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1 Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 30, 2014 8:56:34pm

My wife absolutely loves the song.

Also, OT but interesting: I received a legal notice today informing me a class action lawsuit has been initiated against my former employer for failure to pay worked overtime hours.

I plan on joining the class because I’m almost certain they got me a few times.

2 Charles Johnson  Sep 30, 2014 8:56:58pm
3 Kragar  Sep 30, 2014 9:09:20pm

re: #2 Charles Johnson

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4 De Kolta Chair  Sep 30, 2014 9:11:48pm

News item: “Los Angeles police are investigating the theft of a solid bronze statue of Ed Sullivan from an outdoor exhibit at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.”

The police have issued an APB for a really big shoe.

5 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce  Sep 30, 2014 9:14:28pm

Re: the Walking Dead:

I’d still rather have Herschel alive than Carl.

6 sagehen  Sep 30, 2014 9:29:03pm

re: #5 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce

Re: the Walking Dead:

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Wouldn’t we all.

7 freetoken  Sep 30, 2014 9:36:28pm

re: #3 Kragar

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The stupid is already flowing freely.

This is a comment from the Townhall article tonight on the ebola case:

Lynn294 Wrote:4 hours ago (7:56 PM)
The CDC and local health departments have been infected with a fatal disease - political correctness. They are no longer able to quarantine people who have been exposed to diseases for which there is no cure because that violates their “rights.” When I was growing up in the 1950s my friend’s little bother became ill with polio. The health department nailed a quarantine notice on each door of their house. No one was allowed in or out until they had passed the incubation period. I’m sure it wasn’t pleasant but they never complained because it was their civic duty to protect others. The ability to quarantine ended in the 1980s with the aids epidemic. It was no longer politically correct to quarantine those who had been exposed because they belonged to a politically active class of people. In the current ebola case, they will not be able to quarantine the patient’s family who were certainly exposed because they are African Americans which is also a politically protected class.

8 Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 30, 2014 9:41:41pm

re: #7 freetoken

The stupid is already flowing freely.

This is a comment from the Townhall article tonight on the ebola case:

I’d say these people are lower than pond scum but that’s really unfair to pond scum.

9 De Kolta Chair  Sep 30, 2014 9:45:18pm

re: #7 freetoken

The stupid is already flowing freely.

He should thank his lucky stars and stripes that his “little bother” wasn’t a commie. His entire family would’ve been blacklisted or worse.

10 Snarknado!  Sep 30, 2014 9:45:59pm

re: #8 Eclectic Cyborg

I’d say these people are lower than pond scum but that’s really unfair to pond scum.

On the same intellectual level, surely.

11 De Kolta Chair  Sep 30, 2014 9:55:32pm

A Serval cat (Leptailurus serval), Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

12 Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 30, 2014 10:03:00pm

re: #11 De Kolta Chair

Maybe it’s the just the angle but the head seems disproportionate to the rest of the body.

13 Kragar  Sep 30, 2014 10:12:21pm

re: #7 freetoken

The stupid is already flowing freely.

This is a comment from the Townhall article tonight on the ebola case:

Had to share that:

14 De Kolta Chair  Sep 30, 2014 10:15:19pm

re: #12 Eclectic Cyborg

Maybe it’s the just the angle but the head seems disproportionate to the rest of the body.

It’s the nature of the beast, pardon the pun. Here’s a “spot” of info about that:
paoloviscardi.com

15 Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 30, 2014 10:23:12pm

re: #14 De Kolta Chair

It’s the nature of the beast, pardon the pun. Here’s a “spot” of info about that:
paoloviscardi.com

Thanks for that. Nice to know the ol’ eyes are still sharp. ;)

16 klys  Sep 30, 2014 10:27:41pm

Congrats to the KC Royals on a well-earned win. I had the …misfortune… of seeing innings 10th-middle-of-bottom-of-the-12th in a bar with a number of very drunk, very loud Oakland fans.

No better way to make me root against your team than to be loudly cursing and trash-talking the opposing team in a restaurant. If you want to do that, go to a sports bar. Added bonus: the guy sexually harassing the woman on the other side of him, to the point where I nearly called for a manager. I should have, in retrospect.

We left just as the tying run was scored in order to make it home before all the drunks.

Sixteen resumes out today and another job fair tomorrow, this one focusing on companies for software development. I am so over all of this already.

17 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 30, 2014 10:40:23pm

re: #16 klys

Good luck!

18 teleskiguy  Sep 30, 2014 10:45:20pm
19 Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 30, 2014 10:57:41pm

re: #4 De Kolta Chair

News item: “Los Angeles police are investigating the theft of a solid bronze statue of Ed Sullivan from an outdoor exhibit at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.”

The police have issued an APB for a really big shoe.

I’m the other person here who is old enough to get that joke.

20 TedStriker  Sep 30, 2014 11:03:43pm

re: #4 De Kolta Chair

News item: “Los Angeles police are investigating the theft of a solid bronze statue of Ed Sullivan from an outdoor exhibit at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.”

The police have issued an APB for a really big shoe.

re: #19 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I’m the other person here who is old enough to get that joke.

Nah, I got it, it was just so corny,

;-P

21 wheat-dogghazi  Sep 30, 2014 11:06:32pm

re: #19 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I’m the other person here who is old enough to get that joke.

I got it, too, but had no further comment.

Ed’s show would never fly these days, at least with his delivery style.

22 Snarknado!  Sep 30, 2014 11:18:37pm

re: #20 TedStriker

Nah, I got it, it was just so corny,

;-P

Yeah, me too.

23 Amory Blaine  Sep 30, 2014 11:20:05pm

Poll shows Mary Burke leading by 5 points; lead widens in model

A poll released Tuesday showing Mary Burke ahead of Gov. Scott Walker by five points has widened the Democratic challenger’s lead in Brad Jones’ model of polling for the Wisconsin gubernatorial election.

Gravis Marketing released a poll of 908 registered voters in which Burke got 50 percent to Walker’s 45 percent, with 4 percent listed as unsure. The poll was conducted through automated telephone calls.

Marquette law school releases their poll in the AM.

24 freetoken  Sep 30, 2014 11:22:51pm
25 freetoken  Sep 30, 2014 11:25:51pm

That, btw, was the oh so sultry Sara Montiel.

26 TedStriker  Sep 30, 2014 11:27:03pm
27 William Barnett-Lewis  Sep 30, 2014 11:35:02pm

re: #23 Amory Blaine

Poll shows Mary Burke leading by 5 points; lead widens in model

Marquette law school releases their poll in the AM.

I pray this holds true. Her ad disarming the plagiarism claim is good and Scooter’s job numbers keep getting worse.

28 Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2014 1:58:01am

So in reading up on the Ebola case in Dallas, as I suspected, the CT’ers and the other assorted usual suspects are fapping themselves into a frenzy over this. Can’t say I’m surprised, sad to say.

BBL.

29 Varek Raith  Oct 1, 2014 2:21:42am

Hello, future Ebola victims.
/

30 Frenchy  Oct 1, 2014 2:42:08am

re: #6 sagehen

Do people still actually watch TWD? It was good the first season or two but by the end of Season 4 it had gotten so awful that I couldn’t watch anymore.

31 freetoken  Oct 1, 2014 3:14:11am

re: #30 Frenchy

I stopped watching it at the start of season 3. I’ve had enough of the “zombie” excuse for producers to have a reason just to have as gruesome of killing on TV as possible. That there now has been a rash of copy-cat series (Z-Nation anyone?) is all the more reason for the entire genre to be put to bed. George Romero has had his day.

32 freetoken  Oct 1, 2014 3:19:23am

WaPo going overboard with the MBF:

The Braley-Ernst clash over ‘personhood’ in Iowa

33 Decatur Deb  Oct 1, 2014 3:37:34am

Happy Federal Fiscal New Year, all. Did they ever pass a Continuing Resolution?

34 freetoken  Oct 1, 2014 3:40:24am

The re-messaging effort of the GOP presses forward with no tiring:

State senator makes Holocaust comparison in speech

A recently elected West Texas state senator on Tuesday compared what he called a “spiritual battle” against religion in the United States to the Holocaust.

[…]

In his inaugural speech, Perry said a recent trip to a concentration camp in Berlin made him draw a comparison between what he believes are efforts by the government to pass laws against religion and the killing of Jews during the Holocaust.

“There were 10,000 people that were paraded into a medical office (at the concentration camp in Berlin) under the guise of a physical. As they stood with their back against the wall, they were executed with a bullet through the throat. Before they left, 10,000 people met their fate that way,” Perry said.

Is it not the same than when our government continues to perpetuate laws that lead citizens away from God? The only difference is that the fraud of the Germans was more immediate and whereas the fraud of today’s government will not be exposed until the final days and will have eternal-lasting effects.”

Perry said in his speech that while he’ll work to address the state’s financial needs by prioritizing state funding and balancing the budget without raising taxes, his biggest challenge will be the “spiritual battle for the spirit of this nation and the soul of its people.”

[…]

35 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 1, 2014 3:45:17am

re: #34 freetoken

It’s exactly like the Holocaust, even down to elected officials publicly denouncing the sitting government and then expecting to retain their office.

Eye-dentical situations.

36 Frenchy  Oct 1, 2014 3:47:49am

re: #34 freetoken

Jesus Tapdancing Christ.

Can people not just learn the simple lesson that whatever point you’re trying to make, no matter salient it may (or may not) be, analogizing with the Holocaust is going to make you sound like a babbling idiot 100% of the time?

37 ausador  Oct 1, 2014 3:59:58am

re: #32 freetoken

WaPo going overboard with the MBF:

The Braley-Ernst clash over ‘personhood’ in Iowa

I left the author of that travesty a comment…

So passing the constitutional amendment is nothing more than a mere thought exercise?

Sure it COULD allow legislation that sets women’s reproductive rights back 50 years but that doesn’t mean that any such legislation WOULD be passed? Why would you think anyone would believe that line of reasoning Mr. Kessler?

The one and only reason for adding such an amendment to a state constitution is to enable the passing of the exact type of legislation described by Braley. It is disingenuous at best to suggest that proposing this amendment was made for any reason other than to allow restrictions on women’s reproductive rights to pass future legal scrutiny.

Sorry, I find your reasoning in this matter to be less than convincing.

38 ausador  Oct 1, 2014 4:31:35am

The problem with using stock images for your “Republicans are people too” campaign is that many of them have been used elsewhere already. lol

Republican?

Medical/Family Health specialist?

Payday loan Shill?

39 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 4:33:46am

re: #34 freetoken

The re-messaging effort of the GOP presses forward with no tiring:

State senator makes Holocaust comparison in speech

40 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 1, 2014 4:45:52am

re: #38 ausador

More appropriate imagery for
Republicans are black

41 Varek Raith  Oct 1, 2014 5:03:46am

42 aagcobb  Oct 1, 2014 5:03:50am

re: #38 ausador

The problem with using stock images for your “Republicans are people too” campaign is that many of them have been used elsewhere already. lol

Republican?

[Embedded image]Medical/Family Health specialist?

[Embedded image]Payday loan Shill?

Please ignore the fact we couldn’t find a real African-American Republican so we had to use a stock photo; we know they are out there somewhere!

43 aagcobb  Oct 1, 2014 5:05:30am

re: #41 Varek Raith

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Telling me I can’t compare your policy proposals to the Holocaust is exactly what the Nazis would do!/

44 Frenchy  Oct 1, 2014 5:08:55am

re: #42 aagcobb

HURR IT’S A FILE IMAGE IS IT NOT!!1

45 BeenHereAwhile  Oct 1, 2014 5:12:47am

re: #19 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I’m the other person here who is old enough to get that joke.

“S’awright?”

“S’awriiight!”

46 Decatur Deb  Oct 1, 2014 5:14:27am

re: #45 BeenHereAwhile

“S’awright?”

“S’awriiight!”

Really hated Topo Gigio. Smarmy little rubber rodent.

47 Schadenboner  Oct 1, 2014 5:15:00am

re: #42 aagcobb

Please ignore the fact we couldn’t find a real African-American Republican so we had to use a stock photo; we know they are out there somewhere!

If you were a hypothetically-existing black Republican, knowing what your own party did to “Pajama Boy” why would you sign up for that shit?

ED: Objection, assumes self-awareness: facts not in evidence.

48 Archangelus  Oct 1, 2014 5:16:46am

re: #40 wheat-dogghazi

More appropriate imagery for
Republicans are black
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‘An official statement issued earlier today by the PR Chief of the Sauron for Middle Earth campaign heavily protested the use and comparison of the Dark Lord’s chief minions to the US political faction. “It is our Master’s belief that a comparison of any sort between The Nine (commonly known as the ‘Nazgul’) and the GOTP is fundamentally flawed and considerably offensive to the Sauron for Middle Earth campaign. We demand that any such comparisons be avoided in the future.”’

49 BeenHereAwhile  Oct 1, 2014 5:19:35am

re: #46 Decatur Deb

Really hated Topo Gigio. Smarmy little rubber rodent.

“S’awriiight!” wasn’t Topo Gigio.

50 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 5:20:57am

re: #49 BeenHereAwhile

“S’awriiight!” wasn’t Topo Gigio.

Was that Yogi & Booboo?

51 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 5:21:38am

Senor Wences

52 ausador  Oct 1, 2014 5:24:44am

Meanwhile as Russian currency value continues to decline…

53 Decatur Deb  Oct 1, 2014 5:27:20am

re: #49 BeenHereAwhile

“S’awriiight!” wasn’t Topo Gigio.

No, Topo was just a Sullivan constant. Thinking “Sawriiight” was Senor
Wences.

(“Topolino” is Disney’s MM to the Italians.)

54 ausador  Oct 1, 2014 5:29:43am

re: #51 Pie-onist Overlord

Senor Wences

At about 28 seconds…

Youtube Video

55 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 5:30:16am
56 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 5:40:30am

PROOF & LOGIC HOW THE FUCK DOES IT WORK?

57 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 5:41:16am

I think I’ll just block this fucking idiot.

58 ausador  Oct 1, 2014 5:47:53am

re: #55 Pie-onist Overlord

Mrs Freedom First @MrsFreedomFirst

It’s high time we went to a muslim owned restaurant and demanded bacon, if we don’t get it we’ll sue! #Unfair #Discrimination #tcot

Dumb as a box of rocks. :(

59 Archangelus  Oct 1, 2014 5:50:37am

re: #58 ausador

Dumb as a box of rocks. :(

I wholeheartedly disagree - rocks may eventually have mold, which would certainly be more intelligent than that shmuck…

60 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 5:54:57am

HURR HURR IT WAS JUST A JOKE!!!! LUBRULS JUST CAN’T UNDERSTAND A JOKE!!!!!

61 ausador  Oct 1, 2014 5:55:44am

re: #56 Pie-onist Overlord

PROOF & LOGIC HOW THE FUCK DOES IT WORK?

That quote doesn’t exist anywhere except for some site calling itself Liberty-Tree, bunch of rather suspicious unsourced quotes there. That one is simply Hitler quote No. 3938 there is no citation offered on any of them I looked at.

google.com

62 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 5:56:29am

re: #61 ausador

That quote doesn’t exist anywhere except for some site calling itself Liberty-Tree, bunch of rather suspicious unsourced quotes there. That one is simply Hitler quote No. 3938 there is no citation offered on any of them I looked at.

google.com

63 Frenchy  Oct 1, 2014 5:57:36am

re: #62 Pie-onist Overlord

HURRRRRR the onus is on you to PROVE that they’re fake!!!

64 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 5:58:32am

re: #4 De Kolta Chair

News item: “Los Angeles police are investigating the theft of a solid bronze statue of Ed Sullivan from an outdoor exhibit at the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.”

The police have issued an APB for a really big shoe.

I would initiate that search in Atlantic City.

65 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 6:00:39am

re: #12 Eclectic Cyborg

Maybe it’s the just the angle but the head seems disproportionate to the rest of the body.

Nope. Small head for body size and big ears.

Serval Cat - Memphis Zoo

66 Eventual Carrion  Oct 1, 2014 6:00:56am

re: #58 ausador

Dumb as a box of rocks. :(

I’m going to the local ice cream stand and ordering breakfast, If they don’t produce, I can sue!

Fucking idiots,

67 b.d.  Oct 1, 2014 6:02:51am

Good morning all.

Today’s DFW Pollen Levels:
Grass - Low
Weed - High
Tree - Moderate
Mold -Low
Ebola - EXTREME!!!

68 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 6:04:06am

re: #66 Eventual Carrion

I’m going to the local ice cream stand and ordering breakfast, If they don’t produce, I can sue!

Fucking idiots,

They do not understand that a business, which sells products, has to sell that available product to every customer who requests it.

A business does not have to provide a product that is not included in their inventory/menu

69 nsmith25  Oct 1, 2014 6:05:42am

In re: Devin James, Ferguson PR that was “Fired” because of his Reckless Homicide Conviction…

70 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 6:08:32am

nbcphiladelphia.com

PA State trooper killed yesterday at a gun range. Reported to have been an accident during an exercise.

71 Frenchy  Oct 1, 2014 6:09:16am

re: #69 nsmith25

When does Michael Brown get his second chance?

72 nsmith25  Oct 1, 2014 6:14:05am

re: #71 Frenchy

When does Michael Brown get his second chance?

Mike Brown never had a chance.

73 ausador  Oct 1, 2014 6:16:38am

It can be like this sometimes…

74 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi  Oct 1, 2014 6:19:24am

re: #60 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR IT WAS JUST A JOKE!!!! LUBRULS JUST CAN’T UNDERSTAND A JOKE!!!!!

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When she was in her early teens, my daughter used to respond to finding out she was wrong by saying “JK!” (That’s “just kidding”, for those who don’t know the lingo.) The difference is, she’s grown out of it.

75 Bulworth  Oct 1, 2014 6:28:09am

re:
#60

Fact but Accurate!!!1 Case CLOSED!!!! Stoopid Libtards!!!111

76 BeenHereAwhile  Oct 1, 2014 6:28:14am

re: #73 ausador

It can be like this sometimes…

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If this ever becomes an animated series, my choice is John Bolton as voice of the sea lion, or better yet as the walrus.

77 Bulworth  Oct 1, 2014 6:29:29am

re:
#56

If you can’t Prove are quotes are fake then thare Real!!

78 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 6:29:55am

re: #75 Bulworth

re:
#60

Fact but Accurate!!!1 Case CLOSED!!!! Stoopid Libtards!!!111

79 Rightwingconspirator  Oct 1, 2014 6:31:51am

re: #65 Feline Fearless Leader

Yup, the huge ears…

80 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 6:32:36am
81 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 6:37:38am

re: #66 Eventual Carrion

I’m going to the local ice cream stand and ordering breakfast, If they don’t produce, I can sue!

Fucking idiots,

Someone I work with was pretty clueless the other day. We were talking about eateries in the area and he complained about not being able to get a cheeseburger at one place. I asked him about the intersection where it was located and then told him that it was a kosher burger place — and that no one could get a cheeseburger there.

Still half-suspect that he was just being an asshole, but giving him the benefit of the doubt since many times stupidity is often the explanation instead of malice.

82 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 6:42:36am

HURR HURR!!!!! COMMIE CORE & WHITE MANS NOT MAKING TEH BABBIES IS KILLING AMURCIA!!!!!!

83 iossarian  Oct 1, 2014 6:43:17am

re: #80 Pie-onist Overlord

Cats are angels of death to small furry and feathered animals.

Ban cats! /comic sans

84 Decatur Deb  Oct 1, 2014 6:47:33am

re: #82 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR!!!!! COMMIE CORE & WHITE MANS NOT MAKING TEH BABBIES IS KILLING AMURCIA!!!!!!

Twenty to Forty Something Year Old Childless White Men & the Death of America

Not reading his crap. Are they depriving the master race of their bodily essence again?

85 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 6:48:38am

re: #84 Decatur Deb

Not reading his crap. Are they depriving the master race of their bodily essence again?

The title tells you everything you need to know.

86 iossarian  Oct 1, 2014 6:48:43am

re: #82 Pie-onist Overlord

That article is somewhat odd. EE seems to be complaining that white Republican men are all backing something, and this means it’s troubling to him.

As opposed to the myriad social policies that white Republican men back and that he’s 100% on board with?

87 Bulworth  Oct 1, 2014 6:49:21am

re:
#82

Feminazis!!! Birth Control!!!1 Abortion!!!1 Givin Womenz the vote!!!1

Seriously, I wonder about his unique concern for the White race’s importance to saving America.

88 Bulworth  Oct 1, 2014 6:51:09am

re:
#82

I’m sure Obama and Obamacare are somehow to blame.

/

89 Frenchy  Oct 1, 2014 6:53:19am

re: #84 Decatur Deb

I saved you the displeasure.

Basically he says that supporters of Common Core are mostly white men, 20-40, who don’t have kids so what would they know about it?

His evidence for how bad Common Core is is a page out of a textbook that describes a method for subtracting 2 numbers. Now, it’s not how I was taught to subtract, so it did feel a bit strange to me. But this just gives me the sense that a lot of people’s problem with Common Core, particularly with the math, is that “It doesn’t explain things the way I was taught.”

90 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 6:53:52am
91 ausador  Oct 1, 2014 6:56:27am

re: #77 Bulworth

re:
#56

If you can’t Prove are quotes are fake then thare Real!!

I replied to a guy who tweeted a list of fake quotes by atheists on their deathbeds acknowledging god. His reply was:
“You can’t prove that they’re fake any more than I can prove they’re real!”

92 iossarian  Oct 1, 2014 6:56:44am

re: #89 Frenchy

I’m sorely tempted to register at RedState simply in order to opine that the “counting up” method of subtraction is well-explained by the example given, and should be graspable by a literate adult with a minimal amount of effort.

It’s actually rather troubling that people in positions of some responsibility wouldn’t be able to figure out a 3-step algorithm that involves writing numbers down and then adding them up.

93 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 1, 2014 6:57:51am
94 Lidane  Oct 1, 2014 6:57:59am

Huh. I can actually see embedded tweets today.

IT must be tweaking the firewall. I don’t see that lasting at all.

95 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 6:58:04am

re: #82 Pie-onist Overlord

HURR HURR!!!!! COMMIE CORE & WHITE MANS NOT MAKING TEH BABBIES IS KILLING AMURCIA!!!!!!

[Embedded content]

Yeah America is doomed because white men 20-40 aren’t have kids. Go away you Pat Buchanan wannabe asshole. Hell Erick even looks like Pat a little.

96 iossarian  Oct 1, 2014 6:58:41am

re: #93 NJDhockeyfan

Chinese fixie hipsters!

97 Frenchy  Oct 1, 2014 6:59:10am

re: #92 iossarian

Yeah, the method is perfectly reasonable and, as you say, well explained, even though it’s not how I learned to do things. I mean really, this is what all the fuss is about?

98 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 6:59:23am

Libtard or from the same people who claimed that liberals wanted Sarah Palin to abort her child with Downs. Asshats.

99 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 6:59:34am

re: #95 HappyWarrior

Yeah America is doomed because white men 20-40 aren’t have kids. Go away you Pat Buchanan wannabe asshole. Hell Erick even looks like Pat a little.

He looks like the bastard offspring of Rush Limbaugh & Pat Buchanan

100 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 7:00:26am

re: #98 HappyWarrior

Libtard or from the same people who claimed that liberals wanted Sarah Palin to abort her child with Downs. Asshats.

There was one person here who did claim Sarah Palin should have aborted Trig. That downding record has never been broken.

101 Decatur Deb  Oct 1, 2014 7:02:01am

re: #97 Frenchy

Yeah, the method is perfectly reasonable and, as you say, well explained, even though it’s not how I learned to do things. I mean really, this is what all the fuss is about?

This is the reprise of the 1990s RW “Phonics” campaign for the school boards. It doesn’t matter if it makes sense, as long as it can rally the base. In fact, the more confusable, the better.

102 Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2014 7:03:40am

re: #96 iossarian

Chinese fixie hipsters!

Pissh. I have them all beat.

“My name is Ozymandias Dr Lizardo, king of kings:
Look on my works ancient bicycle, ye Mighty, and despair!”

103 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 7:04:10am

re: #100 Pie-onist Overlord

There was one person here who did claim Sarah Palin should have aborted Trig. That downding record has never been broken.

Yeah I’ve seen that but the right claimed that many liberals felt that way. That was an utter lie and the bastards know it.

104 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 7:04:25am

re: #99 Pie-onist Overlord

He looks like the bastard offspring of Rush Limbaugh & Pat Buchanan

Yes! yes he doe.

105 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 1, 2014 7:08:10am

Oh, brother. Can the Secret Service appear any worse?

106 lawhawk  Oct 1, 2014 7:08:56am

If this is a story that sounds too familiar, that’s because it’s the subject of current news - whether the Eric Garner case or other high profile cases where suspects died in police conduct with suspicious circumstances (like the one suspect who somehow managed to shoot himself in the chest despite being handcuffed with his hands behind him).

In the case of Garcia, police were never indicted but the family won a $700,000 civil settlement from the state.

The NJ case also exposes the all too frequent conflict of interests when law enforcement has to investigate and prosecute a police officer. Note too that the NJ State Police were already under federal oversight as a result of their longstanding racial profiling practices, but the State Attorney General refused to appoint an independent prosecutor to handle the matter.

It is unclear whether just what was presented to the grand jury in this case, but the AG’s office and state police and union officials all deny that the death was the result of police brutality/excessive force and stand by the grand jury outcome.

107 De Kolta Chair  Oct 1, 2014 7:09:13am

Little Audrey, hophead

108 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 7:09:46am
109 Timothy Watson  Oct 1, 2014 7:11:44am

re: #92 iossarian

I’m sorely tempted to register at RedState simply in order to opine that the “counting up” method of subtraction is well-explained by the example given, and should be graspable by a literate adult with a minimal amount of effort.

It’s actually rather troubling that people in positions of some responsibility wouldn’t be able to figure out a 3-step algorithm that involves writing numbers down and then adding them up.

It’s also the way my mother always used when she used to cashier. Say a purchase was $13.59 and she was given a $20 by a customer, she would count up the charge by starting at $13.59 until she got to $20.

110 iossarian  Oct 1, 2014 7:11:45am

re: #108 Pie-onist Overlord

O Noes. Vegetarians are communists in disguise, everyone knows that.

Who will save us from 9 year old communists?

111 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 7:12:26am

re: #110 iossarian

O Noes. Vegetarians are communists in disguise, everyone knows that.

Who will save us from 9 year old communists?

You know else was a vegetarian!

112 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 7:12:45am

re: #89 Frenchy

I saved you the displeasure.

Basically he says that supporters of Common Core are mostly white men, 20-40, who don’t have kids so what would they know about it?

His evidence for how bad Common Core is is a page out of a textbook that describes a method for subtracting 2 numbers. Now, it’s not how I was taught to subtract, so it did feel a bit strange to me. But this just gives me the sense that a lot of people’s problem with Common Core, particularly with the math, is that “It doesn’t explain things the way I was taught.”

Standard short-sighted crap viewpoint. I don’t have children, but still do have great concerns about issues regarding education since it’s the bedrock on which an advanced society is built. So you learn about the issues and agitate accordingly.

113 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 7:13:08am

Man gym soreness sneaks up on you. Felt great after working out yesterday morning and then again yesterday afternoon but my muscles are sore this morning.

114 CuriousLurker  Oct 1, 2014 7:13:19am

re: #86 iossarian

That article is somewhat odd. EE seems to be complaining that white Republican men are all backing something, and this means it’s troubling to him.

As opposed to the myriad social policies that white Republican men back and that he’s 100% on board with?

Somewhat odd? It’s pure idiocy. I’d never read any of his articles before and I won’t be doing so again. The whole thing was just anecdotal whining and ridiculous assertions that he fails to back up.

What race has to do with any of it is beyond me. Oh well, there went 5 wasted minutes I can never have back.

115 iossarian  Oct 1, 2014 7:13:31am

re: #109 Timothy Watson

It’s also the way my mother always used when she used to cashier. Say a purchase was $13.59 and she was given a $20 by a customer, she would count up the charge by starting at $13.59 until she got to $20.

A really interesting (OK, interesting to me) conversation with a smart 10-year-old would be to figure out why the counting-up method yields the same answer as the traditional/break-and-carry method.

116 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 1, 2014 7:15:05am

re: #56 Pie-onist Overlord

I tried to determine whether the quote was legit, even trying a search with German words, and failed. I suspect, but can’t prove, that someone writing about Hitler paraphrased or summarized something that Hitler wrote and created this pithy statement.

Also, it’s not a terribly original idea, so attributing it to Hitler just makes it scary.

“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” — Mr Spock

See, not so scary.

117 iossarian  Oct 1, 2014 7:15:18am

re: #114 CuriousLurker

Somewhat odd? It’s pure idiocy. I’d never read any of his articles before and I won’t be doing so again. The whole thing was just anecdotal whining and ridiculous assertions that he fails to back up.

What race has to do with any of it is beyond me. Oh well, there went 5 wasted minutes I can never have back.

I guess I more meant that it’s out of his usual wheelhouse in which the people peddling LIES are liberal/female/gay/brown/muslim people. If 20-40 year-old white Republican men are also in the LIE-peddling business, who can you trust?

NO-ONE, that’s who.

118 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 7:16:11am

re: #116 wheat-dogghazi

I tried to determine whether the quote was legit, even trying a search with German words, and failed. I suspect, but can’t prove, that someone writing about Hitler paraphrased or summarized something that Hitler wrote and created this pithy statement.

Also, it’s not a terribly original idea, so attributing it to Hitler just makes it scary.

“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” — Mr Spock

See, not so scary.

The alleged Hillary quote likewise can’t be found anywhere except at right-wing websites.

119 lawhawk  Oct 1, 2014 7:17:10am

re: #116 wheat-dogghazi

“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” — Mr Spock

Or the one.

But sometimes, the needs of the one, outweigh the needs of many.

I have been and ever shall be your friend.

120 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 7:17:24am

re: #116 wheat-dogghazi

“The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.” — Mr Spock

See, not so scary.

“The needs of the few outweigh the needs of the many.”—Charles Koch

See. Flipped it & made it scary again.

121 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 7:18:20am
122 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 1, 2014 7:18:23am

re: #118 Pie-onist Overlord

The alleged Hillary quote likewise can’t be found anywhere except at right-wing websites.

Snopes did something about Hilary quotes that I found by accident. Is the quote on this page? snopes.com

123 Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2014 7:18:25am

re: #115 iossarian

A really interesting (OK, interesting to me) conversation with a smart 10-year-old would be to figure out why the counting-up method yields the same answer as the traditional/break-and-carry method.

My mother taught me both methods of subtraction, including the one found in the Common Core book Ericksson was whining about. I learned that by the time I was eight or so.

But then again, my mother was from Sweden, so of course, EUROCOMMIE!!

124 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 7:18:32am

re: #109 Timothy Watson

It’s also the way my mother always used when she used to cashier. Say a purchase was $13.59 and she was given a $20 by a customer, she would count up the charge by starting at $13.59 until she got to $20.

I love the look I get from cashiers when I give them odd payment amounts. Initial sort of “crap - why are you handing me change in addition to the $20?”. And it is obviously not exact change for the amount as well. So they punch it into the cash register and it comes back as something like a $5 and three quarters. And then I get the look like I pulled off some sort of wizardry, sometimes mixed with the “you’re some kind of smartass, aren’t you?” expression.

:)

125 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 1, 2014 7:21:45am
126 BeenHereAwhile  Oct 1, 2014 7:22:27am

re: #88 Bulworth

re:
#82

I’m sure Obama and Obamacare are somehow to blame.

/

@eclecticbrotha: That moment you realize your governor’s hatred of Obamacare makes your state more susceptible to an Ebola outbreak.

127 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 7:22:32am

re: #124 Feline Fearless Leader

I love the look I get from cashiers when I give them odd payment amounts. Initial sort of “crap - why are you handing me change in addition to the $20?”. And it is obviously not exact change for the amount as well. So they punch it into the cash register and it comes back as something like a $5 and three quarters. And then I get the look like I pulled off some sort of wizardry, sometimes mixed with the “you’re some kind of smartass, aren’t you?” expression.

:)

You know what I really hate? Cashiers who give me the paper money first and then pile the change on top of it. I’m like, OK what am I supposed to do with this? It’s so inconvenient!

Back in the day when cashiers were taught the old method of making change they counted out the small coins first.

128 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 7:23:19am

re: #121 Pie-onist Overlord

The domestic American agitators who want an insurrection here to “save” the country need to pay closer attention to stuff like this in the Ukraine. Maybe. Maybe. They will then get a clue that there will be a lot of destruction and death of innocents in any attempt to overthrow the government via violence.

Though I expect they view their efforts as the Bush Administration viewed invading Iraq. Welcoming masses throwing flowers to greet them and an easy peasy transition to a new and very profitable government.

129 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 1, 2014 7:23:40am

re: #124 Feline Fearless Leader

I love the look I get from cashiers when I give them odd payment amounts. Initial sort of “crap - why are you handing me change in addition to the $20?”. And it is obviously not exact change for the amount as well. So they punch it into the cash register and it comes back as something like a $5 and three quarters. And then I get the look like I pulled off some sort of wizardry, sometimes mixed with the “you’re some kind of smartass, aren’t you?” expression.

:)

As in giving them extra payment in pennies, just to get them out of my pocket.

China has “pennies” but no one bothers with them. Odd amounts are rounded up or down to the nearest “dime” — the jiao, 1/10th of a yuan — because who cares about piddly amounts?

130 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 7:24:48am

Yesterday I bought gas and gave the cashier $40 for $26.87 worth of gas. He gave me back $14 because it was easier than counting out $13.13 in change.

131 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 7:25:55am

re: #129 wheat-dogghazi

As in giving them extra payment in pennies, just to get them out of my pocket.

China has “pennies” but no one bothers with them. Odd amounts are rounded up or down to the nearest “dime” — the jiao, 1/10th of a yuan — because who cares about piddly amounts?

Canada stopped distributing pennies in Feb, 2013. I expect the US will follow suit around 2200.
//

132 RealityBasedSteve  Oct 1, 2014 7:27:27am

re: #131 Feline Fearless Leader

Canada stopped distributing pennies in Feb, 2013. I expect the US will follow suit around 2200.
//

It will be replaced by the Centipenny.

RBS

133 Schadenboner  Oct 1, 2014 7:28:03am

re: #80 Pie-onist Overlord

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What, they already had a “Chairman Meow”?

134 Snarknado!  Oct 1, 2014 7:29:06am

re: #109 Timothy Watson

It’s also the way my mother always used when she used to cashier. Say a purchase was $13.59 and she was given a $20 by a customer, she would count up the charge by starting at $13.59 until she got to $20.

It was taught (making change — using that method) in my elementary school.

Oh, and get off my lawn.

135 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 7:29:17am

re: #131 Feline Fearless Leader

Canada stopped distributing pennies in Feb, 2013. I expect the US will follow suit around 2200.
//

Canada has weird, plastic money.

136 b.d.  Oct 1, 2014 7:30:54am

re: #131 Feline Fearless Leader

Canada stopped distributing pennies in Feb, 2013. I expect the US will follow suit around 2200.
//

I wish they would quit distributing pop stars and Texas senators.

137 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 1, 2014 7:30:56am
138 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 1, 2014 7:31:05am

re: #131 Feline Fearless Leader

Canada stopped distributing pennies in Feb, 2013. I expect the US will follow suit around 2200.
//

I think minting pennies costs more than the face value of the coins now. Common sense would suggest we do away with them, but then retailers couldn’t pull the sneaky trick of pricing stuff as $xx.99, which is essentially the same as $(xx+1).00 but looks cheaper.

139 Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2014 7:31:11am

re: #127 Pie-onist Overlord

You know what I really hate? Cashiers who give me the paper money first and then pile the change on top of it. I’m like, OK what am I supposed to do with this? It’s so inconvenient!

Back in the day when cashiers were taught the old method of making change they counted out the small coins first.

That’s how it’s done in the Czech Republic - I went shopping earlier today, and they hand you back the coins first, then the bills.

140 Schadenboner  Oct 1, 2014 7:31:41am

re: #105 NJDhockeyfan

Oh, brother. Can the Secret Service appear any worse?

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It could come out that the SS (we really need to come up with a better abbreviation) knew the contractor was armed?

141 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 1, 2014 7:33:03am

re: #137 NJDhockeyfan

That’s not going to end well, I’m afraid.

142 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 7:34:07am

re: #139 Dr Lizardo

That’s how it’s done in the Czech Republic - I went shopping earlier today, and they hand you back the coins first, then the bills.

I thought about how I acquire change nowadays since I do a lot of payments via debit card including just about all gas and grocery purchases. It’s small restaurant bills for meals, and one-off small item purchases. Everything else is essentially using plastic at this point.

143 Snarknado!  Oct 1, 2014 7:34:16am

re: #140 Schadenboner

It could come out that the SS (we really need to come up with a better abbreviation) knew the contractor was armed?

SecServ?

144 De Kolta Chair  Oct 1, 2014 7:35:53am

Due to the power of Marxist teachers unions, public schools refuse to educate our children about how The Sub-Mariner freed the slaves

145 Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2014 7:36:03am

re: #142 Feline Fearless Leader

I thought about how I acquire change nowadays since I do a lot of payments via debit card including just about all gas and grocery purchases. It’s small restaurant bills for meals, and one-off small item purchases. Everything else is essentially using plastic at this point.

Things are still very much a cash economy here. I have a debit card I use, but there are stores/shops you can’t use one at. A trafika, for example, a small shop that sells newpapers, magazines and tobacco. That’s all cash only. Some of the smaller stores here in town - a cheese shop I’m quite fond of, for instance, only take cash.

146 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 1, 2014 7:37:35am

re: #141 wheat-dogghazi

That’s not going to end well, I’m afraid.

I hope you are wrong. There are a shitload of protesters out there…

147 ausador  Oct 1, 2014 7:37:53am

re: #143 Snarknado!

SecServ?

USSS

148 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 7:37:59am

re: #142 Feline Fearless Leader

I thought about how I acquire change nowadays since I do a lot of payments via debit card including just about all gas and grocery purchases. It’s small restaurant bills for meals, and one-off small item purchases. Everything else is essentially using plastic at this point.

In Michigan, gas is $0.10/gal cheaper if you pay cash, so, it’s always cash for gas and debit/credit for everything else.

149 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 1, 2014 7:38:21am

re: #137 NJDhockeyfan

Specifically, they want the current chief executive to step down immediately.

At a news conference Wednesday afternoon (local time), the Hong Kong Federation of Students, one of the main protest organizing groups, said it was prepared to widen the campaign of civil disobedience if the chief executive, C.Y. Leung, did not resign.
“If C.Y. Leung doesn’t step down by tonight or tomorrow night, we will announce (plans) to escalate the operation,” said Lester Shum, one of the organization’s figureheads. “This means: to occupy different important government buildings.”

edition.cnn.com

To my surprise, China is not blocking CNN’s webpages. BBC’s Hong Kong coverage is being blocked, presumably because Cameron had some sharp words for the Chinese, thereby hurting their feelings.

150 nsmith25  Oct 1, 2014 7:41:00am

I love Congressman Ellison. Wish that he was the rep for KY-06.

151 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 1, 2014 7:41:53am

re: #146 NJDhockeyfan

I hope you are wrong. There are a shitload of protesters out there…

Oh, I know. There’s significant popular support behind Occupy Central, even among people who are not out on the streets. But those who intend to occupy government buildings are putting themselves at great risk. The leaders of HK are as scared of the protests as Beijing is. HK has always been run by the 1%, and they are not going to relinquish one bit of that control without a fight.

152 darthstar  Oct 1, 2014 7:42:06am
153 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 7:42:17am

re: #148 Pie-onist Overlord

In Michigan, gas is $0.10/gal cheaper if you pay cash, so, it’s always cash for gas and debit/credit for everything else.

I’ve seen that in a number of places. Using the appropriate credit card (Sunoco in my case) gets me $0.05/gal cheaper than the listed price at a Sunoco station. Enough of them on my errand loop route that I can conveniently fill up when necessary.

And if I know I’ll be traveling over to New Jersey for something I will delay filling up, or top off while I am over there since gasoline is cheaper there than in PA due to differences in state tax rates.

154 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 7:42:32am

It’s morning.

I feel like the walking dead.

you?

155 RealityBasedSteve  Oct 1, 2014 7:43:30am

re: #145 Dr Lizardo

Things are still very much a cash economy here. I have a debit card I use, but there are stores/shops you can’t use one at. A trafika, for example, a small shop that sells newpapers, magazines and tobacco. That’s all cash only. Some of the smaller stores here in town - a cheese shop I’m quite fond of, for instance, only take cash.

Do they have a bouzouki player?

RBS

156 Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2014 7:43:50am

re: #154 FemNaziBitch

It’s morning.

I feel like the walking dead.

you?

YOU MUST HAVE EBOLA!!!!

:p

157 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 7:43:58am

re: #154 FemNaziBitch

It’s morning.

I feel like the walking dead.

you?

Allergies have me semi-wiped out already. So I’m caffeinating heavily as a response and working on various things.

en.wikipedia.org
Also reading stuff like this and realizing it’s another reason old books are so awesome.

158 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 7:44:36am

re: #155 RealityBasedSteve

Do they have a bouzouki player?

RBS

Well played. But I think the cat’s eaten him.

159 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 7:45:04am

re: #153 Feline Fearless Leader

I’ve seen that in a number of places. Using the appropriate credit card (Sunoco in my case) gets me $0.05/gal cheaper than the listed price at a Sunoco station. Enough of them on my errand loop route that I can conveniently fill up when necessary.

And if I know I’ll be traveling over to New Jersey for something I will delay filling up, or top off while I am over there since gasoline is cheaper there than in PA due to differences in state tax rates.

I always fill/top before going to Canada, gas is like $5/gal there.

160 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 1, 2014 7:45:32am
161 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 7:45:59am

re: #159 Pie-onist Overlord

I always fill/top before going to Canada, gas is like $5/gal there.

But they sell it in liters in order to confuse you in that regard.
;)

162 ausador  Oct 1, 2014 7:46:45am

What institutionalized misogyny?

163 Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2014 7:46:48am

re: #155 RealityBasedSteve

Do they have a bouzouki player?

RBS

No, but that would add to the atmosphere.

It’s called Cheesy Ostrava.

cheesy-ostrava.cz

but the site is in Czech. Good cheese, though. There’s another one called ‘Cheese Mafia’, which is good too.

164 Timothy Watson  Oct 1, 2014 7:46:49am

re: #148 Pie-onist Overlord

In Michigan, gas is $0.10/gal cheaper if you pay cash, so, it’s always cash for gas and debit/credit for everything else.

Really? I know a lot places do that type of thing for diesel (since diesel is purchased in higher quantities a lot of times because of tractor trailers) and the retailer has to 3% on credit transactions when they’re not making any money on the fuel to begin with, but I never had seen it done with gasoline.

165 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 7:47:20am
166 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 7:47:54am

re: #157 Feline Fearless Leader

Allergies have me semi-wiped out already. So I’m caffeinating heavily as a response and working on various things.

en.wikipedia.org
Also reading stuff like this and realizing it’s another reason old books are so awesome.

oh, great fun to do too!

167 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 7:47:55am

re: #163 Dr Lizardo

No, but that would add to the atmosphere.

It’s called Cheesy Ostrava.

cheesy-ostrava.cz

but the site is in Czech. Good cheese, though. There’s another one called ‘Cheese Mafia’, which is good too.

But, but, it’s contaminated by cheese!
;p

168 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 7:48:31am

re: #161 Feline Fearless Leader

But they sell it in liters in order to confuse you in that regard.
;)

I am aware of their sneaking, split-headed, maple-syrup breathing ways.

169 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 7:51:55am

So, we got a little blue phamplet in the mail yesterday from the Secretary of State for Illinois, Jesse White.

There are two proposed amendments to the state constitution.
Illinois Crime Victims’ Bill of Rights Amendment (2014)

&
Illinois Right to Vote Amendment (2014)

170 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 1, 2014 7:52:36am
172 Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2014 7:55:15am

re: #167 Feline Fearless Leader

But, but, it’s contaminated by cheese!
;p

Heh.

Cheesy Ostrava is only a few minutes away on foot from the school where I work part-time, so when I get a hankering for some really good cheese that I can’t find in your typical Czech supermarket, I head over there. The most common cheeses sold here are Gouda, Eidam and Emmental.

173 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 1, 2014 7:57:07am

re: #172 Dr Lizardo

Heh.

Cheesy Ostrava is only a few minutes away on foot from the school where I work part-time, so when I get a hankering for some really good cheese that I can’t find in your typical Czech supermarket, I head over there. The most common cheeses sold here are Gouda, Eidam and Emmental.

Now I want some good cheese. Maybe the hypermarket will have some tomorrow.

174 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 7:58:01am

re: #172 Dr Lizardo

Heh.

Cheesy Ostrava is only a few minutes away on foot from the school where I work part-time, so when I get a hankering for some really good cheese that I can’t find in your typical Czech supermarket, I head over there. The most common cheeses sold here are Gouda, Eidam and Emmental.

My go-to place for “special” cheese. Not cheap, but a wide variety and a good place to pick out something new to try as an experiment.

dibruno.com

175 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 7:58:20am

In which Barry Wirth, parody account, jumps the shark==>
Click at your own risk.

177 ausador  Oct 1, 2014 7:59:26am

So, Romney has gone from flip-flopping about his “47%” remark to outright lying about it. Shocking… /

178 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 7:59:45am

re: #173 wheat-dogghazi

Now I want some good cheese. Maybe the hypermarket will have some tomorrow.

I have the impression that good cheese and dairy products are a bit harder to come by out that way. Not a usual part of the cuisine.

179 Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2014 8:00:39am

re: #173 wheat-dogghazi

Now I want some good cheese. Maybe the hypermarket will have some tomorrow.

Then you probably want to come to my neck of the woods. Moravian Silesia is well-known for its cheeses, spirits and beer, particularly the city of Olomouc, which isn’t far that from me, about 70 miles or so.

moraviasilesia.cz

180 lawhawk  Oct 1, 2014 8:00:57am

Body-cam used to exonerate officer in officer involved shooting in SLC.

A police officer was legally justified in shooting an unarmed man, a Salt Lake City district attorney said Tuesday, in a decision based on video from the officer’s body camera. The case is the first time the district attorney there has relied on body-cam evidence to determine whether an officer-involved shooting could be justified.

Dillon Taylor, 20, was shot to death by Salt Lake City officer Bron Cruz on Aug. 11 after police received a report about three men who were seen near a 7-Eleven, possibly flashing a gun, reported NBC affiliate KSL. The men — Taylor, along with his brother and cousin — are seen on Cruz’s body-cam video in the parking lot when Cruz pulls in. Taylor’s brother and cousin stop and put up their hands; Taylor keeps walking, head down.

After the shooting, the officer went and attempted to provide first aid, called for ambulance, and asked what he was reaching for in his waist band.

Further investigation found a Facebook posting that Taylor had “hit rock bottom”, which seems to suggest a suicide by cop situation.

You can still question whether the officer should have had access to using non-lethal force such as a taser, but when you’ve got a suspect reaching into their waistband at a critical moment, the officer has to make the split second decision whether it’s a weapon or not. If the officer delays, it could cost them their life.

In other words, even having the body camera wont resolve all cases of excessive force or police brutality, but we all get to begin to understand how these situations unfold in real time, and can help prosecutors and juries decide whether the actions were appropriate.

181 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 8:00:59am

re: #177 ausador

So, Romney has gone from flip-flopping about his “47%” remark to outright lying about it. Shocking… /

Don’t worry, he and his immediate family are already lying about all the post-2012 election sour grapes statements about not really wanting to be POTUS.

182 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:01:04am
183 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:01:35am

re: #177 ausador

So, Romney has gone from flip-flopping about his “47%” remark to outright lying about it. Shocking… /

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Personal responsibility is for the little people not Mitt. Really this arrogant fucker should just shut up and fade away in to retirement.

184 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 8:01:42am

re: #182 FemNaziBitch

LOL
Sarah Palin Calls on Obama to Invade Ebola

Parody?

Yep.

185 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 1, 2014 8:02:21am

re: #178 Feline Fearless Leader

I have the impression that good cheese and dairy products are a bit harder to come by out that way. Not a usual part of the cuisine.

Very true. If I’m lucky, I’ll find some gouda wedges tomorrow. If not, then I’ll have to order some online.

Butter is also hard to come by here. Mostly I can only find a kind of margarine that passes for butter.

186 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:02:38am

re: #182 FemNaziBitch

LOL
Sarah Palin Calls on Obama to Invade Ebola

Parody?

Yes. One of those sites that does try to hide it though.

187 De Kolta Chair  Oct 1, 2014 8:02:49am

Ron Paul, the mustached years

188 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 1, 2014 8:02:53am
189 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:03:00am

re: #185 wheat-dogghazi

Very true. If I’m lucky, I’ll find some gouda wedges tomorrow. If not, then I’ll have to order some online.

Butter is also hard to come by here. Mostly I can only find a kind of margarine that passes for butter.

Trader Joe’s has some awesome Gouda.

190 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:03:22am

re: #186 HappyWarrior

Yes. One of those sites that does try to hide it though.

I assumed, but thought I should qualify the post.

191 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 1, 2014 8:04:26am

re: #189 FemNaziBitch

Trader Joe’s has some awesome Gouda.

Trader Joe’s does not ship to China, AFAIK. Cheese here generally comes from Australia or NZ.

192 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 1, 2014 8:05:05am

re: #179 Dr Lizardo

Then you probably want to come to my neck of the woods. Moravian Silesia is well-known for its cheeses, spirits and beer, particularly the city of Olomouc, which isn’t far that from me, about 70 miles or so.

moraviasilesia.cz

Your posts and photographs make this a very tempting idea.

193 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:05:16am

So I finally finished Battlestar Gallactica last night.

OMG! they did a great job.

194 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:05:32am

re: #191 wheat-dogghazi

Trader Joe’s does not ship to China, AFAIK. Cheese here generally comes from Australia or NZ.

so sorry

195 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 8:06:09am

re: #189 FemNaziBitch

Trader Joe’s has some awesome Gouda.

I get smoked Gouda slices there. Doesn’t melt that easily compared to American but makes awesome toasted cheese sandwiches.

196 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:06:32am
197 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:06:36am

re: #190 FemNaziBitch

I assumed, but thought I should qualify the post.

I assumed so too. I mean Palin can’t be that dense can she?

198 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 1, 2014 8:06:39am

Now I’m hungry, dammit. It’s 11 pm and the markets are closed. I’ll see what I can muster from my kitchen.

199 Schadenboner  Oct 1, 2014 8:06:57am

re: #170 NJDhockeyfan

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I… I don’t get it. Did he just learn that Obummers is a Ni*CLANG*?

Also, I really don’t get the use of watermelon as a racist shibboleth. Who the fuck doesn’t like watermelon?

200 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:06:59am

re: #197 HappyWarrior

I assumed so too. I mean Palin can’t be that dense can she?

hmmmmm

201 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:07:03am

re: #196 FemNaziBitch

And it goes on:
Rick Wiles: ‘Ebola Could Solve America’s Problems With Atheism And Homosexuality’

Then again……….you have people like this who say stuff like this.

202 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:08:20am

re: #200 FemNaziBitch

hmmmmm

Haha honestly it was rhetorical and before I saw your post on Rick Wiles saying America’s “problem” with homosexuality and atheism could be wiped out by Ebola. Really amuses me that people like this think Obama is like Hitler yet are using extreminate rhetoric. Man I despise fundies. Despise them. But I would never want Ebola to wipe them out. That’s just plain super-villian talk.

204 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 1, 2014 8:09:55am

re: #180 lawhawk

Body-cam used to exonerate officer in officer involved shooting in SLC.

After the shooting, the officer went and attempted to provide first aid, called for ambulance, and asked what he was reaching for in his waist band.

That is a bit of a contrast to the Michale Brown shooting in Ferguson.

205 De Kolta Chair  Oct 1, 2014 8:10:06am

Demand #8: Tear Down These Ugly Buildings!

206 Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2014 8:10:27am

re: #192 wheat-dogghazi

Your posts and photographs make this a very tempting idea.

Heh.

Olomouc is a beautiful city - very much a university town.

There’s another little place not far from me called Příbor, whose claim to fame is as the birthplace of Sigmund Freud.

One of my students lives in Příbor - right across the street from Freud’s house.

207 ausador  Oct 1, 2014 8:10:29am

Ok, somebody is in for it now…WTH?

208 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:12:33am

Update:

Brat Puppy and Feral Girl got to spend 5 hours in a big back yard yesterday. Both were TIRED when they got home.

Brat Puppy is a bit older now and is NOT a morning person.

Feral Girl is now chasing the cat.

The Cat is good at wearing her out.

209 Bubblehead II  Oct 1, 2014 8:12:44am

Morning Lizards.re: #182 FemNaziBitch

LOL
Sarah Palin Calls on Obama to Invade Ebola

Parody?

I would have to say yep, parody site.

ANCHORAGE, Alaska - In her first appearance since family members were involved in a drunken brawl at a snowmobile party, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin appeared as a guest on The Sarah Palin Channel.

We know she was on Fox shortly afterwards as well as iit was a Birthday party.

Then you have this.

How many more American heads must be cut off at your hands with their blood at your feet before you take action, Mr. President? Ebola has taken its toll on our friends who no longer respect us across the universe, and soon Ebola’s trained military forces will infiltrate our country due to immigration policies that you have also not acted swiftly upon, and far too many examples exist of your general weaknesses that you have so strongly demonstrated.

210 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator  Oct 1, 2014 8:13:02am

re: #208 FemNaziBitch

The old FO?

211 RealityBasedSteve  Oct 1, 2014 8:14:54am

re: #161 Feline Fearless Leader

But they sell it in liters in order to confuse you in that regard.
;)

and they call their so-called “currency” dollars, even though we all know that they aren’t REAL Dollars.

RBS

212 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:15:18am

213 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:15:31am

re: #210 Islamo-Masonic Conspirator

The old FO?

yeah —15 years old.

214 Romantic Heretic  Oct 1, 2014 8:15:43am

re: #93 NJDhockeyfan

Looking closely at the sale tag it seems to read, “Owner arrested. Not coming back.”

215 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2014 8:16:29am
216 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 1, 2014 8:17:30am

re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth

35,000 walrus

walri?

217 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2014 8:18:50am

re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

walri?

John Bolton family reunion…

218 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:19:02am

219 RealityBasedSteve  Oct 1, 2014 8:19:26am

re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I would imagine that the stench from that would be truly epic.

RBS

220 makeitstop  Oct 1, 2014 8:19:40am

re: #196 FemNaziBitch

And it goes on:
Rick Wiles: ‘Ebola Could Solve America’s Problems With Atheism And Homosexuality’

Because of course, only Atheists and Gays contract Ebola.

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221 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:19:50am
222 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:20:40am

platypus/platypodes

There is a joke in there.

223 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 1, 2014 8:21:00am

Good question

224 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:21:37am

re: #220 makeitstop

Because of course, only Atheists and Gays contract Ebola.

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If Wiles ended up contracting Ebola, I’d wonder about the allmighty’s sense of humor.

225 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:22:10am

re: #224 HappyWarrior

If Wiles ended up contracting Ebola, I’d wonder about the allmighty’s sense of humor.

PLATYPODES

226 Targetpractice  Oct 1, 2014 8:22:50am

re: #223 NJDhockeyfan

Good question

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Best guess? He didn’t have insurance, or rather he didn’t have an insurance policy that the clinic/hospital recognized, so rather than spend a lot of time on the “dead-beat,” they gave him a once-over and ushered him out as quickly as possible to make room for paying customers.

227 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:23:11am

ALWAYS REMEMBER

BEWARE!!!!

228 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 8:23:32am

If you look up “Douchewad” in the dictionary, you will see Bryan’s picture.

229 RealityBasedSteve  Oct 1, 2014 8:24:14am

re: #225 FemNaziBitch

PLATYPODES

Platypus, the Keytar of the animal kingdom…

You know it’s true….

230 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2014 8:24:18am

re: #223 NJDhockeyfan

Good question

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They probably told him he just had the flu…

231 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2014 8:24:39am
232 lawhawk  Oct 1, 2014 8:26:11am

Authorities are bracing for possibility of second person in Dallas being infected with Ebola - who was in close contact with the first person. Other immediate family members are also being watched.

Dallas County Health and Human Services Director Zachary Thompson said there is one particular contact of the patient who he fears may have Ebola.

“Let me be real frank to the Dallas County residents: the fact that we have one confirmed case, there may be another case that is a close associate with this particular patient,” Thompson said Wednesday morning in an interview with local ABC affiliate WFAA.

“So this is real. There should be a concern, but it’s contained to the specific family members and close friends at this moment.”

Thompson did not provide further detail about the potential case, only saying that he or she is under strict monitoring as a precaution.

A visitor to Dallas from Liberia was officially diagnosed with Ebola Tuesday afternoon, the first case ever confirmed outside of Africa.

Details are increasingly leaking out about the unidentified man. He arrived in the United States on a commercial flight on Sept. 20 and initially sought care for Ebola-like symptoms on Friday.

The patient was admitted to the hospital on Sunday and placed in isolation. He was staying with family members in the Dallas area, not in a hotel, officials said.

I am suspecting that ER and personal doctors will begin asking their patients whether they’ve had any contact with anyone who has recently been to West Africa, since that is the source of the current outbreak. That’s particularly key since the symptoms of Ebola can mimic those of many other common diseases, from bad colds to the flu and even malaria.

Still, there are those who think that the CDC isn’t reacting swiftly enough and that more precautions must be put in place. It is possible that the FAA may end up putting in more flight restrictions, though there are few direct flights between US and West Africa, but that doesn’t begin to count those flights that are connecting between the US an intermediate city, and the affected areas in West Africa.

It means that public health officials have to be vigilant not only in the US, but at foreign airports, and at the airports in West Africa so that they can screen out potentially infected persons to keep them from infecting others along the way. Given what we know about the poor public health system in Liberia and Sierra Leone, this is a tall task.

233 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:26:20am

re: #228 Pie-onist Overlord

If you look up “Douchewad” in the dictionary, you will see Bryan’s picture.

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Yeah Bryan, the will of the people be damned, it was a security breach because a black guy you hate got elected president. Go away, you pathetic Pat Robertson wannabe.

234 De Kolta Chair  Oct 1, 2014 8:26:27am

re: #203 FemNaziBitch

Your Service Tonight Sucks, Now Let Me Explain Why I’m Leaving You the Biggest Tip You’ve Ever Seen

Cool. Last winter, a group of us grabbed a late lunch in a bar & grill in Boston’s theatre district. The place was packed from a matinee just getting out, and because of an approaching blizzard there were only two people working the joint: an assistant chef on his first week on the job and the bartender who was doubling as the sole waitress. Because of the rush and the weather, the food was being microwaved and it tweren’t very good. Drinks and victuals seemed to take forever to arrive. Nobody in the joint seemed happy about that situation, yet from what I could tell most folks left good tips. It was more than obvious that the two employees were working their keisters off.

235 b.d.  Oct 1, 2014 8:26:27am

Yesterday he was in critical condition

236 Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2014 8:26:48am

So, it looks like earlier today here in Ostrava, construction workers found a WWII leftover, a bomb, No word yet on its size, but the cops have evacuated several dozen people and called in the Czech Army’s bomb-disposal unit. This was in the Svínov district, about four or five miles from where I live.

237 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:27:21am

re: #227 FemNaziBitch

ALWAYS REMEMBER

BEWARE!!!!

And this is the same guy who blamed feminism for 9/11 too. Robertson always was and is a disgusting piece of shit. Fuck Reagan for bringing him and those like him into politics and fuck Robertson’s father the old segregationist too.

238 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 8:28:14am

nbcbayarea.com

My bet is that teens and/or alcohol were involved. Basically large-scale vandalism and cruelty to animals.

239 lawhawk  Oct 1, 2014 8:28:15am

re: #223 NJDhockeyfan

Because the symptoms of Ebola are similar to those of other common diseases like influenza.

The main difference is that someone with Ebola can only get it from someone who has Ebola, which means that the top question a doctor needs to ask is whether they’ve been to West Africa or come into contact with someone who was in West Africa over the past three weeks.

If they had asked that question, they might have realized they had an Ebola exposed patient and put them into isolation sooner.

240 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:28:59am

re: #234 De Kolta Chair

Cool. Last winter, a group of us grabbed a late lunch in a bar & grill in Boston’s theatre district. The place was packed from a matinee just getting out, and because of an approaching blizzard there were only two people working the joint: an assistant chef on his week on the job and the bartender who was doubling as the sole waitress. Because of the rush and the weather, the food was being microwaved and it tweren’t very good. Drinks and victuals seemed to take forever to arrive. Nobody in the joint seemed happy about that situation, yet from what I could tell most folks left good tips. It was more than obvious that the two employees were working their keisters off.

You know it’s great to read a story about the opposite of what usually happens. I always have a special weakness for waitstaffs. My own father waited tables for years and my parents actually met waiting tables. I know it’s not easy work.

241 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2014 8:29:04am

re: #232 lawhawk

From the Hill link:

Details are increasingly leaking out about the unidentified man. He arrived in the United States on a commercial flight on Sept. 20 and initially sought care for Ebola-like symptoms on Friday.

Umm, details don’t “leak out” when the doctors provide those details during a public press conference.

good grief…idiots are everywhere.

242 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 1, 2014 8:29:21am

re: #206 Dr Lizardo

Buildings in Europe are so much more interesting than those in China. While some new buildings are designed more creatively, the vast majority of buildings, even private homes, look like something a kid would make with only the basic rectangular Lego blocks — cinderblock construction with a cement coating and ceramic tile exterior.

We have a new classroom building nearing completion on campus. It’s not a prize winner architecturally speaking, but glass and steel is a welcome change from white ceramic tile
and concrete.
Old academic building where I teach now

New academic building where I will be teaching — soon I hope

243 Romantic Heretic  Oct 1, 2014 8:30:16am

re: #112 Feline Fearless Leader

Standard short-sighted crap viewpoint. I don’t have children, but still do have great concerns about issues regarding education since it’s the bedrock on which an advanced society is built. So you learn about the issues and agitate accordingly.

What would work best is that the educational system was honest about what its purpose is. Currently its purpose is not to turn out human beings suitable for citizenship but human resources suitable for employment. Although that is never said out loud.

Currently the public thinks our educational system is for the former function. The bureaucrats and politicians have to make the occasional nod to make it appear otherwise. This leads to the confusion and inefficiency that plagues the system these days. If the goal of the system was decided on honestly and out in the open then we could work towards that goal.

Unfortunately the people with money and power will never agree to an educational system that turns out citizens. It’s too costly and it’s too dangerous to their power. So we’re stuck with an inefficient system that turns out sort of human resources.

244 lawhawk  Oct 1, 2014 8:30:20am

re: #228 Pie-onist Overlord

The derpes virus began the moment Fischer began posting online. /

245 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 8:30:23am

Gun-Fucking Meme Of The Day:
A woman is not an “object” that you can “keep”
Especially not one who has a machine gun.

246 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 8:30:36am

re: #236 Dr Lizardo

So, it looks like earlier today here in Ostrava, construction workers found a WWII leftover, a bomb, No word yet on its size, but the cops have evacuated several dozen people and called in the Czech Army’s bomb-disposal unit. This was in the Svínov district, about four or five miles from where I live.

250kg or 500kg souvenir from the Allied air forces most likely I presume?

There are articles I see now and then about them still turning up in Germany during construction work. And one town found a 1000kg “cookie” when they temporarily diverted the local river.

247 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:32:08am

re: #229 RealityBasedSteve

Platypus, the Keytar of the animal kingdom…

You know it’s true….

THE Duck-Billed Platypus is all one needs to know to answer the question: Does God have a sense of humor.

If one still doubts, Platypodes.

248 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:32:16am

re: #245 Pie-onist Overlord

Gun-Fucking Meme Of The Day:
A woman is not an “object” that you can “keep”
Especially not one who has a machine gun.

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Does he like girls or the guns? It’s a serious question.

249 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:32:41am

re: #245 Pie-onist Overlord

Gun-Fucking Meme Of The Day:
A woman is not an “object” that you can “keep”
Especially not one who has a machine gun.

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My hubby would beg to differ!

250 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:32:45am

re: #244 lawhawk

The derpes virus began the moment Fischer began posting online. /

No, Fischer is the derpes virus much like Bono was the record in the South Park episode about turds.

251 darthstar  Oct 1, 2014 8:32:51am

OBAMA HAD EBOLA AS A BOY SO HE IS IMMUNE TO IT…DON’T YOU GET IT???!!11ty

252 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 8:33:08am

re: #234 De Kolta Chair

Cool. Last winter, a group of us grabbed a late lunch in a bar & grill in Boston’s theatre district. The place was packed from a matinee just getting out, and because of an approaching blizzard there were only two people working the joint: an assistant chef on his week on the job and the bartender who was doubling as the sole waitress. Because of the rush and the weather, the food was being microwaved and it tweren’t very good. Drinks and victuals seemed to take forever to arrive. Nobody in the joint seemed happy about that situation, yet from what I could tell most folks left good tips. It was more than obvious that the two employees were working their keisters off.

I hit a place in Philadelphia late one Saturday morning after a heavy snowstorm. They were short-staffed (both waiters and cook) and were therefore running a shortened “Snow Day” menu. Service was still adequate even as the place filled up over the hour I was in there.

I didn’t leave a bigger tip than usual, but I normally tip around 20% in any case.

253 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 1, 2014 8:33:19am

re: #196 FemNaziBitch

And it goes on:
Rick Wiles: ‘Ebola Could Solve America’s Problems With Atheism And Homosexuality’

Hmm, sounds to me as though WIles has grown impatient with with people’s refusal to live by his particular interpretation of that contradiction-ridden 2000-year-old book of fairy tales so he’s now holding out for good smiting. Cave frater: you’re not named Noah.

254 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:34:21am

I guess I must be a weird guy in that I don’t get the fetishization at all of weapons. I get hunting for food, I get wanting to be able to protect yourself, and I get shooting targets for hobby but I don’t get the fetishization of weapons. I think it’s silly. Call me “soft” but I’d rather hoard tons of music than weaponry and post on twitter sexualized posts about guns.

255 Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2014 8:34:28am

re: #242 wheat-dogghazi

Buildings in Europe are so much more interesting than those in China. While some new buildings are designed more creatively, the vast majority of buildings, even private homes, look like something a kid would make with only the basic rectangular Lego blocks — cinderblock construction with a cement coating and ceramic tile exterior.

We have a new classroom building nearing completion on campus. It’s not a prize winner architecturally speaking, but glass and steel is a welcome change from white ceramic tile
and concrete.
Old academic building where I teach now

[Embedded image]New academic building where I will be teaching — soon I hope

One of the places I teach at is the Technical University of Ostrava.

It’s been redone - this is the old building….typical 60s era Eastern Bloc:

Old school

and this is the new building, one part of a new and very large campus:

New school

256 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 1, 2014 8:34:44am

re: #253 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Hmm, sounds to me as though WIles has grown impatient with with people’s refusal to live by his particular interpretation of that contradiction-ridden 2000-year-old book of fairy tales so he’s now holding out for good smiting. Cave frater: you’re not named Noah.

There were plenty of people who opposed AIDS research because they saw it as God’s curse on gays.

257 Bulworth  Oct 1, 2014 8:34:46am

re:
#253

Ebola was brought in by Obama to create anarchy and no elections in 2014 and 2016 except that Ebola will solve America’s problems by killing off atheists and teh gah.

//

258 ausador  Oct 1, 2014 8:34:48am
259 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:34:53am

re: #255 Dr Lizardo

One of the places I teach at is the Technical University of Ostrava.

It’s been redone - this is the old building….typical 60s era Eastern Bloc:

Old school

and this is the new building, one part of a new and very large campus:

[Embedded image]New school

Man reminds me of Dresden.

260 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:35:27am

Everyone knows that Saul Alinsky invented Ebola to undermine conservatives and to install a Marxist Islamist dictatorship.

261 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 8:35:52am

This reminds me of a mystery short story I read many years ago, by a Japanese author: THE HUMAN CHAIR
CREEPY AS FUCK

262 Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2014 8:36:39am

re: #246 Feline Fearless Leader

250kg or 500kg souvenir from the Allied air forces most likely I presume?

There are articles I see now and then about them still turning up in Germany during construction work. And one town found a 1000kg “cookie” when they temporarily diverted the local river.

Yeah, most likely. The Allies did bomb Ostrava during WWII, so it’s not really a surprise for many here when one turns up from time to time.

263 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:36:40am

re: #261 Pie-onist Overlord

This reminds me of a mystery short story I read many years ago, by a Japanese author: THE HUMAN CHAIR
CREEPY AS FUCK

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I think I’ll take loneliness.

264 Romantic Heretic  Oct 1, 2014 8:36:46am

re: #128 Feline Fearless Leader

The domestic American agitators who want an insurrection here to “save” the country need to pay closer attention to stuff like this in the Ukraine. Maybe. Maybe. They will then get a clue that there will be a lot of destruction and death of innocents in any attempt to overthrow the government via violence.

Though I expect they view their efforts as the Bush Administration viewed invading Iraq. Welcoming masses throwing flowers to greet them and an easy peasy transition to a new and very profitable government.

Unfortunately they regard people on ‘the other side’, even the kids, as deserving death or at least not important enough to care about. Dead on their side are ‘glorious martyrs who gave all for the cause.’

It is human nature to minimize death, or worse, make it a form of currency.

265 Ryan King  Oct 1, 2014 8:37:00am

Kevin D Williamson is going after Lena Dunham, wimmins voting, and wimmins in general.

He’s got that bookish VDH tone but with Moar Asshole.

266 aagcobb  Oct 1, 2014 8:37:42am

re: #177 ausador

So, Romney has gone from flip-flopping about his “47%” remark to outright lying about it. Shocking… /

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This is the beta version of Mitt 16.0, the new operating system to replace Mitt 12.0 which flopped about as badly as Windows 8. Expect to see the full release of Mitt 16.0 in about a year, as they try to leap the uncanny valley.

267 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 8:37:48am

re: #265 Ryan King

Kevin D Williamson is going after Lena Dunham, wimmins voting, and wimmins in general.

He’s got that bookish VDH tone but with Moar Asshole.

I’m not impressed with Lena Dunham usually, but she is funnier than Sarah Silverman.

268 Targetpractice  Oct 1, 2014 8:38:17am

re: #235 b.d.

Yesterday he was in critical condition

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Was reading earlier that, unlike previous outbreaks where the fatality rate was 90%, this outbreak so far has only hit 50%.

269 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:38:31am

re: #265 Ryan King

Kevin D Williamson is going after Lena Dunham, wimmins voting, and wimmins in general.

He’s got that bookish VDH tone but with Moar Asshole.

Williamson is the one too dumb to vote if he thinks that hanging women for a legal medical procedure is acceptable. Remind me again why NR shouldn’t be lumped in with Stormfront? I’m fucking serious.

270 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 1, 2014 8:38:58am

re: #255 Dr Lizardo

One of the places I teach at is the Technical University of Ostrava.

It’s been redone - this is the old building….typical 60s era Eastern Bloc:

Old school

and this is the new building, one part of a new and very large campus:

[Embedded image]New school

Turquoise was a ’60s thing. My high school (built in the early ’60s) on Long Island had turquoise panels, too.

But communism for whatever reason suppressed architectural creativity all over the communist world. China is slowly coming around to modern building design.

Now if they’d only come around to central heating here in southern China, living here in the winter would not be so unpleasant.

271 Bulworth  Oct 1, 2014 8:39:07am

re:
#265

Kevin D. Williams is a **real man** for going after Lena Dunham and all teh wommenz.

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272 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:39:43am

re: #271 Bulworth

re:
#265

Kevin D. Williams is a **real man** for going after Lena Dunham and all teh wommenz.

///

Standing up against the woMAN!

273 Romantic Heretic  Oct 1, 2014 8:40:41am

re: #131 Feline Fearless Leader

Canada stopped distributing pennies in Feb, 2013. I expect the US will follow suit around 2200.
//

We also round all transactions to the nearest nickel.

It’s the one time Stephen Harper surprised me. I fully expected the rounding to be up to the nearest nickel because ‘low taxes and this isn’t a tax. Also it mainly affects poor people and who gives a shit about them?’ I’m guessing the Tories did a little Polling and found out that very few people are stupid enough to fall for that.

274 De Kolta Chair  Oct 1, 2014 8:41:06am

re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth

Give a walrus some ice and they rest for a day. Teach a walrus how to build an ice maker and FREEDOM!!!

275 Ryan King  Oct 1, 2014 8:41:10am

re: #269 HappyWarrior

Williamson is the one too dumb to vote if he thinks that hanging women for a legal medical procedure is acceptable. Remind me again why NR shouldn’t be lumped in with Stormfront? I’m fucking serious.

NRO is what happens when they trade in their Doc Martins for bow ties and suits.

276 RealityBasedSteve  Oct 1, 2014 8:41:36am

re: #272 HappyWarrior

Standing up against the woMAN!

You can’t be a woMAN without a MAN!!! Proof. Scary part… I’m sure that there are some who feel that way out there.

RBS

277 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:41:38am
278 urbanmeemaw  Oct 1, 2014 8:42:03am

re: #16 klys

Good Luck!

279 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:42:15am

re: #261 Pie-onist Overlord

This reminds me of a mystery short story I read many years ago, by a Japanese author: THE HUMAN CHAIR
CREEPY AS FUCK

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Japanese can be so weird sometimes.

280 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:42:17am

re: #275 Ryan King

NRO is what happens when they trade in their Doc Martins for bow ties and suits.

NRO is what happens when a segregationist/McCarthy apologist rag gets to continue to be published without scrutiny by so called conservatives.

281 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:43:13am

re: #276 RealityBasedSteve

You can’t be a woMAN without a MAN!!! Proof. Scary part… I’m sure that there are some who feel that way out there.

RBS

the MRA’s I swear are some of the whinest dicks I’ve ever seen. Waaaaaaaah a woman has the same rights as me and can reject my advances. Life’s not fair! Now call me crazy but I think it’s a good thing for men and women to be equals.

282 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 1, 2014 8:43:23am

re: #266 aagcobb

This is the beta version of Mitt 16.0, the new operating system to replace Mitt 12.0 which flopped about as badly as Windows 8. Expect to see the full release of Mitt 16.0 in about a year, as they try to leap the uncanny valley.

He seems very much like the iPhone 6: nothing really new but, there’s more of it.

283 Romantic Heretic  Oct 1, 2014 8:43:40am

re: #151 wheat-dogghazi

Oh, I know. There’s significant popular support behind Occupy Central, even among people who are not out on the streets. But those who intend to occupy government buildings are putting themselves at great risk. The leaders of HK are as scared of the protests as Beijing is. HK has always been run by the 1%, and they are not going to relinquish one bit of that control without a fight.

Thereby demonstrating that the differences between those in positions of power in any system is merely aesthetic.

284 Ryan King  Oct 1, 2014 8:43:47am

re: #267 Pie-onist Overlord

I’m not impressed with Lena Dunham usually, but she is funnier than Sarah Silverman.

I like them both. Not sure I agree with everything they say or do or would call myself a true ‘fan,’ but that’s besides the point. They set off the cretins like nothing else. Especially Dunham, with her non-Fox Bimbo looks and sexuality on her terms on her show. That drives them nuts. That’s really what it’s about.

285 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:43:51am
286 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 1, 2014 8:44:34am

re: #267 Pie-onist Overlord

I’m not impressed with Lena Dunham usually, but she is funnier than Sarah Silverman.

I even sat down to watch some episodes of “Girls” with my girlfriend (who is 19 years younger than me).

Must admit, I found it witty and well-written in places, but I cannot begin to relate to the characters or their situations. At all.

I liked “The Mindy Project” a lot better in that respect.

The things we do for love…

287 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:44:36am

re: #281 HappyWarrior

the MRA’s I swear are some of the whinest dicks I’ve ever seen. Waaaaaaaah a woman has the same rights as me and can reject my advances. Life’s not fair! Now call me crazy but I think it’s a good thing for men and women to be equals.

MY MOMMY DIDN’T LET ME DO EVERYTHING I WANTED TO DO!!!!!

288 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 8:44:42am

Looks like the cartoonist who did the “Watermelon” cartoon is another wingnut like Branco

289 aagcobb  Oct 1, 2014 8:45:01am

re: #232 lawhawk

Authorities are bracing for possibility of second person in Dallas being infected with Ebola - who was in close contact with the first person. Other immediate family members are also being watched.

I am suspecting that ER and personal doctors will begin asking their patients whether they’ve had any contact with anyone who has recently been to West Africa, since that is the source of the current outbreak. That’s particularly key since the symptoms of Ebola can mimic those of many other common diseases, from bad colds to the flu and even malaria.

Still, there are those who think that the CDC isn’t reacting swiftly enough and that more precautions must be put in place. It is possible that the FAA may end up putting in more flight restrictions, though there are few direct flights between US and West Africa, but that doesn’t begin to count those flights that are connecting between the US an intermediate city, and the affected areas in West Africa.

It means that public health officials have to be vigilant not only in the US, but at foreign airports, and at the airports in West Africa so that they can screen out potentially infected persons to keep them from infecting others along the way. Given what we know about the poor public health system in Liberia and Sierra Leone, this is a tall task.

Nuke Dallas before its too late!

290 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:45:54am
291 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 8:45:55am

re: #289 aagcobb

Nuke Dallas before its too late!

FROM ORBIT!

292 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 1, 2014 8:46:08am

re: #289 aagcobb

Nuke Dallas before its too late!

Nah. Just put a dome over it.

293 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 1, 2014 8:46:42am

For sale:

LAKELAND INDUSTRIES 80640-L Class A Hazmat Suit

Never used and only $1200!

Class A hazmat suit perfect for protection agents ebola

294 Bubblehead II  Oct 1, 2014 8:46:47am

re: #266 aagcobb

This is the beta version of Mitt 16.0, the new operating system to replace Mitt 12.0 which flopped about as badly as Windows 8. Expect to see the full release of Mitt 16.0 in about a year, as they try to leap the uncanny valley.

Microslop is getting ready to release Windoze 10. Windoze 9 location has yet to be determined.

// Oh joy.

295 CuriousLurker  Oct 1, 2014 8:47:03am

Drive-by comment - Since FNB was asking in her #182 if a site was a parody, I thought I’d look for a handy resource and make a Page on it:

A Guide to Fake News Websites

296 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:47:39am
297 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 8:47:51am

re: #274 De Kolta Chair

Give a walrus some ice and they rest for a day. Teach a walrus how to build an ice maker and FREEDOM!!!

But what about the bukkit?

298 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:48:07am

re: #295 CuriousLurker

Drive-by comment - Since FNB was asking in her #182 if a site was a parody, I thought I’d look for a handy resource and make a Page on it:

A Guide to Fake News Websites

Useful thanks.

299 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:48:23am

re: #295 CuriousLurker

Drive-by comment - Since FNB was asking in her #182 if a site was a parody, I thought I’d look for a handy resource and make a Page on it:

A Guide to Fake News Websites

Awesome!

Now, If I could only remember such sites when I’m wondering about things.

300 De Kolta Chair  Oct 1, 2014 8:49:49am

re: #279 FemNaziBitch

Japanese can be so weird sometimes.

I find that hard to believe. Oh wait…

301 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:50:48am
302 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 8:51:09am

GUESS WHO IS NOT GETTING A FOLLOW BACK
AFP Louisiana followed you

AFP Louisiana
@AFPLouisiana
Americans for Prosperity - LA is an organization of over 20k citizen leaders committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom & opportunity.

303 Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2014 8:51:31am

re: #300 De Kolta Chair

I find that hard to believe. Oh wait…

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304 RealityBasedSteve  Oct 1, 2014 8:51:52am

re: #293 NJDhockeyfan

For sale:

LAKELAND INDUSTRIES 80640-L Class A Hazmat Suit

Never used and only $1200!

Class A hazmat suit perfect for protection agents ebola

And on ebay… you can get a Ebola Survival Kit Hazmat Suit

305 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:52:01am

re: #302 Pie-onist Overlord

GUESS WHO IS NOT GETTING A FOLLOW BACK
AFP Louisiana followed you

AFP Louisiana
@AFPLouisiana
Americans for Prosperity - LA is an organization of over 20k citizen leaders committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom & opportunity.

Do you think they make the connection between Comprehensive Sex Ed/Cost-Free Contraception and Economic Freedom?

306 Targetpractice  Oct 1, 2014 8:52:09am

re: #294 Bubblehead II

Microslop is getting ready to release Windoze 10. Windoze 9 location has yet to be determined.

// Oh joy.

No thanks, I think I’ll stick with Win7 until either this computer explodes or Microsoft stops supporting it. It’s the strategy I’ve practiced since Win98SE and it’s worked well so far.

307 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:52:25am

re: #305 FemNaziBitch

Do you think they make the connection between Comprehensive Sex Ed/Cost-Free Contraception and Economic Freedom?

Someone get the Jonah Jameson laugh!

308 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:52:52am

re: #304 RealityBasedSteve

And on ebay… you can get a Ebola Survival Kit Hazmat Suit

Capitalism is freaky quick.

309 De Kolta Chair  Oct 1, 2014 8:53:11am

re: #301 FemNaziBitch

310 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 1, 2014 8:54:12am

re: #302 Pie-onist Overlord

GUESS WHO IS NOT GETTING A FOLLOW BACK
AFP Louisiana followed you

AFP Louisiana
@AFPLouisiana
Americans for Prosperity - LA is an organization of over 20k citizen leaders committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom & opportunity.

AFP is funded by the Koch brothers. They’re watching you. Better watch your back.

311 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:54:13am
312 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:54:24am

re: #309 De Kolta Chair

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Hahahaha so true. Really the constant repeals are the only thing keeping Boehner employed as Speaker. If he actually had any integrity, he would have lost his job.

313 Targetpractice  Oct 1, 2014 8:54:30am

re: #303 Dr Lizardo

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There was a Cracked article awhile back written from the viewpoint of an American who’d lived for a time in Japan, listing the ways in which the stereotype of Japan differed from the reality. One of the big things pointed out was that, as “whacky” as people assume the culture is, the reality is that they’re still very stuffy and anachronistic, with the older generations in particular very slow to adopt new technology and ideas.

314 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 1, 2014 8:54:40am

re: #304 RealityBasedSteve

And on ebay… you can get a Ebola Survival Kit Hazmat Suit

That one is only $29.99. What a bargain!

315 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 8:55:02am
316 Timothy Watson  Oct 1, 2014 8:55:02am

re: #304 RealityBasedSteve

And on ebay… you can get a Ebola Survival Kit Hazmat Suit

I wonder how much I can get for my HEV suit (slightly used)…

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317 ausador  Oct 1, 2014 8:56:08am

re: #289 aagcobb

Nuke Dallas before its too late!

Good suggestion but your too late, the planning started last night…

318 Archangelus  Oct 1, 2014 8:56:31am

re: #307 HappyWarrior

Someone get the Jonah Jameson laugh!

Here you go:
Youtube Video

319 Schadenboner  Oct 1, 2014 8:56:35am

re: #291 Pie-onist Overlord

FROM ORBIT!

Only way to be sure.

E: Damnit. Time: y u no stand still?

320 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 8:56:41am

re: #310 wheat-dogghazi

AFP is funded by the Koch brothers. They’re watching you. Better watch your back.

They have a Twitter account for every state and then some random ones. There are unpaid interns who will actually reply if you Tweet them.

I have been “fixing” their memes and sending them back to the Twitstream:

321 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Oct 1, 2014 8:56:45am

so I watched the new Godzilla last night, really enjoyed it.

322 Targetpractice  Oct 1, 2014 8:57:34am

re: #321 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

so I watched the new Godzilla last night, really enjoyed it.

Did it tend to get bogged down? That seemed to be the leading criticism I heard of it.

323 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 8:58:10am

re: #317 ausador

Good suggestion but your too late, the planning started last night…

So the Texas drought was God’s way of preparing for this eventuality?
//

324 ausador  Oct 1, 2014 8:58:26am

re: #302 Pie-onist Overlord

GUESS WHO IS NOT GETTING A FOLLOW BACK
AFP Louisiana followed you

AFP Louisiana
@AFPLouisiana
Americans for Prosperity - LA is an organization of over 20k citizen leaders committed to advancing every individual’s right to economic freedom & opportunity.

I was just followed by them too, weird, well at least now I know I got their attention somewhere you posted too.

325 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:58:34am

re: #318 Archangelus

Here you go:
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Video

Danke.

326 Ryan King  Oct 1, 2014 8:58:44am

re: #309 De Kolta Chair

You win one Truth Snark.

327 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 8:59:30am

re: #315 FemNaziBitch

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I’ve brought this up before but the local GOP here raised a shitfit when there was an attempt to get a precinct on the GMU campus. They know that the more people who vote, the worse news it is for them. They don’t even try to hide that.

328 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Oct 1, 2014 9:00:08am

re: #322 Targetpractice

Did it tend to get bogged down? That seemed to be the leading criticism I heard of it.

Honestly I thought it moved along pretty well. Good build up to the final fight etc. The way Godzilla disposed of the final monster was pretty bad ass IMO. It was definitely not an old school godzilla flick where monster appears and godzilla saves the day all within an hour and twenty minutes. It was 2 hours long.

329 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 9:00:44am

330 WhatEVs  Oct 1, 2014 9:00:49am

re: #135 Pie-onist Overlord

Canada has weird, plastic money.

Nowhere near as weird as the Australian plastic money. It’s all mylar, the entire bill. Very weird.

331 Eventual Carrion  Oct 1, 2014 9:01:17am

re: #142 Feline Fearless Leader

I thought about how I acquire change nowadays since I do a lot of payments via debit card including just about all gas and grocery purchases. It’s small restaurant bills for meals, and one-off small item purchases. Everything else is essentially using plastic at this point.

That is how I pretty much do it. Only real exception is that my favorite bar doesn’t take cards at all, cash and carry (or drink there as it may be). It is a little hole in the wall, but the cheapest drinks in town other than the private clubs without all the snobbery that goes with the clubs.

332 Bubblehead II  Oct 1, 2014 9:01:23am

re: #306 Targetpractice

No thanks, I think I’ll stick with Win7 until either this computer explodes or Microsoft stops supporting it. It’s the strategy I’ve practiced since Win98SE and it’s worked well so far.

Same here. It’s how I avoided the ME, Vista and Win 8 debacles.

333 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 9:01:49am

re: #332 Bubblehead II

Same here. It’s how I avoided the ME, Vista and Win 8 debacles.

Once U go Apple, U never go back.

334 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 9:01:49am

re: #330 WhatEVs

Nowhere near as weird as the Australian plastic money. It’s all mylar, the entire bill. Very weird.

Canadian money has holograms embedded in it.

335 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 9:02:06am

re: #332 Bubblehead II

Same here. It’s how I avoided the ME, Vista and Win 8 debacles.

And look at the failure of the Romney ME roll-out in 2012.
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336 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 9:02:18am
337 Targetpractice  Oct 1, 2014 9:02:24am

re: #333 FemNaziBitch

Once U go Apple, U never go back.

Heretic! Unclean!!!

//

338 Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2014 9:03:25am

re: #333 FemNaziBitch

Once U go Apple, U never go back.

Ubuntu: The ultimate Windows Service Pack.

339 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 9:03:27am

But the same people who Tweet these gun-fucking memes don’t think a woman can be head of the Secret Service, because she’s “not strong enough” to take down a man.

340 De Kolta Chair  Oct 1, 2014 9:03:51am

“Sure it was expensive, but we’re totally safe from teh ebola.”

341 Archangelus  Oct 1, 2014 9:04:19am

re: #306 Targetpractice

No thanks, I think I’ll stick with Win7 until either this computer explodes or Microsoft stops supporting it. It’s the strategy I’ve practiced since Win98SE and it’s worked well so far.

Same here, though i still apply the ole’ Archangelus Service Pack Rule for new operating system releases - never upgrade to any new Windows OS until the first service pack has been released, fixing most/all of the bugs that the original release brought upon the first adopters…

342 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 9:04:20am

re: #339 Pie-onist Overlord

But the same people who Tweet these gun-fucking memes don’t think a woman can be head of the Secret Service, because she’s “not strong enough” to take down a man.

Obviously guns only make men equal. The wimmins need to go back to the kitchen.
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343 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2014 9:04:24am
344 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:04:42am

re: #339 Pie-onist Overlord

But the same people who Tweet these gun-fucking memes don’t think a woman can be head of the Secret Service, because she’s “not strong enough” to take down a man.

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These people are morons.

345 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:04:58am

re: #343 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Ann Coulter Jr says what?

346 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2014 9:04:59am

re: #342 Feline Fearless Leader

Obviously guns only make men equal. The wimmins need to go back to the kitchen.
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Those sammiches won’t make themselves!

347 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:05:18am

re: #336 FemNaziBitch

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Damn that’s a big dog.

348 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 9:05:30am
349 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:05:40am

Really I ask do they care more about women or the guns? I think they care more about the guns.

350 Targetpractice  Oct 1, 2014 9:06:29am

re: #339 Pie-onist Overlord

But the same people who Tweet these gun-fucking memes don’t think a woman can be head of the Secret Service, because she’s “not strong enough” to take down a man.

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Not shown: Time when the 200lb man grabs the “equalizer” and kills the 100lb woman, then possibly turning it on himself. If that “equalizer” was all it took to stop domestic violence, the statistics would not show so many women killed by their significant others with their own guns.

351 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 9:06:31am

re: #339 Pie-onist Overlord

But the same people who Tweet these gun-fucking memes don’t think a woman can be head of the Secret Service, because she’s “not strong enough” to take down a man.

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Always assuming that the the Stranger that is a Felon is the mostly likely Felon to harm a woman.

It is her Partner that is the mostly likely to kill her.

352 WhatEVs  Oct 1, 2014 9:07:07am

re: #159 Pie-onist Overlord

I always fill/top before going to Canada, gas is like $5/gal there.

Which is still less than Europe, where gas is closer to $7 a gallon (last time I was there). I was shocked to see the emergence of SUV’s on European roadways. The time I was there prior, there were almost no SUV’s and almost all cars were subcompacts.

353 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 9:07:13am

re: #349 HappyWarrior

Really I ask do they care more about women or the guns? I think they care more about the guns.

Dangerous Woman = Sexy.

Strange twisted men.

354 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 9:07:24am

re: #349 HappyWarrior

Really I ask do they care more about women or the guns? I think they care more about the guns.

Because you can then use the guns to get the women.
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355 Archangelus  Oct 1, 2014 9:08:25am

re: #343 Backwoods_Sleuth

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356 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2014 9:08:26am

I must agree with this.

357 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:08:35am

It also assumes that 200 pound felon doesn’t have a gun.Really wingnuts seem to think that most incidents of violence especially sexual violence against women is a stranger who is a convicted felon out there. It just isn’t the case. Most perps of violent sexual crimes like most perps of violent crime in general are done by someone the victim knows.

358 RealityBasedSteve  Oct 1, 2014 9:09:03am

re: #354 Feline Fearless Leader

Because you can then use the guns to get the women.
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But what if the woman has a gun too? Fire power =/= foreplay in my mind

RBS

359 sagehen  Oct 1, 2014 9:09:08am

re: #241 Backwoods_Sleuth

From the Hill link:

Umm, details don’t “leak out” when the doctors provide those details during a public press conference.

good grief…idiots are everywhere.

He arrived in the United States on a commercial flight on Sept. 20 and initially sought care for Ebola-like symptoms on Friday.

Flew in on the 20th, sought care for symptoms on the 26th, for a disease with a 3-week incubation period?

He knew damn well he’d been exposed. He came here purposely because our hospitals are better than Liberia’s.

360 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:09:14am

re: #356 Backwoods_Sleuth

I must agree with this.

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How does it taste with whiskey?

361 WhatEVs  Oct 1, 2014 9:09:16am

re: #160 NJDhockeyfan

Watch male panelists on Morning Joe wonder if the Secret Service director hasn’t been dismissed because of her gender bit.ly

Last night, Megyn Kelly was talking about the fault of the woman SS agent at the door and that we’re a bunch of pansies for allowing a mere woman to have a SS role because it was all that agent’s fault.

I really, really hate Fox News.

362 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 1, 2014 9:09:24am

re: #321 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

so I watched the new Godzilla last night, really enjoyed it.

I’ve been putting off seeing it, but I’ve got six days off for the National Holiday. Sounds like a good way to kill 3 hours.

A while ago I suggested it was time CSI, NCIS and Law & Order be put to pasture. Today I caught the season opener of NCIS, which was chock-a-block with every cliché harvested from the previous 11 seasons:

* Gibbs’s life is personally threatened by an associate of someone he killed.
* He shoots, but does not actually kill the guy after him, so the bad guy will be back.
* An NCIS worker with an Arabic-sounding last name (Hussein) almost sells out the USA.
* He’s also really annoying in a dweebish way.
* Abby flails around the lab wishing that Tim were around to deal with
* A super-duper computer virus that somehow escapes her isolated laptop through the power cord and threatens to take down the entire NCIS system.
* The Russians are aiding and abetting the vendetta against Gibbs.
* SecNav’s first choice to extract innocent-seeming Hussein from Russia is GIbbs, because Gibbs is da bomb, or something.

On the bright side, Michael Weatherly looks like he’s lost the middle-age spread he gained after season 9.

Still, it’s time for NCIS to end.

363 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:10:13am

re: #361 WhatEVs

Last night, Megyn Kelly was talking about the fault of the woman SS agent at the door and that we’re a bunch of pansies for allowing a mere woman to have a SS role because it was all that agent’s fault.

I really, really hate Fox News.

They’re the worst and it’s downright disgusting that they have women pushing their sexist crap.

364 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 9:10:19am

re: #349 HappyWarrior

Really I ask do they care more about women or the guns? I think they care more about the guns.

HURR HURR WHY DOES WOMENS NEED TEH RIGHT TO VOTE OR TEH BIRTH CONTROLS OR TEH EQUAL PAYS WHEN THEY CAN HAS TEH GUNZ!!!!1!!!11

365 aagcobb  Oct 1, 2014 9:10:37am

re: #339 Pie-onist Overlord

But the same people who Tweet these gun-fucking memes don’t think a woman can be head of the Secret Service, because she’s “not strong enough” to take down a man.

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The NRA has been running lots of Mitch McConnell ads in Kentucky advocating for a woman’s right to choose whatever gun she prefers for self-defense.

366 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:10:43am

Really though FNC, I hope you know that your views on women and gays have more intersection with Al Queda than the average American and Westerner.

367 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 9:10:44am

re: #356 Backwoods_Sleuth

I must agree with this.

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Only a Detroiter can enjoy.

368 Ryan King  Oct 1, 2014 9:10:51am

In the mind of an Ammosexual, rape is only something that happens in a dark alley or when women are home alone, by a stranger, in an attack.

All those other times an alleged rape occurs the wimmens, dey aksed fer et.

369 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2014 9:10:53am

re: #360 HappyWarrior

How does it taste with whiskey?

MrBWS usually uses tonic water as his mixer, but says Vernors works pretty good in an emergency. But he hates Canada Dry.

370 lawhawk  Oct 1, 2014 9:11:21am

re: #359 sagehen

Assumes facts not in evidence. If he knew he had been exposed, then the best course of action is to tell the doctors right off the bat and get immediate treatment. Delayed treatment reduces chances of survival and increases the exposures to others.

371 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:11:39am

re: #369 Backwoods_Sleuth

MrBWS usually uses tonic water as his mixer, but says Vernors works pretty good in an emergency. But he hates Canada Dry.

Never had a problem with Canada Dry. I love ginger ale with my whiskey. Have not used tonic yet with whiskey. Something to think about.

372 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 9:12:18am

re: #362 wheat-dogghazi

I’ve been putting off seeing it, but I’ve got six days off for the National Holiday. Sounds like a good way to kill 3 hours.

A while ago I suggested it was time CSI, NCIS and Law & Order be put to pasture. Today I caught the season opener of NCIS, which was chock-a-block with every cliché harvested from the previous 11 seasons:

* Gibbs’s life is personally threatened by an associate of someone he killed.
* He shoots, but does not actually kill the guy after him, so the bad guy will be back.
* An NCIS worker with an Arabic-sounding last name (Hussein) almost sells out the USA.
* He’s also really annoying in a dweebish way.
* Abby flails around the lab wishing that Tim were around to deal with
* A super-duper computer virus that somehow escapes her isolated laptop through the power cord and threatens to take down the entire NCIS system.
* The Russians are aiding and abetting the vendetta against Gibbs.
* SecNav’s first choice to extract innocent-seeming Hussein from Russia is GIbbs, because Gibbs is da bomb, or something.

On the bright side, Michael Weatherly looks like he’s lost the middle-age spread he gained after season 9.

Still, it’s time for NCIS to end.

I did not like the NCIS: New Orleans they debuted last night.

NCIS: Los Angeles kicks ass because it has LINDA HUNT who is the baddest badass on TV.

373 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 1, 2014 9:13:16am

re: #350 Targetpractice

Not shown: Time when the 200lb man grabs the “equalizer” and kills the 100lb woman, then possibly turning it on himself. If that “equalizer” was all it took to stop domestic violence, the statistics would not show so many women killed by their significant others with their own guns.

A gun will keep her safe as long as she keeps the gun loaded, cocked and trained on her partner at all times…

374 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 9:13:22am

re: #357 HappyWarrior

It also assumes that 200 pound felon doesn’t have a gun.Really wingnuts seem to think that most incidents of violence especially sexual violence against women is a stranger who is a convicted felon out there. It just isn’t the case. Most perps of violent sexual crimes like most perps of violent crime in general are done by someone the victim knows.

Just ask a Female Police Officer how safe she feels.

A woman who is actuallly trained to use the weapon against violent 200 lb Felons.

375 Targetpractice  Oct 1, 2014 9:13:36am

re: #352 WhatEVs

Which is still less than Europe, where gas is closer to $7 a gallon (last time I was there). I was shocked to see the emergence of SUV’s on European roadways. The time I was there prior, there were almost no SUV’s and almost all cars were subcompacts.

Apparently SUVs are viewed with derision in Europe. The Brits have a name for them: “Chelsea tractors,” since the people most often seen driving them are folks from affluent parts of the city who view them as status symbols. That you have to have a lot of money to afford one and use it as a daily driver.

376 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 9:14:28am

re: #371 HappyWarrior

Never had a problem with Canada Dry. I love ginger ale with my whiskey. Have not used tonic yet with whiskey. Something to think about.

Stewart’s Ginger Beer

377 Ryan King  Oct 1, 2014 9:14:34am

Why don’t they have an NCIS:Poughkeepsie or something?

378 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:14:52am

Besides it’s all a strawman anyhow. Has anyone allied with the President in Congress argued that we need to prohibit the right of individuals to defend themselves with firearms? No, what we have seen argued however is that we want background checks and reasonable policies that guess what the fucking NRA and like minded groups oppose and then liken to the worst genocide the world has ever known.

379 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 9:14:59am

re: #377 Ryan King

Why don’t they have an NCIS:Poughkeepsie or something?

I’d watch NCIS: Detroit

But nobody else would.

380 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:15:14am

re: #376 FemNaziBitch

Stewart’s Ginger Beer

That;’s good for a dark and stormy.

381 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 1, 2014 9:15:19am

re: #372 Pie-onist Overlord

I did not like the NCIS: New Orleans they debuted last night.

NCIS: Los Angeles kicks ass because it has LINDA HUNT who is the baddest badass on TV.

I’m going to give NCIS: New Orleans a try, only because I like Scott Bakula. Linda Hunt is the only reason I watch NCIS: LA, because the plots stretch common sense too much. The mysterious past of Callen is a nice plot point, though. (I’m only up to season 2 on NCIS:LA, so no spoilers, please!)

382 WhatEVs  Oct 1, 2014 9:15:28am

re: #175 Pie-onist Overlord

In which Barry Wirth, parody account, jumps the shark==>
Click at your own risk.

That’s why it is so easy to hate people.

383 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 1, 2014 9:15:49am

re: #368 Ryan King

In the mind of an Ammosexual, rape is only something that happens in a dark alley or when women are home alone, by a stranger, in an attack.

All those other times an alleged rape occurs the wimmens, dey aksed fer et.

This is part of the problem of any discussion of rape.

Human interaction is too nuanced and full of degrees of consent and complicity to be boiled down to the sort of bullet-point discussion that we get on the Twitter and the Internet.

Rape means sex without consent. Whether force, threats, coercion or any other methods are employed is a secondary issue.

384 Mattand  Oct 1, 2014 9:15:49am

re: #361 WhatEVs

Last night, Megyn Kelly was talking about the fault of the woman SS agent at the door and that we’re a bunch of pansies for allowing a mere woman to have a SS role because it was all that agent’s fault.

I really, really hate Fox News.

I’m just shocked they haven’t featured a black person defending American slavery.

I’m sure it’s not from lack of trying.

385 RealityBasedSteve  Oct 1, 2014 9:15:53am

re: #370 lawhawk

Assumes facts not in evidence. If he knew he had been exposed, then the best course of action is to tell the doctors right off the bat and get immediate treatment. Delayed treatment reduces chances of survival and increases the exposures to others.

Some very quick checking, Liberians (assumption here) require a visa to enter the US, wait time for an appointment in Monrovia is appx 23 days. This from the State Dept. website.

RBS

386 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 1, 2014 9:16:44am

re: #352 WhatEVs

Which is still less than Europe, where gas is closer to $7 a gallon (last time I was there). I was shocked to see the emergence of SUV’s on European roadways. The time I was there prior, there were almost no SUV’s and almost all cars were subcompacts.

America would go to war before it would pay that much for gasoline.

387 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:17:05am

re: #384 Mattand

I’m just shocked they haven’t featured a black person defending American slavery.

I’m sure it’s not from lack of trying.

Do you mean that you’re surprised that they haven’t claimed yet that if only blacks had guns that slavery wouldn’t have happened? I hate to break it to you…….but they have.

388 Mattand  Oct 1, 2014 9:17:17am

re: #361 WhatEVs

Also, don’t be surprised when the Daily Show digs up some footage of Kelly criticizing someone for making the same misogynistic argument she just made regarding the Secret Service agent.

389 Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 1, 2014 9:17:21am

re: #289 aagcobb

Nuke Dallas before its too late!

You joke but, I’d bet the ranch that the gibbering RW would be calling for a complete blockade, including the use of deadly force, had the patient been diagnosed in California.

390 aagcobb  Oct 1, 2014 9:17:37am

re: #381 wheat-dogghazi

I’m going to give NCIS: New Orleans a try, only because I like Scott Bakula. Linda Hunt is the only reason I watch NCIS: LA, because the plots stretch common sense too much. The mysterious past of Callen is a nice plot point, though. (I’m only up to season 2 on NCIS:LA, so no spoilers, please!)

I avoid most cop procedurals like the plague, but I think I’m going to get into Gotham. Oswald Cobblepot looks like a very interesting character.

391 Bulworth  Oct 1, 2014 9:17:54am

re:
#377

At a certain point you have to wonder if there is really enough murder and mayhem in the naval services to support all these NCIS locations/shows.

/

392 De Kolta Chair  Oct 1, 2014 9:17:59am

re: #321 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

so I watched the new Godzilla last night, really enjoyed it.

Last night I watched the MST3K version of the 1961 Brit monster flick “Gorgo,” which had many of the same plot points as the latest “Godzilla.”

393 Mattand  Oct 1, 2014 9:18:13am

re: #387 HappyWarrior

Do you mean that you’re surprised that they haven’t claimed yet that if only blacks had guns that slavery wouldn’t have happened? I hate to break it to you…….but they have.

LOL, I meant finding a black person who would claim that slavery was good for black people.

394 b.d.  Oct 1, 2014 9:18:17am

Everybody relax, Governor Goodhair is totally on top of this Ebola crisis

I wonder if he will say something to piss off his base, like the truth about it being airborne etc?

395 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 9:18:22am

re: #363 HappyWarrior

They’re the worst and it’s downright disgusting that they have women pushing their sexist crap.

special place indeed

396 Ryan King  Oct 1, 2014 9:19:10am

Imagine this in George Plimpton font:

The Ammosexual would rather everybody have MoarGunz instead of confronting these overly complex concepts such as rape culture and making women shoulder the social responsibility for abstinence then shame when abstinence fails, which ends up blaming much rape on women themsevles.

That sentence may even be too long for the typical Ammosexual.

397 Targetpractice  Oct 1, 2014 9:19:11am

re: #362 wheat-dogghazi

I’ve been putting off seeing it, but I’ve got six days off for the National Holiday. Sounds like a good way to kill 3 hours.

A while ago I suggested it was time CSI, NCIS and Law & Order be put to pasture. Today I caught the season opener of NCIS, which was chock-a-block with every cliché harvested from the previous 11 seasons:

* Gibbs’s life is personally threatened by an associate of someone he killed.
* He shoots, but does not actually kill the guy after him, so the bad guy will be back.
* An NCIS worker with an Arabic-sounding last name (Hussein) almost sells out the USA.
* He’s also really annoying in a dweebish way.
* Abby flails around the lab wishing that Tim were around to deal with
* A super-duper computer virus that somehow escapes her isolated laptop through the power cord and threatens to take down the entire NCIS system.
* The Russians are aiding and abetting the vendetta against Gibbs.
* SecNav’s first choice to extract innocent-seeming Hussein from Russia is GIbbs, because Gibbs is da bomb, or something.

On the bright side, Michael Weatherly looks like he’s lost the middle-age spread he gained after season 9.

Still, it’s time for NCIS to end.

I gave up on CSI just before they killed off a popular character, then put two others on a bus. From the episodes I’ve since looked in on it, I feel confident I made the right decision to get out before it went off the rails. Same with L&O and NCIS, I think a lot of the older crime drama shows need to be put out to pasture. They’re recycling cliches like mad, the characters have gotten old and stale, and the need to keep surprising and shocking the audience has meant going way past the bounds of reality.

398 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 9:19:20am

399 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:19:24am

The GMU facebook page had an interesting question today that I’ll repeat here. What’s a class that you wish you had taken but did not. For me, History BA and English minor, I wish I had taken Genetics, Sociology, or literature from 1914-1945(was going to my final semester but WWII to the present was available which ended up being a blessing since I had a great professor and got introduced to the works of Cheever,Updike, and Ellison through the course.)

400 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 1, 2014 9:19:30am

re: #390 aagcobb

I avoid most cop procedurals like the plague, but I think I’m going to get into Gotham. Oswald Cobblepot looks like a very interesting character.

I watched the first episode of Gotham. I’m hooked already, but it’s making Catwoman/Selina Kyle several years older than Batman/Bruce Wayne. Is this a sly “cougar” joke?

401 aagcobb  Oct 1, 2014 9:19:40am

re: #393 Mattand

LOL, I meant finding a black person who would claim that slavery was good for black people.

Didn’t Ben Carson already do that?

402 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:19:49am

re: #395 FemNaziBitch

special place indeed

Damn straight Madame Secretary.

403 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 9:20:12am

re: #387 HappyWarrior

Do you mean that you’re surprised that they haven’t claimed yet that if only blacks had guns that slavery wouldn’t have happened? I hate to break it to you…….but they have.

Fear of Slave Revolt is a very real thing.

That argument does have merit.

404 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:20:45am

re: #401 aagcobb

Didn’t Ben Carson already do that?

I know Bachmann claimed that slavery was better for the African American family than The Great Society. So yeah none of them have come out and said “Hey slavery was great” but many of them have said that slavery wasn’t as bad as the New Deal and Great Society for African Americans.

405 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 9:20:58am

re: #403 FemNaziBitch

Fear of Slave Revolt is a very real thing.

That argument does have merit.

Having said that, the current crop of Whackos prefers to keep people in poverty with lots and lots of children to worry about.

406 wheat-dogghazi  Oct 1, 2014 9:21:23am

re: #391 Bulworth

re:
#377

At a certain point you have to wonder if there is really enough murder and mayhem in the naval services to support all these NCIS locations/shows.

/

Which is largely why NCIS: Classic has veered away from mere naval crimes to international espionage, drug cartels and terrorist rings.

407 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:21:31am

re: #405 FemNaziBitch

Having said that, the current crop of Whackos prefers to keep people in poverty with lots and lots of children to worry about.

and ignorant with cuts to education. It’s neo-feudalism at its worst.

408 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 9:21:31am

re: #404 HappyWarrior

I know Bachmann claimed that slavery was better for the African American family than The Great Society. So yeah none of them have come out and said “Hey slavery was great” but many of them have said that slavery wasn’t as bad as the New Deal and Great Society for African Americans.

Real believer in Freedom, those Whackos.

409 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:21:41am

re: #408 FemNaziBitch

Real believer in Freedom, those Whackos.

For sure.

410 Schadenboner  Oct 1, 2014 9:21:50am

re: #336 FemNaziBitch

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Jesus. It’s an attack-mop.

411 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 1, 2014 9:22:00am

re: #403 FemNaziBitch

Fear of Slave Revolt is a very real thing.

That argument does have merit.

Remember that Republicans had no trouble with gun control in the 60’s when Black Panthers started sporting weapons in public.

412 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 9:22:25am

re: #392 De Kolta Chair

Last night I watched the MST3K version of the 1961 Brit monster flick “Gorgo,” which had many of the same plot points as the latest “Godzilla.”

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According to the Wikipedia article on the movie:

Australia was also considered for a locale, but the producers supposedly decided that audiences “wouldn’t care” if a monster attacked Australia; Australia’s alleged lack of worldwide recognisable landmarks for Gorgo to destroy was also cited as a consideration.

en.wikipedia.org

413 lawhawk  Oct 1, 2014 9:22:37am

re: #376 FemNaziBitch

DG Ginger Beer. We also like Stewarts and Boylan’s. We can easily get Reeds but some folks don’t like that at all.

414 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 9:22:38am

re: #391 Bulworth

re:
#377

At a certain point you have to wonder if there is really enough murder and mayhem in the naval services to support all these NCIS locations/shows.

/

Last night’s NCIS: New Orleans was about a guy who gets infected with BUBONIC PLAGUE. And public health officials were injecting all exposed people with VACCINE. WTF, Plague is bacterial infection treated with antibiotics. It just has a scary name & killed all those people in the Middle Ages who did not have antibiotics.

It turned out to be “weaponized” Plague that could only be treated with a special antibiotic/vaccine/whatever

415 Targetpractice  Oct 1, 2014 9:22:39am

re: #400 wheat-dogghazi

I watched the first episode of Gotham. I’m hooked already, but it’s making Catwoman/Selina Kyle several years older than Batman/Bruce Wayne. Is this a sly “cougar” joke?

I watched the first episode and thought it was great, but I’m already getting that voice in the back of my head screaming out at the number of coincidences. Touching on Batman’s history in the comics or the movies was one thing, because you could throw in one-time coincidences and that could be explained. An entire series built on coincidences? I don’t think it’ll work past a single season.

416 WhatEVs  Oct 1, 2014 9:22:46am

re: #182 FemNaziBitch

LOL
Sarah Palin Calls on Obama to Invade Ebola

Parody?

This is the about the author:

Alexander Crouton-Skitch enjoyed a 10-year career as a Motivational Surgeon, a specialty he developed, then abandoned for a short career as a Wall Street critic and media analyst. After earning a BS in psychology, he went on to receive a Master’s Degree in Advanced Mimicry from the prestigious Emerson Institute in Boston. He is now thrilled to combine the skills he has honed over the years by sharing his perspectives with The National Report.

Heh.

417 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 9:23:22am

re: #411 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Remember that Republicans had no trouble with gun control in the 60’s when Black Panthers started sporting weapons in public.

But they don’t want to pay for Bread and Circuses —what do do?

418 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:23:34am

re: #416 WhatEVs

This is the about the author:

Heh.

Man I only have an associates in mimicry :(.

419 aagcobb  Oct 1, 2014 9:23:39am

re: #412 Feline Fearless Leader

According to the Wikipedia article on the movie:

en.wikipedia.org

Everyone knows the Sydney Opera House!

420 Schadenboner  Oct 1, 2014 9:23:45am

re: #356 Backwoods_Sleuth

I must agree with this.

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Lies and perfidy.

421 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 9:23:48am

re: #404 HappyWarrior

I know Bachmann claimed that slavery was better for the African American family than The Great Society. So yeah none of them have come out and said “Hey slavery was great” but many of them have said that slavery wasn’t as bad as the New Deal and Great Society for African Americans.

Cliven Bundy: “Let me tell you about the Negro”

422 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 9:24:06am

re: #418 HappyWarrior

Man I only have an associates in mimicry :(.

I learned it in the School of Hard Knock-Knocks.

423 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:24:45am

re: #421 Pie-onist Overlord

Cliven Bundy: “Let me tell you about the Negro”

or Phil Robertson saying they didn’t have the blues in the Jim Crow era which amused me since that was when Alan Lomax started recording the old time blues artists.

424 WhatEVs  Oct 1, 2014 9:24:46am

re: #196 FemNaziBitch

And it goes on:
Rick Wiles: ‘Ebola Could Solve America’s Problems With Atheism And Homosexuality’

Of course it could also solve America’s problem with nutcases, too. //

425 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 9:24:54am

re: #399 HappyWarrior

The GMU facebook page had an interesting question today that I’ll repeat here. What’s a class that you wish you had taken but did not. For me, History BA and English minor, I wish I had taken Genetics, Sociology, or literature from 1914-1945(was going to my final semester but WWII to the present was available which ended up being a blessing since I had a great professor and got introduced to the works of Cheever,Updike, and Ellison through the course.)

Good one.

Either geology or a film studies class. Both subjects that I’ve picked up bits of via reading and osmosis since college, but some formal education in them would probably help me understand stuff better or be better able to research the subject when I get curious about something I encounter.

426 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:25:02am

re: #422 FemNaziBitch

I learned it in the School of Hard Knocks.

I got mine from The Bar.

427 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 9:25:23am

re: #426 HappyWarrior

I got mine from The Bar.

I updated mine. (above)

428 Romantic Heretic  Oct 1, 2014 9:25:40am

re: #218 FemNaziBitch

On the other hand, “maybe you should listen to your fear, Case. Maybe it’s your friend.” - William Gibson

429 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 9:26:01am

re: #423 HappyWarrior

or Phil Robertson saying they didn’t have the blues in the Jim Crow era which amused me since that was when Alan Lomax started recording the old time blues artists.

But at the same time:
HURR HURR!!!! IT WAS TEH DEMOCRATS WHO STARTED TEH KKK & TEH JIM CROWS!!!!!!

430 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2014 9:27:02am

re: #420 Schadenboner

Lies and perfidy.

bonus points for the glass bottle!

431 aagcobb  Oct 1, 2014 9:27:20am

re: #415 Targetpractice

I watched the first episode and thought it was great, but I’m already getting that voice in the back of my head screaming out at the number of coincidences. Touching on Batman’s history in the comics or the movies was one thing, because you could throw in one-time coincidences and that could be explained. An entire series built on coincidences? I don’t think it’ll work past a single season.

Well I’m assuming the coincidences will end and they will start to focus on character development. Because they have a lot of great characters to develop and tell their stories.

432 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:28:56am

re: #425 Feline Fearless Leader

Good one.

Either geology or a film studies class. Both subjects that I’ve picked up bits of via reading and osmosis since college, but some formal education in them would probably help me understand stuff better or be better able to research the subject when I get curious about something I encounter.

Cool choices. I took a film study elective in high school. That was enjoyable and it was sweet since it was at the end of the day. Get to watch a classic movie that I otherwise wouldn’t have seen and just take notes on a stenopad. Got to learn a lot about film in the process. But yeah those three for me and here’s why: Genetics: I want to learn more about traits and what makes us physically who we are and how little subtle things make us appear different from our siblings and other close relatives, Sociology: Want to learn more about how society operates and it just sounds interesting, and the literature course from 1914-1945: I’ve read some Hemingway, Joyce, Fitzgerald, and other writers from that era and I remember a sub-unit in 11th grade English we had on the 20’s and I really enjoyed it. Got to read some Harlem Renaissance works and some Sherwood Anderson as well.

433 makeitstop  Oct 1, 2014 9:29:33am

re: #410 Schadenboner

Jesus. It’s an attack-mop.

They say when those dogs get wet, their fur retains so much water that they can’t stand up, despite being as big and strong as they are.

I’d dig having one, though. Badass dogs.

434 Schadenboner  Oct 1, 2014 9:29:43am

re: #423 HappyWarrior

or Phil Robertson saying they didn’t have the blues in the Jim Crow era which amused me since that was when Alan Lomax started recording the old time blues artists.

I’m sorry, what? I can’t hear you over the sounds of three generations of bluesmen spinning in their graves!

Ass.

435 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:29:59am

re: #429 Pie-onist Overlord

But at the same time:
HURR HURR!!!! IT WAS TEH DEMOCRATS WHO STARTED TEH KKK & TEH JIM CROWS!!!!!!

Funny how they never mention that those were conservatives that started the Klan and Jim Crow. Or how the “intellectual” William F. Buckley of NRO defended segregation as did many other conservatives.

436 FemNaziBitch  Oct 1, 2014 9:30:22am

bbl

437 Eventual Carrion  Oct 1, 2014 9:30:41am

re: #348 FemNaziBitch

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Guess maybe they should start random testing for having a drinks the night before coming into work. Wonder how that would go over? Monday morning alcohol piss test.

438 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:30:48am

re: #434 Schadenboner

I’m sorry, what? I can’t hear you over the sounds of three generations of bluesmen spinning in their graves!

Ass.

Dumbass. But then again we’re talking about a man who’s made his fortune selling duck whistles.

439 Bear  Oct 1, 2014 9:31:22am

re: #414 Pie-onist Overlord

Years ago I was given a shot for it. May have been at the University as I was going on a field course in the Rockies.

440 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 9:31:48am

re: #419 aagcobb

Everyone knows the Sydney Opera House!

Need a sarc tag there since the film came out in 1961 and the Sydney Opera House was only partway in the first stage of construction at that time.

441 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2014 9:33:24am
442 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 1, 2014 9:33:27am
443 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 9:35:09am

re: #435 HappyWarrior

Funny how they never mention that those were conservatives that started the Klan and Jim Crow. Or how the “intellectual” William F. Buckley of NRO defended segregation as did many other conservatives.

No, they don’t get into party ideology, the party NAME is all that matters.

444 Romantic Heretic  Oct 1, 2014 9:35:29am

re: #235 b.d.

My understanding is that for some unclear reason Ebola’s lethality and contagiousness lessens the further it gets from Patient Zero. It’s possible this person got the virus very late in the cycle.

Which would explain the upgrade. His immune system is fighting off the infection.

Note: There is no cure for Ebola or any virus based disease. If you get a virus the only thing that can be done is lessen the symptoms and hope for the best.

445 lawhawk  Oct 1, 2014 9:35:52am

re: #232 lawhawk

Now, I’m beginning to see reports that Dallas health officials aren’t monitoring anyone else for potential Ebola exposure.

Also, the paramedics who transported the patient with Ebola have tested negative. Of course, that Dallas Morning News report also indicates that they are monitoring several people just in case:

Thompson said friends and family of the patient are still under close observation, but there is no second case. Despite the negative tests, the paramedics also will be closely monitored for symptoms until the known incubation period for the virus has passed.

“Given how sick this person could have been during the time frame, we would not be shocked” if there was a second case, Thompson said. “But do we have a confirmed case to date? No.”

Earlier Wednesday, health department spokeswoman Erikka Neroes told The Dallas Morning News that investigators interviewing people in contact with the patient have identified [fixed the DMN’s typo - where’s the copy editors?] no one else exhibiting symptoms. As of Wednesday morning, the confirmed patient’s condition had been upgraded from critical to serious.

446 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2014 9:35:55am
447 De Kolta Chair  Oct 1, 2014 9:36:15am

re: #442 NJDhockeyfan

Finally, an excuse for not eating Brussels sprouts that my wife might accept.

Just kidding, she fries them up nice and crunchy.

448 Targetpractice  Oct 1, 2014 9:36:22am

re: #431 aagcobb

Well I’m assuming the coincidences will end and they will start to focus on character development. Because they have a lot of great characters to develop and tell their stories.

Problem is that there’s too much temptation now to cram as many of Batman’s “rogues gallery” and his assorted friends/ally into the story as possible. Already we’ve seen at least three major villains, four if you count Carmine Falcone.

449 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 9:36:26am
451 b.d.  Oct 1, 2014 9:37:20am

re: #442 NJDhockeyfan

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Belgian Ebola is teh worst kind of Ebola!!

452 Schadenboner  Oct 1, 2014 9:37:44am

re: #430 Backwoods_Sleuth

bonus points for the glass bottle!

Afraid I can’t recommend their beers, they all have the same aftertaste and it’s not a good one. Although if you get their IPA you won’t really be able to tell.

The sodas are uniformly great. The grape soda label is a bit… problematic:

453 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2014 9:37:48am

re: #451 b.d.

Belgian Ebola is teh worst kind of Ebola!!

Maybe it comes with chocolates…

454 Targetpractice  Oct 1, 2014 9:38:53am

re: #444 Romantic Heretic

My understanding is that for some unclear reason Ebola’s lethality and contagiousness lessens the further it gets from Patient Zero. It’s possible this person got the virus very late in the cycle.

Which would explain the upgrade. His immune system is fighting off the infection.

Note: There is no cure for Ebola or any virus based disease. If you get a virus the only thing that can be done is lessen the symptoms and hope for the best.

General rule in epidemiology is that the faster that a disease burns out its victim, the slower the spread and the worse the odds are of a widespread outbreak. Ebola can lay dormant for weeks, but it generally kills in a matter of days or hours, and it is only truly infectious in that time period. And unless the victim’s body is handled without protection against bodily fluids, then the virus can’t spread.

455 b.d.  Oct 1, 2014 9:39:01am

re: #453 Backwoods_Sleuth

Maybe it comes with chocolates…

or some Duvel?

456 sagehen  Oct 1, 2014 9:39:20am

re: #391 Bulworth

re:
#377

At a certain point you have to wonder if there is really enough murder and mayhem in the naval services to support all these NCIS locations/shows.

/

One of my favorite fanfic tropes is the NCIS/Stargate crossover. “Hey Gibbs, why do these marines stationed at NORAD have such a high casualty rate, and most them are cremated? Isn’t that something we should be looking into?”

457 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 9:40:03am

re: #448 Targetpractice

Problem is that there’s too much temptation now to cram as many of Batman’s “rogues gallery” and his assorted friends/ally into the story as possible. Already we’ve seen at least three major villains, four if you count Carmine Falcone.

Sounds like a show well on the way to the cliche where the heroes and villains of that piece of genre have always been in close proximity. One of my pet peeves.

Smallville went down that road once they went past two or three characters from Superman as an adult turning up before he took up the cape.

In my opinion it’s a sign of weak writing, poor creativity, and unwillingness to take any risk.

458 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 9:40:55am

re: #453 Backwoods_Sleuth

Maybe it comes with chocolates…

A new addition for the Whizzo Quality Assortment?
;P

459 HappyWarrior  Oct 1, 2014 9:41:00am
460 Romantic Heretic  Oct 1, 2014 9:41:00am

re: #245 Pie-onist Overlord

To Mr. Friedman. Do you realize the person that made that picture can’t tell the difference between a machine gun and a submachine gun?

461 b.d.  Oct 1, 2014 9:41:39am

Attention wingnuts: Halting flights from W. Africa wouldn’t have mattered in the Dallas Ebola case, the man came over on a flight from Belgium

462 Schadenboner  Oct 1, 2014 9:44:17am

re: #438 HappyWarrior

Dumbass. But then again we’re talking about a man who’s made his fortune selling duck dog whistles.

FTFY

463 lawhawk  Oct 1, 2014 9:44:29am

This is what they’re facing in West Africa where the health care system is essentially incapable of dealing with the crisis. They lack everything, from doctors to enough beds to proper sanitary procedures.

The photos tell the tale. Bodies strewn about on the floor - alive or dead. Bodily fluids all over the place. Too few people to care for the crushing mass of people coming in sick, and a pervasive sense of fear among people that the doctors are spreading the disease.

“The whole country has been hit by something for which it was not ready,” said Dr. Amara Jambai, director of prevention and control at Sierra Leone’s health ministry.

Bombali, the district that includes this city, went from one confirmed case on Aug. 15 to more than 190 this weekend, with dozens more suspected. In a sign of how quickly the disease has spread, at least six dozen new cases have been confirmed in the district in the past few days alone, health officials said.

The government put this district, 120 miles northeast of the capital, Freetown, under quarantine late last week, making official what was already established on the ground. Ebola patients are dying under trees at holding centers or in foul-smelling hospital wards surrounded by pools of infectious waste, cared for as best they can by lightly trained and minimally protected nurses, some wearing merely bluejeans.

This is a disaster of massive proportions in West Africa, and the world’s reaction is still a trickle.

That compares with the situation in Dallas, where the patient is in an isolation ward, where sanitary procedures are in place to keep everyone safe and where dozens of nurses and doctors are in attendance and prepared to deal with the case.

464 De Kolta Chair  Oct 1, 2014 9:45:27am

re: #412 Feline Fearless Leader

That’s hilarious.

465 lawhawk  Oct 1, 2014 9:45:28am

re: #461 b.d.

There are only a handful of direct flights between the US and West Africa. The problem is all the connecting flights - with stopovers elsewhere. That’s a far greater number.

466 Romantic Heretic  Oct 1, 2014 9:45:47am

re: #254 HappyWarrior

I guess I must be a weird guy in that I don’t get the fetishization at all of weapons. I get hunting for food, I get wanting to be able to protect yourself, and I get shooting targets for hobby but I don’t get the fetishization of weapons. I think it’s silly. Call me “soft” but I’d rather hoard tons of music than weaponry and post on twitter sexualized posts about guns.

If I was going to collect weapons it would be bladed weapons. If you’re going to kill someone you should see the light go out of their eyes. Guns make it too easy to regard a person as a target.

I fantasize about owning a Masamune sword one day.

467 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 1, 2014 9:46:11am

re: #451 b.d.

Belgian Ebola is teh worst kind of Ebola!!

Belgian Ebola Treatment: Take twice a day…

468 RealityBasedSteve  Oct 1, 2014 9:46:35am

re: #450 Lidane

WTFITS:

Rick Wiles: Beheadings Will Occur ‘Every Week In America’ Thanks To Secret Islamic Code

It actually says “Drink More Leben” when you translate it. He must have his his decoder ring set on “Wingnut”

RBS

469 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 9:47:07am

re: #465 lawhawk

There are only a handful of direct flights between the US and West Africa. The problem is all the connecting flights - with stopovers elsewhere. That’s a far greater number.

Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Brussels are all hub airports with flights coming from Africa & Asia, and connecting to North America

470 De Kolta Chair  Oct 1, 2014 9:47:17am

re: #465 lawhawk

I blame plate tectonics.

471 Targetpractice  Oct 1, 2014 9:48:19am

re: #457 Feline Fearless Leader

Sounds like a show well on the way to the cliche where the heroes and villains of that piece of genre have always been in close proximity. One of my pet peeves.

Smallville went down that road once they went past two or three characters from Superman as an adult turning up before he took up the cape.

In my opinion it’s a sign of weak writing, poor creativity, and unwillingness to take any risk.

Yeah, the whole problem with such shows is unless you broaden the scope, then you pretty much have writers stuck spending all their time explaining why all these characters just happened to grow up and live in the same town/city. IIRC, the writers of the series are already promising that they’re gonna show the origins of the Joker…except the problem is that the Joker has no singular origin story. In fact, it’s pretty much accepted by fans of the franchise that the only person who really knows his story is him…and he’s so insane that he picks and chooses the details on any given day.

472 Bulworth  Oct 1, 2014 9:51:06am

re:
#461

Attention wingnuts: Halting flights from W. Africa wouldn’t have mattered in the Dallas Ebola case, the man came over on a flight from Belgium.

Look, all I know is, Libertarian Paradise with No Government would handle this situation thoroughly and efficiently. The regulation free airlines would either stop flying airplanes, or would continue to fly airplanes wherever demanded and stop when people start dying.

///

473 Lidane  Oct 1, 2014 9:51:25am

re: #448 Targetpractice

Problem is that there’s too much temptation now to cram as many of Batman’s “rogues gallery” and his assorted friends/ally into the story as possible. Already we’ve seen at least three major villains, four if you count Carmine Falcone.

True, but they can’t possibly do much with some of them. The Riddler is just there to say “See! We’ve put Edward Nygma into the story!” And Poison Ivy was shown as a poor kid with an abusive dad, but she’s far too young to really be a factor. Selina Kyle has some promise in the sense that they could start planting the seeds of her relationship with Bruce Wayne, and her witnessing the murder makes her interesting.

I’m convinced that Fish Mooney is just a cipher. We all know Carmine Falcone isn’t going to die and she’s not going to kill him. She’s there to give Penguin someone to aim for. Emperor penguins prey on fish, so it makes a twisted sense.

474 lawhawk  Oct 1, 2014 9:54:21am

re: #470 De Kolta Chair

That’s malarkey. We know that the continents couldn’t have done that since the planet is 6,000 years old. Next thing you know, you’ll spout off about how we’re descended from apes and monkeys.

475 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 9:55:23am

re: #473 Lidane

True, but they can’t possibly do much with some of them. The Riddler is just there to say “See! We’ve put Edward Nygma into the story!” And Poison Ivy was shown as a poor kid with an abusive dad, but she’s far too young to really be a factor. Selina Kyle has some promise in the sense that they could start planting the seeds of her relationship with Bruce Wayne, and her witnessing the murder makes her interesting.

I’m convinced that Fish Mooney is just a cipher. We all know Carmine Falcone isn’t going to die and she’s not going to kill him. She’s there to give Penguin someone to aim for. Emperor penguins prey on fish, so it makes a twisted sense.

I’d question doing it (non-developing placement of a future villain) at all. You’re essentially just wasting episode time for a cameo that is essentially meaningless for the development of the series.

476 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 9:56:10am

I’ve been reading, in a kind of rubbernecking the car crash way, the wingnut’s complaints about “Common Core” math.

It’s true that the problem solving techniques are not the memorize-tables, long division that we learned in the ‘50’s, but learning math the “Common Core” method makes it easier to learn algebra, calculus and advanced math concepts.

I doubt any of the wingnuts got that far in math to appreciate it.

477 lawhawk  Oct 1, 2014 9:56:38am

And this happened:

That low-level threat being a called in bomb threat.

478 Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2014 9:57:59am

re: #473 Lidane

True, but they can’t possibly do much with some of them. The Riddler is just there to say “See! We’ve put Edward Nygma into the story!” And Poison Ivy was shown as a poor kid with an abusive dad, but she’s far too young to really be a factor. Selina Kyle has some promise in the sense that they could start planting the seeds of her relationship with Bruce Wayne, and her witnessing the murder makes her interesting.

I’m convinced that Fish Mooney is just a cipher. We all know Carmine Falcone isn’t going to die and she’s not going to kill him. She’s there to give Penguin someone to aim for. Emperor penguins prey on fish, so it makes a twisted sense.

So, seriously…..there’s a show based on Batman? After Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy? Why? Is it really just milking it at this point?

And why will there be a Batman vs. Superman movie?

Because it’s pretty hard to top this, at least as far as I’m concerned:

Youtube Video

That’s like something out of a damned James Bond flick.

479 iceweasel  Oct 1, 2014 9:59:22am

Just a quick question—
Anyone else ever think that the Paranormal Activity movies are actually all an allegory about the economic and housing collapse?

Seriously, as far as I can tell they all involve really nice houses, and people living in them who have no sources of income.

Then crazy shit happens and the beautiful house becomes a source of terror and fear.

Just my opinion!

480 Targetpractice  Oct 1, 2014 9:59:51am

re: #475 Feline Fearless Leader

I’d question doing it (non-developing placement of a future villain) at all. You’re essentially just wasting episode time for a cameo that is essentially meaningless for the development of the series.

Either approach is fraught with hazards, which is why I figure it can’t work past a single season. A monthly comic series can afford to devote itself to a single character for the duration of a storyline, same as a 2 hr movie. A TV series based upon cameos would too quickly burn itself out.

481 De Kolta Chair  Oct 1, 2014 10:00:15am

re: #474 lawhawk

NSFW

482 Lidane  Oct 1, 2014 10:01:02am

re: #475 Feline Fearless Leader

I’d question doing it (non-developing placement of a future villain) at all. You’re essentially just wasting episode time for a cameo that is essentially meaningless for the development of the series.

Sure. I agree. I think these early episodes were a proof of concept more than anything else. They have to cram all this stuff in to get the network on board. My hope is that as the show goes on they don’t have to rely on Batman’s villains anymore since they’re supposed to be focused on the city of Gotham, not Batman. Bruce Wayne is a kid. He’s not going to be facing the Joker anytime soon.

They’re setting up some interesting ideas with Penguin, and he has the potential to become a very, very dark character. Everyone underestimates him, but it’s there. I want to see where they take him. I just hope they do it organically instead of trying to have him team up with some other known villain or whatever. It’s waaay too soon for that.

483 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 10:02:00am

re: #478 Dr Lizardo

And why will there be a Batman vs. Superman movie?

Superman vs. Batman:

Superman flies Batman to Outer Space.
Superman wins

Superman flies Batman 4000 feet up in the air, drops Batman
Superman wins

I can’t even think of a scenario where Batman wins unless it involves some villainous sneaky thing like slipping Superman a kyptonite roofie, and Batman would never do that.

484 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 10:02:45am

re: #480 Targetpractice

Either approach is fraught with hazards, which is why I figure it can’t work past a single season. A monthly comic series can afford to devote itself to a single character for the duration of a storyline, same as a 2 hr movie. A TV series based upon cameos would too quickly burn itself out.

But since it’s a chase for ratings and it has been repeatedly shown that quality often has little to do with series popularity I think I might just be yelling at clouds here. I don’t plan on watching it in any case.

485 Lidane  Oct 1, 2014 10:02:46am

re: #478 Dr Lizardo

So, seriously…..there’s a show based on Batman? After Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy? Why? Is it really just milking it at this point?

The conceit of the show is that it shows the descent of Gotham into the kind of city that would need Batman in the first place. It starts with the Wayne murders. Bruce is a traumatized kid in the story. He’s at least 20 years from being Batman.

There are some interesting ideas at play. I just hope they don’t screw it up.

486 Targetpractice  Oct 1, 2014 10:05:39am

re: #482 Lidane

Sure. I agree. I think these early episodes were a proof of concept more than anything else. They have to cram all this stuff in to get the network on board. My hope is that as the show goes on they don’t have to rely on Batman’s villains anymore since they’re supposed to be focused on the city of Gotham, not Batman. Bruce Wayne is a kid. He’s not going to be facing the Joker anytime soon.

They’re setting up some interesting ideas with Penguin, and he has the potential to become a very, very dark character. Everyone underestimates him, but it’s there. I want to see where they take him. I just hope they do it organically instead of trying to have him team up with some other known villain or whatever. It’s waaay too soon for that.

Problem is that what makes Batman such an interesting character is the villains he fights. It’s why they had to introduce the Joker and then eventually the rest of his rogues gallery, as they needed somebody who was dangerous enough that a vigilante was needed to protect the people of the city.

Otherwise, it would just be a guy in a mask fighting two-bit crooks in a crooked city where the mob ruled.

487 Bubblehead II  Oct 1, 2014 10:05:50am
488 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 10:06:04am

re: #485 Lidane

The conceit of the show is that it shows the descent of Gotham into the kind of city that would need Batman in the first place. It starts with the Wayne murders. Bruce is a traumatized kid in the story. He’s at least 20 years from being Batman.

There are some interesting ideas at play. I just hope they don’t screw it up.

Given that the show is on FOX wouldn’t the descent of Gotham only take the election of a black mayor?
//// (massive)

489 Pie-onist Overlord  Oct 1, 2014 10:07:05am

re: #486 Targetpractice

Problem is that what makes Batman such an interesting character is the villains he fights. It’s why they had to introduce the Joker and then eventually the rest of his rogues gallery, as they needed somebody who was dangerous enough that a vigilante was needed to protect the people of the city.

Otherwise, it would just be a guy in a mask fighting two-bit crooks in a crooked city where the mob ruled.

I enjoyed the ZAP!!!! POW!!!! Batman comedy series of the ‘60’s where celebrities appeared as “special guest villains”

490 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2014 10:07:42am

re: #487 Bubblehead II

[Embedded content]

491 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2014 10:09:27am

Perry is wearing his eyeglasses, so he’s being serious.

492 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 10:10:35am

re: #491 Backwoods_Sleuth

Perry is wearing his eyeglasses, so he’s being serious.

Hiding his secret identity as SuperTexan.

493 b.d.  Oct 1, 2014 10:10:58am

Perry states that Ebola is not airborne.

Thank God for small miracles.

494 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 1, 2014 10:11:11am

re: #491 Backwoods_Sleuth

Perry is wearing his eyeglasses, so he’s being serious.

He wants to show that he is made of serious Presidential material and can handle a crisis while simultaneously playing to his base’s latent xenophobia and rage…

495 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2014 10:11:50am

So far, Perry is doing surprisingly well in this presser.

496 Romantic Heretic  Oct 1, 2014 10:12:22am

re: #454 Targetpractice

General rule in epidemiology is that the faster that a disease burns out its victim, the slower the spread and the worse the odds are of a widespread outbreak. Ebola can lay dormant for weeks, but it generally kills in a matter of days or hours, and it is only truly infectious in that time period. And unless the victim’s body is handled without protection against bodily fluids, then the virus can’t spread.

Makes sense. Any organism that destroys its food source and/or breeding ground before it spreads is a failure in evolutionary terms.

I’m now wondering if that makes humanity a failure at the rate we’re destroying the world we live in.

497 Rightwingconspirator  Oct 1, 2014 10:13:51am

“Nothing in our opinion, should be taken to cast doubt on long standing prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons and the mentally ill.”

Paged

Yaay. It’s a win.

498 NJDhockeyfan  Oct 1, 2014 10:14:54am
499 Dr Lizardo  Oct 1, 2014 10:15:14am

re: #496 Romantic Heretic

Makes sense. Any organism that destroys its food source and/or breeding ground before it spreads is a failure in evolutionary terms.

I’m now wondering if that makes humanity a failure at the rate we’re destroying the world we live in.

The carbon-based life forms infesting the planet known as Earth have reached the end of their usefulness, or at least that’s what this gal told me.

Who am I to argue with the emissary of V’ger?

500 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2014 10:17:59am

re: #498 NJDhockeyfan

[Embedded content]

Way to fearmonger, Dallas Morning News.
If the kids don’t have symptoms they are not infectious.
But the other parents won’t care about that little detail.

501 darthstar  Oct 1, 2014 10:18:36am

re: #498 NJDhockeyfan

[Embedded content]

So Perry starts by sowing fear that kids are now infected?

502 Lidane  Oct 1, 2014 10:23:37am

re: #486 Targetpractice

Sure. The biggest obstacle for Gotham, though, is the fact that they start right with the Wayne murders. Bruce is still a kid. He’s nowhere near becoming Batman. They can introduce all the villains, but without Batman it makes things that much more difficult. I mean, I like the lead actors and I like where they’re going with Penguin, but it’s the long-term future of the show that’s in doubt for me.

Unless Season 2 punches things forward a few years I don’t know how they’re going to keep the show going after this season. Bruce Wayne is at least 20 years out from wearing a cape and cowl. Sustaining the show for the long term is going to be a challenge.

503 sagehen  Oct 1, 2014 10:32:41am

Maybe we’re looking at it backwards — Bruce and the villains are all supporting characters, this is Commissioner Gordon’s origin story.

504 Eventual Carrion  Oct 1, 2014 10:57:01am

re: #418 HappyWarrior

Man I only have an associates in mimicry :(.

Man I only have an associates in mimicry too

505 Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 1, 2014 10:57:49am

re: #504 Eventual Carrion

Man I only have an associates in mimicry too

Why do people want to make Mimi cry?

506 Feline Fearless Leader  Oct 1, 2014 11:17:44am

re: #503 sagehen

Maybe we’re looking at it backwards — Bruce and the villains are all supporting characters, this is Commissioner Gordon’s origin story.

Possibly. But you can’t sell it that way to the network and get it funded. So young Bruce is a front.

507 WhatEVs  Oct 1, 2014 11:36:04am

re: #384 Mattand

I’m just shocked they haven’t featured a black person defending American slavery.

I’m sure it’s not from lack of trying.

That’s Glenn Beck’s wheelhouse. He had some schmuck on just the other day saying how much better off all Teh Blah’s were in the Jim Crow era.

That said, I do think I remember something similar to that from Fox. I would hit the googles but I keep getting called into meetings. I will get back to you.

508 WhatEVs  Oct 1, 2014 11:41:02am

re: #451 b.d.

Belgian Ebola is teh worst kind of Ebola!!

I thought Bengazi Ebola was the worst. Maybe it was IRA Ebola. I seem to remember some kind of sign about that…somewhere. /

509 WhatEVs  Oct 1, 2014 11:43:15am

re: #481 De Kolta Chair

NSFW

[Embedded image]

OMG! Planet of the Apes created ebola!

510 WhatEVs  Oct 1, 2014 11:44:57am

ARGH! Dead thread by two!

(Freaking work! :0 )


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