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1 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 17, 2014 2:11:34pm

“Arrogant” = “uppity”.

2 BroncD  Sep 17, 2014 2:12:39pm

Newt Gingrich Says Obama Is Sooo Arrogant He Even Golfs Arrogantly Blackly

FIFY

3 Shiplord Kirel  Sep 17, 2014 2:12:50pm

Yeah, Newt, he is so arrogant he is still on his first wife.

4 Schadenboner  Sep 17, 2014 2:13:42pm

re: #3 Shiplord Kirel

Yeah, Newt, he is so arrogant he is still on his first wife.

Bah, Newt’s on a lot of people’s first wives too…

5 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 17, 2014 2:14:03pm

Newt, get better.

6 b.d.  Sep 17, 2014 2:15:15pm

A BLACK MAN SHOULDN’T BE HITTING A WHITE GOLF BALL, IT SENDS THE WRONG MESSAGE

7 b.d.  Sep 17, 2014 2:15:40pm

re: #5 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Newt, get better.

he’s just mailing it in at this point.

8 Timothy Watson  Sep 17, 2014 2:15:42pm

Sorry for the early OT but OFFS:

9 missliberties  Sep 17, 2014 2:15:55pm

Hate merchants everywhere. Make it stop.

10 goddamnedfrank  Sep 17, 2014 2:16:45pm

All golf is arrogant. The only way for Obama to make that sport more arrogant would be to putt with his cock.

11 Schadenboner  Sep 17, 2014 2:17:08pm

re: #8 Timothy Watson

Sorry for the early OT but OFFS:

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I’ll sell him my shitty old Steam games, does that count?

12 GeneJockey  Sep 17, 2014 2:17:14pm

“Newt Gingrich is the stupid person’s idea of what a smart person sounds like.” - Paul Krugman (though he said it wasn’t originally his line)

13 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sep 17, 2014 2:17:15pm

I kinda think the Newt video should be behind a “Spoiler” tag. Just sayin’

14 dog philosopher  Sep 17, 2014 2:17:20pm

newt is the most serious minded deep thinking pudding pop on the block

i think they use currants for his eyes

15 Jenner7  Sep 17, 2014 2:18:04pm

Cenk’s heart must be all a flutter over Rand’s speech right now…

16 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 17, 2014 2:19:20pm

They recall back when the only black men on a golf course were the caddies…

THEY JUST WANT THEIR COUNTRY BACK!!!

17 b.d.  Sep 17, 2014 2:19:42pm

DUCT TAPE - CHECK, PLASTIC SHEETING - CHECK - THEY’LL BE CHEMTRAILING THE EBOLA ON US VERY SOON NOW
DUCT TAPE - CHECK, PLASTIC SHEETING - CHECK - THEY’LL BE CHEMTRAILING THE EBOLA ON US VERY SOON NOW

18 EPR-radar  Sep 17, 2014 2:19:51pm

IMAX needs to sue a RWNJ for patent and/or trademark infringement, for the 10,000th time.

19 goddamnedfrank  Sep 17, 2014 2:21:22pm

The only sports more arrogant than golf are polo and yacht racing.

20 Kragar  Sep 17, 2014 2:21:38pm

What do Newt’s 3 wives have to say on the matter?

21 EPR-radar  Sep 17, 2014 2:22:20pm

re: #10 goddamnedfrank

All golf is arrogant. The only way for Obama to make that sport more arrogant would be to putt with his cock.

Putt? What kind of wimp putts with his dick? Real men use their dicks everywhere else on the golf course (for drives, getting out of sand traps, etc.).

22 Decatur Deb  Sep 17, 2014 2:22:20pm

re: #19 goddamnedfrank

The only sports more arrogant than golf are polo and yacht racing.

I was on a golf course once. Fukn’ piss-poor jumpmaster.

23 GeneJockey  Sep 17, 2014 2:23:12pm

I finally realized I could just turn off the ‘Beautiful Asian Ladies seek marriage’ ad on the lefthand side, isntead of bitching about it. I will miss bitching about it, though. And what’s up with that ‘Russian Senior Dating’ ad with the young woman who looks like she’s maybe a Senior IN HIGH SCHOOL?

Lord only knows what they’ll put there to replace it

24 Schadenboner  Sep 17, 2014 2:23:58pm

re: #21 EPR-radar

Putt? What kind of wimp putts with his dick? Real men use their dicks everywhere else on the golf course (for drives, getting out of sand traps, etc.).

Don’t forget to rake.

25 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sep 17, 2014 2:24:24pm

re: #23 GeneJockey

I finally realized I could just turn off the ‘Beautiful Asian Ladies seek marriage’ ad on the lefthand side, isntead of bitching about it. I will miss bitching about it, though. And what’s up with that ‘Russian Senior Dating’ ad with the young woman who looks like she’s maybe a Senior IN HIGH SCHOOL?

Lord only knows what they’ll put there to replace it

Clear your history son ;)

26 ObserverArt  Sep 17, 2014 2:24:25pm

I made a comment on this in the last thread…bringing it upstairs too.

- - -

I’m surprised he got that wrong. Uncle Newty is usually an expert at arrogance.

/

27 b.d.  Sep 17, 2014 2:24:37pm

re: #19 goddamnedfrank

The only sports more arrogant than golf are polo and yacht racing.

WINDSURFING!!

28 ObserverArt  Sep 17, 2014 2:25:14pm

re: #5 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

Newt, get better.

Unpossible!

/

29 goddamnedfrank  Sep 17, 2014 2:25:15pm

re: #19 goddamnedfrank

The only sports more arrogant than golf are polo and yacht racing.

Also Formula 1, and water polo, the pretend kind where everyone rides around on captured orca whales.

30 Ryan King  Sep 17, 2014 2:25:24pm

I ‘unstuffy’ golf every chance I get.

31 The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 17, 2014 2:27:19pm

re: #24 Schadenboner

Don’t forget to rake.

and fix divets,

32 Kragar  Sep 17, 2014 2:27:54pm
33 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 17, 2014 2:27:56pm

re: #19 goddamnedfrank

The only sports more arrogant than golf are polo and yacht racing.

and horse dressage

34 GeneJockey  Sep 17, 2014 2:28:03pm

re: #25 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Clear your history son ;)

Ha! I never use this computer for that! I noticed, however, on one of the watch sites I visit, the ads tended to presume I was older and wealthier - “We don’t like younger men. We want YOU!” Never saw that ad on any other site. I guess the demographic on a watch collector site tends toward the 1) Old; 2) Rich; 3) Lonely and socially awkward.

35 dog philosopher  Sep 17, 2014 2:29:08pm

anytime i hear anything on the news these days i feel like im in a documentary called Roots Of World War III

36 Lidane  Sep 17, 2014 2:31:04pm

re: #19 goddamnedfrank

The only sports more arrogant than golf are polo and yacht racing.

To a point, yeah. But NFL fans can be pretty damn arrogant too. “REAL men play football, not [insert sport here]!”

37 Decatur Deb  Sep 17, 2014 2:31:28pm

re: #34 GeneJockey

Ha! I never use this computer for that! I noticed, however, on one of the watch sites I visit, the ads tended to presume I was older and wealthier - “We don’t like younger men. We want YOU!” Never saw that ad on any other site. I guess the demographic on a watch collector site tends toward the 1) Old; 2) Rich; 3) Lonely and socially awkward.

I still get offers for help in making aliya, just for hanging here with VB and the rest of you. There were no ulpans in County Mayo, though.

38 S'latch  Sep 17, 2014 2:31:40pm

It’s like caddy shack, and Newt Gingrich is playing Judge Smails.
“Let’s face it. Some people simply do not belong at Bushwood.”

39 Rightwingconspirator  Sep 17, 2014 2:32:04pm

re: #19 goddamnedfrank

The only sports more arrogant than golf are polo and yacht racing.

One more-Formula 1. Gotta be up there.

40 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 17, 2014 2:32:04pm

re: #28 ObserverArt

Unpossible!

/

Au contraire!

Youtube Video

41 S'latch  Sep 17, 2014 2:32:26pm

He just plays through like he’s a member of the club.

42 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2014 2:32:37pm

dayum…if this keeps up the rest of the season is going to look like that movie “The Replacements”…

43 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sep 17, 2014 2:33:04pm

re: #37 Decatur Deb

I still get offers for help in making aliya, just for hanging here with VB and the rest of you. There were no ulpans in County Mayo, though.

Ha! I don’t even know what aliya is! :D

44 nines09  Sep 17, 2014 2:33:24pm

And why do we care what the Forever Disgraced Former Speaker Of The House And Stalwart Defender Of The Sanctity Of Marriage Working His THIRD Wife says? Because he is a BUFFOON and will say anything for money. Grifting Newt And Callista!Find The Droid….

45 goddamnedfrank  Sep 17, 2014 2:33:24pm

I don’t feel sorry for golf.

Golf has always reveled in its standards and rich tradition. But increasingly a victim of its own image and hidebound ways, golf has lost five million players in the last decade, according to the National Golf Foundation, with 20 percent of the existing 25 million golfers apt to quit in the next few years.

People under 35 have especially spurned the game, saying it takes too long to play, is too difficult to learn and has too many tiresome rules.

I don’t begrudge Obama his golfing time, everyone has to unwind somehow. But if we’re being honest the sport is kind of (as in incredibly) poncey, and there’s a reason younger people aren’t taking it up. Also, golf courses are a ginormous waste of land and (especially) water, which is becoming more and more noticeable in parts of the US suffering from prolonged droughts.

46 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Sep 17, 2014 2:33:52pm

re: #43 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Ha! I don’t even know what aliya is! :D

Oy vey.

47 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sep 17, 2014 2:34:05pm

re: #34 GeneJockey

Ha! I never use this computer for that! I noticed, however, on one of the watch sites I visit, the ads tended to presume I was older and wealthier - “We don’t like younger men. We want YOU!” Never saw that ad on any other site. I guess the demographic on a watch collector site tends toward the 1) Old; 2) Rich; 3) Lonely and socially awkward.

I would assume at least the first two, re: watch collectors.

48 BeachDem  Sep 17, 2014 2:36:16pm

re: #26 ObserverArt

I made a comment on this in the last thread…bringing it upstairs too.

- - -

I’m surprised he got that wrong. Uncle Newty is usually an expert at arrogance.

/

Well then, I’ll bring over my response to your comment…

Who are you calling arrogant?

49 3eff Jeff  Sep 17, 2014 2:37:04pm

re: #34 GeneJockey

Ha! I never use this computer for that! I noticed, however, on one of the watch sites I visit, the ads tended to presume I was older and wealthier - “We don’t like younger men. We want YOU!” Never saw that ad on any other site. I guess the demographic on a watch collector site tends toward the 1) Old; 2) Rich; 3) Lonely and socially awkward.

Thanks for the reminder, it’s getting into election season. I haven’t been reading enough jeepforum and shopping for aftermarket parts. Morris4x4 shells out enough that they managed to swamp all the political ads in October 2012 in my browser. As a Wrangler owner, I’d rather see that than Bachmann’s crazy-eyes every day of the week.

50 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sep 17, 2014 2:37:59pm

re: #42 Backwoods_Sleuth

dayum…if this keeps up the rest of the season is going to look like that movie “The Replacements”…

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The NFL is really going through the ringer atm.

51 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sep 17, 2014 2:38:51pm

re: #49 3eff Jeff

As a Wrangler owner, I’d rather see that than Bachmann’s crazy-eyes every day of the week.

As a non-Wrangler owner, I’m with you on that.

52 Testy Toad T  Sep 17, 2014 2:39:22pm

re: #50 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Couldn’t happen to a nicer organization.

53 Lidane  Sep 17, 2014 2:42:00pm

re: #44 nines09

Calista needs to fire her plastic surgeon. They pulled her last facelift too tight.

54 Rightwingconspirator  Sep 17, 2014 2:43:51pm

re: #52 Testy Toad T

re: #50 Rev_Arthur_Belling

re: #49 3eff Jeff

Should the NFL Lose Its Tax-Exempt Status?

Times are good for the National Football League. Viewership is up. For the 47th year in a row, Harris Interactive named pro football the most popular sport in America. And with overall revenues north of $9 billion, the NFL is the most lucrative sports league on the planet.

That’s not enough for NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell. He wants to nearly triple the league’s revenues to $25 billion by 2027—a mind-bogglingly large number. But here’s an even more shocking fact: The NFL pays nothing in taxes on all those revenues. Not a nickel. And now the anti-corruption organization Rootstrikers wants to put an end to the NFL’s free ride

𠅋y Andy Kroll| Mon Dec. 16, 2013 10:47 AM EST

55 Kragar  Sep 17, 2014 2:44:03pm

What a moron

56 GeneJockey  Sep 17, 2014 2:45:12pm

re: #47 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I would assume at least the first two, re: watch collectors.

Watch collecting is one of those things that draws folks who can focus for hours on minutiae, who can recite reams of useless facts given the slightest excuse, who see owning >100 wrist watches not as a weird obsession, but rather as a laudable goal.

Oddballs, IOW.

57 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2014 2:46:22pm

He’s obviously feeling better now that he’s out of the hospital and back to work:

58 3eff Jeff  Sep 17, 2014 2:47:28pm

re: #51 Rev_Arthur_Belling

You might try googling for things like “jeep lift kit”, “jeep soft top” and “jeep locker”. That’s probably enough to get it into your google profile. Warning: it may be a while before you start seeing other types of ads.

59 Lidane  Sep 17, 2014 2:48:26pm

Conservative Pop Culture Fail, part eleventy bazillion:

Newsbusters Fails to Grasp Chris Hayes ‘Girl Talk’ Reference

An off-hand reference to music mashup artist Girl Talk from MSNBC’s Chris Hayes Tuesday night somehow turned into a scathing article on conservative media watchdog site Newsbusters, all because writer Mark Finklestein was unfamiliar with such classics as this combination of Jay Z and the Electric Light Orchestra.

Hayes was discussing some Republicans’ tendency to conflate terrorist threats with border security and told his guest, “In the last 13 years since September 11, there have been occasional stories of this type. Sort of, a kind of Girl Talk mash-up of the fear about the border and the fear about terrorism being fused together into this story. It’s not a new thing.”

To Newsbusters’ Finkelstein, this comments screamed sexism.

“Paging the MSNBC PC police!” he wrote. “On his All In show this evening, Chris Hayes used some decidedly un-PC language to dismiss concerns that ISIS or other terrorist groups might be infiltrating across our porous southern border.”

Finkelstein went on to denounce Hayes’ “frankly unfeminist phrase” and express his dissatisfaction with the argument even beyond its “political incorrectness.”

Heh.

60 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sep 17, 2014 2:48:46pm

re: #58 3eff Jeff

You might try googling for things like “jeep lift kit”, “jeep soft top” and “jeep locker”. That’s probably enough to get it into your google profile. Warning: it may be a while before you start seeing other types of ads.

I was agreeing with you on the Bachmann crazy eyes part lol. I don’t need Jeep ads!

61 3eff Jeff  Sep 17, 2014 2:51:06pm

re: #60 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I was agreeing with you on the Bachmann crazy eyes part lol. I don’t need Jeep ads!

;-) Just pointing out a way to banish her ads and those with pictures of Rick Perry trying to looks smrt in his black rimmed glasses.

ETA: I did mean it as a silly suggestion.

62 ObserverArt  Sep 17, 2014 2:51:12pm

re: #53 Lidane

Calista needs to fire her plastic surgeon. They pulled her last facelift too tight.

Your comment just asked for this scene from Terry Gilliam’s Brazil.

Youtube Video

63 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sep 17, 2014 2:51:18pm

re: #56 GeneJockey

Watch collecting is one of those things that draws folks who can focus for hours on minutiae, who can recite reams of useless facts given the slightest excuse, who see owning >100 wrist watches not as a weird obsession, but rather as a laudable goal.

Oddballs, IOW.

I have my Grandfather’s watch (self-winding), and that’s as far as I’ve delved into watch collecting.

64 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 17, 2014 2:51:58pm

re: #58 3eff Jeff

You might try googling for things like “jeep lift kit”, “jeep soft top” and “jeep locker”. That’s probably enough to get it into your google profile. Warning: it may be a while before you start seeing other types of ads.

I did the opposite to a coworker. Every variation of erectile dysfunction, Viagra and lonely women I could think of. Taught him not to leave his computer unlocked at lunch

65 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sep 17, 2014 2:52:04pm

re: #61 3eff Jeff

;-) Just pointing out a way to banish her ads and those with pictures of Rick Perry trying to looks smrt in his black rimmed glasses.

Ha! noted! I think I’ll google some Subaru ;)

66 GeneJockey  Sep 17, 2014 2:52:31pm

re: #63 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I have my Grandfather’s watch (self-winding), and that’s as far as I’ve delved into watch collecting.

Have you had it serviced?

67 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sep 17, 2014 2:54:03pm

re: #66 GeneJockey

Have you had it serviced?

I have not. It’s sitting in a box. I was very chuffed when he gave it to me, but it’s been years and I don’t wear watches. I think it’s a Bulova.

68 thedopefishlives  Sep 17, 2014 2:55:03pm

Evening Lizardim.

69 3eff Jeff  Sep 17, 2014 2:59:08pm

re: #65 Rev_Arthur_Belling

Ha! noted! I think I’ll google some Subaru ;)

I’m not sure it will work for Subaru, as it was specifically Morris 4x4 that seemingly outspent the RNC on ad buys the week before the election…

I did buy my replacement soft top from them as a thank you for keeping Mitt Romney’s smug grimace off of LGF at the end of October.

re: #64 RealityBasedSteve

Ouch. That’s a great prank.

Anyway, I’ve got to run.

70 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2014 2:59:54pm

oh good freaking grief…

Star NFL Player Says He Uses Corporal Punishment On His 1-Year-Old Daughter

Speaking to WFAN, Detroit Lions Running Back Reggie Bush said Peterson “should definitely be allowed to play football.” Bush said Peterson’s actions were consistent with his own upbringing, which included being beaten with a belt.

Bush is also a father, and said “I have a 1-year-old daughter, and I discipline her.” Bush added that he “will try to — obviously not leave bruises or anything like that on her — but I definitely will discipline her harshly depending on, again, what the situation is.” In the interview, Bush said he would consider using a switch, as Peterson did, to discipline his own children.

Use a switch, discipline harshly? A ONE-YEAR-OLD child???

71 Testy Toad T  Sep 17, 2014 3:00:58pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

I am not a parent, so I try to be very careful to judge the methods of others, but I cannot conceive of an action that would call for physical discipline of a one-year-old child.

I just come up empty.

72 Kragar  Sep 17, 2014 3:01:48pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh good freaking grief…

Star NFL Player Says He Uses Corporal Punishment On His 1-Year-Old Daughter

Use a switch, discipline harshly? A ONE-YEAR-OLD child???

73 SteelPH  Sep 17, 2014 3:02:02pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

He might as well wear a tatoo that says “I HATE MY CHILDREN” across his body.

74 GeneJockey  Sep 17, 2014 3:03:33pm

re: #67 Rev_Arthur_Belling

I have not. It’s sitting in a box. I was very chuffed when he gave it to me, but it’s been years and I don’t wear watches. I think it’s a Bulova.

Of course, as a watch enthusiast, my first inclination is to tell you to have it serviced, but if you don’t wear it, that’s $150 or so you don’t need to spend. You can probably get away with wearing it on special occasions with no issues. If you did decide to wear it, though, it should be serviced.

75 GeneJockey  Sep 17, 2014 3:05:03pm

re: #72 Kragar

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As a corollary, if your partner feels the need to resort to violence to ‘teach you a lesson’, that lesson is that your partner is not someone you want to be with.

76 CuriousLurker  Sep 17, 2014 3:05:05pm

Obama golfs arrogantly? How about this flashback from December 2011?

Newt Gingrich says he’d defy Supreme Court rulings he opposed

Newt Gingrich says as president he would ignore Supreme Court decisions that conflicted with his powers as commander in chief, and he would press for impeaching judges or even abolishing certain courts if he disagreed with their rulings.

articles.latimes.com

Nope, nothing arrogant there. It was so humble it inspired me to create this soon afterwards:

77 GeneJockey  Sep 17, 2014 3:07:04pm

re: #76 CuriousLurker

Obama golfs arrogantly? How about this flashback from December 2011?

Nope, nothing arrogant there. It was so humble it inspired me to create this soon afterwards:

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BUT THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE HE’S WHITE A CONSERVATIVE!

78 The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 17, 2014 3:07:54pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh good freaking grief…

Star NFL Player Says He Uses Corporal Punishment On His 1-Year-Old Daughter

Use a switch, discipline harshly? A ONE-YEAR-OLD child???

“To train up a child” by the Pearls. An instruction guide for hitting your kid the right (Biblical) way.

“If you want a child who will integrate into the New World Order and wait his turn in line for condoms, a government funded abortion, sexually transmitted disease treatment, psychological evaluation and a mark on the forehead,” writes Pearl in “To Train Up a Child,” “then follow the popular guidelines in education, entertainment and discipline, but if you want a son or daughter of God, you will have to do it God’s way.”

79 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 17, 2014 3:10:10pm

re: #74 GeneJockey

Of course, as a watch enthusiast, my first inclination is to tell you to have it serviced, but if you don’t wear it, that’s $150 or so you don’t need to spend. You can probably get away with wearing it on special occasions with no issues. If you did decide to wear it, though, it should be serviced.

Sounds like a scam to me. Can’t I just pry the back off, spritz some WD40 in there and use some pliars to squeeze the back on?

80 goddamnedfrank  Sep 17, 2014 3:10:22pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh goof freaking grief…

Star NFL Player Says He Uses Corporal Punishment On His 1-Year-Old Daughter

Use a switch, discipline harshly? A ONE-YEAR-OLD child???

I found out recently that a close family member spanks her daughter for failure to potty train on her schedule. I don’t even have kids and I know that’s an enormously fucked up and counter productive strategy.

81 wrenchwench  Sep 17, 2014 3:11:39pm

re: #71 Testy Toad T

I am not a parent, so I try to be very careful to judge the methods of others, but I cannot conceive of an action that would call for physical discipline of a one-year-old child.

I just come up empty.

Sometimes I think non-parents have a responsibility to stick up for kids against their parents or any other adult who might be messing with them. Sort of like when you become management, you can’t be in the union any more. Once you have kids, everybody says your perspective changes. Nobody says it’s invariably for the better.

I don’t have kids either, but I was one. I also have siblings, nieces and nephews, and did plenty of babysitting. My perspective is not that of parents, but it isn’t worthless, either.

82 wrenchwench  Sep 17, 2014 3:15:13pm

re: #79 RealityBasedSteve

Sounds like a scam to me. Can’t I just pry the back off, spritz some WD40 in there and use some pliars to squeeze the back on?

LOL

I have customers like that. One had a $5000 triathlon bike. It always came in dripping with WD40.

83 BeachDem  Sep 17, 2014 3:16:55pm

re: #78 The Ghost of a Flea

“To train up a child” by the Pearls. An instruction guide for hitting your kid the right (Biblical) way.

DEATH OF LYDIA SCHATZ

Kevin and Elizabeth Schatz lived in Paradise, California. They claimed to follow the teachings about child discipline of the No Greater Joy Ministries, a Fundamentalist Christian organization headed by Michael Pearl and Debi Pearl.

…The Schatz family homeschooled their six biological and three adopted children

Couple plead guilty in fatal Paradise child beating

I followed this one from start to finish—really ugly—before it all came out, they were lauded for their adoption of poor third-world children.

84 b_sharp  Sep 17, 2014 3:18:57pm

re: #82 wrenchwench

LOL

I have customers like that. One had a $5000 triathlon bike. It always came in dripping with WD40.

WD40 isn’t really a good lubricant.
I use it to clean printers but it’s a guaranteed fail if I use it to lubricate.

85 Rev_Arthur_Belling  Sep 17, 2014 3:19:12pm

re: #79 RealityBasedSteve

Sounds like a scam to me. Can’t I just pry the back off, spritz some WD40 in there and use some pliars to squeeze the back on?

I think it needs more duct tape!

86 thedopefishlives  Sep 17, 2014 3:19:35pm

re: #79 RealityBasedSteve

Sounds like a scam to me. Can’t I just pry the back off, spritz some WD40 in there and use some pliars to squeeze the back on?

Spoken like a true engineer.

87 Testy Toad T  Sep 17, 2014 3:20:28pm

re: #84 b_sharp

WD40 isn’t really a good lubricant.
I use it to clean printers but it’s a guaranteed fail if I use it to lubricate.

If it were supposed to be a lubricant, it would be L-40.
It is a water dispersant. Thus it is WD-40.

88 b_sharp  Sep 17, 2014 3:22:01pm

re: #87 Testy Toad T

If it were supposed to be a lubricant, it would be L-40.
It is a water dispersant. Thus it is WD-40.

Not many know that.
Some even lubricate their knees with it.

89 wrenchwench  Sep 17, 2014 3:22:03pm

re: #84 b_sharp

WD40 isn’t really a good lubricant.
I use it to clean printers but it’s a guaranteed fail if I use it to lubricate.

They even admit it’s not a lubricant. It’s a cleaner. It will remove lubrication. However, they have come out with a bike-oriented line of products, including actual lubricants. I tell people ‘don’t use it unless it says bike on it.’

90 thedopefishlives  Sep 17, 2014 3:22:16pm

re: #81 wrenchwench

Sometimes I think non-parents have a responsibility to stick up for kids against their parents or any other adult who might be messing with them. Sort of like when you become management, you can’t be in the union any more. Once you have kids, everybody says your perspective changes. Nobody says it’s invariably for the better.

I don’t have kids either, but I was one. I also have siblings, nieces and nephews, and did plenty of babysitting. My perspective is not that of parents, but it isn’t worthless, either.

Cracked had a great article from a former sex slave. One thing that the article mentioned was, the first thing that most adults do when a child brings up such a subject is - go to their parents! WHY on earth would you go to the parents of a child who confessed they get passed around to Mommy and Daddy’s “special friends” for confirmation is beyond me.

91 Shiplord Kirel  Sep 17, 2014 3:26:02pm

Is there anything sicker than right-wing racism? The right’s defense of child abuse just might qualify:

Sean Hannity Voices Bizarre and Awful Defense of Child Abuse

But leave it to Sean Hannity to take defending child abuse to a whole other level by insinuating if Adrian Peterson is in fact convicted of savagely beating his 4-year-old son, that this will somehow impede parents from being able to apparently beat the “gay” out of their children.

Hannity said, “This is my problem with liberals. Because this is where my fear goes with all of this. You guys want to tell parents what they can or cannot do. Fox example, is it going to become illegal if a parent teaches the politically correct view that being gay is not normal?”

92 Testy Toad T  Sep 17, 2014 3:27:10pm

re: #91 Shiplord Kirel

Telling children your beliefs is now on the same spectrum of action as beating them bloody? What in the actual fuck?

93 wrenchwench  Sep 17, 2014 3:27:53pm

re: #90 thedopefishlives

Cracked had a great article from a former sex slave. One thing that the article mentioned was, the first thing that most adults do when a child brings up such a subject is - go to their parents! WHY on earth would you go to the parents of a child who confessed they get passed around to Mommy and Daddy’s “special friends” for confirmation is beyond me.

Yep. And I remind people that the girl who doesn’t want to deal with her parents over an abortion sometimes has extremely good reasons for that.

94 goddamnedfrank  Sep 17, 2014 3:31:35pm

re: #89 wrenchwench

I tell people ‘don’t use it unless it says bike on it.’

Even then New Mexico is going to offer different issues than Seattle or Vancouver. Peeps need to consider the environment the bike is going to encounter … whether they should go with a wet or a dry lube, and know there is definitely such a thing as too much.

95 wrenchwench  Sep 17, 2014 3:35:00pm

re: #94 goddamnedfrank

Even then New Mexico is going to offer different issues than Seattle or Vancouver. Peeps need to consider the environment the bike is going to encounter, whether they should go with a wet or a dry lube, and know there is definitely such a thing as too much.

I only use Boeshield T-9, but sell others for those who want wetter (Great Divide riders) or drier (wackos who still like White Lightning) lubes.

96 lawhawk  Sep 17, 2014 3:39:21pm

re: #18 EPR-radar

It’s Lie-Max™

h/t rightwingconspirator

97 goddamnedfrank  Sep 17, 2014 3:39:58pm

re: #95 wrenchwench

I only use Boeshield T-9, but sell others for those who want wetter (Great Divide riders) or drier (wackos who still like White Lightning) lubes.

I remember when White Lightening came out, people at my shop were all about it until fall / winter hit and everyone had to commute in the rain again. It kind of works, if you apply it every day.

98 Dr. Matt  Sep 17, 2014 3:40:56pm

Newt has countless failed presidential runs and he calls other people “incompetent”. Amusing.

99 wrenchwench  Sep 17, 2014 3:41:15pm

This is up RWC’s alley:

100 wrenchwench  Sep 17, 2014 3:42:46pm

re: #97 goddamnedfrank

I remember when White Lightening came out, people at my shop were all about it until fall / winter hit and everyone had to commute in the rain again. It kind of works, if you apply it every day.

And if you do that without the wipey wipey step, it can build up so much the pulley wheels won’t turn.

101 Dr. Matt  Sep 17, 2014 3:42:49pm

If anyone is planning to upgrade to iOS8, be sure to set aside an hour of your life without your device.

102 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2014 3:46:58pm

re: #101 Dr. Matt

If anyone is planning to upgrade to iOS8, be sure to set aside an hour of your life without your device.

reposted from downstairs:

103 teleskiguy  Sep 17, 2014 3:48:01pm

Darren Wilson comes out of then goes back into hiding.

Ferguson police Officer Darren Wilson testified for almost four hours Tuesday in front of a St. Louis County grand jury investigating his Aug. 9 shooting of Michael Brown, a source with knowledge of the investigation said Wednesday.

Wilson was not obligated to testify, and also has spoken with St. Louis County investigators twice and federal investigators once, the source said. The source said that Wilson had been “cooperative.”

stltoday.com

104 BeachDem  Sep 17, 2014 3:49:46pm

Charming:

A gun company based in Oceanside, Calif. has introduced a gun barrel, which it dubs “The Obama’s Blaster.”

The description also includes a hint of birtherism, describing Obama as an “alien.”
Much like Marvin, Barry is believed to be an alien…

The company includes a disclaimer at the end of the description that notes it is a “very clear case of Parody (sic) for the purpose of symbolic speech.”

In addition to the barrel, Ares Armor is selling a muzzle named “Obama’s Flash Can.”

105 CuriousLurker  Sep 17, 2014 3:50:02pm

re: #81 wrenchwench

106 Dr. Matt  Sep 17, 2014 3:50:23pm

re: #103 teleskiguy

Darren Wilson comes out of then goes back into hiding.

stltoday.com

New Photos of Darren Wilson, Mike Brown’s Killer

Wilson 1

Wilson 2

Wilson 3

107 teleskiguy  Sep 17, 2014 3:51:53pm

re: #106 Dr. Matt

Darren Wilson is a big dude. I’m not buying the “struggle” that took place before Mike Brown was murdered.

108 lawhawk  Sep 17, 2014 3:54:31pm

So, Newt thinks Obama is too arrogant to be President.

Guess that means Obama wont be running for a third term.

Newt has nothing left in the tank if this is the best he can do. If he doesn’t have any ideas then that tells you just how bad off the GOP is.

And that’s bad news for everyone. We need two functioning parties to make government work. The GOP is calling it in, and they’re looking to dismantle government by hook and crook. It’ll be tax cuts to undermine the budgets so that they force still more program cuts - all to reduce the size of government. Budget crisis after crisis, with spending cuts being the outcome.

It’s why the sequester, despite being an idea that should have worked to bring about compromise, ended up being a GOP win because they got the spending cuts without compromising on tax hikes to close budget gaps. Watch how that plays out again in Kansas, where the GOP Gov. Brownback has shredded the state’s revenues through massive tax cuts that haven’t resulted in any increases to revenues or economic growth.

109 SteelPH  Sep 17, 2014 3:54:42pm

re: #107 teleskiguy

I don’t see any orbital fracture, either.

110 Dr. Matt  Sep 17, 2014 3:55:27pm

re: #107 teleskiguy

Darren Wilson is a big dude. I’m not buying the “struggle” that took place before Mike Brown was murdered.

He’s not a big guy. Everyone else in those pics are small.

111 wrenchwench  Sep 17, 2014 3:56:42pm

re: #105 CuriousLurker

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Apparently I was totally potty trained until I went to stay with Gramma when one of my younger sibs was born. I came back a bed-wetter. I don’t think it was the usual older-sib attention-needing schtick. Gramma was scary.

112 b.d.  Sep 17, 2014 3:57:11pm

re: #106 Dr. Matt

New Photos of Darren Wilson, Mike Brown’s Killer

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Obviously that thug is as high as a kite.

113 teleskiguy  Sep 17, 2014 3:57:21pm

re: #110 Dr. Matt

He’s not a big guy. Everyone else in those pics are small.

You’re probably right. Guy like that needs to keep the company of smaller people to compensate for his average height.

114 Mattand  Sep 17, 2014 3:59:22pm

re: #90 thedopefishlives

Cracked had a great article from a former sex slave. One thing that the article mentioned was, the first thing that most adults do when a child brings up such a subject is - go to their parents! WHY on earth would you go to the parents of a child who confessed they get passed around to Mommy and Daddy’s “special friends” for confirmation is beyond me.

I got about four paragraphs in on that article and had to stop. I just cannot, for the life of me, imagine putting a kid through that kind of horror.

115 Dr. Matt  Sep 17, 2014 3:59:28pm

This is sickening:

Reggie Bush (RB for Detroit) Admits To “Harshly” Disciplining His 1-Year-Old Daughter…..Walks Back his Statements Later in the Day.

How the hell does a 1 year old, i.e., a baby, know right from wrong?!

116 Archangelus  Sep 17, 2014 3:59:37pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh good freaking grief…

Star NFL Player Says He Uses Corporal Punishment On His 1-Year-Old Daughter

Use a switch, discipline harshly? A ONE-YEAR-OLD child???

Somehow an expression of “what the f*ck” just doesn’t go far enough, not even close in fact…

117 thedopefishlives  Sep 17, 2014 4:01:48pm

re: #114 Mattand

I got about four paragraphs in on that article and had to stop. I just cannot, for the life of me, imagine putting a kid through that kind of horror.

I have two fishspawn, as everyone here knows. The youngest is a girl. I look at her and can’t comprehend how people would want to hurt such a small, fragile creature. Even as much as she frustrates me, I don’t really want to harm her.

118 Dr. Matt  Sep 17, 2014 4:02:04pm

re: #116 Archangelus

Somehow an expression of “what the f*ck” just doesn’t go far enough, not even close in fact…

Sick, sick, sick.

119 b.d.  Sep 17, 2014 4:02:13pm

Breaking: Cory Booker deposits Chuck C Johnson into burning building

//

120 alpuz  Sep 17, 2014 4:02:33pm

re: #45 goddamnedfrank

There’s a great Rodney Dangerfield quote about golf courses. In the mean time:

Youtube Video

121 CuriousLurker  Sep 17, 2014 4:02:35pm

On the lighter side, you guys need to save this image and email it to all the all the CT types you know with the subject line: UFO Caught on Tape!!11!

122 Rightwingconspirator  Sep 17, 2014 4:03:00pm

re: #99 wrenchwench

Thanks for that. Simple wisdom-Anyone (except perhaps certain celebrities and stalker victims) fearful of cameras in public is doing something illegal, immoral, shameful or just wrong. Most especially any kind of official. This kind of thing is so very common.

Plane Watchers Harassed at Connecticut Airport for Taking Photos

Cameras and or toy size drones with GoPros are such fearful devices apparently. Suddenly cellphones are look just like guns or knives to police. Ever in your life see a gun that resembled a phone? Or a knife, or a club?

Flying toys with tiny webcams in the air are a public safety threat. Just wait until somebody makes an autonomous black helicopter. It will be panic and mayhem in the streets of the cities of Dudebros.

123 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2014 4:03:45pm

I don’t like the man and it was easy to make jokes about him up to now, but I wouldn’t wish this on anyone:

Rob Ford has aggressive cancer, to begin chemotherapy soon

(CNN) — Toronto Mayor Rob Ford soon will begin chemotherapy to treat an aggressive cancer, a doctor at Mount Sinai Hospital in the city said Wednesday.

Dr. Zane Cohen said Ford has a malignant liposarcoma, and a second biopsy on his tumor shows it is aggressive.

Ford, who recently announced he will not run for re-election, will start chemotherapy by Friday afternoon.

The cancer has spread from Ford’s abdomen to other parts of his body, including his buttocks, Cohen said.

Warning: autoplay video at the link.

124 Rightwingconspirator  Sep 17, 2014 4:05:27pm

re: #109 SteelPH

Um, the shots pre date the incident.Newly released not newly shot.

125 b_sharp  Sep 17, 2014 4:07:35pm

re: #123 Backwoods_Sleuth

I don’t like the man and it was easy to make jokes about him up to now, but I wouldn’t wish this on anyone:

Rob Ford has aggressive cancer, to begin chemotherapy soon

Warning: autoplay video at the link.

Well that sucks the big one. I dislike bullies like him but nobody deserves cancer.

126 Shiplord Kirel  Sep 17, 2014 4:07:50pm

re: #104 BeachDem

Charming:

A gun company based in Oceanside, Calif. has introduced a gun barrel, which it dubs “The Obama’s Blaster.”

The description also includes a hint of birtherism, describing Obama as an “alien.”
Much like Marvin, Barry is believed to be an alien…

The company includes a disclaimer at the end of the description that notes it is a “very clear case of Parody (sic) for the purpose of symbolic speech.”

In addition to the barrel, Ares Armor is selling a muzzle named “Obama’s Flash Can.”

They’re jealous because Obama has the really good blasters.
recent photo of B-52s in flight.

127 piratedan  Sep 17, 2014 4:07:50pm

re: #59 Lidane

Not to be confused with Elvis Costello’s “Girls Talk”… much less Dave Edmunds cover of said same :-)

128 sagehen  Sep 17, 2014 4:09:16pm

Obama golfs as a coded message that he supports Scottish independence.

What? They never tried to split up the UK when America had a Republican president, did they?

129 wrenchwench  Sep 17, 2014 4:10:59pm

re: #123 Backwoods_Sleuth

I don’t like the man and it was easy to make jokes about him up to now, but I wouldn’t wish this on anyone:

Rob Ford has aggressive cancer, to begin chemotherapy soon

Warning: autoplay video at the link.

A friend of mine barely survived his encounter with a liposarcoma on his upper leg. He’s the most fit human on the planet. Eats extremely well (tons of fruit & veg) exercises like it’s his job, and his job was lineman, although he was promoted off the poles a few years ago. Almost lost his leg, almost died from the surgery, almost died in the recovery. Now he’s back on his bike and walking fine.

I guess there’s a genetic link.

130 dog philosopher  Sep 17, 2014 4:11:28pm

goddam ASCAP agents have put the scare into cafes around here that allow people like me to play in public

they are cracking down on playing copyrighted songs and threatening the management if they allow it without purchasing a license

im going thu my repertoire looking for songs copyrighted before 1923 that are copyright expired and so not controlled by ASCAP

131 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2014 4:13:44pm

re: #91 Shiplord Kirel

Is there anything sicker than right-wing racism? The right’s defense of child abuse just might qualify:

Sean Hannity Voices Bizarre and Awful Defense of Child Abuse

132 wrenchwench  Sep 17, 2014 4:15:32pm

re: #130 dog philosopher

goddam ASCAP agents have put the scare into cafes around here that allow people like me to play in public

they are cracking down on playing copyrighted songs and threatening the management if they allow it without purchasing a license

im going thu my repertoire looking for songs copyrighted before 1923 that are copyright expired and so not controlled by ASCAP

I worked at a deli that was visited by ASCAP. We couldn’t play cassette tapes any more. Only the radio.

Being that ASCAP agent would suck. Knowing the agent’s itinerary would be nice.

133 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2014 4:16:45pm
134 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 17, 2014 4:20:11pm

I made a meme for all those HURR HURR TEH SOLIDER ONLY GET MINIMUM WAGE!!!!!!!

135 teleskiguy  Sep 17, 2014 4:23:03pm

I have to step away from the computer for a bit. Just found out one of my good friends/former roommate from my Steamboat days passed away. He took me to my first Umphrey’s McGee show (and anybody who knows me knows that the Umphreys are my favorite band). One of the nicest human beings I’ve ever encountered. He’s gone now. He rode BMX bikes and was part owner of a bike shop in Wisconsin. So, I’m going to go ride my bike for a bit and reminisce.

BBL, maybe.

136 wrenchwench  Sep 17, 2014 4:25:42pm

re: #134 Pie-onist Overlord

I made a meme for all those HURR HURR TEH SOLIDER ONLY GET MINIMUM WAGE!!!!!!!

[Embedded content]

Excellent. Retweeted.

137 alpuz  Sep 17, 2014 4:28:51pm

re: #135 teleskiguy

Godspeed.

138 Mattand  Sep 17, 2014 4:30:49pm

re: #130 dog philosopher

goddam ASCAP agents have put the scare into cafes around here that allow people like me to play in public

they are cracking down on playing copyrighted songs and threatening the management if they allow it without purchasing a license

im going thu my repertoire looking for songs copyrighted before 1923 that are copyright expired and so not controlled by ASCAP

Ugh. That sucks. What kind of music is it?

A buddy of mine is in a cover band and plays fairly regularly. Do the bars have to pay for the ASCAP/BMI licenses, or is the band responsible?

Given some of the bars, I highly doubt they’re paying.

139 Mattand  Sep 17, 2014 4:31:32pm

re: #135 teleskiguy

I have to step away from the computer for a bit. Just found out one of my good friends/former roommate from my Steamboat days passed away. He took me to my first Umphrey’s McGee show (and anybody who knows me knows that the Umphreys are my favorite band). One of the nicest human beings I’ve ever encountered. He’s gone now. He rode BMX bikes and was part owner of a bike shop in Wisconsin. So, I’m going to go ride my bike for a bit and reminisce.

BBL, maybe.

Condolences.

140 freetoken  Sep 17, 2014 4:33:52pm

This is hardly surprising:

Once Again, a Climate Policy Hearing Descends Into Absurdity

However, the Slate article missed this:

Congressman: Don’t Trust Climate Scientists, They’re In It For The Money

141 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 17, 2014 4:35:10pm
142 Bubblehead II  Sep 17, 2014 4:35:24pm

re: #135 teleskiguy

Sorry for your loss.

143 Danny  Sep 17, 2014 4:38:11pm

re: #138 Mattand

Do the bars have to pay for the ASCAP/BMI licenses, or is the band responsible? highly doubt they’re paying.

The bars pay.

144 wrenchwench  Sep 17, 2014 4:42:14pm
145 SteelPH  Sep 17, 2014 4:43:49pm

re: #124 Rightwingconspirator

Woops, I’m dumb. Sorry!

146 Kid A  Sep 17, 2014 4:51:03pm

Issa tweets entire US constitution…140 characters at a time.
washingtonpost.com

147 dog philosopher  Sep 17, 2014 4:53:57pm

re: #138 Mattand

Ugh. That sucks. What kind of music is it?

A buddy of mine is in a cover band and plays fairly regularly. Do the bars have to pay for the ASCAP/BMI licenses, or is the band responsible?

Given some of the bars, I highly doubt they’re paying.

i like to play 20s jazz and swing

the venue has to pay

148 Rocky-in-Connecticut  Sep 17, 2014 4:55:25pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

As a father of 4 year old twins, I can absolutely say that hitting your child under any circumstances is a sign of parental laziness. Nothing more.

It takes no mental focus to hit your child. Sometimes it takes all kinds of control not to hit. Your first inclination as a selfish individual is to lash out at behavior that contradicts your own set of rules and edicts. It takes a calm mind and firm set of values to not hit.

It doesn’t help that many people subscribe to The Bible, which explicitly calls for some behaviors and methods that defy common sense, facts, and modern scientific reality.

Mr. Peterson cites The Bible as his source of child rearing, a lazy and self-absorbed fallback on what is a brutal behavior masked as religious. The 4 year old child knows Peterons’s beliefs and behavior are just plain horseshit.

149 freetoken  Sep 17, 2014 5:00:09pm

I remain dismayed at how poorly popular media handle complex topics, such as most topics in modern science.

Even stalwarts like the BBC slaughter stories.

There is so much that goes misreported, I’ve become very cynical about what remains of journalism. I do come across decent stories here and there, but they are the minority.

Particularly suffering at the hands of today’s media writers:
1) anything having to do with genetics;
2) what physical anthropologists currently theorize;
3) most anything dealing with “oil”;
4) material science, mostly because its ignored to the point where it might as well not exist.

Genetics is a real sticking point, given that it gets decent coverage but it appears so foreign.

One thing I notice is the teleologic language that writers use about DNA. It’s a pandemic in science writing and something I think needs to be more openly criticized.

150 whitebeach  Sep 17, 2014 5:07:15pm

Golf and arrogance. Lots of players somewhat arrogant on the first tee. Coming off the eighteenth green, not so many.

151 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 17, 2014 5:07:53pm

I’ve no kids, was never beaten as a child (there were a few open handed spankings, but I have to admit that I had plenty of warning before hand, and they were more “Sound” than “Fury”. In spite of all that, the idea that any child “needs” to be beaten (and make no mistake, if I assaulted an adult with a stick and left welts and broke the skin, I’d be in on assault and battery charges).

Let’s get totally Old Testament, kid disrespects his parents, after the 2nd offense (or third, have to check, but I’m on a roll), bring him before the elders, take him out of town and stone him to death.

RBS

152 Bubblehead II  Sep 17, 2014 5:08:12pm

Night Lizards. Tomorrow is going to be a very interesting day.

153 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 17, 2014 5:11:34pm

re: #146 Kid A

Issa tweets entire US constitution…140 characters at a time.
washingtonpost.com

154 b.d.  Sep 17, 2014 5:11:48pm

The new Bond Supervillian of Oceania

155 prairiefire  Sep 17, 2014 5:12:21pm

re: #149 freetoken

Question for you, freetoken. I had my DNA test done through Ancestry. I am only 13% Scandinavian, which I though would be 25% as my paternal grandmother, we thought, was full Swede. I am 48% Great Britain, which seems like a lot considering my other French and German lines. Would the close to inbreeding of my Scottish clan ancestors “knock down” the percentages of the other nationalities? Also, my line goes back to William the Conqueror as a grandfather, so many, many generations on the Sceptered Isle.

156 wrenchwench  Sep 17, 2014 5:14:12pm
157 RealityBasedSteve  Sep 17, 2014 5:14:18pm

Dear Trial / Free Demo software that I’ve uninstalled. Please stop sending me emails and texts that my trial period is over and all the wonderful things that you will do for me if I take you back. We’re done… it’s over. It’s not you, it’s me…. ok, it is you. You’re annoying, refuse to listen to me, and keep trying to get me to buy more things to make you “complete”. If you keep bothering me, I’ll post those “special” pictures I took of your config file…. ah… you didn’t think I kept those? They are my insurance policy for things like this.

RBS

158 Snarknado!  Sep 17, 2014 5:15:25pm

re: #148 Rocky-in-Connecticut

I don’t have kids, but I found myself agreeing with some parents who thought that you could spank a pre-verbal child — big enough to be suicidally inquisitive, not susceptible to words of wisdom. On the diaper, two swats: one to get its attention, one to let it know it’s being punished.

159 freetoken  Sep 17, 2014 5:22:23pm

re: #155 prairiefire

I’m sure ancestry.com has plenty of stuff written about their test. My inbox is usually filled with their junk email and I know they are marketing the heck out of their products.

One thing to remember, and I write this as someone with half my ancestry going back to the fjords, is that Scandinavia covers a region with lots of history of trade and migration with the rest of Northern Europe. I would never expect to find a test that would give me exactly 50% Scandinavian.

I’ve come across various websites that get into this type of stuff, but I remain skeptical about the accuracy of ethnicity tests.

I do know that we do not inherit evenly balanced fractions from our ancestors at any given generation (other than our parents.) Last year I wrote some comments to Obdicut about this topic. I was aware that during meiosis that the chromatids resulted from crossovers, but I was unaware at how coarse the divisions were, and that there is a decent possibility of inheriting some of the small chromosomes whole from a parent. This means that we can inherit quite disproportionate amount of DNA from our various great grandparents.

160 b_sharp  Sep 17, 2014 5:22:38pm

re: #158 Snarknado!

I don’t have kids, but I found myself agreeing with some parents who thought that you could spank a pre-verbal child — big enough to be suicidally inquisitive, not susceptible to words of wisdom. On the diaper, two swats: one to get its attention, one to let it know it’s being punished.

Why do they need to know they are being punished?

161 prairiefire  Sep 17, 2014 5:24:39pm

re: #159 freetoken

Thanks.

162 Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 17, 2014 5:33:53pm
163 A Mom Anon  Sep 17, 2014 5:41:48pm

re: #158 Snarknado!

I shall be gentle as I can here, if I seem cranky about this, I apologize in advance.

I am a mom, a grandma and I was a preschool teacher of 1-2 yr old babies for awhile. If you cannot exercise control over a child that age by removing them from a situation, then you need to turn over custody of that child to someone else. YOU DON’T HIT BABIES. IT’S A RIDICULOUS CONCEPT WITH NO BASIS IN REALITY.

My son is Asperger’s/ autistic. When he was that age he was a handful. He was also an escape artist and got out of the house a couple of times, at age 3. Guess what we did? We installed locks he couldn’t reach and couldn’t operate without a key and we keyed the whole house to work off one key. We didn’t hit him. I did once, because he ran into the road, twice in a 5 minute time period. He was two, it taught him nothing. I never hit him again.

A child of that age has no earthly idea why you are spanking/hitting them. What you are doing is eroding their trust in you when you hit them. You are teaching them that it is ok for big people to hit little ones. You are not teaching them anything that can’t be taught by getting off your ass and interacting with that child, distracting them with something more interesting or fun and showing them compassion. They are new here, it is our job as adults to guide them. Hitting them is not guidance. It’s lazy parenting.

164 Pie-onist Overlord  Sep 17, 2014 5:43:19pm

WTFITS
I have met the flip side of the Libertarian
It goes around like this
DEMAND==>
PRODUCTION==>
SUPPLY==> BACK TO DEMAND

165 freetoken  Sep 17, 2014 5:49:30pm

re: #161 prairiefire

Here, try this:

166 b_sharp  Sep 17, 2014 6:08:28pm

re: #163 A Mom Anon

I shall be gentle as I can here, if I seem cranky about this, I apologize in advance.

I am a mom, a grandma and I was a preschool teacher of 1-2 yr old babies for awhile. If you cannot exercise control over a child that age by removing them from a situation, then you need to turn over custody of that child to someone else. YOU DON’T HIT BABIES. IT’S A RIDICULOUS CONCEPT WITH NO BASIS IN REALITY.

My son is Asperger’s/ autistic. When he was that age he was a handful. He was also an escape artist and got out of the house a couple of times, at age 3. Guess what we did? We installed locks he couldn’t reach and couldn’t operate without a key and we keyed the whole house to work off one key. We didn’t hit him. I did once, because he ran into the road, twice in a 5 minute time period. He was two, it taught him nothing. I never hit him again.

A child of that age has no earthly idea why you are spanking/hitting them. What you are doing is eroding their trust in you when you hit them. You are teaching them that it is ok for big people to hit little ones. You are not teaching them anything that can’t be taught by getting off your ass and interacting with that child, distracting them with something more interesting or fun and showing them compassion. They are new here, it is our job as adults to guide them. Hitting them is not guidance. It’s lazy parenting.

This.
Many time this.

167 thecommodore  Sep 17, 2014 6:38:20pm

#141 Pie-onist Overlord

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WRONG ALL OWING PEOPLE TO KEEP MORE OF THEIR MONEY SLUTS THEM TO BUY STG KEYS IAN ECONOMICS IS MARXIST FASCISM1! 1! 1!! 11!! 11!!

168 BeenHereAwhile  Sep 17, 2014 8:03:46pm

re: #130 dog philosopher

goddam ASCAP agents have put the scare into cafes around here that allow people like me to play in public

they are cracking down on playing copyrighted songs and threatening the management if they allow it without purchasing a license

im going thu my repertoire looking for songs copyrighted before 1923 that are copyright expired and so not controlled by ASCAP

It’s all Victor Herbert’s fault.

FWIW, the largest building on Nashville’s Music Row, is the house that Francis Preston built. The BMI building.

169 Rightwingconspirator  Sep 17, 2014 8:59:34pm

re: #135 teleskiguy

So sorry to hear that. The good people around us make our lives grow.


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The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ...
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Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ...
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