Newt Gingrich Says Obama Is Sooo Arrogant He Even Golfs Arrogantly
If anyone knows arrogance, it would have to be serial philanderer and human pudding pop Newt Gingrich.
If anyone knows arrogance, it would have to be serial philanderer and human pudding pop Newt Gingrich.
2 | BroncD Sep 17, 2014 2:12:39pm |
Newt Gingrich Says Obama Is Sooo Arrogant He Even Golfs
ArrogantlyBlackly
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…
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 |
8 | Timothy Watson Sep 17, 2014 2:15:42pm |
Sorry for the early OT but OFFS:
Marin County, Calif. DA's Office Co-Sponsors Toy Gun and Video Game Trade-In Program in Oct. http://t.co/z8Cq1lPbKQ #eca— GamePolitics (@GamePolitics) September 17, 2014
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
HHS Readies U.S. Hospitals for #Ebola - http://t.co/NG3Rwqn30E
— Alex Jones (@RealAlexJones) September 17, 2014
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.
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.
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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 |
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.
31 | The Ghost of a Flea Sep 17, 2014 2:27:19pm |
32 | Kragar Sep 17, 2014 2:27:54pm |
Actually I thought I was sitting here laughing at a delusional moron. The fact you're a kid explains a lot @philipdude65 @realDonaldTrump— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) September 17, 2014
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 |
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”…
According to source: Cards RB Johnathan Dwyer was just arrested for domestic violence @azfamily @AZCardinals pic.twitter.com/S9Kh0pgkfT
— TylerBaldwin (@tylerbaldwin) September 17, 2014
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 |
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.
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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…
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 |
Let me guess? Ayn Rand changed your life. What a moron @philipdude65— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) September 17, 2014
I guess I'm just stunned by your dazzling display of brilliance and vast knowledge of how the world really works @philipdude65— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) September 17, 2014
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:
Happy Constitution Day! To mark this occasion I'll now tweet the entire Constitution… Just kidding, here's a link: http://t.co/8REvpNlsRZ
— John Dingell (@john_dingell) September 17, 2014
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.
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.
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???
If you resort to violence to “teach your wife/child” a lesson, you are a failure as a man #tcot #uniteblue #AdrianPeterson #RayRice— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) September 17, 2014
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.
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:
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.
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
@lawhawk @Green_Footballs Lie-Max theater?— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) September 17, 2014
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:
How Olympic National Park barred reporter from a public project paid by taxpayers on public property. http://t.co/iuCI2ioqEd via @KitsapSun— WashingtonCOG (@WashingtonCOG) September 17, 2014
Pretty much MT @GeoErbSeattle So apparently Olympic National Park has unmarked areas that restrict access and speech? http://t.co/uUsERzJEV5— Gene Johnson (@GeneAPseattle) September 17, 2014
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:
@Kite311 RT @snorewell: What a hassle. pic.twitter.com/4653tBymp5
— Jennifer Wilkinson (@northernsoul54) September 17, 2014
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.”
104 | BeachDem Sep 17, 2014 3:49:46pm |
Charming:
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
Ugly memories surfacing now. Remember getting my “butt busted” repeatedly for bed wetting. Turned out to be a medical condition.— Goldie Taylor (@goldietaylor) September 17, 2014
Rather than take me to see a pediatrician, I was forced to wear an XL diaper to bed. I was 6. And scared to sleep.— Goldie Taylor (@goldietaylor) September 17, 2014
106 | Dr. Matt Sep 17, 2014 3:50:23pm |
re: #103 teleskiguy
Darren Wilson comes out of then goes back into hiding.
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.
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
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
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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:
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!
I KNEW IT!!! pic.twitter.com/wSMhzFllkq— Candace Brown (@CandaceTX) September 17, 2014
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:
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
Dear Sean Hannity: FYI, you did NOT turn out ok. Not even close.
— rootless (@root_e) September 17, 2014
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 |
Yesterday, one of our wildlife biologists captured our first photo of the Zion condor chick! pic.twitter.com/9dpzc3pzkT
— Zion National Park (@ZionNPS) September 17, 2014
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!!!!!!!
If soldiers receive #minimumwage … #tcot #UniteBlue #RaiseTheWage #LivingWage #fastfoodstrike pic.twitter.com/8q5UnUoExU— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) September 17, 2014
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!!!!!!!
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Excellent. Retweeted.
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 |
How the economy works. #tcot #UniteBlue #RaiseTheWage pic.twitter.com/mDN0NNffIw— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) September 17, 2014
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 |
Borderline hysterical at this. pic.twitter.com/pxZhEaGHF4— Ellabell (@missellabell) September 17, 2014
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
Why Tweeting the entire #Constitution is a bad idea==> https://t.co/Anff8Ul6oS #tcot #UniteBlue— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) September 17, 2014
including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons.— Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) September 17, 2014
154 | b.d. Sep 17, 2014 5:11:48pm |
The new Bond Supervillian of Oceania
The proper response to Australia's attempt to criminalize journalism is to disclose that which they want to suppress http://t.co/RUOkvReMis
— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) September 18, 2014
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 |
:)) “@Durf: Malaysian news editors apply stylistic rules with great rigor and consistency. pic.twitter.com/CRn0B7CtLH”— Marietje Schaake (@MarietjeSchaake) September 17, 2014
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?
162 | Backwoods_Sleuth Sep 17, 2014 5:33:53pm |
Mark Sanford chatting with his friends at the White House Congressional Picnic. pic.twitter.com/Ynp64TukDo
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
@viciousbabushka @jerrynor If the Economy is based on endless consumption, we need a new System. Consume = Destroy— Paul Jimerson (@pauljimerson) September 18, 2014
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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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.