various leaders and an ungodly number of “#2 leaders.” It’s the medical equivalent of trying to cut out cancer. Unless you successfully get ever single last cell, you risk it returning and spreading.

We still have to try and we have to keep cutting. Ultimately, any totalitarian movement will attack the US unless we stop it from doing so. Our freedom is an intolerable contradiction to their vile beliefs and it will lead them to try to purge the contradiction.

Put simply, there’s not enough room on this planet for the United States of America and the ‘Islamic State’.

253 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 13, 2014 7:55:51pm
254 Dark_Falcon  Sep 13, 2014 7:56:50pm

re: #251 Pie-onist Overlord

I blocked it

Good call.

255 Targetpractice  Sep 13, 2014 7:57:42pm

re: #252 Dark_Falcon

We still have to try and we have to keep cutting. Ultimately, any totalitarian movement will attack the US unless we stop it from doing so. Our freedom is an intolerable contradiction to their vile beliefs and it will lead them to try to purge the contradiction.

Put simply, there’s not enough room on this planet for the United States of America and the ‘Islamic State’.

So we’re going to do exactly what OBL wanted: Keep bleeding ourselves dry until we simply cannot afford to fight anymore, at which point groups like ISIS just walk all over us anyway.

256 Gus  Sep 13, 2014 7:57:43pm

Full moon on Twitter.

Again.

257 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 13, 2014 7:59:46pm

Why is jjauthor showing up in the Tweetdeck after I blocked & muted it?

Blocked & muted again. That thing is freaking annoying.

258 WhatEVs  Sep 13, 2014 8:04:02pm

re: #209 Pie-onist Overlord

I had to fix that “Miminum Wage” meme and send it back into the Twitsream

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I had one of these guys in the checkout line in front of me tonight. “People who don’t want to work should starve!” railing on the checkout girl about this and that. I tuned him out before my blood pressure erupted and then *I* erupted. The poor girl was apologizing to me. And that pissed me off even more. Poor girl felt like she had to apologize for some schmuck being a schmuck.

259 CuriousLurker  Sep 13, 2014 8:04:59pm

re: #240 Pie-onist Overlord

Here’s another idiot who worships the corporate deities.

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Last night I watched Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning on PBS online. It was really, really good—very eye-opening to see the Depression, the New Deal, WWII, the internment of Japanese Americans, migrant farm workers, etc. through her eyes. It was a BIG reality check.

If anyone isn’t familiar with Lange, she’s the photographer that took what is probably one of the most famous, iconic American photos of all time:

Migrant Mother

I’m pretty sure that if it happened today, the current crop of right-wing radicals who fancy themselves “conservatives” would show nothing but hatred & contempt for poor, down-on-their luck, suffering Americans. Most people today (myself included) don’t know squat about real hard times.

260 William Barnett-Lewis  Sep 13, 2014 8:05:08pm

re: #249 calochortus

Oh great. More books to go on the reading list. I’ll have to live to be 100. ;)

The library remains the greatest university ever created.

261 Gus  Sep 13, 2014 8:05:23pm
262 Dark_Falcon  Sep 13, 2014 8:05:55pm

re: #255 Targetpractice

So we’re going to do exactly what OBL wanted: Keep bleeding ourselves dry until we simply cannot afford to fight anymore, at which point groups like ISIS just walk all over us anyway.

At the level Obama is talking about, we should be able to keep supporting the fighting indefinitely. Maybe new government revenues will have to be found, but the US has a robust enough economy to hold the line.

And I’ve never said the US can destroy Radical Islamism. We can’t; Muslims have to do that. But if we want to keep what we hold dear, we’re going to have to fight to buy them the time to do the hard political and cultural work needed to end Radical Islamism.

I hear you, TP, I really do. But we can’t just ‘declare peace’ and walk away. ISIS, Al Qaeda, and their ilk will not let us do that in the long run. They want to conquer the whole world, TP, not just those nations that are currently Muslim.

263 jaunte  Sep 13, 2014 8:06:32pm

re: #261 Gus

A classic in just four words. It’s as if there’s a sport of derp golfing.

264 CuriousLurker  Sep 13, 2014 8:07:38pm

re: #259 CuriousLurker

Edited to add the link to the full-length documentary, please refresh.

I really can’t recommend it highly enough if you enjoy history and/or photography and/or Americana.

265 PhillyPretzel  Sep 13, 2014 8:08:49pm

re: #258 WhatEVs

It must be something in the air. Yesterday I was coming home on the bus after picking up some groceries. The bus driver asked a woman to either pay or get off the bus. It escalated to a point where the bus driver honked her horn to get two cops to take the woman off of the bus. I got off when the back door opened and the cops were trying to reason with the woman. I walked one mile to get home and did not have to endure what was happening on that bus.

266 Gus  Sep 13, 2014 8:09:18pm

re: #263 jaunte

A classic in just four words. It’s as if there’s a sport of derp golfing.

267 Dark_Falcon  Sep 13, 2014 8:09:27pm

re: #261 Gus

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268 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 13, 2014 8:09:36pm

your an illiterate liberal moran, should of lernt english!

269 GeneJockey  Sep 13, 2014 8:09:40pm

Can we take all the Conservatives and Libertarians, stick them in some part of the US, and just saw that part off? Really, honest to god, I read comments on FB threads, and it makes me sick, and weary, and so, so afraid of what happens if they get too powerful.

270 Dark_Falcon  Sep 13, 2014 8:10:50pm

re: #269 GeneJockey

No, you’re stuck with us.

271 GeneJockey  Sep 13, 2014 8:12:28pm

re: #270 Dark_Falcon

No, you’re stuck with us.

Dude, as much of an apologist for theocrats, racists, and Randians as you may be, you at least aren’t a theocrat, racist, or Randian. I do wonder why you cleave to them, however.

272 Targetpractice  Sep 13, 2014 8:13:05pm

re: #262 Dark_Falcon

At the level Obama is talking about, we should be able to keep supporting the fighting indefinitely. Maybe new government revenues will have to be found, but the US has a robust enough economy to hold the line.

And I’ve never said the US can destroy Radical Islamism. We can’t; Muslims have to do that. But if we want to keep what we hold dear, we’re going to have to fight to buy them the time to do the hard political and cultural work needed to end Radical Islamism.

I hear you, TP, I really do. But we can’t just ‘declare peace’ and walk away. ISIS, Al Qaeda, and their ilk will not let us do that in the long run. They want to conquer the whole world, TP, not just those nations that are currently Muslim.

ISIS has done more damage to its standing than our bombs have. The discussion we do not seem to be having, in fact seem to junk every time a beheading has happened, is “Is ISIS as strong as it makes itself out?” And from all appearances, the answer is “No.” They do not have the manpower to control the land they claim as theirs and the only way they seem capable right now of maintaining power is through the threat of violence. So every time we engage in a fever dream about how ISIS is going to attack us and carry out another 9/11, we lose sight of just how pathetic they really are.

273 William Barnett-Lewis  Sep 13, 2014 8:13:23pm

re: #270 Dark_Falcon

No, you’re stuck with us.

DF, you know who Edmund Burke and John Locke were & have probably, worse, read them. That makes you a CINO to most of those idiots.

274 Dark_Falcon  Sep 13, 2014 8:15:29pm

re: #273 William Barnett-Lewis

DF, you know who Edmund Burke and John Locke were & have probably, worse, read them. That makes you a CINO to most of those idiots.

Well, if Edmund Burke and modern thinkers like William F. Buckley aren’t thought of as “conservative” by some on the right, then I’d say those people have lost the bubble.

275 Dark_Falcon  Sep 13, 2014 8:18:00pm

re: #272 Targetpractice

ISIS has done more damage to its standing than our bombs have.

No, it hasn’t. Those beheading videos and those murders of prisoners didn’t hurt ISIS too much till we stepped in with airstrikes and aid to their enemies. Our support has been crucial in helping towns attacked by ISIS resist its onslaught.

276 Targetpractice  Sep 13, 2014 8:20:45pm

re: #275 Dark_Falcon

No, it hasn’t. Those beheading videos and those murders of prisoners didn’t hurt ISIS too much till we stepped in with airstrikes and aid to their enemies. Our support has been crucial in helping towns attacked by ISIS resist its onslaught.

Those videos are meant to provoke us and it’s working.

277 Gus  Sep 13, 2014 8:21:18pm
278 Stanley Sea  Sep 13, 2014 8:39:20pm

re: #259 CuriousLurker

Last night I watched Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning on PBS online. It was really, really good—very eye-opening to see the Depression, the New Deal, WWII, the internment of Japanese Americans, migrant farm workers, etc. through her eyes. It was a BIG reality check.

If anyone isn’t familiar with Lange, she’s the photographer that took what is probably one of the most famous, iconic American photos of all time:

Migrant Mother

I’m pretty sure that if it happened today, the current crop of right-wing radicals who fancy themselves “conservatives” would show nothing but hatred & contempt for poor, down-on-their luck, suffering Americans. Most people today (myself included) don’t know squat about real hard times.

Ken Burn’s The Roosevelts tomorrow on PBS

I CANT WAIT.

I think it’s 2 hours ea night for 5 days.

ATTENTION ATTENTION

279 sagehen  Sep 13, 2014 10:16:03pm

re: #278 Stanley Sea

Ken Burn’s The Roosevelts tomorrow on PBS

I CANT WAIT.

I think it’s 2 hours ea night for 5 days.

ATTENTION ATTENTION

7 nights. 14 hours total.

(I doubt I’ll catch more than 1 or 2 eps broadcast, good thing PBS puts everything on-line pretty quickly.)

280 Bubblehead II  Sep 14, 2014 3:55:34am

re: #259 CuriousLurker

Last night I watched Dorothea Lange: Grab a Hunk of Lightning on PBS online. It was really, really good—very eye-opening to see the Depression, the New Deal, WWII, the internment of Japanese Americans, migrant farm workers, etc. through her eyes. It was a BIG reality check.

If anyone isn’t familiar with Lange, she’s the photographer that took what is probably one of the most famous, iconic American photos of all time:

Migrant Mother

I’m pretty sure that if it happened today, the current crop of right-wing radicals who fancy themselves “conservatives” would show nothing but hatred & contempt for poor, down-on-their luck, suffering Americans. Most people today (myself included) don’t know squat about real hard times.

Check out this page for some more Depression era photos and photogs.


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